Chapter 1: From Beyond the Galaxy

Disclaimer: I don't own the Sailor Moon franchise nor do I personally know anyone who does, well not at the moment at least.

This is a sequel to my story "The Queen"; if you have not read that, please do as you might be confused regarding some parts of this story.

My ratings are always M for safety reasons.

Traveling the galaxy for a couple of millennia might seem like an endless adventure to some, however, in this almost infinite universe, things sometimes started to repeat themselves, especially if the being doing the traveling is an immortal who wanted as little contact with mortals as possible.

The traveler, for that was the name she was using now, did not linger in any one place for longer than a few years before departing once again in search of something new to witness, she knew well enough that she could no longer join her kin, which was the reason behind her current habit of roaming the galaxy; incidentally she was getting bored of her current situation and wished for something different, her travels no longer filled the void that had long ago formed in her heart, and she knew that she only had one thing to do, return to where it all started… she had to return home.

Returning home for this nomad was easier said than done, for in that place memories of loss and children she could never see again were there, and facing that reality terrified her to no end; in that place the sad memories far outweighed the good ones, but it was there where she truly was happiest. The regal woman combed her silver hair with her fingers as she thought back to those that she had left behind, the lonely one and the silent one, she even thought back to the little girl who loved green and used to sneak away to that little blue ball of heartache to see it.

There were always whispers about events of her home, the news about Pharaoh 90 of the Tau nebula getting his ass handed to him by little girls from her home system made her smile; she never liked the creep, in fact she once threatened him while traveling in that system never to come anywhere near her or any system she protected, or else she'd seal him away in the heart of a cold moon and cut off any type of power he could muster, and then she proceeded to crush one of his two crystals he was so proud of making, as well as beating him half to death. The traveler smiled at the memory. The fact that it took him a few centuries to get over her threat and attack that system showed full well how much her threat scared the decrypt entity.

When she heard that Nehellenia had broken her seal but was defeated, the Nomad had worried a little, because that woman was usually the omen of something worse to come, and she was not that far off; soon after news of Nehellenia's defeat reached her, she received news of Galaxia's impending attack on her home system; she had met Galaxia once before, she was still a normal Sailor Senshi back then, albite she had defeated and was able to seal Chaos, with a capital C, away; Galaxia had been struggling and had not known how to deal with the sealed spirit of chaos, and the beauty that was the nomad had helped her push back the dark thoughts… for a while, but it appeared that Galaxia decided to release her own star-seed in fear of it being corrupted, and attempted to send it to the nomad, unfortunately for many planets, the star-seed was sent to someone else; however as they say all is well that ends well.

It had been little under a few centuries since the defeat of Chaos and Galaxia, and the traveler had yet to find peace for herself anywhere in any of the uncountable number of galaxies she had roamed. In her heart, she knew that she would never truly be at peace unless she was once again in her own domain, when she would finally be reunited with the daughters she had once lost long ago, for she had left with them most of her heart. She remembered each and every one of them, the mortals and immortal alike, and she missed them dearly, wanting nothing but to be reunited with them once more.

Finally after many millennia of absence, the Nomad was going to settle down once more, and the traveler will come home and will no longer be the traveler. She thought of her daughter, her blood one who she created to take her place, 'how was she fairing?' She wondered, 'did she fulfill the mission I entrusted to her?' those and many more other questions had filled the nomad's head as she looked in the direction of the galaxy she would be returning to in a short while.

Usagi Small Lady Serenity had always felt blessed, she had parents who loved her, and aunts who took care of her, and a best friend who meant more to her than the entire world, and felt the same way about her, and finally she was the princess of Crystal Tokyo; in short Chibi-Usa did not feel like her life could get any better, because she was not only the princess, but also the guardian of love and justice Sailor Chibi-moon, who with her guardians, the Sailor Quartet, defended the Solar system from threats when her mother's team was not available for one reason or another.

It was on a night that her parents were away with her mother's guardians that she first felt the great power entering from outside of the boundaries of the solar system, something which has not happened since the Dark Moon Clan invaded, and the princess caused most of the problems. Though she was expressly told by her mother not to leave the castle, while the queen and her guardians were away, the princess decided to gather up the quartet and Hotaru, who had remained because there were some who still feared her and thus she did not leave the solar system, to investigate this power, which had landed somewhere on the moon.

When the girls started gathering in one of the inner chambers of the Crystal Palace, Usagi noticed that Hotaru had been somewhat distracted, as if looking at some faraway place, when Chibi-moon decided to ask Saturn about it, the last of the Sailor quartet entered the room.

"Sorry!" said Sailor Pallas as she walked in through the door, "I was getting my things ready, it has been a while since we took a trip outside of the earth."

"True," answered her Ceres "it's because we are the last line of defense, so we have to always be ready for attacks, especially with the Queen and king away."

