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onepassingnight2011-05-28 02:17 pm
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☆ she dreams of stars 001;
At a glance, this just seems to be a normal and peaceful dream. The sky is a bright blue color that seems to expand on forever. The green grass sways with a gently and comforting wind that passes through and the sound of water flowing through the creeks adds to the music that nature has created. There are trees off in the distance. The huge canopy of green is held up by the strong brown trunks and it casts a shadow to cool yourself from.
But something is amiss. ... There's something not right with this dream.
Upon further inspection, you notice that the grass is in fact not grass. It's long tubes of green pixie stix that you can pluck from the ground and devour. The water is actually blue kool-aid and the rocks around it are upside down cups you can scoop the liquid and drink. The tree trunks are actually made of chocolate that never melts holding up text book leaves that sway back and forth, flipping pages of college material that may or may not have to do with science and math.
...what the heck kind of dream is this? And where is the dreamer?
Where you appear in her dream doesn't seem to harbor any clues but if you search you'll sure find her. Perhaps she's laying in the field of wheat and mint staring at the sky or maybe she's under a tree munching on some chocolate and reading a book she may have plucked from a tree. But somewhere in this dream scape, she is alone. In this dream of childish whims and light, she keeps to herself. No one to talk to or to keep her company.
Will you be the one to relieve her loneliness?
But something is amiss. ... There's something not right with this dream.
Upon further inspection, you notice that the grass is in fact not grass. It's long tubes of green pixie stix that you can pluck from the ground and devour. The water is actually blue kool-aid and the rocks around it are upside down cups you can scoop the liquid and drink. The tree trunks are actually made of chocolate that never melts holding up text book leaves that sway back and forth, flipping pages of college material that may or may not have to do with science and math.
...what the heck kind of dream is this? And where is the dreamer?
Where you appear in her dream doesn't seem to harbor any clues but if you search you'll sure find her. Perhaps she's laying in the field of wheat and mint staring at the sky or maybe she's under a tree munching on some chocolate and reading a book she may have plucked from a tree. But somewhere in this dream scape, she is alone. In this dream of childish whims and light, she keeps to herself. No one to talk to or to keep her company.
Will you be the one to relieve her loneliness?
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[ But with what little time she had left, there was no time for her to think it through and the only support she had was telling her to destroy the Cauldron and Chaos. ]
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In the end, she decides it's a yes. There was nothing to be changed, just as Mercury had no other possible path, if she wanted the world to remain.
But she's not done yet. Of course not.]
In the end, whatever your reasons, you took away the future.
You're no different than in my world.
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So, the me in your world had to destroy the future because she had no other choice?
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If you want to know something about it before you make a fool of yourself, ask.
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[ Because she wants to know just what had happened to this Ami to warrant such hate, hostility and distrust to everything and anything involving the sailor senshi. ]
I'll save my real questions for afterward, if that's alright.
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It starts so easily, and so similar: the past life, the immortals of the Moon Kingdom, princesses of the solar system chosen to form the court of the Moon Princess as her guardians and protectors; though they were mere children, they were made into soldiers for her use, endangering them for her sake. As they grew, their role was to watch over the people of Earth as distant goddesses, guiding them in their development and evolution.
The moon princess fell in love with the prince of Earth, but it was a forbidden love. Both flouted the law completely, considering themselves above it. The beginning of their love was the beginning of the end. Calamity after calamity occurred on Earth, one after the next and always worse; still the prince and princess remained careless and ignored their advisors and friends, no matter how their actions harmed their people and the land. The people of Earth turned not only fearful and suspicious, but angry at the Moon Kingdom they blamed for their suffering and for the Moon's pride.
War came, starting with an insurrection on Earth, the shitennou rising against Endymion who refused to heed their advice and forced them into rebellion against him before he led them to further disaster. Earth's armies were then led to the Moon by a girl who'd been a nobody until she unlocked a fearsome power: Beryl, who fancied herself in love with the prince. The shitennou engaged in deadly combat with the senshi - the women they'd loved, sin leading to sin, until this war broke out.
And now, where was the prince but guarding the princess, even against his own planet, and his own men who should have been everything to him? His own men, who lay lifeless and crushed before their leader's very eyes, knowing themselves all abandoned by their lord?
Beryl could only raise her sword to strike the greatest enemy: the princess. But the prince took the blow instead.
And thus, the world ended.]
You destroyed the planet in the past. Like the prince betrayed his men and left them for you, you threw us away when he died.
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But, she keeps her word and saves all the questions and comments until the other girl asks for it. ]
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As her story has it, they were all reborn again, on Earth - just as the princess wanted, even this life being determined for them from the start by her wish for Endymion. Being from the same planet, she could look for him again and be with him.
