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* LAST TIME *

Trunks? She hadn't mentioned him before. "Bulma, what's Trunks?"

Bulma laughed at her short memory. "I'm sorry dear, Trunks is mine and Vegeta's son. He's about the same age as Goten...12 I think. He has soft, lavender hair, bright blue piercing eyes and is quite the looker. We're going to have problems when he gets older." Her son was quite handsome and he was only 12. "Oh, just to warn you, if you think you're seeing double of him, you are. Trunks' future self comes back every once in a while to visit because his world was destroyed. He takes his little self there to help him rebuild and train him. Oh, in order to keep them straight we call the older one Mirai, since he's from the future, and the 12 year old, well, we just call him Trunks."

"Since they're your children, that would make them my nephews right?"

"Hey, I didn't even think of that! You're absolutely right!"

They laughed about things over lunch and Serena explained what happened during her training, only leaving things out about the Book of Light or the book explaining the use of the crystal. Suddenly they heard the stomping and huffing, something that Serena had never heard before...yet that voice sounded oddly familiar.

"ONNA! I'm hungry!"

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CHAPTER 10: RESTORING THE MOON

"Looks like Vegeta's done training."

Vegeta? Serena didn't want to meet him yet. She wasn't ready. "I'm going upstairs. Call me when he's done and gone, please?" She took off not waiting for Bulma's reply.

"Woman, where's my food!"

"Hello to you too your highness," Bulma mocked as her mate walked in. "As for your lunch, you can order it yourself. You stink and I don't want to lose my lunch." She kissed him on the cheek before heading back to the lab.

"Where's that girl and how come I never see her?" He was staring and waiting for answers.

"She's resting right now so she can be ready for her training tonight." She said while walking out of the room.

"Where does she train, onna?"

Bulma turned back to him, "I don't know." She walked away and into her lab to finish the repairs to some other machines.

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Serena ordered 7 plates of food to her room and devoured them all. She had a pretty small appetite for one of her race, but she thought less about that and more about how delicious her food was.

For the first few nights that she was here, she knew that something was missing but couldn't figure out what it was. Last night before she headed off for her training, she figured it out. There was no moon here, so she asked Pluto about it and found out that it had been destroyed. Serena thought of how she could fix this. Serena didn't have enough time between sleeping and training to actually look around at the things in her room. Everything was beautiful, and thru one of the many conversations that she had with Bulma, she found out that Trista was also an interior decorator and a seamstress, so she had picked out most of the things that would adorn Serena's new bedroom. She was so grateful for the friends she had and how much they did for her.

When she ran out of things to do, she pulled the Saiyan book out of her space pocket and began to read it again.

'By staring at the light of the full moon, Saiyans transform into their ape form, which is the 2nd most powerful transformation known to our race. The only ways to stop from transforming and destroying its surroundings is to have the shots that disable the tail for a certain period of time, have the Saiyan's tail removed, which is now and forever will be illegal and inhumane, and to destroy the moon. The first most powerful transformation is that of the Super Saiyan, but we have yet to discover the path to becoming one.'

'Hmm,' she thought. 'I just have to find out which Saiyan's have their tails and which ones don't.' She had an idea. Goten, Goten my sweet protector, where are you?

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Goten was out in the forest with Trunks training and he heard a voice enter into his head. He called for Trunks to stop and he waited for the voice to come back.

Goten, can you hear me?

"Who are you?" he asked to no one.

"Who are you talking to?" Trunks' tilted his head to the side. He couldn't sense anyone around so he was wondering.

Goten, it's me, Serena.

"Hi Tenshi!"

Trunks decided that he must have hit Goten too hard while they were sparring and he was hallucinating now.

Goten, can you talk with your mind? Try speaking without using your voice, think *at* me Goten

Like this?

Excellent! Serena was smiling as she taught Goten how to use telepathy.

Goten, do you know who has a tail?

Yeah! I do and Trunks does too, but we're the only ones. Why?

I was wondering if I could talk to you guys, can you come to my room, I have to ask you guys something, but make sure no one sees you.

"Cool!" I mean cool! The little boy could hear Serena laughing inside his head.

Can you two come now?

Sure. We'll be there in a minute. he said. Goten looked at Trunks and motioned for him to follow.

"Who were you talking to?" Trunks asked him.

"I was talking to my tenshi. Do you want to meet her?"

"Yeah!" With that, they raced to Serena's bedroom window and found it was open.

"Come in," they heard a voice call from inside the room.

