Title: 'Till My Memory Fades (7/?)
Author: Jaya
Distribution: ask and I will let you...maybe
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Sailor Venus belongs to her very lovely creators, ditto for the
the Generals and other scouts. And anyone who I've missed.
Feedback: is like air, I'll die without it. At: jacey111@yahoo.com
Summary: Sick of being in Serena's shadow, Raye takes a stand.
Note: Look, I managed to get over my writers block! Are you happy now?
Thank you to all the very wonderful people who took the time to review my
work. You are splendiferous.
And, sorry, but I've run out of ideas for the beginning bits using Venus, so
this one is from Raye's perspective.
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AS HEAVEN IS WIDE
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I just don't understand Mina recently, just before she became MIA, she was
like a whole other person.
I'd see her in the halls, and sometimes she would just breeze by, as if I
wasn't even there.
Nothing that you say will release you
Nothing that you pray would forgive you
Nothing's what your words mean to me
I know she lied to me that last week before she was taken.
How do I know? She says she's going shopping, so I'd call her house during
the time she's supposedly "shopping", and someone picks up. A GUY picks up
the phone.
Now ordinarily there would be nothing wrong with this, only Mina wasn't
dating anyone at the time, or so I thought.
Something that you did will destroy you
Something that you said will stay with me
Long after you're dead and gone
I mean I thought we were friends, and friends don't lie to each other. She
told me that she hadn't gotten over....what's his name? Paul I think. Anyway
she hadn't gotten over Paul yet, so why was this guy answering her phone?
She'd been acting really weird ever since she went on that reconnaisanse run
by herself.
Sometimes she slipped up, when she talked about what she'd been doing
recently.
If flesh could crawl my skin would fall
From off my bones and run away from here
And I've been getting that....I don't know, a feeling around her, like a
feeling of wrongness.
Not a "evil nega creep" feeling, but not a "normal friend" feeling either.
What's happened to her?
As far from God, as heaven is wide
As far from God, as angels can fly
She isn't really one of us anymore I guess.
If holy is as holy does
This house will burn straight down to hell
And take its conscience with it as it falls
Mina lied about what she did, she hadn't been coming to scout meetings as
regularly as she used to. There is, it's like there was something wrong with
her.
Nothing said could change the fact
My trust was blind, you broke the pact
If God's my witness, God must be blind
None of the others could see it. If I said anything it was like "Raye! Mina's
one of us, of course she wouldn't have changed sides."
If flesh could crawl my skin would fall
From off my bones and run away from here
Even though I know she's been lying to me, I miss Mina, a lot.
I can't talk to any of the others, it's just....When I talk to Mina, I can
open up.
I don't know why, but it's been annoying me lately, how Serena can be such a
Ditz, but she's leader just because she's the Princess.
As far from God, as heaven is wide
As far from God, as angels can fly
Serena has the most powerful powers of all of us, with every incarnation of
Sailor Moon she gets even stronger.
When do we get our breaks? NO! When Will I, Raye Hino get the breaks I
deserve? Before Lita and Mina joined the team, I was the backbone of the
scouts, Sailor Moon was a klutz, a crybaby. Sailor Mercury was good, but all
she had to work with was bubbles and frost.
I wish...I wish...I wish...I wish
Take it back, I dare you take it back
No you can't, you should have thought of that
What's inside a man that goes so wrong?
I had a fight with Serena today.
She told me, ME that I wasn't putting enough effort into the team. Effort? I
put in more hours training than she ever has, more than anyone except Mina.
I've been swimming every day after school, twice a day on weekends and
holidays.
I've been doing kick boxing at my local gym.
My powers increase all the time, and who will she come whining to when things
go wrong, now that Amy left us?
I wish Serena would grow up.
Choke on guilt that's far too good for you
Say one word, I'll laugh and bury you
Leave you in the place where you left me
She'll come and apologise in the next few days. Say that she didn't mean it,
that She over reacted to something.
If flesh could crawl my skin would fall
From off my bones and run away from here
As far from God, as heaven is wide
As far from God, as angels can fly
But you know what? I will not be her emotional punching bag.
I wish I could fly
As angels can fly
I don't think Mina would accept me, but I don't like what's happening to me,
and I won't stand for it.
The other side is looking sweeter all the time.
*
Raye was not happy. She'd failed a test that day because someone had cheated
and no one had owned up. So they'd all gotten F's.
