Tsuki no Mikazuki Productions presents...
Written by Dana ‘Ariel Silantat' Ritchel...
Bishojo Senshi Sailor Moon R - Sailor Atlantia Episode 2:
"Ariel's Unhealthy Attraction, The Return of Sailor Moon"
Sailor Atlantia 2
Luna was sitting outside the grounds of Juuban Junior High School, waiting for Usagi and Terra, annoyed that they hadn't shown up yet. She let out a cat-like sigh, and curled up to wait for the two girls.
*Some things never really change,* she thought as she lay in the sun.
Detention was over, and Ariel yawned as she walked out of the classroom. She spotted Usagi and Terra immediately.
"Hi Ariel-chan!" Usagi shouted.
"Hi Usagi, Terra!"
"Let's get going, ok?" Terra asked.
"Of course." The three walked, chatting. Luna noticed them, as they came to the exit of the school yard. She jumped from her place, in front of them.
Ariel's eyes lit up when she saw the cat. "How cute!" She cried, as she immediately picked up the black cat, and gave her a big hug.
"Is she yours?" she asked Usagi and Terra, even as the two humans and one cat(ESPECIALLY the one cat!) were giving her strange looks. Usagi just nodded.
"Her name is Luna." Terra said, as she shook her look away.
"What a perfect name! Especially since she has a crescent moon shape on her forehead!"
Terra sweatdropped at her comment. "Eh...right..." she mumbled.
"We need to get going, Ariel-chan." Usagi said, with a burst of seriousness.
Ariel nodded."Of course, my house is this way!" She was off, running. The others followed after her.
[Silver stars and gold moon crescents spiral around until a feather-formed heart appears in the background and the Japanese writing appears]
"Ariel's Unhealthy Attraction, The Return of Sailor Moon"
Written by Dana Ritchel
Vampeen was busy, while Ail and Ann watched, hovering above. Ann was particularly happy.
"With all this energy, the Doom Tree will be fine!" she cried happily.
Ail nodded. "Yes, it won't be dying anymore..."
"Yes!" Ann cried, but not about the truth behind Ail's words. A girl, with long silver hair, holding a cat, had come around the corner. And Vampeen was targeting her, which caused the alien woman much joy.
"Get her, Vampeen! Drain all her energy!" Ann cried with glee.
"My, you seem to dislike her quite a bit..." Ail taunted her.
Ann just grumbled. *He'll never understand. Guys never do.*
Luna fell from Ariel's now-limp arms. Her arms, legs, and pretty much whole body had gone numb with fright after she saw the creature that rushed toward her with blinding speed.
*What in the world is that?* Ariel asked herself, even as she backed up away from it. Then she felt a wall behind her and knew she was trapped.
"Vampeen!" the creature screeched, and Ariel, rooted their with fear, could only close her eyes. She didn't see it attack, but felt the vines wrapping around her body. She screamed as she felt her energy being drained.
"Help me...!" she cried, with a surge of strength. Then, darkness consumed her.
"Oh my God, what is that?!" Usagi had a look of utter fear and shock on her face.
Terra, beside her, was in her own state of shock. *What are we going to do, about this thing without a Sailor Moon?!* she thought, frenzied.
"Terra!" Usagi cried, when she and Terra got to the scene.
The creature had dropped Ariel's prone form, and was turning it's attention to them.
"Run!" Terra cried, turning around, grabbing Usagi's hand, then taking off and burning up the ground behind them.
However, the monster didn't follow, it turned back to it's more easily-gotten prey.
"Nani? Terra, what's going on?" Usagi asked in shock. Terra shook her head, and turned to Luna, who sat nearby.
Terra spoke to Luna frantically, "Luna, we'll have to..."
Usagi stared at Terra strangely. *Talking to my cat?* "Why are you-?" Then, to Usagi's shock, Luna answered her.
"I know what you're thinking, Usagi-chan. Look at me."
Usagi blink-blinked. "Luna?"
