Betrayal of the heart
Chapter twenty-seven: Fateful Meeting
(I have decided to do both the neherenia arc and the galaxia arc, so this story is going to get pretty long, before I am through)
Usagi was glad that the whole mess with the death busters was over. Perhaps they could have some real peace now. And they did, for about ten years, they had peace. Serenity and Kenji were growing up to be like their parents, Demando and Usagi, after marrying, had expanded their company. Life was working wonderfully. During that time, the inner senshi wondered about the outer senshi, whom they never saw. They knew that Hotaru was now the same age as Serenity, but they didn't know how to find her.
Then, one night it happened.
"If anyone can here me, please help me" A young boy's voice was saying, solemnly. Suddenly, a beautiful Pegasus appeared soaring out of a cloud.
Serenity Rei was asleep in her bed when she heard a horse neighing. In a dreamlike surrounding, she walked through the city.
"Who is that? Who is calling my name?" She asked, before coming across a forest and a lake.
Standing on top of the lake was the Pegasus. Her eyes got really big and she walked to the Pegasus and reached out to him. Suddenly she was transformed into a beautiful white dress, which was a replica of her mother's princess dress. Then Pegasus suddenly disappeared.
"Where are you? Are you the one that called out to me?" Serenity cried out.
"Please don't tell anyone about our encounter!" The same boy's voice said.
Serenity sighed and slowly turned around and saw... her mother
"What were you dreaming of?" Usagi asked the ten year old.
"What?" Serenity asked rubbing her eyes. She looked around. "It's just a dream" She sighed.
"Then come on, everyone has left already!" Usagi said, helping her daughter to feet.
Later that day, everyone Usagi, Demando, Serenity Rei, Kenj, Ami, Nephrite and baby Amilia, Rei, Jadiete, Makoto, Motoki, Aya, Minako, Zoicite, Soiya and Unazuki (Motoki's sister) were at a crowded park looking up at the sky. They were waiting for a solar eclipse.
Serenity began to think about Pegasus again. Unazuki noticed that Serenity was being unusually quiet and asked if something is on her mind,
"Like a boyfriend, maybe?" She indicated, laughing a little. Even though Motoki was in his late thirties, Unazaki was still a teenager.
Usagi gasped and everyone turned to stare at Serenity Rei, waiting for an answer.
"Don't let Mom and Dad get upset!" Unazaki said, indicating to Demando and Usagi.
"You're talking about yourself!" Motoki said grinning.
"What?" Unazaki asked in surprise.
"Mom worries about why you are are so late getting home from your job lately!" Motoki reminded her, Indicating that she was secretly seeing her boyfriend.
"Hey everyone, it's about to begin!" Demando said, trying to defuse the tension. Everyone put on sunglasses or held up a dark eye shield and watched as the moon moved slowly over the sun. Everything got very dark.
Elsewhere in the city, completely unnoticed, lightning flashed and something floated out of the sky and to the earth, the object looked like a strange tent! The eclipse ended and everyone began to leave the park. Still, no one noticed the strange circus tent in full view of every one, except... Serenity! She stared at it and wondered silently if anyone has noticed such a strange thing and what it was doing there. Then she shrugged and ran to catch up with the others.
Inside the tent, strange creatures laughed at how stupid and oblivious humans were, because they hadn't even noticed the circus tent in the middle of the city. Someone suddenly yelledfor them to be quiet. A strange looking guy appeared, Master Zirconia. He told them that they were going to control the world and summoned the Amazon Trio (Tigers Eye, Fish Eye, and Hawks Eye).
The trio appeared before him.
"Zirconia, what shall we do for you" Fish eye asked as they bowed before the strange man.
"We need to find him" Zirconia told them firmly. "The only way he can survive here on earth is by hiding in a beautiful dream. That of a human's. You must search the humans' dreams to find him. Only then can we carry out our mission"
The Trio went to a bar and began looking through photographs of people they had found that had beautiful dreams. They chose one girl, out of the pictures, to be the first one they'd check to see if "he" was hiding in her dream. The girl just "happened" to be Unazuki!
At the cafe where Unazuki worked, she served Usagi, Demando, Kenji and Serenity Rei some sodas.
"How are things going between you and Hiro?" Usagi asked. Unazuki's smile faltered.
"Things aren't going well" She said. "I mean, Although we've been in 'situations', he's never said that he loves me. In my dream, it is different." She explained.
"Well, You shouldn't sit around and wait for your prince on a white horse to sweep you away" Serenity advised. "Instead, you should get on the horse's back and find him yourself" Demando, Usagi, Unazuki and Kenji stared at Serenity.
"When did you get so wise?" Demando asked, tugging on one of her pig tails, affectionately. Serenity just smiled and took a sip of her tea.
later, Unazuki was riding on a bus on the way home. Also on the bus was one of the Amazon Trio, Tigers Eye. He snapped his fingers, and Unazuki's wallet appeared in his hand. As she was getting off the bus Unazuki rummaged around in her purse and frowned.
"Oh, no! Where's my wallet?" She asked frantically searching for it.
"Is this your wallet?" A man asked her. She looked up to see a man holding the wallet out to her. It was Tigers Eye.
