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"Who are you and what do you want?" Sailor Moon yelled at the man. He was handsome but she didn't care what they looked like. Evil was evil. The man had long black hair tied in to a ponytail at the nape of his neck. He was darker… more Amazonian looking. He had tattoos that covered his exposed arms.
He laughed evilly. "I am Archelion, third warrior to our great king."
"And what is it you want!" Sailor Moon said impatiently. Venus on her right and Mars on her left.
"I've been watching you fight my beasts. They are … just a warm up. Just to collect energy for what my real goal is… but you are getting in my way so it is time I kill you." He laughed again.
He pushed out his hands and pushed dark energy toward the three senshi. They easily put up a shield with their last power up.
Archelion raged as the girls smirked.
Sailor Moon pulled out her moon rod and started the incantation but Archelion was having none of that, instead he threw down ten metal balls. They landed on the ground in clink, clink, clinks all around them. Then an explosion happened as the beasts emerged from the eggs.
"Split up!" Venus yelled. "Three each and then an extra!"
"GOT IT!" Moon and Rei yelled.
The battle went on as each senshi called on their attacks. Their power ups, as discovered earlier, could destroy these monsters after a few good hits. But the little fuckers, as Rei called them, were quick so all attacks had to be spot on. A lot of hand to hand combat was used resulting in more injuries than necessary. There was only two left. Mars was battling one, it had her around the waist, it's claws digging in to her side, beginning to break the flesh. Sailor Moon kicked it in the face getting it off of her friend and Venus had the other with her chain around it's neck. It was dusted.
The beast that Moon had kicked was back up and ready. Spouting its thread from it's mouth. Moon jumped on Mars to stop a direct hit and they rolled. Venus was running to them to help but the damn thing jumped up, it's target Moon. It stuck its claws in to her shoulder and proceeded to pull them down her back.
She screamed out in pain. This was deeper than all of the times before. She could feel the air on her and she knew muscle was exposed. She felt light headed swaying on her feet.
She heard the distinct sound of the beast exploding in to nothing. Her feet couldn't hold her through the pain, the thought of seeing her back opened and the blood loss. She fell to her knees. Mars and Venus at their princesses side helping to lift her. She had to help the people though. They were more important than she was.
She pulled the rod and yelled out, allowing the crystal to heal those attacked.
She saw spots, her vision blurred and then she threw up. Grilled meat and beer everywhere. So much for her date.
"We need to get her to a doctor." Mars said quickly.
"Dr. Mizuno?" Venus asked.
"No…noooo. I haven't…." Moon breathed.
"Hospital." Venus and Mars said in unison.
"No…oooo cameras…" Moon said feeling weak. Jupiter was not here to shut them down and if anyone came in with these wounds they would know.
"Dr. Mizuno it is then. Call Artemis sama and have him meet us. He needs to help us take her now." Venus demanded.
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Artemis transported them in to the kitchen of the Mizuno penthouse. Artemis held his daughter as blood stained his white robes. He had managed to stop a lot of the bleeding but not all of it. Cuts could cause infection even if the girls never got sick. Anything could be in a wound that deep.
"Hold her up… I will go get her…" Artemis said authority in his voice.
He paced down the hall in to the familiar house.
A short scream echoed down the hallway.
"Ami! It's me. Artemis." He said calmly.
"Oh my gods you scared me." Ami caught her breath. "What? What are you doing here?"
"Your mother. I need your mother, please." Artemis explained pathetically.
Ami looked confused. "Why?" Then she saw the blood on him and her face went white.
"It's urgent. Please!"
"What's going on out here?" Dr. Mizuno said coming out of her room wrapping a robe around herself.
"Nami san. Please, I need your help." And his insignia flashed and gave her back her memories. He didn't have time for this.
"Oh! Gods, Artemis. What happened?" She said running to get her bag.
"Beast got Serenity. Right through the muscle. I stopped what bleeding I could but…."
"Take me to her."
Rei and Mina laid Usagi face down on the table. She was de-transformed, her beautiful dress soaked in blood.
Dr. Mizuno wasted no time. She took scissors carefully out of her bag and cut away the dress.
