CHAPTER 7: THE GOODNESS WITHIN EVIL
"I need to get him out of my head!" Sailor Pluto slumped down against the Door of Time, "I wish I would have never seen him again!"
She felt a presence in her dimension. She stood up and searched the dense fog.
"Who goes there?" She said.
"Hello?" A voice said, "Setsuna?"
"Mamoru?" Sailor Pluto asked, "Endymion is that you?" Her heart was beginning to race.
"No, it's me." Safiru walked out of the fog in front of Sailor Pluto.
"I'm sorry Safiru. I thought you were someone else." She said.
"That's okay, I'm used to being misinterpreted." Safiru said, "Who's Endymion?"
"Just an old friend." Sailor Pluto said.
"Oh, I see." Safiru said.
"Well, you look kind of like him, and sound like him too. In the fog, that is." Sailor Pluto said.
"Prince Endymion, right?" Safiru figured it out.
"How did you know?" Sailor Pluto was suprised.
"I just figured it was him since you probably knew him on the Moon," Safiru said, "which reminds me why I came here. I thought now that you are back to yourself that you could tell me what the history books don't."
"Of course. What do you want to know about?" Sailor Pluto said, "I think you pretty much figured out the date problem. In the 'bedtime story version' they say the Silver Millennium occurred 1000 years before Princess Usagi's reincarnation, making it about 2000 years for you; to avoid the confusion of small children. But it actually occurred before the Earth as we know it formed. Approximately 5.1 billion years ago. I count even count the in-between years now. It's too confusing."
"Yeah, I figured that out. That's obvious," Safiru said, "But actually I want to know more about you."
"Me?" Sailor Pluto was shocked, then became modest and blushed, "Why me?"
"Because there is really not much about you known." Safiru said, "The book mentions you and says that you were elected to guard the Door of Time because you were the oldest and wisest scout..."
"Is that what they say?" Sailor Pluto interrupted, "That is what they tell you in a history book?"
"Yeah, see for yourself." Safiru handed an aged hard cover book to Sailor Pluto.
"The History of the Silver Millennium: The Moon Kingdom and Other Planetary Empires, interesting, where did you get this?" Sailor Pluto asked.
"I found it in an old library in Crystal Tokyo," Safiru said, taking the book back and flipping pages, "there is no illustrations, pictures, or diagrams in it, but that is what is so intriguing about it. That is how you know that there is inaccuracies. Here look." Safiru handed the book back to Sailor Pluto, pointing to a short paragraph. Sailor Pluto read it and laughed.
"Fixes my reputation at least." She said.
"That bad, huh?" Safiru asked.
Sailor Pluto nodded, "Do you really want to know more about me? I wouldn't want to lower your standards of me." She said.
"But it's the truth." Safiru said, "And the truth can be ugly and degrading, that is what I wanted to know, regardless of what it is."
Sailor Pluto smiled.
"You are too wise for your own good, Safiru." Sailor Pluto said, "That is a great quality, an education can never be taken away from you. Use it to your advantage, and use it well."
Sailor Pluto began to pace back and forth, recollecting all of her thoughts, "The Moon Kingdom was home to all the Planetary Princesses, and I grew up there my entire life because Pluto is such a barren and cold planet." Sailor Pluto began, "I was known as Princess Setsuna, the oldest of the princesses, but I was unlike any ordinary graceful princess. I was wild, always going out to parties and raves, I even owned my own rave club. I played jokes and pranks on all of the other princesses, but don't be fooled, I was good friends with all of them, and we shared many great moments together. I was definitely a go-getter. Always going after guys, and; how do I put this without sounding bad; having my way with them. You know what I mean. And I was very vain.
I had my good qualities too though. I was an accomplished fashion designer, I designed everyones dress in the court; I liked gardening; I loved to dance and have a good time; and I attempted to sing and compose music, but I had no luck there. I got along with almost everyone I met, considering my usual sarcastic remarks, and then tragedy hit.
