Author's note: hmm. Let's see I take out and add a LOT to the story so…don't get all angry with me and say "what happened to this part?" or "That never happened!" because this is fanfiction. A story made by a fan. Okay? If I were sticking to everything perfectly it would be boring because you'd know what was going to happen. And I hate stories that are predictable, you follow? So, you may go and read my story now. But first the ages…
Ages:
(I'm sticking closer to the movie with this part…I mean…who would want Frodo to be 50 years old with a pot belly? …Not me. So yeah.)
Hotaru: 18
Legolas: …1500? I don't know. He looks to be in his early 20s. (I'm sticking to the movie about how he looks because Orlando Bloom is cute with blonde hair, blue eyes, and pointy ears ^_^ and the guy knows how to shoot an arrow, whoo.)
Frodo: 23 (33 in the beginning of the Fellowship book right? well....that's too old so there!)
Peregrin (Pippin): 24
Samwise (Sam): 23
Meredoc (Merry): 24
Gandalf: …old.
Boromir: 28
Aragorn: 29
Gimli: 33
The others are all around the same age except the grown-ups and the elfs.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The time for BSSM is when Usagi has been crowned queen, and Chibiusa has been born and is 15. The Crystal Palace has been constructed (duh) and there haven't been any youma attacks for a little under 300 years. The senshi have all been demoted in rank due to rustiness and no practice, the inners are at their super stage, the outers are at their first transformation stage, and Chibiusa who isn't the one from the future has never fought a battle so is at her first stage. The time for Middle Earth peoples is…at the very beginning of the book/movie. I will be using the book's spelling for elfs instead of elves. And, I need to know who you guys want me to pair Hotaru with. Legolas? Frodo? Pippin? Merry? Sam? Boromir? Gimli (shudder)? Aragorn? NOT GANDALF that would just be…scary to write.
End important note
Alright. On to the story ^_^
Hotaru Goes to Middle Earth
Chapter One
By:
Vale (Saturn Angels)
Hotaru looked at her 'papa' making eye contact. The two stayed in that position until Haruka's eyes began to water and she was forced to blink. Hotaru had beaten the unbeatable at the staring contest. The battle of wits was about to begin.
Haruka wiped her eyes with her sleeve and cleared her throat, "You're not going to that party Taru-chan." She said in the firm, no-arguing tone.
"Haruka…you're only young once, just let her go to the party…" Michiru said leaning against the wooden table that was placed in the center of the kitchen, where the four outer senshi were. She continued, "Chibiusa will be there as well."
"As if that makes it any better!" Haruka muttered angrily as she turned to face Michiru, "She may be our future queen…but everyone knows she's boy-crazy!"
Hotaru sweatdropped, 'True…true' she thought as she sweatdropped still and looked at Setsuna to make Haruka let her go to her high school graduation party.
Setsuna stayed ponderously silent as she slowly took sips from her tea.
"What do you think about this, Setsuna?" Haruka asked still very much agitated.
Setsuna set down her cup, cleared her throat, and looked at Haruka, "I think she would figure out a way to go to that party one way or another, so you best just let her have the car keys before she's late."
Haruka sighed in defeat seeing that no one was on her side. She handed over the keys to her blue metallic sports car sulkily, which Hotaru grabbed quickly before Haruka could change her mind. She ran up to Setsuna, "Thank you Setsuna-mama." She went to get her coat and shoes on. She was already wearing the clothes she would wear to the party; she didn't want to wear a dress or anything that she usually wore. So she instead chose to wear denim flares with two black belts that crisscrossed, and a 'one size fits most' 'No Boundaries' baby blue halter-top, (A/N: I don't own No Boundaries! K? But I do own a couple of those halter tops…in different colors…mwaha.) black combat boots underneath her flares which went up to just below her knee; like her senshi boots but black, and a black long coat. "If you dent that car, or even scratch it, you are grounded!" Haruka said and Hotaru nodded and gave a small mock salute, "Sir, yes ma'am." She said with a grin then hugged Michiru and Haruka who were sweatdropping.
"Be back before midnight," Michiru added as Hotaru made her way out the door.
"I'll try. See you guys later!" Hotaru called back as she walked outside closing the door behind her. Haruka's car was parked in the driveway. It was a blue metallic sports-car convertible.
She hopped in grinning, this was her first time in the driver seat of Haruka's favored car. Usually Haruka would make her use Michiru's car, or Haruka's yellow convertible, "I'll remember this moment for the rest of my life." Hotaru said with a small smile as she started up the car and drove to Chibiusa's house, Chibiusa had one more week before her sixteenth birthday and hadn't gotten her driver's license yet. So Hotaru, not wanting to go to the party alone, invited Chibiusa to go with her. She stopped suddenly when she realized that she had almost passed the Crystal Palace. She honked the horn twice and what seemed like two seconds later Chibiusa came running out, her kitten, Diana, perched on her head, and had jumped in the car.
