Hi all! I know you all have been waiting for this for awhile now and i'm
really sorry to have kept you all waiting!! I've been really busy with so
much stuff like preparations for Anime Boston on April 18th-20th. Also
my state has a standardized test called the MCAS that I'm preparing to
take this year. And then there's my singing lessons, school clubs, homework
and my semi-formal. So basically, I've been really busy!! Since summer
is coming up I'll have more time to write and edit so don't worry!
I'm sorry to say that this chapter is terribly short. Shorter than what I would have
liked. I'll probably bring this to school and work on it there because I just need
to add more before I pull some hair out. I will probably continue to add to this
chapter until I am satesfied.
Remember! This fic is rated R!! Please don't read unless you have permission from
a guardian or are of age to read this!! Well.. you can read this if you aren't of age
but don't flame me for something that I have continuously warned viewers of.
I would like to thank Kuris and Siggy for helping me with reading and
such! You guys are the best and I can't thank you enough for the help!
I would also like to thank the reviewers for giving me wonderful reviews and such
great comments!! I'll try to get out chapter 3 as soon as i can!
So, without any further adu, here's Chapter 2!
================
Title: Winter Snow
Chapter 2
Rated: R - NC-17
Disclaimer: do not own SM or the characters. My characters
are my own.
================
Serenity was out of breath as she reached the makeshift road.
She had dashed back to the tents and was heaving
as her lungs took in deep gulps of air. The tents
were all still dark and no one was on the street.
As she came to a hault, she gasped for air. She didn't
realize how fast she had actually ran. She leaned against
a wooden pole and tried to regulate her breathing. When she finally
looked up she noticed the tents lining the road nicely. One tent in
particular caught her notice. Two shapes, men she guessed, were walking
around the tent and gestering wildly. They were in the midst of a fight
Serenity surmised. One of the sillohetts sat down roughly in a chair
while the other figure followed but sat in the chair opposite with what
seemed like a weary attitude. She could tell by his movements that
he was old in age and that he probably wouldn't last.
"How could he come up with a stupid solution as that?!"
one of the men cried in outrage as his reflection got up from
the chair he was sitting in. Serenity gave a start as she heard
a man's voice. It was different from the lazy arrogance from her
mysterious visitor by the star tree. The toll of the earth crumbling was
finally getting to this man and Serenity couldn't help but feel sorry for him.
She let go of her post and crept toward the tent and slowly sank to her
knees in the dirt beside it. Her brown cloak flowed around her body like a veil
and her hair followed suit. She looked like an untouchable goddess sitting
there as she was.
An older voice suddenly spoke and it made Serenity think of a grandfather-type
figure. She had never known her grandparents so she didn't know what it
would be like to have any. Girls at her old school had had grandparents come
to visit them on occasion and sometimes they recieved gifts and money.
Mostly on holidays. His voice rumbled with authority but with a hidden
kindness that she couldn't help but be attracted to. She just wanted to crawl
into his lap while he read to her.
"Endymion knows what he's doing, Jamie. Personally, I think
this is a good idea. Send twenty people to the shuttle who we don't think
will survive and have them send word that there are still humans
left on earth. They will send more shuttles for us and then we'll go
to the satelite."
Serenity crouched down low and brought her head towards the tent
so that she could hear better. What was going on? Was this like
some sort of secret meeting or something? Were these people
planning on doing something horrible to the rest of the people in this
make-shift town? If they were, then why did they want to send the
injured and old to the satelite? So many questions that Serenity did
not know how to answer. Her world was suddenly turning upside down
and she didn't know if she could stop it or not. What she did know,
however, was that she didn't like it. Not one bit.
As she let her mind wander, her heart came back to the alien stranger
who had kissed her like a lover would. No! She shook her head in
denial. Whatever had happened by the star tree was long forgotten.
Nothing would come of that... that... kiss. Or whatever anyone wanted
to call it. Nothing. She wouldn't even see that man ever again. The odds
were a million to one that she'd ever lay eyes on him again.
