Hi minna! Thanks once again for all the reviews. One thing that I
would like to say though, even though I love the reviews and all, can you
please limit your reviews to one per chapter? I really don't mind if you
really like my story and just decide to write several reviews for one
chapter, but please, can you say something else besides the same thing? The
reason is because I like to see how many different reviews I could get.
Thanks for all the reviews and so far, it seems as though all of you want
her to reveal herself in battle. Now, thanks again and on with the story.
Disclaimers Apply
Oh yeah, I would also like to dedicate this chapter to Mae Kesei because she was the one that gave me the characters. If you realized, in the last chapter at the bottom it said that if you can give me some background info and the names of the people that I missed, then you'd get the next chapter a week before it comes out. So lucky her, she saved the story twice, as well as getting this chapter first!
Another thing is that some/one of the name(s) I borrowed are from my sister's unfinished story which she doesn't seem to have interest in anymore. Now on with the story!
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"Hey Serena! What's up?" asked Gohan as he caught up with her taking a walk around the woods.
Serena looked at him and forced on a smile. "Nothing, just tired," she said as though nothing went wrong. Pausing for a second, she exclaimed, "I'll see you later Gohan, I need to exercise more often. Meet you at home, bye!" she shouted before dashing off in a run.
*I wonder what's the matter* though Gohan as he watched her run off. Even though she said that nothing was wrong, by looking at her face, he could tell that something upset her greatly because she didn't have such a happy face on as she usually did. She seemed to have forced on the smile and her eyes were a little puffy and pink from crying before or something.
"Hmm, I guess she just got upset over something, she'll probably be her cheerful self again tomorrow," he reasoned with himself so that he'd stop worrying about her.
After talking to himself for a while, he began to jog as well, but not taking the same route as Serena did. He instead took a longer way home by running around the woods in which she just cut through to be in time for lunch. The last time he saw her was only five hours ago at seven.
*I wonder who that girl was* he thought silently. *She almost looked like someone familiar, but then again, how could I forget someone like that?* he asked himself, thinking about the girl, no lady that he saw in Serena's bedroom. *Honestly, the way Serena acts and stuff, she'd look just like the girl I saw if it was just a picture of her soul. So kind, and sweet......* he drifted off in his own thoughts.
Piccolo
*What could it have been?* he thought to himself. Everytime he tried to meditate, he always saw the same silver light that he saw earlier in the morning and it was starting to annoy him as well as the vision he couldn't figure out.
*There must be something connected to all this, and I bet that Serena had something to do with it* he concluded, thinking that the premonitions were trying to tell him something.
Flashback
Piccolo was meditating once again, only a few minutes after the flash. Suddenly, he saw nothing except for white. Light colors began to come in form as scenes.
"Will I see you again soon?" asked a girl that seemed to be only fifteen. Everything was kind of hazy and foggy, so he couldn't see much all except for blonde hair that seemed to be spun of gold and a gold crescent moon glowing brightly on the forehead. She was wearing a white gown that was fit for a princess with light jewelry which made her seem even more unreal. it seemed like a fairytale.
*What does this mean?* Piccolo thought, standing only a few meters away form them, studying them intently.
"Shhh," the man hushed her, he black ebony hair that contrasted with the girl's hair. he was wearing what seemed to be an armor of royal blue, almost as dark as midnight and had goldish orangish swirls around the uniform. He was also wearing a royal blue cape, but that's all he could see from where Piccolo was standing in the foggy place, the mysterious guy's back facing him. "I'll see you as soon as I can," he stated in a very caring tone that seemed as though he didn't want anything to happen to her.
"But, you know that they'll catch us sooner or later, why must we be apart?" she asked sadly.
"My princess, it is duty and for your sake, I will not allow you to destroy your future reign just for me," he said seriously, yet softly. "You know that my kingdom will be joining the alliance soon."
"I know, but, what if I never see you again and you get caught, I don't coming here, as long as I can see you, my love," she pleaded, almost in the brink of tears.
*What's going on?* Piccolo thought, wondering what separated the two and why he even had this vision.
"I promise you, I'll see you again. To make it a promise and that you'll always remember me, we'll make a seal of our love and hide it where it'll never be discovered until we could be together," he said. "Do you want to promise that our love is true and that we'll always be together?"
"Yes, I'll always be with you," she said in a tearful, yet happy way.
As the haziness disappeared a little, Piccolo could now see a flat crystal that you would write on if you were to carve it out of stone. Inside of it, you can see little goldenish and orangish flames dancing inside.
Both of them stood infront of it, side by side and holding each other as they began to say something together.
Piccolo almost couldn't hear them, but with his expert ears, he heard their words:
"In time and space,
Even when the world comes to an end,
Together we stay,
Our love never broken,
Bond to each other,
For eternity and beyond,
Our hearts will search,
Till the end,
Until we find each other,
We will look forever,
United again,
Our love will last,
And together we stay,
In each other's grasp,
Love will blossom,
And memories surfaced,
Our love shall reign,
Until our last breath,
Till the end."
The words ended as the couple embraced each other. The silver and gold writing glowed brightly before it just became letters engraved in silver on the crystal.
Piccolo blinked, he swore he remembered seeing something like that stone before along with this orangish, golden landscape, but while he was thinking, the sound of trumpets being played could be heard. "The Guardian Namek has arrived, the royal court is required to meet in the entrance room along with the king, queen and prince," shouted the voice of a guard.
The maiden looked around, and then quickly looked at her prince with an expression that Piccolo couldn't see, but he could tell it was sadness.
