Responses to The Forgotten Reviews

Tsuki Yume-Rei, villain? Hmm, I guess I did, perhaps I have ingested to many betrayal fictions and have lost sight of her true character. Saa, thank you for telling me this. Hmm, stereotypes, geez I have really lost sight of my characterization. Thank you much. By the way the Seth short you asked for is in another set which should be up soon.

Rena Moon- Thank you, I just didn't want to disappoint.

Angel-Thanks, that is what I was going for. Everyone does go through it, and it does leave a bitter taste.

Summary- Odion/Usa (AU) One-Shot

Undying loyalty to their friends drives them to the edge, where they save each other from the fall.

I do not own

Lasting Loyalties

A blonde with two buns stood over looking a cliff, her sapphire eyes were filled with tears. "Am I never to be good enough?" She cries to the sky, her navy blue knee length skirt swinging in the soft wind. "Are the always to be sacrificed for me?" She yells imploring for an answers. One ivory hand reaches up and brushes back a long streamer of hair. Her sailor collared shirt shifting in the windy area on top the cliff. "Always, let us die so Tsukino Usagi can live, beloved Tsuki hime." She mutters to the empty air revealing the identity of the distressed blonde. "What have I done to deserve this, except destroy their dreams and normal lives?" Usagi shouts out, her hands thrown out in exasperation. One hand comes back and clasps around her magical broach upon her chest. She rips it from her shirt, and flicks the locket top open. Inside lies the mysterious powerful maboroshi no ginzuishou, she slides one finger over it. "All because of me, and this stupid jewel, to they pass over and over again." Usagi intones and steps closer to the edge. "Perhaps, out of loyalty I should jump, there by eradicating me, and this crystal." Usagi states, her feet brushing the ledge. "After all they could probably create a better future then me anyway." She says with a sigh, the locket clenched tightly in one hand.

A tall tan male stands outside on a balcony, the playful wind tussling his long raven ponytail, the only sigh of hair upon his head. One hand runs over his half tattooed face, his dark eyes filling with self hate. He leaps over the balcony his white robes falling after him. Landing solidly he turns to the house with pain filled orbs. "Forgive your servant Odion, Master Marik, I have failed you." He states and rushes off to the cliffs he had seen in passing. Walking to a fairly high one, he lets his quiet mask slip. For a few minutes, nothing is heard from him, but rough sobs. He falls into a kneeling position, claps his hands into a praying position. "Oh, Great God Ra, do not look unkindly on Master Marik, for his actions are of my fault." Odion states, his breath coming in raspy gasps. "I did not try hard enough to stop him, if not for the pharaoh's actions, I fear what might of happen." He says his head falling in shame. Then he stands, lifting one tan hand to his neck and pulling out a golden chain. It was simple in its elegance, but its value would have been priceless to the man. "Your gift Master Marik, is the only thing I take with me." Odion speaks to the chain. His feet bringing him closer to the edge, and he stares into the horizon. "Forgive my failures that now scar your soul Master Marik." He prays clasping the chain between his fingers. "I will fail you no more Master Marik!" He cries out, and readies to leap off the cliff.

"Wait!" A feminine voice stops him, and he turns.

Usagi sighed, and gazes down at the jagged rocks that wait for her at the bottom. "In repay of their loyalty through mine I shall free them."She whispers promisingly. Her eyes slid close and she draws a deep breath, but her senses pick up another presence. "No, not here, none should see the shamed fall." Usagi quotes and opens her eyes. She searches for the origin of the presence's and nearly gasps. A male around her age is standing atop the same cliff a little further out. Reacting she runs over, and her heart calls out a response. "Wait!" Usagi screams out, and the male turns to face her with familiar eyes.

Odion stares emptily at the girl, wishing her presence's gone, so he cannot taint her. However, his eyes lock onto a mirror of his, and he understands. Walking to her, he falls to her feet kneeling. "Why do you stop me, if we share the same pain?" Odion questioned the blonde. She also falls to her knees and wraps her arms around him.

"Death is not the answer, we only fail our loved ones more."Usagi whispers to him. He gasps, his eyes turned accusatively toward her.

"Yet, you repent such statement by your own actions." He replies. Usagi bows her head upon his shoulder and sighs.

"True, perhaps we came here of a different reason, one we thought of only death." Usagi mutters and pulls her face away. "Will you share with me the burden that drives you here?" She inquires, searching his darkened eyes.

"Only if you trust me in the same." Odion responds. Usagi nods and unwinds her arms from him, falling back into a seating position. "I was found as a small boy on the streets of my home, and nice young boy found me and brought me home." Odion begins. "In time I would think of him as my own brother, and his family my own." Odion whispers, and his breath hitches. "However, this family carried on a tradition I could not save Marik from." Odion states. Usagi tilts her head and gazes at him.

