DS - OK, this is my second fic on here. I think I'll just leave it as these two for a while. You know?
Zoe - They know, they know
DS - Alright, this one will be a bit different. I'm thinking that there will definitely be a sequel to it
Zoe - You know there is
DS - Do forgive me the length, I know it's short
Zoe - four pages, definitely short
DS - But it's more of a teaser anyway. Enjoy, and I don't own
Zoe - AND REVIEW!!!
DS - Yeah, Please.
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Prologue
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Hope has Decayed
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What is wrong
with all these people
why do they cause pain
is it for the thrill they get
or is it for the pay
why can't we just get along
cruelty isn't the way
Every day someone screams
A loved one has been lost
A little girl walks home alone
and is never seen again
A man comes home, beats his wife
to them it's all routine
a mother comes home, hit's her child
that's all the love he's ever seen
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"NO, LEAVE THEM AlONE," The girl screamed at the top of her lungs. Arms were holding her back as she struggled to get to her King and Queen.
"I love you more than the sun can shine," The beautiful Neo-Queen Serenity told her husband.
"And I you," Endymion answered with a loving gaze. She watched as they were enveloped in a white light and when it faded they were no longer there. She turned to the cause of the light. The tall man grinned at her.
"You see Princess of Jupiter, you are one of the last, no one else is here but for Pluto. Those two were the last. No one else is here. I told you not to trifle with me. Now I will only mate you by force," He told the Auburn woman with a glare. The woman glared back at him.
"I will kill you Tortall, That is a promise," She told him in a deadly quiet voice.
"Makoto?" A quiet voice said from behind her. She turned slightly and looked at Setsuna.
"Use the power that you dream of," Setsuna commanded, letting go of Makoto's arms. They stood there in her tattered uniform and glared at the man. Tortall was wrong. He wanted Makoto because he wanted the ultimate power for a being. Makoto was the strongest next to Moon and Saturn in physical and magical energies. She just didn't like to show it. He tried to kidnap her, but the other scouts wouldn't hear it. Minako had gone down first. Then Ami, then Haruka, then Michiru, then Rei, then Hotaru, then the king and queen.
"My dreams," Makoto said quietly. She raised a loosely clenched fist and narrowed her eyes.
"You are she to be feared, show him how strong you truly are," Setsuna whispered. She opened a portal behind her and walked through it.
"You have killed my family," Makoto started. "They were my reason for being. Now you must perish," She told him quietly.
"I call on the power of the storm, fierce and wild. I call on the power of earth, stable and pure. I call on the power of electricity, shocking and bright. I call on the power of nature, true and loyal. I am Jupiter and all that it stands for, keeper of the four winds, Guardian of peace. POWER OF JUPITER, TO ME," She screamed the last line.
A green haze settled over the area and lightening struck around her. On her forehead a green jupiter sign blazed to life. She lifted into the air a few feet and her hair blew around her. Her scouts uniform melted into nothing and was soon replaced by a pair of dark green boots with sugar pink lacings, that came up to mid-thigh and a body suit of grass green that looked more like a 1 piece bathing suit. A sugar pink sash was looped around her waist and tied in a bow on the back. She had mock sleeves on each arm that went from her upper arm to a little ring that attached to her middle fingers. Both sleeves were the color of her boots and there was a sugar pink ribbon around the top of the sleeves that tied into a tiny boy. There was a semi-sheer dark green piece of fabric that covered her face from nose to chin. Her hair was up in a tight bun with the two streamers on either side of her face. There were two green chop sticks in the bun and a pink ribbon around it. She had a sugar pink choker on with a dark green Emerald. Her tiara was replaced by the symbol of Jupiter, and there was an oak staff in her hand with a pewter lightening bolt on one end. She glared at the man.
"What? trying to cow me?" Tortall asked with a sneer, "It wont work. All that you are doing is making me want you as the mother of my children even more," He threw a ball of white light at her. It made a a ring and surrounded her. She kept her eyes narrowed and let it squeeze around her. She raised a hand and waved it in an arc in front of her face. The ring disappeared. Tortall glared at her.
"My turn," She told him. She pointed the lightening end of her staff at him, "Energy Flash," She said quickly. A bright light flew from the end of the staff to Tortall and knocked him back a few feet. She continued to glare as she held the staff parallel to her body.
"Do not play with things that you cannot comprehend," Tortall told her angrily. A bright white light flew at Makoto. She narrowed her eyes a little bit more and held up a hand. A lightening bolt flew from her hand to the ball of light and they both disappeared.
"Start following our own advise. I know exactly what I'm playing with," She told him with a glare.
"Oh really? Then what are you exactly?" He asked.
"I am Jupiter's Guardian. She who has full power of the planet. Queen of Jupiter, second only to Zeus/Jupiter himself," She answered.
"What?" He had a sudden look of fear on his face, "That's not possible. It cannot be," He shrieked.
"I am who I am, no one more, no one less," She held her staff parallel to her front and put her free hand behind the lightening bolt. "Farewell, give my regards to Hotaru and Hades,"
"You can't kill me, I'm stronger than you," He shouted.
"Jupiter Revenge," She said quietly, a green light surrounded her, it practically crackled with energy. The energy focused into the hand behind the pewter piece and a large dragon appeared, coiled, in front of her. She made her open palm into a fist and the dragon shot out at Tortall, consuming him in a green haze. She opened her palm again and the dragon dissipated. Tortall was gone. She frowned in annoyance and looked around. It had been to easy. A portal opened in front of her scanning eyes and Pluto stepped out. Makoto looked at the woman.
"It is over now," Pluto told her.
"I don't get it, it was so easy," Makoto said in confusion.
"You are now the Guardian of Jupiter. You have the full powers of a Jonovian Queen," Pluto told her.
"What about the others?" Makoto asked with a scowl.
"They are now deities. They will be watching you. When you die you all will be reborn," Pluto told her.
"Wait a fucking minute. I'm confused. Neo-fucking-Queen Serenity is dead, along with Endymion and the other scouts . . . but they wont be coming back?" Makoto asked angrily, the symbol on her forehead flashing brightly for a moment.
"Calm down Makoto. This was fate. Everyone knew that you would be the best scout to leave alive. Serenity would have wasted strength to bring you all back to this exact world, ruining the plans set to you by fate and destiny. Saturn would have destroyed the world, Michiru and Haruka don't think properly when one is not there. Ami would be come depressed and not truly follow the given path. Minako would blame everything on herself and push everyone away. While Rei would have lost it completely and destroyed random things in fits of rage for no apparent reason," Pluto told her.
"You haven't even told me what it is that I have to do," Makoto growled.
"You have to go to another dimension, help them get through the war, and then you will die," Setsuna answered.
"I die after I get them through the war? Will that take long?" Makoto asked.
"Very," Setsuna said with a nod.
"What if I die before the war is over?" Makoto asked.
"You will not be allowed to commit suicide," Setsuna informed her.
"No suicide huh?" Makoto asked thoughtfully.
"No hiring someone to kill you, no throwing yourself in front of someone to save them when it's truly only death that you really crave," Setsuna told her.
"Why are you sending us all there?" She asked.
"Because you will be working for the better good in this instance," Setsuna answered,
"Will you answer the questions while making sense?" Makoto demanded.
"It is because it will be better for you there. You will be placed on your planets with only each other to contact. After three years your planets will be flourishing and you will be allowed to contact Earth. After that the Earth will join the Silver Alliance and everyone will have peace," Pluto told her.
"I don't like it," Makoto said with a frown.
"You have no choice," Pluto told her with a shrug. a portal opened below Makoto's feet and she dropped through.