A Note to the Past
Written By: Rhapsody
Email: Blue_Arathalion@yahoo.com
Rating: G (Be one with your inner Kindergarten Teacher!)
What's the difference between Sailor Moon and my lucky
keychain? I own my lucky keychain. Please enjoy.
A Note to the Past
NeoQueen Serenity leaned her delicately pointed chin on her hand
and idly drummed a pencil against her satin-clad thigh. She
hated this. She'd known for three hundred years that she would
hate this. A rueful smile curved her lips. It came as a small
consolation that she'd been right.
It was time. Although it seemed like only a month or two had
passed since her little girl, her Small Lady, had returned from
the past after the encounter with the Wiseman and the Dark Moon
Family, years had gone by and it was finally time to unleash
Sailor ChibiMoon on the unsuspecting senshi of the Twentieth
Century. The queen allowed herself a small chuckle. She knew
that it would feel like a much, much shorter time for her
former self. Kami-sama, the fights she and ChibiUsa had gotten
into over the most trivial things, and over Mamo-chan! Still,
the memories seemed even dearer when Serenity faced the prospect
of life without her pink odangoed princess.
She glanced again at the blank sheet of paper in front of her,
and considered having Endymion write the letter after all.
Serenity had already agonized for hours over just what to
write, and whether to include any kind of warning, no matter
how cryptic, to Sailor Moon and the others.
The official reason for ChibiUsa's return to the past was, of
course, that the young princess needed to train and perfect the
skills required of a Sailor Senshi. Even the private reason
she had given her daughter for returning to 20th Century
Tokyo was a cover, to some degree. It was true that ChibiUsa
needed to learn how to make friends, a process that would
later bring about important encounters. The most significant
encounter resulting from ChibiUsa's efforts would affect the
fate of the entire world.
Shortly after her arrival in the 20th century ChibiUsa would
meet Tomoe Hotaru, a sweet, fragile girl within whom two
powerful entities strove for dominance. In the span of a few
weeks, ChibiUsa would form the strongest and most important
friendship of her young life and then face the ordeal of having
her pure heart crystal ripped out by her very best friend.
In the interim she would be forced to defend her friend against
the Outer Senshi, inlcuding her oldest friend Pluto. Serenity
would have walked barefoot across a sea of broken
glass to spare her daughter the agony that awaited her. Many
nights NeoQueen Serenity and Sailor Pluto had searched
the streams of Time for a favorable alternative to the path
events had followed, but every other course of action
produced catastrophic results. No, history would have to
repeat itself.
With a grimace, Serenity scribbled a succinct, polite note to
herself and her friends in the past, asking them to take good care
of her daughter. In her haste she wrote the entire thing in
hiragana, not thinking to use the kanji she'd so scrupulously
memorized in highschool. She blinked when she noticed what she'd
done and shook her head as she started to add a small note of
warning in kanji. She'd relied on the palace scribes for this sort
of thing for far too long. It was definitely time to brush up on her
scholarship again.
Serenity heard the click of bootheels on marble tile of the throne
room and looked up to find Sailor Pluto standing beside her.
"Is she ready, then?"
"Yes, my Queen. Small Lady has gathered all her things and is
waiting by the Time Gate."
The Queen blinked back tears and stared at the wooden door
for a moment. She felt a cool hand upon her wrist and gave
Sailor Pluto an inquiring look.
"Usagi-chan, she'll be allright." Sailor Pluto quirked a smile.
"That's the good part about seeing things from this end. You know
how everything turns out."
Serenity nodded slowly and looked at the note again, then rubbed out
the warning and scribbled a bit more, wishing her daughter and friends
good luck. She smiled. At least this, too, would be just as she
remembered it. Still, it would have been fun to see the look on
Rei-chan's face....
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Woohoo! I'm averaging a fic a year! What do you think?
Read/Reviews are always accepted with a dance of joy.
Thanks for all the encouraging reviews given for Annoyance
and Graceful Hands. I really appreciate them, really!
Ummm.... the only thing I mentioned in here that some readers might
not be familiar with is hiragana, the Japanese syllabary-type script
that's sort of a step below kanji.
I actually wrote most of this before the end of last semester,
when I should have been studying for exams. I didn't have a chance
to clean it up before now. One night I just got to thinking about
how Serenity must feel about sending ChibiUsa back into the past,
knowing what's going to happen and not really being able to do
anything differently, and it turned into a fic. ~_~; Please let me
know what you think.
Dedicated to:
Saun, whom I owe what, three fics? Four? They're in the works.
Thanks for your patience. Love the big sis!
Fire Child, whom I also "owe" a fic. Gruff, high-pitched indeed!
Seriously, I love my little sister.
HippieVenus, who actually owes me a fic ^_~ Love the Little!
Emmy, my first little sister, who's currently all the way at the other
end of the state with limited internet access. I miss you! *hugs*
ChibiDestiny, who should be worrying about her capstone like
me, instead of writing fanfiction! Just kidding. Keep writing. Something.
Anything!
Bird (who has yet to finish reading one of my fics),who went a
long way toward convincing me that the pink-haired one isn't ALWAYS
annoying....
And my darling Mamo-chan (a.k.a. Brent the Library Guy),
without whom this may never have been posted, since I'm taking care of
it while waiting for him to get back on AIM. Te amo, mavourneen!
