Refractions of Souls
By
Black Rose
Chapter Three: Forgotten
To feel nothing, to see nothing, to remember nothing is also to forget something important. He had felt this before, but this was different—something was wrong and he knew it. As he glanced around, he saw he was in the middle of nowhere. He looked down at himself and saw that he was in his prince form. The ground around him was nothing but dry dirt, not a living thing around. The sky looked gray but there was not a cloud in sight.
He had seen this before and knew something was either very wrong or something bad was on its way.
"Prince!" a voice spoke around him.
He knew this voice; it was the same one that told him to stay away from his love or she would die. He had a bad feeling about this.
"If you're going to tell me to stay away again, you can just forget it," the dark haired man stated aloud.
Without another word, the spirit of the King of Crystal Tokyo appeared in front of him. The two looked at one another.
"I fear that if you did stay away, she would die altogether," stated the King with a sadness the other had never heard before. His tone made the prince a little worried.
"What is going on?" asked the Prince.
"Princess Serenity is slowly starting to die, and her own senshi are doing it to her," stated the King with great sadness.
"What are you talking about? They would never do a thing like that," stated the Prince.
The king glanced around as if it held the answer to everything. He glanced back at his past self and looked ready to cry but held it in for the time being—he knew it was alright to cry, but he needed to give his past self information that he hoped would help.
He'd smiled sadly when his beloved wife had told him that her senshi had disappeared and she could no longer feel them. She then told him that she had sent their daughter back to the past. She was growing weaker by the day and he knew that she wouldn't tell him why, but he trusted her and knew he had to send himself a message that he hoped would help his past self.
His beloved wife just smiled at him, and told him that she had already done it, that their daughter held that information, before the ginzuishou's power washed over her and put her in a deep sleep.
He even had to smile a little because Luna was in her cat form, sleeping right next to her. He shook his head of his thoughts and back to the matter at hand.
"Prince, from what I have been able to find out in my time, the sailor senshi have not fully regained their memories of the past, and so have done something they should have never done..." he stated, then disappeared.
"Wait! What have they done?" the prince yelled to the air.
"Small Lady holds a key," a far-off voice replied.
The next thing he saw was the earth from space. He could hear the earth; it was crying. Then he felt it, a pull on his golden crystal. He'd felt nothing like this before. He closed his eyes as he felt the earth's cry and pain.
"Why are you crying? What has happened?" he asked.
His eyes filled with tears. The golden crystal's powers washed over him and the earth.
A calming voice spoke next to him.
"Have you forgotten, Endymion?" asked a female voice.
The prince turned his head and saw the most elegant woman standing next to him. She wore a beautiful silver dress and had flowing black hair. She wasn't looking at him, but at the beautiful planet earth, instead.
"Who are you?" he asked, feeling like he was missing something with all this.
"I'm Gaia. In the past, I was your mother," she told him, still not turning to him.
"My mother from the past?" he asked with a little confusion in his voice.
The woman just nodded her head. The prince turned his head back to the earth, then without a word, they moved farther so that they were looking at the stunning view of the solar system.
"On nine planets, nine senshi were born. They were all born to gods and goddesses, each holding their own power and kingdom," stated Gaia.
Endymion knew she wasn't done yet.
"But they all had fallen in love with a young princess from the moon kingdom to some level, each willing to give up their powers and kingdoms to be with her and to protect her at all times, and so became her royal senshi: four inners and four outers," she spoke as if this was happening right now.
"While she did not ask them to do this, she was happy that they would be with her and help her rule, then, as you know from your own memories, she fell in love with a young prince from earth, even if it was forbidden. And he had found out something about his Princess that was very shocking about her but yet he still loved her for her and nothing more," she stated with a small cry in her voice.
She turned to her son and smiled at him. Her son in return turned to her. The mother and son looked at one another.
"My beloved son, know that I have and will always love you. Return to your princess for she needs you, and remember that what has been forgotten can be found once again," she told him while pulling him to her and kissing him on the forehead. A golden light washed over them.
A warm ray of sunlight shone through the window of the bedroom where a young man was slowly rising. He sat up and shook his head a little. He could still feel the pain and cry of the earth and also the pain of his love.
He now needed to get back to her and very fast. He got up, took a shower, and got ready for the day. It wasn't until he was watching the news while making himself some breakfast that he knew that he needed to get to his princess and fast.
"New professional race car driver Haruka Tenou crashed in training yesterday while world-renowned violinist Michriu Kaiou passed out last night at an open concert," stated a newsperson on the TV.
She couldn't believe what just happened even after what happened to her lover the night before; she couldn't believe what she saw. A young woman with short blond hair was standing out on the balcony, watching the different colors splash around the sky as the sun rose into the sky. She closed her eyes as images played through her head.
Flashback
She loved the feeling of going fast—it made her feel like nothing in this world could stop her...well, other than her lover and her Princess could stop her, but that was a different thing altogether. As she drove around the track again, getting the feel for the track, she had a feeling that something wasn't right.
She had watched her lover pass out last night; when she got to her the only word that came out of her mouth was "Serenity." This worried her even while she kept driving. They next thing that happened scared her. As she went around the track one final time she saw a ghostlike image of her Princess in front of the car, and a load voice screaming.
"Uranus!"
The look on the face of the ghost image of her princess was one of fear and shock. Just as she was about to hit her, she turned the car too far and slid the car in the border of the track and turned it on its side.