"Usagi? Tell me. What is your pain level?" Dr. Mizuno said as she started to clean the wounds.
"Astronomical." She breathed.
"Ami. Help me. Start and IV, flush it with saline and the 5mg of morphine." Dr. Mizuno said working quickly. "Put it in her hand."
"Ami, I… sorry." Usagi breathed out. But Ami didn't have her memories back and she didn't understand. She was holding back tears telling herself this is what it would be like to work in a hospital.
"Done." Ami said staying firm after she had the IV in her friends arm.
"Usagi? Can you feel the medication?" Dr. Mizuno asked her.
She nodded pathetically.
"Ami! Don't lose focus. I have cleaned the wound. Whatever the youma was that got her… we have to stitch these. Usagi is healing only fast enough to clot correctly. See where the marks went to the bone?" Dr. Mizuno pointed to her daughter.
Ami nodded.
"It's healed but not as fast as it normally does. I am going to sterry strip the ends and see how many fuse themselves and start on the biggest laceration right here." She told her daughter pointing.
"As I watch this, someone better start talking." Ami snapped.
"Whoa! Ames… it's pretty obvious." Rei told her as she grabbed a cloth to clean the blood off Usagi.
"No! It's not pretty obvious! Artemis materializes in our house with all of you… and my mom is prepared with her own freaking hospital!" Ami was panting with the effort of trying to control her emotions and keep attention to the work her mother was doing.
"Ami… Usagi is Sailor Moon." Artemis told her softly.
"What! No that's not possible." Ami said her eyes tearing away from the bloody mess of Usagi's back.
"It's true and Ami… you are Sailor Mercury." He said… his insignia flashing.
She breathed in deeply as the memories flooded her.
"I don't understand… we died. We all died." Ami said frantic. Dr. Mizuno stopped stitching and looked at Artemis… her eyes wide and afraid.
Artemis knew how she felt. She had a daughter who was supernatural.
"How are we alive?" Ami blathered out. "I was stabbed… through the stomach."
Artemis gulped. "You must have been one of the deaths where Serenity's mouth flowed blood." He said more to himself but everyone heard.
"WHAT! Wait what!" Ami said holding her stomach. "What?"
"A wish… I made a wish…" Usagi said high on medication. "For everyone to live… normal. Penance. I died."
"What she is saying… she relived every death to bring you all back." Minako told her.
Ami stumbled back her hand on her mouth. "Oh god! Oh god!" She fell to her knees.
"It's okay. I love you. We can take this away… we can do it. You…" She was super high now. "Can be free. Be normal."
"You stupid girl! We are your guard!" Tears flowed from Ami's blue orbs.
She looked at Minako. "Why are you here! Why are you both here! This has been going on for months of her being alone! How do you know! How!" Ami yelled at her leader.
Minako looked away. "Pluto saved her after a battle. The night everyone was over and I stepped out to talk to Usagi… I was really going to the roof. She told me then. She couldn't do it alone anymore."
"And you Rei!"
"I saw a vision." She told her ashamed.
"Ami…." Usagi said moving her arm to her back where the Dr. was stitching. She grabbed the blue pen and held it out.
"I won't stop you…" Usagi said softly.
Ami snatched it up. "I won't hesitate with my duty! And what am I supposed to do when you re-live my death!" She snapped.
"Be free and live happy." And then Usagi passed out.
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Minako and Rei walked in to the apartment super late. It was after four in the morning and they were burnt out.
"God. I am so tired. I need sleep." Minako whined.
"Shit. I forgot how hard this is… poor Usa." Rei said slipping out of her shoes.
"No shit and now Ami."
"Now Ami what?" A light flicked on. Jadeite and Kunzite were sitting in the living room.
The girls stepped back, deer in the headlights.
"What the hell are you doing?" Rei snapped annoyed.
"Now Ami what? Poor Usa what." Kunzite said in a deadly calm voice.
Minako just looked at him.
"Are you going to answer?" He asked his temper rising.
