Hi everyone!!! Long time no update, right? Well, I actually got this
chapter out on a Friday, as mentioned at the end of last chapter! Just, the
wrong Friday.. ^_^ Well, it's hard when you get dragged out to New York,
then Delaware, then you get sick, and then your revengeful teachers pile on
tons of homework and papers. And then you lose the four pages of the
chapter you have written already! Here is something that might be of
valuable information to you: if you want to lose something, just lend it to
me for two days. Easy!
Also, I want to give a HUGE "Thank You!" to everyone who reviewed my story so far! I appreciate it so, so much! It makes me happy to read all those good comments! Please keep them coming! They are awesome. And speaking of your reviews, I swear some of you guys are psychic. It's like you know my plot or something..
And as for how far we are in the first season, we are at the period of the first season where the are gathering the rainbow crystals, before the identities of the Princess Serenity and Prince Endymion are known, and before there is the Silver Imperium Crystal. I actually refer to them by their Japanese names though, which would be the nijizuishou (rainbow crystal) and ginzuishou (silver imperium crystal). Please correct me if I'm wrong with these names (not uncommon) ^_^
But, I did mess around with the plot line of Sailor Moon a little, as you will notice, just wanted to clear this up before this chapter got started: I am officially bringing Sailor Venus A.K.A Minako into this story. Yes, I know, she is not supposed to be around during this point in the series, but what can I say. Sailor V is my second favorite senshi, next to Sailor Moon, and she makes the story super funny with her ways of doing things. I couldn't possibly do this story and leave her out! So ignore that one incongruence. It would be so much more fun to put her in the story.
And you will see, as the story unfolds that though I am going by plot line in the series, the story itself that I am writing is changing it just a little bit and putting its own quirks into the plot, so when its done, it'll change the ending of the series. Sort of. I can't really explain it. Oh well, guess you'll just have to read! ^_~
At last, chapter 3! Oh, and I don't own Sailor Moon!
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Rating: PG or PG-13. I'm wavering with the ratings here, if you can't tell!
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Chapter 3- Behind the Buildings
Usagi almost had to laugh. She had forgotten how utterly ridiculous the youmas looked. This particular one the senshi were battling looked like a cat that had been in a science lab experiment turned bad. Even though she did have the unbearable urge to snicker at the deformed "monster" in front of her, she knew she couldn't. It would attract attention she didn't want from her past self and past self's fellow senshi.
Well, it wasn't like she didn't want the attention; Usagi thought it would be pretty amusing to meet up these past-selves of all her friends and tell them about all her knowledge from the future, and be like their fortune- teller. But she couldn't tell them such secrets like their true loves and future whereabouts for two reasons:
She could affect the future in some way and get killed, or Pluto will find out and be very pissed at her, and she'll get killed
So she thought it best just not to let them see her. The minute they made contact, Usagi knew she'd have trouble holding her tongue about, especially about her own boyfriend. Not that she wouldn't mind seeing her past self's face if she were to tell her who her boyfriend, and future-husband, would be, but as funny as it would be, it wouldn't be too bright. Usagi didn't want to go back to the future to find that she had never had a relationship with Mamoru to begin with. And she didn't want to die here in this time either, which chances are if the senshi saw her right now, they would hunt her down and kill her as a youma. So, if you can see, she really did see it fit to just stay out of the way, suppressing her giggles, and hiding in a cozy alley behind a building.
Apparently Tuxedo Kamen saw it fit to stay out of the way, too. Usagi, in her suitable little nook that allowed her to see everything going on so well without having to worry about everyone being able to see her, was able to make out Tuxedo Kamen's tall, lean, black, and heavily cloaked figure high up in the depths of a tree, much overlooked by the senshi out in the battle zone. Usagi couldn't help but sprout a little, knowing smile on her lips upon noticing him. She remembered how she first thought of Tuxedo Kamen: mysterious and secretive, albeit unbelievably handsome. It suited him so well, that he should be up in a tree, determining the best time to fly down in his super-hero ways to rescue Sailor Moon. The Sailor Moon who, as we speak, was gripping on to Sailor Mars's soldiers with all her might, and trembling in fear of the scary cat-like thing behind Mars's protecting body.
Mars, with her fiery, ruby eyes and matching sailor fuku, and her long black hair that was glinting a stunning purple in the sun's light, looked towards the youma with a passionate fury. Just because the priestess practiced spirit-calming things like meditation did not mean she never got pissed. And two things that made her very pissed were a whiny Usagi and an out-of-control youma. You can see why Mars was just the slightest bit irritated at this time.
