The Senshi of Light: Chapter 5: The Crystal Appears
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Usagi woke, to the sound of furious yelling. She looked around confused. The blonde looked up slowly and saw the man who had snuck up on her and knocked her out.
She looked under her and saw stone. She looked around again frantically and saw she was in a cell. She watched the man closely and listed hard to try and hear his but her senses were in disorder.
The man then started to talk to the the creature from earlier more calmly and the started to laugh darkly. He quickly shooed the monster away and looked off to where the monster had gone.
"So, little princess has awakened, has she? Lucky time, really. I just happen to have nothing to do, at the moment. My only few days of free time and I get to spend them trying to get it out of you. How wonderful," the green robed man turned and looked at the girl. He walked towards her and stood intimately in front of her.
"So, tell me, descendant of the White Moon Family, daughter of Queen Usagi the 2nd, where is the crystal. Where is the gem of immortality?"
"I-I don't know. I have no idea of what this crystal is that you're talking about," the girl stammered in confusion.
"Heh, the crystal that the White Moon Family is to care for, that one. The Silver Crystal. I know you have it. I want it. Tell me!" the man screamed.
"I have no idea what the Silver Crystal is! Please! I don't know! I'm of no use to you, so let me go!" the blonde begged in distress.
"Sure, sure you don't. Well, I'll get that info out of you. Only the White Moon family had such long hair in that style, two buns with the rest of their hair steaming down from them, I have never seen anyone have that. So, let's see what will make you... confess," the dark leader of the Twilight plague hummed in though.
Why? What does he want me for? I have nothing that he needs? I don't even know who I am, let alone this family called the White Moon Family.
"Well, give me a moment or two, little Princess. I seem to have a few things to do, before I get to you," the silver chameleon helm wearing man stood and warped away, particles of himself disappearing.
The girl was left, with nothing to do but think on what had happened and the questions that Zant had asked her.
"What, what is it? I have nothing that you would need. Only my name is known to me. There's nothing else that I know."
The captured blonde sat on the cold hard floor and warped her hands around her knees that she bent up to her chest.
"I wonder, though, where am I?" the girl heard a small clinging sound of a chain. The clueless girl froze and looked at the entrance to the cellar.
The small clinging sound become louder and she froze even more. The breathing of her's quieted and become close to a small wind sound.
A dark beast appeared and on top of him was riding a small imp that seemed to have black and white skin with green glowing marks. She had a help on her head with one eye that was covered. Inside of the open top part of the helm was a bright orange ponytail and her eye seemed to mach the color.
The large beast seemed to run by without stopping but she heard the chain scrape on the stone flooring of the prison. She heard a high pitched voice that probably came from the imp girl.
"Wait, back up. I think I saw someone. A human, not a spirit."
The padding sound came back and it sounded slow. Usagi looked outside the containment area and saw the same beast that she had seen Link transform into.
"Hmm, a human, who's not a spirit, even more so. How interesting. Can you see us, though, girl?" the small imp inquired with a sly grin.
The blonde nodded slowly and then spoke slowly, "What- What's with Link? Why is he a... wolf?"
"Ah, I remember! I saw you be hit with some dark magic of Zant's! I'm actually surprised that you were knocked out by that magic, it wouldn't effect someone like that, normally they'd turn into a spirit or they'd die. But, who are you?" the small riding imp asked.
"I-I don't know. But, is that Link? I saw him transform into something like that..."
"This ball of fur? Humph, most likely, I don't know his name, though. I mean, he can't exactly talk humanly. Can you?" the high pitched Twilit pulled the ear of the wolf's who growled and barked at her.
"You-you might not want to do that," the captured girl told the other.
"Ohh?" the imp sat up with her one eye looking at her humorlessly, "Well, he can't do anything about it, not unless he wants to save his friends, that may also even mean you. So, why are you in there?"
"I-I don't know. The man named Zant knocked me out, and when I woke up, he started to ask me where the Silver Crystal is and called me White Moon Family."
