I do not own sailor moon. If you want to sue me, TOO BAD!! You have no
reason too and I have no money anyways. Sailor moon rightfully belongs to
Naoko Takeuchi and also a whole bunch of other people, like, I think,
Pioneer because they made the movies. I don't own any part of Sailor moon
whatsoever (even if I wish I did). I only own the characters and plot of
this story.
Since you've probably stopped reading this part by now, I will tell you that this is barely anything like the original story of sailor moon and that if you hate any changing of the original sailor moon concept than this story may not be for you but I hope you can try reading it anyways. Also understand that this takes place at least a million years after the ending of Sailor Moon.
Song of the New Cosmos
By Liquid_Goddess_Reformation
Chapter one: The Moon's Requiem
"Did you hear? They are raising Mashiro to be Her Imperial Highness Neo- Queen Serenity. I thought for sure the crystal would choose Terasu!"
"Yes, I know. They say Mashiro is a much better leader but Terasu does have that air about her. Everyone thought it would be her, she is the Blood of Serenity through and through."
"Yah, I know what you mean. I never thought the crystal would choose Mashiro."
Yes, Seraph thought as she listened to the gossip of the people in the restaurant, No one saw this one coming, not even the great seers. A week ago Her Imperial Highness Neo-Queen Serenity Ubazakura, Keeper of the Imperium-Silver Crystal, Ruler of the Moon Kingdom, and overseer of the Solar System passed away. It wasn't unexpected or anything but it was still a shock. She had ruled for almost 400 years and it was always hard let go of something you had known for so long. When a Queen would die, the Imperium-Silver Crystal itself chose the girl that would succeed the former queen from those of the blood from the Original Neo-Queen Serenity Usagi herself. It was how the kingdom had been able to live so long without having one oppressive ruler. It was a surprise for everyone when the crystal chose Mashiro over Terasu who was said to be so much like the original Serenity. Mashiro was probably, though not the last person, an unlikely one for the thrown.
Seraph paid the bill for her meal and left the restaurant. She new something must be happening for the Silver Crystal to choose Mashiro. Either she had hidden talents no one new about, Terasu had some unknown quality that made her unworthy of the Thrown or the future had other plans for them. The last selection was most likely Seraph. There was some unrest in the Universe, she didn't know entirely what, but she sensed the unease of all the spirits. She walked back to the Palace in deep thought.
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"Seraph!" Mashiro called to her as she walked into the palace meeting room in the capital, Crystal Tokyo. "I wish to name you of my advisors as chief councilor! Will you do it? If you don't want the position, I understand, it's just." she trailed off.
"You wish me to be your chief councilor? But I would have thought that it would be Chiharu." Seraph answered.
"Yes, she is my friend but you know so many things. And I can always count on you, and you don't treat me as a child. You also don't tell me what I should do or hide things from me and do things for me." She said. "Will you please be my councilor?"
"Of course I will your Imperial majesty."
"Oh! Thank you Seraph!" she ran up and hugged the girl. Seraph was seventeen and very tall with long black hair and deep blue eyes. Her parents had died when she was very young and since they'd had no relatives or close friends to take care of her she had been committed to the palace as a student of the thrown. The students of the thrown were taught things to help those who ruled the Solar system and were often assigned to be advisors of the royalty. Seraph had been an exceptional student and had been assigned to Mashiro, a person as close in the running to be queen as possible without actually being in the running. Those that were likely to be chosen were often given more experienced advisors. As chief advisor to the thrown, she would have to most influence on the Kingdom besides Mashiro herself. Mishiro was pale faced and pale haired with gold-hazel eyes and a nice smile. She was fifteen and rather short, only coming to Seraph's chest but that wasn't saying much considering how tall Seraph was.
"Do the elders approve of your choice of Chief Councilor?" Seraph asked her.
"Oh yes, they said they wondered why you hadn't been assigned to a more prominent person than me. They said you were the best in politics, magic, science, technology, culture, history, and fighting! I didn't even know you knew all those things." She answered.
"I don't like to brag." Seraph joked.
"See, and your easy going." Mashiro said.
"I guess I am all those things. When is the crowning ceremony going to be held?"
"Tomorrow morning at dawn." She answered.
"I will be sure to be there." Seraph said.
"Thank you so much!"
"It is nothing."
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Seraph woke up the next morning to hear a loud crash and the guards rushing about outside her door. I knew that there was a reason for the dream I just had.
She had found her self in the capitol but it was dark and dead, its valleys and craters covered in grey dust. All the planets lay cold and dark except the earth. She almost cried at the loneliness and nothingness around her. The world seemed to be smaller and it seemed to shrink and become even smaller as she looked before her eyes.
What is this, the future to come? Is this the unrest I has long sensed around me? She thought.
She heard a voice answer her. No, and yes
When is this? She said in her mind because she was suspended in some other plane of existence and found she could not use her mouth, even to breath, though it didn't seem she needed to. Her body and all physical feeling were gone except sight.
