Black Dawn
Black Rose
Ladynorose@hotmail.com
~**~

Iris: Well... I figure they've got to get tired... 
and besides, Rose has been hit one too many times 
with Suna's Dead Scream. Surely one of them has to 
go down...
Rose: Rahaha! I am the invincible Sailor Rose! 
Die, evil senshi who wants to take MY MAN!
Setsuna: Sailor Rose? Hehehe... yeah, Zoisite in 
disguise.... hehe.... *throws kumquats*
Rose: Rose Power Make up!
Setsuna and Iris stare in amazment as Rose really 
does transform into a sailro scout.
Setsuna: This was unexpected.
Iris: No kidding.
Rose: Rose Petal Blur! *She throws a really big 
rose petal at Setsuna, who blows it up with her 
dead scream.
Iris: This is rediculous. Absolutely rediculous. 
Before I have to torture you guys any further by 
letting you see this, here's the story.

~**~ 





	Usagi paced back and forth between the bed 
and her wall, wondering what she should do. 
Everything had been revealed, and the sight of the 
bloody moon was still giving her heeby jeebies. 
	But now, she had no... well... uh, she 
still had a reason, but now it seemed irrelevent. 
If Metalia was at the root of all this, then she 
would still have a certain ahem... control over 
him. Not to that extent, but so she could pplace 
memories and a mirage....
	It was the only thing she could thing of. 
Call her delusional.
	"Oh, I don't know what to do!" She 
exclaimed at last. Pacing sure wasn't helping. She 
had to think about everything like a calm, 
rational adult. 
	As if!
	"Usagi?" A voice floated up from her 
communicator. "Usagi, are you alsleep?"
	"No, Minako. What's up?"
	"Well, we've sort of got a lot of youma 
here... and we don't really know what to uh, do... 
because they've got civilians hostage... and 
well..."
	"You're joking."
	"No."
	Usagi let out a string of curses, some a 
little past unprintable. MInako went pale, and she 
bit her lip.
	"I'll be there in a minute. I want 
*everyone* there. NOW. You guys had better be 
together, de-henshined. I don't care if you have 
to sit on top of Makoto!" Calm down, Usagi. Come 
on, girl. No time to be blowing up.
	"Even Tuxedo Kamen?"
	What the hell. "Yup."
	"Alright-y...." MInako's face disappeared.
	"I hate Metalia, I hate Metalia, I hate 
Metalia..." Usagi shook her head, and pulled out 
Apollo's Sword, and rasied it in the air.
	A bolt of lightning fell from the sky...

~**~



	"SHE SAID WHAT?!" Makoto screamed. 
Mamoruand Sinato were having a hard time keeping 
her henshin stick away from her.
	"Not to fight..." Minako repeated in a very 
small voice.
	"GIVE ME THAT WAND!" She went after Sinato 
again, but just as her hands found his throat, he 
tossed it to Mamoru.
	"Alright, fine." She stopped in her tracks, 
looking very calm. Mamoru looked confused. Didn't 
she want her wand?
	"Oh, no! Her other wand!" Ami screamed, 
just as Makoto whipped out her other henshin 
stick. It may not have as much power, but, by 
golly, it worked.
	"Jupiter Power Make up!" She called, and 
the senshi watched in horror as she henshined.
	"Usagi's going to kill us." Rei whispered 
to Yaten, who gulped.
	"Hhmmm, let's see?" Jupiter put her hands 
in position. "Sparkling Wide Pressure!" She 
screamed, throwing the bolt at the side of the 
alley, stopping it just before it hit.
	"That's a good thing," She declared as she 
let the thunder disappear. "If we ever loose one 
henshin stick, we can always use the other."
	"Oh, yeah. Wonderful. But if you go out 
there, Jupiter, we will try to stop you." Rei 
said. Sinato shook his head wildly. Not him! He'd 
had one to many encounters with an angry senshi, 
and wasn't about to do it again.
	"Alright. Henshin yo!" A voice yelled from 
above. They looked up to see Artemis (warrior) on 
the roof above them.  
	"Well, come on. Mercury Star Power--"
	"No!" Artemis interupted. She wearily 
jummped down into the midst of them. 
	"What?" Ami asked, confused.
	"Pluto has told me that your powers are 
that so that you can power up. Take your wands, 
and yell Crystal Power Make up."
	"Are you sure?" Jupiter asked, 
dehenshining.
	"Positive."
	"Alright. Mercury Crystal Power Make up!" 
	"Venus Crystal Power Make up!"
	"Mars Crystal Power Make up!"
	"Jupiter Crystal Power Make up!" The four 
innner senshi watched in amazment as their wands 
melted awayfrom their hands, and a new wand 
appeared, the hands shaped something like a pair 
of wings, and the top a ball, with their 
respective symbol inside.
	"And now, you guys. Sorry, I can't do 
anything about your transformations." She motioned 
widely to the guys, and doing something she hadn't 
done in a very long while, she actually looked at 
Mamoru.
	The transformed senshi didn't know how to 
take this. Neither did Mamoru. He pulled out his 
rose and henshined, trying not to think about the 
flood of emotions that had come in that gaze.
	Mostly anger. But there was other emotions. 
Sorrow. Longing. Love. Tears. Frustration. More 
Anger.
	"This rocks!" Jupiter said, inspecting her 
uniform. 
	"Yeah, well. We've got enemies to reckon 
with." Artemis gave them a flippant smile. 

