I'm so sorry it took me so long to write and publish the next chapter. I just gone through this really long stage of writers block, plus a lost interest in this story for a while. On top of all of that, I've started university last fall and I don't have much free time. But I'm back now, so look for this story to updated at a much faster speed then before.

Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon is not mine; it belongs to the wonderful Naoko Takeuchi. I'm just borrowing her creations for a little while. BBSM is also property of Kodasha, DiC and their related entities. But I do own Ava, Veronique, Alexia, Maya, Snow and all the rest of my original characters. So please don't use them without permission.

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Lady Snow

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Ava woke up suddenly and startled in her bed. She wiped the bead of sweat off her forehead. She noticed that her hand was shaking from her shattered nerves. The sun started to enter her room as the sun began rising. Ava finally was able to calm herself down and pulled off her covers that were twisted around her body. She stumbled a bit, dizzy from the heighten experience that had been her dream. She pulled on her beige cotton robe and headed out her room. Ava entered the dinning room and saw that the others were also there. They all looked as bad as she felt.

"Ava, you look like crap," tried to joke Veronique.

"Hey you should look in a mirror," Ava answered with as much enthusiasm as her best friend. "I had such a horrible nightmare, I feel as though I have barely gotten some sleep, if any, during the past two days."

"Yeah I know the feeling. It's as though I've been awake for a long time yet I remember going to bed last night but..."

"That's because you haven't slept in the past two days. Don't worry girls, the memories will come back shortly and all will be explained once and for all," Snow said as she entered the room pushing a small cart with plats of fruits, eggs and bacon into the dinning room. "Now have something to eat, I'm sure you must all be very hungry, you've been through a lot in the past two days."

"What? Oh no! Not that whole mysterious numbo jumbo stuff again!" groaned Veronique. "Wait I remember, you're... you're able to transform into a cat!" she exclaimed.

"Yeah, and you made us lie on these stones after Ava fainted and we were sent to these really weird place where this woman said she knew us," continued Maya.

"We meet this girl, Alexia, she had been transported there too. The woman in the cave, she made us relive our past lives...." suddenly tears started to fill Ava eyes.

"The attacks on Earth by the Nelvana Kingdom..." gasped Maya.

"The destruction of the Earth kingdoms, our families..." tears started rolling done Veronique's cheek.

"My brother death's," Ava said between sobs, "The destruction and death of the citizens of the galaxy... Our destruction of the galaxy to end it all."

The three girls looked at each other, their memories were now fully intact. They no longer had just fragments of the memories of their present lives, they the complete memories and knowledge of it. They looked at each other, they didn't know what to do, what to say.

A loud, piercing scream came from the bedroom floor. They girls were startled and look in the direction of the door.

"If we are the only ones here..."

"Then who just screamed?"

"Our guest, of course! Don't be afraid, just go up and meet our new arrival," Snow informed them.

Ava, Maya and Veronique hurried up the staircase to their bedroom's floor. They gathered around the door nearest to the staircase, the only one that hadn't been given out to one of them.

"This is the only empty one, so in theory our "guest" should be in here."

"Well there's only one way to make sure," Veronique said and knocked on the door.

The sound of covers being moved and footsteps coming towards the door could be heard from behind. The door slowly open and the side of a head peered through the small opening. Light brown head covered the face but one green eye could be seen looking at the people on the other side. A flash of recognition passed through her eyes and she opened the door wider.

"Alexia! What are you doing here?"

"Or rather, how did you get here?"

"Veronique, Ava, Maya, I'm so glad to see you guys! Thank god you're real, I thought I was going crazy."

"Nope we're real and so is all the memories you have," said Veronique.

"You mean the attack, the destruction, our past lives. All that is real? Wow..."

"Yeah, you can say that again."

* * * * * * * * * * *

The girls and Snow had all gathered in one of the most luxurious living rooms they had ever seen. The room had 9 feet high ceiling and the centre of the ceiling was a large stained glass window depicting a country meadow. The room had wall to wall would paneling a lush Persian carpet on it's floor. It was furnished with oversized sofas and seats that were placed around a beautiful wood and marble fireplace. The girls were all seated in the wonderfully comfortable sofas and seats. They had decided to go there after having had breakfast, what they had learnt had finally sunk into them and they needed time to talk about it.

"And then we united our powers and destroyed the galaxy..." Ava said, concluding the recounting of the events of their past lives.

"Can you believe we actually destroyed the galaxy? We had the power to do something like that," Alexia stated in disbelief.

"Yeah, that really incredible... Speaking of which, it reminds me, how exactly did you end up here in the first place, Alexia?" said Maya.

