The chronicles of Light ************************************************************************ Written By Nathan Burnham. Ley@pac.com.au ************************************************************************ PART 1: A new warrior ************************************************************************ CHAPTER 1: Returning Memories He felt sick. Not good to be sick on your twenty second birthday. It was a strange kind of sick, it was hard to describe. He actually felt well, but it felt like there was someone inside him. Another person, or animal. He definitely felt weird. Weird was actually an understatement. He didn't feel himself. The phone beeped at him a couple of times and he answered. "Hello, Conner here." "Conner MacLeod? You're application for the position of Chief Programmer has been accepted. We would like to know if you can be here within month?", said a voice. A voice with a distinct Japanese accent. 'I GOT IT! Wow. Amazing.' He thought . "Hai. Arigato-Gozaimasu" He was very happy, even the weirdness seemed to go away. He packed, sold his house (unfortunatly for a bit less than it was worth) and left for Japan two weeks later. There was nobody to say good-bye to, he was an orphan. He really only knew one person well enough to call a friend, and that was another orphan living in Japan who he wrote to regularly. The flight was ok, not the best he had been on. He arrived in Japan very early in the morning. By the time he arrived at his new home it was about school time. In fact, he was just about to walk in the gate when he bumped into a young blonde haired girl running to school. The thing that made her stand out was the way she had her hair, it looked like odango. "Ooooff. Hey, no need to hurry" he said, in English. The girl made a strange face and said, "Sorry, late for school!" before she was up and running again. 'Well, she sure was rude. I must remember to speak in Japanese...' Conner thought, but he soon forgot about it and went inside to look around. His house was nice. Quite amazing actually, it was about the same size as his old home. His home office was well set up. A direct connection to his offices computers. He only needed to go into the office once a month. That afternoon he was going outside when he again bumped into the blonde haired girl. "Sorry, I didn't see you there." He said, in Japanese this time. "I am sorry also, hey you're that guy that's just moved in!" she said. "Yes, I am Conner MacCleod. I just flew in this morning. And you are?" "I'm Tsukino Usagi, welcome to Japan Conner San." She said, "How do you like Japan so far?" she attempted to say in English, but it came out as "How does Japan like you?" Conner got the idea of what she was trying to say, but as she did not seem to know English very well he replied in Japanese. "Japan agrees with me. Except for this morning when I was run into by a girl going to school." He replied, looking at Usagi strangely. "Ahhhhh ummmmm." She said, looking around for an escape "Oh, here come some of my friends! I'll introduce you to them." She said, sighting Makoto, Minako, Ami and Rei. The four girls walked up to Usagi. "Who's the cute guy Usagi?" Whispered Minako to Usagi. Conner blushed a little, he was not used to such comments from such young girls. "His name is Conner, he has just flown in this morning." Usagi replied as quietly as she could. "Conner, I would like you to meet: Ami, Rei, Makoto and Minako" said Usagi, pointing to each of the girls in turn. They each said 'hi' and shook his hand. "Would you like to come in for tea?" asked Conner, pointing to his house. "Um.. That would be, um, great thanks.. But um, we *really* have to speak to Usagi." Replied Rei. The girls left, and Conner walked back inside. He could just make out Makoto say something about him looking like her old boyfriend, he could definitely hear the sigh that seemed to come from all of the girls. Conner went straight to bed. He had had a very big day. Conner woke up and decided to test out the computer system, after all he would be working with it for the next year at least. His computer was very good and very expensive, it must have cost the company a lot. He logged onto the companies system and checked his mail. He didn't expect there to be any and was surprised to find welcoming mail from all of the staff. He spent the next two hours writing back to each of the staff individually. He spent another hour after that writing a note of thanks to his boss. He logged off and ate breakfast. He decided to go shopping, as he only had a few clothes. He would need a car as well, or a bike (or