Hi Minna, the anime and other fanfics that portray Serena as a whiny, lazy, klutzy girl have always upset me. In the manga she was none of these things, she was shown much more respect, especially by Darien. Anyway, I really didn't like the way Reeny treated her in the anime. Sure Reeny was alone and scared but the way she treated Serena was inexcusable. It's bad enough Serena had to deal with Luna's constant nagging, but then her comes this 'child' that brainwashes Serena's family, harasses her for the crystal and constant picks at her shortcomings and failures (that's Raye's job). So I said 'hey, let's see how things would be if we turned the table on those who feel that tough love is the way to improve Serena'. Serena is the supreme high princess of the Silver Millennium and she gets treated like she is one of Beryl's minions. As you can tell, this will concern the R season and I am using the N/A dub names here. Like I said before, whenever I do my interpretation on an anime storyline, I will use the dub names. Don't flame me too bad, this is just a 'what if'.
I do not own Sailormoon. If I did, I would be living in Japan or Europe now.
A Tangent in the Future
By Crystaldove
"Serena, why did Darien 'ever' like you? You're a whiny, spoiled and a huge klutz! He should have dated Raye (AN: funny huh, but like in the manga, Darien only dated Serena); she's talented, or Lita because she can cook. Amy is smart and Mina is pretty. Why they would want to hang out with you is beyond me? And how come 'you 'of all people, is Sailor Moon? You're lazy and a huge disappointment, they always have to save you or something…"
Serena walked trying to control the anger boiling inside her. Reeny walked while continuing to berate her.
'She's the one who's all alone, she stays with me and this is the thanks I get! Talk about biting off the hand that feeds you!'
Serena thought. She was headed to the shrine when her mom told her that she 'had' to take Reeny with her.
'This just hasn't been my day…no correction, my month; first this bratty kid shows up and brainwashes my family into living with us, then the enemy appears and everyone wants my crystal. To top it all off Darien dumps me right after he gets his memory back! Someone really has it in for me.'
"And look what Luna has to go through with you, why does she hang around you I'll never figure and…"
"SHUT UP!!!"
Reeny jumped not expecting Serena to blow up like that, tears maybe, but not anger. They had just reached the bottom of the shrine stairs and Serena couldn't take it anymore.
"Who are you to think you're so perfect? If you hadn't brainwashed my family where would you be? Do you think I 'like' having to save an ungrateful child like you all the time? You may have everyone else fooled with this little helpless girl act, but I don't trust you!"
Raye was fuming because Serena was late but cooled when she saw that Reeny was with her.
'She was probably home protesting about that.' Raye thought.
The rantings of the small child caught her attention.
'Serena doesn't look too happy now.' "Come on guys, lets defuse Serena before she blows up."
The girls and cats headed outside to breakup the argument when Serena's words stilled their steps.
"You showed up the same time the enemy did and no one seems to think that is just a 'tad' bit coincidental…"
Across town Darien felt a strange sensation coming from Serena. 'Anger, she's never angry at anyone, something must have happened.' Darien transformed and raced toward Raye's shrine.
"What are you talking about Meatball head? I don't know what they want and…"
"Come off the innocent act you BRAT! The crystal, my crystal is what all of you want. I wouldn't be in the least surprised if you weren't a recruit for the Dark Moon sent here to lure me out."
"Don't try to make me feel bad cause Darien DUMPED you!" Reeny laughed and stuck out her tongue at Serena.
"Yeah kid and where are your friends and family? Looks like you've been 'dumped' too. Is there really trouble where you're from or are you here because your parents don't want a manipulative, selfish and undeserving brat like you!"
Well of course Darien chose now to be the time to show up. He didn't hear what was said to provoke Serena but no matter what was happening, Reeny didn't deserve this.
"SERENA! How can you say such a thing? She's a child!"
"Darien!" Reeny said sobbing while she ran to him. "She's so mean to me, I was just teasing her." Serena was sick of being made the villain with Reeny.
"Oh cut the act Reeny! I'm so sick of you manipulating the situation…"
"Stop it Serena! Can't you see you've hurt her!"
