DISCLAIMER
I do not own the rights to Tenoh Haruka, Kaioh Michiru, Meioh Setsuna, Tomoe Hotaru, Tsukino Usagi [both one and two], Chiba Mamoru, or any other characters found in "Bishojou Senshi Sailor Moon." These are copyright to Takeuchi Naoko, Kodansha, and Toei Animation. These characters are used without permission.
HOWEVER...
All other characters are MY property and cannot be plagiarized without express written permission from ME. The story itself is mine, and I will give you hell if you rip it off in any way and claim that it is of your own creation.
Well, other than that, have fun Hope you enjoy my story ;)
Chapter 1
"Damn, Usagi, how can you eat so much?"
Chibiusa was already more than a bit pissed off at the fact that her "big sister," Usagi, was thirty minutes late for picking her up after school. She was REALLY mad at Usagi for making HER Mamo-chan pay for that ridiculous amount of food. And she was even angrier at the fact that he didn't have enough money to spend on her, after buying Usagi all that grub. All she had was a half-eaten donut that Usagi had thrown at her.
Usagi said something incoherent between mouthfuls of food.
Mamoru shot her a disgusted look.
With effort, Usagi swallowed and said,
"Because Mamo-chan bought it for me!"
Chibiusa glowered at her. She resisted the urge to give Usagi a swift kick in the butt. She dimly contemplated shoving her into a park bench instead.
Eventually, after a long, awkward silence, Chibiusa decided to sit down. It was actually a fairly nice day out, but Chibiusa was thinking it was hardly the time or place for Usagi to go on a date (with her Mamo-chan). For one thing, the park they happened to be strolling through was absolutely covered with dog crap. Even after the short, unseasonable snowfall last week in October, idiots still apparently thought that innocent little children such as herself would not notice the mountains of refuse under the now-melted blanket of snow.
For another, it was getting late, and Chibiusa had other plans. Tagging along on Usagi's date with her boyfriend and listening to her incoherent bullshit about needing help with English (she didn't have English this semester) was even less fun than it sounded.
It took about two whole minutes for Usagi and Mamoru to notice that she wasn't following them anymore. Chibiusa absent-mindedly gave Luna-P a kick.
Luna-P beeped crossly as it landed unceremoniously in a pile of dog feces.
A crunching noise caught Chibiusa's attention. Looking to her left, a large, wolf-like dog was rooting through the garbage can.
It was grey, black, tan, and white. Its face was black, with an oddly green hue, with tan eyebrows and a tan-coloured muzzle. It had a black saddle mark on its back, and an oddly thin tail that reminded her of a whip. Its belly, feet, and the tip of its tail were white. Most of its body was slate grey. Its ears were pricked, but the tips flopped over. A tattered, bloodstained black rag was tied around its forehead.
At first, Chibiusa was impressed at the dog's size. It must have been about 150 pounds. But, when she looked closer, she could see almost every bone in its body. Its fur was dirty, and it held its tail between its legs. She noticed a large, ugly, white scar on the dog's right shoulder.
The dog turned to stare at the donut in Chibiusa's hand. It had eerily bright, green eyes. Chibiusa had never seen a dog with green eyes in her life, and they were the most human eyes she had ever seen.
Suddenly, Chibiusa felt overwhelming pity for such an animal, dimly noting that it walked with a limp and it had a small cut on its muzzle that was bleeding freely.
The dog instantly shut its eyes and put its ears back in a grimace of pain as Usagi shrieked at it.
"HEY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO CHIBIUSA?! MAMO-CHAN, GET RID OF IT! NO, YOU IDIOT, DON'T BRING IT OVER HERE!"
"Shut UP, Usagi!" Chibiusa yelled at her. The big dog cowered and started walking away backwards. It bared its fangs viciously at Mamoru, and its hair went up. But it almost instantly halted this display of aggression and shut its eyes, whimpering with fear.
The dog was absolutely terrified of him.
Why? The dog asked herself. Why the hell are you so afraid of HIM?! You could kill him with one bite! Besides, he's way more afraid of you than you should be of him. Cry me a river, build me a bridge, and get over it.
But she knew why. It was the phobia. For six years, men had been nothing but dangerous and vicious to animals like her.
Slowly, she forced herself to open her eyes and stop whimpering like a scared puppy. The man had, thankfully, backed off.
That little pink-haired girl, Chibiusa, was fuming at what appeared to be her big sister, whose name appeared to be Usagi. Instantly she regretted ever coming near that garbage can.
Chibiusa stopped yelling at her "sister," and threw that dirty, cat-shaped toy at her. This invited yet another scream fest.
Reflexively, she lowered her ears and grimaced in pain again.
Chibiusa shoved her "sister" into the mound of garbage that the dog had spilled. Dimly, she noted the irony. While that man was helping her out of the filth, Chibiusa kicked her in the butt, and watched the pile of food Usagi had been shoving down her throat fall into a mound of dog shit.