both!). Money wasn't a problem, his parents had died a long time ago and they were very rich. Even if he didn't know who they were. When he turned 18, he asked his families solicitor. The only answer he got was that they didn't want him to know. Two years later, after a lot of persuasion he was told that they didn't have any record of who they were. There must have been some record somewhere, but it was gone. He went to the mall. The mall was big, a bit bigger than some of the ones back in Australia. He bought himself some new clothes and decided to go shopping for a car. He managed to find a black Ferrari that resembled his old one back in Australia and so he bought it. He usually didn't make spur of the moment shopping decisions like that, but he really wanted the car. It was late, he must have been shopping for hours. He was about to leave when he saw someone entering the mall. She looked strangely familiar, but he couldn't know her. Her long green hair almost touched her feet. A name came to mind, 'Sets....'. He decided against talking to her, she would probably think that he was crazy. He drove back towards home, but suddenly found that he was lost. He drove around for a bit until he passed Usagi. She was sitting at the curb outside her high school. "Usagi, what are you doing here? It's late." "Ah, Conner. Is this *your* car?" asked Usagi, shocked at seeing him driving such an expensive and new car. "Yup, I just bought it!" "Um, Rei was supposed to meet me but she hasn't arrived yet." "I am a bit lost." Conner said, rather helplessly. "And you want to know where you live?" asked Usagi Just then, Ami spoke through Usagi's communicator. 'Usagi, we need you at the park!' Conner looked around to see where Ami was and Usagi looked a bit sheepish. "Um, do you want a lift to the park?" Conner asked Usagi. "Ah, no thanks. The park is near my place, could you just drop me off there, if that's ok?" Usagi got in and Conner drove her back home. Usagi got out and immediatly started running off towards the park. Conner's curiosity got the better of him and he followed her. He felt weird again, maybe it was just jet lag. He reached the park to see something very weird. Some strange woman, with tentacles growing out of her head was standing over a young girl in a sailor costume. Six other girls in sailor suits lay sprawled in other parts of the clearing. Conner was only able to stand there in shock, this sort of thing didn't happen to him very often. The woman was about to kill the girl below her when a sharp object hit her hand. She looked up. "Beauty is not just in the skin, sometimes even the most ugly is beautiful. However you are not. You may not harm Sailor Moon." The Tuxedo suited man said. Conner looked at the ground, there was a rose embedded into the ground near the woman. She growled and then laughed. "You cape-boy?! You dare to think that you can defeat me?" She said and before she had finished the tentacles on her head writhed and shot out at the man. The Tuxedoed man flew back off the tree he was standing on and struck another tree, falling down unconscious. The woman turned her attention back to the girl. Conner felt very weird. Suddenly his vision clouded and everything went red. Sailor moon woke up to the sound of a wolf howling. She looked towards the sound to see Conner lying on the ground unconscious. The rest of the scouts were also out. She crawled over to Conner. His arms were slashed, his face and shirt bloodied. She bent over to wipe the blood off his face, to see how badly he was cut. She did get a C in first aid, she knew what to do. 'Oh no,' she thought, 'he must have followed me!' As her hand touched his face, his eyes opened. "Where am I?" he asked first, then he looked at who it was and asked "Usagi, is that you? No, sorry. Who are you? Why do I feel like I have just been through a wreckers?!" "You look it" said Sailor Moon, as she tried to wipe the blood from his face. Sailor Mercury was the next up, she pressed one of her earrings and a blue band covered her face. She looked at Conner for a second. "Um, Sailor Moon. He has some cuts on his arms, but that is about all, the blood on his face isn't his." She told Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon cleaned up Conner, and walked him home. Conner woke up. 'I feel weird, weirder than in that dream.', he lay back down. 'No, nothing could be that weird.' He got up, got himself some breakfast and changed. 'Hmmm I could do with a walk. Might as well go now.' He thought. So Conner got up and walked outside, intending to go down towards the park. He reached the front gate and a man walked past him. 