Before I begin to tell this story to you all here, I must say the following things, for all the obvious reasons, here. Sailor Moon was created by Naoko Takeuchi, and I claim no ownership over characters of her own creation. I also claim no ownership of any other characters I did not create in any other story universes. However, any character that you do not recognize well as being of anyone else's creation, are unquestionably mine, unless otherwise stated. Except where otherwise stated and/or obvious, then, all settings, et cetera, that you may find in the following pages of this story and/or any other related ones that I may write, are of my own creation, and I expect them to be treated as such.
This story is set in the exact same dimension of the Universe that my original story The Dreamrose Dancers is now set in. As such, much may, and will, be different from any other dimension, timeline, et cetera, that you may be yet familiar with, either in original fiction, fan fiction, or real life. There'll be periodical appearances of many characters you might recognize from other story universes, et cetera, in this story and/or any potential sequels that might later arise to this story here, for that matter. Although those very same assorted characters' respective vital facts may be at least a little different from what you people might generally expect for any or all of them, if not considerably different, in fact, they may, and perhaps will, show up at least every so often in this story and/or any potential sequels to it.
Now without further ado, people, I really do hope that you'll all like the story I'm now embarking on here, of course. It may not yet be quite as extensive in size and quite as action-packed as Angus MacSpon's rather huge story Sailor Moon 4200 actually is now, but I still fully expect that it'll ultimately still be of quite considerable enough size and of quite considerable action, once it's also put out here quite well enough, just the same, everyone. And, if I'm not mistaken, he's actually been working on it for much longer than I have with this particular story of mine here. Several years longer, without a real doubt here, by far. Now let's get on with our story here, and away we go!
Prologue: Goodbye, Enterprise! Hello, Exile!
I didn't believe her for a moment, and I offer no excuses now for not actually doing so when I should've then done so. But when I failed to realize that it was far more than just a stone that our enemies were after, many thousands of beings who might possibly have been saved were lost much sooner than they might have otherwise been. They could possibly have been saved if I'd actually listened to my fellow Princess Colleen of the House Warner on Batosku, a good-sized planet in our home solar system, more than 1,000 years ago. I should've actually listened to her and many others during the last three days and/or nights, at most, of my own people's Kerpatan Lunar Kingdom, in fact.
Let me explain, then, if I may, everyone. You people may already know all about the Moon Kingdom in the Milky Way Galaxy's Sol System and how it came to its rather tragic end quite well. But you don't yet know the story of how certain things ultimately came to an end for our people in the Selonagi solar system quite some length of time long ago. Life is still present in our home solar system, to at least a minimal degree. But it's very hard indeed to locate now. For our enemies virtually destroyed much of it on our worlds and in or on our home system's star, when they came to it long before now. Our last Kingdom fell about 24 months before the Moon Kingdom did, more or less, if my memory actually serves me well enough at the current time here. And those of us who actually survived its fall somehow and who managed to make it to the Moon well enough, eventually spent the rest of our then-ongoing lives there. Eventually, though, many of us fell in battle against our mutual enemies when it fell as well. And many of us fell then alongside such noble warriors as Sailors Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus. To name just four of them out of perhaps many hundreds of warriors, if not at least thousands, millions, or even more warriors than that.
I'm not going to recount the Moon Kingdom's rather tragic fall here, however, to you all, people. For that particular story has been told by many other people all over Earth here for a very long time, from what I've somehow learned ever since my eventual re-initiation as Sailor Kilakogo one wintery day in January of AD 2008. But I'll still share how my failure to believe one of my dearest friends and fellow Sailors sufficiently well, when I should've actually done so then, soon led to the needless deaths of many who might possibly have been saved, to the best of my own current ability here. Among many other stories I'll share with you, if and whenever I get a chance to do so well enough, in fact. However, according to at least one, if not more than one, of my Sailor Team's Guardians, there's much I still have to remember of my past time in my own Kerpatan Lunar Kingdom. For I don't yet have all my memories of that time back, if I ever will. I may eventually get all of them back well enough. But right now, at least, there is much I still can't remember of my time in it. Like several of the places I most enjoyed being in before our enemies eventually came to do what they were once known for before finally being purified or destroyed by Sailor Moon and her Team of Sol System Sailors and Knights, among many others, for instance. I can't remember certain rather important places well enough to suit me. At least not currently, anyway. For a good portion of my memories related to such places, among other things, aren't yet fully restored to me, if they'll ever be.
And I'll tell you at least one or two stories of what's happened to me and many others in the time that's passed ever since I was rather unexpectedly re-initiated as Sailor Kilakogo while in the Milky Way Galaxy's Sol System, many light-years away from my own people's home solar system in it. First, though, you must begin with the end of our system's last Kingdom, for it is from there, my story begins.
Outside Princess Faith's Starmoon Palace Chambers
Enterprise, Kerpatan Lunar Kingdom, Kilakogo
June 24, 989
I encountered one of my dearest and closest friends in the Milky Way Galaxy's Selonagi Solar System just as I was exiting my chambers on the way to the Starmoon Palace's main dining hall somewhere in Enterprise, Kerpata. She came up to me in a very fast run, as if something really bad was chasing her, and as if she was also really afraid that it would get her and those close enough to her in her life. She said, "Faith, our Negaverse enemies will now be landing on Kilakogo in no more than two or three days, according to both Sage and Ariel. They've just destroyed several dozen ships and space stations quite near Esperus. And they've now wiped out virtually all, if not all, known sentient life on Weikobi, Eternium, Terron, and Hadron. Esperus's nations are now evacuating all possible sentient beings from their mini-system as they possibly can to here. They'll then arrive here within 24 to 48 hours, if they possibly can. But they'll still not be able to outrun our enemies very easily, it seems. If at all, in fact."
Weikobi was the sixth planet in our solar system. Eternium, the seventh. Terron, the eighth. And Hadron, the ninth. I, and many others from various worlds and our own solar system's star, were now on its third planet's moon of Kilakogo, however. Other worlds in our system besides the above-mentioned ones were Batosku, the first planet; Cyanon, the second; Igekaxou, the third; and Padorphu, the fourth; from Selonagi on out in it. Several of the outer planets in the system had at least a few moons with colonies on them. Or they once did, before our enemies had gotten to them quite well enough at least a little while before the present calendar date, in fact.
I was at least somewhat, if not rather, well-acquainted with any number of people from the aforementioned places in our solar system. And most especially with certain people who were generally rather high-ranking in their respective worlds' governments. Except for a rare few who weren't so high-ranking, normally. Such as the precious one who now held my own heart in his beautiful hands, and who I was deeply in love with. Even though many people in our system really didn't like the idea much, if at all, for instance.
The precious one I was deeply in love with was actually from Selonagi. But he wasn't the only young man who was quite interested in me at the current time in my life. I had many admirers and many suitors from all over the solar system. Including several from Igekaxou, the planet which Kilakogo now orbited around in it, for instance.
"You can't be serious, Colleen. Our enemies can't have already done that by now! The last I heard, they were primarily going after the beings in the Shusat Solar System at least one solar system away from here, if my information is sufficiently accurate here." I gave her my most skeptical look that I possibly could then give her at the present time. Even while also holding a crystal pitcher mostly full of water in my right hand and a tall semi-translucent glass in my left, I still did so here. Princess Colleen of the House Warner on Batosku was now just about four Terran months past her fourteenth birthday, while I was about two Terran months away from my seventeenth one.
"They were, but when they somehow then detected your dear mother's Enterprise Starmoon Crystal, they almost immediately turned towards this solar system full-bore. And then they quite quickly shifted their forces in this part of our Galaxy directly towards us here. The Negaverse already had forces present in our system, as you might already know by now. But now they'll be coming in even more force than we even thought they actually would be able to come at us with, it seems! We're not going to be able to hold them off very well, for that matter! Many will die, and you and your Kingdom will be where the final battle takes place. Do what you can to save those you can, Faith. Or, so help me, many more sentient beings from our solar system will die who might possibly have been saved from many places in this system of ours! Such as all our parents, for example!"
"Ariel and Sage are both Dreamers, as are both of their Knights, Colleen. They generally all spend much of their time just locked away in their respective chambers or in often going various places anywhere at all that are usually quite a distance away from the rest of us, doing whatever thing or things that they most often do. Whatever it or they might be, I'm not entirely sure. But they, and many others of their kinds, seem quite weird indeed to me, to tell you the truth." I poured a glass of water for Colleen, the most fiery member of my system's Junior Planetary Court. And her hair was as red as the fire that she often wielded as a Sailor for our system's Sailor Corps, for that matter.
"Melody and Chad think we should do what we can to save those who we can, based on what Ariel and Sage have already told the rest of your own Court here. Including me, of course, Faith. And you know how often I agree with Ariel, Sage, AND Chad, I'm quite sure!" Colleen and Chad almost never agreed with each other on anything, as far as I then knew about them both in my own life here on Kilakogo, in fact.
"Oh, they do, do they? Well, how do they know that what the Dreamers are now saying is true? They could just be trying to cause a mental eclipse epidemic here on Kilakogo of some sort," I said, as I quickly handed her the aforementioned water in an attempt to cool her down at least a little bit here, before she then woke up the rest of the Palace's inhabitants here who weren't awake at the present time.
Colleen grabbed me, and shook me, once she'd then drained the water in that glass well enough here. She then asked, in a rather heated voice, "Rebel, many who could possibly have been saved, whether unborn or born, will die if you don't do what needs to be done here in time, no matter what it is! They ARE coming! They now have ACTUALLY somehow captured several of the minor Crystals from various sentient beings in our solar system, which they're now using against our own system's inhabitants! They're UNQUESTIONABLY gaining power in our system quite rapidly indeed because of it. By this time tomorrow, Esperus and its own mini-system WILL be theirs, without even the slightest shadow of a doubt. Especially since Thora and her parents, for instance, are no longer there in their very own mini-system. How many more of our worlds in this solar system have to be conquered or attacked here before you'll actually believe me well enough here?"
