Chapter 4
Sailor Moon flew through the roofs effortlessly, without a single trip on the way, while on her arms she held her feline guardian, who seemed to have taken the title to its extreme by uncharacteristically becoming overprotective. But at the moment her mind wasn't analysing that much, a part of her feeling rather flattered at the new attention. No, she was running at an unnatural speed, without tripping at all because she knew she was already ridiculously late to the battle, and she had a feeling that her senshis would be even more livid the longer she wasn't there.
No matter how much they complained about her lack of fighting ability, the senshis still depended on her to finish it and kill the youma. Despite the fact that they had more firepower and active powers, only she Sailor Moon was strong enough to actually kill a youma. Sometimes she wondered why they still didn't respect her when she herself could kill the youmas yet they couldn't. Yes she had no actually fighting abilities, but that made sense now. She was the princess, she never had to fight! This caused her eyes to go wide and she looked down at Luna, as the two incidents clicked.
"Luna…I am the princess and I was never meant to be a senshi right?"
"Yes, it was a horrible mistake of mine, why?"
"Well…if I wasn't meant to be the senshi, then why am I the only one who can kill the youmas? If you hadn't made the mistake then the senshis would be on their own, with no Sailor Moon and they would have had to defend me. How the hell could they have achieved that if they aren't even strong enough to kill the youmas and I can?" Sailor Moon asked the feline softly while she jumped the rooftops, internally praying that no one notices her building hopping.
She watched as shock marred Luna's face, her reactions very expressive despite being a cat.
"I don't know. I suppose you are stronger because the princess was stronger than all of the senshis combined as she had the power of the silver crystal. So by me turning you into a senshi, you became the strongest out of the rest with deadly power, making them appear weak. I am honestly not sure how we would have defeated the youmas if I hadn't turned you into a senshi actually. But we will have to find a way, for you cannot continue being a senshi. It's not your job or your destiny, not to mention ridiculously dangerous," Luna trailed thoughtfully.
Sailor Moon did not disagree, for she herself did not enjoy being a senshi. So this seemed to be a blessing in disguise. Though she had a feeling once she stopped being Sailor Moon, Luna would probably bombard her with ways on how to be a proper princess and rule. That caused her to panic internally, she wasn't princess material! How could she be the princess Luna wants?
'Calm yourself. We have it in us, we can do this. It's our birth right, it will come to us perfectly in time,' a composed voice spoke inside her mind.
Sailor Moon's eyes went wide at that voice. Did she just head a voice talking to her in her head? It surprised the life out of her. Confused, she thought of the voice which spoke up out of the blue. The voice sounded…exactly like hers but the tone made it sound different. The voice was hers but gentle in pitch and very calm, eloquent. Everything that she wasn't. It left her bewildered. But she didn't have time to analyse the new voice in her mind. In seconds she appeared in the edge of the park and observed. The three senshis did not look well. Their fuku's appeared burned and ripped at certain places and all three of them were using their elemental powers, at full blast towards the middle. Her eyes went there as she observed the youma they were aiming at in the middle. The youma itself was huge, at least twenty feet and, to her shock and horror, it appeared to be shaped like a dragon. Her jaw fell. The negaverse had sent a fire-bloody breathing dragon! She didn't even know they had that much powers! One quick look at Luna made her realise she wasn't the only one surprised by this type of youma. While she was stood there, she saw Sailor Mars thrown away like a rag doll, overpowered by the dragon-like youma. She winced when she saw how she slammed against the grass. A quick sweep making her realise that Tuxedo Mask was nowhere in sight.
The collapsed Mars must have seen her for she threw her a big glare.
"About time you showed up lazy, now don't just stand there, come here and do your job!" the fire senshi shouted in anger, seething visibly. Sailor Moon scowled but didn't say anything as that fall did not look pretty. Setting Luna on her feet in the grass, she jumped and leaped until she was directly in front of the youma. Seeing as it was busy and distracted by Jupiter and Mercury (who looked relieved at her appearance), Sailor Moon took a deep breath and took out her new weapon. Grasping the moon wand tightly, she uttered her new attack.
'Moonlight Flash!'
As soon as that phrase left her mouth, the crescent moon on top of the wand beamed brightly and a golden and silver light shot out from the wand to attack the youma. The force of it threw the youma back, as slowly, slowly, the light overtook him until every visible part of it was covered in the bright light. The youma yowled in pain and howled until finally it stopped. When the light dissipated, there was no sign of the giant youma.
A huge smile overtook Sailor Moon's face and she laughed out loud, extremely impressed with her new attack. It certainly seemed more epic than her old tiara. She wasn't the only one surprised too, a quick look at Jupiter and Mercury's face showed that they were shocked and awed too.
"Wow…that was amazing, where have you been hiding that attack?" Jupiter asked while looking at her seeming extremely impressed, though physically she appeared ragged.
"Yes, that power scale was off the charts," Mercury contemplated, with her blue goggles intact.
"Well..I—um got a new weapon," Sailor Moon replied, feeling nervous. She wasn't sure what story to give them. Before she could cover up her nervousness, she heard a loud shout, which caused all three of them to look around, to see a fuming Mars.
"What the hell is wrong with you! We called you FIFTEEN minutes ago and you bloody show up now! How more lazy can you get blondie! There is a level of irresponsibility and you crossed that. My god one of these days your laziness will not only get us killed but civilians too!" Mars hissed out the harsh words, with her eyes full of ice.
Sailor Moon's breathing hitched as her eyes went wide, her words hitting closer to her. The words and the tone got to her, which seemed harsher than her normal remarks. She didn't want to admit it but they hurt.
