Chapter 2 - Nightmares and the New Moon
Note: Words with //slashes\\ around them are thoughts or dreams.
The girl from earlier looked not at all like the small child right now, with her long hair just falling loose and her face pursed in such deep thought. She gave off an emotional maturity and wisdom far beyond her obvious physical maturity. And paced in circles. "That was her, it was! I know it. I would know her anywhere! And Luna!" She stopped her pacing to cough slightly and gaze at the golden-haired man with begging eyes, her left eye changing from cocoa to blood red to light blue every few minutes. "Onii-san, you have to listen to me! There's no doubt about it! It was her!"
He gently lifted her up, placing her in her bed, smoothing her hair and pajamas and ignoring his own messy gold-blonde hair and the same ruffled outfit he had worn all day. He just kissed her forehead, his sky-blue eyes glistening with unshed tears. "You need sleep, Hana-chan. My little Ibie."
"You do too, big brother. And quit treating me like a little girl!" But her tone was quiet and weak, and broken by another, much harder cough and a large yawn, her heavy eyelids slowly closing over two violet eyes. "Promise me you'll sleep tonight."
"I'll try, on both acounts." He mumbled and kissed her pale forehead, but she was already asleep. He looked at her peaceful sleeping form, so calm, with no pain on her tiny body when she's asleep, and then up at the moon, a tiny splinter of a new moon tonight, dimmer than some of the stars in the sky, but still so beautiful, and the dam in his eyes broke open. He sobbed quietly behind his hands, scooping up his sister's sleeping body in his hands to rock with her softly, thinking of his two sisters. One of them dead, one of them only half alive. And would have been better off dead than in the constant pain she was forced to endure. And now this...
All a search for her dead sister will do is cause her more pain! Why can't she see that? Her sister is dead, dead by her own hand! Dead! Why can't she accept that? Why can't she accept that his beautiful twin is dead? Dead. And he is not about to lose his baby sister as well, selfish as that might be. He held her closer, his cheek lying on hers.
A few tears fell from Hana's sleeping eyes and slid down her face to mix with the ones that had fallen from his sobs that racked both of their bodies.
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Hotaru laid awake. She was quite tired, and should have been asleep hours ago, but she couldn't help thinking about the boy and the girl she met today. They seemed famillar, somehow, but she couldn't remember how. Somehow, her mind didn't seem to want to remember. It was something bad. Not like bad people, just very bad memories. But how could they be worse than the destruction of the moon kingdom? And she remembered that. Her tired eyes drifted outside her open window, to the gentle and tiny new moon, and she somehow found comfort in that. Gracious sleep finally overcame her.
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Mamoru looked at Usagi laying besides him in his bed and carressed her cheek. He should have brought her back to her dorm room, but he just couldn't. He had to see for himself that she was okay. Or not okay, he thought sadly as he watched long trails of tears trickle out of her sleeping eyes.
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Usagi could hear her Mamo-chan shifting next to her. She could tell he was awake, and was pretty sure that he thought her to be asleep. She was so glad that he brought her here tonight instead of her home, she always felt safe next to him, and right now she wanted to feel as safe as possible. But not even the soft gentle carress she felt, an action from him that usually makes her so happy, could stop those painful tears from flowing.
Those two they met today... something happened to them. Somthing horrible. Usagi could feel pain radiating off them in waves, oh such pain! What could have happened to them so horrible? But what she really wanted to know was why she was connected to them at all. She had to be, somehow. How else could she feel somehow that she loves them both deeply?
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// "I want to go to my sisters! Why won't you let me go to my sisters?" A young boy with long silver hair and angry blue eyes shouts into nothing, struggling against the metal shackles that connected him to the wall, and by the bruises that covered his body, he had been struggling vainly for quite a while. "Something is happened, something awful, I can tell! For the love of the Moon, let me see them!"
"See them?" A strange, almost serpentine, yet somehow cracked and rough as an age-worn stone came from nowhere, causing the boy to shudder in disgust. "That I might be able to do, for a little while." A truly evil and truly mad cackle fills the room, and a small flat screen appears to float in front of the boy, his eyes growing as they watched it.
