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Okay, so I have decided I'm going to start replying to your reviews, so here are the replies from chapter six:
Jay: Thanks Jay! I love all your suggestions, they make it easier to write, and they usually all fit in well with my story's plot. I think you'd be a great person to turn to for advice for writer's block; you're full of wonderful ideas! Although some of them are harder to write for than the others…lets just say you really got me thinking this chapter! I was really considering putting in Goku…but I couldn't decide how to write it! So I may bring it in later. I hope you like what I've written for this chapter!
miko no tsuki: Mmm that's not a bad idea, but I've already decided how Usa is going to get her magic back. But you never know…I may change my mind. I hope it's not too long before all the real action starts.
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CosmosAngel1: Okies, I'm trying my best…I get carried away when I write and try to describe everything to it's best…and then it usually takes up time and then…well you get the picture! But I think after this chapter I really will start to move things along. I added in some Gohan here for you! Hope you like!
Forever, For Always, For You
Author: Xolani
Chapter seven: The reality of a Dream
"Speaking" 'Thinking'Reading/writingsetting change POV [A/N]
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Trunk's Dream
In the very centre of a brightly green painted bedroom, a young girl sat cross legged on the floor, watching her plastic kitchen set with a sparkle in her emerald eyes. The girl, Trunks noticed was about four or five years old with brown hair reaching just up to her shoulders when tied up in it's high ponytail. A few moments later, when she finally stood up and approached her plastic kitchen set, she proved to be just taller than Trunks in her flowered green pyjamas.
Grabbing the kettle off the plastic stove she placed three cups in front of her and pretended to pour three cups of tea. She then got three bowls from the cupboard beside the sink and three spoons. Next she grabbed the pot also from the stove and pretended to dish out a lovely meal for three. Smiling brightly at her success she carried each of the three bowls and cups to a round plastic table with two dolls seated around it.
"Ok, here we go, it's finished!" She announced to her dolls proudly.
Suddenly, Trunks felt a chill go down his spine as the colourful world of the girl's room began to dissolve into blackness. Soon, there was nothing but black everywhere he looked. Black walls, Black floor, Black roof, Black everything. The atmosphere was cold and tense, giving him a frightened feeling in the pit of his stomach. He noticed the girl hadn't dissolved with her room, but she too was looking around wildly with a frightened expression creasing her face.
"Trunks?" A small voice whimpered behind him, "What's happening?"
Trunks looked around suddenly to find the small figure of Usagi crouching low to the black floor. He wasted no time in rushing over to her, glad he wasn't completely alone.
"What are you doing in my dream?" He asked her surprised as she clung another him.
She shook her head as he pulled her up off the ground, "I don't know…"
A scream echoed through the walless room, demanding Trunks' attention at once. An energy ball made up of dark energy had been thrown directly at the small girl, missing her by inches. She stared into the darkness with her horror creased expression. "W-Who are you?"
An evil smirk crawled over the figure's face, unknown to the girl before him because he was sure his face was hidden in the shadows, "Don't you remember me, Makoto?"
"H-How d-do you know…?" The girl identified as Makoto could hardly find her voice and trailed off at the obvious question.
"Damn that senshi of time!" He growled through barred teeth, "She's gone and screwed everything up! You're not even supposed to be alive! How am I meant to get anything out of you if she's gone and erased all of your memories?!"
The man's voice sent chills straight down Trunks' spine, making the few hairs on the back of his neck stand on end. He felt Usagi suddenly cling tighter to him, attempting to burry her head in his staking arm.
"I don't understand." Makoto whispered fearfully to the man.
"Of course you don't! Because the time senshi has screwed it all up! That's why you don't damn well understand! You died and Cosmos was born! You shouldn't even be here!" He roared in fury, not caring if he scared the girl to death or not. "Tell me, Little Makoto…do you remember the Tsuki no hime?"
"Tsuki no hime?" Makoto repeated, almost sure she'd never heard of it before. She shook her head in answer.
"I don't believe you…" He hissed suddenly, taking a step forwards. "You're not fooling me that easily. I'm giving you one last chance to stop this game and to tell me where Setsuna Meioh has hidden the Tsuki no hime!"
Makoto took a hasty step backwards; this was getting a little too scary for her likes, "I really don't know!" her vision was becoming a blur as she felt tears well up in her emerald orbs.
"You're lying!" He bellowed in fury, "There are still other guardian senshi out there Makoto, if you don't tell me I'm sure one of them will! It's just a shame I have to kill you because of your stubbornness…oh well…goodbye Sailor Jupiter!" With a gleaming smile he threw his fist that had been taken over by another ball of dark energy straight through the petit girl's fragile body.
