The Star and the Wind: Book II Return of the Past Chapter 6 Love and Competition, a sailor moon fanfic

Author's note: Since English isn't my native language; please don't flame me for grammar errors. Spelling errors… guess I'll just have to kill off my computer ;;

(Reviewed) – Mainly Amara/Seiya pairing – No flamers AKA don't like, don't read. I write this because I like this couple!

The Star and the Wind – Book II: The Past Returns

Chapter 6 - Love and Competition
By Pluto Knight
Copyright © 2002/2004

The time gates,

While the senshi were sound asleep in their beds, a male figure stood lonesome in the misty fog that covered the time gates. The lord of time, Fredrick, looked at his past life and the love that he and his wife, Princess Pluto, had shared between them. He had many times wanted to go to her and revoke her memories of him, but he knew that it wouldn't be a good idea. At least not until the princess of the moon had given him the OK to do so. It would have to come later. He moved his hand over the time mirror and the images changed. He could now see the princess of Uranus dancing with her one and only love, the Starlight prince. He smiled as images of Princess Serenity and Prince Endymion came into view. Those two had always been so much in love. Nothing could keep those two apart. 'God knows many sure have tried to keep those two from each other. I guess that the old saying, "love knows no bounds" is really true.' He thought to himself.
Once again the images changes and Fredrick could now see the sleeping form of Princess Raye. She was tossing in her sleeps, dreaming the dreams of the past that Fredrick had sent her. She was calling out for her love to come back to her. It was time for the Mars Knight to remember. But all this 'revoke memories' had a dangerous side effect attached to it. The senshi could be come emotionally weak from it, which was not good since the offers of being reunited with their loves, made by chaos, could be too powerful to resist. Beryl had once tried it one princess Serena and thanks to the senshi, Beryl had not been successful in her attempt. He switched the images to take a look at how Michelle was doing. She too had been send dreams, though not as powerful as Raye's. Fredrick had seen enough for tonight. Now it was time to say hello to a dear old friend, the Mars Knight.

Oxford University, London

Chad Kumara was just about to begin making dinner. It had been a long day for him and was now tired. He really felt like ordering dinner or go too a restaurant, but he found himself too tired to do that also. Stepping into the kitchen, he took out a pot and pan, placed it on the kitchen table and went to wash his hands before making dinner.

Half an hour later, Chad was well in progress making his dinner. He didn't notice the guy that was now standing in his living room. "I hope you aren't too tired, my old friend." The man said.

Chad jumped from pure shock and twirled around. "Who are you? And how did you get in here?" He demanded.

"Easy, Chad, If I had wanted to hurt you I would have done so already. You may not remember me, but we used to be friends along time ago. We used to live in a place that no one really remembers."

"Who are you??" Chad asked, eyeing the man.

"My name is Fredrick and I am the Lord of time, Starlight Knight of Pluto and captain to the Starlight Prince." Frederick informed. Chad blinked a few time, greatly confused by all this.

"Say what??" He asked.

"Tell me something." Fredrick said. "Have you ever had dreams about a beautiful kingdom, beautiful princess, ect?"

"No." Chad said, lying. Fredrick looked at him, knowing fully well that he lied. "Really?? Shall we start from the beginning?" He said challengingly

"Ok, ok, so I have had that kind of dreams. So what? They are just dreams." Chad said. He was getting somewhat tired with all this cat and mouse chase, and the fact that he was already dead tired didn't help at all.

"I thought so," Fredrick replied. "You are Chadwick, Starlight Knight of Mars, and captain of the Starlight prince, guardian and lover of the princess of Mars. Do you remember?"

I…I… don't know what you are talking about." Chad stammered out. Everything Fredrick told him sounded awfully familiar to him, but he couldn't place it.

"Then I will show you what I speak of." Fredrick said, almost immediately, and got up.

"Ummm… Now? I am in the middle of making dinner!" Chad protested.

"Don't worry. Time will stand still for you while we're away." Fredrick laughed. Chad blinked a few times as a black portal opened in front of him. He followed Fredrick through the portal.

The Time Gates,

Chad looked at the images in front of him, in awe and amazement. He knew about Raye being sailor Mars, but he sure hadn't expected her to be a princess as well. So the miko is a princess as well. No wonder she is sometimes a bit prissy. Chad laughed mentally.

"So... why are you showing me all this?" Chad inquired.

"Do you remember Seiya?" Fredrick asked.

"Seiya, yes I do. Why?"

"Seiya is the prince you saw in those images. He's is Princess Serenity's uncle. You know her as Serena, Raye's friend." Fredrick informed.