"Yes, I can talk. No, you're not losing your mind. Even if you are, this is more important!" Usagi nodded mutely. So many things were going through her head, she didn't know what to do but listen. The golden crescent on Luna's forehead flared with light and a ray of light struck Usagi on the forehead. She felt thousands of memories flood her mind...
"Oh Luna...Terra-chan!" Usagi looked around, frantically, "Where are everyone else?"
"They don't have their memories back yet..." Terra said sadly. "But we have to go stop that youma! With or without them!" Usagi nodded. She reached for her brooch, and stared in shock.
"My brooch!" she cried, then slapped herself in the face. "The ONE DAY I forget to wear it!"
"I can fix that." Luna said. She did a double back flip, and the brooch appeared. Usagi sighed in relief, as she caught it.
"Hey!" she said as she looked at it. "This isn't my brooch!"
Luna nodded. "Yes it is, but now it is empowered with the Silver Crystal, and is more potent!"
"Arigato, Luna!" she stood and held the brooch up. "MOON CRYSTAL POWER, MAKE UP!"
In a burst of light, crescents and feathers, Usagi transformed into Sailor Moon.
Terra watched her transform. *Just like old times...*
Then, she raised her henshin wand up, and shouted.
"EARTH POWER, MAKE UP!" She felt the elements rush around her, fire forming the elbow length gloves she wore, air her tiara, water her bodysuit, and earth growing up around her legs and dropping away to reveal her high heeled shoes. When the elemental storm cleared, Sailor Earth stood poised to fight.
The two Pretty Soldiers ran around the corner to face Vampeen, who had gone back to draining Ariel.
"Machinasai!" Shouted Sailor Moon. The monster looked at her, befuddled.
"Vampeen?" The creature questioned, turning to the two new energy sources and retracting her vines from the unconscious girl.
"I will not stand by and allow you to drain any more of this beautiful young girl's vitality!" Sailor Moon said as she began to go through her trademark motions. "For love and justice, I am the pretty sailor suited soldier Sailor Moon!"
"Don't forget Sailor Earth!"
"And in the name of the moon," Sailor Moon started, "we will punish you!" the two girls finished, in unison.
The monster laughed. "Vampeen!" it shouted before shooting it's vines out and wrapping them around Sailor Moon and Sailor Earth. The vines gave off a slight glow, then the two Senshi's energy began to drain away. All seemed lost...
Until suddenly a white rose struck the vines holding Sailor Moon and another struck the vines holding Sailor Earth, freeing them. Sailor Moon looked around for Tuxedo Mask but what she found was a man in a white turban and loose suit, a jambiya sheathed at the belt at his waist.
*Wow, he's SO handsome!* thought Sailor Moon.
Sailor Earth watched him also. *He seems so familiar,* she thought, *but how?*
The man motioned to Ariel's still form as he began to speak. "Destroying something that is more beautiful than a desert rose in the fading twilight is a heartless crime, committed only by those who would destroy everything someone holds dear," his eyes narrowed at the monster, "and for that reason you will not be forgiven!"
"Sailor Moon! Now's your chance!" Sailor Earth shouted.
"Right!" she nodded as she took off her tiara. "MOON TIARA ACTION!" The youma was hit by the flying disk and was gone. But so was the handsome man.
Sailor Moon looked wistfully up to where the man had been standing as she replaced her tiara.
"I wonder what his name was...." she whispered softly.
Sailor Earth, who was now kneeling by Ariel's side, looked up.
"Ariel's fine, just weak. But we'd better get her somewhere safe quickly."
Sailor Moon nodded, even though her mind was (as always) somewhere else.
Ariel opened her eyes slowly, and noticed she was lying down, in a strange room...she sat up as she glanced around the room, fear gripping her. *What if...?*
Then she noticed Luna. The black cat was sitting at the foot of the couch she was sitting on. Ariel's eyes lit up, as she took the cat by surprise, sweeping her up into a hug. "help me..." the desperate cat whispered hoarsely. Ariel suddenly held her out arm's length.
"Did you just talk?" she asked, and smiled as Luna shook her head wildly in disagreement. "Oh, ok."
