Tenji: *Sighs.* Chapter Seven, Part One: Serenity. This one's gonna be more of a flash back chapter, with some pieces of the present in it.
Aura: Will this have all the sisters?
Celeste: Just read, Aura-baka.
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*Past: On the Moon.*
"Serenity!" A tall man cried, pounding on the doors that kept him from his wife. Her screams echoed through his ears, causing him pain and anguish. "Your wife is fine, Your Majesty, King Orimus." The tall woman next to the doors informed him, her red wine lips lifting in a smile at the more than obvious concern written on her King's face. "Damn the laws.. I just want to see her! Hold her hand!" He cringed as Serenity screamed louder, and immediately began his assault on the doors again.
"Pluto! Let me in there this instant!" Orimus demanded, stray pieces of his blond hair falling into his line of vision. He was a man who had waited twelve hours to see his wife while she gave birth to his child. And within those hours, he'd not rested once, it was increasingly visible. King Orimus was a tall handsome man with blonde hair pulled into a tail, and entrancing blue eyes. Queen Serenity was also a vision with her pale lavender hair and soft blue eyes. Their children would be like the deities themselves.
"I cannot. The Queen requested it this way."
Orimus' attention, however, turned elsewhere as silence engulfed them. The screams had stopped, along with the murmur of doctors' voices. "Is it over?" He asked uncertainly. A cry broke out, a loud unhappy cry, one of a baby who did not want to leave it's warm sanctuary. The Father of the child collasped onto the ground, and looked to the sky, "Thank you Selene..." His eyes jerked to the door again when another baby's cry rang out with it's sibling, followed by Serenity's mournful call.
"She can't be dead! She can't be!"
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*A little while later.*
The King and Queen sat in their bedroom, consoling each other over the loss of their daughter. Pluto was waiting outside to tell them the reasons and explain away her own guilt for not telling them sooner.
"Pluto?" Orimus' masculine voice rang out, and Pluto entered the room with jade green eyes lowered. "I am most apologetic for your loss, Your Highnesses. The daughter you lost--" "Enough, Kagomi!" Serenity shouted at her best friend and advisor, "My first daughter is dead! You tell me there is a reason, speak it now!" "Three daughters, Your Highness." Pluto hastened to explain, her eyes wide with her Queen's anger, "Each one represents a different aspect of the moon, which foretells how long they will live.
Your daughter, the stillborn, was the New Moon, which was why no Lunarian symbol graced her forehead." "Her name was Placidity." Serenity bit out, "Placidity, Tranquility, and Serenity II."
Lowering her head in a demure fashion, Pluto hurried on, "Between your two living children, Tranquility and Serenity II, it is hard to say which will be the Crescent Moon, and which will be the Full Moon. But, My Queen, I can honestly tell you that one of the two remaining triplets will die around seven or eight." Orimus hugged his wife to him as she dissolved into tears again, the two children of topic sleeping soundly in bassinets not ten feet from them.
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*Past: Eight Years Later.*
"Sere-chan!" A little girl called, rushing to the blonde child skating on the ice rink. "Tran-chan!" Serenity called back, giggling as she did a figure eight more than gracefully. "We're eight today, Tran-chan!" Tranquility stopped on the snow covered ground of the Moon, lavender hair like her Mother's pulled back in three buns atop her head, streamers coming from the buns. Serenity II had two buns, like their Mother, but had recieved their Father's looks.
Tranquility's head jerked up as she heard the cracking of thin ice, and watched with wide blue eyes as the crack moved swiftly towards her sister. "Serenity is the Crescent Moon?" She questioned, remembering what 'Gomi-chan had told her and her sister before. Atleast I won't die.' She thought, and then horrified at her thought, she listened to Serenity scream, the ice beneath her beginning to crack open.
With one ice skate on, Tranquility lurched to her feet and began running and tumbling across the ice towards her sister. "Take me instead!! Serenity deserves to live!!" She screamed, pushing her sister off the cracked portion of ice and onto a stronger patch. "Tranquility?!" Serenity II screamed back, her blue eyes tearing up as she tried to scramble forth, held back by strong hands. She watched as the ice broke apart beneath her slightly older sister, the icy water gobbling her up.
