Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Finding Destiny ❯ The Lost Generals ( Chapter 29 )

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Finding Destiny
Part 29
By Angel Love

Author's Notes: This is back in the present. Remember that Nephlite did not fall in love with Molly and die that way. He was placed in eternal sleep just like Jadeite was. Sailor Love controls the same elements as the inner scouts do, just as Sailor Destiny controls the same powers as the outers.

Standard disclaimers apply. I don't own Sailor Moon. I just borrowed the characters and manipulated the story line. But the Guardians are mine. If you would like to use them, please ask me first.



Tux watched in fascination as Sailor Jupiter's form shimmered and transformed into Princess Lita. Her green dress was the same one he remembered from the night Nephlite gave her the rose earrings. A grin spread across his face as he lost himself in the memories for a moment.

Both girls opened their eyes, blinking at the sudden switch in reality and lives. Lita's hands flew to the earrings resting on her earlobes. Serenity looked at her closely, watching as everything slowly sunk in. "Are you okay?"

Lita's smile was a little watery. "Yea, I guess so." She pulled one earring out of its hole and stared at it for a moment. "At least now I know how I got these. And why I always felt such longing every time I saw them." Her voice was soft and far away. She looked up at Serenity. Her emotions clear for her princess to see. She was hurting, and she was desperately in need of comfort. "Do you think he is still alive? I know you guys said that he just disappeared and Zoicite and Malachite showed up. But that doesn't mean he's dead, right?"

Serenity turned to look at Destiny, who nodded her head. She turned back to Lita with a smile across her face. "Yes, he is."

Lita looked up at the twins in confusion. She didn't have any memory of them. "Who?"

Mars stopped her by putting a hand on her shoulder. "Don't ask. We will both be finding out later. But that is Destiny and Love." She pointed to each of them, grinning at the confused look on the others face.

Lita nodded her head after a moment's study of each of the Guardians. She wasn't quite sure that she wanted to trust them, but if they were here with Serena then she would assume that they were to be trusted. Her leader would not have brought them with her unless they could be counted on.

She shifted back into her scout form after she noticed that Sailor Moon had already shifted. "Let's go get Venus." She mashed one fist into her palm. "And kick some Negaverse butt in the process." She grinned widely, eager to get moving.

Sailor Moon raised an eyebrow at her friend, but couldn't help the smile that came across her face. "A bit anxious are we, Jupiter?"

Jupiter's only response was to grin wider and wink.

"Welcome back," Mercury said quietly, before sliding the visor over her eyes again, her own anxiousness to get to Venus starting to show. "Well, we seem to be heading more into the center of this place."

"The more we move in the harder for us to get out," Mars muttered.

The group started moving further into the awaiting darkness. Each were getting more and more nervous about the lack of enemies. But were feeling a little more secure knowing that they only had one more scout to find before they could get out of this place. But they each knew that Beryl wasn't going to let them out without a fight. A fight that would more than likely lead to the death of either the scouts or the Negaverse. And they were hoping that it wasn't going to be them.

"Turn left," Mercury's voice called breaking through the heavy silence in the group.

Mars pulled her sharply to the right when she was about to step into a giant hole in the ground. The blue-haired scout muttered thanks, then went back to trying to figure out how to get back out without running into trouble.

"Is it just me or is the smell in this place getting worse?" Moon wondered, burying her face in Tux's cape.

"It smells like they stashed about a hundred dead bodies down here," Love added, doing her best to cover her noise from the smell.

"It is times like these that I wish that I had gloves," Destiny added, looking down at her bare hands for a moment and sighing.

Moon giggled then squealed as a rat ran right under her feet. Tux wrapped an arm around her in a gesture of comfort. A smile crossed his face when she made herself more secure against his side, one of her hands finding their way to his.

Mars leaned close to the extremely confused Jupiter and whispered the identity of their favorite male super hero to her friend. Jupiter's mouth dropped open in response.

Suddenly Destiny stopped in her tracks. "Stop!" she called out to the others. They all halted to look at her in confusion, but didn't say anything when she held up her staff. The center stone was glowing much like Love's had done when they found Mars. "There is a general here, maybe more than one, I can't tell." She moved first to the right with her staff but moved to the left when the glowing faded slightly. It flared brightly when she touched to the wall to her left. "On the other side of this wall."

"Can you tell who it is, Mercury?" Sailor Moon asked, glancing at her friend.

Mercury shook her head. "I am only picking up Venus and she is that way." She pointed down the way they had just been heading.

"I doubt that it is Zoicite or Malachite," Tux said. "I think that we will find them when we find Venus."

Sailor Moon nodded in agreement. "So it has to be Jadeite or Nephlite. Or maybe both."

"Or it could just be a trap," Jupiter added, eyeing the wall.

"There is only one way to find out," Mars spoke quietly. "We have to see what is on the other side of that wall."

Destiny looked at her sister, then moved out of the way when Love walked up to the wall and held up her staff in front of her.

"Eros' Fury!"

Flames consumed the staff in her hands; the others were amazed when it didn't burn her. It traveled up to the stone when she twirled it around. Then she placed it against the wall. It melted it down like it had when she first did it with Mars, but this time it took her a bit more energy because the wall was damper and there was a small magic barrier blocking her.

Mars looked at the blonde with wide eyes. "You have the power of fire?"

Love nodded. "I will explain it later," she promised as she and Destiny walked cautiously into the room.

It was the same room that the generals had used to plot the plan to kidnap the scouts, but the table that they used had been removed. Jadeite and Nephlite were still in their crystalline coffins against the far wall.

Tux stopped in his tracks, pulling Sailor Moon up close to him. He felt a mixture of relief and anger at the sight of them. He felt relief that they were still alive, but he was angry for their betrayal against him, their kingdom and the scouts.

"This explains why they disappeared," he said softly, his voice holding a hint of pain.

Moon looked up at him in concern. "Are you okay?" He smiled at her in response.

Jupiter and Mars ran to their respective loves, stopping in front of the crystalline. Jupiter stood in front of Nephlite, slightly shocked by his state.

Raye gently traced the lines of Jadeite's face. Her heart screaming at the look of horror that was embedded in his. She wished that she could touch his smooth skin instead of this hard crystal. "You said that they weren't dead." She turned a hard accusing glare at the twins.

"They aren't," Mercury spoke up. She had been running scans on them the moment she saw them. "It looks like they've been placed in some sort of suspended animation."

"Can we get them out?" Jupiter asked, never turning her eyes away from the face of her love.

"I think so. If you hit the crystal right where those cracks are with your attacks, I think that should be enough to fully break the casing," the water scout said, looking at the read out on her computer.

"But are they on our side? Or Beryl's?" Tux spoke up, his voice hard. "I don't want a repeat performance of that last battle on the moon."

"I don't want that either, but I don't think that they had much choice in their actions either," Moon said softly. "I was there, I saw the regret and pain that their actions had caused them. They were possessed by Beryl."

"And they still may very well be. Zoicite and Malachite obviously still are," Tux said, not sure that he wanted to deal with watching his generals betray him again. "Do you really want to risk your scouts lives to get them back again?"

"Do you really want to leave them here?" she countered with a soft voice. "They were your generals, Darien. But I can understand why you would want to leave them. It is your decision, love."

Tuxedo Mask looked closely at the generals, and then he looked at Jupiter and Mars. He knew what his decision would be.

To be continued...