Chapter 4: Music of the heart, which searches for the scattered pieces
When Rei and everyone were in the large studio the men that Rei wrote a song for quickly went to the recording booth. The song would blow the small audience away and make its songwriter proud of her choice of who was to sing the song.
"To The Moon & Back"
She's taking her time making up the reasons
To justify all the hurt inside
Guess she knows from the smiles and the look in their eyes
Everyone's got a theory about the bitter one
They're saying, "Mamma never loved her much" And, "Daddy never keeps in touch"
"That's why she shies away from human affection"
But somewhere in a private place she packs her bags for outer space
And now she's waiting for the right kind of pilot to come
And she'll say to him
I would fly you to the moon and back
If you'll be, if you'll be my baby
Got a ticket for a world where we belong
So would you be my baby?
She can't remember a time when she felt needed
If love was red then she was colorblind
All her friends they've been tried for treason
And crimes that were never defined
She's saying, "Love is like a barren place, and reaching out for human faith is,
Is like a journey I just don't have a map for"
So baby's gonna take a dive and push the shift to overdrive
Send a signal that she's hanging all her hopes on the stars
What a pleasant dream
I would fly you to the moon and back if you'll be, if you'll be my baby
I've got a ticket for a world where we belong
So would you be my baby?
Mamma never loved her much and Daddy never keeps in touch
That's why she shies away from human affection
But somewhere in a private place she packs her bag for outer space
And now she's waiting for the right kind of pilot to come
And she'll say to him
I would fly you to the moon and back
If you'll be, if you'll be my baby
I've got a ticket for a world where we belong
So would you be my baby?
I would fly you to the moon and back
If you'll be, if you'll be my baby
I've got a ticket for a world where we belong
So would you be my baby ... yeah
"Wow. I'm so glad I had you guys sing it. It sounds just great." Rei said with a smile.
"Wow Rei I didn't know you could write great songs like that for guys to sing." Makato said.
"Well I have a lot of spare time after cleaning the temple for grandpa." Rei said with a blush.
"Sure Rei-chan you liar. So what's on your upcoming Cd we wanna know. Better yet sing us a song." Minako said.
"Uh ok. I guess. I haven't really came up for a title for this song yet. But I like it." Rei said.
"Wait! I want to know if I can borrow something." Usagi surprised the girls.
"Usagi." The girls said before hugging their pregnant princess.
"What is it Odango Atama?" Rei asked.
"Pretty please can I borrow your Weiß Kreuz anime dvds and manga?" Usagi asked.
Schwarz looked at the princess and then to Rei who looked like she was going to murder someone.
"No way! It's mine. You promised you would never borrow it from me again. That was over 6 years ago!" Rei yelled.
"Demo Rei-chan!" Usagi started to whine.
"No. Maybe later. We'll have a fest at my place." Rei said with a smile before going into the recording stand.
"YAY!" Usagi said with a smile before sitting down in the seat Rei was once sitting in next to Schuldig who was looking at the flamboyant princess with a quirked eyebrow.
"Alright guys. Here's a song that came back through a memory of when you and Mamoru figured out your fate. As well as something else but that's not important right now." Rei said before the music started.
Deep in my soulLove so strong
It takes control
Now we both know
The secret's bared
The feelings show
Driven far apart
I make a wish
On a shooting star
There will come a day
Somewhere far away
In your arms I'll stay
My only love
Even though you're gone
Love will still live on
The feeling is so strong
My only love
My only love
There will come a day
Somewhere far away
In your arms I'll stay
My only love
You've reached the deepest part
Of the secret in my heart
I've known it from the start
My only love
There will come a day
Somewhere far away
In your arms I'll stay
My only love
My only love
Such power and passion into the words that she sang made something in the four killers' sting. Schuldig looked into the singer's mind and saw flashbacks of a painful life.
'I remember.... I was reborn as Mamoru Chiba . . . to find you Serenity.' Schuldig saw Mamoru say while bleeding in Usagi's arms as her tears started to fall onto his face.
'NO! NOOOOOO!!!' Usagi screamed as the tiara on her forehead shattered and a moon insignia glowed on her forehead and a gown appeared on her petite form.
'I remember . . . We are . . .' Sailor Mars trailed.
'The four guardian senshi who protect Serenity-hime . . . ' Jupiter said.
'We were reborn here to protect the princess and revive the Moon Kingdom.' Mercury said.
'Our real princess is . . . ' Venus said to herself while looking up at Tokyo Tower.
