The Adventures of Jupiter #1: Out With the Old, In With the New
by: Sailor Jen

Notice!!!The original Sailor Moon characters are copyright of Naoka
Takeutchi. All other characters, places, and events are copyright of
Sailor Jen. This story is rated PG.


"Serena!" Lita called up the stairs. "Hey, Serena! C'mon already!"
She glanced at her watch. It was 5:35. Serena was supposed to be
ready half an hour ago.
	"Dammit, Serena, get moving will ya?" she yelled up to her.
	"Coming!" Ten seconds later, Serena Tzukino came running down the
stairs. Halfway down, though, she tripped and fell all the way down.
	"Klutz," Lita mumbled. "Let's get movin'. We were supposed to be
at Raye's over an hour ago. Man." Lita hurried off. Serena followed.

	"Where on earth were you two?" Amy said, as the two girls joined
their friends at the temple. "You are late."
	"Yeah," interrupted Raye. "Over an hour late. But, as usual, it
doesn't surprise me. Knowing how Serena is."
	"Oh come off it, Raye!" Serena said.
	Lita quickly said, "Don't start you guys! I've got a headache as
it is." She began rubbing her temples. "I haven't been feeling to
well the past few days."
	"Are you sick?" asked Mina.
	Lita put down her hand and said quietly, "I don't think so."
	"Hmmmm," Luna said, joining them. "It sounds like you are coming
down with something. How long did you say you've been feeling like
this?" Luna hopped onto Lita's lap.
	"For about a week. Why?" Lita stroked Luna's back. Luna purred in
reply.
	"Because," stated Artemis, "you're not the only one getting
sick." He gestured to the newspaper that Amy was reading.
	The front page had, in large type across the top: 

	Sickness Invades Town Of Tokyo

	Lita continued to read.

	A woman visiting with her family from the U.S. claimed that her
eldest son, Ryan, suddenly became ill the night of his championship
basketball game.
	"He just started getting headaches," the lady explains. "Yet Ryan
never just gets sick like that." She went on to say that her other
two sons, Billy,10, and Zachery,8, began getting these strange
headaches as well.
	Another unhappy citizen states that "I just began feeling odd, as
if someone had slammed a baseball bat against my head."
	We will try to keep you up to date with this odd and baffling
illness as best we can. But for now, all that we can do, is pray for
the best.

	"See?" said Artemis. "You may be getting this thing. God knows
what it is."
	Raye snatched the paper from Amy. "You don't think the Negaverse
is part of this, do you Luna?"
	"I wouldn't doubt it, Raye."
	Serena was not paying the least bit of attention. She was
absorbed in one of Raye's comic books.
	"Serena?" Raye asked her. "Serena? Hey, Meatball Head! Will you
listen already?" She snatched away her comic.
	"Raye! You are so mean." Serena pouted.
	"Girls please," Luna pleaded. "Please, just don't fight for a
while, will you? Can't you see we have a sick scout here?" She jumped
from Lita's lap and walked over to Amy. "Amy. Can you somehow
determine if the Negaverse is at work here?"
	"I don't think I can, Luna," Amy said softly.
	Lita finaly chimed in. "Look. It is nothing. It's just a
headache, get it? Stop making it such a big deal." She got up from
the chair and stamped out the temple.

	"Lita! Wait! Lita!"
	Lita kept running. She suddenly felt angry. She didn't want to
talk to any of them.
	"Lita!" Mina called again. "Lita! Please listen to us!"
	"Come on won't ya Lita?" Raye yelled from behind her.
	"Lita!"
	Lita turned her head to face them. "Look guys. If you keep
anoying me, I'm sure to do something crazy."
	Serena and Amy caught up to the others. They all stood there,
waiting for Lita to come to her senses.
	"Lita?" Amy asked. "We only want to help. What if the Negaverse
is part of this? What if they have gotten to you..." She aproached
her friend.
	"Don't even think about it Aimes!" yelled Lita, backing up. "I'm
not in any mood for all of your lies!" She backed up another few
feet.
	"But Lita," said Mina. "We aren't lying."
	"Yes you are," Lita said angrily, still moving farther from them.
"You are not fooling anybody Mina. None of you are." She turned and
started to run.
	"Not again," sighed Luna. They chased after her.

