Disclaimer: Fortnately, I didn't create Sailor Moon, Takeuchi Naoko did; if I did, however, it probably wouldn't have half the brilliance that it had back then and still is today, twenty-somewhat years later.
Maybe except for Reinako being canon.
Aino Minako knew the story of Hino Risa like the back of her hand.
Hino Risa was a young housewife with a four-year old daughter and workaholic husband, who in which had been working in politics for some time. Her daughter on the other hand was strange since birth. She had been able to predict things before they would happen in a sense, through the fire, especially through the Sacred Fire at here grandfather's shrine. Then suddenly out of nowhere, Risa had been diagnosed with a cancer that had been in one of its worst stages. After a short time however, she had died; this left her husband to bury himself in his work, thus sending his daughter to the Hikawa Shrine to be raised by her grandfather rather than nannies or perhaps, he himself.
Minako knew the rest of the story not as well as Risa's, but even better. Shortly after Hino Rei had turned fourteen, she had met a kind girl known as Tsukino Usagi—their current princess and best friend, above all—then became a Champion of Love and Justice, of passion of flame,Sailor Mars. Although after a while, she could also bear the title of the newly discovered pop idol Aino Minako's girlfriend, and then later on, wife.
After a year or two of marriage, their daughter Eri had been born mysteriously. The only one Minako had ever been sexually active with was Rei, and somehow Minako had gotten pregnant. "It is truly an enigma," Ami had said after hearing the news and situation. "Possibly it was our connection to Usagi that allowed us to get pregnant, or perhaps it has something to do with star seeds . . . "
Minako continued pacing around the room. Rei had been sick for months now, but kept any news from doctor to herself, as if not to scare her family and friends; that only deemed to terrify Minako more, and she knew Rei and Eri could see right through her tough façade too—during the short and small incidents where she was crying, obviously from it. What if she's has something like her mother did? What if it's fatal? What if—
"Mommy?" Eri tugged on her sleeve, taking her out of her thoughts. "Is Mama going to be alright?
Why was she taken away by that big white car after she fell asleep?"
"She'll be fine," Minako sighed and sat down on one of the various hospital benches that were located in its lobby, then sat her daughter on her lap. How do I explain this to a six-year old?
"Mama had just gotten really tired and they wanted to get her to bed really quickly."
"But, you were crying Mommy," Eri replied softly, staring at her mother with large blue eyes. "Why are you so upset? Is Mama really going to be okay?"
"I'm fine and so will Mama." Minako wiped away a stray tear. She was lucky it wasn't the best of weather, or her excuses would've been much more limited. "It's just the weather."
With the opening and closing of the glass hospital doors, Eri's eyes shined. "Chibiusa, Akemi, Emi!"
Eri jumped to embrace the two girls happily. Mamoru held Usagi as she looked as if she would burst into tears at any given moment. Ami and Makoto stood by their two daughters, holding hands with equally concerned expressions painted across their faces.
"Mina, Is Rei going okay?" Usagi asked through near-tears. "When can we go and visit her?"
"They're still testing," Minako said finally. In all honesty, she had gotten over the long crying stage around an hour ago, although she'd been doing t for much longer than that time frame. "They've been doing it for an hour or two."
"Mommy said Mama is going to be okay," Eri piped up innocently. "And Mommy is almost only right, after Mama of course!"
They all looked at the child sympathetically with knowing eyes, due to her blissful ignorance of the reality and seriousness of the current situation at hand.
Seemingly out of nowhere, a tall man adorned in a suit stormed in, his angry eyes glistening with a foreign emotion: concern and worry.
"Grandfather," Eri whispered, although her voice was laced with an odd form of resentment and some hatred. Like her mother before her, Takahashi had been distant and rather distasteful of her family, and Eri resented him for it; it didn't help hearing the rather negative stories her mother had told of him, either.
"What happened to my daughter?" Takahashi demanded angrily, staring down the poor receptionist, who the others pitied at the mess her job had gotten her in. His glare deepened considerably. "Where is she?"
"S-she's in examination right now," the receptionist stuttered nervously. "But her forms requested for Aino Minako to always be the f-first to visit her."
"Even after all these years, Rei still hates me," he grumbled gruffly. "Very well; I'll just wait in the waiting lobby until she recovers fully."
The receptionist bobbed her head up and down and went back to her work hastily after the senator went to his desired destination. Sighing quietly, she was not-so-discreetly relieved that Takahashi had left; he had been getting quite too intimidating for her meek personality to handle all at once, after all.
