How Crystal Tokyo Came About
Chapter 12
Author's Notes:
Hmm. Just want to get this out at a decent time. Have the juices flowing and all that jazz. Read on. AND REVIEW!
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Rei's head flopped back onto the pillow-mountain behind her and she groaned. All the senshi had come over after she'd fallen down, and were still hanging around; preventing her from getting any rest.
Not that she could have even if she wanted to—because Mr. Faceless was still haunting her dreams.
But it would have been nice to pretend she had the option of resting.
It bothered her for some reason that Chad had given in so easily. She liked the small fight between them—it made her feel alive, like it always did… but she liked a well-matched opponent and it was obvious she wasn't getting one there.
Which really sucked, she thought.
And then Rei wondered if anyone at all would ever be able to argue properly with her. Sure, Serena had a knack for it, but there were only so many times you could call her a meatball head, and since she'd been maturing so much, even that was a stretch.
The faceless man floated in front of her for a minute and she pushed it away. Surely this person couldn't argue with her the way she wanted to be argued with. (That sounds nasty.)
She sighed again and rolled onto her side. Every time she closed her eyes, she saw his figure and wondered if she would ever know who he was…
When Serena checked up on her 5 minutes later, it was apparent that Rei was fast asleep.
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Rei dreamed.
"Re-d." A man called in a singsong voice. "Come on, Red, come and find me…"
Rei heard her own voice call back.
"When I get my hands on you, mister, there isn't going to be a bone of yours to bury. All that will be left are your ashes—something I look forward to seeing."
"You're all talk, Ms. Fireball. Don't even try that one with me because we both know that you love me too much to ever do anything like that."
"That doesn't mean I won't try to!" She yelled back.
His rich laughter invaded her sleep-filled state, unlocking memories she never knew she had.
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Rei sat up in bed quickly, inhaling oxygen like each breath was her last.
That dream had seemed so real. She had been the one verbally sparring with the man—the man who was, without a doubt, the faceless one from all her dreams before. His voice though, was what had shocked her. He sounded like someone she knew. Someone she didn't like—or perhaps a villain she had fought in the past.
But there was something about him…
She was going to brush the dream off as another one to put into the weird column, except right before she had woken up, the ruins of an old palace had flashed before her eyes. It couldn't have been the Moon Kingdom—she'd been there before and it didn't look like that—but if it wasn't that, then where was it?
And suddenly, as if someone right next to her had whispered it in her ear, she knew. She knew every room and hallway and corner in that ruined site because she'd lived there.
Of course it wasn't the Moon Kingdom.
It was Mars.
Saving her from further analyzation of her dreams, Serena came bursting into the room.
"Wow, Rei, you slept for a really long time." She leaned out the door. "You guys! She's awake!"
Rei looked over at her digital clock, which read 5:57 PM. The fact that she didn't understand her dreams and that Serena thought she had overslept was making her irritable. "What are you talking about, Serena? I went to sleep less than 30 minutes ago."
As the other senshi gathered into the room, Serena frowned. "Rei, you've been asleep for the past 2 days. 48 hours and 26 minutes, if you want to be exact. We thought you were in a coma, but Ami said you were just sleeping."
"Wh—what are you talking about? Is this some sort of joke?"
The unsmiling faces that stared back at her assured her that it wasn't a joke. She really had been asleep for over two days.
"Oh wow. Oh my god. That's insane." Rei looked up. "How could I have just been asleep? I was tired, but not that tired."
Ami tried to make some sense of it. "Rei, how long did it feel like to you?"
She grabbed an elastic band and gathered her hair up into a messy bun. "Um… like 5 minutes, I guess. It really didn't feel that long to me." She said, leaning back on her headboard.
"What did you dream about?" Darien asked her gently.
She blanched, remembering. "The man. The man who's been in my dreams and—I saw Mars."
"Whoa. Like Mars—the planet where you used to live, Mars?" That was Lita.
Rei nodded, not wanting to talk about it anymore. "It really didn't feel that long. Are you sure I was—"
"I'm sure." Ami cut her off.
A hurt look came over her face. "Why is he doing this to me? What did I ever do to him?"
They all shuffled their feet around and looked at the ground, unable to answer her questions. As a result, no one else saw the misty figure that sat down on the bed next to her.
But she did see it, as she was meant to, and when he placed a gentle kiss on her forehead, she fainted. But this was to be expected—wouldn't you faint if the Dark Kingdom general you thought was dead and suddenly recognized as your lover in your past life kissed you?
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Author's Notes:
Oh YEAH! Ok. Quick poll that is absolutely ESSENTIAL to the storyline.
Who would you rather see the inners with and why? The generals (Jaedite, Zoicyte, Nephrite, Kunzite) or the guys? (Chad, Andrew, Greg, Ken.)
The plot is in your hands… choose wisely.