Moon Shadows By Joel and Kathryn LeBlanc Author's Notes: Hi guys, so now my brother and I are writing a story together.We planned the whole thing in July and now we are starting it. It might take longer because we are sort of both working on it. I will do the typing out but we still have a lot of planning to do in it, and so be patient. Enjoy the story of two mad geniuses at work! Bwa ha ha ha!!! PART ONE "I will rise, I will return The phoenix from the flame. I have learned I will rise You'll see me return Being what I am There is no other troy for me to burn You should have left the light on, Then I wouldn't have tried. You never would have known....... Sinead O' Connor (Troy) __________________________________________________________________________ In the dark cold void of another dimension, a dimension inside a dimension: Darkness. Cold. Darkness. Silence. Darkness...utter darkness.... Hate. A stirring of an old evil....... in the darkness. ________________________________________________________________________ "REIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!! YOU are so MEANNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!" "Serena, put a sock in it!" Rei yelled at her, her raven hair shaking wildly as she breathed a fiery frown at Serena. Serena had been laughing wildly at one of Rei's manga comics. They had gathered for a scout meeting and had been waiting for Serena. But peals of silly laughter had given Serena away. She had arrived there already and was sitting in the temple, reading the manga. "Serena, get your act together!" pleaded Luna with weepy eyes. Serena turned her nose to the air. "Well excuuuuuuuuuuse me Luna. It's not like I can't enjoy my life just because I'm the most popular and most heroic person in the..." "Hold it right there." Rei snapped with a sweat drop on her head. Serena narrowed her eyes at the dark haired girl. "DON'T interrupt ME!" "Then don't be such an air-headed nitwit!" Rei snapped back. Serena spit out her tongue at Rei with a buzzing sound. Rei was about to respond when Luna screeched,. "ENOUGH! Time out already! We're supposed to be here discussing scout business girls, not........." Before she could finish Serena grabbed Luna and started to cuddle her fiercely saying "OOOOoooohhhhhh!!!! ISN'T SHE JUST THE CUTEST THING!!!!!!!!!!" >I hope this will shut her up!< Serena thought. the other girls had sweat drops on their heads and hung them down. 'Ever think we're going to get down to business at this rate tonight, Lita?" asked Mina. Lita groaned. "Not at this rate, if you w ant my opinion." "SERENA! Would you put me DOWN!" choked out Luna. "You're cutting off my oxygen!" "Aw, that's why I love you so much Luna!" she exclaimed in the still sickeningly sweet and exuberant tone. She swung Luna around making her scream. "GIRLS! SAVE ME!" Luna cried peevishly. Mina and Lita looked at each other and sighed. Rei got up and yanked Luna's tail. Luna screeched and scared Serena stiff, making her drop Luna. "Would you kindly stop treating me like a killable stuffed animal!" Luna glared at them dangerously. because Serena had choked her almost her tone was almost squeezed, like Mickey Mouse for a few minutes. "At least you can't yell at us like that Luna." Serena said carelessly. Luna glared at her with an icy pointed glare. Serena shivered. "Ow, North Pole." "Can we get down to business now please." Amid pointed out. "Right, let's." Rei said. "My fire picked up Nega vibes last night." The others all stared at her strangely. "What? What do you mean by Nega vibes Rei?" "I mean like the kind that I used to get when Beryl was still alive, that's what." she said exasperatedly. "But We destroyed the NegaVerse." Lita pointed out. She thought a moment. "Guys, we didn't actually consider this but maybe when we destroyed Beryl and Mettalia, we didn't destroy everything of the Negaverse!" Serena shook her head. "No chance Lita, I dusted them all good!" "Serena, you may have dusted Beryl and Metallia, but it doesn't rule out the possibility that maybe the Negaverse had other connections.... other allies....and we never even knew what Happened to Jedeite!" Luna pointed out firmly, her regular voice replacing the squeezy air. "What makes you think it could be Jedeite Luna?" Amid asked. "I mean, he was probably still in the Neegaverse and so he would probably be gone now." "Mmmm...I guess. Maybe. But let's keep our minds open. What I'm worried about is that if this "evil" whatever it is, whoever it is, doesn't know who Sailor Moon is." "No chance again Luna," Serena held up a confident finger "How could some schmo know who I was. The only people who ever..." "You didn't exactly keep a very low profile in the beginning Meat ball head." Rei pointed out dryly. Serena glared at her. "Girls, don't start that again!" Luna sighed warily. "Rei, did the flames tell you anything else...anything that could be a clue?" "No...except for one thing." Rei said and glanced at Serena. "Well, what then?" Artemis asked impatiently. Mina and Luna jumped. "Artemis! Didn't see you there." Mina said. "Were were you? At the tuna factory again sniffing?" Luna asked him with a glare. He blushed. Then looked at Rei. "Well Rei, what was the other thing in the flame?" "Well....a picture of Darien in his ego form." "Tuxedo Mask?" Serena asked,d her full attention caught. "Rei! How could you! No way would he be this ancient evil! You really think.." "Serena, we KNOW Darien is not ancient evil here. Rei said she saw him in the flame." Lita pointed out. But still Serena didn't look too convinced. "Then what does he have to do with it? Why would Tuxedo Mask be in there?" Rei shrugged. "How should I know! The fire wouldn't tell me any more except that...somehow this thing