The imp was quiet, looking down, "I've heard the legend of the White Moon Family. The family was great, they ruled for a good thousand years, they lived for a longer time than a normal life of a Hylian, five hundred years. But, the first queen, who looked similar to you, almost exactly like you, ruled for eight years, her daughter, Usagi the II, like your name, ruled for two hundred years, she was nicknamed Chibi-Usa, but, apparently she got sick and died, but her heir was sent somewhere with the Silver Crystal. But, there's not a positive on her daughter being sent somewhere. They, the family, had strange hair, the woman. They had it up like yours. I guess that Chibi-Usa did send you away. Somewhere, and waited for the right time to reawaken you. But, where the crystal resides, no one knows."
"But, why wouldn't I remember all of that?" the blonde descendant asked.
"It may have been that she wanted you to live without the sadness of the past. Knowing that you would've have ever met her. I guess she may have thought it would've been better that you had never known your family so you wouldn't have to keep your mind in the past."
"Oh, but, now I'm going to be in trouble, Zant wants the crystal-" the other was cut off but the shout of the other who's mouth was in a sneer.
"Don't you dare give the crystal to that tyrant! He'll only pollute the gem and destroy the world!"
"I don't even know where it is."
"Good. I don't trust you with the crystal. I have no idea why, but, at the moment, I seem to have trusting issues," the black and white skinned girl shrugged, her eyes closing in an uncaring manner, "Now, I'll be going," the suddenly cold imp turned and steered Link away from the cage.
"Wait! Can't you help me?" the blonde asked hurriedly.
"Ha! Suuure. I just did, I answered your question. Now, I'm going to leave before that Zant comes back," the padding paws of the Twilit wolf went away and disappeared.
But, he'll try to kill me.
The blue eyes of the blonde glossed over with tears and she quickly tried to wipe them away. Yet, the wet tears kept coming back trying to break over the dam in her eyes.She waited in the prison cell and sat on the cold hard flooring.
A voice seemed to lull her to sleep, telling that she would need rest if she wanted answers about herself and the Silver Crystal.
Usagi looked around in her dream that seemed to have darkness everywhere. She sighed in defeat and sat on the black floor.
"Ugh, I'm still in the same place, it's worst then the prison cell!" the girl complained.
"Serenity-hime," a soft calm voice called, "Come to the doors of the past for those who dream, come to the door that takes you back in time."
The blonde frowned and looked up and saw, to the right of the mahogany doors, a white marble door with a silvery gold handle, and vines that were an electric green with white roses that had a small tint of pink on the edges of the pedals.
"Who-" the blonde was cut off by the hushing voice.
"Please, come. I must tell you what you need. Tell you of the past and your family," the calm voice told the confused girl.
Slowly the white dressed girl stood and extended her arm towards the silvery-gold handle.
The girl turned the handle and peered into the doorway to have her breath be taken away.
In the door was only a room but it was beautifully decorated, painted, and designed.
The walls were not just plain. It was a soft pink with painted roses sea shells, crescent moons, and water lilies. The floor had a long carpet that was a deep royal blue with gold designs on the edges. The floor's material was marble and it shined like a mirror.
There were paintings that had many different people. One was of Princess Serenity, her mother, Queen Serenity, when she was a princess, one of Link which surprised her, and the rest were unknown. The boarding of the frames were a light wood with plaques that were made of a gold that seemed to say the name of each person and what they meant to the person and their status.
There was a round white table that had two seats. On the table was sweets that seemed too much for even two people. There was a chocolate cake that had vanilla icing and strawberries, cookies that were all a different variety like chocolate chip, snicker doodle, oatmeal, raisin, sugar, and more. The table held anything that was sweet and it all seemed freshly made.
There was another smaller table that was a oak wood. It held fruits that were cut into cubes, like watermelon and cantaloupe. Then other fruits that were cut in half like strawberries, and then some that weren't cut like blueberries, raspberries, and mulberries along with some coconut shavings.
