Chapter 1 - Time Warp / Space Warp

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Summary: After another nightmare, Mamoru wakes up in Tokyo Park. A golden star flashing in the sky catches his attention, and he finds himself wishing upon it. But, as Sailor Earth would say: "Be careful what you wish for."

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"Are we there yet?" From the backseat of a small family car, six-year-old Mamoru looks expectantly up at his young mother.

She turns around in the front passenger seat to look adoringly at her baby. "Don't worry, my Mamo-chan; we'll be home before

you know it." The six-year-old sighs boredly. "Ok. Mommy." Turning slightly behind his seatbelt, Mamoru focuses his midnight blue eyes on the stars outside his window. 'We're never gonna get home, and my fishy is gonna be mad at me for staying gone so long.'

For all of five minutes, the little car is filled with golden silence. The only sounds are that of the running engine and Mamoru's gentle breathing as he begins to doze off. The road they are following soon brings them around the side of a steep cliff.

Mamoru has almost fallen into a deep sleep when h is parents' screams awaken him. "Oh my...Watch Out!!!!"

"I'm trying!!!" Two bright circles of light come quickly towards the tiny car. The young man in the driver's seat swerves to avoid the 18-wheeler-truck coming down upon himself and his family.

Mamoru starts to cry. "Mommy, Daddy!!! What's going on? Waaah!!!!" As the 18-wheeler comes crashing into the drivers side of the car, Mamoru's father is immediately crushed. The impact throws the car over the edge of the cliff...

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*Sailor Earth's P.O.V.*

Stepping away from the rosebush while twirling a red rose in my right hand, I heard a loud cry. "Ahhhyy!!!" Startled out of my thoughts, I immediately recognized my older brother's voice. 'Well...there's a sound I'd prefer not to hear everyday. What's wrong with him now?'

Heading towards the awful sound, I found Endymion - or Mamoru, as people from this time seem to prefer - sitting up on a bench near a secluded area of the park. His tussled hair and distant gaze told me he had just woken up - from some kind of nightmare by the looks of it. 'Hmm...I wonder what it is.' I couldn't help letting a sly smile slide across my face. "Only one way to find out."

I jumped backwards into a nearby tree just as he turned around, obviously trying to locate the voice he had just heard. 'Damn.

I forgot about that. His hearing is almost as good as mine.' I chuckled softly at his sudden movement. 'You're still not fast enough to catch me, Endy-chan."

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*Author's P.O.V.*

"Ahhhyyy!!!" Waking up in a cold sweat, Mamoru sits up straight as a board. He looks nervously around until he remembers where he is. 'Tokyo Park? How did I get . . . oh, right. I must have fallen asleep.' Taking deep breaths he tries to calm his nerves. 'Why do the nightmares always have to return on the anniversary of the crash? Why can't I just forget it?'

"Only one way to find out."

'Huh? Who said that?' Turning around, Mamoru tries to find the owner of the familiar voice; however, at a glance, all he can see is a red rose left on the ground. He sighs. 'I could have sworn I heard someone behind me. I must be losing my mind.' Deciding to ignore the sound, he lays back down on the bench, focusing on the stars above. "If only I could see them just one more time...atleast I'd have a chance to say goodbye." A silent tear runs down his cheek, unnoticed.

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*Sailor Earth's P.O.V.*

'Goodbye? Goodbye to who?' Watching my elder brother closely from the treetops, I couldn't help but notice the tears running silently down his face. 'Endy-chan? What's happened in this new life to make you so sad? There must be something I can do to help you.'

Endymion's eyes lit up suddenly. 'Huh?' Following his gaze up into the midnight sky, I found what he must have been focusing on. 'Ohh!! The golden star...Momma's star.' Even now, I can hear her gentle voice telling my brothers and I about 'her' star. Supposedly, she had been gazing at it the night she first met Daddy. She used to tell us that if anything should happen so that she was no longer with us, she'd be looking down on us from the golden star. 'I wonder if she was telling the truth?' A silent tear rolls down her face. (She cries silently just like Mamoru does.)

