New and Familiar Reinforcement
Part One
Usagi opened her eyes to find herself as a child laying in huge room with Yori snoring away on the foot of her grand bed "Is she asleep?" she heard Raion asking, Usagi looked to see it was coming from the outside of her room. She slipped down from the side of the bed and walked to the door, the closer she was coming to it the louder the voices from the outside of her room. Usagi was surprised even more when she heard her mother's voices "Yes, Yori is staying with her just in case" Serenity answered "Good, Takashi has escaped passed the guards that stood by his chamber door" Raion said in a very worried tone of voices. "Do you think he is heading there right now?" Serenity asked in her own worried tone of voice "Yes and if he gets there, our kingdom, all of the kingdoms here and everything that we have been working so hard to built will all be destroyed" Raion explained and there was a short moment of silence. "Will all of you have to go?" Serenity asked now sounding like she was sobbing "Yes, except Endy" Raion answered, Usagi picked through the cracks of the closed doors. "I have asked him to watch over you and Usagi while I am gone. The Phantom will be here tomorrow to take both of you to the Earth kingdom" Raion explained. Usagi heard her mother now sobbing softly "You sound like you are not going to come back" she said with her hands on his chest "I may not, that's why I asked Endy to protect you and Usagi" Raion explained with his hands placed on her shoulders. "What will I tell Usagi if you don't return?" Serenity asked with her hands twined like a prayer "What will happen to me if you don't return?" she asked in a trembling voice. With all that fear within her, she grabbed Raion and pulled him into a strong and passionate embrace while sobbing "Shh! You are strong Serenity and you will continue to teach that same bravery to Usagi" Raion said while rubbing her back with his hands. Her mother's cry were making Usagi feel frighten and sad like she was, Usage began to softly cry herself. "I love you, Serenity. And nothing will ever stop me from feeling that" Raion said as they parted and began to walk out of their daughter's sight. "Otosan! NO! Otosan, Don't go!" she started shouting while banging the door "Don't leave, Otosan!" she shouted again and still banging on the door.
"Otosan!"
Usagi shouted until she finally heard Mamoru shouting to her to wake up "Usa-ko! Its just a dream, come back to me" he said now in a soft voice. Usagi opened her eyes to find Mamoru leaning over her without a shirt on, she took a moment to calmed herself. Then she reminded herself that she and Mamoru were too tired to return to their apartment after their night at the museum. So they spent the night at Rei's temple along with the rest of the Senshi, Luna, Artemis and Diana spent the night in the temple. "Are you okay?" he asked while stroking her cheek, Usagi sighed hard as she rose up to sit next to him but she still wasn't answering him. "Another dream?" he asked with his hands on her shoulders, then Usagi saw from the corner of her eye an drawing that was right next to her. She grabbed it and recognized it right away, it was Raion without the beard and the dirt on his face "You drew that a few minutes ago" Mamoru stated to her right away "What?" she asked in a stunned voice then finally looked at him. "Yeah, your hand was moving in a style like you were drawing something, yet you were still asleep.So I slipped a pencil in your hand and a paper under it" Mamoru explained. "After that, you started screaming, was it a nightmare?" he asked again.
Usagi was still so caught up in the dream that she had and the details that Mamoru was giving her about the following events from the museum that she suddenly developed an epiphany "They are not dreams!" she finally answered with excitement. "What?" he asked in a shocked and confused tone "They're not dreams, Mamoru. They are returning memories" she exclaimed now facing him with excitement in her eyes "Memories that were erased from me by...someone. But I don't know who" she added.
