I'm so sorry about not posting earlier, I had this chapter typed out
and everything, but I forgot that I would be packing to move on the day I
said I would post, so sadly enough, the computer was taken apart and just
now I was able to put it back together. Actually, it's more of the problem
on how the dial tone wasn't working for the modem, so I wasn't able to find
any phone line until I came upon the eighth one. I swear, there are phone
connections everywhere, I was only able to find this on the second floor of
my aunt's place. (She's renting it. We have a four floor house)
Arigauto minna for your understanding and cooperation. So here is, Chapter 12! Drum roll please. Anyway, I noticed that there isn't a lot of romance in this, so I'm going to add some things that would get them closer, and hopefully the love will blossom. But there has to be something in the way, yeah, I'm evil sometimes, but that's the fun in life. Okay, I'm really not sure about the Queen Cosmos letter in here since I only have a week to write this. Not enough time if you ask me. Okay, now on with the fic!
Dedication: I would like to dedicate this fic to all those who have supported me and reviewed this story, it really helps! ^-^ Also to the people who had friends and family that tragically died in the twin towers or the pentagon. May God bless you.
Disclaimers Apply
Note: Sorry to all those fans that actually like my type of writing for Dragonball Z/Sailor Moon crossover fics, but this will be my first and last one written of this category. Unless I just so happen to be persuaded, I'm not sure whether or not I'm writing another one.
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Serena held her breath as she stood outside of the doorway. The teacher had her wait outside so that he could introduce her once she came in.
Gohan had already entered class with one final look. Tell you the truth, she did not appreciate being alone now.
Partly because of the fact that she was going to be in classes with people that are old then her... well maybe not unless you're over ten decades old. But then she is considered seventeen here and most of the seniors here are eighteen.
Since she had been studying like hell, literally with Chichi behind her back, she was allowed to go into the same grade as Gohan, under some persuasion of course.
Snapping out of her thoughts, she grew nervous as she continued to wring her hands as the door slowly opened, too slow for her.
The face of a man in his mid thirties poked out. He had brownish gray hair and was wearing a business suit almost, just not as tidy or expensive.
Stepping out, the new teacher introduced himself as Mr. Hallins. With a warm welcome, Mr. Hallins assuringly put an arm around her neck and led her into the classroom.
*So maybe school won't be that bad* she thought, but once she entered, she changed her mind.
To say the least, she did not appreciate people staring at her like she was some kind of experiment and then go whispering around with their friends, probably thinking that she was a geek since she decided at the last second to put her glasses back on. So what? She didn't make a good impression in looks much, but it's not looks that counts, it's what is inside that does.
Standing in front of the classroom, she began to introduce herself. "Hello, my name is Serena Moon and I hope to make new friends during this school year."
No one spoke, but that didn't really faze her. Speaking in front of several crowds, by far larger then this as queen was a lot more difficult.
Skimming over all the students in the classroom which she counted up to about forty or fifty, she saw Gohan in a middle row. Giving him a small smile, he winked in return, making her blush a pale pink.
After the small introduction was made, Mr. Hallins coughed to get everyone's attention. "Okay, now Serena, where she we put you?" he wondered while looking for an empty seat. Seeing one in the back, he pointed to it and requested for Serena to sit there which Serena obligated.
Striding up the stairs since the desk were in half circles and on different floor levels of platforms, she ignored every girl that would point at her then snicker to themselves.
Going to the appointed desk, she noticed that she was at the very end of the row and the person she was sitting next to was a girl with sandy blonde hair and turquoise eyes. She was wearing the work out uniforms for jogging which was red and her hair was in a high ponytail with a red scrunchie.
Walking by, the girl gave her a friendly smile and whispered a, "Hi."
Serena smiled in return and acknowledged her back.
Once seated, Mr. Hallins began his lecture again. "Welcome to a new year in High School as seniors. You will respect the teachers, other students, and school property. We hope as the teachers, that you have a great time this year. Now then, where we left off last year. We will begin this year's social studies by studying traditions and cultures of fighting. Satan city is known for always holding the world tournament year round, so now that Mr. Satan, as you know our champion, lives here, it has become tradition in this city to always hold this competition. Now, Miss Satan, would you like to share some information on your father's fighting skills?"
Hearing her name called, Videll looked up from talking with her girlfriends. Smiling a sweet smile, she began bragging on her family's name. Everyone turned their attention to her. "Yes, Mr. Hallins, I'd be more then happy to share the fighting techniques of my family. My father has been the champion for three years running now and this will be his fourth year. As you know, my father will positively win unless I'm able to beat him because his fighting blood runs through me, so I will one day live to the title of the champion. My father and I work really hard with training and..."
Serena rolled her eyes. The world tournament information was neat and everything, but now that Videll is talking, she is just bragging like crazy.
Looking over to Gohan, she saw him look bored as hell. Smiling, she thought that he looked cute with his cheek propped up on his elbow and it looked like he was going to fall asleep any second now.
After an hour and forty-five minutes of the lessons of social studies, mostly about the heritage of the Satans, Serena tiredly got up from her seat as the bell rang.
When she was about to walk out of the classroom, she heard a voice call out.
"Wait!"
Turning around to see who it was, she saw the girl that was sitting next to her earlier. Stopping for her to catch up, the girl smiled gratefully.
"You dropped your pencil," the girl stated cheerfully as she handed Serena a blue shiny pencil with a cute furry flower like thing on the top.
"Thanks."
Silence hung over them as she followed Serena out the door. "So... how is school today so far? Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, my name is Ashley Thorns!" chirped the hyper girl.
Smiling at her antics, Serena was engaged in the conversation happily. "Nice to meet you Ashley. School was okay so far, but is it always like that? Like with Videll talking about nothing but her father and herself?"
A frown was beginning to etch its way onto her face. "No, not really. I know what you mean though. I used to be real good friends with her, but then she began dating Gohan Son. You know him, right? Well, anyway, she became to possessive after a while and Gohan decided to break it off. Honestly, I don't blame him. After that, well, Videll has been a big bitch with bragging and trying to flatter Gohan. Sorry to tell you though, the classes will be boring, especially if you have Videll in your class."