On the other side was another oak wood table that had a glass bowl of ice that seemed to be both normal and dried. Around it were colored bowls that had ice cream of different flavors, like mint chocolate chip, vanilla, dutch, chocolate chip, cookie dough, pecan, coffee, and still many more types.
There was one more table that looked like cedar wood. It had a milky white glass pot of, what looked like, tea with small cups of it around it with different packages of tea. There were more bowls of clear glass that had dipping spoons in them. Each held a different beverage like lemonade, water, and grape juice. There were tall glasses that were placed in a cylinder around another big bowl of ice that was normal with tongs with semicircles at the grabbing part. The glasses had a silver decoration of, what looked like, birds like mocking jays, hummingbirds, blue jays, doves, and other small delicate sorts of feathered birds, along with flowers like roses, sun flowers, marigolds, orchids, and other uncommon flowers.
There were black metal vase holders around the room that held more varieties of flowers in them around the room along with tall candle holders.
"Hmm, like it, sweetheart?" the gental voice asked while the blonde started in awe at the room. The girl's head whipped to turn to her right and see her mother when she was a princess.
The lavender haired mother sat at a white painted table that had two more seats. On top of the table were plates with forks and spoons around it. The woman looked at the girl and smiled at her brightly with her pale pink lips.
"I- Uh-" the girl quickly cleared her mind from the room and nodded slightly, "Yes, your majesty."
"Ah, what lovely manners, but, there is no need for formalities. However, thank you. But, please, young one, sit, or, if you'd like to, look around or get something to eat."
"But, isn't this a dream?" the reincarnated princess asked in confusion.
"Ah, but, your dreams are powerful enough to be reality, what you eat her is real. What you feel here is real. Anything that scratches you is real. This is a gift," the Queen of the Moon said tactfully.
"A gift, huh?" the girl looked around at the painted portraits curiously.
"Curious about the paintings, I see. Examine them, if you'd like. But, please listen carefully. I know by now that you have heard of the Silver Crystal," the mother paused and smiled at the girl lightly when she walked over to the painting of Link.
"Yeah, I've heard that it makes you immortal," the blue eyes of the girl scanned over the plaque that read, 'Prince Link
Hero of Time
Known on the Moon as the heir to the throne and for taking care of the Princess Serenity.'
The blonde's eyes furrowed.
"It does, indeed, give you immortality, however, it is not known very well that it can only be used by the family line of the White Moon, male of female. Its power is best used by the woman of the family, and is, therefore, put in care by the line of woman.
"The man named Zant, however, has someone who can use the Silver Crystal. Her name is Princess Zelda. She was not part of our family, but, when you were the princess and you went to Earth, she was titled Princess Serenity and did anything you were suppose to do.
"But, anyway, while you went to Earth, your powers woke. You were the first soldier of the Moon to appear. You may not have known how to use your powers but, your powers did awaken."
"Wait, everyone keeps talking about me awakening, what does that mean?" the blonde asked.
"Your powers. When you awaken in our terms, it means your powers of your planet activate. You become the soldier of that planet, no matter how old you were. The Earth, however, has never has a Sailor Soldier. So we protect all we can. However, the Earth is too at war with themselves that they do not think of anything when someone attacks them passively by sending a meteor. But, they were so caught up in war they only thought of it as war material, and they researched it, trying to find any destructive properties."
"But, what caused the war? Plus, if it was a war, where were the good parts?" the blonde asked while turning to look at her own portrait.
"Serenity, you seem to be a bit sharp today. The thing that caused the war was a man named Ganondorf. The part of the world that was Hyrule's, he caused the war there.
"However, in the rest of the world, was was caused for such a petty reason. It was only when the low living peasant by mistake hit their king. Whilst he tried to apologize, the rich were so infuriated that they caused the war, and only because of a small mistake."
The lavender haired Queen watched sorrowfully at her past daughter and sighed as she stood, holding a wand with a dull pink handle and a yellow crescent moon.
"Serenity- no, Usagi, please turn to look at me," the mother ordered softly and gently, her eyes holding a small layer of moisture.
