Hello! I'm back with another story. I'll be working on this alongside my drabble collection, Unforgettable Moments: 100 UsaxMamo Drabbles.

I would like to note before I start into this story that it IS A SEQUEL to Destiny Decision. HOWEVER, you do NOT have to read Destiny Decision to understand it if you don't want to (though I would suggest it, as I will reference back to the story occasionally.) This is a continuation of that time line, and the characters are picking up and continuing their stories after that story.

The senshi this is focused on, however, is not one that you would expect me to start with. At the end of this chapter (this prologue, to be exact), I will tell you why I decided to start with this particular senshi.

I hate how it's practically impossible to keep identities secret in the details on the archives here. Lol. So you all know who the senshi is already, but.... pretend you don't?? lol.

Destiny Bloom
Prologue

Fragrance showered all around a young girl as she lay on soft grass. Her long, light blonde hair spilled about her, the strands of it catching the sunlight and making it look like white silk. A cherry blossom floated down to her, and it landed on her nose. She giggled and blew out a puff of air to scatter it away.

She stared up at the branches of the cherry blossom tree she lay under. There wasn't a lovelier color in the universe than the soft pink of a cherry blossom's petals. They were her mother's favorite flowers, and the young girl had always held a very soft place in her heart for them as well. They were planted everywhere in the kingdom, at her mother's insistence. This planet was the only place where the trees continuously bloomed. According to what her mother told her, on Earth, where she had grown up, cherry blossoms bloomed for a very short period of time. The girl simply couldn't imagine a life where she wasn't constantly surrounded by the luscious flowers.

A musical, yet strong voice carried across the wind to the girl, calling the girl's name. She pushed herself up and laughed when she noticed all the cherry blossom petals that were scattered in her hair. A tall, graceful figure was walking toward her, and she reached her arm up to wave in excitement.

"Mama!" she called. The woman approaching her waved back, and even from a distance, the girl could see the happy expression on the woman's lovely face.

She hadn't seen her mother for several weeks. The lady had traveled to Earth for business, but the girl had remained home, as she still was young. Her mother didn't want to involve her in the court life of Earth until she felt she was old enough to handle it. At the age of twelve, the girl was just a few years too young for her mother to be satisfied. Fourteen, she would tell her daughter, was the right age. It was the age that she herself had been introduced to the life of a senshi, and it would be the year she would allow her to be introduced to it as well.

The girl had thought once to argue that the Princess of Earth and the Moon, Princess Usagi Small Lady Serenity, known to all as simply Princess Usagi, was already Sailor Moon and had been since she was a young girl of seven, under the name of Sailor Chibi Moon. However, given that the princess was destined to be the Queen of Earth and the Moon, the girl presumed that the Earth princess's training had to be completed at an earlier age. Earth was the ruler of all planets, after all. Still, Usagi was only two years older than her, and she was already considered a fully trained senshi. And the girl still had two years to wait before even beginning her training! She contented herself to the fact that the other planetary princesses had no training yet, either. She would not be alone.

The woman reached her and gazed down at the young girl with a loving expression, a soft smile gracing her lips. "I always know exactly where I will find you," she said.

The girl laughed gaily and shook her head to let the petals fall out of her hair. "It's my favorite tree in the kingdom."

The lady sat down in the grass in front of the girl, tucking her long skirts around her. It was her mother's favorite dress, light purple with long with trailing ribbons and silk skirts. It was a simple daytime dress, but it was elegant, perfect for the queen of the planet.

The girl tucked a strand of her long, blonde hair behind her ear. "Is Papa home as well?"

"Yes," the queen nodded.

"And your business on Earth...?" The girl had no idea what it was, as her parents never discussed the details of their busy lives with her. When they were home, they did not want to disturb their peace with accounts of their duties.

"Don't worry, my darling, we will be home for a long while before we have to return to Earth again," The woman soothed, reaching out and taking her daughter's smaller hand in her own. "All matters were resolved."

"I'm glad," the girl beamed, squeezing her mother's hand. "I've missed you."

"I've missed you, too," the queen opened her arms and enveloped the girl in an embrace. "I am not whole without you."

"But you have Papa when you go away," the girl whispered.

"I am not whole without him, either. I need both of you, my precious loves." The girl leaned up to look at her mother's face. Her mother's eyes were looking away, and a gentle smile was caressing her features.

A question bubbled up in the girl's chest, one that she had always silently pondered, but she had refrained from asking. "Mama, how did you and Papa fall in love?"

The queen's eyes widened as she looked down at her beloved daughter. "Miko, where did that come from?"

Miko shrugged, pulling away from her mother's embrace to take both of her hands. "I've always wondered. Everyone knows the story of the King and Queen of Earth. I want to know your story, though."

With a silvery laugh, the lady tilted back her head, letting her raven locks grace the ground as she stared up into the branches of the cherry blossom tree. "Serenity and Endymion's romance is one born of fairy tales, and it is all the more enchanting because it is true." Two vivid, violet orbs lowered and rested on the same violet eyes repeated in her daughter. "Your father and I don't have quite as beautiful a tale."

"I want to know," Miko pressed, squeezing her mother's hand. "I know the tales and the stories of all of our dark enemies of the past, the tales of the senshi's battles, and the histories of all the planets..." The girl paused. "But I want to know the story of Sailor Mars, the fire senshi... Hino Rei, Shinto priestess... Princess Rei of the Silver Millennium... and Queen Rei of Mars, senshi and protector to Neo Queen Serenity."

Rei's lips tugged into a wide smile at her daughter's proclamation of all of her titles. "You want to know about my life?" Miko nodded ecstatically. The queen of Mars laughed and leaned back against the tree. "Alright, then. It may not be quite as enchanting as the tale of Serenity and Endymion, but your father and I do have quite a history."

Miko rolled away from her mother and laid flat on her stomach, propping her head to lay in her hands as her elbows rested on the grass. "I'm listening." She prompted, which made the queen's lips tug into a a smile.

"So impatient, just like your mother," she teased, and then the queen closed her eyes and opened her mouth to tell her tale.

End Prologue

Well, who all thought I would start with an Ami sequel? Lol. Since Destiny Decision focused a lot around Ami. But I have started with Rei. I have been thinking for a while about a Rei story. Also, the fact that Rei is a Shinto priestess kept entering my mind for some reason, and the idea to give her a daughter that she names "Miko" in acknowledgment of that just stuck with me! So that is the real purpose for starting with Rei's story.

Also, with Destiny Decision, there were many flashbacks into the past, the Silver Millennium. This story is going in a different direction, in which you can probably already see. But enough about it. This prologue is just a tasting, so I hope you all like it, and if you do, please leave me a review and tell me what you think! (Or even if you don't like it, lol.) I hope to have some support for this story, as senshi stories are not very popular usually, though I don't understand why. But even though reviews aren't needed when writing (I hate when I see stories that say "discontinued for lack of reviews"... writing just for the reviews isn't right at all! Where's the love of it if it's just for reviews?), they are very helpful in letting us writers know if we're doing something wrong, or if we're headed in the right direction! It helps to see what people are thinking; that really helps me a lot.

So thank you to everyone who reviews this, and I hope you all enjoy it as much as I enjoy writing anything at all! Lol.