Eri found her way onto her mother's vacant lap and buried herself into her side. She had an odd intuition that something was wrong, but no one was informing her of the conflict, as obvious as they made it out to be. She sighed and brushed a raven lock behind her ear before her gaze met her mother's, wearing the most serious expression she could hope to muster, being her mothers' daughter and already adorable a six-year old. "Mommy, I know something is wrong with Mama; please tell me."
"When Mama gets out of testing, we'll tell you." Minako sighed and ran a hand through her daughter's thick hair. "I promise."
"Alright Mommy." Eri smiled, although she knew her mother was stalling and had been for the longest time. She then sat up and yawned loudly, holding her now currently howling stomach. "I'm hungry."
"That's an understatement," Emi grumbled. She looked exactly her mother, Makoto, at the ripe age of eight and was rather tall for her age. She rolled her blue eyes. "And I'm sure Chibiusa will follow that statement in three, two, one—"
"I'm really hungry too!" the four-year old known as Chibiusa suddenly exclaimed passionately. "C'mon Papa, let's go get some food!"
Mamoru groaned quietly, no doubt for the death of his soon-to-be broke wallet. "Alright Chibiusa. Eri, Emi, Akemi, do you want to come too?"
Eri nodded eagerly while Emi just followed, being flanked by her younger blue-headed and green-eyed three-year old sister.
"So Ami, is it true that you're pregnant again?" Usagi asked, trying to take her mind off her best friend's condition.
"Yeah, I am; we think it's going to be a boy." Ami nodded, holding her slightly enlarged stomach. "Although, I still hadn't figured out what was the cause of our impregnancies yet."
"Me neither." Makoto smiled proudly. "But if anyone can find the answer, it's our Ami."
Minako nodded slowly in agreement whilst she saw out of the corner of her eye that Usagi was bobbing her head up and down. As Usagi-enthusiastic as she wanted to be, she just couldn't muster up the energy to do so; it was all taken out of her the moment she found out that Rei—her Rei—had been hospitalized.
"Ms. Aino, Ms. Hino is done with testing and ready for visitors; she's requested for you personally, when you are ready," a man—obviously an employed Doctor of some sorts—said.
Minako jumped up and followed the man eagerly, to see her wife whilst praying for only the best to occur, despite her nagging suspicions.
"Rei will be okay, she has to be." Usagi smiled at her friend's enthusiastic speed. "Now I'm hungry; let's go find the others."
Ami and Makoto both nodded and followed their blonde friend, not once shocked at her usual habitual antics.
With her curly jet black hair, pearly white skin, onyx eyes, and slim black dress, Mio could've easily been classified as beautiful by the average bystander, if not much more. As much as the typical admirers threw themselves at her, there was only one person she wanted—has ever wanted—in her entire existence.
She wanted her Mars.
If someone were to ask her, Mio would've been able to name the exact age and event—where and when—she had fallen in love with the Martian princess. It had all started when she had first visited a festival in her native planet of Mars when she was of eleven years of age and had first laid eyes on the princess. Ever since then, Mio had been in love—with comrades, friends, and family alike claiming it was borderline obsession—with Princess Mars Riko of the war and spiritual planet known as Mars.
When Mio had discovered Mars' and Venus' secret romantic rendezvous, she had been enraged with fueled jealously and hate for the blonde Princess of Venus. After gaining that knowledge—through spiritual abilities of her own, of course—she had sworn to kill the princess who had stolen her love and exterminate whomever would got in the way of her being with Mars, that pesky Moon Princess included.
Bowing at her feet, a young man with long black hair held back in a ponytail, dull—no doubt once bright pale green eyes, and adorning a standard Dark Kingdom uniform, frowned. "My Queen, shall I send it?"
"Yes Andradite." Mio's mouth upturned into a wicked smile, her dark eyes gleaming. "Depart and eradicate Princess Venus' reincarnation."
Lowering his head in a slight nod, Andradite finally came out of his silence with an unreadable pale expression. "Very well, My Queen."
Minako had been nervous even before she had entered the hospital room, undoubtedly suspecting the worst. In all hindsight, she had gotten the 'Rei-hooked-up-to-faceless-machines' part of the deal, but the whole ordeal wasn't hopefully as bad as she had thought it to be."Mina?" Rei asked as the blonde entered through the doorframe. "Is that you? Mina, is that you?"
