Hello yet again ^_^ This is just a little info so that it doesn't get too
confusing. (as if that stop it before) anywhoo. The person that starts the
story off sort of narrating is me. Odango. you know. yeah, shameless plug
putting myself in the story an all but hey, it's my fic so I guess I can be
in it, ne?
.:dream sequence:.
Part I
It was raining outside and the mood inside wasn't any better. I was once again stranded from the real world by this dreadful cold. I was armed with a box of tissues, tv, vcr, and the episodes of Sailor Moon Sailor StarS. Hey, it looked like I had a lot of time on my hands and I was pretty much inapt for doing anything else so I decided to lamp out on the couch all day.
With my remote in hand I settled in on my comfy couch. It had never let me down before! I was already miserable as it was and didn't see any point in further frustrating myself so I unplugged the phone from any potential annoyances. I had just pushed play and my mind had already started to wander. I thought about all of the things that were going on in my life right now and how I should be taking this cold as a blessing for giving me a break from them. I just needed to relax, that usually meant that I would watch a movie or write. Writing, that reminded me, I had written so many Sailor Moon fan fics but it was amazing how not one of them could truly compare to the series itself.
"Well I guess it would have been easier if I could have actually gone there and met all of them." I huffed at myself. Excuses, excuses. it really wasn't anyone's fault but my own. I found myself staring at Seiya's handsome face on the screen and without realizing it I started rewinding the moment to see his first appearance again. "Great, you're obsessed with a cartoon character." My head peeked up over the back of the couch to make sure my roommate wasn't home to hear me talking to myself. She'd probably think that I was running a high fever and getting delusional and try to take me to the hospital. I laughed at myself and realized that I had rewond the tape too far.
With my wonderful luck and the way things were already going today it would just figure that the batteries in my remote would die at that particular moment. "That's what you get for googling at a cartoon!" I cursed myself as I got up off the couch and headed for the entertainment stand. The picture was frozen on the screen of Seiya's face as he had his head resting on his arms while looking up at Usagi from the park bench. Before I knew what hit me I found myself falling face first towards the floor, on my way down I caught a brief glimpse of my cat and knew that he was the assailant. You might think I'm crazy but I swear I thought he was smiling at me.
"What the hell?" I picked my head up and felt the sharp pain sting through my skull. I must have been knocked out because it wasn't raining outside anymore and the sun was shining. "How long have I been laying here?" My hand instinctively went to my head as I sat up.
"Only about a minute." A voice said from behind me. My head immediately whipped around to see my visitor's face. Last I knew I had been home alone, this didn't sound like my roommate's voice but strangely familiar. When I turned to see their face I realized I wasn't in my apartment any more. "What happened to you?"
The face was so familiar and I immediately had a name to go with it but it couldn't be, she was fiction. "I tripped over my cat." I said as I attempted to stand up. Another look at my surroundings showed that I was in a high school surrounded by students in uniforms.
"Yeah, my cat trips me all the time, I'm beginning to think she does it on purpose, but why did you bring your cat to school."
Where the hell was I? Lockers lined the wall and people were rushing by me. I looked back at the girl's face to make sure that my delirious mind wasn't playing tricks on me. She had the brightest blue eyes I had ever seen in my life, long blond hair with bangs done up in two buns with ponytails streaming from each one. "Impossible." I covered my mouth.
"What?" She asked, apparently I had made her uncomfortable by staring.
I looked down at myself and realized that I was dressed in a Juuban High uniform complete with that damn cheesy bow in the front. This was too much. This had to be a joke. I started to look around to see if my roommate was anywhere in sight, nope, she wasn't.
"Hey, are you going to sit there all day or are you going to get up?"
I realized that I had been zoning out and found my aid standing beside me. She offered me her hand to help me up which I graciously accepted. My head was only getting worse with my confusion.
"I'm going to Crown to meet my friends, do you want to come?" She asked. I stood and stared with a bewildered face. "Oh, I forgot, I'm Usagi." Her hand extended to me to shake.
WHAT!! I got sucked into Sailor Moon some how? And my mom always told me that cartoons weren't real! Ha, what does she know! "Odango attama?" I asked just about ready to pass out.
Her hand dropped to her side and a surprised look crossed her face. "I just barely met you and already you're insulting me?" She turned and looked as though she was about to storm off.
I had to stop her. "No. wait, I'm sorry!" She stopped in her tracks when my hand reached her shoulder. "I'm sorry. Usagi." Usagi turned to face me. "I will go with you to Crown. My name is Odan." Wait a minute, I can't tell her my name is Odango, that would be too weird. "My name is ummm."
"Man you hit your head harder than you thought if you can't remember your own name." She laughed at me but stopped quickly when she realized it wasn't funny.