	Lita slammed the door behind her. And locked it.
	"Lita! Lita, let us in! Come on Lita! Stop it!"
	She was inside her apartment now, standing near the door,
listening to her friends banging outside.
	Maybe they do want to help, Lita thought. What if the Negaverse
has gotten hold of me? Oh I can't think like this! My head, oh my
head!
	Lita gave a small curse, then decided to let her friends in.
	But a sound stopped her.
	Lita whirled around. Nothing. No one was there.
	She turned back to the door... and screamed.
	There, standing at the door infront of her, was her mother and
father.
	But it can't be, it just can't, she thought. They died a long
time ago. They are supposed to be dead.
	Aren't they?
	
	"Hey, Lita! Old buddy, old pal! Let us in!" 
	All four girls kept banging and kicking and slamming into the
door. Why wasn't Lita answering them? You would think she would at
least yell back.
	"Stop," Raye said. Everyone stopped. 
	Serena said impatiently, "Spit it out Raye!"
	"I'm getting bad vibes. I think the Negaverse is around."

	"Y-you cannot b-b-b-be my par-parents," Lita stammered, backing
away from the two images.
	"But we are Lita," said her mother.
	"Yes," said her father. "Yes, we are."
	Lita could not believe this. Her parents had died in a plane
crash years ago. How could they be standing here, before her very
eyes? Her head started hurting again.
	"What is it?" asked her mother. "Your head?"
	Lita nodded, holding her head in her hands.
	"You may be sick. C'mere. Let us help you." Her parents moved
toward her.
	
	"Mars Power!"
	"Mercury Power!"
	"Venus Power!"
	"Moon Prism Power!"
	"What?" all three of them exclaimed at once. Then, the other
Sailor Scouts came crashing through the ceiling.
	"What the heck are you guys doin' here?" Lita asked.
	"Just morph!" Venus hissed.
	"Fine, fine," Lita grumbled. "Jupiter Power!"
	Lita felt the surge of electric energy flow through her, as she
transformed into the guardian of her home planet Jupiter.
	The two of Lita's parents looked at eachother in amazement.
"She's Sailor Jupiter?"
	"That's right, phonies!" Mars said, pulling out her parchment.
"And you two Negaverse ding-bats are going bye-bye!"
	"I call upon the powers of Mars! Fireballs... charge!"
	LIta cried out suddenly. "No! Stop Mars! They're my parents!"
	"What?" all the scouts said.
	"That's right," Lita explained. "They are not dead, as I
originaly thought." She gestured to the two, who were backed up in a
far corner. "Meet my mom and dad."

	"And that's how we escaped," Lita's father finished.
	"Wow," sighed Serena and Raye at the same time.
	"It must have been terrible," said Mina, "being trapped in that
plane like that. I never would have gotten out of something like
that."
	They were sitting in Lita's kitchen, listening to Lita's mother
and dad tell their story.
	"I still can't believe you are actualy here." Lita suddenly felt
dizzy, and pain slapped her across the head.
	"Lita?" Amy asked, concerned. "You okay? Is your head hurting
again?"
	Lita shook her head. "Nope," she lied. "It's nothing. Nothing at
all." She looked up and saw the look of worry on her friends' faces.
	"Realy. I'll be fine," she assured them.
	But she knew deep down that that was a lie too.
	She knew something was wrong...
	But she didn't know what.

	"Oh Ken," Lita sighed. "I could sit here all night."
	"Don't get your hopes up."
	She and Ken were sitting in Ken's living room, watching 'Titanic'
for the hundredth time. Lita snuggled farther next to him. Ken
wrapped his arm around her shoulders.
	"Ken?" Lita asked. "What do you think? You know, about all of
this illness thing? Am I realy sick?"
	Ken shrugged. "Who can tell but God himself?"
	Lita let out a sigh. And it was not a sigh of relief. "Well.
Honestly I think it's a bunch of bull. I mean, literaly. Just bull."
She sighed again.
	Ken said, "So, your parents lived, I hear."
	Lita nodded. She didn't say a word.
	"Hey," Ken said, lifting her face to his. "I realy think you
should take it easy. I don't want you getting any worse. This thing
could be dangerous." 
	"Alright."
	Then Ken gave her the most passionate of kisses.