The two little boys landed on the balcony and made sure that no one could see them, which didn't really matter since both of them could be detected by their ki signatures. They 'oohed' and 'aahed' as they looked at the solar system in the room with all the shiny stars and pretty curtains.

"Hello little ones!" Trunks, never having met her before got into a fighting stance and Goten ran up to her and gave her a big hug.

"She doesn't look like a tenshi to me!" Goten turned around and glared at his best friend.

"She is a tenshi and she can prove it, can't you Serena?" She looked at his eyes and knew that she would never be able to deny him anything.

"Anything for you my little dreamer." She closed her eyes and the boys watched as a little shimmering light surrounded her body. Within seconds, her wings appeared behind her back and Trunks' mouth was gaping open.

"See," Goten said, "I told you she was a tenshi!"

Serena chuckled as she looked at her nephew. As much as she wanted to, she decided that it would be wise to not let him know just yet that she was his aunt.

"You must be Trunks. I'm Serena, it's a pleasure to meet you your highness." She reached a hand out and Trunks shook it.

'She must really be an angel if she knows my name and that I'm a prince. She feels...familiar,' he thought.

"Nice to meet you too. Can I feel your wings?"

She didn't see any problem with it so she told them to sit on the bed while she stretched them out. The boys watched as she stretched out the wings that looked like they were about 6 1/2 feet long each wing.

"Mm, it feels so good to stretch them again." The boys walked up and were going to touch the ends and tips of her wings before she remembered what happened when she tried it. "Wait!" The boys jumped back, surprised that she had yelled like that. "I'm sorry to have scared you. I just wanted to warn you that the feathers on the outside are dangerous and are very sharp. You can touch the ones on the inside. They're safer, softer and warmer."

The best friends marveled at how soft they were and when they were done, she pulled her wings close to her again and they all sat on the bed.

"What did you want to ask us, Tenshi?"

"Oh, that's right! I wanted to know if you had tails." Both boys unraveled their tails and waved them at her.

"Why?" Trunks inquired.

"I wanted to bring the moon back to this world because I'm lonely without it and it's my main source of power, but I read that if Saiyans have tails, then they might transform."

"Yeah, my dad told me about how Piccolo destroyed it a long time ago."

"Who's Piccolo?"

"He's a friend of our family's."

"Oh, okay. Well anyway, I was wondering if with your permission I could bring it back."

Trunks was confused as why he was asking them. "Why are you asking us?"

Serena smiled, "Because if I were to bring it back, then I would have to use a little bit of magic to keep you from transforming while the full moon was out."

"You mean cut off our tails?" Goten was a little frightened at the thought of having his tail removed. Both of them heard about how painful the process was.

"No, I wouldn't remove it, just...hmm, how do I put this? I would just use a little magic to make sure that your tail wouldn't activate if you guys ever looked at the full moon. Think of it as your tail sleeping when the full moon came out. You'd have a little less strength, but only a little and you'd still have control over it."

She waited as they thought about it.

"Okay! I'm in!" They exclaimed in unison.

Serena's eyes grew teary. "Thank you. You don't know how much this means to me." Serena thought about how she would be able to communicate with her mother once the moon was back and how she wouldn't feel lonely any more.

"So what do we do?"

She sat the boys down on her bed and stood behind Goten first while Trunks looked on. She asked if it was okay, then gently held onto Goten's tail with her hands. As she began to wish, Goten could feel his tail tingling with magic and after she was done, she hugged him and thanked him.

"Wow! That didn't hurt at all!" She chuckled and then had Trunks sit down next.

She could finally bring back the moon. All the problems were out of the way since Goten and Trunks assured her that they were the only ones with tails. They wanted to watch when she would bring back the moon so she told them to come back at 4 o'clock and they could go to the forest together.

At 4 o'clock, the two boys flew back to her window and she was sitting at her desk, typing away.

"Knock knock."

Serena turned to see her two little boys standing on her balcony. "Come in." She put away her laptop and made her wings appear. A sudden realization hit her. "Wait, you guys can fly?"

The boys shrugged their shoulders and nodded like it was nothing. "How many of you can fly?"

"All of us," came Trunks' voice "my dad, me, mom can't fly, Goku, Gohan, Goten, the rest of the earth's special forces except for Yajarobi but I think it's cause he's too fat! Can you fly?"

"Yes. I learned how a long time ago. But how can you fly if you don't have wings?"

"How can you fly with wings? We use our ki."

