chapter one- passing of power
"One more day and I will be a lady!" shrieked Chibi Usa, twirling around excitedly. Her hair was in its typical cone shaped odango's with a slight change. Her hair was now down to her waist. She hadn't wanted it to go all the way down to the floor, complaining that it would "Get in the way, like Usagi's does!" The dress she wore was long and was a faint purple in color. It matched the streaks in her hair. "Usa-chan, the senshi are waiting to see you! It's the passing of power, and you can't miss that." Diana wailed at her mistress as she opened the large French doors that opened to Chibi Usa's rooms. "Oh! I wonder who the senshi will choose to give their powers to. I hope they're nice... Mama and Papa are there already, right?" Usa-chan asked, slipping her shoes back on. "Yes, Princess." Diana said sarcastically. Ignoring her cat, Usa-chan glided away towards the Room of Eternity.
"Usa-chan, dear, you're just in time. Go sit at the other table." Neo Queen Serenity murmured as Usa-chan entered. Chibi Usa nodded and went to the head of second table. There were two tables in this richly decorated room. There were murals of senshi fighting various enemies all around. The tables were oval shaped, and at each place there was a small symbol of each of the planets in this galaxy. A large, round, velvet pillow with the moon symbol stitched on was placed at the center of each table. It could hold approximately three cats with ease. The only other furniture in the room was a gleaming gold and crystal plate. The reason it was considered to be furniture was the fact that the plate had a four foot radius and was...floating... It was divided like a pizza, and an imprint of a crystal was at the base of each "slice". The chandelier dimmed as a soft rendition of Moon Revenge played. Luna leapt onto the pillow on Neo Queen Serenity's table, Artemis following. Clearing her voice she announced in a loud voice that echoed throughout the room "Each senshi works hard to keep the peace of the galaxy, even the universe. When the new generation has come of age, we recognize that the old senshi's powers need rebirth, a new vessel. In order for the senshi to live normal lives after they are done fighting for their kingdom, the planet power they possess leaves. Not to the galaxy cauldron, but rather to the generation previously mentioned. The older senshi will choose, but only with the approval of their planet will the powers proceed to enter the new vessel. The moon princess has come of age, thirteen tomorrow. This marks the time as ripe for the passing of power. I'd like to announce each Queen as she enters." Luna licked her paw and then allowed Diana to scamper to Usa-chan's table a seat herself before continuing. "In order of appearance, I present to you, Neo Queen Mercury, Senshi of Ice." Ami entered, her princess dress followed by a cloud of mist. She sat on Neo Queen Serenity's right side. The sign of Mercury flared on the table and on her forehead. "Neo Queen Mars, Senshi of Fire." Luna said. A raven haired woman entered, fire flaring where her heels clicked on the marble floor. She sat on Neo Queen Serenity's left, smiling at Ami and Usagi as the mars sign shone. Luna continued through, Jupiter, Venus, Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn... "Now that you're all settled, your highnesses, I would like to present the Galaxy Locket." Luna meowed. The floating platter floated over. It first stopped at Mercury, then Mars, then Jupiter, going around until every senshi except Moon had placed their crystals at the corresponding indentation. The plate returned to Sailor Moon. Sighing, she placed a ghostly image of the silver crystal at the center. "Queens, I would now like you to name your heirs. As a note, these girls do not need to be your daughter." Luna added, seeing the nervous looks on Haruka and Michiru's faces. Mercury stood up as the blue mercury sign shone again. "I choose Mizuno Kotomi(Beautiful Harp of Water)." she said calmly, in a rather shy voice. The doors from which the senshi had emerged and in walked Kotomi. Her eyes were pupilless, and she seemed to understand through this what was happening. "I accept the gift." she said in a melodious voice. Her school uniform whipped about her in an invisible wind and the water blue crystal on the platter zipped over to the girl. Her eyes regained their pupils and she plucked the crystal from the air and held it carefully as she sat down