Saga of the Eclipsed Moon Part One
Bishojo Senshi Sailormoon Eclipse
Episode Three-"The Threat of the Eclipsed Moon, Hikaru's Anger"

Usagi ran from the girls who had not so long ago been her best friends, away from the girl who had turned them all away from her. She ran, and ran, not wanting to have to stop...
But she did stop, and trembling, she slipped into a phone booth. Trying not to cry, she picked up the receiver, and slipped the coins in. She dialed the number, unsure, then pressed the receiver to her face. "Moshi moshi, Tenoh-Kaioh residence." She heard a cheerful voice cry. **It's Hotaru-chan.**
"Hotaru-chan..." she whispered, her voice choaked with tears she tried not to cry.
"Na-nani?! Usagi-chan?! Daijobu ka?!(Are you all right?!)"
"Hotaru-chan... She turned them all against me, Rei-chan... They all hate me now!" She sobbed, and somehow heard Hotaru's soft voice.
"Don't worry, just tell me where you are, and Haruka-papa will come get you."

"She said what?!" Haruka practically demanded, and Hotaru replied softly.
"You heard what I said. She said someone turned the Inner Senshi against her."
"This is serious..." Michiru murmured, and Haruka nodded.
"Let's go get her..." She said, and the two other girls nodded in agreement.
"We need to get this sorted out." Michiru said, as they left.

Selene grinned in pure delight, **Finally, I'm not alone!** Holding onto Mamoru's arm, surrounded by her Senshi once again... **I've waited so long, so very long for this!**

Usagi slipped to her knees, sobbing. She couldn't understand what was going on, she was lost. **Who is this Hikaru?! What did she do to my friends?! To Mamo-chan?!** She pounded her fist on the glass of the phone booth. "Why does this always happen to me?!"
"Usagi-chan, daijobu ka?" She heard a soft voice ask, and she looked up. It was Naru, she hadn't seen Naru in such a long time...
Usagi shook her head, though she knew she couldn't tell the TRUE truth. "My friends and I got in a big fight..."
Naru nodded, "Oh, weird though. I just saw you and them, with Mamoru-san a few minutes ago."
Usagi held in her sob, "It happened real sudden..." Naru knelt beside her,
"It'll be all right, Usagi-chan."
**Will it?** Usagi asked herself. **Will it really?**

"So, she thinks that she is safe from me..." A cold, yet chiming voice declared. "She should have learned... That she will never be safe from I. I will have my revenge... She will pay for what she did to ME..." A figure coalesced from the darkness, moon-pale featues gazing out of a delicate face. Midnight blue eyes narrowed, and the symbol on her forehead, an eclipsed moon, flared with darkness. "She WILL pay!" Suddenly, her features softened, "Oh sister, why have I lost you?"