"Oh..." was all Serena was able to mumble as she thought over the new found information. *So that's why Videll stalks Gohan and Gohan doesn't like Videll. It makes sense, but why didn't he tell me?*
Coming back into focus, she was startled out of her thoughts when she saw a hand waving about two inches away from her face.
Sighing, Ashley announced, "It's about time you came back to focus, classes are about to start, come on!" Grabbing Serena's arm, she began to yank her towards the next class which they later found out they had together.
*This is going to be a long day* was all Serena thought as she allowed Ashley to drag her. *And just to know each period is an hour and forty-five minutes long*
Saturn, Pluto, and Galaxia
Stepping out of the golden portal, Pluto looked around at their surroundings. The ground was mainly consisted of hot sand and a jungle gym like forest was around them. There were trees with many vines and exotic flowers that amazed Pluto on how they could survive in this weather.
Behind Pluto, Saturn looked around as well. "Galaxia, are you sure this is the place?" she asked while shading her eyes from the scorching sun.
Fumbling a little, she began to mumble, "Um... well..."
Irritated, the princess of Pluto stomped her foot angrily. Pointing her finger accusingly at Galaxia, she began to shout, "You have gotten us lost seven times too many Galaxia! The first time we were lost in some dark woods, second time a cave, third time the rainforests, fourth time on a flooding island, fifth time close to an erupting volcano, sixth time in the desert, and now this?! I've had enough, are we close or lost?! Answer me!"
Shrinking back from the time guardian's rage, Galaxia began to twitch like a child. Softly, she began murmuring the answer. "We're not really lost, but then we're not really close either. I could only trace your princess in which universe she is in. So far we have visited seven of the planets, but there are more then a hundred in this universe, if we're lucky, we'll find her, so that's why we're taking so long."
Little Hotaru had her mouth agape at how many planets they would have to visit, while Pluto's eye brow was twitching. "Over a hundred planets?" she breathed out, a word at a time for trying to control herself.
Galaxia hid behind the just as worried/frightened firefly scout as well and nodded meekly in reply.
Sailor Galaxia or not, she would not want to see the wrath of the time scout, especially when the princess is just on the other side of the problem.
Trying to soothe her mother like friend, the youngest guardian of the princess hung limply onto Pluto's waist and looked up at her with her wide violet eyes. (You know that look that you give your parents. -_-, but it works! ^_^)
"Trista-mama, can we just stop fighting and look for Serena-mama?"
Sighing and rubbing her temples wearily, she softly whispered, "Sorry little firefly, but we have to find our princess soon."
Nodding solemnly in understanding, she changed the subject as they began to search around the land they stumbled upon to find any trace of their princess.
"Do you really think that the legendary soldier is Serena? Like, I'm not doubting our princess, but why would it happen now, why her? Cosmos is supposed to be in any blood line, why Lunarian's? Why is it Serena-mama, she already has enough to deal with."
"I don't know little one, I really don't know," confessed the time guardian.
Taking part in the conversation, Galaxia told them what she believed. "It is possible, no matter how slim. Serena is the light of hope and you know that doesn't come by for fifty millenniums, so why are you so suprised that Serena isn't Cosmos. She's the heart of outer space as it is, so maybe something triggered her powers of Cosmos that no one else was ever able to obtain."
Turning to stare at her blankly, Trista's dark maroon eyes bored into her. "You don't know some things Galaxia. Even though I may be older then you by a few decades, my great grandparents that were time guardians never got to see Queen Cosmos either. You're theory is well thought out, but you did not know that there once was another Cosmos before. Yes, she was legendary, because she was born when the entire dimensions of Cosmos were created, over several thousands of millenniums ago. She gained was beyond any thought of power and surpassed every beings' in that time ten fold. The beginning of her reign made her a wonderful ruler, creating planets and moons of such beauty and passion. But... she then was betrayed by some people unknown, probably her love and friends. She then loathed over herself and the love she created. Turning emotionless, she built up walls around herself. Eventually, it drove her mad for never having anyone to talk to since she long ago abandoned visiting the planets. No one knew of her whereabouts often, so no one could find the queen. She began to become greedy and created new planets for her own use of becoming the supreme ruler of more universes. After several millenniums of her destruction, the power that she held finally broke lose. Her essence became nothing more then dust and scattered around the many universes, creating new stars and planets. After that, no one else has been able to hold the power of Cosmos, much less obtain it."
"Oh..." was the only thing that Galaxia could say. With much thought, she continued, "Do you presume that if Serenity is Cosmos, then she'll become... destructive as well?"
Speaking up for her friend like mother, Saturn answered, "We're not sure. Anything could happen. The other scouts have betrayed her, so that's the loss, but then again, this is Serena we're talking about. We don't know anymore then you do Galaxia."
Sighing softly, she then prayed, "Then all we can hope for is the best for Serenity."
Gohan and Serena
Walking out of the brick building, Serena sighed in relief. "School is finally over!"
Gohan, who was walking next to her, smirked at her comment. "You really don't like school, do you?"
Sticking out her tongue, she inquired, "And you do?"
Gohan had a blank look on his face for a moment before he said thoughtfully, "No."
With that, they both broke down into laughter for really no reason at all.
They continued to walk along the side walk together, but then Serena decided to ask the question that had been bugging her today.
"Why didn't you tell me that Videll is your ex-girlfriend?"
Stiffening for a moment, he inquired, "How did you know?"
Shaking off the question, she just said, "Friend. Now why didn't you tell me?"
Not sure what to say, he was just about to answer when he saw a girl in a red jogging suit call out, "Hey Serena!"
*Saved by the call* he thought as she got side tracked and answered back.
"Hi Ashley, what are you doing?" she asked as she watched a bunch of other kids with her heading towards a training course with logs to jump over, a big wall to climb, running, monkey bars, a net to go over, a net to crawl under and more. It was like a real military camp's course.
Smiling slyly, she jerked her head off to the side facing the courses. "Oh nothing really, it's just that most of the kids practice for the world championship coming up. The boys keep on thinking that they could get in. Me on the other hand, I just do it for exercise, you want to help me show these boys what us gals could do?"
