Moon Queen Magic:
                           Chapter 2

                                by

                         the DragonBard

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     I hope that those few people who wrote to tell me they liked my story so far, will
enjoy this new chapter of it.  Also, I should inform you, if I don't recieve
'something' telling me that people are reading this series, I'm going to stop with this
chapter.  So send the C&C to me, and I might continue this fic.
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I do not own, or make any claims of owning the characters, or situations portrayed in this fic, besides Archon.  If you wish to use him, just give me credit for his creation (unless you use him for profit, in which case, I better get some of the money)
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   The four former Guardians of Crown Prince Endyimon, also former kings and generals of the Dark Kingdom/Negaverse, walked into the home of Maxfield Staton, who was really, one of their members, Nephlyte.
   "I knew this wouldn't work."  Jedite muttered.  Jedite had always been a very definite pesimiste.  They were used to it, but they simply didn't want to listen to it at that particular moment.
   "Shut up, Jedite!"  Nephlyte growled.  "I am not in the mood for your rendition of 'I told you so!'"  The two of them were attempting to stare each other down, when Archon, and Sailor Pluto intered the room.  Pluto just looked at the two of them, and shook her head.
   "If you two boys will stop trying to play mental king of the mountain, we can begin our work."  She said.
   "Are you kidding?"  Zoicite exclaimed.  "The women we love look at us like we were some giant slug!  In fact, I think Mercury would have been happier if I 'was' a giant slug.  At least then she would have a purpose for me."
   "How would you like it if you found out that you had tried to kill the woman you love, and very nearly succeeded!?  Not to mention the fact that we're all years older than them now!"  Malachite yelled.  Pluto turned to him, and stared into his eyes.
   "How would you like it if you had to watch every thing, and every one, you knew and loved be destroyed, and be unable to do anything about it?  Knowing that it was within your power, but still powerless?"  She asked.  "I have survived, and so shall you.  You were lucky, your minds, your souls, were held so that you have little memory of your time with the Dark Kingdom. Be greatful that you have been reunited with your loves in this plane."
   With that said, Sailor Pluto vanished.  Archon turned to the Guardians.
   "I'm sorry you had to see that.  Pluto has been around since the End of the Silver Millenium, and has had to wait for the Scouts to be reborn the entire time.  So she tends to get emotional when people complain of loosing something."  The Guardians minds boggled at the concept of an emotional Sailor Pluto.  For the piece of mind of the Guardians, Archon decided to turn to a different topic.
   "So, what do you think of this Millenium?"  The Guardians pondered the question for a moment.
   "Well, it certainly is different."  Zoistie said.
   Jedite chuckled.  "Different, hell!  When I saw the Princess fighting that first time, I couldn't believe it!"
   "I know what you mean," Malacite agreed.  "She never struck me as the warrior type, more like Mercury, except she thinks with her heart most of the time."  Zoisite got a wistful look to his face as he remembered his lover, the Senshi-Princess of Mercury, Ishtar.
   "Yes, the Princess's heart it her greatest strength.  Because of it, she can and will stand when no one else can.  She will push herself beyond any limits if necessary."
   "So, Archon, what is the plan?  How are we going to be teaching them?"  Nephlyte asked.
   As Archon, one of the last archmagi left in this dimension, began to give the Guardians a plan of attack, in the void between moments, where the Gate of Time lay, Sailor Pluto entered her home.  You might not know it from the few visits the other Scouts had made to the Gate of Time, but there was a quite luxurious space there, where Sailor Pluto lived.  The house, you couldn't call it a home, held treasures from almost any point in history. 

From the Silver Millenium, the Stone Age, the Renissance, to the modern era.

