Disclaimer: Second verse, same as the first, I don't own Gundam Wing or Sailor Moon and I make no money off this. This story is for my enjoyment and the enjoyment of those who read it.
Author's Note: I haven't been this excited about writing a fic in a long, long time. I'm just about bouncy with excitement and I'm keeping my promise to update within a week, though I was hoping to hold out until Monday at least.
Refer to chapter 1 for the names.
Thanks to MoonBunny777, Silver Ame Tsukino, Usagi Uchiha Yuy Kudo, Resuri, and Jiyuu no Megami for reviews, alerts, and/or favorites on chapter 1.
From Destiny to Fate
Chapter 2: Drawn Together By Fate
Moon Kingdom—10,000 Years Ago
In reality it shouldn't have surprised or angered Queen Selenity as much as it did. Thantos was a lot like her eldest daughter and he wasn't evil. It still scared her that her daughter was involved with death. Hecate's moods changed often, she was usually a bright cheerful person, very much like her father, the sun god, Apollo, but at other times she was dark and serious. Thantos brought out yet another side of her daughter's personality, though.
They had met on the day she had made a choice that forever broke her relationship with her eldest child. She had crowned the younger daughter high princess of the moon, the less powerful one, the half-goddess. Hecate's anger consumed her on that day, and it was only Thantos who managed to keep her from destroying the entire moon. He had been watching the proceedings like many of the gods and goddesses and noticed something that she had failed to spot. The utter look of betrayal that had crossed her eldest's face as she crowned Serenity had been missed by the smiling lunar queen as she focused her attention on the younger of the two.
Hecate managed to keep face during the rest of the presentation, but upon the start of the celebratory ball she had made a hasty exit. The new Sailor Moon had gone into the garden and collapsed by a pool of water looking for a sign of what to do. Her emotions had been in turmoil, on the one hand she wanted to congratulate her beloved sister, on the other she wanted to kill her for taking away her birthright, and, yet, she knew that it was not her sister's fault intellectually, but in her heart she couldn't forgive.
It was as she sat at the pond looking up at the blue, green, and white marble that was the earth that she first saw him. He appeared in the air in front of her, violet eyes sparkling with mirth, but a compassionate look to his face. Startled she had stumbled back, her hand gripping her new transformation brooch, "Who?"
"Sorry for startling you," he said as he floated down to the rock she had been sitting on. "You'd think after thousands of years I would have figured out how to be more precise in where I appear, but you asked who I was, not why I'm here. I'm Thantos," the man had long chestnut brown hair wrapped in a tight braid and wore robes of the deepest black.
She gasped and bowed, "I'm sorry, I didn't know."
"Don't do that, I get enough of it from the mortals, and you're not one of them. We're equals," he said, "both a god and goddess in his or her own right."
She blushed, having forgotten temporarily. She finally regained her composure and sat on another rock, "I'm Hecate, recently dubbed Sailor Moon of the Silver Millennium Alliance," she said formally introducing herself.
"I know," he said with a smile, but then his expression turned serious. "You didn't seem pleased by the results tonight," he said.
"In truth, I shouldn't have been surprised; mother couldn't well crown the daughter of the sun god, heir to the lunar throne, could she? But, still, it hurts. I was raised believing that the crown would one day fall to me and to find that it would instead fall to my younger sister cuts like a knife. I'm so angry, yet, intellectually I know I shouldn't be. I came out here looking for a sign as to what to do, which direction to follow."
"Often the heart and mind are in disagreement. Most would tell you to follow your heart, but that would lead to nothing, but ruin, and you, in the end, would hurt more for it. Your mind knows the truth, but, yet, your heart still feels betrayed. It's the reason I often curse my title as god of death, I see instances like this so often. Medea felt betrayed in her heart by Jason, yet she knew intellectually that he had done no wrong. She ended up hurting herself worst by killing her sons."
Tears fell from Hecate's eyes, "Thank you, Thantos."
"For what?" he asked in confusion.
"For giving me my sign and explaining it to me," she pulled a handkerchief from her pocket and wiped the tears from her face.
"What have you decided?"
"To follow your advice," she said. "It hurts now, and it may always hurt, but the pain I would feel after if I went the other path, would feel worst. The vengeance would feel good for mere moments, but when I would've realized what I'd done, I would've wanted to die myself. Thank you."
It was then that their friendship started, a fated day when a young goddess decided not to go on the bloody path of retribution, but take a higher road, often not taken.
