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        Hi again!  This is Chapter 3 of "Ancient History."  I have decided
to put this part into the present time (I did warn of this in the
prologue).  I sorry if this confuses anyone, but for the rest of the fic I
will be hopping into my time machine and taking the story back and forth to
see both what happened in the Silver Millenium and what is happening now.
I will use the N/A Sailor Moon versions for all of their names except that
Serena is still Princess Serenity (not Princess Serena) and Darien is still
Prince Endymion (not Prince Darien.)  Also I have Serena being 14 years old
and Darien being 18 just for the sake of propriety.  One more thing, when I
say, "senshi" I could also be talking about Tuxedo Mask because I just take
the word for the meaning: soldier or warrior, and not just pertaining to
the Sailor Senshi.  'kay?
        Thank you to all of the people who have written to me commenting
the story thus far *I feel so special.*  A special thanx to Lianne for all
of her wonderous niceness and incredible writing.
        So here is chapter 3! ^_^
        -Sailor Charon



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        The afternoon sun shined brightly over Tokyo.  A gentle breeze came
from over the ocean to travel through the city.  The breeze passed over a
cram school where a young genius sat at a computer studiouly working.  It
wandered over to the dojo where a tall burnett was sparring with a girl
with long blond hair.  It circled around and breezed over to a Sinto Shrine
where a girl with raven hair knelt before a fire.  And the same cool wind
rustled the flowers on the bank of a lake where two teenagers sat in a
small boat, drifting on the tide.
        "Oh Darien, isn't it a lovely day?"  Serena, couldn't resist the
chance to behave elegantly and gracefully in the spring weather.  She
attempted to puncuate her words carefully and precicely, as she had in her
former existence, but really only came across as sounding moderately silly.
To Darien however, Serena was absolutely adorable.
        "Yeah, it sure is great," the young man replied to Serena's
statement.  He looked across the lake, the sky reflecting off if to give it
a very light blue tint, and reflected on the past few weeks.  The senshi
had been spared from any serious fighting with the defeat of the Dark Moon
family, Reenie had gone back to the future to be with her parents, and all
was pretty much right in the world.  Darien had never been so content in
his life.  Growing up an orphan, finding out he was one thousand years old
and had died a millenium ago, being brainwashed by an evil queen, dying
again, being revived again, losing all memory, recovering it, breaking up
with his one true love, getting back together with her, overcomming
terrible nightmares that it so happened he had sent *himself*  from the
future and meeting his future daughter had a way of making one's life
*interesting*.  Now however, his princess loved him and his life was
youma-free for once.
        Serena sat across from Darien in the canoe and gazed happily aound
her.  The air was clean and fresh, the lake beautiful, and her life was
perfect.  Serena had never been so happy, and she sighed and leaned back in
her seat, closing her eyes.  The breeze stopped suddenly, and Serena did
notice this, but kept her eyes closed blissfully.  She didn't open them
until she sensed a shadow pass over her, darkening the surrounding light.
She looked up to see Darien frowning into the sky.  She followed his gaze
and sat up abruptly.
        Above them in the say a lone cloud seemed to have wandered right
over to them.  The cloud was an ugly black and flashes of  green lightning
illuminated it every now and then.  It was a very small cloud, about the
size of a car, and it hovered about twenty feet above the couple.
        "Ack!!!!! What IS that?" Serena's voice went up two octives in
fear.  She lept into Darien's arms as the green lightling began to coalesce
in a focal point in front of the could.  Suddenly, a green beam of energy
flew out at the two in the boat.  Darien grabbed Serena and leapt out of
the boat just as the light hit.  The boat was obliterated in a matter of
moments.  Serena and Darien were swimming as quickly as they could for the
shore.
        Serena gasped as water filled her nose and ears.  She swallowed
some as her flailing arms created small waves that crashed against her
face.  She tried desperately to swim more quickly than she ever had before,
but her clothes were soaked and weighing her down.  She risked a glance
over her shoulder and saw the menacing cloud preparing to fire again.
Serena pulled out her wristwatch communicator, but in the churning waters,
she fumbled it and it began to slowly sink.  Darien's long arm reached out
and snared it, and he brought it back up to the surface while still
swimming toward the bank.  He handed it to Serena who keyed the distress
key, calling for the Sailor Senshi.
        They finally reached the bank of the lake, and whirled around to
look at the cloud that by now both reallized was a negaverse weapon of some
kind.  "This isn't right.  With how long it took us to get here, that cloud
would have had pleanty of time to shoot us.  Even if it missed and hit the
water, we would have been electrocuted.  It's toying with us."  Darien's
eyes narrowed to sapphire slits even as he voiced this realization.
        "Who could this be now?  We killed all the nega-sludge!"  Serena
couldn't even wail in despare, only look at the could with terror drawn all
over her face.


That is, until the other Sailor Senshi arrived.


        "Hold it!!"  The loud command from Sailor Mars was followed by a
quick volley of fire thrown at the cloud.  The obsidian mass of evil
absorbed the attace and grew in size, beginning to rotate.  The other
senshi gathered around Mars and Sailor Moon transformed as did Tuxedo Mask.
The group looked on in stark wonder at what this *thing* could be before
all of them attacked simultaniously.
        Again, the cloud absorbed the attacks, the fire rings, shimmering
snow, compressed lightning, chain of gold, roses, and pure white energy all
serving only to feed the ominous evil now hovering in front of them.
        The cloud lengthened and spun faster and faster, beginning to
dissipate as it swirled.  Sailor Moon gasped out loud and Tuxedo Mask put a
protective arm in front of her, readying more roses.  As the cloud
dissipated, a figure began to emerge inside it, the dark smokey substance
spinning around the entiry like a vapor shroud.
        The cloud disappeared completely and the scouts stood looking up at
a human-looking male wearing a suit of armor that was totally black.  The
man had brown hair that reached halfway down his neck and his eyes were
black as a starless night sky.  The man looked down at the gathered
warriors of good and smiled.  It was the kind of smile that made the skin
crawl on even the strongest of them.
        "Greetings, Sailor Senshi and Tuxedo Mask.  I am only here to
introduce myself."  The man had a condesending, oily characteristic in his
voice.  "I am your destroyer.  Do not look so frightened, young ones.  I
will not kill you . . . yet.  Just know that I will accomplish my goal
here, so it is really of no use to attempt to defy me.  I know *all* about
you.  Lita Kino, Raye Hino, Ami Mizuno, Mina Aino, Serena Tsukino and
Darien Chiba, you have a choice.  Either join me in the nega-verse . . . or
die."
        "Oh really."  Sailor Jupiter's voice was extremely sarcastic, but
wavered a little.  She felt extremely unsure of herself since this new
enemy knew who all of the senshi were in civilian form.  This was not
looking good.  Jupiter put on a stern face and responded.  "All of you
nega-trash say you'll get us.  But you never do.  We are the Sailor Senshi!
Will will destroy you!  Right Sailor Moon?"  Jupiter looked over to her
leader.
        "Right!!  Prepare to be dusted, Nega-creep!"  Sailor Moon was for
once determined, despite being rattled by how much this enemy knew.
        "Just who are you?"  A quiet voice spoke up as Mercury attempted to
make sense of what was happening.
        The warrior of the negaverse looked over to Mercury.  "I am your
worst nightmare.  I *do* remember all of you.  Weak, pathetic excuses for
warriors.  I will succeed.  Just to quence your curiosity however, my name
is Prince Epsilon.  Goodbye for now."  And the man disappeared.
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-Sailor Charon