Author's Note:
Ok, Sadly, I do not own Sailor Moon ( I'd be stinkin' rich if I did) nor do I own Trigun (too bad too, I would have had some fun with those hotties Knives, Vash and Wolfwood wince and run away from her evil laughter) Anyway, this is my crossover however and I would like it if no one stole my idea, well, at least word for word. I figure someone out there had to think up this story as well. Great minds think alike you know Glares and throws stuff at the laughing audience By the way, this story takes place after the end of SM and right before "Paradise" ep. 22 of Trigun.
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Gunsmoke in the Moonlight
Chapter 1: Triple Threat
"There once was a Prophecy so ancient that few remember how it goes, in fact, I myself know very little of it. But it was prophesied that there would be three warriors born to the line of the Celestial Moon Family. They would be born on an obscure satellite, of the planet Terran. They were to be Artemis of the Full Moon, Protector of Life; Serenity of the Crescent Moon, Bringer of Peace; and Osiris of the New Moon, Vanquisher of Evil. Together they were to ensure the flourishing of the moon kingdom and the future of the very galaxy..."
" so... yawn... what's the point" Usagi murmured, stretching sleepily. "This is a sleepover, can't we SLEEP??"
"Shove it, Ordango. She is TRYING to make a point" Rei growled, throwing a pillow at Usagi's head, " Don't you get what she is saying?"
"nn..nooo" Usagi yawned and scratched herself through her pale pink pajamas. "Not at all..."
" I agree with Usa-chan, all these fairy tales are making me sleepy" Minako moaned, stretching suddenly and knocking Artemis from his perch on her shoulder into her lap. "You better make with the point Luna, or I am going to be calling hogs any minute now"
"Yes, and I want to know more about this Artemis fellow, is he as handsome as his namesake?" Artemis muffled voice called from the recesses of Minako's yellow flowered nightie.
Luna rolled her eyes and sighed in defeat. She stared down from the edge of Usagi's bed at the five girls now throwing pillows at each other How in the WORLD did I get stuck with a bunch of squabbling little misfits?! Why couldn't I have a team that acts more like the outers?!? Straightening herself to her full height, she stared down at them in contempt "IF YOU WOULD GATHER YOURSELVES TOGETHER GIRL'S I WISH TO FINISH!!!!!!"
The girls sat speechless, pillows in mid throw and stared up at her nervously.
Luna sighed, Finally, they shut upshe settled down against the soft flannel of Usagi's blanket and curled her paws under her sleek underbelly. "Now Usagi, your ascent to the Throne is drawing near, and as prophecy states, there must be the Three present to ensure your kingdom's survival... This means you must go on one last mission be...."
"WHAT!?!?!" Usagi cried sitting up, her baby blue eyes wide, "Christ! Isn't rebuilding this world numerous times and saving too many humans to count GOOD ENOUGH?!?!" Usagi moaned and buried her head in her pillow. "WHAT is WITH these people!?!?!"
"Look, I'll make this as simple as possible. The lineage of the moon was to be established fully by the birth of the Three in the prophecy, one of which was YOU Usagi. She was to have one girl and two boys..."
"Whoa, Whoa, Whoa!!" Minako cried, throwing up her hands, "You mean Usa- chan has Brothers?"
"Well, DUH, Mina-Chan" Makoto laughed at the confused look on Minako's face. Turning to Usagi, she smiled slyly "I wonder if they are cute."
"Of course they are" Usagi sniffed, flipping her long golden locks over her shoulder in contempt, "After all, they are MY brothers."
"Pshaw." Rei made a raspberry with her lips and blew a wet one in Usagi's direction, "If they are like you, then we are doomed"
"I BEG your Pardon!" Usagi said haughtily, faking as if she was faint at the mere idea " Luna says I have matured quite a bit these last two years". She paused briefly in her drama queen pose and then she broke her grown up face to pull at her lid and stick out her tongue at Rei " So....Nyaaahhh"
" I rest my case" Rei's sneered and blew another raspberry at Usagi.
Usagi lunged at Rei and Luna sweat dropped as the two started squabbling, pulling at each other's hair and nightgowns. Makoto and Minako joined in. Poor Artemis choked as he was crushed between their bodies.
