Okay so I apologize for the long wait that you all had to go through. I spent all night on this chapter so I hope you enjoy it. And if I never have to decribe the damage a spaceship recieves in the aftermath of a great space war it will STILL be too soon. Hope you enjoy.
Disclaimer: Sailor Moon and all of the characters belonging to the manag/anime belong to Naoko Takeuchi. DEMO, all the original character that appear in this story belong to me!!!! An d if you touch them without my permission I will send the Bonta-kun squad, the almighty Empire, every Sith Lord, and an army of random chibis to torture you end over end until I get bored with it all, show up at your home personallly, and sue you for every dime you have. Then i will finally kill you slowly... and then get away with it. Have a good day! XD Oh yes, Rei Hino is my wife (I have a marraige certificate to prove it) if you touch her it will also result in the aformentioned death. Enjoy my new chapter. XD
Chapter 2
As he stepped out from the busy airport the young man looked around his surroundings. The glare from the noon sun caused him to squint his icy blue eyes as he gazed around the busy terminal for a girl with long blond pigtails wrapped in buns at the top of the back of her head to be holding a sign up, or looking for him, or something. No one fitting such a description was around. He wandered along the sidewalk checking inside every once in a while, thinking maybe he had missed her. Sadly, he could not find her inside either. Setting his heavy bags down, he plopped down on the concrete sidewalk and leaned back against the wall to give his arms and shoulders some relief. Sweat was pouring down his face as he found shade from the hot humid summer air of Tokyo, which was something he admitted to himself, he would have to get used to. The smell of exhaust fumes and baking asphalt was pungent in the air and punctuated only slightly by the the smell of the leather bags and suitcases he he been lugging around with him. He ran a hand through his short sandy brown hair and heaved a sigh of frustration. Foreign exchange is easy! You have nothing to worry about, you will be taken care of by your host family. The thought ran through his head. He could picture the plump little Japanese professor who had sent him here for the study abroad experience. The man would be leaning back into his cracked leather recliner, chewing on a pen like it was candy, and waving his hand about as if that would bring his point across. He often thought it seemed as if the man were trying to conduct his speeches. You've got a good head on your shoulders, Seth. You just need to get the experience of being in Japan if you want to teach the language here or English there. Seth could almost smell his cheap aftershave, it usually smelled of mint and some other god awful thing designed to deaden his sense of smell most likely, and of course he had to put damn near a gallon of it on every morning. Thus the reason Seth usually could not get within three feet of the man. Seth chuckled to himself at the memory. He had once described the professor as a Japanese Santa Clause minus the beard, white hair, and wife. If only you could see this. I wonder if you would get up and do something about it. Now here he sat stuck at an airport because some Japanese high school girl hadn't shown up. He considered calling the professor to find out just where he was supposed to go, but he would have to dig most of his stuff out of his bags to reach his cell phone. The last thing he wanted to do was throw all his stuff out here on the sidewalk to get stolen while looking for a cell phone he had stupidly packed at the bottom of his suitcase. He stood up grabbed his belongings and hailed a cab and congratulated himself on having the fore sight to change some of his money over to yen before he had left the states. After he had set his luggage in the trunk he asked the driver to take him to the Juuban district, which was about the extent of what he knew about the location of where the family's house was located. Oh well, how many Tsukino's can there be in one district anyway? He said sarcastically in his head, he figured it would be well over a hundred knowing how crowded Tokyo was to begin with. He again sighed to himself. The traffic was mild, and he made a mental note to himself to get a bicycle as soon as he could seeing as how it would be a month or so until his car caught up to Japan with him. He'd be wandering around until he found a police box that might know of where the family's house was located. The driver dropped him off at what appeared to be the shopping district.
At that very moment, the same high school girl that had forgotten which day she was supposed to go to the airport and pick up an American exchange student was walking down the Juuban shopping districted with her friends. She was wearing her high school uniform, a navy blue skirt and collar with red stripes running down it in a "V" fashion, a traditional white shirt, navy blue bow, carrying her book bag. Her friends were dressed similarly except for one. Her school uniform was white with a gray collar and bow with the same red stripes forming the "V" shape on her collar as well. Her skirt was gray as well, she had long white socks and black dress shoes with a strap around the ankle. Her uniform signified that she was from a different school than the others. She had long dark hair that had a slight dark red tint to it in places that fell just slightly past her waistline. They walked around in a group, talking and laughing until they came upon a café they seemed to frequent. They moved inside and sat down.
