Hello all, first off I will not appolagize for the delay and shortness of this chapter. I had a system crash that I'm still recovering from. I actually had to go back and download my own story so I would have a refrence. I'm still trying to get my video working right but at least My access is up right now. However the company still has some stuff they want me to do on this comp. and I may go down again (with them it's highly likely). So I would want any responces but I may not respond to them. Its not because I don't want to it's because I can't. E-Mail addy is CyansSwd@aol.com Sailor Moon: A New Moon Ch.3 Gathering of Emotions, Frozen Rage. Explanations! Lita tried to gather herself up enough to save herself at least some embarrasment. After her collapse at dinner Andrew had helped her over to the couch. She would cling to him for a while as she cried. Unseen by Lita was Andrews own silent grief. He himself was trying to picture The arcade without Usagi after school. He always admired the fact that no matter what life through at her she always seemed to bounce back to her happy self rather rapidly. He was always a little suspicious of her relationship with Darian but he was one of Darian's best friends and knew he wouldn't try anything. Actually He and Usagi seemed to really care for each other. Which brought up another point, did Darian know? Well one thing was certain, He wasn't about to ask Lita. He'd just have to watch what he says around Darian until he knew for certain. Lita started to look up at Andrew's face and was just slightly surpassed to see a grief stricken face before she realized he must be upset about Usagi too. She mentally kicked herself for being so self- centered that she didn't think about how he was feeling. At her wrist an oddy shapped watch silently flashed unnoticed... Ray was walking back to her temple from Darian's house. She had held him for a while while they both cried. While most would expect it the other way around but after loseing the tie he had with Usagi he was in no condition to try and comfort anyone. Now she had to get back before her grandpa and Chad did. She wouldn't want them getting suspicious about anything. When she reached the temple she walked streight to her room to get ready for bed. when she was putting her earrings down she came across a picture of all the scouts, cats, and Darian at the park from the few times they enjoyed before Reenie came. She stopped and started looking at the picture as if she were in a trance. She slowly picked it up and fell down on her bed. She was staring at Usagi as she was in the picture, not the scared yet determined look she had at the end but the care-free, happy face she wore most of the time. Ray could feel new tears start to form as she broke down into fresh sobs over her lost freind. Even as she was entirely lost in her sobs, her recently removed comunicater started flashing on the night stand. Too far away to disturb Ray's distress. Mina was staring at the arcade through the metal bars in front of the doorway. It was her favorite place, HER favorite place. And now she'd never be able to enjoy the games again. She could feel the tears comeing but she wouldn't give in. She knew what the scouts were like right now and they needed someone to support them. Who else was going to do it. But then she could always cry in her room when no one was looking. Not even Artemis. That wouldn't hurt the scouts. Upon this insight she imediatly ran to her house to start letting her feelings out. Also at her house her unique watch started beeping at a very inteelligent cat. Intelligent enough even to go serch for the owner of the watch. Amy was walking Reenie over to Darian's place scince the scouts opted to stay close to her always now that Usagi was gone. She still couldn't believe that Usagi was dead. Her mind made the conclusion but this time her heart wouldn't except it. She was holding Reenie's hand as they walked. She hoped that Darian wasn't too bad off because she just couldn't get Reenie to go somewhere else. She was contemplating posible adversiond for Reenie if Darian didn't prove up to it when a sudden unexpected lightningbolt decided to announce the incoming storm by frying a tree nearby. Reenie became terrified and immediatly alerted Rubius to her current locaion. Rubius sent a droid to attack and take advantage of his situation. His face appeared in the sky as he gloated to Reenie, "HAHAHAHAHA Well rabit without Sailor Moon to save you your finally going to be MINE!" Meanwhile Amy had quietly snuck up to a nearby alley and transformed into Sailor Mercury. "Hold it right there negasleeze! Sailor Moon may no longer be with us but that doesn't meen we're going to hand Reenie over to you!" she said while simultaniously activating her communicater. "We shall see how you fare against my droids now that Sailor Moon isn't around to eleminate them!" and with that rubeus' image was replaced with that of a droid. This perticular droid looked like a minitour composed mostly of flame and flesh. Even before her computer spat out its weakness she could guess she had at least she had some advantage in this fight. Her computer did confirm her suspicion that her attacks just didn't have enough total power to defeat it. She despritely hoped the othes showed up soon. "Mercury, now you DIE!" and with that the youa sent a massive firebolt shooting from its mouth. "Mercury bubles Blast!" and the first level attack sufficed to stop the incoming fire. "Take this Mercury Bubles FREEZE!" sent a hailstorm of freezing cold bubles shooting at the youma. "I don't think so!" and with that said the youma encased itself in a sphere of fire. The bubles never stood a chace against the might of his hellfire. 