"EVERYONE SHUT UP!" Ami shrieked shrilly, her face flaming.
The four roughhousing senshi and one unfortunate cat stopped and stared at the blue haired senshi in shock. Ami shook herself back to her previous composure and turned to Luna. "Now, Luna, you told us that the line of the Moon cannot bear more then one child per descendant, and that that child would always be female. What you are telling us is completely against all you taught us."
Luna sighed, "There's more to it then that. But I can't properly explain it.... I guess I'll have to show you." She pounced sleekly from Usagi's bed to the middle of the floor between the girls. "Now gather round girls, and take each other's hands."
The girls forgot their earlier scrap and held hands, staring at Luna expectantly. She took a deep breath, her dark fur glowing a soft yellow at the tips. " Now close your eyes and prepare for impact..."
"Impa..." Usagi started but her words were torn from her lips when the darkness under her lids exploded into a vast array of brilliant colors. The colors swirled chaotically until they begin to form lines, then obscure shapes. Before the girls could discern the shapes, the image came into focus with a blinding flash. They suddenly found themselves in a shadowy room that seemed to resemble the lab room at Usagi's school.
The shadows covering a majority of the lab equipment didn't even touch the glass casket glowing faintly in the middle of the room. It's golden rays danced on the faces of the two women standing around it. One, obviously very pregnant under the silk belly of her floor length gown, stared silently at the contents of the glowing orb, her delicate white hand pressing against it.
"What are they?" The other woman, a formidable giant of a woman next to her smaller comrade, questioned cooly.
"They're babies of course!" The other exclaimed crossly, tapping the glass impatiently as if to point out the two fetuses floating inside.
"I understand that." the other woman growled, narrowing her red eyes " I mean, what did you create them for, your already pregnant, your majesty..."
Selenity laid her head against the glass, tracing the outline of her son's faces forlornly "B..because someone needs to protect my precious Serenity, Setsuna. They will protect her... and play with her.... their birth will ensure the success of the line of the moon."
The Goddess of Time stared at the two babies dubiously. The 7 ghostly figures in the background deduced by the look on her face that she wasn't so sure of the queens conviction.
"What happens now Luna?" Ami whispered to the cat on her shoulder as the two women left the room.
"No need to whisper Ami, they can't hear us. It is just my memories." Luna smiled at her nervous host " I will have to speed it up a little, a couple more months."
The Senshi gasped as the scene blurred into a mass of colored shapes, then morphed into twisted lines until they once again mutilated themselves into swirling colors. The scene paused and went into reverse and again the senshi found themselves at the dark laboratory.
"W..What's happening? Something is terribly wrong here" Rei gasped, as the room seemed to shake with loud explosions around them. Even thought the girls couldn't feel the reverberating crashes, they couldn't help the screams that tore from their lips.
"LOOK!" Usagi cried against the noise.
In the midst of falling debris, several white clad women were pulling the queen from the room. She struggled fiercely, holding her stomach and sobbing heavily.
"NOOOO... Please! I can't leave my sons!!!" She screamed, tearing herself free from the maids grasping fingers and stumbled to the golden globe holding her two boys. Heaving sobs overtook her as she held onto the container as the ground shook. The floor split between the frightened maids and their crying queen, rendering them helpless.
Suddenly, a silhouette shrouded in shadows stepped forth. As the shadows melted off of her, Setsuna's elegant figure stepped forth. Snapping her fingers at the maids, she ordered them silently to be quiet, which they immediately did. Turning to her queen, she easily jumped over the widening crack and stood over the now whimpering figure below her. Seething anger was more then evident on her normally emotionless face.
Without a word, she grabbed the back of Selenity's dress and yanked her up unceremoniously. Selenity let out a scream and turned to beat on Setsuna's chest. Setsuna's grip only grew tighter and her face more intent with each blow. "You are going to destroy all of us Selenity, you must let them go. They aren't even your own children."
"NO YOUR WRONG!" Selenity cried, her face blazing, "They are made of MY blood and MY genes! They are MY SONS!!!"
