You know, it's pretty sad when you find yourself re-writing a story that is only 3 chapters long. However, in my defence, the re-writes are actually pretty interesting and actually involves Sailor Moon a bit quicker than the previous version. If that sentence made any sense.

But, anyway, the plot bunnies have been practically turning all my stories into NC-17 taboo kinks. I'm not at all happy about it.

The cake is a lie.

DISCLAIMER: Nothing is mine, except, prehaps, the idea behind this fic.

Moonlight Sonata

Prologue: That Which Changed

By: Ceris Malfoy

June 29, 1999

Galaxy Cauldron

Usagi floated in the void, silent tears running down her face. She was alone, again. Just like the end of every other battle her and her friends had ever faced. Only this time, she was going to survive.

Without them.

The thought made her cry harder, a deep ache in her heart.

"My friends..." she whispered brokenly.

The Starlights had already left, their Princess restored to life and capable of the long travel back to Kinmoku. Galaxia had also left, to return what few stars that had survived her harsh treatment of them. She had no one left. Even her family on earth was dead, destroyed by Chaos.

She, the strongest light in the cosmos, was weak without someone, anyone to lean on. It was a weakness she had long come to realize, accept, and deal with. There had always been someone, but now...

Now....

She raised her head, and stared out at the vast nothingness around her.

"Here," she murmured brokenly. "Here is where stars are born." She closed her eyes, then re-opened them. In her calm azure eyes was a desperate thread of hope. "Stars from all times and all worlds are born within this cauldron, and sent to where they need to be."

She flapped her wings, and began to fly forward, gaining speed as she went. "A star that was destroyed can never be replaced, but a star that ends up back here....Can be recycled." She pushed herself to go faster, and called the silver crystal to her hands as she went.

"Please," she whispered. "Please, let me fix this. Send me back. Let me save them" She raised her eyes to to very center of the Cauldron, where she was headed. With a brilliant burst of energy from the crystal, she roared her decree defiantly.

"I WILL NOT LET THEM DIE!!!"

She knew no more.

So? Do you agree that it's a better prologue? Things'll get a bit more interesting a bit more quickly cause of this. I promise. More chapters to come soon!

Ja!

~Ceris