Silver Millennium Life Bonds
Rocky Oberlin
Chapter 5


Disclaimer: I'm not Sunrise Inc. or Naoko Takeuchi so I don't own the Ronin Warriors or Sailor Moon.


By popular demand, so far everyone said to bring Lita back. I even got a few suggestions on how and why. Thank you for the feedback and I hope you enjoy how I do this.



Windy waited until she was sure that everyone in the house was asleep before winding her way to a different dimension. She was about to see if there was one who would finally make a stand, but first they had to realize what they were missing. The traitors would dream tonight of a friend and love lost.


Windy stepped into the shrine where the priestess slept in a restful slumber. She and the others were not going to have such peace after Windy was done. Windy looked at the former princess of Mars with a hard look and started her spell. Images drifted into the traitor's mind and started to tell a story. Across Tokyo, four others also started to dream, but one was happy to see the memories just beyond her reach.

Windy followed the joy to an apartment. She stealthily climbed to stairs to a door and walked through. The apartment had sparse furniture, but was covered with what were once healthy plants. Now they were drying up and dying. Windy went into the kitchen and drew up water from the sink too full with dishes and watered the innocent plants. Windy not wanting to leave the job half finished, quietly washed the dishes and put them away. She continued to monitor the feelings from the bedroom where the dreamer watched history unfold itself. When the dream came to the betrayal, the dreamer cried out in her sleep.

"No, don't say that! She's innocent. She couldn't stop it! Don't leave her!"

Windy moved to the bedroom door and watched the dreamer scream and wake herself up. Lita didn't see the woman in white as she sobbed and berated herself for betraying and then forgetting a friend. "Why did you do that?!" she screeched to herself. "Why did you betray the first friend that wasn't afraid of you?"

"That is what I want to know," came a quiet voice.

Lita looked up to see Windy standing in her bedroom door with a hard look on her face. She tried several times to try to say something, anything, but she couldn't say a word.

"You do know that you broke her heart, don't you? She was so depressed that she was like a deep, black pit. She only snapped out of it when she found that she had a life bond waiting for her."

Lita paled at the description of what Serena had become. The girl wasn't meant to be depressed; she was the symbol of sunshine and fun. Bubbly came to mind when asked to describe her, but not a pit. The only time she was depressed was when... Darien... left... her...

"It was worse this time, Sailor Jupiter, Princess of Jupiter. If left alone, I wouldn't doubt that she would have contemplated suicide. Count your blessings that she was stopped before it occurred to her."

Lita stared at the woman and Windy looked back. "Can I see her again?" Lita finally croaked.

Windy looked hard at the scout of Jupiter. "It depends. Go to your friends here and see what happens. Then make your decision. I'll see you in three days." Windy faded from view and returned to Mia Koji's house. She had breakfast to make and questions to answer.


Lita didn't sleep well for the rest of the night. Over and over her mind played the betrayal, only this time she found Serena passed out next to a fountain with her wrists slit. Lita would scream herself awake and cry herself to sleep only to start again. Daybreak found the exhausted woman looking out her window. Today she would see if she still had friends or if they would leave her just as quickly as they had left Serena.

Lita walked to school and saw Mina and Amy. Both were talking to each other, but that didn't seem normal as the other students looked at them with surprise. She hurried to speak with them, but heard something that broke her heart.

"Here comes the tomboy. I wonder if she will be sending someone else to the hospital this week."

Amy just nodded her head and pretended to listen to the blonde. "I'm sure that she just has a hard time making friends."

Mina raised her eyebrow. "Do you want to be her friend, Amy?"

Amy blushed and said, "I'm too busy, and I can't be anyone's friend."

They ran to class as the first bell rang. Lita followed the girls a little slower and was almost late. She just missed having a detention when she was "accidentally" kicked in the leg passing a student after completing a problem on the board. She could see the expression on the teacher's face. "Nothing but trouble waiting to happen."

After school, Lita was going to go to her cooking club, but remembered that she wasn't a member anymore since everything changed. She went, instead, to the arcade where she would see Andrew and Darien. May be they'll recognize her.

It was just as bad there too. Andrew watched her, but not with interest. Lita almost expected him to tell her to leave before she "started another fight". People gave her wide berth and Darien just ignored her. There was no Serena to brighten up the arcade or Darien. Lita left with a sigh and tried her last best friend. May be Raye would remember her.

