Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Sailor Moon AR ❯ Chapter 8

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

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Serena walked down the street carefully hoping
not to attract any attention. It was quiet, peaceful, but
that didn't calm her nerves any. Suddenly a sound
came from behind. She whirled around in surprise..
Standing there was Darien.
"Darien!" She shouted.
"Yes Serena. I'm back," he said and walked
towards her. The two hugged.
This is great...it must be really him. Serena
thought. He's not turning into a fish or something.
"I missed you Serena," Darien said.
"I missed you too," Serena said.
"Then you won't mind that I brought my
brought my friend back with me?"
"No, of course not."
"Okay," Darien said and left the embrace.
"Here he is."
Out of the shadows marched a guy about Darien's age
with a blonde hairdo.
"Ah...so she's the girl you were telling me
about?" the guy asked.
"Yeah," Darien said.
"Hmm....not as plump as I expected."
"What?" Serena shouted.
"Oh...sorry..didn't mean to offend you. I
mean...you have lost weight while Darien's been gone
right? I mean the way he described you I thought you
were at least thirty pounds fatter," the guy said.
"WHAT!" Serena shouted and kicked Darien
in the head. Darien fell to the ground.
"As for you..." she said turning to the new guy.
"Hah....do you really think you can hurt me?"
the guy said with a sly grin.
"Of course I do you jerk!"
"Well...then....you're in for a surprise. Say
hello to a few friends of mine."
The guy stepped aside revealing a pair of tall cakes
sitting on the sidewalk.
"What the?" Serena said. This situation baffled
her.
"You know you want to eat them. They're
chocolate," the guy said in as a persuasive voice as he
could muster.
"Do you honestly think that I'm going to be
distracted by food?" Serena said indignantly.
"Well..no....but that's why I brought the cement
mixer."
"What?"
She heard a strange whistling sound and looked up to
see a cement mixer truck dropping towards her. She
screamed.

Then Serena woke up.
"AHHHHHHH!" She shouted before realizing
her situation.
"That dream was actually scary...I don't think
I'm improving..." She muttered and glanced at her
clock. The alarm was going off.
"Wow..it's actually set for the right time and
I'm up. I can't be late for school today," she said
sporting a brief smile until she realized something else.
"It's Sunday isn't it?" She muttered and
contemplated hitting herself over the head with a mallet.
"Oh well..." she said and climbed out of bed.

The city of Tokyo was once again glowing in
sunlight. Plants were filled with color, birds flew across
the sky and the clouds floated through the blue sky.
Everything was peaceful. Serena despite her troubles
decided it was best to go for a walk. Not much was
happening as it was still early, but that suited her fine.
She didn't really want to talk to anyone. A truck
passed by marked HAM to GO. 24 hours a day-Ham
delivery.
"Whoever needs ham delivered 24 hours a day
is no one I want to know," Serena said.
"Hey Serena," came a strange squeaky voice.
She started and turned to see Melvin standing there.
After bonking him on the head once for good measure
she scowled at him.
"Melvin. When are you going to learn to stop
sneaking up on people!" She shouted.
"Sorry..." he said in between chews of
something he was eating. She noticed under his right
arm was a package marked HAM to GO.
"You had a Ham delivered to your house?"
Serena muttered.
"Yeah...I was up late studying and I needed
one. Not many places would deliver at three AM, but
this place came through."
She bonked him on the head again causing a
piece of ham to go flying out of his mouth and smash
into a nearby tree. It embedded itself in the trunk.
"Hey!" Melvin said. Serena turned and hurried
away.
That felt good. She thought.

