Destiny's Hold (Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon: Season Six)

© 2003-2005 By Stacey Padjune (Serena CrystalMoon)

Disclaimer: Sadly enough, I do not own Sailor Moon or any of the other characters; I just manipulate them...

trp0522: Wow! Long review, and I loved reading it! So many possibilities and of course I'm not going to sit here and tell you if you've hit something's or come close… All I can say is I love how you've gotten in to the story and yes it's finally hit a turning point… also I love your ideas and guesses…heh heh All will be revealed in time:evil smile:

Riza Hawkeye: Yeah, I'm back…. I thought it would take me longer too but I was quite determined to get this re-done and up online. With the transformation phrases of the outers, It was sheer confusion. I used to have a document with all of their attacks and such written down but when my computer crashed I lost that along with everything else. I searched online and tried to re-do the document but no matter where I went, everything I looked at didn't have the outers transformation phrases, one of the sites said that the phrases were unknown because the show never showed the scenes of the outers transforming into Super Sailors. So I guessed. The inner senshi at one point were calling out 'Star Power' while the outers were calling out 'Power' so when I moved them to Supers I had the inners calling 'Crystal Power' and the outters calling 'Star Power', I figured you'd correct me if I was wrong… and you did, I'm glad. As for Jupiter and Tuxedo Kamen being in the battle after being told not to, I'm glad you noticed, it was a mistake, I write different parts of the chapters separately, not in order, so I planned to have Jupiter and Tuxedo Kamen defy Minako's order's and join the battle, then changed my mind, but I wrote the battle scene before I wrote the scene where they entered the battle but I changed my mind before they entered the battle and forgot to change what was written in the battle, is this confusing? I hope not. I already went back and changed it, so now they're not in the battle.

Chapter 9: Part Two - …Just Got Worse

Shadows loomed over the dark walls and soft eerie candlelight filled the room, Shairon sat in his throne looking down at the youma on it's knee's before him. A sneer curled his lips before he raised his hand, sending a ball of pulsing black energy from his hand crashing into the minion before him. Screams echoed through the room before fading almost immediately. "Shiero!" he barked, a door opening in the wall and a lizard-like youma stepping into the room before the door disappeared.

"Yes, master?" the youma hissed quietly

" Tsukami has just informed me that the three youma I sent have failed in their mission to kill the Sailor Senshi and steal their energy, I was not pleased." He told his follower, indicating the small pile of ashes on the floor with a wave of his hand. "Use your stealth, go find a suitable human with pure energy, the door must be opened soon and time is waning. I do not have time to wage war with the Sailor Senshi, so be careful. I need more power."

With a nod of his green scaly head Shiero disappeared.

Rei sighed as her bathroom filled with steam and hot water beat down over her, washing away the dried blood from the battle she'd just returned from. The shower relaxed her aching muscles, beating down it's hot massage. Time seemed to evaporate and in what seemed like minutes the hot water began to dissipate; reluctantly Rei turned the water off and stepped out of the shower. The cool air crept up on her and she inhaled sharply at the pure coldness of the floor, the air chilling her lungs. The cool nighttime weather enveloped her completely as she dried her long raven locks with a towel. She looked over her pale milky arms, aware of the goose bumps she had acquired as she wrapped herself in the fluffy garnet red towel.

Leaving the bathroom she walked to her room, grateful for the heat that emanated from her small heater. Sitting on her bed, Rei dressed her wounds and laid down. Taking a couple deep breaths, she closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep.

Hours passed and dreams turned to nightmares as she tossed and turned on her bed, her mind plagued by ominous shadows, evil laugher and desperate pleas for help. The mocking laugher ricocheted through her mind as she awoke with a scream. Shaken, Rei realized her scream wasn't alone. Stopping abruptly to listen, Rei heard the scream again. It was the screams of a young woman and they weren't too far off. Knowing someone was in desperate need of help, she quickly grabbed her henshin stick, whispered her transformation phrase and hopped out of her bedroom window, following the sound of the screams.

