Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon or its characters.
AN: Yes there is still sailor moon and the senshi, and I added a fun twist to Usagi's personality. Inspired by my aunt.
Summary: After Mamoru and Usagi have a huge fight, Usagi gets into a car accident. She wakes up days later and doesn't know who Mamoru or the Girls are. She doesn't know what Sailor Moon is or what it means and she thinks she's getting married to Motoki. With a new evil approaching can the Senshi get back their leader and princess or have they lost her forever?
Dedicated to: My mother, who has gone through so much just for her kids, and I want her to know I love and appreciate everything she has done for all of us.
"Wake up!" Rei's voice had Usagi cringing in pain at its incredibly high pitch. Rei had somehow found her way into Usagi's apartment although Usagi suspected the key Motoki had, was the culprit. "USAGI!" she called again, this time however something heavy landed near the vicinity of her head making Usagi jump up, turning to her pillow she looked into the menacing front cover of her Business and Finance text book. She turned back to Rei horrified.
"You…My own friend…" her hand comically positioned itself over her heart. "I can't believe you want me to study! How could you!" the dramatic voice she spoke in had Rei twitching in annoyance. Rei had spent the better half of the morning trying to wake Usagi up and it had been an almost impossible mission.
"Will you get off your ass already?" Rei barked, her arms crossed over her chest to show her impatience. Usagi raised her hand up telling Rei to hold up a moment. She went through her morning routine: stretching from her place in bed, rubbing her eyes and then taking a deep breath, preparing herself…when her feet touched the ground like every morning she doubled over in pain. Every day since she woke up the mornings had been hell. At first it had been terrifying but after almost a month it became part of her daily routine.
"Usagi, what is it." Rei asked alarmed moving quickly to take Usagi by the arm as the younger woman held onto her tightly. Her eyes searching the pained expression on Usagi's face, trying to find what was wrong, what is was that ailed her friend.
"I'm fine." Usagi gasped. "It's gone." She gently stood up straight, wiping the sweat from her forehead as if it was something completely natural; Rei however, wasn't in the least bit happy.
"You need to go to the hospital"
"No!" Usagi held onto Rei who had turned into a busy body and was already dialing Dr. Mizuno's number. "No, Rei I've already gone to the doctor for this."
"Clearly whatever they did didn't work." Rei protested but Usagi held her arm still.
"It's nothing life threatening." Usagi began to explain. "The doctor that examined me while Dr. Mizuno was out said that my body must of experienced a very serious trauma during the accident." She let go of Rei and smiled. "It's like when the body recovers from a serious injury, the body will always remember the pain and copy that pain reenacting the experience."
"What's that got to do with anything?" Rei asked still very alarmed.
"During the accident Rei, after I managed to get the man out of the car, around the time of the explosion I was hit by some debris in the abdomen, I doubled over in pain just like I did now, but I was mortified for some reason, it was more like a protective pain than anything else."
"What do you mean?"
"I don't know I can't really remember, I blacked out around that time." Usagi said with a shrug, walking into the bathroom leaving the door open so that she could continue talking with Rei while enjoying the sweet release of urine from her body. She thanked the lord for such amazing pleasures. "But the doctor said that my body would continue to feel this pain until I confronted the trauma, like I was refusing to accept whatever happened, therefore I would mimic certain things."
"Mimic what?" Usagi walked out as Rei asked this question.
"I have no idea but he did start asking some weird questions." Usagi walked into her closet, Rei following behind her. Watching as her friend looked through her garments trying to find something decent.
"What questions?" Rei asked while swatting Usagi's hand away from an incredibly tacky shirt that Rei had no idea why Usagi owned it. Usagi gave her an annoyed glance and proceeded to search her closet.
"If I was eating more than usual; was I ever nauseas or dizzy, did I crave certain things, had the sensitivity in my breast changed; if I had mood swings." Usagi chose a cute white dress which Rei was now looking to find the perfect matching shoes for. "It was like he was asking me if I was on a perpetual PMS." Rei stopped moving, her heart racing quickly for some reason.
"Did you do any tests?" She asked quietly.
