Sorry that it took so long. But you people REALLY have to start reviewing if you want chapters! After all, the next one is the last one. You guys better start reviewing!
When I re-read what I wrote here I realized that the Queen sounds a lot like Dawn from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. But it's definitely not the same. I own the Queen and all her powers as they are completely creations of my own and I came up with them LONG before I ever watched the 7th season of Buffy.
Al: Can you read it now?
Remenescent: My books please. Grr…
Disclaimer:
Mr. X: Ha! Got you now kiddo!
Me: You again! Where the hell did you come from!
Mr. X: Oh…I've been around. Saw you in your classroom, and did you know that you shut your cat out of your bedroom every night?
Me: …I have a stalker. Normally that would be a weird scary twisted sort of compliment, but with you it probably means you were just waiting for the best moment to kill me.
Mr. X: …No!
Me: Then what's with the giant axe you've got hidden behind your back?
Mr. X: It's just in case.
Me: Just in case what?
Mr. X: Just in case you don't come along quietly when I get to arrest you.
Me: Oh yeah? Well…I don't own Inuyasha. So there! Now you can't arrest me.
Mr. X: …you forgot Kagome.
Me: I don't own Kagome either. Happy?
Mr. X: …are you saying that you own Shippo?
Me: No, I don't own-HEY! Well, how's this for trickery, huh bucko? I don't own Inuyasha nor any other copy righted and/or patented products of Rumiko Takahashi and/or Sunset TV thingy. How's that!
Mr. X: It's not a TV thingy.
Me: OH FOR THE LOVE OF-HEY! GET BACK HERE! JUST WAIT TIL I GET MY HANDS ON YOU, YOU LITTLE ANNOYING…
Fade out.
When She Was Queen
#32 Chapter of Turns Of Time
By Pwalefriend
It was quiet again. Only this time the noises of the outside world didn't seem to penetrate the inside of the hut. Instead it seemed as if a thick fog had descended on the minds of everyone in the hut (Minus Sesshomaru, Rin and, of course, Jenny…because they already knew.) It was Shippo, as he is most certainly the sanest of the group, who broke the silence first.
"I think that I speak for everyone here when I say, huh!" Said Shippo.
"Well…it's kinda hard to explain…so I'm just going to sum it all up, you know. Sort of like Inigo to Westley?"
Jenny received blank looks, and blank looks only. Even Kirara managed a blank look.
"Oh come on!" She said, shocked. "Surely at least one of you has seen the Princess Bride!"
"Hello…Japanese here!" Kagome said, rolling her eyes. "Not to mention that none of the others have ever seen a movie in their lives!"
"Oh…I wouldn't know about that Kagome-chan…" Sango said, glaring pointedly at Miroku who coughed a little guiltily and shifted. Kagome's eyes narrowed in suspicion.
"Just what, prey tell, did you watch exactly Miroku?" Kagome asked.
"We're getting off topic about my earth-shattering confession…" Jenny muttered to Sesshomaru, who was staring at his younger brother thoughtfully.
"Well, I think at least Inuyasha heard you…except…I don't think that he-"
"What's the Guardian Queen?" Inuyasha asked suddenly.
"Inuyasha, you read my mind!" Miroku said happily. Sitting up a little straighter he paused to think about what he had just said, and then decided to add something. "Never do it again."
"…but wait…" Sango said haltingly, suddenly drawn back to what Jenny had just told them. "I thought that the Guardian Queen died…"
"I didn't." Jenny said. "But at the moment I am not the Queen. I gave up my throne the day that I was…killed…" She looked around her at the blank faces. She sighed. "I honestly don't know why I even bother! Okay…I'll just say it so that you people might be able to get the importance of what you just learned!" Jenny took a deep breath. "I am the most powerful being to ever exist, and technically I don't even exist. I am a little bit like Merlin, in which I am everywhere and yet I do not exist anywhere! Don't try to understand that because you probably won't be able to! I could blow up this entire universe with just a thought and be all the better for it! And if anyone who doesn't like me ever finds out that you know this you and every single person who has ever touched your life, be they dead or alive, will be horribly tortured and mutilated for all eternity and then some! Now do you get it!"
Silence answered Jenny's angry and rather violent outburst. Shippo was the first one to speak.
"Right." He said. "Not one word. We'll keep quiet. Our lips are sealed. Mum's the word. We won't let the cat out of the bag. Cone of silence. What's said in this hut stays in this hut. Your secret's safe with me. Guardian? What Guardian?"
"…What he said." Inuyasha said.
