Hey minna
Here's Chapter 6 and 7. Sorry they took so long, but I decided to add a few more things to Chapter 6 and then I just decided to split it into two chapters. Also I had to read just the author's notes from Too Many Tests, so they'll match up.
Candace I loved the rose.
Thanks to Jennie and Cassie-chan for e-mailing me, and also a special thanks to everyone who has reviewed.
Especially to Kat-chan who is nice enough to check my grammar and spelling. (I know a spell-checker can do this, but it's nice to have a live human give you an opinion. She's one of the reasons it took so long for this chapter to get out)
Angel (Almost Your Angel from the reviews) I'm really sorry to hear you're sick. I hope you enjoy the get well card I e-mailed you. Get well soon.
For the disclaimer today we have Sailor Venus.
"Hello Minako. How are you today?"
Venus walks out and stares at me coolly.
"Fine Analla. How are you?"
I stare Minako, she is writing something on a piece of paper.
"What is that?" I ask curiously.
"Mercury warned me about you. I'm counting my words." Venus makes another mark on the paper with each word she says.
I tear the sheet away and glance at it quickly.
"How many words do I get?"
"Twenty." Minako answers tersely taking the paper back and making another mark.
I quickly look at the disclaimer, then back at Venus' paper.
I have five words left, the disclaimer has six. I smile. Take Venus' pen and cross off one word, we don't need it anyways.
"There," I say handing her the paper. "Read everything but the crossed out word."
Venus looks at the paper.
"Analla does not own Sailor Moon."
"What? Venus would only read 5 words, what did you expect me to do?"
"P.S. if anyone mentions the contraction 'doesn't' then I will kill you."
I guess Mercury was madder than I thought, I hope she didn't warn the other scouts.
I hope everyone enjoys Chapter 6
Usagi watched Rei's quickly receding form. She paused, torn. "Should I go after Rei or Mamoru?" She turned her head in Mamoru's direction. He met her gaze calmly, sitting there as if nothing had just happened.
"I'll take care of that baka first." She thought as she rushed across the arcade, fury seething out every pore.
"You CREEP! How DARE you hurt Rei like that? You're the scum of the earth. I HATE YOU!!!!! Never talk to Rei or me again." With that Usagi dumped her milkshake over Mamoru's head and then left the arcade in search of Rei.
Usagi found Rei kneeling in front of an old tree on the temple grounds. Tears were streaming down her face.
"Are you okay?" Usagi asked quietly sitting down.
Rei opened her eyes and stared at Usagi. "I'm fine."
Rei was amazed, Usagi should be with Mamoru, not her.
"Where's your boyfriend?" She asked bitterly.
"Boyfriend?" Usagi was surprised. "You mean Mamoru. I'd never go out with him after he dumped you. What kind of a friend do you think I am?"
"Friend." The word echoed through Rei's mind. Also the realization that she had been more concerned about losing Usagi's friendship, then she was about breaking up with Mamoru. "I was jealous." She thought. "Hurt, yes." She admitted. "But I was jealous, afraid that Usagi wouldn't want to be my friend anymore. Afraid that Mamoru would take my place."
"Usagi." She whispered her friend's name. She had to set the record straight. "It wasn't Mamoru's fault we broke up, it was mine."
"WHAT?!?" Usagi shouted, realization dawning. "Oh Kami. THE MILKSHAKE. He's... He'll kill me."
"I'll have to let him call me Odango Atama for the rest of my life." The last part she wailed to herself.
Rei watched as a myriad of expressions passed over Usagi's face. She stood up, pulling Usagi along with her. Rei herded her to the temple steps.
"Go find him." She ordered. "Tell him I'm okay."
Usagi nodded dumbly as she walked towards the arcade.
"Here, you might need this." Motoki thrust a white towel at his best friend.
Mamoru took the towel and absently wiped off the chocolate that was dripping down his face... and his neck... and his arms. "She definitely has good aim." He thought. "Down my SHIRT! How did she...? She must take lessons from her cat."
Motoki gestured towards the back room. Once inside with the door safely shut, he rounded on his friend.
"So what did you do to make Usagi so mad? I have never seen her waste food like that."
"Nothing." Mamoru said as he removed his shirt and wiped up the chocolate that had managed to drip down his chest and back. "Rei broke up with me and the next thing I knew Usagi told me she HATED me."
Motoki sighed as he realized Mamoru was suffering from a broken heart.
"How long have you loved her?"
"Forever." Mamoru admitted. "I think even before I met her, there was already a place carved for her within my heart."
Usagi entered the arcade looking around fearfully. She sighed in relief when she realized Mamoru wasn't there.
"I tried." She thought running out of the arcade. "He wasn't there." She hurried down the street. "What was I thinking anyways? That baka is still trying to find out what happened three nights ago and there is no way I'm going to explain that."
Usagi stopped in front of Ami's house. "My brooch." She realized. "If I don't have it then I can't teleport." She walked up the steps and knocked on Ami's door.
Ami's mom answered. "Usagi, how are you?" She asked, smiling as Usagi entered.
"Fine Mizuno-san." Usagi bowed politely. "Is Ami here?"
