Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ The Sea By Moonlight ❯ Prologue ( Prologue )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]
The Sea by Moonlight by Dolphin-chick

Prologue

"Antares, go now!" Sailor Polaris said, nudging the youngest Cosmic Senshi towards the ruins of a once beautiful castle.

"But Polaris, I..."

"GO!"

The 11-year-old Sailor Antares looked up at the older senshi, tears brimming over her eyes. She clutched to the misnight blue collar of her superior.

"Don't worry," Polaris said gently, "we'll be right behind you. The course is already set; you'll be on Earth's moon and we'll meet up with you there. Queen Serenity is a very kind woman. Here-" Polaris picked up Antares' Time-Space Key. "I meant to give you this earlier, but with Chaos coming..." Polaris produced a jeweled star from a barely visible pocket in her skirt and put it between the two points of the crescent moon on the Key. "When the star begins to glow, you'll know we're near."

Antares nodded, gave Polaris a tight hug, and waved goodbye to the other senshi, confident she would see them again. She climbed into the small space craft waiting near the castle. Pressing a series of buttons, she turned the vessel on. The machine hissed as sleeping gas, used to slow metabolism for long trips, poured into the chamber. Antares fought sleepiness, hoping to catch one last glimpse of her home planet as the craft sped toward a faraway solar system and a new future.

What she saw would haunt her dreams and nightmares for millenia.

Chaos had already approached when she was on the planet. Now, the formless dark mass nearly engulf it entirely. In a sudden burst of light, the giant orb exploded, smashing the fleeing ships of the few who were still left alive with debris. Antares' eyes widened and tears streamed down her face shamelessly as she screamed and shook, finally collapsing as the sleeping gas won over her conciousness.