Chapter 1

By: Dragon-wing

Ok, first of all I DO NOT own Yu-Gi-Oh or Sailor Moon. Second of all, if I did, I WOULDN'T BE WRITING A FANFIC ABOUT IT!! I WOULD BE MAKING A TV SHOW ABOUT IT!!!!

Sorrie, sorrie, lost my temper at those people who think that I, a tiny person in the world of millions, would actually OWN million dollar TV shows!

QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Life is whatever you make of it!"

Anywayz…on to the story…

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Usagi Tsukino stood in the midst of the dry Sahara Desert; light, shimmering sand gently swirled near the ground; the hot sun blazing down on her. The sounds of her footsteps were muffled from the sand, as she turned and headed towards the only building seen in miles; the old abandoned temple for monks.

The only sound heard in this rural land, besides the clacking of her sandals on the path of stone, were the screeching of hunting birds above – … that is, until the sounds of her friend calling for her pierced the air. "Usa–chan! Where are you?! Yakuti–kun's going to be burning chili mad at you if you don't come back here!!"

With that, the said individual increased her pace to a fast jog. As her friend spotted her climbing up the grey stairs of the religious building, her friend cried out, "Where WERE you?!? Come on! We have to get1 back to the 'coin field' before the other's see us slacking of!" and with that, the duo fell silent, with only their rustling ankle-length white robes disturbing the silence as they rushed to their destination. "SAFE!" they cried out in union, a moment before the rest of the guardians of the coins entered the field.

Usagi surveyed her friends with an eerie unblinking stare…

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Umashi Mui, aka Uma-chan, was a tall, lithe girl at the age of early 17 but her outer appearance actually looked about 15 years old. She had short, coal black flowing hair with brown eyes that were like window to her soul, that is, until she shuts the shutters especially when a dangerous situation occurred. When this happened – Usagi had learned this the hard way – it was best to leave her alone.

Next was Imana Yuko, aka Ima-chan. She was a petite brunette haired girl at the age of 16 but looked a lot younger, with dainty hands and feet. But like the old saying said, 'Never judge a book by its cover.' Even though she may look small and fragile, she was an aggressive and outgoing person that could be dangerous especially with weaponry.

Soonowa Fuigigomo, aka Suno-kun, was a tall, thin 18 year old blonde guy with a nice built. Though he was friendly and kind enough, the positive side of him was balanced by his negative – his gigantic ego. Like the previous others, he looked years younger than his 18 years.

And definitely last but NOT least, Yukuti Bansaka, aka Yakuti-kun. He was a built 18 year old, a red haired young man. 'It was probably his red hair which contributed to his short temper,' Usagi reflected. One could say that he was the man of many females' dreams. He had the 'perfect body' in the prime of condition; a girl could not help but notice that. And as the same as the previous, he looked much younger than he really was.

Usagi herself was a petite, blonde haired girl with an average height for a 17 year old. Her hair was up to her back. One glance at her and a stranger would think of her as naïve. But if the stranger cared to spare just a second glance, they would conclude that she was anything but naïve. She has eyes of ocean blue that seem to hold shrouded mysteries of the world. It would seem, to a person that looks deep into her eyes would be certain that one would gain the key to the world, would be the one that would understand the universe the best.

The reason that they all looked a lot younger than they really are was because the old temple was a sacred, magical place where who ever was there would never age unless they leave the area. These five friends were the keepers of the twenty coins that laid scattered around the field in which they kept guard; especially the golden coin, for it had magical properties, like healing.

The field in which the five guardians guard the twenty coins is a field situated in the middle of the temple. It is an open area with gray stone walls with entrances and exits surrounding it all around. But in one side of the wall was a rusted bared double-doored gate. This gate was located in the back of the temple, facing the setting sun and the undisturbed land of the sand.

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Usagi was broken out of her train of thought when Suno-kun snapped his fingers in front of her face, "Hey Usa-chan, snap out of it will you? We have work to do!" With that, the five guardians separated from the little group they had formed underneath the old stone gateway, each going to a different corner of the field.

They stood their on guard, silently, each one of them. Their eyes flashed in the sun, hair billowing in the wind. All of them posed, motionless, in the shades, each leaning against a tree or wall. The sun slowly made its course in the sky, and as it moved directly above the five friends, signalizing that it was noon, each the guardians dispatched themselves from their current located and moved towards one end of the wall where they sout out comfort from what little shade there was. After an hour of resting and feasting on grapes, dates, and figs, they moved back towards their previous locations, still not talking.

