"I don't believe it. Do we have to spend a whole Saturday at the library? Couldn't we go to the arcade for a while, to relax a little?" asked Serena, tagging behind her friends as they strode purposefully toward the library.
Terra shook her head fiercely, "No, Serena. The whole reason behind this trip today is to help you finish your research on time, so you can make a decent grade on your term paper. At this point you will have to spend every waking moment of your time to finish it, and even some time while you're asleep."
"Really Serena, I think you've spent enough time at that arcade, while you should have been working on your paper, to more than justify one day at the library," added Ami.
"Then I'm glad Lita packed a lunch for us, I'm starved. You know what they say, feed the brain!" said Serena.
"Uh-uh Spaghetti-for-brains, no food until after we work at least three hours, and you prove to Ami and Terra that you know what you're doing," answered Rei.
"WHAT!" asked Serena with horror written on her face, "You mean I have to think on an empty stomach!?! That's impossible!"
"Nothing's impossible, if you put your mind to it, and have us to help!" said Mina cheerfully.
"Everything's impossible without triple chocolate fudge cake!" cried Serena, and she began to wail.
Opening Song (Moonlight Legend)
Series Title, Sailor Moon Remembered Senshi
Episode Title, (3) Amazing Revelations
Serena sighed heavily. She and her friends had been working for two hours, and her stomach was threatening menacingly to bully her brain into going on strike. Unfortunately, Rei had taken possession of the fudge cake and had sworn that Serena would not touch it for another hour at least. She was bored stiff. Suddenly, Ami and Terra appeared, with the tall, lean librarian who was dragging a squeaking, rusty library cart piled with books.
Ami brushed sweat from her brow and said, "Whew, that's it."
"Thanks Mr. Heath! I know this was hard on your back, but we couldn't have done it without you!" smiled Terra.
"No problem. Anything I can do to help my favorite and most frequent borrower!" he returned the grin, and left, to go do other librarian-type things.
Serena looked like she would explode with happiness, "That's it? We can go home now? And eat fudge cake?! Whoopee!"
Terra crushed her hopes when she shook her head, "Nope Serena, our help's over. We're finished. We helped you find all your sources. We can't do your research for you. That's cheating, however much you need our help."
"You can't just abandon me!" Serena wailed.
"We're not going to abandon you. We're all going to stay here supervising you, because we don't think you're capable of doing it yourself. Don't even think about fudge cake until Ami says!" asserted Rei.
"You're so mean, Rei!" wailed Serena, burying her face in books.
"Think of it as motivation!" chirped Mina, "You do the research, and if you have any questions or need some help understanding anything, just ask Terra or Ami. The rest of us are going to stay too." "Sorry, I'm late, but I brought lunch," said the tardy Lita, as she arrived hauling a monstrous picnic basket.
"More food!" Serena exclaimed happily.
Suddenly, Celeus, Artemis, and Luna popped out of one side of the picnic basket, looking rather full. Celeus hopped on Terra's shoulder and gave a rather loud burp.
"Pardon, your excellency," apologized Celeus to Terra.
"Oh no! You guys didn't eat the food did you, Luna?!?" asked Serena, her hope for a lunch failing rapidly.
"Serena, you need to keep your mind on work, not food," Luna chided.
"If I may say so myself, you make an excellent tuna salad," added Artemis, licking his chops in memory of their fine repast.
Darien then arrived, "You know that if you don't finish this, I'm not going to go out with you next weekend, don't you?" he asked.
"But I'm so hungry, I can't concentrate!" Serena wailed.
"That's why I brought you these cereal bars. They're supposed to curb the appetite of a 500 lb. weight-lifter for at least six hours. That's why I brought you two of them," grinned Darien, producing the cereal bars.
Serena gobbled them in two bites, earning a comment from Rei.
"You know Serena, if you unhinge your jaw, you can eat them faster."
Serena stuck her tongue out at Rei, and Rei answered by blowing a raspberry. Darien rolled his eyes and Mina grabbed Rei's arm and dragged her off to look at the latest fashion magazines, in hopes it would distract her.
Terra and Ami wandered off to other parts of the library to look at books, and Lita walked off to the non-fiction section of the library to find a new cook book. Celeus, Artemis, and Luna all hopped to the top of book shelves, where the librarian was unlikely to find them, and pursued their own literary interests. Darien opted to stay with Serena and help her to stay focused. Serena wished she could go home, but instead, tried to focus herself on the work she had to do.
