CHRONICLES OF A PHOENIX
Disclaimer: I do not own any of Sailor Moon characters or story and they all belong to the amazing Naoko Takeuchi.
A/N: The story begins when the Sun crosses the Constellation of Ophiuchus.
Rei is 20 years old and is a bit less bitter about men and already had a boyfriend. Not that she is a man chaser or looking for love now, but she allowed herself to live a bit of romance with a Shinto Priest that used to help her at the Shrine (It's not Yuuichirou /Chad). They could've had worked, but he had to leave the Shrine due to family matters. This didn't make Rei traumatized as she was leaving the teenage and becoming an adult woman and more mature. For those who doesn't know, it's not unusual Priestess like her to get married and have a family, but usually this happen between them and with another priest guy. So with this line, Rei learned that she could love and still be the priestess she dreamed of, but as she is not as hopeless romantic as the other women, it's not like she would die alone and feel miserable if she didn't find love or have a family, like she herself said that she doesn't NEED a man. But I'm sure if this man is worthy enough she still won't need him, but their relationship will be based on a healthy choice to stay together by self will.
Mamoru starts the story still dating Usagi. As every normal couple they have their ups and downs. Or maybe they are engaged as he proposed to her when she was 16, but as in the manga Usagi just becomes queen at the age of 22, so I see it that even though they have this life to be together it's not like he is going to rush things and I see this suits his character that he tends to be down to earth. I think that even he preferred to finish his graduations and stuff like this and then really get focused on to marrying Usagi, or maybe he married her because she was pregnant in the manga, anyways… in this fic they are going to live a normal couple life and that even though they were together for a long time, sometimes they have their arguments, stormy moments or even on and off moments like every long lasting relationship have. Plus they are not teens anymore, so life is getting them more mature and they start seeing that life is not a fairy-tale.
I have done a lot of research to make the story consistent, but of course I will give my own touch. I've researched a lot about Greek-Roman mythologies and Egyptian.
I've seen that people have a lot of curiosity about the Moon and Mars and lately Mars has been the topic of news about the possibility of having bio life and the existence of water. So for the fic I wanted as many elements as I could get to make some connection between the Earth and Mars and digging into the Classic Mythologies I could find it as Naoko did with the story based on Endymion and Serenity. In addition, I hope I manage to make it understandable and beautiful.
PROLOGUE
Reincarnation is not just a whim of fate or a game of life where people represent different characters each existence only to entertain the creator.
Reincarnation is the school of the universe. It's the college of life.
It is by successive lives that all of us humans shape our souls, transform our personality.
From our mistakes we acquired debt and from the debt we acquired challenges. During every challenge that we normally name as tests or problems, we are strengthening ourselves and learning not to make more mistakes.
Living several lives is a chance to repeat several tests and also a chance to get better results, just like at school. So we can acquire virtues and abandon imperfections.
Just the reincarnation can explain the unexplained pains, unbearable tests and that love that we didn't expect or want to find.
Our life today is a reflection of our failures and our successes from the past. Just as pain represents our debits from the past, the happy moments that meet us during life represent our credits.
With spiritual maturity we learn that living life the right way is not living it to the fullest, but living it with responsibility. We learn to live it when we learn to make the right choices in the right moments. We choose what is right, not what gives you pleasure. Limit is always the safest path.
After all we realize we're here to learn not to be better than others, but to be better for the others.
And it is exactly considering this perspective that we're going to know, to think about and to feel one of the past lives of our beloved Rei and Mamoru.
Where and when did this immeasurable love from these two souls come from? These souls who chose to sacrifice their love. Souls who chose to hide what they felt to fulfill the noble purposes of saving thousands of people numerous times.
On this trip we find questions, answers and also teaching. (Shantty, My lovely sea gypsy)
This story is about Mamoru and Rei's past lives, which some events from there are going to be solved in this current life. I mean, some past actions of theirs brought some consequences to this present and also to their future. And as a cycle, their actions of now will bring consequences to the future. Well, this is life, all the good and bad we do now will be collected further.
We will also learn a new and stronger form of them and also their ultimate powers. And especially the reborn of a Legendary and Mythical Sailor. What is it so special with this legendary sailor? Well, you'll have to follow the story and find out all the process that will lead to her and how much important she will be to the construction of the 30th century we all know and how she will influence the coronation of the Queen Serenity and King Endymion.