Gomen for such a long wait….. I know, I know, I'm not usually this bad.
*sighs * Thank you all for reading this far! This is probably my favorite
of all my fics, so I hope you enjoyed it and I loved hearing from all of
you!! ^_^ Thanks for the great comments and making me finish it!
Arigato!!
Epilogue Part II
"What was that all about?" Usagi came back in the room to see Minako and Rei talking.
"Yeah, really. Why was Yaten coming to your room?" Minako asked more than suspiciously while tapping her foot.
Usagi tried to hide her laughter and come up with a feasible excuse. "Well, you see… Seiya sent him here to let me know that he was… um … thinking of me..." Usagi smiled, it really wasn't far from the truth.
"Well let's get going!" Rei jumped up. "We have to go and get our hair done!!"
"Hold your horses, the wedding won't start without me!" Usagi chimed in.
"Oh yeah…?" Rei gave her the sneaky eye. "I'm sure we could find a more beautiful girl to walk down the aisle and marry Seiya."
"WHAT!" Usagi screamed as she saw Rei making supermodel poses and fake primping herself up. "You'd better keep your hands off him!"
"Why? It's not like you're married yet!" Rei teased her back.
"Rei, why do always get her so worked up?" Minako said sweat dropping and coming between the two. Their mini dust fight stopped and the three left to get their hair done with Minako acting as referee the entire time.
~@~@~@~
Usagi stood at the alter on the brink of love and destiny with the anxiety of what was to come. It was inevitable, this was part of the future. To her family she just seemed like any other nervous bride but her friends knew better. Seiya glanced over at his wife to be during the ceremony and actually noticed her smiling. A firm squeeze of her hand and he knew that she was trying not to let it bother her.
"You know, he really does look handsome in his tuxedo." Haruka said as she moved her head to the side to get a better view of the couple. Michiru's eyes went wide in shock and she sat there with her mouth agape. Haruka looked over at Michiru, she had expected some sort of comment about that one and grew concerned when she didn't. She noticed Michiru's expression and let out a small chuckle. "That's not very lady like now is it?"
Setsuna and Mamoru laughed at their friends as they were sitting in the pew behind them. The ceremony was almost over and there had been nothing out of the ordinary.
The words 'man and wife' echoed off of the elaborately ordained walls of the church to resound to even the furthest pews of the row. Usagi and Seiya turned to face one another and Usagi looked up with the sweetest smile. "I love you." She whispered as she brought a hand up to the side of his jaw just below his ear.
Seiya smiled in response, she had finally let her worries escape her mind. "I love you too." He said as the priest looked upon them.
The priest hesitated for a moment taking in the sight of this young couple in love until Yaten cleared his throat. The priest jumped about ten feet and earned himself a good laugh from the bride's maids, especially Minako.
When she looked up from laughing she noticed a light in the window just over Yaten's shoulder. It seemed to be growing brighter and larger. "It's heading right for us….." She whispered in a hushed tone to herself.
Yaten noticed the worried expression on her face and quickly turned to look behind him. He too witness what Minako had been staring at. He turned and looked at Seiya and Usagi who were right in the line of fire.
"You may kiss the bride." The old priest smiled.
Minako and Yaten made a mad dash to Seiya and Usagi whose bodies were drawing nearer to one another. As their lips met the comet like energy crashed through the wall of the church. Yaten threw himself in the air at the same time as Minako in an attempt to knock the couple out of the way.
Time seemed to stop for a split second, Yaten couldn't feel himself falling and had just enough time to look up and into Minako's eyes before his motion resumed again.
Just as the wall of the church had been breached an enormous energy shot out from Seiya and Usagi as they bonded in their sacred kiss. As though a ripple on the smooth surface of water the energy spread from them and across the Earth, time and space shaking everything violently. With the immense energy came a blinding white light to which everyone was forced to shield their eyes from.
Minako and Yaten hit the ground and looked up at what was happening. There, only inches in front of them stood Seiya and Usagi locked in a kiss, their hair was set in motion and their clothing was animated. The guests of the wedding, along with the priest and the senshi were completely awestruck as they witnessed what just happened before their eyes.
When the kiss was broken Seiya and Usagi slowly opened their eyes and looked upon one another. "You're hair." Seiya said picking up a few strands of her now delicate silver hair.
"I know." Usagi replied. She had felt it, the change come over her. She knew the time had come for her to be Queen, but what of the freezing?