"You might not know who I am right now, but after I'm through with you, the name of "Sailor Mars" will be infamous to you and all who aim for the same despicable goal of destroying our world, just like you. So on behalf of our world and all of its inhabitants, I, Sailor Mars, will teach you one hell of a lesson!" She just loved it when she got to give the spicy speeches.
And with those words, she pulled up her arms and to the top of her lungs, with all the energy she could muster, screamed out, "Mars Fire Ignite!" From the tips of her fingers, a long, powerful rope of fire sprang out and headed straight towards the youma.
The youma looked with unflinching yellow eyes at the oncoming attack. She was truly one of the oddest formed youmas around. Her face was covered in black fur, just like a cat's. Her eyes were a piercing phosphorous yellow with tiny black slits for pupils, and her ears were shaped just like a cat's on the top of her head. Her mouth hung slightly open, enough to portray her dangerous fangs. But where her neck began, the hair stopped to remove deathly white skin up to the beginning of her chest, where the creepy black hair picked up again to her knee caps. Her arms and lower legs were of the pallor skin also. What was really creepy was the sinister pointed tail that streamed from her back-end, and her razor-sharp claws that were present on all four of her extremely large paws. But the youma was standing on two legs, not all four, which made her a little less intimidating. Not much, though. The youma, as if it were a casual, everyday thing to get assaulted with blazes of fire, spook in her eerie and haunting, though calm and nerve-racking voice.
"Oh, so you're the little fire girl, are ye?" the youma snorted in amusement as Mars's eyes took on a worried look to them. "I say if you shall use fire, I shall use fire right back, then!" Before Mars's fire could even graze the youma's skin-or fur-she opened her mouth wide and in one big breath, coughed up a very large fur ball. A fur ball itself wouldn't have been too bad, actually. This one just had to be shrouded in a dangerous casing of acidic fire. That's right-acidic fire. The normal burning-hot red plasma, just with a corrosive green glow around the flames. And in no time, the youma's fire ball had cut though, and completely destroyed, Mars's fire power.
"OH NO!" Mars's screamed in startled fright. Mars and all the senshi, amid terrified screams, moved away from where the ominous fur ball was moving at high-speeds towards. All except for good old Sailor Moon, that is. Back behind the buildings, Usagi was pressed against the rough brick wall in terrible fright of what could happen herself. She didn't exactly remember this youma fight, but taken into consideration that she had to have lived through this day already and was still alive herself, knew that nothing bad must happen to her, or to anyone else for that matter. Still, she grasped her precious brooch tightly; she would transform if she had to. After all, apparently her past self was doing nothing to ward off the attack. Usagi bit her lip in frustration and fear. Why was she doing nothing out there in front of the youma? At least now she knew why Rei had always made fun of her. Usagi was only thankful that in the last year of her fighting as Sailor Moon she had gotten much better at handling these type of situations. If she had still been like this.well, let's just say this world would officially be the property of Galaxia and Chaos, a thought that made Usagi physically shudder. To think that all her friends had been dead.and Mamo-chan! Oh, she could never imagine living without that sweet soul to guide her through her predicaments and tough times! Not to mention, he was so handsome, so suave, even her overprotective father liked him. So friendly, playful, a good kisser.did she mention handsome yet? And.oh, no! Here we go with Mamo-chan again! This was not the time! She could not be drooling over her perfect boyfriend if the fumbling senshi out there needed her recently-founded courage and steadfastness. No, it was certainly not the ideal time to idolize Mamoru.
Back on the war front, Sailor Moon took one last final gulp, and closed her eyes tight expecting the worst to come and the growing, greenish fire ball approached her. But, when it did hit, it felt soft, warm, comforting, and solid to her.almost like a velvet clothed body. Wait a sec.since when did fire feel like that? As far as she knew, it didn't. But Tuxedo Kamen did! Could it really be her #1 hero?!
She slowly opened her eyes and she felt her body go limp and her senses numb as she realized she was sure enough embraced in Tuxedo Kamen's arms strong arms, and pressed tightly to his chest, as they soared through the air, out of danger's way.
Sailor Moon felt like she was going to faint. She couldn't believe she was wrapped up in Tuxedo Kamen's arms! She couldn't think much, but she was able to process that he sure did smell good. She slowly lifted her head off of his chest to be able to gaze at his face. Well, mostly at his chin, but it was good enough for her!
