Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Crystal Princess: The Saga of The Crystal Sailors ❯ Dark Kingdom Generals Return ( Chapter 4 )

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Kurisutaru Ohimesama: Ano Buyudan No Ano Kurisutaru Sera

Crystal Princess: The Saga of the Crystal Sailors

EPISODE 04:
"DARK KINGDOM GENERALS RETURN"
By crystalknight at copper dot net
Penname: The Crystal Knight
AIM: Eccadairius
Edited By: Loki
Website: www dot crystalsailors.com
NOTICE: This is the final chapter edited by Loki. He did a great
job! Kudos to you Loki! I look forward to the new editor!

Rated: PG-13
Based On: The Original Series "Crystal Sailors"

Notes: This takes place after Sailor Moon R and 'Sailor Moon
Universal' written by Jendra.

EPISODE FOUR: DARK KINGDOM GENERALS RETURN

Usagi returns to her family and friends, but with the persisting
nightmares, and the changes in her life, she is having trouble
coping. But the return of the Dark Kings has changed everything.
Can she cope and can the Senshi and Tuxedo Kamen deal with the
revived generals and their new allies?


Sweat beaded upon her forehead. Usagi shuddered and hugged herself,
her nightdress clinging to her back. She could still feel the fear
stirring in her breast and whimpered. She was terrified. She rocked
herself back and forth after drawing her knees up under her chin.
She was no closer to finding out who or what was responsible for
these dreams and why.

"Why me? Who was that guy in my dream?"

Usagi could still feel the residue of the dream clinging to her like
a second skin. Wanting so to shake off the feeling, but the images
would persist, the feeling tainting her soul and unsettling her.

~*~

Usagi was sitting at her window thinking back over all that had
happened. She was thinking about not only the dreams, but also
the attack and the wounds she'd suffered. She found it difficult
enough dealing with that, but then dying to save her friends,
then finding herself revived to help her fellow Senshi defeat
the new enemy felt so surreal.

Luna raised her head from her velvet paws and began to speak to
her charge, "Usagi-Chan, Are you okay?" The little black cat
noticed that Usagi was lost in thought and she observed, that she
looked depressed; this worried Luna.

Then the sound of Ikuko's footfalls drew closer as she came up
stairs to talk to her daughter, "Usagi, want to talk about it?
Your father and I are worried." Usagi sat up in bed, rubbing
the sleep from her eyes and yawned, looking as if she'd not
heard a single word. "Are you all right?"

Usagi could barely manage a weak smile, as her mother leaned
forward and kissed the top of her head, stroking her daughter's
disheveled golden locks that would soon assume their customary
odangos. "If you need me, I am here for you." Usagi's mother
sighed, a and at the threshold to Usagi's bedroom looked back, the
anxiety in her eyes, this not lost on Luna who pushed her head
against Usagi's limp hand affectionately. Ikuko smiled at the
gesture.

After twenty minutes without Usagi coming downstairs for breakfast,
Ikuko went back upstairs to see what was keeping her daughter.

"Usagi, aren't you coming downstairs, you'll be late!"

"I don't care!" she said, folding her arms across her chest in a
gesture of defiance as she stood before the bathroom door. "I don't
want to face another day of 'Oh Usagi, you're alive! We only need
time to adjust to the fact you are not dead!' Don't you think I might
need time to get used to being here again? I also have to answer all
your stupid questions about my duties as Sailor Moon. Also, why I
kept it all to myself. Why do you think? If I had told you, your
lives would have all been in danger if the Dark Kingdom had
discovered my identity by a slip of the tongue... I don't have time
for any of this, mother!" she growled, slamming the bathroom door in
her mother's face.

"Mom, I'll talk to her. She is just mad because, well its weird for
her and its weird for us, too!" he said, as Ikuko blew her nose into
her handkerchief.