"Freaking Hanami! Stupid Bakas! We have been doing stuff at the shine because I was behind for the festival. Usagi and Ami stayed." Rei yelled at them.
"Now we are going to bed." Minako said stomping off.
"Stupid boys, sitting up like we are up to no good." Mina hissed to Rei as they walked down the hallway.
"Text Ami and Usagi now." Rei hissed low.
Once they heard door close Jadeite texted Mamoru.
"Well at least they are not Yakuza." He said and Kunzite threw a pillow at him.
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Usagi turned in apartment bed. Her back was killing her. The stitches pulling. She looked around. Her phone and a note from her father were on the nightstand.
Sere,
Mamoru has called you at least 50 times. He is very upset. Call him. I told him you were okay. Stayed at a hotel. Check Rei's messages first.
Otou
She groaned and looked at her phone. Try sixty times from Mamoru.
She slowly stood up. Her back burned. There must have been some sort of venom on these claws for her not to heal right away.
She walked in to the bathroom wiping sleep from her eyes. Her phone rang and she saw it was Mamoru. Again.
She didn't know what to say to him. She was upset with him. She knew it was partially her fault that things were strained right now… but she was always there for him. She did so much for him and she honestly couldn't think of the last thing he did for her aside from being more than generous in the bedroom. Was that really for her? She was beginning to doubt her marriage. She was Sailor Moon but she always made time. Didn't she?
No, this was their first argument... Well first argument since they had been home. And she was lying to him. More like keeping a huge secret.
She took off her underwear and got in the shower.
Should she see what he did? See if he tried to make it up to her? Was she looking for a reason to leave Mamoru? She scrolled through Rei's messages once she had toweled off.
No, she loved him but did he love her? Does sixty-one phone calls count as love?
She opened her link and sent love through it. She felt relaxed and it must have been Mamoru knowing that she was okay.
Her phone rang again and this time she answered.
"Usako." His voice came through the phone like a lifeline. She loved him too much.
"Mamoru." She said softly.
"Where are you?" He asked his voice soft, not angry like she anticipated.
"A hotel." She told him. A lie.
The line went silent for a moment.
"Why didn't you stay at the temple?" He asked.
"Because you would come looking for me there." It was a shit excuse but it was believable. He had done that before.
"You could have come home." It was a statement and she heard the hurt in his voice.
She didn't say anything.
"Come home." He said in a begging tone.
She dropped her robe and looked at the stitches in her back. The four long black lines that extended from shoulder blade to tail bone.
"Mamoru, you didn't even notice I was gone last night why does it matter now?" She said regretting every word.
"Usako…" She could hear the regret in his tone.
She sighed.
"I will see you tonight."
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After Archelion appeared and gave them some information it was time to rally. Usagi told Makoto, Haruka and Micharu in the temple the next day. Needless to say it well as expected.
So needless to say, it went badly. Usagi pointed out that by her working alone it allowed Makoto to have her bakery, Haruka to win like 3 races and Micharu to start a new tour.
It didn't work. Usagi, Rei and Mina had been given the silent treatment for a week. Usagi was surprised it had lasted that long. Mamoru and her relationship was mostly the same. He had a full summer schedule. Summer A,B and C. Seventeen hours each. In addition to her own school work, her alter ego and trying to be the most supportive wife on the planet was becoming tiring. By the time Summer B rolled around Mamoru had begun to pay less and less attention to her. His lack of sleep and stress making him slightly irritated toward his wife but he loved showing her off and he was proving it.
Mamoru had dragged her to another event. Maybe the tenth one this summer. She played her part, the doting wife. She charmed the pants off everyone and she was starting to feel more like arm candy than a wife. Mamoru doted less on her at home but at these events he was more than happy to be with her. She stood by as he chatted with doctors from all over the country. He had only just been accepted in to Medical school finishing his pre-reqs and here he was smoozing. It was almost as if everyone knew he was the prince of earth. Her phone vibrated in her subspace pocket and she excused herself to the bathroom.
The attacks had become worse, as promised. Archelion was a regular at pissing her off and now he had a new friend Genesis. Second warrior to some great king that they never gave a name too. He was also hot. And annoying. He was built just like Archelion, had tribal tattoos like him but his hair was blond and cropped short.
