Disclaimer: Yeah Mamo-chan's not mine, I KNOW OKAY?! You don't have to cut
my heart any deeper *Sniff* Oh right, the rest of the Sailor Moon
characters don't belong to me either they belong to the wonderful Naoko
Takeuchi and the rest of them Toei animation and such. HOWEVER: KATE, ANNA,
MAX and KRISTA are MY friends/characters and you can't have them!
Especially Max! *Gabs Kate's clone* Muhahahahah!
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Love, Labors, Lost
Chapter 1: The Past
Rated: PG-13
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I was sitting outside his apartment. My fists were red and hurt from banging on his door, and my eyes stung from the new tears, not yet fully recovered from the last ones. I knew he was leaning on the other side; we would be back to back if it wasn't for the damn door.
Soon I started to smell the familiar sent of his cologne. I gritted my teeth picking myself up, thinking I'd break in two if I got another whiff of it. I walked slowly down the pink hallways of his apartment complex. I reached the elevator and pushed the button 'down' button, on automatic. I didn't know how much more of this I could stand.
On the ride down I ran over it again in my head. That dream. I now knew it was the reason for his staying away from me, but couldn't he see that I didn't care? I would rather die with him then live to be one hundred without him. Actually, thinking about it, I highly doubted I would live that long being a Sailor Senshi. So I'd die either way. Couldn't he see that? We'd die someday in battle, couldn't he see that I wanted to be at his side when that happened?
As I reached the front doors, they opened and suddenly the world came crashing back as I heard screaming.
'Chibi-Usa!' my mind yelled to my heart as I ran to the screaming girl. Before I reached them Luna had jumped on her wrist and bit something off.
"Luna! What was that?!" I said stupidly looking at the squirming thing on the ground.
"That was your bracelet Usagi-chan!" She said incredulously. There was a rumbling sound and the ground shook a little. We looked up to see Esmeraude's statue growing quickly above us. "Usagi! It's the enemy! Henshin yo!"
I nodded meekly, God I didn't need this now! But the statue was growing steadily and there were only five beings that could stop it. I happened to be one of those five beings.
"MOON CRYSTAL POWER. MAKE UP!"
In a flash I was gone, leaping up to the top of the building were I had taken the crafts class to make my bracelet.
I was the first atop the building to confront the Yoma.
"Stop right there!"
The yoma spun around. "Who are you?"
"I am the protector of love and justice, Sailor Moon! How dare you use these teenagers' hopes and dreams of love for something evil! In the name of the Moon, I'll punish you!"
Yeah I know, pretty corny right? Well hey, think about this: How would you feel if you yourself were making one of these bracelets to win back your true love just to find out it was being used for something evil? It was pretty far fetched sure, but that didn't mean that they had to take advantage of it! So yeah, I was pretty pissed off, and that little speech there was the only time I got to express it.
But before I could gloat fully, the monster had already knocked me off my feet, and another attack was coming full speed when something red flashed and stopped it dead, just ahead of my booted foot. My head shot up to look and I was not disappointed, there he was blending in perfectly with the night sky with his black tuxedo.
"Tuxedo Mask!" was all I could say. I shouldn't have been so surprised to see him, but as of late every time I battled there was that fear in my mind that he wouldn't show.
He shouted a speech to the monster not unlike mine, but the yoma shouted an attack and suddenly two golden rings were headed in his direction. Thankfully there was a flash of blue and Ami, or should I say Sailor Mercury was there.
The attacks kept on coming, but each was destroyed by a newly arrived scout. Soon it was my turn.
"Now Sailor Moon!" Tuxedo Mask yelled. I looked up slightly annoyed, what? He was afraid I'd forget? But I shook it off and focused as my Moon Scepter materialized.
"MOON PRINCESS HALATION!" I yelled as the monster shrieked and then she was gone just like that.
"All right Sailor Moon!" Sailor Jupiter said slapping me on the back none to lightly.
I coughed and blushed slightly. "Don't congratulate me, you guys did most of it."
"I wouldn't be saying my congratulations just yet!" a voice boomed. Suddenly Esmeraude appeared in a flash of green, her face in a snarl. She was levitating just above us and looked as if she could kill us and would have had she not been so weak from summoning the statue.
"Don't think for one second that you can stop us from opening the Black Gate! You may have won this one Sailors, but-"
She was cut short when a man in white and blue robes appeared beside her. His hair was as white as snow, but he looked to be only in his twenties. His skin was slightly paler than it should have been, and his eyes, oh God his eyes. They were piercing ice, cold and yet on fire. You could have frozen just looking at them. I won't forget those eyes as long as I live. He looked over the five of us, who were alert and ready to attack. Then he looked directly at me with those same piercing eyes. It felt as if he could see right through me, right down to the bone. The hair on my skin rose in warning. I was paralyzed. He looked stunned; squinting at me further. I winced. Then the stunned look was gone and in its place was one of satisfaction, and a cold smile played across his lips. He looked away and I silently let out a breath I didn't know I was holding.
