Title: Waiting
Author: Ree
Theme: Minor Characters ("In My Head" by Anna Nalick)
Genre: General
Version: Manga
Rating: G
All characters from Sailor Moon belong to Takeuchi Naoko, I'm just borrowing them for awhile.
Waiting
Helios settled down under a tree and gazed into the water. He could see her. His maiden stood there, all her movements were shown through the water. He remembered when he first met her. Pegasus' strong wings had brought them together during his time of need. Tearing his gaze from the reflecting pool of Elysium, he looked for his favorite steed. The winged unicorn wondered contently through the park that surrounded the high temple.
Sighing with pleasure, he looked once again at the young girl in the water. 'Soon. Soon, we will share the same world. Soon, we will once again hold the same ideas, and share the same beliefs. It has been so long.'
More than a thousand years ago, when this lovely maiden crossed his path and saved his life, he knew that she was the one for him. Then she left. She went back to the future, and he had to stay in the present. As time passed, oh so slowly, he had begun to wonder if he had imagined her. No one could be as wonderful as he remembered her. Then came the day she was born. He was able to see her again in his pool. As he watched her, he wept for her. All the pain and anguish she suffered because she did not mature as fast as everyone else.
'I could have explained it to her. She is a goddess. The daughter of the Moon and Earth. The one that reties the two back together again. It takes a long time for breaks to heal, and she is the one who is doing the healing. As she grows, the break becomes smaller.'
But he was not allowed to talk to her. She wasn't allowed into the temple of Elysium. She must not know him or of him before it was time. Then came the day he felt the draw. The pull towards human realm and away from Elysium. He knew that the day was close. Soon he would be with his maiden. He left Elysium riding on his chosen steed, leaving the Meneads to guard and ward the temple. But he could not stay away for long. While his human form slept, he visited his temple.
"Soon, my love, we will be on the same side of this pool. Both of us will be reflected in its depths. Once again we will fall for each other. Our love will repeat itself, though it is as if that love had never stopped. Soon."
Looking closer, he noticed that she looked older. There was knowledge in her face, understanding, acceptance. He had seen Crystal Tokyo attacked, he had watched her flee to the past. That had given him hope, but she had returned. And it still wasn't time. She had left again, and now she had returned.
As he watched, she was greeted by her parents, and there were four young ladies waiting in the background. He recognized them. They were his maiden's court. That was his signal. It was time.
Smiling, he felt the happiness course through him. "It is time! My maiden, I'm coming for you."
Lifting his head, Helios called Pegasus. He mounted and road back to the world to which he had been reborn.
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Sitting up and stretching, Shiro felt the dream fade away. He felt that something very important had happened, and he wished he could remember what it was. Getting up, he checked his day planner. 'There isn't anything important due today at school. Why do I feel like I have to go somewhere? And where do I have to go?'
His eyes fell onto a brochure for Crystal Tokyo. All at once he knew that was where he was to go, and that something wonderful was going to happen. He just had to figure out how to get there.