Seiya heard a moan from the floor beside him and looked down. "Yaten?" He asked curiously.
"Don't even ask." Yaten mumbled as he got up and headed for Minako. No words were said between the two as they rubbed their now bruised bodies.
~@~@~@~
None of the guests spoke of the incident at the church during the reception. Once the formalities of the introductions were through, all of the senshi met at the head table where they saw Setsuna, Usagi and Seiya smiling while having a conversation.
"This means that you do not have to be Queen until you feel that you are ready." Setsuna smiled.
"I don't know if I'll ever be ready." Usagi looked down and noticed Seiya taking her hand.
"I'll be with you Odango." Usagi smiled at him with gratitude.
"I will tell you this though, you must become Queen before your twenty fourth birthday." Setsuna warned.
"Why? What happens after that?" Usagi asked.
"You start getting old!" Setsuna winked. "Just look at these lines I'm starting to get!" The three shared a laugh and noticed the others approaching the table.
"Um, hello? Does anyone mind explaining to me what the hell just happened back there?" Haruka came up with one hand on her hip and the other around Michiru.
Setsuna smiled. "Oh you mean the fact that you admitted that you thought Seiya was handsome?" She asked slyly.
Haruka blushed, something none of them had ever seen her do. "Um… not quite…" Michiru's giggling brought her back to her original question.
"I always knew you had a soft spot for me Haruka." Seiya teased.
Usagi elbowed him in the side. "You just don't know when to leave well enough alone do you?" She hissed at him while he only smiled in reply.
"Don't push it!" Haruka warned him leaning up a bit, but being pulled back at the same time by Michiru who was still amused at the situation.
"Seriously though," Mamoru cleared his throat. "What happened?" He asked pulling up a chair.
Setsuna set her head in motion and gave a quick look around to make sure no one was listening to them and that there wouldn't be any immediate interruptions. "Today was supposed to be the day that the Earth was to freeze over."
Gasps were heard from the lips of the senshi. "What happened?" Rei asked still covering her mouth with her gloved hand.
"At the exact moment Seiya and Usagi were pronounced 'man and wife' and when they kissed was when the comet was to come and destablelize the Earth. When they met in that consecrated kiss an tremendous energy was released from both the silver crystal and the inner crystal which Fighter holds."
Ami was calculating things in her head and coming to conclusions. "So the power of the union between Usagi and Seiya countered the destructive forced of the comet?" She looked up at Setsuna for understanding.
Setsuna nodded. "Yes."
"So the Earth was saved by the love Seiya and Usagi had for each other?" Makoto asked incredulously.
"Yes," Setsuna replied. "When Usagi and Mamoru married in the alternate timeline, their love wasn't strong enough to face the comet, they both had doubt in their heart and therefore were forced to succumb to the power of the ice."
Taiki stood noticing the DJ coming over to the table. "So what you're saying is that we have nothing to worry about any more? That the Earth will never freeze and the time of Crystal Tokyo doesn't have to begin immediately?"
Setsuna stood and clasped her hands in front of her, more to bring attention to the fact that some one else was approaching them. "Exactly. You all must make the most of the extra time you have been given." She smiled and faced the DJ.
"Excuse me." He staggered up. He was a middle-aged man who appeared to enjoy his profession a little too much. "It is time to toss the bouquet now."
Usagi smiled and left her seat grabbing the fistful of flowers she had been carrying around. "Ready girls?"
"HAI!!" They all cheered and followed her to the floor.
"Why aren't you going out there Michiru?" Mamoru asked as he noticed her still seated next to him. She brought her hand up to reveal a lavish stone on her finger. Mamoru smiled pleased. "Congratulations."
"Thank you." Haruka smiled as tightened her arm around Michiru's waist bringing her closer.
"I don't care if you are a princess, if you get in my way, you're going down!" Minako threatened Kakyuu as they stood behind Usagi waiting for her to launch the bouquet.
"Bring it on!" Kakyuu gave her a pursed lip grin.
"Oh man, I can't believe she got her talking like that too!" Rei commented as she watched the two girls.
"I don't know why you guys are bothering, you already know I'm going to be the next to be married." Ami said sure of herself and polishing her nails.
All of the girls sweat dropped. "Suuuuurrrreeee Ami." Makoto rolled her eyes and the sound of the drum roll peaked her ears. The girls were all in fighting stance and looked like a pack of senshi on a mission!
