Life after Sailor Moon
Aftermath
By Cindra
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Ok so I made the story into something a little more serious…I like the comedy in this story, but I got to brainstorming and came up with this wicked new storyline instead. This is somewhat of a trait in my writing…
Disclaimer: I do not in any way own Sailor Moon I do this for my enjoyment and for the enjoyment of my readers…The original characters and the original ideas are mine and it's going to stay that way.
Notes: I put colons between conversations denoting silent thought between two characters
italics denotes a characters thoughts
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(Japan)
Endymion took his time packing the twins clothes and toys for their trip. "You and Luna need to lay low for the time being. I have to go and calm down Sere and I don't think she wants to see either of you right now." He looked down at the two felines pacing in front of the open portal.
"That's absolutely out of the question! We caused this mess and we are going to fix it!" Luna snarled.
"Luna is right Endymion. This is something that we need to do ourselves. She needs to hear the whole story." Artemis leapt into the portal.
"You shouldn't have told her it to begin with! All of us only have vague memories about the Silver Millennium and what you two brought up just unearthed insecurities that she hasn't thought about in years!" Endy wasn't that pleased with the two felines and let his feelings about this entire debacle show.
"You have every right to be upset about this and Artemis and I are going to make her see reason." Luna eyed the furious prince with wary violet eyes.
"REASON? I'VE HAVEN'T SEEN SERE THIS FURIOUS IN YEARS! SHE THINKS THAT ALL OF YOU KNOWINGLY BETRAYED HER! LIED TO HER! AND YOU THINK THAT TALKING TO HER IS GOING TO MAKE IT ALL BETTER?" Endy roared in frustration.
"Maybe not but we have to try!" Luna having rarely seen Endymion lose his temper and leapt into the portal for safety.
"Daddy help Momma." Rafe pulled on Endy's pant leg.
"Yes Daddy help Momma." Rosie echoed.
"We go help to." The two kittens leapt out of the twins' arms and went after their parents.
Endy tossed the twin's suitcase into the portal and then gathered the twins in his arms. "Don't worry you two, I'm going to make things all better, and then the four of us can go enjoy a few days of fun in Australia."
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(The Dark side of the moon)
Sere was standing in the newly rebuilt situation room. In front of her was a very large globe. It was a detailed replica of the planet Earth and Sere was taking out her anger on the unsuspecting planet bellow.
"Let's see which leader gets the next punishment." She watched, as a huge tornado took out the vacation ranch of one of North America's leaders. She was so sick of all the leaders wanting nothing but war and not peace. "I know maybe I will teach the Middle East to get along with each other."
"Is this making you feel better?" A strangely familiar voice echoed around the Situation Room.
"What's the use of having power if you can't use it to do some much needed spring cleaning down on Earth?" She used her influence over the planet to take away all weapons of mass destruction.
"Bunny if the people on Earth haven't learned anything in over 3000 years…" Cronos walked into view, so that he could point at the planet in question. "Then you aren't going to change them by shaking up the very ground that they live on."
Sere stared at her visitor in utter disbelief. "Daddy!"
"Yes baby it really is me." He held his arms out to her.
Sere ran into her fathers arms.
"It's going to be all right angel. Let's go somewhere quite and talk about what has gotten you so upset." He wanted to get her as far away from that globe as he possibly could. So he led her towards the palace archives.
"What's there to talk about? My life has been one huge lie since I was fourteen-years-old! Those thankless people down there deserve everything that I threw at them! Only a handful of them want peace and work towards that goal! While the majority of them lives and thrives on war, greed, and violence!" Sere's tone was so cold and bitter that she could have frozen lava.
"I think that you need to see some things. It might put things into a better perspective for you." They had finally reached the main entrance to the archives.
"Look father I know that you're trying to make things all better, but nothing that you can say or do will make me change my mind about this!" She attempted to pull away from her father, but he wasn't about to let her go anywhere until she saw what she needed to see.
"Turning Earth upside down is going to have to wait." He dragged his very reluctant daughter into a room that contained what seemed to be endless rows of information filed on holo-disks and a huge bank of monitors and consoles from which to view the information. "Now sit down and no arguments!"
