The Soul of Fire
Summary: What if the Schwarz were sucked into the world of senshi. What if one of its members fell in love with the embodiment of the goddess of war? Yes this is a Rei-centered fic and if you don't like don't read.
Chapter 1: I can see you in my mind
The group of killers returned to the place they called home. They were seemingly disappointed about how their mission went. As they plopped down onto their respective seats they didn't know that someone was about to change their fate. Yes, her garnet eyes had been watching over them for many years. She watched them grow up as 'she' grew up. Yes she had found the perfect candidate to become 'her' soulmate. The one who would heal 'her' broken heart. Now it was time. To give him the message. That the young fledgling goddess needed him. She knew that he could sense her presence in his mind. She knew that he could read it. But she knew this had to be done. Soon or else 'her' spirit will break.
'Who are you? I know you've been watching all of us for a while.' His voice demanded.
'I am the goddess of time and dimension. Your destiny waits.' She said in her solemn voice.
'Am I supposed to believe in destiny?' His voice sounded sarcastic.
'She waits for you. Her soul is about to break. You have been chosen to heal her.' She said before a light filled the room and she made her appearance before the group of killers.
Her garnet eyes showed that she has seen many horrible and wonderful things. They showed her knowledge and her strength. The killers instantly tried to attack her but to see her reflect the attacks. A large staff formed in her right hand.
"The destinies you were chosen to follow is within the gates of time and space itself. You all have purposes where you truly belong." She said while an insignia startled the group.
'Find out who she is Schuldig.' She heard the psychic child telepathically speak to the German.
"I am the goddess of time and space. Lady of Pluto and member of the Silver Millennium alliance. Either you accept your destinies or be forced to live in eternal damnation." She said with her eyes narrowed slightly before a young girl ran out of the gates behind her.
"Setsuna! What's taking you so long? Mama had to watch him die. Right in front of her. I want to be her daughter!" A girl with strange hair and eyes said while tears ran down the child's soft cheeks.
"I'm sorry Princess Engel. Forgive my delay. Tell your mother the queen that time is being straightened out. Soon you will exist and time will be in the right frame. The curse on your royal line will lift and the eternal flames in her soul will not consume her or you." Setsuna Meioh said on one knee to the future queen of Mars.
The girl looked up at the assassins. Her eyes scanning over each one of them. Her sorrow engulfed eyes brightened with hope. She went up to each one of them and touched their foreheads.
"You are all blessed. Don't take it as a big deal though. Going through the time gates is hell in itself so I thought I could give you guys' good luck. Hard to believe that one of you guys is my father. Since father was killed . . . mom hasn't been the same at all. So if one of you guys fall in love with my mom take my word on this. She's been through pain no mortal can understand. What are you giving me that look for Setsuna! Geesh! I'm trying to make sure I live! I'm marrying in a few years and this marriage is not out of convenience like in the ancient Lunarian times when mom was in her original form without the blocked memories. So Setsuna I'm making sure I marry my prince. Plus if Ami-san doesn't marry then my prince won't be born and that'll suck." Engel said before bowing gracefully to the assassins and running into the gates again.
'So he's been killed. Oh Pyro forgive me for not being there.' Setsuna thought while a picture of a beautiful woman in armor screamed over her dead husband came to her mind.
"It must be fulfilled. I the goddess of time and space call upon you father. To open the gates of time and space to the forbidden reaches of the land where our souls were reincarnated. I summon forth the powers of my father Hades god of the underworld and my mother Persephone goddess of health and life send forth your light and show these men the path to the fates with the reborn goddesses of our lost lives. I command you as the heir to time and space open your gates!" Setsuna yelled as a large dimension gate opened.
The assassins found themselves in an empty plane with mirrors all around them. The psychic looked at one of the mirrors and could see the present of a world that seemed to be their destination. There were a group of women fighting. Though their attire wasn't really appropriate (Blame Queen Serenity) they were fighting hard as if their lives depended on their success. The woman in front of them had stopped and moved her hand over the mirror. Another mirror appeared and they watched something horrible happen. There was a red haired woman in torn uniform running toward someone.
"NO!!! YOU'RE MORTAL YOU'RE GOING TO DIE!!! STOP IT!!! NOOO!!!!" The woman screamed as the person she was running to, a man, was brutally killed before her eyes.
His blood splashed onto her face. Her violet eyes showed her pain as she reached out for the man who was dead in front of her.
"Stupid goddess. You should know yourself that love between someone who will never age and die can't be with a mortal creature. Now be a good war goddess and surrender your soul to me or I'll kill your sister the goddess of death." The guy who was the enemy said holding her chin before the woman's eyes changed from violet to blood red.
