I do not own Sailor Moon. I changed around the story a little bit—their ages, about the crystals, and about when they first found out they were scouts.
Serena—17 (Senior in High School)
Lita, Mina, Raye, Amy—16 (Junior in High School)
Darien—20 (Sophomore in College)
EVOLUTION
Chapter 1—The Beginning
Serena was lying on the grass. She was wearing the tracksuit from her school. Today, Serena had gotten up at four in the morning to run. She had been on the track team for just under two months. Part of the rules to remain in it had been to run two hours each morning. She absolutely hated it. But oh well, what can you do? She had already finished running and was just lying on the grass of the park. It felt wonderful to just relax. There had been so many monsters lately. It was like they just planned on waiting until she had been asleep for an hour.
"Wake up, Serena." It was Luna. When Serena said that she had joined the track team, Luna was the key factor that had kept her on it.
"Oh…Luna…I'm tired. The stupid monster didn't even let me go to bed last night." Serena's alarm clock rings at three forty-five, so that Serena is up, dressed, and out the door by four. The monster had attacked at three. She had gone to bed at two because of homework. Now that she was a senior in high school, she literally had no time. There was never enough time in the day to do everything. "Life was so much easier when I first found out I was Sailor Moon."
"You were also only in ninth grade. And you weren't on the track team which means that you didn't have to worry about your grades." Luna nudged Serena again when she noticed that the tired girl had fallen asleep. Luna climbed up on Serena's stomach. She had been so proud of the girl when she said that she had joined the track team. Now though it was always difficult for her to do anything else. Darien had actually commented the other day that he hardly ever even saw Serena anymore. She started skipping her daily milkshake when she had joined the track team; she had nearly cut out all junk food! Any time she had to spare, Serena tried to spend it with her friends, but somehow the time was always cut short. Luna laid her head down and let Serena sleep for a little while.
Serena was dreaming even before Luna's last word.
She was standing on a dock. It was absolutely gorgeous around her. The trees had just started to lose their leaves for the winter. Neither the scouts nor Darien was with her. It was so peaceful.
Serena looked up towards the sky and was amazed to see a very close full moon. It looked dangerously close. Startled she looked at the water. Instead of peaceful and serene like it was, it was instead overflowing and rapid. A black light shown down from the sky.
"Serena…" It was a woman's voice. Instead of being concerned though, Serena felt a comfort. She looked up towards the sky, and—
"Serena, there's a monster in the park." Serena awoke with a start; Luna falling off her chest. Serena put her head into her hands and groaned. Someday she was going to be able to get a full night's sleep.
"Serena, transform now, while no one is around us."
"Moon…Cosmic…Power!" Within seconds Serena was Sailor Moon. She ran in the direction of the girls.
"Hey, how did you get here so fast?" Sailor Mars asked astonished to see her. No one else had even gotten there yet.
"How did you know there was a monster?" Sailor Moon asked, avoiding a tentacle of the ugly monster. The thing was atrocious! It had six tentacles and two hands. It was an ugly green color; while its face looked like a humans, there was no doubt in Serena's mind that it had to be the ugliest she had ever seen. And that's saying something!
"I was meditating, and its face appeared in the fire. I came down here to see if it was now or later. Apparently…" She didn't go any further. Sailor Moon grabbed her tiara and shot it towards the monster. When it hit a tentacle, Sailor Moon and Mars rejoiced, but it was too early, and it only increased the monster's anger.
"I'm not sure I should have done that." Sailor Moon said, backing away from the monster who was advancing towards her.
"Mars…Fire…Ignite!" Mars shot her fire attack, and also backed away. "This is insane! We need the other scouts really badly!"
Just as Mars said that, Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter came running. Upon seeing their friends backing away from the monsters, they all shot out their attacks.
"Mercury Bubbles!" Bubbles surrounded one of the tentacles going for Sailor Moon.
"Sparkling Wide Pressure!" Thunder destroyed the tentacle going straight towards Sailor Mars.
"Venus Love-Me Chain!" Her chain wrapped around two tentacles.
"It didn't even do anything!" Mars was outraged. All of their attacks, and not even one tentacle was cut. All they had done was make the creature angrier.
"Does it have a weakness, Mercury?" Jupiter screamed.
"I'm looking. I'm look—" Before Mercury could shout out what she had learned, one of the tentacles wrapped around her middle, pinning her arms to her sides.
"Mercury!" The scouts yelled all at once. Jupiter made a move to help her, but another tentacle grabbed her. It hoisted her twelve feet above the ground.
"Sailor Moon, look out!" Sailor Moon got tackled by Tuxedo Mask, just as a tentacle was about to get her. "Are you okay?" He asked as he got off of her. He was just about to stand up when a tentacle got him. Sailor Moon tried to get up, but she too got wrapped in a tentacle. Sailor Mars and Sailor Venus were soon in the same position.
Wondering how they were going to get loose, Sailor Moon was lifted into the air and brought close to the monster.
"So you are the one they are looking for." The monster said. She had a raspy voice that made Sailor Moon shiver.
"Who's looking for me?" She just barely managed to ground out the words. The monster was squeezing her middle too tightly.
"The council…" The monster said. She shook her head in disgust.
