Chapter 2: I know
A brilliant flash of red light and the sky seemed to split open in two.
Jadeite sprang up out of his eat to see where the comet may have landed. But as soon as he had his wits about him, it was gone. Everything in the world was as it had always been. The crickets were chirping and the moon, Mars, and it's two moons were still hanging in the sky above. Everything was silent. Completely silent.
"What in the world was…" and Jadeite started to wander around.
"Maybe I'm crazy. I'm just crazy but…" He rubbed his eyes. "Maybe I'm just sleepy."
She had been on the planet for a good hour now. She decided that the Earth was a little too green for her tastes but she liked it well enough. It seemed to be a planet full of kind people. Corruptible, she invariably noted, but kind.
The last stop on her trip to Earth was the palace it's self. She was wandering in the forest looking up through the trees at the white castle above. It seemed to shine with a holy glow. It was clean and very tall. She had seen pictures of it before but in person it looked regal and alive, even at this sleepy state of night. But something from inside was not as comforting as could be. She felt some deep desire for power emanating from its depths. It was this feeling she had been looking for. Something so twisted and manipulatable… but who was it coming from?
It was this fact that made her lose wicked sharp sense for a moment. She was concentrating all her focus on the smell of envy when a snap of a twig in the night brought her abruptly back to the scene that she was being watched. She turned with a sharp "Who-?"
In a flash there was a crack and a blaze of fire shot across the forest. Her captor was burned across the shoulder and she was scuffled. The struggle lasted only a few moments before she was captured.
His arms were locked tightly around her middle pinning her arms to her sides and to her front so she couldn't move her hands to burn her captor without burning herself.
"Release me this instant!" She raged to the skies.
"Quiet!" he whispered into her ear. "Unless you want to be caught by the guards!"
"I don't need help from you. Let me go right now!"
"Stop you're wiggling and I will!" he whispered harshly into her ear.
Even though her rage she wasn't blind enough to ignore sense when she heard it. She gave a one last heave of effort and frustration and she let her flailing die down.
"Can I trust you?" He said calmly loosening his grip a little bit.
She nodded.
He wasn't stupid. He thought for a moment before slowly untwining his fingers from around her.
"Let me go." She whispered impatiently.
But she hardly needed to say it. When she jerked away he let go willingly out of surprise.
It was a woman. A beautiful woman no matter how scandaly clad. Well, come to think of it, she wasn't all that immodest. She was covered from neck to waist in white and her hips flaunted a skirt of red. Even her arms had sleeves. Her fingers and long arms were covered in elegant white gloves.
She would have attacked but the surprise of being let go put her off balance for a moment.
"Do you have any idea who I am?" Her glare was murderous. "I am-" But she stopped and changed the course of her thoughts. The boy didn't know who she was. But how could he not? He was staring dumb founded and open mouthed at her. His eyes seemed to show he wasn't listening to her.
He was looking at her like she wasn't even human. In an instant she realized what was wrong. She was still a senshi. Perhaps he knew of her as a child in a myth, saving the galaxy time after time in a tale to protect him form worry. No one suspected that their princesses they loved and adored were really fighting warriors. They looked so feeble in their normal state.
And to hide the fact further, there was a sort of film over a persons mind to hide the appearance of the senshi looking like the princesses. To anyone who didn't already know the secret, the two would be completely different people. So it would be safe to say magic protected her.
Slowly she chose her words and calmly she spoke them. "Sailor Mars."
He nodded slowly.
"Sailor Mars." He repeated. 'So' He thought, 'the legendary protectors are just people. Well hidden and violent, girls. And this one looks my age.'
"How old are you?"
"Ack!" She comicly was knocked to the side by the odd question. "That's the only question you have?"
"Well you look so young."
She raised an eyebrow. He was right.
"Are we in trouble?"
"What?"
"Earth. Is that why you're here?"
"I don't know." She wanted to look back at the Earth palace and get back to the feeling that had caused her to come. Of course she could not do that now. The appearance of this boy was distracting her from the evil. She knew very well that she would not get any more research done tonight. But as soon as she thought so, the mission was swept from her mind.
"Oh." He stopped and blinked at her. He thought for a moment. And said. "Me too." He turned his head to the sky above them. They were still just inside the forest. The sky lit up with thousands of stars and lives sent a white gleam onto his fair skin patches of trees shading him ever here and there. They swayed with an unfelt wind but the whispering sound of the quiet sleepers around them gave it a quixotic air.
She wasn't about to ask him what was on his mind. She watched him and waited with him with pursed red lips. He was a fair boy. He was taller than she was with light blond hair that settled perfectly across a youthful and noble brow. He had a happy face and small wrinkles at the sides of two beautiful blue eyes. He was like some kind of storybook knight in shining armor just descended from a black steed.
Now that they were no longer fighting she was able to look at him. He was a boy around her own age; maybe a year or two older. He didn't move his head from the sky but his blue eyes looked at her. The glow of the sky made his blue eyes shine.
She could leave now without his notice but she felt as if she could not. Like it would be cruel to leave him now. Play a trick on his mind and let him be ridiculed by telling the truth. That's what her mind told her. Her heart simply didn't want to leave. Why?
She sighed outwardly.
In the distance they could hear a dog barking into the night. Men at the gates were bringing their animals to find what had made the noise earlier.
He watched her
"I have to go."
"Oh." He looked a little sad to her.
She didn't move though.
"Will I see you again?"
"Maybe."
He nodded in compliance. He reached out to her and took her hand. He help it by her wrist while the other hand picked one of the fingers of her glove. He watched her eyes for resistance as he pulled it off revealing long slender fingers. He shifted her delicate hand into to cuffed palm of his own. He brought her pale, warm fingers to his lips and he kissed them.
She let him watching him all the way with flat black and purple eyes. She tried to ignore the shiver of emotions.
Back at home she closed her sliding bedroom door behind her. She let her forehead rest to the door and she cuddled her body close to it. She bent her elbows and brought her hand to her mid-chest. She ran one hand over the other.
Even as she folded back her comforter and changed back into a nightgown of white, she thought about him. She could almost feel in the room something different. She didn't dare look up at the earth, which was suspended so elegantly in the sky just outside her window until she lay safely in the warm bed. Phobos was at the corner of her window overlooking Mars.
The entire planet she represented and reigned had changed in just a few moments. Her home, her life, and even her soft sheets felt different. Suddenly there was someone she knew, a reminiscent of herself, living on that floating paradise who's light made a brilliant square across her room.
As she drifted off to sleep and closed her eyes, she did not dream in sticky colors. And finally, just before crossing into a content comfortable sleep she dozed that he was with her.
And she did not feel alone.
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