Selece
By Arimi formerly known as Azhure
Author's Note: Well this is a fic that I had the idea for ever since
watching and reading Ayashi no Ceres (Known in English as Ceres:
The Celestial Legend). Some of the details are similar to those in
Ceres, but I have kept the story original, however if it wasn't for Yu
Watase's beautiful story I might not have come up with this story.
I know this prologue is long by many standards, but this does give
background information that I don't want to have to bother with
later on.
-…- denotes thought
~…~ denotes a flashback
*…* denotes passage of time
Note: Due to the fact that my editor has becoming increasingly
busy I will need a new one. Please contact me at
lady_kitsune333@lycos.com if you are interested, experience
preferred.
Disclaimer: Sailor Moon and its characters are the property of
Naoko Takeuchi.
Prologue:
Amidst the screaming, Dr. Eien Chiba made the only diagnosis that
he possibly could for the woman lying on the table in front of him,
she would not live through the childbirth. With every contraction
her body grew weaker, and if the baby was not born soon, than it
too might die. He wiped his jet black hair out of his blue eyes, and
wiped his glasses and gave a glance at name tag on her wrist.
Tsukino Ikuko. This woman was a part of the Tsukino clan; it was
no wonder than that all those agents of the Black Moon
Organization were lurking outside the delivery room. Another
scream drew Eien from his thoughts.
She was close, she had begun to push awhile ago and now was
finally reaching the end as he caught sight of the head and began
to ready himself for the final stage. And than with one unnatural
push from the woman along with another scream, Dr. Eien was
holding a squealing baby girl, he looked back at the mother, and
realized that her body and her spirit had finally given up and had
let go. She was dead. He looked back at the baby in his arms and
sighed.
It was at that moment a peculiar thing happened, the baby picked
up its wailing and began wiggling frantically in his arms, he tried
desperately to calm it down, when a blinding light began to
emanate from baby girl. He looked down to catch a quick glimpse
of a marking on the baby's head.
-What the hell?!- He thought, and he had to shield his eyes against
the light. And than just as soon as it had begun, the light and the
marking were gone, and the once screaming baby girl was now
asleep in his arms. He looked around and none of the nurses had
noticed it, and began to wonder if it had only been an illusion. Just
than the door was slammed open and two men and a woman
walked in. Eien instantly recognized them and began to back
away.
"What are you doing here?" he asked the man.
"Give me the child," the one in the middle said, his cold
emotionless eyes speaking volumes.
"What could you possible want with a baby girl?" Eien asked; the
two nurses recoiled in the back corner of the room.
"That is none of your concern Dr. Chiba, just hand over the girl at
once!" the second man said.
Eien looked down once more at the girl and for an instant caught
the flash of his own five year old son and he handed the baby into
the arms of the man in the middle.
They left the room and Eien collapsed back into his chair and held
his hand to his head. He looked at the dead body lying on the
table.
"I am sorry," he said, and than looked back at the nurses who
seemed to have relaxed and begun to prepare the body to be
cremated. Eien's thoughts went back to that light and marking on
the child's head that he had seen. It might have been a
hallucination it might not have been, whatever it was, the Black
Moon was interested in that child and he needed to know why.
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The room was dim but had enough light to read. The woman
flipped through the book, her uneasiness keeping her from truly
enjoying it. She had been not feeling well at all the whole day. Her
senses were telling her that something was going to happen, and
she knew that it would not be good. At that moment there was a
knock on the door, she instinctively knew who it was.
"Come in."
The door opened and the same two men and the woman walked in;
in the middle man's arms was a newly born infant girl.
"Meiou Setsuna, it is time that you repay your favor to the Black
Moon clan," said the man in the middle his blackish blue hair
hanging over his eyes.
Setsuna looked at them, and closed her eyes, trying not to recall
what had put her to the mercy of these of men. It was too painful.
"You must take care of this child until we send for her. You are not
to mention us to her, and do not speak of this to outsider's," he
said.
