Different Time
and Space
Part 5: Piece of
the Past
Disclaimer: I do not own any RW or SM characters…except maybe their kids.
Neo Moon could not believe what her grandmother had just told her, "Night Defender of Earth, huh?" she mumbled, "wow…"
Queen Serenity nodded, "that is what you've been training for."
"Grandmother Serenity," Neo Moon said, "I have a question."
"What is it, dear child?"
"You are not angry with my mother that she chose to be with Rowen of the Strata instead of my father, are you?" she asked with a frown.
"Of course not." She answered.
"But they were reborn to meet each other and fall in love again," Neo Moon recalled, "but it didn't turn out that way."
"That's not the main reason they were reborn," Queen Serenity said.
"It's not?"
"They were reborn for a second chance at life," Queen Serenity explained, "They met each other again but they didn't necessarily have to fall in love all over again. They were in love a thousand years ago and that was a long time ago. Things were different then. They were free to choose whoever they wanted to spend their lives with."
Neo Moon sighed in relief, "thank goodness. I thought you would be."
"Besides," Queen Serenity smiled, "I have 4 wonderful grandchildren; what a blessing!"
"Yeah, 4 grandchildren," Neo Moon said with a nod, "What? 4? Don't you mean 2? Me and Rowena?"
"In this dimension I have 2 granddaughters," Queen Serenity told her, "and in another 2 grandsons."
"I have 2 brothers?" she mumbled.
"And another sister."
"Just how many brothers and sisters to I have?" Neo Moon demanded, starting to have the biggest headache of her life.
"In this dimension, you have your half sister Rowena and half brother Vincent," she said slowly, "and in another, you have a different half brother and sister and a full blood brother; Simon, Monica and Kenneth. You see, child, in another dimension the genders of you and your scouts have been switched."
"So, I'm a boy in another dimension?" Neo Moon asked.
"Yes."
She giggled slightly.
"Your friends wished for brothers and now they have them," Serenity said, "they live in another dimension so they were never able to see before until now. You see, Rini, you and your friends have a lot in common. All of your parents were soldiers and that makes you more powerful than they were."
"I wonder what the next generation will be like." Neo Moon joked.
"Now let's not get ahead of ourselves," Serenity teased.
"So that's where everyone is now? The other dimension?" she asked.
"Yes," she said, her voice becoming a little serious, "and they are in trouble."
"They are?" Neo Moon rose to her feet and grunted as she felt pain in her side, "is my brother all right? I mean, brothers? And everyone else?"
She shook her head, "the enemies in this dimension seemed to have followed your scouts."
She sighed, "What can I do?"
"I am going to give you new powers," she replied, "now child, to business." She held out her hand to Neo Moon's broach and a white light connected to it. The top flipped up and the gem inside began to glow with the light from Serenity's powers. Neo Moon began to feel stronger.
"What's happening to me?" she asked.
"Didn't I just tell you that your father was a warrior to?" Serenity reminded.
The beads and rubies in Neo Moon's hair disappeared. Her lavender bow in the back vanished and the one in the front grew large, forming a breastplate. Her white body suite changed to blue and her skirt gold, changing into a suite of armor. Her boots changed to black and so did her gloves, the bands disappearing. It looked a lot like her father's armor mixed with a sailor scout suit. On her breastplate was the Earth with the crescent moon symbol inside of it. Her tiara vanished and was replaced with a crown-like helmet with wings. She looked down behind her and her back flap had grown into a long blue cape with the Earth in space with a crescent moon on the right side, two moonbeams connecting them.
"This is amazing," Neo Moon gasped.
"This is the sword your brother, Prince Purity, uses," Serenity said and a long, broad, two-handed sword appeared in her hands. The blade of it was at least 4 feet long.
Unable to believe the size of the sword, she raised an eyebrow and said, "I think you should let him keep it."
"I had a feel you might say something like that," Serenity smiled, "would you kneel, please?"
She nodded and took a knee before her. Serenity touched the blade of the sword on both of her shoulders and pulled it back up. As she held it back into her palms, the sword began to glow and split into two small swords, the blades 2 feet long. The handles were a pearly white with a rose circulating around both of them. Where the base of the swords met the hilts, there were upturned moon crescent shaped hand guards. On one, the moon sword, there was a full moon in hilt. The other, the Earth sword, was the earth. In between the two swords, lied a dagger. "You may use these instead: the moon sword, the Earth sword and the dagger."
