Chapter 4
Six eleven-year-old girls stood beside their mothers, in front of Queen Serenity of the Silver Alliance and the Moon. Standing next to her was a younger, blonder version of her, same age as them, Princess Serena of the Moon, heir to the throne of light. She was looking at them with interest, but with some aloofness, and when their mothers told them to go and get to know the princess, whom they would protect as they got older, very much like their mothers protected the Queen, Princess Serena quietly led them to the royal gardens. They all had just decided that they didn't like her, when she looked up. "Hi! My name's Serena! What's yours?" she said, overflowing with happiness. The girls just stared, so Serena blushed a bit. "Oh, sorry, it's just that I'm shy around people, and I have to act like a proper princess, hence my earlier manners. So let's start this over. Hi! My name's Serena, but you can call me Sere! What are your names?" she asked, curiously. The blonde one, who was an eerie look-alike to Serena, spoke first. "I'm Princess Amina, Sailor Venus." Next was the brunette with green eyes. "Hi! I'm Princess Litanya, you can call me Lita. Sailor Jupiter!" The black haired one with violet eyes spoke cautiously. "I'm Raeanne. Sailor Mars." The one who looked like her except for the short bobbed hair she had smiled sadly. "I'm Dong Yi, nice to meet you. I'm Sailor Light, Raeanne's my cousin, my dad was Terran royalty, my mom Martian royalty. We live in the palace with Raeanne, cause my dad disappeared when I was eight." Her smile faded. Her obvious twin, with the same face except for the blue eyes and length of hair, nodded in agreement, and introduced herself as Kimiko, Sailor Earth. The bluenette spoke quietly. "I'm Amelia, Sailor Mercury. Nice to meet you."
The girls remembered more.
Running about the palace gardens, playing hide-and-seek or tag.
Studying together. Or not, depending on the girl and the mood she's in.
As they grew older, Venus planning strategies, noting that the Sailors Earth, Light and Mars were brilliant at archery.
Giggling over boys.
But one memory was exceptionally clear. Running about the palace, the fifteen-year-old guardians of Princess Serenity recklessly used every skill, spell and tactic taught to them to keep them from being detected, to let the people know that the Princess was missing. "Where could she be?" Mars asked, fighting the urge to say vulgarities. "I can't read her energy signature! She's not on the Moon!" Mercury gasped. "Could she be on Uranus? I know that she often visits the Outer Senshi, especially Uranus, so could she be there?" Jupiter asked. "No! My Mercury computer extends to the whole Galaxy except Earth..." Mercury trailed off, eyes widening in realization. Venus growled. "She is sooooo dead. Kimiko, bring us to your planet! We're going after the princess!"
So they snuck down to Earth, landing in a forest. They ran through it and when Mercury could finally read her energy signature, they approached more cautiously. Unfortunately, Serena just had to choose the one place difficult to get into: The Royal Palace of Earth. Not only that, but it was said that the royalty and those who were bound to them possesed magic, so that made it harder to sneak by without anyone detecting them. It was nearly midnight before they could find a wall they could jump over. Landing lightly on the other side, they snuck around until they heard a giggle. Peering around, they saw Sere giggling with a handsome, black haired, blue eyed man. Sighing, they hid in the bushes and were talking quietly, deciding how to ge their princess back to the Moon. They never noticed that seven men were walking rapidly towards them. They jumped when they heard a hard voice. "Come out, intruders." Walking out, they saw seven men, who motioned them away from the place, into a nearby gazebo. Serena and the man with her had heard this as well, so they joined them in the gazebo. One of the men, who had silver hair and grey eyes, spoke. "I am Kunzite, head of the Shitennou, and these are my brothers Nephrite, Jadeite, Zoicite, Amethyst and Emerald. The other two men are King Terrain and Prince Endymion of Earth, whom we protect. We are the guardians and companions of Prince Endymion. Who are you?" Venus spoke next. "I am Venus, leader of the Senshi." She heard Mars hiss behind her. "Oh stop, they probably already know." she said irritated. "We are the guardians and companions of Princess Serena of the Moon, daughters of the Planetary Queens. These are my sisters Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Earth and her twin sister Light." Jupiter spoke sternly to Serena. "Tell me Sere, why did go to Earth, without telling us, and having us tell a bunch of lies to our mothers, Queens no less, so not to get you in trouble, hmm?" Before Serena could reply, there was a gasp of fear and recognition, and all of them turned, men included. Sailor Earth was backing away from the oldest of the men, who was a look - alike male version of her. "It...it can't be!" she gasped, before disappearing back to Mars in a hazy swirl of lilac light. Light immediately followed her in a similar purple swirl. The man in question had all the colour of his face drained, and he looked strained. "My baby girls are sailor senshi?" he whispered.