It is the past. It said. The system was once ravaged by outside forces and confined to the earth. Most all life in the solar system was wiped out.
But how had it returned to the way it is now?
The light came and sang a song that drove away the darkness and the crystal shined its light once again upon the faces of the planets.
Why am I seeing this?
Next time there will be naught left but shadow to remain on the earth and an eternal dusk will cover the worlds in a cold darkness that will last for many ages.
What can I do?
Awaken the light.
Immediately she was thrust into a memory of her mother telling her a story long ago.
"Once there was a great kingdom that was swallowed by darkness!" a women told a little girl on her lap.
"Darkness mommy?! Wasn't everyone scared?" a little girl asked.
"oh yes! Everyone was dreadfully scared. The planets were all darkened and no one lived on them because they were cold and dead." She said as the little girl gasped. "Then, out of the darkness the nine hopes in sailor suits shining out the light came and played the song of the cosmos and the darkness turned to light!"
"Wow! Where did they come from?"
"The planets chose them. And the guardians sought after them and came to see their hidden lights among the darkness. They awakened them to fight the darkness with the harmony of ages!"
"What were their names?"
"They were named after the planets of course! And together they called for the light of the dead worlds and they were reborn into a new era!"
"Yay!' the little girl cried and clapped her hands.
"And," the women said. "If ever the system is threatened again, the guardian will be called forth in a new form to find the hopes and awaken then to the light."
"What are the guardian's names? What did they look like?" the little girl inquired.
"Oh, there names and forms change every time they are called on to seek out the nine but they were called by the first queen of the system, Artemis and Luna, they had the forms of cats and were the queens chief advisors."
No, she thought, not a coincidence. She ran to the door of her room in the palace and called to the guards. "Hello! What is going on out there!" she yelled.
"The palace has been attacked!" a guard yelled through the thick oak door.
"I can tell that by listening to the racket out side my door, tell me some real information!" she called back.
"Shadow beasts, my Lady Councilor!" she heard a voice say. After a moment she recognized it as Emmett's, who was a Captain in the guard; he was a friend of hers.
"They attacked the castle at full dark. We've been trying to combat them since but guns are useless. Only spelled swords or magic will wound them. We've taken heavy casualties in the artillery squads and the magic casters in all the divisions are starting to get tired. We've sent out to Earth and we've informed Venus and Mars that they should be on guard. They aren't too hard to destroy but there are so many of them that we can barely defend ourselves. Once some extra forces come from earth we will fine though."
"Let me out! I can help! I know magic and I have a spelled sword!"
"Sorry, My Lady Councilor, I was sent express orders from Her Imperial Highness to protect you."
"Oh so that is why you are here at my door."
"Yes."
"Seen any action out there?" she asked him.
"Not so much, they are mostly on the south side of the palace. We haven't really had anything on the north side, luckily." He said. As they had been talking, Seraph had been changing into her fighter suit. A tight, black body suit that had multiple belts for her weapons and a security badge that gave her palace clearance. She would be ready for a battle if one came. She loosened her sword in the sheath, made sure the safety was off her gun and that her knife was keen. "Seraph! Be ready! The Colonel on the wall reports multiple shadow creatures headed our way! Be-," but whatever else he was going to say was drowned out by the shouts of the guard and the sound of swords ripping against something that sounded more like cloth than flesh.
The next minute the door was being beaten down by a tremendous force and it fell into the room almost on top of her. She could vaguely hear Emmett reporting the breach in security at her room. She jumped out of the way of a leaping shadow beast and unsheathed her sword and began to combat the creatures.
She tried her gun a few times but the bullets went right through the beasts, doing no damage what-so-ever. She found herself fighting back-to- back with Emmett, tall, brown haired and green eyed. He would slash out with his spelled sword at a shadow beast and Seraph would block the swipe of another shadow beast trying to attack him. Soon, others of the guard joined them but there were simply too many shadow beasts. All they could do was to protect each other.
"Seraph!" Emmett called to her, "Be ready to duck! A garrison is coming with a machine gun full of spelled bullets!"
"Spelled.Bullets?!" she said in between slashes at shadow beasts. "Who ever hear of having spelled bullets? Why haven't we used them sooner?"
"Your first question answers your second. Who ever heard indeed?" he said.
"I suppose." She replied and then they heard a loud siren and a voice on an amplifier said "All survivors duck below 80 centimeters off the ground immediately or you will be shot!" Seraph threw herself on the ground and hoped a shadow beast wouldn't cut her to bits. She saw Emmett and the rest of the guard that were in the room fumble to the ground as well while bullets were flying over their heads. Every time the machine gun swiveled around to shoot in another direction a few shadow beasts would attack Seraph and she would have to roll on the ground or kick them with her feet or slash at them with her dagger, her sword being too long and heavy to be anything but a nuisance while she was lying on the floor. Then the machine gun would swivel around and pellet them with spelled bullets. Soon the bullets stopped and more members of the guard from the garrison that had come with the machine gun stepped in with more spelled swords to take out the few surviving shadow beasts. Then the voice on the amplifier came on again and said "All survivors may now rise." She let a Corporal help her off the ground.
