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AN: Yikes. I never realized how long it's been since I updated it. Well here's the scoop on my life, not like it matters or anything. Well, you see, I have a car now. Yes, that's right. An actual car! See, my work found out about this and are giving me more hours to help me pay off the car. But as I see it, they're giving me hours just because they're always short of people and I can get there right away. So yeah, sorry for the long delay. Oh! I also graduated from high school! Dang right!
ffgirlmoonie: One isn't enough. :P Any other ideas that's got you thinking?
skye668: Why thank you. Sorry about it being delayed though. My reason is up there. Hope you continue to read this story of mine!
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Legend:
'Thoughts'
"Normal speaking"
-Dream Sequences/Flashbacks-
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Chapter 8 to Dreams and Wishes
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The past few day's events had worn them out. It also made them think thoroughly about Xia and Xantara, whom as they all found out was Princess Abigail and supposedly Darien's cousin. Typing of the computer was heard as one person contributed to a chat room.
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IceQueen48: What is it that you do here? I am quite intrigued by the journalism part alone.
BarPunk: yeh! the posting of our blogs is one of the best features!
Beeline: true that
Peg: Yes, but I also think that making your own chat rooms and picking which one to go to is also good. Especially for ones like this.
IceQueen48: I see...but you can expect me to come here more often now.
BarPunk: let me be the first to welcome you then! welcome to the 'Future Mysteries' chat room!
IceQueen48: Now that's what got me here in the first place. Why do you call it that? \points up\
(3QPrincess joined Future Mysteries)
Peg: Speak of the devil...Here's our creator now! Hey girl!
3QPrincess: Wow. You're all in here already?
Beeline: sup, honey, how r u today?
3QPrincess: Hi Bee. Same as usual, still having those dreams.
BarPunk: Qt! we have a new member on our hands.
3QPrincess: Are you ever going to stop calling me QT? And hello there, IceQueen48, that's a rather unique name you have there. I suppose it represents your love for ice?
IceQueen48: Correct. My, you're the first person to assume that it means just that. And not the kind of person I actually am.
Peg: This is 3Q we're talking about! She's the queen of the future!
BarPunk: nope! you'll always be Qt to me! \wink\
3QPrincess: \rolls eyes\ I'm not actually the 'Queen of the future', it's just a name that they dubbed me.
IceQueen48: If I may ask, why did they 'dub' you that name?
Beeline: have u not seen her journals? oh rite, u r still new...i'll send u a link through pm
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A new window appeared on her screen, Beeline providing a link to 3Q's journals. Without hesitation, she opened the link. It took seconds to load, thanks to her fast DSL connection.
'Well this is interesting...' She skimmed through the dates first, one in particular caught her eye.
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September 4, 2001 12:47 am
I...I just had one of the weirdest dreams yet. And I'm scared it may come true, as have many of my other ones. It's strange how these dreams keep coming to me. But I'm glad they only happen every once in a awhile. I usually don't remember any of my dreams. Peg, thank you for believing me. I don't know how that one...ahem...connected to you. But I'm glad that we've met in person once or twice.
That dream woke me up just five minutes ago and I had to go online to describe every detail of it before I forgot. (Even though I couldn't forget something like that).
The first thing I noticed was an airplane on its belly. You know, when it's wheels aren't out? And some grey smoke was coming from it. Well I thought it was grey because my dream was a yellow tanned colour. Anyway. Smoke was coming from it. People were outside waving their arms at me. As if they were calling for help. But the funny thing was this. They were in a big empty field. How? I don't know. Why? I don't know either. It is one of my more stranger dreams. Why my mind chose to let me remember this particular dream, I shall find out in a few days or so.
So if any of you could analyze this, it would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
3QPrincess.
EDIT (12:50 AM): And there were also people waving their arms, not to say hello, but asking for help...
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IceQueen48: Where's 3Q?
BarPunk: she's already gone, lady.
Peg: Yup! You JUUUUUST missed her.
Beeline: true that
IceQueen48: I have one question.
Peg: Shoot.
BarPunk: dunk it.
Beeline: spill
IceQueen48: Do you believe in premonitions? I mean, REAL premonitions?
IceQueen48: ...Hello?
Peg: 3Q is the real deal.
Beeline: that gal is the living proof
BarPunk: if they choose not to believe, then we won't push them into believing. she has never let the three of us down.
Peg: Many have read her journals, but they have doubts. Many have also joined this room, and left. So are you really willing to come back?
