I don't own Sailor Moon, it belongs to Naoko Takeuchi.
I have a question for everyone, do you guys want me to go through the anime and use the 7 crystals, or would you prefer that I simply use the manga story line? Should Mamoru's knights (Jadiete, Nephite, ect.) be allowed to live? (possible romance interests for the other girls?) (Answer in REVIEW, thanks.)
Chapter 2
A cold feeling could almost been seen in the air, it was as if a dark being was reaching out and covering this small, small portion of the earth. The quietness would be unnerving to most, in fact it generally is even to its usual occupants.
"Soo you still haven't found it?" A voice calls from that cold darkness, all that can be seen of the woman is her lower features, that cruel but beautiful smile seemed to have something deadly in store for everyone involved. "I asked, if you had found it, Jadeite, found the Silver Imperial Crystal."
"I apologize, my grace. I have not found the crystal yet." Jadeite replied, bowing. He would get that dark haired beauty if it was the last thing he did. She couldn't be allowed to get in his way, a slow devious look seemed to pass as light blonde hair covered his mischief fueled eyes.
"Our great ruler is hungry for power. Collect more energy and continue the search for the Crystal." The woman continued, if anyone were watching they would have been shocked by the malice that seemed to radiate around her body.
"I understand, leave this to me Queen Beryl. As the head of the Dark Kingdom's Far Eastern division, I shall not fail you." Jadeite chuckled, as he disappeared.
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"Mama, I'm home! Usagi is still at the Arcade." Kagome smiled, waving at her mother happily.
"Welcome back, dear! How was school?" Ikuto asked, her long waving blue hair falling about her waist as she washed dishes to prepare for dinner.
"Uuuugh, it was fine… I really wanted to just hit Gurio! He just won't shut up!" Kagome rolled her eyes in irritation.
Ikuto chuckled, "Alright, what do you want for dinner dear?"
"I get to pick?"
"Hai."
"Yay! I want Udon, mama." Kagome grinned, kissing her mom on the cheek she grabbed Luna before dancing up the steps to her room. She was so lucky to have a room all for herself, Kagome knew she would have a hard time explaining why Luna was talking.
"There are so many things I need to teach you Kagome." Luna frowned as she looked over the young girl.
"I know Luna. But I have to be able to keep my grades up and such, I hope everything will end well. But Luna, who… who exactly are these enemies?" Kagome asked, her blue eyes searching.
"There not human, as you already know. They are evil beings, things that shouldn't exist in this world." Luna sighed, she felt sorrow there would be too little time to be a child.
"I see, and what exactly is my mission?" Kagome asked, running a brush through her hair as she sat on the bed.
Luna sighed, "You must find your comrades, or partners, then find the princess. You must protect her and The Imperial Crystal!"
The Imperial Crystal… that's what that man was looking for, what Tuxedo Mask was looking for… is he a comrade or… an enemy? Kagome bit her lip, the thought of the masked man being an enemy was heart breaking. "Well, what about Sailor V or Tuxedo Mask? He was looking for the crystal."
Luna frowned, she didn't know how the masked wonder boy fit into the scheme of things but it wouldn't do for Kagome to get her hopes up. "I'm afraid he might be the enemy, Kagome." Luna refrained from sighing when she watched the girls thoughtful expression fade to a small frown. "But I already have my sights set on someone who could possibly be the second Senshi."
"Really? Who, Luna?" Kagome leaned forward curious, what would one of her comrade be like. Would she be able to become friends with them? Would it be a girl or a boy?
"Don't worry about it Kagome." Luna smiled.
Kagome pouted, before lying back against the covers of her bed before sleep claimed her. She was so tired now a day, it wasn't fair really… between keeping her grades up and trying to fight Jadeite all the time there was no time for fun at all. Three weeks, she'd been Sailor Moon for three weeks, and almost like clockwork every three to five days, he attacked trying to draw energy.
Luna smiled lightly as she watched Kagome dose off, before moving toward one of the windows. Nudging it open, she jumped down slinking through the streets Luna found herself in front of Crown Arcade. Kagome loved coming to this particular arcade to enjoy soda floats, and milkshakes.
