REAWAKENING
Book One of Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon CosmicStars
by Nashie (aka ShadowSamurai)
December 1999 - April 2000
Revised - Summer/Fall 2002
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.
Episode 213: Guardian of time silenced? Who has the second soul?
There was bitter darkness. The darkness was cold and felt almost taboo, spreading around her, quickly and quietly. There was nothing. Nothing was there and nothing would ever be there. It was emptiness. Cold, black emptiness. Alone forever in this dark place.
"Are you okay?"
The emptiness. The growing emptiness.
"You should wake up."
"..." The darkness...was fading? The shining light glowed oddly around her before expanding the horizon completely.
"Do you hear me, Sailor Uranus?" the voice asked again. "Please, wake up. And quickly."
Uranus opened her eyes, blinking. She saw Hogoshi looking down on her face with concern. "Hogoshi-chan," she asked in a hoarse voice.
"You're awake," Hogoshi whispered. She smiled. "Finally. You've been asleep for a couple days now. No wonder. I took most of your life force out of you."
"I don't get it," Uranus mumbled. She struggled to sit up. Sitting up, she rested against the backrest of the cold pillar. Looking around the black room filled with fog, she could sense evil everywhere around her. "Damnit. Where am I?"
"The Dark Moon."
"Dark Moon?"
"Yeah," Hogoshi replied. "It's this place my sisters created. It's hidden in an alternate dimension." Sighing, she looked at Uranus. "Do you remember anything that I did to you?"
"I remember you attacking me," Uranus accused. She jumped off the pillar and turned to face Hogoshi, who was nearly as tall as she as. "So you're Sailor Destiny, huh? Why'd you attack me?"
Hogoshi smirked. "'Cause I want to have my soul back. It was a silver one. If I collect the four souls of the outer soldiers, I can get my own soul back. At the moment, I have your soul, the golden soul of flight."
"Hogoshi-chan! You can't do that!" Uranus exclaimed, grabbing the girl by the wrist. "How come you don't remember us? You clearly did when I was about to disappear."
"I don't know what you're talking about Haruka-san," Hogoshi said. She pulled a black locket out of her sweatshirt pocket. "Don't worry, I know exactly who I'm after next. Destiny cosmos power, make UP!"
In a flash of silver light, Hogoshi pulled the locket to her chest. Twirling around, stars came from nowhere and attached to her body. In another flash of silver light, Hogoshi appeared in her sailor uniform, a silver moon glowing on her forehead. Her collar was black and silver. Her earrings were simple black teardrops. A skirt was black on the top and silver under it. Her black gloves came past her elbows. Both of her bows were jet black.
Coming to the end of her henshin, she did her pose. Her right leg crossed over her left leg and her hands flaring at her sides.
"Hogoshi-chan, please don't!" Uranus cried. Sailor Destiny just smiled.
"No one can stop me, Uranus," Destiny replied, silver bubbles erupting from the ground. She laughed before disappearing. "No one!"
Uranus stared sullenly at the spot where Destiny had once been. Who was she bringing back? When would this girl ever awaken as the Hogoshi they remembered?
Chibiusa ran full speed around the corner, screaming. Usagi followed her, just as fast.
"Wait!" Usagi screamed. "Stop you little braaat!" Chibiusa kept running, trying to outrun the blonde odango-atama. Knowing she wasn't going to make it, Chibiusa saw a familiar figure up ahead.
"Pu!" Chibiusa screamed, running even faster. She ran into her beloved friend's leg and held on tight. Setsuna jerked in surprise and stared down at the little pink-haired girl.
"Small Lady!" Setsuna exclaimed as Usagi came jogging up to them, out of breath. Setsuna smiled at Usagi. Chibiusa ran behind Setsuna and peeked behind her. "What's going on?"
"That brat stole my piece of caaake," Usagi whined. She began crying. "It was chocolate!"
"You didn't share Usagi-baka!" Chibiusa wailed. She stuck her tongue out at Usagi. "You NEVER share!" Usagi stopped crying and stared at the girl intensely.
"What!? You little..." Almost immediately, they began in a tongue war. You could almost see the sparks flying between them.
Suddenly, Minako and the others came running up. They were all breathing hard as they reached Usagi and Chibiusa.
"Gee...Usagi-chan...why...on...earth did you take off like that?" Rei demanded. Usagi pointed accusingly at Chibiusa.
"She stole MY cake!" she yelled as Mirage and Reverie walked up. They had been awfully bored at the arcade and found it a relief to leave. Usagi had been confused on how they could be bored at the arcade. It seemed like a crime to her.