~*~
Ami, after making sure that Darien would keep Serena working, went into the physics section of the non-fiction area, and was surprised to find someone else her age there. Luttra Mobius was standing on her tiptoes peering over one of the higher shelves, her cherry-red pigtails caressing the ground behind her. After a moment, she pulled out a book. She squealed with delight, sat down on the floor, and opened it. Ami was astonished to see that the book was by Michio Kaku, one of the world's leading physicists, and her personal favorite.
"Excuse me," ventured Ami, "But I'm just not used to seeing people my age interested in physics. You're a new student in our school, aren't you?"
Luttra smiled and said, "Yeah, my name's Luttra Mobius, nice to meetcha."
Ami then asked about Luttra's interest in Michio Kaku.
"Oh, I like him very much. He has very quaint ideas," she grinned.
Ami was stunned, "You think Michio Kaku is quaint?"
"Yes, I do, in some aspects. His ideas are generally right, but they're so primitive. The way I see it, the stream is much more complex than that," she beamed again, "If you'd like, I can tell you all about my ideas."
Ami, intrigued, sat down to listen.
~*~
While Ami talked with Luttra, Terra was in the classical literature section. She wanted a copy of War and Peace, but it was too high for her. She stretched and stood on her tiptoes in an attempt to reach it. Suddenly, someone leaned up and retrieved the book for her. Terra looked sheepish as David Hollins handed it to her.
"Thanks, David," she smiled.
David was in heaven. Ever since she had awakened, he'd been pursuing a relationship with his little goddess of light. As yet, she only accepted him as a friend, albeit a close friend.
"War and Peace is a good book. I read it one year when I got Russian literature on the brain. In one summer I read it, The Brother's Karamazov, Anna Korinnina, and Crime and Punishment," he smiled.
"How's life at the University?" she asked, pulling the heavy volume of literature to her chest and smiling.
"All right, " he said, following the smooth brown curve of her bound hair
from the bun at the top to the tip that fell below her waist. Her eyes were smiling at him. He had noticed that they always turned a deep blue when she was happy, "Gram keeps asking about you, and so does Frenchie."
Gram was the woman who had adopted him so long ago, and Frenchie was her temperamental poodle. Frenchie had developed a dislike of Terra that she found strange, because she'd always had an affinity for all animals. The idea that Frenchie missed her caused Terra to giggle, tossing her head back slightly as she did. David admired the slender white line of her neck.
"I was wondering," he asked tentatively, "if you'd like to come to lunch with me today."
Terra's eyes lit up, but then she shook her head in regret, "Sorry David, but I have to stay with my friend."
Suddenly, Terra had a striking idea.
"Why don't you come with us when we have lunch? No one will mind."
David felt a bit antsy, this was not the solitary lunch he'd hoped for, "Well Terra, I don't know . . ."
Terra's lower lip began to tremble and her eyes got huge (even bigger than they normally are!!) as she looked very cute and sad. David gave in immediately.
"All right, all right, you win."
Terra's eyes sparkled, and she smiled again.
~*~
Two figures stood on the roof of the library. One of them held a glowing red stone, and the other carried a strangely colored stick. The one holding the stone was thin and incredibly pale. Her hair was a long, straight, colorless, grey. It was almost as if her hair was not a color, but rather, an absence of color. Her eyes were a fleshy, rotten-meat-colored pink. They were vacant and staring, they seemed to carry the essence of absence.
The other was also thin, but she looked much more wiry and dangerous. Her skin was a darkened, more tan color, and her hair was jet black and ribboned with silver. It was wild and untamed, and ran all the way down her back. One of her eyes was silver, and it displayed pure molten anger. The other was jet, and mirrored demented amusement.
"The lava stone registers that the carrier of the crystal is below, my sister," said Void in her low, soft spoken voice.
"Then we must be ready for a confrontation," said Chaos, her silver eye and black eye grinning with maddened delight.
"I don't think that would be wise, my sister," warned Void, tentatively, "I think that you should create some monsters and let them loose in this place they call library. In the ensuing madness, we should be able to easily locate the one who carries the last piece of the Jadestone."
Chaos nodded in agreement, "You are always right Void. My idea was foolish and impetuous."
"Calm my sister, calm. Patience is a virtue hard won," said Void.
Chaos, thus appeased, held her hand high in the air, clutching the stick tightly. Void held her hand high and touched the stick. Together they voiced,
"void night power."