"My Lady Councilor? We are going to move you and the rest of the guards here to the medical floor on the east side of the palace. Would you please come with us." He said.
"Is Her Highness alright?!" she pleaded.
"Yes, as far as we know. Her rooms haven't been attacked yet. Now, Lady, you must come with us to the Medical floor."
"Okay." She said, still a little worried about Mashiro.
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"Exiting enough for you?"
"What's that supposed to mean?" Seraph said. She looked up at Emmitt. He was about twenty one, with a nice smile and rather well muscled. For some reason she liked to tease him every once in awhile when they were alone and didn't have to be formal. He liked to tease her too.
"Nothing, it's just I always here palace girls talking about how nothing ever happens." He said with smile.
"And how would you know about what the palace girls are talking about?" she said accusingly.
"From the palace boys, of course! They certainly complain enough to me about it as well." "I never thought it was all that boring."
"Oh, political ladies and their airs!" he said teasingly.
"Oh, palace guards and their egos!" she said, copying his mocking voice.
"Hey, Captains are the brains of the palace guards!"
"Oh sure, and that's why they get orders from Colonels."
"I'll pretend I didn't hear that." He said pretending to look hurt.
"Yes, well, go ahead." She sat back down on her hospital bed. What did her dream mean? Was she one of the guardians that were supposed to find the nine hopes, the Sailor Scouts? Did the sailor scouts even exist? It was only a story after all. Maybe-
"I heard Terasu has been very depressed since the crystal named Mashiro Queen instead of her." Emmett said interfering with her thoughts.
"Terasu, depressed? Why would you bring that up?"
"She's over there with her advisors, looking rather miserable to me." He pointed to a girl with silvery, white-blond hair and pale, blue eyes. She was about an inch or two taller than Mashiro was and she was a year younger than Seraph. She had on a white silk kimono-like outfit with her hair in various rings on the sides of her head. She was surrounded by her seven advisors who seemed to be trying to cheer her up or something-like. She did look rather sulky.
Seraph got up and walked over to Terasu, with the intention of trying to help her advisors lessen her sadness. Seraph had changed into the black and silver kimono-like dress and robes with a black and silver head-dress when she had been brought to the medical floor, now she was slightly regretting it as it brought the attention of the whole room whenever she so much as moved, she didn't want Terasu to feel as if everyone was watching her. As she came nearer, Terasu's advisors noticed her and seemed to grow nervous but Terasu didn't make any motion to say she had seen Seraph.
"Good day, Lady Councilor." The seven advisors said to her with a slight nod of the head. Her new rank didn't really require a bow, like to the queen, or even a respectful nod, like to other descendents of Serenity Usagi, just a courteous good day, but they seemed to think they were in trouble or something.
"Good day, fellow advisors." She said to them. "May I perhaps speak with Revered Lady Terasu?"
"She may speak." Terasu answered quietly in a cheerless voice. The Seven Advisors moved a few feet away to allow them a minimal amount of privacy while still being close at hand.
"It has come to my attention that you have grown sad of late." Seraph said using the utmost formality. "May I ask if I could be of any service to you?"
"There is something wrong with me. The crystal didn't like me; I must be evil."
"Nonsense!" Seraph said. She was slightly disturbed at what she was hearing.
"Then why.why did it find me unsuitable?" she said in response, still using that emotionless voice.
"Perhaps you were not unsuitable. Perhaps there were simply others who were slightly more suitable." Seraph answered.
"That still leaves me as unsuitable. Maybe I am a demon." She responded. Demon? Is she sane? Insanity is said to pop up in the descendants every few generations.
"Do you think you are a demon?" Seraph asked skeptically.
"Maybe."
"I think you would know. I also think that everyone else would notice. I do not think you are a demon."
"Then perhaps I am an evil spirit." Again with the evil beings; maybe she's insane after all. Seraph was growing impatient and frustrated with Terasu.
"I disagree." Seraph said. Terasu didn't respond. She was staring at something outside the window with a slightly terrified look. Seraph walked over to look out the window and yelled for the guard immediately. There were hundreds of shadow beasts swarming toward the medical floor of the palace. Emmett ran over to the window to look as well and then reported it on the intercom system.
"This is Captain Emmett reporting a disturbance at the Medical floor! At least five hundred Shadow beasts are advancing toward the area. They should be upon us in fifteen minutes or less, we need more protection immediately!"
"Affirmative, Captain Emmett." A voice on the intercom said. "This is Sergeant Comal. Her Highness is nearly at the medical floor along with several squads of the guard, I will send a message to the remaining guards to assemble at the medical floor. Do what you can for now."
