Book 3

Act I, Chapter I

The Obnoxious Narrator

Hello, you might recognize me. But you also might not. My name is Emma Macay, last time you saw me I was eight. I'm now 14, so don't start getting annoyed because this stupid book is narrated by a midget. If you must complain please do so to Miss Elizabeth Kelli, because she is obviously to blame.

In case you don't remember me I made a short unimportant appearance during Book 1, which lasted only shortly into Book 2. Sadly I did nothing important. Well not on purpose. In fact the one important thing I did the entire time was most likely unnoticed by anyone who happened to be reading, because it just wasn't obvious. Although Miss Kelli did try, she failed, miserably.

Well if you're wondering why she would decide to bring me back…well that's most likely because she wanted to recount all my stupid stuff that a did before going back to the past, and why I didn't turn up earlier. Yeah that's really her reasoning. It's actually more likely that she didn't feel like coming up with a new character to narrate and so decided to use me. I'm sure she's regretting it now, because I know her too well.

Well that's all beside the point, especially since Miss Kelli is grinding her teeth and giving me murderous glares.

Well you all remember me disappearing suddenly right? Well that was because at that particular moment my dad lost all hope of finding my mom, for a little while. When he had his hope for the future back I came back, but in my time. I then got grounded because I went into the past without permission, and I meddled with the flows of time. I was grounded for three whole years and tightly watched for another three years. I'm finally off probation, so that's why I rejoin the story here.

Of course I don't rejoin the story exactly where Michelle left off, because that would make things too confusing, so I picked a different day. It's actually three and a half weeks after joining up with Kora, Rand, Katja, and Matt. During that time my mom, well I should really say Megan…so as not to confuse anyone. But anyway during that time she kept putting off going back to Japan, because she went and looked at the flow of time (that's forbidden by the way. That's why I was in so much trouble), and saw I would be showing up. Cheater.

Well anyway, travel through the flows of Time is really strange. Because if you don't think really carefully you could come out a hundred or something. What I mean is that you don't think of yourself exactly as you are something could change, like you might get older. Of course they improved time travel between my time and Chibi-Usa's time. Because if you didn't realize I come from a time just before Usagi and Mamoru take the throne as king and queen of Earth. So I live in a time of chaos and war, while Chibi-Usa lives in a time of peace and serenity. So I obviously don't like her much, she acts like such a brat because she is pampered in a time when pampering could be allowed. I however have never been pampered; I have lived in a time where any pampering could prevent someone from surviving the next war.

But it is really cool to see the flows of Time. I'm pretty sure that Setsuna could see them without entering the place where you travel, but the rest of us can't even when we have powers of our own. Oh wait I didn't tell you did I? I have my own Power, which is actually really different from either of my parents. My mom has a really strong Power which can destroy all the Worlds if she's in a bad mood, but my dad's Power is much more modest, and really not good for much without proper training. Mine is in the middle, but it's only good for one thing, even with training. It only works to manipulate time. Not strongly like Setsuna, but I can still do it. Without this use of my Power I wouldn't be able to travel the time flows anyway. As I said they improved it a lot.

Well when I travel through the time flows I have to know exactly where I want to end up, which in this case is very close to where I left before. The funny thing is that time moves at different rates on different Worlds, and different times even. So while it was years in my time, it was only a month or two in my mom's time. Of course the time back before she was my mom.

Well enough about that. If I think of something later I'll just tell you. But I should tell you how everything continues before you come track me down to kill me, Miss Kelli is very close to doing so herself

I showed up in a central point in the flows of Time. That would be a spot not far from the center of DC. The reason why it's a central spot I can't tell you, because of course in doing so I change the flow of Time. But the reason why I chose that spot was because it wasn't too far from where everyone was staying at the time. I mean it was a bit of a distance from Katja, Matt, Rand, and Kora. But they had their own houses and such, so it doesn't matter much.

I'll tell you know that I look pretty much like my mom. I'm not much younger than her in this time, and I look like I could be her younger sister. I've got brown hair, which I wear cut in a really short bob, and slightly reddish brown eyes. I wear glasses, and I'm about five foot five inches. I love wearing my mom's clothes from when she was a teenager, because I think the styles are really cute My younger sister says it makes me look stupid.

