Chapter 4: Alone?
A short, blue-haired girl walked silently home. The red sun was slowly setting; the sky was ablaze in purples, dark blues and blacks. The birds were chirping, the leaves were falling and people were walking happily around her but she paid no attention to it. She just continued in the direction of her home, starring at the sidewalk, deep in thought. The books in her backpack pounded against her and worried her, for she had not completed any of her homework and studies while at her friend's shrine. Her head screamed the message to her "You will get behind in your studies Ami!" and that made her smile, thinking of her blonde headed friend Usagi always telling her that she studied way too much and that she was already too far ahead in school to ever get behind. But thinking about Usagi caused a frown to form on her face. The dream she told her seemed so real... so sad... so familiar?
Soon the girl arrived at her home and climbed the stairs to her apartment. Rummaging through her pockets, she found her keys and opened her house to a deathly silence. "I really need to get a pet someday. A fish would be nice," she spoke out loud, before listening to the messages on the answering machine telling her that her mother was working late again at the hospital. Entering the kitchen, Ami took out some left-over and heated them up in the microwave. She then went into the main room, took out a few of her books and set her food down beside them on the floor. Planning on studding, while she ate, Ami began.
~*~
"Duck Venus," Sailor Moon screamed as she threw her tiara at the evil, green, same-old-same looking monster.
Sailor Venus did as her leader told her to, and a flying disk went above her body, slicing into the monster.
Nothing happened though. The monster seemed unaffected by the magically device and continued its rampage.
Venus stood back up, her long blonde hair swaying behind her and shouted, "Venus love chain encircle," hoping that would slow the creature down, but nothing changed.
Fifteen minutes of fighting passed, but still the monster seemed unaffected, unharmed, and untiring.
"Look out Sailor Moon," Venus shouted as the monster lurched forwards towards the small blonde girl who had just had one of her ditzy moments and had tripped on to the ground. The girl looked up at her name, seeing the creature only a few feet away from her and forced herself up. She limped away as fast as she could from the nearing monster, whose eyes glistened with the desire to kill. Venus ran towards her leader. Her hair now dirty and the red bow always seen holding back her hair was now torn to shreds. Venus pushed her aside, just before the monster rammed in to Sailor Moon, causing Venus to get the full affect of the blow and flying backwards in the air, till gravity pulled her back down to the hard gravel. Sailor Moon looked at the girl she has always considered her hero and turned towards the monster, throwing all her best attacks at it. Nothing changed. The monster still charged at her and Venus somehow managed to pull her body back up. Blood running from both her knees, and her arm seemed to be bent in an odd way.
Soon thirty minutes went by and the two sailor soldiers looked like one bloody mess.
Venus barely seemed to be able to stand and her outfit was turning an orangey-brown color under the new red blood that continued to fall. She continued to stand though, backing up her leader. Sailor Moon's odango hair style now laid in ruins. Her hair fell down her back and reached below her knees, except for the parts of hair that had been cut short due to the monsters large sharp claws. Her outfit was torn and bloody; it was a mystery how it still held to her body. Her breathe came in hard and rough, and every time she breathed out, she coughed up blood. Venus was in the same boat, though her breathes came in faster and more blood was spurting from her lips.
Sailor Moon inched closer towards the monster, praying her legs would hold out as she threw another more powerful attack at the monster. Sailor Venus tried to follow her best friend's lead but found her self unable to. She soon fell to the ground unconscious.
Sailor Moon turned back towards her friend, seeing her looking dead on the ground but barely noticing the small rise and fall in her stomach. Still, tears fells in the small blonde's eyes and she turned back towards the monster, a more determined look flashed across her eyes.
Determination for nothing...
Before forty-five minutes had gone by, Sailor Moon could no longer fight anymore. Her knees collapsed from under her and she hit the ground hard. She continued to breathe slow and hard, coughing out blood and looking dully at the ground. The evil creature walked towards her and stepped down its foot on her fragile body, pressing down as hard as it could.
