Dance of the Fates

Chapter 1

Rating: PG-PG-13(might change later)

Timeframe: Ancient Egypt/Silver Millenium

Author: Moonchild DJ

E-Mail: moonchilddj@yahoo.com

URL: www.angelfire.com/anime4/animehime

Disclaimer: Sailor Moon and Yugioh don't belong to me, they belong to the various companies that own them. I'm not even going to try to list all of them, I'd forget one. :P All I own ish this fic and its plotline, so please don't take.

Author's Notes: Hey, there, minna-chan! Moonchild DJ here with yet another Sailor Moon/Yugioh crossover fic. But this is different than the norm...I got the inspiration, strangely, from the soundtrack of the Escaflowne movie, and ran with the relative timeline pasts of the animes, and combined them. I hope you like the result. Also, this fic may have some possible future yaoi, I haven't made up my mind yet. Let me know what you think, if it's worth continuing. Enjoy! ^_^

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Queen Serenity paced her throne room, hands behind her back as she waited for news of her daughter, who'd vanished from the Moon Kingdom grounds entirely.

"Blasted stubborn girl--where could she have gone?!"

"Highness! I have news!" A young feminine voice cried as heels clicked quickly into the room.

Queen Serenity looked up, seeing the raven-haired Senshi of Mars, her daughter's best friend, standing there with wide violet eyes. She nodded to her, ceasing her pacing.

"Then tell me, Rei. Where is she?!"

Mars fidgeted, glancing at her warily. "We have reports that she went to the transport room and teleported herself to Earth." Queen Serenity stiffened, her blue eyes widening.

"WHAT?! Selene knows I've told that girl multiple times not to go there without supervision! Why in the world has she gone there?!"

Mars twisted a lock of hair around her fingers nervously. "Um..she..goes there to gaze upon the Crown Prince of Earth."

Queen Serenity's jaw dropped most unroyally as she processed the information. She started pacing again, grumbling to herself.

"Are you meaning to tell me..that she's done this before?!"

Mars nodded, wincing. Serenity was going to kill her for spilling the information, but she HAD been gone for a long time, enough to make her worry.

"Oohhhh..she is in SO much trouble for this. Doesn't she know that Earth is dangerous right now, with half of the Terran people in peace talks and half in talk of war?! It's not safe!"

Mars nodded. "That's what I'm worried about, Highness. I'm getting this negative feeling of dread, I'm sensing Serenity's in danger.."

Queen Serenity paled. Mars' mental abilities were never wrong..which meant that her precious daughter, her curious kitten, was in terrible danger. "What do you feel exactly, Rei?"

"I..danger..a misplaced sense, like something unknown.."

"Unknown?"

Rei nodded. "I can't sense what else is to happen. All I know is that Serenity is in danger."

"Then find her..quickly.."

Rei bowed her head and moved quickly out of the throne room, leaving to find the other Planetary Senshi, to do a search. Queen Serenity choked back a sob, her silver odangoed hair rippling before her as she collapsed back into her throne.

"Serenity..my precious one..please, be safe.."

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Serenity giggled quietly as she watched the Earth Prince at his duties, using her lunar gifts to keep herself hidden from his eyes behind the Terran tree, her golden odangoed hair and gown trailing in the breeze. "Selene, he's so beautiful.."

"As are you, beautiful maiden.." purred a voice behind her.

Serenity gasped, forgetting her watching of the Terran royalty, turning around in surprise. "What the--?!"

A white-haired young man with sinister dark eyes stood behind her, smirking at her. His grin widened as he glimpsed the mark of the Lunar royalty upon her forehead. "Ah, you must be the young Crown Princess of the Lunar Kingdom. Really, Highness, it's very dangerous for you to be here at this point in time. You never know.." he grinned more as he stepped closer to her. "..just who sorts of bad people you can run into."

Serenity stepped back warily, eyeing the white-haired young man. "I mean no harm.."

"Ah, maybe not..but by Ra, I do!" He swiftly moved forward, grabbing her wrist before she could move. "You'll make a lovely addition to the roster, Highness."

"Roster?! What by Selene are you talking about?! Release me!"

Falling back on her training, she nimbly twisted around and kicked him in the stomach, grabbing with her other hand his hair and giving a harsh yank, making him release her with a grunt, but she only got two steps away from him before he grabbed her arms and twisted them painfully behind her back.

"Spitfire, aren't you?" he hissed as she struggled, trying to yank herself away. "If you're wondering why no one has come to your aid, it's because they can't see us."

