A Queen in Exile
Prologue:
"In the future of the Earth, please live happy lives."
I remembered saying those words when I sent the souls of my daughter, Princess Serenity and her guardians into the future. What happened next I did not expect. I had closed my eyes and with my dying wish, wished only the opportunity to see my daughter again. What I did expect is that the Ginzuishou responded before it split and I felt the Moon Stick slip from my hands. I thought that had died. Instead I had found that somehow the Ginzuishou had sent my own soul into the future on Earth. Imagine that. I, Queen Serenity, reborn on Earth in the country of Japan in the year 1956. The parents that I was born to gave me the name Ikuko, and that is how I am known even now. Of course it did take a few events for me to realize my previous existence. Once when I was a young girl, I had to wash up before dinner when I noticed a crescent-moon mark on my forehead in the mirror. Uncertain of what I had seen, I had asked my mother if I had missed any spots on my face. She said my face looked fine which told me that only I could see the mark. The day the memories really started flooding back for me was July 20, 1969. Seeing the live pictures from the surface of the moon on the television brought the memories back of the fall of Silver Millennium and I cried. My parents just assumed I was caught up in the emotions of the moment and did not ask questions. With everything that has happened in the twenty-two years since being reborn, and having experienced life as both Lunar Royalty and a human woman, I must say there is nothing wrong with an ordinary life. As long as the Dark Kingdom does not rear it's ugly head again. I am in a hospital now with my husband of one year, Kenji holding a newborn baby girl. She has been given the name Usagi, but I look at her and I notice she too bears the crescent-moon mark on her forehead. It has taken 22 years of a new life to do, but I finally do get to see my Princess Serenity once again.