Written by Moonlight Netknight
email:  Netnight15@aol.com
http://www.capecod.net/mthompso/fanfic/tuxp4.txt

Here is Part 4 of the Saga.  Who is Tuxedo Mind?  Who was the mysterious 
figure with Rubeus and Wiseman?  Think your gonna find out with this part?  
Maybe.  Think this part will have a  surprise?  Very Possible.  Gonna enjoy 
reading it?  I hope so =)

                           Tuxedo Saga
                            Chapter 4

                         The Games Afoot


	The three lights are floating across the heavens high above the 
city of Tokyo.  The lights from the city are but a tiny twinkle when seen 
that far above.  The three globes of light spin in a circle as the smaller 
of the two globes glows the brightest pink.  As the three globes spin, the 
smallest and brightest globe spins the fastest.  As it spins as fast as it 
possible appears it can, it stops and snaps into a bolt as it streaks across 
the heavens.  The two larger orbs are left behind as the small pink orb 
streaks fire across the sky.  
	“Soon......” That one word echoes across the sky as the pink orb 
descends to earth.  Spoken by the last two orbs, that word echoes with a 
soft voice that hasn’t been heard in over a thousand years.

******

	Melvin is bringing a small flower pot into his house as he looks up 
and sees the streak of pink fire burning the heavens.  He cracks a smile out 
of the corner of his mouth as he looks back to his task.  He caries the last 
flower pot upstairs and onto the window sill in his room.

******

	Molly is working late on her homework in her room.  She chews her 
pencil a bit while she stares at her last tough math problem.  Her head flops 
down on her desk with frustration.  “I hate algebra.  How’s does Melvin handle 
it?”  She says to herself.  She leans back in her chair and looks out at the 
stars , reminded of Melvin.  She sighs a relaxing sigh as she completely 
forgets about what she was doing.  
	“Hopes Melvin feels better tomorrow.  I guess I kinda missed the 
dweeb today.”  Molly giggles as she realizes what she just said.  She tips 
her chair over she giggle so hard.  She pulls herself to her feet and pulls 
herself together.  “I can’t believe I just said that.” She thinks about it 
for a second.  “Well, I guess I do miss him.”  She giggles furiously.  This 
time she falls back onto her bed she giggles so hard.  She begins to calm 
her laughter as she sees a falling star streak across the sky outside her 
window.  Curiously, the falling star’s path not white, but streaks pink.  
	“What the......”  Molly whispers as she see the path fade and a 
small pink point  of light move slowly across the dark evening sky.  The 
point of light then seems to stop, and then start to ever so slowly grow.  
“How......”  She ponders she realize that it is still moving, right towards 
her.  She begins to get scared when she realizes that fact.  Then she suddenly 
seems to calm down, even though she knows she should still be scared.  The lights 
grows brighter as the point of light gets closer.  The light begins to fill 
the room as it draws near.  The point of light is right outside Molly’s 
window and she can see it is a small orb.  She knows she should be scared, 
should run, should get help, or simply get away.  But for some reason, she 
knows she must stay.  Something deep inside her tells her that it is safe 
and so she stays.  The window gently opens and the orb floats in.  It fills 
the room with pink light like a star.  It floats only a few inches from Molly’s 
face and still she is unafraid.  She seems more calm than before this all began.  
Then the orb begins to pulse with angelic pink light until only the light can be seen.

******

	“Huh?  What do you mean Melvin was acting weird today?”  Lita inquires.  
“He’s always acting weird.”  She, Serena, and Mina are sitting at a cafe 
after a day of their favorite after school activity.  Shopping, of course. 
	“Haha Lita.  Veeeeeeery funny.  I’m serious.  Today he was back in school 
and didn’t once talk about his inch worm collection or the Internet.  How’s that 
for weird?”
	“Oh come on Serena.” Mina giggled.  “Maybe he just didn’t feel like talk 
bout that stuff today.  After all, how many times can a guy talk about bugs?”
	“Oh yeah Mina, what about his glasses?”  Serena questioned.
  