"All right." Then he turned toward the members of the guard that were on the medical floor. "I want all staff and medical personnel moved as far away from that door as possible along with all the patients!" he indicated the large oak door that was the main entrance to the medical floor. "Anyone who can handle a sword, come over here with me! All spelled sword not in use should be brought here as well. Have the door open to admit her Highness and the guard!" he said. Moments after the door was cautiously opened, Mashiro came in with her remaining advisors and two squads of the Guard.
"Seraph! You're okay! I was so frightened for you when they said your rooms had been attacked!"
"Frightened for me?! I was frightened for you!" Seraph said with a relieved smile.
"Is that Terasu over there?" Mashiro asked. "She seems rather upset. Did the shadow beasts attack her rooms too?"
"I'm not sure." Seraph said. She hadn't even thought about the shadow beasts attacking her rooms. The Shadow beasts had to attack for some reason. Maybe it was because one of the hopes was in the palace. Sailor Moon! Of course! They were attacking because Sailor Moon was in the palace. Is Mashiro Sailor Moon? She turned to look at mashiro. No, it wasn't her. Seraph looked around the room at the various girls on the Medical floor, stopping at Terasu who was still looking out the window. Maybe-
"Seraph! They're breaking through the door! Take Her Highness Serenity Mashiro and Revered Terasu and get away from this door!" Emmett yelled to her. In her thought she hadn't even noticed the deafening noise coming from the large door.
"Right! Come on Mashiro, Terasu! We must get away from here!" and she grabbed Mashiro's arm and then Terasu's shoulder and pulled her along toward the area the others on the medical floor had fled. But before they got very far, the door gave way exactly how it had in Seraph's room. Terasu and Mashiro stared at the shadow beasts un able to move.
"They have come to devour my evil soul!" Terasu screamed. Seraph had had enough of this evilness nonsense and slapped Terasu over the face.
"Get a hold of yourself Terasu! You are a descendant of Serenity Usagi! Show some courage!" then she grabbed her arm again and started running away from the door, forcing Mashiro and Terasu to run as well. A shadow beast caught up with them and started slashing. Seraph tossed Mashiro and Terasu out of the way and threw a ball of magic at the beast and then another as the original turned to dust. They kept on coming and she could not keep this up for long. She was no magician and only sensed the energies of the universe. She turned to look at Terasu and Mashiro for a split and saw a crescent moon on the descendant's forehead. In her second of amazement a shadow beast knocked her to the floor.
"Seraph!" multiple people cry out as she lost consciousness.
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Terasu watched as the Chief Councilor was literally thrown to the ground by the shadowy creature. She could barely understand what had just happened. The Lady Councilor had turned to look at her and mouthed some strange words "The first hope, Sailor Moon." But what did it mean? Maybe she wasn't a demon after all. Or maybe she was. She could hear members of the guard combating the shadow beasts just feet away from her position but they seemed so far away. Who was this Sailor Moon? Then she remembered a story from her child hood. I am not a demon. I protect the Moon. And I must protect Mashiro now! She turned to the terrified girl just a year younger than her and told her, "It will be alright." Mashiro's hazel eyes were flowing with tears. Terasu stood up and said words of power that came to her mind and she over flowed with the power of the Moon.
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Who are you? Terasu asked the person standing in front of her. She looked remarkably like Terasu did same hair, same eyes, same height. She was wearing a white sailor suit with silver front and back bows and an opalescent skirt with a crescent moon ornament at the waste and another crescent moon brooch on the front bow. She had another crescent moon on her forehead. In her right hand was a glass flute and in the other was a glass scepter with various silver designs and another crescent moon inside a crystal that was atop the scepltor.
I am the first hope, Sailor Moon. But I am also you. The Guardian has seen your light and you have been accepted by the Moon. Now you must go and fight the darkness and set the system back into harmony. Sailor Moon said to Terasu.
What do I have to do?
You have already taken the first step and said the words of power. Now you must use the Moon Scepter and the Glass Flute to defeat the evil of the shadows and repair the damage of their destruction. But you can not win without the other hopes. First you must secure the Queen's safety. Then you will go with the guardian to search for the remaining hopes. The power rushing through her dimmed and she was standing next to Mashiro with Seraph still on the floor unconscious. She was now wearing the sailor suit of Sailor Moon and the Moon Scepter and the Glass Flute. The Guard were struggling to keep the shadow beasts away from them.
First order of business, get rid of these shadowy creatures! She thought. She let go of the Glass Flute and it immediately disappeared. Raising the scepter she gave a battle cry "For the Moon Kingdom and her Imperial Highness Neo-Queen Serenity Mashiro!" then she banished the shadow creatures with an explosive amount of magic from her scepter.
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That is the end of the first chappy. I told you it was going to be different. No one is really responding to my other story but it has only been up for not even a week so I guess I'm not too disappointed. Any ways, what is with the flute? And what are these shadow beasts doing here? And why is Sailor Moons outfit different? And what is with the references to music!? Find out in the next chapter! Or maybe later depending on which question you're asking. If any one is actually reading this please review, even flames are welcome. I am so pathetic.
