SailorsPathfinder : Love and Without
By : MakotoJade – makotojade@hotmail.com
Episode Five : I Remember You...
"ALAN?!?" Endymion's mind reeled. He had thought he was just
about to understand everything, and now...
Alan seemed shocked at Endymion's reaction. "What?" From behind
him, Sage and Leeota left the room talking, as a familiar pink-haired
girl strode into the room. She looked around and as soon as she saw
Endymion, her eyes lit up.
"Mamo-chan!" she ran over, hesitated a moment, "That is you isn't
it?" and then gave him a hug. "It's great to see you! You look
different somehow... I think it's the outfit, or something." Behind
her, Risa was staring intently at some readout on one of the wall
screens.
"Uh..." Endymion found himself at a loss for words, so he simply
did the easiest thing to explain himself. He detransformed into Mamoru.
Both Alan and Ann gaped at him.
"You can transform? I thought only Usagi and those girls..."
Alan looked rather confused.
"I was the Moonlight Night, too." The two now looked at him as if
he were insane.
"How, if you were both in the same places at the same time? I
don't get it."
"Let's just say I had a little, um, 'out-of-body' experience...
I'll tell you lots more later, but now, I really would like to know why
you two-"
"RED POWER..."
Mamoru spun to see who was screaming.
Now, the entire time Ann and Alan had been speaking to Mamoru,
Risa had not been paying attention. So when she turned and saw some
strange looking man with a very shocked Ann and Alan gaping at him she
began her attack and dove over the chair in the center of the room at
him.
Her left finger, red energy charged around it's tip, was now two
inches from Mamoru's chest. "Who are you... how did you get in here?"
"Oh, Risa it's just Mamoru!" Ann stood now, hands on her hips
glaring at Risa.
"Mam-who?"
Mamoru sighed, "It's me, Prince Endymion... Tuxedo Mask... this
is my normal human form." Risa glanced sideways at Alan. He nodded.
She smiled weakly, "Sorry." she turned towards one of the other
walls, "- BLAST!!" The wall absorbed the red energy. She turned back.
"Well, I see you all remember each other- "
"Wait a minute... why are they here?" Mamoru pointed at Ann and
Alan as he asked Risa, "I don't understand anymore."
* * *
"You... yes, you... I'm bored, go find some human for me to play
with."
The mindless youma nodded and left the room.
"This world is so... BORING!!" she threw a crystal and watched it
smash against the wall. She sighed, "Nothing is happening at all. If
only Nephlite were still with me..." she fingered a pendant on her
neck. She sighed and turned towards a crystal sphere. She ran her
hands over it and called to one of her generals. "Have you had any more
run-ins with the little Sailor trash?"
"No, my Queen, they are simply protecting their borders at the
present time, and you have not ordered us to attack in quite awhile."
She pondered this in her mind. She could easily wipe out the
Senshi, but their occasional attacks always seemed to cause a brief
spirit of excitement, like the old days when Queen Beryl had commanded
them all. But, one humongous battle could provide enough excitement to
last quite awhile, but then afterwards it would be just as boring... but
the battle would be so much fun...
"General, I want you to gather your DarkNites, yes, all of the
youma in your command, and prepare for an attack. Do you have any
fliers? Good, I have a special mission for them, but first, let me
contact the other generals and together we'll go over my plans."
"Yes Queen Hydrazite."
Hydra smiled a wicked smile, "This could be much fun... much fun
indeed..."
Her laugh echoed through the castle and it's evil rippled through
the current.
* * *
Suddenly, Risa shivered. Mamoru felt a chill run up the back of
his neck, "What was that?"
"What was what?" Alan looked at Mamoru.
"Something only we could feel, a tendril of dark power reaching
out to us through our energy current. Something is happening
somewhere," she looked up, "Signa, get Sage in here."
Risa looked back down at Mamoru, "Now what don't you understand?"
Mamoru sighed, "Why Ann and Alan are here."
"Didn't she tell you?" Alan looked at Risa.
"NO!" Mamoru found himself becoming rapidly frustrated.
"Oh, Mamo-chan, it's all very simple, really," Ann began as she
put a hand on one of his arms. "After we left your world, we traveled
around a couple solar systems, looking for a place to live, a place to
start over again. Well, somehow, it was almost as if the people of this
world were calling to us, or if the planet itself was beckoning, either
way, we ended up here."
Alan started in, "We could immediately feel a dark presence. We
investigated, and were attacked by some of the DarkNites..." he turned
to Risa, "Does he know what DarkNites are?"
Risa nodded as Alan continued, "Some of the elemental talents
attacked us... water, fire, electricity, easy to fight off, but there
were just too many of them. We might of been killed had not the Senshi
showed up to help," he looked at Risa and she took up the story.
"We could sense that a fight was going on and we decided to find
out exactly who was fighting. We arrived, helped them, and them brought
them back to the fortress."
Ann began again, "They explained to us their situation, as they
presumably did for you. We told them we would help if we could. After
a time, when we discovered how in need they were of help, we suggested
they try to find Sailor Moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Mercury, and the
Moonlight Knight... well, I guess you."
