Falling Rose Petals
Chapter 1: Our Lives Are Set In Stone
By: Princess Kayla of Earth
Rated PG
Date finished: March 11, 2002
Date edited: June 9, 2002
Date re-edited: November 15, 2005

AUTHOR NOTE: If you have read this story before, read it again! I made some major changes to it and I hope it sounds better than it did! Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon!

'Man, is it hot or what?', I thought as I walked into my penthouse apartment. It was bad enough having a headache, now the heat! I hate it!

Oh, I haven't introduced myself. I'm sorry. My name is Kayla Lynne McGinnis. I'm at the age of fourteen years. My parents, Aurora and Damion Shields, were killed in a car crash when I was 4 years old.

Many memories of the incident have left a scar on me. I was lucky to have survived due to being so young, but that crash left a large scar on my lower back. A scar mentally and physically to remind me of my almost forgotten past. I can still remember the sharp pain the broken window glass made on my delicate back. The scar is in the shape if what looks like a lighting blot. It is curved like one, but at the end of it, there is something that looks like a rose petal. How the glass cut me like that...I'll never know, but every time I see that horrible relic on my back, such hurtful memories begin to flood my brain.

I was soon adopted after I was treated. The family that adopted me was the McGinnis' of Gotham City in the States. I took their name when I was old enough to understand that I was adopted.

I sat down on my navy blue couch and let out a heavy sigh. 'It's happening again; the Silver Millennium. ',

I thought as scenes flashed though my aching head. It hurts so much now...more than it used to...I can't stop the pain any more. I let out a shrill scream before collapsing unto the floor and into an enigma dream.

I slowly open my eyes. The pain has stopped. I look around.

Everything is so surreal. The walls look as if they were made from pure marble. They shine as through they are laughing at me. Where am I? I feel different clothing on my body. I look down at my clothes. A dress? It's not mine at all. I see everything spinning. Am I dancing?

I feel an arm around my waist and one holding my right hand. I now know I'm dancing. " Oh, hi. "

" Hello Angel. "

" Who are you? "

" You're funny, Earth. "

" No, I'm serious. "

The man, who now had my arm around his shoulder, laughed at me. I become furious. We stop, yet the music continues. Even in the light that is shining through the window, his face is still hidden from me. I can't see anything of his features.

" I love you, my Earth Angel. ", his last words before I disappear into another dreamlike state.

" Are you all right? ", a voice echoes through my head. Oh Gods, where am I now? There are so many questions to ask, but my throat won't conjure up any sound.

" Are you all right? ", another voice asks, this time, a much earthly tone.

My eyes are closed, but I raise my hand to my head. It hurts again. I hear sighs of what sound like relief. " I'm fine. I'm fine.", I open my eyes and look at the people talking to me, " Where am I? Who are you? ", I questioned, amazed at the difference in my tone...was that MY voice?

I receive help from a muscular girl with a blondish-brown ponytail. As I look at myself, I see another change...I no longer wear the dress, but a white bodysuit.

" She must have gotten a hit worse than we thought from the henchman. ", a girl said, whose voice I didn't recognize. I merely gasp at the sight-there are about 20 or so females, all wearing bodysuits identical to mine, with the exception of different hues.

" AHHHHHHH! ", a feminine scream shot through my ears, as well as the other female warriors as we turned our heads to the direction of a fallen blonde girl, who looked like a princess, with what I could only presume, her lover. But before I could react to what I saw, I had already subsided on my trembling knees.

I hear screams and loud explosions. I have woken up, but only to my depression I have woken up in a fairy world, a world about to crumple away...Forever.

I feel a wet substance on my body, running down me. If this is a dream, then why do I feel a blazing pain in my chest? A person isn't supposed to receive pain in a dream, but then again, this could very well be real...it does feel real.

" Oh Earth! Don't leave me. I can't fight her without you. Don't leave me alone...please no. ", I hear a man sobbing, depicting the pain. Some how, beneath all this suffering, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the man, who now had his arms wrapped around my frail body. His voice...seems so familiar. His smell...I can't place it. I can't see his face as his tears run down his face and onto mine, yet in some strange way, I like I know this gentleman...and very well too.

I suddenly feel a warmth in my cold body...I'm being kissed. But when I closed my eyes, I bear I could not open them to see his face.

I wake up to see a blurry image of curly hair standing over me. " Oh hi, Des. When did you get in?"

" About 1 hour ago. You started screaming again. The Silver Millennium again? ", she asks, concerned about my well being.

"Yeah, and it's not getting any better. The visions are still puzzling and my head can't withstand the pain any longer. They won't stop. Can you believe that it's been two years since I have been getting these visualizations. I wish they would either stop or just come like once a week. They're driving me nuts. I don't know what they mean because I can't remember much of the Silver Millennium. And frankly, I'm sick of it! ", my scream echoes throughout the silent apartment. I calmly resume again, " Des, does this mean I am close to finding out who I really am? "

" I don't know, Kay-Kay, I honestly don't know. I have been getting flashes, too. And the worst part of it is that I'm getting them at work. That is not good, you know. My boss got on to me about daydreaming yesterday!"

