Chapter 5
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As soon as the girls were fully dressed, everyone had settled in Quatre's study. Everyone eyed the timekeeper inquisitively.
Haruka eyebrow twitched with anticipation and impatience and started to say something when Michiru stopped her.
Duo not liking the silence opened his mouth, yawned, and stretched lazily like a cat. He opened his eyes to see that he earned stern looks from everyone.
Setsuna sighed as her gaze lifted slowly from her lap. "Before I begin I have to tell you, what you hear today will changes everything. Setsuna paused a bit before she continued. The way you look at yourselves now, might not be the way you look at yourselves or each other in a few minutes," as somberly was evidently shone in her voice.
All the senshi and pilots listened to Setsuna attentively as she started her explanation.
"Did you all see the guy with red/blue green/green and purple stone in his forehead?" His name is Chronic. "He=s more powerful than you can imagine. Everything he touches, he destroys. It took Queen Serenity, Queen Trinity (Rei's mother), Queen Hope (Makoto's mother), Queen Charity (Ami's mother), Queen Grace (Minako's mother), Queen Faith (Michiru's mother), Queen Angel (Hotaru's mother), Queen Purity (Haruka's mother), and yes I too had a mother back then, Queen Goodness, could not defeat him completely. It cost them their lives to lock him away. Nevertheless, before Serenity died, she finished Beryl and sent you guys a 1,000 years into the future." (A/N: Okay the Queen names may sound corny)
"How could he have had that much power?" Hotaru asked astonished that his powers may be stronger then hers.
"He drew his power from the most unlikely of places. You see, before there was an Inner and Outer Senshi, we were divided into three groups: The Senshi of Love and Justice that consisted of Usagi, Minako, and myself. The Senshi of Water, Ice, and Wisdom: Ami and Michiru. The Senshi of Death: Makato, Rei, Haruka, and Hotaru. The Death Senshi kept mostly to themselves but dominated over the rest of us. You four were out of control and down right impossible to get through to in the heat of battle. You caused destruction wherever you went and in the process, you four created Chronic from your power. He taught you more ways to cause destruction then you ever dreamed of."
"US!!!!" said the four girls. ABut why?"
"The power he showed you overwhelmed you and took control. It was like a drug addiction, you just had to have more."
"Setsuna, where in the world would we have gotten the power to create such a being?"
Luna interrupted. "There is a power beyond all of your powers, but it was taken from your bodies because Serenity feared it might take over the rest of you as well. It's not a transformation wand, brooch, or chalice. It's sheer unadulterated, raw energy."
"That power couldn=t have been that great, if it wasn't stronger then the Ginzuishou," Rei said doubtingly.
"Rei, it's ten times as strong as the Ginzuishou's present state now. You see, that's where Serenity hid the power. The Ginzuishou's power keeps those powers dormant. If this power were ever unleashed, the Ginzuishou would go back to its original state of being. But there is more to this story."
"How much more could there be?" asked Haruka.
"Chronic will try to sway you to his side if we stay."
"We know what's right and wrong," said Hotaru.
"He is linked to your powers, and you are linked to each other, which means he can take some kind of control over you. If one of you falls under his control, you all fall. If you think about it, Makato is the Senshi of Battle, from battles you form a War, War and Battle form Destruction, which leads to Silence," Setsuna added.
"I get the Battle, War, and Destruction part but what does Silence have to do with it," Hotaru asked with curious eyes wondered.
Wufei spoke up. "What's left after a Battle, a War and Destruction?" Wufei wait for an answer. After a couple seconds of silence, Wufei shook his head, after seeing they still didn't get it and answer his own question. "The answer to that question is Nothing because death has claimed the soldiers of War and everything is silent afterwards. I thought you onnas would have at least known that nothing good can come from a war because nobody really wins. And you call yourselves warriors? You're pathetic. You know nothing about a real war."
Haruka Makato, Hotaru, and Rei glared with daggers in their eyes at Wufei.
Wufei smiled. "What, I only telling the truth, and if you can't handle the truth of your true nature, then I don't know how you'll survive this war."