"Funny you should mention 'hurting people' Darien, since you're the one always on the giving end!"
"Our relationship has nothing to do with her, I can't believe how IMMATURE you are!"
"I'm the one that's immature, this coming from a guy who hides behind a mask, whose mind was so weak that Beryl was able to control you! A guy who lost his memory and was romancing aliens? A guy who has 'never' had anyone in his life that really cared about him, so he doesn't know how to treat others when they try! You know what Darien, cancel my subscription because I'm tired of your issues!!"
Darien was taken back, he didn't mean to call her immature but she hurt Reeny. 'She's right, everything she said about me is right, but she loved me anyway. The time she needs me, I turn away. All I've ever done was cause her pain.'
"Serena I meant…"
"Meant what? What are you doing here anyway?"
"I…I was looking for Reeny."
"And you just 'knew' she'd be here; what you got a homing beacon on that kid? Yeah, since you're here, take her with you and for that matter since she gets along so well with you…keep her! I don't want that kid around me!"
Everyone was shocked to say the least. Luna ran forward…
"Serena you can't mean that, she's your responsibility…"
"Since when and by whose orders? I should have known you'd say something Luna. All you do is run your mouth never caring about how I feel."
"Well if you weren't such a meatball headed lamebrain…"
"You will 'not' use that tone or language with me Luna!"
Raye started to jerking her head around. "Something strange is in the air guys…a really huge power is building and it's coming from…SERENA!"
As the girls watched, Serena slowly began glowing silver. "You know I'm not the genius here but I think we should duck for cover." Mina said, the girls agreed and moved toward safety. Artemis, on the other hand, proceeded forward.
"I 'beg' our pardon Serena but…"
"Luna stand aside." Artemis spoke his voice cool and commanding.
"I will do no such a thing and…"
"Are you challenging 'my' authority Luna?"
Luna looked at Artemis and then Serena, she noticed the princess was glowing slightly and sheepishly walked away. Looking back toward Reeny and Darien, Serena spoke once more.
"You've found your new 'roommate' and we have soldier business to attend to, so you can see yourselves off the grounds."
"Serena we need to talk and Reeny stays with you, what will your parents think if she doesn't come home?"
"They won't think a thing since they 'don't' know who she is."
"Your parents know me Serena so you can't get rid of me!"
"You wanna bet? The only reason you stayed at my house was because 'I' permitted it! You think that floating head of yours is more powerful than me? How pathetic do you think my abilities are? I just chose to let you stay since Luna kept nagging me about it. Because of that, I never healed them from your 'little' spell. You were alone and all, guess my kindness is due to my big heart; right Darien? I must have an affinity for cold, heartless losers!
Darien stood there in immense shock. The girls were afraid to comment, even Raye. Luna sat there shaking with fury. This wasn't how she taught her at all.
With perplexment in his eyes "What happened to you Serena? You're such a BITCH!" Darien spat.
She laughed "Funny you should ask me that CAPE BOY! You told me to grow up and accept the fact that you don't love me anymore, so since you hurt me, why should I show 'you' any compassion. And what do you mean we have to talk? If memory serves me right, you have ignored, avoided and dodged me like the bubonic plague; now you want to talk? You are such a hypocrite! When I wanted to talk to you, you didn't have time, but now that you are the one who wants to conversate, I'm supposed to drop everything and come running?"
"That's not what I meant, you've changed, where did you learn this from?"
"I've learned from the best. I learned from you.' Serena ceremoniously proclaimed and walked away. "Luna, Artemis come with me NOW!"
Raye and the girls walked over to Darien. "I would apologize to you about that Darien, but she was right. I didn't know she had it in her. But as far as Reeny is concerned, give her a few hours to cool down and take her home later."
"Ok Raye, well I um will be going know…let's go Reeny."
"What do you think she is going to do with Luna…that was almost like treason, especially since Artemis responded to her in such an official manner."
"I don't know Amy, but for once, I'm glad I'm not the one who pissed her off."
The girls helped Raye sell some charms until Serena finished with Luna and Artemis.
