Chapter 14: Queen of Yellow Shadows
Kokutou lead Keiti throughout the castle and had her continue to break the chains each within a courtyard just as the first. Upon reaching the 10th and finale chain and it's destruction the castle walls began to glow. The red chains and shackles on Kokutou fell off.
The chains Keiti broke turned bright yellow and fixed themselves. Yellow chains and shackles appeared on Keiti.
"And you're the new ruler of the Underworld", Kokutou said cheerfully.
"Wait what?"
"You've taken my place. You are bound to this world and I am free."
"Those chains what where they?"
"Those? You won't be able to break those. They're to keep you here. You can only leave where Shuren places his flames. Do what you wish you've until you trick someone to breaking them and taking you're place. I'll be taking Felicia back to the real world as promised. Peace!" With this Kokutou vanished leaving Keiti as the new ruler of the underworld.
Keiti sighed. She is now the ruler of the Underworld. But somehow she has started to get flashbacks on her past. She remembered the time when she received her star in the heart pendant.
(flashback)
Princess Katia was standing in front of a water fountain in the middle of her palace. Most of her people were somewhere about doing work. Katia didn't notice a tear fell down her face. It dropped into the water and the water started to glow. Katia gasped as a woman with long red hair appeared.
"Are you the princess of this Kingdom?" the woman asked.
"Yes," Katia answered, "I am Princess Katia"
"I am the Star Goddess, Hoshi. Take this pendant. If contains a star which protects this galaxy. Not long ago I sealed Chaos within Sailor Galaxia and I lost my powers. But for the remaining powers, I created seven stars. I still haven't found the other six yet. Use your voice to purify the Milky Way Galaxy along the six other stars and I will be revived one day when there is an enemy that is impossible to are now the ruler of the Milky Way Galaxy, yellow Star Princess, Katia. I'll be praying for you."
The woman disappeared leaving Katia speechless. She looked down at the pendant and opened it. It did contain a yellow star. She held it closely to her heart as she closed her eyes.
(end flashback)
Keiti smiled at the memory. She even remembered that during the fight against the dead moon circus, Pluto gave back her pendant which she lost when she died in her previous life.
'I always wonder why Stella would be chasing after me. Forgive me, friends, I may not be able to see you again,' Keiti thought. She remembered the day when her people were dying and her kingdom being destroyed.
(flashback)
"Katia-sama, you need to get out of here," a woman with long yellowish brown hair said.
"What is happening?" Katia asked.
"Stella-hime of the Sol Kingdom had attacked her own kingdom and killed off her own people. Now she is attacking the entire kingdom. You need to escape to the Moon Kingdom where Serenity-hime is," the woman told her again, "Stella-hime is mostly coming after you. "
The good woman had seen her sister get killed. She was the most loyal servant to Princess Katia. There were no men in the Solar Kingdom, but there were men and woman in the Sun Kingdom and the Sol Kingdom.
"But…what about everyone else?" Katia asked, worried about her people. She grabs her pendant that she received for her coming of age a couple of months ago.
"Katia-sama…HURRY!" The woman yelled and went to help some other servants fight and some to safety, "Just remember you are still the ruler of this galaxy."
Katia quickly flew out of the castle into space, and when she was a good distance away, she looked back at her palace, which was falling apart. She saw everyone she knew dying.
"Everyone... Everyone!" Katia cried out, as tears fell from her eyes. Then she flew towards the Earth's moon.
(end flashback)
Keiti sighed as that past memory flashed into her mind. It only happened a thousand years ago. Luckily she was reborn many years after the assault on the Moon Kingdom. The Sailor Senshi that protected both her and Serenity were reborn. Plus Serenity was reborn as Tsukino Usagi.
'I still remember the time when Usagi in her previous form of Princess Serenity died. Good thing she is reborn along with the rest of the Sailor Senshi.' Keiti thought.
She looked down at her pendant. It opened and a small shine came from her star.
(flashback)
Both Princess Katia and Princesses Serenity were hurrying to the palace on the Moon.
"Keiti…This way," a soft female voice said. Princess Serenity was a bit older than Katia.
"I can't believe it. Why would Stella destroy my kingdom and people like that?" Katia said crossly. She was sad that all her good people and kingdom was destroyed. Her people were also like friends.
"Keiti, we need to find my mother, only she can help," Princess Serenity said.
"Not so fast ladies," a wicked female voice said and a woman with dirty orange hair appeared. She was also wearing a long black dress. Both princesses stopped in their tracks.
"Stella!" Katia said.
"The Moon Kingdom and its people would be destroyed soon…starting with the moon princess," Stella said as she blasted energy at the Moon Princess.
"AHHH" Serenity shouted.
"Usagi, I'll save you!" Katia told her friend as she got ready to blast some of her own energy at Stella.
"No Keiti, you need to warn the Moon Kingdom and Prince Endymion…..AAAHHHHHHHHH!" Serenity told her and screamed. She got electrocuted to death. Katia was shocked by her friend's death.
"USAGI!" Katia yelled as tears flowed down her eyes.
(end flashback)
Keiti closed her eyes as she closed the pendant.
'Why did Stella do that?' Keiti thought, 'How am I supposed to revive Hoshi-sama if I am here. The other princesses need me. It seems like I have fully betrayed my friends. I think I know why Stella wanted to kill me…'