Notes and Disclaimers: I don't own SM, but everyone else I do.
Hidden Memories
PrologueAbout Year 982: Silver Millennium: The Moon Kingdom: The Moon Palace
"Come on Tacria, we'll miss Princess Serenity's dance if we don't hurry!" a sixteen year old princess exclaimed. She grabbed the other's hand and pulled her towards the door of the room they were sharing. Her light green formal gown swished as she pulled her friend towards the door. Her deep green eyes were excited for the upcoming event. She may not have particularly liked dresses, but she loved dancing and made an exception.
"Hold on Sacra. We must wait for Silea and Harke to join us so we all can venture to the ballroom together." Princess Tacria Skystar said, stopping in her steps and also succeeding in getting Princess Sacra Greenlife to also stop. With her free hand she held a handful of her own formal gown and kept it from dragging too much on the ground. She loved the black dress with silver eight point stars all over it. She took her hand back to check one last time in the floor length mirror standing beside the vanity. Her excitement-filled unique silver eyes stared back at her as she smiled. She reached up to her long black hair where it was bound up in a mass of curls and braids. She patted her hair lightly to make sure it wouldn't fall out of its creation. She lowered her hand as her hand also traveled lower and settled on the center of her forehead where a silver eight point star shone. It was the symbol of her family and she bore it with pride.
Sacra looked at the other sixteen year old and sighed. "Of course, my lady." She bowed her head with a semi-teasing tone.
Tacria rolled her eyes at her friend and looked towards the door as she heard the sound of dresses swishing. Their other two friends, Princess Harke Darkoblivion and Princess Silea Lightraye, were curiously looking at the two inside the room.
"Are you ready?" the taller of the two asked.
"Yes Silea. We are ready." Tacria promptly replied.
The four princesses walked out of the guestroom and quickly made their way to the elegant ballroom. They stared in awe as they were greeted by beautiful music and lots of people.
"Look!" Silea pointed over at the far end of the room, "There's Princess Serenity now! We weren't late!"
They turned to where Silea had pointed. Coming down a grand staircase, a young woman about sixteen years of age seemed to glide as she ventured down. Her pure white formal gown trailed to the floor, but there was also a second layer on top that ended about a foot from the floor. The short sleeves were puffed just at her shoulders with four pieces of lace dangling in little points. Even though she was short, her white heels made her 5'1 (she was 4'11). Her silky incredibly long blonde hair was up in her odangos. Her bangs fanned out around her crescent moon symbol on her forehead and her blue eyes trailed around the room, though not really seeing anyone there. She was preoccupied for some reason.
The four girls watched as someone stopped the princess before she stepped off the staircase. A man in a tuxedo and a white mask that hid his eyes held her hand and she smiled at him. She seemed to know him. Then he led her to the dance floor and began dancing with her.
"Who's that!" Tacria exclaimed, glancing at her friends.
They all shook their heads. "I've never seen him before. Do you think he's from one of the other planet kingdoms?" Harke asked.
"Actually, that could be Prince Endymion from Earth." Sacra said as she still stared at the dancing couple.
"How romantic," Silea sighed. The other three just looked at her.
"WE'RE UNDER ATTACK! UNDER ATTACK!" two cats, one black and the other white, ran through the ballroom screaming. "We need everyone who can help fight!"
Panic erupted as explosions were heard and felt. Vibrations ran through the ground, knocking some people over.
"What do we do?" Tacria cried out to her three friends. "Princess Serenity's no where in sight!"
"We have to help! We are the senshi of our families! It's our sworn duty to protect!" Harke said firmly.
"Right," the others nodded their heads. Their own panic was gone replaced by determination. In flashes of silver, green, black and yellow-orange lights their beautiful gowns disappeared and melted into sailor fukus.
Enemy soldiers stormed the ballroom as the four protectors readied their own attacks.
Just as the soldiers noticed the senshi, they all heard,
"The pretty twit and her prince are gone. And the snake survives." A terrible voice rang out. It was a female's voice, but kind of hard to tell, she had such a horrible sounding voice.
"Does she mean…?" Silea asked, a frightened look on her sweet face. She clutched at Harke's arm. The soldiers went unnoticed to the four girls, but to the soldiers, the girls did not.
One very strong energy blast took out Harke and Silea before any of them could react and counter it.
"HARKE!" Tacria screamed, tears streaming down her face in rivers,. Sacra screamed at the same time, "SILEA!"
But Sacra pulled at the smaller girl, while she kept an alert eye on the enemies. They were powering up for another attack. But Sacra would not be in the line of fire, nor would Tacria. She pulled her friend with her and started for the nearest door, clear across the room.
