Another chapter, dears!

Eh… AU, definitely, since it’s a multiverse crossover…

I apologize for using dub names…attacks and such…

Chapter 49 – Rei

 

            I don’t know what my grandfather is thinking, hiring new help here! It’s not that I don’t trust them – there was some instinct that made me want to trust them, and grandfather did say that they were working for good and not evil, but I just feel self-conscious I suppose…

            There’s a young man with grayish hair and glasses, Yukito, he’s quite nice and friendly, and always helpful, although he has no spiritual powers at all. Then there’s his brother Yue, who has long white hair, almost waist-length, and hardly smiles at all. I feel slightly off around him, and he has some type of magic, not spiritual, but almost from the moon. Finally, there’s the boy Syaoran, who’s my age. He has more power than I do, and it frightens me.  What if he got it in his head to… well, all girls fear that. But although he tried to hide his power, I could see it in the sacred fire.

            It’s a lot easier working here with more help though, and so, a few weeks pass normally enough, before the buses start disappearing on this route…

            Personally, I suspect our temporary assistant Jed… we’ve been selling so many more good-luck charms, and I never see those girls again…

            Something’s wrong…

           

            What?

            Oh, I’m so sorry, Usagi! I didn’t mean to… Are you all right?

            I cannot believe I thought she was the enemy but I swear I sensed something… something is wrong…

            Another day. Another bus has disappeared. This cannot go on. They’re saying that our temple is haunted, but we aren’t causing anything!

            Please, sacred fire, help me…

            It’s him…

            “Jed! Who are you really?”

            He laughs and then drags me into this dark place, full of buses and missing girls… and I can’t breathe…!

            Let go of me!

 

            “Freeze!”

            Abruptly, he drops me, and I see… some girl – Sailor Moon, staring, and… Syaoran! What’s he doing here, and Yue and Yukito are with him, and this winged lion…

            Yue has wings? And his clothing has become Chinese-style, in white and blue…

            Yue stands in front of Syaoran, slightly protectively, crystals, razor-sharp, glittering in his fingers…

            The lion roars, and then a gigantic wall of flame shoots towards Jed… I duck, but not in time.

            Still, the fire doesn’t burn me at all! It feels warm…

            It almost feels welcoming… is it holy fire of some kind?

 

            “Moon Tiara Magic!”

            This disk of pure white goes flying towards Jed – whoever he is, and… it turns into a ring around his waist…

            And he screams and vanishes…

 

            “Rei, are you all right?” Syaoran asks, as he runs over. “I…” He breaks off, and I feel my forehead warm…

            So I touch a hand to my forehead, and then there’s this rush of flame around me and the next thing I know, I’m in a red version of Sailor Moon’s scandalous outfit.

            What is this?

 

            “You’re Sailor Mars!” A semi-familiar black cat with a crescent moon on her forehead yells. Isn’t that Usagi’s cat? Then…

            Does that mean that she’s Sailor Moon?

            I’m so confused…

            “He’s not supposed to know.” Luna turns to Syaoran. “Who are you?”

            Syaoran smirks. “Ever heard of Clow Reed, moon cat? I believe he made a few visits to your kingdom.”

            “You’re… Clow Reed?” Luna remembered a man with long hair and spectacles, an immensely powerful magician whose cards rivaled the Silver Crystal…

            Syaoran sweatdropped. “No, I’m his son.”

            “His son!” Luna smiles. “Well, I suppose having you on our side as an ally can’t hurt. Now, how do we get these buses out of here?”

            “Gateway Card.” Syaoran smiles, and the dark hole opens, and we jump through, followed by the buses…

            When did Tuxedo Kamen show up? Well, it matters not…

 

            He drives the buses – well, I only know he’s Tuxedo Kamen because Usagi – I mean Sailor Moon points it out, but it’s fine…

            I do not have a crush on him! He’s not even that handsome.

           

            “So, we meet again.” Luna turns to the winged lion, which has transformed into a tiny winged lion-cub teddy-bear-like shape, but it still radiates magic of fire and earth and light so strongly I’m surprised I never felt it before…

            “Have we met?”

            “Do you forget me so easily, Cerberus?”

            “Mm. I’m not from this world so you probably met another version of me.” Cerberus shrugs. Syaoran hands him a chocolate bar and he forgoes the rest of the conversation.

 

            “I take it that the Dark Kingdom has risen again.” Syaoran says, as Yukito and Yue both look at him searchingly and then look away. In some odd way, those two seem similar, though they don’t look a thing alike…

            I wonder why…

            Yue’s wings are gone again, and the normal white and light blue he wears here at the temple once again replaces his oddly angelic clothes.

            We met up with Ami outside the porthole – she’s Sailor Mercury, and now we are three.

            Apparently there are supposed to be five senshi who protect the Moon Princess… and that’s our eventual goal, to find the moon princess.

            Only she can defeat the Dark Kingdom permanently… how odd… and different… this seems just like a shoujo manga.

            “Yue…”

            Yue looks at Luna coolly. “Yes?”

            “I thought you and Yukito were…”

            “He’s not from the same world I’m from, but we’re both Syaoran-sama’s guardians.” He states coolly. “Cerberus is the same way. My true brother is with Sakura-sama, Syaoran-sama’s younger sister.”

            “Oh…”

            “Yes,” Yukito smiles. “I’m just a priest with a little magic.”

            Well, at least it will be a relief not having to hide my magic powers – and my senshi identity – from Syaoran…

            Usagi doesn’t seem very… how should I put it… reliable? That will work. But it matters not…

            I’ll have Ami to talk to – she seems all right, and Syaoran as well…

            Hopefully this senshi business won’t take too long and then I can go back to my normal life.

 

End Chapter

Completed 6/8/05

Yue: You rush yet again

Phantomness: *sighs* I don’t like SM much… too much Usagi… I hate her

Syaoran: … I sense bad things