Smacking a certain rock, a small window opened allowing the tired black cat to sneak into a chamber hidden deep beneath the arcade. Jumping from one box to another, Luna almost smirked when she finally pounced down into a soft comfy computer chair. Sharp red eyes studied the screen, a young girl the same age as Kagome was shown. She was small, a petite young child with large blue eyes and short chin length blue hair that was kept that way for convenience more so than fashion, her skin was pale that was due to lack of sun. Oh yes, Luna nodded to herself it was possible that she was Sailor Mercury.
Luna frowned, there was also a possibility that the young woman could be working for the other side and was just trying to get closer to Kagome and their objective. Should she tell the girl? Luna pondered, she should warn Kagome of the heart ache that was sure to occur because of her interest in that dark haired youth called "Tuxedo Mask," Kagome tried to hide the fact that she liked the young man. But when one was her age the subtleties that came with age faded, leaving emotions such as that more obvious even to the casual observer. Sighing, Luna shook her head, no she would not tell her, it was better for her to learn of this now versus later.
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Kagome sighed as she walked down the hall, she once again had Usagi's lunch hidden away in her bag and had no intention of giving it to the older girl until the appropriate time. But she couldn't help but notice the large amount of comments and stares that seemed to be shooting across the hallway toward a small brunette who seemed to be looking at test scores.
Kagome frowned, listening to what other random folks were saying.
Did you see the results for the mock exam?
Yeah, that genius answered everything correctly! Is that even normal?
I don't know it's kind of creepy. Doesn't she have anything else to do?
Not huuuman at all! She's first place in the entire country, how lame is that? What do you think she does for fun?
Does she even know what fun is? Ohhh I know a calculus problem! It's soo exciting!
Kagome could only scowl as the commentary began to grow, you could visibly see if one tried that such things really were getting to the girl.
"Soo a genius, woah that's neat!" Usagi smiled.
Naru smiled, "Morning Usagi! You're on time for once!" She chirped, an amused look spread across her cheeks as a growl was sent her way.
"It seems Crystal Seminar did it again!" Gurio smiled, popping out of nowhere to speak his piece.
Izumi frowned, "That upper class cram school?"
"Yeah! They say Mizuno goes there." Gurio grinned, he enjoyed gossip just as much as a normal girl.
"She's totally out of our world! I mean rich parents, fantastic grades." Naru pouted.
"Guys, stop it! I'm smart, I came in tenth overall and 97th nationally! There is nothing wrong with working hard for what you want!" Kagome frowned, staring at them.
Usagi sighed, she knew that sometimes it really bothered Kagome that she was intelligent and she sometimes felt like she didn't belong. Watching her sister stomp away from them, Usagi could only sigh as her friends looked after her baby sister with very guilty looks on their faces. "I'm sure she didn't mean it in a bad way guys. But you know a lot of people exclude Kagome because she so smart… like you were doing to Mizuno-san." She might not enjoy studying, but she wasn't a complete idiot.
Kagome huffed as she looked around the classroom before finding the book she was looking for, to leave. It made her so angry when they talked about things they didn't understand, she knew her sister would never agree with something like that but to think about all those cruel things said about someone that no one really knew?
Sighing, Kagome left the building in a rush she was going to the arcade maybe playing the new Sailor V video game would help her cool her jets. Then again, she could go by the book store and pick up some new books. Nibbling on her bottom lips, Kagome stopped when something black with garnet eyes came into her sight. Luna was walking above Ami Mizuno, and seemed to be trying to figure something out. As if Ami's presence was confusing to her, Kagome sighed when Luna leapt down on top of the blue haired girl. What was Luna doing?
"Oh!" Ami yelped in surprise, where had the cat come from? Chuckling, Ami promptly began to rub the cat underneath her chin, a soft but steady purring seemed to float about her ears and Ami could do little but smile happily. "I wish I didn't live in an apartment… I would keep you all to myself." Ami's smile faded, a small frown ran across her cheeks before Luna suddenly moved, jumping from the girl's arms to her shoulder, a long powerful leap sent her flying into Kagome's arms.