Grinning, Serena turned to Gohan. "Is it okay Gohan? Please?" she asked with the puppy face added for effect.
Seeing the trick, he wanted to smack himself for falling for it, because he was. Sighing, he stuffed his hands in his pockets and answered. "Sure, why not? We could train here then."
Pulling his book bag off of his back, he slung it onto a nearby bench. Clapping his hands together, he took a look around before saying, "Lets get started."
The two girls looked at him oddly. He ignored their looks and walked toward the open grass to do some stretches first.
Facing towards her, Ashley nearly shrieked, "You didn't tell me that you knew him personally! And oh my God, he's training you?!"
Smiling, Serena absently nodded before removing her book bag as well and taking off her fake glasses. Grabbing Ashley's hand, she pulled her along. While walking, Serena just so happen to ask, "Do you have a crush on him?"
Giggling to herself, Ashley sighed and smiled assuringly. "Not really Serena, you could say I do, then you could say I don't. I just like Gohan because he doesn't show off like the other boys. He's depended and loyal. That's what I'm looking for in men, but he's the only one I know in that category, but I know he's not for me. I'm still searching for my soulmate, so don't worry, he's all yours."
Not showing it, but Serena sighed in relief. "Nah, it's not that I like him or anything, I'm just wondering if you're interested in him like most of the girls are." After saying that, she felt a tug at her heart like her words were betraying her.
"Oh," muttered Ashley, but inside her mind, she got the feeling that match making was in the air. "Are you good at the courses, because they're pretty hard."
Brushing it off, Serena answered with a, "Nah, it's a piece of cake."
20 Minutes Later
"Are you sure this is a piece of cake Serena?" asked Ashley while panting. They hadn't began the course, but had instead started with warm up exercises.
Warm up exercises that included jogging for five miles in a fifteen minutes. That blew Serena away like crazy, three minutes to do one mile? They must really want to get into the competition.
Now, they were currently finishing their hundredth curl up. (I've done a hundred curl ups before, so don't go fantasizing the impossible, because it is, but running a mile per three minutes is another story. Don't ask!)
"...." was the only reply as she finished the count off. "100."
"Phew," muttered Ashley while wiping some sweat off her brow. Gohan had finished his warm ups long ago and was now onto 500 push ups with Serena's, Ashley's, and his book bags on his back. Each one weighed about ten pounds, but he didn't seem to be breaking a sweat.
Sitting up and taking the water that Ashley was handing her gratefully, she began to curse at her new form. *Eh, I hate this! This body is so much harder to keep in shape. I probably would be up to Gohan by now if I wasn't in this body!*
She rested for five minutes until Ashley nudged her in the ribs. "We have to do some push ups first before we start the course."
Serena groaned in reply, but did as told and they continued with push ups. Serena ended up doing thirty before doing some aerobic stretches while Ashley did fifty.
Sighing tiredly, Ashley asked, "You ready?" while kneeling at a line to have a race to the finish.
"Yep."
"Okay, ready, set, go!"
The two dashed off at the signal, but before they could even get five yards, a group of boys hurled themselves in the way while trying to catch a foot ball.
Coming to a halt, Ashley sighed exasperated and shouted, "Guys, we were racing!"
The group of ten came up and smirked. Sarcastically, the leader said, "Oh, I'm so sorry, I should watch where I'm going next time."
Serena looked at him, he dark brown hair that glinted in the light and dark torquise eyes. He was wearing a muscle blue T-shirt that showed off his muscles, but they didn't seem to be as big or hard as Gohan's along with black gym shorts. She could tell that he was the leader of the pack and proud of it, but he also seemed to have this jock stuck up attitude.
"And maybe you should watch your mouth as well Eric!" snapped Ashley.
"Well sorry missy. You two shouldn't be doing this course anyway, it'd be too hard for you," taunted Eric.
Ashley just stuck her nose in the air and made a, "Hmph," sound before dragging Serena to the starting line again.
"Who's that?" wondered Serena while taking a peek over her shoulder.
Not even bothering to look back, Ashley muttered, "Oh, that's Eric Rindalls. He used to be the big jock of the school until Gohan came along."
"Oh."
They once again got ready, fingers on the ground. Ashley called out the signal with a warning as well.
"Eric, get your gang out of the way or else we won't be afraid to run you over this time! And don't forget, I could beat you in this race! Okay Serena, ready, set, go!"
The duo took off with great agility. Finishing the run in thirty seconds, they were now onto the hurls. Neither one of them missed one from then, but then next came climbing over the logs. Both were still at a tie as they continued to climb over the, but then Ashley began to pull ahead. After finishing that course, they went on to the tires. Quickly stepping into each of them without tripping, they both pulled through, but Ashley was still ahead by four tires.
The boys on the side lines watched the race along with Gohan. When they saw that Ashley pulled ahead, they hooted and whistled, "Go Ashley!"
As Gohan watched the race with no comment, he silently thought, *Come on Serena, you could do it, I know you can. Why are you holding back?* he wondered as he watched her purposely slow down a bit. Soon he realized that she was saving her energy while Ashley put all her effort in the beggining. *Smart*
The monkey bars came up next and even though Ashley was slowing, she was still faster from experience in this race. Ashley went straight through each and every bar without stalling once.
Serena looked at the bars with horror, she hated the monkey bars, especially since there were about twenty of them to cross. Swinging across as well, she did differently then Ashley. Instead, she held on to every other monkey bar whereas Ashley did every single one.
Jumping off, they both raced up to the wall that they were to climb. Ashley quickly strapped herself in while Serena had some problems with it, but nevertheless, go it. Climbing up, Serena followed Ashley and swung down of the rope to the ground, making sure not to fall in the mud puddle.
Ashley was constantly gasping for air while Serena paced her breathing, but they were still in short gasps.
Next came the net that they were supposed to climb under. Ashley started out first and got on her hands and knees before pushing herself forwards.
Serena followed suit and both finished after a minute or two. Serena was lucky that she had some experience in this from the past, or else she's know for sure that Ashley would leave her in the dust.
Serena looked ahead and saw that there was nothing left but a straight half a mile run and a six foot wire fence right before the finish line.
