Title: New titles. Author: Jerry-rose Email: sleeping.soul@hotmail.co.uk Emails always appreciated ^^ .< Very very sorry, don't read if you don't like sad endings!!!> "Onegai,Temu-chan!" The small girl of 15 was on her knees in front of another girl 16 years of age, her hands drawn together in begging. The one standing had long black raven hair which reached her lower back, a horrified efpression on her face as she grabbed the other girl's wrist and pulled her to her feet, running around the corner into a quiet alleyway and out of prying eyes. She sighed and the slightly shorter girl with shoulder length pink hair. Her raven haired girl shook her head and looked out into the crowded street. "Iie! Definatly not, no way no how! You know what Mama Taru and Mama Usagi said!" The younger girl pouted and put a hand behind her head. "You're no fun, Temu-chan." Temura laughed and poked the pink haired girl's nose gently "Well I wouldn't be a spoil sport either if you didn't suggest such ridiculous things." She let go the smaller girls wrist and sighed slightly, catching sight of her watch and swearing violently. "Kuso! We're late, come on!" They sprinted from the alley, barely missing a passer by as they did so, running out into the street and shouting a hurried appology over their shoulders. Within ten or so minutes they were standing outside Hino Shrine, panting heavily and walking in. As they entered they took of their purple and pink coats, hanging them on the rack and moving down the hall to their usual room. As soon as they stepped in the door the older senshi looked up. "You're late" Serenity stated, and Rei laughed "You're one to talk! You only just got here yourself" Serenity pouted and laughed, putting a hand behind her head "Eheh... Gomen Rei-chan." Usagi rolled her eyes at her mother, who was now coming up 80, yet her figure had hardly become old, just matured to be more feminine, her eyes now holding a wiser glow. On Serenity's right side sat Mamouru, and on her left was Usagi. Beside Usagi was Hotaru, both now gone 30, yet still looking 20 or so. Temura took her place beside Hotaru, and Skaie took her place beside Temura. Next to her was Ami, then Makoto, then Rei, Minako, Haruka, Michiru, Setsuna and back to Mamouru. Serenity stood from the circle and bowed a greeting. "So, now we're all present, we can begin. Usagi, Hotaru, if you will?" They both nodded and rose as Serenity sat down. The two younger girls got onto one knee as their respective parents stood before them. Hotaru held out a henshin stick in both hands, holding it out for Skaie to take. It had a pink handle and a pink sphere on the top, inside was the symbol of Saturn standing out against a cresent moon. Usagi did likewise to Temura, her being exactly the same as Skaie's but with a purple sphere. The two reached out and placed their right hand on top of the sticks, bowing their heads. "With these you are entrusted the power of a sailor senshi, and are bound by duty to protect this earth from all wrongdoers. Do you accept this mission?" Hotaru and Usagi spoke together. "We accept this mission" echoed the two younger girls in unison. The two girls took the wands in their right hand and held it to their chests, waiting. The senshi stood and the two moved to the centre of the circle, the others moving to fill the gap. The senshi all transformed, Serenity and Mamouru transforming into the king and queen of future Crystal Tokyo. Hotaru and Usagi transformed, expecting to become their princess forms now their positions had been filled, but instead they found themselves in their usual sailor fuku's. The others also seemed slightly surprised and watched the two girls in the centre for their change. The two opened their eyes and raised their heads, chanting together. "Saturn star power!" Sailor Moon and Sailor Saturn exchanged a glance, they were supposed to use different transormation phrases. One was supposed to be of the moon. They all continued to watch as their transformations revealed themselves. The two were standing in sailor fuku's like the the others. Her gloves were short, only covering her wrists, and a rim of purple followed the white. Temura's skirt was purple and she wore purple knee high boots with no fastenings, a rim of white at the top. Her bow was lilac and a star shape covered the centre of it. The body of the fuku was white like the other's and her hair was pulled back into a high ponytail held by a purple ribbon. Her tiara had a purple cresent moon on it and her earrings were plain purple studs, her chocker also plain and purple. As she came out of her transformation she called her speech. "In the name of the power of silence, Sailor Saturn!" Again