Subject: [fanfic][SM]The Chronicles of Light 1_1
From: Conner MacCleod
Date: 12/7/1997, 3:17 PM
To: Fanfic Mailing List

Ok, I've done a bit more work to this and I know that it *is* shorter
but there is more new stuff in chapter two and three.....


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The chronicles of Light
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Written By Nathan Burnham.
Ley@pac.com.au
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PART 1: A new warrior
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CHAPTER 1: Returning Memories

He felt sick. Not good to be sick on your twenty second birthday. It was a strange kind of 
sick, it was hard to describe. He actually felt well, but it felt like there was someone 
inside him. Another person, or animal. He definitely felt weird. Weird was actually an 
understatement. He didn't feel himself.
The phone beeped at him a couple of times and he answered.
"Hello, Conner here."
"Conner MacLeod? You're application for the position of Chief Programmer has been accepted. 
We would like to know if you can be here within month?", said a voice. A voice with a distinct 
Japanese accent.
'I GOT IT! Wow. Amazing.' He thought . 
"Hai. Arigato-Gozaimasu"

He was very happy, even the weirdness seemed to go away.

He packed, sold his house (unfortunatly for a bit less than it was worth) and left for Japan 
two weeks later. There was nobody to say good-bye 
to, he was an orphan. He really only knew one person well enough to call a friend, and that 
was another orphan living in Japan who he wrote to regularly. The flight was ok, not the 
best he had been on. He arrived in Japan very early in the morning. By the time he arrived 
at his new home it was about school time. In fact, he was just about to walk in the gate when 
he bumped into a young blonde haired girl running to school. The thing that made her stand 
out was the way she had her hair, it looked like odango.
"Ooooff. Hey, no need to hurry" he said, in English.
The girl made a strange face and said, "Sorry, late for school!" before she was up and running 
again.
'Well, she sure was rude. I must remember to speak in Japanese...' Conner thought, but he soon 
forgot about it and went inside to look around.
His house was nice. Quite amazing actually, it was about the same size as his old home. His 
home office was well set up. A direct connection to his offices computers. He only needed to 
go into the office once a month.
That afternoon he was going outside when he again bumped into the blonde haired girl.
"Sorry, I didn't see you there." He said, in Japanese this time.
"I am sorry also, hey you're that guy that's just moved in!" she said.
"Yes, I am Conner MacCleod. I just flew in this morning. And you are?"
"I'm Tsukino Usagi, welcome to Japan Conner San." She said, "How do you like Japan so far?" 
she attempted to say in English, but it came out as "How does Japan like you?"
Conner got the idea of what she was trying to say, but as she did not seem to know English 
very well he replied in Japanese.
"Japan agrees with me. Except for this morning when I was run into by a girl going to school." 
He replied, looking at Usagi strangely.
"Ahhhhh ummmmm." She said, looking around for an escape "Oh, here come some of my friends! I'll 
introduce you to them." She said, sighting Makoto, Minako, Ami and Rei.
The four girls walked up to Usagi.
"Who's the cute guy Usagi?" Whispered Minako to Usagi.
Conner blushed a little, he was not used to such comments from such young girls.
"His name is Conner, he has just flown in this morning." Usagi replied as quietly as she could.
"Conner, I would like you to meet: Ami, Rei, Makoto and Minako" said Usagi, pointing to each of 
the girls in turn. They each said 'hi' and shook his hand. 
"Would you like to come in for tea?" asked Conner, pointing to his house.
"Um.. That would be, um, great thanks.. But um, we *really* have to speak to Usagi." Replied 
Rei. The girls left, and Conner walked back inside. He could just make out Makoto say something 
about him looking like her old boyfriend, he could definitely hear the sigh that seemed to come 
from all of the girls.
Conner went straight to bed. He had had a very big day.

Conner woke up and decided to test out the computer system, after all he would be working with 
it for the next year at least. His computer was very good and very expensive, it must have cost 
the company a lot. He logged onto the companies system and checked his mail. He didn't expect 
there to be any and was surprised to find welcoming mail from all of the staff. He spent the 
next two hours writing back to each of the staff individually.  He spent another hour after 
that writing a note of thanks to his boss. 
He logged off and ate breakfast. He decided to go shopping, as he only had a few clothes. He 
would need a car as well, or a bike (or both!). Money wasn't a problem, his parents had died 
a long time ago and they were very rich. Even if he didn't know who they were.  When he turned 
18, he asked his families solicitor. The only answer he got was that they didn't want him to 
know. Two years later, after a lot of persuasion he was told that they didn't have any record 
of who they were.  There must have been some record somewhere,  but it was gone.
He went to the mall. The mall was big, a bit bigger than some of the ones back in Australia. 
He bought himself some new clothes and decided to go shopping for a car. He managed to find a 
black Ferrari that resembled his old one back in Australia and so he bought it. He usually 
didn't make spur of the moment shopping decisions like that, but he really wanted the car. 
It was late, he must have been shopping for hours.  He was about to leave when he saw 
someone entering the mall.  She looked strangely familiar, but he couldn't know her.  
Her long green hair almost touched her feet.  A name came to mind, 'Sets....'.  
He decided against talking to her, she would probably think that he was crazy.  He drove 
back towards home, but suddenly found that he was lost. He drove around for a bit until 
he passed Usagi. She was sitting at the curb outside her high school. 
"Usagi, what are you doing here? It's late."
"Ah, Conner. Is this *your* car?" asked Usagi, shocked at seeing him driving such an 
expensive and new car.
"Yup, I just bought it!"
"Um, Rei was supposed to meet me but she hasn't arrived yet."
"I am a bit lost." Conner said, rather helplessly.
"And you want to know where you live?" asked Usagi
Just then, Ami spoke through Usagi's communicator.
'Usagi, we need you at the park!'
Conner looked around to see where Ami was and Usagi looked a bit sheepish.
"Um, do you want a lift to the park?" Conner asked Usagi.
"Ah, no thanks. The park is near my place, could you just drop me off there, if that's ok?"
Usagi got in and Conner drove her back home. Usagi got out and immediatly started running off 
towards the park. Conner's curiosity got the better of him and he followed her.
He felt weird again, maybe it was just jet lag. 

