House Of Venus

When dealing with demons, few things ever go as expected...

When Beryl made her bid for power at the height of the Silver Millenium, she had expected to win. When things had not gone as planned, she had accepted the aid of the demon Metallia, fully expecting to sit on the silver throne with Endemion by her side. What she had not expected was to be possesed by a fraction of the demons essence and spend her time screaming in her own mind as the kingdom she coveted was reduced to ruin and the man she coveted was struck dead by her own hand.

To add insult to injury, Queen Serenity did not even have the decency to end her suffering with a clean death. No, her thrice damned mercifulness decided that imprisoning her along with her demonic hitchhiker was a better option, locking her in a hellish sub dimension for what was supposed to be all eternity.

Also, when one makes pacts or deals, one should not only examine the fine print, but also get a good look at who or what one is dealing with...

Take, for example, when a certain wizard by the name of Augustus Rookwood, on the run after being outed as a Death Eater by the traitor Karkaroff, decided to enlist demonic aide from an entity he knew as Danburite. He had many expectations, ranging from simple escape to the death of his enemies, most especialy the afore mentioned traitor. Being a wizard, and an Unspeakable at that, he took many precautions, as he was well aware of the treacherous nature of demonkind.

What he did not expect however, was the arrival of a magically enhanced human as opposed to the demon he believed he had summoned. Even less expected was said humans ability to ignore and worse, erase his anti demon wards. While bad, this was not the worst part of the deal. No, that would be the included youma, who drained him dry and left his withered husk in an abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of muggle London.

The Aurors that finally found it were quite puzzled to say the least.

The biggest problem with demons and their tainted allies is that they break rules, not just the laws of man either, but other higher laws as well. In this case, Rookwoods mistake caused a breach in the laws of time. Unbeknownst to him, and fortunately for the world in general, Time has an overworked and generally underappreciated guardian.

Said guardian was less than thrilled to have her long laid plans disrupted by a wizards desperate foolishness and made certain adjustments to compensate... Only to find that those adjustments threw things even further out of synch.

Several thousand minute tweaks, two bottles of Ogdens Finest and many many asprin later, Setsuna Meiu, also known as Sailor pluto finally settled down for a well deserved nap.

It is said that there is more to the world than meets the eye, an old saying to be true, but an accurate one nonetheless. In this case however, it could be said that there is more in a London fog than one would expect. Take for example the white cat, seemingly enraptured by its own reflection in a shop window, oblivious to the world around it, apparently trapped in a bout of feline narcicism.

Or at least that is how things appear at first glance... On closer inspection on would note the felines occasional attempts to get a clearer view of something beyond the glass, if one listened one would hear its occasional growl of frustration. However, if one listened even more closely, one could also hear the faint sounds of human violence from inside the selfsame shop.

Artemis (for this was the cat's name), was feeling just a tad bit sorry for himself. While some of this could be attributed to his current situation, ie. stuck outside while his charge went toe to toe with local members of the criminal underworld, most of his current funk was due to the circumstances surrounding his charge herself.

If one were to be totally honest, it was not really his fault, there truly was no way he could have known at the time. When his stasis capsule opened after far to long, he truly was not himself. The capsules were meant for medical emergencies, meant to be used for weeks at most, certainly not the millenia he had apparently slept. Thus the cryo-sickness, along with the disorientation that came with it lasted for weeks as opposed to the hours that were mentioned in the documentation. Added to that was Boss's rather heavy handed use of geas spells to get him up and moving as opposed to the miserable puddy-pile he had been when the tube spit him out.

With these factors in mind, sick, disoriented and not fully aware of his surrounding, with Boss's order to find and Activate The Guardian pounding in his head, it is quite understandable that he may have overlooked certain small but ultimately VERY important details when he finally located his charge and gave her the henshin pen. If one could ignore the missed detail, one would say that his charge was perfect for her post. She was brave, sometimes to the point of recklessness and eager to begin her life as a guardian of justice (her words). She went out on patrol every night, hunting down the criminals who had accepted Danburite's promises of power. She even trained her abilities without complaint.

All in all she was everything that a guardian should be aside from that one tiny little detail. A detail that had only become apparent to his cryo addled mind a few short days ago. A detail that he was sure would condemn him to one of the nastier planes of hell when it came time to pay the piper.

Serenity help him, he'd placed a 9 year old child on the front lines.