Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Little Girl Lost...And Found ❯ Life Get's Harder ( Chapter 1 )
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By: Wreath of roses 
The begning of our story...
Anime/Manga: Sailor Moon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Hentai | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 09.13.2002 | Updated On: 09.17.2002 | Pages: 6 | Words: 3.7K | Visits: 1.2K | Status: Work In Progress
The begning of our story...
Anime/Manga: Sailor Moon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Hentai | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 09.13.2002 | Updated On: 09.17.2002 | Pages: 6 | Words: 3.7K | Visits: 1.2K | Status: Work In Progress
Ok, this is my first fanfic…wait don't go yet!! I got the idea for this story
from reading IamthelizardQueen's story "Skin Deep." If you haven't read
this story you should. Anyway I am not going into the deeper aspects of
depression, instead my story will focus on the idea of Usagi's parents
being less than understanding to her situation. This story will also focus
on Usagi's mental development in the face of problems, and of course the
development of her relationship with Mamo-chan!!!
This story is probably going to be mostly PG-13 and maybe some R.
However I am planning on having Sekkushiaru Roman (sexual romance)
scenes in it as well. I will clearly mark these chapters as NC-17 and I will
also make PG-13 or R versions of the same chapter so that those that don't
like that kind of thing will not have to read it!
I do not own Sailor Moon. It took the men in white coats many months to
get me to realize that. They say if I'm good and take all those pretty pills
that I can have pudding tomorrow!!! I do own Mamo-chan. {Men in
white coats break down the door.} What! What do you mean that I don't
get any pudding??!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Little Girl Lost…and Found
By
Wreath of Roses
32…34…35…Tsukino Usagi lay back on her bed counting the ceiling
tiles, so far she had done this four times already. 144 tiles. She glanced
out the window it was still raining not that it made much difference; she
wouldn't be leaving her room anytime soon anyway. That's right Tsukino
Usagi, Sailor Moon, Her Supreme Royal Highness Princess Serenity of the
Moon Kingdom, one of the few standing between the world and total
destruction…was grounded.
Ever since she had become Sailor Moon her relationship with her family
had suffered. She used to be so close to both her parents, telling them
anything and everything. Now however for their own safety she was
forced to lie to them. The fact that she went out at all times of the day and
night and returned home with many cuts and bruises was another reason
for argument.
This definitely was not the first time she was being punished for her
seemingly bad behavior. However this time around was worse than the
others.
Usagi had left in the middle of the night to go to fight a daimon, it seemed
that Eudial and her station wagon O'death were busier than normal.
Anyway the usual pattern had ensued: confront Eudial, Uranus and
Neptune grab crystal to see if it is a talisman, they return crystal when it is
found out to be a dud, Neptune and Uranus vanish, Eudial vanishes, fight
and destroy ugly monster, drag yourself home to take care of injuries.
This time though she had a surprise coming to her. Her mother and father
were both sitting in the living room waiting for her.
They demanded to know where she had been, and because of obvious
reasons she couldn't tell them. Well they saw how beat-up she was and
asked her if she had been fighting, she of course denied it. Then her father
accused her of going to see that "older boy of hers." He insinuated that
Mamoru had taken advantage of her. Well that was enough to make Usagi
loose her cool and she had replied that 'Mamo-chan wouldn't do
something like that, he is a complete gentleman.' Of course her father
remembered what it was like to be a young man and he knew that most of
their thoughts were not 'gentlemanly.' He still insisted that 'that older
boy' was no good.
Usagi's mother was disappointed in her daughter too. However she
played peacekeeper saying that it was too late to discuss this now, but until
further notice Usagi was grounded. She was confined to her room and
school, not allowed to use the phone, and she couldn't see her friends or
Mamoru. Her father didn't talk or even look at her at breakfast today.
Her mother gave her the cold shoulder as well.
Usagi went to school, another source of disappointment for her parents.
All those late-night battles made it impossible to get enough sleep, and so
it was hard to stay awake in class. Add in the fact that Usagi had to use
more energy to destroy the monsters, and she was lucky she was awake at
all between battles. This made for a much less than stellar school record.
She had told Ami and Makoto that she wouldn't be able to make the
meeting at the Hikawa Shrine today or any day soon, and the fact that she
was grounded, when she saw them at school. They had understood and
promised to tell the rest of the senshi and Mamoru.
