Chapter 19: What Dreams Are Made Of
Wicked Lady saw a man. A man with white silver hair, and golden eyes. No it wasn't Diamond. Then who was it? That's when she saw the golden crystal horn coming out of his head. Why? Why was something about this man so familiar? She felt that even the Rini part of her couldn't identify him fully.
"Rini, my dear Rini."
"I am Wicked Lady, and who are you?" She stared and realized that this man was but an apparition in time, not really physically there.
"I am the one that you saved many years in my past, and many years to your future Rini. I know you are still there. I could only depend on you; on your dreams. Even in the future you are there for me most. Rini, you know me, even this early I remember being in your dreams, if only for short moments."
"I don't remember your face."
"You do. Do you remember my horn? Most men do not have horns of gold, but neither to most white horses?"
Suddenly Wicked Lady felt the Rini part of her stir. It said "The unicorn in my dreams? Is that you?"
He watched her inner struggle. "So you do. Rini, realize that without your pure dreams I cannot live. Without your pure dreams, you can never reawaken your mother, trapped in quartz in the futures time. You cannot join me in a peaceful future. Don't let the darkness corrupt your memories or your dreams."
Wicked Lady felt something move inside her. It wasn't just Rini, but something about this man that drew her in. She felt her shoulders relax, and the tenseness from her body leave her.
"Let me help you reawaken your innocent dreams, and life." He held out his hand, and his Golden Crystal horn glowed.
She reached out for his hand and ever so hesitantly let it fall onto his palm…which felt of static, if that made any sense.
She saw it. The unicorn in her dreams, the real story behind Wise Man and Prince Diamond's lies, and a feeling of warmth and comfort she didn't feel before. Then she started to feel Rini emerge. It sent a ripple through the air that broke the dead still of the frozen time.
"What are you doing with that man?" Melanite coughed out.
Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask lifted their heads, to see Wicked Lady and the back of a man with white hair's head.
Wicked Lady ignored Melanite and found herself in the apparition arms of this man. Suddenly Wicked Lady was shrinking to becoming Rini, and the man became a winged, golden horned white horse.
When it was all through Rini opened her eyes, back to reality. "Pegasus what are you doing here?"
"I am here to help you Rini, just as one day you will help me. I am glad you do not remember…then the future will not be revealed. Goodbye now Rini, even now I have stayed too long." Suddenly Pluto's scepter shone and
Pegasus was gone.
Rini then returned to Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask, along with the other scouts on the ground.
"Sailor Moon?" Rini looked to see Sailor Moon still curled up in Tuxedo Mask's arms.
"Rini." She smiled.
"Your alright!"
"Of course I am Rini. I'm just so happy to have you back. I'm sorry I couldn't fight for you."
"It's fine. Pegasus from my dreams helped me get my memories and dreams back because you couldn't be there."
"But Rini wasn't there a man there?" Tuxedo Mask asked.
"A man? What man? There wasn't any man?" She asked genuinely confused.
"The man that took Wicked Lady away from me!" Melanite roared. "You will pay. I know that you scouts did it! Some trick! She was my lady not any one else's!" He then struck the scouts and sailor moon with a huge burst of dark energy.
"I was supposed to be the Prince of the Black Clan but Diamond was knighted such before me. I never had a chance. He may have been Amathyst's son but I was Topazite's. It was even game to become king. Now that Diamond is gone I regain that title."
"Then it was you're idea to kill Diamond?" Sailor Moon asked meekly.
"Me? Yes if Wicked Lady hadn't done such I would have myself. He used Wicked Lady and your own power, but couldn't stand by himself. Pathetic. Now I will rule this world and I will get my Wicked Lady back to me."
"No way buster. I won't let you take Rini from me again, you got that." Sailor Moon struggled to get up walking over to Melanite, her silver crystal glowing on her chest.
"Serena you cant use that yet. You're too weak!" The scouts pleaded.
"You want a fight? You couldn't even handle your Black Moon Power, who's to say you can handle mine? Or my family's?"
"I can." She held the crystal over her head, and suddenly she wasn't Sailor Moon, she was Neo Queen Serenity, fighting to protect her child, her lover and her friends.
Ha! So who was the mystery man? Pretty obvs...and I know im going way out of order but technically it doesn't change or alter the future episodes at all.
And the fight has just begun? Plots thicken…and yes it's going to be a little déjà vu from the real episode but it can't be helped, and only for a bit.