Millennium I
Secrets of the Past
By Hikari Tsuki Chi
Disclaimer: Do you HONESTLY believe I'd bother doing this if I owned either of the animes in this story?
Note: I just realized that I've been using either Secrets of the Past or Secrets of the Puzzle as the sub-title for this story. THIS STORY IS OFFICALLY MILLENNIUM I: SECRETS OF THE PAST! Yeah, I was originally gonna use Secrets of the Puzzle, but this story isn't entirely about the Puzzle, it has more to do with the past. Sorry if there's been any confusion on the part of the reader.
…After much internal debate, I've come to a decision. Remember when I didn't update for several months from February to April? I said that Dad needed the computer for taxes, but that was only partly true. I had had my computer privileges suspended for cursing in an e-mail, several e-mails in fact. It hadn't occurred to me that my parents read the e-mails that I sent out marked "Betaing". I really upset my mom. And the worst part about this whole ordeal, which happened way back in February? I really, really hate disappointing my parents. They weren't so much mad as disappointed with me. I can't talk to my friends about it either, because they'd just tell me to forget about it and get over it. Mom says all's forgiven and all, but I must really like beating myself up about things like that. I'm one of those kids whose rarely gotten in trouble, since I tend to be a 'goody two-shoes', so much to the point where my friend Sarah told me that I'm not a evil person like she and Marie so don't even try. My friends have gotten into far more trouble than I have, and thus they couldn't and wouldn't understand I felt, and still feel, about disappointing my parents, especially my mom. I upset her enough to have to have her take medicine to calm her down. It also doesn't help that I seem to be stuck on a permanent PMS kick, leaving me even more irritable. If anyone has advice for me about how to deal with this, let me know in a review. Somehow, I feel closer to people I only know by pennames and profiles and stories than I do to my own friends. When I'm around them, I feel like an extra wheel. The only thing I really have in common with them is anime, and they are far more active and in better shape than I am. I don't know WHY I feel the need to pour out my troubles to the few people who bother reading this story; right now it just seems easier to talk about it with people who can pass as strangers. Also my parents have hear me cry about it often enough; there's no point in forcing them to be reminded about it.
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Taeniaea: Thanx!
WolfchildBlazer: I have creative genius? If I have creative genius, then why can't I come up with nicknames my two friends will hate as much as I hate mine, CVS? (CVS stands for Creepy Violent Shortwoman)
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Chapter 16
No sooner had they walked out of the room, did they walk right out onto the Moon. "Weren't we just in their master's lair?" asked Yugi, confused.
"Yup."
"And now we're on the moon."
"Uh-huh."
"And we're still breathing?"
"Yeah."
"O-kay. I'd like to say that stranger things have happened, but nothing stranger than this has happened."
"Why aren't we dead yet?" asked Joey, about ready to panic.
"Shield. Generates air and yes, Seto-kun, it's entirely possible."
"How?"
"Magick."
"Yeah right."
Moon rolled her eyes. "When are you gonna wake up and see the magick? Not everything has a technology answer."
While Kaiba argued the possibility of magick providing more answers then his beloved technology, Yugi looked around the Moon. Somehow, the ruins didn't look quite like ruins to him, but a beautiful palace. But why had it been under attack?
So this is where Serena was originally from. I know there was a battle, but where are the bodies? Were they all destroyed when Sailor Saturn performed her grimmest of duties? Thought Millennium.
Suddenly Sailor Pluto appeared. "There is something that must be known before you can go on to face their master. Something that can only be told here."
Sailor Moon nearly jumped out of her skin. "Why do you ALWAYS hafta do that?"
"Keeps you lazy senshi on your toes." She replied.
"Can't you sense her ki? I know you can do that." Asked Yugi.
"Yeah, but she just pops outta nowhere. First there's nothing there then there's something there. It's just plain freaky." Answered Moon, shivering.
Yami snickered at the thought of a Sailor Senshi being scared of someone popping out of nowhere. Oh yes, this gives him a few ideas…
Moon glared at Yami. After all, he had declared war, even if it was only in his thoughts. Note to self, ask Yugi if Yami's scared of anything…
"Pluto-san? What has to be told here that couldn't be told in their master's lair? What would be that important?" asked Sailor Ma'at.
Before Pluto could open her mouth, Yugi said, "It has to do with my dreams, doesn't it? Where this palace is being attacked… people I know yet don't know dying and being killed by these monsters…"
"Yes. It has to do with your dreams."
"Okay, I know that my dreams started slowing down when Yugi's started picking up. Is it because I figured out that Yugi was…is…" Moon trailed off, held back by her fear of revealing the secret that only four people there knew.
"Hikari, sooner or later, you are going to have to tell them. And with this battle, it will probably be sooner rather then later." Said Millennium, sensing her hikari's fear through their link.
"Serena, what is she talking about?" asked Grandpa. Why do I have this feeling that it has something to do with that phone call I received shortly after she was born from her mother that she had a glowing crescent moon on her forehead that faded when she first held her?