When Neo Moon came back to her feet, two sheaths appeared on her back and a smaller one on her ankle. She took the weapons and sheathed them. "I find all this hard to believe. What is this, grandmother?"
"You're the new queen of the moon," she said, "Think of this as a late wedding present." She smiled, "Because your mother is Sailor Moon and your father is King Ediymon, you and your brother, Kenneth, are the night defenders of Earth. Vincent and Monica are the day defenders of Earth. It is your duty to protect the Earth at night, but," she continued, a small grin appearing on her lips, "as a queen, you must take care of Earth at all times, day or night."
"I'll do my best," Rini, the night defender vowed, "You have my word."
"Now hurry," her grandmother commanded, showing her the way, "Your brothers and sisters need you and so does the new scouts and ronins."
"I have one more question," she said, "Grandmother Serenity, who's my grandfather?"
She was silent for a while, "you will know in time. Good luck. I'm very proud of you."
"You're not going to tell me, are you?" she pried, "very well. Thank you for the present. I wish you could have been there, to my wedding I mean."
"I was, my dear," Queen Serenity said, "I am always," she disappeared, but her voice echoed, "watching."
Rini went to through the portal to the other dimension.
Darien stopped suddenly.
"What's wrong, Darien?" Mia asked.
"I'm not sure," he said and looked down at his armor, which was starting to glow.
"I don't see Rini," Serena said worriedly, "where is she?"
"The blood stopped here," Ami noted, "but I see that the ground here is all charred."
"We are on the right track," Yuli said. "We're close." He saw a portal about to close; "she must have went through there!" he ran up to the portal and disappeared inside it.
"Yuli wait for us!" Neo Queen Serenity commanded but her son in law was already gone.
"Let the boy go," Queen Serenity appeared again. "I have to speak with you anyway."
"Mother!" Neo Queen Serenity cried.
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Rowena could not stand it any longer. Vincent showed no sign of coming back around. Phyllis was still working on him. The monster that mauled him lay down dead a few yards away. Roland and Robyn took care of that but it still did not change Vincent's condition.
"Phyllis?" Rowen mumbled, "anything?"
"We're losing him, we're losing him," Phyllis said, anger and worry in her voice. There was no way she was going to let her best friend's only love in the world die. No way, there was no way. "Come on, Vincent! CLEAR!" ZZZZZZTTTTTTT
"I think it was the poison that stopped his heart," Joy said.
"I can't take this," Rowena fretted, "I'm going to lose him!"
ZZZZZZZZZTTTTTTT
"I should have been nicer to him," she battered herself, "I shouldn't have been so cold."
"Don't say things like that," Simon said. "He risked his life for you."
"No, Simon," Rowena mumbled, "This is all my fault!" she began to get closer, "I can't let him die! I'll give him my life!" She prepared herself to give all of her life energy so Vincent would live; but she would die.
"No!" Simon shouted, restraining her, "his sacrifice would have met nothing! Let Phyllis continue to work on him. It's not too late."
"Vincent!" Rowena cried, "I'm so sorry!"
Phyllis could feel her strength decreasing every time she shocked Vincent to get his heart beating but she would not give up. She was determined to keep going. "CLEAR!" ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZTTTTTTT
Joy motioned Phyllis to stop and pressed her fingers to his neck. She looked up with a hopeful smile, "I feel a pulse."
Everyone let out a sigh, Phyllis' being the loudest as she fell backward.
"Are you all right, Phyllis?" Lucas asked.
"I think I short circuited myself," she groaned. "I'll be okay in a minute or so."
There was a pulse but he wasn't breathing yet. Joy leaned over and began rescue breathing. After four breaths, he began to breath slightly but did not come out of his unconsciousness. The warlords and war ladies came onto the clearing.
"Is everyone okay?" Priscilla asked in a shout.
"I think so," Robyn shouted back. "Vincent is still unconscious."
They came closer and began asking what had happened.
"I think it was poison that stopped his heart," Joy said.
"Don't worry," Ivy said, "I have the anti-venom right here!" she unsheathed her sword and pricked him slightly on his hand and the substance from her sword attacked the poison, drying it out. The alien's venom drew away from Vincent's body and fell into the grass, killing it. "He should be fine."
"Who are they?" Lucas asked Phyllis.
"The war ladies," she replied, "from our dimensions. I guess I don't have to ask who the guys and girl are, huh?"