Suddenly, Serenity remembered that a young girl was in her tent and
felt horribly guilty. She had been out galavanting with some stranger
who she didn't even know the name of and the poor girl could be
awake and scared out of her mind. Serenity looked longingly at the shadows
being sillohetted by the small lamp light but she reluctantly dragged herself
away from the tent and made her way back to her tent.
Her feet dragged along as she walked along the dirt road towards her tent.
When she came to her section with her tent, she started undoing the strings
that tied her cloak closed and opened the flap to the small dwelling with
hesistation. She looked in and saw the pallet vacant. Her shoulders sank
with guilt and she walked into the tent and threw her coat next to the bed.
"I'm sorry if I scared you."
Serenity jumped about four feet into the air and whirled around to face the girl
staring at her with wide eyes. She saw that the girl had taken off her shoes
and had placed them next to the bag filled with her toiletrees. As Serenity
stared this strange girl she could only think of one thing.
Why do we look so much alike?
====
"So, who are you? I mean, I don't mind you in my tent, but it's just a bit strange
that a girl who looks astonishingly like myself appears out of of no where."
Serenity had taken a seat across from the girl and had a spare blanket wrapped
around her for extra comfort. She girl was still in the same position as she was
when Serenity had come in but now she seemed more awake and vibrant.
She pushed her long blonde hair aside and looked right into Serenity's eyes.
"My name is Minayla of the north."
This was bad. Really bad. She couldn't believe it. Minayla of the north was
sitting in her tent like a commoner!! The North family were one
of the richest families in the entire world. It was amazing that Minayla was
here. Most of the norths had left even before the sickness came upon them,
having have gotten secret information from a government official.
People were suddenly weary when they heard the news that the Norths had
left the planet. The North people were happy and safe on earth and wouldn't
leave it unless something bad was about to happen. When they left, the world
knew something was up but couldn't put their finger on it.
Now, how did she come to be here? And what scared her?
"Are you alright now? Do you want me to get you anything to drink or eat?"
She asked to Minayla, masking her surprise at the girl's admission.
Minayla shook her head and blurted, "You don't care? You don't care that
I'm a north? Whatsoever?"
Serenity shook the blanket off herself and slowly got up. She walked over and
knelt before Minayla. Her arms lifted of their own accord to rest of the young
woman's shoulders.
"Minayla, You are a person. It doesn't matter that you have tons of money or
a family in the sky. What matters is that you live life to it's fullest and not live
your life in fear."
Tears crept into Minayla's eyes and she brought her arms up and around
Serenity's tiny frame and hugged her with all the might that she could possess.
Serenity's back cried out at the contact of arms touching the scrapes.
The scrapes from the tree were still on her back and hurt painfully. She tried
to push it from her mind. Minayla needed her right now. Her aches and pains
could wait. But as Minayla hugged her tighter she couldn't repress the pain
anymore and a slight whimper came over her.
Minalya looked up, afraid she had scared or hurt the girl with her hugging and
saw two tears slowly escape the tightly closed lids of Serenity's eyes.
Serenity got up swiftly and opened her eyes. She backed her self into the pallet and
said quickly, her voice laced with pain. "You're welcome to spend the night, but
I have to rest. I shall talk to you tomorrow. Good night."
Minalya was confused. What was that girl's problem? She stared down at her
hands to see if she could see fault with her hands and recoiled in shock.
Her hands were covered in blood. Serenity's blood. So the girl had been in pain.
But not because of herself. She was in pain from something else.
She looked over and saw the girl's cloak next to the bed in a pile of material.
She leaned over and grabbed the material, dragging it to her spot on the floor.
She fingered it with appriciation when she came upon a section that had rips
and tears in it. Dried blook also was on this cloak as well.
"Serenity, You're bleeding." Minayla said knowing she was still awake.
"I know." Was the only reply she got before Serenity closed her eyes once more.
====
So there's chapter 2! I told you it was short! ^^;; Thanks for reading and don't
forget to leave a comment in the box before you leave!!
Chapter 3 should be out before summer starts... which is around June. I know that's
a long while's away but I want this fic to be perfect and I need time to write a perfect
chapter for you all! Thanks again for your support!
