Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ The Fragility of Time ❯ "Movements of Fire and Shadow" ( Chapter 12 )

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The Fragility of Time
Chapter 12: "Movements of Fire and Shadow"
Author: etj4Eagle
Email: etj4Eagle@yahoo.com
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Lasted Edited: 8/31/00

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Eudial sat at her computer processing the latest equipment request
for the professor. The professor a couple of weeks ago had
surprised her with his announcement that he had figured out how to
open a full sized portal to another bane. However, the operation
required far more power than Tokyo's power grid could supply.

Getting up she left the office of the recently renamed research group
Witches 5. She had promised Hotaru that she would take her to the
park today. Until the professor perfected viable daimon eggs there
really was not much for the members of Witches 5 to do. She however,
still had the task of running this school and the lab. The other four
members of her research group were new additions and were strictly
tasked to working on the Death Buster Project. They also, like the
professor's new assistant were very cold hearted and did not take to
Hotaru well. They seemed to be of the opinion that Hotaru should
worship her father and not ask for anything. All that she knew was
that these new people were a bad sign for the future of the professor
and probably herself as well.

Well enough brooding on work for now. She was taking Hotaru to the
park and did not want to bother that child with her problems. Might
as well enjoy this little bit of pleasure, contracting for those
pieces of equipment was not going to be fun.

* * * * * * * *
The Dark Kingdom

Zoisite left Queen Beryl's throne room glad to be alive. He had
thought that he was good as dead when he entered. He had lost yet
another one of the Nijizuishou Crystals and to top it off he had lost
control of the Shadow Warrior. As it was he had spent the past ten
days in utter pain. Beryl had apparently been researching her torture
spells. Exhausted Zoisite flopped onto his bed in the hope that a few
hours rest would give him the energy he needed to carry out the next
attack.

Kunzite had watched Beryl take her wrath out on Zoisite silently,
knowing that he could nothing to help him and that any attempts to
get Beryl to ease up would only bring her wrath down on himself as
well. Instead he began to formulate a plan for obtaining the crystals
that the Senshi held. After Zoisite left he addressed his queen "My
liege, I think I know of a way to get the crystals held by Sailor
Moon." With that he began to outline his plan.

"You have my permission to set it up. Just remember that you better
not fail here. You know what will happen if Serenity gets her grubby
hands on the Ginzuishou." replied Beryl after he had finished.

* * * * * * * * *
A movie theater

Mamoru sat in the movie theatre with his arm around his girlfriend. A
few weeks ago he would have laughed at the absurd notion that he
would not only be dating the odango-atama, but to be in love with her
as well. But, that was exactly the case. Whereas the rest of his life
seemed to be a mass of uncertainties and questions, this was
something that he was sure of. Additionally he felt a strong sense of
reassurance being with her, as if through her the rest of his life
would come into focus. And wasn't that just what began to happen that
night recently when he brought her back to his apartment and learned
about her alter ego and in the process about his as well.

"Mamo-chan what are thinking about?" asked Usagi as she noticed that
he appeared to be distracted.

"Just about my life and how you seem to be the only thing that I am
sure of and makes sense." he replied while wrapping his arm around
her shoulder.

Usagi did not have anything to reply to this and instead just laid
her head down on his chest, perfectly content to just be in the same
room as him. He gave his little rabbit a peck on the back of her head
before turning his attention back to the movie.

* * * * * * * * *
Elsewhere in the city

Eudial walked the now tired Hotaru home. She had lost track of the
time when she had brought the child here to the park, and was quite
surprised to discover that it was after eight when she had recently
looked at her watch. Her original plan was just to head home when
Hotaru wore herself out, which unfortunately usually did not take
that long. However, today she had kept going for three hours. And,
those weren't sedate hours either, she had spent a large amount of it
running around.

Eudial did not know why the little one was suddenly feeling better,
but it made her happy. The professor would be pleased to hear that
his daughter had not run out of energy while at the park today. Yes,
Hotaru was now tired, but that was more of the normal exhaustion that
befalls a child, than one associated with her sickliness. Looking at
the child walking next to her, she noticed that Hotaru's skin did not
seem so pale today either.

