19Castle in the Sky
Written By: Lady Lunar Phoenix
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"Well let's take a moment to assess the situation shall we? I'm a human, standing in a place with the primordial force of all creation to the left of me, my past life incarnation now a vampire in front of me. And somehow this is actually 'happening' so you tell me. Does any of this sound sane to start with?" Soma retorted with an even voice and flat stare at the exclamation. "And what's so wrong with what I suggested to start with?"
It was strange to see himself staring back at him like this, and he actually had to ponder if this was what Leon felt facing him. But this was 'him' in this strange, pale, new body so if nothing else Mathias resigned himself to trying to explain the obvious. "You remember the alchemy teachings correct?"
"No," Soma began and when Mathias started to look horrified he resigned himself to explain. "Do you honestly think I could keep my sanity with all those life experiences from the moment I was born? I had to live my life over again, develop my own identity in a world much different than what I, or you, were born into. And learning everything you know has been a slow process made slower because I want to stay 'me'. I don't want go back to hating humanity."
"What? Humanity? No, I hate God," Mathias retorted baffled by this strange comment. Sure Soma made sense about the memories issue, but humanity?
"... How can you hate God when there's a 'chapel' in the Castle?" Soma countered because from his standpoint... wasn't it about hating humanity?
Mathias's eyes grew wide in disbelief, leaving him standing there watching as Soma began nodding slowly in answer. He couldn't figure out why he would turn on humanity, since he opted to become a vampire which turned the human race into his food source. Kind of a bad decision to literally decide to hate the food you eat, what was he five?
"Yeah, there's a chapel in the Castle, couple of holy souls as well..." Soma explained.
The pair stood there staring at each other, mutually lost over the moment that what they knew of the other changed. When Mathias finally sighed and decided he probably 'should' explain a few things to his future self.
"Two opposing forces can't be forced to coexist without a type of middle ground to ease the friction. Think of two opposing stones that can spark, thus creating fire. If you take a powerful force of Dark energy and force it to deal with an equal force of Holy there 'will' be a fire. If either side is greater, the other will be eliminated, so if you are going to carry out this fools quest, there 'must' be an outlet." Mathias explained, watching as Soma grew more thoughtful and introspective of the matter.
The younger man would rouse up as though to ask something, only to cut himself off before the words were spoken. Clearly he was coming to realize some particular answer that negated the need to ask. But if he was doing this it meant he was still doggedly determined to treat the Castle as a living entity and attempt to preserve its so called 'life'.
"This is what my life has come to..." Mathias remarked as he looked for a place to settle down for a while. "Fine, let us talk you and I, and see if we can devise some solution that would be agreeable."
The Cauldron rested as a center piece before the pair, bubbling with possibilities that rose to its surface like the base of a waterfall. Absorbing the words of the two before it as it had absorbed the universe. A silent audience to the discussions of life, what made something 'living', the values of it, and started to stir with those questions and theories.
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Dear Arikado,
Julius thought this would be a good idea. If I wrote what goes on in my life and write it in letter format. 'Something something, help me from going world destroying crazy yadda yadda yadda, might be fun, grumble grumble, might get Arikado more sociable too.' Because apparently I handle way too much stuff with calm sophistication. Apparently the whole 'Flying Skeletons attacking me and I just stab it with my widdle pocket knife' is a bit 'TOO' low key for his tastes. I guess he couldn't understand why something like that, while surprising, wouldn't scare me 50 ways to Sunday. So let me tell you about my day here in the brightly lit active city of Tokyo, Japan.
Let's start with what I'm doing right now.
Right now I am sitting by a glass window at a charming little cat Cafe. The walls are a soft honey color series of swirls mixed with milk white. The tables and chairs are all white, slender, with this lovely cinnamon brown haired woman in a white and green sailor suit sitting on my lap. Lit in a lovely golden red hue of a raging inferno coming from outside the cafe.
Literally, angels from Heaven don't let little things like windows get in their way I suppose.
"Hi Uncle Soma, how have you been?" inquired a green eyed, fifteen year old Sailor Scout. Her gaze cheerful if a bit pained from being sent through the window.
"Fine, how have you and the family been Little Jupiter?" He asked as he saved the letter and put the phone away.
"'Sailor' not 'Little', come on Uncle!" The Scout with hair the color of redwoods scolded as he stood up with her in his arms.
"Still little to 'me'," he pointed out as he put her properly on the ground before the pair began shaking off the broken glass. Outside a battle raged between Sailor Scouts and who knew what that wanted world domination this week.
She laughed openly even as she took off to the window and jumped out of it, "Well try to stay out of danger Uncle! Or you can meet up with grandma and the others! They mentioned going shopping down town today!" She called out as she rushed along.
Allowing Soma to walk unbothered to the useless front door of the cafe and free to see nine different Sailor Scouts actively dealing with the threat. Though seeing Usagi and the older Court sounded like something to do, now that his quiet cafe time was ruined. So he began visually 'counting noses' to make sure each scout was ok. Usagi would be upset if her granddaughter got hurt after all, and he couldn't handle crying women.
Sure their daughters were destined to fight these battles, but what parent enjoyed the constant worry that 'this' would be the battle where their kid didn't come home? Speaking of 'kids'...
"Wait! I'm coming!"
'Oh no...' Soma thought as he saw a familiar figure running down the street towards him. "Kana go home..." He whimpered but it was too late.
"Darkness Power Make Up!"
Annnnnd he was plush.
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A/N: Hi! I'm the author of this fic and now that I'm done with this ultimate crack edition...Ahh I might as well try to help you guys understand the stuff I skipped.
Yes I put these two universes into the same one, so there 'are' Creatures of the Night that roam around in this universe despite it also having Sailor Moon.
Sooo ok this could be a bit of work bear with me. So the scouts time line is that they meet Chibi Usa and expect her birth and Usagi becoming queen. In this fic, it didn't happen and everyone just grew up doing the same 'save the world' thing until Soma showed up. The resolution has resulted in there never 'being' a Crystal Tokyo future Chibi Usa. So Usagi and gang, with no preexisting expectation of the future treated their Chibi Usa like her own person. Any arc in the original canon that requires Chibi Usa happens years later when Chibi Usa 'is' Sailor Moon. So she met Helios when she was in middle school like her mother meeting Mamoru. Any arc that didn't need Chibi Usa she was just 'there' still happened when they happened just without her there.
Yes, everyone save Mina/Sailor Venus are married to someone. Ami to her classmate, Makoto to Nephilite, Rei to Jadite. The reason Mina is not married is tied to her own Manga 'Sailor V' which explains the curse of her love life. While she 'has' a daughter (Who is married), and a granddaughter, she herself is single.
'Kana' is the name Soma ultimately gave the Castle when its in human form. The Castle, after Soma came to power/learned of his past, serves as a type of home to those who are 'not' human. Therefore not direct members of Mamoru's own kingdom, generally speaking, people who are of the Moon Kingdom live there, filtrating the Moon kingdom and the Earth kingdom after the original Queen Serenity sent everyone en mass to earth the first time. Once those of the Moon are recollected they will be moved 'back' to the Moon Kingdom. With Chibi Usa uniting the two kingdoms by being the product of the Moon and Earth royal families. However; given how slow the process is, its pretty obvious that she will long be dead as well. And when 'that' time comes is when Usagi herself be reincarnated, this time as Sailor Cosmos. With the Moon Rod kept in the Castle for the time Soma will acknowledge her return.