In another part of the city was the barn shaped
City Gymnastics Academy. Inside was all the various
equipment a Gymnastics school needed. Vaults,
uneven bars, gym mats.
Mina swung around the uneven bar with a great
amount of speed. She circled around a second time
gathering even more momentum, then at a high point in
the third revolution she let go and flipped forward. As
she planted her feet into the mat she couldn't help but
smile in triumph.
"Good one Mina," he coach said standing
beside the uneven bars. "You've been at this for a few
hours now. I think you're ready. Just be at the arena
at four."
"Right coach. I'll be there," Mina said. The
coach walked off. Mina headed to her gym bag and
began to clean up her various equipment.
"Looks like we've got a new champ," Mike
said walking up next to her.
"Hmm...I wish that we're true. I hear Iria
Romanova is even better this year," Mina said putting a
pair of sneakers on.
"Well if Romanova's so sure she's going to win,
how come she was in the audience for the past three
hours scouting you."
"I didn't even see her. Are you sure?" Mina
said in disbelief as she put on skirt and a T-shirt over
her leotard.
"Yeah. I'm sure. I guess I'm not the only one
crazy enough to get up at 6 AM just to watch you
practice," Mike answered.
"Romanova's not crazy. She's just
committed," Mina said.
"Oh...well...I'm the only crazy one then. I get a
lot of that," Mike said. "I mean heck, we haven't even
gone out on a date yet and here I am. I must be
insane."
"I'll believe it," Mina said with a grin. "Still,"
she said frowning again. "I've competed against
Romanova in ten different competitions and she's
beaten me every time. It seems nothing I ever do is
good enough to beat her."
"Look at it this way. This stuff you do is hard.
You should feel good just that you can do it. It doesn't
matter how many medals you win," Mike said. "Well
at least not to me anyway."
"That's kind of you, but I want to win," Mina
said.
"Then you have to try. Still...I was so happy
the day I just did a back handspring, in fact I never
learned anything else," Mike said. "I thought I'd quit
while I was ahead."
"Back handspring. I think I learned that when I
was six," Mina said.
"Whoopdie doo," Mike said with fake apathy.
"You're jealous. I can tell," Mina said teasingly.
"I am not. Besides, I may only be able to a
back handspring, but I can do it just as well as anyone
out there today," Mike said.
"Really?" Mina said skeptically.
"I get air too," Mike said.
"You get what?"
"Elevation. Distance too, let me show you."
"All right."
Mike lined himself up with the mats behind him and
jumped backward flipped onto his hands and then a
second later propelled himself further backwards
landing on his feet again perfectly.
"That is impressive," Mina said. "You did go
very high and your form was perfect. Of course when I
do it I add a flip to it in the end," she said proudly.
"You sound like Raye," Mike said.
"Take that back!" Mina said and smacked him
across the face. She then realized how rash she had
been.
"Whoops, sorry," she added.
"Uh...yeah," Mike said rubbing his cheek. "I
guess those Raye jokes don't go over well. Still...at
least I'm getting slapped by women now."
. "I don't even want to know. Come on let's get
some breakfast," Mina said.

Several blocks away in Steve's garage.
"Pliers," Steve said.
"Pliers," Rick said handing the tool to him.
"Screwdriver."
"Screwdriver."
"Battery."
"Battery."
"Aladdin's magic lamp."
"Aladdin's...what?" Rick said stopping.
"Oh...come on it's right here," Steve said
picking an immaculately decorated oil lamp off of a
shelf. He placed it on the table next to him. Rick's eyes
widened.
"Oh...you didn't think I had one of these did
you?" Steve asked.
"No...most people don't," Rick said.
"Now I'll call the genie."
"You'll what?" Rick muttered skeptically.
"Watch," Steve said. He rubbed the lamp. A
few seconds later red smoke began to pour out of it.
"This is disturbing," Rick said. He had reached
a point of utter confusion.
"Three, two, one," Steve muttered under his
breath and ducked. The lamp exploded showering
Rick with red clay.
"Ahh..geez...the genie spontaneously
combusted," Steve emerged from the floor saying.
Rick grinned.
"Yeah...that's funny," he said and kicked Steve
in the groin. Steve fell to the ground and moaned.
"Are we interrupting anything?" Raye asked.
Rick whirled around to see her and Lita standing there.
"Oh...hi," Rick said in one of his few moments
of embarrassment.
"Hmm...Steve's writhing in pain on the ground
and you're covered in red gunk. Is there something we
should know?" Lita asked.
"Ehh....." Rick muttered.
"How's it going?" Steve wheezed.

Coardite stood in his cavern starring at a
projection of the city of Tokyo. A creature walked in
and stood in front of him.
"You wanted to see us Coardite," the creature
said.
"Yeah, you wanted see us," Another voice said
emanating from the creature.
"I don't think he wanted to see you," a third
voice said.
"Cut it out," a fourth voice said.
"You're very annoying, Juterio. However,
you're also the best minion, ahem.. minions I have
suited for this mission," Coardite said.
"Which is?" The first voice asked.
"Humans have to eat to survive...." Coardite
began.
"Do we get to eat humans?" The third voice
asked.
"Shut up," the fourth voice said.
"Be quiet!" Coardite yelled.
"Sorry," the four voices said.
"Now, many humans eat at these places,
restaurants," Coardite continued. As he talked
projections of restaurants appeared behind him.