She screamed in agony as tears fell quickly down her face and she was hit with the energy ball. She looked at the damage done to her body in horror. Her once beautiful green pyjamas were now drenched in crimson as the man removed his fist from her body. She slumped to the floor, eyes wide open in shock. The cackling filled with evil exploded from Chaos' mouth as the girl fell to his feet.
"And just to be sure," He whispered to the limp body that was now also coughing up blood "I'll take your star seed with me." Bending down he slowly removed the star seed from her body, causing her to scream out more, if possible, before he removed his hand and her head titled to one side.
Back to reality
"Trunks!" Bulma cried grabbing her son and embracing him tightly. "Oh my poor baby…" she whispered.
Trunks could feel the sweat dripping down his forehead; his body was sticking to the sheets of his bed. He had been so scared. It had been so scary. That poor girl…who was that monster? 'It was just a dream' He tried to tell himself positively, but it had all been so real…he could still hear the girls screaming ringing in his ears as he breathed heavily. "What happened?"
"You woke us up with all that damned screaming you were doing, boy." Trunks noticed his father standing in the door way of his room with his arms folded over his chest.
"Shut up, Vegeta! I couldn't wake you up sweetie!" Bulma hugged him tighter, and began to slowly rock back and forth on the spot whilst glaring over Trunks' shoulder at Vegeta. "Do you want to come sleep in my room tonight?" She asked softly.
"No way, Woman. The boy isn't sleeping with us. He needs to learn to be a man!" Vegeta protested loudly. He did feel slightly sorry for his son, but he wasn't going to let anyone know that. Besides, he did need to learn to be a man. Trunks couldn't come and sleep in his bed with him and Bulma every time he had a bad dream, why start now?
"'The Boy' has a name, Vegeta. Use it. And who said anything about him sleeping with us? He's sleeping with me. You're sleeping in here tonight."
Vegeta's eyes widened suddenly, "What!? No!"
But Vegeta couldn't do anything more against Bulma then growl at her, as she scooped up her son that clung tightly to her neck and left a furious Vegeta behind in their son's bedroom.
The Son House
Usagi sat bolt right up straight in her bed so suddenly, she didn't have time to stop herself before her head crashed straight into another. She could feel the scream exploding from her lips, and it ringing in her ears. Tears of both horror and pain ran down her face, mixing in with the sweat. She felt as though she had run a mile, with her breaths hurried and sharp.
Goten's hands shot up and grabbed his head, as he quickly moved away from Usagi. "Owww…Usagi what did you do that for?!" he whined just as their bedroom door flew open.
"What's going on in here?" ChiChi flew into the room, closely followed by Gohan, who turned on the lights. ChiChi rushed over to Usagi and embraced her trembling child, while Gohan attended to a complaining Goten.
Usagi sniffled, rubbing her eyes and nose with the sleeve of her pyjama top. Slowly she untangled her legs from the messily arranged sheets of her bed and answered her mother, "I had a really scary dream, mamma!" Usagi hugged her mum back tightly.
"Oooh…It's alright Usagi," ChiChi cooed, rubbing the girl's back in a soothing manner, "It was just a dream."
Usagi violently shook her head, "No…I think it really happened though! It was so real mamma!"
"But it wasn't really, sweetie…" ChiChi insisted, "A dream is just when your brain goes to sleep, that's all."
"No it was real!" Usagi cried loudly, continuously insisting on it.
ChiChi looked over to the clock on the wall, it was only 1:25 in the morning, "Well do you want to come sleep with me then?"
Goten, who had been explaining to Gohan what exactly had happened from his point of view, stopped mid sentence. He had never had to sleep in his room without Usagi, and the thought of that scared him. Especially when she was so worked up…that made it worse. What if he was to have a horrible nightmare as well? He sent a pleading look over in Usagi's direction.
"No…I'll stay in here with Goten." Usagi answered, noticing the relieved smile Goten had picked up.
ChiChi frowned, releasing Usagi from her embrace. She had a sneaking suspicion that Goten had been begging her not to leave him with his facial expressions. "Are you sure, Usagi dear?" Usagi nodded, "Well if you have any problems at all, just come and tell me, okay?"
"Okay, mamma." Usagi nodded her head and finally settled back down into her bed. Goten climbed back into his bed positioned next to hers and together they watched as Gohan and ChiChi left the room. "No! Don't turn the light off!" Usagi yelled suddenly, sitting back up again. She didn't want to be alone in the dark again, even if Goten or Trunks or whoever was with her.
ChiChi, a little surprised by Usagi's sudden outburst, nodded to her request, "Okay sweetie…but let me put this light on over here instead." She approached the desk Usagi and Goten did their homework on, and turned on the desk lamp. "Okay everyone, time to go back to sleep." ChiChi approached her children and kissed each on the head, "Good Night Gohan."
