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Finding the Keys to Freedom
As Halloween rolled around, the Doom Phantom was taken care of by something weird and Usagi Tsukino's circle of friends increased. Diamond, Emerald, and Rubeus settled in and the crew was about as weird as ever. Prisma was dating Sapphire, Beryl and Diamond started a serious relationship, Rubeus and Catsy was an item, Jedite and Birdie were getting close… so all in all everyone seemed content with each other.
They had noted changes in Usagi as time progressed, as the Silver Crystal got progressively more demanding. Then the unofficial mission started. The mission to figure out what the hell was happening. Since leaving the future, changing the future, and collectively pissing off the scouts more time was devoted to figuring out who this 'Merciful Goddess' was and what was her connection to Dr. Bunny's odd dreams.
With that… this part starts.
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A half asleep Usagi pulled herself from bed at the calling of her brother and the remembrance of her promise. She was brushing her teeth and blankly staring into the mirror when something made her stop. She blinked a few times, let her image register in her mind, and then picked up a towel and tried to clean the mirror.
Only it was already clean.
"What the hell?" she thought as her mind finally entered the room and rejoined her body. She brought a finger up to her forehead and tried to scrub the red dot from her forehead, thinking her brother decided to play a joke on her seeing Halloween was a few days away.
It didn't even smear like she hoped it would.
By now her teeth was gripping her toothbrush hard enough to leave deep dental impressions as she started to twitch. This was never good because, as many people pointed out in live, when someone twitches something happens. Well, it's also rumored that when Usagi twitches someone is going to get maimed so that theory is almost proven.
"Okay… on my forehead is a red dot… not a zit, not a painted mark by my brother, and definitely not removable." she deduced and finished brushing her teeth. "Well, mastering the obvious, it probably has something to do with everything else weird around here." she added and placed her toothbrush back in it's holder, now supporting new trendy teeth marks that will be questioned by her mother later.
"Mom did Shingo get into the permanent markers again?" she whined as she descended down the stairs in her black jogging pants and an oversized white shirt. She was now running a hand through her hair and noticing something she didn't in the mirror. Her hair was longer. Pausing she pulled a handful of white hair in front of her and blinked. "WHAT THE HELL?" she shrieked as her parents and brother jumped about five feet.
"Dr. Bunny?" Shingo asked as she came walking in. "What's with that zit?" he asked as she passed out. "Mom, I think I broke her."
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Kanzeon (the Merciful Goddess and a warning… I tend to switch between those names) laughed as she watched the teenager go through this. "Do you really think it is wise to put them together? Technically Kanzen was never reincarnated because the Jade Emperor…" Jiroushin trailed off as she held up a hand.
"Soon, Konzen will need some help with Homura and you know that she will add a bit more to the westward journey they are on." Konzeon stated with a laugh as the poor man that was her advisor sighed in defeat again.
"What am I going to do with you." he pleaded to something, but nothing was listening as she returned to watching the Sanzo Party's journey with its obstacles and Usagi's quest for answers.
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Beryl was staring at Usagi as she fooled around with a yo-yo she had gotten earlier in the day when she took her brother out. The red haired Negaverse Queen was focusing on the red dot and where she seen it before. Malachite, Zoycite, and Nephrite were also staring as she glanced up at them and glared.
They didn't move.
Then they reeled back as the white haired bunny's darker bluish violet eyes lit up with joy. It was then Malachite stood up, ignoring the pain in his forehead, and tilted her head up and stared into her eyes. "Usa, dear, when did your eyes start going violet?" he asked as she groaned.
"Not another thing." she whined and clutched the yo-yo in her hand as the other two jumped behind the furniture as Beryl snickered.
"So, you woke up this morning with long white hair and a red dot on your forehead and now your eyes are turning violet?" she asked as Usagi nodded, the others still hiding. "Not possible, I can't believe that silver bitch would have… but… oh mercy!" she trailed off, looking utterly repulsed by what she just pieced together.
"Beryl?" a worried Usagi whispered as the woman was trembling and looking forward.
"I didn't believe she would have gone that far." Now the infallible Dark Queen was silently crying.
