~*~*~*~
~Satan City
A small gray sphere, about the size of a basket ball, made its way from the sky down into the very heart of the city. The Dark Kingdom was well on its way to creating yet another enemy in hopes to defeat the Senshi. Although they had proven themselves more powerful in this time than the past, the Dark Kingdom was certain that by retrieving the unused energy from their fallen demons, they would be able to rise above the power of the Senshi. But that was only if the bodies of their demons were left solid, and not completely destroyed. Their near perfect plan was well under way and this sphere was the key to gaining more energy to proceed with their quest to finally defeat the Princess of the Moon once and for all; the Royal family would finally be out of power.
The sphere circled the fallen demon in an orbicular motion as it gathered pictures of the body for its creators, as programmed. The demon lay, slain, on the ground with its limbs out in all directions. The body itself had a giant hole directly in the middle which went through from front to back showing how unmercifully it had been slaughtered.
Ignoring the fact that the entire body was nearly destroyed, a small plate underneath the gray sphere opened up to reveal the inner machines hard at work. It slowly lowered and began vacuuming the leftover energy from the abandoned body. Slowly, the energy crystallized and began lifting into the sphere.
~*~*~
~~Son House~~
None of this activity was detected by any of Earth's Special Forces, not even the Senshi themselves. It was completely inconspicuous.
While Goku and Gohan prepared to leave for Kame house, Usagi still resided in the comfort of her room. There she lay upon her bed in the dark, looking up to the ceiling as she sulked over her mother's harsh and obvious not completely thought out decision to kick Luna out of the house. What would they do now? Luna was, after all, her advisor. She was meant to be guiding her through this fight. She was almost completely clueless as to fight an enemy that could only be destroyed with a power that no one but the holders of it could feel.
It just wasn't fair. Why did her mother always have to jump to conclusions all the time, and, who had even put the idea that Luna was with the enemy in her head in the first place? She couldn't have possibly acquired it on her own since she had already agreed to let the poor creature stay. That was the most mind boggling aspect of the entire situation.
Usagi sighed as she sat up and flung her legs over the edge of her bed. She gazed out the window to the day which was fast being taken over by the dark sky of night. 'I hope Luna's ok out there.' Slowly, she pushed herself up and walked to the window. 'I wonder where she is.'
She perked a bit after hearing the voices of her parents and eldest brother. Without question she knew exactly where they were heading off to. The only thought that passed through her mind was why they weren't taking her along. Wasn't she the one that had been violated the night before? She figured that she should at least be able to be there and in the discussion? But what could she do? Things had already been decided and it appeared that her parents were going to be putting their foot down more in regards to her safety until the threat of the enemy was over.
Usagi quietly opened the window in order to eavesdrop on what was being said outside.
~*~*~
~Outside~
Chi-Chi gave her husband a blazing glare as she joined him and Gohan outside. She couldn't believe that Goku was actually going to leave her and Usagi home Alone at night. Under normal circumstances, she would have been fine with it, but now, with the new threat, she was uneasy. Sure she had agreed to let him go alone, but now she was beginning to feel wrong about it, yet, she couldn't very easily go back on her word. Inside, she hoped that he would just decide on his own to take them along with him, but it was obvious after all those years that he would never do such a thing.
"If something happens, be careful out there... both of you." She chanted with a slight smile.
Goku came back with a grin. "We aren't going to war, Chi-Chi. Just the Kame House."
"I realize that. But, I've also come to realize that, what may seem like an innocent meeting usually turns into a huge fight against some evil; AND, I also know that you have a tendency to get so rough that you sometimes get yourself killed."
Goku cringed at the thought of that. His wife had just proved a frightening, but true point. But what was he to do? If something attacked, he would give his life to protect the people of earth, but, he had also made a vow to himself that he would stay alive and around forever for Usagi no matter what. Maybe, for the first time, he would take his wife's words into consideration. "Ok, Chi-Chi. I won't do anything too crazy."
"Dad, we should get going so we aren't late."
Goku nodded as he turned to face his son. "Let's go."
~*~*~
Usagi poked her head out the window just as her father and brother took to the air without another word to her mother. 'This time, dad, if something happens, I'LL be the one to protect YOU...'
She sat there, watching as the two figures grew smaller and smaller, wondering how this entire situation would turn out. Although, it didn't quite matter how it would turn out, for her life would never be the same. She was now a Legendary Senshi, the Princess of the Silver Millennium Moon Kingdom on top of being a kid of the twenty-first century. Her world couldn't possibly become any more turned around, but somehow, she would have to live with it. Her destiny was to become someone great; not even the greatest of enemies would stand in her way now.
She let herself fall into her thoughts of the far off future as her eyes fell into the trees not too far from her window. Her senses picked up a small shadow that was slowly emerging from behind the nearest of trees. At first, Usagi figured it was just another enemy trying its luck to defeat her, but the figure came fourth even further to reveal itself as the very cat who had saved her the night before.
Usagi perked up with a spark of joy as a smile crossed her lips. 'She's safe!' She quickly gathered her thoughts and looked to both sides of her window to make sure her mother had gone inside. Once she made sure no one was around nor watching, she motioned for the cat to come closer.
~*~*~
Chi-Chi closed the front door behind her and walked partway into the family room and glared down the hallway. 'If she thinks she can get away with pouting all night she's got another thing coming...' She gave off a quiet grunt of anger as she turned into the kitchen to prepare dinner for the two of them.
~*~*~
Once Luna reached the window, Usagi reached out and pulled her in. "Luna!" She whispered.
Luna gave a carefree smile as she jumped up onto Usagi's bed and sat. "Usagi..."
Usagi frowned as she stood up and put her back to Luna. "I'm sorry for my mom. She is ALWAYS overreacting like this. She doesn't even listen to me." She clenched her fists. Just thinking about it made her frustration rise.
Luna shook her head with a sigh. "Usagi, don't be upset with your mom, ok? I'm actually ok with being kicked out, just not so roughly."
Usagi dropped her frown and replaced it with questioning curiosity as she turned around to face the cat. "What? You wanted to be thrown out?"
Luna frowned. "Of course not! But, it does show that she cares about you."
Usagi crossed her arms and turned her head to the side. "She's overprotective. None of my friends' moms act like this."
"No, I suppose they wouldn't. But, what I heard from Pluto in the other dimension, your mom has also been through a lot in the past. Her husband has died numerous times, her sons have fought to near death and WATCHED their father die. The fact that your mom is blinded by her love for you enough to throw out a CAT because she's been tipped off that it could be with the enemy should be something to be happy over, and not upset. So you didn't get your way for once, it happens to everyone and we deal with it." 'That must be one of the reasons why Pluto wanted her to be born to these two.'
Usagi once again lightened her expression as she let her advisor's words sink in. It was true that her mother had been through too much pain when it came to the family. She had to stand by and watch her husband and children risk their lives for then entire world. "But it's so frustrating."
Luna nodded. "I know." She rubbed her paw on her head to the best of her ability. "Believe me, I understand. But, the decision has been made and we aren't going to fight it. We don't want to blow our cover, and speaking of covers... today's fight went... well..."
"Interesting?"
"Exactly. Might I suggest doing the speeches at the beginning of the fights like that other Usagi said to?"
Usagi nodded with a giggle. "I was going to get to that before I was attacked."