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"Luna how dare you deliberately disobey the princess' command and challenge her decision?"
"Oh come on Artemis, I would hardly call her temper tantrum a decision. This is the meatball head we are talking about here. Now Serena you will go and apologize to both Reeny and Darien this instant!"
"THAT IS ENOUGH LUNA!" Serena was glowing brightly now, her hair was standing on end and her crescent blazed like the sun. "I have had it with your apparent disrespect and disobedience. You are an advisor and 'as' my advisor, your duty is to make suggestions, not the final decision. I have tolerated your opinions long enough! I did in the beginning because you remembered more than I did, so I let you be the thinking force, but your logic is as selfish as Darien's. Everything for the greater good of yourself!"
"How can you say that, the enemy is after Reeny and if you would for once think about something other than eating and sleeping you would see that and…"
"Did I give you permission to respond? Speaking of Reeny and the enemy, like I said earlier, both are after my crystal. Instead of keeping her from my crystal, your decision was to let her stay at my house; that makes about as much sense as putting a rat in a cheese factory! I should have just given it to her. Remember if it wasn't for the fact that she STOLE my broach, my soldiers wouldn't have been taken trying to save her. She has caused us nothing but trouble. We don't know where she's from but we blindly trust a girl whose motives are not clear. But you want to trust her, as does Darien, and what is your track record in that? Both of you trusted Ann and she tried to kill us! Darien tried to make a deal with Zoicite and got seriously hurt in the process. And Molly, her blind trust of Nephlite got her attacked how many times? Then he gets reformed only to be killed by his allies!"
"Oh grow up Serena, there is no logic in that!"
"Luna you will respect the Princess, your actions and behavior are treasonous!"
"Stop with the melodrama Artemis, Serena has to accept that she was out of line and…"
Unbeknownst to Luna, Serena became enlightened with her powers as the Supreme High Princess of the Silver Millennium and heir to the Moon Kingdom after her battle with Beryl. While Luna continued to speak against her order to remain silent, Serena spoke an ancient chant,
"Gift that was given take it back, make this advisor a normal cat!"
Serena waved her hand and Artemis stood emotionless. While saying the reversal, the crescent on Luna's head slowly faded to black.
"This is probably the reason why Darieow…ow…meeee…meow…. meow, meow, MEOW!"
The sound of a suffering feline brought the girls into Raye's room.
"Serena, what's going on, why is Luna meowing…what happened to her crescent?" Lita asked. Raye and Amy stood looking perplexed at the cat. Mina walked to and stood regally beside Serena. Before she could respond, Mina spoke.
"In accordance with her actions against the Princess in the matter, Luna's abilities have been stripped and she has been reverted to her form as an ordinary cat. This is only a hint of the powers possessed by our Princess. Like we where chosen to be her court, Luna and Artemis were chosen to be advisors…"
"I'll finish here Mina." Artemis said. "Also like you, we are originally from another planet called Mau. We lived there until war and strife drove us away. We are changelings, which means we can change forms; one of an animal and the other of a human." As Artemis said that he began to stretch and grow to about 6'1 with long silvery white hair and green eyes. Amy, Lita and Raye hung their mouths open while their eyes bulged.
"Whoa, you're a hunk Artemis!" Lita exclaimed then put her hands over her mouth. "Mina you knew about this?"
"Yes, but I haven't seen him in human form since the Silver Millennium."
"As I was saying were are also human. On our planet this was the chosen form, but when we had to evacuate, we knew it would be difficult for a world of over 4 million people to be accepted to another world. So we decided to change into animal form and live our lives out as such. We decided that earth would be a suitable place to reside, and during our voyage, my ship got lost and crashed on the far side of the moon. The queen sensed our presence and appeared to us; we told her of our plight and out of the kindness of her heart, invited us to live on the moon. That ship had about 30 passengers. We were so grateful; we pledged our allegiance to the Silver Millennium and became of citizens of the Moon Kingdom. We decided to repay the queen in any way possible. Some of us became Millennium guards; some were the recruiters that picked the Princess' court. Others worked at the palace, most remained in human form and since Luna and I were the commanders of that particular vessel, the Queen asked us to serve her as ambassadors then advisors. She wished for us to remain in our human form but since the threat of the Dark Kingdom was approaching, we felt it necessary to remain in our animal form. That way if someone tried to assassinate the Queen, our size would permit us to easily alert her and the guard. As for the rest of our people, let's just say that most nocturnal animals, are from the planet Mau. They went undetected for years, that is until the Wolf-Mau decided to mix with humans, while they were in human form…there was a huge werewolf surge in Europe."
