Author's Note
I don't OWN Sailor Moon… Yet the story concept is mine… Please don't take it without my consent… PLEASE….
Okay, today was rather annoying since I'm home now and it was a pain in the butt to try and get on the internet so now I'm retyping everything onto another computer. Well, I hope y'all enjoy this chapter. Thanks to the reviews I've got… they've helped me realize that I need to revise the stuff that's coming up! Anyhow, enjoy Chapter 7: Shocking Revelation.
Serena or Catarina?
Chapter 7: Shocking Revelation
"Well, it seems that someone did hear my call, but no man to date," a man in knight's armor said, his back to them. Sailor Moon/Catarina took one look at this man, and somehow, she knew his name.
"How dare you threaten innocent lives with your greedy love Terrance!" she recited, as the group looked at her.
"And how dare you threaten a building that stands for the knowledge of mankind?" Sailor Mercury added, somewhat shaky as she looked at Sailor Jupiter, who nodded.
"We are warriors of justice and it's our job to make sure you stay away from innocent people!" Sailor Jupiter exclaimed. Sailor Moon/Catarina started to move her hands as Sailor Mercury had shown her, beginning to repeat the last part of the catch phrase.
"So in the name of the Moon!"
"In the name of Mercury!"
"And in the name of Jupiter!"
"We shall punish you!" they proclaimed, as the man turned to face them now.
"I am amazed you already know my name," he said, looking at the group. "And that you have the audacity to challenge me."
"What have you done with Princess Serenity?" Sailor Jupiter demanded.
"What have I done? Absolutely nothing," Terrance, the man, laughed. "She is my princess, my beloved and I will honor our traditions and defeat the man who seduced her here."
"WHAT?" the three asked.
"How dare you," Sailor Mercury said, at a loss for words. "Endymion is not some conniving snake."
"Where is she?" Sailor Jupiter scowled now. Sailor Moon/Catarina also looked angry, but she was wholly confused.
"I know him in a loving way, and yet, I loathe him with every fiber of my being. I want to rip his heart out and—well, okay, maybe not that—Oh! It's just too confusing. Who is he? Why do I know him? Why?" she thought.
"She is safe at my home world, being protected by our Royal Guard."
"Your home world?" Sailor Moon/Catarina asked now, as Terrance did a double take.
"You sound exactly like her," he said. "As if you were her twin."
"Sailor Moon," Sailor Mercury said quietly. "Do you know him?"
"Somehow," Sailor Moon/Catarina admitted quietly.
"What are you saying Mercury?" Sailor Jupiter asked.
"I'm saying that I might have an idea," Sailor Mercury said simply. "Just play along."
The two were confused as Sailor Mercury laughed.
"You think, Terrance, that you can win against us?"
"By the looks on your friend's faces I think I can," Terrance said, as Sailor Mercury realized she needed a line fast, but was even more lost as "Sailor Moon" came forward.
"All right Terrance. Where are you from and what do you want?" she said bluntly. He gave an astonished look.
"Well, since you've asked so nicely, I'm from Imperia, a land of ice and snow, and my princess at the moment thinks her name is Serenity. In fact, surviving the first night alone proves that she is not. Serenity, as you thought she was, died so long ago. We've got her now, and she's staying with us. But alas, she has fallen in love with Endymion, and it is him that I must kill in order to win her back and marry her tomorrow."
"You sick bastard," Sailor Moon/Catarina said angrily, as Terrance's face went cold.
"I don't like your tone. I ought to correct it," he said, swiftly drawing his sword. Sailor Moon/Catarina was back in a heartbeat.
"What did he say?" Sailor Mercury asked.
"Imperia," Sailor Moon/Catarina said. "I really hope that this Endymion guy doesn't show up."
"Stay out of trouble and he won't have to," Sailor Mercury replied. "He comes to save Sailor Moon, and he's probably in the shadows right now watching the fight."
"Great…"
"Welcome back Your Majesty," Professor Greenwich, an old man with big thin-rim glasses and a book in hand, said to Serena in flawless Japanese. "I have heard from Aspera that you must have hit your head pretty good because you can hardly remember your native tongue, correct?"
"Japanese is my native tongue!" Serena corrected in response. The professor's eyes widened.
