To
sleep..
To
dream. No, to prophesies. The keeper of the time Gate no
more; forced to give up her mantle for breaking the ultimate
taboo of stopping time to save her comrades- Uranus and
Neptune from certain death; Pluto, slept not with ease.
It was then that the vision came to her:
An immense evil, destroying with an awesome and cruel hand
the sacred harmony we had fought so hard to keep. So swift
its evil shook the very foundation of Crystal Tokyo causing
the diamond skin to erupt into blisters of fiery brimstone.
Screams. Bloody hands and corpses screaming for mercy into
the muted night.
It was not us; the guardians, soldiers, senshi that would
be their savior.
One. A shadowed silhouette. At their hand the evil would
fall. So easily the darkness would collapse in it's own
ruin at the divine power of this deliverer.
But there was only one way to summon salvation; Sacrifice;
Innocent blood spilt was a heart saved. An all knowing eye;
all seeing; omniscient to their Destiny. The Fate's Eye.
It would see them through.
Pluto; Setsuna awoke with a scream that pierced the dead
of the morning sun. At the same time Mars, Saturn and Neptune;
precognitive of their own respect, collapsed suddenly in
their very spot, unconscious.
Immediately Queen Selenity was told of this premonition.
We all knew it; felt it. The truth, hanging in the air like
a breathless wind.
And so it was announced, an official speech to the people
of Crystal Tokyo of this coming evil. To stop this approaching
maliciousness it was required to gather as many "Fate's
Eyes" as possible to call upon the Prophesied to counter
it. Fate's Eyes, ones destiny, ones future, the all seeing
and knowing, kept in one's own eye.
We asked the people to help, as we have helped them countless
times. So people volunteered to give their Fate's Eye for
the good of their kingdom. They would kneel before us; head
high, shoulders straight with honour- as we soon plunged
the very hands that had once protected them into their eye
socket, pulling the sacramental circlet from their sanguined
sockets. It would seem we would be soon be successful in
our cause.
But the people soon became anxious; panicked. The symptom
of taken Fate's Eye was a corpus delicti; a pale anesthetized
body to which no life, no future was to be fulfilled; because
we, the senshi had taken it. But to its own means. After
we would call the Prophecy the eyes would be returned, to
blink back to life and live as nothing has happened. But
reasoning with
irrational, paranoid civilians is a visionary's goal.
So an order was decreed by Queen Selenity, Chibiusa now
NeoSailormoon, and the Royal Court for the people of the
world to relinquish their Fate's Eye to our possession.
Failure to do so would result in several consequences. The
first would be capture and incarceration; Secound, forceful
removal of Fate's Eye. The third and final, family banishment.
Through the years of blood, sweat and tears we eventually
learned that an elder's Fate's Eye was more brittle, decayed
and of size than one of youth. A child's Fate's Eye was
condensed and focused in its potential and thusly held much
more effectiveness.
A law was then passed for Fate's Eye to be removed from
infants at birth.
It is a hanged man's court; winning by losing; birth from
death; death at birth; taking what we give; its all the
same in the end.
They'll thank us someday.
-Pluto
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