68Disclaimer: Sailor Moon and all the other characters belong to Naoko Takeuchi and her publisher Kodansha. I don't own them, please don't sue. hides under the table
Author : Yamato
Titel : Hour Lost
Rating : PG-13
Spoiler : Basically for the whole series, because this story takes place one year after the stars season.
Genre: Mystery/Dark Story
Summary : When Usagi loses her life in an accident, Mamoru tries to find out what really happened. Was she killed by a new enemy? What are the others hiding?
Warning: Character Death. And since English is not my native language I can't guarantee for my spelling and grammar to be correct at all times. sighs
Couples: Basically I stick to the ones on the show. (Mamoru/Usagi, Haruka/Michiru) But Mamoru might have a little affair with a minor character.
To be continued: Yes, but I don't know yet how many chapters there are going to be.
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Prologue
She had caught a butterfly; carefully she folded her palm around him. All she wanted to do was look at him. Butterflies were always fluttering around so fast; you could never see how their wings looked. She was waiting for him to calm down, but he kept struggling in her hand. If he went on, he would rub off all of his color, and wouldn't be able to fly anymore.
Someone had told her once, that every butterfly was the spirit of a Sailor Senshi, since girls' hearts have wings. And making a girl's heart unable to fly was a crime.
So finally she let go. She watched him flutter away into the sunlight, until he was only a bright spot in the sky. She was wondering if he could fly all the way up to heaven. Probably yes! They seemed like beings from a different world anyway, so beautiful and so fragile.
She looked at her hand; some of the color had actually rubbed off. It looked strange on her hands, it did not belong there. Her hands seemed strange too, like they didn't belong to her either.
She looked up, and suddenly the sky seemed darker. Or maybe not darker, more like it had changed its color. But it was still blue. The sun was still shining.
Everything around her felt strange, like it was not real. She started to run, but she had the feeling she wasn't moving. It was like reality itself suddenly had gotten a crack? The places she had been to, the people she knew, did they really exist? Or were they just part of her imagination? She let out a scream! She had to get home at once; all she wanted to do was to crawl under her blanket to make this nightmare end. Nightmare?
Suddenly she realized what was wrong, it was the feeling you have when you're waking from a dream. As long as you dream, everything makes perfect sense to you. As soon as you start waking up, it all gets weird.
"Why don't you go back to sleep, my little one? Everything's all right, you only had a bad dream. Everything will be fine"
The voice was so comforting, so familiar. Although she felt far too drowsy to recognize it, she knew it belonged to a friend. At least she was sure it did! It had to be! All she wanted was to return to her dream, which hadn't been a nightmare at all. In her dream, she was a princess. She was a Sailor Senshi, fighting for love and justice. She was a schoolgirl, and had to get up early.
"Shshsh," said the voice again, who wasn't her mother. "You don't have to get up yet. Everything will be fine!"
Any moment in our life we make choices that alter the future. Any moment, something we wouldn't have expected might happen. Something we take for granted might shatter. A future we've already seen might never take place.
Hour Lost
By Yamato