Chaos raised high in her spin, with Void circling below her. Chaos spun quickly and erratically, as Void spun slowly and methodically. Black lightning surrounded Chaos and formed a white body suit. It cracked down her legs and struck her feet to make a pair of high heeled black shoes with silver circles on them. It snapped back up and wrapped around her neck to make her collar, it was black and it curved upward instead of lying flat on her shoulders, and choker, which was made of black pearls. The lightning snapped upwards again making two black pearl earrings and a silver tiara curving downward instead of upward, with a black pearl in it. Then it snapped down her arms to make a set of white gloves, rimmed in silver and black, one ring of each. The lightning struck in the middle of her chest, just below the collar to make a black broach rimmed in silver, from the broach, two long black ribbons with a silver streak down the middle fell until they hit her hips. The lightning flashed a circle around her waist and a silver skirt fell. Finally, the lightning streaked in a near straight line, close to her hands, and a silver orb glowed. The Chaos Staff burned with ebony darkness as it nestled in her hands. She briefly posed, staff in the sky, a look of domination on her face.
Void transformed at the same time Chaos did, only her spin was slower, and closer to the ground. She spun in a mist of anti-energy. The mist clouded around her to make a white body suit, and then clouded around her neck to make a sailor collar similar to Chaos's, turned up and dark grey. it also made a choker of smooth grey steel. The mist clouded around her feet to make a pair of lace-up grey boots that came to her ankles. The mist clouded around her chest to make a dark grey orb surrounded by ebony. Two ribbons, grey with a black stripe down the middle, fell from it until they reached her hips. The mist clouded around her waist and a grey-black skirt formed. The mist clouded around her arms and formed two white gloves rimmed in grey. The mist clouded around her brows to make a down turned steel tiara with a black onyx in it, and a pair of steel and onyx earrings. Finally, the mist solidified into a three-pronged trident, the Staff of Absence. She posed briefly, holding the staff in front of her, in a defensive pose.
"I would deem it wise my sister, if you created your creatures now," advised the newly transformed Sailor Void.
Sailor Chaos nodded and raised the Chaos Staff. There was a nest of hornets near her, so she cast the Staff at them, yelling,
"CHAOTIC TRANSFORMATION!"
Each of the several hornets she hit transformed into a large German shepherd sized monster. They all had deadly stingers that dripped venom, and shook menacingly. Void looked pleased.
~*~
Terra, Ami, Rei, Mina, Lita, David, Darien, Celeus, Luna, and Artemis were all standing clustered around Serena, who was still working very hard. Ami had invited Luttra, so now she stood behind Lita. Serena looked triumphant as she closed the last book.
"WOW! I'm all done! I did it all," Serena grinned merrily, "I'm really glad you were here to help me, Luttra! You cut down on the time by at least three hours."
Amazingly, Serena had finished all her research in merely six hours, a feat that Ami and Terra hadn't thought possible. Luttra had facilitated Serena's research to the extent that they had whizzed through it. Serena was incredibly enthusiastic about going to lunch, or rather, dinner. They were about to leave, when a loud humming noise caught them off guard. This strange noise was accompanied by screams of fright coming from the downstairs concourse.
Luttra sighed, and snapped her fingers, she whispered her command, trying to catch the others out of time, except, nothing happened. She tried it again, this time voicing the command in a louder tone.
"Time Sleep!" she said, and no one moved this time.
Luttra raised her pendant into the air and yelled, "INFINITE POWER!"
She was halfway through her transformation, when Serena rubbed her eyes and looked in wonder at Luttra, who was transforming. Slowly, the other scouts, Darien, David, and the cats came awake, so that they were all witness when Luttra touched down in her Sailor Infinity garb.
Sailor Infinity's eyes widened as she looked at them all, "Oh, crap! How come you're not frozen in time?"
Serena grinned and said, "This is why!" She threw one of her hands into the air and yelled, forgetting David was standing in their midst, watching everything. "MOON PRISM POWER!"
She began her transformation, and David gasped. That bubble-headed friend of Terra's was actually Sailor Moon. Then his eyes widened as her looked about himself. All the other girls, except Terra also looked like Sailor Scouts!
Terra looked sadly at him and said, "Yes, due to Serena's impetuosity, you now no who we are. Maybe I was right when I thought our destinies were joined."
He looked astonished as she raised a wand into the air,
"CERES POWER!"
