The Star and the Wind: Book II Return of the Past Chapter 8 The first battle, 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 8 – The first battle
By Pluto Knight
Copyright © 2002/2004

Serena sat in Darien's apartment, trying to think of something else besides senshi business. She sighted. Much had happened in the last four day after the capture of Amara and Trista. The inner and outer senshi, save for Serena, Rini and Michelle, had been captured by Uranus and Pluto and were now just as evil as their captures. Rei and Ami's old crushes, Chad and Greg, had returned and for some reason, they, Seiya, Darien, and a new guy Anthony, all acted VERY strange. And it puzzled the remaining senshi. Yesterday, when Ami had been taken, Seiya had asked Uranus about something called the fourth talisman. That had completely caught the evil senshi by surprise, especially Uranus and Pluto, who did not know about existence of a fourth talisman. Serena had later asked Seiya about it, but he had said that she already knew.

In the park,

Hotaru had been send down to earth to get yet another star seed for her new monarch. Like the rest of Galaxia's new senshi, Hotaru had bracelets on her hand wrists and a star on her forehead and she looked like a snotty and spoiled brat. Her eyes were cold and emotionless, yet they were shining with evil.

Hotaru shivered as strange feelings shoot through her, when a young man with purple hair walked by her. For a moment, all the evil power and wickedness in Hotaru disappeared. She blinked a few times and turned to look after the guy. He was still walking casually down the road.

"HEY!!" Hotaru yelled after him. The man stopped and looked at her. As he did so memories shoot through her. Memories of this guy and… HER.

Flashback, the planet of Saturn

"Why must you leave me?!?" princess Hotaru cried, as she buried her face in his shirt, soaking it with her tears.

"Taru," he said using his nickname for her, "You know I don't want to leave you either, but I have to for the sake of the universe. When we win this war I promise you I'll come back to you." Eric said, soothingly to a still sobering Hotaru.

"I still don't want you to go!!" she managed to choke out between sobs. Eric leaned down and placed a soft kiss on her lips. "I give you my word, princess. I will come back to you, and not even death can keep us apart…"

End flash back,

Hotaru just stood there, completely shocked by what she had just remembered. She blinked a few times, realising that the man was now out of sight she began to run in the same direction he had gone. When Hotaru came to the play ground area she stopped, looking around for him angrily. She didn't know why it seemed so important for her to find him. She pushed it aside and continued her search for the rest of the senshi.

The Milky Way,

Amara was lying on her bed inside her quarter, looking at the sealing. She had established her self as general over all the other senshi, since she was the most power full, and as she said 'the most beautiful'. The other generals were Pluto and Mars and Star Healer. Mercury now worked as plan maker, she was to make sure that they would never fail.

But something was nagging her. She couldn't help forget about the 4th talisman that Seiya, god knows how, knew about. What WAS the 4th talisman? And how did a Starlight know about a talisman of the outer planets? She let out a sigh of frustration, and closed her eyes, slipping into a land of forgotten memories.

Amara's dream,

The fields were grassy and trees stood tall and mighty on the open fields out side the Uranian palace. Princess Haruka was sitting in the palace garden, reading and enjoying the warm summer day. She froze and turned around as she heard some one walk up behind her. Haruka twirled around to start yelling at the person who dared to sneak up behind her, but came face to face with…

"Seiya!!" she exclaimed happily as she flung herself into his arms. Seiya laughed. "I take it this means that you have missed me, princess."

Haruka wriggled her nose and frowned deeply, "I told you, I don't like being called princess. It makes my sound snobby and bratty." She said, smacking him on the arm playfully.

Seiya bowed while hiding a smirk, "Please accept my most sincere apology, your Majesty."

"Oh you!!" Haruka yelled, but Seiya silenced her with a passionately kiss. Haruka closed her eyes, snuggling against him. Seiya had been gone for 3 months and she had greatly missed this.

"Haruka, I am afraid I have some bad news." Seiya said as he broke the kiss.

"Why? What happened??"

"King Solaris… he has declared war on the Starlight Kingdom." Seiya said. Haruka looked at him shocked and horrified.

"No!" she yelled, clinging to him, "I am not going to let you go!" She said firmly.