"Don't tell me that you believe them, Colleen!"
"I do, for I myself have seen the blackness begin to even more rapidly envelop this solar system ever since they detected your dear mother's Crystal, Faith. They are most definitely heading this way now. And they'll not be stopped very easily, if at all. All our Planetary Court Crystals are most definitely in quite grave danger. And if we don't act as we need to act, they may then fall into our enemies' hands! Do you really want them to use our Crystals against any number of other populated worlds in our own Milky Way Galaxy that we might possibly know of well enough at the present time or not?"
"No, of course not. But I still think the Dreamers are really not telling us the complete truth here. If any truth at all, for that matter, Colleen."
"Your stubbornness will get people killed, Faith. And when it does, many may not think very highly of you any longer, if they even live long enough, somehow, to do even that."
"So be it, if that's true. Many of them already hate me quite a bit indeed, I'm quite sure, for falling in love with my precious Theo when I did. If you're so afraid that some major trouble is coming here, then you should most certainly tell my parents, if you so dare!"
"And what would you think if they even try to destroy Selonagi, from which your precious love comes from, then, Princess Faith?"
"Selonagi is not going to be destroyed by them, no matter what, Colleen."
"Maybe not, but that certainly won't stop them from trying, I'm sure. Your precious Theo would most certainly be very displeased with you if his home got destroyed because of your stubbornness, if I'm not too mistaken here."
"It won't. They'd first have to get deep enough into Selonagi in order to have a good enough chance to do that, somehow. And it would take many more power crystals than they might currently have to do just that, I think."
"My sources tell me that they now have enough power crystals to potentially cause several nearby stars to nova or supernova at any time, if they might so desire. Without Theo and his people actually present in and around Selonagi well enough, they could potentially be able to somehow do that to our own system's star, it seems to me. In which case, my world would be destroyed, as would Melody's, at the very least, if not also Igekaxou and/or Kilakogo, as well, due to the brief rapid expansion of Selonagi prior to its explosion. In which case, millions more of our system's inhabitants will most likely die who could perhaps have been saved! If not even billions or more of others!"
"Do what you feel you must, then, Fire-head! But unless I see the truth of their words well enough for myself, I'll not believe it for a moment to a substantial enough degree!"
"Ugh! Must you be so blasted stubborn here? You're like a Gomabara six-tentacled eel-rat when it's quite bound and determined to hold onto its Matacha prey for a meal! If you're not going to listen to me right now, I'm going to find someone here who actually will do so!" She then rather angrily slammed the now-empty glass quite loudly back on the silver platter I'd gotten it off of near my chambers' outer doors, before running away from me here even faster than she'd been running in the hall nearest them before I encountered her outside them. A rather loud bang of sorts then sounded, just before I resumed heading in the direction of this Palace's main dining hall, at a rather leisurely pace, in fact.
A Gomabara six-tentacled eel-rat was an amphibious animal from Batosku whose primary kind of prey, but not its only one, was an animal similar to an average Terran rabbit, but which spent most of its life living underground feasting on assorted plants or sleeping in it. That kind of animal was called a Matacha, in fact. Gomabara six-tentacled eel-rats would often even fight each other periodically for such prey, and most often during their peak mating seasons, according to Colleen. They could normally reproduce offspring twice a Terran year, but they normally did so the most only during times of rather cool weather on Batosku, due to the fact that the planet's average distance from Selonagi in our solar system was about 30 million miles, more or less, as it orbited Selonagi in 120 Terran days.
Eventually, at about 6:30 in the morning, then, I arrived in the aforementioned main dining hall to find my parents in often-serious conversation with several of the parents to members of my Sailor Team as they were each having their respective breakfasts with each other in it. This was a rather common occurrence here during most mornings that we were in residence at Enterprise's Starmoon Palace here, in fact.
My mother Baitraji saw me well enough before I saw her. And she soon called me over to the table she was then at with several of the other members of our respective Planetary Courts from other worlds in our solar system. I really wasn't in the mood to do so. But I knew that if I didn't, I'd probably be unable to just hang out for a while with my beloved Theo of the commoner House Norris of Selonagi today in the Moon Garden not far from the Starmoon Palace as we were planning to do later on, if at all possible. So I came over, even though I didn't really want to do that now, to wherever she then was in the main dining hall. For my mother was as much a stickler for complete obedience in many situations as I was for breaking the known rules in them whenever I possibly could. But she could punish me somewhat severely if I didn't obey her whenever she summoned me to her presence. And now was not a good time to disobey her, it seemed to me at the current time, as well. So I went over to her, as already stated.
When I did, I found her with a total of fourteen other members of our respective Planetary Courts. Seven of them were from her Court, and seven others were from mine. From her Court, there were the members from Batosku, Cyanon, Igekaxou, Padorphu, Esperus, Weikobi, and Eternium. From mine, there were the members from those same seven planets. The absent members of our two Courts were mostly, though not entirely, otherwise occupied elsewhere in the system at the present time, as I'd later find out.
From her Court, there were now present Queens Sitoba, Jatoma, Haugabauka, Helen, and three other Queens I wasn't yet very familiar enough with, if I'd ever be, in my life here on Kilakogo. Queen Sitoba was from Batosku, Queen Jatoma from Cyanon, Queen Haugabauka from Padorphu, and Queen Helen from Esperus, respectively. And the other three unfamiliar Queens to me were from Igekaxou, Weikobi, and Eternium, of course.
From my Court, there were now present Colleen of the House Warner from Batosku, Melody of the House Wade from Cyanon, Ariel of the House Byrd from Eternium, and four others I'd not yet seen, heard about, or heard from, this morning. The other four members of my Court who were now present were Flora of the House Palmer from Igekaxou, Abigail of the House Breedlove from Padorphu, Thora of the House Justice from Esperus, and Renee of the House Holliday from Weikobi. Of the aforementioned seven young women, I normally got along the best with Colleen, Melody, Abigail, and Thora. As for Flora, I normally got along only so-so with her. And as for Ariel and Renee, I normally got along somewhat poorly, at best, with them, in my life.
Colleen had red hair and brown eyes. Melody light blue hair and green eyes. Ariel blonde hair and brown eyes. Flora mostly green hair with pink streaks and green eyes. Abigail naturally black hair which she normally dyed mostly blonde and brown eyes, Thora brown hair and brown eyes. And Renee dark purple hair and blue eyes.
I soon sat down at the table where the aforementioned fifteen other people, including Mother, now were in the main dining hall here, and waited for Mother to ask me the questions she would often ask me in situations like this. Hopefully, there wouldn't be too many. And hopefully I would be able to answer them well enough to suit her here, as well. Although I didn't yet know what they were, I hoped they wouldn't bring unnecessary trouble for Theo and me in my life, just the same, for the obvious reasons.
She and the rest of us consumed our respective breakfasts for a while with each other, before she set down her eating utensils on our table near herself. She then looked around at the rest of the people at our table, before finally locking her eyes right on me as I was taking a bite of some bread from my plate, and saying, "Colleen tells me that you don't believe that the Negaverse will be here very soon, Faith. Explain to me why you think that."
"Because Ariel and Sage, among others, are Dreamers here, Honored Mother. They have predicted great calamity before, and been shown to be quite wrong in their predictions of doom in this system."
"That may be so, Faith, but I have it on quite good authority from other sources that their predictions in this case are quite accurate. Remember, we do have contact with various people in the Shusat Solar System, for instance. And they have confirmed those predictions quite well indeed. Would you doubt your friends from Imugo and Anikua in the Shusat Solar System, for instance? They have confirmed them to be entirely accurate indeed. And you know that they wouldn't generally say something was the case if it wasn't."
Imugo was the seventh planet in the Shusat solar system, and Anikua was the twelfth. The Shusat solar system had sixteen planets in it. But only eight of them were incontrovertibly known well enough by us to be hospitable enough for humanoid life most, if not all, of the time. We knew for sure that the first eight planets in the system were normally, if not always, that way. But we weren't so sure about the last eight in the system. And we didn't yet know for sure if the system's star was also sufficiently hospitable to such life, for that matter.
"That's true, I suppose. Ayatami wouldn't normally be mistaken about such things, I think, Honored Mother, for she is generally a very cautious person when she speaks or writes about something in her life, if I remember her well enough right now in it." Ayatami was the current holder of the Imugo Sailor Crystal in the Shusat system, for that matter, in her life. She wielded powers in her system related to detection of numerous things and to music. While still others in her solar system wielded various other powers that were present for each of them then on their own respective home planets in it.
Other planets in the Shusat solar system that we now knew of well enough were Opumuzu, Kabea, Excalibur, Joyeuse, Lightsaber, Negemu, Jorai, Eugoci, Nowedu, Otefeba, Gefeis, Covaus, Govo, and Heteum, from Shusat on out. The first seven of those planets were known to be sufficiently hospitable to humanoid life at least normally, if not all the time, by us. I had at least occasionally encountered several people from the Shusat solar system whenever I'd actually traveled a bit to other worlds in our system or elsewhere in our Galaxy, in fact. And I eventually developed a rather close friendship with at least a few of them that still continued to this particular time in my own life.
I even had made friends with several people from other solar systems in our own Milky Way Galaxy. Including ones from the Sol System of it, by the way. But at the current time, we really hadn't heard very much from that part of the Galaxy, for yet-unknown reasons to us.
"No, she wouldn't, Faith. So I think that you had better consider that what Ariel and Sage and their Knights are saying may very well be true here. Knowing you, though, you most likely won't until the hard evidence is right there in front of your face. And not even until many people are falling in battle against them here on Kilakogo, I think."
