I really hadn't plan on waiting this long to get this out. Many apologies
to my readers. I have been a rather awkward writers block. I knew what I
wanted to say but I had a hard time putting them down.
I have to warn you though. This chapter is rather angst. It is a chapter between the children. The boys learn of some of the raw side of the family history.
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Dou stared up at the dome ceiling of the common room to the "Children's wing". He looked at each of the seven window murals. They seem to tell a story or at least a history as they circled the dome before meeting at the top to an eighth window pain that toped the dome. He had to look threw the chandelier and its rainbow of color that was created by different gems, but he was able to make the pictures out even with the setting sun's light barely showing through.
The figures were faceless but he was able to still tell gender. The one he figured was the earliest of this history had the earth and moon against each other with the other eight planets surrounding the moon. There were eight female warriors, each of a different color; each from another planet, two people, male and female clutched each other as if it was the last time. For some reason he knew the girl was of the moon and the man was that of earth. Their love was forbidden, a romantic tragedy as the scene changed that to the falling of what was a beautiful, serene and peaceful kingdom. Something whispered at the back of his mind that is was the Kingdom of the silver millennium. The last of that fist pane showed a warrior appear one that shouldn't appear unless all hope was gone, she was dropping a glaive. Destroying what was lost giving rebirth and new hope.
The second pane started off with what he figured to be two different lives, one of a girl in a red bow accompanied with a white cat the other side of the fork was another girl with a black cat and hair pulled in pony tails. The ponytail girl slowly added members to her side till the red bow finally met with them and her uniform changing from a blue, white and red to one of orange, yellow, blue and a chain of hearts around her waist. Once they met to two star-crossed lovers were reveled, the princess of the moon was the ponytail girl and the man that wore a cape and mask that was always in the background was the earth prince. A battle was the scene next, a battle with the monster that destroyed the kingdom. A prince turned against his love, warriors fallen to protect their keep, a princess rising above the snow and over coming the darkness. Using her power to heal the earth as well as her love and friends.
They continued on showed new enemies and fights. The last pane that toped the dome was that of a city, a new empire, a utopia incased in crystal. The same crystal that the princess now Queen carried. It showed peace that had been hard fought for.
He noticed the women warriors carried the same planetary names, as did their new mothers and their friends. Lady Serenity had said they carried the secret of the warriors of long ago that were of those planets. This mural etched in class clearly showed that history they knew. He was startled to know he new the names of the people they fought as well as the people that were fighting. The names seemed to pop into his head and the battles seemed to come alive before his eyes as if her was watching them from a distance for himself.
He was too tired to be confused any longer. As the day went on the women kept saying things with a double meaning. He knew it had to deal with this secret, one the females wont revile till they feel they, the boys themselves, are ready and understand their way of life.
Dinner had been a bit of a relief from thinking. It felt like home to him. Something he had been searching for since he could remember. It began as a peaceful dinner till some how a full out food fight began. Heero had managed to stay out of it till Dou cornered him. Dou then found himself next to his mother fighting off Heero and his mother while the others watched. He was brought from his reminiscing when the door opened.
His four companions padded in he sat up and smiled at them before snorting. "Feels weird does it not?"
Quatre gave a small chuckle. "Weird would be one of the words used." He flopped down next to Dou showing his age not upbringing. "To think all this time I hated my mother for dieing on me like that for leaving me, only to find...." he trailed off with a sigh.
"To find that she has been alive and thought you were the one dead." Trowa picked up from his spot on the armrest of a chair. Dou nodded.
"To think all this time you waited being angry with her, hating her for leaving you as she did. Sometimes cursing her for even being born."
"Then to have her show up as well as your comrades mothers and say looking here we are." Quatre added. Dou punched the cushion next to him.
"Damn! I don't know what to feel anymore. I am angry with her for not being their but also to the ones who told her I was dead and giving her that pain, I am happy because she is alive and in front of me, confused and many other things. Right now I am regretting DeathSythe Hell was destructed. I could really go for a good old fashioned Mecha fight and to blow shit up."
"For once Maxwell I agree whole heartedly with you. Though I will have to add that I am angered that she didn't look."
A bark of laughter came from behind them. The turned to find Chibi Usa coming from the shadowed hall way that lead to the girls room. Red eyes glaring at the boys with nothing but loathing and hatred for them.
"Trust a Hino to hold a grudge. Though listening to you has made me a little sick. You complain about your pain but not even thinking of what they are feeling. Right now they are in their rooms crying tears they haven't cried since the second anniversary of your supposed deaths. I watch from the shadows as each was told the news. I have never seen these women break down as they had done. They had stood before enemies countless times each time winning but having to be brought back from near death. Most of the time they weren't able to stand on their feet good before they would fight again. But this, this brought the whole universe down around them. Our family began to break up and that was something they couldn't handle. We lost not only you five but four others. But of course you 'soldiers' wouldn't know anything about that now would you. You only care of your self. As long as you come out of the battle alright and alive you are fine."
"Serenity!!!!!" a bark cut off her little talk. Dorothy stood in the main doorway leaning against it painting slightly. Anger covered her face. The boys themselves were enraged. They each stood glaring at her. Chibi Usa turned her eyes to Dorothy.
"Shouldn't you be in bed resting?"
Dorothy growled. "Don't you dare give me that I am holy than thou attitude little princess. I knew you would do something like this. Don't you dare even blame them any bit of this; it is not their fault in any way context or form."
Chibi Usa looked away from them all, ashamed for what she had done and was about to do. Her voice was no longer laced with disgust it was that of a hurt and scared child. "I will not see them hurt again. They would never recover." She looked to the boys again tears in her eyes. "Forgive me, I did not mean to get that far. I was angered at the thought you may leave."
There was a knock at the door stopping all conversation. Usagi's head poked around the door smiling at them. "You are still awake I see. You should get some rest." She looked at Chibi Usa for a moment then looked at the others concern evident in her eyes. "Tell you what lights out when you are done, kay?" she didn't even wait for an answer before closing the door. They could hear her footsteps lead down the hallway. Dorothy turned to Chibi Usa with something in her eyes the boys have never seen fear.