IceQueen48: Yes...I will give 3QPrincess a chance to prove herself.
Beeline: prove herself! have u not read what she has written!
BarPunk: calm down, buddy, she has yet to experience one of 'those'.
Beeline: ...true that
Peg: We have all gone through one of 'those', your time will come sooner or later.
IceQueen48: Those? What is one of 'those'?
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She stared at the screen. Her power had gone out before she could get her answer. What had gone wrong? She was so sure she had checked, double checked, and even triple checked that everything was connected properly...Until a set of hands placed themselves on her shoulder, causing her to jump in surprise.
"...I told you not to stay up late doing that." He gave her a weary smile as she tried getting her breathing back to normal.
"You dolt! I was in the middle of some-mphh..." She blushed profusely as he placed his lips upon hers. He chuckled at her when they broke apart.
"Let's get some sleep, okay? We've got some planning to do tomorrow." She could barely nod her head as they headed towards their bed. Falling into a deep slumber.
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His Master tapped the wand on his throne. The small, blue wand flickered a bit of light at the tip each time. He was in the process of creating another creature from the depths of the shadowed mirror.
That mirror. It was the centre of all the darkness and desires in everyone's hearts, humans and animals alike. Perhaps it would be better if I explained it like this.
Say you were a five-year-old boy, at school, playing with a truck when suddenly another boy takes it away from you and plays with it instead. You either get jealous. mad or hate the boy for taking it away. But you forget about it the next day. Where would all those negative feelings and thoughts disappear to? Does it make things any clearer?
"Master?"
He finished chanting the spell, awaiting his loyal servant's question. "What is it, Sunta?"
"Why send creatures that Sailor Moon and her friends cannot defeat, but ones that Xantara and the others can?" His Master merely smiled.
"It's all part of the plan, my servant." A memory floated through his mind.
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A woman hidden underneath a black cloak, hood covering her face, was kneeling in front of the man sitting on his throne. "Ah, this is interesting. What be your name, young lady?"
She stood up, shadows hiding her true form. The cloak reached the floor, the most you could see was her two hands and the two rings on her right ring finger. Most likely her weapons in battle. "I go by the name of Ebony...in battle."
"That name does not seem much of a threat to me." He eyed her warily. Was this what he conjured up?
"It is not intended to be..." She stood up to her full length, eyes glowing beneath her hood. "...Master."
He smiled. Sunta frowned. It seemed that their 'Master' found another to his liking. One that Sunta noticed would cause some trouble for him. "Now that I think about it, does not the name Ebony mean Dark Strength?" She gave a slight nod. "Splendid. You may be my strongest warrior yet."
"I will attack the city later this morning." She turned to leave.
"Why wait till later? Why not attack now?" He was curious as to how this one worked. Most of his other conjured up creatures from the mirror rarely spoke with such maturity or knowledge. Let alone the looks of an actual human. Ebony could serve his plans well.
"I need time to prepare a tactic that would surely leave a mark on our enemies." She faded out. 'And a mark on us...'
Sunta frowned. His Master had already forgotten that he was able to form good tactics that the conjured up creatures were to use. "Master?"
No response. He was too busy thinking about Ebony. She may as well be his greatest creation as of yet. But as to how she worked, he would find out in time.
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"She has proved useful as of late." He sat down. "I assume you still continue the sessions, Sunta?"
"Yes, Master."
"Good, good. Dismissed." He was smiling as Sunta left his presence.
Time. Such a precious thing to have. Yet people take it for granted.
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He rolled off the bed and jumped onto his feet, stretching his muscles and yawning in the process. He glanced at the clock and went about getting his jogging pants and sweatshirt. It read 5:30 am in glowing green letters. The sun wouldn't rise for about another half-hour. He glanced at their bed and smiled at the sight before them.
Serena was huddled up in the centre of their King sized bed, her arm wrapped around the figure next to her. Rini's back was facing Serena as they slept. Serena's arm lazily resting on the girl's waist. Some things will never change. He supposed they wouldn't get up for another three hours, so he had lots of time to jog and get to know his new home.
Bending down, he kissed each of the girls heads. "Sleep well, my Princesses." Darien smiled and slipped out the door, stepping over Luna, and out the front door.
As soon as he was out, both girls rubbed their eyes and glanced at each other. "You ready?" The pink haired one nodded and pulled out three different bags. Serena nodded and pulled out her own set of bags. "Let's get started."
