The Star and the Wind: Book II Return of the Past Chapter 9 Legends of old, 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 9 – Legends of old
By Pluto Knight
Copyright © 2002/2004

It was late in the evening when Seiya and the other guys, save for Darien, left Serena's house. They had gone through with the barbeque, but it had been over shadowed by Michelle's capture.

The Milky Way,

The senshi returned to Galaxia's castle, carrying a still struggling Sailor Neptune with them. All of them were still confused about what had just happened, who those men had been. Uranus only remembered one of those knights, Seiya.

"Do we take her to Galaxia now?" Venus asked. Uranus didn't answer her. She just walked away as she tried to hold back the tears that threatened to fall.

"Come one, lets taker Neptune here to her new Monarch. You will love your new life, Michelle." Taiki said. Neptune just looked at her in horror.

When Uranus entered her room, she threw herself on the bed and cried her heart out while the bracelets glowed. She couldn't believe that Seiya had fallen for that Moon brat. God! How she wanted to kill her for taking what was hers. She slammed her fist into the pillow. Uranus thought back to what he has said earlier.

Flash back

"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."

End Flashback

Uranus eyes turned dark once again. 'This whole planet will pay for my suffering!' she thought to herself. 'But I am not going to give up so easily.' She got up and went to put on a sexy dress, high heels, make up, and sat her hair. "Now, he cannot push me away. He will see things my way!" she told herself.

Meanwhile,

In Galaxia's throne room, Michelle had just been given the Golden Bracelets. The jewels in them were glowing green and powerful energy was running through her. She loved the felling of it and it tickled slightly in stomach.

"My queen," Neptune said as she bowed down in front of Galaxia. "I await your orders." Galaxia looked at her gleefully.

At that moment Amara walked in and bowed to her queen. Galaxia nodded, while the others just stared at her. Neptune narrowed her eyes. Amara NEVER used make up. The dress was also a rarity "My queen?" She asked, looking at Galaxia.

"I am very pleased with your progress, Uranus. Now all we need is to capture the last Star Seed. When that is done, darkness will slowly eat the pathetic people on earth. However, I am worried. Aluminium Siren tells me that an old enemy of mine has returned.

"Who is he?" Jupiter asked.

"His name is Seiya and he's the prince of the Starlight Kingdom, a very powerful kingdom that once was part of the Galactic alliance, an alliance that came way before the Silver Alliance. The alliance consisted of 5 Kingdoms, The Moon Kingdom, The Sun Kingdom, The Earth Kingdom, The Starlight Kingdom and a small, yet incredibly powerful, kingdom by the name of Orion."

The senshi's mouths hung open at that information.

Galaxia continued, "A little more then a 1000 years ago, I tried to conquer the universe just like now. But the Starlight prince stopped me. Captured all my senshi, striped them of their powers and send them to the diamond mines on a star called Alfa.

"Then what do we do? Do we just capture and bring them here?" Pluto asked. Galaxia looked at her, "First off, they will be expecting such attempt from our part, not to mention that they can resist the power of Chaos. Second, the last time I fought with some one from the Starlight Kingdom I was sealed away, doomed to a long sleep."

"How!?" Neptune asked, angry at what had been done towards her new Monarch.

Galaxia looked at her with narrowed eyes, which made Neptune back away, and said, "They used the powers of the 5 crystals… and sealed me away for 6000 years. The senshi gasped. The thought of being sealed away scared them immensely.

'I know Seiya won't do that to me!' Uranus thought to herself.

"The only thing we can do is try to capture them and brainwash them, making them forget who they are." Galaxia said, more like an order then an encouragement

"I'll set up a plan right away, my queen." Mercury said and curtsied.

The other senshi nodded and returned to their quarters, save for Uranus who went to earth.

Seiya unlocked the door to his apartment and walked in. It had been a long and tiring day and all he wanted was to go to bed with a cup of coffee, read a few pages of his book and then get a peaceful slumber. About an hour and a half later he was sleeping, dreaming yet again about the past. But the dream was not as peaceful as he had could have wished for it to be.

Seiya's dream,

He was covered in a misty fog, looking at 5 people in front of him. 4 of them were men and one was female, all of them were dressed elegantly with, for the men's part, swords, armour and capes. The woman was wearing a white sailor senshi uniform with a cape down her back and she held a long glaive that had the shape of a crescent moon. On the inside of the moon sat a glowing crystal. Her boots was white and ended just below her knees. Unlike the modern senshi Seiya knew about, himself included, the woman's tiara wasn't sitting of her fore head but on her head like a crown. It was also made of diamond that blinked like the stars in the universe.

"Welcome, Starlight Prince, to the Galactic council." The woman said. "My name is Selenity and I am the guardian of the Moon."

"Guardian of the Moon?" Seiya repeated questioningly.

"Yes." The woman replied, smiling warmly at him.

Seiya nodded, "Why am I here, my lady?" He asked politely, normally he would just have demanded a lot of information but for some reason he couldn't get himself to be rude or insulting.

"You are here because the situation of the universe calls for the return of the Knights of Justice." The woman replied.

"The Knight's of Justice?" Seiya repeated. "Who are they?"

