Title: Sister Moon, Brother Earth [0/?] Author: Corbeau Noir Genre: AU, Action/Adventure, Drama Rating: PG-13 Email: noir_corbeau@hotmail.com Site: http://www.geocities.com/corbeaun ---------------------------------------------------------------- Summary: Usagi and Mamoru have been reborn in 21st century Tokyo as twins. Orphaned early on in a car accident, the two siblings struggled to make a life for themselves in the years past. Unfortunately, little do they know that their normal lives are soon to be over. Disclaimer: Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon is the creation of the talented Naoko Takeuchi; no infringement is intended. ================================================================ Sister Moon, Brother Earth By Corbeau Noir Prologue ~~~~~~~~ His first memory was pain. Pure and undiluted, racing through his blood, pooling in his heart, an agony of the mind as much as of the flesh. But the pain tethered him to the present, kept him to the now, and prevented him from sinking back into the darkness that had claimed him for so long. He woke to the sight of white-uniformed giants looming over him, cold hands poking with cold blunt objects. They spoke to him sometimes, in a language he felt he should know but did not. After a while, they quit speaking to him at all and simply spoke to each other, tongues clucking, faces long. Gradually he picked up the language, and in doing so, picked up the pieces of a life he no longer remembered. They told him his name was Chiba Mamoru. That he had nearly died. That he was lucky to have survived at all, considering the extent of brain trauma that had occurred. That he was an orphan. They said a lot of things then, some of them interesting, most of them irrelevant, and over a remarkably short period of time, the boy who was Chiba Mamoru learned to shut out the noise. He could not bring himself to care. But one day, more people came, put him in a chair and took him away, to a room that looked exactly the same as his. Except there was someone else on that narrow hospital cot. Someone still, tiny and pale, someone he recognized... And then they told him. Wonder. Elation. "Sister." It was the first word he'd spoke since the darkness. No one tried to stop him when he wobbled out of the wheelchair, standing on his own two feet for the first time he could remember. Trembling, nearly tripping over the mass of wires and tubes that crisscrossed the entire room, he slowly approached the silent occupant of the hospital cot. In the background the electric pings and beeps of the life-support machine made harsh harmony with the pounding of his heart. He reached out to touch her then, her heart beating under his palm --- light, measured pulses that seemed to quicken as his child hands settled over hers. And the agony that had smoldered in his mind ever since he woke to find himself confused and alone in that empty hospital bed finally receded, leaving in its stead peace. Serenity. [End "Sister Moon, Brother Earth" - Prologue] ================================================================ Author's Notes: I apologize for the extremely short prologue, but this seems to be the only appropriate place to cut off. The next part will be much longer, I promise. While the relation between Usagi and Mamoru in this fic is extremely unorthodox, the rest of the canon SM universe will be preserved, meaning the continued existence of the Dark Kingdom and the corresponding need for Senshis. Might be interesting to see how this twist in blood ties, and a little nudge forward of everything in time, affects events. >^-^< This is my very first SM fanfic, so any C&C would be greatly appreciated. :) -------------------------- noir_corbeau@hotmail.com www.geocities.com/corbeaun -------------------------- ================================================================