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Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon: Eternal Darkness Episode 1- A new Enemy, a new Fight! New Senshi arrive to the battle.

The birds sung their sweet song into the air, flying about upon this early morning in Tokyo. The sun was beginning to rise, basking the area in a warm, yellow glow. Although the sun was shining, the air was already becoming crisp, creeping in upon this part of the world; a sign that autumn was descending to the area. The leaves began to fall to the ground, swirling gently in the wind as it blew. Something oddly was amiss in this city, as a strange dust-cloud was seen descending from the horizon. Speeding along was the familiar figure of Tsukino Usagi, with the dust following behind her heals, trying to catch up to her madly dashing figure. She ran quickly towards her high-school, attempting to make it there on time for once. She didn't really care less about the beautiful day, the falling leaves or the singing of the birds; all she wanted to do was avoid getting scolded and yelled at and gaining detention for being late.

"Don't ring, don't ring…PLEASE don't ring!" Usagi squealed, speeding around a corner, just blocks away from her school. In her dashing, the blonde did not notice what was going on, and promptly ran right into another human being. Usagi continued to run, though slowing down and stomping all over this person, and once over this obstacle, continued onward at her normal running pace. The girl, whom Usagi had ran over, was clad in a fresh Juuban High uniform, and slowly peeled herself from the ground. Grumbling and in pain, the girl popped her neck, groaning and attempting to dust her new uniform off.

"Ow…what the heck?" She muttered, rubbing her face where footmarks were. In the distance, a loud ringing was heard, the girl perking up, dashing towards the school much like Usagi.

Above them on top of a building, a female figure stood, pigtails blowing in the wind. Only a silhouette of this figure was there, but her burning red eyes could be seen clearly, as she watched the dust cloud trailing Usagi intently.

"Ah hahahaha!" She cackled to herself, smirking widely, "I will have your heart soon, Sailormoon! Ah hahahahaha!"

Minako chewed boredly on her pencil eraser, staring up at the clock; she sighed and leaned back in her seat, crossing her arms. As usual, Usagi was late for class, which didn't really surprise Minako anymore. In fact, things were pretty routine, now that Chaos was gone and things were back to normal. The group would hang out, go shopping, attempt to go on dates…they were like real teenagers now. Things were dull, and Minako half wondered if their battles were really over- or if battling to get into class on time was their only fight from now on.

The door to the class slid open as the Sensei Teacher steeped into the room, closing it behind him. Usagi, as usual, was late- and would probably have detention yet again; Minako signed and prepared for the lecture.

"Today, we have a new classmate," He said blandly, placing his books on the desk in the front, "She has transferred here from England. Please be kind, as she is not good with Japanese yet." Minako perked up when she heard England, for she had spent quite some time there back in her Sailor V days.

The door slid open again as in walked a girl dressed in the Juuban uniform. She wasn't overly tall, probably about the height that Minako was. Her skin was fair, even fairer then Hotaru was, and was smiling sweetly. Her hair was cut short, being somewhat poofy and wispy, her bangs curling around her chin and cheeks gently. The girl's hair was a very dark pink, and her eyes were of a soft blue color. She folded her hands in front of her as she stood in front of the class.

"H-he…hello," She said with some difficulty, "My name is Enala Lawrence, and I come from London." She spoke slowly, careful not to mess up the words. The class said hello and the Sensei directed her to find a seat. Enala smiled to the class and walked past Minako and sat behind her. The blonde immediately turned around and grined at the English girl.

"Hi! I'm Aino Minako! Nice to meet you!" Minako said with energy, the girl smiling at her, "You seem to have some problems with Japanese…maybe my friends can help!"

"You…you'd do that?" Enala asked politely, Minako nodding happily, but before Enala could respond to that, the door flung open, revealing a panting Usagi.

"Tsukino!" The Sensei yelled, the short blonde wincing, "You're late yet again, I see. Take your seat, we'll discuss this after class."

"Yes, Sensei…" Usagi grumbled, dragging into her seat and slumping down into it. Usagi sulked for a bit, before Minako nudged her,

"Hey! We have a new exchange student!" She exclaimed, pointing to Enala, Usagi blinked and looked over to.

"Oh, hi! " Usagi responded cheerfully, "I'm Tsukino Usagi! Nice to meet you " However, before Enala could respond…

"Tsukino! Aino!" The Sensei yelled, smacking a ruler on the table, "Stop disturbing the new student!"

"Yes Sensei.." They muttered in unison.