Right then, a man stepped out from the shadows and pressed a button. Suddenly the evil, green monster stopped fighting, removed its foot from crushing the girl's body and reminded perfectly still. The man then pressed another button and the monster shrunk in size, to what would look like a common child's plastic toy. The man then walked to the two unconscious girls, who were now back in their usual outfits and looked like their normal school girl selves. One would never have guessed that these were two of the five Sailor Soldiers who had graced Tokyo with their presence for three years.
The man then took out a cell phone from his pocket. "Come and pick me up. Now," he spoke into it after dialing a few numbers.
A few seconds passed before the sounds of a helicopter could be heard. It came closer to where the man and the two girls laid and landed down right beside it, its black blades never slowing down a pace. Two large men jumped out from the helicopter, paced towards the unconscious girls, picked them up and carried them harshly towards the helicopter. The man followed closely after, picking up the toy green creature as he headed towards the helicopter, got on and flew away.
~*~
Alone.
I have always been Alone.
Alone.
Never did I have a friend.
Never ever...never... until Usagi, correct?
Then why, why do I feel like I had one before...
long long ago...
always...
she is always with me.
She protected me.
From what?
When?
Who was she?
~*~
Rei ran down the shrine steps. Worry aching in her heart. The moon was high in the night's sky, the sun long gone. She raced in the direction she had last seen Minako and Usagi head. A force pulling her towards the park, telling her that was where she would find her two friends... or that is where she would have. Rei ran into the park she and her friends always visited and loved. It was the park that long ago she and her friends had saved from destruction, and it was the park that she always felt relaxed and at home at. She raced down the path she loved and soon came to the middle of the park, there she only found destruction. The trees were in distress, branches broken and leaves all over the ground. The gravel was moved and thrown so that the bare areas could be seen. And everywhere. everywhere there could be seen lots and lots of blood. It was all over the place. Minako's and Usagi's blood but they could be nowhere to be seen. Rei chocked back a sob, realizing that she had come too late...
That this was all her fault.
She should have known.
She should have been there.
She was to BLAME.
~*~
A short girl with light blue hair was walking in a mall with a slightly taller girl with pink hair falling past her shoulders.
The two of them were window shopping, like they always did on a Friday after school.
No more worrying about homework and their peers making fun of them for being so smart for another three days.
"Look at that beautiful diamond necklace" the pink-haired girl spoke.
The blue-haired girl awed at them, "One day, when I am a wealthy doctor living on a rich colony I am going to buy a necklace just like that."
The pink-haired girl smiled. "Me too! We should go to the same college, on another colony and leave this ugly, poor colony behind us."
"Yes." The blue-haired girl sighed out and thought of the bedroom she shared with her mother and how it was falling apart, and that the people in the other rooms always kept her up at night. How she would occasionally see her mother sticking needles into her arms, along with many other people in the housing building she lived in. How the winters were always freezing cold and the heat was never on. How... The two girls continued to walk, admiring the beauty of the mall that they only saw ever Friday.
The pair turned a corner, only to see a gang of men in uniforms holding up guns to everyone. "We are looking for a 13 year old girl named Ami," a man, the leader, spoke out against the terrified crowd. Everyone looked at him with blank stares and one brave soul spoke out, "We know not of this girl."
This only caused the leader to be more angry and upset, "Well then, find her!" The pink- haired girl turned to the blue-haired girl and whispered, "Who are they and why are they looking for you?"
"I don't know," whispered the blue-haired girl back.
The pink-haired girl then began looking around the mall, noticing that all the exits were blocked by the men in uniforms. She then began to tug on the blue-haired girl's sleeve, just as the leader began to speak out again. "The girl we are looking for comes here every Friday according to our research. She has blue hair and is slightly above five feet. She is." The leader suddenly stopped speaking as he noticed a girl who looked like the description of the one he was talking about, being pulled away by a pink- haired girl.
"There! There she is!" He shouted out and all the soldiers began running towards her.
The pink-haired girl started running, tugging the blue-haired one behind her.
She stopped in front of a wall and pulled the blue haired girl into a hug, pushing the blue-haired girl against the wall. "Good-bye Ami. You were my one and only friend. Thank you for everything and I will always be with you."
The pink-haired girl then pushed a button against the wall and a door suddenly opened behind the blue-haired girl. The pink-haired girl pushed her and the other girl fell into the room in disbelief just before the door shut.
