Magic from the Moonlight
Book I: Return of the Moon Princess
Org. writing, concept, some characters
by Pluto Knight
Copyright © 2003/20xx
Editing and continued writing
on Jan. 13th 2009
by Saturn Knight
Copyright 2009/20xx
Add. Copyrights: Sailor MoonTM and all original characters are copyright © 1992 Naoko Takeuchi/Kodansha, TOEI Animation, English Language Adaptation © 1995 DiC Entertainment.
Author's note: Since English isn't my native language. Please don't flame me for grammar errors. Spelling errors... guess I'll just have to kill off my computer.
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Chapter four
The Past Revealed,
Return of the Legendary Cosmic Sailor Moon
*** The past... ***
Two figures stood in a dark and misty place, looking at hologram of the solar-system and the stars that twinkled brightly within. One of them was a man, dressed in old and poor looking clothes with a sword holstered in a scabbard that was seating in a belt around his hips. Most of him was hidden from view by the big brown and dirty looking cloak with a hood that he was wearing. In his right hand he carried an old looking staff with a blue crystal at the top. The other was a woman, dressed in a white sailor fuku with a short skirt that had a rainbow colored sections in the middle. She was also holding a tall staff in her right hand that had a glass orb at the top from where a silver-white light shinned faintly. Her hair was silver-white and done in two balls from where the rest of her hair went down her back in two long ponytails, stopping inches from the ground.
The man looked at her. "Are you still sure that you wish to take on this heavy duty?" he asked, some level of regret evident in his voice. The woman looked at the man before her, nodding firmly. It was clear that whatever it was she had decided to do was something she was determined to go through with, despite the regret the man showed. "Yes, I am sure. If I don't do it no one else will because there are none who can."
The elderly man smiled at the passion in the woman's voice. "Very well, then. As part of your duty, you are to distribute these Rings and Powers amongst the planets in our solar-system, one of these Silver Rings for each planet is to be given."
"What are they for?" The woman asked, taking the Rings, looking at them as they lay in her hand.
"The one person from each planet, who can fully wield the power of the Ring representing that planet, is to become guardian of that planet and one of your warriors. There is only ONE from each planet who can wield the power. But you must be careful, for the powers of evil will be seeking these Rings as they will the crystal nested at the top of your staff. These items can either make or break empires. When the ten of you are together, you are at your strongest. Divided, you will still be able to lift your tasks to protect people against harm and the forces of evil, but you will also be more vulnerable."
The woman nodded and placed the Rings in her deep space pocket. "So, if these Rings belong to the various planets, what is my Mother-Star?"
"Your Mother-Star is the Moon." the man replied, "You are the guardian of the Moon and of Cosmos itself - Cosmic Sailor Moon."
The senshi frowned a little bit at the new name, but brushed it off. She now had a duty to do and not sitting around thinking up a name for her.
"Oh!" The man said, "Before you go, there are two very important things that I must tell you." Cosmic Sailor Moon turned and looked at him. "The one who can wield the Silver Ring of Pluto has a special duty. He must guard the Gates of Time. One of your people must do it, for if the Time Gates are ever to fall into the hands of evil, they would wield a power to great and terrible to imagine - namely the Power of Time: The power too change the past, subsequently altering the course and shaping the future according to their wishes. That must never happen."
Cosmic Sailor Moon looked at the man and nodded. "I understand. And it will never happen. Now, the second thing you wanted to tell me?"
The elderly man sighted, dreading what he had created of powers with in the Ring of Saturn. "The Ring of Saturn..." he hesitated before continuing, "has the power to destroy the whole universe. It is to be used only when all other hope has failed, for there is no undoing if the final power of Saturn when unleashed. The whole universe will be reborn. Evil will be vanquished, and the warrior of Saturn will be reborn in the image of a small child and live a 'normal' life until the day he's summoned once again to return and fight at your side."
Cosmic Sailor Moon put a hand on the man's shoulder. "I will never come to that, my lord. I promise." The senshi replied.
