I'm Waking Up

by Niki Tittle

After the battle with Galaxia, Mamoru proposes to Usagi, which causes a visit from Queen Serenity. The visit shows what it to come and now the girls are faced with having to return home, but not to their houses, but to their planets. With this they also have to factor in that they do not have their full memories yet. How will the handle the truth and rebuilding their planets?

1. The Time Has Come

I'm Waking Up

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Author's Note: I am a bit addicted to Imagine Dragon's Radioactive and listening to this song gave me the greatest idea in a fanfiction to tell. While I do not own Sailor Moon, nor the original story line this story goes into my own mind about what I would like to see happen after the last episode of Sailor Moon and I pick right up from where Mamoru and Usagi share a kiss under the moon. Please share all thoughts and criticism that you have to offer, though don't flame me too bad. It's been forever since I wrote a fanfiction and I am excited about writing a new one up.

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Chapter 1

The Time Has Come

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After our lips parted, I looked up into Mamoru's dark eyes, a smile gracing my now swollen pink lips. He smiles back at me, one of his hands leaving my small waist to run along the side of my face, pushing back stray golden hairs. His thumb rubs across my forehead softly as he leans down and places the sweetest kiss where his thumb was and I couldn't help the pink tint that graced my cheeks. How did I ever get so lucky to have him in my life, not just once, but twice? I think to myself, as I ended up squeezing his waist a bit tighter, bringing my head in to rest against his chest, sighing contently.

"We're free…" I whispered against the softness of the green blazer Mamoru always wore, breathing in the scent that was of the earth and roses. A scent that I will always know was his.

A small, deep chuckle came from Mamoru, his hands moving to my shoulders to pull me back away from him a few inches. Looking into my eyes, he smiled and nodded his head before he spoke. "Yes, Usako… We are finally free to live our lives." His hands dropped from my shoulders, taking a step backwards, away from me. I looked up at him, confusion written clearly across my face at the sudden departure from our closeness. My eyes watched his hands like a hawk as they moved to his blazer, pulling the left side out while his other hand reached into the hidden pocket. My hands went to my hair on impulse, tangling my fingers into the long strands as I continued to watch him. He looked at me, smiling as his hand was clasped around something and he dropped down to one knee and opened his hand to reveal a gorgeous gold antique style engagement ring. My mouth opened and closed a few times, knowing that I must have looked like a fish, my hands left my hair and moved to cover my mouth, but my wide eyes did not hide my surprise. Of course I had always known that one day we would get married, but I had never thought about the proposal.

Mamoru smiled brightly at me as he saw my surprise written all over my face and he chuckled, shaking his head and reached out to grab my left hand. Bringing my hand down to his level, he slid the gold ring upon my finger, the diamonds reflecting against the round moonstone that was placed in the middle of the diamond clusters. While my gaze was stuck upon the ring that found a home upon my finger, Mamoru began to speak.

"Usagi… You've had my heart the moment your beautiful blue eyes landed upon me when we first met on the moon, and you reawakened it when we met again. Even after everything that tried to keep us apart, my soul yearned for your touch, to see your smile, to protect you from everything that I could, even venturing out of my dreams to save you, to love you. I know that we've been through so much, that we have seen so much, even parts of our future and Chibi Usa… But none of that has put a damper on how I feel for you... how much I love you… Usagi, will you do me the honor and become my wife?"

My eyes started to water while he spoke, remembering everything that had happened between us, Tuxedo Kamen, the Moonlight Knight, Prince Endymion, to even meeting his future self, King Endymion. My lips started to spread into a smile as I swear my heart beat pulsed in time with the silver crystal. Taking my hand from Mamoru's grasp both moved to his face, softly cupping his cheeks as I moved to squat down to his level and press my forehead against his and breathed the answer against his lips. "Yes…"

A bright light from my silver crystal broke out of my brooch right as I kissed Mamoru after I gave him my answer. The light encased us both and I could not see anything, not even my own hands as I raised them up to my face to cover my eyes from the light. In my head, I heard a voice that I would never forget, even if you've only met a handful of times in this life. Queen Serenity. Mother.

