(Alright, here it goes, the Senshi barely know Ran and the Weiss
personally. The thing with Mako-chan was when Ran was younger, I should
have mentioned that. So far the story is going as I had written it
originally and this was when I was new to Weiss Kreuz and veteran at
writing Sailor Moon Fan Fiction. So some of things are inaccurate. As for
other critisms, I do know that Crawford does care about Nagi just a little,
i.e. convincing him to not chase after Tot.)
Part 2 What is in the Visions of Mars
Rei had sat in front of the fire and looked deeply into the flames, she was aware of someone behind her that wasn't suppose to be there. "I see it is you," she whispered and turned to see Setsuna standing there. "You look troubled."
"There is something going wrong, it is causing a shift in time. Chibi Usa will not be born if we do not stop this," she whispered. "Time has shifted and it is a result of four men can, I dare not speak their names now."
"Tell me, you have to," Rei pulled herself up and looked upset. "Please tell me. It has everything to do with the Princess and Prince."
"Where there is light there is always dark. Look for the men who have the sign of the cross, that's all I can say, trust the men of Weiss," Setsuna walked away and vanished.
"Trust? What is Weiss?"
**
Schuldich dozed in the backseat of the car when he noticed Haruka walking out of the house again this time he brought out the drug. He grabbed her putting the sleeping drug just under her nose as she passed out into his arms.
"Time," he shouted at Nagi who was sitting in the passenger seat.
"34 seconds," the boy looked at him holding a stop watch. "What do you do this?"
"To improve the kidnapping technique."
"Do you know you're strange?"
"I hear it all the time."
They sped away with Haruka in the back seat moaning.
**
"What do you mean?" Mako-chan answered the call on her communicator. "Alright, Michiru-san, calm down, did you call the police?" She nodded at Michiru's frantic voice. "I see, but who would want to kidnap Haruka-san?"
"A lot of people."
"What do you mean?"
"Haruka's father is really rich, she's had two kidnapping attempts," Michiru whispered and then said. "Could you come to my house after work?"
"Sure, I have to go, Ran-kun will kill me if he catches me back here," she walked out of the back room after the communicator shut down.
She moved awkwardly around the store doing her best not to think about what happened. She did notice that Omi was watching her with a strange look on his face, but he soon ignored it and went back to work.
**
"When I get my hands on you! You'll wish you were never born," Haruka was screaming as Schuldich shut her up in a room and locked the door.
He made a face as he looked at Crawford. "I had to tighten the ropes, she's strong and fast, a lot faster than me."
"Oh.and make the call to her father," Crawford sounded uninterested. "What shrine did Mrs. Chiba get dropped off at?"
"Cherry Hill Shrine," the orange haired telepath growled.
"I see, I'll see to her myself."
**
Haruka snarled when Schuldich returned and forced water into her mouth. "Do me a huge favor and shut the hell up!" he growled and looked at her ropes.
"When I get my hands on you're dead!" She spat only to have him smack her.
"Let me ask you one simple question why the hell can't I read your mind? Usually minds like yours run like water into my head, but not yours," he looked at her with a evil look in his eyes. "I could let Farfarello cut you into tiny pieces, but that isn't what we want."
"I don't know what you're talking about you idiot."
She really doesn't know, he thought and smiled. "Alright then, have it your way, I was trying to help you know." Of course he knew that was just trying to get to her, to actually tell him something that would have helped him understand her.
"Don't fuck with me," Haruka glared her teal eyes becoming even darker and more threatening.
I don't like this, she's faster than, and she can probably beat the hell out of me. He had to take in the consideration that maybe he was going to die because of her. Of course he was used to these kinds of things, but she was something else altogether, and it really bothered him.
**
Omi watched from the corner of Cherry Hills Shrine where he knew for sure that Mamoru was right. He saw Usagi sitting talking to some girls who were listening to her story. "She looks safe," he told Aya who leaned against a tree.
"She's in more danger here than she is with us," he heard Aya whisper, there was strange sound in his voice, like something that Omi wasn't used to hearing.
Is he really in love with her? They moved in only to see someone that they didn't want to see at all. Crawford of Schwarz driving up to the Shrine's gate, the assassin got out and walked up the steps. "Mrs. Chiba, I'm from Takatori's office, he wishes to speak with you."
"Don't get in the car," Aya was whispering hoping that Usagi would have the common sense not to go toward the car.
He saw Usagi standing up and looking a bit standoffish. "Mr. Crawford, I have no interest in talking to Mr. Takatori. Please leave me alone!"
"Its about your husband," Crawford whispered and saw her look at him.
A girl with brown hair, Makoto looked at him. "I'm sorry, Mr. Crawford or whoever you are, but Usagi isn't in the mood to go anymore, if it is about her husband, have Takatori come here."
They walked into the house and saw Crawford walking off to his car. "She seems very displeased."
Smart move, Omi breathed a sigh of relief at the thought.
**
Rei made a look toward the sky and saw her crows land. "Man, Phobos and Demenus don't like him either."
"No one really likes Crawford, he's frightening," Usagi whispered. "I heard some rumors that he kills people for Takatori."
"Weird, I had a weird sense that he was going to hurt you." Ami Mizuno looked up from her book and shook her head. "It was kind of like looking at a monster we defeated."
**
It was strange, Haruka thought as she undid her bonds and reached for the Space Sword hidden in the hyperspace pocket. She looked around her and glared, she hoped that without being a Senshi she was able to use it. She heard the door open and that was when she drew the Sword and ran at him. "Space Sword Blaster." A beam of light shot at Schuldich as she dashed passed as he hit the wall.
