Drawings of Love
At the Dark Kingdom Zoisite was bowing for his utter failure.
"So the pest have two rainbow crystals?" Beryl asked, peeved. "We only have one and three of the Shadow Warriors have been defeated. How do you explain these blunders?"
"At least we still have a chaos emerald." Zoisite tried to calm her down. "Just please give me more time!"
"That maybe but that's the thing, we only have one." Beryl countered. "That isn't enough." Zoisite used the black crystal and it showed an image of a young lady around eighteen years old, she has braided brown hair and glasses covering her brown eyes.
"The next target is this woman." Zoisite said. "With your permission I would like to call Eggman, I would like to borrow Knuckles."
"Fine." Beryl said, dismissing her. She concentrated on her crystal ball and Eggman appeared inside it."
"What is it Beryl?" Eggman asked. "And where is my chaos emerald?"
"I'll get to that." Beryl said. "Zoisite wishes to borrow Knuckles for his next job."
"I'll call him." Eggman said. "He's a good hunter, he'll be able to find him easily."
"Good." Beryl said and she hung up on him.
"What about the emerald?" Zoisite asked.
"I told him I would talk to him about it, but not right then." Beryl said.
"I will use Knuckles and get the Rainbow crystal even at the cost of my own life." Zoisite bowed.
"Good." Beryl said, calming down. "Remember you must keep giving the illusion that Knuckles can trust us, and you know what awaits you if you fail."
Out in the city Serena and Luna are sitting at a park bench. And the park-lake.
"I really want to know if Tuxedo Mask is my enemy or my friend?" She moaned.
"At any rate." Luna said. "He's after the Silver Crystal. So I'm afraid we must treat him as an enemy. And thanks to your little event with Sonic I asked him to lay low and stay at his house for a while."
Serena slouched. "Every time I get close to figuring out who he is I run into a scary monster!"
"Serena!" Molly called running up to her. "Sorry to keep you waiting!"
"Molly." Serena said. "What is it you wanted to show me?"
"Wait until you get there." Molly said. "With an excited tone, let's go!"
"Okay!" Serena cheered. "Let's get something to eat afterwards." She ran off and the Crescent Moon Wand fell out of her bag.
"How could she treat the Crescent Moon Wand like this?" Luna grumbled, looking at it laying on the ground.
At the forest
"All right!" Sonic said. "It seems that Knuckles is starting to get off the bench and into the game."
"Yes and this big race for two sets of gems." Tails added.
"It's about time we do the same!" Sonic said. "Come on!" Sonic grabbed Tail's arm and they both ran to the city.
Back at the city
Serena and Molly arrived at a drawings expo and saw many unique pieces displayed on the walls.
"How pretty!" Serena sighed in awe looking at a picture of a Knight and Princess.
"Yeah." Molly also sighed. "This was made by Yumeno Yumemi, her pictures are really popular right now."
Serena looked around and noticed that there are couples all over the place. "There sure are a lot of couples here."
"That's because Yumemi's pictures are illustrations of Love." Melvin explained approaching from behind.
"It's true, if you have one of her pictures your love dream comes true." Molly added.
"Good idea!" Serena said with hearts for eyes. "I'll buy a poster!"
"Look at this!" Molly said pointing to a picture of a blonde lady in a blue dress. "This is a self portrait of Yumemi."
"Actually no one really knows what she looks like." Melvin said. "This may not really be her."
"Hey." Serena laughed. "Maybe she has an ugly face."
"She hasn't drawn anything new recently." Said Molly little did they know a girl was eavesdropping on them.
"Rumor has it that she's in hiding because she's in a slump." Said Melvin
They walked along and Serena was stopped at a picture of a Princess and a Prince.
"This looks kind of familiar." she thought
Outside a woman, not only that the same woman that Zoisite is after, walked out of the building and bumped into Darien who was just walking down the street. They both went down, and she dropped her papers and her bag.
"Oh sorry!" Darien said, picking up her papers. The girl got a good look at him and shouted. "You're the drawing!"
Molly noticed The girl being helped up by Daren.
"Hey." She said. "Isn't that Darien, and his friend?" Everyone turned to look.