Careful not to make a lot of noise, while making sure Luna was moved into the bedroom to sleep soundly, they went about all over the wide and spacious apartment for the next few hours.
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He stretched a few more times in the hallway. "This'll be a good jog today." Darien had not gone jogging for a month and it really ruined his daily routine. He just didn't feel like himself unless he ran around. It always gave him time to think.
Darien was too busy in his thoughts to realize that another person was in the hallway...walking straight into them. "Mmmffff...!" The person exclaimed against his chest. Apparently he had crushed them into the wall by accident, face against his chest.
"Sorry, Miss!" He jumped back in case anyone came into the hallway and saw their embarrassing state.
The girl, as he presumed, breathed and picked up something that she had dropped. "It's okay, Darien." How could this person know his name? He squinted his eyes in the dark and smiled.
"What are you doing up so early, Steph?" He quirked an eyebrow. Something about her made him feel light-hearted, like when he's with Serena and Rini. He just felt comfortable around her. More so than when he usually meets new people. Usually he'd be suspicious of them, but that wasn't the case with this teenage girl.
"I always get up this early to, um, run around?" She looked around as if embarrassed about that fact.
"I see I've got myself a jogging partner then." He smiled down at her since she was about Serena's height four years ago.
She blushed, though he couldn't tell for they were covered in the dark. But if there was daylight, you couldn't quite tell either unless you really looked. She had fairly dark brown skin, after all. "Please don't tell anyone about my morning jogs, okay?"
"Why not?" He could tell she was uncomfortable with the situation. "Okay, you have my word that I will not speak of this to anyone."
"Thank you..." Stephanie seemed ever so grateful, trust evident in her eyes.
'She's just like Serena, trusting everyone from the beginning.' He headed towards the elevator, gesturing for her to follow, only to receive a shake of the head. "Something wrong?"
She smiled at him, the sun starting to filter through the windows in the hallway behind her, and headed for the door marked, STAIRS, and pushed it open. "I like to start my jog early." And she disappeared behind the door.
Darien blinked. Does she really go down all those stairs? Six floors. But then he shook his head. Right. It was easier going down the stairs than up. Pull of gravity, of course. Needless to say when the elevator doors opened, no one was there to head into it, Darien had ran after his new companion.
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"Serena!" The blonde laughed and ducked. Rini was running around streamers tied around her legs. "Argh!" She tripped and fell flat on her face, squishing one particularly angry cat.
"Oofa mrea." Rini rolled to her left, allowing the Luna to take in some air.
"Sorry, Luna, it's all Meatball Head's fault." Rini ripped the streamers in half and untangled herself from them. She glared at the said blonde who was humming innocently to herself, tying up the banner over the kitchen doorway.
Luna stretched in a cat-like way and yawned. She looked around the room with questionable eyes. "What's the occasion?" Streamers, balloons, and banners were everywhere.
Serena finished tying up the banner and jumped down from the ladder. "And I thought you never forgot things, Luna." She smiled at her guardian and friend.
"Well excuse me for not being an elephant." She huffed and Serena pulled out a calendar in front of Luna's face, pointing to today's date and the reasoning behind it. "Oh!" And she blushed in embarrassment.
"Meatball head, everyone knows to come here in an hour, right?" The clock now read, 6:30 am. Darien wouldn't be back for another hour and a half, plenty of time for them to get everything set and done.
Everyone was assigned to something, behind Darien's back of course. Serena smiled to herself, knowing full well he'd appreciate the gifts he would be receiving today. Especially the gifts she was giving him. She went back to decorating, humming quietly to herself the tune of the star locket.
What she didn't know was that she was too wrapped up in her thoughts to notice her legs were tied together, and when she took a step forward, well, I'll leave that up to your imaginations.
However, a shrill laughter erupted from Rini earning a well-deserved glare from her future mother. "You little brat!" With quick reflexes she had ripped off the streamers tied around her legs and ran after the younger girl, whom was already running around the big apartment.
Luna sighed. No matter how many years went by, they'd always act like children. Movement from her side caused her to look down. "Diana?" Her future daughter was fast asleep, nuzzled against her stomach. This caused a small smile to appear on her face, reminding her who the father of this adorable kitten was...also causing her to blush.
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AN: I've been meaning to post this chapter up, but I've just had writer's block the past few days. But don't worry, I swear the next chapter won't take a month to post up.
Always & forever,
B-chanz