Twist of Fate
By:IceQueen
Author's Explanation & Prologue


Author's Note: Hello, all! I'm back sort of. I stopped writing for a long time because I just didn't have the time. Now, I do. I removed the original story Twist of Fate because I was seriously unhappy with the direction it was heading in. It was getting to be a pain to write about five totally different characters, get the plot going in the right direction, AND make them all fall in love. So, I decided to do it over, focusing on a choice group of the Senshi. This time through I promise to get further than Chapter 5. I'm also initiating a vote. You can vote for one Senshi to go with Hotaru and Marle to the GW Realm. You can choose from:

Ami Mizuno ~ Sailor Mercury

Rei Hino ~ Sailor Mars

Makoto (What's her last name?) ~ Sailor Jupiter

Minako Aino ~ Sailor Venus

Haruka Ten'oh ~ Sailor Uranus

Michiru (What's her last name?) ~ Sailor Neptune

Setsuna Meioh ~ Sailor Pluto

Those are your choices for who to send. Hurry! Vote! I need results before Chapter 2!

~Prologue~
* The Dream *
Hotaru's POV

All was peaceful on the Planets of the Silver Alliance. Princess Serenity, known to Circle (1) as Selene, was turning sixteen and all were present at her party that eve. The golden-haired girl was twirling in her fiancé's arms. We were having a grand time.

Swaying slowly with my own love, I spy Marle, also known as Phoenix, out of the corner of my eye dancing with her lover of many years. I smile against my love's chest.

Suddenly a commotion is heard outside, and a guard runs into the ballroom. "Your Majesty! Your Majesty!" He cries, "The Negaverse has begun its attack!" Panic bubbles among us, quickly stifled by Queen Serenity's calm directions. "Men, women, any able to fight, grab a weapon! We must fight for our peaceful world! We cannot let it be tainted by the likes of Beryl!" She cries out, "Senshi, we need you to lead the attack!"

I turn and give my love a quick peck on the cheek. "See you afterwards!" He calls as he follows the rest of his friends.

I pull out my henshin wand as I see the others do the same. "Saturn Crystal Power!" I feel, rather than see, ribbons of darkness surround my body, and a deep violet light flash around me. In an instant I stand not as Hotaru, or Shinimegami, but as Sailor Saturn, the Senshi of Death, Destruction, Silence, and Rebirth. " We must fight for our Kingdom!" Sailor Sun, the Senshi of Life and Light, cries out. "Yeah!" The others echo. I shake my head. They cannot feel the black winds howl around them, but I can. I know there will be many deaths this night.

I summon my Silence Glaive, and run onto the battlefield. I spot the black uniform of the Negaverse near me. As a natural reflex my hand spins my glaive in an overhead circle and slices down through the stomach of the enemy. Out spurts thick, dark blood, and his innards. Let justice be done, I think.

I spend the next few moments slicing down enemies. From the corner of my eye I can see my love fighting an enemy. I see him get sliced down, and red blood pours in a crimson waterfall from the wound. "Noooo!" I hear myself cry. I run to him, on my way powering up. "Silence Glaive. APPLY!" I yell, aiming the attack at the enemy who had cut him down. Immediately after my words nothing remains of the attacker, and several others are severely wounded. "No," I say as I fall to my knees by my love, "You can't die. You can't leave me alone." "Aishiteru, Shinimegami," my love mutters as he leaves his body. Tears fall from my eyes, and onto his already-pallor-of-death skin.

I can hear the cries of the dying and the wounded. They want comfort and as Shinimegami it is my job to oblige, but not now. I just can't. Moments after that thought pain rips through my chest, and I look down in shock to see a sword deeply plunged into my body. The vermilion liquid runs out of the wound and onto the sword, looking like rivers. The sword is pulled out and I stare at the gaping hole in my chest. I close my eyes, and accept my death with calm dignity.

In the distance I can barely hear Queen Serenity issue her last command to the Silver Crystal. "Silver Crystal Power! Banish this enemy from our world! I command you to rebirth the members of my daughter's court! Give them a chance at life!" She cries out. I feel the magic explode around me, and I feel Serenity's life leak from her own body. Finally, I feel my own last breath leave my body. No inhalation comes after that.

~Fin~

(1)-The Circle is what the Gods and Goddesses refer to themselves when speaking in plurals. Like how the Greek Gods were the Olympians, etc.

Author's Note: Es bueno? Si o no? Review please. I hope you understood what I said. And don't forget to vote! Chapter 1 will be up as soon as I get 6 votes.