The room suddenly started going down and above her shouts were being screamed by men, a shot was heard, a body sounded like it fall against the ground, and the sounds of foots steps running were heard.
It took a full minute before the blue haired girl got over the shock of what happened, shaken the belief that her best friend was dead, and realized that she was in an elevator. As soon as the realization crossed her mind, the room stopped slowly moving and opened. In front of her was an armed group of soldiers, all aiming the gun at her. She gulped and tears came to her eyes. Her worst fear was true. Her best friend was dead. She knew it. Her body slumped against the wall, and she sank to the ground.
A man, the leader, spoke, "Join us, be part of our group Ami."
The blue-haired girl said nothing. Just hugging her legs to her chest and pressing her face up against her knees.
"Fine. If you wish to die, so be it." The blue-haired girl did wish for death. She had nothing to live for, now that her best friend was gone.
A gun shot was barely haired by the girl.
It sounded like it was off in the distance.
A dull pain entered through her leg and into her chest.
The blood seemed to ooze slowly out of her body.
The pain seemed to disappear.
And then... and then...alone... so alone... all alone... always alone... forever...
~*~
Ami's eyes jumped open.
She lifted her head from the books it was resting on and noticed the cold leftovers beside her. She rubbed her eyes, struggling to remember the extremely realistic dream she just had. It was something about a pink haired girl trying to save her from a group of men but only delayed in her death. "This must be the type of dream Usagi was talking about. It felt so real, like it really happened... could it have? Nah... and I can't believe I pulled a Usagi stunt!" Shaking her head in disbelief that she had fallen asleep and that the dream was a real memory, Ami then started mindlessly doing her homework, trying to forget about the dream that seemed to blurrily play in her mind over and over again.
The hours passed, the world outside was dark and silent, and Ami turned off the lights and laid down on her bed. Tears started to form in her eyes and soon she head to hug her pillow tightly against her face to hide her sobs and screams from the world.
Words played across Ami's head over and over again, seeming to fill the room with depression and despair. "Alone... I will always be alone...I lived my life alone and I will die alone"
A short, blue-haired girl walked silently home. The red sun was slowly setting; the sky was ablaze in purples, dark blues and blacks. The birds were chirping, the leaves were falling and people were walking happily around her but she paid no attention to it. She just continued in the direction of her home, starring at the sidewalk, deep in thought. The books in her backpack pounded against her and worried her, for she had not completed any of her homework and studies while at her friend's shrine. Her head screamed the message to her "You will get behind in your studies Ami!" and that made her smile, thinking of her blonde headed friend Usagi always telling her that she studied way too much and that she was already too far ahead in school to ever get behind. But thinking about Usagi caused a frown to form on her face. The dream she told her seemed so real... so sad... so familiar?
Soon the girl arrived at her home and climbed the stairs to her apartment. Rummaging through her pockets, she found her keys and opened her house to a deathly silence. "I really need to get a pet someday. A fish would be nice," she spoke out loud, before listening to the messages on the answering machine telling her that her mother was working late again at the hospital. Entering the kitchen, Ami took out some left-over and heated them up in the microwave. She then went into the main room, took out a few of her books and set her food down beside them on the floor. Planning on studding, while she ate, Ami began.
~*~
"Duck Venus," Sailor Moon screamed as she threw her tiara at the evil, green, same-old-same looking monster.
Sailor Venus did as her leader told her to, and a flying disk went above her body, slicing into the monster.
Nothing happened though. The monster seemed unaffected by the magically device and continued its rampage.
Venus stood back up, her long blonde hair swaying behind her and shouted, "Venus love chain encircle," hoping that would slow the creature down, but nothing changed.
Fifteen minutes of fighting passed, but still the monster seemed unaffected, unharmed, and untiring.
