I DON'T OWN EVERYTHING HERE...except the idea.
Chapter 1
The Universe of the Four Gods:
"What the hell are we going to do now? Taka's memory orbs are getting harder and harder to get!"
"We know, no da! This new enemy is nothing I've seen before. I really don't know what to do, no da."
"Guys we just have to keep trying, ok? I know we can beat this guy."
"But how, Miaka? How can we beat an enemy that keeps coming back and drains the life energy of people?"
"Nuriko's right. We could only hurt the enemy but not kill it. We need help to find out how to destroy it."
"I agree with Tama...excuse me...Taka." The ghost of the emperor of Konan couged. "We should ask Taiitsukun."
"Well, what are we waiting for. Let's...Ahhhh!!!" Tasuki turned around and almost had a heart attack. "Don't scare me like that old hag!"
The not so appealing guardian of the Universe of the Four Gods appeared in front of the desperate Suzaku Shichiseishi and their priestess. Taiitsukun observed her world delving closer and closer into chaos, yet again. She knew they all needed help from the outside to stop the evil from devouring everything in her world. It wasn't just a matter of finding Taka's memory orbs, orbs that contain all his past life from when he was called Tamahome, before he was reincarnated into Miaka's world. It was a matter of great importance that they find these orbs to stop the evil from controlling the whole world, for these orbs, once they had been collected together, the priestess would able to summon Suzaku again.. It was fortunate of them that they already had five out of seven.
"Listen all of you. I will appeal to the gods themselves to send us the one who could help us. The gods themselves know that we are in peril and without this world the beast gods would merely disappear from existence." Taiitsukun informed them.
"So you're telling us that we need someone to help us basically. Uhm...but I still don't understand...are the gods going to drop that person off here?" Miaka asked, scratching her head.
Taiitsukun just stared at the Priestess of Suzaku. "Follow me people. I will transport you all to my place."
With a flash of light they were gone from their spot and landed quite heavily in front of a large room.
"That hurt Taiitsukun! You didn't even bother to land us somewhere soft, like a futon maybe?" The red head warrior complained.
"QUIET! Tasuki you have to learn how to shut that mouth of yours!" The old hag breathed in gulps of air to keep herself calm. "Now, everyone follow my instructions. All of you have to circle the flame and focus on the fire."
The great room was actually some kind of a meditation room, with a huge central fire within a contained square shaped hole.
"Focus more...focus your powers to the fire..."
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Back in the Silver Millennium, Rei seemed to can't focus. She had been meditating in the palace's temple for hours. She didn't know what made her come to the temple in the first place. It was a sense of foreboding she had felt but Rei didn't want to admit she felt anything. The recent festivities and the rush of excitement of the day of the wedding severed her concentration.
Plus what the heck if I hate feeling so alone...I have my best friends...
"Rei! I've been looking all over for you."
Rei stood up from her position and faced the new comer. "Hi Serenity. What's wrong?"
The Moon Princess sighed. "Rei I thought you promised us not to touch one single flame for awhile. I should have looked in the temple first, but I didn't know you'll go back to your promise. Rei it's not like you."
"I know. I'm sorry but I was drawn to it...I never felt so drawn to the fire not since the great battle against the Negaverse."
"Are you saying..."
"No, it's not like that...it feels like a summon but it's different somehow...like I am needed and that there's something waiting on the other side for me..." Rei had to cut her best friend and console her that another great battle would not be fought again. She felt something more and she couldn't explain what it was.
"Rei are you all right?" Serenity went up to hold Rei's hand. "You seemed a bit paled."
"I'm all right Serenity. You don't have to worry about me."
"Oh stop it Rei. You are my best friend and it doesn't matter that I'm married. Things will not change between us."
Rei turned to her long time friend with a sorrow that not even Serenity had seen before. "People always change Sere. Love changes people..."
The moon princess was taken a bit aback by Rei's sudden change of mood. Rei had always been strong both in spirit and body. The senshi of Mars always showed fire in her eyes with a passion, but now Serenity could sense something was missing and she had a feeling what the missing piece was. She smiled at the thought.
"Sere, there's nothing funny here." Rei grumpily stepped back from Serenity's happy look.
"Oh sorry Rei...it's just that..." Looking back at her friend's frowning face, she giggled. "Oh it's nothing Rei, but you know someday you'll accept that love doesn't change a person in a bad way and doesn't distant a person from what they believe in.. Love makes people understand their very being."
