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AUTHOR: Kage Musha
EDITOR: XrazielX
TITLE: Eternal Guardian Sailor Moon
PART: 7
PARTTITLE: Repercussions
CATEGORY: Series
COMMENT: Taking place two years after Sailor Stars...the Hikawa Shrine is in chaos…and now a new warrior has appeared…what conflict will ensue? Note that the last scene of this story is based from Sailor Moon Millennials by the Judge. It is an excellent story.
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ETERNAL GUARDIAN SAILOR MOON
CHAPTER 7: Repercussions
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Kage Musha was not a morning person. The sun rise in Tokyo, Japan was usually a beautiful thing, and Kage would have thought so too, had it not interrupted his sleep. Plus with the added fact that his two story penthouse was at the very top of the building meant the rays of the sun could strike him first. Lucky him.
As those rays struck him, Kage growled, cursed, and then threw his blankets back over his body. However, before his body could entertain the thought of going back to sleep, the covers were pulled back off of him. His silver eyes opened to stare at the red ones of his white labrador, whom held the comforter in his mouth.
"Radiance, I don't have to teach today, Ashe is going to handle the classes on these days." He muttered. The dog simply stared at him and Kage scowled. "I own the friggin company why do I have to go to the office." The dog cocked its head to the side and heard an impressive growl from Kage who finally rolled out of bed. "Fine, but you better find your own meal today." The dog let go of the blankets and trailed his owner as he groggily made his way to the bathroom adjacent to his room.
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Setsuna Meiou was a curious person to behold waking up. Most people went through a period of drowsiness before being fully conscious. Setsuna, on the other hand, just opened her eyes and was awake the moment the first rays of sunlight fell across Tokyo.
Now a few hours later, she sat on the edge of her bed, dressed in a long flowing purple evening gown. Her crimson eyes were staring out towards the ocean, through the sliding glass door of her room. Those eyes of hers now seemed filled with confusion. She did not like this feeling at all.
"Balance," She muttered to no one in specific. "Why are you here?" She closed her eyes and concentrated towards the power of Pluto, and more specifically, the garnet orb. She felt the orb pulsate, from whatever subspace pocket it was hidden in, as she attempted to use it to access the Time Gate from where she currently was.
"What the…" To her surprise and displeasure, her power seemed to be blocked, by something from within the 4th Dimension. She concentrated harder on the gate, trying to push pass whatever was blocking her and frowned as she found no way around it. When her eyes opened, they were filled with a bit of confusion and anger.
She stood from her bed and walked over to the window. First Balance, now this. She thought to herself. He is influencing the flow of times in ways that make it impossible for me to predict the future without directly using the Time Gate. She paused in her thoughts as she glanced back to a night stand next to her bed, where her henshin stick and a cordless phone rested. Now, the Time Gate has been blocked to me by something. Something that I didn't even feel enter the 4th Dimension. But what am I going to do?
Before Setsuna could contemplate this, she heard a soft knock at her door. She turned smiling a little. "Come in, firefly.
"
From the door leading to her room, Hotaru slowly entered, dressed in a pair of purple pajamas. Setsuna couldn't help but study the young 14 year-old girl's features. After the battle with Galaxia and the process which caused them all to reborn again, Hotaru had begun to age rapidly once more. It took a year, but in the process her body had physically jumped from the age of 5 to the age of 13, before aging naturally again. Now a year later, the young girl was living a normal life, attending a junior high, and doing things young girls her age normally did.
"Setsuna-mama?"
Setsuna was brought out of her thoughts when she studied Hotaru's purple eyes, which seemed filled with a deep concern. Setsuna moved over to the younger girl, concerned by the look on her face. "What's wrong firefly?"
"Well, Haruka-papa and Michiru-mama both seemed upset about something when they came in last night." She paused. "And you seemed distracted. I was wondering what happened between you and the seeker."
Setsuna's eyes narrowed at Hotaru's use of the name for these creatures. A name which she shouldn't have known and which she hadn't been told about. That look on her face quickly vanished though before she spoke.
