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Light of Hope
Chapter Fouteen
The footage that aired all around the world was incredible. People watched, glued to their television sets as they saw hero's fighting for them, for their safety. These beautiful people, these alien people, fighting demons and monsters straight out of nightmares.
Already, the world was shaken, an outcry as people began to take sides.
The world was watching the video's over and over again, but Hiiro made sure him and the other pilots reviewed the video's relentlessly, documenting and noting every-last-detail.
It was way passed midnight, the moon high in the sky. Screams echoed through the forest and the camera seemed to shake as it zoomed in on the red flushed face, chocolate brown eyes filled with tears and her pain so sorrowful on her soft freckled face, the three soldiers that stood by and watched couldn't help but silently cry, as the redheaded girl, held onto her dying lover, his blood covering her arms, and his arm covered by her handkerchief.
As the man faded away, the cloth remained behind and the girls head was thrown back from the raw emotional torture she felt as she released the tragic and sad filled blood curdling scream.
"Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury and Sailor Mars. Red head, Naru Osaka same age. Enemy Soldier, a betrayer. Nephrite."
"This… is way too hard to believe." Duo said, as they watched and re-watched the footage.
Quatre's blue eyes stared unnervingly at the blank screen, head folded into arms on top of the table, to the side of where Duo lay on the couch. "These video's… some of them are absolutely heart wrenching."
Wufei scuffed, but his eyes remained glued to the clips, watching the tears fall from Sailor Moon, Mercury and Mars's eyes. Even they failed at times to protect everyone it seemed. "At least they weren't left to deal with the body."
They all had seen too many bodies, gruesome from battle, but most of the bodies the senshi with dealt with seemed to disappear. Magic.
Trowa frowned. "Death is never easy, no matter how the body is disposed, once it is committed to memory it can not be erased."
Four crystallized crypts of ice hung over the barren ice land. Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, Sailor Venus and Sailor Jupiter were dead to the world, their mortal bodies beaten and ragged. An alter of ice, miles high, barely managed to make eye level with a giant demon like woman. The woman's blood red hair and odd colored skin only highlighted the evilness radiating from her and the hatred in her eyes focused on one soul being. Princess Serenity. In her hands was a tall staff with a crescent moon. A glowing crystal battled over the dark energy trying to eat at the white princess, bathed in a glowing holy light.
"Some of the video footage was stolen from spy satellites and some were filmed. Is there any way to trace how these films were brought to attention?" Quatre asked Hiiro.
Hiiro sat on the couch, his eyes glued to his laptop rather then his television. "I've tried multiple times. No." There was no point in watching the video's. Last year, before any of this happened, before the Cinq's relocation… he had come back to Japan. To visit his heritage but only then had he heard the term phrased. Sailor Senshi. He had seen all the videos, before they were ever aired. He had searched and researched and noted everything. They were committed to his memory. Burned into his thoughts. Since that day he had tried to find these people, whom had always been apart of Japan and it's Mythology and talked about as if reality. …And yet he, Japanese as he was, had never heard of them until a year ago. It made no sense. It drove him insane.
On his computer screen was an image of five high school girls and all their information.
Minako Aino, Rei Hino, Makoto Kino, Ami Mizuno and Usagi Tsukino.
The moment he saw her, Tsukino, that day in the park… he knew without a doubt that she, the girl with the eyes that mirrored the blue black blanket of space… was Sailor Moon. How he had searched everywhere for the allusive Sailor Senshi, to have one find him.
The video's continued.
Atop a sky scraper, a large tree burst from the building, the senshi fighting to prevent it from destroying the world.
The senshi fighting four women and a man, trying to protect a small pink haired child.
The senshi fighting on an alien comet, attacking with their elements. The senshi trapped and Sailor Moon throwing her weapon away to save them, only to be captured and in the end they saved the earth from it's impact at the price of death.
…Death…
They all wondered… what was it really like to die… and was it really a blessing that they all managed to come back? To die over and over again… what a horrible fate. The pilots all couldn't help but have conflicting feelings as the video's played over and over again. Their deaths playing over and over again, and their seemingly never ending dance of battle.
