the end in the beginning

by max333

Its been a month since Galaxia left, Usagi, the girls, Mamoru and their friends are all in a new phase of their lives just as a new enemy emerges, bent on destroying them. Will the strength of the senshi together be enough? With old friends and new friends coming in to help everyone must fight to protect everything they hold dear.

5. the Mercurian solution & arcade attack

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The end in the beginning ch.5

Usagi POV

Now knowing we needed to lay low and act as if we gave up our search on the new enemy, we if anything became more watchful than ever before. It really did feel as if we were undercover and waiting for the bad guy to show up while pretending to have a normal life and act normal. Not to easy for five battle hardened trained soldiers and one very watchful capped crusader who wanted to get his hands on the one responsible to.

We did this for a whole week. We were watchful on school grounds and made sure to have each other's backs when we could and to watch out for other students as well. I'm sure our actions caught the attention of other students as being somewhat odd but for the most part we really couldn't help it. The news of the plane being discovered had died out as much as any other news story had so that was one thing down.

At the beginning of the week it was sound. We fell into a new routine to make the plan happen, we just had to work around each other's schedules and make sure we didn't act out of the ordinary while Luna and Artemis did nightly patrols. We had hoped they would at least find something but there was nothing that struck their senses as odd or anything. By the end of Tuesday the scan on Japan had been done and unfortunately it came up with zero results. It both relieved us that whatever it was wasn't here and worried us.

For all we knew it was attacking somewhere overseas where we wouldn't know or hear of it. So we made sure to expand the search to worldwide. Ami said for the expansion of it added to the fact that it would pick up ANY type of energy that had malicious intent and had evil in them was on the scanner to making it harder to weed through what was our enemy and what was just cannon fodder.

Ami widened it up and sent a connection link to her Mercury computer so that we could be aware of it hitting if we were in a group setting. She was currently working on a way to get it to link up to the communicators we had so each of us could have a link to it if it went off for something nearby. Unfortunately it was hard to modify Lunarian technology when the original piece came from Mauian.

Luna and her were currently working on it during their free time while Artemis decided to stick to patrolling at nights. Midway through the week we all felt uneasy. Like we were being watched at various point's yet we saw nothing. No alarm bells were going off nothing. We even had to force ourselves to NOT continuously peak over our shoulders, we wanted the enemy to think we had forgotten about them.

We had a feeling thing's were going to happen soon enough when Mamoru noticed that the earth seemed to try to tell him thinks. Like when we went for a walk through the park the wind would pick up out of nowhere, but it was the chill it left behind, as if it were trying to speak to him in some form. I could tell his connection to the golden crystal and earth were getting stronger from it and from his own mental exercises.

So when we went to the arcade at the end of the week, meeting up there on a Friday since I had a shift of Saturday and had Friday off for it, I grabbed our usual booth as Ami came in next as she fussed with her Mercury computer. "What's wrong?" I asked, she looked more frustrated than upset, "The updates I've put on here are taking forever and I fear I might have to talk to Luna about upgrading the model itself as it may not have enough memory left on it for what I want to do next." Now I'm curious.

"For what?" I ask as I watch her type over the mini-computer, "I'm working on an algorithm to link it at least to the communicators so that if there's an alert you all will get it to WITHOUT needing to get new communicators. I just have to figure out the right programming code so that I can write it out and turn it into a usable function on this, but the bloody thing is taking forever." I can't help but smile a tad bit.

She's had the Mercury computer since I can remember, and it doesn't exactly upgrade to a whole new one with every upgrade we get to our powers. It just changes the current model and now it seems she might actually need to see about reconfiguring it to accept new programs she's writing for it. "You never cease to amaze me with what you can do with that brain of your Ami. Your one of a kind." I tell her as she stops for a moment.