"I must go, you mustn't get caught," he said quietly, then left while the girl called after him.
"Please come back to me safely," she called.
As the believed to be prince as Piccolo had confirmed, walked towards the castle, he could see the cape of the visitor. It startled him very much to see that it looked almost exactly like him. Actually, even from the point of view he was in and the distance, he could defiantly make out himself, he wore the same thing as he wore now.
While thinking deeply for a connection, he suddenly felt propelled from the place and backward into time.
End Flashback
Piccolo awoke in shock. It was odd, everytime he had the vision, he remembered the words on the stone clearly, but now that he tried to remember again, he couldn't get anything. The words seemed to have disappeared from his mind already.
Serena
"Why did you two have to leave me?!" she shouted out over the lake to the skies, expecting an answer, but finding none. "And I was never able to tell you that I forgave you," she stated quietly as small sobs bagan to rack her body, ones that she grieved only for her true friends.
Serena collapsed on the ground and watched silently as tears fell from her eyes how nature played it's course. Birds were chirping, ducks were quacking and fish were swimming, having no care in the world and not knowing that a fight could come any time.
*If only I could be as carefree as them* she thought, remembering the times from when her Cosmos form wasn't awakened and she was as bubbly and as happy as the animals and nature sorrounding her, but not, everything turned upside down, she didn't find any love, she didn't have her friends, and even the ones she did, are going to die.
"I wonder if there's anyone out there for me anymore. Gain friends, lose them, gain them again, and then they betray you. My family, they loved me, even though I was a bad student, they tried, and yet, I leave them, I'm never going to have peace, aren't I, Trista, Hotaru?" she asked outloud solemnly to the sky again.
Pluto and Saturn
"Who are you? Reveal yourself!" shouted Pluto to the approaching figure.
"Nice to see you too, Pluto," said the obvious woman as she came closer.
When she was close enough, Saturn jumped foward in rememberance of the person.
"Galaxia!" announced Saturn before giving her a big hug like a child.
Now not as protective, Pluto said, "Galaxia, what's going on and why are we here? Shouldn't we be dead?"
"So many questions to ask Pluto. I'm afraid that I can't be fully truthful, but I'll give you the basics that I know, for I haven't figured everything out myself yet," she stated calmly.
"Well, then just tell me what you know, then we'll be able to help princess whether she forgives us or not," whispered Saturn with a downcast look.
"Don't worry little one, she'll forgive you, right now, she grieves herself for the loss," assured Galaxia.
"Really? Why would she blame herself, we're the ones that didn't do anything to help her," questioned Saturn with hope in her eyes.
"You two are her true friends, and always will, you knew that you couldn't hurt her in your hearts," stated Galaxia gently while putting her hand over her heart to help expalin what she said.
"So can we go to her? The other scouts are after her," added Pluto.
"Yes, you may, but first I must tell you what I know so that we could fight with her," she said, getting their attention.
Nodding their heads for her to continue, she began her part.
"As you know, there is a rumor that once there was life on the Sun, and the rumor was true. It was a magestic kingdom that was ruled by my parents who were fair and kind to all the people. My older brother, Tranquility, was to take the role of king once my parents' rule was over. My parents were King Phoesbus and Queen Eclipse. It all started like this......
Flashback
"Higher, higher!" exclaimed a little girl with redish orange hair on a swing. The sorroundings were beautiful, with flowers blossoming all over and the sky a a pale orange yellow.
"Okay, Alexia, hold on tight!" shouted the young adult who looked to be about seventeen and the little girl ten.
"Wee! Wee!" laughed the little girl.
The teenager laughed at his sister's antics and began to push her again so that she kept the same height.
The little girl looked up at the window where she could see her parents being cooped up in the room and talking with another messenger. Her smile slowly faded away until it turned into longing.
"Why can't Mommy and Daddy play anymore?" she asked innocently.
Her brother suddenly stopped laughing, seeing as to how serious this was. "Mom and Dad are making peace relationships so that we could join the alliance and so that we could be happy."
"But why can't they just sign it and join?" she questioned with wide golden eyes.
"Welll...." started the brother, but stopped for a moment to think about something before answering, "There's going to be a fight and since we're doing two at once, one of peace, one of fighting, then there's a problem and it's hard to do, because our enemies are getting closer."
The child looked at him confused for a while, thinking it over slowly, and then replied, "Oh.....okay. Higher, higher!" she exclaimed in confusion at first, then in excitement.
The older one just shook his head back and forth, *Only if you knew the truth about the life, dear sister* he thought sadly before putting on a smile and complying to the youngster's wish.
End Flashback
".........My brother was very nice and kind to me, he tried to protect me from the dangers and took all the pain on himself when my parents were busy and I was alone," she said sadly. "At the time, I was too young and didn't know much about the true world, so I was naiive.War?" she laughed sadly in bitterness, "I never knew war until it was too late," she said looking up and continueing with her story.
Flashback
Alexia looked around at the falling buildings and the villages, kingsom and her castle in ruins. A million thoughts ran through her head as she searched helplessly for her parents or some one. Guards and soldiers of the Sun army were seen fighting against black creatures like monsters.
Suddenly, one of the creatures came up to her with a black sword, soaked with blood and was about to kill her. "Aaah!" she sreamed in fright at she thought that her death was coming, when a figure suddenly pushed her out of the way. He was a Namekian and looked at her.
"Princess, what are you doing here? You should be with the royal guards and your family," questioned the Namekian while protecting himself and her.