And then, in those final seconds of Tranquility's life, Serenity II thought she heard her sister whisper, "Next time, it'll be different. I'll be nice, Sere-chan."
Nothing could console Queen Serenity, for the third time, she'd lost a piece of her new family. First Placidity, her stillborn, then her husband Orimus due to an accidental massacre, and finally, her Tranquility. For days, she moped around the Palace, blankly seeing to her duties as Queen...
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*Present Time: Tranquility.*
Tranquility's breath came in harsh quick gasps as sat up straight in her bed in the Other Realm. Looking around quickly to assure herself where she was, she saw the Waters of Remembrance and another bed not far from her. Crawling out of her blankets, she moved across the top of the water on hands and knees, seeing her past flash in her mind with every movement.
"Plac-chan?" Tranquility called mournfully, needing her other sister's comfort. The blue eyes that all the triplets shared opened immediately, and Placidity scooted over, leaving room for her older sister. Tranquility moved into the space provided, and curled against her sister, hugging her tightly. Sharing the comforting embrace, the light blue haired sister asked softly, "We should move our beds. You've gone through enough punishment, Tran-chan."
The Crescent Moon shook her head, glancing up at the Sky of Watching, and saw Usagi curled up in her own bed, sleeping peacefully. "I'll never have enough punishment. Never will my sins be atoned for, I wanted the most beautiful creature dead, so that I could selfishly live."
Placidity was quiet, angry at her sister for playing Guardian Angel to the living sister. She, herself, had been Guardian Angel to her niece in the Future. When Setsuna, Tranquility's confidant's daughter, had come to offer them both a chance at life again. It seemed, back then, the entire court was being reborn.
She, of course, had responded angrily. She didn't want to be reborn just to die again! Tranquility had made her even more angry when she responded that she wouldn't like to be reborn either, she wanted to guard her sister still.
Everything for that stupid Serenity II!
Following Tranquility's gaze to the Sky of Watching, she saw her charge sleeping peacefully next to her husband, Helios. Tomorrow, she and Tranquility would back to the mansion to guard Serenity II together. Serenity III didn't need her anymore now that she was married.
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Usagi slept on, not knowing of the turmoil of her kin. Not knowing they even existed as her kin.
Aura: Will this have all the sisters?
Celeste: Just read, Aura-baka.
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*Past: On the Moon.*
"Serenity!" A tall man cried, pounding on the doors that kept him from his wife. Her screams echoed through his ears, causing him pain and anguish. "Your wife is fine, Your Majesty, King Orimus." The tall woman next to the doors informed him, her red wine lips lifting in a smile at the more than obvious concern written on her King's face. "Damn the laws.. I just want to see her! Hold her hand!" He cringed as Serenity screamed louder, and immediately began his assault on the doors again.
"Pluto! Let me in there this instant!" Orimus demanded, stray pieces of his blond hair falling into his line of vision. He was a man who had waited twelve hours to see his wife while she gave birth to his child. And within those hours, he'd not rested once, it was increasingly visible. King Orimus was a tall handsome man with blonde hair pulled into a tail, and entrancing blue eyes. Queen Serenity was also a vision with her pale lavender hair and soft blue eyes. Their children would be like the deities themselves.
"I cannot. The Queen requested it this way."
Orimus' attention, however, turned elsewhere as silence engulfed them. The screams had stopped, along with the murmur of doctors' voices. "Is it over?" He asked uncertainly. A cry broke out, a loud unhappy cry, one of a baby who did not want to leave it's warm sanctuary. The Father of the child collasped onto the ground, and looked to the sky, "Thank you Selene..." His eyes jerked to the door again when another baby's cry rang out with it's sibling, followed by Serenity's mournful call.
"She can't be dead! She can't be!"
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*A little while later.*
The King and Queen sat in their bedroom, consoling each other over the loss of their daughter. Pluto was waiting outside to tell them the reasons and explain away her own guilt for not telling them sooner.
"Pluto?" Orimus' masculine voice rang out, and Pluto entered the room with jade green eyes lowered. "I am most apologetic for your loss, Your Highnesses. The daughter you lost--" "Enough, Kagomi!" Serenity shouted at her best friend and advisor, "My first daughter is dead! You tell me there is a reason, speak it now!" "Three daughters, Your Highness." Pluto hastened to explain, her eyes wide with her Queen's anger, "Each one represents a different aspect of the moon, which foretells how long they will live.
