You'd be surprised how one person can affect the world. Let's take the series 'Sailor Moon' and poor Neflyte for example. How much of a difference could he of made to the story if he hadn't been killed? Well read on and find out. Oh and I know that the story and chapter one title are a bit over done, but what can I say - it just fits in.

Sailor Moon is copyright (c) 1992 Naoko Takeuchi/Kodansha, TOEI Animation. English Language Adaptation (c) 1995 DiC Entertainment

In the shadows a veiled spirit watched as three youma attacked Neflyte and Molly. She sighed softly. "I cannot allow this to happen as fate would have it. My daughter will need them, and he will make such a change in both girls. I have to intercede. Come to this place quickly, Sailor Scouts. Molly, don't give up."

And with that she was gone. But the spells that she had cast still remained. Only time would tell if they would change what history would have remembered. The three youma revealed themselves just as the translucent woman disappeared.

"Getting careless, aren't you? Those thorns will suck your energy and shrink your body to Negadust." Grape chuckled as Neflyte struggled against the pain ripping apart his shoulder. "If you don't want the girl hurt, give us the star crystal!"

Neflyte finally pulled it out and threw it with all of the force he could muster. "Fine, it's yours!" Neflyte couldn't believe what was happening. He wasn't interested in protecting his star crystal that he once had safely in his pocket, he didn't even notice how he had just turned traitor by first attacking Yasha, then Zoicite and her trio of youmas.

Neflyte was worried for the life of some foolish mortal girl who had a crush on him! What was worse was that he actually felt something for her in return. How had he gotten himself into this mess?

Was it the fact that Molly had rescued him from Beryl's wrath not too long before? Could it have been when Molly stepped between himself and certain death from Sailor Moon's tiara disk? Neflyte couldn't pinpoint when this had all started, but he knew for certain that Zoicite wasn't going to take Molly's life away - not so long as there was breath left in his weakened body!

Zoicite appeared and laughed. "You're pathetic, Neflyte. First you lose your crystal, and now you lose your girlfriend too. We don't tolerate traitors."

"Heartless creature," he groaned out as she disappeared. He knew that the Delta girls would destroy Molly the moment he was gone. Zoicite didn't have to give the order; those three youmas enjoyed crushing innocent lives.

But the deadly thorns were steadily draining away his energy and he knew it wouldn't be long before he'd be gone. Right then his only concern was for Molly.

"Now get outta here!" He didn't mean to sound harsh or cruel as he roared at her. All Neflyte wanted was to get Molly as far from those bitches as he could. His life was nothing more than a waste, but Molly had years ahead of her and a heart full of love that he didn't want to see stilled all too soon.

Molly had other ideas - the hardheaded stubborn nature she held within herself that had made him look twice at her was showing, and at full strength. "No!"

Neflyte adored her willfulness, but this was neither the time nor the place for it. He pushed her back hard, trying to make her leave. "Run!"

"Oh no ... No!" Molly screamed in her terror of losing him. The man who had continuously lied to her since the moment they met, the man who had used her time and again, the man she refused to let go of.

Molly knew that he had been evil for so long, but she also knew that he had once been a very good man - and that he was slowly becoming that man again. This wasn't right! Neflyte deserved the chance to change!

She ran over and started to tug hard on one of the five thorns that were slowly killing him. The second her skin made contact with the thorn, she felt her own energy being sucked away. It hurt so much, she couldn't imagine having one of them in her ...much less five! Molly gritted her teeth hard and yanked with all she had. She was Neflyte's only chance to survive!

Neflyte tried to push her away, knowing that there was no use, he was going to die and if she held onto the thorns too long she would be joining him. "No! Don't be foolish! Run!"

Molly again took a firm hold of one thorn, ignoring the Delta Girls' comments of how she'd never get the thorns out. She had to; Neflyte would die if she didn't. She would let him use her energy to survive and heal without question, but it wouldn't do any good if the thorns were still sucking his energy away!

"Quickly. It's all right. Stop!" She heard Neflyte's voice and felt the thorns again draining her own energy as she pulled on them, but didn't care. He needed her. That was all she knew right then. That was all that she cared about.

