The bubbles containing Princess Aeris and her court continued their course towards the Earth. As they entered the atmosphere, the bubbles vanished one by one, signaling that the person inside had been reborn into some other place and time, with no memory of their life on the Moon.
As for Katt and Alfador, they had been placed into suspended animation and also sent forward in time. However, they retained partial memory of their lives in the Moon Kingdom, and also the ability to revive the Sailor Senshi if the Dark Kingdom ever appeared again. And so the story continues...
***
1000 years later, in the Dark Kingdom palace...
Queen Ultimecia of the Negaverse gazed into her crystal ball, observing--in her opinion--the feeble beings called humans that lived on the Planet. Yes...she thought. Now's the time to extract our revenge for that day...
"Edgar!" Nothing happened. "Edgar!!" Still nothing. "EDGAR! GET YOUR LAZY ASS IN HERE THIS INSTANT!" The blond bishounen finally did appear, flipping through a Playboy magazine with a slight trickle of blood coming from his nose.
Ultimecia sweatdropped. "Are you quite finished, General?"
Edgar looked up, and turned beet-red in embarrassment. "Oh...um...errr...gomen nasai, Your Majesty," he stammered, putting the magazine away.
Ultimecia sighed. "Anyways," she stated. "I called you here because I feel it's time to retake the Earth. I'm sending you to collect what energy we still need to revive The Mother."
"Yes, Your Majesty. I'll get right to it."
"Very good," Ultimecia said. "Oh, and Edgar?"
"Yes, my Queen?"
Ultimecia made a "come here" movement with her finger. "Gimme the magazine."
"Yes, my Queen..." Edgar grumbled, fishing the magazine out of his pocket and handing it over. It was promptly burnt by a Fire spell, courtesy of Queen Ultimecia.
***
Meanwhile, at the Gainsborough residence in Tokyo, all was quiet and well--that is, until...
"ACCCCK! MOOOOOM!" Aeris screeched when she saw what time it was. "Why didn't you wake me up earlier?!?!"
"I tried to 3 times, dear!" Elmyra called from the kitchen downstairs. "Every time you said you were getting right up!"
"You know better than to listen to me, Mom!" Aeris shouted from her bedroom as she frantically got dressed. She ran downstairs to the kitchen and wolfed down a slice of toast before grabbing her books. "See you later, Mom!" She then rushed off to school.
As she passed the park, Aeris noticed 3 young boys huddled over something on the ground. "Try poking it with something," the one said. "See if it does anything."
Aeris stopped running and walked over towards them, trying to see what they were huddled over while trying to keep from being noticed by them. She gasped when she saw what it was.
The boys were crouched around a small orange tabby cat with a bandage on its forehead. It was apparantly unconscious. "Hey!" Aeris shouted. "What do you think you're doing? Leave that poor cat alone!" She managed to get the boys away from the cat, and they promptly ran off afterward.
Aeris cradled the cat in her arms. "Poor kitty," Aeris cooed. "Let's take off this awful bandage..." She carefully peeled the bandage away from the cat's head. "What the..."
The cat had a strange, crescent-moon-shaped bald spot on its forehead, beneath the bandage. As soon as Aeris removed the bandage, the cat's eyes opened, and it stared at Aeris for a few moments before wiggling out of her arms and running off.
"Weird..." Aeris said. Then she heard the school bell ring off in the distance. "ACK!" She took off running at top speed.
***
Aeris walked home from school that day in silence. She'd failed the geometry test she took the other day and was REALLY afraid of what her mom would do when she found out. It hadn't helped any that her best friend, Elena, and the class nerd, Locke, had gotten high scores without doing much studying. Now Mom'll NEVER let me get the new Sailor V video game...
Aeris was so consumed with her thoughts (or lack thereof, I should say >D) that she ran right into someone. "Owww...watch where you're going, Cetra-baka!" the guy practically yelled at her.
"G, gomen nasai," she stammered quickly and hurried off. She started giggling once she was far away from the guy. Great Goddesses, his hair looked like a giant yellow porcupine! she thought.
Unknown to Aeris, a pair of eyes was watching her from a nearby alley. "It couldn't be...could this klutz be the one?"
***
Later that afternoon, Aeris settled down for a nap. "Some rest before I start my homework will do me some good," she said to herself. Suddenly, something blocked out the sun coming through her open window. "Huh?" She looked up, and saw that orange tabby sitting in her window. "Oh...it's you again," she said.
"There's no time to rest. You have a job to do," the cat suddenly said. She hopped down onto Aeris' bed from the windowsill.
Aeris blinked and stared at the cat. "D...did you just TALK?" she stammered.
"Yes," the cat said. "My name is Katt Chuan, and I was sent here to locate the Sailor Senshi, the only ones that can protect this planet from evil."
"O...k..." Aeris said. "That just made no sense."
Katt sweatdropped. "Lemme put it this way. An evil force that was imprisoned a long time ago is trying to break loose, and the Sailor Senshi are the only ones that can stop it."
"And what does all this have to do with me?" Aeris asked.