Makoto yawned tiredly, leaning on her hand, listening to the Sensei drone on and on. In the beginning of the class, he announced that a new student would be joining them, but this person never showed up. So the Sensei just continued with the lesson- which Makoto wasn't entirely paying attention to. The subject was especially boring and confusing, she would have to ask Ami for some help…later. Right now, her eyes trailed to a cute guy sitting a few rows ahead of her. The brunette's eyes grew big and shiny.

He looks like my Sempai… 3 she thought, staring dreamily at the back of his head Note: Sempai is a Japanese term for an upperclassmen. In the original, Makoto loved her Sempai, not her old boyfriend.. Now that Chaos was dead, Makoto could think more about boyfriends and a love life. But, something in the back of her head was warning her of something…

Suddenly, the door flew open as a tall girl burst into the room. Her platinum blonde hair was done loosley and sloppily up into two buns on the sides of her head, tied with blue ribbons. Two long bangs hung down in her face, covering her bright blue eyes. She wore golden hoop earrings, like Haruka, and a Juuban uniform.

"Ahh! I'm sorry I'm late!" She wheezed, sliding into the classroom. The class looked over to her, the Sensei sweatdropping.

"You must be the new student…late, I see," He stated matter-of-factly tone, the girl regaining her breath and sliding into the middle of the classroom.

"Yeah…hi," She muttered, before standing straight up and pushing her bangs behind her ears, "I'm Lizzie Duran, I come from London, though I originally came from the USA." She grinned, the class ooing at the thought of an American in their class. Makoto sat up and peered at this girl, something felt odd about her.

"Please take a seat wherever there is an open one," The Sensei instructed, Lizzie glancing around and walking down an isle, sitting in the seat near the back.

Something feels odd about her, Makoto thought, but shook the feeling once the Sensei continued on.

Haruka gave a tired yawn, bits of her hair sticking out of her head. Although she and Michiru had been attending normal school for a while now, she still couldn't get used to waking up so early. She had no idea how Michiru did it- arriving in school with a chipper and happy disposition every single day they went to this grueling thing. Haruka sighed and hopped that the Sensei would arrive- just so she could get to Track Practice soon. Just as she was feeling she would fall back asleep, the door to the classroom slid open, the Sensei walking in, but being followed by another…

Behind him was a somewhat short girl, with deathly pale skin- so pale, that she was nearly albino. Her long royal purple hair hung down to her mid-back, pulled back into a loose pony-tail at her neck. The girl's bangs were rather long, bunched together and stopping just below her chin. Her hair was wavy, but not nearly as Michiru's was. She wore a pair of small glasses, as well as black finger-less gloves and black lipstick covering her lips. Her deep purple eyes were staring at the floor. Haruka perked up upon seeing her, not because she was cute, but because of a strange power about her.

"Everyone, this is Rinjuu Ashi Hotaru, a new student," She said, gesturing to the girl, "Please be kind and treat her respectfully."

What strange power… Haruka thought, narrowing her eyes slightly at the girl, And…who would name their kid Evil Firefly of the Dying Hour? The girl, Ashi Hotaru, moved slowly down the isles and sat down in an empty seat behind Michiru. Michiru smiled and turned around to her.

"Hello there!" She said with enthusiasm, "I'm Kaiou Michiru." Ashi slowly looked up, her deep eyes meeting with Michiru's blue ones. Deep sorrow seemed to be reflected in them, but the strange girl said nothing, only to slowly look back down to her desktop.

"H-How rude!" Michiru muttered, twitching slightly, "She didn't even say hello!" Haruka's brow furrowed as she looked over at the girl again, then back to Michiru, and whispered

"Something is strange about her…" The blonde whispered somewhat harshly, "…But, there…seems to be some sort of regret in there." Michiru blinked and looked back to Ashi, then to Haruka.

"Strange…so do I…" She responded in a hushed voice.

"…" Ashi Hotaru's eyes looked up at them whispering, having heard each word…but didn't say a thing.

Boots clacked down narrow, dark hallways, the only sound within this strange hall. A cloaked figure proceeded down the hallways, a smirk upon her face. Slowly the figure entered into a larger room, though as dimly lit as the hall she was in. This room was cluttered with testing equipment of all sorts, and another figure stood in it, with it's back to the first.

Kneeling, the first figure spoke, "Takulira has entered the school, as planned," She smirked, "She has gone undetected, and has already come in contact with two of the three." The figure with it's back turned chuckled evily,

"Excellent," This figure said, pushing a pair of square glasses up her nose, "Where is the third?" She snapped in a demanding voice.