"Come on Tacria! I need to protect you! You are the only one out of us who can use the Takarrie Crystal to help the queen! Can't you hear Princess Serenity's court? They're fighting! We must help!" Sacra pulled her friend with her. Through greatly saddened, she still held her warrior's spirit.
Tacria sniffled and nodded, for she too could hear the attacks of other Sailor Senshi
"Mercury Bubbles Blast!" "Mars Fire Ignite!" "Jupiter Thunder Crash!" "Venus Crescent Beam Smash!" But just after those four attacks, the four senshi were yelling and screaming.
They were being countered. Then there was silence.
Tacria stopped short, making Sacra jerk back.
"They're dead Sacra, they're dead. How can we be of any help?" Tacria was crying again.
Sacra looked down at her and then around the room. It lay in half ruins, people lying dead buried beneath columns that once stood proud and beautiful. Walls were blown away and only pieces where they once stood told that a wall once had been there. Draperies and tapestries were tattered and torn. What was once an elegant ballroom now stood in ruins, never to be danced in again. Those who were still living were screaming, running, or trying to fight. Enemies streamed in, destroying even more of the once magnificently beautiful palace. A couple of them noticed the girls dressed in the sailor fukus, but they did nothing more than glance in their direction and then turn away. Sacra stared at the far end of the room the two bodies of their fallen companions, unshed tears in her deep green eyes.
Two soldiers from the enemy silently crept into the room, unknowing to the senshi.
A black energy blast came hurling itself at the senshi. Tacria saw from the corner of her eye that it was aimed at Sacra. She only had a second, but that's all she needed to throw herself in front of her friend.
The blast hit her full force, knocking the girls down. Sacra was shocked. Shocked out of her mind at what just occurred. She looked down into her friend's face. Tacria was sprawled against the taller senshi, tears of pain, physical and emotional, streaming down her face in rivers. She knew she was dying with only seconds longer to live.
"Tacria…" Sacra whispered. She smoothed a strand of hair from the girl's face.
"I'm sorry…I couldn't bear…it…" she whispered so faintly. Her beautiful silver eyes were closed as she struggled to speak, "if I had…to see…you die…too…"
"Tacria! It was my duty to protect you! It was my duty!" Sacra sobbed, cradling her dying friend.
"I'm sorry," were Tacria's last words. She let go of her final breath and sank into blackness.
"Tacria!" Sacra screamed. She held her friend against her as she cried heart-wrenching tears.
"Come on girlie! You are the only one left. Why don't you stand up to give us a more sufficient target?" an enemy said, an evil look on his face.
Sacra looked up, determination replacing her sadness in her eyes. If she had to die she would not go down alone. She already lost her most cherished of friends, and the palace and the Moon Princess were both gone; she had nothing else left to lose. She gently moved her friend's body to lay on the floor and rose. Gathering power, she held up her hands, palms facing out, fingers up straight and yelled with all her might,
"NAKLAI FINAL ATTACK!"
All of her energy drained from her body in one massive green energy blast that disintegrated the soldiers instantly who had killed Tacria. The blast continued and obliterated even more of the enemy and whomever stood in its path. But Sacra's lifeless body fell to the ground beside Tacria.
"COSMIC MOON POWER!" rang through the once peaceful kingdom.
Within minutes filled with great power, the enemy was vanquished and the universe was safe once more, but at the price of a kingdom and its people.
The Imperium Silver Crystal, in which defeated the enemy, released the spirits encased inside.
Tacria, Sacra, Harke and Silea were also released near their bodies. They were conscious enough to know they were dead and curious at what was happening.
"Your sacrifices were not made in vain," a female voice, musical, but depressed said out to the four.
"Who are you?" Harke asked.
"I am who made it right. You are safe once more. You will all be sent to Earth and be reborn. But you four will play an important part in the far future. So though you will be sent to the future, you will not be in the same as the others." The voice said.
"How come?" Sacra asked.
"You won't be needed until much later. You will be sent to a future and as time passes, you will be reincarnated each time you die. This cycle for you four will continue until you meet my darling daughter Serenity once again." The voice explained.
The four exchanged glances. "So we will know each other? Will we still become Sailor Senshi?" they asked together.
"Yes. Now you must move on," the voice finalized.
Just as the four were encased in glowing bubbles of light, they all realized to whom the voice belongedQueen Serenity.
The children of the Silver Millennium were sent to a distant future on Earth. New identities to obtain, new lives to live and cherish and new hopes for peace to look forward to.
TBC