'I remember . . . my beloved Endymion. I would always sneak to earth to see you. Even if the gods decreed that the communication between people of the moon and earth was forbidden we fell in love.' Serenity had whispered before flashes of the past came.
Schuldig saw a large palace under attack.
'Stop this useless fighting!' Endymion yelled while protecting Serenity before a dark force hit the prince in the back.
'NOOO! Endymion!' Serenity screamed.
'Where's Serenity! We must get her out of here!' Venus yelled as more demons from Beryl's army were destroyed.
'We don't know but we must protect the queen also!' A man said to Mercury before taking her hand.
'I have a bad feeling come on!' A man said grabbing Jupiter's hand.
'Lets hurry.' A man said before tugging at Mars' hand.
'I don't think so senshi. You die first.' A demon said before the men protected the senshi.
'Rikur!!!' Jupiter screamed to see the man who was holding her hand get stabbed before her eyes.
'BROTHER!!! NOOOO!!!' Mercury screamed while hugging the man who was stabbed until she heard a grunt come from in front of her.
There was the man who was just a moment ago dragging her through the battlefield with a sword in his gut.
'No. Shahal!!!' Mercury cried as the man fell to his knees and looked at the grief stricken Mercury.
'No my princess. No tears. I'll be fine. You must go on and complete the mission. You're Serenity-hime's last hope of getting out of here safely as well as for the queen.' The man said before seeing Jupiter take Mercury's brother's hand into hers.
'My love. Why?' Jupiter whispered before her bitter tears fell down her eyes before they were covered in rage as Shahal fell into Mercury's arms and died.
'Shahal's right. We must get to the princess.' Mercury said before her tears fell down her face.
'Hopefully Mars and Keiya are getting better progress then we are.' Jupiter said.
Schuldig was wondering why it was so hard to see the men that were dying in these soldieress' arms. But right, as he was about to try and solve that he heard a scream. He then saw a man shove Mars out of the way of an attack.
'KEIYA!' Mars yelled before attacking the monster that attacked the man.
'Complete the mission. I'll be fine.' Keiya said with a smirk while holding a hand to an open wound in his chest.
'You sure that I don't have to carry your heavy ass?' Mars asked.
'Just go! I'll be fine. I've been in worse predicaments than this.' Keiya said before Mars ran off.
'Just don't die.' Mars whispered.
'Hmph. It's already too late my fire hime. Seems like that I'll make you cry anyway. Stubborn princess doesn't know, but I like it that way.' Keiya said before dying.
Mars saw the other senshi. They all held malice and sorrow in their eyes. But as they were heading toward the main palace they heard Serenity's scream and ran to where it came from. They saw Endymion on the ground in blood and Serenity next to him.
'I'll join you soon . . . my love.' Serenity said before picking the earth prince's sword.
'Serenity! What are you doing! We have to get out of here!' Venus yelled just as the princess turned the blade on herself and drove it into her broken heart.
'No!' The senshi screamed before the queen reacted to her daughter's suicide.
'Serenity.' Selenity whispered before watching her daughter's body fall to the ground.
Right then Beryl appeared right before the senshi. Each of the girls was attacked head on. Severely wounded but very pissed the senshi fought valiantly until they were robbed of their last breath. Venus by her bowls being ripped out of her, Mercury by a stake of ice going through her heart, Jupiter by her heart being ripped out of her chest, and Mars by a sword through the chest. Schuldig saw each of the violent deaths and wondered how this 'war' as they were calling it started but right as he was about to try and pry into the singer's mind more he saw the queen gather the star children near her and another senshi appear with a man next to her holding her small hand.
'Saturn, Lazel. You're too late. They're dead. All of my star children.' Selenity whispered.
'What are your orders my queen?' Saturn asked while looking at Mars and felt two tears come from her eyes.
'End everything. I shall wish on my crystal for you all to be reborn.' Selenity said.
'And I your majesty?' Lazel asked.
'To join your future death goddess so you all shall be reunited to fight this evil again.' Selenity said before summoning the crystal, which Schuldig recognized as the crystal Usagi has.
'Yes your highness.' The two said before walking to the barrage of demons and killing them in an instant.
'I shall find you again my beloved death goddess Hotaru.' Lazel said before kissing the senshi who now was wielding a large scythe.
'And I to find you my beloved god of silence.' Saturn said before looking at the enemy which massacred her sister and friends.
