Crystal Senshi: The Legend Continues

Savagekitty

Chapter Seven

It's dark, I don't like the dark. I think it was only dark because I have a cloth over my eyes. He had dragged me here and showed me Pegasus. My dear fried was tried in sticky ropes, and it looked to be sucking the life from him. If I wasn't trapped in this child's body, I could help him, somewhat. The man, the Dream King, had yelled at me, screamed, demanded, where the Dream Door was. I only cried, allowing him to think, like I had all my friends, that I was only a simple child. I may look like a ten year old, but I do not think as a ten year old. I am trapped within this body. My mother gave people a reason, because I was of moon blood. But really, they had no idea why I was like this.

Back to the danger at hand, if I could do anything, I would have. The King tied me to Pegasus with the sticky ropes that were soft, almost like spider's webs. It made sense. A spider is sinister looking within its own right, and this man would take on the guise. I had slowly worked the cover from my eye's finally, peeking out from behind it and was blinded.

We stood on a platform, outside. I am assuming that from the wind whistling around us, now that I can actually hear with the cloth gone from around my ears, that we are high in the air. I blinked the light away, adjusting. I took in my surroundings. The Dream King wasn't around, so he must feel confident, a child couldn't get loose. Stupid man. Never under estimate anyone. I looked at Pegasus. He looks ill, for a horse. His eyes are closed, but his breathing is laxed. I am noticing something else, around the platform, which is round, is evenly spaced large full length mirrors. I can not see what's reflecting in them because of the sun glare, but I can just make something out, it looks like…people? A person per mirror. I try my legs and find the rope not so tight. I lean down and gnaw at the bindings. Its horrible, but I must do it. It seems forever, but I manage it. Removing the ropes, I stand and stumble. My legs had went to sleep. I walk, trying ti ignore the pins and needles as I walk to the mirrors. One of them, I come to, I move in the way of the sun so I can see what the reflection is. It isn't me that I stare into. It's my Aunt Erin!

I stumble back, gasping in horror. She looks asleep, but her eyes are open, staring, unmoving. She's trapped! I move to the next one, Aunt Bonnie, Aunt Lauren, Aunt Rei, Sailor Huntress, Oh Goddess… isn't this Jo? That man that's been trying to get on Anniee's good side?

"Oh Goddess…" I mutter and turn, rushing to Pegasus, "Helios! Wake up!"

Pegasus opened one eye, that was bloodshot and runny, "So you know who I am, Princess?"

He speaks in my mind as he always did, only I can hear him. I take him by the nose and rest my head to his forehead, "Helios, what's happened? Why does he want the Dream Door so badly?"

"Princess, look over the side of this floating rock and you will see…"

I stood and walking to the side, laying down and sticking my head over. We were indeed on a floating rock miles and miles above the Earth. Just below us was the circus tent that the senshi had talked of. I looked down at the Earth, noticing the black patches that as I watched, grew outward from several points. I stand, rushing back to Helios, "What is it?"

"The Earth is dying. That is why Sailor Earth and your father are so ill. They feel the effects of the Dream King's power. He sucks life from the planet to fuel his efforts to find that planet's Crystal of Life."

Shaking my head, "I don't understand, Helios! Is that the Silver Crystal my mother carries?"

"No," He sounded tired, stressed, "The Crystal of Life lies at the heart of the Dream Garden. It is what keeps a planet alive and beautiful. It takes the beautiful dreams of the planet's people and keep the planet living."

"Like a battery. It's a planet's battery. Dear Goddess…" I stand, pacing as I do when I think, trying not to panic or get angry. If the Dream King got a hold of it… well, that's end game for Earth. I kneeled by Helios to ask a question when I noticed Dream King return out of the corner of my eye. I quickly wrapped the tie around my head and hunched down, making it look as if I was still tied.

First thing I heard was that he was angry. He stood in front of the mirror that held Jo and growled. He was saying something under his breath, and I knew that mirror was suppose to be for Anniee. So she was free! And she might still be on her way to help me!

To my surprise as if my thoughts brought her, there she was! She stood between Aunt Erin's and Cally's mirrors. Her rapier in attack position as she spoke to the Dream King, "Where is Small Lady?"

The King looked at her stepping back, "What makes you think she's here?"

"Because I am!" I stood, throwing the tie from my head and walked out from around Helios, "Anniee! He is after the Crystal of Life for Earth! If he finds it, Earth is dead! It's already dying because… well… I don't know why…"

Anniee looked at me, surprised by my speech. She always heard me speak in my simple childlike tones. But I had revealed myself to be a young woman, at least in my mind.

She advanced on the Dream King, "Small lady, come to me, we'll leave here."

I ran to her, "No Anniee, we can't! The others, they're trapped in the mirrors, look! And the Earth, my father and your mother are dying because it is! We have to stop him!"

"Stop me? You can't stop me! I know where the Dream Door is! Now that I see the princess for who she truly is!"

He came at me and I was caught. He gripped me, bruising my wrists as he dragged me away from Anniee, she could not do anything for fear of hurting me, I saw it in her eyes. He dragged me to Helios and took my hand, placing it on the golden horn that protruded from his forehead. There was a flash and the large golden door that was the Dream Door stood before us.

"NO!" I screamed. How did he know? He still had me by the wrist as Anniee took a step forward, "I have what I want now," the King sneered. "You can have her back. FETCH!" He pulled me to the edge of the platform and pushed me off.

Gasping, I fell like a stone, the wind whistling past my ears. I stared up, seeing Anniee at the edge. She jumped off herself! She dove like a dart at me as I fell. I put my arms out, trying to slow myself down as she came. It seemed like forever. She reached me, grabbing me and then…there were feathers. We slowed and stopped. She had her arms wrapped about me as we started to rise. I opened my eyes and saw, she had wings, black wings, like a crow, she pumped them, going higher. "How!" I asked.

"I'm a Guardian, Small Lady," she said, "I do what it takes to guard those I love, including growing wings."

I laughed as we came over the top of the rise on the platform and set down. The wings shrank back into her skin as I ran to the Dream Door, which was open. "We have to stop him! We have to!"

"You stay here, Smally. Try and get them free from the mirrors. Don't smash them, though. It could kill them!"

I nodded as she ran through the door. I looked around, unsure of what to do when I looked at Helios. I went to him, "Come on Helios, you need to help me." I pulled at the ties, praying Anniee would stop him in time. I had noticed, as I fell, that the Earth was growing dim.