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Silver Legends Act IV

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‘Greetings, Princess Serenity and welcome to my kingdom, the Golden Sanctuary’ said with a wide smile the girl that was standing in front of Serenity; her smile was warm enough to melt a glacier and her eyes sparkled with tears while she looked Serenity straight to her face; she was about 6 or 7 inches taller than  Serenity, but that didn’t impeded her to get closer and she hugged her. ‘Er... thank you for your hospitality?’ Serenity asked clumsily patting her in the back and turning back to see her embarased friends. ‘Sailor Moon, you’re a princess too!, at least act like one once for the love of God!’ yelled at her Luna; Serenity separated from the Sun Princess and then she bowed back, for a while she was thinking hardly the propper words to introduce herself. Finally with a great bright on her face she said: ‘Hi!, I’m Serena Tsukino and I’m 16 years old!’.

Sailor Venus started laughing hardly with Jupiter, while Endimion and Chibimoon were totally ashamed as Luna cried vividly on Artemis’s shoulder. ‘She’s unbelivable!’ said Mars to Mercury, ‘She can’t remeber a simple equation but she can tell exactly what are the things she likes and dislikes’; Mercury laughed nervouslly as Pluto got closer to the Sun Princess that looked a little bewildered; while Serenity was realizing that everyone on her side was either embarassed or laughing at her. ‘Please Princess, I apologize for this behavior on behalf of Princess Serenity’. ‘Ah!, a Sailor Scout it has been ages since the last time I saw one!’ the Sun Princess said cheerfully as she began to examine Pluto’s suit flapping her sailor cloak , pulling the ribbons and touching the jewlery.

‘You know about the Sailor Scouts?’ asked a little suprised Serenity; ‘Do I know about the Sailor Scouts?’ she said as she rolled her eyes not beliving Serenity’s words and returning Pluto one of her gloves, ‘Everyone here knows that you’re the ones keeping us all safe in here and out there’ she pointed in a direction; ‘The Silver Millenium’ she added when noticed that none of the Scouts understood her words. ‘We need to talk with you in a more secure place, Princess’ said Pluto as she was putting back her glove again. ‘Sure, I understand’ she replied a little bit more seriously and returned to her committee. ‘Princess...’ Pluto said stiffly extending her arm and placing it in front of the Sun Princess; the Sun Princess looked back at her with an innocent look in her eyes and returned her transformation pen. ‘You’ve dropped this!, lucky for you that I‘ve found it!’ she said as she darted back to her welcome committee.

The people began walking back to their city, while the Sailor Scouts remianed standing there for a while, ‘What was all that about?’ asked Uranus a little disturbed; ‘The princess of this place wants badly to be a Sailor Scout’ Pluto said as she stored her Pen again; ‘How curious, that a person actually wants the life that some of us cursed once or twice in our lifetimes’ Uranus replied as they started walking behind the locals and giving and incredulous look at the red haired girl that had dragged Serenity by the arm next to her. As they kept walking over the countryside, thew saw more and more buildings on it; then finally after climbing a hill after about 30 minutes of road, they finally had their first glimpse of the city on the Sun

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At first sight it seemed to have been built as a single stone piece, but it gave away that impression mainly because of the glow that the material they had built it had a natural golden shine, that was increased by the gold edges on every building and the roofs entirelly covered br the metal. Every wall of the homes, stores and buidings were beautifully handcrafted and decorated with exquisite paintings; they walked down the main street of the city that lead to the palace, surrounded by thousands of people bowing to the Princesses, cheering joyfully at the sight of the Moon Princess and her loyal companions and then showering them with a rain of petals and flowers.

‘I might get used to this...’ said Venus waving to some handsome guys that smiled and cheered for Venus’s Princess; ‘Don’t get too cocky’ replied Jupiter with a smile as she recieved a bouquet from another guy that stepped back bowing at her; ‘Remeber we’re on a mission, girls’ replied Pluto keeping her place right behind the Princesses and next to Chibimoon and Endymion, ‘Even if we’re on a different life, we’re still representatives of the Silver Millenium and as such... what do you want Saturn?’ asked when the young girl pulled her arm and then pointed something behind her with a indifferent expression.