	Lita woke up to the sound of her alarm clock. She slammed it
down, then got up and got dressed for school. She didn't have time
for breakfast, so Lita packed a big lunch for the day. She was
already running late.
	As she hurried down the street to Crossroads Junior High school,
Lita saw Serena running ahead of her. 
	"Yo Serena!" Lita called. "Serena it's me! Wait up!" Serena
slowed so that Lita could catch up.
	"You late too?" Serena asked, panting.
	"Uh-huh," Lita gasped. "We better get our tails in gear." Both of
them sprinted off towards school.

	"Lita," said Lita's teacher as she made her way to her seat. "You
are late again. If you keep this up, I will start deducting from your
grades."
	Lita panted. "It won't." She pulled out her books and notepad.
	"Good. Turn to page 443."
	Lita could not concentrate at all during class. She even, for
once in her life, fell asleep during math class. Of coarse, she got
her butt in trouble for that.
	At lunch, Lita joined Amy and Serena on the roof.
	"How was your day Lita?" Amy asked, biting into an apple.
	"Aimes," Lita said. "Don't even mention it."
	The minute she bit into her sandwhich, Lita cried out in pain.
	"Lita? What's wrong?" cried Serena.
	"Oooow! My head! My head is killing me!" Lita held her head in
her hands, rocking back and forth on her heels.
	"This is not good," said Serena. "This is not good at all. Not,
not, not any good."
	
	"I think you have come down with a mild case of the flu."
	Lita was in the nurse's office, along with Amy and Serena. She
still did not understand why she kept having such killer migraines.
Maybe it was something she was eating...
	"I hope it's nothing more than that," the nurse said. "Yet, it
could very possibly be... "
	"I... I don't wanna hear it," Lita managed to choke out. She
could hardly talk. "I just want to get home and go to bed. Can I have
a pass?"
	The nurse handed Lita a pass to go home. Amy and Serena followed
her outside.
	Lita managed a smile. "You guys don't worry 'bout me. I will be
fine. Okay?" Lita turned and headed home.

	What is going on around here?
	Lita had just arived at her front door when a noise made her
jump. She turned around, but saw nothing.
	Why are you scaring yourself? Lita asked herself. It's only a
headache. Stop acting like it's any thing more than that. A headache.
	Lita opened the door, and screamed.
	Her little apartmant was a clean and tidy little place. But now,
there were books and magazines scattered all over her beautiful
living area. Her polished wooden coffee table was toppled over on its
side. In the kitchen, the stove was on, with a dishtowel on one of
the burners, wrapped in flames. Her grandmother's china dishes layed
at her feet, in a million pieces.
	"My god," Lita thought aloud. "What is going on here?"

	"She must not be home yet," Raye replied, putting down the phone.
"It rang seventeen times but no one answered."
	The four girls, along with Darien and Ken, were sitting in
Serena's room. Serena and Amy had told the others what had happened
at school, about Lita, and they all agreed that something was up.
	"Do you think it's the Negaverse?" asked Darien.
	"More than likely," answered Amy. "If not that, then I'm
absolutely clueless."
	"What about that disease?" Mina said. "You know, that thing when
people get those killer migraines? But, still, Lita couldn't have
that. She never gets sick."
	"Yeah... " Amy said, lost in thought. "I got it! What if... "
	"What if the Negaverse is behind this whole thing," Darien
finished for her.
	"Right," said Amy. "And maybe, just maybe, they've gotten to
her."
	"You think?" asked Serena. She realy hadn't been listening. She
had been to busy snuggling next to Darien.
	"Duh, Serena!" Raye said. "What, are you deaf? It's as clear as
crystal! The Negaverse has ahold of Lita. If you hadn't been so
pre-occupied with Darien, you would have heard!"
	"You are only jealous!" Serena spat back.
	"Oh yeah?"
	"Yeah!"
	"Guys, guys," pleaded Darien. "Stop fighting over me."
	"We aren't fighting over you!" both girls yelled.
	"Okay, then. Just stop!"
	"Scouts!!!" Luna cried. "Shut the hell up so that we can decide
on what to do about Jupiter."
	"Thank you," sighed Mina, uncovering her ears. Amy and she had
done so as to block out the "Squabble Sister's" beckering. "So, how
do we knock some sense into her?"
	"I'll try calling her place again," suggested Raye, getting the
phone and dialing Lita's number.