"Honored Mother, how can we be so certain that they'll defeat us here on Kilakogo, if it truly comes to a final battle here? Just because they might be able to do it elsewhere in our system doesn't mean that they'll be able to do it here well enough, you know."
"Faith, there are many people who have now turned traitor to our various kingdoms in this system, and who are now working to overthrow them. For whatever good that'll do them when the Negaverse eventually feels they're no longer worthy of existence. Even after helping them to conquer or to destroy our kingdoms here in it. As I'm sure that they will, by the way."
"Can you name at least a few of them, then, Honored Mother?"
"Irbeyaru, Zashakrau, and Mokedru of House Toyikamoy on Esperus, for instance. We just learned this morning that they began feeding information to the Negaverse about a year or two ago, it seems. And when they somehow learned how to detect my Enterprise Starmoon Crystal even from outside our own solar system before we realized they could do so, they soon notified the nearest Negaverse military base that they could find. Ever since, they awaited a chance to notify the Negaverse of when might possibly be the very best time to move in on our system's various worlds most effectively. They then waited as patiently as they possibly could on or near Esperus, normally, for a specific time when our various kingdoms' defenses were either down or otherwise occupied. And then they told their Negaverse contacts when it was the very best time for them to attack us in the very near future, just as soon as they knew that well enough for themselves. So now we are under increasingly heavy attack from the Negaverse. And it's not going to get better for us any time soon, if at all, I'm quite sure here, Faith."
"Is there any way we can stop them, then?"
"No, the prophecies of this time are QUITE clear. They WILL be coming for us, and they WILL be coming in untold numbers that we WILL not be able to withstand well enough, without a doubt. It has been nearly 372,000 Terran days since an enemy like the Negaverse has wreaked havoc on this system's worlds, Faith. This will be at least the third time such an enemy has wreaked havoc quite like this on our system's worlds, if not even more than that. And it also will be the last time until a new Age begins for our people someday yet in the future, if any of our kingdom's inhabitants somehow survive into it well enough, in fact."
"I'm not familiar with such prophecies, Honored Mother," I stated, as I finished the last of the bread then on my plate here in the main dining hall.
"This is because we somehow couldn't manage to make you sufficiently aware of them in your life. For certain major things have happened in our solar system since your birth to us that required our attentions much more than we'd have preferred they didn't. As a result, we never were able to make you sufficiently aware of them, it seems to me, Faith. We may still not be able to do that quite well enough here. But at least we can still try to make you at least a little familiar with them, just the same. After you and your Sailor Team eventually get done with your training session today, you all are to report almost immediately to Destiny's chambers. This will be from where you and the rest of your Sailor Team will be escorted to the Hall of Ages on Terron, soon afterward. It is a somewhat rare place on Terron which our Negaverse enemies have still not somehow managed to reach well enough, quite fortunately enough. There are several dozen Terronian Rangers there who will meet with you briefly. And they also will continue to defend the area around the Hall of Ages to the best of their respective abilities while you're all still there."
"What are we to do there, once there, Honored Mother?" I soon finished the rest of a glass of milk from an Esperusan animal that looked much like, and was much like, a Terran cow.
"You all are to do whatever Destiny and Myron tell you to do, of course, Faith. For the Hall of Ages is still sufficiently under their own world's control. No matter what it is, if they tell you to do something, you do it, without question. Do I make myself quite clear?"
"Yes, Honored Mother, you do."
I really didn't like taking orders from anyone in my life. But when it came to people who were enough like my mother, for example, I most definitely had to obey them to the very best of my ability to do so at any time in my own mortal life. Or else I'd most certainly be regretting not doing so very much indeed. I also realized that her orders to report almost immediately after our Sailor Team's training session to Destiny's chambers would most likely preclude any chance that my plans for today would be achievable. But the tone with which she'd just given them to me here and now most definitely allowed no room at all for potential debating of them. Especially with many others then present near us both, in fact.
"You actually want sufficient enough proof of what we say, Faith? Then, by God's Light, you will see it, if at all possible," said Ariel, not long after I answered Mother's most recent question here. "You then will see that we aren't lying. Even if we have to beat it through your stubbornly thick head somehow, if at all possible!"
"I'd really like to see you try, if you dare, Ariel!"
"Oooh, I'd just love to smack you around so much, Faith. But I can't actually do it here and now, of course! Just you wait for our training session today, then. You are so getting it from me, if at all possible!"
"I bet you would really love to do just that. But I'm so out of your league, I think, that you won't be able to do it alone, if at all, Ariel."
"Maybe you are, but I've got friends who have most certainly had more than enough of your high-horse attitudes here, I'm quite sure, Doorknob!"
"How dare you call me that, Miss Vacuum-Brains!"
"That's it! When we get to our training session, you're going down, Buster!"
"Settle down right now, you two! Or you both will feel the wrath of Batosku now! Save it for the training session, you two," Colleen suddenly shouted here at the both of us. Meaning Ariel and me, of course.
"And if you two don't, then you two can count me in on that, for once," Melody rather unexpectedly said to us both here. Melody wielded powers relating to water, mainly, if not entirely, as a member of our system's Sailor Corps from Cyanon. Her planet was a planet which orbited Selonagi in 240 days, at about twice the average distance from Selonagi as Batosku generally did in our system, for that matter. Melody normally was a rather quiet person in her own life. But even she had her limits of what she actually would tolerate near her at a certain time in her life, of course. And even though she was unquestionably one of the closest friends to me and to certain others on my Sailor Team, she really didn't like seeing any of us fight much in our lives if we didn't really have to in them.
So, seeing as we were clearly up against the forces of Fire and Water, at least, we both backed down for at least a little while. But even we all knew that this matter wasn't yet settled sufficiently between me and certain other members of my Sailor Team, for many reasons most likely too numerous to name fully well enough here and now.
Abigail soon tried to lighten the mood by asking her own mother, "Dearest Mother, do you think we'll all find a lasting true love in this lifetime for ourselves, if we haven't already done so, by any chance?"
Queen Haugabauka thought quietly for a moment, before answering, "No, unfortunately, I don't, my sweet Abigail. I truly would wish otherwise for all of you girls, of course. But I too have long seen the trouble arising that's most definitely now heading our way in this Galaxy and this solar system of ours. I did not tell you before about it, for I really wanted you to have as pleasant a childhood as possible in your life here in our system, at least. And, for that, I'm truly sorry. But my real love for you, among many other things, somehow kept me from actually telling you all of this before now. Those of our system's sentient inhabitants who do not currently have a true love like that in their respective lives will most definitely not find it now before this system's last Kingdom falls. Selonagi's Kingdom will actually fall, as well. But a remnant will still remain to restore it someday yet in the future, just the same. Many from Selonagi and all the other inhabited worlds and space stations in our system will most certainly die now. But there will still be remnants left of their respective inhabitants to eventually somehow restore our various worlds and Selonagi to the levels of hospitability that they each once had here in this solar system. That's if they no longer have them at the current time, or if they won't always have them, by the way."
"What of Randolph, then, at least, Dearest Mother?" asked Abigail, as she then rather suddenly began to cry here, at least unconsciously at first, for all the obvious reasons. Abigail was quite often one to cry in her own life. And many things would quite often cause her to cry rather suddenly indeed, without much, if any, prior warning at all for anyone else in it.
"He will survive, as will many of our people, sweet Abigail. It will be you two who will begin to restore the remnant of our people to Padorphu's own surface in the next Age, when the need arises for you to then do so."
"But will you be with us when that happens, by any chance, Dearest Mother?" Abigail then rose from her chair and suddenly began to grab whatever she could get her hands on easily enough in the main dining hall. For she was often known to throw any number of assorted things whenever she was particularly upset during one of her quite common bouts of crying. As soon as everyone else besides the rest of us in the main dining hall saw that well enough, the Palace's main dining hall began to clear out rather rapidly indeed. For Abigail was usually very accurate indeed whenever she actually threw things during one of her quite common crying bouts, in fact. Almost immediately after she picked up a rather heavy and rather large iron vase that was just about six feet tall and just about four feet wide at its greatest extent, the only sentient beings that were still left in the Palace's main dining hall were the sixteen of us. We had all often enough seen her rather upset during her quite common crying bouts. So we were not too surprised at all when she then did so. She was now, chronologically speaking, only about two weeks short of her twelfth birthday in Terran calendar years. But she looked more like someone who was at least eighteen such years old, physically speaking, in her own mortal life. For many of the people on her home planet would mature physically much quicker than the average humanoid being that we were sufficiently familiar with in our lives might normally do. And her mind was also at just about the same maturity level, more or less, for that matter. Abigail, in fact, was now just about 5'10" and just about 170 pounds, from what we knew of her now in her life.
"Only God knows for sure whether that will be the case, Abigail. My life is in His Hands. If it is truly His will that I am around then, I will be, of course. But if not, so be it. However, I will be with you always, no matter what, when the next Age comes, I'm quite sure."
Abigail then threw that iron vase as if it were just a mere pebble against one of the nearby walls in the main dining hall, aiming for a very specific spot on it that a Tohatakun Mycorian Beetle was trying to escape into with a golden cocoon from a certain kind of silkworm native to Kilakogo. The beetle was forced to drop its potential meal, and soon met its rather-unexpected end when it was smashed into mere shreds against that very same Palace wall by the aforementioned vase. Abigail then very carefully retrieved the golden cocoon and placed it right back where it'd quite obviously come from not too long before, before rather suddenly pulling the vase back out of the wall the beetle had just been on here. A rather huge hole was now present in that particular wall there, right after she removed the necessary vase from there, of course. A hole that actually would remain there for the rest of our now-shrinking time on Kilakogo, by the way.