Sere reluctantly did as she was told. "Father the last thing that I feel like doing is watching home movies about a place that I barely remember!" She watched what appeared to be a training session between the Senshi and Sailor Moon only it wasn't her in the uniform. "So someone else wore the uniform it proves absolutely nothing! I mean so what if she happens to look like…" She wasn't at all prepared to see her mother and the other Senshi's moms running around like the Sailor Senshi. It was almost more than her mind wanted to comprehend. Her mother had been Queen long before she was a thought in either of her parent's minds. When had she ever found time to be a Sailor Senshi?
Cronos tried not to chuckle and incur his daughter's wrath towards himself, but her expression was priceless. "Yes Bunny that's your mother when she was about fourteen."
"So she was once Sailor Moon! That was then and this is now! I don't see what viewing this has to do with what is happening to me now!" She sneered irritably up at her father.
"Serena I am still your father and you will not speak to me in that tone of voice." Cronos tried to keep his temper in check.
"I wouldn't snarl at you if you would finally get to the point and tell me what you are trying to say!" She could careless if her father was there or not. She was a grown woman and would snarl at whomever she pleased.
"Your mother was focusing more on being one of the Senshi than on affairs of state. To your mother being Sailor Moon was fun and exciting, while being the princess was tedious and boring." He glanced down at his daughter to make sure that she was paying attention to what he was trying to say.
"Fine I guess that I can relate to that. Is there more to this story or can I go now?" She rolled her eyes at her father.
"Her parents decreed that Sailor Moon would only be a Senshi during times of desperate strife. This infuriated your mother and she rebelled against her parents. She continued to go on missions and ignored all of her duties as the heir to the throne…" Cronos paused in mid sentence.
"Well something obviously had to happen to curb my mother's rebellious ways. Was that you or did something else happen to change her mind?" She was only half impressed by the home movie that she was being forced to watch.
Cronos merely nodded in response to her question.
"You had better start talking or I'm going to go back to the Situation Room and finish what I started." She was growing restless and was in the mood to hurt something else.
"No it wasn't me that changed her mind. Although, I did have a little something to do with her final decision. I'm willing to bet that it was similar to what made you finally start thinking seriously about your future." He arched an inquiring brow down at his still very furious daughter.
Sere used the console to call up the events that led up to her final confrontation and eventual victory against Galaxia. "By this time I had already died or nearly died more times than I could count on one hand, but I guess it was this situation finally brought everything into focus for me. That pink haired little version of me is Serena Raye "Renny" my future daughter and constant pain in my backside. She went back to her time before Galaxia finally made her presence known. Then a week or so later after Darien went off to college, my youngest child Renny's baby sister literally fell into my life. It had been a while since I had been intentionally hunted down for my crystal, but this was nothing new for me." She paused as if to collect her thoughts. "I guess what gets to a person is having everyone you love taken away from you one by one and there's nothing that you can do to stop it. I did finally win that ultimate battle and I saved everyone that I loved, but something in me changed. The innocent fun loving bubble headed Serena died that day and although I still liked to have fun. I saw things in a more serious light and worked my ass off to show everyone that I could be someone that they would eventually be proud to call their Queen." She finished by giving her father a regal are-you-happy-now-that-you-dredged-up-all-those-happy-memories glare.
"During the golden period of the Silver Millennium it was decided that any future heirs to the Moon kingdom would not be influenced by the fun and intrigue of being a Sailor Senshi. That's why you weren't allowed to train with the other girls until we were finally convinced by persons that shall remain unnamed, that you needed to be with the other girls in order to be the happy well rounded person that we wanted you and needed you to be. You not only surpassed your mother when you were barely 16, but you defeated more enemies than any of your predecessors ever faced. Not counting the fact that you not Venus led the Senshi to victory and that is something that you should be very proud of. You made Sailor Moon your own and never once became corrupted by the incomprehensible power that had been bestowed upon your young shoulders." Cronos was extremely proud of his baby girl.