"I am sorry 'Ruka, but my place is with my people, you know that. You would do the same for your people if it came to that, I know you would." He replied.

Haruka turned around, not wanting to look at him. Seiya let out a sigh. He knew that she would react this way… not that he really could blame for it. "So… so when do you leaving?" she asked.

"Tomorrow, I am afraid. The star of Orion has been attacked and is currently occupied by Solaris' forces. My father has ordered that forces are being sent immediately."

"Will I see you at the Moon-ball tonight?" Haruka asked hopefully, turning around to face her lover.

"I'll try to be there." Seiya said. Haruka lowered her head as tears once more started to trickle down her cheeks. Noticing this, Seiya pulled her close kissing her again, as yellow rose petals drifted by in the light summer breeze.

That evening,

The Moon Palace was full of people from all over the solar system. The host and hostess, the King and Queen of the Moon, were sitting on their throne watching as people danced and enjoyed the evening. The Inner and outer princesses just sat on right side of the Ball room, looking extremely bored, sad and worried. Their knights were preparing themselves for their departure to Nexias, one of the stars in Orion's belt.

Haruka sighted and looked at the other princesses. Each of them had hopped that their knights would make it, but as the evening progressed it seemed that they wouldn't.

"I hate this." Setsuna mumbled, "Why do OUR knight's have to go to war? If they go who will be to protect us?"

The others nodded in agreement.

"I can't believe that Endy is going too." Serena complained.

Rei shrugged, "As long as Chadwick doesn't have to go I'll be happy." She said and crossed her arms.

"What about me?" A voice whispered as a pair of hand covered Princess Rei's eyes. "Guess who?"

The other girls gasped. "Chadwick!" They said in unison, and started to ask where their own knights were.

"Easy ladies, they will be here shortly." Chadwick assured them and sat down.

'YES!' was the only word that passed through each princess' head, save for Rei who was too busy kissing Chadwick. Half and hour later, each princess was dancing with her own knight.

"You don't know how happy I am that you made it, Seiya." Haruka said resting her head on his shoulder as they stood out side the moon palace in the starlight.

Seiya smiled and put his hand to his cheek, cupping it. "I think I do, fair princess." Haruka blushed a little at his words. Seiya was the only man who could make her blush. "I have something for you by the way…" He said taking out a square box. Haruka looked at him questioningly.

"What's this?" She asked. Haruka wasn't used to get presents like this.

"Open it." Haruka did so. Upon opening the box she saw a golden necklace with the symbol of Uranus on it. Haruka gasped. It was the most beautiful necklace she had ever seen. She wrapped her arms around Seiya and kissed him passionately. "I love you so much, Seiya." She mumbled through the kiss.

"And I love you too, ruka."

The Dream ends

Amara sat up drenched in cold sweat, a few crystal tears slipped down her cheeks. She shivered and looked down at the glowing golden bracelets on her hand wrists. She loved the feeling of all that power they gave her, but she wanted to be with her lover as well. An evil idea popped into her mind. She would capture him and make him evil so that they could be together forever. She nodded. That would most definitely work.

She got up and went to the rest of the senshi's room. She, Pluto, Mars and Star Make had their own rooms, since they were generals, while the others had one.

"I don't get why we have to sit around here?" Rei sneered.

"Neither do I. Looked at us, we are more then enough to capture those snivelling brats." Lita said.

Amara entered the room, "Who wants to go with me to earth and find the rest of the star seeds?"

"I do." Lita, Ami, Rei, Yaten, Taiki and Mina said in unison.

"Ok, let's go then. Uranus Galactic Crystal Power, Make-up!" Amara said and opened up a portal.

Seiya, Artemis, Darien and Anthony, a guy from Seiya's computer class who had also been visited by Fredrick and revealed to be Venus Knight, were sitting in front of the ice cream parlour talking while keeping an eye out on a sleeping Chibi Chibi.

"So what's all this evil senshi stuff about?" Anthony asked his three companions. He too had been having dreams about the past. Fredrick had done a good job in revoking the knights.

"They have been captured and turned evil." Darien said. "Now they seek to destroy the universe.

"My princess? Evil?" Anthony asked shocked. He couldn't imagine princess Minako as being evil, let alone hurt someone, except for monsters.