The senshi rounded on him at once. "What do you mean, baby girls? Their father disappeared from their lives when both of them were five. We have never seen him again. So why are you..." Mars trailed off, eyes widening. "Uncle Terrain? You're alive?" "Rei – chan? Is that you?" "Uncle Terrain, first, you don't have any right to call me my nickname any more, and two, give me one hundred, no, make that a thousand, good reasons why you left Aunt Kikyo when Earth and Light were eight, and never bothered to contact us? We've believed you were dead for years! Earth has never been the same. Not the happy, bubbly girl I knew, but a more reserved one. She has dedicated herself to studies to drown out the pain, Light has been the same, and I find you here, with this boy over here as your son?! How do you think that hurt?" Mars spat. The men gasped, before Venus stepped in. "Obviously something has happened, but misunderstanding or not, you are all coming back with us to the moon," she said, her voice steely. There was no point in arguing with her, so the men allowed themselves to be engulfed in multicoloured light, and heard the girls shout, "SAILOR TELPORT! MARS!" before they landed on the legendary planet of fire. There, Raeanne led the way to Kimiko's Martian rooms. Seeing it empty, she frowned for a moment before smiling. "I should've known." Jadeite quizzically asked what was wrong. She quickly led them to the training arena of Mars, where the sounds of clanging metal were heard. Turning a corner, they saw the civilian form of Sailor Earth sparring with the civilian form of Light and a woman watching them. "Aunt Kikyo, Kimiko and Dong Yi's mom." Raeanne muttered to them. Kimiko and Dong Yi, or so they had been called, were sparring ferociously, venting their unhappiness and frustration out on the poor blades. They almost missed the fact that their mother had held up a hand. "Kimi, Dong Yi, both of you are still tense, even though your skills have gotten better. What is wrong, Kimi?" she asked her younger twin daughter. Kimiko dissolved into tears. "I met...dad...on...Earth..." "Kimiko Terra Janessa, would you please give me a reason why you were on Earth?" At that, Raeanne decided to step in. "We found that the princess had disappeared to Earth, all of the senshi went to fetch her, Aunt Kikyo. Apparently Uncle Terrain has remarried the Queen Beryl of Earth and borne a son, Prince Endymion." Kikyo hung her head in unhappiness. "I should have expected this. Thank you, Raeanne. Kimi, Di, if you still wish to train, you may do so." she walked away. As soon as she had gone, Kimi cried harder, for the pain and grief inflicted on her mother. Dong Yi also shed a few tears. By the time both had had dried their tears, the girls had teleported the others, men included, to the moon, and Kimiko had a look in her eye. "I hate all men."
Raeanne had been saddened to hear this, but she could not do anything. She watched her cousin at the balls on the Moon, noting that she no longer danced with anybody, but disappeared as soon as possible. Amethyst had taken a liking to her, but all his efforts at getting him to like her proved futile. Raeanne pitied him. Kunzite had Amina, a weird pair, since Kunzite was stoic and Amina the opposite, Litanya had Nephrite, both sharing a love for gardening, she had Jadeite, whose fiery temper rivaled hers, and Amelia had Zoicite the intellectual. Dong Yi was forgiving enough to date Emerald. Of course, Serena had Endymion, so he was alone. Kimiko was more withdrawn than ever, and never spoke to men anymore. But she could thaw, and she had just started to trust Amethrite when the Shitennou disappeared. They reappeared one month later, except as their enemies. Earth had been taken by Queen Beryl of the Negaverse. They had failed. The Lunarians fought, and failed.
The people of the moon died.
The senshi died.
Princess Serena died.
A terrifying scream echoed across the battlefield as Sailor Earth, the last senshi standing, found the senshi's mothers dead. "Don't die! Please!" she begged her mother, who was lying dead on the ground, covered in blood. She heard a laugh overhead and saw Beryl standing over her fallen mother. "How does it feel, step – daughter, to be all alone?" she cackled. Kimiko threw herself at the red – headed witch, intent on killing her. Beryl merely cackled again and disappeared.
Her father, her lover, and her best friends' lovers, standing at the other end of the field. She slashed at them furiously, working on killing them, for causing her this pain. "Why?! Why did you have to kill the only people that mattered to me?!" she broke, sobbing her heart out. At the same moment, Queen Serenity, not far away, had just imprisoned Beryl's youma into the seven rainbow crystals, and she watched with horror as they broke. Following to where the crystals were floating to, she saw them combine into one, the youma then moved into an unbreakable box Kimiko's best friend and step – sister Pandora was holding. Beryl arrived beside her father at that moment and watched with horror as the seven combined crystals merged into a shimmering, multicoloured crystal at turned itself to mist and went into Kimiko. Then the Rainbow Crystal solidified into it's diamond shape as Amethyst's sword drove through her stomach. Her last words were, "I love you, Am."
Princess Kimiko died.
Queen Serenity tried to save her, but failed.
Queen Serenity used the Silver Crystal, sending their people, the senshi, the shitennou, Endymion and Serena into the future, where they could be reborn.
Queen Serenity died.
The Senshi were reborn in Tokyo, Japan. Kimiko still hated men, except those who were her family.