Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Celestial Moon ❯ Chapter Five: Fight With Nephrite, The Shadow Falls ( Chapter 5 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

Celestial Moon
by: drama81

*Author's Notes: First off, let me say thank you to everyone who has reviewed. You are the ones
who have kept me inspired to write more. Also, the reason Usagi is Sailor Celestia instead of
Sailor Moon or Sailor Cosmos is that Moon will come later. Cosmos is the future form of Moon, so
if I used Cosmos I would be forcing Usagi to use a lower power later. Celestia, if you haven't
noticed, is a shortened form of Celestial (gee one letter, oh well). Eternal Sailor Moon almost
looks like a celestial being in her fuku, and Neo-Queen Serenity also has wings, so it made sense
to me at the time. Okay, enough of my babbling, on with the chapter...

Chapter Five

Haruka and Michiru quickly gathered the senshi from around the large room and began to fight
their way through the crowd to the back. After a few minutes they finally pulled through and
walked unimpeded to the back of the hall. As they got to the very back, they saw a silver pig-
tail flow through a door and then the door slam shut. "Shimatta, Sailor Celestia has already
gone to take on the enemy. Minna, henshin yo!" Minako commanded.

The senshi all nodded and raised their pens in unison. After each had called out their henshin
phrase and a brief flash of multi-colored light, the Sailor Senshi stood where the girls had.
The girls quickly rushed to the door to back up Sailor Celestia. Just a moment before Uranus
opened the door it flew backwards and smashed into the senshi.

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Nephrite turned as he heard the door open and close. He turned around, expecting to see the boy
holding the Ginzuishou. Instead he saw a senshi with silver hair, and wearing a silver fuku.
"You have crossed the line Nephrite. First you kill Jadeite when he had finally returned to the
rightful side, then you get small children to do your dirty work. Your actions are evil, but can
still be forgiven. If you surrender now, then I promise you will be judged lightly," she said.

"Not on your life senshi," Nephrite said with a snarl. "Star Axis!"

A large ball of energy with two smaller balls of energy circling around it flew away from
Nephrite. Celestia dodged to the side just before the attack would have hit her. As she dove
the attack grazed her right side. It went on and smashed into the door, sending it flying back.

Celestia stood and got into a defensive stance, knowing with her injured side she wouldn't do too
much to the general. A moment later the door was pushed to the side and eight senshi clambored
out. Pluto looked at Nephrite and bared her teeth. Nephrite took one look at Pluto and smirked.

"Why hello Lady Pluto. How nice to see you again. Been to Charon Castle lately? I heard Saturn
pulled a real number on the planet and your castle," he said.

"Shut up Nephrite. The castle is of no importance," Pluto bit out.

"Ahh, Pluto, I see I can still push your buttons easily," Nephrite said, his smile twisting into
a cruel one.

Pluto pointed her staff towards Nephrite and whispered, "Dead Scream!"

The violet colored ball of energy left the staff and flew towards Nephrite. It washed over a
sheild that Nephrite had placed over himself as soon as he saw Celestia. "Here, since you want
to attack, I'll let you have one of my attacks. Star Axis!" he said.

The attack flew into the center of the senshi and sent them flying in all directions. Venus was
the first to recover and powered up immediately. "Venus Love-me Chain!" she yelled out.

The golden chain of linked hearts flew towards Nephrite and wrapped around his sheild, slowly
crushing it. Venus smiled as the chain wrapped tighter around Nephrite. "Alright!" she called
out.

"Venus, don't be so sure you've got what you think you do," Nephrite called from down the hall.

The senshi all turned and stood in awe. "How did you get away from my chain?" Venus asked in
confusion.

"Simple, you haven't fought me ever. You are battling a shadow. Now since there's enough more
than enough energy, I can let you also fight a youma. Enjoy yourselves senshi," he said as he
disappeared.

From the spot Nephrite disappeared a small pool formed on the ground. From it arose a youma that
looked like a cross between a swan and a woman. Her face was beautiful by human comparison.
Her armor was white and her sleeved looked like feathers. She wore a helmet that looked like a
swan's head. Her boots stretched up to up to her mid thigh. "Swan is gonna get ya!" she yelled.

She jumped towards the senshi, her hand extended into claws. "Shine Aqua Illusion!" Mercury
shouted.

The icy jet of water intercepted the youma and threw her roughly against the wall. She stood up
and glared at the senshi. She screamed an inhuman sound as her sleeves clamed around her arms
and formed into blades. "Senshi hurt Swan, so Swan will hurt senshi!" she yelled as she began to
run towards the senshi.