Kagome yelped at the sudden change, quick hands moved insuring that the cat didn't fall to the ground. Kagome could feel a light blush beginning to dust across her cheeks, "Ah, I'm very sorry. She didn't hurt you did she?"
"Oh, not at all. Actually I thought she was an angel!" Ami laughed, a bright pretty smile rushed across her pale features before she blushed. She sounded like an idiot! This was the first person she'd talked to since she'd been accepted into this particular school.
Kagome giggled, "I can see that, Luna is a sweetie." Kagome grinned, cuddling Luna, who was happily purring, these girls really knew how to treat a cat!
A small smile was returned, "I'm Ami Mizuno of class 5."
"Kagome, Kagome Tsukino… I'm from class 1." Kagome grinned, she was glad to meet someone who was at least a little on the brainy side. Pushing out a hand the two girls shook both happy with the meeting. "Ano, Ami… have you ever played arcade games?"
"No… I've never really had the time." Ami replied, the two had been talking for close to an hour while sitting in a small café with milkshakes and sweet pastries. It was one of the best experiences that she'd had in a long time!
"Ah, I was going to go play today I got so frustrated and annoyed with my friends. Sometimes you need a break when you get frustrated you know?" Kagome asked.
Ami nodded, "Do you plan to go today?"
"I don't know… I was thinking about going to the bookstore, but most of my money is at home." Kagome sighed, she'd been meaning to pick up another book on mythology, but then again another forensic anthropology book sounded interesting as well.
"Ah, I wouldn't mind getting another medical text book." Ami mentioned.
"Really? I like the book on Osteology that I bought last week." Kagome grinned,
Ami looked rather surprised before speaking, "You're interested in the human body?"
"Ah, yeah, I'm interested in archaeology and writing so I do a lot of research." Kagome smiled.
Ami nodded, the two of them stood threw their trash away before making their way to the Crown Arcade, "Motoki!" Kagome shouted in delight before tackling the older boy. She adored him, Motoki knew it as well and he had to admit he had a large affection for the younger dark haired Tsukino twin.
"Ah, Kagome, I haven't seen you recently, who's your friend?" Motoki asked studying the younger girl.
"This is Ami Mizuno, we met today. We've both been having a good time, Ami. This is Motoki Furuhata, he's in charge of the Crown Arcade when he's not in school. While his little sister Unazuki, is a waitress at the Crown Fruit Parlor." Kagome introduced the two.
"It's nice to meet you Mokoti." Ami bowed.
"Ah, don't bow Ami! Any friend of Kagome's is always welcome here, oh… Kagome is Usagi suppose to be using all her allowance to play the new Sailor V game?" Mokoti finally asked.
Kagome groaned, "Noo. Where did she go?"
"She just left for home I suppose." The older blonde haired man replied.
Kagome sighed, "Oh well… I guess she finally decided to face Mama."
Both Motoki and Ami glanced at each other before they looked at Kagome as if demanding she explain that statement.
"Usa failed every single one of her tests." Kagome stated, a frown on her face.
Both of them gaped, "Is this why you want to come play video games?" Ami finally asked.
Kagome nodded, "It helps me de-stressand relax you know? I was so relieved when I saw my score though, they were rather nice."
"Ah, how did you do?" Motoki asked.
"I made 10th in the school and 97th nationally." Kagome grinned, "I was 23rd in the school, and 398th nationally last quarter so I'm pleased with the improvement!"
"I suppose you still want to get into Todai?" Motoki asked, the two girls settled at the counter, both watching Motoki work with practiced ease.
"Ah, Motoki, coffee please?" A smooth deep voice spoke from behind the two girls.
Kagome could feel a jolt of pleasure run down her spine turning, she nearly fell off her stool when she realized it was the guy. The guy Usagi had thrown her test paper over her shoulder and had hit the guy in the face.
"Ah! Mamoru! It's been a while, how are you?" Motoki smiled.