After another failed test and all around bad day in school, Usagi had come
home. And so here she lay counting the tiles in her ceiling and listening to
the rain pound against her windows.
She wished desperately that she could some how mend the relationship
she had with her parents, but she didn't see how she could. She would
have to tell them everything, and for their own safety she couldn't do that.
And even if she were to tell them all, how would they react? Ever since
she had found out that she was really a reincarnated, eons old moon
princess, she worried what her "parents" would think of her. Life was full
of hard choices. Let her parents think the worst of her and keep them safe,
while her ties to them were slowly dissolving; or tell them all, endanger
their lives and have them turn away from her when they find out that she
truly isn't their daughter. All she knew was that she loved them deeply
and she would do anything to keep them safe, even if that meant pushing
them away.
"Usagi. Usagi, your father and I want to talk to you now. Come
downstairs." Her mother's voice calling her brought her out of her
internal debating.
Usagi looked out the window on her way out of her room, noticing that it
was dark outside. She had been lamenting about her parents longer than
she had realized.
As she trudged down the stairs like a prisoner to the gallows, she prayed
that things would not go as bad as she thought they would. She arrived in
the living room to the sight of her mother's impassive face and her father
scowling at her. Apparently the higher powers were not listening to her
pleas for things to go smoothly.
"Usagi, I hope you realize that we need to discuss your behavior. This
can't go on any longer. You come and go at all hours of the night, your
grades, while they have been slightly better lately, are just on the verge of
passing, you never listen to your father or I when we give you a chore or
punish you! I don't know what to do with you any longer!!" Her
mother's voice had kept rising in volume until she was yelling at the end.
"Well I know that she didn't start acting this way until she started seeing
those new girls and that cradle robber!!" Her father's contribution to the
conversation left Usagi with a sinking sensation.
Her mother and father looked at each other and seemed to come to some
sort of agreement. The sinking sensation grew.
"Usagi your father and I have come to an agreement. While we know that
this will be hard on you…"
Usagi's mother's voice faded to the background. 'Please, don't let them
say what I think that they are going to. Don't they understand the girls
and Mamo-chan are the only ones I have to lean on! I have to separate
my self from my family, but I can't stand up all alone against life! Please
don't try and make me give them up! I need them!'
"…We feel that these new friends of yours are causing these problems. So
we have decided that you are no longer allowed to associate with these
girls and Mamoru." Her mother had said it, the thing that Usagi dreaded
the most. Her parents want her to give up the only people that have been
able to get her past the most trying times in her life. Usagi felt like the
supports had been kicked out from under her, and in way they were.
Usagi felt anger but most of all sadness rising in her. Anger that her
parents want to take away the people that are the most precious to her.
And sadness because they did not know, they did not know that what they
had just said and done was comparable to ripping out her heart.
Usagi raised her head up and looked at her parents. "There is no way that
I can leave my friends, this is unacceptable. These are the only people that
I can truly depend on and you want me to give them up? No! I will not!"
At her impassioned display both of her parents rose out of their seats. The
feelings of anger in the room were so strong you could almost see it.
"You will do as we say young lady! As long as you live under this roof
you will listen and do as your mother and I say!!" Usagi could just about
see the steam coming from her father's ears.
"Your father is right. We have been far too lenient with you! Maybe
some of your behavior problems are our fault, but this time you are going
to do as we say!" Well there went the thought of appealing to her mother.
There was no choice left.
"I will follow your rules for now." Came Usagi's deflated voice. "But
there is no way to solve my problems! And trying to keep me from my
loved ones will just make things harder! I wish you could understand!"
As those last words left her mouth, Usagi ran up the stairs in tears.
"Oh Kenji, what are we going to do? It seems like we will never return to
the happy family we used to be." At the sound of his wife's broken voice,
Kenji wrapped her up in his arms.
"I don't know. I just don't know anymore." Was the solemn reply.
Chibi-usa had been in the upstairs hallway listening to the fight between
her grandparents and her future mother. She couldn't believe that her
grandparents wanted to keep her mother away from her father and dearest
friends. When the shouting stopped and Usagi ran up the stairs in tears,
Chibi-usa ducked up the steps to her attic room. She heard Usagi's door
slam shut. And figured that she would give her mother some time to her
self.
