Chapter 36
Venus and Tranquility were currently in their future selves' bedroom keeping an eye on Ceres as after the battle with Demando the young girl had fainted due to the overwhelming power she was given after the younger version of her father's crystal had activated.
In this timeline, he had not been hurt severe enough for it to activate so it remained dormant inside him, therefore, remaining dormant inside her as it meant now her father that was still sleeping his crystal would activate thanks to the help of his past self.
"When did you find out you had a crystal?" Venus was blunt and straight to the point
Tranquility rubbed his brow as if he was preventing a migraine coming on
"I was around 7 years old, it's such a long time ago now it had completely slipped my mind" Tranquillity frowned as he made a realisation.
"Kunzite is dead now Venus I have come into my own as the prince of the moon."
"Which means we will now have to find a replacement for your Shittenou role" Venus answered rubbing her brow
"I know there are not many people out there who could take over there is only lord Makto and he is nowhere near as strong as he was back then" Tranquility anguished
"But we can train Motoki to that level again he has it in him just like we did I mean do" she tried to assure.
"But he has Unazuki to think about the kids only 10 years old they are orphans like us but Motoki had to take a child on at 16 but child services were not informed because Motoki looks older than he is"
"Then what can we do Tranq? Because of this new path that fate has thrown us on we have no idea where our life is going you've seen some of it already in this time by what Ceres did before she collapsed, she smiled and said auntie the king said she had never said that in this line so it means something happened to Serenity to make her the way she is as the 30th century queen I would hate to think what pushed her so far to be as she is" Venus worried.
"I agree Mina what if that creepo got to her? I mean not just mentally but physically as well what if he actually hurt her? Tranquility replied.
"That is worrying," Venus said
"I agree, maybe we ought to delve into the palace records but my mother would kill us if we went into private records." Tranquility replied
"But in a way, it's our life just a different version" Venus retorted slyly
"Well you're taking the blame if we get caught" Tranquility grumbled
"We will have to wake Ceres up I don't want to be wandering around all day making us more at risk of being in trouble" Venus cautioned
"Thinking before you take action being raised by my mother has changed you from silver millennium I hate to admit but you were rash and irresponsible back then," Tranquility said
"I was the leader of the Sailor Senshi by the time I had finished pre-school I was allowed to be rash when I was around you as I knew the princess was safe with the prince you were way too stoic" Venus teased
"I suppose I was, wasn't I know we need to wake Ceres up, oh when we have her in the future she is not going to be just known as Sailor Ceres she will have a Civilian identity like us I don't like how they made themselves so vulnerable" Tranquility said
"Agreed" Venus nodded and approached Ceres to wake her
It only took a small shake and the girl was alert "it's just me Ceres do you know if the king keeps records of the past enemies and battles?" Venus asked
Ceres nodded "Daddy does as well"
Venus and Tranquility looked at each other as if to say "well that makes life easier"
Ceres approached the safe and started fiddling and soon she was in "how'd you guess that?" Tranquility asked
The youngster gave a smirk "Pallas cracked it we needed to know what we were living up to"
"They are much more defiant than we were, we never broke into palace records," Venus said
"You were also the first generation of Senshi for 300 years" Tranquility replied under his breath
"Yeah, yeah don't remind me" Venus murmured back
When Tranquility took his eyes off Venus, she grimaced as much as she loved Serenity and this life she still sometimes dwelled on back then she never had a childhood by the time she had finished preschool she was leading 7 other girls in protecting the baby who grew up to be Princess Serenity to then have it all taken away by tragedy.
Flashback
Queen Serenity held the newborn prince Tranquility and a representative of Pluto arrived and bowed in front of her highness and her young son "my queen I'm afraid I am bearing bad news on such a joyous celebration of the first male prince to be born in 1000 years" the young knave said
The young moon queen experienced a horrible gut-wrenching feeling in her stomach "you may speak freely young knave" the queen responded she already had an awful task to do very soon before the next ball which was at the weekend the planets did not know of Tranquility's birth only Pluto but it's child princess knew because of their power but they had been sworn to secrecy with Tranquility being born out of wedlock he was going into the care of Tranquility's grandmother on Venus.
"My queen" the young knave seemed very nervous so Serenity softened her approach this boy was only the messenger and very young so she couldn't blame whatever bad news the child bought
"Don't worry I will never blame you" the queen smiled
The young boy got a folded piece of parchment out of his messenger bag and passed it to the queen and bowed "I'm truly sorry queen, the news I bring our crown princess her highness princess Trista she is the direct descendant of Chronos his daughter in fact. She has the Senshi gift of the underworld and time and space and her powers are awakening fast." The young knave replied
The young moon queen got the gut-wrenching feeling again "thank you, young knave, for this message" the queen smiled gently.
She then dismounted her throne and approached the young boy who cowered at her elegance "do not be afraid" she smiled and then she kissed his forehead this very much surprised the young boy.
"Now get going home remember the crown princess must not know of Tranquility as he is going to a safe place" the queen urged
"Y yes my queen" the young boy replied and then quickly ran to the transportation spot and in a flash he was gone.
