Silver Millennium Life Bonds
Rocky Oberlin
Chapter 6

I have been asked to write more. I hope that you enjoy this.

Disclaimer: If I owned the Ronin Warriors or Sailor Moon, I would have a paved driveway, a decent car, and a snow blower. Since I don't have any of them, I don't.



~~The morning after the dreams~~
"Okay, we're all up, so tell us what our dreams about," demanded Anubis.

Windy looked up from the dish she was passing and answered him straight. "You, the other three Seasonals, Kayura, Cye, and Kento were mercenaries. Ryo and Rowen were put into your group to hide them from their families."

"Cale and I were siblings?" asked Kayura.

"In a way," responded Windy. "You didn't have families, per say. You adopted each other because you were both alone. That was how it was with Ryo and Rowen when I brought them to the group again. The lot of you adopted them into your group and were pretty surprised by Ryo's expertise in his chosen weapons."

"Which was what?" asked Ryo.

"What do you expect? Katana."

"So I could always use the bow?" asked Rowen.

Windy nodded. "You were almost a natural. If you and Sailor Mars had gone against each other, it would have been pretty much a draw."

Serena smiled. "Yes, she was good at archery." Her face dropped. "Too bad she did what she did."

"It's too bad they all did what they did," said Hotaru.

Windy bowed her head. She knew that there was one that was working out her feelings towards Serena. "Unfortunately history can repeat itself. I am hoping that something will change, though," she said quietly.

"So how did they get into our mercenary group?" asked Cye

Windy smiled and looked off into the distance. "Well, the day after I had Sage, Serena, Ryo, and the Outer Scouts in my rooms at the palace, I snuck Ryo and Rowen out of the palace."

"Why?" asked Rowen.

"You know how you dreamed about the king complaining that his wife was unfaithful and had you? Well, the next morning the Earth king decided to really nail you. He was beating you when your mother walked into the room. She did something that she hardly ever did; she fought back her husband and used the powers of Earth against him. She hurried you out before he could do more against either of you and almost ran to my room. While she was there, the Martian queen and you, Ryo, came to my door. Your father decided that he had to start on your "reeducation" when your mother came in. She also overpowered her husband with her planet's power and rushed you out." Rowen paled and shook at how close his past and present closely meshed. Windy gave him a sad look that said, "I'm sorry". She continued, "Both your mothers knew that the only way to save the two of you was to get you out of the Martian and Earth court. Rowen, you mentioned that your father was a leader of a mercenary group and your mother suggested that you go to him. They said that they would cover for you, but you would have to leave quickly. I said that I could have you there in that morning and they agreed. Ryo, your mother gave you a dagger with a ruby on the hilt. I took both of you to the mercenary group and let them take you into their ranks. When I checked up on you once, you had made friends with each other, but Rowen, you were pining for Serenity." Rowen blushed and looked down. Serena tried to laugh it off, but she was getting knowing grins from Haruka and Michiru. Windy smiled and said, "Life Bonds are like that. It is love at first sight or it never happens."

"What about our life in the palace?" asked Sage. "Serena and I were twins and Serena was suppose to marry Prince Endymon, but what happened?"

"And when did Rowen and I fall in love?" asked Serena.

"Give me some time and I will tell you. Sage wanted to know about palace life and it ties in with how the two of you met Ryo and Rowen." Windy cleared her dishes and settled in the living room. Everyone followed her example and left the dishes for later.

"Well, Sage, you met Ryo when the Martian queen brought her daughter to the Moon to be taught as Sailor Mars. You were visiting your mother and sister for an Earth season and while Queen Serenity had her daughter in the Council Room meeting one of her new "protectors" you had time on your hands. You wandered into the practice room to- how did you put it- relieve stress. You met Ryo practicing with a pair of practice katanas and you were a little, hmm, rude to him."

Sage raised an eyebrow and Ryo looked questioning. "Rude? How was I rude?"

Windy grinned and the Outer Sailors answered in grins of their own. Even though Sailor Saturn had been asleep during the Silver Millennium, her sleep was brushed by dreams of what was happening to her fellow soldiers. It was especially nice when they had gone to the Moon; she was able to see her Queen, Princess, and Prince. She had dreamt of what happened as the past Sailors Uranus and Neptune were in the practice room when the first meeting occurred.

