Millennium II
Journey to the Past
By Hikari Tsuki Chi
Prologue & Chapter 1
Disclaimer-I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! or Sailor Moon or any other TV show or anime that comes up or who's quotes I steal.
Summary- It's been two years since the events in Secrets of the Past, and Serena has just celebrated her 18th birthday. As you can expect, it's not her average birthday. How can it be average when you come into your full powers as heir of the Royal Moon Line with your twin brother who in this life is now your cousin, finding out your past mother is Sailor Cosmos, and you're related to the Guardian of Time? But just as she and everyone around her gets used to the new revelations, Pluto has a mission, two Senshi only. And it can't be one of the others. If you couldn't guess from the title, Serena and Yama 'volunteer' to go back 5,000 years into the past, to chase down Osiris. Sounds simple, right? But there's a catch, as always. They have to fight the youma in the past without drawing suspicion on themselves. In the Pharaoh's court. On top of that, Osiris is gloating about something, but what? Yep, nothing new with this scene. Of course, after all's said and done, will the two couples too blind to see the love in the air (Serena/Yama and Yugi/Yami), finally get together, or will Yama and Yami make good on the promise they made, secretly?
Note- Okay… didn't think I'd get around to posting this story anytime this year. Go me. And this story is based off one I read on moonromance dot com/net, called Final Awakenings: Past Vengeance by Stefanie. I'm not even sure that moonromance even exists anymore...
Prologue
Time is fluid. Many think of time as solid, with their destiny set in stone. This is true to some degree, but we ourselves can change our destiny. Yet, if we are chosen by some higher power, than our destiny is set in stone. There are numerous different timelines affected by the choices we make, from as big as taking the job, or just what we do with our money, destiny can change. But for some of us, no matter what choice we make, we cannot escape destiny.
End of Prologue
Chapter 1
A man stood observing the house of cards he has built. His four faithful generals stood near by. The identity of this particular man is not unknown to the subject of his thoughts. His name is Osiris, and he was the bane of their existence two years ago. But know he has a plan… all that is left is to perform said plan. "What happens if you take a card of the top of the house?" he asked while performing the action, directing the question to the first general, a man called Set. "Nothing sir." He said, curious to where this was leading. "And from the middle?" he questioned the second general, a sever-looking woman who went by Sensouko (war child). "The top collapses…sir" She has never been one for authority, but showed respect where respect was due. "And if I take a card from the foundation?" he asked the third general, a man named Imhotep. "The house collapses in on itself sir."
His fourth and final general, a woman who gave no other name besides Sekhmet finally voiced what he had hoped at least one of his general would voice. "You want to destroy the foundation of your problem, sir, to re-create the future."
"Yes. To rule the future, I cannot go to the past or present, when they've had the resources to defeat me. No… to beat them, I must go to the past!" he said, performing the spell that would start off his plan… go to the past, and destroy the 'foundation' of the future.
Time Gates
At the Time Gates, Pluto felt a cold shiver travel down her spine. It was the same feeling she had gotten every time when the Black Moon traveled back and forth through time. Some one had travel through time… without her permission. She quickly checked the time lines for damage and ripples. When she saw where the some one or some ones had traveled to, she knew that intervention was in order. But first… Serena needed to come into her full powers to bind the enemy correctly.
Kame Shop
Serena went to bed VERY happy. This birthday had been one of her better ones. Seto-kun had given her beloved laptop an upgrade, not that it particularly needed one, but it was now able to directly access the virtual world he had created, without having her hack into it. She figured that he was tired of her hacking his computer system. Mokuba had given her a very pretty ink painting he had done in his latest art class at school. He should really consider a career in that. Joey and Tea had pooled their money and had given her a gift card for her favorite bookstore. Ryou had given her a paperweight, carved with the traditional rabbit pounding mochi on the Moon. Bakura, surprising, had given her a well-balanced dagger that he probably stole, but that seemed unlikely, as Ryou wouldn't have let him get away with that. Hotaru and Hikami had jointly given her a book of legends and myths pertaining to the moon worldwide. Grandpa had allowed her to pick ten cards from the latest shipment of Duel Monsters cards. Yugi (and Yami, though he wouldn't care to admit) gave her a book on Ancient Egypt that she had been looking for without success. Part of the reason was that it was in English, and none of the bookstores nearby carried the books she was interested in, which were in English.
But it was Yama's gift she liked the best. Her yami had given her a beautiful pendant, carved in the same of a heart, in rose quartz. Wings of rose quartz flanked it, and a very short chain attached a miniature version of the larger pendant. Yama had blushed a lot when she hugged her for the gift.
Serena sighed. She wished her yami could realize how she felt about her. But she doubted that even if she did realize, that she would return those feelings. Mainly because of one cone-eared spore. Rini had left right before their birthdays, but had given her a gift that was from both her and her future self, Neo Queen Serenity.
It was the locket she had given Endymion two thousand years ago. Her future self had left a note attached to it. "When the time comes, give it to your true soulmate." It had read.