She nodded and accepted the baby into her arms. -What could an
organization like the Black Moon want with a baby girl? Unless,
could she be…. - She looked back at them and nodded. They left
and she was alone with the child. The child was asleep; she had
not registered being in a different person's arms.
"What is your name little one?" Setsuna quietly asked, however the
baby did open her eyes to reveal them to be a shimmering shade
of blue. She gave a tiny sigh, but did not cry like most babies do
when unexpectedly waking; she looked at Setsuna and suddenly
broke into a huge smile.
-She shouldn't be able to smile at her age, she is only a few hours
old!!- She tossed the thought away; right now she had to figure
out how she was going to take care of this child.
"I guess I am going to have to give you a name myself," she said,
"You know what, you look like a little bunny, so therefore your
name will have to be Usagi."
The baby smiled again, as if to agree, Setsuna smiled. Whatever
the Black Moon had in store for this child, she could protect her
from it for now. However the uneasiness that she had been feeling
earlier, was not entirely gone.
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"Demando-sama."
A white haired man looked up from his glass of merlot and looked
to see his brother, Safiel, next to him were his sister Esmeraude,
and his other brother Rubeus.
"Have you retrieved the child?"
"Yes, she has been put under the watch of Miss Meiou," Safiel
replied.
"Are you sure that that woman is loyal to us?"
"She cannot afford to go against us, she will fulfill her duty."
"That child is important to our future, if anything is to happen to
her, your lives will pay the price," Demando said roughly.
"Understood. However there is a matter I think more threatening
than Setsuna. The doctor that delivered the baby has gone missing."
"So, and I should care why?" Demando asked.
"Because he saw something, the baby had emitted a strange light
right after being born. We have taken care of the nurses, but we
can't find anything. If he suspects anything, he would be a major
threat."
"Well if he is going to be a threat than just find him and get rid of
him, you do not need my approval for that. Just make sure you
reach him before he gets to anybody else."
"Yes sir."
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Dr. Eien Chiba stared at the computer screen trying to comprehend
what he was seeing. It was too absurd, but he knew the source
was infallible.
He had found the secret to the child and the Black Moon Clan's
plans for the future.
-The goddess Selece wreaked havoc on the village destroying
everything in sight. Her thirst for blood could not be satiated, and
she spread her terror throughout the land. And than one day she
came across a group of sorcerers, using their own magic took on
the vengeful goddess. They knew that they did not have the power
to destroy her completely, so they bound themselves to the
goddess and sealed her away. However, the goddess' hatred lived
on and she countered by sending herself into the future to be
reborn in one girl and finally destroy the race of men.-
Did the Black Moon Clan really think that that baby girl was the one
who held the spirit of Selece? Did they want to destroy all of
mankind? He looked at the paragraphs below that described
Selece's power. Or could they want to try to use her power?
-But how could they expect to control something full of rage and
hatred? It sounds like if Selece does come back she isn't going to
be willing to listen to anyone.-
He found another file, located in the same folder. This one was
written in more military and tactical style. It only took him a while
before he realized it was a plan for a highly detailed coup d'etat.
So the Black Moon Clan was planning to conquer Japan. He had to
get this to the Japanese CIA. -It won't be long before they realize
I am missing.- He sighed; he knew that what he had just done
had put not only himself in danger but that he may have also brought a threat to his family. -I am sorry Naomi, I am sorry
Mamoru, but I can't ignore this problem. I can't let the Black Moon
have their way!!-
He inserted a blank disk and quickly saved both documents to it.
He removed the disk from the computer and silently slipped out of
the room.
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Chiba Naomi sat silently in her living room staring blankly outside
the window. -Eien, where are you?- Her husband was not usually
this late; something must be up to keep him from his home.
Mamoru had been sleeping for a good five hours now, and she felt
the silence that loneliness often brings.
