Title: Moon Kingdom
Author: Nekkyoo Ema
Disclaimer: Sadly I don't own these charries, but I wish I did. However, I do own the storyline. If you want to steal... just ask. ^_~
Note: This will be the last chapter. If there is more, I'll make sure to post them. But as far as I'm concerned this story can be ended in this chapter. Plus, it WILL be extremely short. / I am stuck with it and I can't think of anything else for it. So...just suffer.
~~
Recap:
"Made up your mind yet, Selene?" Aphrodite asked. Her sister had been watching Hiiro and Usagi interact for the time she had said her daughter could see the boy.
"Almost, Aphrodite. Almost."
~~
For the third time, Hiiro looked over his shoulder. He had his odd feeling. Like the one you get when your being watched, but you can't seem to find the watcher.
Usagi knew though, she knew just who was watching and from where. But she said nothing. Her whole life had been like this. Watched. Like some lab animal for scientific studies. It used to get on her nerves, but then she learned to just deal with it. But now, when she was *trying* to have a little private time, she was being watched.
"You might as well quit it, Hiiro. They know that you know they are there. But they do not care and will proceed to follow us. It is their duty as the Royal Guards," Usagi finally said after he looked back again.
"Doesn't it get on your nerves?" Hiiro asked.
"Used to. But you get used to being constantly followed wherever you go... unless, of course, it is to the bathroom or bedroom." She clarified.
"Hn," was Hiiros only reply. Usagi stopped at a clearing near the old playground and sat down on the grass as Hiiro stood next to her.
"You can sit down you know. The grass is not going to bite," she stated. Hiiro sat down, but they both just sat in silence. Not the uncomfortable silence, but the one that was just too nice to ruin with petty talk.
~~
"Well?" Aphrodite asked.
"Aphrodite! That is the tenth time you have asked me 'well' in the past twenty minutes!" Selene replied.
"I do not care! Tell me, please!" Aphrodite begged; something unusual for a Goddess to do.
Selene sighed. She was almost embarrassed that this woman was her sister. "Fine. I have made my decision," she started.
"Great!" Aphrodite exclaimed.
"But if you want to know my decision, you must get Serenity-hime and Hiiro here first." Selene said. Right after it was said, Aphrodite shot out of the room at an almost run to find the young princess and her love. Selene shook her head at her sister. She never changed.
~~
'I wonder how Hiiro is able to survive here... the oxygen is scarce, yet he is just fine. Maybe he had training for things like this.' Usagi thought as she sat there. It annoyed her that the guards never left her to herself when she was with someone other then her mother, Aphrodite, and Minako.
She turned slightly when she heard someone commanding the guards to disperse from the area quickly. 'Who would say that?' she thought. "Serenity-hime, come! Your mother has made her decision!" Aphrodite answered Usagi's silent question. The princesses eyes widen as she quickly jumped up.
"She did?!" she asked as Hiiro got to his feet.
Aphrodite nodded, "she said if I want to know the answer too, I have to get you and Hiiro-san to the palace. So lets get moving!" Usagi smiled and nodded. She grabbed Hiiros hand and they ran after the Goddess of Love.
By the time Usagi, Hiiro, and Aphrodite had arrived at the palace, Minako was already waiting. "I want to know too," she explained.
"And you could not have waited for me to tell you?" Usagi teased. Minako shook her head from side to side violently. "I did not really think you could."
Selene almost rolled her eyes when she saw that Aphrodite and Minako were going to listen. Almost; but didn't. "Apparently news travels far to quickly in the Palace." She said, Hiroshi and his new wife were also there to hear the judgment.
"Well, what do you say, Mother?" Usagi asked finally. She had no patience left. This moment was either the moment she would think her life ended, or the happiest.
"You are just about as impatient as your aunt, Serenity." Selene playfully scolded. Usagi was about to ask again with her mother finally gave what Usagi liked to call 'Selenes sage nod'. "I have gone over many, many things about this. I want both of you to know that." She said, looking directly at her daughter and Hiiro.
They both nodded. "I know that you know I have been watching you also, Serenity. And I have seen you interact with Hiiro. In this time of happiness, meaning the marriage of Hiroshi and Yumi, you must remember that all happy times come to an end." At this, the Lunarian princess thought her life should end.