Mamoru looked at Risa, startled, "I thought you said you didn't
know there were Senshi, I thought you said you were just looking for
warriors. I thought-"
"LUMINISCENT BIND!!!"
Mamoru found himself wrapped in pink energy bonds once more as he
fell to his knees.
"SAGE!!!" Ann was livid.
"Wha?" Sage (who had entered the room but a moment before,
responding to Risa's call, and discovered it contained one occupant she
did not recognize) had acted exactly as Risa had.
"Sage, it's Prince Endymion... this is his human form."
"Ah... Sorry!" Sage put her hands on the threads of energy and
they dissipated. She turned to Risa, "You called? I assume it was
about that dark energy that was just running through the current?"
"Yeah, check it out, okay?"
"Mhmm," Sage's fingers flew over the wall.
Alan was helping Mamoru up. "Now what were we talking about?"
Risa nodded, "I remember. We were shocked when we heard of the
Sailors, but then we assumed that they were just warriors of Earth who
had taken the names of the old, well to them, legends. Ann and Alan
assured us they were worthy warriors, so we sent out a crystal. It was
the first time Sage had gone through the process, and it took us quite
awhile to find the girl named Usagi..." Risa paused, "Usagi... the
rabbit... oh, I should have figured it out," she sighed and continued,
"And as soon as we did, we tried to get her, but I watched you, and you
seemed to be so much stronger-"
"Didn't you see Jupiter and Venus? Both of them attacked the
crystal, it about killed them too, in fact, it might have killed
them..." his thoughts momentarily went to images of Ami, Minako, Rei,
and Makoto, "But, if you saw them, you should have recognized..."
"The power fluxes! That was what caused them!" Sage smiled
crazily, "I knew I had done everything right!" They all turned to look
at her. She blushed and turned back to the wall.
"I didn't see them. I only saw you and the... Princess just
before we began pulling you towards the crystal. We wanted to get her,
she was the one Alan had told us to look for. But you just seemed so
much stronger... and it had been so long since we had begun... and we've
lost so many people and fortresses... only a few remain. We try to
protect them... they're only civilians, not that it matters, the word
civilian has no meaning to the DarkNites or Hydrazite."
A cold shockwave ran through him. "Who?"
"Hydrazite, the Dark Kingdom General who dubbed herself Queen when
Beryl died... or when she thought Beryl died."
Mamoru closed his eyes as he allowed the memory that had begun in
the back of his mind to work it's way to the front. A thousand years
ago... peace... living on Earth... he was a prince... his generals...
four... or was it... Jedite, Neflite, Zoicite, Kunzite, and...
Hydrazite?
"Mamo-chan?" Mamoru jerked his eyes open. "What's wrong?"
Mamoru shook his head, "Just uh... thinking. I'm okay."
"FLIGHT....!!!"
A blonde with fire in her eyes stood before him holding a winged
creature of some sort made of pure green energy, beautiful and lethal.
"Who Are You."
"LEEOTA!"
Mamoru sighed.
Sage screamed.
Every one spun towards her. "They're attacking!!! Thousands of
DarkNites descending on Hex 9, 5, 7, 3, 6, and 11 squads... and 5, 3,
and 6 have no Senshi!! Hurry we gotta get out there, NOW!!!"
Ann quickly grabbed Leeota's wrist and explained Mamoru.
"STRIKER!!!" Leeota discharged her power into the wall. Alan, Sage and
Risa were already out the door and Leeota was in their wake.
Mamoru stood, "Wha?"
"Come-on, Mamo-chan, we've got a battle to fight." She grabbed
his hand and pulled him after the others.
** ** **
Usagi gazed around the room. What should she take with her? She
had discovered that Mamoru owned the apartment, so she didn't have to
worry about it just yet. She had called all of his employers and told
them that she was his little sister and that he had been in a serious
accident, and that she didn't know when he would be able to return. She
couldn't bear to tell them that he was dea...
Usagi fought the pain and tears as she tried to get her mind into
the present. What would she take with her? She didn't know when she
could return anytime in the near future.
She went through his closet and took out a few of his shirts and
put them into a duffel bag, and then lovingly nestled his picture of
them amongst the shirts. She looked around the room and then zipped up
the bag. She grabbed his pillow, put it under her arm, and then picked
up the bag. She grabbed the key and then moved out into the main room.
Makoto looked up at her, "You ready to go?" Usagi nodded.
They both moved towards the door... but suddenly something caught
Usagi's eye. A vase full of roses. He loved roses, he had made her
love them too. All of them were either dead or dying... except one. It
shot up bright, alive, and beautiful amongst the decay. It reminded her
of hope... "Wait a minute Mako-chan."
She walked over to the vase and pulled out the rose with her free
hand. She turned back towards Makoto, "Alright, let's go."
Makoto gave her a smile, held the door open, then followed Usagi
out the door.
The click of the door locking echoed through the room.
End Ep. 5