Pluto almost had a shock when she saw just Mercury behind her doing her best to ignore a couple of guys that tried to talk to her and some kids that were trying to hug her. ‘And where are Uranus and Neptune?’ asked Pluto turning to Saturn, Saturn pointed a couple of pillars in the other side of the street and a massive group of guys staring at Neptune, while some girls kept looking with intense eyes how Uranus was reciving Neptune’s attention. ‘Uranus... Neptune...You too?, what’s wrong with this people?’ cried Pluto sobbing in her hands; ‘There, there Sailor Pluto, we have to get with the Princess and Chibimoon’ said Saturn keeping her indifferent expression holding her mentor’s hand and walking alongside the procession, followed closely by Sailor Mercury.

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At last they arrived to a magnificent palace with 7 large towers that contrasted with the clear orange sky; each tower had several windows and balconies from which hanged several vines filled of flowers; the palace gardens were huge, about 20 soccer fields filled of magnificent vegetation and serveal birds chirping happily in the huge trees above their heads. As they followed the path they passed trough the main courtyard, where there was a fountain with statues and several obelisks surrounding it. The heavy golden door opened slowly inwards as the procession broke up and both Princesses climbed up the stairs, followed closely by Endimyon, Chibimoon, Mercury, Pluto and Saturn.

‘I can’t wat for you to tell me all your adventures Serenity!’ said happily the Sun Princess taking Serenity’s hands in the middle of the hall, a gorgeous room with tall pillars, wide painted windows and several shining marble statues; ‘About the wonders of the Moon Kingdom!; the marvelous Moon Palace!, I want to hear everything!’; Serena looked a little overwhelmed by the constant chatter of the girl; ‘so that’s what Dariend feels from time to time... I think I might be a little more quiet from now on...’ she tought. As she opened her mouth to answer, when another voice echoed in the room ‘That’s not way to behave, Princees Murua!’ Said a woman climbing down the stairs. Her way of walking and dressing indicated that she was a member of a high aristochratic class; altough her face showed some wrinkles and her black hair had some silvery patches, you could not think of her other way, but as a gorgeous woman.

Her purple eyes stared intensely the Sun Princess that cowed inmediately in the presence of this person and lowered her head. ‘She looks like a person you don’t want trouble with’ whispered Saturn to Chibimoon that nodded silently; ‘And you two!, talking in the presence of a Princess without permission is unacceptable!’ the woman yelled at them, ‘So... sorry!’ said at the time both girls and standed straight putting their ankles together and their arms close to their bodies; ‘It’s “sorry, mam” if you please’ said the woman finally climbing down the stairs and placing the Sun Princess next to herself. ‘Sorry, mam!’ said Chibimoon and Saturn sweating on her backs. ‘Ah, Princess Serenity always a pleasure to have you here’ she said turning her head to have a better sight of her and giving her a little bow with her head.

‘Y... yes, mam!; th... thank you!’ she said a little intimidated by the intensity of the eyes of the woman; ‘You have nothing to thank for, Princess.’ She replied smiling courteously; ‘And this fine gentleman must be, Endimyon from Earth’ she said raising her hand towards him, Endymion taked it and kissed it as a gentleman. ‘This way please... the two of you follow me please’ she said taking her way to climb the stairs once again; Murua followed her unwillingly, an attitude noticed by Serenity and Endimyon. While Pluto, Saturn, Mercury and Chibimoon remained standing there in the hall. ‘Who is this woman?’ asked with puffy cheeks Chibimoon; a little blushed Saturn added frowning her eyebrows ‘Treating us like we were what... vermin?’. ‘I’m not quite into this ettiquete issues, but I think she was a little rude with us, don’t you think Pluto?’ asked Mercury without breaking her position; ‘Misstress Aarla always have been like this since I can remeber’ replied Pluto staring how the 4 people entered another gate right on the top of the stairs.