However then something happened which surprised her and the other senshis, including Mars. Another loud voice spoke up, interrupting Mars tirade.
"Hold your tongue Mars," shouted Luna as she jumped and put herself in the middle between Mars and Sailor Moon, "You will watch what you say."
At that Mars looked at Luna incredulously. Shocked beyond believe that she was interrupting her. So far, all this time no one bothered interrupting or calling her out during her spats with Usagi so to see Luna interrupted shocked the life of her. But she still didn't want to stop, feeling to much anger and needing to get it out.
"Why should I, she is lazy and useless, completely unfit to even be a senshi!" Mars uttered those scathing remark causing even Mercury and Jupiter to gasp.
"Mars!" they shouted, looking at their friend in horror while observing the down look on Sailor Moon's face.
"And yet she is the one who can defeat the youma in one shot. That seems pretty useful to me, compared to you," Luna spoke darkly. That remark causing all the senshis, including Sailor Moon to stare at the cat with her jaw on the floor. None of them were used to Luna talking like this! Sailor Mars herself appeared confused at the moment. But offense was strong in her.
"Excuse me?" Sailor Mars screeched, not understanding what had gotten into the cat who usually took her side in berating Sailor Moon.
"You heard me. I am not liking this attitudes or these remarks you are saying towards your fellow senshi. It's disrespectful, and not the way one treats its leader. You all should trust your leader and believe that she had a good reason for not being there," Luna replied while glaring at Mars, not at all amused by her attitude.
At her sentence, Sailor Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Mercury looked at Luna, appearing momentarily taken back.
"Leader?" Scoffed Sailor Mars, disbelief and amusement in her face "We have no leader and if we did it won't be her!"
"Yes you do, it's the reason why it took us a while to reach her. I have named Sailor Moon the leader of the senshi for she holds and uses the power of the moon stick, a power only given to the leader of the senshi who is the most powerful senshi out of them all. So if you don't stop your scathing remarks against your leader then I will be forced to take your transformation pen and power from you," Luna replied in composed, cold tone while staring at Mars, to show just how serious she was.
This statement was enough to cause all four of them gasp outloud.
"You would what?" screamed Sailor Mars, but Luna did not back down looking hard at the senshi of fire.
However, Sailor Mercury seemed to have sense and she grabbed hold of her fiery friend.
"Okay, I think it's time we leave now and we can talk tomorrow morning, with clearer head," she said this while glaring at Sailor Mars pointedly. With tugging, both she and Jupiter pulled Sailor Mars along, taking her far away from Sailor Moon and Luna, "See you tomorrow Sailor Moon."
It didn't take them long to disappear, only leaving Sailor Moon and Luna in the park. Sailor Moon appeared saddened, the words of Mars still echoing. Luna, noticing her face sighed and walked towards her. Sailor Moon got down and picked her up, holding her thoughtfully.
"Don't consider her words. You are powerful, you saw that. The problem is that you are the princess and your true power is within the silver crystal. Without it, you don't have effective powers. Once we get the silver crystal for you, then things will fall into place and hopefully she cease behaviour such as this," Luna spoke, not at all pleased by the fire senshi's words.
"I know…I just wish she would respect me the way I am now, instead of it being forced when they realise I am the moon princess," Sailor Moon said it, her tone wistful as she laid her head on Luna. Finally she shook her head.
"Let's just go now," she muttered and took off with her inhuman speed.
What she hadn't noticed was a tuxedo clad figure hidden behind a tree four feet away from her previous position, who had heard her last words and appeared shell shocked at the revelation he heard from the senshi of moon.
Yay a new chapter! Did you guys like it?
The votes have been counted. The one with the most votes ended up being (unsurprisingly) A Love Triangle Built for Two, with a good 55 votes, so option B is the overall winner. The runner ups are E. Guardian Angel with the second highest votes (31) and the third one is C. Silver Wings (25). However Kiss from a Rose put up a good fight against Silver Wings, they were only 2 votes apart. So you will be seeing these three stories prologues put up in the future soon after I wrap up 'Yet To Come', which is actually not that far away from its finale. I estimate a few more chapters. A Love Triangle Built for Two will be the first to come as that got HEAPS amounts of votes, it actually surprised me that it turned out to be the popular of the lot. But after that is up, you will be seeing the prologues of Guardian Angel and Silver Wings come up respectively. Also (I'm so bad) I have another sailor moon story idea which has been buggering me. So I have posted the summary below, read it and tell me if it is good and interesting enough to be added to my ever so growing pile of future sailor moon WIP stories:
Kissed by the Moonlight: What if when Luna meet Usagi, she hadn't mistaken her for a senshi? What if she knew that Usagi was her princess? Finding the princess early on, Luna makes herself the princess's pet, while awakening her protectors one by one. Leaving Usagi completely unaware of her identity and oblivious of the fact that her new four best friends have befriended her for her own protection and her charming, smart, new boyfriend is also a warrior fighting against the youmas. But all hell breaks loose when Negaverse get their hands on Mamoru and brainwashes him, uprooting Usagi from her normal life forever. Can she handle living upto the expectations the senshi have of her as their princess? Would she be able to take on these new responsibilities with her heart broken at the loss of Mamoru?
Let me know if the plot is good enough. Then I will add it to my growing Sailor Moon fic waiting-to-be-written list. But it will be in the bottom of the list if it does get enough interest because of the other fics.
Hope you enjoyed this chapter and please do review, I love reading them!
