Here's chapter 7, enjoy!
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Destiny Denied
Four figures gathered in the shadows once again. They were speaking in whispers as they discussed their actions for the near future.
The feminine one spoke first. "When should we let the prince know of our return to existence? I feel as if we should have told him as soon as we reawakened. I know that we weren't supposed to reawaken yet, but we are still honor-bound to the prince."
The tall male with long white hair answered. "Zoisite, my love, we cannot mess with the timeline any more than our early reawakening already has. Something has forced the princess of the sun to return to her sister early. That is why I awakened, and why I awakened the rest of you."
"But Malachite, why did you awaken when the princess came, we are bound to the prince of the earth, not the princess of the sun." The shorter blond stated.
Zoisite answered him, "It's because of his promise, Jeideite, he was bound to protect the princess before our minds and souls were clouded by Beryl and Metallia. He promised her brother that he would protect her."
"What about when we were part of the Negaverse? Did you keep your promise even then Malachite?" The brown haired man spoke up for the first time since the conversation started.
"Yes Nephrite, even then I kept her safe. On the moon when we attacked I kept her from being destroyed. I took her soul, all that was left of her, and kept it safe within the secret places in the Negaverse. When Queen Serenity sent everyone forward in time, she sent pieces of the princess' soul, pieces that had clung to her body, to the future to be reborn. But the rest of her soul, the part that held most of the "real" princess were sent forward with the rest of the Negaverse, still asleep within one of the secret pockets of space. When we were defeated and Sailor Moon destroyed my body and set my soul free of the bonds put on me by the rulers of the Negaverse, I went and released her soul to find the pieces that had been reborn on earth somewhere. She was no longer my responsibility because where the pieces of her soul had been reborn she was safe, there was no one trying to hurt her. Now that she is here, there are many things trying to hurt her. My promise has been called on once again."
"So, that's the promise Zoisite talks about all the time, I had wondered." Jeidite said speculatively.
Malachite looked at him. "Yes, that is the promise."
* * *
The next day Lara decided to go for a walk around town. She was trying to decide whether she wanted to stay in Japan for her last year of high school, or go home at the end of August to finish her last year and maybe return next summer.
She was walking past the new high school that would be finished by September; it would be the school that she would be enrolling in if she decided to stay. It looked nice enough. A nice front entrance, for a school at least. She wouldn't mind going here, she just thought that she might get a little home sick for her friends and family back in Canada. That was the problem, she had made some great friends here in Tokyo, but she missed people from home. Oh well, she still had a little more than a month to decide.
As she came to this conclusion she heard a car coming up behind her and turned to see a red convertible pulling up beside her. In the car were the older girls Amara and Michele.
"Hey Lara! Want to go for a ride?" Amara asked.
"Hey sure! It sounds like fun!" Lara got in the car.
"Make sure you put on your seat belt Lara. Amara is a race car driver, she doesn't know the meaning of 'speed limit'" Michele said teasingly.
"Of course I know the meaning of 'speed limit', it's a limit to how slow you go, if you go any slower then you are officially speed-challenged! No one could ever call me that!" Amara laughed.
Lara had to agree as Amara shot down the street at eighty in a forty zone. As they drove, Amara and Michele asked her questions about her life in Canada, what she wanted to do after high school, what she thought of Japan and how she was getting on with the other girls. Lara began to feel a deep kinship with these women. She felt as if she had known them for a very long time, as if she could trust them with her life and more. She knew that, no matter what, she would always be safe with these women.
When they dropped her off at Mina's house later that afternoon, Lara knew that she had met two people who would be like her older sisters for the rest of her life, even though she had no idea why.
Lara walked through the front door of Mina's house to see Mina's parents sitting in their living room reading the newspaper. While Lara was staying at Mina's house her parents, and Mina, had been refining Lara's Japanese. Since they had moved to Japan from England, they knew both English and Japanese.
Mina's mother looked up as Lara walked in. "Oh, Lara dear. There was a boy here to see you this afternoon. A really good looking boy if I do say so myself" Mina got her boy crazy ways from her mother. "He said his name was Tiger and he said that if you wanted, he would meet you in the park around 3:00 this afternoon. He said you would know where to meet him."