"Minna," Rei cried, "this is going to be a great movie!"
Minako nodded eagerly, "Hai! I love romances!"
"We know Minako-chan, that's why we're seeing it!" Ami grinned. Hikaru/Selene sighed in contentment, **Finally I have everything that I lost back... I don't have to be alone anymore.**
"Are you all right?" She heard a warm voice ask, and she looked up at Mamoru, her precious, precious Mamoru.
"Hai. Just thinking... "
"About what?" He asked, his eyes twinkling.
"About everything... Especially how happy I am."
"I'm glad you're happy, it makes ME happy."
She smiled, "I love when you say that..."
Suddenly, a voice of ice, but not evil, cut in, "I've come for you, betrayer!" Selene's eyes widened, then narrowed, as though another was taking control of her. A malignent force, one of pure evil itself...
"What are YOU doing here?!" She demanded, her voice a hiss.
"You know I'll follow you to the ends of the Earth! To dimensions no one has seen before! You betrayed me, everyone! You killed her! You used them!"
"What do you mean?!" She cried to the air, the invisible taunter. "You are the one who turned agaist our kingdom, our mother! You killed so many, you're kingdom destroyed my dreams!"
"Me?! You left me, if you had been there for me, I WOULDN'T BE HERE NOW! That damned mirror blinded you to what was really going on?!"
Almost unconsciously, Selene's hand went to her mirror, and she brought it out of her bag. "You don't have to bring the mirror into this!"
"But IT caused the destruction, please, Sister, listen to me!" A figure appeared, a girl who was small and delicate, a child to all appearances. Her jet black hair was in two odango, and a veritable waterfall of hair fell behind her to her ankles. She wore a white gown trimmed with black, and held her hands out to Selene. "Please, sister..."
"NEVER! You killed our mother!" Selene cried, and the girl shook her head viciously.
"No!" The girl cried, the ice gone from her voice. "Mother died because of Lucifera! She killed mother, NOT me..."
"And you did nothing to stop her, did you. And then you killed my Senshi, each and everyone of them! Don't try to deny it! I SAW YOU!"
"You KNOW that's not true! Why are you letting the mirror control you?!" The girl pleaded with Selene.
"ENOUGH!" Selene bellowed, leveling the flat black surface of the mirror at the girl. "You die now, Hecate, you die for all the desturction you have caused!" Black light shot at Hecate, the girl, who calmly lifted her hand, and shook her head.
"You are blinded..." She said sadly, then lifted her gaze to meet her sisters. "I may be of the Eclipsed Moon..." She said strongly, "but I can still see the light that Mother stood for!" The darkness closed the gap to her, and hit a shell of white light, which scattered the black energy. Selene's eyes widened in disbelief,
"You have the Crystal! No way!" Her voice was filled with disbelief.
"Yes, I do. And as long as you hold the mirror..." She faded away, but her voice lingered, "I will fight you with all the power I have."

"Usagi-chan!" Michiru cried, picking the girl up from the phone booth, where she had cried herself to sleep.
"She really meant what she said..." Hotaru murmured, as Haruka helped get Usagi into the backseat of their car.
"Hai... Now, let's get her back to the house, then we can find out what's going on."

Selene closed her fists into angry balls, seething with anger beyond even rage. "HOW DARE SHE!" The Senshi, HER Senshi, stood around her, and Mamoru was at herside. They were all listless, without life, as though her anger kept them from acting... kept HER from controlling them. "She say's it's my fault?! How dare she?! She killed them all, she DID! And she will PAY!"

Haruka glanced out of the car, as they sped to their house, when she saw a strange sight indeed. A girl, Usagi for all accounts, ranting and raving, the Inner Senshi and Mamoru standing motionless around her. She pulled over quickly, and was out of the car as Michiru asked, "What's wrong, Haruka?"
Haruka replied, "I think I see our problem!" Michiru got out of the car, as she saud to Hotaru,
"Stay and keep an eye on Usagi-chan." Hotaru nodded, and Michiru ran off after Haruka.

Selene, mirror in hand, turned to face Haruka and Michiru. Her features softened, though she still had her mirror in hand. "Hello." She said brightly, and Haruka glared at her,
"What are you up to, you phony?!"
Selene's look of pleasure melted away, as she replied, "You obviously have been fooled as well. Easilly remedied." She lifted the mirror, and Haruka dodged the blast. But Michiru, behind her, wasn't as lucky. She screamed, as she was knocked back.
"MICHIRU!" Haruka screamed, kneeling by her. She shook her, but the aqua haired girl was still. "WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER?!" She cried, and Selene replied,
"This." And Haruka felt darkness...

Hotaru held Usagi's hand, when she heard Haruka's cry of "MICHIRU!"
"Gomen nasai, Usagi-chan. I have to see what's wrong. I'll be back." She got out of the car, and ran over to where Haruka and Michiru lay. But she never came back...

What's the real story behind Hecate and Selene? With the Outer Senshi against her, will Usagi be able to find any help at all? Find out next time! Stay tuned for Episode Four-"Hecates Rage, the Eclipse Mirror is Shattered"