Hello. My name is Sailor Augestine, Trainer to the Senshi. There is not much time left that I can tell my tale. Already I can hear the sounds of fighting down the halls. Queen Serenity thought this to be an easy quest, to destroy the enemy base. She was wrong. Now, nearly all of our defences are gone, and we sit in the darkness waiting for our turn to die. I don't know why I bother taking the time to write this out...but something tells me that it might be important. Thank Seline that the children are safe on the Moon. I don't know what would happen if they were here. The children I speak of are the Senshi. Young, and often naive, they would not be able to handle this. The eldest among them is only 14, and I would not wish for them to be subjected to this torture. I will miss them all, even...but that is not for now. I found them all, all of the Senshi. I found Earth first, Uranus last, and all of them in the middle. Even a Senshi of the Moon was discovered, but none are to know of her. None. The Queen swore me to secrecy regarding Princess Minea's senshi statis. When did it start? I don't really know. Long had the idea of a royal guard been bandied about, although it didn't come into being until much later. The ideas for Senshi were laid out with Serenity III, a goal of Serenity II, though it wasn't carried out then. It was only with the assasination of Queen Serenity V that they became a goal of the people as well as the rular. For the protection of the Princess. But that doesn't matter to me now. I only hope that this will be found someday, and used, perhaps by one of my own Senshi. But I must now begin the tale. Faerie Queen: The Finding Prologue Queen Serenity V was beautiful. Everyone agreed on that. The golden cresent moon on her forehead that marked her heritage, and her position, was known to all. It was nestled between her eyebrows, brows that hardly ever furrowed. Midnight black hair worn in the tradition of Queen Serenity I, two roundish buns with long streams of hair that flowed down her back and gently touched the floor. Her 'public gown' as she called it, was silver, hemmed in a startling violet that matched her eyes. *no* Gracefully, the Queen moved down the center isle of the thrown room, smiling at someone's choice of words, laughing gently with the people of the court, the perfect Lady. *not this again* She stopped once, and gestured to her daughter, Serenity VI. **Dear, don't look so fussy. This is a public affair, we need to look the part.** she sent telepathiclly. Princess Serenity VI, Katherine, griminced to herself. *stop it!* The gentle chasticing of her mother was the worst punishment that she would ever recieve, and the worst that she could ever get. The sixth daughter in a legecy of queens that streched back farther then written history, Katherine constintly reminded herself to be more like the Queen. More _ladylike_. Be a Princess. She could never measure up to her mother's qualifications. *i am not going to listen to you. i have put this behind me.* The colors of the thrown room were so bright...so very bright. All rose and lavender, the Queen's favorite colors. There were varying reminders of the previous queens, most notifably the Silver Moon Crystal, high on it's pedistle above Mother's thrown. 'It's probably dusty' Katherine thought to herself. It hadn't been used in ages. She herself had never touched it. It bathed the room in silver light, glowing softly like the lamps of the ballroom that they had just come from. *stop it!* The Queen walked on to her thrown, a slight smile on her face as she made her way up the long aisle. It was so long. Katherine was awed by the size of the room. It was so big to one so small. Her mother strode beside her, a giant compared to Katherine's slim four year old frame. So graceful. Katherine wanted nothing more then to be like her one day. They were almost there. Katherine's feet hurt and she was slightly afraid of the masses that lined the corrider on either side. It was so noisy. Everyone was speaking, and shouting. *nooooooo* Something happened then. The pale white light of the Crystal turned to a blood colored red. Someone screamed. It all went silent. Then the light. The bright blinding light. Someone was screaming. Mother....Momma! The light flew into a compact ball that slammed into the Queen. Serenity flew backwards, crashing into her daughter, her husband. The light flew into Papa then, and he cried out. Her brave Papa, who never cried, fell, clutching at his wife. Someone was screaming. There was blood. Momma's white dress was streaked with it. Her