"Let me guess Cer," said Juno, "you think that we should remain on earth and wait for whatever that thing we all felt is to come to us?"

"No!" answered the pink sailor, "I agree with the princess, I only meant that we don't often get to actively seek the enemy because the queen and her guardians are usually here to deal with any threat, we usually protect the princess; now, however, the queen and all of her guardians minus Sailor Saturn are away, so that makes it our duty to investigate."

"I am glad you see it my way Ceres," said the crown princess smiling at her friend, then she turned towards the eldest of the group "so Hotaru, are you ready?"

"Yes, princess, I am."

"Great! Let's get going!"

As the girls started holding hands Vesta was feeling slightly awkward as she took hold of Juno and Pallas' hands, "why does sailor teleport requires us to hold hands at all times?"

"Well, according to my mother, Sailor teleport requires a great deal of energy to initiate and a lot of concentration on the destination to succeed, as a method to reduce both of these requirements, doing it as a group, which in order to do you must be touching and not letting go during the teleportation, distributes the required energy and concentration on all of the group members, as you know, my mother, Hotaru, and Sailor Pluto can all do it alone, because they have the required energy for it. Also another reason is that when there are people who don't know what the place they are teleporting to looks like, this method allows those who do to take up more of the others' share of the concentration."

"Really princess, Queen Serenity explained all of that to you?" asked Ceres skeptically.

"Not in those words," answered the princess, her cheeks turning red. "Anyway, let's not dally and get going shall we?"

"Yes, Mam!" said the rest of the gathered girls as they closed their eyes, gathering their energy and concentrated on imagining their destination. The light tug they felt was the only warning they had before the teleportation started, and their energies started to form pillars of light around them, which once had accumulated the required amount of power sent the Sailor Senshi directly upwards towards the moon.

The first thing they noticed when they arrived on the moon was the crunch of the sands of the moon, followed closely by the absence of the reduced gravity they expected from being on the surface of the moon, next they noticed water surrounding the famed structure that is Moon Castle. It was that water which alerted the Sailor Senshi of an irregularity, even before their brains were able to point out that the gravity was also irregular.

The girls cautiously moved towards the castle looking left and right, and making sure they were not walking into any traps or ambushes. The lamp posts aligned on both sides of the bridge to the former capital city of the moon kingdom were all lit and the stone itself shown as if it was emitting its own light, these were not the ruins of the moon kingdom that they knew, the city had been abandoned for years, even after it had been restored following the queen's defeat of Metaria and the restoration of the castle, no one returned to the moon and populated the city on its surface, which led to the city once again getting ruined; the city they were walking in now was as good as new, as if it was just now constructed, and that according to Chibi-Moon's mother required great amounts of power from the Imperium Silver Crystal to achieve; this being, whoever it was, was appearing more and more dangerous to Small Lady, which made her look at Hotaru in an attempt to receive some courage from the usually calm older girl, what surprised her however was that the guardian of rebirth appeared slightly panicked, more so than she had ever seen her before, but there was something else in her panicked look which Serenity the younger could not read, so instead she turned her face forward, her mind now thinking on what could possibly trouble Saturn that much.

When they arrived at the castle which was unguarded, they felt the new power coming from inside; rushing inside, paying little attention to their surroundings, as they put the direction of this beacon of energy as their goal; their destination as it turned out was the throne room, its doors wide open; the first to arrive was Hotaru who as soon as she did stood right outside of the door, her eyes wide in surprise and not moving a single inch, when the girls looked at where her eyes were transfixed, they saw a beautiful woman with silver hair and Neo Queen Serenity's signature hair style pacing around in front of the throne room, not paying attention to the stunned Senshi.

"Intruder! Stop right there!" shouted the princess as she entered the room, "Tell me what you are doing in the ruins of moon castle or in the name of the moon, I will punish you!"

That shout was what finally caught the stranger's attention, as her head moved to the six girls standing in the doorway, but her eyes saw only one person.

"Macaria," she said and then rushed and took the Senshi into her arms "My beautiful daughter, how I missed you."

"Mother!" said Saturn crying into the woman's embrace "I missed you too; I thought you died when the moon kingdom fell!"

"I am an eternal my dear, I cannot die, I have merely been away."

"Hotaru, who is that?" asked Chibi-usa.

"Macaria, who is that girl and why is she calling you Hotaru?"

"Sorry, that was the name that I reincarnated with, Tomoe Hotaru, and that girl is princess Usagi Small Lady Serenity, heiress of Crystal Tokyo."

"Serenity, you don't mean she is my granddaughter? If so why is her hair pink? The Silver Crystal would not turn one of my blood's hair pink."

"She is not only of your blood, she also has a father."

"Don't tell me my Idiot daughter…"

"Hey! What are you too talking about?" asked the young princess.

"Sorry Chibi-usa, I think I should introduce you," said Hotaru "This is Queen Serenity, who was once known as the goddess Selene, your grandmother!"