"Damn," he growled as he ran after her. "Get back here! Farfarello is out and where'd the hell did you get that thing?"
She didn't stop to answer, she ran down the hall. She growled as she made it to the front door and opened it. He was still behind her when she saw someone standing in front of her with scars. "Space Sword Blaster." The beam came again, but this time, the guy was till standing.
The guy blinked as if it just shocked him and he jumped at her only to miss. "What?" She snapped this time she was running farther away from them. "Farfarello catch her, don't kill her, yet!"
She was aware still of them, she ran into the street and then to the train station. She hid in the bathroom and saw Schuldich and the one, Farfarello walking passed, she breathed a sigh as she boarded a train. "Not smart," she heard a whisper behind her and felt her arms being pulled behind her. "One doesn't need to read your mind to know what you were doing. If you scream, I'll make sure you don't remember it," he smiled at her.
"Bastard," she growled only to feel the needle hitting her throat and the entering into darkness, she was at least lucky that the Space Sword was put back.
"I don't know where you got that sword, but I know for sure there is more to you than meets the eye," he looked at the crowd who seemed to ignore them. He waited until he got to the right stop and got off then back to the house.
**
Crawford returned as he saw Schuldich putting her back in the cell. "Had a little mishap with that girl, there is something about her," he whispered to his leader.
"I know, and it seems that there is more to Usagi than I made out. Her friends each have strange gifts."
**
Makoto walked into the flower shop that afternoon, she seemed to earn the respect of the Weiss. "Hey, are you going to be closing?" she asked Yohji who laid his head on the table.
Yohji still had his head on the table. "Yeah, I'm closing, you shouldn't be here today, you weren't marked down to work."
"I know, Omi-kun said he wasn't coming in so I'm doing his shift today with you," she smiled at him and put her smock on.
"Fine with me, a lovely lady like you should need a strong guy to protect you," he gave her a winning smiled only to have throwing some paper at him.
"Do that again, I'll have you in the trash before you can say, uncle," she hissed.
Yohji doubted she could take on a guy his size, least of all Crawford single handly, but from what Aya said it was possible. He had been only ten at the time and she was of course about eight or so. He just said that it wasn't an experience he wanted to have again.
Childhood friends were something that was rare, and Aya-chan's friend had such a horrible childhood at that. Yohji had gotten a hold of some files on Makoto when she joined. Aya wouldn't talk about her past and Yohji didn't expect any help about getting it. All he found was that Makoto's mother and father were killed in a plane crash when she was little and Makoto lived with some aunts or other family members until she proved she could take care of herself.
"Thank you, Mako-chan," Omi walked in dressed in a jean jacket and smiled before he left. "Hey, Yohji, you know where the keys are right?"
"I know where they are, I've closed the store before." The older man sighed and looked around the store bored. "You'll find barely anyone comes in around this time."
**
Haruka's breathing was raspy as she realized she was no longer in a cell, she was lying on a bed. She wasn't tied down, she wasn't even sure what was going on. The door opened and a small teenager entered and put tray down with some food. "Eat," he demanded and then walked out.
What a strange kid, she thought to herself as she saw the food, it was salad. "I hope you enjoy that," she heard Schuldich's voice as he walked into the room and sat down on a chair to watch her carefully. "I will ask you again, why can't I read your mind?"
"I don't understand it myself," Haruka whispered finishing the last of the salad. "How did you know that this was my favorite?"
"Easy, your girlfriend, Michiru buys those salads in a bag," he sighed looking at her again as if he liked the fact he couldn't hear the clatter of her mind like so many other people. "She is rather beautiful, you know?"
"If you lay one hand on her, I'll kill you," she snarled at him, it seemed to her offensive for him to mention her in such away.
"Easy, easy, I was just trying to be polite about it," he blinked in shock that she was getting even angrier. "I'll leave you alone."
Walking out of the room, Schuldich looked in on her one last time, then turned locking the door. "Geez, she's touchy," he whispered to himself and walked to his room to lay down for awhile. Well, it has finally happened, you found someone you can't read his or her minds and when you ask why you can't, she treats you like the scum of the earth, he thought and laughed to himself about the irony. What am I thinking I'm the scum of the earth, look at what I do for a living?
/So what did she say?/ He heard the small voice of Nagi coming into his mind.
Rolling onto his side he snarled back. /Go away, Chibi. I'm thinking./
/Hmm, Crawford-sama wants to talk to you,/ the boy's mind sounded smug to him, though Schuldich knew that Nagi was just relaying a message.
/Fine!/
Walking down the long hall that led to Crawford's office, he had to think of something to say, he knew that Crawford wasn't the least bit interested in what Haruka had said. "Have you called her father?" the great leader sat in an armchair looking at papers, he sort of resembled some evil ruler about to dispense a death sentence on some unlucky person who displeased him.
"You know I have," he retorted to his leader. "Her father will do anything to get her back."
"I know, sadly though Takatori just gave the orders to kill her father," Crawford stood up and turned to face him. "Kill the girl, she useless to us now."
Kill the girl? He worked so hard to get, he moved out of the office, out of sight of Crawford gave a punch at the wall. "Dammit, I work so hard to get the girl and now what?"
This would have been easy, he thought it over, killing some nobody, but of course a thousand people would notice the death of Tenou Haruka, she was after all famous. What is he thinking? That fool, doesn't he know that there will be a manhunt for anyone who hurts this little girl?
**
Usagi was sleeping as Luna walked along the path to get a drink at one of the fountains. She liked to walk around the Cherry Hill's Temple, it was like walking in a park to her. Sitting under a tree she could see the whole world pass by without a care, she did feel something was wrong, something wasn't right about all this.
