Chapter 20 - Remembering The Past
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AN: Hello again. Chapter 20 is finally UP!!!!. Now I know most of you have been wondering when will she put up the next one? I am sorry. I had mentioned I was getting busier. But this story will continue that I can promise you.
Again and I do not own Sailor Moon. I am only borrowing it to make this story. There I said it. Now on with the show! Don't forget to R&R.
One other note. Thanks to those reviewers that have stayed with this story from the beginning.
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The lady of Avalon looks at the crowded people before her and sees their 85 cent offering and the stuffed cat named Tinkerbell who at this moment was looking as if it wanted to be anywhere but here, for the return of the Sailor Scouts.
She looks at the mighty Elora Dannan and smiles wickedly. "Wait." She then takes some cotton balls and put them into her ears hoping the piercing sound of the distraught almighty master won't explode her eardrums as she continues with the story.
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As if the word alone had some power, from the corner of her eye, Hotaru saw the figure on the bed stir slowly then raise. Gone was Serena's golden hair only to be replaced with strands of the purest silver, her face seemed to radiate a more maturity and as she raised her self to the floor, she seemed a little taller.
"Hotaru?" the angel whispered as she looked around the room to get her bearings.
Her face was encompassed with calmness and serenely as if last night had never been. "What has happened? What are you doing here?" she continued as she lifted her hand to her head showing her weakness.
"My lady?" Hotaru began. "Do you not recall what took place the last night?
Serena or Serenity, Hotaru couldn't be for certain, looked at her with questions in her eyes and also a deep sadness that could even make the desert weep.
"I do.Afterwards I am uncertain as to what transpired." She said in a whisper that Hotaru had to lean forward to capture her words.
Hotaru frowned slightly as she noticed a different colloquial speech being used by her friend. It sounded more regal, more like something she would hear from Pluto or .
She stopped in mid-sentence. Was this Princess Serenity speaking?
"Princess? Serena?"
The figure that stood tall and stately took her hands from her face and looked upon the human guise of Saturn who waited patiently as one so young could wait.
The figure of Serena stood dressed as she had the previous night; her nightgown flowed and rippled in the faint breeze from the opened window. Looking more deeply into her eyes, Hotaru noticed that no longer were they the blueness of the sky as Hotaru remembered, they were as silver as the purest metal and brighter than a twinkling diamond from unshed tears.
"I am no longer any of them. Both have become one and I am free. " Serenity said as she sat down as if her bout of strength gave up on her.
"Where is Endymion, Hotaru?" she asked in no more than a whisper but the authority in its tone was still in evident.
Hotaru took a deep breath and spoke as commanded, "He has gone to pick up some food and supplies for us. Artemis and Luna went to try and make sure the families are at peace and have not learned yet as what has happened. Until we know there is no sense in worrying anyone. Even your parents and brother are going to be given the false memories of you going away for the next few months."
Serenity only nodded and said nothing further as the door handle wiggled slightly and the sound of a key thrusting in told the occupant that someone had returned. Serenity continued to sit on the chair that Hotaru had been using as the little figure gave a small smile and walked out of the room to help Darien with the groceries.
And to tell him of her. Serenity thought to herself. She got up and went to the sliding doors and stepped out to the balcony to see the sun above her. As if on key, her stomach rumbled slightly and she smiled, but only barely.
Rae always said that her stomach had its own mind. Then she would laugh as her stomach grumbled in response.
"Rae!" she whispered to herself as the last night horror weighed her heart down.
"She may have not always shown it, but she loved you and considered you her best friend above the others." A voice broke into her misery.
Turning slightly around, she saw her love in the doorway, holding a hot chocolate filled with an over abundance of marshmallows. He only made that for her when she was feeling down and needed a smile.
Closing her eyes she grabbed on to her memories and slipped them away as she faced her Prince.
"I always knew that. She only wanted what was best for me. All the girls were family to me!" And at the 'were' as she said it, new tears formed in her silver eyes, flashing them like tiny stars weeping in the night sky.
Upon seeing the sparkle, Darien put the mug down and drew his silver angel into his embrace and let her weep as she had done the previous night. He held her, mumbled soothing words into her hair and caressed her until finally the weeping subsided and she withdrew from him and looked once again at the city below.
"You know." Was all she said.
He understood immediately and nodded. Hotaru had told him that that Serenity had awakened, but the one look on her face told him that his Serena was also there. What had been plaguing her for the last year was over and she was indeed free.
"Endymion. What happened last night?" she asked.
Startled at her use in his past name was immediate covered up by the horror in her words. He couldn't bare to tell her the details of his failure. Nor how he witnessed the final moments of their friends.
Serenity looked at her love and smiled, "Endy, I know your trouble. You can't hide it from me. We are all responsible for this loss. But not more so than me. If I had been stronger the memories and the merger would have happened a long time ago and we would have been ready for this. I would have been able to tell everyone whom we were facing. SO please. Tell me."
He heard the command, sorrow and guilt in her voice and nodded his head. He told her of how he had made it in time to see the black creature wreak its power at the girls and there had been no time to do anything.