Queen Beryl began her attack on the Universe, and my parents were sent on a peaceful delegation to her court. Queen Beryl murdered them and sent us back their heads as a warning."
Sailor Pluto began to sob but stopped. Safiru just stood there, a very interested look on his face, taking in as much as he could.
Sailor Pluto continued, "I then became Crown-Princess Setsuna, ruler of Pluto. I admit I was very upset, but I became so excited when I put the wings on my dress. You know the cloth butterfly wings. Neo Queen Serenity has them, they were used to show the crowned ruler of an empire. I was eighteen years old.
And them I met him. Actually I pretty much grew up with him, but it was so different. I'm talking about Prince Endymion now, in case you didn't know. Yeah, we grew up together, he's only one year older than me, I mean, he was one year older. I saw him for the first time in three years at a meeting of all the rulers of the different empires to discuss the ongoing war. We sat next to each other at the table to catch-up with one another, and I found that he was also orphaned by Beryl's murderous army. Then I was insulted by the Governor of the Europa Colony, and Endymion stood up for me, and I guess that is how it all started. We started to go out, and did for two years straight. Amazingly, I remained faithful to him. He made me feel so different about myself, that I was wanted and loved, but I still retained my wild disposition, going to clubs and parties, and that is what I thought caused our break-up, but it wasn't that. Apparently Endymion had fallen in love with someone else, not just anybody, Princess Usagi of the Moon Kingdom, a child of 14, Endymion was 21. I couldn't believe it, I talking total devastation to my ego and self-esteem here. Although he claimed that it had nothing to do with me and that he still wanted to be good friends, and we did, we were best friends. Then Endymion and Usagi became engaged, and I became jealous, which is perfectly normal. I mean, they were so perfect for each other, total soulmates, I had no objection to them being married at all.
Then during the last few months of the war, Endymion and Usagi had a bit of a fight, and stopped speaking to each other for a while."
Sailor Pluto stopped for a breath. Safiru was now sitting on the ground by her, and it looked as if he was taking notes.
"That's not all, is it?" He asked.
"Oh no, there is quite a bit more." Sailor Pluto said, "I remember this particular part very clearly," She joined Safiru on the hard, invisible floor of the dimension, and started again, "It was about a week before my birthday, and I was outside of my wing of the palace tending to my plants when Endymion shoves a bouquet of dark red and black roses in my face from behind me, they are my favorite colors. I jumped in suprise and turned around, I definitely didn't expect it to be him. I remember him saying that he wanted to celebrate an early birthday with me because he was going into battle. We mainly just walked around the garden, and talked about how bad our love lives suck. I mean, he was fighting with Usagi and my boyfriend, Shaun, who happened to be Usagi's cousin, was being a total dickhead. Then, I thought of a wicked scheme to get back at both of them both, since Usagi just pissed me off by fighting with Endymion and making him so upset, and she was one of my closest friends too, but Endymion was my very best friend.
So I pretended to trip and sprain my ankle, and Endymion, the gentleman he is, helped me up, and I 'stumbled' into a kiss with him, and pulled back like it was an accident. I was mastered at this gimmick, so I knew it would work, I was kind of a slut you could say. So he offered to help me up to my room, how kind of him; to rest my ankle. So we get up there and I can walk again, miraculously, and I offered him a cup of tea, but instead he said he had to leave. Obviously playing hard to get, that's okay, no problem for me. I escorted him to the door and we kiss each other good-bye, but I took the usual light peck that friends give to extremes, you know, one of those 'I don't know what came over me' suprise French kisses, and of course I recovered with that particular excuse. So we try again and this time, he does it to me. Before you know it, we can't stop, even though we should and we both know it. My plan was working perfectly, although now, I didn't want it to, my morals kicked in, when they never did before, but it was too late, we were already in bed together."
"Sounds like fun to me." Safiru said, laughing.
