Dreamscape
By Musou Misora
Standard disclaimer applies. This chapter is in the format I used for the Prologue, and chapters 1-6.
*bows* Excuse me, onegai. I have been spelling the Japanese words for the planets incorrectly (mainly Neptune and Uranus). I will spell them the right way in this chapter.
One more thing...the very first part, up to the 3 asterixes, is Michiru and Haruka, and the second part, where everything is in normal font (no italics) is Usagi.
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Chapter Eight: Takai no Shan Yume, Beautiful Dream of Death
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It suddenly turns cool in this Place, wherever it is. I know nothing of how I got here, or why I am here. Hell, I can't remember my name, let alone my origins.
Hello?
The voice is somehow familiar, and yet I cannot place it.
I think I know you...
I listen more carefully now.
I can't quite remember...something about Kaiousei...
Neptune? What on earth is the voice talking about?
...And then more...Kinsei? Tennousei?
I grow angry. The voice is spouting off nonsense about Uranus and Venus!
Mokusei...Suisei...Kasei...Dosei...Meiousei...
Jupiter...Mercury...Mars...Saturn...Pluto...what the hell is it talking about?
Don't you understand? I know you...and these words have something to do with us.
Hai...maybe I do remember something...short sailor fukus...where are these thoughts coming from? This sudden rush of information confuses me.
Won't you speak to me?
I would, demo I don't know how. Where is the voice coming from?
I can see you...I know you...Mi-Michiru?
Michiru? Is that my name? I can't remember...
It's me...Haruka...
Haruka.
My spring wind...
Usagi...it's not her fault...don't blame her...
Why is it not her fault? Who is Usagi? And then...I remember.
I remember everything. The daimons...Galaxia...Chaos...it all comes rushing back to me at lightening speeds.
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I made the worst mistakes ever in the history of the world.
I killed them.
What made me do this? How am I supposed to get them back? I should not have punished them for Mamoru's crimes. They did not deserve any of this.
I'm so sorry.
So very, very sorry...
"Serenity-hime."
My old name...I have not heard that name since I killed them. Who else knows who I am?
"Usagi, it's me. Pluto."
I can't turn around, even though I know it's her. I don't want to face her right now. Setsuna has this ability to punish you without words.
"I know you're angry with yourself, demo you must listen to me."
"Hai," I whisper softly. I can feel her nod in approval. I must have made progress since all of this happened.
"It's not your fault. It's Endymion's. He has been possessed again, and killing him did nothing. The spirit is still at large in the city. That's what made you so blinded. You must destroy it."
"I can't."
"You must. That's the only way we can return."
"..." My voice seems to have left me again. Setsuna sighs in exasperation.
"Just do it! The spirit is very close right now. If you transform, you can defeat it easily."
"If it made me do all that, how can I?"
"It's weak from you forcing it out of its host. You must hurry. I have to leave..."
"Iie!" I whirl around, but she is not there anymore. "Shimatta..."
Fine. Setsuna won, I'll transform...but how will I defeat it?
"Moon Eternal, make-up!"
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(Plot twist...sorry for the lack of warning. I just couldn't help myself...)
---Musou Misora
"Should've known better than to cheat a friend
And waste the chance that I've been given
So I'm never gonna dance again
The way I danced with you..."
-George Michael, 'Careless Whisper'
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