Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon, never have, and unfortunately never will.
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From Last Time:
The cat just watched the exchange between the young girl and the young man. They both seemed familiar to her, but the girl more so. She was going to have to watch her closely. She may be the girl she had been searching for.
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As Serena continued home, she couldn't help but focus on the handsome man that she continued to run into. 'Why do people have to be so mean? He seemed so nice in the park.' Just then she glanced up and saw a poster for the new Sailor V action game. 'Why can't I be like that? She doesn't have to go out of her way to get attention, no everyone loves her. Well, except for those evil monsters, but she gets to blow them up. That would be nice.'
"Meeooww"
Serena looked down and saw the black cat she had rescued earlier today. She was winding herself around Serena's legs and had almost got her tail stepped on as Serena had not noticed she was there. "Oh hi kitty. I thought you were going to go find your family. I'm sure that they will be looking for you. Maybe you have a tag to help me bring you home." Serena picked the cat up and found that there was no identification on the cat other than a unique marking of a crescent moon on her head. "That's no help. I guess that will teach people to let pets out without identification. Maybe mom and dad will let me keep you till we find your home. I guess there is no harm in asking." And so Serena started home. The cat in her arms seemed to have a grin on her face with the prospect of going home with Serena.
When Serena arrived home, her parents were less than thrilled that she had picked up a stray on the way home from school. They were even more displeased when she expected the cat to live in their house. Ken was the most vocal with reasons not to keep the cat. "Serena, do you know how much work it can be to have a pet? You can't even clean your room but you think that you can care for this cat. She will need to be fed, bathed, housebroken, and any other expenses such as shots. You have not given any indication that you will have the time or patience to do those things for more than a month. Nothing you have ever done extends past that period of time."
Serena had hoped that her parents would have more faith in her. It was true that she had never given them any reason to think that she would be mature enough to take on the responsibility of a cat, but that didn't mean she couldn't do it. "Give me a chance. I will do everything I can to take care of this cat. It is true that I don't have the money for a cat yet but I will. All I ask is that you help pay initially. Keep a tally if you want of what you spend on the cat and I will pay you back, but I can not send her back to the streets or bring her to the pound. I have this feeling that she's supposed to be with me and I refuse to get rid of her." This was one of the only times that Serena had actually stood up to her parents. The shock of the encounter was plain on their faces.
"Fine, you may keep the cat. But this is just a probationary period. I have one more stipulation before you can keep the cat. Your grades need to improve. If you have the responsibility to take care of a cat you can spend some time studying as well. If your grades are up and you are taking care of the cat then you may keep her, otherwise you will need to find her a new home."
"Thank you," and with that Serena gathered the cat, whom she had decided to name Luna because of her marking, and went up to her room.
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Later that night, when Serena was calmly reading her homework, Luna was trying to figure out who Serena was. She recognized the girl, knew that she was to play an important role in the fight against the Negaverse, but the only signature that she carried was that of the moon. She could not remember a sailor moon, but then again, her memories were still somewhat sketchy. She, like the rest, had been sent into the future to be reborn into a new body. That tends to cause problems with memory transfer.
Suddenly Luna sensed evil, the presence of a demon in the town, near to where Serena lived. She knew that it was now or never. Serena was going to have to accept her destiny and act on it quickly to save the lives of her town's people. "Serena!"
Serena jumped at the sound of someone calling her name. She was alone in her room, and that defiantly wasn't the sound of her parents' voices calling her. She looked around the room and it was just her and her new cat. "I'm losing it," she muttered as she turned back around and Luna was sitting in her book. "Serena we have to talk."
"AHHH" shrieked Serena as she fell off her chair and started to scoot back toward her wall. "No, I did not just hear a cat talk." All those years of only half studying had caught up with her. The one time that she really studied, a cat talked to her. "Maybe I fell asleep in my book and this is all a dream."
"Serena, this is not a dream. If it were your butt would not be smarting from falling off the chair. I can talk. I am from your past, your past life in fact, and you need to remember and embrace your destiny," replied the cat.
"My past life? My destiny? What are you talking about. There are no past lives and cats don't talk. Also, everyone makes there own destiny. I must have hit my head when it fell in the book."
"Enough of this. If you don't believe me, try this. Grab this locket and say 'Moon Prism Power.' If I am lying then nothing will happen. If I am not, you will become a warrior of good, a Sailor Senshi who's role is to protect the innocent from the evil of Beryl and her henchmen." And with that, Luna pushed a beautiful heart-shaped locket at Serena.
"Fine. Moon Prism Power!" and with that Sailor Moon was born.
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