As if finally taking in her surroundings she puts it down for a moment, takes a breath and sighs, "Thanks, but it doesn't feel like it when a tiny piece of hardware stumps you." I motioned for Motoki to come over as I tell her, "Isn't that how most computers are though? Making you feel like its more advanced when its mankind, or Mercurian who made it possible?" she giggles a bit as Motoki comes over, "Your new usual?" he asks.

A joke between us that now that I work here and don't eat the burger and fries with a shake as I normally do that, I want to get my new usual. "I'll take a water for now, we'll wait for the others to arrive before we order." He nods and talks to Ami, "I hear your close to graduating soon impressive." His kind words have her smiling and her cheeks blushing a bit in pride, "Thanks, it's been a hard road to follow but it's been worth it."

Motoki really was proud of her. She'd come to be like another sister to him after me. It's strange how I used to have a crush on him till Mamoru showed up, then I couldn't figure out how I saw him as anything more than a friendly brotherly figure. I think that was in part due to being the only older guy I knew that was cute so I put the prospect of crush on him without really knowing to much about him.

I guess that's why they call them fleeting, you don't feel that way for very long before you move onto what you were really wanting all that time. True love. "I'm hoping to start medical school full time as the small classes I'm taking now don't grant me the access I really want to be able to really advance in the field." Motoki definitely looked impressed as she told him about her classes that she was taking.

"So really you're just getting a head start on your internship while in school now. Very cool and very smart. Aren't you doing something similar Usagi?" he asks as I smile, "Working with Miss. Haruna on it." I tell him as the others arrive. It's about five minutes and six seated bodies later that were ordering food and drinks. Mamoru is right next to me as Makoto is next to him. Rei is by Ami while Minako is by Rei.

When the current topics leave the table, shelving Ami's medical classes and my stuff with Miss. Haruna, we get a little bit quieter and discuss the purpose of meeting up here today. "So on todays elephant room topic…" Minako begins with a light heart comment while getting down to business, "I've been consulting the fires still but other than what I've seen before there's nothing more." Rei states looking both defeated and worried.

"That could also be a good thing." Makoto tries, "Or it could mean that their laying low to. That they know our plan for them." Rei interjects. She's never been one for being idle. Not unless she's in front of the fire then it requires her full concentration so her need to be on the move takes a gracious backseat to let her do it as it knows its for a greater purpose. "Even if they do our plan will still work." Mamoru jumps in.

"How so?" Rei asks as Motoki comes up to the table with our beverages, "The food will be out shortly." He lets us know as another table waves him down. Rei looks to Mamoru, "Because the bad guys always have an agenda. They can't stay idle for to long. Only the really smart ones stay in hiding." I take note of his words as I wonder, "What if that's what the current enemy is doing?" my question makes the others including Ami as she fusses with her computer still to look towards me.

"What if their laying low in a place that the scanner can't reach?" I ask as Minako looks to Ami, "Is that possible?" Ami looks to her with dawning realization on her face, "As good as the scanner is it can't penetrate steel or metal underground. The signal strength like if you were up on a mountain or in the depths of the ocean would be incredibly weak if not gone." I know it reminds Mamoru of our own conversation not too long ago.

"So if our enemy is hiding underground the scanner couldn't pick it up." Ami looks to me with resigned features, "Unfortunately. The scanner is good, but it was already a stretch to begin a nation, a worldwide scan, there's not a strong enough signal to penetrate into the basement…" than as if a thought struck her she starts to debate as she begins to type almost madly into the Mercury computer.

Her eyes focused on the numbers and letters that to those of us closest to her look like a jumble of nonsense. To her however it makes absolute sense. Even Mamoru from looking at it upside down gets a little thrown off by the sequence, "But if it were linked temporarily into a satellite uplink…" her eyes look hopeful as a loading bar appears on the screen. Her words finally hit home to what she's talking about.