"Usa-chan?"
Chibi Usa nodded her head. "The Quartet said they would keep watch as well as a few others."
Heero looked between the two worried. "What watch?"
Dorothy began to rub her arms to warm them from the chili she had gotten while looking to Chibi Usa for an answer. Chibi Usa sat in a chair propping her elbows on her knees and placing her forehead into her hands. She sat back with a heavy sigh.
"The best way to start this off would be to relate it to something you already know about. Quatre, you share something similar with my mother but yours comes from your own. The Space Heart as you call it. How I know about that? I watched you all a bit before I let them know of your existence. I didn't want to see the pain or feel it. Yes I have it as well; it is hereditary in our family. Mine is like my mothers but I have been taught to control it. Mama never got that chance and it nearly destroys her." Dorothy sat on the armrest next to her. Chibi Usa leaned on her using her arm as a headrest and moral support.
"Quatre's space heart allows him to feel others emotions but only strong ones. Mama's is more advanced so to say. She can feel everything you are feeling and depending on the situation even receive bits of your thoughts connected with those emotions. Not only that but if you are near her and get hurt. From a paper cut to a gunshot she will know. She will feel it."
"To also understand the problem completely one would have to know Mama herself. She is the most caring person you will find. You have a problem, no matter what it is, she will listen and somehow make you feel better and no matter your problem she will forgive you for it. It is not in her nature or being to hate or cause violence. She hates fighting with a passion will avoid it at all cost but if push come to shove you better believe you will be on the wrong side of that fight."
She chuckled at a past memory. "When I was little she would take me out for walks. If we past a person who looked downtrodden or of the sorts we would stop. A total stranger mined you. She would sit with them and just a few moments being in her presence they would confess their problem. She would just listen sometimes giving them a few kind words or a quick hug or peck on the check before bouncing away with me in tow and leaving a healed soul behind. She could be having the worse day of her life and still be able to cheer anyone up and relive them of their pain for a time. That is just Mama."
Quatre looked confused, as did the others. "What does it have to do with the Quartet watching her? Is there an enemy we should know of?"
Both girls laughed. Dorothy nudged Chibi USA who scooted over. Dorothy slid down next to her in the tight fit hissing with pain. She looked to the pinked haired girl next to her before to the pilots.
"My dear boys there is always an enemy. Someone will always try and take control it is our duty and job to be there to stop them. This time the enemy is past pain and sorrow and mistakes. When she is comforting someone or helping them with a problem her Ki or life force seems to cover not only her but also the person she is with. I am sure when you are in her presence you have felt calm and almost relaxed lulled by safety and warmth. That is Serenity and her caring heart. She cares for everything and everyone around her and that comes first before her. When she talks to you it is as if she is taking your fear, and worries from you and taking them inside of her like she is purifying you. Giving you a clean soul and slate. While you may not have those feelings for a while she carries them. They stay inside of her. She doesn't vent them they just lay inside of her and I am afraid that little box inside of her is full." She stopped and seemed to ponder a bit.
"I was told one time that the feelings took control and the person they had been fighting was literally decimated. The others are not sure what exactly happened during the fight. It was away from them they were somewhere else in their own battle when it happened. Only that when she was finished the war was over and the person she fought could only be described of not even having a soul in hell. It was like his whole existence was wiped from the face of the earth as if he never existed before."
The boys did a collective blinking. Quatre's little psycho trip with Wing Zero didn't seem all that bad.
Wufei shook his head. "I am still confused. I understand what you are explaining but what does it have to do with this exact problem at hand?"
Chibi Usa frowned. "It is hard to explain, all of this is. When mama snapped I was little, I remember bits of it though. It had been peaceful for a while then a short little war came. Mama stayed inside the ." she stopped herself from saying palace. ".. Base while a few others went forth and fought. My father was leading the forces. He was the commander. There were two forces fighting each other and our forces were trying to stop the two before earth and the colonies were destroyed. These guys were out for blood and total control. Not caring who or what was destroyed. Under a flag of truths, papa brought the forces together. One of the opposing forces sent his son to the meeting to try and reach an agreement. The son immediately accused Papa of siding with the other forces. Mama has always been the one to settle arguments and such. You could say she was more of the brains and heart while Daddy was the courage and strength."
"Mama started in with her talks. I can say if Mama and that Peacecraft/Dorlan chick got into it about pacifism little Queeny will find her self still at the starting line while Mama laps her four times on the track. This time they found no matter what Mama said it seemed to anger the son. I had been hiding behind some curtains wanting to know what was going on. Being so untrained I let my position be known. Papa got little upset and that man didn't help none he began to taunt my parents."
"If Mama does get upset so to say at you or anyone you will know it. Her eyes turn dark almost black, she gives them a glare that could burst Satan himself into flames and burn to ashes and her eyes seem to flash a sliver color. Mama gave him that glare before picking me up and caring me out of the room. She took me towards my room that my nanny was in. she never spoke to me that was how I knew she was not really angered at my actions almost upset that I had wanted to be in that room and listen. When hadn't gotten maybe a hundred yards from the door when she stopped all color drained from her face. She set me down, turned to the door shoving me behind her and screaming to run as fast as I could and take cover. She yelled for the guards that had been sent way as agreement to the truce. And I will never forget this part: I could here maniacal laughter before a scream that could wake the dead was heard. I could barely make out the words 'All for you, this done for you.' A few guards had gotten to the door but to late an explosion rocked the compound. Mama threw herself on top of me. I was knocked unconscious but that was my only injury. Mama was severe. She lay in bed till she was able to stand and hid her pain behind a mask, that was less than a week."
"The man sent his own son to be a trap. He wanted to get rid of us all. His son had been hypnotized, every time someone was to talk about an agreement to end the fighting or of peace he was to get mad. His body had been filled with explosives. Not sure how he was able to be alive but it seemed some of him had been removed to make way for the explosives. Either way the man was a dead man whether he blew himself up or not."