"My, you have changed form that polite young princess I knew," the professor exclaimed. "This bump on your head must have been near fatal!"
"I've never hit my head!" Serena replied.
"Of course you haven't," Professor Greenwich said, almost condescending, to Serena. Her temper was rising.
"How dare you suggest that I have? I've survived far worse than a bump on the head!" Serena nearly shouted. She looked at this man, who seemed to have little care for her concerns, and to Aspera, who seemed to be too whimsy as it was to be of any help. And yet—that one aguard who had helped her survive that first night. How did he know so quickly that she wasn't who they thought her to be? He had said it was the fact that her tears did not bring flowers up from the ice, but something told her deep down, that he had known the moment she ahd set foot onto this wretched, cold planet. That when they had brought her in, he knew she wasn't one of them. One of his people.
Yet he had helped her. She was still alive thanks to him. His warning had kept her tears in check, and she tried to avoid thinking of Darien to avoid her tears. At that moment, it was then that she needed Darien's help. That she needed a savior.
"DEMON ATTACK!" a voice shouted in the palace. Serena took not another second as she run for the door, but Aspera had her pinned.
"You need to hide, now!" she hissed, as she threw Serena into a trapdoor. Serena looked around, and realized she had been thrown into a series of tunnels. "Princess, run in those tunnels and try not to get too lost. We'll send someone to retrieve you when the battles are over!"
Serena didn't want to run, nor did she want to hide, but seeing as Aspera had taken her brooch and placed it on "her" desk, like some useless accessory, left her little choice. She ran into the tunnels, to find that only moments later she had found her way to Princess Catarina's room. Yet a demon was there, and Guard Thomas was fighting it off to the best of his abilities. The demon was moving towards the desk, towards her brooch!
Without a second to spare Serena burst into the room.
"Thomas, that brooch! Pass it to me!" she exclaimed, as Thomas dove for it at the same moment the demon had, knocking it to Serena's feet. She looked at the demon. "You want it? Come get it."
And with that she picked up the brooch and ran into the tunnels again. She heard Guard Thomas shouting something, and Serena quickly realized that these demons had indeed come for her brooch.
"Why can't they be after Aspera?" Serena whimpered, as she turned to face the demons. "All of you back off or I use it!"
They stepped back, realizing their mistake for following her. She moved back into the tunnel behind her. Suddenly, she was held by another demon, who laughed.
"You will give us the Silver Imperium Crystal," it scowled. Serena laughed.
"Make me," she whispered, flipping it just like Lita had taught her the other day. "I'm not afraid of any of you!"
"How about me?" another hissed, reminding Serena of a snake, as she avoided too much of a scream.
"Okay, maybe you," Serena said, realizing she was backing into another exit, which was filled with battle and blood spray. "How do these people manage without Sailor Scouts?"
"I don't see how this helps you," the snake demon hissed, as Serena suddenly saw a tunnel's worth of them struck down and pinned, by a white rose?
"Moonlight Knight?" Serena wondered.
"Stay back you filthy creatures!" a masculine voice called down the tunnel from which the rose came. The monsters started to run down the tunnel, as Serena heard a new fight with swords commence. Running over to the now pile of dust, atop it lay a clear white rose, that was chilling to the touch. Realizing that she would be hit if another was thrown, she moved back out of the pathway, and dodged another set of incoming demons. Then taking gradual steps down the path, she got closer to the fight to realize that it was a Sailor Knight that was fighting off the demons. He was fighting them off mostly with his blade he wielded, yet he was also moving back, as if the load were too heavy for him alone to bear.
"It's now or never," Serena decided, as she pulled out the brooch. The demons all turned, seeing her ready to transform, as they suddenly decided now was not a good time to die, and ran off. The knight gave her the strangest look, as she smiled. "I told them I would use it—So just who are you?"
"I, my Lady, am Imperia Knight, guardian of this beloved planet. And you?"
"I am Princess Serenity," she introduced. "Guardian of the Moon and the Silver Imperium Crystal."
"Well, that would explain the demons coming here so quickly. They must have sensed the crystal's powers," the Knight said, starting to leave.
"Wait," Serena said, as the knight stopped. "If you're here, does that mean that—?"
"Yes," Imperia Knight said simply, as a quieted demeanor befell him. "Princess Catarina is Sailor Imperia…"