The Silence
A Sailor Moon Fanfiction
By: Bekah-chan
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Nooooooo!!!!!!!!! It's NOT MINE!!!!! (Sailor Moon, I mean) *sob*
Author's Notes: This Serenity is not Serena, but her mother when she was younger (about 14 or 15 in this chapter). This fic switches between two time-lines (the Serenity time-line, and the present when Serena and the Inner scouts are around 17), hope that's not too confusing. Oh, and in the Serenity time-line, there aren't any Sailor Scouts yet, just Saturn. Enjoy the chapter...
Thanks for the Reviews!! ^_~
Chapter 4:
"Get the Princess, there is danger." the Warrior watched until the Guardian of Time nodded her understanding, then she sent herself back to sleep. It had been a close thing, she had almost been awake long enough to lose control of the destructive power that had always been a part of her. But she had calculated it as a necessary risk, a step that had to be taken to stop what she had seen in her dreams of the future. The time was fast approaching when the universe would either take it's rightful path toward Crystal Tokyo, or descend into chaos. Perhaps the most fearful part of Saturn's vision had been the results if Chaos won. Not only would this universe, with it's bright future that she and her best friend had worked so hard for, be destroyed, but there would be no more chances. Somewhere in all the millennia that Saturn and Chaos had fought that final battle, again, and again, Chaos had found a way to block Saturn's ultimate power. If the good forces did not win this time the Warrior would not be able to start everything over, to give the universe and all the souls in it another chance, it would be over. If Chaos won this time, it was the End.
*****Moon Palace---- Silver Millennium:
As the months came and went Serenity found herself often in the company of her silent friend. Hardly a day went by without the Princess stopping by Saturn's resting place at least once. She was soon grateful that she had thought to bring a chair, the stone of which the room was made looked *highly* uncomfortable for long periods of sitting. Sometimes she wondered how Saturn could sleep on such an unyielding surface.
This solitary room with it's slumbering occupant had become her refuge. Sometimes she brought things with her to do, like embroidery, or work that her tutors had assigned her, or just a book to read. But most of her time there was spent talking to her friend. She told Saturn of her hopes and dreams, and shared entertaining anecdotes about her life in the palace: Like when an emissary from Venus had fallen asleep during dinner, and ended up snoring in his soup.
One day, about a month after Serenity started coming to visit Saturn, she got validation in her belief that her friend *knew* she was there, and welcomed her. It started when the Princess was unable to get away from her duties to see her friend. Two days passed before she could make her trip to the older parts of the castle. Before she even made it to the door she noticed an intense feeling of loneliness. It was almost like the feeling she had when she first came here, which she now realized had disappeared with her regular visits. But this feeling was so much stronger, desperate feelings of abandonment and despair rolled from the room and washed over the Moon Princess in waves of emotion. When she realized who the emotions must be coming from, Serenity started running, fumbling and almost dropping the key in her haste to get the door open. What had happened? Had Saturn been hurt somehow?
"Saturn?! What's wrong? Are you hurt?" she called as she entered the room that had become so familiar to her. The moment her voice rang through the chamber the feelings of abandonment faded, leaving a sense of puzzlement over the underlaying loneliness. Considering that this was the first time Serenity had participated in an empathic conversation, she picked up on it very quickly.
"Your not hurt? Well then why are you so upset?"
The feeling of =abandonment= got stronger again.
"You thought I wasn't coming back?" she guessed.
=Confirmation=
"That's silly! Of course I was coming back!"
=Puzzlement again=
"Why was I coming back?"
=Confirmation=
"Because I'm your friend," she stated simply.
=Intense Puzzlement=
"What? Haven't you ever had a friend before?"
=Sadness=
"Well, you do now! I've considered you my best friend since my father first brought me here."
=Puzzlement again=
"Why do I consider you a friend?"
=Confirmation=
"I'm not really sure," she admitted, walking closer to the eerily still figure, "I guess I just feel like you are the sister to my soul."
=Wonderment=
"Yes it was surprising to me also. I've never had a *best* friend before, but I would like to be your best friend. And I would like to keep coming to visit you, is that okay?"
=Happy Confirmation=
"Okay, then," Serenity giggled, "It's a plan!"
=Happiness=
"Oh, I'm sorry I couldn't get here for the last few days, princess stuff."
=Sympathy=
"Yes, it *is* a pain sometimes, but I do like helping my mother and father, and it gives me the skills I will need when I rule."
=Agreement. Question=
"What exactly was I doing yesterday?"
=Confirmation=
"Well," Serenity started, getting comfortable in her chair, "Remember that emissary from Venus that fell asleep in his soup?"
=Amused Confirmation=
"Well, the emissary from Jupiter decided that it was a deliberate insult to their sovereign planet.........."
*****Tokyo---- Present:
Serena gasped in pain and tried not to cry, or faint. Looking down she saw that the wound she had received from the would-be mugger was bleeding more that she had thought. The shirt of her school uniform was already stained red. She couldn't let her family see this! How would she explain it? She tried to think of a plan while she put pressure on the wound with one hand. She finally decided to use the Luna Pen to hide the blood until she could do something about it. Concentrating she called her mysterious space pocket (AN: giggle ;), that held all her Sailor Scout *stuff* when she wasn't using it. She was reaching for the Pen when she heard a noise, and looked up.
"Serena!" Darien called, running toward her. Of course! She should have considered that before, Darien *always* knew when she was hurt. She just hoped that her family hadn't noticed her boyfriend running out of the house in a panic.
Whoops! It *was* too much to hope for. Serena sighed as she watched her love run to her rescue, her family close on his heels.
To Be Continued ^_^