Setsuna suddenly pulled Selenity into a sleeper hold and covered her mouth. "Shh.... someone is coming.... I have to get you out of here..." Pulling Selenity tighter into the sleeper hold, she caused her to go limp. With the glowing end of her time staff, she split the air and pulled herself and the queen into the glowing portal. The portal sealed itself just as the group of masked and suited humans broke through the doors. They weren't armed, but Usagi felt herself shiver just looking at them, something was going to happen.
A tall man in the group started towards the glowing orb holding the twins. The light lit up his hard lined face as he stared at the two boys. " What the hell....?'
"It's... babies... on the...Moon." A woman's voice, a kind and gentle voice that could only belong to a kind and gentle person pierced the darkness. The figure walked forth and stood in front of the glass. Slowly she pressed the palms of her hands against the glass in absolute amazement.
"They seem to be giving off weird energy signals, Rem." Another woman called, holding an odd piece of machinery in front of the glass. "the same signal of that one woman they say disappeared 10 years ago, the one they made the plants from."
"They're monsters, that's what" Another tall man, this one more burly then the previous one. He pulled a squarish looking gun from a holster on his side and aimed it at the globe, prepared to destroy them. "I say we wipe them out, before they cause any more damage."
"oh my god." Usagi whispered, tears coming to her eyes.
"NO! You can't! I won't let you harm innocent infants!" The woman called Rem cried, throwing herself in front of the man's aim. " No one has the right to decide who lives or dies, Steve, not us, not anyone else. They deserve a future."
Steve glared at her, but lowered his gun reluctantly. The first man slowly took the gun from Steve's hand. He let it go, but never took his hateful glare off the two fetuses floating in the orb.
"Rem is right, they deserve to have a chance. Besides, if Mary is right and they have the same energy as the plants, they might be helpful to us. Load them on the ship Rowen, Steve." He ordered, nodding at Steve and another much thinner man in the shadows. As Steve passed him, the older man grabbed his broad shoulder firmly " Be careful Steve, don't turn this into a revenge spree. What happened to Amelia can't be helped by harming innocent children."
Steve didn't shift his gaze from ahead of him and just nodded at the man's warning. Joining his comrade, he, Rowen and the other man hefted the machine up and struggled out the door. The woman Mary headed out after them. Rem stayed where she was standing, narrowing her eyes as she tried to see what was in the darkness. She had a sneaking suspicion something was there, but she couldn't discern anything through the shadows.
Usagi felt a huge lump well up in her throat as she fought back heated tears that refused to stop. Rem and her eyes met, although Rem couldn't see Usagi, Usa felt a strange sensation fall over her, as if she could trust this woman to watch out for her brothers. She managed to smile and wipe away her tears with the back of her pajama sleeve.
"Rem... We need to go.. This building is unstable..." Mary murmured, placing her hand on Rem's shoulder. "Are you OK?"
"Uh... Yes... Let's go" Rem whispered, turning slowly and hurried out the doorway they made earlier. Mary started after her, but looked over her shoulder nervously. Since she didn't see anything in the shadows, she shrugged as if to shake the eerie feeling off her, and hurried after Rem.
The Senshi stood in the darkness in silence, only their slow deliberate breaths could break the monotonous air.
"Well" Luna said suddenly, her voice causing the girls to jump to attention, "That's about it." Immediately, The Laboratory disappeared, and the girls found themselves back in Usagi's room, blinking against the sudden light.
"Wha...What was THAT?" Minako whispered.
"I can't believe...." Rei murmured.
"... They..Just.... took them" Makoto muttered.
They stared at Usagi as she sobbed silently into her already tear soaked pillow. She sniffed and looked up at Luna with puffy red eyes. "So... explain... what... what was that?" She gasped between alternating sobs and hiccups.