Sere calmly got up out of her seat, forced herself to stamp down the anger that was boiling inside her, and addressed her father in a calm even tone of voice. "Nice try Daddy, but your attempt at reverse psychology isn't going to work on me. The reason being that Sailor Moon was never all that fun for me and in fact most of the time I hated every second of it. The only plus for me was that it reunited me with my friends and the love of my life. I only wanted to be a normal teenager, but that was never in the cards for me. I gritted my teeth and faced my destiny at the tender age of 14." As she spoke she called up her past escapades as Sailor moon onto the screens. "No…I am not going to go through all of that again! If you want answers then get them yourself by watching your little girl in action!" She stalked out of the archives in tears.
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Queen Serenity was standing in front of the globe in the situation room and she did not appear to be very happy with what she was seeing. She was so distracted that she didn't even notice the four Generals enter the room.
"Are you guys seeing what I'm seeing?" Kunz was finding it difficult to comprehend that the Moon Kingdom had been rebuilt and that they were looking at someone who had died over 3000 years ago.
"We appear to be inside the palace situation room and that is Queen Serenity glaring intently at what appears to a replica of Earth." Zoi ever the brains of their team accessed the situation.
"No the four of you aren't seeing things, nor have you managed to travel 3000 years into the past. Serena has rebuilt the Moon Kingdom." Even though she was very displeased with her daughter she was thrilled to see the four Generals again.
The four of them didn't know what to say. "We thought that you had died in that final battle against Beryl!" The four exclaimed in unison.
"I almost did perish on that horrible day, but my husband having been informed of what was occurring on the moon returned in time to revive me, but it was too late to change the events that I had already put into motion. So he took me far away where I could heal." She managed to force herself to smile warmly at the four very confused young men. "I returned to this part of the galaxy in time to keep an eye on my daughter and her court while they faced one peril after another down on earth. I see that the four of you managed to get it right this time around."
The four of them managed to get up enough nerve to walk over and kneel before Queen Serenity.
"You need not kneel before me. I have known you four since you were still in diapers. Now arise and give me a hug, after all it has been 3000 years." She smiled down at them.
"I think that I can honor that request." Kunz got to his feet and gave her a big hug. "I've missed you Aunt Shantasia."
Queen Serenity's silver blonde brows shot up in surprise. "Oh my, that's a name that I haven't been called in a very long time."
"Well it happens to be your name Aunt Shana." Zoi took his turn and gave her a hug.
"After one is crowned Queen Serenity ones given name is almost long forgotten or very rarely used by anyone but family members." She tried to keep her mind off of her very furious daughter and what she may or may not be doing to the unsuspecting world bellow.
"Well to us you have and always will be our Aunt Shana." Neph winked at her.
"You always seemed to find time for all of us no matter how busy you were." Jade was very happy to see his godmother alive again.
"Family always came first for me…Family is the key to keeping everything in perspective for one who had as much power and responsibility as I had and still do. I think that is why Rena survived all of the heart ache that she experienced during her time as Sailor Moon." Queen Serenity kissed each of them on the cheek.
Kunz turned his attention to the projection of earth and whistled under his breath. "It looks like little sis has been busy."
"I'll say she has…just take a look at the weather and natural events going on down in the Northern Hemisphere." Neph pointed out various parts of the globe.
"Oh well I never did like some of those places anyway at least she isn't picking on any of the natural parks…Can you imagine what would happen if she activated Yellowstone's super volcano?" Zoi now had a better idea, as to how furious their princess actually was.
"Sere is still here isn't she, Aunt Shana?" Jade wanted to make sure that she was still on the moon.
"That all depends on how things went with her father, but as far as I know she hasn't left the moon." Queen Serenity hoped that the four of them could calm her down.
"By the Gods this just keeps getting more complicated by the second. First Luna and Artemis come out of hiding so that she can show us their two kittens. It was fine until the two of them said the wrong thing to Sere and all hell broke loose." Endy appeared in the Situation Room. "Now I'm standing in someplace that hasn't existed in over 3000 years, listening to my mother-in-law, who I thought sacrificed her life for all of us on that dark day 3000 years ago, talking to the four of you."
"Nana!" The twins squealed in delight as soon as they spied their grandmother.
"Want down Daddy!" Rafe squirmed in his father's arms.
"We want Nana!" Rose glared up at her father.
"Well Endymion, are you going to let me see my grandchildren or are you going to just stare at me all day?" Queen Serenity folded her arms across her chest, as she waited for him to snap out if his state of shock.
