Remember Me, Mama.

It had started out as a normal day in the Tsukino house. Kenji and Shingo were at the table for breakfast. Kenji commented on a story in the paper.

"It seems like the sunspot activity is back to normal and all those strange storms that were occurring up until yesterday have stopped."

Shingo added, "Yeah, seems like the only disaster we have to worry about is more of Usagi's cooking."

Ikuko, bringing the breakfast in said, "Now, now, you should be nice to your sister." She looked toward the stairs. "I wonder why she hasn't rushed down the stairs.", she said

"I'll go check on her.", Shingo offered and went to Usagi's room. Moments later, Shingo yelled down in a panicked voice. "Mom! Dad! You'd better come up here!"

So they ran up to Usagi's room and the first thing they notice is that Usagi is not there but Luna is laying on her pillow. Shingo was sitting on the edge of her bed with tears in his eyes and holding a letter in his hand.

Ikuko asked, "Shingo, what's wrong? Where's Usagi?"

Handing her the letter, Shingo replied, "I think you'd better read this."

Ikuko started reading:

"My dearest family,

This is perhaps the hardest letter that I've had to write, but the fact that you are reading it brings me as much joy as it does sorrow. It means that we were successful in our mission and that the world is safe from evil. You are probably asking yourselves what I'm going on about. Well, I have a confession to make, I am Sailor Moon. There I said it."

Ikuko stopped, saying, "Usagi's Sailor Moon? Impossible!"

Shingo replied, "That's what I thought too, until I went to my room and got the doll that was given to me a while back." and he handed the doll to his dad.

Kenji examined the Sailor Moon doll carefully then handed it to Ikuko saying, "It is a perfect likeness of Usagi-chan."

Ikuko held the doll and continued to read:

"Our mission was to fight Queen Beryl of the Dark Kingdom, who was behind the abnormal sunspot activity, which if allowed to continue, would have eventually destroyed the world. Because we believe in this world of ours, we could not allow her plan to succeed. The joy is that by the time you read this letter, we will have defeated the evil queen once and for all. The sorrow, unfortunately, is that triumph over evil will have come at a great cost."

Ikuko's voice started breaking and tears started welling in her eyes, but she continued,

"I know I had a lot to live for, please do not think of this as throwing my life away. I,,I mean we did what we had to do. What no one else could do. We all wish that things could have been different. Please remember us and take care of Luna. Love forever, Usagi."

Ikuko sat down on the bed next to Shingo, set down the letter and said, "This has to be a trick." and picked up Luna, saying. "Well, Luna, It seems that Usagi-chan's not coming back. , and the only clue is a letter claiming that she is Sailor Moon. I wonder what would you say if you could talk."

What happened next, Ikuko did not expect as Luna responded in a soft voice. "I would say, I am sorry, Tsukino-san. Usagi and the others knew what was at stake."

"Then everything in the letter is true?"

Luna said sadly, "I'm afraid it is."

Ikuko held the Sailor Moon doll to her chest and wept.