All she'd wanted to do was go home and relax, but Serena was in her room!
"Serena! What are you doing?" Raye demanded when she walked into her room to
find Serena on the Internet.
"Relax Raye," Serena replied. "All I'm doing is looking up Sailor Moon on a
search engine."
"And how long have you been here?" Raye asked, attempting to keep her temper
unsuccessfully.
"Lets see, three hours I think." Serena replied, not taking her eyes from the
screen.
"And have you been on the Net all that time?" Raye ground out angrily.
"Yes." Came the foolish blondes response.
"Are you INSANE? Do you know how expensive that is? Get out! Get out NOW!"
Raye yelled pointing at the door angrily.
Serena gave her a cold look. She'd been getting more and more self absorbed
lately. Without Amy to make her feel stupid, because facing facts Amy had
kept them all grounded, with her incredible intelligence beating them at
every intellectual test.
"Well Raye, if that's the way you feel, maybe you shouldn't be on the team."
She said angrily.
"What?" Raye asked, somewhat shocked.
"Maybe you shouldn't be with us anymore, if you're not going to be a team
player." Serena replied.
"What us?" Raye asked incredulously, "there's only Lita and you left now, and
as if you can talk about being a team player! When was the last time you came
to see me when you didn't need something, huh? Well?"
A slight blush stained Serena's cheeks. Embarrasment made her voice sharp.
"Well, are you with us or against us?"
Raye glared at her, and threw her communicator at Serena's feet.
"Here you go 'oh illustrious leader', I want no more of this."
"Well?" Serena asked. "What about your transformation wand?"
Raye smirked coldly. "Fat lot of good it would do you. It was made for me,
the person I'm supposed to pass it onto won't turn up for a few millenia yet,
if at all."
Serena was slack jawed "But, then we'd only have two scouts....You have to be
lying to me!"
"Sorry Princess, hate to burst your bubble, but Queen Serenity gave us our
original lifespans. She was Two thousand and twenty two when she had you. I
looked it up, it's just supposed to be a legend, but we were there! That's
why Amy took her wand with her, it would have been useless here."
Serena glared angrily at her and the crystal at her chest began to pulse.
"Then I will strip you of your powers for redistrubution!"
"No," Raye said quietly, clasping her wand in her hand. "No," She said
louder, more forcefully. "I call upon my God, Ares as my witness." She
proclaimed loudly, throwing her shoulders proudly, and her robes turned into
an etheral red, floor length shift. "The Planet of Mars formally withdraws
it's alliance to the Moon. For the threat of force against the present Queen
of Mars, the Moon throws itself open to criticizm of the court." As she
spoke, her hair changed to a deep red, and it's length flowed down to near
the floor. The air around her crackled, and a flame settled on the crown on
her head. "There, the favour of my God." Mars said, her eyes lighting up.
"Our powers are our own, no longer shall the Moon have any say in how they
are distributed. You Serenity are out of this."
"Karayena, you will bring the wrath of the combined council upon your
people." Serenity warned, the crystal going back to normal.
"The council is disbanded, and mine, and everyone else's people are scattered
to the four winds. None of yours will ever find them, and one day we will
live on a planet of our own once more." Raye said, shaking her hair back.
"Be careful Serenity, you have already lost Venus from your grasp, and now
Mars as well. Should you lose others as well?" She raised an eyebrow
sardonically.
"Keep your nose out of my affairs Karayena!" Serenity exclaimed.
"I weary of this. Chad!" Raye called out. A very different Chad than Serena
knew walked out. He was clean shaven, with shorter hair than usual, but still
long. He was wearing a crisp red and black uniform.
"Yes my Queen." Chad bowed. He even held himself differently, and spoke
differently. More hardened. Stronger.
"Please escort our former ally out of my home Chad. I am tired." Raye said,
rubbing her crown at her brow.
"Certainly my Lady." He replied pleasantly. He turned to the girl who was now
Serena again, and bowed. "Lady, if you will follow me."
Serena turned back to Raye, who was watching with disinterested eyes. "This
isn't OVER Karayena. You will pay for betraying me!"
"You highness? I betrayed no-one, it was you who betrayed me the second you
raised the crystal to me." Raye drawled, signalling Chad again.
Chad took the hint, and dragged the girl out of his Queen's presence. It
wouldn't do for her to be irritated.
"Chad!" Serena asked. "What did she DO to you? You're differnt!"
