The Star and the Wind: Book II Return of the Past Chapter 10 Returned Memories, Tale of, a sailor moon fanfic

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

Chapter 10 – Returned Memories, Tale of the Past
By Pluto Knight
Copyright © 2002/2004

The Milky Way,

Hotaru was sound asleep in her bed while dreaming. She dreamed about the Silver Millennium and one of the Saturn Kingdom's monthly balls. This particular ball was being held in the honour of Princess Hotaru's 17th year old birthday.

She was standing in a ball room while looking around sadly, looking for someone. Hotaru sighted. Or though it had only been 2 months since she had last seen Eric, it still seemed like eternity. 'Where are you?' she thought to herself.

"He's not here?" Her father asked as he walked up to her. Hotaru shrug her head and let out a depressed sight. "No, he's not. He better show up soon, or I am going to seriously hurt him." She said firmly. Her father only laughed.

"I am sure that he's absolutely terrified, dear." Her father said between laughs. Hotaru glared at him, clearly not pleased with the fact that her father was finding all this amusing.

"Dad! It's not funny!" she cried. Her father gave a small chuckle at his daughter's behaviour. "You remind me of your mother when I went away to fight with the king of the stars.

Hotaru nodded. "I just wish that Eric would be here," She said, "I really miss him, dad...

Eric entered the ball room, telling the announcer not to say a word about his arrival. The man smiled at Eric as he looked for Hotaru and the man pointed in the direction Hotaru and her father was standing. As Eric approached them, he could hear that they were talking about him. He smiled. 'She thinks I have forgotten about her birthday, huh. This should be fun.'

... "Why did he have to go anyways? I mean there are plenty of other knights who can fight Beryl."

"That's true, dear princess. But Beryl is a vindictive old witch who will stop at nothing in order to win." A soft and warm voice said. Hotaru twirled around, coming face too face with Eric. "You made it!!" She cried happily, and threw her arms around his neck, making a scene that earned glances and chuckles from the other guests attending the ball.

"Of course I came, taru. Did you doubt that?" Eric asked and gave her a smile. Hotaru blushed slightly and buried her face in his jacket, not wanting to let go of him. "I love you, Eric. She mumbled.

"I love you too, taru, very, very much." Eric replied and wrapped his arms around her in a loving embrace.

Dream ends

Hotaru sat straight up and looked around, blinking the tears away. "Eric..." she mumbled. "What is going on here?"

Darien's apartment, early evening

"You better not eat that cookie, Serena!!" Rini yelled and she leaped onto Serena, as the older girl tried to move away hurriedly, causing the 8 men were sitting in Darien's living room too sweat drop. They were talking about what they were going to do about the senshi and Galaxia. The number of attacks made by the evil senshi had increased dramatically over the last four weeks and now innocent people had been killed because of the evil senshi's pursuit for Serena's Star Seed.

"So who's left?" Andrew asked.

"We still need to find the last two outer knights." Darien said, taking a sip of his coffee.

"Yes, we do. Got any ideas, Seiya?" Chad asked.

"Do the senshi know who we are yet??" Anthony asked.

"How can they? They don't even remember ever having guardians or lovers for that matter. I wish blue would go back too be herself again." Greg said, using his old nickname for Ami.

"Amara knows that I am the Prince of the Stars." Seiya said.

The others looked at him in shock. Seiya continued, "My fear is that they will be coming for Serena and Rini next."

"Why?" Greg asked.

"Because…. She thinks that Serena and I is a couple. Apparently she doesn't remember that Serena is my niece. Darien frowned, remembering how Raye used to have a huge crush on him, even though he didn't really see her as a girlfriend, but more as a good friend.

"Fredrick, you are very quite. Is something wrong?" Andrew asked.

"Both yes and no. Serena how would you like to go and say hello to some old friends who are currently here on earth. I am sure they wouldn't mind saying hello to their prince's niece." Fredrick said, looking at Serena, who was pilled on the floor with Rini on top of her, fighting for the last cookie.

"Umm… sure." Serena replied, getting up from the floor.

"And who might those friends be?" Seiya inquired, while raising an eyebrow in suspicion.

"Adam and Eric, Seiya."

"Oh." Seiya replied. Fredrick and Serena got up and walked towards the door.

"Want me to come with you?" Darien asked. Fredrick turned to look at him and replied, "No thanks, Darien. There are others who are on tonight's list of people to keep an eye out on." Then he and Serena walked out the door, heading towards the park.

