Now I know that this is going slow! And know you all are looking for some H/M scenes and I promise when it comes, it is going to be worth the wait. Just bear with me! They are going to see each other in the next chap! Cause I think after this chap, there will be some confusion and any questions that you have, ask me and I will answer! I PROMISE!

I have also changed one thing! None of the Inners have kids! I thought about it and realized that I don't want that!

So please, please, PLEASE! Read and Review! I have a massive ego and it is deflating by the day with you people. Geez!

I own nothing of Sailor Moon! Enjoy!

The Silver Millennium was in chaos. Or that was what it seemed like in Ami's mind. Chibiusa was missing. Reports from guards around the castle stated that they had seen the princess walk into the rose garden but not out. Every piece of dirt in the garden had been turned but the princess was nowhere to been seen.

Ami was pretty sure that it was just some teenage melodrama and that the princess had just needed to get away from everything. She had been told the story of Ceres and was sure that Chibiusa was somewhere in the Tokyo, safe and sound.

What really had concerned Ami was the new threat. Ami, like everyone in the Silver Millennium, had known of the rebellion in Venus. And, like everyone else, she knew that the leader had been caught and the rebellion squashed.

But somehow, the leader had been murdered in his cell.

Standing in that very cell now, Ami surveyed the surroundings. She had been sent to see if the threat was human or something more sinister.

She could deduce that the man had spontaneously combusted. There was no scorch marks on the wall, only were the man had once lay, suggesting that magic was a possibility.

Swallowing the bile in her throat, Ami stepped closer to the victim. Most of his body had now been reduced to ash, save for some flesh. She could tell that there had been some struggle but it wasn't noticeable.

Had the man known that his attacker was coming?

His clothes were surprisingly in good order, save for some scorch marks, leaving Ami to conclude with horror that the man had been burned from the inside out. Ami had heard of cases where people could spontaneously combust with no type of ignition. But the fact that the leader of a rebellion had been charred to death in his cell was too much of coincidence and Ami didn't believe in coincidences.

Standing up, she signaled for the coroner to come retrieve the body. She needed to report this to Serenity immediately.

Neptune was known for its delicious tea but the imported tea did not do the real thing justice. Rei closed her eyes in ecstasy as the brown liquid ran down her throat.

Michiru could only giggle at her antics. She had not seen an Inner in 20 years when Ami came to survey some plants on Neptune and even then, Michiru had only saw her. They had not spoken. Michiru could not deny that it had hurt her when Ami had not tried to contact her or at least, write to her.

If she had expected anyone to come and see her, she would have thought that it would have been Ami, for they had been the closest. Michiru had considered the senshi of wisdom to be her sister. They had had so much in common.

She had been having a feeling that she would be getting a special visit and her feelings were never wrong. But she had never had though that it would be the fire priestess who would come and see her. Granted they had become very close, sharing a love for extrasensory perception. But after the banishment, Michiru had thought that the Inners had long since forgotten about her.

As she was sure that Haruka had.

Observing the Sea senshi from behind her tea cup, Rei saw that the violinist was the refined beauty that she had always know but now, she was a queen, a position it seems that she had been born for. Though, Michiru was well put together, Rei could see sadness in her stance and in her face. Rei could also sense that something else was off about the Neptunian. She wanted to shudder every time, she gazed into her eyes. Her eyes were Michiru's but everything else seemed off. Inhuman.

Rei knew that Haruka and Michiru had not seen each other in a long time. Ami had told her, like the Inners' friendship, the two Outers' love had transcended time also. They were soul mates. Threat or no threat, Rei thought that no one should be split from the one they loved. Rei knew her soul mate but she was not barred from seeing that person. Rei only kept away because it was complicated.

Haruka and Michiru were torn apart and that must be agony.

Clearing her throat, Rei sat her tea cup down and tried to look the sea goddess in her eye.

