Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon Labyrinth ❯ Dreaming, Hino Rei's Confusion Visions ( Chapter 1 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

Chapter One: Dreaming, Hino Rei's Confusing Visions
Hai is "yes" Arigato is "thank you" Nani is "what?" Gomen is "Sorry"


*Present Time*
A girl with lovely, raven-black hair tossed restlessly in her sleep, her face twisted as if she was in pain.

"No," she whispered softly. "No!"
A flash of pink, the sound of horribly familiar, yet somehow frighteningly different, laughter. A ripped green dress, a girl that looked like...Usagi? A rose dripping blood, catching on fire, and finally melting beyond recognition. Red eyes, dark energy reaching out...A red crystal with the sign of Mars being pulled away from her, hurled away into a dark and twisting doorway that looked ready to collapse. The ginzuishou was shining in the darkness, offering comfort, but it turned black and finally shattered into glittering pieces which impaled the senshi. Luna-P rolled down a flight of stairs and finally stopped when it bumped into the feet of Chibiusa. She looked down at it sadly and whispered, "It's broken." A tear rolled down her cheek, fell through the air, and became a crystal. It glided down to Rei's hand, but when it landed she ignored it. She whispered something to Usagi, who became Neo-Queen Serenity, and they both turned their backs to her. The crystal fell from her hand and burst into flames.
"NO!"
She screamed and sat straight up. Her hair was tangled around her from tossing and turning, and her body was covered with a thin sheen of sweat. She panted heavily, and her violet eyes darted around the confines of the darkened room. Crickets chirped quietly outside, and a soft breeze was rustling the leaves of the trees directly outside the temple. She put a shaking hand to her face and wiped at eyes suddenly filled with tears. Taking deep breathes, Hino Rei finally managed to calm down enough to stop shaking.

"I've got to tell the others. This is too important to wait until morning." She grabbed her wrist communicator and called the other senshi.
Mizuno Ami, who was Sailormercury, was the first to respond to the call. She sounded wide awake, and her voice was filled with nothing but concern.

"Rei-chan? What's wrong? Why are you calling so late at night?"

"Ami-chan," she answered shakily, "I need you to come over to the temple right now. I've had a dream."

"I see." There was no questioning in the other girl's voice; she had had too much experience with Rei's dreams to ignore them.

"I'll be right there."
Kino Makoto, called Mako-chan, and Sailorjupiter, was the next to pick up. Her voice sounded sleepy, but also concerned.

"Yeah?"

"Mako-chan? It's Rei. I need you to come to temple right away."

"What for? It's the middle of the night. We've got school tomorrow!"

"I know. Gomen. I-" Her voice caught in her throat for a moment, and she cleared it before continuing. "I had a dream." Mako's voice was suddenly filled with worry, and the last traces of sleep disappeared from her reply.

"It has you that shaken up? Don't worry, Rei-chan. I'm on my way."
It was almost a full minute before either of the other two girls picked up. Finally, a sleepy voice Rei was fairly sure was Aino Minako, Sailorvenus, yawned into the communicator before mumbling, "Did this thing go off? Artemis. Wake up. Did this go off? Hello?"

"Minako-chan?"

"Yes." There was another large yawn followed by an indignant yell Rei recognized as Artemis, Minako's talking, white cat.

"I need you to come to temple. It's important. I've had a dream."

"Nani? A dream?" A long yawn. "Hold on Rei-chan." Another yawn. "I just need to...wake Artemis up. We'll" Yawn. "be there in a little while." Rei doubted that the two would arrive "in a little while," but the sound of Minako's sleep-filled voice made Rei smile.
Moments after Minako's voice faded from the room the last members of the sailor team responded.
"Rei? This is Luna. Is everything okay?"

"Luna! Let me guess, Usagi couldn't be bothered to get up and answer the communicator herself." Luna, Sailormoon/Tsukino Usagi's guardian, was a talking black cat similar to Artemis. She sighed, and responded, "I'm sorry Rei, but you know how she is. Is this urgent business for the senshi? If not, I'd rather not have to try and wake her up. She usually ends up hitting me if I come near her while she sleeps, and I'd like to keep my bruises to a minimum."

"Luna...I've had a dream."

"Oh." She sighed again. "Don't worry Rei. I'll get Usagi there if I have to drag her by her hair."

"Arigato, Luna." Normally the thought of Usagi being dragged around in the middle of the night by her hair would make Rei laugh, but the horrible dream hung over her head like a storm cloud, putting a damper on everything.