‘Well, she’s a mean old... wait?; do you know that hag?’ Asked Chibimoon; Pluto sighted and turned to see her, ‘Of course I do know her; in fact I knew all the Sailor Scouts before you; but back then... I was in your place’ she finished with a wide smile for Saturn and Chibimoon. ‘When you say ‘back then’, you mean...?’ said intrigued Mercury; ‘Yes, I’m a little bit older than you, just don’t go telling that to the four winds’ said Pluto winking her left eye and putting her left index over her smiling lips. ‘Unbelivable’ said Saturn, ‘Just one question, Puu!’ pleaded Chibimoon taking Pluto’s hands; ‘Grandma Queen Serenity was just like that klutz?’; Pluto blinked suprised at the question but she just saw her back tenderly and smiled.

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As they entered the throne room Serenity and endimion stared in all directions: ‘ the celing had a splendorous picture of several angels gathering arround the Sun in a sparling sky filled of clouds and cherubs; resting above the Sun was another couple of angels with their hands entwined and face to face; holding this masterpiece were 27 golden pillars carved with grooves of people that seemed to tell a story. Following Aarla and Murua, they stopped at the base of a short stair that ended in a gorgeous throne with golden lions on its arms and a large eagle spreading its wings on the top, with a golden disk behind it. Above this magnificent piece there were some long silk white and golden courtains that hanged from the ceiling. The room was iluminated by a warm light that seemed to come from the walls.

Murua sat down in her throne gracefully as Aarla placed next to her right; the woman took one step ahead and said after bowing to Serenity ‘Once again I welcome you to this humble Golden Sanctuary, Princess Serenity of the Silver Millenium and to you,  Prince Endimyon of the earth Kingdom. I’m Queen Aarla from the Fire Keep on Mars and Councelor of the Sun Princess’; ‘Mars?, are you Raye’s mom?’ Asked Serenity before allowing her to continue talking.; ‘Who’s this ‘Raye’ person you’re speaking off?, I do have one daughter but she’s with you in the Silver Millenium’. At the mention of the Moon Kindgom the expresion of Murua changed to a eager one; ‘I’m sorry to say this but, the Moon Kingdom is no more...’ said Serenity lowering her head and turning her eyes from the two people in front of her.

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At the other side of the invisble Outer Wall; the cloaked beigns had arrived to the very same crossroad where the Scouts had been a few hours ago. ‘Why did we let them pass so easily?, we’ve could have detroyed them in a blink!’ Snarled the feline voiced man; ‘Because... we needed them to lead us here’ replied their leader. ‘So what?, we’ve could have taken out some of them and then have followed the survivors’ he added crossing his arms; ‘We needed them to get confident on their miserable skills, if we showed them our true power, we’ve could have done something terrible for our master’ added Hecatia as she turned both sides looking for something. ‘What’s so terrible about what might have happened?’ asked the man again foloowing her closely. Hecatia turned in a blink and grabbed the man by his thorat single handed and lifted him.

Thoug he was about 7 feets tall, the girl lifted him with ease and said to him looking into his wide opened eyes; ‘If we let those girls lie their hands in such treasure, our chances of victory would greatly reduce, not to mention that your life spawn would be about a few seconds; you get me furball?’ The male noded scared; ‘But if we get this piece first hand then the balance would be even more on our side and then there won’t be anything that could stop us’ she added as she extended her arms and tossed him to the sand.

‘Sorry Miss, there’s no track of them...’ said one of the reptile like woman that had just appeared behind them. The second hooded negated also with its head. ‘What about their presences?’ she asked turning back to see the frontal and (to her) deserted wasteland extenging miles up to the mountains. ‘Gone’ added the lion man rising from the sand and taking it out from his clothes; ‘One second they were in that direction’ he said as extended his hand to the south, and the next one they just dissapeared. ‘Shall we proceed south?’ asked the female hissing; Hecatia ordered her ideas a moment and then smiled evilly, ‘I think we’ve found them!’. ‘What do we do now?’ asked the lion man. ‘Summon your servants... we’re having a cleaning to do’ she replied as the shadows beneath her minions began to spread in the sand and bubbling like boiling water.