As the sun's last rays disappeared into the horizon, each of them moved away and out of the field where they have been standing for the whole day. As soon as they where out of there, the buzz of chatter soon began. …sigh… "When do you think that we are allowed to go venture out of the area and travel to other places? To meet other people and make new friends?" said Usagi. "I don't know…I honestly don't know," Umashi replied sullenly, "I'm so bored of the same routine that goes on, and on, and on, and…well, you get my point. Well, anyways, lets not think about and let's just forget it. Come on…let's go to our rooms. I am in desperate need of a bath and some beauty sleep!" "Same here!" Imana butted in. With that, the three girls headed to the washroom and later on, towards their respective bedrooms.

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There they were again, in the same old positions, guarding over the coins possessively, each one of them bored out of their minds, but did their duty anyways. Out of nowhere, the five of them heard a faint noise of muffles horse hooves trotting. As the rhythmic sounds of multiple horses grew louder, the friends each glanced at each other, startle, but composed themselves and stared out at the back gate.

There, they saw three horses that looked as if they were accustomed to long-distance running. On the top of each of them, was a rider in a rider in a light tan/beige shirt and cowboy pants. [I knoe, I knoe…there was no such thing as cowboys 5000 years ago but what can I do? I don't know what else to put…] As they watched, the three riders leapt out of their saddles in union. Before the three strangers could open their mouths to speak, Yakuti spoke out harshly, his voice laced with a tint of malice and hostility, "who are you, what are you doing here, and why? State your purpose and leave!"

"Whoa man, calm down! We're just some cowboys that are just going out into the east. We were passin' by, an' saw this building that was isolated frum da rest of da world, ya know? So since we being some mighty curious people, we decided ta take a look around! Say now…would you people by any chance have some water? We're sorta runnin' low on water here…" responded the man in the middle defiantly.

Then, out of the blue, the man on the left, exclaimed loudly, "Hey, hey, hey! What do we have here? What's those glistening stuff over there in dat field?" Without waiting for an answer, the answered his own question, "Dat's money isn't it?" He greedily eyed the shining coins that gleamed in the sun's beams.

The three men, seemed to have made a silent agreement with each other, silently nodding to each other ever so slightly, faced the five people that were on the other side of the gate. The man on the right spoke out roughly, "Ok, you uncivilized people. We'll leave you all alone, doin' whatever you guys do if you'll hand over those coins over there. We're doin' you all a favor you know that? Since you live in the opening, you don't need the money. So if you give it to us, we'll release you of the burden of havin' those coin and take it with us got that? We have a deal or what?"

"No deal," spoke out Soonowa suddenly. "Fine, if you don't want to hand them over the easy way, then pity you…could we'll take'em the hard way," called out Middle-Man. And with that, two of them climbed the gate while the third stayed behind with a gun pointing towards the five people. The two men that were now over the gate, turned and began to unlock the gate to let their third companion on the other side to enter. But before they could complete the task, Imana and Yakuti stepped forward and bashed the two men's heads together causing them to lose consciousness.

As the third man from the other side of the gate began to move his finger to click the 'safety' off of the gun, Umashi's dry voice stopped him before he could start pumping out the bullets from the weapon. "If you want your friends to live, don't even think about doing what you're about to try to do! And we would not give you those coins even if you made us the rulers of Egypt. We'll give you your friends back, but don't ever come back. 'Cause if you do, then you'll get a very slow and painful death…which includes you having to lose as much blood as could get possibly do, before dying. Got that? And if you do any funny business, then you'll regret it forever!"

After she had said her little 'speech', Usagi put her hand in the direction of the pile of unaware people and with a wave of her hand, the bodies floated to the air, over the gate, and plopped them non too gently onto the stone path in front of the now stunned man. And then, she uttered one word, " Leave." As soon as she growled out that single word, the man promptly but clumsily loaded the bodies of his now almost wakened but sluggish friends onto a horse, and sped away. But not before yelling out over his shoulders, "you can't keep us away forever! The only way to keep us away from that field is to splatter the blood of the 'devils of the night,' the ones that devour the flesh of mankind, all over yourselves and I don't think you wanna do dat. So when you least suspect it, we're gonna come and get those coins for ourselves ta have!"

After the menace had faded into the sunset, Yakuti turned and faced the other four grimly, "I think we should do something 'bout that. And Usa-chan, Uma-shan, and Ima-chan? Go to the special storage room and get a bowl of 'demon's' blood. If what that man said was true, them we have to be ready. Soonowa, let's go to the balcony hat faces the back gate and the field. That way we can keep guard until the girls can join us with the blood." The females sprinted of to get to the storage quickly while the rest walked swiftly up the stairs to the balcony.

