Hey, minna, it's me, the Queen_of_Nemisol. Same SD as before, and YES THEY STILL APPLY.
Chapter Two: Restoration
"Oh, and I am 2,019yrs almost 2,020yrs old."
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"You mean, you've never even died and been reborn?" questioned Haruka.
"No."
"When did you first transform?" asked Michiru.
"The same day the sword chose me. I was a bit shocked when it happened, let me tell you. Solarin's life was in danger from a Demon-King, the first one I ever slew, and suddenly I knew I was the only one who could take him out. Somehow, I don't know how, the words 'Phoenix Change' came to me. I said them, and bing, bang, boom, I was the Warrior. A minute later, and Torlon, the Demon-King was dead."
"You said, 'foreseen'. Were you born with the gift of foresight? Do you have the blood of Chronos in you? Do both of you?" fired Setsuna questions at me.
"Yes, I was. Yes, I do. Yes, 'Nika does too."
"Do you 'foresee', as you said, often? When you do 'foresee', how so?" again Setsuna fired questions at me.
"No, I don't. In visions and dreams. And before you ask, the way I can tell a foresight dream from an ordinary dream is by the fact that I remember them when I wake up. Is that all the questions for now?" I replied and asked a question of my own at the same time.
"For now," they chorused.
Then, "Can I see your car now?" this was from Haruka.
"Yes, you may, come on. 'Nika, you mind being alone with these other two for now?"
"No, I don't mind. 'Sides, I think Pluto wants to talk to me."
"Got that right. I most certainly do."
::You sure, Sis?::
::I am.::
::OK::
"This way. The car, along with my bike, is in my garage." I told Haruka. "Oh, and before I go, the gentleman (I said this word rather snidely) standing there beside Annika, is Lord Quartzite, Prince Endymion's former Training and Combat Master, and he is her Consort."
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We were in the garage, Haruka and I, with our heads under my hood, when the watch (her communicator) that she wore suddenly went off, seemingly as though the hounds of hell were after it. Haruka looked startled at the sound, said, "I cannot get used to these things," and then, "Sorry, but I gotta run."
"That's cool. Mind if I tag along? 'Cause even if you do, I'm going to be doing so anyway," I told her.
"After what I heard in there, that does not surprise me," then to whoever was calling on her communicator, "I'm on my way."
"Me too," came Michiru and Setsuna's voices at the same time.
"We're en route," came a chorus of voices.
"Well, I'll see you there," I told her.
"Ok."
When I arrived at the battle site, it was to see the Senshi going full-bore against a troupe of youmas. I juts stayed there, crouching on a tree branch, and watched them fight. They were giving quite a good accounting of themselves, too.
"MARS CELESTIAL FIRE SURROUND", "VENUS LOVE CHAIN ENCIRCLE", and "JUPITER THUNDERCLAP ZAP" hit a youma all at once, dusting it.
"SOLAR FLARE" and "CRESCENT MOONBEAM STRIKE", along with "MOON TIARA MAGIC" took out three more, respectively.
"DEEP SUBMERGE", "WORLD SHAKING", and "DEAD SCREAM" took out half-a-dozen more, followed by "MOON SCEPTER ELIMINATION" which took out the last few youmas.
Then there came a gasp from the Senshi, as the Generals Kunzite, Zoicite, Nephrite, and Jeadite appeared.
"You're DEAD!!!" they exclaimed.
"Oh, really, we are? I happen to feel quite alive," Jeadite replied, "How about you guys?" he asked the other three.
"Us too."
"MOON SCEPTER—" Sailor Moon started to say before I stopped her.
"PHOENIX STASIS COMPLETE" I shouted, shocking everyone in the clearing, as I dropped from the tree in which I had been crouching. As I strode into the clearing, I was getting looks of betrayal from the Outer Senshi, (Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto). Shock from the Inners, (Mercury, Jupiter, Mars, Venus) and Moon. Puzzled from Sol, Earth, Crescent Moon, Saturn, the Guardians, and the Generals.
"I am sorry Senshi, but I cannot let you slay these four. Evil they are now, but once they were the trusted guards, generals, friends, and advisors of Endymion, before they were brainwashed and controlled by Beryl and the Negaforce. The time for their restoration has come this very day, as I have foreseen. I will not let you slay them," this last I spoke from directly in front of the four Generals, who also, were under the Stasis. Reaching up with my right hand, I removed an armband from around my upper left arm, a band that looked to made of silver and gold. I transferred it to my left hand (which was gloved), and raising it, touched it to the cheek of Kunzite.