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‘This place is... AWESOME!’ Said Venus as she ran trough a wide street filled of trees and water running in a channel. ‘I have to admit, the air is so warm...makes your soul be at ease’ added Mars closing her eyes and listening to the noises of the city: the chatter of the people; the running and the water and the gentle noise of the leafs waving at the rythm of the breeze. ‘Where are everyone else?, Serena would love these’ asked Jupiter as she finished eating the best apples she had ever had, lying on a tree. ‘They must be at the palace, shouldn’t we got there?’ suggested Mars opening her eyes; ‘So how do we find it?’ asked Jupiter, ‘Well, isn’t that obvious?; we look for the biggest place on this whole city!’ said Venus, then she noticed some guys arround them and said winking at them. ‘Or we just can ask someone to take us there’.

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A few blocks away from this street, on an open garden filled of water and protected by the shade of several palm; Uranus lied flat on the grass, using Neptune’s legs as a cushion. ‘This isn’t  you, Haruka’ said Neptune a little serious, but grooming her hair with her hand. ‘I know that we have a tough battle ahead, Michiru. But at least I wanted to be like this with you if...’ Said Uranus, but was interrupted by Neptune, who placed her fingers in her mouth; ‘Please don’t finish that sentence’ she said giving away a sad smile; ‘It’s OK, Michiru’ Uranus said rising up and brushing her hand gently against Neptune’s face, who helt it gently and pressed it against her cheek. ‘We have the girl who lit back the Light of Hope on our side, That should be taken on account, right?’ asked Uranus staring at Neptune’s eyes.

Neptune gave back the stare and smiled again, but it was a different smile than the last one, this one was filled of confidence; ‘So much faith you have on that girl?’ she asked  as she leaned to her chest. Uranus huged her and said ‘She’s the second one to whom I’d entrust my life’, then she added in a whisper ‘and you know who’s the first one’. Neptune closed her eyes and took a deep breath relaxing herself in Uranus’s arms. She could smell the soft scent of her partner and the flowery smell of the city and fell Uranus’s hand passing trough her hair; ‘We’ll do our best to help this people?’ she asked opening her eyes and staring a few bystanders that were looking at them. ‘Yes, we will’ Uranus said seriously as she released her Neptune and standed up. Both girls ignored the astonished bystanders and made their way to the palace.

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‘So... it is true then?’ Asked Aarla devastated as she dropped herself to the stairs, while Murua looked had hear terrified the story curled up in her throne with her eyes dropping tears specially on the part of Serenity’s and Enymion’s death. ‘All the others... gone’ Aarla said shaking incredouslly her head; ‘But it wasn’t a complete loss... you’re still here’ said Serenity placing her mand in the woman’s shoulder. At once she jumped as if a burning iron had been placed there; ‘What are you doing, Princess Serenity?!’ she asked astonished, as if Serenity was about to stab her with a knife. ‘Well, I’m trying to cheer you up...’ said Serenity weakly taking a step behind and placing her hand in her chest.

‘Thank you, Princess, but I’m not even worthy of being on the same room than you. I couldn’t do anything to protect you and...’ her voice broke apart as she gasped and a few tears dropped. Endimyon looked carefully to the woman and tried to say some confort words to her, but instead chose to carry on into the purpose of their visit. ‘I can undertand it’s upsetting to have been here without knowing or being able to do something, but you’ve might get a chance Misstress Aarla’. She riser her eyes, red because of the tears in her face, wary of the words of the Earth prince.

‘Many years in the future an evil force will descend from here and destroy our future as well. The reason that Sailor Moon and the other Scouts are here is that we want to face this threat before it’s too late’ He said seriously, Murua heard every single word with her mouth wide open as aarla rised an eyebrow and snifled with a mocking grin in her face; ‘Nice tale, Prince. But this is THE strongest stronghold in this Solar System, so you’ll have to forgive if I laugh a little  listening such nonsense’. ‘We’ve fought some strange creatures in the desert’ said Serenity, Aarla’s soul dropped to the soil beneath the basement of the castle. ‘In... invaders... here?’ she asked stammering and looking both of them; ‘Good God no... no, no, no, NO!’ she looked too exalted as she started walking in circles arround them.

