End of the Millennium
A Xian Shade Production

Author's Notes: Another little short chapter to further the plot
along, and include a little backstory for those of you who are
beginning to wonder just HOW this could possibly be crossing with
Phantasy Star.

Disclaimer: I do not own any aspects of Sailor Moon or Phantasy Star.
If I did, this would be an anime, or manga, or both. Thanatos, Ares,
Chronos, Aljus, King Marcus, and the worthless one are © Xian Shade
and may not be used without my permission. People failing to follow
this rule have broken Xian's Law #849, paragraph 3, line 2: Don't fuck
with my shit.


The Path of Finding Destiny, Chapter 16:

Setsuna's training had begun in the use of her talisman, now atop a
staff crafted like a key. The key was symbolic of many things related
to time: unlocking memories, unlocking the past, and unlocking the
future. Her talisman's abilities harnessed not only Chronos' power,
but a bit of Thanatos' power as well. This mixed ability made her a
dangerous foe: the perfect guardian for the gates of time. With her
guarding them, and not really needing that much more training, it was
time for Chronos to go back to his unfinished project.

Several years ago, before the existence of the Silver Millennium, a
particularly large ship had suddenly sprouted up in this solar system.
The beings on-board had stayed on the numerous planets of the system,
spreading word to the world's natural inhabitants of their exploits in
the destruction of a great evil upon their ship. Lune, one of the most
powerful, had taken residence upon the moon, and gave birth to the
powerful members of Earth's Moon, hence their name, the Lunarians.
Princess Sari of Satera had decided to settle on Jupiter, especially
when their prince had defeated her in battle, thereby earning his
right to marry her, by her people's laws. The beauty of Laya, the
powerful being of the ship's ages gone, had captivated the people of
Venus, and its prince, as well. Lune's sister Alair sought life away
from her brother, and found peace upon Pluto, where she later courted
its lord.

But all these things were related to fate. Noah would know these
things best, that they must have some cosmic balance or reason to
them... but Noah was asleep. Chronos didn't have the heart to wake up
the only brother that understood him. What bothered him was that this
ship did not belong. Indeed, before the ship appeared, he had seen it
nowhere else in the universe. The ship was essentially a travelling
mass of planets, and after near-everyone had abandoned it, the ship
was left to the animals and machines to care for itself, and to drift
in space. Not only was the ship almost a derelict, being over a
thousand years old, but it was sent away to make a quarantine: the
evil on board would awaken once again, one day, and though they'd
sealed it away in the ruins, going so far as to bury the city itself
in a massive explosion, it still was not safe to remain on board.
Sending the ship into space when it should have been launched into
the sun, they prayed the evil on board never reached anyone else.

'Where?' he thought, searching the timeline. 'Where did it come from?
Did Noah send them here to prepare the system for something? Perhaps
a twist to let them escape their own fate? No matter the event, these
worlds were affected with powerhouse lineage. For those reasons... was
that why they were sent? Were the creatures that settled supposed to
be our mates, and we simply waited instead? Certainly it couldn't be
that. Noah didn't like the idea of matching us up with mates in the
first place, so I doubt he'd go out of his way to do such a thing. I
love Setsuna dearly, and Lune's sister Alair is Setsuna's own
mother... who else could honestly take her place? Laya was certainly a
beauty, and a long-lived one... no, that can't be it. Why were they
brought here?'

Chronos slowed the sands of time in his hourglass, going back a
thousand years, and searching the cosmos over for the ship's
construction. The process of reversing time was safe ONLY in his
dimension of observation, cut off, where time was not reversed for the
rest of the universe. He scoured the cosmos and timeline endlessly,
going over time over and over again, searching for the ship's genesis,
its first voyage, its purpose... even the past thousand years it
supposedly travelled.

Nothing.

'I must find it.' he thought, determinedly. 'I must find it, or it
will bother me indefinitely. I'd rather search forever than let this
bother me forever!'

But in his dereliction of duty, Setsuna remained at the time gates,
the only one to defend it, and weakening the crucial outermost defense
of the Silver Millennium... Pluto.

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Did Chronos' return to duty doom the Silver Millennium to destruction,
or did something else contribute to it?  What will happen next?

I'll tell you what! Further exploration for the love of death! Next
time on The Path of Finding Destiny: courting death! XD