"You are a virgin, aren't you?" Sailor Pluto asked.
"How do you know?" Safiru was shocked, even his own brother didn't know that.
"You have very elementary thoughts." Sailor Pluto laughed, "I can read minds." She said, "Well, as I was saying..."
"I know, I know, Princess Usagi walked in, caught you in the act and told her mom who had you arrested and brought to trial. You were found guilty and sentenced to be her for eternity." Safiru rambled, "I know, I can read minds too, it's something I don't like to show off, though."
Sailor Pluto was shocked, "You? Cute, little, innocent Safiru? A mind reader? That has to be unethical." She said.
"I been doing it to almost everyone I know," Safiru said, "the stuff I uncover in Dimando and Esmeraude's minds are very interesting."
"I could imagine." Sailor Pluto said.
"Dimando's thoughts are alot cleaner than Esmeraude's, trust me." Safiru said.
Sailor Pluto looked into Safiru's mind, "Oh, isn't that cute," She said, "You have a crush on Esmeraude. Gotta thing for green hair?"
"You have no idea." Safiru said, an unusual look on his face, almost as if his was zoning while staring into Sailor Pluto's eyes.
"Oh no. I know that look." Sailor Pluto said, "Don't waste your time on me, Safiru. I'm definitely not your type, I'm older, more mastered, wait until you find someone else you really like, and your own age."
"That's not what you are thinking," Safiru said, "besides, I could learn from the best."
"What makes you think I am the best?" Sailor Pluto asked.
"You think so." He said, inching up closer to her, "Think of it as revenge on my brother, from both of us. We both know he deserves a good slap in the face. He never takes my advice anymore, only that ass, Wiseman's, and I think he's pissed you off enough now too." Safiru gently caressed Sailor Pluto's face.
"Oh, come on now, Safiru," Sailor Pluto said, "I don't think that sexual affairs are good revenge anymore."
"So?" Safiru said, then pulling Sailor Pluto into a passionate kiss with him.
"Not bad for a rookie." She said.
"I'm not a rookie, I'm a master." Safiru snickered, "It's my gift, my very own special talent." He leaned over and kissed her again, knocking her on her back with him on top of her. He then thrust his tongue deep into her mouth and played with her tongue.
Setsuna then returned the favor and separated from Safiru.
"That was better." She giggled. She then looked up at Safiru and noticed that his ears weren't pierced.
"He has no destructive powers, just passive? How can he defend himself if he has no powers?" She said in her head.
"I can teleport and mind read, that's it." Safiru said in his head, "And speak telepathically."
Sailor Pluto heard this, "Whoa, we can have conversations in our minds without speaking a word!" She said to him in her mind, "How kinky!" She pulled Safiru down into a kiss. She then rolled him over so that she was on top of him. Sailor Pluto then took her Time Key and slid it across the floor away from them.
She then turned to Safiru and said in her mind to him, "For the past few billion years I've been locked up in here being a good little girl and following all of the rules, and I'm sick of it. Why don't you and I break a few of those rules?"
Safiru replied simply with, "Oh, yeah."
Sailor Pluto reached up and took down her bun, and her long, deep green hair fell down and enveloped her entire body. She then slid off her gloves and turned to Safiru, "How would you like to be doMinakoted by a woman on your first time?" She said to him in her mind.
"But what if we get caught? This is kind of a public place." Safiru said.
"Then we get caught. Don't worry, this is not a high traffic area." Sailor Pluto said, then slowly unbuttoning Safiru's shirt, kissing his chest as she went down. She then ran her hands slowly up his body until she was completely stretched out and began to kiss his neck, then licked him and ran her tongue up his neck and slid it into Safiru's mouth. This tensed him right up. He definitely didn't expect it to be like this at all.
"You don't do well under pressure." Sailor Pluto said, "What happened to the wonderful 'gift of the kiss'?"
Safiru remained silent.