"Look out Sailor Moon," Venus shouted as the monster lurched forwards towards the small blonde girl who had just had one of her ditzy moments and had tripped on to the ground. The girl looked up at her name, seeing the creature only a few feet away from her and forced herself up. She limped away as fast as she could from the nearing monster, whose eyes glistened with the desire to kill. Venus ran towards her leader. Her hair now dirty and the red bow always seen holding back her hair was now torn to shreds. Venus pushed her aside, just before the monster rammed in to Sailor Moon, causing Venus to get the full affect of the blow and flying backwards in the air, till gravity pulled her back down to the hard gravel. Sailor Moon looked at the girl she has always considered her hero and turned towards the monster, throwing all her best attacks at it. Nothing changed. The monster still charged at her and Venus somehow managed to pull her body back up. Blood running from both her knees, and her arm seemed to be bent in an odd way.
Soon thirty minutes went by and the two sailor soldiers looked like one bloody mess.
Venus barely seemed to be able to stand and her outfit was turning an orangey-brown color under the new red blood that continued to fall. She continued to stand though, backing up her leader. Sailor Moon's odango hair style now laid in ruins. Her hair fell down her back and reached below her knees, except for the parts of hair that had been cut short due to the monsters large sharp claws. Her outfit was torn and bloody; it was a mystery how it still held to her body. Her breathe came in hard and rough, and every time she breathed out, she coughed up blood. Venus was in the same boat, though her breathes came in faster and more blood was spurting from her lips.
Sailor Moon inched closer towards the monster, praying her legs would hold out as she threw another more powerful attack at the monster. Sailor Venus tried to follow her best friend's lead but found her self unable to. She soon fell to the ground unconscious.
Sailor Moon turned back towards her friend, seeing her looking dead on the ground but barely noticing the small rise and fall in her stomach. Still, tears fells in the small blonde's eyes and she turned back towards the monster, a more determined look flashed across her eyes.
Determination for nothing...
Before forty-five minutes had gone by, Sailor Moon could no longer fight anymore. Her knees collapsed from under her and she hit the ground hard. She continued to breathe slow and hard, coughing out blood and looking dully at the ground. The evil creature walked towards her and stepped down its foot on her fragile body, pressing down as hard as it could.
Right then, a man stepped out from the shadows and pressed a button. Suddenly the evil, green monster stopped fighting, removed its foot from crushing the girl's body and reminded perfectly still. The man then pressed another button and the monster shrunk in size, to what would look like a common child's plastic toy. The man then walked to the two unconscious girls, who were now back in their usual outfits and looked like their normal school girl selves. One would never have guessed that these were two of the five Sailor Soldiers who had graced Tokyo with their presence for three years.
The man then took out a cell phone from his pocket. "Come and pick me up. Now," he spoke into it after dialing a few numbers.
A few seconds passed before the sounds of a helicopter could be heard. It came closer to where the man and the two girls laid and landed down right beside it, its black blades never slowing down a pace. Two large men jumped out from the helicopter, paced towards the unconscious girls, picked them up and carried them harshly towards the helicopter. The man followed closely after, picking up the toy green creature as he headed towards the helicopter, got on and flew away.
~*~
Alone.
I have always been Alone.
Alone.
Never did I have a friend.
Never ever...never... until Usagi, correct?
Then why, why do I feel like I had one before...
long long ago...
always...
she is always with me.
She protected me.
From what?
When?
Who was she?
~*~
Rei ran down the shrine steps. Worry aching in her heart. The moon was high in the night's sky, the sun long gone. She raced in the direction she had last seen Minako and Usagi head. A force pulling her towards the park, telling her that was where she would find her two friends... or that is where she would have. Rei ran into the park she and her friends always visited and loved. It was the park that long ago she and her friends had saved from destruction, and it was the park that she always felt relaxed and at home at. She raced down the path she loved and soon came to the middle of the park, there she only found destruction. The trees were in distress, branches broken and leaves all over the ground. The gravel was moved and thrown so that the bare areas could be seen. And everywhere. everywhere there could be seen lots and lots of blood. It was all over the place. Minako's and Usagi's blood but they could be nowhere to be seen. Rei chocked back a sob, realizing that she had come too late...
That this was all her fault.
She should have known.
She should have been there.
She was to BLAME.
~*~
A short girl with light blue hair was walking in a mall with a slightly taller girl with pink hair falling past her shoulders.
The two of them were window shopping, like they always did on a Friday after school.
No more worrying about homework and their peers making fun of them for being so smart for another three days.