"I have come because I have noticed disturbances in my fire. And I believe that the rebellion may have a little to do with it. I believe that it is a trap but I don't know how. I was hoping that you could help me by looking into your mirror."

"Of course. I am embarrassed that such a threat got past my sight and escalated the way it did. I read in the paper that there were some casualties."

"Yes, but if it had not been contained so quickly by Haruka's guard then there would have been more."

Lifting an eyebrow at the mention of Haruka, Michiru tried to calm the shaking of her hands. Placing in them in her lap, she replied casually, "Yes, Haruka. She has always had a knack for controlling situations. Please, sit here, while I go fetch my mirror."

Watching Michiru leave, Rei felt one eyebrow rise. She had noticed Michiru's uneasiness at the mention of the wind goddess. What was up with those two? Had they broken up?

Deciding that it was not her business to know, Rei looked around the palace room. The decorations were very modest unlike Minako's palace that shouted royalty. Michiru's had more of a homey feel. Her paintings hung up everywhere.

Getting up to admire them, Rei walked from one painting to another. But as she went down the line, the more disturbed she got.

Rei had been to one of Michiru's art galleries before. It had been eons ago. But she had loved the artist's way of capturing the sea. It had made her glow inside. She actually had one of the paintings hanging up in the shrine. But these paintings weren't happy.

They screamed destruction, death, and despair.

But what alarmed her was the one that looked alarmingly like Rei's vision. Did Michiru know more about the threat than she was letting on?

"Ah, here it is, Rei. It took me a while to find it . . . Oh!"

Michiru felt her heart clench as she saw Rei looking at her most recent painting. She felt as if she had been caught red handed.

"Um. . . Do you like the painting?"

"Yes, it looks very familiar. . ." Rei answered half-heartedly. She surveyed the aqua queen from under her eyelids. Her senshi senses were going on high alert. Could it be that Michiru knew of the threat but had made no attempt to alert the others?

Shaking her head, she deduced that her accusations were silly and that Michiru had a loyalty to the Silver Millennium, just as she did.

As she turned to the Neptunian, she felt a sharp pain fill her head. As she fell to the ground, she saw Michiru standing over her with a candlestick that had once been situated on a table. It was coated with something crimson. It was blood. Her blood. Rei begin to understand as she faded into darkness.

Chibiusa was embarrassed. She had taken the key into the rose garden, said the magic words and waited. And waited. And waited. Nothing had happened! She had not been bathed in the white light as before. She had felt like a fool. Of course, the same thing wouldn't happen twice.

So she had waited until the guards patrolling the entrance of the garden had slipped their guard, alerted by her disappearance and then she had retreated to her room.

Sighing, she banged her head against the wooden stand of her canopy bed.

'Mother's gonna kill me. And then she is going to make me restore Ceres' powers.'

Chibiusa had felt no satisfaction at taking Ceres' powers from her. Ceres may not have deserved them but Chibiusa had never wanted it to come to this. Her tear-ridden face still flashed in Chibiusa's mind. But what was worse was that Chibiusa could still feel Ceres' power. It pulsated in her chest and made her body feel warm.

Chibiusa had heard of instances where the Inners had had to give their own powers to Sailor Moon. With the Inner's sacrifice, Sailor Moon was able to defeat even their most powerful enemies.

'But, Ceres hadn't given me her powers. I stole them.' Chibiusa thought bitterly as she placed her hand on her chest. She felt powerful. It seemed as if her powers and Cere's were battling it out in her chest, desperate to be let out.

Concentrating on the mirror that sat across her room, Chibiusa concentrated on the feral powers that surged inside her. She felt as if she was on fire as she let the powers fly. In a hot white flash, the mirror crumbled, leaving spider web cracks.

Struggling to catch her breath, Chibiusa shuddered at the sight of the mirror.

"That is a pity. I had always loved that mirror. I handpicked it myself."

Gasping, Chibiusa turned around, startled to see her mother standing there. They were spitting images. They wore the same white dress with gold ringets across the front. They stood at the same height and had the same kindness in their eyes. They could only be told apart by their hair color and Chibiusa's bunny like red eyes.