(Start the flashback sequence.  Wavy line, woah, getting dizzy here)

******

	Class is about to begin and everyone is talking quietly or getting out 
their work, books, notebook, ect., ect.  Miss Haruna is getting her stuff together 
at her desk when a strange kid walks in.  He’s not to tall with deep blue eyes, 
wearing a school uniform and hair that seems to just fall right into place.  When 
he walks in about half the girls in the class eyes bulge huge with those cute 
hearts.  That half just happens to include Molly and Serena. 
	“Woah! He’s soooooo cute.” Both Serena and Molly think silently at the 
same time.  
	“Can I help you?”  Miss Haruna asks the student calmly.
	“Here’s my sick note Miss H” the student says as he pulls out the note 
and hands it to Miss Haruna.  His voice is very soft and relaxed.  However Miss 
Haruna seems to be totally confused.  
	“Who are you?  I’m sorry but I don’t seem to recall you ever being in my class”
	He quietly laughs for a few seconds.  “You kidding right Miss H?  Oh 
this is funny.  This might help.”  He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a 
case and from the case he pulls out a pair a glasses and puts them on.  He coughs 
to clear his voice.  “Hi de Ho”  When he says this everyone, including Miss Haruna, is 
so shocked, they fall out of their chairs.
	Molly, Serena, and Miss Haruna all yell, “MELVIN!?!?!?!?!”  
	“Can’t believe you guys didn’t recognize me.”  He says in his calm, 
(a.k.a. less nerdy), voice as he puts the glasses back in their case.  “I’m 
still the same old Melvin”
	“I can’t believe it!” Serena thinks.  “I actually thought MELVIN was, I 
can’t believe it, cute!”  She pauses for a moment.  “Well......  I guess he 
kinda is now.  I still can’t believe it though” 
	“Melvin?”  Molly thinks.  “What happened?  One day outta school and he turns 
into a hunk?  He must of REALLY needed that day off.  I really hope he has remembered 
already....”
	“What happened Melvin???”  Serena asks him as he gets back into his 
seat.
	“Nothing really, just went to the doctors.  Got a little medicine for 
my throat and finally got my contacts.”
	“THAT”S IT?”  The entire class asks him still in shock.
	“Um, yeah.  I guess.” He replies.  
	“Can’t let them find out.”  He thinks.  “Gotta keep the secret for their and 
my own safety”
	“OK.”  Miss H says recovering from the shock.  She looks up and notices 
the bell rung about 2 minutes ago.  “Where were we?  Oh yeah, attendance.”

(End of flashback.   Wavy lines, making everyone dizzy again)

******

	Lita and Mina are laughing furiously.  They are practically falling out of 
their chairs.  Serena seems to not be taking this very well and has an angry 
expression on her face that would stop a army in it’s tracks. 
	“I still can’t believe it!!  You?!  Thought Melvin was!?!?! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!”  
Lita barely manages to say that between her laughing.  
	“Melvin?!?!?!?  CUTE!?!?!  This is too much!!!!!”  Mina also is barely 
able to speak she’s laughing so hard.
	“Baka baka baka you too.”  Serena grumbles while the two next to her 
keep on laughing.  “I’m serious.  It was way weird in class today with Melvin like 
that.”
	The laughter turns to mere giggling as Lita and Mina calm down.  “I bet!” 
The two giggle boxes laugh.  
	“Ugh.  I gotta go”  Serena says as she gets up.  “I gotta pick up Reeny.  
Call me later when and if you two ever stop laughing.”  
	“See ya!!!  Hey!  If we run into Melvin we’ll tell him to call you too!”  They 
explode into laughter.  
	“Don’t you dare!”  Serena yells as she keeps walking towards Reeny’s swim class.  
A few minutes pass by and the two have finally managed to calm down.  They chat a 
bit while they sip of a couple of sodas they had gotten earlier.  
	“Don’t look now Mina”  Lita whispers to her.  “I think that cuuuuuuute guy is 
headed our way.”  Mina glances around quickly and turns bright red when she sees 
the brown hair, blue eyed guy walking right towards them.  He walks right up to the 
table.
	“Hey Mina, Lita. Have either of you two seen Serena.  She left a book 
in class today.”  Both girls are in shock.
	“Have we met?”  Lita inquires while totally embarrassed.  
	“Your in Serena’s class?”  Mina asks.
	He laughs quickly under his breath and sighs.  “You have no idea how many 
times this has happened today alone.”  He reaches into his pocket and pulls 
out a case.  From that case he removes a pair of glasses.  
	“GACK!!!”  Both of the girls exclaim as they are in total shock.

