Hello everyone and welcome to this massive story that has been in the works for over a year now... and only had just now gotten the courage to write it down on paper.

The story came to be after the release of Fire Emblem Fates last year. I played through all three story arcs of the game and became inspired by thoughts of an au.

This story takes the aspect of family from the games, however, I did change up the story in a way. At first in the earliest stages it was a crossover, then I began adding more depth and changing a lot in the story line,

I switched character roles in this story, a TON, and eventually morphed it into the au it is today. This story is basically, INSPIRED by the storyline of fates, it is not a crossover like it started as and contains only a few elements from the game trilogy. In fact it's changed so much that even if you've never heard of or played the game its inspired by, you could read this story on your own and enjoy it just as much.

enough of my babbling, I would like to dedicate this story to my Best Friend, who has been my best friend for over 14 years this year, and was the one who really inspired me into watching sailor moon as she was a fan long before I was (and now bc of her I'm obsessive)

so now I introduce you to Requiem of Roses!

Prelude

There was no weather on Nemesis. The bleak desolate planet on the outskirts of the Silver Millennium was an enigma and often referred to, as the black moon by those living from afar. The kingdom in itself was the opposite of the shining beacon of the empire its neighboring towards, the planet almost dead, unliving and bleak. Forests of still, unmoving and darkened trees, most of which fossilized from the millions of years or the planet's ozone retreating into the cosmos.

The light of the two shining stars known as Hypherma and Calysta lit up the sky in a dull glow, the light shining off the trees and giving a eerie blue glow to the dead planet, the walls of a deteriorating castle glowing briefly with the same light. Within the castle walls was the ruins of a kingdom that existed eons ago, the walls crumbled and tapestries suspended with age.

It was here a woman lay clutching a sack close to her breast, her pencil scribbling notes into her notebook frantically as she passed glances at the world around her. The unnamed woman clutched the bundle close to her as she sat up, the almost absence of oxygen already making her feel lightheaded being on the surface of the ruined planet. She stiffened, feeling the sack squirming a little in her grip, the soft cries of a small baby filling the silent air as the infant had some issues as well with the ozone filled air.

The woman hissed, covering the infant's nose with her cloak to mask some of the planetary gases as she pocketed her notebook and threw the pencil on the ground. Moving quickly and ignoring the sluggishness, she contemplated going back on the ship and finishing her duty in bringing the baby to her destination, however, the thoughts of the situation and guilt heavily nagged at her for even doing so in the first place.

She stopped briefly, glancing down at the almost newborn with sympathy.

The baby was only three weeks old, her face was scrunched up in her sleep and her breathing was strong, but the woman could tell the little one had trouble maintaining the force that kept her breathing on this plane. She knew very well that if the gate wasn't found soon, the baby's life was in serious danger, and quite possibly her own life as well if found.

Jolted with a newfound energy, the woman walked down the many corridors of the castle ruins, her eyes scanning the area looking for any sign of any field of energy that would even come close to being the gate to the planet's clan. It wasn't ideal, bringing a newborn to a planet regarded as the barbaric black moon.

The King of the planet was known as a tyrant, the Queen, squandered and shadowed by the many other mistresses the king decided to take over the years. The king having so many children from these mistresses, at least five as the woman remembered. So a new addition to family would hopefully not raise questions… if found by the right person. She halted her thoughts and the glow from the star Calysta beamed into the corridor, a shimmering veil appearing in the starlight like a ghostly sparkling cloth., a field of unidentifiable energy protecting the world within. The woman let out a strangled breath of relief and she tightened the grip on the baby. She walked to the cloth briskly, reaching out with her right hand to run her fingers through the dome. The feel was like air, but touching the the gleaming cloth like barrier, it rippled out like water, a substance found on very few planets.

It was then there was a hissing sound. The woman jumped a little, the baby beginning to whimper against her chest. The cloth like veil began twisting up her wrist like silvery vines around her wrist and up her forearm, her fingers burning from the prolonging contact of the veil.

'Who invades our domain'

A mans vice rang out from everywhere it seemed, the woman frantically looking around, finding herself locked into place by the barrier's vines.

"E-Excuse me. I apologize. I am a wary traveler having briefly looking for a place to stay…" the woman's voice was soft, but rang through the quiet corridor and the veil rippled in the broken silence. She then felt a cold chill up her spine, feeling as though whomever the planetary gatekeeper was, they were sizing her up. Looking for dishonesty and distrust.

She kept her head held high the baby's whimpering grew more coherent in the silence. There seemed to be a change of atmosphere as the veil unwrapped itself from her hand, having found no significance of character or threat from the woman.

'You may proceed'

The woman sighed and gripped her bundle tightly bracing to pass through the barrier when she felt a warm breath of air on her neck, her hair standing up on end from a sudden chill down her spine. She then felt the need to rush forward, to complete the task given at hand in the first place. Unknowingly, she stepped into the barrier then gasped with a painful screech. Her eyes seemed to pop open from the sudden pain. Her skin began to burn and her hair felt like it was on fire. Her insides felt like they were cooking in a broiler and her breathing become non and between. Her body fell through the other side and she dropped to the ground, the baby's cried muffled at the sudden contact but saved by the woman's charred arms protecting her.

