Usagi felt herself flying through space, and her warm glow grew brighter
and brighter as she flew towards a distant planet.
"Serenity-hime, we will soon be approaching . . ."
"I know, Pluto-chan. I know that we're going home." Usagi smiled as her crescent moon glowed brighter, shining and filling up the darkness of space.
As Princess Serenity and Sailor Pluto approached the Milky Way Galaxy, they passed the planets, one by one, and Princess Serenity saw vivid images of her once living friends.
"I know it will be lonely at first, Serenity-sama, but soon, I'm sure it will get better." Sailor Pluto sensed Serenity's sadness, and sought to comfort her Princess.
Usagi just nodded, and sighed as they came to the small blue planet of Earth, and landed slowly onto the Moon, where ruins of the once prosperous kingdom lay.
Princess Serenity and Sailor Pluto touched ground right outside of Crystal Tokyo's old palace. Usagi sighed as she looked around at the ruins of her city.
"I deserted them, Pluto." Usagi let two tears stream down her face, threatening to spill crystal pools from her cerulean eyes.
"Iie, Serenity-sama, you did what was best." Sailor Pluto shook her head. "Now that you live, the people that you sealed away will have a chance to live."
"Sealed away?" Princess Serenity looked at Sailor Pluto.
Sailor Pluto smiled and nodded. "You must have forgot that you had used some of your power to seal away all of the inhabitants of the Moon Kingdom on the far away planet of Earth." Sailor Pluto smiled.
"I must have forgotten," Usagi tried to smile a little. "Sometimes I amaze myself with my stupidity."
"Come now, Serenity-sama, it is time to awaken your kingdom." Sailor Pluto led Usagi into the palace.
"Demo . . .Usagi looked around as she walked. "I thought I had fully awakened it when I was with Mamo-chan." Usagi winced a little at the name, but realized that thinking of him didn't hurt her anymore.
"It was partially awakened, but because Mamo-san's love for you was not as pure as it could have been, Crystal Tokyo could not have reached its potential power. THAT is why it was attacked and fell, I'm afraid that I have found out who the forces were that attacked it."
"Who?" Usagi stopped dead in her tracks. "Who attacked us when we were so weak? Why could I fend off everyone else, but not them? Why?" Usagi fell to the ground, tears falling down her cheeks again.
"Serenity-sama," Sailor Pluto placed her hand on Usagi's shoulder. "You cannot fend off the powers of Fate."
"Fate?" Usagi looked up at Sailor Pluto.
"Fate . . . it was meant to happen this way. The kingdom would have fallen otherwise, at the end of your reign. Someone will probably still be coming, but I mustn't tell you much about it. All you need to know is that Mamoru was going to seize power for himself and turn Crystal Tokyo against you and he was going to drive the kingdom into ruins. Because you would be weak, Crystal Tokyo would have fallen. I'm afraid something had gone quite wrong after you had partially awakened Crystal Tokyo. It was too soon to do so."
"I don't understand." Usagi wiped a tear away.
"And you won't understand for a little while yet, just, come with me, Serenity-sama." Sailor Pluto reached down and helped Usagi stand.
They walked along the deserted palace until they got to the room that used to be the throne room. Sailor Pluto threw open the doors and inside was a gigantic crystal that was in the ground.
Suddenly, from behind the crystal, a tall figure approached them.
"Pluto . . ." Usagi said in a warning tone as she watched the figure draw closer.
"It is in your hands now, Serenity-sama." Pluto bowed and retreated to the back of the throne room.
As the figure drew closer, Usagi was worried, worried that it would be someone back from the grave, someone she had loved so long ago.
"Usagi." The deep voice said as the figure stopped in front of her.
Usagi stood there a moment, and stared at the figure in front of her. Her face flared with recognition suddenly and she threw her arms around the figure.
"What a welcome." The dark figure said, smiling.
Usagi pulled back and stared into his eyes. "I thought . . . I knew . . . I knew that I would see you again, my love."
The light in the room got brighter, and the dark figure came into the light.
"I'm so sorry that I had to make you cry, but it was the only way that Pluto said we could have done it. I had to do it so I could be erased from everyone's memories." He picked up a piece of her golden hair that had fallen out of her Odangoes. "Aishiteru, Usagi."
"Aishiteru, Seiya." Usagi squeezed him tighter.
"Come now, let's awaken our New Kingdom, together." Usagi took Seiya's hand.
"Sounds fine to me." Seiya smiled and walked into the middle of the room with Princess Serenity.
Princess Serenity produced her crystal from inside of her, and Seiya lent his powers to her as the palace suddenly turned brighter, and a warm wave of silver light flooded the galaxy. "Welcome home . . ." Princess Serenity whispered.
***
"This is so creepy, you know, coming back here." Yaten whispered to his brother.