"3…..2…..1!" The DJ counted down and Usagi released the bouquet high over her head. Through some miraculous chance of fate Minako caught the bouquet without even having to fight tooth and nail to get to it.
"I got it, I got it!!" She jumped up and down in uncontrollable excitement.
Seiya already had a plan as to who the guarder belt was heading towards. With his plan in mind he knelt down in front of Usagi who brought her skirt up to her knee. "Be nice, my father is watching you." She warned him as she saw the evil smirk dance across his face.
"But we're married now, we can do whatever we want." He said as he slid his hand up her leg and over her knee.
"That doesn't include exhibitionism!" She said in a quite whisper as she felt his hand travel up past the top of her stockings.
"Oh really?" He laughed and brought it down to seductively pull her guarder down. Usagi's face was bright red and she didn't quickly recover.
The DJ instructed the single men to make their way to the dance floor. They did so, all except Yaten who sat content in his seat. Seiya spotted him sitting off to the side at a table. "3…..2……1!!" The DJ called out and Yaten noticed the wicked smile on Seiya's face.
Seiya took aim just like a slingshot and flung the garter at Yaten who ended up with it smack dab in his face! As he pulled it off his face Seiya could see the red-hot anger building up until he saw Minako sit on the chair in the middle of the room hiking her skirt up. Seiya pulled him out to Minako and he knelt down in front of her Minako brought her leg up to cross it but in doing so briefly gave Yaten a quick view of her panties.
Yaten's eyebrow was cocked as he looked from the spectacle in front of him up to Minako. "Do you like them?" She asked smiling down. She was wearing Three Lights underwear, well more specifically panties with Yaten's face on the front! Yaten's face went a bit red and everyone just passed it off as the fact he had just gotten flashed.
~@~@~@~
A champaign toast in the moonlight ended the most wonderful night of their lives. "If you had asked me a few years ago if I thought everything was going to work out this way I probably would have thought you were crazy." Usagi giggled lightly after setting her glass down.
"But I wouldn't have it any other way." Seiya said as he too set his glass down and took his wife in his arms. "This is all I ever needed in life."
Usagi looked up at her husband and smiled. All they had been through was worth it just so they could hold one another this way in the moonlight tonight. "Me too." She whispered just before he pulled her close for a long sensuous kiss.
Epilogue Part II
"What was that all about?" Usagi came back in the room to see Minako and Rei talking.
"Yeah, really. Why was Yaten coming to your room?" Minako asked more than suspiciously while tapping her foot.
Usagi tried to hide her laughter and come up with a feasible excuse. "Well, you see… Seiya sent him here to let me know that he was… um … thinking of me..." Usagi smiled, it really wasn't far from the truth.
"Well let's get going!" Rei jumped up. "We have to go and get our hair done!!"
"Hold your horses, the wedding won't start without me!" Usagi chimed in.
"Oh yeah…?" Rei gave her the sneaky eye. "I'm sure we could find a more beautiful girl to walk down the aisle and marry Seiya."
"WHAT!" Usagi screamed as she saw Rei making supermodel poses and fake primping herself up. "You'd better keep your hands off him!"
"Why? It's not like you're married yet!" Rei teased her back.
"Rei, why do always get her so worked up?" Minako said sweat dropping and coming between the two. Their mini dust fight stopped and the three left to get their hair done with Minako acting as referee the entire time.
~@~@~@~
Usagi stood at the alter on the brink of love and destiny with the anxiety of what was to come. It was inevitable, this was part of the future. To her family she just seemed like any other nervous bride but her friends knew better. Seiya glanced over at his wife to be during the ceremony and actually noticed her smiling. A firm squeeze of her hand and he knew that she was trying not to let it bother her.
"You know, he really does look handsome in his tuxedo." Haruka said as she moved her head to the side to get a better view of the couple. Michiru's eyes went wide in shock and she sat there with her mouth agape. Haruka looked over at Michiru, she had expected some sort of comment about that one and grew concerned when she didn't. She noticed Michiru's expression and let out a small chuckle. "That's not very lady like now is it?"
Setsuna and Mamoru laughed at their friends as they were sitting in the pew behind them. The ceremony was almost over and there had been nothing out of the ordinary.