"Get your filthy hands off me." A seemingly cruel voice escaped her lips.
"No! Don't let your powers take over you! SISTER!!!" A younger girl who seemed to look like her yell.
"You want to know why I'm the goddess of war?" The older woman asked as fire surrounded her body.
The enemy's eyes widened as the wild flames turned black and headed toward him.
"I'm Aries the god of war's daughter. The heir to pain itself. Now die for your crimes you pathetic immortal soul." The woman said coldly before the black flames turned into a large phoenix of black and obliterated the enemy and his army of demons, but not before something snapped her back into her pain.
"HOTARU!!!" The other girls yelled as the young one was hit hard.
After the enemy was killed the girl snapped out of her rage and was filled with fear. There her little sister lay in her own blood.
"Hotaru...." Setsuna's solemn voice weakly whimpered.
'Suna-sama!!' A voice snapped the group from the mirrors for a moment.
"I just saw it happen." Setsuna said.
"Hai. I'm dead now. Damn the enemy!" The young goddess of death and destruction yelled as black energy surrounded her and crackled around her.
"Hota-chan calm down. You'll be reincarnated." Setsuna said before the smaller woman hugged her.
"Suna-mama. What about Nee-chan?" Hotaru asked.
"She'll be happy again. I can guarantee it. See here these four men? Their destines are tied to each of us senshi." Setsuna said.
The small goddess of death and destruction walked up to the assassins.
The psychic, Nagi shivered slightly as the death child's slender fingers touched his cheek. He felt like someone had looked into his soul. After a moment of forceful prying the death goddess removed her hand.
"Seems like you four have been protected by my father." Her cool voice swept through the wind.
She went up to the Irishman, Farfarello, and forcefully dug her powers into his mind. Then she went to the American, Crawford, and then to the German, Schuldig.
She was having difficulties as she tried to pry into the German's mind.
'If you don't want your mind destroyed you will stop this futile resistance.' He heard her cold voice whisper into his mind.
Little did the death goddess know that the German was also gathering information.
He could see young women in elegant gowns dancing with men but something seemed out of place. A young woman with hair darker than the darkest night was sitting to the side alone.
'Lady Mars, what's wrong? Isn't the earth general here?' One of the women asked.
'Hmph. Like I care if a guy wants to court me. All I am is something that needs to be tamed. The future goddess of war, first female heir in thousands of years. I wonder why I even tolerate all the attention these suitors are giving me. That's why I hide like this Minako.' He saw the black haired woman venomously spit.
'Pryo-chan, one day someone out there will really want to marry you and you their queen and not because of your looks, your power, or your status as the goddess of war.' The love goddess said.
'I don't believe in love. Leave me alone.' The dark haired goddess growled.
Then it seemed that now he was seeing the past in the present.
'Nee-chan. Why are you so sad?' He saw Hotaru ask the same woman.
'Why is it that the past repeats itself? Jadeite is back. He wants me. But I don't want to be anybody's. If it means that I loose everything again I'd rather die and never be reborn into this world. I'd rather never exist.' The woman said before her sister embraced her.
'You're silently trying to cope with your guilt still. You're not guilty. It was our hime's decision to kill herself.' Hotaru said.
'She's selfish. Killing herself for someone she'll never have. But look now. She's with him and everything. Does the sun fucken shine for only her?! I want to be happen too!' The woman yelled.
'Nee-chan. You really are blaming yourself of what happened those thousands of years ago.' Hotaru said shocked.
'Damn right. If I didn't let Jadeite so close to me I would have noticed that he was working for Beryl and the others. I loved a traitor. I should be killed now. I loath these weaknesses of mine so let me live in my guilt. With my shame for my mistake. The Lunarians are the only beings that seem to be allowed to have happiness.' The woman growled before her hard eyes turned from Hotaru.
Right as he was about to dig more he felt a violent jolt at his mind. Setsuna was stern now. Her garnet eyes holding ice.
"Now it's time for the final card to be played." She said before her staff glowed and the four assassins were shoved through the mirror they were looking at.
As the four assassins opened their eyes they saw Setsuna talking to a woman who was sweeping steps of a temple. The woman had long, thigh length, hair and deep purple eyes.
"I hope you don't mind this Rei-chan. I know you have a strong dislike of men but they are tied to our fate. So please don't let your anger boil over." They heard the time goddess speak to the priestess.
"Don't worry Setsuna-san. Demo . . . "The priestess trailed before her eyes wavered to Tokyo Tower.
"You've seen it haven't you?" Setsuna asked.
