Hey all! This is the Revised Version of the prologue. I was reading this
over and got so disgusted with how this started out that I went and revised
the whole thing from chapters 1 through about 4 or so. No, they're not
drastic changes, more like I added more detail and feeling, and I cleared
some things up. And the Mamo-cheating thing is worn out, and GONE!
Anyway, enjoy!
Prologue: My way
By azure_chan:
"What do you mean, 'You're leaving?'" Rei demanded of her best friend, Usagi. The blonde had come up to her temple with this hollow look in her eyes and a red nose, sniffling, talking about leaving.
"Just what I said. I'm going away and probably never coming back. I have to get away from here, Rei, and I wanted you to be the first to know." Usagi sniffled again.
The blonde young lady's heart could take no more. It was shattered into thousands of glass-like pieces, scattered all over the void she once knew as earth. But earth without Mamoru, there was no earth she wanted to live in, even with her dearest, most loving friends.
(flashback)
*Usagi, watch out!"
Usagi let out a shrill cry as the youma's blast landed on its mark which was her back. Sprawled out on her stomach the girl heaved, shaking and trying desperately to gather strength to rise up to her skinned, bleeding knees.
"Usagi!"
The call had come too late, and Usagi knew she was going to die. She was going to die fighting for Tokyo, for earth, for the friends that lay immobile upon the hard, beaten ground of the park they currently fought in. She was ready, accepting her fate as calmly as she could and feeling the hot rays of the youma's attack streaking closer and closer to her beaten body.
But someone had other plans.
Just as the girl was about to take in her last breath, she was roughly pushed out of the way of the attack and sent rolling and tumbling to the side, while her savior let out a strangled, choked cry that left Usagi's blood to chill and her heart to freeze.
"Mamoru, NO!" She screamed. The young princess looked upon her hero with blank, lifeless eyes. . .
. . . and he looked back upon her with blank, lifeless eyes as well.
(end flashback)
The fight had been finished only with the help of the weak sailor senshi, who had gathered their strength to help finish off the monster.
Rei felt tears coming to her eyes as she saw her princess, her best friend was serious. "You couldn't stop him, Usagi," she whimpered. "He pushed you out of the way so you could live. So you could live with ~us~! He sacrificed himself because he loved you. What do you think he'd say if he knew you were leaving? His sacrifice would have been in vain!"
Usagi smiled through her sadness but slowly shook her head. "I can't stay here, Rei. There are too many painful memories . . ." She took a shaky breath and stared up at her most trusted friend. "Do you know how it feels to not be able to look upon a full moon without crying? Do you know how it feels to know that your only daughter is gone forever from the future. . . that you can't protect her anymore, because the only man who could bless you with her life is . . . dead?"
"Usa---"
Usagi shook her head once more. "Listen to me. I can't stay here, Rei. It hurts too much." She smiled a bit. "Do you remember how you felt when Chad left? How you cried endlessly, how your heart broke and is still broken in some places? How you wished that every moment you had ever spent with him could have been longer? That if you had seen this coming, you would have stopped it?"
Rei sighed and let her tears fall. "Yeah."
"This is how it feels, Rei. This is how it's ~always~ going to feel, Rei. I love you all, and I love my family, and I love Tokyo, but I can't live without Mamoru. And I can't live with the memories."
Instead of feeling any more sympathy for the young princess, Rei became enraged. "So, you're just going to leave because you're too much of a wimp to stay? You're going to forget all about the friends who are still alive, who love you and will love you for always? You forget all those times we had together? News-flash, Usagi---" Rei brutally spit the blonde's name out- --"we're important, too. What do you expect us to do without you now, huh? You think everything's going to go back to normal? Huh? What are ~we~ supposed to do?"
"Forget me. Forget I lived. Forget I was Sailormoon, forget I am a reincarnated princess, and forget about the Silver Millennium, Crystal Tokyo. From now on, I am just a figment of your imagination."
~*~*~
Yeah, that's the Revised Version of this prologue. Better? I think so.
Review and tell me if you like it or not.
Anyway, enjoy!
Prologue: My way
By azure_chan:
"What do you mean, 'You're leaving?'" Rei demanded of her best friend, Usagi. The blonde had come up to her temple with this hollow look in her eyes and a red nose, sniffling, talking about leaving.
"Just what I said. I'm going away and probably never coming back. I have to get away from here, Rei, and I wanted you to be the first to know." Usagi sniffled again.
The blonde young lady's heart could take no more. It was shattered into thousands of glass-like pieces, scattered all over the void she once knew as earth. But earth without Mamoru, there was no earth she wanted to live in, even with her dearest, most loving friends.
(flashback)
*Usagi, watch out!"
Usagi let out a shrill cry as the youma's blast landed on its mark which was her back. Sprawled out on her stomach the girl heaved, shaking and trying desperately to gather strength to rise up to her skinned, bleeding knees.
"Usagi!"
The call had come too late, and Usagi knew she was going to die. She was going to die fighting for Tokyo, for earth, for the friends that lay immobile upon the hard, beaten ground of the park they currently fought in. She was ready, accepting her fate as calmly as she could and feeling the hot rays of the youma's attack streaking closer and closer to her beaten body.
But someone had other plans.
Just as the girl was about to take in her last breath, she was roughly pushed out of the way of the attack and sent rolling and tumbling to the side, while her savior let out a strangled, choked cry that left Usagi's blood to chill and her heart to freeze.
"Mamoru, NO!" She screamed. The young princess looked upon her hero with blank, lifeless eyes. . .
. . . and he looked back upon her with blank, lifeless eyes as well.
(end flashback)
The fight had been finished only with the help of the weak sailor senshi, who had gathered their strength to help finish off the monster.
Rei felt tears coming to her eyes as she saw her princess, her best friend was serious. "You couldn't stop him, Usagi," she whimpered. "He pushed you out of the way so you could live. So you could live with ~us~! He sacrificed himself because he loved you. What do you think he'd say if he knew you were leaving? His sacrifice would have been in vain!"
Usagi smiled through her sadness but slowly shook her head. "I can't stay here, Rei. There are too many painful memories . . ." She took a shaky breath and stared up at her most trusted friend. "Do you know how it feels to not be able to look upon a full moon without crying? Do you know how it feels to know that your only daughter is gone forever from the future. . . that you can't protect her anymore, because the only man who could bless you with her life is . . . dead?"
"Usa---"
Usagi shook her head once more. "Listen to me. I can't stay here, Rei. It hurts too much." She smiled a bit. "Do you remember how you felt when Chad left? How you cried endlessly, how your heart broke and is still broken in some places? How you wished that every moment you had ever spent with him could have been longer? That if you had seen this coming, you would have stopped it?"
Rei sighed and let her tears fall. "Yeah."
"This is how it feels, Rei. This is how it's ~always~ going to feel, Rei. I love you all, and I love my family, and I love Tokyo, but I can't live without Mamoru. And I can't live with the memories."
Instead of feeling any more sympathy for the young princess, Rei became enraged. "So, you're just going to leave because you're too much of a wimp to stay? You're going to forget all about the friends who are still alive, who love you and will love you for always? You forget all those times we had together? News-flash, Usagi---" Rei brutally spit the blonde's name out- --"we're important, too. What do you expect us to do without you now, huh? You think everything's going to go back to normal? Huh? What are ~we~ supposed to do?"
"Forget me. Forget I lived. Forget I was Sailormoon, forget I am a reincarnated princess, and forget about the Silver Millennium, Crystal Tokyo. From now on, I am just a figment of your imagination."
~*~*~
Yeah, that's the Revised Version of this prologue. Better? I think so.
Review and tell me if you like it or not.