Disclaimer: I do not own the following products used, Sailor Moon and Gundam Wing nor do I own their plots and characters. I am merely a fan who writes and authors fan based stories about said subjects. This story is in no way profitable and is not rightfully mine to make profit from. So, as a mere fan who does not in anyway own said shows or make money from, obviously, I can toy with, tamper, create and/or destroy ANYTHING of the original I please because it in no way effects the actual product. Any comments against this, please, do tell.
Light of Hope
Chapter Four
The soft pitter-patter on the window went unnoticed by the slumbering girls in the room, at least most of them. Makoto couldn't seem to sleep as she sat by the window, staring up into the clouds of the gentle rainstorm as it passed over head.
Smiling softly, she gave a small hum as she looked around the room at her beloved friends. Her bright emerald eyes glistening like the rain hitting the jade colored leaves of the trees right outside her apartment window.
Every once and a while, her forest eyes would settle on Usagi's sleeping form and carefully watch as the blonds face would seem to scrunch in an emotion she couldn't quite understand but knew... should not mare her beautiful friends face.
After Usagi had fallen asleep, she and the others had gathered in the next room; careful to keep their voices low so as not to awaken her. Usagi had seemed troubled enough lately, for whatever reasons and they didn't want to add anymore pressure to her. With the coming news that Crystal Tokyo is not eons away, like they had all assumed but could happen any day from now till then, Usagi was feeling a substantial amount of pressure... because for Crystal Tokyo to be formed, a great tragedy was to befall the earth and Usagi and her crystal were to be the only ones to save it. ...Let alone the stress of knowing after that her job still isn't done because then she'd be in charge of creating a new world order and rule an entire empire that spanned across the giant expanses of space on a level of intergalactic peace greater than that of the Silver Millennia.
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"We can't let this happen, we can't let the Cinq Kingdom come and rule here. It will push aside everything we believe in... everything we fought for! It could threaten the throne. If Luna was worried about it, then she must have a reason!" Ami whispered softly in concern.
Minako frowned. "This is different, we can't just attack them! They aren't even enemies, they're mortal. People we've sworn to protect for the good of the earth. The whole meaning of being a Sailor Senshi is to protect what we love."
"What about the good of our future Mina! We've been fighting for this since we found out about Crystal Tokyo! Crystal Tokyo is the only way we can stop fighting! the only reason we'll be able to live in peace of ANY enemy! We can't just do nothing!" Makoto took a breath and looked to the door, worrying if she had been a tad too loud.
Rei sat by the door to the bedroom and was watching through the crack in the door as Usagi slept. Turning to the others she gave them a controlled stare, not letting her feelings overcome her features. "Your right... we can't just sit back and let this Relena rule over what's rightfully the princess's. What's ours. However... we can't attack them either. We may not know much about the earth wars ourselves because of our other obligations but we know what war is like and the affects it has on everyone. We can't just attack or send a declaration of war... we need to be careful about this."
"You're right Rei... I guess I'm just a little upset. We've all sacrificed so much. Usagi and Mamoru are counting on us just as much as we're counting on them..." Ami murmured with a small nod of her head, her short silken locks bouncing on her neck at the movement.
"But what are we going to do?" Minako asked softly.
Makoto stared hard into Rei's eyes, still unsure but she saw something in them that turned her resolve. "We wait and we watch." Everyone turned to her and gave her a questioning look. "This Relena girl, she might not be much of a threat. For now, we'll keep an eye on everything. If things in anyway get to a point where we decide to intervene, we can take care of it."
The others shared a look and nodded, satisfied.
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Moving to lay back down, Makoto stared at the ceiling. She was still concerned. Surely the Cinq Princess was in no way even a close comparison to her princess but the threat was obvious and real.
Many people in the world and in the space colonies have come to love the girl known as Relena Dorlain Peacecraft. She's already proved herself as a worthy princess and queen. The Cinq Kingdom was also a pacifist Nation as Crystal Tokyo was mounted to be.
It might not have seemed like a threat when Luna first mentioned the foreign kingdom, but now as they researched and learned more about this rival for the throne, they realized why it was a threat.
Because the Cinq Kingdom was exactly like Crystal Tokyo. Because no one knew of Princess Serenity or even Prince Endymoin... but they knew Queen Relena who was a passive voice that spoke out for peace amidst the wars, and helped in bringing an end to them. No one knew about the battles they'd fought. The tabloids and newspapers and stations had only small and normally ludicrous articles on them that very rarely shined any light of truth on the situations recorded.
She couldn't be sure what the outcome of all this was going to be, but she knew whatever happened it was going to be a long and winding road... and the feeling of something not right was already affecting them.