"Wait are you…?" I look over then lean over the table to see the bar nearly completely loaded as the words above read 'uplink 85%'. I look to her as shock falls over my face, "Are you hacking into Japans satellite?" I ask trying to keep my voice down as I felt like I was going to squeak it out. She looks to me, "We need this to have a better scanning edge. The satellite I'm linking up to can penetrate underground and through most metals." That now has me curious as Makoto gives her a thumbs up.

"Way to go Ami, always knew you had a slight criminal side to you." She remarks in laughter as Rei asks skeptical of what's going on, "That's not…illegal is it?" Ami looks to her, "No…not unless I get caught…relax there's no black helicopters going to be coming around. I'll be out long before anyone notices even a glitch happening. I've already re-routed regular data traffic patterns and thanks to the computers recent updates and software designs I can be uploaded for at least a half an hour before they know what hits them."

I'm both impress and terrified of what Ami's capable of, "Let me just say I'm glad you're on our side." Minako says as Ami smiles, "Of course!" they giggle as Mamoru finally says, "Black helicopters? You hacked the military satellite?" even he's astonished by now and a bit impressed by her abilities in hacking, "Not just hacked it but…" she shows him the computer which now showed off what she had done.

The configured numbers looked like lines of code from what I could guess from my time in knowing Ami. I just couldn't read it or understand a bit of it. Even Mamoru looked hard pressed in trying to configure it. "I created a backchannel link in their system that allows me access whenever I want. It works wherever I am and only I can gain access to it through my little compute right here." We were all stunned by this.

"I wish I'd thought of it earlier to be honest. I'll just have to shut it down periodically to avoid anyone from being able to make an attempt to trace it…not that they really could…" This causes us to look at her concerned as she looks back up at us, "Well to be fair nearly everything is traceable if you can compute the coding that goes into it. However…" she pulls it around to put more coding into it and it comes out looking distorted as anything.

"Crap Ami that looks like it came off the ship at Roswell." Makoto looks as perplexed as we all do as we gaze at the coding she's using, "That's cause it Mercurian. Even if they do manage to decipher some of the code used, I translated the rest to Mercurian, so it looks like it's been corrupted into gibberish to them. The most they'll be able to do is delete the code out of their system at best and code can always be either re-written or shifted to another section that hasn't been hit by them yet."

We were all equally stunned and impressed by her thought process on this as her computer's uplink began to scan. "Now we should start to see better results." She puts it down as we start to talk about what the plant to lure out the enemy should be. Its fifteen seconds later that a resounding beep hits the screen. Startling all of us as we looked at the screen as Ami picks up her computer, "This is…interesting."

"What?" I asked as she looks to me with a worried face now, "Well the scan automatically starts from where we're currently located at by default." She starts as we look to her with worry as Minako asks while pointing to the little round icon on the screen as the beeping gets a bit faster, "Ami where is that beeping icon located at?" Ami looks to her then to us, "That's here." With an expression that reads with a slight 'shit!' in it as were now all a bit worried.

It's literally seconds later that everything becomes a one big giant blur of glass and motion. It's as if what happens next is in slow motion. I don't even have time to look out the window to see what the beep outside could possibly be, what monster could possibly be out there cause without even thinking about it, Mamoru, who must have sensed or seen it through the window before me, grabs onto my form yanking me without warning out of the booth.

I don't protest or put up a fight as I know it's instinct for him to do so. I then hear as I barely see them through the excessive amount of screaming and commotion going on, Rei grabbing onto Ami and yanking her out of the way in a similar fashion of what Mamoru did for me, while both Minako and Minako dive bomb out of the way yelling at other customers to get back as they scramble towards them, ushering them to leave as a sheen of now shattered beyond repair glass gets sprayed and showered onto all of those within range.

The broken glass sounded like a shot gun had gone off right by our ears and to be frank had it NOT been for who we were and our advanced nature and abilities I'm sure we'd be partially deaf from that right now. Instead we were just having difficulties hearing anything over the sounds of the echo it's caused as people that are also in the arcade, the ones that were in the back and heard the commotion come out and start to scream from the shock of what's going on not that we can blame them.