"Hai, it will happen soon. I must consult with the flames again." The woman said before turning to look at the four assassins who were now standing and dusting themselves off.
"Gentlemen of Schwarz, this is Rei Hino. She's head priestess of this shrine and knows of the people your fate is tied to so if you have any questions just ask her. You'll stay at this temple. I'll contact you after you have consulted Rei. And please if there's anything wrong tell us. She's worried." Setsuna said.
"Hmph. I'm just a tool to her." The priestess said coldly before showing the assassins to the temple.
"So you're a fire miko?" Nagi asked.
"Hai, I sense you're a psychic. So how refined are you powers?" Rei asked the young assassin.
"Well they are pretty sharp." Nagi said.
'Something's strange about her Crawford.' Schuldig said to the tall American next to him.
'I know. I feel it.' Farfarello said.
"Here are your rooms. Now if you'll excuse me. I must attend to some important business." Rei said before walking out to the fire shrine.
"Never knew that fire mikos existed anymore." Nagi said.
"What exactly is a fire miko runt?" Schuldig asked.
"A fire miko is a maiden given the gift of foresight through holy fire in the religion of Shinto." Nagi explained.
'Lets see what this fire miko can do.' Schuldig said to Crawford before following the lingering footsteps the priestess left on the ground.
When they got to the shrine they saw a large fire roaring in front of the seemingly small priestess as she chanted.
Rei had her eyes open. She extended her hands to the flames. The other half of herself. She allowed her birthright glow on her forehead as she started.
"I Hino Rei summon forth the fires of the realm of flames. The netherworld of sight. Wind, earth, fire, metal, light, rock, earth. I am flame and flame is light. I am fire and fire is sight. Wind, water, fire, sight, wind, water, fire, sight, SHOW ME THE LIGHT OF THE VISION!!!" Rei yelled before the fire roared mightily.
'What the hell.' Crawford thought.
'I'll take a look into her mind.' Schuldig said before looking into her mind.
As he entered her mind he could see things. Many things but then he was swept into what she was seeing at the moment.
"USAGI!!!" He heard her scream as an elegantly dressed woman was in a pool of blood.
"PRYO!!! WATCH OUT!!!" He saw a woman with short blonde hair yell before pushing her out of the way of an attack.
"HARUKA!!!!" Her violet eyes widened.
"The White Moon Kingdom will fall before me as I take the universe into my hands. Yes, Lady Mars of fire and war you're the first to see what I shall do to your queen and friends. Everything dear to you, just like your mortal lover and your precious sister, will vanish before you." He saw a woman with long green hair and silver eyes said as Rei stood in the middle of the carnage.
"You bitch. The future that is determined will not fall. Not as long as I live." Rei growled.
"Tied to duty you poor child of fate. Puppet of fate, puppet of the moon, the past is repeating and you know it is. Your powers will not be able to save you this time. No one will survive when I strike. Poor misdirected child. You are a dark goddess like your pathetic Saturnian sister was. But oh well. One of your dark children are gone. Now I just have to kill you and then the other goddesses are mine for the picking. Such talent wasted on the Lunarians." The woman said.
Rei growled before forming a ball of fire in her hands and throwing it at the woman.
"Yes, I see the bloodlust of revenge in your eyes child. You want to kill me but if I was able to kill your sister so easily then I can kill you just the same. But it'd be a good show to see you try and destroy me." The woman said.
"Bitch. Do you know how long it took to control the negative forces in this cosmos? It took more than 3000 years. And if you're going to try and stop the Silver Millennium from revival then prepare for your ass to get kicked to where you sent my sister. For the goddess of death will guarantee your ass to be burning in my domain of hell." Rei seethed as her hair and eyes turned to a blood red.
"My my. You seem to be knowledgeable of your forbidden powers, which your ancestors feared. Being the first female heir in thousands of years but you have one weakness that you goddesses all have. The hopes of a happy future. You know your daughter from the future that visited you dear Mars child? Well what if I told you I was going to kill her and that she was in my hands?" The woman asked while the child that was with Setsuna in the time gates appeared next to the woman running toward Rei.
Schuldig could see the distinct relation of mother and daughter from their aura.
"Mommy!" The smaller version of the girl he saw in the time gates yelled.
"What if I was to take the one thing that would guarantee the end of your tears and destroy it? Huh? What if I was to kill your own heir? Seems like your twisted human form's father murdered your mother and then abandoned you, and I killed your mortal lover and your planetary sister what would you do if I touch this blessed child that is yours in the future? Would you kill like you did those thousands of years ago goddess of revenge? Or would you lock your power away like your immortal mother did after you were born to the war god Aries?" The woman asked.
