Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Consequences: Book One- A Changing Destiny ❯ Chapter Four ( Chapter 4 )

Title: Consequences: Book One- A Changing Destiny

Rating: 13-R

Genre: Alternative Universe

Author: Sean Wright

Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon, I'm just a fan.

Chapter Four

A young man with short white blond hair stalked warily through the empty corridors of the mansion.

He moved with an unhurried air and feline grace that brought eyes to his strong physique and powerful profile. Even in a casual clothes, a wine colored v-neck sweater and dark charcoal slack, he had a look of sophistication and simple elegance that just called out all those around him. The effect was slightly tarnished by the dripping water gun at his side and his entire backside was soaking wet. His pale gray eyes were scanning the entire lay out as he searched for his prey. A slight noise behind him made his ears perk up.

Slowly, he hunched down, moving back to blend with the shadows on the walls and just in time too, as a flurry of ice crystals came from no where and landed in the spot he had been in moments before.

Silently he watched the one responsible to float down from the high ceiling and hover over the spot.

A young man with long strawberry blond hair and dressed in a stripped navy and dove gray turtle-neck sweater and navy corduroy trousers, hung in the air. The expression on his face was of deep concentration. "Damn." He muttered, "I was sure I had him-"

"Looking for me?" He jumped out of his hiding spot and fired a blast right into his face.

The floating youth cried out in shock and fell out of the air and landed in his melting snow. "Damn you, Kris." He shouted, wiping his face.

Kris was still laughing as he offered his hand to his down friend. "Artemis," Kris called, "I won."

"You cheated." The other grumbled as he dusted himself off.

Kris went from nice to evil in two seconds flat. "What was that, Zoisite?"

Zoisite, or Troy, glared at his friend/commander and then straighten. "Nothing, Sir."

"I though as much." Kris punched him in the arm playfully. "Dude, you are soaking wet-"

"What do you expect you muscle bounded-"

"Gentlemen, gentlemen, please." Artemis appeared, dressed in an all white suit, and with his long white hair tied back in a low tail at his nape. "Insults are not to traded when the battle is over. Troy, you did leave yourself open to Kris' attack because you failed to recover from your first attempt's failure. Kris never would have over taken you had not willingly given away your position." He stopped and looked over the mess this latest practice created. If only they would contain themselves to the training room or the simulators. Beside him stood a youth who was Artemis complete opposite. From the all black suite to his raven black, which cut short, and brushed back from his face with a lock falling over his brow; a wiry grin played over his face handsome, a classical handsome face that could have shamed the gods.

A broad grin broke out on Kris' face when he saw his stepbrother walking behind their mentor.

"Endy, I didn't you were coming back so soon." He cried happily as he stepped forward and clapped a welcoming hand on his shoulder.

Endy returned his smile wholeheartedly. "Neither did I, but my grandmother became bored with my lack of attention so she cut our visit short. Which was fine with me." He looked at the smaller young man standing beside Kris, critically before asking, "I can get in this too?"

"No, Prince." Artemis told him, a slight smile on his face.

Endy's face fell, "Come on, Artemis. Just one match. I promise I will behave and not cheat, too much."

Laughing, Artemis clapped his hand on his young charge's shoulder. "Maybe later, but for now Terran is waiting for you in the Star Room."

Endy made a face, "Now, why am I learning magic? Mike and Jamie are the sorcerers of the group? I already know how to use my crystal."

"It is because you are the Prince of Terra and Keeper of the Golden Crystal that you must continue to train." A man as big as all out doors with dark brownish black hair and dark forest green eyes rumbled with a thick Scottish accent as he joined them in the corridor. "Endymion, how are you, lad?"

"I'm fine, Terran. Just had a long trip from Santa Barbara and a tiring experience with customs down in Heathrow which was bitch considering you made me carry that blasted sword to America." Sarcasm tainted ever word. "Oh, and let me find Jamie. I really want to thank him for that wine he smuggled into my cases-"

"As long as you had fun, Endy." Terran said airily. "Now stop your whining and head to the Star Room so we can get your lesson over with. I want to eat sometime before the next ice age."

******

The week had gone by slowly. Not that she was complaining or anything, she had enjoyed herself immensely, allowing herself to be free now that all the shadows and lies that had surrounded her were now gone from her soul.

Bunny awoke the following Monday morning, before her alarm and got ready for her first day back at school. She heard her mother stumbling about, complaining about a lost shoe and misplaced keys. Ilene's assistant had come last night to help her mother prepare for her meeting with her publisher and had put together an outfit before she went home.

Everyone was looking for another bestseller, Ilene told her last night when they had gone out for dinner. Everyone wanted to the best and they demanded it from everyone.

"Bunny," her mother screamed up the stairs. "Are you up?"

She wanted to laugh, but she held it inside. "Yes, Mama. I'm coming down."

"If you hurry, we can grab breakfast on the way." Ilene looked around for her cell phone. "Honey, have you seen my phone?"

"It's in the car," Bunny came down, dressed in her Crossroads High uniform. Her long hair was pulled back into a loose braid like her mother's, wanting a change from her usual buns and pigtails for a while.

"You look lovely, cher," Ilene smiled as she hugged her daughter. "Today, don't worry about a thing." She told her. "This is your life, you can live it anyway you want too."

"I know, Mama, and I will." Bunny assured her. "I couldn't do this without you."

They stopped at a small café near the high school. Mostly teachers and staff members were mixed with the few students and rushing business people sprinkled here and there.