"…I feel faint." Jenny said. "You people just can't do drama to save your lives can you? I mean, for a group with as painful pasts as you all have, you sure don't show it."
"Well, I don't know…we've had more then our fair share of pain ourselves." Said Blake from the entryway to the hut. KK, Blake and Mario all stood there. Jenny looked up at them and when their eyes all met everyone felt the heavy strain in the room, and it completely doused the humorous fire that had been going.
"Yeah." Jenny said, still no sign of her normal joy in her eyes. "Where are the girls and H?" She asked.
"They all decided to go for a walk." Mario said. "Can we come in, I think that it might be better if we all explained this."
"Yeah." Jenny said, then she closed her eyes and leaned on the back of the hut. "Yeah." She repeated.
Mario turned to them and opened his mouth to speak, to explain what exactly everyone seemed so concerned about, but Jenny interrupted again.
"I remember the day that I learned, that I remembered who I was…so well, just so well…" Jenny's eyes were still closed as she began to tell them the story of what had happened when she had remembered that she was the Queen of the Guardians. In her minds eye she could see it and feel it, as though she was living it all over again.
Flashback
The Queen knelt in the clearing, her silver tears pierced her eyes softly like silk, but they wouldn't fall. They would never fall. She knelt there and the darkness pressed around her, also pressing down in her heart, and the people she protected leered at her from the darkness of her mind as she sang her apologies out into the night. Her ghosts were rushing around her like a whirlwind, and she began to understand what that man had been talking about. She wasn't the teenage girl that she had thought she was for so long. She had always longed to think that she was the Queen of her people, but she had only believed it. She had not known it. Now she did. And she was sad. She knew that she would never go home again. The excitement she had felt disappeared, and she knew that now all her daydreams would have to come out. She was singing her good byes, and her friends swam in front of her, they were running towards her, but she knew that they would never reach her. They would forgive and forget her. She knew that. And that was the way she wanted it. It made her sad, but she knew that she would always protect them, their children, their children's children, and all their future generations. She knew now, she understood now, what people meant when they said, be careful what you wish for. It was not a sad, false thing like her mother had always said. Her mother…Her mother had always pretended that she had endured a harsh life, and maybe she had, but it was nothing compared to what so many other people were going through to protect her…Why did the humans not understand that, why did they not understand the grief that they cause for their children, any child with an active imagination that was surrounded by people that claimed to understand them, but in all actuality were to wrapped up in their own problems to see what was happening had her pity. It wasn't going to be easy, but she would manage. It was all going to be okay. She was going to survive. She was going to live. She was going to protect them. She was going to save them. The ghosts that swirled around the Queen rose in the air, their cries rising in volume, till they became horrible screams. The Queen stood up and looked around her. The people that she used to know were slowly fading away. She walked through dark woods, in her way and in her mind. She came to the cliff, and she stared down. She raised her head and started singing again to the moon. She was singing a song from the world she had grown up in during her past life. She sang to remember, so that she would never forget, so that she would never be bitter, so that she could save them. She would not die. The ghosts that had followed her parted to make way for a living man. The man screamed her name, she turned around and her eyes widened in shock, but she kept singing. She threw up a magical barrier that seemed to weep in the moonlight. The man crashed against it. He beat upon it with his bare hands, causing his fists to become torn and bloody, it reminded the Queen of a book she had read so long ago it now seemed. She was now singing her song to the man. And as the final notes rung out she backed up and tumbled off the cliff, her hands closing on her heart. The man screamed in fury, loss and pain, but the ghosts cried out in joy, and they too vanished from his sight. The man fell through the barrier as it disappeared and a single piece of paper fell at his feet. He picked it up, and looked at the two words that were written upon it. I'm sorry. The man picked up the paper, and walked home, never forgetting, never forgiving. But never looking back.
End Flashback
Silence rang through the hut as everyone suddenly became fully aware of the severity of what they were being told.
"Who…" Sango started to say, even though it was a hard silence to break. "Who was the man?"
At her words tears came to Jenny's eyes and a growl began to echo low in Sesshomaru's chest. The three boy's looked sad, unbearably so.
"What?" Kagome asked.
"He was…no one." Jenny said, standing up. "No one."
"…Jenny!" Blake suddenly stood up. "Jenny! Calm down!"
His words confused every one. Every one except for Jenny, that is.
"NO! NO ONE! NO ONE! NO ONE NO ONE NO ONE! ABSOLUTELY NO ONE!" Jenny's hands were now covering her ears and with each cry she stomped her foot hard on the ground.