91Why aren't they here yet? Can't count on their support. gotto do this on my own.'thought Mercury. "Give up! you'll die just as you idiot leader did! She at least put up a good fight! But then again she was a pathetic crybaby!"jeered the youma. It was proud of itself. It maniged to master the art of Mockery apparently. Little did it know that it just set up its own destruction. For now Mercury was trully angry. The one thing she had never fully been. Sure she would get upset occasional but never truly angry. She had a nack for remaining as cool inside as her planet's name suggested. Now, however, she could feel the anger burning away at the icy remains of her restraint. As the new found crystal in her braoch sensed the transformation of its host it added its strength to Mercury's. She felt the words forming in her head as she called out, "MERCURY PRISMSHARD POWER!" as the blue light engulfed her as she took on a few changes from her orriginal outfit. Her tiara stone now had the simble of mercury embeded in it. Her boots reached up to her knees and there were small Mercury simbles at the top of each. She finnished the transformation and turned toward the now distraught youma. Sensing her new power she prepared to destroy the youma. "MERCURY ICEWALL CRUSH!" Three tremendus walls of ice appeared from nowhere. They imediatly converged on the youma. When they had it trapped in their triangular formation the tops broke away and fell on the youma, utterly destroying it. When it was over all the ice seemed to vanish. It was at that moment that the rest of the scouts arrived. Once more Rubius's face appeared in the sky as he said, "So your the new leader eh Mercury? well you can't hang around the scouts forever. Soon the Rabit will be mine!" and with that said he vanished. "Whats with the costume Mercury? and why did he call you leader? We never chose a new leader yet." qestioned Mars scince she had her eyes set on that prize as well. "Well I'm only guessing at the leader part but it could be because of my new power." Mercury was still too stunned at what she had done to register the shock and confsion appearing on everyone's face. She quitely went with the other back to Ray's temple to discuss it and let the shock wear off on the journey. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Usagi stared back at the six sets of eyes looking at her. She defeated the droid and was immediate bombarded with questions from the still disbeleiving scouts. Never mind the fact that she herself had a few questions to ask. Back in the tent they sat with an uneasy silance so far unbroken. Finally Usagi got bored of just waiting around and asked, "O.K. Can somebody please tell me where on earth am I?" "Your in Cressenty-" started Mercury "And where exactly is that supposed to be?" interupted a hysterical Usagi. She may not have paid much attention in History class but she was sure there was no place called cressenty. "More importantly, how do we get back to Tokyo?" "Where?" chorased six voices at once. "Tokyo...You know where we were reborn." "I was reborn in Martellian" responded the scout in red "Me in Mercenty" "I was from Jupenta" "And I am from Camvenesta" (If you cant figure out whose from where from the stupid names I gave everywhere than seek counselling) "What are you people talking about?! We were all reborn in Tokyo. We all got our powers back when Beryl attacked and we found out I was the princess!" said Usagi in one breath. Needles to say she was panting and quite red in the face. "YOU were the princess? You certainatly don't act like it!" mocked Mars "Whats THAT supposed to mean Hmmm..." asked Usagi showing the signs of her and Ray's classic arguments. "Don't tell me your to stupid to even figure that out!" Ray said with a little more wtt and venom than her alternate self. Usagi Immediately started her ear-splitting wail which seemed to aggrivate the scouts more than it did her old ones. "Would you please stop that awful sound!" screemed Jupeter to Moon. When she stopped they all removed their hands from their ears and took a releived breath. "How can one cry be so painful to everyone else in the room when she doesn't mind at all?" questioned Mercury. "I think I may have a theory. If that sword was really the moon scepter than this girl doesn't belong here." said