Eternity, prologue, by Sailor GlitterGirl, July, 2001

	Hi there! Be forwarned, if you don't already know what happens
at the end of the manga version of the Sailor Stars Season, do NOT 
READ THIS!! Very bad spoilers.

	But, for those of you who already know about Sailor Cosmos, by
all means; read on!

	Every wonder what happened when Chaos came and destroyed 
everything and Serenity was the only one left alive? Ever wonder what
happened afterwards? Well, this is the story. Don't know why I called
it 'Eternity.' It just seemed to fit.

	Well, read on and enjoy!

		

		~*~*~*~ETERNITY~*~*~*~
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Prologue: The Number Two
Rated: PG-13 for heavy drama and some...not for little kids stuff; too
emotionally painfull, not hentai.
By: Sailor GlitterGirl
At: sailorglittergirl@sailormoon.com

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	Two.

	Twice.

	Double.

	Repeated.

	Duplicate.

	One. Two.

	That is the number of times that I have seen my soulmate, by
beloved, my one and only slain before me, trying to protect me.

	Twice I have seen a mother's heart torn to pieces at the sight
of her own daughter's death. The first time being my mother see me die,
the second...the second being myself, as I saw my baby...my child...

	Twice I have seen my home destroyed.

	Twice I have seen my kindom crumbled to ruins.

	Twice I have seen an evil, felt a sorrow so great, I wanted 
to die.

	The number two. It has brought be so much sorrow. I am told I
have a light within me, something that could never be extinguished. 
That's not what I felt like. I felt as if I had no light. As if my very
soul was wrapped in darkness.

	There was one more two.

	For twice, have I been the only survivor.

	But the first time, when I had seen my friends, my guardians, 
my comrades slain one by one, then, there was still the rest of the 
galaxy. But now, this time, there was nothing. Not a simple speck of
dust where a great and mighty, yet peaceful universe had once been.

	The starsystem that had boasted of such a beautiful planet 
known as earth was gone, completely obliterated.

	So how am I alive, you ask?

	Because I am the Cosmos. I am Eternity.

	When Chaos came, thrashing through the galaxy with no mercy, 
and an impossible speed, we hardly had time to register what had 
happened before the end was upon us. 

	All of the Planetary Senshi had been on Earth, in its capitol, 
the beautiful and prosperous Crystal Tokyo, head quaters of the Crystal
Millennium.

	We had been celebrating the three thousandth year anniversary 
of the creation of the Crystal Millennium, when all the planets had 
been brought back, allowing life to life on their surfaces once again.

	But in that act, all the planets save Earth were left 
completely unprotected. Chaos obliterated Pluto in mere moments, the
people not even having time to scream. Neptune, Uranus, and Saturn soon
followed, the people knowing that something was happening, but not 
what, before they were all slain as the planets were torn to mere dust 
particles.

	The Inner Planets at least had time to discover that the outer 
planets were completely gone, and to order the formation of a defense, 
but before the first sword or rifle was lifted, Jupiter and Mars were 
no more.

	Then, in what I am sure was in spite of me, Chaos looped around
Earth, ensuring no one could leave, and lashed out at Venus and 
Mercury, and in flashes of brilliant light, the two stars were gone.

	Wrapping is darkness and wild evillness around the glowing orb,
Chaos forced the Sun to collapse upon itself, exploding outwards in a 
gigantic supernova.

	Then, after the galaxy had been plunged into eternal darkness, 
Chaos slowly moved in on Earth, taking its time in its vengeance for 
the time so long ago when I humiliated her, when I had the chance, as a
mere child, to destroy it forever, and yet I had not.

	My senshi and I fought with everything we had, harder than we 
ever though imaginable. But even in Eternal form, the most powerful 
form a Senshi could take on, even when using the life-energy draining
powers of the planet Crystals, they barely scratched Chaos.

	My husband fought so bravely, as always, outraged that someone 
would dare endanger his family, his wife and daughter, and the son that
had been born only two days before.

	Yet once again Chaos showed no mercy, and I watched as they all
fell, one by one, even my precious daughter, my Small Lady, Serenity, 
whom I had begged not to fight.

	My son was torn from my arms...I wasn't able to bear to see him
killed, so I shamefully looked away, until his cries had been cut off.

	My gown sodden with the blood of my loved ones, my kingdom, my 
home in crumbling, burning, destroyed chaos all around me, I had broken
down and sobbed in the middle of my throne room.

	Laughing truimphantly, Sailor Chaos, my opposite, the negative 
of all I stood for, moved in on me, ready to destroy me with one blow.

	Then, time seemed to have stopped, as I saw the bodies of my 
fallen treasured ones, and heard their voices in my mind. Unnoticed to
me, my gown began began to glow -no, it was *me* that had been glowing.
My crscent moon insignia, the mark of my family had flashed brighter 
than when the Sun had been destroyed, and Chaos had recoiled.

	The symbols of my friends had appeared before be, glowing in 
sync with my power. Gold, orange, blue, green, red, pink, purple, dark
forest green, sallow yellow, and aqua. Earth, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter,
Mars, Moon, Saturn, Pluto, Uranus, and Neptune.

	My Senshi.

	My friends.

	They were giving me their power once again, as they had so many
times before, and for the final time, their final act of loyalty and
friendship, and of hope.

