Title: Becoming Daddy's
Girl
Author: Ree
Theme: Chibi-Usa (Daddy's Girl)
Genre:
General
Version: Manga/Anime Crystal Tokyo
Rating: G
This lovely child and her friends were the creations of Takeuchi Naoko. I am just playing with some really nice dolls. ( And hiding them from my daughter and niece.-)
Becoming Daddy's Girl
AN: Usagi
Chibi-Usa
Aethel Sailor Pallas, Arlene Sailor Ceres, Kamaria
Sailor Vesta, Chloe Sailor Juno. If you wish to understand more
about them, please read about them in a quarter my stories for the
month of March. - Also, some of you may know, but some may not,
that 15 is the age when Hispanic girls become an adult. This birthday
is a humongous ta-do. Some of them put weddings to shame.
It all started when Aethel commented that Usagi was of the right age to be able to call on the Earth's power. Usagi looked at her in surprise. "I'm Sailor Moon. I use the powers of the Moon, not the Earth."
Aethel quirked her blue eyebrow just a little. "You are the Heir to the Moon and the Heir to the Earth. You should be able to use the power of both. And from all my studies, you are the right age to now be able to use your Earth gifts."
Usagi blinked her dark pink eyes as she thought about it. "Why is there a time difference? I became Sailor Moon years ago. I completed my training as a senshi two years ago. Why now?"
Kamaria jumped in with her own idea before Aethel could answer. "Because the Moon relies on purity, and a child's heart tends to be the most pure. So you can be Sailor Moon as a child. But the Earth... she is a mother, or at least a fertile woman. The Earth gives birth to all life. So to use the power of the Earth, one has to be fertile as well, they have to have gone through puberty. Or at least started."
Aethel looked at the red-haired girl in slight shock.
Chloe perked up, and started twining her long green wrapped pigtails through her fingers. "So, you have to Come of Age to use the powers of the Earth."
Usagi frowned as she tried to decipher what Chloe meant. Arlene walked into the room, and caught Chloe's statement. "Who is having a Coming Out party?"
Chloe spun about and smiled at her. "Usagi is."
Arlene frowned for just a moment, and then a smile blossomed across her face. "That's right! You're fifteen. We definitely have to have a Coming Out party."
It had taken another twenty minutes to explain why being fifteen meant you were of age and were supposed to have a large party, and then make the plans for a not so big party.
Usagi watched Arlene release her pink hair from its odangos, and begin to brush them out. As she watched her pink haired friend gently pull the brush through her hair, Usagi hoped this would work. Chloe had convinced her to try a different hairstyle. 'She said the odangos represented the Moon power. Sailor Moon has odangos, and Mama has odangos, so it kind of makes sense.'
When Arlene was done, Chloe began slowly braiding the very front of her hair into many small foot long braids and tying off the ends of the braids with clear twine. With the same care and precision, she wove the braids into a loose net that stretched back across her head. All the strands ended at the crown of her head. Securing it, she then brushed the rest of the locks smooth.
Kamaria took over next. She slid blue, green, and white jeweled pins into the netted hair. Aethel had her dress ready. It was a soft green with a leaf pattern picked out in pale gold. Usagi held her hair out of the way as Aethel zipped up the dress and tied the sash.
Reaching into her vanity, Usagi pulled out a small box and removed a jeweled barrette. With extreme care she clipped it at the junction of the braided net at the crown of her head. 'The red rose of Elysion, or at least the jeweled version. I hope it brings me luck.'
With shoes in hand, the five girls left the palace.
"Okay Usagi, do whatever feels natural." Chloe watched as Usagi's eyes darted around the secluded area they had chosen.
Usagi held out her hand, and wished. Nothing happened. 'I know what I want. I want the ability to produce a rose like Dad. He was able to use those roses to defend the helpless. I want a rose so I can use its thorns to guard my friends. I can almost feel it in my grasp, but why won't it materialize?' She focused harder, trying to make her wish come true.
Kamaria's voice cracked through Usagi's concentration like a whip. "Relax! The Earth's power is not to be commanded. It is to be coaxed."
Chloe's advice started on the echoes of Kamaria's command. "Feel the pulse of the Earth. Feel her beating in you."
Aethel jumped in right after Chloe. "Open your senses. Spread yourself out and feel what is around you. You are coming of age, it is time to lose the bonds that have wrapped your soul, and accept the new ones."
Usagi's felt her eyes pulled until she gazed at the Moon that hung low in the sky. 'It is like I'm being watched.' Uncertainty started to build inside of her. Maybe she wasn't meant to do this.
Arlene touched her arm lightly. "The Moon is watching, and the Earth is listening. They are both waiting for you to finally join them together. You possess the power of the Moon. So, she is here to support you." Arlene swept her arm out to encompass the garden. "And the Earth is waiting for you to call her."
Usagi's looked into her friends' eyes. 'They are confident I can do this.' She glanced back up at the Moon. She still felt like she was being watched, but this time it was a hopeful feeling.
Looking back down to the Earth, she took her friends advice. Breathing out a sigh, she felt herself relax. That was when she heard a soft thrumming echoing all around her. The closer she listened, the more she relaxed, and the fear and uncertainty left her. The bonds of childhood unwove themselves, freeing the fledgling that they had been protecting.
Usagi felt the power of the Moon pouring into her soul. She recognized it and cherished it. And then she heard a quiet request. "And me, too?" The feeling of a rich, dusky power hovered just outside of her. Usagi instantly recognized it. It felt like her Dad. Smiling gently, she assented. The Earth's power poured into her and she felt overwhelmed. Usagi was buffeted about as the two powers wove about each other tussling for position.
The four friends watched with uncertainty as Usagi looked like a leaf being tossed into the wind. Understanding dawned as they watched. Arlene gestured for them to form a loose circle around their princess. Once in place, they used their power as a shield to keep her safe during her most vulnerable moment.
Usagi felt her friends shield, and took heart. She was protected. Now she could deal with the forces trying to use her as a friendly dueling ground. Using all her training as senshi and princess, Usagi settled the two different energies down.
Standing in the circle of her friends, Usagi looked about the moon washed garden, and listened to it sing. Reaching out her hand, she smiled as a pink rose appeared between her fingers. 'I am now Daddy's girl, too.'