moon was fading and Katherine could feel her glowing. No! She didn't want it to glow! That meant that she was Queen, and she wasn't Queen, Mama was Queen. Momma was Queen! Someone was screaming. So much blood. So red, it ran like a bright river down Momma's front. And then she could move again. They all could move again. Katherine launched herself onto Serenity, not caring about the sticky spots that she was making on her own pale blue dress. Her hair was wet. The dark brown hair was wet, sticky. Everything was red. She felt dirty. Katherine needs a bath! Nurse would say. Nurse would come and she would give Katherine a bath then Momma and Papa would read her a story and she would tell them about the bad dream. Someone was screaming. The others got to her then. Strangers, people that she didn't know, from all over. They reached for her, tried to pull her away from Momma. They murrmured things into her hair, and she was passed to Jerimiah, nurse's husband. He carried her to her rooms. Someone was still screaming. It was then that she realised that the one screaming was herself. *** Queen Serenity VI, Queen of the Moon, and Rular of the Silver Millinuim awoke suddenly. The memories of her mother's death were still very much with her, one of the reasons that she was so determined to keep her own daughter safe. The nightmare's of that hellish day still haunted her. The Second War of the Star had started then, because of Earth. Members of the House of Jouche had conspired against the Moon, resenting the Lunairian's lofty positions. They had fallen under the sway of Mettalica, thereby damning themselves and their planet. Because of the House's betrayal, Earth had been forever banned from the Silver Millinuim. Now, nearly a hundred years later, Serenity VI was determinined to keep that policy going. She gently rubbed her swollen belly, promicing this fact to her unborn child again. But, just in case... "Sailor!" Serenity called into the viacom hidden in the walls tastefully. Her husband, Mathew stirred in his sleep. She smiled at him gently, carefully brushing away some loose threads of dark hair from his face. Serenity stood, and walked out to the balcony, bathed in the Earthglow. No matter what barbarians lived there, Earth was still a beutiful place. "You called, Magesty?" "Sailor, I've asked you to call me Katherine, when we are in private. We have been friends for years!" And it was true. Shedding the royal title, Katherine stood, still facing the Earth, looking out over the lands. "Yes, Katherine. You know it's only for respect, don't you?" Sailor asked. "Of course I do...but it makes me feel old." "Katherine, dear...You _are_ old." "Not that old." Katherine turned to face her friend. They were as different as night and day, the two of them. Katherine was dark, deep mahogany eyes and rich brown hair pulled up in the royal way. With her long maroon dressing gown she looked the part of a sorcerous, or a witch. Sailor Augustine, however, was everything else. She was a Venusian, with the classic light honey blond hair so common with them. She wore it pulled into a single fat braid that hung to her waist. Her eyes were light blue, and could pierce the night. Sailor was also one of the best fighters that the Moon had to offer. Katherine sighed, and placed a hand on her stomach again. "She's going to be special. I can feel it." Sailor nodded. They had had this discossion before, but never really to any avail. "I never had any of the powers that my ansectors did. I could never read the stars for signs of the future, or sence another's thoughts. I think, though, that Minea will be able to do just those things." Here, now, Katherine could -feel- the light pulsing through her daughter. "Because of that others will want to hurt her, harm her. Sailor I can't allow that!" "Of course not," Sailor said, coming closer to the Moon Queen and putting her arms about her shoulders. "Do you want me to-" she left it hanging. Kathrine hesitated. Sailor hadn't needed to finish the statement, it was obvious as it was. 