Author's Notes: Hi all! I'm not much of a seasoned fan
fic writer and this is my first attempt at a Sailor
Moon story. This is kind of a cross between Sailor
Moon and L.J.Smith's Night World series. It may
eventually turn into a romance, in fact, I'm kind of
planning on it. But probably not to quickly. ^_^  This
is very alternate reality and the scouts aren't
scouts… basically they will be different people with
slightly similar personalities and the same names.
Please don't kill me for this. Any comments are
greatly appreciated. Please send them to
kris_solo@yahoo.com  Thanks! Oh… girls are 19 and in
college, boys are 23 and in last year of college. Oh,
I'm also looking for someone who would be willing to
pre-read this story. E-mail me if you are interested.
Please commment!!
Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon, Sharpies, or
Buffy.

Moon Stalker
by Ziska Ames

Chapter One

	Serena's blue eyes glittered dangerously at the thing
in the middle of her bathroom. She shook wet, red hair
out of her eyes and could feel the die dripping down
her back. She had been in the middle of rinsing her
short, cropped hair in the sink when the zombie had
crashed through her bathroom window.
	It moaned at her and she grimaced in disgust. She'd
just cleaned this place and the zombie had to go and
drip rotting flesh everywhere. She sighed and quickly
twisted out of the way as the zombie suddenly lunged,
apparently intent on eating her for dinner.
	"No can do, babe. I happen to like my head attached
to my body." she grumbled as she leaped out into the
hallway. She wrenched the bokken of the wall and
quickly pulled it from its sheath. The zombie stumbled
out after her and managed to give a fairly impressive
howl. She rolled her eyes and levered the slightly
curved wooden sword at its chest.
	Oblivious to the danger, as zombies tended to be, it
lunged at her, neatly impaling itself on the sword.
Serena quickly twisted to make sure the sword stayed
and released the bokken as the zombie stumbled
backward and fell to the ground. It trashed for a bit
and then died. 
	Serena just looked at the zombie for a moment before
placing her foot on its chest and gripping the
bokken's handle. She ignored the disgusting feeling of
her foot sliding *into* the zombie's chest as she
wrenched the sword free.
	"First things first." She wrinkled her nose against
the smell that was beginning to permeate her apartment
as she dropped the bokken next to her feet and levered
the zombie into her arms. Its dead weight made her
immensely glad for all the training she had done with
Lita at the gym. That girl had worked hard to whip
Serena into shape and she would have to thank her for
it someday.
	She lugged the zombie out the back door and again
thanked the Lord for her bottom floor apartment. With
a bit of struggle she managed to toss the body into
the dumpster and grimaced as she heard the smack of
rotting flesh on rotting flesh. This was the second
zombie to follow her home this week. She was just
thankful that by the time the garbage was picked up,
the zombies had rotted enough that no one noticed they
used to be human.
	Serena glanced down at her now completely disgusting
clothing and sighed. "At least I get to finish washing
my hair now."

