A/N: Yeah, I do realise I seem to have a Biblical theme with these titles. Consider it a preview of a Seiya/Usagi masterpiece I am plotting as my counterpart to the Mamoru/Usagi story 'Hope's Destiny' which practically live and breath on Grecian and Moon mythology.
I'm calling it 'These Wings of Wax' and it will be canon SM story with a twist. My insane imagination had always wondered about the origins of the Starlights and their home planet. I'll post it when I reach chapter ten of 'Counterfeited Love' (Seiya/Usagi)….shameless advertising, I know. ;0D
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The Lord of Song
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It was a gift all the three of them had; the ability to transfer images, to tell a complete history simply by singing a song. And the songs they sang were never the kind sang by the people of that lovely blue planet. There was always that hidden depth, a secret, locked between the lyrics.
Seiya, Yaten and Taiki had hoped their princess would respond to their singing. In this planet that seemed filled with shallow people, she would hear what it was that was being cried from the very depths of their soul.
As the days turned to months, it became obvious no one heard it. A child almost did, according to Taiki. Tsukino-san, he said, brought him to the little girl who saw images of a princess when the songs were sung.
Tsukino Usagi.
What an exceptionally stupid girl.
Because when all hope had left all three, she finally managed to hear it.
The message.
She was able to see how the world of the Three Lights was destroyed by an unknown force of evil. She felt the wrenching loss when the Princess disappeared, telling her loyal knights that she needed to search for the Light of Hope.
Usagi was able to discern what was being said, what was being sung.
Except…
Seiya blinked in frustration. What did he want, anyway? To have his cake and eat it, too? He should be so lucky.
He was glad, of course, that Usagi had heard the message. It only proved he was right to trust her with the telling of it. Yaten and Taiki, for all their resentment over the fact that she was Sailor Moon could not ignore the reality that out of all the people they had sang it to, only she had heard everything loud and clear.
Seiya smiled a grim smile. Yes, he was glad she had managed to read between the lines. No language could properly describe his pride that it was her who finally understood. When he had sang the song, after all, he had hoped, truly hoped, that she would listen.
He closed the midnight blue of his eyes, feeling the frustration building up inside him. 'Oh, Usa,' he thought, 'You brilliant, stupid girl. You heard, you felt, and saw the message for my princess.'
In the background, Yaten and Taiki were arguing on how to make Seiya stay away from the Moon Warrior. Seiya sighed. 'But in trying to see the deeper meaning, you ignored what I was plainly saying to you. My personal message; the one I sang for you and only you.'
He felt the tears about to fall.
'Couldn't you have seen the visions of us,' he thought sadly, as he stood up to stare at the setting sun, 'That perhaps, just perhaps…we were meant to be?'
The tears fell, and the sun slowly set, and he was answered by silence.
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