Bijono Senshi DragonMoon Rebirth
Prologue
It
was about two weeks until the end of the last year of high school
just after the defeat of Galaxia. Usagi was sitting by her window,
just watching the rain come down. Occasionally reading out of the
textbook on her lap, but mostly thinking about the strange dreams she
had been having lately. Just then, there was a knock on the door.
"Usagi, could you come down stairs?" Ikuko asks.
Usagi
sighs and says, "OK, I'll be down in a minute". She gets up,
stretches, and thinks that there is something she has supposes to do
today. Scratching the back of her head, she giggles and says aloud,
"Oh well, it'll come to me." With that, she bounds
downstairs to see what her mother wants. When she gets down stairs,
everyone is sitting around the living room looking very serious. She
pops into the room and asks in her best happy voice, "What's
wrong, I thought I was the only one who hated thunder
storms?"
Shingo just throws up his hands and says, "How
can she always be so clue less?"
Kenji just frowns at his
son and says, "Don't say things like that, she doesn't know
yet".
Usagi comes over to sit next to her mother, "What
don't I know yet, mama?"
Ikuko sighs and puts her arm around
her, "Well dear you're father just got transferred to Canada and
we have to move in a month".
Usagi just blinks a couple of
times, and then cracks up laughing. She slaps her knee; "You
almost had me there. Good one, moving to Canada as if!"
Her
entire family just hung their heads. "No dear, we're not joking.
I really did get transferred." Kenji says, trying to be patient
with his daughter.
Usagi on the other hand, can't believe her
ears, "But, but that means that I have to leave all my friends
and Whaaa!" she shouts and blubbers. Usagi's water works are in
over drive.
Ikuko has had enough of all the bawling her daughter
does, "That's enough, if you would wait for a full explanation.
You would have heard your father say if suitable arrangements can be
made you can stay." Usagi starts bouncing up and down. Kenji
sighs This may not be such a good idea.
Shingo snorts and says,
"Gees, Usagi can you act any more like a child?"
Ikuko
is getting very fed up by this point "Please be quiet! You're
giving me one of my headaches. Any way Usagi, this could be a great
experience for you, meet new people see the sights of Canada's
largest city. ", By the end, she is actually getting excited
about the idea of seeing all the new sights. Usagi looks thoughtful,
This might not be a bad idea. It would be a good chance to prove to
the girls that I can take care of myself. She abruptly recalls what
she is supposed to be doing today. Oh, man there's a meeting at the
shrine today.
Usagi looks at the clock and shrieks, "I am
so late, and I got to go!" With those words, she was off like a
shot.
Usagi huddles underneath her rain poncho, muttering
under her breath how much she hates storms and why did they have to
pick today of all days to have a stupid meeting. Especially when
there isn't a thing left to discuss. She ponders her dilemma of if
she is going to go or should she see if she could stay with one of
the girls. Either way this could be a lot of fun. Usagi looks down at
her watch, "Oh, man I'm so late. Why did my parents have to talk
so much?" In her rush to get there, Usagi almost bumped into
five people. Apparently, she wasn't the only one in a hurry a large
burley man marches down the street knocking everyone that is even
remotely in his way to the ground. Usagi very familiar with bullies
keeps well out of the way but one older woman is not so fortunate and
is knocked to the ground. Her bag full of groceries flies out of her
hand and on to the wet pavement. Usagi couldn't pass her by with out
helping pick up her groceries. When all the groceries had been
collected, the woman tries to thank her but as soon as the groceries
were picked up, she was off running down the street, later now than
ever before. By the time Usagi reaches the top of the temple stairs,
the girls inside are furious with her.
Rei: " Usagi your a
flake what's your excuse for being late this time?"
Makoto:
"I know the new Sailor V video game at the arcade."
Minako:
"You really should stop trying to emulate me."
Ami:
"You should spend more time studying and less time playing video
games."
Luna: "How are you ever going to be future
Queen if you fail high school?"
Artemis: "Yeah, are you
going to make Mamoru San do all the ruling?"
Michiru: "What
kind of example are you going to be for Chibi-Usa?"
Haruka:
"That could explain why she very rarely listens to you."
Everyone nods in agreement.
Usagi just looks at them her face
gone very still, "Is that all I'm to you some future Queen and
mother to Chibi-Usa? Is that all I am to you? Is that it?" she
turns to Rei, "Why don't you step in? You have always made it
clear that you wanted to be leader or maybe you Minako you were
leader in the past, or you Haruka you've challenged my leadership
before, maybe one of you wants the job. As for Chibi-Usa, maybe one
of you would like the job of having her too because one of you can
have the job of marrying Mamoru San. If you all had been paying
attention you might have noticed that we broke up almost two weeks
ago." She looks pointed at Rei, "No, well when you decide
who wants what let me know. Until then, I'll take my flaky, airhead
self home where I won't bother anyone any more. Oh, and Luna I think
you should stay with someone else for awhile." with that she was
gone, leaving everyone stunned. There wasn't any wailing or water
works, they all agreed that they blew it big time.
Three
weeks later, it was a beautiful summer day, just after school let
out. All the senshi, except Usagi, Hotaru, an Setsuna are gathered at
Rei's temple for a meeting, no one knew what she wanted to discuss
but when the 'Princess' calls a meeting you don't ask why, just when,
and where. Everyone is sitting around the table, having some tea that
Rei just brought in.