"I'd say you won't lay a finger on the future of war." He saw a malicious black blaze erupt from Rei's right hand.
"The black flames of the war maiden of revenge. Never thought I'd see them in a dimensional plane in a vision. You must be very angry goddess." The woman said before she laced her fingers around the child's throat.
"You toy with mortal and immortal lives like it's a game. You sick bitch." Rei growled.
"Playing with you goddesses is fun. Too bad my mother didn't have this much fun. All she did was fail in destroying your 9. Well I destroyed one of you. And that enough is good. The child in your queen will die before it is born. Crystal Tokyo will never exist. Human and immortals alike will be enslaved and I shall be the supreme ruler of the systems." The woman said before a blade flame-covered sword was to her throat and red eyes were dead on the target.
"Release my offspring or I shall make your stay in hell is one you'll never forget." Rei's voice was full of malice.
"Mommy. Don't loose touch with humanity. Onegai. Don't let hate roar in you!" Schuldig saw the child cry before the image of the woman was sliced in half.
"Dosde? Dosde? DOSDE!!!!!" Rei screamed as the bodies of her friends and queen reappeared before her in blood.
"My dear daughter. Do not let the mistakes of the past where you were the traitor take over you. Do not let hate rule over your power. You're the last of our race. Live the way you want to live. Defeat the enemy as you were taught. My child. My last link. The final barriers of your power that you'll get from me will come through the link in your soul, which you haven't found. Till then this vision is the only thing that will be given to you." Schuldig saw a man who seemed to be strong and mighty say to Rei who was surrounded in blood.
"The queen can't die. None of us deserve to die and be reborn again. We need to live just this last time." Rei whispered.
"NO! You retched senshi will die and rot in the hell in which you belong in. The cosmos you treasure so much will be mine!" The voice of their enemy roared before Schuldig felt a violent shoved push him from the vision.
After being shoved out of the vision him and Crawford heard a scream come from the priestess as the flames turned to black and blood came from her hands which were holding symbols.
"Iie! That can't happen. Serenity-hime can't fight in her condition. Iie. We have to take her back to the sacred grounds. Or she'll . . . she'll . . . iie. I don't want to loose anyone else." Rei cried as two crows perched next to her.
Right then a garnet light blinded the room. There was Setsuna. Her eyes holding the horror she saw from the future.
"Rei-chan, the vision you had . . . I couldn't see into it. What happened? The future is in a chaotic mess now. What is going to happen?" Setsuna asked.
"Minna, shinai." Rei whispered.
"Even Serenity-ooju and Endymion-ooji?" Setsuna asked.
"Even Small Lady, on the eve of her birth." Rei answered.
"Masaka! Rei-chan! Please don't joke!" Setsuna said.
"Think whatever you want. This enemy has the essence of Galaxia. She's a daughter of one of our enemies. She knows about our children coming to the past. She has threatened to do many things to ensure the demise of our work. We must get Queen Serenity off of earth before this massacre happens. I don't want . . . I don't want the past to repeat." Rei said.
Setsuna sighed heavily before resting a reassuring hand on Rei's shoulder.
"Rei-chan. Calm down. I know Hotaru-chan died because of a mistake we made but never again. You won't have to watch us die again. Don't let the sorrows you hold inside consume you like they did those many years ago-" Setsuna was cut off by Rei's standing and glare.
"Think whatever you want Setsuna. If I loose control then I'll be glad. I'll be with my sister. I'd rather be where those who cared for me are then be stuck as a tool in fate's game." Rei said harshly before leaving the room.
Schuldig and Crawford hid as the seemingly angered priestess left the room. They looked back at the time goddess to see her shaking her head as a large phoenix formed in the flames.
"Your daughter is loosing grip." Setsuna said.
"You wouldn't understand the duties Rei has now since Hotaru died. She not only holds her power but also Hotaru's at least until she is reborn." The phoenix said.
"Please keep an eye on her. Her temper isn't flaring and that never happens unless it's something serious." Setsuna said before the phoenix nodded it's head and disappeared into the sacred fire again.
"So it begins. The union of powers. Soon the daughter of Galaxia as our enemy promised will be here. So many human lives will be lost. Their spirits will break like the fragile glass they are just like then. Selenity- sama. What are we to do?" Setsuna asked in a whisper before disappearing.
"Supernatural things seem to be the normal thing in this parallel world." Crawford said.
"Seems like Nagi has quite a few people he can befriend here." Schuldig said.
"Let's turn in before anyone gets suspicious." Crawford said.