Serena then began to put more effort into running, going at full speed. Ashley was one-fourth of a mile ahead of her, so she'd have to do some serious running, and if she used her powers of her own or of what Gohan taught her, it would be cheating, so she's on her own.
Ashley was tired, but she wasn't slowing. *One fourth of a mile left* was her only thought. Taking a chance to look back, she saw that Serena was pretty far behind, but gaining, so she pushed her efforts.
"Whoa. Do you know anyone that could run that fast?" asked one of the football players when he saw how fast Serena was running.
Looking at her and then back to Ashley, Eric answered, "No, but I'm still betting that Ashley won't lose. Her best part of the course is the fence which is coming up, no matter how fast that girl is, she won't beat Ashley."
Looking at him oddly, the boy inquired, "Yeah, but she has a chance. For some reason, I doubt that she'll lose."
"That's what you think," was the only reply.
Gohan listened in to the conversation. True, Ashley was supposed to be best at the fence, that's known through out the school. Sighing, Gohan thought, *If she doesn't fly, then she doesn't stand a chance against Ashley. Then again, Serena wouldn't cheat. Oh well, something drastic will have to happen for her to win, I guess that I should just hope for the best*
The distance between them lessened until they were both neck to neck. It was so far a tight race, and many people knew who would win, but were they right?
Ashley heard footsteps beside her and turned her head to see Serena. She was amazed that she was able to catch up, but smirked, seeing the wall come up.
Serena paid no heed when she saw her new friend turn towards her. It was odd, one minute they were the best of friends, and now they were racing each other like enemies.
Ashley made a final attempt and let lose a bunch of energy that she was saving just for this, pulling ahead by about ten yards.
Serena saw how Ashley had pulled ahead and saw the fence. Ashley was already climbing over it and there was only a couple feet left to the finish line where a crowd was waiting.
"Ashley won," announced Eric once he saw Ashley pull ahead once again while turning away from the race.
"Yeah, I guess you're righ- Holy smokes, look at that!" shouted the other boy.
Quickly, Eric did a 180 degrees turn and looked just in time to see the jump.
Ashley had just jumped off of the fence and was on a run. Serena then ran faster then ever and ran up the fence half way before doing a flip. She reached the fence and grabbed it with one hand while she was about to land right over the fence, but instead propelled herself forward even more with a push of her hand. One foot kicked against the other as she was on a side ways twirl, making her entire figure spin horizontally.
She went high in the air and was coming down, down, down.
The crowd screamed, "Come on!" while others like Eric and Gohan watched quietly.
Ashley watched amazed as she twirled over her head. She came down and landed legs straight right after the finish line. Ashley running through a second later.
Huffing and puffing, both girls breathed tiredly while the students patted them on the back.
"How the hell did you do that?!" huffed out Ashley once she was able to control her breathing a little more.
"Practice," replied Serena as she wiped off some of the sweat on her forehead.
Laughing, Ashley looped an arm around Serena's neck and congratulated, "Great race, no one that I know of has been able to beat me in this except for Videll."
"Thanks, " mumbled Serena as she watched Gohan approach them.
"Good job," he complimented.
She just smiled in return. The crowd around them then slowly parted as Eric and his gang came up.
For some odd reason, Eric seemed to be smiling at her. "Great job rookie, I was wondering, would you like to go to the Valentine's dance with me?"
The crowd quieted down for the answer. Serena looked nervous as she took a peek at Gohan. She was already going to the dance with him, and she wasn't going to desert him, so... "I'm sorry Eric, but I can't. I'm already going with Gohan."
He looked disappointed for a moment before a grin was seen on his face again. "You're just going to the dance with him, right?"
"Uh... yeah," she answered cautiously.
"So he's not your boyfriend?"
"Uh... no..." she answered, wondering where this was getting at.
"Okay then, Serena, you're name is Serena, right? Will you be my girlfriend?"
Serena's breath was caught in her throat. She started panicking, this was not what she was expecting. *Yeah, I'm going to the dance with Gohan, but we're not really together, are we? And I don't want to hurt Gohan, but I don't want to hurt Eric either. What am I going to do?!*
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I love cliffies, don't you? I had no clue where to end it, but I just decided to end it here, I hope that no one is losing interest in my story. I'm also dearly sorry that this was posted so much later then I wanted it to be, but hey, it's longer, ain't it? I'm just going to say this, the next chapter that I have to get out this month as well won't be as long as this. It's probably be kind of shorter because I have school again.
Anyway, I also have an assignment that yes, it is a school assignment, but you guys could do it too. This is optional, you don't have to do it, but I suggest you do, because this would help all the people out there.
Operation Eduring Gratitude
Okay, in school, my teachers have assigned an assignment where you have to write a letter to one of the United Forces that are protecting us since September 11th. You will have to have a greeting in it, and the letter has to be at the least two paragraphs long. You should write about how grateful you are for them protecting us because most of them were called away suddenly on the day of 9/11 and have yet to return to their families. They are lonely right now and miss their family I'm sure, so the U.S.A government has asked for schools to do this program. The government is going to pick up the letters at a certain time, so I hope that you could write the letter and send it to me by October at the latest. I have to get them into school. As I said, you don't have to do this, but it would be real kind of you. I'm writing about ten letters myself.
They will be sent, it isn't just a jab and even thought it won't be that likely, you might get a reply from your letter. Don't think that it'll be an immediate reply, but it will take months to most likely get one. They will be sent to real soldier; men and women of the army, so please, try writing one. Not everyone will get a reply, and if you do, then I will post the reply on the chapter that would be coming out. You are to not write your full name, just your first name and please send it to me in a review or by mail at Serenity0108@aol.com
I hope that you will try this and write one for me to send. If you do plan on writing one, you could also write an e-mail to the soldiers. Know this though, if you send it to the soldiers by mail, you will not get a real reply back, just a thank you note. Here is the e-mail address if you wish to send a letter yourself online: OPERATIONENDURINGGRATITUDE@ct.ngb.army.mil
If you wish to find out more, please leave your e-mail in a review and let me know by saying you wish to participate in Operation Eduring Gratitude. That is the real title of it. I will send you the format for it. So weather you understand it or not, please let me know. You will have to make sure there are no spelling errors or grammar problems, so send it to me to edit it you wish or a parent, but please, two paragraphs or longer and no mistakes!