There spread upward from his feet to engulf his body entirely, a cloud of myriad-colored lights, which revealed, when it dissipated, the uniform that he had worn before his coercion. Then taking the same band, I turned to Zoicite, and repeated my actions. The cloud of lights appeared and did the same thing, with the same results.
I then replaced the band on my arm, removed a band from my upper right arm, touched it to the cheek of Nephrite, with the same thing happening and the same result. Replacing it on my arm, both hands reached up, behind my neck, to unfasten a chain, upon which depended a pendant of an unusual stone, held within a light cage of silver. With the pendant in my left hand, chain dangling, I touched stone and cage to the cheek of Jeadite. The cloud appeared, dissipated, revealing the same uniform as the other three. My head jerked up, and I whirled around to see appearing behind me a woman whose likeness I well knew.
"It's been a long time, MOTHER. I had not expected to see you here, though, after this little stunt, I should have," I spoke to her.
"Who are you to dare address me, the mighty Negaforce, thusly?" She cried out. (AN: Rather dramatically, I would say.)
I replied, "I am one whom cannot be touched be time. I am a child of Dark and a child of Light. I am one whom disease and illness cannot touch. I wield that which was forged before time immemorial. I wield what time has not, cannot, and will never touch. I wield the Phoenix Blade. I am the Phoenix Warrior. And, I am she was once was your daughter, Metalia."
"How dare you utter that name to me? A name that I shed when I shed the flesh that I once bore? How dare you speak to me, thus!?" she shrieked.
"I dare, because I can, Metalia. I am after all, your daughter. By blood only, I will admit. No longer of spirit, but by blood, still. Nothing that you do, will ever change that. No matter what, nor how hard, you try, it will always be thus," I told her.
All of a sudden, a sword appeared out of nowhere as she rushed at me. Dancing backwards, I called out "STASIS RELEASE", and at the same time, drew my own sword to meet hers as it thrust at me. The Senshi and Generals drew together at one side of the clearing to watch a battle the like of which they had never before seen, except for Usagi, and then, she had been one of those fighting.
The Senshi saw her draw back and wince at every blow she struck, as she sighed in relief as they were blocked. "Sailor Moon, why do you react so strongly to what we are watching?" they asked.
In reply she told them, "Because, the last time I saw a battle like this, it was with Galaxia, and then, I was one half of it."
"Oh," they now understood her reactions.
They watched as we drove each other back in turn. Then with a mighty two-handed blow, she knocked me flying and onto my back.
Slowly I got up and looked at her astonished face (for she had expected me to be out cold from the blow). Walking to within three paces of her, I looked her in the eye and spoke, slowly and quietly, "I will not let you destroy this planet, nor will I let you kill billions of innocent people."
"PHOENIX POWER!!!" with those shouted words, I began to transform.
The Senshi and Metalia watched as a great bird-shaped flame surrounded me. When it was gone, there I stood, looking at her with determination and pain (she was, after all, my mother,) in my eyes. Yet there was a difference about me as well, for instead of a diadem on my forehead, there was a bird-shaped flame. Then in two quick moves, I thrust through the direct center of her chest. Holding my blade steady, I looked at her, saw her shock that I had actually done this, before her body imploded, and disappeared.
Slowly, I turned around to face the assembled Senshi, including Memory, ::Goodbye, my sister.::
"::Tsornin!!!::" she cried out, both mentally and aloud.
"Goodbye, Senshi," I said quietly to them, then collapsed.
They saw my hand clench convulsively around the hilt of my sword then relax, the sword slipping out of my hand. They saw the ghostly flames die on my blade. It was then that they knew that I was dead. They saw Memory collapse sobbing in Quartzite's arms. They looked up at Crescent Moon's gasp, and saw my body become naught but ash.
Then there came into their minds a voice that spoke thus:
"Though these words were spoken,
'My life I give,
That the world might live.'
It is given in gratitude, this token,
A life for a life
For her time has not come.
Like the one whose name she bears,
She too shall rise from her own ashes."
Meanwhile, as they were hearing this, I was too. *I do not understand this. I knew I would die when I killed my mother.* I thought.
::Not so. That was only when you killed the largest part of her. When you kill the other parts of her, this will not happen.::
::Oh.::
::Now, return and live as happily as possible. You deserve peace and rest by rights, but…::
::It was not meant to be. For a while, anyhow.::
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Well, how did that go? Quite a cliffhanger, huh? If not, and even if it was, please write. I'd really like it, especially if you have any advice to give a fledgling writer.
Ja ne,
Queen_of-Nemisol.