Title: Foggy Morning
Author: Ree
Theme: Setsuna (London)
Genre: General
Version: PGSM (no spoilers)
Rating: G
Setsuna and her friends all belong to Takeuchi Naoko. I just asked them very nicely if they wanted to play. They agreed, and quietly snuck out without Takeuchi-sensei's knowledge.
Foggy Morning
A/N: These might help in understanding. They are the parts of the back story for my PGSM Pluto:
The ghosts are rising. Poisons can heal, too . No turning back. Pluto stood quietly at the Gates of Time, watching the planet beneath her. She no longer need to touch the Gates to see the time stream. It had taken two weeks for the stream to settle down into the path determined by the Moon Princess. Ever since the Earth had been renewed, Pluto felt that she had to check on the Sailor guardians, the unawakened senshi. Shaking her head, she knew that she had fallen down on her duty when she had stood by and watched the time stream be altered. Ever since that fateful day four months ago when she had returned to the Gates of Time, she had been watching them from her post. Each one of the guardians stood out as solid, colorful rock in the stream of time that washed over the Earth. She could even see the location of the silver crystal, even though its power was once again cloaked.
'There they are.' She named them as she picked out each of the guardians. ' Golden Venus, fiery Mars, cool blue Mercury, strong green Jupiter, indigo Uranus, sea green Neptune, dark violet Saturn, opalescent Luna, and pale pink Moon covering a small silver light. That rich golden light must be Endymion, and smaller lights must belong to the shitennou.'
As she watched them, she noticed that the time stream going around them. None of the memories that she received from the gate showed what the guardians looked like in the Earth's time stream. 'Why does time flow around them? Was it like this before the Princess healed the Earth? Are they no longer affected by time? What do they know?'
She needed to determine how much they remembered from before the Moon Princess had altered time to heal the planet. What they remembered could possible affect the future of the world. She had to returned to Earth, and determine what the guardians knew.
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Setsuna leaned over the edge of the bridge to get a better view of the Thames River. The fog rolling off of it gave it an ethereal look. With a smile, she continued her stroll. 'It's good to be back on Earth. The smells, the sights, and the people. The Gates can be so lonely.'
She was only back for a little while, so she decided to use the time she had wisely. She was going to an Aino Minako concert. 'And not just any concert. It took a lot of careful planning to determine which one most of the guardians would be at. I'm surprised that all but one, Saturn, are going to be at a concert in London. I would expect that to happen in Japan, not England.'
Pushing the thoughts out of her mind, she watched the fog swirl around the lampposts. Watching carefully where she was going, she noticed people appearing and disappearing in the fog. All the sounds of the early morning bustle were muted.
Her steps finally led her back to her hotel. 'Time for a cup of tea and some breakfast. But first, I need to run up to the room to drop off my coat and find some dry shoes. That fog was really heavy.'
As she headed for the stairs, she spotted a postcard stand. She stopped to look through them. Finally finding one of the Thames River the way it looked this morning, she walked into the little gift shop and bought it.'Akemi will love this one. We always did enjoy walking on foggy mornings together.'
In her room she slipped on some dry shoes and left her trench coat. She went down to the restaurant and settled down at a table near a window. She had a good view of Hyde park, or at least the fog that was where Hyde park was supposed to be at. While waiting on her order, she watched the fog as it rolled around, cloaking and uncloaking the trees in the park.