Millennium
By:K-Chan
INTRODUCTIONS:
Hello Minna-San! I am K-Chan, long time Moonie and first time Fan fiction "Author." I've had this mulling In the back of my head for years and finally decided it was time to share it with all of you! I Hope everyone enjoys the work. Please feel free to leave comments, and reviews I am new to all of this and wouldn't mind the input of the readers out there. After all, it's all for you guys and gals isn't? ;)
NOTES ON THE STORY FOR THE FANS:
This particular fan fiction is based within the Silver Millennium time line of the Sailor Moon Universe.
It incorporates many aspects and story lines from nearly all of the versions of Sailor Moon, from the original Manga and Anime, to that of the Live Action series with my own twist on things, of course. (isn't that what a fan fiction is?)
We all know what happens in the end of the Silver Millennium,but what I have always been fascinated by was what went on during that time? I am pretty sure it wasn't all rainbows and roses that's for sure...
On the names: I do use the original Japanese names for this piece of fiction which maybe a little confusing for those unfamiliar with the Japanese versions. If you are confused as to who is who, I highly recommend checking out on the data, as well as the Wikimoon online which is a great source of all things Sailor Moon Universe info.
THE DISCLAIMER!
Obviously I am not the owner,nor creator of Sailor Moon, or any of its versions. That honor goes to Naoko Takeuchi. I make no money off of this piece at all,it's for fun and fun only. So, there ya go kiddies now read on!
Prologue
The stars were pin points in the eternity within the fabric of space as a woman, golden bright and fierce, floated alone, her force field flickering within the darkness of space, searching...
Here, far out on the outter rim, it was highly unlikely she'd find anything, but that didn't mean there couldn't be anything out there...waiting...
Still, even this thought of possible threat to the kingdom seemed only a fleeting one. There had been no war or threat of invasion for decades and the treaty of the "Silver Millennium" which was created by Queen Serenity of the Moon herself, and signed by the fellow Planetary states practically guaranteed a lasting peace for generations if not a millennia as the treaty purposed, for the Moon Kingdom as well as the rest of the Galaxy.
Through hard work, and the bloodshed of millions, peace had finally been forged. A long held and stifled dream achieved. But with this new peace, brought an unexpected price-that of relevance.
Where once she, Galaxia was a warrior of justice, power, and peace, now she, and the other Senshi that soon followed, were becoming relics and living artifices of an age past.
These patrols were little more than training exercise now to her but she did them gladly in the spirit of duty to her Queen.
But as these thoughts of lasting peace and duty filled Galaxia's mind, she was soon filled with the distinct feeling she was being watched...
Swiftly she turned around, her golden sword flashing into existence as she held the elegant weapon in her hands, her golden eyes scanning for any sign of danger. The presence grew...
"Galaxia..."
"Show you're self! I am Sailor Senshi Galaxia, First of Senshi of the Moon Kingdom! I order you to come forth!" She said. Her voice commanding, heavy with the weight of a life time of duty, authority.
"Galaxia...Come..." the voice breathed.
Suddenly, the stars disappeared, sucked away into the black hole that had suddenly appeared under Galaxia's feet leaving her in utter darkness.
A flash brighter than the sun burned her eyes behind her eyelids as she closed them. The light was so bright , as if all the suns of the universe were centered within that black hole...
The heat was unbearable to her in the golden armor that now shined with the brilliance of heated earth,red hot and slowly cooking her, burning her alive.
And then, as if something read her thoughts, it stopped.
Galaxia opened her eyes, sword in hand, ready to fight, but then, paused. A gasp slipped through her lips. Where there had been nothing but darkness now floated beneath her feet, a whole galaxy. The brilliance of a trillion new stars, planets,moons swirled, several arms of them, their brilliance reflecting off Galaxia's armor, her eyes...
"No this is not a new galaxy my child," it said.
"W-what is it" she asked, the words hardly able to escape her awe s trucked lips.
"This...is Life..." it said before darkness and light engulfed Galaxia into oblivion.
Chapter I
"THWACK!"
"TWACK!"
"PFFFT!"
"Faster! Move faster!" Artemis yelled as a foot zoomed past like a green smudge nearly hitting his face.
"And focus!" said Luna as she avoided certain death by impalement from a sharp stiletto heel clacking harshly on the training halls flooring. "Sorry!" Sailor Jupiter yelled back , her brunette hair whipping behind her as she readied a punch for her opponent, but swirled around just in time to flip over the ball of fire that raced from Sailor Mars fingertips towards Jupiter.