"That jerk!" Serena said. "Talking to a woman other than Rei! I can't pass this up, see ya Molly!" She ran out the door.
Outside the girl was tugging on Darien's sleeve.
"What do you want?" Darien asked.
"Well…" The girl said sheepishly. "Can you model?"
"I see you! I see you!" Serena mocked. "I'm telling Rei!"
"Don't get it wrong Serena!" Darien said.
"Get what wrong?" She asked hanging on to your arm. The girl saw Serena and jumped.
"You fit the image, too! What a lucky day!" She cheered. "Please can you two model for me?" Serena got seriously gitty at the offer as she took the two to her house.
"Please sit you two, I'll get you some coffee." The girl said running back inside.
"Really." Darien said. "You dragged me down here but I don't have all day."
"How come?" Serena mocked. "Don't college students play around all the time?"
Serena looked at some more pictures lying on the ground inside.
"These look just like Yumemi's pictures." Serena said then it just hit her. "No way! Are you Yumemi?" She nodded reluctantly.
"I look wrong for the image of drawing these pictures, don't I?" Yumemi questioned. "So I made a beautiful self-portrait. But please don't tell anybody."
"Anybody?" Serena asked. "Then nobody knows the real you? Not even your friends?"
"Well, I don't really have any close friends, but that's okay." Yumemi said. "I'm happy as long as I can draw good pictures." She sat the coffee on a nearby table. "Please help yourself while it's still hot." She put a pillow on the chair. "Serena please sit here!"
"What?" Serena panicked. "Am I to sit side by side with this guy?"
"Don't be excited." Darien said he attempted to get up. "I don't want to model for strange drawings like this."
"Please." Yumemi begged. " I can't get any inspiration without a model. I couldn't find the right people lately. I only need you for today. Please?"
"Oh, all right." Darien grumbled, and they both sat on the chair.
"As I thought it's a very good feeling." Said Yumemi sitting on a chair and taking out large pieces of drawing paper, "I have a feeling that this will be my masterpiece." After about two hours, Serena stood up and looked at the progress.
"Wow!" Serena cheered. "This is that good!"
"Sit still." Darien grumbled. "Though the coffee is good, I won't come back here again."
"That's so pretty." Serena cooed. "How can you draw wonderful pictures like this?"
"When I draw." Yumemi said. "I draw a picture, I pray in my heart that anyone who sees this is happy."
"So that's why they're called illustrations of love." Serena said. "You're a nice lady, but to be alone in exchange."
"I can't help that." Yumemi said. "If people see me it may shatter their dreams."
"If you can't be happy yourself, you can't make others happy." Darien said coldly, those words made Yumemi freeze.
"That's really cold!" Serena scolded. "But the drawing is so nice!" She took the drawing and it had a princess and prince and the princess is giving the prince something. "She can draw a picture this beautiful, how can you be mean to her?"
"A scene where a girl gives a token of her love as a present to the man." Explained the drawing scene to them by Yumemi. "But somehow I feel bittersweet whenever I draw this couple."
"Something sweet." Serena said. "But also piercing to the heart."
Meanwhile with Sonic and Tails Both stopped on the top of a building.
"What did you want me to stop for?" Sonic asked.
"I caught this floating in the breeze." Tails said and he handed him a newspaper.
"Hey that's us!" Sonic said seeing the front page. He began to read aloud. "The two creatures seen combating the robot threats have been identified by witness by the Tsukino family. The blue creature is known as Sonic the Hedgehog, and the Fox has been identified as Tails."
"Look!" Tails said and he pointed at the picture it had of them running through the streets, and below the photo were the words 'photo take from local traffic cams.'
Sonic continued to read. "No one really knows why these creatures have arrived although since witnesses claim that they have good intentions because they have saved their lives from the constant threats of robot attacks and terrorist threats by the mad scientist that witnesses have identified as Dr. Eggman."
"Is this why Luna asked us to lay low for a while?" Tails asked.
"Possibly." Sonic said. "But in the meantime there's a chaos emerald out there with our names on it."
"Right." Tails said and he saw something red leaping between the buildings. "Sonic! I see Knuckles going in some direction."
