Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ No Time Like the Past ❯ Battle in the Arctic ( Chapter 1 )
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By: Tempestor 
Anime/Manga: Sailor Moon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 08.29.2001 | Pages: 1 | Words: 2.6K | Visits: 184 | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: Sailor Moon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 08.29.2001 | Pages: 1 | Words: 2.6K | Visits: 184 | Status: Work In Progress
NO TIME LIKE THE PAST
Chapter 1
*Being an American viewer of the Sailor Moon Saga... I am taking an eclectic approach to the names of characters and of certain attacks. I choose what makes my writing sound well for the fic in question.
"Time. It is a force that destroys, creates, alters, ameliorates, and obliterates every single thing in the universe. It is both a raging hurricane and a tranquil breeze, but time is not infinite for anything. The ripples created by mortals in the great stream of chronological power are irreversible. What is done in the past can and will affect the uncertain future with dramatic consequences."
The ethereal mist of the ages surges in great torrents to consume it in a maelstrom. The mist seems alive; it contorts for a second into a skull or a face and then just as quickly fades out of existence. This is the omniscient portal of time that we see and an amazing sight it is. There is a faint glimmer on the horizon towards the nexus of the portal and as the mist clears, there is the figure of a woman.
The staff emerges first from the mist held by a delicate yet strong white glove. A key! It is adorned by ornate engravings and topped by a crimson orb. It is known as the garnet orb of power, a talisman of the Holy Grail and a focus of the energy of the silent warrior holding it. Then the figure steps out of the mist and into the light of a passing rift in the storm. Her emerald hair is swept into the wind ever so gently as if it had a life of its own and she slowly raises her face to the scintillation, seeming to bathe in its glow. She seemed to be a living statue, her skin possessed a dark hue despite the bright luminescence and her face was marked with nothing but perfection. Her dark red lips parted slightly and she breathed deeply. Then the guardian of time known as Sailor Pluto opened her eyes; the windows of her soul alight with a dark blaze, a tingling washes over those who look upon them.
By the order of the Silver Millennium of the future, she was imbued with the power to watch over the gate of time and serve as the first barrier of protection against outside invasion. As any Sailor Scout, she does her job very well. Pluto, the planet of death and desolation, furthest away from the warmth of the sun and the life of the Earth was her sovereign symbol. The echoes of the spirits of the past and the deaths of the present she harnesses with the garnet orb to enforce her authority. She has observed the deaths of civilizations from her position but is sworn to never interfere unless it poses a direct threat to the order and good of the universe. Yes, she even saw the downfall of the Moon Kingdom itself but could do nothing to interfere. In the event that she is required to enter the plane of reality, she is forbidden to exercise the full extent of her power to stop time even if it is necessary for good to prevail lest she be banished forever.
Her tears were all gone, that part of what she used to call herself... Setsuna, it was merely a whisper on the wind now. Great power is always accompanied with great sacrifice, and she has made the biggest sacrifice of all... the ability to love and experience many of the same emotions mortals take for granted. Her only companions the wraiths of souls long passed and souls manifesting being ghosted about by the mist.
She reached out towards the rift and ever so gently touched the rift with the garnet orb. Raising an eyebrow, she watched intently at the disturbance in the flow of time.
"This is an unnatural occurrence, it is the fourth one in exactly two earth weeks. I must investigate the matter further."
Slowly but gradually building in power she channeled her power through the garnet orb and observed the part of time that was being affected. She saw in the vision a great battle... Princess Serena was fighting a woman of great power. It was Beryl! She smiled at what she saw... it was beautiful. Serena was wuthering the storm of evil energy being blasted at her by wielding the one object that dwarfs those of her garnet orb in power, the Imperium Silver Crystal.