"Good. Now, we never finished our conversation about erasing your memory, kid. I still say it's not safe for you to know information that hasn't been revealed in our dimension yet."
"Why? My dad knew that he was going to get a heart disease before he got it. That's why he was able to fight Cell, because Trunks came back to warn him. This is no different."
"It's very different. They haven't become Senshi yet. If they find out before it's their time, it could alter what is meant to happen in the Multiverse and don't tell you you'll keep it a secret. You're eleven years old, and worse, you're a girl."
Usagi grinned. "What's that got to do with anything?"
"Everyone knows girls your age can't keep secrets." Not a single word came from the young Saiyan. "Usagi, you may not like the idea of losing part of your memory but...."
"SHHH!" The now wide-eyed cat shushed right up. "Here that?" Usagi whispered. The whisper was much to quiet for a human to hear, but since both beings had acute hearing due to their animal aspects, it was completely hearable to both.
Luna shook her head. "No. What is it?"
Usagi put her hand up to shush the cat once again as she pulled her head up a bit to hear better. "Footsteps..."
Luna didn't need to hear the rest of the sentence in order to know what that meant. "I better get going."
Usagi blankly nodded with fright. If her mother were to see that she was with Luna again, let alone letting her in the house, her head would be gruesomely detached from her body. "Fast! She's right outside the door." She didn't even wait for Luna to stand before she scooped her into her arms. "If she catches me with you we're both dead."
Luna gulped. "Hurry." Her eyes flew directly to the door knob, which was beginning to turn ever so slowly. "U...sa...gi!"
Usagi turned her head to the door, which was creaking open. "Yee...!" She quickly turned back just in time to trip over a toy that was left out of place. "No!" She used her Ki to push herself up and run to the window. 'Oh no, Oh No!' She didn't take any consideration as she dropped Luna right out the window.
Chi-Chi, who was now in the room, looked upon her daughter with the most suspicious eyes. "Usagi?" She leaned to the side just in time to see a black item fall from her daughter's hands and down to the ground just outside the window. "What was that?"
Usagi jumped in front of the window with fear. She tried desperately to give her mother an innocent face. "Nothing!"
Chi-Chi smirked. "Nothing huh? I could have sworn it was small, black, had Four Legs and was FURY!" Usagi jumped at her mother's strict, irritable tone of voice. "You had that MONSTER in here again DIDN'T YOU?" She stepped closer and, with each step, Usagi became more and more skittish. "You deliberately disobeyed me, young lady."
Usagi closed her eyes and turned her head to the side with an expectation of being slapped. "I'm sorry... But..." A long paused followed her cries for mercy, which only lead to her further confusion. Usagi knew exactly what was going on. This time, she had done it. Not had she only disobeyed her mother, but, in her eyes, she had put her own life in danger. That was something that was completely unforgivable to her mother. And there was only one reaction that would become of this... a physical punishment. Whether it be slap to the face or a spanking, it was sure to be quite painful if it was coming from an overprotective mother.
After a long moment of silence, it was broken. "Usagi..." Chimed her mother with the most gentle ring. "I'm not going to do anything to you, don't be scared."
'Huh?' Usagi's face turned beet red with embarrassment as she opened her eyes and turned to face her mother. "Mom?"
Chi-Chi slowly made her way to sit on the bed and patted the area next to her. "Come have a seat, dear." Usagi didn't move a single step in any direction. Instead, she just stood in place and turned even lighter pale than before. Chi-Chi's heart nearly fell to the pit of her stomach when she saw that. How could she put that much fear into her daughter? She hadn't seen her that afraid since the meeting with her school Principal six years before. "Don't be afraid. Just come sit by me."
Usagi reluctantly and stiffly did as her mother asked and sat next to her. Her entire body was frozen stiff with fear as she only faced forward. She wasn't sure if this was a trick or what, but she knew one thing, it wasn't normal. "Mom?"
Chi-Chi took in a deep breath of her own as she looked down to her daughter. She would try to control herself to the best of her ability. Sure Usagi had disobeyed her, but, lately, she had been trying hard to keep her temper down when it came to her fragile daughter. "You had the cat here again, didn't you?"
There it was, the grand opening to yet another falling out between mother and daughter and Usagi knew that better than anyone. What was she to answer back in response to that question. She couldn't lie to her mother, especially since she had in fact seen Luna. There was only one way to go through this, and that would be the dreaded truth.
Usagi hung her head low to keep from making eye contact with her mother. One wicked look and she would have lost what little confidence she had. "...Y...Yes..."
Chi-Chi breathed heavily as her anger pushed itself further and further to the brink of being popped. The one thing she didn't want was to have a huge argument with her daughter, but if she continued to persist in disobeying her it would soon become inevitable. In her own thoughts, her daughter was not one to follow directions; something she would have to learn soon if she wished to enter the world as a teen in the coming years. "Usagi..."
Usagi cringed. Her mother had not even said two words to her and she could already feel the heat of what was next to come. She only wished that her father was there to mediate her mother's actions.
"Why did you feel the need to disobey me? Didn't I make myself clear enough when I told you not to go near her again?"
Usagi's heart raced a mile a minute inside her chest as the breathing became deeper and deeper. She wasn't exactly feeling bad that she had gone against her mother's wishes, that wasn't the worst of it. It was what her punishment would be that worried her. To her, she was completely in the right here. Luna wasn't the enemy and therefore, she did nothing wrong. But there was no way to make her mother see that. "Yes..." She muttered. "You did." She paused and turned her face up to her mother with tears in her eyes. "I'm sorry mom, I really am."
Chi-Chi sighed as she stood up and walked away from her daughter, causing her to be all the more nervous. "I don't know, Usagi..."
Usagi gasped quietly to herself. "You don't believe me?" The tears began to come forward harder at hearing that. "Mom, you..."
Chi-Chi turned back around and put her hand up to hush her daughter. "Shh... You disobey me a lot, Usagi, which is why only saying 'sorry' isn't going to work. You have to show me. I understand that it's in a child's nature to disobey their parents, but this time you've gone too far." Usagi, again, dropped her head. "You have put your life in danger even after we have expressed to you that we don't want you to. Your father may not have seemed too worried about Luna, but I know he was. He had to have been."
Usagi sniffled as she lay her head down on the bed. This was way worse than getting a yelling reprimand about responsibility. This was the first time that her mother had actually talked civilly to her when she was scolding, which meant it was much more serious than other times. And to make things worse, she was acting as if she lost trust in her. "I don't know what else to say besides I'm sorry, mom. Please believe me. I won't do it again, but you have to believe me that Luna isn't with the enemy."
Chi-Chi sighed. "You can't possibly know that."
"But I do. She isn't bad."
Chi-Chi rubbed her temples with frustration as she walked to the window and closed it. "You may think you know, but you don't. We have all been through this before and we know what to look for. Mr. Satan saw Luna and another cat speaking to each other early in the day yesterday." She turned back to Usagi, who was still lying down. "I know you don't understand this, Usagi. You're only eleven years old and naïve. You're going to want things to turn out your way, so you start believing the false is true. It's nothing new, we all go through it. But, wanting something really bad isn't going to make it happen."