The glass is coating everyone and everything around us as I scramble to get out of the way, slipping on some of the broken fragments as Mamoru pulls me further towards safety. I look around making sure no one else near our table was in the path either. I wanted to be sure of that before we began to engage this monster. Thankfully there weren't any as we all shake glass off our forms carefully so.

We're not immune to getting sliced to ribbons and considering we already had scraps from it along with several cuts to our exposed skin and cuts to the clothes we had on we got incredibly lucky. The only thing that saved us were each other and our natural reflexes hitting us hard. The rest of the patrons seeing the monster coming in flee out of the arcade to terrified to do anything else but vacate the premises and really its better that way as I see what the cause of our interrupted meal was.

I look up to see the monster responsible for the disaster and not for the first-time clutch at my broach, "Here we go again." I mutter to myself as I watch it carefully. I motion to both Minako and Makoto to go transform while Ami and Rei lead the customers left behind to safety. Mamoru and I however are pinned on the other side and don't have an option to leave out to transform so we have no choice but to play it cool till the girls come back in.

I see Ami duck behind the counter where Rei watches her back as she begins to analyze the monster with her computer. Typing away furiously on it as she slips into Mercury mode with ease. Rei is slowly but gently pushing Ami to finish the scan on the monster so we can begin to fight it soon. Apparently, the plan to act that we gave up the fight worked out after all as it came after us.

I do notice one thing about this creature though, it seems to be searching for something in here…or perhaps someone as it steps off the table we were just talking at and on to the ground. I look over to see Mamoru trying to tell me something, but my hearing is a bit distorted from the effects still. We've been through worse than this before, so I don't know why I feel so scrambled all of a sudden.

"Having fun? One of my many powers…sound wave distortion. At the right levels it can turn glass, something so tiny and fragile into a weapon of destruction." The monster smiles evilly at those left around, its voice sounds gravelly, like it needs a throat lozengier. It shoots out another wave blast as it hits the glass windows behind us. The noise and impact heard only puts a further dent into our hearing and senses.

I push my confusion on my senses aside and force myself to hear and now see things properly as the sound waves do feel incredibly distorting to me. Mamoru seems to be doing not much better, "Who-what are you?" I shout from where we are. That's when I see both Luna and Artemis coming up from the central control in the basement area. The monster locks eyes with them and full on glares at them.

"Mau!" it shoots out another wave of power as Rei leaps from where she's at to grab them both and get them some place safe. Glad she did that as we were still to far away and seeing as animals already have a higher frequency for sound waves it would have hurt them terribly to be hit by it. I did notice however that it seemed to know what they were though and NOT just as two ordinary cats.

Like it recognized them. That's when I notice that I'm hearing emergency services coming up and police on the way. I'm just thankful that Motoki has a back entrance to leave out of and I hope he's already gone along with his sister in this. I turn to see that the creature notices this to, turning only its head around briefly as it seems to be able to do a 180. Its quiet creepy to be honest as it decides to ignore them.

Instead we see Venus and Jupiter now pushing people back. The creature notices and seems to debate on whether or not to attack them as their not a direct threat to itself. We take the opportunity though to transform. Now its Moon and Mask that stand before the monster as it looks perturbed at us.

"You know what, scratch that who the hell attacks cats?" I snap at it as it turns towards me, "Not regular cats, their Mau felines. They helped lead to the destruction of my queen, the rightful ruler of this planet. Now she will take the reign from those who claim it at theirs." His expression showed no doubt in his words and they were definitely aimed at me. The way he looked at me, it was critical.

It moved its arm about as I saw it transform into a vine like appendage now as it shot it out towards me. I ducked the first one as it hit a nearby table, slamming into the contents on it before whipping it towards me and getting it wrapped around my neck this time. The speed of it was to fast to even see. It yanks me up so fast and hard I'm shocked I don't have whiplash at the moment, "Your magic glamour doesn't fool us moon princess." Despite the lack of breathing problem I'm having, I can't help but widen my eyes at its words.

