Day of Endymion

by Kawaii Koneko-hime

A year after the festival, Usagi's and Mamoru's first anniversary is quickly approaching. Usagi, of course, wants to get Mamoru the best present she can, especially after he gives her a magnificent gift. But what can she get for someone that buys everything his heart desires? How about the one thing he wants the most? His parents.

2. Day of Returns

Hi, everyone! It's Koneko! Here's the next chapter of Day of Endymion! I really hope you like it!

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"And once again, a monster has been defeated by Tokyo's very own Sailor Senshi," the newscaster said with a bright smile.

A pillow was thrown into the flat screen television, causing both of the items to fall to the ground with a crash. Yuri let out a scream. Even a year later, she felt weak. She felt powerless. And meanwhile, Sailor Moon was being praised by everyone in Tokyo.

It was disgusting. And to make matters worse, she knew it was only a matter of time before Queen Beryl came to finish her off. She assumed the only reason she had not been killed yet was because of the light show Usagi put on during the festival.

She heard a crack. She glanced at the mirror and paled when she saw a large crack going through the middle of it. She knew exactly what that meant. Beryl was back and she was coming after Yuri soon. Very soon.

She gulped. At this point, there were two people that could help her and they both hated her. Just her luck.

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Clouds gathered in the sky. Thunder boomed in the distance, making Usagi jump. She breathed as calmly as she could. "Come on, Usagi," she told herself. "You have to keep going. You have to do this." Lightning lit up the sky and thunder followed. She jumped again. Tears welled up in her eyes. "Keep going, Usa. This is for Mamoru."

Usagi looked to the ground to avoid the angry sky. She ran as quickly as her leg could take her until she reached a secluded part of the park. The thunder boomed again and the frightened blonde winced. She wanted nothing more than to run home, crawl under her covers, and sleep the storm away.

Mamoru's smiling face flashed in her head, silently reminding her why exactly she was in the park while a storm was brewing in the first place. She gripped her new locket, allowing it to fill her with the courage to continue the journey.

She pulled out the key given to her by Queen Serenity. She held it above her head and like Kana said, the words immediately came to her. "Guardian of Time," she started. The thunder boomed and the wind picked up around her.

Keep going, Usagi, she kept tell herself.

She took a deep breath and continued, "Let the Door of Time split the heavens and open to me." The thunder boomed again but Usagi could not hear it over the whirling wind. The sky turned to a purple color. The clouds began to swirl together in response to Usagi's words. "I call you by your true name. The all-knowing God of Time, the Father of the Guardian. Chronos!" A portal began to open in the eye of the swirl clouds. "Lead me! Protect me!"

There was a loud roar and a flash of light. Usagi shut her eyes to shield herself from the brightness. She began to float and disappeared into the portal. The portal disappeared behind her and the sky returned to its stormy state.

"What is this?" Usagi asked herself. She felt like she was being crushed by pressure. "Where am I?" She continued to float until the fog began to clear. She squinted her eyes. "Is that a…door?"

"Halt!" a voice boomed. The fog cleared completely, a Sailor Senshi in green was revealed and Usagi fell to the ground. She pointed her staff at the blonde. "For entering this forbidden space, the punishment is death!"

"W-wait!" Usagi cried. "Don't attack! You're Sailor Pluto, right? I have a note from Queen Serenity. She said it's okay for me to come!" She pulled the handwritten note out of her sub-space pocket. "See? Here it is!"

Sailor Pluto said nothing but lowered her staff. She stepped towards the blonde and took the note from her hand. She read the note with narrowed eyes. What was her queen thinking? Allowing her daughter to come to the forbidden land for something as trivial as a gift…

Pluto sighed. If Queen Serenity was okay with it, she had no choice but to comply despite her personal feelings. "If you take them from this time, you must bring them back in one month's time. If you don't, the present-day Endymion will start to feel the effects of his history being changed. Avoid the child versions of you and him. If you see them, go the other way. If you come in contact with them, you will begin to fade because the time stream will try to correct itself. You can speak to people, but keep your conversations vague and don't touch anything. Even throwing litter into the trash basket can have a profound effect on your time. Do you get it?"

