Chapter Text
“One day I saw a light. A beautiful dream light. The only light left to me. The light helped me change to Pegasus. Suddenly I was freed and able to greet the light and I met you. Sweet, beautiful, and innocent as a thousand dreams but then I lost the light. I couldn’t feel your dreams because you wanted to be grown up but that is dark moon magic. The dark moon overshadowed your true dreams. You must get them back. Those true and brilliant dreams of yours. They will allow me to survive, if you don’t, I won’t be able to find you again.”
“Why? Why couldn’t you?” she asked, anxiety clutching her heart.
“Only your pure dreams and pure heart allow me to exist in the real world. Without them, I can’t.”
“Oh, so you mean, you mean if I stay a grown up, I can never see you again,” she confirmed, feeling the dread in the pit of her stomach like a dead weight. “Oh no. I couldn’t bear it. No. I don’t want that, Pegasus.” She started to run towards him to cross the shimmer of light that separated them. “It can’t be. I was being selfish. I didn’t know.” She passed through the light until she was stood in front of him. She felt her pyjamas fall around her, the arms of the sleeves slipping over her hands and the legs scrunched up over her feet. She looked down at herself and gasped. “I’m little again.”
Pegasus approached her, the fondness crystal clear in his kind, auburn eyes. He nuzzled her affectionately.
“My little girl. Only your innocent dreams can save the world.” He pushed his head against hers and she closed her eyes. His true form materialised in front of her and he pushed his lips chastely against hers. He stepped back so that she could take him in before her. The red shine of her eyes glistened as her they widened in surprise at the human form her friend Pegasus now presented to her. She felt a gentle blush rise in her cheeks as he gazed at her intently. “I am the guardian of the golden crystal of dreams in the world of Elysion. I watch over the dreams of everyone on Earth. My name is Helios.”
“Helios?”
Usagi Small Lady Serenity, Crown Princess of Crystal Tokyo shot up in bed, her heart pounding. She looked at the clock on her nightstand and sighed. 2:45am. Crystal Tokyo was fast asleep, and she was awake yet again. There was no shaking this dream. Only it wasn’t a dream because it happened to her. She sighed, swinging her legs out from under the covers, letting her nightdress fall around her legs. Crossing the room, she walked out to her balcony which overlooked the city. She perfectly recalled the last words she called out to the one true friend she made when her parents sent her to the 20th century to train with the sailor scouts and make friends like any other little girl.
Oh Pegasus, you can’t go yet. But I didn’t get a chance to tell you about my dreams and I wanted to learn all about yours, too.
She wondered if she really did remain in his heart. There was no way of knowing. Her eyes flickered down to the royal gardens below, musing to herself what his dreams were.
I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find her way by moonlight, and her punishment is that she sees the dawn before the rest of the world.