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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 210: The growing silence! The secret of pretty girl Hogoshi.~~~

(Mamo-chan! I've always wanted to be here with you like this.) His handsome face looked down on hers.

(Usa-ko…I love you.)

(Oh, Mamo-chan! I've always wanted to…) The odango-atama's dreams were interrupted by the loud buzzing of an alarm clock.

            (Mamo-chan?)

His handsome face disappeared. Butterflies surrounded the distraught girl. She cried out as red rose petals blew past. The scenery faded away into the curious pink-haired child's face. Usagi's eyes widened.

"Good morning, Usagi-chan! It's Saturday!" Chibiusa yelled, already dressed. She picked up her rabbit backpack off the floor. "And we have to do more investigating. Ikuko-mama isn't going to that social tonight, so she and Shingo-chan and Kenji-papa are going to your aunt's house and won't be back until late."

Usagi stared at the girl. "Huh?"

"No one's here tonight."

Usagi looked out her window. Sunlight poured in and stun her eyes. She cried out and pulled the covers over her head. "I don't wanna investigate."

"I called Pu last night." This grabbed Usagi's attention. She sat straight up and stared at her future daughter.

"What'd she say?"

"She apologized," Chibiusa said with a hint of sadness in her voice. "But she didn't tell me why she got so upset. I tried to ask more, but she told me to get to bed."

"No kidding, she was probably tired," Usagi replied sluggishly. "Remember that she took that attack for you last night." Chibiusa's eyes automatically brimmed in tears and Usagi immediately regretted her words.

"Pu..." Chibiusa whispered. "I hope...she's all right..." Usagi hugged the little girl.

"It's all right Small Lady," Usagi said. Chibiusa smiled. She loved when Usagi called her "Small Lady". Her voice sounded so mature and loving, just like her mother's. The same cool touch of her mom's skin touched the young girl's own.

The two odango-atamas clung to each other for a couple of minutes before Chibiusa scrambled off the bed. She was grinning. "Now let's go Mama! We have to investigate!" Remembering that she didn't want to investigate, Usagi started whining loudly.

"Oh maaaan!" Usagi groaned, stomping out of the room. "Why do we have to investigate on a warm day like to day where any sensible person is at the beach?"

"Oh, Usagi-chan!" Chibiusa grumbled. One moment Usagi was acting like her loving mother and that next she was acting like an immature teenager. For heaven's sake, the girl was sixteen!

"Usagi-chan! Wait up! We'll be early and scare everyone!"

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"They're here," Haruka whispered. Her aqua colored eyes were dark. "They know we're here too. But..." She fell silent. The four outer soldiers of the solar system were gathered together, sitting out near the beach in Haruka's car. They couldn't stop thinking about the enemy they were up against. Even though most of the memories of their past lives had been washed away, these were still painfully vivid.

"Hmm...do you think Hogoshi-chan may be with them?" Setsuna murmured aloud. She was leaning against the passenger door outside. A breeze past by, ruffling the dark green hair of the timeless young woman.

"I hope so," Michiru whispered. She closed her eyes and rested her head on the driver of the car, Haruka. "I miss her so much. She didn't even know we loved her so much before the Beryl destroyed the Silver Millennium."

Thoughts of the young girl echoed through their troubled memories. She had only been seven, but like Sailor Saturn, was wise far beyond her years.

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"Neptune-san! Saturn-san! Uranus-san! Pluto-san!" the little girl yelled. Her brown hair tossed back and forth as she struggled to run up to the outer sailor soldiers on her short legs. Neptune turned and smiled.

"Hogoshi-chan!" she said, delight spreading across her face. "How'd you know we were here?"

"I asked the Queen of the Moon!" Hogoshi replied. She slowed down and ran into Uranus' arms for a hug. "She said you guys were here."

"And you ran all the way?" Pluto asked, a grin showing across her face.

"Uh-huh!" Hogoshi said, her green eyes twinkling with ecstasy. She smiled. "But it was worth it!"