'Do you want me to awaken the Avatars?' The Avatars were those that the original Serenity had set in motion, creating them out of nothingness when she made the moon a viable place to live. One for each of the planets, a legend all but forgotten. Except for those who knew the truth. Those like Kathrine. They were to be the defenders of the realm, sleeping the centuries away, passing from one body to the next, always young girls. Many of the hosts didn't even realise that they contained within them the power of their planets. If they grew too old, and were still not awakened, then the power passed to another. This was all in the legend. What was not, was the fact that the Arising of the Avatars would signifiy the death of her kingdom. It didn't say when, it could still be in a hundred years. A thousand years. Or it could be the day after tomarrow. Not that it mattered. Doomsday was set, and nothing could change it. The Arising of the Avatars was merely a sign. A sign of death and destruction. Katherine was not precognitive, she never recieved visions or the like. But she knew, she _knew_ that her daughter would need the Avatars before Minea's reign was out. Closing her eyes to stop the tears from falling out, Kathrine nodded slowly. "Go Sailor. Go and find the Avatars. Awaken the Senshi." That said, Queen Serenity VI of the Moon turned and walked back into her chambers. Sailor watched her go. "Arigatou, Serenity-sama,"she whispered. "Arigatou." Turning back to the star filled sky, Sailor sighed once, and teleported away. Wow! You can't imagine what it feels like to have this in front of me, the first part done, and ready to start on the next. It's wonderful. I love it completly. As you miht have guessed, the senshi we so well know and love play a very small part in this. They actually aren't in it all. This takes place nearly 600 years before Princess Serenity IX, our Serenity, mother of Reenie is even born. On the moon. This is to say nothing about Tsukino Serena Usagi on Earth. Just to let you know, Faerie Queen is to be a -very- long work. I am kinda starting in the middle here, with how the Senshi were formed and started. I have no idea how many parts that this will take, I imagine that there will be several. Oh, and that's just with 'Finding'. Kinda like Lianne-sama's UaML, how there are so many books and parts to each, I guess. Go read that now. I also want to have a few other things, like _how_ the Moon kingdom came to be, just where _did_ the Silver Moon Crystal come from, and what the heck is a War of the Star? (and _NO_ I did not rip the name off of a particually wonderful famous movie trilogy....well...maybe subconiously...grin...) Please, write to me with ideas and the like. I don't normally write long stuff, they tend to fall apart while I write them. I am begging you...don't let me do that here! I am counting on you to make sure that I finish this book! Help me please! Yes, I know it's short. But it's the prologue, what did you expect? Thanks for reading the incredibly boring author's notes! Dremdancer dremdancer@ hotmail.com Tsukino Usagi is Dead Dremdancer Tsukino Usagi is dead. It's a real shame too. I'll miss her. The witch. She is dead. Dead dead dead dead dead! I know. I killed her. Just as she killed me. For years on end I was a prisoner in her mind. I wasn't able to move or talk. Do you know how alful that is? I had to wait over a thousand years in the void before I could get a new body. And when, finally, I have a chance to live again, what does she do? She locks me out! Oh, she was tricky. For every comment that I would make, every sugestion, she would come up with one that was the exact oppisite. Usagi denied me my life! I hated her. I didn't at first. No, not at first. Not when she was still a child, and I could still influence her. I was so sure then, so happy that things would work out. She was so cute then! But she hardened her mind to me. She turned away from my plight and thought only of herself. Oh she was still the sweet, carefree bunny that everyone thought her to be. Outwardly. I knew her though. I knew her like no other did. Not even her precious 'Mamo-chan' knew her like I did. Every thought that she had was mine to share. Every idea, every emotion. I knew her inside and out. Oh, my poor Mother had searched long and hard to find one that so resembled me, in thought and in looks. One who looked like me, talked like me. But who wasn't, and never could be, _me_. Usagi was even very intellegent. She really was! But when I tried to help her, she got resentful. And, like the brat she was, she tried to shove me back, ignoring my words of wisdom. She managed to block me out completly after a time. But even after that, she continued to spite me. Mother would never given me a host as clusmy and foolish as Usagi set herself out to be. To spite me. She did it, all of it, to spite me! She forgot things, fell and tripped at just the right times to humilate me, and constantly crammed food into her mouth. All of this, to spite me. Oh, I hated her then. But that wasn't the worst of it. The worst part of it was that I lost the threshold