When people got to her she was shaking—and it wasn't because of the crash. As people watched they couldn't understand what was going on. After she got checked out by the medical team, they told her to take it easy for the rest of the week.
As she walked into her home-away-from-home, Michriu was waiting for her. She, too, looked at her sadly. She slowly walked up to her and pulled her into a loving hug.
"You saw her, too," was the only thing she said to her.
Haruka just nodded into the hug and tears started to fall. Michriu just held her closer as tears of her own started to fall as well. She closed her eyes as images ran through her mind of the night before.
She was standing on stage, playing her violin. As she played she felt something deep within her soul cry out. Something had changed and she didn't know what it was. Her music was sadder than it should be.
She had glanced at the auditorium full of people, then before her very eyes a ghost that looked like her princess walked slowly across the stage. She was holding her sides with both hands.
"Princess?" she thought.
As the ghost removed her hands she saw blood. The ghost looked right at her.
"Why, Neptune!" it screamed but it seemed that she was the only one that heard it. She fell to the floor, holding her head; it wasn't long before it was too much for her and she passed out.
End Flashback
She opened her eyes when she felt someone hug her from behind.
"Was there any answer?" she asked with worry in her voice.
The other person's head just shook "no" as a reply.
After they had gotten up they had tried calling their princess and their daughter, but there was no answer.
Haruka placed her own hand over her lover's. Her eyes narrowed a little. If someone was trying to hurt their Princess they were in trouble, but this feeling wasn't of a bad guy, but something else.
"Your feeling that something is hurting our Princess, Haruka, would be right on," stated a voice behind them.
They both turned to see Setsuna standing in the doorway, looking at them with sad and very haunted eyes.
"Setsuna, what is going on? Why are we seeing the death of our princess," asked Michriu with worry in her voice.
The time senshi glanced behind them as a small tear fell from her right eye.
"I believe we all are in very big trouble," she stated then turned around and headed for the front door.
The two lovers glanced at one another and knew that they needed to follow, so they did. When they got outside they were somewhat shocked that Minako was in the back of the car on a cell phone, yelling, or something like that. You could tell she had been crying. They all got in and drove off.
While this was going on, in one of many shops you could smell the baked bread and cookies. Makota was pulling freshly-baked cookies out of the oven when the front door of her shop opened.
She walked around the corner.
"Welcome..." she stated to the customer, but stopped when she saw a young woman with short blue hair and a young man with brown hair.
"Ami, Ryo, wow! What are you guys doing here?" she asked, happy to see them as she put down her hot tray.
"I just got back, Mother wanted me to come home for something big, and I met Ryo at the airport," Ami stated, blushing a little while glancing at Ryo, and then back at Makota, who was just giving her a knowing look. She was about to say something when her cell phone went off and then—not two seconds later—Ami's cell phone went off. The two senshi glanced at one another and then at the caller ID.
"Rei?" stated Ami.
"Minako," stated Makota.
As the two senshi answered their phones, Ryo's head started to hurt and in his mind he saw images of nine young women standing around another woman who looked to be in a lot of pain. As the nine started to fade, the pain of the young woman with silver hair became worse.
What shocked him more was that something in the shadows was forming and he had a feeling that this was very bad.
He shook his head when, at the same time, the two senshi yelled.
"WHAT!"
On the moon, Usagi was standing on a balcony, watching the earth. She was wearing her princess dress, even if it was slowly changing into what will one day be her Queen form. She, too, like her Prince, could feel the earth's pain and cry. She had her hands folded next to her heart and felt a longing for them, her senshi, but she couldn't feel them anywhere on earth.
She knew where her Prince and Saturn were, but why couldn't she find the others? Tears slowly fell from her lovely eyes.
"Where are you guys, don't you know I need you?" she whispered with cry of pain in her voice.
She had to close her eyes and wipe away the tears. She knew that they were somewhere down there, but didn't know where. She couldn't understand what was going on. Her mother had told her that her senshis' powers had been given to her, because they had done something to lose their powers, and it had made her sad because, even without Luna telling her, she had felt it.
It was a question that she, too, could not answer and that was, did her senshi want to be with her? This had made her very upset. She felt two people near her that made her smile a little.
"Did I do something for them to give up their powers and give them to me? Do they not want to be my senshi anymore?" she asked herself.
There was dark golden light that appeared behind her. She smiled as she felt a pair of arms wrap around her and pull her slowly to them.
"Mamo-chan, where are my senshi?" she asked him as she closed her eyes and turned in towards him. She started to cry.
Mamoru just hugged her tightly with all the love and care he had for her. He just kept hugging her as she cried. He glanced at the earth and knew that they were down there and that soon they would have to tell their Princess why, if they even knew why.
While the couple held each other, a young princess and the youngest senshi watched from the side. They each had tears in their eyes. Saturn glanced at Small Lady and saw she was having just as hard of a time with this as her mother.
She looked at the Princess's hand and moved her own hand into her best friend's hand. Small Lady glanced at her and tried to smile, but she couldn't. The two looked into each other's eyes, one full of worry, and the other worry for the other.
Then, without thinking about it, Saturn pulled her into a hug, and just held her. Small Lady didn't know why, but it felt right to be in her Saturn's arms, and she smiled a little. The next thing, she felt her heart beat a little faster.
"It will be alright, my Small Lady," stated Saturn with love and care in her voice.
"Saturn..." Small Lady whispered in the hug.
A/N: Sorry for the short chapter but I wasn't too sure what to do with some of the senshi so I just went with it, and felt this would work, sorry again –Black Rose