"I know it is, but I just want to make sure I understand what happened with Seiya and Usagi. Usagi said we should visit her, so theoretically, she should be in a place where we had seen her before, meaning The Moon Kingdom." Taiki mused.
"You'd do me a favor if you thought in your head." Yaten complained.
"There it is!" Taiki pointed in front of him, as the Milky Way Galaxy quickly approached them.
"Wow, look at it! It shines so brightly now, before it was dull." Yaten gasped at the beauty the galaxy was giving off.
"That must mean that Usagi is there, alive and well." Taiki smiled.
When the two princes touched ground at the palace grounds of Crystal Tokyo, three guards approached them.
"State your business coming to The Moon Kingdom." The first guard said.
"I am Ojisama Taiki and this is Ojisama Yaten of the planet of Kinmoku. Our business is with Usagi . . .I mean, Princess Serenity."
"Hold on a moment, please, I'll go and see if you are on the clearance list." The first guard ran into the palace.
"Sure looks good here." Yaten smiled at Taiki.
Around the palace were countless gardens and fountains. The sun was shining brightly and everything just seemed beautiful. Birds and butterflies could be seen in the gardens, and all of the palace workers seemed to be in good dispositions.
The first guard returned quickly and bowed to Taiki and Yaten. "Forgive me for the way you have been treated, but it is the process which we have to screen all visitors to the King and Queen."
Taiki and Yaten both looked at each other a moment. "King?" They both said.
"Hai, follow me please," The first guard led them into the palace.
"Well, they really have stiffened security since we visited last time, they only had to check you at the Throne Room door, not when you just arrived." Yaten said as he walked behind the guard.
"Hai, I'm sure it was because of the previous attack." Taiki added quietly.
The guard opened a door that was on the right side of the hallway and motioned Yaten and Taiki to come inside. They did so, and found a few seats in the room.
"You can wait here for a moment, I'll go tell the King and Queen of your arrival." The guard bowed and then quickly left.
"Well, look at that." Yaten said as he sat down in a chair. "Seiya would have become a king, regardless, but he chose it to be some foreign place."
"Yaten, don't talk like that, I know that you had grown attached to Usagi, just like I had." Taiki sat down next to Yaten.
"Well, I hope we don't have to wait for very long, I'm already tired from the trip." Yaten sighed and looked out the window.
Suddenly the door flung open, and all Taiki and Yaten saw a bright flash of white, and before they knew it, they were pulled into a hug, by Queen Serenity herself.
"Yaten-kun! Taiki-san! I missed you so much!" Queen Serenity looked up at both princes and pulled out of the hug. "What brought you here?"
"Just a visit, we were both getting fed up with Kimiko's orders." Yaten sighed.
"Oi, long time no see." A voice called from the doorway.
"Seiya!" Yaten and Taiki both jumped up.
Seiya smiled with a gleam in his eye. "You know, you're supposed to bow to a king."
"Seiya!" Queen Serenity laughed.
"Yes, but you don't have to bow to your brother." Yaten smiled.
"Touché, Yaten." Seiya smiled.
"I hope everything has been well here." Taiki smiled.
"Hai, things have come together flawlessly." Queen Serenity smiled.
"I'm glad they have." Taiki smiled and then looked around. "The palace seems warmer, do you know what I mean? It glows brighter then it ever did before."
"Really?" Queen Serenity blushed.
A knock was heard on the outside door.
"Come in," Queen Serenity answered. The door opened to reveal a girl in an orange fuku. Her long blonde hair was tied back with a red ribbon . . .
"What is it?" Queen Serenity smiled.
"Gomen to disturb you, but I have to . . ." Sailor Venus's eyes strayed around the room for a moment, and suddenly stopped on Yaten. She stopped what she was saying and just stared at him.
Yaten did the same, he felt as if he had seen a ghost. Both looked at each other for a long time, and then they both fainted in unison.
"Venus-chan!" Queen Serenity ran over and caught Sailor Venus.
"Yaten!" Taiki caught Yaten in his arms and then looked back at Queen Serenity. "Does this mean . . ." He looked at her.
"Hai, Taiki-san." Queen Serenity smiled.
Taiki responded by letting tears come to his eyes.
"I didn't know you guys had gotten yourselves so attached to them." Seiya grinned.
"It must be their earthen charm, Seiya." Taiki wiped his eyes with his free hand.
"Well, it has been nice seeing you two." Seiya smiled. "Are you intending on going back?"
"Well, I don't know." Taiki gently laid Yaten down on the floor. "I suppose we were going to, but maybe we'll change our minds."
"You are welcome to stay in our kingdom as long as you want to, Taiki- san." Queen Serenity smiled.
"Arigato, Serenity-sama." Taiki smiled.