Summary: What if the Schwarz were sucked into the world of senshi. What if one of its members fell in love with the embodiment of the goddess of war? Yes this is a Rei-centered fic and if you don't like don't read.
Chapter 1: I can see you in my mind
The group of killers returned to the place they called home. They were seemingly disappointed about how their mission went. As they plopped down onto their respective seats they didn't know that someone was about to change their fate. Yes, her garnet eyes had been watching over them for many years. She watched them grow up as 'she' grew up. Yes she had found the perfect candidate to become 'her' soulmate. The one who would heal 'her' broken heart. Now it was time. To give him the message. That the young fledgling goddess needed him. She knew that he could sense her presence in his mind. She knew that he could read it. But she knew this had to be done. Soon or else 'her' spirit will break.
'Who are you? I know you've been watching all of us for a while.' His voice demanded.
'I am the goddess of time and dimension. Your destiny waits.' She said in her solemn voice.
'Am I supposed to believe in destiny?' His voice sounded sarcastic.
'She waits for you. Her soul is about to break. You have been chosen to heal her.' She said before a light filled the room and she made her appearance before the group of killers.
Her garnet eyes showed that she has seen many horrible and wonderful things. They showed her knowledge and her strength. The killers instantly tried to attack her but to see her reflect the attacks. A large staff formed in her right hand.
"The destinies you were chosen to follow is within the gates of time and space itself. You all have purposes where you truly belong." She said while an insignia startled the group.
'Find out who she is Schuldig.' She heard the psychic child telepathically speak to the German.
"I am the goddess of time and space. Lady of Pluto and member of the Silver Millennium alliance. Either you accept your destinies or be forced to live in eternal damnation." She said with her eyes narrowed slightly before a young girl ran out of the gates behind her.
"Setsuna! What's taking you so long? Mama had to watch him die. Right in front of her. I want to be her daughter!" A girl with strange hair and eyes said while tears ran down the child's soft cheeks.
"I'm sorry Princess Engel. Forgive my delay. Tell your mother the queen that time is being straightened out. Soon you will exist and time will be in the right frame. The curse on your royal line will lift and the eternal flames in her soul will not consume her or you." Setsuna Meioh said on one knee to the future queen of Mars.
The girl looked up at the assassins. Her eyes scanning over each one of them. Her sorrow engulfed eyes brightened with hope. She went up to each one of them and touched their foreheads.
"You are all blessed. Don't take it as a big deal though. Going through the time gates is hell in itself so I thought I could give you guys' good luck. Hard to believe that one of you guys is my father. Since father was killed . . . mom hasn't been the same at all. So if one of you guys fall in love with my mom take my word on this. She's been through pain no mortal can understand. What are you giving me that look for Setsuna! Geesh! I'm trying to make sure I live! I'm marrying in a few years and this marriage is not out of convenience like in the ancient Lunarian times when mom was in her original form without the blocked memories. So Setsuna I'm making sure I marry my prince. Plus if Ami-san doesn't marry then my prince won't be born and that'll suck." Engel said before bowing gracefully to the assassins and running into the gates again.
'So he's been killed. Oh Pyro forgive me for not being there.' Setsuna thought while a picture of a beautiful woman in armor screamed over her dead husband came to her mind.
"It must be fulfilled. I the goddess of time and space call upon you father. To open the gates of time and space to the forbidden reaches of the land where our souls were reincarnated. I summon forth the powers of my father Hades god of the underworld and my mother Persephone goddess of health and life send forth your light and show these men the path to the fates with the reborn goddesses of our lost lives. I command you as the heir to time and space open your gates!" Setsuna yelled as a large dimension gate opened.
The assassins found themselves in an empty plane with mirrors all around them. The psychic looked at one of the mirrors and could see the present of a world that seemed to be their destination. There were a group of women fighting. Though their attire wasn't really appropriate (Blame Queen Serenity) they were fighting hard as if their lives depended on their success. The woman in front of them had stopped and moved her hand over the mirror. Another mirror appeared and they watched something horrible happen. There was a red haired woman in torn uniform running toward someone.
"NO!!! YOU'RE MORTAL YOU'RE GOING TO DIE!!! STOP IT!!! NOOO!!!!" The woman screamed as the person she was running to, a man, was brutally killed before her eyes.
His blood splashed onto her face. Her violet eyes showed her pain as she reached out for the man who was dead in front of her.
"Stupid goddess. You should know yourself that love between someone who will never age and die can't be with a mortal creature. Now be a good war goddess and surrender your soul to me or I'll kill your sister the goddess of death." The guy who was the enemy said holding her chin before the woman's eyes changed from violet to blood red.
