Well this is really just a filler, full of information to let you know what was behind the plot. Hopefully it will clear up a few things, such as what is a Draken and why exactly they are what they are. I hope it not to confusing for you.

~Ravyn~

Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon. I hope you have this figured out by now!

Setsuna looked at the time stream in front of her with interest. It was still amazing, the way a person could make a single step down a path, and change its course forever. How it showed possible paths and changed over and over. So far it was going in the way she had hoped, they would survive this.

But it was still on very rocky ground, all they had to do was hesitate with one single step, and boom the whole thing changed all over it. The colors and patterns that raced across her vision were hard to explain. The only thing that compared in the slightest was the Northern Lights.

But ideas aside, she had to find a way to convince Athena to help Ami. It was fairly easy to let the others girls leave a helping hand. But Athena preferred for Ami to find out on her own, which was fine, but also frustrating.

In a way, Aurora, Ianna, Juno and Athena were still alive. A part of there presence, if you could call it that, still existed in the time line. Their connection to the princes, the weapons and the girls allowed them brief moment to which they could communicate. It was highly confusing, but to that it was the best she could explain it. It was like, but not exactly the same, the way the late Queen Selenity contacted the now reigning Serenity.

Setsuna allowed herself a moment of pleasure of watching Beryl be frustrated. It was a long road ahead, but at least this way; she might be able to enjoy some of it. It was a cynical thought, but cynicism was so part of her now.

~*~

Rei woke up, her vision slightly blurry, and her body feeling like someone had used her as a human battery. It was the most drained feeling she had every felt. Her body felt like mush, her brain was on the brink of shut down, and yet she felt somehow…charged.

Looking around the room Rei blinked when she noticed who was sitting down in a chair, asleep, next to her. What was that infuriating person doing here? She would have thought that Jason would have better things to do beside watch her drool into her pillow.

The memories of what happened jumped to the present and she winced. Well it was nice to know she was a walking bonfire. She wondered if they would start pointing at targets and making her blow things up. Somehow watching Jason sleep, she doubted it.

Watching him she was forced to admit that she thought he was very handsome, okay maybe drop dead gorgeous would be a better word. His face was flushed from his sleep, and his cheeks and chin had slight stubble from not shaving. He was completely relaxed and she found to her surprise, and horror, that she wanted to climb over into his lap and join him.

Rei buried her head in her pillow to hide her blush, although she knew he would not see it. The room was dark in pre dawn. But it was the fact that she was even having these thoughts that caused her to suffer from disbelief. She had never really been attracted to men, not that she could remember, except for that one time, and had no doubt that she would not be for the rest of her life.

But then suddenly there is a male in her head trying to worm his way, because in her opinion, it was worming, into her heart and she was lost. Fighting she knew, being a bitch she knew, letting loose of the 9 foot wall she had wrapped around the area she called a heart, that was something new. Yet she found that he was finding the cracks she had not known were there.

Rolling back over Rei wondered what she was going to do. In legends they talked about the actions she had preformed in the past two days. How many people could yank fire dragons out of a sword, and then…well she had no idea how to finish that thought.

Rei sat up and sighed. No use in getting anymore sleep, after she woke up she was up. Looking down Rei noticed, to her bemusement, that she was still in the ridiculously short skirt and that the heels she had hoped she had imagined were still there.

Rei felt her eyes narrow in temper. She wanted out of this costume and she wanted answers. Walking over the sleeping man she hesitated but irritation won and she roughly shook his sleeping form. His eyes snapped open and he looked at her in surprise.

" What the hell is going on?" Rei all but barked at him. He gaped at her and sat up furiously rubbing his face.

What Rei could not have known was in that instant that she had all but kicked him awake, she had transported him back four thousand years to a different women. He kept forgetting that she was Rei instead of Aurora in moments like that. When her face flushed and her eyes blazed with temper all he could think about was how beautiful she looked.

One fast glance at her face told him she would not appreciate being told that, at least not now. Jason rubbed the sleep from his eyes and looked at the clock and sighed. With Rei came early mornings, he remembered that.

" Uh?" Jason grumbled still half asleep.

" UH?" Rei managed to spit out of gritted teeth. Her eyes narrowed till they were mer slits of violet blazing out at him behind her lidded eyes. " I am somehow stuck in this short and amazingly stupid costume, I threw fire as if it was nothing, there is a dragon living in my swords, AND YOU HAVE THE ADACITY TO SAY UH!" Rei snarled in pure fury at the blond in front of her.