She heard the kitchen door open and she hurried to it. Her
husband stood there in a sort of defeated stance. She instantly
sensed that something was not right.
"What's wrong Eien, has something happened?" she asked him.
"Naomi, get Mamoru, and leave immediately," he said.
"Why? Is it the organization? Where should I go, will you meet
us?" she asked, suddenly picking up the sense of urgency in her
husband's voice.
"I have no time to explain, you and Mamoru have to get out of
here.
"OPEN UP DR. CHIBA!!! YOU CAN'T RUN ANYMORE!!"
"Who are those people Eien? What do they want?"
"Listen, Naomi, get Mamoru and pack your things, and take this. I
will call you and instruct you what to do with it." He turned and
headed towards the front door.
Naomi nodded and rushed to her son's room, roused him and
rushed him out the back door.
As they were running across the street Naomi saw her husband
and the men that had been shouting. She pushed Mamoru into the
alley and handed him the disk that Eien had given her and watched
the scene unfold.
"I have already secured the disk, you have come too late."
"Well than I guess you realize that we are going to have to kill you
Dr. Chiba."
And before he could respond the man fired the gun and he fell into
darkness.
Naomi saw her husband fall to the ground. She fell to her knees
and broke into an uncontrollable sob.
"Mother?" Mamoru asked walking up to his mother, he was scared
he didn't know where his dad was and his mom was crying. She
never cried.
"Hey you over there come here immediately."
Naomi looked up and noticed the men that had been with her
husband were now approaching her.
"Come on Mamoru hurry," and she and her son began to running
down the alley.
Mamoru heard the men behind her, he looked at his mother for
reassurance that everything was going to be okay, but he still saw
the tears in her eyes.
At that moment his mother tripped and fell.
"Run Mamoru, hurry."
"Mother!"
"Go, QUICKLY. Please Mamoru don't let them catch you!! You
can't die!!"
"Hand over the disk woman, we know you have it!!"
The men who had been chasing them had caught up and the
obvious leader pulled out his gun.
"Please Mamoru, please escape," his mother said before closing her
eyes.
"Very well then, if you refuse to talk than we will just silence you
now."
And Mamoru watched in horror as the man shot three shots into
his mother's head.
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10 year old Kouji "Kunzite" Takahama stared straight ahead. His
master stood right next to him.
"Do you feel it Kunzite?"
"Feel what, Master?"
His master was silent. Kunzite was about to ask his master again
what he meant, but was cut off by a loud scream. In a flash he
and his master ran towards the direction.
What they found sickened the boy, who although ten had seen his
share of bloodshed. On the ground lay the corpse of a woman,
who to be about 28 years old. Three men hovered over the body;
kneeling next to the woman was young boy who couldn't be more
than five years old.
"Step away from the body if you value your life."
Kunzite looked up at his master, and remained quiet.
One of the men smirked.
"What do you want to do about it, old man? There is no way you
can touch the Black Moon clan."
"We'll see about that, now leave!!"
Kunzite watched as his master unshielded his sword slashed
straight through one of the men.
The other stared horrified at the death of their comrade. Kunzite's
master glared at them, and they quickly left.
His master than turned to the boy who was silently crying.
"Mother, please wake up mother," he cried, and for an instant
Kunzite saw the death of his own parents.
"I am sorry, your mother is dead," his master said in his calm
soothing voice that always relaxed Kunzite's nerves.
"Why did they kill her? What did she ever do to them?"
Kunzite quickly saw that the boy was of an unusual intelligence for
his age, and he walked towards the boy, he for an instant saw
himself in the boy.
"What is your name?"
"Chiba Mamoru," the boy said timidly.
"Come with me, I will take care of you. You will be my new
apprentice."
The boy nodded. Kunzite and his master guided the boy away, as
the first raindrops fell upon the land. And the disk, which two
people had died for, lay in the water, and was forgotten.
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Well do you like it? The first chapter should be out soon. Please
Review!!