The Burnett landed gracefully on her feet with a satisfying click-clack on the floor.
"Ha! Beat that Mars!" she taunted in triumph,a hand resting on her hip.
"Hey, Jupiter, beat this!" said a voice behind her.
"What?" Jupiter said but too late, she had been too slow as a flash of golden whip lashed out and around her ankle, tugging tight like a vice.
"SUPREME...!" Jupiter yelled, reading her power attack,but suddenly was interrupted by a stream of shimmering bubble and water that shot next to her,surprising the Burnett and hitting the tall blond at the end of the whip.
Sailor Venus responded in kind as she cartwheeled one handed, avoiding the attack, and with the other hand shot a powerful beam attack at Sailor Mercury.
Mercury was hit square in the chest by the blast,but recovered gracefully with an elegant flip,her look determined.
"FIRE SOUL!"
Again Jupiter rolled, dodging the hellish attack but only barely, her green skirt smoldering,and sindged on the edges as she got up, and running into Venus' Beam while Sailor Mars closed in behind her-
And then,suddenly, a white arm appeared around Sailor Mars shoulders,neck, as a tall man,thin and handsome with long silver white hair and the thin crescent of the moon,its two points like horns glinted in the sunlight on his brow behind her.
"Always be aware of your surroundings. Don't let the heat of battle get in the way of common sense..." The tall man said grim, and honest.
Mars inhaled sharply,seething with the quick irritance of frustration before not so politely "Nudging" the man with her elbow squarely into his stomach
"Humph! H-However," the man wisped, gingerly rubbing his stomach. "Good reaction time and improv tactics. You girls are improving greatly with adapting to different environments- Impressive"
The man quickly added as a boyish grin sprouted on his lips. An old defense not unlike a nonverbal equivalent of "please don't kill me I'm only doing my job."
The tall blond walked over then, her hair and tiara shimmering on her forehead as she brushed away the sweat on her brow absent mindedly with a glove covered arm.
"Thanks Artemis. Glad to see you've noticed the improvements. We've all been working hard,but I think I'll have to agree that we need to work even harder on group cohesiveness and environment awareness. We didn't even notice or see Artemis transform! What if it had been a real threat here in the kingdom? The Queen and Princess would have been in danger-killed!"
All of the Senshi stood in grim silence over the last, for it was the soul reasoning of their existence: to protect the royal family at all cost. The fact that they had all failed to notice Artemis was a stark reminder and a slap to the face of all that made up their lives.
Nonetheless, Sailor Senshi Venus made it clear with all her authority as leader that failure was unacceptable.
"AND YOU!" Venus yelled as she whipped around towards Artemis like a torrent "What were you THINKING coming up behind Mars? She could of burned you into a crisp before any of us could have stopped it! Hell, I could have! Stupid. 'WACK' Cat! 'WACK' " With that, Venus banged her gloved fists on his head repeatedly, each answered with a meek "Ow! Ow! Hey! V-Venus damn it- Is this how you Ow! Treat your guardian! Ow! OK, OK,! I am sorry alright? Ow!"
Peels of laughter filled the training hall,dissolving whatever heavy tension was left into a faint memory like bells early in the morning, dispelling the lonely darkness of night.
A messenger came into the training hall then, his white uniform bright and crisp in the afternoon sun that drifted in like warm yellow ribbons through the windows that lined the top of the hall. He bowed curtly in a general direction of both advisors and Senshi whom seemed to be in a laughing fit.
The whole scene looked not unlike school children laughing at a private and off colored joke.
The messenger stood again and said, "Advisor Luna, Her Majesty has requested that you, Advisor Artemis and the Sailor Senshi all should be present in her chamber offices for a meeting immediately."
Luna nodded, saying "Tell her majesty that we all shall meet with her-but, tell me, did her Majesty say why she wanted to see us all? This is a highly unusual request from her Highness Is everything alright?"
The messenger straightened his shoulders a little as he inhaled as if fortifying himself from some on onslaught. His eyes darting quickly from the gaggle of Senshi then back at Luna before speaking, "ahhh, well everything seems to be alright," He said before leaning close to the small feline,his tone dropping to that of a comfortable but hushed whisper "However Advisor, the Queen did seem, rather...off. On edge if I dare say so myself."
"Well, thats understandable,what, with all the diplomatic talks shes been conducting lately. Peace keeping is a full time job and as a parent twice as hard and long. She has her hands quite full."