Not only was Serena confused by what she meant, but how she could have the locket, when obviously her future self had already given it to someone. Somehow, subconsciously she knew how that could work, but there was no way she could POSSIBLY explain it to anyone else. This really confused her, because Sailor Pluto was the only person who understood time paradoxes.
Serena yawned. Around ten o'clock the party had broken up. Tea's partner, Mai couldn't make the party because of a tournament in Europe, but was returning late tonight or early tomorrow, so Tea was making a beeline to the airport. Basically everyone had headed home, except for Hotaru and Hikami, who were spending the night. Those two had been together nearly as long as Tea and Mai, and Serena was jealous of their relationship, mainly because they got to be together when they were yami and hikari and she couldn't really be with her yami no matter how much she wanted to because of destiny. She was really beginning to think that she was destiny's punching bag. In reality, she felt she was something else entirely towards destiny, but I'd be killed if I used such language.
While she had gone to bed, Serena couldn't sleep. Maybe it was her guardian ghosts' poker game. Her Radar-ojii-san, Hawkeye-oji-san, Father Mulcahy-oji-san, Margaret-oba-san, Trapper-oji-san, BJ-oji-san, Klinger-oji-san, Henry-oji-san, Charles-oji-san, and Colonel Potter-oji-san all liked to get together and play poker. They were with her everywhere anyway, protecting her from evil spirits that would try and take over her body, whose resistance to possession was somewhat weaker than the average person due to her role as the Nisekai no Musume (Daughter of Two Worlds). This was because she could either walk fully in Jinseikai (Life World), walk fully in Shikai (Death World), or walk 'on the edge' between both of those worlds without being apart of either of them. Her mental defenses were very strong, but they insisted on staying to protect her, mainly because the reincarnation line was the longest it had been in centuries.
Maybe it was the full moon. Lately, she had trouble sleeping during the full moon. Yugi also had trouble sleeping during that time as well. Whatever the reason, it didn't change the fact that she couldn't sleep. Rolling her eyes, Serena rummaged around in her closet for clothes, and Margaret-oba-san scolded her honorary uncles from peeping.
Despite her moving around, Yama, Hotaru, and Hikami failed to wake. Hotaru and Hikami were camped out on the floor of her room, curled around each other.
Serena's bed was big enough for two people, so Yama had slept in her bed for two years, ever since she had gotten a solid body and everyone had found out that she had a yami. It was a good thing all of the people sleeping in her room were heavy sleepers, and that she had long since learned to move quietly.
Shutting her door quietly, she turned around…
…And bumped into Yugi. Grabbing her heart, she whispered, "What are you doing! Tryin' ta kill me?"
"I couldn't sleep either." He whispered back.
"And you somehow managed to untangle yourself from the baka?" she asked surprised.
Yami and Yugi also shared a bed in his room, and somehow, they would always wake up to find themselves curled up around each other. Serena and Yama had gotten a good laugh out of it the first time it had happened, but it was sad sort of laugh.
It would turn out that they would begin the night on opposite sides of the bed, but at one point one of them would roll over and the other would latch onto them believing it to be a pillow.
Oh yeah, once they figured out what was happening every night, Yama and Serena had a VERY good laugh.
Yugi glared at her despite his blush. "Walk?" he asked quietly.
Serena nodded. "Walk."
Slipping their shoes on quietly, they opened the door and walked out. Their feet led them to the park as they always did on their late-night walks. "I wish I knew why the full moon won't let us sleep." Said Serena, glaring up at her past home.
"You and me both."
No sooner had he said those words, they were surrounded by a silver light, and were no longer standing in the park. Serena and Yugi were now on the moon.
Looking around, Yugi asked, "How'd we get here?"
"Dunno." As they spoke, their clothes turned into what they had been wearing when the Moon Kingdom and the Silver Millennium fell. "This is weird." Said Serena.
"Understatement."
Having little choice of where to go, they began to walk towards the palace, which had somehow rebuilt itself. Entering the palace, memories, distant and half-formed, played around them.
Their feet led them to the Temple of Selene contained in the palace. It was only used for coronations and the royal weddings of the Royal Moon Line. It was also used for the royal family's coming of age ceremony. Pushing open the doors carved with the general family crest, a plain crescent moon, they saw their mother, Queen Serenity Usagi Hikari Nazo Kokoro Tsuki XII, was standing there.
"Mother!" They exclaimed, running towards her. Remembering long-forgotten rules, they bowed before launching themselves into her arms.
Serenity returned the heartfelt embrace. "It is good to see both of you again." She said smiling.
"How come we are not falling through you?" asked Yugi confused. After all, last he had seen her in this life, she had a spirit.
"That's something of a long explanation." Said Pluto, appearing next to Serenity, dressed in a dark maroon dress trimmed with silver.
"Pluto-sama? What are you doing here?" asked Serenity and Yugi in sync, such is the bane of twins.
