The Rising Sun Adventures

Book One

Chapter Two

While Usagi was still at the arcade, playing one of the games there, just before heading to a nearby

library for a while, strange things were also happening at a jewelry story that Naru's mother owned

elsewhere in Juuban. Several people were now rapidly starting to fall quite unconscious as they were all

still shopping there, in fact, for no currently-apparent reason that the average person might understand

sufficiently well at that time.

This was because their energies were being drained by a monster from the Negaverse that had been

left there by a Negaverse General named Jeddite or something along those lines. Though nobody who

wasn't actually from the Negaverse knew that yet, in fact. Of course, the Negaverse General and his

monster knew that was happening, for the obvious reasons. But nobody else did, at least as of the current

time in OSA-P.

The name of the monster that was now draining the energies of the store's customers and its owner

was named Morga. As it was doing so, Naru showed up near it, and the monster captured Naru's mother

by entering her through the nose in the form of a mist as Mrs. Osaka breathed unconsciously on the floor

near some jewelry display cases. Then the monster gained almost total control of Mrs. Osaka, and made

her stand up near where she'd fallen just a few mere moments before.

As the monster began moving toward Naru, Naru then began to run as fast as she could from the

store. And she went in search of Usagi, thinking that somehow, she might be able to help. Though she

didn't yet know exactly where in Juuban Usagi might be, for it had been at least a little while since she'd

last seen her that day.

In fact, by this time, after at least a little time at both the arcade and the aforementioned library,

Usagi had eventually made her way back to the Tsukino residence. After Usagi had done so, she'd taken

a nap. And so she'd continued to do, at least until a bit of wind made her window shut quite loudly indeed.

When she turned toward the window, who did she see but the same cat she'd saved earlier?

The rather strange black and gold cat had started looking for her again not long after their original

meeting that day. And she'd explored at least the general area near where she'd earlier been saved by

Usagi, while Usagi had still been in school. Then, later in the day, she'd begun to notice strange things

happening elsewhere in the area. And most of those things were quite near, if not also inside, OSA-P. Just

as soon as she saw numerous students in the area actually start to leave their schools for the day, she then

resumed her search for Usagi here. She'd looked in the arcade just before Usagi had come there, and left

it minutes before Usagi got there after her earlier detention from school. Then she'd gone back toward

OSA-P, wondering if Usagi would show up there. She'd overheard a conversation earlier in the day that

made her think such a possibility was quite likely. Not seeing her there, she then eventually followed Umino

Gurio to the same library that Usagi actually went to. Not seeing her there, but seeing Umino talking to

Naru, as Naru left the library minutes before Usagi got there, she overheard Naru mention where Usagi

lived. From there, it was an easy enough matter for her to get there for the first time. While Usagi was still

in the library, that cat, whose name was actually Luna, then climbed up in a tree, and took a short nap on

a branch within leaping distance of the Tsukino residence's nearest roof part and Usagi's windowsill. The

wind woke her up, when it began to carry screams from the area of OSA-P in Juuban to at least some

degree, if not a lot. And then she saw Usagi flopped face-down on her bed's top, almost immediately

thereafter. Before the window was then quite loudly blown shut here, Luna then sprang from her branch

to the windowsill, and then to Usagi's bed, just as quickly and as safely as she could do so here.

Quite naturally, of course, when Usagi then saw Luna on her bed here, she asked, "Huh? Who

are you? You scared me! Why are you here?"

"Why, Usagi, I'm here to see you. My name is Luna, for your information."

Usagi thought, "This can't be right! A talking cat! There shouldn't be such a thing!"

"I have been searching for you for quite some time, in fact, Usagi."

"What in the Universe is she talking about? How is she talking here? This must be a dream! I

can't be talking to a cat who talks back," thought Usagi, quite perplexed now about her current situation

here, obviously enough.

"I must be hallucinating here! This can't be real!"

"No, you're not hallucinating, Usagi. You are Sailor Moon, and Osaka Naru-san is in trouble.

She's looking for you right now, as a matter of fact."

Usagi thought, "This can't be real."

Luna said, "You must help her, Usagi." Usagi looked at her as if she was still in shock. Which,

in fact, she still was in, for the obvious reasons here. Luna then said, "You don't believe me. Fine. Then

I guess I'll just have to try to prove it to you here." She then did a backflip in the air. As she did so, out

of some sort of normally-invisible pocket in space came a locket. That locket, in fact, was to be Usagi's

first transformation item.

Usagi asked, "What is that thing?"

"A special locket just for you, Usagi. And no one else."

"Wow. It's really for me? What would it look best with of mine? Where should I wear it? At

school or not?"

"Listen, Usagi. This isn't just any piece of jewelry here. Listen to me, Usagi! Do you hear what

I'm saying?" As Luna then said these things here, Usagi was checking its current appearance in a mirror

elsewhere in her room.

Luna said, "You're Sailor Moon, pledged long ago to defend the Princess of the Moon! Powerful

forces have appeared here on Earth, and that locket will help you fight them. You must fight evil whenever

you encounter it. You must not be afraid!"

