Sailor Moon Fan Fiction / Rurouni Kenshin Fan Fiction ❯ A Tale Of Two Gumis ❯ And the Search continues ( Chapter 6 )

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Elysian, Present day….

 

Exhausted Helios flops back onto the pile of pillows at his back. Panting slightly with the effort he looks over at the Lady and asks a question that's been nagging him. “Lady, do we really have to check every day of all the years in an Era? I know we can check twenty years in a day, but we've been at this two days and nothing yet.”

 

Leader lifts an eyebrow giving him a look that says, `well what do you think?' At the continued question in Helios eyes she gives in and answers. “Helios I told you before we started that we had to be careful not to rush this. I know how much you need to find them and how important it is that I find them. However, we cannot afford to be sloppy; if we miss them then the enemy will be sure to get to them first.” Then her gaze turning hard, “We can not allow that to happen.”

 

Helios ducks his head trying to escape from that hard look, “Gomen Lady I had forgotten about that. It was just that I thought perhaps if we were merely to check one day in every week that would be enough since they wouldn't be likely to jump time frames again in less then a week or even two. That would allow us to look much faster giving us 133 years in a day at that rate we could shorten our days of searching and give ourselves some rest.”

 

Shaking her head at her own thoughtlessness Leader looked at Helios carefully. She was surprised at the dark circles that hung under his eyes and the wrung out set of his shoulders. Sighing, she consciously forced herself into relaxing her stance and approached Helios.

 

//So young and so unsure of himself,// she thought a little sadly. //No wonder he cried for help so often while I was in my Crystal induced sleep.//

 

“Iie, Helios it's I who should apologize,” she said and Helios looked at her in surprise, especially when she gave him a gentle squeeze on his shoulder and then guided him over to the table where the Maynards had placed their evening's dinner. “I should have realized you had a different course of action in mind, one that would work just as well, if not better, then the one that we have been pursuing. Your plan is a good one. We'll wait for a day to let you recover and cut the search time to 15 hours instead of twenty.” She held up a hand to forestall his protest. “Doing that we'll be able to search 100 years a day and give you some much needed rest. This way we'll be sure to be fresh when looking for the Princess and her Guardians.” Pouring some tea and adding a small spoon of sugar to it she handed him the cup. “Come. We'll eat for now and then it's time to rest again.”

 

Looking at the sky outside the Pavilion she sighed and then looked back at her companion. //He's so very young and eager to please the one he sees as a hero. What would he think if he knew my connection to this new enemy? What would he say to Serenity if he knew the truth?//

 

“Lady, you look sad,” Helios said softly.

 

“It's nothing Helios,” Leader reassured him. “Just some old memories nothing more.” Then with a gentle smile full of interest, she said, “Now why don't you tell me about `Small Lady' and the others.”

 

At her request, Helios regarded her a moment in surprise and then smiled happily. Leader felt her hear lighten with kindness towards this young seer. His smile seemed bright enough to light the entire stadium just now.

 

“Hai,” he said and paused to think. “Small Lady is also known as Chibiusa, she is Neo-Queen Serenity's daughter. She is . . . how do I describe her?” He heaved a sigh as his eyes became distant and dreamy; it was a love-struck look. “She is light and beauty, happiness and excitement, and with a temper that could tear you to pieces; but that merely adds a little extra spice to her personality.” He paused, confused by his revealing reply to her request.

 

Quickly, he flushed when he realized he was going into too much detail about `His Lady' and started describing the others. “Endymion is called Mamorou in the regular world. He is kind but has a hard time showing his affection, especially since he fears losing them. This causes him to fear love. His parents died in a car accident when he was six, he was in the same accident and so lost his memories of his early years.”

 

Leader was not disturbed by this news. //There was no way that the planet would have allowed him to stay with them for long. It cares little for peoples lives or loves, it demands its say in everything that goes on.// She mused to herself. “And what about the others surrounding Serenity?” She asked, encouraging him to continue.

 

“Strangely enough all the others had rather rough times growing up as well,” Helios told her and then launched into a description of each of the sailor's problems; Ami or Sailor Mercury-her intelligence setting her apart and her father leaving her, Rei or Sailor Mars-her mother's death prompting her father to leave Rei to be raised by her grandfather, Makoto or Sailor Jupiter-both parents dead in an airplane accident during a thunder storm, Minako or Sailor Venus/Sailor V-finding out she was a scout and that she was to draw attention to herself so that the others could mature at the tender age of 10, then having to fake her own death so as not to hurt two people she loved and admired.(1)

 

“And they were all brought together in friendship by Serenity's power,” Leader said softly, almost bitterly. //The world forced tragedy on them so that they would be ripe for the boundless love that is present in all of the Queens of the Moon; the love that has, for as long as I can remember, always surrounded them. After feeling that love how could they deny her and her cause, even their lives? Or, even their own lives for that matter . . .//

 

Oblivious to the hidden bitterness in Leader's voice Helios answered, “Yes. And while they would lay their lives down for her she would do the same for each of them. I cannot think of another who would be so willing.”

 

Author's Notes:

 

1. Another case of me mixing manga and anime. Venus drew the attention of Beryl in the manga so that the others could mature into scouts. In the anime she faked her death so that her partner and her friend, who she had a crush on, could be together without feeling guilty about her. I had her be ten because she's the same age as the other girls but has been a scout for much longer, both the anime and manga agree on this point.

 

2. Yes I really did do the calculations on this part. Let me tell you I may despise math but I'm really very good at it. And yes I do realize the notes are not in order I just forgot this note and so put it in second.

 

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Directly after Neo-Queen Serenity's final battle with Galaxia in the desolate Galaxy of Chaos (Not an alternate dimension)

 

 

The Chaos Lord watched with very little worry as the `Little Princess' (as she had been dubbed by the now deceased Beryl) shattered his beautiful wrapping of chaos around Galaxia's heart. //Ah well, she certainly made a beautiful distraction so I could retrieve my true prize//

 

With that thought the creature that, to the human eye, appeared little more then a shadow moved over to the deep green Crystal containing his prize. “Now I have you back my pet. My wonderful soldier, there has been no sign of `her' since you were sealed in this damnable Crystal in that thrice Cursed Void. And without her, with you awake the `Little Princess' won't stand a chance.” He chuckled low and deep in his throat, to the unknowing it would sound as though he were growling.

 

Enshrined in the Crystal only dimly seen is the figure of a male, small and compact, his hair is cropped short but it shines through the depths of the green Crystal impossibly bright. It is the color of the moon; pale and beautiful silver hue.

 

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