"Try not to order the whole menu this time Usagi." The girl in the gray school uniform told the pigtailed girl.
"Quit being such a brat and nagging me like an old woman all the time Rei! I'm not a child anymore!" Usagi said back to the other.
"Then stop acting like one." Rei retorted.
"Do we really need to go through this every time we come here?" a short dark haired girl with a slight dark blue tint to her hair said looking up at them through her glasses asked Rei. Her hair fell to the base of her neck in the back and moved higher towards the front so that her bangs fell just above her eyebrows.
"Seriously, I agree with Ami. And while you're at it the two of you should just get over it already and become sisters. You already fight like you are already. The tallest of the group smiled. She had long light brown hair that she pulled back in a long wavy ponytail. Her hair looked like it had been permed, in fact she had gotten lectured more than a few times at school by new teachers for it, but it was actually natural. Both Rei and Usagi gave her a sharp glare.
"Makoto does have a point you know." The final girl said to the two of them. She was blue eyed with long blond hair that fell straight down to mid thigh.
"Like you don't eat as much as I do Minako." Usagi snapped back at her playfully. To this Minako replied with silence. The waiter came up and smiled at the commotion.
"So what will it be today girls? The usual?" he asked as they ended the quarrel quickly so as not to embarrass themselves in front of him. He was tall with dark hair which was cut similar to Ami's and parted down the side.
"Yes!" they all replied.
"Except for Usagi, you can take two of her deserts off today." Rei said to him as he smiled, did just that and walked away to make sure their orders got made. They took a look around as he walked off and that's when Rei spotted a foreigner sitting in the corner of the café surrounded by six bags and two large suitcases staring intently at a map. Of course seeing a foreigner wasn't a rarity, it was simply that to her he was gorgeous. A sharp intake of breath was the only sign she gave, but Usagi had known her so long that she instantly picked up on her subtle change.
"Where?" she asked taking her eyes off of their waiter finally and followed her eye line.
"Yeah, I noticed him too." Minako whispered in Rei's ear as they both glanced at him again. They watched as their waiter walked up to him and handed him back his change. He waved it away obviously telling him to keep it. The waiter nodded his thanks and walked away to grab the drinks and sundaes they had ordered. Usagi now caught on as well was watching him too.
"He's so cute." Minako whispered to Makoto who nodded in agreement. He stood up, folded the map away, stuck it into one of the pockets on his suitcase, grabbed his stuff, and walked out of the café.
"I swear I've seen him somewhere before." Usagi said with a look of concentration as she tried to recall where she had seen him before.
"Here you go girls, enjoy." The waiter said as he set their drinks down on the table.
"Hey Mamoru, who was that?" Rei asked him before he turned to leave.
"Just another foreigner who's lost, he said he's looking for the house he's supposed to be staying at. I told him good luck. I didn't catch his name though." Mamoru shrugged.
"I Know I've seen him, but where..." Usagi trailed off.
"What was with all that luggage?" Ami asked.
"He said he was supposed to meet someone at the airport that would take him to the place he was supposed to be staying at, but they never showed up. He told me he caught a cab at the airport and the driver dropped him off around here. He grabbed a map, sat down here to have a look at it, and have a drink." Mamoru explained.
"I swear I've seen him." Usagi said squinting in concentration. At the moment something clicked in Mamoru's head as he realized why Usagi was so sure she had seen him before.
"Usagi, what day is it?" he asked her.
"Uh, Thursday!" she replied happily for him.
"Okay, now what is the date?" he asked as her face again scrunched up in concentration she began trying to recall the date.
"The 5th." Ami replied.
"I see." Rei sighed as she understood where Mamoru was going with this.
"Usagi didn't you have someone you had to meet at the airport today because you're mom and dad were gonna be busy?" Mamoru asked Usagi.
"Oh crap! I forgot that was today! That's where I've seen him before, he's the exchange student we were gonna be getting from America." Usagi realized.
"You moron Usagi!" Rei chastised her friend.
"You'd better go catch him since he is your responsibility." Ami replied looking up from her book.
"Not alone, I'm coming with her!" Minako called out as Mamoru rolled his eyes and walked away from the table determined not to get dragged into this recent problem of theirs and the upcoming argument he expected.
"Right, like the first person he needs to meet is a boy chaser like you." Makoto grinned teasing her friend.
