Rating: PG (Some cussing and a slap)
Sailor StarMoon slept peacefully on the makeshift bed. Usagi brushed some of the girl's hair out of her face. Are you Cynthia? thought Usagi.
"Serenity, you need to lighten up!"
Mako stood in the doorway. Wow. Usagi seems to be attached to that Sailor. I wonder. . .Nah. She has Mamoru-san. Demo, this girl looks familiar.
"Hey, Jupiter! Let's go see today's game!"
Minako walked
up beside Mako. Mako whispered, "She's hiding
something."
"Let her hide it," Minako whispered
back. The two girls walked away from the door as Minako continued.
"She's got a lot on her mind. She is going be Queen soon.
Maybe she feels this girl could help her somehow."
Mako
sighed. "You're right."
Usagi wiped the tear from her
eye. I wonder. . . She opened the Senshi's brooch and pure
white light poured into the room. When it died down, Usagi saw the
Ginzuishou in StarMoon's brooch.
Five-year-old
Princess Serenity led her four-year-old sister to the room where
their mother kept the Ginzuishou. "Do you have the brooch
Jupiter made you?" she asked. Cynthia nodded and brought out
the brooch to show Serenity. "I attached it to a chain to
make it a necklace. That way, I cannot lose it."
"Good
idea. Mama would get mad at both of us if she knew that we were
doing this." Serenity took the Ginzuishou out of its case.
She closed her eyes and the Ginzuishou started to glow. Cynthia
watched in awe as a line formed down the middle of the crystal and
popped apart into two pieces. "This one in my left hand is
the one we will leave in the case. The one in my right is only
one-fourth as powerful as the other one. You will get this
one."
Cynthia placed her piece in the brooch, closed the
lid, and put the necklace on. "Thank you,
Serenity!"
Haruka
and Michiru walked out of the school building. Because of the
attack, Juuban High had been closed for the rest of the day.
Haruka opened the car door for Michiru, then walked over to her
side to start the car. "I wish that teacher hadn't stopped us
and made us go back in the building," said Michiru. "That must
have been some battle from the looks of the area."
They
picked up Hotaru at her school, then drove by Rei's school and
spotted Rei with some of her classmates walking out of the
building. Haruka parked the car next to the curb. "Why are
you out already, Rei?" asked Michiru.
"Hi there,
Haruka-san and Michiru-san. They let school out for the rest of
the day because a youma attacked another school."
"It
was ours," replied Michiru.
The girls gasped. "What
was it like?" asked one.
"Where you scared?"
asked her twin sister.
"Well, no. The Sailor Senshi showed
up to save us!" said Haruka.
"WOW!" cried
another girl.
"Oh, Katie-chan," said Rei. "You
know they've been here for awhile."
"Yeah, I know. .
. .but did you get to meet them?" asked Katie.
Haruka and
Michiru looked at each other, then slyly said, "Yes, we
did."
"REALLY?!?!?!?!"
Rei sighed. "Where
are you two headed?"
"Your temple," answered
Haruka. "Give you a ride."
"No fair. She gets a
ride with a cute guy!" said the second twin.
Rei laughed.
"Thanks for the offer. I'll take you up on it." As she
stepped into the car, her schoolmates whispered, "She's so
lucky." (Author's Note: singing She's a star, but she cry,
cry, cries in her lonely heart thinkin', 'If there's nothing
missing in my life then why do these tears come at night?'
Britney Spears runs into the room and starts to beat the author
up for stealing her song)
"Did you find out anything new
about the enemy?" asked Hotaru.
"No. But we did see a
new Sailor Senshi. And the youma called her 'Princess'. Rei, have
you sensed anything?" asked Michiru.
"No. Demo, Usagi
keeps asking if we will help her look for her sister."
Haruka
looked at Rei in the rearview mirror. "Sister? I thought she
had a brother."
"She does, but she swears she has a
sister, too."
"Usagi-chan seems to have a large
family," said Hotaru.
"No kidding. Ami-chan called me
on my communicator. They're waiting for us," said Rei.
Haruka
nodded, put pedal to metal, and headed that way.
"Well,
hello. It's been a while since the two of you have been here,"
Rei's grandpa said as Rei, Hotaru, Haruka, and Michiru entered the
temple.
"It's a pleasure to meet you again, sir,"
said Michiru.
"So, what have you two kids been up to?"
Grandpa asked Rei and Haruka with mischievous eyes.
"Grandpa!