Serena with tears in her eyes screamed above the horror, "Yes my friends, help me I don't have the strength to carry on without you." The phantasms of the inner senshi appeared behind Serenity to grip the crystal and call out the names of their sovereign symbols. They shouted, "MERCURY POWER! MARS POWER! JUPITER POWER! VENUS POWER! COSMIC MOON POWER UNITE!" Sailor Pluto then beheld a sight that chilled her more than the mists of time. She thought out loud, "By the NeoQueen, no..." Serena lost her grip on the crystal and it slipped out of her hand the resulting pink blast of energy from the crystal decimated the ice tower that she was standing on and it collapsed. Serena was unconscious lying there on the sizzling patch of burnt ground and Beryl proclaimed, "The Negaverse will rule supreme!" Obsidian tendrils of evil lightning erupted from her hands and engulfed the Princess... blood spurted from her mouth and her golden hair was incinerated to a black cinder, she was dead.
Sailor Pluto looked away in horror. She had sensed an unusual energy signature at the time that Serenity dropped the crystal. She shouted out loud, "Dammit, why did I not expect this sooner." Sailor Moon and the others had grown too strong to be defeated by a head-on assault; so more devious methods must be used. Pluto knew then that entrance into the plane of reality to correct whatever evil dared to interfere with the integrity of the history of the universe itself was justified. She raised her transformation stick into the air and shouted, "PLUTO PLANET POWER!" A blast of ethereal mist engulfed her and with the screams of the wraiths surrounding her, she brandished the staff to emerge clad in the uniform that mortals have grown to know so well.
She pointed the Staff of the Garnet Orb towards the gate of time and with all her mind willed it to open to allow her passage. There was a flash of light and she vanished from that plane of existence to be blasted by the frigid winds of the Antarctic.
Suddenly in the difference Serena's battle cries were heard again accompanied with Beryl's mad laughter. Sailor Pluto ran with all her might towards the locus of the sound and was once again witness to the awesome battle at hand. The great ice tower atop which Serena stood quaked with the force of the attack that Queen Beryl was using. Finally, she noticed the anomaly that she was detecting at this moment in time. A form stood at the base of the spire his arms crossed in a defiant gesture, staring up at the wonder of the raging battle.
His hair was tinged with red and black and it slowly rose in the breeze like writhing tendrils. His face was etched with pure hatred, his eyes were deep blue and they seemed to freeze the very heart of Setsuna as he stared at her with a smirk on his face. His cloak seemed to be sentient and it folded around his body in the wind, black tinged with red very similar to his hair. He was clothed in a black body suit, hugging him tightly and showing the well-defined outlines of his body. He spoke, "What's the matter Setsuna?"
Pluto's eyes wandered over him and burned brightly with the fire of passion that arose in her soul. She thought, "He is beautiful, like a fallen angel he appears to have committed some vile sin and was cast out of his Paradise. He now graces us with his presence on Earth." She was surprised at herself when she knew that deep down inside she wanted him, he had seduced her without ever saying much more than a sentence. His soul spoke to her as if to say, "It will be OK my dear Setsuna, I know your pain and I am here to make you whole once more."
Sailor Pluto became angry at herself, hoping it would nullify her desire for him, and she asked, "Who are you and what are you doing here, you obviously do not belong... this event in time must not be interfered with." He put his arms down and walked without touching the ground over to her... he seemed to shimmer with power and said "I like to observe beautiful things... and I do mean beautiful things Setsuna but not just this battle." She spoke, "How... how do you know... that is not important state your business now or be prepared to be met with lethal force." He reached out his hand and caressed her face... his other hand moving through her hair. He leaned in towards her body and gently touched his lips with hers; it was as if they were two parts of a whole reunited. She inclined her head to receive him and they began to explore one another.
Sailor Pluto suddenly came to her senses and realized that something was happening. She swung the staff and landed a crushing blow to the angel's head scattering blood onto the snow below her feet, the man crumpling to the ground. She shouted, "NO!!" and saw what he meant to do. He was distracting her, it was somehow within his power to manipulate reality and create things out of thin air.. in this case a duplicate of himself. He hovered beside of the spire and prepared to strike the crystal out of Serena's hands. Sailor Pluto channeled the power of the wraiths of time into the garnet orb and shouted, "DEADLY SCREAM." The mists formed around her and suddenly condensed on the end of the staff, she launched the energy at him. The energy slammed into the mysterious man knocking him to the ground. He got up, his skin gnarled and black on the small of his back and smoking slowly as a result of the attack and turned to face Sailor Pluto.