The woman's wide shock filled irises stared clouded and lifelessly. Her body giving away and crumbling as if deteriorating for a while. A soldier walked up to the remains and threaded his fingers through her hair frowning. His green eyes flickering over her body in dismissal.

'One of Galaxia's footsoldiers. Sailor Kon-Mau' .

Sailor Kon-Mau was one of Galaxia's newest recruits, a captured princess from the distant planet of Mau which had also spawned Sailor Tin Nyako. The true sailor guardian of the planet, Sailor Mau, was killed in creation of these footsoldiers, but now it seemed that Kon-mau was dead, or has been dead for a while. Which was the reason she never made it through the veil.

"Only the honest can pass through the veil. It was only evitable that it would consider the undead as dishonest traitors as well."

The man looked up, his hand brushing the deteriorating sailor scouts hair softly.

A middle aged woman in a long black dress stood before him, analyzing the body softly with her icy eyes. Her long white hair braided down the back and decorated with a thing golden braid of fake gold flowers.

"Queen Sophia" the man acknowledged quietly, he bowed his head in respect for the woman. The queen of Nemesisia looked to the body with interest and surprise, "A princess, turned into a footsoldier… Galaxia has become quite desperate these days for power. Its kind of jotting if you look into it.."

" Should we send word to the King and Queen of the planet of their daughters demise?"

The soldier asked briskly, the hair falling from his fingers. "No. I'm positive they're already dead" Sophia stared at the corpse with sad eyes, her body tense with the knowledge of the situation at hand. "If she managed to capture the princess, a civilian and kill the original guardian sailor. Then the chances are low of the King or Queens….or even the entire planet's survival." There was a pregnant silence as they looked down at the fallen princess with forelorn eyes. The silence was broken by the strained chirps beneath the body of the soldier, Sophia jumped, not having noticed the blanket cuddled by the scout wriggling until this very moment. The soldier tensed, ready to defend his queen in case the scout's body had decided to revive itself, his hand gripping the handle of a short sword in his belt. Sophia stared at the wriggling mystery and held up her hand to the soldier "No need, there is no danger.." The soldier looked into the eyes of his queen disbelieving "But you're majesty it's…"

Sophia, ignoring him pushed the body to the side, uncovering a wriggling dirty blanket bundled up very tightly. Carefully she picked up the blanket and began uncovering, holding her breath when a newborn baby, its face scrunched up and chirping came into veiw.

"A...baby?" The soldier relaxed, but was confusedly looking to the child in fascination. Sophia blinked in confusion holding the child tenderly, as in fear of hurting it more then already figured.

The child was no more then a few weeks old, her intuition of being a mother herself told her that almost immediately. The child was dirty, with a full head of pink hair. Queen Sophia had no idea how to act, this newborn was probably abandoned, or orphaned by Galaxia. Could it have been that she was being saved by the soldier that lay at their feet at this very moment? To escape the inevitability of growing up to become a soldier of Galaxia? It was possible, and the fact that a scout had been carrying her till her doom was plausible as well. The child squirmed a little more and slowly opened it's eyes, staring curiously up the queen that held them. Sophia's eyes softened, holding her breath a little at the innocence she held in her arms. The baby's eye color was a reddish brown not normally common on the planet Nemesis, but revered as a sacred color to most in the culture. She tenderly rocked the child back and forth in a calming manner, her eyebrows scrunched together deep in thought.

"Prepare a messenger. I want one of the castle room turned into a nursery."

The soldier blinked in surprise at the order, "Your majesty?" "I also want it furnished for our new arrival by the time I get home. And also to inform my older children of the news" The soldier blinked again, processing what he was slowly realizing in the situation.

"B-But what about the king, shouldn't you.." "He will find out soon enough. And he has no say in this anyways. This child needs a mother, and I will take that role. I will not not leave this poor child to be orphaned and alone on this planet because of Galaxia's treachery." Sophia turned, cuddling the baby close to her, lifting the blanket, Sophia saw the gander as a girl and chuckled softly. 'Looks to be that we have another princess, Esmeraulde is going to be happy finally having a little sister….' Sophia, lost in her own little world didnt notice the soldier running off to do her commands, nor did she notice her other soldiers, the border patrol, running around to call a carriage and send word to the castle.

'I vow to protect you little one. I will be your mother for now on, and I vow to protect and love you as my little daughter no matter what comes our way. I promise you, Usagi"

It was unknown to the child in question that at this very moment, in the arms of a mother who adopted her. A warlord was frantically searching for an escaped soldier who stole her 'treasure'. It was unknown at this moment that in the next galaxy over, as the baby closed her eyes for a rest, an entire empire was frantically searching in every nook and cranny, the once peaceful atmosphere tained in stress and agony. That the King and Queen of such empire were mourning over the kidnapping and loss of their baby daughter, and the once peaceful empire declaring war on the Warlord herself inevitably. As nemesis had no scouts, being deemed a 'dead' planet. Usagi would never know of the scout wars growing up as the nemesisian princess, or would know of any war outside of the castle walls. Until 14 years later, at least…