Chad and Anthony sighted. "That guy sure hasn't changed at all since the Silver Millennium. He sure doesn't try to hide that he's from Pluto." Chad said. The others nodded.

The Milky Way,

The senshi were standing in the throne room. Galaxia had called them there because she wanted to know about the progression of getting the final Star Seed, but none of the senshi really knew what to say. The inner senshi still wore bandages. The last battle with Serena and the knights had caused them not only to loose, but get seriously injured as well. And their wounds didn't heal as fast as they used to.

"I want those Star Seed, not excuses." Galaxia said angrily, "You have so much power and still you cannot defeat those weaklings." The senshi just looked at her.

"It's not like they don't know how to fight." Mars said in self defence. "I don't know how that meatball head has gotten so much stronger, but she sure has become a lot faster and stronger."

"Yeah," Michelle said, "And then there are those knights…"

"SILENCE!" Galaxia yelled. "I want those Star Seeds, not lame excuses!"

Uranus looked at Galaxia like she didn't really take what she said seriously. "What so important about those Star Seeds anyway? Why not just start to conquer this world?"

Galaxia looked at her and sighted angrily. "Do you even hear what I say? Before I… we have the seeds we are…."

"Umm… Not to interrupt you, my queen. But where are Star Maker and Star Healer?" Sailor Mars asked. Galaxia stopped talking and blinked a few times. She hadn't even noticed that the two Starlight senshi were absent. "I thought I told all of you to report here." She said.

The senshi nodded.

"I think they went down on earth." Sailor Venus said.

"Something must have happen to them." Jupiter said, slamming her fist into her palm.

"Find them." Galaxia said shortly, as she narrowed her eyes.

The senshi bowed and hurried out of the throne room.

"So let's go down to earth and find them." Michelle said.

"Yeah, and if we see those weaklings we'll kick their ass!!! Mars, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter yelled.

"Then lets go," Amara said, smirking evilly. 'If I see you Seiya, you will be mine this time and you will forget all about that irritating and weakling Moon Princess.' She thought.

Streets of Tokyo

Serena and Fredrick were slowly making their way down the half crowded streets of Tokyo. It was no surprise that there were so many people on the streets and in the shops. After all, Christmas was only 1½ week away.

"So where are we going, Fredrick?" Serena asked, as the two of them walked down the street towards the park.

"I'll tell you when we get to a more private place," Fredrick replied. Serena nodded; she didn't want them to talk about senshi stuff in the middle of a Tokyo street where hundreds of people could hear them.

"Now we can talk a bit more freely, my princess." Fredrick said as they entered the park, "I talked with Darien and Seiya about this earlier today and both of them agrees that it's time for this to be revealed to you, Serenity. Sailor Pluto would indeed have my head if she knew what I am about to do."

"What do you mean?" Serena asked stopping.

Fredrick didn't reply at first but opened up a portal, stepping through it, "Come. I'll show you." He said, motioning for Serena to follow him. She stood there for a few seconds and then stepped through the portal as well.

At the Time Gates

"I am not sure exactly how much you remember of the past, Serenity. But as I said before, it is time for you to have your full memories. There are a lot of things you need to know; especially about the old alliances of our universe and the sudden… change… in relationship between Sailor Uranus and Seiya Kou." Fredrick said, as images were presented in front of her, much like a movie. Serena looked at them with slowly growing wide eyes.

"You see, when the universe was young and frail; powerful and evil forces sought to rule the universe much as they still do. They came dangerously close to success in the beginning, because the universe was basically left undefended against the evil forces. The various kingdoms could not agree on uniting against this common foe and drive it back with force. Your mother, Queen Serenity…" Fredrick paused for a moment, "… her father was deeply concerned with these events and the ever growing threat by the dark forces, so in an act of… pure desperation… he arranged for a meeting between the Moon- and the mighty Starlight Kingdom, Seiya's home planet. Your father, King Tranquillity, hoped to make an alliance between these two kingdoms to ensure that the Solar System would be able too fight the forces of evil. He was a very successful man. Not only did he make the alliance but your mother also married Seiya's uncle, who was a young man at the time. You, as you no doubt have guessed already, were the only child of that marriage, for your father was killed fighting the armies that a young prince Seiya would later on send directly back too hell where they came from."