"I can't find them...help me please," she sobbed near tears.
"Princess, watch out!" he shouted as he pushed her out of the path of the descending sword, but got wounded in the should during the process. As he fought with the monster, the match was hard and both were tired and panting, when the Namekian destroyed it with a ki ball to the chest. "Run Princess, get away and rescue yourself!" he shouted before clashing swords again with another.
The princess, too scared to move, stood trembling until the Namekian yelled once again, "Run!" which shook her out of her stupor.
She trembled and fell a couple of times as she ran as fast as she could, never stopping until she was in the gardens, with pillars fallen, and bodies littering the ground before her.
"Help me," one of the soldiers begged as he layed sprawled on the ground, tugging on her her dress.
"Aaah!" she sreamed, but seeing who it as a fallen soldier, she attempted to help him up, but before she could, another falling pillar that was on fire with the vines wrapped around it came tumbling down.
Alexia stood in fright and watched as it slowly fell, closing her eyes, will for the scene to go away. Out of nowhere, another figure came out and pushed her down, just in time to avoid the fallen pillar as dust and peices of golden, orangish came flying out in all directions.
"Ugh," muttered the person as they came crashing down together.
She began to shake in fright, hearing the piercing scream of the soldier that she wasn't able to rescue, being smashed by the chunk of soloid, or the orangish, golden crystal the the entire palace is made out of. Tears spilled out in a rush as she stared at the corpse that had stopped screaming and was burning in flames. She then finally noticed that she was being shaken by the shoulders by her savior.
Looking up, she cried out, "Tranquility!" in relief, happiness, and sadness.
"Sshhh," he soothed as he stroked her back lightly while she sobbed onto his dirty armor wear.
After the sobbing subsided a little, the older youth took her in his arms princess style and carried her deeper into the gardens while dodging all the obstacles. "We have to get out of here and you safe," he answered to the unasked question.
Alexia nodded in a deazed response and hanged on to her brother for dear life as he ran from the chaos. She then realized that they were in the very deep parts of the garden and it was where the plants grew wildly without being taimed.
Pushing bushes out of the way, Prince Tranquility began to burrow into a sheltered passage like cave that was large.. It was slightly dark and you couldn't be seen, so it was a perfect hiding spot.
"Stay here until some one comes for you," he commanded before getting up to leave.
"But, but...don't leave me, I don't want to be alone!" she cried, stretching her arms out to reach for him, but he just seemed to ignore her and went out.
Princess Galaxia srambled out in attempt to catch her brother, but when she poked her head out, there was another one of those demons while tailing a guard. The guard tripped and fell, allowing the monster to come closer.
The guard, seeing her, grapped her leg and begged, "Please help me!", but before he could finish, the creature grabbed him by the leg and pulled him towards himself.
"Please!" he shouted for the last time before the creature punctured it's claws into the chest of the body and gripped it with the other hand before tearing the soldier in half to shreds.
Alexia stiffled a sream of horror while covering her mouth as she saw the scene and blood spilled across her golden gown and the sticky substance splattered against her pale face. The blood dripped ever so slowly off as she crouched in the same position without moving for the fear of her life in stake as she knew.
The creature looked around, right at the place she was at, before drawing nearer....and nearer. Just about three meters away from her hiding spot in the dense bushes, the villian grunted before disapearing abck the way it came, towards the battle feild.
Bidding her brother's warning for sure, she quickly crawled back into the hide out and waited while rocking herself back and forth, trying to ignore the sounds of death, blood splatter, clashing of swords and the screams that echoed in the distance. She sat alone at the very back of the cave which was pretty large, it shoudl be as large as the throne room.
After what seemed like eternity staring at the ground and rocking without blinking, she began to drift off to sleep. She sobbed uncautiously as she slept while tears cascaded down her cheeks, flecked with dry blood.
A while later, she was shooken awake. "Wake up Alexia!" the voice urged quietly as she opened her weary eyes.
"Mommy!" she shouted while propelling herself towards her mother. "What happen?" she asked while looking at everyone. There was her brother, her father, and only about one thousand warrors left out of the ten thousand. She then bagan to wonder how big this cave really was.
Trying ot find the right words, her father began, "Alexia, we're being attacked and are at war," he said while seemingly to try to make a tough decision.
"Father, what's the matter?" asked Prince Tranquility while looking at the king suspiciously.
Drawing in a deep breath, he continued, "Galaxia, Tranquility, you two are being put in danger right now from this fight and this is not your thing, so your mother and I have decided to send you two to Earth along with the rest of the survivors."
It took about three seconds for it to register in the children's minds before they burst out. "What!?" they shouted.
"But father, I'm capable of fighting, I've had as much experiance as any other soliers here and I also excelled. I am not going to be sepereated as a coward just because you wan tme to. If you dont' want me to fight as prince, then I'll fight as a warrior, for the Sun," he stated clamly, yet hysterical.
"I'm not going to Earth! I'm staying with you!" the stubborn princess replied.
"We understand that you don't want to go, but it's for the best and it's also for the future of the Sun," said King Phoebus.
"But...but...Mom?" questioned Alexia weakly, turning to her mother for help.
"You're not really going to send us to Earth, are you?" Prince Tranquility asked, looking straight into the eyes of his fahter.
The king, unable to meet his son's gaze, turned away and replied, "Yes."
"Mom, we want to be with you, please!" begged the youngest of them all, clinging on to her mother's dress.