Usagi shook her head to show that she understood, but, inside, she didn't at all agree. She did know for sure that Luna wasn't on the side of evil, but there was no way to prove it without revealing her identity. She sat up and watched with glazed eyes as her mother walked to the door with eyes on the ground. "Mom, I really am sorry."
Chi-Chi stopped and felt her gut fall. Every time she scolded her daughter she herself felt the pain as well. It was a mutual feeling between the two that haunted both of them every time a situation such as this came up. "I know." Without further conversation, she opened the door and proceeded through.
~*~*~
~~Kame House~~
Nearly twenty minutes had passed since the father-son duo reached Kame house; they had been the first. But now, the gang had entirely gathered, once again, for the first time since Majin Buu. It felt strange gathering again after so many years of peace. But, they were definitely not ill prepared. Even in times of peace these special warriors trained hard for just such occasions. This new enemy may have been tricky enough to hide its energy, and, it may have been harder for this diverse group to overcome their obstacles, but they had never let anything stand in their way before and they weren't about to let anything now. So there they were, in the main room of the Kame House trying to figure out what they were going to do in order to overcome their newest obstacle to peace.
Goku took the liberty of speaking first, since he knew most of the situation so far. "As we know, this thing is completely undetectable." He paused and looked around the entire room. "Usagi said that it was after energy, so there's no denying the fact that any of us could be attacked at any time."
Gohan nodded as he stood next to his father. "They aren't to be taken lightly. I watched one of their monsters fight today. They were strong and the Sailor Senshi had problems fighting it." '...even though the one in pigtails looked like she was having trouble fighting...'
Trunks slightly brought his eyes up from the floor far enough to look Gohan in the eyes. "Who the hell are the 'Sailor Senshi'?"
Everyone turned to Gohan, who they figured knew most about them since he had watched their fight. But, he only replied with a quick shrug. "I don't know anything about them. All I know is that they're little kids and fight so-so. Oh yeah, and they have a strange sort of healing power like Piccolo and Dende."
Goku intervened where his son left off. "So far, I think they're on our side."
Piccolo, who stood furthest away with his arms crossed nodded. "You're right. I could sense their purity last night when they came to us."
Krillin looked thoughtful as he turned his eyes to the floor. "I wonder where they came from."
Goten shrugged at the half question, half statement. "Maybe they've always been here and we just couldn't feel it."
Bulma perked at that. "You know, that makes sense. You said you can't feel them, right? Well, who knows, maybe they HAVE been here the entire time."
Vejita grunted with a frown. "Listen to yourself woman, you're agreeing with Kakaratto's brat."
Bulma rolled her eyes. "Shut up, Vejita. If you aren't going to contribute anything then just... shut... up."
Goku, feeling the tension between the married couple, quickly intervened. "We aren't here to discuss the Senshi. We need to figure out a plan of attack on the enemy."
Goten frowned as he remembered back to the night's events; how frazzled everyone was and most importantly, why. "That's almost completely impossible, dad. We can't feel them."
Goku; "No kidding! But we can't let that stand in our way..."
Videl joined Goten with a frown of her own. "Goku, did you hear what he just said? You can't feel these guys. We learned that last night. There's no way for you to plan an attack if you can't feel them in the first place. It's impossible."
Goku narrowed his eyes into an almost evil glare in the direction of his daughter-in-law. "I refuse to believe that."
~*~*~
And so they spoke on for the remainder of the night, thought they did not get anywhere. It was almost impossible to get anywhere for the one soul fact that they didn't have the capabilities of sensing the enemies. They were in the dark with no way to overcome it. Therefore, they would have to find a new goal... but what?
Not much happened in the subject of progress that night. Mostly, the same arguments were argued over time after time after time. It had gotten to the point where petty insults had come into it all, telling the fighters that it was well past time to quit before they engaged in a war of their own.
~*~*~
The next morning, the order of business kept with a constant as it did every other day. It was a Monday, meaning Usagi, against her mother's wishes and best judgement, had to leave to attend school. Because of the incident with Luna, Chi-Chi wasn't completely positive that she could trust her daughter to do the right thing and stay away from the cat. If she was brazen enough to actually bring it into the house again the same day that she had been told to stay away, there was no telling what she would do away from the house.
~*~*~
Usagi gathered her books into her school bag near the front door, which was the only activity keeping her from leaving for school. So far that morning, she hadn't exchanged a single word with her mother, which only caused her to worry more about how much she had disappointed her mother the day before. In this case, she had come to the conclusion that she had been partially wrong. Her mother wouldn't have become upset had she just did as told, even if the truth didn't coincide with everyone's suspicions.
She sighed as she zipped her bag up and lifted it to her shoulders. 'I hope we don't have a replay of yesterday with the enemy and all.' Slowly, Usagi made her way to the door, but was soon stopped by her mother stepping in front of her. She quietly brought her eyes to her mother's. "Yes?"
Although she could very well sense the tension in the room, Chi-Chi gently smiled down to her daughter. "Be careful today, ok?"
Usagi nodded with a grin of her own. "I Promise!"
"Go on, get out of here, get to school before you're late." Chi-Chi's smile grew as she placed her hand upon Usagi's shoulder and shooed her out the door. She stood outside with the door wide open as she watched her daughter leave for school. She refused to turn away until Usagi was completely out of view, for, although it was necessary for Usagi to go to school, and, although she wanted her to attend, part of her also wanted to keep her home; safe from any danger.
Usagi stopped her Ki flow to wave down to her still smiling mother. "Bye mom! See you later!" She yelled down with a happiness that had been unseen by either of her parents in nearly two weeks. After thinking for the entire night that her mother was angry with her, her greatest hopes had come true. Her mother was acting that morning as if nothing had happened the night before.
As soon as Usagi was completely out of view, Chi-Chi placed her hand over her heart as if she were sickly and slowly turned back into the house. Her eyes soon drooped down with sorrow with each step that she took towards the kitchen. Possibly for the first time, Chi-Chi wasn't angry with her daughter for disobeying her, possibly, for the first time, she was more worried about her than anything. This was a situation unlike what had happened with Cell. By the time had come back from the past, she was completely out of danger, which only made Chi-Chi angry with her daughter for putting herself in obvious danger. But now, things were different. Usagi obviously didn't realize what kind of danger she was putting herself into, which was worse. She couldn't very well get angry with her if she didn't know she was doing anything bad in the first place, could she? Would that make her a bad mother? Most of all, would that push her daughter further away?
She sighed as she looked around the filthy kitchen. How could she clean at a time like this when her daughter, her baby could be attacked at any time? No one would even know to go and help them. She unconsciously sat down at the table to think harder. How could she make Usagi see that there were just some things that she absolutely had to obey without yelling at her? Yelling would have only escalated the situation, which was something she MUST ovoid. Things were already bad between them, what with Usagi's training and all. Although it didn't force her to grow up nearly as fast as Gohan, she was still more independent than Chi-Chi wanted. For once, she wanted to have a child who wanted nothing to do with fighting, granted Goten didn't particularly make fighting his life for the first seven years; more like a playing activity with Trunks. But, as soon as Goku came back to life and beat Buu, he forced Goten to train harder, and worse, enter the Tenkai-Ichi-Budokai Tournament against his own will when he turned seventeen. She could easily handle that since she had been through it with Gohan, but, she was hoping that Usagi would just wish to be normal. And it was because of the fighting that she was so independent, so unwilling to obey her mother because she thought she could 'handle herself'; in her eyes at least.