She looked around again as she pulled Luna in close to her chest again.
"I must be at Usagi and Terra's house..." she thought aloud.
Then Ariel noticed the smell of food, and the sound of humming. She got up from the couch, and started towards the source. She found a woman, with long wavy blue hair, preparing dinner in the kitchen.
*That must be Usagi and Terra's mother...* she thought.
The woman turned around, smiling when she noticed Ariel.
"Feeling better, Ariel-chan?" Ariel nodded, still holding Luna.
"Yes, I am. Thank you for asking." She said, smiling politely. "Where are Usagi and Terra?"
"They should be in Usagi's room. Up the stairs, first door on the left."
"Thank you." With that, Ariel left the kitchen. She spotted the stairs, and went to them, then walked upstairs. From their, she went to the door Usagi's mom had indicated- The first on the left. It was slightly ajar, so she went inside.
*From the look of it I must be in Usagi's room...* Then, aloud. "Now, where is she?" She looked around the room, and her eyes fell on an object that sparkled in the faint light.
Letting Luna down, she walked over to it. Sitting on the desk, was a brooch. She remembered it as the one that Usagi always wore...and someone else wore, too, but exactly who escaped her. She picked it up, examining it carefully.
"It's beautiful..." she whispered. Then it hit her.
"Sailor Moon wears one like this, from all the pictures I've seen of her! Usagi must be a big fan of hers!"
"Ariel-chan?" Ariel turned around. It was Usagi. *Oh no, this can't look that good for me! I'm snooping around her room!*
"Hi Usagi! I was looking for you..." She held up the brooch, and Usagi's eyes widened. "This is a beautiful brooch, Sailor Moon must be your favorite Senshi!" Usagi nodded, grinning slightly, almost nervously.
"She is...yeah, she is!" Usagi said, smiling.
Ariel smiled too as she handed the brooch to Usagi. "I like them all, actually." she proclaimed.
"Really?"
"Yes. I heard all about them in America...I was kind of disappointed..." Ariel sighed, and Usagi raised an eyebrow in question.
"Why's that?" she asked.
Ariel looked up, her eyes almost wistful.
"When I got here, no Senshi..." *Wait Ariel, you're wrong about that!* "On second thought...I think I saw one today. After a..." she mumbled the rest and looked down again.
"Nani, nani?!" Usagi asked urgently. Ariel looked up at her, eyes wide.
"I got my energy drained...Pleasedon'tthinkI'minsaneUsagi!!"
Usagi smiled. "I don't think your insane, Ariel-chan. It explains why Terra and I found you in a heap in an alley."
Ariel sighed in relief. "It does? I'm glad. Thanks Usagi!"
"I can't believe it!" Ann cried, slamming her fist down on a table, nearly breaking it in two. Ail watched her silently.
"I know what you mean, Ann."
She glared at him hotly. "Ail, how will we feed the Doom Tree if the cardians keep getting stopped?"
"We'll just have to keep trying, that's all..."
Ann started to shout back, but her legs gave out, suddenly weak. Ail caught her as she fell.
"I'm so weak..." she whispered.
"I'll go find you energy, Ann. Wait here." He laid her down, then vanished.
"Grandpa, I'm at a friend's house." Ariel said into the receiver.
"I wish you could have called earlier..." Her grandfather's voice was filled with concern, and a little scolding.
"I would have, it just took so long to get here." she explained, then apologized. "I'm sorry."
"It's all right, I'm just glad you made it there safely." he paused. "Be home for dinner."
Ariel nodded, even though he was on the other end of the phone.
"I will, grandpa. Goodbye."
"Goodbye, Ariel."
She hung up the phone, then turned to her friends, Usagi and Terra.
"Ok, what now?" she asked.
"Why don't we go to the arcade?" Usagi suggested.
"That sounds fun! Lets go!"
The End of Episode Two
Stay Tuned for Episode Three of SMR-Sailor Atlantia:
"Ail's Obsession, Ann's Attraction; The Awakening of the Inner Senshi"
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