Chapter 12 - For Love and Peace
"What you need
And everything you feel
Is just the question of the day"
-= Enigma - Gravity of Love =-
When the sun rose, Mornington still could feel the consequences of what had happened in the previous day. There hadn't been time for the Senshi and the Guardians to revert their transformation and recover from their wounds and to sleep. But that wasn't the worst of the scene. When they first fought against a youma to save their friends, no one thought of ever seeing what was upon their eyes. Mornington had its day of war and people were trying to recover from the battle and fearing the next attack.
"This is horrible", said Sailor Moon, with her hands over her mouth. "So many hurt people... I can feel they're suffering...", she sobbed.
"These are the consequences of a war", said Art, sitting down on the pathway. "Innocent people are hurt, some are killed... and, sometimes, we don't even know which side is the right side and which one is the wrong side."
"But we fight for love and justice!", yelled Sailor Venus, angry.
"Yes, but... didn't Kazeko come here, sent by her fellows, to search for the source of the energy that was affecting her world?", asked Amerin, sitting by Art's side. "She did what she believed it was the right thing, even if that meant take Tieko to a strange world. It could also mean her death."
"You're right, Amerin", said Tieko, looking at her friends. "I started all this. And now, I have to put an end on this war."
A blue light began to surround Tieko's body and, once again, a sigil appeared on her forehead. but, this time, the Senshi could identify it and recognize the soul that was hidden within Tieko Aikawa's body.
"It can't be...!", gasped Sailor Mercury, trying to reach Tieko before it was too late. "Kyn..."
"She's Kyn of Saphir!", gasped Sailor Mars. "Sailor Mercury's twin sister, the second Princess of Mercury!"
"And she's also...", said Art, standing up. "... Mercury Destiny Kishi..."
With a smile in her face, she moved her lips. Sailor Mercury swore to herself that she had said 'goodbye'.
***
Some miles away, Althea couldn't stop shaking. She could still see the previous battle, as if her eyes were a camera, taking pictures of every scene, recording every scream, every tear that was dropped by Mornington.
That was one of the reasons why she screamed very loud when a hand touched her shoulder.
"You do not have to scream, Althea Maxwell, for I am not here to harm you at all", said a young man, almost a teenager, wearing a bordeaux jacket with black pants and with a strange violet line crossing his eyes.
"Who... or... WHAT are you?!"
"Why bother with these details right now when you have friends in trouble?", he said, handing her a silver pendant. "You know what you have to do with this, Althea. Good luck", and he disappeared in a bordeaux light.
"What a strange one... but... he said I knew what I've supposed to do with this... a heart pendant?", she thought aloud, looking at the pendant and feeling her body shudder as if a cold wind passed by.
The cold wind of her memories of a long time ago.
***
And there she was, alone again, without her friends and... without the person she most loved. The cold wind made her shudder when she remembered those days in a past that History had forgotten. But not her heart.
It was the end of the Silver Millenium. All she could do was see her sister being killed by a youma, the last sight that her blurry eyes saw, after saving her beloved sister from a previous attack. She knew Saphir would do the same... if she weren't a Sailor Senshi and if her duty weren't to protect the princess.
Kyn wasn't a Senshi. She did not have the duty of protecting the princess... she was a Kishi, her duty was to protect the Guardian of the Time Portal, Sailor Pluto, and the secrets hidden within the Time Library. But in those days, when she was able to predict the future, Kyn had decided that she would fight by her sister's side. That was the greatest surprise Sailor Mercury would ever have in her short life.
"Kyn, what are you doing here?!", she shouted, when Kyn appeared in battle clothes by her side. "You..."
"I know I'm not as skilled as you are, Saphir", she answered, gathering a large amount of blue energy in her hands. "But I won't break my promise... LOOK OUT!!!"
She pushed Sailor Mercury to the side with her left elbow and unlashed the energy at a youma that was coming near them. It wasn't the time for her to die. Not yet.
Her eyes were damaged by the youma attack and by the light her own energy had. All she could see was another youma approaching the four Inner Senshi and unlashing a great amount of energy on them... that was what she knew that was the right thing to happen at the end of the Silver Millenium... even though she wanted to use her powers to change her Destiny.
"Kyn-chan... hottokenai... yo...", Sailor Mercury whispered while trying to reach her sister's hands.
"... don't leave me... alone..."
And everything went black for many and many years.
***
"Hinoko!", shouted Kyn, in the middle of Fallen Institute's gym. "I am here! I am the one you are looking for!"
