Chapter 8
Lita walked around the park. Not really knowing where to go or even what to look for. There were no images of the enemy, no tangible evidence to identify them only her Princess's dream.
Lita sighed, it had all been so peaceful for the longest time. Things had finally seemed to be settling down. But the life of a Senshi was not an easy one. Lita felt as though time had slowed these last years to give them a reprieve. One they had desperately needed. At the end of the battle with Galaxia everyone had just been happy to be alive. Each of them had dealt with an internal pain. Rei dealt with her turbulent emotions, Ami with her fears, Mina with her unwavering loyalty and Lita had fought with herself. Her guilt had been a burden at times.
Lita rounded a path and came to a grove of trees where they had once fought Jadeite, a dark general. It was there she stopped hearing something over her shoulder she twirled around.
"Hello Lita" said the image looking at her.
"Who are you?" Lita asked the image. The image just shook its head as it lowered the cloak around it and there stood a young woman no older than herself with long curling brown hair.
"Lita its me, Amelia" said the image.
"Why have you come to me?" Lita asked the image. The image looked at her with big golden eyes and sighed.
"I came to you, to warn you. The enemy coming after you is an old one. One you have fought before and lost. I have come to give you the one thing that will help you defeat it" said the image.
"But who are you?" said Lita still confused.
"I am your cousin from Jupiter. My father was your fathers younger brother. I was sent to the sun for training when you went to the moon. I knew about your heart ache at the end of the silver millennium and you knew about my secret life on the sun. And because we were that close I have been chosen to give to you the Jupiter sphere. Lita you were always a warrior, sometimes a princess and most definitely a nurturing soul. It is time that you came forth and met the goals that had you not been killed in the Silver Millennium you would have achieved. You were born and raised on Jupiter to take over after your mother and father retired and because of that it is time" as Amelia said this a green orb appeared in her hands and she pressed it into Lita's heart.
Lita was surrounded by an envelope of green leaves and thunder and when she touched the ground in her place stood Queen Lita of Jupiter. Amelia bowed.
"Your highness I hope the memories that this brings you of your past self does not cause you pain but is a remembrance of what you were and what you have become. Do not let these hinder you put guide you in your ways. For there is a path ahead of you full of love and hope and anger." said Amelia as she looked on her cousin's face and there she saw the silver tears streaking down. "Let it be known Jupiter, that life is forever changing and people are not always what they seem. May Zeus and Selene herself bless you and keep you in my heart" Amelia said before she disappeared.
Lita woke from her trance and felt the tears begin to fall. She remember almost everything, a few things were fuzzy but they would clear out eventually. She cried for her friends, her princess, her queen, her world and for herself. As Lita picked herself up and walked out of the grove Queen Lita melded into Lita Kino and they became one.