Just as she went deeper into thought, Chi-Chi heard the thumping of her husband's footsteps enter the room, causing her to look up. There stood Goku wearing only a pair of sweat pants and a towel around his neck indicating that he had just come out of the shower.
Goku immediately took notice to his wife's distress and naturally, put a smile on his face to try and cheer her up. "What's wrong Chi-Chi?"
Chi-Chi's solemn eyes turned slightly upward into a quaint frown. "You!" She scolded.
Goku jumped back with mistrust. He was sure that she was going to lunge out of her seat and punch him. But, oddly, she only sat there, and, having not been told about what their daughter had been up to in her room after he and Gohan had left, he knew nothing of what could have angered his wife so terribly. "Wooo!" He put his hands up to act as a shield.
Chi-Chi burst up with a red aura now emitting from her body, causing the chair to fly back to the wall. "It's all your fault Son Goku!" With saying that, she jumped over the table in a flash and dashed past her husband and out the room.
Goku was left dumbfounded and standing in the kitchen. He did nothing but scratch his head in wonderment. "Must be a REALLY bad time of the month for her."
~*~*~
Usagi arrived to school with only five minutes to spare, which was considerably early for her. It seemed as though in the past few months of the school year she being late was the norm for her. But she never let it get her down, she usually made up the time after school on Friday afternoon's. Her only motivation to get to school early that particular day was to tell her friends what had become of Luna.
As soon as she landed in the Quad in front of the main office, she ran as fast as she could around the back of the building, which was hardly detectable by any of the younger classmen. Normally, she didn't like to use her power at school anymore, but for this day, since she had just little time, she made the exception.
It took her no longer than thirty seconds to get all the way to the back of the school and into her classroom where she found Rei, Minako, Makoto, and Ami huddled in the back of the room. "Guys!" She yelled from the door, which earned her a stern glare from her teacher. Usagi lowered her head in embarrassment and slowly made her way to the back of the room, where all sorts of bean bags were placed by a rather large shelve of books.
Her teacher, still not finished with her, stood from his desk with his attendance clipboard. "Son Usagi, It's nice to see that you're here so early, but let's use our inside voices next time."
Usagi paused and blushed as she did her father's ever popular scratch of the head. "Sorry."
Ami lifted her head from her book of advanced mathematics. "Usagi... I'm speechless."
Rei grinned. "What brings you here at this early time of five minutes before class?" She took note that the clock now said it was four minutes before eight now instead of five.
Usagi rolled her eyes and gave a sarcastic smirk. "Alright, alright, I know I always come in late, but there's a reason."
Minako giggled. "Behold, Usagi has an excuse for being late. We bow to you." She mockingly bowed, causing the other girls to giggle and do the same.
Usagi tried to hold back the giggling as she crossed her arms. "Come on you guys, be serious."
Minako got out her last few giggles and tried to put on a straight face, but it just wasn't working. Makoto, on the other hand had no problem with it at all. "Well, if Usagi's here early it must be something important."
Usagi didn't know whether to be thankful for that or what, but she wasn't going to stress over it. There were more important things to speak about and with such little time on the clock, there was only one way to say it. Just come right out with it. "Mom kicked Luna out of the house yesterday when I got home."
The four listeners gasp in disbelief. They knew that Chi-Chi could be harsh, but not harsh enough to tell Usagi that she could keep a cat and then rip it out of her hands.
Minako; "What are you talking about? Didn't your mom say you could keep it right before you came to meet us yesterday?"
Usagi nodded with a frown. "Yes!"
Rei tried to understand Chi-Chi's logic, but as far as she could tell, there Was No logical reason to kick Luna out. "Did she tell you why?" Usagi did nothing but nod. "Well?"
"She said that everyone else thinks it was with the enemy."
Frustrated, Ami covered her face with her hand. "Did you even think to tell her that Luna ISN'T with the enemy?"
Usagi nodded. "Of course I did. But she said that because I'm just a kid, I don't know what I'm talking about. She said that just because I want something doesn't meant that It's going to happen." She clenched her fist and stomped her foot on the ground. "Man I wish I could just tell her."
Minako stared off into space with a slight sign of a forming frown. "This is going to raise Artimas' suspicions."
Usagi dropped her anger and turned down to Minako with concern. "What?"
Minako looked up to see the face of her friend, which was fast becoming angry. "He thinks that your parents aren't fit to be your parents."
"WHAT?! WHY?!"
"Because of the way he was acting when you got kidnapped. He was kind of snappy, but we told him that it was just because he had a lot on his mind that night."
Rei; "Yeah, we told him that he wasn't normally like that. But now that your mom kicked Luna out, he may not believe us."
Usagi looked down with more frustration than before. "Dang it!"
At that moment, the bell rang and in rushed a bungling group of screaming eleven year olds. At the front of the room stood the teacher with his clipboard. "Ok students, please take your seats so we can begin class earlier than normal, especially since Ms. Son has decided to grace us with her presence earlier than usual. We won't have to worry about that interruption."
The five girls in the back departed to opposite sides of the room to take their seats, one with extreme embarrassment. That one would be Usagi, who, was not at all angry about the fact that her teacher was calling her out on her mistakes. She knew that it had been her fault that she was late nearly every day. She knew that this was just his way of punishing her, although she wasn't fond of it.
The students in the room didn't pay any attention to Usagi's form of reprimanding for they were much to busy with their own lives to care. They had gotten past the stage of making fun of here, especially since they had all been in class together since Kindergarten. None of them truly hated Usagi and her friends anymore, although they did still keep away from the group. It was a giant step up from the early years.
"Students, before we get into class there are a few housekeeping items we need to go over."
~*~*~
Dark Kingdom: Queen Beryl's Lair
The short-haired woman, Beryl's most trusted minion approached her queen. In her arm was a small black capsule. "Your Majesty."
Beryl quirked her brow with interest. "Akii, why have you come here? I have not summoned for you."
The woman backed up with a gasp. It would not be wise to anger her queen unless she was fully ready to suffer the consequences. "I have good news for you, my Queen. Our team of scientists has collected the energy needed to create a new creature." She lifted the capsule in her hand. "When this capsule is shattered a new monster will be released and ready to capture the energy we need to raise Metallia."
Beryl grinned. An evil star of light twinkled in her black eyes. "You have done well, my Akii. I was not expecting the process to move so fast. Where is the target this time?"
A smile crossed over the lips of the woman. "An elementary school in West Capital, near Capsule Corporation."
Beryl found herself smirking harder than before. "Excellent. The energy collected from there shall do fine."
"Do you wish for me to deliver it?"
"No. That good for nothing brother of yours is more than capable of doing such an assignment. I'm saving you for a special occasion. He's the delivery boy."
"He's not really my bother, your majesty."
Beryl frowned. "What?"
"He is not my true brother, my queen. We share the same mother. In our land, the mother means nothing. You are only considered siblings if you share the same father."
Beryl glared on in confusion. "I'm sure. Just make sure he gets the job done, Akii. I'm counting on you."
The woman gracefully nodded. "As you wish."
(What's this? She finally has a name, eh? Lol, I should have said it earlier but I never got around to it. ^_^ Ok, There you have it, I finally got it done. So what did you think? Cya later!)