"So finally you decided to appear...", said the woman of fire, her body appearing in the air. "Are you ready to go? I think you must know already what you've done, little girl."
Kyn nodded, but didn't walk even a bit in Hinoko's direction. "I know that my presence here made several changes in your dimension... that was what brought Kazeko here, am I right?"
"As usual, Kyn of Saphir. You don't belong to Mornington and you know that", Hinoko answered, lowering to the ground. "Why didn't you go with Kazeko when you could save her life?"
"Because then I didn't know who I was", she said, gathering energy in her hands. "And now, I don't want to go... I can't leave her alone again... Water FLASH!"
"Hey!", shouted Hinoko, dodging Kyn's attack. "If you feels it so bad, why don't you just RETURN to where you came from?"
"I don't know how to", Kyn answered, lowering her eyes for a moment. "I don't even know why am I here. I just remember to be at my room, in the Palace of Pluto..."
"And that's why you and your friends just killed Kazeko?!", growled Hinoko, her eyes sparkling with anger and sorrow. "I won't EVER, NEVER FORGIVE _YOU_!!!"
Kyn's reflexes weren't so good as they were in the Silver Millenium and she hardly could jump to the side before the fire reached her. "I know that saying 'I'm sorry' won't bring her back!", she shouted, a tear rolling down her face. "But... but I won't leave this life too easily, Hinoko!", and a beam of ice thrusted into Hinoko's direction, almost getting her.
"STOP RIGHT THERE!!!", shouted a third female voice, making the two warriors lose their concentration. "Can't you two see that you are fighting against the SAME THING?!"
"Wha- who are you, stupid girl?!", asked Hinoko, looking at the brunette girl with yellow clothes.
"The one that may have the answers for a lot of your questions...", she leaped to the ground and came to the light. "I'm Aimeko of Venus. And I have a lot of information for you two."
***
In the meanwhile, the Destiny Kishi weren't in peace. Aleph had disappeared for some hours, saying that he was going to do some research... leaving a worried Lady Saphir along with Moon Fox and Firebird. There was no sign of Chronos anywhere, though.
Finally, Aleph came into the Silver Hall and sat down by the table. He kept his head down, unable to face his friends and colleagues for some minutes. For what he had discovered was something that could change the entire History of a Timeline, or else, could change forever the fate of the Destiny Kishi.
Moon Fox, Firebird, Seph and Lady Saphir were worried with all the situation. The only one who wasn't at the main hall of the Silver Hall was Chronos, who was inside the Time Library since Aleph had began his research about the Timeline where Kyn's essence had been sent. That was the other point that kept Aleph's mind focused in the problem he had noticed while looking at the mirror that shown what was happening at several points of that Timeline.
"Aleph...", called Lady Saphir, touching his shoulder. "Are you alright?"
"Did you finish your research?", asked Moon Fox. "Is there something so terrible that you can't even look at us? C'mon, nothing can be SO terrible..."
"Never say that, Moon Fox. You know what can happen when Murphy keeps looking over the Inner NDK."
Moon Fox and Firebird were atonished. There were already a couple of decades since the last time Aleph had used the term 'Inner NDK' to refer to themselves. "OK, now you're going to tell us what happened, DANIEL", said Moon Fox, with an agressive voice.
"Y'know... in this Timeline, the one we live in, we have an order of reincarnation of the people of the Silver Millenium who recieved the light of the Ginzuishou. That isn't different in any Timeline we can ever imagine in this universe, with the difference that there won't exist any Destiny Kishi outside our Timeline", began Aleph, with a sigh. "As we don't have any Guardians in our world or in any world at any Timeline... Siren, Gin, Selen, Amerin, Aimeko and Artica weren't bathed by the Ginzuishou's light and didn't reincarnate here. What Chronos did was travel back in time and gather the Guardians' essences before they were lost..."
"You mean that neither Catherin, Kenneth, Megan, Aindrea, Althea nor Tieko were bound to exist?", asked Firebird. "That was all Chronos' work?"
"No, Firebird. They were all destinated to be born in that Timeline... but to become Guardians, Chronos had to make more changes", continued Aleph, pushing a pile of paper on Firebird's direction. "He had to insert the Guardians' essences before these children were born. But we can't forget that there were more 'special children' being born almost at the same time... the Sailor Senshi. And that was the crucial part."
***
"You mean that...", gasped Kyn, watching her friends and the Sailor Senshi arriving from nowhere in the middle of the gym.
"You are all fighting against the wrong person, Kyn of Saphir", repeated Aimeko, without noticing two shiny eyes looking at them from the darkness.