OZ Spaceport JAP Point—10,000 years later
Tsukino Usagi hated OZ and the Alliance that had come before it. They had been the reason that her uncle was dead, they were the reason so many more men, women, and children were dead. She hated them with a passionate fire that hadn't burnt as brightly since the fall of the Dark Kingdom. So it was with much happiness that she went to cause some problems for OZ.
She had decided to go to the moon right away, rather than wait until morning when the senshi could gather and use a Sailor teleport, but that met that she had to find a shuttle to go to the moon in. Her heart needed the answers that her mind already had. "Moon Eternal! Make-Up!" When she stood as Eternal Sailor Moon she concentrated. She had recently discovered that when she concentrated on an outfit she could make her fuku shift into it; it was even easier if it was into another sailor's uniform, especially one of her own. She had also found out, that if she shifted into the form of one of her senshi she could manipulate their powers. So when she opened her eyes she was not surprised to see herself in the red and purple of Sailor Mars.
The one power she knew she couldn't use in the forms of her senshi were powers that required items that the senshi kept with them, but for a single OZ base the second strongest attack in Mars' arsenal should work. She concentrated to convert her power into the power of fire and before too long she was able to draw the circle of fire around herself for the "Burning Mandala," attack.
The alarms on the base began to go off as she let go of both transformations and turned back into Tsukino Usagi before grabbing out her little used disguise pen. There was a time that she used the pen for the littlest thing, but now she used it to transformer herself into an OZ shuttle pilot. The pen did not transform her into an expert at using anything, but it did give her basic skills for the thing that she transformed into. It was with these skills that she was able to find a shuttle and start it up.
"Too easy," as she claimed that she was moving the shuttle away from the fire, when asked what she was doing over the radio, and they believed her. It was too late for them when she suddenly accelerated the shuttle and sent it rocketing into the atmosphere, a course sat for Mere Serenitatis, the Sea of Serenity.
OZ Lunar Base—later that day
Duo Maxwell should win an academy award as he played the severely injured gundam pilot being dragged by the OZ soldiers to a cell where he would stay until he was put to death for war crimes against the colonies. In reality, he was not injured as the OZ soldiers who dragged him believed. He was perfectly fine, a high rate of healing was one of the many benefits of being the actual god of death, Thantos.
It had been a long time since people actually worshipped him or the other "pagan" gods and goddesses that had had shrines and temples built to them during the Silver Millennium, when he found out that immortals could die. He shook the topic off of his mind, thinking about Hecate only made him sad and he had no time for depression. His hands slid into his braid to pull out a lock pick which he quickly used to open the cuffs around his wrists, keeping them held in his hands.
They had left him in the cell alone with only a single guard posted outside and he had waited for several hours, when they would realize he had no way to escape, before he would put his plan into motion. He had, long ago, decided to live as a human, only using his godly powers in an emergency or when they were automatic. But now that he was on the moon again, he had no reservations for using them and snaked his hand through an inner-demensional portal to come out on either side of the guard's neck with the cuffs and the wall boxing in the guard's neck. Before the guard even realized that something was wrong he was yanked violently against the door, the hand cuffs being cuffed to the bars of the window, trapping the poor guy against the door.
Bodiless hands than removed the gun from the guard's limp hands, the man had obviously passed out; he hoped he hadn't killed the poor guy. It wasn't his fault he had the bad lot of being the lone guard on a gundam pilot who happened to be the god of death. Sliding through the wall with his new weapon, Duo escaped. It was as easy as a stroll through the park for the godly gundam pilot and quite easily he found his way to the air lock to the surface of the moon.
A powerful spell still protected the ruins of the Silver Millennium from being spotted, even this close to them, but for the god of death they fell effortlessly and he saw the place. The once beautiful palace with gardens that rivaled those in Babylon now lay in twisted broken heaps on barren ground. He stepped outside and into the magical bubble that still provided breathable atmosphere to the now dead planet. At one time the third planet from the sun had had no natural satellite, and the moon had been the fourth planet from the sun, its orbit very close to the earth, but still around the sun, had lain between the Earth and Mars. Then came Beryl and Metaria and the beautiful fourth planet had become a single lonely satellite to its sister planet.
He was going to find out what had happened to Hecate and question where his immortal love actually was.
Author's Note: I changed the name of Sailor Moon's attack, "Moon Boundary" in chapter 1 to "Lunar Divide." In writing a battle scene, I realized how bad it sounded, so I decided to change it. I also went back and corrected some of my own bad habit mistakes (I have a bad habit of forgetting a word or two when I type fast). At one point I was missing half a sentence and I asked myself how that had come about.
End Chapter
Next Chapter: The True Sailor Moon: New transformation, old memories, and tears