"I'm sorry honey, but it's for the best," she replied softly while small tears were in her eyes.
The two siblings stared hard at their parents in a disbeleiving way, before they just kept on refusing to go.
As the refusing continued, one of the soldiers stated, "I'm not leaving. As long as I fight for the Sun, I'll die happily. Your magesties, we were all sworn to protect you and protect you I shall, with my life till the end."
A chorus of yeahs and that's right went through the air before every soldier was on the ground in a kneeling position, bowing to the royal family.
Another one stated, "You've done so much for us already, now it's time to repay you, I'm not turning my back on you."
Queen Eclipse looking at all the soldiers, began to beg, "Please get up, you each have done enough to protect the kingdom, you should have the chance to live your lives now." Trying to get the loyal soldiers from up from the bow, she went on to the first one that was closest and tried to pull him up, but he wouldn't budge, so she continued to try to get the to turn back to their lives and not sacrafice it for them.
"We're not getting up until you agree for us to come!" one of them shouted.
"Yeah!" shouted the rest.
The queen looked tearfully at them before at her husband.
He was looking at them as well, seeming to judge it before saying, "Fine, but it there's any danger, I want you to escape!" he shouted.
"Yes sir!" was heard through out the crowd, everyone getting up and giving a salute.
"Father, we are goigna s well," demanded Prince Tranquility in a firm voice.
"We've been over this already, you aren't to fight," said King Phoebus.
"I promise that if things get out of hand, I'll leave," promised the prince, shining in a manly way, trying to get his father to agree.
Sighing, the king, finally admitted defeat, "Keep you promise, son," he stated before turning away.
"That's no fair, I go too then!" shouted the small princess.
"I'm sorry dear, but you can't lose your life, you're a princess, you won't be able to fight," the queen said solemnly, but firmly.
"But.....but...." she began, but before she could, her father quickly shouted to someone.
"Transport ehr out of here, now!" her father shouted before a royal advisor came foward, a good friend of her parents and put a hand on her shoulder, before trans proting her and him to Earth.
"Mom! Dad! Tranquil....." her yell of anguish echoed before she disapeared.
"Alexia, I'll miss you," whispered the prince, unheard by anyone else as he stared at the spot where his sister once was.
As both of the parents turned around from staring as well, the mighty warrior shotued, "Lets fight for the Sun!"
Yells came in a unision before all of them were transported by the king's instant transportation technique.
End Flashback
"I was brought to Earth by my father's trustful advisor before he left me in the care of the other children, women, and maidens that escaped and were transported there before," Galaxia said tearfully. "I regret that I wasn't able to help, when I got there, it was too late......" she drifted off to continue.
Flashback
Princess Galaxia ran up to the palace steps of the moon kingdom. As she got closer, a palace guard came up with his weapon in front of her.
"You are not to enter the palace without stating your purpose and your name. Without the approval of a member of the royal family, you are not to answer," stated the guard while glaring at her.
"I'm Princess Galaxia of the Sun kingdom and I need to see Princess Serenity immediately," she said urgently.
The gurad looked at her weirdly before having another soldier annousnce, "Princess Galaxia of the Sun kingdom has arrived!"
Before they knew it, they could hear a someone trampling over the palace in a hurry and causing chaos in the beautiful palace. Then as the sound got closer, they saw Princess Serenity come out and rushing towards them.
"Leave us," she commanded with a wave to the guard. Once the soldier was out of sight, she quickly hugged the young princess before pulling back and asking ,"What's happening? Are you alright? Is everyone alright? Where is everyone else?"
Overwhelmed with the questions, the memoreies suddenly resurfaced of the deaths before she began to shake and sob. "They-they......they-they are going to fight and-and......I think that they're going to leave me. Dad-dad- daddy said that if he doesn't come back, take care of myself. But he deosn't know, I don't want to be alone, I want to help!" she sobbed as tears fell freely from her eyes.
Serenity, looking at the younger girl held her close against her chest and let her sob on her while rubbing her back in a reasuring way.
"Don't worry, we'll get them back. I'm going to help," she said to the small princess who was currently crying onto the older one's dress while she held her closely.
Pulling back, her sobbing subsided and her eyes were now puffy. "Real- really?" she asked hopefully.
Giving a smile to her, she nodded her head, "Yes," she replied.
"Can I come?" Alexia asked.
Shaking her head, Serenity said, "You can't, it's too dangerous."
"No, I want to help!" the younger one cried out.
Knowing exactly how stubborn she was, she agreed after a long talk with her, telling her to keep hidden.
"Deal," they agreed.
"How long have they been fighting?" asked Serenity as they secretly got into the transporting room, not wanting to use all her energy to transport them already.
"Well, last time I saw them was two months ago," she said sadly.
"What? Two months!?" she shouted before clamping a hand over her mouth.
"I had a hard time trying to get here," she stated quietly, feeling guilty for not helping them sooner.
Seeing the look on the child, she took her into her embrace then looked her in the eye. "Look, it's not your fault, you tried your best, don't balme yourelf. You've already done more then any other ten year old could do for her kingdom," she said wisely.
Smiling at Serenity, Alexia gave her a hug before they stepped into the transporter. Serenity pushed some differnt buttons before she knew it, she was gone and in a different place.
Looking around, both girls had their mouths hanging open from the sight before them.............
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Well, that's the end of this chapter. I wanted to post soon, so I just ended it here. I feel so guilty, I'm so sorry Mae Kesei, please forgive me for the timing! I'm in a rush here, so I hope you like this chapter so far. Also, good for me, this is the longest chapter I've ever written even though I was hoping it could be longer, oh well. Please review. Ja!
