~*~*~*~Master: Assassination Continued~*~*~*~
Author: Trio
Rated: PG
Finished: 2000
Disclaimers: I don't own Sailor Moon. I do own the following characters;
Sailor Wisdom, Crueline, and Master.
Recap: It's been awhile since Assassination, so I'm going to give you all a
recap of what happened. Rini is back in the past learning to be a Sailor
Soldier. Sailor Wisdom is with her. Crueline decides, after an interlude
with Sailor Chibimoon, that she cannot kill Small Lady. But just then
Crueline's master appears and the weird thing is she looks like the future
queen of Crystal Tokyo, Neo Queen Serenity. Okay, now on with the story...
"..." are either personal thoughts or flash backs or flash forwards or
dreams.
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All of the senshi stood stunned by the new comer. Sailor Chibimoon's heart
ached, "Mom?" The simple word rang through the the senshi and ex-assassin.
"No, it can't be. My Mother loves me, she would never send an assassin to
destroy me. But, she looks just like her. Oh, could they have brainwashed
her?"
"Who are you?" demanded Sailor Moon, she didn't care if this person looked
like her or not she was plainly evil and evil needs to punished.
The evil queen turned to look at the pathetic Sailor Moon, "Ah, yes the
soldier who always stands for truth and justice, Sailor Moon. I'm surprised
you don't recognize me. I don't remember being that flaky." The evil queen
smirked, her eyes were dark, dark as midnight never showing the emotions that
they bare, never allowing emotions to seep through them, never allowing.
"Don't remember? Could it be... no. It can't be, no this is a trick!" tears
streamed down Sailor Wisdom's soft pale face. Her once brilliant blue eyes
were now dimmed with sadness. Her heart fell into a pit of sheer agony.
"Oh, dear old friend you seem to be in denial. By the way Annie, how are you?
In the future you're a little, oh how do I put this gently? You're a little
DEAD!" Laughter spilled from the look-a-like's form. Sailor Wisdom now knew
this was Neo Queen Serenity, only she called her Annie. Annie was Serenity's
nickname for her.
"NOOO!!! WISDOM SPIRITS DESTROY!!!" Sailor Wisdom lifted her staff and hurled
her most powerful attack at the evil queen, all of the senshi covered their
eyes. In all their days of training with the Sailor of Wisdom, they had never
seen this attack. It was Athene's most powerful attack, she wouldn't even
demonstrate it for them in training and now she was using it to destroy the
future self of their friend. Athene's mind raced as she attacked the fraud,
"No, it can't be. This is a trick an imposture. She can't be Serene.
Please, nooo." Athene cried on the inside and outside. Tears painted their
path down Athene's cheeks. Figures, looking like ghosts, began their attack
on the evil woman.
"Aw aw aw," the evil queen dispersed the attack with much difficulty. "Now,
dear Annie please don't attack me. It would be wrong to attack royalty."
"Momma?" Again the single word vibrated through the senshi and ex-assassin.
The evil queen looked to her primary target. "Aw, Small Lady."
"Sailor Chibimoon, you better get outta here!" commanded Sailor Venus.
"No! She must stay!" Sailor Wisdom's voice wavered, but remained semi-strong.
"Why Wisdom?" asked Sailor Mars.
"Because Annie, understands what's going on," the evil queen's smile never
wavered as she confronted the group.
"Don't call me that! Only my best friend can call me that, and you're not
her!" Sailor Wisdom fell to her knees, crying.
"That hurts, but have it your way Sailor Wisdom," the evil queen now looked
almost angry. Her smile gone, she finally set foot on the ground.
"What's going on?" Sailor Mercury asked.
"Hmmm... Mizuro? You are asking me?" laughter swept through the senshi.
"And I thought you always had all the answers. Course if you did you would
have helped me that day so long ago, but no matter."
"Master, please..." Crueline interjected.
"Do NOT interrupt me, you pitiful being!" Master glared at the ex-assassin.
All Crueline dared to do was cower away. Master grinned at this.
"Future," Master started, "the future is where it all comes together. I dump
that idiot Endymion for King Pulsar. A far better choice, if I do say so
myself. But one little trainee can destroy my future, YOU Rabbit. Upon,
finding this out I sent the less then competent Crueline to assassinate the
small Rabbit. And you Crueline couldn't even handle that, could you? You
let the stupid Rabbit into your head, let her twist your mind. But I forgive
your weakness. I'm not worried about the Rabbit now, I will get her later.