The words 'man and wife' echoed off of the elaborately ordained walls of the church to resound to even the furthest pews of the row. Usagi and Seiya turned to face one another and Usagi looked up with the sweetest smile. "I love you." She whispered as she brought a hand up to the side of his jaw just below his ear.
Seiya smiled in response, she had finally let her worries escape her mind. "I love you too." He said as the priest looked upon them.
The priest hesitated for a moment taking in the sight of this young couple in love until Yaten cleared his throat. The priest jumped about ten feet and earned himself a good laugh from the bride's maids, especially Minako.
When she looked up from laughing she noticed a light in the window just over Yaten's shoulder. It seemed to be growing brighter and larger. "It's heading right for us….." She whispered in a hushed tone to herself.
Yaten noticed the worried expression on her face and quickly turned to look behind him. He too witness what Minako had been staring at. He turned and looked at Seiya and Usagi who were right in the line of fire.
"You may kiss the bride." The old priest smiled.
Minako and Yaten made a mad dash to Seiya and Usagi whose bodies were drawing nearer to one another. As their lips met the comet like energy crashed through the wall of the church. Yaten threw himself in the air at the same time as Minako in an attempt to knock the couple out of the way.
Time seemed to stop for a split second, Yaten couldn't feel himself falling and had just enough time to look up and into Minako's eyes before his motion resumed again.
Just as the wall of the church had been breached an enormous energy shot out from Seiya and Usagi as they bonded in their sacred kiss. As though a ripple on the smooth surface of water the energy spread from them and across the Earth, time and space shaking everything violently. With the immense energy came a blinding white light to which everyone was forced to shield their eyes from.
Minako and Yaten hit the ground and looked up at what was happening. There, only inches in front of them stood Seiya and Usagi locked in a kiss, their hair was set in motion and their clothing was animated. The guests of the wedding, along with the priest and the senshi were completely awestruck as they witnessed what just happened before their eyes.
When the kiss was broken Seiya and Usagi slowly opened their eyes and looked upon one another. "You're hair." Seiya said picking up a few strands of her now delicate silver hair.
"I know." Usagi replied. She had felt it, the change come over her. She knew the time had come for her to be Queen, but what of the freezing?
Seiya heard a moan from the floor beside him and looked down. "Yaten?" He asked curiously.
"Don't even ask." Yaten mumbled as he got up and headed for Minako. No words were said between the two as they rubbed their now bruised bodies.
~@~@~@~
None of the guests spoke of the incident at the church during the reception. Once the formalities of the introductions were through, all of the senshi met at the head table where they saw Setsuna, Usagi and Seiya smiling while having a conversation.
"This means that you do not have to be Queen until you feel that you are ready." Setsuna smiled.
"I don't know if I'll ever be ready." Usagi looked down and noticed Seiya taking her hand.
"I'll be with you Odango." Usagi smiled at him with gratitude.
"I will tell you this though, you must become Queen before your twenty fourth birthday." Setsuna warned.
"Why? What happens after that?" Usagi asked.
"You start getting old!" Setsuna winked. "Just look at these lines I'm starting to get!" The three shared a laugh and noticed the others approaching the table.
"Um, hello? Does anyone mind explaining to me what the hell just happened back there?" Haruka came up with one hand on her hip and the other around Michiru.
Setsuna smiled. "Oh you mean the fact that you admitted that you thought Seiya was handsome?" She asked slyly.
Haruka blushed, something none of them had ever seen her do. "Um… not quite…" Michiru's giggling brought her back to her original question.
"I always knew you had a soft spot for me Haruka." Seiya teased.
Usagi elbowed him in the side. "You just don't know when to leave well enough alone do you?" She hissed at him while he only smiled in reply.
"Don't push it!" Haruka warned him leaning up a bit, but being pulled back at the same time by Michiru who was still amused at the situation.
"Seriously though," Mamoru cleared his throat. "What happened?" He asked pulling up a chair.
Setsuna set her head in motion and gave a quick look around to make sure no one was listening to them and that there wouldn't be any immediate interruptions. "Today was supposed to be the day that the Earth was to freeze over."
Gasps were heard from the lips of the senshi. "What happened?" Rei asked still covering her mouth with her gloved hand.
"At the exact moment Seiya and Usagi were pronounced 'man and wife' and when they kissed was when the comet was to come and destablelize the Earth. When they met in that consecrated kiss an tremendous energy was released from both the silver crystal and the inner crystal which Fighter holds."