"Yeah, he found some scarring along the line of my uterus." Usagi walked outside, taking her clothes off and placing on a strapless bra she had taken from one of her drawers. When Rei walked out she noticed a small healing scar on the side of her belly.
"Is that where the debris hit you?" Rei asked placing down pink flats, deciding she thought Usagi looked best with the innocent appearance. Usagi looked down at her belly, a troubled expression crossing her features. She touched the scar, feeling her heart stop a second. She hugged her stomach for some reason. "What's wrong?" Rei asked.
Usagi laughed at Rei's question, Confused with her own actions. "I don't know" She unconsciously caressed her belly. "I feel like I forgot something really important." She shrugged, releasing her arms and getting dressed. "I'll remember eventually right." Rei didn't know why but she felt uneasy, she was suddenly remembering something Usagi had said a day before the accident.
'After my date with Mamoru, we all need to talk…its very important'
Usagi had said that with a bright and happy smile on her face. The girls had been excited to know what important news Usagi had to tell them, but she never got the chance. Now for some reason Rei feared the news her friend had been so eager to tell them back then.
'Somehow…I do not like where my thoughts are taking me' Rei thought as she watched Usagi get dressed, her transformation broach hanging innocently from her neck.
"Where are we going again?" Usagi asked as she zipped up the side of her dress, her eyes scanning for the hairbrush which she was sure she had left somewhere on the night table. Rei found herself stumbling out of her own thoughts and turning to Usagi with an uneasy look in her eyes.
"The DMV" she said absent mindedly receiving a very confused look from her blonde friend who stopped looking for her brush for just a second.
"Why?"
"Because you lost your ID in the accident, remember." Rei stated as if it were the most obvious thing. Usagi had this 'what the heck' look on her face.
"So why has it taken nearly two months to get this done?" Finally she found the damn brush hidden between her pillows…although how it got there; Usagi was still trying to solve that particular mystery.
"Because you're an air head." Rei's voice was dripping in sarcasm but Usagi was far too happy with having found that confound brush to really care about the tone of Rei's voice, brushing her hair contently.
"I feel like that should have insulted me." She joked as she walked over to one of her night tables and opening a drawer. "Now I need all that stupid information." She muttered as she continued to brush her hair while rummaging through all the papers in her drawer. Rei watched her, silently rolling her eyes as she complained in an almost inaudible level…almost.
Usagi had to put the brush down, annoyed with herself for not being able to find the papers she needed. Closing the top drawer she headed for the middle drawer. She remembered the papers were in one of these drawers. She clicked her tongue in annoyance shutting the second drawer and practically flinging the third one open. All train of thought; however, stopped when she opened that drawer. Her eyes staring down at the small picture; she felt her body go cold and her heart stop, slowly reaching out and taking hold of the picture.
It was dated back three months; she felt a shaky breath escape her barely opened lips. Her eyes wide with shock, her mind screaming in denial at what she had found. A Sonogram; she felt the tears escape as her hand rushed to her mouth. This wasn't real it couldn't possibly be real. Yet something inside of Usagi shattered, making her lose her composure and self-control, entering quickly into a state of hysteria that had her body trembling violently.
There was a name written on the side of the picture in her hand writing. 'Chibi-Usa' silent tears escaped her as the image of a beautiful pink haired little girl came rushing with memories into her mind. The feel of her warm soft body, the joy of her laughter, the playfulness in her eyes and the love she was surrounded by. She heard her voice.
'Try one of your cookies and then try one of mine'
'You're late!'
'How is it I'm more mature than you! You're supposed to be the mom!'
She heard flashes and saw faces and memories. Setsuna's voice and image came into her mind as she remembered a particular time.
'She's your daughter Usagi, from the future'
Memories stormed her mind like a wild hurricane had just gone loose in her head, parading her with showers of images that weren't there before sending her into a panicked frenzy of hysteria. She shook her head wildly, with each memory a wave of pain came crashing against her. She fell to her knees, her free hand pressing the picture to her stomach as she cried.
"No!" she cried out, Rei alarmed was at her side instantly. She trembled furiously in Rei's arms. "Oh God no!" her voice was hysterical, the images kept coming each one sending her further over the edge, pushing her further to that place that bordered insanity.