"The people who we ended up fighting were from the L7 cluster. It had only one or two colonies that had been just built. They were concentrating more on the others. Anyways a huge battle began. Mama led not only our forces but also the rest of the colonies and Earth's. Any one could see she was not the person she had been. A black aura seemed to cover her. Everything she had been bottling up came forth in that battle. In the end she wiped the whole L7 cluster out."
"We had lost my father at that point. The only time I have ever seen my mother cry was the first time we thought we lost him. This time we really did, but she didn't cry she bottled it up. She had to be strong for the others. She was their backbone now. The person they turned to for guidance. Their beacon hope in a sea of darkness. Our family leaned heavily on her. Not a month later we lost Lady's Neptune and Pluto. We don't know if they are dead but defiantly MIA. Again Mama did not mourn even four Pluto. She was the eldest of us a mother and older sister figure. At the same time the news of the pregnancies. When you all were born the tragedies took place again Mama did not mourn. A few more months pasted Mars and Venus disappeared. Mars was Mama's best friend. She took in everyone else's emotions to allow them to at least sleep and get on with their lives. Bottling hers as well. They are inside of her waiting. That is why we have her being watched. We don't know what to expect."
Trowa frowned. "That much emotion bottled up added with a battle that severe."
"Two battles." He looked at Dorothy. She looked up to the dome above them.
"Two battles. She was sixteen. She fought against another enemy and half of Tokyo had been taken in the aftermath. That is all we know. The others had been taken out of commission. All that was left was Serenity. She was the last person who should be fighting then. From the stories we have heard she was not as graceful as she is today."
Chibi Usa barked out with laughter. "There is the under statement of the century. Sixteen-year-old Serenity Usagi Tsukino was a literal klutz; she would run into someone get up and apologize to a pole. She was constantly late so she ran everywhere, hence the bowling over of innocent by standers. Junior high and the first year of High school she was either at the bottom of the scores or with in the last ten. She invented the word Ditz. As for fighting she new absolutely nothing except for a few kicks that was it. Didn't matter her heart and personality made up for all of it."
Trowa shook his head, "Still with TWO battles like that she faced alone and all those emotions it is a wonder she isn't in some institute."
Dorothy shrugged and Chibi Usa scratched her head.
"Like I said it is hard to explain it and I am not doing it justice. Though she bottles it up it doesn't affect her with her everyday life until something hits to close to home. Watch her and you will understand what I mean. It is almost as if she purifies them into energy she uses to get by with everyday." A smile spread on her face and her eyes lit up.
"I got a great idea. I was able to save them before they could destroy them all." She jumped up causing Dorothy to grunt and hiss in pain. Chibi Usa bounced down the hall to her room. Dorothy began to mutter something about clumsy moonchildren before she realized five sets of eyes were on her. She settled back into the chair as best as her injuries would allow her.
"Well, get on with it. I know you want to ask me something."
Dou gave Quatre a sharp elbow to the side. Quatre winced giving him a dirty look. Wufei rolled his eyes.
"What are these injuries you seem to have?"
Dorothy stiffened further and began to look around the room to turn the attention from her. Chibi Usa came in time. She was caring a case with her. Her smile dropped when she heard Wufei's question.
"That was the main reason I was coming in here to talk to you boys till I heard you talking."
She knelt down beside the chair Dorothy was in placing the case before her.
"I was hoping you boys would like to help me with a little revenge. What must be done is right up your boys expertise."
"No absolutely not!" Dorothy shot up. "Things are already bad enough. I don't need you causing any more trouble for me Serenity. Last time Uncle was more than mad."
Chibi Usa narrowed her eyes at her. "You opened your wounds again. I thought I was imagining it when I smelt the blood from my room. Heero next to you in that chest in a first aid kit please get it out."
"My body is my business not yours."
"In this house it is. I wouldn't not like to explain to our elders why you decided to bleed all over the house and I did nothing to stop it."
"They are not that bad!"
"Kitty-chan we can do this the easy way. You turn you back to me and allow reapplying your bandages them or we can do it the hard way. Causing you more pain and embarrassment."
Dorothy growled before turning in her chair sideways. She pulled her arms through the sleeves. She then pulled the back of her shirt up till it hung around her neck hiding the front view. Dou let out a low whistle at the sit of the blood stained bandages. They covered most of her lower back leaving the upper exposed. They were able to see scare welts crisscrossing her entire back.
Rage began to take them over. How could someone do anything such thing like that? They had come to trust Dorothy after the war. She was able to help them with many things in locating bases and eradicating forces trying to build up again.
Quatre moved to stand behind Chibi Usa. He had known Dorothy since he was little. Often their parents making the m play together while they talked.
"What on earth caused this and who?"
Dorothy lifted a small shoulder. "Depends on who you are talking to."
"If you wont tell them I will."
Dorothy gave a grunt of a reply back. "Fine I will tell them. Just hurry and pull those damn things loose. You are making me lose my concentration."
The boys watched as the pink haired girl skillfully worked on freeing the bandages from some of the wounds that had closed about them. She slowly cut off piece by piece till all she had left was the bit stuck to the wounds. With out even looking up to Quatre she shoved a towel in his hands.
"Make your self useful. Once I pull the cloth away you immediately place that over it."
Quatre nodded. She really didn't have to tell him. He had been through this many times during the war.
"Alright here comes the fun part." Dorothy gave a small nod. A quick yank and the cloth came loose. Quatre had the towel in place as soon as Chibi Usa had moved.
"Dorothy start talking." She got no reply from the girl. "Dorothy? Child answer me or I will ensure that you had died when I tell some stories."
Dorothy never opened her eyes she had closed from the beginning. "Chibi Usa, go directly to hell." She spat between clinched teeth.
The girl smiled and shrugged. "You know I can't. I am to sugary sweet to go to heaven and hell won't let me in because I would have too much fun. So I am stuck here on this dust ball to make your life a living hell." She pulled back Quatre's hand. Cussing under her breath she turned to the other four he eyes landing on Trowa.
"I know you can do some quick stitches. You did wonders on my dear little brother."
Trowa shrugged. "Shouldn't we move this to the med wing."