She couldn't resist laughing. There was nothing she liked better than poetic justice.
Soon, her laughing turned into violent coughing. She hadn't had something to eat or drink in two days.
When she looked up, Chibiusa was offering her a donut.
She blinked. Most people would have thrown heavy objects in her direction, or aimed a good kick at her ribcage. Most people hated stray dogs, especially wolf hybrids. She had seen stray dogs similar to herself be mercilessly run over, stabbed, beaten to death…
…Shot…
No. She told herself firmly. Don't think about that. Don't…
She forced the image out of her head.
The fact remained, this kid was offering her food, God damnit, and she was so hungry that she would have eaten poison.
Gingerly, she took the donut and held it for a few seconds, savouring it. But the hunger was too strong. She almost swallowed it whole in her haste.
"Don't worry about Usagi," Chibiusa said. "She's just worried about me."
The dog cast her gaze over to Usagi. Of course! She should have realized. An animal her size could do serious harm to such a little child, in actual fact, could kill her within seconds, and Usagi had realized that. But Usagi didn't seem like a very strong person, so she had sent him to protect Chibiusa.
But she was also hurt, deep down, that people would judge her as being so dangerous with a single glance. True, she had killed people before, but those were very special circumstances. She had never hurt an innocent creature in her life.
Quit denying it, she mentally reprimanded herself. What about all those deer?
Of course, she kept forgetting that. But that was for food, she urgently reminded herself.
Feh. Do you think that's going to convince complete strangers that you aren't dangerous?
"Am I really that dangerous?" she muttered under her breath.
Chibiusa's eyes widened in shock.
SHIT! The dog cursed herself for being so careless. YOU STUPID MORON! DON'T YOU KNOW HOW TO KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT?!
She quickly made some non-incriminating noises that sort of sounded like words in order to cover up this screw-up.
She breathed a low sigh of relief when Chibiusa muttered, "Just my imagination…" and walked off to Usagi and that man.
"Bye-Bye, doggy!"
Chibiusa waved good-bye and walked off and out of the park.
For some reason unbeknownst to her, the dog wagged her tail in response and caught herself just in time before she started to wave back.
"You know, Chibiusa," Usagi began, "you shouldn't go up to strange dogs like that, especially ones that are twice your size."
Chibiusa nodded, not really listening, because her mind was filled with that poor dog. She could not forget those eyes. That dog had an almost haunted look in its eyes, as if it had seen a great many things, most of which it did not want to see.
And it talked to her.
Don't be stupid. Chibiusa reprimanded herself. Dogs can't talk.
But cats can't, either, Chibiusa mused, remembering Luna, Artemis, and Diana.
Chibiusa absent-mindedly stepped off the curb and started to cross the street.
At any rate, that dog was intriguing, and Chibiusa hoped she would see it again.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a loud car horn blasted through the quiet scene and, after that, there was only madness.
The dog had been following Chibiusa. That kid was a mystery to her. She caught every word of her conversation, for it was fairly hard to fool a dog's ears. It was strange, the way this conversation made her feel slightly nostalgic. At any rate, she was content to bask in this moment for as long as she could follow them.
The blasting, ear-piercing sound of a car horn sliced through this moment like a cruel knife, and within half a second, the dog had reacted.
Something hard hit Chibiusa from the back, and she went flying. The force knocked her all the way over to the other side of the street, and she scraped nearly all the skin off her left arm as she skidded to a halt on the sidewalk across the street.
Wait a minute, Chibiusa thought. Why would I be hit from the back? For the car was clearly about to smash her in the right side.
There was a loud CRUNCH.
Chibiusa looked up just in time to see the dog make an unholy scream as a yellow Ferrari sent it flying through the air to hit a lamppost with a sickening CRACK.
This happened in the space of two seconds, but it seemed to take hours for the car to finally stop, for the dog to fall in a crumpled heap underneath the lamppost, and for Usagi scream at the sheer carnage.
Chibiusa was in shock. If it weren't for that dog, she would have been pulverized.
No, she thought, as tears came to her eyes, if it weren't for my stupidity, that dog would be alive, and I wouldn't be lying in a pool of my own blood.
Usagi and Mamoru rushed over to help Chibiusa up, but she brushed them off. She got up on her own and, clutching her bleeding arm, ran across the street to where the dog was lying.
The dog was lying in a crumpled heap under its lamppost and one of its front legs was sticking out at an odd angle. A trickle of dark blood oozed its way down the side of its face.
"Holy crap!"
Chibiusa turned around to see Tenoh Haruka get out of the now-bloodstained and dented yellow Ferrari. She rushed over to where the dog was lying.
"Haruka-san?" Chibiusa mouthed in disbelief.