"Get your filthy hands off me." A seemingly cruel voice escaped her lips.
"No! Don't let your powers take over you! SISTER!!!" A younger girl who seemed to look like her yell.
"You want to know why I'm the goddess of war?" The older woman asked as fire surrounded her body.
The enemy's eyes widened as the wild flames turned black and headed toward him.
"I'm Aries the god of war's daughter. The heir to pain itself. Now die for your crimes you pathetic immortal soul." The woman said coldly before the black flames turned into a large phoenix of black and obliterated the enemy and his army of demons, but not before something snapped her back into her pain.
"HOTARU!!!" The other girls yelled as the young one was hit hard.
After the enemy was killed the girl snapped out of her rage and was filled with fear. There her little sister lay in her own blood.
"Hotaru...." Setsuna's solemn voice weakly whimpered.
'Suna-sama!!' A voice snapped the group from the mirrors for a moment.
"I just saw it happen." Setsuna said.
"Hai. I'm dead now. Damn the enemy!" The young goddess of death and destruction yelled as black energy surrounded her and crackled around her.
"Hota-chan calm down. You'll be reincarnated." Setsuna said before the smaller woman hugged her.
"Suna-mama. What about Nee-chan?" Hotaru asked.
"She'll be happy again. I can guarantee it. See here these four men? Their destines are tied to each of us senshi." Setsuna said.
The small goddess of death and destruction walked up to the assassins.
The psychic, Nagi shivered slightly as the death child's slender fingers touched his cheek. He felt like someone had looked into his soul. After a moment of forceful prying the death goddess removed her hand.
"Seems like you four have been protected by my father." Her cool voice swept through the wind.
She went up to the Irishman, Farfarello, and forcefully dug her powers into his mind. Then she went to the American, Crawford, and then to the German, Schuldig.
She was having difficulties as she tried to pry into the German's mind.
'If you don't want your mind destroyed you will stop this futile resistance.' He heard her cold voice whisper into his mind.
Little did the death goddess know that the German was also gathering information.
He could see young women in elegant gowns dancing with men but something seemed out of place. A young woman with hair darker than the darkest night was sitting to the side alone.
'Lady Mars, what's wrong? Isn't the earth general here?' One of the women asked.
'Hmph. Like I care if a guy wants to court me. All I am is something that needs to be tamed. The future goddess of war, first female heir in thousands of years. I wonder why I even tolerate all the attention these suitors are giving me. That's why I hide like this Minako.' He saw the black haired woman venomously spit.
'Pryo-chan, one day someone out there will really want to marry you and you their queen and not because of your looks, your power, or your status as the goddess of war.' The love goddess said.
'I don't believe in love. Leave me alone.' The dark haired goddess growled.
Then it seemed that now he was seeing the past in the present.
'Nee-chan. Why are you so sad?' He saw Hotaru ask the same woman.
'Why is it that the past repeats itself? Jadeite is back. He wants me. But I don't want to be anybody's. If it means that I loose everything again I'd rather die and never be reborn into this world. I'd rather never exist.' The woman said before her sister embraced her.
'You're silently trying to cope with your guilt still. You're not guilty. It was our hime's decision to kill herself.' Hotaru said.
'She's selfish. Killing herself for someone she'll never have. But look now. She's with him and everything. Does the sun fucken shine for only her?! I want to be happen too!' The woman yelled.
'Nee-chan. You really are blaming yourself of what happened those thousands of years ago.' Hotaru said shocked.
'Damn right. If I didn't let Jadeite so close to me I would have noticed that he was working for Beryl and the others. I loved a traitor. I should be killed now. I loath these weaknesses of mine so let me live in my guilt. With my shame for my mistake. The Lunarians are the only beings that seem to be allowed to have happiness.' The woman growled before her hard eyes turned from Hotaru.
Right as he was about to dig more he felt a violent jolt at his mind. Setsuna was stern now. Her garnet eyes holding ice.
"Now it's time for the final card to be played." She said before her staff glowed and the four assassins were shoved through the mirror they were looking at.
As the four assassins opened their eyes they saw Setsuna talking to a woman who was sweeping steps of a temple. The woman had long, thigh length, hair and deep purple eyes.
"I hope you don't mind this Rei-chan. I know you have a strong dislike of men but they are tied to our fate. So please don't let your anger boil over." They heard the time goddess speak to the priestess.
"Don't worry Setsuna-san. Demo . . . "The priestess trailed before her eyes wavered to Tokyo Tower.
"You've seen it haven't you?" Setsuna asked.