"Yo-your Highness!" she stuttered falling on one knee before him. "Your Highness I beg your pardon but I did not know you were coming."
All we scouts could do was look on bewildered as Esmeraude went on sniveling at this man's feet.
"Get up Esmeraude." He demanded, and his voice was. you guessed it; like ice. Once she was on her feet he looked once again to me before speaking "I see that you failed once again."
"It won't happen again Sire." she said gritting her teeth.
"See that it doesn't!" he barked. I could actually see her heart, or what she had of one, break. "You are dismissed!" He said coolly. Then his attention went back to us, me in particular.
"As for you," he said paralyzing my soul one again with those eyes. "I will see you, in a thousand years." With that and a swirl of his cloak, he was gone.
All at once the senshi were around me asking me if I was all right. For my part all I could do was stand there.
"Sailor Moon." It was Tuxedo Mask, what did he want? He'd already torn my heart in two. But I faced him, hopeful.
"Hmm? Eh." I said weakly.
"We're here to protect both the present and future of Tokyo from all evil forces no matter how difficult that it our mission. We MUST overcome all obstacles and adversaries whatsoever." He said, commandingly.
"Anything Tuxedo Mask."
"Sailor Senshi we must fight TOGETHER," he looked over at me, "for the mission." He added. "Sayonara."
"Always for you." I sighed wistfully, the piercing man Esmeraude called 'Highness' forgotten.
Rei, still as Sailor Mars, came up behind me and put her hand on my shoulder, "Well girl, what are you waiting for?"
"Hmm?" I sighed still in a daze.
"Yeah it seems like you guys understand each other now!" Sailor Jupiter chirped in.
"Go ON Usagi-chan! Go to him!" Mina sang dreamily.
I was running, de-transforming on the way, slowing me down some but not much. I ran straight into the park, our park, and onto the ledge where we'd always feed the ducks and talk for hours on end. I don't know how I knew he'd be there, I just. knew.
I reached the ledge gasping and out of breath. He was leaning over the edge looking into the water. God he looked beautiful. I stopped silent for a moment, greedily taking in the sight of him while catching my breath. I imagined how he looked from the front like that. Bangs falling into his eyes, peaceful face, gorgeous blue eyes. I'm getting off track again. I coughed finally to get his attention. He looked up startled. I ran, I couldn't help it, I ran as fast as I could straight into his arms. He caught me and for the first time in months he didn't wince or push me away immediately. He held me as tight as he could without hurting me.
"Usako." He said simply
I looked up from his embrace at the long awaited return of the nickname; I don't think I could have been happier.
"Mamo-chan, I don't care about the dreams, I just want us to be together. I understand that it might not be wise to get married, but that's the future Mamo-chan, and this is now and right now all I want is to be by your side, because now might be all we got." I spitted out hurriedly, too used to being interrupted. But he just smiled that same endearing play on his lips he smiles when he's giving me what I want.
"Oh Mamo-chan!" I cried happily hugging him tighter. He lifted my chin up to his and my eyes fluttered closed as I stood on tiptoe to equal the high difference. He leaned down to do his part and slowly caressed my lips with his, and soon the caress became a nibble and the nibble became a kiss, and well you can imagine where the kiss went from there.
I was on cloud nine and would stay there, long after my Mamo-chan drove me home. But what I didn't know was that while I was in heaven, a plan was churning in someone's mind, a plan that would turn my newfound heavenly life, into a hell.
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Usagi shot up from her computer chair at the sound of someone knocking on her door.
"Serena, are you all right?" called a female voice from the other side. "You've been in there all day and it's dinner time anyway."
"Yeah I'm fine Kate!" she shouted to the woman on the other side, sniffling and wiping away some stray tears. "Um, just give me a sec, I'll be out in a jiffy."
Kate frowned on the other side of the mahogany door wondering what in the world her friend could have been doing locked away in her room all day. She had never known Serena to not be up and about. She would periodically shut herself in for an hour or two, during which Kate could hear faint sobs from the other side, but she always thought it best not to disturb the child, but nothing as long as this.
"Honey? Is Serena coming down? Her food is getting cold!" Kate's husband, Max called from downstairs looking worriedly upward until he saw Kate emerge from the top of the stairs.
"She said she'd be down any minute." Kate said frowning.
Back in her room Usagi hurriedly pressed the 'save' button on her word document and closed it. Probably for another day, but right now she couldn't bring herself to tell the next part of her story, perhaps because she still had her demons to face before she could to terms with what really happened herself. But for now, there was a couple downstairs, waiting anxiously for her. She headed towards the stairs pausing quickly in the bathroom to wash her face and hands, before continuing on towards the patient couple and. her son.