******

	The next day, the girls have assembled at the Cherry Hill Temple.  Luna 
had called this meeting and is still very nervous.  Mina and Lita are the last to arrive.
	“I see you two have finally stopped giggling”  Serena mentions.
	“Huh?”  Raye wonders.
	“Long story.” Mina explains, she is still a little embarrassed from the other day.  
	Amy turns to Luna.  “Have you and Artemis found anything out yet Luna?”  
	“Yes we have.”  Artemis tells her as he jumps up next to Luna.  “Have any of you 
noticed anything unusual happen in the last week or so?”
	“Aside from Melvin, nope.”  Lita says
	“We have.”  Luna says.  “Serena, Mina, Lita, Raye, you know before Mina 
joined the team I regularly checked into Central Control to get information and 
advice.  That was until,” she shoots a glance at Artemis, “Artemis and Mina joined 
the team.  Artemis for a couple days neglected to mention that HE was central control.”
	“HE DID WHAT?”  All the girls are shocked.  
	“Did I forget the mention that?” Artemis laughs nervously
	“Anyway,”  Luna continues, “ during each of our communications, I used a special 
device that recorded the communicates.  It also acted as our archive for all details 
about the Moon Kingdom.  It also analyzes our powers and our enemies potential of the 
enemy.  That’s how we knew when to give you your star power heshin sticks.  That’s 
how we were able to triangulate the entrance to the Negaverse when we found the 
Antarctic base.  But........”
	“But what Luna?”  Serena asks nervously.
	“Since you lost your memories and since Artemis told me he was central 
control we haven’t had any use for the computer.  I haven’t used it in serveral 
months.  I went to check on it the other day, on saturday, and.......”
	“WHAT?!?!”  All the scouts are so tense they can hardely wait for Luna to 
final spit out what she is trying to say.  
	“Alright already!  IT’S MISSING, OK?  It’s gone.  I went to find it and it 
just wasn’t there!”  Luna exclaims in a single breath.  She lowers her head, relieved 
that the scouts know and ashamed that she lets it get stolen.
	“It’s gone?”  Lita almost whispers.
	“Yes....  I don’t if it was erased or not.  All of our secrets, all our 
weakpoints, idenities, attacks, history, all of it, it could be gone.....”
	“How?.....”  Amy wonders.
	With Luna so sad and ashamed about what happened Artemis steps forward, leting 
her rest.  “The device was in the Arcade.”
	The Scouts are shocked to say the least.  “The arcade?”  Serena asks.  
“The same arcade I blow my allowance on everyday after school play the Sailor V 
game?”  Mina smiles a little as she says this.
	“Acutally,” Artemis pauses for a moment, “the device was ‘inside’ the 
Sailor V game.”
	“Huh?!”  Serena and Mina ask in surprise.
	“But the arcade was remodeled  few days ago.”  Amy mentions.
	“I know......”  Luna says in a low voice.
	“Whaaaaat a minute...”  Serena says.  “The arcade is remodeled, the computer 
holding our info is missing, and then a Negamonster seems to know where we 