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"Hogoshi..." Hotaru whispered and all of the outer girls were silent. The little girl, though part of their past lives, would always remain in their hearts forever. But those two sisters of her always the power-hungry trouble makers. Those two had brought them the worst kind of grief.

"Hogoshi-chan," Haruka whispered. "You were so much like the princess. No wonder we loved you." Troubled memories faded gently through her mind.

The four outer soldiers remained silent as they watched the moon disappear into the dawning pale blue sky.

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"So they said they came from the moon," Minako said, looking up at the sky. "They're up to something..." Ami nodded, even though she was busy typing on her mini computer. Trying to find information on these two new senshi was tough!

"They didn't seem to want the silver crystal," Usagi said, touching her brooch protectively. "And they didn't seem to want energy. They just seemed as though they wanted to fight. It doesn't make any sense."

"I know what you mean Usagi-chan," Mako said, twirling a strand of her brown hair. She was sitting on the front porch of the shrine, her legs dangling over the side. Chibiusa sat next to her, holding Luna-P in her hands and Diana sitting on head. "It just doesn't make any sense. They don't send monsters out to get what they want. It's all self done."

"Well, whatever the case may be," Rei said, holding Deimos on her arm. She gently raised her arm and the crow flew off, "we need to get the matter settled."

"Yup!" Chibiusa said, firmly holding Luna-P. But her answer sounded distant as though she was thinking of something else. Ami looked up from the computer and stared at the future princess.

"Chibiusa-chan?" the blue-haired girl asked. "What's wrong?"

"Weeell," Chibiusa said slowly. "It seems to me that the outer soldier know something about this entire mix-up. I mean, they've been awfully quiet. And something very lonely..."

"Depressing..."

"Forlorn..."

"Dark and solemn..."

"...has been coming from them," Chibiusa continued. She sighed. "I can't help but to think that something's up." Rei sighed. It was a troubled, uneasy sigh.

"I'm sorry you guys," Rei whispered and all eyes turned to the raven-haired singer. "I should have told you sooner, but I couldn't."

"What is it, Rei-chan?" Minako asked, her pale blue eyes serious. Her voice was gentle, yet firm.

"The reason..." Rei found that her voice failed her and cleared it. "The reason those four are so upset lately is because in my vision, the four soldiers lying on the ground...those four soldiers...are them."

There was a stunned silence. It was almost comical the way their mouths were just hanging open, but there was nothing funny about the situation.

"No..." Usagi finally said. "It can't be true." Her clear blue eyes became stern. "No way can it be true."

"Don't you remember the vision?" Rei asked, her voice desperate. She stared at all of them with her deep violet eyes. "Don't you even...please. Try and remember."

Usagi found it hard not to believe Rei so she concentrated. Bring back that awful vision. The scenery around her changed. No longer was she standing outside of the Hikawa Shrine but in the middle of the desolate city of Tokyo.

Usagi blinked in surprise and realized, with her own free will, she could move about as she wanted. Trying not to think that this dream really was real, she walked forward very slowly. The air was dead. The only sound was the growing noise of the cloud in the middle of the city. Usagi swallowed her fear and continued walking forward.

"Sailor Moon!"

Usagi nearly screamed from fear and spun around. Five other soldiers were running up to her. Usagi smiled when she realized it was the other the other inner soldiers.

"Minna!" Usagi cried and ran toward them. She began to run towards them when she realized her legs felt oddly bare. She looked down and realized that she had transformed, somehow, into Eternal Sailor Moon. She looked at Sailor Mars. "What happened? Are you guys for real? Is this the vision?"

"Yeah," Mars said. "And we're really here. It's like we got transported into the dream." She looked around, her black hair swishing around her waist. "The comet already hit. We have to find the outer soldiers."

"Or maybe we should find you," came a deep voice from behind them. Sailor Moon gasped. She spun around, her pigtails flying. She saw four figures emerging from the darkness. She almost screamed when she realized she could see right through them.

"Well?" Sailor Neptune asked. Her voice was cross. "You brought us here, princess. Now how do you plan on getting out?"

