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Sailor Moon: Silver
Chapter 24:
Mr. Tomoe?
As the car drives on, Aurora lets the wind blow though her hair. She closes her
eyes and before she knows it, they're at the hospital. Michelle opens the door.
Aurora unbuckles and gets out. She unwraps her wings and folds them behind her
back. They disappear and Aurora looks down at Hotaru.
"She's still asleep. I can't believe it."
Amara and Michelle smile and all three walk inside. As the two scouts check to
see what room Hotaru's dad is in, Aurora represses a shudder. She walks with
the two down the hallway and memories come flooding back to her. It was her
first time she time traveled and she was very inexperienced. It ended up almost
getting her killed, but it was also when she had first meet Megera. Amara and
Michelle stop in front of a room. Michelle gestures and Aurora slowly walks in.
"Mr. Tomoe?"
A white haired man in a wheel chair appears and Aurora smiles. There are
bandages around his head and he's dressed in a hospital gown. Aurora walks
forward and holds Hotaru out to him. He takes her and smiles, cradling her just
like Aurora did. Aurora bows and her hair falls in her face.
"My name is Aurora Tsukino."
She stands up straight and Mr. Tomoe smiles.
"You may call me Souichi."
Aurora smiles and sits down in a chair. She starts talking to Souichi and they
talk for an hour. When the hour is up, Amara pokes her head in and tells Aurora
it's time to leave. Aurora gets up and bows again. Souichi nods and Aurora
walks out.
"So what did you guys talk about?" Michelle asks as they walk out.
"Nothing in particular."
Amara smiles and Aurora growls. She had once seen that smile on Rini's face
after Aurora had visited a boy in the hospital. It was only a short time later
that the boy had died. As Aurora gets into the car, the memories of that day
consume her and a flashback starts.
Flashback
"Devon?" A six-year-old Aurora asks.
She sees somebody move on the bed, and then a head appears from beneath the
blanket. Aurora smiles and walks forward.
"Hi Devon. How are you?"
"I'm fine. What are you doing here?"
Aurora knew he was trying his best not to make that sound rude, but she couldn't
help to notice how weak he sounded.
"My name's Aurora and I'm here to cheer you up."
"Your Serenity's daughter, aren't you?"
Aurora nods, smiling. Devon smiles back. I've always wanted to meet her."
"Well, she's right outside."
Devon's blue eyes light up and Aurora walks over to the door and pokes her head
out.
"Mother?"
"Yes Aurora?"
"Devon requests an audience with you."
Serenity smiles and walks over to the door. Aurora opens it and Serenity walks
in. Aurora hangs back as Serenity talks to Devon. She talked to him again right
before he went to sleep and he told her why he was there. It was because he had
cancer. Aurora was surprised and now she knew why her senses were telling her
that he was going to die.
End Flashback
Chapter 25
Athena's Warning
Aurora wakes up to find herself in a bed. She hadn't even realized she had
dozed off. As she sits up she feels something wet on her cheek. She puts her
hand up and her fingertips brush against tears.
"Why am I crying for Devon? I thought I had stopped mourning for him.
Besides it took the life of somebody a lot closer to get my wings."
A girl with rainbow-streaked hair appears in her head.
Flashback
"Tokina? Are you okay?"
"Yea, I'm fine."
Aurora wasn't so sure. Tokina's crystal-blue tinted crystal-purple eyes had
lost it's light and Aurora felt Tokina was really sick.
"Come on, Tokina. Tell me."
Tokina looks at Aurora, then down the hill they're sitting on.
"Aurora, I'm dying."
"What?!"
Aurora was crushed, but Tokina didn't die by illness. She died at the hands of
a minion from the Dark Moon, before the initial attack. That was only 5 days
later. Aurora was walking around the city when she starts to glow pink.
Transparent pink wings sprout and unfurl from her back. She immediately flies
off and finds the battle.
"Tokina!"
Tokina screams before she's silenced forever. The minion flashes a dagger, then
plunges it into her chest, killing her instantly.
"TOKINA!!!"
Aurora voice comes in narrating it afterward.
"I was never one to let my sadness show, but the death of Tokina drove me
to be silent. My wings stayed with me. I was faster in flying then I was in
running. I guess that has helped me."