"Yeah, sure, furball. Like I'm really supposed to fight just like Sailor V!"

"This is no joke, Usagi! This is your destiny, whether you care to admit it or not! Do you hear me,

Usagi? I'm not kidding you here!"

"Yeah, right. My destiny? Did you fall on your head when you were born or not? I can't believe

this, furball! This must be either a really bad dream or the biggest hoax that I've ever heard of in my entire

life. Or even thought of, in fact!"

That last bit finally got Luna quite steamed at Usagi, if she wasn't already steamed by then. Finally

she asked Usagi, after first taking one or two deep breaths, "Fine. You want me to prove that I'm telling

you the truth, Usagi?"

"If you can, go right ahead, then! I dare you!"

"Then repeat after me these exact words, Usagi."

"What words?"

"MOON PRISM POWER."

Still quite skeptical here, of course, Usagi then said, "MOON PRISM POWER!" As soon as she

did so, a thick pillar of light suddenly appeared around her, and her clothes begun to change their

appearances here. When the pillar around her vanished moments later, her new look shocked her yet

again. She was now in her Sailor Senshi uniform as Sailor Moon. When she saw her new look in the

mirror, she asked, "Ah! What is this? Why am I dressed like this? This dream is getting weirder and

weirder as more time passes here. I'll never study so hard again! I want to play Sailor V games, but I

don't want to live them!"

Just then, Sailor Moon heard Naru screaming in panic near and in OSA-P, largely through her

meatball-like hair buns, if not also through her ears as well. Naru was screaming for help, from anyone who

might be able to hear her at all, in fact.

Sailor Moon said, "That's Naru!"

"That's right, Sailor Moon. She's in really big trouble now, and you may just be the only one who

can actually save her here somehow!"

"Yeah, but what can I do to help? You seem to be forgetting that I'm just a kid, you know!"

"You're Sailor Moon, that's what. You'll know what to do when the need arises, once you look

into your heart, Sailor Moon! Believe in yourself!"

Sailor Moon thought, "This is hard for me to do, I think. But if it's to save Naru, fine." She then

looked at Luna, and nodded at her. Then she said, "Okay, Luna. Lead the way then, if you dare!" Then

both of them went out her window, as was now necessary for them both to do here.

Meanwhile, near and in OSA-P, Naru was still running from her Morga-controlled mother Mrs.

Osaka, for the obvious reasons. Morga had cornered Naru in a corner of her hostess's jewelry shop, and

was now outstretching tentacles of some sort toward Naru here. As she latched onto Naru, and began

trying to strangle her here, she said, "Soon you humans will be no more! When Queen Beryl unleashes the

Negaforce, not one of you will survive on this pitiful little planet that you call Earth!"

As the last word passed her ugly lip-like mouth opening, she suddenly felt a strange presence

elsewhere in OSA-P. Though she didn't know what it was yet, of course. That would change almost

immediately, however, when Sailor Moon then spoke near her here.

Sailor Moon then shouted, all of a sudden, without any warning, "Let her go, you monster!"

Morga turned, and faced toward her challenger, while still hanging onto Naru here. She asked,

"What's that?"

"I said let her go!" shouted Sailor Moon.

"And just who are you, stranger, to tell me what to do here?"

"Okay, monster, uh, well, I can't really tell you my real name. However, I can tell you that I am

Sailor Moon, the Champion of Justice. And I say, in the name of God's Moon for Earth, 'I shall triumph

over evil. And that means YOU, you ugly-faced monster!'"

"Sailor Moon. Never heard of you, and I'm sure I never will again! Arise, my pets. Drain her

energy, and serve the great power that is the Negaverse."

Morga breathed a large mist of some sort toward all the unconscious patrons in the store, and they

soon were animated and controlled by it. Through her, of course. She then sent them toward Sailor Moon,

quite naturally enough, in fact. They attacked Sailor Moon as best as they could then do so here.

Sailor Moon said, "Luna, help me. I don't know what to do!" She said this as she tried to avoid

the controlled patrons' attacks. And she said it as Morga charged at her and knocked her against a pillar

as well, in fact. "Ow, that hurt! I don't wanna do this any more!"

Luna shouted, "Sailor Moon, what are you doing? You must fight this monster, or the Universe

could cease to exist!"

"I don't want to play this game anymore! LUNA, I WANNA GO HOME!"

Morga said, "Fine, foolish human. I'll send you there for good!"

An arm, or tentacle, or something like either, stretched out toward the cornered Senshi, Sailor

Moon, no more than a few seconds later, in fact. And it did so as Sailor Moon shrieks, "AAAAAH!"

Just then, a red rose flashed across the gap between Sailor Moon and Morga. Morga turned to

find the thrower, as she also asked who they might be. Standing in a window high above, a strange young

man in formal dress became visible here to Morga, Sailor Moon, and Luna. Morga asked, "Now just who

might you be, fancy pants?"

"I am Tuxedo Kamen. Sailor Moon, look into your heart and find the warrior within. It is your

destiny."