Ami was calculating things in her head and coming to conclusions. "So the power of the union between Usagi and Seiya countered the destructive forced of the comet?" She looked up at Setsuna for understanding.
Setsuna nodded. "Yes."
"So the Earth was saved by the love Seiya and Usagi had for each other?" Makoto asked incredulously.
"Yes," Setsuna replied. "When Usagi and Mamoru married in the alternate timeline, their love wasn't strong enough to face the comet, they both had doubt in their heart and therefore were forced to succumb to the power of the ice."
Taiki stood noticing the DJ coming over to the table. "So what you're saying is that we have nothing to worry about any more? That the Earth will never freeze and the time of Crystal Tokyo doesn't have to begin immediately?"
Setsuna stood and clasped her hands in front of her, more to bring attention to the fact that some one else was approaching them. "Exactly. You all must make the most of the extra time you have been given." She smiled and faced the DJ.
"Excuse me." He staggered up. He was a middle-aged man who appeared to enjoy his profession a little too much. "It is time to toss the bouquet now."
Usagi smiled and left her seat grabbing the fistful of flowers she had been carrying around. "Ready girls?"
"HAI!!" They all cheered and followed her to the floor.
"Why aren't you going out there Michiru?" Mamoru asked as he noticed her still seated next to him. She brought her hand up to reveal a lavish stone on her finger. Mamoru smiled pleased. "Congratulations."
"Thank you." Haruka smiled as tightened her arm around Michiru's waist bringing her closer.
"I don't care if you are a princess, if you get in my way, you're going down!" Minako threatened Kakyuu as they stood behind Usagi waiting for her to launch the bouquet.
"Bring it on!" Kakyuu gave her a pursed lip grin.
"Oh man, I can't believe she got her talking like that too!" Rei commented as she watched the two girls.
"I don't know why you guys are bothering, you already know I'm going to be the next to be married." Ami said sure of herself and polishing her nails.
All of the girls sweat dropped. "Suuuuurrrreeee Ami." Makoto rolled her eyes and the sound of the drum roll peaked her ears. The girls were all in fighting stance and looked like a pack of senshi on a mission!
"3…..2…..1!" The DJ counted down and Usagi released the bouquet high over her head. Through some miraculous chance of fate Minako caught the bouquet without even having to fight tooth and nail to get to it.
"I got it, I got it!!" She jumped up and down in uncontrollable excitement.
Seiya already had a plan as to who the guarder belt was heading towards. With his plan in mind he knelt down in front of Usagi who brought her skirt up to her knee. "Be nice, my father is watching you." She warned him as she saw the evil smirk dance across his face.
"But we're married now, we can do whatever we want." He said as he slid his hand up her leg and over her knee.
"That doesn't include exhibitionism!" She said in a quite whisper as she felt his hand travel up past the top of her stockings.
"Oh really?" He laughed and brought it down to seductively pull her guarder down. Usagi's face was bright red and she didn't quickly recover.
The DJ instructed the single men to make their way to the dance floor. They did so, all except Yaten who sat content in his seat. Seiya spotted him sitting off to the side at a table. "3…..2……1!!" The DJ called out and Yaten noticed the wicked smile on Seiya's face.
Seiya took aim just like a slingshot and flung the garter at Yaten who ended up with it smack dab in his face! As he pulled it off his face Seiya could see the red-hot anger building up until he saw Minako sit on the chair in the middle of the room hiking her skirt up. Seiya pulled him out to Minako and he knelt down in front of her Minako brought her leg up to cross it but in doing so briefly gave Yaten a quick view of her panties.
Yaten's eyebrow was cocked as he looked from the spectacle in front of him up to Minako. "Do you like them?" She asked smiling down. She was wearing Three Lights underwear, well more specifically panties with Yaten's face on the front! Yaten's face went a bit red and everyone just passed it off as the fact he had just gotten flashed.
~@~@~@~
A champaign toast in the moonlight ended the most wonderful night of their lives. "If you had asked me a few years ago if I thought everything was going to work out this way I probably would have thought you were crazy." Usagi giggled lightly after setting her glass down.
"But I wouldn't have it any other way." Seiya said as he too set his glass down and took his wife in his arms. "This is all I ever needed in life."
Usagi looked up at her husband and smiled. All they had been through was worth it just so they could hold one another this way in the moonlight tonight. "Me too." She whispered just before he pulled her close for a long sensuous kiss.
