****** ******* Kinmokusei Chapter One ****** ******* Minna : everyone Konekochan : Little kitten (nickname Haruka calls Usagi ) Disclaimer: Sailormoon does not in anyway belong to me. All rights belong to Naoko Takeuchi, the talented creator of the manga, Nakayoshi and others. Just writing a fanfic. =p Please don't hesitate to email me if you have any questions or comments. I love getting mail. ^_^ email : xxyumichanxx@aol.com *************************** "SAILORMOON!!!!!!" Venus runs to Sailormoon. "Usagi..." She held her limp body up. "How dare you, how dare you do this to her!" An evil smile played across the woman's face. "Dead Scream." The woman was hit by the sudden attack. Anger rose in her, her long, black hair flew up in rage. "Uranus, Neptune, Pluto!!" "Venus! Get her out of here. Hurry!!" "World Shaking!!!" Venus carries Sailormoon off. "What do you want?" The woman snickers. "What do you think I want? I want the crystal that your princess has. . What a waste, for such a power to be granted to such a worthless child." "We will never let you hurt our princess!!" Jupiter dashes for the woman, and tries to punch her, but in return is thrown into a window. "Jupiter!" "Hurt her? I already cursed her." "What!?" The woman looks up into the sky and laughs. "You will find out soon enough," She snaps her fingers and disappears. ************************ ************************* "Is she okay?" "She will be fine. She's just sleeping." "The enemy is after our princess's power, her crystal." Setsuna bites her lip. "Ami and I will try to find more information on this enemy. Lunar and Artemis too. The rest of you get some rest, it's late. We will notify you if anything happens." "What - - what time is it?" They all turn their heads to the drowsy voice. "Usagi!!!" "Minakochan, minna, what happened?" Haruka and Setsuna exchange glances. "Konekochan, we will explain later, you need some rest." Haruka motions her to lay back down on the bed. Usagi does so, her head was awfully hurting. ***************** ****************** The same dark-haired woman you saw in the battle sat in a thrown like chair in a dark space. She looked down into her crystal ball. She sees a young man was sitting in the corner of a dark room. His fingers wrapped around the picture of him and the girl he could never forget smiling into the picture. He tries to suppress the tears. He holds the frame up to his face. His lips touch the picture. He kisses the frame lightly. The woman smirked at the sight of the young man. "Thinking about her again." Bitterness overrode her voice when she said the word 'her', "Seiya you miss your love, do you? Don't worry she will come to you soon." ***************** ********************* "Why?" "We are still looking into it." Usagi looks down into her mug. 'We had just gained back our happiness, and another enemy.' "Princess, please do not worry yourself. We will take care of this." "Michirusan." She looks up at the reassuring face. "Are you feeling better?" "Yah, just a scar on my arm that's all, nothing to fuss abou- -" Suddenly a pain rushes through her body. She grabs her side, and is panting hard. "Usagi chan??" Haruka got up and was about to call for Setsuna, when Usagi grabbed her hand. "I'm, I'm okay, its nothing, I'm fine really." "Maybe you should stay here another night, - -" Usagi shakes her head, "My parents, they'll worry, I've already been gone two days, and I have school tomorrow anyways." Haruka smiles at an uneasy Michiru. "Okay, I'll drive you home. We don't want our princess to miss school." Haruka leads Usagi out the door. The door closes. * "Hotaru, what are you doing up so late? It's past your bedtime.." "Our princess, she is in danger." Her expression was gloom. ****************** ******************************************** Usagi lay on her bed holding her side. She felt the sharp pain in her stomach once again. These pains had been coming since the day she was attacked. She looked at her clock, it read 6:00. She let out a groan. She might as well get up and take a shower. She put her hand on the dresser for balance, and got herself up. "Usagi?? Are you sure you're okay? You've been waking up so early these past few days." "Just thought I've been late too many times." "Oh, well I guess it's a good thing then." Ikuko smiled to herself. Her daughter was finally becoming an adult. ******************************************** "Usagi the enemy is after you, whatever it takes, don't give them the crystal, and all of you don't leave her alone." Usagi and the others nod their heads in understanding. "Don't worry Lunar, we'll protect Usagi!" Usagi smiles, 'how lucky I am to have all these people thinking about my safety, my safety,..... or was it the power I posses that they are protecting?' "Uggh." Usagi falls to the ground. Her heart was pounding hard. She felt like something, something was trying to rip her heart out. "Usagi!!!" Makoto tries to help her friend up. "Are you okay!?" "Yah- -" before she could answer, she felt the pain in her side again and let out a scream. "Usagi!!" ********************* ********************** "I