Silver Millennium Life Bonds
Rocky Oberlin
Chapter 7

My name is a nickname given to me by one of my patients. My name is NOT Sunrise Inc. therefore I do NOT own Ronin Warriors. Also, my name in NOT Cloverwave, therefore I do NOT own Sailor Moon. To any blood-suckers (the lawyers, not lab techs) I don't have much money, but plenty of bills, so if you sued me you would have to wait in line for your payments.

Warning: Windy shows her temper and there is more Bible talk.


Windy grew quieter as the next two days passed and dropped the bombshell on the group on the second day. Several people close to Serena were ready to plant the spirit back into the earth again for even suggesting that she was going to bring back one of the traitors. Windy just ignored the whole lot and waited for midnight to come when the distance between dimensions was the closest. Her journey was easy, but the way back was harder. Anubis, Kayura, and Ryo were awake when the Windwalker and Lita returned to the Koji Mansion. Windy looked like she had been in a fight and Lita was dazed and confused from the experience of leaving her home for the last time. They saw the ghostly woman shake her head and they retired for the night. Again morning would bring answers to their questions.


The next morning showed the two women deeply asleep on the living room couches. The morning sun shone brightly down on Windy and she groaned and turned over. Lita woke up to see a group of angry strangers and Outer Sailors glaring down at her. They had tried to glare at Windy as well, but she had cracked open one eye, looked at them, and pulled the blanket over her head. The Ronins tried to wake her up, but a knife at a sensitive area (Windy was tired and malicious, she went for south of the belt) convinced them to leave her alone.

Lita gave them a weak smile and a small wave. Haruka frowned deeper and Serena looked at Lita with fear in her eyes. The fear washed the smile away from Lita's face and replaced it with sadness. Never once in the time Serena had known the Jovian Sailor had she ever been afraid of her. A blue haired boy wrapped his arms around Serena and comforted the small blond. A blond boy next to her scowled at Lita and walked away. Feelings Lita didn't know existed throbbed at the sight of his face before he left.

"Since everyone is not leaving the room and had decided that I should get up at the ungodly hour of ten o'clock, I'm up. Happy?" came a sarcastic announcement from the blanketed woman.

"Oh, yes. We are very happy," Haruka bit back just as sarcastically. "Now you can explain why a traitor is here."

Sailor Uranus never feared death. She knew that she may die protecting her princess and kingdom, but once for one instant, she felt the fear of death. Windy looked at the Wind Sailor with a calm, cold look that came from beyond the grave. "Remember your mistakes as well, Princess of Uranus," a voice whispered in her head. The black look from the Windwalker confirmed that it was she who was speaking. "You have blood on your hands as well, and you have betrayed your princess for a small time. She forgave you, God forgave you, let them decide how to treat Sailor Jupiter."

Windy stood stiffly and limped slightly out of the room. Lita quickly followed her to stay with a familiar presence since her old comrades shunned her. Cye and Kento followed them into the kitchen for two different reasons. Cye was going to see if he would have to cook and Kento wanted breakfast. When Windy pulled out two bowls and cereal for her and Lita, Cye heaved a great sigh and started on breakfast. May be it was a good thing that Windy wasn't cooking for them, he mused. She might put something in to make us sick for a while.

"I wouldn't do that," said Windy quietly. She was staring at Cye with an angry and hurt look. "I do plenty of things, but I wouldn't harm a person out of spite. I only fight in defense."

The two women put the dishes from their meager breakfast in the sink and left the house. Lita followed the Windwalker to the forest and out of sight of the people residing there. Mia turned to her tenants and frowned.

"You know, we treated them both badly and for what? Because she believes in second chances? I know a few that had those given to them; why not Lita?"

"Because she was suppose to be faithful to the Princess," said Setsuna.

"And what about us?" asked Hotaru. "We left the Princess to fight Sailor Galaxia on our own. We didn't wait for her."

"We left her to do things our own way," said Haruka quietly.

Michiru looked startled. "But isn't that the way we were meant to?" she asked softly. "Weren't we supposed to do anything it took to gain our goals?"

"May be not," said Ryo. "Why did you think that you had to do your mission that way?"

"Because that was how Mother wanted us to remember," said Serena, her head down. "To bring the Inner Scouts closer to me and distance the Outers."

"Why would Mother do that?" asked Sage bitterly.

"To try to save a doomed kingdom," answered Artimas. Luna nodded her head in agreement.

"And it looks like she wanted to erase a love that went beyond understanding," said Kayura.

"It's a possibility," sighed Serena.


Lita and Windy walked through the woods behind Mia's house. The ghost didn't seem to be paying attention to where she was going and Lita felt like she was getting lost. Their path had no rhyme or reason, just where the woman put her next step. Sometimes it seemed to Lita that the trees would bend down their branches to touch the pair before they passed.

"Your name, Kino Makato, means "honesty of wood" doesn't it?" asked the woman in white.

"Yes," said Lita uncertainly. "But no one has ever called me that in a long time."

"Your parents did."

"But they're dead."

"What about your love?"

Lita brought up her head from the bowed position she had lowered it to at the mention of her parents. "What love?"

Windy kept walking through the forest. "The one you dream about, but forget in the morning light. The one you feel you failed when you died on the moon a thousand years ago."

Lita was bewildered. She would remember any dreams, wouldn't she? Who did she fail? Serena? Serena couldn't be the love she was talking about. "What do you mean?"

Windy stopped and looked over her shoulder with a small smile on her face. "You shall see in time. So will he. Come, we must get there in time. I hate to be late for anything." She started walking again and Lita ran to catch up with her.

"Where are we going?"