Dark hair fell into blue eyes, before a smile slowly appeared "Tired. This year has been a major pain."
"Ah, Kagome, I'm going to try that game you were talking about." Ami smiled.
Kagome blinked, "Okay, do you mind if I stay up here? I haven't talked to Motoki in forever."
"Not at all!" Ami smiled, leaving her things at Kagome's feet she had been studying the game for some time now.
"Ah, you're the one with the cowtail." A smirk slipped across his lips.
"Hai, hai, I'm sorry about that… Usagi is well… lazy." A faint pink was running across her cheeks.
Motoki frowned, "Mamoru leave Kagome alone!"
"Ah, it's fine. Usagi smacked him in the face with a test paper." Kagome waved her hand away, it was rather embarrassing.
Motoki snorted, "He probably deserved it, Kagome this is Mamoru Chiba he goes to Motoaza High School. Mamoru, this is Kagome Tsukino. She'd like a second baby sister." He glared those green eyes flashing with warning.
Kagome snorted, "That's a hard school to get into… I'm going to die." The small girl leaned on the counter with a huff, how hard was she going to have to work to get into Todai?
Mamoru raised an eyebrow, "What?"
"Argh, I'm already working with everything I've got to keep great grades in Jr. High. I don't know what I'll do once I get to High School, or work on getting into Todai." Kagome huffed, staring at Motoki as he moved about fixing Mamoru's favorite black coffee.
"Is it that bad?" Motoki asked, slightly concerned.
Kagome almost answered when things began to pick up behind her, several gasps and some slightly perverted comments could be heard. Frowning she could see a crowd gathering around the new Sailor V game, twisting the girl jumped down from her stool to see what was going on, both of the boys followed at a slower pace. "Holy cow! Ami! You ranked top, so not fair." Kagome pouted.
"I suppose I beat your score?" Ami grinned, picking up the pen that had been dropped.
"Hai, Hai. You got a pen to?" Huffing, Kagome promptly grinned, leaning over the blue haired girl talented fingers began pushing button's at a frightening speed, before stopping. A "ka-thunk" could be heard, "Hai! Take that Sailor V game that does not share its spoils."
"KAGOME! You said you wouldn't do that anymore!" Motoki scowled.
"Pfft, I said I wouldn't do it to the old Sailor V Game. This one give cute prizes as such that statement is now null and void."
Mamoru snickered, while Ami began to giggle "Oh no!"
"What is it Ami?" Motoki asked, his arms were wrapped tightly around Kagome so she couldn't escape. She knew cheat codes and random mechanical information, it had taken him forever to find out how she kept getting toys and prizes when he figured it out he'd made the younger girl quit.
"I'm late for cram school. I'll see you later Kagome!" Ami rushed away grabbing her things she hurried. She'd had such a good time she'd forgotten all about her studies!
"You gonna let me go?" Kagome asked, looking up.
Mamoru snorted "Do you use cheats a lot?"
"Only when it's cute, and that was a cute pen, so I wanted one." Kagome pouted, sending big pouty puppy eyes at Motoki. She really did want the pen! It looks like a standard ball point, but it was extremely attractive, thin and elegant it was a baby blue, the metal trim around its top and middle was perfect while a dark blue crystal seemed to be sitting at the top of the cap.
Motoki sighed, "You can keep it, but leave my poor machines alone."
"Yay! Thank Moki!" Kissing the blonde on the cheek, she bowed to Mamoru "It was nice meeting you." Waving, she practically danced away with her new pen in hand.
"You just got steam rolled, Moki!" Mamoru chuckled at the bland look sent his way.
"Aww, Mamoru I can't help it…" Mokoti sighed, "She's just too cute sometimes."
Mamoru snorted, before studying the door, she had been cute and a little on the young side. "Where did you find her?"
"Kagome?" The blonde asked, focused on cleaning the counter.
"No, the gaming genius, yes Kagome." Mamoru replied, in his sarcastic way.
