A.N: okay, Meggie wrote most of this, but I added a bunch of stuff and did some of my tweaking to my liking. We're almost done with this story and I'm so happy! I thank all of you who have come this far! So far I have all the names for the next stories.

Another Senshi- is part 2 (Emma's freshman year.)

Great Angel of Fire-part 3 ( Tenth grade...this one is for you kasadi!)

Universal Chaos- part 4 ( 11th grade... Here's yours Mew Universe!)

A Graduating Friendship- part 5 ( Senior Year)

You are what you own-part 6 ( First and second years of college.)

Making it Work- part 7( Emma's last year in college, and getting ready for the arrival of Kappei!)

Dangerous Game- part 8 ( Emma's life with Hoshiko and Kappei.)

Deafening Silence- part 9 ( Can't say anything without giving the twist away.)

The Next Generation- part 10 ( well, I think this is self explanatory.)

I might do more, if I get requests. But lets get through these first! Hope you all enjoyed this story! We're almost done! EEEKKK!

Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon, but I do own this plot, and all the made up characters! and all of the story plots above. see them?

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The Missing Sailor

Chapter 45

The next day

RIIIIING! RIIIIING!

Emma rolled over in bed and decided to ignore the phone.

RIIIIING! RIIIIING!

Emma shut her eyes tight and did her best to ignore-

RIIIIING! RIIIIING!

Emma sighed, and grumbled as she rolled back over and grabbed the phone off the floor next to her bed. She'd been hit by the flu and hit pretty hard- she'd skipped school.

"Hello?" She asked, trying her best to sound like she hadn't just been out cold.

"Emma?" The voice sounded familiar, but strange…frantic, scared, rushed…

"Meggie? Izzat you?" Emma sat up. Something was definitely wrong.

"Emma, you have to listen to me now, don't interrupt, and please just believe me, I don't have much time."

"Meggie, what's going on?"

"Something really bad is happening." Meggie answered in a hushed voice. "There's something going on in Tokyo, and no one knows what."

"What!"

"The police think it's a terrorist attack of some sort-"

"WHAT!"

"Shh, Em, not so loud, someone'll hear you- I can't get caught-"

" 'Caught'? Where the hell are you?"

"Listen, your boyfriend, Sam, right? What was his last name?"

"Tsukino…" Emma didn't like this.

"Oh. Oh no."

"What is it? Why aren't you telling me anything?"

"It's too long of a story- anyway, there's some sort of school building where some monster with these little gnome things has trapped two students- a boy, Sam Tsukino, he was seen at a window, and a girl, whom they couldn't identify."

"Oh my god!" Emma felt like she was about to throw up. So this was it. She was about to lose the love of her life if she didn't do something fast.

"Emma, they're talking to the Sailor Senshi right now-"

"Wait a second- how do you know all this?"

"I'm watching the news."

"You watch the news?"

"Yeah, I do. Anyway, the Senshi is all there from Moon to Pluto. Even Tuxedo Mask is there. Hang on a sec, Sailor Star is missing."

"Thank you so much for calling me, Meggie." Emma said as she pulled on a pair of jeans and a sweatshirt. "Even if it is a little early in the morning." She added with a glance at the clock, which read 8:30. So her parents had already left for work, and Josh for school. Good, she wouldn't be missed.

"You think it's early for you?" Meggie replied. "it's the middle of the night here."

"No…" Emma thought back to a history class where they'd learned about time zones. In Pennsylvania it would be… "7:30. It's only 7:30 in Montrose." She hopped on one foot as she pulled on a sock.

"Yeah, well I'm not in Pennsylvania." Meggie said quietly. "Didn't Kasadi tell you? I'm in…London." She said with what seemed to be great strain. "I'm in London."

"What!" Emma stopped dead. What was happening? When Meggie was eight and had read the Harry Potter books, she'd wanted to move to London, but her parents had said they liked it where they were and hated the British (AN: Meggie- too true. same reason i can't move to japan.). So why was she in London! "Meggie, tell me right now, what is going on?"

