Forgotten Feelings

Chapter 36

Serenity's Findings

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"Good morning, Serenity!" She turned to see an energetic Yugi bounce to her, a smile on his face. She nodded to him, once more moving in the direction she had been headed.

"Good morning. Did you sleep well?"

"Yeah. Are you going down to eat breakfast?"

"I suppose I am."

"Then, we'll come with you." Serenity noticed Yami, Solomon, and Rebecca behind him. She said nothing to confirm his request, merely walked down the hall. Yugi motioned for everyone to follow.

"Hey, Serenity? Where did you go for the rest of the day after you left Hotaru?" Yugi asked. Serenity tilted her head.

"I needed to run some errands for Father. I did not come back until around eleven."

"Aren't you tired? You only had seven hours of sleep!" Rebecca said. Serenity shrugged her shoulders a bit. The girl would soon remember that Serenity rarely allowed her shadow emotions get their way with her.

Solomon cleared his throat: "There are classes today, right?" Yugi and Yami's groans were enough of an answer. Serenity nodded to further the response.

"That's great! I get to see you two working!" Rebecca giggled. Serenity closed herself off as she heard Rebecca beginning her taunting. This way she remained until they reached their destination. Serenity led them to table and motioned for a waiter.

"How cool!" Rebecca exclaimed as the waiter came forth. Serenity took the menus, gave everyone one, and looked over them.

"This is a very good balance of breakfast foods!" Solomon commented.

"I'll have the Tsuki breakfast plate, please," Serenity said. The others looked at it and raised their eyebrows in question.

"I'm not sure what to make of your decision since I do not understand the names of the meal," Yami said to her. Serenity let out a sigh.

"I have not the energy to discuss anything with you right now. Just let me be for the moment," she said to him. The encounters she had had the night before had left her with little energy. This troubled her since she was not one who could waste her energy in one night.

'It must be due to the fact that I have not bathed in the stars' light for a long period of time,' she thought to herself.

"Good morning, daughter," her father's voice said from her left. She turned her head and saw her father standing there, strained look on his face, as if debating whether his choice was wrong or right.

"Good morning, Father. Please, join us for breakfast," she replied, knowing she'd get her answers.

"Actually, I came to get you, Serenity." The girl looked at her father with piercing eyes.

"What is it that you want from me?" she asked cautiously. His actions made her wary of what he would reveal this time. Maximilian shook his head and merely motioned for her to follow him. She dropped her napkin and followed him out the room into his private study, leaving the others to stare in curiosity.

"It is time you saw this," Maximilian said as he gestured to a book in the desk. Serenity looked at her father before taking the book and sitting down to read it. Her hand caressed the front, feeling the cool cover.

"I have excused you from your classes. I am sure you can make them up. It is imperative that you read that," Maximilian said as he noticed Serenity beginning to argue. Serenity raised an eyebrow and opened the book.

"I'll leave you alone now," Maximilian said as he shut the door. Serenity read the title, already forgetting of her father.

Questions of the Past

Astrum Noctilua

'Sounds interesting enough.' She turned the page and immediately let out a small gasp as a bright light emitted from the book. She held the book out to arm's length as she tried to see what exactly it was that was causing the light.

'It's the book itself.' Serenity grunted as the light intensified. Deciding to take control over the situation, she brought out her own power. The light immediately dimmed and then flickered out. The book was open, innocent, as if any other random book. Serenity sighed as she could finally read the contents of the book.

'Uhhmm… Index… Selections… Problems: Gracia and Rayma Gods… Beginnings of Chaos and Cosmos…' This last one caught her attention. She quarreled with herself on whether to go to the selection and read more about the liaison amid herself and Chaos or carry on reading the additional selections. Necessity won out and she continued looking over the list, telling herself she would please her questions about her origins later.

