Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ The Revolution Prophecy ❯ The Circle Completes ( Chapter 12 )

The Circle Completes

 

She moved quietly throughout the long, foreboding hallways. Her steps were quick and purposeful as she made her way to her destination. Her heels clicked against the crystal with a rhythm, slightly disrupted as she stumbled slightly and cursed under her breath.

The hallways were empty, thankfully, and nobody caught her blunder. She finally made a right turn after a few minutes and entered a vast room, lit up brightly. Along the far wall, four glass cocoons held her greatest prize.

She walked over to a keypad and her fingers moved slowly over the keys, bringing up various monitors near the glass cells. She nodded in satisfaction, turning around and beginning to walk out of the room. She paused in mid-step, however, and turned on her heel to face the cells. She stepped towards one and laid her hands across the glass, her breath collecting and fogging the surface.

She cleared her view with a stroke of her palm against the glass and gazed thoughtfully at the cell.

It was built to accomodate a person and keep them unconscious for as long as required, supplying the body with necessary nutrients. The woman smiled softly as she gazed at the captive inside.

She walked the length of the four cells, pausing in front of each one so that she could see if anything had changed since last she observed.

"Ahhh... my sweet slaves.", the woman cooed. "Soon you'll be ready for me to use as I please, and nothing will be able to stop me."

She began to laugh evilly as she walked out of the room. Unbeknownst to her, a figure was standing in the darkness of the room, out of her sight. Once gone, the figure walked back and forth between the pods, pausing at each one. She shed a quiet tear and looked away, disappearing in a flash of purple.

Usagi and her friends were walking briskly back to the town she and Hiro had passed through earlier. Usagi and Alyssa spent much of the journey together, talking and reminiscing in the times they had played together before she had left for the past. This left Hiro and Jamin to keep each other company, and the chasm composed of their hostility and other negative feelings they had for each other made it a quite unpleasant trip.

After a day of leisurely traveling, they made it to the small town and rented a room for the night. Alyssa handed out the currency she'd raided from her old piggy bank, breathing silent thanks that she'd never found a reason to spend the money. She looked back at Jamin and Hiro, who were still at an impasse and refusing to even acknowledge the other's presence.

She sighed as she turned back to the innkeeper. "Now that I think about it, you'd probably better make that two rooms.", she said to the man, handing him more money. He smiled as he handed her another key.

"Alright, children!", she said as she handed Usagi one of the keys. "In the interest of keeping you both alive, you two babies can sleep in separate rooms."

She couldn't help but to smile at the almost synchronous sigh of relief that escaped them both as she finished. She held up her key and grabbed Jamin's arm. "Come on, buddy. Let's leave them alone.", she said, flashing Usagi an icy stare in response to her stifled laughing.

Usagi kept her composure until after Alyssa and Jamin had shut the door to their rooms before laughing. "What a cute couple they are!", she exclaimed.

Hiro snorted. "At least the baka has at least one person who can put up with his huge ego. I'll pity her every day for the rest of her life."

Usagi hit him in the arm. "Oh, shut up!", she admonished. "Come on, there's some things that you and I need to talk about, and I'm hungry! You can buy me something to eat at that place over there!"

Hiro sighed in mock resignation as he allowed Usagi to lead him to the eatery. He couldn't help but to wonder how long it had been since he had eaten something he hadn't had to make himself. "Perhaps the world IS regaining some of its shine.", he thought silently, looking at Usagi. "At least there is one bright star left."

While Hiro and Usagi were deciding what they wanted to eat, Jamin was laying down and staring at the ceiling inside the room he and Alyssa were staying in. He grunted, saying something made intelligible because he mumbled.

Alyssa was sitting in the corner, looking at the Mercury Star Wand she'd recently acquired. It was beautiful, even more now than when she had first seen as a young child. She felt a sense of peace as she held it.

She looked up at Jamin who was still sulking on the bed. "Jamin...?", she asked quietly. He looked at her briefly before turning his back to her. "Alright!", she yelled. "That is ENOUGH!".