"Oh, you don't know each other!" Usagi realized, remembering that Setsuna hadn't met Mirage. "Setsuna-san, this Tsukino Mirage. Mirage-chan, this is Meioh Setsuna."
The two shook hands. Mirage couldn't help but feel the planetary aura flowing from Setsuna. "Nice to meet you, Meioh-san."
"Please, call me Setsuna."
"Sure," Mirage said, casting a side glance at her sister. Things were working out much better than they had planned. They had already got Uranus, now here was the guardian of time!
The girls noticed that Usagi and Chibiusa were back at tongue fighting. They all sighed, embarrassed.
"Come on you two, let's get back to the arcade," Mako replied. "Motoki-chan and Una-chan are waiting for us. Remember, we're supposed to meet them for lunch."
Minako turned to Mirage and Reverie. "You guys coming?"
Reverie shook her head, her blue pigtails twirling. "Sorry, you guys. We have some work to do. Maybe sometime later." Usagi stopped her fight with Chibiusa and stared at her two new friends.
"What do you have to do?" Usagi asked.
"Just…stuff. You know how it is." Usagi shook her head. Clearly, she did not know. Chibiusa ran over to Setsuna and grabbed her hand.
"I'm going with Pu!" she announced. Mirage and Reverie looked at each other. They had to deal with this little girl as well?
"Where were you going Pu?" Chibiusa asked as the two began to walk down the street. Setsuna smiled.
"Well, it must be someplace interesting if you want to come," Setsuna replied. "I'm going over to the gardens." Chibiusa's eyes lit up.
"Oh, wow!" She grinned again. "All riiight!"
Usagi smiled as they walked off. She turned to her four friends. "Come on, minna. We're missing lunch! I'm sooo hungry."
"What do you have, a black hole for a stomach?" Rei retorted. Usagi looked at her cross-eyed, but couldn't think of a good comeback. Rei ate like a bird.
Mirage and Reverie looked at each other. Destiny knew what to do. Soon they'd be halfway done with this job.
Setsuna suddenly stopped walking. Chibiusa stopped as well. She stared up at her friends with huge red eyes.
"What's up, Pu?" she asked. Setsuna's eyes had become dark. "Are you okay?" Setsuna shook her head.
"Something's wrong…" she whispered. She sighed. "It's nothing, Small Lady. I just felt that something was seriously wrong." Chibiusa stared at Setsuna with concern.
"Maybe we should check it out," Chibiusa suggested. Setsuna shook her head.
"Yeah, maybe," came a distant response. Chibiusa smiled.
"I'll be right back!" she said, running up ahead. "I'll go check with Ami-chan! Don't leave without me, okay!"
"Okay Small Lady!" Setsuna called and watched the princess run off towards the arcade. She smiled softly. Small Lady was always full of energy.
Leaning against the wall of a store, she watched other people walk by and waited for Small Lady to come back.
Destiny watched Setsuna from the top of an office building. Waiting was so boring. That little girl who had been with her had just run off. Maybe she should attack now.
"Still waiting little sister?" a voice said behind her. Destiny turned and saw MagicStar standing behind her. She sighed impatiently.
"Yeah," Destiny muttered. "I don't know when to attack. I need a spell, MagicStar." MagicStar snorted in disgust.
"I don't do those kind of spells, that's DreamStar department," she replied. Destiny turned to her sister with those honest eyes. MagicStar turned away.
"Well, do you have any ideas?" Destiny asked. MagicStar nodded.
"Maybe you should poison her," MagicStar said. Destiny got a sweatdrop.
"How will that help?" she asked. "I don't want a poisoned soul. I'm still weak with only Uranus'."
"Speaking of which," MagicStar said, "how's she doing?" Destiny wrinkled her nose.
"She woke up. And she's pretty ticked off."
"Get Pluto. I'll use one of my spells on her, but you just hurry up and get her soul."
"Right." MagicStar disappeared in a flash of numerous pink bubbles. Destiny turned her attention back toward Setsuna. She watched intently and waited for a signal from her sister.
Setsuna sighed, waiting for Chibiusa to return. She was taking awfully long.
(Sailor Pluto…)
Setsuna's head snapped up. Her garnet eyes widened. What the…? She looked around, searching for the source of her confusion. "Who's there?" she whispered.
(Come on, now. What are you doing here, Pluto? Are you waiting for someone?)