"DO?" Chad laughed. "She didn't do anything! Did you honestlly think it was a
coincidence that I turned up on her doorstep one day? She sent out an
unknowing call, and _I_ answered. Now I once more have the privilege to serve
my Queen. AND I am afraid I am going to have to ask you to leave. Please
don't come back again."
As he spoke he had escorted Serena out of the gate and down the street. Then
he turned, and walked back to the temple as Serena stomped off.
*
The second that Serena left, Raye took off her crown, and placed it on the
bed beside her. She snapped her fingers, and murmurred a few words of
enchantment, so that the room tranformed into one which was bigger than the
temple and house by a lot, but from the outside of her room, looked the same
as it had always been.
The decor was now a rainforest. Calming blues and greens all over the place.
Raye leaned over the end of her bed and looked into the pool at the edge. It
looked like water, but in truth was a pool of flame. Dipping her hand into
the pool, it was not scalded, but rather Raye was unharmed.
"Mina." Raye called softly, placing her crown back on her head. "Venus.
Araminasa. Sister, I must speak with you."
*
Venus suddenly stopped walking, and traced a cicle on the wall of ice. The
ice lightened until it became a mirror. But instead of reflecting Venus and
Jadeite whom she'd been walking with, it showed a fiery looking young Queen,
with red hair, purple eyes, and wearing a red shift.
"Raye?" Venus asked raising an eyebrow. Jadeite stared in wonderment. That
was what Sailor Mars looked like NOW?
"Karayena, at the moment actually." Raye replied with a sigh, and ran a hand
through her ringlets.
"Why did you contact me after all this time?" Venus asked coldly.
Raye shrugged, a half smile on her face. "I quit the Sailor Scouts. There are
now only two in Japan. And." She took a deep breath, closed her eyes and
reopened them. "I've also withdrawn Mars from the Alliance. Ares gave his
blessing, so now my room is my palace at present. And I am fast collecting my
people. I thought you might want to know." She stopped smiling. "Serena isn't
going to let this go though."
"What, and you think I'd let you join us Karayena? Give me a break." Venus
replied.
"Now listen here Araminasa, you have no right to speak to me that way. Ares
help me, I actually missed you as a FRIEND after you 'died'. I missed talking
to you, having someone who understood me. And what makes you think that I'd
WANT to join you? This is a friendly greeting to wish you luck in crushing
the remaining scouts. If that's all, I am going to go relax. Hi Jadeite."
Raye's image dissappeared.
Jadeite was still staring at the wall where Raye's reflection had been. Now
that he's seen her, he almost wished she had invited the scout of Mars to
join them.
Gods was she beautiful.
And of course they had been together in the Silver Millenium.
Venus looked over at Jadeite, and her mouth curled up into a reluctant smile.
The guy was positively GLOWING over seeing Raye in her Queen Karayena form.
Maybe she would invite her to become an ally after all. Aphrodite knew they
weren't exactly overflowing in the ally department at the moment. Mainly
because they'd kept such a low profile since they'd returned.
And of course they were no more than urban legends out of Japan. In fact, she
had it on good authority that there was a Cartoon called 'Sailor Moon'
Typical! It WOULD be about Serena.
But out of curiosity, she'd bought a DVD in England. The episode where the
character Sailor Venus hit the scene. It had been amazingly accurate....
Anyway, Malachite would have to be told about Mars calling her subjects back
to her. Gods only knew how many she already had.
Venus already knew about Chad. Sometimes she'd seen the fog of cluelessness
melt away when Chad and Raye thought they were alone, and they would talk
about the best way to make Mars a hospitable planet again, and how to gather
the rest of her people. And the best way to 'collect' supplies. Like it or
not, Mars' deity was the God of War, and people from Mars had always been
great at the warrior arts.
No wonder Earth was over crowded, when you had to take into account it having
people from all nine planets, plus the Moon living on it.
They'd have to keep an eye on Jadeite. Because of his relationship to Raye
in the Silver Millenium, she'd be calling him too.
And they could not afford to lose Generals like that.
Venus smiled brightly, it was so CUTE! Raye, the fire princess. Falling for
Jadeite, Mr 'I'm to Sexy for My Life'. And vise versa.
Oh she just HAD to get them together. But how? And in a way that would
further their plans for the scouts.
This was gonna be one hell of a fight.