This means a lot to me, so thanks! You have to send them to me to let me check them and give you info! -Lady Artemis
Arigauto minna for your understanding and cooperation. So here is, Chapter 12! Drum roll please. Anyway, I noticed that there isn't a lot of romance in this, so I'm going to add some things that would get them closer, and hopefully the love will blossom. But there has to be something in the way, yeah, I'm evil sometimes, but that's the fun in life. Okay, I'm really not sure about the Queen Cosmos letter in here since I only have a week to write this. Not enough time if you ask me. Okay, now on with the fic!
Dedication: I would like to dedicate this fic to all those who have supported me and reviewed this story, it really helps! ^-^ Also to the people who had friends and family that tragically died in the twin towers or the pentagon. May God bless you.
Disclaimers Apply
Note: Sorry to all those fans that actually like my type of writing for Dragonball Z/Sailor Moon crossover fics, but this will be my first and last one written of this category. Unless I just so happen to be persuaded, I'm not sure whether or not I'm writing another one.
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Serena held her breath as she stood outside of the doorway. The teacher had her wait outside so that he could introduce her once she came in.
Gohan had already entered class with one final look. Tell you the truth, she did not appreciate being alone now.
Partly because of the fact that she was going to be in classes with people that are old then her... well maybe not unless you're over ten decades old. But then she is considered seventeen here and most of the seniors here are eighteen.
Since she had been studying like hell, literally with Chichi behind her back, she was allowed to go into the same grade as Gohan, under some persuasion of course.
Snapping out of her thoughts, she grew nervous as she continued to wring her hands as the door slowly opened, too slow for her.
The face of a man in his mid thirties poked out. He had brownish gray hair and was wearing a business suit almost, just not as tidy or expensive.
Stepping out, the new teacher introduced himself as Mr. Hallins. With a warm welcome, Mr. Hallins assuringly put an arm around her neck and led her into the classroom.
*So maybe school won't be that bad* she thought, but once she entered, she changed her mind.
To say the least, she did not appreciate people staring at her like she was some kind of experiment and then go whispering around with their friends, probably thinking that she was a geek since she decided at the last second to put her glasses back on. So what? She didn't make a good impression in looks much, but it's not looks that counts, it's what is inside that does.
Standing in front of the classroom, she began to introduce herself. "Hello, my name is Serena Moon and I hope to make new friends during this school year."
No one spoke, but that didn't really faze her. Speaking in front of several crowds, by far larger then this as queen was a lot more difficult.
Skimming over all the students in the classroom which she counted up to about forty or fifty, she saw Gohan in a middle row. Giving him a small smile, he winked in return, making her blush a pale pink.
After the small introduction was made, Mr. Hallins coughed to get everyone's attention. "Okay, now Serena, where she we put you?" he wondered while looking for an empty seat. Seeing one in the back, he pointed to it and requested for Serena to sit there which Serena obligated.
Striding up the stairs since the desk were in half circles and on different floor levels of platforms, she ignored every girl that would point at her then snicker to themselves.
Going to the appointed desk, she noticed that she was at the very end of the row and the person she was sitting next to was a girl with sandy blonde hair and turquoise eyes. She was wearing the work out uniforms for jogging which was red and her hair was in a high ponytail with a red scrunchie.
Walking by, the girl gave her a friendly smile and whispered a, "Hi."
Serena smiled in return and acknowledged her back.
Once seated, Mr. Hallins began his lecture again. "Welcome to a new year in High School as seniors. You will respect the teachers, other students, and school property. We hope as the teachers, that you have a great time this year. Now then, where we left off last year. We will begin this year's social studies by studying traditions and cultures of fighting. Satan city is known for always holding the world tournament year round, so now that Mr. Satan, as you know our champion, lives here, it has become tradition in this city to always hold this competition. Now, Miss Satan, would you like to share some information on your father's fighting skills?"
Hearing her name called, Videll looked up from talking with her girlfriends. Smiling a sweet smile, she began bragging on her family's name. Everyone turned their attention to her. "Yes, Mr. Hallins, I'd be more then happy to share the fighting techniques of my family. My father has been the champion for three years running now and this will be his fourth year. As you know, my father will positively win unless I'm able to beat him because his fighting blood runs through me, so I will one day live to the title of the champion. My father and I work really hard with training and..."
Serena rolled her eyes. The world tournament information was neat and everything, but now that Videll is talking, she is just bragging like crazy.
Looking over to Gohan, she saw him look bored as hell. Smiling, she thought that he looked cute with his cheek propped up on his elbow and it looked like he was going to fall asleep any second now.
After an hour and forty-five minutes of the lessons of social studies, mostly about the heritage of the Satans, Serena tiredly got up from her seat as the bell rang.
When she was about to walk out of the classroom, she heard a voice call out.
"Wait!"
Turning around to see who it was, she saw the girl that was sitting next to her earlier. Stopping for her to catch up, the girl smiled gratefully.
"You dropped your pencil," the girl stated cheerfully as she handed Serena a blue shiny pencil with a cute furry flower like thing on the top.
"Thanks."
Silence hung over them as she followed Serena out the door. "So... how is school today so far? Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, my name is Ashley Thorns!" chirped the hyper girl.
Smiling at her antics, Serena was engaged in the conversation happily. "Nice to meet you Ashley. School was okay so far, but is it always like that? Like with Videll talking about nothing but her father and herself?"
A frown was beginning to etch its way onto her face. "No, not really. I know what you mean though. I used to be real good friends with her, but then she began dating Gohan Son. You know him, right? Well, anyway, she became to possessive after a while and Gohan decided to break it off. Honestly, I don't blame him. After that, well, Videll has been a big bitch with bragging and trying to flatter Gohan. Sorry to tell you though, the classes will be boring, especially if you have Videll in your class."
"Oh..." was all Serena was able to mumble as she thought over the new found information. *So that's why Videll stalks Gohan and Gohan doesn't like Videll. It makes sense, but why didn't he tell me?*
Coming back into focus, she was startled out of her thoughts when she saw a hand waving about two inches away from her face.