"Yes, I am afraid so. What's worse is that Amara, Rei, and the other senshi are captured as well.

Seiya nodded as well. He had been shocked when Darien had told him who the princesses were. Seiya had never imagined that the girl he always fought with, Amara, were his princess from so long ago. From what he remembered; Princess Haruka was sweet and kind, though a tomboy like Amara was, and a fighter too. Out of Serena and Darien, Darien was the only one who knew about Seiya being a knight. Darien had known about it even since the incidence at the football course, where Seiya had saved him from Aluminium Siren a few days earlier. That had also been the end of her since Darien had become prince Endymion and helped Seiya send her straight to hell.

Anthony had a disturbed look on his face, "I guess we are going to have to deal with them as we dealt with Solaris in the past, huh?"

"Some what like that, yeah." Seiya said, grimly.

"What time did Chad and the others say they would get here?" Darien asked.

Seiya looked at his watch, "In 15 minutes." He replied shortly.

Uranus gleefully walked down the streets with the other senshi. She couldn't wait to see her love again. Together they would serve evil and bring darkness to the Universe, or so she thought. Luckily, the others hadn't noticed her cheerfulness, other vice they would have started asking questions.

Serena, Michelle Rini and ChibiChibi, had decided to go shopping for a barbeque in the attempt to cheer Serena up a little, while the guys stayed back and prepared everything else. The mall was packed with people that day. It was as if summer sale had started early this year.

"So what else do we need?" Michelle asked.

"Well let's see here… we've got meat, chips, soda, salad, sauce, bread, coal… I can't think of anything more." Serena said.

"Oh no!" Rini said, as she spotted 5 familiar faces.

"What?" Serena and Michelle asked, turning around.

"Help!" Rini muttered. "We have company, and they look too cheerful for comfort."

Michelle pulled out her wand nodding for Serena to do the same, "Neptune Crystal Power, Make-up! Silver Moon Crystal Power, Make-Up"

The ice cream parlour

The guys, now joined by Chad, Ken and Greg, still sat at the ice cream parlour while talking and waiting for four girls to return with their shopping's, when Darien suddenly fell too the ground, clutching his head tightly, clearly being in tremendous amount of pain.

"Darien!?!" the four guys exclaimed.

"What the hell is wrong with him!?" Chad asked.

"Se… Serena has transformed…" Darien mumbled as the pain slowly stopped, still holding his head.

"So they are here…" Greg said slowly.

"Let's go and give them a hot welcome," Chad said with a small smirk.

"I agree," Ken said, "Inner and outer princesses or not, they are now working for the forces of evil and they must be stopped before they hurt any innocent people."

"What are you guys talking about?" Three very confused cats' asked.

The six men looked at one another and nodded, ignoring the cats. It was time, time for then to reveal themselves to the enemy, their princess and her daughter.

'Planet of Starlight, by my right of succession I call upon your mighty power!' Seiya thought.

'Planet of Mars, I call upon your power!' Chad thought.

'Planet of Venus, I call upon your power!' Anthony thought.

'Planet of Mercury, I call upon your power!' Greg thought.

'Planet of Jupiter, I call upon your power!' Ken thought.

'Planet of Earth by my right of succession I call upon your might and strength! Darien thought, taking out his symbolic red rose.

They were engulfed in silver light. Their clothes melted away and war replaced by light armour, one their left side hang a sword loosely and was covered from view under a large and thick brown skin cloak. Their gloves were also made of skin. The two moon cats looked in awe and shock at the knights as memories of the past rushed into their minds.

"The Starlight Knights" Luna muttered.

"Yes, it is them alright." Artemis said. "I hope Galaxia is insured." He snickered remembering what happened to the last evil forces who messed with the Starlight Knights.

"Well, well, well is it isn't the pitiful remaining of the light?" Jupiter's voice dripped with malice and sarcasm.

"So?" Michelle asked boldly. She knew it would only take these 5 senshi a moment to kill all of them.

Uranus smirked, "So? So we grab us another star seed what else?" she said gleefully and reached for Serena.

"You will not!! Jupiter sword electrifies!!" Jupiter knight's voice boomed as he and the other knights appeared.

"UAHHHHH! Uranus yelled as she was sent flying backwards into the rest of the senshi. The immediately sat up and looked around wildly for the source of the attack.