~Satan City
A small gray sphere, about the size of a basket ball, made its way from the sky down into the very heart of the city. The Dark Kingdom was well on its way to creating yet another enemy in hopes to defeat the Senshi. Although they had proven themselves more powerful in this time than the past, the Dark Kingdom was certain that by retrieving the unused energy from their fallen demons, they would be able to rise above the power of the Senshi. But that was only if the bodies of their demons were left solid, and not completely destroyed. Their near perfect plan was well under way and this sphere was the key to gaining more energy to proceed with their quest to finally defeat the Princess of the Moon once and for all; the Royal family would finally be out of power.
The sphere circled the fallen demon in an orbicular motion as it gathered pictures of the body for its creators, as programmed. The demon lay, slain, on the ground with its limbs out in all directions. The body itself had a giant hole directly in the middle which went through from front to back showing how unmercifully it had been slaughtered.
Ignoring the fact that the entire body was nearly destroyed, a small plate underneath the gray sphere opened up to reveal the inner machines hard at work. It slowly lowered and began vacuuming the leftover energy from the abandoned body. Slowly, the energy crystallized and began lifting into the sphere.
~*~*~
~~Son House~~
None of this activity was detected by any of Earth's Special Forces, not even the Senshi themselves. It was completely inconspicuous.
While Goku and Gohan prepared to leave for Kame house, Usagi still resided in the comfort of her room. There she lay upon her bed in the dark, looking up to the ceiling as she sulked over her mother's harsh and obvious not completely thought out decision to kick Luna out of the house. What would they do now? Luna was, after all, her advisor. She was meant to be guiding her through this fight. She was almost completely clueless as to fight an enemy that could only be destroyed with a power that no one but the holders of it could feel.
It just wasn't fair. Why did her mother always have to jump to conclusions all the time, and, who had even put the idea that Luna was with the enemy in her head in the first place? She couldn't have possibly acquired it on her own since she had already agreed to let the poor creature stay. That was the most mind boggling aspect of the entire situation.
Usagi sighed as she sat up and flung her legs over the edge of her bed. She gazed out the window to the day which was fast being taken over by the dark sky of night. 'I hope Luna's ok out there.' Slowly, she pushed herself up and walked to the window. 'I wonder where she is.'
She perked a bit after hearing the voices of her parents and eldest brother. Without question she knew exactly where they were heading off to. The only thought that passed through her mind was why they weren't taking her along. Wasn't she the one that had been violated the night before? She figured that she should at least be able to be there and in the discussion? But what could she do? Things had already been decided and it appeared that her parents were going to be putting their foot down more in regards to her safety until the threat of the enemy was over.
Usagi quietly opened the window in order to eavesdrop on what was being said outside.
~*~*~
~Outside~
Chi-Chi gave her husband a blazing glare as she joined him and Gohan outside. She couldn't believe that Goku was actually going to leave her and Usagi home Alone at night. Under normal circumstances, she would have been fine with it, but now, with the new threat, she was uneasy. Sure she had agreed to let him go alone, but now she was beginning to feel wrong about it, yet, she couldn't very easily go back on her word. Inside, she hoped that he would just decide on his own to take them along with him, but it was obvious after all those years that he would never do such a thing.
"If something happens, be careful out there... both of you." She chanted with a slight smile.
Goku came back with a grin. "We aren't going to war, Chi-Chi. Just the Kame House."
"I realize that. But, I've also come to realize that, what may seem like an innocent meeting usually turns into a huge fight against some evil; AND, I also know that you have a tendency to get so rough that you sometimes get yourself killed."
Goku cringed at the thought of that. His wife had just proved a frightening, but true point. But what was he to do? If something attacked, he would give his life to protect the people of earth, but, he had also made a vow to himself that he would stay alive and around forever for Usagi no matter what. Maybe, for the first time, he would take his wife's words into consideration. "Ok, Chi-Chi. I won't do anything too crazy."
"Dad, we should get going so we aren't late."
Goku nodded as he turned to face his son. "Let's go."
~*~*~
Usagi poked her head out the window just as her father and brother took to the air without another word to her mother. 'This time, dad, if something happens, I'LL be the one to protect YOU...'
She sat there, watching as the two figures grew smaller and smaller, wondering how this entire situation would turn out. Although, it didn't quite matter how it would turn out, for her life would never be the same. She was now a Legendary Senshi, the Princess of the Silver Millennium Moon Kingdom on top of being a kid of the twenty-first century. Her world couldn't possibly become any more turned around, but somehow, she would have to live with it. Her destiny was to become someone great; not even the greatest of enemies would stand in her way now.
She let herself fall into her thoughts of the far off future as her eyes fell into the trees not too far from her window. Her senses picked up a small shadow that was slowly emerging from behind the nearest of trees. At first, Usagi figured it was just another enemy trying its luck to defeat her, but the figure came fourth even further to reveal itself as the very cat who had saved her the night before.
Usagi perked up with a spark of joy as a smile crossed her lips. 'She's safe!' She quickly gathered her thoughts and looked to both sides of her window to make sure her mother had gone inside. Once she made sure no one was around nor watching, she motioned for the cat to come closer.
~*~*~
Chi-Chi closed the front door behind her and walked partway into the family room and glared down the hallway. 'If she thinks she can get away with pouting all night she's got another thing coming...' She gave off a quiet grunt of anger as she turned into the kitchen to prepare dinner for the two of them.
~*~*~
Once Luna reached the window, Usagi reached out and pulled her in. "Luna!" She whispered.
Luna gave a carefree smile as she jumped up onto Usagi's bed and sat. "Usagi..."
Usagi frowned as she stood up and put her back to Luna. "I'm sorry for my mom. She is ALWAYS overreacting like this. She doesn't even listen to me." She clenched her fists. Just thinking about it made her frustration rise.
Luna shook her head with a sigh. "Usagi, don't be upset with your mom, ok? I'm actually ok with being kicked out, just not so roughly."
Usagi dropped her frown and replaced it with questioning curiosity as she turned around to face the cat. "What? You wanted to be thrown out?"
Luna frowned. "Of course not! But, it does show that she cares about you."
Usagi crossed her arms and turned her head to the side. "She's overprotective. None of my friends' moms act like this."
"No, I suppose they wouldn't. But, what I heard from Pluto in the other dimension, your mom has also been through a lot in the past. Her husband has died numerous times, her sons have fought to near death and WATCHED their father die. The fact that your mom is blinded by her love for you enough to throw out a CAT because she's been tipped off that it could be with the enemy should be something to be happy over, and not upset. So you didn't get your way for once, it happens to everyone and we deal with it." 'That must be one of the reasons why Pluto wanted her to be born to these two.'
Usagi once again lightened her expression as she let her advisor's words sink in. It was true that her mother had been through too much pain when it came to the family. She had to stand by and watch her husband and children risk their lives for then entire world. "But it's so frustrating."
Luna nodded. "I know." She rubbed her paw on her head to the best of her ability. "Believe me, I understand. But, the decision has been made and we aren't going to fight it. We don't want to blow our cover, and speaking of covers... today's fight went... well..."
"Interesting?"
"Exactly. Might I suggest doing the speeches at the beginning of the fights like that other Usagi said to?"
Usagi nodded with a giggle. "I was going to get to that before I was attacked."