"Werewolves are children of Wolf-Mau and humans? But how come the others aren't able to speak?"
"Well that's what our crescents are for Amy, yes they identify us as Moon Kingdom advisors, but they enable us to speak in feline form, without them…we are normal, like Luna."
"Does, does that mean that Serena can…."
"Yes Amy, I can strip your powers as soldiers of your respective planets. You all have basic powers as Princess' of your planets, but once you pledged allegiance to me and the Silver Millennium, your abilities were increased."
'How did she know I was going to ask that?' Amy thought.
"Because I read your mind. We can also communicate telepathically, but you will have to discover that power on your own. Luna I have stripped you of your ability to verbally speak as well as change forms. Due to your actions you are also prohibited from my home and command center for as of now, an undetermined amount of time. The least will be one week, once I discuss this matter with Artemis, Advisor ad lidem, and Mina, Commander of the Inner Court; you will be given your sentence. I suggest you reside with Darien as well and determine the motives of Reeny. You are dismissed."
Luna bowed and left. 'What have I done?' She thought.
'Luna, I told you to hold your tongue, you should have sensed the seriousness of the Princess' accusations. Darien may be the Prince of Earth, but you swore to uphold and respect the laws and leaders of the Moon Kingdom. I could have tried to convince the princess into not stripping you of your speech, but I stand by her decision.' Artemis telepathically spoke.
'Yes Artemis, you're right, I should have known my place.'
'The Princess has permitted me to exhort you to your destination. Even with Darien's abilities, he would not be able to understand you. One must have been a member of the Silver Millennium to communicate with our style of telepathy.'
'Couldn't Serenity understand Endymion and vice versa?'
'Yes she can, unlike him, she was educated in various styles of telepathy, that's how she was able to converse with the girls. And she allowed him to understand her…that's how their link was established. Well lets get going.'
As Artemis walked carrying Luna, he shielded his crescent therefore looking like a normal person. He felt kind of liberated to be as a human again. He reached Darien's apartment and heard voices from within. He knocked firmly on the door to find a very surprised Darien looking at him. In his human form, Artemis was about the same height as Darien. He was dressed casually wearing a navy shirt and khaki slacks.
"Um, can I help you?" Darien asked.
"Yes, you can look after Luna for the next few days."
Darien looked at the stranger and then noticed the black mass of fur in his arms.
"Luna?"
"Meow"
Darien didn't think it strange that Luna didn't speak since she was in the hands of a stranger.
"She can't speak Darien."
"Of course she can't, she's a cat. And how do you know who I am and where I live?"
"It's a long story, can I come in and tell you about it."
"No, I don't think so, just leave Luna with me and…"
"Oh I forgot you don't recognize me. It's me Darien, Artemis."
"What? Look mister I don't know who you are but you must be sick or something. Do you want me to call a doctor, how about a relative?"
While Darien was trying to figure this 'strange' man out, his head began to glow and the crescent reappeared.
"What, Artemis, that 'is' you? But how and why isn't Luna talking?"
"Where is Reeny?"
"She's in my bedroom, after what Serena did to her, she was exhausted from crying…she's sleep."
"Well, as a representative of the Princess, let me be the first to inform you on how much of jack-ass you've been the past few weeks. Luna can't talk because she is on suspension of her position, pending the decision of the High Council. Before you ask, the High Council consists of myself, Mina, and the Supreme High Princess Serenity."
"Wait, I don't understand you, since when has there been a high council, when has Serena been addressed as 'princess' in this life and how are you human?"