"I wa beginning to become worried that you wouldn't be able to come, Taru-chan." Chibiusa said with a grin as she put her seatbelt on.
"Yeah. I was a little late, I had to convince Haruka to let me go with Setsuna's and Michiru's help it wasn't that hard though." Hotaru said with a slight shrug as she began the drive to the high school-where the party was to be held.
Chibiusa was wearing a short red skirt, white boots that were the same style as Hotaru's, a white poet's shirt, and a thin white long coat that went to her ankles, which was also the same style as Hotaru's. Diana had a bunch of tiny pink bows on her head, maybe that was what she looked grumpy about…
Chibiusa turned the radio on and switched through about all the channels, upon finding no songs that she liked she turned it off just in time as Hotaru parked in the school's parking lot, "I wish I had my driver's license!" Chibiusa grumbled, "I'm in that driver's education course, and I think I could get my license! But no, I have to wait until I'm sixteen."
Hotaru smiled a bit and Diana, who was still angry at Chibiusa for putting bows on her, only continued pouting.
Hotaru opened the door and stepped out and Chibiusa followed suit.
"Can't I just stay in the car?" Diana grumbled.
"You're the one who wanted to come Diana." Chibiusa scolded.
Diana mewed a bit then stayed silent as she decided that perhaps the tiny pink bows would blend in with Chibiusa's hair.
The two entered the building and walked to the gymnasium, which was where the dancing was to be held, it was after all the only room big enough to house all the seniors and some others who were invited.
Chibiusa looked around at the place there was a disco light in the center which reflected a bunch of colors everywhere, the room was dark and she stayed silent for a moment as she zoned in on the smell of pizza.
"Chibiusa?" Hotaru asked blinking as she looked at Chibiusa who had her eyes closed and her nose up in the air, "Chibiusa??"
"Sh!" Chibiusa said holding a finger up, "over there!" she cried as she pointed in seemingly a random direction. Chibiusa began walking to the direction she had pointed at and Hotaru sweatdropped and followed her.
Chibiusa stopped at a long table full of plates of food. She grinned triumphantly, "Never doubt the power of food!" she grabbed a plate and began piling sweets on it.
Hotaru shook her head and decided to grab a slice of pepperoni pizza.
During the events of that night Hotaru had accepted a dance with someone, because of Chibiusa's enthusiasm and prodding. Chibiusa had gone home earlier after accepting a ride from her friend. Hotaru sighed slightly and decided it was time she should go home. She glanced at her watch, "1:00 already!?" Hotaru cried, she bolted out of her seat and out of the gym in almost one swift movement, ran out to the parking lot, and hopped into the car. Her left foot didn't make it all the way in and she pulled it inside which made a small scratch on the car. "Haruka's going to get mad…" she said in a panicky voice, "I was supposed to be back an hour ago…" she started up the car and zoomed out of her place. She was going the speed limit; heaven forbid a cop should stop her and make her even later. Haruka would be even angrier then at having to pay a ticket…and plus she didn't want to get into an accident or anything. She stopped at an intersection when the light turned red, "come on…go faster…" she mumbled, after what seemed to Hotaru like an hour of waiting the light turned green and she began driving again.
Maybe if she had looked closer, if she had paid more attention her life would have been…different. She saw a speeding car, running through a red light. She tried to swerve to the right to avoid a collision but instead her car tipped over and the other car rammed into her. Hotaru couldn't even cry out under all of her pain. She felt like her eyes were closed…and open at the same time. There were colors…so many colors. Like a rainbow pressed against a pure white blanket. She struggled to breathe as the colors began to fade quickly and her sight changed to see the door bashed in, the windows broken and the road below her. She tried to move only to find an extreme pain shoot through her body. She was having difficulty breathing and was clawing at the ground trying in vain to catch her breath. It was then that she noticed she was on the ground in a pool of warm liquid; she had been in enough battles to recognize it as blood, her blood. She looked at the seat that was above her, the seatbelt had snapped. She coughed spitting out blood. 'Is this the end?' she thought unbelievingly. 'No…this can't be how I die. I can't. Can't. I won't…' she gasped slightly as her vision returned to the bright light and colors. She could faintly here some policemen arriving at the scene and announcing that the boy who hit her was drunk. Then ordering some people to try and get the 'victim' out. Hotaru fought to keep her eyes open…the light was so warm…she wanted to go to it…but that would mean death… 'just a little longer…just a little…while…more…' She drew a deep breath and closed her eyes for the last time. Her last thoughts were, 'Haruka will be angry…'
The officers outside however were cursing as they tried to lift the car up, they had already gotten the drunken kid out of the vehicle, he was barely breathing but alive nonetheless. They hoped that this one was all right. They had already called for help and soon it came. They pulled the limp and bloodied body from the totaled car. The accident was shown on the news, and the outers happened to be watching it. In less then five seconds Haruka zoomed off in her motorcycle to the scene. She was there when they pulled Hotaru's body from the wreckage. The red staining the blue…melting with the black. Haruka rushed to the men who had just pulled the body out, screaming curses she grabbed the body from them. Her breathing quickened as she held Hotaru's limp form in her arms, "Hotaru! Hotaru! Wake up! TARU!!!" she yelled in anguish. She bent over her 'daughters' body thinking of all the times they had argued…all the times she could have prevented arguing, all the times when they laughed and played games, all the times…
(Italics = Hotaru flashback speaking, normal = Haruka flashback, in quotations is Michiru or Setsuna)
You don't know how to be a good parent!!