Your daughter, the stillborn, was the New Moon, which was why no Lunarian symbol graced her forehead." "Her name was Placidity." Serenity bit out, "Placidity, Tranquility, and Serenity II."
Lowering her head in a demure fashion, Pluto hurried on, "Between your two living children, Tranquility and Serenity II, it is hard to say which will be the Crescent Moon, and which will be the Full Moon. But, My Queen, I can honestly tell you that one of the two remaining triplets will die around seven or eight." Orimus hugged his wife to him as she dissolved into tears again, the two children of topic sleeping soundly in bassinets not ten feet from them.
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*Past: Eight Years Later.*
"Sere-chan!" A little girl called, rushing to the blonde child skating on the ice rink. "Tran-chan!" Serenity called back, giggling as she did a figure eight more than gracefully. "We're eight today, Tran-chan!" Tranquility stopped on the snow covered ground of the Moon, lavender hair like her Mother's pulled back in three buns atop her head, streamers coming from the buns. Serenity II had two buns, like their Mother, but had recieved their Father's looks.
Tranquility's head jerked up as she heard the cracking of thin ice, and watched with wide blue eyes as the crack moved swiftly towards her sister. "Serenity is the Crescent Moon?" She questioned, remembering what 'Gomi-chan had told her and her sister before. Atleast I won't die.' She thought, and then horrified at her thought, she listened to Serenity scream, the ice beneath her beginning to crack open.
With one ice skate on, Tranquility lurched to her feet and began running and tumbling across the ice towards her sister. "Take me instead!! Serenity deserves to live!!" She screamed, pushing her sister off the cracked portion of ice and onto a stronger patch. "Tranquility?!" Serenity II screamed back, her blue eyes tearing up as she tried to scramble forth, held back by strong hands. She watched as the ice broke apart beneath her slightly older sister, the icy water gobbling her up.
And then, in those final seconds of Tranquility's life, Serenity II thought she heard her sister whisper, "Next time, it'll be different. I'll be nice, Sere-chan."
Nothing could console Queen Serenity, for the third time, she'd lost a piece of her new family. First Placidity, her stillborn, then her husband Orimus due to an accidental massacre, and finally, her Tranquility. For days, she moped around the Palace, blankly seeing to her duties as Queen...
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*Present Time: Tranquility.*
Tranquility's breath came in harsh quick gasps as sat up straight in her bed in the Other Realm. Looking around quickly to assure herself where she was, she saw the Waters of Remembrance and another bed not far from her. Crawling out of her blankets, she moved across the top of the water on hands and knees, seeing her past flash in her mind with every movement.
"Plac-chan?" Tranquility called mournfully, needing her other sister's comfort. The blue eyes that all the triplets shared opened immediately, and Placidity scooted over, leaving room for her older sister. Tranquility moved into the space provided, and curled against her sister, hugging her tightly. Sharing the comforting embrace, the light blue haired sister asked softly, "We should move our beds. You've gone through enough punishment, Tran-chan."
The Crescent Moon shook her head, glancing up at the Sky of Watching, and saw Usagi curled up in her own bed, sleeping peacefully. "I'll never have enough punishment. Never will my sins be atoned for, I wanted the most beautiful creature dead, so that I could selfishly live."
Placidity was quiet, angry at her sister for playing Guardian Angel to the living sister. She, herself, had been Guardian Angel to her niece in the Future. When Setsuna, Tranquility's confidant's daughter, had come to offer them both a chance at life again. It seemed, back then, the entire court was being reborn.
She, of course, had responded angrily. She didn't want to be reborn just to die again! Tranquility had made her even more angry when she responded that she wouldn't like to be reborn either, she wanted to guard her sister still.
Everything for that stupid Serenity II!
Following Tranquility's gaze to the Sky of Watching, she saw her charge sleeping peacefully next to her husband, Helios. Tomorrow, she and Tranquility would back to the mansion to guard Serenity II together. Serenity III didn't need her anymore now that she was married.
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Usagi slept on, not knowing of the turmoil of her kin. Not knowing they even existed as her kin.