Silver Moon Step.005 Pluto's Fate

This chapter is very, very short (only four pages) but it's sooo important it's not even funny. So read real close and read real well. Chapter 6 may take a little while to come out because I think I only have a couple of pages already written... ;; But I'm going to attempt making it have a bit lighter mood. :P
Oh yes, the lyrics are by the beautiful and hot Gackt. I thought they fit and I was listening to LU:NA the time I was originally writing it. ;; Everyone go listen to LU:NA cause it's ownz my soul. Oh, and the lyrics I borrowed without permission from a Gackt lyric translation site I can't remember the link to right now but if she's reading this please don't get mad I'll put a link in later. :(

It was finally the time that Pluto had been waiting for. Now that it was here, she could not help but fear it. The Queen had finally taken notice of what her true actions were, and they were not what Her Majesty had assumed. She was asked to wait in her room about twenty minutes for the Queen to prepare herself for the 'ceremony'. She had opened the huge windows and watched herself in the mirror as the wind played with her long hair. With a sigh, Pluto clutched what looked like a pen in her fingers. Out of the eight Senshi, Pluto was to be the first to truly awaken. With her fingers she studied the design. Engraved was the sign of Pluto in the top ball and she pressed her thumb onto it, leaving the mark on her finger. She stared at it until she was interrupted by a knock at her door and the sound of a man telling her that it was time. Closing her eyes, she stood and raised the pen above her head, watching as it began to glow.

"Pluto Planet Power! Make UP!"

I wonder who's touching the depths of my closed eyes,
the moon that I gazed at inside of the wavering heat laughed at me.

Within seconds a flash of dark purple colors changed her into the Senshi she was born to be, Sailorpluto. She stared at herself in the mirror, amazed by what she had to wear. It was short, REALLY short. What the hell? Pluto reached for the huge earrings that dangled from her ears and flicked them, making sure that they were real. She did a little spin, noticing how the colors seemed to fit her pretty well. The boots she wore were also pretty cool in her opinion. Taking one last admiring look at herself, she decided that it was time to face the consequences of her actions in deceiving the Queen.

The door closed with a loud bang behind her, but she did not care. Fists clenched to keep her confidence in place, Sailorpluto walked as proudly as she could through the corridor, paying no heed to the stares as of the maids as they scurried to get out of her way. Her heels clacked rather loudly in the silent corridor, as no one was talking as they watched her. Very far off in the distance you could hear the faint noise of music and laughter, although the thick walls of the palace blocked out most sound. In less then an instant, Pluto found herself facing Queen Serenity's door. Without a thought she pushed it open and walked in. Automatically she kneeled down, her head bent low. By Serenity's feet she noticed what looked like the bottom of a silver staff.

Only the seduction of the requiem that started being whispered into my ear
Curbed me from wounding others

"Sailorpluto," Serenity began, "I do not understand what the meaning of all of this is. I told you I would delay your time to become a Sailor Senshi in order to fix a problem, as I believed you described it. But perhaps it was not the problem I thought you were talking about that you were trying to fix."

Pluto shook her head, "No, My Queen. It was Chronos' order that I save Uranus and Neptune."

"Uranus and Neptune!?" Serenity huffed, squeezing the staff she was holding, "I don't care about them and the prophecy foretold for them! I care about my daughter and my kingdom. To hell with those two girls. They have such strong wills that it'll be no use to break them."

Pluto looked sharply, "What did you say? Do you know how dangerous it would be to let those two run free while hating each other?"

"Well, I really do not care anymore," Serenity relaxed her hand and started rubbing her hand up and down the staff shaped like a key she was holding. "Because of you the Moon shall definitely lose all power and change as we know it. My people are ruined. Because of this, Princess Pluto, I ban you from ever coming back to the Moon and leaving your post."

Pluto froze. She felt cold sweat start to fall down her back. Why such a cruel punishment? Did she really deserve such a thing? She squinted her eyes shut and tried not to think of all of the loneliness that she shall face as her body turned cold, covered with goose bumps.

