This is the story of a world that exists on parallel to our own.

This world has many things similar to our own, it is also called earth, it also has five continents and a multitude of cultures living on the earth, it too has seen similar conflicts of human emotion and ideology and thus it's full of human tragedy.

However, it has one major difference, and this difference is what sets it apart from our world, the existence of another species, those who look human, but are not. Those who have learned to control the source of all being in the parallel world and have lived in secret from humanity.

It was when they were discovered by man that a war broke out, not just a war of man's factions of and for them, as some thought they were superior to man and part of man thought otherwise.

In a final desperate attempt, the queen of this other species sealed her kind away, hoping that man would recover from it's misdemeanour and never again see the likes of them again, that they would mealy become a dream in some forgotten soldier's eye.

The year is now 201X and several millennia have passed since that dream, and soon it will happen again.

Opening: Northern Lights (Shaman King)

kimi ni todoke, Northern lights...

I wish to meet you at the Northern Lights…

hikisakareta futatsu no Kokoro

yukiba no nai omoi ga mune o shimetsuke

Two souls are forcefully torn apart,

Feelings of nowhere come to strangle my heart

naze kono toki ni deatta no ka to

toikakeru sube wa

saeta kage ni chiru

Why did we meet this day?

The way I want to ask this question

Suddenly disappears into night's clear shadow.

yuragu koto nai

tsuyosa na do naku (Who-o-oh!)

There is no need to waver

Though I'm without any strength, (Who-o-oh!)

susunda saki ni

motomeru kotae ga aru

The answer that you looked for will appear,

After you're forced to move on.

soshite itsuka todoku yume o

ima shizuka ni kanji you

And you will just feel silently now

That your dream you know will come true one day.

kimi no ketsui boku no mayoi

meguriai ga sashishimesu

Your dream however, somehow, holds me back,

I will have to somehow believe in it...

ai mo tsumi mo yume mo yami mo

The Love, The sin, The dream, and finally, The darkness.

ima subete mini matotte (Never try!)

These are the things you must wear for now (Never try!).

kimi no chikara boku no kokoro (What good am I?)

kasanariatta shunkan

And at the moment when (What good am I?)

Your power and my heart will then overlap,

nani ga umareru...

Something will be born then…

Do you believe in destiny?

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SHIN YUME SEKI: SHDAOWED MOON

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NEW DREAMING CENTURY: SHADOWED MOON

The Tokyo night had just bloomed into the midnight shade of blue. The Golden radiance of the full moon was the only source of light available bar a few skittering of Tokyo's lights. A dark shadow leapt from building from building like a ninja, misplaced from Edo times; from building to building it leapt with grace and poise. The Juuban district's museum had received a warning that the devil had come to take its prized soul.

The still silence of the Juuban night was shattered by the shrill scream of the alarm, the devil had struck. He ran as fast as he could towards an available exit with the soul wrapped around its hand.

"We can't let him get away with the Magicite!"

"Surround the perimeter, I won't allow him to leave!"

The devil stopped to find an appropriate exit before lights were shone on him; he was draped in a tuxedo and a top hat, a very strange devil indeed that faced the Juuban police department. The chief stood out from the crowd, a stout man who looked more suited for the New York Police Department rather than Tokyo. "Tuxedo Kamen, how nice for you to begin your little crusade in Japan with our little Podunk district, but this will be your last port of call." He said simply before he ordered his entire squad to open fire. The gunshots ripped across the room, aiming squarely at the devil called Tuxedo Kamen before he disappeared in a flash.

"WHAT!" came the scream of the chief before he felt cold steal pressed onto his neck. In merely a second, the clicks of several aimed guns could be heard "Wait! Don't shoot!" begged the pathetic policeman as the devil nodded, "That's right, now, I'll walk out of here and not one of you are going to shoot, we got that?" he said simply before walking backwards, stepping back with the policeman in tow as he head towards the door's exit. When he finally reached the door he looked at the round officer, "W-what are you going to do to me?" he asked in fear of the devil's wrath. Tuxedo Kamen merely threw him away and then kicked the officer in his large stomach, causing him to fall to the ground.

"EVERYONE, OPEN FIRE!" the second in command shouted instigating a second succession of bullets flying their way towards the devil before he leapt to the air. "I don't beleave it..." the deputy uttered as Tuxedo Kamen glided down over the gates and into the night.