"I don't know. I remember appearing in that fields and the whole reliving the past thing but the next thing I remember is waking up screaming because I had remembered the whole story and then realizing that I wasn't home."

"I think I can answer that question. You see I had some... friends helping me out. They were trying to locate you, as was I. When I was finally able to find all of you except Alexia, I asked them to concentrate their efforts on her. While you were... well let's say occupied, they called me to tell me that they had found Alexia but that she had disappeared from their location screen suddenly. Well I understood that she had probably been transported to the same place that the rest of you were. So I told my friends to keep there location program on the spot where Alexia had disappeared and that when she reappeared, teleport her directly here."

"But what my Aunt and Uncle, they must be sick with worry," Alexia said suddenly filled with shame and worry at the thought of how her relatives must be worried for her.

"That's all been arranged. I talk with them and told them you were here on a scholarship that you had won. They were very happy and excited at the idea that you were studying in Japan. Oh and your things should be here in the morning."

"But how did you convince them? They might be trusting but come on!"

"Well you girls are not the only ones to have special powers. Let's just say I had a little help convincing them," Snow said giving Alexia a small wink.

"Now, why don't you girls go out? Tokyo is a beautiful city, go and explore it!"

The girls agreed and went up to their rooms to change. Maya offered to lend something to Alexia to change into since her things hadn't arrived yet.

* * * Somewhere in Tokyo * * *

The girls were laughing as they exited one of the many stores they had been in to since they had the EST Manor. Ava and Veronique were walking at the front of the group. Ava was wearing dark blue demin jean and a simple white camisole with pink lace at the top; she had a pair of open back white running shoes on her feet. Veronique was wearing a pair of white capri pants and a light yellow sweater set and had black sandals on. Maya and Alexia who were walking behind them. Maya had a three-quarter black skirt, a burgundy v-neck sleeve-less top with black high heel sandals on her feet. Alexia was wearing black shorts with a dark green camisole that a star embroidered on the middle and a pair on well-worn skater style running shoes.

The girls continued their energetic conversation. Tokyo really was a beautiful city and they had had much fun discovering it. They had been all the stores they could find and had come to an incredible realization: they could speak Japanese. Although it wasn't very good, they were to understand and speak it. They had realized it when Ava had asked someone direction on the street. Without even realizing it at first, she was speaking to the person in Japanese. Veronique came to the conclusion that, based on what Snow had said about having all the knowledge of our past selves, that we must have learnt how to speak Japanese and that is why we are able to speak and understand it since those past abilities have resurfaced. The girls had agreed that it was the logical explanation and wondered what else they would be able to do.

They had literally shopped till the point of exhaustion. They had tried on kimonos at one store. Maya and Ava had each bought one since they were the only two that could afford the expensive kimonos. They had then gone to a library look through books on various subjects that interested them. They discovered Japanese Manga's and were delighted when they realized they could also read Japanese. Finally, five hours after starting their excursion into the city, they had decided that it was time to get something to eat.

"Hey, that looks like somewhere nice," Alexia said pointing towards the Crown Arcade, "Food plus video games, one can never go wrong with a place like that."

"Sure at this point I would settle for a Hot-Dog stand!" exclaimed a hungry Ava.

"I just want to sit down, I can feel my feet and I'm losing the feeling in my legs."

The girls entered the Crown Arcade. There some kids playing video games and a small group of teenagers sitting at a table at the other end of the Arcade. The girls went to the large booth beside the window and collapsed on in, dropping their many shopping bags on the floor.

"Sweet, sweet comfortable seat. I'm so happy I could kiss you!" said Maya half-seriously to the booth. The other girls just started laughing.

"Ok so what do you guys want?" Ava asked eyeing the menu in search of something she recognized.

"French fries!" said the three other girls in unison, making the giggles start up again.

"Ok, four orders of fries and four colas it is!"

The girls started talking about their day as they waited to be served. The waiter came over; he was tall and had blond hair. He had a very sweet looking face that made him look very cute. (a.n.: like you don't know who it is. ^_~)

"So what get I get you ladies?" he asked.

"Will have four orders of French fries and three colas, one diet cola, thanks."

"Coming right up," he answered walk off toward the counter and the kitchen.

There was a moment of silence; they knew that the time had come to talk about all that they had discovered. They had started to talk about it in the morning with Snow. But even though they knew she could be trusted, they hadn't been able to really talk openly about what had happened to them. Ava cleared her throat.

"So... I guess we've had a pretty interesting past couple of days..."

"That, is an understatement if I ever heard one," Veronique said, rolling her eyes.