"Oh yes. Thank you, so much!" She gushed, accepting the wallet from him. He just smirked.
Nearby, Serenity Rei ran down the side walk and Kenji appeared behind her.
"Why did you ask me to come down here? What are you planning?" He asked his twin, frowning.
"Kenji, do you think there could be any forests near a big lake, somewhere around here?" Serenity asked. Kenji frowned.
"Of course not. This is the city Sere" He said. Serenity looked down sadly.
"You must be right.." She said quietly. Kenji heard the tone of voice and stared at his sister.
"Are you okay Sere?" He asked, concerned. Before she could answer, they heard a whip snap and ran towards the noise. When they came around the corner, they saw Unazuki, very scared, looking at Tiger Eye as a curtain appeared in front of him. Serenity called her mother. Usagi and Demando had trained Serenity and Kenji, but they had never used their powers in a real fight before. When the curtain lifted up, Tigers Eye had changed into his circus outfit. Tigers Eye told Unazuki not to worry, because he really was not a bad guy.
"Well you sure look like one!" Unazuki snapped. Kenji and Serenity Rei decided they couldn't wait on the others. Hopefully, what they had learned in training would help them.
"One!" Tigers Eye shouted and a wall came out behind Unazuki. "Two!" metal bars clamped around her arms and legs, attaching her to the wall. "Three!" a mirror appeared in front of her. He told her that it was a mirror into her dreams.
He started to walk toward her, but a voice yelled out,
"Stop there!" Tigers Eye turned to see two kids. The girl was wearing a white leotard with a pink shirt and red bow on her chest and red bow on her lower back. Her boots were pink and she was wearing red baubles on her meatball like pink buns, with winglike clips in her hair. her gloves were white and her choker was pink. The boy was dress entirely in black, with a cap, top hat and a white mask. In one hand was a cane and in the other was a red rose.
"Who are you?" He asked, snidely.
"I am Masked Knight, when danger arrives, I see that disappears!"
"I am Sailor Mini Moon, champion of justice"
"in the name of the moon. we'll punish you!" both children said together.
Tigers Eye seem pretty unimpressed.
"You're just children" He said calmly. "Karakuriko, it's time to attack" He called. A mechanical doll appeared and attacked the two miniature fighters.
"You take care of her" Masked Knight instructed Silver Moon. "I'll take care of him" Mini Moon nodded and fought against the mechanical doll.
Knight and Tigers Eye fought for a while, whip to cane, but Tigers Eye trapped the boy's shadow against a tree with his whip and Knight couldn't move. Mini Moon was having trouble with the doll, but looked over to her brother in time to see him get trapped. The doll swung Mini Moon in the side of the head and she fell to the ground, out cold. Tigers Eye then walked over to Unazuki and put his head into the mirror of her dreams to see if "he" was hiding in her beautiful dream. He pulled his head out and announced that even though she has a beautiful dream, "he" was not hiding in it.
"But, I am afraid I cannot let you live, for "he" may decide to hide in your dream later" Tigers Eye told her. He snapped his fingers and the wall vanished. Unazuki fell to the ground. Tigers Eye instructed the doll to finish them off. Just then, Serenity opened her eyes and pleaded with someone to help them, unsure if her parents could get there in time. Princess Cosmos arrived in time to see a bright light appear in the sky and Pegasus appeared out of a cloud.
Then he says that he cannot let Unazuki live, because "he" might hide in her dream later. He tell the doll to finish them off.
"It's "him"! Pegasus!" Tigers Eye shouted.
Pegasus landed on the ground and his eye sparkled. Sailor Mini Moon got to her feet and transformed into Sailor Silver Moon. She was able to defeat the doll and Princess Cosmos smiled in relief.
"Oh, no!" Tigers Eye complained and disappeared. Knight was freed from the tree and he ran to Princess Cosmos.
"Mom!" He said happily. They all turned to stare at Pegasus and Princess Cosmos smiled. She knelt on her knees.
"I thank you for helping my daughter" She said.
"It was my pleasure, Princess of the White Moon" Pegasus replied. Before she could ask him how he knew her, he was gone.
Demando went over to Unazuki and felt for a pulse.
"She'll be all right. She just fainted." He told them. Princess Cosmos smiled.
"That's good to hear" She said. "I guess this means we have a new enemy" She sighed. "I suppose that we'll still be fighting when we're old and gray" Demando took her hands.
"No" He said. "We'll be retired, and the kids and grandkids will do all the work" He said. She smiled again.
Silver Moon again thought about the first time she saw Pegasus and remembered what he said, "Please don't tell anyone about our encounter!"
"I knew it wasn't just a dream!" She muttered.
"did you say something?" Masked Knight asked.
"No" Serenity said quickly. "Nothing at all"
"Come on, lets go home" Demando said to his family. They all nodded and detransformed. As they walked home, Usagi wondered if they would be able to defeat the new enemy. At least now she knew why her daughter was Sailor Silver Moon instead of Sailor Mini Moon when she had come from the future. She wondered if Mini Jupiter and Mini Venus would also inherit special powers from Pegasus if they ran across him, after all, their future selves were different from what they were right now. Usagi decided to stop thinking about it, and enjoy the present, what she could, anyway.