'Wait a sec, was that Mamoru?' "Mamoru?" he asked. The man turned around, and looked at Conner. "Conner?" he asked. "Mamoru, we finally meet!" exclaimed Conner, and shook Mamoru's hand rather vigorously. "No need to write now." Replied Mamoru. Conner had known Mamoru for a very long time. They were both orphans and became pen-friends when Conner was ten. Since that time they had written regularly, at least twice a month. "What are you doing here?" asked Mamoru stunned to see his friend. "I have a job here. I will be working for at least a year, and all from home." "Home?" asked Mamoru. Conner pointed to his house. "Ahh I thought that was who Usagi spoke of when she told me who her new neighbour was, but I could not be sure." Said Mamoru, and added "I was just going in to see my girlfriend, Usagi. To um, speak about, um. Something we ahhh did last night." "Ahhh. I had a very strange dream last night, I think that you may have been in it. Maybe Usagi was in it also." Said Conner. Mamoru looked away at this. "And the strangest thing was that there was a clown in it, and some guy wearing a tuxedo. A very strange dream." "Yes it is a very strange dream isn't it!" replied Mamoru, looking at Conner strangely. Mamoru looked at Conner. 'Strange, his arms aren't scarred!' he thought. "Ahhhh Mamoru." "Yes Conner?" "How old *is* Usagi?" Conner asked, grinning slightly. Mamoru blushed and held up his hands, "It's nothing like that! We're in love, we're destined to be together." Conner chuckled a little bit, "It's okay Mamoru, I consider myself rather open minded." "Um, I have to see Usagi. I will come and visit you soon." Added Mamoru, hurrying into Usagi's house. Conner continued walking. The chronicles of Light ************************************************************************ Written By Conner MacCleod. Ley@pac.com.au ************************************************************************ PART 1: A new warrior ************************************************************************ CHAPTER 2: More Confusion It was Saturday and Conner, with nothing better to do decided to walk around a bit and sightsee. He decided to go via the park, having been told about the garden there. After walking around the park and enjoying the sights and smells he got a bus to the mall, he still didn't have all that much in the way of clothes. He got home four hours later, worn out. He was barely able to open the door. 'Oh well,' he thought, 'at least I have clothes.' Once inside, he sat down at his computer and read over his email. It was dark by the time he had finished replying to messages and checking up on things at work. He started boiling some water when suddenly he felt an intense pain in his arm. He crashed down onto the ground, gripping his arm in agony. He woke up, lying on the ground in the hallway. His arm hurt, it felt like it had been slashed by a knife. Looking at it he was shocked to see a scar heal, in under a second. 'Wow' he thought, 'side effects of a blackout. Must be.' His arm did feel better though. Looking up at the clock he was suprised to see that three hours had passed. 'Oh well' he thought, 'getting late.' He decided to go to bed earlyish. Walking upstairs he got changed, and before getting into bed, he looked out the window. 'Strange' he though when he saw Usagi limping towards her house. He retired without giving it much more thought. On Sunday, the traditional day of rest Conner decided to once again go to the mall. He had been walking around for about half an hour when he heard someone shout his name from behind. Turning around he spied Usagi and her friends sitting down at a table in the food court. "How are you all?" he asked them and was greeted with a resounding chorus of "Great"'s. Looking at Makoto and Minako he noticed that they were looking around for somebody. "What are you doing?" he asked them. "Oh, we're just scoping out the guys. Are you free perhaps?" Makoto asked Conner. Automatically, without thinking Conner replied "I'm taken." Minako Oh'ed. "Who's the lucky girl Conner?" a blushing Ami asked. "I'm not going out with anyone." Conner said, wondering why Ami would ask him such a question. "Well, why did you say you were then?" Makoto asked, a little angry. "When? I never said that I was." Conner replied, his attention taken away from her by the intense stare he was receiving from Rei. Before anything else could be said he was saved (saved?) by the Roaming monster of the day: A great huge one-eyed humanoid creature. Minako grebbed Conner's arm and pulled him away from the monster, "Don't worry, the Senshi will get here and save us." she said before she got seperated (on purpose?). Once again feeling strange, Conner sat down against a shop wall. Waking up, Conner looked around. He was in his own bedroom, a strange dream was beginning to seep from his memory as dreams are wont to do. He was a dog, or small creature as the view was from a dogs perspective. A Senshi in a red skirt smacked a piece of paper on his forehead and he ran away. 