Once again...Saint Seiya and Sailor Moon belong to Naoko Takeuchi and Masami Kurumada
Saori's fingers stilled over the ivory keys, the quiet doom that had laid dormant in her breast for the few moments she played was rising again, making her feel a knot of anxiety twisting deep in her stomach. There was something wrong.
She sighed, and rose from the piano bench, sweeping up her skirts and stepping to a large window which looked scenically over the grounds of the Kido estate. The stars shone in the sky brightly, but they would not move.
They would not move. A small sob escaped the princess as she considered this. There was something truly wrong if the stars had stopped moving. The populous had not noticed quite yet, but they would soon...the astronomers would find that there was no flaw in their telescopes, that there was no error in their calculations.
The saints had gotten restless, the odd behavior of the stars reflecting in them. Shun had become pale, and jumpy, often not eating but refusing the leave the company of his companions. Shiryu had fallen into an ongoing brooding silence, rarely speaking, more often looking solemn and worried. As for Ikki, Hyoga, and Seiya...they had begun to snipe at each other, picking three way fights more often than not.
The stars' movement-or lack thereof-was throwing everyone off. And Saori felt it too; anxious and nervous, she spent hours in the immense Kido library looking for evidence of this happening before. The rest of her time, she sat in her planetarium, questions pinging around in her head. Why was this happening to them?
Steps behind her caused her to whirl around, one hand flying to her face to wipe away the tears of frustration. Shun stood a few feet away, bearing a tray of what Saori recognized as that evening's dinner.
"When Tatsumi heard that you didn't show up with dinner, he nearly had a cow." He offered, by way of explanation, setting down the tray. "I was volunteered to bring you dinner." Saori nodded, ducking her head, and praying that the saint could not see watery eyes.
"Did you eat tonight?" She asked curiously, spearing a pea with the silver fork. Only the best for Miss Kido. Shun shrugged, a small smile tugging at his lips.
"Ikki made me. He threatened to impact my face to the back of my head if I didn't." Saori nodded, chewing delicately, but not really tasting the food.
"I see. And the others, what are they doing?" She always tried to hide her concern for the saints behind a cool and demure manner, but recently, everything was falling apart. Nothing really seemed to matter. Shun rubbed the back of his head in thought.
"Well...Shiryu is thinking in front of the fire, again. And Tatsumi is facing it off with Ikki..."
"What did Ikki do?" Saori inquired, wondering what had gotten her somewhat neurotic bodyguard riled up. The green-haired saint sighed heavily.
"Ikki got caught making out in the garden...again," he said ruefully. "And then Seiya called Hyoga a birdbrain, and Hyoga called Seiya a pony, and so they're battling it out too." Saori had nothing to say to that, and Shun went to leave. She heard his steps hesitate though.
"I don't know, Saori...everything's messed up now." With that statement, he left, leaving Saori alone with her roiling thoughts, her mind snatching up that comment and turning it into a terrifying something.