Author's Note
I don't OWN Sailor Moon…. Yet the story concept is mine…. Please don't take it without my consent…. PLEASE……….
Sorry, I had originally intended to put this with the rest of the story, but since what I say here will be redundant, I put it as a side-story! Hooray for me!
Sailor Mars: Hey! That's not fair! Get back here so I can beat the—I mean convince you gently to not to give this as a side-story! (ImperialGuardian starts to run away)
ImperialGuardian: Umm, how about no. (runs faster)
Sailor Mars: GET BACK HERE! (Chase with screams and fire included)
Else: ……. (off in the distance, ImperialGuardian is shouting for her mother) ……
Sailor Moon: I don't object, so on with the show! (group crash)
Sailor Chibi Moon: Wasn't there something important she had to tell everyone before Mars interrupted her?
Sailor Mercury: In this chapter the Japanese names are our princess names, those who are not Serena, of course.
Sailor Moon: Hooray!
Sailor Venus: So that would make me Minako, Lita Makoto, Michelle Michuru, Amy Ami, and Raye Rei, right?
Sailor Jupiter: But why only those girls?
Sailor Mercury: The others probably aren't relevant to the plot line.
Sailor Neptune: Either that or the author cannot remember the other names.
All: ……..NAH!
Sailor Chibi Moon: We're holding everything up! Let's go!
SOC: Silver Millennium
Chapter 1: The Beginning of the End
"Catarina?" she heard Princess Serenity ask. Looking up, her eyes were dry as she had trained herself to do, and Serenity's room was cleaned by the maids earlier, which she had found hard to avoid. Outside the room through the window, one could see Princess Rei and Princess Ami rehearsing something in the gardens. Princess Makoto was beyond that, reading a novel by the fountain.
They seemed so happy, so full of life. Catarina, although dressed in the same white summer gown and pigtails as the princess before her, looked drained and aged, although by all means they were at the same age, roughly translated. She envied them, and this sheltered life that they lived. She grew up so far away, in a place that was so cold, both figuratively and literally. She never wanted to leave, but she was homesick and confused all the same.
"Yes?" Catarina finally asked.
"We're going to visit Princess Minako now. She said she would help me out."
"Thank you so much."
The two walked down the hallway, both in that same gown and hairstyle, as they tried their hardest to walk in sync with one another. Amazingly, it was Catarina who was having a harder time following the bright princess she had only introduced herself to the other day.
"You would think that someone would ask who I am," Serenity said, giggling. "We look so much alike even I am confused at times!"
"The same for me as well," Catarina replied in her British accent with her flawless Japanese.
"And you said your professor taught you?"
"I hated him entirely, but yes, he did."
"That's astounding. I never knew other worlds were looking into our own."
"It's something like that Princess Serenity," Catarina admitted, looking up to the sky through the beautiful palace windows. They arrived at Princess Minako's room, and saw her smiling face drop at the sight of two Princess Serenitys.
"You said you had a friend Serenity, you never said she looked exactly like you!" Princess Minako said, talking to Catarina, who giggled slightly, and pointed to Princess Serenity. "Wow."
"This isn't a time to joke around! She needs serious love advice from you!"
"I noticed that," Princess Minako said. "So, you want to know which guy you should marry, right?"
"Yes," Catarina admitted, blushing.
"And you're a Sailor Scout?" she continued, as Catarina nodded. "Go with whoever your heart tells you is true. In most cases, if that can't do it, then whoever you met first would be the one. You know, it's normally your protector that you meet first."
Catarina thought back, but the memory was still hazy. She thanked Princess Minako, and followed Princess Serenity to her room again, to prepare her departure, yet something had gone wrong on the way back…
/Scene Change/
There was a battle. She could hardly see, but there was a fight going on, and the various princesses she had met through Princess Serenity were dying. Rei, Makoto, Minako, and Ami were all fighting a losing battle. She wanted to help, but instead she ran to find the queen.
"Serenity?" Queen Selene asked.
"No, I'm Catarina."
"Forgive me for the mistake. How are they doing?"
"They are failing miserably. I cannot help but feel—"
"Say not another word. You cannot involve yourself, correct?"
"Die!" a demon screamed, lunging at the queen, as it was frozen, and fell to the ground.
"Direct, battle-altering involvement. I was told it was forbidden."
"But it was someone you knew who brought this upon us."
"I almost wish it weren't true. I can't let your people die. You have taught me so much in such a short time," Catarina replied.
"They will not. I will make sure of this Princess Catarina. Head out to Earth, and there you will find a field of red roses. If they wilt, you must run home. I cannot have you die."
"Yes Your Majesty…"
/Scene Change/
As she arrived to the planet called Earth, she easily found the field. Yet waiting inside was Princess Michuru, in a fight with a very familiar demon. Catarina came to her aide, kicking the demon back from her.
"I have him. You get back to your post. You're needed there," Catarina said, as Michuru nodded and was gone. "Aspera, change out of that form. You look nothing like Terrance."
"So, Terrance's beloved is here," the demon cackled.
"So you did all this? Why?"
"Because," the demon continued, becoming Aspera and snapping her fingers as flames rose up. Her voice was drowned out in the roar of the flame, but Catarina could clearly see her laughing. She was laughing at her. She was going to die in these flames, and Aspera knew it. Catarina fumbled with her staff, as she aimed it to the sky.
"Please reach home my beacon. I will die otherwise."
A flash of light erupted, coinciding with her own flash that traveled across the universe. The woman behind her vanished, and the flames went out of control. She had to stop them, but she had wasted her power trying to get there and to send the distress beacon. She tried, and nothing came.
"I will not die by these flames of that wicked woman!" Catarina shouted. Annoyed, she tried one more time, putting her life energy into it, as ice flew from her body and extinguished the flames. She collapsed directly afterward. A pink bubble started to surround her, but it stopped, popping. She later awoke in the field of withered roses…