Standing in the shadows of a dark alley, Sailor Mars let her eyes travel farther along, landing on a young woman cowering in a corner on the ground. With short dark brown hair and a perfect tan, the womans skimpy clothes were torn and tattered and her make-up was smeared. Standing in front of her, laughing, was a tall extremely reptilian youma. He stood as any other human would, his skin was scaly and the color of grass. His hair was long and looked remarkably like dark green sea weed, his tongue was long, black and forked and his eyes were a swirl of hypnotic bright green and yellow. Knowing she was the young girls only hope, Mars backed away through the shadows and angled herself to get a better view. Contacting Usagi through her wrist communicater, "Mmm...stupid communicator..." she heard Usagi mumble as she turned over in bed, ignoring the shrill beeping coming from her watch.

"Usagi-chan! Get your butt up!" Mars barked at the blonde through the communicator, "There's a youma attacking a young girl, she needs help. Contact the others and meet me at the old alley way behind the Crown!" she said as she watched the Odango Atama stumble out of bed and grumble about it being one in the morning, "You're a senshi and this is an all hours job!" the senshi of fire remarked as she closed her communicator.

"FIRE SOUL!" Mars' attack blazed through the darkness as the warrior in red dashed through the alley to defend the young woman.

The fireball was evaded, the lizard-like youma acting fast released the young girl and sidestepped quickly, it's prey crumpled on the ground, tears streaming down her face her bright green eyes gleaming up at Sailor Mars. "Help me," she pleaded desperately.

"Don't worry, you'll be fine now." Mars told the girl, her eyes softening as she took in the scrapes and cuts all over her body before lifting her gaze to the youma, her eyes hardening instantly. "You'll pay for what you've done." She ground out, wrapping her hands around the wrists of the young woman lifting her to her feet and leaping backwards with her, taking her out of harms way before lifting her hands, ready to attack. "FIRE SOUL!", a blazing ball of fire erupting from her fingertips and sailing at the creature in front of her.

"MOON TIARA ACTION!"

"DEEP SUBMERGE!"

Mars' attack wasn't alone, looking back she saw the rest of the senshi running through the alley before turning her gaze back to the youma watching the fireball crash into the youma's scaly abdomen followed closely by a large ball of water crashing into it's chest and a gleaming energy disc slicing it's left shoulder.

"'Bout time you guys showed up, makin' such a big deal about not fighting alone, about being a team…"

"Can it Mars, the call was only made half a minute ago, we made great time!" Jupiter challenged the miko, a smug smirk on her face. Ready to argue the point Mars opened her mouth but nothing came out, moving quickly she dodged sideways and leapt into the air, her 'spidey-sense' warning her of intensly close danger. A black energy ball sailled toward Saturn, who'd previously been hidden from view and was turned sideways toward Jupiter. The youngest senshi' turned just as quickly at the immediate movement of Mars, her eyes opening wide at sight of the attack already just inches from her stomach. Without time to evade the energy Saturn's scream pierced her friends' ears as she was knocked backwards and skidded far across the ground before laying in a scraped and bloody heap with a bloody burn circular mark where the attack had hit.

Huffing, Mars turned back to the youma and raised her arms once more, ready to attack with three of the other's behind her as she heard at least two of her fellow senshi running toward the fallen Senshi of Death. "Shiero's orders only to collect energy, not to fight silly senshi." The lizard creature announced, waving an arm before his body began to fade. "Need energy, master needs energy, time running out, energy needed." Muttered words came out clear before Shiero was finally gone.

"Well that's great," Mars muttered, spinning on her heal and speeding toward Saturn, still on the ground; Venus, Neptune and Mercury at her side.

Usagi lifted her head as Setsuna exited the bedroom door of the Outter's two-story house, her crystal blue eyes worried with tears ready to well over any second and spill down her cheeks. "She's going to be alright, right?" she asked quietly, her eyes searching Setsuna's intently.