Since you've probably stopped reading this part by now, I will tell you that this is barely anything like the original story of sailor moon and that if you hate any changing of the original sailor moon concept than this story may not be for you but I hope you can try reading it anyways. Also understand that this takes place at least a million years after the ending of Sailor Moon.
Song of the New Cosmos
By Liquid_Goddess_Reformation
Chapter one: The Moon's Requiem
"Did you hear? They are raising Mashiro to be Her Imperial Highness Neo- Queen Serenity. I thought for sure the crystal would choose Terasu!"
"Yes, I know. They say Mashiro is a much better leader but Terasu does have that air about her. Everyone thought it would be her, she is the Blood of Serenity through and through."
"Yah, I know what you mean. I never thought the crystal would choose Mashiro."
Yes, Seraph thought as she listened to the gossip of the people in the restaurant, No one saw this one coming, not even the great seers. A week ago Her Imperial Highness Neo-Queen Serenity Ubazakura, Keeper of the Imperium-Silver Crystal, Ruler of the Moon Kingdom, and overseer of the Solar System passed away. It wasn't unexpected or anything but it was still a shock. She had ruled for almost 400 years and it was always hard let go of something you had known for so long. When a Queen would die, the Imperium-Silver Crystal itself chose the girl that would succeed the former queen from those of the blood from the Original Neo-Queen Serenity Usagi herself. It was how the kingdom had been able to live so long without having one oppressive ruler. It was a surprise for everyone when the crystal chose Mashiro over Terasu who was said to be so much like the original Serenity. Mashiro was probably, though not the last person, an unlikely one for the thrown.
Seraph paid the bill for her meal and left the restaurant. She new something must be happening for the Silver Crystal to choose Mashiro. Either she had hidden talents no one new about, Terasu had some unknown quality that made her unworthy of the Thrown or the future had other plans for them. The last selection was most likely Seraph. There was some unrest in the Universe, she didn't know entirely what, but she sensed the unease of all the spirits. She walked back to the Palace in deep thought.
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"Seraph!" Mashiro called to her as she walked into the palace meeting room in the capital, Crystal Tokyo. "I wish to name you of my advisors as chief councilor! Will you do it? If you don't want the position, I understand, it's just." she trailed off.
"You wish me to be your chief councilor? But I would have thought that it would be Chiharu." Seraph answered.
"Yes, she is my friend but you know so many things. And I can always count on you, and you don't treat me as a child. You also don't tell me what I should do or hide things from me and do things for me." She said. "Will you please be my councilor?"
"Of course I will your Imperial majesty."
"Oh! Thank you Seraph!" she ran up and hugged the girl. Seraph was seventeen and very tall with long black hair and deep blue eyes. Her parents had died when she was very young and since they'd had no relatives or close friends to take care of her she had been committed to the palace as a student of the thrown. The students of the thrown were taught things to help those who ruled the Solar system and were often assigned to be advisors of the royalty. Seraph had been an exceptional student and had been assigned to Mashiro, a person as close in the running to be queen as possible without actually being in the running. Those that were likely to be chosen were often given more experienced advisors. As chief advisor to the thrown, she would have to most influence on the Kingdom besides Mashiro herself. Mishiro was pale faced and pale haired with gold-hazel eyes and a nice smile. She was fifteen and rather short, only coming to Seraph's chest but that wasn't saying much considering how tall Seraph was.
"Do the elders approve of your choice of Chief Councilor?" Seraph asked her.
"Oh yes, they said they wondered why you hadn't been assigned to a more prominent person than me. They said you were the best in politics, magic, science, technology, culture, history, and fighting! I didn't even know you knew all those things." She answered.
"I don't like to brag." Seraph joked.
"See, and your easy going." Mashiro said.
"I guess I am all those things. When is the crowning ceremony going to be held?"
"Tomorrow morning at dawn." She answered.
"I will be sure to be there." Seraph said.
"Thank you so much!"
"It is nothing."
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Seraph woke up the next morning to hear a loud crash and the guards rushing about outside her door. I knew that there was a reason for the dream I just had.
She had found her self in the capitol but it was dark and dead, its valleys and craters covered in grey dust. All the planets lay cold and dark except the earth. She almost cried at the loneliness and nothingness around her. The world seemed to be smaller and it seemed to shrink and become even smaller as she looked before her eyes.
What is this, the future to come? Is this the unrest I has long sensed around me? She thought.
She heard a voice answer her. No, and yes
When is this? She said in her mind because she was suspended in some other plane of existence and found she could not use her mouth, even to breath, though it didn't seem she needed to. Her body and all physical feeling were gone except sight.
It is the past. It said. The system was once ravaged by outside forces and confined to the earth. Most all life in the solar system was wiped out.