Dorothy finally opened her eyes. "No we can't. to get there we will have to pass the others rooms. No matter how quiet we will be they will wake up. That would only open a whole new can of problems I rather not face. I am quiet use to this now, " she gave a small smirk. "Besides you can't be worse than the rabbit."
Trowa took Chibi Usa's place, the pink girl move to sit next to Dorothy's head that was buried into the armrest.
Dou chewed on his bottom lip. "Don't you need some thing to numb the area or knock you out?"
Dorothy lifted her head and shook it. "I still have what ever Mercury gave me running around inside. I like to be awake when anything is preformed on me."
Wufei stood from his place and made his way to stand in front of Dorothy. "I will admit Onna you do have guts. Why don't you answer Winner's question and mine? It will take your mind off the stitches."
"Alright. It really starts from when my parents first met. It was when they were in school. My uncle and father always admired her from afar. Know they could never really have her. My mother..." a pink tint crossed her cheeks.
Chibi Usa rolled her eyes. "Please they are going to find out sooner or later. You never really had a problem with it before. Haruka doesn't really like the company of men. Her life love had been Michiru another woman. There was that so hard."
Dorothy looked at her from the corner of her eye. "I hate you."
"Love you to."
Dorothy blew her bangs from her eyes. "As it was so delicately put, my mother is a lesbian. She most of the time will act like a man. Her father raised her that way hence some of the why she distrusted men. Her only love has been Michiru. My father knew this and accepted it. He became friends with her as for my Uncle he tried time after time to get her. Always failing. He grew to hate my father for the friendship he had with her."
She paused and tried to look over her shoulder. "Are you sure you know what you are doing?" Quatre turned her head foreword.
"Continue."
"When Michiru had turned up missing my Father was the first to help look for her. After a while they realized they wouldn't find her. Mother locked her self up in her room. She refused to come out and even stopped eating. She never worked on her bike or her car and nothing anybody said or did could get her out. Papa had enough. He broke her door, picked her up and threw her over her shoulder. They ended up at a local bar. He told her if she was going to kill herself alcohol was more of a fun way to go. To make a long story short they both got so smashed that nine months later I was born."
"Papa was a proud man and had a lot of honor. He wasn't going to let mama raise me alone so they married. The family of course was outraged. Grandfather and a friend of his made a promise that their children would marry. So papa had a fiancée that he knew nothing about. To keep the promise the girl was promised to my Uncle. There is a very unhappy marriage. Most of my relatives can't stand mother they made her life a living hell the short time they were married. They approached Grandfather and behind my parents back got them divorced no sooner than I was a year old. They kicked mother from the family causing a huge family feud. My Uncle leading it."
"To say he was less than sore when he found out that his crush was marring his brother and having his kid not to mention he was now engaged to a woman he had loathed since they were little. Grandfather knew of Uncle's hatred and put me under his care and out of Uncles hands. He allowed me to see my mother three times a year. That wasn't enough for me so I learned to sneak out. When Grandfather died I was taken into his care. Papa had died by the time I was five. Found out later it was caused by my uncle."
"For the past couple years that I have been I his care he has decided to teach me to be a proper lady. He also blames me for Grandfathers death as well as loosing the war. Since day one being in his care I have received a beating of some kind. At first it was just slaps on the face. I soon learned what to do and not to do. When he found out that I would sneak out to see my mother that was when they got worse. He decided that I was not a lady because of my mothers influence so he was going to beat it out of me. That is the cause of my injuries. Sometimes he would do it and others he had someone else while he watched."
Trowa had long finished and just sat back listening to the story. All of the boys were in a state of shock. Dorothy realized Trowa was finished she sat up and replaced her shirt. Wufei looked down to Chibi Usa.
"Small lady what is your plan."
She shrugged. "I have a basic idea but I still haven't completed it. I need to get some information from Dorothy about a few things. Once I have it I will let you know what I have planned. You can change it if you see fit to then."
"I take it I have no say in this what so ever?"
Chibi Usa looked up at Dorothy. "None what so ever."
"if this has been happening for a while and you have proof of it why hasn't the authorities been alerted." Heero's voice startled Chibi Usa. She had forgotten he was there.
"Simple Johan has them in his hands. They are on his side. My mother has tried a few times to get Haruka full custody of Dorothy. Even the ones he didn't have control over were scared. Not of Johan but of his last name. That is the only reason he has any power. Now that Mama has said we are going to court you can guarantee that this time we will win. Anymore questions?"
Dou raised his hand. "I do, could you explain how you could smell the blood when Dorothy began to bleed again."
A shadow seemed to cover the red eyes. "I am no stranger to war I have seen is since I was little. Many times I have helped Hotaru and Ami tend to the wounds of others. So I trained my self to be able to sense when some one was injured. Many times they would hide it but I would find out and tell. It also doesn't help when at the end of one battle you find your self- covered head to toe in blood and lying in a pool of it. While the others were off fighting someone attacked the house. My nanny covered me from the gunshots and explosions. She had me pretend I was dead. So I lay there under he body covered in her blood and listened to the sounds of other dying around me. Since that day I know what blood smells like and can smell it some distance away." Dou gave a short nod.
"I was wrong in my thinking. I may have never said it out loud but I was jealous of the life you have lead. But is seems even having a caring family doesn't save you from the horrors of life." Chibi Usa waved it off.
"As long as you can forgive me for my earlier out burst. You all have the right to be angry and upset."
Dou smiled "Forgiven." The others nodded with him.
Dorothy gave a huge sigh. "Now that we have taken a lovely dip into the family hell. Mind telling us what is in that case you brought in."
Chibi Usa's eyes lit up. "I thought you would like to see what your parents were like when they were your age. They are home movies from when they were teenagers. They had thrown them out to try and forget but I found them and save them. So don't tell them you know about these. They would kill me." the boys made themselves comfortable again and waited. Chibi Usa moved the entertainment center before them. She opened the doors that concealed the TV. She placed a disk into its slot and moved to sit with on the couch between Heero and Quatre.
"This if from when the girls had just graduated Junior high school and went on a little trip to the beach to celebrate."
She pushed play and let the memories roll.