Sailor Moon said, "But I don't want to be a warrior." She then started to wail and cry. Her Senshi

powers magnified the resulting noise quite considerably. Which then forced Morga to release her control

over the patrons that she was now controlling here. The patrons then all collapsed back onto the floor here

again, in fact.

Morga said, "Aah! Stop that hideous crying!"

Luna shouted, "Sailor Moon, quickly, throw your tiara, and say, 'MOON TIARA FLASH!' I

think that'll work here."

"What for, Luna? What good is that going to do here?"

"Just do it!"

Sailor Moon then took off her tiara. She looked at it, not yet knowing that it'd be her strongest

weapon against evil for a while. Thrown, it would turn into a boomerang/discus that might turn a typical

monster into moon dust. At least as of the current time, anyway. All she needed to say in order to activate

it would be "Moon Tiara Flash," in fact.

She then shouted, just as Luna had just told her to, "MOON TIARA FLASH!" Seconds later,

as Morga reacted, the tiara hit her. She had no chance to counter-attack, in fact. She was immediately

expelled from Mrs. Osaka's body, of course.

Sailor Moon asked, "Huh, I did that?"

Morga, just before she turned to moon dust here, said, "I shall return!" Then she vanished, just as

soon as she'd appeared earlier in OSA-P, when Jeddite or whatever his name was had left her there some

time before.

Somewhere back in the Negaverse, where Jeddite currently was standing near a moderately large

ball of energy, Jeddite then got a big surprise, in fact. He got it when that energy ball dispersed and its

components returned to the presently-unconscious patrons and owner of OSA-P, no matter who those

people then were, in actual reality. He then vowed, as he watched his worked-for ball of energy vanish

from his sight, "Someone will pay for this! I don't know who yet, but someone most definitely will pay for

this! And pay quite dearly, if at all possible."

Meanwhile, back at OSA-P, the moon dust soon vanished, and Tuxedo Kamen prepared to leave.

But not before saying to Sailor Moon, "You've done well, Sailor Moon. And now, Naru's mother and

all the patrons here are free. Others will test you. Don't be afraid, for I'll fight with you against them."

Then, without another word to her, he exited through the window that he'd just been standing in moments

before.

Luna then asked, "Are you all right, Sailor Moon? Speak to me."

Sailor Moon said, "What a handsome guy!"

"Are you all right, Sailor Moon?"

"Now I am, furball. Let's go home."

Luna thought, "Fine, Sailor Moon. But I still don't like being called that here. I'll have to teach

you not to call me that, I think."

On the way home, Luna eventually had Sailor Moon de-transform in a deserted alleyway, of

course. When her charge did so, Sailor Moon then dropped back to just being Tsukino Usagi again, in

fact. By the time that they reached the same tree near Usagi's window, Luna was then perched on Usagi's

shoulder, as well.

Luna then leapt onto the tree's trunk, and told Usagi to follow her up the tree. Usagi began

climbing it, just after Luna did so. It took Usagi a few moments to get up high enough in the tree to allow

her to leap to the part of the roof around her window. But she still did so, in fact. Then she climbed into

her still-open window, and Luna followed her in, not more than a few seconds or so later. Once they were

both in her room again, Usagi quickly changed into a pair of pink rabbit-covered pajamas, tossing her

uniform on the floor near her bed, and her locket in the middle of a good-sized pile of comic books and

other things on her dresser, as well. Within five more minutes of her doing so, she was quite soundly asleep

in her bed again, in actual reality. Luna watched her for a while, and then went to sleep herself on a chair

in her new charge's bedroom.

The next chapter will have the last bit of "A Moon Star Is Born" leading into the next episode, and

most of the first part of that episode, as I might choose to write it. I probably will do the same with other

episodes for my version of Sailor Moon here in the Tokyo Zone of Earth, at least for this story series. So

the events of the various episodes of mine in this story series actually may or may not be different from the

events of any of the known episodes for any established continuity in the Sailor Moon Universe, of course,

if that's sufficiently true. A lot of things might be the same ways as they may be in those particular

continuities. And a lot of things might be different from the ways that they may be in them. But which things

are which, and which things aren't, you'll just have to wait and see. I'll probably put an average of at least

thirty chapters for each story in this particular story series, however, readers, if I feel like it at all, in fact.

Possibly more, and possibly less. We'll all just have to see what happens here, in fact, of course, people.

And there may be periodic references to other related series of mine in the same Universe, for your

information, everyone. What they may or may not be, I can't exactly say yet, for all the obvious reasons,

of course. But rest assured, I won't leave you in the dark about them any longer than I have to, if I can

possibly avoid it at all.

Until later, then, I suppose I'd better cut this short right here and right now, everyone. Take care

and God bless, God willing, of course, readers. If you feel the need or desire to read and review this, then,

please do so. And please do try to do so rather cleanly, rather courteously, and rather constructively, if

at all possible. Thanks in advance, readers, if you then do so. I know you might not entirely agree with

how I might write this story, of course. But please let me use artistic license, whenever possible, for it, just

the same. Until later, then, this is "The Universal Storyteller" signing off. Over and out!