All characters in this story belong to Naoko Takeuchi.

Second Chances

Prologue: Crystal

By: EmeraldSong

It was so cold. The soft gray uniform he wore was no barrier against the biting winds, and the chilling ice. Burns covered his body, leaving his blonde hair almost completely charred off.

So cold.

What had happened? The last and only thing he could recall was a woman's face. Raven hair framed a delicate chin, and beneath ebony bangs two violet eyes filled with, both hate and sorrow stared up at him.

"Rayna" he whispered, then convulsed and fell flat on his face into the snow. Shuddering one last time, Jadeite breathed his last.

"About time." Death muttered as she watched the glimmering little soul of Jadeite float by her. She looked at the corpse on the ground and shook her head. Honestly, her life was busy enough without people messing around with the natural order.

That stupid crystal coffin had kept Jadeite hovering on the brink of death for years, becoming a constant headache for Death. Buried under almost 100 feet of snow and ice, it had taken her forever to track down the anomaly.

She flicked a strand of black hair over her shoulder. That woman Beryl had been a real problem. She grinned almost happily for a moment. Beryl was one of the few souls who would not be reborn again. That was what you got when you interfered with the laws of nature.

Jadeite was one of four souls ripped from their present reincarnations to serve as generals for the evil woman. Deprived of a normal life, Beryl had twisted their minds, and in the case of Zoisite, their natural forms to serve her.

Death grimaced, all the general's souls except Jadeite's had returned to their original bodies when they died. Now that she had found and destroyed his coffin, Jadeite would too.

A continent away, Jason Cutter opened his eyes for the first time in three years. The closed them for a few minutes more as another hand began to shape the future.

No man is born evil. He can do great evil in his life, but no man is beyond Redemption and every man deserves a second chance.

Hi! This is my brand spanking new fanfic. I wanted to wait until I was at least three chapters in on my other one before starting this one.

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