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Remember to review. I will try to have the next chapter out soon. I may be after Christmas some time. I have other stories I must get out that I have finished chapters for.
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I have to warn you though. This chapter is rather angst. It is a chapter between the children. The boys learn of some of the raw side of the family history.
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Dou stared up at the dome ceiling of the common room to the "Children's wing". He looked at each of the seven window murals. They seem to tell a story or at least a history as they circled the dome before meeting at the top to an eighth window pain that toped the dome. He had to look threw the chandelier and its rainbow of color that was created by different gems, but he was able to make the pictures out even with the setting sun's light barely showing through.
The figures were faceless but he was able to still tell gender. The one he figured was the earliest of this history had the earth and moon against each other with the other eight planets surrounding the moon. There were eight female warriors, each of a different color; each from another planet, two people, male and female clutched each other as if it was the last time. For some reason he knew the girl was of the moon and the man was that of earth. Their love was forbidden, a romantic tragedy as the scene changed that to the falling of what was a beautiful, serene and peaceful kingdom. Something whispered at the back of his mind that is was the Kingdom of the silver millennium. The last of that fist pane showed a warrior appear one that shouldn't appear unless all hope was gone, she was dropping a glaive. Destroying what was lost giving rebirth and new hope.
The second pane started off with what he figured to be two different lives, one of a girl in a red bow accompanied with a white cat the other side of the fork was another girl with a black cat and hair pulled in pony tails. The ponytail girl slowly added members to her side till the red bow finally met with them and her uniform changing from a blue, white and red to one of orange, yellow, blue and a chain of hearts around her waist. Once they met to two star-crossed lovers were reveled, the princess of the moon was the ponytail girl and the man that wore a cape and mask that was always in the background was the earth prince. A battle was the scene next, a battle with the monster that destroyed the kingdom. A prince turned against his love, warriors fallen to protect their keep, a princess rising above the snow and over coming the darkness. Using her power to heal the earth as well as her love and friends.
They continued on showed new enemies and fights. The last pane that toped the dome was that of a city, a new empire, a utopia incased in crystal. The same crystal that the princess now Queen carried. It showed peace that had been hard fought for.
He noticed the women warriors carried the same planetary names, as did their new mothers and their friends. Lady Serenity had said they carried the secret of the warriors of long ago that were of those planets. This mural etched in class clearly showed that history they knew. He was startled to know he new the names of the people they fought as well as the people that were fighting. The names seemed to pop into his head and the battles seemed to come alive before his eyes as if her was watching them from a distance for himself.
He was too tired to be confused any longer. As the day went on the women kept saying things with a double meaning. He knew it had to deal with this secret, one the females wont revile till they feel they, the boys themselves, are ready and understand their way of life.
Dinner had been a bit of a relief from thinking. It felt like home to him. Something he had been searching for since he could remember. It began as a peaceful dinner till some how a full out food fight began. Heero had managed to stay out of it till Dou cornered him. Dou then found himself next to his mother fighting off Heero and his mother while the others watched. He was brought from his reminiscing when the door opened.
His four companions padded in he sat up and smiled at them before snorting. "Feels weird does it not?"
Quatre gave a small chuckle. "Weird would be one of the words used." He flopped down next to Dou showing his age not upbringing. "To think all this time I hated my mother for dieing on me like that for leaving me, only to find...." he trailed off with a sigh.
"To find that she has been alive and thought you were the one dead." Trowa picked up from his spot on the armrest of a chair. Dou nodded.
"To think all this time you waited being angry with her, hating her for leaving you as she did. Sometimes cursing her for even being born."
"Then to have her show up as well as your comrades mothers and say looking here we are." Quatre added. Dou punched the cushion next to him.
"Damn! I don't know what to feel anymore. I am angry with her for not being their but also to the ones who told her I was dead and giving her that pain, I am happy because she is alive and in front of me, confused and many other things. Right now I am regretting DeathSythe Hell was destructed. I could really go for a good old fashioned Mecha fight and to blow shit up."
"For once Maxwell I agree whole heartedly with you. Though I will have to add that I am angered that she didn't look."
A bark of laughter came from behind them. The turned to find Chibi Usa coming from the shadowed hall way that lead to the girls room. Red eyes glaring at the boys with nothing but loathing and hatred for them.
"Trust a Hino to hold a grudge. Though listening to you has made me a little sick. You complain about your pain but not even thinking of what they are feeling. Right now they are in their rooms crying tears they haven't cried since the second anniversary of your supposed deaths. I watch from the shadows as each was told the news. I have never seen these women break down as they had done. They had stood before enemies countless times each time winning but having to be brought back from near death. Most of the time they weren't able to stand on their feet good before they would fight again. But this, this brought the whole universe down around them. Our family began to break up and that was something they couldn't handle. We lost not only you five but four others. But of course you 'soldiers' wouldn't know anything about that now would you. You only care of your self. As long as you come out of the battle alright and alive you are fine."
"Serenity!!!!!" a bark cut off her little talk. Dorothy stood in the main doorway leaning against it painting slightly. Anger covered her face. The boys themselves were enraged. They each stood glaring at her. Chibi Usa turned her eyes to Dorothy.
"Shouldn't you be in bed resting?"
Dorothy growled. "Don't you dare give me that I am holy than thou attitude little princess. I knew you would do something like this. Don't you dare even blame them any bit of this; it is not their fault in any way context or form."
Chibi Usa looked away from them all, ashamed for what she had done and was about to do. Her voice was no longer laced with disgust it was that of a hurt and scared child. "I will not see them hurt again. They would never recover." She looked to the boys again tears in her eyes. "Forgive me, I did not mean to get that far. I was angered at the thought you may leave."
There was a knock at the door stopping all conversation. Usagi's head poked around the door smiling at them. "You are still awake I see. You should get some rest." She looked at Chibi Usa for a moment then looked at the others concern evident in her eyes. "Tell you what lights out when you are done, kay?" she didn't even wait for an answer before closing the door. They could hear her footsteps lead down the hallway. Dorothy turned to Chibi Usa with something in her eyes the boys have never seen fear.
"Usa-chan?"
