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Lea-chan: did you actually used spell check! (shocked beyond all belief)
Jeh-kun: You know that hurts.
Lea-chan: just get this over with.
Jeh-kun: I own nothing.
GOOD BYE TO MEMORIES
The girls went for ice cream and then to the park and talked and talked about what they were going to do in the future and all the school that Serena missed and what they who they wanted to marry. It was during this that Serena was thinking about their future in the moon kingdom and what how that would ripe her friends from their dreams. Yet again she found herself bowing her head in shame; she had troubled those around her yet again for no real reason. But this time she did it discreetly so her friends wouldn't notice.
"Hey are we all sleeping over some place?" Serena said remembering all the duffle bags that were sitting in Darien's apartment.
"Yea, but you are the one who gets to pick, Darien's place, the temple or your house?" Rei said as she stood up and stretched from sitting down so long on the park bench secluded from the rest of the park that looked out on the water side.
"Well my mom is going to kill me for not returning home in a week or even calling. And I really don't want to leave Darien's place." Serena said with a sigh. "Can I spend one last night there?" She asked the girls with her fist clenched; she knew that she would no longer have time to mourn for him there was too much going on in her own life.
"One last night." Lita said as she placed her hand on Serena's shoulder. The sun setting in the background sending out an orange sky and a purplish like that sparkled with such a calm beauty.
"AHHHHH MONSTER!" A small child cried in the background.
"I guess that is our cue" Amy said as they all transformed.
"WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DISTRUPTING PEOPLE ON THEIR LESIAR SUNDAY AFTERNOON?" Serena shouted to the demon that was trashing around and held a small child by their throat. It placed the child down and averted its attention to the girls.
"WE ARE THE PRETTY SAILOR SOILDERS! WE FIGHT FOR LOVE AND JUSTICE AND WE SHALL PUNISH YOU!" the others added to her opening line.
The battle had started, but this demon was stronger than the rest and as they fiercely attacked with all they had, Serena was in a daze. The demon saw this and went straight for her, Serena was thrown through the nearby store window glass shards had embedded themselves in her back and she screamed in agony as blood seeped through the newly forming wounds.
"SAILOR MOON!" The outer scouts came and Hotaru helped Serena to her knees while the battle continuing outside.
"I am fine." She struggled to stand as she heard the cries outside, Mars and Jupiter had been knocked out both of their body scraped across the asphalt on the street.
"YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT! AQUA ILLUSION!" Mercury called out and then screamed as her attack was shot back at her and Venus tried to catch her but only ended skidding herself and Amy into the store across the street. Serena stepped out into the street to see they were losing, she didn't want to fight anymore and she felt too weak. But they needed her.
"EARTH SHAKING!" Amara called as her standard attack fired back at her as soon as it hit the demon, Michelle tried to deflect it but only ended up smashing herself and Amara in to the air, and they smashed into the third story of the building behind them.
"DEATH SCREAM!" Setsuna said as the last hope, but to her avail Pluto was smashed in the air by several feet and ended being slammed into the pavement like a ragged doll.
"IT IS MY TURN!" Hotaru said as her knees shook. She hated the fight and was a kind and gentel girl but she couldn't watch her friends be punished while Serena looked on in horror. "SIREN OF SCI-"She was cut off by a kick in the gut by the demon.
"THAT LEAVES JUST YOU AND ME!" the demon said as it drooled over the pavement as three figures jumped in front of Serena and the creature.
"NO THIS IS MY BATTLE! THEY ARE MY SENSH!!" Serena cried she didn't want to see anyone else fall before her. She knew that the sailor stars were really the new transfer students Taki, Yate n and Seiya who had a strange attachment to Serena, but she didn't look at him twice because she was too busy thinking about Darien.