"Don't act like it's not the same reason you're going!" Minako snapped back at her with a smirk.
"I guess I've got to go and make sure you two behave." Rei stated with a heavy sigh.
"That's not your real intention!" the three of them snapped at Rei in unison.
"I think I'll just sit here and watch the table, you'll be back with him anyway. I can wait till then to get a good look at him." Ami said still looking at her book, but a slow confident grin began to spread across her face.
"Ami's the most dangerous of all of us." Minako whispered to Makoto.
"She's too crafty to compete with." Makoto replied as they headed out of the café to catch him before he disappeared.
Seth stepped outside the café with his luggage in tow and began to walk to the nearest police box he had found using the map he had bought at the bookstore he had been dropped off at. He was focusing on the map so much that he did not notice the man that was quickly approaching him until he had grabbed a hold of one of the bags slung over his left shoulder trying to steal them. He quickly dropped the suitcases in his left hand and caught the straps of his bags with it before the thief could get them completely away from him, spun around and slung the man into the ground with simple inertia. The man landed on his back and looked up at Seth in surprise.
"The next time you think about stealing from someone... don't. Because they may not be as gentle with you as I was." he said in very understandable Japanese which added to the shock on the man's face. He turned and picked up his suitcase and map, and started walking away from the man. The thief simply growled, reached in his pocket, pulled out a knife, and charged at Seth's back.
"Hey watch out!" Makoto called dashing at top speed after the moron charging at Seth with a knife. The idiot never made it. Seth was too aware of what was happening behind him and dropped his luggage in one quick motion, spun around, and stepped forward.
Makoto was so amazed. She stood there blinking in confusion. All the kid had done was turn towards the idiot and that was all her eyes caught. By the time her eyes had finished blinking the moron was laying face first on the ground and the kid was standing behind where the attacker had been with his arm raised to shoulder level and his hand balled into a fist. Damn... he's fast! Was all she could think.
"Sorry, but I wasn't in a good enough mood to go easy on you a second time." she heard the kid say in Japanese so good he sounded like he had lived in Tokyo all his life. "And here I thought Japanese people were supposed to be intelligent. Well, I guess there's a few idiot's in every culture." he muttered then walked away to collect his things. The thief started crawling back to his hands and feet this time he turned away from the kids and started heading towards her. She stepped in his way and cracked her knuckles.
"Where do you think you're going?" she glared at the thief.
"Look lady I'm sorry, okay? I didn't expect to get busted, especially like that. So I'm through here I won't be bothering him anymore." He said moving slowly toward her and holding his back in pain.
"Let him go. Pain is a better teacher than jail would be for him. He won't do it again for a while if he does do it again." the kid said to Makoto and she found herself stepping aside to let the would be thief pass. Thanks for trying to help though." he nodded to her and turned away and started walking.
"Hey you!" Usagi shouted at him. "Wait up, you have to come back with me or I'm gonna be in trouble when I get home."
"What!" the kid turned around looking more that slightly annoyed by her comment. He spotted Usagi and it was apparent that his memory was better than hers. His jaw dropped and he pointed at Usagi with wide eyes. "YOU!" he shouted still pointing at Usagi. "I got half a mind to throttle you to death and the other half isn't putting up much of a fight. Where the hell were you today?" he said dropping to the ground in relief.
"Sorry I forgot I was supposed to pick you up today." she bowed in forgiveness. He stood up walked up to her and placed a hand on her head and scruffed her hair up a bit in punishment.
"It's okay! I didn't end up walking all over Tokyo searching for your house, but I was about to start." he sighed and dropped his hand. "So where to from here?" he asked obviously he was tagging along with them.
"Well, that all depends on where you want to go from here, but I'd like to finish my sundae at the café first." Usagi said looking back at the café with longing. It was obvious to everyone that she wanted to go back for more than one reason. They'd been going there ritually every week since Mamoru had started working there, all because Usagi had insisted that she must see where he worked. It was just another excuse to see him.
"You were in the café?" he asked looking at her tiredly.
"Yup!" she turned and smiled in in her usual bubbly personality.
"Now I'm disappointed I didn't notice." he sighed and his shoulders slumped.
"Well you were kind of lost in your map." Rei pointed out to him.
