Notice: Sailor Moon is the property of Naoko Takeuchi/Kodansha, Toei Animation and DIC. And I don’t think I’m set up to inherit it anytime soon. O-well.
This fan fic takes place after the doom tree part of Sailor Moon R, right after Mamoru first starts getting the dreams.
Chapter 1: Leaving
It was the middle of the night and Usagi had been dreaming when her communicator went off.
"Guys. There’s a youma at the park. It’s doing a lot of damage and I need some help," Mako’s whispered voice came over the communicator. Usagi picked up the device sleepily and hit the reply button.
"I’ll be there as soon as I can, Mako." She placed the communicator back down on her dresser before falling from her bed. She lay there a moment before giving in and standing up. Raising her hand to the ceiling, she called out her transformation phrase. "Moon Crystal Power!"
Opening the window to her room so she could climb outside, a mist filled her room and slowly gathered into a form. This caught Sailor Moon’s attention and she turned away from the window to see what was happening. Before long, a darkly handsome man stood, staring at Moon.
"Well Sailor Moon. You fell rather easily into this, now haven’t you? I should have thought that you would be more intelligent then to transform in your own home. Why, anyone could look out the window and see you climbing out that way, or your family might hear, or..." He paused and grinned slyly. "... someone might put a trace on your transformation energy and find where you live. Really Usagi, you must have more brains then that."
"Who are you?" she asked shakily, her voice betraying her.
"Why, I am going to be your nightmare, Usagi. I know you, I know your friends, and I know your family. See what you have done with just this one little mistake? You have doomed everyone who knows you. And there is only one way I will let you save them, Usagi." He stopped speaking and just smiled. She supposed he wanted to hear her ask him what that one thing was, and she was in no position to deny him that. She didn’t dare attack anyone in her home. What if her parents or Sammy opened the door to see what was going on? They could be killed by accident, and Usagi didn’t want to take that risk. Besides, what if someone else knew what he knew? Even if she managed to eliminate the danger the mystery man posed, there could be others that would carry out his threats.
"Alright. I give. What is it?" she asked, doing her best to seem brave. The man looked at a watch that was suddenly on his wrist, then back at her.
"You know your friends better then I do, but I highly doubt anyone will be perfectly alright when their leader has failed to show up for a fight against a youma for fifteen whole minutes." Usagi looked at her alarm clock. ‘Fifteen minutes? But I just got up!’ she thought.
"If you go to the fight now and they forgive you with no argument for being so late, then there would be nothing for me to take from you and your warrior friends. I will leave you all alone with only this little scare as a reminder. But if they doubt your abilities as a leader, get mad at you for being so late, or bring up any number of faults that you may or may not have, as a result of this tardiness, I warn you Usagi. Run. Leave Japan, and no harm will come to your friends and family. Stay and, well," he shrugged as he started to become a cloud of mist again. "your presence will bring nothing but pain and suffering to those you hold dear." His voice faded away as he vanished, leaving Usagi to wonder if she had really just had that encounter. She looked at her alarm clock again. It was indeed fifteen minutes since Makoto called for help.
"Damn. How on earth are they going to forgive me for this?" She slipped out her window and ran as fast as her transformation and practice running to school let her, but still arrived at the park far too late.
As Usagi made her way through the park towards where the sounds of a fight still scared the quiet of the night, she saw the damage left as she guessed they moved closer to the pond. Pieces of the sidewalk had been torn up. A tree nearby seemed to have lost half its limbs to fire, and then was covered in a sheet of ice. A bench she remembered that had been sitting on the side of the sidewalk had been thrown back several feet, not such an amazing feat, except for the fact that it had been cemented to the ground.
"Venus Love Chain Encircle!" She heard Venus shout a ways off. As she came into site of the battle, she saw that the scouts were loosing to the youma. What made it even worse was she did not see Mercury among those fighting. Looking over the ground quickly, she saw the blue hared scout laying unconscious a ways off. Determined to get revenge, she stood up straight and called out loudly to the youma.
"I am the champion of love and justice, Sailor Moon! For hurting my friends and disturbing my sleep, I will punish you!" The youma turned to face her. Instantly, the memory that had been washed away by the sight of Mercury on the ground came back to her. She knew that the man in her room had sent the youma. It seemed to speak in her mind.
‘Remember Usagi. My master remembers. His master remembers. We all know.’ Sailor Moon was about to bring out the moon scepter when the youma dispersed into a dark mist and then vanished completely.
Sailor Moon didn’t know what to do. She was afraid to go and face her friends, and she didn’t know what she could do to help Mercury. She didn’t have to do anything though. As she stood there, worried, Sailor Mars stormed over while Jupiter and Venus ran to take care of Mercury.
"Where were you?! We needed you, and you were probably sleeping. Too tired to help your friends I guess. Because of you, Mercury is hurt. You could have stopped that you know." Moon was afraid to say anything, only listened in shame. She knew it wasn’t her fault, but it felt like it was. If she had just ignored the man when he first appeared, she would have been there to save Mercury. And now everything just got worse with Mars yelling at her and a voice in her head echoing ‘Leave’.
"Sailor Moon, your laziness has hurt Mercury. Perhaps you should take some time off. Mars can lead us for now. You were never meant to be a scout anyway. Let us do the scouting." Jupiter said as she walked over. Moon could tell she was really mad, but was trying to keep herself from exploding like Mars had moments before.
Moon looked over at Venus and Mercury. Venus had managed to waken Mercury, and the water scout was sitting up, but she was holding her head in pain. Venus called over.
"We need to get her to the hospital. She’s bleeding." That was when Sailor Moon first noticed the dark spot in Mercury’s hair. ‘She’ll be alright.’ Moon told herself in reassurance. She looked back to Mars and Jupiter. They both still looked at her in anger. Moon sighed sadly, forcing back tears in her eyes. She didn’t want to seem soft right now.
"Alright. Mars, you lead the scouts. None of you will have to depend on me getting here in time any more." She turned and walked out of the park, detransforming before she reached the streets.
Images flashed through her mind of her friends and family being tortured and killed as she walked further and further from the park. She had not thought them up, she knew they had been placed there. Shivering, she wiped away a tear that had begun to fall down her cheek.
"Let me pack. Just let me get my things and I will go." She knew she had been heard as the images faded away and she continued on her way home alone.
Hello! Yep, I’m back. This is a fic I started a long time ago and, while going through my fanfiction file here on my computer, I came across it. I completely forgot what I was thinking when I wrote this, but while re-reading it, about a million ideas started to bloom. So I thought I’d post it and see what you guys think! I plan on making it a crossover, though I’m not sure what with. Ramna ½ is what first comes to mind, but there are other animes that I can think of. What do you think? Should I even continue this? I’m open for advice, you guys!
Ja!
~Jade Nova