"We came in contact with an outsider." Setsuna stated before turn her focus back towards the window. "A very powerful outsider." She paused. "Hotaru, have you been having any more visions, or feeling about what has recently been transpiring."
"No Setsuna-mama. Why?"
Setsuna remained quiet. "No reason firefly." She turned back to the young girl, walking over to her and placing a hand on her forehead. "It's getting late, you need to get ready for school, ok?"
Hotaru nodded with a smile. "Ok Setsuna-mama. I'll come back by before Haruka-papa takes me to school."
Setsuna smiled as the young girl left the room, closing the door to give the older woman some privacy so she could also get dressed. Setsuna, then turned walking to her night stand. She needed answers and there was only one place where she knew she could get some. She picked up the phone there before dialing a number out. She waited a moment before an answering machine picked up.
"Terra. This is Setsuna. I will not be coming in today…"
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Ashe's eyes stared serenely towards the rising sun over the city of Tokyo from his perch atop of the Hikawa Shrine prayer room.. He had been up for awhile as his body continued to readjust to the time differences between here and the United States. Even if it wasn't the case, he would not miss the first rays of sunlight. It was something he had been doing for years, especially since he received his "gift" that long time ago. Now, seeing the sun, the greatest source of heat and oldest burning flame, just seemed natural.
His ears caught the sound of movement below him. His eyes fall to the short figure of the Hikawa Shrine's priest, whom is also staring out towards the rising sun. His blue eyes glance back towards the sun, a small glint being casted off by the right one.
"A beautiful sight, isn't it." The voice of Grandpa's voice is heard, just as the sun finishes rising above the horizon. Ashe glances down towards the old man nodding. He then stands, walks towards the edge of the tiled roof, and drops down, barely making a sound in the process.
"Who taught you in the arts?" The old man asks causing Ashe to stare at him with a curious expression. "Your movements." The old man continued. "You barely made a sound as you walked, suggesting an art concerning stealth and evasion."
Ashe eyed the old man before nodding. "The art of ninjutsu. I learned it when I was 8 from a gentleman that raised me."
"Oh, what was his name?"
"Uzumaki…Uzumaki Kakashi."
Grandpa paused for a moment, thinking a little before shaking his head. "Can't say I've heard the name before."
"He wasn't a very public person." Ashe responded as he took at last glance towards the sun before turning to Grandpa. "Well I have to get ready for school."
He nodded a quick goodbye before turning and walking off deeper into the temple grounds and private quarters of its residents. Ashe walked slowly, planning out his day in his head before stopping in front of particular door that had been patched up for the night. The door which lead to Rei's room. He turned his attention to the room causing an interesting reflection as the sun's rays reflected off his eyes.
A calm, serene smile crossed his features as he continued on his way to the bath.
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Ami moved quietly down the street as her mind focused on the events that had played out yesterday. From what she could gather from the last two attacks, these creatures seemed to be targeting and hunting for jewels. If that's the case what were they looking for? Was it Usagi's ginzinshou? Was that why it targeted her, only to take the red orb instead? That might not be true, but it was still a possibility. Then there was the stranger in black, Balance.
Her thoughts paused briefly on the stranger that had saved her the previous evening. He was extremely powerful. She had told the others about what had happened and there were mixed feeling with the group. Minako and Usagi thought he could be an ally, while Rei and Makoto took to the side of caution. That left her in the middle, unsure of which side to take. It didn't help either side that they had yet to hear from Haruka and the others after they left. However it was Luna's and Artemis' reaction that disturbed them the most.
After she had produced the scans of the battle, both Luna and Artemis seemed really concerned. It didn't help any of them when their concern increased when the computer had been lucky enough to get a scan of her savior. When she told them both that she had tried to get more information from the computer only to find it encrypted, they didn't seem at all surprised. It was at that point Luna decided that they should end the meeting and get rest. Artemis finished it by saying he and Luna would check the old Moon Kingdom's computer and see if they could gain any information about this situation.