It has been fun seeing you again Annie, but I'm afraid our little party has
to end now. Oh and Crueline if you ever return to the future I'll torture
you myself. Ta ta." Master left through a black hole.
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"Annie, my dearest friend I want you to go with Rini to the past. She wants
to be a soldier like her friends, but I don't want her going to the past
alone. Please say you'll go with her? Please Annie, Annie, Annie..."
Athene woke from her nightmare, the same nightmare that plagued her dreams
ever since Master showed up. Sweat beads rippled down her forehead and neck.
Her breathing, somewhere during the night, had increased dramatically. Her
breathes came out in short puffs and her heart still was racing. She closed
her eyes, trying to keep from crying. Her heart ached and she felt
exhausted, but every time she went to lay down that awful dream played for her.
Athene knew what the dream was, she knew the meaning behind it, but she still
wanted it to leave her. "Why is the dream about the last time I saw
Serene?" Again she closed her eyes and took a deep breath. Her eyes opened
and her heart fell back to a normal rate. The sweat was drying in the
crisp summer air. It had been months since Master's appearance. Crueline
had stayed here in the past, she was helping train the senshi for when they
would have to fight the dark queen. Finally, exhaustion claimed the Soldier
of Wisdom, she slowly drifted to sleep and her nightmare...
A crystal city lay below the towering palace. A woman of great beauty stood
watching the people hurry along their way. A smile planted itself on the
lips of the white soldier. The uniform she wore was the uniform of the
Royal Guard. Each guardian's uniform matched their power. Mars had a red
skirt, purple bow and white suit. While Mercury had a white suit, dark blue
skirt and a light blue bow. This guardian had a white suit, bow, and skirt.
Some said she was the twin to Sailor Cosmos, just from another world. The
pure white guardian loved this city, this city was governed by her life long
friend, Neo Queen Serenity. They were friends since the time of the Silver
Millennium and that was thousands of years ago. The white guardian's bust
length blonde/brown hair gently danced in the breeze.
A woman of great power and wisdom approached the white guardian from behind.
This woman had long blonde hair in two buns on the top of her head and a
crown upon her brow. Her eyes blue, her gown white. "Annie." The woman
called. "Serene?" Athene turned to see her friend the queen of this crystal
city, Neo Queen Serenity. "Annie, my dearest friend I want you to go with
Rini to the past. She wants to be a soldier like her friends, but I don't
want her going to the past alone. Please say you'll go with her? Please
Annie, Annie, Annie..."
"NOOOO!!!" the scream filled the apartment and drifted into the city.
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"So Athene hasn't been sleeping well?"
"No, she wakes up breathing hard and sweating. Last night she screamed 'no'
out as loud as she could."
"What did you do?"
"Nothing, I thought it better if she come to us for help. At least that is
how my mother said Athene dealt with her problems."
"What?"
"She means that Athene will come to us when she is ready and not to confront
her till she wants to be confronted."
"Is there anything we can do?"
"No, not till she is ready."
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Athene walked around the small apartment in her under garments. She had been
living in this apartment for months now, so she felt comfortable enough to
express herself in such ways.
Dark purple/blue rings laid under her once beautiful blue eyes. Her hair was
pulled back into a ponytail and her steps seemed to take too much effort.
Her walk was slow and virtually unprogressive, but she continued through the
rooms of the apartment.
"Why the last time I saw her? Does she change into Master after Rini and I
leave? Is that it? It has to be." Her thoughts were always on the dream.
She had missed Scout training with Rini for 3 weeks now and the scouts had
begun to really worry. Athene had not left her apartment for more then a
month except for a few Scout Meetings, which now were forgotten.
Athene finally made it to the kitchen, she brewed some coffee and ate a donut
Lita had brought a few days before. After the intake of food and liquids
she slowly returned to her bedroom. The sun shown through the drapes in the
family room, the daylight beckoned the haunted woman to come and look.
Athene sensed this beckoning and accepted, she turned her direction toward the
balcony.
Upon approaching the balcony door, she opened the door and slid out onto the
balcony. She watched the people hurry on their ways around the city and it
felt almost like being back home. "That's it. The dream is telling me to
go home!"
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Five experienced warriors ran through a wooden area near a sacred temple
after a solitary rookie. The five female warriors had been a team for years
now and felt able enough to train the young rookie. At long last the warrior
mainly in green tackled the rookie in pink.