Terra was washed in a green light. She used the stick to generate a net of vines which wrapped around her. They wrapped around her body, making a white body suit. They wrapped around her legs, making a pair of white knee boots with green trim. The vines curled around her throat to make an emerald green collar and green choker, with a golden emblem of Ceres on it. The vines swirled on her chest to make an emerald broach rimmed in gold, and a light green bow tied itself underneath the broach at the same time another tied itself in back. The vines wrapped around her arms and made a pair of white gloves trimmed in green, and then wrapped around her waist to make an emerald green skirt. Then they wrapped around her forehead, making a golden tiara with an emerald stone in it that curved downwards, and a pair of emerald earrings. She posed with both hands behind her back, feet apart, in an attention pose.
The other girls shrugged and raised their wands,
"MERCURY POWER!"
"MARS POWER!"
"JUPITER POWER!"
"VENUS POWER!"
After they finished, they yelled in unison, "SCOUT POWER!"
Finally, Darien transformed into Tuxedo Mask, which caught David completely by surprise. Then Tuxedo Mask and the seven Scouts raced downstairs, following the sounds of distress.
In the lower gallery, people were hiding under carols, desks, and tables in an attempt to protect themselves from the onslaught of hornets. Chaos and Void were positioned, out of sight behind, a bookshelf. They were watching the madness quietly, and waiting for their crystal to respond. Suddenly, their heads turned in unison as a voice made itself known.
"I am Sailor Moon, the Champion of Justice! In the name of the moon, I shalll right wrongs and triumph over evil, and that means you're gonna be moon dusted. In the name of the moon, I'll punish you!"
"I am Sailor Mercury, In the name of Mercury, douse yourself in water and repent!"
"I am Sailor Mars, In the name of Mars, you'll be toasted!"
"I'm Sailor Jupiter, In the name of Jupiter, your days are numbered!"
"I'm Sailor Venus, In the name of Love and Beauty, I'll punish you!"
"I'm Sailor Infinity, In the name of the Time Stream, you're going to wish you were never conceived of in this reality!"
"I am Sailor Ceres, In the name of Ceres, you're going to have some 'growing' pains!"
Void and Chaos were amused. Suddenly, Void started, their crystal was reacting, and it was reacting a lot!
The hornets zoomed at each of the scouts.
"MARS FIRE IGNITE!" (one toasted)
"JUPITER THUNDER CRASH!" (one fried)
"CERES VINES ENTANGLE!" (one immobilized by glowing green vines, Venus made short work of it)
"INFINITY CHARMING HARMONY!" (one charmed into sleep by Infinity's music)
One hornet flew at Sailor Moon. She squealed in dismay and ran off in terror screaming, "I HATE BEES!" Tuxedo Mask threw a rose at it, and cleft the hornet into two pieces. Needless to say, Sailor Moon was relieved.
While the other Scouts were battling the hornets, Chaos and Void were sneaking up behind Sailor Ceres, who was fighting still yet another hornet. Void raised her staff to pin Ceres to the floor, but just then, a heavy volume of literature brained her on the head. It was War and Peace. Chaos screeched in agony as her sister fell senseless to the floor. She roared in anger at this human, and this attracted the attention of the other Scouts as they finished off their opponents. Ceres was horrified, but stood rooted to her spot, as if something held her down. The other Scouts had similar sensations, and they too stood motionless as Chaos advanced on David.
David backed away, until he hit a corner. Having no where else to go, he raised his hands in defense. Chaos raised her Staff and yelled out,
"CHAOTIC BLACK TEMPEST!"
A swirl of dark energy brewed in a storm above her head, and she prepared to direct it at David, when energy suddenly pooled in his hands and he yelled,
"TACHYON CAST!" and thrust his hands forward.
The energy attack caught Chaos totally off guard and it blew the tempest away. Chaos was badly shaken, but in a flash she picked up her still unconscious sister and jumped to a high window. Before she left, however, she yelled out in fury,
"I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE ON YOU FOR HURTING VOID, MAKE NO MISTAKE OF IT!!!"
The rest of the scouts were left to stare in wonder at David, who was looking down at his hands in amazement. The people slowly began to crawl out from under the tables as Sailor Moon asked,
"Can I have some triple chocolate fudge cake now?"
End Third Episode
Roll credits and play ending song (Forever)
Final edit finished August 4, 1998 (12:34PM)
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