"Yeah, I guess I was." he said said scratching his head with a sheepish grin. He glanced over and noticed Rei for the first time. He took a rather long look at her it was obvious to the other girls that he found her attractive. Damn I lost to Rei this time! Lita cursed to herself. "Well, I guess we should go back." he said turning and walking back to the café.
"Welcome back." Mamoru said to all of them as they entered. "Glad you found who you were looking for." he said to Seth.
"Yeah, wait! How did you know it was her?" Seth asked in puzzlement.
"She's my fiancée." Mamoru explained.
"Oh." he said taking it in then looked back at Mamoru in concern. "My condolences." he replied to Mamoru who grinned back at him. Rei nearly fell over laughing while everyone else had an amused grin on their faces.
"You jerk!" Usagi replied mouth gaping open.
"You made a terrible first impression on me, so forgive me if I give you hell for a little bit." Seth said setting his things down in the corner and sitting in between Ami and Rei. Basically on the opposite side of Usagi.
"He's got a point, you have earned it." Rei agreed and all the others nodded there agreement as well.
"You're all picking on me today huh?" she said looking around at her friends. "Traitors." she mumble shoving a spoonful of sundae in her mouth.
"Seems that he found them all on his own. Interesting." A figure hidden in the shadows on top of a building across from the café murmured to himself."No use is me watching over him now, he's protected, though he seems to be stronger than they are. Then again he always was so I should not be surprised even if they did awaken already he's still stronger. He'll sense my presence if I stay much longer so I'll leave now." he said to no one in particular and disappeared.
"Sorry for not introducing myself earlier." he said to everyone. "My name is Seth Roberts. It's a pleasure to meet you all." he said introducing himself to everyone.
"My name is Mizuno Ami." Ami said setting her book down and shaking his hand.
"I'm Aino Minako." Minako said waved at him.
"Wait. The Aino Minako? The Singer?" he asked staring at her in disbelief.
"The same." she replied looking around to make sure no one heard him. It was hard enough avoiding all her fans and the paparazzi to get some time alone with her friends.
"You just shot up a notch on my respect chart." he said to Usagi who was too stunned by this to say anything. "I have a few of you CD's. I love your voice."
"Thank you." she replied with a small blush.
"How do you find the free time to hang out with your friends?" he asked.
"I make the time, they're worth it." she said giving Makoto a hug.
"I'm Kino Makoto." Makoto replied nodding her head at at Seth. "How long did you train to become so fast?" she asked and Seth leaned back in his chair.
"Nearly 12 years, though I guess I've always been fast. I don't really know why I was stronger than most of the people I sparred with were adults too. So I guess that has something to do with it." he shrugged. "My master used to tell me I was a natural fighter. And your name is..." Seth trailed of looking at Rei.
"Hino Rei." she replied trying to sound nonchalant and play it cool. "I'm a Shinto priestess."
"Ah, so you look after a shrine then?" he asked.
"Yeah more or less." she shrugged.
"Here's the check." Mamoru said stopping by the table and dropping off the bill.
"I got it since you guys saved me from walking all over town." Seth said reaching into his back pocket for his wallet.
"Are you sure?" Rei asked looking at the bill
"Yeah, I'm sure." he said pulling bills out.
"Thanks for the help earlier." Seth said handing the money to Mamoru.
"No problem. I'm glad everything worked out. I guess I'll be seeing you a bit more since you're staying over at Usagi's house. What was you name?" Mamoru asked taking the money.
"Seth Roberts." Seth replied. "Nice to meet you."
"Chiba Mamoru, good to meet you too, and I'll see you tonight Usa-ko." he said and walked away. "Oh yeah, do you want your change back?" Mamoru turned and asked.
"No, it's okay keep it." Seth responded.
"Thanks, good luck getting settled in." he smiled and disappeared into the back.
"Well what do you wanna do next? Usagi asked as she finished her sundae.
"I'd kinda like to get my stuff put up, I don't have any plans after that." he shrugged.
"Okay, after that would you like to take a tour around the district, we know all the best spots." Minako offered.
"That'd be great, it would help me get familiar with the area at the very least, but I need to take a shower first. I've been sweating since I got here and I should probably change clothes. I've had these on since yesterday." he said looking himself over.
"Well then, it's decided. Let's head over to Usagi's then we'll take the new guy out sightseeing." Makoto said grabbing her things and getting up.
"Are you gonna be okay lugging all that around?" Ami asked in concern as she watched Seth pick up his six backs and throw them on his shoulders. I'll be fine I went through weight training so this is not as heavy as it would normally be."
