luciferdb@aol.com This is the new chapter 2, some of you have sent me some e-mail asking me about it. ^_^ -Dragonwind Nexus Chapter 2 ===== (Flashback)===== "Shingo!! Come down here and clean up this mess!!!" Usagi screamed at the top of her lungs, which in fact, could be very loud. "I'll be down in a second!" Her brother answered. "I've got enough to do without keeping track of your messes...," Usagi muttered to herself while walking towards the back porch. Shingo came walking nonchalantly into the kitchen, where he met the screams of his sister from the back door. "You get that mess cleaned up, or Dad's gonna explode when he gets back." "Alright, alright, I'll do it." Then he saw the mess, "I'll try to do it." The sink was full of dishes covered with food, and the counter had pieces and puddles of food and liquid everywhere, not to mention the floor had flour all over it. It was not a pretty sight to see. "Just hurry up, okay? Mom left me in charge and if she finds that...that garbage left over from when you cooked, which I have to say will not happen again, she'll hire a babysitter, or worse, not even go out again!" She rubbed her temples at the thought of not having command of the house while her parents were away. "Anyways...Luna!! Come here Luna!!! Where are you?" She proceeded to walk out of the back door. "...just great...I have to clean while she goes outside to look for her cat....no good little.." Just then the doorbell rang. Then rang again. Finally Usagi screamed from outside, "Shingo, you dummy, go see who it is!" "Yeesss, master..." Shingo replied, doing his best sarcastic tone, complete with bow. Shingo walked over to the front door, and opened it slowly, "Hello..." The door came open with a bang, and Shingo jumped back 5 feet in a second. There was a person slowly, and quite painfully, crawling through the doorway. "Usagi...I need to find Usagi.." the person croaked. "What the hell?" "Shingo? Who is...it?" Usagi asked as she came back into the house, unsuccessful at her attempts to find her cat. "Nephrite?" "Usagi...good..I found you..please help.me...quickly..." Shingo looked at Nephrite, then at Usagi, then at Nephrite, then Usagi again, "You know him?" Quickly catching herself, she thought fast, "He's just someone that...Naru knew." 'Not too much of a lie.' "Well, what do I do? Usagi!" "What?!? Call the paramedics or something!" Shingo left to find a phone. "No! Wait!!" Usagi said again. Shingo just looked at her, phone in hand, waiting for whatever she had to say. "Call Naru first." "What?" "You heard me, call her and tell her what happened. Believe me, she'll want to know." "Fine." =====(End Flashback)===== "And that's all that happened before you arrived. Nephrite was unconcious before Shingo was done calling an ambulance, and..." "That's quite enough, Usagi. I know what happened next, Shingo's no good at keeping quiet." Usagi and Naru were in the hospital Waiting Room, Nephrite was being taken care of.....and no one had yet to notice Nephrite's blood color was green instead of red. At least that was good, maybe Nephrite wasn't completely unconcious and was somehow making himself appear to be human. "I'm so tired of hospitals...I was in one earlier today, and now I'm in one now," Naru complained. "By the way, what did you put on the form they gave you. You had to put a name for him, right?" Usagi asked Naru. Naru gave a slight smile and replied, "Yes, I did, since Nephrite would make them start asking questions, I put the name he originally called himself." "And that was?" "Sanjouin Masato" Naru's mother came back from the front desk with a blond-haired man in a doctor's coat, "Naru, Usagi, this is Doctor.." "Just Jed would be fine, I hate titles. Hello girls, I'm Sanjouin Masato's doctor and any questions you may have with the patient, I can now answer." As Naru began listing off questions, Usagi was lost in thought. 'Jed?!? As in Jedeite? He even looks like him! But something about him...' She looked at his name tag, Jed Daite. 'Yep, it's him alright.' Unconciously, she quickly turned away and stayed there. Naru then asked if she could see him now, to which Jed quickly replied yes to, and they left down the hall. Jed, however, noticed that Usagi stayed, and went back., He quickly attempted to talk to her, pretending as if he were consoling her. Usagi noticed Jed in front of her, and closed her eyes and prepared to be attacked. But it never came, instead, she heard a soft whisper, "Usagi, or should I say Sailor Moon, you don't have to worry, I'm not going to hurt you, I'm different from the Jedeite you knew before." THAT got her attention, she looked up and stared into his eyes. 'He's right, there's a kindness in him that wasn't there before. I guess I could give him a try.' Before they could go anywhere, Usagi felt a small pat on her shoulder. Looking to see who it was, she saw what was probably the last person she thought she would see, Hotaru. "Hotaru! What are you doing here?" "Looking in on Haruka, Michiru, and Setsuna." "They're here? Who are they visiting?" Before she could answer, Usagi was surrounded by friends. Ami, Rei, Makoto, Minako, and Mamoru were surrounding her, and nearly all of them had a mournful look on their face. "Why is everybody so glum?" "Because Haruka, Michiru, and Setsuna nearly died tonight. They were attacked by..." She looked up at Jed, who was surprised at the amount of people there. "Who's he?" "Oh! Everybody, I'd like you to meet Jedeite, again." No response, nobody said anything, except for Minako and Makoto (who weren't there during Jedeite's reign). Mamory slowly pulled Usagi behind him, though. "Jedeite? You're alive? I thought Beryl killed you," Rei finally said. "She did, kinda. Anyway, what happened to your friends?" No one, again, said anything, until Usagi spoke up, "It's okay, I think, he told me he's different." "And you believed him?" Rei quickly said. "Usagi is right, I'll explain it all to you later, but there's someone I want you to meet." Jed led them into Nephrite's room and shut the door. Silence followed from inside, until a couple of thuds sounded. Makoto's voice was heard from inside, "Um...Rei? Ami? Are you guys okay?" To be continued... Dragonwind LuciferDB@aol.com dragonwind@geocities.com "Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate..." -Murphy's Law