Helios kneels, hands clasped and eyes closed. He murmurs the quiet words of a prayer but cuts himself off mid-syllable as something suddenly feels changedHis eyes snap open and he stares around himself at wherever he has come to. He gets to his feet quickly. There is moonlight, he notices; nighttime. He is in some open park, not far from
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She watches him, not caring she'd left her castle again. Dreams were always in transit, and so was she. Changing worlds, dimensions, nexus nonsense, it meant nothing to her. Only dreams meant anything. Only dreaming dreams meant anything.
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But she was defeated; by the maiden and by the prince's golden crystal. How is this possible? A fake? A nightmare of his own?
"Nehellenia..."
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Excellent. There is no need for silly unimportant introductions.
"You have many dreams, don't you?"
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"How is it you were revived?" he demands.
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His hand comes to rest on the hilt of his sword, and he glances around suspiciously, trying to gain his bearings. His eyes fall on the other who looks like he doesn't quite belong. He says nothing yet, but takes a couple of steps closer.
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"Lord Kunzite?" he asks with no little surprise. "But where is the King?" The shitennou, fully revived in his world, still rarely venture far from their liege's side, save when surveying their portions of the Earth for his sake. And this, he thinks, is not Kunzite's realm of the Middle East; rather, it reminds him of Japan where he had hidden inside the maiden's dream.
And yet, the greeting is at least polite and respectful for now. For them to meet is a welcome chance indeed, or would be in Helios' world.
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He turned to face Helios completely. "King?" he echoes then as if just catching it.
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"I am Helios, priest of Elysion, where the king's Golden Kingdom once stood," he introduces himself formally, hoping perhaps to make the other man recall it.
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She stops running though as she notices another person, a person who somehow seems familiar to her, but she can't exactly put her finger on it. Palla Palla slightly frowns as she stares at the other person, now holding the ball still in her hands, as if staring would help her figure out the other person's identity.
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"Sailor Pallas," he greets her. "Where is this?"
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It can't be.
"Are you feeling alright?" Helios asks carefully.
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Perhaps this man can help? The man before with the silver hair wasn't too bad, though he was very shy...
"Hello?" she says softly, blinking up at Helios.
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Almost, he calls her Saturn, but this young, he does not believe she is fighting. She had grown to be able to fight alongside Lady Serenity.
"Tomoe Hotaru?" he questions, as if making sure of his guess.
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Maybe this man can explain more than Mercury-san and Uranus-san did.
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That, of course, has the advantage of being true, as well as a prompt for her to tell him more. He also has the excuse of a faulty memory, if something needs to remain unrevealed.
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She was running to the Hikawa Shrine by way of the First Bridge Park when it rang. It was her secret that she still carried his bell wherever she went, as a reminder of a promise. Sometimes it jangled dully in its pouch when bounced along like now, but it rang quite clearly. So she stopped, bewildered, to pull it out of her pocket and stare bemusedly at it. She held it up by its delicate handle, and it rang again. She lowered the bell, her confusion growing by the moment, when she saw him. And all she could do was stare as something caught in her chest.
It couldn't be...
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As soon as he sees her, Helios feels a rush of hope. An assurance that his questions can be answered, that she and he together will find a path through wherever this is.
"Maiden," he greets her. The smile that breaks over his face is both gentle and content.
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"Has something happened?" he questions her, even as he reaches out his arms to enfold her in an embrace. Too many strange things have happened to him, even in this short time here, not to be concerned for her.
His mind races ahead. He had seen Lord Kunzite. If one of the shitennou was here in this place, then-
"The king?"
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