Was it their imaginations, or were their mother and the Time Guardian blushing. Thinking back to how she could understand time paradoxes but not explain them, Serena said, "You…are our other parent, aren't you?"
She nodded. "It makes sense. Rini's red eyes couldn't have just pop up, unless they were a mutation." Commented Yugi. "And blue plus red equals purple."
"Why didn't you tell us? Wait, don't tell me…" started Serena.
"Time paradoxes." Finished Yugi.
"We have brought you here for your coming of age ceremony. Due to the fact the moon's energy and magick supplies have been diminished since the fall of the Silver Millennium, it took several full moons' worth of energy to store up to get you here and to get you back." Explained Pluto.
"No wonder we haven't been sleeping well for the past several full moons! Since we are tied to the moon's energy, we could fell its energy." Said Serena; a bit grumpy at the sleep she had lost.
"What do we have to do for the ceremony?" asked Yugi, curious. He was also anxious to get back before Yami discovered he was missing and blew a fuse. Or a blood vessel.
"Well…" Serenity proceeded to explain the ceremony to her children.
Once she was done, they got on with the ceremony, Yugi looking fairly green around the gills at the part where he had to slice his palm. Blood played an essential part of the ceremony, as it was from the blood of Selene that the Royal Moon Line received the right and power to rule. Just as the bloodline of the Japanese emperor has never been broken all the back to the sun goddess Amateratsu, the Royal Moon Line also has never been broken, all the way back to Selene. By shedding blood by your own hand at the base of the Crystal Tower, a child of the Royal Moon Line will, on their 18th birthday, come into their full powers.
They also gained their wings. All Lunarians gained wings when they turned 18. It was a sign of adulthood.
But something else happened the moment Serena and Yugi gained their full powers.
They remembered their true past. How the Sailor Senshi, all except for Pluto at the Gates of Timespace and Saturn, sealed in her sleep, betrayed the Moon and their own kingdoms. How Endymion lusted for the power the Moon Line supposedly carried the key to. How their older brother, Yue, willingly had his memories of his life as a Prince of the Moon and became a magickal 'creature' to a powerful sorcerer, in an attempt to stop a prophecy from coming to past, the very memory of his existence erased from every person throughout the galaxy, save from his mother and younger twin siblings. Their younger sister, Selenity, killed in cold blood with her own guardians, younger siblings of Serena's own senshi, by their older counterparts' hands. Yugi's death, protecting his sister from Endymion and Uranus. And Serena's own death by her own hand, with the Sword of the Moon, in order to stop Endymion and the Senshi, to deny them what they wanted…
When it was all over, the twins rubbed the tears from their eyes. Their parents were not without tears of their own. "Whoa." Said Yugi, after several moments of silence.
"I don't know what is worse…to know the truth, or to be destined to live the lie…" said Serena pensively.
Yugi looked over at Serena…and did a double take. "Uhh… Serena?"
"Yes?"
"Your hair…" Unable to continue, Yugi merely pointed at said item that drew his attention and shock.
Feeling her head for the familiar lumps of her odangos, Serena only felt a high ponytail. Grabbing a hold of the tail, she pulled it in front of her eyes. Her hair, which she had dyed golden blonde since she was thirteen, was back to the colors it had been when she was a child in this life, and the colors she had been since she was born in the past. Black, with crimson streaks and gold bangs. And she didn't need a mirror to guess that her eyes were purple. A year ago, she had remembered a glamour spell and hadn't bothered with color contacts ever since. "What the…" she trailed off as she and Yugi found themselves back in the park. And it was sunrise.
Sweatdropping at their sudden departure, Yugi said, "They could've at least have said goodbye."
"And they never told us why Mother was solid. But I have a feeling that we'll be seeing Pluto-okaa-sama soon, and we can grill her then." Said Serena, a little too cheerful. "At least we were sent back in our normal clothes."
Beginning to walk back, Yugi said, "I have to ask: Shikai?"
"How'd you find out?"
"It's called a link sis. Why didn't…"
"You didn't need to know. None of you did…" answered Serena, trailing off.
Nothing more was said.
What else could be said?
The gods have demanded the performances of these actors once again. Yet one could only guess what events and problems would arise in this new play. After all…
…Who said the future was set in stone?
End of Chapter 1This chapter, after the scene with Pluto, was originally very different. At the time I originally wrote it, I don't think that Serena and Yugi were twins in the Silver Millennium. And none of the couples were together. And no one really knew that Serena was the Moon Princess, aside from the Senshi. Also no one knew about her being the Nisekai no Musume.In fact, everything after where it says 'Kame Shop' was changed. There were only minor changes in the section with Osiris. Couples are: Tea/Mai, Hotaru/Hikami/Hotaru, Helios/Rini, though this is only mentioned. Couples will be: Joey/Seto/Joey, Ryou/Bakura/Ryou, Mokuba/Serenity (mentioned but not seen), Serena/Yama/Serena, and Yugi/Yami/Yugi. Make note that the last two couples are blind as to the true feelings of their other halves. But as of now, PAIRINGS ARE SET!
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