Sailor Sol's Tale: Part 2

By: QueenofNemisol

Konnichi wa, minna-san. I am back with the second installment of Sailor Sol. I hope that you enjoy this story, as some of you have some of my other stories. On to the story.

As I stood there, looking at him, after having kissed him, I began to feel a tug, one that, at first I could not tell where it led to. Though, as soon as I discovered where it led to, I began to swear in one language after another, some of them dead, others, not, till finally I slipped into English.

"I will not go back! I will not be bound to that thing, as it rots, unable to leave it! After all of that, I have not earned such a thing! Why, thou who art the parents of all the gods, art thou doing this to me? Have I not suffered enough? Have I not earned the right to rest, after so many millennia of service? Please, I beg of thee, let me rest!"

Then in a voice that only I, as a spirit could hear, "You do not return to your vacated body, to be bound to it as it rots. And yes, you have not earned such a fate. We do not do this to harm thee. Yes, you have suffered enough, and earned the right to rest. But, it is not for you to rest, for thou art now needed to fight. Also, let us ask of you this: Do you wish to leave your soul-mate, now that you know his face, who he is? Knowing that you have a chance to be with him, willst thou toss that away?"

"Nay, I do not, in response to both questions. It is just I am so very weary of all this. That, and still I grieve for my people. Still I curse myself for the naïveté that made me deal with that misbegotten devilspawn. If he (meaning W'heiss) knew of my past, would he still want to be with me?"

"Indeed he would, for his own past is as checkered as your own."

Then, "Thou needst now to decide. Do you return? Or do you stay as you now are?"

I stood there for a moment, trying to decide, when I realized that there was no choice to make. "I will return. I will join the fight. I will stand with him, and with him by my side, ally myself to Serenity, Endymion, and their Senshi. That is, if they will have us to fight with them."

"Believe us, they will. You see, Serenity will accept anyone, so long as they fight on the side of the Light."

"Even someone from a long-forgotten kingdom? One where the name is remembered by only a select few?"

"Even someone like that. When you return to A-74, your cousin Pluto will have told them, not only who you are, but also, what you once did."

"Oh great! Just what I did not need. Them knowing that I am the mother of the one that destroyed the Silver Millennium. Knowing that, there's no way in Hades Twelve Hells they'll accept me!"

"Yes, they will. For you see, Pluto will have also told them why you did what you did what you did. Now return."

Not only did I, where I was, on my level of existence hear the following; but W'heiss, on his, heard them as well.

Thought these words were spoken,

'My life I give,

That worlds might live.'

It is given, in gratitude, this token,

A life for a life.

As these were being spoken, a swirling cloud of black and red had surrounded my body, shocking him as it did so. And, just as suddenly as it had appeared, it disappeared, leaving me lying there, alive and breathing.

"Nani?!!!?"

"That's a fine way to greet me," I told him as I sat up. "I mean, I could have stayed as a ghost, instead of returning to stand by your side and to rejoin the fight that is ever being fought."

"Gomen nasai, I did not mean to offend you. That was my shock at seeing you alive, when mere seconds beforehand, you had been totally dead."

"True, that would be shocking to anyone," here I paused, unsure, despite the reassurances of Mother Flame and Father Universe, of how he would receive m e, "I need to ask of you something."

Placing one of his hands on my left shoulder, he told me, "Ask of me what you will, ashke."

With a small smile upon my face at his endearment, "I ask of you this: Will you stand by my side, and fight with me as one half of the Sol Warriors? Will you be my partner, not only in our civilian lives, but also in our fighting lives as well?"

"You did not need to ask. Long have I dreamed of you. Long have I wondered at the name belonging to the face within my dreams. Of course I will stand by you, and fight with you, in all things, and all aspects of life. We are bound, ashke, by the silver cord. And now that we are together, nothing, not even death, can ever separate us. We are bound for all eternity. Let us now join these allies of yours, shall we?"

"We shall indeed."

"How do we get to A-74?"

"I can use this brooch of mine. You see, it allows me to open a portal 'tween the worlds of A-73 and A-74." After I said that, using my brooch, I opened up a portal back to A-74. Turning back around to W'heiss, I spoke, "It would be best if I went through first, ashke."

"I understand. I can only assume, due to the fact that we will be stepping out of a Negaportal, that they would attack first and ask questions second. That is, of course, if they recognize at least one of those stepping through as friendly, or at least neutral."

"You assume correctly, ashke." After saying that, I stepped through. Upon looking around, I was greeted by the sight of 11 battle-ready Senshi, and one battle-ready Tuxedo Kamen.

One of them, Pluto, started to step forward to greet me, when W'heiss stepped out behind me. They watched as the portal closed after his arrival and he stepped over to stand by my left side.

"Cousin, who is that?" Pluto asked me.