They were also looking for something. Something that these beasts were trying to sniff out in addition to stealing power from innocents. They only mentioned it once but it was some sort of powerful key to open Selene knows what.
So Usagi found herself, yet again, going in to a battle. Except this was the first time she was happy to go as she wanted away from this stupid event.
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Mamoru looked everywhere for Usagi. The dean of the college was speaking with him and he felt confident with Usagi by his side. She was his rock and he adored every inch of her. He hated these events but he knew it was good for his career. He knew he could rely on her confidence to feed his own. Mamoru had never been shy, per say, but he did have a cold exterior and Usagi helped others see past that. She made him a better person and now he was missing his person.
Forty-five minutes had passed and he had not seen Usagi. He was growing irritated at her disappearing but even more so because he needed her.
Her saw her beautiful form coming in from the double doors of the hotel lobby and he walked toward her.
"Mamo chan." she said when she looked at his face.
He put his hand on her back and led her back outside.
"Where have you been?" He asked her once they were out of prying eyes.
"I didn't feel well so I went to get some Tylenol."
He looked at her and she didn't look like she felt well at all.
"I wanted to introduce you to the dean. He wanted to meet you after hearing so much about you and you just disappeared." He snapped at her. He didn't mean to he was just sick of her leaving.
"I am sorry. You were occupied and I didn't want to disturb you." She said her brow creasing.
"You know; I really need you at these things. You can't just keep disappearing. These events are important that we are seen together." He told her like a father would to a child.
She took a step back from him glaring. "I am leaving, Mamoru." She told him turning to walk away.
"Now where are you going!" He asked her super frustrated.
"Away before I say something I regret." She told him as he was keeping at her pace, crossing the street from the hotel they were at.
She was shaking she was so mad. Her body hurt from getting slammed in to a building. Her head throbbed and she still came back to be supportive. He didn't even ask if she was okay. He was back to being his cold heartless self. That Baka.
"Usagi!" Mamoru yelled at her as she walked faster. Her anger rolling off her in hot waves.
She ignored him so he grabbed her arm pulling her off the sidewalk and in to an alley.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" She could see on his face he didn't understand whatw as happening right now.
"What am I to you, Mamoru?" She asked him, her hands at her side, her eyes looking up at him.
"My wife."
"And as your wife am I not living up to your expectation? Have I not gone to every event with a smile? Been supportive? Stayed by your side as you speak with people about things I know nothing of? I leave one time because I don't feel well and I get a lecture?"
She saw his jaw clench and she knew what he was thinking.
"Your right. It's not the right time. So maybe you shouldn't ask me what the hell is wrong with me if you don't want to hear it." She snapped and for a brief moment her weariness caused her to drop the glamour. Mamoru stepped back catching a glimpse of his wife's beautiful face bruised, a small cut on her cheek. Usagi quickly pulled it back up. She left, leaving him in the alley. Mamoru was unsure of what he had just seen but he shook his head and headed back to the event.
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Usagi woke at 3:30 like normal. She was back to being a machine and now being a wife was just another part. Mamoru was wrapped around her as habitual. She didn't even hear him come in last night. She made her way to the gym as usual her head about to burst from this new enemy.
Training was… draining and she was just feeling miserable.
"Serenity?" Diamond asked her.
"Hum." She said after practice bandaging a cut on her thigh.
"Are you okay?"
She looked up in to his violet eyes. She saw the worry and concern there. She wanted to cry from his tenderness but all she could do was shrug.
He nodded.
"Go get dressed and we will go to breakfast." He smiled at her. And she gave him a half smile. Food always made her feel better.
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Usagi came down for breakfast the next day. She had not talked to Mamoru nor had he spoken to her. Granted he was busy, as usual, and truthfully she was avoiding him.
She went and got a cup of coffee noticing that the breakfast table was quiet and everyone was looking at her.
"Uhhh good morning?" She asked confused looking at every one's faces.