Saturn and Moon exchanged looks, two sailor Saturns? They continued to watch as Skaie came out of her transformation. A plain white fuku as the others, with a deep pink skirt and boots reaching her thighs, fastened at the front with laces. Her bow was baby pink and a circle covered the centre, her glowes reaches aboce her elbows and had a pink rim, studs from her ears holding a chain which lead to a cuff on the top of her ear and her choker plain pink, her hair loose and ehr tiara with a pink cresent moon on it. She too spoke her speech as she completed the transformation. "In the name of the power of death and rebirth, Sailor Moon!" There was a stunned silence. As if the first transformation hadn't stunned them enough, there were two. Two Sailor Moons. Two Sailor Saturns. And the two younger ones used the same power phrase to come out with different transformations, yet despite their given name they each had only a portion of the power of Sailor Saturn. One silence, one death and rebirth. Saturn and Moon once more exchanged glances, but no one spoke. In the end it was Ami who spoke up. "Welcome to the team, Sailor Saturn, Sailor Moon." They all rushed in to hug the new recruits except Mamouru, Saturn and Pluto. "This is a bad omen." Pluto stated quietly so the others wouldnt overhear, and the two nodded their agreement. "Why would this happen, is it because two soldiers came together of unnatural means?" Mamouru shook his head to Saturn. "Regardless of means used or senshi by senshi, it shouldn't happen that there be more than one senshi of a planet. Usagi and Serenity are the only exception to the rule, but they aren't both Sailor Moon any longer. When they did coinside, it was Chibi-moon and Moon anyway. So what does the omen mean?" They both looked to Pluto and she frowned, shrugging slightly. "I'm afriad I have no clue. I'll go and research into it right away." The two nodded and covered for her as she stepped back into a black hole. "Where's Pluto going guys?" Serenity called over and Mamoru answered. "She just went to get supplies, love, that's all." Serenity seemed fine the with the answer and went back to yacking happily with the others, but Uranus and Neptune didn't accept it and moved over to the two. "What is it?" Uranus asked, and Saturn shrugged. "We just don't know. It should be immpossible to have more than one senshi for a single planet. These transformations propose a bad omen which not even Pluto forsaw, so she's gone to research. In the meantime we can only wait and see what else presents itself to us. Neptune and Uranus nodded, joining hands and exchanging a heartfelt glance before sitting down in front of the table and sighing. Sailor Moon moved over to Saturn and hugged her tightly, kissing her softly on the lips. Saturn returned the kiss and smiled warmly. "Usa-chan. Do you realise what has happened here today?" Sailor moon nodded and shrugged, shockingly like Saturn had done. "I'm well aware that there is meant to be only the one senshi yes, but regardless of what the rules were, they wouldn't have been broken for no reason, so stop worrying and be happy. Now lets start the food!" Sailor Moon drooled over the table full of cooking and Saturn laughed as they all took their place around the table, leaving a space for Pluto's return. After an hour or so of scoffing food, chatting and laughing, Pluto returned through the now familiar black hole, and took her seat at the table. The remaining outer scouts and Mamoru looked up to her, and with a quick nod it was obvious there was something that had to be said. But it would have to wait, and they all continued as if nothing was wrong until the end of the party. As they were all standing to tidy up Pluto caught Rei's arm and pulled her outside the door, hushing her to quiet as she moved to object. "Rei, this is important, I need a fire-reading." Rei blinked and rolled her eyes. "Can't it wait, Pluto? And why are you outers still in your Fuku's? And Mamouru for that matter. Go tell them to change." Rei moved to walk back into the room, but Pluto grabbed her elbow tightly and Rei looked up to her to see urgency in her eyes. She stood for a while before nodding and sliding open the door. "Fine, after we've tidyed up and everyone's gone home." Pluto nodded and as they walked back in Saturn caught her eye, and she nodded. After yet another hour or so the room was finally cleared, and people began to filter out. Saturn caught Usagi outside and kissed her neck softly from behind, wrapping her arms around ehr waist. "Ne, Usa-chan, Can you take the girls home tonight? I want to hang around with Setsuna-mama, Michiru-mama and Haruka-papa a while." Usagi nodded and kissed her