AN: I know that I said this story was going to be posted near Christmas, but since I got to see the first four episodes of Ayashi no Ceres last week, I decided to have it out earlier. So please review, especially since I wrote this during my three hour break, when I could have been studying for my psychology mid-term tomorrow. For those of you who haven't seen Ayashi no Ceres yet, it's a beautiful story by the same artist who created Fushigi Yuugi. If you like Sailormoon and Fushigi Yuugi, you'll love Ayashi no Ceres. With that said, please enjoy and review!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything.

"In the future, you will be ruled by a dark planet. I see blood, anger, and sadness - the destruction of the balance of everything in the world. On the day the 16th star and moon come together, this fated time will come to pass. Whether it is light or darkness, you essentially have a strong life power."

The girl sat in shock as she heard her fortune from the mysterious lady sitting across from her. It was going to be her and her twin brother Aki's sixteenth birthday tomorrow. And just out of curiosity, she let her friends drag her to have her future told by a fortune teller. However, this was not the kind of future she expected to have. What happened to a happy normal future; a loving husband, two kids, and a dog? Weren't those the typical lives that you get from looking into the crystal balls?

"Arigato," the blonde girl quickly bowed to the fortune teller before hastily dragging her friends and brother out with her after paying.

"Be careful princess," was the quiet whisper that escaped the fortune teller's lips as the woman watched the blonde girl leave her little shop. With a swirl of maroon mist, the fortune teller disappeared revealing only a flash of red eyes and strands of dark green hair.

"Calm down Usagi-chan," one of the blonde girl's friends said to the angry blonde.

"Calm down?! I'm always calm!" Usagi stomped off, leaving her twin brother Aki and friends staring at her quickly disappearing back. A frustrated cry from Usagi brought the group running to the girl's side a minute later.

Usagi was sitting on the ground, nursing her hurt leg. It seemed like that she tripped and hurt herself when she fell.

"Today just isn't your lucky day sis," Aki said as he helped up his imouto. "How did you fall?"

"I don't know, I was walking, and the next thing I know, something tripped me, and I fell flat on my face," Usagi's voice trembled slightly as she tried to keep the tears at bay.

"I think that I know what tripped you over," one of Aki and Usagi's friends said, pointing to where Usagi had previously sat on the ground.

Everyone turned to see a black cat smashed on the ground, swirlies turned in its red eyes, and two band aides covering its forehead.

"Ohh, it's so kawaii!" Usagi cooed as she picked up the cat in her arms, immediately forgetting that her booboo was caused by the animal that she was currently holding in her arms. "And look, it's got a crescent shaped bald spot!" The blonde girl pointed out as she peeled off the band aids.

The next thing she knows, the cat in her arms reached up its sharp claws and dragged it across Usagi's face, leaving five distinct red lines across the blonde girl's smooth face.

"Usa-chan, I don't think that the cat liked it when you called her birthmark as a crescent shaped bald spot," Aki remarked as he tried to hold in his laughter, knowing that if he laughed, it would be his sister's nails that would be scratching him.

"I know, let's go to the karaoke. Singing always cheers Usagi up," another girl suggested to the group, as the four friends made their way to the one of the newly opened karaoke bars in their neighbourhood. The kitty following the group in a distance.

"What kind of fortune was that?! Can't she just accept the money, and make up some happy jumbo to please a girl?" Usagi was still lamenting over her fortune, even as they were waiting for her song in the bar.

"But she also said, 'The saviour of your destiny is also waiting,' didn't she? It'd be nice if it was a guy. Tomorrow on your birthday you'll be 16-years-without-a-boyfriend-Usagi-chan!" a smirking Aki teased his red faced imouto.

"Maybe you're just jealous, Aki, you don't even have a girlfriend!!" The slightly angry bunny retorted.

"Me? I don't care. With a troublesome younger twin sister, I can't handle having a girlfriend."

"So, are you saying that it's all my fault?!" before Aki answered, Usagi's song came up. And she happily skipped to the stage, all worries temporally forgotten.

"They call me, Usagi Mikage, The Namie Amuro of Sarashina High School!!'" The bunny announced to all the patrons in the bar before beginning to sing her song.

Unknown to the singing girl, or her brother and friends, five figures stood in the shadows, watching the blonde girl intently.

"She looks different," one of the four females of the group said causally. "Her hair is shorter, and it's no longer in odangos."

"It isn't just her appearance that's different," the five figures turned to see the new member, who spoke in a female British voice. It was the cat with the crescent mark that spoke, but none of the five people seemed surprised that a cat could talk. "She doesn't remember anything from the past. Not who she used to be, not her friends, not even her love from the Silver Millennium."

