Hey guys. :) How's everyone doin'?
     
   Anyway, this fic is *just* in the makings... I thought I'd post the trial
beginning just to get some pointers on how to improve/continue. As you can
see, it's based on Sailormoon... basically 3-4 years after the Senshi fought
Galaxia, and will focus mainly on Makoto, and her feelings, secret fears, etc.

  First off though, I think I need some questions answered before I can
continue.
1) Can Sailor Pluto/Setsuna teleport from one place to another specific place
in the same time continuim? Or can she only 'port people back or forward in
time? 
2) Is the place that Pluto watches over/dwells in just called the Time Gate?
Should I know this stuff already? ;)

  Uhh... anyway, I would greatly appreciate it if someone could answer my q's
thru private e-mail. :) Thankies!

  BTW, the rest of the fic will basically go like this once it's finished: 
Due to a tear between the Senshi's world and a parallel world(made by whom...
is a mystery... which will be answered later on :) going through the
teleportational gate(or whatever) proves perilous and the Senshi switch places
with the Senshi of the other world.. all except Makoto,who by mysterious
circumstances is still on her own world with the new Senshi(who are all guys).
Mako feels all this is her fault because she was too scared to go on the
airplane, etc. and tries to form a plan to find the the Senshi of her world...
in the meantime she falls in love with none other than herself... in male
form, aka Jupiter of the other world. But Pluto (who is trapped inbetween
worlds) becomes suspicious 'cause she knows that the originals can't be in the
same place as their parallels... or pandemonium insues. Anyway, it goes on
from there..... anyone think this is even a *remotely* good idea? :)) (I know
this may sound a bit jumbled... but I kind of wrote it down in a hurry.. ;)

  Anyways, on with the partial-fic-thing... comments and pointers are welcome
:) (although please keep in mind this is a rough,rough draft... I wrote it
just in order to get a feel for what I wanted to say.. I really don't want a
bajillion people telling me how sucky it is :) 
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 Purposeful Happenings
    A Sailormoon Fanfic

Sailormoon is copyright of Takeuchi Naoko, Kodansha, and anyone else who might
lay claim to it. 

      It happened the day of Usagi's wedding. Actually, the day before, but
all days seemed to converge into one in Makoto's almost-forgotten memories;
all she remembered was that it was the day when everything changed. For the
worse, for the better? She did not know. Yet what she did know was this.. it 
had all been her fault.

      It started out simply enough. Usagi, the Guardian Cats, Mamoru and 
the rest of the Inner Senshi had packed their bags and locked their doors
behind them, meeting at the Hikagawa Shrine with cheerful expressions
and a lightheartedness that none of them had possesed in a very long while.
Only Makoto had been a bit on the uncomfortable side, but hid it from the
others
deftly. She didn't want to make the day any more complicated than it already
was.

      The call had come exactly when it was supposed to, Haruka, Michiru, and
Usagi's parents calling from Hawaii, where they were making the final wedding
preparations. Usagi's face lit up with the call, and when she had finished
the eight companions piled into two separate cars and drove to the airport.

      Makoto went with Usagi, Mamoru, and Minako, Artemis curled up in
the far back of the car. Their joyous, idle chatter seemed to pass the time
quickly and Mako had actually begun to forget what was to come. But the
time passed a little too quickly and they were upon the airport in no time.

      Seeing it, the little cold-looking brown building surrounded by the
winged
giants, Makoto looked away, at the same time angry at herself for not having
the willpower to let go of the childish fear. Yet her parent's faces
constantly plagued
her, their smiling, laughing faces, and then suddenly, nothing. Taken away
from
her in a horrific plane accident...

      "Mako-chan?" Usagi asked curiously.

      Makoto snapped back to reality, and noticed the car had stopped, her
friends
looking at her from outside the open door to her left. She shrugged sheepishly
and
mumbled an apology.

      "Off in La-La Land again, huh, Mako?" Usagi chided teasingly. 

      "You're acting more and more like Usagi every day!" Rei laughed, and
Usagi gave her a mock-angry glance. 

      Everyone collected their luggage and hurried into the airport terminal,
Makoto
taking up the rear. She wondered if they had forgotten about what she had told
them, about her parents and her still-lingering feeling of fear. But if they
had... it
wasn't their fault. It had been so long ago that she had told them, and who
would
expect her, of all people, to still retain a phobia she had when she was
fifteen?

To Be Continued.... Later... Maybe. :)

TNT,
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