"She's up in her bedroom studying. You may go on up, it's about time for her to take a break anyways."
Usagi nodded and then went up the stairs to Ami's room. She found Ami studiously reading a book.
"Here." Usagi said, tossing her brooch down on Ami's book.
' Ami looked up surprised, she hadn't even heard Usagi come in. "What's this for?" She asked confused, looking at the object. "Your brooch. Is something wrong with it?"
Usagi began pacing in front of Ami. "Of course something's wrong with it. I refuse to teleport again. You told me the only reason I teleport is because I'm Sailor Moon. If I don't have the brooch then I can't teleport."
Ami nodded at Usagi's logic. "We're not sure it's the brooch though. I still don't have enough data, to be sure."
"I DON'T CARE!" Usagi yelled, shocking her friend. "I DON'T want to teleport again, so tonight you'll keep the brooch. If it doesn't work, then no harm done."
"No harm?" Ami asked. "What if there's a youma attack?"
Usagi paused, she hadn't thought about that. "If there is then you bring the brooch with you and I'll transform there."
Ami was about to say something else, but realized that Usagi was determined. Nothing she said would change her mind. She just hoped that there wasn't a youma attack.
"Fine." Ami agreed reluctantly.
"Thank you." Usagi whispered in relief as she hugged her friend. "Thank you."
Usagi left Ami's room, relief pulsing through her being. "No more nightmares." She crowed to herself. "I don't have to deal with the nightmares anymore. I can finally get a good night's sleep." The one thing she hadn't told the other was of her fear of the nightmares. It actually went beyond fear, it was pure terror, agony that she didn't want to have to suffer through ever again.
Ami cradled the brooch reverently. She knew that something was going on, Usagi wouldn't give up her brooch unless something was extremely wrong. She pulled out her communicator and called the other Senshi and Luna.
"The Usagi situation has escalated. We need to have a meeting immediately."
The Senshi met at Rei's temple, each careful that Usagi didn't see them on the way there.
"What happened?" Makoto asked as soon as Ami arrived. Ami held up a package that was wrapped in tissue and quickly folded back the thin paper.
"Usagi's brooch." Luna cried in amazement. "How did you get it?"
Ami sat down, setting the brooch on a low table. "Usagi gave it to me. She told me she doesn't want to teleport again. Why would she do it?"
The Senshi were silent.
"Mamoru and I broke up today." Rei finally admitted. "She said she didn't want to take my boyfriend from me."
"That's not it." Minako said. "Their love is too strong for that to stop her. It's something else, something that only she knows about."
"It has to be her nightmares." Luna whispered. "She's tried to stay up for the past three nights just so she won't have them."
"How can we stop them?" Mako asked Ami.
Ami shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know that we can. Maybe Usagi's right. Maybe if she isn't near her brooch they'll stop."
"Fine." Luna said. "Ami you keep Usagi's brooch for tonight. We'll see if it actually works. The rest of you wear your communicators, if something happens then I'll need help. Who wants to watch over Usagi with me tonight?" There was no way Luna would leave Usagi unprotected when she couldn't transform.
"I'll do it Luna." Mako said quietly from the corner. The other Senshi tried to protest, but Makoto glared at them until each nodded her head. "Let's do it."
Mamoru stared around his empty apartment. He'd searched for Usagi all day, but he hadn't found her. He'd tried her house, the arcade, the park, and any other place he could think of. She wasn't anywhere.
Finally he fell to his bed in exhaustion, quickly tearing off his clothes. He quickly fell into a deep sleep, determined to find Usagi. Since he hadn't been able to find her in the waking world then maybe he could find her in his dreams.
A familiar landscape appeared. Tuxedo Kamen looked up towards the balcony. His princess wasn't there. Terrified, he tried to move. He had to find her. But it was impossible. His legs were heavy as stone, an unseen pressure was pressing down his arms.
Death walked out of the mist. "She's released her link with you." He gloated. "The strongest way your souls had of communicating and she has given it up. Now I will finish what should have happened a millennia ago."
Mamoru cried out in agony as pain lanced through him. His vision blurred, soon all he could see was blackness.
He fell to his knees.
:Princess, where are you?:
It was his last conscious thought before he succumbed to the torment.
Usagi crawled in through her bedroom window. She had spent the day wandering the streets of Tokyo, not even realizing where she was going. Finally, exhaustion drove her home. She quickly changed into her pajamas and fell asleep.
Luna and Jupiter found her sleeping peacefully.
"Maybe having Ami keep her brooch was the best thing to do." Luna whispered, careful not to disturb the sleeping girl.
Makoto nodded as she studied her slumbering friend.
Serenity wandered through the blackness. It was as if the light had been stolen from everything. She sensed that something should be here, but it was just a vast plain of nothingness.
"Endymion." She cried, trying to find their psychic link. "Where are you? I'm all alone."
Usagi's body shuddered violently. Luna looked at Makoto. "This is usually how her nightmares begin, we need to wake her up."
Makoto nodded her assent, then began shaking Usagi gently, trying to awaken her.
