Broken Rose:
'I knew Helios wouldn't do something like that,' the young girl thought. She was staring vacantly at the sky and her eyes started to glaze over.
"Oh no you don't Mantina!" a voice said breaking Rini from her daydream.
"But I can't slit her throat again if I don't have a body!" she said saucily.
"Again?" Rini asked blinking a couple of times.
"Well, yea…after she tried to rob my store I came in and cut her throat with an envelope opener and she shot me," the disembodied voice said.
"That's why she can't talk."
'She can't talk?' a voice said in her head and Rini knew that they were using thought speak so that the woman wouldn't overhear them.
'Well, no…she…she's at your grave!' Rini thought with surprise.
'Hold on a sec, I'll go see what she is saying,' Mantina said into their heads.
It was as if a sudden gate had been let loose and they heard the woman talking, '…I never meant for anyone to get hurt! You had to come in to get your stupid backpack! Then my stupid brother had to be an idiot and be in training to be a knight! I mean…can you imagine Helios a knight? He wasn't even there and I forgot! Of all the things to forget! Sometimes I wish I could slit his throat very much like you slit mine. I'll get you in the after life, Mantina! You'll be sorry you ever caused me to loose my voice…' Rini had tuned these ravings out of her mind. Helios had a SISTER?! AND he was training to be a knight!
'My night in shining armor,' she mused, then giggled and the woman looked up.
Rini! Amara! I wasn't expecting you! What are you doing in this…er…lovely graveyard? A sudden nervous voice said.
"Hello, Galia!" Rini said putting on a mask to hide her true feelings for the woman. Amara just nodded curtly.
Young man…you aren't even going to say hello? The woman thought curtly. The two of them burst out giggling. If you don't say hello to me young man then I will have to tell the queen what you two have been up to.
"If you think that we've been doing anything…um…naughty then you are sadly mistaken. I wouldn't even look at Rini that way! Especially since I'm a woman and Michiru is the one who I'm thinking of right now," Amara said curtly.
So you're…you're…
"Yes I am! Now come on Man, Emily, Rini," Amara said and began to walk off. Rini was the only person she could see that was following her. A shape flickered for just a moment and Galia could swear that it was a three-year-old girl with pigtails.
"Is my mother busy Ly?" Rini asked the guard.
"Of course not! She's never busy, do you want to see her with your little…friend," he said though his voice was strained as he eyed Amara.
"Do you know something I don't?" Rini asked.
"No," said the guard quickly, a little too quickly.
"Ly, Amara is a girl," Rini said sticking up for her friend once more.
"Oh," a sudden smile played on his lips.
"Ly…I'm warning you," she said, "can I see my mother now?"
"Ok, you win!" he said, he noticed how Rini kept the door open for a moment longer than necessary.
"Mom!" Rini squealed and wrapped her arms around her mother's neck.
"I get the feeling that I'm missing something," the queen said.
"We need Helios to hear this Mom," Amara said frowning suddenly.
"All right…" she said but called Helios just the same. He ran up a minute later looking breathless. When he saw Rini he blushed.
"Yes, Queen Serenity," Helios said giving the traditional bow.
"My daughter and Amara feel something is very important and told me it concerned you, I don't know what it could be though," the queen said calmly.
"Helios, sit down," Rini said with a commanding tone that startled everyone. She sat down too and two voices giggled. Helios felt something soft caress his cheek.
"Hello, Helios," said a voice and Helios's eyes went wide, "my name is Mantina." His eyes went wider.
"Haunt HER not ME!" he said groaning and put his head in his lap. The queen just looked on, she too heard the voice and was surprised at his reaction.
"Hush! I'm not haunting you!" the voice said.
"Helios…why didn't you tell us you had a sister?" Rini asked, innocent curiosity in her voice and eyes. "And why didn't you tell us you were going to be a knight?"
"Who told you that?" he said his eyes as wide as disks.
"She told us," Rini said.
"How? I thought she was dead!" he said, a worried look in his eyes.
"Dear, she's alive and kickin'" said the voice. "In fact I thought you were the one who did this to me for some time and I tried to posses that young man over there."
"You WHAT?!" said Helios and the queen at the same time.
"Don't worry, Serenity, your daughter brought me around just in time," Amara said.
"I got her good though!" the voice said.
"What did you do?" the queen said.
"When she was attacking me, I slit her throat, mind you, I was protecting my store," the voice said.
"When did you find out?" Helios asked.
"Just about ten minutes ago," said a little girl voice. "My name is Emily! And your name is Helios! Sere talks about you all the time!"
"I'm going crazy aren't I?" Helios asked.
"No," said Rini, "if you are then all of the living being in here are."
"LIVING?!" the queen said stunned.
"Mom! Emily and Mantina are ghosts! G-H-O-S-T-S! Mara talks to them all the time!" Rini said. "Oops…"
"Oops is right!" Amara growled. "I'm gonna get you for that!"
"So…what is this young woman's name? I mean…the one who killed…um…Mantila?" Queen Serenity asked.
"I don't know…I thought she was dead, her old name used to be Janine, but that was a long time ago," Helios said.
"Her name is Galia," Rini said, hanging her head.
"HER?!" the queen and Helios screeched together at the some time.
"That's why she seemed so familiar," Helios said to himself.
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Author's Note: Our gift-bringer is gonna go bye, bye! We're all gonna be sad :*( NOT! I hated her so I'm gonna make her get executed. :p~ This thing says that I have SEVEN PAGES on this one chapter alone!
Disclaimer: I don't own sailor moon cause I wasn't smart enough to think it up! I WOULD own it if I were rich! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! But I'm not rich so I don't own it…you can help me get rich by me taking your characters and holding them for ransom…oops…hehe :sees a bunch of authors w/ dangerous weapons and torches coming closer to her home: IT WAS JUST A JOKE! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!