	"Help! Let go of me! Hellllp! Get away!"
	Lita was being dragged away by two alien-like creatures. She
screamed and screamed, but nobody came. "I said, get your damn hands
off!" She gave one kick to the creature on her right. "Now!"
	"I don't think so, Lita," siad the thing. It sounded more like,
"Eee zunt dunk so, Kitha."
	"You will be joining us soon," said the other. "Very soon."
	The aliens carried her towards the back. There was the fire
escape back there. The two things slowly yet surely toted her down
the ladder.
	"Let her go, Nega-slug!" came a familiar voice.
	All three of them, two aliens, one human, turned their heads to
the voice. And there, on top of the building, stood Sailor Moon.
	"You heard her," came another voice. And another.
	Then, all of them, Sailor Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter Knight
and Tuxedo Mask, were closing in on the enemies.
	"You try it," said the alien on the left, "and we'll throw her
over." Lita looked to her side. It was a sixty-feet drop from the
fire escape. She was doomed.
	"Well, then," said Jupiter Knight flatly. "Look who's talking."
With that, he jumped in the air, landing a sharp kick on the right
alien. It staggered back a few steps, then fell from the ladder. It
landed with a loud splat!
	Jupiter Knight glanced at the other Nega-creature. "You care to
try?"
	The thing looked down at Lita, then at Jupiter Knight, then at
the others.
	"Well," it said finaly. "Looks like if you want your friend back,
you'll have to come and get her!" Then it leaped from the ladder,
still carrying Lita.
	"LITA!" all of them shrieked.
	But of coarse, it was okay. The thing landed on a house next
door. From there, it jumped from house to house to house, till it got
to wherever it was that it needed to get to.

	Lita awoke in a strange, cold room. She looked down, and saw that
she was tied up.
	Where am I? Lita asked herself.
	"You are here," came that creature's voice. "In the Negaverse!"
	Lita looked around the small, empty room.
	Empty?
	No, it was not empty. There was a tiny table in the center of the
room. On it was something that looked very much like a crystal ball.
On one of the far walls (which wouldn't realy be considered a far
wall, because of the room's size), pictures of Queen Beryl and her
generals, Nephlite, Jaedite, Zoicite, Malachite, and even a picture
of Prince Darien, were up. 
	Lita began to get that awful headache again.
	The Nega-thing said hoarsly, "Aw, the little baby scout have a
boo-boo." Then it laughed a laugh that Lita found familiar.

	"Where do you think it went?"
	"And how the heck did it do that?"
	"But what about... "
	"And what are we... "
	The scouts had morphed back to normal. They were still on the
roof, though, blabbering on about the Negaverse and about how they
were going to save Lita.
	"Look," Raye said in her bossy tone, "If we are gonna save Lita
we have to at least agree on some way to do so."
	Amy spoke then. "I agree. But, I mean, how are we supposed to get
into the Negaverse? It's just not possible." They were stumped.
	Darien snapped his fingers. "I know."
	Serena turned to him. "You know what?" she asked.
	He said, putting his arm around her, "I know a way in. Remember
back when I was working for Beryl?" Darien looked down at Serena, who
was holding fiercely to his arm. "Do you mind?"
	Serena, a bit embarrased, dropped his arm quickly. "Um... sorry."
Serena flushed a deep red.
	Darien rolled his eyes. "You are realy weird, you know that
Meatball Head?"
	"Do not call me that!"
	"Guys," Luna said. "Don't start." Luna paced back and forth till
she couldn't stand it any longer.
	"Well," she finaly said. "How do we get in, Darien?"
	Darien said casualy, "Well, here's how we do it... "

