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REAWAKENING
Book One of Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon CosmicStars
by Nashie (aka ShadowSamurai)
December 1999 - April 2000
Revised - Summer/Fall 2002
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Disclaimer: Sailor Moon and her friends belong to Naoko Takeuchi. The author takes no credit for any of the original storyline. However, all the new characters belong to me and I'd appreciate it if you didn't take any without requesting permission.
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~~~Episode 209: The soldier of dreams? The inner soldiers' confusion.~~~
Usagi looked up in surprise. "Did you hear that?" The others nodded and Usagi opened the door. Diana came running in from the darkness. Her eyes were huge as she skidded to a stop.
"Small Lady...!" Diana gasped before collapsing on the floor. Ami picked up the tiny kitten and cradled her in her arms.
"What about her?" Ami asked, her voice stern but worried. Diana was breathing hard. She had been running fast.
"We'd...been looking for Setsuna-san...and had decided...to come back...when Chibiusa got a message from Neo-Queen Serenity...but someone came and attacked...her...she told me to get help!" Usagi's eyes widened. Chibiusa in trouble? She stood up.
"I'm going to go and get her," Usagi said. Minako nodded and pulled out her henshin pen. Rei soothed Diana. She had caught her breath. Artemis and Luna nuzzled their daughter.
"It'll be all right," Luna murmured softly. Diana nodded, but was still worried. Small Lady… "Be careful!"
"Come on!" Usagi replied. She held out her brooch and shouted the words she had shouted before so many times in the battle against Galaxia. "Moon eternal, make UP!"
"Venus crystal power..."
"Mars crystal power...!"
"Mercury crystal power...!"
"Jupiter crystal power...!"
"...make UP!"
The five girls transformed. No longer were they the normal schoolgirls that attended high school, but the pretty sailor suited fighters for love and justice, Sailor Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus.
"Let's go!"
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Chibiusa screamed as she was rammed violently into a wall. She fell to the ground. Her attacker stepped from the shadows. A girl with big blue pigtails stood in an entirely black sailor suit. It was trimmed in a cerulean color. A black moon insignia was on her forehead. She smiled.
"Hello, little girl," she said. "May I introduce myself? I am the soldier of the forbidden dreams on the moon, Sailor DreamStar!" She smiled as a glowing blue ball of electricity appeared in her hands. "Nightmare Silence!"
The ball went straight for Chibiusa. She quickly jumped out of the way, even though she was injured. The ball exploded into the wall. Chibiusa stared at her in shock. DreamStar seemed distressed and sighed.
"All I want is to take my rightful place as a sailor soldier," she said, levitating in the air. "That's my dream. And I haven't been able to make it come true." Chibiusa gasped. A sailor soldier.
"Well, maybe if you were good and tried to defend love and justice," Chibiusa yelled, then realized she had said too much. DreamStar stared down at her.
"Love and justice?" she asked. Her eyes narrowed. "Now, how would you know that?" Chibiusa began to panic. How would she know that?
"I've been saved by Sailor Moon before," Chibiusa said quietly. "I heard her say that she was a soldier of love and justice." DreamStar smiled.
"Really," she asked. "A pretty sailor suited fighter for love and justice? Hmph. I don't care about either of those. This universe doesn't belong to the reincarnations of the White Moon Kingdom."
"But you said you're a soldier from the moon!" Chibiusa pointed out. DreamStar glared at her.
"Whatever," she said, realizing what she had been doing. "My mission is simple: kill everything until we get what we want. Nightmare…"
"Silver Moon Crystal Power Kiss!"
A beam of silver and pink light shot between DreamStar and Chibiusa. DreamStar fell backwards, but kept levitating. She looked around to see who had interrupted her. "Who's there?!"
"What are you doing so late at night? Leave that girl alone!" someone shouted. DreamStar turned to five figures in the darkness.
"Who's there?"
"I am the pretty sailor suited fighter for love and justice, Eternal Sailor Moon," the blonde odango-atama said. She pointed a slender gloved finger toward DreamStar. "And on behalf of the moon, I'll punish you!"
"And, we, sailor senshi will not forgive you either!" the other four shouted. Chibiusa smiled. Diana had made it!
"You think you're something else, don't you?" DreamStar asked, cupping her chin in her hand. She looked thoughtful. "Well, you're not. Nightmare Bubbles!" Huge blue bubbles appeared above her head and headed straight for the inner soldiers. They jumped out of the way, but to their surprise, the bubbles continued following them.
A blue bubble headed straight for Mars. She jumped out of the way, but the bubble sharply followed her. Mars gasped, but fell backwards into a pile of cardboard boxes. The bubble hovered above her. She tried to use her Flame Sniper, but to no effect. The bubble went over to Mars and covered her entire body. Mars screamed in shock and tried to break free.