Opening the pink curtains to allow light into the room, the white haired queen made her way to her daughter's bed. Sitting on it, she motioned for her daughter to do the same.

"The whole palace has been in an uproar about your absence. You should really let people know where you are going." Serenity said once her daughter had sat down beside her. "Your dad has returned and joined the fleet, looking for you. He is very worried."

"You must have known I was in here the whole time, mama. Why would you allow papa to worry."

"Because we needed to talk with no interruptions."

Making herself comfortable, Serenity let some time past before, she spoke again, "When you were born, Pluto and I were very confused; the crystal resonated with your cries. It responded to you immediately. We discovered that you had full control over the crystal like I can never have. Even when I had taken control, I still could not get the crystal to do for me what it was willing to do for you. I admit that I was scared. We were scared. You could be the most powerful being on earth. And with that would have come a great responsibility that you could not handle as a child."

Sighing, Serenity grabbed at the end of her long ponytail, fiddling with as she struggled to continue with the secret that could destroy the millennium as they knew it.

Curious, Chibiusa asked, "What did you do?"

Looking into her daughter's eyes, Serenity answered with a shaking voice, "We choose the quartet and put some of the crystal powers into them."

Chibiusa blood ran cold, as her mother's words began to set in on her shoulders. Standing, she begin to pace.

"So you just chose four random girls and gave them powers. Do you remember that one of them attacked me today?"

Shifting uncomfortably, Serenity said," It is no-"

"No!" Chibiusa yelled, cutting of her mother. "You guys couldn't trust me with it, could you? You just followed the orders of Minako and the others. Just like you did with the Outers!"

Cringing at her daughter's tone and accusations, Serenity stood, "I will not have you stand here, yelling at me in such a tone. You don't understand what I did and I am beginning to think that you are not ready to take the throne next fall. I have had reports that you are ignoring your studies and can barely cooperate with your senshi. You will restore Ceres back to a senshi and go back to the way things were without complaint. I don't want to hear of an incident like this again."

Walking out of her daughter's room, she pressed herself against the door. Had what she done right? Or did she just help in bringing about the destruction of the millennium?

"My queen, we have captured one of the inners." a demon said as she bowed to a red headed woman, who sat on a large opaque throne.

"Excellent! I only need you to masquerade as Queen Michiru for a while longer. The girl will soon walk into our grasp and deliver the crystal right into our hands! We won't even have to lift a finger!"

"For the grand Universe!"

Behind the wall of the throne, vines crawled and writhed violently, reacting to elation of the demons. Ensnared in the vines tangled was a woman with a waterfall of aqua hair, her senshi uniform was tattered. As she heard the demon's statement, she let a single tear escape her eyes.

"Oh, Haruka, I am so sorry."

The demon servant who had just addressed her queen walked up to the captured woman.

Bowing to her, the demon sarcastically said, "It is time for another go, your highness."

Touching Michiru's forehead, the demon closed it eyes as Michiru began to scream in pain. In a flash, the demon was gone and Michiru opened her eyes. Stepping from the vines, she begin to make her way back to the palace.

Chibiusa dragged herself up from her bed, where she had been lying for two hours. She felt hollow. How could someone's life turn from calm to utter chaos in a matter of seconds? Looking in the cracks of the mirror, she felt disgusted by her image. She had been molded her whole life to be like her mother. But all her mother was was a pawn in some else's game. Chibiusa refused to be like her.

She had given Hotaru a promise and she planned to keep it. Unraveling her bunny eared shaped odangos, she begin to unravel them, letting her pink long hair fall to the ground. Grabbing the shears that sat on her dresser, she began to snip away at her hair. After a few angry chops, she looked into the mirror. Her hair curled behind her ears. She could barely even recognize herself. Wrapping herself in her cloak, she made her way out of the palace.

It was time for her to find her own way.