He smiled as his cape curled around his gaping wound and miraculously healed it. He shouted at Sailor Pluto, "I am known as Tempest, and I am here to right a wrong that was committed by the woman standing up here many times throughout her life." He charged swiftly at Sailor Pluto, faster than her eyes could see and enveloped her within the coils of his cape. They stared into each other's eyes and he grinned maliciously. Tempest began to pummel Sailor Pluto viciously and slammed her on the ground with his cape. She coughed up a slight bit of blood but wiped it away, she braced for another attack and shouted, "DEAD..." but she was interrupted with the shout of, "CHAOS FLARE!" A red aura of concussive force exploded from the ground and knocked her backward onto her back. He then coiled her up once again within the tendrils of his cloak and he uttered the words, "I love you and hate all you stand for, order and chaos are not in balance."
She struggled against him but could not avoid staring into his crystalline blue eyes. Images filled her mind of civilizations dying, millions of souls screaming in agony and fading, the Negaverse destroying the Moon Kingdom, the Dark Moon laying waste to Crystal Tokyo. The pain of the victims of those tragic events that she was forced to stand by and idly watch filled her mind at once and she screamed, "The last bit of humanity that was left in me died with these things that you show me... STOP PLEASE!" She suddenly knew that it was he who was filling her mind with these things, he seemed to have some limited control over the very fiber of reality. Summoning the last amount of her strength she called to her staff.
It flew into her hand and she struck him hard across the jaw. She followed with many rapid slashes with the razor sharp edge of the key and saw that he was stumbling backward appalled at what had just happened. He stammered, "You... you ... how did you?" Tempest looked down at his torn and ragged body and closed his eyes... once again the cape healed his injuries. He declared, "Setsuna you have been a naughty girl," and flew towards Serena again. His hand was just millimeters away from the crystal staff's hilt when he felt a sharp pain in his stomach. Sailor Pluto had thrown her weapon at him and scored a critical hit, impaling him. He once again dropped to the ground and pulled the weapon out of his side, a crimson flood erupted from his stomach and he said through grinning teeth, "I love it when you get dirty." She smirked and once again called the staff to her hand. Tempest began to laugh insanely, "Fine lovely one, if that's the way you want to play it... lets play."
He shouted, "CHAOS STORM!" The very air and earth surrounding Sailor Pluto seemed to warp, it was as if she was overcome by extreme vertigo. Pluto, with perfect concentration, closed her eyes and brandished the staff holding it up to block the blast of anarchy. Tempest became wide eyed when she deflected the blow and began to muster another attack. Pluto stood silently and gathered the energy that she would need knowing it would be her last effort. She uttered the words once more this time with utter concentration, "Dead Scream." A concentrated stream of energy issued forth from the garnet orb, striking Tempest square in the chest and sending him crashing against a nearby glacier. Unflinchingly, Pluto continued her attack not allowing him to move but continually burning him with this arcane power.
Tempest waved his hand to use his reality altering power and the beam changed course to head directly for Setsuna. Tempest was critically injured and he could barely speak, he forced out the words, "Ill see you in the past." She hurled the staff but a moment too late and it connected with ice, he had vanished. Setsuna could no longer sense him in this plane. She retrieved the staff and once again looked up at Serena.
Serena held herself like a goddess, maintaining radiance in spite of the terrible physical strain being placed upon her. Serena with tears in her eyes screamed above the horror, "Yes my friends, help me I don't have the strength to carry on without you." Pluto smiled and a tear fell from her eye at the beauty of the site, the five pure warriors of the Silver Millennium uniting to preserve the cause of good and supporting one another. They shouted, "MERCURY POWER! MARS POWER! JUPITER POWER! VENUS POWER! COSMIC MOON POWER UNITE!" A ball of pink energy that seemed to radiate with love issued forth from the Silver Crystal and collided with Queen Beryl, vaporizing her into a pile of bone and ash and illuminating the entire arctic in light.