Our laughter now filled the white fresco wall of the apartment. It was nice to laugh again...something I haven't done in a while.

I guess I should introduce Des to you. Destiny Helena Alumi is my best friend. She is fifteen and currently enrolled in high school as a junior.She got a head start because she is so darn smart.

I met Destiny when I lived in America. She lived down the street from me and we soon became friends. That was about 3 years ago...a long time before we moved to where we are now...Tokyo.

" Well everything is going well though. No evil in the city.", Des told me with a smile.

Allow me to introduce Destiny and myself to you once more; we are Sailor Earth and Sailor Faith, guardiansof the lost Moon Princess.

How we became Sailor Senshi became a funny story to tell as we were fixing dinner.

We were in America and I was twelve years old and Des was becoming thirteen years old. We were fighting about whom was going to read the first Sailor V comic book first and acat comes up to me. Little did I know, that cat was about to turn my world upside down...

" DES! PLEASE! Emily gave it to me as a present for helping her with her math homework. I get to read the Sailor V comic book first! ", I screamed as Des, grabbing the comic book out of her hands." But Kay...you can read it any time you want!Let me read it, now! ", Destiny stated.

We fought for I know had to be 10 minutes until we heard a small voice say, " I can't believe I'm going to have to put up with this for the next couple of centuries! Can you Loyku? "

We turned, but didn't see anyone. We heard a small laugh come from below us and looked down. There was a greenish-black cat and a blue tiger, sitting at our tree house door. How they got there, I didn't ask, but just stared at them. "Ammm...hi little kitty and little tiger, how did you get up here? ", Des asked, as we back to the back of the tree house.

The tiger looked at the cat and amazingly asked the cat, " Queen S sure did want to make this hard, didn't she, Jade? "

Destiny and I gasped and grabbed each others arms. What was this? Pick on Kayla and Destiny day?

" I guess so...but we have to awaken them. Kayla, Destiny. ", the cat stepped forward.

I looked at the cat, thinking I had seen itbefore. She looked familiar. I just couldn't place her.

" We are here to guide you on the path to your rightful destinies. We have been watching for a while now and now believe that you two are who we're looking for. ", the tiger said, looking at us.

The cat, now known to us as Jade, nodded, " You see, a thousand years ago, we lived in a time known as the Silver Millennium. It was a peaceful place and the most powerful kingdom of all was the MoonKingdom. You two were warriors, destined to protect the Moon Kingdom and its Princess. Something went wrong and an evil force destroyed the Moon Kingdom, taking your lives with it. The Queen, who loved everyone, sent all of them to this time on Earth. Ifthe evil force were to ever return, her advisers, us and2 others were to awaken the team who could havestopped the Silver Millennium from being destroyed if it haven't been that they weren't ready to really fight...The Sailor Scouts. You two were part of that team.Kayla, you are the guardian of Earth and the Moon Princess...you are Sailor Earth. ", Jade told us, then turning to me.

The tiger, now known as Loyku, turned to Des, " And you, Destiny, are the protector of the past and future and guardian to the Moon Princess...you are Sailor Faith. "

Des and I looked at each other and let out a great laugh. We had heard of Sailor V...who was our idol...but never these two names these animals were telling us now.

A hideous red monster came into our view from where we stood. It's sharp fangs growl and hiss at the site of anything that came into its eyes. The green eyes look directly at mine, checking out my body with one objective that came into my head: it was going to eat me.

What I did next was not very " Sailor Senshi-ly ": I screamed. Destiny screamed.Which at the moment supposed the right idea to us,but it wasn't. It actually lured the monster closer to us. As we were at the point of no longer holding our breathe to scream, Jade and Loyku rushed to us and handed Des and me each a colorful compact that looked quite unique, unlike any I had ever seen before-not that I wasn't too distracted to observe this new object.

I did the only thing I thought of: " Earth Power! ", I shouted loud enough for my brain to function what I just did and I felt this powering surge ruse through me. I felt naked suddenly, but when I opened my eyes again, there was a new source of energy hidden inside of me that I never knew existed there before. OMG, the cat was right!

Destiny stood there, looked at me with her jaw open, and then she shouted, " Faith Power! ", then she was standing there with both of her hands in the air, holding a glavin. I knew I had seen that before, but I didn't know where, a sense of dejv vu pasted by quickly.

We jumped out of the tree house and ran to the monster and I looked at it and then saw a image of myself holding a silver rose and yelling something. So I did it. " Earth Rose Destruction! ", then Des fired at it with her own, " Faith's Doom! "

The monster was gone, dusted into ashes.

So here I am now, Sailor Earth and here is Des, Sailor Faith...sworn to defend and protect to planet. Who knew that our lives have been planned for centuries and that the path we take now shall be the consequences we receive.

Suddenly, I dropped the bowl of salad I had just made. Des ran to my side. I was breathing hard. Jade and Loyku, now our guardians, ran into the kitchen. Jade had once said that since I was Sailor Earth, I would be able to feel when something on this planet was wrong.

" Hey ,Kay, are you all right? ", Des asked, helping me sit up.

I look at her and shake my head.

" No, Des, I am not. There's a new energy in this city, but I don't like the feel of it and I don't know what it is. "