P.S. Please keep on voting for the ways for them to discover Serena is Cosmos. Thanks again for the great reviews.
Disclaimers Apply
Oh yeah, I would also like to dedicate this chapter to Mae Kesei because she was the one that gave me the characters. If you realized, in the last chapter at the bottom it said that if you can give me some background info and the names of the people that I missed, then you'd get the next chapter a week before it comes out. So lucky her, she saved the story twice, as well as getting this chapter first!
Another thing is that some/one of the name(s) I borrowed are from my sister's unfinished story which she doesn't seem to have interest in anymore. Now on with the story!
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"Hey Serena! What's up?" asked Gohan as he caught up with her taking a walk around the woods.
Serena looked at him and forced on a smile. "Nothing, just tired," she said as though nothing went wrong. Pausing for a second, she exclaimed, "I'll see you later Gohan, I need to exercise more often. Meet you at home, bye!" she shouted before dashing off in a run.
*I wonder what's the matter* though Gohan as he watched her run off. Even though she said that nothing was wrong, by looking at her face, he could tell that something upset her greatly because she didn't have such a happy face on as she usually did. She seemed to have forced on the smile and her eyes were a little puffy and pink from crying before or something.
"Hmm, I guess she just got upset over something, she'll probably be her cheerful self again tomorrow," he reasoned with himself so that he'd stop worrying about her.
After talking to himself for a while, he began to jog as well, but not taking the same route as Serena did. He instead took a longer way home by running around the woods in which she just cut through to be in time for lunch. The last time he saw her was only five hours ago at seven.
*I wonder who that girl was* he thought silently. *She almost looked like someone familiar, but then again, how could I forget someone like that?* he asked himself, thinking about the girl, no lady that he saw in Serena's bedroom. *Honestly, the way Serena acts and stuff, she'd look just like the girl I saw if it was just a picture of her soul. So kind, and sweet......* he drifted off in his own thoughts.
Piccolo
*What could it have been?* he thought to himself. Everytime he tried to meditate, he always saw the same silver light that he saw earlier in the morning and it was starting to annoy him as well as the vision he couldn't figure out.
*There must be something connected to all this, and I bet that Serena had something to do with it* he concluded, thinking that the premonitions were trying to tell him something.
Flashback
Piccolo was meditating once again, only a few minutes after the flash. Suddenly, he saw nothing except for white. Light colors began to come in form as scenes.
"Will I see you again soon?" asked a girl that seemed to be only fifteen. Everything was kind of hazy and foggy, so he couldn't see much all except for blonde hair that seemed to be spun of gold and a gold crescent moon glowing brightly on the forehead. She was wearing a white gown that was fit for a princess with light jewelry which made her seem even more unreal. it seemed like a fairytale.
*What does this mean?* Piccolo thought, standing only a few meters away form them, studying them intently.
"Shhh," the man hushed her, he black ebony hair that contrasted with the girl's hair. he was wearing what seemed to be an armor of royal blue, almost as dark as midnight and had goldish orangish swirls around the uniform. He was also wearing a royal blue cape, but that's all he could see from where Piccolo was standing in the foggy place, the mysterious guy's back facing him. "I'll see you as soon as I can," he stated in a very caring tone that seemed as though he didn't want anything to happen to her.
"But, you know that they'll catch us sooner or later, why must we be apart?" she asked sadly.
"My princess, it is duty and for your sake, I will not allow you to destroy your future reign just for me," he said seriously, yet softly. "You know that my kingdom will be joining the alliance soon."
"I know, but, what if I never see you again and you get caught, I don't coming here, as long as I can see you, my love," she pleaded, almost in the brink of tears.
*What's going on?* Piccolo thought, wondering what separated the two and why he even had this vision.
"I promise you, I'll see you again. To make it a promise and that you'll always remember me, we'll make a seal of our love and hide it where it'll never be discovered until we could be together," he said. "Do you want to promise that our love is true and that we'll always be together?"
"Yes, I'll always be with you," she said in a tearful, yet happy way.
As the haziness disappeared a little, Piccolo could now see a flat crystal that you would write on if you were to carve it out of stone. Inside of it, you can see little goldenish and orangish flames dancing inside.
Both of them stood infront of it, side by side and holding each other as they began to say something together.
Piccolo almost couldn't hear them, but with his expert ears, he heard their words:
"In time and space,
Even when the world comes to an end,
Together we stay,
Our love never broken,
Bond to each other,
For eternity and beyond,
Our hearts will search,
Till the end,
Until we find each other,
We will look forever,
United again,
Our love will last,
And together we stay,
In each other's grasp,
Love will blossom,
And memories surfaced,
Our love shall reign,
Until our last breath,
Till the end."
The words ended as the couple embraced each other. The silver and gold writing glowed brightly before it just became letters engraved in silver on the crystal.
Piccolo blinked, he swore he remembered seeing something like that stone before along with this orangish, golden landscape, but while he was thinking, the sound of trumpets being played could be heard. "The Guardian Namek has arrived, the royal court is required to meet in the entrance room along with the king, queen and prince," shouted the voice of a guard.
The maiden looked around, and then quickly looked at her prince with an expression that Piccolo couldn't see, but he could tell it was sadness.
"I must go, you mustn't get caught," he said quietly, then left while the girl called after him.
"Please come back to me safely," she called.