The blonde turned to face the Queen of the Moon and listened carefully.
With her eyes closed, the lavender haired woman slowly apologized, "Usagi-Hime, please know that I am only doing what is best for you. The weight of destiny is hard on you and I am sorry to awaken you."
The old Queen of the Moon pressed the crescent to the girl's forehead and a golden light came from the tip.
In the mind of the reborn princess were memories of her past. Images of her life as a Princess came back from what she knew in the 20th century, then when she was reborn in the 20th century when she first became the soldier of the Moon. She met her friends that were her guardians, she met her love, Queen Beryl killed her friends, she transformed into her Princess form and destroyed Queen Beryl and Metallia and the senshi and her went back to daily life. Then then doom tree saga and then the siege of the time-traveling Black Moon Family. Chibi-Usa arrived and they went to the future. They went back to the present and they destroyed Wise Man. Then the Heart Snatchers appeared and they took the hearts of her friends. They took the pure hearts from Sailor Neptune and Uranus. They came back and their heart's crystals separated from the talismans and the Purity Chalice was formed. Usagi watched as she saved Hotaru from her own powers and she watched as the Dead Moon Circus and watched as the Amazon Trio were healed and then how the Amazoness Quartet tried to take the dreams of others away but we're also released from their hold. Queen Nehellenia then came and took the golden crystal from Elios and tried to take the world over as Queen but failed. Nehellenia then tossed Chibi-Usa off the small platform and how Usagi jumped off and tried to save her. Elios then came in his Pegasus form and rescued them.
Then Galaxia came and reawakened Nehellenia and tried to kill the senshi. They defeated her and she went away to rest in peace. Then Sailor Galaxia sent her Shadow Senshi to take star seeds and then the Sailor Starlights came. Then Galaxia came and tried to make then surrender. Usagi then healed Galaxia from Chaos and then it was all blurry.
Through those memories Usagi felt all of her pain, sadness, hurt, and anger in her memories. She felt when she would smile and be happy, joyful, and in love. She felt how her powers went through their stages and the strength became larger and larger. She felt them gather and create the legendary gem that reappeared in her memories countless times.
The reawakened senshi opened her eyes and felt her knees on the ground. She looked in her pale hands and saw that the crystal was no longer a flower but was a small crescent moon that was hanging on a string that had diamonds, rubies, and emeralds.
"So, I'm awakened not, aren't I?" the girl questioned.
"Yes. My dear, I am sorry, if I had it my way, your powers would've remained silent and dormant but the fates have chosen otherwise," the elder woman said sorrowfully.
"Yes, I know, but, I am confused about one thing," the rabbit replied slowly.
"What?" the Queen asked.
"The painting for Link, it says heir and savior of the Moon Princess, which is me. So, that would mean I married him. I thought that I married Endymion," the girl wondered aloud in question.
"Well, it seems that someone tampered with the past that was shown, it seems that Chaos loves to wreak havoc even in the memories of people," the Moon Queen replied bitterly.
"Queen Serenity, when I wake, will I have my powers and the Silver Crystal?" the blonde asked with concern heavy in her voice.
"Yes, and it seems that, with all of you powers pooled, you can use the attacks and strengths of you Senshi. You can use their items, too, like Mercury's super computer, Neptune's Mirror, and the Time Key and Staff."
"Yes, I feel so much more stronger. But, so sad because," the reawakened senshi's voice started to shake, "I can't feel the shine of any of the senshi, Venus, Mars, Mercury, or Jupiter, nor the outer senshi."
"None of them?" the silvery lavender brow raised in question.
The Moon senshi was quiet but then gasped when she felt a small tug in her chest.
"No, I feel a tug in my heart, telling me that two of them are still alive. But, I can barely feel it, let alone their powers. Its weak, weak enough to not identify their planet," the pale pink lips of the girl's upturned into a smile.
"I'm ready, to protect this world again. Please, let me wake. I'll visit, but only when time permits it."
"Yes, you must leave, but, know you can visit any time when you need healing. Remember, you have a gift of making things reality from dreams. Even physical beings, but only if you will it to come in the real world."