Luna "What exactly do you mean by that?" asked a now very frieghtend Usagi. "Well, I still have the Moon Scepter in my space pocket. There can be only one scepter made in this world at a time. Therefore she can't have come from this world." explained Luna The puzzled Lita, However, was still just a little confused, "Is she from another planet? And how did she know about us?" "Thats not quite what I meant by another world. I was thinking more along the lines of a parrallel universe. To her everything she said so far really did happen. Somewhere along the line she travelled to our demension and landed in that feild. Now we've got to find some way to get her back to her own world." Luna explained "Well since she's the princess couldn't she just telleport back." asked Amy "Well not really. The princess would always transport other people. We never tried tleporting her because we had no garuntee she would make it back to this world without either me or Artemis to locate the coordinates. It would require both a cat and a princess to teleport someone to a fixed world and we only have the power to transport one." "But there's got to be some way to get her back!" argued Jupeter "Since we don't need her to teleport back what would be the problem?" asked Mercury "Well we never tried using the princess to teleport herself. Something may happen in the interum and we would never know. She could be lost between dimensions forever." explained Luna. "Well, if what we need is another princess, than why don't we work on getting our princess back from the crystal?" inquired a very soft spoken Mercury "Yes! Now that we have a moon princess we can break the prison seal!" Suddenly Luna seemed very VERY happy. "WAIT!"Usagi spoke up for the first time in the conversation. "Before we do anything I still want one more explanation. Why did my uniform and powers change?!?!?! HHHMMMMMM!" "Well since the scepter was designed to be the best wepon for the priness, When you have the Crystal it becomes the scepter, but without the crystals energy to transfer it changed to the Samuri sword and gave you armor to help protect against close combat that your more likely to engage in."Luna lecturedd as if talking to a preschooler. "Oh...I guess that makes sence." stated a quickly subdued Usagi "Right now then I'll get a soldier to bring the maps and we can plan a stratagy. After words we'll have to teach Usagi how to use that sword so she doesn't end up stabing herself." Mars quickly took control of the situation as she sent a soldier out for the maps. When he returned he had four tubes under his arm and tried to kneel at the same time. The end result looked anything but comfortable. "Miss Mars, I have the maps you requested," he held out the maps to her, "I also have good news, Prince Darian has returned from his scouting trip. He is on his way here after he stables his mount." "Thank you. You may leave us." Mars said and there seemed to be a large worry that was lifted from her mind. Usagi, not sure what to expect stayed quite during the talks about Darian. "Now then,"Mars said as she unrolled the map from one of the tubes,"If this is Cresenty here, then the only way we ould mobalize an entire army over there would be to take back Jupenta (Jupeters eyes seemed to light up a bit at that) but that would be almost impossibe(and they dropped back down). Were bearly strong enough to defend ourselves much less reclaim land. So what we need now is some way to get our forcess behind their lines without them knowing." "Well if we knew how to do that this war would be a lot simpler to win now wouldn't it, dear." stated a large man in black armour from the tent entrance. He had blue eyes that Usagi thought she might never see again. She was quite suprised to find he knew her well enough to call dear still. At least she was until she saw Mars throw herself in Darian's Arms with a cry of "Darian!" and a hapy smile. "I was so worried when you left without telling me I could have chewed rocks for breakfast and not have noticed. What did you learn?" "Sorry, I didn't want to wake you. I learned that they were sending a youma when I was leaving. This one seperates and when you beat the small parts it forms a larger youma with sheilds against all the attacks you used on the smaller ones." "Umm, Your a little late for that to be news Darian. We fought it probably half an hour ago." Jupeter said sarcastically. "OOPS. Well I guess it was preaty fast then wasn't it? I even ran my horse the whole way back. We might see a few more individual assasins but no more large field battles, Thank Goddess." said Darian intentionally ignoring Jupeter's sarcasm. He was rewarded by a frustrated glare followed by a rueful laugh. "So at least we won't have to worry about defenses for a while. That will leave us more time to prepare to release the princess." said Mars "Realease the princess? How are we supposed to do that? I thought Luna said the seall could only be broken by the princess?" asked Darian. He had yet to notice the striken