Prologue - Part 2
-A few Years Ago-
Standing on the top of a tall, majestic crystal tower was the reincarnation Prince of Earth and his wife - also the reincarnation of the Moon Princess from once a prosperous empire from eons ago-. The couple, dressed in their previous royal clothing was in a deep embrace, the taller one wrap his arms around the smaller of the two. The gentle winds blow his dark cape and his wife white dress and her long blonde, silver in the moonlight is a gentle sway.
The princess, once were named Princess Serenity in her old life but now called Usagi, cry silently with tears falling down from her large blue eyes. Her face was painted in deep sadness and pain, her whole body shock with each breath she takes. Her husband, Prince Endymion, now known as Mamoru eye their surrounding while holding her close.
The alien invasion, know as the Ice Queen had turn their hometown, their beloved city into an icy warzone, with bodies trap in frozen ice and building buried under mountains of snow and ice. The whole city was covered in total darkness, as the invasion had freeze and cut all electricity in the city, the only light come from the full moon in the sky and their crystal tower. Her guardian, their solar sailor scout was standing in various level of the tower. Some was treating their injuries, others are surveying their surrounding but all was watching their princess crying, waiting for her to calm down and her to make their next move.
“Mamo-chan…”
“Yes, Usako?”
“This is our fault, isn’t it? That’s why my Queen-mother try to separates up before. The combine power of your Golden Crystal and my Silver Crystal will create a massive energy that will attract enemies from all universe to attack us, isn’t it? It’s like a homing becon for them, a signal…and our baby’s birth prove it, that’s why the invasion happen when I was giving birth to our child.” the blonde haired princess ask while lifting her face to look at his eyes. Her eyes was floated with tears that keeping falling down, her face was pale and her body was trembling with occasional spams as she sweats heavily. Clearly, the burden of just having giving birth and using the crystal’s power is taking a toll on her.
“Usako…” Momoru begin, but pause. To be completely honest, he often wonder why people try to separates them in their old life. People give reason that they are a difference spesis, that the Lunamarian are a weird creature with supernatural power and long life, and compare to their powerful empire, Earth is completely normal, but he always thought those are words utter by envy and temptation/rumours by the Queen? Witch? Berryl so he never thought much about it. Still, what Usako say is…might be true. He is the heir, the only heir of the Golden Crystal while Serenity is the heiress of the Silver Crystal, by combining those two together, they will made a formidable force. “Who told you that?” he ask instead.
“Chibiusa….She told me, that in her time, they were always attack by outside force. That’s why Pluto, Uranus, Neptune and Saturn are not with them in the future; they have to fight the outside invasion while Venus and the others handle the inside. That why she was raise in the castle with no friends, that’s why she’s so lonely.” Usagi answer, her voice was quite but loud enough to be heard by others in the quite night.
Hearing that, Sailor Pluto turn her face away. “She wasn’t suppose to tell you that, or anything about the future.”
“So, the future wasn’t as peaceful as we hope? We're always going to fight?” Jupiter ask, looking at the scout of time while standing up from her sitting position next to Mercury.
The long haired scout looks at her, her face clean of any emotion. “She can’t tell you that.” Saturn voice answers her, her eyes dark and wise, making her look older than her youthful face. “The future cannot be told, or can it be change.”
Before Jupiter can open her mouth, Mars raise her arms, stopping her angry tirade. Her beautiful face was painted in an angry scowl. “The future is not set in stone, and even if it was, stone can be broken.”
“But not ours.” Uranus counter back, her eyes bright with controlled fury as she remembers her past and her on-coming future. To go back to the planet she is name after, all alone without her friends or Neptune, she accept it a long time ago. That’s why all of them spend as much time as they can together. It’s their fate as the outer guardian. Taking a deep breath, she look at Neptune, sharing a pained smile before looking back at the couple. “Or even yours, my princess. And we have accept it a long time ago.”
Turning her face away, Usagi remember all the time that they spend together, as friends and fellow guardian. Of ChibiUsa’s words about her time/era, her loneliness and responsibility as the King and Queen's only daughter. Of her friends, unable to chase their dreams in order to fulfil their duty as guardians. To0 busy fighting, to0 busy protecting…
“Usagi-Chan, its ok. We know this will happen eventually even if some of us might not agree with it” Mars huff while crossing her arms and look away, “we already made peace with it and accept it. Its our job as your guardian, and we want to protect you.” Mercury say while looking at her, her smile gentle and sweet.
“Usa…” Venus stop, and shake her head. “Princess Serenity, in our previous life we have fail in our duty to protect you, but we won’t fail you this time. As the leader of your guardian, please, let us protect you.”