"But, I feel that this happy time can last a little longer. I will allow you two to be together." Selene said. Usagi stood there, trying to take in what her mother had said. She thought she was dreaming until Minako screamed in happiness and enveloped Usagi in a huge hug.
Finally she snapped out of it, a huge smile adorning her features. "Thank you, Mother," she said, prying Minako off of her so she could curtsy like she was raised to do. Selene gave another one of her 'sage nods' and then Usagi turned and hugged Hiiro tightly.
~~
"I hate to ask this, but what are we going to do? I live here on the Moon, and you Earth." Usagi said the next day.
"I know," Hiiro replied. It was a question he had been trying to avoid for the time being. But now it looked as if there was no getting around it.
Usagi sighed, "you have to return to Earth. Being the Earthian you are, you cannot withstand the less air supply here on the Moon." She reported. "And from the time you have spent here, you shall have to leave tomorrow... or possibly tonight."
"Hn," Hiiro said in deep thought. As much as it bugged Usagi sometimes to hear him 'Hn' at her, she decided to live with it this time. They sat there for a while until finally, Hiiro spoke. "Make sure to visit..."
Usagi inwardly gasped, she had not expected him to say that. She knew he would in the back of her mind, but she did not think he would actually say it out loud. "I promise I will..." she answered.
No words needed to be spoken after that. They both knew that either it would work out this way, or not work at all. And the Lunarian princess had the most stubborn mind in the galaxy and would somehow make it work.
~~
"Good-bye, Hiiro," Usagi and Minako said as Hiiro made his trip down the moonbeam that Selene had made for him that night.
"Are you going to be okay, Gi-chan?" Minako asked when he jumped threw the portal.
Usagi sighed and gave her cousin a nod, "yes. It is not like that is the last time I will see him, ne?"
"Yes, I guess you are right about that." Minako replied. She knew it was going to take a little time before Serenity made up her mind on if she would stay on the Moon, or live on the Earth.
Every night after that, Minako could hear the song that Hiiro had given Usagi playing in her cousins' room. With Usagi singing along with it. And every night Minako would sigh and hope that Usagi would be alright.
~~
"Mother," Usagi said one night when she and her mother were having a mother-daughter chat.
"Yes?" Selene replied.
Usagi looked up at her, determination in her crystal blue eyes, "what would I have to do to be mortal so I could be with Hiiro?"
Selene looked shocked, "why do you ask such a question?"
"Mother, you cannot deny what you see with your own eyes. I cannot stand to be away from him, and he cannot survive here on the Moon. Please just tell me." She pleaded.
"I wish I could tell you that ripping off your wings would make you mortal... but it is not that easy anymore. I," Selene paused, "am afraid that you have to solve this puzzle first."
"Puzzle?" Usagi questioned. At this Selene grabbed a pen and a piece of paper.
"You must find the pattern in these numbers. Once you do, alls you have to do is go to Earth and recite that pattern with Hiiro; and you shall be mortal." Selene replied. She wrote down the numbers: 0, 10, 1110, 3110, 132110, 13123110, 23124110, and 1413223110. Usagi snatched up the paper and immediately went to work on it.
'Arg! This is such a weird thing for someone to do...' she said in frustration. Her mother had said the pattern was easy once solved. 'Should I try this? If I get it right, I shall be human finally. But is that what I really want? Do I really want to be human... and give up the throne and everything I love?' she berated with herself.
'You love him, do you not?' her subconscious asked. She knew it was right. If she wanted to be with Hiiro-which she did-she would give up her Lunarian life. But would he want her to? She could not decide for him, it was all up to him. All that she had to do was figure out the problem.
And she had. Just then the solution had dawned on her mind. It was easy, as her mother said it would be. Now all she had to do was to get to Hiiro. Which would not be all that hard considering her mother was the Goddess of the Moon.
"You figured it out already!" Selene asked in surprise. Her daughter just nodded. Selene sighed, "I guess I have to keep my end of the deal. You shall go tonight..." Serenity tried to hold in her happiness as best as one could, but she was about to bust.
"Thank you, Mother. I shall be waiting," was all she said before walking from the room to tell Minako, Hiroshi, and Yumi.