"I've known her since we were little kids, she was always the shy one so she would hide behind me or Zuki." Motoki gnawed on his bottom lip "I was really surprised today when she brought that girl in here, Kagome doesn't really have a large number of friends."
"Why? I mean she seems relatively popular…" Mamoru asked, a bland expression on his face.
"Ah, Kagome is a little on the brainy side and most of the guys think that she's super cute. So girls are intimated by her…" Motoki sighed, he was a bit more than worried.
Mamoru frowned, at seeing the expression on his friends face he knew he shouldn't have brought it up. "I'm sure she'll be fine, thanks for the coffee. I have to go." Waving over his shoulder, Mamoru left… something about that girl… had been familiar.
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Kagome sighed, she'd been spending a lot of time with Ami before the girl left for and sometimes after her cram sessions, they had become relatively good friends in the week since she'd taken Ami to the arcade. She'd been surprised to learn about Ami's dream of being a doctor, but it did explain why the girl worked so hard. Huffing, Kagome looked over the girls in the gym with her, she was once one of the slowest runners here, but after nearly three weeks of fighting with the evil, yet cute blonde named Jadeite, and all his little minions she'd gained a lot of muscle mass.
Naru shouted out asking if anyone wanted ice cream, both Usagi and Izumi agreed to go just on principle…
"I think I'll pass… we do have a rather large math test coming up." Kagome replied, watching Ami leave quietly. She knew the shy girl felt like an outsider when they were all together, and at times Kagome didn't blame her one bit.
"Hey, do you guys think it really helps?" Usagi finally asked.
"I don't know, Kari from class 3 is going and her grades have gone up." Izumi replied, flipping some of her hair of her shoulder.
"Yeah, it seems like everyone is going. Are you thinking about signing up Kagome?" Naru asked, her short reddish auburn hair bouncing when she turned to look at Kagome.
Kagome shook her head, "I study with Ami before or after her Cram school… to be honest I'm getting a little worried."
"What do you mean?" Usagi asked, curious.
Kagome thought it over before replying, "Well I've seen a lot of the kids that go to that cram school and almost all of them have been coming back exhausted or burned out. Even Ami… I mean they seem paler than normal… and really sleepy… it's weird."
"Really? I wonder what that's about… but I have to admit… Ami did look a little worn… I wonder how rough that cram school is on students." Izumi frowned.
"I heard that they give you a disk, and every single class is on the PC. This disk has everything on it… but what do you really think is on that thing?" Naru asked.
"Disk?" Usagi frowned.
"I think I'll go catch Ami, would you mind if she came with us?" Kagome asked.
Izumi sighed, "Not really."
"I like Ami, she's really nice! And a really good tutor." Usagi grinned.
"Oh really?" Naru asked.
Kagome snickered, "How else do you think that Usa-chan would pass a math test?" Dodging a flying shoe, Kagome darted down the hallway. Finding one of the computer labs, Kagome peaked inside "Ami…"
"Oh, Kagome. What is it?" Ami asked.
Kagome smiled, "Well some of us are going out for a short ice cream break, and I was wondering if you wanted to come?"
"I can't, I wish I could but the CC has upped the study portion… I'm utterly tired after everything is said and done."
"It's okay, just try to take things easy Sunday. Oh, you're using your pen." Kagome smiled, she really did like the pens that had popped out of the machine.
"Yes, I prefer taking notes compared to this computer program. I'm thinking about dropping." Ami frowned, the more she was in this program the more she disliked it.
"I'll see you later then?" Kagome left, she really wasn't sure she wanted to go get ice cream and there really was a big test coming up and it would look bad if she failed this one.
"Hai. Maybe we can get together on Sunday… My mom will be home and she really wants to meet you." Ami smiled.
Kagome waved, watching her friend go before deciding on what to do. She could go to the arcade and have ice cream and study, with a side bonus of bothering Motoki. Chuckling in amusement, Kagome left the computer lab before dropping by the gym to pick up her things. Humming to herself she grinned, when Motoki looked her way with a smile and a wave.
"Kagome what's up?" He asked.