"No I didn't forget my name it's Morgan." I figured I'd use my roommate's name. What did you want me to do, it was the first name that popped in my head.
"Well, Morgan, let's go!" She said my name as though she didn't believe it was really my name and grabbed my hand to pull me along behind her. This was going to be interesting.
~@~@~@~
Fighter, Healer and Maker sat around the room not saying a word to one another until Maker broke the silence. "I don't think she's trying to get rid of us, why would she?"
"I don't know, but that's what it seems like to me too." Fighter said not taking her view away from the window to her left. She had been watching out the window at their Princess in the olive garden below.
"Stop it you two. I'm sure there's another reason." Healer cut in sharply. "Our lives exist so that we may protect and serve her, why would she, how could she ask us to do anything else?"
"And of all places Earth." Taiki continued to voice his thoughts. "I'm not going. I admit I miss Earth but there is no reason for us to be there now." Her head turned to catch the reactions that her words would have on her companions.
Fighter sighed and didn't respond only continued to look out the window longingly. She had been this way since they had returned from Earth the last time. Time, time heals everything. obviously except Fighter's broken heart.
Healer just nodded her head. "I agree with you. How can she even think that we would be happier there than we would be here with her? Especially now that the restoration is complete."
"I don't know but she seemed pretty adamant about it." Maker said returning her gaze to Fighter. "What do you think?"
"I don't think Earth holds anything for us either." She said in a near whisper. Her voice and every motion since she had returned seemed to mourn the loss of her Odango. Healer and Maker thought that she of all people would want to return to Earth as soon as possible to once again be with her Odango. They too soon came to the realization, just as Fighter did, that she could never be her Odango and the mere sight of her with her boyfriend day in and day out would be enough to kill Fighter.
"Then it's settled. We're not going." Healer stood firm with her hands crossed across her chest. Maker nodded her head to show her approval as she too looked out the window at the Princess below.
~@~@~@~
"Master, please. stop!" The servant cried as he followed his white haired master down the hall. "I'm sure it's not what it looked like."
Helios turned around and looked the servant in the eye. Tears were pooled up and already spilling down his cheeks. The servant eased up his pleas when he saw the unbelievable hurt in his master's eyes. "I know exactly what I saw."
Hanti was Helios's most trusted servant and Helios often confided in him. "Saturn has always been a good friend of the Princess. I'm sure that's all that it was and nothing more."
"No, Chibi-Usa never looked at me that way, not the way I saw her looking at Saturn. She loves her. and that leaves no room for me." Helios turned and continued walking in the direction he had previously been heading.
"But what are you going to do?" Hanti asked as he followed close behind.
Helios descended the stairs leading to the basement of the palace. "I'm going back to the past. I gave my heart to her once, I have to stop myself from making that mistake."
"But Sir, what about Illusion?"
"Illusion will be fine, when I go back and stop myself from falling in love with Chibi-Usa it will make it so that I never left it's sanction." There was a look of regret in his eyes as he knocked on the door of the gate of time.
"Pluto will not let you do it, she loves the Princess too much."
"We'll see." He turned with a smile just before the large doors in front of him opened widely to allow his passage.
Sailor Pluto stood amongst the mist, guarding another large door with carvings of the different phases of the moon on it. "Welcome Helios."
Helios bowed respectfully to Pluto's feet. "Sailor Pluto I've come to seek your help." With a nod of Pluto's head he continued. "I must go back to the past and set right an injustice which has plagued my future."
"I see." Pluto said through barely parted lips. "Helios, it is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all."
Helios's frame tightened when he feared she was going to refuse him passage. "I can't say that I agree, those words only come from some one who has never been hurt."
Pluto held a cool expression but Helios noticed her gloved hands tightening around her staff. "Maybe. but your future has been set, you will become the future King of Crystal Tokyo and Earth. don't you want that?"
"I would rather sit alone in Illusion than stand beside a woman who only pretends to give her heart to me." Helios ventured closer to Pluto and the time door. "Please don't do to me what you did to Mamoru."
Pluto's eyes narrowed and focused in on his form. A sore spot yes, and she couldn't believe that he would be accusing her of such a thing while asking for a favor. "And what do you propose I did to the King?"
Helios got a cocky half grin on his face as he stared her directly in the eye. "You knew the Queen was in love with another but you made them believe that this destiny was the only one to follow. Now Mamoru knows and lives in that misery everyday." Helios took another step towards Pluto. "I know it pains you too, I can see the way you look at him."
"Lies."
"No! Truth, and you know it as well as I do." Helios snatched a key from her waist quickly. "But I now know how to fix it all."
"Stop, you don't know what you're doing!" Pluto called behind him as the doors opened at his hands.