The man smiled before closing his eyes. "You are the first; the first of you kind to walk the lands of the universe. Distribute these Rings among men. The wielders shall one day become kings of their planets and rule in your light. You're the goddess of the Moon and the Universe, Selenity, Cosmic Sailor Moon."
Cosmic Sailor Moon nodded slowly and began to leave. She looked up at the starlight sky as she exited the cave where the elderly man had been living for so long. "So I guess it's time to get to work?" she said softly, a faint smile on her face. A moment later, she was gone.
The old Guardian looked out through a small window that was located in his bedroom, looking to see the light of Cosmic Sailor Moon as she turned into a shining star on the nightly heaven. He let out a sight. He had done his duty. The creation of Guardians for the universe had been his final act. Now, for the first time since the birth of the universe, he could finally rest.
"God speed Cosmic Sailor Moon. May the light of the stars shine upon you and grace you with all the good luck and fortune. You'll need it for the path you have now taken." With those final words he gave in, closing his eyes as he slowly began to fade away.
*** Many Thousand Years Later... The Silver Millennium... ***
Queen Serenity sat quietly in her study, working late as usually and finishing some of the things that daily was brought too her desk. Laws, decree's, news, contacts, and so on. Most of them were just cheerful wishes and happy returns since it was Princess Serenity's birthday. The queen sighted tiredly. It had been a long day, full of events as birthday usually were since most of the solar system joined together to celebrate everyone's young princess. She got up and walked to take a cup of tea from the tray that stood on the meeting table, while taking a glance at the clock. 5am, near morning. She poured half a cup of tea and sat down, closing her eyes. She opened them again as the door was being opened and in stepped Princess Serenity.
"I thought you were a sleep, Serenity." The queen said, looking at her daughter.
"I couldn't sleep." The young princess replied before sitting down in front of her mother.
"Bad dreams again?" The queen asked concerned. Serenity nodded.
"I wish I knew why I get them. They are so horrible... I keep seeing this woman with red hair who's laughing evilly at me." Serenity said.
"I do..." the queen replied solemnly. "It's because of a special power that both you and I posses; a power that now belongs to you, Serenity, and as you become older, the power will increase steadily until you reach the time where you are ready to become Queen."
"What power, mother?" Princess Serenity asked.
The queen looked at her daughter. She had always hoped that she could keep her daughter away from the path that she herself had been forced to walk by her father. "You are sixteen years of age now, Serenity, and ready too be told the story - the more secret story - of our family, the Silver Alliance, the Galactic Council and the men you sometime see me talking to."
Princess Serenity nodded and looked at her mother as the queen began her tale.
"Long ago, the elders of the universe assigned a guardian to protect our solar-system and the people living within it against the forces and powers of evil. He did a good job in keeping the universe free, but nothing lives forever and the time came where old age was starting to show. But without him to keep evil at bay, the universe would be left at the mercy of evil and the Goddess of the Moon, Selenity, would not allow for that to happen. She took it upon herself to fight and protect the universe and in doing so she bounded any descendant she would have to the same fate.
Thus, a new guardian had been found but before he died, the old man gave Selenity ten Rings with the instructions to distribute them among the planets on the moon, the moons inner and outer border and the Earth - one guardian for each planet within our solar-system. You and I are a descendent of Selenity and like me, your grandmother and so on you have the same powers that the Goddess Selenity was given that day and it is those powers that cause you now to have those dreams." The queen explained.
"I'm a senshi!?" Princess Serenity exclaimed shocked. "But what about my friends and guardians? They will be furious if something happens to me if I am to fight like they do. They won't allow it Mother; you know how protective they are of me, especially Haruka."
The queen looked at her daughter, smiling. "I doubt that you will be the one to get hurt, Serenity. You're the strongest, by far, the strongest." She said with a chuckle, remembering all the times where her daughter's cousin, Princess Haruka of Uranus, had been fighting with the younger and, in her own mind, very brave moon princess.
