Title: The Golden Ring
Author: Sky Fairy
E-mail: ejdaly@earthlink.net
AIM: LitiaSkyFairy
Chapter: Two- A Royal Death
Rating: PG
Timeline: After Stars
Setting: Tokyo

“ “ = Speech
‘ ’ = Thoughts
<< >> Flashback
{{ }} = Authors Notes
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Disclaimer: I (obviously) do not own Sailor Moon. She, (as we all know,) 
belongs to Naoko Tekuchi. I do wish I owned her though, as you do too, 
but I don’t. Darn it!

Note: This is one of my “Soul Inside” story with the Legendary Sailor 
Scouts. I have become quite attached to them through my writing of the 
Sailor Moon L fan fiction… So I hope you don’t mind them. Oh, and they 
are in their “Cosmic” form in this fiction.

Also, the first characters to die in this story were not because I don’t 
like them, they were randomly chosen out of a hat, because I couldn’t 
decide which to use. It, however, will not change the story, which is 
mainly about Cosmos and the Legendary Sailors. 

Oh, another thing…some things may be a bit hard to understand, so I will
draw pictures to go along with it, and if you can’t find them on the site
where you found this fan fiction, E-mail me and I’ will be glad to send 
them to you!

Oh, and like I always say, although the Legendary Scouts were based after 
my best friend, my sister, and I, WE ARE NOT THE SAME PEOPLE! Although we 
did use the same features, we are not quite as tall, and are not, 
unfortunately super heroes. So please, don’t think that we are bragging, 
cause we’re not.

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	The first morning ray of sunlight shone in upon the quiet sleepers 
of the marble palace. The day came in like a lamb, and due to the 
situation in this place, no one knew how it would end. But they knew what 
the day would be like. Although the sun shone a beautiful red, it rained 
a little. It was not a heavy rain, but more like the tears of  girl, 
when she is far from home, and has nothing.

	The light reached Beth in her opal room. She opened her eyes slowly,
and stared out the glass that led to her balcony, which looked over the 
many beautiful gardens. 

	“I can’t even imagine how much fun Sailor Moon had here with Darien. 
If only…” she looked down at her bare hand. There wasn’t anything on it,
not a scratch, not a mark, not even a ring…

	She shot up in bed. “That’s it!” Beth jumped out of bed, and 
transformed into her cosmic uniform. Then, she raced out the door, and 
down into Cosmos’s marble room. 

	Cosmos still slept, but it was not a quiet sleep. She was tossing
and turning, and mumbling things like, “No!” and “Stop!” Beth raised her 
glass staff and waved it, then pointed it at Cosmos. A small speck of 
light drifted into cosmos’s head, and she immediately calmed down. 

	“Cosmos! Cosmos wake up! I know what to do!” Beth whispered to the 
sleeping beauty. 

	“What?” Cosmos slowly rose, her eyes adjusting to the intense light 
of the sun. “What do you mean?”

	“Get up and come to the sapphire room, we need to go on a search.” 
Beth left the room, to go wake up the others. Cosmos slowly rose and 
she changed into her cosmic uniform, and headed sleepily down the stairs. 

	By the time she got to the conference room, the other three were 
already there. 

	“About time!” said Katy.

	“We really need an elevator,” mumbled Cosmos as she sat down at the
head of the table. She put her head in her hands and rubbed her eyes. 
“Now, what did you say about a search, Beth?”

	“A long time ago, a ring was created. It had the power to give it’s
owner awesome powers, but, since no one knew it’s creator, no one knows 
if the powers are dark or good. It was made for one person, and no one 
knows who it is, but if we find it, we should be able to figure it out.”


	She had the attention of the whole table now. All three pairs of 
bright eyes sparkled with wonder and imagination as Beth continued the 
tale of this ring. 

	“What does it look like?” inquired Cosmos, trying to remember if 
she had seen a ring while outside in the debrief. 

	“It is said to be gold in color, with its owners name inscribed on 
the inside.”

	“Beth!” Cosmos stood up. “I saw such a ring. I was searching for 
the locket tat Darien gave Serena back in the silver millennium, but I 
found a gold ring. It was slightly dirty, and had something inscribed on 
the inside, but I couldn’t read it.”

	“What did you do with it?” Beth stood up with Cosmos.

	“I tried to put it up into its crystal. But the first time it 
didn’t work, so I tried it again. It only went up about five feet, and 
the other things worked…” Cosmos said in sort of a pleading voice, for 
she was worried about the mixed look of anger and deep thought Beth got 
when something like this happened. Her eyes would darken to almost black, 
and her eyebrows would knit together in concentration. It seemed ads 
though she was staring at something, but she wasn’t really seeing, she 
was thinking.

	After about a minute of tension between the four scouts, Beth 
finally said, “Did it go back into the crystal?” All attention turned to
Cosmos.

	“I…I…I don’t know. I was blinded by my tears and…” she started. 
Beth raced out of the room. She almost broke her staff, too, but Katy 
caught it as Beth ran out the door. The three ran after her, to find her 
opening the ruby crystal room’s door. They caught up with her, just before 
the door closed. 

