Authors Note: This is the Epilouge, just a teaser, I'm not sure what to think but I hope everyone likes it, I checked for errors in grammar but sometimes I miss so if you see anything please let me know...um some feedback since it's my first story, thank you.
Summary (for now): There is a duplicate moon hidden beneath the shadow of the old and it is tired of waiting and hiding. It wishes to live too, it wishes to have what they have at any cost.
Warnings: Violence, sort of gore (more later), some cursing, yuri and het and...I can't think of anything else yet. Oh yea, they may be out of character but I tried really hard.
Disclaimer: This is not my story or characters, any original characters are a figment of my imagaination and not used to steal the true author's books or ideas ^.^
Side Notes: This is supposed to be a continuation of the series, as in after season five and the battle with chaos...um yea.
**Begin Reading Now:
Sleep…sleep for so long, it's scary…lonely…so lonely, don't leave me….please don't leave me….
Usagi woke and cursed softly, it had been this way since the day she had her final battle with chaos, she had steeled herself and won but not without a price. She winced at the memories, but since then she had dreams, of something, she wasn't sure what but it made her nervous, whatever was coming was different than anything else, stronger, angrier and sadder. She had asked Pluto numerous times if she had seen anything in the future change, if it was another disturbance but she had said nothing. She knew her vow kept her from speaking but she had seemed calm not nervous and scared like she had been when in times of trouble so maybe it was her own over reacting imagination, after all they hadn't fought any new enemies in over a year…maybe she was just bored.
"Enough! We have waited long enough; nothing stands in our way, why does she hesitate?" The owner of the voice was tall and graceful, her long purple hair swept neatly in a braid hanging over her shoulder, her vibrant red dress showing a long sliver of tanned leg.
"She is scare the last time we tried we unleashed it but we still couldn't break through it might be no different, my computers showed there's only a seventy percent chance we'll all make it through and the time frame window is only an hour, plus the possibility that only fifty percent will live through crossing and only twenty-five of that percent will remember—" this speaker had medium length cropped brown hair and only wore what looked to be a one piece black bathing suit, tapping quickly away on a computer with slender fingers.
"So you going to throw statistics at me? Well how's this then Miss. I-know-everything-there-is-to-know, how many times has she actually finished what she started?" Silence reigned in the large hall for all of five minutes before she continued "Exactly I say we leave to—"
"You doubt me that much Rin? I…take offense to that my calculations are never wrong unless there is a factor I have not been notified of, so is there something you're not telling me?"
"Of course not, it's not as if anyone tells me anything anyways!" Flinging her braid over her shoulder she swept out of the room muttering darkly about annoying people and troublesome queens.
"You two are best friends as usual" A cheery voice spoke from behind the tall throne chair where she had been hiding, a brilliant smile on her face as she stepped out, feeling lucky for avoiding Rin's wrath yet again.
"Mistress Kogitsune, if you keep hiding from her she will eventually find you, your chances of hiding again and succeeding…especially in that dress are point five" Kogitsune rolled her eyes and slapped her forehead
"You're going to get sick from staring at that screen all day…I know! Why don't you come with me and we'll invite Aiko and Midori and pack"
"Are you trying to tell me Mistress…that you have not packed?" Pitch black eyes rose slowly to Kogitsune's face and she backed away hands up in surrender, she knew she shouldn't have told her anything, she was defiantly going to get a lecture.
"Ehehe, about that…gotta run, see you later Teiko!" She fled from the room, stumbling slightly over her long green dress.
"…Idiot"
"Rei-chan!" Usagi flounced into the room and sat on her friends bed staring around the room, Rei had yet to move from the temple and the room seemed the same as always, down o the small table Usagi never failed to trip over upon entering.
"Usagi? I thought I told you to wait outside with everyone else, I'm busy!" For a second Usagi looked hurt before grinning.
"Yes but it's important only you can know"
"Ok, wait outside!" Usagi frowned
"Why are you being so stubborn?"