Ami sighed. This entire situation left her uneasy. One of the things about Balance was there was an old familiarity she felt from him. It was almost intimate in a way, yet frightening at the same time. A part of her hoped he wasn't an enemy, but she knew that just because he had saved her life, didn't make him an ally. Unfortunately, only time would tell what he was to the senshi.
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Ashe sighed as he watched the last few stragglers of his class leave out the gym doors for their lunch hour. The group of students whom had just left had been the last class he had to teach for the day. The classes so far had been interesting to say the least. When the classes had entered, they had been expecting to do nothing but spar and watch demonstrations of moves. He had quickly dispelled that notion when he told them that they were going to be running a mile and begin to build up their body strength. They were less than thrilled.
He wasn't even surprised when a few of them stood up and left the room. He had expected it. While students at this level usually didn't just walk out of class, and probably wouldn't have, had Kage been there. They just considered him a Gaijin and felt he didn't deserve the same respect. The ones that remained, were respectful, and followed the tasks he presented, which in this stage of teaching, he was just gauging them on their current physical level of strength. He didn't want to push the classes too hard when they weren't prepared.
He went to the bleachers, grabbing a duffle bag, before heading towards the teacher's offices that adjoined the gym. More specifically, his and Kage's office. The gym's offices each had their own private shower and changing area and shower, and since he was a student teacher to Kage, he was allowed to use Kage's office and facilities. They have even gone as far as placing his name on the door to the office, albeit begrudgingly and with Kage's insistence.
He calmly walked into the office dropping the bag and pulling a couple of things out before heading into the shower. He quickly washed himself and was in the process of drying when he heard a knock at the office door. He quickly finished drying as he heard the second series of knocks and threw on his clothes. He strode out of the small area, opening the office door to find Minako standing on the other side of it a small smile on her face.
"Hi Ashe, is this a bad time?"
"No, not at all." He responded with a smile on his face as he went and grabbed his bag. "I was about to go out and get some lunch, I wouldn't mind the company."
Mina's smile faltered a bit as she shook her head apologetically. I can't, I promised the others I'd eat lunch with them."
"That's fine. Then I guess I'll come back after your practice today…" Ashe responded as he walked out into the hallway with Minako, shutting and locking the door.
"I won't be there, unfortunately."
Ashe turned to her, a confused and curious expression on his face.
"I have an emergency I have to take care of after school today." She said, a bit of disappointment seeped into her voice.
"Oh, I see." Ashe responded, the same amount of disappointment evident in his voice. He slowly began to walk away from the office as Minako followed. "Well that's ok. I can take care of a few things anyway. I have to get registered with the Minato-ku prefecture and everything anyway. You wouldn't mind me walking with you to meet your friends. I have to drop by Principal Meiou's office anyway and get her to sign some papers."
"I don't mind, but Sets…." Minako paused, "I mean Principal Meiou isn't here today."
"Oh?"
"Yes, I heard from Umino that she called in sick today."
Ashe stopped glancing at her curiously. For a brief moment, Minako could have sworn she saw a brief purple glint in his right eye as the light refracted off of it. She was so focused on his eyes, that she didn't notice the change in the expression on his face. He turned from her, causing her to blink as he started walking again and opened the gym door. "Well then I guess there is no reason for me to remain here, is there?"
"Ashe…" Minako eyes widened as she watched him exit the door. She quickly rushed after him, reaching the door and throwing it open. Aside from the shocked expressions of a few students, who stared openly at her, Ashe Caerwyn, was no where to be seen.
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"So what is the assessment of the total repairs to the Hikawa Jinji?" Kage asked sitting in his chair while reading a document at his desk.
"Well sir, aside from a bit of structural damage above and blow ground, the cost should be fairly inexpensive and we should be finished before night fall, even if we added the suggestions made by the Shrine's owner." A voice answered and seemed to reverberate around the room Kage was in.
