DREAM-SOULS
Rachel Seyujia Filteau
Chapter One: Bubble Universe
Chibi-usa slowly opened her eyes. The first thing she saw was blue. She shook her head, blinked, and looked around. To her surprise, she found herself floating in the center of a blue bubble. 'Where am I?' she thought. Standing up (or straightening, to be more accurate), she put her face closer to the glass-like wall and peered out. It was like the night sky, only the stars weren't white. They were blue, red, yellow, and (she could just barely make them out) black. They weren't stars either; she realized with a start that they were bubbles like hers. Wondering what the bubble was made of, Chibi-usa reached out with a hand to touch it; it passes right through the bubble as if it weren't even there. She pulled her hand back and thought carefully. 'If I stick my face out,' she thought, 'I can quickly pull it back in if there's no air.' She did so, and fell right out of the bubble.
No harm done; she was still alive. To her surprise, the bubble she had been in was now red, not blue. She looked at all the other bubbles floating in the vast emptiness, and found to her astonishment that she could sense the differences between "her" bubble and all the others. She also found that she could "float" from place to place. So, she floated to the nearest bubble, which was read like hers was now, and saw that it, too, was empty. Seeing this, she guessed that red bubbles mean empty bubbles. With that thought it mind, she floated to another bubble. This one was black. She put her hands to the bubble and found not only that she could not get through, but also that there was a sleeping person inside. She squinted, and nearly screamed with joy.
It was Helios.
"Helios-su!" she called. "Let me in! It's Chibi-usa-cha! Helios-su! Pegasus-ku! Let me in! I haven't seen you for so long!"
Helios, however, did not reply right away. Chibi-usa called for what felt like hours, but could not have been more than a couple of minutes, before he finally answered her. For a moment, the bubble turned blue, then Helios' voice said, "I am awake, Chibi-usa-cha. Can you wait until it is night? Then we will be able to see each other." The bubble turned black again.
Chibi-usa sighed, but now knew that black bubbles meant the person inside was awake in the real world. While waiting, she decided to float around the Bubble Universe for a while, seeing if she could guess what the blue bubbles and yellow bubbles meant.
The first she figured out easily enough. Blue bubbles had people inside them who were asleep or unconscious in the real world, and therefore awake in the Bubble Universe. She enjoyed chatting with some of the other dream- souls very much. It what while she was chatting with another princess that she figured out what yellow bubbles meant. The princess had invited her inside for company, and Chibi-usa had happily accepted. When she entered the bubble, it turned yellow. Yellow bubbles obviously meant that the person inside had company.
The princess turned out to be very unusual (she had grown up thinking she was a novice sister in a religious order), and after saying good-bye, Chibi- usa wandered around some more. She had also learned from the princess that the inside of a bubble could be changed according to the will of its owner. She had demonstrated this by making it look like the inside of the castle she lived in, then a forest nearby. All in all, Chibi-usa found this a very interesting experience.
That's when she noticed the fifth kind of bubble. There were not too many of these (she could only see three from where she was at the moment), and she glided towards the nearest one, curious as to what it meant. This bubble, though blue, seemed to have a foggy look to it, as if someone had forgotten to polish it. Whoever was inside was not human from what Chibi- usa could see, but that didn't help much (nor did it disturb her; one of the other dream-souls she had met looked like a cross between a mermaid and Spock from Star Trek). The creature inside seemed to be writhing in agony, like being in a nightmare and unable to wake up.
Chibi-usa wondered if it would be all right to enter without permission and see what was wrong. After all, she was a Sailor Soldier. There might be something she could do to help.
So, Chibi-usa put her hands to the bubble and fell in.
End of Chapter One
Chapter One: Bubble Universe
Chibi-usa slowly opened her eyes. The first thing she saw was blue. She shook her head, blinked, and looked around. To her surprise, she found herself floating in the center of a blue bubble. 'Where am I?' she thought. Standing up (or straightening, to be more accurate), she put her face closer to the glass-like wall and peered out. It was like the night sky, only the stars weren't white. They were blue, red, yellow, and (she could just barely make them out) black. They weren't stars either; she realized with a start that they were bubbles like hers. Wondering what the bubble was made of, Chibi-usa reached out with a hand to touch it; it passes right through the bubble as if it weren't even there. She pulled her hand back and thought carefully. 'If I stick my face out,' she thought, 'I can quickly pull it back in if there's no air.' She did so, and fell right out of the bubble.
No harm done; she was still alive. To her surprise, the bubble she had been in was now red, not blue. She looked at all the other bubbles floating in the vast emptiness, and found to her astonishment that she could sense the differences between "her" bubble and all the others. She also found that she could "float" from place to place. So, she floated to the nearest bubble, which was read like hers was now, and saw that it, too, was empty. Seeing this, she guessed that red bubbles mean empty bubbles. With that thought it mind, she floated to another bubble. This one was black. She put her hands to the bubble and found not only that she could not get through, but also that there was a sleeping person inside. She squinted, and nearly screamed with joy.
It was Helios.
"Helios-su!" she called. "Let me in! It's Chibi-usa-cha! Helios-su! Pegasus-ku! Let me in! I haven't seen you for so long!"
Helios, however, did not reply right away. Chibi-usa called for what felt like hours, but could not have been more than a couple of minutes, before he finally answered her. For a moment, the bubble turned blue, then Helios' voice said, "I am awake, Chibi-usa-cha. Can you wait until it is night? Then we will be able to see each other." The bubble turned black again.
Chibi-usa sighed, but now knew that black bubbles meant the person inside was awake in the real world. While waiting, she decided to float around the Bubble Universe for a while, seeing if she could guess what the blue bubbles and yellow bubbles meant.
The first she figured out easily enough. Blue bubbles had people inside them who were asleep or unconscious in the real world, and therefore awake in the Bubble Universe. She enjoyed chatting with some of the other dream- souls very much. It what while she was chatting with another princess that she figured out what yellow bubbles meant. The princess had invited her inside for company, and Chibi-usa had happily accepted. When she entered the bubble, it turned yellow. Yellow bubbles obviously meant that the person inside had company.
The princess turned out to be very unusual (she had grown up thinking she was a novice sister in a religious order), and after saying good-bye, Chibi- usa wandered around some more. She had also learned from the princess that the inside of a bubble could be changed according to the will of its owner. She had demonstrated this by making it look like the inside of the castle she lived in, then a forest nearby. All in all, Chibi-usa found this a very interesting experience.
That's when she noticed the fifth kind of bubble. There were not too many of these (she could only see three from where she was at the moment), and she glided towards the nearest one, curious as to what it meant. This bubble, though blue, seemed to have a foggy look to it, as if someone had forgotten to polish it. Whoever was inside was not human from what Chibi- usa could see, but that didn't help much (nor did it disturb her; one of the other dream-souls she had met looked like a cross between a mermaid and Spock from Star Trek). The creature inside seemed to be writhing in agony, like being in a nightmare and unable to wake up.
Chibi-usa wondered if it would be all right to enter without permission and see what was wrong. After all, she was a Sailor Soldier. There might be something she could do to help.
So, Chibi-usa put her hands to the bubble and fell in.
End of Chapter One