A/N: Hi there! this is my VERY first fanfiction so I hope you enjoy! I have done EXTENSIVE research on the sailor moon timeline and hope there are no gaps that any of you readers can find. Crystal Millenia will be based off of the Manga (both the original and remastered versions). Read, Review, and Enjoy! Hope to write more chapters soon =)
NOTICE: Chapter One (this chapter) has been UPDATED! In other words, lengthened. Decided I cut it too short. SO! Here is 100% of chapter one!
Chapter One
"OH MY GOD, I'M GONNA BE LATE!"
Usagi leapt out of bed like the moon rabbit she was and scrambled around to find her uniform within the disaster zone called her bedroom.
"Usagi? Get up already! Its eight o'clock! School starts in ONE HOUR! You can't be late on your LAST DAY of HIGH SCHOOL!"
"I KNOW MOM! I'M GETTING DRESSED! I'LL BE OUT IN A MINUTE!"
She rushed to get her uniform on one last time before running down the staircase and out the door. Outside, Mamoru was waiting for her, staying just out of sight from any windows Usagi's Father might have been able to spot him from.
"Got everything?" He asked her with a grin.
"Yep!" She replied with all her perkiness.
And with that, they took off for school. When they arrived at Juban Secondary, Usagi hopped off the motorcycle and removed her helmet. Unexpectedly, she also removed Mamoru's from his head to deliver to him her last kiss as a high school student.
"I`ll see you tonight! Remember its Friday! Pick me up just before dinner?" She asked with a cheery smile.
"Sure! I'll see you later then dumpling head. Have a good last day of school!"
"Oh sure! Rub in the fact that you're already off for good!"
He laughed, and with that, he took off. All was now well, Chaos had been defeated, the Starlights went back home with their princess, and Mamoru was back in the flesh as well. There was no more to worry about. All was well. It had been two entirely normal years with no need for the senshi. It was as if they had disappeared.
3 Years later
It was now January of 1999. Five years had passed since Chaos had been defeated. Three years had passed since Usagi graduated from high school, Mamoru from university (and since they moved in together), and two since Mamoru landed an outstanding job at the hospital, making it a peaceful five years. Little did they know however, that this was soon about to change.
Luna had moved in with Minako and Artemis once Usagi and Mamoru were living together. The year 2000 was coming up, everyone was on edge, was the world going to end? Would there be an apocalypse? Or would it just keep running like any other day? Usagi, Mamoru, the senshi, and the cats however, were suspicious. If Chibiusa had been 900 years old in the 30th century, that meant Crystal Tokyo was just around the corner. Time was running out. They figured that 2000 would be the year. If this was true, they had just under one year left to figure out what specifically was going to happen. They had to sort things out and prepare for the coming events. Fast.
Usagi lay on the large soft bed, splayed all over the fluffy white sheets and pillows, bored to death, contemplating when Mamoru would arrive home from the hospital. He had graduated head of his class a year early in med school and, after a one year internship, was awarded a highly important position at the Abazu Hospital, dealing with the patients in trauma. He knew what it was like to be in the patients' shoes and wanted to be rid of his ghastly amnesia and remember his family.
She envied him still, despite this. He was highly intelligent, graduated top of his class, and made good grades seem effortless (despite the large amount of studying and hard work he would do). She, on the other hand, would fail every test she wrote, barely scraping by in high school. She had no chance of even being admitted into a post secondary institution. But what was the point anyways? She would eventually just become queen in (what they assumed to be) one year's time. If she had actually gone to university, and Crystal Tokyo came within the next year, she would become queen before even graduating. So really, what was the point in wasting time, effort, and money?
"I wonder when Mamo-chan's getting home... maybe I should make dinner as a surprise for when he gets home. Ugh, but that would mean getting off the bed! No, I should do it! I'm staying here for the price of absolutely nothing after all. It's the least I can do for him."
Slowly, she built up the motivation and crawled off the soft bed and just as soon as she was about to get up, 'BANG!' the front door of the apartment slammed shut. And so, highly startled, she fell off the bed and onto the floor with a loud 'thud'.
"Usako? Was that you? Are you alright?" Inquired Mamoru as he walked through the front door.
"Oh Mamo-chan! It's you!" She cried back from the bedroom trying to recompose herself. "I was just about to fix up a delicious dinner for when you got home! But you got home before I could start." she said disappointedly as she emerged from behind the door.
"Oh um, that's okay! Don't worry about it! I actually had something in mind so don't worry, I'll fix dinner okay?"
Knowing what a dreadful cook Usagi was, Mamoru was not about to either suffer her piercing crying due to the ugly truth or have to suffer food poisoning due to remaining silent and polite. The last time he'd eaten her food, he was given food poisoning for a week!
"Are you sure?" She asked, trying to hide the enormous smile behind her face. Everyone knew Mamoru's cooking was almost as good as Mako's, which means to say a lot.
"Of course I'm sure. What were you thinking of having?" Mamoru breathed out a sigh of relief as he took off and put away his shoes and coat, and walked to the kitchen. Tonight so far, they would be tear and illness free. "We're improving!" He thought to himself with a hidden grin.
"Could we maybe have dumplings?" She crossed her fingers behind her back and watched him as he started going from one cupboard to the next, pulling out different ingredients spices.
"So dumplings for a dumpling head?" He laughed as set down a package on the counter. "Sure, I'll make some pork dumplings then?"
"Okay!" She replied with a smile brimming from ear to ear. "Pork dumplings are the yummiest things ever! Well, besides cake... and ice cream... and maybe candy too... but that's beside to point! How long is it going to take do you think?"
"Um, probably one hour?" He assumed.
"A whole hour? I guess I'll have to find some way to survive my famishment until then." Sighed the dramatic blue eyed bunny, causing her companion to roll his eyes for a millionth time.
After one full hour of nagging Mamoru to hurry up with the dumplings, him tickling her in retaliation to just be patient for dinner, and both of them having to endure the mouth watering aroma of the dumplings cooking, they were finally done and ready to be eaten. Mamoru served each of themselves three large dumplings (since he knew just how much Usagi loved to eat) with a side of rice, and set the plates down on the table. They took their seats quickly, not able to wait any longer with that pungent smell of food entering their nostrils.
"Well," said Mamoru while setting down Usagi's plate in front of her, taking a bite of his first dumpling, and seating himself at the table, "Dig in! They turned out delicious!"
"I'll bet they did!" She said eyeing the food with an expression of great desire to eat on her face. She took one bite out of the dumpling, the most delectable dumpling might we add, and the unexpected happened. Usagi dropped the dumpling on the floor and yelped.
"Mamoru? I can't see! Mamo? MAMORU? WHAT'S GOING ON? HELP ME!"
"Usagi!" He ran over to her side of the table to check on her. "Usagi, what's going on? Just keep talking to me." He told her while holding her shoulders, trying to keep her calm while she flailed her hands in distress to bear down her surroundings.
"I can't see a thing! Everything's faded to black! Mamo-chan, I can't see anything! What's happening? I'm blinking... but I... can't... see anyth-"
"USAGI!" Yelled Mamoru in shock, as she fell to the floor unconscious; nearly hitting her head on the tile floor had he not been there to catch her in time.
As for Usagi, everything went black...