Haruka ignored the comment, fearing he might be right so she pressed on to other matters. "But if we created him, why doesn't he follow us?"
"He knows your strengths and weaknesses. He used it against you, but you were all too blind to see it. It was like Beryl and the Generals."
Makato sighed, "So much for being loyal."
"No, Makoto, you were loyal, all of you. You took your duties to the Moon Kingdom seriously. You carried yourselves, as princesses should. When protection was needed, you always did it with dignity, pride, and honor. Chronic could never tear you away from your responsibility. That might be the only chance you have of not falling under his control. If you do fall under his control, he might ask you to retrieve the Ginzuishou for him. I'd hate to think if he ever got his hands on it."
"What would happen," Ami asked out of curiosity.
"Just try to imagine the world and all dimensions beyond the 10th level of hell the world and all dimensions would be like a war zone."
"Okay, the power is in the Ginzuishou, whatever that is, how do you get it?" asked Zechs.
"We have to get inside the Ginzuishou and get past the death traps Serenity set for us or anyone else who might have the desire to retrieve the power hidden inside."
"Okay, Setsuna when can we do this?" asked a determined Usagi.
"It'll take some time for Luna, Artemis, and I to set up and calculate a precise destination inside the Ginzuishou, so it might be awhile" said Setsuna who knew this would be a long and rigorous process. "You guys should rest your going to need it for this journey." As Setsuna and the two guardian cats left the study, they could already see the effects of what she told them starting to unfold in the girls' eyes.
Once Setsuna stepped out and closed the door, she began to wonder now if she had done the right thing.
"You did do the right thing" Luna assured her.
"Did I ?" she asked herself as she looked at her reflection on the glass window.
"Setsuna, you know you did" Artemis said "Setsuna you have always known what the future would bring. You were always in control. If their was a problem with the events of the girls' lives you'd know how to fix it, but now that the time-line has been thrown off your second guessing yourself every step you take, your wondering what's going to happen."
"I have too wonder, if they die it's on my hands. I would have failed my mission, and right now, my mission is spiraling out of control." Setsuna fearfully said as she continued to walk down the hall, leaving the cats behind.
"Luna not only are we going to have meltdown from the others now Setsuna."
"I thought that she'd be the one to hold her composure and keep everything together. Setsuna has never been vulnerable before, it's new to her. Come on Setsuna is going to need our help"
*Setsuna has always been vulnerable. Now she's flying blind which makes her even more vulnerable* Zechs thought as he lurked in the corner listening to Setsuna's and the cats' confessions.
The other girls were in the own world, especially "The Senshi of Death"
Hotaru sat silently to herself with a look of sadness on her face despite Duo's best jokes and gags to try to cheer her up. * Man I've tried everything, and she just sits there with an expression of a china doll. * Hotaru felt hollow, her face was pale white, and her eyes were the scariest, there wasn't the slightest sparkle of life in them.
Makoto found Quatre's gym and she was pounding away on the punching bag. Michiru walked in looking for Haruka. She heard the grunts and frustrating groans of Makoto, thinking it was Haruka. After Michiru saw Hotaru's reactions to Setsuna news, she wanted to find Haruka to see how she was. Michiru watched Makoto attacks movements, until she was just hitting furiously and ferociously without concentration. Michiru heard Makoto let out a soft sob as she continued to punish the sandbag that had just about had it, under Makoto's heavy punches.