Usagi nodded. "I understand. Thank you, Pluto."

Pluto said nothing. She stepped aside and slammed her staff on the ground. The door opened and a bright light shined through. Usagi squinted her eyes and stepped through the door.

Pluto's domain disappeared and Usagi found herself in the park again. The sun shined brightly and proudly in the sky. "Did it work?" she asked herself.

A little boy and his mother walked past her. The boy frowned and took his glasses off. "I don't like these glasses, Mommy," the boy complained. "They make me look funny!"

The mother stopped and put his glasses back on his face. "They look fine!" she insisted. "You look very handsome, Umino."

Usagi's jaw dropped. "That's Umino?" she asked under her breath. "Wow. I'm really in the past!" She grinned to herself. "If that's Umino, I must be, like, two years old right now!"

She walked to Mamoru's apartment complex and stepped inside the lobby. She looked around, silently noting how much the lobby changed over the course of thirteen years.

"May I help you?" the man at the front desk asked.

"Hi," she smiled at him. "I'm just here to see the Chibas."

The man frowned. "What are you talking about? There is no one by the name of Chiba at this apartment."

Usagi frowned but it transformation into a look of realization. Of course Mamoru didn't live here! He didn't move into his apartment until after his day at the orphanage! "I-I'm sorry," she apologized with a smile. "I have the wrong place." She bowed and ran out of the complex.

She looked around. Where did she have to go? It was not as if Mamoru spoke about his former home. He didn't even remember it!

She sighed. Had she really come so far for nothing? "Excuse me," Usagi felt a hand on her shoulder. She turned to face a smile woman that looked to be in her late twenties or early thirties. "I'm sorry. I happened to hear you speaking to Norman. You're looking for the Chibas right? Masaru, Ayaka, and Mamoru Chiba?"

Usagi nodded excitedly. "Yes! Do you know they live?"

The woman nodded. "Yes. Ayaka is a good friend of mine. She lives in the sub-division that was built last year. It's about a block from here."

Usagi could not believe her luck. "Oh my goodness. Thank you so much. I don't know what I would have done without you! Thank you!"

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The blonde followed the directions given to her by the woman and arrived in the sub-division ten minutes later. She looked around. The houses were impressive to say the least. There wasn't a blade of grass out of place. The buildings of the neighborhood stood in perfect uniformity.

The woman had not told her where exactly Mamoru and his parents lived but even in this time, Usagi could faintly feel the familiar pull of the bond they shared. She followed the bond until she found herself at the door of the most beautiful home, slightly wondering how she managed to ignore the bond's pull when she was younger. Flowers covered the front lawn, the most abundant being Mamoru's favorite, red roses. She smiled softly. Apparently Mamoru's love of flowers ran in the family.

She knocked on the door and waited nervously for someone to answer. The door eventually opened and a woman in her mid to late twenties answered the door. Usagi stood silent, looking her over. She didn't look like Mamoru but they shared the same blue eyes.

"Can I help you?" the woman asked when Usagi said nothing.

"Ah, sorry," Usagi blushed. "You're Chiba Ayaka, right? I have to ask a favor of you. May I come in?"

Ayaka nodded and opened the door wider. "Come on in."

"Is your husband home?" Usagi asked once she stepped inside the house. "I wanted to speak to you both."

Ayaka nodded. "He's here. But who are you?"

Usagi smiled. "It's complicated but I'll try to explain everything. But Mamoru can't see me while I'm here."

Ayaka gave Usagi a weird look but nodded anyway. "Take a seat," Ayaka ushered Usagi to the sofa. Usagi sat on the sofa and watched as Ayaka walked out of the room. She returned a few moments later with a man with a stoned expression on his face. Like his wife, he looked nothing like Mamoru but Usagi shrugged it off. She wasn't exactly the spitting image of her parents, after all.