Two hours later, and Usagi had yet to come out of her room. Chibi-usa
was really starting to get worried (not that she would let anyone know).
So she decided it was time to see if Usagi was all right.
As she crept down the stairs of her room to her mother's room, she
thought that she would hear the usual wailing that her mother favored.
But everything was eerily quiet. She turned the knob and swung her
mother's door open. She was unprepared to see what was on the other
side of the door.
For there was the former princess of the Silver Millennium and the future
queen of the entire galaxy, laying on her bed in the fetal position, with
quiet tears sliding from heartbroken eyes.
"Usagi! Usagi, are you all right?" Chibi-usa's voice wavered with the
concern she had for her future mother.
"Yeah I'll be all right. I just wish that they could understand. It hurts to
know that you and your parents can't understand each other." Came
Usagi's weary voice.
"But I thought that-" Chibi-usa was interrupted as Usagi's communicator
started shrilly beeping. Usagi opened up her communicator as fast as she
could.
Mercury's weary face stared back at her. "Usagi, I know this isn't the best
time to call but we have a real problem here! We got caught up in a fight
with the enemy. And while we managed to get the heart crystal back to its
owner, the daimon that Eudial released is to strong for us to destroy.
Mars and Venus are down, and I don't know how long Jupiter, Tuxedo
Kamen and I can keep this thing at bay! We need Sailor Moon!!"
"I'll be right there!!" Even though Usagi knew she would get into a lot of
trouble with her parents if she were caught, but she couldn't leave her
friends to fend for themselves. "Chibi-usa I need you to keep a look out
for my parents and make sure that they don't know that I am gone."
"You can count on me." (Famous last words people, famous last words.)
Usagi leapt off into the night. She found a secluded ally and transformed.
When she arrived at the battle things were worse then before. Mercury
was down and it looked as though Jupiter was fighting with a broken arm.
Really the only one that was keeping the daimon at bay was Tuxedo
Kamen, but as he released another Tuxedo La Smoking Bomber, she could
see that he could not keep up that level of energy for much longer. His
attack struck home but it didn't do much damage. "The damn thing has
some sort of shield that blocks our attacks and absorbs the energy to
become even stronger. Mercury analyzed the thing and said that only you
had enough energy to over load the shields." Tuxedo Kamen exhaustedly
stated.
"Well it is going to take me some time to build up that kind of energy.
You two will need to distract it for a few more minutes." Usagi could see
the tired but determined look in their eyes as they digested this piece of
information.
"You ready to play chicken with this thing Tux-boy?"
The afore mentioned "Tux-boy" rolled his eyes at Jupiter. "Yes I'm ready
to sidetrack this thing's attention. But I would appreciate it if you never
called me that revolting name again!"
"Whoa! It was just a joke Tuxedo Kamen-sama. You've either been
studying too much or the royal shorts are too tight!"
Another warning look from the masked-man got Jupiter off her teasing
stint and back to business. "Alright I'll take a frontal approach, with your
arm, taking the rear will provide you with more cover."
"Let's go!" Was the Jovian's reply.
As Jupiter and Tuxedo Kamen ran toward the big, ugly daimon (Is there
any other kind?), Sailor Moon was building up the energy to kill it. It was
harder than most thought, for you had to pull more and more power from
your own life force and at the same time contain and control it. One
mistake "and there goes the neighborhood" literally. She heard the attacks
of the others hitting the daimon, but she ignored it knowing that this was
the pivotal point of her own attack. She had gathered enough energy, she
hoped.
"MOVE!! NOW!!" As Sailor Moon's order echoed through the air her
two comrades got as far away from the daimon as they could given the
time they had. "SPIRAL MOON HEARTACHE" was accompanied by a
blazing explosion of pink energy.
The blast of pure energy hit the daimon. At first nothing happened, it
appeared that the monster was absorbing the energy. However, just like
what happens with even the best sponge, the daimon reached its saturation
point. It could not take such a large quantity of energy all at once, and the
shield promptly dissolved. As the rest of the energy hit the main body of
daimon it barely had time to shout out "LOVELY" as it was turned back
into a small green pebble.
Sailor Moon sunk to the ground all of her reserves drained. "Usa-ko!" and
with that cry brought a dashing masked-man to Moon's side.