Sighing, Ashley announced, "It's about time you came back to focus, classes are about to start, come on!" Grabbing Serena's arm, she began to yank her towards the next class which they later found out they had together.
*This is going to be a long day* was all Serena thought as she allowed Ashley to drag her. *And just to know each period is an hour and forty-five minutes long*
Saturn, Pluto, and Galaxia
Stepping out of the golden portal, Pluto looked around at their surroundings. The ground was mainly consisted of hot sand and a jungle gym like forest was around them. There were trees with many vines and exotic flowers that amazed Pluto on how they could survive in this weather.
Behind Pluto, Saturn looked around as well. "Galaxia, are you sure this is the place?" she asked while shading her eyes from the scorching sun.
Fumbling a little, she began to mumble, "Um... well..."
Irritated, the princess of Pluto stomped her foot angrily. Pointing her finger accusingly at Galaxia, she began to shout, "You have gotten us lost seven times too many Galaxia! The first time we were lost in some dark woods, second time a cave, third time the rainforests, fourth time on a flooding island, fifth time close to an erupting volcano, sixth time in the desert, and now this?! I've had enough, are we close or lost?! Answer me!"
Shrinking back from the time guardian's rage, Galaxia began to twitch like a child. Softly, she began murmuring the answer. "We're not really lost, but then we're not really close either. I could only trace your princess in which universe she is in. So far we have visited seven of the planets, but there are more then a hundred in this universe, if we're lucky, we'll find her, so that's why we're taking so long."
Little Hotaru had her mouth agape at how many planets they would have to visit, while Pluto's eye brow was twitching. "Over a hundred planets?" she breathed out, a word at a time for trying to control herself.
Galaxia hid behind the just as worried/frightened firefly scout as well and nodded meekly in reply.
Sailor Galaxia or not, she would not want to see the wrath of the time scout, especially when the princess is just on the other side of the problem.
Trying to soothe her mother like friend, the youngest guardian of the princess hung limply onto Pluto's waist and looked up at her with her wide violet eyes. (You know that look that you give your parents. -_-, but it works! ^_^)
"Trista-mama, can we just stop fighting and look for Serena-mama?"
Sighing and rubbing her temples wearily, she softly whispered, "Sorry little firefly, but we have to find our princess soon."
Nodding solemnly in understanding, she changed the subject as they began to search around the land they stumbled upon to find any trace of their princess.
"Do you really think that the legendary soldier is Serena? Like, I'm not doubting our princess, but why would it happen now, why her? Cosmos is supposed to be in any blood line, why Lunarian's? Why is it Serena-mama, she already has enough to deal with."
"I don't know little one, I really don't know," confessed the time guardian.
Taking part in the conversation, Galaxia told them what she believed. "It is possible, no matter how slim. Serena is the light of hope and you know that doesn't come by for fifty millenniums, so why are you so suprised that Serena isn't Cosmos. She's the heart of outer space as it is, so maybe something triggered her powers of Cosmos that no one else was ever able to obtain."
Turning to stare at her blankly, Trista's dark maroon eyes bored into her. "You don't know some things Galaxia. Even though I may be older then you by a few decades, my great grandparents that were time guardians never got to see Queen Cosmos either. You're theory is well thought out, but you did not know that there once was another Cosmos before. Yes, she was legendary, because she was born when the entire dimensions of Cosmos were created, over several thousands of millenniums ago. She gained was beyond any thought of power and surpassed every beings' in that time ten fold. The beginning of her reign made her a wonderful ruler, creating planets and moons of such beauty and passion. But... she then was betrayed by some people unknown, probably her love and friends. She then loathed over herself and the love she created. Turning emotionless, she built up walls around herself. Eventually, it drove her mad for never having anyone to talk to since she long ago abandoned visiting the planets. No one knew of her whereabouts often, so no one could find the queen. She began to become greedy and created new planets for her own use of becoming the supreme ruler of more universes. After several millenniums of her destruction, the power that she held finally broke lose. Her essence became nothing more then dust and scattered around the many universes, creating new stars and planets. After that, no one else has been able to hold the power of Cosmos, much less obtain it."
"Oh..." was the only thing that Galaxia could say. With much thought, she continued, "Do you presume that if Serenity is Cosmos, then she'll become... destructive as well?"
Speaking up for her friend like mother, Saturn answered, "We're not sure. Anything could happen. The other scouts have betrayed her, so that's the loss, but then again, this is Serena we're talking about. We don't know anymore then you do Galaxia."
Sighing softly, she then prayed, "Then all we can hope for is the best for Serenity."
Gohan and Serena
Walking out of the brick building, Serena sighed in relief. "School is finally over!"
Gohan, who was walking next to her, smirked at her comment. "You really don't like school, do you?"
Sticking out her tongue, she inquired, "And you do?"
Gohan had a blank look on his face for a moment before he said thoughtfully, "No."
With that, they both broke down into laughter for really no reason at all.
They continued to walk along the side walk together, but then Serena decided to ask the question that had been bugging her today.
"Why didn't you tell me that Videll is your ex-girlfriend?"
Stiffening for a moment, he inquired, "How did you know?"
Shaking off the question, she just said, "Friend. Now why didn't you tell me?"
Not sure what to say, he was just about to answer when he saw a girl in a red jogging suit call out, "Hey Serena!"
*Saved by the call* he thought as she got side tracked and answered back.
"Hi Ashley, what are you doing?" she asked as she watched a bunch of other kids with her heading towards a training course with logs to jump over, a big wall to climb, running, monkey bars, a net to go over, a net to crawl under and more. It was like a real military camp's course.
Smiling slyly, she jerked her head off to the side facing the courses. "Oh nothing really, it's just that most of the kids practice for the world championship coming up. The boys keep on thinking that they could get in. Me on the other hand, I just do it for exercise, you want to help me show these boys what us gals could do?"
Grinning, Serena turned to Gohan. "Is it okay Gohan? Please?" she asked with the puppy face added for effect.
Seeing the trick, he wanted to smack himself for falling for it, because he was. Sighing, he stuffed his hands in his pockets and answered. "Sure, why not? We could train here then."