"Oh and I'm sure Endymion had taught you that, huh?" Rei raised her eyebrow. "And is he very good at it?"
"Rei!" Serenity was turning into a red tomato and Rei laughed at her reaction. "Stop that Rei! You're so mean!"
"Oh then it's true...hehe!" Rei teased the already heating Moon Princess for a little more until they found a bench to take a rest.
"You know Sere, I'm so happy for you."
"Thank you..." Serenity saw the distant look in her best friend's eyes. She touched Rei's shoulder, making the fire senshi come out of her little trance. "Rei I know you're hiding something. I can see through that mask you always wear."
Rei sighed, "Am I that obvious?"
Serenity just nodded. "Not all man are evil, Rei. I know Jedite has hurt you deeply, but you have to put it behind you. You've got suitors after suitors lining up to marry you."
Rei frowned. "All those men asking for my hand. All they wanted was either power and prestige, or my beauty and body. Besides I'm not interested in them. They are all so easy to bend!" Rei stood up and paced back and forth in front of Serenity. "Maybe...maybe I'm not meant to find a soul mate." She paused for a bit and turned to her seated friend. "In the name of Selene! What was I saying?! I don't even need this. I'm happy the way I am."
Serenity just looked at her friend. "Are you?"
That stopped Rei. Am I?
Serenity was happy with the Martian princess's quiet answer. She stood up and dragged her best friend to follow her. "Someday Rei you'll find that special someone and learn to be loved in return..." The moon princess was still met with a quiet response, very unlikely of the fiery girl she grew up with.
Both princesses left from the temple ground as the flames burned brighter and brighter.
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The clouds turned more ominous for the last several weeks. The great evil that descended upon the Universe of the Four Gods drew closer and closer to obtaining its objective. Taiitsukun knew that and she must find a way, any way, to secure the peace in her world. However, no matter how hard she and the Suzaku Shichiseishi had tried to summon the person who would save them, they still failed. Taiistukun didn't know what went wrong. She thought they would surely succeed, but nothing happened. Everyone was exhausted, even the ghosts of Hotohori, Nuriko, Chiriko, and Mitsukake. The guardian of the Universe of the Four Gods didn't know what else to do but to fight and fight until their awaiting doom came.
"Men we sucked!" Tasuki muttered. "What the hell happened?"
"I've never felt so tired in my life." Miaka stretched and yawned. "I've spent the last of my energy to that summon."
They waited and waited, looking at the burning flame. Minutes had passed and still nothing happened. The growing fire produced nothing.
"Taiitsukun, what do we do now? It's obvious we failed." Chichiri took off his mask to wiped the sweat that drenched his forehead.
"Maybe we needed more time." Chiriko suggested.
"I think we better get some rest before we try again. It's already passed dawn." Hotohori offered, putting his composure back.
"Well, whoever this person is, he better be good enough to straighten our problem out." Tasuki looked back at the fire before exiting.
Taiitsukun just stood unmoving. She didn't have to say anything. Everyone left the fire room, leaving the guardian who was still transfixed on the burning flames.
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"So Sere, what time are you leaving the Moon with Endymion?" Makoto asked as she and the rest of the gang sat on the lush green hills enjoying an afternoon picnic.
"I just got here and you want me to leave already?" Serenity giggled as she sat by Makoto and grabbed a plate of dumplings, a specialty of her brunette best friend. "Yummy! These are my favorites!"
"As a married woman you still act and eat like a child!" Rei who managed to grab one dumpling from the basket uttered to Serenity.
"Our Sere will never change." Minako offered while munching a piece of strawberry shortcake.
"Why would I?" Serenity managed to speak out as she yet again took another big bite of dumpling in her mouth. After finally swallowing the remnants of her food, the Moon Princess said, "Besides Endymion loves it when I'm myself. He doesn't want me to change."
Rei nudged her. "Ahuh...but you like the other changes, right?"
They all laughed at Serenity's embarrassment.
"This is going to be our last picnic with Serenity on the Moon." Minako proclaimed. "We'll definitely going to miss the usual things we do together."
"Yeah, I remembered Sere stole Ami's book just so she could enjoy the game we were playing here in this hill." Makoto turned to the Mercurian princess, who immediately put her book down to pay attention to her friends bantering.