Setsuna's first instinct was to pull out her henshin pen and transform. But there were too many people around. There had to be another way. She had promised Chibiusa she wouldn't move, but…
(Not going anywhere, eh? Come on, Setsuna. Hurry up. Listen carefully, Sailor Pluto…)
Suddenly, the air was full of a loud, humming noise. Setsuna's eyes widened. The humming, it was almost…
"Who's there!?" Setsuna demanded. She couldn't think about her promise to Small Lady now. She had to find out what's wrong. No one else on the street seemed to hear the humming sound. It was just her.
(Come on. Listen to the beautiful melody…)
Setsuna found herself walking, almost as though she was in a trance. What was going on? The humming grew louder. The voice stopped speaking. Setsuna realized that she was in a trance. At least, her body was. But her mind was still on guard.
Setsuna walked on slowly towards the source of the humming. The trance was becoming increasingly intense.
Where was Small Lady?
"Setsuna!?" Michiru cried, She looked up in alarm. She was in a small cafe with Hotaru, drinking a cup of tea. The younger girl was drinking hot chocolate...but she really didn't care for it. However, that certain feeling of terror washed over her so quickly, she dropped her own cup of tea, causing the piece of china to clatter onto her plate. Fortunately, it didn't break, but the liquid spilled out over the tip. She saw that Hotaru had also looked up in shock.
"Something's wrong with Setsuna-mama!" Hotaru exclaimed. The two girls looked at each other, pulling out their henshin pens. They got to her feet and hurried to an unwatched corner of the shop.
"Neptune crystal power...!"
"Saturn crystal power...!"
"...make UP!"
Chibiusa came running back up to the spot where she had left Setsuna. Finding that she wasn't there, Chibiusa became confused. She looked around, hoping that her friend was still around.
"Pu?" she wondered. "Where are you?" Suddenly, Chibiusa felt something evil close by. She snapped her head up. "Pu!?"
Realizing that she couldn't transform in the middle of the street, Chibiusa ran behind a store. She made sure that no one could see her. Pulling out her crisis locket, she yelled, "Moon crisis, make up!" In a flash of pink light, Chibiusa transformed. She looked at her outfit and cried, "Chibi Moon Kaleidoscope!" The long pink moon stick appeared in her hands.
"Chibi Moon Kaleidoscope!" Chibi Moon yelled. "Please. I think Pu's in trouble. Take me to her." The weapon glowed faintly.
"Please!"
There was a huge blast of pink light.
"Chibiusa!?" Usagi thought, looking up from her lunch.
"Usagi-chan, what's up?" Unazaki asked. She smiled. "Stomachache?"
"N-no," Usagi said, standing up. "I need to go. I'll see you later." The other four girls looked at each other. Something was up.
"Sorry about lunch!" Minako called as the girls raced out the door.
Setsuna stopped walking. Where am I, she thought. Looking around, she noticed she had never been to this place before. Not in this time period anyway.
"Time gate, open," she said. But it was against her own will. She had said it, but then again, she hadn't. The familiar time gate appeared in front of her. Setsuna's eyes narrowed as she pulled out her henshin pen.
"Pluto crystal power, make UP!"
Setsuna quickly transformed into Sailor Pluto. She stared at the time gate.
With this gone, it'll be so much easier to capture the guardian of time.
Pluto raised her key above head. "Dead…"
"Pu!" Pluto lowered her staff and turned to the pink-haired soldier. Chibi Moon stopped running and stared at Pluto. "What are you doing!?"
Pluto snickered at Chibi Moon. "Something very important Chibiusa-chan. Now get out of here." Chibi Moon gasped. Pluto had never, ever called her Chibiusa. She always called her Small Lady.
"Pu, what's wrong!?" Chibi Moon asked, running up to her friend. Pluto smiled harshly.
"Dead Scream!" Chibi Moon stared in absolute shock as Pluto's attack came hurtling at her.
"Puuuu!" the little girl screamed as she was rammed in the stomach by the blast. She fell backwards, falling unconscious. Pluto smiled with satisfaction as she walked toward the limp body.
"Pluto!?" a voice cried from afar. Pluto looked up and saw five figures silhouetted by the sun.
"What do you want, sailor brats?" Pluto asked, her tongue sharp. Sailor Moon's eyes widened. "Are you going to fight against me? You're friend will get hurt if you do! Dead Scream!" The five sailor suited fighters jumped out of the attack's target.
"Setsuna-san!" Mars yelled. She glared at the evil sailor soldier with violet eyes. "What are you doing!?"
"What am I doing?" Pluto echoed, holding her staff defensively. "What am I doing? I'll tell you what I'm doing. I'm going to get rid of all the sailor soldiers!" She smiled and stared at Sailor Moon with pupiless garnet eyes. "So, what are you going to do about it? Dead Scream!"