Setsuna started to wave her staff and open a portal back to the gate of time but she noticed a lock of red and black hair on the ground. She picked it up and stroked it lightly, then she held it tightly between her gloved hands and a tear fell upon them. She said, "May the NeoQueen help me, I'm in love with him."
TO BE CONTINUED
Chapter 1
*Being an American viewer of the Sailor Moon Saga... I am taking an eclectic approach to the names of characters and of certain attacks. I choose what makes my writing sound well for the fic in question.
"Time. It is a force that destroys, creates, alters, ameliorates, and obliterates every single thing in the universe. It is both a raging hurricane and a tranquil breeze, but time is not infinite for anything. The ripples created by mortals in the great stream of chronological power are irreversible. What is done in the past can and will affect the uncertain future with dramatic consequences."
The ethereal mist of the ages surges in great torrents to consume it in a maelstrom. The mist seems alive; it contorts for a second into a skull or a face and then just as quickly fades out of existence. This is the omniscient portal of time that we see and an amazing sight it is. There is a faint glimmer on the horizon towards the nexus of the portal and as the mist clears, there is the figure of a woman.
The staff emerges first from the mist held by a delicate yet strong white glove. A key! It is adorned by ornate engravings and topped by a crimson orb. It is known as the garnet orb of power, a talisman of the Holy Grail and a focus of the energy of the silent warrior holding it. Then the figure steps out of the mist and into the light of a passing rift in the storm. Her emerald hair is swept into the wind ever so gently as if it had a life of its own and she slowly raises her face to the scintillation, seeming to bathe in its glow. She seemed to be a living statue, her skin possessed a dark hue despite the bright luminescence and her face was marked with nothing but perfection. Her dark red lips parted slightly and she breathed deeply. Then the guardian of time known as Sailor Pluto opened her eyes; the windows of her soul alight with a dark blaze, a tingling washes over those who look upon them.
By the order of the Silver Millennium of the future, she was imbued with the power to watch over the gate of time and serve as the first barrier of protection against outside invasion. As any Sailor Scout, she does her job very well. Pluto, the planet of death and desolation, furthest away from the warmth of the sun and the life of the Earth was her sovereign symbol. The echoes of the spirits of the past and the deaths of the present she harnesses with the garnet orb to enforce her authority. She has observed the deaths of civilizations from her position but is sworn to never interfere unless it poses a direct threat to the order and good of the universe. Yes, she even saw the downfall of the Moon Kingdom itself but could do nothing to interfere. In the event that she is required to enter the plane of reality, she is forbidden to exercise the full extent of her power to stop time even if it is necessary for good to prevail lest she be banished forever.
Her tears were all gone, that part of what she used to call herself... Setsuna, it was merely a whisper on the wind now. Great power is always accompanied with great sacrifice, and she has made the biggest sacrifice of all... the ability to love and experience many of the same emotions mortals take for granted. Her only companions the wraiths of souls long passed and souls manifesting being ghosted about by the mist.
She reached out towards the rift and ever so gently touched the rift with the garnet orb. Raising an eyebrow, she watched intently at the disturbance in the flow of time.
"This is an unnatural occurrence, it is the fourth one in exactly two earth weeks. I must investigate the matter further."
Slowly but gradually building in power she channeled her power through the garnet orb and observed the part of time that was being affected. She saw in the vision a great battle... Princess Serena was fighting a woman of great power. It was Beryl! She smiled at what she saw... it was beautiful. Serena was wuthering the storm of evil energy being blasted at her by wielding the one object that dwarfs those of her garnet orb in power, the Imperium Silver Crystal.
Serena with tears in her eyes screamed above the horror, "Yes my friends, help me I don't have the strength to carry on without you." The phantasms of the inner senshi appeared behind Serenity to grip the crystal and call out the names of their sovereign symbols. They shouted, "MERCURY POWER! MARS POWER! JUPITER POWER! VENUS POWER! COSMIC MOON POWER UNITE!" Sailor Pluto then beheld a sight that chilled her more than the mists of time. She thought out loud, "By the NeoQueen, no..." Serena lost her grip on the crystal and it slipped out of her hand the resulting pink blast of energy from the crystal decimated the ice tower that she was standing on and it collapsed. Serena was unconscious lying there on the sizzling patch of burnt ground and Beryl proclaimed, "The Negaverse will rule supreme!" Obsidian tendrils of evil lightning erupted from her hands and engulfed the Princess... blood spurted from her mouth and her golden hair was incinerated to a black cinder, she was dead.