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"And then the crystal fell out of my hand and burst into flames."
Rei started shaking again, and Ami put a comforting arm around her shoulders.

"Do you know what the dream could mean, Rei-chan?" Makoto asked from her sitting position on the temple steps. The dark-haired girl shook her head mutely.

"Don't worry," Ami said comfortingly, "We'll figure it out."

Before she could say anything else, Usagi's loud snoring cut through all of the quiet conversation. Rei frowned and nudged the sleeping blond with one foot. She rolled down a step and landed on her face.

"Ow! I'm awake! I was listening!" She proclaimed loudly. Mako pounced on her from above and covered her mouth, whispering, "Be quiet, Usagi-chan! Do you want to wake everybody up?!"

Usagi mumbled, "Sorry," around Makoto's muffling hand. After the bigger girl had released her, Usagi muttered, "I noticed that no one bothered to wake up Minako-chan up. Am I the only one not allowed to sleep?" Her tone began to sound whiny and Rei's eyes narrowed meanly.

"You're the leader, Usagi. We shouldn't have to keep you awake. You should already be paying attention!"
The blond began to bawl, but Luna snapped, "Knock it off. We don't have time for this. We have to figure out what that dream meant. The fact that Chibiusa was in it could bode poorly for the future."

Usagi's waterworks immediately shut off, and looking confused she asked, "What does Chibiusa-chan have to do with a silly old dream?" Everyone stared at her with exasperation, except for Minako, who was snoring softly.

"Baka!(stupid) Don't you listen to anything?!!" Rei glared at her. Usagi started bawling again and Mako tackled her and held her mouth shut.

"Gomen, Usagi-chan, but you're going to get us in trouble."
Usagi finally managed to wiggled free of Makoto's crushing restraint and crept over to where Minako lay sleeping peacefully. With an evil look, she lifted one foot to kick the sleeping girl down the stairs. As her foot moved forward, it caught on a loose spot on the floor and she lost her balance. With a shriek she fell on top of Minako AND Artemis, who had been batting at Minako's face. Minako awoke with a scream and joined into Usagi's earsplitting screech.
Moments later, a light went on within the temple. Rei's eyes widened with alarm and she said, "You have to go. If Ojii-chan (Grandfather) catches me out here in the middle of the night I'll be doing all of the chores around the temple for the rest of my life! Meet me here tomorrow after school. I'm going to try a fire reading."

Everyone but the two struggling blondes and the smashed Artemis nodded their agreement.

"Tomorrow then." Makoto and Ami took off into the darkness silently, followed short time later by a limping Usagi, Minako, who was rubbing her head with one hand and sleepy blue eyes with the other, and two cats, one looking decidedly flatter than the other.
Rei smiled slightly as she watched her friends make their way away from the temple. However, when she was alone in her room, the feeling of dread returned, and she spent a sleepless night worrying about what the future held.

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>soft BGM, something sort of sad, but with an ominous air to it< br> Rei at school, bags under her eyes, dozing off in class, tears in her eyes, looking frustrated and worried.
Minako looking upset as Artemis yells at her, at school looking out the window with a concerned look on her face instead of listening, out in the hall after getting in trouble.
Ami, her head bowed over an exam paper, the tip of her pencil suddenly snaps, she looks down at it with surprise, and then gently sets it down, a worried look on her face.
Mako sitting against a tree, opens her lunch, stares at the food, and then pushes it away, staring up at the sky, a preoccupied look on her face.
Usagi eating her own lunch and most of Mako-chan's, holding her stomach during class and crying, falling asleep in class, standing out in the hall, Luna yelling at her at the end of the day as she reported to detention, Usagi in detention, her head on her arms with tears in her eyes and a worried look on her face.
Everyone (except Rei) walking up the temple steps, looking combinations of stressed, upset, and worried. >BGM ends< br> "Tell me what I need to know about this new dream. Please!"
Rei's voice had a slight edge of desperation behind it, but the fire stayed level and revealed nothing to her. She chanted softly again for a minute before saying, "Please great fire, enlighten us as to what we must do!" The fire still revealed nothing, and Rei was forced to admit defeat, saying, "I'm not getting anything at all. No feelings, no images, nothing. I don't understand. Because the images in my dream were so vivid, the fire should have no trouble telling me what we need to know."

"Maybe you did it wrong, Rei-chan." Usagi slid up next to her and peered into the fire. "Maybe you asked it wrong or something."
Rei's face turned red, but all she said was, "Maybe you should move away before your hair accidentally catches on fire."
With a squawk, Usagi scooted backwards away from the blaze.
"I wonder if we could figure out what the dream meant if we try and figure it out one image at a time." Makoto said thoughtfully.