"Try all you like," DreamStar said softly, "you can't break free of these bubbles." Chibiusa stared in horror as each of the sailor soldiers, except for Sailor Moon, was caught in one of the bubbles.
Sailor Moon ran over to Chibiusa. She stood in front of her, ready to block an attack.
"Run, Chibiusa!" Sailor Moon shouted. DreamStar just laughed and captured Sailor Moon in a blue bubble too. Chibiusa's eyes widened in fear. She needed to transform, but that creepy girl with the blue pigtails would find out her secret identity.
Her decision made, she pulled out her transformation locket. She stared at DreamStar. "Moon crisis power..." It was too late. DreamStar gathered her Nightmare Silence in her hands and sent the deadly blast hurtling toward the pink-haired child.
"Noooo!" Sailor Moon screamed from inside the blue bubble and realized that if Chibiusa didn't transform, she'd be killed. "Chibiusaaaaaaa!"
Chibiusa dropped her locket in fear and froze. She couldn't move. Her death was close at hand. She closed her eyes and got ready for the blast to take her down. But it never came. She waited and waited and finally, she opened one of her eyes. A figure stood in front of her and had blocked the attack with her own body. Sailor Pluto collapsed backwards.
"Pu!" Chibiusa screamed as she caught her friend. Pluto had taken the blast for her? But she thought…
"World Shaking!" A glowing golden orb of energy struck DreamStar in the side. She screamed in rage and turned to where the attack was thrown.
"Deep Submerge!"
Sailor Pluto struggled to her feet and pointed her rod at DreamStar. Clouds and lightning billowed up around her. "Dead Scream." The blue and purple attacks hit DreamStar again. DreamStar struggled back, badly hurt. She glared at the sailor soldiers.
"Everyone gets lucky sometimes," she whispered. "You better keep an eye out for us." And with that, she disappeared in a whisk of blue bubbles. The bubbles holding the inner soldiers faded away and they crashed to the ground. Sailor Moon automatically rose to her feet and ran over to Chibiusa.
"Are you all right, Chibiusa?" she asked, hugging her future daughter. Chibiusa nodded, even though her skin was pale.
"H-Hai," she whispered. She got a stuck up look on her face. "But what took you so long?" Sailor Moon got a sweatdrop. She stared at the pesky brat.
"What!? I just saved you and you're blaming me for being late!?" Sailor Moon yelled. Chibiusa turned away, with a stuck up look still on her face.
"Well, you should've known I was in trouble."
"Why you little...!"
"Hey!" Sailor Jupiter said, holding Sailor Moon back. She was throwing a fit. "Everyone's all right and that's the point." Just then, Chibiusa's head jerked up and she looked around.
"Where's Pu and the others?" she asked. Everyone looked around. The outer soldiers were gone? Where'd they go? They were just here a minute ago. Weird.
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DreamStar stepped into the dark room. A figure stepped from the darkness and stared at her.
"Well?" she asked. DreamStar lowered her head.
"She may have had a powerful soul, but I wasn't able to get to her," DreamStar said. "It was that same girl I saw with the outer soldiers this afternoon." The girl in the pink and black sailor outfit approached her carefully.
"Are you telling me that the outer soldiers are actually in this city?" she asked. Her sister shrugged.
"They appeared during that battle along with the inner soldiers and an odango atama soldier who looked like Princess Serenity," DreamStar said. "So, what are we going to do MagicStar?"
"Nothing at the moment," MagicStar replied. She touched the black shaped brooch on her chest and her outfit exploded into a multitude of magenta ribbons. They covered her body again to reveal a crimson uniform. She smiled. "But for now, I'll go around and set up another plan as Tsukino Mirage."
The girl disappeared in a wave of pink bubbles. DreamStar stared at the place her sister had been before walking deeper into the darkness. She arrived at a large door that had all of the stages of the moon on it. She concentrated and the door disappeared.
The large room was black and silver lights lit the floor, which was covered in fog. A dome covering a long gray pedestal lay in the middle of the room. A body lay motionless inside of the dome. DreamStar slowly approached the dome. She stared at the girl inside of it. She was wearing a silver trimmed sailor suit. Her brown hair was medium-length and she had one odango tied to the back of her head by a silver ribbon. Her body lay motionless.
"Sailor Destiny," DreamStar whispered. Her eyes hardened. "Don't you worry. We'll get revenge on the outer soldiers. Even if you don't want us to." She laughed mechanically before departing from the dark room.
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Author's Note: Now, who's shocked at finding out MagicStar and DreamStar's identities? Okay, okay – I'll admit it. Both these character's appearance are based of Rogue's sisters from "Legend of the Last Labyrinth" (I have been trying to see the anime for YEARS now). I thought the characters in the story looked very 'tres jolie'. 'Nightmare Bubbles' – oh, right, THAT sounds like a scary attack.
Another Sailor Destiny? Let's add her to the millions already out there. Until later, later.