The Student Council Saga

Once upon a time, there was a little princess who was very sad, for her mother and father had died...but when they held the services for the girl's parents, they could not find her. Passing by the church were two young boys who were coming home from kendo practice. They were stopped by a man in a suit who asked them if they had seen the girl. When they replied no, he said that a girl had lost her parents that day, and to tell him if they saw her.

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Acting on instinct, perhaps, they entered the church to see if they could find anything. They were surprised to see there were three coffins in the church. Walking up to them, Touga listened to the coffins, and hearing something opened the one furthest to the right. Saionji shouted at him to stop what he was doing, he couldn't believe Touga would be so horrible as to open a dead person's coffin, but as the casket opened, he didn't see a corpse, but a young girl  crying inside of it.

This was the girl whose parents had been killed. She was curled up on a bed of roses the color of her hair. Nothing is eternal, she claimed. Everything will die, so why do we bother living. I will never come out of this coffin as long as I live.

Something Eternal? Touga asks her as he feels her hair run through his fingers. We can't just leave her there, Touga. Saionji tells him. We should tell somebody! Touga ignores his friend's pleas, silently leaving the church.

Later that night perhaps, a shadowed figure approaches the coffin. He is dressed in all white with a cape at his shoulders. His skin is dark and he carries the caste mark of an Indian prince. He looks at the girl as if he is asking her to come with him. She raises her head and looks at the unusual man before her. "What are you doing there?" he asks. "Nothing," is her reply. "Are you the Grim Reaper?" she asks timidly. "No, I do not bring death," he states. "You're pretty" she says as she looks at him as he stands in a shaft of light. As he begins to walk away, she stands and folows in his shadow.

The prince leads her to a chasm bridged by a narrow walkway leading to a platform. They stare accross, transfixed by the figure suspended in the center of the weird platform.

"Who is that?" Utena asks him. "A Witch" he says. "A Witch?" "The Rose Bride," he says.

"The 'Rose Bride'?" she asks him. "Those who can die are lucky. She cannot die, she can just go on suffering." he responds sadly. "Why?" Utena inquires. "It is her punishment for stealing a prince from all the women of the world...that which could not be told until now: 'The Tale of the Rose',"

"Anthy...Anthy..." Dios says weakly. "I'm right here," she replies.

Outside, the cries of the gathering crowd are heard. "Prince...we beg you...please save us...Prince, we know you're here, come and fight for us! Come and save our daughters, all of our daughters need you!"

You musn't move anymore! Anthy cries. "But I must go to them" Dios responds. "But you'll die, please don't fight anymore..." she

pleads, laying a hand on his chest. He slumps back onto the straw as if asleep.Looking at him tenderly, she walks to the door and opens it. "Who are you?" the crowd asks. "Dios is gone. He is mine and mine alone," she states, glaring at the crowd.

How dreadful! one exclaims. "Infernal witch!" the crowd cries. They surround her swiftly, piercing her with their million swords fueled by hate as she screamed in agony. "She sacrificed herself to save her beloved prince, even though she was the only one who truly loved the prince, but what's more, the prince who loved her was no longer the prince, but he became 'Ends of the World'," "This is..." Utena begins. "And her suffering was all that remained," Dios concludes. Utena runs towards Anthy and gets knocked back with a wall of force and she cries out. She looks up at the prince with tears in her eyes."Hey, save her! It's too cruel! Save her...save her..." Utena pleads. "She can no longer be saved." he states simply.

"The only one who can save her is a prince she believes in," Dios continues. "You're a prince, right?" Utena implores. "I can't become her prince." he says. "Why not?" she asks. He does not respond to this, but bends down and kisses her eyelids.

As he begins to rise, he says, "You're a gentle child, thank

for your tears," Utena ignores this. "Then I will become a prince!" she shouts. "I'll become her prince and save her!" "If you can keep that nobility even when you grow up, then you may indeed be able to save her from her suffering. But you will surely forget all about this night. and even if you do remember, you're a girl. You will soon be a lady,"he says as he giving her a rose seal ring.

I will! I'll become a prince no matter what! she shouts, looking with a frightened, yet fierce look at the rose signet on her hand. "Then this ring will surely lead you here again. Dios responds. She looks deeply into the hellish coffin of her princess and gives a nod. The piercing swords creak and anthy turns her pain filled green eyes to meet with Utena's, silently begging for help.

The next day, the girl came out of the coffin. Touga and Saionji watch as the funeral ends and the mourners depart the church. "You did something to that girl!" Saionji accuses. Touga simply ignores his friend, smiling secretly to himself as he watches the young girl who was so vehement about never leaving the coffin step out into the sunlight.