Written by Moonlight Netnight email: Netnight15@aol.com http://www.capecod.net/mthompso/fanfic/tuxp1.txt Note: Hi all! :-) Here is my first attempt at fan fiction for the greatest anime of all time, Sailor Moon! Hope you like the story. This takes place where the north american series left off, before the upcoming 17 new episodes are released. Don’t worry, it’s title will be explained by the end of the first part. :-) The Tuxedo Saga Part One: Dark Clouds It is a dark night on the Dark Moon as Wise Man is in chamber gazing into his crystal ball. He sees the present, his world’s past, through the ball. The city of today’s Tokyo is on his mind and in his eyes. He begins to chuckle slowly and finally breaks out into a full maniacal laugh. " Soon the entire world will feel the power of the Dark Moon. He said, those Sailor Scouts will never be able to stop my newest warriors. Queen Beryl...... You were never able to use these powerful tools very well. I won’t make the same mistake. Now it’s time to awaken those defeated fools. Haaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!" The crystal ball pulses with power as energy pulses and flows across the floor into a dark corner of the room and out of the light. Seven pairs of blood red eyes open as they appear to almost melt with the darkness. Wise Man stares across into each pair of sinister eyes with his own glowing eyes. His glances towards them and says five simple words that will reset destiny for everyone in the galaxy. "You known what to do." ******************************************************** Serena rounds the corner with blinding speed with Luna running beside her as she almost drops her bookbag. Molly waves to her as Molly, also running , checks up to Serena. "Hi Serena. You oversleep too?" "Nope. I always sleep this late." "But your always late?!" "I didn’t say I sleep this late on purpose!" They continue to run at speeds that could either win them the world record sprinting, or win them a detention for being so late. They dash to cross the street before the traffic beat them to it. Luna falls a little behind and the light turns green and they just miss the walk light. "I’m meatloaf.", Serena says as her head drops when she realizes she late, again. A very cool sports car turns the corner and Serena notices a cold breeze passes by and shivers as the cold chills her to the bone. Luna watches the car pass by also feels the cold, yet familiar, chilling feeling. Molly turns when she notices Serena shivering. "How can you be cold? It’s 30ºC out here?!" "It was probably just a breeze." The light turns green. "Come on before Ms. H starts handing out detentions!!” A cloud of dusk goes up as Serena and Molly sprint across the street. ******************************************************** The school bell rings and both Serena and Molly leap into there seats as they check their breath. "Look’s like we won’t have to get a detention after all. Oh, almost forgot, did you understand that algebra last night for homework. I couldn’t understand any of it." "Homework, er, uh, uh, oh. Now I’m meatloaf. Well better late than never." Serena whips out her books and begin to work on her homework like mad. Luna perches herself onto the classroom window sill to see how Serena is doing. As she sees Serena frantically writing her homework out then, and she sighs. "Well at least she actually made it to school today, on time," Luna thinks. 'For a change', she says aloud. Artemis also jumps up to next to Luna without her noticing because she is still looking inside. He sneaks up beside her. "BOO!" Luna startled by Artemis almost falls of the ledge for a very long time, but she regains her balance. "A thousand years have passed and you STILL haven’t changed", Luna remarks. "So, Serena late again?" "To my surprise she actually made it to school on time today." "Wow." "Barely". Luna is beginning to show concern, but Artemis can’t quite tell why just yet. This puzzles him for a second and finally he gives in to his curiosity. (You know the saying. Curiosity kills the cat. It doesn’t apply here) "OK. I can’t tell just by looking at you something’s bothering you. Spill it." "We need to talk", Luna tells him in a voice so solemn it actually begins to scare Artemis. They both jump off the window sill and disappear. Meanwhile inside, Miss Haruna walks in behind Serena without Serena noticing. Ms. H gets right behind and, "BOO!!" Serena practically leaps out of her seat she’s so startled. She frantically covers her homework once she realizes just who it was whom almost gave her a heart attack. "Working on a little extra credit I hope?" Serena still in shock, "Of course Ms. H." "Forgot your homework, again?" "Er, uh". "Well looks like you won’t have to worry about remembering to do your homework tonight Serena." "I won’t?”, Serena responds more confused than ever. (Believe me THAT’S an accomplishment!!) "I always let my students finish homework. In detention that is." "Oh. 3 o’clock, right?" "Same time, same place, as always." Miss Haruna sits at her desk as Serena thinks, "NOW I’m meatloaf. Oh boy." ******************************************************** After Serena’s detention, she goes to meet up with Molly and the others at the Crown arcade. Still bummed about the detention, and about