You've got to be kidding!
Chapter one
Princess Niobe Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon; those rights are reserved for Naoko Takeuchi and TOEI, thus I'm just borrowing an idea and creating my own story line for it. This is an AU fic for those who had not already guessed that much. All of the characters created here belong to me and thus if anyone wants to use them ask me first please.
"All maidens of the nation are invited to attend? Sounds dodgy to me." A raven-haired young woman commented.
"All the more reason to check it out" a brunette next to her said
"Yeah sure and you have no ulterior motive right 'Tina?" The first girl said caustically.
"You know Li this could actually bear scrutiny I mean this sounds like a Cinderella story and we all know that that doesn't work out in reality" a blonde said seating herself carefully on the cold floor of the basement room the five girls were hanging out in.
"Don't tell me you actually support this Anna?" the first girl asked incredulous. "I feel drawn to this place and that isn't good, you remember the last time right?" "How could I forget that blind date? Everyone this is Rachel, she just started at monument high" Anna finished introducing a girl with shoulder length brown hair. The girl with dark hair spoke first "My name is Lianne but as you heard my friends call me Li" a very short girl with equally short brown hair spoke next. "Dime, s'up?" the brunette who had spoken after Lianne gave her name next. "Christina but most of the girls here call me bunny after an anime character that I quite frequently emulate" "Nice to meet all of you, I have chemistry with Anna maybe I'll have a class with some of you. That could be good, I think, I don't have any friends here I moved in from a small town out west, and this place is seems so huge." "Don't worry you get used to it, or you'll have a psychotic episode, I never recovered from mine" Lianne said grinning. "So are we going are we going or not?" Christina asked "You just want an excuse to wear a dress." Dime said glaring at Christina. "Let's just check it out then." Anna said intervening to prevent what might have become a spat between the obviously related girls. "Fine, we meet back here at five tomorrow to get ready then we can just walk from here to the ballroom. It's at the school and we'll be moving back into the dorms as soon as they fix that pest problem. But then as all of you know I'm lazy" Lianne said grinning as she got to her feet.
*** The next afternoon all five girls assembled toting makeup boxes, dress bags, hairdryers and other various and sundry beauty items. Lianne, Anne, Dime, and Christina all jumped enthusiastically into preparations. Lianne talking a mile a minute, Dime grumbling about dresses and makeup and how her hair never wants to cooperate, Christina joining Lianne in conversation and Anna quietly organizing the chaos but they shortly noticed that one of their number hung back as if afraid to interrupt and talking even faster to her Lianne and Christina assured Rachel that she was there and thus belonged and if she didn't hurry they'd be late. When they finally emerged each of them was clad in a different shade from the rainbow. Anna in midnight blue satin, Dime in a silver gown accented with golden trim, Lianne in deep blood red with a sheer black overlay, Rachel in deep forest green and Christina in a royal purple velour dress which sparkled as she moved (and none of that chintzy glitter stuff that sheds every where either) The fact that each one of them was skilled in one of 'the deadly arts of beauty' helped immensely and by the time they walked out the door each of them looked like a princess.
"Aaron and Kathy will be there right?" Lianne asked conversationally.
"As if the two of them would miss a chance to flirt shamelessly with one another and get away with it." Dime said grinning. This was a running joke between all of the girls.
"I keep feeling something like a chill running down my spine but it's not really the same." Lianne trailed off remembering.
She couldn't move, she realized something was wrong by the feeling of warmth that trickled down from her belly she moved her eyes to look and saw her own blood running sluggishly into a growing pool on the gleaming moonstone floor as she looked around she saw four other figures adding their blood to hers as they slowly bled to death unable to move and she knew they had to. to do. do something. It was so hard to even think anymore; she was falling into a welcoming blackness that assuaged all pain, driving all worry from her mind. 'No!' a small part of her shouted 'You still have work to do. get your lazy butt moving' She opened her eyes and suddenly sound came rushing back to her ear and she saw..
"W-why?" an elegant woman with extremely long, midnight black, hair stammered as a silver haired woman with empty eyes stood before her holding the bloodstained obsidian knife that had finished first Lianne herself girls surrounding her and had just stabbed the dark haired woman, 'No that's queen Selenity and the other one is Lady Neris.' Lianne thought as if detached from what she recognized as her body dying on the balcony helpless and unable to help anyone else.
"Because you are in my way, I will rule the universe and you, the White Queen, are the only thing between me and my goal now give me the crystal!!!" Neris cried, a maniacal glint in her eyes. But, as she watched the Queen start to pulse with brilliant silver light and slowly her surely fatal wound closed.
Savage triumph leapt in her as she watched Neris Crumble before the queen
"You cannot defeat me so easily!!!!" Neris cried, as her body began to crumble "I will be back, mark me!"
As the traitor dissolved into powder she saw her own body dissolve into red lights; as the bodies of the other girls who had died protecting dissolved into light colored by the rainbow slowly realized that those bodies belonged to her closest friends, Dime, Christina, Anne, and Rachel and the crystal drank in the light that was their essence, their very soul in fact, sealing their spirits within it's crystalline depths before pulsing one more time and sending out a blindingly bright wave of silver and seen only by those now imprisoned inside it the crystal split into five fragments each splitting into the hues of a prism. Lianne's personal prison was red; Dime's yellow, Anne's blue, Christina's purple, and Rachel's green and there they floated all alone waiting for their time to come in the now silent solar system.
That, was always when she had awoken, that dream had plagued her since about two months previous when she and her friends had started at monument high.