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	Serena wasn't that surprised to walk out of the
bathroom wrapped in a towel to find her cat Luna
sitting next to the soiled bokken. She hadn't bothered
to clean it before her shower and Luna hadn't been
home at the time to nag her into it.
	"Serena, you must take better care of your weapons!
What was it this time?" Luna's slightly irritated
voice was belied by the concern in her eyes as she
gazed upon her pupil.
	Serena sighed and picked the bokken up carefully. She
was clean and didn't want any more zombie goo on her.
"Zombie."
	"That's the second one this week! How are they
finding you?" Luna was shocked and a little more than
slightly irritated now. She huffily followed Serena
who had turned away from the ranting animal and moved
towards her bedroom.
	"They're good guessers?" Serena hazarded as she
pulled an over-sized t-shirt out of a drawer.
	Luna sighed exasperatedly and shook her head. "Oh,
Serena. You really aren't being careful enough. You're
good, I'll give you that, but you aren't good enough
to be careless. No one is!"
	Serena turned to glare at her cat. "I'm not careless,
Luna. I don't know how these things keep finding me. I
wore that damned stuff you told me wouldn't leave a
scent for a zombie to follow it. Maybe you gave me the
wrong stuff. Maybe it's your fault!" 
	Luna jumped up onto the bed and looked out the
window, pointedly ignoring Serena's tirade. After a
moment she mumbled, "You never hear of the Mask having
these problems."
	"Well no one hears of my problems either! It probably
happens to him too!" Serena was down right annoyed by
now. Luna was always comparing her to the Mask. And
Serena was sick and tired of it.
	Without even a reply Luna jumped off the bed and
headed to her favorite chair in Serena's small living
room. 
	Serena plopped onto the bed and rolled over to face
the window. She loved her room and had placed the bed
in this position because of that window. Although she
was on the bottom floor, the view was wonderful. The
building was right next to a park and surrounded on
three sides by that very park. Her window was
positioned so she couldn't see the dumpster, but she
could see the sprawling hills and trees of her beloved
Peoples' Park. It was a haven to her. She usually went
there after a fight to clean up before coming in. The
manager had this thing about odd smells and most of
the things Serena fought smelled pretty odd when she
was done with them.
	"You have class in the morning! Don't forget!" Serena
groaned as a reply and rolled over to set her alarm
clock.
	"What possessed me to take English Lit at eight
o'clock in the morning, I just don't know." 

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	"Knock, knock, sleepy head!" Serena's eyes opened as
a gentle fist knocked lightly on her forehead.
	"Be gone, foul demon!" she cried as she jerked awake
and leaped out of the bed, successfully pinning her
friend Raye to the ground.
	"Hey! Get off me, you dork!" Raye cried as she
struggled against Serena's hold.
	"Nope. You woke me up before the alarm. That means
it's before six-thirty. I can't believe you would to
that to me, Raye! You know how late my nights can be."
Serena growled as she shoved Raye's shoulder blades
into the carpet.
	"Okay, I'm sorry! How was I to know you were working
last night!"
	"Cause I work almost every night." Serena growled as
she rolled off Raye and to her feet. Raye mumbled to
herself a moment and Serena definitely caught the
words 'mental institution.'
	"No prob, babe. Send me away. Then you get my job!"
Serena said with mock-cheerfulness and a rather evil
looking grin. Raye paled slightly and shook her head.
	"You can keep it. I don't think I'll ever be able to
enjoy killing. Even if it's killing the scum of the
earth."
	Serena sobered for a minute, then nodded. Two years
ago she wouldn't have believed that she could enjoy it
either. But lately she'd been getting such a rush.
Enjoying it with a fierce pride. And it scared her. It
was also something she hadn't mentioned to Luna or
Raye yet, and she wasn't sure she should. 
	Raye was gentle by nature, no matter how she tried to
project herself. Serena supposed being a priestess did
that to you.
	Raye's gentleness had been what attracted Serena to
her in the first place. When they had first met Raye
had been yelling at Serena for sneaking onto the
temple grounds. At least, she was yelling till she
noticed the rapidly mummifying body behind Serena.
Choking off her words Raye had nodded silently and, to
Serena's surprise, helped her carry the body to the
temple dumpster. 
	After that abrupt change in personality, Raye had
done it again, suddenly plying Serena with questions
and wanting to know everything. That day Serena had
learned a lot and finally gained a true friend,
besides her cat. 
	Serena shook herself out of her memories and pushed
Raye out of the room so she could change. Emerging a
moment later in her infamous graffiti pants and a
green t-shirt she found Raye sitting on the couch
petting Luna. Raye's eyes sparked at Serena's choice
of clothing.
	"Oh good! I was hoping you'd were those. I have the
best thing to write on them. Pen?"
	Serena reached into her pocket and removed the black
Sharpie she carried with her almost everywhere. Raye
seized it and feel to her knees next to Serena's leg.
Uncapping the pen she leaned almost sideways and
started to write on Serena's jeans. Serena giggled a
little as Raye hit a ticklish spot then absently
admired her pants. She loved this old pair of jeans.
The knees had been patched twice and always recovered
with writing. People's names and drawings sprawled all
over her pants, even overlapping in places. As Raye
finished and stood up handing Serena the pen, Serena
glanced at her left leg, where Raye had been writing.
	Sprawled up the back of her leg from her foot to her
knee was written "Buffy Girl."
	"Oh great Raye. People'll think I'm a Buffy fanatic."
Serena said rolling her eyes.
	"But it's so close to the truth!" Raye protested as
she gazed upon her work. "You are a vampire slayer." 
	"And a witch slayer, and a zombie slayer, and a
'shifter slayer, and a werewolf slayer… the list goes
on." Luna sighed from the couch as Serena ran off the
list of her prey.
	Raye grinned and finally noticed Serena's hair. "Oh
my gosh! What did you do?!" 
	"Died it." Serena said defiantly. "This'll make it
harder to see me in the dark. My blonde hair was so
bright!" she complained half-heartedly. She'd always
liked the color of her hair, such a pure blonde, but
it really did make it hard to sneak around in
alleyways behind vamps if there was an moon at all.
	"Well, that's obvious." Raye said, pouting slightly.
She circled Serena slowly taking in every angle as
Serena glared at her. 
	"I'm not on display you know." Serena said acidly.
	"Of course not, dearling." Raye said patronizingly as
she patted Serena's arm. Serena's glare deepened.
"Actually, it looks good. But I can't wait to see
Mina's reaction. We're meeting her for breakfast."
	"Oh. In that case we better go." Serena said glancing
at the bronze clock on her table.
        "We're going to be late!" Raye yelped. Leaping
forward she grabbed Serena's arm and hauled her out of
the apartment. 
	"Bye Luna!"

