To those who have read letting go, this is totally different. Please remember, these characters are not mine.
Some Things ChangeChapter Two
By Catrina00-00-00-00
Yaten tossed and turned as he relived a nightmare. It was a dream that used to haunt him constantly. He used to relive her death nightly. The blame and guilt eating him alive. She had died because of him. He had been so willing to die, because he was wrapped in his own self pity, then she gave him something to live for. Live for he,r to protect her princess, because she had chosen to die for him. He could still she her body being jerked as her star seed was torn from her body. Then her cold fading body falling to the floor. "The starlights are important to us…" He woke in a sweat and to knocking at the door.
"Time to get out of bed. Today, you meet the Queen." He slowly got out of bed and after getting ready met the others in the hall, waiting on him.
"So today we meet the Queen. I wonder who it will be." Yaten asked.
"No one that we know. They are all dead." Taiki stated matter-of-factly. "It has been three thousand years here."
"I know but what if…" Seiya said.
"Well, we are eternal; I don't know why they couldn't be as well." Kaykuu whispered softly.
"Let's not get our hopes up." Taiki said coldly preparing for the worst.
The walked quietly to the thrown room and took a seat, the guards who escorted them stood quietly behind them. The palace was beautiful made of the clear crystal that they had seen covering the earth. The palace had the colors of the senshi running thought it gold, red, blue, and green were the dominate colors in the thrown room. But the hall they had walked down the hall this morning had been yellow. The room was circular and the throne sat on the north side of the circle. The throne itself was beautiful carved by hand and well padded. Whoever sat there was very comfy. There Princess remained quiet the whole time, but they knew that it was because she was nervous; she wanted her people to have a home here. There was no way that her planet could be revived. She doubted that there was even anything there anymore. The door opened with a grown as a man walked in. "Please honored visitors," this earned a grunt from Seiya, "Allow me to introduce Our Beloved Queen's protectors, first, their leader, Sailor Venus, Senshi of Love. Next Sailor Mercury, Scout of Wisdom." The both walked in to walk and stand by the throw, Venus on the left and Mercury on the right. "Next, Sailor Jupiter, Senshi of Protection, and Sailor Mars, Senshi of War." Mars went to stand beside Venus while Jupiter stood next to Mercury. The Senshi all looked forward with straight faces to the Starlights and their princess shock regeristing on all their faces. "And then allow me the pleasure of introducing our Beloved Queen, Neo-Queen Serenity." The three lights looked toward the door to see a small and petite blond walking though the door. She held a staff that on top was a beautiful crystal and a crown with a jeweled heart in the middle. On her forehead was a crescent moon and she wore her hair in her classic style. A white gown flowed around her as she walked to her thrown. She had yet to look at her visitors. She touched each of her Senshi's head, they had kneeled the moment the saw her.
Seiya looked at the Queen in shock. It couldn't be. Odango couldn't be the queen. He thought that he had just recovered from the shock that the Senshi were still alive. But then to have the woman he had loved for as long as he could remember knowing. He had always dreamed of her, of her loving him, but always losing her to her beloved Mamo-chan. He looked to the others. All the other guys looked surprised while, the princess looked relieved.
Serenity took her throne the looked at her visitors and was glad the she was sitting down. She looked to Venus who nodded her head. She looked to each one then nodded to Venus to proceed.
"Welcome Sailor Starlights." Her voice had become richer, even more beautiful, Yaten noticed. "What have you come to ask of our Queen?" With that the princess stepped forward.
"Neo-Queen Serenity, my planet has been destroyed. All my people are on a shuttle on theirt way here. May we seek refuge?" She asked red eyes lowered as she lowered herself to her knees in front of the queen. Her senshi followed suit.
"Of course." Serenity said without pause. These people were family as far as she was concerned. "We will help you as much as we can. You are welcome to live here forever. Is everyone alright? When should we start expecting your citizens? We should have a ceremony welcoming all of your people. A memorial built for your planet should be placed in front of the palace" Then she smiled, mentally calming herself and handed her staff to Venus and she stepped down the steps from her throne. She walked gracefully over to the three lights. "You have been missed." With that she gathered the Princess into a hug, and then moved to Yaten and Taiki, who were equally startled. Finally coming to Seiya, "I have missed you the most," she said before hugging him.
"Oh, Odango, I have missed you too." He said as he hugged her back.
Venus looked over to Mercury and whispered, "Maybe she can be happy now." Out of the blue a siren sounded. "Back to duty," She said as she rushed out the door, after handing Serenity's staff to Mercury. Serenity pulled out of her hug and went to get her staff.
"Are you planning on staying forever?"
"We weren't sure. How are you still alive?" Seiya asked. He looked to Taiki who stared at the scouts in shock and Yaten was staring out the door that Venus had run out of.
"Allow me to show you." She held up her staff she retrieved from Mercury and about half of the wall turned into a picture. "This is a picture of the earth three thousand years, as you remember it. Ten years after you left, the world started to freeze; I begged the crystal to save us so it put us into a sleep. We did not age, we did not grow, and we just slept. About five years ago, I awoke and from there I woke the world who knows me now of their Queen and protector." The whole time there had been pictures showing each stage.
