1.1 Chapter Two: The Other Dreamer

She heard her… heard her calling her male name… but she can't call back. She needs to find her then. Find her so she can save her… save her from what? She doesn't know. She just has to find her and save her, so she ran. Ran in the darkness… ran in the nothingness… ran in the empty blackness… to find her and save her. To give her warmth and love so she wouldn't need to look for someone else anymore.

A scream! That was she! "ODANGO!" she wants to yell, but she can't. She just can't… there's something preventing her. She keeps running. She needs to find her… NEED TO. She has to… HAS TO. If YOU don't find HER, HE will, Mamoru will. She shakes her head, iie. She doesn't want him to find her, find Usagi. She will… She will find her… HE won't… But she… She; Odango, doesn't want him to find her either… Odango was calling her male name… Not his…

Why isn't she calling Mamoru's name? Why HER male name?

'I will find her… I will… I need to… I want to… I have to… She wants me to…' she thinks to herself.

She keeps running… and running… But… THUMP! She tripped! She has to get back up. She has to… Quickly! But the floor!

The floor she feels underneath her just opens up… Opens up and she falls through. She sees a bright light. "That might be her," she thinks. She touches it when she gets close enough and she feels herself merge with it. Merge with this bright light.

She's inside the light. Inside, it was endless… yet no space at all. And then… water… Iie… Tears. She felt tears on her face. Nani? They were not hers. "Odango Atama…" she thinks… she must be crying. Crying for her? She was crying for her!

She felt so happy! She felt like her heart was going to burst open! But wait… She doesn't want Odango to cry if they weren't happy tears. 'Odango, I'm coming… Coming to save you.'

She doesn't know how to though… but then… the light… it feels like it's moving. That she's moving it. "Yes!" she thought. She has to move it to her Odango… her Odango? She grins at herself.

And then… the light around her… It's changing! It's wrapping itself around her… and then… and then… It all disappears! She sees her! Odango! She sees her!

"Fighter… You've come to save me… again…" she hears her whisper.

She wanted to say, "Yes… I'm here to save you…" But all she could do was smile at her and watch as they got closer to each other and her tears stopped flowing from her eyes. Those beautiful sapphire eyes that matched her pretty face perfectly. She looked so innocent, so in need of help… Well, she was here to help her, to save her.

Wings! Wings spread wide on her back.

Finally… She held her hands; they pulled towards each other. She looked so happy as they got closer. Ah! And then! Odango! She held onto her. She didn't want to let her go.

She hugged Odango back. And then she noticed everything isn't black anymore. They were flying in the beautiful night sky with stars and the bright Moon. She looked down and saw the ground and a beautiful lake.

She flew towards the edge of the lake with the cherry blossom tree, hugging her precious Odango that she's been looking for… forever…

She lands lightly and sets Usagi down carefully. Her wings disappear. Everything's so beautiful right now… especially Usagi… She de-transforms. She's a male again… Holding onto her… It was so wonderful… so wonderful being like this with her.

"Oh Seiya… I've been searching for you… Arigato…" she says to him. "Arigato gozaimasu Seiya… You saved me…"

"Odango…" he finally managed to whisper. He started blushing when he stared at Usagi's lovely face on his chest. She's so beautiful… so perfect. She sighs.

Oh! She's staring back at him now… but he's so drawn to her face… It doesn't matter… He'll just keep staring. Staring at those perfect features… those beautiful, beautiful eyes. She's blushing too… oh… Utsukushi…

He moves closer without noticing… He's too drawn to her… She's so beautiful… too beautiful… She can't be human… Iie… She's an angel, a tenshi…

She moves closer too. 'It is time…' he thinks. 'She wants to…' He's been wanting to do this for so long… Be with her like this. Hold onto her and kiss her… Show that he loves her more than anything in the entire Universe, even more than his own life. He would give his own life for her… If she wanted him to… He would… He would die for her…

Ah… He can feel it… So close… So close… He can feel her soft lips… but… NOTHING?

He opens his eyes. She wasn't there anymore… Iie… His angel… His beautiful, beautiful tenshi… Utsukushi… Iie… no more… She wasn't in his arms.

There! In front of him! She's alone… she's so alone… she's so scared… so lonely. He runs to her. He's getting no where! The space in between them growing farther and farther… "ODANGO!" he yells, but she doesn't hear him. He's too far away.

She's crying… He can't stop it… Iie! He can't stop her from crying! She's on her knees… "Oh Odango Atama…" he thinks, "Gomen Odango… Gomen…." Tears start coming from his eyes. They were hot, salty, anguished tears. They ran all the way to his chin and dripped off onto the black floor and disappear.

Usagi fades away… There was only him now… Only him in the darkness… in the bleak, empty blackness…

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"IIE!"

She sat up with wet eyes and cheeks. Fighter puts a hand on her forehead. She closes her eyes to stop the tears. She wipes them away and looks at the window not so far away from her bed. She looks at the stars and spots the familiar one that she always looks at when she can't sleep at night… She looks at the star that is Earth.

"Aishiteru Tsukino Usagi…" she mutters.

*End of Chapter Two