souna no miko
Disclaimer: Sailor Moon and all original characters mentioned in this story is owned by the great Takeuchi Naoko. There is no way I would claim them as my own. The song/s that will be used as part of the story are not mine either, they are owned by their respective writers and singers.
Chapter
8 (part 2)
Gathering of the Four Guardians
Seiya found himself in the same situation, remembering who he really was. He remembered his childhood as being happy and sad. He was a carefree boy with nothing else in mind but play, had lots of good times and most of all sleep.
People would always compare him with his twin sister. It has always been 'Casseopeia's this...', 'Casseopeia's that...', 'Casseopeia would....', 'Casseopeia's could...', 'Casseopeia, Casseopeia, Casseopeia'. Yet Caleb never let it get to him, he never compromised and never did he change his ways just to be praised.
He didn't care what other people would think of him, well, except for one person, his twin sister.
"Aniki why are you always up in that tree sleeping?" young Casseopeia asked as she looked up to her older twin brother.
"Saa Cassey-chan stop calling me aniki, I was only born two minutes ahead of you!"
"Then why do you always call me 'imouto'(1)?"
Caleb held one finger up and opened his mouth to protest but stopped when he realized that his sister was right, as usual.
"Caleb, you should be a bit more serious and you should stop procrastinating and being a lazy boy, in about two years we'll be officially the Princess's Guardians so you should get your act together." Casseopeia said.
For a seven-year old, his sister could be so dead pan right. He sat up straight and purposely dropped himself from the tree landing gracefully on the ground.
"Show off." Casseopeia huffed.
Caleb merely smiled back at her with that childish smile of his.
Seiya smiled as he watched his younger self make lots of friends and make lives of people around him a bit more different than how they lived it before.
He remembered the day he was appointed the leader of Persephone's guardians and the days he and Princess Persephone would talk about things, about life and about love.
Seiya watched as Caleb, his young self, first came to the palace.
He was separated from the others and found himself in the garden instead of the throne room. There he saw the most beautiful girl he has ever seen. The little girl was wearing a virgin white spaghetti strap dress, her hair which was very long and the sides were braided and joined by a small lavender ribbon at the back of her hair. The girl looked towards his direction and smiled at him. He smiled back and waved at the girl. All of a sudden a tall scary looking palace guard tapped his back and asked him what was he doing there,
"I'm...uhm...I'm a guardian of..." Seiya stuttered in fear.
"Oh, one of the starlights ehy? Very well follow me." The guard replied.
The guard took him to the throne room where his sister and his other two friends were, and there, he saw the girl once again.
The young 14-year old Earth prince introduced his sister to her four new guardians. The Princess who was only 9 years old hid behind her brother and scanned the faces of the people in front of her; she smiled once she saw a familiar face. She stepped out of her brother's back and approached the boy,
"You're the boy from the garden a while ago."
Caleb bowed in respect and replied.
"I got lost your highness."
Princess Persephone giggled and asked in a formal teasing tone,
"And what might I ask is your name young man?"
Caleb bowed once again and replied,
"The name is Caleb your highness."
Persephone smiled at him and said,
"Well then Caleb, you can call me Persephone, just….Persephone."
From that day on he and Princess Persephone became real good friends. He remembered how Persephone shared her secrets with him, how he was one of the first few people who knew about her feelings towards Prince Alexis. He's forever annoyed by the prince's pride and hated him for ignoring the woman he loved as his own sister. But amidst it all, he could not find it in his self to blame the arrogant Uranian Prince for his Princess' death, for he knew well that Princess Persephone would never forgive him if he did.
Tears fell from Seiya's eyes as he watched his past self quietly slip away from Persephone's death ceremony to go to his chamber and cry, away from everybody's eyes.
Tsuzuku…
A/N:
(1) imouto = younger sister