*
Raye sighed, and rolled over on her bed. "She'll think about it." She rolled
her eyes. "Now what am I forgetting?" Raye tapped her fingers on the bed.
"Now I remember!"
Pulling out her wand, she pressed the symbol of Mars at the top, and ran a
hand down the side. Suddenly she dropped the wand into the pool of fire at
the end of her bed, and the room flashed a bright red for a few minutes.
After the light died down, a red crystal rose out of the pool and flew into
her hand.
"The crystal of Mars." She said with a smile. "At last my friend, we can be
free." 'And I will finally get my King. Ares is such a hard God to please, it
took YEARS to get him to accept Jadeite back in the Silver Millenium. Then
the silly boy goes and gets himself captured by Beryl. I don't know if I will
be able to stand it if he is taken from me again.'
She sighed as she felt another prescense enter the room. "Is she gone?" Raye
asked, not bothering to look up from where she was handling the crystal.
"Yes Raye, she's gone. Not before trying to figure out why I was different,
but she's gone, and hopefully she wont return." Chad replied.
"I talked to Araminasa, God's! When did she become so stuck up? She implied I
was crawling back to her with my tail between my legs. As if I would. And I
saw Jadeite again, He is still so gorgeous even after all that time he was
in Beryl's paws." Raye looked up at Chad. "He will come back to me, wont he?
Wont he?!"
"Of course my Queen." Chad said with a laugh. Although Raye's friends thought
to the contrary, he had only a purely brotherly intentions towards Raye, and
always had.
Over the past eight weeks since Mina had dissappeared, Raye had been having
dreams, from her past life. That was how she had known how to summon her God
and about having Jadeite as a sweetheart in the Silver Millenium.
Raye's grandfather knew about her past life,in fact it had been he who had
originally helped her find out about it.
Now was the time for secrecy, but soon that time would be over.
In many ways the game was just beginning.
*
Venus smiled as she told Malachite about the days events.
Yes, the game was just beggining,
and now there were only two.
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And there you have it. Chapter seven that was meant to be six and released
last year. *sighs*
I really don't know if I liked that one, please tell me what you think.
If you have any idea's in the way of plot, or character developments, please
don't hesitate to share. But I only accept constructive criticizm. If you
unconstructively flame me, I will flame you back.
Jaya
Author: Jaya
Distribution: ask and I will let you...maybe
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Sailor Venus belongs to her very lovely creators, ditto for the
the Generals and other scouts. And anyone who I've missed.
Feedback: is like air, I'll die without it. At: jacey111@yahoo.com
Summary: Sick of being in Serena's shadow, Raye takes a stand.
Note: Look, I managed to get over my writers block! Are you happy now?
Thank you to all the very wonderful people who took the time to review my
work. You are splendiferous.
And, sorry, but I've run out of ideas for the beginning bits using Venus, so
this one is from Raye's perspective.
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AS HEAVEN IS WIDE
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I just don't understand Mina recently, just before she became MIA, she was
like a whole other person.
I'd see her in the halls, and sometimes she would just breeze by, as if I
wasn't even there.
Nothing that you say will release you
Nothing that you pray would forgive you
Nothing's what your words mean to me
I know she lied to me that last week before she was taken.
How do I know? She says she's going shopping, so I'd call her house during
the time she's supposedly "shopping", and someone picks up. A GUY picks up
the phone.
Now ordinarily there would be nothing wrong with this, only Mina wasn't
dating anyone at the time, or so I thought.
Something that you did will destroy you
Something that you said will stay with me
Long after you're dead and gone
I mean I thought we were friends, and friends don't lie to each other. She
told me that she hadn't gotten over....what's his name? Paul I think. Anyway
she hadn't gotten over Paul yet, so why was this guy answering her phone?
She'd been acting really weird ever since she went on that reconnaisanse run
by herself.
Sometimes she slipped up, when she talked about what she'd been doing
recently.
If flesh could crawl my skin would fall
From off my bones and run away from here
And I've been getting that....I don't know, a feeling around her, like a
feeling of wrongness.
Not a "evil nega creep" feeling, but not a "normal friend" feeling either.
What's happened to her?
As far from God, as heaven is wide
As far from God, as angels can fly
She isn't really one of us anymore I guess.
If holy is as holy does
This house will burn straight down to hell
And take its conscience with it as it falls
Mina lied about what she did, she hadn't been coming to scout meetings as
regularly as she used to. There is, it's like there was something wrong with
her.