As the girls neared the 'special' storage room, they slowed down, reluctant to be the one that open the door that has been seen for many years. At last Umashi found her courage deep down inside of her and muttered a few sentence in a language so ancient that it as been forgotten by all except for a chosen few. After she had said those forgotten words, the door creaked open, the dust sparkling in the last flickers of the sun, and the procession stepped inside.

Inside, the girls shivered, breathing the stale air that has never been breathed for decades and looked around. At last, Usagi spotted a sealed jar with a strange pattern around its mouth. She carefully picked it up and peered inside. The liquid in the ancient jar was murky and maroon, almost a dark purple. She glanced up at her nervous companions and said softly, " I have it. Let's go." With that, the three friends headed out and sealed the room with an enchantment and started up the stairs that led towards the balcony in which the two boys were.

The instance Yakuti saw them emerging from the darkness that covered the stairway, he said in a monotone, " Did you find it?" "Yea." "Ok everyone, this is what we do. We stay here on this balcony until the first rays of the sun. If they don't appear by then, then I don't think they will ever come back again. But if they do, then Usagi will float them up onto this balcony and will make them watch us smear the demon's blood onto our whole body." Then he paused before continuing, "Do you guys really want to do this? Do you know the consequences?" and they all answered, "Of course." In their cry of agreement to the plan, none of them realized that Usagi hesitated slightly before saying yes.

Time was running out and the plan was made. It was close to the mark of two before any of them heard the rustling of clothes other than their own, even with their unnatural hearing. They straightened up, each looking vividly alert. As they squinted down the railing of the balcony, they saw three shadowy figured 'trying' to creep into the yard without being seen. Obviously the robbers plans did not work out as expected for even from the area in which the five friends were, they could hear the Right-Man hissing out, "Stop it! One of you are stepping of the fingers!"

After Yakuti nodded at Usagi, she directed her right palm at the three robbers and made them float to the place where the five silent ones have been standing for the whole night. As the men stuttered in confusion, Soonowa silenced them by saying, "You said that you would only leave us alone if we cover ourselves with the blood of the man-eating beasts? Well, so I gather that you know the consequences for doing that? Those once we cover ourselves with the blood, we instantly becoming those demons themselves once the blood dries, right? Well, I just wanted you to know that we are willing to do the sacrificing of our humanity to guard what is rightfully ours."

With Usagi holding the strangers in place with her powers, the rest of the guardians began smearing the blood all over themselves. The horrified strangers heaved the remains of their stomach and as Usagi took pity on them and released her control over them, they staggered blindly over to the stairway and bolted out and leapt onto their horses. These three robbers where then never seen again in those parts of the world.

Usagi watched her friends in horror alarm. They were transforming in front of her very eyes. As the blood dried, it was soaked into their skin, leaving it the color of rotting flesh. And Usagi knew that she was only able to stay with her friend for 30 more minutes before their appetites start controlling them and devour her. She swiftly ran to the water pump and filled a giant bucket with pure water and lugged it up towards the balcony. She whimpered out with tears streaming down her face, "Minna, here's some water for you to wash in. You know that the less blood dried on you, the less you feel the need to have human flesh and will be more humanoid, though I will have to leave you all in half an hour."

Uma-chan, her best friend since forever, looked at her in sorrow and whispered out, " Don't worry, we'll be ok. I promise, on behalf of all of us, that we will never eat you and will stay away from this holy temple, for I know that we do not want to live forever. Although this will go against the demons' nature, and will be incredibly hard for us to do so, we will. Go quickly now, for time is running out! Go and run as far away as you can and don't look back. And please," it was here where her voice broke, "please remember us as we were before and not as we are now!"

Usagi looked at each of her friends' faces and resisted to urge to hug them all, for she knew that if she did, then the blood would be stained onto her and she would also become one of the cursed. The turned and fled, down the stone stairs and into the field. She reached to gates, but as an afterthought, she headed back and grabbed five coins with her. Then she turned and escaped out of the temple. She ran as quick as a water in a waterfall, and it was not until five minutes later when she slowed down to regain her energy, four unearthly howls of the cursed broke the serene night air. She started in surprise and began to flee again, in the direction of Egypt where the young prince, Yami, lived. Unknown to her, one of the coins she has inside one of her pockets was the golden coin. It finally flashed once since a hundred years ago and dimmed and the petite blonde haired girl reached the outskirts of Egypt.

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Kk everyone, here is the long-waited first chapter to Silver Coins. Yes I knoe, I knoe…I haven't updated since…since… well, what do you knoe? I forgot! Hehe (insert typical Goku grin). Hey don't you think that the story so far is original? Just to tell ya…this all come from a dream! Kool huh? Well anywayz…tell me what you think and please R & R!

See ya all l8ter...!