"Thank you, Mrs. Aino. Yes, I know where to meet him. I'm just going to get cleaned up, then I'll go meet him. Has Mina come home yet?" Lara asked as an after thought. She still hadn't told her friends about Tiger and she didn't really want to find out that Mina had been told by her mother. But she was kind of hoping that Mina was home so that she could tell her before her mother did.
"Oh, no dear. She won't be home for another hour or so now. She's over studying with Rei and the girls at the Hikawa Shrine." Mina's mother said with a smile.
Lara nodded and went upstairs to get ready to go see Tiger. When she walked in her room she saw Sol sitting on the bed staring out the window. "Hi, Sol. Guess what? This really great guy named Tiger asked me to meet him in the park. I know that doesn't mean anything to you, but I needed to tell someone before I explode, and I can't tell Mina and the others, I don't know why, but I can't. He's really nice, but he seems sort of sad sometimes. He asks me questions that no one else ever would because they would be afraid that people would think that they were crazy. He asked me if I dream of Pegasus, who else would ever ask that kind of question. So I told him the truth that I had when I was younger, that seemed to make him happier, he's so beautiful when he's happy. Why am I telling you all this? I should be getting ready to go." Lara busied herself getting ready. She never even noticed the look on Sol's face. If she had been paying attention she might have seen that this did matter to Sol, it mattered very much.
* * *
Serena sat alone in her room thinking about the events of the day before. Was Lara right, could she control her own destiny? Serena had never thought about destiny until the day Luna showed up. The day Sailor Moon was born was the day that Serena's life was suspended. That day was the day that Serena lost the right to choose her own path, and began living a life that she had been living thousands of years ago. Suddenly she had this Prince, who is admittedly pretty cute, but that she didn't love in the same way as she had in that last life. He was now just a part of her past that was brought into the present, and seemed to be destined to be in her future. And what about Renee? If she didn't marry Darien, did that mean she would lose her daughter forever? Renee could be a little annoying sometimes, but she was still Serena's future daughter, and Serena loved her. What a pain it was to know what your future was going to be. If she hadn't known about Renee, Serena was sure she and Darien would have broken up ages ago. It wasn't as if they hated each other or anything, they just didn't feel the same way about each other anymore. In fact, Serena had the feeling that they might start hating each other if they stayed together much longer. But there was still Renee to consider.
Serena's thoughts circled like this for a few hours without coming to an acceptable answer. If she hadn't known about Renee, then the answer would have been simple, but it wasn't. Another thought occurred to Serena, what about other possible children? Not just Darien's, but the children of any other man she might marry if she and Darien broke up, or had never met? Just because Serena had met Renee, did that make her anymore important than those unknown children?
As Serena laid down for a nap she finally made her decision. One tear escaped the shimmering wetness in her eyes and rolled down her cheek as she went to sleep.
"I'm sorry Renee..."
* * *
The rest of the inner scouts were at the Hikawa Shrine. They weren't studying today, they were all thinking about what Lara had said about controlling destinies. Not just about Serena and Darien's relationship, but also about their own lives. What if they could do whatever they wanted? What if Lita could become a chef like she always wanted or Rei become a great singer like she had always dreamed. All four of the inner scouts had career plans before they became Sailor Scouts, and they had nearly given up on those dreams because they couldn't see an end to the evil that kept plaguing the earth.
Now they thought that maybe they could do what they had always wanted. In the future in Crystal Tokyo, their job was being the Sailor Scouts, the end. If they could change their destinies, then maybe they could have the professions they wanted and protect their world as the Sailor Scouts at the same time.
Lara's cat Sol running up to Luna and Artemis (they were sitting in the middle of the girls) interrupted their discussion. Sol ran right up to the two startled cats and spoke to everyone, much to the surprise of the girls.
"Lara's in trouble. I can't keep her identity secret any longer. Lara is the Princess of the Sun."
All of the girls just stared with their mouths hanging open. Luna broke the silence. "What do you mean she's in trouble?"
"Well.I was kind of eavesdropping on Artemis and Mina one night and I heard them talking about these dream thieves." Sol turned to Mina. "You said something about them wanting beautiful dreams and something about Pegasus. You said that you thought they wanted to capture Pegasus."
"Yes, but what does this have to do with Lara being in trouble?" Artemis asked.