Nothing said could change the fact
My trust was blind, you broke the pact
If God's my witness, God must be blind
None of the others could see it. If I said anything it was like "Raye! Mina's
one of us, of course she wouldn't have changed sides."
If flesh could crawl my skin would fall
From off my bones and run away from here
Even though I know she's been lying to me, I miss Mina, a lot.
I can't talk to any of the others, it's just....When I talk to Mina, I can
open up.
I don't know why, but it's been annoying me lately, how Serena can be such a
Ditz, but she's leader just because she's the Princess.
As far from God, as heaven is wide
As far from God, as angels can fly
Serena has the most powerful powers of all of us, with every incarnation of
Sailor Moon she gets even stronger.
When do we get our breaks? NO! When Will I, Raye Hino get the breaks I
deserve? Before Lita and Mina joined the team, I was the backbone of the
scouts, Sailor Moon was a klutz, a crybaby. Sailor Mercury was good, but all
she had to work with was bubbles and frost.
I wish...I wish...I wish...I wish
Take it back, I dare you take it back
No you can't, you should have thought of that
What's inside a man that goes so wrong?
I had a fight with Serena today.
She told me, ME that I wasn't putting enough effort into the team. Effort? I
put in more hours training than she ever has, more than anyone except Mina.
I've been swimming every day after school, twice a day on weekends and
holidays.
I've been doing kick boxing at my local gym.
My powers increase all the time, and who will she come whining to when things
go wrong, now that Amy left us?
I wish Serena would grow up.
Choke on guilt that's far too good for you
Say one word, I'll laugh and bury you
Leave you in the place where you left me
She'll come and apologise in the next few days. Say that she didn't mean it,
that She over reacted to something.
If flesh could crawl my skin would fall
From off my bones and run away from here
As far from God, as heaven is wide
As far from God, as angels can fly
But you know what? I will not be her emotional punching bag.
I wish I could fly
As angels can fly
I don't think Mina would accept me, but I don't like what's happening to me,
and I won't stand for it.
The other side is looking sweeter all the time.
*
Raye was not happy. She'd failed a test that day because someone had cheated
and no one had owned up. So they'd all gotten F's.
All she'd wanted to do was go home and relax, but Serena was in her room!
"Serena! What are you doing?" Raye demanded when she walked into her room to
find Serena on the Internet.
"Relax Raye," Serena replied. "All I'm doing is looking up Sailor Moon on a
search engine."
"And how long have you been here?" Raye asked, attempting to keep her temper
unsuccessfully.
"Lets see, three hours I think." Serena replied, not taking her eyes from the
screen.
"And have you been on the Net all that time?" Raye ground out angrily.
"Yes." Came the foolish blondes response.
"Are you INSANE? Do you know how expensive that is? Get out! Get out NOW!"
Raye yelled pointing at the door angrily.
Serena gave her a cold look. She'd been getting more and more self absorbed
lately. Without Amy to make her feel stupid, because facing facts Amy had
kept them all grounded, with her incredible intelligence beating them at
every intellectual test.
"Well Raye, if that's the way you feel, maybe you shouldn't be on the team."
She said angrily.
"What?" Raye asked, somewhat shocked.
"Maybe you shouldn't be with us anymore, if you're not going to be a team
player." Serena replied.
"What us?" Raye asked incredulously, "there's only Lita and you left now, and
as if you can talk about being a team player! When was the last time you came
to see me when you didn't need something, huh? Well?"
A slight blush stained Serena's cheeks. Embarrasment made her voice sharp.
"Well, are you with us or against us?"
Raye glared at her, and threw her communicator at Serena's feet.
"Here you go 'oh illustrious leader', I want no more of this."
"Well?" Serena asked. "What about your transformation wand?"
Raye smirked coldly. "Fat lot of good it would do you. It was made for me,
the person I'm supposed to pass it onto won't turn up for a few millenia yet,
if at all."
Serena was slack jawed "But, then we'd only have two scouts....You have to be
lying to me!"
"Sorry Princess, hate to burst your bubble, but Queen Serenity gave us our
original lifespans. She was Two thousand and twenty two when she had you. I
looked it up, it's just supposed to be a legend, but we were there! That's
why Amy took her wand with her, it would have been useless here."
Serena glared angrily at her and the crystal at her chest began to pulse.
"Then I will strip you of your powers for redistrubution!"
