A/N: Here is the first chapter. I'm really excited about this story. I hope you guys like it! ^_^

Disclaimer: I do not own any part of Sailor Moon.

CHAPTER ONE

Two Months Later

"Beryl's forces have taken over Tokyo, Kawasaki, Yokohama, Yokosuka, and Nagoya. She is moving on to, Sendai, Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe and it won't be long until she has taken over Okayama. With the disappearance of Sailor Moon, the Sailor Senshi have not been able to hold back her forces. The city's pleas for the return of their lost soldier are met with no reply. Japan's island of Honshū is coming closer and closer to the end of its existence."

Usagi looked at the screen as the Okayama local broadcasting station reported the latest on goings of the war; she watched in silence and dread. It had been two months since she had walked away from it all: the people who didn't need her, the people who hated her, and the ones who thought she was weak and pathetic. She knew that she was being selfish, but she was so much happier here. She also knew that as happy as she was, she was going to have to return to the senshi. The world was depending on her. That was a lie; the world had given up on her two months ago when Beryl had taken over Tokyo and she had just let it happen.

"Usa! What yous doing just standing theres!? The order for table four is ready," her boss yelled at her. She ran to the window where the burgers and salads the table had ordered were wilting and frying under the heat lamp. She picked up the food, hoping not to trip and drop it like so many times before, and took it over to the table where her four regular guests were seated.

"Hey! Here's your food. Sorry for the wait," Usagi said to Haruka and Michiru with an apologetic look on her face.

"That's fine Princess, you're probably very busy," Haruka said teasingly looking around the empty diner. "Oh Haruka, don't tease the poor thing," Michiru reprieved, although she said it with a twinkling in her eye the belied any seriousness in the statement. Usagi had never asked, but she was sure they were lovers. She had seen the way that they looked at each other, the way that Haruka would let her hand rest on Michiru's lap. She blushed as she realized what she was thinking and excused herself mumbling, "I have to go check on others….."

An hour later Usagi walked out of the diner ready to head back to the boarding house that she was staying at. She kept looking back every now and then, thinking she heard someone following her. She laughed at herself and thought, 'No one is following me. I'm still too wary from my Senshi days.' She made it to the boarding house where Professor Tomoe and his daughter Hotaru had generously rented her out their spare room. She smiled when she thought back to the day she had met them.

*FLASHBACK*

She was sitting on a park bench thinking about everything that had happened in her life thus far. She couldn't believe she had run away, but after what had happened that last day in Tokyo, she couldn't stay in that house. She just couldn't. She felt so horrible for leaving her mother all alone with that monster and for leaving the senshi alone to face the unbeatable. She pulled her knees up under her chin and laid her face down and began to cry. She jumped and nearly screamed when someone put their hand on her shoulder. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to frighten you," the little girl said, "you just look so sad and lonely I wanted to see if I could help."

"Thank you," Usagi said wiping the tears from her eyes. The two of them just sat there in silence, each trying to figure out what to say to the other. "What…" "I'm…" They both started to say at the same time. Usagi and her newfound companion both smiled and laughed. Usagi stuck out her hand and said to the girl, "My name is Usagi. I just moved here from Tokyo." The other girl stared at her hand for what seemed like an eternity before deciding to take it and say, "I'm Hotaru. What brought you to Okayama, if I may ask?" Usagi bit her lip, thinking about what she should say. She couldn't just admit that she had run away. If anyone found out that she was only fourteen years old, and that she had run away from her "family" she would get sent back. She couldn't go back there. After thinking about it for a minute she replied, "I just decided I wanted to see the rest of Japan. So I decided to start here, in Okayama." Hotaru just nodded her head in acceptance. After a few moments Hotaru asked, "Where are you staying?"

"I haven't figured that out yet. I spent all my money on the train ticket here."

"I know! You can stay with me and my father. We have a spare room and you can stay there!"

"But…"

"No buts! I insist!"

"You don't even know me, why are you being so nice?"

"I know how it feels to be alone."

Usagi looked at her and knew that she had to go with Hotaru. She didn't know why she knew that was what she had to do, she just knew she had to do it.

*END FLASHBACK*

She had met Professor Tomoe right after that and they had all become very close, just like family. She was still smiling as she unlocked the door and walked in to the unusually dark house. Usually, Hotaru and Professor Tomoe were home by now. She tried to flip on the light switch, but they wouldn't turn on. Usagi started to get worried. With all the weird vibes she had been getting while walking home she was on the alert. She picked up the spare cane that was always at the door for Professor Tomoe to use, and started searching the house. When she got to the phone she picked it up to call the police. She tried to dial 110, but she found that the phone line had been cut. Now, she was panicking.

All of a sudden, everything went dark and she was floating in a black nothing. She tried to see where she was but she could not see a thing, she tried to scream and she could not make a sound. She was terrified. She was afraid that Beryl's forces had discovered the identities of the senshi and that she was about to die.

'I'm going to die! I can't die! I'm too young to die,' she thought as she drifted along in the nothing. Then out of nowhere, a bright light flashed and she was standing in a throne room. She looked down at herself and saw that she was wearing a long, flowing, white dress. It had two poufs for sleeves, it caught just under her breasts as an empire waistline, and it flowed to her feet. She felt a strange glow emanating from her head and she reached up to feel it and felt a small indentation. She walked up to a mirror hanging on the wall of the throne room and saw a small crescent moon on her forehead. She was lost. She didn't know what to think, she didn't know where she was, and she wasn't even sure of whom she was at the moment. The person staring back at her in the mirror in no way resembled her. She had bright, silver hair and a regal air about her that Usagi could never command.