"Marik is the one that saved you, the one you call brother?" Usagi asks to keep the story straight. She receives a deep nod, and a even stare.

"This was my first failure, I could not convince the family to let me take his place." Odion informs her, a fist clenching in memory. "So, to share the pain, I preformed my own ritual, to show I would follow him no matter what." Odion tells her, and feels a slim finger trace his tattoo's.

"These, are from the ritual?" She inquires softly, again he gives her a grave nod.

"Marik turned darker after that, going through many acts of revenge." He says and takes a deep breath. "Finally we come to the object of his rage, but the other youth saves him, instead of destroying him." Odion reiterates. "I could not save Marik from his own darkness, there by failing my duties of a loyal brother."Odion speaks with a shuddering gasp. "At night I can sometimes still hear him scream from his reoccurring nightmares of his actions." Odion informs her and looks down. "For that I am a failure, I failed my only brother." He finishes and his barrier breaks.

Tears leak from his closed eyes, falling unbridled into the land. Usagi leans forward wrapping comforting arms around him. She offers him what little support she can, with her voice humming ancient lullabies. One hand reaches from its position and gently wipes his falling tears. His hands come up and grip her in shirt, pulling her closer, as a son seeking a mother's comfort. For a while they kneel there, allowing Odion his peace, and comfort. Usagi uses her other hand from behind his back to run a soothing hand through his crow colored ponytail. A few moments more then his tan hands un-wrench from her shirt. He opens his closed eyes to stare into infinite sapphires. "Thank you." He whispers and slips from her hold. Usagi sighs and leans back, gazing into the dusky sky.

"My friends always support me in everything I do." She whispers, her hand drawing symbols in the sky. "No, that is not true, they are more then friends, they are my sisters." Usagi corrects herself and turns her darken sapphires to him. "Sometimes my decisions cause them to get hurt." Usagi mumbles. "Even sometimes seriously injured." She states glancing back up to the sky. "Yet, they never blame me, never hate me." Usagi tells him. "In fact they smile in peaceful joy, willing to do it again and again." Usagi informed him. "They treat me as if I could never be replaced, or forgotten." Usagi states. "For me, they will give up their dreams, their lives, their very souls, if I asked them too." She tells him. "They might do it even if I don't ask." She adds in afterthought. "My flaws are many, I am no one special, why do they do such things for me?" Usagi inquires hypothetically. "For that I fail my sisters, for just being her causes them to do things." Usagi finishes and bows her head. "The one thing I cannot do is free them, while alive, so I fail everyday." Usagi squeaks out and her tears free themselves.

This time Odion leans forward and envelops the frail girl into his embrace. His strong arms enclose her into his chest, burying her from the world. One hand slips up, and holds her head into his shoulder. Softly he begins to rock her as a father might do for his daughter. Usagi is allowed her moment of peace and weakness. She hiccups and her tears slow. "Thank you." She whispers in gratitude. Odion tilts up her chin, and looks into the eyes that mirror his.

"We must do that which you stated in the beginning." He states. "We must look away from this cowardly moment, but never forget, and embrace our life." Odion claims. "Whether we deserve it or not." He adds.

"We have people who put their trust into us, their loyalty." Usagi picks up. "We cannot repay them if we are dead."She says and lifts her eyes to the sky. "Whether we deserve it or not is no longer an issue, because they do deserve all of our loyalty." Usagi adds, and both turned their faces to the setting sun. For a moment they share the understanding of wisdom through many ages. Then Usagi turns to Odion with a half smile on her face. "By the way, I am Tsukino, Usagi." She says with irony lining her voice.

" Ishtar, Odion." He responds and they shake hands. Together they stand and part different ways, the last of the sun dipping below the horizon.

It is safe to say both continue to live this day. Each with the memory branded on their hearts. I know not if they ever kept in touch or if their meeting was a flight of destiny. I only know this Chibi-Usa, loyalty is something that you can't do without. The blonde haired queen tells her pink haired daughter with a tender smile. Chibi-Usa nods to her wise mother, the Neo-queen Serenity, and crawls into her lap. Tired by the tale her mother told her she falls asleep. Serenity looks down at the bundle in her lap and smiles. "Thank you Odion, where ever you are." She whispers, and for a moment she could swear she heard him respond.

"Thank you as well Usagi." the voice dances in on the wind, and two souls smile in peace.

Okay, that was different. Once again shooting off the time line, not any where in particular. Um, no this wasn't a couple's story, I just can't picture Odion and Usagi. Please Review,

Much Care,

WolfchildBlazer.