Fredrick looked at Serenity who was still looking at the image display before her. He cleared his throat and continued, "Not long after the forming of the Galactic Alliance, as the alliance between the Moon- and the Starlight Kingdom was called, did another kingdom join in; the kingdom the Sun. This event completely isolated the inner and outer planets, leaving them with no allies at all and woundable as well as easy targets because it was very unlikely that the Galactic Alliance would aid them if they were attacked. This was mostly because of the attitude they had put up towards the Moon Kingdom when it had proposed an alliance." Serena looked at Fredrick as he sat down.

"I thought the inner and outer planets and the Moon were joined in the Silver Alliance." Serena said, sitting down as the images stopped and vanished.

Fredrick nodded, "There were and are, but that didn't happen until much later; a thousand years to be precise. By now the evil forces had a kingdom of their own and were lead by a man called King Solaris, a traitorous royalty from the Earth Kingdom who had embraced the power of evil. He ordered that the inner and outer planets were to be conquered at all cost and the young princesses there made servants of evil. Through manipulation he managed to 'start' wars between the inner and outer planets; wars that threatened to put the whole solar system on fire. The moon tried to bring peace between these kingdoms again, but it was in vain. The Moon and Sun asked the Starlight Kingdom to help them. They agreed but at the same time informed them that key government members on the inner and outer members were under the influence of the Dark Kingdom.
After years of death and destruction, the wars were finally put to an end, the traitors exposed and captured. The inner and outer planets were shocked and horrified over that they had been manipulated into the wars and to prevent such from ever happening again they formed the Silver alliance." Fredrick let out a sight at the mixed feelings that the memories brought forth.

"How did Amara… Princess Haruka and Seiya meet?" Serena asked.

Fredrick gave a warm chuckle. "He disguised himself as a huntsman and went to Uranus, asking the Uranian king for a job. The king of Uranus had never met the Princes of the Stars and he didn't know Seiya either so Seiya was given the huntsmen job.
Princess Haruka didn't like him too begin with and the fact that she was engaged too marry some prince she had never met before didn't make things better. She was angry, sad and depressed, but slowly fell into the deep sea of love the more time she spent with Seiya. Her mother, who hadn't met the Starlight prince either, didn't know who Seiya really was. She feared that he would ruin the wedding between Haruka and her chosen prince and had Seiya put in prison until the wedding was properly ended. Haruka was devastated and one the day of the wedding, when the Starlight Ambassador came to congratulate Princess Haruka and join in the celebration, he saw a crystal necklace with a star pendant, a royal order, which Seiya had given her on her 14th birthday. He immediately demanded to see the person who had given her that necklace. The revealing of who Seiya was came as a shock to everyone BUT the ambassador who had been told about this by Seiya's father. However, Haruka was not pleased. She felt betrayed, deceived and ran off, not wanting to face any of it – especially not Seiya."

Serena stated at Fredrick open mouthed, "That doesn't sound like Amara at all!" She exclaimed shocked.

"I know," Fredrick replied with a laugh, "Thought Princess Haruka is a tomboy and a fighter, she is more girlish then Amara is. Her cousin, Princess Michiru, teased Princess Haruka with it constantly since all the princesses could see that she was deeply in love with Seiya – even when they only knew him as being a huntsman. Seiya is the one who taught Haruka to fight with a sword. Her mother wouldn't hear a word about Haruka wanting to learn how to fight like a knight."

"Then why did Haruka become a senshi. She fights there, what is the difference??" Serena asked.

"Haruka didn't become a senshi until she was 16 and by then Seiya had already taught her how to handle a sword. Before you ladies became senshi, your mothers held the powers as guardian senshi of their respective planets." Fredrick explained. Serena nodded her head, though still being very confused.

"You said before that King Solaris ruled the Dark Kingdom and was killed by Seiya. I thought the Dark Kingdom was ruled by Queen Beryl and Queen Metallia." Serena said.

Fredrick nodded, "Yes, he did. Two years after the forming of the Silver Alliance, the Dark Kingdom invaded the Orion's belt, a key point of valuable interests for the Starlight Kingdom. The Starlight Kingdom sent a massive force there, settling it all in one battle. Seiya killed Solaris, but was badly wounded himself. Only because your mother healed him with the Silver Crystal did he survive. Queen Metallia took over after King Solaris. Beryl was a lady of Earth who courted Prince Endymion and so was the four Dark General. Metallia invaded the Earth in secrecy, slowly corrupting people there until she had good strong army. They she waged her war, her revolution against the Earth Kingdom. She also attacked the Sun before anyone one could act and when the Silver Alliance did act, it was too late. One by one, the inner and outer planets fell to the power of the Dark Kingdom and many knights were turned into Death Knights as they were called back then, mostly because of the fact that it was only their bodies that was left. The souls had been killed and disposed of."

