Down The Winding Road: ...And The Day The Dark Moon Family Did. [Episode 213601]

by Linnara

My wonderful Mama.

A great Queen loved by all.

Your wonderful, graceful, beautiful Mother.

A great Queen loved by all. So unlike you.

"Small Lady. You did something wrong again, did you not!?"

A broken vase.

"If you keep acting like this, you will never become a proper lady..."

Even the Palace servants scold you, their voices strident.

"Ha...I will so!"

"Small Lady!"

She runs across the dark corridors.

You run across the dark corridors to that special room. Because you want to hurry up and become a lady, too.

(I want to hurry up and become a lady, too...)

You want to hurry up and become a real lady. Like your Mother.

(Hurry up and... And become a real lady!)

Just like your Mother.

(Just like Mama!)

A shining Silver Crystal in a transparent case.

A shining Silver Crystal in a transparent case, glowing with power. Such beautiful, beautiful power.

(Just for a little while...I'll only borrow it for a bit...)

Yes of course, you will only borrow it for a little while...

Luna-P's eyes glow blue, and the case clicks open.

Because if you hold the Legendary Silver Crystal in your hands...

(If I hold the Legendary Silver Crystal in my hands...)

Yes, if.

(I'm sure I'll be able to become like my wonderful Mama...)

The Silver Crystal shines in her hands. And then glows unbearably bright.

Too bright. Everything is too bright, and his mental eyes and ears are blinded and deafened and he loses sight of the Rabbit, even if only for a moment -

" - Nooooo! Please, Silver Crystal, No, Don't disappear -"

- But the Crystal City's defensive wards howl and falter, and he screams in triumph as he gives the final command to attack -

Darkness and lightning howl around the City of Crystal, and the attack starts in earnest.

The wards come back online in a matter of seconds, running or backup power sources, but by then, it is already too late.


"Small Lady?"

Her Mother was outside the wards. Outside the Palace proper entirely.

Because she was looking for her.

"Mama!"

Screaming dark energy, heading for her Mother. The Inner Senshi block it just in time, by encasing her utterly in Crystal.

Her Father is at the Castle backup controls, trying to do whatever damage control he can. He reels as the blast hits.

"Papa!"

The area around the Crystal Palace is devastatedby five massive attacks, gordging large holes into the ground...

"Papa! Mama!"


What the bloody frigging hell is this?

Pluto stared at the Time Gate's control screens, as the clarion call of Code Scarlet howled across the entire Silver Millenium.

Jupiter was dragging Neo Queen Serenity's Crystal-incased body to safety, while Venus and Mars were snapping out order after order -

"Mars Command 62, Mars Colony Central, answer me, answer me - "

"Moon Fleet 676, this is a Code Scarlet, 22690 - "

"Pluto, Pluto - " Mercury pops up on the screen, her cheek bloodied. "They're droids. Androids. I scanned them, most of those battleships don't have any life support systems at all- pretty much the only ones that do are several of the big ones attacking the Crystal Palace itself!"

Oh, really. Pluto gritted her teeth.

" - What about King Endymion?"

"I've put him in statis for the moment - you could probably access his mind if you really have to, but not right now please, really -"

Damn. Damn. Damn.

"Do they at least have a name we can call them?"

And that was when Small Lady came running into the Time Gate.


"So what happened then?" Eight-year-old Mamoru - well, that was what he looked like, anyhow - asked softly.

"Oh, eventually Prince Dimando made a big victory speech and sent it over the airwaves, never mind that the Black Moon Family never did manage to take the Crystal Palace proper.

They also seemed determined to ignore that the majority of their Droid fleet had been crushed to smithereens, but then, those were just operated by Droids and not very high-grade ones at that in general, so..."

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(Posted Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:10)


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