"I don't know of any council." At her words, the monster tossed Sailor Moon around, hitting her into various trees and the ground. While she was flying through the air, she could hear the Scouts and Tuxedo Mask yelling for her. The last time she was hit, she knew that she wouldn't be able to take much more. The monster pulled her tentacle in closer. The tentacle loosened, leaving Sailor Moon to believe that it was going to want a fair fight.
She was wrong.
The monster had let Serena's middle go, but she used her hand, with un-human strength, to grip Sailor Moon's neck, shutting off her air supply. As Sailor Moon struggled, the monster tightened its grip. She could barely breathe anymore. She transformed back into Serena. She heard more screams from her friends in her subconscious. The monster was saying something, but she couldn't tell the words. She was losing oxygen!
Sailor Moon
Tuxedo Mask watched helplessly as his love was strangled. He had watched as she was beat up, thrown around, and now…now she was getting strangled. He knew that she couldn't breathe, and there was absolutely nothing he could do about it. He struggled as much as he could, but the monster's tentacles only tightened around him.
"Serena, don't fall asleep." It was Mercury. He looked towards the girl. She too, along with every other Scout, was trapped by the tentacles. He looked down at the tentacle holding him; he tried to step on it, but his foot wasn't pushing down hard enough. He had barely any energy.
Serena, come on, baby…keep fighting, come on, baby. Darien thought, praying she would hold on, just until they got loose.
Buzz.
Buzz.
Buzz.
Darien looked at the others to see if they had heard the strange noise too. Apparently they had too. Everyone was looking around, trying to figure out where it was coming from. Finally Jupiter figured it out because she was the closest to Serena.
"It's Serena…She's making the noise." They all looked towards Serena. Her eyes were still open, but her head was lulled back, looking straight into the sky. Her lips, partially open, had started to turn blue, but they were moving too. They made words that no one understood, senseless words that had a power on the monster.
The earth started to shake. The monster loosened her hold on everyone, except Serena.
"Stop saying that!" The monster shouted. "It can't help you, and they would never interfere." Serena continued to say the words. White light appeared all around them suddenly. It was so bright that it nearly blinded them. Then they all had the sensation that they were falling.
Sailor Moon
They must have passed out. Yes…that was what had happened; they had all passed out. The monster was dead; something had killed it. Tuxedo Mask, transform back, got up and looked around him. Sailor Mercury was calculating the size of the earthquake on her computer. Mars was helping Venus and Jupiter up. Where's Serena? Darien looked around for her. He didn't see her.
"Where's Serena?" Darien screamed his thought. Everyone stopped what they were doing. They started looking around. They noticed the fog then. It was covering the walkway. They started to move, this time carefully, just in case Serena was still sleeping—like they knew she was. Darien felt bad for her; he knew that she was barely getting any sleep at all. The monsters were like an everyday occurrence too. He was barely getting any sleep. He wasn't sure about the girls, but from the dark circles under their eyes, they weren't getting much either.
"I found her!" It was Sailor Jupiter. She was kneeling not five feet ahead of where Darien was standing.
"Is she all right?" Darien knelt next to her to examine her for himself. She was lying on her stomach, still passed out. Her lips were still a little purple, but he knew she was breathing. There were bruises on her neck from where the monster had gripped her. Nothing was out of place other than that though. Darien had felt her pulse strong and steady. It merely looked like she was sleeping.
"Do you guys remember a buzzing sound?" It was Raye. Darien looked around him, everyone had already transformed back into their human forms. He hadn't been looking at Serena that long—had he?
"Yeah, it sounded like it was coming from Serena." Lita looked towards the unconscious girl, trying to decide if she was wearing a cell phone or anything. Darien shook his head when he realized what she was looking for.
"Check her heart!" Everyone turned, coming full speed towards them was Luna and Artemis.
"Where have you guys been?" Mina turned on the cats.
Luna shook her head, then repeated, "check her heart."
"Why?" Darien asked.
"Just do it!" Luna said it so forcefully, that everyone stared at her. She wasn't going to apologize though. She had a feeling of what it was, but she couldn't be sure unless someone checked her heart.
Darien finally did it. He knew that she wouldn't mind him taking off her shirt; he'd already done it on a couple occasions. He grinned, then quickly shook it off. Get your mind out of the gutter, Shields. No one around them, if there had been anyone around them at six in the morning, would have seen anything. He lowered the undershirt she was wearing so he could check the skin.
"Oh…my…" He touched the massive bruise that was already formed on her chest. She didn't have a broken sternum or any broken ribs, but whatever had hit her there left a large mark. "What hit her in the chest?"
Everyone racked their brains. They went over the fight again and again in their heads.
"Nothing hit her, Darien. She was tossed around, but never was she hit in the stomach." Lita answered his question.
"Raye," Amy started, "you were both here before us, did she get hit then?"
Raye thought about it for a second. "No, she didn't get hit at all, until she got captured by the monster."
"Why are you shaking your head, Luna?" Mina had been the one staring at the cats. As soon as Darien had asked the question, Luna had started shaking her head.
"It was the crystal," answered Artemis.
"What are you talking about?"
"The crystal…When Serena is Sailor Moon, the crystal rests just above her heart; it shares power with her heart. The crystal killed the monster."
"But Serena wasn't Sailor Moon when the monster was destroyed."
Artemis nodded. "Her powers are evolving."
How was it? Constructive criticism is always welcome.