Three new senshi kneeled before Sailor Moon, and in a flash of magic she became Princess Serenity. They pledged their allegiance to their princess, promising to protect her.
Sailor Moon, grasping a holy grail and drinking it's sparkling power becoming a stronger Sailor Moon. Super Sailor Moon.
Super Sailor Chibimoon, getting her heart crystal stolen from the enemy, them eating her crystal from her broach… eaten by a young black haired girl.
The girl turning into a woman with spider web like black hair and black eyes with white pupils. A sinister, wretched being that scent chills down their hardened spines.
The Senshi surrounding the Delta Triangle, making a barrier from millions of red liquid like demons. Being bitten and bombarded by them trying to break free from the barrier they made to protect the rest of the city. Their beaten bodies giving out and flying like useless carcasses through a chaotic wind. -A helicopter with the three senshi, Sailor Pluto, Uranus and Neptune about to explode, Pluto sacrificing herself to save the other two. Her body flung towards the ground to be thrown back and forth like Mars and the others in the chaotic winds. What would have killed a normal human, left her alive but still the pain and wounds were still very evident.
Sailor Moon protecting the enemy, throwing herself in front of a blast towards the professor and the black spider haired Mistress. The Mistress underwent yet another transformation from the young frail, cyborg looking girl, to an evil woman… to yet another Sailor Senshi.
Sailor Saturn raising her glaive to Sailor Moons face, and jumping to the vortex to another dimension, yelling to Sailor Pluto to close the tear in time and space and seal off this new dimensional door along with her inside it.
Sailor Moon beating her fist on the ground, broken screams and desperate pleas for that strong power from the chalice. Even after her screams and agony made her transform, she could not break through the dimension.
As Super Sailor Moon, she kneels atop a broken building like an alter above the vortex, her hair falling far past her to swish around the ruins of Mugan Gauken, where the Cinq Palace now lies. As she sits there she becomes Princess Serenity. Looking ever like a messiah with a long scepter taller then herself, as she jumps into the depths of the vortex with a passing smile head and staff first, a small smile but filled with hope to the surrounding senshi who lie broken and crying out for her to stop.
"This is unbelievable. Are we… really doing the right thing? Are we on the right side. Are they the gods we call Allah?" Quatre questioned suddenly, as the segment of the clip played.
The sky began to clear of the black clouds that were covering the earth in a death blanket, the portal to the other realm vanishing and the massive hole that now lay in the earth filled with water from the ocean channel.
Red butterflies began to gather in the hundreds, on a decent onto the ground before the three outer senshi. The butterflies began to form a person. Super Sailor Moon, her fuku torn and ragged and a dead look in her blue eyes like she had just experienced something… someone like her should never have to. An infant lay in her arms, and the three senshi took the baby before Super Sailor Moons body gave out beneath her. They smiled tenderly at the baby and lovingly at their princess. Words were spoken but the camera was too far away to hear the whispers of promises from their lips before they vanished.
"They are not human." Hiiro glared at his fellow pilot.
Duo frowned his dark cobalt almost purple eyes shadowed by his chocolate colored locks. "Are gods considered human?"
"Right now is not the time to fight amongst ourselves. We need to find out everything we can…" Trowa said softly. His dark emerald eyes remained focused on the screen, not once turning to them. He didn't have to, he heard them. He was conflicted too but he knew they need to know more… "Then… we can make our decision."
Snow Queens, Queens of Dreams, Queens of the Dead Moon and the Queen of all senshi… and the ultimate evil. Chaos. They watched the videos. All of them.
Sailor Moon did not hesitate as she jumped from the floating circus as it was damned back into it's cursed resting place. Her body falling in a rapid decent after the small pink haired soldier that had been thrown over. Her pleas were answered by a strong white steed, the ghostly image of a Pegasus crowned with a golden horn, slamming into the two soldiers, now princesses in white dresses. Their decent slowing as large looming white wings extended from their backs and they landed, safely. The battle won. People cheered all around as the two angels descended. To protect them all, again.
Battles countless. One thing was for certain. Their decision wouldn't matter in the end because whether or not they save humanity from dominance… the senshi were saving humanity again and again… from absolute destruction.
The room remained silent, as the footage played over and over again, all of their focus, glued to the glowing screen.