on Chibi Usa's right. Usa-chan had been feeling rather lonely and was happy to see Kotomi, her best friend from school. Kotomi has gorgeous ice blue hair that fell to her waist, which set off her warm silvery gray eyes. She was very much like her mother in some ways, but very different in another. Kotomi was careful, but very outgoing and was kind, but polite to everyone. Her IQ was a perfect 300, like her mothers, but she managed to still kick-but during gym class. Everyone admired her and the boys constantly asked Chibi Usa for a picture of them together. Rei interrupted the tense silence with her choice. "I choose Hino Suzaku(Phoenix of Fire)." The doors opened to another pupilless girl. It was Rei's black haired daughter, who's eyes were a rich vermilion. She also picked the crystal from the air when it floated to her. She sat on Usa-chan's left, smiling at the two friends. She was less like her mother than Kotomi, being slightly shy and a bit embarrassed most of the time. Usa-chan and Kotomi protected Suzaku when boy's tried to force her to go on a date, yelling insults at them. Most boys knew by now that if they tried to make a move on poor Suzaku, they would both get insults and punches thrown at them. Suzaku regarded the two girls as older sister type role models, since she was a year younger than them(skipped a grade). Her hair was done in a knee-length ponytail and swung as she walked. Makoto stood up and fiddled with her rose earrings a bit before saying "I choose Kino Aki(Autumn of Wood)." A tall spring green haired girl slipped in. Her eyes were an orange-brown that matched her tan very well. She sat down next to Suzaku and grinned, lovingly fingering her green Jupiter Crystal. She was known in school as a trouble maker. She was the one who often thought up the crazy ideas that she and the other three girls would do. Most of the ideas were things like stacking all the classes desks out in the soccer field and putting insects in the teachers' beureaus. Her rough exterior hid the gentle, motherly, but daring girl within. The four girls all glanced towards Minako as she stood and said "I choose Aino Utami(Beautiful Song of Love)." A cute platinum blond haired girl walked in. Her hair was a little shorter than shoulder length and curved inwards. Her bright orange yellow eyes lit up as she saw her mother's crystal come to her. She took no time in taking it from the air and sitting next to Aki-san. The other girls stared a bit at Utami. They knew her personally very little, only seeing her with Minako occasionally. But her face was very well known, since she had achieved her mother's dream of being an idol. She currently had five singles and one hit CD, not to mention title role in four movies and Henshin-Yo!(a popular Saturday morning time where a shoujo anime movie is shown, and then talked about, idols being the hosts). She smiled a truly friendly, but nervous, smile at the girls before looking over at Setsuna. Setsuna got up and then whispered in a voice that was barely audible "I choose Tokino Miya(Shrine of Time)." A girl entered, and picking up the Garnet Orb, she sat down. Her school uniform was that of the new Infinity Academy. Her floor length extremely dark green hair had occasional streaks of black. It was done in a set of three braids, two going down and one looped like a crown around her head, perfectly matching her amber eyes. No one at the table knew her, but they smiled kindly nonetheless. Haruka stood next, and said with confidence "I choose Tenoh Haneko(Feather Child of Heaven King; I'm giving the idea of a young angel of heaven's king...)." Neo Queen Serenity smiled knowingly. This girl was Haruka's favorite niece, whom she brought to most of her important meetings that included Chibi Usa. The doors opened and a tall boyish girl walked in. Her hair was in Haruka's style, though the color was tan and cream. But the girl's eyes were a startling white tinted navy. She took the Space Sword and sat next to Miya, winking at Kotomi and Usa-chan. They knew her best out of the new senshi, as they had went to preschool and elementary school together. They knew her as a boisterous and rather confident girl, who was part of a group of sports playing boys. With a mischievous grin from Kotomi and Usa-chan, the newly appointed senshi looked at Michiru. "I choose Kaiou Masa(Elegant Sea King)." she said softly. A feminine and graceful figure seemed to float from the door and to the table, after receiving