Guardian of Dimensions - Prologue: The past returns
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'The time has come. I can go back... and be with
her again...' She looked down at the silver brooch she 
was holding in her hands. 'But will she recognize me? Does
she even remember me? I miss her so...' A tear trickled 
down her cheek. 'Me, the sky... her, the wind... 
undivisible... or so we always said...' A bitter smile 
curved her lips. 'But fate tore us apart... and now is 
bringing us back together... but... will it last?'
"It'll be all right."
She turned, surprised. "Miranda..."
Her guardian smiled. " It'll be all right" she 
repeated. "Nothing will go wrong, believe me."
"She's right" another girl said. "We'll protect 
you... nothing will go wrong."
"Trust us, princess" a third girl spoke. "It'll be 
all right."
The other two girls, who still had said nothing, 
nodded, with a reassuring smile. "We'll always be here for 
you."
"Titania... Ariel... all of you..." the princess 
was crying. "Today you'll get your memories back... and... 
I don't know if you'll still want to protect me... because 
I took away such a big part of your life..."
"Well, I'll always protect you, no matter what" 
Titania said, the others nodding and murmuring their agreement.
The princess smiled bitterly, looking at the five 
girls who stood in front of her. Miranda, Oberon, Titania, 
Ariel, Umbriel... "Really?" The symbol on her forehead shimmered 
briefly, and five silver brooches fell in the hands of her 
five guardians. She watched in silence as they remembered their 
past, tears trickling down her cheeks, for it was a past she 
knew all too well. It was a past of loss... loss of innocence, 
loss of happiness... loss of family... she leaned on the wall, 
crying hard, for her friends, for her family, for everyone who 
suffered because of her...
"It wasn't your fault." With these words, Titania hugged 
her gently. "You've given me so much... I'll protect you and 
defend you, not as a guardian protects a princess, but as a 
friend protects a friend."
"It's the same for all of us" Miranda spoke on behalf 
of everyone. "You're our friend, other than our princess... 
we could never leave you alone."
"Especially because you wouldn't survive a day in Tokyo 
without us" Ariel added, teasingly.
"Oh, shut up" the princess grumbled, trying to sound 
hurt and offended - but, unfortunately, it was quite an impossible 
task for someone smiling as broadly as her. She looked at her 
smiling friends, and, with a mental command, opened a dimensional 
portal. "Well then, shall we go?"