"Yeah." Minako noted that her lover's eyes were glazed over and that she was extremely pale. "It's me. Rei, what happened to you?"
"I," Rei swallowed, as of trying to break the news in the easiest way possible. "The disease my mother had, it's hereditary, and—I have it."
Minako's eyes went wide and she paled visibly. She suddenly knew that anguish and hopelessness that Takahashi had undoubtedly felt when he first found out about his former wife's condition all those years ago. There was one difference between them though; she would never abandon Eri if Rei—God forbid—had passed unexpectedly. Never.
"It's in an early stage though, so they may be able t cure it," Rei continued. "Or maybe the Silver Crystal could cure it."
"Silver Crystal?" Rei's grandfather questioned as he entered the small room. "Rei, what are you talking about?"
Rei paled, more so than the white sheet her skin's complexion already was previously. "Uh, it's nothing Grandpa, just a type of remedy!"
"Great-Grandpa!"
Grandpa sighed in defeat and went to turn his head, but then he was suddenly stopped by the child of the room tackling him. He smiled. "Looks like Little Eri wanted to see you too, Rei."
"Geez, I'm not that little anymore Great-Grandpa!" Eri huffed, even though everyone in the room knew that she truly loved the nickname Grandpa gave her, since it was used in a cutesy way rather than its negative counterpart.
Rei felt her own smile begin to form as she shifted weakly. Like herself, Eri had greatly despised Takahashi, but loved Grandpa more than life itself. In all honesty, Rei would have no idea how to deal with choosing between Grandpa, Minako, or Usagi. Of course—as always—she'd pick Usagi, but the aftermath would've been a nightmare in hell; if she hadn't had Eri, she would definitely follow them after their deaths, there would be no other option for her sanity.
"We'll get past your disease Rei." Minako smiled slightly and ran a hand through Rei's silky hair, then winked. "We have luck on our side, remember?"
Rei smiled briefly before nodded. She had wanted to sit up and take her obviously emotionally drained love into herp arms too, but the wiring from the machines that she was connected to prevented her from doing so. "Yeah, I know we do."
Both Grandpa and Eri appeared to be wholly perplexed by the inside joke, with the latter's head cocked to the left. Grandpa went to open his mouth to say something, but was effectively cut off by an unfamiliar male speaker.
"Princess Mina of Venus—no, Ms. Aino Minako—I believe you have something that belongs to us," the stranger began smooth and darkly. "Something that belongs to my mistress."
"What does she have?" Rei raised a brow. She had every nerve in her body screaming to transform, or at least get all of her loved ones out of future harm's way. Unfortunately she couldn't, of course, since she was hook up to all the machinery; it was a fact that she hated and wished she could eliminate right then and there.
"Princess Riko," he said, now dropping all use of their current name in favor of their past identities. "She has one thing that had never been hers and belongs to my Queen Mio: your heart."
"Who the hell do you think you are?" Rei ordered as Minako immediately went on the defense, Grandpa passed out, and a terrified Eri hid behind her standing mother's leg in pure immense fear.
"I am Andradite," the stranger finally announced in introduction. "The servant of Queen Mio and the Final General the Dark Kingdom. My Queen wants Mars as her bride, and I plan on going through with that request, only after I kill you Venus!."
"No!" Minako frowned and shook her head furiously, not caring who was in the room anymore, but for her wife's wellbeing and safety instead. "I won't ever force anyone to love another, but I won't let you take Rei! Venus Crystal Power, Make-Up!"
Eri stared in awe at her mother, then she grinned. "Mommy is . . . Sailor Venus? This is so cool!"
"Bravo," Andradite said as he clapped slowly in a mocking manner. "Now where's the really Sailor Soldier I came to exterminate?"
"You Youma are disgusting!" Sailor Venus glared. "I am the Soldier of Love and Hope, Sailor Venus has arrived! Venus Love and Beauty Shock!"
"No seriously, where's the actual warrior—" Andradite was cut off, being forced to dodge the attack his ally deployed. He didn't exactly come out perfectly fine either, as he had a decent sized and deep cut that ran across his arm that had to be very painful, if not excruciatingly such. "Damn it, you fucking Venusian bitch! Dark Rebellion!"
The energy hit Venus's chest dead-center, sending her flying into the white wall with a loud and painful boom.
"No one calls Mommy names!" Eri's shouted before a mark—which looked like a black symbol of Venus, only with an arrow from the symbol of Mars sticking out from its top right corner—began to gleam on her forehead. "And no one hurts her!"