It wasn't just the fact that Crystal Tokyo's throne was in danger... but the world very well could be in trouble if Serenity and Endymion lose their crown because their kingdom is the one thing that ensures the earth safety from outside intruders... something the people of this planet that they protect don't even know about. To them, their nightmares of monsters weren't real. War, weaponry was reality and even thinking myths could be fact instead of fiction was laughable even if the reality really was a very dangerous truth.
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Luna jumped from the wall and overlooked the area around her. "How dare they!"
Artemis jumped down next to her and looked around in awe, his tail swished anxiously and his nerves seemed to jump. "I wonder when they started building... I can't believe this is already done!"
Before them stood the grounds of the new Kingdom. Behind a large and impressive metal fence stood a magnificent stone castle. The Cinq Castle. Outside the metal walls protecting the castle grounds were many impressive stone buildings, one of them in particular seeming to catch the cats eyes and it made Luna release a low growl in irritation.
Jumping surrounding walls that separated the newly built Cinq Kingdom from the rest of Tokyo, they headed away as the sun began to rise in the distance.
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"Oh no! LUNA! Why didn't you wake me up! I'M GONNA BE LATE!" Usagi wailed in shock as she awoke to find she had minutes before classes started. Rushing around the room, Usagi grabbed her school uniform and hurried into the fabric, stopping quickly in her bathroom to wash her face and brush her teeth before grabbing her bag and running quickly out of the house with a quick goodbye to her parents as she ran with the toast hanging from her lips.
In her haste she completely missed that her parents seemed to be trying to tell her something. It didn't even register to her that her younger brother, Shingo was sitting at home when he should have already been at school, ignoring the scene she was creating.
I thought I was passed all this! Oh why meee! Usagi thought miserably as she ran quickly towards Juuban High School, intent on not being late. Before she could process the large shadow in front of her she ran straight into it, and fell promptly down after.
"Ow..." scowling she rubbed her bottom and muttered to herself darkly. "First I'm late, now this! It never fails…" a strong hand found it's way into her line of vision and she blinked, "Mamo-ch..." as she looked up though, she noticed the masculine hand did NOT belong to her beloved Mamoru but a rather handsome young blond man.
"Oh! I'm so sorry!" Usagi quickly called, standing up and bowing quickly with a bright flush spread across her already rosy cheeks. "How embarrassing, I didn't mean to run into you like that..."
The man smiled and rubbed the back of his head. "It's quite alright, I wasn't looking where I was going either. Please forgive me... I hope you're not hurt." The mans soft baby blues checked her over looking for any injuries.
Usagi's breath seem to catch as she eyed the man with a dazed look glazing her dark oceanic eyes, a soft pink staining her cheeks as she eyed him.
He was a rather beautiful man, his hair a very pale blond... a white gold that shimmered as the wind played with the soft locks and the suns rays shined off the pale hairs. It reminded hr slightly of Minako. He seemed to be of Arabic heritage but he was very pale, maybe even a tad bit paler than herself. His soft, boyish looks were only highlighted by his kind baby blue eyes... his eyes. They were so kind but seemed guarded. Troubled.
His eyes captivated her most. Intriguing.
"Miss?"
Usagi shook her head and her eyes focused again. He was looking at her with a slightly worried expression but a slight hint of caution appeared in his features. Her blush seemed to darken. "Oh, I'm sorry!" bowing repeatedly she tried to hide her growing embarrassment. "I'm fine, this happens more often than you'd think, I just hope you're okay..."
A loud bell sounded and Usagi jumped up and looked past the man towards the direction of her school. "Oh no! I'M LATE!" running off again, leaving the man to himself she ran as fast as she could. "Sorry again!" She called behind her, never stopping in her haste.
The man chuckled lightly as he watched her rush away, shaking his head. "How odd..." smiling again he couldn't stop a few more chuckles leaving his lips as he began to head in the opposite direction.
Usagi made it to the front of her school and rushed to a stop to avoid hitting the closed gates, which she wrapped her slender hands around in panic. "Oh no! They locked me out!"
"We're dooooomed!" A shrill cry called from beside her, startling her enough she gave a squeaky shout of surprise.
Usagi jumped and looked down to her right to see Minako kneeling on the ground, clutching the gates much like she herself was and crying with large clumps of tears filling her bright sky colored eyes.
"Doomed?" Usagi whispered in despair before large pools of tears entered her own eyes. Falling in a lump next to her friend they clung to each other and each let a wail escape their throats.
"What are you two doing?"
Abruptly the wailing stopped and they both turned to see Makoto and Ami looking at them. Makoto was smiling in mirth while Ami sighed exasperated.
"Ami! Your late too?" Minako cried in shock, jumping up and clapping her hands together in a mixture of horror and fascination.