But before I could answer, I was surrounded by a globe of yellow-threaded light, as was W'heiss. As they watched, we were surrounded thusly for some few moments. When the light disappeared, they saw that W'heiss now bore, in an armguard, a crystal that very similar to the Stone in one of mine; and upon his head was a crown that was almost identical to the one upon mine.

"This, dear cousin is he who was meant for me from the beginning of time. This is he who will wield the StarCrystal and stand by my side as the King of Sol. This is he who is my soul-mate, he who is bound to me by the silver cord. This is W'heiss, and he is an Order Investigator. I ask of you this: Will you accept us as allies? Let us fight by your side?"

They all turned to look at Pluto, and Moon asked her, "Do you know who she is? And if so, what did she do?"

"Yes, I do know who she is. She is Aryana, Queen of Sol, and Daughter of Apollo. Two thousand years ago, in the hope that she could prevent him from invading and destroying her people and kingdom, married Garnyte, King of the Negaverse. She spoke true when she named Marius granddaughter," And upon seeing the looks on the other's faces, "I see that you have put 22 together and come up with the correct answer. She is indeed the mother of Beryl. I think what she really wants to know is this: Can you accept her, knowing about her past, and have her, and with her, him as well, to fight by your side?"

"Yes, I believe we can," turning to us, "You did what you thought would be best for you people. It is not your fault that it did not work as you hoped it would. Welcome, Aryana and W'heiss. Question though. What will you call yourselves when you fight?"

Instead of telling them in words (right away, that is), I dropped back down to my civilian self. After I had done so, we looked at each other and nodded. we turned towards each other, crossed our arms, clasped our hands together, and said, "SOL WARRIOR POWER", were surrounded by a globe of near blinding yellow-threaded gold light, that when dissipated, revealed us to be in near identical outfits. Where mine was gold with yellow trim and highlights, his was yellow with gold trim and highlights. "From the center of the Solar System, the Star of Light, Sol, the Warriors of the Day, the Sol Warriors are here." We then turned to face once more, Moon and her Senshi, Tuxedo Kamen, and said, "In this way will we fight and, this is what we will call ourselves." As easily as we had transformed, we dropped our transformation.

We stood there once more in what was our royal forms, facing those that were now our allies. Then with a grin upon my face, I asked them, "Where and when do we meet?"

Moon looked at all of the others, a question in her eyes, and they nodded. She turned back to us and told us to meet them in three days at the Hikawa Jinja. We told them that we would do so. Seconds later we, all of us, dispersed back to our places of residence (W'heiss with me).

When we got there, he looked around and turned to me, said, with an arched eyebrow, "Nice place you have here. But, isn't it a bit big for just you, now us?"

"True, it is, but, it will not be that way for long."

"Why is that?"

"The one whose house this once was is a bout be resurrected, along with his fellows. And before you ask, they will not object to our stay, not to our continuing to do so. Also, again before you ask, they are: Jaedite, Nephrite, Kunzite, and Zoycite."

"Where will this happen? And when?"

"Here in this house. As to when, within the next few hours."

"Very well. Just let me know when it is happening, so that, along with you, I can be there to greet them."

"Certainly, I—" I was interrupted by a voice that I had not heard since I was freed from my sojourn in limbo.

"My niece, it is time. You have faced your greatest fear, and that which we spoke of will now come to pass. At the time when four are resurrected, so too shall they be. Also, greetings, mate of my niece."

For the first time since my resurrection, he saw me break down and cry. Sensing that what I needed most was someone to hold me, he did just that. Finally, after I calmed down, he asked me what had caused my reaction, and who had been speaking to me.

And this is what I told him, "That was the voice of my Uncle Chronos. As to what he spoke of, the me you see before you is not a whole me."

"What do you mean you're not a whole you?"

"I am not whole in spirit. You see, when Garnyte attacked, two of the first people he killed were Danol and Mikhail, they who complete me in spirit."

"How did they do so?"

"We were born together, minutes apart, three parts of a whole, triplets. It was Danol, then me, then Mikhail. Danol was born with the mark of the Dragon; Mikhail with the mark of the Phoenix. Together, as the Dragon Warrior, Sailor Sol, and the Phoenix Warrior, we were a force to be reckoned with. When he attacked, he knew that by killing them, he would deliver me such a blow as would possibly incapacitate me. It nearly did. During the time that I hung in limbo, there after the fall of Sol, I keenly felt their loss."

"So, when those four are resurrected, so too shall they?"

"Hai, they will."

"Well, I only have one question then."

"Nani?"

"Will they accept me?"

Just then, I felt a stir in the metaphysical fabric of the world, and knew that the time had come. "Come with me, and find out for yourself."

He followed me into a room that looked like it belonged in a Cathedral, and watched as six ovals of light (in myriad colors) appeared on the floor of it. Watched, as when they disappeared, revealed the six people that we had spoken of.