"Wow Usagi, I'm actually impressed you remembered to pick up the exchange student from America. I thought for sure you would have forgotten and he'd be stuck wandering the district for two days before we finally found him." a teenage boy said poking his head around the corner as everyone entered the house and Seth dropped his stuff so he could remove his shoes.
"Well actually..." Makoto began.
"Yeah, she was a few minutes late, but she did get there to make sure I got here alright." Seth lied for her, and everyone blinked in surprise. Especially Usagi. "No since in having your parents upset with you my first night here." Seth said softly so that only the girls heard him.
"Thanks." Usagi whispered softly back and Seth merely responded with a shrug.
"Hi. My name's Tsukino Shingo, I'm in Junior High at Crossroads, and I'm 15." he said shaking Seth's hand.
"Seth Roberts, College student at Tokyo University, 20 years old." he replied.
"Wow you got to Tokyo U?" Makoto blurted out in amazement.
"Yeah in about a week. Well, once the break is over anyway." he said hefting his bags back on his shoulders. "So where can I drop my stuff off at?" he asked looking at Shingo, who he hoped was more responsible then than his sister.
"Oh, this way, you're rooming with me I guess." he said leading the way.
"So she brought the crew with her huh?" Usagi heard Shingo say as he and Seth made there way up stairs.
"Well I guess now we wait." Ami said as they headed into the living room to sit down.
Meanwhile on the outskirts of the solar system outside of detection a ship in the shape of a crystal lay hiding behind a stray asteroid. It's reflective surface displayed the surrounding stars and emptiness brilliantly. It merely drifted along as if unable to move.
"Damage report sire." A young man said stepping into the small blue marble room and bowed to the young looking man sitting on the throne at the back of the circular room. He let out a sigh of disappointment as he ran his hand through his short silvery hair for the umpteenth time. It was trimmed evenly and his bangs fell an inch short of his eyebrows. His hazy blue eyes remained fixed upon the young man who was kneeling before him giving the report of his ship's condition.
"Go ahead." the prince sighed. He already knew how badly he had lost the previous battle, he really didn't need it thrown in his face, but he supposed he should let the man go through his report just in case he had overlooked something before or if any new disasters had shown themselves on his ship since had had looked over the damage reports he had received before they had made the blind jump to where they currently were. Where ever the hell that was.
"The Aquias forces took their toll on us." the man began. "They managed to damage our power supply, our long range communications equipment, and our supply docks. The hanger is completely destroyed along with the few remaining fighter craft we had left all we currently have is the royal shuttle, which you are aware carries no weapons." the man continued wincing at every problem he reported as if expecting the prince to lash out in anger or frustration at him. The prince just sat quietly with a patient look on his face and a bitter touch of disappointment and loss in his eyes. It will take some time to fix the coolant leaks in the engine room. The chief engineer has all his staff working on the problem currently and says that within 6 hours they will have everything patched and the coolant spills cleaned and has requested that until it is finished that all areas in directly connected to the engineering section should remain under quarantine." the man reported.
"I agree, we should work on making sure we can keep those that are still alive in that condition." the prince nodded for him to continue.
"He said that it will take an additional two hours to recycle the coolant through the purifying process and back into the reactor. Under normal circumstances it would only take one hour, but do to the fact that we are running off of the reserve power supply and there is not much left to spare we must be cautious. He also adds that after the beating she took, the damage to the engines before we left, and the fact that we made a blind the fact that the engines are in as good a condition as they are proves that she one hell of a ship." Even though reporting such bad news the soldier could not help but let a small smirk cross the corner of his mouth.
"That she is." the prince said returning the smirk with a proud smile of his own. "What of the rest of the fleet?" he asked and the man nodded and scanned his report for the appropriate information.
"Of the four ships that jumped with us only two are on sensors the Protector is about 6,000 kilometers ahead of us on the starboard side and the Dagger is 14,000 kilometers behind us to our port side." the man replied.
"So my brothers have remained be my side as they promised." he said softly so that only he could hear himself. "What is their status?"