"Not much, can I get a milkshake?" Kagome asked, laying her mathematics book on the counter along with a spiral bound note book, pencil and eraser.
"You're going to study here?" A voice asked.
"Yep, hi Mamoru." Kagome grinned, as the older boy sat on a stool next to her.
"Kagome, you aren't going to the Crystal Cram?" Mamoru asked.
"Nope, not going to happen." Kagome growled out.
Both boys looked at her in surprise, "Doesn't Ami go there?" Motoki asked.
Kagome nodded, before yelling papers flew up in several directions when the chaos calmed and her things finally came to a halt. Two pairs of blue eyes and a pair of green eyes stared a small black cat down, wondering exactly how she'd managed to get in.
"Luna… what are you doing here?" Kagome asked, as if she was expecting an answer.
"Mew!" Luna nosed what she had dropped on to the counter, before jumping down onto one of the stools.
"Kagome… why is your cat here?" Motoki asked, finally.
"Ah… sorry?" Kagome sighed, "Oh, this is Ami's Disk for that Cram school."
"Hmmm, isn't everything done there on computers?" Mamoru finally asked, looking over the disk. "Oh, and this belongs to you." He pulled the paper out of his pocket before placing it on the table.
Kagome groaned, "Why did she throw another test paper at you?"
"She got mad after one of your little friends told her she should study then chunked it over her shoulder like last time." Mamoru grinned, when the dark haired girl blushed violently.
"Usagiiii, why do you do such things?" Kagome pouted, "She's so going to fail mid-terms." Glaring at the 15 writing on the paper, "I'm going to take this to Ami then go home. I don't even want to study anymore." Gathering her things, she stared at the milkshake "Can I have that to go?"
"Sure. I'm sorry you're having such a bad time Kagome." Motoki sighed, before pouring the thick milkshake into a foam container.
"It's okay." Rummaging through her bag, she nearly jumped when a large warm hand stalled her own. They were rough with use, and she could only feel her cheeks heat when a smile flitted across Mamoru's lips.
"I'll pay for it, go ahead and take off." He felt badly for the girl, he knew that the last two years of Jr. High school were much more difficult than others. She spoken with them briefly about several of the High Schools she wanted to enter and both he and Motoki had been very surprised by her choices, they were top rate and had a several high requirements for entry into the school.
"Thank you. Ja!" Kagome gathered her things before rushing out the door with a healthy blush across her cheeks.
"Are you taking an interest in my baby sister?" Motoki asked, glaring at his friend Mamoru was too old to be interested in his little Kagome-chan. She might not be related to him by blood but she and her sister were his to protect.
"Hn, she just seemed like she was having a bad day." Mamoru shrugged, he would never admit it but he was extremely amused by Motoki's posturing.
Motoki just groaned, he knew that expression Mamoru was like that when he found something extremely interesting whether, it be something he was learning about girls, or even a car. "Just don't hurt her."
Mamoru sighed, "Something about that girl draws you closer."
"Hai, Kagome has always been that way… even as a little girl. She was always the calm one, and she always seemed to be watching over everyone as if that was her job." Motoki sighed, before going back to his job.
Mamoru studied his friend, he was going to have to find out more about that girl. He'd never really shown an interest in a girl… but she called to him… much like the Silver Imperial Crystal… Shaking his head, Mamoru sighed before turning away from the café portion of the arcade.
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"Luna! What were you thinking?" Kagome asked, a looked of frustration could be seen on her face. That had been more than embarrassing, she knew that this was spurring her speed to get away so no one could see the redness of her cheeks.
"I think your friend Ami is in danger." Luna stated bluntly, she hadn't been enjoying the speedy and slightly bumpy ride.
Kagome paused, "What do you mean?"
"I took that disk to my base, and what I found was very disturbing." Luna replied calmly grateful that they had stopped moving.
"Explain." Was the short response, part fear, part worry could easily be heard.
"When the disk entered the computer, I had it checked for subliminal messages. And the messages that were found happened to be rather… forceful." Luna stated softly before continuing "The basic gist of the message demanded obedience, and asked for the student to look for the Silver Crystal. Because of the dark energy behind it, instead of being a simple urge it's a bit closer to… well I suppose brainwashing."