When she made sure the young boy had got back to Pluto safely. The queen sat on her throne and wept as she read the piece of paper again
It warned there would be 8 sailor Senshi born and then the golden daughter of the moon would be born but she would be surrounded by love of her Senshi and then an alien prince who would also have four guards of whom the younger inner soldiers would fall in love with though the main leader from Venus would face the most heartache.
End flashback
Venus came back to herself with a sharp gasp "are you okay my love?" Tranquility asked
The Venusian beauty nodded "I was just taken back to a time in the silver millennium to when you were a newborn and Pluto was only young she was never told of your birth it was kept from the crown princess of Pluto and not known by any other planet" she replied
"Got it" Ceres declared victoriously
Venus and Tranquility approached the safe cautiously and took out prince Tranquility's logs
They looked at the titles
Dark kingdom- Beryl and Metallia
Black moon- rebels of peace and death phantom
Death busters- professor Tomoe/Germatoid, Kaorinite, mistress 9 and master pharaoh 90
Dead moon circus- Amazon trio/quartet, Zirconia and Nehellenia
The battle for the galaxy- the sailor animamates, Sailor Galaxia and Chaos
The young girl eyed her future parents and rushed in to take the dead moon circus logs "you do not need to read that one" she rushed holding it closely
The pair rose their eyebrows at her and then shook their heads they had to look at the black moon one.
As they read more and more of Tranquility's recollections to the end of the battle for the galaxy, Venus got more upset and Tranquility's temper rose he wanted answers but they had already killed the bastard who hurt his baby sister to the point where the psychological damage was virtually irreparable even after 3 months on the moon with her love and soldier sisters to then have to face more difficult enemies sometimes only winning by the skin of their teeth.
Tranquility noticed one thing about these logs it seemed that they were written by an observer rather than a fighter up until halfway through the death busters when the 3 outer Senshi became part of the sailor team.
Ceres looked concerned as her father's confusion rose to anger then down to confusion again.
"What's wrong?" Venus asked
"Haven't you noticed up until halfway through the death buster people these are written as an observer" Tranquility replied
Venus looked at the logs again and also now looked confused
"I can explain" the new voice shocked them Ceres eyes went wide and then she did a disappearing act leaving the dead moon circus logs on the ground
A woman in a sailor uniform similar to Venus entered the room and she picked up the logs "I do apologise if my daughter inconvenienced you in any way by taking this part of my husband's logs" she said passing them to Tranquility
The pair shook their heads "No not at all" they quickly replied
The mysterious Senshi smiled Gently "I am Sailor Venus leader of the Senshi though I am much older and have all my powers compared to my younger self as well as my Senshi power I am the queen of my birth planet." She said
"You're me?" Venus said pointing to herself
The sailor nodded "yes that is correct. The reason my husband's logs are written as an observer rather than a fighter up until Uranus, Neptune and Pluto joined our team is because that's all he and the shittenou were. Beryl got to them before our princess and prince knew who they were they were corrupted so deep that Sailor Moon could not cleanse them fully without the help of most of her Senshi"
"So queen Beryl managed to brainwash them before they found any of you? but Kunzite still kept a log?" The younger Venus asked
"He doesn't any longer thanks, scientific research from Mercury but he had a split personality he doesn't remember even writing the dark kingdom logs his dark side was more malevolent than his light side" the elder replied
The 2 lovers nodded in understanding "so why did Ceres keep the dead moon circus logs from us?" Tranquility asked
"I guess she never introduced herself formally," the elder Venus said
"No, and she was really flighty when we woke her" the younger replied
" Ah my poor Feryal, she's been through a lot in her 11 years. Before she was born her, Vesta, Juno and Pallas they were stones to be given to the queens senshi when it came time for them to marry but before Pluto found them queen Nehellenia from the dead moon circus found them and gave them to her subordinate Zirconia to raise she corrupted the girls so bad that when we found them they returned to stone and were put into the care of Pluto until the inner senshi and shittenou fully trusted each other and then marry it was only then when we fell in love that we were given the stones as you possibly guessed Mercury and Zoisite were the last to marry they wanted to fall in love first luckily it only took 3 years with my help" the elder Venus ended with a smirk.
Tranquility couldn't help but give an eye roll at his loves alternative selfs actions
"Thank you for activating my husbands crystal he will be awake in the next few hours I awoke because of Venus raw emotion when you were hurt prince kind of like our queen awoke in the past but that's a story for another day now I must go find my daughter and speak to her about breaking into her fathers safe" the elder Venus smiled
"Don't reprimand her too much it was our fault we wanted to look at the king's records?" Tranquility said
"Don't worry I won't" and with that, the elder Venus disappeared
"So what do you think of your adult version?" Tranquility smirked
"She's not like myself but then I suppose I have to grow up someday my princess is going to be a queen, my god that means I would be next in line to the throne if anything happened to the royal family including yourself" Venus said horrified she knew she did not have it in her to be queen of the neo silver alliance maybe queen of her planet but that's it.