This is my first Sailor Moon work ever. It's been about 8 years since I last saw the show, but recently I've been getting sort of reacquainted with the series. While its target is aimed for kids and young teens, and the English dub has gone beyond cheesy at times, I have to say that after watching a few episodes over again, I still really enjoy it. A lot of the characters are much deeper and more interesting than I'd remembered them to be, and I thought I would write something about my favorite unrequited couple of all time- Usagi and Demando.
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Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.
-Seneca
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It was all wrong, Usagi thought, unable to stop tears from cascading down her face as she recalled the horrible event once more. We were meant to be! Everything led up to our future… those projections that came to us after Chibiusa appeared… our daughter herself… that future that had shone so clear and bright, the two lovers, Neo Queen Serenity and King Endymion… Wasn't that my whole destiny?
A silent wail rose up within her, threatening to burst out even as she held it in painfully. Now that intricate knot that tied the bonds between present and future had been severed forever. And her life was shattered. Her belief in that omnipotent force, Fate, had carried her from one battle to the next, giving her strength because she knew she would move on into the future until she finally reached that point of stability and eternal happiness when it was all over. The future that had been planned for her, so unclear to others, had been the one thing she had known, and it became as familiar to her as her own name. It was something she could embrace freely because she understood it, understood how everything in her life would unfold.
But it was no longer so. Suddenly, with the death of her most beloved, everything ahead seemed unfathomable and uncertain. What was there left to believe in? It had always been her destiny to fight to save Earth, to eventually become the new Queen of Crystal Tokyo and the Earth one day, to marry Mamoru…
But she had been thrown suddenly from a friendly and clearly lit pathway onto a dim road where every step she took seemed to lead into a trap. Even her friends couldn't revive her from the devastation of this loss. The striking pangs of lost love resounded deeply in her heart, but perhaps even more unsettling than losing the one person she'd ever loved was the sense of losing her place in the universe. Everything she'd believed in went crashing down right before her eyes, and she could no longer hold up the weight of this new despair. That driving force of hope had evaporated, draining her of all her willpower. How could she fight any longer, when she could no longer understand what it was that she was fighting for? Ever since that day when Mamoru died, the universe that she cared for so much as its eternal protector became an utter enigma. Fate had changed its course, and so she too must change; she had to find a way to go on while facing an agonizing and unfamiliar route in the midst of the darkness of death.
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"Will she be all right?" Rei spoke with uncertainty. For days, Usagi had practically imprisoned herself in her own room. She wouldn't speak with anyone, neither friends nor family members, and when the senshi had tried to go up to speak with her, they could only hear a volatile silence that was constantly interrupted by the sound of soft sobs. "I know she's going through a really hard time, but I wish she'd let us go see her. She knows we only want to make her feel better."
"She doesn't seem to want to feel better," Ami said softly. "It's as if the death of Mamoru has destroyed her entire world… and I think it has, in a way."
"What do you mean?" Makoto asked, concern in her voice. "I know she's lost Mamoru, but it doesn't have to be the end of everything. She's so strong that it amazes me sometimes."
"I think there's more to it," Ami said. "Besides, this is how anyone would act after the death of someone important to them. We all liked Mamoru, but Usagi loved him." She spoke these words with sad simplicity, her navy blue eyes deep in thought.
"I wish we could help her," Minako said, tears threatening her eyes. "I never expected anything like this to happen. I was always so sure that it would all turn out all right, that Usagi and Mamoru would be together in the very end."
"I think that this horrible event has made her lose her sense of herself," Ami said. She seemed to understand most deeply what was happening with Usagi, but even so, it wasn't enough to get through to her.
"We should try to talk to her again, though." Rei looked around as she said this, silently asking the others for their support.
"I think we should wait a while," Makoto said. "When she's ready, we'll help her through. Right now she must still be figuring out what's coming next for her, and I think we should let her think about everything before inputting our own opinions."
"Right," The others said in unison.
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Prince Demando sat on his elaborate throne, sipping from a small glass cup of red wine. His gaze was drawn to the projection of Neo Queen Serenity, azure eyes glowering fiercely at him as she stood, fists clenched, wrapped in a lovely white gown that seemed to flow with the movement of the wind. Her wispy golden hair was suspended in the air, gently grazing her dress. The image was so beautiful that once he managed to rivet his eyes from her majestic figure, the entire room seemed to look gray and blurred. She was the most beautiful thing he had ever laid eyes on, and he spent all of his time alone looking upon her lovely frame, unable to draw his eyes from it until necessity called upon him to do so.
