A new story is starting, not a long story. I am obsessed by the idea of the Shitennou coming back to life after Stars, how it could happen and how the Senshi would react to it. Hope you are going to enjoy it.

PROLOGUE

Mamoru nervously walked in front of the large window of his living room, his head lowered and his eyes worried.

Knelt in front of the low table of the living room, Usagi and the Inner Senshi stared at him in confusion.

Usagi had a sweet smile, "Mamo-chan." Just his name, in her voice her loving support for the hard task he was going to face.

Mamoru moved to the armchair and sank into it. He placed his elbows on his knees and joined his hands in front of his lips, his fingers gently crossing. He stayed that way for several seconds while a deep silence filled the room, all the eyes on him.

He finally spoke.

"We have been revived into the Cauldron."

Usagi, Ami, Rei, Makoto and Minako nodded at his statement, waiting for more.

Mamoru kept on talking, "Not just us." He had a deep breath and rested his back against the armchair, "Before explaining you everything, you should know that along the last two years, after Sailor Moon defeated Metalia, … " he sighed, "… sorry if I have kept it secret until now … "

"Mamo-chan."

Usagi's soft whisper helped him to go on.

"After Metalia killed the Shitennou … "

The Shitennou. That name resounded in the silence as a blast; the Senshi's shoulders stiffened and gently trembled.

Mamoru forced his voice out his dry throat, "The Shitennou didn't die, that day. Not completely, I mean; Metalia destroyed their bodies but their spirits survived, concealed into their namesake's stones. I kept those stones with me and I summoned their spirits several times for advice."

Minako stood up, her voice calm and serious instead of her usual joyful twitter, "Mamoru! Are you telling us you were in contact with the Shitennous' spirits along the last two years whereas we thought they were gone, definitively gone?"

Mamoru couldn't see her eyes, covered by her blond bangs as she kept her head down. He caught her soft trembling and nodded, a simple "yes" escaping from his mouth; he prevented her further questions, "I decided to keep it secret because it could just hurt you. You couldn't talk to them since I was the only one able to summon them; what was the point in letting you know their spirits were still alive? If I had told you about it, you wouldn't have moved on, trapped into the memory of them. Better for you thinking they were dead, definitively dead, and move on." He rested his right hand on his face, "It was hard to me too; having them just as spirits when I hoped for something more. I loved the moments I could contact them but, at the same time, I hated those moments because of their shortness."

Usagi lowered her head and had a sad smile, "You know, the Shitennou helped me to defeat Metalia, revealing, through Mamoru, where to hit that Evil."

Rei turned her head to Usagi, in her voice both surprise and anger, "Usagi! Did you too know about the Shitennou?"

Usagi shook her head, "No. At that time I didn't know how Mamoru caught Metalia's weak point. Neither I knew about his summoning the Shitennou's spirits for advice. Mamoru talked to me about it just some days ago."

Rei had a deep sigh. Her piercing eyes moved from Usagi to Mamoru, "But now you have decided to confess it to Usagi and to us." She half-closed her purple eyes and whispered, "Why?"

Makoto nodded, "Rei is right. Why are you confessing it just now?"

Ami nervously intertwined her fingers as she stared at her hands on her lap, "We have been revived in the Cauldron. Not just us," she softly repeated Mamoru's previous words, "you were talking about it, weren't you?" Her analytical mind was completing the puzzle, piece by piece.

Ami's words, the unsaid implication in her words, slapped Minako, Rei and Makoto.

Usagi held her breath, just a quick glance to Mamoru as support for completing his task. It was his task.

Mamoru had a deep breath and let it go, "Yes. The Shitennou have been revived in the Cauldron. I don't know how and why it happened. When Galaxia had me, at the airport, their stones were in my pocket. So, Galaxia stole both my Golden Crystal and the Shitennou's gemstones. When I came back from the Cauldron, the Shitennou's stones weren't anymore with me; I thought they were gone, forever, lost in the Cauldron, until I started having strange dreams. The future King Endymion was talking to me through those dreams."

Minako's eyes opened wide in surprise, "King Endymion?"

Mamoru nodded, "He told me the Shitennou are alive, and I need to find them because they are really important for the future Crystal Tokyo. I am going to find them and bring them back to me, this is why I can't keep their existence secret anymore to you."

Makoto bent her head toward her left shoulder, "If they are alive, why aren't they here? Why haven't they come back to you, yet?"

Mamoru had a soft smile, "I suppose they have no memories of their past life and of what happened to them. They are back to their life as they were before Metalia's possession, no memory of the Silver Millennium and of Metalia."

Minako walked closer Mamoru, blue-violet eyes into deep blue eyes, "If Kunzite is alive, I am going to find him. I failed to save him from Metalia, I mourned his death twice (during the Silver Millenium and two years ago) and now I won't fail." She turned around and faced Rei, Makoto and Ami, "Girls!"

Makoto's cheeks tinged red, "I'd like to meet Nephrite again." She averted her eyes from Minako, "I'd like to … " her cheeks turned more and more red.

Minako grinned amused, "You want to become a bride. We know it. And you are still in love with Nephrite." She winked at Makoto, then her eyes moved from Makoto to Ami, her grin turning into a soft smile, "Ami? Are you going to help us to find Zoisite?"

Ami nodded, her eyes still on her hands as her cheeks tinged a soft pink.

Minako nodded and focused on Rei, "Rei?"

Rei stood up and tossed her long raven hair behind, closing her eyes with nonchalance, "I am too busy with school and with the Shrine. I have promised to myself I won't waste my time with men; I loved Jadeite in my past life, but it doesn't mean I should love him even now."

Usagi murmured, sad moan from her lips, "Rei-chan!"

Minako crossed her arms around her chest, "Are you sure? OK. Now, look into my eyes and tell me you have no feelings for Jadeite. No feelings no more."

Rei looked at Minako, her angry purple eyes fixed into Minako's determined blue eyes, "I am not interested in Jadeite any more. He was so stupid to let Metalia control him and then kill him! Why should I waste my time with him?" Tears started flowing from the purple eyes; she lowered her head, and her raven bangs covered her eyes and tears, "Stupid, stupid, STUPID Jadeite!"

Minako had a sweet smile, "It seems you still have feelings for Jadeite. You are still crying for his death, after all, aren't you? So, are you going to be part of this chase?"

Rei stiffened and stared into Minako's eyes, "Yes. I am going to find him and slap him because he died."

Minako had a soft laugh; he nodded and turned to Mamoru, "OK. Tell us where to start the quest."

Mamoru had a deep sigh and moaned, "This is the point. I really don't know how and where to find them!"

The girls' voices fused, "WHAT?