"I don't have time right now to- HEY!" There was the sound of someone taking the phone away and Meggie struggling. "Stop it! Let me go! I said LET GO! EMMA! EMMA, GO HELP SAM! EM-"

"MEGGIE!" Click. Meggie was gone. Emma set the phone down on her unmade bed and a tear ran down her cheek. Meggie…was gone. The one person who'd always smiled when there were only tears, who'd kicked a kid's ass for her just cause he'd said something mean. The one person who didn't care how many times you needed her shoulder to cry on. With a shaky hand, Emma picked up her Sailor Star necklace, put Meggie momentarily from her mind, and fastened the yellow ribbon around her neck. She wiped a tear away from her eyes, now flaming with fury. "Monoka…Sakura…it ends now." She was gone in a flash, running faster than she'd ever before. In a split second, she was at the school, her school, and was shouting Serena's name. "Sailor Moon!"

Serena turned, her face stricken with worry. "Sailor Star! Finally!" She grabbed Emma's arm and led her over to the rest of the Senshi, who were contemplating how to get into the building without drawing too much attention to themselves. "I thought you were sick?"

"I found out from a very reliable source that the shit was about to hit the fan." Emma said, clenching her teeth. "It got me over here."

"Good enough, now-"

"Why didn't you call me!" Emma interrupted.

"You were sick!"

"Don't you know who the hostage is?"

"A boy and girl, that's all I know."

"It's Sam and Sakura."

"OH." Serena pulled her into the huddle of Scouts. "Well. Then, I- uh, I'm glad you came."

"Emma, you're the only one who can do this." Amara said.

"Yeah…I know." Emma felt some tears coming on. "I just don't know if I can…"

"Emma," Mina reached across Michelle and lifted up her chin. "Yes, you can."

Michelle smiled. "You've grown into your destiny."

"You and Sam were meant to be," Hotaru clasped her hands together.

"Nothing is stronger than the bond you share." Trista encouraged. Lita and Rei each put a hand on her shoulder.

"You've been training all year just for this." Ami smiled. "Call me a braniac, but by all perspectives, you are ready."

Darien took both her hands in his. "Sailor Star, your heart is stronger than you think. It can love more than you know. And as you know-"

"Nothing is stronger than love." Serena finished.

Emma looked at all of them. They were her friends. Her best friends in the whole world. Her family. And they were all cheering her on, and helping her.

She set her jaw in a determined and angry sort of way, and summoned the Star Staff. The Senshi parted. Emma turned to the crowd behind her, a mass of students and bystanders and press. Slowly, she raised the Star Staff above her head.

"For Sam." She whispered. "For you, Hoshiko." She turned and charged toward the school. The rest of the Senshi quickly summoned their weapons and followed. Emma blasted the door and kept running. "MONOKA!" She screamed, running through the halls. "GET OUT HERE!"

Over the pa system, Monoka's voice trilled "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star,"

"COME OUT HERE!"

"-How I wonder what you are,"

"DON'T YOU MOCK ME!" Emma kicked open doors and blasted walls.

"-Up above the clouds you'll go,"

"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!"

"-Along with Sam and Hoshiko-"

"NO-"

"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,"

"COME OUT!" Emma didn't care that she had decimated half the school already- what she cared about was Sam. "I MEAN IT!"

"-You're going to die,"

"MONOKA-"

"-yes you are." Monoka finished. Then there was a click and then nothing.

Emma kicked down the door at the end of the hall, and saw the auditorium. On the stage, guarded by the green men, there was a big ball of vines that intertwined with one another to make a sort of cage. Inside was Sam.

"EMMA!" Sam stuck his hand out between the vines as far as he could, but they constricted and caught his arm in between them. He let out a yelp of pain and yanked it back in.

The Senshi were right behind her.

Rei pointed to the Sound Booth next to them. "Look! It's her!"

Monoka was indeed in the Sound Booth. She smiled, picked up the microphone she'd been using to taunt Emma and said. "Attack." The green men didn't move, but suddenly, out of nowhere, these black clouds appeared like ghosts and swooped down on them. "Ignorance," She said, and Ami fell down; these ghosts must each be a sort of plague. "Sadness," Amara and Michelle collapsed. "Doubt," Mina. "Anger," Lita. "Sin," Rei. "Illness," Hotaru. "Despair," Trista. "Hatred!" Serena and Darien tried to plow on despite the hate now seeping into their souls, but it was too much. They fell, just like the rest.

Emma was truly alone. "Hey! You guys! I can't do this alone!" She dropped to her knees and pulled Mina's head into her lap, setting the Star Staff down. "Help me!"

Then she heard Monoka again, this time standing right behind her. "Truth."