Chibi Usa nodded her head. "The Quartet said they would keep watch as well as a few others."
Heero looked between the two worried. "What watch?"
Dorothy began to rub her arms to warm them from the chili she had gotten while looking to Chibi Usa for an answer. Chibi Usa sat in a chair propping her elbows on her knees and placing her forehead into her hands. She sat back with a heavy sigh.
"The best way to start this off would be to relate it to something you already know about. Quatre, you share something similar with my mother but yours comes from your own. The Space Heart as you call it. How I know about that? I watched you all a bit before I let them know of your existence. I didn't want to see the pain or feel it. Yes I have it as well; it is hereditary in our family. Mine is like my mothers but I have been taught to control it. Mama never got that chance and it nearly destroys her." Dorothy sat on the armrest next to her. Chibi Usa leaned on her using her arm as a headrest and moral support.
"Quatre's space heart allows him to feel others emotions but only strong ones. Mama's is more advanced so to say. She can feel everything you are feeling and depending on the situation even receive bits of your thoughts connected with those emotions. Not only that but if you are near her and get hurt. From a paper cut to a gunshot she will know. She will feel it."
"To also understand the problem completely one would have to know Mama herself. She is the most caring person you will find. You have a problem, no matter what it is, she will listen and somehow make you feel better and no matter your problem she will forgive you for it. It is not in her nature or being to hate or cause violence. She hates fighting with a passion will avoid it at all cost but if push come to shove you better believe you will be on the wrong side of that fight."
She chuckled at a past memory. "When I was little she would take me out for walks. If we past a person who looked downtrodden or of the sorts we would stop. A total stranger mined you. She would sit with them and just a few moments being in her presence they would confess their problem. She would just listen sometimes giving them a few kind words or a quick hug or peck on the check before bouncing away with me in tow and leaving a healed soul behind. She could be having the worse day of her life and still be able to cheer anyone up and relive them of their pain for a time. That is just Mama."
Quatre looked confused, as did the others. "What does it have to do with the Quartet watching her? Is there an enemy we should know of?"
Both girls laughed. Dorothy nudged Chibi USA who scooted over. Dorothy slid down next to her in the tight fit hissing with pain. She looked to the pinked haired girl next to her before to the pilots.
"My dear boys there is always an enemy. Someone will always try and take control it is our duty and job to be there to stop them. This time the enemy is past pain and sorrow and mistakes. When she is comforting someone or helping them with a problem her Ki or life force seems to cover not only her but also the person she is with. I am sure when you are in her presence you have felt calm and almost relaxed lulled by safety and warmth. That is Serenity and her caring heart. She cares for everything and everyone around her and that comes first before her. When she talks to you it is as if she is taking your fear, and worries from you and taking them inside of her like she is purifying you. Giving you a clean soul and slate. While you may not have those feelings for a while she carries them. They stay inside of her. She doesn't vent them they just lay inside of her and I am afraid that little box inside of her is full." She stopped and seemed to ponder a bit.
"I was told one time that the feelings took control and the person they had been fighting was literally decimated. The others are not sure what exactly happened during the fight. It was away from them they were somewhere else in their own battle when it happened. Only that when she was finished the war was over and the person she fought could only be described of not even having a soul in hell. It was like his whole existence was wiped from the face of the earth as if he never existed before."
The boys did a collective blinking. Quatre's little psycho trip with Wing Zero didn't seem all that bad.
Wufei shook his head. "I am still confused. I understand what you are explaining but what does it have to do with this exact problem at hand?"
Chibi Usa frowned. "It is hard to explain, all of this is. When mama snapped I was little, I remember bits of it though. It had been peaceful for a while then a short little war came. Mama stayed inside the ." she stopped herself from saying palace. ".. Base while a few others went forth and fought. My father was leading the forces. He was the commander. There were two forces fighting each other and our forces were trying to stop the two before earth and the colonies were destroyed. These guys were out for blood and total control. Not caring who or what was destroyed. Under a flag of truths, papa brought the forces together. One of the opposing forces sent his son to the meeting to try and reach an agreement. The son immediately accused Papa of siding with the other forces. Mama has always been the one to settle arguments and such. You could say she was more of the brains and heart while Daddy was the courage and strength."
"Mama started in with her talks. I can say if Mama and that Peacecraft/Dorlan chick got into it about pacifism little Queeny will find her self still at the starting line while Mama laps her four times on the track. This time they found no matter what Mama said it seemed to anger the son. I had been hiding behind some curtains wanting to know what was going on. Being so untrained I let my position be known. Papa got little upset and that man didn't help none he began to taunt my parents."
"If Mama does get upset so to say at you or anyone you will know it. Her eyes turn dark almost black, she gives them a glare that could burst Satan himself into flames and burn to ashes and her eyes seem to flash a sliver color. Mama gave him that glare before picking me up and caring me out of the room. She took me towards my room that my nanny was in. she never spoke to me that was how I knew she was not really angered at my actions almost upset that I had wanted to be in that room and listen. When hadn't gotten maybe a hundred yards from the door when she stopped all color drained from her face. She set me down, turned to the door shoving me behind her and screaming to run as fast as I could and take cover. She yelled for the guards that had been sent way as agreement to the truce. And I will never forget this part: I could here maniacal laughter before a scream that could wake the dead was heard. I could barely make out the words 'All for you, this done for you.' A few guards had gotten to the door but to late an explosion rocked the compound. Mama threw herself on top of me. I was knocked unconscious but that was my only injury. Mama was severe. She lay in bed till she was able to stand and hid her pain behind a mask, that was less than a week."
"The man sent his own son to be a trap. He wanted to get rid of us all. His son had been hypnotized, every time someone was to talk about an agreement to end the fighting or of peace he was to get mad. His body had been filled with explosives. Not sure how he was able to be alive but it seemed some of him had been removed to make way for the explosives. Either way the man was a dead man whether he blew himself up or not."
"The people who we ended up fighting were from the L7 cluster. It had only one or two colonies that had been just built. They were concentrating more on the others. Anyways a huge battle began. Mama led not only our forces but also the rest of the colonies and Earth's. Any one could see she was not the person she had been. A black aura seemed to cover her. Everything she had been bottling up came forth in that battle. In the end she wiped the whole L7 cluster out."