Kagome gasped, what the heck; was she going to do about brainwashed Jr. High School students, this was almost like when Naru had been attacked by the first Youma she'd destroyed. "Let's go Luna!" The girl took off, the dark cat following at the same quick pace, neither of the females noticed the shocked expression on Mamoru's face he had not intended to follow the girl, but this route was on the way to his apartment.
Kagome didn't know how long she had been running, but she was beyond tired the fact that she was soon going to get into a fight with a youma did nothing to help her souring day. Cars and building seemed to pass in a blur until the two ladies found themselves in an odd triangular building, it roof had a very steep slant that ended rather closely to the ground, with the straight lines of its walls truly gave off the impression of a triangle… at least from where the two of them were standing. Looking around Kagome smiled, before simply walking into the building.
Luna followed, completely surprised at the gutsy move. Luna was going to suggest that the girl use the transformation pen, but it seemed like another time would be better. Then again, she wasn't too positive about just walking into enemy territory without a transformation to conceal her identity.
They had both been shocked, at the students many of them were ghostly white and passed out across the floor and halls, some of them were leaning over their computers as if they had been working on their class work before someone had simply pressed on an off switch. Classroom after classroom, Kagome was forced to watch where she was stepping, she really didn't want to step on anyone.
It took her a good fifteen minutes to finally hunt down Ami, and what she saw nearly caused her to have a heart attack the blue haired girl was leaning partially against a wall, her eyes were closed and her breathing seemed harsh and shallow, not only that but the girl seemed even paler than normal and Kagome wasn't sure how that was possible. Slapping Ami's face lightly, Kagome continued to call out to the girl demanding her to awaken.
"Kagome! Transform, the teacher is a youma and is absorbing the student's energy." Luna yelled, she and Kagome had split ways to do a larger search of the Cram School.
"Hai! Moon Prism Power, Make up!" Kagome closed her eyes, she wasn't sure if she would ever get used to the burst of blue ribbons or the outfit that showed off a well toned body. Kagome had learned really fast that she was going to have to become more athletic to be able to handle the youma. While she wasn't perfect yet she had certainly lost several pounds and toned up just a smidge, thankfully a little seemed to go a very long way against these low level youma.
"On behalf of the moon, you shall be punished! As a champion of justice I am Sailor Moon!" Kagome's eyes were cold with anger, how could this monster hurt her friend, or any of these students, they were just like her working hard toward their dreams and goals it was horrible that these monsters thought it was alright to do such things.
Kagome jumped upwards, the monster had finally found them, the creature seemed to have a love of paper in the fact that the first thing that came flying were hundred of thin razor sharp papers she was lucky she didn't look like sliced food! The thing still looked like a human, but it was fast disappearing, eyes that had once contained light green pupils were now empty and seemed to have changed to a creepy gray glow.
Groaning in annoyance, Kagome nearly swore when the creature spied Ami who was finally coming out of her energy drained stupor. The youma seemed furious, "Why girl! Why aren't you under my control! Answer me," it was growling much like a dog or wolf but seemed several times more demonic. The creature grabbed the prone girl up from the floor, its forearm reaching forward to choke Ami into unconsciousness.
"Ami, use the pen!" Luna cried as she too dodged another slew of razor sharp papers."Wave it high!"
Kagome jumped back, her eyes wide as a symbol seemed to be forming on her friend's forehead, it was the same small symbol that had been on the girl's pen that she'd won from the arcade! The more Ami protested against the creature the larger and brighter the blue light became! Finally the youma was forced to let Ami go, Kagome could vaguely hear the ugly brute commenting about being cold before the bright light exploded over them all and turned into fog. The fog itself was incredible thick, and Kagome could honestly say she couldn't see a darn thing!