"They seem to be in better shape than us. Their engines are stable, however they have lost all of their fighter craft as well. The Dagger has a few weapons operational on it's aft flank on both starboard and port sides. The Protector has weapons systems on fore positions and aft. However, the port weapons are operating only at 25 power and the starboard are up to only 46. Their shields are holding at 75 across the board and they expect to be at 100 in 2 an a half hours. Whiles Ours hold at 35 and we will not regain any until we can get the main power supply up and running. To do so we will require more than simple repairs. All the energy from the main core was drained from the last jump and we will need to find a suitable replacement. We need over 2000 jikuls of energy." the man finished.
"Has this information been passed on to the other ships?" the prince asked.
"Yes it has sire. Akalyte is on his way as we speak." the man replied.
"And what of the Foreseer?" he asked and noticed the man twitch at the mention of the name.
"He has been informed as well, he was rather... displeased with news." the man replied careful to pick his words. The prince understood he had most likely killed the man after he had heard all the details for delivering such horrible news.
"Very well. We lost too many good people during this battle as soon as repairs all the repairs necessary to the safety of the ship to get us out of the red zone are completed we will have a memorial for are fallen comrades to honor their contribution to us and their selfless acts of heroism. I do not wish to repeat another incident like this again." he said rubbing his eyelids and allowing himself to finally let himself to fell the tension and exhaustion he had been pushing aside since they had jumped away from the battle. "Please relay my orders to the rest of the crew." he nodded to the man as he bowed his head in compliance with the prince's wishes, stood and left the room.
"A memorial is a good idea." came a voice to the left of the prince and a man who very looked like a more toned and slightly shorter version of the prince stepped out from the shadows of the room. Their hair and eyes were the same there were slight differences in the structure of their faces, but the resemblance between them was undeniable.
"So you've been here the whole time Akalyte?" the prince called to his younger brother. "That's just like you to be here before I was even told of your departure." he smiled softly at him.
"Garnité will be here later we thought it would be better if one of us was guarding you at all times." Akalyte said dropping to one knee before his older brother.
"Stand up Akalyte, family does not bow down to each other." he grinned wider as Akalyte stood up. "So what is your opinion of the situation you should have formed on by now." Akalyte nodded in response.
"I have. Right now our biggest problem is your lack of energy. You will only be able to run off your back up supply for so long. So we should probably looks for targets to gather the necessary energy from." Akalyte said getting straight to the point.
"So, where can we harvest from, in fact just where the hell are we anyway?" he asked getting a smile of amusement from the other man.
"About 17 galaxies from the Aquarian system." Akalyte answered as a hologram appeared showing the universal map that filled the room. A section to the far left of the room was highlighted red indicating the Aquarian system. Far away to the middle of the map and at the far end near th prince was an area that was highlighted blue to indicate their position.
"Here is the perfect spot." Akalyte stated as the map zoomed in to focus on the Milky Way galaxy. "The third planet from the sun is habited. There are people living there, while they are advance for being this far on the edges of the known universe they are still primitive enough to be unable to detect us. In fact I am rather certain they have yet to learn how to manipulate energy of life." he stated matter-of-factly as if he were announcing animal activity in a biology study. "It's small and it suits our needs perfectly." he finished up as the hologram zoomed in on the planet.
"How do you know all this already? We've only been here for an hour." the prince asked as his eyes became slits while he studied the planet's layout.
"The foolish populace broadcasts signals in both visual and audio completely unencrypted into open space." Akalyte replied. "We caught their signals as soon as we exited our jump. Using our sensors we were able to catch the waves as close as their moon so that we knew how up too date our information would be." the prince nodded in understanding to Akalyte's statement. "Of course you would know this too if you still had long range sensors or any working communications equipment at all." Akalyte teased.
"Just what are you implying?" the prince grinned knowing he would not like his younger brother's teasing response.
"That you suck at any space combat." he replied his grin growing wider.
"We have not been in battle for more than 200 years. It was obvious we need more experience, we are better on the ground than in space. We will run drills after repairs have been completed and a sleep cycle has been established. I do not wish to be caught flat footed again." the prince said dropping his head in shame and letting the death toll roll through his head as well as images of the people he had know that they had lost.
"I will see to it." Akalyte bowed.
"In the meantime let us gather the energy we need. Akalyte I place you in charge of this." the prince said returning his attention to the holographic planet hovering in front of him.
"I humbly accept my role." his younger brother nodded in appreciation.
"Let us start here, on this island. It seems a good staging point to move on to the nearby continent." he said pointing to a spot on the holographic image which was spinning slowly on it's axis.
"As you wish." Akalyte bowed and disappeared.