"Usagi! What's wrong! USAGI" Rei shook her but got no response, she hadn't even heard Rei.
"Oh God!" she cried out. "Chibi-Usa No!" she cried, this wasn't real; it couldn't be real. Without a word she ripped herself from Rei's arms and ran out of her apartment, she raced down the stairs and into the raining streets. Her heart and mind racing in unheard of velocities, she felt the cold hard pavement of the ground on her feet, felt the teasing feel of the rain on her skin; they were the tears of a child lost to destiny.
Rei ran out behind her, but she lost Usagi in the haze of the rain, cursing she took out her communicator, standing in the rain allowing it to soak her soul in its sorrow. She opened it up, using it as an intercom to call the other scouts. When they answered their expressions were worried.
"What's up Rei?" Makoto asked.
"Dude you're soaked!" Minako being captain obvious called out. Earning a glare from Rei that had her looking away from the screen.
"Meet me at the arcade." She said urgently, she clicked off the communication not waiting for the girls to respond. She looked down to her hand, she held the sonogram Usagi had dropped in her race out of the apartment, she felt her tears combine with the rain making it impossible to know if she was crying or not.
She had been right. Three months ago, the big news Usagi had for them, the big excitement in her eyes and voice, was the joy of knowing she held a child within her womb, a child that fate so carelessly disregarded; A child that was loved by all of them, a child that would no longer take part in their future.
"Oh Usagi." She sobbed
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Usagi found herself standing at the entrance of the hospital. She stood there looking into the building, watching the many faces that walked by and walked in. The rain fell harder onto her shoulders, dropping a large weight onto her that she didn't know was possible. All she could think about was her child, her baby girl. Chibi-Usa's face haunted her, leaving her in a state of lunacy, in a state of utter desperation. For whatever reason her mind still blocked from her, Chibi-Usa had come from the future, seeking help or what not. Setsuna being the strange woman she was allowed for her to travel through the rips of time and arrive in what back then was her present.
Usagi remembered that she had at first disguised herself as Usagi's cousin, but she eventually was discovered to be Usagi's future daughter with a man Usagi remembered as Endymion. His facial features were hidden from her view however; she knew she loved this man as well as loving that child with all of her life. But now, Endymion, whoever he was, was nowhere to be found and her child had been lost. What had gone wrong?
She didn't know how long she stood out in the rain, she didn't really care. The cold rain only served to remind her that it was all very real. She didn't hear Doctor Mizuno walk out, didn't hear her step out into the rain with her pattering umbrella. It wasn't until the rain had turned into soft pitter patters above her that she realized that she was longer beneath the rain but underneath the safety of her Doctor's umbrella. She didn't speak, she felt like an empty shell of a corpse with nothing left to live for. The tears she had been shedding finally visible, no longer did they camouflage with the rain.
"Usagi…" Dr. Mizuno began softly, she didn't reach out for the poor girl, knowing it wouldn't help her any. "Come inside…" she whispered sympathetically but Usagi shook her head, her eyes were desperately searching an answer.
"How far along…" she began her voice strained, she closed her eyes having difficulty forming the words. "How many…months." A sobbed escaped her, a silent sorrow filled cry. Dr. Mizuno starred at her, Rei had called her already, telling her of Usagi's findings. She had feared Usagi would enter into some kind of emotional breakdown when she found out.
"Four." She said. "Four months." Dr. Mizuno watched Usagi clench her fist tightly at her sides, she was trying to keep her cool. Four months…a child was still in its early developing stage but it still had a heartbeat. You could determine a child's gender at four months. Usagi opened her eyes slowly; she looked into the eyes of her doctor, stricken with pain.
"A baby…" she whispered. "I must have been so happy." She whispered, she watched her doctor smile at her sadly.
"Overjoyed."
"I asked you not to say anything, because I wanted to say it personally."
"Yes." Usagi nodded. "I'm so sorry Usagi, I should have told you." She began reaching out but Usagi moved back and out into the rain. "The injury you received at the time completely detached your uterus…you were bleeding out. I had to take her out."