Sailor Moon stared at the upcoming attack in shock. Pluto had… attacked her!?
"Deep Submerge!"
A tidal wave came and knocked Pluto to the ground. Two more sailor soldiers appeared. Venus and Jupiter ran over to Chibi Moon who was slowly starting to come to.
"Saturn, Neptune!" Sailor Moon yelled. She ran over to them, crying. "Pluto…" Neptune stared at the fallen soldier. Something wasn't right.
Pluto got to her feet and stared at all of the sailor senshi. Chibi Moon blinked in surprise. "Pu?"
Saturn stared intensely at Pluto. "Pluto!" she screamed. "Why did you attack us?"
"She didn't." Everyone turned around and saw Sailor Destiny walking toward them. "Why would someone like Pluto turn traitor and attack her closest friends? I attacked you."
"But…Dead Scream is Pluto's attack," Mercury said. Jupiter agreed.
"How are you going to tell us that?" she added. "There's only one possible explanation. Pluto did attack us." Destiny stared at all of them with a cold look in her eyes.
"Believe what you want," Destiny said. "I'm only here for one thing and that's the soul of a sailor soldier." Turning to Chibi Moon, she smiled. "You pick, Chibi Moon." Chibi Moon shook her head.
"No one!" she yelled. "You're not taking anymore of us. We need to combine attacks."
"Yeah," Sailor Moon agreed, taking a glance at Pluto. "You're not Sailor Pluto! She'd never attack us. Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss!"
"Nooo!" Chibi Moon screamed, running to her friend. "No Sailor Moon! Don't!" Realizing that Chibi Moon was going to take the attack, Mars ran after the girl and pushed both Chibi Moon and Pluto out of the way. All three of them crashed to the ground.
"Don't hurt her!" Chibi Moon wailed. "It is Pluto! I asked my kaleidoscope to take me to Pluto and it brought me her. This is Pluto! But I don't think she has any control what she's doing!"
Sailor Moon stared at her future daughter who was crying. Mars ran up to Sailor Moon. "Chibi Moon..."
Sailor Destiny rolled her eyes. "Whatever. I came here for what I needed. I don't need this." Pushing her fist into the air, a silver beam shot from the darkening sky and hit her fist. Bringing her fist to her chest, she closed her eyes. "Soul-"
"Chibi Moon!" Sailor Moon screamed.
"-Acquire!"
The beam headed straight for Chibi Moon. She closed her eyes and screamed. Pluto stared in shock as her pupils returned, the spell wearing off.
"Small Lady," she whispered. Her eyes narrowed. "Small Lady!" She grabbed Chibi Moon and pulled her out of the way. The silver beam hit Pluto in the back. She screamed in pain. The force of the blast sent her and Chibi Moon crashing backwards. A glowing black orb flew from Pluto's body immediately.
"Pu!" Chibi Moon screamed. "Puuuu!" Destiny held the glowing orb in her hands as it slowly entered her brooch.
"Go and join you friend Uranus," Destiny snickered. Suddenly, her eyes became unclouded. She stared at Pluto, her eyes wide as memory from her past returned to her.
("Miss Pluto-san!" Hogoshi yelled. She ran into the dark, melancholy soldier. "Good morning!")
("You're here early, Hogoshi-chan," Pluto said, with a smile on her face. )
("I just wanted to be here with you early today!" Hogoshi replied. "I love you so much Miss Pluto!" Pluto laughed.)
("A little bit too hyper today.")
Destiny stared at the sailor before her eyes became clouded again. "Next time sailors. I'm half way done." Destiny disappeared in her classic silver bubbles.
"Pu, Pu, wake up," Chibi Moon sobbed. She buried her face in her hands. "Pu!" The other senshi walked to Chibi Moon. Pluto was already beginning to fade away.
"Small Lady, are you...okay?" Pluto asked. Chibi Moon nodded. Pluto smiled softly.
"Please don't go, Pu," Chibi Moon begged. "Please!" She buried her face in Pluto's chest. "Please!" Pluto stroked the distraught girl's hair.
"It'll be all right," Pluto whispered, her voice fading with her body. "I'm sorry, Small Lady." Chibi Moon jerked up in surprised as Pluto's body faded away in a shower of garnet sparks.
"Noooo!" Chibi Moon screamed. "Noooo! Pluto!"
Author's Note: Um...right...so, anyway. R&R. Please. Until the next chappie-poo!