'I ,and the journeyer from the valley of the dead with the blessings of Saturn, the planet of destruction, I am the senshi of death Sailor Saturn. I have awakened to summon this silence glaive and drop it to end all of creation. DEATH REBORN REVOLUTION!!!!!!!' The small senshi yelled before a great ball of black energy came to the tip of her glaive.
'I, Queen Selentiy XXXIV, summon forth the power from thee. The senshi and souls of all the planets, which are dying from this deadly evil, are to be reborn at the cost of my life. I command you my crystal to bring forth life back to this solar system 1000 years from now!' Schuldig saw the queen tearfully command as the crystal shattered and the dead bodies of all the senshi and people of earth and the planets were turned to star dust.
'QUEEN SELENITY!!!' He saw a man and woman run to her.
'Luna, Artimus. I leave you two in charge of finding the senshi and my daughter again when they are reborn. Protect them until their powers are sharpened.' Selenity said.
'But what of the dark powers locked within 4 of our senshi?!' The one, Luna, asked her queen.
'Those powers will remain dormant until the princesses are reunited with their princes. Now my loyal advisors sleep . . . for now sleep and be the only ones who remember this defeat and tragedy.' Selenity said before the two were turned to star dust.
'Bring an end to this world!!!' Schuldig looked back to Saturn to see her confronting the evil, which was guiding the humans to slaughter the royalty and peace of the silver Millennium before the world went black.
He saw the glaive drop before the darkness slowly started to cover.
'It has been done my queen. Our rebirth will be your final wish my queen.' Saturn said before her and Lazel turned to star dust and faded into time.
Schuldig finally stopped seeing the past of the senshi they were told about and looked at the singer who stepped out of the booth. Her small smile and shaky hands made him wonder what was going on.
"Rei-chan you don't look so hot. You alright? I mean you just did sing your whole album and it's been 12 hours." Schuldig heard Ami say and looked at the clock.
Ami was right. They came here around 9 in the morning and it was now nearly 9 in the evening.
"My throat hurts is all. I just need some fresh air too. I'm going to head home. You guys have some fun without me." Rei said before leaving the studio.
'I'm going to see what is wrong with her. Something is foreboding about her.' Schuldig said to the others before following the priestess.
"Who was that? Someone has invaded my mind. But how the hell did they do it? They unlocked some of the past I didn't even know." Rei said to herself while holding her head.
Schuldig was behind one of the many Cherryblossom trees in the courtyard of the temple. Right as he was about to go up to her he saw two crows perch on her shoulders before getting to the ground and changing into Phobos and Deimos, both in a bow.
"Is something bothering you my lady?" The twins asked.
"Yes, you know more than I do of how the Silver Millennium was destroyed. Tell me. Who are Rikur, Shahal, Keiya, and Lazel?" Rei asked before the two guardians gasped.
"They were lords of planets. The future husbands to 4 of the senshi in Selenity's court my lady. Why do you ask?" Phobos asked.
"Someone pried into my mind and somehow unlocked memories of the four with four of the senshi." Rei said.
"You're getting your memory back my lady?" The guardians asked excitedly.
"Iie." Rei said flatly.
"But then if this person whoever it was unlocked some of your past without any kind of millennium magic then they are tied to our fate." Deimos said.
"It's obvious to me that whoever did it is a threat. It might have been the enemy. Plus, I must keep an eye on my future child. The child which is my hope and will to live. But for now. This emptiness inside. It screams for something I don't want but I know I have to satisfy its screams. Do not disturb me." Rei said before walking into the fire room of the temple.
"Yes my lady." The two guardians said before Rei entered the fire temple.
Schuldig followed the seemingly bothered woman to the fire temple to watch her take out a razor and roll one of her long sleeves up. There were scars on her wrist. And as he looked at the wrist he watched her take one swift cut along one of the scars bringing out blood. She hissed for a moment before throwing some of her blood at the fire. The flames turned black for a moment.
"It's as I feared. The power within me is starting to consume me. Whoever opened those memories prematurely has started the awakening. Soon, very very soon we all will awaken to that nightmare." He heard her mumble.
Right then a phoenix came from the fire and sat on Rei's lap.
"My beloved child. My kin, my blood. I call forth on the blood and tears you shed to summon forth the missing piece of the puzzle. The part of your soul that lives within him. For the dream of the future." The phoenix said before a gift came from the fire and called to the priestess.