"I'll be alright just don't let me do that again anytime soon." Was the
weak reply. As Tuxedo hovered over his bunny like a mother hen, Jupiter
checked on the other senshi. Everyone seemed to be fine as they were
starting to wake up. Jupiter stepped away from them and closer to the
remains of the daimon, was curious at what could make such a strong
monster. Loud laughter brought the two lovebirds out of their little world
and gained the rest of the senshi's attention.
"Ugghhh…what is making you laugh like a hyena with hiccups?" Mars
tersely asked.
"This" Jupiter held up the small green pebble that was their opponent.
"What about it?" The always-inquisitive senshi of Mercury asked.
"It's ironic that's what it is. I mean you three were knocked out, I got my
arm broken, Tuxedo Kamen is worn out and Moon had to just about blow
the thing to kingdom come, and it's a freaking M&M!!!!"
"Excuse me what do you mean a M&M. There is no freaking way that we
were in a life and death battle with a candy covered chocolate! I mean if
that were the case my Burning Mandala should have turned that thing into
a puddle of sundae topping!"
"Well it makes perfect sense to me." All eyes turned to Minako at this
declaration. "Well think about it M&M's are made to be tuff, you know
"melt in your mouth not in your hand."
Everyone groaned at Minako's odd yet correctly said statement. "Well if
that's the case then our next enemy could end up being the Energizer
Bunny, and it would 'just keep going and going.' Really, I think that the
Death Buster's just ran out of ideas and someone just happened to have a
package of candy in their pocket." That was Jupiter's idea about the
whole thing.
"I have to agree with Jupiter about this. It seems that the object in
question was infused with an extra high amount of negative energy, their-
by giving the entity more than the usual stamina." At the blank looks on
Venus, Jupiter, and Moon's faces, Mercury restated her last sentence.
"The thing was juiced up more than the other's we fought and that is why
we had such a hard time killing it! Honestly, you people need to use a
dictionary once and a while!"
As the senshi of ice continued to lament her comrades lousy vocabulary,
everyone else de-transformed. "Oh damn! Crap! These things never hurt
that much until you de-transform." Makoto gestured to her broken arm.
"I can patch you up. It's going to hurt for me to realign the bones,
though." Mamoru said.
"Just get it over with. It's not like I can explain how I broke my arm at
this time of night anyway. 'Oh yes doctor I fell when I was practicing my
human fly act in the middle of the night.'"
"Alright, first I have to look and see which way the bone snapped so I can
get it align it properly." As Mamoru said this, a golden glow came from
the tips of his fingers as he trailed them down Makoto's arm. With his
eyes closed in concentration he visualized the broken bone and saw how to
set it strait. All of a sudden he took Makoto's arm and wrenched it to one
side their-by setting the bone strait. Makoto's eyes got huge and it looked
like she was going to scream, but then Mamoru infused her entire arm
with his power blocking the pain and knitting the bones before she could
fully process the pain. When he let go of her arm it was as good as new.
"Next time warn me before you do that, I thought I was going to pass out
for a minute. Although, you know you could give David Copperfield a
run for his money. We could really make a killing in Vegas." Makoto said
while flexing her arm a few times. She then took notice of her watch.
"Man I didn't realize that it was already two o'clock. I'm going back to
bed. Thanks for fixing my arm Mamoru-san."
"DAMN!" All eyes turned toward Usagi, surprised that she would use
such language. "I have to get home before my parents find out I'm gone.
They will skin me alive if they find out that I have left at this time of
night." Usagi the reached up and gave Mamoru a quick peck on the
cheek. "I'm glad you guys are all right. I'll see you when my parents let
up, or when I become queen of Crystal Tokyo, whichever comes first."
With that slight bit of humor Usagi turned and started to run towards her
home. The other girls also said goodnight and went to their homes, too.
Mamoru's eyes followed Usagi until she was out of sight. He knew
through their bond that these problems with her parents were hurting her
more then she let on. 'Please let things work out for Usa-ko. It tears me
up inside to feel her hurting over this. Please Kami watch over her.'
Then he turned and started to walk home also, the crash of thunder
booming in the distance.
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As Usagi reached her window the rain started to come down in sheets.
"Whoa, I'm sure glad I'm not out in that!" Usagi commented under her
breath as she opened her window and climbed through. Her room was
dark. "Good I made it back before they noticed."
