*Serenity opened her eyes and was left in a shocked state. Letting out a slight gasp, she looked around her surroundings. It was a place she felt she had been before, yet she could not remember at any one time coming to it. Looking down at herself, she found she was clothed in a long flowing white gown. Then, noticing a soft glow from above her, she crossed her eyes to look up, only to find a strange symbol imprinted upon her forehead.
"Don't make faces such as those Serenity, your lovely face will get stuck that way." Serenity turned around to find herself staring at a tall and graceful woman who wore a dress much the same, and had silver hair and light blue eyes. Upon her forehead, too, was the strange crescent moon symbol.
"Who are you? Where am I?" Serenity asked, trying to be polite in her dismay.
"You are home. Or what is left of it. Oh my dear Serenity. I wish you could already remember who you truly are."
"What do you mean? I do know who I am. I am Serenity Crescent, the daughter of Ilene and Kenneth Crescent. Who are you and where am I?" She asked again, slightly more wary this time around.
"Pluto?" Serenity watched as yet another mysterious woman revealed herself from the shadows. She had long dark green hair and carried a staff. She also wore the most revealing outfit Serenity had ever seen a woman wear. A short green skirt baring almost the entire leg, a tight, white body suit with giant maroon bows, and high boots. Had she no shame?
"Yes My Queen?" Asked the new woman.
"Please tell my daughter of her future and of the events the time stream has 'chosen' for her to participate in." Serenity noticed how the woman with the silver hair was slightly upset over this 'time steam of events', and she also noticed how she had called her her daughter.
"I'm afraid you must be mistaken. I am not your daughter. I am the daughter of Ilene and Kenneth Crescent, as I have already informed you."
"May I, your Highness?"
"Yes, but, Pluto, please be gentle."
"Of course you Majesty." Serenity watched as the green haired woman began waving her staff about and chanting strange words.
"What? What are you doing? Stop, please!" Before she could protest anymore, Serenity felt as if a huge weight had been dropped down upon her shoulders. It pushed her to her knees, and she closed her eyes to allow the strange unusual sensations to fly through her mind. She began to remember a lost time, a lost life.
A life where she had lived upon the Moon during a time called the Silver Millennium. One where she had been royalty, the Princess of the Moon in fact. She remembered the two women who were standing beside her, the one with the silver hair as her mother, and the one with the green hair as the guardian of the Time Gates. She remembered her old friends, the former princesses of the planets as her royal guards, also known as the Sailor Scouts. She remembered Beryl ripping apart their world and lives, killing people, destroying all in her path. She remembered watching her friends die, then dieing herself. When it was all over, she took a couple of deep breaths, then noticed someone was calling to her.
"Serenity? Serenity, my daughter, are you alright?"
"Yes. Yes Mother, I'm fine."
"Do you remember Princess?"
"Yes Pluto, I remember now, thank you for restoring my memories." After she said that, she stood again and thought in silence. She felt good, as if a weight had been lifted from her shoulders, yet at the same time, felt a heavy feeling of guilt creep over her. She began to cry into her hands silently, hoping that it would ease her pain.
"Oh, my poor daughter. I'm so sorry I had to revive your memories." Said the silver haired woman, enveloping Serenity in a giant hug.
"Oh Mother. Why did they have to die? Why? What did they ever do to deserve such an awful fate? Oh why?" Serenity gasped as an overwhelming sense of grief overcame her.
"They did nothing. They did not deserve it, but we can not change the past now my dear."
"I know, but it still hurts."
"I know my dear, I know."
"Your Highness…"
"Yes, I know Pluto. Serenity, my dear daughter, listen to me. You haven't much time left here, and I need to explain some things to you."
"Much time? Why can't I stay forever with you?"
"My dear, you are still alive. Right now, we are in Limbo. It is a place between life and death, much like Purgatory. You've some how found your way here whilst you slept. Dear, listen to me. You were reincarnated in the wrong time. You should have been reincarnated later in the time line, but the time stream made a mistake. You were born nearly two hundred years before you should have been. Now another mistake has been made. A vampire by the name of Count Darien has made you one of them, one of the undead. If you had been born in the right time, this never would have happened, but because you weren't…" She let the sentence hang in the air.
"Then it wasn't just a dream? I really am one of the undead? I've given up my soul to the Devil and His evil and vile will?" Serenity asked her, ready to burst into tears again.
"Yes." Spoke Pluto. " But, it makes things in the time stream a bit easier actually. Instead of letting you live, then die, then be reborn again, you can just live until the rest of the Sailor Scouts are reincarnated. Or until times change so much that they can no longer be reincarnated. At that point, we will take your soul and you will be able to stop living. But there is no guarantee which version of the future will come to pass. You must continue living until time chooses it's own path."
"So I'm to be stuck as a vampire forever?"
"No, only until time decides what path it will take."
"Mother, can't you change something?"
"I'm sorry, my dear, but that is the will of time, even I have no control over it. Until time does choose, live a full life my dear."
"Drinking blood and only living during the night? That is your idea of a full life?" She spat.
"Serenity. A vampire does have to drink blood, but not every night. On your fiftieth anniversary of being a vampire, you will be able to go for three to five days without feeding. The older you get, the longer you can go without blood. And, Princess, on your eightieth anniversary, you will be able to start living during the day again. And you can even shape-shift into a bat when you want. Being a vampire is not so different." Said Pluto.
"Still, those times are years and years away." Serenity argued.
"Just do your best to pull though Serenity. That is all we ask. As a vampire, you will gain a speed and agility you did not have as a human girl. Use that to your advantage." Said her mother, trying to make the situation look a little better.
"And, Serenity, before you go, let me remind you: there are only two ways for a vampire to die, being impaled with a wooden stake through the heart, or for their coffin to be destroyed. As a general rule you cannot cross water without your coffin, you will have no reflection in mirrors, and you have hypnotic eyes now, so be careful how you look at people." Pluto finished.
"But, wait! How do I even use all of this power?" Serenity asked, her mind muddled with these new theories. And a bat! She would never stoop that low, she mentally promised herself.
"You simply will it to happen. You want it, you just concentrate and it was come about. And before you leave," Serenity noticed she was beginning to become invisible. "And before you leave, you should know that you will have all of your financial needs and housing needs met automatically. Don't worry. When you leave Darien, there will always be money or something to help you along your way in your purse."
"What! Wait! No! Mother! Pluto!" She cried as she fully disappeared. *
~~~I've noticed these chs are really short. It's kind of odd, to see the way my writing changed over the course of the fics I've written. This was my third fic, and it's so different from what I'm writing now that it's scary! Much love, Vixen~~~