Lowering her head, the kneeling figure responded; "I do not know where the third is, she doesn't appear to be-"

"Well, you need to find her!" The standing figured hissed, "Cause a ruckus, THAT will drive the third out of hiding! The Shadow must absorb more hoste before she can change." The kneeling figure nodded, "Here, send these Daimon out to kill them!" Waving her hand, three Daimon pods appeared, hovering to the kneeling figure, who took them in her hands.

"It shall be done."

"Sniff," Usagi muttered, sitting outside the classroom during lunch, "Why did I have to get detention during LUNCH?" She wailed, her stomach growling as loudly as she wailed. She sniffed and slumped down more, wanting to go outside to eat lunch and talk with the others. She sighed, and looked up slightly when she heard someone walking down the hallway- noticing it was a girl, Lizzie.

"Goddamnit!" She yelled, caring an American-ized Lunchbox, "How the heck do we get out of here?" Usagi blinked, and her eyes grew large and shiny at the site of a lunchbox.

"Hey!" The blonde yelled, standing up and waving, "Mind sharing some of your lunch?" Lizzie blinked, and glanced down at her lunchbox and back up at the flailing Usagi.

"Uh…I guess," She muttered, scratching her head, "Oh well, better'n spending the rest of my lunch our trying to find the way out…" Lizzie walked over to Usagi and sat by her, and opened up the lunchbox.

"! FOOD!" Usagi squealed, diving in and grabbing half of the other blonde's sandwich, and immedently chowing down on it. Lizzie sweatdroped.

"Healthy appetite…by the way, what's your name?" She asked.

"Swuino Twuagi," Usagi replied, her mouth full of food. Lizzie sweatdropped yet again, the other blonde swallowing her food, "Err, heheh…Tsukino Usagi ;" Usagi looked up at the girls sitting by her, "Hey, I havn't seen you around before!"

"I just recently transferred in to Juuban," Lizzie replied, grabbing the remaining half of her sandwich, taking a bite and chewing. Usagi nodded, chowing down on her sandwich, and Lizzie finished eating, swallowing, "Lizzie Duran, I came here from England…"

"Wow! I just met someone in my class from there! " Usagi exclaimed, grinning happily, "Her name was funny…"

"Enala?" Lizzie asked, blinking and tilting her head, Usagi nodding vigorously, "Cool, she's my best friend. We came here together."

"Wow, that's really cool!" Usagi grinned happily, shoving the remainder of her sandwich in her mouth, "You speak Japanese well oo"

"Yeah, well, that comes with being an anime freak, I guess…" Lizzie responded, munching more on her sandwich. Usagi nodded again.

Ashi Hotaru walked out onto the rooftop of her school, no one else was up there, thankfully. She carried no lunch, unlike everyone else in the school. Her glasses rested up on her forehead, pulling some of her bangs away from her face. Slowly, the pale-skinned girl walked towards the fence which lined the rooftop, peering over and down into the field below, where everyone was eating and chatting. She sighed, wanting to go down there, but she knew what would happen if she did. She didn't want to get caught by what would happen. Her eyes were hollow and shallow-looking, as she longfully gazed down at where she wished she was…where she wanted to be. And yet, she couldn't be down there.

She closed her eyes and leaned her head downwards, closing her eyes. Ashi could feel darkness closing around her, slowly looking up and over her shoulder. She knew what was behind her, and knew what would happen there in a few seconds. Slowly, the thin girl backed up against the opposite fence, before turning and walking back down the stairs which she came from. She wanted to be alone right now…

"Where's Usagi at?" Ami asked Minako, whom shared a class with the blonde.

"She got lunch detention, again," Minako responded, taking a munch out of her rice ball, "Hope you don't mind if the new girl eats with us…"

"; I don't mean to…uh…intrude…" Enala bowed solemnly, the other girls laughing a little bit.

"It's quite alright!" Makoto said, grinning, "It's always good to have new friends." Enala nodded some, smiling sheepishly.

"I'm quite willing to help you with Japanese, Enala-san," Ami said, nodding her head, munching on a sandwich, "I wonder where Haruka and Michiru are?"

"Thank you," Enala bowed again, smiling more, before sitting down by them and munching on her lunch, "You're all being so nice…"

"Not a problem!" Minako exclaimed, giggling a little, "It is odd that Haruka-san and Michiru-san aren't here yet." Ami and Makoto nodded, both munching on their lunches. The group continued to chatter for a moment, before the three Japanese girls felt something ontop of the roof.

"What…?" Makoto asked, narrowing her eyes, looking up onto the rooftop. A figure was standing perfectly balanced on the top of the chain link fence, her frosty brown hair flowing behind her in the wind, a cloak covering her body, her face covered with bangs.