All of a sudden the lights in her room turned on.
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Well what do you think so far? "Great Expectations" it's not, but if I
entertained you for a while that's all I'm after. The next chapter will be
coming in a bit. Boy too bad I'm a perfectionist; it takes me a while to get
my stories to sound the way I like!!
from reading IamthelizardQueen's story "Skin Deep." If you haven't read
this story you should. Anyway I am not going into the deeper aspects of
depression, instead my story will focus on the idea of Usagi's parents
being less than understanding to her situation. This story will also focus
on Usagi's mental development in the face of problems, and of course the
development of her relationship with Mamo-chan!!!
This story is probably going to be mostly PG-13 and maybe some R.
However I am planning on having Sekkushiaru Roman (sexual romance)
scenes in it as well. I will clearly mark these chapters as NC-17 and I will
also make PG-13 or R versions of the same chapter so that those that don't
like that kind of thing will not have to read it!
I do not own Sailor Moon. It took the men in white coats many months to
get me to realize that. They say if I'm good and take all those pretty pills
that I can have pudding tomorrow!!! I do own Mamo-chan. {Men in
white coats break down the door.} What! What do you mean that I don't
get any pudding??!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Little Girl Lost…and Found
By
Wreath of Roses
32…34…35…Tsukino Usagi lay back on her bed counting the ceiling
tiles, so far she had done this four times already. 144 tiles. She glanced
out the window it was still raining not that it made much difference; she
wouldn't be leaving her room anytime soon anyway. That's right Tsukino
Usagi, Sailor Moon, Her Supreme Royal Highness Princess Serenity of the
Moon Kingdom, one of the few standing between the world and total
destruction…was grounded.
Ever since she had become Sailor Moon her relationship with her family
had suffered. She used to be so close to both her parents, telling them
anything and everything. Now however for their own safety she was
forced to lie to them. The fact that she went out at all times of the day and
night and returned home with many cuts and bruises was another reason
for argument.
This definitely was not the first time she was being punished for her
seemingly bad behavior. However this time around was worse than the
others.
Usagi had left in the middle of the night to go to fight a daimon, it seemed
that Eudial and her station wagon O'death were busier than normal.
Anyway the usual pattern had ensued: confront Eudial, Uranus and
Neptune grab crystal to see if it is a talisman, they return crystal when it is
found out to be a dud, Neptune and Uranus vanish, Eudial vanishes, fight
and destroy ugly monster, drag yourself home to take care of injuries.
This time though she had a surprise coming to her. Her mother and father
were both sitting in the living room waiting for her.
They demanded to know where she had been, and because of obvious
reasons she couldn't tell them. Well they saw how beat-up she was and
asked her if she had been fighting, she of course denied it. Then her father
accused her of going to see that "older boy of hers." He insinuated that
Mamoru had taken advantage of her. Well that was enough to make Usagi
loose her cool and she had replied that 'Mamo-chan wouldn't do
something like that, he is a complete gentleman.' Of course her father
remembered what it was like to be a young man and he knew that most of
their thoughts were not 'gentlemanly.' He still insisted that 'that older
boy' was no good.
Usagi's mother was disappointed in her daughter too. However she
played peacekeeper saying that it was too late to discuss this now, but until
further notice Usagi was grounded. She was confined to her room and
school, not allowed to use the phone, and she couldn't see her friends or
Mamoru. Her father didn't talk or even look at her at breakfast today.
Her mother gave her the cold shoulder as well.
Usagi went to school, another source of disappointment for her parents.
All those late-night battles made it impossible to get enough sleep, and so
it was hard to stay awake in class. Add in the fact that Usagi had to use
more energy to destroy the monsters, and she was lucky she was awake at
all between battles. This made for a much less than stellar school record.
She had told Ami and Makoto that she wouldn't be able to make the
meeting at the Hikawa Shrine today or any day soon, and the fact that she
was grounded, when she saw them at school. They had understood and
promised to tell the rest of the senshi and Mamoru.
After another failed test and all around bad day in school, Usagi had come
home. And so here she lay counting the tiles in her ceiling and listening to
the rain pound against her windows.
She wished desperately that she could some how mend the relationship
she had with her parents, but she didn't see how she could. She would
have to tell them everything, and for their own safety she couldn't do that.