'Wow, weird dream. Maybe something here doesn't agree with me.' he thought, before preparing to work once more for the next six days. On Teusday Conner was reading his email when he came across a strange message from the CEO. It was regarding a new deal with a large engineering company that was linked somehow to the Government. Apparently Conner was in charge of a small group of staff working on the software for a special detection device. This device was to be used to detect and trace the 'Sailor Senshi' and the 'Youma'. Conner was rather pleased at this, it sounded very interesting. The next four days he went into 'work' to meet with the chief designer of the device, his CEO and his staff. Some government investigaters had apparently discovered some form of residual 'energy' or 'radiation' at places where the Sailor Senshi or Youma were, they were hoping to create a 'warning' system (officially), Conner thought that they probably just wanted to capture either the Senshi or the Youma for study. Conner spent Sunday working, emailing his staff with corrections. The CEO was willing to pay him and his staff extremely large amounts of money to get the project done. By Thursday of that week they had a small prototype ready, linked to a laptop running the beta of the software. For the first test they went out to the mall to record the measurements from the last 'show down'. The machine registered large amounts of the strange energies (nicknamed Kawaii-Shoujo energy by the staff). So much so that everybody had immediatly run off to find out where the Youma or Senshi had shown up. They then realised that perhaps the Senshi put off the strange Kawaii-Shoujo energies at all times. This led to planned direction capabilities added to the device. The next smaller test was done in the Building the following day and the results meant for a major search of code for bugs. For some reason the results were just as large as before and pointing at Conner. There was much laughing and much denying that Conner was a 'Kawaii Shojo' (On Conner's part only). ************************************************************************ The chronicles of Light ************************************************************************ Written By Nathan Burnham. Ley@pac.com.au ************************************************************************ PART 1: A new warrior ************************************************************************ CHAPTER 3: Discovery The next day was a Saturday, and was very, very cold. Conner woke up, very early. He felt weird again. He quickly got dressed, and before he knew what he was doing, he was driving down towards the mall. 'What am I doing? The mall won't even be open yet!' he asked himself, but as he was so near to the mall he thought 'There must be some reason, I must have just forgotten'. Conner pulled up and walked towards the entrance. The doors were open. Conner walked inside, and paused. Listening. There seemed to be sounds coming from down one of the hallways. Conner started running and soon came upon a scene similar to the one in the park. A woman was standing over the unconscious form of seven girls in sailor outfits, and a man in a tuxedo. She looked strange, her body was that of a lion, and her tail that of a serpent. She had wings as well. She was gloating. "Ha! You will soon learn to stop meddling in the affairs of Sphinx! Die Sailor Moon!" 'Almost as weird as the woman in the park.' Thought Conner. Conner again felt strange, but did not blackout. He had changed, he could smell everything and could even hear the cars outside. He managed to see his reflection in a window. Was it his? He was a wolf, a very large wolf. A wolf that was currently bounding towards the woman, it's jaws open wide. He couldn't control himself, it was like he was just watching it all. He jumped, knocking the woman away from Sailor Moon. His claws scratched. His jaws locked around her neck, his fangs sinking into her flesh. She was also scratching him, ripping great gashes along his back, ripping fur and flesh alike. He turned off the pain, he knew he was hurt but he didn't need any distractions. She punched