‘We also belive that they come for something you have here...’ added Endimyon and once again Aarla’s heart stopped by a split second; ‘You... they... what did you say?’ she asked as she turned to see them as if they had just appeared in the room. ‘We don’t know excatly all the details, but there’s a high chance that these enemies are coming for this... treasure, because I can figure a better word to call it’ said the young man staring the elder woman who looked enver more worried and wary than ever; ‘Aarla?’ asked Murua weakly as she stepped down her throne to get close to her steward; ‘You OK?’. ‘How do we know that if you’re not impostors?’ she asked sharply. Endimyon and Serenity looked a little shocked at each other and then Serenity spoke with her calm and warm voice.

‘Because what mother taught me was that I’ve had to belive in everyone else; gain the trust of the people, so they can open their hearts to happyness and to make mine the dreams and hopes of my friends so they can come true, and by doing so mine will come true too.’ She said holding the brooch in her hands. ‘Serena...’ mumbled Endimyon looking her intensely; Murua blushed a litte at hearing these words but Aarla looked at her for a few seconds and then she smiled and rised her eyebrows ‘Your mother in the Moon used to say these kind of things... I don’t care if your name is Serena or not; your soul will never hide who you really are’. ‘We’ve brought all the Sailor Scouts to help you in any way we can’ said Endimyon; Aarla turned to see evaluate him better and said to Serenity with a smirk in her lips; ‘He’s a gentleman, a bodyguard, besides an excelleny diplomat and handsome in top of that, you better keep this guy away from the others, you know?’; Serenity blushed as they left the room.

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Outside the palace, next to the fountain, the Scouts formed two lines Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Venus in one side, while the other one were Chibimoon, Pluto, Neptune, Uranus and Saturn. Endimyon had left the city to scout for any suspicious activity as the steward was analyzing the girls. ‘So, as your Princess says, there are some demons that attempt to take over this place and seize what’s have been entrusted to us eons ago!; we’ll have to organize our defenses and avoid at any cost that any of these abominations set foot on this place, you get that children?’ Aarla finshed looking at Chibimoon.

‘What’s the problem with this lady?’ asked Venus to Jupiter, while Mercury tried to silence her making gestures and Saturn resumed her straight stance; ‘Ah... a funny one’ Aarla said turning her eyes from Chibimoon who sighted in relief; ‘By the look in your face, I can say you’re no smarter than her’ she said nodding her head to Jupiter; ‘Excuse me?!’ asked irritated Venus and added planting herself face to face to the woman ‘But I’m pretty capable of doing anything you ask me, lady!’; Aarla looked back to those eyes that were staring her and then she smiled ‘Courage and will, you’ll need those little one if we want to win’ she said as she turned to see Pluto.

Moon yawned as she heard behind an obelisk a voice calling her, she turned carefully and saw Murua making hand signs for the to get closer; giving a quick look over her shoulder, she saw as Aarla placed her arm over Pluto’s shoulder and started talking with her lively. ‘She’s a bit scary, isn’t it?’ asked Moon a bit later sitting on a bench on a garden next to Murua, she negated shaking the head and rised her sight to the treetop ‘Aarla is a good woman, she has been with me 6 months... well, 1000 years AND 6 months’ corrected looking at Moon; ‘Must be hard to accept... that the world isn’t any longer as you remeber’.  ‘At the beggining somethings are hard to understand, the fact that I’m inside a star talking with an alien princess frozen in time 1000 years, might be enough to drive someone crazy’ Said Moon looking the treetop too, some birds fluttered on it. ‘What a friend, are you calling me a nuts maker?’ Murua asked frowning her lips and narrowing her eyes so hard that her eyebrows seemed to form a single line.