By Arimi formerly known as Azhure
Author's Note: Well this is a fic that I had the idea for ever since
watching and reading Ayashi no Ceres (Known in English as Ceres:
The Celestial Legend). Some of the details are similar to those in
Ceres, but I have kept the story original, however if it wasn't for Yu
Watase's beautiful story I might not have come up with this story.
I know this prologue is long by many standards, but this does give
background information that I don't want to have to bother with
later on.
-…- denotes thought
~…~ denotes a flashback
*…* denotes passage of time
Note: Due to the fact that my editor has becoming increasingly
busy I will need a new one. Please contact me at
lady_kitsune333@lycos.com if you are interested, experience
preferred.
Disclaimer: Sailor Moon and its characters are the property of
Naoko Takeuchi.
Prologue:
Amidst the screaming, Dr. Eien Chiba made the only diagnosis that
he possibly could for the woman lying on the table in front of him,
she would not live through the childbirth. With every contraction
her body grew weaker, and if the baby was not born soon, than it
too might die. He wiped his jet black hair out of his blue eyes, and
wiped his glasses and gave a glance at name tag on her wrist.
Tsukino Ikuko. This woman was a part of the Tsukino clan; it was
no wonder than that all those agents of the Black Moon
Organization were lurking outside the delivery room. Another
scream drew Eien from his thoughts.
She was close, she had begun to push awhile ago and now was
finally reaching the end as he caught sight of the head and began
to ready himself for the final stage. And than with one unnatural
push from the woman along with another scream, Dr. Eien was
holding a squealing baby girl, he looked back at the mother, and
realized that her body and her spirit had finally given up and had
let go. She was dead. He looked back at the baby in his arms and
sighed.
It was at that moment a peculiar thing happened, the baby picked
up its wailing and began wiggling frantically in his arms, he tried
desperately to calm it down, when a blinding light began to
emanate from baby girl. He looked down to catch a quick glimpse
of a marking on the baby's head.
-What the hell?!- He thought, and he had to shield his eyes against
the light. And than just as soon as it had begun, the light and the
marking were gone, and the once screaming baby girl was now
asleep in his arms. He looked around and none of the nurses had
noticed it, and began to wonder if it had only been an illusion. Just
than the door was slammed open and two men and a woman
walked in. Eien instantly recognized them and began to back
away.
"What are you doing here?" he asked the man.
"Give me the child," the one in the middle said, his cold
emotionless eyes speaking volumes.
"What could you possible want with a baby girl?" Eien asked; the
two nurses recoiled in the back corner of the room.
"That is none of your concern Dr. Chiba, just hand over the girl at
once!" the second man said.
Eien looked down once more at the girl and for an instant caught
the flash of his own five year old son and he handed the baby into
the arms of the man in the middle.
They left the room and Eien collapsed back into his chair and held
his hand to his head. He looked at the dead body lying on the
table.
"I am sorry," he said, and than looked back at the nurses who
seemed to have relaxed and begun to prepare the body to be
cremated. Eien's thoughts went back to that light and marking on
the child's head that he had seen. It might have been a
hallucination it might not have been, whatever it was, the Black
Moon was interested in that child and he needed to know why.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
The room was dim but had enough light to read. The woman
flipped through the book, her uneasiness keeping her from truly
enjoying it. She had been not feeling well at all the whole day. Her
senses were telling her that something was going to happen, and
she knew that it would not be good. At that moment there was a
knock on the door, she instinctively knew who it was.
"Come in."
The door opened and the same two men and the woman walked in;
in the middle man's arms was a newly born infant girl.
"Meiou Setsuna, it is time that you repay your favor to the Black
Moon clan," said the man in the middle his blackish blue hair
hanging over his eyes.
Setsuna looked at them, and closed her eyes, trying not to recall
what had put her to the mercy of these of men. It was too painful.
"You must take care of this child until we send for her. You are not
to mention us to her, and do not speak of this to outsider's," he
said.