Vincent slowly began to flitter his eyes.
"I think he is starting to come around," Joy noted.
"Vincent," Rowena whispered hopefully, "can you hear me?"
"R-Rowena?" he mumbled and finally opened his eyes. "Uh, what happened?"
Rowena fell down by his side and took his hand, "You were attacked. You saved my life, Vincent." She bit her lip, "Thank you."
"I didn't want something to happen to you this time," he said. With his free hand, he reached up and pushed her long bangs out of her face.
"I'm sorry, Vincent," she said, close to crying, "I'm so sorry!"
"Why?"
"For pushing you away," she answered with a sniff, "I've been so cold to you! I didn't mean it. I guess all this quest stuff has gone to my head. I take being a sailor scout and a ronin warrior all too seriously."
"There's no need to apologize," he said. "That's why I love you, Rowena."
"I love you too," she sobbed and fell down on his chest, "I'd lay down my life for you!"
"She almost did," Simon said, "She was about to give you all her life energy so you'd come back."
"Rowena," Vincent sighed.
"I've got a bad feeling," Robyn stated.
"Oh, what now?" Rochelle demanded, "I swear, Robyn, you always get these bad feelings at the worst possible times!"
"Hey, look!" Stone cried, pointing down to the
distance, "That thing has friends!"
"You guys showed up at the perfect time," Simon told the war ladies and warlords,
There had to be at least fifty venomous aliens crawling up the ground. The situation was not good.
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"Mother, is it really you?" Neo Queen Serenity asked.
She nodded. "It is."
"Have you seen Rini?" Neo Queen Serenity inquired, "Is she all right?"
"Oh, I'm sure she is," the late Queen Serenity replied. "With the new present I just gave her."
"Present? What kind of present?"
"Armor."
"Armor?" Darien asked and looked at his own, "that explains why my armor was just glowing!"
"Yes," Queen Serenity said with a nod.
"Are all our children all right?" Joy asked.
"Of course," Queen Serenity answered, "they're not alone. Their brothers are with them."
"Brothers?" Lita said, "We don't have any sons!"
"I'm sure we would know that if we did," Sage added.
"You do," Queen Serenity said, "but in another dimension. The girls wish they had brothers and they did, but they were in a place they couldn't get to. Until now."
"Can we get there?" Sai asked.
She shook her head.
"Your majesty!" Trista shouted. "I was trying to send you a message a moment ago. Is everything all right?"
"Rini ran away," Neo Queen Serenity said.
Trista gasped when she saw the image of the late Queen Serenity, "I don't believe it!"
"Hello, Sailor Pluto," Queen Serenity said.
"Who is that?" Kale asked Trista.
"It's the late Queen Serenity," Trista replied, "She died over 1000 years ago."
"Your children are all right," Queen Serenity told them, "they are strong because you all were warriors. Pretty soon they will be stronger than you. They are in another dimension where the genders of the children are switched."
"They what?" Sekhmet asked.
"She means that Ivy has a brother in another dimension," Michelle whispered to her husband.
"Brother?" Sekhmet cried, "Michelle, is there anything you want to tell me?"
"Honey," Michelle sighed, "we have a son that we never met before in another dimension. Do you understand?"
"I think so," Sekhmet mumbled.
"I wonder what our boys are like," Anubis said, "Are they anything like us when we became warlords?"
"No," Queen Serenity said, "they are, in fact, much different." She smiled and the four warlords exchanged glances, both worried and confused.
"What on earth can she mean?" Dais asked his friends.
"I'm not sure," Kale said.
"Mia," Queen Serenity said, "I have something to tell you."
"What?" Mia asked.
"Just like my daughter," she said, "you are also a princess. You are the princess of the sun."
"I am?" she mumbled, "but that's impossible!"
"It's true," Queen Serenity said, "1000 years ago you lived inside the sun."
"How can you live in the sun?" Kento asked, "wouldn't she have burned up?"
"Not Mia."
"How come I don't remember it?" Mia inquired.
"You lost your memory when you were born," she replied, "Just like Serena. You two are cousins."
"We're cousins?" Mia and Serena echoed, exchanging glances.
"Yes. Kayura is also your cousin."
"How can that be?" Kayura asked.
"You were a princess of the stars," Queen Serenity added, "during the same time Serena was a princess of the moon and Mia the princess of the sun."
"It makes some sense," Mia said, "When I got the armor of the sun and met the phoenix, it took me a ride into the sun."