Endy shook his head as if to clear it. "Sorry it's just been a very long day." He set the kids down, so that they could run into their grandmother's arms.
"Are you two giving your father a hard time?" She scooped the two of them up into her arms.
"I'm a good boy." Rafe kissed her on the cheek.
"I's an angel." Rose chimed in after her brother.
"Was Renny playing Sailor Senshi with Rosie?" Kunz eyed the harried appearance of his friend.
"She's even more adorable than usual." Neph chuckled.
"She even came up with an original Senshi for her to play." Jade grinned.
Zoi on the other hand knew that this had something to do with why Sere had gone off the deep end, so he walked over and placed a reassuring hand on his friend's shoulder. "She isn't in a dress up costume is she buddy?"
Endy raked his hand across his face and counted to ten in his head. "No it happens to be as authentic as any of the other Senshi's uniforms. Renny left her pack back at the house and the crescent moon wand happened to be inside it. So my curious little angel over there picked it up into her tiny little fingers and instantly transformed into what we think is Sailor Earth. Sere even tried to change her back, but so far nothing we have tried has worked."
"Do not worry about our Rosie, Endymion. The transformation will reverse itself as soon as this little one falls asleep. Serena did the very same thing when she was about Rose's age. Only her transformation was identical to the uniform that she wears as Sailor Cosmos." Queen Serenity tried to ease some of the tension and worry that seemed to just radiate from him.
"Are you saying that Sere was Cosmos at three?" Zoi's eyebrows shot up in surprise. "Talk about getting a glimpse into the future."
"Her father and I had never felt such power radiate from one single person. It only lasted for less than an hour, but that was enough to alert my entire court. Selena took one look at little Rena and informed us that although she could be trained in the ways of the Sailor Senshi, that she could never have a place on the team unless it became a matter of life and death. She explained to us that every evil being in the universe would come after if she ever became who she had the potential to become." Queen Serenity now saw that Selena's prediction had indeed come to pass.
Endymion on the other hand was in the mood to strangle Sel for not telling them the reason why all those things had happened to Serenity. "I have to go find my wife." He forced himself to focus on the situation at hand.
"By all means go try and calm her down. You might want to do something about the events that she caused down on the planet first." Queen Serenity motioned to the model of earth in front of them.
Endy took one look at what was happening down on the planet and immediately used his golden crystal to calm things down to a dull roar. "What else has she been up to?"
"Well you see that leads us to the reason that the four of us came up here. Serenity has relinquished her entire court's ability to become the Sailor Senshi." Jade filled him in.
"Let's just say the girls aren't in the best of moods right now." Kunz growled.
"Don't even start with me you guys! Luna and Artemis caused her to go into a mental meltdown! She was perfectly calm and serene until the two of them started in on her." Endy narrowed his eyes at the four them.
"Luna and Artemis caused this! Why would they ever want to tell her about the true origin of her alter ego? They must have had some reason for doing this?" Queen Serenity was amusing the twins by creating rainbows on the model of earth.
"They were watching Sere as she tried to reverse Rose's transformation. Evidently upon seeing that she was unable to complete her task they both opened their mouths and the rest is history." Endy frowned in annoyance when all of the storms that he had managed to calm down went back to being Super Cells, hurricanes, Typhoons, Straight-lined winds, and hurricanes again. "That does it! She is taking this temper tantrum of hers a little too far!" Endy stalked out of the room and went hunting for his wife.
"Come with me boys. I believe that your soul mate's will be arriving any minute now and the four of you aren't on their most wanted list." Queen Serenity ushered them out of the room and towards the safety of the many garden mazes. "At least this way the four of you have a fighting chance of hiding while your wives hunt you down."
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Elsewhere in another garden on the moon kingdom
"Luna! We've gone back in time! This is the Moon Palace and I'm sitting in a spot that I haven't seen in 3000 years!" Artemis couldn't believe his eyes.
"Really Artemis! This is not 3000 years in the past! Serena must have recreated her home. Look she's even added a few new touches of her own. She must have used the crystal to build all of this, because its buildings are made of crystal not unlike what we saw in the future city of Crystal Tokyo." Luna was happy to see her old home again, but still terribly worried about her charge.
