Hello all, first off I will not appolagize for the delay and 

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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.
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	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.
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	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
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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.
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	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~
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