Disclaimer standards apply I only own Kayla, anything from Sailor moon or Yu-Gi-Oh are not mine, but that of their creators. I'm only using them for a plot of my on creation. I am in no way making any money off of this.
A/n: sorry for the long wait in-between updates, but life, and lack of inspiration for this story caused me to place the story on the back burner.
Chapter 2
Sand, as far as the eye could see, covered the earth like a thick blanket. Above, the sun burned brightly in a cloudless sky beating down mercerclly on the earth below. Dust shot up in thick clouds as six figures landed in a tangle of body parts in the hot unforgiving sand. All but one waking almost instantly.
During the fall she had bounced like a limp rag doll across the san doons becoming lost in them. Usagi had been the first to stand severaying her surroundings. She noticed her four friends all around her, but her twin sister could not be found. "Onei-chan!" she cried out a look of panic and fear written across her pale features. "Kayla-onei-chan!" she cried.
Her shouting awoke the others around her, and seeing the distress on the girl quickly noticed why. Her sister had gone missing, the heat was unbearable, even for Rei, senshi of fire, and they quickly discovered they could see nothing but sand for miles around. "Look!" Rei called pointing to a mop of brown hair sticking up from a nearby sand doon.
Without giving it a second thought Usagi sprinted as fast as her legs would allow her until she reached the hair. Brushing it away she discovered her sister's body half berried in the thick blanket of dust. "Kayla-onei-chan are you ok? Onegai… speak to me onei-chan…" Usagi begun to sob when her sister didn't respond to her shouting.
Ami came over to see what had caused the young moon bunny to start sobbing. She gasped when she saw Kayla, but didn't let Usagi see her distress. She couldn't have them both freaking. "We need to find a river, she is over heated." Ami announced as she checked over the girl. With Usagi's help, she pealed off enough of Kayla's clothing to help cool her, but not enough to make her look too slutty.
Minako's gaze hovered over their surroundings for a moment before she spoke, "I think I have an idea of where we are." She announced confidently. "…but, you're not going to like this…" she finished.
"Where are we!" Usagi shouted not in the mood for her friend's games.
Her gaze moved over each of her friend's faces before locking on Usagi's. "Egypt…" she stated although her tone suggested there was more to it then that.
"What? How…. Can that… be…?" Usagi began her mind racing.
"Well, if I'm right, which I think I am, the Nile river should be just up ahead, we can use this to cool Kayla-chan down and hopefully bring her around. If we fallow the river, it should take us to the capital city." She commented waiting for a reply from someone other then a slightly hysterical Usagi.
"sounds good, I'll help you carry Kayla-chan." Makoto offered as Usagi and Rei helped the taller woman place the slumbering girl on her back. They walked for what seemed like hours until the sound of the flowing river reached their ears.
Placing her down near its bank, the girls used parts of extra clothing to create cool compresses and help to cool their friend down, they could only pray that this would work enough to help her to wake. Within a matter of minutes after most of the sweat had been washed off, and her skin had cooled down, Kayla began to come around. Usagi seemed a little more then just a little happy to see her sister awake.
"Loosen your grip onei-chan…" Kayla groaned, "I can't breathe…" Kayla chocked out the moment she regained feeling in her limbs.
Gomen ne Kayla-onei-chan…. I thought I was going to lose you…" Usagi sobbed softly.
"I'm going to be ok…. So anyone want to clue me in as to what is going on?" Kayla asked sitting up. She could hear a river to her right, and the soft breathing of her sister and friends around her. The sand under her made her question where she was though.
"From what I can tell, we are in Egypt, but I'm not sure how far from the capital city we are. I know though the river to your right is the Nile and if we fallow it, it will take us to the palace steps." Minako provided the information Kayla wanted to know. "but, I don't know how we came to be here…" she finished before Kayla could ask the second half of her question.
"Somehow, I think we are needed her, we were brought here for a reason." Kayla started suddenly. "while I was out, I had a dream, in it, I saw us, but…. We looked different." She begun to explain.