"Who and where are you?!? An enraged Sailor Venus screamed.

"I will not tolerate that you hurt innocent people, trying to force your narrow minded little world down of the rest of the universe." A, too Uranus, familiar voice said.

Uranus' eyes flickered with love as she recognised the voice. Her knight was here.

"I can't say that we really care if you tolerate it or not." Star Healer said.

"I am the beautiful and elegant sailor senshi, sailor Star Maker, and demand that you show yourselves."

"If you insist, Lady Healer." Another voice said, as five shadows jumped down from the top level of the mall. The senshi narrowed their eyes.

"I will not allow you to harm the princess of the Moon, senshi, no matter what." The Starlight Knight said.

Endymion went over to Sailor moon and wrapped his cap in front of her protectively.

The evil senshi, ChibiChibi Neptune and Sailor Moon all gasped. What was going on?

"Dad, the Starlight Knights!?!?" Sailor Chibimoon exclaimed shocked to see her father dressed as a knight. In the future she had only seen him like this once and that was when the Dark Moon Kingdom had made their first attack on Crystal Tokyo.

The evil senshi looked at the men in front of them in shock and anger.

"So you still love that stupid Moon Princess is that it, huh Starlight Knight, is it?" Sailor Uranus spoke with venom, pain, anger and hatred toward Serena who she was convinced had stolen her knight's heart, since he was protecting her. "I don't like this kind of disrespect and unfaithfulness. I am still the princess you are ordered to protect and love."

The Starlight Knight looked at her, raising an eyebrow, "Ordered? What in gods name have Galaxia done to you, Uranus?"

"It's Haruka too you, I AM the princess of Uranus." Uranus snapped.

"As you wish… your highness." The Starlight Knight said mockingly.

His reply only made Uranus angrier. "YOU LOVE ME, ME, ME AND ONLY ME!!" she screamed, the golden bracelets started to glow even more.

"No, I don't love you. My princess, the one I fell in love with, is loving, kind, warm, caring and she would never hurt her friends OR princess in any way, let alone betray her. I don't know what Galaxia has done or said to you, Uranus, but it will never happen so forget it." The Starlight Knight said, shaking his head. "Do you really think I would leave Serenity, Endymion, her daughter or my friends for those bracelets? That has got to be the joke of the year. The least you could do is think before you talk, that would be an improvement. You may have not have had any difficulty betraying your oath as a senshi, but won't break my knight oath. Not even for you, and especially not for those bracelets of yours."

Haruka's eyes darkened. "Fine! Keep your narrow minded ideals and your pathetic friends, for all the good it will do you. You will loose in the end; Chaos shall rule!!!" She yelled, "Galactic World Shake!"

The attack caught The Starlight Knight off guard, sending him flying backwards.

"NOOOO!" Serena, who now remembered who Seiya really was, cried out and dashed to his side. "How could you, you monster!?!" Serena screamed as tears poured down her cheeks. Endymion looked back at Uranus with anger burning in his eyes. "Knights!!" He cried. The 4 men instantly drew their swords, holding them up in front of their faces.

"Guardian Retaliation!!" the 4 men yelled in unison. The attack was swift and painful as intended and it did its job well, causing the senshi to fall to the ground in pure pain.

"Venus Love and Galactica Shock!" Sailor Venus yelled, sending her love chain at Mars Knight. The knight just grabbed the chain and yanked it, causing Venus to fall forward. The Starlight Knight sat up and looked at the senshi, anger in his eyes.

"Nomian, appear!!" He called out as he got up from the ground. The silver sword appeared in the air in front of him. He grasped the sword and was immediately engulfed in a light. When the light faded, small changes had happened to his clothes. The out lines of his cloak were now gold and his gloves were white instead of brown as they were before. For some reason, seeing this sword, made the senshi, both good and evil, back away slowly. The knights, including Darien, just smiled at the site of the sword.

"This is where it ends." The Starlight Knight said, raising his sword to the sky.

"I don't think so," Mercury snarled, "Mercury bubble blast!" Everything went hazy. When the bubbles disappeared, Neptune was gone; another senshi was lost.

WOW!!! That was a long one. Hope you guys like it
TBC in: Chapter 9 – Legends of old