"Oh, Tuxedo-Kamen-Sama! You saved me!" she cooed. Tuxedo Kamen did not respond at all. Sailor Moon didn't notice of course. She was too busy admiring his features, and the actual fact she was in his arms. SHE was in HIS arms! It wasn't real! Even though it has happened before..
Once Tuxedo Kamen got a safe distance away from the vicinity of the fire ball, which he had pulled Sailor Moon away from just in the nick of time, he landed, gently placing the trembling super heroine on the ground, just a little bit behind where the other senshi were standing. Sailor Moon hardly noticed it as one of her dangly moon earrings, having been attached to one of the buttons on Tuxedo Kamen's white shirt, fell off and onto the ground.
Tuxedo Kamen gave Sailor Moon a hard look. Sailor Moon could feel her heart speed up with the displeased look he was giving her. What had she done wrong this time? "Don't every do that again, Sailor Moon," he advised her in his rich, deep voice. "I don't want to see you get hurt when you could have avoided it so easily. What if I'm not here one time, what are you going to do? This world depends on you!" With that He turned and looked around worriedly, his deep blue eyes trying to discern where the dangerous fir ball was at. Sailor Moon voiced his very own thoughts.
"WHERE IS IT?!" she suddenly screeched in panic, as if just remembering now that there had been a fire ball chasing after her. 'Where's it at? Are you all okay?" She had managed to forget about Tuxedo Kamen in the sudden panic.
"I think we should be asking if you're okay, genius," Rei sneered. "But thanks for asking, yes we are all okay. We had the sense to move out of the way." Usagi gave her a saddened and almost betrayed look, her lower lip trembling from the onslaught of tears at Rei's cruel words.
"Shush, Mars," Venus scolded. "She was just scared. Besides, at least she didn't make that look you did, with your eyes popping out and mouth wide open things, with you face all screwed up. I mean, you almost looked like a monster yourself out there!"
"Gee, thanks," Rei said wryly.
"WHERE IS IT?" Sailor Moon once again demanded.
"Hold your horses, girl," Jupiter said. "It's gone. We got rid of it. Well, I got rid of it," Jupiter beamed with pride. "The world is saved, and guess what? It's all thanks to me this time! OOOOoooooh! Not you, but me! Not you, but me!" she started singing. Sailor Moon looked at Jupiter in a bit of a confused manner. Mars let out a frustrated groan.
"Do you realize there's something missing here, my dear friend?" she asked in an annoyed tone. Sailor Moon averted her gaze to her, but said nothing.
"The youma?" Rei probed.
"Oh! The youma!" Sailor Moon repeated. "No I didn't, but now that you mention it, where did it go?" All of the senshi sweatdropped. But Jupiter didn't hesitate to answer her friend's request.
"Well, you see, I did my "Jupiter Thunder Crash" thing, hoping to break up the fire ball. But, instead, something weird happened, and it actually gave the fire ball more power. But it didn't just give it more power, it actually caused the fire ball to change directions, to the direction of which my lightning thing had been going in. Stupid cat-woman who was busy gloating over her creation didn't even notice her own power turning against her, with my help, of course! And.WHAM! It hit her head on, and completely disintegrated her into nothingness!!! Can you believe it? I did it! Hardly a senshi for more than two weeks, and-oh yeah-I already defeated a youma on my own! Uh-huh, oh yeah, uh-"
Venus firmly clamped a hand over Jupiter's mouth. "Please shut up," she said.
Sailor Moon was confused. "But what about the nijizuishou?" she asked. "Was there any?"
Mercury shrugged. "Guess there wasn't this time. This wouldn't be the first youma we recently faced that hadn't been the possessor of a nijizuishou."
"Yes, you're right," Sailor Moon said, her head bent down. She quickly lifted her head up with much vigor and gave each of her friends a huge smile. "Thank you guys so much for beating that youma's butt!" she cheered. "That is so awesome Jupiter!" Jupiter glowed at the compliment. "Oh, and thank you-," she began to turn to thank her savior, Tuxedo Kamen, but her voice quickly died when she realized that he was not beside her anymore. She stared sadly with blank eyes onto the area he was last at.
"So he left again," Venus's faint voice reached Sailor Moon's ears.
"Yeah," she mumbled, her voice and eyes downcast.