"You mean, like at one point and time we could have lived in another time…. Before we were reborn in the 20th century. " Rei cut in being the only one to seem to know where Kayla wanted to go with her explanation.
"Hai…" Kayla confirmed as the dream replayed in her mind. "they say, that the things we like to do, or strive to become are only a reflection of what we could have been in a past life." She reasoned.
"so what you are saying, is we could have gone back in time?" Usagi questioned a little skeptically.
Again Kayla nodded. "I suggest, since its colder at night, we should try and find the city shortly after nightfall…" Minako commented to which everyone agreed.
"We can take turns watching each other while we sleep." Rei added.
"Judging by the point of the sun, we only have a few hours to sleep before nightfall." Ami pointed out. "I doubt that we would be in any danger, considering we have nothing of value on us."
Everyone nodded agreeing to sleep lightly, letting the night air wake them. Knowing Kayla's bum leg, she would be the first to wake up should anything happen, and they could quickly get moving. Using what little they had, they constructed one huge make-shift bed in the sand sleeping on the bank of the river.
Hours quickly past, and soon enough a cold wind blew through the area causing the girls to awake. Within a matter of minutes, they cleaned up their make-shift camp site and helped to get Kayla onto Makoto's back. Using the winds and stars to guide them, they fallowed the river for several miles. Just when Usagi thought she would pass out from all the walking, firelight could ve faintly seen off into the not so far distance. With an empty stomach, Usagi sprinted to the source of the light praying against anything the market would be open and she could find something to trade for food.
"Usagi-chan wait!" six boices called after, but with little luck. The young moon bunny had already vanished running faster then anyone had thought possible. She managed to make it into the city limits well before anyone else sighing in frustration for her bold move, which now that she had thought about it, shouldn't have been made. She sat down leaning her back against a structure to catch her breath while she waited for the rest of her friends to catch up to her. She had hardly noticed where she had run to, but now that she had stopped she looked around in shocked amazement. :Onei-chan had been right…: she let herself think.
The structures around her looked nothing like she would have thought them to be. Instead of modern-day lights torches sat outside giving the city the little light it had. Candles flickered in glassless windows, and the structure she had been leaning on felt like it may have been made from a combination of stone, and clay-like brick. Small children ran past, and Usagi crouched down as low as possible so not to attract to much unwanted attention to herself. She probly had done that already when she came flying in like a bat out of hell.
Usagi found she didn't have to wait too long when she spotted her friends approaching. She frantically waved her hands in the air careful not to make a sound praying her friends would quickly catch on. Sure enough they did and quickly, and as soundlessly as possible joined her against the structure she had hidden against. "So what do we do now oh wise leader…" Usagi whispered a bit harshly, her stomach already providing its suggestion.
Minako stuck her head out, except for an occasional passer by, the town seemed to be shutting down for the night. In homes, candles flickered out, and some of the torches had been put out. It took Minako all she had not to yelp when she got douced with water used to put out the torch above her head. "I suggest we find a place to stay for the night, we can't very well spend it out on the street."
The former senshi shrunk back against the wall, pressing their bodies against it as much as humanly possible. Bright light flashed before their eyes as men on horseback rode past them. "Stop…!" a male voice bellowed from the middle of the croud. Rei rose her head up, her eyes looking into dark blue ones. She fell to her knees, motioning her friends to do the same. "What… but-" Usagi began to complain but a quick slap over her mouth shut her up. She was about to protest, but that was until she saw what Rei had been looking at.
"You all may raise…" the speaker spoke again but this time his words were not in the form of shouting.
Rei had been the first to do so. Her red tinted hair fell in a mass of nots and what not down her back, her eyes looking like they hadn't slept in days. Most of her body had been covered so much so no one could tell just by looking what color her clothes even were.
Makoto had gone next, she held her head high, her hair falling out of its pony tail a long time ago. She too was caked in sand, but not quite to the degree of Rei. She kept her gaze low, not allowing anyone to see how much sleep she also lacked.