"Good. Now, we never finished our conversation about erasing your memory, kid. I still say it's not safe for you to know information that hasn't been revealed in our dimension yet."
"Why? My dad knew that he was going to get a heart disease before he got it. That's why he was able to fight Cell, because Trunks came back to warn him. This is no different."
"It's very different. They haven't become Senshi yet. If they find out before it's their time, it could alter what is meant to happen in the Multiverse and don't tell you you'll keep it a secret. You're eleven years old, and worse, you're a girl."
Usagi grinned. "What's that got to do with anything?"
"Everyone knows girls your age can't keep secrets." Not a single word came from the young Saiyan. "Usagi, you may not like the idea of losing part of your memory but...."
"SHHH!" The now wide-eyed cat shushed right up. "Here that?" Usagi whispered. The whisper was much to quiet for a human to hear, but since both beings had acute hearing due to their animal aspects, it was completely hearable to both.
Luna shook her head. "No. What is it?"
Usagi put her hand up to shush the cat once again as she pulled her head up a bit to hear better. "Footsteps..."
Luna didn't need to hear the rest of the sentence in order to know what that meant. "I better get going."
Usagi blankly nodded with fright. If her mother were to see that she was with Luna again, let alone letting her in the house, her head would be gruesomely detached from her body. "Fast! She's right outside the door." She didn't even wait for Luna to stand before she scooped her into her arms. "If she catches me with you we're both dead."
Luna gulped. "Hurry." Her eyes flew directly to the door knob, which was beginning to turn ever so slowly. "U...sa...gi!"
Usagi turned her head to the door, which was creaking open. "Yee...!" She quickly turned back just in time to trip over a toy that was left out of place. "No!" She used her Ki to push herself up and run to the window. 'Oh no, Oh No!' She didn't take any consideration as she dropped Luna right out the window.
Chi-Chi, who was now in the room, looked upon her daughter with the most suspicious eyes. "Usagi?" She leaned to the side just in time to see a black item fall from her daughter's hands and down to the ground just outside the window. "What was that?"
Usagi jumped in front of the window with fear. She tried desperately to give her mother an innocent face. "Nothing!"
Chi-Chi smirked. "Nothing huh? I could have sworn it was small, black, had Four Legs and was FURY!" Usagi jumped at her mother's strict, irritable tone of voice. "You had that MONSTER in here again DIDN'T YOU?" She stepped closer and, with each step, Usagi became more and more skittish. "You deliberately disobeyed me, young lady."
Usagi closed her eyes and turned her head to the side with an expectation of being slapped. "I'm sorry... But..." A long paused followed her cries for mercy, which only lead to her further confusion. Usagi knew exactly what was going on. This time, she had done it. Not had she only disobeyed her mother, but, in her eyes, she had put her own life in danger. That was something that was completely unforgivable to her mother. And there was only one reaction that would become of this... a physical punishment. Whether it be slap to the face or a spanking, it was sure to be quite painful if it was coming from an overprotective mother.
After a long moment of silence, it was broken. "Usagi..." Chimed her mother with the most gentle ring. "I'm not going to do anything to you, don't be scared."
'Huh?' Usagi's face turned beet red with embarrassment as she opened her eyes and turned to face her mother. "Mom?"
Chi-Chi slowly made her way to sit on the bed and patted the area next to her. "Come have a seat, dear." Usagi didn't move a single step in any direction. Instead, she just stood in place and turned even lighter pale than before. Chi-Chi's heart nearly fell to the pit of her stomach when she saw that. How could she put that much fear into her daughter? She hadn't seen her that afraid since the meeting with her school Principal six years before. "Don't be afraid. Just come sit by me."
Usagi reluctantly and stiffly did as her mother asked and sat next to her. Her entire body was frozen stiff with fear as she only faced forward. She wasn't sure if this was a trick or what, but she knew one thing, it wasn't normal. "Mom?"
Chi-Chi took in a deep breath of her own as she looked down to her daughter. She would try to control herself to the best of her ability. Sure Usagi had disobeyed her, but, lately, she had been trying hard to keep her temper down when it came to her fragile daughter. "You had the cat here again, didn't you?"
There it was, the grand opening to yet another falling out between mother and daughter and Usagi knew that better than anyone. What was she to answer back in response to that question. She couldn't lie to her mother, especially since she had in fact seen Luna. There was only one way to go through this, and that would be the dreaded truth.
Usagi hung her head low to keep from making eye contact with her mother. One wicked look and she would have lost what little confidence she had. "...Y...Yes..."
Chi-Chi breathed heavily as her anger pushed itself further and further to the brink of being popped. The one thing she didn't want was to have a huge argument with her daughter, but if she continued to persist in disobeying her it would soon become inevitable. In her own thoughts, her daughter was not one to follow directions; something she would have to learn soon if she wished to enter the world as a teen in the coming years. "Usagi..."
Usagi cringed. Her mother had not even said two words to her and she could already feel the heat of what was next to come. She only wished that her father was there to mediate her mother's actions.
"Why did you feel the need to disobey me? Didn't I make myself clear enough when I told you not to go near her again?"
Usagi's heart raced a mile a minute inside her chest as the breathing became deeper and deeper. She wasn't exactly feeling bad that she had gone against her mother's wishes, that wasn't the worst of it. It was what her punishment would be that worried her. To her, she was completely in the right here. Luna wasn't the enemy and therefore, she did nothing wrong. But there was no way to make her mother see that. "Yes..." She muttered. "You did." She paused and turned her face up to her mother with tears in her eyes. "I'm sorry mom, I really am."
Chi-Chi sighed as she stood up and walked away from her daughter, causing her to be all the more nervous. "I don't know, Usagi..."
Usagi gasped quietly to herself. "You don't believe me?" The tears began to come forward harder at hearing that. "Mom, you..."
Chi-Chi turned back around and put her hand up to hush her daughter. "Shh... You disobey me a lot, Usagi, which is why only saying 'sorry' isn't going to work. You have to show me. I understand that it's in a child's nature to disobey their parents, but this time you've gone too far." Usagi, again, dropped her head. "You have put your life in danger even after we have expressed to you that we don't want you to. Your father may not have seemed too worried about Luna, but I know he was. He had to have been."
Usagi sniffled as she lay her head down on the bed. This was way worse than getting a yelling reprimand about responsibility. This was the first time that her mother had actually talked civilly to her when she was scolding, which meant it was much more serious than other times. And to make things worse, she was acting as if she lost trust in her. "I don't know what else to say besides I'm sorry, mom. Please believe me. I won't do it again, but you have to believe me that Luna isn't with the enemy."
Chi-Chi sighed. "You can't possibly know that."
"But I do. She isn't bad."
Chi-Chi rubbed her temples with frustration as she walked to the window and closed it. "You may think you know, but you don't. We have all been through this before and we know what to look for. Mr. Satan saw Luna and another cat speaking to each other early in the day yesterday." She turned back to Usagi, who was still lying down. "I know you don't understand this, Usagi. You're only eleven years old and naïve. You're going to want things to turn out your way, so you start believing the false is true. It's nothing new, we all go through it. But, wanting something really bad isn't going to make it happen."