Usagi's tears started again and she jumped up and grabbed Ami's hands in hers, her eyes wide with compassion and worry. "Oh no! Ami, your record!"
Ami sweat dropped and pat Usagi's hands, trying to comfort the over emotional blond.
Makoto looked back and forth between Minako and Usagi and wondered if they were having an emotional break down due to the closed school doors. "You'd think they'd be happy to be locked out, that way they could go to the crown."
"Makoto!" Ami cried sternly, worried the brunette will encourage the idea into the two. ...knowing Minako, it wasn't unlikely. The blond's been daring before.
"What's going on?" Usagi asked, having calmed down and instead was curious.
"Usa, Mina. Didn't you guys read the forms Haruna-sensei handed us last week?" Makoto asked, her right arm holding her elbow as her left messaged her temple.
"Form?" Usagi and Minako mimicked, tilting their heads in unison.
Ami shook her head and started walking, the others following automatically. "The Cinq Kingdom construction has been finished."
Silence overtook the four of them. It had been several months since they were first informed that the European Pacifist Nation was relocating in Japan. For the most part they worried, but after a while they seemed to forget all about it... now that the Kingdom was finished however...
"What does that have to do with Juuban High?" Usagi asked curiously.
Ami and Makoto shared a look.
"They closed Juuban High... they closed all schools in Tokyo actually. All students will now be attending Cinq Academy." Ami replied slowly.
Minako stopped short and gave a surprised look, her eyes that seemed to capture the color of the sky on the brightest day seemed to widen and her pert puffy pink lips dropped open in mass shock. "How..."
Makoto shrugged, already having gotten over the shock. "We thought you knew... guess we should have figured you'd not read the forms."
"Why though... so many schools..." Usagi asked in confusion.
All four of them stopped and in front of them was the opening to the newly built Cinq Kingdom. They all had to agree, it was beautiful. And large.
The entire Kingdom was surrounded by walls made of a sparkling white stone and intricate metal. Only one opening was built into the walls like a gateway with silver gates twirling and twisting into beautiful designs. However, despite the gates, the silver doors were always open.
Beyond the opening was a walkway that seemed to go forever and as they walked the pathway, they passed parks and forests built into the royal gated city, homes and small business buildings were off in the distant and all around as far as the eye could see. They passed a few of these areas on their way closer to the center of the kingdom. Several white stone buildings could be seen from where they stood off into the distance, all of them were apart of the Academy and beyond those buildings were two large towers by either side of another silver gate. Behind the gate, was a magnificent white stone castle with a roof that looked entirely made of silver.
"It's so vast..." Usagi gaped as they stopped not far from the academy buildings.
Ami nodded, "They tore down several districts in order to create Cinq..."
Usagi clasped a hand over her mouth, horror struck. So many people had lost their jobs and homes to this Kingdom.
Makoto frowned and placed a soothing hand on Usagi's shoulder. "It's alright."
Ami looked at the Academy buildings and began to point them out. "The five buildings to the far left is for people who live on campus. Inside the buildings are several dorms and even condo like apartments."
The building s were the largest and the most fanciful, aside from the palace itself. Aside from being nearly twenty stories tall, it was also quite large around.
"Aren't dorms for college students?" Minako asked curiously.
Makoto nodded. "That's the next set of buildings. All college courses and classes are in the building beside it but anyone can have a dorm although they'd have to pay for it if they're not college students. The dorms have their own living quarters, bathroom, living room and kitchen. College students at Cinq don't pay for dorms, since the Kingdom's petition to close all educational buildings was denied against colleges in Tokyo. All other schools lost their vote though."
The building beside it was bustling with young adults heading to their classes.
"The next is our school..." Ami began with a frown. The building was like the others, quite a few stories tall and quite large around and was also made of the sparkling white stone. "The last is for younger students and the smaller ones beside that would be the elementary and grade schools."
"Is that Rei?" Minako asked excitedly.
From their new school building, Rei was walking to them with a wide smile and caring four bags. Rei must have gotten there early because she already had her new uniform on.
The uniform consisted of a pleated skirt that reached a few inches above the knee, a dark red in color with white lace peaking from the bottom of the soft looking fabric. A white buttoned blouse with short sleeves lined in the same dark red and a matching dark red button down jacket with a wide neck line so that the black tie could easily be seen.
The uniform looked lovely on Rei, who was always stunning in red. Her ebony tresses were down and flowing to her hips in their signature straight strands, but her long bangs were pushed aside by two red star clips and her ears were pierced by red star studded earrings. On her feet were black dress shoes with a slight heel and white knee socks lined in red.