As the believed to be prince as Piccolo had confirmed, walked towards the castle, he could see the cape of the visitor. It startled him very much to see that it looked almost exactly like him. Actually, even from the point of view he was in and the distance, he could defiantly make out himself, he wore the same thing as he wore now.
While thinking deeply for a connection, he suddenly felt propelled from the place and backward into time.
End Flashback
Piccolo awoke in shock. It was odd, everytime he had the vision, he remembered the words on the stone clearly, but now that he tried to remember again, he couldn't get anything. The words seemed to have disappeared from his mind already.
Serena
"Why did you two have to leave me?!" she shouted out over the lake to the skies, expecting an answer, but finding none. "And I was never able to tell you that I forgave you," she stated quietly as small sobs bagan to rack her body, ones that she grieved only for her true friends.
Serena collapsed on the ground and watched silently as tears fell from her eyes how nature played it's course. Birds were chirping, ducks were quacking and fish were swimming, having no care in the world and not knowing that a fight could come any time.
*If only I could be as carefree as them* she thought, remembering the times from when her Cosmos form wasn't awakened and she was as bubbly and as happy as the animals and nature sorrounding her, but not, everything turned upside down, she didn't find any love, she didn't have her friends, and even the ones she did, are going to die.
"I wonder if there's anyone out there for me anymore. Gain friends, lose them, gain them again, and then they betray you. My family, they loved me, even though I was a bad student, they tried, and yet, I leave them, I'm never going to have peace, aren't I, Trista, Hotaru?" she asked outloud solemnly to the sky again.
Pluto and Saturn
"Who are you? Reveal yourself!" shouted Pluto to the approaching figure.
"Nice to see you too, Pluto," said the obvious woman as she came closer.
When she was close enough, Saturn jumped foward in rememberance of the person.
"Galaxia!" announced Saturn before giving her a big hug like a child.
Now not as protective, Pluto said, "Galaxia, what's going on and why are we here? Shouldn't we be dead?"
"So many questions to ask Pluto. I'm afraid that I can't be fully truthful, but I'll give you the basics that I know, for I haven't figured everything out myself yet," she stated calmly.
"Well, then just tell me what you know, then we'll be able to help princess whether she forgives us or not," whispered Saturn with a downcast look.
"Don't worry little one, she'll forgive you, right now, she grieves herself for the loss," assured Galaxia.
"Really? Why would she blame herself, we're the ones that didn't do anything to help her," questioned Saturn with hope in her eyes.
"You two are her true friends, and always will, you knew that you couldn't hurt her in your hearts," stated Galaxia gently while putting her hand over her heart to help expalin what she said.
"So can we go to her? The other scouts are after her," added Pluto.
"Yes, you may, but first I must tell you what I know so that we could fight with her," she said, getting their attention.
Nodding their heads for her to continue, she began her part.
"As you know, there is a rumor that once there was life on the Sun, and the rumor was true. It was a magestic kingdom that was ruled by my parents who were fair and kind to all the people. My older brother, Tranquility, was to take the role of king once my parents' rule was over. My parents were King Phoesbus and Queen Eclipse. It all started like this......
Flashback
"Higher, higher!" exclaimed a little girl with redish orange hair on a swing. The sorroundings were beautiful, with flowers blossoming all over and the sky a a pale orange yellow.
"Okay, Alexia, hold on tight!" shouted the young adult who looked to be about seventeen and the little girl ten.
"Wee! Wee!" laughed the little girl.
The teenager laughed at his sister's antics and began to push her again so that she kept the same height.
The little girl looked up at the window where she could see her parents being cooped up in the room and talking with another messenger. Her smile slowly faded away until it turned into longing.
"Why can't Mommy and Daddy play anymore?" she asked innocently.
Her brother suddenly stopped laughing, seeing as to how serious this was. "Mom and Dad are making peace relationships so that we could join the alliance and so that we could be happy."
"But why can't they just sign it and join?" she questioned with wide golden eyes.
"Welll...." started the brother, but stopped for a moment to think about something before answering, "There's going to be a fight and since we're doing two at once, one of peace, one of fighting, then there's a problem and it's hard to do, because our enemies are getting closer."
The child looked at him confused for a while, thinking it over slowly, and then replied, "Oh.....okay. Higher, higher!" she exclaimed in confusion at first, then in excitement.
The older one just shook his head back and forth, *Only if you knew the truth about the life, dear sister* he thought sadly before putting on a smile and complying to the youngster's wish.
End Flashback
".........My brother was very nice and kind to me, he tried to protect me from the dangers and took all the pain on himself when my parents were busy and I was alone," she said sadly. "At the time, I was too young and didn't know much about the true world, so I was naiive.War?" she laughed sadly in bitterness, "I never knew war until it was too late," she said looking up and continueing with her story.
Flashback
Alexia looked around at the falling buildings and the villages, kingsom and her castle in ruins. A million thoughts ran through her head as she searched helplessly for her parents or some one. Guards and soldiers of the Sun army were seen fighting against black creatures like monsters.
Suddenly, one of the creatures came up to her with a black sword, soaked with blood and was about to kill her. "Aaah!" she sreamed in fright at she thought that her death was coming, when a figure suddenly pushed her out of the way. He was a Namekian and looked at her.
"Princess, what are you doing here? You should be with the royal guards and your family," questioned the Namekian while protecting himself and her.
"I can't find them...help me please," she sobbed near tears.
