June, 2001, by Sailor GlitterGirl & Rose Aquarius
The
Universal Galaxy Saga
Book One:
The Light Never Fades
Chapter Four: Legends and Loss
Rated: PG, for emotional stuff
By: Sailor
GlitterGirl and Rose-chan
"Alright, we have a lot to
discuss," the now
de-transformed
Mercury started. Sighing and rubbing her
head, she
continued. "First, That was a Soul Vampire-
from what I
gather from their speech, previously
believed to be
myths in the Silver Millennium." Lita
snorted.
"Some myth." She muttered.
Ignoring her, Amy
went on.
"Second, We've got two new
scouts more powerful
than ANY of us.
Probably even better than all eleven of
us combined,
from my readings.
"Third, Alex, or 'Laxa' and Ali
seem to know our
identities as
Sailor Scouts, perhaps even from the
Silver
Millennium.
"Fourth, it seems that these
new Senshi may know
of our Silver
Millennium identities as well.
"Fifth, I am getting a migraine
from too much
thinking. And
finally, I also think I'm going insane
because this
makes NO sense to me!" the flustered Senshi
said before
collapsing on a chair holding her head while
the others
looked on in shock as the 'always calm' Ami
broke down in
frustration and slammed a fist into the
wall.
The group spoke up.
"Soul Vampires?" Rini
asked, her voice shaking
slightly.
"Two new scouts?" Hotaru
inquired.
"More Powerful?!" Lita
asked. She thought that
Puu was the most
powerful. The most powerful of the
normal Senshi,
anyway. Serena WAS the Moon Princess, and
Hotaru WAS the
Senshi of Destruction and Silence.
"Ami, Do you need an
aspirin?" Mina asked the
extremely
frustrated former Mercurian Princess.
"No, I need Setsuna to explain
this before I
pull my hair
out! Well, okay, yes I'd Like that aspirin,
thank you,
Mina." Amy then turned back into a calm, patient
Guardian of
Time.
"Setsuna?"
Ami was DEFINATELY not herself.
"Setsuna-chan, who ARE these
people?" Raye asked
quietly.
"Are these Sailor Guardians and
the two transfer
students
connected?" Mina asked.
"They did look similar, from
the brief glances
we got of
them," Amy said quietly, having swallowed the
aspirin Mina had
fished out of her purse, and was
feeling better
after a drink of water.
Unfazed by these questions, Setsuna
simply
turned to Luna.
"Do you remember the legend of
the First
Senshi?"
The woman asked. "Of the Light Kingdom? The
place that no
one but their direct descendants could go?
The one hidden
in the third dimension?"
"What?!" Luna asked in
shock. "What does that
have to do with
anything?" The cat asked. She was
clearly shaken,
a very un-Luna like characteristic.
"Tell them of the legend,
Luna." Setsuna said
simply.
"Tell them where they come from. Tell them who
Beryl really
was."
"I...I can remember quite
well." Luna said.
"There was
always a question of how the senshi started,"
Luna began
telling an obviously painful memory, but
continued.
"There is a legend, based on a true story
that was
eventually forgotten and became just that; a
legend."
Inquiring looks implored her, and with a sigh,
Luna continued.
"That legend is of the Sailor
Guardians, the
first scouts-
and no they did not design the uniform,"
Luna said.
The senshi always hated the fact
they wore short
skirts and spike
heels and always said if they ever got
a hold of the
person who designed them they would kill him.
Slowly.
(AN from Rose-chan; I don't blame them
about killing
the designer;
I would too!
GlitterGirl;
Rose-chan, you baka, that would mean
killing
Naoko-sama! Silly.)
As Luna said this the hate and
disappointment in
the girls eyes
dissipated with the recognition that they
couldn't drag
out that person and shoot them; even Puu
hated it!
"They are said to be the sole
Guardians of the
system at that
time. Then, for reasons unknown, they
chose a warrior
with exceptional power from every
planet; your
great-great-grandmothers' had that honor.
"Then they disappeared, saying
only to the Queen
of the Moon
-You're great-great-grandmother, Serena--
who was named
Tranquility Serenity -that's where you got
your name- to
watch for an evil. They told the Senshi
to guard the
Queen and Princesses of the Moon for as
long as they
lived, and to teach their children -who
would inherit
their powers, they said- to do the same.