"T-t-the same way we came in?" Sailor Moon responded, though she did not sound very sure of herself.

"Do you realize you concentrated so hard that you actually brought us here too?" Uranus snapped. She put her hands on her hips. "Against our own will?" Sailor Moon gasped, but then gathered her courage. Uranus was not about to turn her down like this.

"I'm sorry Uranus, but you need to be here," Sailor Moon whispered, her voice still firm. "You need to tell us why you guys have been acting so separate." Uranus rolled her eyes.

"Is that what this is all about?"

"Yes."

Pluto shook her head. "Princess...there are something's that you can't know. For your own good and safety." Sailor Moon took a step forward to protest, but Sailor Jupiter held out an arm to prevent her from going any further.

"I'm sorry that you can't understand why we're upset, not yet anyway," Sailor Saturn said, her voice warm. Her violet eyes twinkled. "Don't worry. Soon you'll understand."

Sailor Chibi Moon looked surprised and ran towards Pluto and Saturn. "Wait!"

"Small Lady, don't," Pluto said, holding out her hand to stop the little maiden from running any further. She smiled sadly. "Please." Sailor Chibi Moon stared in disbelief as the four outer soldiers turned and walked away. Her red eyes grew larger than their maximum size.

"Pu..." she whispered as the scenery around her wavered like ripples in a pool. The darkness faded away into light and Chibiusa's sailor outfit faded back into her regular outfit. Just as quickly as she had come, Chibiusa was back on the front step of the Hikawa Jinja, staring out at nothing.

"Usagi!" the four older girls cried as their leader collapsed to the ground. They quickly ran to her side. "Usagi-chan!" The blonde odango-atama looked up and smiled.

"I'm all right," she whispered. With the help of the others, she climbed to her feet. "It just took most of my power to bring everyone there. Or most of everybody." Chibiusa didn't say anything. All that was on her mind was of her beloved friend. She could see the pain that was in her eyes.

"Pu..."

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"Ha, the foolish sailor senshi of this solar system can keep dreaming," MagicStar laughed. She touched her brooch. "They have no idea who they're up against." DreamStar shook her head and nervously tugged at one of her blue pigtails, not wanting to upset her older sister.

"The outer soldiers do," she growled. Her ice blue eyes stared coldly at the ground. "They're going to pay for what they did to us!" The two young sailor senshi stopped talking. The outer senshi...they would die because of they're annoyance in the Silver Millennium.

"They think we've already hurt them enough," MagicStar laughed. "But that was just the beginning of the fun. With Hogoshi-chan, we can surely destroy them." DreamStar laughed to show that she agreed. Then she stopped in mid-laugh.

"But what if those two awaken?" DreamStar asked, glaring at her sister. "They've protected the sailor senshi since, like, forever."

"Capricorn and Scorpio can't do a thing," MagicStar scoffed. Her gray eyes darkened. "Remember, their bodies were totally destroyed thanks to us. They can't exactly come back since souls can't reawaken without a body."

DreamStar smiled and curled her hand into a fist. "But, we shant do all of this ourselves. We need help." The two sailor senshi's eyes met.

"You thinking what I'm thinking?" MagicStar asked. DreamStar shrugged.

"I'm thinking that I'd like to cast nightmares all over the city and then get rid of the princess and her soldiers so I can become a real sailor soldier," DreamStar replied darkly. Her ice blue eyes froze in anger.

"I wasn't thinking that," MagicStar said gruffly. She touched her cheek gently. "If we use Hogoshi-chan to spread darkness, finding the planetary light should be simple." DreamStar shook her head.

"Impossible," she whispered. "The outer soldiers would recognize her immediately." MagicStar almost grabbed her sister by the throat. She was so naïve!

"It's been nearly a millennia!" MagicStar hissed. Her temper was rising. "That immature brat we knew back in the Silver Millennium has grown. She looks the same age they do!"

"But does she act the same age? For all we know she could still be a seven year old at heart."