Usagi shook her head to show that she understood, but, inside, she didn't at all agree. She did know for sure that Luna wasn't on the side of evil, but there was no way to prove it without revealing her identity. She sat up and watched with glazed eyes as her mother walked to the door with eyes on the ground. "Mom, I really am sorry."
Chi-Chi stopped and felt her gut fall. Every time she scolded her daughter she herself felt the pain as well. It was a mutual feeling between the two that haunted both of them every time a situation such as this came up. "I know." Without further conversation, she opened the door and proceeded through.
~*~*~
~~Kame House~~
Nearly twenty minutes had passed since the father-son duo reached Kame house; they had been the first. But now, the gang had entirely gathered, once again, for the first time since Majin Buu. It felt strange gathering again after so many years of peace. But, they were definitely not ill prepared. Even in times of peace these special warriors trained hard for just such occasions. This new enemy may have been tricky enough to hide its energy, and, it may have been harder for this diverse group to overcome their obstacles, but they had never let anything stand in their way before and they weren't about to let anything now. So there they were, in the main room of the Kame House trying to figure out what they were going to do in order to overcome their newest obstacle to peace.
Goku took the liberty of speaking first, since he knew most of the situation so far. "As we know, this thing is completely undetectable." He paused and looked around the entire room. "Usagi said that it was after energy, so there's no denying the fact that any of us could be attacked at any time."
Gohan nodded as he stood next to his father. "They aren't to be taken lightly. I watched one of their monsters fight today. They were strong and the Sailor Senshi had problems fighting it." '...even though the one in pigtails looked like she was having trouble fighting...'
Trunks slightly brought his eyes up from the floor far enough to look Gohan in the eyes. "Who the hell are the 'Sailor Senshi'?"
Everyone turned to Gohan, who they figured knew most about them since he had watched their fight. But, he only replied with a quick shrug. "I don't know anything about them. All I know is that they're little kids and fight so-so. Oh yeah, and they have a strange sort of healing power like Piccolo and Dende."
Goku intervened where his son left off. "So far, I think they're on our side."
Piccolo, who stood furthest away with his arms crossed nodded. "You're right. I could sense their purity last night when they came to us."
Krillin looked thoughtful as he turned his eyes to the floor. "I wonder where they came from."
Goten shrugged at the half question, half statement. "Maybe they've always been here and we just couldn't feel it."
Bulma perked at that. "You know, that makes sense. You said you can't feel them, right? Well, who knows, maybe they HAVE been here the entire time."
Vejita grunted with a frown. "Listen to yourself woman, you're agreeing with Kakaratto's brat."
Bulma rolled her eyes. "Shut up, Vejita. If you aren't going to contribute anything then just... shut... up."
Goku, feeling the tension between the married couple, quickly intervened. "We aren't here to discuss the Senshi. We need to figure out a plan of attack on the enemy."
Goten frowned as he remembered back to the night's events; how frazzled everyone was and most importantly, why. "That's almost completely impossible, dad. We can't feel them."
Goku; "No kidding! But we can't let that stand in our way..."
Videl joined Goten with a frown of her own. "Goku, did you hear what he just said? You can't feel these guys. We learned that last night. There's no way for you to plan an attack if you can't feel them in the first place. It's impossible."
Goku narrowed his eyes into an almost evil glare in the direction of his daughter-in-law. "I refuse to believe that."
~*~*~
And so they spoke on for the remainder of the night, thought they did not get anywhere. It was almost impossible to get anywhere for the one soul fact that they didn't have the capabilities of sensing the enemies. They were in the dark with no way to overcome it. Therefore, they would have to find a new goal... but what?
Not much happened in the subject of progress that night. Mostly, the same arguments were argued over time after time after time. It had gotten to the point where petty insults had come into it all, telling the fighters that it was well past time to quit before they engaged in a war of their own.
~*~*~
The next morning, the order of business kept with a constant as it did every other day. It was a Monday, meaning Usagi, against her mother's wishes and best judgement, had to leave to attend school. Because of the incident with Luna, Chi-Chi wasn't completely positive that she could trust her daughter to do the right thing and stay away from the cat. If she was brazen enough to actually bring it into the house again the same day that she had been told to stay away, there was no telling what she would do away from the house.
~*~*~
Usagi gathered her books into her school bag near the front door, which was the only activity keeping her from leaving for school. So far that morning, she hadn't exchanged a single word with her mother, which only caused her to worry more about how much she had disappointed her mother the day before. In this case, she had come to the conclusion that she had been partially wrong. Her mother wouldn't have become upset had she just did as told, even if the truth didn't coincide with everyone's suspicions.
She sighed as she zipped her bag up and lifted it to her shoulders. 'I hope we don't have a replay of yesterday with the enemy and all.' Slowly, Usagi made her way to the door, but was soon stopped by her mother stepping in front of her. She quietly brought her eyes to her mother's. "Yes?"
Although she could very well sense the tension in the room, Chi-Chi gently smiled down to her daughter. "Be careful today, ok?"
Usagi nodded with a grin of her own. "I Promise!"
"Go on, get out of here, get to school before you're late." Chi-Chi's smile grew as she placed her hand upon Usagi's shoulder and shooed her out the door. She stood outside with the door wide open as she watched her daughter leave for school. She refused to turn away until Usagi was completely out of view, for, although it was necessary for Usagi to go to school, and, although she wanted her to attend, part of her also wanted to keep her home; safe from any danger.
Usagi stopped her Ki flow to wave down to her still smiling mother. "Bye mom! See you later!" She yelled down with a happiness that had been unseen by either of her parents in nearly two weeks. After thinking for the entire night that her mother was angry with her, her greatest hopes had come true. Her mother was acting that morning as if nothing had happened the night before.
As soon as Usagi was completely out of view, Chi-Chi placed her hand over her heart as if she were sickly and slowly turned back into the house. Her eyes soon drooped down with sorrow with each step that she took towards the kitchen. Possibly for the first time, Chi-Chi wasn't angry with her daughter for disobeying her, possibly, for the first time, she was more worried about her than anything. This was a situation unlike what had happened with Cell. By the time had come back from the past, she was completely out of danger, which only made Chi-Chi angry with her daughter for putting herself in obvious danger. But now, things were different. Usagi obviously didn't realize what kind of danger she was putting herself into, which was worse. She couldn't very well get angry with her if she didn't know she was doing anything bad in the first place, could she? Would that make her a bad mother? Most of all, would that push her daughter further away?
She sighed as she looked around the filthy kitchen. How could she clean at a time like this when her daughter, her baby could be attacked at any time? No one would even know to go and help them. She unconsciously sat down at the table to think harder. How could she make Usagi see that there were just some things that she absolutely had to obey without yelling at her? Yelling would have only escalated the situation, which was something she MUST ovoid. Things were already bad between them, what with Usagi's training and all. Although it didn't force her to grow up nearly as fast as Gohan, she was still more independent than Chi-Chi wanted. For once, she wanted to have a child who wanted nothing to do with fighting, granted Goten didn't particularly make fighting his life for the first seven years; more like a playing activity with Trunks. But, as soon as Goku came back to life and beat Buu, he forced Goten to train harder, and worse, enter the Tenkai-Ichi-Budokai Tournament against his own will when he turned seventeen. She could easily handle that since she had been through it with Gohan, but, she was hoping that Usagi would just wish to be normal. And it was because of the fighting that she was so independent, so unwilling to obey her mother because she thought she could 'handle herself'; in her eyes at least.