"Oh." Chad said wide-eyed. "I still don't see what that has to do with me."

"Here," Fredrick said, pointing towards the images, "I'll show you." Chad turned and looked at the images that passed by in front of him. He saw himself, dressed in some sort of formal clothes, dancing with the beautiful Princess of Mars. She wore a light red gown with see-through sleeves. Princess Mars looked up at him smiling. It was clear to Chad she loved him. The images changed. Chad was now standing with a group of men in front of a woman, dressed in gold and long boots. The woman looked furious at him.

"This is of the future," Fredrick explained, "You're powers are need once again, Knight of Mars." Chad looked at him as Fredrick continued, "There is going to happen many things in the future that involves you. You can not escape them."

"I am not planning to," Chad said. "If I go back…" He paused, "then what?"

"You will have to keep your identity a secret. Time will tell you when it is time to reveal yourself to your princess."

Chad nodded, "So be it."

Hikawa temple,

The alarm clock gave a loud noise as the time struck 6 am. Raye turned around in her bed and looked at the clock. She blinked a few time, and sighted as she placed the clock on the night table. She got up and put on her Kimono that Chad had given her for her 16 year old birthday, 4 months ago. Raye missed him. Everything was so quite and boring around here, not to mention that the chores that he used to do was hard. But she was too proud to ask her granddad for help with them.

Raye sighted. She sometimes felt so lonely, especially since Chad had left for England shortly after her birthday. Raye often thought about how nice it would be to have some one special of her own. But every time she came to the conclusion that she didn't have the time for it, not to mention the fact that she was a scout and not supposed to fall in love or have love. Only two times in her life she had found her self being in love. One was Darien and the other had been Chad, though she hadn't realized her true felling for him until he had gone to England to study chemistry. It had been quite a shocked for Raye and the other girls, especially Amara and Michelle, who to begin with had thought him as being lazy and stupid. Boy had they been wrong. Two month's after the battle with the Death Busters, Chad had graduated with A and A's only. That had shut the outer senshi up completely. 3 months later, he had left for England.

Raye got dressed and went to get a cup of tea and some break fast before going to school. She felt lonely, and seeing her friends believed that they have someone special made her even more depressed.

Infinity School,

Michelle was sitting in her music class, yawning. She hadn't got much sleep last night due to the fact that she had been up late waiting for Amara to get home, and then that strange dream about the silver millennium. In the dream, Michelle, in her princess form, had been dancing with a handsome young man, who she apparently had been in love with. Just like Amara's dreams.

"Good morning class," Ms. Akiora said as she entered the class room.

"Good morning, Ms. Akiora." The class chorused.

"Today we are going to play a peace from Strauss 8th symphony." The teacher said. "I…" She was interrupted by a knock on the door. "Yes!" Ms. Akiora called.

"Good morning class, Ms. Akiora." The school principal said. "I didn't get around too talk to you this morning. You have a new student." He said. "Adam?" The principal called. A handsome looking young man entered the class. Most of the girls got hearts in their eyes at the sight of him. Michelle gasped, he was the most handsome guy she had ever seen and he had green hair and eyes, just like her. This was very strange too her since her hair was supposed to unique, meaning that only those born on Neptune should have it. But now this guy showed up and had the same hair colour, of course he could have dyed it that colour and got contact lenses.

"Ahhh, yes. Adam Baker, right?" Ms. Akiora asked, walking up to Adam.

The man nodded, "Yes, I am Adam Baker."

Ms. Akiora nodded, "Please take a seat next to Miss Atoka." Adam nodded.

"Hi!" Sarah Atoka said cheerfully, as Adam sat down next to her.

"Hi." Adam said. Michelle looked at Sarah. For some reason, seeing Adam sitting next to Sarah made Michelle jealous. She felt a strong urge to pull Adam away from her and scream that Adam was hers, but why? She didn't even know him.

"So Adam, what music instrument do you play?" Ms. Akiora asked.

"Violin and Cello." Adam replied. Ms. Akiora looked at him in amazement, as did the rest of the class.

"Excellent." Ms. Akiora said. "Now if you will all take out your instruments and node books."

"Umm should that be a violin or cello?" Adam asked.

"Whatever you prefer." The teacher responded.

Adam blinked a few times. "Not to argue or anything but does a cello fit to the music that we are going to play?"

The teacher looked at him, as did the students. Normally the students didn't show interest in if the instruments were fitting for the music, not as Adam just did at least. "I guess it would be violin then." She replied.

"Ok." Adam said, grabbing his violin case.