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*Author's P.O.V.*

Looking up at the sky, Mamoru's gaze quickly focuses on a small star that seems to reflect a soft golden light. 'A golden star? How strange.' For a strange reason that he doesn't understand, focusing on the faintly glowing golden star makes him feel calmer. "Hmmm..." He sighs contentedly.

Suddenly, an idea pops into his head. 'Maybe it's a wishing star. It is the brightest star in the sky.' He grins. Well...it couldn't hurt anyways.' Shutting his eyes tightly, he concentrates on how he wants to word his wish.

When he believes it is worded correctly, he opens his eyes, easily refocusing back on the golden star. "This is silly, but..." His eyes home in on the golden star as he makes his wish. "I wish I had a chance to meet my family again - just like it was when I was six."

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*Sailor Earth's P.O.V.*

"...just like it was when I was six." Immediately, my mind started working. 'So that's it...he wants to remember his childhood. Hmmm, maybe he does remember something about the past.' As I watched him curiously, I couldn't help but feel

a bit sorry for him. 'I guess your childhood here wasn't nearly as good as it was back then.'

I sighed, - 'If only there was something...' - and that's when it hit me. 'There is something I can do.' I grinned. "Sailor Pluto is going to KILL me for this if she finds out who's to blame."

Extending my right hand out in front of me, I squeezed my hand into a loose fist.I shut my eyes focusing on a dreamlike power hidden within me. Opening both myeyes and fist, I found the Golden Crystal forming in my hand. Another sly grin forced itself upon me. 'I guess it's a good thing I decided to pay a visit to Helios before coming to spy on my elder brother.'

Smiling, I took I one last glance down at my brother before activating my crystal - the Golden Crystal of Earth. "Endy-chan, I hope you find what you're looking for." Allowing the crystal to hover between my two extended hands, I spoke almost silently to it. "Golden Crystal, please...help Endymion - Mamoru to regain his childhood."

I paused for a moment considering how the crystal would interpret this demand. "Send him back - back to the time of the Silver Millennium. Then, allow me to follow him, that I may help him complete this journey." Almost immediately, the crystal began to react.

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*Mamoru's P.O.V.*

As I lay staring up at the sky thinking how silly it was to wish for such a thing, a flash of light at the edge of my vision caught my attention. The golden light came from the direction of a patch of nearby Cherry Blossom Trees. Remembering the sound from earlier, I stood up quickly trying to locate the source of the strange light. "Who's out there?"

'What's going on here?' I looked around suspiciously, but found nothing out the ordinary. Against my better judgment, I decided that I was being paranoid and moved to return to my place on the bench; however, no sooner had I turned my back, than a golden aura began to surround my entire body.

"What the..." Before I had a chance to react, I found myself falling into some kind of Time/Space Warp that had appeared just below my feet. I quickly found that the golden light was all that I could see. The light seemed familiar somehow, though I can't quite say why.

"Hehehehe" A low feminine laugh came across my hearing. "Endy-chan, you look like you just jumped from an airplane and forgot to bring a parachute."

"Nani? Who's there? Who are you? What's going on?" I called out questions to her, but receive only silence. "Errr... Answer me!!"

"Well, sooorrry, your highness," She spoke back to me with a note of humorous sarcasm. "but, then, you should be most careful about what you wish for."

"Nani? What's that suppose to mean?" I called back with frustration, but I never got an answer. The last thing I heard was a young girl's laughter, before the golden light disappeared, leaving me in air just above a large garden and a patch of strategically placed rocks.

The last thing I remember before loosing consciousness: I fell to the ground with a loud thud, hit my head on a large rock, and closed my eyes as a sharp pain radiated from my head to the rest of my body.

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Author's Notes: This is the first real chapter of Mamoru's Journey. So? What do you think? I am dying to here your opinions. Tell me what you think of Guardian Sailor Earth. Did I portray Mamoru's character correctly? I'm not use to writing things from his point of view. Also, if you have any special characters you'd like to see in the Silver Millenium, tell me about them, and I will try to include them in the plotline. : ) Ja ne!!!

Also: I've finished chapters 2 and 3 already. If I get some reviews, I'll put them out quickly. Otherwise, i'll wait until next week.