Chiba Mamoru's disappearance bothered her greatly, she felt the threat of something evil pressing, something that could destroy the Senshi for good. She looked up and saw Sestuna walking up. "Luna, I have something I need to talk you about, you felt the danger, haven't you?"
"Yes," the cat nodded her head and looked around. "I sensed it and so has Rei." There was silence and then she brought it up, the something that bothered her more than ever. "The Senshi cannot transform into Senshi."
"I have known this for awhile. I have seen that there are four who are now to take up the roles as the guardians of the king, we have to wait for the White Cross."
"White Cross?"
"Yes, I have not told the rest of my prediction yet, those who bear the name of the White Cross have only briefly passed through the Senshi's lives only once or twice. Usagi and Makoto knew one from when they were children. Ami knew one on the Internet known as the Archer. Minako passed one when she was younger and he helped her find something lost. Haruka and Michiru passed one when Haruka's father had helped him reach a goal that was impossible to reach." Setsuna sat down and looked at the fountain. "All these meetings were brief, but from it came friendships. I can only say this, one goes by the name of his sister. Look to him for defeating what will kill our princess."
"You are saying that these four people may save the princess?" This was rather a strange thing to think about, Luna never thought there would be a time that Sailor Moon wasn't going to be there. "What about the you and Hotaru?"
"I have not yet seen that," The older Senshi looked tired and sighed. "There is something else, something I haven't quite been truthful about in the past. There was another general of Serenity's court that has only recently shown himself to me. I have no memory of his name, but all I know is be very careful of him. He will harm the princess and prince, even though he knows I gave him his powers."
**
The vision was much more dangerous than ever, Crawford found himself standing in front of a gate. A woman stood before him and she holding a giant key. "I know who you are!" he was yelling at her and she only smiled.
"Why did you betray me, beloved," the words were soft and almost gentle to hear.
Crawford woke feeling the electric shock running through him that most vision gave, he knew this wasn't just the future. He knew who this person one even though he couldn't place her name, the only word that came to his lips was. "Setsuna."
He looked over and saw little Nagi lying next to him, holding onto his sleeves, it was like this when the boy was a child. He would wake to find a small child curled in a ball next to him, sometimes whimpering or crying in his sleep. Nagi had stopped crying like that, only did he have to cry was during overloads when he was locked in a padded cell as not to hurt those around him.
Nagi was so different from that time, but there was something else that seemed to be bothering him. He seemed so much more quiet than normal, and when Crawford would ask Schuldich, the telepath pretended not to know anything. "Fine, I'll tell you, Nagi has a girlfriend," he heard that saying and it nearly had his blood running cold.
How could that boy have another girlfriend, what will happen if she gets too close? It was really hard to control the boy's emotions, the leader of Schwarz realized. For one minute he hated the world and for the next he loved only one person. "So tell me who this girl is?"
"I promised not to say," Schuldich would laugh. "It really isn't any of your business. Since when do you care about him?"
That was always true, but what kind of parent would Crawford have been if he didn't ask. It was clear that Nagi was taking a liking to a girl that had transferred to his school, a rather pale innocent girl who was harassed by her classmates and called names. I suppose Nagi has a right to like someone like her.
**
Setsuna sat quietly in her study and looked at the screen and suddenly the face appeared again. This face from the past, he was staring at her with hard eyes, amber hard eyes that once held such great hope and friendship. "Bradley what have you done?" She shook her head and slowly walked out to the porch and stood there staring at the stars. "Once, you used to be such a good friend, Bradley, why do you follow that group?"
It was an empty question as it was an empty answer. Bradley never used to be so cold to her questions, he used to answer them, he used to thank her for his visions. They were a gift to save lives, yet he used it to take lives away. "I think it time, Bradley, you learned the true nature of your gifts."
**
Makoto's eyes were on the door as she walked to her apartment, she saw the note from Rei tapped there. What now? She blinked at it and slowly walked into her apartment, it had been years since she actually received such notes. "Senshi meeting, after five years?"
Getting her jacket back on she locked up and walked over to the shrine where she saw Ami and Mina already walking up. "What do you think this is about?"
"I don't know, Haruka still hasn't been seen," Ami whispered and looked sadly at her. "I'm worried."
"I am too," Mina whispered who was looking as if she was going to faint walking up so many steps to the shrine.
Luna was perched on a table with Artemis not far off sitting on a chair near a computer. "I have just had a visit from Setsuna after all these years," the cat announced.
Rei walked in last and sat down near the table and looked at the cat. "I have too, she came to me last week. It was kind of strange."
"It is strange, after all these years, I fear that none of us can use our powers," Makoto whispered and sat down on the bed. "Some Senshi we turned out to be. We can't even protect the princess and prince. And here both Mamo-chan and Haruka-san have vanished."
The black looked rather tired and nodded. "I know, but there is something else that I was told. There are new guardians of the future King Endymion here, of course that is only an assumption, I don't know really. All I know is that these new guardians have the sign of the White Cross. I don't know what it means."
"I do," the Shinto priestess stood up. "Weiss, its German for white, I had to look it up after Setsuna said something about it. Why should we trust people that have that kind of name?"
"Because it is the only hope we got," the former Sailor Jupiter whispered. "And I don't know, but I have noticed some strange behavior with at my work. It's just that every time this woman shows up Ran-kun and the others leave me in the store alone."
"That is weird," Mina whispered sitting down next to her and looked over at Usagi who was so quiet and upset.
"Ran-kun?" She blinked as if the name was something from along time ago. "How is he?"