	“Damn-it! I need my staff…” Beth said as she realized she had left
her staff in the sapphire room. Katy walked up slowly, unsure of the look
in Beth’s eyes, and handed it to her. “Oh, thanks, Katy.” Beth waved her 
staff, and with it pointed towards the ceiling, a beam of rainbow light 
shot out of it, and the light came in touch with each crystal. Nothing 
happened. Beth was about to give up hope, and look for it outside, but 
then her now dark brown eyes saw a small glittering thing only a few 
meters away. She hurried over to it, and jumped in excitement. Her eyes 
returned back to their normal deep brown, and sparkled, just like the 
piece of gold in her hand. “This is it!” she cried, rushing over to the 
others. “This is the ring that I was talking about! Now all we need to 
find is it’s owner, and…”

	“But how will we know who it’s owner is?” said Eve. “If Cosmos had 
it first, then you found it, who knows whom it was meant for.” Eve watched
the eyes of her older sister; they stayed the same. 

	“Eve! That’s easy, we do a test. We each practice battling in the 
Emerald training room, and who ever it works for is the one who will wear 
it.”

	“But isn’t the emerald room only accessible, even for you, when 
there is direct danger nearby? Plus, if it is an evil ring, and if we use 
it here, it would harm the palace, which is the only safe place for us 
anymore. Shouldn’t we try it in real life?”

	“Well, we’re open to any suggestions as to where, when and on whom,”
said Katy irritated. “Besides, I too know about the ring. I read about it 
once in a myth book. Whoever finds the ring first is it’s owner, and
Beth, didn’t you walk exactly where Cosmos walked? And you didn’t see 
anything. And doesn’t it just make logical sense that the leader of all 
of us should wear the ring? Cosmos, did the ring fit your finger?”

	“Yes, it did. It fit perfectly,” she replied.

	“Well?” said Eve. “Doesn’t it work?” All attention again turned 
to Beth, who began to mumble something…

    "...She finds a ring, small and gold,
    To wear upon her hand,
    She led with it, she ruled with it,
    She ruled upon all the land.

    "The ring was made for her only,
    It only fit her finger, would fit no one else’s…
    
	"Darn it! I can’t remember the last part. But I think you are 
right. This is the ring in the poem and it says that it will only fit 
the finger of the one whom it was made for. And the person who wore 
this ring ruled and was a leader, and she changed the world with it. 
And obviously, this ring fits Cosmos, so it’s owner must be her!”

	“Wow! Who would make a ring for me though? Where is that poem 
from? It sounds familiar, at least the rhythm,” said Cosmos. 

	“It was the part of the poem the maker of this ring enchanted it 
with. That is all that was in the book. The end was never written in 
words, only spoken by the people who lived in the land of its maker,”
Beth said. Then, she turned around, and faced Cosmos Beth walked over 
to her, and took her hand, and slipped the ring on to Cosmos’s finger. 

	The ring did nothing; it acted as any other ring she had put on. 
Cosmos felt no difference. “Are you sure it is for me? It does nothing 
to me, I feel nothing.”

	“No, I am not sure it is for you. You could just have a finger 
that fits it. But, for sure, no one else in this room fits the description
of it’s owner, you are the closest one, but we still have no end to it…”

	“Okay Beth, now what? We have the ring, and it’s owner, what now?”
Eve said impatiently.

	“I don’t know. But, if you want something I just remembered, I can
tell you. The disaster hit during the realm of Eternal Sailor Moon. 
Because of it, we had no Crystal Tokyo, and we went forward in time to
 where we are now…that’s all I know. Oh, but, I also know a way that 
might save us,” Beth said. “Come with me,” Beth waved her staff, and 
they entered into the garnet room, with the scouts’ crystals. 

	They stood and looked up at the five, large crystals. Beth’s e
yebrows knit together in confusion. Then, she stepped back, and the 
others followed. All of a sudden, a pink light speckled with pink 
sparkles started to gather in the center of the room. A sound got 
louder and louder. Then, a light pink crystal formed, and floated with 
the other five.

	The four scouts gasped. Cosmos dropped her staff and dashed up the 
stairs into the pink quartz room where Rini lay. The three legendary 
scouts dashed up the stairs after her. They bumped into her and fell 
on the floor, because she stood frozen in the doorway. Her body shivered 
and she turned as white as snow. 

	“RINI!” She screamed and she ran over to the bed. A cold, stiff 
body lay upon the satin sheets, and the young maidens cheeks were no 
longer pink. Cosmos shivered and shook, her eyes dripped with sparkling 
tears, and they stained the dress of the young Rini.

	“RINI! Come back to me, PLEASE?!” Cosmos was once again hysterical.
But, the young Rini did not awaken, not even through all the screaming.

	The faces of the legendary scouts also whitened and they bowed 
their heads, while their eyes, too, filled up with crystal tears. 

	Cosmos grabbed the body of her young daughter, and held her close.
But then, like all the other scouts, her body began to sparkle with the 
same light the pink crystal was made of. She became almost transparent.

	“Rini? Rini!” Cosmos held her daughter tighter, but it was no use. 
Within a matter of seconds her body disappeared and the pink light faded
away.

	“NO! RINI! Come back! Don’t leave me!” Cosmos shrieked. Her daughter 
was now gone, and all that remained of her was her soul, locked away in a
pink crystal in the Garnet room. “Beth! Katy! Eve! Bring Rini back! I 
want my daughter back!” Cosmos shrink to the floor and used her hands to
cover her red stained face, due to all her tears.

	None of the scouts said anything. They just walked over to Cosmos,
and helped her stand up, and walk back to the Sapphire conference room. 
They then sat her down. And began to think about how to end the death and 
sadness of one to many people.

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Well, that’s the second chapter! I hope you liked it. I know it is MUCH 
shorter than the first, but this seemed like a good stopping point. Oh 
and I am sorry if this is a bit dark, but this event has to happen in 
order for…something else to happen. Chapter 3 coming soon!