"Did you see that, everyone? She smashed that beetle into mere shreds!" said Thora, in quite considerable amazement, for she'd rarely seen Abigail throw things at speeds of at least 200 miles a Terran hour. Even during many other rather common crying bouts of Abigail's in our respective lives. Normally, Abigail's top velocities, at least in terms of throwing various things in her life, only approached about 160 miles a Terran hour. But this throw's velocity was at least 50 percent faster than that, if not even faster than that, as far as we could then tell here well enough.
"I really don't want anything of any possible kind that's sufficiently bad in its own nature to ever happen to you at all, Dearest Mother."
"Nor do I, of course. But if it's going to happen, it's going to happen, whether any of us might like it or not. I can't prevent everything that I might want to ever be able to prevent somehow in my own mortal life. Nobody can, I think. If I happen to die, then I will die. If I happen to live, then I will live. In either case, though, I still will be with you always. Even until the Final Age as we might now know of it in our respective lives then comes to pass, Abigail."
Abigail then bashed several nearby pillars in the main dining hall here for at least a little while. First just with the iron vase, and then with her fists, when she didn't actually get the results she was then looking for against them here well enough. Thora soon said, "Oh, my! She is really ticked now, it seems. We'd best get her out of here now, before she brings this whole main dining hall down on top of us here, I think!"
With no further delay, then, we all began to move towards her, all fifteen of us. Led by her mother, of course. When we all began doing so, she soon turned and fled, just as fast as she then could do that here well enough, from the main dining hall. And she soon tossed assorted things towards us all as we then did so, not really wanting us to catch her, if she could possibly somehow avoid it at all.
Several of those things soon hit Renee here. And that then got her very mad at Abigail, in very short order, by the way. Renee rarely, if ever, would get along at all with Abigail in their respective lives, so that really didn't help matters between them both at all here and now. Especially since Renee quite often had to help repair the damage that Abigail might periodically cause in her life whenever she was then having a crying bout in it, in fact. Abigail had much against Renee and assorted others in her own life, from what I then knew of their relationship with each other. And vice versa, for that matter. This latest bout of crying here for Abigail most certainly wouldn't change things for the better between them both either.
Renee really tried to restrain herself from then going into her Sailor mode, But she was quite unsuccessful in doing so. Even though her mother also really tried to help her do so here. Rather uncharacteristically for her, at least, then, she didn't even give her mother much of a chance to do that, if any chance at all, in fact. She then quickly ducked behind a still-intact pillar in the Palace's main courtyard, and suddenly powered up into her own Sailor state of being as Sailor Weikobi mere seconds later. She then did those two things here after being unexpectedly hit again at least a few more times on her legs and shoulder by several other good-sized items most definitely sent her direction by Abigail.
"Your behind is mine when I catch up to you, Abigail!" shouted Sailor Weikobi, not too long after she then powered up into her Sailor state as such.
"In your dreams, Miss Sawbones! I spit at your idle threats!" came the inevitable reply seconds later from Abigail. "I'll cry if I want to, and you can't stop me, Hatchet Girl!"
"Watch me! Say your prayers, Stoneheart!"
"We've got to stop them both, somehow, everyone," said Flora, as soon as those comments from Sailor Weikobi reached her ears well enough. "Knowing them, they'll probably try to kill each other, if at all possible."
"I agree," Mother said, seconds later. "Sitoba and the rest of my fellow Queens here, it seems we're going to have to go Imperial here to stop this particular crying bout of Abigail's from totally ruining this Palace's grounds, then. Let's do it, everyone. Faith, summon the rest of your Sailor Team to help out here as best as you currently can. We'll see to the Palace's grounds. But if I know her well enough, she won't easily stay on them if Sailor Weikobi is chasing her now. Take the rest of your Sailor Team to the Setakonai Heights area. For if we know her well enough, as I think we do, she will soon flee to there while also hoping to somehow escape Sailor Weikobi well enough. Sailor Weikobi hasn't actually been there before, if I'm not too mistaken here. So take the rest of your Sailor Team there, without also letting Sailor Weikobi know of it, if at all possible. Find them both, and contain them both, as best and as quickly as you all possibly can, then, quite obviously enough."
I nodded in complete agreement with Mother here, in terms of her most recent orders to me. I then quickly summoned the rest of my Sailor Team to where we now all were on the Palace's grounds. Even as Mother and the other seven Queens presently with her then double-powered up into their respective Imperial Sailor states of being, by the way. When they were all powered up as each of them then needed to be here, all eight of the Imperial Sailors now present here quickly began to try to repair the increasingly considerable amount of damage that Abigail and/or Sailor Weikobi had just begun to cause on the Palace's grounds, of course. And I awaited the imminent arrival of the rest of my Sailor Team to the Palace's main courtyard, as well, for that matter.
Five minutes or so, at the very most, after they were all summoned, then, the remaining members of my Team of Sailors and Knights all arrived there. Even though some of them had then been asleep as was usually the case for them in their lives, for whatever reason or reasons they might possibly be in them, they all still did so now, just the same.
Mother quickly briefed them on the currently-developing Abigail and Sailor Weikobi-related situation. And at least a few of the other members of my Sailor Team were not very happy with either of them here. Most especially the ones who'd just been asleep in their respective chambers. Theo hadn't actually been one of them. But Adam of House Garland from Igekaxou had been. And so had been Matthew of House Jackson from Esperus, and at least two others, for that matter, here.
Theo then divided the now-present Knights into teams of two or three Knights each here. The other Knights then present with us all here now formed teams as he chose to divide them up. One team of Knights was Knight Zachary of Batosku and Adam of Igekaxou. A second team was Knight Heaven of Eternium, Knight Chad of Cyanon, and Knight Matthew of Esperus. A third team was Knight Myron of Terron and Knight Henry of Hadron. Theo paired up with Knight Sheldon from Kilakogo to form a fourth team. And the fifth team was Knight Randolph of Padorphu and Knight Mallory of Weikobi. He gave the necessary orders to the rest of the Knights here, before all eleven Knights then began to do as they'd then need to do here. He briefly shot me a rather unhappy look just before he and the other Knights then left the rest of us behind to a sufficient enough degree here, of course.
I nodded back at him, as he and the other Knights were then leaving, and he then acknowledged that nod before turning away from me again here. After all our Knights were gone from here well enough, I then split up the remaining Sailors with me here as I saw fit. For my two current teammates on Team One, I chose Thora of Esperus and Destiny of Terron, even though Thora and I didn't normally get along very well with Destiny. I needed to know at least a bit more about Abigail's potential actions than I needed to fight with Destiny right now, however. Destiny had still been known to periodically have somewhat accurate visions of potential future events, though, no matter what they were, and no matter how much I might think otherwise. So I rather reluctantly indeed selected her for my current team here. I chose for Team Two Colleen of Batosku, Jeralen of Selonagi, and Ariel of Eternium, for Ariel could often fly whenever she was powered up as Sailor Eternium. And I needed someone who could normally fly well enough in the air so as to hopefully better be able to spot Abigail, even as she climbed in the nearby mountains to where Setakonai Heights was in our Kingdom, on at least one team, if not more than one, of course. That then left, by logical enough extension here, Melody of Cyanon, Flora of Igekaxou, and Sage of Hadron to form Team Three with each other here. With the teams assigned as already stated here, all three of our teams then quite quickly indeed moved out in search of both Sailor Weikobi and Abigail.
It took most of us, though not all of us, at least several hours both to locate and to actually contain both Sailors Weikobi and Padorphu sufficiently well, if not even longer than that, in fact. Especially after Sailor Weikobi had eventually caused Abigail to power up into her own Sailor state of being as well to become Sailor Padorphu just about an hour or two, at most, after I'd then summoned the rest of my Sailor Team. I'd done this so that we could all follow Mother's orders both to try and find and to try and restrain them well enough here. As we all tried to locate and to contain both of them sufficiently well, we periodically saw much damage and much destruction in their respective wakes which we couldn't obviously attend to here at the present time, even if we really wanted to do so now. First we all quite obviously had to find and restrain them both well enough, of course. And with them both currently powered up into their respective Sailor states of being, that wasn't normally very easy for us to do. And especially whenever they didn't actually want to be found or to be restrained by anyone at all in their respective lives.
Eventually, though, both of them had exhausted themselves at least enough for us to find and swoop down on them before they could both stop us from doing so well enough. When we then found them both somewhat near each other, they were both just outside the city limits of Setakonai Heights, after Weikobi had eventually drawn Padorphu out of her current hiding place by temporarily unleashing a sickness against several of the nearby plants and animals, so as to better battle her for a while. It wasn't actually a sickness that would necessarily kill those plants or animals. But Padorphu didn't know that well enough, or at least not at the current time. So she quickly came out of her hiding place to battle against Weikobi for at least a little while, if not a long while.
Both soon fought each other using any and all non-lethal means that were then at their disposal. And both of them fought essentially to a draw, more or less, before eventually finding it currently impossible for them to continue doing so well enough. When we found them both, they were both lying semi-conscious and out of their respective Sailor states of being just about thirty yards from each other, in a small forest clearing near Setakonai Heights.
It then took us just about an hour or so for us all to return to the Starmoon Palace in Enterprise, once we found and restrained them both well enough. The Palace's grounds had been at least somewhat damaged by Abigail and Sailor Weikobi while they were both still on them. And when we came back with both Renee and Abigail, all the damage they'd caused on the Palace's grounds had not yet been repaired well enough, if it ever would be.