The messenger nodded.
"Yes. However, this seems more-I dunno, just more than the usual stresses her Majesty's usually under"
Luna paused,her brow furrowing with worry and speculations.
"Mm, well, thank you for the message and let her Highness know that we shall meet her at her offices in due haste."
thoughtfully the messenger bowed again, eyes rolling to the back of his head as the Senshi and Artemis giggled and jousted each other as the messenger turned to leave. For the galaxies strongest warriors they sure didn't act like it...
All of them walked down the lavish hall way deep in thought,silent and grave. Their rhythmic steps the only sound in the palace. Not even the birds sang outside.
"I don't like it. Something is wrong," Mars said, as she brushed her long black hair aside.
"Maybe, be we shouldn't assume anything yet," Mercury said.
"Mercury is right,lets not over react. Lets just see what happens first." Venus consulted, her face oddly stern and focused,as if her words were more for willing herself to believe in them than for the others.
Luna and Artemis,now both transformed into humanoid forms walked side by side in front of the Senshi,calm and seemingly collected as they over heard the girls conversations. Luna blinked her violet eyes as they reached the door to the Royal offices. A breath that she had not been aware she had been holding escaped her lips as Artemis took her hand into his ,and gave it a quick but reassuring squeeze.
"It'll be okay," Artemis whispered.
Luna gave him the best smile she could muster past the butterflies in her stomach and the knot of anxiety that was growing in her chest and nodded.
"I know." she said.
Artemis, smiling warmly at her, then nodded to the guards outside of the large ornate white oak door that now stood tall and imposing before them.
"Your Royal Highness, the Advisors Luna and Artemis, and the Sailor Senshi of the Inner Realms have arrived," the guard said as he bowed.
The advisors and Senshi entered into the offices of Queen Serenity, where the gleam of light and marble covered every surface with its warm glow from a hundred glass panes that encased the dome ceiling, leaving with it a rainbow of color dancing on the shiny marble floors,their feet.
And there, sitting within that light was the Queen herself on the gilded chair of gold and Lazarus. She was everything one would imagine a Queen to look, to act. Tall and beautiful, her long white hair was styled into two buns that gently set on top of her head with beautiful long and shiny locks of hair streaming down each. The stark whiteness of her soft silvery hair only complimented her lilth figure and legendary piercing ice blue eyes that seemed to look to ones soul, and then, reflect it back again with mirth and joy...or defiant and determined.
A single upturned crescent moon adored her forehead no jewels nor necklaces were needed for such a beauty.
The Senshi and Advisors knelt before their queen.
"Rise," Queen Serenity said. Her voice easily carried across the room,splitting itself echo by echo until it fade,like bells on the wind.
The queen was silent as she looked into the eyes of each of her Sailor Senshi and advisors. The silence hung in the air like an ever pressing weight until finally the queen spoke.
"I know all of you must be wondering why I have called you here," the Queen stated.
Silence.
Queen Serenity took a deep breath,exhaled.
"The truth is, I have been given some disturbing news that could well be the largest threat to this kingdom and the stability of our galaxy since before the Great War.."
A gasp that seemed to start from Luna and then outward to the Senshi growing until it filled the whole room with it.
Venus was the first one to speak up,her blue eyes stern,willing. "Queen Serenity, with all due respect, what do you mean? I had thought all of the reports from the Outer Senshi concluded that there were no threats to our kingdom from beyond or within, our borders."
"You are correct Venus. The reports that have been sent to me by the Outer Senshi have indeed concluded that our borders are safe and without threat. However," Serenity stood from her throne, and walked around the large white oak desk before her to stand directly in front of the Sailor Senshi,her steps loud and penetrating, her form filling their visions with their Queen.
"This report of a possible threat comes not from the Outer Senshi, But from Sailor Senshi Galaxia.."
"Galaxia?" Mercury whispered.
The Queen nodded solemnly, then turned to her left as Galaxia and a tall and dark woman appeared as if out of thin air before them. Their forms stark and polarizing: one armored in the golden light of sun and life. The other shrouded in darkness and death.
"Sailor Senshi Galaxia," Venus said,awestruck. All of the Senshi kneeled down to their progenitor, mentor, surrogate mother, founder.
The woman next to Galaxia bowed curtly towards her who bowed her head slightly to the Sailor Senshi before her. Galaxia smiled at them warmly,her pseudo-children, her charges, her Senshi.