Molly pulled all the harder, and felt the thorn slowly begin to give way! She just had to keep trying. Again she ignored the Delta Girls' startled comments of how she was moving it. She focused on the thorn and her love.

"Neflyte, don't die! Please don't die!" she cried as the thorn came half way out. There were still four others, but did she have enough time to remove them all?

The third Delta Girl called Blast chuckled at this. "Now I'll have to get rid of them both! Farewell!"

But before Blast could shoot her bombs at them another voice sounded in the park - the voice of Sailor Moon. The Scouts had heard the spirit's plea in the nick of time! "Hold it! Just because they're in love, you want to torment them, and that's not right. In the name of the Moon, I'll punish you!"

"And in the name of Mercury, I'll punish you!" Sailor Mercury called out. She didn't know then, but life was about to take an interesting turn for her and the Scouts. And it was all because of the one they all knew, but couldn't remember.

Mars stood beside her and yelled out, "On behalf of Mars, I will punish you!"

The Delta Girls all turned said, "We'll deal with you first. Attack!"

Molly didn't pay any attention to the battle; Neflyte was the only one that mattered to her right then. Finally the thorn came out, and Molly hit the ground from the force she had been using to pull on it. As she got up to grab the next one, Neflyte grabbed her arm. "Molly, stop before you hurt yourself! The thorns will drain your energy as well!"

"I don't care!" Molly fought his grip until she had a good hold on the next thorn, and then began to pull even harder on it than the first. She barely heard him groan out in a hoarse whisper, "But I do."

Luna looked over at the pair just as Molly yanked even harder than before, bringing out a shimmering white symbol - the symbol of a planet that had burned into dust within the corona of the sun ... the symbol of Sailor Solaris!

Just as her symbol appeared, Molly tore out the second thorn. Then she removed the last three seemingly without trouble, as if she had a new strength born within her the moment her past was revealed to Luna and Neflyte revealed that he really cared about her. "Neflyte. Hold on, please. We'll get a doctor and then everything will be okay!"

"Molly, I have no energy left to hang on. Sorry we can't go have that parfait after all. That was one lie I never meant to tell you." Neflyte slowly began to close his eyes and allow the darkness to embrace him.

"No! Don't give up! Take my energy if that's what you need! I don't want to lose you!" Molly wept on his chest.

By now the battle was over with, and the Scouts were surrounding the couple. They had heard Molly's last desperate cry, and Sailor Moon quickly made a decision. "He can have some of my energy too. You used a lot of your energy, Molly, when you pulled those thorns out, and we can't lose either of you. Neflyte, do you hear me? For Molly's sake, try to do it."

Mars and Mercury too asked that he take part of their energy as well. All four girls joined hands, while Molly and Sailor Moon rested their free hands on his shoulders. Sailor Moon had a point, with that crystal and the power of the Negaforce behind her, what was to stop Zoicite from hurting Molly ... or worse? He gently took only enough to heal himself to the point of surviving until he could do it himself - and the most of it he got from the Scouts, since Molly had spent so much of her own energy freeing him of the thorns that would have cost him his life.

All of the girls became weak from it though. Molly rested her head on his chest as she caught her breath, and Neflyte's shoulder wound healed itself completely. Then Luna came forward. "I'm not sure that you will believe me on this, Molly. But while you were pulling out those nasty thorns from Neflyte's shoulder, I saw a white symbol glowing on your forehead."

Molly was shocked by the fact that a cat was talking to her. "Why is Serena's cat, Luna, talking to me? And what do you mean by some symbol? I'm ordinary Molly, not some Sailor Scout!"

Neflyte forced himself into a higher recline against the tree. The energy had saved him, but he was still very weak. "I saw it too, Molly. And when I drained you I could sense an old connection between us. I can't remember it clearly right now, but I know that Luna is telling you the truth."

Sailor Moon gently touched Molly's hand to gain her attention. "We all had a hard time believing it when Luna first told us, Mol. Myself more so than any of us I think. But, she's never been wrong yet. Luna, go ahead and give her the transformation stick."

"Yeah, just be grateful you didn't get your stick in the middle of a battle!" Mars chuckled as Luna did a double back flip, producing the gold and white stick.