She moved faster than any of the senshi could aim and was soon in the middle of the senshi. She
quickly sliced into Venus's arm, causing her to release her chain. Nephrite's shadow smiled as
it was released. "Thank you Swan. You have served your master well. Now we shall destroy these
interlopers," he said. "Star Axis!"

The attack flew towards the senshi. Saturn stepped forward. "Silence Wall!" she shouted.

The invisible wall sprung into life and stopped the attack before it hurt any of the senshi.
"Sparkling Wide Pressure!" Jupiter yelled.

The glowing disk of condensed lightning flew from Jupiter as she hurled it towards the shadow.
The shadow saw the attack coming and quickly retreated back to Nephrite. The disk flew on and
hit Swan instead. Her body straightened as the electricity passed through it. After a moment
the attack finished its course and Swan fell to her knees. Celestia stepped forward and brought
out her staff. "Celestial Seperation!" she yelled, sending out waves of healing light.

Swan screamed as she began to seperate into two beings. After a moment Swan became a beautiful
woman and a swan. The woman ran up to Sailor Celestia and began to hug her. "Oh thank you so
very much. That man turned me into that monster while he sent my son to get our family crystal,"
she said.

The small boy cam running up with most of the guards on duty at the party. "Mommy!" he yelled as
he ran to his mother.

"Oh Daniel!" the mother said as she scooped her son up in a hug.

The senshi turned to the guards. "Alright, we'll let you take it from here. Nothing too out of
the ordinary should happen now," Celestia said as she let her wings form and flew off.

The rest of the senshi disappeared just as quickly. Celestia reappeared in the crowd, disguised
as one of the upper class citizens. 'I hope they hold the Ginzuishou. The moment of truth is
coming quickly,' she thought.

The royal family appeared on a landing above the crowd. They appeared shaken, but otherwise
alright. "Thank you everyone for attending this event. We are proud to present to you the
treasure that our family has kept for many generations, the Nijizuishou!" the king said.

They revealed a crystal that seemed to have captured all of the colors of the rainbow and allowed
them to shine in a harmony that only time could master. Usagi sighed as the crystal was shown.
"It's not the Ginzuishou," she muttered.

Behind her Rei let out a small gasp. 'She's after the Ginzuishou too? I'll have to tell the
others,' she thought.

Later on the senshi, minus Sailor Celestia, gathered at Luna and Artemis's. Rei told everyone of
what she heard Usagi say and a collective gasp passed through the senshi. "Why would she want
it?" Makoto asked.

"I don't know, but we will not let her have it!" Haruka said, determined. "I have half a mind to
go find her and show her why she should not get involved with matters that do not concern her."

"Haruka! You will do no such thing. Now sit down," Michiru commanded.

Haruka sombered at hearing Michiru and reluctantly obeyed. "We should find out why she wants the
Ginzuishou before we judge her," Luna said.

"But Luna, doesn't the Ginzuishou belong to Princess Serenity?" Ami asked.

"Hai, it does. However, we still do not know where the princess is, and until we find her we
must do what is best. I must meet with her again and see if the crystal reacts to her. If it
does then she might be able to use it to defeat the Dark Kingdom," Luna explained.

"No way. I will not allow her here to even see the Ginzuishou!" Haruka yelled, her anger
realized anew.

"Ten'ou Haruka, if you want to do what is best then you will be quiet. If she can use the
crystal, then I say we support her. She has done nothing but help us since day one," Michiru
said.

"I agree with Michiru. We should see how things go," Setsuna said, stepping into the room.

"Setsuna-san, do you know anything we should know," Luna asked.

"Iie. The future is unclear right now. We are at a critical point in time and everything we do
will affect what is going to affect the future," Setsuna said.

"Alright, then if no one else has anything to say, we should dismiss and keep an eye out for any
Dark Kingdom activities," Artemis said.

Everyone nodded their heads and soon left the house. Makoto started to head to her room when she
stopped to talk to Luna. "Luna, do you really want to meet with that girl?" she asked.

"Hai, I do. Queen Serenity made it completely clear to Artemis and myself that we must defeat
the Dark Kingdom before they gain too much power. She went so far as to tell us that finding the
princess was secondary. I could not ignore her request, and if this girl can help us achieve our
goal, then so be it," Luna said, a smile on her face.

"Then I shall try to find her tomorrow and bring her over here to see you. If I can't find her,
then I'll tell her at the next battle," Makoto said.

"Thank you Mako-chan. That would be a very big help to me," Luna said.

"I'm glad to be able to help," Makoto said, then yawned.

Luna managed to stifle a giggle at seeing her daughter try to stay awake. "I think someone is
ready for bed. You had a big day. Good night Mako-chan," Luna said.

"Good night kaa-san," Makoto said, continuing her journey to her room.

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