Dark Side Of The Moon
A Ghostbusters/Sailor Moon Crossover
By Dan Ectodude Shannon

Chapter 14
He Appears

October 24, 1995
Cherry Hill Temple
9:27 PM

Raye had begun her state of meditation in front of the firelight some time ago. She, for sometime, has had disturbing thoughts for the last couple of days. She felt something evil was gathering in the horizons. She also felt something of the protruding thoughts on what was lurking within Lita's mind, and of the many dangers that has surfaced in the past. Somehow, she began to feel that it was all connected. She continued to chant the sacred words of the fire...

Raye: I am fire, fire is Light. I am fire, fire is sight.

She continued repeating the words, as she concentrated hard on what she sensed. Outside her room, Chad had walked by, and quietly peered through the door. He sighed, and continued walking down the dark corridor.

For several minuets, Raye was unsuccessful in contacting that of the sprit of fire. Finally she decided to give up, when a flash came across her minds eye. She saw something that she figured to be the most disturbing. She saw Lita, a blonde haired man, and then she saw another man. A man she thought she would never see again...

She saw Jedite.

In a frightened state, she snapped out of her meditation, and found herself back in front of the fire. She gasped, as she realized she had just saw the dream Lita had described days earlier. But it wasn't that she was disturbed with, it was the appearance of Jedite in the dream that had frightened her.

Raye: No! It can't be! It just can't be possible!

Raye stood up, and started to slowly back away from the fire. She suddenly started to feel a draft, and noticed it had just got colder in not just her room, but in the entire temple. Even with the fire lit, it seemed too cold in the room...

***

Back at the Temporary Ghostbusters Headquarters, Ray was on Egon's laptop taking down the readings from the park earlier that day, when an icon in the taskbar of the computer started to blink. It was Egon's "Sudden PKE Increase Alert" program. Ray opened the program, and a window popped up, to show a line graph starting to rise. Ray started to yell out...

Ray: GUYS! GUYS! Get in here, quick!

Egon ran up from the basement, as Peter and Winston come from upstairs. They crowded around Ray to see what the disturbance was...

Peter: What's wrong? Did they say they were going to cancel "Captain Steel" again?

Winston: Peter, will you shut the hell up?

Peter: I knew someone was going to say that to me.

Egon: What is it?

Ray turned the screen of the laptop towards the others, and indicated to look at the open window on screen. All of their eyes widened as they took note of the readings.

Egon: That's up to a class 9! That's an extremely dangerous classification!

Winston: Oh, Jesus Christ!

Peter: Where did it come from? Which way is it pointing to?

Ray: It's pointing southeast... It's pointed towards the park!

Egon: Dan's out there! Winston, call his cell phone!

Winston went into the kitchen, and started to dial Dan's phone, when a high- pitched screech came out of the receiver. He dropped the phone, and shook his head from the loud noise emanating from the phone. Peter ran up next to him, and aided him...

Peter: Winston! Are you alright?

Winston: Damn, that was loud!

Peter: What happened?

Egon: The PKE valences! They're distorting all communication devices!

Ray: Like an Aurora Borealis!

Peter: Well, what are we going to do about Dan?

Egon looked down to his feet and let out a stressed sigh...

Egon: It looks like he's on his own.

***

Dan and Lita sat on the ocean front, and took in the sights. It was starting to get cloudy, but they didn't see anything to worry about. They sat and talked some more...

Lita: ...So, in a way, that's how most people feared me when I transferred schools.

Dan: I know. I can relate to this too. When I went to school, everyone didn't like me, either. I don't know why though. I guess it was because I was easy.

Lita: What do you mean, "easy"?

Dan: People could make me mad easily. I was an easy choice.

Lita: Oh.

Dan: Well, one day, kids started pelting rocks at me. I was bleeding, bruised, but the teachers didn't care. I'd tell them, but they just ignored me. Anyway, when I was down on the ground, something had just snapped in my mind. I got up, and started beating the crap out of the first kid in the group. I mean, these guys were big, too. Older by 2 years.

Lita: Whoa.

Dan: Yeah. I pounded that one kid to the point he had to be taken to the hospital. After that, I was kicked out. Went to the next school, and nobody bothered me. From that point on, I was dubbed the name, "Class Crazy."

Lita: Wow, I never heard of anything like that before. You must have been alone for some time.

Dan: Yeah, I was. As a matter of fact, I still am. I used to have a girlfriend, but she dumped me recently.

Lita: How recent?

Dan: About a week ago. I mean, she wasn't my girlfriend for even a quarter of a year, either. It really is depressing.

Lita: I know what it's like. When Freddie dumped me, I felt really alone.

Dan: The way Jamie let me down was really evil, I have to tell ya.

Lita: He was really a cute guy, too.

Dan: I thought she was understanding... but I guess that was just a shield.

Lita: When he left I just felt so...

Dan: She left me so...

Together: ...Empty.

They both looked at each other's green eyes. They got stuck into that trance together. They got closer to each other, and closer, and closer. Their lips where about to touch...

A large flash, followed by a sonic boom made them snap out of their trance, and scream in fright. Dan grabbed Lita, and they both hurled themselves behind the park bench...

Dan: HOLY SHIT! Get down!

They looked over the back of the bench, to see an image of a blonde man in a gray attire in the sky. They both panicked, and started to crawl on their backs up against a boulder.

Lita: It's Jedite!

Dan: Who?!

It was indeed Jedite. The images of the dream flashed cross her mind as she looked at the image of the man in the sky. Suddenly, a thunderous growl filled the clearing, as the man in the sky spoke...

Jedite: Attention Sailor Scouts! I have returned for my vengeance! Your unwillingness to die in turn had me put into eternal sleep, and now I have came back to return that promise!

Dan and Lita, as frightened as they were, clinched to each other, and held tight. Other than that, they did nothing but watch, as the image filled the now cloudy an darkened sky above.

Jedite: Meet me tonight at 1 o'clock at the Tokyo International Airport. If you don't...

He waved his hands in the air, and suddenly, the entire city became engulfed by fire. Dan and Lita screamed, as Dan covered Lita the best he could. When Dan took another look, the fire and the image in the sky had disappeared. All was heard was the man's evil laughter. Dan and Lita sat up, and looked at each other for some kind of explanation. They turned back to the sky, as Dan scratched his head...

Dan: What the hell?

To Be Continued...