"You were trying to protect me." She whispered, her eyes lost in some distant thought. "If I had known this before…I don't how I would have reacted." She coughed, the cold of the wind and rain combined with her tears were taking effect on her. She turned away from the doctor and began to walk away, letting her feet take her were they pleased, when the calling of her name got frantic she took off in a sprint. If there was anything in the world she wanted most, it was to be alone.
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Rei paced the floors of the nearly empty arcade frantically. Her phone clenched tightly in her hands, her heart beating fast. She didn't know how to tell them, she didn't know what to say; her heart had been broken into so many little pieces, her mind was scrabbled up with no coherent thoughts. She couldn't imagine what Usagi was possibly going through right now and frankly she didn't want to imagine that kind of pain.
The girls along with Mamoru and Motoki sat at the bar, each one wondering the same thing. What the hell was going on? No one really spoke, the pattering of the rain creating a soft melody for them setting a rather gloomy mood for everyone. When Rei's phone rang they watched her jump, she looked down almost terrified and hesitantly answered the call.
"Rei?"
"Oh God Usagi where are you?" So it was Usagi who had called Rei, but why was Rei so worried and anxious. Makoto stood up slowly walking towards Rei who looked like she was about to have some kind of emotional breakdown. Minako and Ami followed suit.
"Some place no one can find me…"
"Usagi come to the arcade…"Rei tried to convince her, she needed to see Usagi, and needed to make sure she was okay. Makoto, Minako and Ami leaned into Rei's phone, Rei was not protesting as they tried to listen to Usagi's voice. She was crying…
"I would've been seven months…" they heard a frantic sob. "I would've seen her in two months." If they had seen Usagi, they would have seen a hysterically calm person hiding in the shadows of a forgotten room.
"Usagi calm down..." Rei said scared, Mamoru was already by their sides wondering what was going on, confused like the other three girls.
"HOW CAN I BE CALM!" she shouted, her cries were more desperate, filled with endless sorrow. "How can I be calm?" she repeated softly.
"Usagi…"
"It's not fair…I don't understand…why…" She cried, her voice breaking down. Rei gripped her phone tighter her own tears falling, further worrying the people around her. "Did I do something wrong?"
"No" Rei sobbed "No sweetie…you-" Rei pulled the phone away, she needed to stay calm her voice was already cracking, taking a deep breath she lifted the phone back up. "You did nothing wrong."
"Then why?"
"Maybe something changed…" She heard Usagi moan in pain, her breathing was quick, quivering when let out.
"I don't understand…"she whispered softly. Makoto gripped Rei's shoulders, her worry growing by the second.
"Usagi just come to the arcade…" Rei tried again.
"No…" her voice was calm. "I'm going to stay here, where I'm invisible." With that said Rei heard the click of the other phone followed by silence. Rei's heart beat jumped into action pumping frantically, her eyes grew wide in fear.
"Usagi?" She said. "USAGI! Damn it!" she cursed looking down at her phone. She dialed Usagi's number but it immediately went to voicemail. "Damn it!" she cried again this time more desperately.
Makoto took hold of Rei who dialed faster, urgently cursing each time. She forced her to stop, no words were said the tears that fell from her face was enough to tell the girls that whatever it was that happened it wasn't at all good. They said nothing watching the many thoughts run through her mind trying to find a desperate answer to Usagi's location.
"What in the world happened Rei?" Makoto's voice brought Rei crashing back from her thoughts. She stood silent for a moment her tears falling silently, her hands reached into her pocket talking out the small picture; all she could do was stare at it. Minako took it curious.
"What's this…?" Minako gasped her hand racing to her mouth as her eyes opened wide in shock. She began to tremble and the tears started cascading quickly down her now pale cheeks. She shook her head in denial, looking at Rei who still had not spoken. "Please tell me this isn't real…" but Rei said nothing causing a sob to escape Minako. Makoto took the picture from Minako, looking down she found her heart stopping, Ami who was besides her started trembling.