"That…" Minako gasped, the figure on the fence holding her hand out as three pod-like things flew out of her hands and into several inanimate objects- a tree, a door and a bench. "Daimons?" The blonde yelled, the objects warping and changing into strange-looking humanoid monsters, instantly coming down and attacking the helpless students.

Lizzie and Usagi had a pleasant talk with each other, mainly concerning anime and things like that. Thankfully, Usagi's Sensei was out, so he never saw the blonde talking to someone else when she was suppose to be in detention. Usagi had eaten most of Lizzie's lunch, but the American decided to be polite and let her do so. Their discussion was cut abruptly short when screaming was heard outside, the two's heads snapping up, they running towards a window and looking out.

"What the hell?" Lizzie yelled, gasping as she saw students being flung around by strange creatures.

"Lizzie!" Usagi said, "Stay up here! I'm going to go get help!" With that said, the blonde dashed out of the room and towards the entrance, holding her hands in front of her. Materializing within them appeared the Legendary Moon Chalice.

"Moon Eternal Power, Make Up!" She yelled, quickly transforming into Eternal Sailormoon. Dashing outside, she skidded to a halt in front of one of the monstrous Daimons. Whipping her Eternal Taer out, she struck a pose.

"It's Sailormoon!" The students exclaimed, cheering for the Sailor Solider.

"Foul Creatures!" Sailormoon exclaimed, gaining the Daimon's attention, "I will not allow you to harm innocent students of this fine school! For I am t he fighter of Love and Justice, Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon!" She swung her hands around and struck her classic pose, "And in the name of the Moon, I shall punish you!" The figure on the roof chuckled,

"So, you finally show yourself, Sailormoon," She yelled smugly, "Daimons, kill her!" The Daimons charged forward, rushing towards her. Holding her Taer out again, Sailormoon swung it backwards,

"Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss!" She yelled, shooting out beams of bright pink light at the Daimons. As it shot out, it blasted them back, destroying the nearest one's arm and part of its torso…but that was it. "What…?" She exclaimed, blinking dumb foundedly at the patricianly destroyed monster.

"Hahahaha!" The women on the roof chackled, smirking widely, "We've gotten MUCH stronger sense you last faced us, Sailormoon!"

"Venus Love and Beauty Shock!"

"Jupiter Oak Evolution!"

"Mercury Aqua Rhapsody!" The three voices rang out, their attacks merging together and shooting at the Daimons, destroying what Sailormoon had nearly done.

"Mercury! Venus! Jupiter!" Sailormoon exclaimed, glad to see them. The three Inner Senshi strike poses.

"With the blessings of the Planet of Ice and Water, I am the Brilliant Solider! Sailormercury!"

"I am the Senshi of Passion, the Goddess of Love! Sailorvenus!"

"And I am the Senshi of Thunder of Lighting! With the blessings of Jupiter, I am Sailorjupiter! We are here!" The three strike another pose, the Daimons hissing.

"Hmph, so the Sailor Saps have arrived, big deal…Get them!" The figure yelled.

"Space Turbulence!"

"Violin Submarine Tide!" The two attacks of the Outer Senshi joined together, blasting at the back of one of the Daimons, blowing it apart. Note: these are attacks that these two only have in the Manga.

"Uranus and Neptune!" Moon gasped, smiling, "Lets finish this one..!" The two Outer Senshi joined the Inners, ready to attack when someone else did…

"Cancer Crushing Force!"

"Blazing Fury!" Two voices yelled, the ground shaking as a beam of light split through the earth, moving under the Daimon, as wind rushed past the Senshi and over it. Suddenly, the light shot up from the ground into the Daimon, as an invisible force fell down upon it, slicing it as well as crushing it to a pulp, blood and gore splattering everywhere…making things much more sloppy compared to the other Senshi's attacks. The Sol Senshi looked over to where the attacks came from…and standing there, were two more Senshi!

One of them was kneeling, with a long sword against the ground, and she slowly stood up, being quite tall- possibly taller then Sailoruranus was. Her platinum blonde hair was pulled back into two sloppy buns, tied with short, bright blue ribbons. She wore a golden bangle around her neck, with a bright blue sailor collar that had one golden stripe along it. Her bodice was quite strange, having no ribbons or broaches on it, stopping at her bust and forming an inverted v down her sides, edged with gold. This Senshi's belt was golden, with a long silk bright blue skirt from it, wrapped around her waist like a towel would be, ending just above her knees. She wore a silver gauntlet on her left arm, coming to a point at her elbow and middle finger, edged with gold. On her right arm rested a silver wrist brace, with a bright blue finger-less glove under it. She wore short white boots that came to her ankle, forming an inverted v at her ankle, and sweeping backwards.