"I...I am???" Princess Serenity asked. The queen nodded. "Yes. As I said before, your powers are the first to be seen in the universe."
"I see... so if I am the 'first' then Haruka, Michiru, Puu(Pluto), Rei, Minako and the others are the descendants of those who got the rings, right?" Princess Serenity asked.
"Yes." The queen replied, "The men who are kings of the inner and outer planets today are current wielders those rings. They are also the once who are seated in the Galactic Council - a council that only three purposes; Protecting the Senshi of the Moon and universe, keeping the Rings safe and when the time comes, make sure a they are passed on too pure hearted and suitable men who will lift the duty properly."
"Have the new guardians been found yet?" Princess Serenity asked.
"Yes, they have." The queen replied. "They are the guardian knights and lovers of your friends, Serenity."
"I see... do the girls know about it?" she asked hesitantly.
"No, and they must not either. The identity of those men must remain a secret, especially if dark times are approaching. These nine men are the defense of our kingdom if nothing else stands."
"Dark times, Mother? You mean that the rumors of attacks on Earth and on our kingdom are true!?" the young princess asked shocked.
"Yes, I'm afraid so." The queen replied, getting up, walking to a large set with shelf's and drawers and opened one of them, taking out a silver-white locker with ten small emeralds on the lid, once color for each planet in the Silver Alliance, including the Moon itself and the Earth, and placed the locket in front of her daughter. "This locket will allow you to transform and help your friends when it's needed, Serenity. In two weeks, Alex and Fredrick will take you on a little journey to Orion's Belt. There you will learn to harness your powers fully." She explained.
The young princess nodded and opened the locket. "How do I transform?" she asked.
"You just say 'Silver Moon Cosmic Power, Makeup'." The queen replied. "Why don't you give it a try?"
Princess Serenity nodded, walking to the center of the floor. "Silver Moon Cosmic Power, Makeup!" she shouted, being engulfed in a white light.
"So now I am..." Serenity replied as she looked down herself.
"...a senshi, yes." The queen replied with a smile. "When you go to Orion you will learn how to call upon and make use of your powers. Some of them are not to be used lightly."
Two weeks later, the day Princess Serenity goes to Orion's Belt
Princess Serenity sat quietly in the moon garden, looking at the locket in her hands, while waiting for her fiancé, Prince Endymion of Earth, to arrive. He had promised her that he would come and see her before she were to leave for Orion's Belt to start her training under the firm guidance of Silver Knights Alex(Uranus) and Fredrick(Pluto), but he still hadn't arrived and she was starting to get really-really worried.
"Hey Sere!" called the cheerful voice of Princess Minako of Venus as she, accompanied by the Martian and Uranian Princesses, walked up to the gazebo(meeting place) of the Royal Garden.
Serenity tried to hide the locket from the three girl, but it was already too late. Minako had already seen the locked and began asking question about it and wanted to see it. Minako, Haruka and Rei had all been senshi for nearly ten years now, since Sailor Pluto took them on training when they were six years old.
"Wow!" Minako exclaimed. "Neat locked, Sere! Did Endymion give it too you, hmm?"
"Who are you waiting for, Koneko?" Haruka asked as she took a seat.
"Endy." Replied Serenity.
"How romantic!" Princess Rei sighted out dreamily, causing Princess Haruka to role her eyes a little.
Serenity giggled at the face Princess Haruka made at Rei's words.
"So what's this locket for?" Minako asked, "It's really beautiful and old looking."
"It was a gift from my mother... an heirloom."
"Ahhh!" the three girls replied, each of them looking at the locket in awe of its beauty.
"Must be really-really old." Haruka replied.
"It is." Serenity replied as a servant came up too them, and bowed. "Princess Serenity, Your mother informs me that your shuttle has arrived to take you to Orion's Belt."
"Thank you, Charles. Tell Mother that I will with her shortly, will you?"
"Of course, my lady." Charles replied, leaving.
"Orion's Belt???" the three senshi questioned in union.