"Good bye, mother. I'll see you again, and thank you for all of your help," in a flash, the girl disappeared and woke in the prison cell.
The girl groaned and opened her eyes slowly and sat up, holding the side of her head with her right hand.
"So, I've got the crystal and the brooch.Well, here goes nothing. My first transformation and it has to be here in this jail cell. This is lovely. But, its for the sake of the world. So I'll have to go along with it," the warrior of the Moon raised her brooch into the air and yelled out, "Moon Eternal, Make Up!"
In a bright light of white, then blonde transformed into the soldier of the Moon. The senshi concentrated her powers of her lost senshi and she felt the power that she and her senshi had struggled to use.
A gold light shined from her forehead and she felt her dormant powers come back and she disappeared in a flash of light and then appeared on the other side of the prison cell.
The senshi scurried at a door at the top of the ruined stair cases. At the top she only found a few bats that seemed to be wandering around. The senshi of the White Moon simply avoided them by slipping into the door that led outside into the dry air.
Slowly the sailor fuku wearing girl took in the openness of the new air but realized that the sky wasn't changing to darkness or light. She watched in for a while longer but saw that there was still no difference.
"There's something not right. The air, its almost as if its still. There's no breeze, not even the slightest. There's also the unsettling feeling of a battle that had been going on recently. Where am I?" the princess asked herself.
"Ah, how lovely to see you again," a mysterious gentle voice came from the air in front of the soldier.
"That voice… I know it, from somewhere," the soldier of the Moon murmured.
"Yes, you certainly do know it. Remember, you guide in Time?" from a black twisted spiral can a tan skinned woman with forest green hair who held a lavender staff that was like a key with a garnet that was held in a heart shaped metal of some sort.
"Hm, you knew that there were still senshi alive, didn't you?" the woman teased lightly with her much younger Princess.
"Pluto, you- you're," the small sadness in her eyes seemed to hold onto a hope of some sort, "I'm so happy. Thank you, thank you.," the girl showed her first sign from when she live in the 20th century by running to her only seen guardian and trowing her arms around the older woman and crying hard while the other just smiled warmly at her loving princess.
"Usagi-hime, its been too long. Now, are you ready to go back to Ordon Village? I hear that there's a bit of a plague going on in the village," the senshi of time joked lightly.
"Really?" the girl asked, her voice muffled by the fabric of the Senshi of Pluto.
"Yes, do you want me to teleport you there to help them?" the garnet eyes of the woman seemed to hold a small glint in her eyes.
"Of course, that's the least I can do in repayment for them taking care of me," the winged senshi replied.
"Well, let us go then, to Ordon village," the dark skinned woman slowly made the other stand and follow her into the portal.
"Pluto, you're not the only one alive, are you?" the girl asked slowly.
"Hmm, you guessed it. She's the youngest of them, remember?" the motherly senshi asked.
The two were walking in a space-like area and there was another door, which the senshi looked at while breathing out, "Hotaru. Why only her and you?" the girl in slight annoyance and confusion.
"Hmm, you've seemed to have time fighting you. It seems that, for some reason, they were born into this world before you came by about 50 years. I don't know why, but, their powers as Senshi were activated when they were 14. They were born into someone who had something to do with the royal family of Hyrule, a guard, a servant, or the family itself. But, Hotaru was much younger and was born about 32 years after them in Ordon Village, quite strangely. She's 18 years old, and her appearance in quite... interesting, and unexpected. It seems that, even here, she's suppose to be younger. But, you'll have someone to be with you at all times, though. Because, as you know, I have to be at the Time Gates unless there is something wrong in the flow of time."
"Of course. Setsuna, is that the name you use here?" the girl asked.
"Well, there really hasn't been the need for me to come, but is the time flow is disturbed and forces me to come into you world, then yes, I will use that name," the forest haired woman relied happily, as if anticipating when she would go down to Earth and help her Princess.
