AN: I'm going to use the NA names, a'ight? Amara = Uranus, and Trista = Pluto.
Disclaimer: I—I do not own Sailor Moon… -sobs quietly-
Title: The Eimin
Chapter: 1 – Sleeping
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Serena screamed and looked down at her feet. Raye's body lay there, blue and frigid. A few feet away from her lay Mina, Amy and Michelle, and beyond them were Lita and Amara, struggling to stand up.
"Lita!" she shrieked, running over to them, tears streaming down her face. "Amara! What happened?"
Lita winced and fell back to the ground. "Serena… you have to—go home."
"What?" she gasped. "No! I can't! Who did this to you?" She turned and looked at Amara and suddenly broke out in more tears. "Tell me!"
"Go, Serena!" Amara screamed. "We'd never forgive ourselves if you got sentenced!"
"What are you talking about?" Serena sobbed, then whirled around to face her unconscious friends. "Will they be okay? What happened to them?"
No one answered. She was starting to get really angry with them. How can they expect her to leave when her friends looked dead? Why won't they tell her what was going on? She turned around again to ask these questions, but screamed again. They were also unconscious now; eyes open and sprawled on the ground.
"NO!" she cried, falling to her knees. "Get up! Come on!" she had started shaking them, but only slightly since they were very cold.
"Serena, stop," said a voice behind her.
Serena did so and turned around on her knees, and sobbed again, but this time in relief.
"Sailor Pluto!" she said. "Sailor Saturn! What—?"
"Serena, you need to get out of here," Pluto said serenely. "Otherwise, you will be sentenced."
"What? What do you mean, 'sentenced?'"
"She will sentence you to Oblivion, Serena!" Saturn said briskly, now looking uncomfortable. "She has that power, so you need to get away from here quickly!"
"Who?" Serena asked desperately.
"Me."
She gasped and whirled around again, falling on her bottom. There stood a teenager, about her age, with long brown hair in a ponytail. Shorter hair, that ended a few inches below her shoulder, protruded down in front of her ears. She had light brown eyes and was wearing a white kimono with red and yellow flowers on it. There looked nothing threatening about this girl at all, though.
"You—?"
"How nice of you to join us," the girl said, curtsying slightly.
"Who are you?"
She smiled and took a step back. "My name is Eris. Princess Erishandra, to be formal."
Serena stood up and glared at her. "Princess? Of what?"
"Of the Oblivionation, of course!" Eris laughed. "Don't tell me that you haven't heard of me before. I mean, from all the harm your friends have caused my people." She stopped laughing and glared back at her, looking only slightly angry.
"I have no idea what you are talking about. Please explain yourself."
Eris frowned. "You talk to me like you have the authority to punish me, girl. I'll explain if you do."
Serena opened her mouth to reply, but Saturn cut her off.
"No! Don't tell her!"
Eris narrowed her eyes at her, and Serena could see a tiny bit of shadow in her eyes. Then, without warning, she jumped up into the air then charged back down at Sailor Saturn, her hand outstretched. She didn't land but hit her hand on Saturn's forehead and it glowed black. Serena and Pluto whirled around.
"Almighty Aradia, I ask for the powers of The Eimin. I sentence thee to Oblivion!" she shrieked.
Saturn screamed in agony. She glowed white while her irises turned darker and darker. The white glow started to quiver then shrank down to where Eris' hand was. The black glow on her hand then turned white, then disappeared completely. Saturn, her irises all black, her skin extremely frigid and pale, fell to the ground. A small, outlined picture of a jewel glowed black on her forehead where her hand was, then shrank into his skin. (AN: glow, glow, glow… confusing, right? oh well…)
"Sailor Saturn!" Pluto screamed.
Eris grinned, then put her feet down gracefully and turned to Serena and Sailor Pluto.
Serena's face shone with tears and she fell to her knees. "Why are you doing this?" she wailed.
"I will answer you once you tell me who you are!"
"I—I—" She didn't know how to answer. If she said who she was, then she would be letting down Sailor Saturn for some reason. But if she didn't, she was afraid that the same thing would happen to her.
Pluto turned over to her and nodded miserably to her unasked question.
"I am Princess Serenity of the Moon Kingdom. But here I am Sailor Moon, or just plain Serena." She drew a long rattling breath. "Now please, I would like to know why you are doing this?"