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Well there ya go chapter 1. I know I'm horrible for leaving it there. I have the rest of summer to write this thing so the next one could be up anytime. Please review me and tell me what ya think. Till next time folks!
~Claidi Winter
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Love, Labors, Lost
Chapter 1: The Past
Rated: PG-13
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I was sitting outside his apartment. My fists were red and hurt from banging on his door, and my eyes stung from the new tears, not yet fully recovered from the last ones. I knew he was leaning on the other side; we would be back to back if it wasn't for the damn door.
Soon I started to smell the familiar sent of his cologne. I gritted my teeth picking myself up, thinking I'd break in two if I got another whiff of it. I walked slowly down the pink hallways of his apartment complex. I reached the elevator and pushed the button 'down' button, on automatic. I didn't know how much more of this I could stand.
On the ride down I ran over it again in my head. That dream. I now knew it was the reason for his staying away from me, but couldn't he see that I didn't care? I would rather die with him then live to be one hundred without him. Actually, thinking about it, I highly doubted I would live that long being a Sailor Senshi. So I'd die either way. Couldn't he see that? We'd die someday in battle, couldn't he see that I wanted to be at his side when that happened?
As I reached the front doors, they opened and suddenly the world came crashing back as I heard screaming.
'Chibi-Usa!' my mind yelled to my heart as I ran to the screaming girl. Before I reached them Luna had jumped on her wrist and bit something off.
"Luna! What was that?!" I said stupidly looking at the squirming thing on the ground.
"That was your bracelet Usagi-chan!" She said incredulously. There was a rumbling sound and the ground shook a little. We looked up to see Esmeraude's statue growing quickly above us. "Usagi! It's the enemy! Henshin yo!"
I nodded meekly, God I didn't need this now! But the statue was growing steadily and there were only five beings that could stop it. I happened to be one of those five beings.
"MOON CRYSTAL POWER. MAKE UP!"
In a flash I was gone, leaping up to the top of the building were I had taken the crafts class to make my bracelet.
I was the first atop the building to confront the Yoma.
"Stop right there!"
The yoma spun around. "Who are you?"
"I am the protector of love and justice, Sailor Moon! How dare you use these teenagers' hopes and dreams of love for something evil! In the name of the Moon, I'll punish you!"
Yeah I know, pretty corny right? Well hey, think about this: How would you feel if you yourself were making one of these bracelets to win back your true love just to find out it was being used for something evil? It was pretty far fetched sure, but that didn't mean that they had to take advantage of it! So yeah, I was pretty pissed off, and that little speech there was the only time I got to express it.
But before I could gloat fully, the monster had already knocked me off my feet, and another attack was coming full speed when something red flashed and stopped it dead, just ahead of my booted foot. My head shot up to look and I was not disappointed, there he was blending in perfectly with the night sky with his black tuxedo.
"Tuxedo Mask!" was all I could say. I shouldn't have been so surprised to see him, but as of late every time I battled there was that fear in my mind that he wouldn't show.
He shouted a speech to the monster not unlike mine, but the yoma shouted an attack and suddenly two golden rings were headed in his direction. Thankfully there was a flash of blue and Ami, or should I say Sailor Mercury was there.
The attacks kept on coming, but each was destroyed by a newly arrived scout. Soon it was my turn.
"Now Sailor Moon!" Tuxedo Mask yelled. I looked up slightly annoyed, what? He was afraid I'd forget? But I shook it off and focused as my Moon Scepter materialized.
"MOON PRINCESS HALATION!" I yelled as the monster shrieked and then she was gone just like that.
"All right Sailor Moon!" Sailor Jupiter said slapping me on the back none to lightly.
I coughed and blushed slightly. "Don't congratulate me, you guys did most of it."
"I wouldn't be saying my congratulations just yet!" a voice boomed. Suddenly Esmeraude appeared in a flash of green, her face in a snarl. She was levitating just above us and looked as if she could kill us and would have had she not been so weak from summoning the statue.
"Don't think for one second that you can stop us from opening the Black Gate! You may have won this one Sailors, but-"
She was cut short when a man in white and blue robes appeared beside her. His hair was as white as snow, but he looked to be only in his twenties. His skin was slightly paler than it should have been, and his eyes, oh God his eyes. They were piercing ice, cold and yet on fire. You could have frozen just looking at them. I won't forget those eyes as long as I live. He looked over the five of us, who were alert and ready to attack. Then he looked directly at me with those same piercing eyes. It felt as if he could see right through me, right down to the bone. The hair on my skin rose in warning. I was paralyzed. He looked stunned; squinting at me further. I winced. Then the stunned look was gone and in its place was one of satisfaction, and a cold smile played across his lips. He looked away and I silently let out a breath I didn't know I was holding.
