*** Hey ya’ll! I’ve had the idea for this for a while now, and I’m finally going to start writing it out… bare with me, this is going to be (or supposed to be) a long crossover and I’ll try to stay as true to their character as possible except for the SM and Hiiro characters. Now, on with the show! (And btw, ages are mixed up, Serena is 14&15 in the series, I’ve made her younger, and the scouts only a little older than her)***
*Serena sighed contently. It was her eleventh birthday tomorrow, and she was hyped. Her friends were supposed to all meet at Rei’s for a scout meeting tonight, but she had been so good about going and getting their on time in the last four months that she thought it wouldn’t make much of a difference if she didn’t show tonight. For her birthday, her parents were taking her and her brother to dinner, and she had to rush home to get ready. Pulling her honeysuckle blonde hair into her famous ‘meatball’ style, she fixed the silvery eye shadow above her azure eyes and straightened her white long sleeved top and pink bunny pants. Then she ran down the stairs and out the front door, to where her parents were waiting.
“ Serena, honey, why are you wearing long sleeved shirt and long pants in eighty degree weather?” Asked her mom, Ilene Tsukino.
“ Just because Mom.” She answered, a little on the wary side “ I was a little cold earlier, and beside mom, it’s my birthday, and I thought I got to wear whatever I wanted.”
“ All right dear, whatever you want.” Her father backed the car out of the garage, her mother and brother, Sammy, got into the car. Serena waved them goodbye, yelling she’d see them at the restaurant.
Though she was famished, she was also waiting for a call from her friends. She hoped they would return her call that she was going not going to the scout meeting tonight soon. As she watched her parents car turn out the driveway, she prayed for a happy night with plenty of luck. Her parents honked the car horn at the stop sign, and began rolling out into the intersection. They didn’t see the huge truck with the laughing man speed through and break the driving laws. They never saw the huge semi truck coming, and never heard their own daughter scream as she saw them get smashed and thrown across the street like they were rag dolls.
As the cops finally began to tow away the wrecked car, Serena stood from where she had been sitting during the questioning of the accident. It seemed it had been a hit and run. The man in the truck went as unidentified, and the cops had promised to check every trucking company for a man that matched the driver’s description. Serena hadn’t listened to the empty promise, however. She knew who had done it. Thereon. That creep had gotten to her where he knew it would hurt the most, her family.
Serena heaved and threw another round of scepter energy at the youma she had begun to call vamps. They sucked the lives out of people like vampire’s suck blood from them. She had been fighting the vamps for nearly a full year now, every since right before Rini had showed up. She was slammed against a wall hard and then picked up and thrown into a trash dump. Where were the scouts during this fight? Oh yes, she had never told them of the newest addition to the monster gang. She didn’t want to worry them about having to fight two sets of monsters at once, so she took Thereon and his snobs on alone. The only problem was that they were twice as powerful as any other youma they had ever fought, and she usually spent all her energy just getting rid of one of them, when usually two or more were sent at the same time. Today the monsters were especially tough, and as soon as Serena dusted them both, she de-transformed, completely spent of all energy.
“So, looks like the little Moon Witch has an average identity after all. I could do so much with this knowledge.” She heard a voice in the sky and cringed at how careless she had been. She had let the enemy see who she really was. “ Don’t worry, gorgeous, I won’t hurt you, not yet. But stay away from other people, or you’ll hurt them.”
“ Shut up Thereon, go back to the dog pound mutt!” With that, she ran off down the street and into the crowd.
~~~Present~~~
She hadn’t seen Thereon since that day, nor had he sent any monsters. “ Oh gods, oh, Selene, what have I done? I let Thereon destroy those I love the most. They died because of me and me carelessness. How could I?” As she was about to break down and cry, another officer came up to her and said:
“ Miss. Tsukino, your father and brother have been taken to Tokyo General Hospital.”
“Thank you. Wait, what about my mom?” She saw the look in his eyes was pure pity and felt her heart crack even more.
“ I’m sorry, your mother was killed on impact.”
Though she knew what had been coming, the words hit her like a ton of bricks. Her mother. Dead. The woman who had fed her as a baby, who had stopped her from crying, held her when she was sad, bandaged her knees when she fell. Her mother was gone forever, and no one would ever be able to replace her. She found she had nearly lost her voice to the frog that had suddenly appeared in her throat. “ Thank you officer.”
“ I’m sorry. Good day.”
Serena rushed to the hospital as fast as she could to see how her father and brother were. When she arrived, she found that nurses who wanted insurance information and other important medical records that only a family member could fill out the forms detained her again. Finally, she was told that her brother was in a coma, and that there was only minimal damage done to him in any other way. The worst thing was that the doctors said they didn’t know when he would wake, or if he would at all.
Serena’s father was a different story. He had had bad internal bleeding, and the doctors had taken him into the ER immediately upon arrival. Serena sat outside the operating room waiting for confirmation that he would, indeed, live to see another day. After what seemed like an eternity of waiting, the doctors came out to explain the situation to Serena.
