Yuugasa Usagi – Chapter 10
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Now that that's settled, on to the story!
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That very night, Usagi had another type of dream. It was the ones she had been having since she remembered she was the princess. The ones where you are there, but you're really not. It went as follows:
"Mother... do you think he will really show up?" Serenity asked.
The elder sighed, "I do not know, Serenity."
Another thing that I want to know is who was that man? The princess thought. Papa, I wish you could be here to give me some great advice again...
Usagi – who was watching – dug in the back of her mind to remember what had happened to her real father. Then she remembered; he had once been the Prince – and King of Elysion. But he had died in battle. She had mourned his death for a year until she was told that the new Prince would be her betrothed.
She had grown up with him always around since he was to her fathers successor, and she was already in love with him. And he her. Then he had disappeared, no one knew where he was, and they couldn't find him. Once again, someone that Serenity loved was taken from her. She dubbed Fate and Destiny as being cruel goddesses.
The only thing Usagi couldn't recall was the name of the new Elysion prince. The scenes changed and Usagi could see that this was farther a long in Serenity's life. She looked about nineteen.
"Why couldn't you just come back to me? Why did you have to leave...?" she was saying to no one since she was alone in her secret spot. Usagi knew the place well.
"It's not like I had a choice in it, my princess..." a male voice said from behind both Usagi and Serenity.
Serenity gasped and turned around, her eyes wide with shock. Usagi turned around with the same amount of shock (and amusement) – for a different reason – all over her features.
"You came back..." Serenity said in a barely audible whisper. Her eyes started to tear up as she ran towards him. Serenity hugged him fiercely. "I thought I would never see you again when they told me you had disappeared."
The boy rubbed her back, trying to calm her down, "shh. It's okay. I'm here now, aren't I?"
Serenity sniffled, "yes. Yes you are." And with that she pulled his head down to hers in a soft kiss.
Usagi jolted awake and smacked her forehead against something else. "Kuso!" she yelped and at the same time she heard someone laugh. Usagi finally looked around... she wasn't in her tent. Nor was she in her pajamas. "W - what's going on?" she looked down at the dress she was in. It was the same one from the premonition.
"I never knew you to know such fowl language," the same male voice Usagi had heard in her dream said.
Usagi peered into the dark of the night, "who's there?" she gasped much like Serenity in her dream when he walked out of the shadows. "But how – how is that possible?"
He put his index finger on her lips. "I am merely a spirit of my former self. I just came here to reclaim my body as it resides today."
Usagi looked at him in confusion. "But I don't want him to change... to much."
"He won't. He will just know his past – finally. I know he has been searching for it for a long time."
"Why didn't you go to him earlier then!" she spat, utterly confused.
He sighed, "I could not. Well, no that is a lie. I could, I just wanted to see if he and you were really meant to be without my presence. If I had reclaimed my body before you two met, he might never know if he was really just doing this because of what happened in his former life or if he really did love you."
Usagi's face twisted into recognition. "Oh. ... But why did you choose now to take his – your – body back? Don't you think he will still doubt himself since nothing has happened between us?"
He shook his head, "no. I have to go back. If I don't before your eighteenth birthday I shall never be able to and he will die."
Usagi's eyes filled with shock.
"And there is no way he will doubt his feelings once I am with him again."
He started to fade out when Usagi called out; "wait!" and he faded back into view. "Can you – can you tell me where you went when you disappeared in my past?"
"All I can tell you is that I went for the sake of Elysion. Nothing more and nothing less. We shall see each other soon, my princess." He then faded out and Usagi found herself back in her tent, with her pajamas on.
Later on in the morning with Usagi woke up, her thoughts quickly faded from the early morning chill to the dream and what had happened the previous night.
She quickly got dressed without waking Usa and slipped out of the tent. "The question is did it all really happen?" she murmured to herself.
"Did what really happen?" Quatre's voice said from his usual early morning spot.
"Oh! Hello, Quatre, I didn't see you there. It's nothing..." said Usagi.
"Are you sure?" he asked, sounding concerned.
Usagi nodded, "I'm sure." She didn't know if she sounded at all convincing.
When all of the girls had woken up, Usagi pulled them aside to tell them about her dream and what had happened after she awoke.
"So something's going to happen?" and before the words were even out of Minako's mouth, a flash of light erupted from the sky.
Wufei said something in Chinese as he shielded his eyes. When he moved his arm, he raised an eyebrow. "What are you wearing, onna?"
Rei glared at him before looking down. She was in her respective princess dress. Glancing up at Usagi, who was in the same gown as the night before she said only three words: "It is beginning."
Usagi nodded and waited. The others, including Ami, Makoto, and Minako looked confused. The boys more so then the girls.
