Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Halted Destiny ❯ Small Lady’s Hidden Side--Part II ( Prologue )
[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
A/N: Moonlight Phoenix: Sailor Cosmos does make a short appearance, but since this story is about Small Lady Serenity, it is very short.
I might, if I get enough of a muse speaking to me, tell you of Sailor Gaea's upper level transformations. I have some of her Eternal Power-up written out, but I want to make sure I get the story started. This is the second installment of the prologue. Sue-Queen Serenity will show up at the end of the chapter and I will be leaving you a slight cliffhanger at the end… I'm evil…I know…
A/N p.2: I've changed a little bit at the bottom. It doesn't change the story line, it just fits with a new idea I have in regards to my other story, Sailor Moon E(ternals).
Disclaimer next: Sailor Moon and its resultant characters is owned by Naoko Takeuchi, not me. I am just using her characters for my own enjoyment. I do own the new senshi that appears in my story, as well as any other “new” characters, heroes and enemies.
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Prologue
Small Lady's Hidden Side--Part II
Rose Angel, a.k.a. Small Lady Princess Serenity, ran through the streets of Crystal Tokyo. She really had no idea how to accomplish what she wanted, but now that she had the power of Gaea on her side, she knew that she would take as long as needed to find it out.
As she was running, she found herself, almost as if her feet had a will of their own, moving towards the seedier parts of Crystal Tokyo. No matter how much she tried, Neo-Queen Serenity couldn't prevent poverty, even in the best of circumstances. Rose Angle ran through the gloom and dirt of the streets, finally halting in front of a tavern. I need to hear what those men are saying without making myself known. Everyone knows what senshi look like. She felt her body shift slightly and when she looked down, she was wearing the clothes of a young man. She looked in the window, using it like a mirror, and saw she had taken on the guise of a man. How…?
“Daughter, I have given you the power of shape-shifting. Use it to infiltrate those you need to.”
“Thanks, Papa.” Giving a grateful glance at the sky, not really knowing where the spirit form of her father was, she opened the door and walked in.
The men she knew she was looking for were sitting around a table in the corner, talking in low tones. She walked closer to them, noticing with pleasure that they ignored her. She sat at a stool near them and listened in to their conversation.
“…Tana's next phase will begin soon. Then she will be Queen of this rotten place…”
“Shhhhh. Idiot. Most of these dolts love the current queen, remember?”
“Yeah…like the former king. Can you believe her turned down Tana's very generous offer? I would love to be her King, but she chose that stupid Endymion instead.”
“But now he's dead. You still have a chance, my friend.”
The one who just spoke had a gleam in his eye that boasted not well for the man in question, so Rose Angel decided to take action. Feeling her disguise melt away, she walked towards the table with the men. The shouts in the tavern when people noticed her caused the three men to look up and see her. “Shit!” said the man who was hoping to become Tana's king.
“Who the hell are you?” asked the man who told the first man to be quiet.
The third man, the man with the evil gleam, was quiet, but it was he who Rose Angel was focusing on. “Consider me an avenging angel of those who have died in the name of your false queen.” She pulled out the Elysion rod and aimed it at the feet of the three men. “Briar Cage!” A cage of rose thorns sprang up and surrounded two of the men. The third one leapt up and attached himself to the ceiling.
“Tana will hear about this,” and with inhuman strength, he sped off.
Rose Angel shrugged. She would deal with them later. She focused her attention, instead, on the two men in her cage. “I can not kill you, but I can punish you.” Rose Angel lifted her arms over her head, letting the power build in them, “Rose…” Rose petals appeared swirling around her finger tips. She closed her hands into fists and she brought both hands in front of her, facing the two men, "…Sleeper…” She opened her hands, palms down, with her finger facing the two men, “…Vine!” The petals formed a rope like object that, as soon as touching the two men, caused them to fall to the ground, asleep. Once she was sure they were sleeping, she walked over to two men she recognized as part of the guard of the palace.
“Excuse me, sirs,” she said, politely.
“Mmm? What?” The tavern had largely ignored the scuffle between the red haired girl and three men. Figuring it would work itself out. They didn't recognize Rose Angel's powers were actual powers, figuring they were an illusion of some kind.
“These men are traitors to Crystal Tokyo. They killed the king. Will you help me get them to the palace so the queen can deal with them?”
“Nnn? How do we know you're telling the truth?”
Rose Angel did the only thing she could to make them believe her. She pulled the Crystal Key out and showed it to them. All senshi are given the crystal key when they become a senshi.
“Of course, uh…”
“Rose Angel.”
“…Rose Angel. We'll lead you there.”
Neo-Queen Serenity took action as soon as she purified the two men and heard what they said about the atrocities they committed. She summoned her guard, the four inner senshi and the four outer senshi, and took care of the problem; getting rid of Tana before she could kill any more. Rose Angel showed up and helped her mother and guardians, but she never stayed to chat. Days after Tana was defeated, Rose Angel was running through Crystal Tokyo, looking for any sign of trouble when she saw a familiar white shape in front of her. She slid to a stop and said, “Ar...Move kitty.”
The white advisor looked up at the unknown senshi and smiled. “I am Artemis, Advisor to Neo-Queen Serenity. But you knew that, didn't you?”
“Uh…”
“Who…never mind. It's not important. I was asked to find you and lead you to the queen. She wishes to meet with you now.”