"Oh…My…God" Ami whispered, a sudden quiver ran through her body and she brought both her hands to her mouth in shock. She couldn't move or speak, no one could. All Makoto could do was hold the sonogram in her trembling hands, her tears like the rest of the girls falling silently. A huge understanding was dawning on all of the scouts.
Mamoru and Motoki still confused looked at each other. Mamoru reached out and snatched the picture from Makoto's hands and instantly dropped it. It fell slowly, floating down like a feather lost in the wind until it gently reached the ground. It stared up at him, taunting him with its painful image. He didn't move, all he could do was stare at it, his thoughts ran to the night of the accident, to the fight he had with Usagi that very night.
"Chiba" her voice was brisk and cold, her eyes, which normally shone brightly; darkened to match Mamoru's sapphire eyes. There was fury in her eyes and this wasn't just because suddenly she was calling him by his last name. "I told you I had something very important to tell you."
"Something you could tell me now." Mamoru argued. This time Usagi did grab hold of something, and this time it was hurled at him, and he missed it by mere inches. That poor cell phone never saw it coming; it crashed against the wall with a loud bang and fell shattered to the floor.
He could still hear the sound of the cell phone crashing against the wall and shattering. But at that moment he wished it had hit him, he wished that it had made contact with him, even though the damage would not have been as great as the one he had caused Usagi. Slowly leaning down he picked up the picture. Silently tears rolled slowly down his face. What had he done?
Rei turned to look at him, she could almost immediately read his thoughts, she moved forward but he somehow anticipated her and moved back. She saw in his eyes the pain she had seen in Usagi's eyes, only he was trying so hard to keep his emotions in check. He stumbled back a bit crashing into a pillar hurting his arm in the process. He fisted his hand and found it was crashing into the wall as he punched the pillar in rage and desperation. The girls jumped at his action and Motoki who had seen the picture once it had fallen simple looked away.
"We need to find her." Mamoru whispered, his voice was cracking and his tears streamed faster. Without another word he raced out of the Arcade, everyone except Rei who was still in deep thought chasing after him, taking their own paths in attempt to find Usagi.
Rei stood still something about Usagi's words were nagging at her in the back of her mind, but what was it. She had said something in their short conversation, she had given Rei a clue to her whereabouts but she couldn't quite place the message. She knew Usagi wanted to be found, she knew Usagi was probably struggling with the pain and needed warmth but she also wanted to be alone.
She rubbed her forehead in frustration, shutting her eyes tightly going over each word carefully trying to remember what it was. What had she meant? Ah. Of course…Rei turned and split into a sprint within seconds.
'I'm coming Usagi.'
She thought frantically as she raced in the direction which she was positive Usagi was at. Her feet pounding on the ground as she ran with all of her being.
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Usagi coughed, feeling weak and heavy. She rested her head against the wall closing her eyes, she felt like crap. Her breathing had become labored. All that running around in the rain in such a thin dress had gotten her sick, but frankly she didn't care. She licked her lips feeling their dry discomfort whenever she tried to breathe in.
She winced slightly in pain as she tried to move, having fallen down after running away from Dr. Mizuno, scrapping her left knee and thigh, along with scrapping the skin off both the palms of her hand and having gotten a minor cut on her eyebrow with a piece of glass on the floor, not to mention she was now all bruised up on her hips due to the fall. She groaned in pain.
Her eyes opened slightly, she didn't dare to move due to her lack of energy and various injuries, but the room somehow brought comfort. It was one of the many reasons why she loved that room so much. Many years ago, if she recalled correctly, she had stumbled upon it by pure accident, she was actually looking for Rei when she found it. Astounded by the amount of accident treasures and forgotten artifacts, it brought her such a calming feel that she called it her ghost room.
-Flash Back-
"Rei you have got to see this!" Usagi huffed as she ran out of the Hino Family Shrine to find her best friend waiting for her annoyed by the entrance.
"Where have you been?" she barked as Usagi's small frame approached, the girl was now hunch over, her hands on her knees as she tried to catch her breath; Her long golden hair sticking to her now moist face. "I've been waiting for you for about ten minutes, woman!"