"W...we lost it, half of Juuban's soul, the Magicite of the weeping Maiden..."

Act 1: The awakening of a dream

"Miss Galaxia..." the same rough voice that had assaulted the chief of Juuban's Police department rang through the halls of a mansion that rested in the heart of the Juuban district. The woman in question, Galaxia, turned around and saw the gem in the hand of the owner of the rough voice.

"I see you were successful, Tuxedo Kamen..." she smiled, knowing the answer before he could even open his mouth.
"Yes, I have the item that was stolen from you..." he answered regardless, holding out the gem for Galaxia to take, which she did in a rather suspicious manor, almost like how a frog's tongue would snap out and snare it's pray. He raised an eyebrow at this but his white mask apparently hid the action from the attention of Galaxia who suddenly smiled. "You really are Tuxedo Kamen, aren't you? The rumours about you being a man of your word are very true and yet you're such a young man." She said, taking his hand and applying a sly smile.

"If you're really that young, I must wonder if the other rumours that have been said about you are true..."

Tuxedo Kamen stuttered for a second before he took his hand back, "Whatever rumours you've heard about me that have nothing to do with my ability..." he said looking at his client before readjusting his mask "...are completely untrue. ". He then turned around and ran right out of the window before apparently disappearing just before he would have hit the ground.

The woman who was left behind watched the spectacle before her face of shock became twisted smile. "That might be so, but I know you took your fee." She said simply before looking at the Magicite in all its glory. "And it's only a small price to pay for what I will gain in the end. Thank you, Tuxedo Kamen, for bringing about a world revolution!" Galaxia smiled as she turned away to attend to other business.

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"...90, 91, 92, 93..." in a small house in northern Juuban, a girl adorned in a pink with pink hair and pink nightgown in a room decorated in pink was stroking her hair with a pink hairbrush. "...94, 95, 96..." she counted the number of strokes she had applied to her peach hair. "97...98...99...100." she let out a sigh as she finished the last stroke. "That should be it..." she sighed before looking at herself in the mirror, she was a normal girl (The pink highlights notwithstanding) like most girls who were at that age with a ever slimmer build than most girls and a slightly pale tone of skin.

The door opened as a maid came through, "Miss Tachikawa, it is time for bed. You have an important meeting with one of your father's most important business partners. Ms. Galaxia" she said, pressurising the girl to her bed with a sigh.

The girl sighed, "Yes, of course.", and made her way to her bed.

"We will be here the whole night if you need us, Miss Tachikawa"

"Yes, thank you"

And with that, the maid left, leaving the girl to her thoughts. "I wonder what sort of woman Ms. Galaxia is?" was the last thing to slip through her lightly toned lips before she lost consciousness and fell asleep.

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Tuxedo Kamen sighed, as he slipped through a door in one of the many apartment blocks that littered Tokyo. He took of his hat off, threw it with reckless abandon and watched it land without any problem on the couch of the apartment. He then looked around and finally found the bookcase he was looking for. On it was a picture of a girl which was draped not unlike a traditional personal memorial for one who had passed away. "Reichal..." He uttered as he took his Mask off, revealing his orange brown eyes which looked at the picture of the girl "...I'm sorry, it wasn't this mission either." He said shaking his head at Reichal before turning and unbuttoning his Tuxedo, leaving the slightly built frame with a black t-shirt on. "I've been just about everywhere these four years and still nothing." He sighed before flopping down on the couch, barely missing the top-hat.

"And there was something about that name..."

"...Magicite..."

He stood up and shook his head, he couldn't get it out of his head and it was starting to annoy him. He walked up to Reichal, "Hey, Reich. Is it normal to be thinking about gems of all things? I mean, I never had a need to think about them before, why now?" he asked the picture before turning around.

He shook his head, "Right, that does it; I'm going to go back and steal that Magicite gem, if only to try and get it off my mind. I'll put it back as soon as I'm done with It." the boy finally resolved before walking out and closing the door on his apartment as the clocks struck 9.

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Galaxia looked at her prize with a sense of achievement. "At last after all these years..." she sighed like someone who had just found their long-lost child. The light red of her eyes reflected off the Magicite. She was interrupted by a knock on her door; she looked at the gem before turning around. "Come in." she finally ordered and the door opened with a creek.