"Well I don't think she's in immediate danger, but I feel so stupid. I should have stayed with her at all times." Sol looked at the ground.
Luna was getting very annoyed. "Well tell us already. We've all made huge stupid mistakes, but we always make it through."
Sol looked up at her. "Okay. Lara was talking to me, remember she thinks I'm just a normal cat, and she was talking about this guy who came to see her at Mina's house this afternoon when Lara was out. I think I saw him when he was leaving, tall with blond hair just below his shoulders. Anyway, when Lara was talking to me about him, she told me that he had asked her about her dreams. He asked her if she ever had Pegasus enter her dreams, and she told him the truth, which happens to be yes."
At this point they were all on their feet. They were all talking at once about how they needed to get to Lara and warn her.
"Hey!" Sol yelled, trying to get everyone's attention. When everyone looked at him, he continued, "There's more to the story. Lara also told this guy that she had only seen Pegasus once, but only when she was much younger. She also told me his name, she said it was Tiger."
Mina's eyes were blazing. "Tiger, was it? Well at least he was almost honest to her. His real name is Tiger's Eye. Come to think of it, I wonder why he was so honest with Lara in the first place? Not only about the name either. Usually when one of these dream stealers show up they just check the person's dreams for Pegasus, then try to kill the person if they don't hold Pegasus in their dreams. They don't usually ask the person first. Why didn't Lara tell us about this?" Mina looked kind of jealous now.
Amy had an answer. "Maybe this 'Tiger' told her not to tell us. Sol, how many times has Lara seen Tiger?"
Sol looked sad now. "I don't know. I'm sorry, she didn't tell me."
Rei looked exasperated. "Well let's just go to Mina's house and tell her not to mess with this guy, maybe tell her the details, and get rid of this Tiger guy." Rei took one look at Sol and she knew there was a problem. "What haven't you told us Sol?"
Sol looked at the four girls and the two cats. "Lara's already left Mina's house. She's going to meet Tiger in the park."
So, that's it for now. I will try to update before Christmas, but I can't promise anything. Until next time, please keep reviewing, I love to hear from you!
Disclaimer: Please see last chapter and do what it says!
Destiny Denied
Four figures gathered in the shadows once again. They were speaking in whispers as they discussed their actions for the near future.
The feminine one spoke first. "When should we let the prince know of our return to existence? I feel as if we should have told him as soon as we reawakened. I know that we weren't supposed to reawaken yet, but we are still honor-bound to the prince."
The tall male with long white hair answered. "Zoisite, my love, we cannot mess with the timeline any more than our early reawakening already has. Something has forced the princess of the sun to return to her sister early. That is why I awakened, and why I awakened the rest of you."
"But Malachite, why did you awaken when the princess came, we are bound to the prince of the earth, not the princess of the sun." The shorter blond stated.
Zoisite answered him, "It's because of his promise, Jeideite, he was bound to protect the princess before our minds and souls were clouded by Beryl and Metallia. He promised her brother that he would protect her."
"What about when we were part of the Negaverse? Did you keep your promise even then Malachite?" The brown haired man spoke up for the first time since the conversation started.
"Yes Nephrite, even then I kept her safe. On the moon when we attacked I kept her from being destroyed. I took her soul, all that was left of her, and kept it safe within the secret places in the Negaverse. When Queen Serenity sent everyone forward in time, she sent pieces of the princess' soul, pieces that had clung to her body, to the future to be reborn. But the rest of her soul, the part that held most of the "real" princess were sent forward with the rest of the Negaverse, still asleep within one of the secret pockets of space. When we were defeated and Sailor Moon destroyed my body and set my soul free of the bonds put on me by the rulers of the Negaverse, I went and released her soul to find the pieces that had been reborn on earth somewhere. She was no longer my responsibility because where the pieces of her soul had been reborn she was safe, there was no one trying to hurt her. Now that she is here, there are many things trying to hurt her. My promise has been called on once again."
"So, that's the promise Zoisite talks about all the time, I had wondered." Jeidite said speculatively.
Malachite looked at him. "Yes, that is the promise."
* * *
The next day Lara decided to go for a walk around town. She was trying to decide whether she wanted to stay in Japan for her last year of high school, or go home at the end of August to finish her last year and maybe return next summer.
