Chapter 1:

And he kissed her. An earth shattering kiss, or rather, an earth saving kiss, one that would bring the perfection of Crystal Tokyo to life.

I love him. Usagi thought, startled, That was unexpected. Kissing him back with all she had.

They broke apart to the sound of giggling, and found Serenity with a purely evil look on her face:

"Pay up Endy! I told you so! See! You don't even know yourself as well as I know you!" Serenity grinned at him, holding out her hand in a childish fashion, waving it up and down in front of him.

Endymion sighed, a smirk playing about his face, "You know as well as I do that I can't give that to you here! Think of the children! Do you want to destroy our own innocent minds?" He winked at her, then turned to Usagi and Mamoru, "Anyways, back to the track. Before we go ahead, you need to visit the past, purely as ghosts, since your memories have been blocked."

Usagi and Mamoru looked at each other, confused, "the past? Queried Mamoru, "That's not possible, is it?"

Serenity smiled, a mournfully sad type of smile, with none of her usual happiness conveyed in it, "Only for people like us, is it possible."

She took a breath, and continued, "Pluto will be here in a few minutes, to take you to the Time Gate. Don't be frightened of it, it is really only a simple procedure, but you must remember that you cannot interfere in the past events. You will only be ghosts, and your voices will not be audible to anyone but yourselves. No one will see you, but you will be pulled to the necessary events. We're sorry that you can't remember them for yourselves, and hope that this won't be too traumatising for you."

"You see, we only remembered in little snippets, til finally it all came rushing back; I'm afraid that you do not have that liberty."

Endymion reached around Serenity, holding her tight, understanding how hard this was for her.

"Really, all I wanted to say was sorry; so, sorry." Serenity smiled a watery smile, remembering how she and Endymion had died in the Moon Kingdom.

There was hardly a moment of silence before Pluto arrived, this signalled by a dark vortex appearing near the Queen and her husband. She strode out, first bowing to the royalty, then moving towards Usagi and Mamoru.

"Usagi," she smiled slightly, "it is good to see you again, you also Mamoru. Please, come with me, I will show you to the Moon Kingdom."

Usagi opened her eyes wide at the sight which lay before them, they had stepped out of the Time Gate and into the past, invisible spectators to an inevitable fate. The stood on a path, which appeared to lead to an enormous Palace, all made of white marble, magnificently carved. There were floor length windows on each level of the Palace, giving it an amazing open look.

She looked down to their joined hands; she had grabbed his as they had walked through the gate, afraid of what they would find on the other side.

Mamoru smiled, they might be in the past, and now have to save the world, but he had is Usako, and that was all that mattered, right?

Their moment was shattered by the nearby talk of a man and woman; though she knew that they could not be seen, Usagi tightened her grip on Mamoru's hand. Mamoru took this moment to survey their surroundings, finding that they now stood on a large balcony, which appeared to wrap around the Palace.

"She wasn't kidding when she said we would get pulled to where we were needed, was she?" Mamoru joked, grinning at Usagi.

"I, for one, am glad of it! It means no walking!" Usagi giggled, feeling miraculously carefree.

It was almost night time, and the voices came from further down the balcony; Mamoru moved towards the voices, pulling Usagi along with him, letting her continue to inspect their surroundings.

She saw multitudes of gardens from their vantage point; she saw a path running parallel to the balcony, with steps every fifty metres. On the other side of the path was a sea or lake – The Sea of Serenity? Usagi wondered, not knowing how she had come to that conclusion.

The balcony was smooth, also made of white marble; there were windows right along the length of it, large French windows and doors, interspaced with the marble. Usagi could see a grand ballroom through them; it was empty, though it appeared as though preparations had been made for a ball.

Satisfied by her assessment of the balcony area, Usagi turned her eyes towards the couple and gasped.

"Mamoru! That's -"

"Yes," he said, motioning for her to be silent.

"…Are you coming to the ball this evening, Endymion?" the silver haired girl, with two buns atop her head, with streamers of hair coming from them, questioned the man.

"I will try Serenity, but I cannot promise it. I must speak to your mother, it is urgent. Beryl has invaded Earth." Endymion looked anxious, and very impatient. Usagi and Mamoru watched as he climbed the nearest stairs and took Serenity in his arms, holding her close to him.

"I am so afraid, Endy, so very afraid," Serenity said to his chest, which was clothed in armour, her white gown flittering about them.

"I know, my love, but I promise it will all be fine. I promise." He tilted her head up and kissed her.

"We have to go," Usagi said, pulling Mamoru away, "We need to find this Queen."

Mamoru nodded, then stopped, "But if we were meant to see it, wouldn't we have been pulled there?"

Usagi shrugged, motioning towards the door with her free hand, "I get the feeling we need to be in there."

They entered the Palace through a door into the Ballroom, following the passages leading from it til they came upon a royal looking chamber, with guards outside.

"How did you know where it was?" Mamoru asked, curiosity getting the better of his scientific mind.

"Obviously I remember something, even if it is subconscious."

But before they could enter, they found time had been sped up, and they were being pulled to a different location. Within the ballroom, hours after they had appeared, they found the Prince and Princess dancing elegantly, as though they were one person. But before Usagi and Mamoru could get comfortable, two cats entered the room, yelling about an attack.

Usagi and Mamoru followed their counterparts outside to where a giant army was massed, completely out of place with the elegant surroundings. They were led by a large floating, red haired woman with an ugly looking purple dress on. The army was made up of hundreds of evil looking creatures, divided into four sections, each taken by a human-looking General.

The red haired woman approached the couple, threatening them.

