I do believe this is one of the last chapters, there is one more chapter to complete this story. I'm sorry for all my typo's and such. I'll update this weekend. 3 Thanks for reading! Just one more chapter and it's over.
Chapter twenty-one: The Truth and shock
Dinner went by slow for Isabella. While, others had forgiven her, a lot of them hadn't. None of the adults had, her parents still wouldn't look at her, Annika, Gloria, and the other children that had fought Isabella were glaring at her. Isabella pushed her plate away and put her head down, she was tired of looking at everyone. The King and Queen after dinner, decided to head up to their quarters, they were tired, and wanted to turn in early. Michiru, Haruka, and their three girls were the next ones to leave, Setsuna decided to follow after them, telling Gary to take the children home.
While everyone else was departing Annika and Gloria decided to pull Isabella off the side when no one was looking. Gloria slapped Isabella across the face.
"Why are you so mean?" Isabella asked, tears coming to her eyes.
"Because you ruined everything! And no one has punished you properly." Gloria answered.
Tiffany walked over to the three. "Isabella… why don't you tell them?" Tiffany asked.
"Tell us what?" Annika asked, looking at Tiffany.
"What she had to go through to make everything right." Tiffany stated.
"NO!" Isabella screamed, as she ran past Gloria and the other two, she ran outside, tears streaming down her face, only to find that Haruka, Michiru, and Setsuna were powered up preparing to fight.
The other's filed outside watching in horror. Isabella's head begin to spin. Everything was happening because of her, everyone was fighting because she had done that stupid thing. Sailor Uranus powered up and threw her attack at Pluto, Pluto blocked it and attacked back.
"STOP IT!" shouted Isabella, in terror. The fight continued. Isabella wilted and cried, Makoto tried to comfort her, but Isabella screamed at her to stay away. Isabella looked at the fight that was going on, there was only one thing she could think to do to end everything.
"WHY CAN'T YOU LOVE YOUR DAUGHTER?" Sailor Pluto screamed as she threw an attack at Uranus and Neptune.
Both Uranus and Neptune powered up, "She almost coasted the future." Uranus screamed as they threw their attacks. Isabella ran toward the attacks. Pluto screamed no. Uranus and Neptune gasped in shock. In a split second Neptune and Uranus saw the child they once loved, they saw the memories, the joy the laughter of Isabella. They realized that they had never given Isabella a chance after her return, and that she was indeed still a child, but it was too late the attack hit Isabella's weak body and threw her back.
"Uranus, what have we done?" Neptune asked, her hands shaking as she brought them up to her face.
"We've become bad parents." Uranus replied.
Hope ran over to her little sister, kneeling next to her and took her into her arms. "Please, wake up." Hope whispered, tears spilling out from her eyes. Hope glared at her parents and yelled, "I HATE YOU!"
Neptune felt a wave of emotion hit her, she fell backwards, but Uranus captured her before she hit the ground. Uranus held Neptune in her arms. "Haruka we hurt our daughters." Uranus nodded in agreement.
Gloria and Annika ran over toward Hope, Annika knelt down next to Hope. Gloria glared at the little girl, "Why don't you just leave her be?"
"She's my sister, Gloria. What would you do if Erin did this? Would you hate her?" Hope asked crying. Setsuna had powered down, she watched as the children communicated.
"Erin wouldn't have ever done it." Gloria snarled back.
"Fine then! What about Annika and Ariel? They got a hold of the crystal once, the same thing could have happened! You didn't hate them!" Hope said, she could feel her heart rate began to go up.
Isabella opened her eyes, she had heard everything, "I'm sorry Gloria. You can hate me forever if you want to. My parents do."
Gloria didn't know what to say. She was a little shocked.
Isabella sat up. She was weak and frail and didn't look good. Ariel, Jordan, and Faith walked over there too.
"Are you going to say sorry to us?" Faith asked.
Hope glared at Faith. Tiffany went and knelt down next to Isabella, she wanted to support her and help her.
"I'm sorry Faith, Ariel, and Annika. But most of all I'm sorry Jordan." Isabella tried to wipe away her tears, but they kept rushing out. "Our real parents were bad. They hated children, but they did wanna raise you, but only for the greater of evil."
"They were evil!" Jordan said in alarm, as this was the first time she had heard it. A lot of the other children gasped too. Gloria tried not to show that she already knew.
Isabella nodded and continued, "They probably would've hurt you too, just not as bad as they did me."
Jordan knelt down in front of her sister, now worried. "What happened?"
"They were mean. They hated me. I accidentally brought them back by the silver crystal power. I guess when I had it with me, when we went into the past, it gave one of them enough strength to grab the crystal out of my pocket." Isabella paused.
"It's my fault, if I hadn't wanted to go back to the past to see them, none of this would've happened." Jordan said, sorrowfully.
"I thought this was all Isabella's doings." Gloria stated.
"Me too." Faith said.
"Don't fight please. I've seen enough violence." Isabella said.
Gloria and Faith looked at Isabella, for the first time they realized that Isabella was hurt.
"Abigail and Alex didn't like children; they tormented them and usually killed them. It was usually quick and simple. They forced me to watch some of it through the crystal." Isabella sobbed. "But when they found out I was their daughter, they decided to do anything and everything possible. They both beat me really bad."
"Isabella… I'm really sorry." Faith said. "And we didn't help matters either." Faith looked at the other children.
"It's okay. It's my fault, and I guess I deserved it. I deserved all of it." Isabella said softly as she collapsed into Hope's lap, "I want Michiru-mama."
Most of the adults had tears in their eyes, Hotaru who had actually heard some of the stories was crying as well. Setsuna smiled a little, things were finally going to start getting back into place. Michiru and Haruka walked over to their daughter, Michiru picked her up in her arms and gave her a gentle hug.
"I'm sorry sweetie, my head wasn't in the right place. Can you forgive me?" Michiru asked. Isabella nodded.
"Can you forgive me as well?" Haruka asked. Isabella nodded again, and shut her eyes. Haruka kissed her on the forehead. Ami walked over and told them they'd need to bring Isabella up to the hospital so she could get better. The family spent the next several days up at the palace hospital getting Isabella better. Ami had tried to get Isabella to talk to her a few times about the incidents, but Isabella wouldn't talk to Ami. Ami's only choice was to let Hotaru consol her.
Gloria and all the other children had decided they wanted to throw Isabella a little party. So they prepared for it while she was in the hospital.