"We're a family, can't she understand that. Oh Shingo, maybe you're
right, she might feel better if you talk to her. I am just messing
things up and your father isn't helping just sitting downstairs saying,
Usagi will get over it!"

She turned away as Shingo adjusted his peaked cap and waited for his
sister to re-emerge.

~*~

When Usagi and Shingo finally came downstairs, Ikuko tried to carry
on as normal, but this only made matters worse. "Darling?" Ikuko
mouthed, as if she were under water, "You've got to eat sweetheart.
I know school and everything is going to be tough on you today, but
you've..."

Ikuko's words were cut off by the sound of a shattering vase, Usagi
had knocked to the floor as she burst into tears. "I don't want to
hear it, mother! Gomen, but I can't stay! I'm eating at Crown, but I
need to get away by myself... just need time on my own to get my
thoughts straight is all, got to go!"

"But Usagi, your lunch!" she said, as Shingo took the Bento Box and
ran after his sister. Usagi was already heading for the front gate.

Ikuko sighed, and as she slumped into the kitchen chair, Kenji looked
up, his bespectacled face betraying his alarm. They looked at each
other without saying a word as Shingo rushed back into the kitchen,
sat down and poured milk on his cereal.

Kenji sighed, and then folded the paper, setting it to one side and
cleared his throat, "I am not sure what we should do, if anything.
She may talk to a counselor, she may not, but I really think she
needs to as Shingo would say," hearing his name, he looked up at
his father and back at Ikuko, "she needs time to 'chill out' gather
her thoughts. We need time to get used to the fact she is Sailor Moon,
a Senshi, and that her friends are also. It will take time. Darling,
just give her time. Give yourself time. She has faced youma and their
overlords, and death!"

"I know, Kenji," she sighed.

"Kamis knows we all need time to get used to this new reality."

"Usagi is not Sailor Moon is she, that's the most baka thing I have
ever heard!" Shingo mumbled as his parents ignored him.

"I know that, Kenji! But its her emotional and mental state I'm most
concerned about. She's like a shell, lifeless and listless. We have
her back, but its as if part of her is still missing... I don't know,"
she said, lowering her face into her hands. Then she lifted her head
and met Kenji's gaze, "I don't know what to do, whether to talk to
Haruna Sensei, or just wait to see if she snaps out of it on her own.
She keeps having those awful dreams. She won't tell me what they're
about and I know its connected with all this!"

~*~

Motoki raised an eyebrow when he saw a pale-faced Usagi slump into a
booth. He excused himself from serving one of his regulars and
approached the stone-faced girl, "Usagi-chan?"

"Hi Motoki, can I have a shake and an apple and cinnamon muffin
please? She asked in a dull monotone.

"Sure," he said agreeably, frowning. He knew what she had been
through, but he was determined to tread lightly.

He returned with her order, slid into the chair opposite, and
cleared his throat, "Mamoru asked after you. He told me to give
you this," he dropped the Star Locket into her open hand.

She gasped, her eyes lit up and she beamed, "Thank you Motoki-san,"
she said, and promptly set the locket open on the table and played
it and ate.

~*~

Later in class, people had kept looking at her, whispering and it
was bothering Usagi. The girls were great, keeping a respectful
distance. Usagi reasoned that Luna and Artemis had something to
do with that. But she had endured the speculation, and looks and
mutterings all day and only an hour to go, but she had had enough.

She jumped to her feet, "I know you think I am like the living dead!
Honestly, any of you, can you imagine how I feel with you constantly
staring at me, whispering about me? I am the flavor of the week. I
know I'm Sailor Moon, you know I'm Sailor Moon, I was dead yesterday,
now I'm back. I wish I weren't!" she sobbed and gathered her things
with Naru's help. Not a sound could be heard as Haruna helped the
distraught girl from the classroom and arranged for the principal to
call a taxi to take her home.

"Poor Usagi," Naru murmured, catching Umino's concerned expression.