"Good, keep me updated." Kage's right hand reached for what appeared to be a silver pen with several buttons adorning it. He tapped one of the buttons, moment before a clicking noise was heard and the conversation ended. He sighed as he finished reading the document on his desk closing the folder that held it. His eyes then glanced around, staring at the office he had been set up with.
In essence, the office was a technological marvel, from the walls to the desk. The room was designed in the shape of an octagon with a large desk marking the center of the room. The room had it's own personal computer controlled environment, which kept the room at a comfortable temperature and lighting for those whom were in it. The eight corners of the room held speakers in the ceilings and the floors, giving a surround sound effect. This was combined with the hundreds of microphones littered throughout that aloud for voice commands to be given. Also, to prevent corporate espionage, the computer routinely swept the room for bugs or other communication devices, alerting Kage to where they were and disabling them. Kage had found his office bugged on two separate occasions. Another feature also disabled all communication devices and created a blackout zone as long as Kage wasn't in the room.
Now, using the desk as a reference point to the rest of the room, wall to the front of the desk held the main entrance to the room and a pair of oak double doors. These doors led to the secretary's office as well as the waiting room and hallway of the floor. The two slanted walls on the side of those doors were made of a glass casing, which held various magazine covers focusing on Kage as well as the Trinity Star Corporation. Along with those magazines were trophies and medals signifying various accomplishments Kage had made in the martial arts world. However, those walls also fell away to reveal a large touch screen plasma monitor underneath each that could be controlled from the desk itself. The walls to the sides of the desk were stacked with a variety of books on various subjects. These two walls, also held secrets. The wall to the right of the front of the desk front slid away to a private executive elevator that could lead Kage to any floor in the building including the private underground executive parking lot. The wall to the left of the front of the desk, was actually a set of double doors. These doors connected Kage's office to the Executive Board Room where his management staff as well as the company's Board of Trustee's met to decide the direction the company would go each quarter. The final three walls to the rear of Kage were windows that could look down onto Tokyo from where he was in Ginza. The glass these windows were made of, like everything else in the room, had some small form of technology worked into them. Depending on the amount of light requested for the room, the computer sent small electrical charges to miniature fiber-optic lines which ran through the glass and caused the windows to become darker or clearer.
"Mr. Musha," a voice suddenly boomed through the room and caused Kage's focus to change to his desk. The desk itself was designed in a U-shape and on the surface made of cherry oak. In the center of the desk, was a protrusion for a touch screen computer monitor. Also, built in throughout the desk, were smaller, removable touch pads palm like devices that held reports and other information in them.
Kage tapped one of the pads before speaking. "Yes Ms. Anderson, what can I help you with?"
"Mr. Musha, that information you requested has been sent over. I've uploaded the files to your system. The office that sent them said they were encrypted and that you should already know the pass codes.
Kage smiled. "Thanks Ms. Anderson. I'm planning on leaving soon so after you finish everything, you can take the rest of the day off." With that Kage ended his conversation and removed one of the pads from his desk. He tapped a couple of keys and waited for a few moments before the device requested a password.
"Password: Family." He said softly as the device waited a few seconds before the password seemed accepted. His eyes slowly read the document before widening in shock.
"This can't be right…" he muttered to no one but himself. His hand shot to another part of his desk, touching another pad before a dial tone echoed through the room.
"Juuban High School." There was a pause before numbers were dialed. A second later a sing song voice answered the phone.
"This is Juuban High School, principal Meiou's office, Terra Monroe speaking, how may I help you."
"Hello, Terra, this is Kage Musha, I was wondering if I could speak with Ms. Meiou."
"I'm sorry Mr. Musha, Ms. Meiou called in today and if you'd like I can take a message to give to her up…"
She was cut off as Kage finger hit another button and ended the conversation. His eyes narrowed as he stood, hands still holding the palm and activated the wall hiding the elevator. The bookcase slid away revealing the silver elevator, whom doors opened a moment. He stepped in and waiting for the doors to close and holding a determined look on his face. He was going to have to pay Setsuna a little visit today.