"You're job is to take over one of these
restaurants. When the human's come in wait for the
place to be filled then steal all of their energy. Then
hide your victims and do it again. Understand?"
"Yes," the first voice said.
"Sure," the second voice said.
"You never understand these plans," the third
voice muttered.
"I do to," the second voice said.
"What? You wanna fight?" the third voice
replied.
"Anytime pal," the second said.
"Oh will you two cut it out," the fourth voice
muttered.
"Shut up! All of you," Coardite said.
"When your on the mission, do not reveal
yourselves though unless you are attacked by the Sailor
Scouts! Got it?"
"Yes," the first voice said.
"YES," the second said.
"Yeah, right," the third said.
"One of these days," the second said.
"Hmm....can't you two get along?" the fourth
asked.
"Stay out of this or I'll beat you to a pulp too,"
the second voice said.
"You and who's body," The third said.
"For the last time, Shut up!" Coardite yelled.
"Now, there is one last thing. If by chance you see any
of these girls," Coardite said and a projection of Lita,
Mina, and Serena appeared in the air.
"I want you to as covertly as possible eliminate
them immediately."
"Yes sir," the first voice said.
"You got it," the second voice said.
"I soon will be feasting on human brains," the
third said.
"Let's go," the fourth said as Juterio walked out.
"I hate those multiple personality creatures,"
Coardite muttered.

That night, Lita had had no luck trying to find
Steve and was left to wander the now darkening streets
of the city. She still limped with her wound slowly
healing and that slowed her down somewhat. Still
eventually she peeked inside the arcade. The place
was filled with people playing the various games.
"Lita?" Came a voice behind her. She spun
around so fast that she tripped and fell on her face.
Luckily her leg sustained no damage.
"Are you all right?" Andrew said hurrying to her
side. "I'm sorry to have startled you."
"it's all right," Lita said blushing.
"You sure?" Andrew said helping her up.
"Of course I am," Lita replied. "But thanks for
asking."
"That's good."
"So whatcha doing?" she asked.
"Nothing really. I got off work an hour ago and
have been looking for some excitement."
"Really? So have I. Maybe we can find some
together."
"Sure. Why not," Andrew said.
Yes! Lita thought. it didn't matter to her that
Andrew had a girlfriend. it didn't matter to her that she
had a boyfriend. The time spent with him was just for
fun.
"So how's your girlfriend doing?" Lita asked as
the two walked down the street.
"Oh, she'll be in Africa for another year or so.
I really miss her, but I'm glad she's enjoying herself over
there," Andrew said.
"Me too," Lita said flirtingly.
"Something happened to your leg?"
"Sports injury," Lita said.

"I wonder where Mike is," Mina asked herself
as she walked down the street. After her gymnastic
class she had hoped to find her boyfriend who had
since disappeared, but so far she had no luck.
Boy I was lucky to find him. He seems perfect
for me, as long as his sister isn't around. I wonder what
he does for hobbies. He didn't really say. Aside from
tell jokes, there must be more to him then that. There'd
better be. I mean after today's little debacle, he
embarrassed me, but that can't be all there is too him.
She saw Lita walking towards her.
"Hey Lita!" She yelled. Lita noticed her and
hurried over.
"What have you been up to?" Mina asked.
"I was just spending some time talking to
Andrew. Of course now that I've found someone more
accessibe I can stop flirting with him at least."
"That's good."
"I wish I knew where Steve was though. I'd
sorta like to get to know him better."
"Yeah...I've been wishing Mike would show up
myself."
"I wonder what those two do at home."
"I was wondering that myself."

"This won't work," Mike said.
"Sure it will," Steve said.
"I don't think so."
"Trust me."
"Famous last words."
"Listen..all we've done is taken a remote
control helicopter and stuck a small stink bomb on it."
"That's not a good thing."
"Not for our enemies it isn't. Just watch."
"Mind if I take cover?"
"Wimp," Steve said. Their remote control
chopper lifted off the ground with it's small payload. it
hovered above the ground at about ten feet.
"Now..I use the rewiring job I did to set off the
bomb," Steve said and pressed a button on his control.
The helicopter exploded in a fireball and
crashed to the ground.
"Oh...the humanity...." Mike muttered as the
stink filled their noses.