"Come to your grandmother child; let me take a proper look at you."

"I am not a child; I am almost a thousand years old!"

"To me, you are all children, however no matter; I wish to hear more about you, but first, Saturn dear, why was the moon abandoned when I returned if Serenity has indeed taken the throne, there is no way the entire moon would be unpopulated, and you mentioned a Crystal Tokyo, what is that?"

"My Queen," started Hotaru, "your daughter did not ascend to the moon throne, she ascended the earth one, with King Endymion."

The elder queen looked at her adopted daughter then rubbed her forehead with her fingers, massaging it, in hopes of elevating the headache that was forming. "She married him?" she asked, "after all that trouble that she caused during the final days Silver Millennium, and she ends up marrying him…"

"Didn't she have your blessing, my queen? After all, you did reincarnate him with her," said Sailor Saturn.

"Of course I reincarnated him with her; I reincarnated everyone who was in the palace during the attack," said the queen, "and let me guess, she took it as a sign that I approved of their union?"

"Hey! What do you have against my father?" asked Small Lady, very offended.

"He's from the house of Endymion, he is a male, and a male human at that, he had someone which he quickly left for my daughter, which ended up causing a full scale invasion… do you really want me to go on? I don't think that I have anything good to say about the boy, except perhaps providing me with a granddaughter."

"What's wrong with being human? I am human."

"Other than they are short-lived, nothing, it is human men that I have a problem with; they are a greedy, violent, fickle bunch, who only think with their manhood rather than their brain; and don't insult yourself, thanks to your mother, you never were human to begin with, within you flows the blood of an eternal, like Macaria, a daughter of a god, though in your case the granddaughter of a goddess who discarded her divinity… retuning to our conversation, I dislike human men in general, and your father in particular has done little to change my opinion, but rather helped affirm it."

Serenity let go of Hotaru but held her wrist and walked with her to the throne on which she then sat.

"Small Lady, Granddaughter, come to me and let me take a good look at you."

"No Way! I am leaving! Girls, let get back, we'll tell the queen and see what happens after."

"I am Sorry Usagi, however, I will remain here, Lady Serenity and I have a lot to catch up on," said Hotaru.

"Ok, but take care," said the princess worriedly.

"If the queen and Pluto arrive, please tell them to come to the moon directly, I have a feeling they will want to talk with mother as soon as they arrive," said Saturn to the other Senshi as they turned back to leave.

"OK Hotaru," said Small Lady, "I'll tell them."

"So, Macaria, I heard you and your friends had to fight Galaxia, I hope she did not cause you much trouble," said Serenity, who was sitting atop her throne with Hotaru sitting on her lap and holding her tight; the young Sailor had started crying once again when Chibi-Usa and the other Senshi left, and had just now stopped shedding tears.

"It was scary," she said, looking up at Serenity, "while the brainwashed sailors she had were only a little troublesome to deal with, Galaxia herself was another matter entirely, if it wasn't for the princess and Galaxia's star seed, this galaxy would have perished…"

"I do have to apologize about that, I met Galaxia before, when she was still holding the Chaos inside of her back, and helped her with it for a little bit, when she sent her Star seed to Serenity, she had actually meant to send it to me, it was a sign that Chaos's corruption had almost taken it hold of her and that she needed me to cleanse her once more."

"Well, it all ended well, although all the Sailors were put into the cauldron, Sailor Moon, your daughter, managed to resurrect them."

"Are you telling me the entirety of your team was put into the birthplace of the universe and resurrected?" asked the queen, "that could spell out many changes in them, they are perhaps no longer mortal or long lived, but something else entirely."

"Like what mother?"

"Without examination, I cannot know, you know your father and Zeus had once fought over using it to enhance their avatars, but since they did not know what kind of effects that could have, which Hades pointed out by the way, they decided to drop it."

"I was also in the Cauldron; does that mean that I was affected too?"

"My daughter, you and Sertya are both eternal, you will not have had any side effects from the cauldron, it is the other Senshi who would have though."

All of a sudden, the door to the throne room burst open, interrupting the two women.

"What in the name of the moon is going on?" asked a feminine voice as two women entered the throne room.

"Serenity, Sertya, welcome," said the old queen with a smile.

""Mother?!"" said both women at the same time.

A/N: So this story has been on my mind since before I wrote The Queen, but unlike The Queen and all my other stories, this one has not been planned out at all, I will be working on it whenever the fancy/muse strikes me and as there is no plan, I welcome your interactions which will help make the story move forward.

About the title, I realized halfway through this chapter that the title itself is from the lyrics of the song I'm coming home part 2, (I prefer not to think of dirty money,) and that there are some similarities in the premise of the song and this chapter, they are all unintended, and I apologize if anyone is offended in any way.

I hope you like this story, and if you do please FF&R.

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