see my curse is working, no? Tsukino Usagi or should I say, tsuki no princess?" She narrows her eyes as she looks down into her crystal ball. She watches as Usagi falls to the ground. A smile spreads across her face. ********************** Michiru lets out a gasp. "Michiru, what's wrong..? Do you see anything in your mirror?" Haruka walks up behind her. "Our princess... she's covered with blood." "....Who is the one holding her?" Michiru tries to look closer. A woman, she was wearing a leather costume, the face comes into view, it was ...Starfighter, she was holding Usagi in her arms crying. A dark figure stood in the corner and - -. The mirror fogs up, and everything is erased. "Michiru, this is......" *********************** "Reichan." She peeps into her black-haired friend's room. "Usagi!" Rei turns to see her friend. "Heheh, whats up?" "You came here by yourself? Are you okay, shouldn't you be in bed??" Usagi frowns. "Reichan, not you too." They sat in her room. Rei sat the two cups of tea in front of them. "So, what did you want to talk about?" "Well," Usagi hesitantly started, "I thought you were someone who I could talk to, youre always straight out with me. Well, do you think it would be selfish, if a person, if a person gave up their duties for her, I mean 'their' own feelings?" "Usagi." Rei turns to her, "Do you mean you don't want to be Princess?" "No, n- -well that's par - -" Rei takes Usagi's hand in her own. "Usagi, my duty is to protect you," She looks over to her friend, "You are the princess I am to protect, but more than that you are my friend, and I would risk my life for you. I will stand by your side, whatever decision you make, not because you are my princess, not because of your power but because you are my friend." She slides her hand into her shirt, and pulls out a shiny pendant. She held it in her hand. [flashback] "Rei happy fourteenth birthday!" Usagi hands her a small box. She carefully tears the red wrapping paper to reveal a box. She opens it to find a gold pendant with the shape of a sun. She was so surprised at the present. "Usagi, this must have cost- -" "Oh, its okay, I bought it with the money I saved up from my part time job." "Your part time job...?" Rei had remembered when she heard that Usagi had taken up a job, and was mad at her because she had so much homework and responsibilities to do. She had constantly scolded her. Rei smiled and placed it around her neck. "I'll never take it off, Usagi, thankyou.." [flashback ends] "You know, this was the first present I had gotten from a friend." "Reichan." Usagi went over and hugged her friend and wiped off her tears. *********************** "Princess, there has been no unusual happenings lately in the west section of the kinmokusei, but 'it' still is there and we sense a large mass of energy from there, if we do not do something soon about that, that thing...It is far from the palace, but if we do not do anything soon..... this is very dangerous." "Have you sent the palace's soldiers?" "Yes, but. ." The man looked down in despair. "Kakue." She let out a sigh. The woman's ruby colored hair fell down to her waist, while another portion was carefully placed in rings behind her ears. She wore a crown with beautiful gems and flowers covering it. Her red strapless gown complemented her red eyes and hair. "Princess, don't worry, we will find Lady Kakue, and bring her back to you." The warrior bows to the lady. "I just hope she is alive, "The princess looks down, "But why would they kidnap Kakue?" ********************** "Do you think it is safe to leave the princess here alone?" "She has protectors." "You're right." "We must proceed. We must protect the princess, and find out what is hurting her, and that picture." Michiru bites her lip as she remembers the scene she had seen last night in her mirror. The four nod in unison. "Wait!!" The four senshi turn to see two girls running towards to them. "Rei! Ami! What are you - -" "Were coming too." "No you're not." "She's, she's are princess too!! Its are duty to protect her!!" Rei looks down. "Usagi.. she's not well, something is wrong with her body. I'm not just going to sit around while she's in pain." "I said-" "Haruka." Michiru puts a hand on her companion, "They are right." "But we cannot leave her, without so much protection." "I will stay." "Hotaru." "I can stay by her side and protect her." "but -" "I do think that its best, Hotaru is very powerful." Setsuna sighs, "but Ami you may not come." "Wh - -why? Is it because I am not strong enough!?" The usually calm girl was fighting back tears. Setsuna puts a hand on the blue-haired girl. "We need someone to keep a check on things while we are gone, don't we?" She smiles at Ami. "Setsunasan." "We must go now." Hotaru steps away letting Mars step into the circle. Pluto raises her staff up above her, and circles it around the four senshi. A violet fog appears around them, and they disappear. Hotaru looks up into the sky. "Be careful." ******** ******* to be continued..... Other fanfics by me: Yaten No Omoi Seiya and Usagi Together Again |