For some reason, the effect those angry eyes had on him was the exact opposite of what she had mostly likely intended. Rather than driving him away, they pulled him towards her. When he looked at the hologram, dazzlingly beautiful in its place at the center of the room, it seemed to transcend everything he had ever encountered in his short lifetime. When he sat here, simply gazing in his dark longing, the world seemed small and far away, and the only thing he could think about was her. Even his life's mission of avenging himself on the people of Earth, who had banished his clan so long ago, seemed insignificant when he looked upon that face.
What was it that drew him to her so much? The goddess-like beauty certainly contributed to the powerful feelings that awoke inside him whenever he saw her. But there was something else, too. Something within her made her completely irresistible. Perhaps it was the feeling that he got when he gazed into those eyes, full of righteous fury… that all the justice, the goodness, the love in the world was contained inside that one human being. It was something that attracted him deeply, yet made him afraid at the same time.
He would do anything to make her his…
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Safir looked onto the city of Tokyo gloomily from his palace. His brother had hardly paid any attention to him for the past few days, and he was unhappy about Esmeraude, who moped after his brother day by day, yet refused to give him a chance. The revenge that they had planned was not something that he truly wanted, but he followed through out of loyalty to his brother rather than his own desires. It was frustrating that they would have to fight the Sailor Senshi in order to take over the planet, and he sometimes wondered if it was really worth risking their lives to exact revenge on this small planet that had banished them centuries ago.
"You look deep in thought." Esmeraude smirked. "What's wrong?"
"I was just thinking…" Safir hesitated. "Do you think this is worth it?"
Esmeraude looked at him in surprise. "Worth it?"
"I think that maybe we shouldn't be killing everyone on this planet now. They drove our entire clan out and banished us to Nemesis, but that was a long time ago, and it's true that some of our people were at fault. But isn't that the reason we're fighting, so we can come back to live on this planet? If we do all this now, it's almost as if we're showing that we as a people deserved to be banished." Safir looked troubled as he said these words, suddenly realizing how true they were. "We have other options. We could try to negotiate…"
"Negotiate?" Esmeraude's lips curled up into a snarl. "You're trying to say that Prince Demando's plan isn't right? That we should spare these fools who sent us to that drab planet of Nemesis and left us there to die, not even knowing what kinds of conditions there were?"
Safir looked at her in pain. True, she was beautiful, but she lessened that striking beauty with her arrogance and vanity. Her snarling lips made her look somewhat wicked and repulsive, and those disdainful eyes filled him with a sense of despair. Why couldn't she give up her dreams of being queen, and leave her self-importance behind for once? He had feelings for her, but she simply immersed herself in images of her own glory as his brother's Queen, never giving any attention to the one who truly cared for her.
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"I have a mission to attend to," Demando announced to his minions. "It appears, from the information I have gathered, that the current form of Neo Queen Serenity is a teenage girl, Usagi Tsukino. Her face and form have all been confirmed to match that of Neo Queen Serenity, and apparently her lover, the one known as the future King Endymion, has recently died in a battle with the Senshi's most powerful enemy." Something in his deep violet eyes glinted as he said this. Perhaps there was a chance… it seemed that with the death of Endymion, history had rewritten itself. Now the young Queen-to-be was sad and vulnerable with the loss of her old love.
He could take advantage of the situation, he knew. He could seize her in her weakness and capture her, forcing her to live with him in his palace while he destroyed the Earth and all its inhabitants. It would be everything he had ever wished for, all completed in one fell swoop…
But then there was a tiny feeling that bothered him, almost insisting for him to reconsider as he fantasized about his future plans. And try as he might, he could not set it aside; it was the same feeling he got when he looked at his kind brother Safir, or when he had, on occasion, traipsed upon a rare flower blooming on the cold earth of Nemesis, in times when he was younger and far more innocent.
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There. I just had to begin writing a Demando/Usagi story. As of now I'm not too sure how I'm going to go on with this, but I've got a fairly good idea of how the story will unfold. I'll try to update as soon as possible, since I've gotten really into writing this story. I hope you all enjoyed it for now.