"We're going out for dinner?" Serena asked.
"Yes Serena," her mother said. "After you did
so well on that test we had to reward you. We thought
we'd take you to that place you liked.
"Oh, thank you," Serena said joyfully. Things
were beginning to look up.

Later that night.
Serena, her father, mother, and brother
Sammy, had arrived at the family restaurant a little past
six o'clock that night.
"So what are you ordering?" her father said
after they had taken their seat.
"The biggest thing on the menu," Serena
replied.
"Go ahead Serena we don't do this that often,"
her mother said.
"Yeah, get fat," her brother whispered to her.
"Sammy...would you like to have a nice little
bump on your head?" she whispered back. Before he
could respond, her father broke into small talk.
"You know what though Serena. If you really
try, I think you can pull those grades up. it's just a
matter of you putting your intelligence to use. After all
it's in your genes to be smart. I mean after all I am your
father."
"Ahem your not the only one who passed genes
on to her," her mother said.
"Well..I guess you did some of the work," her
father said in jest.
"Some of the work?" her mother said a bit
angrily.
"Just kidding, just kidding," her father replied.
Serena and Sammy just glanced at each other,
embarrassed by their parents. They ordered and were
given their food a few minutes later. They all dug in and
a half hour later, her family had finished. She still had a
pile of food in front of her.
"Wow, this is great," she said and continued.
"Haven't you had enough Serena?" her father
groaned.
"No, I'm a growing girl," Serena said.
"I bet your waist grew tonight," Sammy
muttered.
"Quiet you," Serena said.
"Excuse me, but would you like some
complementary desert," a waiter said appearing next to
the table.
"Complementary? You mean free?" her father
asked.
"Yes," The waiter said.
"Sure," the father said.
"Me too," her mother said.
"Count me in," Sammy said.
"Oh...I've still got so much to eat, no...I won't
have any," Serena said.
"Are you sure, it's very good," The waiter said.
"No...that's all right," Serena said.
"As you wish," The waiter said.
"In fact..I think I have to go the bathroom,"
Serena said and headed off to restroom. it was at that
very moment that Juterio noticed her out of the corner
of his eye of one of his faces.
"Hmm...change of plans. Time to drain their
energy and bag Sailor Moon," he said.

Serena finished using the facilities and was
about to leave the restroom when she heard several
screams as the restaurants customers were being
drained off all their energy.
The door to bathroom blew open. She whirled
around. Juterio was standing there.
"Oh no!" Serena yelled.
"Hello Sailor Moon. I guess you don't have
any snappy speeches for me tonight do you," Juterio
said.
"Heh heh, yeah...looks like you're going to get
your little face smashed in," the second voice said.
"Among other things," the fourth voice added.
"Then your brains are mine," the third voice
said.
"Will you stop it with the brains stuff. it's been
done," the second voice said.
"You just try and make me," the third voice
said.
"Never mind that, we have Sailor Moon
cornered remember?" the first voice said.
"Ah..yes," the other three voices said and
suddenly all four of them began to laugh.
Serena backed up, right into the wall.
"Nowhere to go," Juterio said.
The anxiety built up within her, Serena didn't
know what to do until noticed the powdered soap
dispenser was right next to her. She made a split
decision and ripped it off the wall, it wasn't held onto it
very sturdily. A second later threw it at Juterio, it
exploded at impact all over him, several of the particles
landed in his various eyes.
"Agh! You little...agh!" his four faces yelled.
Serena knocked him out of the way by him. She raced
out of the bathroom and out the door of the restaurant.
Juterio emerged from the bathroom angrily.
As she ran the fear began to subside and the
anger built. In her state of mind she forgot about calling
her friends for help.
I've got to transform and destroy this thing once and
for all. it's time to fight!
She ducked down behind a bush in case any
bystanders were watching.
"MOON CRYSTAL POWER!" She
screamed and her transformation began. Her top and
bow materializing on her chest, her boots wrapping
themselves around her legs and coalescing into matter,
her skirt swirling as it appeared around her waist and
her tiara coming together on her forehead, and then it
was done. She stood up and prepared to face the
advancing Juterio. A multicolored stream of energy
flying through the air interrupted that thought as the
warrior appeared out of the night and stood between
her and Juterio.
"You....what a surprise," Juterio's first voice
said.
"Hah," the second voice said.
"Your brains will be most satisfying," The third
voice said.
"This is not a challenge," The fourth voice said..
"Hmm...you call that a sword," the first voice
said and the other three began to laugh.
Suddenly in the minion's hand a sword appeared flying
out into the sky, it was at least twenty feet tall , a blade
of pure black energy.
"Now, let's fight," the first voice said. The
other three voices agreed quickly.
The warrior instantly shot a blast of energy
from his sword so quickly that Juterio just barely
blocked it.
"You're going to regret that!" The four voices
said in unison and swung their sword. it was so long
that Sailor Moon, still standing behind the bush even
had to jump out of the way. The warrior meanwhile
rolled to the right of the attack as the blade hit the
ground and cut through the pavement. He came up
shooting and shot a blast right into Juterio's chest. The
creature let out a cry of agony and staggered back,
only to recover and advance again.
"Stand aside uh..whoever you are," Came
Sailor Moon's voice assertively. Juterio paused to
await the next move of his opponents.
"What?" Juterio asked.
"I said stand aside," Sailor Moon said. "it's
time for me to take care of this trash."
She advanced ahead of the warrior and stared
down Juterio.
"Okay," he replied said confused and jumped
away.
"Now you're going to pay!" Sailor Moon
shouted. "You and the rest of your negaverse garbage
have hurt so many people! You almost took my love
away from me! You almost killed my friends, and now
you come back and try to do the same! You spent this
week trying and failing to take over this city. You are
scum and I've had enough of it. I've got better things to
do then fight you jerks, I am Sailor Moon Champion of
Justice. I will right wrongs and triumph over evil, and
on behalf of the Moon, my friends, the people of Earth
I will punish you!"
She yelled with such anger and force that even
the arrogant Juterio stepped back a minute.
"She's mad," the second voice said.
"I'd say so," the fourth agreed.
"So what? Let's get her," the third voice said.