"No," Raye said quietly, clasping her wand in her hand. "No," She said
louder, more forcefully. "I call upon my God, Ares as my witness." She
proclaimed loudly, throwing her shoulders proudly, and her robes turned into
an etheral red, floor length shift. "The Planet of Mars formally withdraws
it's alliance to the Moon. For the threat of force against the present Queen
of Mars, the Moon throws itself open to criticizm of the court." As she
spoke, her hair changed to a deep red, and it's length flowed down to near
the floor. The air around her crackled, and a flame settled on the crown on
her head. "There, the favour of my God." Mars said, her eyes lighting up.
"Our powers are our own, no longer shall the Moon have any say in how they
are distributed. You Serenity are out of this."
"Karayena, you will bring the wrath of the combined council upon your
people." Serenity warned, the crystal going back to normal.
"The council is disbanded, and mine, and everyone else's people are scattered
to the four winds. None of yours will ever find them, and one day we will
live on a planet of our own once more." Raye said, shaking her hair back.
"Be careful Serenity, you have already lost Venus from your grasp, and now
Mars as well. Should you lose others as well?" She raised an eyebrow
sardonically.
"Keep your nose out of my affairs Karayena!" Serenity exclaimed.
"I weary of this. Chad!" Raye called out. A very different Chad than Serena
knew walked out. He was clean shaven, with shorter hair than usual, but still
long. He was wearing a crisp red and black uniform.
"Yes my Queen." Chad bowed. He even held himself differently, and spoke
differently. More hardened. Stronger.
"Please escort our former ally out of my home Chad. I am tired." Raye said,
rubbing her crown at her brow.
"Certainly my Lady." He replied pleasantly. He turned to the girl who was now
Serena again, and bowed. "Lady, if you will follow me."
Serena turned back to Raye, who was watching with disinterested eyes. "This
isn't OVER Karayena. You will pay for betraying me!"
"You highness? I betrayed no-one, it was you who betrayed me the second you
raised the crystal to me." Raye drawled, signalling Chad again.
Chad took the hint, and dragged the girl out of his Queen's presence. It
wouldn't do for her to be irritated.
"Chad!" Serena asked. "What did she DO to you? You're differnt!"
"DO?" Chad laughed. "She didn't do anything! Did you honestlly think it was a
coincidence that I turned up on her doorstep one day? She sent out an
unknowing call, and _I_ answered. Now I once more have the privilege to serve
my Queen. AND I am afraid I am going to have to ask you to leave. Please
don't come back again."
As he spoke he had escorted Serena out of the gate and down the street. Then
he turned, and walked back to the temple as Serena stomped off.
*
The second that Serena left, Raye took off her crown, and placed it on the
bed beside her. She snapped her fingers, and murmurred a few words of
enchantment, so that the room tranformed into one which was bigger than the
temple and house by a lot, but from the outside of her room, looked the same
as it had always been.
The decor was now a rainforest. Calming blues and greens all over the place.
Raye leaned over the end of her bed and looked into the pool at the edge. It
looked like water, but in truth was a pool of flame. Dipping her hand into
the pool, it was not scalded, but rather Raye was unharmed.
"Mina." Raye called softly, placing her crown back on her head. "Venus.
Araminasa. Sister, I must speak with you."
*
Venus suddenly stopped walking, and traced a cicle on the wall of ice. The
ice lightened until it became a mirror. But instead of reflecting Venus and
Jadeite whom she'd been walking with, it showed a fiery looking young Queen,
with red hair, purple eyes, and wearing a red shift.
"Raye?" Venus asked raising an eyebrow. Jadeite stared in wonderment. That
was what Sailor Mars looked like NOW?
"Karayena, at the moment actually." Raye replied with a sigh, and ran a hand
through her ringlets.
"Why did you contact me after all this time?" Venus asked coldly.
Raye shrugged, a half smile on her face. "I quit the Sailor Scouts. There are
now only two in Japan. And." She took a deep breath, closed her eyes and
reopened them. "I've also withdrawn Mars from the Alliance. Ares gave his
blessing, so now my room is my palace at present. And I am fast collecting my
people. I thought you might want to know." She stopped smiling. "Serena isn't
going to let this go though."
"What, and you think I'd let you join us Karayena? Give me a break." Venus
replied.