After that statement from Usagi, Mamoru woke up the rest on the Senshi and they all met in the dinning room "Memories?" Makoto asked from the counter where she was leaning on. In the past 6 minutes, Usagi finally decided to open up to her friends about all the dreams that she has been having. "From the past?" Minako asked from a chair next to Ami "I thought we had recalled every details of our history from the Silver Millennium" she said while looking down on her hands. "Then maybe there is more that we have not yet recalled yet" Rei suggested "Luna, Artemis, Do you know anything about these memories that Usagi just explained?" she asked while looking at the cats. "I'm afraid not" Luna answered with her head bowed down "Not even this name Raion rings a bell to us" Artemis added with his head bowed down too. Everyone either made stunned faces or impatient expression "I think this guy Raion is my father" Usagi exclaimed, Everyone was now in absolute shock by her. "Usagi, are you sure about what you are saying?" Rei asked with her hands trying to reach hers from across the table. "I-I am not sure but-"Usagi started out explaining as she rose from her seat and walked to the window. She suddenly started recalling the moment she nearly ran over him with Mamoru's car in front of his apartment garage, when he pushed her out of the way of the path of that jaguar and then she remembered the night that she spotted someone staring at her through the window of the kitchen back at her home. "All I know is that ever since I meet...no I bumped into him on the streets or spotted him standing outside my house, I have been having this strange connection with him, almost like I have met him before. It's the same feeling I have felt when we were all reunited for the second time" Usagi explained clearly. "And in all my dreams I am about 5 years old I think and he is this sweet, caring, loving and affectionate person who calls me his 'little rabbit of the moon', I think he needs me" she finally finished. Everyone around her were in total silences after Usagi finished her statement "Usa-ko?" Mamoru called softly as he rose to stand behind her with his hands on her shoulders. "Suddenly...I'm-I am not so scared anymore" Usagi said after giving out a very soft chuckle "I feel actually happy, to know that I have another parent out there who is still with me" she explained as she turned to look up at him with a smile on her face with tears in her eyes. "I want to meet with him. I lost my mother, he may be all that I have let of my past, maybe even our past" she added with her hands placed on Mamoru's chest and looking at the rest of the gang.
Everyone was suddenly startled by the surprising visitor form the outside "I am glad everyone is awake here!" said a loud voices of a Lupus who came flying in the form of a pigeon, the girls and Mamoru rose up to their feet in surprise as Lupus morphed back to his human form. "Because I went back to the museum early this morning, there were a lot of cops there and detectives. Luckily they all believe that everything that happened there last night was all done by a bunch of teenagers playing a prank" Lupus explained as he made his way to the kitchen and poured himself some coffee. "And the guards?" Rei asked when she remembered the dust marbles that made her and Yuuichirou go paralyzed for a short while. "They have recovered and they have no idea how to explain their attack" Lupus answered after he placed his coffee mug down. "But what I wanted to show you guys was this" he said as he pulled out what looked like a hospital patient tag. "I found this at the scene of the crime" he explained with a positive small on his face as he placed it on the table before Ami "It's from the hospital that your mother use to work at, it is about 5 miles out of town" he explained. Ami read the name of the hospital and remembered when she was living in that town she was moved to Tokyo, but there was no name on it except 'John Doe'. "We will need to head over to that hospital and investigate this" Ami suggested as she rose from her seat "Right!" everyone said at the same time while raising from there own seat.
Meanwhile outside the temple, perching on top of a tree near the dinning room where everyone was chatting at was Eye, the Phantom's hawk who was looking down at the window. He then flew off to the west toward a red motorcycle with a young man dressed in a black leather body suit leaning on it with his arms folded. Eye landed on the one of the handles of the cycle "So what are they up to?" Yukio asked as he turned and looked at the hawk, he squatted for a few minutes to him "So she finally figured out who Raion is" he said loudly to the hawk, he continued to give him the rest of the information that he heard. "I see, well then that's where I am going to" he added then slipped on his helmet. When he switched on the engines of his Bic, the hawk leaped off and flew toward the direction that Yukio was riding, he zoomed down the street toward the temple.