~*~

After an emotionally exhausting day, Usagi had finally fallen asleep.
She was spinning in a vortex of confusion and fragmented images,
mundane at first, the text off the page of her dictionary, then
the Bento Box filled with goodies, and then, she saw something new
emerge from the mists of dream, this time she saw a strange man and
his three traveling companions taking shape before her eyes. Usagi
gasped as the tall figure put on an intimidating helmet and she could
see and feel the waves of corruption and evil transforming the man
into a malevolent warlord possessive of immense powers. Suddenly,
he transformed his companions into monsters. Usagi looked gaunt,
and didn't even acknowledge Luna, who tried to get her attention
with little success.

After a time, Luna stood on all fours, arched her back, leapt nimbly
to the floor, and said over her shoulder, "Usagi, I am going to meet
the others. See you later." As before, Usagi didn't respond.

Luna made her way outside and called the Senshi, "Sailor Senshi,
this is Luna. We have an emergency. Meet me at the Hikawa Shrine
as soon as possible."

~*~

"What's the emergency?" Rei asked, raising an eyebrow.

"It's Usagi. She has gotten worse," Luna, answered, shaking her
head. Luna's expression revealing the degree of concern she felt
for her charge.

"How?" Ami asked, sitting cross-legged before the Mauan guardian
expectantly.

"Both myself and her mother tried over the last couple of days to
talk to her with little success I'm afraid," she sighed.

"What do we do, Luna?" Makoto questioned, letting out an exasperated sigh.

"We must be patient with her, her dreams have become more intense, that
much I do know, so we must tread lightly."

"Do you think the Ice Titan has something to do with it?" Minako supplied.

"Now, don't jump to conclusions. I doubt even the Ice Titan knows about
Usagi's night terrors."

"I've been working on a dream viewer. It will enable us to see into
Usagi's dreams and analyze them!" Ami answered with a hint of triumph
in her voice.

"That's amazing!" Luna responded, knowing this to be the break they
needed. She was reluctant to use the Luna Mind-Meld, but this meant
she'd not have to, at least, not yet anyway. She was most pleased
with Ami.

~*~

Usagi managed to get through the rest of the day in a stupor,
ignoring most of those around her, and like a zombie, she
mechanically went through the motions and longed for sleep
without the dreams. She got her wish that night.


Place: North Pole, Ice Titan's Palace
Time: Midnight
Condition: Night


The Ice Titan was fed up with his minions. "I need more help. You two
are worthless to me!" he yelled.

"Us... worthless?" Morgoth questioned.

"You cannot defeat her. You used your most powerful attacks,
yet Sailor Moon lives!" The Ice Titan snapped in an irate tone.

"It's not are fault! She happens to foil our plans every time!"
Belogore pleaded.

The Ice Titan then revealed his plan to his minions, "I have the
perfect strategy in mind. I know of a group of formidable villains
that had fought this 'Sailor Moon' before! Maybe they can tell us
how to defeat her."

"Sounds like a plan to me," Belogore replied, with a smirk.

The Ice Titan opened a small case, within lay four objects and he
placed these in his open hand, "Morgoth, take these four life
restorer disks! This will reverse the effects of their
interdimensional deaths and make the Dark Kingdom Generals
live again! NOW GO!"

"Yes sire."

~*~

Usagi wasn't sure how she'd gotten there, but somehow, she'd left
the house like a sleep walker and lay down on a park bench. Mamoru
saw her and woke her, "Usako! Usako! Wake up." He shook her gently
and she stirred.

"Mamo-Chan! How in the world did I get here?" Usagi asked, still
groggy.

"Good question Usako! Are you okay?"

"I am fine... I haven't slept so well in a long time."

"I'll take you to the Hikawa Shrine. Let's go!"


Meanwhile


Morgoth found the Dark Kingdom Realm of the dead. There, he
discovered the four generals: Jadeite, Nephrite, Kunzite, and
Zoicite.