Rei: "I wonder what Usagi wanted to
talk about?"
Ami: "I hope she lets us apologize for
last time." As she looks up from the medical textbook, she was
studying.
Haruka: "So Mako-chan did you bring any of your world
class goodies?"
Makoto: "I don't know about world
class, but I did bring some cookies and cupcakes." she goes to
where she left her coat and lifts it up and reveals two boxes of her
baking. "I thought some sweets might be a good way to make up
with Usagi." The girls discuss the last meeting and the
startling news slapped to them by Usagi. As they continue to discuss
the unusual nature of the break up of what they thought was the
perfect couple. Usagi is making her way up the street to the temple
grounds. All the way, she can't help but think of all the things that
have happened since the cleansing of Galaxia. She broke up with
Mamoru; well they broke up with each other. It didn't really matter
they were over, she wasn't depressed over it, in fact she rarely gave
it a second thought and that really surprised her. No the thing that
occupied her thoughts recently were the disturbing dreams she has
been having. Well maybe not the dreams them selves they were too
vague and she didn't remember much of anything. They had reawakened
the sensation that her whole life was some how artificial. Still
pondering these things as she crested the top of the temple stairs,
she hears the muted discussion about her and Mamoru's break up. As
Usagi opens the temple door, the conversation inside comes to an
abrupt halt.
She steps inside and says, "Don't let me
interrupt you. You all have a right to speculate why I did what I
did. I mean we all saw the future, Endymion, and Serenity ruling over
Crystal Tokyo. It all seamed so perfect, the cute, if somewhat
obnoxious little girl. Who wouldn't want that life?" Everyone
just stares at her as if she's grown another head. Usagi continues,
"But what if you woke up every day and every fibber of your
being told you that the path you are on, the future you've seen, and
even the past you remember is wrong, all wrong. But you have no
proof, all you have is an overwhelming sense that your life is an
illusion and the closer you come to your destiny, the worse the
sensation gets."
Rei: "Why didn't you tell us you felt
that way?"
Usagi: "How could I, when I didn't even
know, until recently what was wrong. Besides I was afraid that
everyone would think I was whimping out, being a whiner, and a cry
baby."
Ami: "Why would you think that?"
Usagi:
"Well maybe because you have done it every other time I have
questioned my DESTINY'."
Artemis: "Well we do push her
to get better, by telling her she has to do better so that she can be
a good queen in the future."
Luna: "That's not the only
reason that we want you to do better, it's just the one that we
thought you'd respond best to. I mean we thought that getting married
to Mamoru was the only thing you took seriously."
Usagi:
Shakes her head sadly, "I can see why you all thought that, but
I can ensure you that I acted like that because I thought that was
what I was suppose to do."
Michiru: "Or maybe you did
it because you were trying to convince yourself." Everyone nods
at that. Now that they all thought about it, her relationship did
seem a little forced.
Minako: "So why did you call this
meeting?"
Makoto: "Yea! We don't have a new enemy do
we?"
Haruka: "Or do you have some good news for us?
Maybe... a new boyfriend?"
Usagi: Sighs, "Haruka I
don't need a boyfriend right now, and the news I have isn't very
good. My dad got transferred and we're moving."
Rei: "You
can't move!"
Makoto: "You could stay at my
house!"
Minako: "Yea, we'll help convince your
parents!"
Haruka: "Hold it, hold it!"
Michiru:
"This might be a very good experience for Usagi."
Haruka:
"Besides you didn't even give her a chance to tell you where
she's going. I mean it might not be that far away."
Usagi:
"Thanks for the opening; I thought I would never get a word in
edge wise." The girls look a little sheepish. "But for the
not going very far, sorry to burst your bubble but my dad got
transferred to Toronto, Canada."
Minako: "Where is
that, exactly?"
Ami pulls out the Mercury computer, taps on
a few keys, and brings up a map of the world. "Well, here we are
in Tokyo, Japan" map rotates "and here is Canada" some
of the girls nod as the map zooms in a little. "This is Toronto,
the largest city in Canada, with a population of roughly nine million
people."
Haruka turns to Usagi, "But you can't move
that far away, how are we suppose to protect you so far
away?"
Usagi: "You guys still don't understand, I can
take care of my self and I think this is a good time to prove
that!"
Luna: "Well I'll still be there to protect
you."
Usagi scratches the back of her head "Well that
is another reason that I called this meeting." she turns to Luna
"you can't come"
Luna: "What!" her eyes
nearly budging from their sockets, "What do you mean I'm not
coming?"
Usagi: "I'm sorry Luna we're leaving in a week,
and it takes no less than two months, some times more to pass
quarantine. Quit frankly Luna, I don't think it fair to you to ask
you to go through that. That's why I asked you all to come here, is
to ask if Luna can stay with one of you awhile longer."
Makoto:
"Umm, Luna you could stay with me. That is if you want to… I
mean, I've lived by my self for awhile now and I could use the
company."
Luna: "Mako-chan I'd love to come and stay
with you."
Usagi: "No going away party! I don't have
the time." Everyone was disappointed but understood they weren't
very nice to her the last time.
Everyone is there to see her off at the airport; there were many tearful hugs and more apologizing. She scolds them, hugs them all repeatedly, and promises to keep in touch. In the end, Usagi is incredibly relieved to be on her own for once.
