The Silence
A Sailor Moon Fanfiction
By: Bekah-chan
Rating: PG
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Chapter 9:
The Warrior of Silence was not the only one trapped in ancient slumber. There was another, sleeping through the centuries. But here the similarities deviate, for this one was sleeping against it's very will and nature. While Saturn chose to stay asleep for the safety of the Universe, the other had been forcibly placed in a cage slumber for the same reason. It was hoped that the other would never awaken, never again be a threat to innocent lives, but this was not to be, for, while it was asleep, it was also aware. It had spent those centuries plotting and scheming for revenge, battling toward consciousness, and to strengthen it's own powers.
And now, Chaos was awake.
*****Moon Palace(still dreaming)---- Silver Millennium:
"So, how did you end up on Earth?" Serenity asked her friend. Saturn took awhile in answering.
"After I wake up and......." she trailed off.
"Bring the Silence, so everything can be reborn again?" Serenity finished for her.
"Yes, after that, I'm gone for a few centuries...."
"Gone where?"
"I'm not sure," Saturn admitted, "I know that I am asleep again, and I remember what happened, but I have no dreams, or sense of time passing."
"No dreams?"
"I usually dream about what is going on in the Universe around me, but I've had no dreams of this place at all. I'm just 'away' for awhile, and, from the advance of civilization when I get back, I'm gone for *at least* a few centuries.
"So, I'm 'away' for awhile. Then I'm suddenly on a planet, dreaming about what is happening there. Usually the current Monarchy will come check on me shortly after, and bring their heirs in further generations, as part of their education." Well, Serenity knew about that part.
"But how do they know about you in the first place?"
"That's another mystery," Saturn sighed, "Part of the magic, I guess. This room," she gestured around the room they are in, "just appears one day. Complete with me, a locked door, and the key."
"That's kinda creepy," Serenity commented, Saturn smiled a little.
"Yes I suppose so. Anyway, the magic knows what it's doing. I'm always with the most peaceful and trustworthy rulers, and they are given a full knowledge of who and what I am. The last time it was on Earth, this time the Moon Kingdom." Serenity thought for a moment, and decided to clarify.
"So, you sleep until you are needed, you use your powers and go 'away', then appear on a planet, and sleep until you are needed?"sounded lonely.
"Yes," Saturn nodded.
"How many times has that happened?"
"Five," Serenity had never heard such a wealth of despair and infinite sadness contained in a single word.
"And it's always the same?" didn't Saturn get any time off?
"After the first time, yes." First time?
"How was the first time different?"
"Well, for one thing, I was awake."
"You were? That's great!"
"I suppose, but I didn't appreciate consciousness at the time. I was just a normal girl, then." That was another thing to think about. She wasn't always Saturn?
"How did you become Saturn?"
"I'll explain sometime," Saturn smiled at her friends boundless curiosity, "But this dream thing has a time limit you know."
"Well, no, I didn't know that. But it makes sense, I can't sleep all the time, even if you can!" they both smiled again, and stood up.
"This was nice."
"Yes, it was," Saturn agreed, "I'll see you tomorrow night," they hugged goodbye......
........... And Serenity woke up in her room, cheery sunlight streaming in the window. The Princess felt rather cheery herself, she had learned a lot about her friend, which was good, even though some of it had been sad. But, the reason why she was so happy, was because Saturn had revealed that she had once been a normal girl. Saturn's past might be the key to accomplishing Serenity's goal, finding a way for her friend to be awake, while the Universe remained safe.
*****Tokyo---- Present Day:
Sailor Moon and Sailor Pluto stood in Serena's livingroom, looking at her family, all three members of which, were unconscious on the floor. They had been that way for 10 minutes already, and Sailor Moon was getting impatient. How long did it take to pull out of a faint anyway? Even if you had just seen your only daughter/sister turn into the Champion of Love *and* Justice? It wasn't that shocking that she was a heroine, was it? Okay..... Well, maybe it was, she was often surprised at it herself. But her family really needed to wake up now, they needed to go, and she didn't want to leave them like this.
"Should we wake them up?" she asked Pluto.
"I think we should," Darien responded to her question as he walked back into the room (he had gone to answer the door) Behind him trailed the other 4 Inner Scouts (who had been on the other side of the door, when he opened it).
"Serena!" demanded Sailor Mars, as she took in the scene before her, "What have you done this time?"
"Hey, Mars! It wasn't my fault!! All this stuff happened, and then Pluto just *appeared*, right in front of my family! I had to tell them!"
"Did you have to render them unconscious?"
"Well, that was actually kind of a side effect. But it still wasn't my fault," she winced at the looked Rei gave her, the Sailor of Mars *knew* that Serena had planned to stop by the arcade on her way home, "Not entirely my fault," she corrected. Rei glared at her, "Okay! It was all my fault! Happy now?"
"Ecstatic," Rei said sarcastically. Serena sighed, Rei always did this to her and.... Hey, wait a minute!
"What are you guys doing here anyway?"And they were all transformed. Was something going on that no one had told her about?
"I don't really have an answer for that one. I just had a feeling that we (the Sailor Scout 'we') needed to get over here fast," Mars explained, "So, here we are."
"And a good thing too," Mercury, who was scanning Serena's family with computer and visor, added, "It should be easier for you to explain with us here." they all knew how hopeless Serena was at explaining these things, they all remembered the 'Molly Incident'.
"Yes," said Pluto, speaking up for the first time since the other Scouts got there, "it is good you're here, you can help. But we don't have time to go into a long explanation right now, we have to get back to the Time Gate."
"The Time Gate? Why?" Jupiter asked. Pluto looked at Serena, the Princess should field this one. "Because," Sailor Moon turned to face her loyal protectors, and took a deep breath, "Saturn woke up." But, if Serena had expected to be answered with wails of suspense, or even gasps of surprise, she was disappointed. The only response she received from the four Scouts was a unanimous: "Who?"
To Be Continued ^_^