As they were getting over their disorientation, I turned to W'heiss, and said, "I should take on my royal form, as they will be more likely to recognize me, than in my civilian one. Two of them, anyhow. The other ones, who knows." After having said that, I suited words to actions, and did so.

When they were aware of their surroundings, two of them took one look at me and immediately went down on one knee to me. I just looked at them for one moment, then told them, "Rise, Princes of Sol. Never did I play the formal game, unless I had not choice."

At those words, the heads of my brothers whipped up to stare at me. Gasping, Danol spoke, hesitation clear in his voice, as he asked, "Aryana, is that you?"

"Hai, atashi wa Aryana," I told them. Then, turning to W'heiss, I told him, "Allow me to present my brothers-by-birth: Danol, Prince of Sol, Dragon Warrior, Son of Apollo; and Mikhail, Prince of Sol, Phoenix Warrior, Son of Apollo."

Then to my brothers, "My brothers, this is W'heiss, King of Sol, one half of the Sol Warriors, and wielder of the StarCrystal. He is my soul-mate. Can you and will you accept him?"

They looked at him for a long moment, then looked at each other, nodded, then turned back to me, and told me, "Hai, we can, and we will."

As we stood there, talking to each other, four people were just standing there listening to us. Finally, though, one of them decided to speak up.

"May we inquire as to who you are? Due to the fact that you were speaking in something other than Japanese, we could not understand what you were saying."

I just grinned, turned to my brothers and my mate, and spoke, "W'heiss, Danol, Mikhail, my I introduce to you the Generals Kunzite, Zoycite, Nephrite, and Jeadite, to His Royal Highness, the Prince of Earth, Endymion, a.k.a. Tuxedo Kamen, a.k.a. Chiba Mamoru."

Danol then stepped forward, and said, "Boku wa Danol, Prince of Sol, Dragon Warrior, and Son of Apollo."

Then Mikhail stepped forward, "Boku wa Mikhail, Prince of Sol, Phoenix Warrior, and Son of Apollo."

Then it was W'heiss's turn, "Boku wa W'heiss, King of Sol, Wielder of the StarCrystal, Soul-mate of Aryana, Son-in-law of Apollo, and one half of the Sol Warriors."

Then, at last, it was my turn, "Atashi wa Aryana, Queen of Sol, Wielder of the StarStone, Soul-mate of W'heiss, Daughter of Apollo, and one half of the Sol Warriors," then, continuing on together, "we are also allies to the Sailor Senshi."

They relaxed at those words, the slight tension that had been in them draining out of them.

"So they are well?"

"Hai."

"Good."

"What of Prince Endymion? Is he still with them?"

"Hai, to both. Perhaps you remember encountering one Tuxedo Kamen during your encounters with the Senshi?"

"Hai," this came from all four of the Generals, "Matte ne!!! Tuxedo Kamen was him, our Prince?"

"Hai, he was and is. Just as the Senshi have their civilian and warrior forms, so too does he, and his is that one."

Then Nephrite thought of ask, "Why are you here?"

"When my kingdom fell, I did so as well, at least that was what I thought at the time. In all actuality, I ended up hanging in limbo. When my Uncle Chronos sent me out to rejoin the world, he not only gave me the knowledge of languages, laws, customs, and traditions that I would need to know, he also sent me to live here, in this house. He felt, and I agreed with him, that you would not mind, Sir Nephrite."

"You twain were correct, I don't mind. By the way, you and you king may continue to stay here as well as my fellow Generals."

Mentally, to W'heiss, Told you that there would be no objections to our stay here, nor to our continuing to do so.

So you did, so you did. hen, aloud so that everyone could hear, "What do we do?"

I spoke up, saying, "We continue to fight, until the time of the freezing. At that time, we will go into a sort of stasis, in which state we will stay, 'till it is time for Serenity to awaken everyone on earth. But before then, there is something that you Generals should know."

"Nan desu ka?"

"Were it not for me, Beryl would never have lived."

"Why is that?"

"A little over 2,000yrs ago, soon after I had taken the throne of Sol, in an effort to ascertain the continued survival of my people, and to prevent Garnyte (the then King of the Negaverse) from trying to invade, married him. Shortly after our marriage, I became pregnant with our first and only child, a daughter. Due to my gift of foresight, I knew that her she would be raised by her father, and not by me.

"About six months after her birth, Garnyte invaded and tried to destroy it, and all that lived within, including me. He nearly succeeded in both goals. If my kin had not transported me into limbo, he would have done so."

They looked at me for a long moment, then, looking at each other, and nodding, they looked back at me, and Kunzite made the statement that was on all their minds, "Beryl was your daughter, wasn't she?"

Knowing that they needed no reply, I made one anyhow, "Hai, she was."

They gave me nearly the same response that Kamen and the Senshi had. They accepted me, past deeds and all.