And even if she were to tell them all, how would they react? Ever since
she had found out that she was really a reincarnated, eons old moon
princess, she worried what her "parents" would think of her. Life was full
of hard choices. Let her parents think the worst of her and keep them safe,
while her ties to them were slowly dissolving; or tell them all, endanger
their lives and have them turn away from her when they find out that she
truly isn't their daughter. All she knew was that she loved them deeply
and she would do anything to keep them safe, even if that meant pushing
them away.
"Usagi. Usagi, your father and I want to talk to you now. Come
downstairs." Her mother's voice calling her brought her out of her
internal debating.
Usagi looked out the window on her way out of her room, noticing that it
was dark outside. She had been lamenting about her parents longer than
she had realized.
As she trudged down the stairs like a prisoner to the gallows, she prayed
that things would not go as bad as she thought they would. She arrived in
the living room to the sight of her mother's impassive face and her father
scowling at her. Apparently the higher powers were not listening to her
pleas for things to go smoothly.
"Usagi, I hope you realize that we need to discuss your behavior. This
can't go on any longer. You come and go at all hours of the night, your
grades, while they have been slightly better lately, are just on the verge of
passing, you never listen to your father or I when we give you a chore or
punish you! I don't know what to do with you any longer!!" Her
mother's voice had kept rising in volume until she was yelling at the end.
"Well I know that she didn't start acting this way until she started seeing
those new girls and that cradle robber!!" Her father's contribution to the
conversation left Usagi with a sinking sensation.
Her mother and father looked at each other and seemed to come to some
sort of agreement. The sinking sensation grew.
"Usagi your father and I have come to an agreement. While we know that
this will be hard on you…"
Usagi's mother's voice faded to the background. 'Please, don't let them
say what I think that they are going to. Don't they understand the girls
and Mamo-chan are the only ones I have to lean on! I have to separate
my self from my family, but I can't stand up all alone against life! Please
don't try and make me give them up! I need them!'
"…We feel that these new friends of yours are causing these problems. So
we have decided that you are no longer allowed to associate with these
girls and Mamoru." Her mother had said it, the thing that Usagi dreaded
the most. Her parents want her to give up the only people that have been
able to get her past the most trying times in her life. Usagi felt like the
supports had been kicked out from under her, and in way they were.
Usagi felt anger but most of all sadness rising in her. Anger that her
parents want to take away the people that are the most precious to her.
And sadness because they did not know, they did not know that what they
had just said and done was comparable to ripping out her heart.
Usagi raised her head up and looked at her parents. "There is no way that
I can leave my friends, this is unacceptable. These are the only people that
I can truly depend on and you want me to give them up? No! I will not!"
At her impassioned display both of her parents rose out of their seats. The
feelings of anger in the room were so strong you could almost see it.
"You will do as we say young lady! As long as you live under this roof
you will listen and do as your mother and I say!!" Usagi could just about
see the steam coming from her father's ears.
"Your father is right. We have been far too lenient with you! Maybe
some of your behavior problems are our fault, but this time you are going
to do as we say!" Well there went the thought of appealing to her mother.
There was no choice left.
"I will follow your rules for now." Came Usagi's deflated voice. "But
there is no way to solve my problems! And trying to keep me from my
loved ones will just make things harder! I wish you could understand!"
As those last words left her mouth, Usagi ran up the stairs in tears.
"Oh Kenji, what are we going to do? It seems like we will never return to
the happy family we used to be." At the sound of his wife's broken voice,
Kenji wrapped her up in his arms.
"I don't know. I just don't know anymore." Was the solemn reply.
Chibi-usa had been in the upstairs hallway listening to the fight between
her grandparents and her future mother. She couldn't believe that her
grandparents wanted to keep her mother away from her father and dearest
friends. When the shouting stopped and Usagi ran up the stairs in tears,
Chibi-usa ducked up the steps to her attic room. She heard Usagi's door
slam shut. And figured that she would give her mother some time to her
self.
Two hours later, and Usagi had yet to come out of her room. Chibi-usa
was really starting to get worried (not that she would let anyone know).
So she decided it was time to see if Usagi was all right.
As she crept down the stairs of her room to her mother's room, she
thought that she would hear the usual wailing that her mother favored.