"He's fine," Makoto sighed and looked up at the ceiling. "I don't know though, there is something not right with those guys. Ran-kun used to be so nice, he wasn't so cold or distant when I was little. When my parent's died, his mother and him stayed with me for hours. The funny thing is that when I look at him, its like I'm looking at some stranger."
Luna only listened to this, she had to see if what the tall girl was talking about was true, she had to see for herself.
**
The next morning, Luna found herself in front of "Koneko no Sume Ie," she wandered in after Makoto who was walking in fearing she was late. "I'm sorry, I'm late, Omi-kun," she sputtered.
"You're early, I think you did it again, you set your watch back an hour instead of forward," Omi laughed at that. "I did that last night too. Umm, question, where'd the cat come from?" He was looking down at Luna and smiled at her. "What a strange marking."
Makoto was caught off guard and looked down. "Luna! What are you doing here?" She picked the cat up and looked at her in shock, setting her on the counter in front of Omi.
Luna now had a full look at Omi who to her sort of looked like a nice young boy of about fifteen or so, of course she could have been mistaken. He looked a lot younger from her perspective. "I guess she followed me here," Makoto shook her head and sighed. "You should be taking care of Usagi-san, not following me around."
There was a look in the boy's eyes seemed to shimmer and look rather bothered by this. He seemed to look concerned about something, Luna only pretended to meow and rub against him and he smiled at her. "Alright, if you want me to pet you I will." He smiled placing his hand on her back stroking softly.
Not such a bad boy, she thought. "Wow, this is the first time Luna was nice to anyone besides our friend, Yaten."
"She doesn't seem that mean," Omi smiled at her. "After all cats do have their own personalties determined by their owner."
If only he knew Usagi when she was younger, Luna thought and purred softly then looked up at a red haired man walking in looking down at her. "What's this?"
"Luna, she kind of followed me to work today," Makoto sighed and put her back on the floor. "I'm sorry, Ran-kun. Somehow she left Usagi-san."
Ran seemed to Luna a giant, his red crimson hair and purple eyes were cold to look at and he seemed to have a chip on his shoulder. She rubbed against his legs only to have herself nearly kicked. "Take her home, now," Ran hissed at her and then walked into the back room.
"He never used to be like that, Omi-kun, when I knew him as a child he was so gentle," she heard the Senshi whisper sadly. "I better take Luna home."
"Let her stay, don't worry, I'll look after her," the boy smiled at Luna who sat down on the counter.
Most of the day was rather quiet, it seemed to Luna that these men were normal, but of course that was until she decided to wander around. She found the steps that led to the basement and walked down them. She looked around a room that looked to be some sort of living room and found a computer desk in a corner. What is this? She blinked as she walked up to the computer and jumped onto the chair and looked at the screen of a computer.
On the computer was a white cross screen saver, she blinked looking at it and then when she mistakenly touched the mouse with her tail she saw files popping up. She blinked and looked at the files in wonder. So these are? She touched the screen and saw a read out and biographies of the four men that ran the flower shop.
She blinked when she saw a picture of Ran and read a short bio on him and blinked. These are the ones that are to protect the princess and prince, she thought and suddenly the light went on and she saw Omi standing there. "What are you doing down here, Luna?" He picked her up and carried up the steps back to the store. "This isn't a good place for you to wonder around, you silly cat."
Who are you calling silly? Luna wanted to scratch him, but decided against it. She seemed to have stumbled upon something that seemed much too dangerous for her to even say to Makoto. She had to wait, she had to see if she was correct about them, about the assassins.
**
Haruka paced the room, her eyes on the door, she was waiting for him, waiting for Schuldich, she now knew his name. At least that was what he told her his name was, she didn't trust him. She trusted few males in her life and though she trusted Mamoru to take care of Usagi, she didn't like him.
The door opened and it wasn't Schuldich, it was the boy again, what was his name? She blinked at him and he seemed to look rather vindictive. "What do you want?" she asked him bluntly.
"Just to see what Schuldich said is true, you're able to block him out, how weird," he blinked at her and circled her. "There doesn't seem to be anything special about you to me. You seem to be just like everyone else that's hurt me."
"Then you've met the wrong kind of people," she retorted.
"Have I? While you would be the type to be loved by everyone else," he growled as if it was offensive to say she was special. "What's so special about you? Is it because while Crawford and Schuldich think that you're some kind of void that I can see that you're really something I've seen before in the newspapers, Sailor Uranus!"
"So you know?"
"Well, yes, I knew from the moment I saw you, how stupid do you think I am?" Nagi growled and laughed at her. "Even a boy like me who looked up to the Sailor Senshi would know."
"Then why do you hurt people when the Senshi don't stand for it?" Haruka whispered looking rather as if she was being a hipocrit.
"Could have asked you that when you took my heart crystal?" Nagi pulled away from her angrily. "It was your fault!"
"I don't understand."
"Yes you do, because of you, you made me a freak, and you gave me these stupid powers."
It all came back in jolt of a sudden memory, the moment in the garage when she became Sailor Uranus for the first time. That boy, it was Nagi, some monster had possessed him, and somehow he became able to have powers. She stared at him in shock. "You were the kid in the garage?"
"Of course I was!" Nagi looked at her in anger. "I should have died in there."
"I saved you, Nagi, don't you remember that?"
He nodded and suddenly the door opened again and Schuldich stared at her in shock. "What a great run of bad luck?!" He pulled Nagi out of the room and walked right back in pushing her against the wall. "You're a damn Sailor Senshi?"
"So what! You would have found out anyway. What makes you think that you're not working for something darker?" She glared at him.
"Listen to me, you stupid girl before I kill you for real. That thing you had, that was the Space Sword, right?" He waited until she nodded. "So weren't you suppose to be able to change into those weird clothes or something to use it."