Darien,she turns the street corner and sees Molly, Mina, and Lita just down the street. "Hi guys!" Serena calls out. She obviously perked up a bit once she saw her friends just down the street. "Hi!" Mina says back. "Hey Serena, did you hear about the new game at the arcade?" Molly inquired. "What new game?" Serena says almost jumping with anticipation. "What else? The new Sailor V game" Mina says very happily. "Woah! This is so cool! Let’s get going guys before the lines get too long!!!!" And I thought I was the most excited about this new game, Mina thinks as they begin to walk towards the game center with Serena setting a very fast pace. They are finally there when to everyone’s disappointment the sign on the door reads "Closed". "What’s up with this," Serena complains. "This place almost never closes." "I know, weird isn’t it?" says an annoying yet familiar voice from behind. Serena turns quickly and is startled by Melvin. She is very jumpy and goes right up to Melvin. "DO NOT sneak up on people like that!!" "Sorry Serena......" "Don’t have a coronary Serena," says Lita. "Sorry Melvin," Serena remarks, "I didn’t mean to jump down your throat like that." "It’s OK." Melvin says. "So Melvin, did you hear why the arcade is closed today?" Mina asks inquisitively. "Yeah! I heard they’re remodeling today and tomorrow to put in new games, lighting, and some really COOL stuff!" "Like the new Sailor V game?" Serena asks hoping that it is being put in. "Huh?" ponders Melvin. "What new Sailor V game?" "You know. The one that just came out, Sailor V2." Molly informs him. "No such game. I would of heard about over the Internet weeks before it came out and I haven’t heard a word." Melvin retorts. "That shouldn't exist." "Molly, where did you hear about the game?" Serena asked. "From that new guy, the one who was Andrews temp until he comes back from visiting his girlfriend in Africa. The temp said it would be delivered today." Mina still puzzled mutters, "This is too weird." Just then the same red car that Serena saw this morning and again she feels the cold breeze and shivers as a result. This time she isn’t the only one who felt it. Both Lita, Mina, and Melvin felt the cold air suddenly. Molly on the other hand takes a deep, invigorating breath as if it was the first day of spring after a cold winter. "You guys noticed that too?", Serena asked them. Mina, Lita, and Melvin all respond by nodding. But Molly says something that they don’t understand. "Warm, isn’t it?" "That breeze was ice cold. How on earth can you think that that was WARM!??" "It just felt...........good..............."” ******************************************************** Luna and Artemis are both outside the Crown game center. It is late at night all the workers have gone home. Luna whispers something to Artemis’s ear and Luna walks in. Luna walks through the doors and begins to notice all the new work done. She thinks it looks pretty much the same, with the exception of the back wall. All they did is move all the games from there and put in this ugly wall mirror all across the wall. "Well that doesn’t make much sense...." Luna thinks as she leaps up onto the chair in front of the old Sailor V game. She touches her paw to the screen and it lights up. Out loud she says, "Bypass communications array. Access archive log entries." The screen begins to beep. "Please enter voice identification." "I like tuna fish and field mouse pudding." "Enter access code." Luna begins to type away at the screen and the beeping begins again. "Welcome back Luna. Your last archive access was 4 months, 3 days, 7 hours, and 2 minutes ago. Please state request." Luna removes a small bracelet she has on her front left leg. She then places it on the screen and give the command. "Prepare to download all archive files, records, programs, and data groupings to portable data transfer device. Begin device authentication" The screen lights up even brighter than before and the bracelet begins to light up. A few beeps later the computer finishes and replies. "Transfer ready. ******************************************************** Outside, Artemis is pacing back and forth waiting for Luna to finish inside. He seems to be on his guard, but bored. "Looks like I finally get a ‘quiet’ night for a change" he thinks to himself. He stops pacing and sits down to relax. He stares up into the dark night sky as he finally seems to relax. It’s a nice night. The sky is clear except for that one cloud crossing the moon. "Sure is quiet around here.", Artemis thinks. "Maybe Luna’s just paranoid." Then single cloud crosses the moonlight and something catches Artemis’s eye. He looks straight toward that very cloud and notices something very wrong. There is a single red crystal floating in it. Artemis jumps to his feat as he see the cloud turning a dark color of purple and it is heading straight for him! When it is only a few feet away, Artemis leaps to attack! But to his surprise he passed straight through the cloud as the air within puts him to sleep in mid-air! Artemis lands, hard. Despite his landing, he is still fast asleep as the cloud begins to creep through into the arcade. ******************************************************** Luna is anxiously awaiting the file transfer to be completed. She