Minako and Usagi had also stood, but they didn't look half as bad as the others. They too had sand in their hair, and their hair could use a good washing. Usagi's hair had long since fallen out of its twin pony tales and hung in a mass of knots, and strings on her shoulders. She leaned heavily on the structure behind her, still not completely recovered from her little sprint the few miles into town. Minako gave her friend a concern look, but Usagi just gave a half smile of reassurance.
"Who are all of you?" the male asked not speaking in Japanese, but rather a lango that they didn't quite understand.
Ami pondered this a moment, searching her memory for langues, trying to deceifire it before she came up with a reply, "Hello kind sir, My name is Ami, and behind me are my friends. Kino, Makoto, Hino, Rei, Tsukino, Kayla, Tsukino, Usagi and Aino, Minako. We hail from Japan, who may you be… and where are we pray tell?" she replied introducing each in turn.
"Why you are in the city of Cairo, what brings you so far from home?" the man ask, not bothering to give his name. He had no idea they were from a different time, so he wasn't as well known.
"Ah, I see…" Rei cut in picking up on the difference. She had also taken it upon herself to study forgen lingoes, and while she wasn't as good at it as Ami, she could speak well enough to hold her own.
"Well no matter," he commented. "Take them to the palace, get them cleaned up, and be sure they have enough food and drink…" the man ordered.
"But Priest Seto…." A man begun to protest.
"Enough I will hear none of this!" the man now known as Prist Seto bellowed. "That is an order, and I will hear no less…!" he barked.
Rei seemed to consider this turn of events as realization dawned on her. "No….way…" she whispered drawing the attention of Usagi.
"What is wrong Rei-chan?" she asked her friend while they propped Kayla onto Makoto's back. The horsemen offered to give Kayla a ride, but Kayla would hear none of it. If she was going to hold onto anyone, it would be someone she new. So, when they learned that an extra horse was avaible, Makoto and Kayla offered to take that one, sparing any more trouble then necerarry.
"Its nothing, I'll explain in the morning…" Rei whispered back not wanting to draw any more attention to themselves in this moment. They already looked like hell, and were lucky they weren't suspected to be thieves or something of that nature.
The trip to the palace took much less time then the senshi had predicted, the break from their feet being well needed. Upon arrival, servants quickly took over getting them into baths and then fresh clothing. The senshi were then placed into rooms where they quickly fell into sleep. Unseen by anyone, six symbols flashed on six foreheads while the six girls slept.
By the next morning, the hot bright rays woke the girls, but now something felt different. They couldn't place why, but somehow they had the feeling they had been moved in the middle of the night, Kayla, being the only one to recive this feeling.
Rei had been the first to awake. She had gotten a feeling something changed within her, and that of her friends. Normally she would have taken such a change seriously, but given what happened the pervious day, she just figured her over worked mind had something to do with it, therefore letting the matter go. Slipping out of bed, she padded over to an open window basking in the warmth of the hot sun against her skin. She gazed out looking at the sun's position and wondered why the heat didn't bother her so.
"Morning lady Rei…" a voice floated into her thoughts and she turned to face the speaker.
"morning…." Came her smooth reply. She shook her head a moment to clear it, but thought nothing more of it.
"Are you alright?" the woman questioned not liking the reply.
"I'm fine really, think nothing of it…" Rei responded forcing her voice to be more convincing then how she currently felt.
"Very well." The servant woman replied placing folded clothing on the bed. "Priest Seto is awaiting you my lady… here is your clothing, " the woman continued taking Rei's second reply as a sign that she was in fact fine.
"you may go now.. I'll join him within a few moments." Rei ordered as the servant woman did as she had requested.
:What could he want with me? And, How are the others doing?" she allowed herself to think departing from her chamber. Suddenly as she entered the hall, she knew exactly where to go, and what she had to go see Seto about, the one thing she couldn't seem to understand was… why…