Moon laughed and then turned to see Murua; ‘Most people would say that it’s insane... but I think is pretty fun’; the shrewd expression on Murua’s face vanished to be an astonished one as Moon kept talking; ‘I don’t care if they’re aliens or some sort of travelers; we can get all along in this universe and be at peace if we all put a piece of our heart on it, don’t you think?’; ‘Yes...’ she mumbled weakly as a stray beam of light fell over the treetop and lighted Moon’s wings; Murua’s eyes saw for a split second the shadow of real angel wings. ‘Does it hurt...?’ she asked before she could stop herself; ‘To die...’ added a little embarassed looking at Moon’s confused face; ‘Well, it’s not nice... but if you pass on protecting what you care the most, pain is the last thing you have to worry about, because you know that you’ve done the right thing and given a chance to everyone else’. Moon said as she remebered the North Pole.

‘Princess Murua...’ said Moon, but the Sun Princess cuted her off; ‘Just Murua... Serena, right?’; Moon nodded, and then asked ‘Well then... Murua; can you tell me what are you keeping here?’ Murua looked wary, ‘Sorry I have asked you such thing!, I was so tactless!, I have to go back’ Moon said inmediately angered with herself. ‘It was a request...’ Murua said as Serena was about to leave the shade of the tree, she turned slowly as the Sun Princess kept talking.

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Eons ago, on a far distant galaxy the Fire Keeper arouse trying to build an empire and erradicating those that opposed to him; many stars were conquered under his fist and the threat became almost uncontrollable. Gathering several Sailor Scouts they faced the madenned Keeper and the outcome of this battle was a disaster; for only 3 of the scout remained. They had to go back and build a new plan to face the Keeper, before things would get real bad if “they” noticed that a Keeper was awake.

Luring him to a distant system with the promise of unmatched riches, a new alliance of Sailor Scouts and some renegades finally subdued the rouge Keeper and tried to make sense in his head; he realized then that his actions had caused so much pain and destruction to the galaxy at large and tried to make up for it; but his conscience told him that that wasn’t enough that he had to leave this place and never return, for exile would be the only way to allow the wounds to heal.
He gathered his most faithful servant and started a trip to never return to their homeworld and traveled to heal and repair the damage he had caused to everyone. However this Keeper didn’t passed unnoticed to the Chaos agents and soon they started to chase him and slay every single one who had contact with them in an attempt to lure them to their claws. The Keeper almost gave in when he saw a silver glint crossing the stars and then he knew what to do and where to go.

After several narrow escapes from the enemy grip, he finally arrived to the Silver Moon Kingdom and pleaded for their Queen’s wisdom. He needed to get rid of their enemies, but they would chase him as long as he had the crystal, causing damage and destruction to everyone that had been close to him. The Moon Queen suggested to place the relic on their Stronghold and then he would take a regular crystal shard infused with the crystal power so he can lure the Chaos away until his time ended. The Keeper agreed and she sent him to store the crystal on a place that only he would know; before leaving he thanked the Moon queen and ensured her that the time will come when he or his next reincarnation would pay back the favor she had given to him.

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‘What a story...’ Said Moon opening wide her eyes. ‘Yup, Mom told me that story when I was little, said that is the meaning of the writtings on the pillars in the throne room’ Murua answered leaning back in the bench, rising her feet and waving them;  and then she added looking Moon casually ‘It’s said that this story is also also the origin of our people’. ‘How come?’ Moon asked interested to hear it; ‘Well, the Keeper was escaping with some friends and people that loved him, right?. But as the Chaos agents were chasing them, they were being taken down one by one, so in order to keep safe the remaining survivors, he also asked the Moon Queen to allow them to be in some place safe from the reach of the enemy.’she narrated opening her eyes and making exagerated hand and arm movements at the adecuate moments; Murua was pleased to see Moon jump and squeal at the right moments of her story.

‘The Moon Queen also agreed to help these poor people so she allowed them to be here, in this very same place, away from unwanted visitors, under the condition that we’ve had to keep one steward from her kingdom every time, a pretty cheap cost for such magnificent place if you ask me’ she finished jumping out of the bench and looking Moon’s eyes. ‘That’s quite a tale’said Moon rising up clapping to the Sun Princess; ‘You know?, I want to be out there; I wonder what’s beyond the sky sometimes; I want to see the stars and fight some bad guys!’ she said clenching her fist; ‘Why?’ asked Moon, ‘“Why?”; Because it would be awesome!, a Sailor Scout fighting evil!, that’s why!’. ‘You’ll need more than that if you want that partícular dream to be true’ she said smiling weakly and walking back to the fountain; Murua looked stranged as Moon passed next to her.

