Naru's Diary: The Diamond Gate
By: Wilona Riva
Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon.
Author's Note: Ami's mother's name comes from PGSM.
Sapphire
It has been five months since Osaka Naru has awakened from cold sleep. Much has happened in those five months. Old Akiyo died two weeks after Naru joined us and Naru has volunteered to keep the Park of Lost Souls in his place. Neo-Queen Serenity agreed and suggested that we change the name back to the Efiji Gardens, but Naru vetoed the idea. So, now we call it the Shrine of Lost Memories. Each senshi has agreed to a rotation to take Naru's place as keeper of the shrine so she can have every second Thursday off. Today is my day.
Signed by my hand,
Mizuno Ami, Senshi Mercury
(Ami's POV)
I walk amongst the crystal coffins and gaze lovingly on each person frozen in serenity. None know of the great chances that overcame the outside world in the last millennium. People live far longer lives than before thanks to the Ginzuishou and Ceremony of the Cleansing.
One face in particular holds my interest.
My mother.
Mizuno Saeko, also known as Dr. Mizuno to the professional world. To me, she had always been my world since my father left us.
I miss her so much.
I noticed a large jagged crack running along side the crystal coffin. Odd, that hadn't been there the last time I passed by. My eyes widened as the coffin's crack widened even further.
Uh-oh!
I quickly grabbed my computer, turned on my visor and began typing. It was as I feared. Another Lost One was about to awaken.
Flying behind some bushes, I narrowly escape the flying shards as the coffin exploded with a tinkling crash of glass.
"Where am I?" were the first words I heard my mother say in almost a thousand years.
"Welcome, Lost One," I said, rising to my feet.
(Saeko's POV)
"Okay, Saeko, you've got to quit reading the tabloids during breaks," I tell myself.
"Welcome, Lost One," the blue-haired woman greets me.
I squinted in the bright sunlight. The woman looks familiar to me somehow. Then it clicks.
"Ami?"
"Mom, I..." she stops and then a mask comes over her face.
"Lost One, you are required to come with me to the Crystal Palace to undergo cleansing and pledge your loyalties to Neo-Queen Serenity. I am Sailor Mercury, chief palace physician," she says.
I shook my head in confusion. "Don't you take that tone of voice with me, young lady. You may have grown up, but I'm still your mother."
She smiles at me.
"Come, Lost One," she says, walking away from the ring of crystal coffins I find myself in.
Crystal coffins? Wait a sec!
"I can't be dead. There's so much I haven't done yet," I sound like a child whining for cotton candy at a festival.
"Peace, Lost One," my daughter tells me. "I'll explain everything to you on the way."
I sighed and brushed the shards of glass from my lap.
What choice do I have?