After a quick breakfast of four hearty breakfast sandwiches, orange juice, and a hot chocolate, mother and daughter parted ways. Bunny raced to school, waving to all who called out to her. Unconsciously her eyes warily searched for her two former comrades.

She didn't see Ami until homeroom, yet before she could either move or say anything to her; Molly had commandeered her, dragging her all over the schoolyard, talking about parties, cute boys, and just being a normal fifteen-year-old girl.

Bunny did not begrudge her this was and was just as eager to reconnect with her all of her friends.

From her perch near the window, Ami watched her best friend flit about the schoolyard merrily as if she didn't have a care in the world. Which she didn't since she left them all to die either in battle or at their own hands.

Bunny had stopped being Sailor Moon. She had stopped fighting and left them alone to defend this rotten hellhole from terrors that should have only existed in their worst dreams.

Dreams.

She once had dreams. She had dreamed of being a doctor, saving lives, and helping others. But like all things created in mist, once the sun came out, the dream vanished and left you with only this cruel reality.

Last night they had fought in another difficult battle, one that almost killed them all. Rei had tried desperately to reach Bunny by communicator, but she never answered. Ami could not believe that Bunny was making them fight without her strength and from their lives, she took away the comforting presence of her light and left them once again in their darkness of their existences. In every sense, Bunny had abandoned them.

Lita entered the schoolyard, Ami had told her that Bunny was there. Lita found her easily. She looked different, happier, she was almost a different person.

Lita shook her head. No, she had her mission, she would complete it.

"Gentlemen," Artemis said as the fifty-seven young men turned to the front of the dinning hall. All were dressed in black tuxedoes with tails and a white ties. Each was waiting with a baited breath for their headmaster to continue. "Time we have long trained for in the last thousand years is at hand. When the Terra and the Moon will come together and defeat our greatest foul. The day when the Princess of the Moon and Keep of the Silver Imperial Crystal will rise against the terror of Metallia and together with our Prince they will free this world and bring peace and posterity to our Kingdom, Terra. Long live Elysium. Long live Prince Endymion!"

Kris leaned over in his seat and whispered, "Nice speech. A little preachy, but nice."

Endy turned his withering glare on him. "Shut up." Was whispered back tightly.

"Really, Endy, such behaviour from a man who is going to be our saving grace and King." Kris said mockingly. He knew something eating at his brother and he decided to help him get over it or have fun beating it out him.

Endy grit his teeth angrily. Kris was really pushing his buttons today. "I'm going to kick you in the balls first chance I get." Endy warned him.

"I'd like to see you try little brother." There was a loud smack, Kris was rubbing the back of his head as he glared at the offender.

"You both have double duty in the training room tomorrow morning," Terran growled.

Endy opened his mouth, but closed it firmly and send his brother another death glare. This was just great, added this to his increasing irritability because of some ecological disaster in the southern hemisphere, Endy was set to explode and Kris was going to be his punching bag for the next few days.

******

It wasn't late, just eight-thirty and Bunny was taking a leisurely stroll through her neighborhood. Her mother wasn't home and she had some business dinner to attend, leaving her daughter to her own devices for the evening.

As she turned the down the lane towards her house, she came upon the most exhilarating sight that never failed to bring her joy.

The full moon sat high, over Juuban, bathing it all with it's glowing light and lavishing its love over it's former Champion and lost Princess.

Without thinking, Bunny closed her eyes and slight raised her hands before her in a cupping gesture, not never knowing why she had done this, but as always, she went along with the feeling. And she began to glow faintly.

Ilene stood in the center of the private grove in the park, unknowingly mimicking her daughter, but unlike her daughter, she knew why was doing it and what was going on.

Her crescent moon insignia was glowing brightly in the dim light of the wooded glen as she received love and nutriments from that brightly glowing orb in the earth's sky. Just as she was coming from her trance, Ilene heard a scream behind her. She scanned the area around her, waiting tensely for anything, but she only heard silence. Still there was the oppressive feeling of darkness all around her.

Slowly, she knelt in the soft grass and with her mind, she kept her internal senses trained on everything about her and then she drove out of the way and not a moment too soon for the former Senshi of the Silver Millennium as a metallic youma came charging at her.

With cat like reflexes, Ilene again dove out of the way of the rampaging youma. She came up in a low crouch and summoned her Crescent Moon Rod, and stabbed the beast with the butt of weapon and following up with a quick kick to the metallic youma's head, all the while she was praying to her patron goddess that she survived this fight. She couldn't remember the last time she had fought in a battle without using her crystal.

Skillfully, Ilene dodged the youma's claws and with a twist of her wrist, she beat the youma, then she hooked it with behind it's arms and swung it around before she landed on it stiletto heels first. The creature roared in pain and slapped the Queen back, then it painfully pulled itself up, black blood was coming from the open wounds Ilene had inflicted upon it.

Ilene had not stayed down long, she had rolled to her feet and stood at a profile waiting for the thing to rise up and then she attacked it. Using her rod to launch herself at the beast, Ilene prepared to finish it off, but to her horror, the youma countered her attack; it caught her by the legs and swung her around like a rag doll before slamming her face down in the grass.

The youma roared and went in for the kill.

Ilene laid there, disoriented. In the back of her mind, she though she heard Bunny calling her. She moved to push herself up, but the youma caught her by the back of her head and pulled her up. She tried to fight. Blue eyes went silver as she made to call upon the power of the moon, when she heard something she never thought she would never hear in this lifetime.

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