'Ops.' Jason thought. He opened his mouth to apologize when she reached down and grasped him by the shirtfront. Yanking him half a centimeter from her own furious face she growled in a violent tone. " I want answers, pretty boy, and I want them now! Are we clear?" Rei shook him with every word, till he thought his brains were going to be tossed out of his ears. And his brains were probable mingled up with each other, for he had no other excuse for what he did next.

He had made the mistake of looking into her eyes, and the flames there enchanted him, for there was no other words for it. He, in that second, fell all over again. He had thought he wanted her back, now he knew, the way a starving man knows he must have that last meal, that he could never have anyone else. Reaching down he pressed his lips gently but firmly to hers. It felt like a explosion went off in the back of their heads.

For Rei it was like being drowned in something. For one instant the world pulled into a perfect standstill, and then it shattered underneath her feet. It was like being tossed from one currant to the next and not being able to control it, and she was helpless to stop it.

Her hands fisted into his shirt and she leaned against him, to support her knees, which threatened to give out underneath her. Rei had never felt that way in her life, and it scarred her and thrilled her at the same time.

For Jason it was like being given that first breath of fresh air after being suffocated in a musty caves all of your life. Her full lips were as soft and silky as he remembered them. He felt her hands tighten in his shirt and one snaked around his head, her nails scratching the back of his neck. He could care less.

It had surprised him when she had kissed him back, and it had surprised him when she did not fight him tooth and claw. He knew he was in for it when she recovered her senses, but it was worth it. He pulled back only when lack of air caused him to feel faint. Instead of leaning against him she pulled back and her smoky eyes meet his.

Crack.

Her palm connected with stinging accuracy against his face, and her breath was coming in heaves. " Don't ever, ever, do that again. Do I make myself clear?" And with a twirl of her skirts she rushed from the room, not quite certain how she felt about receiving her first kiss from the oh-so-arrogant Jason.

~*~

Ami watched Rei all but run out of her room, in surprise. She had been in the process of knocking when she had heard a peculiar cracking noise, almost like a slap, when the door had been yank open, she had gotten a split second look at Rei and her wild eyes, and Rei had raced by. Not even giving her a second look.

Peeking in she saw Jason's astonished face and the red mark that look suspiciously like that of a young woman's hand. Most likely Rei's judging the past few seconds. Ami set the tray that she had managed to keep in one piece down on the table.

" Want to talk about it?" Ami asked the tall man softly.

Jason looked at her in surprise and smiled. Ami could see the slight scratched were Rei's nails had taken some of the skin off his face. " No," Jason drawled out, amusement in his eyes, but also a certain amount of pain, " Thanks though. Did you need something?" Jason politely asked.

A spark entered her sapphire eyes and Jason almost groaned. Athena always had questions, he guessed that Ami was the same way.

" Not that you mention it," Ami all but purred at him, her eyes thoughtful. " How on earth did what happened yesterday happen? How is it that you have fangs and you don't drink blood? How is it that we are supposed to protect Serenity? Do I have a weapon like that? How…" His laughter interrupted her. Ami shrugged, he had asked.

" One at a time, Ami. Did Zavier not explain about the whole fang bit?" He questioned. Ami rolled her eyes. " He hoped around it."

" Well it complicated, but I will do my best to answer your questions. Once a long time ago we were the same, Draken and Vampire. The Draken Empire had not even entered the minds of our people. But one prince, Endymion's grandfather I think, grew tired of the destruction. By very dangerous and complicated magic he created a cure. He found to his disappointment he could not cure his followers completely but he could change the drive for blood. They would have to eat, like humans, but they would not live off human blood. Well the Queen, Beryl's Mother, found out.

She had been hearing rumors and refused to join her Brother, so she tried to kill him and the assistant, a pretty young woman of unusual bearing I believe, so that the secret would not get out. Well they escaped, he fell in love with her, and they started to change those who would take the gift. She gave him a son, and the little boy was Endymion's dad. Well Hermion, Beryl's mom, was enraged that he would marry a commoner, and refuse to change his ways, so she tracked them down and killed them. By then they had set up the foundations of the kingdom up, so faithful servants found and hid the little boy.

When he grew older he vowed to wipe all traces of Hermion from the planet. It was the start of the battle we are still facing." Jason concluded. Ami nodded her head slowly, absorbing the whole story.