"Beryl," Endymion yelled, "Stay away! I refuse to give you the satisfaction of conquering the Moon Kingdom! You may have taken my home, but never here!"

"Foolish boy! Do you not see that you are already defeated?" Beryl yelled back, gathering sinister looking energy in her hands and sending it at Endymion and Serenity, flinging them against one of the Palace walls.

Endymion staggered up, drawing his sword and launching himself at Beryl, sword outstretched; he almost reached her, but she hit him over and over again with energy blasts. He never saw the large crystal icicle she had conjured up behind him coming.

Endymion collapsed to the ground, icicle stuck in his back. Serenity pushed herself up off the ground and rand to her love, his wounds visible even from where Usagi and Mamoru stood.

"Endymion! No! Do not leave me!" She yelled grief and sorrow woven into her voice, "Please! No!"

"I am sorry, Serenity, so sorry. I love you." His eyes went blank, lifeless, his body left lying in a pool of his own blood.

"No! You cannot leave me!" her voice was raw, tears streaming from her eyes. She took a deep breath, and picked up the sword lying in his lifeless hand.

Usagi gasped and buried her face in Mamoru's chest, "Oh, Kami-sama! No!" tears also falling down her cheeks. Mamoru held her, knowing exactly what would come next.

Beryl just stood there, watching the Princess as she made her next move.

Usagi looked up from Mamoru's chest, just in time to see the Princess shove the sword into her own chest, they watched in horror as blood poured from the giant wound, and the Princess fell slowly forward onto her Prince.

Usagi had seen it coming, the sense of foreboding as the girl in front of her picked up the sword, admiring it slightly; it had been at this moment that Usagi had buried herself in Mamoru's chest, seeking comfort from the disaster in front of them.

But some terrible sense of necessity had driven her to look, and she had seen the terror of that sight, of herself, or one of her selves, driving that sharp, deadly sword into her own body. Worse was that Usagi could remember this, the pain of that sword as she drove it into herself, how the salty taste of blood had begun, first at the back of her throat, then into her mouth and out her lips. How the pain had spread, throughout her whole body, and the only thing keeping her resolution now, knowing that she was dying, was that she would soon be with her love.

"Oh, my God." Usagi whispered, tears leaking from her eyes, just as they did on Serenity's face; she felt it as Serenity keeled forward onto Endymion, reaching a shaking hand out to his face before going completely limp.

Usagi looked up at Mamoru, horrified, her blue eyes wide and glassy with tears. He reached across to her, pulling her tight against him, whispering sweet nothings til the tears subsided and she was able to watch once more.

By this time another figure had emerged, and was now challenging Beryl; she had walked from the Palace, stopped briefly by each of the Sailor Senshi, then come to her daughter and her love, tears leaking down her face in quiet agony. Beryl was still standing in front of the dead pair, exalting over their deaths.

"Mother," Usagi whispered, "it's Queen Serenity, and I think she has the Ginzuishou."

Mamoru glanced at her, shock written into his features, "How did you know that?"

"Neo Queen Serenity mentioned it." Usagi said briefly, eyes fixated upon her former Mother.

There was serious fighting going on between the women, insults flying through the air along with energy blasts; til finally Queen Serenity pulled out the Ginzuishou and chanted something briefly over it, sending the massive resulting light ball at Beryl. She was flung, unconscious to the ground, her armies decimated by the blast. The few remaining soldiers were all surrounded by globes of light, as were the dead Lunarians, the Prince and Princess included.

The Queen sobbed quietly as she sent her beloved daughter and her court to earth, sealing the evil monsters into a separate dimension, where they wouldn't be able to escape from unless they had more power than she had used to place them in there.

She would have been able to stop them completely. But that would have meant her daughter would have no chance of rebirth.

Usagi was crying by now, as she watched her Mother speaking aloud to the deserted Moon, explaining why she could not stop the evil forever, and justifying her reason for giving them the ability to escape once more to the dull and quiet air.

It was then that Usagi realised how tenderly Mamoru was holding her, how he wasn't trying to solve this problem with words, but was trying to fix her pain just by being there.

"Thank you," she said, kissing his cheek.

"Odango," he replied, jokingly.

"Oh, I'm not falling for that one again mister," she retorted, pretending to turn her back on him, then whirling around, kissing him quickly, "Well I couldn't go against our rules, now could I?" She asked to his incredulous face.

"I wouldn't want you to," he replied, leaning down to her, kissing her again, softly and sweetly, causing her to melt slowly into him.

"Eh-hem," Came a voice from behind them, the couple jumped, startled, looking around each other to see the source of the voice.

"Oh, it's you Pluto," Mamoru said, relieved, "I was thinking that someone had actually seen us!"

"Yes, my Prince. I know that experience was hard for you both, and I'm truly sorry, but my Queen was hoping it would be a catalyst for your memories, and possibly bring about your true forms." Pluto explained.

"You have a choice," she continued, "My Queen has not decreed this, but I believe it is necessary. You may go back and talk with my Queen and her husband, or you may watch how the Prince and Princess fell in love, a thousand years from here."

Usagi and Mamoru glanced at each other, confused, but it was Usagi who spoke, "We will see how they fell in love."

Pluto smiled, and the Time Gate opened once more, pulling them through into another time.

Welcome to the next part - and the next half of the series (I hope - or this could end up being huge!) I hope you liked it. I know it wasn't so.. fluffy as usual, but I promise it will be! This is.. the background I guess.. and as you can tell I was in a pretty morbid mood when I wrote this.

But I really hope that you liked it. Feel free to tell me so, I love hearing from you guys!

xx Usa