"Yes. Usagi, why don't you go in the room and sit with her?"

Looking into the Guardian of Time's garnet eyes for reassurance before nodding lightly and rising to her feet. Two steps across the hall to the door, a firm grasp a tiny turn and another step and Usagi was in the bedroom staring at Hotaru's still body in her small purple blanketed bed. Closing the door, Usagi walked quietly over to her senshi's side and kneeled on the floor. Hey eyes swept over her friends body taking in the bandages over her arms and legs and the ones around her stomach. Blood had seeped through and could be faintly seen on the white pristine bandages. Hotaru's eyes were closed and her breathing was even, taking her hand Usagi held it gently taking in the small scratches on her fingers and her palm. The barely audible clearing of a throat alerted Usagi, and turning her head sideways was surprised to find Setsuna standing silently next to her. "She'll be okay, dear Princess. Senshi healing mixed with her unique healing powers will restore her quite sufficiently." She smiled, "Hotaru should be awake tomorrow morning and should have regained a bit of her health and energy then too, but it should take about three days for her to be back to one hundred percent." Setting a reassuring hand gently on her princess's shoulder Setsuna looked in her light blue eyes before Usagi stood up and with a small smile left the room.

Laughter filled the blonde's head as she lay asleep in the guest room offered to her by the outer senshi, giddiness swelled in her and her long golden hair swished around her body gliding smoothly over the soft gold silk of her nightgown as she leapt over her bed with a growl laced with giggles, flailing her goose-feather pillow out infront of her hitting the shoulder of the girl aimed at. Dark Green hair of an even longer length moved wildly as it's occupant jerked her head to the side and grinned at the blond, dark red eyes meeting dark blue before the slightly taller girl lunged forward knocking the blond to the bed and holding her down. A happy sigh escaped the blond's mouth as the green haired beauty lowered her head, placing a gentle kiss on her lips.

Usagi woke hours later sprawled across her bed and still in her Sailor Moon fuku. Yawning, the blue-eyed blonde undid her transformation, reverting back to her silk, light pink, bunny-decorated pajamas and strolled downstairs to her family. Surprised that her mom wasn't in the kitchen, Usagi turned the corner and into the living room. "…and it is believed that the men inside know the identities of the Sailor Senshi, but how to get these men out is unknown. Unmeltable, unscaleable and unbreakable… it is even impossible to converse with the captives. More on this story will be reported as things develop."

"Those Sailor Girls seem to be more danger than they're worth, " Kenji Tsukino said gravely as he stared at the picture of the battle scene in front of Aino Apartments on the television screen. Nods of agreement came from Ikuko and Shingo as Usagi stared at her family open mouthed. Shaking her head Usagi walked to the windows, closed and locked them before closing the blinds as well.

"Usagi, what on earth-" Ikuko began but was cut off by her daughter.

"The Sailor Senshi aren't what they seem."

"You're right about that, those girls are evil…" Kenji said strongly.

"No dad, they're not evil. Infact, they fight evil. They fight all kinds of evil. They're misunderstood."

"Missunderstood my foot-" Kenji started, Shingo watching the conversation intently.

"Dad, stop. You haven't a clue of what you're talking about so just stop."

"Usagi!"

"Just stop!" the blonde odango atama said fiercely, shutting her father up.

"The Sailor Senshi are warriors from planets, each royalty and each in possession of certain powers."

"She's been brainwashed." Kenji announced in disbelief, looking to his wife.

"I've not been brainwashed."

"Then what's gotten into you?" Ikuko and Kenji asked together.

"My given name is Serenity, daughter of Selene also known as Queen Serenity and ruler of the Silver Millennium."

"TSUKINO USAGI STOP RAMBLING ON ABOUT JUNK!" Kenji yelled at his daughter, grabbing her wrist forcefully.