"We won't know unless we try," came the cold response. The two sailor soldiers nodded at each other and walked to the dark room. The door had reappeared again, but as soon as the sisters approached it, the door again disappeared.

The silver lights dimmed as the two sisters walked inside. The fog grew thicker. MagicStar approached the black table the young woman lay on. Her eyes were sealed shut. MagicStar quickly snapped her fingers and the dome shimmered before disappearing.

"Oh, Hogoshi-chan," MagicStar whispered tauntingly. Her gray eyes were dark as she touched the girl's brooch. "I know you're sleeping, but it's about time you woke up. We're way past the beauty sleep thing." The brooch began to glow faintly. "Now you have to wake up so we can destroy the outer soldiers."

The girl's eyes opened, revealing honest, snappy green eyes.

"Hello there Hogoshi, I mean, Sailor Destiny, soldier of fate," DreamStar said with a laugh in her voice. "Can you close four soldiers fate for us, sweet? You remember them, don't you?"

"I..." the girl said in a liquid, musical like voice. MagicStar nearly gasped. Her voice had lost the childish innocence it once had so long ago. It sounded so much more mature. "The outer soldiers, you mean? Oh yes. I remember them."

"Could you find them please?" MagicStar asked. "Please, Hogoshi?"

The girl struggled to sit up and realized much to her dismay that she was very weak. "I am very weak Mirage. How do you expect me to go outside and walk about with my body so fragile?" MagicStar smiled as she quickly changed back into Tsukino Mirage. DreamStar followed her example and transformed back into…Tsukino Reverie.

"That's what we want, honey," Reverie said with false sweetness in her voice. "You had a silver soul. A gorgeous one, but sadly it was lost in the Silver Millennium. But you can get it again." Feeling uncomfortable sitting on an ice-cold bench, Hogoshi turned and jumped off of it. Both Reverie and Mirage gasped. She had to be at least as tall as Uranus!

"How can I get it?" Hogoshi whispered, supporting herself on the bench. Thank god she had gloves on or she might have gotten frostbite from the stupid bench. "I need something to keep me going."

"Get the souls of the outer soldiers."

"What?" Hogoshi stared at her magenta-haired sister. "How will that help?" Reverie and Mirage looked at each other, evil grins spreading across their faces.

"Those four souls can turn into a silver soul, just the one you need," Mirage said with a smirk on her face. "And you can't really live without a soul."

"Odd," Hogoshi whispered. "I don't really seem to remember those four as well as a thought I did. I remember…I remember…nothing!" Her eyes became frantic. "I don't remember anything!"

"Chill, Hogoshi-chan!" Reverie exclaimed. "Just get their souls and you'll be okay." Hogoshi, trying not to cry out in fear, took a deep breath. Just get four people's soul. Simple.

"I'll do it," she finally whispered. Then she laughed. "And if I have to get it the hard way, well, then I'll just do it the hard way."

Reverie and Mirage smiled. If this girl stayed in the room too much longer, she'd be too evil to handle with. The evil fog was already seeping into her body, giving her enough energy to go around and look for the outer soldiers.

Hogoshi stood up, her eyes already becoming clouded. She smiled wickedly. Looking down at her sailor fuku, she smiled.

"That won't do," she whispered and transformed her outfit into a Juuban High School uniform. "That looks bad. Let's try again." She snapped her fingers and her outfit shimmered again. This time it was a white T-shirt, black sweatshirt with a hood, and black and white plaid mini skirt. Hogoshi smiled. "Now that's more like it." She turned to her sisters. "See you around sisters." With that, she disappeared in a whisk of silver bubbles.

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Author's Note: Hogoshi is an interesting characters, my first real otaku created for one of my friends I dragged into liking Sailor Moon. She's one of those manipulated characters you'll find in nearly every hackneyed SM story, who actually turns out to be some forgotten princess of the sun or something (don't worry, I'm not doing that on here).

The plot becomes even more tangled, like hair in a toothbrush. (Ewwww).

Until the next episode comes out, I bid thee farewell.