Silver Millenium Life Bonds
Rocky Oberlin
Chapter 3

Disclaimer: Not even Santa can give me Sailor Moon or the Ronin Warriors. Darn. But I keep Windy.

All was silent as Windy explained what she said. "The planets of Mercury, Venus, and Mars were unhappy with Queen Serenity. Jupiter was sitting on the fence and the Outer planets were paying attention, but they couldn't do much to help the queen. When the Royalty of Earth wanted to join the Silver Millennium, Queen Serenity thought that it would save the crumbling society. Unfortunately, it didn't. It jsut spead it along."

Princess Serenity looked at the Scouts assigned to protect her. The scouts of Mercury, Venus, and Mars pretty much ignored her, but Jupiter's representative seemed to like her. When Prince Sage came in with his friend Prince Ryo of Mars, the temperature thawed a little, but that was only becasue of the presence of good looking boys in the room. Princess Serenity wanted out now.
"Sage would you and Ryo like to see the gardens?"
"Why, we were-" The princess gave her brother a pleading look and he changed his mind. "Going to ask you if you wanted to come with us."
Prince Ryo looked at the exchange and kept his mouth shut. He saw the looks given to the small princess. Even his sister didn't like the girl; she had been listening to their father too long.
After the trio left Princess Raye, the Sailor Scout of Mars, barked out a harsh laugh. "I can't believe we have to guard _that_. She's suppose to rule after her mother?! May be we should leave now before that nitwit takes over."
Princess Lita, Jupiter's Scout, frowned. "Don't be so hard on her. She has a lot of pressure to deal with. Look at how the Earth Queen wants her to marry her son."
"I don't see why she wouldn't want to, after all Prince Endymion is gorgous," said Princess Mina, Sailor Scout to Venus.
"I tend to agree with Sailor Mars. I have to watch Princess Serenity during her classes and she just blows them off. She isn't fit to lead when the time comes. Her brother would be better suited for the job if he didn't have to go to the Sun Kingdom."
"You seem to forget that she is the one who was chosen by the Crystal," came a cool voice.
"Yes," followed another. A boyish blonde Sailor and a teal haired Sailor stepped out of the shadows. "To talk of treason will get you stripped of your powers and take away any right to the throne of your planet," said the teal haired Sailor of Neptune, Princess Michiru.
The pair walked past the Inner Scouts and continued out to the gardens where their princess was talking to her brother and his friend. Princess Lita looked at the other three and got up. Without a word she followed the to Outer Scouts to the garden.

Princess Serenity sighed and smiled at her brother and the prince of Mars. "Thanks for going with me. If I had to stay in there any longer, I'd probably go mad or be killed by 'accident'."
"I can't believe that Raye is listening to Father. He wasn't even a high rank noble when Mother married him. Now that he's King of Mars, he's ruling everything, even Mother."
"That doesn't sound good," commented Sage.
Ryo shook his head. "It's not. With Raye the heir to the throne, he spends more time with her and keeps telling her what she should think. Unfortunately, the other nobles agree with him and not with Mother."
Serenity looked worried. "If the next Sailor Mars doesn't learn what her mother knows, then the whole society will be lost."
"You mean that if all the inner sailors don't learn what their mothers and predicessors know, then society is lost," corrected Sage.
Ryo looked worried. "From the way things are going on Mars, I don't think that it will be very long before Mother and Raye are called back."
"And if they are called back, then the others will go too," said Serenity.
"NOt all of us," said a new voice.
Sailors Uranus and Neptune entered the circle of three in the garden. Princess Serenity and Price Sage smiled at the older Sailors and Prince Ryo nodded his head. Sailor Jupiter watched from the side lines and wondere why the strong Outer Sailor would ally with the Moon and it's royality.
"I know for a fact that our planets, Saturn, and Pluto will stay with you. It's too bad that Sailor Saturn must sleep, we could probably use her help," mused Princess Michiru, Sailor of Neptune.
"And with Setsuna at the Time Gates, that leaves us with just us two and whatever loyal people," added Princess Haruka, SAilor of Uranus.
Sailor Jupiter watched as the five sat and talked about the problems of the dying Silver MIllienum, when she felt a presence next to her. It was a strange woman in all white. She wore a blue and purple braided cord in her hair, but that wasn't what she noticed first. The woman was armed heavily with knives and walked like an assassin. The Princess Lita of Jupiter wondered if she should help her princess or if she should see if the stranger would attempt to kill the Moon Princess.
"Make your decision soon, little Lita, for one day you will have to make good on it." The woman spoke quietly and then made her presence known to the group. "May I join this gathering? I find that some of the people here are quite, hmm, how to say this nicely, _snotty_."
"And who would that be?" asked a tensed Sailor Uranus.
"You want chapter and verse? Let's see, the noblity of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and especially Earth, except of course the Earth Queen and her second son. And then there's the Queen of Mars, but she's so beaten down by her husband, I don't think she would dare give me the time of day if I asked."
"And why would they not liek you?" asked Princess Serenity.
"Because I, pubilicly, said that any who oppose Queen Serenity and her children will have to face the Windwalker, me. I made good on that threat too, by the way. The idiot king from Mars will be standing for dinner for a while while his burned backside heals." Windy was smiling thoughtfully as she ended that thought.
Ryo was shocked. "You did that?"
"Yes."
Ryo approached the Windwalker and surprised her by hugging her. "Thank you! You have no idea how much I wanted to see him taken down a peg."
"Shouldn't you be a little mad? I know that your sister was. She almost got her attack shoved back down her throat."
"Raye tried to attack you?"
"No, her mother stopped her just in time. But if looks could kill, I would be dead, again." This brought chuckles from the tense group. The Windwalker was accepted into the group.

