Chapter 10 - Nightmares of the Past
In a dark hallway, Sailor Pluto walked towards a large door where light seems to try to pass through. As she opens the door, she's transported back to her home planet - to the time she found out what she's destined to do.
"I...I'm a sailor soldier?" Pluto couldn't believe what her father just told her. Growing up she looked up to the different outer senshi but she didn't want to be her planet's senshi because she knows what she have to give up.
"Chronos is expecting you tomorrow. You better get some sleep." her father replied coldly. She never did have a great relationship with her father. He was usually away and ever since her mother died, he didn't want to look at her bacause she reminds him alot of her mother.
"B-but father, I don't want to be a sailor senshi. I don't want this." Pluto said. Her heart pounds in fear and tears fall from her eyes.
"What? Being a senshi is an honor and you will become one whether you like it or not!" her father exclaimed.
"Please, father...I don't want to be..." Pluto got cut off as her father slapped her. She began to cry, hard.
"You will be a senshi!" her father leaves her room in anger.
Pluto looked at herself crying in her room. She was just a child when she became the guardian of time and space. She became the lone warrior. She only exist in between time, a shadow. There were two reasons why she didn't want t become the guardian of time. One was the fact that she didn't want to be alone and the second was the fact that she was in love.
Prince Kaiyo of Charon, he was the love of her life. He was always there for her, when her mother died and everytime she argues with her father. He was her light...her life. Being a guardian would mean that their love cannot be.
"We can runaway." Princa Kaiyo suggested. It was the night before she had to leave.
"We can't runaway. I can't let you sacrifice your life for me." Pluto replied. Kaiyo sat next to her and touches her face.
"You are my life." Kaiyo said.
"You're just saying that. But I...I can't..." Pluto replied. Kaiyo looked deep into her eyes. She loved his eyes. It was so pure and full of passion and love.
"Listen, if you live to be 100...I'd want to live to be 100 minus 1." Kaiyo said.
"What? Why?" Pluto asked.
"So I won't live have to live a day without you." Kaiyo smiled.
"That is so cheesy, even for you." Pluto playfully smacks the prince's arm.
"We'll find a way...I'll find a way." Kaiyo said. Pluto just nodded and smiled at her lover. In her heart, she knew that there's no way they could be together but now's not the time to think about it. Now, she's just a princess in the arms of her prince.
Days passed...weeks, months, years...or so she thought. Time did not exist in the time dimension. She doesn't know what was going on nor does she know what has happened to Kaiyo. He never visited her...maybe he's forgotten about her. She was certain that the prince forgot about his promise until one day, there he was.
"Kaiyo...I'm so glad to see you." Pluto ran towards him and hugged him but he didn't hugged her back.
"What's wrong?" she asked. Kaiyo sat down and asked her to sit down too. He explained everything. He explained that he didn't know how to get to her. Times passed by and he met someone. He was going to get married.
Pluto stood up. She couldn't believe what she just heard. This can't be happening...not again. Kaiyo tried to comfort her but she pushed him away.
"Please...don't be mad. I still love you but..." Kaiyo started.
"Love me? You're just like the rest of them! Live me alone!" Pluto exclaimed.
"Please...let's not end it like this." Kaiyo pleaded.
"I didn't end this...you did!" Pluto cried and pushed him through the portal. Everything was a blur after that. She should have never pushed him through the portal. The whole place began to shake. A bright light shines into the room, it was Chronos.
"There was a disturbance. A body is lost." he said. Pluto, realizing what she had done, went down on her knees.
"No." was all she could say.
"That body was not supposed to pass. You were supposed to guide it. I shall let this pass but you won't. You will remember this for eternity. You will have no peace. This is your curse." Chronos said and disappeared.
Pluto looked at the portal. She killed the one person who loved her. The one person who she loved. She killed her prince. Pluto dropped her rod and continued to stare into the portal. All was lost.
oo00oo
Hotaru walked up and down the stairs, looking for a way to escape. She was inside a dark house, couldn't get out and couldn't transfrom.
"Hotaru?" a voice asked. Hotaru turned around and sees her mother.
"Mom." Hotaru replied as she throws herself to her mother.
"Oh, Hotaru...I was waiting for you." she said.
"Mom, why...how...?" questions that only her mother could answer.
"Now's not the time honey. Come, I want to show you something." her mother smiled and offered her hand. Hotaru took her mother's hand and they walked down the hall. They entered a room and got transported into a graveyard.
"Why are we here?" Hotaru asked.
"Because you wanted to be here." her mother replied.
"What?" Hotaru looked at her mother. She began to feel her grip tightening and it was hurting her. She tried to get loose from her mother's grip but she can't.
"You wanted to be here ever since you were born...that's why you killed me." her mother said. Her eyes were faintly glowing and was full of rage. Deep in Hotaru's heart, she knew that this was not her mother but in some way, she feels that she is her mother.
"I didn't kill you." Hotaru cried.
"Yes you did. You needed life so you took mine." her mother replied. "Now, it's my turn."
