Silver Dreams
Chapter 1 :: "Past Lives, Past Love"
Authors: Chikko-chan, Nightmoon
A/N: Remember this is an Alternate Universe RPG so we've changed a few things from what you usually know about Sailor Moon. Hope you like it!
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[ Mars ]
An upset child, nine years of age, with dark hair and violet eyes, wearing a Prince's outfit with the symbol of Mars upon it, ran crying through the forest till he stopped at the foot of a hidden lake. Falling to the ground, he looked at his crying reflection in the water...
A softly glowing figure watched the boy from a short distance. "Why does such a handsome young Prince cry on a night such as this" The sweet voice of a young woman questioned, a dimly glowing reflection appearing in the lake before them.
The young Prince looked up, wiping the tears from his eyes, but then was startled as he pushed himself back against a tree, still looking at the figure. "Who are you?" he said through sniffles.
"Most of your people would call me a ghostly apparition. I will not hurt you young Prince... I just wish to know what troubles thee so." The figure seated herself on the ground hoping to keep herself from appearing as a threat.
The Prince tried to calm down. "My.. my mother.. she... she... died today," he said, then allowing more tears to flow. He shut his eyes, then screamed. "Why did she leave me? She shouldn't have left me! It's not fair!"
"Oh dear Prince." She gave him a sympathetic look and ventured to move closer to the boy. "Life throws us some heavy blows. Be sure that she didn't want to leave you."
The Prince grasped the grass beneath him, showing his frustration and anger as tears fell from his cheeks. "She didn't even say goodbye..."
The figure moved closer to the boy still. "I'm sure she did all in her power to try. Sometimes it isn't always possible. But don't make this think she felt any less of you." She continued softly only a few feet from him now.
"I... I wanted to tell her, I loved her... I wanted to hug her one last time... but it was too late..." the Prince said, then looking to the figure with tears still filling in his eyes. "I just wanted one last hug from her..."
"Oh she knew dear Prince. She knew." She outstretched a hand slowly, hoping not to scare or startle the boy, reaching to stroke his tear stained face. To comfort his aching heart.
The Prince then suddenly shot up from his sitting position, then wrapping his arms around the figure and hugging her.
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[ Seven Years Later ]
That same boy, now 16, walks into the hidden lake area. Slowly walking up to the same tree that still weeped over the lake water, he placed a strong hand upon its trunk and lifted his head out to look over the water. His violet eyes shone with the overhead moonlight from Phoebos and Deimos. "Yume-chan, please be here," he said softly...
"You call on me this night, My Prince" It was the same sweet voice that had greeted him so many years earlier. The female figure showed herself atop a small island out on the water of the lake. Taking strong, sturdy steps, she walked over the water towards the young man. She gave him a soft smile, tilting her head to the side as she approached him.
"You know very well you can call me Rei, Yume-chan," Rei said, looking at the woman that stood now before him. She was beautiful, inside and out. He knew that by just a look in her eyes. Pushing himself away from the tree, he walked over to her and took her hand into his, then kissing it softly. He then placed her hand against his cheek, his calm eyes closing as he sighed, calmed at her very touch. He then knew he had to tell her.
"I am troubled by my father's death..." he said, opening his eyes to meet with hers as he had done many times before. "I am to be crowned, but must also choose a wife to be my Queen..."
"I knew one day that this time would come, Rei." She said his name softly, smiling as the sound passed her lips. She stroked his cheek with her thumb as he had held her hand to his face. "You know you must choose a suitable woman for your wife. One to be with the people. To give you an heir. Someone to carry on in your place." She explained to him quietly.
Rei felt a pain surge through his heart, but he was strong enough not to cry. "But I love you, Yume-chan. I always have, I always will, and I wish for you to be the one. My wife, my Queen..." he replied softly, "I want to love and cherish you, and only you. Why has fate done this to me?" He fell to his knees, growing weak from the pain he felt surging through him... from the thought of not being able to have her...
Yume cringed at the thought of what this had meant to him. "I know Rei. I know." She knelt down before him, running her hand through his hair and then placing it on his cheek. "You've grown to be such a strong young man Rei. Strong, Intelligent, Dashing young man. I do not want to give you up to another but it is not my choice. You are a Prince.. Soon to be a King. You must think of your Nation." Tears had welled up in her eyes, building up before any would escape. "I will always be here for you Rei." The woman leaned forward, slipping her arms around his back in an embrace.
Rei held Yume close, hugging her, as if never wanting to let her go. "Do you love me, Yume-chan?" He asked softly, as he let a tear escape his eye. "Do you love me, as I love you?"