Luna sighed, she knew how hard this was going to be on Usagi, but she expected a tantrum and heaving sobs from her young charge, not such a display of maturity. Taking a deep breath she started to say the only thing she knew about the situation. " You see, when your mother came to Terran, or Earth as it was known by it's inhabitants, it was in horrible shape. The humans had raped it of all it's energy sources and were basically living on borrowed time. She tried to show them mercy by healing their wounded and helping replenish their planet. But their hearts were hard and they attacked her, and used her for horrible experiments that left her very weak. They used them to create life giving machines called Plant's. But Selenity escaped before they could fully install them into the Earth. She came to the moon and set up abode there. She knew of the prophecy and wanted to assure that her daughter was to be safe from the human's treachery. So she used a similar test they had run on her and created the twins. But Earth became so bad that they decided to move to another planet in the Sol System, so they build massive ships and moved thousands off the dying planet. Only a few chose to stay on Earth. After they found and stole her boys, Selenity had no will to forfill her prophecy, only a baby daughter, a talking cat and the Goddess of Time. Setsuna convinced her that she wasn't the one the prophecy told of, and that she must go on. Selenity used her power to heal the Earth and erase the memories of its remaining inhabitants, convincing them that she was their goddess. It would have worked, except that Mettalica made her presence known. Since Serenity had no sons to protect her daughter, she created the Sailor Senshi to take their place. And the rest you know...."
The senshi sat in silent amazement, their faces playing different emotions. Rei's in disbelief, Minako's and Makoto's in confusion, Ami's in silent contemplation and Usagi's in unspoken agony. Luna felt tears coming to her own eyes and buried her face into her silken black paw.
The silence lasted for what seemed like an eternity when suddenly Usagi's voice shattered the dread in the air. Her voice shook with unshed tears, but was more determined and strong then they had ever heard come from her lips before. "I think.... I.. think..." She started, then paused as if to catch her composure.
"Well spit it out" Rei managed, receiving several dirty looks from the others in the room.
"I think we should go after them..." Usagi said finally after several angstful minutes. She seemed to have a wash of courage because she stood up taller and set her jaw firmly "In fact, I am SURE we must, FOR THE FUTURE!"
The others looked around and slowly stood up, unsure smiles on their pale faces. Raising their arms in a glassless cheers they joined in, "FOR THE FUTURE!"
Coming soon, Chapter 2: It's Raining Angels. The Senshi face a perilous journey to the past on a distant planet, where a horrible accident causes some interesting problems in their quest.
I hope you all enjoyed this first chapter to my newest story. Please RR....
The Crimson Acolyte
Ok, Sadly, I do not own Sailor Moon ( I'd be stinkin' rich if I did) nor do I own Trigun (too bad too, I would have had some fun with those hotties Knives, Vash and Wolfwood wince and run away from her evil laughter) Anyway, this is my crossover however and I would like it if no one stole my idea, well, at least word for word. I figure someone out there had to think up this story as well. Great minds think alike you know Glares and throws stuff at the laughing audience By the way, this story takes place after the end of SM and right before "Paradise" ep. 22 of Trigun.
Blah blah blah Thoughts
blah blah blah Actions or sounds
"Blah blah blah" Speaking
Scene changes
Time or dimension changes
Gunsmoke in the Moonlight
Chapter 1: Triple Threat
"There once was a Prophecy so ancient that few remember how it goes, in fact, I myself know very little of it. But it was prophesied that there would be three warriors born to the line of the Celestial Moon Family. They would be born on an obscure satellite, of the planet Terran. They were to be Artemis of the Full Moon, Protector of Life; Serenity of the Crescent Moon, Bringer of Peace; and Osiris of the New Moon, Vanquisher of Evil. Together they were to ensure the flourishing of the moon kingdom and the future of the very galaxy..."
" so... yawn... what's the point" Usagi murmured, stretching sleepily. "This is a sleepover, can't we SLEEP??"
"Shove it, Ordango. She is TRYING to make a point" Rei growled, throwing a pillow at Usagi's head, " Don't you get what she is saying?"
"nn..nooo" Usagi yawned and scratched herself through her pale pink pajamas. "Not at all..."
" I agree with Usa-chan, all these fairy tales are making me sleepy" Minako moaned, stretching suddenly and knocking Artemis from his perch on her shoulder into her lap. "You better make with the point Luna, or I am going to be calling hogs any minute now"
"Yes, and I want to know more about this Artemis fellow, is he as handsome as his namesake?" Artemis muffled voice called from the recesses of Minako's yellow flowered nightie.