She leaped out of her seat towards the bed, pushing him on his back. "YOU LISTEN TO ME!", she spat. "I am sick of this! For four years... FOUR YEARS I have had to deal with this childish obsession that you two won't let go of. The three of us would have been MUCH BETTER OFF sticking together, but NO!"

She grabbed his collar. "I am NOT going to deal with this. We have bigger things to worry about right now than your petty little argument that you two could have fixed YEARS AGO. Neither of you are fit to be Serenity's guardian. And both of you will continue to be useless as long as you keep fighting!"

She let go and let out a frustrated sigh. His eyes, widened from the moment she laid in on him, finally blinked. "Alyssa... I'm sorry.", he said quietly. "How can I make this up to you?"

She walked over to her bed and laid down, her back to him this time. "I'm not the one you have to apologize to. The only person your argument is affecting is Usagi. She needs both of you right now. Even now that I've been given these powers, she and I can't do this by ourselves."

Alyssa cursed herself silently as she fought to keep from shedding the slightest tear. "I hate the fact that he makes me feel this way... and he doesn't even know it. He's too busy fighting through a sea of hatred to see me right in front of him. I wonder if he'll ever see me.", she said inside her own mind.

Jamin looked at her and sat up on the bed, consumed by the strangest desire to go over and hold her. "No...", he kept to himself. "She's so angry with me right now. She'd probably be happiest if I just left her alone. I keep messing up with her."

He got up from the bed and walked to the door, shutting it softly behind him as he left. As the door shut, Alyssa began to cry. "What a fool he is!", she wailed.

Jamin walked through the small main street of the town, not having heard Alyssa cry. "I'll make it up to her somehow...", he thought. "Even if I have to play nice with the boy to do it. I hate it when she's angry at me. I can just pretend to not be angry with him, can't I?"

He walked past the small eatery where he saw Usagi and Hiro eating and laughing together. Just the mere sight of him set Jamin on edge. He cursed quietly and walked away towards the edge of town, hoping to find a quiet place where he could relax and try to will away some of his rage.

Eventually, night settled its dark cloak over the small town. As the last dim vision of the sun began to dip under the horizon, people scurried around the little burg, trying to finish all their activities and be inside their houses before the sun completely set.

Usagi and Hiro had made their way back to their room. Their bellies filled with good food, they smiled and laughed as they walked through the door, not seeing Jamin paused at the door to his own room. As the door shut, Jamin looked to the horizon to see the sun having completely disappeared.

He was hesitant to open the door, unsure of whether Alyssa even wanted him in there that night. He couldn't decide which was worse, sleeping in the same room as Hiro, or walking into his own and having Alyssa look on him with those disappointed eyes he knew only too well.

"Get a grip on yourself, Jamin!", he cried out silently. "Mama taught you to be stronger than this! Okay, I'm gonna open the door on the count of three."

He set his hand on the door, grasping it... and it flew open, yanking him into the room. He stumbled and fell down on the floor. Alyssa shut the door behind her as she walked over to him and got down on her knees. "Are you crazy?", she asked. "It's dark out there! Are you trying to get killed?"

Jamin collected himself and sat up. "It doesn't matter! Those bastards had better double team me if they want to live. I can take care of myself!", he countered.

"That's my job now...", she said silently, getting up and laying down on her bed.

Jamin was stunned. Indecision flew through him like a gale force wind. "I... I... but...", he stammered.

Alyssa sat quietly for a moment, centering her whole being on the courage she had built up throughout the day while he was gone. "I can do this... I can DO this...", flowed through her mind, like a mantra.

She looked at him. "Don't know what you want to say?", she asked quietly.

"I... well... I just... well... I don't know.", he mumbled, turning away from her.

"This is it. Now or never.", she said to herself, getting up from the bed. "I know exactly what to say.", she said out loud, walking up behind him and wrapping her arms around him. She prayed silent thanks that she was only slightly shorter than he was.

She turned him around and moved her face to his. Her eyes closed as she stole a kiss. Her senses were suddenly flooded with him, from the feel of him against her, the taste of his lips, even the smell of him. It was everything that she had fantasized about for almost two years. She was startled as she felt his hand wrap around her arms and push her away.