"Night mum," He whispered as he closed the door after her and kissed her on the cheek. They then went their separate ways to their bedrooms.
Almost an Hour Later
The unknown sound to Usagi of the wind violently pushing the braches of a tree into her bedroom window frightened her. She sat bolt up straight again and looked violently around the room. Goten was sound asleep again, as if he had never been disturbed during the night. The echoing scream of Makoto could be heard in her ears again. Another gush of wind blew up against her window and she watched as the desk lamp in her room slowly began to flicker.
"No…" She whispered fearfully before bounding out of her room and running as quickly as she could down the hall to her brother's room. Usagi pushed the door open and ran straight over to her sleeping eldest brother. "Gohan?" She cried desperately, shaking him violently "Gohan!"
"Wh-What is it?" He yawned moving slowly into a sitting position. He met his sister's fearful eyes, "Are you okay, Usa?"
Usagi shook her head, begging the tears she knew where threatening to fall away, "No…I'm really scared!"
Gohan rubbed his eyes and sat up in a completely sitting position. He patted his lap gently, indicating Usagi could sit on him. He drew his covers away and let her climb up onto him before he placed them gently back on them both. "You can sleep in here with me tonight then if you think it will help." He whispered through the silence of his room. "But, you have to tell me what has you so scared. I want to help you, Usagi. But I can't if you don't tell me what's wrong?"
"I had a really scary dream…"
"About? Come on, you can tell me…" Gohan convinced her, playing with the locks of silver hair.
"I…I think I was in someone's house at first…and there was a little girl having a tea party with her dolls. But then the room kinda disappeared and everything was black. But the little girl didn't go away with her room…she was there too but I don't think she could see me. And then I saw Trunks and he ran over to me when I called out to him. I think it was real because Trunks was so real. I could feel him hugging me. And then there was this evil man…he was the scariest thing I had ever seen! His voice was so cold; it made me want to cry. He was talking to the girl, kinda as though he already knew her but she didn't know him…and he wanted to know where the Tsuki no Hime was. But she didn't know and he said he'd kill her if she didn't tell…and he did kill her because she didn't know! He punched her with his fist in the shape of an energy attack and his hand went right through her body! She started to scream and then he took something from her called a star seed…and then I woke up." She recalled her dream, trying desperately to ignore the screaming in her ears.
Gohan shook his head, "I've never heard of a Tsuki no Hime or a Start seed..." He pounded on the thought before coming to his conclusion, "But you know Usagi, it was just a dream. It wasn't real."
"But it was Gohan! I know it was!" She cried into the darkness. "And I don't want to go back to sleep anymore."
"You have to go back to sleep, Usagi. You have training again tomorrow and mum will want you at your best. I'll be right here beside you, and I promise I won't let anything happen to you." Gohan whispered gently in her ear, pulling her hair away from her face whilst giving her back an encouraging rub. "How about I tell you a story? That might help."
Usagi nodded, "Okay. Can you tell me another story about Dad?" Stories of her father had always comforted her in the past, his bravery was incredible. Hopefully it would help her now as well.
"You've heard them all about a hundred times!" Gohan laughed, but if that's really what she wanted… "What do you want to hear about then?"
"What was it like when daddy fought Freiza? I mean, for you? Or what about Cell? Were you scared?" She suddenly had an interest in what were Gohan's fears were, "What was the most scariest thing that ever happened to you?"
Gohan had to think for some time, there had been so many times when he had been scared. He had been scared during all the battles his father had been in for many reasons. He then settled on when he had to fight Cell all by himself, and how it was the hardest thing and the first real battle he had ever done. She leant back on him, her head resting on his shoulder and her eyes getting slowly heavier as she listened to Gohan's bedtime story.
"Are you still awake, Usagi?" He whispered at the conclusion of his long but detailed story. He was relieved when he got no response from her. She had finally fallen asleep. As carefully as he could, he moved her onto his bed beside him and put her head down on his pillow. When he was sure she wasn't going to wake up again, he to lay down and rested his head on his pillow. He stroked her sleeping face gently before smiling and closing his eyes at last.
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Firstly, let me apologise for the out-of-character-ness of Makoto and Chaos. I guess I had to imagine Makoto as a child, and that is how I pictured she would be. And then there is Chaos. I don't at all know the character of Chaos, or his attacks, because the last series of Sailor Moon was never aired in Australia so I don't know too much about him or the star seeds. So I'm sorry about that…I did do some research on it and this is basically my conclusion of what I came up with. If you have any problems with it or suggestions to what should have happened in that scene let me know and I'll see what I can do about it. But other wise, that's the end of this chapter, and I really hoped you enjoyed it. I think I'm going to pace things a bit faster now, and at least have a whole day in one chapter rather than space it out into three.
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