Authors Note: Sorry this is so late. Life, memorial day, and down time have all conspired to make things difficult for me. Also having issues with and breaks in the story, preying that it works this time, if it does I will reload all the previous chapters with said breaks replaced. Here however is the next chapter.

Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon or any of the characters created by Naoko Takeuchi

Chapter 5

The afternoon passed slowly. Every hour or so, Sarah found herself walking by the courthouse. She knew they wouldn't be there, it was only nervous energy, but she found herself incapable of doing anything else.

She didn't think that dreams could visit a person during waking hours, or if they did they would not be nearly as vivid as the ones visiting her. Nightmares of the horrors her mother was currently experiencing left Sarah shaking and panting in fear. Would her mother be returned whole? Would she be sane? Due to these thoughts, she found herself unable to plan ahead, or decide on a wise course of action. She could think of nothing that would not result in the death of herself and her mother, but she refused to give in. All she could do was show up and see what happened.

Sara was standing at the courthouse an hour before the scheduled meeting, untransformed. She watched dispassionately as people walked by unaware of the battle that was sure to take place. They lived their lives in safety and comfort, free to aspire for happiness. These were the people she protected. These were the lives she sought to maintain. Was her only hope failure? Was she destined to let them down because she could not sacrifice her mother for the many? Was it fair that she had to choose? No it was not fair, but the choice had to be made. Alone she could not defeat them without losses.

Luna had, just ten minutes past, informed her that a battle was raging in Tokyo, one the scouts were hard pressed to win. They could not back her up.

Then she felt it, a disturbance in the air, a feeling of building power. The Negaverse was creating a portal into this world. How easy it would be to keep the portal closed. Oh it would take such little effort to close the portal now, then no fight would take place, and her mother would be lost forever. A swirling black cloud began to form in front of her, slowly taking the shape of a large doorway. Sarah was focusing on the new portal with such determination she did not hear anyone approaching from behind.

She felt someone or something grab her shoulders, and she started. Dropping to the ground and throwing her leg in an arc, she tripped the person or creature behind her. She found herself very chagrined to be looking at the white knight lying flat on his back and looking at her with shocked amazement.

Sarah tried to ignore the pain in her sides and thigh as she climbed to her feet and offered the white knight her hand. He accepted it, looking a bit chagrined himself at being caught so unaware. "I was going to warn you," he said rubbing the back of his head, "a fight is about to begin, and you may not want to be anywhere nearby." Indeed, now that Sarah looked around she could tell that many people had noticed the swirling black clouds and had begun to exercise a quick retreat.

Sarah looked to the white knight and sighed sadly, "I have no choice, they have my mother, and I want her back. The message I received said that I must be alone, so . . . if you could leave." The white knight must have noticed the pleading in her tone, for he looked torn.

"You cannot fight these people, they have great power. What can you use against them?"

"Anything at my disposal," turning to look at the growing portal, she begged, "Please leave . . . I don't want to give them any excuse to kill her." The figure before her, drapped in the white robes of an eastern warrior, slowly nodded and reluctantly turned to leave. Sarah watched him with regret, her only possible ally was gone. Now she had to face these beings . . . alone.

With determination she faced the portal. It was now substantial enough for the beings in the Negaverse to cross over, but nothing was happening. The tension in the air was thick enough to be cut by a knife when finally a figure began to emerge from the depths of the portal. The figure was that of a woman, the same woman whose holograph had addressed her earlier in the day. The woman stepped calmly out of the billowing black clouds to stand in front of Sarah.

"Where's my mother?" Sarah asked her when no one else emerged from the portal. The woman didn't answer, only turned to glance back towards the gate into the Negaverse. This time a monster began to emerge. Basically having the shape of a man, this monster was huge, its muscles barely contained beneath its skin. It's head had been shaven and there were scars upon its head that made Sarah wonder about whether this thing might have been labotomized. The worst part was, he had her mother.

Her mother was dirty and looking tired and stressed, but Sarah could detect no blood or wounds. Her mother had a hopeless look to her eye, but there was still fire in there, there was still sanity. There was still a chance to save her.

"Let my mother go!" Sarah demanded of the two creatures in front of her, while taking a more offensive stance.

"Only if you surrender," the woman said, smiling as if she had just offered a young child a harmless piece of candy. Sarah hesitated, must she choose between the lives of nearly everyone on the planet and that of her own mother? If she surrendered this part of the world then eventually the whole would would fall into Negavers hands. If she didn't surrender, she could possibly see her mother killed before her eyes.

Indecision showed clearly on her face as she faced the woman. She looked to her mother, whose face was streaked by tears and fear, the eyes pleading with her daughter to run away and not get involved, to save herself, but Sarah could not leave her mother.

"You want me to choose between the safety of my world and that of my mother?" Sarah asked the woman in a loud astounded voice. "I am sworn to protect both my family and my world," her voice held a ring of purpose. She had found that the decision was not hard to make, there was only one option her conscience would allow. "Saturn Star Power!" Sarah made the transformation words a challenge to the beings standing before her.

Rings of light exploded from her necklace and the transformation sped by. Her mother stared amazed, forgetting her earlier fears. A gasp of surprise made Saturn turn to look behind her. The white knight stood behind her staring. She couldn't help but chuckle softly, " I should have known you wouldn't abandon me," she smiled at him, a grin of pure mischievousness. "What do you say we kick some Negaverse butt?"

He nodded, surprised. He couldn't believe that Sailor Saturn was Sarah Fulton, or rather that Sarah was Sailor Saturn. It just didn't seem possible. He hesitated as she ran forward to engage the enemy. 'She was hurt, that acid burn, no wonder she jumped so bad when I tickled her,' the white knight thought with guilty surprise. 'Things are going to be strange from this point on,' and with that thought the white knight was quick to follow the warrior before him, just as she engaged the enemy.