"This island will do fine." he said as he tapped his finger gently through Japan.
"It was late afternoon when they finally left Usagi's house and headed to shopping district. Usagi's mother had come home from her shopping for groceries by the time Seth had finished his bath and bath and changed. She too had been surprised tat Usagi had found Seth and brought him home. She had agreed to let them show him around so he could get familiar with the area. With the promise that a great meal would await them when they returned.
"So, where to first?" Seth asked the girls.
"Good question, are you going to do any shopping?" Ami asked.
"I guess I could do a little." Seth replied thinking about how much yen he had to spend.
"Clothes?" Minako suggested.
"Books?" Makoto added.
"Cd's?" Rei chimed in.
"Games and Karaoke?" Usagi piped up.
"Just who am I supposed to be shopping for here?" Seth asked scratching his head and looking at the girls who stared back at him as if he were expected to by them a gift. "This isn't a date you know." he sighed. "And I'm definitely not rich. Nor do I have a job right now."
"But you're American, don't you all have lots of money?" Usagi asked. To this Seth almost broke out into tears he was laughing so hard.
"Hey chibi. Do you have any idea how much it costs to fly to Japan from the US?" he asked in between chuckles.
"You paid your own way here?" Rei gasped in disbelief.
"I thought your school would pay for the trip or someone here would have." Ami stated in puzzlement.
"Not if your from a poor college like mine that no one has barely even heard of. I had to go through another school to even get the information and everything set up. I had to save up for a long time for this trip too." he replied.
"I'd have thought a prestigious school like Tokyo University would have helped you out." Mina added.
"They offered, but I like to pay my own way. I guess I'm kinda stubborn like that." he shrugged.
"So your paying your own tuition?" Makoto said in shock. "How the hell can you afford it? Are you sure you're not rich?"
"Not anymore. I'm damn near poor. I had to save up for 6 years to get here and I had to study my ass off and work even harder to get all the grant money to help me out." he answered.
"Are you some kind of genius wiz kid or something?" Usagi said looking at him in awe.
"My grades may have been at the top of the class, but I wouldn't say that I'm a genius, just a stubborn hard worker." he shrugged again and this time gave a little grin. "By the way Usagi, what's with bringing your cat with you? You planning on shopping for it? And what's with the crescent moon on it's head?"
"I take with me a lot, and what's wrong with her having a crescent moon? I think it looks cool! Besides it's why I named her Luna." Usagi replied throwing all the attitude she could at him, Seth simply rolled his eyes.
"I just think it looks odd is all." he said and he could have sworn that Luna began glaring at him.
"It seems these humans have an abundance of energy. Take it from them so we can leave this primitive rock and get on our way to revenge." Akalyte said sitting outside a small coffee shop dressed in a casual outfit. He sat in front of a the soldier he had placed in charge of this specific mission who was also dressed casually.
"I understand." The man replied with a nod as he stood up and made his way across the street to disappear into the crowd.
Seth and the girls were looking through a Cd shop.
"So what kind of music do you listen to Seth?" Rei asked looking at some of the titles he was browsing through.
"Mostly Jrock and Jpop I guess." he shrugged. "That's really all I've heard in America. Other than anime theme songs of course." he added.
"You watch anime?" Rei asked stunned.
"I read manga too." he replied nonchalantly. "Did I forget to tell you? I'm an otaku." he grinned grabbing another Cd from the rack in front of him. That's when the woman across from them collapsed to the floor.
"Are you okay?" the man next to her asked bending down to see if she was alright.
"Heat exhaustion?" someone asked from over to the side and then a man to the right collapsed too.
"W-what's going on?" some woman beside him called out just before she lost consciousness and collapsed to the floor as well.
"Seth, go call and ambulance." Rei said handing him her phone.
"What are you gonna do?" he asked looking worried for her.
"I'm gonna take care of these people." she replied smiling back at him happy that he was worried about her.
"Now get going." she said shoving him out of the store and into a crowd of pedestrians.
"What's going on?" she could hear Usagi ask. She was obviously startled.
"Their energy is being stolen from them." Luna whispered into her ear. "You had better transform, all of you. It looks like we have another enemy to deal with." she said as four more people dropped to the floor.
"Right!" They all nodded and dropped to th floor and each hid in order to transform out of sight of the enemy whoever they were.
The soldier stood in the center of the store still wearing his casual clothes. A set of beige khaki's, a white t-shirt, and a beige suit jacket. "So far so good. This has actually been easy." he mumbled to himself.