"We will be back, considering this…" it motions to the arcade, "A warning to give up the throne you've stolen. It wasn't meant for the impudent white moon." the words are spit out, not in a screech or a yell but in a near refined way that makes me question where the hell this creature came from and who's pulling the strings here. No way its working alone. It lets out a shriek of anger as a steel tipped rose cuts through its arm with a sharpness the creature didn't anticipate as the arm is cut off and I'm released.

Then as it looks to him it seems to recognize him as well, "Such a sad fate that the prince of earth allowed himself to be tainted by a Lunarian." The word Lunarian is said with such disappointing malice that I can't help but actually feel personal about this. Yeah I've gotten snapped at with hateful words by Beryl, Diamond, Sapphire even, Wiseman and Nehellenia but this somehow felt more personal.

When in the hell did I ever encounter this creature before for it to see through the glamour? "If my queen cannot save you from this witches clutches then she will put you out of your misery as your parents would surely have done had they not been blinded by the need for peace." The words are spoken as if the creature knew him or at least knew his past life parent's yet his presence rings no bells.

Tux is as stumped as I am in this, but it doesn't stop him from snapping back, "I'd suggest too curb your tongue when talking about Sailor Moon like that." The creature merely laughs in his face and spits out, "I hold no doubt the moon witch has heard worse." It's a true but unfortunate fact, "You will learn the truth of things soon enough…Prince Endymion…" the knowledge that it knows who he used to be is startling as he's definitely NOT transformed in his prince garb, it's not a heated enough battle for that.

The creature even steps forward just a bit as we hear the services getting closer. "The world may have forgotten about the golden kingdom and its capabilities yet my queen has not." It then looks to me and practically snarls its response, "The day will come where you will pay for your mother's treaty and for sneaking off to earth to be with him." It motions as both Venus and Jupiter come in and go to use their powers only to have it use the power blast of the sound to amplify them up off the ground.

With little to no gravity beneath them they loose focus and are then throw into the wall. Their bodies impact and make fairly large dents in it, breaking the shelves on impact and shattering more glass over there. Before I can raise my scepter the creature vanishes seemingly into thin air without a trace as quickly as it arrived, yet way less noisy as it leaves behind all of the destruction in its wake.

Jupiter gets up and huffs out in a frustrated voice, "Hey! What in the hell was that?" Venus dusts herself off as I tell them, "I have no idea, but I have a feeling on who MIGHT know. Let's get out of here." I gently order as we head on out through the back letting the police handle what as going to happen next. We didn't need to be a part of the investigation, we just had to conduct our own and figure out what the hell that was all about.

Especially since other than trying to choke me, it didn't make a move to attack anyone other than blowing out the windows. We race to the temple and see that Rei, Ami, Luna and Artemis are already there. Rei secures the door as we get in and de-transform, Minako and Makoto follow suit once were safely inside. "Okay well the plan worked." Rei mutters. Like it was a bad plan now, "We flushed it out." I mutter back.

I then go to Luna and Artemis, "Did that thing seem familiar to you?" I ask bluntly as Luna blanches, "No, not at all. Though it was strange that it did seem to know that we were Mau." Artemis agrees, "There's definitely something wrong if that things knew what we really are." As Luna continues with, "What's even more disturbing is it knew who you were. The glamour didn't phase it at all." I nod knowing this and wondering what it all means as I peer over at Luna and see her worried expression.

"We cannot have this." She starts as she jumps up on a higher dresser in Rei's room as its further in the temple to give us more privacy. This situation feels a little 'def con four' right now, "The ability to protect the world is only further helped by people or creatures NOT knowing who you are or being able to identify you with ease. This thing saw you and in seconds flat knew who you were!" I can tell this has her upset as it should.

