[With that done, Rei nods and steels herself a little. This conversation was one she’d had a few times in the past, but it was never particularly pleasant. It was morbid in a way, but she’s committed.]
Even paradise has enemies, Hiro-kun. In this case, the Silver Millennium was opposed by a demon known as Metalia. It lived in the sun, inside a sunspot, I believe, and it fed on pain and suffering, using them to grow stronger. I don’t know much about it’s origins, I just know that it was very real, and very evil.
[There were a lot of things that she didn’t understand about Metalia and their enemies, but the origins of it were probably the most confusing.]
It used it’s power to corrupt the hearts of certain humans; A sorceress and four warriors who functioned as bodyguards for the Prince of the Earth chief among them. The Prince, the lover of the Princess of the Moon Kingdom, was the object of the sorceress’s desire and Metalia was able to turn that jealousy into control. The four warriors were mistrustful of us, due to our long lives and distant homes, and were easily tainted as well. Together with Metalia’s taint, they raised an army and assaulted the Moon Kingdom, burning and destroying it. During the battle, the Prince of the Earth was slain, and in her grief, the Princess took her own life.
[Rei’s fists ball up on the table, a sudden heat welling inside her. She hated that image, that thought, the end of something so great. It stung even now, thinking about how they had failed, all these eons later.]
The sorceress was slain by Venus, and Metalia itself took to the field. We…the four of us…were no match for her, empowered as it was by the suffering all around it, and we died as well. However the Queen of the Moon, Serenity, used her power to seal Metalia back inside the sun. It was not a complete seal, she knew, and with the last of her power, she ensured that the four of us, the Princess and the Prince would be reborn in the future. That…was my first death. I remember very little of it, as it was so very, very long ago.
[She’s leaving out any mention of the Outer Senshi, specifically Saturn and the role she had played in the final ending of the Silver Millennium. That was a frightening reality even for her, and if Hotaru Tomoe did arrive in Cerealia Rei would much prefer that she arrive without people already fearing her command of life and death.]
And I was reborn, in this body, on April 17th, 1978. As you know me now.
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Even paradise has enemies, Hiro-kun. In this case, the Silver Millennium was opposed by a demon known as Metalia. It lived in the sun, inside a sunspot, I believe, and it fed on pain and suffering, using them to grow stronger. I don’t know much about it’s origins, I just know that it was very real, and very evil.
[There were a lot of things that she didn’t understand about Metalia and their enemies, but the origins of it were probably the most confusing.]
It used it’s power to corrupt the hearts of certain humans; A sorceress and four warriors who functioned as bodyguards for the Prince of the Earth chief among them. The Prince, the lover of the Princess of the Moon Kingdom, was the object of the sorceress’s desire and Metalia was able to turn that jealousy into control. The four warriors were mistrustful of us, due to our long lives and distant homes, and were easily tainted as well. Together with Metalia’s taint, they raised an army and assaulted the Moon Kingdom, burning and destroying it. During the battle, the Prince of the Earth was slain, and in her grief, the Princess took her own life.
[Rei’s fists ball up on the table, a sudden heat welling inside her. She hated that image, that thought, the end of something so great. It stung even now, thinking about how they had failed, all these eons later.]
The sorceress was slain by Venus, and Metalia itself took to the field. We…the four of us…were no match for her, empowered as it was by the suffering all around it, and we died as well. However the Queen of the Moon, Serenity, used her power to seal Metalia back inside the sun. It was not a complete seal, she knew, and with the last of her power, she ensured that the four of us, the Princess and the Prince would be reborn in the future. That…was my first death. I remember very little of it, as it was so very, very long ago.
[She’s leaving out any mention of the Outer Senshi, specifically Saturn and the role she had played in the final ending of the Silver Millennium. That was a frightening reality even for her, and if Hotaru Tomoe did arrive in Cerealia Rei would much prefer that she arrive without people already fearing her command of life and death.]
And I was reborn, in this body, on April 17th, 1978. As you know me now.
[Again, let’s open the floor for questions.]