Juterio swung his sword at her, she leapt into
the air and feeling the powers within her flipped
forward, her uniform, changing color from red and blue
to orange, as she used Venus's aura. She then flew
forward, turning red and lined up a kick with Juterio's
head. Juterio was so stunned by her offense that he
couldn't react and was plowed into the ground. Sailor
Moon flipped backwards a couple of times carefully
and landed. Juterio growled and stood up, his sword
retracted, and instead he fired at her with several bolts
of energy. Sailor Moon jumped out of the way again
and cartwheeled along the ground away from the
attacks. She came up and struck first, turning green as
she did. She punched Juterio in his third face with such
force that the creature was knocked to the ground
again.
"Insolent girl!" the first voice yelled.
"You will feel the ultimate pain now," the
second voice said.
"Bring it on," Sailor Moon yelled contemplating
an idea using Mercury's aura. Juterio let another
barrage fly. This one was harder to avoid, but Sailor
Moon managed to duck. She pulled her tiara off.
"Moon tiara magic!" She yelled and threw it.
Juterio readied himself, but not for long as it flew
around him and came back to her.
"You missed," Juterio said not realizing what a
cliche that term was. Suddenly two nearby street
lamps fell inward, their poles weakened by well placed
tiara hits and they crashed on top of the creature,
smashing in his second face.
"Impressive," the warrior said observing
everything.
Juterio staggered up in a rage. Sailor Moon charged at
him, turning green as she did so, she hit him with a left,
a right, and then a combination finishing it up with a
powerful uppercut which pushed Juterio into a wall.
The heroine flipped backwards again and pulled out her
scepter.
"Moon Scepter Elimination!" she cried and
Juterio began to cry out in pain, unleashing a final attack
as he died. The attack missed her, but caught the
rarely surprised the warrior off guard and hit the tree
branch he was perched on and the mystery hero
crashed to the ground. Sailor Moon glanced over to
see him picking himself up and cursing angrily.
"You all right?" She asked.
"Uh...sure," he muttered.
"What's the deal with you anyway? Who are
you?"
"I never really came up with a name."
"How about Maverick?"
"Maverick?"
"Sure, I think it suits you."
"All right."
"Who are you? Why do you do this?"
"It's a sad story, and I doubt you'd care,"
Maverick said and stood up and walked away. Only
to turn back suddenly.
"Don't worry, he still loves you," he said.
"What?" Sailor Moon said in shock. "How do
you know?"
"Can't say, but it's true," Maverick said and
hurried into the dark.
"Well....this has been one heck of a night,"
Sailor Moon muttered. "Where is everyone else? Oh
that's right. I never called them," She said and began
to laugh at herself.