'Attraction between Light and Darkness… Why Power Often Goes Awry… Birth of the Holy - Nebula and Cauldron: Why and Where… Destructive Magical Beings: Forever Gone or Able to Come Back?...' Serenity narrowed her eyes. The last two screamed out for her to read about, but she once again ignored the latter to examine the problems she needed to solve currently. She looked once more to the page number by the selection and turned to it. Another index greeted her. She scanned the page. There, near the bottom, underneath the title "Most Dangerous Beings", was the thing she had spent weeks searching for…

"The Millennium Captor," she murmured. She took another look to the door to make sure it was locked and then turned to the page where the information she needed so was. She began to read…



'Although there have been many beings that have been created with magic, few are remembered countless millennia after their birth and even then without some shadow of terror still capable of incapacitating a kingdom. One of such creations is the Millennium Captor. This beast was brought into the living plane near the beginning of the Dissipatio Lunaris (the Expansion of the Lunarians) making the Millennium Captor almost as old as Time itself. The Millennium Captor is a relatively large and vicious Pegasus with the ability to turn into any being. When in its original form, it is more of a protective barrier with skin as dark as night. Many failed to notice this and when met and defeated in battle, thought the threat gone. This is not true. Within the aggressive defender is a powerful being that demolished every dimension with the exception of the Lunarian mother dimension, or Pax Lunaris, named for the peace there is within the dimension ruled by the magical royals.'

Serenity let out a scoff. It was apparent that the author had a thing for Lunarians. She wondered if everyone in the Universe thought the Lunarians were all that great. It would be another topic she would bring to the table when talking to Hotaru.

'-magical royals. Though he did not obliterate it, Pax Lunaris suffered inestimable damage from the battle that ensued there. Many a Lunarian was slaughtered in the most sordid of manners, making the populace dwindle near the hundreds, a crisis that would be carried for millennia. With the Millennium Captor as his pet, Dimyse threatened to birth a new Universe, one where Darkness would be law and Light its slave. It is this being that is truly feared, for his existence is the only evidence that is needed to realize the Captor once more lives. With the mere mention of the Captor being alive, this product, this Dymise, would be capable of spreading terror and darkness. But Dimyse was clever – he did not want simple fear, he wanted more, and for this, Dimyse had an arrangement.

He would first make his 'mother', the Millennium Captor, for it is understood that the Captor acts as a host to Dimyse before 'giving birth' to him, destroy all who opposed him, saving the finest for last. He would strike trepidation into the hearts of the peace loving Lunarians and force them to kneel before him, signifying Light's bow to Darkness. To make the surrender eternal, Dimyse planned to take the unwedded Queen of the Lunarians. Promising he would stop his destructive monster, Dimyse wed the energetic royal, Queen Darlene.

Now, Queen Darlene could never see herself with the one who very nearly wiped out her entire race, but obstinate as she was, the lovely being placed her people before her own selfishness and gave her hand to the threat. With his only obstacle taken out of the picture, Dimyse spread his aura of darkness. Queen Darlene knew of the dangers this aura could do to those of Light and asked Dimyse to take pity in her people - to spare them. Dimyse is said to have smiled at his wife, a somewhat affirmative sign. Suspicious of her cruel husband, the Queen made preparations on her own to save her people. Within days, she discovered upon his plans. Dimyse had no intention of saving the Lunarians. He wanted to make them suffer. Queen Darlene could not keep in her rage.

During one of Dimyse's meetings with his newly acquired generals, the Queen burst in and screamed out her thoughts. With an intimidation to take him down, Darlene rushed out of the room and ordered to end the torture. Her Highness anticipated Dimyse to immediately execute her and so was taken aback when naught happened. With her persona, she shortly decided she didn't give a damn of what Dimyse did to her as long as her people were out of harm's way and living well. She continued to help until every Lunarian was placed under her fortification. It was not until two days after she was done with her task that Dimyse acted. In the middle of the night, the Millennium Captor went into Queen Darlene's chambers, as she refused to sleep with her spouse, and took her out of the palace the rulers resided in, Acerbus Aula. The Queen tried with all her might to flee her tormentor, but failed miserably. The Millennium Captor out powered her effortlessly. It took her to the heart of the realm while Dimyse called for every subject to rouse and feast their eyes on their Queen.