Hina looked worried, Shingo looked accusatory, her father looked sad, Totomi was looking at Mamoru… and Mamoru looked furious. She looked out the window and she saw it. The billowing clouds.
Damn it.
She sat down sipping her coffee just waiting for what she had done now.
Mamoru threw the paper in front of her.
"Want to explain that, Usako?" He practically growled at her.
It was a picture of Diamond and her at breakfast yesterday. The title 'Back On?'
'Diamond Black was seen with Serenity Tsukino yesterday at Lulu's café having breakfast. Black and Tsukino were seen together six months ago and the two have not been spotted since. Rumor was Tsukino had married but that doesn't seem to be true. Are Black and Tsukino back on? The combination of Heiress Tsukino and Multi-Millionaire Black would make for some major wedding bells.
Her eyebrows rose.
"So what? We had breakfast. We are friends you know that. I can call the paper and have them retract it." She put the paper down wishing he would have spoken about privately. She was remaining calm. Queenly calm.
"Why are you having breakfast with another man?" He inquired. His tone smooth but his eyes were a storm.
"I saw him running. We had breakfast. I would have told you but I didn't speak with you yesterday." For good reason. Diamond knew she was upset and had been upset for a few weeks now, but did Mamoru notice? Nope.
Her brow furrowed looking at the paper, re reading something that had bothered her. Rumor was Tsukino had married but that doesn't seem to be true.
"This is very poor journalism anyway. They should know we are married had they did the paper work properly. Someone will get fired for this." She looked at her father who agreed.
Her eyes went to Mamoru's who went from fury to… unease.
Hina made a choking noise and Usagi turned to see if she was okay but her eyes were on her son. Hina's face was 'red and anxious' which Usagi called the 'pissed at Mamoru face'.
"What's going on?" She asked watching the stare off between mother and son.
"Just tell her, Mamoru." Hina said shaking her head at her son.
She looked at Mamoru.
"Tell me what?" She asked him setting her coffee down.
He narrowed his eyes at his mother.
She felt her heart beating fast. "Tell me what!" She said again more irritated.
"He hasn't put you on the family registry so technically you're not married." Shingo said quickly standing up and running from the room.
Her breathing came fast.
"Is that true, Mamo chan?" Her chest hurt.
He looked down. "I meant to… I just haven't had time."
"Haven't had time?" She snapped her jaw shut.
Artemis and Tomomi stood and left the dining room as discretely as they could.
Hina stood and threw her napkin at her son.
"I forgot." He told her and he wouldn't meet her eye.
Her mouth popped open. "You… Chiba Mamoru forgot? Mr. I don't forget anything forgot to put me on your family registry!" Her voice was escalating with her anger.
"Usako…" He watched as her eyes went wide with what she assumed was the reason.
"You didn't put me on the registry on purpose. I know you well enough to know you would never have forgotten to do that."
"It's not like that!" He tried to defend.
She stood up. It was like confirmation to her worst fear. Mamoru didn't love Usagi. It was always Endymion.
Always Endymion.
She felt sick. The three sips of coffee wanting to come back up. She held it back but she didn't hold back her fury.
"Gods I knew it! You are an asshole Chiba Mamoru and I am so sick of being a second class citizen to you unless you need something from me. You know what… I think that we need time apart. Don't file the damn paperwork." She told him running upstairs at Senshi speed locking the door and putting a shield on it.
The tears came fast and furious. Her lip trembled. Mamoru banged on the door. She grabbed a bag for show but threw all of her stuff in to her subspace pocket. She honestly couldn't remember the last thing he did for her. She was getting her ass kicked every single day so he could live a normal life and be happy and she was miserable. Maybe it was her fault for not bringing Endymion's memories back. Maybe it was better this way because he would leave her once he knew. He wouldn't want this life of hers when he was already so selfish.
"USAKO! OPEN THE DOOR!" He bellowed.
But no one else had their memories and they were just fine. Happy and in love. She felt like the little girl trying to give Mamoru a love note that he refused to take. She didn't expect him to dote on her all the time just recognize her feelings.
She squared her shoulders and opened the door. She didn't even look at Mamoru as she tried to pass him.
