Title: Sister Moon, Brother Earth [0/?]
Author: Corbeau Noir
Genre: AU, Action/Adventure, Drama
Rating: PG-13
Email: noir_corbeau@hotmail.com
Site: www.geocities.com/corbeaun
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This is my very first SM fanfic, so any C&C would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks. :)
Disclaimer: Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon is the creation of the
talented Naoko Takeuchi; no infringement is intended.
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Sister Moon, Brother Earth
By Corbeau Noir
Prologue
~~~~~~~~
His first memory was pain. Pure and undiluted, racing through
his blood, pooling in his heart, an agony of the mind as much as of
the flesh. But the pain tethered him to the present, kept him to the
now, and prevented him from sinking back into the darkness that had
claimed him for so long.
He woke to the sight of white-uniformed giants looming over
him, cold hands poking with cold blunt objects. They spoke to him
sometimes, in a language he felt he should know but did not. After a
while, they quit speaking to him at all and simply spoke to each
other, tongues clucking, faces long.
Gradually he picked up the language, and in doing so, picked
up the pieces of a life he no longer remembered.
They told him his name was Chiba Mamoru. That he had nearly
died. That he was lucky to have survived at all, considering the
extent of brain trauma that had occurred. That he was an orphan.
They said a lot of things then, some of them interesting, most
of them irrelevant, and over a remarkably short period of time, the
boy who was Chiba Mamoru learned to shut out the noise. He could not
bring himself to care.
But one day, more people came, put him in a chair and took him
away, to a room that looked exactly the same as his. Except there was
someone else on that narrow hospital cot. Someone still, tiny and
pale, someone he recognized...
And then they told him.
Wonder. Elation.
"Sister."
It was the first word he'd spoke since the darkness.
No one tried to stop him when he wobbled out of the wheelchair,
standing on his own two feet for the first time he could remember.
Trembling, nearly tripping over the mass of wires and tubes that
crisscrossed the entire room, he slowly approached the silent
occupant of the hospital cot. In the background the electric pings
and beeps of the life-support machine made harsh harmony with the
pounding of his heart.
He reached out to touch her then, her heart beating under his
palm --- light, measured pulses that seemed to quicken as his child
hands settled over hers. And the agony that had smouldered in his mind
ever since he woke to find himself confused and alone in that empty
hospital bed finally receded, leaving in its stead peace.
Serenity.
[End "Sister Moon, Brother Earth" - Prologue]
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Author's Notes:
I apologize for the extremely short prologue, but this seems to
be the only appropriate place to cut off. The next part will be much
longer, I promise.
While the relation between Usagi and Mamoru in this fic is
extremely unorthodox, the rest of the canon SM universe will be
preserved, meaning the continued existence of the Dark Kingdom and
the corresponding need for Senshis. Might be interesting to see how
this twist in blood ties, and a little nudge forward of everything in
time, affects events. ^-^
Author: Corbeau Noir
Genre: AU, Action/Adventure, Drama
Rating: PG-13
Email: noir_corbeau@hotmail.com
Site: www.geocities.com/corbeaun
----------------------------------------------------------------
This is my very first SM fanfic, so any C&C would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks. :)
Disclaimer: Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon is the creation of the
talented Naoko Takeuchi; no infringement is intended.
================================================================
Sister Moon, Brother Earth
By Corbeau Noir
Prologue
~~~~~~~~
His first memory was pain. Pure and undiluted, racing through
his blood, pooling in his heart, an agony of the mind as much as of
the flesh. But the pain tethered him to the present, kept him to the
now, and prevented him from sinking back into the darkness that had
claimed him for so long.
He woke to the sight of white-uniformed giants looming over
him, cold hands poking with cold blunt objects. They spoke to him
sometimes, in a language he felt he should know but did not. After a
while, they quit speaking to him at all and simply spoke to each
other, tongues clucking, faces long.
Gradually he picked up the language, and in doing so, picked
up the pieces of a life he no longer remembered.
They told him his name was Chiba Mamoru. That he had nearly
died. That he was lucky to have survived at all, considering the
extent of brain trauma that had occurred. That he was an orphan.
They said a lot of things then, some of them interesting, most
of them irrelevant, and over a remarkably short period of time, the
boy who was Chiba Mamoru learned to shut out the noise. He could not
bring himself to care.
But one day, more people came, put him in a chair and took him
away, to a room that looked exactly the same as his. Except there was
someone else on that narrow hospital cot. Someone still, tiny and
pale, someone he recognized...
And then they told him.
Wonder. Elation.
"Sister."
It was the first word he'd spoke since the darkness.
No one tried to stop him when he wobbled out of the wheelchair,
standing on his own two feet for the first time he could remember.
Trembling, nearly tripping over the mass of wires and tubes that
crisscrossed the entire room, he slowly approached the silent
occupant of the hospital cot. In the background the electric pings
and beeps of the life-support machine made harsh harmony with the
pounding of his heart.
He reached out to touch her then, her heart beating under his
palm --- light, measured pulses that seemed to quicken as his child
hands settled over hers. And the agony that had smouldered in his mind
ever since he woke to find himself confused and alone in that empty
hospital bed finally receded, leaving in its stead peace.
Serenity.
[End "Sister Moon, Brother Earth" - Prologue]
================================================================
Author's Notes:
I apologize for the extremely short prologue, but this seems to
be the only appropriate place to cut off. The next part will be much
longer, I promise.
While the relation between Usagi and Mamoru in this fic is
extremely unorthodox, the rest of the canon SM universe will be
preserved, meaning the continued existence of the Dark Kingdom and
the corresponding need for Senshis. Might be interesting to see how
this twist in blood ties, and a little nudge forward of everything in
time, affects events. ^-^