Author's Note- *sniff* I'm am soo happy! I had never that many reviews before for the prologue even though it was just a rough draft! Well there is my Gundam Wing/Sailormoon fic but that's another story. Yes the words here are REAL elven words. I had to do some learning and I don't expect them to have them completely right. But at least it was worth it since learning it is my current obsession. ^-^; I need to find more sites that teach them.
Disclaimer- *pulls pockets inside out and out drops a few pennies and some moths fly out* As you can see I own nothing. Oh a Starburst! Yummy! *eats it* It's still good! *face turns green* Urg, Maybe not....
Thanks To:
wing tenshi
Moonkitty
juju
shmee
Sailor Omega/White Valkerie
phoenixangel
Celes- *blow raspberry* That's for calling me baka, baka! ^-^
Eternal Cosmos
empress blade- I love your LotR fic! When will you update the next chapter? I can't wait!
Momoko- *sweatdrops* Thanks for pointing that out, I never even noticed until you told me. I suffer from short-term memory so I don't remember what I wrote in some of my fics. u.u;
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Chapter 1- Is This My Life?
Arwen hurried along the road to Imladris, or Rivendell to the mortal folks. For many years she had been staying in the beautiful elven city of Lóthlorien, that is ruled by her father's mother-in-law Galadriel, until today. Word was that the One had been found and the Nazgûl had been released to find it and kill whoever had the One ring.
Arwen stopped and looked to her left when she caught something shining from the corner of her eye. If it had been a mortal they would not have seen it, but she being an elf had keener senses than they did. From behind the thick branches of the Willow tree she saw something golden slightly shimmer against the suns light.
The elf became curious as to what it could be, well as much as an elf could get if they ever got curious that is, and walked over to the tree. When she spread apart its branches she gasped. There laid a young girl with various types of wounds and fresh dried up blood covering her body. In an instant Arwen was kneeling down at the girls sides and checked her pulse. It was faint but it was better than none at all. Arwen breathe a sigh of relief and rested the girls head on her lap. She tucked the girls hair behind her ears and saw that they were round like those of Men.
'How could she be of Men? She looks too much like my people?' she thought, befuddled.
"Arwen! Manke naa lle?" She heard the familiar voice of one of her brother's call, who had set put to look for their younger sister when she had not returned by noon whenever she came back to Imladris.
"Amin naa sinome, nu i'tathar orn." Arwen answered back in elven.
She heard two sets of light, but swift footsteps approach to where she was. When the curtain of whip-like branches of the tree were drawn open she saw her brothers Elrohir and Elladan.
"Who is she?" Elrohir asked in Common Speech.
"A girl of Man and she is badly wounded. We must get her to father immediately before she dies. It is a miracle that she was still able to survive with these wounds." Arwen replied as Elladan gently picked the girl in his arms, careful not to open any of the newly closed wounds and walked out from under the tree.
"I wonder, how did a girl of Man come here? Surely the scouts would have reported this to father had they seen her." Elladan said, looking at the girl in his arms.
"I don't know either but we better hurry and get her to the House of Healing and fast. I don't think that she had enough time left." Arwen said and they hurried back home to their father.
As they ran a small silver crystal fell from the girls pocket and Arwen picked it up and stared at it in surprise. The crystal was beautiful and unlike any she had ever seen. When it was held up in the light a beautiful array of colors spilled from it like a waterfall. She also sensed something powerful about it and hoped that she was not helping an enemy heal back to health. She put it in her pocket and caught up with her brother's. They sought for their father and he along with Glorfindel had immediately began to heal the girl at once.
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Author's Note- That's all for the first chapter. Yeah, I know that it's short and boring but that's all my muse will let me write for now. Don't forget to review!
I'm not that cruel. Just scroll down for the rest.^-^
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The girls eyes opened once more and stared at the white ceiling above her head. It was beautifully carved and looked ethereal almost, as if it was made by some ancient of creatures.
She sat up on the bed, wincing when she felt slight pain from her injuries. The girl looked over herself and found that most of her wounds were closed but not healed and some were completely gone, not indicating that she was ever hurt there at all. She bowed her head down and closed her eyes, her mouth in a grim position. Then suddenly she slammed her right fist down on the bed in anger while her other hand tightly clutched onto the bed sheet.
'Kuso! I'm still living! Doushite? Why can't I join my friends in death?' she thought, tears stinging her eyes that were threatening to fall.
"I see that you are finally awake." a voice said.