I don't own Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon belongs to it's respective owners and that
owner is not me.
really sorry to have kept you all waiting!! I've been really busy with so
much stuff like preparations for Anime Boston on April 18th-20th. Also
my state has a standardized test called the MCAS that I'm preparing to
take this year. And then there's my singing lessons, school clubs, homework
and my semi-formal. So basically, I've been really busy!! Since summer
is coming up I'll have more time to write and edit so don't worry!
I'm sorry to say that this chapter is terribly short. Shorter than what I would have
liked. I'll probably bring this to school and work on it there because I just need
to add more before I pull some hair out. I will probably continue to add to this
chapter until I am satesfied.
Remember! This fic is rated R!! Please don't read unless you have permission from
a guardian or are of age to read this!! Well.. you can read this if you aren't of age
but don't flame me for something that I have continuously warned viewers of.
I would like to thank Kuris and Siggy for helping me with reading and
such! You guys are the best and I can't thank you enough for the help!
I would also like to thank the reviewers for giving me wonderful reviews and such
great comments!! I'll try to get out chapter 3 as soon as i can!
So, without any further adu, here's Chapter 2!
================
Title: Winter Snow
Chapter 2
Rated: R - NC-17
Disclaimer: do not own SM or the characters. My characters
are my own.
================
Serenity was out of breath as she reached the makeshift road.
She had dashed back to the tents and was heaving
as her lungs took in deep gulps of air. The tents
were all still dark and no one was on the street.
As she came to a hault, she gasped for air. She didn't
realize how fast she had actually ran. She leaned against
a wooden pole and tried to regulate her breathing. When she finally
looked up she noticed the tents lining the road nicely. One tent in
particular caught her notice. Two shapes, men she guessed, were walking
around the tent and gestering wildly. They were in the midst of a fight
Serenity surmised. One of the sillohetts sat down roughly in a chair
while the other figure followed but sat in the chair opposite with what
seemed like a weary attitude. She could tell by his movements that
he was old in age and that he probably wouldn't last.
"How could he come up with a stupid solution as that?!"
one of the men cried in outrage as his reflection got up from
the chair he was sitting in. Serenity gave a start as she heard
a man's voice. It was different from the lazy arrogance from her
mysterious visitor by the star tree. The toll of the earth crumbling was
finally getting to this man and Serenity couldn't help but feel sorry for him.
She let go of her post and crept toward the tent and slowly sank to her
knees in the dirt beside it. Her brown cloak flowed around her body like a veil
and her hair followed suit. She looked like an untouchable goddess sitting
there as she was.
An older voice suddenly spoke and it made Serenity think of a grandfather-type
figure. She had never known her grandparents so she didn't know what it
would be like to have any. Girls at her old school had had grandparents come
to visit them on occasion and sometimes they recieved gifts and money.
Mostly on holidays. His voice rumbled with authority but with a hidden
kindness that she couldn't help but be attracted to. She just wanted to crawl
into his lap while he read to her.
"Endymion knows what he's doing, Jamie. Personally, I think
this is a good idea. Send twenty people to the shuttle who we don't think
will survive and have them send word that there are still humans
left on earth. They will send more shuttles for us and then we'll go
to the satelite."
Serenity crouched down low and brought her head towards the tent
so that she could hear better. What was going on? Was this like
some sort of secret meeting or something? Were these people
planning on doing something horrible to the rest of the people in this
make-shift town? If they were, then why did they want to send the
injured and old to the satelite? So many questions that Serenity did
not know how to answer. Her world was suddenly turning upside down
and she didn't know if she could stop it or not. What she did know,
however, was that she didn't like it. Not one bit.
As she let her mind wander, her heart came back to the alien stranger
who had kissed her like a lover would. No! She shook her head in
denial. Whatever had happened by the star tree was long forgotten.
Nothing would come of that... that... kiss. Or whatever anyone wanted
to call it. Nothing. She wouldn't even see that man ever again. The odds
were a million to one that she'd ever lay eyes on him again.