"I was looking for you." Usagi said breathlessly, she raised a hand signaling Rei to hold on a moment, once she had somewhat filled her body with oxygen she stood up, a hand on her back helping her support her weight but there was excitement in her eyes. "You need to see this." She smiled taking hold of her friend's wrist and pulling her back towards the shrine.
"Hey!" Rei said as she found herself being dragged towards her own home."Wait!" she shouted as Usagi continued to drag her "Hold on a second." Rei protested as she found that Usagi pulled some unknown strength out of thin air. When Usagi had finally stopped Rei found herself in a particular part of the Shrine she had never entered because she just never saw any reason to enter it.
"Look." Usagi said with excitement as she slid the door open to reveal a rather forgotten room of beautiful silk kimonos and swords. There were jewels and glittering clothes all over the place; Rei knew this room was used for storage but when these things were stored she figured it must have been in the early years; the room had been long ago forgotten. "Isn't it beautiful?" Usagi breathed as she entered the room again.
Rei could only nod. The room was a sight to behold, everything in the room was white, from the fabrics and designs of every cloth and Kimono to the shield and the handle of the swords, silvers were splashed here and there giving the room a heavenly look. Even the light that poured in from the outside seemed to shine with white brilliance. Everything almost looked transparent.
"I call it the ghost room." Usagi announced as got closer to a particularly beautiful white and silver kimono that had this enchanting affect to it. That had Usagi sure that whatever woman wore it would look like an angel. "Can I wear this dress Rei?" she asked in a ghost like whisper. Rei simply arched an eyebrow.
"We're going paintballing and you want to wear that dress…are you nuts?" She resumed her usual hands on hips position that she used when nagging Usagi but the blonde woman simply laughed lightly.
"No not now Rei…" she turned from her friend back to the dress, a dreamy look in her eyes. "When I marry Mamoru." Rei simply smiled, she could already imagine her friend looking absolutely amazing, Usagi was an angel as it was, in that dress she would look like a fantasy.
"I'll think about it." Rei joked but she had already made up her mind, That dress on the day of her wedding would belong to Usagi.
"We can't tell anyone about this room Rei."
"Why not?" Usagi moved further in the room, her hands lightly touching each brilliantly shining object.
"I want this place to be a secret, just in case I'm ever in need to be alone, or I'm in a fight with Mamoru and I want to go someplace where he can't find me, a place where I can be invisible."
"But I know about this place…how can you be invisible if I can find you?"
"Rei I told you of this place for a reason."
"The reason being?" Usagi turned to Rei with a very knowing smirk on her face.
"Rei, Sweetie" she began as she approached her friend. "No one ever truly wants to be invisible." She said placing a hand on her friends shoulder. "Everyone wants to at least be found by someone."
"So I'm that someone that needs to find you?"
"Should I ever want to be invisible?" Rei cocked an eyebrow and crossed her arms. She rolled her eyes and took Usagi's hands and dragged her out of the room.
"Come on Invisible girl, our friends are waiting for us." Rei said sarcastically as they both closed the door to the room and walked out of the shrine and off the paint ball field.
-End of Flash Back-
She groaned slightly as she tried moving but the pain had settled and her body now weighed more than it should. Every single muscle in her body ached and she felt her head begin to pry itself open as trinkets of thumping pain waved in and out of her. The headache was now becoming a thrashing problem that was sinking her further into a dark hole of agony.
She felt cold, and nauseas, but it was more like a nausea that caused great discomfort in the throat and settled there, taunting you. It made the already uncomfortable pain even more discomforting. She exhaled feeling her body spin in circles. Even in the gloomy rain and dim lights, the room still looked heavenly.
The tears were no longer felt as they rolled, her face being so bloated and numb that the tears came out unnoticed, though the slight sting in her eyes was the only indication that let her know she was crying. All she could really think about was her baby; Chibi Usa's image haunted her making the pain even more overwhelming.
She closed her eyes again, feeling that she could no longer stay awake with the weight of exhaustion that now fell over her. She exhaled hearing Chibi Usa's voice in her mind, talking to her about some childish thing, she could hear her laughter, her singing, and yes even their annoying arguing and her endless nagging and it was at last her sweet smile that lulled her into restless sleep.