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Sailor Pluto stepped forward from the swirling mists. While her face was usually cool and dispassionate, the appearance of Balance had brought a disturbed look to it. Now she approached the looming mass of the Time Gate, which stood solidly atop the nothingness behind her. The featureless mists of the fourth dimension drifted around the gate only clearing slightly at her approach.
Once again, the reasons for Pluto's return to the Time Gate now weighed heavily on her mind. She had not foreseen the return of the Guardian of Balance. His return, the emergence of these creatures, the seekers, was not suppose to happen. She now didn't know what direction things were going into. None of the paths that were set to lead to Crystal Tokyo was now set in stone. What path would Balance take? Would it be a path for good? Or would it be a path for evil?
She approached the Time Gate, and could here sounds from within it. The flow that was the river of Time. A symphony of seconds and centuries passing by. She stopped a few feet before it, raised her staff, the Time Key, and shouted out to the air. "GUARDIAN CHRONOS, KEEPER OF TIME! REVEAL THE RIVERS OF TIME! OPEN YOUR GATES TO ME!"
The Garnet Orb atop of the Time Key burst life into a bright crimson color. Soon the orb sent a spiraling, prismatic stream of light-motes towards the simply-shaped lock of the gate. There was a profound 'CLICK,' the sound of which seemed to shake the entire place, and then the massive doors began to part, swinging open smoothly and silently.
With the Time Gate open, it revealed the swirling flow of Time itself. The Garnet Orb flashed again and a series of images appeared before her. A series of possible paths that she hadn't seen before and that now showed Balance's effect on the stream. A path that now appeared to be the one most likely to happen. One that she could not allow to happen. She couldn't allow that being to be completely released. Not yet and not this way. She prepared to shut the gate when a voice broke the silence.
"It's about time," a masculine voice said impatiently.
Pluto turned sharply to the sound of the voice, taking a tighter hold on her staff. What she noticed was a most unwelcome and disturbing sight. A strange and unnatural darkness had crept up from the mists of the Fourth Dimension and now surrounded Pluto and the Time Gate. In the darkness Pluto could barely make out the presence of a single figure, whom seemed to be source of the darkness in the area.
"You!" Pluto cried angrily. "What are YOU doing here!"
"You have broken a serious taboo, Pluto." The being said cooly. "And it all begins with her." The being's hand appeared from the darkness and pointed to the open Time Gate.
Pluto turned to glance at the images the gate now revealed. Those being images of an older and smiling Chibi-Usa in the presence of Neo-Queen Serenity and King Endymion in Crystal Tokyo. The being in the darkness continued.
"Chibi-Usa." The being paused. "Whom YOU let travel through time. That first trip being to go on a frantic quest for figures out of her mother's bedtime stories. She was searching to find the Senshi of the past whom had defeated the Dark Kingdom. Those senshi whom were led by Sailor Moon. Those whom seemed to be able to do anything and possessed the ginzuishou. An object which she had thought she'd lost or destroyed."
"Chibi-Usa had no idea at the time that those Senshi were the same ones she saw every day. Nor did she know that Sailor Moon was really her mother. No, those young lady's only thoughts had been to find someone who could save her mother from 'the bad people.'"
The being paused again as the scene at the gate changed to Chibi-Usa's room and her awakening for a horrible nightmare. "But after all had been said and done, Small Lady had started to worry, right Pluto. After that horrible dream one night, back in her own bed, in her own time, a dream in which her father and all her friends seemed to die fighting other Senshi, and in which she herself vanished, Chibi-Usa went looking for you."
The scene changed to the entrance of the Time Gate. Where Pluto stood and where Chibi-Usa approached through the mist and began to talk to her. "She told you of her nightmare, her fears. She recounted what her mother's tales had been of. The tale of Sailor Moon and all about battles against the Dark Kingdom or the two wandering aliens, Ail and Ann. Of the battles out of which Crystal Tokyo was born. She mentioned how the Queen had never mentioned the Dark Moon. How during her second trip, she met senshi that she had never heard of and how they began to appear. She asked was that because her mother had purposely kept quiet? Or could it be because she hadn't known? Had her going back in time changed not merely the future, but the past, and all of the history in between? Was she supposed to be... dead?"