"I do. I will go back to the past and fix it all!" And with that Helios disappeared from sight and that time on a journey to the past.
.:dream sequence:.
Part I
It was raining outside and the mood inside wasn't any better. I was once again stranded from the real world by this dreadful cold. I was armed with a box of tissues, tv, vcr, and the episodes of Sailor Moon Sailor StarS. Hey, it looked like I had a lot of time on my hands and I was pretty much inapt for doing anything else so I decided to lamp out on the couch all day.
With my remote in hand I settled in on my comfy couch. It had never let me down before! I was already miserable as it was and didn't see any point in further frustrating myself so I unplugged the phone from any potential annoyances. I had just pushed play and my mind had already started to wander. I thought about all of the things that were going on in my life right now and how I should be taking this cold as a blessing for giving me a break from them. I just needed to relax, that usually meant that I would watch a movie or write. Writing, that reminded me, I had written so many Sailor Moon fan fics but it was amazing how not one of them could truly compare to the series itself.
"Well I guess it would have been easier if I could have actually gone there and met all of them." I huffed at myself. Excuses, excuses. it really wasn't anyone's fault but my own. I found myself staring at Seiya's handsome face on the screen and without realizing it I started rewinding the moment to see his first appearance again. "Great, you're obsessed with a cartoon character." My head peeked up over the back of the couch to make sure my roommate wasn't home to hear me talking to myself. She'd probably think that I was running a high fever and getting delusional and try to take me to the hospital. I laughed at myself and realized that I had rewond the tape too far.
With my wonderful luck and the way things were already going today it would just figure that the batteries in my remote would die at that particular moment. "That's what you get for googling at a cartoon!" I cursed myself as I got up off the couch and headed for the entertainment stand. The picture was frozen on the screen of Seiya's face as he had his head resting on his arms while looking up at Usagi from the park bench. Before I knew what hit me I found myself falling face first towards the floor, on my way down I caught a brief glimpse of my cat and knew that he was the assailant. You might think I'm crazy but I swear I thought he was smiling at me.
"What the hell?" I picked my head up and felt the sharp pain sting through my skull. I must have been knocked out because it wasn't raining outside anymore and the sun was shining. "How long have I been laying here?" My hand instinctively went to my head as I sat up.
"Only about a minute." A voice said from behind me. My head immediately whipped around to see my visitor's face. Last I knew I had been home alone, this didn't sound like my roommate's voice but strangely familiar. When I turned to see their face I realized I wasn't in my apartment any more. "What happened to you?"
The face was so familiar and I immediately had a name to go with it but it couldn't be, she was fiction. "I tripped over my cat." I said as I attempted to stand up. Another look at my surroundings showed that I was in a high school surrounded by students in uniforms.
"Yeah, my cat trips me all the time, I'm beginning to think she does it on purpose, but why did you bring your cat to school."
Where the hell was I? Lockers lined the wall and people were rushing by me. I looked back at the girl's face to make sure that my delirious mind wasn't playing tricks on me. She had the brightest blue eyes I had ever seen in my life, long blond hair with bangs done up in two buns with ponytails streaming from each one. "Impossible." I covered my mouth.
"What?" She asked, apparently I had made her uncomfortable by staring.
I looked down at myself and realized that I was dressed in a Juuban High uniform complete with that damn cheesy bow in the front. This was too much. This had to be a joke. I started to look around to see if my roommate was anywhere in sight, nope, she wasn't.
"Hey, are you going to sit there all day or are you going to get up?"
I realized that I had been zoning out and found my aid standing beside me. She offered me her hand to help me up which I graciously accepted. My head was only getting worse with my confusion.
"I'm going to Crown to meet my friends, do you want to come?" She asked. I stood and stared with a bewildered face. "Oh, I forgot, I'm Usagi." Her hand extended to me to shake.
WHAT!! I got sucked into Sailor Moon some how? And my mom always told me that cartoons weren't real! Ha, what does she know! "Odango attama?" I asked just about ready to pass out.
Her hand dropped to her side and a surprised look crossed her face. "I just barely met you and already you're insulting me?" She turned and looked as though she was about to storm off.
I had to stop her. "No. wait, I'm sorry!" She stopped in her tracks when my hand reached her shoulder. "I'm sorry. Usagi." Usagi turned to face me. "I will go with you to Crown. My name is Odan." Wait a minute, I can't tell her my name is Odango, that would be too weird. "My name is ummm."
"Man you hit your head harder than you thought if you can't remember your own name." She laughed at me but stopped quickly when she realized it wasn't funny.
"No I didn't forget my name it's Morgan." I figured I'd use my roommate's name. What did you want me to do, it was the first name that popped in my head.