the Aqua Mirror. Her sea green hair was wavy and went down to the girl's waist. It was done up with a stormy gray ribbon, which matched her eyes almost exactly. Her eyes seemed to shift with an inner storm, though her polite and friendly smile lit up the room. She gave an extra grin towards Haneko, her friend from Infinity Academy. This girl had met Michiru as Haenko's friend only two years ago and since then they had become like mother and daughter, to everyone in the room's knowledge. Only later did they discover Masa to be a relative of Michiru's. Masa was an accomplished cello and violin player, and had two CD's of her playing duets with Michiru out and selling. Everyone snapped to attention when Hotaru's voice became the silence. "I choose Tomoe Atsumi(Beautiful Deep Feeling Sprouting From the Earth)." she said in a barely audible, but clearly heard, whisper. A girl entered the room and accepted the Silence Glaive before sitting next to the perfectly calm and smiling Masa-chan. Masa, Haneko, and Atsumi seemed to be fairly good friends, though Atsumi didn't stay around with them all the time. Luna took charge once again "The power will transmit completely after each senshi says their transformation phrase." she said in a no-nonsense manner. Usa-chan decided it was her job to show the others. "Dream Genesis Moon, Make-up!" she cried, holding up her morphed silver crystal, the chibi pink crystal. The light around the prism solidified into a gold and silver locket in the shape of a crescent moon, which she placed on her school uniform's front bow. Pink light and wings enveloped her as she transformed. When it was all done, she was a sight for Neo Queen Serenity, who gasped. Usa-chan's tiara had disappeared to reveal a star encircled by a moon. The star was golden while the moon was silver. Her choker was a pink ribbon with a wing symbol in the middle. The collar and bow of her fuku were pink with two lines adorning the collar and the locket at the tie of the front bow. Her bodice was a two piece, except the color was a white tinted gold. Her shoulders were protected by the same shoulder guard that Sailor Saturn had first worn. A large gold bow was on the back of her bodice and a ribbon of pink went around her waist and ended as a V where her skirt started. At the bottom of the V was the symbol on her forehead. It was strange enough to see her in such an elaborate and foreign gown, but translucent rainbow wings were on her back. Taking the lead, Kotomi cried "Dream Genesis Mercury, Make-up!" and the same process occurred, except Dream Sailor Mercury had a silver tinted fuku with mercury sign's replacing the star-moon and the pink turned to a pale blue. The rest of the Genesis senshi cried the henshin phrase, and transformed to the old senshi's amazement and delight. Their fuku's were silver too and their planet's color replaced the blue or pink of Mercury and Moon's fukus. The senshi all giggled and smiled at their new costumes and wings. Luna took this time to interrupt loudly and turn to the other senshi(excluding Moon). "I realize you all do not have brooches. When you de-transform, your school uniforms will be sporting a heart shaped brooch with your planet's color and sign on it." she clarified. "Old senshi, Queens, we honor you. You will still act as your planet's Queen and leader, and Pluto, you will be Guardian of Time, as always. New senshi, we pass our love and powers to you and hope that you will protect our galaxy as best you can. Diana, I have something to give you." Luna leapt to the floor and transformed into a human as Diana did the same. Luna looked lovingly at her daughter as she removed her crescent moon necklace from her neck and fastened it around Diana's. "I hope you will advise them as I have, and I wish best of luck to you all. This necklace will enable you to assist them, including making communicators. Please, take care." Luna pleaded. Diana smiled and said reassuringly "You can trust me, I won't fail." With that, the silence broke as the new senshi went over to their mother's or role models. Peace and happiness radiated from the pairs as the moon rose into the heavens of the Golden Kingdom.
"The Golden Kingdom? I know little of it, except the legends of their extremely powerful senshi." a male voice said. "You are being sent there, along with Apollo. Take care of the "destined one." Make sure she does not fail, and help her protect the new princess before the Black Light comes."