~~
"Hiiro!" Duo called from the yard of Quatre's house. He was talking with Usagi, who had just arrived.
"What?" Hiiro yelled back in an annoyed voice. He had yet to even come outside.
Duo rolled his eyes at Usagi; "someone is here to see you!" Usagi smiled before walking up the long flight of stairs and meeting Hiiro at the door.
"You know, for a soldier, you sure are not all that polite," she said teasingly. Hiiro's eyes widened.
"Usagi! What are you doing here?" Hiiro asked.
Usagi smiled, "come, walk with me." She linked her arm in his and lead him threw the forest. "I was talking with my mother one night. She said that the only way for me to become human was to figure out this pattern." She pulled out the piece of paper and showed it to him, "and once I did; I recite the pattern with you and I become fully human."
"Is that what you really want? It's a big decision." Hiiro said. As he had quickly scanned the paper he had seen the pattern.
"Yes. It is what I really want. My mother knows it as well." Usagi replied.
"Okay, lets do it then." Hiiro replied.
Usagi reverted back to her Lunarian form-- something that Hiiro could never stop being awed by-and held the paper up. "Ready?" Hiiro nodded.
"Zero. There is one zero. There is one, one and one zero. There is three ones, and one zero." As they said it, Serenity's wings, and her birthmark and clothing disappeared. It was replaced with healthy looking slightly tanned skin, long blonde hair in twin odangos, and a pair of flower shorts with a tank top. (AN: Think "surfer chick")
Usagi opened her eyes, scanning the world around her. She no longer felt the pull of her Lunarian form. She must be fully human. "Am I..."
"You are. You are human." Hiiro replied. Usagi smiled and jumped into Hiiro's embrace.
"I'm human..." she whispered, a huge smile on her face. 'Human...' it lingered in her mind, like an echo on a canyon wall.
~~
Whoo, that's all there is, and there isn't anymore. :D Yes, that's from "Madeline" I love that show, it's so cute. ;-; I haven't seen it in a while though. Anyway, that's all for my story, told you it was short. Trust me, I have a new one in the making right now. It's about five pages in and it's pretty cool for what I think. Though my opinion isn't much. Okay, bye!
-Ema
Author: Nekkyoo Ema
Disclaimer: Sadly I don't own these charries, but I wish I did. However, I do own the storyline. If you want to steal... just ask. ^_~
Note: This will be the last chapter. If there is more, I'll make sure to post them. But as far as I'm concerned this story can be ended in this chapter. Plus, it WILL be extremely short. / I am stuck with it and I can't think of anything else for it. So...just suffer.
~~
Recap:
"Made up your mind yet, Selene?" Aphrodite asked. Her sister had been watching Hiiro and Usagi interact for the time she had said her daughter could see the boy.
"Almost, Aphrodite. Almost."
~~
For the third time, Hiiro looked over his shoulder. He had his odd feeling. Like the one you get when your being watched, but you can't seem to find the watcher.
Usagi knew though, she knew just who was watching and from where. But she said nothing. Her whole life had been like this. Watched. Like some lab animal for scientific studies. It used to get on her nerves, but then she learned to just deal with it. But now, when she was *trying* to have a little private time, she was being watched.
"You might as well quit it, Hiiro. They know that you know they are there. But they do not care and will proceed to follow us. It is their duty as the Royal Guards," Usagi finally said after he looked back again.
"Doesn't it get on your nerves?" Hiiro asked.
"Used to. But you get used to being constantly followed wherever you go... unless, of course, it is to the bathroom or bedroom." She clarified.
"Hn," was Hiiros only reply. Usagi stopped at a clearing near the old playground and sat down on the grass as Hiiro stood next to her.
"You can sit down you know. The grass is not going to bite," she stated. Hiiro sat down, but they both just sat in silence. Not the uncomfortable silence, but the one that was just too nice to ruin with petty talk.
~~
"Well?" Aphrodite asked.
"Aphrodite! That is the tenth time you have asked me 'well' in the past twenty minutes!" Selene replied.
"I do not care! Tell me, please!" Aphrodite begged; something unusual for a Goddess to do.
Selene sighed. She was almost embarrassed that this woman was her sister. "Fine. I have made my decision," she started.
"Great!" Aphrodite exclaimed.
