Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Second Chances ❯ The Fall of Crystal Tokyo ( Prologue )

Okay here is the prologue of my little story. (Um, I shouldn't say little as it is going to be very looooooooooooonnnnnnnnggggg. I like it; its funny but not the prologue. The prologue is very, oh its in the warning!

Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon. Naoko Takeuchi and many other fine companies own it. I wish I did.

Warning: Look out for sadness, maybe some mild cussing, and of course melancholy senshi of destruction and senshi of time. Who would have guessed?

Second Chances

Prologue

"Someone told me,

Love would all save us,

But how can that be,

Look what love gave us,

A world full of killing and blood spilling,

That won't never end."

-Hero by Nickelback.

Hotaru stepped out onto the rubble that was once the great kingdom of Crystal Tokyo. Her footsteps tread lightly on what was a palace beyond palaces. It felt so familiar, this walk full of hopelessness. Was it apiece of past lives coming to her? Was it destiny coming for her? Coming to claim her too as it had claimed the others. Why hadn't she died with them? It was because of Setsuna. Hotaru was pulled away from the battle with the enemy and waited in some nameless place of grey. Setsuna had taken her from the battle. She could have saved them. A bitter and cold wind blew slightly, ruffling her sailor fuku and hair. How could this have happened? She came upon the bodies of the other dead soldiers. It was time to do that for which she had been created for wasn't it?

"Hotaru." Setsuna's voice echoed. Hotaru turned to see a portal open up and Setsuna come out. She was ghostlike and glowing to show that she was dead. Her Time Staff resting in her hands, as if overlooking everything. Its secrets buried deep within its mistress.

"Why? Why did you take me away?" Hotaru felt the tears sliding down her pale cheeks and she did not bother to brush them away. She was numb with a bitter pain.

"So you could fulfill destiny. I know it is hard to understand." The ghostlike Setsuna tried to explain, the look in those garnet eyes making Hotaru realize that the duty had been almost as painful as Hotaru having to sit in that grayness, not knowing what had happened.

"I could have saved them." Hotaru turned to see the dead bodies of Haruka and Michiru, embracing even in death, much like the dead king and queen. Hotaru remembered vaguely that Haruka had been running towards Michiru when she was pulled away.

Haruka jumped out of the way of a minor blast shot at her. Then a large blast that none of them caught in time was going towards Michiru. Haruka did not even think before taking off, running at a speed that was almost not possible for a human. Michiru had been her life, had helped her embrace her own destiny, and been her deepest love.

"Michiru!" Haruka yelled before she jumped wrapping her strong arms around the aqua-haired angel that saved her soul. Michiru clung tightly to her lover as the blast hit them. It was pain beyond pain for them. The blast seemed to be tearing away their skin. They fell to the ground together as it faded. The whole world was fading. Michiru's deep blue eyes were the last things that Haruka gazed into.

"As long as were together." Michiru started to close her eyes and Haruka felt her eyes closing for the last time. Haruka knew just how Michiru felt. This time they were going to a world together. Michiru would not leave her for her own world because for both of them, there was no world without the other.

"As long as were together." Haruka echoed as she faded completely away. It was time for eternity. Eternity.

"By letting you protect everyone, I would have thrown the Great Destiny off. You would have died and then..." Setsuna trailed off without going on. Hotaru turned back to those garnet eyes that seemed to have more depth then the universe.

"I know. I have been born for this fate. Im ready to go." Hotaru summoned her Silence Glaive to her hand. The cool metal felt like it was made for her.

"Hotaru, do you hate me?" Setsuna asked, startling the dark-haired woman.

"No, I have never hated you. This is fate, every life time the same." Hotaru gestured towards the rubble. "We grow up, wanting these wonderful dreams to come true. Every life we are torn from them though, ripped towards this. Building a kingdom to reign in peace. Then we die for it. We die for the castle of our broken dreams."

"Sometimes fate can be crueler then any evil. Long have I lived with my destiny, secretly wishing it was someone else." Setsuna confessed, as she had wanted to for some time. "Well always be there for each other though, wont we? I have always considered you my greatest friend." Hotaru threw her arms around the green-haired woman who was surprisingly solid. Hotaru retreated from the hug and looked out onto the grey sky.

"I feel the same, Setsuna". Hotaru told her. Setsuna smiled that small sad smile that Hotaru had witnessed before.

"Before you go, there is a gift I must give you." Setsuna reached into a small portal that had appeared out of thin air. Setsuna reached inside and pulled out a small brown package. Hotaru unwrapped the package to reveal a strange clock. Instead of numbers were the symbols of the planets. There were two hands, both pointing directly at the crescent moon at the top. Hotaru turned it over and discovered a small wind-up key. When she wound it up it began to play a haunting song.

"I-I know this song dont I?" Hotaru questioned even though she was trembling with recognition.

"Yes, a few life-times ago, you were the daughter of a nobleman. You had to learn to play the piano. Oh how you hated it!" Setsuna actually laughed. "You would get up to that piano and pound on the keys so you didn't have to play! A few times though, you actually would play it and you wrote this song. It's your song."

"Thank you." Hotaru bowed her head as she clutched the clock to her with one arm.

"It is time Hotaru. I will see you in the next life, won't I?" Setsuna asked with a bittersweet smile.

"Yes my friend, you will. Good-bye." Hotaru watched, as Setsuna seemed to fade away from the world. It was time. Destiny was here. Hotaru raised the Silence Glaive high above her head.

"Death Reborn REVOLUTION!" Hotaru yelled the last word with all the emotions that were singing to her at once. As the ribbons cut into the rubble and her own body, she clutched her precious gift with all her strength.