"Soon Ami will tie the knots with her beloved Greg..." Minako sang along and threw a whole strawberry on the blushing blue hair. "I bet you Rei will be next."
"Don't even start, Minako." Rei tried to focus on what she was eating. "Like I said, I don't need someone special with me..."
"I don't believe that, Rei. You will be incomplete until you find someone to love." Minako blabbered on, not noticing the sudden tenseness appearing on Rei's face. "Besides you are the senshi of passion and you will keep reaching for that special someone whether you want to or not."
"Rei, you're glowing!" Ami, who was quiet for awhile, saw the Mars symbol on her forehead.
Everyone stopped what they were doing and turned to their friend, who was now in trance.
Ami immediately took out her mini computer and checked Rei. "She is fading guys. Something is pulling her. Rei's physical form is starting to fade away!"
"Rei! Snapped out of it!" Serenity who was the closest to Rei, tried to shake her.
"Wait!" Minako yelled. "Did you sense that?"
The girls stopped abruptly and tuned in to the new sensation.
"It doesn't fell ominous." Minako said.
"When we were at the temple, Rei told me she felt as if something was pulling, summoning her. Maybe she's being called forth again..." Serenity tried her best to keep her trembling voice down.
Out of nowhere, four bright lights appeared from the sky. White, green, blue, and red circled Rei's still form. Serenity was still holding onto her dear friend. The lights became brighter and the four girls were thrown backwards.
"Rei!" They all yelled.
The Princess of Mars opened her eyes and stared down at her friends. She was hovering now, five feet off the ground. "Guys..." Rei desperately reached out to her friends as she was slowly taken inside a bright hole above her.
"Rei, hold on!" Makoto stood up from her sitting position, ready to save one of her fellow senshi.
Rei was almost completely swallowed. "Guys...I can't budge..."
"Wait!" Serenity came running towards Rei when Minako halted her.
"I think Rei has to do this alone," was all the Princess of Venus said. Everyone stared at their blond friend with utter bewilderment.
"You can't be serious!" The usually calm Ami spoke out. "We don't know where they are taking her!"
Minako ignored her blue hair friend and looked up at Rei's disappearing form.
The Mars symbol was glowing brighter on Rei's forehead. She seemed to be saying something but the girls couldn't hear her anymore.
"Good luck, Rei..." Minako said as Rei's form finally banished from the Silver Millennium.
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"Taka, what good am I if I can't even bring this world in peace? I don't deserve to be the Priestess of Suzaku." Miaka sobbed as her boyfriend held her body in his arms.
"Don't ever say that about yourself, Miaka. You have done your best and this new threat isn't your fault." Taka whispered, hoping that his words would bring his girl some kind of comfort.
"I wish I could have done better." Miaka sniffed. "I'll do my best to bring back your memories, Taka."
Taka looked down at his girl friend and smiled.
It was already passed midnight and the couple couldn't sleep. They kept on talking when a sudden tremor was felt by them.
"What was that?" Taka wondered out loud.
Footsteps could be heard outside their room. Chichiri opened their door without knocking and told them to come to the fire room.
By the time all the seven warriors and their priestess arrived at the great fire, Taiitsukun was already there, still staring blankly at the blazing fire.
"What's going on here, old hag?" Tasuki, who was still sleeping when a loud bang on his door woke him up. He was muttering several unnecessary words when he noticed the guardian smiled mysteriously, looking towards the fire.
"Hey what's wrong with her? What's so funny?" Tasuki looked over at Chichiri for answers, but the monk also kept his eyes on the flame.
Without warning, a sudden flash of white, green, blue, and red lights blinded the occupants of the room.
"What the hell..." Tasuki didn't finish as words got stuck in his gaping mouth.
Taiitsukun turned to them and said, "She will be our savior."
"A SHE???!!! A WOMAN???!!!" Tasuki yelled.
"Shut up Tasuki! The gods have chosen her. We don't have a choice." Everyone looked at the girl who was floating in the center of the fading flames.
"She's beautiful..." The ghost of Hotohori said as she stared at the unconscious form of the girl, now laid on a bed prepared by the Nyan Nyans.
"Humph! She's a woman! Our freaking savior is a woman!" Tasuki muttered as he walked out of the room, but not before taking another glimpse at the sleeping girl.
That's the end for now!