No enemy has ever been able to do that. No one. Well not no one…not technically. Diamond somehow knew but that was mostly because of his odd obsession with me. His need to make me his Queen blinded him against so many other things that he was able to see who I was through the expression in my eyes. Plus, I do think he did hold a love for me that while wasn't to pure it was with good intent…at the end when he was shown the truth of things.

This creature however held no such feeling toward me. It just knew. "It also knew about Mamoru being a former prince to and mentioned something about him being 'tainted' by me." I put quotes around tainted as Luna pished and rolled her eyes at that notion, "So it's someone who hates the white moon family then. I think I heard a mention of a princess who was in line to become the next Queen of earth." we look to her as she struggles to recall, "I think I remember to." Artemis jumps in.

"We hear that she was the last one left after the King and Queen weeded out the rest on earth to meet with the prince." He tells as I pull form the conversation we had with the creature, "Yes the creature said that its queen would be taking its rightful place on the throne and try to 'save' Mamoru or kill him if she can't." I touch his arm as he pulls me in closer to him. I have a sneaking suspicion that that creature was the one who attacked the plane after Galaxia, and he was just now seeing it.

"This so called queen clearly is as resentful of our being together as Beryl was." He comments as he looks outward with distain. That's when Luna says, "Hold on, I think there was someone else. I can't remember the name, but it was during your former courtship." We all look to her as she looks to the ground trying to recall the events in question. "She was another princess or another royal at least." She begins to pace around on the dresser.

"I'm not sure on her affections towards the prince, my memories are a bit muddled still but being that the prince had already fallen for Serenity having spent enough time with her during peace treaty meetings that the girl's pushy parent who was getting your parents agitated with their aristocratic hounding, was unable to garner more than an audience with the king and queen of earth. Favoring the option of peace and love over power." Both Mamoru the girls and I are startled by this revelation.

None of us really knew of another girl's affections towards Mamoru in the past. I certainly never knew of this girl. If she was mentioned to me by anyone I certainly forgot all about her and had no recollection despite the information we were being provided right now. Even with Beryl I started to regain some amount of memory of her when we got our memories back but there was nothing of this woman.

"That's actually what the creature said. That the peace treaty was what was picked." I noted as I started to connect more dots here. "It just so happened that we fell in love." I turn towards him as he nods, "Definitely." The one spark of happiness enters his eyes despite the negative energy going around with the current topic of discussion. He pulls me in towards him to hold onto as I sit contently half in his lap and half still leaning against the bed frame we were by. Mamoru had definitely changed since he'd returned in terms of affection.

He no longer pulled away in front of others and now pulled me in towards him and encouraged affection compared to how he used to be. The girls definitely noticed but didn't say anything as they were more used to it now. It was more or less Luna who pressed herself to ignore it as she didn't feel we should be affectionate like that. Artemis had to be the one to tell her that we were supposed to be able to showcase a certain level of affection.

Not too much but enough to be comfortable and casual about it which is where we were at. I think it just shocked her in the beginning seeing as how he used to rarely be affectionate like this, so it was understandable how his actions stunned her at first. I took it happily and never complained. "No matter, what we need to do is see where this creature could attack next and be prepared to attack it so we can ask it more questions." Luna tells us as we all agree knowing how important it is.

"She's right, we got the information today because this thing it wanted to tell us." The girls look to me as Luna and Artemis turn to me, "Lets face it we know what we know from it now because it decided to spill state secrets. It wants us to know." I start, "Know what? That our new enemy is another power-hungry bitch?" Rei begins smarting off and for good reason. Its not our first time dealing with someone the way this princess sounds.

"No, it wants us to know who is coming after us. The new enemy isn't afraid of us and wants us to know it. It attacked us in the middle of the day in front of dozens of people. Not to mention it didn't seem to care about exposure to itself either." I mutter towards the end wondering who this new player was and what they wanted, cause it can't just be some throne. The earth kingdom's throne has been empty and buried for over a millennium at this point, why summon it up now and with what power?