"By the gods, Luna! I don't think Sere ever wants to go back to Earth again!" Artemis had an idea as to how hurt their princess had been by what they had told her.
"Nonsense Artemis! She will go back home just as soon as she calms down." Luna prayed that she was right.
"Okay genius where do you think we should start looking? This isn't exactly a small kingdom and that means that she could be anywhere." Artemis hated it when Luna got all high and mighty with him.
"Well…well…well…would you look what the cat dragged into my kingdom!" Sere appeared from the shadows and was now standing directly in front of them. "You two must be insanely brave or incredibly stupid to show your faces around me right now." She looked very much like the Queen that she would eventually become and more furious than they had ever seen her.
"We happen to be your guardians and we are very concerned about you!" Luna stood her ground.
"Concerned or just guilty beyond belief because you finally came clean with me and told me the truth!" She snarled down at the two of them. Her moon symbol was absolutely blazing on her forehead.
"Sailor Moon is a Senshi that appears during times of desperate need! That does not mean that you were never supposed to be a Senshi! We never once said that!" Artemis wasn't in any better of a mood than she was.
"The enemies that the elder Senshi used to fight never even compared to what you and the rest of the Senshi have encountered! That is why I sought you out and that is why you became Sailor Moon! All I was trying to do was tell you that you would no longer need to become Sailor Moon, because you had achieved your destiny and that was to become Sailor Cosmos! She is not nor has never been a Sailor Senshi until you achieved the ability to transform into her!" Luna took her life into her own hands and hopped up onto Sere's shoulder. "This was a transformation that you hadn't been able to achieve since you were Rose's age!"
Sere snapped Luna up by the scruff of her neck and tramped down the urge to throttle the know it all cat. "I would not say another word Luna! You're very close to losing one of your many lives! I will not tolerate any more lies! Is that understood!"
"You will stop this at once! She is not telling you a tall tale!" Artemis launched himself up onto Sere's shoulder and snarled angrily into her ear. "This is no way to treat your elders!"
Artemis's attempts to exact some sort of parental control over Sere only resulted in fueling the future queen's fury. "This is how one deals with traitors, liars, and deceivers!" She easily sent Artemis flying off of her shoulder with a mental shove. "Adding on more lies is only making me want to send you back into the cryogenic tubes, so that you can sleep off the urge to lie to me for a few hundred years!" Sere let go of her hold on the scruff of Luna's neck. "Now get out of my sight before I give into my desires and do just that!" Hot angry tears streamed down her cheeks, as she glared down at them with murderous azure blue eyes that seemed to radiate with furry and hurt.
"Serena! I love you too much to want to lie to you! Please listen to reason and believe that what I am telling you is the honest to gods truth!" Luna her violet eyes also pooling wish tears pleaded with her to understand.
"Luna is right Serena we all love you and we just want to help you understand all of this!" Artemis felt like he was being stabbed in the heart, because she was looking at him with such angry pain filled eyes.
Sere just wanted to be left alone. "IF YOU LOVE ME AS YOU CLAIM THEN YOU WILL HONOR MY WISHES AND GET OUT OF MY SIGHT! I CAN'T TAKE ANY MORE OF THIS!" She screamed hysterically down at the two lunar cats. "I JUST CAN'T!" She raced out of the gardens and into the safety of the shadows.
"Serena!" Luna and Artemis shouted after her retreating form.
"I told you to stay out of this!" Endymion could barely stand what he was feeling from his love. He had only felt it once before long ago when the dark moon was attacking the earth. He had prayed that he would never feel anything like that from her again. "She can't take much more of this! She is in no condition to handle all of the crap that you placed on her shoulders! She happens to be carrying Xander and his twin sister!" He snarled down at the two lunar cats. "If anything happens to her or our unborn twins I will skin you alive! Do you understand me? Now get out of my sight and leave her alone!" He didn't even wait for an answer from the two stunned felines he simply continued his hunt for his wife.
"I didn't know…" Luna felt, as if her whole life was crumbling around her.
"I know Luna, neither of us did…I think that we were gone a little too long this time…let's go find our kits…" Artemis had never felt so terrible in his life.
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More to come I'm just getting started…
Until next update
Cindra 2002-2006