End Flashback
Aurora puts her hands up to her face and breaks down crying. She was trying to
keep quiet for fear of waking up Amara and Michelle. As Aurora cries, a familiar
touch is felt on her hand. Aurora lifts her head up and sees a silver haired
girl in front of her.
"Athena?"
The girl nods and Aurora wraps her arms around the priestess' neck. Athena
wraps her arms around Aurora and tries to calm her down.
"Shh. Come on Aurora. Your stronger then this."
Aurora's cries eventually subside, but she stays in Athena's embrace. Athena
smiles and holds her like a mother would a frightened child.
"Aurora, I know reliving two friend's deaths is hard, but you have to stop
mourning. The Dead Moon is feeding off your sadness and they will catch you if
you continue."
Athena feels Aurora give a slight nod.
"But how....?" Aurora whispers.
"I'm in your dreams and I've felt your pain. No living thing; young or
old, princess or beggar, rich or poor, boy or girl, doesn't matter. Nobody
should have to go through with seeing his or her best friend die at the hands
of evil. I have something for you."
Aurora leans back and Athena starts messing with something on her back. Her
eyes light up and she holds her hand out to Aurora. On it is two things. One is
a picture of Tokina and the other is...
"A dagger?"
"It's the same one that killed Tokina. I figured with your sadness you
could use it to attack."
Aurora takes both items and hugs Athena again.
"Thank you, Athena."
Athena smiles.
"I will always be with you. If not right beside you, then in mind."
Athena feels Aurora hold on her relax and Athena smiles again She gets up and
lays Aurora down on the bed. The picture, dagger, and the crystal around
Aurora's neck falls to the ground. Athena doesn't notice when a hand appears
and grabs the crystal. However she does notice when Aurora's crescent moon
flashes on her forehead and disappears.
"Uh-oh."
Athena disappears. Aurora sleeps on, not noticing her crystal is gone.
Chapter 26
Aurora's New Transformation
The night passes on without anymore incident. When the sunlight from the
recently raised sun hits Aurora's face, she wakes up with a yawn. She stretches
and sits up.
"What a night."
She swings her legs over the side of the bed and stands up. At her second step
she recoils back and lands on her bed.
"Oof! Ow!"
She looks and sees she accidentally stepped on her picture of Tokina. She goes
over and picks it up. As she goes over to a dresser and sets it down, she says.
"This was the real reason I stole Guardian Mars' crystal. So I could try
and revive Tokina. I couldn't do it, so I fled."
She then walks over and picks up her dagger. She spreads her wings and places
it into some feathers.
"No harm done."
Aurora walks out of the room and folds her wings. She walks into the living
room and sees Amara sitting on a ledge by the window, looking outside. Aurora
looks around, trying to find Michelle.
"Amara, where's Michelle?"
Amara jumps and Aurora laughs.
"She's up swimming."
Aurora's eyes light up, but it quickly fades.
"What's wrong?"
"I'd love to go swimming, but I don't have a suit."
"I'm sure Michelle has something to fit you."
A half an hour later found Aurora in a dark blue bathing suit. Aurora looks at
herself in a full-length mirror and smiles. She never noticed her crystal was
gone.
"Thanks Amara."
Amara smiles and Aurora walks out of the apartment room. She goes over to the
elevator and hits the button to go to the pool. She waits as the elevator goes
up. She flexes her wings and feels the dagger in its place in her wing. She
smiles and the elevator stops. The door opens and Aurora walks out. She looks
around and smiles. Nobody is there. Aurora can't even see Michelle. She walks
over and sits down on a beach chair. She sighs and looks out over the water.
Water splashes on her and she shivers.
"Hey!"
She rubs the water out of her eyes, but she sees nobody. She tilts her head and
walks over to the edge of the pool. Somebody reaches up and grabs her arms.
"AH!"
The person pulls her in and she lands with a big splash. She frails under the
water until she's let go. She surfaces and sees Michelle a few feet away,
smiling.
"Michelle! How could you?"
"I thought you would come in eventually, so I helped you."