Serena looked horrified at Fredrick, "That's horrible!!"

"That was the methods of the Dark Kingdom." He replied and got up, walking towards Serena," It's time for you to fully remember the past and learn about a few things from the future, like the senshi form of Neo Queen Serenity." Serena gasped at his words, but suddenly passed out; falling into a deep sleep, remembering memories she'd never imagined she had.

Somewhere in Tokyo

Adam sat abruptly up in is bed. He had been dreaming about a beautiful girl with shoulder length aqua green hair and green eyes, dressed in a long silk gown with see through-sleeves that matched her hair colour. She looked like an angel to him. In the dream, he had witnessed her death and pain as her whole world had been destroyed. And every time he dreamed about her, she would call out to him, begging him to save her, though he didn't know from what. Adam turned and looked at the green digits on the clock on his night table. It was a quarter past 4 in the morning. He let out a sight and got out of bed, walking towards the kitchen to get something to drink.

'I wonder what those damn dreams are all about. For some reason they remind me of something I know I should remember. The question is what?' he thought to himself. Putting the glass on the kitchen table, he walked to the balcony of his apartment. 'If only my uncle were here. He would probably know what to make of the dreams…' He snapped his fingers and took a book, "How to read and decipher dreams" from a shelf that held other books like Shakespeare, Stephen King and many other authors. He flipped through the pages rapidly until he got to the chapter he was looking for. 'I sure am glad I listened to my uncle and his occult stuff.' Adam thought to himself, as he read through the pages.

»Dreams are products of our own subconscious. We often link them to the impulses we receive on a daily basis. It can be anything from experiences we with our own body to things we see in the TV. But dreams can also be a sign of something we think we have seen, experienced or even lived through in past lives – simple reincarnation. The feeling we often link to Déjà vu can, but doesn't necessarily have to, be a figure of our own imagination. In other words: Dreams can be something we might have lived through in a previous life, or a premonition of the future.«

Adam blinked a few time. He didn't really know what to think and his mind was way too tired to comprehend what he had just read. "Re-incarnation, huh? I wonder what will be next; Huge monsters with long fangs and claws?" He mumbled to himself and put the book back on the shelf as he thought back to his dreams....

Flash back

Adam was walking down the halls of the Moon Palace towards the Queens chambers. He had just been informed that the Kingdom of Neptune had been attacked by General Jadeite's Dark Kingdom forces. It had been a devastating attack and princess Michiru had barely survived. Sadly, her parents hadn't. They had been the victims of Jadeite's killing spree. He him self had just gotten back from a trip to Orion and a meeting at the Starlight Council. Adam entered the throne room, where the Moon Queen, Moon princess, and the members of the Silver Galactic Council. The Council had decided to make Adam Michiru's guardian, something that Michiru herself didn't know about…. yet.

Adam knocked on the door and entered the throne room.

"Welcome, Adam. It's a pleasure to see you again." Queen Serenity said. Adam bowed.

"Good afternoon, your majesty. Your brother sends his best. The Starlight Council had decided to declare war on the Negaverse on the basis of what happened today." Adam said. Everyone in the throne room gasped. The Starlight Kingdom was well known for its peaceful ways of life and rarely went to war, if ever. So this news was quite a shock for the royalties of the Silver Alliance.

"That's quite…. some news." The Moon Queen replied, regaining her composure. This council also have some news for you to hear as well."

"I am listening." Adam replied shortly. He wasn't known for his long speeches. The Moon queen nodded and looked towards The King of Venus.

"I think it's safe to say that Princess Michiru relationship with you is more then just being friends," Adam frowned at the kings words, but choose to say nothing, "And that is one of the reasons why we have chosen to do as we do know… Lord of Neptune."

"Lord?!?" Adam asked, "Of Neptune?? How? Why?"

"Yes," the King of Mars said, "We know that Princess Michiru is deeply in love with you, and you in her, I can imagine. That is why we have decided to make you the Knight Commander of Neptune… if you want too of course."

Princess Serenity looked at Adam, pleadingly. Adam noticed this, but he was still at a complete loss of words. "I… I don't know what to say, your majesties. After all, I am a Knight Commander of the Star Alliance.