"It is said that the Guardians
went away to
another dimension,
where their home was, for they were
of the Star
Kingdom, never to return.
"However, there is one other
aspect of that
legend, and that
is that they left behind their two
daughters, and
those two daughters remained secret, no
one except the current
Moon Queen, Princess, and the
other Planetary
Queens and Princesses knowing of their
existence beyond
legend.
"Their power was by far the
most powerful, as
they controlled
light and their signs power.
"Then, during the reign of your
grandmother,
Serena, when
they were the guardians of Queen Serenity
-who was still a
princess, herself- they were somehow
banished to
another dimension by...by their cousin,"
Luna choked
here, but quickly gathered herself and
continued.
"Eventually, Queen Serenity
made it possible,
with Pluto's
help, for them to cross into different
dimensions. But
by then, word had somehow leaked out
that the Sailor
Guardians had come back, and now the
legend was
stronger than ever.
"So, to keep the Galaxy at
peace, they made a
vow to
themselves -according to legend- that they would
only interfere
with anyone's life ever again if it
meant saving the
system's very existence.
"Goddess help us if we're in
that kind of need,
now!" Luna
finished sadly. Leaving out certain parts
that she would
make Setsuna give them all.
Everyone was silent as they absorbed
the story,
until it was
finally broken.
"I remember that story."
Michelle whispered.
"So do I," Mina added
quietly. "My mother used
to tell it to me
always. She described the last Sailor
Guardians so
vividly I thought that they might be real,
but eventually
I-"
"'Grew out of it,' and forgot
the legend, and
all it stood
for." Raye finished. "I did that, too, and
I remember it
now, as well."
"I think we all do, now." Serena
said, looking
at all their
faces. Steeling herself, as tears
threatened to
spill, she looked up at Setsuna. "Those...
those two we saw
today at the battle with the Spirit
Vampire...those
girls were those legendary Sailor
Guardians,
weren't they?" Serena spoke with no
emotion in her
voice, in a regal voice. It startled even
her aunt who
should know more than any of them of her
seriousness.
"Is this all true? Setsuna, are
we in that kind
of danger?"
Darien asked. He had remained silent
throughout the
whole tale.
Slowly, Setsuna nodded.
"Alex and Ali are involved with
them somehow,
too, is that
right?" Serena whispered.
Ignoring her niece’s last question,
she said
simply, quietly,
"I have to go. I...I will explain
things
further." She looked directly at Serena. "There
are
things...things I need to tell you privately. Not
now, perhaps not
soon, but the time is nearing when you
will need to
know. I'll explain later. First, I need to
find two certain
someones!" And she left, her Time Staff
disappearing, as
she was going out into public, despite
the near
midnight time.
Trying to lighten the mood, Mina
laughed softly.
"Oh, boy! Poor girls! I feel
sorry for whoever
she's going
after," She said, and others nodded their
agreement, trying
to shake off this new heavy gloom that
had settled over
them.
"Yeah, they have to face Puu
when she's angry!"
Serena said,
apparently back to her normal self. She
shuddered at the
fact. Everyone agreed and Raye silently
prayed for them
as all the others did the same.
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"I despise my life, and this
job!" Laxa said,
now transformed back to her old self plopped on
her
tall silver
canopy framed bed, swathed in silver and
silver satin and
silk beddings; she had just finished
conjuring up her
room settings.
A tear ran down her face unnoticed,
wounds
having been
reopened at the sight of that creature, the
one that they
had destroyed only ten minutes ago.
She missed her family. Despite her
fierce love
and tight bond
to her sister, she still missed them.
Music suddenly filled the room, a
soft, silky
voice drifting,
weaving around the notes and melodies
of the piano.
The beautiful music lifted the exhausted
Laxa from her
sanctuary, guiding her steps out her door
and into the
room next to hers to see her sister sitting
at a large,
polished ebony piano. Her black hair let
down from her
braid pooling around her, head bobbing to
the nameless
tune, her voice filled with sorrow singing
in a long
forgotten, but no less beautiful language.
The music filled Laxa with sadness;
the only
time either of
them ever played that tune was right
after their
family's death, only a few days before
they'd been
banished and trapped in the third dimension.