"If I was deadly danger than I would be able to use the Space Sword without transforming." She went silent knowing he was going to ask her to transform and she just smiled as if she knew something he was going to have to guess at.
He got impatient and walked out of the room.
Part 2 What is in the Visions of Mars
Rei had sat in front of the fire and looked deeply into the flames, she was aware of someone behind her that wasn't suppose to be there. "I see it is you," she whispered and turned to see Setsuna standing there. "You look troubled."
"There is something going wrong, it is causing a shift in time. Chibi Usa will not be born if we do not stop this," she whispered. "Time has shifted and it is a result of four men can, I dare not speak their names now."
"Tell me, you have to," Rei pulled herself up and looked upset. "Please tell me. It has everything to do with the Princess and Prince."
"Where there is light there is always dark. Look for the men who have the sign of the cross, that's all I can say, trust the men of Weiss," Setsuna walked away and vanished.
"Trust? What is Weiss?"
**
Schuldich dozed in the backseat of the car when he noticed Haruka walking out of the house again this time he brought out the drug. He grabbed her putting the sleeping drug just under her nose as she passed out into his arms.
"Time," he shouted at Nagi who was sitting in the passenger seat.
"34 seconds," the boy looked at him holding a stop watch. "What do you do this?"
"To improve the kidnapping technique."
"Do you know you're strange?"
"I hear it all the time."
They sped away with Haruka in the back seat moaning.
**
"What do you mean?" Mako-chan answered the call on her communicator. "Alright, Michiru-san, calm down, did you call the police?" She nodded at Michiru's frantic voice. "I see, but who would want to kidnap Haruka-san?"
"A lot of people."
"What do you mean?"
"Haruka's father is really rich, she's had two kidnapping attempts," Michiru whispered and then said. "Could you come to my house after work?"
"Sure, I have to go, Ran-kun will kill me if he catches me back here," she walked out of the back room after the communicator shut down.
She moved awkwardly around the store doing her best not to think about what happened. She did notice that Omi was watching her with a strange look on his face, but he soon ignored it and went back to work.
**
"When I get my hands on you! You'll wish you were never born," Haruka was screaming as Schuldich shut her up in a room and locked the door.
He made a face as he looked at Crawford. "I had to tighten the ropes, she's strong and fast, a lot faster than me."
"Oh.and make the call to her father," Crawford sounded uninterested. "What shrine did Mrs. Chiba get dropped off at?"
"Cherry Hill Shrine," the orange haired telepath growled.
"I see, I'll see to her myself."
**
Haruka snarled when Schuldich returned and forced water into her mouth. "Do me a huge favor and shut the hell up!" he growled and looked at her ropes.
"When I get my hands on you're dead!" She spat only to have him smack her.
"Let me ask you one simple question why the hell can't I read your mind? Usually minds like yours run like water into my head, but not yours," he looked at her with a evil look in his eyes. "I could let Farfarello cut you into tiny pieces, but that isn't what we want."
"I don't know what you're talking about you idiot."
She really doesn't know, he thought and smiled. "Alright then, have it your way, I was trying to help you know." Of course he knew that was just trying to get to her, to actually tell him something that would have helped him understand her.
"Don't fuck with me," Haruka glared her teal eyes becoming even darker and more threatening.
I don't like this, she's faster than, and she can probably beat the hell out of me. He had to take in the consideration that maybe he was going to die because of her. Of course he was used to these kinds of things, but she was something else altogether, and it really bothered him.
**
Omi watched from the corner of Cherry Hills Shrine where he knew for sure that Mamoru was right. He saw Usagi sitting talking to some girls who were listening to her story. "She looks safe," he told Aya who leaned against a tree.
"She's in more danger here than she is with us," he heard Aya whisper, there was strange sound in his voice, like something that Omi wasn't used to hearing.
Is he really in love with her? They moved in only to see someone that they didn't want to see at all. Crawford of Schwarz driving up to the Shrine's gate, the assassin got out and walked up the steps. "Mrs. Chiba, I'm from Takatori's office, he wishes to speak with you."
"Don't get in the car," Aya was whispering hoping that Usagi would have the common sense not to go toward the car.
He saw Usagi standing up and looking a bit standoffish. "Mr. Crawford, I have no interest in talking to Mr. Takatori. Please leave me alone!"
"Its about your husband," Crawford whispered and saw her look at him.
A girl with brown hair, Makoto looked at him. "I'm sorry, Mr. Crawford or whoever you are, but Usagi isn't in the mood to go anymore, if it is about her husband, have Takatori come here."
They walked into the house and saw Crawford walking off to his car. "She seems very displeased."
Smart move, Omi breathed a sigh of relief at the thought.
**
Rei made a look toward the sky and saw her crows land. "Man, Phobos and Demenus don't like him either."
"No one really likes Crawford, he's frightening," Usagi whispered. "I heard some rumors that he kills people for Takatori."
"Weird, I had a weird sense that he was going to hurt you." Ami Mizuno looked up from her book and shook her head. "It was kind of like looking at a monster we defeated."
**
It was strange, Haruka thought as she undid her bonds and reached for the Space Sword hidden in the hyperspace pocket. She looked around her and glared, she hoped that without being a Senshi she was able to use it. She heard the door open and that was when she drew the Sword and ran at him. "Space Sword Blaster." A beam of light shot at Schuldich as she dashed passed as he hit the wall.
"Damn," he growled as he ran after her. "Get back here! Farfarello is out and where'd the hell did you get that thing?"
She didn't stop to answer, she ran down the hall. She growled as she made it to the front door and opened it. He was still behind her when she saw someone standing in front of her with scars. "Space Sword Blaster." The beam came again, but this time, the guy was till standing.