Emma lay Mina back on the floor and stood. " 'Truth'?" She picked up the Star Staff. "That's no plague!"

Monoka smiled evilly. "Yes, I do believe it is."

Then a girl stepped out from behind the curtains on stage. It was Sakura, for sure- no, it wasn't! It was- "Rini!" Emma gasped. "You're finally here! You can help me!"

Something was wrong, Rini's eyes were glowing red. "No, Emma."

"What?" Something caught in Emma's throat. "Rini? What do you mean?"

"I'm not helping you." Rini held out her hand and the Moon Scepter appeared.

"Wait! Rini, stop!" Sam yelled from the stage.

"Shut up, Sam!" Rini snarled. "This is all your fault!" She turned back to Emma, her eyes practically on fire. "I was there when you were the new kid! I was there when you had an asthma attack! I was there whenever someone picked on you! When Sakura was a jerk, when your grandpa died, when you needed help figuring out your attacks, when you were in a coma, when you needed help studying for finals, and most importantly, I was the one who told you who you were! IT WAS ME!" Rini sent an attack at Emma, who wasn't quick enough and got hit. Emma staggered to her feet. Rini took a step closer. "But where were you when I thought I lost Luna? Where were you when I had a fight with Katsuro and thought we'd break up? Where were you when hit my head off a wall and got a concussion? Where were you when I got sick in math class, when I needed someone to talk to, when I was lonely, when I couldn't stand my family any more?" She pretended to think. "Oh yes, you were with Sam. Or your American friends, or the Senshi, or Sam, Sam, Sam, Sam, SAM!" She sent an attack flying at Emma with each 'Sam', all direct hits. "I WAS LEFT TO STRUGGLE THROUGH EIGHTH GRADE BY MYSELF, WITHOUT THE ONE LITTLE COMFORT ALL THE OTHER GIIRLS HAVE- A FRIEND SHE CAN TALK TO WHEN SHE FIGHTS WITH HER BOYFRIEND, WHEN SHE DOES SOMETHING CLUMSY, WHEN SHE GETS FED UP WITH HER FAMILY, WHEN SHE DOESN'T. HAVE. ANYONE. ELSE!" She kicked Emma in the stomach, and Emma staggered to her feet once more, bruised and bleeding.

"Rini, I-" Emma stumbled the few steps between her and Rini and threw her arms around her. "Rini, I'm sorry!" A blinding light filled the room, and Emma felt her hair whipping around her. When the light faded, she felt satin against her legs.

She was wearing a yellow gown that touched the floor, and had short, layered sleeves of transparent material. Her hair was brushed so that it lay in gentle curves around her shoulders. The Star Staff was in her hand and the Star charm about her neck, both polished so they would shine. She looked the part of a Queen of Hoshi. And her cuts and bruises were suddenly gone.

"How very typical." Rini spat as she pushed Emma away. "Precious Emma gets a lovely dress worthy of a queen, and Rini stays put in her stupid old uniform worthy of the outcast nobody she is!" She pulled out a dagger and sliced Emma across her abdomen. "Fight back, you moron!"

"No, Rini this isn't you!" Emma said. "I won't fight you!"

"Then you'll die!" Rini made another swipe at Emma, this time slicing her arm.

Emma turned and did the only thing she could: run. She ran straight out of the auditorium and down the hall. Rini went after her. Monoka went after her, and the green men went after her.

"Um…" Sam was left alone on the stage. "Emma…? A little help…?"

Emma ran past the door, doubled back and sent a star sphere at him, destroying the vines. "Get out of here, I'll be fine!"

"But Emma-"

"GO!" Emma screeched. She ran off, yelling "IF YOU DON'T I SWEAR TO GOD I'LL DUMP YOU!"

Sam decided to try and get the Senshi out. Luckily, Darien was able to stand and get Serena, and Ami, Amara got Michelle and Hotaru, Lita and Rei helped to get Trista, and Mina struggled to her feet and leaned on Sam.

Meanwhile, Emma found her way onto the roof. She ran to the edge to see if she could climb down. All she saw was Sam and the Senshi limping out, and paramedics rushing to them. Good, at least they were safe, and Sam wouldn't die, and everything would be okay.

"MAMA!" Hoshiko's voice called in Emma's head. "Daddy is out, but YOU are at the mercy of Rini and Monoka! And in case you don't know, it kinda takes TWO to make a baby! GET OUT OF THERE! I DON'T WANT TO DIE BEFORE I'M BORN!"

