Oh fantastic, turns out I have got 1 review and it is telling me I ripped this off. How nice. Well, I didn't, mettsu! I don't bother reading fanfictions much...how was I to know??? Anyway, my character is KOneko, not Neko, and she has brown hair not black. Also my rabbit is black and not yellow!!! And it has nothing to do with reincarnation! As for deviantart I only use that for fangirly pics of Roxas, so nyah! Oh b.t.w. Yue is Chinese for moon. Yippee.

Chapter 2

Koneko almost fainted. A black rabbit that talked? And one with a crescent moon on its forehead? This was turning into something quite out of the ordinary.

It spoke again. "I'm Yue." Koneko edged backwards and promptly fell off her bed with a yelp.

"I'm not going to hurt you! Here, I want you to have this." Yue did some sort of backflip-somersault and produced a shiny brooch with a moon and a cat on it.

"Oooh, shiny! Wow! I can have this?" Koneko said enthusiastically, forgetting to be frightened and pinning it onto the bow of her school uniform. She walked over to the mirror and admired herself from different angles.

"It's not a toy! It does something! What you have there is a very powerful device that...LISTEN TO ME!" bellowed Yue.

"Sorry, sorry!" Koneko apologised hastily. "What does it do, then?"

A pink piece of note paper with a fancy border of flowers appeared on Koneko's desk. She picked it up. Some sort of incantation was written in sparkly gold ink.

"Read it, read it," urged Yue.

Koneko read it out aloud. "Moon Prism Power, make up!" She raised her hand in the air involuntarily and then suddenly her room with the pink wallpaper and Yue sitting on the bed went out of focus and her school uniform disappeared. She felt herself moving into all kinds of poses without really meaning to, and wondered if she should be panicking. After about half a minute her room appeared again. She turned round and looked in the mirror.

"Argh!" She was dressed in a strange outfit a little like her school uniform, with a blue sailor collar and short skirt, a red bow with the brooch pinned on it, dark pink boots, white gloves, a tiara, a choker with a moon on it, fancy earrings and red ornaments on her odangos. When she turned around there was a red bow on her back too.

"Yue! What have you done to me? How come I'm wearing this weird outfit?" Koneko shouted.

"Calm down! You've become the next Sailor Moon. Your great grandmother was one too. She and the others defeated the evil forces but now there's a new kind at work, and we need you to help stop them. We weren't planning on reawakening all of you, but it seems now we have to and - "

Yue was cut off by an annoyed Koneko. "Who's "we"? What do you mean "all of you"? Are there more like me? Who are the others? Do I really have to fight evil? I've got too much homework as it is."

"Give me a break! I bet this happened last time. Poor Luna. Well, I have other things to attend to, I need to be going. See ya."

"Wait! How do I get out of this?" Koneko asked, pointing at her senshi uniform. "Oh, that? Just take the brooch off," replied Yue nonchalantly. She jumped onto the windowsill and promptly vanished. Koneko unpinned the brooch. The cat on it opened its mouth and a stream of shiny red ribbons shot back into it. Koneko looked down. She was back in her school clothes again.


After dinner with her parents and her irritating little sister Sango, Koneko went back up to her room. She had just switched her computer on when the doorbell rang.

"I'LL GET IT!" she shrieked, and bolted downstairs. Nori was standing at the door. "Hi, Koneko. How's it going? My mum's jewellery store is having a sale and I thought since you're a girl you might like to go. I asked Umino but she said no."

"Oh, okay then," said Koneko. She scrawled a note, pinned it to the kettle and slammed the door after her. They had been walking a while when Nori noticed the brooch.

"That's pretty. Where'd you get it?"
"Oh, this?" Koneko laughed, hurriedly trying to think up an excuse. "Uh...a...friend gave it to me. Yeah." Nori nodded.

They arrived at Nori's shop. There were big red SALE signs everywhere and crowds of women and girls were swarming all around. Nori's mum was at the back of the shop shouting about bargains and reducing prices dramatically. Her curly red hair had turned all frizzy, but she seemed not to mind. She looked around when she saw Nori and Koneko.

"Oh, there you are, Nori! Is this your friend?"
"Yeah, this is Tsukino Koneko."
"Hello," Koneko said timidly, attempting a wave.
"Oh, well, since you're a friend, I'll have to give you something! Here! How about these?"