Pulling his book bag off of his back, he slung it onto a nearby bench. Clapping his hands together, he took a look around before saying, "Lets get started."
The two girls looked at him oddly. He ignored their looks and walked toward the open grass to do some stretches first.
Facing towards her, Ashley nearly shrieked, "You didn't tell me that you knew him personally! And oh my God, he's training you?!"
Smiling, Serena absently nodded before removing her book bag as well and taking off her fake glasses. Grabbing Ashley's hand, she pulled her along. While walking, Serena just so happen to ask, "Do you have a crush on him?"
Giggling to herself, Ashley sighed and smiled assuringly. "Not really Serena, you could say I do, then you could say I don't. I just like Gohan because he doesn't show off like the other boys. He's depended and loyal. That's what I'm looking for in men, but he's the only one I know in that category, but I know he's not for me. I'm still searching for my soulmate, so don't worry, he's all yours."
Not showing it, but Serena sighed in relief. "Nah, it's not that I like him or anything, I'm just wondering if you're interested in him like most of the girls are." After saying that, she felt a tug at her heart like her words were betraying her.
"Oh," muttered Ashley, but inside her mind, she got the feeling that match making was in the air. "Are you good at the courses, because they're pretty hard."
Brushing it off, Serena answered with a, "Nah, it's a piece of cake."
20 Minutes Later
"Are you sure this is a piece of cake Serena?" asked Ashley while panting. They hadn't began the course, but had instead started with warm up exercises.
Warm up exercises that included jogging for five miles in a fifteen minutes. That blew Serena away like crazy, three minutes to do one mile? They must really want to get into the competition.
Now, they were currently finishing their hundredth curl up. (I've done a hundred curl ups before, so don't go fantasizing the impossible, because it is, but running a mile per three minutes is another story. Don't ask!)
"...." was the only reply as she finished the count off. "100."
"Phew," muttered Ashley while wiping some sweat off her brow. Gohan had finished his warm ups long ago and was now onto 500 push ups with Serena's, Ashley's, and his book bags on his back. Each one weighed about ten pounds, but he didn't seem to be breaking a sweat.
Sitting up and taking the water that Ashley was handing her gratefully, she began to curse at her new form. *Eh, I hate this! This body is so much harder to keep in shape. I probably would be up to Gohan by now if I wasn't in this body!*
She rested for five minutes until Ashley nudged her in the ribs. "We have to do some push ups first before we start the course."
Serena groaned in reply, but did as told and they continued with push ups. Serena ended up doing thirty before doing some aerobic stretches while Ashley did fifty.
Sighing tiredly, Ashley asked, "You ready?" while kneeling at a line to have a race to the finish.
"Yep."
"Okay, ready, set, go!"
The two dashed off at the signal, but before they could even get five yards, a group of boys hurled themselves in the way while trying to catch a foot ball.
Coming to a halt, Ashley sighed exasperated and shouted, "Guys, we were racing!"
The group of ten came up and smirked. Sarcastically, the leader said, "Oh, I'm so sorry, I should watch where I'm going next time."
Serena looked at him, he dark brown hair that glinted in the light and dark torquise eyes. He was wearing a muscle blue T-shirt that showed off his muscles, but they didn't seem to be as big or hard as Gohan's along with black gym shorts. She could tell that he was the leader of the pack and proud of it, but he also seemed to have this jock stuck up attitude.
"And maybe you should watch your mouth as well Eric!" snapped Ashley.
"Well sorry missy. You two shouldn't be doing this course anyway, it'd be too hard for you," taunted Eric.
Ashley just stuck her nose in the air and made a, "Hmph," sound before dragging Serena to the starting line again.
"Who's that?" wondered Serena while taking a peek over her shoulder.
Not even bothering to look back, Ashley muttered, "Oh, that's Eric Rindalls. He used to be the big jock of the school until Gohan came along."
"Oh."
They once again got ready, fingers on the ground. Ashley called out the signal with a warning as well.
"Eric, get your gang out of the way or else we won't be afraid to run you over this time! And don't forget, I could beat you in this race! Okay Serena, ready, set, go!"
The duo took off with great agility. Finishing the run in thirty seconds, they were now onto the hurls. Neither one of them missed one from then, but then next came climbing over the logs. Both were still at a tie as they continued to climb over the, but then Ashley began to pull ahead. After finishing that course, they went on to the tires. Quickly stepping into each of them without tripping, they both pulled through, but Ashley was still ahead by four tires.
The boys on the side lines watched the race along with Gohan. When they saw that Ashley pulled ahead, they hooted and whistled, "Go Ashley!"
As Gohan watched the race with no comment, he silently thought, *Come on Serena, you could do it, I know you can. Why are you holding back?* he wondered as he watched her purposely slow down a bit. Soon he realized that she was saving her energy while Ashley put all her effort in the beggining. *Smart*
The monkey bars came up next and even though Ashley was slowing, she was still faster from experience in this race. Ashley went straight through each and every bar without stalling once.
Serena looked at the bars with horror, she hated the monkey bars, especially since there were about twenty of them to cross. Swinging across as well, she did differently then Ashley. Instead, she held on to every other monkey bar whereas Ashley did every single one.
Jumping off, they both raced up to the wall that they were to climb. Ashley quickly strapped herself in while Serena had some problems with it, but nevertheless, go it. Climbing up, Serena followed Ashley and swung down of the rope to the ground, making sure not to fall in the mud puddle.
Ashley was constantly gasping for air while Serena paced her breathing, but they were still in short gasps.
Next came the net that they were supposed to climb under. Ashley started out first and got on her hands and knees before pushing herself forwards.
Serena followed suit and both finished after a minute or two. Serena was lucky that she had some experience in this from the past, or else she's know for sure that Ashley would leave her in the dust.
Serena looked ahead and saw that there was nothing left but a straight half a mile run and a six foot wire fence right before the finish line.
Serena then began to put more effort into running, going at full speed. Ashley was one-fourth of a mile ahead of her, so she'd have to do some serious running, and if she used her powers of her own or of what Gohan taught her, it would be cheating, so she's on her own.