"NOOOO!!! Rena, Rena!" he screams, fighting even harder to get free, a few drops of his blood spraying the room as he thrashes, but still getting no more freedom. "I must go to her, I must go to them! Let me go to them!"
"Ungrateful brat." the voice reverberates around the tiny cell. "I let you see them, and I don't even get so much as a thank you for it! Oh no, all you want is more, more, more."
But he didn't listen to it. His eyes grow even wider, and he screams his dispair for anyone within a few miles to hear. A golden moon glows on his forhead, bathing him in a white light that grew brighter as his blood-curdling scream went on, until he could no longer be seen. When the light fades, he was far in the heavens, nothing around him but small fragments of stone and the light of far off stars. He fixes his gaze on the moon, pulsing with a blinding light, and a pure white suit forms on him, his cape lined with silk that shone and switches between gold and silver, and white eagle's wings stretches out from underneath the cape. His face set in a determined way, he yells into the darkness, "Hang on, Rena, Ibie, I'm coming! Just wait for me!" and flies through the skies, pulsating moon growing brighter as as the dim lights of stars fade into blurs besides him. \\
Rei sat up straight in her bed, the odd dream waking her up with a feeling of dread and nausea in the pit of her stomach. She looked outside her window, and saw that Phobus and Deimos had pushed open the shutters and were bathed in the gentle white light of the new moon.
She pushed herself up, feeling oddly shaky, and stumbled into the bathroom, where she quickly loses both the nautious feeling and her dinner, and washed her mouth out.
She then walked to the front door, calling the two crows inside. Although her grandpa forbade it, she felt that she just needed her gaurdians with her tonight, and with both of their bodies snuggled up against her, she fell asleep, not even noticing how they kept switching from their crow forms to their human forms and back again all throughout the night.
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Another short chapter, I know! I have the next one, and will soon have the one after that, but I'm holding them all captive until I get a review or two! Don't want to put these up for nothing...
Note: Words with //slashes\\ around them are thoughts or dreams.
The girl from earlier looked not at all like the small child right now, with her long hair just falling loose and her face pursed in such deep thought. She gave off an emotional maturity and wisdom far beyond her obvious physical maturity. And paced in circles. "That was her, it was! I know it. I would know her anywhere! And Luna!" She stopped her pacing to cough slightly and gaze at the golden-haired man with begging eyes, her left eye changing from cocoa to blood red to light blue every few minutes. "Onii-san, you have to listen to me! There's no doubt about it! It was her!"
He gently lifted her up, placing her in her bed, smoothing her hair and pajamas and ignoring his own messy gold-blonde hair and the same ruffled outfit he had worn all day. He just kissed her forehead, his sky-blue eyes glistening with unshed tears. "You need sleep, Hana-chan. My little Ibie."
"You do too, big brother. And quit treating me like a little girl!" But her tone was quiet and weak, and broken by another, much harder cough and a large yawn, her heavy eyelids slowly closing over two violet eyes. "Promise me you'll sleep tonight."
"I'll try, on both acounts." He mumbled and kissed her pale forehead, but she was already asleep. He looked at her peaceful sleeping form, so calm, with no pain on her tiny body when she's asleep, and then up at the moon, a tiny splinter of a new moon tonight, dimmer than some of the stars in the sky, but still so beautiful, and the dam in his eyes broke open. He sobbed quietly behind his hands, scooping up his sister's sleeping body in his hands to rock with her softly, thinking of his two sisters. One of them dead, one of them only half alive. And would have been better off dead than in the constant pain she was forced to endure. And now this...
All a search for her dead sister will do is cause her more pain! Why can't she see that? Her sister is dead, dead by her own hand! Dead! Why can't she accept that? Why can't she accept that his beautiful twin is dead? Dead. And he is not about to lose his baby sister as well, selfish as that might be. He held her closer, his cheek lying on hers.