She smiled shyly. "Thank you for listening to me."

"Who are you?" Mamoru's father asked, getting straight to the point.

"I'm Tsukino Usagi," she introduced herself, "Mamoru's girlfriend." Mamoru's parents exchanged glances and gave her a look of horror. Usagi immediately realized her mistake. In this time, Mamoru was only five! She blushed. "I-I'm sorry. I should have explained everything from the beginning. I'm Mamoru's girlfriend from the future."

Masaru looked at his wife with a raised eyebrow. "She's insane. You let a crazy girl into the house."

"I'm not crazy!" Usagi objected. "I'm telling the truth. In my time, Mamoru is eighteen years old. We've been dating for a year on Thursday and I was hoping that you could come to the future with me as an anniversary present to him."

Masaru and Ayaka listened to Usagi's explanation without interruption. When she finished, though, Ayaka immediately stood. "I'll call the police," she volunteered.

"I'll call the mental institution," Masaru announced.

"Wait!" Usagi cried in panic. "I can prove I'm telling the truth." She held up her locket for Ayaka to see. "Mamoru gave me this for our anniversary. He said it's identical to the one that Masaru gave to you. He read in your diary that it was your most prized possession."

Ayaka touched her own necklace. She smiled softly. "It is."

"Tell me you're not buying this," Masaru said to his wife. "She could have gotten that anywhere. Time travelling is not real. She's insane and you're just as crazy for buying into this."

Ayaka looked from Masaru to Usagi. "Let's say I did believe that you were from the future," she said slowly. "How would we help?"

Usagi sighed with relief. She had not lost yet. Now it was time for the hard part. Should she tell them about the car accident? About their death? About Mamoru being left an orphan with no memories of his life before the accident? She paused, remembering the pain on Mamoru's face as he told her the story. She nodded to herself and decided. The abridged version would be best. "You two aren't a really big part of Mamoru's life in my time. I wanted to bring you two with me so Mamoru could at least to know his parents, even for a little while. I think he'd like that the most." Mamoru's parents said nothing. The blonde sighed. Did she lose them? "All you have to do is come to the park with me. That's how we will get to my time. If I'm lying, what would you have lost?"

"It's been a while since I've had a walk in the park," Ayaka said with a shrug. "Let's go, Masaru! It would be like a little adventure."

Usagi smiled. His mother was hooked! The senshi of the moon was a bit surprised that she had agreed so easily. Even to Usagi herself, the story she just told sounded farfetched. She wasn't going to question Ayaka's decision, though. She needed things to go as smoothly as they were.

"You know what, Ayaka?" Masaru said, crossing his arms. "You go. I'll stay here and watch television. Let's see which us accomplishes more in the next hour."

Usagi's smile faded and a look of hurt replaced it. "You don't want to see him?"

"Oh, come on," Ayaka urged her husband. "Don't you want to see what our son will look like when he's older?"

He sighed. "It's not that, Ayaka. You can't trust everything you hear. You'll get your hopes up and when this girl can't deliver, you'll be upset and disappointed. And even if she's telling the truth, and I'm not saying she is, I'm pretty sure there're rules about time travelling."

"Come on, Masaru," Ayaka insisted. "It's not going to hurt to take a chance! You'll always miss out on the fun in life if you live as cautiously as you do!"

Masaru groaned and buried his face in his hand. "I can't believe I'm going along with this nonsense," he said, his voice muffled. He stood. "I'll get Mamoru."

"You can't bring him," Usagi said quickly with a shake of her head. "Two of the same person can't exist in the same space and time. If little Mamoru sees big Mamoru, they'll fade as the time stream tries to correct itself."

"You can't be suggesting that we leave our five year old son alone while we go on this wild goose chase with you," Masaru said with a raised eyebrow.