	"What in God's name do you want with me," Lita demanded.
	"Oh," spoke the Nega. "You'll see soon enough." It bent down so
that it and Lita were face to face. "Very soon," it hissed.
	Lita turned her head from the creature's breath. Those words
danced in her mind over and over.
	Very soon. You'll see... very soon. Soon enough. You will see
soon... very... very soon. Very...
	There was a loud POP! from her right. Lita whirled her head
around and saw her friends, the Sailor Scouts.
	"How did you find me?" Lita asked.
	Mina smiled and thumbed her finger at Tuxedo Mask. "Don't ask us,
it was all planned out by Tuxy over here." 
	Then, suddenly, the Nega-slug leaped from behind them. It landed
just a couple of feet to the side of where Sailor Moon was standing.
	Sailor Moon, along with the rest of the girls and Tuxedo Mask,
screamed at the sight.
	The slug was no longer a slug.
	It was...
	No, Lita thought. No. It... can't be. Can it? No. Just... NO!!!
	This time it wasn't an illusion. This was real. And Lita knew it.
	The Nega-creep, the same one that had kidnapped her and wrecked
her lovely home, the same one, was also the same person who brought
Lita into the world. The same one who was there when she said her
first word. The same person who raised her and took care of her. The
same person who died years ago...
	Was her mother.

	"Oh my dear Lord in heaven!" cried Lita. "You! It's you?"
	Her mother turned to her. "Yes, Lita. It is me. It's always been
me." And with those last words, Lita's "dead" mom pulled a knife from
her back pocket.
	And hurled it towards Sailor Moon.

	"Jupiter Power!"
	In seconds flat, Sailor Jupiter was cut loose of the ropes and
was standing before her insane mother. 
	"Jupiter!" cried out Venus, Mercury and Mars.
	"Help!" cried Sailor Moon, trying to dodge the knife as it
hurtled toward her.
	"Jupiter Thunder... CRASH!"
	Her lightning bolts flew threw the air, slicing the knife in two
halves.
	Sailor Moon removed her hands from her face. "What happened? Who
won?"
	"Meatball Head," she heard Tuxedo Mask murmer.
	"I heard that!"
	Jupiter glanced at where her mother had been. She was gone.

	"Sorry about this mess," Lita sid, picking up various belongings
as they tried to straighten up her apartment.
	"No prob," said Raye, looking at her watch. "Dangit! I have to
meet Chad at the temple. See ya later fellas!" Raye darted out the
door.
	Lita shrugged. "Well, talk about manners." She tossed some
magazines onto the couch.
	Serena looked over at her friend. "Hey Lita?"
	"Mmm-hmmm?"
	Serena walked over to where Lita was standing, and put a hand on
her shoulder. "I'm sorry about your parents. Them coming back, you
finding out they realy weren't dead, you know."
	Lita looked solemnly at her. "You are?"
	Serena nodded.
	Lita sighed. "That's a first."
	"Hey! I am not that bad, and you know it too!" Serena stamped
over to a far away corner.
	Lita smiled. She noticed Mina and Amy smiling too.
	"I know, Serena," she said. Lita thought for a moment, about
something she had not thought about in a long time. "Serena? Be glad
that you have parents. Because, believe me, I know, they'll come in
handy sooner or later."
	Serena only smiled.
	"Out with the old, and in with the new, as my dad used to say,"
Lita suddenly blurted.
	"What's that mean?" Serena asked.
	Lita smiled again. "Means whatever's already happened, it's in
the past. And whatever is to come in the future, well, that's in
God's hands."


	As any fanfic author, I'd like to take the time to thank the
people who helped me with this story. First of all, my sister, who
let me in on some stuff about Jupiter and the scouts. Then I'd like
to thank the readers, who I hope will enjoy this and my future
stories on the scouts.

					The End