Chapter Six
Wiping her eyes quickly when she felt high energy signatures approaching she realized that Goku was awake. He looked at her, and she tried to smile but failed miserably.
Without another word she stood up and fled, knowing that somehow Goku and his family would be all right. How could she call herself his daughter when, in the end, she didn't know anything about being a daughter?
Her mother had died and she hadn't been able to tell her how much she cared because she was too busy trying to hide her life as Sailor Moon. Her father had kicked her out because she couldn't bring herself to tell him such an important fact about her life. And her brother had never looked up to her because she was a stupid klutz with no redeeming qualities.
I'm so stupid! She berated herself harshly, running into the cover of the woods by Goku's house. Why did I think that everything'd be perfect when I got here? I've only made things worse! They were perfectly happy and now I'm attracting enemies and getting them hurt.
She sensed someone approaching quickly and immediately muttered "Sailor Teleport!"
She knew that Goku had been the one following her because he was the most in tune with nature. The others would have tried to follow her energy signature but all Lunarians were born with the ability to hide it and did so unconsciously from when they were born until the day they died unless they purposely overrode their nature. This was another side effect of their peaceful ways. They did not want to intimidate anybody by displaying their true power.
She had been so unfocused and frantic that she hadn't thought about where she would land. With the adrenaline fueling her system, her command brought her incredibly far. She screamed and shuddered when she found herself floating in the middle of a vast expanse of freezing cold water.
Teeth chattering, she envisioned her hotel suite and managed to whisper "Sailor Teleport" once more, images of sharks running through her mind all the while.
She stumbled into the shower a moment later, fumbling with the water nozzle to turn it to hot. The water burned her skin and she quickly turned it so that it was lukewarm, gradually bringing up the temperature.
By the time she got out of the shower, her normally beautiful creamy peach skin was an angry red. She stared into the mirror at herself and truly realized how pitiful she was. Unable to control herself, she sat down on top of the toilet cover and began sobbing despairingly.
As she slowly came back to herself she turned her head to stare bitterly at her reflection. I should never have come here. The only thing that has changed is that I'm crying like a baby again and I've finally realized how selfish and obstinate I really am. I should go before I hurt anybody else.
Gathering up the little things that she had and throwing them in her subspace pocket, she fixed her appearance so that she didn't look like a heartbroken ninny and slipped out of the hotel, her face expressionless.
Before she left she wanted to see this different yet comfortingly similar world and so she took a long, long stroll out of the city. She kept walking and this time no lecherous man bothered her. The shadow that hung around her persuaded all from walking near her.
That is, except for a certain android with long black hair and a bandanna around his neck.
He had been flying around, extremely bored that day when a glint of gold hair caught his eye. He hovered lower to the ground and watched her as she passed him by. Her cerulean blue eyes were mesmerizing but they instilled in him a feeling of shame and he suddenly felt angry.
"Hey, you!" he shouted when she was a little less than a quarter of a mile away from him.
Of course she didn't hear him. He flew toward her and tried again. This time she glanced at him and then looked forward again.
He glared at her, thinking that she was dismissing him. For a moment it felt as if his stomach had plummeted.
"Stop right there!" he yelled furiously.
'Why are you getting so upset?' a voice in his head asked him.
'She's ignoring me!' he shouted back.
'Is that really it?'
He ignored the condescending tone of his own thoughts and flew over the lady's head, landing in front of her, effectively barring the way.
She paused in her steps and raised empty cerulean eyes to meet his. He mentally flinched and then asked himself why. Shaking the conflicting thoughts out of his head, he debated on what to do.
He liked doing some things physically but he didn't really want to physically mar the beauty in front of him. So he settled for a small energy blast.
Her eyes widened, but only slightly. He seethed again when, before his blast hit her, he didn't see any fear in her eyes. When the dust cleared, he was even more enraged, also disbelieving. She was still standing there, not a hair out of place. Apparently she wasn't as fragile as she looked.
"Please, step aside," she said quietly.
Her hoarse tone caught him off guard. He had expected her voice to be silky and beautiful, like herself. Is this what humans are like when they are upset? he wondered to himself. He had always thought that when people got upset they were extremely loud and annoying. Many of them also cried. The only one he knew would never express these symptoms was his sister, and he was having trouble locating her these days.
Seeing that he wasn't going to move, the lady began walking again. As she went around him, he grabbed her wrist. His eyes widened when something intangible swelled under his hand and he was blown off.
For a moment, he glimpsed an arsenal of power. Then it was gone. The lady said two words and then she was gone as well.
"What the hell?" he asked.
He searched various cities from above for a time but didn't see her again. I will know her secret! he thought vehemently.
As Serena appeared in front of the hotel she'd been staying at, she continued walking, glad that she'd landed there during one of their slower times. There was no one there to witness her miraculous appearance. She also donned a hat so that her hair wasn't so easily spotted.
She was looking for a convenient place to transform and teleport herself back to her own world—it took more energy to teleport between dimensions so she had to transform—when someone called out "Miss Tsukino!"
She turned and fitted on a small but fake smile at the call. "Yes?"
Her voice sounded coarse to her ears so she cleared her throat and tried again. "Hi… Do I know you?"
The brunette standing before her grinned and shook her head quickly. "You probably don't remember me. I sit all the way in the back. I'm in your third-period calc class."
Serena quickly went through the day in her head again and pretended to grin suddenly. "Oh, yeah! Carrie, right?"
"Wow, you do remember!" she exclaimed. "So, is it true that you're, like, eighteen?"
Serena nodded.
"Wow! That's way cool!" Her hazel eyes lit up brightly. "That's so hard to believe. You must be like a genius or something!"
Serena was going to deny it like any normal person would do but Carrie rambled on.
"I'm so glad you're our teacher!" Carrie went on to say. "We had all these stuffy old guys before and they didn't explain anything at all! It was so hard! I had, like, three tutors! If you stopped teaching we'd probably get some bogus professor. I'd definitely fail."
And then her watched beeped and Carrie quickly muttered a rushed goodbye before dashing off.
Serena stared after her pensively as she left. She makes it sound like I've actually helped her. All I did was talk about the lesson today and give a quiz. It's not like I did anything hard.
Distracted from the thought of going home she wandered the streets a little more, consumed once again by her thoughts. It'd been a long time since she'd thought so much about anything other than schoolwork and her friends and mother dying.
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Sorry I took so long. My computer got a virus and crashed and it took a while for my extremely procrastinating uncle to fix it and I haven't had internet since December last year. Plus, I'm a procrastinator myself. Sorry. I'll try to be quicker about it.
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