"Because you both had children with the same man," Queen Serenity informed, "who is the defender of Earth, you're children will take on the responsibility. Your children, Monica and Vincent are the day defenders Earth." She looked at Darien and Serena, "and yours, Rini and Kenneth are the night defenders of Earth."
Neo Queen Serenity lowered her eyes, "are you mad at me for choosing to be with Rowen?"
"Of course not," she said, with a smile, "I'm just glad to see you happy. In fact, your daughter asked me the same thing."
"She did?" Neo Queen Serenity asked.
Her mother nodded, "Yes. She grew up to be a beautiful woman. She asked me something else too."
"What was that?"
"Who her grandfather was."
"Who is my father anyway?" Neo Queen Serenity asked.
Queen Serenity smiled, "there was only a matter of time when you were going to find out," she said, "Might as well tell you know." She looked to her left and another image appeared. The warlords and ronins gasped. The figure was the ancient.
"Serena," Rowen said to her, "your father is the Ancient?!"
"I guess so," she said, unable to believe it herself.
"This is unbelievable," Mia mumbled.
"We've all been watching you since the beginning," the Ancient said, "you were destined to meet each other. We foresaw many new evils arriving and so we made it so you could meet."
"When Beryl sided with Talpa," Ryo recalled.
"Yes, that was where it all began."
"I guess this was what you meant when you said," Rowen voiced, looking to the ancient and then to his wife, "'There is your path, make it a journey.'"
"It all makes sense now," Sage said, "when the scouts got their armors."
"Yes," Hotaru chimed, "you had armors for us too."
"We both made them," Queen Serenity said. "You deserved them."
"Thank you," Ami said.
"We will leave now," The Ancient One voiced, "but we will leave a window for you so you can see to the new dimension where your children are."
"We can't go there?" Hotaru asked.
"No," Queen Serenity replied, "leave the fighting to your children. You'll be amazed at just how powerful they are."
"Remember," the ancient said and his voice began to blend with Queen Serenity's as they began to vanish, "we are always watching."
They were gone, but left a window for them all to look through.
"That was pretty amazing," Ryo sighed.
"Yeah, I know," Raye agreed.
"Well, let's look through this window, shall we?" Kento said, "It will be watching a home video!" He looked at Mina, "Honey, could you turn up the sound?"
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"I think that one we killed was their master!" Lucas shouted.
"We don't have time for this," Joy said, "We need to get the Crystal Prism Orb, pronto!"
"Then let's hurry up!" Phyllis shouted, getting up.
"No, Phyllis, save your strength!" Lucas implored.
"I'm fine now, Lucas," she told him.
"Oh," Murdock groaned, "I wasn't hoping we'd have to fight these things."
"They're aliens, Murdock," Ivy told him, "Look what they almost did to Vincent!"
"Yes, but even aliens have a purpose," he said.
"Okay, stay here and cover me," she commanded and went to the first alien she saw. "RIVER OF POISON!" She sent a flowing river of poison at the alien but its own poison neutralized the venom of her attack. "What, it didn't work!"
The alien made an angry cry and lunged at Ivy. She gasped and backed up
"Ivy!" Murdock shouted and went to her aid,
"Back to darkness with you, you evil spawn of SAAATAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!"
"Murdock," Ivy warned, "poison doesn't work on them!"
"WATERS OF BAPTISM!" he sent a flow of purified water to the alien who was about to pounce on Ivy and the ones surrounding it. The water was like an anti-venon to aliens and it made them melt.
"Why didn't' I think of that?" Ivy asked.
"Because you never tried," he told her, "you always use your swords to poison."
"Not true!" she argued, "Didn't you just see me heal Vincent back there?"
"Let's hurry up and destroy these things so we can get the orb back," Rochelle said. "Up to it?" she turned to her brother.
"You bet," he said. "Come on!" They ran up to the giant and fearsome beasts.
"COAL ROCK CRUSHER!" Rochelle slammed her diamond-coated staff into the earth, sending a crack up to the enemies. Coal and diamonds shot out and hit the by standing aliens.
"CEMENT TAR STICKER!" Stone sent a dark black flow of tar at the aliens and they were stuck in the black goo.
"Yes!" Rochelle shouted.
Some angry aliens spurted their venom at Rochelle and Stone. "Rochelle!" Stone cried and grabbed his sister's arm, "CEMENT BLOCKER!" The earth came up in front of them and prevented the poison from getting them.