She was walking past the new high school that would be finished by September; it would be the school that she would be enrolling in if she decided to stay. It looked nice enough. A nice front entrance, for a school at least. She wouldn't mind going here, she just thought that she might get a little home sick for her friends and family back in Canada. That was the problem, she had made some great friends here in Tokyo, but she missed people from home. Oh well, she still had a little more than a month to decide.
As she came to this conclusion she heard a car coming up behind her and turned to see a red convertible pulling up beside her. In the car were the older girls Amara and Michele.
"Hey Lara! Want to go for a ride?" Amara asked.
"Hey sure! It sounds like fun!" Lara got in the car.
"Make sure you put on your seat belt Lara. Amara is a race car driver, she doesn't know the meaning of 'speed limit'" Michele said teasingly.
"Of course I know the meaning of 'speed limit', it's a limit to how slow you go, if you go any slower then you are officially speed-challenged! No one could ever call me that!" Amara laughed.
Lara had to agree as Amara shot down the street at eighty in a forty zone. As they drove, Amara and Michele asked her questions about her life in Canada, what she wanted to do after high school, what she thought of Japan and how she was getting on with the other girls. Lara began to feel a deep kinship with these women. She felt as if she had known them for a very long time, as if she could trust them with her life and more. She knew that, no matter what, she would always be safe with these women.
When they dropped her off at Mina's house later that afternoon, Lara knew that she had met two people who would be like her older sisters for the rest of her life, even though she had no idea why.
Lara walked through the front door of Mina's house to see Mina's parents sitting in their living room reading the newspaper. While Lara was staying at Mina's house her parents, and Mina, had been refining Lara's Japanese. Since they had moved to Japan from England, they knew both English and Japanese.
Mina's mother looked up as Lara walked in. "Oh, Lara dear. There was a boy here to see you this afternoon. A really good looking boy if I do say so myself" Mina got her boy crazy ways from her mother. "He said his name was Tiger and he said that if you wanted, he would meet you in the park around 3:00 this afternoon. He said you would know where to meet him."
"Thank you, Mrs. Aino. Yes, I know where to meet him. I'm just going to get cleaned up, then I'll go meet him. Has Mina come home yet?" Lara asked as an after thought. She still hadn't told her friends about Tiger and she didn't really want to find out that Mina had been told by her mother. But she was kind of hoping that Mina was home so that she could tell her before her mother did.
"Oh, no dear. She won't be home for another hour or so now. She's over studying with Rei and the girls at the Hikawa Shrine." Mina's mother said with a smile.
Lara nodded and went upstairs to get ready to go see Tiger. When she walked in her room she saw Sol sitting on the bed staring out the window. "Hi, Sol. Guess what? This really great guy named Tiger asked me to meet him in the park. I know that doesn't mean anything to you, but I needed to tell someone before I explode, and I can't tell Mina and the others, I don't know why, but I can't. He's really nice, but he seems sort of sad sometimes. He asks me questions that no one else ever would because they would be afraid that people would think that they were crazy. He asked me if I dream of Pegasus, who else would ever ask that kind of question. So I told him the truth that I had when I was younger, that seemed to make him happier, he's so beautiful when he's happy. Why am I telling you all this? I should be getting ready to go." Lara busied herself getting ready. She never even noticed the look on Sol's face. If she had been paying attention she might have seen that this did matter to Sol, it mattered very much.
* * *
Serena sat alone in her room thinking about the events of the day before. Was Lara right, could she control her own destiny? Serena had never thought about destiny until the day Luna showed up. The day Sailor Moon was born was the day that Serena's life was suspended. That day was the day that Serena lost the right to choose her own path, and began living a life that she had been living thousands of years ago. Suddenly she had this Prince, who is admittedly pretty cute, but that she didn't love in the same way as she had in that last life. He was now just a part of her past that was brought into the present, and seemed to be destined to be in her future. And what about Renee? If she didn't marry Darien, did that mean she would lose her daughter forever? Renee could be a little annoying sometimes, but she was still Serena's future daughter, and Serena loved her. What a pain it was to know what your future was going to be. If she hadn't known about Renee, Serena was sure she and Darien would have broken up ages ago. It wasn't as if they hated each other or anything, they just didn't feel the same way about each other anymore. In fact, Serena had the feeling that they might start hating each other if they stayed together much longer. But there was still Renee to consider.