"Don't leave, Usako." He told her trying to stand in her way. "I will do it Monday."
She glared at him. "We have been married for almost six months, Chiba. Six months and the one thing… the one thing that meant the most to me about us… knowing I had finally had you forever. Knowing that I finally got you is a lie! Maybe you are doing both of us a favor."
"What does that mean!" He yelled at her slowly pushing her back in to their room.
"Exactly what I said. Maybe it just isn't meant to be… I can't keep doing this with you. Constantly getting my love thrown in my face by you. I can't take it."
"I love you! You know I love you!" He told her trying to grab at her but she pushed away.
"I think that because I put up with your behavior… you think it's okay and it's not. You know nothing about my life. You only know what I do for you. You never even ask me about work. Where I go at 3:30am every morning. You only care when I disappear when it's inconvenient for you. Our whole relationship has always been about what you want!"
"That's not true!" He tried to conveyed to her. "I do care about everything you do. I just get busy…"
"I am busy too but I still make time for anything you want! Everything Mamoru wants! You still haven't even tried to take me out again after our last date. You knew…" She choked back a sob.
"I should have gone with my gut when you asked my father if you could marry me. I shouldn't have given in after I told you no."
His face contorted. "You didn't tell me no. You said yes…"
Her eyes went wide. She had just made a very big mistake.
"Usako…"
"I should have said no." She backtracked.
"That's not what you said! You just said that you told me no! That isn't what happened. You told me yes and you were ecstatic."
Mamoru grabbed his head at a vision of Usagi telling him that she wouldn't marry him. The anger he felt at her words mimicked the feelings he had toward his happy memory of her saying yes. The frustration, anger and self-loathing all came back to him.
"What was that…" He said to himself.
"I am leaving. We just need time apart. You need to figure out if you even want a wife because I can't keep playing second fiddle to everyone."
"What do you mean second fiddle? You are my life! My love!"
"Really? You couldn't even file a marriage registration to try and keep me. So be single. Sorry I can't accompany you to meet and greets anymore. I am sure someone will fill my shoes soon. You always managed to do that in a past." She opened the door and walked out slamming it behind her.
"Usagi! Don't leave… please!" Hina cried.
"I am sorry. I am so sorry. I love him but I just… he can't keep doing this to me, Okasan." She patted her on the shoulder and walked out the front door.
Her father was already waiting and he teleported her to the apartment where she broke down in sobs.
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Mamoru punched a hole in the wall. She was gone. Gone before he could even open the door. He had no clue how she did that. He ran his hands threw his hair over and over again. She was right. He was a first class asshole. He loved her. He was having a hard time breathing without her.
He was trying to focus on the vision he had. Being in the living room and Usagi setting her chin… He was holding on to her wrist or was it her hand.
"I am not going to marry you, Mamoru. I do not want to marry you. I do not even want to be on the same planet as you." Usagi said tugging at her wrist. He finally freed it in shock.
Unlike his other memories this one was clear and not hazy.
He was shocked at her telling him no...
Usagi and all of her secrets. He was going to find her and demand the truth. He was going to prove to her that she meant just as much to him.
Author's Note.- It's 2:40am here and I am finally posting this… that's love all for you all.
So… before everyone is so I hate Mamoru we have to remember a few things about him.
He is in med school. Being married during med school is super hard.
Usagi is lying to him A LOT and to top it all off he has these fuzzy fake memories. When she acts strange and he tried to recall a memory it's like murky water. Hurts him to look too hard. He is in med school he doesn't need murky thoughts so he focuses on what he knows.
I know it's stupid but he uses the events to be with Usagi. It's not stated but it Mamoru for Selene's sake. He likes to watch her in her element and he likes who he is when he is with her. Because HE IS Endymion and it's natural to him but he doesn't know why so he think's it is due to him being socially awkward.
So about the family registry stuff…. That's from it started with a kiss. Naoki is a super douche and doesn't add her for some really stupid reason. Therefore; Mamoru has a really stupid reason. He actually did forget. WOW. I KNOW!
Drop me a Review! I love them especially the sweet ones. You all know who you are.
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