"What you need
And everything you feel
Is just the question of the day"
-= Enigma - Gravity of Love =-
When the sun rose, Mornington still could feel the consequences of what had happened in the previous day. There hadn't been time for the Senshi and the Guardians to revert their transformation and recover from their wounds and to sleep. But that wasn't the worst of the scene. When they first fought against a youma to save their friends, no one thought of ever seeing what was upon their eyes. Mornington had its day of war and people were trying to recover from the battle and fearing the next attack.
"This is horrible", said Sailor Moon, with her hands over her mouth. "So many hurt people... I can feel they're suffering...", she sobbed.
"These are the consequences of a war", said Art, sitting down on the pathway. "Innocent people are hurt, some are killed... and, sometimes, we don't even know which side is the right side and which one is the wrong side."
"But we fight for love and justice!", yelled Sailor Venus, angry.
"Yes, but... didn't Kazeko come here, sent by her fellows, to search for the source of the energy that was affecting her world?", asked Amerin, sitting by Art's side. "She did what she believed it was the right thing, even if that meant take Tieko to a strange world. It could also mean her death."
"You're right, Amerin", said Tieko, looking at her friends. "I started all this. And now, I have to put an end on this war."
A blue light began to surround Tieko's body and, once again, a sigil appeared on her forehead. but, this time, the Senshi could identify it and recognize the soul that was hidden within Tieko Aikawa's body.
"It can't be...!", gasped Sailor Mercury, trying to reach Tieko before it was too late. "Kyn..."
"She's Kyn of Saphir!", gasped Sailor Mars. "Sailor Mercury's twin sister, the second Princess of Mercury!"
"And she's also...", said Art, standing up. "... Mercury Destiny Kishi..."
With a smile in her face, she moved her lips. Sailor Mercury swore to herself that she had said 'goodbye'.
***
Some miles away, Althea couldn't stop shaking. She could still see the previous battle, as if her eyes were a camera, taking pictures of every scene, recording every scream, every tear that was dropped by Mornington.
That was one of the reasons why she screamed very loud when a hand touched her shoulder.
"You do not have to scream, Althea Maxwell, for I am not here to harm you at all", said a young man, almost a teenager, wearing a bordeaux jacket with black pants and with a strange violet line crossing his eyes.
"Who... or... WHAT are you?!"
"Why bother with these details right now when you have friends in trouble?", he said, handing her a silver pendant. "You know what you have to do with this, Althea. Good luck", and he disappeared in a bordeaux light.
"What a strange one... but... he said I knew what I've supposed to do with this... a heart pendant?", she thought aloud, looking at the pendant and feeling her body shudder as if a cold wind passed by.
The cold wind of her memories of a long time ago.
***
And there she was, alone again, without her friends and... without the person she most loved. The cold wind made her shudder when she remembered those days in a past that History had forgotten. But not her heart.
It was the end of the Silver Millenium. All she could do was see her sister being killed by a youma, the last sight that her blurry eyes saw, after saving her beloved sister from a previous attack. She knew Saphir would do the same... if she weren't a Sailor Senshi and if her duty weren't to protect the princess.
Kyn wasn't a Senshi. She did not have the duty of protecting the princess... she was a Kishi, her duty was to protect the Guardian of the Time Portal, Sailor Pluto, and the secrets hidden within the Time Library. But in those days, when she was able to predict the future, Kyn had decided that she would fight by her sister's side. That was the greatest surprise Sailor Mercury would ever have in her short life.
"Kyn, what are you doing here?!", she shouted, when Kyn appeared in battle clothes by her side. "You..."
"I know I'm not as skilled as you are, Saphir", she answered, gathering a large amount of blue energy in her hands. "But I won't break my promise... LOOK OUT!!!"
She pushed Sailor Mercury to the side with her left elbow and unlashed the energy at a youma that was coming near them. It wasn't the time for her to die. Not yet.
Her eyes were damaged by the youma attack and by the light her own energy had. All she could see was another youma approaching the four Inner Senshi and unlashing a great amount of energy on them... that was what she knew that was the right thing to happen at the end of the Silver Millenium... even though she wanted to use her powers to change her Destiny.
"Kyn-chan... hottokenai... yo...", Sailor Mercury whispered while trying to reach her sister's hands.
"... don't leave me... alone..."
And everything went black for many and many years.
***
"Hinoko!", shouted Kyn, in the middle of Fallen Institute's gym. "I am here! I am the one you are looking for!"