"Well... at least the uniforms are cute." Minako suggested as Rei handed them each their knew Academy clothes.
Everyone shared a small smile... but currently they felt nothing to truly smile about.
Rei stared off into the distance, after she handed them their clothes, where the palace stood and narrowed her dark indigo orbs. As she observed the palace with cold eyes, she and the others were unaware that her cold stare warranted a cold look of her own by three sets of eyes, dark with suspicion.
End Chapter
I'm sure you were all able to figure out that the beautiful blond Usagi ran into was Quatre! Finally right? I know you were all waiting for some Gundam guys to make an appearance. Well, here's one and just wait, more are definitely on the way.
And no, this isn't a Quatre/Usagi story, at least, I'm not sure yet. I haven't decided and the romance is NOT going to be rushed. As far as I'm concerned, Quatre wasn't stunned by Usagi's beauty, he thought she was funny and odd especially since he knew about the school predicament and Usagi was wearing her Juuban uniform and was late for Juuban high. She wasn't late for Cinq because it starts later to accommodate further living students.
The first chapters didn't have much Gundam elements in them because they were more of a character development type thing. The first chapter included vital information for the stories plot, like Usagi and Mamoru's dream and Guardian Cosmos.
The character development in the chapters are to show how close Usagi, Minako, Rei, Ami and Makoto are to each other. Although this story is NOT centered on any one character, I had each chapter show a bond between each of the four girls and Usagi.
In this chapter, after the beginning with Makoto of her flashback, I skipped ahead a couple of months and I hope it wasn't too confusing to see that.
I hope you liked it. I love it and I am having fun writing it.
MANGA AND ANIME REFERENCES for the past 4 chapters!
EXTRA DISCLAIMER : I do not own Shigure Souma. He belongs to the creator of Fruits Basket. I just love him and his crazy sneaky conniving and ill mannered self. : REASON FOR DISCLAIMER in Fruits Basket, Shigure Souma is a novelist who rights romantic and steamy books. When Minako was in the shopping mart with the book, I used him as the author. Cause I can and so THERE!
In the anime, Luna used the game console in the Crown arcade to communicate with a shadowy figure on a screen. That figure was Sailor Venus and sometimes Artemis. I'm going with the manga version, where an entire computer room and central base is hidden under the Sailor V game console and crown arcade. In the anime, their meetings were often held in Rei's home at the Hikawa temple. I am also using this reference so they switch back and forth.
In the manga Galaxia didn't know what the real meaning of being a senshi was about. She had thought it was about power. Being the best. Having the best. Conquering all. Eternal Sailor Moon shows her before she is killed that the meaning of being a senshi is to protect the people, their planet and the things that they love, and that is where all their power comes from.
Wedding dresses as a bridesmaid dress. All the senshi wore bride styled dresses in the end of the manga during Mamoru and Usagi's wedding, all of them uniquely their own wedding gowns. It was a vague way of showing how much they all loved each other, and that symbolically they married each other to forever be with each other. In sickness and in health till death do they part. I always thought it was sweet, how beautiful their friendships are. I want that!
Mugen Gauken was the area where Pharaoh 90 was trying to break through the dimension. The destruction of this one event was some of the worst in the entire series, as there were massive craters and destroyed buildings that were later filed with water. In the manga the damage was even more massive. I go with both as a reference, manga and anime. Of course all versions are my inspirational references.
In the manga, Kakyuu tells Usagi and Mamoru that throughout the span of time and the infinite reaches of space, everywhere is affected by the peace that comes from the unity of Mamoru and Usagi's marriage and that their kingdom is a symbol of peace and hope for the whole universe, and something to the likes of that when they hands join together.
XXX Movies with Yaten! Well technically I don't remember if it were Yaten, Taiki or Seiya but in the anime Minako tried to get close to the guys anyway she could get. She was attracted to them and at one point she was just attracted with the idea of being an idol. One of her schemes was that she had gotten two tickets to a pornographic movie lol. Like I've always said, Sailor Moon was never intended as a child's cartoon.
ALSO using the manga version of the StarS saga, in my story I've mentioned how all the girls love Usagi and don't need men. They'd given Princess Serenity their blood oath. In the manga the Starlights weren't guys that turned into girls, they were disguised as idol males but were merely cross dressing. During one of the chats between the Starlights and Rei and Minako, the Starlights comment on their ill will, insulting them on not protecting their princess because they want to be silly teenagers or something or other to that likeness. Rei and Minako pose rather intimately with each other and comment rather seriously that they don't need any men and that their princess is enough for them.
So basically to me, the senshi and Usagi are connected more than family on a very deep level of love, but to me, they also deserve guys to love! So thus this story is born.
Review if ya like! See ya next time.