Mother soon had us bring both Abigail and Renee to the Palace's Main Medical Ward for a while, and then she had Renee's mother and several others begin treating them both as needed at the current time. After that was done well enough here, she then asked us all to report on our time searching for them both and on the time that we all spent in containing them well enough. So we all did so, without any argument at all about it, for all the obvious reasons here. Eventually, she ordered us all to Destiny's chambers so that we could all then go to Terron as she'd earlier told us we'd all have to go this morning. By the time we all got there, thanks to some rather good medical treatment from Renee's mother and several other people, Renee and Abigail were both already waiting for us there. Not more than five or so minutes, then, after we all got to Destiny's chambers, we were all on Terron quite near the Hall of Ages that Mother had mentioned earlier to several of us this morning.
We all talked rather briefly with several of the Terron-based Rangers there, who were part of another branch of our solar system's armed forces. And then we all entered the Hall of Ages with Destiny and Myron both leading us all into them as needed here. We soon came to a specific part of it where many scrolls and many other items were then often kept. Destiny and Myron soon picked up a few dozen of them or so, and eventually they passed them around to the rest of us, before they then touched at least a few full-length mirrors on a nearby wall to us all.
As they did so, assorted moving figures in assorted numbers appeared on them all periodically, showing assorted scenes of various events. Whether or not they were actually events incontrovertibly known to already have happened on various worlds in our very own solar system, those mirrors showed those assorted events quite often indeed for at least a little while, if not for a long while. Some of those very same mirrors even showed certain events that may have actually happened already on certain other worlds that we now knew of well enough in our respective mortal lives. After we all watched the aforementioned events for at least a little while in all of the necessary mirrors in the Hall of Ages, Destiny and Myron soon directed our various attentions to two other mirrors yet untouched by them here as they touched them here.
Destiny said, as she then touched one mirror, "This is our future in this system if we do all that we now need to do in it before they come." After she then touched it, the mirror almost immediately began to show potential future scenes of battle between us and assorted Negaverse-affiliated beings of various kinds, whether they were known or were unknown to us at the current time. We would still lose this particular battle, it seemed, according to the scenes being shown in that very same mirror. But supposedly, if we did all that we should then do, according to the potential future then being shown in the applicable mirror, we then would see many more of our people survive that battle than if we didn't do all that we should do here. I didn't believe that all these things would likely happen if we did what Destiny thought we should do, though. For that, the blame for what later transpired would largely, if not entirely, rest on me here, after the Negaverse eventually forced those of us who somehow managed to actually get off Kilakogo well enough to then do that in our lives.
After this rather imaginative aural and visual presentation of Destiny's here, which convinced at least a few of us that this potential future might be sufficiently achievable, she then had Myron touch the other aforementioned mirror that hadn't yet been touched by either of them here. As he did so, he then said, "This is our future in this system if we don't do all that we now need to do in it before they come." After he touched that mirror, it soon began to show certain other potential scenes of battle between us and the same, or nearly the same, kinds of beings that had been seen in the mirror that Destiny had touched earlier. As many of my fellow residents of this Palace had earlier suggested to me during our breakfasts this very morning, the events that were then shown in that particular mirror were much unlike the ones that had shown in Destiny's mirror. These events were much more likely, in my ultimate opinion, no matter what we did or didn't do in our very own solar system. And even if we did what Destiny and Myron thought we should do now in our solar system, in fact. When I eventually said that to the others then with me, many were not at all surprised at my current position on this particular matter in my life. They all really tried to convince me that Destiny's posited future was much more likely, if we then did what her mirror had actually suggested that we do. But I was still not quite sufficiently convinced by them all when they all then did so. I was quite immovable indeed on that sort of thing at the present time. And, for that very reason, certain major negative events that shouldn't have ever happened at all on or around Kilakogo, at least, eventually did, some length of time later, much to my eventual regret. Many more people from our own solar system would now most certainly die later on who could possibly have been saved from death had I listened sufficiently well here. And had I then done what I should've actually done before our Negaverse enemies had even come to Kilakogo in the first place. I somehow actually convinced at least enough people who were near me then of my own current position or positions on the necessary matter or matters here to at least some degree, if not to a great degree. This was a quite colossal mistake of mine which ultimately led to the loss of many more sentient beings than should've actually been lost later on in our own solar system. As I'd later come to realize, many long years later, sometime after my eventual re-initiation as Sailor Kilakogo.
After we each had viewed and handled all the necessary items here for at least a little while, then, we all soon spent about an hour or so in various other areas of the Hall of Ages, before we quite naturally enough had to leave them behind again here. And leave them behind again for whatever reason or reasons we had to do so in our respective lives. We rather quickly made a short trip or two to the two Palaces that belonged to Destiny and Myron's families on Terron, before we finally left Terron behind again for the very last time somewhat near the Hall of Ages. We wouldn't actually see those same Rangers again for at least a thousand Terran years, if ever again, in fact.
Not too much later, then, we all eventually returned with each other to Destiny's very own Starmoon Palace chambers. And many of us were still disagreeing with each other, to at least some degree here, when we then did so, about certain things that we'd all just seen and just heard while still on Terron with each other, for that matter. This was the case here for all the obvious reasons, of course.
Colleen still really thought I was going to be the cause of many people's potentially avoidable deaths. And she'd ultimately prove to be sufficiently right here. Had I actually listened to her this time here, and had I actually done what she and others thought I should've done before our enemies finally made Moonfall on Kilakogo, we might then have been able to save a lot more inhabitants from all our various kingdoms in our own solar system. But, as I said earlier, I didn't actually do so well enough to somehow prevent the events that ultimately would now take place when they finally came to Kilakogo as many people had thought they would come to it.
Instead, after we all got back to Kilakogo, and we all eventually began leaving Destiny's chambers for the rest of the current night, Theo and I eventually went for a walk later on in the Moon Garden somewhat near Enterprise's Starmoon Palace for at least a while, if not for a long while. We both went for a rather private walk with each other then, when we should've actually begun to do what we possibly could then do in order to make sure others were sufficiently safe from future harm later on after the Negaverse came here as they later would.
We stayed with each other, then, until about 1:15 in the morning local time, at the very latest. He eventually dropped me off outside my Starmoon Palace chambers with a brief kiss or two near my rooms' outermost doors. And I soon entered my own chambers for the rest of the overnight period here. As I then dressed for bed, a mostly silver, black, and copper-coated cat with a medium-sized gold circle on its forehead entered my bathroom, and soon perched on the edge of a nearby water basin. The cat was a female one, and she was now just about three or four Terran years old, more or less. She was just one of my Guardians, and she would later be one of them, at least once more, as I'd later learn sometime yet in the future. Her name was Pakushai, in fact. And she was the only known survivor of her own parents' offspring after all eleven of her siblings had been lost not long after their respective births during a certain diplomatic trip that my maternal grandparents had taken to another solar system. For my maternal grandparents had gone on a diplomatic trip to another solar system in rather fervent hopes of making it much more likely that our people would survive the future well enough. Even if the prophecies that I'd just disbelieved actually proved to be sufficiently accurate in their respective natures. However, they never returned to Kilakogo after their mission to another solar system. For their ship eventually exploded after an entirely-unexpected battle against many rather well-armed pirates from a solar system that was quite near the one they'd just gone to on that diplomatic trip of theirs. Their interstellar primarily diplomacy-oriented courier ship ultimately was not sufficiently capable of defending itself against those very same pirates. Especially after it had secretly been sabotaged by assorted terrorists in the system they'd just gone to on that same diplomatic trip of theirs. When their ship was lost, everything and everyone that was then on it was unquestionably lost too, quite naturally enough. We only learned of their ultimate fate several long months later, after certain other beings that we were in somewhat regular contact with eventually learned of it and its ultimate fate. After which, they then told us of it and its ultimate fate well enough, just as soon as they possibly could do so well enough, of course. Mother was quite inconsolable for quite a while, quite obviously enough.
After I then dressed for bed quite well enough here, Pakushai finally spoke to me here. She said, "Faith, you seem to be rather skeptical about many things of late. I hope that your skepticism doesn't get many of us killed by our enemies from the Negaverse."
"I don't believe we have as much to be concerned about in relation to them as the Dreamers would have us believe that we should be, Pakushai. If I'm wrong, though, so be it. But I will not let the Dreamers dictate how I and others should live our respective lives, if I can possibly ever avoid it at all. No matter what."
"I see. Well, I hope you're right, of course, but I really don't think you are, at least this time, Faith."
"You're supposed to agree with me, Pakushai, not take the Dreamers' side of things here, I think."
"No, I don't believe so. I'm supposed to be your Guardian. Which means I have to do whatever I possibly can to look out for you, no matter what it is, in my life and in yours, at least. Even if it might actually be quite a bit different than what you might have me do here, I must still do whatever I possibly can to see to your safety and to the safeties of those who are sufficiently around you now in your life. I'm not supposed to just support everything you'd rather have me support in my own life, Faith. Otherwise, I wouldn't be the Guardian I should actually be for you, I'm quite sure, in your own life."
We talked for a little while longer, before I retired to my bed, and she to hers near mine, and fell asleep. We each soon were quite soundly asleep again in our respective beds. And we didn't rise again from them until sometime near 8:30 in the morning, at the very earliest. And by 9:15 in the morning, at the very latest. After we got up and did whatever we normally did before exiting our chambers again on a typical Kilakogon day, we soon found out that my father, my brother, and many other people had arrived on the Palace's grounds from assorted areas elsewhere in our system. My father was King Torga, and my brother was Prince Tayoto. My brother was younger than me, so he was not the current legal heir to the throne of Kilakogo after my parents. I was legally next in the line of succession to it. And perhaps, just because of that fact, I was so certain that we'd be able to survive well enough any potential Negaverse invasion of Kilakogo, at least, if not elsewhere in our system as well. And perhaps even beat them quite easily enough in battle ultimately, in our own solar system. Yet, these beliefs of mine still led to the deaths of many who could possibly have been saved somehow.
