This is the third story in a series of four stories. The first story
is Queen Serenity's Childhood, and the second story is called Beyond
the Façade. The first story is not essential to the series, but it
makes a few details in the second story make more sense and gives
some background information on Queen Serenity. The second story
however should be read to get the full idea of the next story.
There should be about ten chapters plus a prologue and an epilogue
in this story.
Prologue, Time Gate:
She stood at the gate and watched the destruction of the
entire Silver Millennium Alliance, and she wept in misery and defeat.
When she opened her eyes again, she saw Queen Serenity's ultimate
brave sacrifice. Her breath was caught in her throat. *She is
so selfless and brave,* Sailor Pluto thought to herself in
admiration.
She stood at the gate for many many hundreds of years, and
as time passed she got more and more lonely and miserable. Each
passing moment began to feel like an eternity to her. She stepped
through the time gate once to join the people of Earth for a short
time. She was so lonely she could not resist. She looked around at
the cobblestone streets and the horses and carriages. She approached
someone getting into a carriage. "Excuse me sir, but could I trouble
you for the year?" she asked politely.
"Seventeen hundred and seventy eight," answered the
gentleman. "Have you knocked your head on something and forgotten
things? Perhaps you should go to a hospital," he kindly suggested.
She shook her head, distracted now by her own thoughts. The
man looked at her strangely and then got into the carriage.
She wandered around the area for some time alone, watching
all the people walking across the edge of the street in their rags
and the rich with their parasols, or if it was raining umberllas,
and canes getting out and into their horse-drawn carriages. Her
eyes flitted over the scene several times in wonder. Her curiousity
thus satisfied, she went into a nearby bakery and there stood the
man she had met earlier. *He must have taken the carriage to this
store,* she thought briefly. When he saw her enter the store, he
smiled at her and approached her. "Is there anything I can do to
help you my lady? You seem lost."
"Indeed...I am lost, but please do not trouble yourself. I
just do not know this area very well. I should be fine in some
time."
"Ah, so you are from another area, but pray tell which area
of England do you come from?"
*So this is England.* "There is really nothing to tell,"
she assured him. He did not seem convinced, but after asking for a
loaf of bread and getting ready to exit the store, he asked her
another question. "Would you like me to accompany you to wherever
it is you are headed?"
"I have nowhere to go," she admitted.
"Now what is a beautiful lady like you doing in a foreign
area of this country with no destination?" he asked curiously.
"I am not sure," she admitted.
"You may perhaps have amnesia," he said. "You see I am a
doctor. I will lead you to the hospital and make sure you are
looked after," he reassured her.
She thought to herself for a moment. *If I say yes I get
a chance to see him again,* she thought happily. "Yes, all right.
Thank you kind sir," she said.
"Anytime my lady," he said, tipping his hat at her.
He then proceeded to take her to his carriage and then to
the hospital. She lay in the white bed with the white walls
surrounding her. She remained there for the next few nights
visited often by this man, Charles. He soon declared that he could
find nothing wrong with her, but he asked her to accompany him to
his home and allow him to continue to look after her.
She obliged readily, inwardly rejoicing at the thought of
spending her days and nights with him. Charles did look after her,
and they spent much time together-walking to the park, reading
together, seeing plays, and many other exciting activities,
together. He made her smile, and he made her heart flutter inside.
*So this is the love everyone talks and writes about,* she thought
happily.
He took her dancing one night and proposed to her under
the starlit sky. She gasped, and her breath caught in her throat.
"Yes Charles," she joyfully agreed. "I would like nothing better
than to be your wife," she said sincerely.
The wedding was a gigantic one with people from all sides
of Charles's family there to watch the two be wed.
Their lifetime together was full of love and joy, but as he
began getting older and older, she remained outwardly the same age.
She had forgotten about living on for three milleniums. She still
had much time left. In sorrow she watched as more of his body
withered away each day. She sat with him devotedly and helped him
as he grew older and older. One night, as death was drawing quite
near, he broached the subject of how she had remained so young. She
told him the honest truth as he died that night in her arms. Silent
tears escaped from her sorrow-filled eyes. She sighed and vowed
never to come back onto Earth until the others were reborn. She
continued all her duties at her post without ever leaving the gate.
In the time with her beloved Charles she had of course come back to
the post often enough to do her duty, but not more than she had to
spend to still enjoy her time with Charles and get her duties done.
She made sure the timeline stayed secure of course, and now she
resumed living at the time gate alone and lonely. Her whole heart
ached for her love CHarles, but she knew he would never again hold
her in his arms. She knew she could go back in time and meet him
and go through the whole process again, but somehow she felt that
was wrong. She decided to not do that in order to have closure and
move on from him.
As she waited, she was finally rewarded by hearing the
cries of the newborn Amara. She continued to watch their lives from
her post until they became sailor scouts, and she could join them.