She reached her hand out to the mirror and muttered, "Who are you?"

"She is you Usagi," said a familiar voice that made Usagi jump. She turned around, eyes wide in shock, to see Haruka, Michiru, and Hotaru standing before her; at least she thought the three girls standing before her in their fuku slightly resembled them. "What…"she stuttered. With an annoyed shake of her head Haruka growled, "Do you seriously not know who you were?! Who you are! All the other senshi remember! They have spent the last two months looking for you, hoping to find their princess," she paused when she saw Usagi's eyes go wide, and then continued, "Yes Princess. It wasn't just a nick name. We were hoping that you would stop being so cowardly that you could do this yourself, but it seems you don't have what it takes. You have to be pushed into doing this." Usagi looked hurt, all of her old wounds resurfacing as she saw the three girls, who appeared to be sailor senshi standing before her. "You don't know anything about me. How dare you presume to know a thing!? You don't know what I've been through, you don't know the things I've had to put up with. The hell I've lived through! Don't you dare come to me with that self-righteous tone and assume to know who I am," she screamed at them. Haruka just looked at her with scorn and said, "I have nothing to say to you. I will let these two deal with you. You are nothing but a spoiled baby who hides behind a pretty face and false pretenses."

As Haruka walked away, Michiru walked to stand face to face with Usagi and whispered, "Princess, I don't know what made you decide you had to leave, all I know is that the world needs you. I know it is a large burden for one so young and for that, I am sorry, but it is a burden that was laid upon you nonetheless. I'm sorry, but we will take you back kicking and screaming if need be."

Usagi looked at them with tear filled eyes, she had already decided that she would be leaving to go back and help the other senshi, but to have it so rudely thrust upon her wasn't something she had been expecting. She looked at Hotaru, Michiru, and Haruka and she began to seethe. She realized it was all a lie, the friendships and trusts that she had formed with them were all lies. She stared at them with a deep anger pooling in her eyes and yelled, "You all used me! You all acted like you cared, but all you wanted was to use me, to get close to me to save this world. You never cared!" She was hurt. Everyone she had ever known had used her. Her mother had used her as a pawn in capturing her father's wealth, Mamoru had used her as a verbal punching bag, her father had used her as an actual punching bag, the senshi had used her as a means to an end, and now these three girls were using her as the same. What made this even worse was that they had lied. At least the others had no qualms at hiding that they were using her. She stood there agonizing for minutes, before dropping her shoulders and sighing in defeat, "I'll go. Use me as you will, it's nothing I'm not used to." Hotaru looked at her and replied, "We will be leaving tomorrow night, which should be enough time for you to prepare."

In the blink of an eye Usagi was in her room standing in the outfit she wore to work. She was so exhausted after that ordeal she fell onto her bed and fell asleep without taking the clothing off. That night she dreamed of death.

Her family, her friends, and the world were falling to their knees in death at the hands of Beryl and her Shitennou. They're faces gleamed with malice as they slaughtered everyone she knew. Including the new friends she had made in Okayama. Before Hotaru breathed her last, she screamed, "Ribbon Revolution." The world screamed for a brief second, before all went silent and black.

Usagi woke up in a cold sweat. What she had seen, she knew it would happen. She knew it would happen, and she knew there was nothing she could do to stop it. Beryl, with the aid of the Shitennou would end the world.

It was 6 o'clock the next night when Usagi said her farewells to her new boss, to which he replied, "Yeahs well, good luck. Don't yous be expectin' any references from me though, I'm closing up shop. I's need to get outta here before that crazy Beryl lady gets here and kills me. Too bad that Sailah Moon gal up and left. Wes coulda really used her help."

"Who knows, maybe things will change and she will appear at the last second and save…." Usagi trailed off, remembering her dream from the night before, and knowing how hopeless everything really was. He smiled at her weakly and said, "Yeahs, it's hopeless. Yous don't need to feed me any bullshit." They hugged and parted ways. Usagi looked back at him, wondering if she would see the strange little man ever again. A tear fell down her cheek as she realized she wouldn't.

Once at the JR Okayama Train Station, Usagi met up with Michiru and Haruka. "Where is Hotaru," she questioned. "The little one went off to the Guardian of the Gate of Time to let her know that our mission has been completed," Michiru replied. It still stung to know that a mission was all that Usagi had been to them. They bought their train tickets and boarded the train. Usagi stopped in the opening to look back at the new city that she had just started to consider her home. 3 hours and 12 minutes later Usagi, Michiru, and Haruka arrived at the JR Shin-Osaka Station. Usagi got out and saw crowds of people panicking, moving as fast as they could in their rush to leave the city, knowing that it would soon be destroyed, and trying to get out before they too were destroyed. She looked at Haruka and Michirua and asked, "Why are we here, why are we not in Tokyo?" Haruka responded, "Tokyo has been completely taken over, the Sailor Senshi now reside in Osaka until we take the Tokyo back." Serena fought back tears as she realized what that meant. "What of the citizens of Tokyo," she inquired.

"Every last one of them is dead," a cold voice gruffly replied.

Thank you for reading! I hope you liked this chapter! Please review and I'll put the third chapter up soon, I promise!