Our Past: The Reason We Fought
Time: At the very beginning of SailorStars, just before Haruka and
Michiru appear in the aquarium
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Author's Note: This is the third fanfic I ever wrote and Haruka mentions
events from this fic in "Kazeko". Immediately after this I wrote "The
Last Sacrifice". Enjoy.
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Sailor Neptune led Uranus through the portal, stopping still at the
beautiful sight that met her questing blue eyes. It was a paradise,
more beautiful than any part of Earth had any right to be. "Elysion,"
she whispered. "This is the place of dreams."
"Yes," her partner agreed. "I remember hearing about this place. Isn't
there supposed to be a guardian of some kind?"
"I am he." A tall man with silver hair and a golden horn in the center
of his forehead entered the pillar-enclosed area, his white robes
shining in the sunlight. "Who comes here to ask me?"
"Ten'ou Haruka and Kaiou Michiru," Uranus introduced, sensing that it
was safe to reveal their identities. "You must be the wings that saved
our princess."
"She is my princess, too, since she has been engaged to the prince of my
planet for many hundreds of years. I am Helios, and my soul is that
same Pegasus that combined with the princesses to save them so recently.
Chibiusa was kind enough to hide me in her dream mirror while Nehelenia
sought myself and the Golden Crystal I guard. You are the senshi of
Uranus and Neptune; I knew that my call would reach you."
Michiru raised an eyebrow. "I guess that we are meant to go to Tokyo
now and were not needed in our princess's battle against this
Nehelenia?"
"Correct, Princess of Neptune. Very correct. I did not expect you to
come here, though; I assume your mirror gave you that power."
"It comes in handy. Do you never have guests here?"
"Except for my prince, no. You are the first to come of your own
accord. Pluto told me that the only two who would come here would be
the two who sacrificed themselves in the final battle of the Silver
Millennium and gave me up to a better life. You two must be my
parents."
Haruka and Michiru didn't move for so long that Helios was afraid they
would die of shock just standing there. "Are you okay?"
"Parents? Helios, Haruka may wear men's clothing, but at least in her
Sailor fuku it is quite clear that she is a woman. Two women can never
have a child, especially not a son." Michiru placed her hand on
Haruka's arm and looked up at her partner. "As much as I'd like for it
to be true, there is no way that I can believe you."
"You must, Princess of Neptune. Let me explain." Helios gestured at a
nearby bench, and the two Sailor Senshi sat down with the Pegasus that
claimed to be their son. "A long time ago, in the Silver Millennium,
the senshi were far more powerful. You two were the princesses of
Uranus and Neptune and very much in love. Of course, your parents could
never approve a union of two princesses because prophecy and tradition
forbid it. They knew that the power in a sailor senshi is too powerful
to be combined with that of another of your rank. Because of your love,
all you two could see was that senshi were not allowed together because
they could not have children. So you tried to use your power to combine
your life forces, your souls, and create a child. You thought it
failed, so you settled for love rather than a true partnership, but your
love and longing for someone to inherit your two kingdoms and your power
rather than your senshi curse created a son in Michiru's womb. I
protected her in the final battle, so she healed from the same type of
wounds that mortally crippled you, Haruka."
"She told me," Uranus whispered, finally remembering that last tiny
piece of her past. "She told me, as I lay dying, that she was pregnant
with my son. I told her to run, to save the boy and herself, but she
would not go."
"I would not live while the woman I loved and all of my friends died,"
Michiru hissed, angry at the suggestion more than the woman for
suggesting it. "I knew that as long as the child was inside me I would
not die and join my Haruka, so I called Pluto. Ah! I was right! She
does know what I was remembering! Anyway, I remember calling her and
begging her to take my son so that I could be with Uranus and die with
the rest of the scouts. She showed me how to use our magic to transfer
the fetus, and I asked her what his future held."
"She told you that I was far too powerful to be anything less than a
Unicorn, a Pegasus Unicorn, and that I would have a future protecting
the prince and princess and her entire court. She was right."
Michiru nodded at Helios's words. Haruka listened to the story; she
didn't know any of it. "I asked Pluto to take Uranus's son somewhere
safe where he could grow up loved and surrounded by pure beauty until he
was ready to fight. She promised me, and I asked her to name you
Helios. I remember now; I knew your name sounded familiar."
"I watched you fighting," Haruka whispered. "I watched you fight and I
felt you hold my hand as my soul fled, and I remember wondering why you
were dying. I wanted you to live and preserve our love."
"The entire kingdom fell; there was nothing I could do. Haruka, we have
a son!"
Haruka grinned and looked up at Helios. "I know you can't leave this
place, but it is nice to know that you at least survived."
Helios smiled at his parents, touching his mother's hand. "Michiru, I
know what you are thinking, and it just isn't possible. I am a part of
this place, more than you are part of the Princess's court. I can't
leave, and I don't want to. Sometimes I wish I could have been your son
for real, but I'm happy."
"Helios, I believe that you're happy. But I have the last of my
memories back now and I find myself anxious for a child—my child."
"I'm not fated to be the child you raise. The one you need to guard
will come to you soon."
"In Tokyo," Haruka realized, the premonition and her son's call finally
making sense. "You knew that if we came here we would remember our
past, and you planed to use Michiru's maternal desire for a child to
make us raise one for you."
"Not for me," Helios corrected, one slim finger raised. "For destiny.
That child will be needed in the coming battle and you two must raise
her. Without you, she will not come into her full power quickly enough
and the princess, prince, future princess, and all of the Sailor Senshi
will die. It won't matter if you survive the battle then; the Earth and
most of the rest of the galaxy will be enveloped by a darkness greater
than that which threaded the galaxies during the Sailor Wars long before
the Silver Millennium."
"Sailor Wars? Sailors fighting each other? Helios, that chaos is
gone."
"No, Haruka, it is not. Chaos is never gone, and you must return to
Tokyo to stop the coming darkness. In this battle, Sailor Moon and her
senshi cannot fight alone. They will die before the darkness arrives
and you will arrive just in time to bury them. You cannot let that
happen."
"No," Haruka growled, "we won't. This war is why you called us,
Helios?"
"Yes. Beware threats from outside our Solar System and protect the Moon
Princess at all costs. She cannot die and she must not be allowed to
make dangerous alliances. You will know, Michiru, when the fight is to
begin, and you must seek out Sailor Moon then. I may not be with you in
truth, Michiru, Haruka, but I will be with you in spirit. I wish you
the best of luck, and I can assure you that reunions and happiness await
you."
Haruka pulled Michiru to her feet, and the two senshi faced their son.
"Helios, I'm sorry that we couldn't save you, but I'm glad you're
happy." Uranus held out her hand, and was surprised by the strength in
her son's grip. "Thank you, and remember this: we will win and we will
see you again."
"I look forward to it."
Michiru, Princess of Neptune, wrapped her arms around the Pegasus, tears
sprinkling her cheeks. "Goodbye," she managed before returning to her
lover's side.
"Goodbye, Mother."
Uranus and Neptune left the dream realm, somehow happier and sadder than
they had been before the journey. "To Tokyo then, Michiru?"
"Yes."
Their conversations were quiet, subdued, contemplative, until the day
much later, at the end of their journey, when they found themselves in
an aquarium they had visited many times during their last visit to
Tokyo. Michiru slipped her arm into Haruka's, smiling at her partner.
"We've come full circle; we're back in Tokyo and back in the fight."
"I don't mind, Michiru; as long as we're together I can endure
anything."
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