The girl turned her head towards the direction of the voice and her eyes widened. Standing by the door was a beautiful young women that looked to be about 20 even though her eyes said different. She had long wavy brown hair that went a little past her waist and half of it was pulled up and the some loose stands in the front was braided. Her bright blue eyes were filled with kindness wisdom, and an agelessness that only an immortal would have. Her clothes were the strangest that she had ever seen before in her entire life. It was a white dress that was made from a light but strong material and it seemed to flow with grace every time she moved. The girl saw that the only jewelry she wore was a silver necklace with a silver pendent that looked like and angel hanging from it. But those weren't the fact that made her eyes widen in surprise. It was her ears, instead of being round, they were pointed on the ends.
"You were very lucky, I found you under the Willow tree while I was walking back to my home. My brothers found me with you when they realized that I had not come back home yet. We brought you here and my father saved you. My name is Arwen, what is yours?" the elf asked her.
The girl looked at her confused for a moment before realizing that she was talking in English.
"My name is Usagi Tsukino." Usagi replied, staring at the elf in awe. She had heard of them in her past life as Princess Serenity but never in her life had she actually seen one. In an instant she forgot about her anger and felt calm around her presence.
"Sumimasen, demo can you tell me where I am?" Usagi asked, looking out at the window to her right. Autumn was coming soon and the leaves here were starting to turn into a golden yellow color. Past the trees Usagi saw many beautiful buildings unlike the ones she saw back home. It felt so peaceful here.
"You are in the elven city of Rivendell."
"I'm not on Earth anymore am I?" Usagi quietly murmured to herself, but loud enough for the elf-lady to hear. Arwen looked at her confused as she walked over to her and sat down on a chair next to Usagi.
An uncomfortable silence fell upon them both until Usagi broke it with her soft voice.
"Why?"
"Pardon me?"
"Why did you have to save me? All I wanted was to die..." Usagi said with pain in her voice and her tears fell down from her eyes.
"Why do you want to die so much when you have all of your life left to live." Arwen said.
Usagi turned her head towards the older women and Arwen saw all the pain, sadness and grief in them. The emotions were so powerful that Arwen unconsciously turned her eyes away from them, not wanting to see more of it.
"I wanted to join them." Usagi said softly.
"Them?" Arwen questioned.
"My friends, they..." Usagi croaked out, "...died protecting me."
Silence fell upon them again though it was not as uncomfortable as before.
Usagi put her hand in her pocket to grab something and her eyes widened.
"Oh no my crystal! It's gone! Where is it?" Usagi said franticly.
"Do you mean this one?" Arwen said, remembering about it and she pulled out the silver crystal from her pocket and showed it to the girl.
Usagi immediately grabbed it and thanked the women. She cradled the jewel in her hands and looked down softly upon it. She closed her eyes and concentrated on its powers.
'Onegai, Ginzuishou, grant me my wish. Let me join my freinds in death!' Usagi said in her mind. The crystal glowed silver then the light surrounded Usagi. The power of the crystal coursed through her veins and Usagi grunted a little when she felt like she was being ripped from all sides. 'Onegai!' she yelled to it in her mind once more and the light around her intensified. She smiled, when she began to feel her body dying.
The light suddenly broke apart.
"Iie. IIE! Why can't you just grant me this one wish?" Usagi yelled out at the dim glowing crystal in her hands. In rage she threw the crystal across the room and it hit the wall with a 'PING' then it bounced onto the floor several times before it stopped.
Arwen looked at the grief-ridden girl with pity when she saw her use its powers to kill herself. The pain, whatever it was, was something that she would have to deal with alone... unless there was someone who can help her through it. But with time, she would have to learn to accept it. She got up and silently left the room to give some space to the girl.
Tears flowed down rapidly from Usagi's face and they splattered onto the back of her hands in front of her. Then she gripped onto the sheet so hard that her knuckles turned white.
"Is this really my Destiny? Am I really suppose to live forever only to see the ones I care about die when I continue to live on? Is this the price I have to pay for being Cosmos?" Usagi said to herself softly before letting out a heart-breaking sob.
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Author's note- -_ Gah, I want that déjà vû feeling to go away. It's being a pain in my side right now. -_-;;
Here are the translations to the elven words or close to it.
Manke naa lle? - Where are you?
Amin naa sinome, nu i'tathar orn.- I am here, under the Willow tree.
Well that's all for now and don't forget to review! Ja ne!
~*Tsuki no Tenshi
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