The dark, night sky was filled with trembling stars shining brightly in the sky. Neo Queen Serenity sat on a silk pink blanket with her initals on it. The blanket lay beside a bubbling, sparkling river flowing swifty south. A cool breeze rustled her hair and caused her dress to flutter. She was alone. Her head was tilted upwards, looking at the beautiful night sky. She seemed deep in thought. But all was not perfect. The river had something foul in it. A black oozing liquid started to grow in part of the river and travelled onwards, bubbling on the top like what seemed to be tar. Serenity noticed this straight away and gasped.
Him again...' she thought in despair. She waited patiently for...the voice.
"We meet again, my dear." It finally droned out. The voice was raspy and cold. It gave Serenity the chills.
"I'm not your dear." She snapped haughtily, trying to keep her breathing steady so he wouldn't know she was frightened of him. The voice gave a low chuckle.
"Okay, so you don't want to be my dear. You're King Endimion's dear, am I right?" It drawled. Serenity was silent and looked down.
You can never see the Voice, he's just..here.' She thought, whilst looking at the ruffled grass. She gave a little shriek as a patch of it turned brown.
"And you love him very much, am I right?" The Voice carried on, interupting her thoughts and her mind away from the brown grass. Tears filled her eyes as she nodded. She knew what would happen next.
"You would give up your world for his safety." It was more of a statement than a question. "But what would you say if you couldn't ever see him again? Eh, Serenity? You had to die and he had to live. Or the other way around. Someone is coming, Serenity. Someone strong. Someone evil. You must sacrifice something you love most to survive. It's either your life...or his. No love...or.." He chuckled, "..no love!"
"No.." she choked out. "The senshi.."
"Ah, your precious senshi. They will be of no help. They are weak. Much too weak to handle the force of whats...coming." A cold, hard laugh filled the air.
"Shut up!" She screamed at it. Her hands flew to her ears and she tried to drown out the sound of his evil laughter. It seemed to get louder and louder. She stumbled up off her blanket, slipping a couple times because of the silk. She ran across the flower covered field, but the flowers seemed to rot away as she passed. She stumbled over a log, and she fell in slow motion. The field faded away, a white light flashed and the laughter ciesed.
She sat up in bed, sweat covered, panting hard and looking around the semi-light filled room. She took a deep breath and put her hand to her forehead. It was dripping with sweat.
Oh God...Oh no not that dream again!' She cried out in her head.
"Mamo-chan...honey...wake up!" She shook her husband who lay peacefully sleeping next to her. He took a deep breath and slowly woke up. He pushed his hair out of his eyes and blinking to get the sleep out of his eyes, he looked at his beautiful but frightened lover.
"Whats wrong? Whats the time? Why-" He began.
"It's the dream again." She said bluntly.
"Oh, sweetheart! I thought those were over."
She looked down at her hands, which she was wringing in her nervous state.
"Ye-yeah. The voice was there again..and he-"
"Shh shh..." He stroked her sweaty hair off her forehead and pushed her gently against the pillow. "Rest for a little longer. It's only 5 am and you need your sleep. Do not worry, the dream doesn't mean anything and it won't come back." His soothing voice comforted her. She smiled at him and gave him a brief kiss before closing her eyes again.
He's right...nothing bad will happen.' she consoled herself, although she gave a tiny shiver, which she didn't allow Endymion to see.