   Sailor Pluto walked into this place, and as the door closed behind her, dropped the Time Staff, fell to her knees, and there, Sailor Pluto, Guardian of Time and Space, oldest human being alive, cried until she could cry no more.
   A subtle change in the room warned her of a new presence near her.  A dark shadow greeted her red rimmed eyes, a dark shadow with two eyes as red as hot embers.
   "Metallia!"  Setsunna growled.  The shadow nodded.
   "It has been some time, Little One."  Metallia said.  Her voice was like the whisper of wind over new fallen snow.
   "Don't you dare call me that!"  Setsunna growled.  "You lost all right when you joined with Beryl to destroy the Moon Kingdom!"  Setsunna grabbed the Time Staff, and leveled it at the former demon queen.
   "I may not have been able to stop you then and there, but here, in the Time Gate, my power is supreme."  Energy began to gather at the head of the Staff, growing larger and more menacing with each passing second.  Metallia simply stood there, her red eyes looking at the sphere of destructive force. The pair stood like that for several moments, Setsunna's face twisted in rage and pain.  Then, the sphere of force faded away, and the Staff fell from Setsunna's hand.
   "I can't do it."  She muttered, and tears began to roll down her face.
   "Why, Metallia, why did you destroy everything.  Everything we worked for, everything we created, gone."
   Metallia looked at Pluto.  "I am sorry.  The creature you fought was not truly me, though I must admitt to being its source."
   "What do you mean?"  Pluto asked.
   "While I held guard, for all those millenia, the pain and loneliness took over.  I tried to find a way that I could destroy all the monsters that threatend to attack us.  I drained them of their lifeforce, but it contaminated me, making me one of them, a monster.  My only purpose became the destruction of all that might threaten the world, and I needed power to do so.  Power to make the world strong, power that nothing could stop.  I needed to rule the world, and only one thing could stand against me, the Silver Crystal, which was the very weapon I needed to destroy those monstrocities.
   "I was obsessed, and would let nothing get in my way.  I needed the Crystal more than anything.  I contacted Beryl, and promised to aide her defeat of Serenity, if I could have the Crystal.  I provided power to her magics, and I created the youma, golems for the most part, with a few of the more loyal soldiers transformed as well.  She used her own magical skills to allow me to take physical form
   "When the time for the attack finally came, Beryl led us out.  We destroyed the armies of many worlds, finally coming to the Earth's Moon.  The battle was as if I had triggered the final war between the gods, and I may well have.  Serenity finally invoked the Crystals power.  We were all banished to the Negaverse.  With the negative energies of the pocket dimension infusing us, many of the youma became weakend.  If it wasn't for the fact that time moved more slowly within the Negaverse, we would never have survived to the modern days.  However, the wait was enough to drive my insanity to the point that only death could cure it.  A death brought by the very talisman that I sought to steal."  Metallia began to fade away.
   "I do not come for forgiveness, because I know I do not deserve it, but as a warning, my little sister.  If you give yourself over to duty, and have nothing to give you hope, you will, in time, become the very demon you seek to destroy.
    "Farewell."  And with that, Metallia, once one of the greatest Archmagi alive, former demon queen of the Dark Kingdom, faded from this plane of existence.  Leaving Sailor Pluto alone with the remnants of the faded past.
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Since it's been a bit since I've released anything (well, besides my Wedding Nights fics) I figured I would give a bit of a status report.

I've decided to drop Legends, and King of Fighters, since the original authors of both those fics have taken them up again (speaking of which, where 'is' the next part of Legends?  It was supposed to be out weeks ago.)  I've scrapped what I had for the latest chapter of the Art, and will be trying to get it finished sometime this millenium.  The same with Dragons Destiny.  I'm planning on doing some rewriting on All Mixed Up, including a name change, since All Mixed Up has already been taken.  Expect it when you see it.

My lemon fics are still getting worked on when I feel the muse.

I'm working on a fic with Zaxxon.  It's got a good begining, but it will be a while before we decide it's ready for FFML release.

Moon Queen Magic will be ended with this fic if I don't recieve 'some' C&C on this series.

Progress on Knight of Moonlight and Dreams is going slowly, once again, expect it when you see it.

That's about it.  Hope to hear some good C&C.  No flames, flames get put in the circular file.
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"To see a world in a
  grain of sand,
And a Heaven in a
  wild flower,
Hold Infinity in the
  palm of your Hand,
And Eternity in an hour."

  William Blake (1757-1827)

"Lord, What Fools these Mortals Be."
  Shakespeare



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From the Pen of the DragonBard:

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*"There are more things in Heaven and Earth . . .  *
*then are dreampt of in your philosiphy."          *
*Hamlet                                            *
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*Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep!*
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*Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;        *
*But will they come when you do call for them?     *
*Henry IV                                          *
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Yes I am crazy, I don't just act that way!

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