"Why are you still in here?" Rei snapped as she stepped out of her bathroom a small blush on her face, she was wearing a suit complete with a wig and flower pin. Usagi burst out laughing trying to smother it and failing.
"Wha-what are you wearing?" Rei sighed
"I am helping a friend at a host club…it's run by males so…stop laughing you hyena!" Usagi sniffled and held her breathe trying to stop her giggles before nodding, she was her for a reason after all, it was the only reason she was early.
"Rei…have you seen anything? I mean in the fire lately? It's been so quiet I—"
"Usagi don't jinx us, we've been quiet and peaceful I'm enjoying it, I don't want to do it all..." she hesitated at the look on her friends face and sat beside her slowly unpinning the wig as she got a better look, there was dark circles under her eyes, and her hair seemed to be falling undone "…I can check if it will make you feel better"
Usagi's eyes lit up and she stood pulling Rei with her "Then let's do it now!"
"Fine but let me change"
"But Rei-chan~~"
"Stop being a brat!"
Kogitsune sighed as she looked around her room without much hope, her people wished for them to make a pathway to Earth, the one that was still alive. Every planet they had checked in their solar system was dead, except for theirs, it was like a cruel joke of how their own double moon was thriving…had been thriving until all the existences there had faded.
Once their hope of living like their double faded the people broke into a panic, begging for new lives with new people and things, it didn't help that their planet was dying. So they had found chaos and tried to slip through into the other moon but it had released other things, other beings and those beings had attacked their double moon with a vengeance and so they had watched its demise and battles as it was reborn on earth. So of course her people had wanted to follow and since the guardian from the double moon had defeated chaos, so to speak they could slip through no problem but her people could not.
They needed the air here on this moon, so her job was to make that possible on earth, she would use her crystal to make a new home for them before they became one of Teiko's statistics.
It would help thought if she hadn't lost her crystal two weeks ago…
"Damn it all! This is entirely Midori's fault!" She yelled to no one stamping her foot in frustration, the other girl had insisted she learn to fend for herself in this new earth, they didn't know what dangers were their but while training her necklace had broke flinging the crystal towards the castle and that was the last she'd seen of it. She had been hoping it would teleport itself back to her case for it, but as usual it never did what she thought it would.
"What is my fault?" Kogitsune jumped a mile in the air then burst out laughing as Midori was covered with white paint as she entered the room. "…Mistress is this amusing? Your much to childish sometimes"
"Oh come off it Midori you find it just as funny and that was a horrible impersonation of Teiko" Midori grinned and wiped the paint off her face as she entered, taking a edge of Kogitsune's bed sheet to clean herself much to the other girls displeasure.
"True, so what is my fault?"
"You lost the Crystal"
"You lost the crystal? Why didn't you tell me?" Midori screeched shaking the queen by her shoulders and then frantically flinging things around looking for the crystal.
"Teiko's gonna kill us!"
"Us? I'm her mistress she can't!" But she was searching just as hard as Midori, they had to leave tomorrow morning after all.
"Tell that to her!" Kogitsune sighed and sat on the floor in the middle of her now chaotic room and smirked.
"Well what Teiko doesn't know won't hurt her"
"If she finds out it will hurt us!"
"…But she won't because I'm not going to tell her and you're not going to tell her so—"
"Not going to tell me what?" Teiko's voice came from directly behind them, her face set to kill with a look, both girls gulped before Kogitsune flung her finger in Midori's face
"She lost my crystal!" Teiko's eyes twitched as she came toward the girls
"And how long has it been missing?"
"…Ah…A week or so?" Now her fingers twitched
"And your tell me this…the…day…before…we leave?" Her voice cracked at the end and she moved steadily toward them now, both girls jumped up and ran
"This is your fault!" Kogitsune wailed as she ran from her enraged companion.
Rei was not always calm especially not in times of panic but this was different, the fire had shown her something she did not understand, did not want to understand because in the flames was Usagi, but it wasn't Usagi, yet no one else could use the crystal.