"But if you want to know my decision, you must get Serenity-hime and Hiiro here first." Selene said. Right after it was said, Aphrodite shot out of the room at an almost run to find the young princess and her love. Selene shook her head at her sister. She never changed.
~~
'I wonder how Hiiro is able to survive here... the oxygen is scarce, yet he is just fine. Maybe he had training for things like this.' Usagi thought as she sat there. It annoyed her that the guards never left her to herself when she was with someone other then her mother, Aphrodite, and Minako.
She turned slightly when she heard someone commanding the guards to disperse from the area quickly. 'Who would say that?' she thought. "Serenity-hime, come! Your mother has made her decision!" Aphrodite answered Usagi's silent question. The princesses eyes widen as she quickly jumped up.
"She did?!" she asked as Hiiro got to his feet.
Aphrodite nodded, "she said if I want to know the answer too, I have to get you and Hiiro-san to the palace. So lets get moving!" Usagi smiled and nodded. She grabbed Hiiros hand and they ran after the Goddess of Love.
By the time Usagi, Hiiro, and Aphrodite had arrived at the palace, Minako was already waiting. "I want to know too," she explained.
"And you could not have waited for me to tell you?" Usagi teased. Minako shook her head from side to side violently. "I did not really think you could."
Selene almost rolled her eyes when she saw that Aphrodite and Minako were going to listen. Almost; but didn't. "Apparently news travels far to quickly in the Palace." She said, Hiroshi and his new wife were also there to hear the judgment.
"Well, what do you say, Mother?" Usagi asked finally. She had no patience left. This moment was either the moment she would think her life ended, or the happiest.
"You are just about as impatient as your aunt, Serenity." Selene playfully scolded. Usagi was about to ask again with her mother finally gave what Usagi liked to call 'Selenes sage nod'. "I have gone over many, many things about this. I want both of you to know that." She said, looking directly at her daughter and Hiiro.
They both nodded. "I know that you know I have been watching you also, Serenity. And I have seen you interact with Hiiro. In this time of happiness, meaning the marriage of Hiroshi and Yumi, you must remember that all happy times come to an end." At this, the Lunarian princess thought her life should end.
"But, I feel that this happy time can last a little longer. I will allow you two to be together." Selene said. Usagi stood there, trying to take in what her mother had said. She thought she was dreaming until Minako screamed in happiness and enveloped Usagi in a huge hug.
Finally she snapped out of it, a huge smile adorning her features. "Thank you, Mother," she said, prying Minako off of her so she could curtsy like she was raised to do. Selene gave another one of her 'sage nods' and then Usagi turned and hugged Hiiro tightly.
~~
"I hate to ask this, but what are we going to do? I live here on the Moon, and you Earth." Usagi said the next day.
"I know," Hiiro replied. It was a question he had been trying to avoid for the time being. But now it looked as if there was no getting around it.
Usagi sighed, "you have to return to Earth. Being the Earthian you are, you cannot withstand the less air supply here on the Moon." She reported. "And from the time you have spent here, you shall have to leave tomorrow... or possibly tonight."
"Hn," Hiiro said in deep thought. As much as it bugged Usagi sometimes to hear him 'Hn' at her, she decided to live with it this time. They sat there for a while until finally, Hiiro spoke. "Make sure to visit..."
Usagi inwardly gasped, she had not expected him to say that. She knew he would in the back of her mind, but she did not think he would actually say it out loud. "I promise I will..." she answered.
No words needed to be spoken after that. They both knew that either it would work out this way, or not work at all. And the Lunarian princess had the most stubborn mind in the galaxy and would somehow make it work.
~~
"Good-bye, Hiiro," Usagi and Minako said as Hiiro made his trip down the moonbeam that Selene had made for him that night.
"Are you going to be okay, Gi-chan?" Minako asked when he jumped threw the portal.
Usagi sighed and gave her cousin a nod, "yes. It is not like that is the last time I will see him, ne?"
"Yes, I guess you are right about that." Minako replied. She knew it was going to take a little time before Serenity made up her mind on if she would stay on the Moon, or live on the Earth.
Every night after that, Minako could hear the song that Hiiro had given Usagi playing in her cousins' room. With Usagi singing along with it. And every night Minako would sigh and hope that Usagi would be alright.