"For the last time, just listen, I'm not rambling." Usagi said calmly before jerking her wrist out of her fathers hand only to have it grabbed again. "I can see this isn't going to be easy." She sighed. Wrenching her wrist from her fathers grasp and pushing him up against the wall and two feet into the air with strength and speed that shocked her family, Usagi looked at each in turn. "MOON ETERNAL, MAKE UP!" she yelled, being enveloped in bright pink light before standing before her family as her Sailor Senshi alter-ego.

"Serenity!" Luna's shrill voice reprimanded as the small dark blue feline raced from the doorway to the side of her charge, the tiny golden crescent moon shining brightlyon her forehead. "Calm your self! I know he's not taking it well but you're royalty, a senshi, you're better than this."

"Cool!" Shingo yelled happily looking up at his big sister, while his father's suprised expression staredat her, his mouth gaping like a fish and her mother stood shell-shocked and silent.

Releasing him, Usagi's father stumbled over to his wife. "Yes, I am royaly. I am also not mortal. I am Eternal Sailor Moon, Princess Serenity of the Moon, daughter of Queen Serenity ruler of the Universe known as the Silver Millennium. I am future the Queen of Earth and it's Universe. The Sailor Senshi are my royal guard, each a princess from their home planet. Together we fight all forces of negativity for a better future." She stated serenely, gasps escaping each of her relatives. "And this, " she said picking up the cat next to her, "Is Luna, my Guardian, sent to Earth with me by my mother to watch over me."

"All these years…" Ikuko muttered forlornly, looking through teary eyes up at the winged super heroine holding the cat lovingly in her arms.

"Mom, "Sailor Moon said, kneeling and taking her mothers hand, "Do not cry, I'm still your daughter, and I love you. That hasn't changed."

Looking away from her mother Sailor Moon set her eyes on her father he stood wide eyed and pale behind her, then to her younger brother who was grinning with a smile from ear-to-ear.

A shrill beeping filled the room from Sailor Moon's wrist communicator. Answering the call, Sailor Moon was greeted with the face of Rei on the screen of the watch. "Sailor Moon, what's wrong, I felt you transfo-rm." The transmition broke a tiny bit as the screen flashed blue.

"I'm fine Mars, just transformed for my family…"

"Oh." The miko replied, "How'd they take it?"

"You'll seen," Sailor Moon told the fire senshi, watching her screen turn the colors of the rainbow, "I'm being called by the rest of the Senshi, Mars, You're not the only one that was worried. I've got to go, call the others and tell them there's to be a Senshi Meeting here in five minutes, and I want you and Mercury to bring your family members. Oh and have the others round up Naru and her mom, Umino, Reika and Reikaand have Venusbring Artemis too."

With a surprised look, Rei nodded, "Yes, your highness." And with that the screen went blank and Sailor Moon closed the communicator.

"Senshi meeting here!" Kenji bellowed angrily, "You'd better just call back and change that. There will be no senshi meeting here and you are forbidden from fraternizing with those girls from now on and there will be no more gallivanting around as Sailor Moon either!"

"Kenji!" Ikuko gasped.

Sailor Moon's eyes turned stone cold, fixing her gaze on her father Sailor Moon shook with fury. "You have no say in when I see MY senshi, they are bound by blood bonds to protect me always and nothing you say or do will ever stop them from seeing me. They are my friends and my royal bodyguard. I am the Princess of the Moon, heir to the Solar System and you will not tell me that I am forbidden from being Sailor Moon. I am Sailor Moon, and the survival of this planet and universe lie squarely on the shoulders of me and my senshi. Furthermore, you have no bearings saying anything negative about the Sailor Senshi, our youngest, was injured severely last night in a battle while saving an young innocent woman's life from a youma, if she wasn't as strong as she was she coul've died last night. She should respect her and us unconditionally. You are my father, my family and I love you but-" Sailor Moon told her father, "I will not listen to anymore nonsense from you." She said forcefully, daring him to challenge her.