" But how did we get involved. I mean Zavier told me how you guys helped save our past lives, but why?" Jason shook his head. " Always the hard questions." Ami shrugged.

" Well over the years we noticed something. There were various rumors of the kingdoms that had lived on other planets. But it was said that a fierce plague, one that no magic could cure, sent the people who had survived running to earth. With them they brought the magic to which they had survived the harsh climates with them. They set up there kingdoms." Jason leaned back, his face animated as he told the story of how he had found his fire.

" Well we had no idea any of this had happened. So when the words began to travel of a people who were led by a beautiful Queen who kept the Vampires at bay, we became curious. So we watched and waited, and learned zip." Ami raised her eyebrows in surprise.

" Nothing?"

" Not a blooming thing. It wasn't until the little princess was born that anything became apparent. Even then it was hard to find a clue. After watching you grow up though the stories we heard, we decide we needed to investigate what was going on, for no people inside of your kingdom was ever killed by the mongrels." Jason smirked as he thought of that meeting.

" Well we showed up at a ball, and later that night the attack we had been getting hints at came. Zavier found you trying to save Rei, or Aurora, from bleeding to death from a nasty head wound. The two of you managed to save her, you probably guessed that, and the rest is far to complicated to get involved with now. If you want to know, ask Zavier. You two were…friend's back then. He can tell you the most about what you went through." He hoped Zavier would not strangle him for that small bit of truth bending.

" But what about the fact that Endymion is this Beryl's cousin? I mean and how come got so pissed off?" Ami demanded. Jason rolled his eyes.

" Endymion refuses to claim her as his relation and you have to ask him the details. I can't tell you, if you remember what we told you in your past life, that is one thing. Right now I am bound in silence by a oath. You are Athena but you aren't. Do you understand?" Jason asked her, his face worried, as if he was worried that he would hurt her feelings.

Ami nodded thoughtfully and smiled. " Okay, how are we supposed to help Serena?"

Jason opened his mouth then got a very thoughtful look on his face. " I would normally tell you, but my throat is dry and the tea is cold, so why don't you ask Serenity next time you see her? She would love to tell you what she could, and she probable knows the story better than I do. Don't you think you have enough to chew on as it is?" Ami looked put out and he laughed again. " Still the same, nymph, still the same." With that Jason softly left the room, leaving her with indeed, a lot to chew on.

~*~

Minako looked at the endless amount of trees in font of her with disgust. She knew her hair was coming loose, she had smudges of dirt everywhere, and she needed to bath, BADLEY.

" Are you sure you know where we are going? All I see is trees, trees and more trees. So how do you know were we are going?" Makoto asked, her voice impatient.

" How the hell am I supposed to know? I know that we are going in the right direction though." Minako informed her begruntled friend, her face impassive, her eyes laughing.

" Oh that's nice." Makoto said her voice sarcastic enough that Minako could almost see it dripping off her words. " Could you please ask that nice feeling were the next bubble bath is?"

Half a days walk, M'lady.

Makoto starred at Minako in absolute shock. Her face lost all its color and her knees felt very weak.

" What the hell?"

" What?" Minako questioned looking very perplexed. " I did not say anything."

" Yes you did." Makoto all but screamed. Minako raised a calm but icy brow.

" Uh, no dear heart I did not."

" Then who the hell did? Last time I checked it was just us and the freaken trees." Makoto did scream.

That is correct M'lady. Just you, Lady Minako, and the trees.

Makoto looked at Minako and screamed again. Minako grabbed her sword and looked around her face bewildered, and Makoto gripped her staff as if it would save her life.

" What is wrong Makoto?" Minako demanded her voice slightly impatient.

" There is a freaken voice talking in my freaking head. YOU TELL ME!" Mako shouted, panic lacing her voice. She was not going crazy, she was not going crazy, what the hell, and she WAS going crazy.

No M'lady, you are not going crazy.

STOP CALLING THAT! MY NAME IS MAKOTO!

Yes we know. But you are our lady.

Who the hell are you?

The tress Makoto.

What?

The trees. We have always talked to you, for you are the only human who chooses to listen. Since the beginning of time we have chosen a human, much as the stars do, and you are the one we wish to live for. It is in your bloodline.

" Minako." Makoto whispered her voice so soft the breeze almost pulled it away.

" Yes Mako? I hope you will stop shouting at me?" Her blond brow was raised in a mocking jester.

" The trees, Minako, I can here the trees. Please find a nice room and lock me in it for life."