Stop it! Leave us alone!"
"But I want
great-grandchildren!"
"A: Haruka's a girl and B: I'm
your grandchild and I'm great!" Rei pushed her guests into
the temple before he could say anything else.
"Hey,
minna!" Mako greeted the girls at the door. "Did you
hear?"
"Yeah. Every school in the area has been
closed," said Rei.
"And there was a new Sailor Senshi
and Usagi seemed to know her. She called her 'StarMoon'. I wonder
where they've meet before," said Ami.
"Hey!"
Minako cried out. "Remember last night? She said she had some
help stopping the enemy. Maybe that help was Sailor
StarMoon."
"Where is she now?" Haruka
asked.
"She was hurt during the fight," said Minako,
"so we brought her back here."
"Okay. I'm doing
a fire reading. Get Usagi," said Rei.
"I'll get her,"
said Hotaru. She ran into the room where Usagi and StarMoon where.
"Usagi-chan!"
Usagi turned and her face lit up.
"Hotaru-chan!" The two hugged. "How have you
been?"
"Fine! Rei-chan is doing a fire reading. Come
on!" Hotaru grabbed Usagi's hand and dragged her into the
other room.
Rei concentrated. "Oh Sacred Fire. Please tell
us who Sailor StarMoon really is." The fire showed Sailor
StarMoon as a Senshi, then it slowly replaced the Fuku with a
dress. It looked like the type that Princess Serenity had worn.
"She's beautiful," said Mako.
"Pretty,"
added Hotaru.
"But who is it?" asked Minako.
"Wait!
There's something else!" said Rei. The fire showed StarMoon
in reverse transformation. "Who is she?"
Suddenly,
there was a crash in the other room. This startled Rei and
interuppted the reading. "Shit!"
Haruka sprang to her
feet. "Come on!" she commanded.
When the girls made
it to the room where they had left StarMoon, the pillows and
blanket that had made the bed where all over the floor. A flower
pot had been knocked over. The door was wide open. Minako jogged
over to it to see if she could find StarMoon. Luna-P appeared out
of nowhere and exploded in her face. "AAAAAAAAAAG!"
Minako fell on her butt. "What the hell was that?"
"Where's
StarMoon?" asked Usagi.
"If we knew that, we would be
running after her, ditz!" Rei yelled back.
"That's
not funny!" yelled Usagi. "I have to make sure she's
really my sister!"
"Then we'll do a DNA sample next
time we see her!" yelled Rei.
"Very funny, Rei-chan."
Usagi headed towards the door. "Let's go."
"Everything's
about you!" Rei suddenly exploded. "First you're the
leader, then the princess, then it's YOU who gets to marry
Mamoru-san just because you two were in love a thousand years ago!
Then YOU'RE the one who gets to be Queen while the rest of us get
to be your stupid guards!" She shook her finger at Usagi. "I'm
sick and tired of the fact that my entire life has to revolve
around you!"
"Rei-chan! We didn't choose this destiny
and neither did she," pointed out Minako.
"Oh, shut
up! You're the leader; you're important! If something happened to
her, then you get to be Queen and marry Mamoru-san! Me! I'm just a
follower; I don't do anything!"
"I wouldn't marry
Mamoru-san just because of that!" Minako said.
"But
Rei-chan does have a point," said Mako. "Everything
about this Senshi bit is because of her."
"Mako-chan!"
cried out Usagi.
"And we wouldn't have to live on earth
right now if she had just ignored the prince," said
Haruka.
Michiru nodded.
"Demo. . .!" Usagi was
speechless. Her friends were turning against her just because of
things they could not change. "Ami-chan? Hotaru-chan?"
The
two didn't dare look into her eyes.
"You . . .you
bitches!" yelled Usagi. "Traitors!"
"Usagi-chan!
They are just pointing out the facts," said Minako.
"You're
on their side, aren't you, Minako-chan?" asked Usagi. She
looked around the room at her so-called friends. "I-I don't
know what to say. I can't believe I just wasted the last four
years with a bunch of babies that aren't really my friends!"
Usagi was close to tears.
"See? She can't even listen to
the truth without crying," said Rei.
Usagi's reply was
smacking Rei hard on the cheek. "You should show some respect
to your Princess! And as one. . .I ORDER YOU ALL TO STAY OUT OF MY
SIGHT!!!!!" With that Usagi fled from the grounds.
Chapter Three: Usagi's Plight. Candra's Troubled Mind