The steps of the shrine were deserted and Lita could hear Raye's grandfather yelling at her again.

"That was the only person who would come here and donate money. Now that you ran him off, what will we do? Did you think of that? This temple may close because we couldn't pay its bills!"

"Oh, shut up!"

Lita stopped at what she heard. The temple was going to close? Raye telling her grandfather to shut up? That wasn't the Raye she knew. The Raye she knew was respectful of her grandfather even though she yelled at him and cared for the temple.

Raye came barging down the steps and almost collided with Lita. "Watch where you're going!" screamed Raye as she continued on her way. Lita as stunned.

"She changed almost overnight. She once was a caring girl, but she lost something. You did too."

Lita looked down, startled, at the small man. He just looked up at her and motioned her to enter the temple. He led her to the fire room where he sat down and really looked at her.

"You lost the same thing my granddaughter lost, except you know it and regret it."

"Yes. I saw someone who said they may give it back to me, but I don't know if she will."

The priest turned to the fire and looked into its depths. "She will give it back if you really want it, but you will have to earn what was once freely given. Make your choice soon because she won't hold the door open forever. Once it is closed, you will forget just as my granddaughter and the others have."

Lita studied the old man. She bowed and said, "Thank you for your help."

He smiled and said, "Your welcome."

Lita dug in her school bag and took out the last of her money. "Here, I want you to have this."

"I can't," protested the priest.

Lita shook her head. "For the advice. May be I won't need it anymore if I do make the right choice."

The priest of the shrine took the money and thanked Lita again. Lita left with a lighter heart and her decision made. She had helped her friend's grandfather one last time and now she will try to earn back the love and friendship that she so willingly gave up one horrible night.


It was hard for Lita. The next two days were almost a nightmare, but the one she lived in her dreams were a thousand times worse. She could still see Serena running off and be found dead somehow. The death always changed, but she was still dead. The last night Lita hoped to be in this dimension, she had a different dream. She saw Serena with a boy who was always in the shadows. Serena looked at her with hatred in her eyes then turned to the shadowy figure. "There is nothing here for me, let's go." She would leave Lita standing there, totally bereft of the one true friend she had ever had.

"Now that's not true," a whispered voice chided her. "There is another, but you have to asked Him. He's waiting for you, all you have to do is ask. He will do the rest."

Lita cried in her sleep that night and Windy could only watch. She knew someone was talking to the Jovian Princess, but she didn't mettle with the dream. It was all up to Lita on how things would go when she was taken back. Windy turned and followed the familiar path to the Moon family again. She would have to warn them of the coming person.


"You are going to do what?" Haruka growled out the question and looked ready to beat the Windwalker into the ground. There were several who looked like they wanted to do the same, but were a little more cautious.

"I'm bringing Lita, Sailor of Jupiter, Jovian Princess, back to her duty, may be. We shall see," said the woman in white calmly. She continued to read a book that looked like it had seen several wars.

"I can't believe you're bringing one of the traitors here," spat Sage.

Windy looked up at the Prince of the Sun, her eyes hard and dark blue that was seen in the mysterious depths of water. "Have I explained nothing to you? The Sailor of Jupiter and her planet was never able to say one way or the other whose loyalty they were going to pledge to before the attack. Now she will make her stand. We shall see what she will do." She turned back to her book and ignored the glares and hard stares directed toward her.

When dinner came, she didn't join the rest of the group, but left the house and went someplace else. She returned with a satisfied look and an empty brown paper bag with grease marks on it, only to return to her book. At one point she looked at the fire and a sad look crossed her face. Ryo looked at the fire and only saw darkness in its heart. Something was bothering the spirit woman.

At midnight she left the house for the last time to the dimension the Moon family had gone to. She returned with a frightened and dazed Sailor Jupiter. A frown and a shake of her head stopped any questions or comments from those still awake. Something had happened to the pair before they had returned to the house. Anubis didn't like the cold feeling he was getting and Ryo saw darkness in the heart of the fire again. What had they faced?


AN: I will go through the explanations in the next chapter whenever I get that out. We'll see. Until next time, God be with you and may your life show His Peace.

Rocky