Artemis sighed; this was going to take a while. "Well first of all, Luna and I aren't originally from the moon…"
Darien listened intently about the events, which lead Luna and Artemis to the moon, and to the advisory board. He also sat in shock of Serena's decision concerning Luna.
"Wait, wait, are you trying to tell me because Luna defended Reeny, Serena took away her ability to speak! I was wrong to call her immature, she's just a spoiled brat!"
"What you fail to understand are circumstances that lead Luna to her punishment. She was forewarned about speaking openly against the Queens' or Princess' orders and knew fully well what she was getting into. Like you, she assumed that there was nothing Serena could do about it, Serena was right, her decisions have been based as the result of Luna's influence. True, there was a lot that Serena didn't know at the time and since she hadn't fully awakened, Luna was the definitive on most kingdom and soldier-related business. Luna didn't expect Serena to awaken to her power and her memories so soon. True she remembered her identity, as did you and the events of the final battle but that was only a scratch on the surface to what she had to remember. As a result of Luna's control, your rejection and Reeny's manipulative efforts, the sleeper has finally awakened!"
"What is all this about Reeny, she is just a kid…"
"A kid who just happened to 'fall' out of the sky pointing a gun at Serena asking her for the crystal. A kid whom even 'you' don't know where she's from or who her parents are? Not to mention that she hasn't been the friendliest child in the world. We don't know her motives, why would a child want the Silver Crystal, and what would she do with it? Only the heart of the Princess can control that, remember? You tried to make it work for Beryl. Oh no, it's forbidden to talk about, how did she say it, your 'weak' mind. Boy, you are some work 'prince'. But it's not my place to lower you to the level you try to set for my Princess. And by the way, I think she's listening to our conversation, so I would really stay clear of her for a while. As for Luna, she has been prohibited to enter the Tsukino home and the command center until sentencing…so she will have to stay with you."
"She can't stay here, I don't have that kind of room."
"She's a cat Darien; I'd thought you'd like your little fan club staying with you, since those are the only friends you seem to have right now. Sorry couldn't help that one." Artemis shook his silvery-white head of hair and left. Darien stared at the cat with amber eyes.
"Well Luna, it's just us for a while. Do you think Serena will be calmed down by dinner?" The cat looked at him and nodded her head in the affirmative. They settled and wasted time for a few hours.
-Meanwhile-
High above in a spaceship sat a regal man; he slowly sipped a glass of wine while smiling thinking of his handiwork.
"So the Prince of Earth has turned his back on his Princess. I knew that he was always undeserving of you for his Queen. Look how he continually takes you for granted and tosses you away like an old newspaper. I thought the history books were exaggerating about how he was intrigued by other women and if not for her faith and love for him, he would have made advances on them. Well, we picked the perfect 'time' to intervene. Because of that King, my people were banished to Nemesis! Well let's see how he likes it when Serenity banishes him from her heart!"
He made a silent toast to the image of the prince in a mock showing of appreciation, revealing his midnight blue eyes and ice blue hair. This was Diamond, Prince of Nemesis and Ruler of the Dark Moon Family.
"Sapphire come here." At the mention of his name, a young man of about 16 stood before his 18-year old brother. They had the same eyes but where Diamond's hair was silvery-blue, Sapphire's was navy blue.
"You called my prince."
"Yes dear brother, my plan is going well. I really didn't know the future king was so easy to manipulate; in terms of love, he uses his head and not his heart. I can't even be sure if he really loves her or loves the fact that she loves him. There isn't much we have to do as far as Darien is concerned. He has spun his own web and has to untangle himself. Since Serenity is unreachable in the 30th century, I will romance her younger self. Age won't be a problem, since I am about the same as her prince and I will enjoy watching her evolve from the young girl to the enchanting Queen."
"What's the next part of your plan brother?"
"To introduce myself of course, but our meeting won't be until the prince does something else that causes her to doubt her love for him. And that my little brother will be sooner than you think!"
End chapter
Oh my goodness, what is Diamond talking about and boy don't get Serena mad! I hope you will enjoy this story as much as I am enjoying writing it. REWIEW PLEASE!!!!!!
Dove