But how had it returned to the way it is now?
The light came and sang a song that drove away the darkness and the crystal shined its light once again upon the faces of the planets.
Why am I seeing this?
Next time there will be naught left but shadow to remain on the earth and an eternal dusk will cover the worlds in a cold darkness that will last for many ages.
What can I do?
Awaken the light.
Immediately she was thrust into a memory of her mother telling her a story long ago.
"Once there was a great kingdom that was swallowed by darkness!" a women told a little girl on her lap.
"Darkness mommy?! Wasn't everyone scared?" a little girl asked.
"oh yes! Everyone was dreadfully scared. The planets were all darkened and no one lived on them because they were cold and dead." She said as the little girl gasped. "Then, out of the darkness the nine hopes in sailor suits shining out the light came and played the song of the cosmos and the darkness turned to light!"
"Wow! Where did they come from?"
"The planets chose them. And the guardians sought after them and came to see their hidden lights among the darkness. They awakened them to fight the darkness with the harmony of ages!"
"What were their names?"
"They were named after the planets of course! And together they called for the light of the dead worlds and they were reborn into a new era!"
"Yay!' the little girl cried and clapped her hands.
"And," the women said. "If ever the system is threatened again, the guardian will be called forth in a new form to find the hopes and awaken then to the light."
"What are the guardian's names? What did they look like?" the little girl inquired.
"Oh, there names and forms change every time they are called on to seek out the nine but they were called by the first queen of the system, Artemis and Luna, they had the forms of cats and were the queens chief advisors."
No, she thought, not a coincidence. She ran to the door of her room in the palace and called to the guards. "Hello! What is going on out there!" she yelled.
"The palace has been attacked!" a guard yelled through the thick oak door.
"I can tell that by listening to the racket out side my door, tell me some real information!" she called back.
"Shadow beasts, my Lady Councilor!" she heard a voice say. After a moment she recognized it as Emmett's, who was a Captain in the guard; he was a friend of hers.
"They attacked the castle at full dark. We've been trying to combat them since but guns are useless. Only spelled swords or magic will wound them. We've taken heavy casualties in the artillery squads and the magic casters in all the divisions are starting to get tired. We've sent out to Earth and we've informed Venus and Mars that they should be on guard. They aren't too hard to destroy but there are so many of them that we can barely defend ourselves. Once some extra forces come from earth we will fine though."
"Let me out! I can help! I know magic and I have a spelled sword!"
"Sorry, My Lady Councilor, I was sent express orders from Her Imperial Highness to protect you."
"Oh so that is why you are here at my door."
"Yes."
"Seen any action out there?" she asked him.
"Not so much, they are mostly on the south side of the palace. We haven't really had anything on the north side, luckily." He said. As they had been talking, Seraph had been changing into her fighter suit. A tight, black body suit that had multiple belts for her weapons and a security badge that gave her palace clearance. She would be ready for a battle if one came. She loosened her sword in the sheath, made sure the safety was off her gun and that her knife was keen. "Seraph! Be ready! The Colonel on the wall reports multiple shadow creatures headed our way! Be-," but whatever else he was going to say was drowned out by the shouts of the guard and the sound of swords ripping against something that sounded more like cloth than flesh.
The next minute the door was being beaten down by a tremendous force and it fell into the room almost on top of her. She could vaguely hear Emmett reporting the breach in security at her room. She jumped out of the way of a leaping shadow beast and unsheathed her sword and began to combat the creatures.
She tried her gun a few times but the bullets went right through the beasts, doing no damage what-so-ever. She found herself fighting back-to- back with Emmett, tall, brown haired and green eyed. He would slash out with his spelled sword at a shadow beast and Seraph would block the swipe of another shadow beast trying to attack him. Soon, others of the guard joined them but there were simply too many shadow beasts. All they could do was to protect each other.
"Seraph!" Emmett called to her, "Be ready to duck! A garrison is coming with a machine gun full of spelled bullets!"
"Spelled.Bullets?!" she said in between slashes at shadow beasts. "Who ever hear of having spelled bullets? Why haven't we used them sooner?"
"Your first question answers your second. Who ever heard indeed?" he said.
"I suppose." She replied and then they heard a loud siren and a voice on an amplifier said "All survivors duck below 80 centimeters off the ground immediately or you will be shot!" Seraph threw herself on the ground and hoped a shadow beast wouldn't cut her to bits. She saw Emmett and the rest of the guard that were in the room fumble to the ground as well while bullets were flying over their heads. Every time the machine gun swiveled around to shoot in another direction a few shadow beasts would attack Seraph and she would have to roll on the ground or kick them with her feet or slash at them with her dagger, her sword being too long and heavy to be anything but a nuisance while she was lying on the floor. Then the machine gun would swivel around and pellet them with spelled bullets. Soon the bullets stopped and more members of the guard from the garrison that had come with the machine gun stepped in with more spelled swords to take out the few surviving shadow beasts. Then the voice on the amplifier came on again and said "All survivors may now rise." She let a Corporal help her off the ground.
