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     2 Author: Princess

     3 Author's Email: AuroraMorn@aol.com

     4 Title: Dreams that won't disappear when I open my eyes: Prelude

     5 Rating: Hentai

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     8 Moshimoshi, minna-san! It's me again, the Princess! I know, it's foolish of

     9 me to start three stories at once... but I can't help it! I mean, I can't

    10 just leave the darling Saturn and Chibimoon out of my plans... after all,

    11 SailorSaturn is my favorite! Now, quick notes before you read this. This

    12 story is a mix of the Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon manga, anime, and my own

    13 personal spice. It takes place shortly after the sailor senshi have defeated

    14 the Dead Moon Circus. The poem that ChibiUsa hears in her dream is Saturn's

    15 prologue for her Sailorstars poem, called "The Second Coming." Standard

    16 disclaimers apply. And, on to the story....

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    18 "Dreams that won't disappear when I open my eyes.."

    19 Prelude

    20 

    21 ----------

    22 

    23       ChibiUsa stirred faintly in her sleep, giving out a

    24 small moan. After the defeat of the Dead Moon Circus, her nightmares had

    25 ended, and she had thought happily that they would stay at rest. But they

    26 had returned full force this night, as was shown by her bedsheets that had

    27 long since tangled around her sweat-damped body, twisted by her shifting

    28 movements.

    29 

    30         In her dream, every mirror and reflective surface throughout Tokyo

    31 mirrored the silhouette of Nehelinia, and her evil laughter reverbrated

    32 throughout the city. A quick flash revealed another brief picture of an

    33 entranced Mamoru in the Dark Queen's arms, as Usagi watched, wounded and

    34 helpless. Tears stung at the corner of ChibiUsa's eyes as she whimpered

    35 within her deep sleep, despair welling in her heart.

    36 

    37         But, suddenly, all pictures of evil and despair vanished into a dark

    38 violet vortex. It was as if the fabric of the dream itself had been sucked

    39 down a drain until nothing was left until darkness and silence. Unknowingly,

    40 ChibiUsa's breath and pulse stopped completely, until a lilting voice slowly

    41 spoke them back to life. The voice was cold, like someone who had been long

    42 hurt, and yet beautiful, and it filled the silence with a music of it's

    43 own.

    44 

    45 Surely some revelation is at hand;

    46 Surely the Second Coming is at hand."

    47 

    48       The sleeping pink-haired girl's lips moved in an

    49 unspoken name, but the beautifully spoken poem continued heedless in her

    50 mind's ear.

    51 

    52 </P><P ALIGN=CENTER>"The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out

    53 When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi

    54 Troubles my sight: .."

    55 

    56       Within the violet vortex a dark figure became

    57 apparent. But, unlike that of Nehelinia, this one betrayed not an evil aura,

    58 but one of intense, fear-inducing power, as well as wisdom and age. The

    59 slight figure's sensuous curves could be seen, held in a brief skirted fuku,

    60 slender legs ending in knee-length boots. The dark figure raised a delicate

    61 hand, and a wickedly curved polearm appeared in it. 

    62 

    63  "Somewhere in sands of the desert

    64 A shape with lion body and the head of a man,

    65 A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,

    66 Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it

    67 Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds."

    68 

    69       Suddenly, like a camera on zoom, ChibiUsa could see

    70 the figure's face. The countenance was pale and delicately boned, framed by

    71 raven hair, dark lashes resting on flawless cheeks. A shiver rushed

    72 ChibiUsa's body as those lashes lifted, revealing depthless violet orbs that

    73 were soul-touching even in her dreams.

    74 

    75 "The darkness drops again; but now I know

    76 That twenty centuries of stony sleep

    77 Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle... "

    78 

    79       With a gasp, ChibiUsa was suddenly hurled from the

    80 dream world into the waking one, and found herself sitting up in bed,

    81 panting, drenched with sweat, her crimson eyes wide. In the yellowish glow

    82 of the streetlights that filtered through her window, she stared down at her

    83 trembling hands, looking surprised as tears fell on them, her lips slowly

    84 moving. "The darkness drops again..." she repeated the line, mesmerized at

    85 the thought of it.

    86 

    87         "Twenty centuries," she continued, her gaze slowly shifting to look

    88 at a picture on her night table. "Of stony sleep..." The picture was of a

    89 frail ebony-haired girl, eyes closed as she held a bouquet of beautiful pink

    90 flowers to her nose. "Vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle..."

    91 

    92         Drawing her legs beneath her, she moved slowly toward the table,

    93 extending a hand to brush two fingers tenderly over the photograph. "Oh,

    94 Hotaru-chan," she whispered into the still night. "You're coming back to

    95 me..."

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    98 

    99       There you go. I think this is going to be a good

   100 story... Hotaru and ChibiUsa are my passions in Sailormoon, I'm going to

   101 thoroughly enjoy writing this story about them. Please send all comments and

   102 criticism you have to me, I'd love to hear it! Until next time, keep your

   103 eyes on the moon!

   104 

   105 ~Princess~