"Yes," Serenity nodded, "Mother believes that some training will be good for me so I can familiarize myself with "negotiation, etc."
"Well, you are to become Queen when she is no more." Minako replied.
"Minako, sometimes I wonder if you are a small version of my mother!" Serenity said, while shaking her head.
"Hey!" exclaimed Minako while Haruka and Rei were laughing.
*** Six Weeks Later... Royal Garden of the Moon Palace... ***
Eight girls and two cats sat in the gazebo of the Royal Moon Garden, talking about almost everything while enjoying the tea and cookies that Queen Serenity had ordered made for them. The meeting was something that the 9 girls, normally including Serenity, would do every day, meeting in the Moon's Garden and talk about the latest gossip. The meeting was something that the queens of the inner and outer planets had instituted when the girls were children, allowing them to get to know each other, but tradition had carried on and were now a steady thing on each of the girl's daily agenda's.
"I am somewhat relieved that Sere isn't here with all those attacks that has been happening lately." Rei said in a tone that clearly betrayed her, showing that she would give anything to have her best friend around.
"I know what you mean, Rei." said Hotaru as she took a cookie from the tray.
"Where is she anyway?" asked Setsuna as she looked at the four inner princesses.
"We honestly don't know, Setsuna." Replied Ami as she closed her mini-computer. "All we know is that she's been send on some sort of training mission on Orion's Belt and that she should be back sometime this week."
"Oh, I see." said Setsuna, "Let's hope that we've seen the last attack in a while. Tomorrow is Sere's birthday!" she added with a mischievous grin. The other girls nodded.
Luna and Artemis shuddered, thinking back to last year's birthday celebration of princess serenity, where the inner and outer princesses had made a special surprise for their princess; a surprise that went horribly wrong, causing Haruka and Rei a few weeks in the hospital bed with broken legs.
"Have we even decided on a birthday gift for her?" Princess Ami asked, looking at her friends while they were shaking their heads.
"Then we definitely need to think of something to give her!" Ami stated firmly and crossed her arms, somewhat disappointed in that her friends hadn't even thought of something to give their Princess for her 16th birthday!
"Ummm... guys... let's worry about birthday presents later, okay?" Princess Hotaru asked as a strong gust of wind suddenly blew through the garden and the sky dark with a scary red light in the horizon.
"TRANSFORM, NOW!" Luna and Artemis yelled in unison. The 8 girls looked at one another and pulled out their wands.
"Mercury Planet Power, Make Up!" yelled Princess Ami.
"Mars Planet Power, Make Up!" yelled Princess Rei.
"Jupiter Planet Power, Make Up!" yelled Princess Makoto.
"Venus Planet Power, Make Up!" yelled Princess Minako.
"Pluto Planet Power, Make Up!" yelled Princess Setsuna.
"Neptune Planet Power, Make Up!" yelled Princess Michiru.
"Uranus Planet Power, Make Up!" yelled Princess Haruka.
"Saturn Planet Power, Make Up!" yelled Princess Hotaru.
"Well-well-well what a delightful surprise," a cruel and sinister voice crackled. "The eight heirs to the thrones of the planets in the Silver Millennium... and all ready for battle I see. I guess I came more the fully prepared then."
The eight senshi looked up to see the four Dark Kingdom general hovering in the air above them, while long lines of turned Dark Kingdom minions stood on the ground beneath them. Uranus held back a shiver, not wanting to give the four general the pleasure of seeing her afraid.
"Are you ready to begin, or are you going to run like the little girls you are? Jadeite mocked them.
"I'll show you little girls, jadeite!!" Sailor Mars spat at him, "Burning Mandala!" She cried out.
"World Shaking!" yelled Uranus.
"Deep Submerge!" yelled Neptune.
*** Elsewhere, near the shuttle docks... ***
Four men and one woman with her hair done in two meatballs and ponytails sat quietly onboard the Royal Shuttle as it was approaching the docks of the Moon Palace.