keeps tapping her front paw on the desk and with her claws it is making a very annoying tapping noise. "Come on hurry up!" Luna is saying under her voice. "Data transfer complete" the computer announces. "At last!" "Please state request." Luna removes the bracelet as she finally begins to relax, and she stops tapping the table. "Begin shut down procedure 17429. Delete all files and leave no backup. Then proceed to short circuit all interface connections so that the game will work but no one will ever use this consul again." The computer waits and begins to process the request. But something is taking a long time. A second computer voice comes up and interrupts just as the screen almost shuts down. "Warning!!!! Warning!!!! Warning!!!! Emergency alert. Heavy Nega verse activity in Section 2227013. Please input current scout info and power levels!" Luna is shocked beyond belief. (The computer would only alert me to input something like this if the powers were perhaps unknown or unbelievably strong!), Luna think. She begins typing as fast as her paws can on the screen. Unknown to her smoke is beginning to come through under the door. The computer blurts out. "Enter emergency transmission codes!" "Oh no........", Luna is beyond belief. She remembers something that Queen Serenity once told her right before she was sent to earth. After the moon kingdom was destroyed by the Dark Kingdom and Queen Beryl. She can see the Queen like she was right there. Right before the queen sent the people of the moon to a better life on earth. "If the time comes that the Scouts alone are too weak to beat an enemy, use this." Queen Serenity hands Luna the device that she not long ago put into this game. Back in the arcade Luna lowers her head and says, "Access data transmission file 33295. Send codes. Authorization Sliver Imperial Moon Crystal. Code three. Transmit." "Help will come if it is needed." Queen Serenity finishes. She raises her moon wand and the light of the crystal flows from it. Every one is engulfed in moon crystals and begin to float from the moon towards earth. Artemis and Luna are the last ones to go and they float away in there stasis tubes. Luna wonders as she dreams while in stasis, "Who is it that will come if the scouts need?" Back in the arcade Luna lifts her head to see the screen go blank as the computer says in a fading voice, "Transmission received, data deletion, complete....................." The computer fades out as the smoke that Luna never noticed surrounds her and she falls into the same sleep that Artemis is in. ******************************************************** Luna yawns as she wakes and realizes that the clock says 9:30 in the morning. Shocked she falls down off her bed and dashes across the room to Serena. She leaps up onto her bed and jumps right on Serena. (She almost steps right on Reeny how has snuck into Serena’s bed, again. At least this time Serena hasn’t gone berserker on her in the night.) Luna almost yells "WAKE UP SLEEPYBONES", but realizes that she might wake Reeny, starts to tug on Serena’s ear and whispers loudly in her ears. "WAKE UP SLEEPY BONES! It’s 9:30!!!" Serena only turns over, (still oblivious that Reeny is there,) and mumbles back to Luna. "It’s Saturday. No school silly. Goodnight." Luna appears to be very impatient. "It is NOT Saturday! It is Friday! You have a test today that you have to get to school for!" Serena turns over sits up to face Luna. "Luna. Yesterday was Friday. I took that test and for once I got a C+. I was very tense and now that the test is over and done with I’m not going to worry about it. After school I went to the mall with Mina and Lita. That’s how I know today is Saturday. Now if you want to get some early breakfast go right ahead. Today it’s Sammy’s turn to get your food for you. I’m going back to sleep." Luna very confused graceful jump steps off the bed and walks out the door and looks on the watch beside the bed. Even the watch says Saturday. She is even more confused and she leaves the room. Serena lays back down and finally notices Reeny sleepy there next to her. Luna half way down the hall hears a very frustrated "AAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT IS THAT FLAMINGO DOING IN MY BED, AGAIN!!!!???" come from Serena’s room. Luna shakes her head and realizes that Serena must of finally noticed Reeny. ******************************************************** "I’m so glad the arcade is FINALLY open." Serena says excitingly as she walks with Amy, Molly, and Mina. Amy is reading a book while walking with them and seems to be completely engulfed into it. Without looking up from her book, she replies, "It was only closed for a day Serena." "I know that. It just seemed like forever." Serena replies. Molly seems as if she’s off in another galaxy as she walks. "I wonder why Melvin could find anything on the internet on this new game at the arcade? Melvin of all people should of been able to find anything he wanted on the net...." "Maybe there wasn’t enough time for anybody to put anything on the net." Lita mentioned. "After all, these games can come out without anybody knowing about it. Not like in America when there games come out here first so it can go on the net first." "Maybee the company kept it a secret to make it a big