"She asked you about the nightmare and what it meant." He paused. "You told her it had been a brief flash, a reaction at a moment in time parallel to the instant Mamoru had been killed by Galaxia, an act which rippled through to the future and would have erased her from existence if Sailor Moon had not defeated Galaxia and set things right. You told her that because she was sensitive to the event and the target of its ultimate effect, Chibi-Usa had seen something of it in a dream."
"But she hadn't heard of Galaxia or these evil Senshi. More stories she had never heard of before." The being's eyes flickered in the darkness. "Then she asked you a very important question. Was the Dark Moon Family supposed to win? What was your response Pluto?"
Pluto eyes narrowed in anger as she faced him again and slowly responded. "I answered, yes."
The being smirked and continued. "Yes…and that leads me to what was suppose to be the flow of time to that future." The scene in the time gate changed to show the Senshi as they fought and defeated Beryl. Of how they had healed the aliens and then it continued. "The months in which we now know they fought the Dark Moon had instead been relatively quiet, up until the coming of the Deathbusters." The twinkle returned to his eyes. "Hadn't that battle had gone very differently? In the current timeline, it had been ChibiUsa's heart crystal that awakened Saturn. It had been Hotaru's anger at what had been done to her friend that gave her the strength to defeat Mistress Nine from within."
"However in the original timeline without Chibi-Usa, the Deathbusters did not find a heart crystal suitable to their needs. Instead, what happened was when the Senshi finally raided Professor Tomoe's lab, they found a little girl who appeared to be close to death. When the Sailor Moon of that timeline tried to heal the young girl, the Grail-enhanced powers had awakened Saturn, under the full control of Mistress Nine." He paused reflecting on everything. "You know, even in that timeline, Hotaru might have been able to stop it, because she would never have allowed her father to die." The scene changed to that of a dead Souichi Tomoe. "However Professor Tomoe was already dead wasn't he? He was killed in the attack by Uranus and Neptune. The young Hotaru screamed at them in rage with her mind…" he paused as it showed Saturn with her glaive striking down Uranus and Neptune. "…and a Mistress Nine controlled Saturn killed them in reality, drawing on the power of the Grail within her.
"But the rest of the Grail's power was still going into Sailor Moon, and the buildup between positive and negative forces caused a tremendous explosion." The scene changed to that of a battle between Sailor Moon and Saturn before a massive explosion erupted. "…and Mistress Nine, Hotaru, and the city of Tokyo ceased to exist."
"Now then…" The gate showed a scene of people being encased in crystal. "The ginzinshou reacted to this catastrophe by trying to save Usagi and everyone she loved. But in doing this act…it exhausted itself, and took centuries to recharge. Without the power of the crystal to sustain life, only the Senshi, their two feline advisors, and Tuxedo Kamen had the strength to survive the long sleep. They awoke hundreds of years later and piecing together what had happened, they grieved for their lost of their friends and families, and set about trying to make things better. They never spoke of what had happened to Tokyo. The memories had hurt too much, and the world they had awakened to had enough hurt to go around."
The gate had shown a scene of Earth right after the senshi had been sealed and a golden light approaching the planet. "In the world they arrived to, Galaxia had come to Earth long ago and crushed it. She left behind a world with only a few remnants of civilization. A world poisoned by the corrupted force of the Grail and the wild energy of Saturn." It soon changed to a planet somewhere in the farthest reaches of space with the skeletal remains and golden armor of Galaxia. "Galaxia was long dead by the time the Senshi awoke, slain by the inexorable power of the Chaos-essence she had trapped within herself. Her great empire of worlds had collapsed, leaving Earth a primitive, savage world. Faced with that, the Senshi had no choice but to fight, and in fighting, they made enemies."