Taking a deep breath, Moon said, "I was never really meant to be a Sailor Senshi. Two thousand years ago, this place was a kingdom and head of an alliance between all of the planetary kingdoms in this solar system, except Earth, which was not part of the alliance, known as the Silver Alliance. A sorceress on Earth released an evil that had been sealed in the Sun, and with that evil, along with its army of youma, attacked this kingdom, the Moon Kingdom. At that time, I…I was the Moon Princess, daughter of Queen Serenity, last ruler of the moon. The Royal Moon Line never fought as Sailor Senshi, despite possessing the single most powerful magickal object in the Solar System."
"You're royalty!" exclaimed Joey and Tea.
"What did you figure out from your dreams?" asked Ryou, keeping a close eye on Bakura, who was poking around through the ruins, looking for valuables to steal.
"The Queen had more than one child," said Pluto. "You were a twin. Yugi is your twin brother."
(Okay, if I was mean I'd cut it off here, but I'm not a violent, evil person so I'll continue.)
"Yugi's royalty!" Okay, that totally lost Tea and Joey. Ryou was keeping tabs on Bakura, who was looking for things to steal, Kaiba was internally shocked, but outwardly was making sure Mokuba didn't run off, Sailors Saturn, Ma'at, and Millennium already suspected as much, as Moon had shared her suspicions with them, and Yami was trying to snap Yugi out of his daze. Suspecting was one thing, but getting confirmation was quite another thing.
"Who's older?" asked Moon.
"You are, by five minutes."
"Of course, the Sword of the Moon is technically Yugi's, isn't it?" asked Tea. "I mean, wouldn't a sword go to the male?"
"Not necessarily. " said Pluto. "Males were generally rare in the Royal Moon line. It went to whichever child could wield it."
"You keep it, Serena. I could of used it in the past, but you're the one with training in that sort of thing in this life." Said Yugi.
With that, they were returned to the lair of Jadeite and Diamond's master. Turning to the ghostly apparition of Queen Serenity, Pluto said, "Our children have grown up strong."
"Yes they have. I am proud of them, even though I could not be there for them." Said the queen, smiling.
"Unfortunately, we cannot help in this fight. We must return to our posts." Said Sailor Pluto sadly.
Queen Serenity nodded, and held up a brooch. "Cosmos Supreme Guardian Make-up!" Transforming into Sailor Cosmos. "Is the timeline still uncertain as to whether or not she will become the next Sailor Cosmos?" asked Cosmos of Pluto.
"Had the timeline stayed on its original path, there would be no doubt. But with the changes, her destiny lies closer and closer to the Prophecy."
"The Ultimate Prophecy…still, I cannot wait for grandchildren. That Sailor Millennium seems a far better match than Endymion ever was."
"You know we can't play matchmaker."
"That doesn't mean we can't watch, does it?" asked Cosmos as both she and Pluto returned to their duties, duties it seems would almost certainly be eternal.
Back with Serena and the others…
"Pluto needs to work on her landings." Grumbled Kaiba, to which the others agreed wholeheartedly. Moon had once again wound up on the bottom, for reasons unknown to her.
"I think I broke my tailbone." Complained Yami.
"Didn't realize that you had a tailbone." Retorted Moon, which started a glaring contest.
"Hey, where's Millennium?" asked Saturn, looking around.
"Wasn't she with us when we were sent back?" asked Moon, having been drawn from her glaring contest with Yami.
"I thought so…"
"Someone's blocking our link. I can't talk to her." Said Moon, worried. "I hope she's okay…"
With Sailor Millennium…
"Wasn't I sent back with the others?" questioned Millennium.
No one could hear her. She was in the same translucent form she took before Serena had performed the spell to give her a solid body, and the form she took when she didn't want others to see her.
It was the past, it seemed, some sort of battle against this black and evil being. A man led the assault, and began to weave a spell, to which she paid very close attention to. Maybe I was sent here to learn that spell he's using, which could possibly be used to seal this master Jadeite talked about. Thought Millennium. The spell would have to be modified, as the man casting the spell tied the key to opening the door to which the evil being was sent through to the names of his children. But for some reason, the man was very familiar, the others there calling him Pharaoh. How do I know him? She questioned as she was pulled back to the others.
"Where were you?" asked Moon. "Something blocked the link…"
"This battle, where someone the others there called Pharaoh sealed this evil being to a place assessed only through a door that could only be opened with his children's names. He didn't say what their names were, so the spell will have to be modified, but something about him was very familiar…" she trailed off, searching her memory in vain for an answer as to why the man was so familiar.
Why does what she said seem very familiar? Questioned Yami. A memory flashed through his mind. Sitting in the lap of a man whose face was in shadows, with a girl who would look like Yama if her eyes weren't shadowed, hearing the story of how he defeated a being called Pharaoh 90, learning the spell he used to seal him, learning the spell to open the door should it ever be needed again.
The same memory flashed through Millennium's mind from her point of view. "The being was referred to as Pharaoh 90, if that helps." She said. Why does it seem more and more likely that Yami is my brother?
"We defeated Pharaoh 90 a year ago. I gave my life to kill him, and Serena used her power to ensure that I would be reborn." Said Saturn.
"Well, we know how to seal this master. Now all we have to is find him." Said Moon, looking around.
It was only then that they realized they were standing in a maze.
"Right. Easier said then done." Said Bakura.
End of Chapter 16
Uh…the thing with Queen Serenity being Sailor Cosmos won't be explained until Story 5 of this series, so please don't kill me. If you do, you'll never find out your answer!
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