Suddenly, a red light bathed the room and Eri stood in a sailor uniform; it looked as if it were a super form and it consisted of it black stone in her golden Sailor Soldier Tiara, red theme, and black, ribbons, brooch and heeled-shoes that were identical to Sailor Venus' former ones. "M-mommy, what happened to me?"
"No way," Rei started, her eyes widening. "Eri's a Sailor Soldier too?"
Venus smiled briefly at her daughter and stood up, albeit weakly. "You're a Sailor Soldier like me, Eri; I'm so proud." And so worried, she added mentally.
A dark energy began filling the room and enveloping Rei until a woman stood leaning over her with a dark wicked a lustful expression. Her long nails raked Rei's face in a possessive caress, but she merely attempted to spit to the strange woman's face, being unable to do anything else.
"Queen Mio," Andradite sputtered, obviously shocked by her sudden appearance. "I was just about to finish to Venusian whore before you arrived."
"Very well, do it." Mio smirked, moving away from Rei and gravitating towards her general as she did so. "And make sure it's very painful and slow . . . " Her smile turned sadistic. " . . . And get what human's call popcorn!"
Andradite lowered his head in a standing bow, placing a fist over his heart as if he were pledging his life as an allegiance to another. "As always, my beautiful mistress."
Out of nowhere, a white cat with brilliant sky blue eyes appeared. "Now, we can't allow this! Sailor Eros, shout, "Eros Resistant Charm" along with Lady Venus' attack!"
"That's my name . . . Sailor Eros?" Sailor Eros questioned before raising her chubby arms. "Take this you meanies: Eros Resistant Charm!"
"Agreed! Once again, Venus Love and Beauty Shock!" Venus shouted. The red beam that came from Eros mingled with her golden attack as it hit their enemies, effectively disintegrating them—so that they were nothing more than golden sand—on the spot.
Venus' head turned to study her surroundings. The place was shouldered and there was no current sign of Mio, Andradite, or the mysterious cat located in the premise, and fir that, she was immensely relieved by the revelation; everyone was safe, for now, at least.
Rei tried to sit up once again, but was held back by the many resilient wires. "Took you long enough to finish," she grumbled. "My "Mars Flame Sniper" attack would've finished Mio and Andradite quickly."
"So cruel Rei!" Venus stuck her tongue out at her lover, very un-soldier like. "I happen to be just be rusty, thank you!"
"Wait, Mama's a Sailor Soldier too?" Eros mumbled before falling unconscious and de-transforming back into her civilian identity, Hino Eri.
"What did we miss guys?" Usagi, Ami, and Makoto cried as they came barreling into the small room. "Seriously, what'd we miss?"
"Little late everyone," Rei said unenthusiastically. "Where the hell was everyone while Mina and Eri defeated the enemy."
"No seriously—" Makoto eyes suddenly went bug-eyes. "Wait, did you just say Eri helped you defeat the enemy?"
Venus perspired nervously and rubbed the back of her neck, giggling nervously. "Uh, it's a really, really, long story."
They believe that everything is at peace there, she mused silently. Of course, they have no idea on how incorrect and ignorant they are.
In a void surrounding by white fog and tiled floors, a tall shadowed figure smiled at the scene with the three Sailor Soldiers that was unfolding in front of her. "Finally," the figure spoke. "You have awakened, Sailor Eros. Our princess and allies await you eagerly."
A/N: So the cliff-hanger of sorts gave it away, I'm sure. I am indeed attempting to work on a companion piece to this oneshot, as I want to explore Eri's character and fate as Sailor Eros a little bit. In other news, I bet you guys didn't think I could cuss a lot, did you? Well, I can, and plan on seeing some antagonists in my future stories to do that a lot.
-I also wanted to give some credit to the author, Gemna, since their PGSM story, Unexpected, really influenced this story.
-Fun Fact: 433 Eros is an actual asteroid located God-knows-where in outer space. I chose it mainly because of mythological reasons, rather than its location option. If that were the case, I would've chosen the star Regulus, which is located cared in between planets Mars and Venus. The Star Walk app is truly amazing.
-Adradite is a real thing too, as it is an existing gemstone. Much like 433 Eros, I am rather ignorant about the subject at hand, and I only chose it to keep up with Takeuchi-sama's gemstone theme in all of the adaptations and also the name sounded cool. Just like Star Walk, the Internet is amazing as well.
Oh yeah, and please don't forget to rate and review! Reviews...I really like them...