Luna rolled her eyes and sighed in defeat. She stared down from the edge of Usagi's bed at the five girls now throwing pillows at each other How in the WORLD did I get stuck with a bunch of squabbling little misfits?! Why couldn't I have a team that acts more like the outers?!? Straightening herself to her full height, she stared down at them in contempt "IF YOU WOULD GATHER YOURSELVES TOGETHER GIRL'S I WISH TO FINISH!!!!!!"
The girls sat speechless, pillows in mid throw and stared up at her nervously.
Luna sighed, Finally, they shut upshe settled down against the soft flannel of Usagi's blanket and curled her paws under her sleek underbelly. "Now Usagi, your ascent to the Throne is drawing near, and as prophecy states, there must be the Three present to ensure your kingdom's survival... This means you must go on one last mission be...."
"WHAT!?!?!" Usagi cried sitting up, her baby blue eyes wide, "Christ! Isn't rebuilding this world numerous times and saving too many humans to count GOOD ENOUGH?!?!" Usagi moaned and buried her head in her pillow. "WHAT is WITH these people!?!?!"
"Look, I'll make this as simple as possible. The lineage of the moon was to be established fully by the birth of the Three in the prophecy, one of which was YOU Usagi. She was to have one girl and two boys..."
"Whoa, Whoa, Whoa!!" Minako cried, throwing up her hands, "You mean Usa- chan has Brothers?"
"Well, DUH, Mina-Chan" Makoto laughed at the confused look on Minako's face. Turning to Usagi, she smiled slyly "I wonder if they are cute."
"Of course they are" Usagi sniffed, flipping her long golden locks over her shoulder in contempt, "After all, they are MY brothers."
"Pshaw." Rei made a raspberry with her lips and blew a wet one in Usagi's direction, "If they are like you, then we are doomed"
"I BEG your Pardon!" Usagi said haughtily, faking as if she was faint at the mere idea " Luna says I have matured quite a bit these last two years". She paused briefly in her drama queen pose and then she broke her grown up face to pull at her lid and stick out her tongue at Rei " So....Nyaaahhh"
" I rest my case" Rei's sneered and blew another raspberry at Usagi.
Usagi lunged at Rei and Luna sweat dropped as the two started squabbling, pulling at each other's hair and nightgowns. Makoto and Minako joined in. Poor Artemis choked as he was crushed between their bodies.
"EVERYONE SHUT UP!" Ami shrieked shrilly, her face flaming.
The four roughhousing senshi and one unfortunate cat stopped and stared at the blue haired senshi in shock. Ami shook herself back to her previous composure and turned to Luna. "Now, Luna, you told us that the line of the Moon cannot bear more then one child per descendant, and that that child would always be female. What you are telling us is completely against all you taught us."
Luna sighed, "There's more to it then that. But I can't properly explain it.... I guess I'll have to show you." She pounced sleekly from Usagi's bed to the middle of the floor between the girls. "Now gather round girls, and take each other's hands."
The girls forgot their earlier scrap and held hands, staring at Luna expectantly. She took a deep breath, her dark fur glowing a soft yellow at the tips. " Now close your eyes and prepare for impact..."
"Impa..." Usagi started but her words were torn from her lips when the darkness under her lids exploded into a vast array of brilliant colors. The colors swirled chaotically until they begin to form lines, then obscure shapes. Before the girls could discern the shapes, the image came into focus with a blinding flash. They suddenly found themselves in a shadowy room that seemed to resemble the lab room at Usagi's school.
The shadows covering a majority of the lab equipment didn't even touch the glass casket glowing faintly in the middle of the room. It's golden rays danced on the faces of the two women standing around it. One, obviously very pregnant under the silk belly of her floor length gown, stared silently at the contents of the glowing orb, her delicate white hand pressing against it.
"What are they?" The other woman, a formidable giant of a woman next to her smaller comrade, questioned cooly.
"They're babies of course!" The other exclaimed crossly, tapping the glass impatiently as if to point out the two fetuses floating inside.
"I understand that." the other woman growled, narrowing her red eyes " I mean, what did you create them for, your already pregnant, your majesty..."
Selenity laid her head against the glass, tracing the outline of her son's faces forlornly "B..because someone needs to protect my precious Serenity, Setsuna. They will protect her... and play with her.... their birth will ensure the success of the line of the moon."
