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A Missing Heart
Chapter 9
Artemis watched the whole exchange silently and finally spoke up. "So what do we do?"
Queen Serenity looked down to Artemis and smiled a small smile. A smile filled with hurt. "You'll need to go the world that my daughter is currently in. To protect her when the other senshi come."
"Are you sure that they will go after her?"
"I'm more than certain that they will, Luna."
Minako finally spoke up once more. "So what must we do, Queen Serenity? How will we get there?"
Queen Serenity looked at her surprise. The transformation of Minako was a great change that she had yet to grow accustomed to. "I'll transport you there myself. You won't need to bother yourselves with looking for her, unlike the other senshi."
"After we get there... what happens? What arrangements need to be made?" Mamoru asked.
"You need not worry yourselves with such trivial matters. I will have arranged everything for all of you when you get there. As soon as you have reached that world, you would have immediately acquired the knowledge needed to survive in that world."
Queen Serenity paused and looked at each of them once more. "One thing that you must be aware of is because of the travel between that world and this one... you may age at the most a year... I don't know the true reason as to why this might occur, but it would more or likely happen."
Minako finally let loose her happy, bubbly personality once more and let out a big smile. "That doesn't matter! Now let's go find Usa-chan!!!!"
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Michiru looked at Haruka questioningly and then they nodded their heads, reaching an unspoken agreement. "So what do we do?"
"We search for her." Setsuna replied simply.
Makoto nodded. "Yes, but how?"
Setsuna looked at her impatiently. "I'll search the Time Gates to see if I can somehow find out where she has gone. Rei can try to get answers from the Fire. Ami can try to find her through her computer. And Michiru can search for answers in her Mirror." She looked to them, looking for agreements. When she got nods from all around the room, she added. "One of us is bound to find something."
Haruka nodded and stood up. "Well, let's get on with it."
Everyone nodded and stood up as well. All were leaving the temple heading for their own home, where they could perform their own research at, except for Rei who had immediately gone into the Fire Room.
Also except for Hotaru... who had just stood up to watch all of them leave, none of them realizing that she had not left her spot. "We're all making a big mistake doing this." She whispered, regret was heard in her voice. "But I'll follow you Ruka-papa, Michi-mama, Setsu-mama... for now. I can't guarantee that I'll stick by all of you in the end, like I am now. I'll make that decision myself. I won't let you make my decisions for me forever." She finished, then followed the others as they left the temple.
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"What was going on in here between Milliardo and you?" Quatre asked. As he, Heero, and Trowa were left alone together in the small waiting room of the Nurse's Office. While Wufei went to put Duo onto a bed and Milliardo had gone in the room to watch over Usagi.
"Hn." Heero refused to answer, still inwardly upset that his fight with Merquise or Peacecraft was avoided.
Trowa for once spoke up. "You should watch what you do with Milliardo."
Heero looked at him, his glare digging holes into him. "Explain."
"You'll upset Usagi." Trowa said simply, then looked away, signaling that he was done speaking.
Before Heero could respond or send a glare in Trowa's direction, the principal had appeared, with Wufei trailing behind him, muttering obscenities about Duo. "Damn braided baka, when he wakes up..."
Mr. Ping then stopped in front of them. "You need not be here. You should all return to class."
Quatre smiled weakly, not wanting to argue with the principal. "Of course, Mr. Ping." Quatre then left the room immediately, followed by Wufei and Trowa.
Heero refused to go. "You should go to class Mr. Yuy. This matter no longer concerns you."
Heero still refused to move, not even glancing at the principal, until finally he trained his glare to him. The principal backed up a bit, unnerved by the glare and cleared his throat nervously. "Well then, you could stay Mr. Yuy. But please don't cause any trouble, for I will have no trouble disciplining you if the need arises." And with that said, he seemed to scurry out of the room quickly.
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Usagi seemed to be floating around in the middle of nowhere. She couldn't see around her... she couldn't see anything. All she could see was the images that seemed to flash in her mind. So she had come to the conclusion that she was dreaming.
That was the only way that she could explain it. There was absolutely no way that she ever went through and lived through all the events that just seemed to flash in her mind. If I ever did... I don't think I could have survived. But she just couldn't understand it... why was she seeing this? Why must she go through all this pain? It just hurt so much to see all this... With this thought, she curled herself into a ball, trying to rid of all the pain that she felt.
With the visions, it seemed like she had lived not just one previous life... but two. In one of them, she seemed to be a Princess and in another, a normal girl until she became some sort of fighter.
None of it made sense. She was getting different visions and flashes... and she couldn't understand any of them. All of it was jumbled up, she couldn't figure out the order of the flashes. And she only got small glimpses, not enough to actually make sense of some of the situations.
But what was more confusing was that instead of her just watching the scenes... she ended up being the two girls from the different times... feeling the emotions and the pain that the girls had gone through in their lives... and also accumulating the knowledge and the memories of each girl, but only when she was witnessing the vision.
She had no control over their actions. She was like in the sidelines, she was seeing it and going through it, but had no control over it. Like she was living the life herself. And when she reflected on it now... what was more surprising was the two girls looked exactly like her... The two girls named Serenity and Usagi Tsukino...
*Flashbacks*
"Milli-kun, must you leave? Can you not stay longer?" Serenity asked, looking at her brother sadly.
The man known as her brother looked just as upset. His pale, long hair covering the dark blue eyes, which she knew looked as upset as her own. "I'm sorry Renity, but it can't be helped. Mother thinks that these dignitary missions would benefit me and our kingdom. So she insists that I must go."
Serenity looked down, as tears started being shed from her sapphire eyes. "I'll miss you..."
Milliardo gathered her up in his arms and held her tight. "I'll miss you too."
*Another Flashback*
"I don't want to be Sailor Moon, Luna! I just want to be a normal girl!" Usagi cried out.
The small cat shook her head, her crescent moon shining brightly. "I'm sorry Usagi. It can't be done. This is your destiny."
*Another Flashback*
Usagi looked up at the moon and the stars, her eyes showing unshed tears. "Mamo-chan... why? We're meant to be together... don't you love me anymore? Why did you break up with me?"
*Another Flashback*
"Mother, will Milli-kun make it back on time? To help us defend our kingdom from this attack?" Serenity asked frantically, hoping that her brother was just fine, and that he could make it in time to help them.
Her mother looked at her sadly. Lavender eyes sad with unshed tears. "I don't know, Serenity... I seriously don't know."
*Another Flashback*
Sailor Moon called back to Sailor Uranus and Neptune. "Can't we just work together? Why must we fight with one another?"
*Another Flashback*
"Why I can't I just be a normal girl?" Usagi asked, looking up to the moon sadly, as if she were expecting an answer to come from it. "Is that too much to ask?" She whispered out as tears came down her face.
*End of Flashbacks*
Usagi was unsure of all the images that she had witnessed. It just didn't make sense to her. She didn't know whether to believe it or to just ignore it. To believe that perhaps she had lived through all those things or to ignore it and think of it as something as nothing else but dreams.
But for some reason, the images didn't seem like they were just a dream. She was more than certain that she was going to somehow find out the truth of her past through these flashbacks... and that they would somehow haunt her... and bring trouble and misfortune onto her...
So? I hope you guys like this. I'll end this here. PLEASE REVIEW!!! Thanx.
~Akiko