The unseen wind blew across the endless fields of nothingness. Within this
dreary land of void memories might have once be created or destroyed.
Forgotten forever a kingdom could become into existence here and vanished
under the hand of God. And still it would become blackened with nothing.

Still, Hotaru gazed all around her, hoping that she might see something real
here. Something beyond herself hidden here, away from all that cares and
loves. But all that existed now, here, was herself and the endless wind.

As the blade cut along the youma's upper arm, purple blood flowed upon the
sickly-green skin... absorbed into this darkness.

From above her, dust and broken machinery cascaded upon herself and the corpse
threw the hole in the rotted floor. The dust seeped between the youma's dead
eyes, clouding it's darkened blue pupils. A rusted gear landed upon it's knee
with an audible crack. White paint chips fluttered everywhere, like a
saddistic winter wonderland.

Hotaru started the transformation of Saturn, and clothes withdrew into her
skin as she twisted and shook inhumanly. The new Saturn was being given
birth.

Her victory cry slowly faded from the night air as Saturn regained her senses
from the fall that claimed her and her victim. From beyond the falling
debrie, the Sensei coward from fear.

"W-w-whats going on?" Hotaru whispered in a scream. Her voice echoed along
the forest of emptiness that surrounded her in all directions.

As if in reply, the scenes continued to clarify and disappear within her mind
in it's forever assult. Hotaru fell to her knee's and clutched hopelessly at
her temples, praying for it all to end, to disappear along with all around
her. But still this mental war raged onward. Soon warm tears of frustration
flowed down her cheeks as she lost all understanding of what was happening,
the images blurred and faded into a single formless mass of information
within her brain.

"I don't understand, what is this supposted to mean? Where I am...?" Hotaru
begged, ignoring that it didn't echo this time. Slowly the wind caressed her
back and seemed to play with her raven hair. And still she didn't care for
the mental war continued on. Then suddenly, the soft words started to dance
upon the breeze, coming from everywhere and once and nowhere at all. It
landed on deaf ears and became hear like a scream within her heart.

"Heaven... within..." the words declared to her. Hotaru felt her soul shake
with the tone of those words. Silence then rang forth. Those two words caught
her by surprise. In a flash of sudden hope, she opened her eyes hoping to
find the owner of that voice.

"Well Hotaru?" Chibiusa asked as she continued to stare into the mirror. She
was wearing a light pink dress and softly twirled around from side to side,
as her eyes danced with admiration at being able to try it on. Hotaru didn't
respond, too confused to understand what just happened.

"Hotaru, what do you think of this new dress? Do you think it would be a good
one for me to wear at the school dance this Friday?" Chibiusa asked again as
she peered at Hotaru through the mirror. Upon seeing the blank look upon her
friends face, she turned around to look at Hotaru. "Hotaru? Is something
wrong?"

Hotaru looked around her in desperate hopes of understand what was
happening and where she really was. As she looked around she was greeted
to the sight of people all around her talking amoungst themselves as they
contemplated various types of clothing hung upon racks, folded on table tops
and floating upon hangers. From beyond her view a child cried in desperate
hopes of what sounded to be ice cream.

"Hotaru?"

"Sorry... I'm alright. That dress looks wonderful on you" Hotaru whispered shyly
as her cheeks became dusted with a faint tinge of pink from embarrassment
about losing track of what was going on. And from forgetting all about the dance
that Chibiusa was all worked up for.

"Thats very nice to hear your alright, Miss Hotaru, but that was not what I was
asking you about. Now please, what is the answer to question 34 from last nights
homework assignment?" declared the teacher in a tone that sounded like it was
not the first time she had questioned about the answer.

Hotaru gazed up from her hands, her face was covered in sweat. Upon relizing
that she wasn't where she was seconds before, Hotaru looked around at her
surrounds once again in hopes of understanding everything. Before her was
her desk at school covered in a few lose papers and her open text book. All
around her she heard soft giggles from her peers and noticed they all were
grinning at her, as if they all knew some inside joke about her that she had
yet to hear about. Before the blackboard was her teacher, staring at her in
growing anger of first being given a very wrong answer and now being ignored.
Hotaru immediately turned a bright shade of red from all her shyness and the
attention and wanted desperate to disappear from here.

"You did do your homework last night, right, Miss Hotaru?" the teacher
said in still growing anger.

"Yes... what was the question again?" Hotaru barely whispered as another
chorus of giggles came from the students around her. Hotaru began to
sweat in nervousness from all the students and their endless childishness
of rude joking and mocking that seemed to only be pointed towards her.

The teacher sighed as she declared the question yet again, "I asked if
you knew"

... the prophecy...