"One more day and I will be a lady!" shrieked Chibi Usa, twirling around excitedly. Her hair was in its typical cone shaped odango's with a slight change. Her hair was now down to her waist. She hadn't wanted it to go all the way down to the floor, complaining that it would "Get in the way, like Usagi's does!" The dress she wore was long and was a faint purple in color. It matched the streaks in her hair. "Usa-chan, the senshi are waiting to see you! It's the passing of power, and you can't miss that." Diana wailed at her mistress as she opened the large French doors that opened to Chibi Usa's rooms. "Oh! I wonder who the senshi will choose to give their powers to. I hope they're nice... Mama and Papa are there already, right?" Usa-chan asked, slipping her shoes back on. "Yes, Princess." Diana said sarcastically. Ignoring her cat, Usa-chan glided away towards the Room of Eternity.
"Usa-chan, dear, you're just in time. Go sit at the other table." Neo Queen Serenity murmured as Usa-chan entered. Chibi Usa nodded and went to the head of second table. There were two tables in this richly decorated room. There were murals of senshi fighting various enemies all around. The tables were oval shaped, and at each place there was a small symbol of each of the planets in this galaxy. A large, round, velvet pillow with the moon symbol stitched on was placed at the center of each table. It could hold approximately three cats with ease. The only other furniture in the room was a gleaming gold and crystal plate. The reason it was considered to be furniture was the fact that the plate had a four foot radius and was...floating... It was divided like a pizza, and an imprint of a crystal was at the base of each "slice". The chandelier dimmed as a soft rendition of Moon Revenge played. Luna leapt onto the pillow on Neo Queen Serenity's table, Artemis following. Clearing her voice she announced in a loud voice that echoed throughout the room "Each senshi works hard to keep the peace of the galaxy, even the universe. When the new generation has come of age, we recognize that the old senshi's powers need rebirth, a new vessel. In order for the senshi to live normal lives after they are done fighting for their kingdom, the planet power they possess leaves. Not to the galaxy cauldron, but rather to the generation previously mentioned. The older senshi will choose, but only with the approval of their planet will the powers proceed to enter the new vessel. The moon princess has come of age, thirteen tomorrow. This marks the time as ripe for the passing of power. I'd like to announce each Queen as she enters." Luna licked her paw and then allowed Diana to scamper to Usa-chan's table a seat herself before continuing. "In order of appearance, I present to you, Neo Queen Mercury, Senshi of Ice." Ami entered, her princess dress followed by a cloud of mist. She sat on Neo Queen Serenity's right side. The sign of Mercury flared on the table and on her forehead. "Neo Queen Mars, Senshi of Fire." Luna said. A raven haired woman entered, fire flaring where her heels clicked on the marble floor. She sat on Neo Queen Serenity's left, smiling at Ami and Usagi as the mars sign shone. Luna continued through, Jupiter, Venus, Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn... "Now that you're all settled, your highnesses, I would like to present the Galaxy Locket." Luna meowed. The floating platter floated over. It first stopped at Mercury, then Mars, then Jupiter, going around until every senshi except Moon had placed their crystals at the corresponding indentation. The plate returned to Sailor Moon. Sighing, she placed a ghostly image of the silver crystal at the center. "Queens, I would now like you to name your heirs. As a note, these girls do not need to be your daughter." Luna added, seeing the nervous looks on Haruka and Michiru's faces. Mercury stood up as the blue mercury sign shone again. "I choose Mizuno Kotomi(Beautiful Harp of Water)." she said calmly, in a rather shy voice. The doors from which the senshi had emerged and in walked Kotomi. Her eyes were pupilless, and she seemed to understand through this what was happening. "I accept the gift." she said in a melodious voice. Her school uniform whipped about her in an invisible wind and the water blue crystal on the platter zipped over to the girl. Her eyes regained their pupils and she plucked the crystal from the air and held it carefully as she sat down on Chibi Usa's