Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ A Simple Knock ❯ Chapter 5 ( Chapter 5 )

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Title: A Simple Knock
Author: Maetel
Email: maemaechan@yahoo.com
URL: http://www.geocities.com/dawnbabu/
Rating: M 15+
Summary: I'll let the plot of the story remain a mystery until people
start reading.
Chapters: 5/16
Status: Incomplete
Year Completed: N/A

"Luna!" cried out Rei as she raced over to the cat, who was giving off a strange light. As the seconds passed, the light grew brighter. After a few minutes, Luna's familiar feline shape began to change.

The cat's ears lowered and were replaced by two odango from which long strings of hair emerged and blended with hair that flowed down to the small of her back. The fur which covered her body disappeared and Luna's body was clothed in a dress of yellow fabric and dark blue and black lacy material. The only way to tell that the woman was Luna was by the small crescent moon on her brow.

"What happened to her?" questioned Makoto as she knelt beside Rei.

"I don't know... Luna fixed Usagi's broach and then fell from the table and was replaced by her, or became her. I don't know exactly why though," admitted the dark haired miko. "But until she wakes up, we're just going to have to wait."

"Great," sighed Makoto. "We have two unconscious people on our hands, and no idea as to what's going on. I have a feeling that Tuxedo knows more about what's going on than we do from that one conversation he had with her."

"Well, hopefully they'll explain all this once they wake up," Ami said as she walked up to the two from where she had overheard their conversation. "I rescanned Usagi-chan, and there is something strange that I think you should know about. I should have mentioned it earlier, but I thought it was nothing."

"What is it, Ami-chan?" questioned Makoto.

"Well..."

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Mamoru sat on his couch, staring up at the ceiling as thoughts ran through his head at a million miles a minute. 'Why didn't I ever notice it before? Why didn't she ever tell me? Why now? Why does she continue to come to me asking me to find the ginzuishou if she is in search of it?'

He groaned as he tried to think of a logical answer to all of the questions going through his mind. No wonder he had felt so attracted to Sailor Moon. Now if someone could explain the reason he felt the same sort of attraction towards the odango atama, he'd be set.

Both were suddenly proving to be utterly confusing women. Usagi with the strange memory lapses, and the princess finally revealing herself to him. What confused him most was the fact that he could not remember the things which she had described to him. He could but they had taken place with...

"Why didn't I notice that before?!" he exclaimed. "The Hair. Who else has that hair style? The eyes, the voice. Hell, I have bumped into her enough to notice that they weigh the same. And all this time, I've been insulting not only the woman of my dreams, but the heroine of Tokyo. I am an idiot..."

Mamoru slowly rose from where he was sitting and walked out onto the balcony. He over looked the city with tired eyes. How he longed to sleep, but every time he closed his eyes, images of Sailor Moon, no, Serenity crying in his arms would fill his mind.

'Why hadn't she ever expressed those same feelings before?' he thought. 'It's almost as if this was her first time ever fighting... But I know that isn't true. That is unless she was experiencing one of the memory lapses. I knew those things could be dangerous, but if she is having them while she is Sailor Moon, then she could be killed.'

Killed. Those words rang in his mind as he remembered back to what she had told him. "She thought I was dead? When? Could she have been lapsing back to the time when I fought with Jadeite at the airport? No... She knew about her powers then... What is happening to her-"

He suddenly felt a rush of power wash over him. He looked down and saw that he had not henshined into Tuxedo Kamen like he did when he felt Sailor Moon in danger. In fact he couldn't feel the pull coming from Sailor Moon. It was as if someone had in some way activated her powers for a split second.

"I need to talk to her. Or at least the senshi... Their identities are easy enough to figure out now that I know who Moon is, but where could they be right now?" he muttered. Makoto said that she was going to take Usagi to safety, and instead they went into battle. Where could they have gone after the fight? The temple was too far to carry the blonde, and he could guess that Ami lived near the hospital. That would only leave one place, and he only had a general idea of where that was.

Then again, a general idea was all that he needed. He could go from the scene of the battle and hopefully go from there.

Grabbing his jacket and slipping on his shoes, Mamoru headed out of the apartment and once again to where he had finally found his princess. Going to the garage, he found the car which he had gratefully remembered to get a few minutes after the battle, and headed down towards the battle scene. Once there he closed his eyes and focused on the like which always pulsed violently when Sailor Moon transformed.

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"Zoicite!" bellowed Beryl from her throne. A second later the light haired shitennou appeared before her.

"You called, my queen?" he asked as he bowed before her.

"What happened at the battle between the senshi and the youma I allowed you to take with you?"

"It seems as though the senshi defeated it. I suspect that the senshi, Sailors Jupiter, managed to destroy the gauntlets you had bestowed upon the creature and then distracted it long enough for Sailor Moon to regain her strength enough to destroy it," he explained to the best of his ability. "I ask of your forgiveness, Queen Beryl. I assure you that next time, Sailor Moon and her senshi will be defeated. Now that we have the information on at least one of their physiologies, we can go from there in creating weapons to defeat all of them."

"Very well, but know that I will not tolerate any more failures from you. Is that understood?"

"Hai, Queen Beryl," he replied.

"Now go. Choose a youma and do whatever you have to in order to make it capable of defeating the senshi," Beryl commanded. The long haired shitennou disappeared to somewhere in the Dark Kingdom.

Beryl blinked when she felt a familiar surge of energy pass over her. "What was that? That energy was so powerful? Could it have been the ginzuishou?"

She shook her head to think away the belief. She knew that the key to the crystal was the rainbow crystals, and there were four in Kunzite and Zoicite's possession. Even still... What was that strange energy?

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Minako Aino was still moping about the discovery of just who Kaitou Ace had been when she felt a familiar energy wash over her.

"Oh no... Artemis!" she gasped as she broke into a run on the way to her house. The minute she entered the door, she kicked her shoes off and raced up the stairs to her room.

She slammed the door shut when she saw the white cat sitting on her bed with a concerned look on his face.

"You felt it as well didn't you?" he asked.

"Hai... I thought something had happened to you, but you appear to be safe, and that could only mean-"

"Something has happened to Luna. We need to contact the other senshi as soon as possible to see what is happening," he told her.

"So I suppose Sailor V is going to finally be allowed to become Sailor Venus, eh? I suppose it was going to have to happen sooner or later," the blonde replied. "But, could it not be dangerous for the decoy to join the princess?"

"I have a feeling that if something has happened to Luna, then the princess is most likely already in danger," the white feline replied. "At the next battle, you will join them, and you will make sure that they are all right. We will go on from there."

"I understand, Artemis."

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Sorry for the shortness of this chapter. Thanks for the replies!!! I'll try to have the next chapter out soon. For those of you who have been waiting for the Usa Mamo moments, the next chapter is for you! ^-^

Until Next Time!