“Uh….”
“Follow me, Rose Angel.” Artemis' tone of voice told her that he didn't trust her and he would keep a careful eye on her in the following interview. As they walked through the palace, they were eventually joined by all the members of the senshi, including Sailors Ceres, Vesta, Pallas, and Juno, her, or rather, Sailor Chibi Moon's guardians.
“I'm not an assassin…” Rose Angel started to say, but after a few sharp looks, she stopped talking, sighing in exasperation.
That sound was repeated when her mother's chamber door was open. “Artemis, why is she surrounded like a criminal?”
“Uh…Just protecting you, Your Highness.”
“All of you leave…” At the outcry that rose out of that statement, Neo-Queen Serenity, thoroughly agitated now, said, “Fine, Mars, Saturn. You stay. I want everyone else out.”
They all bowed gracefully out of the room and Rose Angel dropped to her right knee, her right arm at her side, her left arm on her left knee. “I'm honored, Your Highness.”
“Rise, please?” Rose Angel stood up and watched the graceful form of her mother glide down the steps towards her. “You look familiar to me; do I know your civilian form?”
“Ah…”
The queen waved her hand dismissively. “Never mind. You are dressed like a senshi, yet you call yourself Rose Angel, why? What is your true name?”
Rose Angel glanced at Sailors Mars and Saturn and looked back to the queen. “I don't think…”
The queen glanced at the two standing behind Rose Angel and sighed again. “Leave…”
“Your Highness, I don't think…”
“Mars, she will not be a danger to me. Leave. You too Saturn.”
“But…” Neo-Queen Serenity glared at Mars, who backed away. “We will be right outside, Your Highness.”
Once they left the queen smiled at Rose Angel. “I'll pay for that later. Mars is my best friend, but she is a bit over bearing sometimes. Now, what is your true name?”
Rose Angel blushed, but said, “I don't think you'll believe me, Your Highness. But, my true name is Sailor Gaea.”
Comprehension dawned on the queen's face. “Ah. I think you are wise to go by an alias then. Think no more of it.” The queen took a deep breath and squared her shoulders. “I wanted to thank you, in private, for letting us know about Tana and helping us defeat her. I'm afraid I believed the report that it was just common criminals that killed my husband. My daughter believed otherwise. I'm sorry I didn't believe her. Thank you, Sailor Gaea, for proving me wrong.”
Rose Angel bowed but looked up at her mother. “Have you told your daughter you're sorry for not believing her?” she asked, knowing that her mother had not.
“Uh…no. I will.” She smiled, “Thank you again.”
Rose Angel rose and looked at her mother. She never realized how much her mother had to deal with, what with the guardians trying to protect her at every turn. Suddenly, the queen said, “I've got it. You remind me of my late husband's mother.”
“Pardon?”
“You aren't by chance related to the late King are you?”
“The only people related to the late King are you and your daughter…”
Clarity dawned in the queen's eyes. “Small Lady?”
Rose Angel blushed, but let her transformation fade, her hair growing, turning pink and going back up into the odango hairstyle. “Hello Mother.”
“How…?”
“I have the blood of Earth in my veins, just like I have the blood of the moon. Sailor Gaea is the result of the Earth blood. I can use that transformation when I'm too angry to use the ginzuishou.”
Mother and daughter fell on each other in a hug. “I miss him, Mama.”
“I do too, Small Lady. I miss him everyday. Everyday I think I can't get through the day ahead, but then I find out that I can. Thwarting Tana's plans and destroying her has helped ease my pain, but…”
A few minutes later, a knock sounded on the door. Small Lady quickly transformed back into Rose Angel and wiped her eyes. “I don't think anyone should know.”
“Of course not… Come in!”
Sailor Mars walked in the door. “Your Highness. I think it's time Rose Angel left.”
“I think you're right. Good-bye, Rose Angel. Come help us anytime.”
Rose Angel bowed, a bit sardonically, to her mother, and followed Mars out of the palace.
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There were only two other times that Small Lady took on the persona of Rose Angel. When she was seventeen, five years before she became queen herself, there were stirrings in what was once the main part of Asia. Since the Great Freeze, it had been a barren wasteland, but there was evil lurking in it.
Small Lady felt it with her Earth power side and contacted her mother. She joined the rest of the senshi in traveling out towards the wasteland and she played a part in beating back the evil and eventually defeating it. She gained her Super level then.
But it wasn't until the night before her coronation as queen that she finally gained her Eternal level fighting against an evil that had taken over the palace from within.
Serenity gained new powers with both the Super and Eternal powers; with the Eternal Power-up, her fellow senshi discovered who she was and why she had that power. The Eternal Power-up for Gaea was quickly followed by the Eternal Power-up for Moon. Her mother had gained her next power up several years before the Great Freeze and was already known as Sailor Cosmos. Sailor Cosmos would only fight if she needed to, it was now up to the new Eternal Sailor Moon to fight in her mother's place. It fit, with Princess Serenity being crowned queen a few days after her new status.
About six months after her coronation, Sue-Queen Serenity and Helios, married. Now Helios was known as King Helios of Earth and Sue-Queen Serenity of the Moon. Despite this, Serenity still had her Earth blood and wondered how her child would deal with her dual powers. Nine months after her marriage, Serenity got her answer.