right. Usa-chan had been feeling rather lonely and was happy to see Kotomi, her best friend from school. Kotomi has gorgeous ice blue hair that fell to her waist, which set off her warm silvery gray eyes. She was very much like her mother in some ways, but very different in another. Kotomi was careful, but very outgoing and was kind, but polite to everyone. Her IQ was a perfect 300, like her mothers, but she managed to still kick-but during gym class. Everyone admired her and the boys constantly asked Chibi Usa for a picture of them together. Rei interrupted the tense silence with her choice. "I choose Hino Suzaku(Phoenix of Fire)." The doors opened to another pupilless girl. It was Rei's black haired daughter, who's eyes were a rich vermilion. She also picked the crystal from the air when it floated to her. She sat on Usa-chan's left, smiling at the two friends. She was less like her mother than Kotomi, being slightly shy and a bit embarrassed most of the time. Usa-chan and Kotomi protected Suzaku when boy's tried to force her to go on a date, yelling insults at them. Most boys knew by now that if they tried to make a move on poor Suzaku, they would both get insults and punches thrown at them. Suzaku regarded the two girls as older sister type role models, since she was a year younger than them(skipped a grade). Her hair was done in a knee-length ponytail and swung as she walked. Makoto stood up and fiddled with her rose earrings a bit before saying "I choose Kino Aki(Autumn of Wood)." A tall spring green haired girl slipped in. Her eyes were an orange-brown that matched her tan very well. She sat down next to Suzaku and grinned, lovingly fingering her green Jupiter Crystal. She was known in school as a trouble maker. She was the one who often thought up the crazy ideas that she and the other three girls would do. Most of the ideas were things like stacking all the classes desks out in the soccer field and putting insects in the teachers' beureaus. Her rough exterior hid the gentle, motherly, but daring girl within. The four girls all glanced towards Minako as she stood and said "I choose Aino Utami(Beautiful Song of Love)." A cute platinum blond haired girl walked in. Her hair was a little shorter than shoulder length and curved inwards. Her bright orange yellow eyes lit up as she saw her mother's crystal come to her. She took no time in taking it from the air and sitting next to Aki-san. The other girls stared a bit at Utami. They knew her personally very little, only seeing her with Minako occasionally. But her face was very well known, since she had achieved her mother's dream of being an idol. She currently had five singles and one hit CD, not to mention title role in four movies and Henshin-Yo!(a popular Saturday morning time where a shoujo anime movie is shown, and then talked about, idols being the hosts). She smiled a truly friendly, but nervous, smile at the girls before looking over at Setsuna. Setsuna got up and then whispered in a voice that was barely audible "I choose Tokino Miya(Shrine of Time)." A girl entered, and picking up the Garnet Orb, she sat down. Her school uniform was that of the new Infinity Academy. Her floor length extremely dark green hair had occasional streaks of black. It was done in a set of three braids, two going down and one looped like a crown around her head, perfectly matching her amber eyes. No one at the table knew her, but they smiled kindly nonetheless. Haruka stood next, and said with confidence "I choose Tenoh Haneko(Feather Child of Heaven King; I'm giving the idea of a young angel of heaven's king...)." Neo Queen Serenity smiled knowingly. This girl was Haruka's favorite niece, whom she brought to most of her important meetings that included Chibi Usa. The doors opened and a tall boyish girl walked in. Her hair was in Haruka's style, though the color was tan and cream. But the girl's eyes were a startling white tinted navy. She took the Space Sword and sat next to Miya, winking at Kotomi and Usa-chan. They knew her best out of the new senshi, as they had went to preschool and elementary school together. They knew her as a boisterous and rather confident girl, who was part of a group of sports playing boys. With a mischievous grin from Kotomi and Usa-chan, the newly appointed senshi looked at Michiru. "I choose Kaiou Masa(Elegant Sea King)." she said softly. A feminine and graceful figure seemed to float from the door and to the table, after receiving the