Hi everyone

Hi everyone! I hope you enjoy my first contribution to the world of Sailor Moon fanfiction! This story takes place in the future (Crystal Tokyo) time line. Is it just me, or did anyone else ever wonder what the Senshi did for eternity? Did they just watch over Serenity? That would get real old, real fast I would imagine. Well, I couldn't let my four favourite girls live like that so I'm fixing an ugly timeline.

Enjoy!

SubSteph

Harvest Moon

Rating: M for adult content and naughty words.

Prologue: What's my Age Again?

It had been over nine hundred years and she had yet to age a day. She knew her family aged slowly but even Luna and Artemis were becoming concerned. What could be halting her growth? Usually those from the Silver Millennium only stopped ageing once they hit physical maturity, not at the age of twelve.

Life was hard for Rini.

Her mother had saved the Earth in the year 2004 when the destruction caused by man began to reach its climax. The planet was dying and Sailor Moon had been left with no choice. With the Imperial Crystal at full power, Serenity and Endymion, together with the Sailor Senshi called on all the power they possessed and encased the planet in a crystal dome. Every living thing on the planet went into a deep sleep, not to awaken for a thousand years, in the year 3004. That was how long it took the Earth to recover and once it had, the people had suddenly found themselves willing to follow this strange Neo Queen as she called herself as well as her King. It wasn't as though Serenity took control by force, quite the opposite. The dome had come down and she had been standing there in the center of what had once been Tokyo. All that remained of the once great city was an open field surrounded by nature. The buildings had all been turned to dust by the Imperial Crystal and time.

The people of the world had suddenly seemed to remember something important. It was as though they suddenly knew that this young couple was the rightful rulers of the planet. It wasn't long until Crystal Tokyo came along and with the great peace came the crowned princess Serenity, or Rini to avoid confusion.

Rini was a very intelligent girl, but now in the year 4012, she was over nine hundred years old, she had four separate doctorates in Philosophy, Politics, History and Biology. She was also nearly finished a fifth in Mythology. Most people on the planet knew how old she was, but some students at Tokyo U still tormented her, mocking her for being a child. Only once had she felt the need to remind the students of her title. She was the next in line for complete control of the planet Earth as well as the Moon. This meant that, as the crown princess, Rini had the power to have every last one of them thrown into the deepest, darkest prisons the Earth had to offer.

Normally however, especially over the last hundred years or so, Rini was usually found alone. Like now as she poured over the databanks that she and Ami had downloaded from the old Moon computers. Ami had managed to translate most of the information for her and Rini was currently reading a myth about the Moon Princess who wouldn't Grow Up. When she had seen the title, Rini just had to read it. She loved stories, having been told fantastic ones her entire life about times long past, and when she saw a story that seem to mirror her own life so perfectly, well Rini found she couldn't resist.

The Moon Princess Who Wouldn't Grow Up

Once, not so long ago there appeared a new Princess upon the Moon. She was a child of silver and pearl, beautiful and very kind. Her life was filled with all the love and happiness the universe could offer. The little Princess grew slowly as all those from the Moon do. When she reached the age when her guardians should have taken responsibility for her, she stopped growing.

The entire kingdom was frantic, if the Princess didn't grow up, she would never be able to rule the Moon for those of the planets may only take control once a first child has been born. This way the planet knows the throne is secure for another generation. The purity of the line of rule is very important; the planets had made deals with certain families and given them certain powers as long as the families would keep their respective planets safe.

Finally it was discovered that without her own Senshi, the Princess would never grow. The Senshi of the Moon Queen were forced to marry the first suitable match that presented himself and produce the Senshi that the Princess needed.

Once the new Senshi reached the age of guardians the Princess and her guardians began to age normally once more.

Let this tale be a warning that the other planets will not tolerate being ignored forever.

Rini arched a rather pink eyebrow and sighed, it figured right? Right here in this old tome that her mother had probably studied as a child was the answer to all her problems. The myth was translated by a computer program Ami designed and tested on small portions of the text, so some of the eloquence was lost when it was translated to Japanese but Rini figured she got most of it.

"Oh drat…" Rini muttered as she ran a small hand through her bangs, "Mama's Senshi live alone now, I don't remember ever seeing them with a boy… but Diana told me about a story her mom told her. Something about the Senshi having once been married or in love or something like that."

Rini started at the screen for a while longer, if Luna had been the one to tell Diana the story, then logically, Luna would know who the Senshi had been in love with, the old cat might even know how to find them!

It was wroth a shot!

With a simple button push, Rini downloaded the myth she'd been reading onto a crystal and ran to find Luna.

Ami didn't feel like reading.

Makoto didn't feel like cooking.

Rei didn't feel like fire-reading.

Minako didn't feel like shopping.

The four girls (well women now), wandered the palace grounds in their traditional royal gowns with lifeless expressions on their faces. Each was now over a thousand years old, although physically they were only around twenty five. Their aging had stopped with Rini's.

Luna had been watching them closely for the last two years and with every passing day they seemed to fall into a deeper depression. She was becoming concerned. The Senshi were useless right now, and each and every one of them knew it. There was no point to their existence anymore. They had done their job, now it was Endymion's responsibility to protect Serenity and her daughter. The Senshi should now had been ruling their own planets and concerning themselves with their own families. That was the point of Senshi. To remain with the heir to the Moon from the time she reached the age of Guardians until she married and had a family of her own. They were there to protect the princess when she was most vulnerable, when men would try to prey on her, and when rival women tried to hurt them.

They may have done grand things on the Earth once upon a time, but it had really been nothing more then an extension of their duties. They had saved the princess and in doing so, had saved the universe from destruction.

The Senshi that had remained loyal for more then three thousand years had lost their purpose so they did what they did best. They protected Serenity; they remained her friends and watched over her as best they could.

It wasn't fair and Luna knew something had to be done about the situation, but she was at a loss. Or at least she was until Rini showed up and reminded her of a very important bit of history.

"Luna, what's the Year of Gaurdians?" Rini asked once she found the cat in the library.

Luna looked up from the novel she was curled up around, "It's when the heir to the moon turns twelve or so. Why do you ask Rini?"

Rini uploaded the crystal and Luna read the story for the first time in who knew how long. She wanted to kick herself (if cats had been able to kick themselves, she would have), how could she have forgotten about that story? It had always been taken seriously before. In fact this was the first time since the myth had been written that the curent rules had ignored it.

Rini needed her Senshi and the Senshi needed their soul mates back. Luna mused over that for a minute, "This is going to be quite the adventure…" she said to Rini who had no idea who the Generals were, or what Luna suddenly found so funny.

"We must speak to your father Rini. Come along."

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Harvest Moon is a pretty song by Neil Young and What's My Age Again? is by Blink 182

I hope everyone enjoyed it! The Senshi and the Generals start showing up next chapter I promise!

SubSteph