"Justice is blind," This tall Senshi said, lifting her long sword up, "And through my eyes she sees! I am Sailor Libra!" She swung her sword in front of her, striking a pose, "I'll make sure she doesn't miss a thing!"

The other Senshi had a very bizarre, yet elegant, fuku. She had dark pink, short wispy hair, brushed away from her eyes and curling around her chin. A strange chocker rested on her neck, silver and circling it, but not actually touching her skin. She had a pale ice blue collar, edged with silver. Her bodice was silver and along the sides was ice blue, coming up and curling under her bust, forming an elegant design while accenting her curves. She had silver rings hovering around her upper arms, like sleeves, but again not touching her skin. Her skirts were double layered and pleated, the top being ice blue edged with silver, the bottom being silver edged with ice blue. Her ribbons were long, and translucent. The bottom ribbon was ice blue, edged with silver and ending at her knees, the lower one silver and being longer. Around her wrists were two silver rings, hovering above her skin, and very short silver gloves just below them, coming to v at her middle finger, edged with ice blue. At her knees, two ice blue swirls came up, curling under the top and bottom of her knees. Below it was a boot style similar to the Stars fuku, save shorter. These were silver edged with ice blue along the v. In her hands hovered a strange weapon- a grapefruit sized ice blue sphere, with two inter-twining silver circles hovering around them.

"I am the Orbiter of the Earth, the strength of its people!" This shorter Senshi yelled, striking a pose, "Sailor Cancer! Fear the Crab Women!"

"Huh?" Eternal Sailormoon asked, blinking and staring at the two, "New Senshi?" Sailoruranus imminently took a defensive stance in front of Sailormoon.

"So, you've finally decided to come…Zodiac!" The figure exclaimed, smirking some, "I'll leave for now…heh heh." Jumping backwards off of the fence, the cloaked figure disappeared into the shadows.

"Who are you…?" Uranus demanded, glaring at the two new Senshi, "What do you want?" The two Senshi walked up and bowed before Sailormoon, lowing their heads.

"We mean you no harm," Sailor Cancer said, looking upwards at the defensive Uranus, "We wish to protect our Princess."

"We failed to protect her once, and now we want to now, or at least try," Libra added, looking over Uranus slowly and turning her sword around, handing the butt to her, "We are not you're enemies, Princess of Uranus." Uranus gasped and was taken aback somewhat, knowing that that gesture Libra had performed was a sign of surrender.

"Who are you…?" Sailormoon asked, looking down at the two kneeling girls.

"For now, we are the Zodiac Senshi, Cancer and Libra," Cancer started, looking up into the eyes of the Moon Princess, "And we are your allies. But that is all you can know for now."

"…Who was that women? Why have the Death Busters returned?" Sailorvenus asked, the two Zodiac stood up.

"She's a minion of evil, obviously," Libra replied, "But we can't be sure who she really is yet. As for the 'Death Busters,' what the heck are you guys talking about?"

"An enemy we thought we defeated," Sailormercury told them, her brow furrowing slightly.

"We bid you good day, Princess," Cancer said, bowing gently, "And take care, the Darkness is coming…" With that, the two mysterious Senshi jumped backwards and faded away.

"…The Darkness?" Sailorneptune asked, frowning slightly.

The cloaked figure, the one who attacked Juuban High, appeared again in the dark lab room. She kneeled down and lowered her head to the other figure there.

"Did you gather hoste for her?" The standing figure asked, glancing over her shoulder to the kneeling one. The cloaked figure lowered her head, holding her hands outward.

"I collected very little, but hopefully it will do…" She said, energy seeping from her hands and gathering within a crystal resting on one of the tables. The standing figure's head snapped to the crystal. "Two Zodiac Senshi appeared, they hindered from more collection." A loud crash was heard as the standing figure swiped her hand across the table, destroying rows of glass test tubes.

"Not only do you fail to collect multitudes of hoste for the Shadow," She yelled, turning towards the kneeling figure with rage burning in her red eyes, "But you've let two of twelve awaken!" Blood dripped from her hand, her fists clenching and shaking, "You kill them off NOW, or I will have your head! If two are awake, who knows how many are left!"

"Yes, ma'am…" The kneeling figure said, glancing up at the raging women before her, her eyes flashing a bright blue color, "…It shall be done…" Standing up, the cloaked figure walked out of the room.