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Hello there everyone! For those that have not seen Ruki44's original first chapter of the mythology of Sailor Moon, I want you to know that I took it over. She wasn't going to get back to it and after asking, she graciously gave me reign to take over. So here is Chapter 1. I'm looking to do this in 4 chapters and the others should be written up soon. Chapter 1 focuses on the myths related to Sailor Moon and Usagi as well as the tendril connections to other characters of the myths of the moon. This is written in a sort of story format so that there's no way it's not allowable from the ToS. This explanation is set after the actual end of the series (so that Hotaru can be a teen and know that she's Sailor Saturn, and I decided for Mamoru and Usagi to be married by this point). All research is done by myself, although it will only be rudimentary research so that some sort of connection with the series can be made to the myths and origins. I hope that you enjoy and if there is anything that you find wrong with anything put in any of the chapters, feel free to message me, and as always, please read and review!
They sat around the table. It was slightly crowded, but Rei's house was the only place they could have this meeting. Everyone had managed to make it, so this would be a lot easier.
"Thank you for all coming here." Luna sat on the table with Artemis next to her. "We've asked all of you here today because we have an exercise for all of you. You will be given information and are to use the information to discover more about yourselves through what is told to you. Some of you may have heard all of this before, some of you won't have." Luna made a circle as she looked at the others. "Learning this will help you in figuring our where all of your powers lie."
"It was great that all of you could make it." Artemis looked at the four people sitting to one side, three adults and a teen.
Diana looked at her parents from where she sat on Chibi-Usa's lap. "What is it that you're going to tell us?"
Chibi-Usa looked down at Diana. "You mean you don't know either?" The kitten looked up and shook her head.
"It's quite simple dear. Mythology; what do any of you know about it?" Luna took a seat in front of Usagi and Mamoru.
Ami spoke up first. "Mythology, defined as a group of myths that belong to a particular people or culture and tell about their ancestors, heroes, gods and other supernatural beings, and history."
"Myths can come from a large group of sources." Haruka added. "Usually though they were devised from the truth of a story and embellished over time to give them an otherworldly sense."
"You are both very correct." Luna looked at the two of them. "All of you in your present sense, including your powers, are connected to the myths that we will tell you. Some of these myths are actually based off you."
"Luna, can we just get started...I'm hungry!" Usagi whined.
"Usagi..." Luna's eye twitched at the whining of her charge."Don't worry. I'll take you somewhere to eat on our way home." Mamoru told both his wife and future daughter. Both eyes looked loving at him and he just smiled.
He asked as he turned back towards Luna and Artemis, "Where will be starting?"
Artemis looked at Luna and answered, "It will be easiest if we start with Usagi and her connections to the myths of the moon."
Usagi nodded excitedly. Luna continued. "Firstly, when you were Princess of the Moon Kingdom your name was Serenity, you know this. There was a group of people here on Earth at the time that greatly admired you." Luna looked around again. "All of you. The Greeks revered you and based their Gods and Goddesses on you, although there were other cultures on Earth that did so as well. So as Princess Serenity, to the Greeks, you became Selene."
"How do you know?" Usagi asked.
"One of the most famous stories of Selene is how she fell in love with a shepherd, although some think he was a King or a hunter instead, named Endymion. We of course know that he was a Prince. She was desperately in love with him and asked her father Zeus for his help. He allowed the young man to decide his own fate: either live his mortal life or sleep for eternity. The young man chose eternal sleep, so that he could be with Selene for eternity. She visited him every day."
Mamoru looked at Usagi and smiled. "Well we at least know that myth is true."
"She actually has another tie to you Mamoru." Artemis continued from where Luna left off. "One of Selene's brothers was the sun god Helios."
"Really?" Chibi-Usa looked surprised and Artemis nodded and continued.
"Even Elysium, Endymion's kingdom, became a myth, becoming a sort of heaven where only those chosen by the gods could spend the afterlife.""That hardly seems fair." Diana told her father."Yes honey, I know."
"Anyway, back to Helios a moment," Luna looked at Usagi, "Helios was said to drive the chariot that pulled the sun across the sky daily as Selene, his sister, was the one to drive the chariot that pulled the moon across the sky each night.""That sounds like how it actually is." Ami said.
"How do you mean?" Rei asked her."Well, Usagi guards the Silver Crystal, substituted in myth by the moon, and Helios is the guardian of the Golden Crystal, substituted in myth by the sun." Ami stated looking at Rei.
"You're right!" Rei exclaimed.
"What else is there about me?" Usagi now was very excited."You of course know that your name means 'Rabbit of the Moon', correct?" Luna asked hoping against all odds that she couldn't be so dimwitted as to not know that.
"Of course I do!" Usagi blushed lightly, giving the hint that she knew but hadn't really ever thought about it.
"Ok, but do you know why that is relevant to you? All of you. Your names were all chosen for very specific reasons, although I highly doubt your parents ever even gave them a second thought." Luna looked around the room. Turning back to Usagi she continued, "Have you ever heard the story of the Jade Rabbit?"
Rei spoke up. "I've never even thought to connect those two!" A few heads around the room nodded in agreement.
"What? What connection is there?" Usagi looked at the room frantic trying to figure out what they knew.
"There are many different versions to this story, but the basis of it is this." Artemis told her as he shifted to get more comfortable before continuing. "There were three spirits who disguised themselves as old men. These three old men asked food from a monkey, a fox and a rabbit. The monkey and fox had food that they gave to the old men, but the rabbit having nothing to give threw himself on the fire. The spirits, touched by the rabbit's virtue allowed the rabbit to then live in the Jade Palace on the moon."Luna looked at Usagi. "Do you remember giving yourself up when Endymion was hurt? And then later when you fought against...well any of your enemies. The story of the rabbit's virtue is that of your virtue. You were named for that virtue. There's no way that your parents could have known that you would be Sailor Moon, but part of them, possibly their Star Seeds, who knows, recognized yours at birth for what it was. They recognized that you're the reincarnation of Serenity, tying you to these myths and legends, all of you. Something was recognized in you by your parents in order to name you as such that you were."
Makoto looked at Luna. "So how does it relate to the rest of us?"
"We will get to each of you in turn, eventually. We would like to finish with Usagi though." Artemis said kindly."Well actually Artemis the only thing connecting to the moon still left is our names and Diana's."Chibi-Usa asked Luna. "What's your connection?"
"For the Greeks, another moon goddess was Artemis and the Roman's equated her with Diana. Then another group of people here on Earth, called the Spanish now, used the word luna to mean 'moon'."
Hm. That was all that was left." Artemis turned to Ami. "Ami and Mercury are next."
Chapter 2 will cover Ami/Sailor Mercury, Minako/Sailor Venus and Rei/Sailor Mars.