"Princess, watch out!" he shouted as he pushed her out of the path of the descending sword, but got wounded in the should during the process. As he fought with the monster, the match was hard and both were tired and panting, when the Namekian destroyed it with a ki ball to the chest. "Run Princess, get away and rescue yourself!" he shouted before clashing swords again with another.
The princess, too scared to move, stood trembling until the Namekian yelled once again, "Run!" which shook her out of her stupor.
She trembled and fell a couple of times as she ran as fast as she could, never stopping until she was in the gardens, with pillars fallen, and bodies littering the ground before her.
"Help me," one of the soldiers begged as he layed sprawled on the ground, tugging on her her dress.
"Aaah!" she sreamed, but seeing who it as a fallen soldier, she attempted to help him up, but before she could, another falling pillar that was on fire with the vines wrapped around it came tumbling down.
Alexia stood in fright and watched as it slowly fell, closing her eyes, will for the scene to go away. Out of nowhere, another figure came out and pushed her down, just in time to avoid the fallen pillar as dust and peices of golden, orangish came flying out in all directions.
"Ugh," muttered the person as they came crashing down together.
She began to shake in fright, hearing the piercing scream of the soldier that she wasn't able to rescue, being smashed by the chunk of soloid, or the orangish, golden crystal the the entire palace is made out of. Tears spilled out in a rush as she stared at the corpse that had stopped screaming and was burning in flames. She then finally noticed that she was being shaken by the shoulders by her savior.
Looking up, she cried out, "Tranquility!" in relief, happiness, and sadness.
"Sshhh," he soothed as he stroked her back lightly while she sobbed onto his dirty armor wear.
After the sobbing subsided a little, the older youth took her in his arms princess style and carried her deeper into the gardens while dodging all the obstacles. "We have to get out of here and you safe," he answered to the unasked question.
Alexia nodded in a deazed response and hanged on to her brother for dear life as he ran from the chaos. She then realized that they were in the very deep parts of the garden and it was where the plants grew wildly without being taimed.
Pushing bushes out of the way, Prince Tranquility began to burrow into a sheltered passage like cave that was large.. It was slightly dark and you couldn't be seen, so it was a perfect hiding spot.
"Stay here until some one comes for you," he commanded before getting up to leave.
"But, but...don't leave me, I don't want to be alone!" she cried, stretching her arms out to reach for him, but he just seemed to ignore her and went out.
Princess Galaxia srambled out in attempt to catch her brother, but when she poked her head out, there was another one of those demons while tailing a guard. The guard tripped and fell, allowing the monster to come closer.
The guard, seeing her, grapped her leg and begged, "Please help me!", but before he could finish, the creature grabbed him by the leg and pulled him towards himself.
"Please!" he shouted for the last time before the creature punctured it's claws into the chest of the body and gripped it with the other hand before tearing the soldier in half to shreds.
Alexia stiffled a sream of horror while covering her mouth as she saw the scene and blood spilled across her golden gown and the sticky substance splattered against her pale face. The blood dripped ever so slowly off as she crouched in the same position without moving for the fear of her life in stake as she knew.
The creature looked around, right at the place she was at, before drawing nearer....and nearer. Just about three meters away from her hiding spot in the dense bushes, the villian grunted before disapearing abck the way it came, towards the battle feild.
Bidding her brother's warning for sure, she quickly crawled back into the hide out and waited while rocking herself back and forth, trying to ignore the sounds of death, blood splatter, clashing of swords and the screams that echoed in the distance. She sat alone at the very back of the cave which was pretty large, it shoudl be as large as the throne room.
After what seemed like eternity staring at the ground and rocking without blinking, she began to drift off to sleep. She sobbed uncautiously as she slept while tears cascaded down her cheeks, flecked with dry blood.
A while later, she was shooken awake. "Wake up Alexia!" the voice urged quietly as she opened her weary eyes.
"Mommy!" she shouted while propelling herself towards her mother. "What happen?" she asked while looking at everyone. There was her brother, her father, and only about one thousand warrors left out of the ten thousand. She then bagan to wonder how big this cave really was.
Trying ot find the right words, her father began, "Alexia, we're being attacked and are at war," he said while seemingly to try to make a tough decision.
"Father, what's the matter?" asked Prince Tranquility while looking at the king suspiciously.
Drawing in a deep breath, he continued, "Galaxia, Tranquility, you two are being put in danger right now from this fight and this is not your thing, so your mother and I have decided to send you two to Earth along with the rest of the survivors."
It took about three seconds for it to register in the children's minds before they burst out. "What!?" they shouted.
"But father, I'm capable of fighting, I've had as much experiance as any other soliers here and I also excelled. I am not going to be sepereated as a coward just because you wan tme to. If you dont' want me to fight as prince, then I'll fight as a warrior, for the Sun," he stated clamly, yet hysterical.
"I'm not going to Earth! I'm staying with you!" the stubborn princess replied.
"We understand that you don't want to go, but it's for the best and it's also for the future of the Sun," said King Phoebus.
"But...but...Mom?" questioned Alexia weakly, turning to her mother for help.
"You're not really going to send us to Earth, are you?" Prince Tranquility asked, looking straight into the eyes of his fahter.
The king, unable to meet his son's gaze, turned away and replied, "Yes."
"Mom, we want to be with you, please!" begged the youngest of them all, clinging on to her mother's dress.
"I'm sorry honey, but it's for the best," she replied softly while small tears were in her eyes.
The two siblings stared hard at their parents in a disbeleiving way, before they just kept on refusing to go.