Aqua Mirror. Her sea green hair was wavy and went down to the girl's waist. It was done up with a stormy gray ribbon, which matched her eyes almost exactly. Her eyes seemed to shift with an inner storm, though her polite and friendly smile lit up the room. She gave an extra grin towards Haneko, her friend from Infinity Academy. This girl had met Michiru as Haenko's friend only two years ago and since then they had become like mother and daughter, to everyone in the room's knowledge. Only later did they discover Masa to be a relative of Michiru's. Masa was an accomplished cello and violin player, and had two CD's of her playing duets with Michiru out and selling. Everyone snapped to attention when Hotaru's voice became the silence. "I choose Tomoe Atsumi(Beautiful Deep Feeling Sprouting From the Earth)." she said in a barely audible, but clearly heard, whisper. A girl entered the room and accepted the Silence Glaive before sitting next to the perfectly calm and smiling Masa-chan. Masa, Haneko, and Atsumi seemed to be fairly good friends, though Atsumi didn't stay around with them all the time. Luna took charge once again "The power will transmit completely after each senshi says their transformation phrase." she said in a no-nonsense manner. Usa-chan decided it was her job to show the others. "Dream Genesis Moon, Make-up!" she cried, holding up her morphed silver crystal, the chibi pink crystal. The light around the prism solidified into a gold and silver locket in the shape of a crescent moon, which she placed on her school uniform's front bow. Pink light and wings enveloped her as she transformed. When it was all done, she was a sight for Neo Queen Serenity, who gasped. Usa-chan's tiara had disappeared to reveal a star encircled by a moon. The star was golden while the moon was silver. Her choker was a pink ribbon with a wing symbol in the middle. The collar and bow of her fuku were pink with two lines adorning the collar and the locket at the tie of the front bow. Her bodice was a two piece, except the color was a white tinted gold. Her shoulders were protected by the same shoulder guard that Sailor Saturn had first worn. A large gold bow was on the back of her bodice and a ribbon of pink went around her waist and ended as a V where her skirt started. At the bottom of the V was the symbol on her forehead. It was strange enough to see her in such an elaborate and foreign gown, but translucent rainbow wings were on her back. Taking the lead, Kotomi cried "Dream Genesis Mercury, Make-up!" and the same process occurred, except Dream Sailor Mercury had a silver tinted fuku with mercury sign's replacing the star-moon and the pink turned to a pale blue. The rest of the Genesis senshi cried the henshin phrase, and transformed to the old senshi's amazement and delight. Their fuku's were silver too and their planet's color replaced the blue or pink of Mercury and Moon's fukus. The senshi all giggled and smiled at their new costumes and wings. Luna took this time to interrupt loudly and turn to the other senshi(excluding Moon). "I realize you all do not have brooches. When you de-transform, your school uniforms will be sporting a heart shaped brooch with your planet's color and sign on it." she clarified. "Old senshi, Queens, we honor you. You will still act as your planet's Queen and leader, and Pluto, you will be Guardian of Time, as always. New senshi, we pass our love and powers to you and hope that you will protect our galaxy as best you can. Diana, I have something to give you." Luna leapt to the floor and transformed into a human as Diana did the same. Luna looked lovingly at her daughter as she removed her crescent moon necklace from her neck and fastened it around Diana's. "I hope you will advise them as I have, and I wish best of luck to you all. This necklace will enable you to assist them, including making communicators. Please, take care." Luna pleaded. Diana smiled and said reassuringly "You can trust me, I won't fail." With that, the silence broke as the new senshi went over to their mother's or role models. Peace and happiness radiated from the pairs as the moon rose into the heavens of the Golden Kingdom.
"The Golden Kingdom? I know little of it, except the legends of their extremely powerful senshi." a male voice said. "You are being sent there, along with Apollo. Take care of the "destined one." Make sure she does not fail, and help her protect the new princess before the Black Light comes."