Serena's thoughts circled like this for a few hours without coming to an acceptable answer. If she hadn't known about Renee, then the answer would have been simple, but it wasn't. Another thought occurred to Serena, what about other possible children? Not just Darien's, but the children of any other man she might marry if she and Darien broke up, or had never met? Just because Serena had met Renee, did that make her anymore important than those unknown children?
As Serena laid down for a nap she finally made her decision. One tear escaped the shimmering wetness in her eyes and rolled down her cheek as she went to sleep.
"I'm sorry Renee..."
* * *
The rest of the inner scouts were at the Hikawa Shrine. They weren't studying today, they were all thinking about what Lara had said about controlling destinies. Not just about Serena and Darien's relationship, but also about their own lives. What if they could do whatever they wanted? What if Lita could become a chef like she always wanted or Rei become a great singer like she had always dreamed. All four of the inner scouts had career plans before they became Sailor Scouts, and they had nearly given up on those dreams because they couldn't see an end to the evil that kept plaguing the earth.
Now they thought that maybe they could do what they had always wanted. In the future in Crystal Tokyo, their job was being the Sailor Scouts, the end. If they could change their destinies, then maybe they could have the professions they wanted and protect their world as the Sailor Scouts at the same time.
Lara's cat Sol running up to Luna and Artemis (they were sitting in the middle of the girls) interrupted their discussion. Sol ran right up to the two startled cats and spoke to everyone, much to the surprise of the girls.
"Lara's in trouble. I can't keep her identity secret any longer. Lara is the Princess of the Sun."
All of the girls just stared with their mouths hanging open. Luna broke the silence. "What do you mean she's in trouble?"
"Well.I was kind of eavesdropping on Artemis and Mina one night and I heard them talking about these dream thieves." Sol turned to Mina. "You said something about them wanting beautiful dreams and something about Pegasus. You said that you thought they wanted to capture Pegasus."
"Yes, but what does this have to do with Lara being in trouble?" Artemis asked.
"Well I don't think she's in immediate danger, but I feel so stupid. I should have stayed with her at all times." Sol looked at the ground.
Luna was getting very annoyed. "Well tell us already. We've all made huge stupid mistakes, but we always make it through."
Sol looked up at her. "Okay. Lara was talking to me, remember she thinks I'm just a normal cat, and she was talking about this guy who came to see her at Mina's house this afternoon when Lara was out. I think I saw him when he was leaving, tall with blond hair just below his shoulders. Anyway, when Lara was talking to me about him, she told me that he had asked her about her dreams. He asked her if she ever had Pegasus enter her dreams, and she told him the truth, which happens to be yes."
At this point they were all on their feet. They were all talking at once about how they needed to get to Lara and warn her.
"Hey!" Sol yelled, trying to get everyone's attention. When everyone looked at him, he continued, "There's more to the story. Lara also told this guy that she had only seen Pegasus once, but only when she was much younger. She also told me his name, she said it was Tiger."
Mina's eyes were blazing. "Tiger, was it? Well at least he was almost honest to her. His real name is Tiger's Eye. Come to think of it, I wonder why he was so honest with Lara in the first place? Not only about the name either. Usually when one of these dream stealers show up they just check the person's dreams for Pegasus, then try to kill the person if they don't hold Pegasus in their dreams. They don't usually ask the person first. Why didn't Lara tell us about this?" Mina looked kind of jealous now.
Amy had an answer. "Maybe this 'Tiger' told her not to tell us. Sol, how many times has Lara seen Tiger?"
Sol looked sad now. "I don't know. I'm sorry, she didn't tell me."
Rei looked exasperated. "Well let's just go to Mina's house and tell her not to mess with this guy, maybe tell her the details, and get rid of this Tiger guy." Rei took one look at Sol and she knew there was a problem. "What haven't you told us Sol?"
Sol looked at the four girls and the two cats. "Lara's already left Mina's house. She's going to meet Tiger in the park."
So, that's it for now. I will try to update before Christmas, but I can't promise anything. Until next time, please keep reviewing, I love to hear from you!