that I had on her mind. I could no longer influence her. And if that wasn't bad enough, she forgot about me! Tsukino Usagi forgot that I waited there, caught in her mind. After eons in the void, I return only to be shoved back, to be pushed off into some dark corner where none can hear my cries? I don't think so. I tried. I tried so hard to free myself. It was all to naught, however, until a certain someone once more appeared in my life. Her down fall came. It came as surely as the full moon. When Mother's advisor first crossed into the Tsukino's home, I knew things were going to change. And change it it! It all changed! I was rather annoyed with Luna. Even though she could reconise the energy running through Usagi as Lunar, she could not see _me_. I wasn't too thrilled with her at that point. But it doesn't matter now. Tsukino Usagi is dead. She began to rot away, decaying from the inside out, the first time she ever uttered the words, "Moon Prism Power, Make Up!". And every time that she transformed, I ate away at the bonds that shoved me back. Even better was that, subconsciously, she asked me for help. And I gave it to her. I told her what to say, what to do. And most of the time, she got it right. Usagi is dead. The others returned in time. Mercury, Mars, Jupiter. But it was Venus' timely arrival that marked my first great victory. Because right after that, my beloved Endymon was stabbed with an ice crystal from Zoicyte. And Usagi, still reeling from the blow that her arch enemy in the wonderful world of Arcades, was none other then her own beloved, Tuxedo Kamen. I knew that already as a matter of course. All she could see was that her love was dying. What an end, bleeding to death in an alternate dimension. She simply gave up. Stood there in shock, tears running down her face. So I took over. I TOOK OVER! It felt wondrous. You can't describe how it felt, to want to move your arm, and have it move. To stretch, to laugh or to cry. I loved it. Every moment of it. But the witch intruded on my time. She influenced me as I so often had her. And I couldn't hold it. So long in the void had weakened me. Cruelly, she shoved me back again, into the depths. Into the darkness. She is dead. I gave her what she deserved. Then, what a laugh! She asked for my help again! She had me defeat Beryl for her. Which I did. Then the little witch made a wish. A stupid little wish. ?Just to be an ordinary girl' And she got it too. What about my wishes? My hopes? My dreams? Usagi got everything. That's one of the reasons why I had to kill her. So many times after that. She pull me to the forefront to deal with the monster of the week, and then push me back into the recesses of her mind. The witch. I could deal with Black Lady. I even thought Demando was a hottie, even if he did need a hair cut. I'd never leave my Endymon, though. Ever. I could handle it when Saturn elected to destroy the world. Sure. Just get a Messiah of Love to pull the Messiah of Death back on the right track. Every things FINE. Okay? Everything's just dandy. Peachy, even. Sure. Even with Nerphina. Okay. But while she was off looking at daisies and forgetting everything, I was working as hard as I could to get her moving again. In the end, Jupiter had to do that for me. Fine. That's great. I could do that. I sure could! Yup! But when it was Galaxia's turn, well, that was just the last dang straw. Sailor Moon Eternal was so much ME. So much Moon Power flooding through her system, she involuntarily gave up control a thousand times over, just to pull back right before I could become myself again. She was always a pig. So greedy. So I killed her! After Galexia, all was quiet. Not a new monster for months. Then Usagi got it into her mind to start experimenting with the Silver Crystal. Not smart. I took control. And I have been in control since. And I killed her. I killed Tsukino Usagi by shoving her like she did me for years. Now _she_ watches, helpless against anything I might do. I am Serenity. The Moon Princess and soon to be Queen of Crystal Tokyo. The senshi realize this. Now I am Serenity to them as well. Usagi is dead. Her parents have noted the change, but like all the others, they thought, they _know_ it was for the better. Soon I will raise Crystal Tokyo from it's sleep. I am Serenity, and I can do anything. It's kind of funny though. Sometimes, I think that I can still hear Usagi scream at me. To leave her and her _Mamo-chan_ alone. I haven't learned to block her out yet. Not like she had me. But I have millennia to practice, right? I killed Usagi. I killed her as