He took in a sharp breath as he tried to mask the shock coursing throughout him. He pushed her down to her bed, acting on pure instinct, his conscious mind failing. He looked into her eyes as she sat down, the look that told him everything he had wondered about for so long now. He fell to his knees and laid his head against her chest.

He breathed a relieved sigh as he felt her arms hold him there, and for that moment, all the cares and worries of the world melted away as he fell in love with the gentle rhythm of her heart beating.

"It only beats for you... I'm in love you, you fool.", she said quietly.

He couldn't find anything to say, and he wrapped his arms around her waist, holding her tightly.

A daemon walked through the town, a spiked club in its hand, searching for innocent prey.

Hiro woke up with a start, a dread sensation flowing through him. "Oh no! Danger!", he thought to himself as he jumped out of his bed. "Usagi!", he cried out. "Hurry and wake up! Something is wrong!"

"Mamo-chan...", she said. "I'm so glad to see you. I thought you were gone!"

Mamoru smiled as she wrapped her arms around him. "It's good to see you too, Chibi-Usa. We're all happy to see you anytime."

Chibi-Usa looked around and saw everyone smiling at her. "Rei-chan! Mako-chan! Minako-chan! Ami-chan!", she squealed in happiness.

"Usagi...", she said, smiling as Sailor Moon knelt down near her bed. "I missed you. I always miss you."

Sailor Moon suddenly had a blank look in her eyes. "Usagi...", she said listlessly. "Hurry and wake up... Something is wrong..."

Usagi woke up after a few minutes of Hiro's shaking her. "Okay... OKAY!", she said irritably. "I'm awake!"

Suddenly, she felt it as well, jerking her out of her tired state. She felt adrenaline begin to wash over her. "Danger!"

Alyssa felt it as well. "Jamin! Get up! I think something is wrong!"

Jamin woke up and immediately got off the bed and put on his shirt. "Come on, Alyssa, let's go see what's going on."

A girl walked through the streets, seemingly unaware of the danger of being outside in the streets after dark. She walked slowly, not even checking her surroundings. The daemon came up from behind her, having hidden in the shadows for the perfect chance to jump out and grab her.

"Foolish girl...", it spoke. "You're gonna regret being out here. Say your farewells to this world and the others of your kind who are soon to follow you."

The four friends emerged from their rooms at the same time, almost running into each other, as each pair was intending on waking the other. "I sense danger out in the street!", Hiro said quietly.

"Oh really?", Jamin replied as he pointed behind Usagi and Hiro. "Must have taken some thought for you to figure that one out!"

Usagi and Hiro looked behind them as Alyssa punched Jamin in the arm. "Shut up!", she hissed. "This is not the time!"

They all watched as a daemon leaped out from the shadows and wrap its huge arms around a girl who had been walking down the street. The daemon wrapped one arm tighter around the girl, who didn't even seem to struggle, as the other arm readied the spiked club it held to make the finishing blow.

Usagi turned around and hissed, "Time to transform!". Alyssa nodded as her Star Wand appeared in her hands.

Usagi laid her hands on her brooch while Alyssa raised her Star Wand into the air.

"Moon Crystal Power... Make Up!"

"Mercury Star Power... Make Up!"

Hiro and Jamin stood in front of the girls, hoping the mask the light of their transformations so that they wouldn't attract the attention of the monster.

Neo-Sailor Moon and Mercury were walking out in front when Hiro grabbed Sailor Moon and placed his hand over her mouth. Jamin looked at him, and then at the girl. His eyes grew wide, and then he grabbed Sailor Mercury and restrained her as well.

Sailor Mercury mumbled and thrashed as he held her. "Shut up!", he said quietly. "Look at her! Don't you recognize her? She's not even fighting against the bastard!"

Hiro continued. "Look at her hands! Look at what she's holding in her hands!"

Jamin nodded. "It's Krista."

The girl saw something flash in the distance as she tightened her grip on the object in her right hand. The daemon laughed as he brought the club down towards her torso. It grunted in surprise as the girl effortlessly broke his grip on her and rolled out of the way of the spiked club that now slammed against its chest.