Queen Darlene was thrown into a cage followed by the Millennium Captor. Dimyse watched from high atop a building as his wife carefully analyzed her circumstance. When she looked to him, Dimyse smirked and ordered for the onslaught to initiate. The Queen was then unfeelingly beaten by the Millennium Captor. When near death, Dimyse would heal her and then let her torture persist. After two weeks of seeing the Captor punish his wife, Dimyse decided that was sufficient of that and demanded 

for all of those in his army to come forward. Battered and badly damaged internally, Queen Darlene watched as the millions of soldiers marched into the grounds. Thinking Dimyse was going to humiliate her in front of the soldiers, Queen Darlene let herself rest. It was with revulsion that she opened her eyes as she heard she was to be penalized by each and every soldier. Dimyse placed merely a lone law.

"You may do as you like with her, but she's mine."

It was a year before Dimyse was content.

As soon as she was healed, Her Highness took to her rooms for months, only eating enough to stay breathing. Dimyse soon grew tired of playing with his consorts and killed them all. He planned on killing all the children he had helped give birth as well. When she heard of this, Queen Darlene opened her door and faced the Millennium Captor yet again. Knowing she could not win by combating, she evaded the magical being and ran to the room in which the screams came from. Upon opening the door, she was met with atrocious sights.

In each cell was a child, being amputated of several limbs and being tortured in various other methods depending on gender; if the child was male they were beaten to the point where they begged for death and being raped and then tortured if female. The Queen looked around for her husband, finally seeing him sitting on a throne, jovial as he watched the scene of Hell. Her character regained, Queen Darlene yelled for a stop to the torture and walk menacingly towards her husband. Dimyse watched as she came forward, her breathing scarcely controlled and her eyes ablaze with unbridled rage. When she reached him, Queen Darlene glared at him with all the odium she had for him. Behind her was the Millennium Captor, waiting for commands from its master.

"Something wrong, love?" Dimyse asked then. Queen Darlene smiled at him, contradicting her entire composure.

"No, nothing's wrong," she replied. In a second, her hand shot across his cheek. All was hushed as Dimyse slowly turned to face his wife once more.

"Take her to my chambers. Do not let her out," he ordered with outmost quietness to the Millennium Captor. She barely had time to react before the Millennium Captor changed shape and dragged her out of the room. While the Queen was locked up, the Captor stood watch, being deferential as always. Dimyse came along after a long wait. He motioned for the Millennium Captor to leave and get more followers and to not to return until it had gathered at least another million soldiers. Without another second, the Captor took off running and then into his original form, taking to Space.

For twenty-two years it roamed the entire healing region for capable soldiers. It even went into the recuperating dimensions and gathered far more soldiers than he had been ordered. After sending its master three million soldiers, it decided to go back home itself. So began the last expedition. Being on the nearby galaxy of the one Dimyse ruled from, it decided to rest and remain a while. It was living in comfort until one fateful day. Jaded, it took a walk and met a curious young man of seventeen. This youth strongly reminded the Captor of Dimyse. With the youth was a young woman, also seventeen and who bore a resemblance to the spouse of Dimyse. Thinking he was only seeing things, he ignored the two and continued on. They, however, did not ignore it. Walking home at night, the Captor once again came by the two. Aggravated, the Captor asked,

"Idiot brats, what do you want? Do you now know who I am? Move out of my way!" The two youths cocked their heads inwards to each other as a way of asking the Captor to state who it was.

"Fools! I am the second-in-command of the King Dimyse!" The youths then smirked and brandished armaments out of nowhere. The young man stepped enthusiastically up to the Captor.

"How shall we kill him? Shall we kill him swiftly?" he asked his cohort.

"You are much too hasty. Let's kill leisurely and let it suffer," the girl said as she too took a step forward. The Millennium Captor smiled at this. The two youths seemed to really be idiots. He changed shape and took on a more influential form. He brandished a sword and got into a combating stance.

"Do you really think you can defeat me? Come and get me," it called. The two smiled.