I tell you this because when I met up with my mom, dad, and everyone else they all knew right away who I was. Mostly due to my looks. This conversation and the entire scene went like this:

"You're Emma right?" Megan asked in a rather curious tone of voice.

"Yep, I am. I came to help you guys out, because there's something wrong in my time. And if there's something wrong in my time, then there's even more wrong in Chibi-Usa-chan's time," I told them all bluntly.

"You look just like Megan," That was Matt, and he said this in a really weak voice.

"Yeah, and you're Mr. Whitmire. You're my best friend's dad, and one of my mother's best friends. My mom once had a crush on you, and you temporarily broke her heart by not noticing. I have always thought you were a bit of an idiot, my entire life basically," I told him staring straight at him I wasn't going to tell him that his wife died when my friend and I were ten. Nor was I going to explain to him that in a past life he was a highly accomplished scholar, and he really wasn't stupid at all. But rather the smartest person (book-wise) of all my mom's friends. Hannah of course was the most intelligent overall.

"Emma, you know you really shouldn't tell people about the future. I've been sworn not to for years now," Chibi-Usa said in that stupid voice of hers. It was too cutesy and girly. It really bugs me that it comes out of a girl who looks ten or so and is actually over 900 years old. That should bug everyone right?

"I told him nothing that wasn't obvious. Besides, my Power is centered on the flows of Time, and being able to manipulate them. I'm no where as good as Pluto, mostly because my mother wouldn't let me study under Pluto, but I still have a sort of middling average strength. It's not configured to work like a Sailor Scout anyway. That's what my mom told me. That if I wanted to study with Pluto I had to be her successor," I punctuated this with a glare at Megan.

"That's in the future I don't know what will prompt me to say that," Megan said with her innocent face on. But living with this woman for the last 14 years has taught me that she is never innocent. While the blame might often be pinned on my sister, my mom was usually egging her on. It makes you wonder what type of mother she is. But oh well.

"Yes you do. I know you peeked at Time while you were in the Place of Mirrors; it's really the only way to explain some of the things you do. Both now and in the future. Like delaying allowing Michelle to take the spells off everyone," I told her in my proudest voice. Which she countered with her most arrogant stare. It was a look that kind of said 'I'm a princess in several of my past lives and if you continue to insult me like this I will shoot your heart out with my belled arrows.'

Now I'm sure some of you have no idea what I'm talking about with 'belled arrows' but in my mom's last life she was a princess, then later the queen. But she was one of the most famous shots with the bow and arrow from the time when she was very small all the way to her murder. Her bow was very special; she carved it and fitted it in weight and length to herself perfectly. But what makes it unusual is that at the bottom end it has a thin silver chain, from which is hung a several silver bells. Each arrow in her quiver has a single silver bow at the end. So as the arrow rockets toward you with perfect precision even in the heat of battle the last thing you hear is the tinkling of bells. My mom insists that it's a merciful death, because there is no horror in the last moments, only beauty.

"I am not delaying anything. She simply said that she didn't have the necessary materials or it," Megan countered.

"Yes, but she has everything she needs in Japan, you're putting off going back for some reason. Why?" I asked folding my arms under my chest.

"Because there is work to be done here yet," Megan said her voice losing some of its arrogance; even she knows when she's caught in the act.

"Like what?"

"Like improving our powers. You can train with Pluto now, if she'll have you," Megan said calmly. I really wonder about my mom sometimes. She's crazy.

"Of course I'll train her, she's nearly as strong as I am. And the flow of Time has been disrupted. I think it will take her to put everything where it should be," Setsuna said coming up.

Hi there!! I felt that since Emma introduced me in this chapter I should give you a running commentary going on at the bottom of the page. So for this chapter I kind of wanted to just show you who I chose to narrate the story this time. I'm sure you all were hoping for Megan/Mami/Rose/Lela because I brought her back for good. But no such luck on your part. Emma was going to reappear and be really important for this chapter, so I decided to have her narrate this one.

I think it's very important for you all to hear how Emma becomes Setsuna's successor as well, so I went ahead and tossed that in. We'll see all of them training together soon, so you can understand things a bit better. I think I'm going to have an ongoing rivalry between Chibi-Usa-chan and Emma, because Emma really dislikes her.

Oh well! I'll see you in the next section!