Game of Names
Author's Note: One shot, just something that came to me and I decided to give it a quick write. Hope you all enjoy it. R&R!
Serenity…
A whisper of a name that lingered over a thousand years.
Usagi…
That's the name that they used to call me.
Sailor Moon…
A name of a hero that caused me to lose my life over and over again.
Neo-Queen Serenity…
A name that I was not able to live up to.
Sailor Cosmos…
The true name of loneliness.
I've had so many identities, so many life times to live under each name.
"Don't think too much, Sailor Cosmos…" A voice sounded within my mind, echoing off the sides of my skull, causing me to place my hands over my ears and shake my head; eyes closed. I lost so much over the years. Crystal Tokyo had come after my marriage to Mamoru, I remember that day… Our wedding.
It had been beautiful, all the girls dressed in colors of their respected planets. My bridesmaids. My best friends. After the wedding, standing on the steps of the church with Mamoru, the girls, and the guardian cats, I remember smiling so much as I shared the news that I was pregnant with Chibi Usa.
That night, while everyone slept the Earth became encased in ice and we slept for a thousand years. I was to never have a break, never to live out my life in happiness. The crystal awoke us, and it was the time of the great Crystal Tokyo. I became a Queen, and after a thousand years, I became a mother.
The past caught up to us though, the Dark Moon invaded and I sent my darling daughter to the past. She was needed there, I remembered everything. Chibi Usa then trained as a Sailor Scout, and I saw less and less of the little girl who I gave birth to as I gave her to my past self.
Without my daughter at my side, I grew depressed. My husband, my King… Mamoru… He became less and less entertained by my presence. I think he started to hate me for sending Chibi Usa to the past to grow up.
There always seemed to be chaos every time I turned a corner. I remembered the saying, there cannot be goodness without chaos at its side. No light without dark. No happiness without sadness. Even though I might have defeated chaos once, in the hard times that fell upon my kingdom, I took the ancient talisman of the galaxy cauldron and took my place as Sailor Cosmos. Chaos found me again.
With my loved ones taking their last breath on the Earth, their star seeds went back to the galaxy cauldron to be reborn. I remember watching, helpless… hopeless as Chaos destroyed the planet I lived on and once wished to travel to. My staff hit the surface of the moon; moon dust drifting slightly in the almost weightless gravity that I was no longer accustom to. As a tear slid down my cheek, I turned, facing the ruins of the Moon Palace and made my way to were the doors once stood.
This was my home again and I was to be forever alone. How would my family, my friends ever be reborn without the Earth to nurture them?
As I reached the opening of the palace, a shadow appeared.
"Hello Chaos…" I said, stepping inside the ruined palace, coming to stand in front of the shadow.
"Cosmos…"
Within a flash, the fight started again. One of millions we would fight, alone, together, until the galaxy itself faded away.
Maybe not even then.