Sailor Saturn ran towards the monster holding her mother. First things first, remove their advantage, she couldn't let this creature harm her mother. The sudden attack seemed unexpected as no move was made against her until she was nearly on top of the guy.

Saturn found herself angry enough that she didn't feel the pain around her waist, nor did she encounter the sluggishness this would normally have casued her. She landed a sweet punch on the man's face, then flipped around to kick him on his temple. The man fell back surprised, pulling her mother with him. His grip however had loosened enough that her mother had managed to pull one arm free.

"Let her go!" Saturn screamed as she attacked the arm still holding her mother. The man's free arm came around to grab her, but a high back flip sent her flying out of range. She had barely touched the ground before she again launched herself forward and attacked him once more.

With her attention focused on the man, she could not pay attention to the woman standing nearby, but the white knight had her back and blocked the attack the woman launched at Saturn. "Don't you know it's rude to interupt?" he asked standing between the woman and the fight raging nearby.

The woman let loose with a shrill whistle and creatures suddenly began to emerge from the portal. Luckily the gate was only big enough for them to emerge one at a time.

Saturn jump kicked the man's bicep, making its hand jump open, giving her mother the chance to escape. Her mother began to run immediately, and as Saturn went to follow she found herself in her mother's previous position, with the creature holding her arm in a fierce iron grip. Furiously Saturn aggacked the creatures, non-existent neck, screaming at her mother to get as far from the battle as she can.

"Saturn Ball Lightning Attacks," small balls of bright light, seeped from her free hand and coarsed toward the man. He paid them no mind as he grinned at her. But he changed his tune as the first one touched him. His whole body spasmed as the electricity shot through is system.

Saturn fought to ignore the pain of the electricity as she struggled for freedom. As the effects of her attack began to fade from her attacker, she managed to land a solid kick right beneath his rib cage. The man dropped her arm as he battled for breath. While he was off balance she managed to knock him back through the portal, taking a few of his friends with him as he fell.

As she turned from her vanquished opponent, Saturn found that the battle had been joined by many more of the enemy, and the white knight was beginning to find himself overwhelmed.

"Saturn Meteor Shower!" she screamed and the battle field began to be pelted with small rocks falling at considerable speed. Saturn grimaced as she struggled to control the storm, making sure the white knight and her mother where not hit.

Her adrenaline rush was fading as the battle began to wear on, and she was reminded of the pain and weariness of her sore body. Resigning herself to the pain, she continued to fight, throwing the beaten monsters back through the portal and preventing new ones from emerging.

However there were still far more monsters than there were defenders, and both Saturn and the white knight were beginning to tire. Saturn found that concentrating on her magics and fighting physically took more effort than she had available, and the meteor shower began to peter to a stop.

"She's weakening! Get her," the woman cried and her minions attacked with more vigor. Soon Saturn found herself nearly over run by attackers, and she began to get desperate.

"Saturn Ball Lightning," she screamed, but the balls of light were increadibly weak, and she doubted her attackers even noticed them.

"Sailor Saturn," she heard the white knight call, but she could no longer see him. She felt her wounds reopen and her attackers could smell the blood. She feared she would not come out of this fight in one piece.

Without warning, the sky behind the Negaverse forces lit up with blinding multicolored light. She could only think that the white knight was trying something new, though he had never shown any magical abilities before. She only hoped desperately that it worked.

One of the creatures finally managed to get a hold of her from behind. She cried out in agony as she twisted her body around, smashing her elbow into the giant man's head. There was a roar as the creature dropped her.

"Mars fire ignite."

"Jupiter thunder clap, zap." Two voices sounded from behind the monsters. Two very familiar and welcome voices. The creatures between herself and the two newcomers lit up and screamed with pain. Without a thought Sailor Saturn pushed her way free of the monsters to find the other scouts standing in formation.

"Thank god you're here," Saturn cried.

"No problem," Sailor Moon said with a smile, "now lets waste this Negaverse trash." Sailor moon brought up the scepter, and the negaverse attackers began to feel fear. "Moon scepter, activation!"

The woman who had been controling the attack quickly leapt through the portal just as the rest of her army fell to dust.

With a wave of her hand, Sailor Saturn activated the spells set in place to close the portal. Then sat down right where she was, "I'm glad that's over," she said with a sigh.

"Glad we could help. You're not looking very good," Sailor Moon said, noticing for the first time her friends weakened state.

"I'll be fine with a little time to recover. Where's my mother?"

"Over here," called a male voice. Looking up Sarah saw the white knight and her mother walking over. "I saw her run for cover so I tried to keep the Negaverse from finding her."

Saturn jumped to her feet and ran to embrace her mother, ignoring the pain that coursed through the old and new injuries. Her mother was safe and that was all that mattered.

"Oh my poor little girl," her mother gasped through tears. "Why didn't you tell me you were Sailor Saturn?" Her mother began to sound a bit more like herself through the tears.

"Would you have believed me?" Sarah answered back. Her mother's only response was to hold her daughter closer.

"It doesn't matter, I know now. Let's go home."

David walked into his room, pulling off the white turban and mask of the white knight, tired to the depths of his bones. What was he going to say to Sarah next time he saw he?. He had always been attracted to her, but had known he loved Sailor Saturn. She was so strong and confident. She was curteous to those who treated her wrong, well except to the emergency operator that one time. She was always so careful. He had always wanted to be with her, now he knew who she was.

How was he to act?

Author's Note: Well that is the last of the prewritten story. I can leave it here as completed or I can continue. There are many places I can take them from here. Before I write more I need to know you want more, so you know the drill. Push that little button and tell me what you think. Till next time.