*Oh, Selene!* Laxa thought,
tears running down
her face. *She's
taking this worse than me!*
She absent-mindedly picked up a
short, but
beautiful,
gleaming silver flute and started to play
the sad song,
the notes and melodies tinkling and
whispering into
the night air, the windows letting in
a lovely breeze
that blew the golden silk around the
room like the
fluttering of butterflies. The hauntingly
beautiful and
lonely melody like the colors of the
butterfly's
wings.
The music never got louder, but it
seemed to
fill the
building and didn't stop there; it seemed to
fill the city,
and all who were awake heard the
beautiful,
heart-wrenching melody and wondered who was
creating such a
sad, sad song of sorrow.
Down the street, a tall, seething
woman stopped
in her tracks,
and Puu never made it to the building,
after hearing
her cousins' song, she turned around and
went the other
way. Even she didn't have the heart to
break their
mourning.
*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*
"Did you destroy them?" A
slimy woman's voice
asked from
above, out of the darkness that cloaked the
heights of the
tower, where the voice came from.
"I...I am afraid I bear bad
news, my lady." The
shaking, fearful
voice of the messenger was replied by
the deep and
sinister voice of a man.
"You know I despise bad
news," It hissed. "You
are lucky I do
not absorb you on sight, but let's hear
it."
The dark man below gulped.
"The...the Sailor
Guardians...they
came to their rescue."
"WHAT?!!!!!" The voice
screeched, then shrank to
a hiss.
"But they're dead! *DEAD!!*"
"Well, they killed Insector
with ease, at least
the dark one
did." The man said, wetting his lips,
trying to be
tough; he knew his masters hated weakness.
"You have ONE more chance, then
you suffer your
subordinate's
fate! Now go! Out of my SIGHT!" The female
voice screamed
at the poor man who obviously was a pawn
in this game and
knew it.
*I can't stand this!* The man
thought miserably
as he scuttled
down the dark, musty halls, avoiding
the slightest droplet
of light out of instinct. *I
made the
wrong choice. Maybe if I find my sisters
they'll take
me back?* He sighed,
knowing that he was too
much a coward to
ask.
But, as much as he had hated them
for it when they
had tried to
keep him from doing what he thought he
wanted to do
-join the dark forces- he had come to
realize that
they had been right. He had to see them, to
see if they were
alright, if nothing else; he hadn't
seen them since
Beryl had tossed them to what he had
been sure was
oblivion. Secretly, he was thrilled to
find that they
were alive.
With that thought, knowing he could
never really
ask them to do
what he wanted, but wanting to see them
nonetheless, he
used his will and suddenly disappeared,
finding himself
-as he had wanted- floating above
Tokyo's streets.
Summoning the faint, but still
there, link that
he shared with
his half-siblings, he found himself on
Tokyo's streets,
and looking up to see that he was
before a tall,
rich looking -by human standards-
building, with
smaller groups of rooms inside, crammed
in there on each
floor, save the bottom one.
His heart gave a sudden wrench as
heard a
haunting song,
one that he knew all too well.
Gulping, he pushed off the ground
and floated
up, seeking the source
of the music. His keen hearing
led him to a
large, open window, with gold silk curtains
blowing in and
out.
Floating to the window, he peeked
inside to see
a sight he had
longed to see in literally a thousand
years, and his
breath caught in his throat.
At a polished black ebony piano sat
a raven
haired midnight
goddess, her pale complexion accented
by her red
cheeks, stained with tears that flowed from
sparkling gold
eyes, shimmering with more tears. But her
angelic voice
unfazed by her tears as she sang the song,
'Hao Siere
Karo Maline.'
'My Heart Still Cries.'
He gasped, and a sob nearly escaped
him as he
saw another
vision, his other half-sister, a tall,
silver haired
woman clad in robes of pure white. Her
eyes streaming,
but she too ignoring it, gently and
silently lifted
a silver flute, raised it to her full,
red-pink lips,
and blew softly, creating the songs of
the winds, and
the notes seemed to be representing the
mournful cries
of those winds, while the piano's melody
was the tears of
the stars.
He could watch no longer, and with a
sob,
disappeared, not
noticing the dark, silent figure on
the roof above,
watching him with black, flashing eyes.
Without a sound, the watcher stood
as well, and
he too vanished.