Thursday, July 20, 2006

Okay, it's a work day again. I'll visit everyone's sites in the evening. Umm, there's really not much I can say today, short of Sailor Thunder did call me yesterday, and seemed much calmer than the night before. I'm leaving you the next chapter here. The first one is here. Sorry, I'm on the run and trying to keep my job! Later!

~Acorn~

PS-Thanks to Mrs. Elric, Ki-chan, Claes, and Dumiel for commenting yesterday!

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Author’s Note

ImperialGuardian: TOLD YOU SO!

Mina: And you could have told Serena! That’s not fair!

ImperialGuardian: I will say nothing further to the blondes, for the sake of plotline.

Mina: Whatever.

ImperialGuardian: I have no rights to Sailor Moon, or TOS, which is the name of the cross that you will fill in at the given time. Anyhow, I hope y’all enjoy!

By the way, today there is a SPOILER WARNING for anyone who hasn’t played TOS and has intent to at any time. Otherwise, don’t worry about it…hehe

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LOOKS CAN BE DECEIVING
Chapter 2: TOS and Prison Break

Serena looked around, and found that she was indeed in a strange place. There were several people staring at her, particularly one who was right in her face (inches, millimeters, literally). A blond girl, with big blue eyes like her own. However, she was slightly shorter. The two were staring at one another in total shock.

“Colette! Get back!” a voice shouted. The two were getting the same feeling. They were similar.

“No Lloyd,” the blue-eyed girl said. “She seems nice.”

“The last time you said that Chosen, the person turned out to be an assassin,” another said.

“Assassin? Where am I?” Serena asked.

“In Izoold,” the blue-eyed girl, Colette, said brightly. “We were just trying to get a ship.”

The group that was with her sighed. Serena looked up to the skies.

“Where in the name of the Moon am I?” she asked. She turned to look at the group now, which consisted of an extremely short boy, a teen, an older man and woman, and Colette before her.

“The moon?” the teen asked. “Do you live on the moon or something?”

“Don’t be so stupid Lloyd,” the boy exclaimed. “She can’t possibly come from the moon.”

“Actually,” Serena started, but the older man was giving her a death stare. “You’re right! I’m not of the moon. I just adore it so much!”

“Really?” Colette asked, smiling too. “See guys? She’s not bad.”

“Even so,” the older woman said, giving Serena a look. “We must be ever careful. The journey of world regeneration is much more dangerous than we originally suspected.”

“World regeneration?” Serena asked. The group stopped in their tracks.

“You don’t know about the journey of world regeneration?” the teenage boy asked.

“Umm,” Serena said, getting more stares.

“It’s a journey to save the world, taken on by the Chosen of Mana. Are you telling me you don’t know anything about this?” the older woman said. Serena gave a look of confusion.

“Miss H never brought it up before.”

“I thought it wasn’t possible for anyone to be more ignorant than Lloyd,” the boy said, as the teen whacked him. “Oww!”

“Something tells me I slept through a really important class,” Serena thought.

“This is fascinating,” the older woman said, looking around Serena with a magnifying lens of some sort. “You have an amazing amount of strength and magical power. And what’s that stone you have there? It’s not made of anything I’ve ever seen.”

“Hey, you’re right,” the teen, probably Lloyd, said. “I’ve never seen that either. It reminds me of diamonds, but it’s not.”

“It kinda looks like my Cruxis Crystal,” Colette said. “The way you have it on your bow like that.”

“It looks nothing like it,” the boy said.

“We’re wasting time here,” the older man finally huffed. Serena watched the group start to leave, and looked around for awhile. Where was she? Wait, those people! She ran right after them (or so she thought), but found that by the time she had found them, they were already on a ship and out of there. Standing on the Izoold dock, she felt like an idiot, a meatball head. She knew something had been weird, but now she knew. They had magical powers of some sort, just like she did. However, she was positive none of them had transformation staffs or Sailor outfits. That girl, Colette, especially. She had to catch up to them. There was a woman by her, who was sighing romantically.

“Aifread,” she whispered.

“Where were they headed? Do you know?” Serena asked, pointing at the disappearing ship in the distance.

“Them? They are heading to Palmacosta, the largest harbor in Sylvarant, and then they’re journeying to Luin to give a letter to my Aifread.”