"Eudial-san what are you doing out so late, you know that Hotaru is
not allowed out late." came an annoyed voice.

Turning Eudial addressed the voice's owner. "I was only letting
Hotaru enjoy the park, Tomoe-sensei would approve of me letting her
spend extra time here as she is feeling much better today. "

"Even so you have duties to attend to, I will take Hotaru home for
you." replied the other woman.

Turning Eudial addressed her charge "Hotaru-chan you head on home
with Kaolinite-san, I have to run some errands for you father. Gomen
Nasai"

As Eudial watch Kaolinite walk away with Hotaru she felt her body
shiver for a moment. She did not like seeing Hotaru with the
professor's new aid, or for that matter with any of the other members
of Witches 5, as they seemed to go out of their way to deflate her
happiness. She would have to make it up to Hotaru later, but now she
had to run that errand for the professor. Kaolinite was right in that
she did have things that she had to accomplish, ones that she should
not have let her taking of Hotaru to the park to get in the way of.
But, she had not expected Hotaru to last this long before being ready
to go home. Now to find that Mr. Jones: a gaijen name for one who
dealt with those harder to find items.

* * * * * * * * *
Approximately 9:30 pm

With the movie over, Mamoru had driven Usagi home. Now as he left her
house his head was once again swimming with confusion, and of course
in the center of everything was his rabbit. Both when he had picked
Usagi up and dropped her off, he had the distinct feeling that her
father was going to kill/strangle/mangle him for dating Usagi (for
which he could not fault him). But, for whatever reason he showed a
remarkable restraint. Though that restraint seemed to be partially a
result of a certain pink haired child in the room who kept her eye on
Tsukino Kenji.

Usagi's mother seemed nice enough. Though he had the distinct
impression that she was sizing him up for eventual marriage to her
daughter. Not that he wouldn't like that, but it was just a tad bit
too early in their relationship to be talking about that kind of
commitment. In addition through the whole exchange with her family he
additionally had the feeling that he was missing out on something
that they all knew.

His life ever since he ran into the girl had suddenly been full of
questions. At first it was just a sudden disgust with his childhood
amnesia, and then it was dreams and unexplained memory loss. But
whenever he was with that girl, those problems and worries seemed to
fade and he was content with what he had, and he was becoming happier
with life in general. Whistling softly to himself he shifted his car
into gear and headed home.

* * * * * * * * *
A warehouse

Rubeus, unsure exactly why, pulled out the Dark Crystal fragment.
Examining the crystal he saw it pulsing with power, far more power
than it should have had at been able to gather by this time. Ahead of
him bound on the ground sat a businessman who had tried to cheat the
organization out of its money. Dismissing his soldiers (they might
not technically be soldiers, but after training them himself he liked
to think of his men as soldiers) he approached the bound figure of
the gentleman.

The individual was dressed in an expensive business suit, and tried
to put on an air of confidence, but the man's fear still showed
through. Rubeus needed answers and this man would provide him with
the means. Like all mages he had some training in the blood arts.
Normally blood magic was less useful than other manna sources, but
sometimes that is all one had, and this was one of those cases.
Pulling back his hood, his face became fully visible to the bound man
for the first time.

The man had till this point managed to pretty much maintain his calm,
but after looking into his executioner's eyes and seeing the pure
evil there, which was accentuated by the down turned black crescent
moon on the guy's forehead he completely lost his cool. As he pleaded
for forgiveness and mercy an invisible hand grasped his body and then
penetrated it, and as it did he felt his energy being forcibly
removed. As the body slumped to the ground a dimly glowing banged up
crystal appeared in front of his chest and then floated to Rubeus's
outstretched hand.