"Well," Serenity sighed and flipped the staff up into her right hand, "I present unto you this staff, which is the main key to the Time Gate." Pluto held out her hands as Serenity pressed the staff shaped like a key into her hands. "You must watch over the Gate and make sure that no evil goes through it, but I am sure you are prepared for that. This staff will also intensify your power. If I were you I'd go back in time and correct your mistake...oh wait, that's a taboo isn't it? Hmmm..."

"Yes, my Queen." Pluto started to tremble as she held it.

"You must protect the Garnet Orb with your life. It is very important to our future, that is, if you don't keep on screwing up our futures."

Pluto could not help but look up into Serenity's eyes, "So you accept the fate our current lives shall take?"

Serenity stared at her, her eyes narrowing.

"You know you cannot stop it, yet you try to stall it so. You know it is useless, so why bother?" Pluto grinned, "You're the one who made the mistake to bring such a future about anyway."

Serenity let go of the staff and stood at her full height without saying a single word. She turned away promptly. The sight of Pluto was starting to make her sick. "There are three rules to guarding time, taboos you could call them. Break one of these, especially the second, and you shall face horrible consequences, even death."

Pluto nodded and hugged the staff to herself.

"The first one is to never allow anyone to travel through time. The second, never stop time." Serenity could not help but stress the last two words, as they were so important. "The last is to never leave your post, as I have now forbidden you to come back. If you should do so who knows what will happen to disturb the flow of time some more. Stand, Sailorpluto."

Pluto stood up, holding the staff with one hand. She watched Serenity's hand move and a huge crystal door appeared before her.

"The Gates of Time and your beloved Chronos are waiting. Guard them with all of the power you possess."

"Yes, my Queen." Pluto took a step forward and the gate began to open. She felt herself drawn in and without thinking about it stepped the doors. They slammed behind her and Sailorpluto felt herself sucked into darkness.

My pain is taken away by the darkness
Because I can't return...

She screamed as the pain went through her body. Immediately she felt herself aging, or was her body's aging stopping? Knowledge she had only had a slight taste of when her mother first took her to the Gates flooded into her mind.

I embrace the torn rose to my chest
And fall into the crimson sea
I continue dancing upon
The piled bodies until I die

It seemed, though, as if that was instantly taken away by the darkness. It was as if she belonged there now that she was forbidden to leave this place. She might as well creep in the shadows of people and just watch time slip by.

My pain is taken away by the darkness
Because I can't return...

Emotions she would not feel any longer raced through her body like electricity. Hate, power-hunger, despair, happiness, love...The Princess' love for Endymion. Endymion...Endymion! She screamed.

Like struggling, suffering prey
My consciousness is taken from me
I drown and disappear in pleasure
Cold, inside of these arms

All of what had happened had taken place in a matter of seconds, not that it really mattered when you were stuck watching time quickly fly by. Sailorpluto was dropped onto hard cool sidewalk that led up to the Gate of Time. Pluto was unconscious due to the taking in of everything, for she was now the new Guardian of Time. She now had her mother's position, whom unlike her was allowed to freely leave and eventually fall in love with Pluto's father. She would never be able to experience any of those emotions. They were vanquished like water evaporating into the air. When she came to it sounded as if Chronos himself was laughing at her, echoing in the complete silence as she lay in the pool of her own complete misery.

I embrace the torn rose to my chest
And fall into the crimson sea
I continue dancing upon
The piled bodies until I die...

She woke up again to someone pushing her body back and forth, trying desperately to wake her up.

"Puu! Puu!" a high-pitched voice that sounded as if it came from a child cried, "Wake up! Don't die! Please, open your eyes!"

Pluto groaned as she rolled on her back.

"Who is it...?" she mumbled.

"It's me!"

Pluto sat up and looked at her, shock in her eyes as her new-gained knowledge raced through her mind in order to identify the small girl in front of her.

"Small Lady...?"