She nodded and accepted the baby into her arms. -What could an
organization like the Black Moon want with a baby girl? Unless,
could she be…. - She looked back at them and nodded. They left
and she was alone with the child. The child was asleep; she had
not registered being in a different person's arms.
"What is your name little one?" Setsuna quietly asked, however the
baby did open her eyes to reveal them to be a shimmering shade
of blue. She gave a tiny sigh, but did not cry like most babies do
when unexpectedly waking; she looked at Setsuna and suddenly
broke into a huge smile.
-She shouldn't be able to smile at her age, she is only a few hours
old!!- She tossed the thought away; right now she had to figure
out how she was going to take care of this child.
"I guess I am going to have to give you a name myself," she said,
"You know what, you look like a little bunny, so therefore your
name will have to be Usagi."
The baby smiled again, as if to agree, Setsuna smiled. Whatever
the Black Moon had in store for this child, she could protect her
from it for now. However the uneasiness that she had been feeling
earlier, was not entirely gone.
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"Demando-sama."
A white haired man looked up from his glass of merlot and looked
to see his brother, Safiel, next to him were his sister Esmeraude,
and his other brother Rubeus.
"Have you retrieved the child?"
"Yes, she has been put under the watch of Miss Meiou," Safiel
replied.
"Are you sure that that woman is loyal to us?"
"She cannot afford to go against us, she will fulfill her duty."
"That child is important to our future, if anything is to happen to
her, your lives will pay the price," Demando said roughly.
"Understood. However there is a matter I think more threatening
than Setsuna. The doctor that delivered the baby has gone missing."
"So, and I should care why?" Demando asked.
"Because he saw something, the baby had emitted a strange light
right after being born. We have taken care of the nurses, but we
can't find anything. If he suspects anything, he would be a major
threat."
"Well if he is going to be a threat than just find him and get rid of
him, you do not need my approval for that. Just make sure you
reach him before he gets to anybody else."
"Yes sir."
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dr. Eien Chiba stared at the computer screen trying to comprehend
what he was seeing. It was too absurd, but he knew the source
was infallible.
He had found the secret to the child and the Black Moon Clan's
plans for the future.
-The goddess Selece wreaked havoc on the village destroying
everything in sight. Her thirst for blood could not be satiated, and
she spread her terror throughout the land. And than one day she
came across a group of sorcerers, using their own magic took on
the vengeful goddess. They knew that they did not have the power
to destroy her completely, so they bound themselves to the
goddess and sealed her away. However, the goddess' hatred lived
on and she countered by sending herself into the future to be
reborn in one girl and finally destroy the race of men.-
Did the Black Moon Clan really think that that baby girl was the one
who held the spirit of Selece? Did they want to destroy all of
mankind? He looked at the paragraphs below that described
Selece's power. Or could they want to try to use her power?
-But how could they expect to control something full of rage and
hatred? It sounds like if Selece does come back she isn't going to
be willing to listen to anyone.-
He found another file, located in the same folder. This one was
written in more military and tactical style. It only took him a while
before he realized it was a plan for a highly detailed coup d'etat.
So the Black Moon Clan was planning to conquer Japan. He had to
get this to the Japanese CIA. -It won't be long before they realize
I am missing.- He sighed; he knew that what he had just done
had put not only himself in danger but that he may have also brought a threat to his family. -I am sorry Naomi, I am sorry
Mamoru, but I can't ignore this problem. I can't let the Black Moon
have their way!!-
He inserted a blank disk and quickly saved both documents to it.
He removed the disk from the computer and silently slipped out of
the room.
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Chiba Naomi sat silently in her living room staring blankly outside
the window. -Eien, where are you?- Her husband was not usually
this late; something must be up to keep him from his home.
Mamoru had been sleeping for a good five hours now, and she felt
the silence that loneliness often brings.
