Don’t apologize for it. It’s what we were born to do, and what we were meant to do. It might seem sad, but it’s something I accepted a long time ago. I did have a choice to stop, in the beginning, but I didn’t. And for better or worse, my fate is bound to that of Sailor Moon and the Sailor Senshi now. I wouldn’t have it any other way. Especially now.
[Resolve flows off her, eyes closing and a small smile creeping across her lips.]
But we’re not finished, of course. We’re not even at the finale, because I haven’t talked about Nehellenia and Galaxia yet. [A breath.] And they are by far the most dangerous beings I’ve ever encountered. Even here.
[Palms flat on the table, Rei goes on.]
The story of Nehellenia starts a few months after we recovered poor Sailor Saturn, during a solar eclipse. I was visited by visions of danger and trouble, which tends to signal the beginnings of a turbulent time, and so was Sailor Neptune. Snatches of memory started coming back to us, not just myself and Neptune, but all ten of us that were alive during the Silver Millennium. Memories of a story told to us by the Queen about something that happened on the day the princess was born. An enemy roughly the parallel of Queen Serenity herself, hailing from a kingdom buried beneath the moon’s surface, came before the Queen and denounced the Moon Kingdom and the nine planets that housed Sailor Senshi. She vowed to destroy us all, and claim the solar system as her own.
The Queen defeated her easily enough, sealing her inside a dark mirror and casting her back below the surface of the Moon, but not before Nehellenia cast a curse upon the Kingdom. She said the Princess would never take the throne, and the Kingdom would die. That…as you already know, occurred with the help of Metallia, but because she was trapped in the mirror she did not die when Sailor Saturn ended Metallia’s attack and the Queen cast our spirits forward to be reincarnated. [Which she may have forgotten to mention, whoops.]
Well...during the eclipse, the seal weakened, and she freed herself and set about attempting to make sure her curse came about, and steal the Ginzuisho. She send her agents, four lesser Senshi from moons or planetoids throughout the Solar System calling themselves the Amazon Quartet she'd enslaved with her power, along with her enforcers to Earth disguised as a circus and started causing trouble. Disappearances, attacks and skirmishes against us, that sort of thing. We...dealt with the Quartet and her other minions, but confronting her directly required help.
So, we did something we'd never done before. We returned to our castles on our respective homeworlds, and activated them to draw on more energy. I'm not sure if what I saw in Phobos and Deimos castle could be considered technology or magic, but the power from it...[Rei closes her eyes, remembering the way it flowed...] It was incredible. And that, combined with Sailor Moon's abilities was enough to put down Nehellenia once and for all. [Leaving out Helios, but...Helios is convoluted and hard to explain without directly talking about Chibiusa as...Chibiusa.]
In the end, she was cast down and unmade, never to return. And the Amazon Quartet was freed of their bond and sent forward in time to act as a Senshi Court for Sailor Chibi-Moon. A rather succinct story, this time, I think.
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[Resolve flows off her, eyes closing and a small smile creeping across her lips.]
But we’re not finished, of course. We’re not even at the finale, because I haven’t talked about Nehellenia and Galaxia yet. [A breath.] And they are by far the most dangerous beings I’ve ever encountered. Even here.
[Palms flat on the table, Rei goes on.]
The story of Nehellenia starts a few months after we recovered poor Sailor Saturn, during a solar eclipse. I was visited by visions of danger and trouble, which tends to signal the beginnings of a turbulent time, and so was Sailor Neptune. Snatches of memory started coming back to us, not just myself and Neptune, but all ten of us that were alive during the Silver Millennium. Memories of a story told to us by the Queen about something that happened on the day the princess was born. An enemy roughly the parallel of Queen Serenity herself, hailing from a kingdom buried beneath the moon’s surface, came before the Queen and denounced the Moon Kingdom and the nine planets that housed Sailor Senshi. She vowed to destroy us all, and claim the solar system as her own.
The Queen defeated her easily enough, sealing her inside a dark mirror and casting her back below the surface of the Moon, but not before Nehellenia cast a curse upon the Kingdom. She said the Princess would never take the throne, and the Kingdom would die. That…as you already know, occurred with the help of Metallia, but because she was trapped in the mirror she did not die when Sailor Saturn ended Metallia’s attack and the Queen cast our spirits forward to be reincarnated. [Which she may have forgotten to mention, whoops.]
Well...during the eclipse, the seal weakened, and she freed herself and set about attempting to make sure her curse came about, and steal the Ginzuisho. She send her agents, four lesser Senshi from moons or planetoids throughout the Solar System calling themselves the Amazon Quartet she'd enslaved with her power, along with her enforcers to Earth disguised as a circus and started causing trouble. Disappearances, attacks and skirmishes against us, that sort of thing. We...dealt with the Quartet and her other minions, but confronting her directly required help.
So, we did something we'd never done before. We returned to our castles on our respective homeworlds, and activated them to draw on more energy. I'm not sure if what I saw in Phobos and Deimos castle could be considered technology or magic, but the power from it...[Rei closes her eyes, remembering the way it flowed...] It was incredible. And that, combined with Sailor Moon's abilities was enough to put down Nehellenia once and for all. [Leaving out Helios, but...Helios is convoluted and hard to explain without directly talking about Chibiusa as...Chibiusa.]
In the end, she was cast down and unmade, never to return. And the Amazon Quartet was freed of their bond and sent forward in time to act as a Senshi Court for Sailor Chibi-Moon. A rather succinct story, this time, I think.
Any questions this time?