Author's Note:
This is a fic I had finished two months ago and felt deserved to see the light of day.
I hope you enjoy it greatly.
I feel it explores a great time that doesn't really get a lot of fics devoted to it. (at least not back when I was reading them all the time I never saw any. There may be a few now I am missing out on!)
Roses. Its smell was as enveloping as the sun overtaking the moon, their flawless white petals shimmering in the soft sunlight that extended in gentle fingertips to the world below. Hands touched at her frame from all directions, as each interaction of flesh touching flesh stirred things within her heart, sending her through a whirlwind of joy and contentment. Silver wisps of air filled her view as laughter filled her voice building a world around her that she could not see yet she could feel, touch and smell.
I will… always protect you… The words whispered upon the wind and the hands stopped and a shiver rushed past her fragile skin that rocked her to her core. Mist began to cloud her vision as she searched, searched for some truth to the uncertainty surrounding her. Always…
The cold slap of reality hit the middle of her chest like a thunderbolt. She rose suddenly, thick silver locks falling across her shoulders and bed as she tried to breathe. Roses…
"Senshi?" The alarmed voice crashed her world back into her mind and she forced down a swallow along with the dream. "Are you all right?" The language she spoke was foreign to her and it took her a moment to register what she was saying. She nodded gently putting a hand to her forehead, her long slender digits brushing away silver bangs that had out grown themselves once more. Her fingertips ran across the pointed symbol resting on her forehead and a calm came to her heart. They fell softly away from the star and her gray eyes turned to the worried ones of her senapi. "Perhaps I shall tell the council you should require more rest?" Cambari. That was the language she was speaking. A warm smile spread to her lips as she put her hands over the Senshi that sat upon her bed facing her.
"I am quite all right. Perhaps sleep once a month is too much for me," was her only response. She knew the senapi would disagree yet they lived on a different time. She did not require sleep but was something she took part in for a ritual experience only.
"Shall I prepare you for Council?" Her olive face was framed with dark black curls and her hands gently began to pull back the silk covers that were restricting her lady. The beautiful frame sat still in the middle of the lavish bed. She had only worked for the famed Senshi for a month now and had already wished to never leave her side like all of her aids have. Just touching her she felt power flow through her.
"I would like to think. Thank you," the angelic voice responded and the girl nodded with a broad smile as she pushed herself from the lavish comforter.
"Shall I get you anything Senshi?" Sailor Cambari asked and the lone figure smiled up at her.
"Roses," her mistress whispered and she nodded immediately, her frame walking with a determined step towards the door. Her hand reached for the golden knob and ceased as her mind suddenly registered what her Senshi had requested. She turned, the delicate folds of her robes hiding her body within them.
"Pardon me Senshi… what are roses?" Her shaky voice hit the air and the Senshi's head slowly turned to her, the same look of bewilderment crossing her features.
"I do not really know…" Her voice was whispered and held strain within its soft tones. "Disregard it," she smiled and Sailor Cambari nodded and smiled up at her idol.
"Yes ma'am. I shall tell Centaur that you are awake," she responded her curls bouncing around her face as she once again bowed to the Senshi. She nodded approvingly and Sailor Cambari quietly exited. The moment the marble door shut her from her mistress's presence she felt a loss. Her power was so strong and engulfing…She truly was the Senshi.
The Galactic Order of Senshi had been formed ten thousand years ago when the two star quadrants of David and Mkry joined forces through a shared passion for justice and peace throughout the galaxy. The Sailor Senshi of these galaxies set up a form of government run by Senshi in order to create a specific order or codes that each Senshi were to live by. Since the dawn of time when the Great God stretched forth His hand and created the heavens each planet was allowed a single guardian, in some instances two or three to protect their planet. As generations passed they worked alone defending their people from any evil that threatened it yet with great power came great temptation and as the years trickled on a few senshi used their powers for evil trespassing over the unwritten laws of warriors to uphold truth, justice and liberty. Many worlds fell to the dark powers and thousands perished as casualties due to this lack of ethics. It was when Druis fell, one of the brightest stars of the Mkry system that action needed to be taken. No world needed to suffer the fate that the Druidians suffered at the hand of their protector.
And so it began. A list of codes and ethics were drawn up at a meeting of over twenty galactic soldiers called from across the galaxy. Of them the most famous, Sailor Shenu set up the galactic order which was a council consisting of three cabinet members or judges. These three judges would be specifically called and appointed by the Galactic Order upon specific ramifications: 1. The Senshi must be voted in by fellow warriors on a test of integrity, honor and truth. 2. The Senshi must not be the only senshi from their quadrant, thus leaving their post unmanned and unprotected. 3. The Senshi would be appointed for life or until twenty years before their passing age. 4. The Senshi must sacrifice her will and desires for the good of the Galactic Order and for the greater cause of peace to the entire galaxy.
After these three judges came the high council, which consisted of the most powerful senshi in the known universe. At the time only two resided in the sacred position and has since then never gone higher than that number. After the high council came the galactic senate of which one representative from each sectioned quadrant would represent. Thus represented the Senshi's known government: Judges, Council, Senate.
For ten thousand years the system worked as it had been created to. It was an order exclusively to the business of Senshi and their powers, it monitored all abuses and kept treaties throughout quadrants far and wide to uphold their universal truths of justice and peace. It made a point to only monitor abuses of power and to never intervene or comment on regular situations or evil that arose in other quadrants unless specifically called for. They were a Code of Ethics to make sure no more lives were uselessly lost... they were not a galactic police force.
The GOS or Galactic Order of Senshi positioned itself in the Laluna system eight million par secs from the center of the galaxy and four from Andromida. There it built a great temple devoted to the founding mothers of the GOS and there it continued it's business as an intergalactic space refuge for Senshi from all over the galaxy and an arena of judgment for all who dared defy the code of ethics each Senshi were to uphold.
For ten thousand years this system worked flawlessly under the carefully left plans of Sailor Shenu. After the death and betrayal of Sailor Galaxy the high council had been laying dormant until a prophesy and a covenant fulfilled itself and brought onto the high council the most powerful Senshi ever to grace the universe. Because of her power she had been killed and re-born as Sailor Cosmos, once a regular Senshi of the Milky Way, she came to be re-born directly into the Galactic Order due to a covenant she herself made a thousand years before.
Of that information all has been forgotten including Sailor Cosmos' true origins or her past life, only three remembered the promise her past self had made to the council and of the three two had passed on leaving one to die with the secret. For among the truth were lies and deception and a will that once finds the truth behind what they have known will once again search for what they had lost… to secure the Republic and the Galactic Order of Senshi the three judges of the Ternac Reign, Senshi Menta, Senshi Zar and Senshi Zue decided for the better good of the GOS to fully erase the memory of Sailor Cosmos forever. If they lost her now, their order would fall to ruins for she alone had restored the mystery and power that once radiated from the pores of the establishment.
She was the Galactic Order.