"There's…something's not right" But no matter how many times she re-checked the fire it showed the same, a woman who looked almost like Usagi using the crystal to blow up the moon, then coming to earth and attacking.
"Rei-chan?" Usagi was worried; Rei kept checking the fire, each time her face become more and more lined with frustration and panic as looked back and forth between Usagi and the flames that flickered wildly "What is it?"
"Y-you…you're going to attack us" she gasped the words out with effort and griped Usagi's shoulder tightly "Usagi your going to kill earth"
"Rei that's not funny"
"I'm not joking! You, no matter how many times I looked, your attacking everything!"
Rin rubbed her temples and glared around the room, this was why she thought her 'mistress' was suitable for nothing. She had lost the crystal and managed to break the computer for transport all in the time span of an hour.
"So…we have no crystal, no safe transport and we have to leave in less than…one day?"
"Yes" Teiko spoke short and clipped she was less pleased with her queen than the others, she had an urge to drown her in the pond outside the castle walls and leave the body there maybe then at least the Kogitsune's ghost might learn respo—
"Teiko!"
"Huh?" Rin sighed in annoyance
"We can still leave on time though right?"
"Yes, as for the crystal…it seems there is another on this new earth, once we acquire it we'll have no problems and everything will follow smoothly…then again the chances of us living through the transfer there are now slimmer than before" She said with a fierce glare in Kogitsune's direction
"What? It's not my fault, you all wanted to go I don't!" Aiko frowned, her queen was greatly against this, for reasons she refused to speak about, and simply stating her stomach told her not too.
"Really my queen, everything will be fine, their guardian warriors have not been active for some time now, besides we don't plan on taking over so they have no reason to fight with us" Kogitsune nodded but something told her they wouldn't see eye to eye, those people of earth were not used to their living style, if something went wrong it would be…bothersome.
"I am only going because I don't want anything to happen to any of you…I don't wish to go"
"Well it's too late for that, get some sleep and be ready for tomorrow" Rin said briskly, her irritation making her sympathy in short supply. All nodded and left the room, except for Kogitsune.
She stared blankly out the window, it had been so long since there had been anything but the assistance they had now…
…..
"Attack!" Men ran into her room, screaming and shouting at her mother she shifted closer to her, someone was inside the castle, someone was coming to kill them.
"Stay here and do not move not matter what" The Queen said pressing something into her daughters hand jumped out of her bed and ran down the hallway shouting orders, Kogitsune shivered and opened her hand, in it lay her mother's crystal the only thing that would protect her.
"…MAMA!" She screamed and ran after her mother, long before she had heard conversations of something killing everything, everyone and every planet theirs was the only left and if they thought no one would live they would give the crystal to her, to raise the future, but she couldn't do that she was only ten, she couldn't take care of everything, everyone. She needed her mother to live with her or she'd be alone.
Tears burned her eyes as she ran, bodies littered the floor, smoke and metallic air filled her lungs and she knew already without a doubt they were dead. Everyone. She was alone.
As she reached the edge of the castle she seen it, her mother's bracelet…connected to what was left of her mother's body, just a hand with a bracelet. Nothing left.
"MAMA! COME BACK!" she ran back refusing to process what she had seen "MAMA!MAMA!MAMA!" She cried heavily, all that was left was the sound of her sobs, her hand covered her mouth to block out the sound, she didn't want this, she didn't want to live like this.
"Don't leave…Please…mama, everyone…DON'T LEAVE ME!" She screamed to no one and collapsed on the floor hugging the crystal and whimpering, she didn't care anymore then, she wished to die, and take everything with her, so she wouldn't be lonely…
…..
Kogitsune winced at the memory, for how long she had laid there she didn't know, she didn't remember much after, only that her friends were there and people were with her, that's all. People just like the one's she had glimpsed from the other moon.
"Tomorrow…" Tomorrow everything would change.
End Reading Now**
Authors End Note: So that's it. Hope it wasn't too bad and made some sense, more will be revealed later, at least one review to continue please? Just so I know someone's reading, thanks ^.^