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Chapter one: The Choice

It was time, time to leave this world behind forever. The world was stable it should not kill itself the moment they disappeared from it she thought. Even if they did not they could be dependant on them to save them every time they got into trouble. It just did not work like that. The earth would have to sink or swim this time. Life, death, and time were leaving for good or bad as the case maybe. The mother and her daughter would go to the mother's home and they are two most loyal protectors Death and Time.

The Mother has many names and titles in her long life. The most important one in most eyes is that of Neo-Queen Serenity of the Silver Crystal, Daughter of Queen Serenity of the Silver moon kingdom. Her hair has long since grown silver, where she once was a pale blonde-haired woman. She wears her formal dress as befitting her station had it positively worshiped. The Queen had lost many of her friends over the years as they slowly for got that there had been anytime when she was not queen.

This saddened the queen, as her friends were her life. Her guardians never used her former name she was always 'My Queen or your Highness'. She was getting sick and tired of not having any one to challenge her, it was always 'yes, My Queen' or 'No, my Queen'. Even Rei did that now; she missed having some one to talk to and to laugh with her. They only ones who were not beholden to her were the warriors of Time and Death and perhaps The Sea and Sky. These days they pretty much wrapped up in each other's love not that she blamed them a bit. They had precious little chance for happiness in either of there former life times. She would not ask the Sea and Sky to join her on this trip, this adventure. However, they might come after her later.

This was why she was preparing to escape this life by returning to her former home. She was going back to Middle-earth where her sorrow had begun and she was taking Chibi-Usa with her. It would be better for her to see the land of her mother's birth. Usagi Tsukino and Princess Serenity were a front for her real identity of Nimrodel of the elves. Nimrodel had gotten lost in the mountain while she was traveling to the havens to meet up with Amroth. She was not sure what had happen next but when she came to everyone was calling her princess Serenity and she apparently lived in a strange place that was powerful not unlike the golden woods of her home.

Different but quite similar and she had never found her way back to her home as long as she lived. The reason she'd been drawn to Mamoru's past self was that he reminded her of Amroth, her Lord and lover. She thought she could be happy with him if she could not get back to Amroth and so she chose him to be her lover in this world. After a time her memories of middle-earth faded and only remained in her dreams of a far off land where golden trees grew. Whenever Serenity dreamed of this, she felt sad for no reason and longed to see the golden wood herself one day. This was why she initially went to earth and returned because she had found what her heart longed for or so she had thought at the time. It was only after she took the thrown that she learned the truth. Queen Serenity never had a child she died on the day of her birth. Only two people knew of the death of the little princess and the rise of the young adopted princess and neither was inclined to tell anyone else of this little oversight.

Death and Time knew that the Queen had taken in a lost and wandering child and then claimed that she was her daughter by birth. Death knew because she had found the child and taken her to the queen half-dead. Time knew because she knew all that went on around her. Death was inclined to be protective of the queen and her new daughter and had threatened Time with violence if she let it slip before the right time. Time believed her wholeheartedly and knew that she wouldn't be daunted even if she couldn't leave her home planet, she would find away. However, all that was in the past and nothing could change it now. They had the present to worry about and future to plan for starters.

It was time to leave and wake Death who was now Hotaru. Time known as Setsuna would take care of that, as she was part of the spell hold her asleep. Usagi's job was to get ChibiUsa out of the castle, without either of them spotted by the guards that roamed the palace at all hours. They were to meet at a prearranged spot in about one hour, If Hotaru and Setsuna got there first they would wait up until dawn of the next morning but if they hadn't shown by then leave without them. Setsuna could summon then via the Space-time keys they always carried. If Usagi got there, first they were only to wait an extra hour before leaving they would catch up on there own.

ChibiUsa was hard to wake up as she mumbled and rolled over until her mother dumped Ice-cold water over her. She screamed loud enough to wake the Castle or she would have if Usagi hadn't managed to cover mouth while whispering "Shh! If we get caught we'll never leave. They will watch us night and day we can't let them suspect what we are doing. No one must know until we are long gone. Are you packed?" To that question, Chibi-Usa nodded and made move to get out of her sopping wet bed. "I'll be ready in three seconds, Mama." Usagi smiled at the name and then went to get her own pack from her suite of rooms. Contrary to popular belief she didn't share these with Mamoru she like her privacy and had a suite for herself which were attached to Chibi-Usa's.