Rose of the Moon

AN: Here's chapter 2. This chapter will be straight from Belle's POV. You'll see exactly why she was so cold to Gaston in the last chapter. Yes I know she hates him in the movie. But she's just moved to this little village. She's just met him, and all in all, I'd say he's been pretty nice to her, helping her with that box and all. So she can't exactly hate him yet. There has to be a reason she doesn't trust him, right? So anyway this'll address Belle and her role in this fanfiction. I know you're all probably expecting her to be Sailor Moon right? After all, this is her movie. Well, you'll just have to read and see.

Act 2

"Belle, I know this isn't easy, but that man was just trying to help you with that box. It was very heavy."

I nodded, "Yes Papa. But, he insinuated I was weak, delicate he called me. Like I can't take care of myself."
I knew I was being petty. There was no way that guy could have known I would be offended. And he was just being nice. "I'm sorry Papa. It's…it's just…"

"I know. It's only been a few months since your mother died, and everything started going south from there. But I know this move is the best thing for us, a start of a new life. It's what your mother would want, for us to start over and move on."

"I'll try Papa. I'm going to start putting things away." I took the box and began unpacking all of the books I had ever acquired. They had been Mother's books really. But…Mother was gone now. They were all I had left of her. She loved to read and I can still remember how she would lift me onto her lap and read to me when I was just a little girl. Her voice would take on those of the characters and take me into a world of enchantment.

I pulled out one of the books. "The Legend of the Moon Kingdom." It had been Mother's favorite. About a glorious kingdom on the Moon ruled by a beautiful queen and her daughter, and four princesses who were always at the Moon Princess' side, and the doomed love between the Moon Princess and the Prince of Earth. Such a beautiful sad story. And somehow, everything I heard it, I could feel a strange sense that something was missing, that maybe the story wasn't really a legend. But that wasn't possible. People can't live on the moon. I slipped the book onto the shelf.

As I put the books away, one by one, a yawn overtook me. There was another reason I was so cold, I was grumpy. I hadn't gotten a decent night's sleep in the last few months. They started the night Mother passed away. I remember the first one.

I seemed to wake up in a whole new place, a whole new era. I was a tall, athletic blonde with startling blue eyes. I couldn't help thinking that this couldn't be me, and yet, in the dream it was. I was on what was called a volleyball team. Volleyball is a game played with a net and two teams. The teams try to score on each other by getting the ball over to the other floor of what was called a court without the other team sending it back. It was fun, but in the real world, I'm not very athletic at all.

In the dream, I wasn't a bookworm like I am in real life, and I was boy crazy. I'm not like that at all in real life. I'm not popular like I was in the dream. I lived in a country called Japan, in a city called Tokyo, District 10 or Azabu Juuban. Yeah, thanks to these dreams, I know a whole other language. Oh boy, people are going to think I'm crazy here. Anyway, in the dream I was fourteen, in reality I'm almost eighteen, and I went to an educational facility called a Junior High School. And I had a crush on an older student, Higashi-senpai. But he wasn't what he seemed to be at all.

Anyway, all over the school there was this adorable white cat following me with a crescent moon bald-spot on his forehead. I was back in the my house, in the dream, and he appeared again and told me that once upon a time, I had been "Born with the protection of the Goddess of Beauty" and that his name was Artemis.
He told me that I had been chosen for something and gave me a golden crescent moon compact. I opened the compact and looked into a small mirror, and there I was, but with a very strange outfit, sort of like the uniform I wore to school. And a red mask and more importantly, a crescent moon on my forehead. I had no idea what it meant, but he took me into space. The Earth looked so pretty from space, like a blue bead.

And he took me all the way to the Planet Venus. Venus is a planet about the same size and shape as the Earth. He called it Earth's Twin Planet. My Mother Star, the Fiery Planet of the Goddess known as Venus.

Now I know all about the Goddess Venus. The Roman Goddess of Love. I love mythology. But that I could really be from the Planet Venus, who wouldn't be skeptical? It's completely impossible. He then showed me to what he called my castle, Magellan.

Another voice spoke up and told me I was born to fight. And that's when I woke up back in my real life.

It was so strange. So surreal. I naturally passed it off as just a dream. But ever since then, I've been having these dreams of becoming a great heroine, who fights against crime, The Dark Agency and a man in tuxedo, with a face that looks a lot like that Gaston fellow. My mind says it's not him, that the dreams are just that, dreams that mean nothing. But, my heart says that there is some truth to them. That I really am the Sailor-Suited Pretty Soldier Sailor V, the Champion of Justice.

AN: Okay, we have our next full tie-in with the original series. Yes this chapter is basically a summary of Codename Sailor V Act 1, but I have my reasons. It's up to you to interpret. Is she just dreaming of her other life, training in her dreams? Or is she living a double life entirely as Aino Minako? Please read and review.