"Don't tell me you're bailing on me now, we haven't even started yet." Sailor Pluto said, stroking Safiru's chest, "Perhaps your belt is too tight." She said, sliding down to unbuckle his belt, but Safiru flipped over so that he was straddling her.
"I think I can take it from here." He said, undoing his belt and his pants, then leaning over to kiss Sailor Pluto's neck, but he choker got in the way, so he tried to get it off.
"Don't even try it, it won't budge." She said, "It's what stops me from aging, if you could manage to get it of, I would probably waste away to nothing. You can't have much fun with a pile of dust!"
"I'll improvise then." Safiru said, kissing her collar bone, as he struggled to get her sailor outfit off.
"Allow me." Sailor Pluto said, taking hold of Safiru's hands and making them follow the length of her torso, and her outfit completely disappeared, leaving her completely naked. Before Safiru could say anything though, she pulled him into a kiss.
She flipped her boots off and doing as she did with Dimando, pulled Safiru's pants down to his ankles with her feet. Then she wrapped her legs around his body and pulled him into her.
"You are definitely goo at this." Safiru said.
"You have no idea." Sailor Pluto said, again pulling him into a kiss.
Safiru moaned in pleasure, as Sailor Pluto pulled him deeper inside her, but then Sailor Pluto felt a presence in her dimension. She pushed Safiru off her and hid the best she could while she transformed back.
"Thanks now for the early warning system." She said to herself. "Shhh." She turned to Safiru, who was in an erotic daze.
Sailor Pluto then returned to her post in front of the Door of Time and searched for someone lurking in the fog. She reached out her hand and her Time Key flew into it.
"Who goes there?" Sailor Pluto demanded.
"Let me pass." Said a man coming out of the fog in front of her. Sailor Pluto had never seen him before and sensed that he was trouble, "Let me pass!" He said again.
"You are trespassing in my dimension, therefore I should kill you, but I will give you thirty seconds to get out of here first." Sailor Pluto said.
"No, you are going to let me pass, or I am going to kill you." The man said, taking a gun out of his pocket.
"Give me your best shot." Sailor Pluto said calmly.
The man shot three rounds at Sailor Pluto, and they passed straight through her without even phasing her or leaving a mark.
"Nice try." She said to the stunned man, "Now it's my turn." Sailor Pluto raised her Time Key over her head and shouted, "Pluto Dead Scream Destroy!" She then screamed so loudly that it turned into a sonic blast, shattering her opponent into a pile of dust.
She turned back to face the shocked Safiru, "All in a days work." She said.
"Uh..." Safiru struggled on his words, "I, uh, think I need to get back." He stumbled as he quickly tried to put his pants on.
"Did I scare you?" Sailor Pluto asked, "I never realized what it would be like if someone else saw me do that. It's routine now. It happens more than you think. Ever since they perfected the time machine, anybody thinks that they can just hop in and take a look at the dinosaurs. It's not as easy as that, they have to deal with me first."
"I did kinda scare me, but why did you have to kill him?" Safiru said, not rushing as he was before.
"They have to be worthy enough to travel through time. Mentally ready and physically ready." Sailor Pluto said, "You saw how ignorant he was. He was even carrying a gun. Not Time Warp material."
"I see what you mean." Safiru said, "Now how does Esmeraude get through?" He laughed.
"She gets down on her hands and knees and begs." Sailor Pluto laughed.
"I have to see that! I..." Safiru stopped and held his head as he sensed something, "Esmeraude is dead." He said softly.
"How do you know?" Sailor Pluto asked.
"Whenever a member of our family dies, we sense it, like we hear their voices or see their image. I gotta go." Safiru said.
"Go then Safiru," Sailor Pluto said, "Go to your brother, he needs you most now. Although I'm afraid losing Esmeraude will not affect him much."
"Good-bye." Safiru said, and then kissed Sailor Pluto before phasing out.
"Stay strong Safiru," Sailor Pluto said after he had gone, "for you are next."