"My Lady Councilor? We are going to move you and the rest of the guards here to the medical floor on the east side of the palace. Would you please come with us." He said.
"Is Her Highness alright?!" she pleaded.
"Yes, as far as we know. Her rooms haven't been attacked yet. Now, Lady, you must come with us to the Medical floor."
"Okay." She said, still a little worried about Mashiro.
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"Exiting enough for you?"
"What's that supposed to mean?" Seraph said. She looked up at Emmitt. He was about twenty one, with a nice smile and rather well muscled. For some reason she liked to tease him every once in awhile when they were alone and didn't have to be formal. He liked to tease her too.
"Nothing, it's just I always here palace girls talking about how nothing ever happens." He said with smile.
"And how would you know about what the palace girls are talking about?" she said accusingly.
"From the palace boys, of course! They certainly complain enough to me about it as well." "I never thought it was all that boring."
"Oh, political ladies and their airs!" he said teasingly.
"Oh, palace guards and their egos!" she said, copying his mocking voice.
"Hey, Captains are the brains of the palace guards!"
"Oh sure, and that's why they get orders from Colonels."
"I'll pretend I didn't hear that." He said pretending to look hurt.
"Yes, well, go ahead." She sat back down on her hospital bed. What did her dream mean? Was she one of the guardians that were supposed to find the nine hopes, the Sailor Scouts? Did the sailor scouts even exist? It was only a story after all. Maybe-
"I heard Terasu has been very depressed since the crystal named Mashiro Queen instead of her." Emmett said interfering with her thoughts.
"Terasu, depressed? Why would you bring that up?"
"She's over there with her advisors, looking rather miserable to me." He pointed to a girl with silvery, white-blond hair and pale, blue eyes. She was about an inch or two taller than Mashiro was and she was a year younger than Seraph. She had on a white silk kimono-like outfit with her hair in various rings on the sides of her head. She was surrounded by her seven advisors who seemed to be trying to cheer her up or something-like. She did look rather sulky.
Seraph got up and walked over to Terasu, with the intention of trying to help her advisors lessen her sadness. Seraph had changed into the black and silver kimono-like dress and robes with a black and silver head-dress when she had been brought to the medical floor, now she was slightly regretting it as it brought the attention of the whole room whenever she so much as moved, she didn't want Terasu to feel as if everyone was watching her. As she came nearer, Terasu's advisors noticed her and seemed to grow nervous but Terasu didn't make any motion to say she had seen Seraph.
"Good day, Lady Councilor." The seven advisors said to her with a slight nod of the head. Her new rank didn't really require a bow, like to the queen, or even a respectful nod, like to other descendents of Serenity Usagi, just a courteous good day, but they seemed to think they were in trouble or something.
"Good day, fellow advisors." She said to them. "May I perhaps speak with Revered Lady Terasu?"
"She may speak." Terasu answered quietly in a cheerless voice. The Seven Advisors moved a few feet away to allow them a minimal amount of privacy while still being close at hand.
"It has come to my attention that you have grown sad of late." Seraph said using the utmost formality. "May I ask if I could be of any service to you?"
"There is something wrong with me. The crystal didn't like me; I must be evil."
"Nonsense!" Seraph said. She was slightly disturbed at what she was hearing.
"Then why.why did it find me unsuitable?" she said in response, still using that emotionless voice.
"Perhaps you were not unsuitable. Perhaps there were simply others who were slightly more suitable." Seraph answered.
"That still leaves me as unsuitable. Maybe I am a demon." She responded. Demon? Is she sane? Insanity is said to pop up in the descendants every few generations.
"Do you think you are a demon?" Seraph asked skeptically.
"Maybe."
"I think you would know. I also think that everyone else would notice. I do not think you are a demon."
"Then perhaps I am an evil spirit." Again with the evil beings; maybe she's insane after all. Seraph was growing impatient and frustrated with Terasu.
"I disagree." Seraph said. Terasu didn't respond. She was staring at something outside the window with a slightly terrified look. Seraph walked over to look out the window and yelled for the guard immediately. There were hundreds of shadow beasts swarming toward the medical floor of the palace. Emmett ran over to the window to look as well and then reported it on the intercom system.
"This is Captain Emmett reporting a disturbance at the Medical floor! At least five hundred Shadow beasts are advancing toward the area. They should be upon us in fifteen minutes or less, we need more protection immediately!"
"Affirmative, Captain Emmett." A voice on the intercom said. "This is Sergeant Comal. Her Highness is nearly at the medical floor along with several squads of the guard, I will send a message to the remaining guards to assemble at the medical floor. Do what you can for now."