surprise release." Mina said. "Probably." Molly said The group finally reach the Crown Game Center and the doors slid open to see that which they have been waiting for. The are wowed in at how cool the new game center looks. The game room has all new games with everything from Sailor V2 to Dragonball Z the action fighting game to the Ronin Warriors game. They walkin and see that that’s not all. On the left brand new racing games line the walls and on the right VR games stand allready filled with players. The middle has been turned into the new juice bar with the strangest and possible coolest feature. A huge crystal mirror cylinder streaching floor to ceiling. All of the lights from every game in the entire arcade reflect off this huge mirror. Once farther inside they see that the game room has been pushed to the second floor when they see the crystal going through a hole in the ceiling. They can also see the balcony railing on the second floor around the mirror. More and more games are up there as well. Serena is VERY excited. "This is soooooooooo COOL!!!!" "I can’t believe they did this in just two days!” Amy mention. "Yeah! They say Rome wasn’t built in a day but if it was the arcade must of hired their contractor!" Mina joked. They stare in amazment for a few seconds, then break out the quarters, (or yen in Japan. I still have no idea how many yen it takes but e-mail me if you know. ) They play game after game. However something is amiss. The mirrored crystal cylinder glows in the center of the room for a few seconds, then the glow fades. Of course everyone is so into their games, but no body notices............... ******************************************************** Luna is on the roof and staring into the bright night sky trying to figure out what to do. She hasn’t been able to remember anything of the past 2 days. "How could I of lost thrusday and firday?" Luna thinks "Did something happen or am I just aquiring Serena’s sloth like sleeping habits? I know something happened. I can feel it! I just can’t remember what that something is....." Artemis jumps up next to her and sits down next to her. "Can’t sleep?" "Not a wink. Can’t even begin to explain why either. You?" "Haven’t been able to sleep at all, or remember anything." "There has to be a logical explaination. There has to......" "Wanna check the log at the arcade. Maybee we made a entry." "Since the arcade changed it hours, haven’t been able to get in until nine thirty. I’ll check it out as soon as it closes." "Hope we find out what happened." "Me too. Me too." ******************************************************** It’s around 9 o’clock and just about everyone has gone home. Except for Serena. She’s been playing the same game that she has been for the past two hours. She’s surprise that she acutally gotten this far. Usually she would of ran out of quarters hours ago. This time either the game got easier, or she’s getting better at it. "Come on just one more bad guy!!!!!!!" She is tapping wildly at the buttons. "NO WAY." she exclaims as the Sailor V character falls down a large pit after just missing the ledge of the cliff. "That was so CHEAP!!!!" Serena despratly digs her purse for more quarters so she can continue to play. The game is counting down. 5.....4....3....2....1....GAME OVER. "Nuts." Serena mutters. She looks over as the doors open and Luna walks in. "LUNA. You know that the new guy doesn’t allow pets in the arcade." "Oh really?" Luna reply with a smile. "What about guardian cats? Techincally I’m not a pet, now am I? Any way, you have to pick up Reeny from swim class and your she’ll probably be waiting for you." "Really? What time is it?" Serena looks at her watch quickly and then leaps when she see the time. "NINE O’CLOCK!!!!????!!!! I am soooooooooo late!" Serena picks up her pocketbook and dashes for the door. The door slides open and as she clutzes and falls straight down. "Owie. That really hurt." Luna lowers her head and sighs. "Serena........" Serena picks herself up and runs again down the street as a cloud of dust is kicked up in the process. Luna walks over to the old Sailor V Video Challenge Game and touches her paw to the screen. "Open Central command archive, password-I like tuna fish and field mouse pudding." Luna says to the screen. She waits for the computer to respond, and waits, and waits............................. ******************************************************** High above Toyko, on the surface of the moon, within the devasted ruins of the Queen Serenty’s Palace, four small twinkles of light rise from the ashes of the lost civilization. They glimmer there, about a meter off the ground, for a few moments. Then they shoot of into the night sky leaving a trail of rainbow colored light in there path. Within moments they are within earth’s orbit and slow their speed to only a few thousand mph. For the first time in a thousand years, for the first time since the Silver Milenium fell, they speak. All in unison, they speak, "It is time...." The four soft voices echo across the heavens as the first of the four lights falls to earth in a soft fireball that streaks across the sky. ****** Comments, Flames, Suggestions, Questions? E-mail me at Netnight15@aol.com This is posted at http://members.aol.com/Netnight15/moon.html