Grasping the pure heart crystal Rubeus slumped to the ground
exhausted from the extraction. Pocketing the crystal he pulled the hood back on and walked
outside the building and joined the others. Sometime later that week
a cleaning crew would find the body of the businessman. While the
cause of death would be attributed to natural causes, the general
consensus would be that he had gotten himself involved with the wrong
people and had paid the price, as attributed the look of pure horror
on his face.

Driving for a while Rubeus came to a different part of Tokyo, where
he had one final appointment for the evening. Walking up to a
particular tree in the park he approached a woman wearing a lab coat.
"Evening ma'am is there anything I can help you with?" he asked in
perfect English, even with a slight British accent.

Recognizing the code, Eudial responded "Je ne parle pas anglais.
Parlez-vous anglais?" Her contradictory statement in French was the
single that she was the customer that he was to meet. Pulling
something out from her lab coat pocket she handed to him an envelope.
"Merci, monsieur." She replied after handing him the packet and
proceeded to walk away. Rubeus placed the packet in his own coat
pocket and returned to where the others were waiting.

Eudial felt glad to be away from the "Mr. Jones," she longed for her
na‹ve days as just a simple grad student. Seeing the bus approach she
hurried so that she would not miss it. Only after she was safely on
it and it had traveled for a few minutes did her apprehension of
dealing with Mr. Jones fully fade away.

* * * * * * * * *

In the back of the car, while one of his men drove, Rubeus open the
envelope and looked at its contents. The envelope contained exactly
two pieces of paper, a small strip with a number on it (for a Swiss
bank account) and the other shopping list of needed equipment.
Glancing over the requested items he did not recognize most of the
items, though some of them he seemed to remember being things that
Sapphire had in his lab back on Nemesis. Putting the two items back
away he relaxed and enjoyed the ride back to his current base of
operations.

* * * * * * * * *
Nazareth, Israel

Father Morgan thanked the driver and stepped away from the car that
had brought him here from Jerusalem. Looking around he could feel the
holiness of this place penetrating his bones. Before Tsukino Usagi
had come into his life he had always felt a slight repulsion whenever
he visited the high holy places, a repulsion that he always knew was
related to the streak of darkness in his soul.

But now that he was here he had questions that needed to be answered.
Three days ago he had given up on his own meditations and prayers
back in Tokyo to puzzle out what the Lord wanted him to do. Hoping
that a pilgrimage would help, he had booked passage here to Israel.

After checking in to his lodging he went back out onto the streets.
Not sure where to go, he instead opened his soul to the land and let
it guide him. Finished walking he found himself in the middle of a
field, kneeling down he began to say prayers asking his Lord for
guidance.

Guidance did not come quickly, it rarely did. As the minutes turned
into hours he began to become aware of the residual energy, which
made this place so holy. He felt the energy, it was similar but at
the same time very different from that of the Tsukino girl. The best
way he could describe it was that there was a family resemblance in
the energy. He had expected to find the same residue aura here that
the Tsukino girl gave off. If they were not the same, then was she
not the return of the Messiah?

But, when he was in her presence he was sure that she was the
Messiah, and the energy that he felt from her was far stronger than
what ever left this aura. And, further he was sure that he was not
feeling her full aura, in that she had not truly awakened yet.
Continuing to seek answers he remained in meditation and prayer as
the sun went down. At some point, he was not sure when, those
questions and uncertainties began to fade away to be replaced with
the assurance that he was doing the right thing and the familiar
tingling of the Tsukino girl's aura, except on a much lower level.

He thought while
standing. As he walked back to the inn where he was spending the
night, he looked up at the sky and noticed the full moon shining down
on him with a protective warmth.

* * * * * * * * *
Tokyo ~11AM

Zoisite teleported above the skyline to begin his search for the
final crystal carrier. Luck was with him today, as below him was the
final suppressed Shadow Warrior. Noticing this he moved down to
intercept the girl.

Yumemi looked up just as Zoisite touched ground in front of her. She
instantly felt fear to be in the presence of this man, a subconscious
fear from her paintings of the Silver Millennium. "What do you want?"
she managed to croak out.