The scene changed again to the Senshi and Serenity. "Ultimately, Usagi, now Serenity, was able to pull together enough of the warring factions to begin building Crystal Tokyo." It changed again to Serenity with the ginzinshou facing off against a group of people. "However, those embittered by the long fighting, those who were to become the forebears of the Dark Moon Family refused to follow her. Serenity would not kill them. But she could not permit them to remain on Earth to attack her people, so instead she exiled them into space. Long years later, their descendants returned. And Crystal Tokyo fell. "
The being continued, with flashes of what could have been appearing on the Time Gate. "Had events gone along that course, you would not have permitted Chibi-Usa to enter the Time Gate. Denied access to the past, Mercury would have seized on the idea of using the in-between place of the Time Gate as a staging area for the present, to slip away from the invasion and strike at the enemy from behind. You would not have stopped the Senshi then, since they were not trying to use the Gate. Their sneak attack would have succeeded in destroying the Wise Man, far weaker in the future than in a past where he had the corrupted power of the ginzuishou within Chibi-Usa to call upon. But he would have still been strong enough to kill the four Senshi even as he himself was destroyed. Without the Wise Man's corrupting influence, the more noble natures of certain members of the Dark Moon Family would have reasserted themselves. Chibi-Usa herself would have eventually ended up married to Diamond, a marriage symbolic of the reunion between the light and dark sides of humanity. The realm to follow would have been everything Crystal Tokyo had been and more. Right Pluto?" He paused as the time gate closed shut, and then focused directly on her. "Why did you let it all change?"
Pluto turned to face him. A somber look now filled her face as she stared off into the mists before softly speaking. "I am charged with the protection of Time, the security of this device which has the power to alter and even undo the effects of one of the fundamental forces of the universe. I can see the past, the passing present, and the unfixed future, and when I came here, I saw hers." Pluto smiled sadly. "I am forbidden to interfere, but I gave up everything I loved for everything I believed in once, a long time ago. In that timeline, that era had been everything that Crystal Tokyo have been and more to everyone. To everyone but Small Lady." She became quiet again, before continuing. "I wanted her to be happy."
He paused. "Even at the cost of your own life…and the duty you were bounded by?"
She nodded as she gripped the Time Key. "Yes…and I would do it again."
"Because you say that now, is why you aren't dead…yet." The being said with approval. "Even so…you came here to learn knowledge of the events that were about to come to past. Events that will effect the future because a being outside of time is now there. Because I am now there."
The beings blues eyes seemed to become flames, with a mixture of red and white dancing through them. "The Balance must be preserved…"
A sudden storm began to rage through the darkness and around the area of the Time Gate. Pluto gripped her staff to try and defend herself from the onslaught. She held her staff at the ready, summoning her power, and took aim at the being.
"dead scream." She whispered as she released a purple spherical orb of ring shaped planet energy at the being.
A hand shot from the darkness catching the sphere and tossing it into the mists with ease. "I'm surprised you forget, Pluto. Outside of this dimension, our powers may eventually one day equal each other. Inside this space, I will always be far superior to you." That same hand motioned and Pluto was flung backwards, loosing grip on the Time Key, before slamming against the Time Gate. Her Time Key, which was in the air, suddenly flew forward and into the hand eluding from the darkness.
The being began to move forward and with it, the darkness followed, keeping his presence hidden.
Pluto struggled to look up from her position on the ground. She looked up into the darkness, staring at the being as the Time Key was now raised into a striking position.
"The Balance must be preserved…" the being paused. "…no matter what the cost, Pluto."
Pluto shut her eyes as she waited for the blow as she watched the weapon drop. Instead of feeling it against her skull, she heard it strike the gate. However, before she could open her eyes, she felt a pair of lips pressing against hers before leaving hers. She tried to open her eyes again, but they were heavy now, and weren't listening to the messages being sent from her brain.
"I am sorry, Pluto." She heard, " but you know too….…" What ever else was said afterward, Pluto did not hear as her consciousness left her.
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To be continued…..