~**~




	"Alright, Nega-sleeze. I've got a lot of 
things to do a thousand times better than fight 
you. So, let's get this over with. In the name of 
the moon, I'll punish you." Artemis stepped from 
the alley, her senshi behind her. Tuxedo Kamen 
somewhere, ready to drop in if things got nasty.
	"It's about time!" The head youma rasped.
	"Oh, get over it." Jupiter stepped forward. 
"Jupiter Oak Revolution!" She sent her new attack 
at it, it being the only one without a hostage in 
it's clutches.
	It exploded into dust.
	"Let the people go." Artemis said coldly.
	"Never!" Another youma shouted at her. 
Venus was about to blow it to smitherines, but 
Arteis shook her head.
	She mumbled something under her breath, and 
the people simply vanished, only to reappear about 
half a block away.
	"Now..." She ordered, stumbling. Fighter 
caught her.
	"Are you alright?" She asked, concerned.
	"Yeah. I'm fine. Go help the others."
	"Okay." Fighter left, as she watched the 
battle. The teleportation took a lot out of her.
	"Venus Love and Beauty Shock!"
	"Mars Flaming Sniper!"
	"Mercury Aqua Rhaspody!"
	"Star Senstive Inferno!"
	"Star Gentle Uterus!"
	"Star Serious Laser!" Where once stood 
about twenty youma, ten were left. Sinato was 
fihgting another, and the rest fell under the 
senshi's attacks.
	One remained. He stepped forward from the 
shadows, enjoying the gasps of shock and anger.
	Tuxedo Kamen jumped down from the roof 
where he had been standing.
	Artemis pushed her way through the mob of 
senshi, and stood not twelve paces away from the 
man.
	"I knew she had done something like this." 
Artemis cursed, her arrow nocked against her bow, 
aimed accuratly.
	The youma before her looked exactly, in 
every way, like Chiba Mamoru, or rather, Prince 
Endymion.
	"You mean..." Fighter looked a bit 
caringed.
	"Silver Arrow!" Artemis let the arrow fly, 
right into Endymion's chest, blazing with silver 
energy. 
	It hit his chest, and arrow after arrow 
flew before the youma fell, laughing harder than 
anything as it melted away into dust.

~**~


	
	"But... but... but..." Venus stuttered, as 
the last of the dust vanished, and Artemis 
collapsed. The senshi were standing in shock, as 
were the Starlights. Tuxedo Kamen froze. He was 
afraid if he moved, he'd explode. How dare that 
witch make a clone of him...
	Sinato walked forward, and picked Artemis 
up in his arms. He understood everything now, just 
as Artemis did. It made so much sense...
	"Sere, Sere, wake up. Wake up, come on. You 
can't give up now." He whispered. 
	"I'm awake. I just can't open my eyes. I 
don't want to." She answered.
	"It's alright. Everyone was fooled..."
	"No! He'll never forgive me..."
	"He already has. He's furious, but at 
Metalia, not at you."
	"But Sina... I can't..."
	"Do I *have* to get Hera?"
	"You wouldn't!" Artemis jumped out of his 
arms, and stared at him.
	"I would."
	"Sinato, you are so mean!"
	"Well, it got you up."
	"Why, you overgrown son of a monkey!"
	"Ahem! It was an oranatang, and I think I'm 
the oerfect size, thank you very much!"