"I do. I love you Rei. My Young Prince. I watched you become the man you are and I do not wish to lose you to another." She answered holding him tightly. "But because I love you. I wish for you to do what is best.. You must do what is best Rei. You should do what is best." Her wishes contradicted each other. She felt torn between what she wanted and what was needed. Why could they never go hand in hand.
Rei pushed Yume gently away from him, then placing his hand upon her face. "If you love me, then say Yes..." he said softly, "Say you will be my wife. Become Queen of Mars, and rule by my side the people of this Nation. They will love you as I do, I just know it..."
"Rei.." Yume looked at him with a pained expression, looking to those calm eyes. Her lip trembled and tears started to run down the curvatures of her features. "You know that I love you... I do not want to..." She paused gripping her fists and lowering her head as she had to make such a decision. Teeth gritted and eyes squeased tightly shut she suddenly burst from the bowed position. "Yes.." She cried out looking the Prince in the eyes with her tear filled orbs.
Rei smiled softly, wiping the tears the fell from Yume's eyes, he leaned in to kiss her... but the moment was broken by sirens, before their lips met. "The Moon is under attack," Rei said, recognizing those sirens. "Why now? Why at this moment I've long waited for?" He looked at Yume, knowing they would be separated. "Yume, I'll meet you here again, after the battle is over. Promise me you'll be here?"
Yume watched Rei reach out to wipe away the tears and then saw him leaning forwards. She waited for the moment she would feel his lips apon hers but it never happened. She closed her eyes slowly, swallowing the horrible feeling in her throat. He needed to leave. She opened her eyes again, giving him a mock confident look. "I will wait for you... Meet you here again." She answered.
Rei looked into Yume's eyes, knowing she was trying to be strong. The sirens still rang, and he could hear soldiers in the forest looking for him, calling his name. He took Yume's hand and they stood together. He didn't want to go, he didn't want to part with her now that he finally had her. He interlinked fingers with hers... and pulled her closer for the kiss. Soft and passionate on the lips, Rei showed every emotion, feeling, and being within him for Yume in this very kiss.
Yume held Rei's hand loosely, her grip slowly getting stronger as the time for him to leave drew near. A kiss could be seen just as contact between the lips of two people. This was different. There was so much feeling, emotion, tenderness put into it. The tears ran down her cheeks once again feeling all of these emotions at once. She reached up to stroke his face once again. She didn't want him to step away.
The soldiers drew nearer, their voices calling for the Prince louder. He took a step back from Yume, not taking his eyes from her. He could feel her grip tightening, and he would as well never leave her, if he had that choice. "I must protect the Moon. I promise I'll return to you. I love you, Yume-chan," Rei said softly, then letting his fingers slide out from hers. He turned from her, his Princely cape fluttering behind him as he disappeared into the forest. He would travel to the moon, protect it, protect the Princess as he was supposed to, then go back to her... that was his plan. He would return to her. That was his promise.
He had pulled away. Yume felt Rei's fingers slipping from her grasp. She watched as he spun away from her, disappearing through the trees. "I was always the one to comfort you My Prince... But it seems I need you this time." She shivered at the sudden cold feeling, crossing her arms over her chest and turning to walk back over the lake waters. She managed to keep a calm and collected composure as she tread back over the shining liquid.
"Rei... You promised you'd come back." She quietly uttered the words before falling to her knees at the base of an old redwood tree. She let the tears run freely now. He told her he would be back...
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[ On the Moon ]
"I would have thought better from a Senshi, especially of your stature, Silver Mars," a dark figure scowled, holding Silver Mars by the collar. He was beaten and bruised, but the fight wasn't over yet...
"You won't win..." Mars sneered back.
"Oh, but we already have," the figure laughed evily, charging his free hand foreward and lunging a dark spear that his hand formed into through Mars' body.
*Noo...* Mars thought, feeling the spear rip through him, as his own warm blood soaked through his clothes. He closed his eyes, a single tear falling. "Yume-chan..." he said, his last words, before he was thrown aside.
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[ Back on Mars ]
The tears had slowed, sobs had ceased and Yume had climbed back up to her feet but was still relying on the sturdy tree before her. "I need to be there... I should be there... I need to go to the moon" She had decided.
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[ On the Moon ]
All was bleak, Dark and damaged. Yume balled her hands into fists as she picked through the rubble trying to find something.. someone. She needed a sign. She wanted to find him. Most of what she saw was stone rubble but.. there was something up ahead. A cold wind blew through the area and she saw what looked like dark hair dancing in the breeze.
Yume paused for a moment, then quickened her pace, running towards what she saw ahead. She stopped suddenly as she reached it taking a few shakey breaths and then falling to her knees beside her fallen Prince.