"So finally you decided to appear...", said the woman of fire, her body appearing in the air. "Are you ready to go? I think you must know already what you've done, little girl."
Kyn nodded, but didn't walk even a bit in Hinoko's direction. "I know that my presence here made several changes in your dimension... that was what brought Kazeko here, am I right?"
"As usual, Kyn of Saphir. You don't belong to Mornington and you know that", Hinoko answered, lowering to the ground. "Why didn't you go with Kazeko when you could save her life?"
"Because then I didn't know who I was", she said, gathering energy in her hands. "And now, I don't want to go... I can't leave her alone again... Water FLASH!"
"Hey!", shouted Hinoko, dodging Kyn's attack. "If you feels it so bad, why don't you just RETURN to where you came from?"
"I don't know how to", Kyn answered, lowering her eyes for a moment. "I don't even know why am I here. I just remember to be at my room, in the Palace of Pluto..."
"And that's why you and your friends just killed Kazeko?!", growled Hinoko, her eyes sparkling with anger and sorrow. "I won't EVER, NEVER FORGIVE _YOU_!!!"
Kyn's reflexes weren't so good as they were in the Silver Millenium and she hardly could jump to the side before the fire reached her. "I know that saying 'I'm sorry' won't bring her back!", she shouted, a tear rolling down her face. "But... but I won't leave this life too easily, Hinoko!", and a beam of ice thrusted into Hinoko's direction, almost getting her.
"STOP RIGHT THERE!!!", shouted a third female voice, making the two warriors lose their concentration. "Can't you two see that you are fighting against the SAME THING?!"
"Wha- who are you, stupid girl?!", asked Hinoko, looking at the brunette girl with yellow clothes.
"The one that may have the answers for a lot of your questions...", she leaped to the ground and came to the light. "I'm Aimeko of Venus. And I have a lot of information for you two."
***
In the meanwhile, the Destiny Kishi weren't in peace. Aleph had disappeared for some hours, saying that he was going to do some research... leaving a worried Lady Saphir along with Moon Fox and Firebird. There was no sign of Chronos anywhere, though.
Finally, Aleph came into the Silver Hall and sat down by the table. He kept his head down, unable to face his friends and colleagues for some minutes. For what he had discovered was something that could change the entire History of a Timeline, or else, could change forever the fate of the Destiny Kishi.
Moon Fox, Firebird, Seph and Lady Saphir were worried with all the situation. The only one who wasn't at the main hall of the Silver Hall was Chronos, who was inside the Time Library since Aleph had began his research about the Timeline where Kyn's essence had been sent. That was the other point that kept Aleph's mind focused in the problem he had noticed while looking at the mirror that shown what was happening at several points of that Timeline.
"Aleph...", called Lady Saphir, touching his shoulder. "Are you alright?"
"Did you finish your research?", asked Moon Fox. "Is there something so terrible that you can't even look at us? C'mon, nothing can be SO terrible..."
"Never say that, Moon Fox. You know what can happen when Murphy keeps looking over the Inner NDK."
Moon Fox and Firebird were atonished. There were already a couple of decades since the last time Aleph had used the term 'Inner NDK' to refer to themselves. "OK, now you're going to tell us what happened, DANIEL", said Moon Fox, with an agressive voice.
"Y'know... in this Timeline, the one we live in, we have an order of reincarnation of the people of the Silver Millenium who recieved the light of the Ginzuishou. That isn't different in any Timeline we can ever imagine in this universe, with the difference that there won't exist any Destiny Kishi outside our Timeline", began Aleph, with a sigh. "As we don't have any Guardians in our world or in any world at any Timeline... Siren, Gin, Selen, Amerin, Aimeko and Artica weren't bathed by the Ginzuishou's light and didn't reincarnate here. What Chronos did was travel back in time and gather the Guardians' essences before they were lost..."
"You mean that neither Catherin, Kenneth, Megan, Aindrea, Althea nor Tieko were bound to exist?", asked Firebird. "That was all Chronos' work?"
"No, Firebird. They were all destinated to be born in that Timeline... but to become Guardians, Chronos had to make more changes", continued Aleph, pushing a pile of paper on Firebird's direction. "He had to insert the Guardians' essences before these children were born. But we can't forget that there were more 'special children' being born almost at the same time... the Sailor Senshi. And that was the crucial part."
***
"You mean that...", gasped Kyn, watching her friends and the Sailor Senshi arriving from nowhere in the middle of the gym.
"You are all fighting against the wrong person, Kyn of Saphir", repeated Aimeko, without noticing two shiny eyes looking at them from the darkness.