Silver Millennium Life Bonds
Rocky Oberlin
Chapter 10

Disclaimer: I have enough trouble without trying to claim Sailor Moon or Ronin Warriors. You try taking care of a seventeen-year-old grandma of a cat. She expects too much.

Cale and Saturn found it too quiet when they returned to Mia's house. They found Mia and Lita in the kitchen drinking tea and Cye was just entering to start dinner. They had a startled look on their face when the two armed individuals ran through the door and practically slammed it shut like all the hoards of Hell were after them.
"Where's Windy?" asked Mia.
"Making sure we weren't followed," grunted Cale.
"We were found out before we got out. Windy had to make sure the Gate was closed tight," Saturn explained further. She slumped down in a chair and let her power fade back to just plain Hotaru.
Cale followed suit and allowed his armor to return to where it rested while it waited for him to call it again. "We were right about Prince Endymion. He was being helped by Chaos. And guess what..."
"What?" asked another voice from the door. Ryo entered the rest of the way and joined the group in the kitchen. "I heard the door slam, but some didn't feel like seeing what it was. Please, continue."
Cale sighed and glanced at Hotaru. Was it happening already?
"Badamon was in on the plans."
"Badamon?" asked Cye. "I thought that Ryo destroyed him."
"So did I," added Ryo.
"Chaos can do what it pleases because it feels it doesn't have to follow the rules," came a whispery voice. Windy stepped through the pantry door and smiled at the group. "My apologies for the strange entrance, but I needed a door and that was handy."
"So, why did you say that Chaos feels that it doesn't need to follow any rules," asked Mia.
"Because it was angered when Order was Commanded to be by the Creator. It liked the nothingness that was and the darkness that hung over everything. Having order is the total opposite of chaos. That is why it tried so hard to take all the Star Seeds from the Sailor Soldiers."
"So, if Chaos has returned, then why is it helping Prince Endymion and this Badamon character?" asked Lita.
Windy shrugged. "A means to an end most likely. Use persons with enough hate that they are blinded by the truth and you can lead them anywhere. They will not see what we say; they will only see what they want. Chaos tried to do this in the Silver Millennium, but it was stopped by the early attack by Beryl. That set everything back and it had to wait for another opportunity. While Chaos waited, it took the rest of the Star Seeds and commanded its slave to retrieve the ones from the Sol system for last. She conviently forgot about it until the Starlights came to Earth looking for their Princess. Then you had the trouble."
"So all the betrayal and hurt was all due to Chaos wanting to return the Universe to its original state?" asked Hotaru.
"In a way," said Windy. "I don't know the whole story, just what I've been told."
"Great. Some entity wants to return everything to nothingness and we have to deal with two _old_ enemies trying to conquer the Mortal Realm. What more can go wrong?" asked Ryo sarcastically.
"How about said enemies creating dissention in the house due to Lita being here?" asked Cale.
"That tops it, I would say," said Cye.
"I guess I shouldn't have come then," whispered Lita.
"But you are here," argued Mia. "And I like having someone to talk to that is my own gender and not interested in otherworldly stuff. Cye and I can use a hand in the kitchen and you make a better conversationalist then the Outer Sailors due to their "duties", Serena because of her and Rowen being attached at the hands, and Kayura because she's in a funk right now. You are down to earth and easy to talk to; I like having you around."
Windy looked comically hurt. "I'm hurt; you cut me to the quick on how you don't even classify me as being a woman."
Hotaru giggled, "That's because you sometimes act more like a man to bully the guys around." This brought a laugh from the rest of the group, including windy.
"Well, I guess if you say so." A wicked grin crossed her face. "But do you know how much fun it is to have PMS around these boys? Mighty armor bearers and they shake in their boots when I have a black look on my face."
"That's because we value our lives," joked Cye. "We don't want to end up not being human anymore." More laughter erupted from his sally and disturbed a few of the silent dreamers in the rest of the house. The others were battling feelings of doubt and anger.

Serena and Rowen stirred from their sleep. "I wonder what was so funny?" muttered Serena.
"Probably something Kento said," answered Rowen with a yawn. They raised from the couch they had been sleeping on and started to the kitchen to see what was so funny. On their way, they found that Kento wasn't in the kitchen and that he, Dais, Seckmet, and Haruka were talking about Lita being here.
"She may cause trouble. I don't know if she should be here," said Dais.
"May be we should give her a chance, but keep her under watch," offered Kento.
"That may be the only way. Windy does watch her, but even she has other things to do," added Haruka.
"May be we should give Lita a chance," said Rowen. "We don't know if she even is trouble."
"And what we don't know can hurt us, Strata," hissed Seckmet.
"Then don't do anything around Windy," advised Serena. "She may take an exception to how you are dealing with Lita."
"Or Cale for that matter," muttered Rowen as they left. Serena looked at him questioningly and he explained what he had seen the other night.
Serena smiled. "So my brother gets to work for something now," she giggled. "This should be good." The two laughed as they entered the kitchen and joined the little group that had moved on from distressing matters to something more lighthearted.

Michiru and Setsuna were reading in Mia's library when Sage stepped in. "Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to disturb you," he apologized.
Michiru looked up from her book and smiled. Setsuna glanced over from the computer screen and said, "You weren't disturbing us. Please come in Prince."
"I hate it when you call me that," Sage said as he joined the two Sailors.
"You are just like the Princess," said Michiru. "She tells us not to call her Princess or to bow to her. Rowen has even started doing the same thing when we greet him."
"Well, we do have a point. We are people just like you; we were just accidentally born to higher rank parents. Windy doesn't even look at that, she just treats you like a person."
Michiru looked down at her book. "Yes she doesn't care about who you are. Setsuna, do you remember when she would yell at us for what we were doing to the princess? But in the end she would work with us to keep balance."
"Just like she's doing with Lita," added Setsuna. "We should probably follow her example and try to give Lita another chance. Look what she has done for us."
"Finally, some common sense other then a ghost's," came a tart reply from the top of the bookcase. Luna and Artimas poked their heads over the side of the bookcase and greeted their prince. Then they looked at the two Outer Sailors with a meaningful look.
"Hotaru at least is trying to get to know Lita again," said Artimas. "May be you should talk some others into waiting on the judgment and see what she will do."
"And who would that be?" asked Sage.
"Your friend Kento," started Luna. "And Haruka."
"Don't forget that one eyed man in purple and the one with the green hair," added the white cat.
"May be they are trying to protect us," offered Michiru.
Luna gave a cat's shrug. "What ever you think. But Windy is trying to keep Lita together at night when she cries herself to sleep. It doesn't help that Lita is also has a crush that don't acknowledge she is even alive."
"Who?" scoffed Sage. "Cale?"
Setsuna shared a look with the cats and smiled slightly. "No, I think it's someone else, but she may go with Cale with little persuasion."
Michiru stood up. "I think that Windy, Cale, and Hotaru are back, I can hear laughing in the kitchen. May be we should see what they found out."
Luna jumped from her perch. "That may be a good idea. I'll go get Lady Kayura and Anubis."
"We can get the others on our way to the kitchen," offered Michiru. Artimas joined his partner to find the last of the Ancient's clan while the royals of the Silver Millennium went to gather the rest of the house for a meeting on what was found out on the trip to the Nether Realm.