Standing at the door way was a girl in red armour, "Galaxia-Sama..." she started, bowing "...I have the preparations for the second gem ready."

Galaxia smiled her cruel smile again, "That is good news, well done, Seizer. Who is the Paige this time?"

A smile emulating Galixia's own crossed the face of Seizer as she held out a small diamond with a small yellow ball of light in the middle, "None other than the Chief of Juuban's police department. The little idiot's star-seed was easy pickings; his heart had been taken over by the thoughts of capturing your little lapdog so the star-seed offered little resistance..." she said in reference to Tuxedo Kamen before putting the item away and bowing once more. "Do you want me to see to the Silver Illusionary Crystal?"

"Yes, Seizer, Bring back that crystal, that one is integral to my plans."

"As you wish, Galaxia-sama..."

Seizer tuned around and arched her back slightly, causing two cream blue wings to erupt from her back before leaving. Galaxia could hear the "Whap" of the wings as they beat, en route to the target.

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"M-Mama..." the small house rang with the subconscious mumblings of the pink-haired girl as she turned this way and that in her sleep. She had been suffering this dream for the last week but it hadn't have haunted her as badly as it did tonight.

"Mama...Papa!" The girl was running down a road in a warm tropical day. She was only six and quite short for her age, her hair was long with chocolate brown highlights and hidden under a pink cowboy's hat. Her small body was draped with what could only be described as the illegitimate love child of a poncho and a dress. She was running towards the figures of her "Mama" and "Papa". Her papa looked like a regular Japanese man with the only real major thing about him being the black sunglasses he wore. "Mama" on the other hand was the very vision of frail beauty. A very loose yellow dress and golden-orange highlights that turned red as they draped down made her stand out from her ordinary husband.

A smile crossed the girl's face, "Mama!" she called as she ran as fast as her short legs allowed her. She saw them, coming closer and closer before she saw a star fall behind them. She gasped only for an explosion to rip across the area and send her flying.

The girl turned in her sleep.

In the dream, this part was always the haziest, a succession of images flashed around the girl who was still on her knees, the one that was most painful was the one of her Papa taking her in his arms and walking away. The images stopped and the girl was back to her own age and how she looked now. Tears were running down her eyes and she didn't know why. Suddenly a white light appeared in front of her, "It is almost time..." the white light said to her, it changing shape as it did so.

The girl felt two sharp pains, one on her right arm and the other on her feet, she looked down at her feet, they felt like they were on fire and yet only smoke, and not flames were flowing out of her feet. The pain travelled up her legs, felling as if they were being drawn and sewn together, causing her pyjama pants to rip to allow the drawing of the legs, finally it had passed her abdomen and reached her stomach. The girl could barely scream as she saw her legs disappearing into pink smoke right up to her waist. Tears were flowing from the girl's eyes as she swung her head in the search for some reprieve only to see the second cause of pain, a cut in the shape of dew drop on her right arm, indented as if someone had taken a wood craft knife and scraped a layer of skin away. The smoke finally reached and enveloped her waist and wrapped around it, becoming like the lip of a mermaid's tail.

The girl held onto her self, unaware of what was happening to her and deeply confused.

"Verdandi...do not be upset..."

The girl looked around, the light from before floated in front of her before its transformation was complete. A woman with a royal dress with her hair done in two silver dumplings stood in front of her looking at her with a hint of sadness in her look. The woman was about to say something else before she suddenly jerked, as if someone had hit her in the stomach and she fell to her knees. "I am sorry, Verdandi, your burden may be heavy but...!" the woman looked at Mimi before falling to the ground and disappearing in the same ball of light that she had appeared from.

"Wait..." the girl uttered, her vision growing hazy "...don't...go. Please, help me, Mama..." she asked with all her strength before fainting and felling the painful flames from before swallow her whole body.

The girl jerked awake and sat in her bed. She breathed heavily, "That dream again..." she whispered looking at her arm, it was still a bit painful, but that was from her mind thinking about the pain she had suffered in the dream. "...why do I have that dream? I-I am going to die?" she asked before tears began to flow in her eyes and she hugged herself, sniffing as she did so.