Sailor Mars slowly approached. "Look, Sailor Moon, I know we've told you this a million times, and I know you're sick of being told this, so can't you just listen for once?" she begged. Her red eyes were sincere, and they touched Usagi's very soul. She nodded her head. "Usagi," Rei continued, "believe me when I say I think he is as pleasant to the eyes as you think he is. But no matter how good he looks, we still don't know whether he is friend or enemy." Usagi rolled her eyes. Now Rei got serious, and just a little bit mad at her friend's nonchalant attitude to this matter.
"Look, Sailor Moon," Mercury began, helping Mars out. "You're our leader, you're what keeps us together and performing at par. You're the reason this world has not yet collapsed under the Dark Kingdom's tricky schemes. You have dealt with countless youmas, and each time come out with a proud victory in the battles, which is why we don't want to see you get killed by someone like.Tuxedo Kamen, someone we can easily protect ourselves from." Sailor Moon looked at Ami as if she had betrayed her horribly through her words.
'No, no, NO!" she suddenly screamed passionately, covering her ears tightly. "Tuxedo Kamen is not evil! He isn't!"
"But you must be careful, Sailor Moon!" Venus pleaded. Sailor Moon remained still, her eyes tightly shut and ears covered, but it was obvious by the slight softening of her expression that Sailor Moon could still hear and was still listening. "Sailor Moon, believe us, we don't want him to be our enemy. It would upset us just as much as you. We are all fond of him being here to save us on the occasional battle. But even so, we know not what his goal is of obtaining the nijizuishou, and he has remained committed to keeping that information pertaining to what he is about from us. Yes, we don't have any reason to believe he is our enemy, but neither do we have reason to believe he is our ally! He has three nijizuishou already, much more than our scant one, and he seems ready to steal that one from us too. What is to keep us from saying that he might not one day hurt us? Nothing! Do you see my point, Sailor Moon? We are not trying to hurt you, just protect you, as is our jobs!" Sailor Moon stood there quiet and stunned at Venus;s powerful words.
Jupiter ambled up to where the quiet and subdued girl stood. She placed an arm around her small friend's shoulder and squeezed Usagi to herself, turning her around and walking her across the deserted, afternoon street. Of course, it was probably deserted more because of the youma than the fact that it was afternoon.
"Come on," Makoto soothed. The other three senshi followed behind the two. "Let's detransform and head over to the arcade. We can meet up with Andrew, a hot guy who we are sure for a fact is not evil nor our enemy, play some videos, and get some milkshakes. How does that sound? It'll be a total stress-free blast! And a needed one too!" Usagi nodded distractedly as she easily detransformed in a release of power. The other four senshi quickly followed her lead and soon they were all just normal school girls. Soon they were out of sight and well away from where the recent fight had just transpired.
Tsukino Usagi from the future, still with her back straight and pressed tightly against the wall, let out a huge breath which had been saving up for a while. She had witnessed everything: Tuxedo Kamen coming out of hiding and saving herself, leaving, and the following quarrels between the scouts over him. She couldn't help but laughing at what they had spoken. Tuxedo Kamen, evil! As if! If that sweet man of hers was evil, she was Miss Japan. Which, as was a well-known fact, she would never have the coordination to be.
Evil.how absurd.Tuxedo Kamen evil.Mamo-chan evil.impossible. Unless, of course, he was under the influence of either Metallia or Chaos, then not-so- impossible. But even so, her Maamo-chan was the least evil person in the world! He was kind, caring, chivalrous, personable.she was obsessing again, wasn't she? This was not good. At this rate, she would miss him terribly in not even an hour more. Did she just feel a pang of missing him? Probably..
She crawled out from behind the bushes and looked around the empty surrounding area and took in a deep breath. What would she possibly do now? No one to talk to, no place to go without worry of being seen by someone who was in someway affiliated with her past self. This sucked.
But at that second, her mind was quickly taken off of her horrible predicament, which, again, she would lay all blame to Chibi-usa, by a high- pitched, loud, and ear-shattering scream. It reverberated throughout the placid sky, almost knocking Usagi down. Yet something about the scream sounded familiar.
Usagi turned around to see the person who was the source of the scream, and when her eyes came upon the person whom had shouted-one blond, odangoed, short, and blue-eyed individual-she herself let out a deafening scream as well, one that was identical to the one that the girl in front of her had produced. And, following that, both Usagi and her past self screamed together, startled and frightened, at the same time.