	Their powers had merged within me, and I had cried out, for the
power not only of my friends, but of the power that had been held in 
reserve for an eternity within each planet, only the tiniest of 
fraction of any one of which would equal the greatest power I had ever
mustered from the Silver Crystal...

	It was all joining, merging within me. The power of the Cosmos,
the power of the planets, contained only by my flesh.

	The symbols floating before me rammed had into my forehead, and
I had cried out in agony as my crescent moon had flared, flashed.

	Then...All at once...

	I knew.

	I knew what I had to do. And I knew...

	I knew that I would suceed.

	Slowly, I had opened my eyes, my irises flashing a vibrant 
gold. Instinctively, I knew that my crescent moon was gone, replaced
with the symbol of all the planets combined...a golden, eight point 
star.

	Rising to my feet, I had turned to face the looming, chaotic 
darkness that was Chaos. 

	Absently, I realized that I was once again in a Senshi fuku -it
had been so long! But it was unlike any uniform I had ever even heard 
of.

	Dressed completely in white, save for the collection of 
planetary rainbow colored, virticle pleates in the center of the front
of my skirt. My sleeves were gold, my collar white with two gold lines
linging it. A white choker with my gold star symbol, and just below my
bellow button was a large white disk, with my gold star on it as well.
On wither side of the disk were two white wings. The same ensemble was
over my heart as well.

	Tiny white wings on my shoulders, that I somehow knew on 
command woud bloom into full sized wings. A long, flowing white cape,
edged in gold flowed from my shoulders.

	My hair was no longer silver, but a gold tinged white. My 
silver spheres of hair atop my head were now shaped as hearts, my 
tresses longer than ever.

	White high heels on my feet, with the white wings of the god 
Mercury adorning them, giving me the speed of light.

	And in my hand, pulsing with power greater even than the Silver
Crystal, was a very long, slender white staff. A white sphere was atop 
it, and resting on top of that was yet another white disk, bearing my 
golden star on both sides. On either side of the sphere was two 
minature, white wings.

	Above me, a sinister voice hissed and cackled and spat.

	"So...We meet again Cosmos..." Chaos hissed. "Though for you, I
suppose it would be the first time. And now, with your tail between 
your legs, you coward, you will use your newly found powers to go into
the past, and try and get yourself as Eternal Sailor Moon to destroy me
when you had the chance." She laughed evilly. "Well, in case you hadn't
noticed, it didn't work!"

	"No, Chaos," I whispered, my voice, not sounding like my voice
at all, so dull and flat with sorrow and yet so crackling and bursting
with power and confidence.

	"No," I whispered again. "No it didn't work." I looked up to
meet her eyes, two glowing spheres of red. "But that was then. This is
now. You must have never heard one of Sailor Pluto's lectures on the 
rules of time; there are none. Yes, this timeline happened extremely 
similar to what the Sailor Cosmos that you first encountered knew, but
something different did happen."

	I could feel Chaos's shock and surprise. I had always been good
at reading people, but now I knew it was part of my power. I could tell
exactly what people were feeling, perhaps even what they were thinking.

	"You see, Chaos, not only shall you die this day," I had said 
quietly. "But I will be able to bring back everything that you 
destroyed, everyone that you killed."

	"What?" Chaos had cried in outrage. "You cannot! You lie, Queen
of Earth! Nothing can undo what has been dealt by chaos!"

	"You're wrong, Chaotica," I had felt Chaos recoil at the use of
her birth name, when she herself had been human. A very, very long time
ago.

	"You're so wrong," I had then reached up a hand and pressed a
single, silver-white skinned hand to my new star symbol. "There is a 
power that can undo the hate of Chaos." As my body began to glow white
and gold, the glow spread to the corpses of my friends behind me. Their
bodies had been lifed up into the air, and they all flashed their 
colors, then disappeard. In their place had been eleven fist sized
spheres, all the same color as the colors of the bodies that they had
come from.

	"And what power is that, miss high and might?" Chaos sneered.
And yet I had felt her fear, as the eleven spheres floated to me. They 
had shrunk, and placed themselves at the base of the large white sphere
atop my staff. With a flash, they all became gold, inconspicous 
additions to my staff.

	"What power?" Chaos raged. And in one simple word, a word that
was everything I cared for and stood for, I answered before rasing my 
staff and blowing the evil creature into oblivion.

	"Love."

	And with that, love destroyed Chaos, love that was channeled 
through me, up my staff, and into the heart of evil, buried inside 
Chaos.

	With a wordless cry of agony and rage, Sailor Chaos, spawn of
the ever present entity of true Chaos, was gone.

	And that is what had happened. Now here I am, floating, crying 
silently, with no need of air or heat in my Cosmos form, remembering.

	My staff in my hand, I finger the eleven spheres of gold around
the white one, knowing what each one holds.

	I knew what I must now do, and as I had known when I had first
realized it, I knew I would suceed. I would keep my promise to Chaos; I
would bring back the Crystal Millennium.


The End.

	 For now. If you guys want this to be continued, I must have
e-mail. If I get three e-mails, then Eternity will be continued. I'll
even take suggestions for furthuring the plot, though I already know
what I'd do.

	Take care and God bless! Ja ne!

Sailor GlitterGirl


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