Rei started to reach out to the fire. Schuldig wondered what the hell this crazy woman was doing until he saw what happened when she touched the flames. The temple clothes that once garbed her small frame changed into silk robes and obi her hair seemed to be longer. Instead of being at her calves the long raven tresses ran far behind her. She retrieved a scroll it seemed from within the fire.
'The will of Aries. The will of Mars. The hidden and darkness of the princess' true powers lie in these scripts.' He heard Rei think before opening the scrolls.
When he saw the scroll unravel he could heard Rei chant something before the seal on the scroll completely broke. Her slender fingers unrolled the ancient paper and her violet eyes scanned the paper.
'It's the family diary?!' She thought.
Schuldig was about to leave the doorway until he heard her start to read from the scroll.
"I found out. Rhea, my queen is pregnant with our heir. After so many attempts to bring a blood heir we finally are to have one but our head priestess has prophesied a horrendous fate for this child. Already she has foreseen this child will bear a power so pure of fire and darkness that Rhea will have to seal that power away, along with her life. This child is slowly maturing and already things are happening. The earth and the moon are having a small war at the moment, the queens of Mercury and Jupiter are also pregnant and these two children are also been marked as dark children.
It has been three cycles of the moon now. Rhea has been collapsing and becoming paler than sheets. Many times our healer has begged me to have our child killed. But every time the healer came I would threaten them and then feel the pain of my wife who is trying to carry this child full term. I might consider destroying this child. This darkness in our mists. But our priestess who is also pregnant has been telling me that this child my wife bears will be a child of sorrow. That the world as we know it will be destroyed and our child will bear witness to the destruction of the silver millennium and all of life itself." Rei was shaking from the things she was reading.
Schuldig noticed how pale she had gotten and how shaky she was and wondered why she would be so pale.
"It's been 4 cycles of the moon. Rhea is giving birth to our heir. The life of both my wife and heir are on the line. Our healers say that the child won't live for it's so premature, but I just want for Rhea to see the child at least once before it dies. I hold the small life now in my hands. A girl, my heir is a girl. The first in our bloodline for over many millennia. As I hold her my wife sleeps. This small life I hold in my arms will bear both power and sorrow. This small life that has already started to kindle fire when crying. Yes, this was the child the priestess has spoken about. The purest of blood, closest to my forefather's blood. Such terrifying powers that I cannot comprehend but for now I shall cherish this child and the family I have for soon my wife will seal the darkness in this child's blood away. Leave me with only my daughter in these arms as my life and family.
Many cycles of the sun have passed. My heir is now 5 earth years old. She is the mirror image of my late wife. Yes, Rhea had sealed the power within this sweet child's body to keep it forever dormant. My fire child is now begging for her mother who had sealed the power and died a year before. Her violet eyes just like her mother's pouring the tears of sadness for not being able to see the woman who looked so much like her. Yes, this was the start of her sorrow. But as it comes with sorrow there is always hope.
My child is now 8. And I have found someone who could take the place of my daughter's departed mother. She is the widowed queen of Saturn whose king was killed in the earth-moon war in the year my child was born. As I formally court her, my child is smitten by her and keeps saying that she wants a sister. This startles me everytime. There's no way that two female heirs can come from the same bloodline but my child has the gift. The gift of foresight and psyche. Her sight along with the priestess' daughter's sight is the final word.
Many moon cycles has passed and I am to be a father again. The queen of Saturn and I have plans on marrying but a revolt on Saturn's planet has kept me from seeing my intended queen. But as I am full of joy to know I might have a male heir the priestess' child and my daughter have said that they saw into the future again. The child within the Saturnian queen will be much like my child, Mercury's and Jupiter's children. I feel fear now. If there are to be four children with the purest blood of our lineage then the doom of our world will happen. I have forgotten to mention that Jupiter and Mercury's queens have also taken the path as my departed wife. Sealing their daughter's powers within them and dying to keep that seal. But with Mercury the small princess in question is being taken care of by her elder brother, the princess of Jupiter is being taken care of by the Uranus royal family.
It is the time for my second child to be born. The revolt on Saturn has turned into an all out war. On this day I have never felt such fear as to when my child was born. Instead of kindling fire this child caused many lives to be destroyed. This was the darkness of silence and death. It was such a threat to the kingdom of the moon that they took our child and sealed her away. My firefly child, the child I named Hotaru was sealed into a dark vortex. Alone and outcasted. If she is to hate the moon kingdom as I do now I will be happy. My child, the only reminder of happiness I have now is sad yet again. Loosing her sister to the moon kingdom she now has a growing hate for the radiant kingdom on the white satellite of the earth. Her powers were still locked away but my departed wife's comatose body proved otherwise. The crystal, which rested on her pendent, the power crystal, which I gave to her, is starting to shatter. This will be the beginning of the end. This is my finally entry. I shall leave my daughter an orphan at only 10." Rei finished before tears petaled down her face.
