Title: Consequences: Book One- A Changing Destiny

Rating: 13-R

Genre: Alternative Universe

Author: Sean Wright

Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon, I'm just a fan.

Chapter Six

            From the swing in her backyard, Ilene stared longingly at her former Kingdom.  In the dark sky and her eyes cleared of their mortal sight, she could see all the planets of the Universe and the border of her Silver Millennium.

            The moonlight washed over her, filling her heart, restoring her serenity. But it was a poor substitute for the feeling of standing on her own world.

               "It's not the same, is it, your Majesty?" A rich, deep masculine voice called said from the shadows.

            Ilene continued to stare at her fallen Kingdom as she replied. "It will never be the same." She admitted quietly. "Terra will never be my home, it doesn't matter that I was born here in this lifetime, she knows my soul and knows that I am not of her making and she will forever reject me."

               "Why haven't you left this place then?"

            She turned her head in the speakers direction and smiled, "I stay for the same reasons as you, Hermes."

            Eiji Mizuno came out of the shadows and bowed to his former liege. "I wanted you to know that I have come to offer my services to you in place of Athena's."

               "Hermes—"

               "Please, here me out, my Queen." Ilene nodded and he continued. "The terran Prince has a stronger army."

               "I know," she told him, "Artemis and Terran have been on the earth since the Fall. It was created to stop Metallia when she reared her ugly head and to restore the Prince to power."

            Eiji was outraged "And you shall continue to allow this?" He demanded.

               "I have no choice," she laughed, it sounded dry and empty even to her ears.

               "Are you happy with this decision?" He asked gently.

               "I will never know that answer." She looked at him, her face weary. "I was once High Queen of the Universe, now I am a former Queen of a forgotten kingdom." She shook her head, "I have had thirty-five years to come to terms with it."

               "Silver Millennium can be restored, Serenity" he told her, slightly pleading with her.

Ilene silenced him with a look. "Tell Pluto that she tries my patience." Her voice was low and dangerous and she stared him down. "The Era of Silver has ended, it died with me.  My daughter will not resurrect it nor shall take over this planet. Remind Ananke of her place, tell her that Terra already has a ruler and if he wishes to take my daughter for his Queen then he shall have my blessing, but it is only if she wants him. I will never force Serenity to follow the cookie cutter destiny Pluto has chosen for her."

               "How do you know the path Pluto has chosen is not the one Princess Serenity should have?" Hermes demanded.

            She smirked, "I know this fact very well for as I lay dying in my ruined palace, Ananke tried to give my solace by showing me what would happen because of my "noble" deed. She showed me this present, my daughter fighting, Endymion betraying her, the Senshi abusing her, a timeline distorted by a child, a cursed child with rose colored hair."

            Hermes drew in a sharp breath.

            Ilene nodded. "This Universe's greatest foe would be born through this child Pluto is so desperate to see born."

               "So the curse was true?" He said softly.

               "You of all people should know it to be so. Your mother fought against it with my own." Ilene shook her head, "The curse died when they did."

               "But how—"

            She held up a delicate hand and turned toward the garden's entrance. "Bunny?" She called out.

               "I'm in the kitchen," was shouted reply.

            But something still was not quiet right. When she turned back to Eiji, she noticed that he was scanning the area.

               "What is it?" She asked quietly.

            Eiji held up a hand and he stepped back, pulling his sword from his sub space pocket, his hair when from inky black to ice blue the space of a heart beat, but that was all the time it took for the presence to disappear.

               "Do you think it was Metallia?" He asked as he calmed down and put his sword away.

            Ilene shook her head, "I'm not sure, but I did not sense any malevolence from whatever it was."

               "But you are not sure?" He asked.

            She smiled, "Is anything ever certain, my friend."

            But he was not amused, "Your Majesty, please, call us back to service—"

               "No."

               "Please, Serenity, if not for yourself, think of your daughter." He pleaded.

              "I am," she snapped at him. "If it is necessary, I will take up my sword and staff once more. But I will not allow my daughter to be drawn into to this."