out, and he flew off into a wall. "Leave that poor animal alone! I stand for love and justice, and in the name of the moon I shall punish you! I am Sailor Moon!" Sailor moon was up, and had attracted the attention of Sphinx. Sphinx turned around. He could feel himself changing, from a gigantic wolf creature into something in between. Standing up he looked at himself in a piece of broken mirror. His reflection was that of a half wolf half man creature, fully seven feet tall and covered in fur. His head was that of a wolves as well, not really the 'classic' werewolf. He turned his attention to the ongoing fight. "Back for more eh?", sphinx snarled and jumped at Sailor Moon. She never reached her. Her path deviated rather violently as Conner smashed into her, claws raking her side. "Who are you?" Asked Sailor Moon. "No time...now, destroy!" He growled. Sailor Moon pulled out her spiral heart moon rod. "Moon, Spiral, Heart Attack!" she cried, a beam shooting out at Sphinx. Sphinx was running toward Conner at the time and was very close to him. When the beam hit her, something strange happened. She exploded, throwing Conner back through a store window. Sailor moon ran up to Conner. "Are you ok?" Asked Sailor Moon. "Yes...fine." Replied Conner, although one side of him was caked in blood. Conner finally managed to get control of himself once again and he stood up, although somewhat shakily. "Conner!?" came a cry from behind them. Conner span around, behind him was a black cat and a white cat. "Luna...Artemis?!" he growled, and suddenly knew who they were. In fact, all of a sudden he knew who all of the Sailor Scouts were and most importantly he knew who he was. Conner bowed and growled "Advisers..I..have....returned." He looked over at the scouts before rushing over to them. He seemed to instinctively know what to do. He woke them one at a time using some unusual pressure points. After each of the scouts were awake, memories flooded into his head. He feinted and dreamed. He woke up to the faces of Usagi and her friends. The two cats, Luna and Artemis were also there as was Mamoru and four other girls he had seen before although one he seemed to remember more clearly than the others. Sailors Neptune, Uranus, Saturn and Pluto. Pluto looked lovingly at him, it was obvious that she had not told the others of his identity. She did like to keep secrets, from everybody. He appeared to be in some sort of temple, Rei was wearing some sort of traditional dress, she was wiping his side, trying to remove the blood that matted his fur. Conner brushed her hand away. "Not important." Conner said, wincing as Rei touched a cut. "What?! Don't worry about it? Are you crazy?! This is serious! If it wasn't for the questions you'd be in the hospital right now!" Replied Rei, shocked. Setsuna smiled knowingly and mouthed the word 'Vet'. "Like this?" he said chuckling, "not serious, I not crazy.". He shifted back into his 'human' form. There was blood on him but the cuts seemed to have healed. "Damned magical creatures.... Oh that hurt...." he said, smiling slightly. "Conner?! What happened, where's the blood?" said Rei, shocked. "The blood's here, the cuts aren't." Replied Conner, looking at Setsuna for a second. Setsuna looked away, blushing. Ami looked from Conner to Setsuna and realized what was up, but chose to say nothing. "What are you?" asked Haruka, bunching her fist "Are you from the Dark Kingdom?" Conner chuckled again. "Not a very good judge of character are you Haruka..chan?", "Not to worry, Michuru-chan is perceptive enough... for both of you." Haruka eyebrow twitched while Michiru blushed. Conner continued, "I'm not very good at telling stories, Luna could you tell them?" "Ok then.... lets see." Luna said, before finding a suitable place to start the tale. "Conner appeared on Usagi's seventh birthday back on the Moon Kingdom. It was a very interesting entrance to say the least. All of you, except for you Mamoru were sitting in audience hall when there was a great noise at the doors. The two inner guards opened the doors to find Conner with his sword drawn about to kill one of the outer guards." Conner blushed a little, and said guiltily "You can skip that bit Luna...." "Oh no, you wanted me to tell the tale. Conner was arguing very loudly as well, saying something like 'Let me pass, I must be here!'. Although we later found out that he was a very good swordsman, he was disarmed rather easily and restrained. Queen Serenity asked the guards to bring him up to her and they did. When he reached the foot of the dais he brook loose from the guards and knelt down. 