"EMMA!" Rini had finally caught up with her. Emma turned, and saw, not Rini, but a woman of 18 or so, wearing a rather skimpy black dress over a transparent red blouse, with pink hair that was in the style Rini always wore it in, but it was a lot longer; it came down almost to her ankles. "You took my mother, my father, my friends, and my brother, even, and took my place as the cute, youngest member of the Senshi." The woman (who, Emma realized with a pang, was actually Rini) said, and her eyes glowed like burning embers. "I…hate…you…!" She snarled through clenched teeth. "LUNA SPHERE!" A jet of black light hit Emma square in the chest, and she staggered backwards, her knees hit the low wall, she was falling, she used her last bit of air in her lungs to scream the name she had been screaming since she was old enough to talk.

"JOOOOOOOSSSSSSSHHHHHHH!" She had somehow flipped over in midair, and was falling face first towards her death. She closed her eyes, felt the Star Staff slip from her hand, felt a tear escape her eye, then- WHUMP. She landed on something that was not the ground. Emma slowly opened her eyes and was horrified at what she saw.

"Emma…" Josh groaned as she quickly got off his stomach and kneeled next to him. He let out a soft, almost inaudible chuckle. "You're Sailor Star…knew it…knew…you were a hero…always…knew it…" Then he said nothing.

Emma felt tears sting her eyes as she clapped a hand over her mouth to stifle her scream. Suddenly, Mina was there, crying with her, and Darien too, carrying Josh away. Emma tried to stop him, and Mina tried to hold her back, but the thing that calmed Emma down was Amara scooping her up bridal style and carrying her to the ambulance where Sam was getting a splint on his broken arm, the Senshi were all getting bandages on various scrapes and gashes, and Josh was getting an oxygen mask and IV. Emma heard the screams and chatter and the questions the EMT's were asking as though they were coming through a tv in another room. She heard Amara say "Sailor Star needs something for trauma in the chest area immediately!", felt the oxygen mask being slipped around her head, and then everything went black.

She heard a familiar voice…

"I thought I could leave you on your own!" Emma opened her eyes and saw she was sitting in a field of grass that was too high to see through, with her back up against a weeping willow, and a small pond off to her right. Hoshiko was standing near the pond, her hands on her hips, an identical image of her mother.

"Hoshiko…"

"You got knocked down in the first round!" Hoshiko dug her fingers into her bushy brown roots and pulled in frustration, like Meggie's dad did when he watched football. "This wasn't supposed to happen this time!" She walked over and stood next to Emma.

"I'm sorry." Emma said, fresh tears coming. "I'm sorry I'm not what you thought I was. Rini was right." She choked. "I'm not anything special. I'm just a victim of circumstance who was blessed with more talented friends."

"No…" Hoshiko dropped to her knees and put her hands on Emma's shoulders. "No, Emma, never. Mama…"

There was a long pause. Then, Hoshiko said "Emma, do you know what this place is?" Emma shook her head. " I told you before, It's my heaven. And hell. The afterlife doesn't work like you think, but that's a another story for another time. Stand up."

Emma did. She gasped. The view was incredible. Beyond the horizon, instead of a blue sky, there was the black emptiness of space. And in the distance, the size of a bouncy ball from where she stood, Emma saw the moon. And beyond that, a marble sized earth. And then Venus, and Mars, And the sun.

Hoshiko whispered "I'm going to tell you all you'll ever need to know." She leaned in and told Emma the secret, in a voice so quiet, she was almost inaudible.

Emma blinked, feeling completely stupid. "It all makes sense." She said. "Everything, all of it…it makes sense."

Hoshiko smiled. "Now go get Monoka!" Emma closed her eyes and felt as though she was inside a hurricane. She heard Hoshiko shout "I BETTER NOT HAVE TO COME SAVE YOU AGAIN!"

Emma opened her eyes and was in the ambulance again. She sat up, and pulled off the oxygen mask, despite the protests of Amara and Mina. Josh was still unconscious, but he was breathing. Good.

Emma swung her legs over the side and got off the bed. She began limping towards the school again, determined to the point of insanity.

"Emma WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" Amara shouted.

She paused, turned, and said "I'm going to kick some ass."

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Meggie: Haha! Cliffie!

Emma: don't worry, I'll update ASAP!