Just as she went deeper into thought, Chi-Chi heard the thumping of her husband's footsteps enter the room, causing her to look up. There stood Goku wearing only a pair of sweat pants and a towel around his neck indicating that he had just come out of the shower.
Goku immediately took notice to his wife's distress and naturally, put a smile on his face to try and cheer her up. "What's wrong Chi-Chi?"
Chi-Chi's solemn eyes turned slightly upward into a quaint frown. "You!" She scolded.
Goku jumped back with mistrust. He was sure that she was going to lunge out of her seat and punch him. But, oddly, she only sat there, and, having not been told about what their daughter had been up to in her room after he and Gohan had left, he knew nothing of what could have angered his wife so terribly. "Wooo!" He put his hands up to act as a shield.
Chi-Chi burst up with a red aura now emitting from her body, causing the chair to fly back to the wall. "It's all your fault Son Goku!" With saying that, she jumped over the table in a flash and dashed past her husband and out the room.
Goku was left dumbfounded and standing in the kitchen. He did nothing but scratch his head in wonderment. "Must be a REALLY bad time of the month for her."
~*~*~
Usagi arrived to school with only five minutes to spare, which was considerably early for her. It seemed as though in the past few months of the school year she being late was the norm for her. But she never let it get her down, she usually made up the time after school on Friday afternoon's. Her only motivation to get to school early that particular day was to tell her friends what had become of Luna.
As soon as she landed in the Quad in front of the main office, she ran as fast as she could around the back of the building, which was hardly detectable by any of the younger classmen. Normally, she didn't like to use her power at school anymore, but for this day, since she had just little time, she made the exception.
It took her no longer than thirty seconds to get all the way to the back of the school and into her classroom where she found Rei, Minako, Makoto, and Ami huddled in the back of the room. "Guys!" She yelled from the door, which earned her a stern glare from her teacher. Usagi lowered her head in embarrassment and slowly made her way to the back of the room, where all sorts of bean bags were placed by a rather large shelve of books.
Her teacher, still not finished with her, stood from his desk with his attendance clipboard. "Son Usagi, It's nice to see that you're here so early, but let's use our inside voices next time."
Usagi paused and blushed as she did her father's ever popular scratch of the head. "Sorry."
Ami lifted her head from her book of advanced mathematics. "Usagi... I'm speechless."
Rei grinned. "What brings you here at this early time of five minutes before class?" She took note that the clock now said it was four minutes before eight now instead of five.
Usagi rolled her eyes and gave a sarcastic smirk. "Alright, alright, I know I always come in late, but there's a reason."
Minako giggled. "Behold, Usagi has an excuse for being late. We bow to you." She mockingly bowed, causing the other girls to giggle and do the same.
Usagi tried to hold back the giggling as she crossed her arms. "Come on you guys, be serious."
Minako got out her last few giggles and tried to put on a straight face, but it just wasn't working. Makoto, on the other hand had no problem with it at all. "Well, if Usagi's here early it must be something important."
Usagi didn't know whether to be thankful for that or what, but she wasn't going to stress over it. There were more important things to speak about and with such little time on the clock, there was only one way to say it. Just come right out with it. "Mom kicked Luna out of the house yesterday when I got home."
The four listeners gasp in disbelief. They knew that Chi-Chi could be harsh, but not harsh enough to tell Usagi that she could keep a cat and then rip it out of her hands.
Minako; "What are you talking about? Didn't your mom say you could keep it right before you came to meet us yesterday?"
Usagi nodded with a frown. "Yes!"
Rei tried to understand Chi-Chi's logic, but as far as she could tell, there Was No logical reason to kick Luna out. "Did she tell you why?" Usagi did nothing but nod. "Well?"
"She said that everyone else thinks it was with the enemy."
Frustrated, Ami covered her face with her hand. "Did you even think to tell her that Luna ISN'T with the enemy?"
Usagi nodded. "Of course I did. But she said that because I'm just a kid, I don't know what I'm talking about. She said that just because I want something doesn't meant that It's going to happen." She clenched her fist and stomped her foot on the ground. "Man I wish I could just tell her."
Minako stared off into space with a slight sign of a forming frown. "This is going to raise Artimas' suspicions."
Usagi dropped her anger and turned down to Minako with concern. "What?"
Minako looked up to see the face of her friend, which was fast becoming angry. "He thinks that your parents aren't fit to be your parents."
"WHAT?! WHY?!"
"Because of the way he was acting when you got kidnapped. He was kind of snappy, but we told him that it was just because he had a lot on his mind that night."
Rei; "Yeah, we told him that he wasn't normally like that. But now that your mom kicked Luna out, he may not believe us."
Usagi looked down with more frustration than before. "Dang it!"
At that moment, the bell rang and in rushed a bungling group of screaming eleven year olds. At the front of the room stood the teacher with his clipboard. "Ok students, please take your seats so we can begin class earlier than normal, especially since Ms. Son has decided to grace us with her presence earlier than usual. We won't have to worry about that interruption."
The five girls in the back departed to opposite sides of the room to take their seats, one with extreme embarrassment. That one would be Usagi, who, was not at all angry about the fact that her teacher was calling her out on her mistakes. She knew that it had been her fault that she was late nearly every day. She knew that this was just his way of punishing her, although she wasn't fond of it.
The students in the room didn't pay any attention to Usagi's form of reprimanding for they were much to busy with their own lives to care. They had gotten past the stage of making fun of here, especially since they had all been in class together since Kindergarten. None of them truly hated Usagi and her friends anymore, although they did still keep away from the group. It was a giant step up from the early years.
"Students, before we get into class there are a few housekeeping items we need to go over."
~*~*~
Dark Kingdom: Queen Beryl's Lair
The short-haired woman, Beryl's most trusted minion approached her queen. In her arm was a small black capsule. "Your Majesty."
Beryl quirked her brow with interest. "Akii, why have you come here? I have not summoned for you."
The woman backed up with a gasp. It would not be wise to anger her queen unless she was fully ready to suffer the consequences. "I have good news for you, my Queen. Our team of scientists has collected the energy needed to create a new creature." She lifted the capsule in her hand. "When this capsule is shattered a new monster will be released and ready to capture the energy we need to raise Metallia."
Beryl grinned. An evil star of light twinkled in her black eyes. "You have done well, my Akii. I was not expecting the process to move so fast. Where is the target this time?"
A smile crossed over the lips of the woman. "An elementary school in West Capital, near Capsule Corporation."
Beryl found herself smirking harder than before. "Excellent. The energy collected from there shall do fine."
"Do you wish for me to deliver it?"
"No. That good for nothing brother of yours is more than capable of doing such an assignment. I'm saving you for a special occasion. He's the delivery boy."
"He's not really my bother, your majesty."
Beryl frowned. "What?"
"He is not my true brother, my queen. We share the same mother. In our land, the mother means nothing. You are only considered siblings if you share the same father."
Beryl glared on in confusion. "I'm sure. Just make sure he gets the job done, Akii. I'm counting on you."
The woman gracefully nodded. "As you wish."
(What's this? She finally has a name, eh? Lol, I should have said it earlier but I never got around to it. ^_^ Ok, There you have it, I finally got it done. So what did you think? Cya later!)