figure in the corner as she composed herself. Luckily she managed to do so before Venus said, "Darian may I introduce to you Princess Serenity of the Moon Kingdom of another world." She finnished with a look to Darian's face and nearly broke out laughing. He stood there with his eyes wide open staring at the girl in front of him. He noticed she was wearing an outfit similar to that of the other scouts but with armour on her legs and arms. She also seemed more beutiful than even Mars which was a first for him. It was at about this point that Venus's last words were interpretated. "What exactly do you mean by 91From another world'." "She's from another dimension. A place where things happened differently. She can help us free our princess and then she can teleport her back to her own dimension."Luna had to answer this one since the rest of the scouts were too busy trying to stop laughing. When everyone had calmed down a bit they returned to studying the maps in front of them. "Maybe we could try cutting back across the terrean ocean. Then we could come behind and take Martellian." This insight from Mars "But that would leave the rest of Cressenty wide open. Who knows what might happen then. It would take too long to mobalize our troops. Wouldn't it be simpler just to get US near the princess?" argued Mercury. "But the border gaurds would be able to recognize our power signatures. Theres no way we could make it in." said Jupeter. "Hold it! Now I'm confused again. I thought we were in Cresenty. Why would we have to take back cresenty if we're already in it?" asked Moon "Well, true to its name Cressenty was in the shape of a cresent. When Systemia's forces invaded they incorperated the center as part of Jupenta and left the other end as a weakened Cresenty. So now there are technically two Cresentys." explained Venus "O.K. If thats the case than why don't we just teleport in there using the Sailor Teleport?" asked a subdued Usagi "Thats right I forgot we could do that now that we have a princess." luna smaked herself on the head while the other scouts developed large sweatdrops on the back of their heads. "So what then we just pop in by her crystal and pop back out? Sounds just a little to easy to me." commented Venus. "While if it makes you feel any better we'll probably still have to deal with any youma gaurds they post." snorted Luna "While if thats the plan then we should get some rest before we go. I'll spend some time teaching Usagi how to use her sword. It seemed like she got some skill with it but she can always use some more." said Ray. *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* Moon was out practicing with her sword on the bamboo shoots rising from the ground. Mars was watching her as once again the sword bounced off at an odd angle. Moon and Mars both looked frustrated again. "Didn't you gain any skill at all with your power?!" asked Mars "Well, I thought so when we were fighting that monster but its like its all gone now."responded a petulant Moon. "Hmmm. Ok now were going to have you compete against me. DEFEND YOURSELF!" Mars drew her sword and lunged at Moon without much warning but at the same time Moon had drawn her sword in defence and managed to parry the sword. Mars countered with a downward slash which Moon dodged and another thrust 2E This time with a little more warning Moon managed to lock swords and eventually disarm Mars. She stood with the edge of the blade hovering near Mars's broach when she sheethed her sword. She retreived Mars's sword and upon return asked, "How did I do that? I couldn't even chop up the shoot over there like you did but I still beat you." "I think it has to do with the fact that you needed a threat to defend yourself from for your skill to manifest itself. I guess we will just be sparing from now on." said Mars "But if I beat you before won't I just beat you again." She asked and added an appolagetic "no offence" at the end. "Probably. Thats why I'm haveing the others come over here to even out the odds." Mars said with a sly grin. *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* Moon layed down in her 'bed'(She was furnished with a makeshift tent and pallet for the night) but couldn't get to sleep. She never knew some practice swords could hurt so much! She was jelous over Mars and Darians's relationship. She knew they were different people here, but the image remained of what relationship could have happened if she weren't around. 'So what do I do if I go back and find that Darian and Ray in my world are dating. He deserves someone more than a clutz for a girlfriend. It's not like he hasn't left me before,' a pang in her heart, 'and if I remember correctly, Ray went out with Darian before we got together. Maybe it would be better for everyone if I just gave up on Darian.' and after a little worry about the upcoming mision, Usagi quietly went to sleep. ~The End~ Thank Khadgar01 for pushing this chapter. Or if you hated it you can flame him. 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