Chapter one
Princess Niobe Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon; those rights are reserved for Naoko Takeuchi and TOEI, thus I'm just borrowing an idea and creating my own story line for it. This is an AU fic for those who had not already guessed that much. All of the characters created here belong to me and thus if anyone wants to use them ask me first please.
"All maidens of the nation are invited to attend? Sounds dodgy to me." A raven-haired young woman commented.
"All the more reason to check it out" a brunette next to her said
"Yeah sure and you have no ulterior motive right 'Tina?" The first girl said caustically.
"You know Li this could actually bear scrutiny I mean this sounds like a Cinderella story and we all know that that doesn't work out in reality" a blonde said seating herself carefully on the cold floor of the basement room the five girls were hanging out in.
"Don't tell me you actually support this Anna?" the first girl asked incredulous. "I feel drawn to this place and that isn't good, you remember the last time right?" "How could I forget that blind date? Everyone this is Rachel, she just started at monument high" Anna finished introducing a girl with shoulder length brown hair. The girl with dark hair spoke first "My name is Lianne but as you heard my friends call me Li" a very short girl with equally short brown hair spoke next. "Dime, s'up?" the brunette who had spoken after Lianne gave her name next. "Christina but most of the girls here call me bunny after an anime character that I quite frequently emulate" "Nice to meet all of you, I have chemistry with Anna maybe I'll have a class with some of you. That could be good, I think, I don't have any friends here I moved in from a small town out west, and this place is seems so huge." "Don't worry you get used to it, or you'll have a psychotic episode, I never recovered from mine" Lianne said grinning. "So are we going are we going or not?" Christina asked "You just want an excuse to wear a dress." Dime said glaring at Christina. "Let's just check it out then." Anna said intervening to prevent what might have become a spat between the obviously related girls. "Fine, we meet back here at five tomorrow to get ready then we can just walk from here to the ballroom. It's at the school and we'll be moving back into the dorms as soon as they fix that pest problem. But then as all of you know I'm lazy" Lianne said grinning as she got to her feet.
*** The next afternoon all five girls assembled toting makeup boxes, dress bags, hairdryers and other various and sundry beauty items. Lianne, Anne, Dime, and Christina all jumped enthusiastically into preparations. Lianne talking a mile a minute, Dime grumbling about dresses and makeup and how her hair never wants to cooperate, Christina joining Lianne in conversation and Anna quietly organizing the chaos but they shortly noticed that one of their number hung back as if afraid to interrupt and talking even faster to her Lianne and Christina assured Rachel that she was there and thus belonged and if she didn't hurry they'd be late. When they finally emerged each of them was clad in a different shade from the rainbow. Anna in midnight blue satin, Dime in a silver gown accented with golden trim, Lianne in deep blood red with a sheer black overlay, Rachel in deep forest green and Christina in a royal purple velour dress which sparkled as she moved (and none of that chintzy glitter stuff that sheds every where either) The fact that each one of them was skilled in one of 'the deadly arts of beauty' helped immensely and by the time they walked out the door each of them looked like a princess.
"Aaron and Kathy will be there right?" Lianne asked conversationally.
"As if the two of them would miss a chance to flirt shamelessly with one another and get away with it." Dime said grinning. This was a running joke between all of the girls.
"I keep feeling something like a chill running down my spine but it's not really the same." Lianne trailed off remembering.
She couldn't move, she realized something was wrong by the feeling of warmth that trickled down from her belly she moved her eyes to look and saw her own blood running sluggishly into a growing pool on the gleaming moonstone floor as she looked around she saw four other figures adding their blood to hers as they slowly bled to death unable to move and she knew they had to. to do. do something. It was so hard to even think anymore; she was falling into a welcoming blackness that assuaged all pain, driving all worry from her mind. 'No!' a small part of her shouted 'You still have work to do. get your lazy butt moving' She opened her eyes and suddenly sound came rushing back to her ear and she saw..
"W-why?" an elegant woman with extremely long, midnight black, hair stammered as a silver haired woman with empty eyes stood before her holding the bloodstained obsidian knife that had finished first Lianne herself girls surrounding her and had just stabbed the dark haired woman, 'No that's queen Selenity and the other one is Lady Neris.' Lianne thought as if detached from what she recognized as her body dying on the balcony helpless and unable to help anyone else.
"Because you are in my way, I will rule the universe and you, the White Queen, are the only thing between me and my goal now give me the crystal!!!" Neris cried, a maniacal glint in her eyes. But, as she watched the Queen start to pulse with brilliant silver light and slowly her surely fatal wound closed.
Savage triumph leapt in her as she watched Neris Crumble before the queen
"You cannot defeat me so easily!!!!" Neris cried, as her body began to crumble "I will be back, mark me!"
As the traitor dissolved into powder she saw her own body dissolve into red lights; as the bodies of the other girls who had died protecting dissolved into light colored by the rainbow slowly realized that those bodies belonged to her closest friends, Dime, Christina, Anne, and Rachel and the crystal drank in the light that was their essence, their very soul in fact, sealing their spirits within it's crystalline depths before pulsing one more time and sending out a blindingly bright wave of silver and seen only by those now imprisoned inside it the crystal split into five fragments each splitting into the hues of a prism. Lianne's personal prison was red; Dime's yellow, Anne's blue, Christina's purple, and Rachel's green and there they floated all alone waiting for their time to come in the now silent solar system.
That, was always when she had awoken, that dream had plagued her since about two months previous when she and her friends had started at monument high.