"What amazing technology." Taiki said amazed at the picture as it faded to the crystal walls once again.
"You can thank Mercury for that." She said with a smile. "Would you like to join her in her lab as her partner? She said once that you were the only one whose brain could ever surpass her own."
"Never could I surpass her, but I would love to work with her." He looked to Mercury who smiled.
"Go show him his new working quarters, Mercury. He will stay in the Mercury hall." As they left the queen turned towards the princess. "Would you like to be one of my advisors? I need as much help as I can get." She said with a gentle smile.
"I would be honored."
Again she hugged the other princess. "I am so sorry that you lost your home." She said tears filling her large blue eyes. "I hope that we can help you heal your pain." Kaykuu for the first time started to cry as Serenity held her close. Serenity pulled back and wiped her friend's tears. "No tears, this is a place of happiness. You will stay in the Mars hall. Mars will you show her quarters."
"Thank you so much Sailor Moon… Usagi…Serenity?" She asked the last in a question.
"I'm still all three." She said on a smile as she looked to Yaten as Mars came forward hugged the princess then took her hand leading her to the door.
"Yaten, what would you like to do?" He looked at her still in shock and the queen let out a laugh. "Yes Yaten, I can understand how you feel, but you now have a new home and a new job?"
"I can do almost everything." He told her sarcastically.
"Until you decide what you will do, you will work with Sailor Venus, in the tower. Jupiter, will you show him the way." With that they left and the thrown room was empty but for Seiya and Serenity. She dropped her staff and it hit the floor with a clatter.
"Oh, Seiya. I have missed you so much." With that she ran into his arms, knocked him on to the floor and cried into his shoulder.
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Venus was assessing all the read outs that the computer was throwing at her. Luckily after years of Mercury's patience she actually understood what it was saying too. But this was happening way too often. Crystal Tokyo could only shoot down so many meteors before having to re-power.
"Check the long-distance scanners."
"Nothing Ma'am."
"See if you can find any type of ship of foreign craft."
"Negative ma'am, still nothing."
"There has got to be something. Damn, check the heat sensors. "
"Ma'am, you should see this." Venus walked to check out the readings.
"This is not good."
"What does it mean, ma'am?"
"You know the system outside of ours." The young soldier nodded. "This shows that their sun has been destroyed. It exploded, destroying most of the solar system over there."
"But not our system?"
"No, but soon all that debris will be heading to our system to bombard our planet. I must speak to the Queen quickly." Can't we ever have peace, even nature doesn't like us? She left the tower quickly and headed towards the thrown room.
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Jupiter walked quietly, she could tell that Yaten was having troubles believing all of this but he was getting used to it.
"Yaten-kun. I hope that you will like it here." He looked at her with a raised eyebrow. "I guess this wasn't really your choice." He nodded. "You didn't know that we were still alive." Again he just looked at her. "Luna will be pleased, and you can meet her daughter." To this he raised both eyebrows. "Hey can you talk?"
"Of course." His green eyes looked in to hers and she was surprised. Her head came up as she heard running. She turned to see Venus running as fast as she could.
"Venus, what is up?"
"The sun in the Clostridia system has been destroyed. It exploded, destroying the whole system. All the debris is heading our way. I need to talk to the queen"
"Not now, she is with Seiya." Venus looked into Yaten's eyes; she could swear he was taller. She had to look up to him now.
"What does that have to do with it?"
"Give them time alone. I'm sure that they have missed each other." Like I've missed you… the thought went unsaid.
"Listen, Yaten. You have no idea what our lives are like. None of us have time for ourselves. If we take a day off this place falls apart. We have not time for friends, lovers, happiness, or even sleep. Our planet depends on us and I refuse to have my planet destroyed just because a friend that Serenity loves is back. We have no choice. We are Senshi, we have no time for pleasure." With that she walked quickly past them.
"It will take her another five minutes to get there."
"What was that about?"
"Minako has changed. The whole palace and the protection of the people in it are her responsibility. But also things like this require her attention. She is pulled ten different ways ten times a day. We all are, actually," She said a planet is a lot to protect and run with only five people. Go and get her. Reacquaint yourselves. Distract her so Serenity has a little more time with Seiya." He smirked and walked after her. It didn't take him long to catch up.
"Minako-chan!" She stopped and turned.
"I am not Minako, only Venus." She told him with her face tilted down. It was something that she really didn't want to admit. She actually liked herself when she was younger, before the freezing of the Earth. But now she was only Venus, just a soldier.
"No you are still Minako." She shook her head as tears fall from her yes.
"Minako has been lost. No one knows her anymore. I am only Venus. I am worshipped just like you used to be when you first came here. Funny, but I kinda wish that I was just ordinary." She told him, as tears started to fall. He seemed to actually care what she was saying. She couldn't believe that someone was actually listening to her.
"You shine to much to be ordinary." She looked to him tears in her eyes, a smirk on her face.
"I don't even know myself"
"I know you. You won't be alone anymore." She smiled at him.