"With pleasure." It took only two days for the Captor to finally drop to the floor. So beaten it was, that it remembered the Queen he had beaten not long ago. It guessed it must look that way as well. The two youths stepped up in front of him. The two were carrying little blood on their forms and a devilish grin on their faces. The girl took hold of its head and quietly said into its ear something that to this day is still alleged to be, "This is for Mother." The young man then swung down the captor's own blade and sliced off the head. The two were not finished there.

In order to make sure the Millennium Captor would by no means be brought back, the girl demanded they take the body to the holiest place in the Universe. The boy is said to have grudgingly concur to this. He thought the Captor was a great creature that could be used again for his own deeds. Nevertheless, the body was taken to the Holy Cauldron and discarded brusquely into it. As for the head, the young man had the job of destroying it. The girl left him alone to throw it in wile she explored the Holy place more carefully. The boy did a duplication spell and threw into the Cauldron a fake head and keeping the real one for himself, ignoring what his companion had wanted.

It is because of this head that the boy kept that the Millennium Captor has been brought back three times since its initial downfall. Dimyse was brought back the news of his pet's death and is said to have wondered who had managed to kill his 'mother'. Even so, he discarded the death and decided to bring back his steadfast servant. Before he could complete the revival, he was engaged into a battle with the same two youths who killed the Captor. When Dimyse was finally defeated in battle, all the secrets of the Captor were lost. It was not until 5 millennia later that the records were found and the Captor brought back with Dimyse within its body.

The original creator of the Captor was a dominant mage named Nakya, a woman of Holy background who loathed the Lunarians and passed on her hatred to Dimyse. However, Nakya underestimated her own creation's strength. She had a family and only they have the power to bring back the Millennium Captor and Dimyse. Not even Chaos, the ruler of all that is Dark, can bring back the Captor on his own. This is hard to believe by many due to the fact that the Millennium Captor and Dimyse are everything Chaos represents. This is no coincidence. Just as well, Cosmos cannot defeat the Millennium Captor or Dimyse on her own. This is no happenstance either.

The only way to defeat the Millennium Captor is to permanently destroy all the instructions on how to revive the Millennium Captor and throw the entire body of the Millennium Captor and the body of Dimyse into the Holy Cauldron. This is no easy task since there are many directions on the revival of these two dangerous beings that are far more powerful than the embodiments of Dark and Light scattered throughout the dimensions. If Cosmos or Chaos were to face the two on their own, they would depart this life. Only collectively can they anticipate defeating them.

With Dimyse, the requirements for death are more. Chaos and Cosmos must both use their Holy Crystals and have with them at least four Star Knights that originated from the Holy Nebula; two of the Star Knights must be of a dark persona and the other two of a light persona. Most importantly, two of the Star Knights MUST have in their possession one of the two Pulchellus Lluvias, or, one of the two tears that Queen Darlene cried when giving birth to her children.

It is also vitally important that Chaos and Cosmos have each a trusted warrior by their side and a heart full of love for someone. Without these requirements, Dimyse will never be defeated and neither will the Millennium Captor. The two share a similar bond to the one of the many shared by Chaos and Cosmos. While Cosmos and Chaos will instantly die if the other one does, the Millennium Captor can die without taking Dimyse with it. However, if one dies but is not completely defeated, both can be brought back to life. It is because of this that the Millennium Captor is being brought to life to this day. One can only hope that one day, the requirements will be met and the most dangerous of beings 

be forevermore defeated. (More on Cosmos and Chaos and relations to Dimyse and the Millennium Captor on Selection 2. For information on Queen Darlene see selection-'

Serenity shut the book quickly. In her mind whirled around all the information she had just read. She placed the book by her and then immediately dropped her head into her hands.

"Damn it," she curse softly. She closed her eyes.

'…a heart full of love for someone…vitally important…without these requirements…will never be defeated…'

"STOP IT!" Serenity yelled as she stood up, her eyes clenched shut tightly.

'…Chaos and Cosmos…at least four Star Knights…' Serenity shook her head. The information would not stop whispering itself to her, repeating the things she did not have…repeating the things she could not have.

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