Written By: Rhapsody
Email: Blue_Arathalion@yahoo.com
Rating: G (Be one with your inner Kindergarten Teacher!)
What's the difference between Sailor Moon and my lucky
keychain? I own my lucky keychain. Please enjoy.
A Note to the Past
NeoQueen Serenity leaned her delicately pointed chin on her hand
and idly drummed a pencil against her satin-clad thigh. She
hated this. She'd known for three hundred years that she would
hate this. A rueful smile curved her lips. It came as a small
consolation that she'd been right.
It was time. Although it seemed like only a month or two had
passed since her little girl, her Small Lady, had returned from
the past after the encounter with the Wiseman and the Dark Moon
Family, years had gone by and it was finally time to unleash
Sailor ChibiMoon on the unsuspecting senshi of the Twentieth
Century. The queen allowed herself a small chuckle. She knew
that it would feel like a much, much shorter time for her
former self. Kami-sama, the fights she and ChibiUsa had gotten
into over the most trivial things, and over Mamo-chan! Still,
the memories seemed even dearer when Serenity faced the prospect
of life without her pink odangoed princess.
She glanced again at the blank sheet of paper in front of her,
and considered having Endymion write the letter after all.
Serenity had already agonized for hours over just what to
write, and whether to include any kind of warning, no matter
how cryptic, to Sailor Moon and the others.
The official reason for ChibiUsa's return to the past was, of
course, that the young princess needed to train and perfect the
skills required of a Sailor Senshi. Even the private reason
she had given her daughter for returning to 20th Century
Tokyo was a cover, to some degree. It was true that ChibiUsa
needed to learn how to make friends, a process that would
later bring about important encounters. The most significant
encounter resulting from ChibiUsa's efforts would affect the
fate of the entire world.
Shortly after her arrival in the 20th century ChibiUsa would
meet Tomoe Hotaru, a sweet, fragile girl within whom two
powerful entities strove for dominance. In the span of a few
weeks, ChibiUsa would form the strongest and most important
friendship of her young life and then face the ordeal of having
her pure heart crystal ripped out by her very best friend.
In the interim she would be forced to defend her friend against
the Outer Senshi, inlcuding her oldest friend Pluto. Serenity
would have walked barefoot across a sea of broken
glass to spare her daughter the agony that awaited her. Many
nights NeoQueen Serenity and Sailor Pluto had searched
the streams of Time for a favorable alternative to the path
events had followed, but every other course of action
produced catastrophic results. No, history would have to
repeat itself.
With a grimace, Serenity scribbled a succinct, polite note to
herself and her friends in the past, asking them to take good care
of her daughter. In her haste she wrote the entire thing in
hiragana, not thinking to use the kanji she'd so scrupulously
memorized in highschool. She blinked when she noticed what she'd
done and shook her head as she started to add a small note of
warning in kanji. She'd relied on the palace scribes for this sort
of thing for far too long. It was definitely time to brush up on her
scholarship again.
Serenity heard the click of bootheels on marble tile of the throne
room and looked up to find Sailor Pluto standing beside her.
"Is she ready, then?"
"Yes, my Queen. Small Lady has gathered all her things and is
waiting by the Time Gate."
The Queen blinked back tears and stared at the wooden door
for a moment. She felt a cool hand upon her wrist and gave
Sailor Pluto an inquiring look.
"Usagi-chan, she'll be allright." Sailor Pluto quirked a smile.
"That's the good part about seeing things from this end. You know
how everything turns out."
Serenity nodded slowly and looked at the note again, then rubbed out
the warning and scribbled a bit more, wishing her daughter and friends
good luck. She smiled. At least this, too, would be just as she
remembered it. Still, it would have been fun to see the look on
Rei-chan's face....
~~~~@ ~~~~@ ~~~~@ ~~~~@ ~~~~@
Woohoo! I'm averaging a fic a year! What do you think?
Read/Reviews are always accepted with a dance of joy.
Thanks for all the encouraging reviews given for Annoyance
and Graceful Hands. I really appreciate them, really!
Ummm.... the only thing I mentioned in here that some readers might
not be familiar with is hiragana, the Japanese syllabary-type script
that's sort of a step below kanji.
I actually wrote most of this before the end of last semester,
when I should have been studying for exams. I didn't have a chance
to clean it up before now. One night I just got to thinking about
how Serenity must feel about sending ChibiUsa back into the past,
knowing what's going to happen and not really being able to do
anything differently, and it turned into a fic. ~_~; Please let me
know what you think.
Dedicated to:
Saun, whom I owe what, three fics? Four? They're in the works.
Thanks for your patience. Love the big sis!
Fire Child, whom I also "owe" a fic. Gruff, high-pitched indeed!
Seriously, I love my little sister.
HippieVenus, who actually owes me a fic ^_~ Love the Little!
Emmy, my first little sister, who's currently all the way at the other
end of the state with limited internet access. I miss you! *hugs*
ChibiDestiny, who should be worrying about her capstone like
me, instead of writing fanfiction! Just kidding. Keep writing. Something.
Anything!
Bird (who has yet to finish reading one of my fics),who went a
long way toward convincing me that the pink-haired one isn't ALWAYS
annoying....
And my darling Mamo-chan (a.k.a. Brent the Library Guy),
without whom this may never have been posted, since I'm taking care of
it while waiting for him to get back on AIM. Te amo, mavourneen!