are.”  She pauses and thinks for a moment.  “But Mina and Raye were not attacked at 
their school.  Maybee the Negaverse has learned about our idenities another way, 
aside from the device in the game.”
	“Oh come on Serena!”  Raye says poking fun at her.  “That’s ridiculous!”
	“Acutally,”Amy interjects, “It’s not that impossible.  The Negaverse attacked 
us at our school where there were three scouts.  It would of been smarter for 
the Negaverse to attack Raye’s school or Mina’s school.  As far as we know, 
the Negaverse doesn’t know about Mina, Raye, or....”
	“Me.”  a voice from behind the scouts says.  Startled the scouts turn to 
see Darien standing there.  “Hi.”
	“Ya know you really know how to just appear outta no where anytime you 
want, don’t cha Darien.”  Mina jokes.
	“I just walked up.  You just didn’t notice me I guess.”  Serena has serverly 
quieted down, and her enthuasim seemed to drop as well as Darien says this.  
	“Ya know, he’s right.” Luna coments.  “The Dark Moon probably doesn’t 
know about his idenity.  The Negaverse did, but the Dark Moon probably doesn’t.”  
	“I think,” Artemis pauses and thinks as he taps he head.  “The Dark Moon 
probably used the Arcade to find out who Serena, Amy, and Lita are.”
	“Well the day the arcade reopened,”  Mina continues, “me, Serena, Amy, Lita 
went there to try out the cool new games.  The Dark Moon probably just knows about 
us in that case.”
	“What about the device?”  Luna whimpers, still bummed.
	“What device?”  Darien asks confused.
	“I tell you later.”  Amy tell him.
	“I have an idea.”  Lita says perking up.  “I could go to the arcade.  If 
I’m attacked at the arcade then the Dark Moon is at the arcade.”
	“That’s WAY too dangerous Lita!.”  Serena protest.  “We can’t put you 
on the line just to find out if the Dark Moon is controling the arcade.”
	“Your right Serena.”  Raye quietly says.  “I’ll go.”
	“WHAT!?!?”  Everyone says.  
	“Why?”  Amy asks.  “Your not at risk.  If the Dark Moon did use the 
arcade then there is no way Rubues and the Dark Moon knows your civilian 
identity.  Why take the risk.”
	“It makes purfect sense.  If I am attacked, the Dark Moon used the device 
to find all of use out.  If not, then they probably used the arcade.  I’ll go, 
play for a couple hours, then that should be sufficient to get the info.”
	“That... does make sense.”  Luna says.  “By this evening, we’ll know 
who and what they know easily”
	“This afternoon?”  Mina asks surprised.  “Why so soon?”
	Luna pauses for a while and she stares out over the shrine grounds, thinking.  
“The longer they know something, and we’re not sure what they know, the more 
danger we’re all in.”  
	Raye stares out over the shrine grounds thinking about her mission that 
is soon to come.  She thinks, “I’ve put grampa, Chad, and everyone I care about 
in danger from the first moment I became a sailor scout.  I not going to risk 
endangering them.  I have to go on this mission, to protect my friends.”
	“Are you sure you wanna do this Raye?”  Serena asks with concern.  
	“I’ve never been more sure of anything before.”