"How can that be?" this time, it was the man who asked. Even though he was standing in the shadows, it was easy to see the angry glint in his dark blue eyes.

"I don't know. My best guess is that when she was reborn, she made a wish on the ginzoushou to erase her memory, and to have the life of a normal girl." The cat answered the man calmly.

"But we need her! How could she make such a selfish decision?! Doesn't she know that in order to keep the peace, we NEED her!" Another woman with long black hair hissed. "And now since the new danger arose, we can't possibly defeat it without her power!"

"I understand that, but the problem here is how to make her remember?" the cat asked the group.

"Maybe, when she sees us, it will trigger some of her memories from the past," suggested the third woman in an intelligent voice.

"That's easy for you to say. We can't exactly walk up to a teenage girl and say 'excuse me, you don't exactly know us, but we were your friends in your previous life,'" she black haired woman said sarcastically.

"I know that, but I have a plan," the same quiet woman announced as she beckoned the other four people and the cat closer, and whispered her plan.

"Why do I have to be the bad guy?" the man whispered angrily as the woman finished explaining.

"Oh, I see. So when Usagi chases after him and get the purse back, we'll thank her by offering to buy some ice cream for her. And then we will introduce ourselves." The blonde woman of the group finally caught on to the idea, as the others sweat dropped.

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"Singing always cheers me up!" Usagi chipped out as she stretched out her muscles. The group was crossing a bridge, as they had to drag Usagi down from the stage, they still had school tomorrow. Aki and her friends followed, with the black cat in Aki's arms. For some unknown reason, the cat wouldn't leave Usagi alone. And since the blonde girl was afraid of being scratched again, it was up to her onii-chan to carry her cat for her.

"Hey Usagi, for you and Aki's sixteenth birthday party tomorrow. We were thinking about having it at the new karaoke bar downtown. How does it sound?" one of Usagi asked the grinning blonde girl.

"Do you have to ask?!" the happy bunny bounced up to her friend and gave her a gigantic hug.

"Somebody!! Purse snatcher, catch him!! "

Usagi turned from hugging her friend, to see a tall black haired blue eyed man, pulling the purse of a young woman with blonde hair pulled back with a red ribbon. Without even thinking, she ran up and tackled the thief.

"Shit, let me go!!"

"Gotcha!! Call the police!!" Usagi cried in triumph as she held on to the thief, who was at least two heads taller than she was.

Not wanting to get involve the police in this, the thief threw the purse across the bridge.

Seeing the blonde woman's purse was in the air, Usagi chased after it, barely catching to strap before it was out of her reach. She faintly heard Aki scream in horror as she sailed over the bridge, towards to the highway below.

Aki was the only thought in her head, before images began to flash across her mind. An ancient pine tree. A bloody hand reaching up to her. A lake. A round glowing symbol.

Suddenly the same round glowing symbol that she saw in her mind surfaced and appeared on her forehead, as Usagi gently floated down, and landed softly on the highway.

How? I was falling, and suddenly I see images, and I landed... Usagi thought in confusion, not noticing that she was standing in the middle of a busy high way.

"USAGI!!!" Aki's scream torn the dazed girl away from her daydream. Turning her head slowly to the front, Usagi was greeted with the sight of a car, coming at full speed towards her.

Her blue eyes widened in horror, but she couldn't move a single muscle as she watched her death come near. All she could do was close her eyes and wait...

A force slammed into her, stealing her breath away. Gomen Aki-kun Usagi murmured a goodbye to her twin brother. But wait, something was different. It was a body that collided with her. Carefully opening her eyes, Usagi noticed that she was safe in the arms of a stranger, sitting on the sidewalk.

"You idiot!! Don't jump out into the middle of the road like that!!" the driver of the car screamed out at Usagi and the stranger.

"Are you all right? What's wrong? Does it hurt anywhere" the stranger who saved her asked Usagi.

Looking up, the blonde girl noticed that her saviour was a handsome young man with deep reddish hair. His sunglass covered his eyes. He was wearing a tight tank top that covered his sleek and well muscled chest, but left his washboard stomach to the open. A black trench coat was draped carelessly across his shoulders, as the stranger waited for Usagi to answer.

"Usagi!" Aki cried as he ran towards her. Their friends, and the woman who lost her purse following Usagi's twin.

"Why did you do such a dangerous thing!! You could've been killed!!" Aki screamed at his imouto, who was looking sheepishly at him.

"I'm fine! This person saved..." turning back, Usagi searched the crowd for the handsome stranger who saved her, but he was gone...