As they were awakened, none of them were told the truth. They were only told to protect the princess. That was their mission. They never knew what she'd done, all the reasons to refuse.
And yet Ami had refused, uninterested in a girl who only wanted to use her as a soldier. But they'd been attacked by youma and Ami, to save their lives, transformed. She speaks not a word, now, of her changed mind or her decision and wish to fight at Usagi's side; as if that disappeared long ago.
She could have predicted it from the start: the sailor senshi fell to pieces, went separate ways, never even backed each other up in battle. Who'd stay forever waiting for that?
Then Kunzite had come.]
Kunzite took me to the Dark Kingdom. [Not a word about his methods, not a word about what he wanted her to become. It's a notable omission, as if nothing at all happened between her clinging devotion to Usagi and the equally obsessive hatred.]
We discovered you'd been using Venus all that time. Your decoy, so that you'd hide behind her and be safe at her expense, even more than the rest of us. [No talk now of the decision being Venus' own.]
And then I was taken to another world.
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It takes Usagi a few moments and listening a little bit longer to start putting pieces together on why something about this world description wasn't settling right with her.
Kunzite taking her to the Dark Kingdom and... even if there was a chance that she went willingly, the Dark Kingdom was known for using their dark magic to keep people under their control. If that was tr-- ]
... Another world? What do you mean another world?
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A world called Econtra. In Econtra, I learned the truth.
[She learned the truth about Beryl, Metalia, the Princess, so many things. Among them: the princess' power and Metalia's were linked - no, the very same. As one grew, so did the other, and the Earth was damaged every time they used their powers.
And Tsukino Usagi had looked her in the eye and said she was never needed anyway. It might be a joke, as Mercury tells it now, a cold joke on Usagi herself for bringing this down on her own head, for Mercury proving Usagi needed her.
And Tsukino Usagi was a girl who could laugh at the idea of erasing Chibi-Usa and call anyone who argued it, evil. Mercury - and Kunzite - had been right: there was no feeling in that girl for the people who should have been closest to her.
And Tsukino Usagi was a girl who could beat up a boy for nothing but trying to make sure others wouldn't suffer for his sake.
While she learned, she fought. She fought the enemies of that world (no remark, now, on the irony of another kidnapping away from her comrades and home to fight a new war under compulsion, certainly no remark on the loneliness and fear it had to have brought with it.) She fought her enemies who arrived there. She bided her time, and planned for her return to her world; she'd learned to wait for her vengeance and wait for her chance from a very adept and experienced teacher. She grew more powerful. She prepared.]
When I went back to my world, I swore to change everything.
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No words that can describe just how Usagi feels right now hearing other versions of herself just...
No words. No words except: ]
You destroyed the me of your world.
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You were a threat. When you were dead, Kunzite was free to kill the prince without your interference. [Even thwarting Beryl's attempt to kidnap him to make sure of the timing. Nothing was left to chance; even Kunzite's vengeance waited, for the sake of surety.]
We also took out Beryl, and Metalia. Your senshi surrendered except Venus, who died. Then we removed the last of Metalia's youna.
[Nothing left to chance, all threats eliminated, all vengeance served. This is not a gentle world.
After that, the Death Busters; no Black Moon clan with no royal house expelling them. The Goddess of Death was killed by Uranus and Neptune before she could awaken to bring the destruction; no one to plead for her life here. And with no one to heal them back to normal, the victims died, too, every sacrifice Uranus and Neptune thought they'd have to make and all the blood they knew they'd have to get on their hands.
Princess Snow Kaguya came next, and nearly froze the planet after all before she was weakened and unmade. In the aftermath, the shitennou rose to power as the ones with the strength to hold together the world they'd narrowly avoided the loss of yet again.
When the Dead Moon came, it was the same: a hard battle fought desperately. The golden crystal, revealed when the shitennou's stones came together, was finally unsealed by the combined wish of the people of Earth (far better, to their minds, than a power dependent upon one heart alone) to repel Dead Moon for good.
It is not a gentle world. But it has survived. In peace, the shitennou ruled and rebuilt their territories. Ami, finally, became a doctor.]
It's a pretty long story. I'm surprised you aren't sleepy.
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Even... even if really the Dark Kingdom just messed with her mind, there had to have been a basis for it right? ]
I said I wanted to know you better.. [ She pauses. ] And.. can you actually fall asleep when you're in a dream?
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What a nonsense question. She peels the pixie-stick-grass blade and dumps the contents (a sort of sugar water she finds out) into her mouth.
It's an excuse not to answer, to have silence, to dissociate herself from everything she's just said.]
You can do anything in a dream.
[But that's not what bothers her. No, what bothers her is that, having heard it, she'd expect either a ridiculous lecture, or running away in terror, from Usagi.]
And now that you've heard it? What will you do?