"Rei-" She choked out reaching to touch the wound that had ripped through his body. Her breathing was difficult as she looked apon his still form. It felt like someone had reached into her chest and torn out her heart as she stared upon him.
"My Prince... I love you... Rei" Leaning over him she kissed his cold lips and stroked his face once again. She couldn't stay here.. No matter how much she wanted to stay and watch over him. She couldn't stay. She got to her feet, looking down at him one last time and then forced herself to turn away.
Yume wandered through the rubble looking for a sign of life. It felt like there was a part of her missing. How could she keep going like this. There wasn't a point anymore, was there? Wait... She was a fighter.. She couldn't just give up like this now. Someone had killed her Prince, her love. With a deep breath the woman straightened her posture and continued on with a more determined attitude. Rei had died in duty. Protecting the queen and princess. She had to find them.
"Queen Serenity" She called out spotting the queen of the moon surrounded by dark shadows. The queen was doing something, using the crystal. Suddenly she saw a surge of Indigo energy rushing towards her. Her time had come.
Yume stretched her arms out infront of her, catching the energy and finding an indigo crystal hovering between her palms.
She looked towards the queen, a questioning look on her face as she held the stone.
*Use it.. You will know how* It was Serenity guiding her. As soon as she had heard this message she saw there was a shadow warrior rushing towards her. She saw it's arm suddenly form into something looking like a javelin. This sparked in her head and she yelled out, feeling the energy surging through her.
"YOU WILL BE DEFEATED!!" She screamed wielding the crystal, holding it up above her head allowing it's light and energy to rain down over her and the oncomming shadow.
A sudden screech echoed through the air as the shadow's form suddenly started to fluctuate. The energy coming from the crystal seemed to be sucking the shadow into it's stone casing. The shadow fought, but the energy was strong and continued pulling. In another bright flash of Indigo, Yume dropped to her knees, the crystal still hovering between her hands. She felt so weak.. so tired. Another flash and the crystal disappeared. There was a new energy inside of her. Her eye lids felt heavy. She didn't think she could keep them open much longer.
"Rei.." She felt weak, falling onto her side, ".. I'll see you soon.. my Prince." Her lids fell closed, and all she thought of was him.
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To be continued...
Chapter 2 :: "As Children We Played"
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Chapter 1 :: "Past Lives, Past Love"
Authors: Chikko-chan, Nightmoon
A/N: Remember this is an Alternate Universe RPG so we've changed a few things from what you usually know about Sailor Moon. Hope you like it!
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[ Mars ]
An upset child, nine years of age, with dark hair and violet eyes, wearing a Prince's outfit with the symbol of Mars upon it, ran crying through the forest till he stopped at the foot of a hidden lake. Falling to the ground, he looked at his crying reflection in the water...
A softly glowing figure watched the boy from a short distance. "Why does such a handsome young Prince cry on a night such as this" The sweet voice of a young woman questioned, a dimly glowing reflection appearing in the lake before them.
The young Prince looked up, wiping the tears from his eyes, but then was startled as he pushed himself back against a tree, still looking at the figure. "Who are you?" he said through sniffles.
"Most of your people would call me a ghostly apparition. I will not hurt you young Prince... I just wish to know what troubles thee so." The figure seated herself on the ground hoping to keep herself from appearing as a threat.
The Prince tried to calm down. "My.. my mother.. she... she... died today," he said, then allowing more tears to flow. He shut his eyes, then screamed. "Why did she leave me? She shouldn't have left me! It's not fair!"
"Oh dear Prince." She gave him a sympathetic look and ventured to move closer to the boy. "Life throws us some heavy blows. Be sure that she didn't want to leave you."
The Prince grasped the grass beneath him, showing his frustration and anger as tears fell from his cheeks. "She didn't even say goodbye..."
The figure moved closer to the boy still. "I'm sure she did all in her power to try. Sometimes it isn't always possible. But don't make this think she felt any less of you." She continued softly only a few feet from him now.
"I... I wanted to tell her, I loved her... I wanted to hug her one last time... but it was too late..." the Prince said, then looking to the figure with tears still filling in his eyes. "I just wanted one last hug from her..."
"Oh she knew dear Prince. She knew." She outstretched a hand slowly, hoping not to scare or startle the boy, reaching to stroke his tear stained face. To comfort his aching heart.
The Prince then suddenly shot up from his sitting position, then wrapping his arms around the figure and hugging her.