"Wah? Hotaru uttered in complete shock and fear as some invisible voice
finished the question her teacher was declaring.

Hotaru's teacher sighed again in resignation as the other students burst into
roaring laughter. "Miss Hotaru, please see me after class."

"Ok..." Hotaru managed to meekly whisper in a tone of defeat and sadness. But
inside her she became very nervous as it became very clear no body else
seemed to hear those words or that voice.

Slowly Hotaru could feel her soul become warmed as she gazed far within the
single candle aflame before her. The yellowed flame cast a gentle glow upon the
dark purple candle enveloping it in shadow and managing to make it appear
almost black. The soft fire upon the blackening wick never flickered from a
betraying breeze but burned in blissful peace. She always felt calmed by her
candles and the light they gave for her. Hotaru sighed in contempt and leaned
back to stare quietly at her ceiling, at first not noticing the words written in purple
upon the white paint.

Suddenly she panicked as her mind relized the words and that more letters began
to ooze forth to join the others. In a desperate attempt to flee from those words
she kicked her legs to jump into a run but only managed to knock over the
lone candle and then the room was pitched into blackness. But still she could
see the words as they continued to form and move into place.

"Hotaru... ummmm... I wrote this for you... I... ummm.... I need to tell you this
but..." Chibiusa mumbled as she blushed profusely and her voice started to give
way, "But I knew... I wouldn't have the strength to say it out loud..."

Hotaru accepted the folded note with confusion dancing upon her face. She
didn't understand why Chibiusa seemed so shy and slightly panicky. Didn't
Chibiusa know that no matter what she said, she would alway be willing to help
her with anything?

"Please... read it... I know..." Chibiusa began as she took a big breath in hopes
of slightly calming herself. "I know it's not what you might not want to know or
hear, but I felt I had to tell you this. But... but whatever you think of it... please
don't... don't let it ruin our friendship..."

Hotaru became even more confused by what her friend meant but still she opened
the note hoping it might make more sense after she read what was inside it. The
words were written in a light pink ink and very messy... it was Chibiusa's writing
alright, she noted mentally.

'Our Heaven hid within it's breast damnation
Creation of the only first, the alpha
And before it's eyes all grew in her gaze
From her soul came forth the Omega she was
The ageless bane with wings of illumination
With the touch of healing and pain in her heart
Entwind together with blessing sufferance
And blissful sadism against all
Her gaze shall destroy the dead
Her dreams shall corrupt all minds
And her love shall become the siren
For it is her that is the beginning and end
The first alpha and only omega
A paradise in Eden... burning to the ground'

"I... I don't understand..." Hotaru began to say before Chibiusa interupted her.

"I... ummmmmm.... I... love you..." Chibiusa whispered as she fought to keep
her tears from flowing and blushed worse then before.

"But..." Hotaru stated dumbfounded as she stared back at the paper held in
her hands. But instead of words written in pink upon the paper it held a single
image. The image was of a mockery of a human, it's skin was black like tanned
leather and odd bones poked out it's flesh at unnatural and painful angles.
Hotaru immediatly reconized the picture. Saturn, the Saturn of that dreadful
night. Slowly, almost painfully, the image of that Saturn began to speak. "The
prophecy has become declared. The prophecy has finally begun to be set into
motion" it whispered in the same voice that had whispered to her in the ebony
void, that spoke to her in the classroom.

In a panic, Hotaru dropped the note and screamed in fear. She looked towards
Chibiusa in a desperate attempt of answers. But Chibiusa was gone and she
found herself alone within a single room without doors or windows. All that
was there was her and a strange glow that seemed to come from nowhere and
from everywhere around her. Suddenly it appeared again. The words appeared
again... in glistening purple blood.

'Our Heaven hid within it's breast damnation
Creation of the only first, the alpha
And before it's eyes all grew in her gaze
From her soul came forth the Omega she was
The ageless bane with wings of illumination
With the touch of healing and pain in her heart
Entwind together with blessing sufferance
And blissful sadism against all
Her gaze shall destroy the dead
Her dreams shall corrupt all minds
And her love shall become the siren
For it is her that is the beginning and end
The first alpha and only omega
A paradise in Eden... burning to the ground'

In fear, Hotaru turned around in hopes of some kind of escape but saw the words
again on the opposite wall. Then another set appeared. And another. And they
kept appearing on the walls, the floor and ceiling. Soon words started covering
older words and still they came, each silently screaming their message and
prophecy's.

"What... what's going on? I don't understand... what does it mean? What does
all this mean?" Hotaru yelled in silence.

Then all was black again. Hotaru returned to the endless void from before.

... the prophecy has started... the time is now... the beginning has started...
the beginning of the end...

And as suddenly as it all happened, Hotaru awoke from the dream.