The Goddess of Time stared at the two babies dubiously. The 7 ghostly figures in the background deduced by the look on her face that she wasn't so sure of the queens conviction.
"What happens now Luna?" Ami whispered to the cat on her shoulder as the two women left the room.
"No need to whisper Ami, they can't hear us. It is just my memories." Luna smiled at her nervous host " I will have to speed it up a little, a couple more months."
The Senshi gasped as the scene blurred into a mass of colored shapes, then morphed into twisted lines until they once again mutilated themselves into swirling colors. The scene paused and went into reverse and again the senshi found themselves at the dark laboratory.
"W..What's happening? Something is terribly wrong here" Rei gasped, as the room seemed to shake with loud explosions around them. Even thought the girls couldn't feel the reverberating crashes, they couldn't help the screams that tore from their lips.
"LOOK!" Usagi cried against the noise.
In the midst of falling debris, several white clad women were pulling the queen from the room. She struggled fiercely, holding her stomach and sobbing heavily.
"NOOOO... Please! I can't leave my sons!!!" She screamed, tearing herself free from the maids grasping fingers and stumbled to the golden globe holding her two boys. Heaving sobs overtook her as she held onto the container as the ground shook. The floor split between the frightened maids and their crying queen, rendering them helpless.
Suddenly, a silhouette shrouded in shadows stepped forth. As the shadows melted off of her, Setsuna's elegant figure stepped forth. Snapping her fingers at the maids, she ordered them silently to be quiet, which they immediately did. Turning to her queen, she easily jumped over the widening crack and stood over the now whimpering figure below her. Seething anger was more then evident on her normally emotionless face.
Without a word, she grabbed the back of Selenity's dress and yanked her up unceremoniously. Selenity let out a scream and turned to beat on Setsuna's chest. Setsuna's grip only grew tighter and her face more intent with each blow. "You are going to destroy all of us Selenity, you must let them go. They aren't even your own children."
"NO YOUR WRONG!" Selenity cried, her face blazing, "They are made of MY blood and MY genes! They are MY SONS!!!"
Setsuna suddenly pulled Selenity into a sleeper hold and covered her mouth. "Shh.... someone is coming.... I have to get you out of here..." Pulling Selenity tighter into the sleeper hold, she caused her to go limp. With the glowing end of her time staff, she split the air and pulled herself and the queen into the glowing portal. The portal sealed itself just as the group of masked and suited humans broke through the doors. They weren't armed, but Usagi felt herself shiver just looking at them, something was going to happen.
A tall man in the group started towards the glowing orb holding the twins. The light lit up his hard lined face as he stared at the two boys. " What the hell....?'
"It's... babies... on the...Moon." A woman's voice, a kind and gentle voice that could only belong to a kind and gentle person pierced the darkness. The figure walked forth and stood in front of the glass. Slowly she pressed the palms of her hands against the glass in absolute amazement.
"They seem to be giving off weird energy signals, Rem." Another woman called, holding an odd piece of machinery in front of the glass. "the same signal of that one woman they say disappeared 10 years ago, the one they made the plants from."
"They're monsters, that's what" Another tall man, this one more burly then the previous one. He pulled a squarish looking gun from a holster on his side and aimed it at the globe, prepared to destroy them. "I say we wipe them out, before they cause any more damage."
"oh my god." Usagi whispered, tears coming to her eyes.
"NO! You can't! I won't let you harm innocent infants!" The woman called Rem cried, throwing herself in front of the man's aim. " No one has the right to decide who lives or dies, Steve, not us, not anyone else. They deserve a future."
Steve glared at her, but lowered his gun reluctantly. The first man slowly took the gun from Steve's hand. He let it go, but never took his hateful glare off the two fetuses floating in the orb.
"Rem is right, they deserve to have a chance. Besides, if Mary is right and they have the same energy as the plants, they might be helpful to us. Load them on the ship Rowen, Steve." He ordered, nodding at Steve and another much thinner man in the shadows. As Steve passed him, the older man grabbed his broad shoulder firmly " Be careful Steve, don't turn this into a revenge spree. What happened to Amelia can't be helped by harming innocent children."