She heard the kitchen door open and she hurried to it. Her
husband stood there in a sort of defeated stance. She instantly
sensed that something was not right.
"What's wrong Eien, has something happened?" she asked him.
"Naomi, get Mamoru, and leave immediately," he said.
"Why? Is it the organization? Where should I go, will you meet
us?" she asked, suddenly picking up the sense of urgency in her
husband's voice.
"I have no time to explain, you and Mamoru have to get out of
here.
"OPEN UP DR. CHIBA!!! YOU CAN'T RUN ANYMORE!!"
"Who are those people Eien? What do they want?"
"Listen, Naomi, get Mamoru and pack your things, and take this. I
will call you and instruct you what to do with it." He turned and
headed towards the front door.
Naomi nodded and rushed to her son's room, roused him and
rushed him out the back door.
As they were running across the street Naomi saw her husband
and the men that had been shouting. She pushed Mamoru into the
alley and handed him the disk that Eien had given her and watched
the scene unfold.
"I have already secured the disk, you have come too late."
"Well than I guess you realize that we are going to have to kill you
Dr. Chiba."
And before he could respond the man fired the gun and he fell into
darkness.
Naomi saw her husband fall to the ground. She fell to her knees
and broke into an uncontrollable sob.
"Mother?" Mamoru asked walking up to his mother, he was scared
he didn't know where his dad was and his mom was crying. She
never cried.
"Hey you over there come here immediately."
Naomi looked up and noticed the men that had been with her
husband were now approaching her.
"Come on Mamoru hurry," and she and her son began to running
down the alley.
Mamoru heard the men behind her, he looked at his mother for
reassurance that everything was going to be okay, but he still saw
the tears in her eyes.
At that moment his mother tripped and fell.
"Run Mamoru, hurry."
"Mother!"
"Go, QUICKLY. Please Mamoru don't let them catch you!! You
can't die!!"
"Hand over the disk woman, we know you have it!!"
The men who had been chasing them had caught up and the
obvious leader pulled out his gun.
"Please Mamoru, please escape," his mother said before closing her
eyes.
"Very well then, if you refuse to talk than we will just silence you
now."
And Mamoru watched in horror as the man shot three shots into
his mother's head.
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10 year old Kouji "Kunzite" Takahama stared straight ahead. His
master stood right next to him.
"Do you feel it Kunzite?"
"Feel what, Master?"
His master was silent. Kunzite was about to ask his master again
what he meant, but was cut off by a loud scream. In a flash he
and his master ran towards the direction.
What they found sickened the boy, who although ten had seen his
share of bloodshed. On the ground lay the corpse of a woman,
who to be about 28 years old. Three men hovered over the body;
kneeling next to the woman was young boy who couldn't be more
than five years old.
"Step away from the body if you value your life."
Kunzite looked up at his master, and remained quiet.
One of the men smirked.
"What do you want to do about it, old man? There is no way you
can touch the Black Moon clan."
"We'll see about that, now leave!!"
Kunzite watched as his master unshielded his sword slashed
straight through one of the men.
The other stared horrified at the death of their comrade. Kunzite's
master glared at them, and they quickly left.
His master than turned to the boy who was silently crying.
"Mother, please wake up mother," he cried, and for an instant
Kunzite saw the death of his own parents.
"I am sorry, your mother is dead," his master said in his calm
soothing voice that always relaxed Kunzite's nerves.
"Why did they kill her? What did she ever do to them?"
Kunzite quickly saw that the boy was of an unusual intelligence for
his age, and he walked towards the boy, he for an instant saw
himself in the boy.
"What is your name?"
"Chiba Mamoru," the boy said timidly.
"Come with me, I will take care of you. You will be my new
apprentice."
The boy nodded. Kunzite and his master guided the boy away, as
the first raindrops fell upon the land. And the disk, which two
people had died for, lay in the water, and was forgotten.
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Well do you like it? The first chapter should be out soon. Please
Review!!