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eaemiliaTitle: Failure
Word Count: 447
Rating: T
Original/Fandom: Sailor Moon
Pairings (if any): implied Kunzite/Venus, Endymion/Serenity
Warnings (Non-Con/Dub-Con/etc): character death
Summary: Because Venus had failed, the Silver Millennium had fallen.
It wasn’t supposed to happen like this.
The Silver Millennium wasn’t supposed to fall. It was supposed to continue on into infinity, long after Venus and her fellow guardians and even her princess were all dead.
The Silver Millennium was a bastion of peace and serenity; it hadn’t experienced any conflict since the queen had decided to close their doors to Earth over a hundred years ago.
But now, everything was falling apart: the armies of Earth had invaded and were slaughtering the people of the moon and destroying the very foundations of her beloved home. The Silver Millennium had fallen and was set to be removed from the annals of history itself, and it was all her fault. If Venus had done her duty correctly, she would have stopped Serenity’s romance before it started, she would have made sure that Serenity had never even visited Earth in the first place.
The other guardians should have stopped Serenity too, but their negligence was nothing compared to her own. Venus was Serenity’s closest companion; she had been the first to be chosen as a guardian and was later named the leader of them, and she and Serenity had been the best of friends.
Maybe that was why she had been so blind, because Serenity, sweet Serenity, would never visit Earth let alone fall in love with Earth’s prince. And even when she had finally admitted to herself what Serenity was doing, she had still failed.
She hadn’t stopped Serenity. She had let her fall in love further with Endymion and Earth both, and worst of all, she had fallen in love with one of Earth’s warriors as well.
And now, because she had failed, the Silver Millennium had fallen and her princess was dead.
She had killed Beryl, but what did it matter if her princess was dead?
It didn’t.
Her world was ruined. She had no purpose in life.
Even if she managed to survive this battle, she had nothing left.
All that was left of her kingdom was smoking ruins, and the people of the moon were slowly being slaughtered, and the armies of Earth would soon move on to the other planets of the solar system.
Venus knew the battle was lost, and she knew that she was going to die soon and that all of the Silver Millennium was going to fall before the Earth’s Golden Kingdom.
And she knew that it was all ultimately her fault.
And it was that last truth that kept her fighting because even though she was inevitably going to fail, she had to keep fighting just a bit longer in the vain hope that she could change something.
Word Count: 447
Rating: T
Original/Fandom: Sailor Moon
Pairings (if any): implied Kunzite/Venus, Endymion/Serenity
Warnings (Non-Con/Dub-Con/etc): character death
Summary: Because Venus had failed, the Silver Millennium had fallen.
It wasn’t supposed to happen like this.
The Silver Millennium wasn’t supposed to fall. It was supposed to continue on into infinity, long after Venus and her fellow guardians and even her princess were all dead.
The Silver Millennium was a bastion of peace and serenity; it hadn’t experienced any conflict since the queen had decided to close their doors to Earth over a hundred years ago.
But now, everything was falling apart: the armies of Earth had invaded and were slaughtering the people of the moon and destroying the very foundations of her beloved home. The Silver Millennium had fallen and was set to be removed from the annals of history itself, and it was all her fault. If Venus had done her duty correctly, she would have stopped Serenity’s romance before it started, she would have made sure that Serenity had never even visited Earth in the first place.
The other guardians should have stopped Serenity too, but their negligence was nothing compared to her own. Venus was Serenity’s closest companion; she had been the first to be chosen as a guardian and was later named the leader of them, and she and Serenity had been the best of friends.
Maybe that was why she had been so blind, because Serenity, sweet Serenity, would never visit Earth let alone fall in love with Earth’s prince. And even when she had finally admitted to herself what Serenity was doing, she had still failed.
She hadn’t stopped Serenity. She had let her fall in love further with Endymion and Earth both, and worst of all, she had fallen in love with one of Earth’s warriors as well.
And now, because she had failed, the Silver Millennium had fallen and her princess was dead.
She had killed Beryl, but what did it matter if her princess was dead?
It didn’t.
Her world was ruined. She had no purpose in life.
Even if she managed to survive this battle, she had nothing left.
All that was left of her kingdom was smoking ruins, and the people of the moon were slowly being slaughtered, and the armies of Earth would soon move on to the other planets of the solar system.
Venus knew the battle was lost, and she knew that she was going to die soon and that all of the Silver Millennium was going to fall before the Earth’s Golden Kingdom.
And she knew that it was all ultimately her fault.
And it was that last truth that kept her fighting because even though she was inevitably going to fail, she had to keep fighting just a bit longer in the vain hope that she could change something.