"When you return, I'll return you to the same time," Usagi promised. "It will be like you never left. But we have to go now."

Mamoru's father sighed. "I'm calling a babysitter."

One hour later, Usagi found herself in the park again with Mamoru's parents by her side. She pulled the Time Key out of her sub-space pocket. Ayaka watched with wide eyes. "Did you see that, Honey?" she whispered to her husband. "She pulled that out of thin air!"

Usagi chuckled softly and vaguely wondered if she should keep certain facts about her and Mamoru a secret. If they were amazed by a sub-spaced pocket, how would they react to their son fighting intergalactic monsters? That thought was the reason she still hid the truth about herself from her own parents.

"Hold hands," Usagi commanded. "I don't want anyone to get lost while we're travelling." She took Ayaka's hand in hers and used her other hand to hold the key above her head. "Guardian of Time," she repeated the words that allowed her to enter Pluto's domain. "Let the Door of Time split the heavens and open to me!" Purple clouds suddenly appeared in the clear sky and swirled together. "I call you by your true name. The all-knowing God of Time, the Father of the Guardian. Chronos!" The portal opened with a loud roar and flash of light. "Lead me! Protect me!" The trio began to float to the portal. Ayaka screamed in surprise. Usagi squeezed her hand, trying to tell her that everything was going to be alright.

The door and its guardian appeared. "So you found them," Pluto noted.

Usagi nodded. "I did. Thank you for your help."

"Just remember what I told you. You have to have them back before history begins to change itself."

"I know. I'll have them back before then. I promise."

Sailor Pluto stepped aside and allowed the three to go through the door. In a bright flash of light, Usagi was back in the time that she belonged along with two confused parents.

"This is the same place," Masaru said, releasing Ayaka's hand. "I knew this was a waste of time."

"Didn't you see the door?" Usagi asked. "This is my time." The thunder boomed in the background. Usagi jumped. "My stormy time."

Masaru took a look around. Though he did not want to admit it, the park looked different. The trees were larger. More flowers and bushes decorated the path. He ran his head through his head. "I can't believe this. We really just time travelled."

"Where's Mamoru?" Ayaka asked.

"Probably at his apartment," Usagi replied. "He said he had finals coming up. Knowing him, he's studying."

"Did you hear that, Masaru?" Ayaka asked excitedly. "Even without us, our boy is studious."

"Speaking of which," Masaru spoke as Usagi led them out of the park. "Why aren't we in Mamoru's life now?"

"You just aren't," Usagi mumbled. "He hasn't seen you since he was six."

"I don't understand. We wouldn't just leave our six year old son."

Usagi pursed her lips and exhaled heavily. "Things happen. You sometimes do things you don't want to. I can't elaborate any more than that. I'm sorry."

After the brief conversation, the walk to Mamoru's apartment was a silent one. She led them on the elevator and pressed the button for the ninth floor. The elevator music filled the silence between the three.

The elevator doors opened and Usagi walked ahead to knock on Mamoru's door. The door opened and Usagi grinned. "Hey, you."

"Usako," Mamoru said with surprise in his voice. Usually when he was studying, Usagi avoided his apartment like the plague in fear that he would make her study too. "What are you doing here?" Ayaka and Masaru stepped behind her. His eyes fell on them and he immediately recognized them from one of the few pictures he owned. But it wasn't possible right? It couldn't be. "Usagi," he said softly, afraid even speaking too loudly would make them disappear forever. "Who are these people?"

Usagi's smile covered her entire face. "Happy Anniversary, Mamo-chan. I'd like you to meet Ayaka and Masaru Chiba. These are your parents."

Mamoru could barely contain himself, which was odd for such a composed person. "C-come on in!" He moved aside to let his girlfriend and parents enter. He could feel the tears of happiness welling, wanting to spill.