She held out a small box. Koneko opened it and found a pair of sparkly earrings. "Oooh! They're lovely! Can I really have them?" Nori's mother's smile grew even wider. "Marvellous! I'm glad you like them. Feel free to have a look around." She vanished into the crowd. Koneko suddenly noticed that Nori had disappeared. She trailed round the shop for a while but she had forgotten all her money, so she forced her way through the crowd and went back home.


"Argh! Yue! What do you want?"

The big black rabbit had reappeared, knocking a comic book out of Koneko's hands.

"It's an emergency, Koneko! I need you to help! Transform, quick!"

"Okay, okay! Moon Prism Power, make up!"

She went through the whole thing again and found herself in her Senshi uniform again. She scooped Yue up in her arms and jumped out of the window, landing with surprising agility. A little kid who was riding up and down the street on a tricycle looked at her open-mouthed. His ice cream slid out of the cone and plopped onto the road.

Koneko made a peace sign.

"The jewellery store," whispered Yue. "Oh, okay!" Koneko whispered back, and ran off. Luckily there was hardly anybody about.

She arrived at the store. Girls wearing fancy necklaces and women sporting dangling earrings were slumped over counters and on the floor, yawning and rubbing their eyes. Koneko gasped. There was some sort of a hideous monster at the back of the store with grey skin and hollow eyes strangling Nori. His face was starting to turn a strange shade of purple. She wanted to say something but she was too frightened.

"Sailor Moon," said a small voice. Koneko looked down. Yue was pawing her leg and holding another piece of pink paper in her mouth. Koneko went white and slumped to the floor. Suddenly she heard a small thunk. A red rose landed on the floor just in front of her. She looked up, and there was a man standing on a high windowsill wearing a tuxedo, complete with top hat and cape. For a moment she forgot all about fighting evil.

"He's so handsome!" she said, swooning, and seriously annoying Yue. "Sailor Moon! You're meant to be getting rid of that!" She waved a large black paw in the general direction of the youma, which had dropped Nori on the floor and was making a beeline for Koneko. The man in the tuxedo jumped in front of her.

"I am Tuxedo Kamen, guardian of the weak. Terrorizing young women and getting an innocent boy involved? You should be ashamed of yourself, youma! Good luck, Sailor Moon, I can say you'll be seeing me again."

With a flash of his cape he had disappeared out of the high window again. The youma decided it was going to do something and yelled at the lolling army of girls to attack. Koneko, sitting on the floor, screamed. She was the best screamer in all of Juban Junior High, and she could scream for almost two minutes without stopping to breathe. The ornaments on her odangos bounced the sound off and made it seem really loud.

"Stop screeeeamiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing!" screeched the youma, clutching its ears. The zombies all collapsed on the floor, shouting.

"Now, Sailor Moon!" Yue screamed at the top of her small lungs, handing Koneko another piece of pink notepaper. Suddenly Koneko knew what to do. She touched the jewel on her tiara.

"Moonshine Tiara...Attack!"

She threw the tiara as hard as she could and a bright beam of light shot out of it and hit the youma full-on. "Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarghhhhh!" it shrieked and dissolved into a small pile of grey dust. All the people affected by the energy-stealing jewellery started to wake up. Koneko ran over to Nori. He opened his eyes.


Meanwhile, Mizu Amano had been under a lot of pressure. Everyone was always expecting her to be the best and it was all starting to get to her. She couldn't sleep at night, and then something really strange had happened to her. She was hearing tales of a pretty superhero in a sailor fuku. One night she had had a strange dream that a black rabbit with a moon on its head had slipped into her room at night and put something into the drawer on her bedside cabinet. She had been too frightened to see if it had actually happened, so her alarm clock and favourite pen had been gathering dust in there for four days. When she got home on Thursday after cram school, she had finally managed to pluck up the courage to open the drawer.

Mizu closed her eyes and yanked the drawer open. Inside, there was her clock, her pen and something she had never put there before. It was a small wand with a strange symbol on one end, like a cross with a circle on top and on top of the circle was a curved line a bit like the outline of an upturned crescent moon. Pinned to it was a bit of pink note paper patterned with flowers that smelt like perfume.

"Mercury Power, make up!"