"I'm very sorry to hear about your planet. I'm sure that it was very beautiful."
"It was home. Nothing will replace that." She now felt foolish pouring her petty problems on him like this. On impulse she walked forward and wrapped her arms around him. "I'm so sorry. It must hurt." He wrapped his arm around her taking comfort in her embrace and her warm scent.
"I'll heal, and hopefully find a new home here."
"I hope for that as well."
"So what's this issue that we are looking at."
"Huh?" She asked confused for a moment, still standing in his embrace.
"This sun that exploded."
"Oh you made me completely forget." She said blushing. 'The sun exploded its sending a lot of debris our way. The small ones will be taken out by the defenses on Pluto and Uranus. Only the big ones will get through, but Saturn will pull some toward itself, so we have about four days."
"Good, so will you show me around?"
"But I have to take care of this…"
"Not for another three days, okay. Please show me around. Then we'll take a look at the data and see what we can do." He looked at her straight in the eyes, and all she thought were those were the eyes that she had died for. "You taught me a long time ago that duty isn't everything. I plan on showing you the same thing." He told her then placed a hand in the small of her back as they walked down the hall.
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Taiki silently followed Mercury out of the thrown room. He looked back to see Yaten being escorted by Jupiter. "Miss Mizuno, I am glad to see you well."
"Please call me Mercury. I also am glad to see you well. What happened to your home world Taiki-san?"
"After we rebuilt after it was destroyed by Galaxia, it wasn't as fertile or strong. It was as though the planet could no longer carry life. It was peaceful but almost 2 years ago the princess started to see her power weakening. Luckily she did not perish when the planet itself died and fell apart. There was really nothing we could do. Our planet died inside out." She laid a comforting hand on his arm and raised her blue eyes meeting his lavender eyes with compassion.
"I hope that you can see Earth as your new home. It would be wonderful to have you here."
"My princess is powerless, I believe that we are staying here for as long as you will allow."
"Then you are welcomed by me, forever." She told him before realizing how her words could be taken. Crimson blushed raced across her cheeks as her eyes lowered for a moment to the floor. Then she felt his hand on hers. Her eyes rushed up to his a question clearly evident.
"Thank you." He told her.
"Would you like to see the whole palace?"
"I would be honored to have such a lovely of tour guide." She didn't even blush, something was definitely wrong with this picture. As his tour continued he started to piece it together. She was like he used to be, but where was the girl who had gotten him to believe in romance and dreams. Everything was in a technical sense. When she saw a rose, she didn't see the beauty all she had to say was how her and her team had discovered a way to have them bloom all year. What happened to her dream?
"Miss Mizuno," he grabbed her hand to stop the tour. "What happened to you?"
"I don't understand." She said looking very confused.
"How can you have changed so much, Miss Mizuno"
"Mizuno Ami is dead." She said as she turned to walk away, amazingly saying and thinking the same thing that all the senshi thought of themselves. That they people they used to be didn't matter here. Again he grabbed her hand and forced her against the palace wall. By this time they were out in the garden. She had taken him thought the whole palace like a robot; there was no emotion as she told him the facts and nothing else.
"She is not dead. She is alive to me. I know her and I care about her. She is my friend and she made me human again when I had been a soldier too long. She taught me about romance and dreams. She helped me and taught me to believe. How could you have let this happen to you? How can you let everything fade away? Can you even see the beauty in a rose anymore?" He asked her accusingly. She shook her head as he saw tears start to form. "You are the reason I was glad to come here, but how could you have turned into what I was. Oh, Ami." He wrapped his arms around her and she was pressed between the wall and Taiki. She wrapped her arms around him and started to sob. Her small form was enveloped by heat and his scent washed over her. He smelled like spices, so good. She buried her head against his chest and let everything out.
"I didn't want to, but when you started to dream, you started to think, and all I could think about when I dreamed was how alone I was. I didn't want to be alone. I wanted to have someone to love me, but no one can love me. Everyone just sees me as a computer. I think, not feel. So I shut off my emotions. Taiki, I don't want to be alone anymore." She said as she started to sob again. "Why did you have to come back and change everything?"
"I'm not sorry, the last thing I could wish on anyone to be as empty as I was before you helped me."
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Seiya looked shocked as Serenity cried in his arms. His back hurt from the impact of falling onto the floor, but she just cried. He reached his arms up and held her. The Usagi that he remembered was so strong, never like this. He ran a hand down her slender back noticing that she was thinner then she used to be. Her arms were wrapped hard around his neck holding him like a life line. "Shhh…" He whispered trying to calm the woman in his arms. "It's okay. I missed you too." Every once in while he heard a I missed you, or a I'm so glad that you are here but it was the last thing that she said that grabbed his attention, that was a please stay.
"I don't plan on going anywhere." He said pulling her tighter, his own eyes filling with tears at her pain. But where was her precious Mamo-chan.
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You guys probably figured out that I really don't like 'mamo-chan' that much. Sorry all you mamoru lovers I just never really cared for him. Anyway this chapter wasn't my favorite and some of the characters where OOC but it is 3000 years in the future.