Usagi stood beside Mamoru as he closed the door. Ayaka and Masaru took a look around the apartment and seemed to be impressed with what they saw. "Look, Ayaka," he heard his father say at his desk. "Chemistry 201."

"But Usagi said he was eighteen. How is he taking such an advanced class?"

"He must have graduated early! He's smart, after all! Just like his old man!"

Usagi chuckled at the conversation before turning back to the emotional Mamoru. "Mamo-chan," she whispered. "Are you okay?"

He wiped away his forming tears and smiled at her. "I-I don't understand. How did you…? The hospital said…"

"I got a little help," Usagi replied. "They're here for a month."

He gave her a quick kiss. "I love you."

Usagi beamed. "I love you too. Why don't you go say hi?"

Mamoru nodded. He walked over to his parents. He bowed. "It's very nice to meet both of you."

Ayaka and Masaru exchanged looks before capturing Mamoru in a hug. "That's what you want to say?" Masaru teased his son, ruffling his hair. "I travelled for thirteen years for 'it's very nice to meet you'?"

"Look at you," Ayaka said. "You've gotten so big."

Masaru nodded. "I don't know why we left you, but we were stupid to abandon such a great son."

Mamoru glanced to Usagi with a confused look on his face. "I'll explain later," she mouthed. "Keep going."

An annoying beeping filled the air. Usagi's breath caught. She had not heard that sound in almost a year. She pulled out her communicator and walked away to answer it. Mamoru watched her carefully for any signal indicating that they had to leave.

Ayaka and Masaru continued on as if they did not hear anything. Ayaka wandered into the kitchen. "Mamoru!" she called to her son. "There's no food in your refrigerator! You haven't been starving yourself, have you?"

Mamoru turned away from Usagi and walked to the kitchen. "I haven't," he replied. "When I'm studying I usually just eat Ramen Noodles so I haven't grocery shopped in a while."

"Mamo-chan," Usagi called for him.

"Yeah?"

"She's back," was all she had to say. Mamoru glanced at his parents. Usagi shook her head. "You spend time with them. You have a lot of catching up to do. I can handle it." She smiled a reassuring smile and ran out of the apartment, closing the door behind her.

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Sailor Moon couldn't tell if she and Mars were out of practice or if the youma was just extremely fast. After fighting the youma for fifteen minutes, they were still no closer to defeating it. "I'm losing my patience with you! Moon Tiara Action!" she cried before launching her glowing tiara at the monster. The monster dodged the tiara again but once it was close, she yelled, "Capture!"

The tiara wrapped itself around the monster. The youma roared and tried to break away from the bind but the tiara didn't budge. Sailor Moon smirked. "Got you! Mars, now!"

"Fire soul!" Mars yelled. Fire shot out of her fingertips and at the monster. The youma wailed in pain before turning into ash.

The tiara returned to its normal state and fell to the ground. Sailor Moon went to pick it up. "So what do you think the youma was doing here, Mars," she asked her companion.

Sailor Mars shrugged. "You guess is as good as mine. But something tells me there's many more where it came from."

"So this is the Dark Kingdom's big return, huh?" the senshi of the moon sighed. "The peace was nice while it lasted."

Mars nodded. "No kidding."

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And that's the second chapter! Thanks for reading! Well? Love it? Hate it? Tell me in a review!

Lots of stuff happened in this chapter, huh? Beryl's back and Mamoru met his parents. And what about Yuri, guys? Should she go to Usagi or Mamoru for help? I just can't choose! Do you guys mind doing the choosing for me? Give your opinion in a review, please! I really need your help! Thanks in advance, guys!

Secondly, I can't describe how happy you guys make me. I like how lots of you either through a PM or review predicted Usagi would somehow mess up. If I hadn't already had this typed up, I'd totally use that idea. Who knows? I just might use it in another story~ I'm sorry if that was a letdown but if it's any consolation, something is definitely going to go wrong. Terribly wrong.

Well that's all for now!

~Koneko~