…
Click. Click. Click.
Her heels fell onto a ground unseen as mists rolled by her ankles, knees and thighs. The swirling fog rising and falling with her steps, swishing and misting with each fall of her black knee length boots.
Click. Click. Click.
The mists were thicker this time, it was much harder for even her to discern where she was, but she was the Guardian of Time. Only she, was truly connected to the door. To Time itself, to Chronos himself.
Click. Click.
Before her in all it's glory was the Gateway of Time. As she stood atop it's door step she frowned. The Gates opened and it's violent depths were revealed.
The Cherry Road.
The storms were more chaotic than she had ever seen, even when Small Lady had wandered off and become Black Lady. A storm, not a time storm, was approaching fast, and rain for the first time was falling in the 4th dimension of Time.
That damned rain was blocking everything from her foresight, she could no longer see anything past that storm, the future was unseen to her since that silver portal in the original time stream.
Silver Portal, like a mirror.
As she concentrated on the rain, she could see now as those mirror like drops fell from dark ominous clouds. Silver raindrops.
"What is with this color… an empty cold color. Why can't I see through this mirror…" Sailor Pluto whispered as her dark, knee length hair swept passed her in the chaotic wind, brushing through her deep green-black locks, her garnet colored eyes glaring passed the storm, trying to foresee a possible future.
Her eyes widened and she moved her staff in front of her defensively.
In the rain, blurred from the mirrored drops was the image of a feminine figure in the middle of the storm. Her still silhouette familiar… the silhouette of Neo Queen Serenity? No, Sailor Pluto knew this could not be her. Not Serenity, not Usagi… but it was strange. It was almost like she could feel her presence, but it was different. Vastly different, yet a ghostly similar.
The figure never moved, but the storm was dragging this future closer. This mysterious future, that once existed in the original timeline. A silvery portal, a mirror with a shadowed figure with heart-shaped odangos, long tendrils of hair a slender form in a cape with wings. Who was the silvery being who penetrated the future and was now a closer reality, a closer being to enter their future, their soon present?
…
Haruka frowned into her tea, leaning back into the chair. "What are you trying to say? Is it an intruder?"
Setsuna had told them of her experience at the gates, but now she knew, she must inform them of the rest. "This person is not unfamiliar."
Usagi was sitting quietly between Rei and Minako as Setsuna told them of the silver rain, and the figure who looked like her. "Do you think this is a new transformation for me?" She was about to tell them of her dreams but was cut of by Setsuna's weary gaze and firm "No."
"No, it can't be." Setsuna whispered firmly, visibly upset.
"Why Setsuna? With Crystal Tokyo at stake, don't you think Usagi would shine with a new power again, like she has before?" Michiru declared, taking a delicate sip of her tea. He legs were crossed and her eyes were closed. She opened them and they looked at her princess lovingly before turning to Setsuna with a calm gaze. "If Neo Queen Serenity does not exist, then maybe this being is a new Sailor Moon."
Setsuna frowned, "No. I've seen this figure before, in the old timeline."
Everyone turned their eyes and complete focus to her.
"This figure is born from a horrible tragedy. I do not know her identity." Setsuna looked away from everyone and stared distantly at the ceiling. "In the original Timeline, there was Crystal Tokyo as our destined future. Our future is now hidden from our sight by this ghostly image and drops of silver… but I saw passed Crystal Tokyo. As the Guardian I am not allowed to do this, but I looked. A taboo. But this figure blocked the timeline road, the main branch from my sight before. She was at the end of it, blocking my sight." She looked at everyone again, her eyes misted with a veil of mystery. "I am not allowed to speak of the future, but that future no longer exists..."
Mamoru frowned, eyes tired and hair shaggy. He still hadn't been sleeping. "So what are you saying?"
"Because there was an end to Crystal Tokyo, much like the Silver Millennium."
Princess Serenity looked at all of her loved ones lying dead around her. Her beloved, dead across the steps to her palace. She sobbed, she couldn't find anyone alive, not even her mother. Her mother she could not find at all… her kingdom was a barren waste land and the enemy ran rampant. She grasped the sword from the dead hand of the leader of her guardians, Sailor Venus. The senshi's stone sword. She kissed her dead beloved and with a sob, she cried out, throwing her head back in a tortured scream as she pierced her heart with the blade.
