Notes: This fic takes place in the Sailor Moon Universe between the fall of the Silver Millennium and present day Tokyo. I feel like I should say more, but I don't want to give anything away. :3
Threads of Memory
Usagi Tsukino is fated to be reborn until the end of time since she emerged as Princess Serenity, but what if she had been reborn prior to being known as Usagi? The pale skinned and silver haired Luna is a mystery to the townsfolk on Earth. One day she leaves with Venus on a journey to reach the mythical Golden Fire Queen and the blue eyed shepherd from her dreams.
Prologue
Sunset swept across his brow accentuating the color of his eyes, ocean blue punctuated the creviced shadows gracing his face. Luna lost herself in his eyes, within the swells pulsating in his gaze, and lightly brushed his dark colored hair away from his forehead. His lips spread across his face into a chiseled smile, returning her affection by grazing the length of her silver tresses with weathered fingers. He pulled the leather hair tie from the base of her neck freeing her locks to the soft Spring breeze.
"Your name..." her voice uttered tinting her cheeks a vivid pink. His lips parted to answer and was interrupted by a howling squall. Luna whipped her head to the noise, the shepherd pulling her behind his towering frame. Ravens flew across the sky crying as they ripped the redding heavens. She gripped the shepherd's arm, peering at the massing ravens circling a jagged mountain.
The dying sunlight blazed across the mountain face searing an outline of a golden castle. The ravens flocked to the aflame structure beckoning lights to flash on within. A figure appeared in the topmost window, Luna stepped out before the shepherd to meet the figure's gaze. He reached out for her calling her name, but the landscape flashed before her suddenly, his voice lost to the scenery melting beneath her feet.
She blinked to find the figure standing before her, a shapely woman adorned with free flowing hair the color of the ravens calling her from outside the window. A pummel of gold crested the top of her head matching the richness of the drapery wrapped around her limbs. Her eyes burned the color of dawn startling Luna from her dream.
Luna's eyes popped open, her fingers laced between the ripples of the bedsheets as her vision sharpened the soft corners of the bedroom. "No, it's not supposed to happen that way," she whispered faintly to the dark stillness quickly creeping over her. She buried her face into her pillows, eyes clenched in desperation to hold on to the warmth of her dream before the ravens had came.
"Luna..." she remembered his deep voice vibrate with her name. "Luna..." he offered her his hand, her large eyes winding up his bare forearm to the base of his tanned neck. Imploring further, arcs of black feathers winged across his face. Luna reluctantly opened her silver eyes for the second time and noticed a flicker of a shadow disrupt the moonlight filtering into her room.
Heaving the linens from her body, Luna's slender feet touched the wooden baseboards and traveled to the edge of her window. She glanced briefly at the moon and wrapped her pale arms across her chest, her skin mimicking the same milky color as the satellite. She surveyed the country side displayed before her. Twilight painted the sweeping hills of the valley and etched aging trees against the hillside. A short fence cut across the ground near her home, and on a knobby post perched a raven steadily gazing with a fiery eye.
Luna drew the curtains and threw herself back into bed.