Breaking Jupiter

Chapter 1: Anthem of the Angels

Our story begins with an unfortunate little girl of the age 15. On her birthday which took place just the day before, she had just experienced the best day of her life since her father's passing five years ago. Her dear sweet mother had finally taken her to her birth place, the one that her grandmother's loyal soldiers had built for the birth of her father and in return she had given birth to a new little girl. That baby girl had grown in to a fine young teenager and those that had been banished by the kingdom referred to her as, Princess Makoto. That, however, is a story for another time.

White walls surround us
No light will touch your face again
Rain taps the window
As we sleep among the dead

Makoto's mother Diana had promised to let Makoto spend the night and the beautiful church-like building that she was born in. She couldn't have been happier. She had her mother and her trusted friends and knights at her side; she hadn't felt this safe in a long time. Little did she know that she would be awoken to the sounds of a struggle. Her eyes shot open when she heard the distinctive clink of metal scraping against metal. What she saw was soldiers clad in a dark green fighting against her own disadvantaged knights with older armor and swords and they were losing. She, however, couldn't find her mother anywhere… that was until she tried to get up and noticed a stiff body to her right. There laid her mother, motionless with tears streaked down her cheeks. It was too much. The Jupiter Kingdom had first taken her father and now her mother; she could no longer hold herself in check.

Makoto screamed in fury and for a minute the fighting stopped. Both her knights and unfamiliar soldiers stared at her in shock, neither knew what to expect from this small girl. That was when her closest friend, Knight Shinosaki, noticed the lighting dancing around her fingers. "Men, Duck!" The attacking soldiers were lost in the confusion and stood there like pigs to the slaughter. Makoto stood in a menacing way and thrust her hands out to them and the lightening shot out of her and fried the invading forces till they all fell dead.

Days go on forever
But I have not left your side
We can chase the dark together
If you go then so will I

"Princess Makoto! The Queen is alive, but she is poisoned… I do not think she will last throughout the week." Makoto looked to Shinosaki and a small tear ran down her face. "Knight Commander… we stay her until my mother passes, she would want to be buried in the place her love was born." He bowed to her and then exited the building to join the other knights on guard.

Makoto sighed as she watched him leave. She was being selfish, she knew that by staying here she was taxing her knights heavily. She knew that she should be the Princess that her mother and father hoped for her to be, as was her right. She could not, however, do this one thing. She wanted to be with her mother until the end. She wanted to join her mother in death, but she had so many counting on her, so many that called her their only hope. She could only allow herself to be selfish this one.

Makoto sat down by her mother's cold body and picked up her head to rest on her lap. She brushed the sweet matted hair away from her face and placed a kissed on her forehead. "Mother, I am lost without you and father. I don't know what to do, all I can feel is this building rage in my stomach… and I fear it will cause me to do something reckless."

There is nothing left of you
I can see it in your eyes
Sing the anthem of the angels
And say the last goodbye

"Ma'am, we finished burying the Queen and have placed the marker you made for her." "Thank you Motoki." She sadly smiled at him, growing up she had become attracted to this particular knight, but that seems so far away from this moment. Did she still love him? She didn't even know if she would ever feel anything anymore at this point. "Take me to the rest of the knights and lets head back to the village." "Yes Makoto." He was the only one that didn't call her Princess, she is his betrothed after all. He held out his arm for her and she hooked hers around his and let him lead the way.

Knight Shinosaki quickly walked to meet the two, ignoring the feeling in his stomach at seeing the two. "Princess Makoto, the knights are ready to escort you back to the village." "Let us be on our way then, head knight." Shinosaki looked in her eyes, she was his closest friend, but what he say in her eyes frightened him. He saw nothing.

'Goodbye mother.'

Cold light above us
Hope fills the heart
And fades away
Skin white as winter
As the sky returns to grey

"The storm is starting to ebb away." "Princess?" "Sorry, I can feel it in my blood. Today will be a cold day." A shout is heard from the knight in the front, leading the way. "Knight Shinosaki, find out what is going on." He nodded and then kicked his horse into gear to go talk to the Knight in the front. "Makoto, we must be getting close, but whatever that knight is shouting about… I have a bad feeling." Makoto looked toward Motoki who rode by her side and sighed heavily. "I can only hope you are wrong, for if it happens to be a royal soldier they have sealed their fate.