Serena closed her eyes she couldn't watch anymore, feeling her wings fold in on her and hug her body gently tears that she thought she had used all up rolled down her face. When she opened her eyes all her friends were scattered across the area all bleeding and scared, they never asked for this but Serena made them fight for her court and for earth because her kingdom was no longer in existence.
Looking around at the destruction gave Serena a sense of heart ache, it reached and burned in her chest till she realized that it was really the silver crystal that she had stored in her body for safe keeping was glowing with a hot white light and made every molecule of her body sting with pain, she doubled over and felt her uniform transforming yet again. Her skirt had changed to a baby powder blue as well the scarf around her neck that had silver gems that sparkled making it seem almost silver, with a golden streak that shined like the stars on the edge of the skirt and scarf. While her red boots had changed to a golden shine to them as well as the edge of her white gloves that seemed to be brighter and the bows on her back and front took on the same shine that was almost blinding. Her hair pieces took on at the baby blue/ silver gem effect and her tiara caught the light. And no more wings as well as short ends of her ribbons.
"IT IS TIME YOU PAY FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE!" Serena said with a fierceness that didn't belong to her, she shocked herself as her voice echoed through the darkening night.
"COSMIC SHOCK." She said in almost a whisper as a blinding light shocked the demon so it was more than obliterated as well as the area around her. Every window smashed and rained down broken glass. "COSMIC HEAL" She said in the same small voice and a blanket of moon dust engulfed each of the warriors so that their injuries were nothing but a phantom memory. They all gathered around Serena who had fallen to her knees letting the shards of glass dig into her skin, she de-transformed and clutched the glass in her hands as the Senshi all gathered around her.
"Who many more changes do you have in you?" Rei asked her hands on her hips as the others laughed.
"Princess you're bleeding." Hotaru said in shock she held out her hands and a purple light emanated from her hands as she healed the cuts that had made their way into her skin.
"I didn't notice." Serena said in a low voice.
"You know what is next don't you Setsuna?" Serena said looking at her with despair in her eyes as she clutched her new transformation locket, one was in a blood red heart shape that held small crystal locket that had a golden key on it.
"Yes I do." With that she turned and the outer senshi followed her without question.
"Now that is over with don't we have an unsupervised sleep over to attend?" Mina asked said rubbing her hands together.
"Yea I so want some of Lita's cookies!" Amy said and they all smiled even Serena, she could indulge in another night of fun.
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When Serena returned after school her mother welcomed her with a smile and hugged her daughter. She wasn't mad, only concerned. (can you order a parent like that over the internet? Put me down for two!) With little communication Serena went to her room and collapsed on her bed. Her black cat Luna jumped on the bed and rubbed her head against her stomach. And the realization that she had a new mission filled her head with a pounding migraine. No time like the present she thought.
"Luna this has been bugging me for a while. If in the future where I am Neo-queen serenity, how do we end up rebuilding the city that is in ruins? I thought that all of us would have a chance to pursue our dreams. Mina going back to her acting career, Amy as a pediatric doctor, Rei as a song writer and Lita owning her own bakery. How do I take them to my court in the future and rip them from their dreams? And what about Darien he wants to study and learn about everything the world and what it can offer. How do I take them from that?"Serena letting her arm flop over the side of the bed with a heavy sigh.
"I am glad you are thinking about the future, but there will be some trigger of event and you won't have to forcefully up root them. They will come on their own will." Luna said surprised at the maturity level Serena had developed since Darien had left.
"Over winter break I will be rebuilding my kingdom, the moon kingdom has been in ruin for far too long." Serena said with seriousness that Luna didn't understand its origin.
"What are you planning?" Luna said with a raised eyebrow. (do cats have eye brows? Raised eye socket?)
"I am going to give everyone their lives back. I remember how upset we all were when we learned that we had to go back to fighting. I will be rebuilding my kingdom alone." Serena said with harshness to her voice.
"And how do you plan to do that? It's not like you are going to wipe our memories?" Luna laughed.