"Well, Setsuna, when can Hotaru come to Ordon?" the warrior-like Princess asked after a moment.
"Soon, maybe a day, but before nightfall tomorrow, OK? Anyway, you forgot someone else, too. In fact, she's the one who sent me to go get Hotaru."
"Why didn't you come earlier?" the Moon senshi suddenly demanded, her voice becoming forceful.
The tanned woman sighed, "You know that I can't tamper with time however I wish to, you know that very well already."
"I guess, but, why couldn't Hotaru come sooner?" the girl asked, still forcefully.
"The senshi got close with her before they... passed away. When they all died, she was asked if she wanted to be the Royal Family messenger of something. They had seen how well she fought and they felt pity for her I think. She became a guard for the Princess Zelda in specific and became a messenger for her. So she basically got both jobs. Anyway, its hard for her to get a vacation, and even if she does, then its only for maybe a few days, if she's lucky, a week. But it takes about two days to get there on foot, one if she uses a horse. But, with this going on, then she may have a vacation for a while, but it may no be too much of a vacation."
"Oh, I see."
"Well, here is where you go, but, I'll try to visit you in your dreams, they're more important than ever," the Moon Senshi nodded and the door opened and with a soft smile and a light wave, she exited the time-space void.
The winged senshi looked out and saw she was right next to the scarecrow near Link's house. The senshi turned to look at the path and she felt something asking for her to summon it. The reborn Moon Princess extended her hand and felt a heavy object form in her gloved hand.
Her cerulean blue eyes looked to see the blade that her look alike from the past once wielded.
"The Holy Sword," a voice seemed to lick at her mind, asking for it to talk to her.
"Usagi, I hope that this sword can help you in this time, its different from the one we had. Use it, its blade seems to be infused with something that makes monsters burn at the touch of it, come to the door that Queen Serenity was in while dreaming, you'll find me there," the voice of the Senshi of Venus rang in her mind.
A small low chuckle came from the Moon senshi, "Even though you're dead, you help in anyway you can, thank you, Minako-chan, and I'm sorry for not being here earlier, to see you alive," with that, the Moon warrior transformed back into her princess attire and walked towards the pathway to the village and saw the darkness and sadness within the villagers and the village itself.
"Usagi?" the blonde heard her voice be called and she looked us the watching tower like place and saw Hanch up on it.
"Am I too late?" the girl asked hopefully.
"No, just in time. I'm glad you're all right. Go to where Motoki and Reika live, OK? They might know what you should do," the man instructed, relief all over his voice.
The soldier nodded slowly and walked over to the house.
- End -
Well, I never thought I would ever get a chapter out so quickly! But, with summer here, I think I'll update quite often, though, not as often as this update, I just felt my mind overflowing with ideas, so I felt obliged to update quickly, besides, there's a lot of good reviewers!
Anyway, thanks sailormars109, The Queen of Water, and pokemonboy for reviewing!
By the way, if the mapping for you guys seemed off, for how Midna and Link met, I'm really sorry! I got the game in January and I finished it, so I gave it to a friend for about two months and just got it back a week ago, and I started to play it just realized that, ugh, the prisons are at the beginning! I feel really stupid but, by that time, it was too late. I'm sorry for that! But, can you just bare with me for that? Please?
Anyway, Uhh... Sorry, I'm doing the after notes at 1:30 in the morning while watching a video. Ugh! But, hey, its summer, right! :) Well, anyway, do review and uhh... I keep getting very... distracted with my video, and its 1:30 in the morning! ;(
But, I was rushing to finish this chapter and getting my basic idea out! But... Oh! I remember! If when Usagi was remembering everything and there was something off about the information, then tell me, 'cause its been a while since I've seen the anime. I'm reading the rewritten manga at the moment, I need to get the 5th volume, though, that may help jog my memory. But, if anything confuses you, review or PM me. I'd like it if ya'll would PM me, though. But, I'm fine with anything else.
Anyway, listen to me ramble! Sorry! Soooo tired! Need sleep soon!
Well, ja for now!
Serenity Moon