I could only imagine the power I had to hold in the future to summon the crystal palace to life, that was after many years of working with my crystal and magnifying its potential. So for this princess to even THINK about wanting to bring the old kingdom back to life NOW of all times, it just makes one wonder who she thinks she is and how much power she thinks she has or how much power she actually has.

"More than that." Ami interjects, "If this creature knew who we were BEFORE we even introduced ourselves then it means we have a serious contender. The glamour doesn't work on it obviously and we thus need to be more diligent in making sure civilians are out of ear shot." I nod, "Ami's right. That thing attacked us in the middle of the day at a full arcade. We're merely lucky that the people decided to run off." I express.

"She's right, we could have been dealing with people who were trying to be 'heroes' about it by getting in the way, or some yahoo lookie-loo who was trying to get a snapshot to post on Instagram, Facebook or whatever else is out there for the hits or posts to comment on, and got themselves hurt instead merely by being in the wrong place and the wrong time. To be honest, I think we got incredibly lucky to have just had what happened today happen." He did have a point on all fronts to be honest.

"Things could have been worse." He rolls his eyes at the notion of people getting in the way as they tended to do so. Some did anyways. Yet he does concede the fact that things went well today considering and I believe we all agree on that front. "They really could have." I agree with him as Ami stands up, "I'm going to stay hacked in for a little bit and see if I can trace the energy signature of the creature."

I look to her as the others do, "With any luck we can figure out where the thing is laying low and with a little more luck we can find out who this princess is that had such a distain towards Usagi." I give a sigh, "If she's another Beryl I doubt it but its worthwhile to see. I mean it was indicated that her parent, whomever that is, pushed her towards them. Maybe she's just misguided." I try as we get ready to leave out of the temple. It's a bit dark out by this point as we head on out.

First Makoto and Ami head down the steps then Minako and myself with Mamoru following up behind me as Rei sweeps the steps as the last thing for her to do when we see Motoki and his sister coming up the steps. I can't even remember the last time they were here to visit the temple so I wonder what's going on for them to come here. "Motoki?" I nearly question till I remember I left the arcade without any of my things.

I had already checked and saw that they left out the back door so I knew they were safe. He pulls my purse from behind him, "You forgot this." He tells me but his voice sounds different. Like he's trying to NOT say something but wants to. "What's wrong?" I ask him, worried that maybe someone did get hurt. "We saw everything…we need to talk." He says, his voice full of worry and need to know what's going on.

I look back to Mamoru who looks on a bit defeated as his best friend just found out who we all were, and it wasn't by a decision that we made. It was because we were targeted and attacked at the arcade. I know that if Mamoru were going to tell him he'd want to do it on his own terms and not that of anyone else's. The girls stop and try to talk to him, "Motoki I'm sure…" Minako tries till he looks at her.

She backs off and sees the resolute on his face and notices that he knows. She doesn't know HOW he knows but he knows and he definitely wants to talk about it. She then looks to me with a 'time to come clean' expression on her face. I think its all the fact that we've been wanting to tell those we care for the truth but due to fear of their safety we didn't. Perhaps now with them knowing it might be safer since they'll know what to look for and avoid.

The unfortunate part is for him to know about Reika to…if that comes up which I'm sure it will since they were still very much in love together. I look over to Ami, "Ami, Minako might want to call your moms, it's going to be a long night." I tell them as I shoot out a quick text to my own mother letting her know I'd be spending the night at the temple and for once I wasn't trying to cover for being over at Mamoru's.

"I'll call off my shift tonight." Mamoru says as he grabs his phone and begins to dial. As much as I want to tell him we've got it at the same time I know he wants to talk to Motoki about this and explain why he did or didn't do what he did. He's his best friend and deserves to hear something from him on it. Motoki finishes going up the steps towards the temple as Rei finishes more sweeping.

