Disclaimer: Sailor Moon is copyrighted to Naoko Takeuchi and all those who have derived their license to sell/purchase/create under that name from the creator. This poor author meanwhile has nothing, but asks politely for reviews since it is her first foray into the Sailor Moon fandom since 2003.

Requiem for a Princess

By, Aria

We ran.

We were afraid.

"Maker! There is no time!"

"Princess! Princess!"

"Galaxia has come. We should have listened to Mao when she warned us."

"Another Star has gone out…"

"Whose?"

"Princess!"

We were the three eternal shooting stars who listened to no one but ourselves.

"Fighter we must leave here now. This building is not safe."
"Where is the Princess?"
"She's here…"

"Where? Healer where is she?"

"The destroyer has come."

Fear. Terror. Waves of such rolled over us, never stopping. Never slowing. Always coming. Always advancing. Always; forever and anon.

"Princess!"

"She has gone."

"What? Himeko what do you mean?"

"Kakyuu princess has left. You must follow her."

"But Kinmokusei…"
"There is nothing you can do. We shall hold for as long as possible; but you must protect her. Such is your mission."

"We must protect Kinmokusei!"

"Another Star has gone out…"

"Maker! Kakyuu is Kinmokusei!"

"But…"

"No buts you must leave; before this darkness takes you also."

Misery, pain, suffering all of which we felt. All of it as the panic and despair enveloped us inside its tangled webs.

"Maker. Healer. We must go."

"Fighter…"
"Our duty is to Kinmokusei and Kakyuu Princess is our hope for the future."

"But Fighter…"
"Another Star has gone out…"

"Healer… Come we must go. Now. Maker."

"How can we just-"

"We must! Come. We must follow the Princess. We must find her!"

We left traitors, betrayers. We killed our world. Pillaged and destroyed, ransacked. Nothing is left. Another dead world lost to Shadow Galaxia. We travelled through the deeps of space. Three Solitary Wandering Stars with no home to call our own, searching, looking and finding only desolation until we found this Rural planet where the Soldiers of Love and Justice reside. Sailors' Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Uranus, Pluto, Neptune, Saturn and Moon. Sailor Moon. Tsukino Usagi who believes in the good heartedness of all. Pure, innocent, they know nothing of war and death, only life.

We sang our song for our Princess. What else was there to do?

"Maybe we could try dancing?"

"Like on Alpha Prime? You've got to be kidding me!"

She came. She answered. But, so did Shadow Galaxia. Our hopes have been squashed so for what is there to live for?

Perhaps the Moon guardian knows? She tries. Perhaps all our hopes reside upon her?

No matter. I am tired of running. I am tired of death and destruction. I am tired of being called traitor.

I am not tired of this fight even if it should be my last.

"Sailor Starlights.

Time to fight!

Stage! On!"