When Father heard about the events of the previous day, he wasn't very happy indeed. And he said so, but not as strongly as Mother might have done, for he was more the kind of man who wasn't generally given to strong words and actions whenever he didn't have to be. Sure, he could be quite firm whenever he absolutely needed to be in his life. But Mother would generally be the disciplinarian in our family instead of him. For he was often away on solar system-related business for our various worlds and for Selonagi, often as an ambassador or helper of sorts to them from Kilakogo. I could generally get away with a good deal more of my habits with him present than I could without him around at a particular time, in fact. Publicly, Mother was the one who most commonly spoke for and ran our Kingdom. But privately, at least occasionally, Father would determine our family's course of actions in life, if and whenever it was possible for him to do just that. Not all the time, mind you. For my mother was often bound and determined that certain things should go as she thought they should in life. But often enough that he was able to exert at least some control over our family if and whenever our current circumstances made it possible for him to do just that.
For instance, Mother was not too keen on the fact that Theo and I had fallen in love with each other after having occasionally met each other during assorted solar system-related meetings between inhabitants of our solar system about five Terran years or so before the present day. Father was quite keen on the idea, once we finally made him aware of that fact on my thirteenth birthday, in terms of Terran reckoning of calendar years, at a system-wide major formal occasion meant to celebrate my full initiation into the Sailor Corps and into certain Kingdom-related matters. Matters such as the matter of my Junior Planetary Court, for example. Mother opposed the idea, but Father put his foot down, for once, and forced Mother to let us spend considerable amounts of time together in our lives, if and whenever possible in them. For she would have rather seen me with another young man from Kilakogo at least as my chief suitor, if not also as my future husband, in fact.
"Faith, you must not unnecessarily cause trouble here for us, if it can be avoided at all. Many are going to die now, and perhaps many more will die now that could possibly have been saved if you'd just heeded your friends and fellow Sailor Team members' warnings, as I'm reasonably sure that you won't. I just hope that your actions don't ultimately mean that our worlds and our star will never have sufficient amounts of sentient life again, if things turn out as I'm strongly suspecting that they now will."
"Beloved Father, several of them made their arguments for certain actions that we should undertake now almost quite convincing, I must admit. But their respective arguments were not quite convincing enough for me to agree with them well enough here and now. Many more of our system's various inhabitants may now die that could possibly have been saved. And if that's true, then so be it. But I'll most certainly not let certain people largely, if not entirely, dictate just how I might ever live my own life anywhere, and at any time, at all in this Universe of ours. No matter where it might ever be, if I can possibly ever avoid it, I won't let them do so at all, by the way. And most especially not the Dreamers, in fact."
"As you wish, Faith. But for once, at least, I can't totally agree with your current thoughts on this particular matter here, if not any others as well here. Do what you feel you must now do, but please do know this. If certain things ultimately do turn out as many of our people now seem to think that they might here, then it'll most likely be largely, if not entirely, your own fault that they ultimately turned out as they did around here. Will you actually be able to then live with yourself, somehow, if and when you ever realize that you could possibly have done more to save the inhabitants from all our worlds and our star before our enemies came here, then?"
"If I have to, I think I'll be able to do that well enough. It may not be very easy at all, mind you. But I still think that I can do that well enough, if the need ever arises, in the future, Beloved Father." We talked for a while longer, before I eventually found Tayoto elsewhere on the Palace's grounds, playing a chess-like game with several of his friends in a game room of sorts.
My brother Tayoto was now actually about twelve Terran years old, more or less. But he generally looked about two or three such years older than that now in his life. He was now just a shade both shorter and lighter than I now was in my own life. And he had the first hints of a blond beard and moustache starting to appear on his face. His round eyes were as green as emeralds, not bright blue like my own. Where his blond hair was rather short and rather straight, my own blonde hair was largely long and wavy, and often worn in well-woven braids that wound around my head above my forehead and ears like a coiled Terran snake might often rest on the ground while resting. Tayoto had a short diagonal scar running just below his left eye from the outside corner of it to about halfway to the nearest corner of his mouth on his left cheek, from when he'd quite accidentally been hit by a knife thrown by a random stranger hunting for small game near the Palace while he'd also been doing the same thing, several Terran years before the present time.
I watched him play that game for a while with his then-present friends, and after they eventually left him, I asked him, "Tell me where you and Beloved Father went most recently. Honored Mother neglected to inform me of where you were going, Tayoto."
Tayoto said, "We went to try to help various inhabitants escape the coming invasion of the Negaverse in the Hadron, Weikobi, Eternium, Terron, and Esperus mini-systems, at least, Treasured Sister. We couldn't actually rescue everyone, though, for we only had a certain number of ships with us at the time. More ships full of evacuees are due to arrive here at Kilakogo sometime later on, whether it's today or tomorrow. The Rangers in those planets' mini-systems are doing what they can to buy our worlds more time to evacuate themselves and their inhabitants to here, but it still won't be enough to save everyone. The situation out in the outer reaches of this system is worsening very fast indeed, and it won't get better anytime soon. We ourselves were only barely able to get out of the Esperusan mini-system before the Negaverse destroyed several dozen ships and/or space stations in it. Others were going to try to get away from there not long after we left it as well, for that matter."
"I see. What else, Tayoto?" We eventually moved to his chambers in the Palace, and he soon began to collect assorted things of his on several carts and things then present in them. His chambers were quite well-organized and quite neat in their nature, in all parts of them, in fact. Much unlike my own, by the way, which were often rather cluttered and rather disorganized, often to the great dismay of my mother.
"We have absolutely no chance at successfully withstanding their coming invasion of Kilakogo. Especially once they get control over enough of the inhabitants of other worlds in our system that they don't yet have control over well enough. I humbly recommend, Treasured Sister, then, that you soon begin to prepare your Team for the battle which is certain to come sometime tomorrow, at the very latest. Or that you soon should help any number of other people prepare our evacuation ships for departure to a yet-undisclosed solar system that our Honored Mother will designate closer to the expected time that our Negaverse enemies will make Moonfall here on Kilakogo. You quite evidently have chosen now to largely, if not entirely, disregard the recommendations of many of your Sailor Team's members. So our ultimate fates for when they finally come here to Kilakogo may now be quite sealed. I hope that isn't really the case for us all here and now, of course, but it now seems that it very well might be."
"And if I don't do either of those things, then what, Tayoto? Will you tell on me to Beloved Father or to Honored Mother, or not?" I asked, as he very carefully took down a painting in oils that he'd made just about a Terran year ago, more or less, of several of his rather close friends, and placed it in a certain good-sized metal chest of his.
"No, Treasured Sister, I won't. But I still will leave you with these thoughts of mine here. This course of events might just lead to much more tragedy that could possibly have been avoided by us all. And if anyone survives them well enough, your name may not be regarded very well indeed. At least not among many other people in this solar system and/or this Universe of ours some unknown length of time in the future, anyway. Supposing, of course, that they actually might ever learn of any or all of them well enough in the future, somehow." Several other items of assorted sizes and shapes joined that painting of his friends in that good-sized chest of his in rather short order.
"If that is the case, then so be it, Tayoto. If it means my name is eventually regarded rather poorly indeed by most, if not all, future historians in this solar system, this Galaxy, and/or this Universe of ours in the future, I think I can actually live with that fact well enough, somehow. I will let history unfold as it may, in regards to me. But I will not just let certain Dreamers tell me what I can and can't do in my life, if I can possibly ever avoid it at all in it, somehow."
"Noted, Treasured Sister. But I still think you'll be making a big mistake if you don't do what you can to help everyone out as much as you can here while you still have at least some chance to do that somehow." He eventually closed the chest with the picture of his friends in it, and locked it, before continuing to move periodically around his chambers so that he could collect other things of his quite well enough here.
"It will be my mistake to make, then, Tayoto. I'll accept any and all necessary blame for my actions, then, in that case. But I really don't think things will be quite as bad as many people think that they might now be here. Even if our Negaverse enemies come as forcefully as many might seem to think that they will to here." He eventually finished gathering up any number of things in his chambers, before sitting down briefly on his bed, which now had its covers completely off them. For they'd already been placed in still another storage container of some sort while he and many other people had been off Kilakogo most recently in their lives by several servants here on the Palace's grounds.
I asked him why he'd stopped gathering more of his things here, and he soon told me, "Treasured Sister, our ships can only hold a certain amount of people's personal cargo on each of them. What I have packed, or had packed for me, will fill up my weight allowance quite well, if not entirely. I have collected, or had collected for me, everything that I most want to keep in my life, if at all possible. Even if I could actually have many more items saved from here or elsewhere in this solar system, at least, I don't necessarily think they really need to be saved from potential loss due to our enemies' actions or due to any number of other circumstances that might ever arise for any of us here in this solar system, at least."
"I see. So you don't want to keep any more of your sculptures, for instance?" I asked him, thinking that several of them were potentially worth being kept here, if at all possible.
"No, I don't. They would overload at least one ship, I think, if they were taken on board them. If they're left, more people might actually survive than if they weren't, for instance. Besides, some of them are immovable, or nearly so, under normal enough circumstances, Treasured Sister. Because that is the case, I am more than willing to take the chance that they might ultimately be damaged or destroyed when our enemies come here."
"Very well, but I still don't agree with your idea that several of your sculptures should stay here from now on, just the same, Tayoto."
"That is your right, of course, in your own life, Treasured Sister. Now, if I might actually make a humble suggestion here, I think it most certainly would be best for all of us here in this solar system if you'd then do as I recommended to you not long ago here and elsewhere. All while also rather seriously considering the fact that you've quite obviously set us now on a particular course of actions that may not be sufficiently changeable now. Whether it's to prepare your Sailor Team for eventual battle or to help prepare our evacuation ships for eventual departure from Kilakogo tomorrow, I humbly suggest that you do one of those two things, if not both of them, today while you still can. Our Negaverse enemies will most certainly be here sometime tomorrow. And when they do finally manage to get here quite well enough, then your chance to do either of those things, if not both of them, will be gone here once and for all, at least in this solar system, I'm quite sure."