It only took half an hour for Haruka, Michiru and Yori to make their way to the temple but it took the rest of the Senshi and Mamoru 30 minutes to be dressed and gone to that hospital just before they got there. "God damn it!" Haruka exclaimed as she pushed the podium of the temple with her one fist "Haruka!" Michiru pleaded with her hands grabbing her lover's now bloody hand. "Sorry, I am now worried about kitten out there with our new enemy" Haruka explained while Michiru wrapped her scarf over the bloody knuckle. "I know, I am too. But we will get to her before they do" Michiru explained calmly, Yori walked into an opened sliding door "Any body ever in one place!" he called out. "Grandpa!" Diana exclaimed as she popped out of Rei's room, happy to see him of course "Ah! There you are my mitten" Yori said pleasantly as she came leaping to her. "Where is everyone?" he asked as she sat before him "They went to the Ayaka Hospital" Diana answered "What for?" Haruka asked as she and Michiru made their way in through the same opened door that Yori made through. "To find out about this homeless guy Raion" Diana explained while looking up at Haruka and Michiru "Then we better head over there" Michiru said. "What is wrong?" Diana asked now concern with why everyone was behaving strangely "Wait here at the temple, mitten. We will let you know what is happening soon" Yori explained with an assuring smile on his face to try and calm her. "Okay" Diana replied as Yori was scooped by Michiru, they made their way down the concrete stairs to the jaguar awaiting them. As Haruka leaped into the driver's seat, Michiru was distracted by the noise of a red motorcycle with someone dressed in a black leather body suit, he dashing right passed them. Michiru stood quietly and watched as the cycle drove passed them, at the same time in a very slow moment, the rider was glancing right at her. Michiru thought she had spotted a smile through the dark helmet. "Yo Michiru!" Haruka called to her attention from the driver's seat. "What is it?" she asked her partner as she switched on the jaguar "That motorcycle rider, the waves has turned hard as he passed by" Michiru explained as she opened the passenger door and slipped in. "Aye! I sensed something bad from him too" Yori said while growling and making his fur spike up in Michiru's arms.
Haruka looked at the direction that the cycle rider was heading to and started to wonder if he was going the same direction as she was going to. "I now feel that" Haruka said seriously then hit the gas paddle and zoomed down the street "I don't like the sense of that guy" Haruka added as she zoomed further down until she spotted the cycle rider straight ahead of her. The tough soldier drove right along side the cycle rider, Yukio sensed that someone was staring at him from the side. He turned to find himself making eye contact with Haruka "Heh! Just as I was on my way to get Usagi then LOW! I find at least two of the Outer senshi" he thought to himself then laughed on inside. Yukio figured out right away that they were heading over to the same hospital that Usagi and gang were at to protect her, he squeezed the motor handle and tried to get ahead of Haruka. "I think he wants to play" Haruka said as she increased the speed of her jaguar and kept Yukio along side of her "This might be fun but I have some work to do bitch!" he said through his helmet. Suddenly the two of them were racing each other all the way to the opened highway "I recognizes him some how" Yori said as he struggled to stand on his hind legs without being blown off of Michiru's lap.
Yukio was making a huge effort in keeping Haruka from getting into his way, while she was doing the same "Haruka be careful!" Michiru exclaimed with a bit of fear in her voice. Yukio headed them off toward the highway that was right along side the ridge of the mountain that over looked the sea "Perfect spot to lose the three of you" he thought to himself as he looked at his rear view mirror and then in front of him. He then reached into his pocket and pulled out some spiked marbles "Let's see if you gals can get out of this!" he thought to himself as he tossed them right at the path of the jaguar's wheel. The wheels burst so hard that the speed Haruka was driving on made the car jump into the mid air then landed back on the road, Michiru screamed while clinging onto Yori. Haruka was just swearing as she tried to stop the car but the swerves that she was making by the wheel was only causing the car to skit right toward the edge of the ridge. "Haruka!" Michiru called out as the car tipped over its side over the side of the road "Michiru!" Haruka called out as the two were reaching for each other with Yori in between them.
Yukio stopped in the center of the road just 5 feet away from the soon to be crash sight, he climbed off his motorcycle and walked over to the edge. Just as he reached the edge of the road, he heard a loud splash from below "Uh oh" he thought to himself as he looked down to the jaguar slowly sinking into the sea. "I'll tell Usagi that I saw you on my way to the hospital, later" he said in a soft tone of voice then turned back to his cycle, he placed back on his helmet as he walked back his cycle. He climbed onto his Bic and continued his journey toward the hospital, he drove off what he thought was a crash sight and death scene of Haruka, Michiru and.
