Disclaimer – I do not own any rights to SAILOR MOON, (we all know who does), anything I have used here is strictly borrowed from information that has been supplied on the SMUK website, the Sailor Moon dubbed version, and also from my own imagination, I have been working on this story for a very long time and this is the finished article, please do not copy my work. This is the revised edition as I have found some flaws within the original and wish to correct them.

There are two sequels, 30th Century Blues and Crystal Years

Thank you, Shindi Moon Goddess.

CHAPTER 1.

June 30th 1998

Serena was late as usual, but today was a totally different day altogether for her, she wasn't running to a fight, she wasn't running to the temple or anywhere else to meet her friends, this was a special day.

Serena was running as fast as she could to get home from school after a detention for being, of all things, late. That was the usual thing for her, being late and running nearly everywhere was Serena's trademark, alongside the meatballs that she wore in her hair, which was a symbol of who she really was. But the reason she was running was because Serena wanted to be early tonight, it just wasn't that she 'wanted' to be early for a change, but because somewhere deep inside herself she knew that something was going on, something that would affect not just her but everyone and everything that she knew and loved.

Her parents and friends, the senshi, were having a party for her birthday, she turned 16 years old today, she also had an idea that today would be the day that her Darien would ask her to marry him, but she also had a surprise for him too.

As she was running on her way home and she was daydreaming she didn't see the person in front of her and promptly ran into that somebody, a big somebody,

"Oomph, hey watch where you're…" she started to say, but got cut off by a quick kiss and the perpetrator saying,

"Hey meatball head, stop running into me, you tagged me already," Darien said this with a smile and a laugh, while he was bending down to help her up and give her a longer more loving kiss.

"Oh, hi muffin, sorry about that."

"That's alright love, I'm used to it." He answered while pecking her juicy looking lips.

"Are you picking me up tonight or are my parents bringing me to the party? Please say that you are taking me, I don't think I could stand sitting in the car with Sammy singing about us and a tree and babies and stuff it is sooo old now."

"Don't worry I'll be picking you up, around 6.30pm, I want to take you for a ride on my new bike first." He answered.

"Cool, did you choose the chopper or the Harley?"

"The Harley, it's black with a rose and a moon motif on the tank"

"Sweet. Ok, gotta run if I'm to be ready on time I'll see you later then" She said as she stood on tiptoe so she could reach to give Darien another kiss before she took off at full speed once more.

"You're telling me," Darien said to Serena with fondness shining in his eye, just before she took off.

Darien watched as Serena ran home, at the same time thinking to himself one important thought, 'I hope her father doesn't tell her I've been to see him today, it may ruin the surprise.'

Earlier Darien had gone around to see him and asked a very important question, one that had been in the back of his mind for the past six months. One that he felt that he had to ask two different people before he asked the third person, the most important person in his life. Even though he had been considering this for so long he had never found the right moment to ask her, but today had felt right, Serena was becoming a woman, still in her teen years, but a woman none the less, in the Silver Millennium she would have been called a woman when she reached 14 years old and married off at that age too, but this was a different time, one that moved the age back to 16 years old, but still she was worth the wait…

Serena finally got home a mere 10 minutes after leaving Darien, considering that it would have been a 25 minute journey at the normal walking pace, this turned out to be Serena's new record. As she bounded upstairs, she shouted to her parents that Darien was picking her up at 6.30pm and that he would take her onto the party at 7.00pm at the Rose Hotel, the most exclusive place in all of Tokyo. Her mother never got to answer as Serena slammed her door shut. It was probably better that way, Ikuko was far to excited to just say hello to her daughter at that time.

Right at the moment of Serena slamming her bedroom door shut, a bright light shone in the middle of her room signalling a presence, it turned out to be Sailor Pluto.

"Hey Pluto, are you coming to my party tonight?" Serena asked with a huge smile, "I think Darien is going to ask me to marry him." She finished twirling around and around giggling softly; she stopped as soon as she started to feel dizzy and turned around to look into her wardrobe.

Pluto smiled softly at the Princess's antics and said, "Is he? I would not know, I now no longer pry into the private futures of you the Prince or the Senshi, I have better things to do now I am not tied to the Gates day and night" Pluto grinned at this, if it wasn't for Serena she would still be stuck at the Gates. Although Pluto's answer at the beginning was not technically correct she still did already know the answer to Serena's wonderings, because it tied in with another part of the future of them all.

"I dunno what to wear, the pink or the white?" Serena said holding up two dresses, one resembled her dress that she would wear later on in time as Neo-Queen Serenity, but neither Serena nor Pluto dwelled on it.

"Wear the pink, it suits you better," Pluto answered.

The dress was a soft pastel pink, it was quite short with a flared skirt, long sleeves that covered her arms and ended in a point it also had a fitted bodice on said bodice there were golden crescent moons around the chest, the bodice was very low cut, more than her dad normally allowed her to wear, but…she had promised not to wear it when she was alone on a date with Darien, to make her dad feel more secure. She hung it up outside the wardrobe and turned to talk properly to Pluto.

"Now where were we?" Serena asked in an adult tone.

"I have come with a warning concerning the future of Earth, as you know the Earth will plunge into a new ice age." Serena nodded so Pluto continued. "You know your role in saving the whole planet, what I cannot tell you is how exactly to do it." She looked at Serena to make sure she understood everything. "Due to unknown causes this problem is going to happen sooner than we first knew of, it will happen tomorrow at noon, and people will unfortunately see you turn into Princess Serenity. But as I have seen so far the future you does not get affected in a major way. Any questions?"

"Yes, one, will you, Charon, Sally and Sean be at my party? I might need you to explain it clearly to the others later, and I wanna see them too."

"Yes Princess I would not miss this party for the World neither would the others." Pluto bowed and then disappeared.

Serena grabbed her discarded communicator and called the others in a joint call. She told them to hurry to her house at once, and bring the knights with them. With that done while she waited she decided to sort out all her stuff to go with the dress. She also wondered where Luna had got to.