" Ah, good, find out how close we are and please tell them I said hello."

Makoto starred at her long time friend as if she was nuts. She had just dropped what she believed to be a large bomb on her friend, and Minako was trying to exchange pleasantries?

" Er…Minako, are you not going to flip your wig? Start cursing? SHOW SOME SURPRISE?" Makoto's eyes were the size of large plates.

" Stop yelling Makoto, it does no good. And what good would it do if I flipped? You can talk to trees, great, now you can find the others." Looking at her friend Minako took pity, " Makoto nothing is going to surprise me after we have been visited by are dead past selves, found we can control great destructive forces, and have weird tattoo's on our hands. My life is a mess, and it's easier if I just pretend I am in a dream. If you could here me bicker to myself about what is going on you would take off screaming. Hearing someone spaz about people who are trying to still my clothes, weapons, lifeblood, and so on…" Minako stopped at Makoto's soft laughter.

" So just breath, cultivate their friendship, and move on. Spazzing will wait till it sinks in." Minako finished with the air of a person who had solved a great mystery.

" Minako you are a mess." Makoto told her, laughter still coloring her voice.

" Yes I know. Oh do me a favor, ask the trees how many Vampires our closing in on us, and if we have a chance to run for help." Minako mummered, her eyes focused on something distant.

Makoto blinked but then she to realized that the sun had gone down and that they were being surrounded, and that the noise had to have at least 50 vampires. Makoto pulled her sword out grimly. Battle time.

~*~

Serenity settled down into the chair in front of her and smiled at the young woman who had sat across from her. She had always thought that Therra showed a careless grace, like a cat would. That easy going type of persona that was relaxed but in its own way…so deadly.

She looked like her brother, with the dark hair that was so black it was blue, the eyes that were blue like the sky. Her hair instead of being the straw straight of Endymion was curly, and she and Juno, now Makoto, used to have gripping sessions.

" So Therra, any luck with the search for Minako?" Serenity questioned her friend softly; her voice hesitant as she tried out the name that her friend now used.

Therra raised her bright eyes and smiled, the first time Serenity could remember her careless smile being used in a long time. " Yes. Serenity, I have. Last night, I felt her like I did so long ago."

" WHAT?" Serenity all but yelled, her face pale with shock, her eyes glinting in hope.

" Yes which mean what you and I both think it means." Therra informed her, her face shinning. " She has somehow opened the link between the Senshi. I was with Kris at the time, and I have never seen him start. It was like being wrapped in a hug, and it was so real. And then it was gone. But it was Kris that proved to me that it was real. He was so pale, and he stopped breathing. I swear I thought he was going to fall over. He started mummering in that language of hers, Venesian?" Therra questioned. She did not really grasp the significance of why the guys had to learn the ancient languages of the Senshis home. Jason told her it was so he knew when Aurora was cursing at him. Being Jason he had seemed to find it funny. Personally she thought it was that he could spend time with her without being interrupted. Jason did love Aurora's husky voice.

" So, she had re-inacted the ancient vows she made to me on my eighteenth birthday has she? I wonder if she has any clue of what she is doing." Serenity bit her lip and absently sipped her tea. " I wonder why I have not felt it?"

" Probably because all the Senshi are not bound to you. Didn't they all have to swear an oath to you before you could hear them? Ia…Minako said that when they were fourteen they had sworn and oath to each other, but she did not elaborate. Maybe the connection was never broken. We know she cut you off so you would not feel them die." Therra said, her tone thoughtful.

" That could be it." Serenity admitted. " But I wish I could feel them. It hurts, like black holes were once there were shinning stars. I mean I have the link to Endymion, but it is so different then what I had most of my life. It is like this constant ache." Serenity caught the look on Therra's face and closed her mouth with a click.

" Oh Therra I am so sorry." Serenity mummered, for Therra had been born with out the gift to use any mental capabilities. She could never talk to someone the way that she talked to the Senshi. She used to be able to feel Ianna, and it ripped her to shreds when she lost that link. And she could never bond herself to Rox until Minako gave her consent. They were soul sisters, the closest you could get. The only thing that could separate them was death; it was so close it was scary. The two were so alike that it did not bother them in any way, and they loved a set of brothers, which strengthened the link. The past four thousand years had been pure torture.

" I just hope she finds us soon. But I think Kris is going to try to find her." Therra told Serenity. " Since he can track her through the link, we may find them a lot sooner than I could ever hope."