"Well, you basically called him a commoner who had no right to be in the 'private practice room of the Sailors and Royalty'. Ryo, you just looked at him and continued with your practice. It wasn't until Sage grabbed a sword to stop you that you had your- fight."

Both friends looked surprised. "We fought?" asked Ryo.

"Oh, yes. The palace healers were scolding you two for that stunt," laughed Artimas. "Your mother, Ryo, was telling you how you should be more polite to the hosts of the house you were staying in and Queen Serenity was just looking at you, Sage, with such disappointment."

"If I recall," added Luna. "She yelled at you at some length after you two had retreated to her rooms. You came out so red and disgusted that you made the comment about returning to the Sun instead of staying."

"I remember that," mused Serena. "I begged, pleaded-"

"And cried," added Sage.

Serena scowled at her brother. "-And cried to keep you with me for a little longer."

"As I recall, Sailor Mars was looking at you with disgust as she watched you with your brother," said Michiru.

"Yes," added her partner. "I had a talk with her later about treating you with proper respect. She said that she would do as she pleased and no hick from the outer planets will tell her what to do. I almost used my sword on her."

"But you had your revenge on her later during practice," said Setsuna. "You had her for a partner and you almost sent her to the infirmary to get patched up."

Haruka smiled. "Yeah, I did. That was fun."

"Don't get too blood thirsty," cautioned Windy. "Sometimes it is good, sometimes it can't be helped, but other times it's not necessary. It can lead to bad ends. Look at what happened to the inner planets.

"And Jupiter," muttered Sage.

"It's not certain what happened to Sailor Jupiter," said Cye. "Didn't Ryo say something about her not siding one way or the other?"

"That is true," said Rowen. "We don't know."

"And we may never," said Dais. "If Windy wiped clean their memories of the Moon Princess and their involvement with her, then Sailor Jupiter was relieved of her memories also."

Windy listened to Dais' reasoning and didn't refute it. She knew that Lita was remembering through torment and grief of an old soul trying to put back right what she had messed up the first time.

"So we fought and had to be put back together. When did Sage and I become friends?" asked Ryo.

"You kept meeting in the practice room at the same time each day. You soon started to talk to each other outside of the room and learned that you had some similar interests. The Martian queen was impressed with how well you were getting along that she left you on the Moon with your sister. It took a while, but you two became inseparable. Some of the scrapes that the three of you got into were almost comical."

"Three?" asked Sage.

Windy nodded. "You didn't think that you left Serena alone with her guards all the time did you? She almost begged that you take her with you on some of your practices. She became quite good with a single sword."

Serena looked surprised. "I can fight with a sword?"

Windy glanced over to her and nodded. "Oh, yes. You and Haruka would duel it out in practice when you weren't practicing with your glaive. As I recall, your mother had a tantrum over you knowing how to fight."

Luna looked scandalized. "Queen Serenity did not throw a tantrum."

Windy snorted and Setsuna covered a smile. "Oh, boy did she. You can cover it up all you want, but that woman made Serena look calm. She was throwing things all over the room, screaming, and stomping her feet over the idea that the Outers, Sage, Ryo, and I were even contemplating teaching Serena how to fight."

Setsuna joined in the memory. "She was using words I never thought she even knew. She didn't look very serene when she was having that 'discussion' with us."

"So, who won?" asked Cye.

Windy smirked. "We did."

"You told her that you were going to teach Serena how to fight even if it was behind her back," remarked Setsuna.

"I guess that we should see if you recall any of what you learned," said Ryo.

"We will do that, Prince Ryo," said Haruka.

"We can help," offered Cye. "Between Sage, Ryo, Kento, and I, we should be able to help her remember, too." Serena chuckled nervously and looked over to her brother.

"You know, that would be a good idea," he said. "May be a couple of us working with her instead of all at once."

"That sounds good to me," said Michiru before Haruka could turn it down. "We do need to learn how to work together."

Seckmet decided to change the subject from their future practices to information of the past. "So how did we die in the past on Earth?"