Steve didn't shift his gaze from ahead of him and just nodded at the man's warning. Joining his comrade, he, Rowen and the other man hefted the machine up and struggled out the door. The woman Mary headed out after them. Rem stayed where she was standing, narrowing her eyes as she tried to see what was in the darkness. She had a sneaking suspicion something was there, but she couldn't discern anything through the shadows.
Usagi felt a huge lump well up in her throat as she fought back heated tears that refused to stop. Rem and her eyes met, although Rem couldn't see Usagi, Usa felt a strange sensation fall over her, as if she could trust this woman to watch out for her brothers. She managed to smile and wipe away her tears with the back of her pajama sleeve.
"Rem... We need to go.. This building is unstable..." Mary murmured, placing her hand on Rem's shoulder. "Are you OK?"
"Uh... Yes... Let's go" Rem whispered, turning slowly and hurried out the doorway they made earlier. Mary started after her, but looked over her shoulder nervously. Since she didn't see anything in the shadows, she shrugged as if to shake the eerie feeling off her, and hurried after Rem.
The Senshi stood in the darkness in silence, only their slow deliberate breaths could break the monotonous air.
"Well" Luna said suddenly, her voice causing the girls to jump to attention, "That's about it." Immediately, The Laboratory disappeared, and the girls found themselves back in Usagi's room, blinking against the sudden light.
"Wha...What was THAT?" Minako whispered.
"I can't believe...." Rei murmured.
"... They..Just.... took them" Makoto muttered.
They stared at Usagi as she sobbed silently into her already tear soaked pillow. She sniffed and looked up at Luna with puffy red eyes. "So... explain... what... what was that?" She gasped between alternating sobs and hiccups.
Luna sighed, she knew how hard this was going to be on Usagi, but she expected a tantrum and heaving sobs from her young charge, not such a display of maturity. Taking a deep breath she started to say the only thing she knew about the situation. " You see, when your mother came to Terran, or Earth as it was known by it's inhabitants, it was in horrible shape. The humans had raped it of all it's energy sources and were basically living on borrowed time. She tried to show them mercy by healing their wounded and helping replenish their planet. But their hearts were hard and they attacked her, and used her for horrible experiments that left her very weak. They used them to create life giving machines called Plant's. But Selenity escaped before they could fully install them into the Earth. She came to the moon and set up abode there. She knew of the prophecy and wanted to assure that her daughter was to be safe from the human's treachery. So she used a similar test they had run on her and created the twins. But Earth became so bad that they decided to move to another planet in the Sol System, so they build massive ships and moved thousands off the dying planet. Only a few chose to stay on Earth. After they found and stole her boys, Selenity had no will to forfill her prophecy, only a baby daughter, a talking cat and the Goddess of Time. Setsuna convinced her that she wasn't the one the prophecy told of, and that she must go on. Selenity used her power to heal the Earth and erase the memories of its remaining inhabitants, convincing them that she was their goddess. It would have worked, except that Mettalica made her presence known. Since Serenity had no sons to protect her daughter, she created the Sailor Senshi to take their place. And the rest you know...."
The senshi sat in silent amazement, their faces playing different emotions. Rei's in disbelief, Minako's and Makoto's in confusion, Ami's in silent contemplation and Usagi's in unspoken agony. Luna felt tears coming to her own eyes and buried her face into her silken black paw.
The silence lasted for what seemed like an eternity when suddenly Usagi's voice shattered the dread in the air. Her voice shook with unshed tears, but was more determined and strong then they had ever heard come from her lips before. "I think.... I.. think..." She started, then paused as if to catch her composure.
"Well spit it out" Rei managed, receiving several dirty looks from the others in the room.
"I think we should go after them..." Usagi said finally after several angstful minutes. She seemed to have a wash of courage because she stood up taller and set her jaw firmly "In fact, I am SURE we must, FOR THE FUTURE!"
The others looked around and slowly stood up, unsure smiles on their pale faces. Raising their arms in a glassless cheers they joined in, "FOR THE FUTURE!"
Coming soon, Chapter 2: It's Raining Angels. The Senshi face a perilous journey to the past on a distant planet, where a horrible accident causes some interesting problems in their quest.
I hope you all enjoyed this first chapter to my newest story. Please RR....
The Crimson Acolyte