But what he didn't realizes was that was that Haruka and Michiru swam out of the car with Yori still being held by Michiru's arm. They swam with all their might toward the surface, Michiru made it easily on her own to the surface before Haruka could. Michiru gasped for air when she burst her head out of the water "Yori, are you all right?" she asked the fuzzy cat as he slipped out of her grasp and began to paddle his way to shore. "I have survived 1,000 years on the Moon and Earth, it takes more then that to kill me" was all he answered in between coughing out water, they paddled their way to shore. Michiru was suddenly startled to see that Haruka wasn't anywhere around her "Haruka? Haruka?" she called out while looking at her surrounding.
But her lover was no where in sight "Yori, I've got to look for her!" Michiru shouted over her shoulder, as she was about to dive under but she was surprised by someone diving in ahead of her right out of no where. Then she was surprised again by a pare of hands grabbing her by the shoulders and pulling her out of the water. "I've got you, you'll be okay" said a male voice behind her, she couldn't see his face with the water splashed in her eyes and her hair covering her face. "Wait! Someone is down there, she could have drowned" she said as the male rescuer dragged her up into the speed boat "Well, well, well, I was wondering when you guys would be here" Yori said happily as he started licking himself. Michiru hesitated for a moment then quickly whipped away her hair and looked to see a man about 20 years old with long, dark brown, curly hair. "It's good to see you too, Yori. And an honor to meet one of the Outer guardians" he said while smiling at Michiru who was too stunned by everything that was happening. She totally forgotten Haruka being missing in the sea "Who are- I mean, Haruka. She is still down there" she said pointing out at the sea "Don't worry Jadeite is already on that" Nephrite said with an assuring smile on his face as he helped her to sit on the seat. "That's funny Nephrite, you look different with a smile on your face" Yori complimented as he walked to Michiru on the seat, suddenly they all turned their attention to the sound of two people coughing out waters from the sea. They looked to find a another young man who appeared to be the same age as Nephrite but with short blond hair like Haruka "Bring her here" Nephrite exclaimed while leaning over to aid Haruka onto the boat. "Jadeite, are you all right?" Nephrite asked as he pulled a knocked out Haruka into the boat "Yeah" he replied after sighing hard while climbing into the boat. The two men helped Haruka lay on the seat with her head on Michiru's lap then Jadeite handed Michiru a towel "Thank you" she said as she accepted it while stroking her lover's hair "Haruka?" she said softly to her "She'll be fine" Jadeite said as Nephrite handed him a towel. "We better get going" Jadeite suggested ungently to Nephrite "Right" he responded then headed to the control panel, Michiru sat quietly and stared at the two strangers, wondering how did they know she is one of the Outer guardians.
"They are the honor guards of the Earth kingdom, during its days" Yori explained after noticing her curious expression "You can trust them...now" he added as he continue to dry himself. "Now?" Michiru asked with another surprise look on her face "It's a long story, my dear" Yori said calmly then laid himself down comfortably as they boat suddenly was powered up. "Let me just say that: Raion requested for them to be here at this time of a situation" he said as he relaxed himself for a moment, Michiru took his words and trusted him "I assume you're taking us to Usagi, right?" she asked as an attempt to open up to these men. "That's where you two were going wasn't it?" Nephrite asked without looking at her, Michiru was surprised about how well informed they must be but she answered while still shock "Yes". "Then we better head over there before that boy on the motorcycle does" Jadeite said as he tried to dry himself completely. "We have a car waiting for us on the docks" Nephrite said as he drove the boat toward the docks that was ahead of them. After docking the boat, Nephrite and Jadeite leaped out of the boat an helped Haruka out with Michiru following them both, apparently her lover was revived yet from her near drowning experience. The two young men carried her to the red Ferrari while Michiru ran ahead of them to opened the car door for them. "By the way, do you have any idea who the boy on the motorcycle was?" Michiru asked as Nephrite turned on the engine "We have an idea who it might be" was all the second honor guard could answer as he hit and paddle and zoomed down the road.
I know that some of you were expecting this chapter to reveal the truth about everything, maybe even about the plot to kidnapping Usagi but please be patient for a few more days. The next chapter will beupdated very soon.