Windy had a sad far away look as she contemplated the question. "The company that you were with had moved as I had advised. Later that day, Beryl had taken the area that you were in. You had stopped at a city to gather supplies when the Dark Kingdom army caught up with you. Beryl knew that Prince Rowen was in there and demanded for him to be turned over to her and the city would be left alone. The new captain of the mercenary company consulted with the city council and decided to tell Beryl where to go. She was _furious_. She ordered the whole city sacked and any prisoners were to be added to her army's ranks. You defended Rowen and Ryo to the end, but when a monster killed Ryo and a stray arrow got Rowen, you basically went berserk." Windy had a grim half smile on her face when she said, "The lot of you cut a wide swath of her monsters before you were killed. Actually, Anubis, you were guarding their bodies when you were killed. It might have been a good thing that you were killed; any person that wasn't killed was 'converted' to her cause. I could smell the blood magic before Beryl even came to the Moon."

"At least that time we were on the right side," muttered Cale.

"I think that it was a close call," said Kayura. "If my dream said anything, that woman in the purple dress was starting her spell when we died."

"You have no idea," said Artimas. "Beryl would have loved to have experienced fighters in her army. That may have been why she took the Generals."

"So, why did Endymon come to the Moon to warn us?" asked Serena.

"He didn't," said Windy. "I'm not quite sure, but I think that a friend or partner of mine might have had a hand in warning the Moon."

"How?" asked Hotaru.

"Well, I can alter appearances of anyone and if someone like me managed to get Rowen's soul before he went on, they could have altered him to look like Endymon and send him to the Moon. Even if you didn't recognize Rowen for who he was, Serena, your bond with him would have. When he approached you with his warning, you perked up from the depression you were in. It at least held you over until Beryl attacked."

"So what happened?" asked Sage. "How did _we_ die?"

"Well, Sailors Uranus and Neptune died trying to get to Serena to defend her. Sailor Saturn was still asleep and Sailor Pluto was at the Time Gates, actually I think you were stuck there because the Gates wouldn't open. Right?"

"Yes," said Setsuna with disgust.

"And the Inner Scouts?" asked Dais.

"They were trying to get back to their home worlds, but were killed on the way to the portal room. Sailor Jupiter was with Prince Sage when they were killed." Windy looked at the Sun Prince. "She took an arrow for you, but she couldn't stop the sword stroke that killed you. She died saying that she failed."

"And Serena?" asked Hotaru.

"Serena was with Rowen when Beryl found them. Beryl thought that Rowen was Endymon and made her offer. When she was refused, well, she 'killed' Rowen and watched Serena kill herself."

"I'm still wondering why Serena did that," grumped Luna.

"Well, she lost her Life Bond once and then lost him again. No one was around to stop her from committing suicide that time and took advantage of it."

"But why?" repeated Luna.

Windy sighed. "When two people who are Life Bonds meet they are like to halves of a soul becoming one. If one is taken away, then the other will soon follow. I have seen one half of a Life Bond survive, but that was due to duty and another bond created with him. He still tried to kill himself before he finally bowed down to his duty, but he welcomed death when it came."

"So if Serena or Rowen dies, we could lose the other one?" asked Anubis.

Windy nodded grimly.

"Well, that takes a lot off my mind," said Kento sarcastically.

"Shut up, Kento," growled Rowen. Looks from the rest of the room toward the bearer of Hardrock echoed the sediment.


Windy was in the kitchen washing the lunch dishes when Mia came in. "There's something that you didn't tell them at the discussion," she said.

"Yes."

"It's about Sailor Jupiter, isn't it?"

"Yes."


"Will you tell me what it is?"

"Sage and Lita were in love in the Silver Millennium. The only problem was she was undecided about where her loyalties laid."

"So when she said she failed she was talking about failing to save Sage?"

"And making her decision."

"There's more, isn't there?"

"Yes."

Mia sighed. "But you aren't telling."

"I can't. A decision has to be made and until I know what it is, I'm not going to start a fight over what might not be."

"I hope you know what you're doing," sighed Mia.

"I'm not the one who is ordering this. I just hope she will make the right decision."

Mia started water on the stove and pulled two cups and the tea from the shelf. She finished the tea just as Windy put away the last dish. The two women sat down and enjoyed the quiet before the possible storm.