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[ Seven Years Later ]
That same boy, now 16, walks into the hidden lake area. Slowly walking up to the same tree that still weeped over the lake water, he placed a strong hand upon its trunk and lifted his head out to look over the water. His violet eyes shone with the overhead moonlight from Phoebos and Deimos. "Yume-chan, please be here," he said softly...
"You call on me this night, My Prince" It was the same sweet voice that had greeted him so many years earlier. The female figure showed herself atop a small island out on the water of the lake. Taking strong, sturdy steps, she walked over the water towards the young man. She gave him a soft smile, tilting her head to the side as she approached him.
"You know very well you can call me Rei, Yume-chan," Rei said, looking at the woman that stood now before him. She was beautiful, inside and out. He knew that by just a look in her eyes. Pushing himself away from the tree, he walked over to her and took her hand into his, then kissing it softly. He then placed her hand against his cheek, his calm eyes closing as he sighed, calmed at her very touch. He then knew he had to tell her.
"I am troubled by my father's death..." he said, opening his eyes to meet with hers as he had done many times before. "I am to be crowned, but must also choose a wife to be my Queen..."
"I knew one day that this time would come, Rei." She said his name softly, smiling as the sound passed her lips. She stroked his cheek with her thumb as he had held her hand to his face. "You know you must choose a suitable woman for your wife. One to be with the people. To give you an heir. Someone to carry on in your place." She explained to him quietly.
Rei felt a pain surge through his heart, but he was strong enough not to cry. "But I love you, Yume-chan. I always have, I always will, and I wish for you to be the one. My wife, my Queen..." he replied softly, "I want to love and cherish you, and only you. Why has fate done this to me?" He fell to his knees, growing weak from the pain he felt surging through him... from the thought of not being able to have her...
Yume cringed at the thought of what this had meant to him. "I know Rei. I know." She knelt down before him, running her hand through his hair and then placing it on his cheek. "You've grown to be such a strong young man Rei. Strong, Intelligent, Dashing young man. I do not want to give you up to another but it is not my choice. You are a Prince.. Soon to be a King. You must think of your Nation." Tears had welled up in her eyes, building up before any would escape. "I will always be here for you Rei." The woman leaned forward, slipping her arms around his back in an embrace.
Rei held Yume close, hugging her, as if never wanting to let her go. "Do you love me, Yume-chan?" He asked softly, as he let a tear escape his eye. "Do you love me, as I love you?"
"I do. I love you Rei. My Young Prince. I watched you become the man you are and I do not wish to lose you to another." She answered holding him tightly. "But because I love you. I wish for you to do what is best.. You must do what is best Rei. You should do what is best." Her wishes contradicted each other. She felt torn between what she wanted and what was needed. Why could they never go hand in hand.
Rei pushed Yume gently away from him, then placing his hand upon her face. "If you love me, then say Yes..." he said softly, "Say you will be my wife. Become Queen of Mars, and rule by my side the people of this Nation. They will love you as I do, I just know it..."
"Rei.." Yume looked at him with a pained expression, looking to those calm eyes. Her lip trembled and tears started to run down the curvatures of her features. "You know that I love you... I do not want to..." She paused gripping her fists and lowering her head as she had to make such a decision. Teeth gritted and eyes squeased tightly shut she suddenly burst from the bowed position. "Yes.." She cried out looking the Prince in the eyes with her tear filled orbs.
Rei smiled softly, wiping the tears the fell from Yume's eyes, he leaned in to kiss her... but the moment was broken by sirens, before their lips met. "The Moon is under attack," Rei said, recognizing those sirens. "Why now? Why at this moment I've long waited for?" He looked at Yume, knowing they would be separated. "Yume, I'll meet you here again, after the battle is over. Promise me you'll be here?"
Yume watched Rei reach out to wipe away the tears and then saw him leaning forwards. She waited for the moment she would feel his lips apon hers but it never happened. She closed her eyes slowly, swallowing the horrible feeling in her throat. He needed to leave. She opened her eyes again, giving him a mock confident look. "I will wait for you... Meet you here again." She answered.
Rei looked into Yume's eyes, knowing she was trying to be strong. The sirens still rang, and he could hear soldiers in the forest looking for him, calling his name. He took Yume's hand and they stood together. He didn't want to go, he didn't want to part with her now that he finally had her. He interlinked fingers with hers... and pulled her closer for the kiss. Soft and passionate on the lips, Rei showed every emotion, feeling, and being within him for Yume in this very kiss.
Yume held Rei's hand loosely, her grip slowly getting stronger as the time for him to leave drew near. A kiss could be seen just as contact between the lips of two people. This was different. There was so much feeling, emotion, tenderness put into it. The tears ran down her cheeks once again feeling all of these emotions at once. She reached up to stroke his face once again. She didn't want him to step away.