gently, smiling as she walked away, calling the girls to follow her. Saturn smiled to their backs and turned back into the Shrine. Minako and Rei were kissing softly behind the door and Saturn smiled before moving past. Minako and Rei broke apart and Rei waved as Minako left the shrine. Serenity took Mamouru's hand and smiled. "You're staying right?" Mamouru nodded slightly and they too kissed before Serenity left, pausing only to wait for Makoto and Ami to catch up to her. Rei shut the door softly behind them and sighed. "Would you guys at least come out of your fuku's? It makes me nervous. They all nodded and in seconds were returned to their usual selves, and followed Rei into the fire chamber, Setsuna at the front, then Mamoru, Hotaru, Haruka and Michiru. Rei sat down in front of the fire and glanced behind her at the others before rolling her eyes and beginning to chant quietly. After half an hour they were all still silent, not one of them having moved. They all had their heads bowed in silent contemplation of their situation when Rei screamed out and was thrown backwards into Setsuna, who caught her and held her tightly. "Rei-chan? Hold yourself together! Rei-chan!" The others ran forward as Rei's wide eyes closed, uttering a single word. "Abunai..." Setsuna yelled over her shoulder to whoever was closest to the door. "Someone call Ami here now!" "We don't know, there was silence, then she screamed and fell back, said "Abunai" and left..." Hotaru was explaining and Ami nodded slightly, taking Rei's pulse and sighing to find it average. "This is a good sign. She appears to be healthy, maybe she just pushed herself too hard." "Or maybe she was looking at something she wasn't supposed to see." Setsuna suggested, Hotaru agreed, nodding slightly. "But how do we find out what it was?" Setsuna shrugged and they all sighed together, Mamouru standing up. "We should call a meeting. Let the other girls know." They all nodded and within a few minutes, and with courtesy of the communicators, all the senshi were gathered at the Shrine. Temura and Skaie had come too, and were looking low in spirit as they took their place at the table, two empty chairs where Rei and Minako should be sitting. Mina was leaning over Rei and tending to her, putting a damp cloth on her forehead. "What can do Minna?" Serenity came out it and none of them had an answer. "All we know it there's a reason to be careful, aside from that what else is there to know? It's impossible to tell from one word." Usagi was off on a tangent and everyone was beginning to tone her out when Hotaru spoke over her. "Temura, Skaie, please follow me?" The two nodded and Hotaru took Usagi's hand, leading her to the fire chamber. The others followed behind the four. As they entered the fire was burning as always, and as Hotaru and Usagi stepped forward it remained calm, but as they each held their hands out to the two girls and they stepped forward, it spat and spewed sparks over the floor by their feet. The two younger girls stepped back and it quieted once more. Hotaru turned to the others, taking Usagi's hand once more. "You two seem an anomalie." They both looked at each other and Hotaru proceeded to shrug, she knew no more or less than that. They didn't belong. Suddenly the fire whipped up and hit the ceiling before reducing to be normal size, though spiralling around dangerously as if a whirl pool of flame. The two younger girls stepped further back but Usagi and Hotaru stayed where they were. "Out the way minna!" Minako called and the other parted from the door. Rei was leaning on Minako's shoulders, Mina supporting her weight steadily as they stepped forward. "Out!" Rei shouted to the two younger girls, then to the rest. "Get out!" They all stood silent for a second before a heavy wind blew from no where, spiralling the flames out of control. They lashed at the walls and ceiling, yet the shrine didn't seem to burn at all. The senshi braced themselves against the wind and flames, closing their eyes. The flames whipped through them all, not touching one before rearing together above them and heading straight down for Hotaru and Usagi. Hotaru had her eyes open and saw it coming, diving forward and grabbing Usagi around the waist, rolling out of hrams way. She looked up to see the flames begginning again, and transformed in an instant, feeling Usagi do the same beneath her. With a flick of her wrist the silence glaive appeared just in time, allowing her to part the flames away to keep them safe. Saturn grimaced slightly, her hands smoking painfully. She took a few deep breaths and stood, grabbing Sailor Moon's hand and running from the building, out into the courtyard. Skaie and Temura followed