Shinosaki came back toward them. "Princess, it seems there is a family of farmers in the distance that are being harassed by the royal army." "What are you waiting for! Protect them." With that Shinosaki nodded his head and gave the order. "The Royal Army is harassing our people, the knights of old and their family, to battle!" The knights charged towards the family in trouble with their blades drawn. "Makoto, we should let the men handle these Royal buffoons and continue on the way to the village. The people need to hear the news." Makoto could barely hear his words, they resounded in her mind while she stared at the Royal Knights in pure anger.

One of the royal knights manages to catch a glimpse of his true target, the girl, before engaging the enemy. He had never seen such beauty; she had skin like snow and rosy red lips and cheeks. He auburn hair wrapped around her and only enhanced her beauty. However, his world turns to grey as he clashes swords with her charging knights.

Days go on forever
But I have not left your side
We can chase the dark together
If you go then so will I

It had been a week since they returned to their home village. It was in the middle of nowhere, often called the Bad Lands by those still in the Royal Families grace. The Royal army was even weary about coming that far into the Bad Lands. The battle a week ago was the farthest in anyone has ever seen them. They had ended up retreating, but the captain and one other had escaped. The family was escorted back to the village where everyone tended to them. It was then that Princess Makoto delivered the message of her mother's death. The whole village fell silent, even though they were shouting and scurrying about just a second ago. They all wept.

The Queen had always been good to them and the deceased King had saved their lives from a great evil. To these people, some who have been banished for much longer than them, they were the true King and Queen. Now, all they have left is their daughter, a shining star of hope for these dust ridden peoples, and at her side a solemn knight to protect her. Motoki over the past week had made it his duty to go out and talk to all the people and refill them with hope when he knew Makoto was not capable. He knew what was going on in her mind, and he was prepared to follow her to her death if that was where her path leads. Shinosaki was more than capable of leading the people in her stead and protecting them when the time came. He knew how the man felt towards his bride, but he couldn't allow him to take her.

There is nothing left of you
I can see it in your eyes
Sing the anthem of the angels
And say the last goodbye
I keep holding onto you
But I can't bring you back to life
Sing the anthem of the angels
Then say the last goodbye

Two weeks since her return and this was the first time Makoto had come out of her house to socialize and speak to those who believed she was their savior. The Earth Moon shines brightly tonight and she can't help, but wonder if the "Moon Kingdom" had also cast out some of their own to live on the scraps they manages to make the ground bear. Makoto had heard tales of the beauty of the white stone that it is built from and hoped that one day she might be able to see it. She was a child then, she knew better now.

Makoto walked up to the blazing fire in the middle of the town, it warmed everybody that came near it. It was a tradition that the village had picked up when she was a child. Her mother had told her stories that when she was young that she was often disturbed and cried a lot. The nights when the Earth Moon shines brightly always made her cry uncontrollably, and so her mother lit a huge fire and all my fears were gone. As Makoto looked upon the fire tonight she thought dearly about her mother and father, she couldn't let how they died go. She couldn't forgive them that easily and move one with her life. She isn't like her father when his mother was murdered. He had become righteous and did not seek revenge, but save his people along with those that had attacked them. 'My Father defeated Metalia and saved this planet...'

'I can't bring either of them back, even though I wish for nothing more than that in the world. Instead… I will train myself and seek revenge on the royal family myself, I want the last thing I see to be their dead eyes begging me for mercy.'

Author's Note: Ok… so here is what I am thinking. I have a Breaking Benjamin CD and every song on it reminds me of a war or something similar. So I plan to make this a HUGE song fic. I will use every song they have ever made, one per chapter. I thought it would be interesting for this story to be a Makoto comes to power story. I hope you enjoy it! Please Review!