"Noted. Anything else?"
"No, not at the moment, Treasured Sister. May I now have my privacy, for I think I still have some things I wish to do alone before the end comes here for all of us now on Kilakogo?"
"Permission granted for you to have that privacy, Tayoto."
"Thank you, Treasured Sister. Please try to remember all that I've just discussed with you here, then, today, if at all possible."
"Of course, Tayoto."
I soon left my brother's chambers in the Starmoon Palace behind, and eventually moved to my own for at least a little while, if not a long while. But only after first going to the Palace's main dining hall to get at least something for my own breakfast here, of course. When I then got there, Melody was sitting near her sweetheart Chad of House Meredith on Cyanon. Unlike her or me, however, he had considerably darker skin than we both did, and considerably darker skin than many of the other members of my own Sailor Team. Most of my Team consisted of somewhat light-skinned people. But there were still at least a few darker-skinned members of it, just the same. Abigail and Chad, for instance, were such members of it. And so were Randolph, Jeralen, Henry, and Myron, for that matter. Sage looked almost Terran East Asian, and Heaven looked at least a little bit Terran East Asian as well. Other than Chad, Randolph, Abigail, Jeralen, Henry, Myron, Sage, and Heaven, then, the rest of us were generally rather light-skinned in our respective skin tones.
When Melody and Chad eventually saw me, Melody soon said, "Hello, Faith. Did you have a rather good time with Theo last night after our trip to Terron?"
"It was fine, at the very least, if not even better than that. I hope that we actually can be together one day as husband and wife, though, of course. But many may not like the idea much of us being that way for each other in our lives. I know you don't think very highly at all of him, Melody. But I can't even imagine possibly ever being married to anyone else at all in my life. He makes me feel quite wonderful indeed! At least most of the time, in fact."
"I see, Faith. And if I told you that I might feel for Chad the way you do about Theo, would you think it a good match for me in my life?" She asked me this as I sat down near her and Chad, in fact.
"It's your life, Melody. I can't tell you who you can love in it. Even if I might or might not necessarily think him the best potential mate for you in it. I don't have that right, I believe, for the simple reasons being that I'm not even from your own world in this solar system of ours, and that I 'm also not now in a position to veto any potential future match between you and him. I have absolutely no say at all about who you can possibly marry in your life yet, if I ever will have a chance to have a say about such things in it."
The three of us conversed periodically with each other as we had our respective breakfasts in the main dining hall. Even after several other people eventually joined us as well in it, we still did so, this morning. Among the things that we discussed with each other here were my earlier conversation with Tayoto, for instance. Melody thought it rather wise advice of my brother's. And she soon enlisted me in helping her pack up several of her more important things in her own Starmoon Palace chambers, once we'd all finished our respective breakfasts in the Palace's main dining hall well enough. I helped her out to at least some considerable degree with her packing, of course. And then she had others in the Palace enlist me as well in their own preparations for either eventual battle or eventual departure from Kilakogo, much to my own surprise. I assisted several dozen people in such preparations before finally managing to retreat to my own Starmoon Palace chambers for at least a little bit of a breather in private.
However, I was eventually forced to let my mother, among many others, into my chambers. And I was soon forced either to begin packing, to have one last pre-battle preparation/training session with my Sailor Team, or to aid several other people at least a bit more in preparing our evacuation ships for eventual departure, once they came into my own Starmoon Palace chambers like they did.
I was unable to have much more time alone to myself in my chambers again until at least 10:30 at night, then, for many other people had required my attentions for much of the day, in fact. But, eventually, I did have that time here. By then, however, many, though not all, of my things had been cleaned up and/or packed either by me or by any number of other people then on the Palace's grounds. Whether I wanted them to be or not, they still were. I soon flopped down on my bed, and fell asleep for a while, in very short order.
All of a sudden, though, around local midnight, Pakushai charged into my chambers and jumped on me until I woke up well enough in my bed again. When I asked her what the matter was, she yelled, "Look out your windows, Faith! It is beginning, just as the prophecies and as many others in your life said that it might!" Still somewhat sleepily, then, I quickly arose from my bed to see a most unusual sight. That most unusual sight was the sight of all our system's currently-visible and still-inhabitable worlds quickly aligning in a perfectly straight line with each other and with Selonagi, in fact. Granted, I wasn't actually able to see all of our system's inhabited worlds and our system's star at the present time from where I was now on Kilakogo. But there now was an extremely strong force that was beginning to assert itself much more forcefully in our system. And not just because of the Negaverse's presence in it. It was so strong, in fact, that it seemed to begin to freeze all the aforementioned stars in place, completing that sort of feat by local midnight here on Kilakogo, somehow.
"Why are all these worlds and our star frozen in place now, Pakushai?" I soon asked, once I realized what had just happened well enough here.
"Because it is most certainly now the end of certain things here as we might each know of them now, Faith. By this time tomorrow, at the very latest, Kilakogo will most likely be devoid of most, if not all, known sentient life on or in it, it seems to me. You must now prepare yourself for eventual battle and for eventual departure from here, then. The time for just enjoying yourself on this world is now over. All our system's inhabited places have been essentially taken over by the Negaverse except for Kilakogo and maybe Selonagi, as far as I know here and now, in fact. They will make Moonfall by local dawn, from what I just heard from your mother, as well."
No more than about six hours, plus or minus fifteen minutes, at most, our enemies made Moonfall on Kilakogo, contrary to what I'd thought would happen. Not long after that, several nearby places to Enterprise were then placed under quite heavy attack by them. Several of them held out for several hours, but their defenders were unable to hold them at bay well enough to keep them from breaking through our lines of defense. Many brave and noble Rangers and other members of our kingdoms' armed forces fell on the fields of battle, and panic began to reign in the streets and along several of our kingdom's major highways leading to Enterprise, wherever our enemies then began to pummel our defenses down and wreak havoc in our kingdom.
In the meantime, while they were doing all that, Mother and her closest advisors were trying to find areas in and around Enterprise where we could hopefully hold them off for at least a little while longer at times, so as to better the chances that at least a few of our evacuation ships could get safely enough away from Kilakogo, if at all possible. And my Sailor Team and I were currently seeing to the loading of those ships with evacuees to the best of our abilities to do so. Even while many of us were not quite certain that they'd be able to get off Kilakogo in time, if and when the need arose for them to do so, on Mother's orders.
Eventually, though, the Negaverse's countless warriors found their respective ways to Enterprise and its city limits. Many would now die, and not just because of my inaction in certain things some time before. But when they did, they would die with true honor, unlike me, most likely, if I were to die here for a time on Kilakogo.
Many of our remaining warriors now lay in ambush waiting for the proper times to strike at our enemies. Even though they all knew they most likely would all die, or at least that all but a very rare few, if any, of them would do so before our enemies breached the outermost walls of our Starmoon Palace in Enterprise. Other than them, there were not many other warriors left for us to defend the Starmoon Palace and its grounds with, as I later found out, just before the final battle's end in Enterprise.
Mother and her advisors had our warriors who were then lying in ambush eventually spring their ambushes around six in the evening, local time. Many Negaverse warriors fell against our brave and noble warriors from all our worlds and our system's star, but not enough of those warriors fell in battle against our people to help us all out sufficiently well. The Negaverse could well afford those losses, but we couldn't, as I later learned, just before the end came to us here on Kilakogo. Or at least those of us who would also be killed in the final battle on the Palace's grounds, anyway.
Our warriors, however, somehow managed to buy us at least three more hours of breathing room, so to speak, before the last of them fell, and before the Negaverse continued inexorably towards our Starmoon Palace. Our first evacuation ships left Kilakogo's surface just after 9:05 pm local time, and quickly cloaked themselves from any Negaverse spacecraft that might be lurking about to the best of their abilities at the present time. All our ships of that nature generally could cloak in certain situations, and this kind of situation was one of those. They were somewhat lightly-armed, at least for the most part, so the ability to cloak was generally a must for them whenever possible.
Our enemies eventually reached the outermost walls of our Starmoon Palace at about 9:45 pm local time. Several short laser-like bursts later, there were then about eight rather large gaping holes in those walls of ours. Millions of Negaverse warriors of assorted kinds then flooded through our walls as if they were made merely of paper, not of several dozen feet of stone and/or metal, in fact. Ten thousand more of our warriors and/or civilians almost immediately met their ends when they did so. Most, if not all, of those civilians were members of our Palace's service staff, for that matter. The other civilians who were lost then were ones who then had failed to recognize the current danger in time to save their own lives easily enough, and they'd just been doing their own things without really paying attention to what was then going on now all over our kingdom, by the way.
I soon sent several hundred of our remaining Rangers who'd then made their ways towards me in the general direction of the Palace's western inner walls that our enemies had not yet breached sufficiently well. All of the other Rangers who were then near me and the rest of my Sailor Team, I told to hold the area around the remaining evacuation ships still on Kilakogo's surface to the best of their respective abilities until we got there well enough. For I was now going to take my Team to go find Mother and the rest of her closest advisors elsewhere on the Palace's grounds, if at all possible. They wished me much success in that attempt of mine, and I wished them the same. Though I knew quite well now that they most certainly would die with much more honor and glory to their respective names if and when they fell than I would if I did so here before I got off this once-lovely world of mine well enough.