The girls had been helpless and he had been too far away to help. He also told her how he had lost his sanity when the woman had told him they had taken her as well and his heart couldn't take anymore. Suddenly as if a new strength had been unleashed he fought the Silver Lady head on until Serenity's appearance.
He told her that after the battle he had brought her to his apartment and of Saturn's appearance. After he had done he was about to leave when Serenity held on to his hand .
"You are still troubled, yet I know this has nothing to do with what happened last night but of something that was said." It was a statement of fact and there was no use in deniying it.
He nodded and taking the hot drink, he led her inside and onto the sofa where he laid Serenity against his shoulder caressing her shoulder.
"He said that he was your fiancé. How can that be when we had been together for so long? His animosity almost feels genuine as if he really did have a reason to be angry. Also why does he seem to know me and accuse me of steeling you away?"
Takeing a shuddering breath, Sernity started to speak.
"When my father was still alive, he and his friend wanted both their kingdoms to be united. His friend was Chronos, the Lord of the Abyss. So they plotted when I was just a newborn that I would someday be wed to his three-year-old son at the time, Abol. When I had turned thirteen was the first time I heard that I was betrothed. My father had long been dead by then. At first I didn't think of it until sometime later when the first dreams of love in the eyes of a teenager became evident, it was then I went to my mother to question her."
She stopped and looked up into her love's eyes and tried to sooth away the pain.
"That was when she told me. At first I didn't like it the idea of not being able to choose my own husband. My mother though, had told me that the betrothal was only in good faith if both us both went through with it. If for any reason I did want to be with him or he with me, we could call the arrangement off, or so my mother told me. She mentioned that both Chronos and my father had agreed to these stipulations. I went along with it and finally met him when I was fifteen and we did become friends, but it was not a month later that I would meet you that I called the arrangement off. Chronos who had kept his appearance in the court smiled sadly but wished me happiness whomever I was to choose and that he was sorry it wasn't his son. I didn't know the reason at the time, but Abol took it really hard, a lot harder then it should have been. When we became betrothed when I turned sixteen, his heartbreak turned to anger, especially on you.
"Why me?" Darien asked confused. "I have never seen him before last night."
Serenity looked at him strangely and clutched her imperial crystal in her hands. It glowed softly and as she touched him, hidden memories came back to him, from his early childhood, the faces of his parents and friends. His friends.
As the memories surged within, one thought stood more prominent. Abol had been part of his court, but more importantly, Abol had also been his advisor, his confidante.
His friend.
To be continued.
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AN: Hello again. Chapter 20 is finally UP!!!!. Now I know most of you have been wondering when will she put up the next one? I am sorry. I had mentioned I was getting busier. But this story will continue that I can promise you.
Again and I do not own Sailor Moon. I am only borrowing it to make this story. There I said it. Now on with the show! Don't forget to R&R.
One other note. Thanks to those reviewers that have stayed with this story from the beginning.
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The lady of Avalon looks at the crowded people before her and sees their 85 cent offering and the stuffed cat named Tinkerbell who at this moment was looking as if it wanted to be anywhere but here, for the return of the Sailor Scouts.
She looks at the mighty Elora Dannan and smiles wickedly. "Wait." She then takes some cotton balls and put them into her ears hoping the piercing sound of the distraught almighty master won't explode her eardrums as she continues with the story.
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As if the word alone had some power, from the corner of her eye, Hotaru saw the figure on the bed stir slowly then raise. Gone was Serena's golden hair only to be replaced with strands of the purest silver, her face seemed to radiate a more maturity and as she raised her self to the floor, she seemed a little taller.
"Hotaru?" the angel whispered as she looked around the room to get her bearings.
Her face was encompassed with calmness and serenely as if last night had never been. "What has happened? What are you doing here?" she continued as she lifted her hand to her head showing her weakness.
"My lady?" Hotaru began. "Do you not recall what took place the last night?
Serena or Serenity, Hotaru couldn't be for certain, looked at her with questions in her eyes and also a deep sadness that could even make the desert weep.
"I do.Afterwards I am uncertain as to what transpired." She said in a whisper that Hotaru had to lean forward to capture her words.
Hotaru frowned slightly as she noticed a different colloquial speech being used by her friend. It sounded more regal, more like something she would hear from Pluto or .
She stopped in mid-sentence. Was this Princess Serenity speaking?
"Princess? Serena?"
The figure that stood tall and stately took her hands from her face and looked upon the human guise of Saturn who waited patiently as one so young could wait.
The figure of Serena stood dressed as she had the previous night; her nightgown flowed and rippled in the faint breeze from the opened window. Looking more deeply into her eyes, Hotaru noticed that no longer were they the blueness of the sky as Hotaru remembered, they were as silver as the purest metal and brighter than a twinkling diamond from unshed tears.
"I am no longer any of them. Both have become one and I am free. " Serenity said as she sat down as if her bout of strength gave up on her.
"Where is Endymion, Hotaru?" she asked in no more than a whisper but the authority in its tone was still in evident.