"Let's see what he's up to!" Sonic said and they gave pursuit after him.
Later that night Serena was walking with Yumemi, Darien had already gone home.
"Ah, Yumemi, your home-made cookies were delicious." Serena said as she munched on them.
"I'm sorry it took so long." Yumemi said. "But you might have been much happier if Darien had escorted you home."
Serena jumped. "Oh, no! You're just misunderstanding."
"Hey!" A bystander said, at the art expo seeing a picture in a window. "This is a Yumeno Yumemi." The two stopped to hear the two female bystanders. "What a pretty picture. I bet she's pretty like that to!" The two bystanders left and Serena approached.
"You can draw like this." She said. "You are very kind, and make great coffee and cookies. Yumemi, you're a wonderful person."
"Thanks Serena." She said.
"Cheer up ok?" Serena assured. "Goodbye! And she ran home."
"I hope that helped her!" Serena said running down the street.
"Serena!" Luna called, coming out of the trees behind a wall, she had the crescent moon wand in her mouth and she threw it down to Serena's feet.
"Oh." Serena said, picking it up. "The Crescent Moon Wand."
"You dropped it." Luna scolded her. "If you don't want it I can give it to one of the others."
"No, it was just that I was troubled by everything, by Sonic getting exposed, and stuff." Serena defended herself.
"But here you've cheered up already." Luna smiled. "At least your problems are simple, you recover quickly."
That got Serena mad. "Sure!" She shouted. "I'm not just a simpleton. Luna, you idiot." She turned the other way and ran.
"I thought I just told the truth, did I go too far?" Luna wondered.
"Geez, that Luna!" Serena grumbled. "She doesn't understand my problems at all!" Then the wand started to beep. "The beep is stronger in the direction of Yumemi's house!"
Back at the Expo Yumemi was being interrogated by Zoisite who broke through the windows.
"Give me back the Rainbow Crystal and return to being the monster you really are." He demanded.
"He's pretty scary." She shuddered. "Who are you?"
"Zoi!" He shouted and he used the black crystal on her.
"I'm here!" Knuckles said dropping in from the air. He saw what was going on. "What's happening here?"
"Don't worry." Zoisite said. "There's a monster inside her body. I simply just want to save her from it. And Eggman's right, who knew you could find things so well?" The clear rainbow crystal left her body and Zoisite took it. "This is the monster Vena." Yumemi changed into a monster with white robes and purple hair with white angel wings.
"I thought you said you could help her!" Knuckles said. "And what's that gem you hold?"
"I'm afraid I'm too late." Zoisite said. "And don't worry this is a rainbow crystal, not a chaos emerald. Geez Eggman's right you are a moron!" He thought.
Serena made it in time to see what was happening.
"Yumemi is a monster!" Serena said.
Zoisite smirked at the sight but a blue light hit his hand and he lost the crystal.
"What!" Zoisite shouted. "Who could have done this?"
"Look here Mr. Mrs!" Sonic mocked holding the crystal. Tails flew up right next to Sonic and made a mocking gesture to him by slapping his behind.
"Sonic and Tails." Zoisite said with hatred.
Serena gasped at the sight and pulled out the communicator and said into it. "Another monster has appeared, Zoisite is here and he has Knuckles with him, and Sonic and Tails followed him here please get here now!" Then she took the opportunity to transform.
"Moon Prism power Make Up!"
"I'll get the crystal back!" Knuckles said and he threw a hard punch at Sonic he jumped up and he missed and Vena left with Zoisite outside and then they went to a construction site.
"Looks like a win for us!" Zoisite said.
"No, it isn't!" Said the voice of Sailor Moon.
"What?" Zoisite shouted. And Sailor Moon jumped down from a steel girder.
"For taking Yumemi away, such a kind dream maker." She then did her pose. "In the name of the moon I will punish you!"
"Go Vena!" Zoisite said Vena spread her wings and took out a feather and threw it up in the air and it acted like a quill and drew a rock, the rock became real and it fell on her and Sailor Moon moved away before it hit her. "Very good, Vena. Play with her some more!" He drew multiple small rocks , Sailor moon continued to dodge them until she tripped and landed on her behind. And Vena drew another huge rock and it started to fall on her. But Tuxedo Mask leapt down a saved Sailor Moon before the rock hit the ground.