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That was, again, a long chapter. Sorry for all who don't like the long chapter things, but, believe me, now that I'm done with the whole setting- up the story descriptive thing and finally onto the plot part, they'll get shorter. Seriously! And for all who haven't guessed it yet, I LOVE my reviews, so please review! Love to know what you think about it so far! And, for those who are unsure, "nijizuishou" means "rainbow crystal." Oh, look! I finished this and it's only midnight! ^_^;
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Also, I want to give a HUGE "Thank You!" to everyone who reviewed my story so far! I appreciate it so, so much! It makes me happy to read all those good comments! Please keep them coming! They are awesome. And speaking of your reviews, I swear some of you guys are psychic. It's like you know my plot or something..
And as for how far we are in the first season, we are at the period of the first season where the are gathering the rainbow crystals, before the identities of the Princess Serenity and Prince Endymion are known, and before there is the Silver Imperium Crystal. I actually refer to them by their Japanese names though, which would be the nijizuishou (rainbow crystal) and ginzuishou (silver imperium crystal). Please correct me if I'm wrong with these names (not uncommon) ^_^
But, I did mess around with the plot line of Sailor Moon a little, as you will notice, just wanted to clear this up before this chapter got started: I am officially bringing Sailor Venus A.K.A Minako into this story. Yes, I know, she is not supposed to be around during this point in the series, but what can I say. Sailor V is my second favorite senshi, next to Sailor Moon, and she makes the story super funny with her ways of doing things. I couldn't possibly do this story and leave her out! So ignore that one incongruence. It would be so much more fun to put her in the story.
And you will see, as the story unfolds that though I am going by plot line in the series, the story itself that I am writing is changing it just a little bit and putting its own quirks into the plot, so when its done, it'll change the ending of the series. Sort of. I can't really explain it. Oh well, guess you'll just have to read! ^_~
At last, chapter 3! Oh, and I don't own Sailor Moon!
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Rating: PG or PG-13. I'm wavering with the ratings here, if you can't tell!
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Chapter 3- Behind the Buildings
Usagi almost had to laugh. She had forgotten how utterly ridiculous the youmas looked. This particular one the senshi were battling looked like a cat that had been in a science lab experiment turned bad. Even though she did have the unbearable urge to snicker at the deformed "monster" in front of her, she knew she couldn't. It would attract attention she didn't want from her past self and past self's fellow senshi.
Well, it wasn't like she didn't want the attention; Usagi thought it would be pretty amusing to meet up these past-selves of all her friends and tell them about all her knowledge from the future, and be like their fortune- teller. But she couldn't tell them such secrets like their true loves and future whereabouts for two reasons:
She could affect the future in some way and get killed, or Pluto will find out and be very pissed at her, and she'll get killed
So she thought it best just not to let them see her. The minute they made contact, Usagi knew she'd have trouble holding her tongue about, especially about her own boyfriend. Not that she wouldn't mind seeing her past self's face if she were to tell her who her boyfriend, and future-husband, would be, but as funny as it would be, it wouldn't be too bright. Usagi didn't want to go back to the future to find that she had never had a relationship with Mamoru to begin with. And she didn't want to die here in this time either, which chances are if the senshi saw her right now, they would hunt her down and kill her as a youma. So, if you can see, she really did see it fit to just stay out of the way, suppressing her giggles, and hiding in a cozy alley behind a building.
Apparently Tuxedo Kamen saw it fit to stay out of the way, too. Usagi, in her suitable little nook that allowed her to see everything going on so well without having to worry about everyone being able to see her, was able to make out Tuxedo Kamen's tall, lean, black, and heavily cloaked figure high up in the depths of a tree, much overlooked by the senshi out in the battle zone. Usagi couldn't help but sprout a little, knowing smile on her lips upon noticing him. She remembered how she first thought of Tuxedo Kamen: mysterious and secretive, albeit unbelievably handsome. It suited him so well, that he should be up in a tree, determining the best time to fly down in his super-hero ways to rescue Sailor Moon. The Sailor Moon who, as we speak, was gripping on to Sailor Mars's soldiers with all her might, and trembling in fear of the scary cat-like thing behind Mars's protecting body.
Mars, with her fiery, ruby eyes and matching sailor fuku, and her long black hair that was glinting a stunning purple in the sun's light, looked towards the youma with a passionate fury. Just because the priestess practiced spirit-calming things like meditation did not mean she never got pissed. And two things that made her very pissed were a whiny Usagi and an out-of-control youma. You can see why Mars was just the slightest bit irritated at this time.