He reached the park to see something very weird. Some strange woman, with tentacles growing 
out of her head was standing over a young girl in a sailor costume. Six other girls in sailor 
suits lay sprawled in other parts of the clearing.
Conner was only able to stand there in shock, this sort of thing didn't happen to him very 
often. The woman was about to kill the girl below her when a sharp object hit her hand. 
She looked up.
"Beauty is not just in the skin, sometimes even the most ugly is beautiful. However you are 
not. You may not harm Sailor Moon." The Tuxedo suited man said.
Conner looked at the ground, there was a rose embedded into the ground near the woman.
She growled and then laughed.
"You cape-boy?! You dare to think that you can defeat me?" She said and before she had 
finished the tentacles on her head writhed and shot out at the man.
<I had to call him cape boy didn't I? ;-)>
The Tuxedoed man flew back off the tree he was standing on and struck another tree, falling 
down unconscious. The woman turned her attention back to the girl.
Conner felt very weird. Suddenly his vision clouded and everything went red.

Sailor moon woke up to the sound of a wolf howling. She looked towards the sound to see Conner 
lying on the ground unconscious. The rest of the scouts were also out. She crawled over to 
Conner. His arms were slashed, his face and shirt bloodied. She bent over to wipe the blood 
off his face, to see how badly he was cut. She did get a C in first aid, she knew what to do.
'Oh no,' she thought, 'he must have followed me!'
As her hand touched his face, his eyes opened.
"Where am I?" he asked first, then he looked at who it was and asked "Usagi, is that you? 
No, sorry. Who are you? Why do I feel like I have just been through a wreckers?!"
"You look it" said Sailor Moon, as she tried to wipe the blood from his face.
Sailor Mercury was the next up, she pressed one of her earrings and a blue band covered her 
face.
She looked at Conner for a second.
"Um, Sailor Moon. He has some cuts on his arms, but that is about all, the blood on his face 
isn't his." She told Sailor Moon.
Sailor Moon cleaned up Conner, and walked him home.

Conner woke up. 
'I feel weird, weirder than in that dream.', he lay back down. 'No, nothing could be that 
weird.'
He got up, got himself some breakfast and changed.  
'Hmmm I could do with a walk. Might as well go now.' He thought.
So Conner got up and walked outside, intending to go down towards the park. He reached the 
front gate and a man walked past him. 
'Wait a sec, was that Mamoru?'
"Mamoru?" he asked.
The man turned around, and looked at Conner.
"Conner?" he asked.
"Mamoru, we finally meet!" exclaimed Conner, and shook Mamoru's hand rather vigorously.
"No need to write now." Replied Mamoru.
Conner had known Mamoru for a very long time. They were both orphans and became pen-friends 
when Conner was ten. Since that time they had written regularly, at least twice a month.
"What are you doing here?" asked Mamoru stunned to see his friend.
"I have a job here. I will be working for at least a year, and all from home."
"Home?" asked Mamoru.
Conner pointed to his house.
"Ahh I thought that was who Usagi spoke of when she told me who her new neighbour was, but 
I could not be sure." Said Mamoru, and added "I was just going in to see my girlfriend, Usagi. 
To um, speak about, um. Something we ahhh did last night."
"Ahhh. I had a very strange dream last night, I think that you may have been in it. Maybe 
Usagi was in it also." Said Conner. Mamoru looked away at this.
"And the strangest thing was that there was a clown in it, and some guy wearing a tuxedo. 
A very strange dream."
"Yes it is a very strange dream isn't it!" replied Mamoru, looking at Conner strangely.
Mamoru looked at Conner. 'Strange, his arms aren't scarred!' he thought.
"Ahhhh Mamoru."
"Yes Conner?"
"How old *is* Usagi?" Conner asked, grinning slightly.
Mamoru blushed and held up his hands, "It's nothing like that! We're in love, we're destined
to be together."
Conner chuckled a little bit, "It's okay Mamoru, I consider myself rather open minded."
"Um, I have to see Usagi. I will come and visit you soon." Added Mamoru, hurrying into Usagi's 
house.

Conner continued walking.