"Cannot see us?! Why not, I've released the spell--!"

"But I haven't released mine." He smirked as he gestured down to a golden necklace around his neck, oddly shaped into a sort of ring with triangle attachments, the ornamental pendant glowing eerily.

"With my Millenium Ring, no one will be able to see us. By the way, the name's Bakura, Highness. But soon you shall call me Master."

"Never!" Serenity spat, raising her leg to knee him harshly in the groin.

Bakura yelped, doubling over, but managing to strike her across the face, smirking as she fell to her knees. "You'll pay for that, Highness, I'll make sure of it." He grabbed her again, hauling her to her feet and pulling her after him. "I'm SO glad that I came to the peace talks Endymion initiated, otherwise I wouldn't have found such a beautiful commodity."

"Commodity?! Let me go, you son of a--!"

"My..such language from a lady.." Bakura smirked as he invoked the power of the Ring, vanishing with Serenity in a second, leaving nothing behind of even being there--except for a shredded piece of lace from Serenity's gown caught on a rose bush.

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A flash of light sparkled, traversing from the pearl-white moon in the earth's sky to the earth itself, following the lunar trail its native child had left behind and flashing behind that very same tree, elongating into four young women in a circle with their hands clasped to each other's.

Rei blinked, getting her eyes focused after the teleportation from the moon to the earth, glancing around. "Serenity? Are you here?"

Silence answered her question, and she hissed a Martian curse. "We can't be too late, we just can't!"

The blue-haired warrior of Mercury, Ami, sought and found with her keen eyes the scrap of lace, pointing to it. "Look!"

Makoto, the swift brown-haired Senshi of Jupiter, darted over to the bush, plucking off the material with a soft cry. "It's hers. She was here."

"Signs of a struggle..Serenity's footprints!" Minako, warrior of Venus, gasped out as she glanced at the soft earth around them. "Someone took her by force!"

Rei growled. "I wish I had seen this coming! I knew we shouldn't have let her come here, it's too dangerous!"

Ami trembled, frightened for her gentle, high-spirited liege and best friend. "Will she be used as ransom? Whoever has her could make Queen Serenity do whatever they wish! They could hurt her!"

Makoto patted her shoulder. "Serenity's strong, she'll be okay. She has to be."

Minako narrowed her eyes, glancing down at the heelprints. "They stop and fade into nothing. The one who has her used teleportation. She could be anywhere."

"And we can't follow Serenity's signature because of the teleportation." Makoto snarled, fisting her hands.

"So we can't do anything?!" Rei exploded, pounding her fist into the tree. "We're helpless to find her?!"

"For now..we'll just have to watch and wait, and listen for any word of Serenity. That's all we can do for now."

"What do we tell her mother?" Minako sighed.

"..The truth..and hope for the best.."

Rei nodded, glancing around as they again gathered into a circle. "Serenity..please..be safe." she whispered, the soft prayer hanging in the air as they vanished.

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Serenity blinked as she and her captor popped to wherever they were, hot, dry air complete with grit suddenly beating down on her with the blazing sun above them. "What in the world..?!"

Bakura grinned as the lunar maiden raised her hand to her eyes, shielding her fair skin from the boiling environment. "Welcome to your new home, Highness."

"What?! Where ARE we?!"

"The Upper Kingdom. Foreigners to this land call it Egypt."

"E..gypt?"

Bakura snickered at the overwhelmed expression on her face. "Indeed. You'll make me quite a bit of money, Highness."

Serenity growled, stomping hard on his foot, smirking as he yowled. "Unhand me, or you'll get worse!"

Bakura hopped in place, glaring at the spirited princess before striking her across the face again. He gained a sadistic kind of pleasure as she fell to the ground, her pristine white gown becoming soiled with the desert dirt. "Don't push me, Highness, I push back."

Serenity glared at him, her odangoed hairstyle half coming undone from the impact. "What do you want from me? I've done nothing to you!" Her lunar sigil flashed brightly in her fury as she clambered to her feet.

"True..but don't you know how beautiful you are? The money I could make, the power I could hold..just your beauty alone could bring the mighty Pharaoh to his knees..and your body.."

Serenity gasped, blushing in embarrassment as his eyes trailed over her figure. She knew that maidens of her realm were desired after by those of Earth, some sort of natural enchantment that they couldn't control. She was in trouble.

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~End Chapter 1~