"Jenny!" Sesshomaru cried, leaping up himself, swiftly followed by everyone else. "What happened to her?" He asked of Blake in a low dangerous voice as he dragged Jenny to his chest. She lay there, still as a doornail and sobs escaped her every couple seconds. Blake's eyes, as he watched his old friend, were sad. He raised them to Sesshomaru's own accusing glare.
"Betrayal." He said in a soft voice. "Treachery. Did you know that she went insane shortly after you two were separated? We only got her under control a decade ago. We thought that she was better, but then right before she ran away here she tried to strangle us all in our sleep. Fortunately Lia woke up in time to stop her but…" He looked back at Jenny. "But lately she can't stop remembering how it was before she remembered her time on the throne." Silence reined as Blake began the tale.
"Most of what you've heard is true, the Queen was betrayed by her most trusted advisor. But she didn't die. In the knick of time she managed to secure a rebirth for herself and also split her will so that when she was reborn she wouldn't have her memories and she would still be able to keep all the worlds apart."
"So she chose her reincarnation?" Kagome asked. Mario shook his head and opened his mouth to explain.
"No. Reincarnation is different from re-birth, at least when it comes to Guardians. A Guardian can't have a reincarnation because we are our souls. A Guardian is a lot like a soul in humanoid form. We are also above the Gods…in a weird sort of way. But we don't usually get along with them very well."
"Anyway," Blake continued. "When Jenny died she made a slight mistake. Now whenever someone says her real name, when they're referring to her anyway, it sends out a little sonar wave in the dimensional barriers. The traitor, who H used to work for, can now find her whenever someone says her real name. Her human parents named her Jenny, but she always knew her real name. She also knew that no one should ever call her that. One time, when we were very little, she told me what it was. The next day the army was fighting with what they called "foreign terrorists right on our doorsteps. Neither of us said it for a long time after that. A while before she met Sesshomaru she created a nickname for her true name, and this one doesn't send of a signal. You've all heard it from time to time. It's Moga. But she was just used to Jenny, as was the rest of us, so she kept that."
"But…" It was Miroku who interrupted this time. "How did she remember? And why did she want to forget in the first place? And where do all of you come in?"
"Good questions..." Blake said, and then stopped. "I believe that Mario can answer them."
"We're not exactly sure how Jenny remembered." Mario said after a short while. "She's only ever told the story to Sesshomaru and Blake, and their not telling. All we know is that an old man on our side found her and he was powerful enough to break through her spell to release her memories. The problem was that he did it with his dying breath, so we never got to question him. As for where we come in…well, we were all nobles in the Queens court and when the Queen died we all followed her loyally. Well, except for Al, Lia and KK. They all were born as Guardians in the Disobedience; it's the rebel group still loyal to the Queen." At his words a look passed between KK and Sesshomaru. But the Inu-pack thought nothing of it. "When Jenny got all her memories back ours were returned to us as well. I'm also not entirely sure why Jenny wanted to lose her memories but I think that it's because-"
"I hated it." Jenny said aloud, finally returning to her senses and rejoining the conversation. "I hated it so much. I hated not being able to just be myself. I hated being watched all the time. I hated all the responsibility. Did you know that the Queen isn't aloud to have a King? If I ever get the throne back I'll truly take my place and so many rules are going to change!" She glared fiercely at them all, as if daring someone to tell her that she couldn't, but they all knew her too well and just averted their eyes.
"Yeah, well…so that's it. That's our big secret, or a major chunk of it anyway." Blake said, shrugging awkwardly.
"…huh?" Inuyasha said, speaking up for the first time. Everyone sighed.
"All right, where did we lose you Inuyasha?" Miroku asked wearily.
"Right around when Jenny said that she was the Guardian Queen."
Ah, Inuyasha…ever the simple minded hanyou. He's all buff, no brains.
Inu: HEY!
Me: Ye gods! Just when did you show up!
Inu: A while ago! And what's the big idea!
Me: Um…may I remind you that…I'VE GOT THE POWER! OH! I'VE GOT THE POWER! Pwale starts singing weird songs like that and dancing around the room.
Inu: Oh-Kay…backing away slowly and carefully now!
Well, I hope that you all enjoyed this chapter and I hope that you all had a lovely Thanksgiving. And, in honor of yesterday, I'm going to sing a little bit of a song that I heard yesterday and is apparently a Thanksgiving song.
"You can have anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant."
Me: …Do adults confuse you as much as they confuse me?
Kagome: OH yeah.