"I have reason to believe," Katt said, "that you're the leader of the Sailor Senshi, Sailor Moon."
"ME? A superhero?" Aeris asked. She then burst out laughing. "Yeah right. Just like Sailor V, right?" She laughed some more.
Katt's eyebrow twitched. "Will you stop laughing and listen to me?!" Aeris shut up, but couldn't help herself and started giggling a little. "Now, take what I'm about to give you and do what I say." Katt jumped up into the air, did a complete backward flip, and landed. A strange-looking brooch appeared when she flipped and landed on the bed next to her.
"Whoa, what's that?" Aeris asked. She picked up the brooch and looked it over.
"That's your henshin brooch," Katt said. "Whenever you want to turn into Sailor Moon, hold up your hand and say 'Moon Prism Power, Make Up,' and the brooch will transform you." Aeris looked at her skeptically. "Try it out if you don't believe me!"
"Oh alright," Aeris said, not really expecting it to work. She attached the brooch to her school uniform. "Moon Prism Power, Make UP!" What happened next was surprising.
Pink ribbons flew out of the brooch and around her body, turning into a sailor costume similar to her school uniform. More ribbons surrounded her arms and legs, turning into a pair of elbow-length white gloves with red bands at the ends, and knee-high red boots with crescent moons at the tops. A blue miniskirt covered the bottom of the sailor costume. A light shone from the middle of her forehead, and a red jewel appeared there, followed by a gold tiara. A red choker with a crescent moon on it and crescent moon earrings appeared at the same time.
"Whoa! Cool!" Aeris exclaimed as she examined the costume in her mirror. "I look just like Sailor V! This is sweet!" Suddenly she heard what sounded like faint screaming. "What the...?!" She looked behind her and found the source of the noise. A large red materia had attached itself to the bow on her braid, apparantly as part of the transformation sequence. The screaming continued. "That...that sounds like Elena!"
"Well, you'd better go check it out!" Katt said. "Now get going!"
"Right!" Aeris climbed out her window to the ground and ran off in the direction of the noise.
Back at the house, Katt sighed. "Why do I get the feeling this is gonna be a REALLY long night?"
***
"WTF ARE YOU?!?! GET AWAY FROM ME!!" Elena screamed. The monster--a giant rabbit-like creature that had been disguised as her mother--had her cornered behind the counter of her mom's jewelry store.
"Miya! Miya!" the creature screeched. The motionless bodies of people whose energy had been stolen were strewn about the store, and Elena had no idea what the monster had done to her mother, Shera. Just then the door flew open.
"Hold it right there! I am Sailor Moon, the champion of justice! I will right wrongs and triumph over evil! And in the name of the moon, I will punish you!" Aeris, as Sailor Moon, entered the store. Katt ran in behind her, panting.
"Goddammit...girl...why'd...you...have to...run...so fast..." Katt wheezed.
"Miya?" the giant cabbit questioned. It bounded up to Sailor Moon and...hugged her.
"Ack!" Aeris tried to breathe, but the monster was cutting off her air supply. "Monster...squeezing...too...much..." Just then a red streak hit the monster in the arm, and it squealed in pain and released Sailor Moon.
"Nani...?" A long-stemmed red rose was embedded in the floor. Sailor Moon looked up...and found the source of the flower.
A dashing young man in a tuxedo, cape, and top hat stood in one of the high windows up above. A slim white mask covered his eyes. "Who're you?" Sailor Moon asked.
"I'm Tuxedo SOLDIER. Believe in yourself, Sailor Moon. Don't give up so easily!" He disappeared. The cabbit, meanwhile, had recovered and was coming after her again.
"No! Get away!" Sailor Moon did about the only thing she could do: she screamed. The materia on her bow amplified her scream, and the cabbit fell to the ground, holding its huge ears in pain. "Whoa, cool," Sailor Moon said. "Now what, Katt?"
"Take off your tiara and say 'Moon Tiara Action.'"
Sailor Moon did as she was instructed. She removed her tiara, and it turned into a frisbee in her hand. She spun around once and took a fighting pose. She brought her arm back. "Moon Tiara Action!" Sailor Moon threw the frisbee at the monster, and it slammed into it with great force. The cabbit squeaked loudly one last time before it turned into dust, and the tiara clattered to the floor next to it. "Woo hoo! I did it!" Sailor Moon cheered triumphantly. "But...who was that weird guy with the rose?"
***
The ball of energy Edgar had been holding suddenly exploded. "Damn that Sailor brat!" he cursed. "The queen is NOT gonna like this..."
***
"I had the weirdest dream last night, Aeris," Elena said. "I dreamt this monster took over my mom's store and a superhero named Sailor Moon came and stopped it! Isn't that weird?" She looked at Aeris. "Aeris? Something wrong?"
Aeris yawned. "No...sorry, Elena. I just didn't get much sleep last night..." she said before laying her head down on her desk and dozing off.
Author's Notes: Well, there's Chapter 2. I know it's a little long, but I got carried away. So sue me. =Þ Chapter 3 coming soon! Send all comments to either me (GogoFanNO3) or KattChuan703. Ja ne! |