Comments | moonlocket: An ending

waterfell in moonlocket

An ending

Feb 10, 2011 09:22

This world is ending. Mercury is here as observer. The light is incredible as it envelops the stars and planets in its path, one after the other, all washed away in a searing white. The silence is deafening ( Read more... )

mercury/mizuno ami (waterfell), cosmos/serenity (white_polaris), loof merrow (i_c_e_doll), jupiter/lita (justlovetocook)

Comments 77

(The comment has been removed)

waterfell February 10 2011, 02:29:48 UTC

She hadn't expected anyone else; but of course: the nexus. She accepts it easily at the end, with her mind on the events unfolding in front of her. A part of her mind can imagine the reactions the others would have to this. There is nothing beautiful in it, to her. She shakes the images free with an effort, and turns to her companion.

"Loof Merrow." She doesn't bother with the ironical smile. "This world is ending, isn't it?"

(The comment has been removed)

waterfell February 10 2011, 02:34:51 UTC

"Blessed or cursed, who knows?" This, apparently, is the important identifier to Mercury. Secondary are the concerns of what people lived here - if any - or what progress their civilizations made.

Thread 18

justlovetocook February 10 2011, 02:50:33 UTC

Makoto stood silent, watching the scene as it unfolded. She couldn't help but wonder... what was this world like? What kind of people lived there?

Were there people at all?

She recalled talking to Mercury about the possible fallout from the Nexus and it's existence, and here was an example of exactly that.

She couldn't help but feel worried.

waterfell February 10 2011, 02:53:22 UTC

Normally, it would be for Mercury to make a cold joke, a pointed jab at the senshi in one way or another.

But some things were too serious even for her. She did not look to her side to see Jupiter (Makoto, at present) immediately. When she did, she hesitated before speaking, as though undecided.

"I don't like this sort of sight."

justlovetocook February 10 2011, 03:01:19 UTC

The brunette nodded somberly in agreement with the sentiment, even though she didn't take her eyes off what was happening.

"It's... not pleasant. But... at least someone will see. Someone will remember."

waterfell February 10 2011, 03:05:01 UTC

Spoken like a sailor senshi.

"And what will that memory achieve?"

Thread 24

white_polaris February 10 2011, 06:47:22 UTC

She watched the light, the white light of destruction. It was always one or the other a bright shining burning light or a suffocating enveloping darkness. With so many that could die, she could stand idly by on this. Dressed in her fuku, Serenity's wings spread wide open as she held up her staff. She felt the light encompass her and suddenly her own light started to glow. With her staff held high her light emanated out of her. Her light was warm and just as bright. Her grip tightened as she suddenly felt the light sense her attempt to set things to right and she merely shut her eyes ( ... )

waterfell February 10 2011, 06:57:35 UTC

"What are you doing?" Mercury's sword was pointed directly at Cosmos until she received an explanation. Then the sight unfolded in front of her: a gradual unwinding of the death of at least this world.

Heh. A sop. A temporary measure. Yet more than she had expected, from the princess. Her sword lowered, though her face remained guarded.

white_polaris February 10 2011, 07:32:43 UTC

No, not temporary, not if she has any say. Buildings, people, animals, even the very planets themselves start to heal, rebuild, regrow. Damage done by the light is undone. Lives lost are restored, returned. Serenity is practically glowing as she continues to wield the crystal, in fact she is. She glows as she had made the moon glow, the earth shine. When she had been younger, the light emitting from her and Endymion had pierced the very universe and gone out in all directions to so many planets. She had saved worlds before and she would save these two.

Her light wraps around her and the planets, cocooning them in the safety she so desperately wished to give them.

waterfell February 10 2011, 07:44:53 UTC

Satisfied, Mercury turns to watch the far more beautiful sight unfold. It burns within her: She knows the limitless power of the ginzuishou, but that salvation and destruction should always be at the whim of a girl she couldn't trust...

And yet right now it was salvation. And as the world spirals around them, she lends her voice to its song. A blue aura flared around her as the light of the ginzuishou revealed her in the flowing gown of Mercury's princess.

"Dark Mercury Crystal Power." The voice is deeper, lower, firmer; echoing and wholly calm. She is experienced by now in this, her own power, as she sends it to Sailor Moon in the form of Cosmos, for the first time in several years.

Thread 44