The guy blinked as if it just shocked him and he jumped at her only to miss. "What?" She snapped this time she was running farther away from them. "Farfarello catch her, don't kill her, yet!"
She was aware still of them, she ran into the street and then to the train station. She hid in the bathroom and saw Schuldich and the one, Farfarello walking passed, she breathed a sigh as she boarded a train. "Not smart," she heard a whisper behind her and felt her arms being pulled behind her. "One doesn't need to read your mind to know what you were doing. If you scream, I'll make sure you don't remember it," he smiled at her.
"Bastard," she growled only to feel the needle hitting her throat and the entering into darkness, she was at least lucky that the Space Sword was put back.
"I don't know where you got that sword, but I know for sure there is more to you than meets the eye," he looked at the crowd who seemed to ignore them. He waited until he got to the right stop and got off then back to the house.
**
Crawford returned as he saw Schuldich putting her back in the cell. "Had a little mishap with that girl, there is something about her," he whispered to his leader.
"I know, and it seems that there is more to Usagi than I made out. Her friends each have strange gifts."
**
Makoto walked into the flower shop that afternoon, she seemed to earn the respect of the Weiss. "Hey, are you going to be closing?" she asked Yohji who laid his head on the table.
Yohji still had his head on the table. "Yeah, I'm closing, you shouldn't be here today, you weren't marked down to work."
"I know, Omi-kun said he wasn't coming in so I'm doing his shift today with you," she smiled at him and put her smock on.
"Fine with me, a lovely lady like you should need a strong guy to protect you," he gave her a winning smiled only to have throwing some paper at him.
"Do that again, I'll have you in the trash before you can say, uncle," she hissed.
Yohji doubted she could take on a guy his size, least of all Crawford single handly, but from what Aya said it was possible. He had been only ten at the time and she was of course about eight or so. He just said that it wasn't an experience he wanted to have again.
Childhood friends were something that was rare, and Aya-chan's friend had such a horrible childhood at that. Yohji had gotten a hold of some files on Makoto when she joined. Aya wouldn't talk about her past and Yohji didn't expect any help about getting it. All he found was that Makoto's mother and father were killed in a plane crash when she was little and Makoto lived with some aunts or other family members until she proved she could take care of herself.
"Thank you, Mako-chan," Omi walked in dressed in a jean jacket and smiled before he left. "Hey, Yohji, you know where the keys are right?"
"I know where they are, I've closed the store before." The older man sighed and looked around the store bored. "You'll find barely anyone comes in around this time."
**
Haruka's breathing was raspy as she realized she was no longer in a cell, she was lying on a bed. She wasn't tied down, she wasn't even sure what was going on. The door opened and a small teenager entered and put tray down with some food. "Eat," he demanded and then walked out.
What a strange kid, she thought to herself as she saw the food, it was salad. "I hope you enjoy that," she heard Schuldich's voice as he walked into the room and sat down on a chair to watch her carefully. "I will ask you again, why can't I read your mind?"
"I don't understand it myself," Haruka whispered finishing the last of the salad. "How did you know that this was my favorite?"
"Easy, your girlfriend, Michiru buys those salads in a bag," he sighed looking at her again as if he liked the fact he couldn't hear the clatter of her mind like so many other people. "She is rather beautiful, you know?"
"If you lay one hand on her, I'll kill you," she snarled at him, it seemed to her offensive for him to mention her in such away.
"Easy, easy, I was just trying to be polite about it," he blinked in shock that she was getting even angrier. "I'll leave you alone."
Walking out of the room, Schuldich looked in on her one last time, then turned locking the door. "Geez, she's touchy," he whispered to himself and walked to his room to lay down for awhile. Well, it has finally happened, you found someone you can't read his or her minds and when you ask why you can't, she treats you like the scum of the earth, he thought and laughed to himself about the irony. What am I thinking I'm the scum of the earth, look at what I do for a living?
/So what did she say?/ He heard the small voice of Nagi coming into his mind.
Rolling onto his side he snarled back. /Go away, Chibi. I'm thinking./
/Hmm, Crawford-sama wants to talk to you,/ the boy's mind sounded smug to him, though Schuldich knew that Nagi was just relaying a message.
/Fine!/
Walking down the long hall that led to Crawford's office, he had to think of something to say, he knew that Crawford wasn't the least bit interested in what Haruka had said. "Have you called her father?" the great leader sat in an armchair looking at papers, he sort of resembled some evil ruler about to dispense a death sentence on some unlucky person who displeased him.
"You know I have," he retorted to his leader. "Her father will do anything to get her back."
"I know, sadly though Takatori just gave the orders to kill her father," Crawford stood up and turned to face him. "Kill the girl, she useless to us now."
Kill the girl? He worked so hard to get, he moved out of the office, out of sight of Crawford gave a punch at the wall. "Dammit, I work so hard to get the girl and now what?"
This would have been easy, he thought it over, killing some nobody, but of course a thousand people would notice the death of Tenou Haruka, she was after all famous. What is he thinking? That fool, doesn't he know that there will be a manhunt for anyone who hurts this little girl?
**
Usagi was sleeping as Luna walked along the path to get a drink at one of the fountains. She liked to walk around the Cherry Hill's Temple, it was like walking in a park to her. Sitting under a tree she could see the whole world pass by without a care, she did feel something was wrong, something wasn't right about all this.
Chiba Mamoru's disappearance bothered her greatly, she felt the threat of something evil pressing, something that could destroy the Senshi for good. She looked up and saw Sestuna walking up. "Luna, I have something I need to talk you about, you felt the danger, haven't you?"