"Jupiter, good tackle!" a warrior in orange rang.
"Thanks Venus, now little one it is time for hand-to-hand combat," Jupiter
smiled to the pink rookie.
"Jupiter, are you okay?" a warrior in blue asked.
"Ya, Merc just fine. Time to show little one the combat stuff," Jupiter
smiled to the blue warrior named Mercury.
"Jupiter," a warrior in USA colors motioned for the green warrior to come to
her, she whispered in the green warrior's ear, "Lita don't go easy on her."
"Are you sure Sailor Moon?" Jupiter asked in a whisper.
"Ya, she needs to know this," Moon replied.
"Okay. Come on Little Moon lets rumble," Jupiter moved back to the pink
rookie. Sailor Chibimoon looked to the expert fighter and knew she was going
to get beaten and beaten badly.
Just as Jupiter was going to initiate the first blow a voice intervened,
"There is no need for that now, Sailor Jupiter."
Jupiter and others looked at the source in confusion. There stood Crueline
and Athene. Athene didn't look good, the rings under her eyes were severe.
She looked like a corpse that had risen from its holy grave to seek out its
long lost companion from when it was living.
It was Crueline that had stopped Sailor Jupiter, but it was evident that she
did it at the request of the Sailor of Wisdom. "I am sorry, but I need to
speak with the Princess," Athene spoke low, almost in a whisper not even the
wind could hear.
"Sure Athene, what is it?" Sailor Moon started to walk towards the haunted
remains of a new friend.
"I am sorry Sailor Moon, I meant Princess Small Lady Serenity," Athene looked
at the rookie in pink.
"Oh, no what did I do? Athene never calls me by my full name, unless
something is seriously wrong." The rookie walked to her protector.
"Princess, I need your Time Key."
"But why Athene?" Rini was worried.
"Just give it to me, your highness," Athene's eyes looked like they hurt just
to stay open.
"Okay," Rini slipped the chain off her neck and gave the Time Key to her
guardian. "Why does Athene want the Time Key?"
As if Athene could read the rookie's thoughts she answered, "I'm going home.
I need to check on things back there. I would take you with me, but I'm
afraid things will be very different and as your protector I most leave you
here. Here, where the Sailor Soldiers can protect you for me. I will be
home as soon as I can. Don't you worry. Sailor Moon, please watch her for
me."
"Sure."
"Thanks, I'll be back soon. You keep training." With her words complete
Athene lifted the hand that held the Time Key and said, "Time Key, I Sailor
Wisdom call upon your powers of travel. Take me to Pluto, take me to your
Gate Keeper. I Sailor of Wisdom command you." In a flash of maroon light
the Wisdom Soldier left the Earth for the space between time. The home of
the oldest known Sailor Soldier, Sailor Pluto.
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Athene was greeted by fog at the Time Gate. She stood, waiting for the
keeper to show herself. "Sailor Wisdom, you have arrived in time. As I
foresaw," Sailor Pluto's ageless voice beamed at the untransformed warrior of
truth and justice.
"Yes, I have come hoping that this is what my dreams have been telling me."
"And it is. You are as wise as the kingdom you were born from." Sailor
Pluto opened the Time Gate for the single warrior. "I trust you know what
to do Lady Athene?"
"Yes, thank you Lady Pluto. Mother would be grateful for your assistance.
You were always her favorite." Athene read the thoughts of the Time Soldier.
"I doubt that little sister," the Senshi of Time smiled at the Senshi of
Wisdom.
Athene only nodded her head, then stepped through the gate.
Pluto spoke after a quickly disappearing senshi, "Annie, be on your guard.
All that you remember is not true. Thou art courageous, goddess. Please,
be careful. I could not bare to watch my last family die at the hands of
the evils." A tear, clear as the crystal of Crystal Tokyo was made of, made its
way down the Senshi of Time's cheek.
To be continued...
God it feels good to write on this story again. It was been about a year
maybe more since I last wrote on this story. I liked writing as Athene
again, I find her so ... mysterious. I bet you all weren't expecting Athene
and Pluto were sisters, huh? To tell you the truth either was I, it just
kinda turned when I was writing the line.
Well, tell me what you think. Needless to say I will finish this story
whether or not I get feed-back. I want to thank Shanchan for liking this
particular fic so much. This is for you Shanchan, had you not asked I
wouldn't have started this today. Thank you.
This is continued from, 'Assassination.'
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