Mercury chuckled at that. "Yes, I remember when I got my stick I was being attacked by a youma and Sailor Moon was cornered by the students in my computer class who had fallen under its evil spell."

Molly looked at an obviously worn Neflyte, who smiled and gently nodded that everything was all right. Molly picked up the stick and could feel something vibrating within it that echoed a new vibration inside her body.

"Now hold it above your head and say Solaris Power." Luna explained.

Molly felt shy, and didn't know whether or not she should. She wasn't a super hero, like Sailor Moon or Sailor V. She was just an ordinary girl from Crossroads Jr. High. But, when Neflyte rested his hand on the small of her back and smiled at her, she knew that she hadn't been that girl in a long time.

She stood up, held the stick over her head, and cried out "Solaris Power!"

A circle of white light appeared at her feet, and then slowly began to move up her body - while winds buffeted her hair and the bottom of her ruined pajama top up. Shimmering light floated up and wrapped around her, pulling her arms outwards as she relaxed and allowed what would happen to happen.

The circle of light shimmered and twirled around her as her clothes changed along its upward path. Soon Molly was wearing white boots that were like Sailor Moon's, only they had a glittering gold stripe to them that was outlined with silver. Her legs were bared as the transformation spell erased the bottoms of her pajamas.

In fact her nightgown quickly became a Sailor Scout uniform with the colors white and the same glittering gold and silver that were on her boots. She was wearing sparkling gold sun earrings, and had a diamond in her tiara. The ribbon in her hair was removed leaving her hair down.

Once it was done she crossed her arms and shifted all of her weight to her right foot in her pose. "I really am Sailor Solaris?" Molly gasped in her surprise.

"Yep! Nice to have ya with us, Mol!" Sailor Moon chuckled as she and the other Scouts ran over and gave Molly a hug.

Molly was too stunned by the truth to realize what was happening around her, until she noticed Neflyte too was standing. "Does this change things for us, Neflyte?"

"No. I just don't see why you didn't let me die. After all of the times that I have lied and used you, I deserved to die."

Neflyte was surprised when Molly walked over and wrapped her arms around his waist, resting her head next to his heart. "I told you before, Neflyte, your heart has never deceived me. It's your heart that helps me know when you're lying."

"What do you mean, Molly?"

Another voice answered before she could say a word. "She's talking about the rare bond you two have that connects your hearts forever."

"Momma?" Molly muttered before clamping her mouth shut with her hand when she realized that she couldn't tell others she was a Sailor Scout.

Mrs. Baker smiled as she came into view. "Don't worry dear, I've been seeing this coming for a long time. It's nice to see you again, Luna. I hope that Serena hasn't been too much of a problem for you."

"Serena? Serena's a Scout?" Molly gasped.

Sailor Moon groaned as she changed back into Serena. "And here I thought I only had to worry about Neflyte giving my secret away."

"I'll never tell anyone, Serena. You and the others Scouts could've let me die rather than feed me energy to heal myself on. I don't understand why," Neflyte admitted as he pulled Molly into his arms after she transformed back to her normal self.

"You mean something to Molly, and that's important to us. Guess we should introduce ourselves, eh, Mercury?" And with that Sailor Mars became Raye.

"You're that girl from the Cherry Hill Temple! Um ... it's Raye, right?" Molly asked nervously, relieved when Raye smiled and nodded.

Sailor Mercury became Amy again. "And you're Amy, the smartest girl in school! It's weird how you look so different when you're Scouts."

Mrs. Baker smiled at Molly. "That's so no one will ever guess at who all of you are. Now, we will all meet at the temple tomorrow afternoon - the story can wait until then."

Luna looked hard at Mrs. Baker before a look of complete and happy recognition came over her. "Queen Jessica of Solaris! Queen Serenity was able to save you as well?"

"Yes, so I could help you by re-training the girls in the ways of the Court. But that's for tomorrow, since there's no school on Saturday. Tonight, we will all need our rest. Neflyte, I think that Molly will feel safer if she had you with her - do you think you could stay with us tonight?" Neflyte nodded as he wrapped his jacket around Molly's shoulders and held her close to his chest. Everyone left for home with Mrs. Baker driving them, while Neflyte transported himself and Molly to her room.