"Wow, great thinking," Rochelle said.
"There's still more!" Monica shouted.
"Man, this is going to take us a while," Roland groaned.
"MOON EARTH SWIRLING!" a familiar voice rung out, followed by two energy blasts swirling together, one looking like the moon and the other the Earth. It took out a quarter of the aliens.
"Rini!" Vincent and Rowena shouted.
"Yeah, it's me," Rini said, lowering her swords.
"Where did you get that armor?" Rowena asked.
"Oh this?" she said, looking down it sheepishly, "just a late wedding present from our grandmother!"
"EARTH MOON THRUST!" Another voice not recognized by Rini or Rowena, but by the boy warriors. The attack soon followed; something like Rini's but the energies were as one and was stronger.
"King Purity!" Lee cried.
"Kenneth, what are you doing here?" Simon asked.
A boy that looked very much like Darien walked up. His hair was the color of limes, and his eyes were crimson like Rini's. On his forehead was the royal golden crescent moon symbol and he wore a suit of armor very much like Darien's and Rini's. Instead he carried the huge sword and his crown looked different than Rini's. The cape on his back matched Rini's except for that the moon was on the right side.
"I felt someone's pain," Kenneth said. "Who was hurt? I couldn't tell who it was."
"It was me," Vincent said.
"Who are you?" Kenneth asked.
"Your um," Vincent replied, "new half brother."
"So you're the brother my Grandmother Serenity talked about!" Rini shouted.
Yuli passed through the portal and found Rini, "Rini, are you okay?"
"I'm fine," Rini called back.
Yuli stopped five feet in front of her, "Rini, where'd you get that?"
"It's a wedding present from my grandmother," she replied.
"Who's this?" he asked, pointing at the young man, "he looks a lot like Darien!"
"This is Kenneth, my brother," she told him, "and your brother in law."
"My brother in law?" he mumbled, "I thought Vincent was!"
"You got more than just one, buddy!" Vincent cried out, still laying on the ground.
"Vincent," Yuli went over and grabbed his arm and helped him up, "you okay?" he asked his best friend.
He nodded, "yeah, I got hurt but they were able to bring me back."
Yuli noticed the girl next to Kenneth, "who are you?"
"Oh, I'm sorry," Kenneth said, "this is my wife, Yvonne."
"Hi," Yvonne greeted. She had black hair that fell down to her shoulders and blue eyes.
"I got a sister in law now too?" Rini mumbled.
"I met her when she and the ronins came to help us," Kenneth explained.
"Did you say ronins?" Yuli asked.
"That's right. Her parents and home was attacked by Talpa and the dynasty and then she made friends with the ronins and Mia."
Yuli made a nervous laugh. "No way," Yuli mumbled. "What's your story, sister?" he demanded and said, "I can't believe I just said that!"
"Yes," Yvonne said, "my parents took me to buy a new doll."
"A doll?" he muttered.
"That's right," she replied, "what did you expect, a skateboard?"
"Then what happened?" Yuli asked, "You met Ryo, right?"
She was surprised at how he knew, "Mm-hmm, there was some commotion and I dropped my doll. I picked her up and then something licked me in the face! I began to scream!"
Yuli laughed.
"It's not funny! I thought the tiger was going to eat me!"
Yuli became serious and said braggingly, "my story's better."
"And why is that?" she demanded.
"Well, my parents got me a skateboard and when Whiteblaze licked me, I didn't scream!"
"You probably almost wet your pants," Yvonne teased.
"I was surprised, not scared," Yuli said. "I thought Whiteblaze was pretty cool!"
"Whatever!" Yvonne groaned.
"Hey, I don't want to break up the little get together," Stone shouted, "but there are still a bunch of aliens here!"
"Then let's take care of it," Rochelle shouted.
"Duncan, if we make an illusion together," Gwen said, "it will be twice as strong."
"No," Duncan disagreed, "I'll leave the illusions up to you. I'll cover you."
"Well, okay," she said, "ELEMENT OF SURPRISE!" She made the aliens stop moving.
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"That's my girl," Dais said proudly.
"I wish she would do more than just throw illusions around," Amara said.
"What's wrong with them?" Dais demanded.
"Nothing," Amara said, "I only meant that she should do a little more than cast illusions. I mean, if they didn't work, what would she fall back on?"
"She's a good fighter too," Dais said, "you know."