"Tuxedo Mask!" Sailor Moon cheered. Zoisite growled and he back flipped away.
"Leaving so soon?" Tuxedo Mask asked as he chased after him.
Sailor Moon herd clashing as Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles fought, Vena flew down in front of Sailor Moon.
"Yumemi, please!" Sailor Moon pleaded. "Don't hurt me! Remember your gentle heart!" Vena drew with her arms and created a rope and threw it at Sailor Moon and the rope became snakes. Sailor Moon shrieked as the snakes closed in on her.
"Fire Soul!"
Fire appeared and burned up the snakes.
Sailor Moon looked behind her and saw the other Sailors with Luna behind her.
"Sailor Moon." Luna said. "You did well to hold out by yourself."
Sailor Moon heard a strange "OUCH!" She looked behind her and saw that Knuckles managed to land a blow in Sonic's check and he hit the ground, the pain stunned Sonic but he wasn't out cold, Tails froze with fear after seeing that.
"I'll take that!" Knuckles said, taking the Rainbow crystal from Sonic.
"Stop right there!" Sailor Jupiter ordered.
"We'll face off soon enough." Knuckles said and he used his own super speed dash and escaped.
Vena attacked the Sailors with more small rocks, Mercury took this opportunity to stop her.
"Bubble Spray!"
The fog surrounded Vena and stopped her.
"Please go easy on her." Sailor Moon said. "She's really nice." And she ran after Zoisite and Tuxedo Mask.
Tuxedo Mask and Zoisite were fighting and they finally stopped.
"Give me the Rainbow crystal." Tuxedo Mask demanded.
"Zoi!" Zoisite cried and he threw many rose petals at him and he was stunned. And he threw a hard crystal at him.
"Moon Tiara Action!"
Sailor Moon threw the tiara and destroyed the crystal.
"Sailor Moon!" Zoisite panicked. "By the way I should tell you the hedgehog has the crystal!"
"Not exactly!" Sailor Moon explained. "Knuckles got it and he escaped." Zoisite smirked then vanished.
"Are you ok?" Sailor Moon asked.
"Tonight it was your turn to save me." Tuxedo Mask said panting from exhaustion. Sailor Moon approached him but she dropped the locket he once had and it began to play the melody again.
"Princess." Tuxedo Mask said softly.
"How do you know about the princess?" Sailor Moon asked. "We're looking for her!"
"I don't know her." Tuxedo Mask answered. "But if it's your mission to find her then you should have the locket."
"Thanks!" Sailor Moon cheered. "One more thing can you give back the rainbow crystal you took?"
"That I cannot do. I will not yield on this." Tuxedo Mask objected. "They are important to me as well, and be careful, if I can I will take your crystal away from you."
"Don't worry." Sonic said, approaching with Tails. "Unfortunately Knuckles got away with the crystal. By the way can I have the chaos emerald you have?"
"No." Tuxedo Mask objected again. "If they can easily help me win the crystal then I need to hang on to this, farewell." Tuxedo Mask leaped away.
"Sailor Moon!" Tails said. "We need you to heal the monster!"
"Right!" Sailor Moon said, and they returned to the battle and Sailor Jupiter tried out her attack.
"Supreme Thunder!"
The attack worked and it weakened Vena.
"Sailor Moon now!" Tails ordered, and she used the wand.
"Moon Healing Escalation!"
Vena reverted back to normal, and Yumemi saw the six heroes and they all left.
The next morning The expo was closed and Serena and Darien went over to the building, and walked inside and saw Yumemi putting her drawings away.
"Why did you call us over?" Darien asked.
"I decided to quit hiding." Yumemi said and She showed them the finished drawing.
"How pretty!" Serena gasped in awe again.
"It's ok." Darien shrugged.
"Can't you say something nice?" Serena asked peeved. "She looked at another wall and saw a self portrait of the real her."
"This is going to be my self portrait from now on." Yumemi said with confidence. "This never would have happened if it weren't for the both of you, thank you very much."
"No problem." Serena smiled. "After all, we're friends!"