AN : I wanted to write this short story… I thought I wouldn't write about Seiya and Usagi again, because the only ideas I had were about Uranus and Neptune lately. I'm kind of obsessed by the magic link they have. But seeing sailor stars again I remembered how I liked the magic between Usagi and Seiya. It's a relation so different from the one Usagi has with Mamoru. Positively different. I think that Mamoru is too perfect to be real, he even becomes annoying. Seiya is more human and alike Usagi. He pushed her, with him she stops to be just a crying child and she move forward in her life.
Well, well… It's been a long time isn't it? I just revised the whole story! I'll repost all the chapters one after another. No need to tell that the story might change a bit. I checked grammar mistakes (there plenty of them and probably there still are… ) but I think my level increased a bit since the time I began this story. So enjoy!
The Fighting Rose and the Rabbit from the Moon
Part 1: Her fairy tale ending
Usagi was leaning on her bed, thoughtful. The fight against Galaxia and the months before the fight had changed her a lot. Not immediately though: For several weeks, she had just tried to gather her life and move on. But when the last few marks of the period had been blown and things were settled again, she had come to feel a kind of melancholy. She was now feeling she was an adult. She was wiser, a lot wiser. Her friends had seen it and she too acknowledged it. Luna was proud. She was taking the path to become a queen. But she regretted her light-headed, joyful self.
Usagi was melancholic. She didn't care about being so much more smart and graceful, so feminine and impressive. Peace was there, everywhere… it was supposed to be happiness… And in a way it was, she couldn't deny it… She was back in high school with everyone, Mamoru had cancelled his plan to go to America and he devoted himself entirely to her. It was nice, she thought. She still wore her ring. Not caring if it was an engagement ring or not. She resented the calm and the peace… she liked being sailor moon, but those last two months she had been just Usagi… the devoted daughter, friend and girlfriend. She knew it was selfish to think that way. If Sailor Moon was needed, it meant disasters and threats. Her being useless was a good point for the earth. But she just couldn't help it.
Chibiusa had come to visit. However, their relation was different, Chibiusa couldn't see a sister in her anymore, she was now seeing her mother in her. Usagi was a grown up and she wasn't jealous of Mamoru caring their daughter anymore, she even encouraged it.
"Just be patient, this period won't last, soon you will have a hard time creating Crystal Tokyo, soon everything will be under the ice for centuries. Just wait… Then you'll be a Queen with many responsibilities. This will be more funny, you won't lay there like a slug."told Usagi to herself.
Yes, everything would be alright in Crystal Tokyo, she would create a paradise, she now had all what it takes to do so. She had wonderful friends, a Prince Charming who loved her, and she would grant everyone a very long life with the silver crystal. Time would stop in a way… An eternal calm as if on a cloud. Yes, it would be great then.
She stood up and sat at her desk, there were frames on it. On the left corner there was a photo taken in the public garden, before the departure of the Starlights. They were all on it: The girls, Mamoru, Kakyuu, Yaten, Taiki and Seiya, she was placed between the two of them, Seiya and Mamoru, holding Seiya's arm tightly, she smiled when she saw the clearly disapproving look on Haruka's face. She was holding Michiru by the waist. Setsuna was near them, a hand on Hotaru's shoulder. The four of them had disappeared right after this picture without a word. But Usagi wasn't worried, it was just their way of being. They were the four outers, in opposition to the four inners. They were as near of each other as Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Venus were. They would never mix with them completely, though they were already so close. Only Chibiusa was absent of this photo, simply because she hadn't fought with them that time, and had learned only a few days after what had happened. And after all she didn't belong to this time, thought Usagi. She probably had her own group photos in the thirtieth century with her own friends.
Near this frame, there was another one, which was holding a photo of she and her four best friends taken at school, Rei had come along as she always did because the Starlights weren't far. Yaten had taken the photo. It had been nice, back then, when they still were all together. Usagi missed the Starlights. They had finally formed a nice group of friends, even if no one would have told it at that time.
The next photo was one of Seiya and her at the fun fair. Usagi was grabbing his right arm… Or was it her right arm? She still was wondering what the senshi true gender was. She had come to think he was a man, because if he had taken this appearance it was because he wanted to be thought about as a man, so she respected his will. One day, she would ask him the question. This day had been so funny, and scary too… She had thought he was trying to sleep with her… How embarrassed she had been. Sure, Seiya was truly attractive, but she wouldn't cheat on Mamoru so easily.
Mamoru… The last picture was the one where they were the three of them, she, Mamoru and Chibiusa. The perfect family, no doubt about this. They looked great. Her story was a fairy tale, she was lucky, not so many girls on earth met a Prince Charming, became Queen and had children and lived happily ever after. That was the way the story would end.
She wouldn't have to fight anymore. She had learned that in the thirtieth century Queen Serenity never fought, and that she never exited her crystal palace. She probably wouldn't respect that. But it'd be her life, she'd do what she want. Probably Serenity already was. Maybe she'd become calmer when getting old.
"Well… I don't know if I will be able to stay in there all the time like she does… I love the sun and breathe fresh air… I love going out with my friends and eat ice cream at the Crown, go shopping and all…"
And as she was imagining what would be her life in the future, an unexpected person made her apparition.