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‘So we have to create a protective barrier arround the city, as the others try to keep at bay the enemies. Obviouslly we don’t know if anyone of these creatures know how to fly of use teleportation so at least two of us must remain with the Sun Princess in a safe room. Once we’ve reduced their numbers it’ll be safe call back those protecting the princess’; Mercury was talking at high speed and was displaying some doodles of the city in her computer; Neptune and Pluto were keeping up with her speech, as Uranus was a little stranded as Saturn and Chibimoon, but Mars, Jupiter and Venus had an headache trying to understand her words. ‘It also would be highly recomendable that we avoid fighthing inside the city’s wall, so we can reduce the numer of civil casualties to the minimum possible’ She added drawing another doodle in the computer. ‘Impressive... Athari could never have done this with a single computer... this girl is awesome’ tought Aarla hearing the girl organizing her companions; they had a little row about what to do to protect this city, and then Uranus suggested that they should allow Mercury design a plan, mainly because that was her greatest strenght.

‘Since your powers are stronger than ours’ Mercury said turning to Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and Saturn, ‘you’ll have to be on the second line; ready to reject those that might pass the barrier Mars, Jupiter, Venus and me will rise’; ‘Why should be waiting inside rather than outside?’ Asked Uranus, ‘Because, our barrier might repel any weak enemy, the strong creatures are the ones we’ll have to be careful with and the desert encounter we’ve had gave the parameters to develop this plan; it there are few strong creatures we might stand a chance’ answered Mercury.

‘But what happens if those we’ve fought in the desert are the weak ones...?’ asked Mars. ‘I’ve tought of that part too Mars, we need you to set a second barrier within using your scrolls... that way the powerful creatures that might pass our barrier will reduce their strenght; giving us the upper hand inside the barrier too’ replied Mercury as she started to display a map of the Sun city and the exact points where each one of them should stand guarding and the places where Mars should place her scrolls. ‘Could you repeat a little part?, I think I missed something...’ said Venus rising her hand; ‘Where did you lose track of the plan Venus?’ Asked Mercury; ‘Well...’ she played a little with her index fingers and looked at them as if they were the most interesting thing in the world ‘On the “flying/teleporting”part...’ she replied a little ashamed.

‘Where fits Moon in this plan?’ asked Aarla poping out of her memories as Mercury started to explain her plan all over again; ‘She will be side to side with the princess, as well as Chibimoon and I really appreciate if you do support them in this, Your Highness’ said Mercury looking at the woman and bowing to her; ‘My, my... me... side to side again with...’ she said giving a look to the girls, lingering a little longer in Mars’s eyes; ‘I don’t know... my endurance is not the same.’ she finished in a unconvincing way touching her chin with her hand; ‘Misstress Aarla, in this moment we all require of your power, your wisdom and your experience to overcome this threat’ Said Pluto taking a step towards her and staring at her intensely.

‘Yeah, you can do it!’ Said Jupiter rising a thumb and winking an eye; ‘Wouldn’t be adequate to an old warrior to leave the battlefield with some cute girls?’ Asked Uranus putting her hand on Neptune’s shoulders; as Neptune said ‘You’re a Scout after all, and we all fulfill our duties’. Aarla looked to the girls once again as Mars had taken some steps facing her and said looking at her fiecerlly on her eyes ‘Women must be proud and courageous; you shouldn’t hesitiate for a single second, if you do that you’ll never see your goals and dreams come true; you have to do whatever it takes to grab that dream and see it materializing!’. Aarla looked astonished and Pluto chuckled a little, because she had seen the very same scene some time ago, just placing Aarla in Mars’s place.