They have grown so much...
she thought wistfully. The last time she had seen them they had been little more than children learning the ways of the battlefield. For a time she was their exclusive teacher,mentor,mother, sister battle maiden. She still remembered well meeting each of them and their joy, heart ache, confusions at being chosen Senshi. For it meant that they were destined to serve another,away from their families and own kingdoms for the greater good of a whole galaxy. Once the girls learned how to control their powers, it was time for them to leave the nest and learn new skills, new talents, and new landscapes from others who could show them the way. From time to time, Galaxia would come and visit the girls and see to their progress. But as time went on, this become harder and harder to do as her duties as First Senshi took her to other worlds further and further away from her students. An irony that left the taste of something burnt and bitter in the back of her throat. If this really was the "Silver Millennium" of peace, and prosperity for all, then why was so much of what she cherished most slowly slipping away from her finger tips?
Her thoughts slipped quickly from Galaxia's mind like quick and unwanted pests in the light of day before she bowed before her Queen.
"Sailor Senshi Galaxia, tell them what you have told me of your recent discoveries from your last patrol."
"Yes, your Highness," Galaxia stood up, and began her report in earnest.
"As I am sure Queen Serenity has told you, I have recently discovered a possible threat to our kingdom. But to be honest, I do not even know what exactly this threat is..."
All listened to her intently, but their faces showed confusion even fear in some.
"What do you mean you do not know what it is exactly?" Artemis asked gently.
Galaxia looked past the tall man as if she were seeing things not really there before speaking. Her voice a drifting whisper that carried with it awe, fear, and something...else.
"I have never seen such a thing in all my life or travels. A Being, no. Something greater still than a being, creating a whole galaxy before my very feet, speaking to me..."
"It spoke to you?" Jupiter said.
"Yes." Galaxia uttered, coming back to herself.
"What did it say?" Mars asked.
"It spoke my name...and...," Galaxia stopped seemingly at a loss of words..words she was trying to grasp and yet, escaped her. She furrowed her brow a little. Why couldn't she find the words?
Galaxia...
"Galaxia?" Queen Serenity urged.
Galaxia shook her head as if shaking off an afternoons rain off herself.
"Yes. My apologies my Queen. As I was saying," Galaxia continued.
"It was remarkable, this power, this cauldron of life creating a whole galaxy..the possibilities for its abuse and power could well be immeasurable...and highly dangerous."
Sailor Mars stepped up front then, her face shadowed with her dark thoughts before she spoke,
"I agree Sailor Galaxia. Dangerous not just for its inherent powers of creation,but its political implications. If and when the other kingdoms both friend and possible foe find out about this, they will try to take it and use it for their own ends...and since we have found it first it could well look as if we are being heavy handed in garnering power for ourselves. It is no secret many already charge us of this already for Queen Serenity having under her control the Sailor Senshi...including its founder."
All nodded in unspoken agreement. It was true that many within the realm were displeased with the power in which the Moon kingdom had and envied it greatly. It did not help matters that some were very,very bitter over their daughters being taken from their homes in order to protect another kingdoms princess. Others saw it as currying favor with now the most powerful kingdom within the known galaxy and flaunted this borrowed power to anyone who dared to insult them.
It made for complications within the balance of power that was so easily tipped in the past. But now that all were bound by the Silver Millennium Treaty war had become an ill advised path to power politics.
However, that didn't mean there were not other means of acquiring power...
all of this weighted down on the Senshi,Advisors. But most of all on Queen Serenity.
"We must tread very carefully," Venus concluded.
"So, what is to be done of it then?" Luna asked.
Serenity spoke "For now, it is best if we keep this bound to those of us here and keep it secret from the others till we understand fully what or who this thing is. Galaxia will continue her investigation on this...Galaxy Cauldron while the rest of you stay on alert for any signs of threat or danger."
"But Your Majesty, I had thought this threat was far from our borders," Artemis said.
"It is Artemis. However there is another threat closer to our door step" Said a voice in the corner. Sailor Pluto stepped out of the shadows she had been hiding in,her dark metal staff gleaming menacingly in the waning sunlight.
Artemis face wrinkled into a harsh and worried frown.
"What threat is that Sailor Pluto?"
Sailor Pluto's disturbing red eyes pierced through each of the Sailor Senshi before she spoke. Her answer like a large stone dropped into the pool of their consciousness crushing what little hope any had for peace of mind with one word.
"Earth."