But everything was eerily quiet. She turned the knob and swung her
mother's door open. She was unprepared to see what was on the other
side of the door.
For there was the former princess of the Silver Millennium and the future
queen of the entire galaxy, laying on her bed in the fetal position, with
quiet tears sliding from heartbroken eyes.
"Usagi! Usagi, are you all right?" Chibi-usa's voice wavered with the
concern she had for her future mother.
"Yeah I'll be all right. I just wish that they could understand. It hurts to
know that you and your parents can't understand each other." Came
Usagi's weary voice.
"But I thought that-" Chibi-usa was interrupted as Usagi's communicator
started shrilly beeping. Usagi opened up her communicator as fast as she
could.
Mercury's weary face stared back at her. "Usagi, I know this isn't the best
time to call but we have a real problem here! We got caught up in a fight
with the enemy. And while we managed to get the heart crystal back to its
owner, the daimon that Eudial released is to strong for us to destroy.
Mars and Venus are down, and I don't know how long Jupiter, Tuxedo
Kamen and I can keep this thing at bay! We need Sailor Moon!!"
"I'll be right there!!" Even though Usagi knew she would get into a lot of
trouble with her parents if she were caught, but she couldn't leave her
friends to fend for themselves. "Chibi-usa I need you to keep a look out
for my parents and make sure that they don't know that I am gone."
"You can count on me." (Famous last words people, famous last words.)
Usagi leapt off into the night. She found a secluded ally and transformed.
When she arrived at the battle things were worse then before. Mercury
was down and it looked as though Jupiter was fighting with a broken arm.
Really the only one that was keeping the daimon at bay was Tuxedo
Kamen, but as he released another Tuxedo La Smoking Bomber, she could
see that he could not keep up that level of energy for much longer. His
attack struck home but it didn't do much damage. "The damn thing has
some sort of shield that blocks our attacks and absorbs the energy to
become even stronger. Mercury analyzed the thing and said that only you
had enough energy to over load the shields." Tuxedo Kamen exhaustedly
stated.
"Well it is going to take me some time to build up that kind of energy.
You two will need to distract it for a few more minutes." Usagi could see
the tired but determined look in their eyes as they digested this piece of
information.
"You ready to play chicken with this thing Tux-boy?"
The afore mentioned "Tux-boy" rolled his eyes at Jupiter. "Yes I'm ready
to sidetrack this thing's attention. But I would appreciate it if you never
called me that revolting name again!"
"Whoa! It was just a joke Tuxedo Kamen-sama. You've either been
studying too much or the royal shorts are too tight!"
Another warning look from the masked-man got Jupiter off her teasing
stint and back to business. "Alright I'll take a frontal approach, with your
arm, taking the rear will provide you with more cover."
"Let's go!" Was the Jovian's reply.
As Jupiter and Tuxedo Kamen ran toward the big, ugly daimon (Is there
any other kind?), Sailor Moon was building up the energy to kill it. It was
harder than most thought, for you had to pull more and more power from
your own life force and at the same time contain and control it. One
mistake "and there goes the neighborhood" literally. She heard the attacks
of the others hitting the daimon, but she ignored it knowing that this was
the pivotal point of her own attack. She had gathered enough energy, she
hoped.
"MOVE!! NOW!!" As Sailor Moon's order echoed through the air her
two comrades got as far away from the daimon as they could given the
time they had. "SPIRAL MOON HEARTACHE" was accompanied by a
blazing explosion of pink energy.
The blast of pure energy hit the daimon. At first nothing happened, it
appeared that the monster was absorbing the energy. However, just like
what happens with even the best sponge, the daimon reached its saturation
point. It could not take such a large quantity of energy all at once, and the
shield promptly dissolved. As the rest of the energy hit the main body of
daimon it barely had time to shout out "LOVELY" as it was turned back
into a small green pebble.
Sailor Moon sunk to the ground all of her reserves drained. "Usa-ko!" and
with that cry brought a dashing masked-man to Moon's side.
"I'll be alright just don't let me do that again anytime soon." Was the
weak reply. As Tuxedo hovered over his bunny like a mother hen, Jupiter
checked on the other senshi. Everyone seemed to be fine as they were
starting to wake up. Jupiter stepped away from them and closer to the
remains of the daimon, was curious at what could make such a strong
monster. Loud laughter brought the two lovebirds out of their little world
and gained the rest of the senshi's attention.