Sailor Pluto looked away in horror. She had sensed an unusual energy signature at the time that Serenity dropped the crystal. She shouted out loud, "Dammit, why did I not expect this sooner." Sailor Moon and the others had grown too strong to be defeated by a head-on assault; so more devious methods must be used. Pluto knew then that entrance into the plane of reality to correct whatever evil dared to interfere with the integrity of the history of the universe itself was justified. She raised her transformation stick into the air and shouted, "PLUTO PLANET POWER!" A blast of ethereal mist engulfed her and with the screams of the wraiths surrounding her, she brandished the staff to emerge clad in the uniform that mortals have grown to know so well.
She pointed the Staff of the Garnet Orb towards the gate of time and with all her mind willed it to open to allow her passage. There was a flash of light and she vanished from that plane of existence to be blasted by the frigid winds of the Antarctic.
Suddenly in the difference Serena's battle cries were heard again accompanied with Beryl's mad laughter. Sailor Pluto ran with all her might towards the locus of the sound and was once again witness to the awesome battle at hand. The great ice tower atop which Serena stood quaked with the force of the attack that Queen Beryl was using. Finally, she noticed the anomaly that she was detecting at this moment in time. A form stood at the base of the spire his arms crossed in a defiant gesture, staring up at the wonder of the raging battle.
His hair was tinged with red and black and it slowly rose in the breeze like writhing tendrils. His face was etched with pure hatred, his eyes were deep blue and they seemed to freeze the very heart of Setsuna as he stared at her with a smirk on his face. His cloak seemed to be sentient and it folded around his body in the wind, black tinged with red very similar to his hair. He was clothed in a black body suit, hugging him tightly and showing the well-defined outlines of his body. He spoke, "What's the matter Setsuna?"
Pluto's eyes wandered over him and burned brightly with the fire of passion that arose in her soul. She thought, "He is beautiful, like a fallen angel he appears to have committed some vile sin and was cast out of his Paradise. He now graces us with his presence on Earth." She was surprised at herself when she knew that deep down inside she wanted him, he had seduced her without ever saying much more than a sentence. His soul spoke to her as if to say, "It will be OK my dear Setsuna, I know your pain and I am here to make you whole once more."
Sailor Pluto became angry at herself, hoping it would nullify her desire for him, and she asked, "Who are you and what are you doing here, you obviously do not belong... this event in time must not be interfered with." He put his arms down and walked without touching the ground over to her... he seemed to shimmer with power and said "I like to observe beautiful things... and I do mean beautiful things Setsuna but not just this battle." She spoke, "How... how do you know... that is not important state your business now or be prepared to be met with lethal force." He reached out his hand and caressed her face... his other hand moving through her hair. He leaned in towards her body and gently touched his lips with hers; it was as if they were two parts of a whole reunited. She inclined her head to receive him and they began to explore one another.
Sailor Pluto suddenly came to her senses and realized that something was happening. She swung the staff and landed a crushing blow to the angel's head scattering blood onto the snow below her feet, the man crumpling to the ground. She shouted, "NO!!" and saw what he meant to do. He was distracting her, it was somehow within his power to manipulate reality and create things out of thin air.. in this case a duplicate of himself. He hovered beside of the spire and prepared to strike the crystal out of Serena's hands. Sailor Pluto channeled the power of the wraiths of time into the garnet orb and shouted, "DEADLY SCREAM." The mists formed around her and suddenly condensed on the end of the staff, she launched the energy at him. The energy slammed into the mysterious man knocking him to the ground. He got up, his skin gnarled and black on the small of his back and smoking slowly as a result of the attack and turned to face Sailor Pluto.