"Hello, my child." The apparition of Queen Serenity said as it appeared. Ami, Rei, Makoto, and Minako bent down on one knee as Usagi curtsied.
"Mother." She said, bouncing back into her formal tones of the Moon Kingdom. "What brings thou here?"
The elder Serenity smiled warmly at her daughter, "I have come to watch the prince be reborn again. It is, after all, my duty to watch over such things."
Before Usagi could ask her next question, the sprite of the prince appeared.
"It seems, princess, that we are seeing each other much sooner then I had expected." He said.
"So it does, prince. So it does," Usagi answered.
"What's going on?" Duo questioned.
Wufei smacked him in the back of the head for asking such a stupid question.
"What? I just wanted to know." Duo grumbled.
"It is time, prince." Serenity said, and Usagi nodded as if to agree.
"Alright." He turned to walk towards Hiiro, and he did something that was predictable for him. He pulled out his trusty gun.
Usagi walked over to him; "Hiiro... please... put the gun down. I know this is confusing, but I promise it will make sense soon."
Hiiro looked at her. He knew she wasn't lying by the look in her eyes so he put the gun back.
The prince continued his walk and didn't stop even when it looked like he was going to run right into Hiiro. Instead he just merged with him. Usagi smiled as it happened.
"Hiiro is the prince?" Rei exclaimed. "I never would've thought..."
"Ditto." Ami added.
Just then a thought occurred to Usagi and she spun around to face her mother. "Mother... will we have to follow the intended path of our past lives?"
"As far as I can see, child, it does not matter. The outcome will be the same." Serenity answered.
Makoto finally spoke up, "but why Hiiro, my Queen?"
Serenity smiled, "I have never been able to understand my former husbands mind. It was he that chose Hiiro at birth to be his successor. And it was he that thought it would be better for both kingdoms if Serenity wed Hiiro instead of Endymion."
"Hm..." Ami said.
"What is it Ami-hime?" Serenity questioned.
"It's just that I thought all of us had intended. What happened to them?" asked Ami.
"I do not know if this is good or bad news for you girls, but you never did have intended's." Serenity answered.
"So... what happens to Hiiro?" Duo voice rang out again. This time he dodged Wufei's smack.
"Nothing. He just has all of his memories back. Not to mention the power that comes with it." Usagi answered for her mother. Then she sent another question to the Queen; "will we have to rule Crystal Tokyo still?"
The queen nodded. "If you do not, Usa will never be. I am sorry to rest the weight of the world upon your shoulders yet again, Serenity. It just has to be this way."
"I understand, mother. I guess it will be better then when I was with Endymion," Usagi replied.
"I would suppose so. Goodbye, my child." And with a little pop she disappeared, and the girls' dresses faded back into their original clothing.
Usagi looked with a sideways glance at Usa; "you knew all of this all along, didn't you?"
Usa smiled, "you know you still love me. But, my time here is up. I have to get back to Crystal Tokyo, Mama and Papa."
"What? Why?" Usagi asked.
"Well, I was only here to make sure that things happened as they should. Now that they have, I have to go back," Usa replied. "You understand why I have to go, right?"
"Yes. I understand."
"I'll be seeing you in your future then." She then hugged Usagi, and even hugged Hiiro quickly before disappearing with the same type of pop as Queen Serenity did.
"This... well, no. It's no the weirdest thing I've ever seen." Minako started. "I think I need to sit down and let this all set in."
Makoto sighed, "so... I guess this means that we will have to protect the future queen yet again."
"Say goodbye to guys," Rei muttered.
"Really..." added Ami.
"No." Usagi said firmly. "There is no way on this Earth that I would be the reason that my friends could not experience as normal of life that they can. Got it?"
"Yup." They all replied.
Everyone dispersed after that except for Usagi and Hiiro.
"I don't understand all of this." Hiiro finally said.
Usagi looked at him, "you will in time. You just have to wait."
Hiiro grunted.
"Apparently you're not one for the whole waiting thing?" she questioned. She gave him a hug, "just trust me, you will understand someday."
He put his arms around her waist. "I'm not much for waiting."
"I know..." she replied quietly.
"So, I'm a prince?" he asked. Usagi nodded, "am I your prince?"
Usagi smiled, "you always have been." And just like in her dream she pulled his head to hers in a kiss.
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Yeah, yeah, really short. But it was cute, ne? Um, well, anywho... if you guys want like just another chapter like a follow-up one – I'll be glad to write it. But I might not have the time since I am working on the Astronomy Club float for Homecoming. And that's from 4:00 P.M. to 9:30 P.M. Monday – Thursday. :l Hope you enjoyed this last chapter.