"Ugghhh…what is making you laugh like a hyena with hiccups?" Mars
tersely asked.
"This" Jupiter held up the small green pebble that was their opponent.
"What about it?" The always-inquisitive senshi of Mercury asked.
"It's ironic that's what it is. I mean you three were knocked out, I got my
arm broken, Tuxedo Kamen is worn out and Moon had to just about blow
the thing to kingdom come, and it's a freaking M&M!!!!"
"Excuse me what do you mean a M&M. There is no freaking way that we
were in a life and death battle with a candy covered chocolate! I mean if
that were the case my Burning Mandala should have turned that thing into
a puddle of sundae topping!"
"Well it makes perfect sense to me." All eyes turned to Minako at this
declaration. "Well think about it M&M's are made to be tuff, you know
"melt in your mouth not in your hand."
Everyone groaned at Minako's odd yet correctly said statement. "Well if
that's the case then our next enemy could end up being the Energizer
Bunny, and it would 'just keep going and going.' Really, I think that the
Death Buster's just ran out of ideas and someone just happened to have a
package of candy in their pocket." That was Jupiter's idea about the
whole thing.
"I have to agree with Jupiter about this. It seems that the object in
question was infused with an extra high amount of negative energy, their-
by giving the entity more than the usual stamina." At the blank looks on
Venus, Jupiter, and Moon's faces, Mercury restated her last sentence.
"The thing was juiced up more than the other's we fought and that is why
we had such a hard time killing it! Honestly, you people need to use a
dictionary once and a while!"
As the senshi of ice continued to lament her comrades lousy vocabulary,
everyone else de-transformed. "Oh damn! Crap! These things never hurt
that much until you de-transform." Makoto gestured to her broken arm.
"I can patch you up. It's going to hurt for me to realign the bones,
though." Mamoru said.
"Just get it over with. It's not like I can explain how I broke my arm at
this time of night anyway. 'Oh yes doctor I fell when I was practicing my
human fly act in the middle of the night.'"
"Alright, first I have to look and see which way the bone snapped so I can
get it align it properly." As Mamoru said this, a golden glow came from
the tips of his fingers as he trailed them down Makoto's arm. With his
eyes closed in concentration he visualized the broken bone and saw how to
set it strait. All of a sudden he took Makoto's arm and wrenched it to one
side their-by setting the bone strait. Makoto's eyes got huge and it looked
like she was going to scream, but then Mamoru infused her entire arm
with his power blocking the pain and knitting the bones before she could
fully process the pain. When he let go of her arm it was as good as new.
"Next time warn me before you do that, I thought I was going to pass out
for a minute. Although, you know you could give David Copperfield a
run for his money. We could really make a killing in Vegas." Makoto said
while flexing her arm a few times. She then took notice of her watch.
"Man I didn't realize that it was already two o'clock. I'm going back to
bed. Thanks for fixing my arm Mamoru-san."
"DAMN!" All eyes turned toward Usagi, surprised that she would use
such language. "I have to get home before my parents find out I'm gone.
They will skin me alive if they find out that I have left at this time of
night." Usagi the reached up and gave Mamoru a quick peck on the
cheek. "I'm glad you guys are all right. I'll see you when my parents let
up, or when I become queen of Crystal Tokyo, whichever comes first."
With that slight bit of humor Usagi turned and started to run towards her
home. The other girls also said goodnight and went to their homes, too.
Mamoru's eyes followed Usagi until she was out of sight. He knew
through their bond that these problems with her parents were hurting her
more then she let on. 'Please let things work out for Usa-ko. It tears me
up inside to feel her hurting over this. Please Kami watch over her.'
Then he turned and started to walk home also, the crash of thunder
booming in the distance.
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As Usagi reached her window the rain started to come down in sheets.
"Whoa, I'm sure glad I'm not out in that!" Usagi commented under her
breath as she opened her window and climbed through. Her room was
dark. "Good I made it back before they noticed."
All of a sudden the lights in her room turned on.
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Well what do you think so far? "Great Expectations" it's not, but if I
entertained you for a while that's all I'm after. The next chapter will be
coming in a bit. Boy too bad I'm a perfectionist; it takes me a while to get
my stories to sound the way I like!!