~~
"Mother," Usagi said one night when she and her mother were having a mother-daughter chat.
"Yes?" Selene replied.
Usagi looked up at her, determination in her crystal blue eyes, "what would I have to do to be mortal so I could be with Hiiro?"
Selene looked shocked, "why do you ask such a question?"
"Mother, you cannot deny what you see with your own eyes. I cannot stand to be away from him, and he cannot survive here on the Moon. Please just tell me." She pleaded.
"I wish I could tell you that ripping off your wings would make you mortal... but it is not that easy anymore. I," Selene paused, "am afraid that you have to solve this puzzle first."
"Puzzle?" Usagi questioned. At this Selene grabbed a pen and a piece of paper.
"You must find the pattern in these numbers. Once you do, alls you have to do is go to Earth and recite that pattern with Hiiro; and you shall be mortal." Selene replied. She wrote down the numbers: 0, 10, 1110, 3110, 132110, 13123110, 23124110, and 1413223110. Usagi snatched up the paper and immediately went to work on it.
'Arg! This is such a weird thing for someone to do...' she said in frustration. Her mother had said the pattern was easy once solved. 'Should I try this? If I get it right, I shall be human finally. But is that what I really want? Do I really want to be human... and give up the throne and everything I love?' she berated with herself.
'You love him, do you not?' her subconscious asked. She knew it was right. If she wanted to be with Hiiro-which she did-she would give up her Lunarian life. But would he want her to? She could not decide for him, it was all up to him. All that she had to do was figure out the problem.
And she had. Just then the solution had dawned on her mind. It was easy, as her mother said it would be. Now all she had to do was to get to Hiiro. Which would not be all that hard considering her mother was the Goddess of the Moon.
"You figured it out already!" Selene asked in surprise. Her daughter just nodded. Selene sighed, "I guess I have to keep my end of the deal. You shall go tonight..." Serenity tried to hold in her happiness as best as one could, but she was about to bust.
"Thank you, Mother. I shall be waiting," was all she said before walking from the room to tell Minako, Hiroshi, and Yumi.
~~
"Hiiro!" Duo called from the yard of Quatre's house. He was talking with Usagi, who had just arrived.
"What?" Hiiro yelled back in an annoyed voice. He had yet to even come outside.
Duo rolled his eyes at Usagi; "someone is here to see you!" Usagi smiled before walking up the long flight of stairs and meeting Hiiro at the door.
"You know, for a soldier, you sure are not all that polite," she said teasingly. Hiiro's eyes widened.
"Usagi! What are you doing here?" Hiiro asked.
Usagi smiled, "come, walk with me." She linked her arm in his and lead him threw the forest. "I was talking with my mother one night. She said that the only way for me to become human was to figure out this pattern." She pulled out the piece of paper and showed it to him, "and once I did; I recite the pattern with you and I become fully human."
"Is that what you really want? It's a big decision." Hiiro said. As he had quickly scanned the paper he had seen the pattern.
"Yes. It is what I really want. My mother knows it as well." Usagi replied.
"Okay, lets do it then." Hiiro replied.
Usagi reverted back to her Lunarian form-- something that Hiiro could never stop being awed by-and held the paper up. "Ready?" Hiiro nodded.
"Zero. There is one zero. There is one, one and one zero. There is three ones, and one zero." As they said it, Serenity's wings, and her birthmark and clothing disappeared. It was replaced with healthy looking slightly tanned skin, long blonde hair in twin odangos, and a pair of flower shorts with a tank top. (AN: Think "surfer chick")
Usagi opened her eyes, scanning the world around her. She no longer felt the pull of her Lunarian form. She must be fully human. "Am I..."
"You are. You are human." Hiiro replied. Usagi smiled and jumped into Hiiro's embrace.
"I'm human..." she whispered, a huge smile on her face. 'Human...' it lingered in her mind, like an echo on a canyon wall.
~~
Whoo, that's all there is, and there isn't anymore. :D Yes, that's from "Madeline" I love that show, it's so cute. ;-; I haven't seen it in a while though. Anyway, that's all for my story, told you it was short. Trust me, I have a new one in the making right now. It's about five pages in and it's pretty cool for what I think. Though my opinion isn't much. Okay, bye!
-Ema