* * * *
A few moments later as it seemed to Sailor Pluto, Prince Dimando and another woman phased into the dimension. Sailor Pluto sensed something familiar about the woman, which became clear when she spoke.
"Hello, Luna P!" She said.
"Chibi-Usa? Small Lady?" Sailor Pluto said, examining the young woman, "Is that you?"
It did look a lot like Chibi-Usa, with the pink hair that now fell to the ground it her rabbit-ear pigtails. She was wearing a tight burgundy velvet dress with high side slits and a red mesh underlay. Wrapped around her body was a pink shawl and on her forehead was a DarkMoon.
"I'm not called Chibi-Usa anymore." The woman said, "Wiseman made me all grown up and powerful. Now I'm called Wicked Lady."
Sailor Pluto turned to Dimando, "What have you done to her?" She asked.
"It was none of my doing. All Wiseman's." Dimando replied, "You deserved it."
"I deserved it? Sailor Pluto asked inquisitively, "How?"
Dimando stepped closer to Sailor Pluto so the still young ears of Wicked Lady couldn't hear.
"You fucked my brother so I fucked with your little niece." He said.
"Damn bastard!" Sailor Pluto said, "I swear, if you so much as touch her the wrong way it'll be your ass."
"At least you aren't denying it." Dimando said, "So tell me, who was better? Safiru or me?"
"For the good of the people of the Planet Earth I'm not going to answer that question." Sailor Pluto said.
"Oh I see." Dimando said, "You don't want me to be full of myself, huh?"
"No, I just don't want to crush you ego. Pending it's not as small as your dick." Sailor Pluto said.
Dimando blushed and growled at Sailor Pluto, who seemed to be satisfied with his reaction.
"Come on already!" Wicked Lady whined, "I have a planet to trash!"
"Good luck." Sailor Pluto said, opening the Door of Time for them, "You are going to need it." She winked at Dimando as he stepped through. She shut the Door and said, "And now here's why."
Sailor Pluto clutched the garnet orb in her Time Key and sent a holographic projection of herself to the Sailor Scouts still in the future. She told them about Chibi-Usa and opened the Door of Time for them to go back to the past.
* * * *
Safiru was cornered by Wiseman. He had taken the control chip out of the energy reactor of the Dark Crystal after overhearing Wiseman's plan to destroy the Universe, and had to go warn Dimando, but Wiseman got to him first.
Sailor Pluto knew this, she could see him in her mind, and was going to save him.
Just as Wiseman shot an energy beam at Safiru, Sailor Pluto used her powers to teleport him to her dimension. He appeared before her, severely bruised and shaking from Wiseman's energy. He then collapsed before her coughing violently. But Sailor Pluto pulled him up again.
"Safiru, what the hell were you thinking?" Sailor Pluto scolded him like a young child, "You could have gotten killed!"
Safiru sputtered out, "Wiseman...He's...I have to go warn Dimando."
"You are in no condition to go running around Tokyo looking for your brother." Sailor Pluto said, "I can't help you though. You must go to the past anyway and find another who can. A loved one from your past."
"Another?" Safiru asked, he had fully caught his breath, "Who?"
"You will know when you get there, but don't look for them, they will find you ." Sailor Pluto then opened the Door of Time, "Now go." She said.
"I will never forget you." Safiru said, stepping into the void.
"Don't make promises you can't keep." Sailor Pluto said, and then shut the Door.
Sailor Pluto then watched Safiru's every move in her garnet orb. She saw Petz, Safiru's former girlfriend take care of him. She saw the Sailor Scouts trying to protect him when he went to face Dimando, despite Wicked Lady's cruel intentions; and she saw Wiseman destroy Safiru, ignoring Dimando's orders.
Dimando then retrieved Safiru's body and took it back to the future, avoiding Sailor Pluto completely in the Timeless Dimension. She solemnly opened the Door of Time for him and shut it softly behind him.
Safiru truly was the goodness within evil.