"Yes," the cat nodded her head and looked around. "I sensed it and so has Rei." There was silence and then she brought it up, the something that bothered her more than ever. "The Senshi cannot transform into Senshi."
"I have known this for awhile. I have seen that there are four who are now to take up the roles as the guardians of the king, we have to wait for the White Cross."
"White Cross?"
"Yes, I have not told the rest of my prediction yet, those who bear the name of the White Cross have only briefly passed through the Senshi's lives only once or twice. Usagi and Makoto knew one from when they were children. Ami knew one on the Internet known as the Archer. Minako passed one when she was younger and he helped her find something lost. Haruka and Michiru passed one when Haruka's father had helped him reach a goal that was impossible to reach." Setsuna sat down and looked at the fountain. "All these meetings were brief, but from it came friendships. I can only say this, one goes by the name of his sister. Look to him for defeating what will kill our princess."
"You are saying that these four people may save the princess?" This was rather a strange thing to think about, Luna never thought there would be a time that Sailor Moon wasn't going to be there. "What about the you and Hotaru?"
"I have not yet seen that," The older Senshi looked tired and sighed. "There is something else, something I haven't quite been truthful about in the past. There was another general of Serenity's court that has only recently shown himself to me. I have no memory of his name, but all I know is be very careful of him. He will harm the princess and prince, even though he knows I gave him his powers."
**
The vision was much more dangerous than ever, Crawford found himself standing in front of a gate. A woman stood before him and she holding a giant key. "I know who you are!" he was yelling at her and she only smiled.
"Why did you betray me, beloved," the words were soft and almost gentle to hear.
Crawford woke feeling the electric shock running through him that most vision gave, he knew this wasn't just the future. He knew who this person one even though he couldn't place her name, the only word that came to his lips was. "Setsuna."
He looked over and saw little Nagi lying next to him, holding onto his sleeves, it was like this when the boy was a child. He would wake to find a small child curled in a ball next to him, sometimes whimpering or crying in his sleep. Nagi had stopped crying like that, only did he have to cry was during overloads when he was locked in a padded cell as not to hurt those around him.
Nagi was so different from that time, but there was something else that seemed to be bothering him. He seemed so much more quiet than normal, and when Crawford would ask Schuldich, the telepath pretended not to know anything. "Fine, I'll tell you, Nagi has a girlfriend," he heard that saying and it nearly had his blood running cold.
How could that boy have another girlfriend, what will happen if she gets too close? It was really hard to control the boy's emotions, the leader of Schwarz realized. For one minute he hated the world and for the next he loved only one person. "So tell me who this girl is?"
"I promised not to say," Schuldich would laugh. "It really isn't any of your business. Since when do you care about him?"
That was always true, but what kind of parent would Crawford have been if he didn't ask. It was clear that Nagi was taking a liking to a girl that had transferred to his school, a rather pale innocent girl who was harassed by her classmates and called names. I suppose Nagi has a right to like someone like her.
**
Setsuna sat quietly in her study and looked at the screen and suddenly the face appeared again. This face from the past, he was staring at her with hard eyes, amber hard eyes that once held such great hope and friendship. "Bradley what have you done?" She shook her head and slowly walked out to the porch and stood there staring at the stars. "Once, you used to be such a good friend, Bradley, why do you follow that group?"
It was an empty question as it was an empty answer. Bradley never used to be so cold to her questions, he used to answer them, he used to thank her for his visions. They were a gift to save lives, yet he used it to take lives away. "I think it time, Bradley, you learned the true nature of your gifts."
**
Makoto's eyes were on the door as she walked to her apartment, she saw the note from Rei tapped there. What now? She blinked at it and slowly walked into her apartment, it had been years since she actually received such notes. "Senshi meeting, after five years?"
Getting her jacket back on she locked up and walked over to the shrine where she saw Ami and Mina already walking up. "What do you think this is about?"
"I don't know, Haruka still hasn't been seen," Ami whispered and looked sadly at her. "I'm worried."
"I am too," Mina whispered who was looking as if she was going to faint walking up so many steps to the shrine.
Luna was perched on a table with Artemis not far off sitting on a chair near a computer. "I have just had a visit from Setsuna after all these years," the cat announced.
Rei walked in last and sat down near the table and looked at the cat. "I have too, she came to me last week. It was kind of strange."
"It is strange, after all these years, I fear that none of us can use our powers," Makoto whispered and sat down on the bed. "Some Senshi we turned out to be. We can't even protect the princess and prince. And here both Mamo-chan and Haruka-san have vanished."
The black looked rather tired and nodded. "I know, but there is something else that I was told. There are new guardians of the future King Endymion here, of course that is only an assumption, I don't know really. All I know is that these new guardians have the sign of the White Cross. I don't know what it means."
"I do," the Shinto priestess stood up. "Weiss, its German for white, I had to look it up after Setsuna said something about it. Why should we trust people that have that kind of name?"
"Because it is the only hope we got," the former Sailor Jupiter whispered. "And I don't know, but I have noticed some strange behavior with at my work. It's just that every time this woman shows up Ran-kun and the others leave me in the store alone."
"That is weird," Mina whispered sitting down next to her and looked over at Usagi who was so quiet and upset.
"Ran-kun?" She blinked as if the name was something from along time ago. "How is he?"
"He's fine," Makoto sighed and looked up at the ceiling. "I don't know though, there is something not right with those guys. Ran-kun used to be so nice, he wasn't so cold or distant when I was little. When my parent's died, his mother and him stayed with me for hours. The funny thing is that when I look at him, its like I'm looking at some stranger."
Luna only listened to this, she had to see if what the tall girl was talking about was true, she had to see for herself.