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The boy sighed. He was looking at Galixia's mansion like it was the first time he had been there. "Of all the stupid...she's got a security camera right at the gates. Who on earth puts security cameras right next to the gates?" he sighed angrily before picking up a stone, "I really hate these low-tech solutions but..." he said before throwing the stone and catching the attention of the camera. With no time to spare, the boy ran and jumped onto the gate and climbed as fast as he could.

The camera moved away figuring it was just some stupid kid who threw the object to set its sights on its Gate not noticing the boy, who was now directly under the camera, sighed and started to wipe the brow under his bandana. "That was too close..." he sighed as he looked at the mansion and noticed Galixia's shadow outside one of the second floor windows. He looked on, "Right, that's where she probably has the Magicite..." he resolved before running towards the house.

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Galaxia, on the other hand now dressed in what could only be described as Golden armour, had the gem in her hands, "At last, after all these years..." she said placing the gem down on a small alter with two essence sticks blowing out smoke of a purplish tone. "As long as Serenity is never free of her Gem, I can do as I please with this world. And that includes Yemeni Tachikawa. That double-crossing bastard will regret the day he saw me..." Galaxia uttered as she concerted on the task on hand.

All the while, the boy had gotten onto the window banister and made his way to the window to see what was going on. "Huh? What is she doing with the Magicite?" he asked to himself, trying not to get himself caught.

Galaxia had her eyes closed and started murmuring in a strange, alien tongue, causing the smoke to pour out quicker, almost as if they were water taps. She continued to mummer, her chanting becoming quicker and quicker, almost emulating the speed of the essence sticks until she came to a complete stop. The gem began to glow a strong pink aura before the aura shot out of the sky like a bullet to a target unknown.

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The girl woke up, this time from a dreamless slumber, wondering what was wrong this time. She shook her head, "I must be having nerves about my meeting with Galaxia-san..." she whispered, sitting up on the bed as she did so. Suddenly she got a premonition, "Something wrong..." she whispered, shaking her head, "...Something's very wrong-." She whispered only to suddenly feel a pain in her chest and clutched it with her hand over it. it felt tight, really tight. She didn't suffer from any attacks; her father had ended up being the fall guy on that account. The girl struggled, why was it so hard to breathe all of a sudden?

"What's wrong with me...?"

The girl was answered by a violent burst of light which blew off a gigantic hole in her roof. She barely had time nor the breath to scream before the light enveloped her. The pain that was in her chest was soon accompanied by the pains in her arm and feet that she had suffered in her dream.

The Girl couldn't scream, it was just painful trying to breathe.

She felt herself being pulled up by the light, "H-ell-p, me..." she squeaked, why was it so hard to scream? Had this been any other time, she would have been in tears and screaming but she couldn't scream now. The pain developed in almost exactly the same way as the dream, she felt her legs being drawn again and the smoke fusing them together, only now as that happened, the pyjama pants were being burnt away, revealing the pink, smoky tail that was now replacing her legs. She watched as the smoke cocoon of sorts as it spun around her legs (and pyjamas). The girl could only watch as the smoke then made its way past her crotch and begin enveloping her now exposed waist.

Finally a maid made her way into the room, the same one that had greeted the girl good night. The girl, in spite of her predicament, showed a smile of relief. The Maid then echoed the smile on her face before a loud crunch was heard, The girl could see what looked like a bracelet break off the maid's right wrist as the rest of the maid's body began to lose it's colour before turning an ash black and shattering like a glass figure and causing the girl to scream before the smoke completely enveloped her and the beam of light disappeared with the girl.

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The light returned to its point of origin and flowed back into the gem in the same smoke that had enveloped the girl just before and causing the Magicite jewel to change from a void white to a bright pink colour. A face that would of probably scared The Joker shitless crossed Galixia's face as she picked up the gem. "That man shall get everything that is coming to him for ever double crossing me, now your daughter is mine, I will begin to take you and your life apart, Yuemi Tachikawa " she stated as she ran her fingers though the gem, both her and the eavesdropping boy expecting something to happen.

Only, nothing happened.

Galaxia looked at the sight, and her head dropped. She chocked back a laugh, then laughed and then began to snigger some more, "So that bitch Serenity was able to get the last laugh, a seal on the Magicite. Well done, you cow, you've just gone and sealed-!" Galaxia muttered before in a fit of rage she swung open her window, (But not before the boy was able to hide out of her viewing range) and throw the Magicite out of the window, not caring to where it landed. She slammed the door with a furious anger and left the room, not caring for such trivial matters any more.