"Why nothing more than your service to our great leader and that
Nijizuishou crystal that you have."

"What crystal?" Yumemi tried to ask, but before she could ask the
full question she was caught by a burst of energy from the crystal
that Zoisite held. Instead her question became a scream of pain as
the transformation process racked through her body.

Nearby a couple heard the scream, but unlike others they did not dart
away for their lives. Instead they ducked into a corner and out
walked the Senshi of Neptune and Uranus. Not waiting for lengthy
introductions they introduced themselves simply with 'Deep Submerge'
and 'World Shaking.' The two attacks blasted into Zoisite causing the
now extracted crystal to fall to the ground. However, they were not
in time enough to prevent the final awakening of the Shadow Warrior.
With a telepathic scream, a creature of destruction with a pure black
heart awoke. Seeing prey it smiled and then leapt at the two Senshi.

Uranus's last thought before she was flung like a rag doll against a
building and coming out on the other side was that this does not look
good. Neptune retaliated with a Deep Submerge, but the creature
sliced the blast of water with its claws dispersing it. It then
proceeded to retaliate with a blast of dark energy of its own.
Neptune leapt to dodge the attack, but as she landed she found
herself at point blank range with the creature. Before she could do
anything, it grabbed her by the neck and brought its other arm back
in preparation for slicing open her chest.

* * * * * * * * *
A public library

Urawa had decided to head off to the library this morning to get some
work done on his research project before his date with Ami-chan that
evening. He was removing a book from the shelves when the telepathic
scream of an awakening Shadow echoed through his mind and everyone
else's in the area. Whereas the other patrons clamped their hands
over their ears in an attempt to block the sound, he gave a reply
scream as his body shifted to that of his true form.

The warrior also known as Urawa with a glowing golden crescent moon
on its forehead phased out of the visible and passed out of the
building heading towards its awakening brother warrior. Memories came
back of the warrior who was now awakening and he telepathically
called it by name urging it to wait for his arrival. However, his
mental calls only met rage and confused thoughts. Expecting a fight,
his gift activated. The first set of images to flood his mind were
those of Neptune and Uranus dieing a brutal death. The first image
was that of his brother warrior slicing open the aqua haired warrior
chest, spilling her insides. The second was of the warrior then
grasping the semiconscious blond warrior and ramming her head back
into a wall, finishing off that job.

The brutal deaths of his allies caused him to run even faster. As he
ran the images shifted to show Zoisite reviving the Shadow Warrior,
but not before he put a mind control spell on it. Urawa
continued to run, even though he knew that the only happy ending to
the battle would leave him as the only Shadow Warrior alive. He had
already partially steeled himself for this outcome, as he knew that
she would probably not agree with his assessment of the situation.
But with that mind control, which was obviously a spell of Metalia,
he knew that there was no way to save her entire soul. Instead the
darkness and all associated with it would have to be plucked out from
her body, the death of 657 years of life of a good friend and comrade
of his. But, he had prepared himself once before for this eventuality
when he volunteered for what he knew to be a suicide mission (though
everyone else thought it to be a cake walk).

Arriving at the scene, Urawa phased back into the visible, becoming
solid once again. Speaking in the high-pitch high-speed language of
his people he called to the other. She discarded for a moment her
target and turned to regard the one who dare challenge her.

"Ah, so you live too [Urawa]. What is with that mark on your
forehead, have you sworn allegiance to our enemies? You were the last
I thought to turn traitor, but if you have you will die."

"[Yumemi] do not do this. You are not a servant of Beryl or Metalia;
we are guardians of the younger races. We work for the First One in
his task of guiding them to their third age. Metalia cares nothing of
this younger race; she only wants to use them as an energy source so
that she can seek her revenge on another. Join with me and we can
continue to guide this race."

Laughing the being that was once Yumemi replied, "[Urawa] you are but
a fool. Methinks that though art but a Vorlon in disguise. You know
that the only way to help these races is though war and battle:
survival of the fittest. We destroyed that vorloneseque empire that
ruled this system the last time. But, they managed to somehow send
their warriors to be reborn, now we have to destroy them again."