"Look at that beautiful diamond necklace" the pink-haired girl spoke.
The blue-haired girl awed at them, "One day, when I am a wealthy doctor living on a rich colony I am going to buy a necklace just like that."
The pink-haired girl smiled. "Me too! We should go to the same college, on another colony and leave this ugly, poor colony behind us."
"Yes." The blue-haired girl sighed out and thought of the bedroom she shared with her mother and how it was falling apart, and that the people in the other rooms always kept her up at night. How she would occasionally see her mother sticking needles into her arms, along with many other people in the housing building she lived in. How the winters were always freezing cold and the heat was never on. How... The two girls continued to walk, admiring the beauty of the mall that they only saw ever Friday.
The pair turned a corner, only to see a gang of men in uniforms holding up guns to everyone. "We are looking for a 13 year old girl named Ami," a man, the leader, spoke out against the terrified crowd. Everyone looked at him with blank stares and one brave soul spoke out, "We know not of this girl."
This only caused the leader to be more angry and upset, "Well then, find her!" The pink- haired girl turned to the blue-haired girl and whispered, "Who are they and why are they looking for you?"
"I don't know," whispered the blue-haired girl back.
The pink-haired girl then began looking around the mall, noticing that all the exits were blocked by the men in uniforms. She then began to tug on the blue-haired girl's sleeve, just as the leader began to speak out again. "The girl we are looking for comes here every Friday according to our research. She has blue hair and is slightly above five feet. She is." The leader suddenly stopped speaking as he noticed a girl who looked like the description of the one he was talking about, being pulled away by a pink- haired girl.
"There! There she is!" He shouted out and all the soldiers began running towards her.
The pink-haired girl started running, tugging the blue-haired one behind her.
She stopped in front of a wall and pulled the blue haired girl into a hug, pushing the blue-haired girl against the wall. "Good-bye Ami. You were my one and only friend. Thank you for everything and I will always be with you."
The pink-haired girl then pushed a button against the wall and a door suddenly opened behind the blue-haired girl. The pink-haired girl pushed her and the other girl fell into the room in disbelief just before the door shut.
The room suddenly started going down and above her shouts were being screamed by men, a shot was heard, a body sounded like it fall against the ground, and the sounds of foots steps running were heard.
It took a full minute before the blue haired girl got over the shock of what happened, shaken the belief that her best friend was dead, and realized that she was in an elevator. As soon as the realization crossed her mind, the room stopped slowly moving and opened. In front of her was an armed group of soldiers, all aiming the gun at her. She gulped and tears came to her eyes. Her worst fear was true. Her best friend was dead. She knew it. Her body slumped against the wall, and she sank to the ground.
A man, the leader, spoke, "Join us, be part of our group Ami."
The blue-haired girl said nothing. Just hugging her legs to her chest and pressing her face up against her knees.
"Fine. If you wish to die, so be it." The blue-haired girl did wish for death. She had nothing to live for, now that her best friend was gone.
A gun shot was barely haired by the girl.
It sounded like it was off in the distance.
A dull pain entered through her leg and into her chest.
The blood seemed to ooze slowly out of her body.
The pain seemed to disappear.
And then... and then...alone... so alone... all alone... always alone... forever...
~*~
Ami's eyes jumped open.
She lifted her head from the books it was resting on and noticed the cold leftovers beside her. She rubbed her eyes, struggling to remember the extremely realistic dream she just had. It was something about a pink haired girl trying to save her from a group of men but only delayed in her death. "This must be the type of dream Usagi was talking about. It felt so real, like it really happened... could it have? Nah... and I can't believe I pulled a Usagi stunt!" Shaking her head in disbelief that she had fallen asleep and that the dream was a real memory, Ami then started mindlessly doing her homework, trying to forget about the dream that seemed to blurrily play in her mind over and over again.
The hours passed, the world outside was dark and silent, and Ami turned off the lights and laid down on her bed. Tears started to form in her eyes and soon she head to hug her pillow tightly against her face to hide her sobs and screams from the world.
Words played across Ami's head over and over again, seeming to fill the room with depression and despair. "Alone... I will always be alone...I lived my life alone and I will die alone"