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Back on the banister, the boy was trying his damnedest to take in all this information. He admitted defeat, "OK, what the hell was that about!" he thought out loud as he saw the gem on the ground. "And who was that Serenity she mentioned? Her name seems, familiar..." he said looking at the Magicite as it layer there, rather haplessly.

He clicked his tongue and sighed, "Well, she's thrown the Magicite away in any instance so if there's any time for me to make of with it, it is now." With little hesitation, he jumped off the banister and landed hard, his knees taking the most of the impact. The Magicite just sat there and the boy felt kind of sorry for it. He walked up to it and picked it up, "Well, seeing as I stole you first, I suppose if your owner don't want you, I'll take you and put you back in the museum tomorrow." He sighed before starting on his way back.

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"...won't let...daughter...sort of-!"

"Yemeni...me! Still...mother!"

"As far...concerned...mother..."

Galaxia nodded awake from her nap, she shook her head before looking down and registering that she was in her throne room, it was something she had made just for her, where she was alone with her thoughts, even if all they did was torment her. She looked around, "Soon, Soon I'll be free of this nightmare, I will have my revenge on everyone who has hurt me, Serenity and that bastard, and then I can finally do what is needed to be done..." she whispered coldly.

The shrill beep of what sounded like a handheld phone rung across the room a couple of times. 'Ms. Galaxia...', a posh, Anglo-toned voice a butler called through the many intercom systems of the mansion "...there is a call for you from Seizer, there seems to have been some complication in the task at hand."

Galaxia tried her best to keep her temper but the irritation was noticeable in her voice, "Please hand the line to me." She ordered quickly, it wasn't the butler's fault if her minions weren't doing their job properly.

"As you wish, Ms. Galaxia"

A click later and the call had been transferred.

"Seizer, what's wrong?"

"Galaxia-sama, I regret to report that the Paige that I sent to get the Silver Illusionary Crystal was destroyed. When we tried to get close to the crystal, it went nuts and began to radiate bright light. The Paige wasn't able to sustain itself and it crumbled away."

The tone in Galixia's anger became apparent but she chose not to loose her temper.

"Seizer, just leave it, I'm not in the mood for this tonight."

"Galaxia-sama?"

"No, just come back"

"Understood"

Galaxia could only look on; this was supposed to be the beginning of her rise to power. She had waited for so long to extract her revenge and now-. She stood up from her throne and retreated for the night, hoping that tomorrow would prove more advantageous.

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"Why did Galaxia need this gem in the first place?" the boy asked himself, placing the gem on the table and looking at it intensively. Looking at the picture of Reichal, he laughed, "I don't suppose you've got a good reason?" he asked. The silence he received was deafening, "Nope, thought not." He siad and his head dropped "I think I've hit a new time low, I'm now asking dead people to help me."

With the same reckless abandon he had at the start of the night, he threw himself at the table's chair. He moaned, "For all the titles I have, you'd think I would be able to draw my attention away from some stupid gem. I mean, what sort of stupid name is "Magicite" for a gem anyway?" the boy ranted before he realised something. "And it's got a smudge on it! That wasn't there when I picked it up." He said shaking his head and untying his bandana.

He edged closer towards the Magicite to give it a wipe, the clean end of the bandana edging closer and closer towards the gem and finally nudged it with the cloth like item. The Magicite lit up, "Huh...what the? The boy looked at the item as it glowed and began to vibrate, causing the boy to stand up. "Oh, What the!" he screamed before the vibration stopped. The boy edged closer to the gem before it blew up in his face. Washing the whole apartment in pink smoke and causing the boy to go into a fit of coughing.

The smoke began to clear, revealing the figure of a sixteen year old.

"W-Who are you?"

To be continued…

Ending theme: Touch of reality (Evangelion R)

Why don't you say how you feel?

Do you think I'm not listening any more?

You know I'd do anything for you...

But do you feel the same way too?

A touch of reality, a heart full of misery

Time stands in my way, but I won't let it conquer me...

Next act

Hay! I'm Usagi Tsukino! The real star of NDC!

How you all doin?

I'm 15 in human terms, got blonde hair and my favoured colours are-

Are you going to ever introduce the next act?

O...Oh yea...

The next act: Rabbit.

The elegant song of the New Dreaming Century continues...