"ENDYMION!" Serenity yelled it. Her beloved MUST be here, he had always found her before. It felt as if their link had been broken, but she knew it hadn't. A feeling of urgency filled her. She knew if she didn't find her beloved soon, then they would both die.
"Isn't that what you want, Princess?" A voice called from the bleakness. "You willingly gave up your link."
"I DID NOT!" She cried. "I would never break my link with Endymion."
Death smiled. It was an eerie sight, something that few people ever saw, and those who did never wished to recall it. His smile bespoke the many tormented souls that he had within his grasp, the imminent capture of one more. "Didn't you, PRINCESS?" He asked mockingly. "If you didn't give it up, then why can't you feel him? Why do you think he is only moments from becoming my next slave?"
"NO!!!!!"Serenity cried as she realized the truth of the situation.
"Heart-sister, how could you?"
Mako was unable to awaken Usagi. The best that she could do was hold the trembling girl as seizures racked her body. The room was eerily silent. Although Usagi was convulsed in pain, no sound escaped from her lips.
"This isn't working." Luna cried.
"Get the brooch." Makoto said as she dodged a flinging hand. Usagi felt safe when she was with Mamoru, Makoto had realized. He was the only one who could make the nightmares go away, that's why Usagi had teleported. She was seeking the comfort of her soulmate.
"The only way to stop this is to let her teleport."
Luna nodded and called Ami on the communicator.
"What?" Ami's face appeared, a worried expression quite apparent.
"We need the brooch NOW." Luna told her. "The nightmares haven't stopped, and they're worse then they were before."
Ami was surprised, but obeyed the command. She quickly transformed and left for Usagi's house.
It took five minutes for Sailor Mercury to arrive. During that time Usagi huddled into a small ball clutching Luna, every muscle was tightened and her face betrayed the agony that she was going through. Ami wasn't even through the window when the brooch rushed from her hand straight towards Usagi, like two magnets coming together.
The brooch passed straight through Mako, as if she wasn't there. It impacted Usagi's chest, a brilliant light filled the room and Usagi disappeared.
"Endymion." Serenity gasped in relief as her beloved appeared before her. She cast herself over his prostrate form, kissing any area of skin she could touch.
"I'm sorry." She cried, tears streaming down her face. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean for this to happen."
Endymion smiled as he sat up opening his eyes. The pain had stopped as he and Serenity were together. Serenity's presence was like the sun's heat, melting away the winter snow.
"It's all right darling." He comforted her, stroking her hair. "We'll find a way to make this work."
Serenity smiled and the tears stopped. "I'm afraid you'll have to be the one. My heart-sister is too stubborn to even admit what is right in front of her."
"Of course." Endymion said kissing his beloved. "But remember, I'm more stubborn than you." He kissed her again, cradling her protectively. "After all, I did get you to come back to Earth even though you didn't want to."
Serenity nodded smiling, knowing that somehow Endymion would solve everything.
Mamoru's heart quickened as he sensed a familiar presence. He was still half-asleep, but he reached an arm out and pulled her closer. "There you are, Usako. This time I won't let you get away."
Usagi snuggled up next to him, sighing in content.
They both slept soundly for the next twenty-four hours, the exhaustion of the past three days catching up with both of them.
The Senshi kept an eye on the slumbering couple. Minako slipped in and covered Usagi with a blanket. They also took her stuffed rabbit. Rei told Ikuko that Usagi was spending the weekend with her and she'd make sure that Usagi went to school on time.
They each took a turn jumping to Mamoru's balcony opening the door and seeing if either occupant of the bed was awake yet. Luna refused to let them awaken Usagi.
"She needs her sleep. I won't disturb her. But as soon as she wakes up on her own, you make sure that you get her out of there."
The Senshi had nodded solemnly promising to do so. Once Luna was gone they made up their own plans.
The girls met at the Crown Arcade to discuss their problem.
"This has to be solved." Minako stated. "If it's not Usagi is still going to have nightmares and we'll be back to square one."
"This is tormenting their souls." Rei said quietly. "They have to admit they love each other."
Minako nodded her agreement.
"Why don't we lock them in?" Mercury asked.
"What?" Mako said, spitting out her drink in surprise.
"Lock them in. If they can't get out, they'll be forced to talk. Also she can't teleport."
"Why not?" Rei asked in surprise.
"Because," Mercury explained. "It's a combination of two things that let's her teleport. The first is her transformation brooch, the second is that it requires Luna's presence."
"What?" The Senshi shouted.
"It's Luna. I think she is some kind of fail-safe until Usagi is mature enough to handle this power on her own. Luna has her own powers, if she is near the brooch then the fail-safe is deactivated and Usagi is allowed to teleport."
Motoki was wiping the counter nearby. He had overheard everything the girls had said. When they mentioned the brooch, several pieces of the puzzle fell into place.
"The Senshi." Motoki realized, he stared at them identifying each. "Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Mercury and Sailor Venus." Which mean that Usagi was... "Sailor Moon."
It definitely fit together now.
He wandered over to the girls.
"I want in on the plan."
The girls looked up at him in surprise, then followed him towards the back room.
"Why should we include you?" Makoto asked.
"Because, Sailor Jupiter, I think it only fair that Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Kamen find out who the other truly is."
