A will, a way.

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A/N: The following story is hypothetical, get it out of your head that Indigo dies in the future like this because sucks for you, she doesn’t!

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Amaya held onto her mother, eyes closed tightly as she could feel the older woman’s grasp on her seem to loosen as she drifted off to sleep. Tears had burned behind the child’s eyes, and she could hear her mother’s heartbeat loud and clear.

Oh, how she missed her mother. She wasn’t allowed to tell Indigo her fate now, so she had been forced to give a superficial lie, a lie that had been haunting her for years on in. She couldn’t remember the last time her she had been in her mother’s arms like a child. She’d been forced to grow up far too early.

She felt herself drift away into a doze, almost afraid now, to dream. And yet she knew it was inevitable.

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“Mommy?” Amaya began to walk through the hall of the kingdom, a dark fog had shrouded over the entire area. She was only six, and never had she never could remember the area like this. Then again, she had never gone searching past her room, but something was wrong.

There was a mixture of laughter, and a voice that almost sounded familiar. Before she could figure out anything, a wire had jolted out, wrapping itself around her leg, and she was dangling by it as a few more began to constrict around her body.

“Stop it, now. You don’t know what you’re doing.” The familiar, yet stern voice of her mother began to echo off the walls, and she looked around, muttering her mother’s name, though the words didn’t get far.

She didn’t understand what was going on, other than there was something wrapped around her, and her mother was talking to someone. The voice did sound familiar…Daddy? No…. she never took that tone with her daddy. This guy had to be bad. She began to squirm, but the wire only grew tighter.

“Just surrender, and maybe I’ll let the little one go.” The voices seemed to echo smugly, and Amaya’s eyes went wide. That voice. Well, one of the voices…they sounded so familiar…

She looked to see something faint glowing in the distance, almost looking like a candle, yet it was fading fast. She wanted to reach out for it, but couldn’t. Perhaps the candle could give her a light to see what was going on.

“MAGMA TUNNEL!” Amaya snapped back into reality as she could feel the heat of the blast, hearing it pound something, and she felt her constricted body slam into a wall. Obviously whatever wire this was, it was connected to whatever her mom just hit.

The attack had also lighted the room a tad, and she looked around, seeing the silhouette of two people. One’s dress was shaped like a fuku-clearly her mother’s-and the other was shaped like something familiar…she couldn’t tell who’s exactly. He was large, but that was all she could figure out.

“How sweet, you think you can beat me,” The wires around Amaya had loosened, though he hadn’t realized it, and she crawled toward the fading candle, trying not to make a noise.

“You’re not right in the head. Who did this?” The voice of Io reached Amaya’s ears as she finally reached the faded candle. She slowly realized it wasn’t a extinguished candle, but rather shiny crystal that now faded to black. She looked up, and then began to wonder just what exactly the crystal was doing.

“Furu, who took your starseed?” Io asked, stepping toward him, as he got up gradually, brushing himself off. Amaya finally realized it. The mythical starseed was what this was, and it belonged to…

Realization dawned. Furu! Her stepbrother was the one who was attacking Indigo? But why? She looked around in fear, and curiosity, holding the starseed close, as she stood up carefully.

The sound of a ki blast could be heard, and Amaya turned. Her mother had slammed into a wall, a large hole in her stomach. Amaya’s eyes widened in shock, and she screamed.

“Mommy!” She began to run toward her mother, when a second ki blast was headed toward her, but she stepped back in time.

“Seems your mommy’s dead.” Furu laughed. Amaya just stood there, holding Furu’s starseed.

“You killed mommy…” She whispered, tears falling. She looked at Furu, and began to scream, “I HATE YOU!”

“So many do, child.” Furu laughed, “And so many will. But for now, goodbye.”

He pointed his palm at her, about to fire another ki blast, when a large amount of green light hazed, and Amaya collapsed.

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Amaya opened her eyes, and looked around. She felt her mother’s hand, and realized the woman was still asleep. She didn’t want to lie. Not anymore. She wanted to warn her mother about the future, but she couldn’t.

That night she made a promise to herself. A promise no one thought possible, but with a will, there was a way.

She’d find her mother’s sailor crystal, and bring her back to life. It didn’t matter the price she had to pay.

She just wanted her mom back.

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Aluminum Siren sighed, sitting on the top of the Jupiter castle, eating from a bag of chips with her left hand, and holding a red and orange sailor crystal in her right.

“That didn’t work out, well. At least I have one of what Galaxia-sama wanted, though there’s the little one, too…”

There was a rocky future ahead for Kazan Amaya…