It was time for dinner when the group walked back to the palace. The Prince Endymion of eArth came forward and claimed Princess Serenity with a glare at the rest of the group. Prince Sage scowled at the retreating prince's back and muttered about possessiveness.
"If Princess Serenity does marry that one, she will be broken in three months and may be dead after their first child," propheced the Windwalker.
"Don't say that!" exclaimed a voice from near the floor. "Their marriage will bring the Silver Millenium back from the brink."
The Windwalker looked down to the floor at the black cat that admonished her. "No, it will destroy it worse than any evil that would try. He will claim everything and make it like the King of Mars has done to the Queen of Mars and her planet. If the Princess does manage to survive the birth of her child, Endymion would make it learn to hate her." The Windwalker shook her head. "It would be best it some evil force did attack." As she said this she looked at a wall, but seemed to look through it and not at it. The look lasted a few moments, but when it ended the Windwalker looked sad and the rest of the group felt a chill. The woman in white knew something was coming in the near future.
"Ryo, father wishes you to eat with us tonight, not with _those_ _people_," said a harsh voice. The group looked to see the Princess of Mars tapping her foot and looking impatient. "Come on," she ground out.
"Go," said Sage quietly. "We don't want you to get in more trouble then you already are."
Ryo gave a sick smile and joined his sneering sister. He gave one last look and left. Sage looked just as sick and the Sailors looked sad as they lost one more friend.
"See, Luna," said the Windwalker. "It is beginning and the Silver Millenium will not last with such as those who come into power."
Luna couldn't say anything because she also saw what her queen refused to see. They were walking a fine line and one day they will fall to one side or the other. May be the Windwalker was right, it may be best if an outside force did disrupt everything before it tore the solar system apart.
Dinner looked like the Civil War to the Wildwalker. She could see the Union on one side and the Confederate on the other. Only this time there was no joining again as treason was dicussed openly in the hall and the queen couldn't do anything, but try to ignore it. The Windwalker winced as she saw a bruise on Prince Ryo's face forming. The harsh king must have "disiplined" him again.
"Lady Windwalker, I didn't catch your name when you were being introduced," stared a white cat. The room quieted as they listened for the answer to a possible ally or enemy.
"I go by the name Windy, lord advisor," answered the Windwalker. She looked at the blue haired boy hiding by the EArth Queen and the black haired boy edging away from his Martian family. 'Go to my room, you will find peace there,' she quietly sent to the troubled boys. She would be up late tonight giving comfort and healing to them.

"And that's where the story starts, but I'm getting thristy and some are ready to fall asleep," said Windy.
Sam started up and tried to look awake. "No, I'm not," he protested.
"Yes you are and so are some others. We will continue this tomorrow. Is there any place that we can crash for the night, MIa?" asked Windy.
"Yeah, come on, I'll see what I have," answered the hostess.
Rooms were found for all the guests and sleep was quick to come. And with the sleep came dreams of the past and each person's role in the failing society of the Silver Millenium.