"My daughter… although I want to wish you a happy engagement, the time has come." Images flashed before my eyes, deep in space, just outside of the galaxy a comet was traveling fast. A tail of ice behind it, the comet busted into the Milky Way Galaxy and was slowly making its way towards its destination. Earth. "The time of ice will soon be upon you, my daughter; the time of Neo-Queen Serenity is almost here. You must return to the Moon and restore our Kingdom as it will be a symbol of everlasting peace to everyone, and the other princesses. Your friends need to also prepare Serenity, the new peace will expand through the other planets and galaxies, allow the girls to return home to restore their planets to their former glory. But, do not fret my daughter; you will all once again be joined together…"

As the voice of my first life's mother disappeared, the blinding light of the silver crystal died down into nothing. I looked around; noticing that I was floating back down to the ground and as I landed, I heard Mamoru behind me, say my name. Twirling around, I saw Prince Endymion in place of Mamoru, which caught my breath. "Endymion…?" He smiled, nodding his head to me, his hand out stretched towards me, urging me to look upon myself. Following his gesture, I looked down upon myself and noticed that no longer did I have on my school uniform, but the dress of Princess Serenity. As I reached down to touch my dress a strand of pearls moved down my wrist and I smiled brightly. Looking back up at Endymion, my smile still gracing my lips. "The time has come." I said to him softly as he nodded his head once again, agreeing with me.

With a flash of light, we were back in our civilian clothing and right after my communicator went off. With a couple beeps, I reached for my wrist and flipped open the lid of what looked like a wrist watch, showing a tiny screen in the lid as my friends all looked at me. I knew that they were concerned, they all can feel when the silver crystal becomes alive and that was why they were contacting me. I smiled at them, my free hand moving behind my head to scratch as a sheepish smile became plastered across my face. "Now guys, before you say anything, no, I am alright. It was actually Queen Serenity." I told them, watching as seven surprised faces and two cats tried to squeeze into the screen. Raising my hand up to stop the on sought of questions, I simply told them that I would meet them at Hino Shrine within the hour and explain to them what had happened. With all in agreement, I closed the lid to my communicator and looked at Mamoru who came to stand at my side while I was talking to the girls. With a sweet smile from him, he held his hand out for me to take and while I slipped my hand into his, we walked across the bridge and through the park to where Mamoru parked his car.

"The girls are going to want to know more than Queen Serenity had told you, you know that, right Usako?" He said as we slipped into the seats of the car, shutting the doors. I nodded my head and sighed, how was I going to know what to say, "Um hey guys! So mom wants us all go to back to our own planets and bring them back to life and I have no idea how to do that." Shaking my head slightly to myself, I reached over to the radio and turned the knob, the volume rising slightly as music started playing from the local radio station that Mamoru listened to all the time. Within twenty minutes, we had pulled up to the stairway to the Hino Shrine and Mamoru placed the gear into park, shutting the car off. Placing a hand upon my thigh, he gave it a squeeze and then a light pat. "Let's go." He said, removing his hand from my thigh and opening the door, sliding out. I followed suit and made my way with him up the stairs to the shrine. When we reached the top, everyone minus Setsuna was there waiting for us; of course she already knows what is going to happen.

As we all gathered together inside the shrine, I repeated what had happened out on the bridge to everyone. After getting many congratulations and ring showing after I told about the proposal, I then continued onto the silver crystal encasing us, changing us into our former selves and what Queen Serenity had said. Once I was finished, everyone was quiet for a few moments before Mina broke the silence. "Well how are we supposed to bring our planets back to life by ourselves?" Mina said, placing her head into her hands and leaning on the table that everyone was sitting around. I shrugged my shoulders; it was a mystery to me as well. While we all sat in silence, trying to think of what seemed impossible, it came to me. I jumped up out of my seat and almost scared the life out of Ami who was sitting next to me. I gave her an apologetic smile and then looked at Luna and Artemis.

"Luna, Artemis, can't you look up on your computer database to see if there is a way? I mean, you've gotten so much information for other things, even on finding us." Usagi said, placing my hands on my hips. The girls around me agreed, Haruka slammed her first down on the table, causing Michiru to place her hand on Haruka's thigh to calm her down. "While all this is good, I mean we get to finally go home and all… but we don't even remember our lives from back then, only what happened to the moon." Haruka said in anger, why weren't they allowed to remember their past lives fully? What was in the way that didn't want them to know?

Luna, after listening to the girls continue to discuss what to do and agree with Haruka; turned to Artemis and sighed, they all had so much work to do and it was true, not even Luna knew what fully happened in their past lives. It was something Luna would look into for sure.

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Thanks everyone for reading this chapter! I hope that everyone enjoyed reading it also. So what do you think could be keeping the girls and the cats full memories from returning? Ideas, ideas! : ]

R&R please!

Also, if anyone would love to be my beta reader, please let me know!

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