Gulping, Kenji stayed quiet as did her mother and brother. Touching her hand to her brooch, Sailor Moon's transformation melted away. Ikuko and Shingo stared in openmouthed shock at the burst of pink light leaving Usagi standing where Sailor Moon had just been. Silence drifted on for minutes, finally disrupted by the doorbell. Walking silently toward the door, Ikuno opened it to see a gaggle of people on her doorstep. Moving aside, the group filed in. Closing the door Ikuko looked at the group in her living room, her eyes lingering on a blushing blond haired girl holding a white cat andstaring at a mysterious dark green haired woman and thenjust an extra second longer on the scraped and weak body of a young black-haired girl

"What's happened to her?" A taller, older woman dressed in doctor's clothes with dark blue hair asked worriedly as she too looked at Hotaru held in Makoto's arms. "And where's Usagi-chan? Is she all right? What happened?"

"Yes, where is my favorite little bunny? Is she alright?" A short man with a bald head asked as well.

Grimacing, Ami and Rei looked at each other and around at the other worried faces around them then sheepishly at Usagi's family, hoping they wouldn't say anything.

Crystal blue eyes met the eyes of the two inquirers standing infront of Yuuichiro, Naru, Umino, Motoki andReika as Usagi walked in holding a tray with a pitcher of iced tea and a stack of clear plastic cups.

"I'm fine Mizuno-sama, Hino-sama. Ami-chan and Rei-chan and the others fibbed a bit to get you all here, it's really important so please don't be mad. Hotaru-chan's appearance can b explained later, my parents know and can fill you in after the more important things are out of the way." Usagi spoke politely, setting the tray down on the coffee table before looking to each of her friends, her eyes stopping on Hotaru. "Are you up for this?" she asked quietly earning a nod before looking at the rest of her senshi and nodding herself.

"MOON ETERNAL, MAKE UP!"

"MERCURY CRYSTAL POWER, MAKE UP!"

"MARS CRYSTAL POWER, MAKE UP!"

"JUPITER CRYSTAL POWER, MAKE UP!"

"VENUS CRYSTAL POWER, MAKE UP!"

"PLUTO CRYSTAL POWER, MAKE UP!"

"NEPTUNE CRYSTAL POWER, MAKE UP!"

"URANUS CRYSTAL POWER, MAKE UP!"

"SATURN CRYSTAL POWER, MAKE UP!"

And with a wave of a rose, Mamoru followed the others into their transformation.

Gasps echoed through the room as bursts of intense colored light flashed like a gigantic rainbow before leaving the Sailor Senshi and Tuxedo Kamen standing together in the middle of everyone.

Looking around, Sailor Moon addressed the crowd. "I am Sailor Moon, Princess of the Moon, daughter of Aether and Selene also known as Queen Serenity of the Moon-ruler of the Universe. I am the heir to the Solar System, and future Queen of Earth and it's Universe. Senshi of Pure Love and Justice."

The other's followed her lead, each stating their status.

"Sailor Mercury, Princess of Mercury, daughter of Minerva and Hermes, Senshi of Ice and Wisdom/Communication, devoted bodyguard of Sailor Moon. "

"Sailor Mars, Princess of Mars, daughter of Ares and Bellona, Senshi of Fire and War, devoted bodyguard of Sailor Moon. "

"Sailor Jupiter, Princess of Jupiter, daughter of Jupiter and Flora, Senshi of Electricity and Nature, devoted bodyguard of Sailor Moon. "

"Sailor Venus, Princess of Mercury, daughter of Aphrodite and Eros, Senshi of Love and Beauty, Leader of the Sailor Senshi and devoted bodyguard of Sailor Moon. "

"Sailor Pluto, Princess of Pluto, daughter of Chronos and Hecate, Senshi of Time and Magic, Guardian of the Gates of Time, devoted bodyguard of Sailor Moon."