Urawa decided that reasoning with his comrade any further would be
useless. The mind control spell had blinded her to Metalia's real
objectives. The being that was Yumemi still thought she could control
Metalia, but Urawa knew otherwise. He also knew that both control and
discord were necessary to help the younger races, the reason why both
the Vorlons and Shadows were given the task.

"I take it that you will not yield, even to your superior. Therefore
in the name of the Silver Millennium I will force you to yield." With
those words the two warriors charged each other and began battle.
While Yumemi is a stronger warrior, Urawa's gift would provide him a
major advantage.

* * * * * * * * *

Zoisite had watched the pending death of those two newer Sailor
Senshi with glee. He had already moved and gathered the Nijizuishou
Crystal that they had forced him to drop. He was about to tell his
warrior to finish Neptune off when the warrior suddenly threw the
Senshi of the sea to the ground. Irate he turned to see what had
gotten his warriors attention and saw the other Shadow Warrior.

As the two warriors confronted each other, each emitted a series of
high-pitched squeals lasting no more than a few seconds each. And,
then after only facing each other for under a minute they began to
fight, their entire conversation having taken no more than twenty
seconds. Zoisite watched the battle trying to see how he could aid
his warrior, but saw no opening. Instead, he turned and walked back
to where Sailor Neptune had been discarded to finish her and her
friend off.

"Well, Well it looks like this is the end of the road for you."
stated Zoisite as he gathered energy in his hands in preparation to
finish off Neptune. Neptune herself looked up through her bloodied
eyes to see her executioner. She attempted to lift her body, but did
not have the strength. were her final thoughts.

"Venus Crescent Beam Smash!" and a beam of energy burned its way
across Zoisite's hands. Recoiling in pain he turned to address the
one who dared interrupt the execution. "Don't you know it's not nice
to hit someone who is down. Why don't you try us instead." called
Venus.

"In the name of Jupiter and Venus we will punish you!" announced the
two new arrivals to the scene.

"Jupiter Supreme Thunder." And a ball of lighting gathered around
Jupiter and then sped towards the still recovering Zoisite.

"You never want to let your rear guard down, Sailor twerps."
Announced Kunzite as he appeared behind the Senshi and blasted both
from the rear. After hitting the ground the two quickly recovered and
took defensive stances between the two generals and the downed
Senshi.

Unwatched by the other participants the two Shadow Warriors continued
their battle. But, it was now becoming obvious that Urawa was going
to win the fight. The superior tactics that his gift gave him
provided him with the edge he needed. Releasing a blast of his
limited magic reserves he sent the other warrior sailing through the
sky to land near the generals. Advancing forward, his right hand, now
with its claws extended, began to glow a soft violet aura that
extended and turned into the black of death. The energy wavered and
flickered on his arm, much the way it would along the Sailor Senshi
when they learned to teleport or use the Sailor Planet Attack.

"Yield [Yumemi] or I shall destroy you." he announced this time in
Japanese. The other creature snarled and prepared to leap in a
suicidal last-ditch attempt to take down Urawa. However, Kunzite
prevented that by teleporting the three of them back to the Dark
Kingdom. He might have stayed, but he had noticed out of the corner
of his eye at that moment the arrival of the three remaining Senshi
and that pipsqueak.

"Is everyone ok?" asked Moon as she arrived.

Venus moved to point out the two fallen Senshi, but as she looked at
where they had been she saw nothing. "Huh?" she asked.

"Boy, talk about endurance. A moment ago those two were out cold and
now they are five blocks down. You know they could have at least
allowed us to help tend their wounds." said a slightly annoyed
Jupiter. However, she was more relived that they were ok, and pulling
pig headed stunts like that was a sure indication that there was
nothing seriously wrong with those two, at least not physically maybe
mentally.