"Please Adam, I beg you. With her parents and Kingdom gone, you are the only one Michiru has left that she can turn too for comfort."

Adam looked down on the floor. "I understand that, Princess, but I can't leave my prince either. My loyalty lies with him and the Star Alliance."

"You will still, but you will also have the powers of Neptune." The King of Pluto said.

"Plus you will be able to protect Michiru more effectively. Beryl will come for her. That is something you can be very sure off. She will stop at nothing in order to get what she wants, no matter how many lives she will have to take." The Mercury King said.

Adam nodded, "I accept your offer. I will protect Michiru."

The Moon queen nodded. "Then by my right as queen and leader of the Silver Alliance, I here by grant you the power, strength and ability to forever protect Princess Michiru of the Kingdom of Neptune." Adam was briefly bathed in an aqua green light. When the light faded, his sword held a green crystal on top of the handle and had an inscription engraved on the sword blade. Around his neck hang the Talisman of Neptune. Upon his command, this talisman would show the truth – it was the talisman of truth."

Later that day…

As Adam quietly entered the room where Michiru where sleeping peacefully. She had bruises on her face and was wrapped in bandages. Adam clenched his hands into fists at the sigh of her laying there in that state. Jadeite would pay dearly for this that was for sure. He walked to the side of the bed and took her hand, kissing it lightly not wanting to wake her up. Michiru stirred in her sleep as she called out for her parents. Images of what had occurred earlier back on Neptune kept spinning in her mind.

"Shhhhhh, its okay Michiru it's all over. You are safe now." Adam said soothingly. Tears started to fall freely down Michiru's cheeks. Adam let out a sight. 'Poor girl, having gone through all this.' Adam thought sadly. He hated to see his love like this. He gave her a kiss on her forehead and left the room.

End Flash back

Adam sat up on the couch, drenched in cold sweat. This dream had been way different from all the others he had been having. He looked down on his hands and saw a ring. A ring with an aqua green diamond attached to it. The diamond was glowing in the semi dark room, illuminating the nearby surroundings. 'What the hell is going on here?!? Why do I suddenly wear a ring from my dreams?? I must be hallucinating or something. My dreams can't be for real, it's impossible.

"You are the first Knight of the kingdom of Neptune, Knight Commander of the Starlight Prince and princes Michiru of Neptune's fiancé and guardian." A soft, female voice said. Adam looked around for the source of the voice. And suddenly old spells, more memories, years of hard training and fighting skills popped into his mind.

"Who are you?" he demanded, walking towards the source of the voice, revealing to be a beautiful woman with aqua green hair that ended on the middle of her back.

"I am sorry… my lord. Please, I beg you, you must free my dear daughter from the hold evil has on her." She said.

"What evil? I don't understand. Is it King Solaris again? Prince Seiya destroyed him and his ilk a long time ago." Adam said. He was beyond confused and the sudden burst of half memories didn't help at all.

"No… Adam. King Solaris is gone and so is the Dark Kkingdom, to the best of my knowledge at least. No, this enemy is called Chaos and has cast a magical spell on Michiru and the other senshi that courts princess Serenity. They are now evil, save for Serenity." Adam frowned. His princess was now evil!?! "And where might this… Chaos be?"

"The Milky Way. If it sounds familiar then it's because King Solaris used to have a base there." The lady informed.

Adam frowned. "I guess it's time to become a warrior again, huh." The lady let out a sigh of relief. There was now a hope for that her daughter would be freed of chaos hold.

He got up, got dressed and walked towards the door and opened it. He turned towards the lady, "Thanks." He said and closed the door behind him.

"Do you think they will be able to defeat chaos, my queen?" The lady asked. The ghostly image of Queen Serenity appeared in the room, next to her.

"I dearly hope so. There is another enemy out there who it much, much stronger then chaos." The queen said worriedly.

"I hope it won't have to come to that. The last time…"

"Only the future will tell, my dear friend." The moon queen said, cutting of the Neptunian queen.

"I hope so." Shereplied, as she fainted away. Everything was quite.

Yay!! Chapter 10 is done minna-chan. I am so very, very sorry for letting you all wait for such an incredibly long time, but I have been busy with other things and had no inspiration to write at all. L
TBC in: Chapter 11 – Enter Sailor Cosmos, Re-uniting of the Starlight Knights