"Sailor Neptune; Princess of Neptune; daughter of Poseidon and Juturna , Senshi of Water and Emotions, devoted bodyguard of Sailor Moon. "

"Sailor Uranus, Princess of Uranus, daughter of Demeter and Aeolus, Senshi of Wind and Earth, devoted bodyguard of Sailor Moon. "

"Sailor Saturn, Princess of Saturn, daughter of Hades and Persephone, Senshi of Death and Rebirth, devoted bodyguard of Sailor Moon. "

"Tuxedo Kamen, Prince Endymion of Earth, son of Gaia and Janus, betrothed to Princess Serenity of the Moon Kingdom and Future King of the Earth and it's Universe. Devoted to my love, Sailor Moon. "

"Please, don't say anything mom. I love you and this doesn't change that, I hope you and the others will understand that we couldn't tell you this." Sailor Mercury said looking into her mother's eyes. "We are not directly born of the parents we have stated, only Serenity is born of the parents which she has said." Sailor Mercury continued after introductions, "We are born of the King and Queen of Each Planet, Names and Lineage that would only confuse you. We were however chosen by the God's and Goddesses that we have mentioned as sole heir to their powers, before our birth these Gods and Goddesses predicted a future battle in which everything that we have developed would be destroyed and would never return to the way things were. Darkness and Chaos was what the future held. And so each of the Gods and Goddesses chose a planet and bestowed upon that Planet's Queen a pregnancy, and a promise that each set of rulers would give birth to a girl and the powers of their planet and the Gods and Goddesses would run strongest in their veins. These girls were destined to protect the Solar System from the Chaos that was foreseen. In time each of the planets rulers produced a child with an extraordinary amount of power, children of the Gods themselves. But Destiny intervened: one out of the total ten was not a girl, Prince Endymion was born to the rulers of Earth, destined to marry the Princess Serenity of the Moon and continue the reign of peace the universe has seen for so long."

Sailor Pluto continued Mercury's explanation with one of her own. "One thousand years ago we lived on each of our planets in a time of peace and prosperity known as the Silver Millennium. At the ages of sixteen and seventeen we were coming into our powers but still were no where near what we really could do. Queen Serenity, the Goddess Selene, ruled the Universe peacefully from her Palace on the Moon, a utopia known as the Moon Kingdom. One day an evil Queen named Beryl attacked the Moon Kingdom and brainwashed Prince Endymion's court, turning them against us. It was an all out war that we were not ready for. The Moon Kingdom fell and Queen Serenity used the last of her powers to send us here, into the future on earth to be born again and have a chance at a better life. Our past was unknown to us until four years ago, when Beryl resurfaced and so did our powers. Since then we have beaten off five different forces trying to destroy this planet, and we are still getting stronger."

"Pluto-"

"Yes, your highness, I know." The Senshi of Time responded looking around at the bewildered normal human faces around her. "You were brought together and told this for a few reasons. The new enemy we face is stronger than anything we've dealt with and they are believed to know at least some of our identities," she paused and looked at Mars and Venus, "also the government has been researching us for a while now and has at last discovered all of our identities, putting us and our loved ones in specific and immediate danger."

"What's going to happen!" Ikuko was hysterical at this revelation.

"We move." Sailor Moon told her allies, friends and family. "I've come up with a plan, but we'll all have to go into hiding."

The Senshi nodded their agreement silently and Sailor Moon looked around at the others. "Do not worry, everything will be fine, we have a day and a half's time before we must be gone. You all will be safe until then."

Author's Note: Another one finished, I hope y'all liked. For the dialogue between Usagi and her family I left out the name suffixes and other things like that, I figured their closeness as family was relevant enough to drop such things…what do you people think? Anyway, if anyone knows the correct name suffixes or terminology they would use for eachother, could you post them in a comment, please? Oh this isn't about the fic or anythingbut I got a boyfriend today. I've been in love with him for about 4-5 years now and we dated back in 2001 but we're together again and I hope we stay that way, I really do love him, so wish me luck! (August-11-2005)

- - - Serena CrystalMoon