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Rei practically collided with the entrance to her shrine and she slipped due to the wet floor, her hand gripping the door so tightly holding herself up, she was gasping for air having almost literally have flown from the arcade back to her house. She had yet to contact everyone else seeing as she was more concerned with Usagi being alright than anything else.
She raced through the halls and corridors of her large shrine until she reached that secluded area forgotten by the world. Shakily approaching the dark room, Rei hoped and prayed that Usagi was there because if she was not, then she knew of no other place she would find her best friend.
Hesitantly gripping the handle, she waited a moment before sliding the door open, at first glance the room seemed untouched, but as Rei took a step closer she saw her leaning against the wall next to the futon that held an assortment of jewels and mirrors. She was cradled with her legs against her chest, her head leaned back resting against the wall.
Her eyes were closed but there were traces of tears on her pale face, there was a thin layer of dirt that allowed the tears to leave behind tracks. The image to Rei was heartbreaking. Slowly she approached her, the woman looked like she was about to break into a million little pieces if she had not already shattered by herself. If that was the case, putting her back together would take years and even still there would be pieces that would never be found.
She knelt down before her, watching her sleep, there was pain in her face even as she slept. She hesitantly reached out for her friend, half excepting her to disappear into the walls of the Ghost Room and become a part of it permanently. She felt herself sigh in relief when her hand cupped Usagi's face and found she had not been an illusion, she was however almost immediately alarmed at the temperature Usagi was giving off.
Her body was emitting a high level of heat that had Rei panicking; Usagi had a tremendously high fever that could possibly be life threatening. Reaching into her pocket she took out her communicator and called for the scouts, in a matter of minutes their drenched faces came into view.
"I can't find her." Makoto huffed, it was apparent she had been running.
"Me either, she's not in her apartment or at her parents' house." Minako whispered, looking into her communicator which vaguely resembled a colorful iwatch.
"She hasn't returned to the hospital." Ami said, the sounds of machines and patients heard all around her, in the back the vague image of 'E.R' was seen along with a doctor who casually strolled by.
"Guys I found her." Rei managed to speak among the clutter of voices of her worried friends who suddenly let out a sigh of relief. "Look I have good news and bad news." Rei said as she managed to wake Usagi up who was in a daze, muttering to herself.
"Meaning what?" Minako asked, Motoki looked over her shoulder fascinated with her high tech iwatch.
"Translating Minako's stupid question, what's the good and bad news." Makoto said earning glare from Minako.
"Makoto there is no such thing as a stupid question." Ami said at this point in time, Mamoru looked into Ami's communicator.
"Thanks Ami, I knew you'd stick up for me" Minako perked, happily.
"Just stupid people asking questions." Ami continued earning laugh from Makoto and yes even Rei and a glare from Minako.
"I somehow saw that coming." Minako muttered.
"Ladies!" Rei barked as she struggled to walk Usagi to her bedroom.
"Yeah sorry Rei, What's the good news."
"The good news is obviously that I've found her and she's safe" Rei began, they heard her gently ushering Usagi to keep moving.
"What's the bad news Rei" Mamoru's voice had Usagi's head shooting up in the air, she mumbled out something that everyone was pretty sure was some kind of insult. Rei placed Usagi down on her bed and continued to talk.
"She has a high fever, Ami I need you here with us, there is no way I can tell if this requires hospital attention or not." Rei continued, she was about to say something when she stopped, she felt the transformation of a youma the moment it happened as did the other girls. "Not now…" She whispered but as she said this she saw Usagi sit up straight and run out of the Shrine; her movements were so fast that by the time Rei reacted to her actions she had already disappeared. "I lost Usagi!" she cried as she finished transforming into Sailor Mars.
"What do you mean you lost her?" Sailor Venus asked as she and the other two scouts arrived at the shrine, Mars looked at them.
"She just ran out." Mars explained.
"We have to find her" Jupiter said urgently, her eyes along with the others scouts grew wide in horror as a row of houses and a few streets lit up in flames. They had to find her now…she was in danger.
So very little was changed in this chapter that not many of you will notice the difference. Onto the next chapter.
Butatokki