So this was it, no more normal teenage life. Yes she had saved her best friend's life and the world was safe for another day.
But now she had to keep it that way, and just like before when Luna had first entered her bedroom that day when she was ignorant to this life.
She was alone.
Serena stood in the street with her feline companion at her side wondering what she had done to deserve this.
Yes she was a bit spoiled and lazy, she hated her homework and procrastinated by playing Sailor V and pigged out on junk food, but she had good intentions. She was there when it mattered, so why?
Why had she been summoned to protect this world again? Hadn't she suffered enough from the last war?
"Serena?"
Luna's voice broke her from her thoughts.
"Let's go home" she nodded and walked alongside her furry friend 'at least I still have Luna' she thought.
The arrived home in silence, her family hadn't been woken from her running from the house in a haste.
Serena climbed into bed and Luna curled up with her without a word, Luna thought about saying something, like she had done a good job, or look on the bright side of things like she had her powers back and now they could talk again. But she was stopped by the solemn look on her princess' face, she thought it best to leave her be tonight, they would figure things out in the morning.
Somehow sleep came easily for Serena, though her dreams were nothing but easy to watch.
The young heroine tossed and turned as she re-lived the hell of the day that she fought Beryl. The faces of her fallen friends flashed through her mind, first Lita, then Amy, Mina and then Rei.
She watched them die, and worse, they died for her, so that she could face her worst fear alone.
But the icing on the cake came when he died for her. Her love, her life. She had finally gotten him back, broken the spell for good, only so that they could never be with each other.
She woke with a start covered in a sheen of sweat breathing heavily, as she calmed down Serena could hear Luna purring and sleeping soundly. She rose from her bed and looked out to her window and watched the moon.
She was the moon princess, sworn to protect the moon and her kingdom, a kingdom that watched over the Earth, she had sworn to protect the Earth and never let anything that happened in the past to happen again.
At least she knew her friends were still alright and their lives had gone back to normal, she didn't think about Darien, the crushing sensation in her heart just got more painful if she did.
She felt a tear escape her eye and wiped it away.
No, things would work out, they had to, and she had to be strong, she was the only soldier again, just like before, and if she could do it once, she'd do it again, for them.