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Moonlight Nightmares ch. 3
By Catherine Scully
JScully@netway.ab.ca
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Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Kamen ran along the roof tops to the battleground. The stopped and stared in amazement at the size of the youma causing so much trouble.
It was about two feet tall with dark orange slimy skin. It seemed from Sailor Moon's point of view to be a orange blob that could fire blasts of dark energy.
The skimpy suited soldier of the Moon giggles in spite of the situation. "Kamen-chan look at him, he looks just like a teddy bear." She smiled, forgetting her problems for a few seconds. The blond looks down at the battlefield once more to see the inner and outer senshi fighting the youma with all of their energy. "Time to end this little party," she said out loud to the youma.
She raised her wand and shouted "Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss!" The pure energy flowed out of her and began to heal the blob.
The youma's form shifted to one of a small boy. He lay there on the street.
Feeling pity for the little boy Sailor Moon jumped down to see if he was all right. She lifted his light form into her arms and began to cradle him like she would for Chibi-Usa in the future.
A small moan escaped his half open lips. His eyelids fluttered open to reveal a pair of blue eyes.
The small boy opened his eyes. His small arms came reached up at the woman's face. Not sure of what to do, she picked up the child and held him close. She heard footsteps behind her, she turned to see Tuxedo Kamen standing behind her. Slowly she stood up with the small boy cradled in her arms. "What now?" she asked him not sure of what to do.
"We need to get the senshi to a hospital, they've been hurt pretty badly. And as for him I guess we should take him with us," he said, indicating the senshi who were leaning on each other for support.
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At the hospital the doctors and nurses were surprised to have 9 Sailor Senshi walk in with a man dressed in a tuxedo and a small boy. They hurried to help the injured eight senshi leaving a senshi with wings, the man and the small boy.
"Excuse me, but we found this child.." Sailor Moon started but was promptly ignored by everyone.
After trying a few more times she began to get angry with the poor
service at the hospital. She began to flap her wings making a cold wind
blow through the room. She flapped her wings harder making the
temperature drop a few degrees.
"Would you please stop doing whatever you're doing ma'am. Please?" A
doctor asked Sailor moon politely.
"I will stop when I feel like it," she replied, "and when I get some service aro..." She stopped in mid sentence when she felt some thing scratch her arm. She looked down and screamed.
The small boy in her arms was reverting back to the blob thing. It morphed back into its original self.
Sailor Moon dropped the blob. It made a sickening sound as it hit the floor and ran away.
"We have to get after it!" shouted Tuxedo Kamen over the noise in the room. He took after it in a run.
The sounds of the screaming people brought the other senshi to the emergency room. They found Sailor Moon sitting in a chair crying.
"Sailor Moon what happened?" asked the inner senshi of water.
"It reverted back to the blob thing, (sob sniffle), and it took off. (sniffle) My strongest attack didn't even hurt it." She cried into her hands.
"I'll kill that thing if it's the last thing I do!" said Jupiter as she slammed her fist into her hand.
"Uhhh, guys, what happened to Saturn?" asked Venus tentatively.
As if on cue a loud scream came from a long hall. In another part of the hospital a disheveled Sailor Saturn ran down a hall with eight doctors in tow. "Help me please, they want to cut me up and lock me away to study my healing powers." She stopped suddenly and summoned her Silence Glaive. "Silence Wall!" Ribbons of dark purple energy raced towards the advancing doctors.
"Stop Saturn, stop!" shouted a voice.
Saturn stopped and said to the doctors, "Next time you won't be so lucky." She turned to face Sailor Pluto who was frowning at her. "Would you have wanted to have been dissected to see why you live so long?" asked Saturn with a hint of innocence in her small voice.
Saturn and Pluto walked back to the emergency room in silence. When they arrived they were just in time to see the other senshi run out into the night. They followed them, but soon had to stop because Saturn was becoming weak.
When the two stragglers had caught up they discovered that the blob had returned and was much larger the before. The senshi had all fallen but Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Kamen.
The blob reached out with a hand made of goo towards Sailor Moon. She leaped away only to be caught by another hand.
The goo entrapped Sailor Moon. Unable to move she began to concentrate, sending bursts of pure energy from the crystal into the youma. It responded with a sharp blast of dark energy, causing Sailor Moon to fall unconscious.
A strange shadow jumped along the roof tops. It made an impossible leap from a rooftop a block away to land gracefully in front of the blob. In a flash of silver light the blob monster was gone. At the shadow's feet lay the unconscious Sailor Moon. The shadow still stood in front of Sailor Moon.
The light from some nearby street lights illuminated its face. She was a woman of 18 no older, she had frightening pale skin. She wore a short silver skirt with a sleeveless black belly shirt. She wore knee high black lace-up boots with three inch platform heels.
"I'm getting some really strange vibes from her, guys," shouted Mars, leaning heavily on Jupiter while Saturn healed her shattered knee cap.
A blonde was the first to approach the stranger. She summoned her sword, not knowing what to expect and took a fighting stance. "Who are you? And why are you here?" the senshi of Uranus demanded.
"I am here to help her," the woman replied.
"Who are you here to help?" asked Neptune in her calm voice.
"I am here to help-" She fell to her knees crying out in pain as she clutched her stomach.
The smallest of the outer senshi ran to the fallen woman. She knelt down by her and began to heal her. When she touched her a strange feeling came over her, like she knew this woman long ago during the Silver Millenium. "Her wounds are deep," Saturn thought to herself as she began to use her power, after a short time she felt her strength begin to weaken. A small voice inside her head told her that if the world was to survive she must save her at all costs. She used up all her remaining strength. She felt her body shrink to the size of an infant. Her sailor uniform disappeared and was replaced by a soft lavender blanket.
After a few seconds the woman stood up, revealing for the first time shoulder length forest green hair. She looked down at her feet at baby Sailor Saturn. She picked the child up and walked over to Sailor Pluto, were she placed the child in her arms. Then she turned and walked away.
"Hey, I'm not done with you yet!" shouted Uranus with tears running down her face for her for comrade.
Neptune put a restraining hand on the blonde's shoulder.
Uranus ran after the woman. When she caught up to her she poked the tip of her sword into her back. "You'll pay for taking her life." She spoke with determination. She raised her sword to deliver a killing blow only to be stopped in mid swing by a vaguely familiar staff.
A flawless sphere of clear crystal rested in a claw like hand at the top of the staff. In a quick sweeping motion she hit the senshi's sword out of her hand, sending it into a brick wall a few meters away, buried to the hilt. Then the woman held out her hand and Haruka's sword reappeared, and she handed the sword back.
Haruka looked the sword over once before replacing it in her subspace pocket.
"You're a good opponet Haruka, but you shouldn't fight someone you can't beat. Oh, and Usagi's parents aren't really dead. I staged that so Queen Nexus wouldn't find them. They're now enjoying a vacation in Hawaii thinking that Shingo is their only child. You see, in order for Queen- I mean Princess Serenity to fight these people she must know what it is like to be forgotten by her family. You are not to tell her of any of this except that her parents are dead. Mamoru-san, you have to be careful of what she does. She can't be allowed to leave Tokyo. No matter how much it hurts her she must not leave Tokyo. When the blob thing touched her it injected her with a rare sort of poison. The only cure for it is for her to drink Lentra tea but the flower is extinct. Until I can find a Lentra flower you must not let her fight. If you need to contact me for any reason just concentrate on your henshin pen and I will hear you. Farewell." She finished her rather hasty explanation, then as she concentrated, an oval shaped portal began to form. It was a swirling mass of silver and black. She stepped through and was gone.
End of Chapter 3
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