Chapter 3

One day I fell from the sky

One day I thought I could fly

One day it changed my soul

One day I'll always know

The day when her life changed and she grew up still haunted the back of her mind, though now it was growing fuzzy and distorted. She grew bitter in her wanderings, she had left the place she called home for she couldn't bare to look at it anymore. The memories screamed through her mind much like the storm that destroyed her life. She hurt more than she ever knew, but on the outside she looked hard as stone.

Standing high upon a cliff she looked down at the rocky place below. She had traveled almost the entire planet and found nothing. The planet was worthless much like she was. Somehow part of her knew that was wrong, but she failed to take notice. Instead she stepped forward. It was time to end it all – end the pain, end the loss. Another step and she fell. The wind rushed passed her form as she plummeted in what felt like slow motion. But it would be all over soon. Then it happened. The power had burst forth like a raging tiger erupting from captivity. It felt like a hole burned inside of her, but she also felt a sense of enlightenment. The energy poured out and covered her entire body, she could fell it, the power, the strength. Her body had stopped falling and she found herself hovering, eloped in a radiant light. She almost felt like she could fly. Reaching up towards the top of the cliff she willed herself there and found herself once again on it's edge.

When the light faded she stood proud and tall. Looking down at herself she took note that her outfit had completely changed. She was wearing a gold armor that glimmered in the sunlight. The power that surged through her was still there. She could feel it twisting and turning inside. It was the power of destruction, of vengeance, of a lost soul searching for more. She had found it. Her purpose. She was the one chosen for more. She did not know why she grew up on this barren planet, but now she knew it was below her and she was meant for more.

The days that followed she did no more wandering. No more would she be trapped on this tiny planet, now she would have all of space to explore. Out there was a planet worthy to call home. She didn't know exactly how, but she knew she could get off planet now. It wouldn't make sense if she were not. All the power she had to be confined to a petty world? No, in the back of her mind she knew she would have to leave.

Going back to the cliff where her powers first awakened she stared up at the sky. Closing her eyes she imagined what it looked like beyond the stars. For a moment she thought she could almost see it. The galaxy and space. Reaching upward like she did when she was falling before she focused and for awhile nothing happened. So she tried harder. She wanted to leave, she wanted away from this pitiful world and it's painful memories.

She opened her eyes when she could feel the power rising. Energy started to swirl around in her in golden hues almost completely encasing her form – it rose up her body until she could see herself starting to glow and turning to almost the same shade of color. Mixing with the energy her form disappeared from view and the mass shot to the sky much like a shooting star.

When she reformed she was not on the planet's surface. Again she found herself hovering, but only this time she looked down to see the round sphere of her home world from high above. She was dancing with the stars. Her eyes narrowed with hatred. The power burned inside of her. She could do it, she could destroy it all. For some reason she knew she had that power. Back when she was a child was the first time it was apparent, but now she could really sense it. The golden colors rose up all around. She would destroy the thing that she hated so much. But she suddenly stopped and the energy faded. Her memories trailed back to a little girl crying as she piled one rock on top of another making a little monument. Destroying this place would mean destroying the one thing she cared about. Closing her eyes for a moment she decided she would let it stay as a reminder of what she came from and what more she could be.

All of space was now hers to explore. Space was her playground and the stars were her playmates. She streaked across the galaxy. There were so many stars, so many planets. One of them had to be worthy of her strength. For the first time in years she felt truly alive. Now was the time for her to find her true destiny. She traveled from planet to planet searching for something, yet finding nothing.

She remembered when she first came across the small purple planet. The air was sweet and the people were almost annoyingly the same. It was then that she first met another Sailor Soldier, and learned the truth of what she was. She saw the woman fighting a large monster with black bat-like wings. The woman defeated the monster with ease, which was something that almost impressed her.

"What is your name, girl?" The woman asked wearing a purple and white outfit, with a white collar.

"Your power is great." Gala responded not bothering to answer the question.

"I am a Sailor Soldier, just as you are it seems. Do you have a name and reason for being on my planet?" She almost seemed defensive.

Gala thought for a moment before responding. "I am known as Gala-xia, I am Galaxia." Her childhood name was no more, she had lost it much like when she lost her friend. She wasn't sure how she came up with the new name, but it seemed to fit and brought more of a sense of power to her. "What is a Sailor Soldier?" The term seemed foreign to her yet it almost seemed like something she should know.

"Child, do you not know anything? A Sailor Soldier is a guardian of the world they were born on, they are protected by it and thus protect it in return. We are warriors of great power. I sense a power in you as well. Forgive my mistrust but it is not very often I run into others like me out in this distant place. What are you doing away from your home world?"

Galaxia stood unmoving and just narrowed her eyes, not really wanting to think about her home world and why she left. She was destined to protect that thing? No, that couldn't be. She almost clenched her fist in response. "That world is not worth protecting," was her only response.

"So you are forsaking your own duties?"

The girl in gold clenched her fists even harder to a point where they would turn would turn white from loss of blood. Anger shone in her eyes. How could this woman who didn't even know her accuse her of such a thing.

"You know nothing."

"I call it as I see it child. I think you are the one who is ignorant in your ways."

Galaxia had it with this woman's insults. Power began swirling up around her. She heard the woman gasp and ask what she was doing, but other than that her words fell upon deaf ears. The power kept on rising causing rocks around her to almost float in mid air. She thrust her hand forward. This woman would not insult her anymore. The power escaped her hand and drove into the woman like a runaway train – it bore a hole straight through her. The woman screamed and fell to the ground, blood pouring out of her wound and mouth.

"W-what have you done?" Her words faded out as she dropped to the ground.

The golden soldier stood there just watching.

Yes what exactly had she done?