"But I never saw her fight," Amara said.
"Because, Amara, her illusions always work!" Dais shouted, "But our son, forever, isn't doing either. I mean, look at Amara, he's just standing there and he's making his sister do all the work!"
"He's probably just covering her," Amara suggested.
"If he could hear me," Dais began, "I'd tell him…."
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"Hey, Duncan," Gwen shouted, "You know what our father would say if he was watching us right now?"
"What?" he asked.
"He'd say, 'Do something! You're making your sister do all the work!'" she stopped, "Hey, did you hear something?"
"No," he said. "And I am doing something, I'm covering you."
"DARKEST HOUR!" Right after he said those two words, Conrad made everything go dark.
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"Oh, great," Sage grumbled, "Kale, look what your son did! Now we can't see anything!"
"If you're worried about your kids," Kale said, "don't. Their armors can glow in the dark."
"But we still can't see everything else that's going on," Sekhmet said.
"Well, if you expect me to tell you all that's happening," Kale muttered, "forget it. It's not my fault you all can't see in the dark like I can!"
"Kale," Trista mumbled.
"What?"
"That wasn't funny."
"I'm sorry," he sighed.
"Better."
"But I'm still not going to say what happens," Kale said.
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While everyone stood in the darkness, Conrad made like a fast one and attacked the aliens in the dark. There was one minus though; the aliens could also see in the dark.
"Ghuh!" he gasped as one picked him up from behind and threw him. Everything went light again.
"Conrad!" Priscilla shouted. "Are you okay?"
"Remind me not to do that again," Conrad groaned.
Priscilla felt her blood run wild, "big mistake!" she screamed at the aliens, "time to put you all back in your place!" she stepped up and held her sword above her head, "LOST IN SPAAAAAAAAAACE!"
A huge black hole opened up and sucked in the remaining of the aliens.
"Why didn't I do that in the first place?" Priscilla asked herself.
"Because some of us wanted to see what those things look like when they blow up!" Lucas answered with a shout.
"I see."
"Now we can start looking for the Prism Crystal Orb," Rowena said, "we must get it back!"
"But where could it be?" Simon said, "We still have ours. Would it be in your dimension?"
"I don't know."
Gwen could not believe her brother. He did not raise one hand and he called himself the Warlord of Disorder? Throwing her helmet down, she stormed up to him.
"Duncan!" she yelled.
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"Gwen doesn't look too thrilled," Amara noted.
"He's in trouble," Dais added.
"At least those aliens are out of the way," Trista said.
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"What?" Duncan asked.
Gwen drew in a deep breath and punched her brother hard across the face, "What is wrong with you?" she demanded with a shout, his helmet falling off his head.
"Now, now, Gwen," Ivy tsk-tsked, "we mustn't fight with our brothers!"
"Can it, Ivy!" Gwen hissed.
Ivy gasped in surprise.
"Why didn't you cast any illusions or anything?" Gwen demanded harshly, "What kind of warlord are you? Father is probably furious with you! You probably never threw one illusion before in your life!"
"Sure I did," Duncan mumbled, "just not as many as you have."
"Listen to me, Duncan," Gwen ordered, trying to keep her anger under control, "You've been given a gift. You can bring your imagination to life. You can make anything unreal and change it into reality."
"It's not real," Duncan disagreed.
"Of course it is!" she snapped, "The illusion is real! Maybe what people see is not really there but the illusion is real! You can use that power as a weapon defend yourself or you can use it as a charm to help someone with a troubled mind! Think about that, Duncan. Don't you think a gift like that is absolutely amazing?"
Duncan swallowed, "Gwen, I--I'm sorry."
"You have to exercise that gift, Duncan," Gwen told him, "or if you don't, the one time you will need it, you'll lose it." With that, Gwen walked away.
"She's right, Duncan," Crystal said. "Having a gift like yours is nothing to be ashamed of."
"I'm sure my father would have told me the same thing," Duncan said.
"Have you located the thief's hideout?" Chloe asked Priscilla, "is it in this dimension or ours?"
"Both," she answered.
"So which one has the orb?"
"The one at home, of course," she said. "But we don't have to go back to get it."
"We can get it from the one here?" Zircon asked, "but how is that possible? The one here is certainly not stolen."
"Yes," she said, "the ninja's hide out is here too. Let's go and find it."
"What are you going to do?" Conrad asked.
"I'll tell you on the way," she replied, "let's go."
To Be Continued