“Thanks, but umm… which cardinal direction are they headed in?”

“Them? They are heading to Palmacosta, the largest harbor in Sylvarant, and then they’re journeying to Luin to give a letter to my Aifread.”

“Okay,” Serena said, backing away from her. She went over a dock to another boatman, who seemed grumpy beyond all reason. “Excuse me sir, but which cardinal direction is Palmacosta?”

“I don’t know and I don’t care about those people. They were annoying and even had the nerve to ask me to give them a ride across the ocean in these dangerous times!”

“Thank you?” Serena muttered, moving slowly away from the man. She looked around herself now for a better idea of what was going on. Everyone’s movement, if they even moved, seemed repetitive. Her mind, although attempting to focus, drifted back to that group. She had to catch up with them, no matter what…

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Darien was screaming from the pain. Electrical shock isn’t a pretty thing. Neither is everything around you turning to metal and an electrically charged cage. When it finally ended, he regained his composure and looked around. He saw an older man on the outside of the cage. What startled him was that the man had wings! Giant, purple, energy-like wings!

“You are quite the interesting one, like the girls we found. You’ve got your own powers. There is no Exsphere attached to your body, and yet, you’re human. I’d love to know why.”

“Who are you?” Darien grunted.

“I feel no need to introduce myself to an inferior being such as yourself,” the man scoffed.

“Lord Yggdrasill,” another smaller man with angelic wings said, as he was suddenly wiped from existence with the raising of the first man’s hand.

“Fool,” a voice chuckled from above.

“I want him alive,” the man, Yggdrasill, seemed to shout to no one. He turned from Darien.

“Why keep me alive?”

“I think Kvar might be interested in using you for a second Angelus project. I’ll have someone inform him sooner or later.”

Darien scowled some, as he looked around his prison. He could attempt to transform and escape, but there was nowhere for him to go. He didn’t know where he was, anything about who had him, and more importantly, why he kept feeling like Serena was in dire danger somewhere. He listened to the activities outside his cage, and realized that there were none. There was silence, as if nothing were going on around him. It actually disturbed him. He figured he would hear even a faint sound of a cricket, but there was not even that. This place didn’t even seem to be alive…

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Lita looked around at the place, wondering what kind of world she had stepped into. There were angels everywhere! And yet, not one of them seemed living. They all moved at the same pace, they all spoke the same, looked the same. It was eerie. That was when she saw the hunk.

He flew by her without so much as a glance, but in was in his eyes, that she saw a pain that she thought only she had felt. He was alone. He had no family left in this world. She wasn’t sure how she knew, but she could tell. She wanted to follow him, to talk to him, but her instincts told her no. He would only reject her. She hated rejection more than anything, and she wasn’t about to let him do it to her. However, that could not stop her from asking for his name, right?

The first angel that flew by, she stopped.

“What was his name?” Lita asked, as the angel just moved past her. “Rude much?”

There was no answer as the angel went on their way. Lita pushed it aside, as she saw a man with blue hair, staring curiously at her. Then his face contorted into something close to rage.

“PRISON BREAK!” he cried, running for Lita. The angels around her suddenly ran away. She was alone with this man, whoever he was. However, she noted that the hunk had stopped, and turned to see who had escaped. Apparently, as she quickly discovered, she had gotten the hunk’s eye…

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Mina and Amy looked around. Whoever had screamed had been far away. The people that had been posing as their friends had long since left, and now they were left with silence.

“You think we can transform?” Mina asked. The place around them was very quiet, and it was disturbing, if not mind-numbing to the two of them. There was no way that they could be on Earth anymore.

“My computer is still here, and we have our staffs, but I’m not picking up any Negative Energy signatures anywhere.”

“Well, we’re obviously facing a new enemy,” Mina sighed. “Who probably has the others. What do we do?”

“My computer can’t hack into their mainframe to get ourselves out of the cell, and I doubt blasting them will work, because my scanners detect an energy barrier of sorts. We’re trapped here until someone finds us...”

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“Raye?” Trista asked, shaking the raven-haired Sailor Scout awake. “Wake up! Something terrible has happened to the others!”

Raye looked around, and suddenly realized what had happened.

“YUAN! WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU!” she screamed…

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Look at me! I can twirl a cane! WHEE!
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