Hotaru took a deep breath and spoke as commanded, "He has gone to pick up some food and supplies for us. Artemis and Luna went to try and make sure the families are at peace and have not learned yet as what has happened. Until we know there is no sense in worrying anyone. Even your parents and brother are going to be given the false memories of you going away for the next few months."
Serenity only nodded and said nothing further as the door handle wiggled slightly and the sound of a key thrusting in told the occupant that someone had returned. Serenity continued to sit on the chair that Hotaru had been using as the little figure gave a small smile and walked out of the room to help Darien with the groceries.
And to tell him of her. Serenity thought to herself. She got up and went to the sliding doors and stepped out to the balcony to see the sun above her. As if on key, her stomach rumbled slightly and she smiled, but only barely.
Rae always said that her stomach had its own mind. Then she would laugh as her stomach grumbled in response.
"Rae!" she whispered to herself as the last night horror weighed her heart down.
"She may have not always shown it, but she loved you and considered you her best friend above the others." A voice broke into her misery.
Turning slightly around, she saw her love in the doorway, holding a hot chocolate filled with an over abundance of marshmallows. He only made that for her when she was feeling down and needed a smile.
Closing her eyes she grabbed on to her memories and slipped them away as she faced her Prince.
"I always knew that. She only wanted what was best for me. All the girls were family to me!" And at the 'were' as she said it, new tears formed in her silver eyes, flashing them like tiny stars weeping in the night sky.
Upon seeing the sparkle, Darien put the mug down and drew his silver angel into his embrace and let her weep as she had done the previous night. He held her, mumbled soothing words into her hair and caressed her until finally the weeping subsided and she withdrew from him and looked once again at the city below.
"You know." Was all she said.
He understood immediately and nodded. Hotaru had told him that that Serenity had awakened, but the one look on her face told him that his Serena was also there. What had been plaguing her for the last year was over and she was indeed free.
"Endymion. What happened last night?" she asked.
Startled at her use in his past name was immediate covered up by the horror in her words. He couldn't bare to tell her the details of his failure. Nor how he witnessed the final moments of their friends.
Serenity looked at her love and smiled, "Endy, I know your trouble. You can't hide it from me. We are all responsible for this loss. But not more so than me. If I had been stronger the memories and the merger would have happened a long time ago and we would have been ready for this. I would have been able to tell everyone whom we were facing. SO please. Tell me."
He heard the command, sorrow and guilt in her voice and nodded his head. He told her of how he had made it in time to see the black creature wreak its power at the girls and there had been no time to do anything.
The girls had been helpless and he had been too far away to help. He also told her how he had lost his sanity when the woman had told him they had taken her as well and his heart couldn't take anymore. Suddenly as if a new strength had been unleashed he fought the Silver Lady head on until Serenity's appearance.
He told her that after the battle he had brought her to his apartment and of Saturn's appearance. After he had done he was about to leave when Serenity held on to his hand .
"You are still troubled, yet I know this has nothing to do with what happened last night but of something that was said." It was a statement of fact and there was no use in deniying it.
He nodded and taking the hot drink, he led her inside and onto the sofa where he laid Serenity against his shoulder caressing her shoulder.
"He said that he was your fiancé. How can that be when we had been together for so long? His animosity almost feels genuine as if he really did have a reason to be angry. Also why does he seem to know me and accuse me of steeling you away?"
Takeing a shuddering breath, Sernity started to speak.
"When my father was still alive, he and his friend wanted both their kingdoms to be united. His friend was Chronos, the Lord of the Abyss. So they plotted when I was just a newborn that I would someday be wed to his three-year-old son at the time, Abol. When I had turned thirteen was the first time I heard that I was betrothed. My father had long been dead by then. At first I didn't think of it until sometime later when the first dreams of love in the eyes of a teenager became evident, it was then I went to my mother to question her."
She stopped and looked up into her love's eyes and tried to sooth away the pain.
"That was when she told me. At first I didn't like it the idea of not being able to choose my own husband. My mother though, had told me that the betrothal was only in good faith if both us both went through with it. If for any reason I did want to be with him or he with me, we could call the arrangement off, or so my mother told me. She mentioned that both Chronos and my father had agreed to these stipulations. I went along with it and finally met him when I was fifteen and we did become friends, but it was not a month later that I would meet you that I called the arrangement off. Chronos who had kept his appearance in the court smiled sadly but wished me happiness whomever I was to choose and that he was sorry it wasn't his son. I didn't know the reason at the time, but Abol took it really hard, a lot harder then it should have been. When we became betrothed when I turned sixteen, his heartbreak turned to anger, especially on you.
"Why me?" Darien asked confused. "I have never seen him before last night."
Serenity looked at him strangely and clutched her imperial crystal in her hands. It glowed softly and as she touched him, hidden memories came back to him, from his early childhood, the faces of his parents and friends. His friends.
As the memories surged within, one thought stood more prominent. Abol had been part of his court, but more importantly, Abol had also been his advisor, his confidante.
His friend.
To be continued.
