Sailor Bloodlines
Sequel to Sailor Moon: The Alternate Story
And the Sailor Kuiper Trilogy
Chapter 2: The Paradox
After the sphere around him disappeared, Percy takes a look around to get an idea on his surroundings. He is caught off guard when he sees magnificent white cliffs overlooking him. Somehow he was transported to the White Cliffs of Dover in England. He doesn't have time to recuperate from this though, as he is suddenly ambushed by some blue imp-like creature riding on top of what looked like eagles.
One of them dive-bombed Percy, but he takes a swipe at it with his new bronze saber, half-expecting it to have broken. But to his surprise, the imp and eagle have both turned to dust, and not even a scratch is on his new blade. Percy is pleased that Malcom did not rip him off after all. Just then, a large horde of imps started to attack him, claiming they will kill him in the name of the Negaverse. This makes Percy realize that these must be youma that he is fighting with right now. He then attempts one of the techniques that I taught him from all those years of training, the Cyclone Slash. Nothing remained after the technique was performed, but Percy then looks up at the sky and sees how dark the clouds are. He finds a path leading to the northwest and follows it hoping it will lead him to a city.
Percy eventually finds a sign that directs him to London, but when he arrives, he finds only a simple village of wooden huts and an inn. Percy asks one of the villagers what the year is, and to his shock, it is AD 975. He has been flung into the past, near the turning point of the Arab-Byzantine Wars, a conflict between the Muslims and Christians that has lasted for over 300 years at this point.
Percy goes to the inn, feeling a little drained from the surprise. While sitting at the bar, he notices a man in ragged clothing taking the seat next to him. The man asks for a quart of ale, but to his misfortune, he has no money to pay for it. Having picked up a healthy sum of gold coins against all the imps he had battled along the way, Percy gives the barkeep a few coins to pay for the man's ale. The man thanks Percy for his kindness and introduces himself as Erik the Red, a Norwegian Explorer.
Erik came to England when he heard of the arrival of a queen from a faraway kingdom, but by the time he arrived, the queen has gone missing. He blames it on the Muslims and their supernatural cohorts, but two soldiers overhearing this conversation tells them that they heard the queen was found not too long ago around the White Cliffs of Dover, and has since been taken back to Corfe Castle under the protection of the young King Edward the Martyr. Percy excuses himself from the conversation and exits the Inn. He gets directions to Corfe Castle, and makes his way southwest.
After traveling along the road for a few hours, passing through a forest that had a few more battles with imps, Percy eventually reaches Corfe Castle. As soon as the approaches the gate though, his way is blocked by two soldiers, claiming no commoners are allowed inside. Just then, a woman's voice calls out telling the soldiers to let him in, declaring he is a friend of hers. Percy passes through the gate.
Percy enters the throne room of King Edward, and is surprised to find out he is even younger than him. The king convinces himself that not only was Percy partially responsible for saving the queen from the supernaturals, but that he must have been trained by some legendary knight known as Sir Aaron. He then takes note of the sack of gold coins around Percy's waist, and gives him a bronze chest plate in exchange for one quarter of the gold coins in the sack.
Just then, a maid approaches Percy and tells him the queen would like to see him. He is taken to the guest's chamber where the queen is staying. When he enters, the queen tells the servants she wants to speak to Percy alone. The queen then steps out of the shadows, and to Percy's surprise, it turns out to be Karin, wearing a regal outfit. She tells Percy that everyone keeps mistaking her for this person called queen Lena, but is pleased that he came all this way to find her.
Suddenly, Karin starts to feel strange. She begins to hold herself in agony, telling Percy she feels like she's being torn apart. Just as she is about to scream out in pain, she disappears before Percy's eyes, only leaving behind her locket. Percy exits the chamber, lying to the servants by saying the queen needs to sleep for awhile.
Once he exits the castle, Percy hears a voice call out for him, and he is approached by Linda. Linda reveals that she has managed to create a special key based on her mother's designs that allows one to travel through she asks him if he found Karin, he tells her what happened. Linda was afraid something like this would happen. In truth, Karin's real name was Karina Tsukino, the second daughter of Neo Queen Serenity and King Endymion, and that the visiting queen is from the Kingdom of Endymion, and the mother of Prince Endymion.
If Karin was mistaken for the queen, then the people of England would have given up on the search prematurely: meaning she will be killed, Prince Endymion will never be born, and none of the events relating to the Sailor Scouts will ever occur. Percy breaks down, remembering how many times I have told him about the troubles of messing with the space-time continuum.
There is still hope though: Linda says that if they manage to save Queen Lena before she is slain, everything should return to normal. Linda helps Percy back up on his feet. And with a modified air soft gun and hammer in her possession, Linda joins Percy as the two begin their search for Queen Lena.