Ashley was tired, but she wasn't slowing. *One fourth of a mile left* was her only thought. Taking a chance to look back, she saw that Serena was pretty far behind, but gaining, so she pushed her efforts.
"Whoa. Do you know anyone that could run that fast?" asked one of the football players when he saw how fast Serena was running.
Looking at her and then back to Ashley, Eric answered, "No, but I'm still betting that Ashley won't lose. Her best part of the course is the fence which is coming up, no matter how fast that girl is, she won't beat Ashley."
Looking at him oddly, the boy inquired, "Yeah, but she has a chance. For some reason, I doubt that she'll lose."
"That's what you think," was the only reply.
Gohan listened in to the conversation. True, Ashley was supposed to be best at the fence, that's known through out the school. Sighing, Gohan thought, *If she doesn't fly, then she doesn't stand a chance against Ashley. Then again, Serena wouldn't cheat. Oh well, something drastic will have to happen for her to win, I guess that I should just hope for the best*
The distance between them lessened until they were both neck to neck. It was so far a tight race, and many people knew who would win, but were they right?
Ashley heard footsteps beside her and turned her head to see Serena. She was amazed that she was able to catch up, but smirked, seeing the wall come up.
Serena paid no heed when she saw her new friend turn towards her. It was odd, one minute they were the best of friends, and now they were racing each other like enemies.
Ashley made a final attempt and let lose a bunch of energy that she was saving just for this, pulling ahead by about ten yards.
Serena saw how Ashley had pulled ahead and saw the fence. Ashley was already climbing over it and there was only a couple feet left to the finish line where a crowd was waiting.
"Ashley won," announced Eric once he saw Ashley pull ahead once again while turning away from the race.
"Yeah, I guess you're righ- Holy smokes, look at that!" shouted the other boy.
Quickly, Eric did a 180 degrees turn and looked just in time to see the jump.
Ashley had just jumped off of the fence and was on a run. Serena then ran faster then ever and ran up the fence half way before doing a flip. She reached the fence and grabbed it with one hand while she was about to land right over the fence, but instead propelled herself forward even more with a push of her hand. One foot kicked against the other as she was on a side ways twirl, making her entire figure spin horizontally.
She went high in the air and was coming down, down, down.
The crowd screamed, "Come on!" while others like Eric and Gohan watched quietly.
Ashley watched amazed as she twirled over her head. She came down and landed legs straight right after the finish line. Ashley running through a second later.
Huffing and puffing, both girls breathed tiredly while the students patted them on the back.
"How the hell did you do that?!" huffed out Ashley once she was able to control her breathing a little more.
"Practice," replied Serena as she wiped off some of the sweat on her forehead.
Laughing, Ashley looped an arm around Serena's neck and congratulated, "Great race, no one that I know of has been able to beat me in this except for Videll."
"Thanks, " mumbled Serena as she watched Gohan approach them.
"Good job," he complimented.
She just smiled in return. The crowd around them then slowly parted as Eric and his gang came up.
For some odd reason, Eric seemed to be smiling at her. "Great job rookie, I was wondering, would you like to go to the Valentine's dance with me?"
The crowd quieted down for the answer. Serena looked nervous as she took a peek at Gohan. She was already going to the dance with him, and she wasn't going to desert him, so... "I'm sorry Eric, but I can't. I'm already going with Gohan."
He looked disappointed for a moment before a grin was seen on his face again. "You're just going to the dance with him, right?"
"Uh... yeah," she answered cautiously.
"So he's not your boyfriend?"
"Uh... no..." she answered, wondering where this was getting at.
"Okay then, Serena, you're name is Serena, right? Will you be my girlfriend?"
Serena's breath was caught in her throat. She started panicking, this was not what she was expecting. *Yeah, I'm going to the dance with Gohan, but we're not really together, are we? And I don't want to hurt Gohan, but I don't want to hurt Eric either. What am I going to do?!*
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I love cliffies, don't you? I had no clue where to end it, but I just decided to end it here, I hope that no one is losing interest in my story. I'm also dearly sorry that this was posted so much later then I wanted it to be, but hey, it's longer, ain't it? I'm just going to say this, the next chapter that I have to get out this month as well won't be as long as this. It's probably be kind of shorter because I have school again.
Anyway, I also have an assignment that yes, it is a school assignment, but you guys could do it too. This is optional, you don't have to do it, but I suggest you do, because this would help all the people out there.
Operation Eduring Gratitude
Okay, in school, my teachers have assigned an assignment where you have to write a letter to one of the United Forces that are protecting us since September 11th. You will have to have a greeting in it, and the letter has to be at the least two paragraphs long. You should write about how grateful you are for them protecting us because most of them were called away suddenly on the day of 9/11 and have yet to return to their families. They are lonely right now and miss their family I'm sure, so the U.S.A government has asked for schools to do this program. The government is going to pick up the letters at a certain time, so I hope that you could write the letter and send it to me by October at the latest. I have to get them into school. As I said, you don't have to do this, but it would be real kind of you. I'm writing about ten letters myself.
They will be sent, it isn't just a jab and even thought it won't be that likely, you might get a reply from your letter. Don't think that it'll be an immediate reply, but it will take months to most likely get one. They will be sent to real soldier; men and women of the army, so please, try writing one. Not everyone will get a reply, and if you do, then I will post the reply on the chapter that would be coming out. You are to not write your full name, just your first name and please send it to me in a review or by mail at Serenity0108@aol.com
I hope that you will try this and write one for me to send. If you do plan on writing one, you could also write an e-mail to the soldiers. Know this though, if you send it to the soldiers by mail, you will not get a real reply back, just a thank you note. Here is the e-mail address if you wish to send a letter yourself online: OPERATIONENDURINGGRATITUDE@ct.ngb.army.mil
If you wish to find out more, please leave your e-mail in a review and let me know by saying you wish to participate in Operation Eduring Gratitude. That is the real title of it. I will send you the format for it. So weather you understand it or not, please let me know. You will have to make sure there are no spelling errors or grammar problems, so send it to me to edit it you wish or a parent, but please, two paragraphs or longer and no mistakes!
This means a lot to me, so thanks! You have to send them to me to let me check them and give you info! -Lady Artemis