She raised her arm, and called out...

"Venus Star Power... Make Up!"

Golden light bathed the street as the girl stood tall, ribbons of energy wrapping around her body and heart-shaped energies flowing into her. Usagi gasped as she saw the familiar outfit of Sailor Venus wrap itself around the girl's body.

"Now... where were we?", Venus said.

The monster growled in frustration. "Not one of you warriors! I'm out of here!", it yelled as it began to run away.

"Leaving so soon? The party has just begun! Love-Me Chain!", Venus called out, wrapping her chain of hearts around the ankle of the fleeing daemon, tripping it to the ground.

She raced to the fallen monster, and placed her finger on its forehead. "As for saying goodbye to this world, why don't YOU prepare to meet all of your kind that I've sent to pave the way before you?"

Golden light began to radiate from the tip of her finger.

"Crescent Beam Shower.", she said quietly, vaporizing the head of her attacker in a flash of energy.

She stood up and brushed herself off as she walked back to where she saw four figures staring at her. She looked at them quietly for a moment, and then called out, "Is that you, Princess Serenity?"

Sailor Moon stepped forward. "It is, Sailor Venus..."

Sailor Venus stared for a moment, and then turned around as her transformation fell away. "I'm surprised to see you here."

Sailor Moon smiled. "Krista, it's been such a long time!", she said as she walked up. "I have missed...", she began to say before she was interrupted.

"SAVE YOUR WORDS, PRINCESS SERENITY!", Krista said forcefully. "I care not to hear anything you have to say. You can return to the past where you came from for all I care. This world does not need you."

Jamin pushed forward. "You heartless bitch! How dare you disrespect the Princess!", he said angrily.

Krista looked at him with disdain. "Still as impetuous as ever, I see...", she replied sarcastically. "If anyone deserves to be Princess of this world, it is ME! While she was off playing in the past, I HAD TO TAKE HER RESPONSIBILITY TO OUR PEOPLE! For FOUR years, I have sacrificed my blood, sweat, and tears for our world. Alone, I risk my life every single day that passes to make a difference!"

She turned and began to walk away. "All of you can follow and play games with the Princess. I will continue to sacrifice my life for our world."

Sailor Moon could think of nothing to say as Krista disappeared into the darkness...

Hiro placed his hand on her shoulder. "We don't need her, Usa.", he said quietly. "If Krista and Alyssa were able to become Sailor Guardians, maybe Jamin and I can become guardians as well. Let's go back to the palace ruins. Maybe there is a clue in our old home or the temple.

Alyssa came up behind them. "He's got a good idea, Usagi.", she added. "We need all the help we can get."

Sailor Moon let her transformation fall away from her. She nodded quietly, and said, "Let's go."

As they walked away, Hiro paused and looked back. "Funny, I could have sworn that someone was behind us.", he mused to himself.

On the roof of the eatery, three shadowy figures disappeared into the darkness...

 

Author's Note: Chapter Nine saw the introduction of Krista.

Krista

The daughter of Aino Minako, Sailor Venus. Krista has carried the burden of the enslaved Earth from the onset of the Millennium Holocaust. Realizing she was going to battle in a fight that would most likely see her die, Minako thrust the responsibility and most of the power of Sailor Venus on her daughter before she went off to battle. She also revealed the truth behind Princess Serenity's disappearance into the past.

Krista has seen horrors in the world of the future, and has watched countless people die. With no one that she could trust, few people she could depend on, she has become a battle-hardened killing machine. She came to believe that emotions made a person weak, and slowly shut hers off. She fights and kills with no remorse, no conscience to guide her.

The only emotion she has left to rid herself of is her anger, which she uses liberally to help her fight. Her anger at the children of the Sailor Guardians, once her friends, who did not have to endure everything she has had to face. Her anger at Princess Serenity, who she felt abandoned her duty to the people of Crystal Tokyo. Anger at her own mother who forced her into the life she now leads.

Age: 17

Height: 5 feet, 10 inches

Eye Color: Green-Blue

Hair Type and Color: Waist-length blonde, slightly wavy.