"I am sorry Luna, you have worked so hard, for so long. It is time to relive you of your duty." Serena held out her new locket. She held it in front of Luna and a tear ran from her eye. "I'm sorry for all the trouble I have caused you. I'll make sure to make all this right." She closed her eyes and a green light filled the room. Luna's eyes went hollow and her body went limp as the last three years of interaction with the scouts wore away from her mind.
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"SERENA! WE GOT HERE AS FAST AS WE COULD! WHAT HAPPENED??" Amy said as she huffed as she placed her hands on her knees and breathed heavily she was the last to arrive. Serena climbed down from the tree she was sitting in, ready to explain all but the outer senshi filled with questions.
"It has to be something big; she even got the outer senshi to come." Lita said with pointing to the others.
"Serena we are all here, what is wrong? Your eyes are all red and puffy?" Amy said concerned.
"I want to thank you all for your services. You have helped very much in all of our battles; I wouldn't have ever been able to do anything without all you have sacrificed." Serena sighed. "There is only one last task and that is the restoration of the moon kingdom, our current enime I nothing to concern about with my new power, they will be vanquished this weekend. But that is a task that I need to do on my own."
"What are you talking about?" Rei asked as she put down the broom that she was using to sweep up the temple.
"Yea, do you have some screws loss since Darien left?" Mina a asked
"I am sorry but it is time to retire the guard." Serena held out her hands and the small crystal locket that had a golden key on it. "I'll make things right." The crystal lit up and all the girls and Artemis fell over from the shock of the green light.
Serena carried each girl in a bed room at Rei's temple so that they would wake up somewhere other than outside the temple and find themselves sick with the chilled December air. It was the last thing that she could do for them. She didn't want to take their memories of being friends, so she left the memories of them hanging out, except for all the memories of herself were gone. She figured she'd be too busy rebuilding the kingdom in her spare time, so that she wouldn't miss Darien so much.
"I really hope that you can all be happy." Serna said as she left the temple.
DD
Dear Mamo-chan,
I did it. I took away all the memories of my friends. They won't remember me anymore. I know that I really should be sad about that, but I can't help but smile and know that they will have a chance at the normal life that we all dreamed about. We spent nights talking till dawn what we would do with all the free time that we would have when all this fighting came to an end. But it has been three years and I doubt it will ever stop. I now know that although I hate the fight, I can't watch them die again. Yesterday I watched them all fall, from inside me I guess it was the silver crystal but I have activated my final transition before I become Neo-Queen Serenity, Cosmic Sailor Moon.
Too many times they have died to protect me and out of sheer luck and the silver crystal I have been able to revive them, but how much power does it still contain? I don't know and I don't want to face losing them again. I couldn't be the one to tell their parents what happened and why their daughter had to die. It is better this way.
I really want to keep you at my side Mamo-chan, but that is just my selfishness talking. I know that you too must be relived of your duty. You have watched me die in your arms and held me when I cried for my fallen comrades. I love you with all my heart so that is why I need to let you go. I will be rebuilding the Moon kingdom, but I won't be taking you with me. I know Reni may never be born in result and I really love her, but if it frees you then I know that it has to be.
I wonder if you will ever read this, or you will come home in a little less than a year and I will take away memories that you have held precious of our past life and current. You will never know why I did what I did. Maybe you will hide this letter so that when the time comes you can't find you memories burred in your mind and know that I told you so you could be prepared and maybe defy my relief of duty that I have sent to the others.
I should go now, Mamo-chan you are in my heart.
Usagi.
***updated 11/1/2008***
Jeh-kun: Okay I know that I don't have English names for the starlight's so they get their names. Everyone one else I am painfully changing back…still not working on that paper due at 3 tomorrow…college kids are sooo lazy. It has come to my attention that I am still using a Japanese name and the letters are still using the Japanese names. Well I am amazing and realized if I changed all the names I would have to change the story title and probably loss my readers in the confusion so the letters can stay.