she killed me. I smile to myself, thinking that. I rub my arms. I need a sweater. It's starting to get cold. Author's Notes Whoo-boy! It's done! I'm amazed! Note, that although I really do love Serena/Usagi and use them/her in all of my fics as main characters, I just had to write this. Flame me if you like. But how would you feel if you were trapped for ages inside of someone's mind? I'd go insane. Funny, that's what Serenity did. In this fic at least. Most of my stories are/will be lighter. This one came to me as I was plotting out Angel Flight. (Or perhaps it should be called Angel Fall?). If you don't hear about Angel for weeks and months and days, don't worry. I have other stuff that would be cool to get posted. Oh, all standard disclaimers apply. No one sue, okay? Oh, yeah. Tsukino Usagi is Dead is copyrighted by Dremdancer March 4th, 1998. No one steal it either, okay? Oh, did you get that last bit? If not, reread and look _very_ closely at those last few lines. Kinda a bit of foreshadowing, don't ya think? Also. Stop reading this right now! Go read Crystal Heart-sama's stories! She is the Goddess of Sailor Moon romance! Sere and Dare in particular. Also Read Lianne-sama and Razzz-sama! Go now! And beg them, no, plead them to get their fics finished! Please! Dremdancer dremdancer@hotmail.com Sammy: I'll take you to where my dad is! Darien: Okay. Serena: SAMMY!!! Sammy: Stay here, it's too dangerous. It's kinda a guy thing. Serena: A _guy thing_?!? poems by me ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ adventures together by the full moon's light Forever for always yet ever apart A dream lost by early morn bright Twilight is over, now night shall start Alone in the dark a new days ended a love so short a life is bended a wound inflected, and never mended A heart is broken A soul is torn And love's true light shall nigh be born /\/\/\/\\/\/\/\/\\/\/\/\/\/\\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ The Three Moons Prophesy Three Moons, tri patterned; The Heir, the Strongest One, whose love shall succede The Keeper, of Crystals and Knowlage; whose wisdom will light the world, and The Warrior, Guardian of the Guardians; whose sacrifice will save all three. The Heir, strong as always, Though weak at first, She must go the furthest. She has the most work, So be patient, those who would stand to complain, In the end you all stand to gain. The Keeper is hidden, an enemy at first, But look through the darkness, bring her out of her shell, Look to her, at the seeming end, For it is your heart she will mend. For The Warrior, death shall come, but fear not, stones shall live, and crystals turn, Her task is the hardest, but life will come again, on the new day if only you find the way, Three Moons, all in a set, The Crystal, The Shard, The Stone, More together then apart The Crystal for the Heir, power incarnet, the Shard for the Keeper, lighting from it, The Stone for the Warrior, who dies for us all, Pray for us please, or we all shall fall. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Out side times gate The evil awaits Protect it's target Or seal your fate First the Warrior must be defeated Then the Keeper broken By the New Moon's light The words shall be spoken If the Queen should die Chaos will rein The rose will wither The Heir shall change Nothing will be as it should And all will perish In the resulting flame ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LOVE LORN, LOVE LOST ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Two as one we fight as none before have ever been. People stare, but we don't care as we walk out on the sceane. We dance, the night seems to take a chance, chill air, your arm protects me. We kiss as memories of the abyss fly towards us, doesn't matter our love is the key to man's salvation. I know that, and so do you, so what are you saying please? You look at the rain in leau of me, my soul's a castle under siege. How can this be? Like Charon's fee I pay the man, take me home! ************************************************************************ The Moon shine the star wine the peace joined the word coined the lover's pine the endkess time the new snow the faye know of the moon shine and the star's wine ----------------------------------------------------------------------- One of these days I'll figure out how to do a moon... But here's some poetry. All of it is Sailor Moon based or derived, or it was inspired by said show. I hope that they make you think. Make you FEEL. That's all I am really going for here. Enough said. Dremdancer dremdancer@hotmail.com