"Luna? Ami?" Kagome called out, before mumbling "Darn it! Why does this stuff always happen to me?" Squinting, Kagome nearly cried out in shock as the face of the youma began to appear in the fog as it moved closer and closer to her spot, the thing had finally shed it's human looks to take a more… bestial look, four fangs ran down the youma mouth and two others were thrusting up and out made her want to shudder, it's ears had elongated becoming more bat like, while the two hands that reached out for her had changed instead of the normal three joints of the finger this things had five and it's nails were wickedly sharp and seemed to be surrounded in a darkening mist.
"Kick her now!" A deep voice stated behind her, she could feel the warmth of the body against the cold of this fog. A long slender leg struck out and up while the rounded point of her thick strong stilettos slammed into the youma's face, just as she found herself starting to move away from the kick strong hands grabbed her under the arm, while another found its way to the base of her ass and the upper most portion of the back of her thigh, he yanked her away from the now pissed of youma.
As her body was turned into those strong arms, Kagome's eyes widened as she was suddenly pressed tightly against a warm, hard male body, her face was inches from his and she found herself staring down into these amazing dark pools of blue, just as suddenly she was sliding down that body until her heel covered feet reached the floor.
"Time to save your friend Sailor Moon," Tuxedo Mask smiled, stepping back before raising his top hat in acknowledgement.
Kagome blushed violently, nodding she pulled the tiara from her brow "Moon Tiara Boomerang!" The thin tiara zoomed away, slicing through the middle of the youma. Kagome sighed in relief when the tiara came back to her hand with little more than dust lying across it. Tuning back she sighed, he was gone… the question was why did he keep saving her? And why had he held her so closely, almost to the point of tenderness? She could still feel that warmth pressed against her side, and it had been… so very comforting. Sighing, Kagome only rubbed over her cheeks before studying Luna… she was curious what exactly hadn't Luna told her? Biting her lip lightly, she bent to take her hair clips from Luna, they'd fallen out when she'd stumbled, "Luna, where is Ami?"
Luna seemed to grin, before turning, what was before them shocked her! Ami was a Sailor Scout! Welll… at least she wasn't alone anymore, Ami's costume was different from hers, it's collar and skirt were both deep ocean blues, while the bows were several shades darker than her own icy blue, Ami's gloves where similar but they stopped before her elbows and the ends were the same deep blue as her skirt, her boots on the other hand were the opposite, the top of the boots rose high covering the knee in a point while the lip was lined in white. It seemed very accurate considering Ami had used fog to disorient the enemy, she was just going to have to make sure she didn't get caught in the fog again.
"Her genius gave her away! She'd the water warrior, Protector of Mercury. Ami, you are the Sailor Scout of Mercury, Sailor Mercury." Luna finished, a small smile on her lips.
Ami on the other hand seemed to be in a state of shock, "Me? I'm a Sailor Scout?" She looked confused, and slightly horrified.
"Yes! You're just as much a part of this as me!" Kagome smiled.
"I don't really know what to say." Ami replied, much more calmly than she felt.
"Ami… would your Mom let you spend the night?" Kagome finally asked.
"Well, yes… if it was to study." Ami smiled weakly.
"Alright, come on. I know you are probably very freaked out by now… I mean I know I was, so tell your mother you are going to come over and study…. we can explain things further… and then we can actually study for that darn biology test." Kagome mumbled the last part rather annoyed.
Ami chuckled, despite the situation she felt that she could trust the two of them. "Alright, let's go then."
Kagome grinned, de-transforming Ami and she picked up her things and after arriving at the Tsukino home the two of them spent much of the time talking into the night about their new responsibilities. Not one of them knew, that in the room next to them Usagi was sleeping, dreaming of things of the past… a small flash of light of pure power seemed to pulse before it faded… it would appear in a small golden Crescent Moon, before fading as the sun began to set. Luna blinked, a shiver ran down her spine…s he knew that power… knew who it belonged to but it seemed to be echoing form several different points. Looking over the girls who were now, after a harrowing day relaxing, she knew that she could not tell them at this time what was happening. Shaking her head, she decided that she would wait for another day, jumping from her place on the window ceil Luna padded over to settle between the two girls and get the rubbing of a life time.