SailorStar9: After getting Chapter 2 out, this is Chapter 3 of this fic. (Sighs) Guys and girls, is it too hard for you to leave a review, instead of just putting this fic up on your favorited list and story alerts?

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Chapter 3: Memories, Part One

She looked out of the Moon Palace to the Earth, watching as the ground shook and the waters of the oceans surged, crashing over the land and plunging all life beneath the crushing waves. The skies trembled as thunder boomed, lightning split the air, and a torrential rain pounded down. Those not caught in the initial surge of the seas were drowned by the rain that flooded their homes and rose to swallow entire mountains.

She could not help the evil, satisfied smile that curled her lips. Everything was going according to her plan. The symphony of death and agony, the final cries of the dead and dying as crushing water pulled them to the darkness of oblivion, was much sweeter to her ears than she had imagined it would be. She almost felt giddy.

She reached up and touched a point in the air; the sky shimmered, then all the calamities ceased as she inspected the silvery gem held between her hands. In an instant, the rain stopped, the shuddering earth stilled, and the violent seas calmed. She paid it all little attention. She was focused instead on the jewel she now held and seemed as though she were appraising it for flaws and chips. "Still not ready?" she asked rhetorically. "How long will it take, my precious Ginzuishou? How many souls must I sacrifice? What does it take to sate your hunger?"

She did not wait for an answer nor did it seem she expected one. She placed the gem back into the Prayer Pillar, where it stayed, motionless, for a moment, then shimmered and gleamed before it vanished once more. The calamities started up again — the earth split and cracked, the oceans surged over the lands, and the skies screamed a cacophony of thunder, lightning, and torrential rainfall.

How much longer? She wondered. He would not turn a blind eye to this, to the devastation she was causing, for very long. It was only a matter of time before He sent Her to stop her; the question was whether or not she could be ready when she did come, whether her preparations would be complete when She appeared to stay her hand.

"Selenity." A voice called.

The Moon Goddess smiled slyly, evilly, and turned to face the woman who had called out to her, making sure to bury her short burst of frustration. She wasn't ready yet. She would need to stall as long as she could, buy time for the Ginzuishou to finish. She would have to press the right buttons to keep the woman across from her at bay.

"Tula." She replied coolly, as if she was talking about the weather. "Here you are, and yet Poseidon did not deign to join us? I must confess to my hurt. Does he not want to see me?"

Tula did not break her glare, eyes steady and calm, but burning with an inner rage, "What is this, Selenity?"

The Moon Goddess laughed sinisterly, "Is it not obvious?"

Tula tore her eyes away from Selenity to look at the destruction and havoc raging over the Earth. When she looked back into those unfeeling silver eyes, her own contained a sort of soft disbelief. "What have you done?"

It was whispered and a fair question, but for whatever reason, it awoke a rage inside of Selenity and she gestured wildly, furious. "What must be done!" she roared. "As I am, I cannot do what must be done, so I have taken another method, another means, and I shall be able to change my circumstances. I shall take His place! I shall be Queen of the Universe!"

"What are you talking about?" Tula demanded. There was an edge to it, harsh and hurt and angry.

Selenity remembered for a moment all that they had shared, the camaraderie, the sisterhood, but could not find it enough to sate the fires of her hatred.

"He took it from me!" Selenity raged. "So I'll take it back, then take His throne! And not even you will stop me!"

"Selenity," Tula said, her voice lowered dangerously.

The Moon Goddess didn't allow her to continue. "Why?" she demanded angrily. "Why do you follow Him?" she reached out and reclaimed her gem. "I'll take it back," she declared. "And I'll take his throne and create a new world, a better Universe, on the ashes of this one. A winner is always thinking about how the Universe should be, not how it is! I will make a better Universe! I will take his crown and start anew! And I shall not make mistakes!"

"Selenity!" Ami screamed, her eyes snapping open after her dream was cut short, her Immortal Blood awakening within her.

Elsewhere, Gray was having a different dream.

"Tula," Genma, the adult Gray clone, voiced, the Winter Goddess' Ice Lancer was immediately by his beloved Queen's side.

"I was too late." The Goddess whispered, returning back to her Queen Mercury self. "Selenity…" she looked worriedly at the darkening skies. "What she's doing will doom us all. Haku." Hades' daughter turned her chief army commander.

"At your command, my Queen." The Lyon lookalike knelt.

"Rally the troops and bolster the defense shields." Queen Isis instructed. "Selenity has betrayed us all in her lust for power. I must gain an audience with Lord Zeus and warn the Council of Selenity's treachery."

"My Queen, they will not listen." Haku protested.

"Haku is right." Genma aided his love up. "Selenity had poured honey into Lord Zeus' ears over the centuries. The Lord will not listen to your accusations."

"He is still my uncle." Isis reminded and vanished in a flash.

"Well," both men looked at each other. "We warned her."

"Tou-san?" little Senna rubbed her eyes, a miniature bolster in her arms. "Where's kaa-san?"

"Your kaa-san," Genma picked up his daughter. "Has gone to see your grand-uncle."

"Is kaa-san going to yell at grand-uncle?" Senna inquired owlishly, causing both men to chuckle.

"Probably." Haku answered the young Princess.

"Another one?" Gray slid off his bed and opened the window to let the early morning air blow in. "But what in the world was Lyon doing in my dream? This magical aura… It couldn't be…" his head snapped towards Ami's direction. "Tula? Yes, finally!" the ice mage did a victory dance. "She's back!"

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