them, transforming as they went. This time Sailor Saturn had a small purple wand in her hand, a plain purple handle with the frame of a heart, no centre at all. Sailor Moon also had a weapon, but instead of a wand she held a staff like Sailor Saturn's Silence Glaive, only with a full circle blade with the centre missing. "We've distorted the flow of time!" Saturn shouted over the noise of the increasing wind. The others had also transformed and were runing out into the courtyard. "What the hell are we fighting?" Sailor Jupiter hollared, but no one had an answer. The wind began to blow stonger and Saturn and Moon joined hands, looking over to their daughters. If only this had never happened. Suddenly a crack appeared in the earth between Saturn and Moon and Sailor Moon slipped down, Saturn grabbing her wrist tightly. "Clutz!" Sailor Moon heard Saturn joke over the roar of the wind and laughed slightly, but felt Saturn's grip weaken and looked up worriedly. Saturn's expression was one of pain, and Sailor Moon realised the burns over her gloved hands. "Gomen ne Saturn!" Saturn shook her head and yanked hard on her arm, pulling Sailor Moon to safety. They sat together for a second to regain their breath as the fire broke out of the shrine, whirring through the halls and doors in a long spiral to head towards Saturn and Moon. They both jumped to their feet and Saturn began to spin her glaive, but Sailor Moon stopped her, grabbing her wrists. "If you do that. You'll destroy your hands!" Saturn shrugged her off and began again. "I see no alternative!" Suddenly there was a cry from across the clearing. "Death star!" A purple flash of light illuminated the clearing as Sailor Saturn fired off her attack, the end of her staff disattatching to become a ball of purple light, which smashed into the fire spiral and dissipated it. As the attack hit the top of the staff returned to its rightful place. They all watched Sailor Saturn surprised and then fell to their knees as the ground began to shake beneath them. "I figured it out!" Pluto shouted across the yard. "The disruption of the balance of nature! Too many sailors! It's unbalanced! We're fighting nature! The elements!" A look of realisation lingered over the senshi and Saturn and Moon shared a serious look before Saturn opened up a portal, taking Moon's hand and jumping into it, sealing it behind them. As soon as they left the air became still and the ground ceased shaking, everything becoming eerily quiet. Silence reigned over the senshi also, as they watched the two younger girls get their feet. It dawned on them that they had to go and find the two women, and immediatly they all jumped into action. They must have gone somewhere. "Hotaru-chan?" Hotaru looked to the young women sitting beside her on the top of a hill that overlooked the moon's ruins. "Hai, Usagi-chan?" Usagi wrapped her arms around Hotaru's waist and burryed her head in her shirt. "I'm scared..." Hotaru hushed her softly and rubbed her hair with her hand. "It's ok, Usagi-chan. I'll never leave your side. SO you never have anything to fear." Hotaru held Usagi closer as she cried, tears falling down her own cheeks as well. "Are you ready?" Usagi nodded gently and closed her eyes as Hotaru summoned her Glaive, pulling Usagi into a hug with one hand and kissing her gently. Usagi took her hand in her own and their fingers entwined as Hotaru positioned the glaive behind Usagi's heart, pushing it through hard, piercing through them both and then pulling out, dropping it and gripping Usagi tightly. They fell side by side in silence, and shared a deep kiss as their eyes closed, passing into the flow of death and rebirth once again. Uranus and Neptune appeared at the bottom of the hill and sprinted to the top. Michiru gasped loudly and Uranus grabbed her shoulders, pulling her close so she could no longer see. Although they were surrounded by blood, Uranus found it peaceful to be there. The sun was slowly rising and their hands were entwined lovingly. A look of calm and love over their faces, their foreheads touching. "Michi, lets go home." Michiru shook her head and moved as if to grab Hotaru, tears streaming down her cheeks, but Haruka grabbed her arm tightly and Michiru looked up to her to see tears falling. "They did this so their children can live. And look, they're at peace. Together." Michiru nodded slightly, it was true. Their expressions were peaceful. They linked hands and walked back into a time hole, wiping away their tears. Now was the hard part, telling everyone. Tears were shed, but not one was sad. They left in peace to love each other forever. So they would remain together. No one could find in their hearts to be sad.