A few tears fell from Hana's sleeping eyes and slid down her face to mix with the ones that had fallen from his sobs that racked both of their bodies.
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Hotaru laid awake. She was quite tired, and should have been asleep hours ago, but she couldn't help thinking about the boy and the girl she met today. They seemed famillar, somehow, but she couldn't remember how. Somehow, her mind didn't seem to want to remember. It was something bad. Not like bad people, just very bad memories. But how could they be worse than the destruction of the moon kingdom? And she remembered that. Her tired eyes drifted outside her open window, to the gentle and tiny new moon, and she somehow found comfort in that. Gracious sleep finally overcame her.
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Mamoru looked at Usagi laying besides him in his bed and carressed her cheek. He should have brought her back to her dorm room, but he just couldn't. He had to see for himself that she was okay. Or not okay, he thought sadly as he watched long trails of tears trickle out of her sleeping eyes.
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Usagi could hear her Mamo-chan shifting next to her. She could tell he was awake, and was pretty sure that he thought her to be asleep. She was so glad that he brought her here tonight instead of her home, she always felt safe next to him, and right now she wanted to feel as safe as possible. But not even the soft gentle carress she felt, an action from him that usually makes her so happy, could stop those painful tears from flowing.
Those two they met today... something happened to them. Somthing horrible. Usagi could feel pain radiating off them in waves, oh such pain! What could have happened to them so horrible? But what she really wanted to know was why she was connected to them at all. She had to be, somehow. How else could she feel somehow that she loves them both deeply?
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// "I want to go to my sisters! Why won't you let me go to my sisters?" A young boy with long silver hair and angry blue eyes shouts into nothing, struggling against the metal shackles that connected him to the wall, and by the bruises that covered his body, he had been struggling vainly for quite a while. "Something is happened, something awful, I can tell! For the love of the Moon, let me see them!"
"See them?" A strange, almost serpentine, yet somehow cracked and rough as an age-worn stone came from nowhere, causing the boy to shudder in disgust. "That I might be able to do, for a little while." A truly evil and truly mad cackle fills the room, and a small flat screen appears to float in front of the boy, his eyes growing as they watched it.
"NOOOO!!! Rena, Rena!" he screams, fighting even harder to get free, a few drops of his blood spraying the room as he thrashes, but still getting no more freedom. "I must go to her, I must go to them! Let me go to them!"
"Ungrateful brat." the voice reverberates around the tiny cell. "I let you see them, and I don't even get so much as a thank you for it! Oh no, all you want is more, more, more."
But he didn't listen to it. His eyes grow even wider, and he screams his dispair for anyone within a few miles to hear. A golden moon glows on his forhead, bathing him in a white light that grew brighter as his blood-curdling scream went on, until he could no longer be seen. When the light fades, he was far in the heavens, nothing around him but small fragments of stone and the light of far off stars. He fixes his gaze on the moon, pulsing with a blinding light, and a pure white suit forms on him, his cape lined with silk that shone and switches between gold and silver, and white eagle's wings stretches out from underneath the cape. His face set in a determined way, he yells into the darkness, "Hang on, Rena, Ibie, I'm coming! Just wait for me!" and flies through the skies, pulsating moon growing brighter as as the dim lights of stars fade into blurs besides him. \\
Rei sat up straight in her bed, the odd dream waking her up with a feeling of dread and nausea in the pit of her stomach. She looked outside her window, and saw that Phobus and Deimos had pushed open the shutters and were bathed in the gentle white light of the new moon.
She pushed herself up, feeling oddly shaky, and stumbled into the bathroom, where she quickly loses both the nautious feeling and her dinner, and washed her mouth out.
She then walked to the front door, calling the two crows inside. Although her grandpa forbade it, she felt that she just needed her gaurdians with her tonight, and with both of their bodies snuggled up against her, she fell asleep, not even noticing how they kept switching from their crow forms to their human forms and back again all throughout the night.
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Another short chapter, I know! I have the next one, and will soon have the one after that, but I'm holding them all captive until I get a review or two! Don't want to put these up for nothing...