You're nothing but a fool!
I love you Haruka-papa
Let's play that create-the-universe game again!
Ruka-papa…
She is the messiah of silence, the world will face total destruction if she is awakened
Haruka? When will the battles stop?
…Someday Hotaru-chan. Someday soon.
If you dent that car, or even scratch it, you are grounded
Sir, yes ma'am!
"Be back before midnight"
I'll try. See you guys later!
"Hotaru…no. You, you weren't supposed to die. Your life shouldn't have ended here…not like this. Hotaru…" Haruka whispered as she held Hotaru closer, "IIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!" (No) she cried in pure pain. The tears fell in silent streams as an ambulance came and took her body in a stretcher…she was dead, Hotaru was dead…her little Hotaru. They didn't have to take her. Haruka clenched her hands into fists and ran up to the main officer, "Where the hell is the person who did this!?! Where is he!?" she screamed.
"I am under no obligation to tell you that." He said then went back to writing something.
Haruka let out a very harsh string of cuss words and went to the nearest ambulance throwing open the doors. The boy was in there, barely breathing, the heart monitor beeping slowly. She let out what sounded much like a war cry and was about to leap on the boy and beat him into a very bloody pulp when someone behind her arm-locked her and stopped her from doing so, "Haruka…I understand your pain but…Hotaru-chan wouldn't want you to do this…" a tear-filled voice said from behind her, a voice she recognized as Michiru. Michiru loosened her grip and Haruka turned to face her.
Haruka shook her head slowly as she looked at the ground, "But Michi…he…he…it was his fault! All his fault! Why did I let her go to that party? Why? Why? Why?" she repeated as she began punching blindly at the wall in there. "My fault…my fault…" she slumped on the floor.
Michiru had never seen Haruka act like this, angry she had seen…but Haruka breaking down? Hotaru must have meant so much more to her then anything else…
"It was meant to happen…Haruka. All things are destined, all things must end, and all things must end before they can start anew…" Setsuna said as she walked into the ambulance that had just begun moving, "It is the endless cycle. It was her time Haruka."
"Why!? Why? You…we…we could have prevented this Setsuna!! You looked into the future! You saw what would happen!! So why? Why!? Why did you do it!?" she sobbed.
Setsuna placed a hand on Haruka's shoulder, "Do not trouble yourself. You…" she paused slightly choosing her words carefully, "…will understand someday. If we had kept her from going to the party…she would die another way, another 'accident' would have happened to her. It is not up to us who is to die and live. Not up to us. I let her go, because I wanted her to be happy. She was not happy…so a part of her always wanted to die…the problem was she kept dying and being reborn as the same person, in the same place, in the same time. She was unhappy with this cycle and desperately longed for change. The gods had pity on her and ended her infinite, never-ending cycle in this place."
Haruka sniffled and took a deep breath to steady herself, "I understand…a little. But…why Setsuna? I thought she was happy here, with us! Where will she go? Where will she go if she is not to be reborn here? Setsuna? Where?"
Setsuna shook her head slightly, "Honestly Haruka…" she sighed in melancholy, "I honestly do not know."
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End Chapter One
Vale: well? How'd you like it? ^_^ I like it. Sure that sounds a little selfish but I really do. So please review and leave your comments, your votes on who to pair Hotaru with (I favor Legolas right now with her…because he's my favorite, and I love Orli Bloom!), etc. and I will post the next chapter as soon as I feel I've gotten enough reviews. If you leave nice reviews the chapter will come along faster. If you leave bad ones… ; well…I'll sick Arnvid on you.
Arnvid: …er…what?
Vale: Yeah, I'll sick you on the flamers and you'll turn into your pretty black eagle form and peck their eyes out or something.
Arnvid: … *shakes head* Vale…you have surpassed all in stupidity.
Vale: …um…thanks!
Arnvid: …Anyway, please review, alright?