She pushed Hotaru into a coffin and closed it. She began nailing it shut. Hotaru screamed for help and pounded on the coffin. Her mother pushed the coffin and it fell into a grave. She began to cover it.
"No! Don't! Please, let me out! Please! Somebody, help me! I don't want to die!" Hotaru cried. But no one could here her. No one was there. She was all alone.
oo00oo
Michiru wakes up and found herself on her bed. She gets up and looked around. She remembered this room. She remembered the time when she was in this room. It was before she she knew that she was destined to be a sailor soldier. This was years ago, before everything that had happened. Before Haruka came into her life.
"Michiru? Are you awake?" a guy asked as he entered the room.
"B...Brian?" Michiru asked.
"You're expecting the easter bunny." he smiled. Michiru's heart began beat faster. Brian Landon, her once american boyfriend she met at an art show.
"This can't be. Why am I here?" Michiru thought. Brian sat next to her and caressed her face. He leaned over for a kiss but Michiru turned her head.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"I...I don't know. I don't feel right about this." Michiru replied.
"What do you mean? Last night you said that this was perfect." Brian said. Michiru looked at her former lover and memories of their life together flashed before her eyes. Those feelings she thought were gone came rushing back again.
"It was perfect." Michiru smiled. Brian smooths her arm and leaned again. This time, Michiru didn't look away. As their kiss grew passionate, they slowly took each other's clothes off when the door opened. Michiru covered herself and looked at the intruder.
"Haruka." she gasped.
"M..Michiru." Haruka whispered. The expression in Haruka's face was enough for Michiru to bounce back from wherever she was. Michiru was speechless and as she tried to reach for Haruka, she was ignored.
The hurt and anger that was in her eyes made Michiru cry. "What have I done?" she thought. Haruka backed out of the room and left. Michiru looked at Brian but found that he was nowhere in sight. Then she remembered how Brian broke her heart. She walked in on him and another woman. Michiru realized what she had done...she broke Haruka's heart. Michiru sank to the floor and curled into a ball.
oo00oo
Haruka ran as fast as she could. What she just saw couldn't be true...it just couldn't be. Flashes of Michiru and that other guy went through her mind. The rage she felt engulfed her whole body. "How could she do this to me? I would die for her." she thought.
Then, a familiar music filled the hallway. It was very soothing. Haruka followed the music into a room. It was her old room, when she was 6 years old. She enters the room and lies on her old bed. A man entered the room and closed the music box.
"Haruka, it's time to go to school." the man said. Haruka, now her 6 year old self, looked at the man. It was her father.
"But Dad, the children in school are not nice to me. They call me names and tease me. I don't wanna go." she pouted. Her father gave her a loving smile and placed her on his lap.
"Haruka...there will always be bullies. No matter where you go or what you do in life, you'll find people who will bring you down. The important part is that you won't let them get to you. Ignore them." her father replied.
"Now, wipe those tears and keep your chin up." her father smiled.
"Thank you, Dad." Haruka hugged her dad and went on her way to school.
While walking down the street, Haruka sees a group of her classmates near the end of the block. She took a deep breath and remembered what her father told her. "Keep your chin up...Ignore them." she reminded herself.
"Hey, it's Tenoh!" a boy exclaimed as Haruka passed by.
"Hey Haruka! Kissed any girls lately?" the other boy teased. It's true that she gets teased alot about maybe being a boy since her hair was always short and she never wore a dress unless her father tells her to and he only did that twice.
Haruka kept walking away until a hard object hit her in the back. She turned around and frowned at the group of boys that are now heading her way. They began to surround her and taunt her, throwing things at her.
"Stop it!" Haruka exclaimed. But they didn't. They teased her and pushed her around. Haruka didn't know what happened next. She felt anger and hatred surround her body. As one boy was about to hit her again, with all her might, Haruka slugged him so hard that the boy fell down. His nose was bleeding and he was crying.
Haruka looked around, she was back to her old self. The group of boys looked at her, they were scared.
"What did we do to you, lady?" one boy asked.
"You didn't have to hit him like that!" the other boy exclaimed.
Haruka looked confused. She didn't mean to hit the boy that hard. She looked at her hands and it was covered with blood. It became dark. Images of the people she have hurt went through her mind. She didn't mean to hurt those people, she was just protecting herself.
"I did it...I hit him...I.." Haruka trailed of as she stood in the middle of a dark room, staring into space.
oo00oo
In the throne room, the dark princess smiled. She was slowly destroying the scouts. She knows that if they realize their fears and relive the demons of their past, that they will eventually end their life just to end their suffering, their pain.
"Weak people...All of them are weak. They don't even know what pain is." the dark princess said.
She gets up and turns to a body lying on the floor, it was Prince Endymion. He was unconscious and bleeding from the stab wound she gave him earlier. The ribbon that Sailor Mars wrapped around the wound is now soaked in blood.
"They don't know what pain is...but you will." the dark princess continued as she sets her evil eyes on him.