*********************************************************************** *************** Hi! Okay, before I start anything, I have to tell you all that Sailor Moon does not belong to Kodansha! I'm not sure who it belongs to, but not them, or me for that matter. And, I wrote this a couple months ago and haven't posted it just cuz I'm lazy! Bad SoJ! Bad, Bad SoJ! -The SoJ P.S. And, I don't own Tenchi Muyo either. Who knew? *********************************************************************** *************** "'Tis a far, far better thing that I do now, than I have ever done before. 'Tis a far, far better rest that I go to now, than I have ever known," read Lita. Amy and Mina clapped. "That was really good Lita! And it was really nice of you to read it for Serena who wasn't even listening!" said Mina. The others laughed and looked at their ditzy blonde friend. She was reading a Sailor V comic book. Amy tapped her shoulder. "Huh? What?" Serena said, coming out of her trance. The others laughed again. Suddenly, there was a knock at the door. Lita opened it. "Hi Darien!" she said. "Hey, is my Princess here?" he smiled. "Yes! Yes! I'm here!" Serena cried. She jumped into Darien's arms and kissed him. "I'll see you guys later! We're going out for dinner tonight. Ta-ta!" Serena and Darien walked out the door. The rest of the girls just stared. "Hey, Raye? What's up? You've been too quiet recently," asked Amy. But Raye didn't answer. She was kneeling on the floor staring into space. She was having a vision. No one knew it at that moment, but far away, in a rural area of Japan, a certain black-haired, brown- eyed boy was having the same vision. *********************************************************************** *************** Tenchi was in some sort of spaceship-palace thing. He knew he had to find Aeka, Ryoko, and Washu. He noticed a girl a few years younger that him on the floor. She appeared to be in a deep sleep. She was also very pretty. Tenchi knelt to her. "Stop!" cried a voice. Seven girls rushed up behind him. A tall, aqua-haired one said, "Get away from her!" "I was just-" Tenchi started but then a man and woman appeared. He recognized the man as Kagato, but the woman was unfamiliar. The woman pulled out a dagger made out of black crystal. Tenchi found he couldn't move. The woman moved toward him, then he felt an intense pain in his chest. The woman and Kagato started laughing. Tenchi blinked. He wasn't on the strange spaceship. He was in the garden, harvesting carrots for Ryo-Ohki. But the vision was scary. Tenchi shook the feeling off. Kagato was dead, and he'd never seen the girls in his vision before. Tenchi went back to work, but to him it seemed a little colder. *********************************************************************** *************** Raye opened her eyes. She was lying on her bed, and her friends and Darien were sitting next to her. "Raye! Thank goodness! We thought you had a concussion or something," Serena cried. "You don't, do you?" "No. I was having a strange vision. I guess it just took everything out of me," Raye murmured. She described the strange spaceship and the boy. "That's really weird, Raye, because I just had a dream like that," said Amy. "Hey, me too!" exclaimed Mina. As it turned out, all of the Sailor Scouts had had the odd dream. It was always the same, with Raye laying on the floor, and the strange, dark-eyed boy, and the man and woman who were laughing hysterically. All of a sudden, Lita's communicator started bleeping. It was Luna. "Scouts, major discovery! Meet the Outer Planet Scouts in the park," she reported, and her voice fizzled out. "Let's go guys!" shouted Serena. Raye got out of bed, and swayed. Darien caught her. "Are you sure you're up to this Raye? Maybe you should stay in bed," he suggested. "No, I'm fine thanks," replied Raye. Darien shrugged and the two of them walked out of the temple. *********************************************************************** *************** At the park, everyone transformed. "Now, let's get down to business," said Luna. "As it seems, when we defeated the Negamoon family, there was one member who escaped. It was a woman, the half- sister of Prince Diamond. Her name is Lady Obsidia. Now, it seems she has raised the ghost of a very powerful man who tried to destroy earth. We do not know who he is, just that he is the cousin of lady Obsidia." "We found out more by ourselves," explained Haruka. "It seems that they are going to destroy the world, but first they want to attack a location in the mountains of Japan." "Why?" asked Serena. "We're not sure why, but we do know that they want to kill someone, although we don't know who," said Michiru. "So, what are we going to do?" asked Mina. "You will have to go to the mountains, find the person they want to kill, and defeat Lady Obsidia and her accomplice," instructed Artemis. "When do we leave?" asked Darien. Luna gulped and jumped into his lap. "Darien, I'm sorry, but you will have to stay in Tokyo. The scouts need to stay as inconspicuous as possible, and that means that only they can go," she said softly. "No!" screamed Serena and clung to Darien tightly. "Serena, you know Luna's right. I have to stay here. But a day won't go by that I won't think of you," Darien kissed her. Serena gulped. "You scouts go home and tell your parents that you'll be gone for a few weeks. Setsuna, tell Rini and Hotaru. And Serena, I truly am sorry. Not even we can go," said Artemis. Darien's eyes hardened. "No. If I can't go to protect Serena, you, Artemis, and Diana will have to," he said. He kissed Serena again and held her in his arms. Raye watched, then turned and headed for home, wishing with all her heart that someone would hold her like that too.