The soldiers drew nearer, their voices calling for the Prince louder. He took a step back from Yume, not taking his eyes from her. He could feel her grip tightening, and he would as well never leave her, if he had that choice. "I must protect the Moon. I promise I'll return to you. I love you, Yume-chan," Rei said softly, then letting his fingers slide out from hers. He turned from her, his Princely cape fluttering behind him as he disappeared into the forest. He would travel to the moon, protect it, protect the Princess as he was supposed to, then go back to her... that was his plan. He would return to her. That was his promise.
He had pulled away. Yume felt Rei's fingers slipping from her grasp. She watched as he spun away from her, disappearing through the trees. "I was always the one to comfort you My Prince... But it seems I need you this time." She shivered at the sudden cold feeling, crossing her arms over her chest and turning to walk back over the lake waters. She managed to keep a calm and collected composure as she tread back over the shining liquid.
"Rei... You promised you'd come back." She quietly uttered the words before falling to her knees at the base of an old redwood tree. She let the tears run freely now. He told her he would be back...
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[ On the Moon ]
"I would have thought better from a Senshi, especially of your stature, Silver Mars," a dark figure scowled, holding Silver Mars by the collar. He was beaten and bruised, but the fight wasn't over yet...
"You won't win..." Mars sneered back.
"Oh, but we already have," the figure laughed evily, charging his free hand foreward and lunging a dark spear that his hand formed into through Mars' body.
*Noo...* Mars thought, feeling the spear rip through him, as his own warm blood soaked through his clothes. He closed his eyes, a single tear falling. "Yume-chan..." he said, his last words, before he was thrown aside.
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[ Back on Mars ]
The tears had slowed, sobs had ceased and Yume had climbed back up to her feet but was still relying on the sturdy tree before her. "I need to be there... I should be there... I need to go to the moon" She had decided.
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[ On the Moon ]
All was bleak, Dark and damaged. Yume balled her hands into fists as she picked through the rubble trying to find something.. someone. She needed a sign. She wanted to find him. Most of what she saw was stone rubble but.. there was something up ahead. A cold wind blew through the area and she saw what looked like dark hair dancing in the breeze.
Yume paused for a moment, then quickened her pace, running towards what she saw ahead. She stopped suddenly as she reached it taking a few shakey breaths and then falling to her knees beside her fallen Prince.
"Rei-" She choked out reaching to touch the wound that had ripped through his body. Her breathing was difficult as she looked apon his still form. It felt like someone had reached into her chest and torn out her heart as she stared upon him.
"My Prince... I love you... Rei" Leaning over him she kissed his cold lips and stroked his face once again. She couldn't stay here.. No matter how much she wanted to stay and watch over him. She couldn't stay. She got to her feet, looking down at him one last time and then forced herself to turn away.
Yume wandered through the rubble looking for a sign of life. It felt like there was a part of her missing. How could she keep going like this. There wasn't a point anymore, was there? Wait... She was a fighter.. She couldn't just give up like this now. Someone had killed her Prince, her love. With a deep breath the woman straightened her posture and continued on with a more determined attitude. Rei had died in duty. Protecting the queen and princess. She had to find them.
"Queen Serenity" She called out spotting the queen of the moon surrounded by dark shadows. The queen was doing something, using the crystal. Suddenly she saw a surge of Indigo energy rushing towards her. Her time had come.
Yume stretched her arms out infront of her, catching the energy and finding an indigo crystal hovering between her palms.
She looked towards the queen, a questioning look on her face as she held the stone.
*Use it.. You will know how* It was Serenity guiding her. As soon as she had heard this message she saw there was a shadow warrior rushing towards her. She saw it's arm suddenly form into something looking like a javelin. This sparked in her head and she yelled out, feeling the energy surging through her.
"YOU WILL BE DEFEATED!!" She screamed wielding the crystal, holding it up above her head allowing it's light and energy to rain down over her and the oncomming shadow.
A sudden screech echoed through the air as the shadow's form suddenly started to fluctuate. The energy coming from the crystal seemed to be sucking the shadow into it's stone casing. The shadow fought, but the energy was strong and continued pulling. In another bright flash of Indigo, Yume dropped to her knees, the crystal still hovering between her hands. She felt so weak.. so tired. Another flash and the crystal disappeared. There was a new energy inside of her. Her eye lids felt heavy. She didn't think she could keep them open much longer.
"Rei.." She felt weak, falling onto her side, ".. I'll see you soon.. my Prince." Her lids fell closed, and all she thought of was him.
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To be continued...
Chapter 2 :: "As Children We Played"
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