Rei was on the terrace trying to clear her mind of Chronic. She thought the sacred fire would be a nice place, but the idiot twin wouldn't let her in. The funny thing about it was that he licked his tongue at her before he closed the door. Rei chuckled at the thought of how cute he looked. Rei looked at the nicely cut grass that grazed the meadow. Her hair floated with the warm summer breeze. She listened to the breeze that whistled in her ear and the soft sound of birds that flew overhead. She closed her eyes and enjoyed the soothing serene of everything that was around her. While in her mediation state Rei's sixth sense came to life? She felt a little hazy for a moment. After her haziness, she felt warm and fuzzy all over. Then she felt something different two lips pressed against her own. Normally Rei would pull away from such things especially if she didn't know whom she was kissing, but the sensation was something she felt only once. Rei slowly opened her eyes feeling the lingering sensation of what she could only fathom as "love" and found herself sitting in a meadow. She could hear and see a waterfall spilling it to the lake in front of her. She was dressed in a simple red gown. Her hair was pinned up into large curly ponytail that cascaded down her bare shoulders, with streamers coming down both sides meeting her cheekbones. She finally lifted her gaze to met the person gave such a feeling, only to see nothing but a pair of deep ocean blue eyes. Startled that she only saw eyes she tumbled back into reality. "Was that Jadeite? No, it couldn't have been why would he be in my vision. Although Luna did tell me he and I were engaged during The Silver Millennium, but she told me I didn't love him. Yet, that kiss felt so right, so it couldn't be him. Besides he has ice blue eyes.
Rei put her hand up to her lips. As she did this she turned toward the glass-furnished doors, and saw those same blue eyes watching her. Rei ran to the door to she who they belonged too. Only to find curtains rustling absently away.
"Who are you?" Rei whispered
"All shall be brought to the light in due time my princess, but right now is not the time." Rei didn't realize it at first but the voice came from inside her head. Rei knew she was psychic but she didn't realize she had telepathy. Rei blew at her bang making it flare slightly from her brow.
"Another surprise or it could be Chronic trying to get in touch with me?" she asked wearily. "Well he can play all the mind games he wants, I refuse to be a pawn in his sick twisted game!" Rei trotted angrily, down the hall not liking whoever was in her head at that moment.
Heero came from his hiding spot * still fiery tempered* he thought observing Rei as she walked off disappearing along the way. However, even with Heero's superior attuned keen senses, he didn't notice he was being observed as well.
Michiru had finally found Haruka in the wooded part of Quatre's estate. Haruka and Makoto had the same idea: beat away on something until it falls down. However, hitting on a tree until it fell was not absolutely a good thing to Michiru and it would sit well with Quatre since it would probably fall on to his million-dollar estate or anybody else who was on the estate at the time. Haruka had to have been there a while she had perspired and her brow and chest was covered in sheen layers of sweat, and the fracture in the trunk of the tree were evidence of her being there.
"Haruka, are you okay?"
"Why wouldn't I be, I'm just ready to kick Chronic's ass that all," she said with out breaking her rhythm.
"Liar" Michiru said sternly. Haruka recognized that voice, she was about to get a lecture, and that's something she didn't need right now. Haruka abruptly stopped her assault on the tree.
"Look I don't need a lecture right now least of all one from you," she said between pants.
"Haruka don't shut me out. I know your shocked by Setsuna's word but don't deal with it alone I beg you."
Haruka took Michiru's hand and kissed it lightly. "I'm fine" she assured her partner.
An expression on worry still plastered Michiru's face "Are you really?"
Haruka lifted Michiru's chin and kissed her lightly "yes"
The shorter woman smiled warmly and turned to leave. "Don't be long getting back!"
"I want"
Once Michiru was out of sight Haruka sighed and sat down leaning on the tree for support, thinking how she lied to her lover. She then took off her training gloves, she baled her fist up looking intensely at the red liquid streaming freely from her knuckles . Her jaws were clenched tightly and felt her power rise within her.
*Haruka, you said Rei was traitor, but look who the traitor is now?* said a voice
"Shut up" Haruka said dryly as tear formulated in her eyes.
*Eventually Haruka your going to have to face me, and face me you will, said the mockingly mysterious voice.*
Haruka drowned out the voice, wiped her eyes and rushed inside to see how things were coming along with the journey they would have to take.
In Quatre's enormous library, a lone soldier was sitting on the floor with piles of old, dusty musty books. He had a note pad in-front of him writing, and piecing together the mystery of the sailor senshi and the AThe Silver Millennium."
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OKAY That's me chapter I hope you all enjoyed it. If not oh well. PLEASE TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK!!!!!! Next Chapter meet Chronic.