"All right." Then he turned toward the members of the guard that were on the medical floor. "I want all staff and medical personnel moved as far away from that door as possible along with all the patients!" he indicated the large oak door that was the main entrance to the medical floor. "Anyone who can handle a sword, come over here with me! All spelled sword not in use should be brought here as well. Have the door open to admit her Highness and the guard!" he said. Moments after the door was cautiously opened, Mashiro came in with her remaining advisors and two squads of the Guard.
"Seraph! You're okay! I was so frightened for you when they said your rooms had been attacked!"
"Frightened for me?! I was frightened for you!" Seraph said with a relieved smile.
"Is that Terasu over there?" Mashiro asked. "She seems rather upset. Did the shadow beasts attack her rooms too?"
"I'm not sure." Seraph said. She hadn't even thought about the shadow beasts attacking her rooms. The Shadow beasts had to attack for some reason. Maybe it was because one of the hopes was in the palace. Sailor Moon! Of course! They were attacking because Sailor Moon was in the palace. Is Mashiro Sailor Moon? She turned to look at mashiro. No, it wasn't her. Seraph looked around the room at the various girls on the Medical floor, stopping at Terasu who was still looking out the window. Maybe-
"Seraph! They're breaking through the door! Take Her Highness Serenity Mashiro and Revered Terasu and get away from this door!" Emmett yelled to her. In her thought she hadn't even noticed the deafening noise coming from the large door.
"Right! Come on Mashiro, Terasu! We must get away from here!" and she grabbed Mashiro's arm and then Terasu's shoulder and pulled her along toward the area the others on the medical floor had fled. But before they got very far, the door gave way exactly how it had in Seraph's room. Terasu and Mashiro stared at the shadow beasts un able to move.
"They have come to devour my evil soul!" Terasu screamed. Seraph had had enough of this evilness nonsense and slapped Terasu over the face.
"Get a hold of yourself Terasu! You are a descendant of Serenity Usagi! Show some courage!" then she grabbed her arm again and started running away from the door, forcing Mashiro and Terasu to run as well. A shadow beast caught up with them and started slashing. Seraph tossed Mashiro and Terasu out of the way and threw a ball of magic at the beast and then another as the original turned to dust. They kept on coming and she could not keep this up for long. She was no magician and only sensed the energies of the universe. She turned to look at Terasu and Mashiro for a split and saw a crescent moon on the descendant's forehead. In her second of amazement a shadow beast knocked her to the floor.
"Seraph!" multiple people cry out as she lost consciousness.
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Terasu watched as the Chief Councilor was literally thrown to the ground by the shadowy creature. She could barely understand what had just happened. The Lady Councilor had turned to look at her and mouthed some strange words "The first hope, Sailor Moon." But what did it mean? Maybe she wasn't a demon after all. Or maybe she was. She could hear members of the guard combating the shadow beasts just feet away from her position but they seemed so far away. Who was this Sailor Moon? Then she remembered a story from her child hood. I am not a demon. I protect the Moon. And I must protect Mashiro now! She turned to the terrified girl just a year younger than her and told her, "It will be alright." Mashiro's hazel eyes were flowing with tears. Terasu stood up and said words of power that came to her mind and she over flowed with the power of the Moon.
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Who are you? Terasu asked the person standing in front of her. She looked remarkably like Terasu did same hair, same eyes, same height. She was wearing a white sailor suit with silver front and back bows and an opalescent skirt with a crescent moon ornament at the waste and another crescent moon brooch on the front bow. She had another crescent moon on her forehead. In her right hand was a glass flute and in the other was a glass scepter with various silver designs and another crescent moon inside a crystal that was atop the scepltor.
I am the first hope, Sailor Moon. But I am also you. The Guardian has seen your light and you have been accepted by the Moon. Now you must go and fight the darkness and set the system back into harmony. Sailor Moon said to Terasu.
What do I have to do?
You have already taken the first step and said the words of power. Now you must use the Moon Scepter and the Glass Flute to defeat the evil of the shadows and repair the damage of their destruction. But you can not win without the other hopes. First you must secure the Queen's safety. Then you will go with the guardian to search for the remaining hopes. The power rushing through her dimmed and she was standing next to Mashiro with Seraph still on the floor unconscious. She was now wearing the sailor suit of Sailor Moon and the Moon Scepter and the Glass Flute. The Guard were struggling to keep the shadow beasts away from them.
First order of business, get rid of these shadowy creatures! She thought. She let go of the Glass Flute and it immediately disappeared. Raising the scepter she gave a battle cry "For the Moon Kingdom and her Imperial Highness Neo-Queen Serenity Mashiro!" then she banished the shadow creatures with an explosive amount of magic from her scepter.
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That is the end of the first chappy. I told you it was going to be different. No one is really responding to my other story but it has only been up for not even a week so I guess I'm not too disappointed. Any ways, what is with the flute? And what are these shadow beasts doing here? And why is Sailor Moons outfit different? And what is with the references to music!? Find out in the next chapter! Or maybe later depending on which question you're asking. If any one is actually reading this please review, even flames are welcome. I am so pathetic.