A lighthing crossed the sky and echoed all over the city; people all over the place gasped and looked to the sky above the Moon gate; dark clouds were spreading and covering everything, sinking the meadows, creeks and trees in shadows. A cold wind began to blow increasing the speed of the coulds and in a minute they were covering the entire city; another lighthing stroke the heavens as all the Scouts began executing their part of the plan; ‘Darien...’ Said Chibimoon as she started following Aarla back to the palace.

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All over the meadows a cloud of dust rised as a huge band of repitle, feline and serpent–like creatures marched all over the fields snarling, hissing and roaring. Their leaders were in front to them walking behind a tall hooded woman with emerald eyes. ‘Raksha.’ she said stiffly as she glimpsed the inner wall and the lionman separated from his allies; and asked bowing ‘Your orders, miss?’; ‘Light up this party’ she said narrowing her eyes. ‘At your command, Milady’ he said taking one step back, then he turned to his minions and roared at them; The creatures moved forward the line and from their mouths they spat fireballs that scorched the sky and flew towards the wall.

As the fireballs were falling towards the wall an emerald beam rised from there and united with a sapphire, ruby and topaz one that inmediately formed a pyramid enclosing the city. The flames died out at the impact on this barrier as Raksha commanded a second wave. ‘Save your breath kitty; it’s useless’ said Hecatia looking at the new obstacle; ‘Then what should we do?’ he asked as the barrier started to shine all over the landscape; the snake woman slithered near to Hecatia and asked, ‘should we proceed and try to cross the barrier?. ‘No, this barrier indeed is strong for you... an interesting move; however, let us see how it handles... true... POWER!’ she said as she started to float in the sky and rised above her marching creatures concentrating a massive ammount of dark energy between her hands.

‘Did you felt that?!’ asked truly alarmed Uranus to Neptune as she saw her mirror crack in two due the presure of the evil power that had just raised; ‘This power... it’s even stronger than Galaxia!!’; ‘That’s... that’s ridiculous!’ said Pluto looking to the gate protected by Jupiter, ‘It couldn’t be true!’ said Saturn looking the massive ammount of energy that spreaded black lighthings all over the land. Hecatia floated in the sky looking down the city with a mocking smile in her face, the wind was bowing to her command and blowed her clothes as she rised her arms and yelled ‘OBLITERATION  OF DARKNESS!’ releasing the sphere at lighthing speed against the wall.

‘Hang on there guys!’ Tought Mars as she felt too the dark power rise from nothingless; the talismans scattered in the place burned instantaneouslly and dark lighthings were striking the barrier from the distance. In a second the dark sphere clashed against the rainbow barrier screaching loudly and piercing people’s ears; then the perfect shape of the barrier broke and shattered in a rain of blinking sparks as the other three Sailor Scouts forming it where tossed to the ground as if they had been hit. ‘LITA!’ Yelled Mercury turning violently to the smoking wasteland that had been part of the inner wall.

Hecatia landed next to her minions and turning her back to them covered herself once again with her hood. The thre leaders of her army looked her with eyes of fear and admiration a she said to them lazily; ‘Gate’s open my boys, you can play with all the others as long as you want, just remember...’ she said as another lighthing stroke the Main Tower of the Sun Palace, ‘Those two... are mine’.
This one took me a little more, because I've been a little more busy than usual at office.

And this is Act 4: First Encounters.

Originally I've had the concept of a mentor for Murua in the Sun and Ralph and I chose to be an ancient Sailor Mars, but we didn't had a name for this character... so I was wondering about it and then, :iconsailor-serenity: popped out in my mind... she had an ancient Sailor Mars with name and all; so I asked her authorization to use her character and poof... Aarla is here, or at least my version of her ^^.

The scene between the Sun Princess and Sailor Moon was one of my favorites and the little shoujo ai with Uranus and Neptune.

Look closely for all the classic series references.

SL 5 will be ready the week after next one, next one is back to drawing.

:iconotaconplz: Jupiter?... Jupiter... JUPITER! :iconohnoesplz:
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That was epic! And poor Jupiter, I think I was crying at some point. The part where Murua was narrating the story really touched me. I just want to illustrate that part one of these days. You will be credited of course, but it's merely a dream for now.