"Hai, it will happen soon. I must consult with the flames again." The woman said before turning to look at the four assassins who were now standing and dusting themselves off.
"Gentlemen of Schwarz, this is Rei Hino. She's head priestess of this shrine and knows of the people your fate is tied to so if you have any questions just ask her. You'll stay at this temple. I'll contact you after you have consulted Rei. And please if there's anything wrong tell us. She's worried." Setsuna said.
"Hmph. I'm just a tool to her." The priestess said coldly before showing the assassins to the temple.
"So you're a fire miko?" Nagi asked.
"Hai, I sense you're a psychic. So how refined are you powers?" Rei asked the young assassin.
"Well they are pretty sharp." Nagi said.
'Something's strange about her Crawford.' Schuldig said to the tall American next to him.
'I know. I feel it.' Farfarello said.
"Here are your rooms. Now if you'll excuse me. I must attend to some important business." Rei said before walking out to the fire shrine.
"Never knew that fire mikos existed anymore." Nagi said.
"What exactly is a fire miko runt?" Schuldig asked.
"A fire miko is a maiden given the gift of foresight through holy fire in the religion of Shinto." Nagi explained.
'Lets see what this fire miko can do.' Schuldig said to Crawford before following the lingering footsteps the priestess left on the ground.
When they got to the shrine they saw a large fire roaring in front of the seemingly small priestess as she chanted.
Rei had her eyes open. She extended her hands to the flames. The other half of herself. She allowed her birthright glow on her forehead as she started.
"I Hino Rei summon forth the fires of the realm of flames. The netherworld of sight. Wind, earth, fire, metal, light, rock, earth. I am flame and flame is light. I am fire and fire is sight. Wind, water, fire, sight, wind, water, fire, sight, SHOW ME THE LIGHT OF THE VISION!!!" Rei yelled before the fire roared mightily.
'What the hell.' Crawford thought.
'I'll take a look into her mind.' Schuldig said before looking into her mind.
As he entered her mind he could see things. Many things but then he was swept into what she was seeing at the moment.
"USAGI!!!" He heard her scream as an elegantly dressed woman was in a pool of blood.
"PRYO!!! WATCH OUT!!!" He saw a woman with short blonde hair yell before pushing her out of the way of an attack.
"HARUKA!!!!" Her violet eyes widened.
"The White Moon Kingdom will fall before me as I take the universe into my hands. Yes, Lady Mars of fire and war you're the first to see what I shall do to your queen and friends. Everything dear to you, just like your mortal lover and your precious sister, will vanish before you." He saw a woman with long green hair and silver eyes said as Rei stood in the middle of the carnage.
"You bitch. The future that is determined will not fall. Not as long as I live." Rei growled.
"Tied to duty you poor child of fate. Puppet of fate, puppet of the moon, the past is repeating and you know it is. Your powers will not be able to save you this time. No one will survive when I strike. Poor misdirected child. You are a dark goddess like your pathetic Saturnian sister was. But oh well. One of your dark children are gone. Now I just have to kill you and then the other goddesses are mine for the picking. Such talent wasted on the Lunarians." The woman said.
Rei growled before forming a ball of fire in her hands and throwing it at the woman.
"Yes, I see the bloodlust of revenge in your eyes child. You want to kill me but if I was able to kill your sister so easily then I can kill you just the same. But it'd be a good show to see you try and destroy me." The woman said.
"Bitch. Do you know how long it took to control the negative forces in this cosmos? It took more than 3000 years. And if you're going to try and stop the Silver Millennium from revival then prepare for your ass to get kicked to where you sent my sister. For the goddess of death will guarantee your ass to be burning in my domain of hell." Rei seethed as her hair and eyes turned to a blood red.
"My my. You seem to be knowledgeable of your forbidden powers, which your ancestors feared. Being the first female heir in thousands of years but you have one weakness that you goddesses all have. The hopes of a happy future. You know your daughter from the future that visited you dear Mars child? Well what if I told you I was going to kill her and that she was in my hands?" The woman asked while the child that was with Setsuna in the time gates appeared next to the woman running toward Rei.
Schuldig could see the distinct relation of mother and daughter from their aura.
"Mommy!" The smaller version of the girl he saw in the time gates yelled.
"What if I was to take the one thing that would guarantee the end of your tears and destroy it? Huh? What if I was to kill your own heir? Seems like your twisted human form's father murdered your mother and then abandoned you, and I killed your mortal lover and your planetary sister what would you do if I touch this blessed child that is yours in the future? Would you kill like you did those thousands of years ago goddess of revenge? Or would you lock your power away like your immortal mother did after you were born to the war god Aries?" The woman asked.