"Beryl, what the hell are you babbling about?" Nephrite demanded as the red head shivered.
"The memories the Silver Bitch gave you are doctored, just like when you first met me and my minions. She manipulated us all because she crossed the line." she whispered as they gathered around to listen. "It all started when we went to visit the Jade Emperor of Heaven."
Queen Beryl watched as Queen Serenity stared at the white haired and white clad woman as she stood, leaning against a pillar of the overhang that covered the wooden walkway of the Goddess's Palace. The ethereal Goddess was smiling as a boy with shackles about his wrists, ankles, and neck ran up and grabbed her hand. "Come on, Kanzen!" the boy stated as he pulled her along the path. "I want you to meet my friend!"
"Serenity, you know we are not to mess with any of the Gods or Goddesses here." Beryl warned as the Moon Queen just stared at the white clad woman as she was disappeared around a corner.
"She was rather taken by a Goddess there that worked under a woman named Kanzeon Bosatsu. I didn't think she had the nerve to do that." Beryl stated as Usagi was on her feet and gripping the pale woman's shoulders.
"Beryl, tell me what you remember of the events after that." Usagi stated as the Queen looked up into familiar violet eyes.
Queen Beryl had slipped away from the festival that Queen Serenity was basking in, especially with the announcement of Homura the Heretic being excepted into the Royal Moon Family due to his mixed background. They still seen him as a Heretic, but was going along with the Moon Goddess's decision. "You look as bored as my brother does, was their festival that bad?" a soothing voice stated as she spun to face the woman with white hair and clothing.
"Worse." the red haired woman stated as the other shrugged and walked past her.
"WHERE IS THAT MONKEY?" echoed as both watched Konzen storm through the corridor muttering about late reports and paper airplanes.
"You're Kanzen, right?" Beryl asked as she nodded, moving towards the sound of giggling. Beryl watched her slide open the door to a small, dark room.
"Boys, you best move now before he makes a second sweep." she stated as two boys streaked past, the boy with a blue diamond on his forehead paused to smile at them.
"Thanks, Zen, your not half bad." he stated and followed the brown haired boy as the usually emotionless goddess laughed.
"Most say you were as cold as the moon." Beryl added as Kanzen glanced at her.
"Usually, but it's hard to not smile when those two liven things up around here… especially when Goku gives Nataku a chance to enjoy something other then the orders of his father and Emperor." she stated with a sigh. "It's terrible what they do to him."
"She disappeared only to have Princess Serenity showing up… I never thought I would have seen the day that her brother would be like that." she muttered and shivered as she continued on.
Konzen gripped the sixteen year old Princess's wrists as Goku watched, afraid for the only Goddess to actually help him and Nataku cause trouble around Heaven. Her eyes widened as Konzen forced her to stare into his eyes. Then he tossed her to the side as Queen Serenity glared at him, which he returned.
"In Heaven at least we were free to move, but you trapped my sister in her mind… a fate worse then dying of boredom." he stated in a cold voice as the Inner court gathered to attack him. "Come on, Goku, we can't do anything."
"But Konzen…"
"That was also the time the Silver Crystal appeared, no one questioned." she continued as Usagi's eyes lit up with the joy that she had just stumbled across something.
"It Kanzen disappeared and Princess Serenity appeared with the Silver Crystal then… the key to my chains is the Silver Crystal!" she declared as they blinked. "The crystal sent us to the future, the crystal locked away Kanzen's power, the crystal is the annoying little thing that is leaking pain!"
"Whoa, Beryl is depressed and she is happy." Zoycite stated as Usagi smirked.
"Snap out of it, Bee-bee… we gotta Crystal to destroy!"
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Experiment 1: Sledgehammer.
Broke the hammer part, made Malachite shake for about two hours.
Experiment 2: Diamond Cutter.
Machine passed on to the next world.
Experiment 3: Letting the Scouts hit it when in battle.
All of them are in the Hospital due to backlash.
Experiment 4: Countering and Getting Beryl to Help.
Success… until they needed a wide open space.
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"What the hell is going on there?"