'Queen Serenity, I present myself Conner MacCleod to serve you and guard your daughter Princess Serenity.'" Luna finished before looking at Setsuna, as if asking her to continue. "Since the start of time I have known who it is that I would one day marry. Because I live outside of time, so must he." She said, "I walked in, just as Queen Serenity was about to have him sent away. I told her that he must be allowed to guard Princess Serenity, and serve her, hinting at his birthright. He did not question my appearance, nor my belief in him. He did however tell me that I was late." Usagi giggled, Haruka and Michiru raised their eyebrows in surprise while Conner looked like he was about to burst with hysterics. Setsuna looked reproachingly at him before continuing. "He was not often needed, staying with me outside of time, only returning to the Moon Kingdom when Princess Serenity's life was in danger. Because of this he died trying to save you when the Dark Kingdom invaded. He wasn't too worried about this because both of us knew that he would be reborn in this time." "But *what* is he?" Makoto asked Setsuna. "There are some parts of the timestream that we cannot see. Conner's birth is hidden from me," she said turning her attention to Conner "And *you* never told us. Everytime we asked you, you would get out of it somehow and we would forget." Conner looked down at his watch, smiled and said six words that cleared Rei's room in a matter of seconds "Shouldn't you be at school now?". ************************************************************************ The chronicles of Light ************************************************************************ Written By Nathan Burnham. Ley@pac.com.au ************************************************************************ PART 1: A new warrior ************************************************************************ CHAPTER 4: Sorting through memories Conner sat down to think about the things that had happened over the past few days. He had discovered who he was and why he felt drawn to Setsuna. He knew who he was! He remembered! Oh how wonderful it was! Walking past his computer, he realised that he should be getting some work done. The rest of his week was mainly consumed with work, work and more work, until Friday. On Friday morning, the doorbell rang and Conner got up to answer it. Usagi was standing in the doorway. "Uh, Good morning!" said Conner, fairly surprised that Usagi was standing there (especially considering that school was about to start and she was still far away from it!) "Um... Conner, ahhh I'm late for school so I gotta hurry. We are going over to Rei's this afternoon, you know where that is? Would you like to come, it's a Senshi meeting, Rei has some news for us" replied Usagi, panting heavily. "Uh. Sure, yeah I know the Temple, on Cherry hill isn't it?. What time does School start?" If Conner had wanted to get rid of Usagi, this was the best way to do it. She screamed "Oh no! Ten minutes ago! Ms H is gonna kill me!" before running off in the direction of her school. Conner walked slowly back inside and did some work for a few hours before deciding to go shopping. He got changed and drove down to the mall. After an hour of walking around aimlessly from shop to shop he sighted someone amongst the crowd. "Setsuna?" he asked as he neared her. "Conner, how are you? Are you going to the temple this afternoon?" "Yes, I am." He said as he looked up at a clock, "It's nearing lunch time, would you like to join me?" "I would love to, there is a café in here that's very nice." She replied. They were soon seated at a booth in the café and drinking green tea. "Setsuna, how much of the Silver Millennium do you remember?" Conner asked, hesitantly. "I remember it all Conner, I didn't die. The rose gardens in the palace, the night of the attack," Setsuna shuddered at this, remembering something that she had kept hidden for a very long time, "and I remember being saved by my love." "Ironic isn't it. I have been given a second chance." "As have I. Even though we both knew what would happen eventually we wasted so much time questioning ourselves didn't we?" "We needn't do that this time." Conner said, before leaning forward to kiss her. ****** Setsuna and Conner arrived together at the Temple. Setsuna showed Conner where Rei's room was and they went in. "Hi Conner, Setsuna!" said Rei, motioning them to sit down. "Your a bit early, I'm just getting some of *our* snacks ready" Rei noticed Conner looking at her questioningly and said "Usagi usually complains when there aren't any snacks left because she gets here