Those who I sent to the Palace's western inner walls would most certainly fall. But they wouldn't actually fall on or around them without somehow delaying our enemies from their ultimate goals for at least another hour or so, as I'd later come to learn. Those ultimate goals of theirs included, in fact, the possession and the control of all our Planetary Court Crystals, as Colleen had earlier suggested to me at least once before. But also complete and permanent control over everyone and everything, not only in our solar system, but everyone and everything in any other known part of our Universe, for that matter. Without the enough, if not all, of the aforementioned Crystals, though, they'd never be able to do that well enough, most likely.
While our Rangers sent to the Palace's western inner walls were delaying our enemies' advance through them, then, I led my team to where I knew my mother would still be with her closest advisors. I quickly reported the current events on the battle as well as I knew of them so far. She thanked me for my report, and then she said, "We won't have too much time left, then, everyone. It is time for us to prepare to execute 'Operation Vengeance,' it seems to me. Sailor Kilakogo, you and your Sailor Team are now to begin retreating to the area where the last evacuation ships are. Gather up all remaining civilians that you possibly can, and get them aboard those ships to the best of your abilities to do so. Then once that is done as best as you possibly can do just that, protect all of those remaining ships at least until we can relieve you of that duty well enough. We will be there with you just as soon as we can, then. No debate! Is that crystal clear?"
"Perfectly, Honored Mother. I hope you know what you're doing, for I really don't know about 'Operation Vengeance' at all right now, if I ever will."
"I do know what we're going to do, no matter what it takes. You do not yet need to know about Operation Vengeance, if you ever will need to know about it in your life. Now go, while you still can, Sailor Kilakogo and all!"
So we left Mother and her closest advisors behind where they now were in what was still left of our Palace. And we all began to carry out her orders here as best as we could, then, even after the Rangers I'd sent to the Palace's western inner walls eventually fell in battle against our enemies. We all made it to where the evacuation ships were still loading and/or leaving Kilakogo's surface periodically. And we all defended the general area around them all to the very best of our respective abilities at the current time in our lives. Even as they continued to load on or leave from Kilakogo's surface as the need arose for them to do just that. Eventually, there was just one ship left on Kilakogo's surface, and that would be our evacuation ships' convoy flagship, in fact. We waited a bit longer for our parents, and held the area as best as we could around it, then, hoping that they too would be able to make it aboard that same ship as well. Our parents eventually appeared in front of us, although they were now fighting for their very lives and the lives of all of us, as I later learned here, once we'd left our system and landed elsewhere in the Galaxy well enough.
Many of them had at least twenty to thirty Terran years of fighting experience in their lives, if not even more than that. They were all generally quite good at fighting in their respective lives. But not even they, the ones who had maintained our system's inhabited places even in other times of conflict between us and several other solar systems' peoples, would be able to withstand sheer force of Negaverse warriors' numbers under the current circumstances. As we all would soon come to realize as my Sailor Team and I watched them still continue to battle our enemies even all the way to within three feet or so of our positions near the last ship here on Kilakogo, in fact.
When many of the Negaverse's warriors then got within about three feet of where we now were, our parents all said, "No further will you monsters all go against us, if we all can possibly help it. You will not claim our own children's lives for your own." We all began feeling assorted items being tossed behind us or into our hands, no matter what they were. Some of those things were crystals, and some were other things we didn't yet have enough time to examine here, at least, for all the obvious reasons.
Our parents held back their opponents as best as they could while those items were being passed to us or sent past us into that last evacuation ship of ours here. When they eventually stopped doing so here, though, I then asked, "Honored Mother, are you all coming along with us now?"
"No, we won't, Faith. We must remain here, so that you and your many associates and many civilians can escape here. We love you all very much, even if you are all rather troublesome at times in your lives. We also will not be able to hold onto our Crystals any longer in our lives. Our time is nearly over here. If it is God's will, we will eventually meet each other again in the future, somehow. But, for now, at least, you must all part from us in your lives. Do not let our enemies get our Crystals, no matter what, if you possibly can do just that. If they do, any world's Crystals that they can control most certainly will be used for evil purposes, not good ones. You must hold a world's Crystal or Crystals for it to be sufficiently restorable later, when the time for their eventual restoration comes to pass. Go, and go now. We will not be able to hold them back much longer. Take care of everyone to the best of your ability, even if you don't generally get along with them very well at all, then, Wild One."
"Understood, Honored Mother. May we meet again, then, if at all possible, in the future. I'm truly sorry for all the trouble that I have now caused for us all here on Kilakogo! I should've listened to everyone who told me that these things would happen for us all!"
"You can't deny your heart's leadings, Wild One. This situation was perhaps unavoidable from your own birth, come to think of it. But, hopefully, in the future, you all can actually change things at least enough so that if our worlds are somehow fully restored to the ways that they should be, this sort of thing will never again come to pass in this system of ours."
"Understood, Honored Mother."
"We will always be with you all, then, no matter what happens, Faith, at least as long as you all live well enough, for sure. Now you must depart. Say hello to Queen Serenity when you see her next, Wild One. Tell everyone that they are to depart for the Sol System as soon as possible, then. The Sol System, and only the Sol System, if at all possible. Do I make myself quite crystal clear?"
"Yes, Honored Mother. The Sol System, and only the Sol System, if at all possible."
"Good. Now go! And may you all fare quite well enough in the future, then, God willing, Wild One," Mother said, just before she and Father suddenly closed our ship's main hatch right in front of me without any prior warning to that effect. Ten seconds later, then, our ship left the ground, and began to rise faster and faster as even more time passed for all of us here. Below us, Mother and the rest of our parents bought us even more time to get away until we were sufficiently high up in the skies above Enterprise. When we finally were, all of them were quite closely crammed together back-to-back as best as they then could be. About 50,000 Negaverse warriors and/or their surviving leaders now surrounded them all as they all prepared for their now-certain deaths. Our parents were then wielding swords of various kinds and shields of the appropriate enough kinds for themselves. Even though they all knew they were doomed to die where they now were in very short order. The overall leaders of the Negaverse's forces, who many of us would later come to know as Queen Beryl, and Generals Jadeite, Nephlyte, Zoisite, and Malachite offered them all their lives for their Planetary Court Crystals and ours. But Mother and her fellow monarchs in our solar system all, rather boldly indeed, said, at the exact same instant, "Never will we let such vile beings as yourselves get our Crystals or those of our children, no matter what, if we can possibly ever avoid it at all. If you want them, you'll have to find them yourselves, and take them from their possessors by force, without a doubt. Kill us, if you must, but you will never get possession of them if our surviving people can possibly ever avoid it at all in this Universe of ours."
Needless to say, those things didn't sit very well at all, of course, with Queen Beryl and her Generals. Moments later, then, Queen Beryl suddenly motioned towards the waiting Negaverse warriors around our parents, and they charged. Our parents defended themselves quite well, but not well enough to ultimately save their lives where they now were. As they began to die from any number of mortal wounds, then, they all suddenly cried out, with their last breaths on Kilakogo's surface, "Cosmic Ranger Vengeance Power!" Ten seconds later, at most, then, they all died simultaneously, all the still-remaining Negaverse warriors or leaders other than Queen Beryl and her Generals were atomized completely, and all our evacuation ships were quite unexpectedly forced completely away from Kilakogo by some yet-unknown means. Just before we were all quite suddenly forced away from Kilakogo, I then caught a very brief glance of the Starmoon Palace as the rest of it crumbled almost completely near what little was still left of all our parents who'd just atomized all but a very rare few of the remaining Negaverse-affiliated beings still on Kilakogo. And I also saw Queen Beryl and her four Generals only barely escaping the aforementioned atomization of their warriors by opening a portal of some sort to some yet-unfamiliar area of the Universe to us. They'd not be so easily destroyed, as we all would eventually learn, after they would eventually come to the Moon intending to do there what they'd intended to do to all our system's Kingdoms.
We were all gone from the immediate area of Kilakogo by midnight local time on the date that Terrans would most likely reckon as June 26, 989. We all then spent no more than two or three days traveling to the Sol System, and we arrived at its outermost edge by what would have been noon Enterprise time on June 29, 989. We were detained briefly there by assorted Moon Kingdom spacecraft, for all the obvious reasons, before eventually being permitted entry into the Sol System on the direct orders of Queen Serenity herself. Several of our evacuation ships hadn't really weathered the trip from the Selonagi system very well. That was due to them having taken at least some damage before they'd actually been able to leave Kilakogo's surface well enough, and in a few cases, even after leaving it, of course. But they were all still holding together to at least some degree, if not totally, somehow.
All of our ships eventually landed quite near each other in the general area of Moon City on the Moon. And those of us who had somehow managed to survive the trip from our system well enough were soon checked out as best as possible, of course. While the others who'd not actually done so well enough were soon laid to rest as needed in certain Moon City-area burial grounds or other areas where the dead would often rest anywhere at all on the Moon, quite naturally enough.
After all the necessary things had been taken care of as needed here, then, the Moon Kingdom granted us refugee status in the Moon Kingdom, and we remained in the Sol System at least until such time as the Moon Kingdom ultimately fell because of our mutual enemies' invasion of it. Those of us who were still left eventually fell in battle against them. Even me, by the way. But just before we'd have been consigned to permanent death along with so many others, Queen Serenity then sent each and every single one of us at least enough energy somehow to actually ensure our ultimate survival into the future. We were all soon encased in assorted stasis containers of various kinds, and sent to the future by her. But it was at the cost of her own life that she did so, in fact. We would be sent to a yet-unknown time in the future, and we would hopefully be able to live our lives at least once more, in a much more peaceful time.
But such peace wouldn't last forever, as we'd later come to realize, once old enemies reawakened and new ones arose as well to oppose us, in due time. Our time in the past was now over, and our future was yet to be experienced, once we were then sent to it. Only the Holy Ones knew then what would eventually come to pass for us in it, though. So ended the Sapphire Age of Selonagi.