I do not own the rights to Tenoh Haruka, Kaioh Michiru, Meioh Setsuna, Tomoe Hotaru, Tsukino Usagi [both one and two], Chiba Mamoru, or any other characters found in "Bishojou Senshi Sailor Moon." These are copyright to Takeuchi Naoko, Kodansha, and Toei Animation. These characters are used without permission.
HOWEVER...
All other characters are MY property and cannot be plagiarized without express written permission from ME. The story itself is mine, and I will give you hell if you rip it off in any way and claim that it is of your own creation.
Well, other than that, have fun Hope you enjoy my story ;)
Chapter 1
"Damn, Usagi, how can you eat so much?"
Chibiusa was already more than a bit pissed off at the fact that her "big sister," Usagi, was thirty minutes late for picking her up after school. She was REALLY mad at Usagi for making HER Mamo-chan pay for that ridiculous amount of food. And she was even angrier at the fact that he didn't have enough money to spend on her, after buying Usagi all that grub. All she had was a half-eaten donut that Usagi had thrown at her.
Usagi said something incoherent between mouthfuls of food.
Mamoru shot her a disgusted look.
With effort, Usagi swallowed and said,
"Because Mamo-chan bought it for me!"
Chibiusa glowered at her. She resisted the urge to give Usagi a swift kick in the butt. She dimly contemplated shoving her into a park bench instead.
Eventually, after a long, awkward silence, Chibiusa decided to sit down. It was actually a fairly nice day out, but Chibiusa was thinking it was hardly the time or place for Usagi to go on a date (with her Mamo-chan). For one thing, the park they happened to be strolling through was absolutely covered with dog crap. Even after the short, unseasonable snowfall last week in October, idiots still apparently thought that innocent little children such as herself would not notice the mountains of refuse under the now-melted blanket of snow.
For another, it was getting late, and Chibiusa had other plans. Tagging along on Usagi's date with her boyfriend and listening to her incoherent bullshit about needing help with English (she didn't have English this semester) was even less fun than it sounded.
It took about two whole minutes for Usagi and Mamoru to notice that she wasn't following them anymore. Chibiusa absent-mindedly gave Luna-P a kick.
Luna-P beeped crossly as it landed unceremoniously in a pile of dog feces.
A crunching noise caught Chibiusa's attention. Looking to her left, a large, wolf-like dog was rooting through the garbage can.
It was grey, black, tan, and white. Its face was black, with an oddly green hue, with tan eyebrows and a tan-coloured muzzle. It had a black saddle mark on its back, and an oddly thin tail that reminded her of a whip. Its belly, feet, and the tip of its tail were white. Most of its body was slate grey. Its ears were pricked, but the tips flopped over. A tattered, bloodstained black rag was tied around its forehead.
At first, Chibiusa was impressed at the dog's size. It must have been about 150 pounds. But, when she looked closer, she could see almost every bone in its body. Its fur was dirty, and it held its tail between its legs. She noticed a large, ugly, white scar on the dog's right shoulder.
The dog turned to stare at the donut in Chibiusa's hand. It had eerily bright, green eyes. Chibiusa had never seen a dog with green eyes in her life, and they were the most human eyes she had ever seen.
Suddenly, Chibiusa felt overwhelming pity for such an animal, dimly noting that it walked with a limp and it had a small cut on its muzzle that was bleeding freely.
The dog instantly shut its eyes and put its ears back in a grimace of pain as Usagi shrieked at it.
"HEY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO CHIBIUSA?! MAMO-CHAN, GET RID OF IT! NO, YOU IDIOT, DON'T BRING IT OVER HERE!"
"Shut UP, Usagi!" Chibiusa yelled at her. The big dog cowered and started walking away backwards. It bared its fangs viciously at Mamoru, and its hair went up. But it almost instantly halted this display of aggression and shut its eyes, whimpering with fear.
The dog was absolutely terrified of him.
Why? The dog asked herself. Why the hell are you so afraid of HIM?! You could kill him with one bite! Besides, he's way more afraid of you than you should be of him. Cry me a river, build me a bridge, and get over it.
But she knew why. It was the phobia. For six years, men had been nothing but dangerous and vicious to animals like her.
Slowly, she forced herself to open her eyes and stop whimpering like a scared puppy. The man had, thankfully, backed off.
That little pink-haired girl, Chibiusa, was fuming at what appeared to be her big sister, whose name appeared to be Usagi. Instantly she regretted ever coming near that garbage can.
Chibiusa stopped yelling at her "sister," and threw that dirty, cat-shaped toy at her. This invited yet another scream fest.
Reflexively, she lowered her ears and grimaced in pain again.
Chibiusa shoved her "sister" into the mound of garbage that the dog had spilled. Dimly, she noted the irony. While that man was helping her out of the filth, Chibiusa kicked her in the butt, and watched the pile of food Usagi had been shoving down her throat fall into a mound of dog shit.