"You shall see," was the response.


Sage had come to the lake to meditate and think about what Windy had done. Why had she brought the false one back. At least the Inner Scouts had chosen a place and stand. Jupiter had sat on the fence, watching to see who would prove to be the strongest.

"And what is this feeling that I keep having when She looks at me?" Sage muttered. The quiet Ronin of Halo was disturbed by the emotions that struck him whenever she looked at him.

A rustle across the lake brought his attention to the here and now as he saw Windy gracefully leave the forest for the lake edge. Behind her Lita followed a little less gracefully. The tree that she had passed under seemed to reach down to touch the brown haired girl. Windy glanced back at the tree and it seemed to let go of the Jovian Scout. Windy continued on her way to the lake and Lita followed at a trot.

Sage marveled at how the shorter of the two could out distance the Scout, but he was surprised when Windy didn't stop at the edge but continued on as if she were still walking on solid earth. Lita paused at the edge and shook her head. Sage could see the protest on her lips, but Windy would have nothing of it. She held out her hand to the tall girl and led her onto the water. Windy whistled to the four winds and a white light blinded Sage. When he could see again, they were gone.

"Sage, what's wrong?" asked Serena.

Sage jumped. He didn't hear his sister even come near him. He shook his head. "Nothing, Serena. I just thought that I saw something that I couldn't have." He continued to stare out at the lake.

"Windy can do many things. If she had anything to do with what you think you saw, then you did."

Sage turned to his twin. "So I did see her walk on water?"

Serena giggled. "May be. I don't know. She did tell me once of a man who did though. She said it was before our time in our first life."

"I bet Luna said that it couldn't have happened," said Sage thoughtfully.

Serena beamed. "You're remembering!" she exclaimed.

"What?"

"You remembered how Luna was," clarified Serena. "Actually, that is exactly what she said. Windy looked down at her and said that if there can be talking cats, ghosts that come back to help others, then a man who can defeat death can certainly walk on water."

"I bet Luna was miffed," laughed Sage.

His twin laughed with him. "Yeah, she was. I guess that the religion that Windy follows is stranger then anything that any one of us could even dream."

"I think they call themselves Christians."

Serena nodded. "Yeah, I think that's what she is; although she said that she was a 'Lutheran', too. Whatever that means."

"I think that it's a branch of Christians, like Catholics or Baptists," shrugged Sage. "May be we should ask her later."

"If she will speak with us."

"She talked with Cye."

"Only because she heard what he thought. I was going to go in when I heard her talk with him. She looked hurt. I think we hurt her when we treated her like we did."

"But she hurt us when she brought back a traitor without telling us. She just dropped the subject in our laps and then went to get a traitor."

The twins walked back to the house to see what they would do for the day. Sage thought that may be they should practice and see what Serena remembered.


The group was just coming back from their practice when they heard an unearthly, but sad song being sung. They reached the back porch of Mia's house and saw Windy sitting in a swing holding Lita's head in her lap. Lita was asleep, but tear tracks were fresh on her face. The song was being sung by Windy. No one knew the words, but they could feel the sadness and longing in the tone. As the song ended, Windy looked up at the new Moon Court then looked away.

"Why did you do that?" asked Anubis.

"Do what? Bring Lita here, bring her into the forest, or look away from you?" asked the Windwalker.

"Any of them," said Ryo.

"Lita had to make a final decision that she didn't make on the Moon. I brought her into the forest to meet with someone. As for looking away from you, why should I look at you? You feel betrayed by what I did under orders and I am hurt that you have so little faith in me and my God."

"Why should we have faith in you or your God?" asked Seckmet.

Windy looked at him sharply. "I don't blame you for having no faith in me. I am but a ghost of a mortal girl. You should have faith in my God because He knows what is, was, and will be. He knows why something should be done and gives us the free will to do what we deem is necessary. You, Seckmet, have free will and look what you did with it; yet He forgave all of you when you first were lost to Tulpa. Don't smile too wide, Haruka, you and the other Outers have done the same thing on occasion yourselves. Yet you are forgiven as well."

"Who did Lita see?" asked Cye, trying to defuse a potential war in the house.

Windy looked down. "That is between Lita and whomever she saw. She had to understand a few things and I just brought her to where they were to meet."

"So you don't know everything either," said Sage quietly.

"I never said I did," Windy said just as quietly. She closed her eyes and a tear slipped down her face. "Do you know how tired I am? Yet I stay here to help people like you." She opened her sad eyes. "I would really like to go home to my rest. I have the choice, but I also see the need. Don't throw away something because you are angry." Windy stroked the sleeping Lita's head. "I am sorry," she said quietly. "For being angry with you when you had a good right to be upset. I had dropped someone into your lives, but you shouldn't judge things too quickly yet. Jesus said not to judge lest you be judged, but it also is said that our actions judge us. We should all consider our actions. She sighed. "All of us."

Windy closed her eyes and slipped into a light sleep. Those who could read her saw the sadness, but also the worry. What hadn't she told them, but knew about. Anubis, Kayura, and Ryo figured that it had something to do with when she had first arrived with Lita the evening before.

Ryo sighed to himself. They would have to fight again.


Author Notes: In another story I was told that Windy glared like Heero in Gundam Wing. The funny thing was I had never watched the program before I wrote that. This story shows that Windy has a temper, but she can admit to being in the wrong. Man, I wish that I could get her more perfect, but then everyone would say that she was too Mary Sue. By the way, I'm Lutheran and the beliefs that are spoken in this story are what I was brought up on. Again, I am sorry if I offend anyone who doesn't like hearing what I believe, but I also point you back to chapter 2's Author Note.
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Rocky