Schuldig could tell that this reading was personal. Something hidden within this woman's petite form ached with pain and regret.
"So that's how the past was. His suffering. My suffering. The cosmos' suffering. But most of all. Hotaru's suffering. But in this life we all have experienced pain as well. Pain almost completely equivalent to our past lives'." Rei whispered to herself before remembering the day she hated the most.
Flashback in Rei's current life(As a child)
Rei was running down an elegant hall laughing and chasing the man she called her father. He was home for the weekend and had promised to play with her all weekend but the 10 year old didn't know what the seemingly kind hearted man was going to do with her mother. As she lost herself in her large home and was looking for her parents she heard screams come from her daddy's office. She ran into the large office which had many family pictures and many papers piled up on the desk to see her father wrestling with her petite mother. Her mother screaming and telling her father to stop.
'Daddy?' She had said while seeing a shining weapon in her father's hand.
'Rei! Run sweetie!' Her mother had yelled but it was already too late.
Her father had one of his security people close and lock the child's only escape out of the office. Her mother was able to break away from her father and ran to her to shield her. She heard the click of the shiny weapon before she heard her mother yell for her father to stop this insanity. She didn't understand what was going on but she felt scared, really scared and started to cry.
'Stop crying!' Her father yelled before a loud bang came from the weapon making Rei cry louder.
'Make her stop Myra!' She heard her father yell before shooting the ceiling again.
Rei kept crying though. Why would her daddy try to hurt them. They did nothing wrong.
'This is for what you get you lying bitch.' Was the last thing she heard before her mother's body weight crushed her to the ground.
Rei fell silent as her mother tearfully whispered her favorite song. But the song ended as she heard a few more bangs and felt her mother's body limp. She had closed her eyes through this and tried to play dead as her mother whispered her to.
'Come and clean up this mess. But if Rei is still alive take her to the hospital.' Her father said.
End of flashback
Schuldig was snapped out of the stream to see Sakura next to Rei, hugging her tightly.
"Mama? What's wrong? Why are you crying?" Sakura asked while wiping a tear from her future mother's eye.
"M-My child. My small hope. Don't fade away. Please let me keep what humanity I gained from being here." Rei whispered while tears kept falling down her face as one sentence haunted her mind.
'I might consider destroying this child.' Kept echoing in her mind.
"Mama, does it have to do with this?" Sakura asked while pointing to the scroll long since discarded to the ground.
"Iie, I'm tired Sakura. I'm going to bed now." Rei said before the robes faded from her small form and back into the usual robes she wore around the temple.
Schuldig kept still as he watched the scroll faded back into the fire and the fire's black flames going back to red and orange. Rei shakily walked out of the door. The blood on her wrist pliping to the ground under her making small flames kindle for a moment before dying. Her skin was paler then sheets her violet eyes lifeless and her breathing ragged and uneven. As Schuldig was to go to his room he heard Sakura collapse to the ground. He turned his blue eyes to see the child hugging herself and fading in and out.
'Daddy. What's wrong with mama? Why am I starting to fade?' He heard her weakly think before letting out a loud scream and the fire behind her changed to a deep blood red.
Tears of fire coursed down her face as she kept hugging herself tightly.
'It hurts. It hurts. Does Chibi-Usa-chan go through this when Usagi and Mamoru kept breaking up? The feeling of being non-existent? So close to not being?' Sakura thought before the pain in her body faded and her hair caressed her cheeks showing that she had changed to her true form to save herself.
She lifted her hands to her face to see fire there. Her now red eyes widened at the site.
"Flames . . . . then what I saw is right? That I will be a grown lady soon? I won't be stuck in this child-like body? YES!" Sakura piped before recovering her composure and doing a dance.
"Weird child ne?" Nagi surprised the German.
"Seemingly." Schuldig answered before going to his room, which he shared with his teammates.
In the time gates
". . . . Now its going to get fun, ne Suna-mama?" A familiar firefly asked a certain time goddess.
"Yes my dear firefly. Soon you'll be back in the war." A time goddess said before looking away from the room which was reflected in the mirror.