"You are the Dark Kingdom Generals?"

"Yes, we once were," Kunzite, answered as he trailed off.

"How would you like to be revived to help my master get rid of
Sailor Moon?"

"Did you say Sailor Moon?" Jadeite asked.

"Yes I did."

"It will be a pleasure!" Zoicite replied.

"Here! Put on the Life Restorer Disks. Once you put them on you can
leave this place."

"Very well," Nephrite agreed. As the Generals appeared before the
fifth figure, they smiled amongst themselves and followed Morgoth
as he led the Dark Kingdom Generals to the Ice Titan's Palace.


Later


"Welcome Dark Kingdom Generals! I need your help to rid me of the
Moon Princess known as 'Crystal Sailor Moon!' So will you help me?"
the Ice Titan asked.

"Yes, what's in it for us?" Kunzite asked, arching an eyebrow.

"You get to live. The Moon Princess is headed for the Hikawa Shrine.
Defeat her -- go!"

"Wait a minute. Why do you want someone like her killed?" Jadeite
asked.

"Fine, I'll tell you, my master and my greatest servant, Takalon was
sealed within on of a number of great spheres through the use of
powerful magic by the Momoirozuishou! Its magic had once sealed
Belogore, Morgoth, and myself. Not that, my master Krun Bruikas
and my leading henchman Takalon was completely sealed by the
Momoirozuishou!"

"Who is this Krun Bruikas?" Zoicite asked.

"Krun Bruikas is my master and the supreme leader of the Ice Kingdom!
Our sworn enemy is Princess Crystallina! She lies in a hibernated
state inside Sailor Moon! That's why I must destroy her. Understand?"

"Yes," The Lords of The Dark Kingdom replied as one.

"GO!"


Azabu Park

"I know it's hard, Usako, all this has happened so fast and nobody,
including you have had the chance to adjust. I will help if you let me.
I will talk to your family and introduce the others in our warrior forms,
and bring Luna and Artemis."

"Now that will be something!" she lit up at the thought of Shingo and
her parents looking wide-eyed at the sight of two talking cats, one
having lived under their roof as a family pet, "I like the sound of
that, I can't wait to see their faces!" she giggled, as Mamoru
hugged her.

"Now, that's better. All right Odango Atama, let's get a move on and head
for the shrine, up to it yet?"

"I am, let's go," she smiled.

But as they began to move away from the park bench, there was a
blinding flash a few feet away. Mamoru and Usagi would not make
it to the Hikawa Shrine that day, for Morgoth appeared with the
Dark Kingdom Generals and a new Robo Monster with them, Robo Sniper,
an archer with pinpoint accuracy hitting its target. The Robo Sniper
looked like a dark elf.

They stood there staring at the impossible, but it was no dream this
time as Usagi and Mamoru gasped.

"Greetings... Are you surprised to see us again old friends?" Zoicite
laughed.

"We know who you are, so give up and save yourselves and us the
inconvenience of denials and all that!" Kunzite demanded.

"Yeah right! Like I am really going to do that!" Usagi quipped.

"Well then, ...princess show us your power!" Jadeite challenged.

"FINE! VERY WELL! I am IN A bad mood and I am taking it out on you!"
Usagi yelled, balling her fists.

"Oh... we're scared!" Zoicite mocked.

"CRYSTAL MOON ENCHANTMENT POWER, MAKE UP!" After assuming her
Senshi form, she spoke into her communicator, "Guys, I need
your help!"

"Robo Sniper, get her!" Kunzite ordered.

"Yes boss!" The creature glared at Crystal Sailor Moon, "I will
demolish you!"

"Now, Robo Sniper, you can't fight what you can't see!" Crystal
Sailor Moon told her, wrapping her cape around herself becoming
invisible.

"What?" the creature exclaimed. "Where did you go?"

"What's the matter? You can't see me?" Crystal Sailor Moon asked in
a disembodied voice.