Aurora splashes Michelle and drops under the surface. She swims around and
eventually surfaces. She looks around for Michelle. She doesn't spot her and
goes back under the surface to look. She still doesn't see Michelle. As she
surfaces something grabs her foot and pulls her down. She struggles, knowing
that if it's Michelle she'll let go when she needs air. But when Aurora's lungs
start burning. She struggles more. Eventually, when darkness starts to consume
her, the figure lets go, but now Aurora is too weak to swim.
Aurora! Swim!
The voice jolts Aurora awake. She starts swimming towards the surface. Her head
breaks it and she starts gasping for air. She's dizzy and disoriented, but she
makes it to the side. She unfurls her wings and flies out. She lands on a beach
chair and starts coughing.
"Athena?" She chokes out.
I'm here, but barely. What happened?
"I'm not sure."
Aurora, be careful. There's evil a foot.
Aurora nods and stops coughing. Her eyes start drifting close, but she forces
them open.
"Athena, where's Michelle?"
When she gets no answer, she sighs. She sits up and looks out over the water.
Her face pales and she wraps her wings around her to try and ward off an
attack. She flies back and hits the window. She lets out a short cry of pain
and falls forward. She lands on her stomach. She reaches up to her neck and for
the first time, notices her crystal is gone. Her face pales even more as a fish
looking monster appears. It has a human body, but its midsection is that of a
fish. Its color is green and Aurora can't do anything to attack.
"Well, what do we have here?"
Aurora shakily stands up and leans against the wall with her hurting back to
it. The fish-human hybrid comes closer and Aurora looks at it.
"Who are you?" She asks.
"The name's Fins. Pleasure to meet you..."
"Aurora."
The fish's tail flaps.
"Pleasure. Now will you be so kind to give up your dream mirror?"
Aurora turns and runs towards the door. Fins smirks and follows.
"Come on. It's not going to hurt."
"No!"
"Hold it right there!"
Aurora turns her head and smiles brightly. She sees Uranus and Neptune standing
on the diving board. Aurora sees her chance to attack as the two scouts
distract Fins. She grabs her dagger and runs forward.
"Aurora, don't!:
Fins turns around and backhands her into the pool. Aurora hits hard and lets
out a chocked cry as she goes under. With the ordeal before, she hardly has any
strength left. The chlorine of the water is stinging her back and left cheek.
This is the last thing she feels until she feels somebody gently slapping her
face.
"Come on, Aurora. Wake up."
Aurora groans loudly and opens her eyes. She sees Neptune's face and smiles.
"Where'd you go, Michelle?"
"I had something urgent to tell Amara. Now, I think, it should have
waited."
Aurora smiles, sits up, and moves her eyes up to look into Neptune's jewel in
the middle of her tiara. She sees Fins walking up to them, then disappear.
"Look out!"
Neptune turns, but is smacked away by Fins.
"Neptune!"
Aurora looks up shocked, just in time to be smacked down with a blow to the
right cheek and neck. Aurora shakily gets up and sees Fins attacking Uranus.
Aurora also sees Neptune on the ground. On her left cheek and back are three
claw marks.
"Michelle?" Aurora asks, weakly crawling over to her.
Neptune gives no answer. Aurora's crescent moon flashes on her forehead and she
looks up to see Uranus hit the ground, hard. Both scouts lay motionless and
Aurora is left alone against Fins.
"Looks like it's just you and me."
Aurora shakes her head and lets out a scream of despair as she glows silver.
Fins covers his eyes and the glowing stops. Super Sailor Crystal is standing
where Aurora used to be. She looks almost exactly like Sailor Crystal, but her
entire skirt is silver, as is her front bow. The back bow is gold. The crescent
moon chocker has been replaced with a silver chocker with a pink heart on it.
In Crystal's hair are white barrettes and the silver tints in Crystal's are
brighter then before. Crystal unfurls her wings to show the silver tints in
them and as she holds her hand out, the dagger Athena gave her appears.
That is your own crystal dagger. It was supposed to be given to you at the
age of 7, Instead it got stolen and used to kill a good friend and near family
member. Now back in the hands of it's rightful owner, it's true power will be
unleashed, and maybe, Neo Princess Silver, just maybe you can revive Tokina so
she'll take her place in the Royal Court beside you.
Athena's words helped Crystal in the upcoming battle, especially since she knew
something was wrong.