late." Conner smiled slightly. The others soon arrived, Usagi and Mamoru bringing up the rear. Conner looked at the others, they were all seated around the fire. Memories came unbidden into his mind, memories of life in the Silver Millennium. He remembered times like this. He had attended some of the meetings with the Royal family, and the Senshi. Things were much better then, he often got called upon to voice his opinions, especially when it meant the safety of Princess Serenity. Rei spoke up "Well, I called this meeting today because the fire has told me of a great evil that is threatening us again." "Aside from those three Negascum?" asked Makoto. "It is something even more powerful than Mistress 9." said Michiru looking at Rei. "Yes Michiru, it is something very powerful, the fire would not tell me how powerful but I could easily say that it is the most powerful being we have come up against yet." Replied Rei. Usagi stood up, looking at the door. The shadow of a small girl was outlined on the rice paper, her hair flaring out to the sides. "Mommieee!!!!" Cried the girl. "Chibi-Usa!" cried Usagi, almost at the same time. The door slid open, revealing Chibi-Usa. Conner looked strangely at Usagi, Setsuna noticed his expression and began whispering in his ear. Momoru stood up, grinning. His expression then changed to one of extreme worry. If Chibi-Usa was here, then something must have happened in the future. (Or is that, something *will* happen? ;-) Chibi Usa jumped up into Usagi's arms, her head buried in Usagi's shoulder. She started crying. "*He's* here mommie!" she cried. Usagi ran her hand down the back of Chibi-Usa's head, and said soothingly "There there, darling. It's ok." "But mommiee! *Astrigius* is here!" she cried, looking up. Conner looked up, startled. Astrigius was in many of his memories. Images of a young Conner playing with another boy his age, an older Conner helping the same boy (now older) with homework, Conner (as he appears now) the same boy (now Conner's age) practicing with their swordmanship, Conner (same age) in a guard uniform with the other man (now much older) who is wearing the robes of a Magius. Conner (same age) trying to reason with a now murderous man (older still). "So he found a way." said Conner, mostly to himself. This attracted the attention of the others. "What do you mean?" asked Makoto. "Astrigius is a Magius, his powers come from the stars. I have known him all my life, my previous life that is. While I didn't age, because of who I am, he did. He became jealous of me and wanted to know what my secret was. I told him why, and also why I could not make him immortal also. He became even more angry with me and then he left. I didn't see him for four more years, but I could tell the second I saw him again that he had sold himself to the Negaverse. I tried reasoning with him, but it didn't work, I could not get him back. He told me that he would kill me and everything I held dear. This was right before the attack on the Moon Kingdom. I haven't seen him since, but he must be very powerful to have lived this long." Conner looked up at Setsuna, who nodded. He merely looked back at his watch, counting the seconds. Setsuna sighed exasperatedly. Minako looked between them and was startled when he drew out from his coat a great silver knife. Holding it in the air he managed to get everybodies attention, not just from the fact that he'd stood up but also because the knife was glowing. "SPIRIT RE-AWAKEN!" he yelled, the light streaming out and piercing all of the Senshi except Setsuna and Chibi-Usa. When hit by the light, the senshi were lifted up from the ground and all transformed. "I have re-awakened more powerfull powers inside of you. Venus, you once again have the power to affect the emotions of those around you." Conner said in a deeply serious voice, his words echoing around the room menacingly, "Mars, the ability to affect fire. Jupiter , nature. Mercury, cold. Uranus, wind. Neptune, water. Pluto, death and life. Sailor Moon, you can once again command your full powers." his tone became less serious as he turned to Setsuna "You see... It's all in the presentation, you can be secretive and mysterious but it just doesn't look as good as that." he finished smugly. He wasn't lying, most of the Senshi were just standing there with their mouths wide open marvelling at the feeling of power coursing through their bodies. Setsuna and Conner were already walking down the steps by the time the Senshi got their wits back. By the time Haruka had looked outside they had already removed themselves from the time-stream.