"You might not know who I am right now, but after I'm through with you, the name of "Sailor Mars" will be infamous to you and all who aim for the same despicable goal of destroying our world, just like you. So on behalf of our world and all of its inhabitants, I, Sailor Mars, will teach you one hell of a lesson!" She just loved it when she got to give the spicy speeches.
And with those words, she pulled up her arms and to the top of her lungs, with all the energy she could muster, screamed out, "Mars Fire Ignite!" From the tips of her fingers, a long, powerful rope of fire sprang out and headed straight towards the youma.
The youma looked with unflinching yellow eyes at the oncoming attack. She was truly one of the oddest formed youmas around. Her face was covered in black fur, just like a cat's. Her eyes were a piercing phosphorous yellow with tiny black slits for pupils, and her ears were shaped just like a cat's on the top of her head. Her mouth hung slightly open, enough to portray her dangerous fangs. But where her neck began, the hair stopped to remove deathly white skin up to the beginning of her chest, where the creepy black hair picked up again to her knee caps. Her arms and lower legs were of the pallor skin also. What was really creepy was the sinister pointed tail that streamed from her back-end, and her razor-sharp claws that were present on all four of her extremely large paws. But the youma was standing on two legs, not all four, which made her a little less intimidating. Not much, though. The youma, as if it were a casual, everyday thing to get assaulted with blazes of fire, spook in her eerie and haunting, though calm and nerve-racking voice.
"Oh, so you're the little fire girl, are ye?" the youma snorted in amusement as Mars's eyes took on a worried look to them. "I say if you shall use fire, I shall use fire right back, then!" Before Mars's fire could even graze the youma's skin-or fur-she opened her mouth wide and in one big breath, coughed up a very large fur ball. A fur ball itself wouldn't have been too bad, actually. This one just had to be shrouded in a dangerous casing of acidic fire. That's right-acidic fire. The normal burning-hot red plasma, just with a corrosive green glow around the flames. And in no time, the youma's fire ball had cut though, and completely destroyed, Mars's fire power.
"OH NO!" Mars's screamed in startled fright. Mars and all the senshi, amid terrified screams, moved away from where the ominous fur ball was moving at high-speeds towards. All except for good old Sailor Moon, that is. Back behind the buildings, Usagi was pressed against the rough brick wall in terrible fright of what could happen herself. She didn't exactly remember this youma fight, but taken into consideration that she had to have lived through this day already and was still alive herself, knew that nothing bad must happen to her, or to anyone else for that matter. Still, she grasped her precious brooch tightly; she would transform if she had to. After all, apparently her past self was doing nothing to ward off the attack. Usagi bit her lip in frustration and fear. Why was she doing nothing out there in front of the youma? At least now she knew why Rei had always made fun of her. Usagi was only thankful that in the last year of her fighting as Sailor Moon she had gotten much better at handling these type of situations. If she had still been like this.well, let's just say this world would officially be the property of Galaxia and Chaos, a thought that made Usagi physically shudder. To think that all her friends had been dead.and Mamo-chan! Oh, she could never imagine living without that sweet soul to guide her through her predicaments and tough times! Not to mention, he was so handsome, so suave, even her overprotective father liked him. So friendly, playful, a good kisser.did she mention handsome yet? And.oh, no! Here we go with Mamo-chan again! This was not the time! She could not be drooling over her perfect boyfriend if the fumbling senshi out there needed her recently-founded courage and steadfastness. No, it was certainly not the ideal time to idolize Mamoru.
Back on the war front, Sailor Moon took one last final gulp, and closed her eyes tight expecting the worst to come and the growing, greenish fire ball approached her. But, when it did hit, it felt soft, warm, comforting, and solid to her.almost like a velvet clothed body. Wait a sec.since when did fire feel like that? As far as she knew, it didn't. But Tuxedo Kamen did! Could it really be her #1 hero?!
She slowly opened her eyes and she felt her body go limp and her senses numb as she realized she was sure enough embraced in Tuxedo Kamen's arms strong arms, and pressed tightly to his chest, as they soared through the air, out of danger's way.
Sailor Moon felt like she was going to faint. She couldn't believe she was wrapped up in Tuxedo Kamen's arms! She couldn't think much, but she was able to process that he sure did smell good. She slowly lifted her head off of his chest to be able to gaze at his face. Well, mostly at his chin, but it was good enough for her!
"Oh, Tuxedo-Kamen-Sama! You saved me!" she cooed. Tuxedo Kamen did not respond at all. Sailor Moon didn't notice of course. She was too busy admiring his features, and the actual fact she was in his arms. SHE was in HIS arms! It wasn't real! Even though it has happened before..
