Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon, nor will I ever. There, I've fulfilled my legal obligations, so don't sue me. I'm poor. All I own is my paper, pencil, and computer. And a funky-looking bobbin-head dog thing.
Rating: PG
Summary: AU-ish. Set after Stars. Chaos has been sealed away, but a new evil is rising. And who is the new senshi?
Author's Note: Okay, I'm using the Japanese names in here, just as a warning for those who don't know them. Hopefully, if you don't, you'll be able to figure it out in context. Also, if I make a glaring mistake, please, please correct me.
Well, then. On with the show.
Gold Star Rising
Prologue
By Jessa
Darkness. {What is this place?}
A point of light in the distance, just a speck at first, then growing as it nears.
The light is blindingly brilliant as it explodes around him. {Aiee!}
As his eyes adjust, he sees flames rising all around. Warmth radiates from them, but they don't burn. {What is going on?}
Shadows dance in the flames, then slowly begin to solidify. {Hmm?}
First, a silver moon and a golden star side by side, standing against an enormous black shadow. The moon shatters and the star fades to almost nothing as the shadow is tremendously reduced.
Ten shining crystals float to a blue-green sphere as the moon reforms and the star regains some of its previous brilliance. {Is this the past?}
The same thing happens again on the blue world, without the star this time.
The blue world rushes closer, details coming clear as it does. Five soldiers stand against a terrible evil. They win, but at great price.
Then a new shadow shows itself. The five soldiers are joined by others, to no avail. A new soldier appears, destroying the shadow. But in the process, the blue world is destroyed. Out of the flames of the burning world rises a closer view of the new soldier; a golden-haired, green-eyed young woman in a red and gold sailor uniform. Her eyes flash fire as she whips her staff around in complicated patterns. As it stops, darkness reigns again.
-end dream-
Chiba Mamoru woke abruptly in a cold sweat. The same dream had been coming to him for several weeks now. It had the feeling of a precognitive dream, but the dark forces had been eliminated months ago.
Or had they?
Sailor Moon had nearly sacrificed her life to seal Chaos away and save the entire galaxy. Mamoru had no doubt that his wife would sacrifice herself again and again to gain the peace she so desperately wanted.
This time, it seemed that they had finally achieved that peace, but if his dreams truly were of the future, then that peace would be shattered once again.
Usagi shifted in her sleep beside him, and her beauty chased all his negative thoughts away. He lay back down beside her and soon fell again into an uneasy sleep...
:o:o:o:o:
In her room at the Sendai Hill temple, Hino Rei woke from the same disturbing dream. Knowing from past experience that she would get no more sleep that night, she got up, dressed, and sat down to meditate. She'd found out before that it was no use to do a fire reading, as she hadn't discovered anything when she'd consulted the sacred fire a week after she'd begun having the dream.The ending was different this time. I wonder who the new sailor soldier is, she thought, and prepared herself to enter a meditative trance.