“But I…
“My Prince and Princess, please release your subject from their icy prison, by using the power of your crystal and to finally, take your rightful place as the King and Queen of our planets. For the safety of our planets, for peace of ours universe, and for your safety, please, accept your fate.” Helios said as he appears in a flash of soft golden light, carrying a bundle wrapped in a soft pink blanket.
“Helios…” the tall prince say as he turn to face the High Priest while his wife walk forward to accept their child. Seeing Usagi softly kissing their baby, his expression change to tender and thoughtful. All he wanted was his family, compare to that, others seems minor. But Usagi? She value peace, her friends and their happiness.
To accept the crown will mean peace, an empire strong enough to fend off any enemy, but will also meant losing her precious friend.
Once upon a time, Usagi thought she might accept it, because she is just so sick of war. Of fighting. Of losing her friends, again and again until she was the last one standing. But now?
Now, all she wanted was to stay with her family and friend.
Looking at Mamoru, she sure he agree with him.
With a wave of their hand, their staff appears. Hers was a long, silver colored with a heart shape core at the top, containing her Silver Crystal, decorated with several colored diamond and crystal, looking so beautiful and elegant in her hand. While Mamoru’s was a long golden staff with a simple, but elegant looking crown like core at the top, containing his Golden Crystal. Together, standing side by side, the couple is a picture of royalty and power. And seeing them like that, all of their scouts stand and circling them, with Helios standing in front of the couple.
This might seems selfish, thoughtless and greedy of me, but I am so tired…of fighting, of wars, of losing, of winning, of sacrifice…there have to be another way to end the fighting, and win the war forever.
I just wish, more that anything in the world….
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“No matter how far you run, you cannot change Fate or Destiny, even if you can hide now, they will chase after you in a way you can never imagine.”
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-Present Time-
A cold feeling wash over her whole body, downright to her very soul. She opens her large blue eyes and place her hand above her heart, feeling it beats faster and faster. “What is this feeling?” standing up from her place on the bed, she walk forward, with intention of calling her beloved husband or her friends. But as soon as she walks out of her bedroom door, she saw a bright light shining from her daughter’s room. With a heavy feeling, she walks towards the room.
Stopping at the entrance, Usagi’s blue eyes immediately zoom in on the object on top of her daughter’s bed, and her face quickly turns pale. “No way….that’s impossible…”
Floating softy in her youngest daughter bed, surrounded by white light, was the Silver Crystal. The crystal that she hidden inside the secret compartment in her wardrobe, the crystal that loses its powers years ago, is suddenly in front of her, shining with its full power in display.
Usagi can fell her knees shaking and her heart beating wildly. Slowly she reaches her hands toward the crystal, when suddenly a loud crash renounce inside the quite house, making her jump backwards. She can hear the sound of small legs running upstairs, just as she turn around, her youngest daughter, Kousagi appear in front of her. Seeing her mother, Kousagi finally stop running, her whole body shakes as she takes deep breath and stare at her mother with a lost look, as if she’s wondering who Usagi is.
Her normally careful styled hair, twin odangos is in disarray as if she run all the way home, her face red and flushed, her cheeks was covered with lines of tears that keep falling. Usagi eyes widen as she look at her beloved child. Never has she seen Kousagi look so sad, heart-broken and angry. And her eyes, its chill her badly, her eyes no longer held her childish innocent or happiness, but instead it shown her broken heart and anger. The little girl look so miserable and sad that it makes tears gather at her own eyes. “Kousagi-chan..”
Usagi open her arms to her child, but Kousagi continue to stare at her with its lost look, before its shift towards the bright light behind Usagi’s.
“How could they. After everything that I done for them, after everything that I do for them, how could they say that about me….It’s hurts, it’s hurt so much….”
“Mama, papa, nee-chan…..someone please, take these feeling away. Take these pains away…I can’t breathe, I can’t think, it’s too much…it’s hurt too much, my heart can’t take it….How could they…”
CRACK
As if it was hearing her thought, the crystal flew towards her. As the crystal stop in front of her, its light covered the small child entire body, changing her outfit to a sleeveless, high collared mermaid-style white dress, with a small pearl tiara on top of her head and a dangling moon and stars earrings, her arms is covered in a long transparent glove with a few gold, silver and pearl bracelet. Her hair, which look so messy before was suddenly righted itself and seems to be longer than usual. Usagi give a loud gasp when the symbol of the Royal White Moon family, the golden crescent moon appear on her forehead. Panicking, she try to reach her daughter but the crystal give another brilliant burst of white light that throw her further into her daughter room.
CRACK,CRACK
Kousagi continue to stare at the crystal as if she is in trance, opening both of her palm so that the crystal can float on top of it. Usagi try to stand up and go to her daughter, but she somehow twisted her legs and cannot stand properly. “Kousagi-Chan! Kousagi-Chan! Wake up! Baby wake up, please! Kousagi-Chan!”