Eris scowled at her. "Serenity?" She shook her head. "I'd normally never answer questions like that to someone who was related to that witch who betrayed us years ago. But I shall make an exception, since you have the same fate as the rest of these Sailor Scouts."
Serena bit her lip and nodded slowly.
"Well, I will start from the beginning, shall I?
"A really long time ago, my people and your people were as close as ever, you see. My great, great grandmother and your great, great grandmother were the best of friends. But I'll just get straight to the point. My great, great grandmother loved power and wanted to rule a few of the distant stars, and asked help from your great, great grandmother. Well, eh—well, once we were very close to ruling, and all we needed was the support from that queen, she turned us down. Even when she said she would help us!" She smiled bleakly. "So our plan backfired and the stars we tried to control rebelled against us, and now we are a very, very small community, called the Oblivionation.
"Now let's see, why am I doing this? Apparently one of the stars' emperors cursed my family. As long as you, the Sailor Scouts, are awake, we shall sleep. We've been awake for some time now, but now—my father is very sick. I have come down here to put you girls asleep." She grinned playfully. "But it's not any sleep, you see. This sleep is extremely deep, so deep that it is eternal. This sleep is called The Eimin…"
Serena looked at the ground. Her tears were getting fatter, but there were less and less. "So you have come down here to save your father's life?"
"Good job, Serenity," Eris replied smugly.
"And—and once he is well again…? What will happen?"
She looked at Serena thoughtfully, then inclined her chin slightly. "I don't know," she replied slowly. "I expect, since your planet has no more defense, we'll try to control it like we tried to control those stars." She flipped her hair and glared at the surroundings (AN: I didn't explain where they are, but I couldn't find a place to put it in. So… the time is like 3:00 AM and they are in the deserted park) "Then again, I don't know why someone would want to control this planet. While some might say it was—beautiful—I have no idea what they see in this place."
Serena brought her eyes up but kept her head down. She saw Sailor Pluto clench her fists, and Eris was still looking around.
"Princess Erishandra," she said politely and quietly, "I ask you to stop this nonsense. Please—awaken my friends, and I will do the best I can to save your father's life."
"I don't think so, Serena," Eris said, turning a rock over with her foot. "I think I'll do more than just save my father's life here. Revenge, I think, would be sweet."
Serena lifted her head now and her eyes burned into Eris'. "Please."
"I'm not falling for one of your 'Serenity fake-deal things', here, all right?" she snapped. "Besides, there is nothing you can do for my father anyway!"
"What makes you so sure?" Pluto asked quietly.
Eris turned around and sighed. "Because putting you in The Eimin is the only cure."
"Sailor Saturn can heal," she said, still calm. "Maybe—"
"You Sailor Scouts are the whole problem!" she yelled. "The problem can't be the solution, at least not in this case!"
"Eris—"
"Princess Eris!" she snapped. "And you are not worthy enough for me to even be looking at you. And this girl," she nodded at Serena, "is only slightly worthy of that, so you can imagine your status."
"Oh my," Serena whispered, standing up. "P-P-Princess Eris, I think Pluto has—"
Eris whirled around and glared angrily at her. "I don't believe I asked for your opinion, girl. But now that you feel like chatting, why don't you tell your little friend here to keep her mouth shut, or she'll be placed in The Eimin faster than you can take a breath."
She looked down at her feet again and sighed. Eris crossed her arms, still glaring at her.
"You're just lucky I took this valuable time to talk to you. Any more questions, comments, concerns?"
Serena lifted her head again, her eyes full of determination. Eris apparently seized the opportunity to put her hand on her forehead, and it started to glow black. Sailor Pluto gasped but didn't interfere.
"You can't beat Earth this easily," she said.
"Oh, can't I?" Eris laughed. "Oblivion!"
"NO!" Pluto screamed.
Serena screamed. It felt as though a thousand frozen iron knives were stabbing through her. But after a while she knew that she stopped screaming, even though her insides were. Suddenly she felt something lift inside her, not an organ, but something spiritual. And as it went up her body she became weaker and weaker, until finally it stopped at her forehead where Eris' hand was, and it felt as though it soaked inside it. Serena felt herself fall to the ground, but then she felt no more, and only heard a screaming whisper of Sailor Pluto and the sound of her hitting the ground…
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Okay, well I was planning for this to also include the awakening of the new Sailor Scouts, but it was too long. ^_^ Okay, liked it? Hated it? I wanna know! Please review! Well, C~ya!
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