"I understand what happened to us and what we learnt. Even though it's pretty incredible, I do believe that it's true and that we really did lead those past lives. But what I'm wondering is what it has to do with us now?" said Maya.

"Yeah, I mean it's pretty cool in a way that we know and remember these past lives but what's the connection with the present? Why was it so important to find us, reunite us and make us go through that process?" asked Alexia, not expecting any answers.

"Snow will probably the only person who can answer that question… You know since this morning I've had this… weird feeling in me…" offered Véronique.

"Yeah, like if there was something new inside you that you can feel…" continued Maya.

"That feels like it's trying to tell you something, make you do something…" said Alexia.

"Power… It feels very powerful, like if it were a power growing inside, wanting to be freed," finished Ava.

"So that answer my question as to whether or not you guys were feeling the same thing as me," half-laughed Véronique.

"It probably has something to do with those powers we had in the past."

"Yeah, that would be logical… But why would we still have them?"

"More questions!" exclaimed Maya exasperated, "We have a lot of those but hardly any answers."

"Well then, we should make a list. Like that, when we see Snow tonight, we will have all the questions ready and finally have some answers!"

"Always the practical one, Véronique," Ava told her best friend, poking her.

"Always! Now come on, let's get started."

Veronique took out a pen and piece of notepaper from her purse and started transcribing all their questions.

* * * EST, dinning room * * *



The four girls and Snow were all sitting together at the dinner table in the elaborate dinning room. A maid was just leaving the room, having taking away all the dirty dinner plates and served coffee and tea. Veronique had beside a carefully folded piece of paper that contained all the girls' questions.

"Snow, while we are out, we were talking about what we learnt since we got here. And well we realised that we still have a lot of questions. So… hum…. Véronique?" Ava said looking over to her best friend seated on her right.

"We made up a list, of questions that is. And we were hoping you could answer them for us," finished Véronique. She then passed the paper over to Ava who was sitting next to Snow.

"Of course I will answer all of your questions to the best of my ability," answered Snow. A look of understanding could be seen in her eyes. She could only start to imagine what a frustrating time this must be for them.

She took the paper from Ava and started looking over it. After a few moments of reading and reflection, she turned her attention back to the girls. Their nervousness what showing like never before. Ava was twisting her napkin over and over again, Véronique was biting her lower lip, Alexia was drumming her finger on the table and Maya kept shifting in her seat.

"Well girls, you certainly have a lot of questions," said Snow with a smile. "As you know, you were soldiers from the Earth during what was called the Akayashi Millennium. But you were also princesses from the Kingdoms of Earth that you were protecting. Since you were second inline for the thorns, you were trained as soldiers. But something was discovered when you four came together for the first time, inside of each one of you was an elemental power. Power that came from the basic constitutions of the planet: water, earth, wind and light. Now these powers united cause the total and utter destruction. Which was how you caused the destruction of the galaxy. Now to answer your questions about me, I am from Earth but descending for an old line of animal shifting druids. This human appearance is my original form but sometimes for practical reasons, I transform into my cat form. I know all of this because I was there."

The four girls gasp in shocked. "You were there?!"

"Yes, I was the head council of the Earth's queen at the time of the attacks and destructions. When I saw that destroying the universe was the only option you had left, I entered a state of stasis in a time-space pocket I created that could not be destroyed by your powers."

The girls looked around at each other, still in shock of what they had just learnt. Snow had been there; she had seen it all happen from a first had perceptive, not like them who only remembered as if they were spectators.

"But girls, to answer your last questions. Well it's a very serious matter. Yes there is a reason why all of this is happening, a very important one. You were supposed to lay dormant for the rest of your lives, never learning about your past. But something changed. The reason I had entered the time- space pocket was to be able to see if any attacks on Earth that would need you. And until now, there never was, at least nothing that another group of people couldn't handle on their own. But you are needed now…"

"Needed now?" cut in Ava, "I understand that we were soldiers in the past but we sure aren't now, so what can we do?"

"You see that's the thing Ava. You are still those soldiers, that strange power you feel in you is your crystal elements, the source of your powers. You aren't simply people who lived a past life and are now a different person who remembers it. You are the person of your past life. You were reborn and now must stop your enemy. The Nelvane kingdom is back and wants revenge and you girls must help stop them.



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Muahahahah! Another cliffhanger! So what do you think? Like where the story is going? Have any ideas on what's going to happen? So please share them! Comments, reviews and even flames are welcomed at sakura_angel22@hotmail.com or please click "Review" and leave a review on your thoughts on the story.

Lady Snow ^^