~**~
A week and a few youma later\
~**~


	Usagi was asleep.
	So were the rest of the senshi.
	But not Mamoru.
	He was awake, looking out at the moon.
	He was asking himself a lot of questions. 
Mainly why, who, where. But mostly, Why? WHy had 
this happened? Why had it begun? Why wouldn't 
Usagi still talk to him? Why was Seiya giving him 
glowing looks? Why did the senshi go red and 
suddenly have a place to be when he asked them 
about Usagi?
	You know. Stuff like that.
	"Surely they can't blame me..." already the 
memories of The Accident were fading... he knew 
they weren't real. He knew he wouldn't have done 
anything like that.
	Surely.....they knew it too... right?
	"What if..." No! There were to many what 
ifs. He could NOT begin thinking about them... no 
way!
	"I'm Tuxedo Kamen... but she can't do this 
to me..." He stopped abruptly, as he watched a 
familar figure jump out of the hotel window below 
him...
	Artemis... no...
	Sailor Moon... with a strange fuku on. 
	"What the bloody hell...." He asked, 
deciding against following her. She might be going 
to meet one of those goddesses... and they didn't 
like him.
	Screw them.
	He held up his rose...

~**~



	"Damn damn damn damn damn. Of course she 
would pick TWO OCLOCK in the morning. Why? Because 
she's a brat. But I did call for her. I just hope 
my future self isn't too pissed..." Super Sailor 
Moon ran through the streets of Boston as fast as 
she could to meet her guest. 
	"And she would pick the dock, and she would 
bring that STUPID CAT with her. I've already got 
TWO crazy moon cats on my case! And another! 
Geez!" She wove through was little foot trqaffic 
there was, suprising many people at the sight of 
the heroine. 
	Finally. The docks.
	She stood at the end of one, waiting 
impatiently, tapping her foot. Her guest was late.
	"Ahhhh!" The familar cry met her ears, and 
Sailor Moon jumped out of the way just before her 
guest hit her head, full force.
	"Mama!"
	"Chibi-usa, you're late!" Sailor Moon 
cried, as she hugged her daughter.
	"Yeah, I know. But you wouldn't let me 
leave until I took my Luna P."
	"Oh, really?" 
	"Yeah, I would. Damn me." Sailor Moon 
muttered.
	"Huh?"
	"Nothing, Chibi-chan. So, where's Diana?"
	"Diana? Oh, in my backpack. She's asleep. I 
brought my  locket this time. You said I had to 
fight."
	"That's great. Listen, hurry up and 
transform. We need to get back before any one 
misses us."
	"Alright. Moon Crystal Power Make up!" 
Mohter and daughter took off for the hotel.
	Tuxedo kamen stood for a little while 
longer behind the boxes where he had been hiding, 
wondering why Chibi-usa was there.
	Then, he followed the two senshi.

~**~



Sailor Rose: Rose Petal Blur!
Sailor Pluto: Dead Scream!
Iris: *sighs wearily* This is impossible. Well, I 
hope none of you guys were hurt by flying rose 
petals. 
Rose: SINATO IS MINE!
Pluto: No way, sap!
Rose: Who are you calling a sap? At least I don't 
whipser my attacks!
Pluto: You should! Your voice is waaaaay annoying!
Rose: Take that back!
Pluto: No way, Tomato girl!
New voice: FREEEEEEEEZE, SCUMBAGS!
Pink Power Ranger jumps out onto satge.
Iris and the two senshi look at her in confusion.
Pink Power Ranger: Oops... wrong set. Seeya! *runs 
out*
Iris: That was... unexpected....


Rose