******

	Serena, Lita, and Mina are walking down the street think about the 
meeting that just took place.  Lita and Mina seem concerned about Raye’s mission 
tonight.  Serena on the other hand seemss more down than concerned.  
	“I really hope Raye will be ok.”  Mina comments without stopping
	“I still can’t believe Luna let her go alone!”  Lita exclaims.  “Luna 
must be nuts to not let us help her when she goes.  Too dangerous my butt!!!!!”  
Lita is REALLY ticked off.  Serena just keeps walking, completely oblivious to 
the conversation.  They walk over the bridge that she saw Darien on just a few 
days ago.  She walks slows down and walks over to the railing and rest against 
it, gazing into the water below.  She see Darien’s image in the water, but it 
quickly fades as she realizes it is only her imagination.  
	“You ok Serena?”  Mina inquires as she leans against the rail next to 
her.  Serena only sighs in response, still depressed.  Mina waves her hand in 
front of Serena’s face to try and get her to talk.  “Earth to Serena, come in please.”
	“I still miss him so much.”  is all the response the Mina gets as Lita
leans against the rail on the other side of Serena.  
	“I can tell you right here and now that I know he still cares for you 
Serena.”  Lita tell her with confidence.  “For over a thousand years, losing each 
other more than three times, memory erasing maybe four or five times, countless 
battles, and you still came together.  That’s more than enough proof for me that 
your love is strong enough to survive anything.”
	“Yeah!”  Mina says encouraging Serena.  “Not too sound to much like Amy, 
but there has to be a logical explanation for all of this.  And I can tell that 
there is one heck of a good reason for his behavior for the past several weeks.”
	“Thanks you guys.”  Serena replys perking up a bit as she stands up straight.  
“Your right.  I’m gonna find out why sooner or later.  After all, ::giggle::, 
‘patience is a virtua.’  ”
	They both laugh at that as Mina corrects.  “That’s ‘patience is a virtue’ 
Serena.  'Patience is a virtua' is a advertisment for the virtua fighter 2 video 
game.”  
	“Oh yeah!”  Serena exclaims breaking out in laughter.  She is obivously 
feeling alot better and back to her perky self again.  They laugh for a few seconds, 
then Serena completely stops and falls silent as she sees a red sports cars drive by.  
Her eyes freeze when she sees the occupant of that car.  She is filled with both 
fear and disbelief about who she saw.  “Dear god.........  We have to get to the 
temple!”
	Lita and Mina are shocked.  “What? Why?”  Serena hear neither of them 
because she has allready begun a sprint in the direction of Cherry Hill.  After 
a brief pause of trying to figure out what happened, Lita and Mina quickly begin 
to follow Serena.  Serena, (who everyone knows hates running,)  is in a full sprint 
and Lita and Mina are having trouble catching up with her.  
	“Wait up Serena!”  Lita yells gasping for breath.  “Slow up will ya.”
	“No Time!!!”  Serena yells back as she take a short cut through an alley.  
By the time Lita and Mina take that turn, Serena is no where to be seen.  But 
the alley is way to long for Serena to have allready exited.  
	“Where the heck did she go?”  Lita and Mina wonder in unison.

******

	Serena awakens on a cold floor surounded by nothing but darkness.  She 
feels the back of her head as she tries to remember what happened to her.  She 
remembers taking a shortcut to Raye’s temple, talking with Lita and Mina, a car, 
and someone she is having trouble remembering.  “Impossible”  Serena thinks as she 
stands up and looks all around her.  She can see the floor, but nothing else.  
She looks up and sees a light above her, blinding her to anything outside of the 
circle where she stands.  
	“Where am I?!”  she demands at the top of lungs.  She hears a slight laugh 
coming from the darkness.  She trys to turn to where the laugh is coming from, 
but it can be heard all around her.  “I know that voice.  Come on you Dark Moon 
goon Rubeus.  Face me!”  She reaches for her locket and puts it above her head and 
speaks her transformation phase.  “Moon, Crystal, Power!!!!!!”  She is wrapped in 
angelic light as she transforms.  pure white wings contract and become her sailor 
fuku, (sailor scout uniform), her crescent moon appears on her forhead and then her 
tiara blinks into existance as she finishes off her transformation.
	“Don’t worry about your idenity sailor brat.  We allready know who you were 
before that boring transformation.” Rubeus calls from the darkness.
	“How did I get here?”  
	“Relax.  I have strict orders not to keep you here, yet.  I just need you 
conscious to erase your memories.  Or at very least temporarily conscious.”
	“What?”
	“You saw something too soon.  That will mess up Wiseman’s plans for you 
pitiful scouts.”
	Sailor Moon pulls out her sceptar and faces the figure emerging into the 
light.  Serena expects it to be Rubeus, but she is dead wrong.  Shocked, she drops 
her sceptar to the floor.  “No, it can’t be.”  are the last words Sailor Moon 
utters before she is knocked unconscious, again.  This time it is from behind.  A 
glove hand is all that can be seen from the darkness, holding what looks like Sailor 
Moon’s sceptar, except for one small detail.  All the crescent moons, are upside 
down, and pure black.

******

Well, that’s the end of part 4
Lots happened and hopeful more will be happening 
in part 5.  Comments, flames, questions?  
E-mail me (please I luv getting e-mail) at Netnight15@aol.com