Note: Hey everybody! Soldier of Souls here with the last chapter of "Dawn of the Sea Queen." Like always, I don't own Sailor Moon but I do own the rest of the characters I invented in this series of stories. Enjoy! E-mail me at pikoloo@hotmail.com if you want to contact me for any old reason.
Dawn of the Sea Queen:
The prince and the void
Where am I? This place is so strange…everything
is white. I am the only bit of color in this void…"This is my final act
Princess…when the sands of time reach the bottom of the hourglass, this void
and everything in it will disappear. You can't escape!!!" It is the voice of
Alpha. What's going on? Something is appearing…oh no. An hourglass. The sands
have already started to fall. I run wildly around. "If only I had the key
to this dilemma…" I mumble. I clutch my fists. There's something in one of
them! I open my hand excitedly. I study the tiny golden object. A key…but
that's what I just asked for! A key to the dilemma. So maybe if I wish for
anything it will appear! "I wish…" but no. The sands of time are
still going steady. Maybe I should wish for more things and take them with me?
But then again, I don't know how to leave yet…I must ponder this. If I had to
take certain things with me…what should I take? If I were a void, how would you
escape me? What am I saying…I'm just confusing myself. Maybe…that's it! "I
wish that the hourglass before me would disappear!" I wait. The sand still
falls. What am I to do?
I groan. Of course! Alpha wouldn't just
let me wish the time limit away! He was ugly, but not stupid. I wonder if maybe
I can wish for more than just objects? "I wish Setsuna were here…" oh
great! What am I saying!? If she does appear then she'll be in grave danger!
"Michiru?" She appeared! Despite myself I run to her arms.
"Setsuna what have I done? I have put you in so much danger….how could I
have been so stupid? I always thought myself so smart on Earth…I, I…I can't
have done this…No…NO!!!!!" I sob into her arms. Despite the circumstances
she holds me. "Michiru get a grip on yourself! Obviously you have to find
a way out of here right?" She pushes me back in front of her. I mumble a
weak "yes". I look over at the sands of time. Setsuna…sands of time…"Setsuna!"
I know the answer now! The only question is…will this work?
She
looks at me and cocks her head. "Your powers! You can change time
right?" She nods slowly. "But Michiru…I can't stop time without dying…you
know that." I shake my head smiling. "I don't need you to STOP time, I
need you to turn BACK time! With us retaining our memories of course. That way,
we can have more time to think of a way out of her and I can explain my predicament
to you!" she smiles…but no. Her smile is fading. "What's wrong Pluto?"
I rarely use her planet name, only in Sailor Form usually. "I…I…I don't know
if I CAN turn back time Michiru…it's just that…I've never done it before and maybe
I sacrifice myself if I do either…" My smile fades too. "Could you try?"
She slowly nods. She murmurs a prayer under her
breath. She holds up her arm and her garnet staff appears in it. The crystal in
it begins to glow dimly, then more and more powerfully. "Time change!"
she yells. I feel light…so very light…my eyes close. But just before they do, I
glimpse at the hourglass. Odd…the sands are moving in the opposite direction…they're
floating up towards the top…floating…higher…that man…he floated in the sky…I'm tired…tired…
I am back with Setsuna in the void. We
both sit down to think. At least we know that when the sands become dangerously
low she can use her powers to bring them back up again. Setsuna opens her mouth
as if to speak, but she closes it again. "Who IS this Alpha dude
anyway?" she asks. I shrug. "I guess he works for Beryl's old
mistress…Negaru Atomica or something like that." She nods. I had explained
to her earlier the whole thing with the wishing and all and she is convinced
that we can use it. Then she stands up smiling. "I've got it! Wish for a
door to your castle! I can always get a carriage home from there and he said
that only things within the void would be destroyed!" I smile at her. At
least she wasn't brought here in vain. "I wonder why I was at the palace
in the first place…" I had become so intent on figuring out how to get out
of here that I had forgotten. Then I remembered. The man I had met. "Wait!"
I cry out. But it's too late. Setsuna was going through the door and the last
grain of sand was falling. I ran to the door and I heard the last grain fall as
I close it.
I open my eyes. We are in beds, all three
of us. Wait a sec...Three of us? The man…he…he's here too! I sit up immediately
in the bed I am in. "Who in the world are you!?" I shout. Too late I
realize what a fool I was. I blush a crimson red. He smiles at me. "I see
you caught me princess. I am Prince Deran of Mercury…I can see the question
forming in you. Yes, I'm Ami-Chan's older brother."
He explains that Ami thinks very highly
of me and as soon as he saw my picture he wanted to know me better. She told him
where to find me and encountered Alpha on the way. It appears that Negaru
didn't want there to be any more large planetary alliances so she sent him out
to make sure I was destroyed before Deran had the chance to meet me. He had
been watching me for even weeks before I went to Pluto and he said he was
charmed by my beauty and talent. Can you believe it? Anyways, he saw Alpha take
Serena into the shadows and made her disappear. He said he had to leave because
if Usagi were destroyed then the all the planets would be in uproar and I might
be killed in a chaotic war. Do you believe me up to now?
He said that he came back as I knocked
the Ginzuishou out of Alpha's hands and he shouted at me to stop but I couldn't
hear him because I was concentrating so hard at the task at hand. He tried to
come near me but the evil men and women stopped him. He said I disappeared in the
blinding light and the evil ones did too. Usagi was safe in the palace and had sent
out search parties to look for me. Just as he had lost all hope, he had been sucked
into the void and I pulled him through the door. The next thing he knew he was here
with me and Setsuna.
I sat beside him listening intently for the time
he told the story to me. It took my mind moments to register all that information.
Only now I realize I am sitting beside my friend's brother…no…a prince, staring
into space like a lunatic that just clued in on something. I blush again. He…he's
holding my hand! I blush harder. "I…um…sorry princess…" he takes his
hand away and begins to turn a shade of light pink too. I feel a surprising
disappointment at the removal of that hand. Oh my gosh…what am I doing? How did
my hand get over there and take his back? He looks up at me. I smile weakly,
still red as a ripe tomato. He squeezes my fingers and smiles back. Life'll
sure be different after all this, but I think I'm gonna like it.
Well,
that's the story. For all you people who read the whole thing, Michiru did
marry Deran and they lived on