"Well, Morgan, let's go!" She said my name as though she didn't believe it was really my name and grabbed my hand to pull me along behind her. This was going to be interesting.
~@~@~@~
Fighter, Healer and Maker sat around the room not saying a word to one another until Maker broke the silence. "I don't think she's trying to get rid of us, why would she?"
"I don't know, but that's what it seems like to me too." Fighter said not taking her view away from the window to her left. She had been watching out the window at their Princess in the olive garden below.
"Stop it you two. I'm sure there's another reason." Healer cut in sharply. "Our lives exist so that we may protect and serve her, why would she, how could she ask us to do anything else?"
"And of all places Earth." Taiki continued to voice his thoughts. "I'm not going. I admit I miss Earth but there is no reason for us to be there now." Her head turned to catch the reactions that her words would have on her companions.
Fighter sighed and didn't respond only continued to look out the window longingly. She had been this way since they had returned from Earth the last time. Time, time heals everything. obviously except Fighter's broken heart.
Healer just nodded her head. "I agree with you. How can she even think that we would be happier there than we would be here with her? Especially now that the restoration is complete."
"I don't know but she seemed pretty adamant about it." Maker said returning her gaze to Fighter. "What do you think?"
"I don't think Earth holds anything for us either." She said in a near whisper. Her voice and every motion since she had returned seemed to mourn the loss of her Odango. Healer and Maker thought that she of all people would want to return to Earth as soon as possible to once again be with her Odango. They too soon came to the realization, just as Fighter did, that she could never be her Odango and the mere sight of her with her boyfriend day in and day out would be enough to kill Fighter.
"Then it's settled. We're not going." Healer stood firm with her hands crossed across her chest. Maker nodded her head to show her approval as she too looked out the window at the Princess below.
~@~@~@~
"Master, please. stop!" The servant cried as he followed his white haired master down the hall. "I'm sure it's not what it looked like."
Helios turned around and looked the servant in the eye. Tears were pooled up and already spilling down his cheeks. The servant eased up his pleas when he saw the unbelievable hurt in his master's eyes. "I know exactly what I saw."
Hanti was Helios's most trusted servant and Helios often confided in him. "Saturn has always been a good friend of the Princess. I'm sure that's all that it was and nothing more."
"No, Chibi-Usa never looked at me that way, not the way I saw her looking at Saturn. She loves her. and that leaves no room for me." Helios turned and continued walking in the direction he had previously been heading.
"But what are you going to do?" Hanti asked as he followed close behind.
Helios descended the stairs leading to the basement of the palace. "I'm going back to the past. I gave my heart to her once, I have to stop myself from making that mistake."
"But Sir, what about Illusion?"
"Illusion will be fine, when I go back and stop myself from falling in love with Chibi-Usa it will make it so that I never left it's sanction." There was a look of regret in his eyes as he knocked on the door of the gate of time.
"Pluto will not let you do it, she loves the Princess too much."
"We'll see." He turned with a smile just before the large doors in front of him opened widely to allow his passage.
Sailor Pluto stood amongst the mist, guarding another large door with carvings of the different phases of the moon on it. "Welcome Helios."
Helios bowed respectfully to Pluto's feet. "Sailor Pluto I've come to seek your help." With a nod of Pluto's head he continued. "I must go back to the past and set right an injustice which has plagued my future."
"I see." Pluto said through barely parted lips. "Helios, it is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all."
Helios's frame tightened when he feared she was going to refuse him passage. "I can't say that I agree, those words only come from some one who has never been hurt."
Pluto held a cool expression but Helios noticed her gloved hands tightening around her staff. "Maybe. but your future has been set, you will become the future King of Crystal Tokyo and Earth. don't you want that?"
"I would rather sit alone in Illusion than stand beside a woman who only pretends to give her heart to me." Helios ventured closer to Pluto and the time door. "Please don't do to me what you did to Mamoru."
Pluto's eyes narrowed and focused in on his form. A sore spot yes, and she couldn't believe that he would be accusing her of such a thing while asking for a favor. "And what do you propose I did to the King?"
Helios got a cocky half grin on his face as he stared her directly in the eye. "You knew the Queen was in love with another but you made them believe that this destiny was the only one to follow. Now Mamoru knows and lives in that misery everyday." Helios took another step towards Pluto. "I know it pains you too, I can see the way you look at him."
"Lies."
"No! Truth, and you know it as well as I do." Helios snatched a key from her waist quickly. "But I now know how to fix it all."
"Stop, you don't know what you're doing!" Pluto called behind him as the doors opened at his hands.
"I do. I will go back to the past and fix it all!" And with that Helios disappeared from sight and that time on a journey to the past.