"Did mother say anything about that she would be at the docks when we arrived, Alex?" asked Princess Serenity, as she wrapped the blanket even more around herself.
"No, she didn't. In fact, she didn't say anything about that at all so I assume that she'll be there." Alex replied with a smile at the younger princess. Like the Princess of Uranus, Alex was very protective of Princess Serenity and, since he was 6 years older than her, regarded Serenity as a little sister more then he regarded her as his Princess.
"Hey, Alex, come take a look at this!" Jake, the Silver Knight of Mars, said as he looked out the window of the shuttle. "The Skye..."
Alex frowned deeply as he looked out the window and saw a dark-dark cloud hanging over the Moon Palace. "Looks like your Mother made a good decision when she told us to train you, 'Nity" he said lowly, using his nick name for Serenity.
"If you are up for it, that is?" asked Fredrick with a smirk, knowing fully well that with the past six weeks training, Serenity was more than ready to send the Dark Kingdom back to where they came from.
Serenity only gave a short nod, taking out the locked that her mother had given her. Silver Moon Cosmic Power, Makeup!!" she yelled out.
"Well... that didn't take too long..." Jake mumbled with a smirk.
"We've better get ready also." said Fredrick, closing his eyes and concentrating on the power in the ring he was carrying. 'Planet of Pluto, lend me your powers so I may faithfully carry out the duty given too me!" he thought and shortly after was engulfed in a dark green light.
*** The Moon Gardens, Scene of Battle... ***
The four senshi, Uranus, Neptune, Mercury and Mars, that were still standing looked hatefully up at the four Dark Kingdom General as they were laughing down at them, while smirking gleefully at how 'easily' they had taken out four of the senshi, not to mention the strongest of the senshi, Sailors Pluto and Saturn.
"You might as well give up, sailor brats!" jadeite crackled evilly. "Everything you know and love shall fall on this day!"
The four remaining senshi looked up at Jadeite in horror as he began to summon his powers once more.
"Not so fast, Jadeite!!!" a female voice called. The four Generals and the senshi all looked around for the source of the voice.
"I will simply not allow you to come here, destroy and corrupt this beautiful and wonderful world with your evil ways. Be gone from here or you'll regret it!" the voice continued.
The four Generals pulled their crystal swords and turned their full attention towards the new opponent.
"Brave words of you, girl. Brave indeed. I am the Leader of the Mighty Four of the Dark Kingdom, Lord Kunzite!"
"I already know who you are... traitor!" the woman spat as her shadowy figure appeared on the roof top of the Gazebo Pavilion.
"Who are you!!" Kunzite screamed in pure anger.
"I am the Goddess of the Moon, The Senshi and Guardian of the Moon and Cosmos... I am Cosmic Sailor Moon. And these gentlemen" she began as four figures appeared, two on either side of her, "...are The Silver Knights of Mars, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto." By the end of her introduction, the four men had pulled their swords that were now glowing vaguely in the darkness.
"Show yourself!!" Nephrite demanded of the four new comers. It was clearly that the Four Generals were not pleased with the appearance of this new warrior.
Cosmic Sailor Moon chuckled. "Well, since you ask so kindly, General." She said vanishing.
"Cowa..." Jadeite began to say, but quickly shut his mouth as the new senshi reappeared on the ground in a flash. The new senshi was beautiful... utterly stunning. Her light and aura shinned with grace, beauty, power and warmth. Her hair was silver-white, done in two meatballs and tresses. She wore a white senshi fuku with a silver trim and in her right hand she held a white staff, from which a faint silver-white light glowed on the top.
"You four have caused enough trouble here." She said, narrowing her eyes at the Four Generals. "It's time you went back to that witch of whom you serve!" Cosmic Sailor Moon raised her staff high above her head, "Silver Moon Healing Escalation!" Everything was then engulfed in a Silver-White light.
*** End Dream ***
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Well Minna-Chan, how was it?! I hope you've enjoyed this rather long chapter.
TBC in: Chapter 5: The Mysterious New Senshi will follow shortly! :-)