"I'd say you won't lay a finger on the future of war." He saw a malicious black blaze erupt from Rei's right hand.
"The black flames of the war maiden of revenge. Never thought I'd see them in a dimensional plane in a vision. You must be very angry goddess." The woman said before she laced her fingers around the child's throat.
"You toy with mortal and immortal lives like it's a game. You sick bitch." Rei growled.
"Playing with you goddesses is fun. Too bad my mother didn't have this much fun. All she did was fail in destroying your 9. Well I destroyed one of you. And that enough is good. The child in your queen will die before it is born. Crystal Tokyo will never exist. Human and immortals alike will be enslaved and I shall be the supreme ruler of the systems." The woman said before a blade flame-covered sword was to her throat and red eyes were dead on the target.
"Release my offspring or I shall make your stay in hell is one you'll never forget." Rei's voice was full of malice.
"Mommy. Don't loose touch with humanity. Onegai. Don't let hate roar in you!" Schuldig saw the child cry before the image of the woman was sliced in half.
"Dosde? Dosde? DOSDE!!!!!" Rei screamed as the bodies of her friends and queen reappeared before her in blood.
"My dear daughter. Do not let the mistakes of the past where you were the traitor take over you. Do not let hate rule over your power. You're the last of our race. Live the way you want to live. Defeat the enemy as you were taught. My child. My last link. The final barriers of your power that you'll get from me will come through the link in your soul, which you haven't found. Till then this vision is the only thing that will be given to you." Schuldig saw a man who seemed to be strong and mighty say to Rei who was surrounded in blood.
"The queen can't die. None of us deserve to die and be reborn again. We need to live just this last time." Rei whispered.
"NO! You retched senshi will die and rot in the hell in which you belong in. The cosmos you treasure so much will be mine!" The voice of their enemy roared before Schuldig felt a violent shoved push him from the vision.
After being shoved out of the vision him and Crawford heard a scream come from the priestess as the flames turned to black and blood came from her hands which were holding symbols.
"Iie! That can't happen. Serenity-hime can't fight in her condition. Iie. We have to take her back to the sacred grounds. Or she'll . . . she'll . . . iie. I don't want to loose anyone else." Rei cried as two crows perched next to her.
Right then a garnet light blinded the room. There was Setsuna. Her eyes holding the horror she saw from the future.
"Rei-chan, the vision you had . . . I couldn't see into it. What happened? The future is in a chaotic mess now. What is going to happen?" Setsuna asked.
"Minna, shinai." Rei whispered.
"Even Serenity-ooju and Endymion-ooji?" Setsuna asked.
"Even Small Lady, on the eve of her birth." Rei answered.
"Masaka! Rei-chan! Please don't joke!" Setsuna said.
"Think whatever you want. This enemy has the essence of Galaxia. She's a daughter of one of our enemies. She knows about our children coming to the past. She has threatened to do many things to ensure the demise of our work. We must get Queen Serenity off of earth before this massacre happens. I don't want . . . I don't want the past to repeat." Rei said.
Setsuna sighed heavily before resting a reassuring hand on Rei's shoulder.
"Rei-chan. Calm down. I know Hotaru-chan died because of a mistake we made but never again. You won't have to watch us die again. Don't let the sorrows you hold inside consume you like they did those many years ago-" Setsuna was cut off by Rei's standing and glare.
"Think whatever you want Setsuna. If I loose control then I'll be glad. I'll be with my sister. I'd rather be where those who cared for me are then be stuck as a tool in fate's game." Rei said harshly before leaving the room.
Schuldig and Crawford hid as the seemingly angered priestess left the room. They looked back at the time goddess to see her shaking her head as a large phoenix formed in the flames.
"Your daughter is loosing grip." Setsuna said.
"You wouldn't understand the duties Rei has now since Hotaru died. She not only holds her power but also Hotaru's at least until she is reborn." The phoenix said.
"Please keep an eye on her. Her temper isn't flaring and that never happens unless it's something serious." Setsuna said before the phoenix nodded it's head and disappeared into the sacred fire again.
"So it begins. The union of powers. Soon the daughter of Galaxia as our enemy promised will be here. So many human lives will be lost. Their spirits will break like the fragile glass they are just like then. Selenity- sama. What are we to do?" Setsuna asked in a whisper before disappearing.
"Supernatural things seem to be the normal thing in this parallel world." Crawford said.
"Seems like Nagi has quite a few people he can befriend here." Schuldig said.
"Let's turn in before anyone gets suspicious." Crawford said.