              "I don't believe you are thinking rationally, my Queen," he knelt before her and took her hands. "If you were really trying to protect her you would not fight Pluto."

            She jerked her hands from him, her expression was cold, "How dare you try to shame me?" She hissed, "You, who abandoned his daughter because for some prophecy preached by that Senshi, how dare you try to shame me."

               "This is not about me—" He told her.

               "It's about me and mine.  And I will defend my daughter to the death." She stood up and walked away from him. "When was the last time you saw Athena Diana, Hermes?" She called back over her shoulder before leaving him alone in the garden.

            Jonathan Hino waited for the last of the girls to leave. The last was Mizuno Ami, the petite, blue haired former Princess of Mercury looked so sad and lost at the moment, that his heart took pity in the poor child and he blessed her.

            She had given him a watery smile and thanked him. He could feel the blessing of the Moon Princess on her, shielding Ami from her more destructive side; It was a pity none of them knew that it was Bunny they searched for.

            With Ami gone and Rei in the meditation room, Jonathan Hino, formerly King Ares of Mars, went on the search for the traitor of the Silver Millennium and the Imperial House of Serenity, the Royal Chaperon Luna.

            He found the cat in his granddaughter's room, curled up at the foot of Rei's bed, dozing lightly. He walked up to the bed, quietly as possible and when he reached for her, the blasted cat leapt away to Rei's desk.

            Luna turned to regard the human, she mewed loudly, hoping Rei would hear but no one came.

            Jonathan tipped his head in her direction, a cruel smirk twisted his lips. "Hello, Luna." She mewed again. He raised a brow. "You don't remember me? Lady, I am so disappointed hear that?"

            She leapt to the floor, still staring up at him. "Do you work for the Dark Kingdom?" She asked cautiously.

            That made him laugh. "I, serve Metallia, never, Lady?" Then he because deadly serious, "But you on the other, yes. That, I can believe."

            Luna blanched as much as cat could as she shrank back in horror. "I would never betray the Moon Princess. I am her guardian, I am sworn to protect her—"

               "You dare to rise above your position, Luna." Jonathan shouted her down, then his voice dropped to a low, deadly monotone. "You were the Princess' Chaperon, but then you were stripped of that title when learned of your treacherous plot against the Crown. You are as you were then a traitor, Luna of Mau. You betrayed both our Princess and our Queen because you wanted the Princess to marry the man you had favored instead of Endymion."

               "Who are you?" Luna demanded. Fear showed in the bright blue eyes. Her memories were coming back, faster than she could process them.

               "I am Ares," he told her, "King of Mars, Lord High Chancellor of the Silver Millennium and the one who sentenced you death for attempted murder of Queen Serenity."

            Her head was spinning, she remembered a small girl/woman with pearl white hair and light silver eyes. "I don't believe you." She stammered against her own mental onslaught.

               "Believe it," his voice dropped to a deadly whisper. "On the day you were to executed, you managed to escape. But you returned less than a month later with Beryl and Metallia—"

            Tears leaked down her furry face. "No," she whispered.

               "You three had killed the Queen and Prince-Consort of Terra and would have killed Prince Endymion had not his four Guardians sacrificed themselves to get him off his own planet—"

            A wail of despair escaped her, but he did not care.  Because of her, he had lost his daughter and granddaughter that day as well as his Queen and Princess.  Because of two women and their ambition, the Silver Millennium had been destroyed.

            Jonathan looked down at the cat, without remorse or pity as he passed his silent verdict upon her one again.

               "Phobos, Deimos," he called, his voice as flat as his eyes. "I have made my judgment on the behalf of Queen Serenity and the Silver Millennium, I order you to carryout the sentence."

            Artemis was in the middle a lesson when he felt a cold breeze in his soul.  He heard Pluto screams of denial from the Corridor of Time. He turned around, toward the floor to ceiling windows as the setting sun and he heard her say good-bye.

              "Luna," he whispered as a lone tear slid down his face.  She was gone.

Sorry all Luna fans.

Before the speculations begin, there will be no new Senshi, male or female.  There maybe other former Silver Millennium Royals to come out, but that is only if I plan a sequel. 

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