Once Tuxedo Kamen got a safe distance away from the vicinity of the fire ball, which he had pulled Sailor Moon away from just in the nick of time, he landed, gently placing the trembling super heroine on the ground, just a little bit behind where the other senshi were standing. Sailor Moon hardly noticed it as one of her dangly moon earrings, having been attached to one of the buttons on Tuxedo Kamen's white shirt, fell off and onto the ground.
Tuxedo Kamen gave Sailor Moon a hard look. Sailor Moon could feel her heart speed up with the displeased look he was giving her. What had she done wrong this time? "Don't every do that again, Sailor Moon," he advised her in his rich, deep voice. "I don't want to see you get hurt when you could have avoided it so easily. What if I'm not here one time, what are you going to do? This world depends on you!" With that He turned and looked around worriedly, his deep blue eyes trying to discern where the dangerous fir ball was at. Sailor Moon voiced his very own thoughts.
"WHERE IS IT?!" she suddenly screeched in panic, as if just remembering now that there had been a fire ball chasing after her. 'Where's it at? Are you all okay?" She had managed to forget about Tuxedo Kamen in the sudden panic.
"I think we should be asking if you're okay, genius," Rei sneered. "But thanks for asking, yes we are all okay. We had the sense to move out of the way." Usagi gave her a saddened and almost betrayed look, her lower lip trembling from the onslaught of tears at Rei's cruel words.
"Shush, Mars," Venus scolded. "She was just scared. Besides, at least she didn't make that look you did, with your eyes popping out and mouth wide open things, with you face all screwed up. I mean, you almost looked like a monster yourself out there!"
"Gee, thanks," Rei said wryly.
"WHERE IS IT?" Sailor Moon once again demanded.
"Hold your horses, girl," Jupiter said. "It's gone. We got rid of it. Well, I got rid of it," Jupiter beamed with pride. "The world is saved, and guess what? It's all thanks to me this time! OOOOoooooh! Not you, but me! Not you, but me!" she started singing. Sailor Moon looked at Jupiter in a bit of a confused manner. Mars let out a frustrated groan.
"Do you realize there's something missing here, my dear friend?" she asked in an annoyed tone. Sailor Moon averted her gaze to her, but said nothing.
"The youma?" Rei probed.
"Oh! The youma!" Sailor Moon repeated. "No I didn't, but now that you mention it, where did it go?" All of the senshi sweatdropped. But Jupiter didn't hesitate to answer her friend's request.
"Well, you see, I did my "Jupiter Thunder Crash" thing, hoping to break up the fire ball. But, instead, something weird happened, and it actually gave the fire ball more power. But it didn't just give it more power, it actually caused the fire ball to change directions, to the direction of which my lightning thing had been going in. Stupid cat-woman who was busy gloating over her creation didn't even notice her own power turning against her, with my help, of course! And.WHAM! It hit her head on, and completely disintegrated her into nothingness!!! Can you believe it? I did it! Hardly a senshi for more than two weeks, and-oh yeah-I already defeated a youma on my own! Uh-huh, oh yeah, uh-"
Venus firmly clamped a hand over Jupiter's mouth. "Please shut up," she said.
Sailor Moon was confused. "But what about the nijizuishou?" she asked. "Was there any?"
Mercury shrugged. "Guess there wasn't this time. This wouldn't be the first youma we recently faced that hadn't been the possessor of a nijizuishou."
"Yes, you're right," Sailor Moon said, her head bent down. She quickly lifted her head up with much vigor and gave each of her friends a huge smile. "Thank you guys so much for beating that youma's butt!" she cheered. "That is so awesome Jupiter!" Jupiter glowed at the compliment. "Oh, and thank you-," she began to turn to thank her savior, Tuxedo Kamen, but her voice quickly died when she realized that he was not beside her anymore. She stared sadly with blank eyes onto the area he was last at.
"So he left again," Venus's faint voice reached Sailor Moon's ears.
"Yeah," she mumbled, her voice and eyes downcast.
Sailor Mars slowly approached. "Look, Sailor Moon, I know we've told you this a million times, and I know you're sick of being told this, so can't you just listen for once?" she begged. Her red eyes were sincere, and they touched Usagi's very soul. She nodded her head. "Usagi," Rei continued, "believe me when I say I think he is as pleasant to the eyes as you think he is. But no matter how good he looks, we still don't know whether he is friend or enemy." Usagi rolled her eyes. Now Rei got serious, and just a little bit mad at her friend's nonchalant attitude to this matter.