Adam was very good at playing the violin. Better then the whole class and that made the others jealous, the guys mostly. The girls, including Michelle, swooned at how good he was as playing.

When class was over with most of the girls wanted to know what class Adam was having next. Michelle, however, didn't want to be part of this guy chasing. True, she, like the rest of the senshi, wanted to find love, but how could she when all the other girls had his full attention?

'Forget it girl. He will never notice you, let alone be interested in you.' "But it can never hurt to try, now can it." She mumbled to herself. 'I'll do it after school.' she walked past him, flashing him a smile. Adam didn't really notice it. He was too busy talking with the herd of girls that was clinging to him like they would die if the let go.

'Gah' Michelle thought as she walked by them. 'I can love you way better then those girls' She screamed in her mind. 'Why am I acting like this?!? I don't even know this guy! So why am I getting territorial?'

Later that day,

Raye, Ami, Lita, Mina, Amara and Michelle were sitting in front of the temple waiting for Serena, Darien and the cats to arrive. Raye was, as usually, angry that Serena once again was late for a meeting.

"Where is that Meatball head!?!" The raven haired priestess yelled.

"Calm down, will you, Raye, you know why Serena is late. She is on a date with Darien." Ami said.

"I know she is on a date. But that still isn't a good excuse for being 45 minutes late for a meeting." Raye argued back.

"What gives you the right to tell Serena what to do with her life, Raye?" Amara questioned, as she stared into Horizon. The other girls just looked at her.

"Say what!?!" Raye demanded. "I tell her what to do because she is the leader of this team and if she can't do her duty…"

"You are free to leave this team if you can not stay out of my private life, Raye Hino. I will not stand for you to speak that way behind my back, is that understood? You are my guardian, and if you can't accept the fact that I am with my fiancé then you are free to leave." Serena's voice was sharp and couldn't be misunderstood. The others just looked at her open mouthed. Never had any of the heard Serena speak with such a voice before.

"Sorry Serena, I am just having a bad day." Raye said breaking down crying. The dreams that she had been having during the night were making her edgy and pained her. Ami went to her as the others just looked at her, shocked. Raye never cried, never.

"Raye what's wrong? You've never acted like THIS before." Ami said. "And you never cry."

"I… I… nothing is wrong, so leave me alone about it, okay." Raye said, getting up she rushed to her bed room. The other girls sighted.

"I guess this means the meeting is off then." Michelle sighted. The others nodded.

Elsewhere,

While the girls were at the temple, a dark portal opened in an ally and a womanly figure stepped out. Her long black hair was done in a ponytail and she was wearing a sailor suit. 'Now, where am I going to begin?' She thought to herself, "Ah yes, a trap would be a good start… don't you think so Gail?" She spoke out loud as another figure entered the ally.

"I most certainly do, Mistress Orion." She shadow spoke sneeringly.

"Good, then let's get started. We are to capture Princess Uranus or Sailor Uranus as she is also known as, and bring her to Lady Galaxia." Sailor Orion said. "Now, what I want you too do is to spy around to see if you can find her. Report back to me as soon as you find her, understood?"

The shadow, Gail, nodded and disappeared.

"Now to get myself another set of clothes." She said while de-transforming. She left the arcade wearing a pink turtle neck, a short skirt and a pair of long leather boots.

Later that day,

Serena and Darien was walking in the park under the shining moon talking about what had happened back at the temple. She was extremely worried about the emotional state that some of the girls were in at the moment. Luna and Artemis had said that it could be used by the enemy in order to strengthen them selves in the battle. That had made Serena even more worried.

"So did you ask your parent's about the 25th?" Darien asked as they stopped to look upon the river that ran through the park.

"Yeah I did," Serena replied, "my mom said that I could."

"What about your dad?" Darien asked raising an eye brow. After the episode where Serena's dad, Mr. Tsukino, had pulled his shoot gun at him, Darien had become very careful when it came to asking Serena anywhere that she needed parental approval.

"What can I say? He's my dad, you know how overlay protective he is of me." Serena replied giggling.

Darien broke into laughter, "Oh don't remind me."

"Yeah, muffin, I know." Serena said between giggles.

Darien turned towards her and wrapped his arms around her, pulling her in for a kiss. The kiss, however, never came for a piercing scream cut through the air, bringing the couple out of their moon light romance.

"Not again." Serena groaned and pulled out her broche, preparing to transform.

"What makes you so sure that it's youma?" Darien asked.

"I am not," Serena said, "We have better check it out anyway."

Darien nodded. They both ran towards the screams.

TBC in: Chapter 7 - Captured