Serena fastened her cloak around her before telling Sam to turn off the lights in her room. She figured that she could ask them about it later and walked to her open balcony. She pushed the chair to the edge and stretched out her wings before jumping off the edge. Oh how she loved the sensations she got while flying. She could glide on the air for now, but would have to flap her wings a bit to keep up and speed up to the boys.

"I know this great spot we can go. It's big and open so you can see the sky." She followed the two little Saiyans to a clearing in the large forest. Once they landed, Serena instructed the boys to stand on the side and gave Goten her cloak to hold on to for her.

They watched silently as she thrust her hand into the air and shouted, "I call upon the power of the Cosmos!" Lights and ribbons surrounded her body before transforming her into the most powerful of the Senshi. Sailor Cosmos stood where Serena had just been and the boys began to blush because of how short her skirt was. Her wings stood proudly away from her body as she raised both hands into the air and called out a command in a language that neither boy understood.

They watched as something started to glow on her forehead and sent an almost invisible beam into the afternoon sky. After the mini light show was over, she detransformed and walked over to the boys.

"All done! Now we just wait to see what happens tonight."

The boys had asked her to sit and watch them train and she happily agreed. She put her cloak back on to keep warm and sat against a large boulder where she was sure to stay out of the way. She watched them train for a couple of hours while eating something she conjured up. While the boys were taking a break, she asked them if they could train her and they agreed, but told her she had to learn how to use her ki first.

That took about an hour and they thought it was pretty cool how fast the tenshi could learn things. They taught her how to fly using her ki, but she kept falling after rising, so they said they would have Mirai teach her later. It was getting late and darker so they started to head back. About a mile away from CC, Serena said that she wanted to start walking so that no one would see her or her wings so they landed softly and she pulled her cloak around her.

Goku hadn't seen Goten all day long and when he asked Bulma where he was, she just said that he was off sparring with Trunks in their usual place, the forest. After searching for their ki, he sensed them in the forest and left it alone. It was about dinnertime and the sun had already set. Serena pointed up to the sky and the boys were amazed.

"Wow! So that's what the moon looks like!" They were so intrigued because they were both born far after Piccolo had destroyed it. They started to feel something in their stomachs but it died down after that. "Tenshi, I think it worked, I think your magic worked. I could feel something in my tummy but it went away."

Their tails waved behind them and Serena gasped. "Boys, what color are your tails normally? Aren't they brown?"

"Yeah," Trunks said. He saw his tail and nearly jumped. "Why is it silver?"

"Hey, mine's silver too!"

"I think it's because of the magic I used. It will help to keep you from transforming until after the full moon goes away. I think it will happen every time the moon gets full, it will be silver for a couple of days and then it will return back to normal."

"Cool," was their only reply.

The three of them watched the moon sit in the sky, watching over them. Goku and Vegeta who had been training together for the last several hours were warming down when they felt a tingly feeling in their bodies.

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"Something's not right Kakkarot," Vegeta grumbled. They walked outside of the gravity room and looked around for anything that could be out of the norm.

"I've felt like this before, but it was a long time ago." Goku looked up at the sky and saw the full moon smiling down. He was entranced. It had never looked this gorgeous before and he couldn't tear his eyes away. Luckily for him and Vegeta they didn't have their tails.

Vegeta noticed that his comrade was being silent and followed his stare up to the night sky. "The moon! When did that come back?"

The two grown men looked at each other with the same thought in mind. "The boys!"

They frantically searched for their ki and found them on the other side of the house, near the forest. The fathers took to the air to find their sons.

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"Look at me! I'm a big ape!" Goten said as he growled at Serena while imitating an ape with the big goofy arms. Serena laughed at his antics and Trunks followed suit.

"Gggrrrrrrrrrr!" He said and boosted up to Super Saiyan.

"Aaaaaahhhh!" Gohan yelled as he did the same.

Serena pretended to be scared and started screaming and running away from them as they chased her.

Two figures watched from the sky and didn't know what to do.

"Who's that person in the cloak?"

"I don't know, I can't even sense their ki!"

"It doesn't matter! Just knock the boys out before they change and we'll figure out who that other person is later!" the shorter one yelled and both fired blasts at their sons.

Serena turned around and saw two glowing balls headed for them. The boys stopped to see what she was staring at and realized that they had just been shot at by their fathers.

"Dad, no!"

"Don't shoot!"

"Noooooo!" 'Not again! Must protect,' and Serena grabbed the two boys.