**
The next morning, Luna found herself in front of "Koneko no Sume Ie," she wandered in after Makoto who was walking in fearing she was late. "I'm sorry, I'm late, Omi-kun," she sputtered.
"You're early, I think you did it again, you set your watch back an hour instead of forward," Omi laughed at that. "I did that last night too. Umm, question, where'd the cat come from?" He was looking down at Luna and smiled at her. "What a strange marking."
Makoto was caught off guard and looked down. "Luna! What are you doing here?" She picked the cat up and looked at her in shock, setting her on the counter in front of Omi.
Luna now had a full look at Omi who to her sort of looked like a nice young boy of about fifteen or so, of course she could have been mistaken. He looked a lot younger from her perspective. "I guess she followed me here," Makoto shook her head and sighed. "You should be taking care of Usagi-san, not following me around."
There was a look in the boy's eyes seemed to shimmer and look rather bothered by this. He seemed to look concerned about something, Luna only pretended to meow and rub against him and he smiled at her. "Alright, if you want me to pet you I will." He smiled placing his hand on her back stroking softly.
Not such a bad boy, she thought. "Wow, this is the first time Luna was nice to anyone besides our friend, Yaten."
"She doesn't seem that mean," Omi smiled at her. "After all cats do have their own personalties determined by their owner."
If only he knew Usagi when she was younger, Luna thought and purred softly then looked up at a red haired man walking in looking down at her. "What's this?"
"Luna, she kind of followed me to work today," Makoto sighed and put her back on the floor. "I'm sorry, Ran-kun. Somehow she left Usagi-san."
Ran seemed to Luna a giant, his red crimson hair and purple eyes were cold to look at and he seemed to have a chip on his shoulder. She rubbed against his legs only to have herself nearly kicked. "Take her home, now," Ran hissed at her and then walked into the back room.
"He never used to be like that, Omi-kun, when I knew him as a child he was so gentle," she heard the Senshi whisper sadly. "I better take Luna home."
"Let her stay, don't worry, I'll look after her," the boy smiled at Luna who sat down on the counter.
Most of the day was rather quiet, it seemed to Luna that these men were normal, but of course that was until she decided to wander around. She found the steps that led to the basement and walked down them. She looked around a room that looked to be some sort of living room and found a computer desk in a corner. What is this? She blinked as she walked up to the computer and jumped onto the chair and looked at the screen of a computer.
On the computer was a white cross screen saver, she blinked looking at it and then when she mistakenly touched the mouse with her tail she saw files popping up. She blinked and looked at the files in wonder. So these are? She touched the screen and saw a read out and biographies of the four men that ran the flower shop.
She blinked when she saw a picture of Ran and read a short bio on him and blinked. These are the ones that are to protect the princess and prince, she thought and suddenly the light went on and she saw Omi standing there. "What are you doing down here, Luna?" He picked her up and carried up the steps back to the store. "This isn't a good place for you to wonder around, you silly cat."
Who are you calling silly? Luna wanted to scratch him, but decided against it. She seemed to have stumbled upon something that seemed much too dangerous for her to even say to Makoto. She had to wait, she had to see if she was correct about them, about the assassins.
**
Haruka paced the room, her eyes on the door, she was waiting for him, waiting for Schuldich, she now knew his name. At least that was what he told her his name was, she didn't trust him. She trusted few males in her life and though she trusted Mamoru to take care of Usagi, she didn't like him.
The door opened and it wasn't Schuldich, it was the boy again, what was his name? She blinked at him and he seemed to look rather vindictive. "What do you want?" she asked him bluntly.
"Just to see what Schuldich said is true, you're able to block him out, how weird," he blinked at her and circled her. "There doesn't seem to be anything special about you to me. You seem to be just like everyone else that's hurt me."
"Then you've met the wrong kind of people," she retorted.
"Have I? While you would be the type to be loved by everyone else," he growled as if it was offensive to say she was special. "What's so special about you? Is it because while Crawford and Schuldich think that you're some kind of void that I can see that you're really something I've seen before in the newspapers, Sailor Uranus!"
"So you know?"
"Well, yes, I knew from the moment I saw you, how stupid do you think I am?" Nagi growled and laughed at her. "Even a boy like me who looked up to the Sailor Senshi would know."
"Then why do you hurt people when the Senshi don't stand for it?" Haruka whispered looking rather as if she was being a hipocrit.
"Could have asked you that when you took my heart crystal?" Nagi pulled away from her angrily. "It was your fault!"
"I don't understand."
"Yes you do, because of you, you made me a freak, and you gave me these stupid powers."
It all came back in jolt of a sudden memory, the moment in the garage when she became Sailor Uranus for the first time. That boy, it was Nagi, some monster had possessed him, and somehow he became able to have powers. She stared at him in shock. "You were the kid in the garage?"
"Of course I was!" Nagi looked at her in anger. "I should have died in there."
"I saved you, Nagi, don't you remember that?"
He nodded and suddenly the door opened again and Schuldich stared at her in shock. "What a great run of bad luck?!" He pulled Nagi out of the room and walked right back in pushing her against the wall. "You're a damn Sailor Senshi?"
"So what! You would have found out anyway. What makes you think that you're not working for something darker?" She glared at him.
"Listen to me, you stupid girl before I kill you for real. That thing you had, that was the Space Sword, right?" He waited until she nodded. "So weren't you suppose to be able to change into those weird clothes or something to use it."
"If I was deadly danger than I would be able to use the Space Sword without transforming." She went silent knowing he was going to ask her to transform and she just smiled as if she knew something he was going to have to guess at.
He got impatient and walked out of the room.