The Cracked Mirror
Zandrellia - zandrellia@excite.com
This is a story about Small Lady/Chibi-Usa/Reenie and Elios/Pegasus/Helios.
Please read the author's notes file before this so that you can understand
some of my reasons for certain plot twists and character attitudes.
Thank you and I hope you enjoy the story.
*****The Dress*****
She turned to her gown and stared at it. It was just how she had requested.
Just how she remembered it. The exact replica of the gown she wore as Black
Lady. She didn't want it to be flirtatious or dangerous, but because it was
the perfect gown for her. Black was a wonderful color on her and the red
only enhanced her eyes.
Ikuko knew that she didn't have to fool anyone here. She WAS flirtatious and
dangerous. No, she didn't have to hide anymore. These people accepted her.
The young woman sighed and pulled her dress on over her slim figure. She
glanced at her reflection and remembered the one main reason she wanted this
dress above others.
It made her feel beautiful.
***
Serenity grumbled something about not being able to make the first appearance
due to lying about being happy and how it was unroyal to decive her subjects.
Her husband laughed and pulled her into his arms and a loving embrace. "It
will be all right Usako. Don't you worry. I'll be there for you."
She turned to putty in his hands and gazed up at him as if she were a love
struck fourteen year old girl yet again.
And then as her luck would have it someone cleared their throat from the
vacinity of the floor. "It's time to go. Everyone is waiting on you." Artemis
said with a look of apology for ruining the private moment.
"Thank you Artemis. We'll be there in just a moment." Endymion said as he
took one last look at his wife and kissed her just for being beautiful. She
blushed a lovely shade of pink and smiled.
They walked out the doors and into the hall leading to the gazebo in the main
market where they always made their first appearances. Suddenly the king
stopped in mid stride and looked at his wife. "There's something missing."
She glanced around herself wondering what he was talking about and thinking
she may have forgotten to put some lip gloss on or had a run in her hose or
any of the other trival stupid things girls think of when they are nervous.
"What is it? Did I forget something?!"
He smiled and tucked a deep red rose, perfectly trimmed and cut so that it
would have no thorns to scar her, behind her right ear. "Now we can go."
The woman smiled and leaned in to kiss her husband again. He was always so
sweet and full of surprises. And he knew just how to make her smile.
The happy couple came out of the hall and onto the gazebo before the town and
guests and the guard who had come followed behind.
Everyone cheered for the royal couple and Serenity was beginning to think she
could do this when she saw something out of the corner of her eye. Something
she thought she would never see again.
-It couldn't be! Could it?- She wondered as she glanced around nervously
looking for any sign that what she saw was true or not. And then she saw her.
Or at least, she saw the backside of her. Black Lady! Her grip on her
husband's arm tightened and her well manicured nails dug into his flesh.
He glanced over at her wondering what was wrong. No one had seemed to have
seen what she did. She was beginning to wonder if she had imagined it all.
And then the woman she thought was Black Lady was being called to by a small
girl in a pink taffetta dress. The woman turned to the left slightly but
didn't turn all the way. Serenity strained to hear the name the girl was
calling and was shocked to hear what she did. -IKUKO!?!-
It was at this moment that Ikuko turned completely to face Tanya and the
queen fainted.
*****End Part Ten*****
Zandrellia - zandrellia@excite.com
This is a story about Small Lady/Chibi-Usa/Reenie and Elios/Pegasus/Helios.
Please read the author's notes file before this so that you can understand
some of my reasons for certain plot twists and character attitudes.
Thank you and I hope you enjoy the story.
*****The Dress*****
She turned to her gown and stared at it. It was just how she had requested.
Just how she remembered it. The exact replica of the gown she wore as Black
Lady. She didn't want it to be flirtatious or dangerous, but because it was
the perfect gown for her. Black was a wonderful color on her and the red
only enhanced her eyes.
Ikuko knew that she didn't have to fool anyone here. She WAS flirtatious and
dangerous. No, she didn't have to hide anymore. These people accepted her.
The young woman sighed and pulled her dress on over her slim figure. She
glanced at her reflection and remembered the one main reason she wanted this
dress above others.
It made her feel beautiful.
***
Serenity grumbled something about not being able to make the first appearance
due to lying about being happy and how it was unroyal to decive her subjects.
Her husband laughed and pulled her into his arms and a loving embrace. "It
will be all right Usako. Don't you worry. I'll be there for you."
She turned to putty in his hands and gazed up at him as if she were a love
struck fourteen year old girl yet again.
And then as her luck would have it someone cleared their throat from the
vacinity of the floor. "It's time to go. Everyone is waiting on you." Artemis
said with a look of apology for ruining the private moment.
"Thank you Artemis. We'll be there in just a moment." Endymion said as he
took one last look at his wife and kissed her just for being beautiful. She
blushed a lovely shade of pink and smiled.
They walked out the doors and into the hall leading to the gazebo in the main
market where they always made their first appearances. Suddenly the king
stopped in mid stride and looked at his wife. "There's something missing."
She glanced around herself wondering what he was talking about and thinking
she may have forgotten to put some lip gloss on or had a run in her hose or
any of the other trival stupid things girls think of when they are nervous.
"What is it? Did I forget something?!"
He smiled and tucked a deep red rose, perfectly trimmed and cut so that it
would have no thorns to scar her, behind her right ear. "Now we can go."
The woman smiled and leaned in to kiss her husband again. He was always so
sweet and full of surprises. And he knew just how to make her smile.
The happy couple came out of the hall and onto the gazebo before the town and
guests and the guard who had come followed behind.
Everyone cheered for the royal couple and Serenity was beginning to think she
could do this when she saw something out of the corner of her eye. Something
she thought she would never see again.
-It couldn't be! Could it?- She wondered as she glanced around nervously
looking for any sign that what she saw was true or not. And then she saw her.
Or at least, she saw the backside of her. Black Lady! Her grip on her
husband's arm tightened and her well manicured nails dug into his flesh.
He glanced over at her wondering what was wrong. No one had seemed to have
seen what she did. She was beginning to wonder if she had imagined it all.
And then the woman she thought was Black Lady was being called to by a small
girl in a pink taffetta dress. The woman turned to the left slightly but
didn't turn all the way. Serenity strained to hear the name the girl was
calling and was shocked to hear what she did. -IKUKO!?!-
It was at this moment that Ikuko turned completely to face Tanya and the
queen fainted.
*****End Part Ten*****