As the Senshi returned to the civilian forms, Urawa reapplied his
glamour. With Urawa back in a human form Usagi gave an audible sigh
of relief. "Way to go Odango-Atama." announced ChibiUsa.

Realizing what she had just done, her cheeks turned pink as a hand
went behind her head. "Sorry about that Urawa-san, it is just that
you true form still gives me the creeps even if you have sworn
allegiance to me and my throne."

"It is ok Usagi-san, I am sure that if I was in your place I would
feel the same way." reassured Urawa. "However, we have a problem.
Zoisite and Kunzite left with an awaken Shadow Warrior. I have probed
his mind, and there is no way we can turn him from the path he has
chosen. None of you except for possibly the princess are capable of
facing her alone or even as a group."

The assembled group of warriors gulped at that frank announcement of
their chances. Sedate the group moved to return to the activities
that their duty had called them away from.

* * * * * * * * *
A plush condo

Through his service over the past few months Rubeus had earned a nice
comfortable condo to live in. Last night had been a busy night.
Apparently the buyer he had met was an important client to the
association, and so he had been sent to deliver various elements of
the order to different parts of the association. It amused him that
this group he was associated with had the ability to import reactor
grade plutonium, and 5g at that. Their influence was obviously fairly
deep. Not for the first time did he wonder if after eliminating the
Moon lineage he should aid these fellows in shaping society.

However, those were questions for another time. Now he had more
important answers to find, why the Dark Crystal was suddenly coming
to life much faster than he had predicted. Pulling out the pure heart
crystal that he had collected last night he crushed it in the palm of
his hand and felt the corresponding rush as the energy flowed into
his body.

Pulling out the Dark Crystal fragment he let it float in front of his
body for a few moments. After it had steadied itself he focused his
attention and energy on it, forming a link between it and himself. As
the energy flowed into the crystal it glowed brighter and then it was
a fragment no longer, but a solid crystal. As a full crystal its
powers were increased by orders of magnitude and it pulsed back at
Rubeus and then his conscience was part of the crystal.

>> thought Rubeus as the blinding flash
cleared. No longer was he in his condo. Instead he was in
a location that swirled in the black and dark violet. As
his eyes becoming more adapted to his surroundings he
noted that in the distance there appeared to be flat
angled surfaces. Turning his head to take in the whole
area he realized that the angled surfaces extended all
around him, above and below him.

"You are in the Dark Crystal." came a familiar voice.
Moments after the voice was heard, a figure became
apparent in the mist that was enclosed in the crystal.

"Wise Man, but I thought you had been destroyed by the
time shift?"

"No, nothing so simple could destroy me. All the others
were lost, yes. But, I saw the approaching temporal blast
and was able to take the necessary steps to protect
myself. However, those steps have placed me here in the
fabric of the multiverse itself.

"Now that the crystal is strong enough, I can contact
you. As to why it is suddenly stronger, you can thank
your droids. A while back one of your control droids was
damaged in a battle, so it has been leaking dark energy
ever since."

"Thereby providing the crystal with its needed energy
source." concluded Rubeus.

"Exactly. Even before now I could see what was happening
in your plane. However, I have to say that killing the
Neo-Queen will be harder than we initially thought. She
is going to be far more powerful. And, until I can return
to your plane I cannot help you. However, you recently
were given the method of giving me passage back."

"How?" questioned Rubeus.

"There is a group preparing to bring a demon known as
Pharaoh 90 across into this galaxy. With only slight
modifications I will be able to cross instead. Two of its
followers have already crossed into this galaxy and have
possessed humans. Place these shards in their body and
those daimons will be neutralized and I will be able to
return."

Rubeus grasped the two shards of black crystal that the
Wise Man held out to him. As he did so the scene vanished
to be replaced by that of his living room. Deciding not
to question the lad further, Morgan moved to follow his guide who had
pulled a bit ahead. The two quickly arrived at a waiting car. The lad
placed Morgan's bags in the rear while its driver helped Morgan
himself into the car. And, then they were off into Rome itself, this
having been one of the quickest airport departures that he had
experienced ever.