“It’s hurt...”
“What?” a puzzle frown appear on the older blonde face as she look at her daughter.
CRACK,CRACK
“Its hurt, so much….I felt that my heart going to break, like my soul being tore apart.” Kousagi murmur softly, as tears flown down on her cheeks. Her eyes are empty as she look at the crystal, ignoring her mother.
“Chibi-chan?” A voice suddenly appears from below the stair. Usagi recognise the voice of her eldest daughter, Small Lady –or Usa as she call herself-. Say girl was staring at her little sister with wide, red eyes. Taking a few hesitate step towards the stair, she was stop dead when Kousagi’s words reach her ears. Never had she hear her sweet, adorable little sister tone of voice sound so angry, so dead.
“If that what you guys wanted, then I will grant that wish of yours…and break everything.”
CRACK,CRACK,CRACK,CRACK
A bright flash of white light
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-A few Days Later?-
“Good morning girls!” Mina cheerfully greats AmiKo, ReiKo and MaKo who was crowed in front of her seats “It’s been days since I last saw you girls, with the school closing and all, and no one even bothered to call me too!” The young blonde huff.
“That because the line is dawn, Blondie. Including electricity and waters too. Didn’t you know that?” ReiKo ask, raising one of her eyebrow.
“Opss, you caught me. Heheh.” Mina smile sheepishly.
“Yeah, what’s up with that anyway? Mom won’t let me out of the house at all.” MaKo say while offering the blonde one of her cupcakes.
“According to my mother, a few years ago the same thing happens. Electricity, telephone line and water supply was cut out for days. She says the government has given a strict instruction, that if it happens again, all citizen must stay inside of their house at all time until further notice. That’s why work and school was cancel.” AmiKo stated.
As the girls wonder about it in silence, Mina look around trying to spot Kousagi, before remember something and snap her fingers. “Hey, before the incident, did you girls saw that light?”
“Which one? The white flash or the pink one?” MaKo ask.
“You girls saw it too? I meant both of them. Its so strange, the light was so obvious, but when I ask my mum she says she didn’t see anything.” Mina says while pushing back her long blond hair behind her ear.
The other three look at each other before looking back at their blond haired friend. “You know, the same actually happen to us as well. Nobody but us saw it.” Looking around, ReiKo looks at the clock at the front of the room and then scowl.
“How strange. What do you guys think it is?” AmiKo ask while putting on her glasses.
“I don’t know. A UFO, maybe?” MaKo suggest, looking amuse but curious at the same time.
“You’re joking right, MaKo-chan. There’s no such thing as UFO, you know that right?” Mina look amusedly at her friend.
“Hahaha, you never know. Stanger things happen right?” the tallest in the group says with a wink.
“Eugh, will you stop talking about that. As long as I’m concern, that incident never happens.” The priestess-in-training says while glaring at them. “And look at the clock, it almost time and that baka-Kousagi is still not here. She’s going to get us all in trouble.”
AmiKo look at the clock and frown. “You’re right. I really wish she stop giving us trouble, and that the sensei stop connecting us to her.”
Before nobody can answer or agree with her, their classroom teacher walk in, in time with the bell. “Alright everyone, please take your seat. Its good to see all of you again in good condition. Although, not all of us is here I’m afraid. Ok, I’m going to take your attendances now.” Their teacher, a tall women with a short black hair in a stylish red button down, and a straight cut white skirt, name Miss Rie, call out to them. One by one name was call and listed down on her books. After a while, the tall women close the book. “Alright, that is everyone. Before we begin, I have an announcement to make.”
Curious and a bit alarm, Mina quickly raises her hand. “Excuse me, Miss Rie, but you didn’t call Kousagi-Chan’s name. Umm, not that she here by the way.”
Looking at her, the teacher smile a bit sadly. “That because she’s quit, Mina-chan.”
“What?” Mina, AmiKo, ReiKo and MaKo ask loudly at the same time, each one standing up from their seats.
“Earlier this morning, Mr.Chiba has come to school to withdraw Kousagi-Chan from school and to gather her reports and belongings. According to him, their whole family decided to move away becouse of his work. They were supposed to leave next month, but somehow they seemed to be in a hurry. I guess the incident made them push their planning forward. They are leaving this morning. Therefore, as in today, Kousagi Chiba is no longer a student here at this school.”
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“There is only one way to save her, but it will be dangerous. Very dangerous, and you have to do it alone.”
“You say it yourself, that I’m the only one that can save her. She’s my little sister, I can’t let her die! Please, tell me how? I’ll do it.”
“The only way to save her is to go back in time, to the past and find SailorMoon.”