“ The bleeding has stopped, and though he has lost a lot of blood, he should pull through. The problem is that he, too, is in a coma, and we are not yet sure when or if he’ll wake up without brain damage.” Suddenly, a doctor raced in to the waiting room and yelled:
“Doctor, we have a flat line in here!”
“Oh jeez…excuse me!”
Serena watched through the open door as the doctors tried to revive her father from death. Then, a loud beeping noise pulled her out of her reverie and she pulled her wrist up to her face to respond to the call.
“ Mars here…Moon, youma at the park, looks like Chaos is getting ready to have more fun hurting people. Get over here now!”
“ But Mars, I have…”
“ Now!”
“ I’ll be there as soon as I can!” Serena pushed the end button on the device and looked back into the operating room, whose door had conveniently been left wide open. Once again she had a choice. Stay with her father, whom she loved dearly and was dying? Or help her friends to once again kill and save the world? Which one? She looked at her father again and sat back down. ‘I don’t care if I’m selfish this time. I stay until here until he’s out of ops. And that’s that.’
Five minutes later, the doctors had a steady pulse and Serena was running down the streets, trying desperately to make the fight. Just as she got to the scene, she saw Jupiter and Mercury down; they were losing the fight badly.
“ So good of you to finally make an appearance, oh wonderful leader.” Said Mars.
“Starlight Honey Kiss Therapy!” Was all Sailor Moon said in response to Rei’s snotty comment. Within seconds, the youma had turned to dust, and Sailor Moon was helping Mercury up. “ I’m sorry I was late, I was…”
“Save it Serena. We don’t want to here it.” Said Mina. “ You’ve let us down for the last time, Serena.”
“That’s right. You’re irresponsible and ditzy. You can’t even be on time to school, let alone get decent grades.” Said Ami.
“Serena, you’re a disappointment to the girls, and to me.” Said Luna.
“ It’s time to admit it Serena, you’re a lousy leader and a ditzy girl. You’re not fit to be leader, let alone Queen of the Earth.” Chimed in Lita.
“Serena, she’s right. As of now, we’re finished. It’s over. I’ll be King alone.”
“ Darien, you can’t mean that! None of you can! You couldn’t possibly be serious!” Serena cried in denial.
“ But we do. Now, Serena, make it easy on yourself and hand over your position as leader to someone more deserving.”
“ Not you too, Micharu!”
“Yes, all of us agree.”
“ Fine. You know what? I quite! I never asked to be Sailor Moon, and now that I have accepted my position and do what I have to, you want to get rid of me? You think I’m weak and stupid? Slow and lazy? You’re wrong!” Serena rolled up her sleeves and showed the scouts, her supposed best friends and boyfriend her secrets. “ Even though I get cuts and bruises from tripping, you didn’t actually think I got all of these from it, did you? You’re wrong. These cuts and scars and bruises were done by my hard work while fighting youma that would make you run at first sight. You think you can deal with the Nega verse without me? Then try it. We’ll see where it gets you. Here. You can have my position, as well as anything else. You might as well just take my broken heart while you’re at it, you traitors.” With that, the last whole pieces of Serena Usagi Tsukino’s heart shattered as she began to run from her past, her problems, and her destiny.
Serena’s feet took her to her home, a place that she nearly cried at the sight of. There was no more home. Home was where the heart was, and there was no heart in the house anymore. It seemed so empty to Serena, so big and cold. She trudged up to her room and shut the door. She looked around her room. It was so bright and pink ‘just like a baby’s room should be…covered with baby bunny wallpaper and baby bunny bed spreads, pink carpet and finger paintings.’ All showed Serena the baby. None showed Serena the lost girl, nearly a grown up five years to early. ‘ I want to leave this place. I want to go far away and never have to think or choose or reason between family and friends and life ever again. I want to just leave.’ She thought to herself.
She placed her communicator and her star locket next to each other on her dresser, and placed the Silver Crystal on the belt at her waist. Then, only grabbing a jacket, she left, heading towards the hospital to say her goodbyes to what was left of her family.
“ Please, may I see them just for five minutes?”
“ No, visiting hours are over little girl, go home and come back tomorrow.” Said the nurse at the front desk.
“ Alright.” Said Serena, with no intention of leaving. When the nurse turned her head down, she snuck right by her and into her father and brother’s room. “ I’m sorry daddy. I never meant to hurt you, please forgive me. Daddy, when you wake up, and I know you will, I won’t be here. I’ll be gone. But I’ll come back one day. I promise. I love you. You too, Sammy, I’ll be back to check up on you one day, spore. I love you both so much, please be careful, goodbye.” With that, Serena turned and walked out the door, with the full intention of never returning.
This is it, no turning back now. Finally, all my pain will be over. Serena raised the knife to her left wrist, and gently slit it, drawing out thick, red blood. As she repeated the action with her other wrist, she felt lighter already, as if she had already lost all of her worries and responsibilities…it was over, she could finally lay to rest peacefully-or so she thought.
“Not yet, little angel, it’s not your time yet.” Said the mocking voice. As he spoke, he raised his hand and created a whirlpool of color. He jumped down from the tree and carefully lifted the unconscious girl into to warp, then closed it behind her as she tumbled down, to her new destiny.*