"Now listen here Araminasa, you have no right to speak to me that way. Ares
help me, I actually missed you as a FRIEND after you 'died'. I missed talking
to you, having someone who understood me. And what makes you think that I'd
WANT to join you? This is a friendly greeting to wish you luck in crushing
the remaining scouts. If that's all, I am going to go relax. Hi Jadeite."
Raye's image dissappeared.
Jadeite was still staring at the wall where Raye's reflection had been. Now
that he's seen her, he almost wished she had invited the scout of Mars to
join them.
Gods was she beautiful.
And of course they had been together in the Silver Millenium.
Venus looked over at Jadeite, and her mouth curled up into a reluctant smile.
The guy was positively GLOWING over seeing Raye in her Queen Karayena form.
Maybe she would invite her to become an ally after all. Aphrodite knew they
weren't exactly overflowing in the ally department at the moment. Mainly
because they'd kept such a low profile since they'd returned.
And of course they were no more than urban legends out of Japan. In fact, she
had it on good authority that there was a Cartoon called 'Sailor Moon'
Typical! It WOULD be about Serena.
But out of curiosity, she'd bought a DVD in England. The episode where the
character Sailor Venus hit the scene. It had been amazingly accurate....
Anyway, Malachite would have to be told about Mars calling her subjects back
to her. Gods only knew how many she already had.
Venus already knew about Chad. Sometimes she'd seen the fog of cluelessness
melt away when Chad and Raye thought they were alone, and they would talk
about the best way to make Mars a hospitable planet again, and how to gather
the rest of her people. And the best way to 'collect' supplies. Like it or
not, Mars' deity was the God of War, and people from Mars had always been
great at the warrior arts.
No wonder Earth was over crowded, when you had to take into account it having
people from all nine planets, plus the Moon living on it.
They'd have to keep an eye on Jadeite. Because of his relationship to Raye
in the Silver Millenium, she'd be calling him too.
And they could not afford to lose Generals like that.
Venus smiled brightly, it was so CUTE! Raye, the fire princess. Falling for
Jadeite, Mr 'I'm to Sexy for My Life'. And vise versa.
Oh she just HAD to get them together. But how? And in a way that would
further their plans for the scouts.
This was gonna be one hell of a fight.
*
Raye sighed, and rolled over on her bed. "She'll think about it." She rolled
her eyes. "Now what am I forgetting?" Raye tapped her fingers on the bed.
"Now I remember!"
Pulling out her wand, she pressed the symbol of Mars at the top, and ran a
hand down the side. Suddenly she dropped the wand into the pool of fire at
the end of her bed, and the room flashed a bright red for a few minutes.
After the light died down, a red crystal rose out of the pool and flew into
her hand.
"The crystal of Mars." She said with a smile. "At last my friend, we can be
free." 'And I will finally get my King. Ares is such a hard God to please, it
took YEARS to get him to accept Jadeite back in the Silver Millenium. Then
the silly boy goes and gets himself captured by Beryl. I don't know if I will
be able to stand it if he is taken from me again.'
She sighed as she felt another prescense enter the room. "Is she gone?" Raye
asked, not bothering to look up from where she was handling the crystal.
"Yes Raye, she's gone. Not before trying to figure out why I was different,
but she's gone, and hopefully she wont return." Chad replied.
"I talked to Araminasa, God's! When did she become so stuck up? She implied I
was crawling back to her with my tail between my legs. As if I would. And I
saw Jadeite again, He is still so gorgeous even after all that time he was
in Beryl's paws." Raye looked up at Chad. "He will come back to me, wont he?
Wont he?!"
"Of course my Queen." Chad said with a laugh. Although Raye's friends thought
to the contrary, he had only a purely brotherly intentions towards Raye, and
always had.
Over the past eight weeks since Mina had dissappeared, Raye had been having
dreams, from her past life. That was how she had known how to summon her God
and about having Jadeite as a sweetheart in the Silver Millenium.
Raye's grandfather knew about her past life,in fact it had been he who had
originally helped her find out about it.
Now was the time for secrecy, but soon that time would be over.
In many ways the game was just beginning.
*
Venus smiled as she told Malachite about the days events.
Yes, the game was just beggining,
and now there were only two.
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And there you have it. Chapter seven that was meant to be six and released
last year. *sighs*
I really don't know if I liked that one, please tell me what you think.
If you have any idea's in the way of plot, or character developments, please
don't hesitate to share. But I only accept constructive criticizm. If you
unconstructively flame me, I will flame you back.
Jaya