* * * * * * * * *
A car ride later

Arriving at the Vatican, Father Morgan was ushered into an
archbishop's office. "Greeting Morgan, I am Sebastian. What brings
you all the way from Tokyo first to the holy cities and then here to
Rome on the spur of the moment?"

"Father look at my soul. Until recently it was stained by an evil
that could not be healed by any in my church. Not even baptism could
forgive the sin that I was born with. However, a few weeks ago a
teenage girl came into my meager church and healed me of this sin.

"I do not know how much you know about the Sailor Soldiers, but this
girl turned out to be their leader, Sailor Moon. But, this is not
what caused me to come here, that cause was what I saw when she
changed from her civilian form to her Soldier form. Between those two
forms I saw hidden an angel of infinite pureness. Father this girl is
the Messiah; The Second Coming is upon us.

"From the moment I glimpsed her true form I felt that the world's
salvation was at hand. Now after taking a pilgrimage to the holy
cities, I am certain that she is the Messiah, the second coming of
our Lord. One thing that I became sure of when I was in her presence
was that we have been wrong about the Second Coming. Judgment day is
not upon us, but instead it is time for mankind's sins to be cleansed
so that the Kingdom of Heaven may be brought here to earth."

The archbishop regarded the priest from Tokyo and absorbed what he
had said. "Father Morgan I will need some time to talk with others
about your discovery. Let me tell you this though, this is not the
first time beings calling themselves Sailor Soldiers have been seen
on the earth. Our Lord, Jesus Christ, had an encounter with two of
them.

"You are also probably tired from your trip. Why don't I have you
shown to your room, and tomorrow we can continue this discussion. In
the morning I will have sent to your room some material that you may
find enlightening."

As Morgan left the room a wall opened up and out walk three others.
"It has begun" replied one of the three.

"Yes it has, that is without a doubt. We have held a great secret
since the founding of the church, but with the true awakening of the
Messiah the truth will come out. The people will need to be prepared.
The fulfillment of prophecy is upon us, the Moon Kingdom and the
Silver Millennium will rise once again." replied Sebastian

-End Chapter 12

-As I promised things are beginning to pick up again. With
Urawa's pledge of allegiance to the Silver Millennium, I have
placed his limited magic abilities into one of the eight
planets' range. If you did not figure out which planet he now
serves with his allegiance, you will by the end of the next
chapter.

-Like the S season this chapter did start to hit some of those
religious motifs. I hope that I did not really offend anyone,
but one reason for this is an attempt to pull the Sailor Moon
universe closer into ours. I am portraying Jesus of Nazareth in
this chapter and the next with attributes of the Arabic view
(in which he is just one of the great profits) and the
Christian view where is the savoir.

-We know from S, that Serenity is the Messiah of Light. My own
view as to why she could not fully handle the power of the
Grail was that she was not yet ready for that power. In Stars,
at first she cannot handle her eternal form for long.

-When the two Shadows were conversing I wrote their human names
enclosed in brackets. They actually spoke their true names, but
those names are unpronounceable to humans.

-You might be wondering why I have referred to the Sailor
Senshi as Sailor Soldiers in some places. Sailor Senshi is
their Japanese name, but I doubt that was what they were called
back in the Silver Millennium. So for those who are not
speaking Japanese I will fully translate their name into
English.

-I named the priest Morgan as homage to a protestant chaplain
whom I have known from camp for a few years. He has some very
nice weather-war related stories. I have not found reference to
the name of the priest who carried a Nijizuishou Crystal, so I
have named him Morgan.

-Sebastian is another B5 reference, he was Jack the Reaper, and
is now doing penance as the Inquisitor for the Vorlons;
searching for the one who really is the chosen one. Urawa's
Shadow Warrior self-thoughts are based on the main theme
running through the Shadow war in Babylon 5.

-And it looks like Hotaru's life of being a possessed victim is
just going to get even more interesting with those shards that
Rubeus holds.