I look around to see if anyone else is nearby as she asks within earshot, "How long before others figure us out?" I turn to her, "Honestly, I don't know…but somehow this feels like its just the beginning." Her eyes look out onto the horizon as we watch the crows flying around, "Yeah I get that to…question is, is it a bad thing or…is it inevitable." Neither of us has an answer at the moment as she sits the broom down and goes inside with me.

For the next near forty-five minutes we tell both Motoki and his sister everything they have questions on. Everything about the moon kingdom, despite Luna's want to keep that under wraps we decide that keeping even one piece of information away is pointless at the stage. We tell them about all of our enemies, how it related to what they've seen as they ask about different events that they were witness to over the past few years.

Its honestly a lot to take in. for anyone really to accept and process it. We've been dealing with this for years but being on the sidelines without no real knowledge of what's happened and only having this slim idea that maybe something is going on has got to make this more difficult and weirder in a way to work with. I can see the tiredness on both of them as they can barely focus on one object in the room for to long after we talk.

Being told that some of your good friends, one best friend for Mamoru and Motoki, has been through more crap with fighting and battling youma, daimons among others, nearly dying several times and actually dying on a few of those several, time traveling to both the past and the future to save the world, planetary traveling, meeting future selves, there was just so much to go over with them.

This stuff was enough to make anyone's heads spin. I mean we've been through enough stuff in the past few years than majority of people have in their lifetime is a lot to contemplate and consider. I know it's a lot for them to take in that's for sure. Its not everyday you find out that there used to be a moon kingdom, an earth kingdom, that there are enemies out there that want to take over and destroy us but that we've been there to stop it.

That we've been keeping all of this is secret from them for their own safety. That the only real reason why were telling them now is because they saw Mamoru and myself transform and knew that we had no choice but to come clean. At least that's what happened when they first came in here. Motoki was upfront and blunt about what he saw and that he KNOWS he saw what he saw that there's no denying it.

I think his siter was there to show us that while her brother was a tad upset for NOT knowing for so long that they were essentially on our side and wouldn't breath a word of it. They just wanted to know the whole truth and nothing, but the truth and we didn't have the heart to tell them anything other than it. "That's a heaping load of information to take in what an hour." Motoki runs his hands over his face.

"I could almost go for a drink." Unazuki first says as he looks to her, "Almost." Before looking to us then, "Somehow, I always knew it…I didn't know why or how I did, but I did." She commented as she was amazed by the revelations of today, "Probably due to the amount of times you or others we knew we pulled into attacks." Makoto reminded her as she sat on the back of a chair and blew a hair out of her eye.

"So, all this time…" Motoki looked over at Mamoru, debating one could tell between wanting to be upset and understanding that Mamoru had his reasons for not telling at the same time. It looked tense between them as Mamoru tried to figure out if by keeping this from him, he hurt their friendship in the end or not. "Yeah…" Mamoru admits with reluctance as he tries to read and gauge his friend's emotions through body language alone.

"You have no idea how much I wanted to tell you so often, but every time I tried the words wouldn't come out. My resolve to NOT involve you and get you potentially hurt kept me from doing so. You're my oldest and best friend Motoki. If anything were to happen to…" Mamoru shut himself up as I touched his arm in comfort. I looked to Motoki, "He did what he did out of brotherly love." I tell him.

Motoki then stands up and walks up to Mamoru. It looks like a stalemate at first as Mamoru stands up to face off against him. Neither giving in as Mamoru appears to accept whatever fate has in store for him for keeping this from Motoki for as long as he has only to have the blonde man hug him brother to brother. He wraps his arms around him accepting the hug. I can feel his relief even through our link.

We girls smile as Mamoru takes it in, "I get it I do…I'd probably do the same thing if it were me." the hug ends, "However…" he gives him a low punch to the gut that throws Mamoru off balance but nothing to do too much damage, "You ever pull a stunt to NOT tell me something important again like that and I'll beat on your ass, Tuxedo Mask or not." We can't help but bust out into laughter.