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	"Raye! Serena! Over here!" Serena glanced around till
she saw Mina's hand waving in the air. She waved back
and grabbed Raye's elbow with her free hand. 
	"Come on. Mina's over there."
	"With two guys!" Raye put in happily. "But only two?"
She seemed a little sad by that. One of them was going
to be guy-less!
	"You can have them." Serena said as they approached.
"I've no use for males." 
	"Hey guys." Mina said cheerfully as Serena and Raye
sat across from her and the guys. Raye turned slightly
and smiled at the guys.
	"Hi, I'm Ra-" she was cut off my Mina's squeal of
astonishment.
	"You cut your hair!" 
	"Well, duh!" Serena snapped, then smiled to show Mina
she was kidding.
	"But why?"
	"Uhh… I've always wanted to." Serena said carefully.
She couldn't tell Mina it was so the vamps wouldn't
see her coming. Mina surely wouldn't react well to
that at all.
	"Oh." was Mina's very short reply. She looked at
Serena for a moment, then brightened, bestowing the
boys beside her with a dazzling grin. "Forgive me. I'm
so rude. These are my friends Serena and Raye." she
pointed to each in turn then faced her friends. "And
this is Darien and Diamond. They're exchange students
from Australia!" 
	Serena nodded politely and started to eat her food
while Raye and Mina gushed over the guys. Ignoring the
conversation Serena carefully studied the guys under
half closed eyelids.
	The first, Diamond, had longish white blonde hair and
deep purplish eyes. The coloring definitely surprised
Serena. She wondered briefly if he was a native of
Australia. As he chatted with Mina and Raye her eyes
slid to the other guy.
	Darien didn't look like he was enjoying the
conversation much either. He was paying polite
attention, but paying much more attention to his food,
much like she was. His blackish hair hung into his
eyes and his blue eyes seemed distracted. Serena
gasped a little when he suddenly turned to face her,
looking directly into her gaze. 
	The gasp managed to cause a piece of egg to go down
the wrong way and Serena was suddenly choking. Almost
instantly she felt someone pounding gently on her back
as the egg finally found its way down the right tube.
She looked up through watering eyes into Darien's
worried gaze.
	"Are you okay?" he asked softly and she was struck by
how deep and melodious his voice was. She nodded
slowly, stunned by his hand which was still resting on
her back.
	Suddenly her body took over when her mind refused to
function. She stiffened like a board and turned away
from Darien.
	"I'm fine. Thank you." She said in a crisp, clear
voice as she stood up and seized her mostly empty
tray. "Now if you will excuse me, I have a class
soon."
	She left Mina, Raye, Darien, and Diamond staring
after her as she walked out the commons door.