Suddenly, Serenity remembered that a young girl was in her tent and
felt horribly guilty. She had been out galavanting with some stranger
who she didn't even know the name of and the poor girl could be
awake and scared out of her mind. Serenity looked longingly at the shadows
being sillohetted by the small lamp light but she reluctantly dragged herself
away from the tent and made her way back to her tent.
Her feet dragged along as she walked along the dirt road towards her tent.
When she came to her section with her tent, she started undoing the strings
that tied her cloak closed and opened the flap to the small dwelling with
hesistation. She looked in and saw the pallet vacant. Her shoulders sank
with guilt and she walked into the tent and threw her coat next to the bed.
"I'm sorry if I scared you."
Serenity jumped about four feet into the air and whirled around to face the girl
staring at her with wide eyes. She saw that the girl had taken off her shoes
and had placed them next to the bag filled with her toiletrees. As Serenity
stared this strange girl she could only think of one thing.
Why do we look so much alike?
====
"So, who are you? I mean, I don't mind you in my tent, but it's just a bit strange
that a girl who looks astonishingly like myself appears out of of no where."
Serenity had taken a seat across from the girl and had a spare blanket wrapped
around her for extra comfort. She girl was still in the same position as she was
when Serenity had come in but now she seemed more awake and vibrant.
She pushed her long blonde hair aside and looked right into Serenity's eyes.
"My name is Minayla of the north."
This was bad. Really bad. She couldn't believe it. Minayla of the north was
sitting in her tent like a commoner!! The North family were one
of the richest families in the entire world. It was amazing that Minayla was
here. Most of the norths had left even before the sickness came upon them,
having have gotten secret information from a government official.
People were suddenly weary when they heard the news that the Norths had
left the planet. The North people were happy and safe on earth and wouldn't
leave it unless something bad was about to happen. When they left, the world
knew something was up but couldn't put their finger on it.
Now, how did she come to be here? And what scared her?
"Are you alright now? Do you want me to get you anything to drink or eat?"
She asked to Minayla, masking her surprise at the girl's admission.
Minayla shook her head and blurted, "You don't care? You don't care that
I'm a north? Whatsoever?"
Serenity shook the blanket off herself and slowly got up. She walked over and
knelt before Minayla. Her arms lifted of their own accord to rest of the young
woman's shoulders.
"Minayla, You are a person. It doesn't matter that you have tons of money or
a family in the sky. What matters is that you live life to it's fullest and not live
your life in fear."
Tears crept into Minayla's eyes and she brought her arms up and around
Serenity's tiny frame and hugged her with all the might that she could possess.
Serenity's back cried out at the contact of arms touching the scrapes.
The scrapes from the tree were still on her back and hurt painfully. She tried
to push it from her mind. Minayla needed her right now. Her aches and pains
could wait. But as Minayla hugged her tighter she couldn't repress the pain
anymore and a slight whimper came over her.
Minalya looked up, afraid she had scared or hurt the girl with her hugging and
saw two tears slowly escape the tightly closed lids of Serenity's eyes.
Serenity got up swiftly and opened her eyes. She backed her self into the pallet and
said quickly, her voice laced with pain. "You're welcome to spend the night, but
I have to rest. I shall talk to you tomorrow. Good night."
Minalya was confused. What was that girl's problem? She stared down at her
hands to see if she could see fault with her hands and recoiled in shock.
Her hands were covered in blood. Serenity's blood. So the girl had been in pain.
But not because of herself. She was in pain from something else.
She looked over and saw the girl's cloak next to the bed in a pile of material.
She leaned over and grabbed the material, dragging it to her spot on the floor.
She fingered it with appriciation when she came upon a section that had rips
and tears in it. Dried blook also was on this cloak as well.
"Serenity, You're bleeding." Minayla said knowing she was still awake.
"I know." Was the only reply she got before Serenity closed her eyes once more.
====
So there's chapter 2! I told you it was short! ^^;; Thanks for reading and don't
forget to leave a comment in the box before you leave!!
Chapter 3 should be out before summer starts... which is around June. I know that's
a long while's away but I want this fic to be perfect and I need time to write a perfect
chapter for you all! Thanks again for your support!
I don't own Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon belongs to it's respective owners and that
owner is not me.