"We had lost my father at that point. The only time I have ever seen my mother cry was the first time we thought we lost him. This time we really did, but she didn't cry she bottled it up. She had to be strong for the others. She was their backbone now. The person they turned to for guidance. Their beacon hope in a sea of darkness. Our family leaned heavily on her. Not a month later we lost Lady's Neptune and Pluto. We don't know if they are dead but defiantly MIA. Again Mama did not mourn even four Pluto. She was the eldest of us a mother and older sister figure. At the same time the news of the pregnancies. When you all were born the tragedies took place again Mama did not mourn. A few more months pasted Mars and Venus disappeared. Mars was Mama's best friend. She took in everyone else's emotions to allow them to at least sleep and get on with their lives. Bottling hers as well. They are inside of her waiting. That is why we have her being watched. We don't know what to expect."
Trowa frowned. "That much emotion bottled up added with a battle that severe."
"Two battles." He looked at Dorothy. She looked up to the dome above them.
"Two battles. She was sixteen. She fought against another enemy and half of Tokyo had been taken in the aftermath. That is all we know. The others had been taken out of commission. All that was left was Serenity. She was the last person who should be fighting then. From the stories we have heard she was not as graceful as she is today."
Chibi Usa barked out with laughter. "There is the under statement of the century. Sixteen-year-old Serenity Usagi Tsukino was a literal klutz; she would run into someone get up and apologize to a pole. She was constantly late so she ran everywhere, hence the bowling over of innocent by standers. Junior high and the first year of High school she was either at the bottom of the scores or with in the last ten. She invented the word Ditz. As for fighting she new absolutely nothing except for a few kicks that was it. Didn't matter her heart and personality made up for all of it."
Trowa shook his head, "Still with TWO battles like that she faced alone and all those emotions it is a wonder she isn't in some institute."
Dorothy shrugged and Chibi Usa scratched her head.
"Like I said it is hard to explain it and I am not doing it justice. Though she bottles it up it doesn't affect her with her everyday life until something hits to close to home. Watch her and you will understand what I mean. It is almost as if she purifies them into energy she uses to get by with everyday." A smile spread on her face and her eyes lit up.
"I got a great idea. I was able to save them before they could destroy them all." She jumped up causing Dorothy to grunt and hiss in pain. Chibi Usa bounced down the hall to her room. Dorothy began to mutter something about clumsy moonchildren before she realized five sets of eyes were on her. She settled back into the chair as best as her injuries would allow her.
"Well, get on with it. I know you want to ask me something."
Dou gave Quatre a sharp elbow to the side. Quatre winced giving him a dirty look. Wufei rolled his eyes.
"What are these injuries you seem to have?"
Dorothy stiffened further and began to look around the room to turn the attention from her. Chibi Usa came in time. She was caring a case with her. Her smile dropped when she heard Wufei's question.
"That was the main reason I was coming in here to talk to you boys till I heard you talking."
She knelt down beside the chair Dorothy was in placing the case before her.
"I was hoping you boys would like to help me with a little revenge. What must be done is right up your boys expertise."
"No absolutely not!" Dorothy shot up. "Things are already bad enough. I don't need you causing any more trouble for me Serenity. Last time Uncle was more than mad."
Chibi Usa narrowed her eyes at her. "You opened your wounds again. I thought I was imagining it when I smelt the blood from my room. Heero next to you in that chest in a first aid kit please get it out."
"My body is my business not yours."
"In this house it is. I wouldn't not like to explain to our elders why you decided to bleed all over the house and I did nothing to stop it."
"They are not that bad!"
"Kitty-chan we can do this the easy way. You turn you back to me and allow reapplying your bandages them or we can do it the hard way. Causing you more pain and embarrassment."
Dorothy growled before turning in her chair sideways. She pulled her arms through the sleeves. She then pulled the back of her shirt up till it hung around her neck hiding the front view. Dou let out a low whistle at the sit of the blood stained bandages. They covered most of her lower back leaving the upper exposed. They were able to see scare welts crisscrossing her entire back.
Rage began to take them over. How could someone do anything such thing like that? They had come to trust Dorothy after the war. She was able to help them with many things in locating bases and eradicating forces trying to build up again.
Quatre moved to stand behind Chibi Usa. He had known Dorothy since he was little. Often their parents making the m play together while they talked.
"What on earth caused this and who?"
Dorothy lifted a small shoulder. "Depends on who you are talking to."
"If you wont tell them I will."
Dorothy gave a grunt of a reply back. "Fine I will tell them. Just hurry and pull those damn things loose. You are making me lose my concentration."
The boys watched as the pink haired girl skillfully worked on freeing the bandages from some of the wounds that had closed about them. She slowly cut off piece by piece till all she had left was the bit stuck to the wounds. With out even looking up to Quatre she shoved a towel in his hands.
"Make your self useful. Once I pull the cloth away you immediately place that over it."
Quatre nodded. She really didn't have to tell him. He had been through this many times during the war.
"Alright here comes the fun part." Dorothy gave a small nod. A quick yank and the cloth came loose. Quatre had the towel in place as soon as Chibi Usa had moved.
"Dorothy start talking." She got no reply from the girl. "Dorothy? Child answer me or I will ensure that you had died when I tell some stories."
Dorothy never opened her eyes she had closed from the beginning. "Chibi Usa, go directly to hell." She spat between clinched teeth.
The girl smiled and shrugged. "You know I can't. I am to sugary sweet to go to heaven and hell won't let me in because I would have too much fun. So I am stuck here on this dust ball to make your life a living hell." She pulled back Quatre's hand. Cussing under her breath she turned to the other four he eyes landing on Trowa.
"I know you can do some quick stitches. You did wonders on my dear little brother."
Trowa shrugged. "Shouldn't we move this to the med wing."
Dorothy finally opened her eyes. "No we can't. to get there we will have to pass the others rooms. No matter how quiet we will be they will wake up. That would only open a whole new can of problems I rather not face. I am quiet use to this now, " she gave a small smirk. "Besides you can't be worse than the rabbit."