"Too bad it's time for you to stop then, huh?" a voice shouted, and Sailor Moon stepped into the store the man was in followed by the other senshi.
"So, this planet has guardian's after all." the man said looking them over. "Please provide me with some mild form of entertainment." he grinned, and waved his hand as a rush of energy slammed them into shelves, walls, and counters. "Too easy." he sighed.
"Only a weakling would pick on kids." a voice called from the entrance and Usagi picked herself up in time to see her prince. Instead she saw someone different. Though he was dressed like Tuxedo Mask his outfit was white and had a silver lining on the inside of his cape. His eye mask was black instead of white. He seemed to be the complete opposite of Tuxedo Mask in appearance. He had almost the same blue eyes as Usagi and while his hair did resemble Mamoru's yet it was blond.
"So what do you think you're doing? Is there a ball and no one told me?" the soldier chuckled. "I do have formal wear." he grinned at the stranger's appearance.
"I thought that was obvious." the man said as Minako climbed back up to stand on her feet. The soldier pointed his finger at her sending a tiny energy ball the size of a pea zooming towards her. It struck her with as much force as a bullet and sent her flying back into and through the wall.
"As I said, I thought it was obvious." the tuxedo man said completely ignoring what the soldier had done. "I'm here to destroy you." he said and flew forward quicker than the girl's eyes could catch and slammed the soldier in the stomach with his fist. The soldier bent forward and fell to his knees holding onto his gut, apparently he had knocked the air out of him. The soldier sat there with a look of surprise mixed with pain. He grabbed the back of the soldier's head and slammed his face into the ground with enough force to crack the floor. The man stood up and released a palm sized beam of silver energy into the soldiers whose body turned into a fine silvery powder. He turned to leave when Usagi spoke up.
"Hey, where are you going?" she called out.
"It's none of your concern. The Dark Army is here, that's your concern." he replied without even turning around to face her.
"The Dark Army? Is that the name of this new enemy?" she asked.
"Yes." he responded. " You should get these people treated soon. Their energy won't return simply because I beat him it will take about a week for them to recover, and they'll have to do it on their own." he began to walk away again, but stopped and turned around prepared to fight Mamoru, who was dressed as Tuxedo Mask.
"Who are you?" Mamoru asked.
"I have no need to answer you." the man replied. "They're fine." he replied answering Mamoru's unasked question about the girls.
"How did you know what I was thinking?" Mamoru asked suspiciously.
"It's rather obvious if you just pay attention." the man answered.
"I see. What happened here? If you don't mind me asking?" Mamoru asked getting a hold of himself.
"Not at all. The Dark army sent a soldier here to drain energy from people. The first of many I imagine. He fought with them, I saw they were getting beaten easily so I stepped in." he explained.
"I guess you won." Mamoru said looking at the pile of silvery powder.
"Obviously." the man smirked. "I'm guessing you're the guardians of this this planet, the last line of defense and whatnot?" he asked.
"Yes." Mamoru answered curiously.
"Then this is the only time I will say this. Get stronger, or stay the hell out of my fight. That was probably the weakest among them and he tossed you aside easily." he turned to walk away.
"Hey!" Usagi shouted stopping him again. "Are you an ally or an enemy?" she called out to him.
"Who knows." he turned and said over his shoulder with a shrug and disappeared.
Okay, so now you know what I meant. For the love of god please leave me reviews. However I need to clarify a few things first. Yes, I am well aware that the guy who just saved them is an asshole. He was writen that way on purpose. If you think you know who he is say nothing, because you are probably wrong. (Mostly because you have not yet had the privalage of reading chapters 3-8 yet. Yes 3 - 8. There are 30 chapters and and epilogue, this will be a long one. Good news is that what you are getting is a third draft this story has been written and rewritten before it has bee around for 8 years. (God I feel old now). Please don't ask who the mystery man is, I'm not telling I don't give away spoilers for my own work. XD Just other ppls. I can't tell you how happy I am that I got all that Japanese names right my fingers wanted to type "Darien" every time I needed "Mamoru" for some reason so i was at war with my hands. I will try my best to get some more free time so I can get to work on Chapter 3, and Kelly ty so much for watching Onepiece all night and throwing off my sleep schedule so I could get this done. God bless anime and crazy crackhead fanfic writers.