She couldn't resist laughing. There was nothing she liked better than poetic justice.
Soon, her laughing turned into violent coughing. She hadn't had something to eat or drink in two days.
When she looked up, Chibiusa was offering her a donut.
She blinked. Most people would have thrown heavy objects in her direction, or aimed a good kick at her ribcage. Most people hated stray dogs, especially wolf hybrids. She had seen stray dogs similar to herself be mercilessly run over, stabbed, beaten to death…
…Shot…
No. She told herself firmly. Don't think about that. Don't…
She forced the image out of her head.
The fact remained, this kid was offering her food, God damnit, and she was so hungry that she would have eaten poison.
Gingerly, she took the donut and held it for a few seconds, savouring it. But the hunger was too strong. She almost swallowed it whole in her haste.
"Don't worry about Usagi," Chibiusa said. "She's just worried about me."
The dog cast her gaze over to Usagi. Of course! She should have realized. An animal her size could do serious harm to such a little child, in actual fact, could kill her within seconds, and Usagi had realized that. But Usagi didn't seem like a very strong person, so she had sent him to protect Chibiusa.
But she was also hurt, deep down, that people would judge her as being so dangerous with a single glance. True, she had killed people before, but those were very special circumstances. She had never hurt an innocent creature in her life.
Quit denying it, she mentally reprimanded herself. What about all those deer?
Of course, she kept forgetting that. But that was for food, she urgently reminded herself.
Feh. Do you think that's going to convince complete strangers that you aren't dangerous?
"Am I really that dangerous?" she muttered under her breath.
Chibiusa's eyes widened in shock.
SHIT! The dog cursed herself for being so careless. YOU STUPID MORON! DON'T YOU KNOW HOW TO KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT?!
She quickly made some non-incriminating noises that sort of sounded like words in order to cover up this screw-up.
She breathed a low sigh of relief when Chibiusa muttered, "Just my imagination…" and walked off to Usagi and that man.
"Bye-Bye, doggy!"
Chibiusa waved good-bye and walked off and out of the park.
For some reason unbeknownst to her, the dog wagged her tail in response and caught herself just in time before she started to wave back.
"You know, Chibiusa," Usagi began, "you shouldn't go up to strange dogs like that, especially ones that are twice your size."
Chibiusa nodded, not really listening, because her mind was filled with that poor dog. She could not forget those eyes. That dog had an almost haunted look in its eyes, as if it had seen a great many things, most of which it did not want to see.
And it talked to her.
Don't be stupid. Chibiusa reprimanded herself. Dogs can't talk.
But cats can't, either, Chibiusa mused, remembering Luna, Artemis, and Diana.
Chibiusa absent-mindedly stepped off the curb and started to cross the street.
At any rate, that dog was intriguing, and Chibiusa hoped she would see it again.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a loud car horn blasted through the quiet scene and, after that, there was only madness.
The dog had been following Chibiusa. That kid was a mystery to her. She caught every word of her conversation, for it was fairly hard to fool a dog's ears. It was strange, the way this conversation made her feel slightly nostalgic. At any rate, she was content to bask in this moment for as long as she could follow them.
The blasting, ear-piercing sound of a car horn sliced through this moment like a cruel knife, and within half a second, the dog had reacted.
Something hard hit Chibiusa from the back, and she went flying. The force knocked her all the way over to the other side of the street, and she scraped nearly all the skin off her left arm as she skidded to a halt on the sidewalk across the street.
Wait a minute, Chibiusa thought. Why would I be hit from the back? For the car was clearly about to smash her in the right side.
There was a loud CRUNCH.
Chibiusa looked up just in time to see the dog make an unholy scream as a yellow Ferrari sent it flying through the air to hit a lamppost with a sickening CRACK.
This happened in the space of two seconds, but it seemed to take hours for the car to finally stop, for the dog to fall in a crumpled heap underneath the lamppost, and for Usagi scream at the sheer carnage.
Chibiusa was in shock. If it weren't for that dog, she would have been pulverized.
No, she thought, as tears came to her eyes, if it weren't for my stupidity, that dog would be alive, and I wouldn't be lying in a pool of my own blood.
Usagi and Mamoru rushed over to help Chibiusa up, but she brushed them off. She got up on her own and, clutching her bleeding arm, ran across the street to where the dog was lying.
The dog was lying in a crumpled heap under its lamppost and one of its front legs was sticking out at an odd angle. A trickle of dark blood oozed its way down the side of its face.
"Holy crap!"
Chibiusa turned around to see Tenoh Haruka get out of the now-bloodstained and dented yellow Ferrari. She rushed over to where the dog was lying.
"Haruka-san?" Chibiusa mouthed in disbelief.