"They are the guardians of the universe." One of the men answered. "For countless of millennia's, The Knights of Justice have made sure that evil would never prevail. We have always made sure that events would take place so that evil would be defeated in the end. This time is no exception, Shadow Galactica has, as you no doubly have noticed, captured the guardian senshi of the planets in our solar system. This calls for… lets just say that we will have to use a tad of coldness as well."

"Go on" Seiya said. The woman continued, "We have dealt with Shadow Galactica before, but we only managed to seal her away, though for 6000 years."

"Are you suggesting that I am to seal my love and Princess away along with her friends?" Seiya asked rising and eyebrow in suspicion, "Because if that is what you are, then you are wasting your time. I plan on getting my princess out of there and deal with Galaxia as I dealt with evil in the old days."

"No, Prince Seiya, that's not what we are suggesting. I know that you love the Princess of Uranus more then anything else in the whole universe and that you would go through water and fire for her, but you need to accept the fact that she is now Shadow Galactica's general and a servant of a terrible evil. Shadow Galactica's only wish is to bring darkness and peril to all races and what better way is there then too use the guardians of light and then let them see the peril, chaos and destruction they have helped bring forth.
She has done so in the past, you know. Captured guardian Senshi from all over the universe and then, when she are done using them to destroy everything they love, she sets them free to live with the pain and knowledge of their doing. For them too be hated, too be swallowed by the darkness, growing cold and evil and then why they are consumed by it she returns to rally them as her loyal servants. The Sailor Anima Mates are clear examples of this. No one wanted these once good, loving, caring, and justice minded guardian senshi. With no place for them to live they were picked up by Galaxia as her servants under the promise that they would regain what they once had if they would follow her, aid her in collecting the Star Seeds.
The same goes for Princess Haruka. The emotional turmoil she has been put in by the dreams has made her normal strong points falter. For Shadow Galactica, the senshi was VERY easy to corrupt. Undoubtedly, she removed their Sailor Crystals, or Star Seeds, from them first to make them even weaker and easier to corrupt."

"I know, and don't you think for one moment that I won't kill her if it's needed, but not before every little bit of option his been tried first. My father once told me that one life isn't worth the lives of millions and I still don't think that it is, but love doesn't mean a thing unless you try to make those that want darkness see the light." His words left a moment of silence.

"Tell me… young prince. Do you remember the Starlight Crystal?"

Seiya looked at him for a moment, "Yes, I do. It's my family's heirloom." Seiya tried to see why the man's voice sounded so familiar. "I know you from somewhere… don't I?"

"I believe that you do… my dear nephew." The voice said. The man walked into the light and revealed a man with long beard and hair.

To say that Seiya was shocked was an understatement. "Uncle!?" He stammered out. "But how, Beryl killed you?!?"

"I know. She was a very vengeful woman, her and Metallia.

"Why didn't you tell me sooner? And what is all this about The Knights of Justice, aren't they just a myth?"

"No, The Knights of Justice is not a myth. When I was alive I was one of them and the wielder of the Starlight Crystal. My 4 companions here are the old keepers of Justice and keepers of the 4 other crystals; The Silver Crystal, The Golden Sun Crystal, The Golden Earth Crystal and The Galaxy Crystal. Now it is time for a new generation of Justice Knights to appear with you as the leader."

Seiya blinked a few time. "Your already know two of them, Endymion and Serenity. The two others are Andrew, the young man that works at the game arcade and Artemis." The Knight of the Sun said.

"Artemis? The only Artemis I know is... You have got to be joking." Seiya asked shocked.

"No, I am not. Queen Serenity turned her two royal advisors into Cats because King Solaris wanted to kill them," Seiya's eyes darkened at the mentioning of that name. He hated Solaris for what he had done to his home planets and the Silver Alliance, "in order to protect them from him. Andrew is the prince of the Sun and Artemis is the wielder of the Galaxy Crystal."

"And speaking of cats… Stardust, someone is here to see you." Queen Serenity called, smiling. A little black cat with a white nose and paws jumped out of the shadows and up into Seiya's arms.

"Star… Stardust??" Seiya stammered out.

"Hai, my prince!" The female cat said, happily to finally be united with her charge.

Meanwhile,

Amara walked down the street heading towards Seiya's apartment where she was convinced that she could find him. The cold nabbed hard in her bare skin. She wished that Seiya was here so that he could keep her warm and protect her from the cold. But he no longer loved her, but that moon brat. Amara's eye brows twitched at the mere thought of Seiya being in the moon brat's arms. Amara swore that was one thing that would NEVER happen.

Seiya's apartment,

Seiya had just woken up from his dream and was now standing in his kitchen drinking a glass of water and trying to compensate for the sweat that was still pouring down his forehead, while Stardust was sitting on the floor looking up at him. He put down the glass firmly and went to the balcony window to get some fresh air. The moon was full and the sky was clear that night. Not one cloud in sight. From his window he could see a girl walking the streets. He knew exactly who it was because his guardian cat, Stardust, had told him that he could expect them soon.

The lord of cliff-hangers strikes back R n R
TBC in: Chapter 10 – Returned Memories, Tale of the Past