He smiled as his cape curled around his gaping wound and miraculously healed it. He shouted at Sailor Pluto, "I am known as Tempest, and I am here to right a wrong that was committed by the woman standing up here many times throughout her life." He charged swiftly at Sailor Pluto, faster than her eyes could see and enveloped her within the coils of his cape. They stared into each other's eyes and he grinned maliciously. Tempest began to pummel Sailor Pluto viciously and slammed her on the ground with his cape. She coughed up a slight bit of blood but wiped it away, she braced for another attack and shouted, "DEAD..." but she was interrupted with the shout of, "CHAOS FLARE!" A red aura of concussive force exploded from the ground and knocked her backward onto her back. He then coiled her up once again within the tendrils of his cloak and he uttered the words, "I love you and hate all you stand for, order and chaos are not in balance."
She struggled against him but could not avoid staring into his crystalline blue eyes. Images filled her mind of civilizations dying, millions of souls screaming in agony and fading, the Negaverse destroying the Moon Kingdom, the Dark Moon laying waste to Crystal Tokyo. The pain of the victims of those tragic events that she was forced to stand by and idly watch filled her mind at once and she screamed, "The last bit of humanity that was left in me died with these things that you show me... STOP PLEASE!" She suddenly knew that it was he who was filling her mind with these things, he seemed to have some limited control over the very fiber of reality. Summoning the last amount of her strength she called to her staff.
It flew into her hand and she struck him hard across the jaw. She followed with many rapid slashes with the razor sharp edge of the key and saw that he was stumbling backward appalled at what had just happened. He stammered, "You... you ... how did you?" Tempest looked down at his torn and ragged body and closed his eyes... once again the cape healed his injuries. He declared, "Setsuna you have been a naughty girl," and flew towards Serena again. His hand was just millimeters away from the crystal staff's hilt when he felt a sharp pain in his stomach. Sailor Pluto had thrown her weapon at him and scored a critical hit, impaling him. He once again dropped to the ground and pulled the weapon out of his side, a crimson flood erupted from his stomach and he said through grinning teeth, "I love it when you get dirty." She smirked and once again called the staff to her hand. Tempest began to laugh insanely, "Fine lovely one, if that's the way you want to play it... lets play."
He shouted, "CHAOS STORM!" The very air and earth surrounding Sailor Pluto seemed to warp, it was as if she was overcome by extreme vertigo. Pluto, with perfect concentration, closed her eyes and brandished the staff holding it up to block the blast of anarchy. Tempest became wide eyed when she deflected the blow and began to muster another attack. Pluto stood silently and gathered the energy that she would need knowing it would be her last effort. She uttered the words once more this time with utter concentration, "Dead Scream." A concentrated stream of energy issued forth from the garnet orb, striking Tempest square in the chest and sending him crashing against a nearby glacier. Unflinchingly, Pluto continued her attack not allowing him to move but continually burning him with this arcane power.
Tempest waved his hand to use his reality altering power and the beam changed course to head directly for Setsuna. Tempest was critically injured and he could barely speak, he forced out the words, "Ill see you in the past." She hurled the staff but a moment too late and it connected with ice, he had vanished. Setsuna could no longer sense him in this plane. She retrieved the staff and once again looked up at Serena.
Serena held herself like a goddess, maintaining radiance in spite of the terrible physical strain being placed upon her. Serena with tears in her eyes screamed above the horror, "Yes my friends, help me I don't have the strength to carry on without you." Pluto smiled and a tear fell from her eye at the beauty of the site, the five pure warriors of the Silver Millennium uniting to preserve the cause of good and supporting one another. They shouted, "MERCURY POWER! MARS POWER! JUPITER POWER! VENUS POWER! COSMIC MOON POWER UNITE!" A ball of pink energy that seemed to radiate with love issued forth from the Silver Crystal and collided with Queen Beryl, vaporizing her into a pile of bone and ash and illuminating the entire arctic in light.
Setsuna started to wave her staff and open a portal back to the gate of time but she noticed a lock of red and black hair on the ground. She picked it up and stroked it lightly, then she held it tightly between her gloved hands and a tear fell upon them. She said, "May the NeoQueen help me, I'm in love with him."
TO BE CONTINUED