Chapter 1

At about one o'clock Endymion finished up lunch with his wife. In about thirty minutes he had to meet with the space colonization committee to begin plans for branching out into surrounding planets. He was walking down the hall to the business wing of the tower when Sailor Mercury, or Ami, came running towards him from the health wing.

"Majesty! King Endymion wait!" she called bending over to lean on her knees and catch her breath.

"Ami, how many times do I have to tell you to call me Mamoru, we were friends before everything changed weren't we?" Mamoru said laughingly.

"Mamoru, we have no time for that, one of the crystals has started to break! You need to get down to the room. They will want to see a familiar face." She said hurriedly.

The color in Mamoru's face drained. "Who is it Ami?" he asked as they started quickly walking towards the hospital wing elevator.

"Its Andrew, Mamoru," said Ami after they entered the elevator. "He will be very confused when he wakes up. To him it is still January of 2000. He doesn't know that it is the year 3005." The elevator came to a stop. "Mamoru, I'll check on him first, but do you want me to delay the space sciences meeting for 15 minutes?" She asked before entering the large observation room.

"Ami will you tell Usako to be there if I run late. That is all." Ami then left the room.

The last thing that Andrew remembered was a layer of glassy ice covering him. As he opened his eyes he felt that the muscles hadn't been used in ages. How true it was! When his eyes did open he scanned the room and was surprised to see a large hospital type observation room containing four large crystal figures. 'Were those people in there?' Andrew asked himself. Confused didn't even begin to express his feelings at that moment.The door to the room opened and in came a girl in a lab coat with short blue hair. She looked familiar. She walked over to him and checked his stats. "Who are you?" he asked.

In reply she said, "For now you can call me Dr. Mercury, or just Mercury. I am the head doctor here at Palace. You must be very confused. I would assume that the last thing you remember was the glass ice?" with an affirmative nod she continued. "Let me get your friend for you. He'll be able to explain it better." She walked over the door that she exited from and motioned to someone in the hall. Mamoru entered the room quietly. "Mamoru, I'll get that message out for you," said Ami exiting.

"Mamoru, what's going on? Why am I hooked up to all of these machines?" asked Andrew, "And why are you wearing a lavender suit, what's with the mask Mamoru?"

"Andrew. Andrew. You've been out for a while. A lot has changed. I will explain everything to you, rest assured! We have you hooked up to this machine because it was checking your stats. As for the suit, its kind of my uniform," said Mamoru filling Andrew in.

"I don't understand Mamoru, uniform? Where are you working that I don't know about?" inquired Andrew.

"Andrew, It's going to take a lot of explaining. I have a very important meeting that I have to attend. In the meantime I am going to have someone take you to your new apartment. Its about 1:30 now. At 2 I'll have someone come down and bring you to my quarters. I will explain everything then." With that Mamoru left and Andrew remained confused.

Andrew sat in silence. Every now and then a nurse would come in to look at his vital stats, but no one would answer his questions. All they would say was something about the king not wanting them to relay any information. Who was the king? All Andrew had known was the Emperor of Japan, but he had no hold. Who was this man, and what did he have to do with him. Andrew became curious about the crystalline objects. From his seat they looked like a new art form, but his curiosity soon became too much for him. He could see the outline of a fifth piece of crystal that looked like it had been recently removed but that didn't bother him as much as the faces inside the other crystals. He easily recognized Molly. She was always in his shop. Why was she in there? He examined the other merged crystals; this looked like a family. In fact, this looked to be Usagi's family. This was very upsetting, indeed. Just then a man entered the room to take him to Mamoru. "Come on then, sir. The King has requested your presence." So it seemed that Mamoru hadn't sent for him after all. It was this new king. He was going to have some strong words with this king! He felt like a prisoner.

As he followed the messenger he noticed the hall surrounding him. It looked like it was made of marble and crystal. The messenger took him into an elevator where he pressed the button labeled Royal Family, and then put a key in the hole next to it. The elevator moved upwards so fast he could barely catch his breath, but when he looked to the other man he looked as if nothing had happened. They exited the elevator and continued forward. Andrew easily noticed that the walls were all made of a cloudy glass, not real walls at all, windows. They stopped at a room with French doors. Across the top etched in the glass was "Hermes Library," The man invited me in and told me to have a seat and then left. Mamoru then entered a few minutes later. He had changed from his lavender suit into a tuxedo vest and pants with a crisp white shirt and no mask.

"Mamoru, what are you doing here, I think the King is about to come." Andrew said standing up.

"Andrew, you're talking to the king. I am the king." Mamoru said. "Let's sit back down."

The look of shock on Andrew's face was laughable. He looked like he was waiting for the punch line of a joke. Unfortunately, there was no joke. His best friend became King of this castle over night. "How long have I been out that you became king in my sleep? Who did you marry to get that title?" He was so confused.

"The year is now 3005. I have been married to Usagi for five years. We were royalty in our past lives." Mamoru thought through his words very carefully. Usako was going to be meeting him here in a few minutes and would find a great surprise. He hadn't told her that Andrew was awake.

"I don't understand. This is so confusing. A past life?" This had to be some joke.

"Do you remember the myth about the moon princess and the prince of earth? How they fell in love and then were killed before their wedding day by the evil being? This wasn't always a myth. This was history. But when space was no longer a place of habitation new generations stopped believing it and it became a myth." Still Andrew was mystified. "Usagi was the Moon Princess, I was the Prince. We died and were reborn. We became the superheroes, Tuxedo Kamen and the Sailor Scouts, looking for the princess to save the world. But she was with us all along."

"Well it certainly explained you behavior for the past three years…back then. But what happened to the two of you, I thought you hated each other."

"We didn't hate each other for a long time we just didn't know how to tell you that we had fallen into love. We were coming to tell you on the night of the Great Freeze. That is when everyone was covered in the sheet of glass crystal so the world could prepare. When the world awoke there were crystal towers and Usako had broken the crystal encasements everyone was trapped in. They looked to her for leadership and we got married."

"How is she doing with all of this."

"She is okay. She is a wonderful leader for the people, but she misses her family terribly. She doesn't know that you are awake yet. I sent for her she should be coming soon."

"How is Minako?" His thoughts turned away from his present situation to the love of his life. He had left her behind, hadn't he? He only prayed that she hadn't found someone new.

"She misses you terribly. She doesn't think we know, but she goes into that room and cries by you for hours every day."

At that moment the doors began to open, and a boisterous, glamorous woman came through the door. In her hair sat a silver tiara, on her left hand a large diamond, and she was dressed in an endless ball gown. "Mamo-chan why did you call me over in such a hurry. The committee was going to have a hissyfit." She scanned the room looking for Mamoru and found a visitor also there. He turned around to see who had entered. "Oh Endymion is this real? Andrew!" With a nod from Mamoru as answer She ran toward him to give him a hug. "Oh Andrew! My family is returning to me. Thank the heavens." She began to cry as she backed out of his arms and into Mamoru's. "Does he know about us?" She took his nod as an answer.

"Usagi you have changed so much. Where's the little klutz from the arcade?" He said fondly. She looked so mature now, like she carried the weight of the world. "What are you guys rulers of?"

"Earth," they said together. He was surprised He didn't think that that could ever happen.

"Can I see Minako?"

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