"Come out! Show yourself!" Robo Sniper screamed in frustration.

"Burning Mandala!" Sailor Mars called her fire attack, spheres of
flame forming rings of flame, as the Senshi of Fire unleashed her
firepower at Robo Sniper. The youma was engulfed in flames.

"Good job!" Crystal Sailor Moon answered as she removed the cape from
around her body. "I will finish you off! Crystal Moon Purity
Enlightenment!" Suddenly, a burst of large crescent moons attacked
Robo Sniper.

"Damn you!" Robo Sniper bellowed as it turned to dust.

"We'll be back Crystal Sailor Moon, you can count on it!" the Dark
Lords declared in unison and vanished.

Sailor Mars walked up to Crystal Sailor Moon, "Are you okay?"

"You had us worried," Luna added in a concerned tone, rubbing up
against Usagi's legs.

"I'm sorry. I am not the kind of person who likes to share my problems
with others. I didn't mean to ignore you..."

Usagi couldn't finish the sentence, so Sailor Jupiter finished for
her, "... dreams have had a profound effect on me..." Usagi was
clearly surprised by this, "We know about your nightmares. Luna told us.
We're sorry, but remember that we are a team," Venus told her in a
soft voice, giving her a hug.

"Gomen Nasai, guys. But I can't burden you anymore with this, I
must deal with it on my own. I must go now. Goodbye." Crystal
Sailor Moon wrapped her cape around herself and vanished from sight.

"Usagi..." Mars cried out, her thoughts swirling around in her head.
She was shocked by the way, Usagi had isolated herself from her
friends as well as her family.

Crystal Sailor Destiny stood nearby watching the situation unfold.
"So, Usagi's condition is worse than I first thought. I must contact
my master and report to him," she said under her breath.

"I think Usagi's changed guys, not just the fact she's gone through
this trauma of dying and returning to life and all, but it is the
metamorphosis. She is not the same Usagi and there's something deeper
and this new power has made a stranger of her almost!" Jupiter said,
sitting on a nearby stone fence as Venus nodded and joined her.

"This means we have to support her in a whole new way, guys," Venus
said, waving the others over and the girls knelt on the grass or
stood nearby. Neptune and Uranus had also been present, watching
the battle unfold.

"The Generals back? But I don't get it, Mamoru, haven't you got any
light you can shed on this?" Uranus asked, as Tuxedo Kamen sighed
and shook his head.

"The stones no longer speak to me, I have them still, but I lost the
connection and they too are changed. I don't get it, any of it,"
he growled, kicking a loose stone that skipped across the ground,
narrowly missing Sailor Crystal Destiny's bare ankle. She winced at
the thought of the impact. The masked warrior in his tuxedo had a
power she barely understood, but felt on some level. He was a
mystery. She stepped back and allowed the Senshi and their guardians
to continue their conversation and she left and a flurry of swirling
leaves and debris.

"I heard something, Uranus," Neptune said, grabbing the other
woman's arm. "There, in the trees, Mercury? Might be a good idea
to scan the area in case those Dark Kingdom losers return!"

But after surveying the area, they hadn't found any dark signatures,
but a gentle burst of positive energy. "Destiny?" Saturn asked,
kneeling beside Mercury.

"I think so," Mercury said, removing her visor and sending the data
to the laptop in Mamoru's apartment to study later.

"Why can't she be more up front?" Mars hissed, shaking her head, "We
need her help on this, and she has powers and knowledge we can use to
defeat these people. We need her more than ever now that the
generals are involved."

Next on Crystal Princess, Warnings of doom come to Usagi in a dream!
The Ice Titan sets another trap to kill her off by capturing her
friends! Can Usagi come to the rescue? Be there!

This episode was completed on: 11/07/2006

CRYSTAL PRINCESS: THE SAGA OF THE CRYSTAL SAILORS is developed
from the original series by The Crystal Knight entitled:
"Crystal Sailors."

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