knew Tuxedo mask, or Tuxedo mask knew him..or fought him...something like that!" Rei waved a hand in frustration. "Serena, I think you should talk to Darien about this. We tried to get in touch with him for this meeting, but I only got his answering machine." she looked at Serena. Serena nodded, frowning and thinking about it at the same time. What the heck did Tuxedo Mask have to do with this evil? "He may know something that can help us." Luna pointed out. "We have no idea what other enemies were chasing him while some were after you. It could even be as little as some minion that escaped." "None that I've met." Serena said confidently again. "I dusted them all." they all groaned and hung their heads. "I meant Tuxedo Mask! Can't you ever pay attention to anything!" Serena didn't even snap back at that. She was thinking about how Tuxedo Mask could be involved with some ancient evil...and why the vibes Rei got were familiar... like they had fought the evil before. _______________________________________________________________________ Darien and Serena took a walk in the park later on. She had gotten a hold of him while he was on recess that day. He had gone back to his apartment for a quiet lunch. She had asked that when he was finished work for the day they could talk in the he park because she needed to talk to him about something. "Ok, meat ball head, what's on your mind?" he asked her with a benign smile. She blushed but then remembered the meeting early that morning. "Darien, in the beginning when this whole thing started.... did you um....well..." she shifted uncomfortably. "Did I what?" he asked again. he stopped walking. "Rei got something ion the flame this morning that was really weird." she said quietly, glancing around. "It involved you as well." "Me?" he looked at her quizzicly "In what way? You certainly don't sound as bright as usual? What happened?" he asked. "Well....she got Negavibes...like she used to when the Negaverse was around. You know, it was attacking us all the time and such." he frowned in confusion. "But the Negaverse isn't around any more Serena." "That's the point. Something from it, or someone,...something like that. Someone survived. And Rei sensed it's existence last night. Like someone we had met before and someone we had fought before. But also in the flames, it also had you." "Me?" he pointed at himself with a startled look of confusion. "What do I have to do with an ancient evil?" "I don't know. Maybe you fought the person before...knew the person.... something like that. Can you remember fighting anyone when you weren't coming to our aid?" He frowned. "Not much.....the earliest days are a blur in my mind because it wasn't really me making myself do the actions until I realized later on who I actually was." "You can't help us on that then?" her look sank. "Are you sure? Is Rei sure about this whole thing?" he asked as they sat down on a bench. She nodded with a troubled expression. "Gad! Why can't they JUST leave us alone!" she whined. He smiled at her tone. He tugged on her arm affectionately "Come on, I'll walk you home." _______ _____________________________________________________________________ The man with long blondish hair past his muscular shoulders watched the couple from invisible gates. He had been floating invisibly by a tree near the bench where they sat. Then he disappeared and reappeared in a black cave like domain. The air was misty and cold. Dark and cold. The feeling was damp and the impression was sepulchral and dreary. Cold as the devil half on man's heart. "The one from the temple has picked up the vibes, like you said." he said to the general with shorter blond hair. The shorter blond man had his back to the one with the long blond hair. "I did say so, didn't I Kayite?" he stated in his soft cool voice. he turned around. "What now Jedeite?" Jedeite brushed a strand of his short blond hair out of his eyes. He thought a moment. Then grinned. "Just as the humans say "Go with the flow?" we'll watch and stand by for when everything falls into place." "And if every thing doesn't fall into place accordingly?" Jedeite frowned. "It will. It will Kayite." he turned around again and gazed into a large dome. It visualized the pictures of the three scouts he remembered, Mercury Mars and Moon. He touched the glass and glared at them "I can do what Beryl never could. Not with all her slaves!" he thought to himself. ___________________________________________________________________________ HEY! Didn't scare you did we? Are you in suspense now! ???? You probably guessed it was Jedeite in the beginning did you? Kathryn and Joel here. We are both working on this story together. Kathryn (me) does the writing and Joel sits besides me and we talk about what happens next and he watches what I write and adds in his own etc. so you are now officially reading the work of two more mad geniuses working together! (The sm site is full of partners like that he he he :) Joel here now. I just want to say do not forget to visit my awesome SM site "A Peace of Serenity" were this will be appearing shortly. It is http://www.angelfire.com/ma/ASailorMoonsite1/index.html It has links pics, my own web ring, my own club, plus more activities including my Magic 8 ball!!!Have your fortune told but don't expect any nice answers. My sister never gets any:) Kate here again. Sign his guest book. His site has been in the top 1000 sites on the internet for sailor moon and it is really neat. better than any on the site with all the pictures and things to do. Go and visit it. And also there is a sailor moon club! Go look for your selves if there is anything there that interests you. :) Kathryn Andre`a LeBlanc (Kate) *^_^* Joel Arnold LeBlanc (Endymion)^_^