"Look, Sailor Moon," Mercury began, helping Mars out. "You're our leader, you're what keeps us together and performing at par. You're the reason this world has not yet collapsed under the Dark Kingdom's tricky schemes. You have dealt with countless youmas, and each time come out with a proud victory in the battles, which is why we don't want to see you get killed by someone like.Tuxedo Kamen, someone we can easily protect ourselves from." Sailor Moon looked at Ami as if she had betrayed her horribly through her words.
'No, no, NO!" she suddenly screamed passionately, covering her ears tightly. "Tuxedo Kamen is not evil! He isn't!"
"But you must be careful, Sailor Moon!" Venus pleaded. Sailor Moon remained still, her eyes tightly shut and ears covered, but it was obvious by the slight softening of her expression that Sailor Moon could still hear and was still listening. "Sailor Moon, believe us, we don't want him to be our enemy. It would upset us just as much as you. We are all fond of him being here to save us on the occasional battle. But even so, we know not what his goal is of obtaining the nijizuishou, and he has remained committed to keeping that information pertaining to what he is about from us. Yes, we don't have any reason to believe he is our enemy, but neither do we have reason to believe he is our ally! He has three nijizuishou already, much more than our scant one, and he seems ready to steal that one from us too. What is to keep us from saying that he might not one day hurt us? Nothing! Do you see my point, Sailor Moon? We are not trying to hurt you, just protect you, as is our jobs!" Sailor Moon stood there quiet and stunned at Venus;s powerful words.
Jupiter ambled up to where the quiet and subdued girl stood. She placed an arm around her small friend's shoulder and squeezed Usagi to herself, turning her around and walking her across the deserted, afternoon street. Of course, it was probably deserted more because of the youma than the fact that it was afternoon.
"Come on," Makoto soothed. The other three senshi followed behind the two. "Let's detransform and head over to the arcade. We can meet up with Andrew, a hot guy who we are sure for a fact is not evil nor our enemy, play some videos, and get some milkshakes. How does that sound? It'll be a total stress-free blast! And a needed one too!" Usagi nodded distractedly as she easily detransformed in a release of power. The other four senshi quickly followed her lead and soon they were all just normal school girls. Soon they were out of sight and well away from where the recent fight had just transpired.
Tsukino Usagi from the future, still with her back straight and pressed tightly against the wall, let out a huge breath which had been saving up for a while. She had witnessed everything: Tuxedo Kamen coming out of hiding and saving herself, leaving, and the following quarrels between the scouts over him. She couldn't help but laughing at what they had spoken. Tuxedo Kamen, evil! As if! If that sweet man of hers was evil, she was Miss Japan. Which, as was a well-known fact, she would never have the coordination to be.
Evil.how absurd.Tuxedo Kamen evil.Mamo-chan evil.impossible. Unless, of course, he was under the influence of either Metallia or Chaos, then not-so- impossible. But even so, her Maamo-chan was the least evil person in the world! He was kind, caring, chivalrous, personable.she was obsessing again, wasn't she? This was not good. At this rate, she would miss him terribly in not even an hour more. Did she just feel a pang of missing him? Probably..
She crawled out from behind the bushes and looked around the empty surrounding area and took in a deep breath. What would she possibly do now? No one to talk to, no place to go without worry of being seen by someone who was in someway affiliated with her past self. This sucked.
But at that second, her mind was quickly taken off of her horrible predicament, which, again, she would lay all blame to Chibi-usa, by a high- pitched, loud, and ear-shattering scream. It reverberated throughout the placid sky, almost knocking Usagi down. Yet something about the scream sounded familiar.
Usagi turned around to see the person who was the source of the scream, and when her eyes came upon the person whom had shouted-one blond, odangoed, short, and blue-eyed individual-she herself let out a deafening scream as well, one that was identical to the one that the girl in front of her had produced. And, following that, both Usagi and her past self screamed together, startled and frightened, at the same time.
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That was, again, a long chapter. Sorry for all who don't like the long chapter things, but, believe me, now that I'm done with the whole setting- up the story descriptive thing and finally onto the plot part, they'll get shorter. Seriously! And for all who haven't guessed it yet, I LOVE my reviews, so please review! Love to know what you think about it so far! And, for those who are unsure, "nijizuishou" means "rainbow crystal." Oh, look! I finished this and it's only midnight! ^_^;
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