As the refusing continued, one of the soldiers stated, "I'm not leaving. As long as I fight for the Sun, I'll die happily. Your magesties, we were all sworn to protect you and protect you I shall, with my life till the end."
A chorus of yeahs and that's right went through the air before every soldier was on the ground in a kneeling position, bowing to the royal family.
Another one stated, "You've done so much for us already, now it's time to repay you, I'm not turning my back on you."
Queen Eclipse looking at all the soldiers, began to beg, "Please get up, you each have done enough to protect the kingdom, you should have the chance to live your lives now." Trying to get the loyal soldiers from up from the bow, she went on to the first one that was closest and tried to pull him up, but he wouldn't budge, so she continued to try to get the to turn back to their lives and not sacrafice it for them.
"We're not getting up until you agree for us to come!" one of them shouted.
"Yeah!" shouted the rest.
The queen looked tearfully at them before at her husband.
He was looking at them as well, seeming to judge it before saying, "Fine, but it there's any danger, I want you to escape!" he shouted.
"Yes sir!" was heard through out the crowd, everyone getting up and giving a salute.
"Father, we are goigna s well," demanded Prince Tranquility in a firm voice.
"We've been over this already, you aren't to fight," said King Phoebus.
"I promise that if things get out of hand, I'll leave," promised the prince, shining in a manly way, trying to get his father to agree.
Sighing, the king, finally admitted defeat, "Keep you promise, son," he stated before turning away.
"That's no fair, I go too then!" shouted the small princess.
"I'm sorry dear, but you can't lose your life, you're a princess, you won't be able to fight," the queen said solemnly, but firmly.
"But.....but...." she began, but before she could, her father quickly shouted to someone.
"Transport ehr out of here, now!" her father shouted before a royal advisor came foward, a good friend of her parents and put a hand on her shoulder, before trans proting her and him to Earth.
"Mom! Dad! Tranquil....." her yell of anguish echoed before she disapeared.
"Alexia, I'll miss you," whispered the prince, unheard by anyone else as he stared at the spot where his sister once was.
As both of the parents turned around from staring as well, the mighty warrior shotued, "Lets fight for the Sun!"
Yells came in a unision before all of them were transported by the king's instant transportation technique.
End Flashback
"I was brought to Earth by my father's trustful advisor before he left me in the care of the other children, women, and maidens that escaped and were transported there before," Galaxia said tearfully. "I regret that I wasn't able to help, when I got there, it was too late......" she drifted off to continue.
Flashback
Princess Galaxia ran up to the palace steps of the moon kingdom. As she got closer, a palace guard came up with his weapon in front of her.
"You are not to enter the palace without stating your purpose and your name. Without the approval of a member of the royal family, you are not to answer," stated the guard while glaring at her.
"I'm Princess Galaxia of the Sun kingdom and I need to see Princess Serenity immediately," she said urgently.
The gurad looked at her weirdly before having another soldier annousnce, "Princess Galaxia of the Sun kingdom has arrived!"
Before they knew it, they could hear a someone trampling over the palace in a hurry and causing chaos in the beautiful palace. Then as the sound got closer, they saw Princess Serenity come out and rushing towards them.
"Leave us," she commanded with a wave to the guard. Once the soldier was out of sight, she quickly hugged the young princess before pulling back and asking ,"What's happening? Are you alright? Is everyone alright? Where is everyone else?"
Overwhelmed with the questions, the memoreies suddenly resurfaced of the deaths before she began to shake and sob. "They-they......they-they are going to fight and-and......I think that they're going to leave me. Dad-dad- daddy said that if he doesn't come back, take care of myself. But he deosn't know, I don't want to be alone, I want to help!" she sobbed as tears fell freely from her eyes.
Serenity, looking at the younger girl held her close against her chest and let her sob on her while rubbing her back in a reasuring way.
"Don't worry, we'll get them back. I'm going to help," she said to the small princess who was currently crying onto the older one's dress while she held her closely.
Pulling back, her sobbing subsided and her eyes were now puffy. "Real- really?" she asked hopefully.
Giving a smile to her, she nodded her head, "Yes," she replied.
"Can I come?" Alexia asked.
Shaking her head, Serenity said, "You can't, it's too dangerous."
"No, I want to help!" the younger one cried out.
Knowing exactly how stubborn she was, she agreed after a long talk with her, telling her to keep hidden.
"Deal," they agreed.
"How long have they been fighting?" asked Serenity as they secretly got into the transporting room, not wanting to use all her energy to transport them already.
"Well, last time I saw them was two months ago," she said sadly.
"What? Two months!?" she shouted before clamping a hand over her mouth.
"I had a hard time trying to get here," she stated quietly, feeling guilty for not helping them sooner.
Seeing the look on the child, she took her into her embrace then looked her in the eye. "Look, it's not your fault, you tried your best, don't balme yourelf. You've already done more then any other ten year old could do for her kingdom," she said wisely.
Smiling at Serenity, Alexia gave her a hug before they stepped into the transporter. Serenity pushed some differnt buttons before she knew it, she was gone and in a different place.
Looking around, both girls had their mouths hanging open from the sight before them.............
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Well, that's the end of this chapter. I wanted to post soon, so I just ended it here. I feel so guilty, I'm so sorry Mae Kesei, please forgive me for the timing! I'm in a rush here, so I hope you like this chapter so far. Also, good for me, this is the longest chapter I've ever written even though I was hoping it could be longer, oh well. Please review. Ja!
P.S. Please keep on voting for the ways for them to discover Serena is Cosmos. Thanks again for the great reviews.