"Yo-your Highness!" she stuttered falling on one knee before him. "Your Highness I beg your pardon but I did not know you were coming."
All we scouts could do was look on bewildered as Esmeraude went on sniveling at this man's feet.
"Get up Esmeraude." He demanded, and his voice was. you guessed it; like ice. Once she was on her feet he looked once again to me before speaking "I see that you failed once again."
"It won't happen again Sire." she said gritting her teeth.
"See that it doesn't!" he barked. I could actually see her heart, or what she had of one, break. "You are dismissed!" He said coolly. Then his attention went back to us, me in particular.
"As for you," he said paralyzing my soul one again with those eyes. "I will see you, in a thousand years." With that and a swirl of his cloak, he was gone.
All at once the senshi were around me asking me if I was all right. For my part all I could do was stand there.
"Sailor Moon." It was Tuxedo Mask, what did he want? He'd already torn my heart in two. But I faced him, hopeful.
"Hmm? Eh." I said weakly.
"We're here to protect both the present and future of Tokyo from all evil forces no matter how difficult that it our mission. We MUST overcome all obstacles and adversaries whatsoever." He said, commandingly.
"Anything Tuxedo Mask."
"Sailor Senshi we must fight TOGETHER," he looked over at me, "for the mission." He added. "Sayonara."
"Always for you." I sighed wistfully, the piercing man Esmeraude called 'Highness' forgotten.
Rei, still as Sailor Mars, came up behind me and put her hand on my shoulder, "Well girl, what are you waiting for?"
"Hmm?" I sighed still in a daze.
"Yeah it seems like you guys understand each other now!" Sailor Jupiter chirped in.
"Go ON Usagi-chan! Go to him!" Mina sang dreamily.
I was running, de-transforming on the way, slowing me down some but not much. I ran straight into the park, our park, and onto the ledge where we'd always feed the ducks and talk for hours on end. I don't know how I knew he'd be there, I just. knew.
I reached the ledge gasping and out of breath. He was leaning over the edge looking into the water. God he looked beautiful. I stopped silent for a moment, greedily taking in the sight of him while catching my breath. I imagined how he looked from the front like that. Bangs falling into his eyes, peaceful face, gorgeous blue eyes. I'm getting off track again. I coughed finally to get his attention. He looked up startled. I ran, I couldn't help it, I ran as fast as I could straight into his arms. He caught me and for the first time in months he didn't wince or push me away immediately. He held me as tight as he could without hurting me.
"Usako." He said simply
I looked up from his embrace at the long awaited return of the nickname; I don't think I could have been happier.
"Mamo-chan, I don't care about the dreams, I just want us to be together. I understand that it might not be wise to get married, but that's the future Mamo-chan, and this is now and right now all I want is to be by your side, because now might be all we got." I spitted out hurriedly, too used to being interrupted. But he just smiled that same endearing play on his lips he smiles when he's giving me what I want.
"Oh Mamo-chan!" I cried happily hugging him tighter. He lifted my chin up to his and my eyes fluttered closed as I stood on tiptoe to equal the high difference. He leaned down to do his part and slowly caressed my lips with his, and soon the caress became a nibble and the nibble became a kiss, and well you can imagine where the kiss went from there.
I was on cloud nine and would stay there, long after my Mamo-chan drove me home. But what I didn't know was that while I was in heaven, a plan was churning in someone's mind, a plan that would turn my newfound heavenly life, into a hell.
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Usagi shot up from her computer chair at the sound of someone knocking on her door.
"Serena, are you all right?" called a female voice from the other side. "You've been in there all day and it's dinner time anyway."
"Yeah I'm fine Kate!" she shouted to the woman on the other side, sniffling and wiping away some stray tears. "Um, just give me a sec, I'll be out in a jiffy."
Kate frowned on the other side of the mahogany door wondering what in the world her friend could have been doing locked away in her room all day. She had never known Serena to not be up and about. She would periodically shut herself in for an hour or two, during which Kate could hear faint sobs from the other side, but she always thought it best not to disturb the child, but nothing as long as this.
"Honey? Is Serena coming down? Her food is getting cold!" Kate's husband, Max called from downstairs looking worriedly upward until he saw Kate emerge from the top of the stairs.
"She said she'd be down any minute." Kate said frowning.
Back in her room Usagi hurriedly pressed the 'save' button on her word document and closed it. Probably for another day, but right now she couldn't bring herself to tell the next part of her story, perhaps because she still had her demons to face before she could to terms with what really happened herself. But for now, there was a couple downstairs, waiting anxiously for her. She headed towards the stairs pausing quickly in the bathroom to wash her face and hands, before continuing on towards the patient couple and. her son.
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Well there ya go chapter 1. I know I'm horrible for leaving it there. I have the rest of summer to write this thing so the next one could be up anytime. Please review me and tell me what ya think. Till next time folks!
~Claidi Winter