To Be Continued...
is Queen Serenity's Childhood, and the second story is called Beyond
the Façade. The first story is not essential to the series, but it
makes a few details in the second story make more sense and gives
some background information on Queen Serenity. The second story
however should be read to get the full idea of the next story.
There should be about ten chapters plus a prologue and an epilogue
in this story.
Prologue, Time Gate:
She stood at the gate and watched the destruction of the
entire Silver Millennium Alliance, and she wept in misery and defeat.
When she opened her eyes again, she saw Queen Serenity's ultimate
brave sacrifice. Her breath was caught in her throat. *She is
so selfless and brave,* Sailor Pluto thought to herself in
admiration.
She stood at the gate for many many hundreds of years, and
as time passed she got more and more lonely and miserable. Each
passing moment began to feel like an eternity to her. She stepped
through the time gate once to join the people of Earth for a short
time. She was so lonely she could not resist. She looked around at
the cobblestone streets and the horses and carriages. She approached
someone getting into a carriage. "Excuse me sir, but could I trouble
you for the year?" she asked politely.
"Seventeen hundred and seventy eight," answered the
gentleman. "Have you knocked your head on something and forgotten
things? Perhaps you should go to a hospital," he kindly suggested.
She shook her head, distracted now by her own thoughts. The
man looked at her strangely and then got into the carriage.
She wandered around the area for some time alone, watching
all the people walking across the edge of the street in their rags
and the rich with their parasols, or if it was raining umberllas,
and canes getting out and into their horse-drawn carriages. Her
eyes flitted over the scene several times in wonder. Her curiousity
thus satisfied, she went into a nearby bakery and there stood the
man she had met earlier. *He must have taken the carriage to this
store,* she thought briefly. When he saw her enter the store, he
smiled at her and approached her. "Is there anything I can do to
help you my lady? You seem lost."
"Indeed...I am lost, but please do not trouble yourself. I
just do not know this area very well. I should be fine in some
time."
"Ah, so you are from another area, but pray tell which area
of England do you come from?"
*So this is England.* "There is really nothing to tell,"
she assured him. He did not seem convinced, but after asking for a
loaf of bread and getting ready to exit the store, he asked her
another question. "Would you like me to accompany you to wherever
it is you are headed?"
"I have nowhere to go," she admitted.
"Now what is a beautiful lady like you doing in a foreign
area of this country with no destination?" he asked curiously.
"I am not sure," she admitted.
"You may perhaps have amnesia," he said. "You see I am a
doctor. I will lead you to the hospital and make sure you are
looked after," he reassured her.
She thought to herself for a moment. *If I say yes I get
a chance to see him again,* she thought happily. "Yes, all right.
Thank you kind sir," she said.
"Anytime my lady," he said, tipping his hat at her.
He then proceeded to take her to his carriage and then to
the hospital. She lay in the white bed with the white walls
surrounding her. She remained there for the next few nights
visited often by this man, Charles. He soon declared that he could
find nothing wrong with her, but he asked her to accompany him to
his home and allow him to continue to look after her.
She obliged readily, inwardly rejoicing at the thought of
spending her days and nights with him. Charles did look after her,
and they spent much time together-walking to the park, reading
together, seeing plays, and many other exciting activities,
together. He made her smile, and he made her heart flutter inside.
*So this is the love everyone talks and writes about,* she thought
happily.
He took her dancing one night and proposed to her under
the starlit sky. She gasped, and her breath caught in her throat.
"Yes Charles," she joyfully agreed. "I would like nothing better
than to be your wife," she said sincerely.
The wedding was a gigantic one with people from all sides
of Charles's family there to watch the two be wed.
Their lifetime together was full of love and joy, but as he
began getting older and older, she remained outwardly the same age.
She had forgotten about living on for three milleniums. She still
had much time left. In sorrow she watched as more of his body
withered away each day. She sat with him devotedly and helped him
as he grew older and older. One night, as death was drawing quite
near, he broached the subject of how she had remained so young. She
told him the honest truth as he died that night in her arms. Silent
tears escaped from her sorrow-filled eyes. She sighed and vowed
never to come back onto Earth until the others were reborn. She
continued all her duties at her post without ever leaving the gate.
In the time with her beloved Charles she had of course come back to
the post often enough to do her duty, but not more than she had to
spend to still enjoy her time with Charles and get her duties done.
She made sure the timeline stayed secure of course, and now she
resumed living at the time gate alone and lonely. Her whole heart
ached for her love CHarles, but she knew he would never again hold
her in his arms. She knew she could go back in time and meet him
and go through the whole process again, but somehow she felt that
was wrong. She decided to not do that in order to have closure and
move on from him.
As she waited, she was finally rewarded by hearing the
cries of the newborn Amara. She continued to watch their lives from
her post until they became sailor scouts, and she could join them.
To Be Continued...