Trowa took Chibi Usa's place, the pink girl move to sit next to Dorothy's head that was buried into the armrest.
Dou chewed on his bottom lip. "Don't you need some thing to numb the area or knock you out?"
Dorothy lifted her head and shook it. "I still have what ever Mercury gave me running around inside. I like to be awake when anything is preformed on me."
Wufei stood from his place and made his way to stand in front of Dorothy. "I will admit Onna you do have guts. Why don't you answer Winner's question and mine? It will take your mind off the stitches."
"Alright. It really starts from when my parents first met. It was when they were in school. My uncle and father always admired her from afar. Know they could never really have her. My mother..." a pink tint crossed her cheeks.
Chibi Usa rolled her eyes. "Please they are going to find out sooner or later. You never really had a problem with it before. Haruka doesn't really like the company of men. Her life love had been Michiru another woman. There was that so hard."
Dorothy looked at her from the corner of her eye. "I hate you."
"Love you to."
Dorothy blew her bangs from her eyes. "As it was so delicately put, my mother is a lesbian. She most of the time will act like a man. Her father raised her that way hence some of the why she distrusted men. Her only love has been Michiru. My father knew this and accepted it. He became friends with her as for my Uncle he tried time after time to get her. Always failing. He grew to hate my father for the friendship he had with her."
She paused and tried to look over her shoulder. "Are you sure you know what you are doing?" Quatre turned her head foreword.
"Continue."
"When Michiru had turned up missing my Father was the first to help look for her. After a while they realized they wouldn't find her. Mother locked her self up in her room. She refused to come out and even stopped eating. She never worked on her bike or her car and nothing anybody said or did could get her out. Papa had enough. He broke her door, picked her up and threw her over her shoulder. They ended up at a local bar. He told her if she was going to kill herself alcohol was more of a fun way to go. To make a long story short they both got so smashed that nine months later I was born."
"Papa was a proud man and had a lot of honor. He wasn't going to let mama raise me alone so they married. The family of course was outraged. Grandfather and a friend of his made a promise that their children would marry. So papa had a fiancée that he knew nothing about. To keep the promise the girl was promised to my Uncle. There is a very unhappy marriage. Most of my relatives can't stand mother they made her life a living hell the short time they were married. They approached Grandfather and behind my parents back got them divorced no sooner than I was a year old. They kicked mother from the family causing a huge family feud. My Uncle leading it."
"To say he was less than sore when he found out that his crush was marring his brother and having his kid not to mention he was now engaged to a woman he had loathed since they were little. Grandfather knew of Uncle's hatred and put me under his care and out of Uncles hands. He allowed me to see my mother three times a year. That wasn't enough for me so I learned to sneak out. When Grandfather died I was taken into his care. Papa had died by the time I was five. Found out later it was caused by my uncle."
"For the past couple years that I have been I his care he has decided to teach me to be a proper lady. He also blames me for Grandfathers death as well as loosing the war. Since day one being in his care I have received a beating of some kind. At first it was just slaps on the face. I soon learned what to do and not to do. When he found out that I would sneak out to see my mother that was when they got worse. He decided that I was not a lady because of my mothers influence so he was going to beat it out of me. That is the cause of my injuries. Sometimes he would do it and others he had someone else while he watched."
Trowa had long finished and just sat back listening to the story. All of the boys were in a state of shock. Dorothy realized Trowa was finished she sat up and replaced her shirt. Wufei looked down to Chibi Usa.
"Small lady what is your plan."
She shrugged. "I have a basic idea but I still haven't completed it. I need to get some information from Dorothy about a few things. Once I have it I will let you know what I have planned. You can change it if you see fit to then."
"I take it I have no say in this what so ever?"
Chibi Usa looked up at Dorothy. "None what so ever."
"if this has been happening for a while and you have proof of it why hasn't the authorities been alerted." Heero's voice startled Chibi Usa. She had forgotten he was there.
"Simple Johan has them in his hands. They are on his side. My mother has tried a few times to get Haruka full custody of Dorothy. Even the ones he didn't have control over were scared. Not of Johan but of his last name. That is the only reason he has any power. Now that Mama has said we are going to court you can guarantee that this time we will win. Anymore questions?"
Dou raised his hand. "I do, could you explain how you could smell the blood when Dorothy began to bleed again."
A shadow seemed to cover the red eyes. "I am no stranger to war I have seen is since I was little. Many times I have helped Hotaru and Ami tend to the wounds of others. So I trained my self to be able to sense when some one was injured. Many times they would hide it but I would find out and tell. It also doesn't help when at the end of one battle you find your self- covered head to toe in blood and lying in a pool of it. While the others were off fighting someone attacked the house. My nanny covered me from the gunshots and explosions. She had me pretend I was dead. So I lay there under he body covered in her blood and listened to the sounds of other dying around me. Since that day I know what blood smells like and can smell it some distance away." Dou gave a short nod.
"I was wrong in my thinking. I may have never said it out loud but I was jealous of the life you have lead. But is seems even having a caring family doesn't save you from the horrors of life." Chibi Usa waved it off.
"As long as you can forgive me for my earlier out burst. You all have the right to be angry and upset."
Dou smiled "Forgiven." The others nodded with him.
Dorothy gave a huge sigh. "Now that we have taken a lovely dip into the family hell. Mind telling us what is in that case you brought in."
Chibi Usa's eyes lit up. "I thought you would like to see what your parents were like when they were your age. They are home movies from when they were teenagers. They had thrown them out to try and forget but I found them and save them. So don't tell them you know about these. They would kill me." the boys made themselves comfortable again and waited. Chibi Usa moved the entertainment center before them. She opened the doors that concealed the TV. She placed a disk into its slot and moved to sit with on the couch between Heero and Quatre.
"This if from when the girls had just graduated Junior high school and went on a little trip to the beach to celebrate."
She pushed play and let the memories roll.
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Remember to review. I will try to have the next chapter out soon. I may be after Christmas some time. I have other stories I must get out that I have finished chapters for.
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