"Mako-chan is right," Ami spoke up, "It may indeed be possible for us to understand the dream more fully if we try to analyze it a fraction at a time."

"Well," Rei said, "The first part of the dream was a short glimpse of pink, followed by laughter. I don't know how to describe the laugh. It sounded like something I've heard before, which might mean that the rest of you have heard it before too. It was like...I don't know. Like...I can't explain it!" Rei bit her lip with frustration.

"That's okay," Ami said soothingly, "We'll skip that part. The next part was about a ripped dress, right?"

"That's right. A ripped, sickly, greenish-black colored dress. Then, there was an instant when a girl that looked like odango atama seemed like she was looking at me. She had the same blue eyes, but she had black hair, and there was something strange about her hair style. The odango were wrong somehow..." Her brow creased as she struggled to remember.

"Don't call me odango atama (dumping/meatball head), Rei-chan!"

"Be quiet! I'm trying to think!" Usagi looked as though she was about to start whining again, but a look from Luna kept her quiet.

"That's it!" Her face lit up with excitement. "The odango on the girl's head. She had the round ones like Usagi wears, but she also had the pointy ones like Chibiusa-chan."

"Huh?" Minako looked at her with confusion and asked, "How did she do that?"

"The round odango were in front, and the pointy ones were sort of sitting partially behind them and partially on top of them. I told you, it looked like a combination between Usagi and Chibiusa-chan's hair."

"Her hair really isn't the issue here." Ami waited until they were paying attention again before continuing. "The important thing is that she looked like Usagi-chan and had a similar hairstyle. That would suggest another relative, yes?"

"Hai," Rei agreed quietly. "Probably another one from the future, since I've never had a vision of something that has already passed."

"Okay," Makoto said, "The next part of the dream was about a rose, right? It caught on fire after dripping blood, and eventually melted."
Usagi was obviously only listening to parts of the conversation, but she immediately piped up with, "Mamo-chan is probably the rose. After all, he uses roses constantly."
Ami blinked thoughtfully and replied, "You're probably right. The rose is the logical choice to represent Mamoru-san."

"That blood part doesn't look promising for him though," Luna chimed in.
Artemis, not to be left behind, added, "and the bursting into flames part probably isn't good either."
Usagi, suddenly serious, said, "You don't think Mamo-chan is in danger do you?"

"Well," Minako said thoughtfully, "I don't see how a bleeding rose could be something good..."
Usagi's eyes filled with fear and she said, "We have to warn him! I don't want anything to hurt him. Maybe the senshi could protect him. You know, follow him around during the day or something."
Rei rolled her eyes and replied, "And which one of us should skip school to trail behind him?"
Usagi's bottom lip began to tremble, and Rei, suddenly concerned, put a comforting hand on her shoulder, whispering, "Don't worry, Usagi. We'll protect him somehow."

"Arigato, Rei-chan." She said softly.

Makoto had moved on to the next part of the dream.

"The next part was about red eyes."

"Chibiusa has red eyes." Usagi piped up suddenly. After the mentioning the possibility of her Mamo-chan being in danger, she had taken a focused interest in the conversation.

"Maybe something happened to her in the future?" Artemis suggested.

Rei said, "The next part had to do with a red globe that had the sign of Mars on it flying away from me and disappearing."

"That probably symbolizes the loss of your powers, or losing control of them," Luna said. "The fact that it flew through a collapsing doorway would show that it was taken to a place where you couldn't go, or couldn't get control of."

Ami asked with surprise, "Can the senshi lose control of their powers?"

Luna and Artemis both shrugged, and Artemis said, "I can't remember it ever happening, but that doesn't mean it isn't possible. You girls have done things that I never thought possible."

"It's good to know you have faith in us," Rei said dryly, and Mako snorted with laughter.
Artemis blushed and responded, "You know that isn't what I meant."

"Okay, the next part was about the ginzuishou. It was protecting us,"

"Of course it was," Usagi put in smugly. Rei glared at her sideways and Usagi blushed and fell silent.

"But it turned black, and then-"

"There's a flaw in the ginzuishou."
All heads turned in the direction of the new voice.
A girl that looked surprisingly like Usagi stepped from the shadows and into full sunlight. She matched Rei's description perfectly, right down to the double odango. She wore a simple blue dress that hugged the waist but flared at the knees.
"I had to come back and tell you. Crystal Tokyo is going to fall."