By the time the Goddess of Death finished killing off the remnants of the silver millenium, her final destination the Moon Kingdom, Queen Serenity had sealed the enemy away and praying to the Crystal and High Tower of Prayer, to send her beloved daughter and her court to a new future on Earth. The princess had been wrong, her mother survived only to die with a final wish.
Many stars traveled to Earth that day, and Sailor Saturn the Messiah of Silence, the Goddess of Death, was one of them.
Usagi's eyes were wide, her pupils the only thing between the whites of her eyes. Her pale face, so white she seemed ghostly as her shaking hand came up to cradle the terrified look of her face. Her forehead cold and clammy.
That horrible moment in time.
No.
Crystal Tokyo could not possibly repeat history.
She remembered the dream of her supposed-destined-self quoting a similar future. History doomed to repeat itself. She was right…
Setsuna looked on weary, "Crystal Tokyo lives in pure peace for many millennia, with Small Lady ascending a thrown of her own on the moon with Helios."
Everyone shared a small smile at the thought before reality struck them again and their mood was sobered.
"A war breaks out at the birth of a new senshi. The first truly evil senshi." She stopped and eyed the room. "Sailor Chaos."
Rei stood up and cried out, "That's not possible, Eternal Sailor Moon killed Chaos."
Usagi shook her head, placing her chin in her hands, her elbows spread on the table. Her eyes were a deadly calm as they reflected those moments, that battle… her sacrifice. "No, I only trapped it's body in the cauldron, I was only able to seal it in the Galaxy Cordon."
Minako looked down at her clenched fists. "It's reborn as a Sailor Senshi?"
"Yes," Setsuna whispered. "If all the shining stars give birth to senshi, why wouldn't the darkness be granted a similar power. We were, after all, born of the same place. Sagittarius Zero Star. We are the ultimate light in the galaxy, why wouldn't the ultimate darkness rise in power to match us. The power of Yin and Yang, is as powerful and old as Time itself."
"What happens…?" Makoto ground out through clenched teeth. Her bright jade eyes were shrouded by her dark brown locks, her face hidden, tilted down by her chest.
Setsuna frowned. "Everything is destroyed. I see Neo Queen Serenity facing the demonic senshi, but as Queen she gave up her rights as Sailor Moon, it was obvious… she was no match. Before she is struck there was an explosion… there is nothing but silver, and when I tried looking passed this silver portal in the way of seeing passed this moment in the far future, I see the same figure. I feel a radiating cold from this image."
She looked at everyone as she spoke. "This being, I can not tell if it is evil… or if it is good. Cold, powerful, dead feelings come from this still figure. I cannot fathom the sense I get from this person." Her eyes closed and her arms wrapped themselves around her, trying to gain comfort from this image she cannot forget. "This is not the power of light or even of darkness. It is utterly empty… it's terrifying. I would never see our princess become this cold shell."
Everyone looked at Usagi with worry but she only smiled at them, comfortingly. "What we really need to worry about is Dark, and the dimensional tear by the center of the galaxy." She waved her hand at them in an assuring manner. "Maybe it's just tricks on the mind, silver is a cold empty color, and you said it was like a mirror but only a blurred image was reflected back at you. Maybe it's just a really fuzzy blurry reflection of you? Is she carrying a staff?"
Setsuna frowned. "Yes now that you mention it… maybe you're right… maybe everything that's happening and my being unable to see time is playing tricks on my mind." But the image wasn't that blurry and the staff was much taller and thinner than hers with a large rounded top above it's length… but maybe it was that distorted from her stress. Her princess was right, they needed to look at other things, besides not all of the future is accessible to even her. Maybe this was Cronos's way of shutting her out, so even she witnessed the mysteries of time. The silver being his punishment upon her noisy intrusion of a future she shouldn't have witnessed.
Usagi however felt troubled behind her smile. She knew, that silhouette existed and she knew it was her, without a doubt… and so did Mamoru.
The television set suddenly came to life and a familiar face was broadcasted to the world and colonies. A national announcement.
"My name is Dark…"
End Chapter
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