"Oh yeah, I wanted to ask you a question, Taiki." Seiya looked up at Taiki. "What ever happened to Kakyuu?"
Taiki laughed. "Oh, she and Nibori, the high guard were engaged."
"I'm sure they make a perfect couple." Queen Serenity laughed.
"Actually, they do, surprisingly." Taiki laughed.
"All well that ends well." Queen Serenity smiled. "Come on, we'll leave Venus and Yaten in here, and I can find Mercury, I'm sure you two have a lot of catching up to do."
"Arigato, Serenity-sama." Taiki left the room along with Seiya, off to his new life, and off to his new fate.
Sailor Pluto stood at the Gates Of Time, musing to herself. "From both singular events, how can so many new things happen? Through both pain and suffering comes love and happiness. And now, we can see that two different people, aligned with two different lives, can come to live, One Single Fate."
[A/N: Well, it's over, I'm sorry if I disappointed you all with the ending, but I'm afraid this fic has reached the point where I had to bid it adieu. There will be no epilogues, or anything after that, I think that it ends on a good enough note while still leaving the audience wondering. Thanks for sticking by me with this fic, I'm personally glad to announce that my 2nd fic is done.]
"Serenity-hime, we will soon be approaching . . ."
"I know, Pluto-chan. I know that we're going home." Usagi smiled as her crescent moon glowed brighter, shining and filling up the darkness of space.
As Princess Serenity and Sailor Pluto approached the Milky Way Galaxy, they passed the planets, one by one, and Princess Serenity saw vivid images of her once living friends.
"I know it will be lonely at first, Serenity-sama, but soon, I'm sure it will get better." Sailor Pluto sensed Serenity's sadness, and sought to comfort her Princess.
Usagi just nodded, and sighed as they came to the small blue planet of Earth, and landed slowly onto the Moon, where ruins of the once prosperous kingdom lay.
Princess Serenity and Sailor Pluto touched ground right outside of Crystal Tokyo's old palace. Usagi sighed as she looked around at the ruins of her city.
"I deserted them, Pluto." Usagi let two tears stream down her face, threatening to spill crystal pools from her cerulean eyes.
"Iie, Serenity-sama, you did what was best." Sailor Pluto shook her head. "Now that you live, the people that you sealed away will have a chance to live."
"Sealed away?" Princess Serenity looked at Sailor Pluto.
Sailor Pluto smiled and nodded. "You must have forgot that you had used some of your power to seal away all of the inhabitants of the Moon Kingdom on the far away planet of Earth." Sailor Pluto smiled.
"I must have forgotten," Usagi tried to smile a little. "Sometimes I amaze myself with my stupidity."
"Come now, Serenity-sama, it is time to awaken your kingdom." Sailor Pluto led Usagi into the palace.
"Demo . . .Usagi looked around as she walked. "I thought I had fully awakened it when I was with Mamo-chan." Usagi winced a little at the name, but realized that thinking of him didn't hurt her anymore.
"It was partially awakened, but because Mamo-san's love for you was not as pure as it could have been, Crystal Tokyo could not have reached its potential power. THAT is why it was attacked and fell, I'm afraid that I have found out who the forces were that attacked it."
"Who?" Usagi stopped dead in her tracks. "Who attacked us when we were so weak? Why could I fend off everyone else, but not them? Why?" Usagi fell to the ground, tears falling down her cheeks again.
"Serenity-sama," Sailor Pluto placed her hand on Usagi's shoulder. "You cannot fend off the powers of Fate."
"Fate?" Usagi looked up at Sailor Pluto.
"Fate . . . it was meant to happen this way. The kingdom would have fallen otherwise, at the end of your reign. Someone will probably still be coming, but I mustn't tell you much about it. All you need to know is that Mamoru was going to seize power for himself and turn Crystal Tokyo against you and he was going to drive the kingdom into ruins. Because you would be weak, Crystal Tokyo would have fallen. I'm afraid something had gone quite wrong after you had partially awakened Crystal Tokyo. It was too soon to do so."
"I don't understand." Usagi wiped a tear away.
"And you won't understand for a little while yet, just, come with me, Serenity-sama." Sailor Pluto reached down and helped Usagi stand.
They walked along the deserted palace until they got to the room that used to be the throne room. Sailor Pluto threw open the doors and inside was a gigantic crystal that was in the ground.
Suddenly, from behind the crystal, a tall figure approached them.
"Pluto . . ." Usagi said in a warning tone as she watched the figure draw closer.
"It is in your hands now, Serenity-sama." Pluto bowed and retreated to the back of the throne room.
As the figure drew closer, Usagi was worried, worried that it would be someone back from the grave, someone she had loved so long ago.
"Usagi." The deep voice said as the figure stopped in front of her.
Usagi stood there a moment, and stared at the figure in front of her. Her face flared with recognition suddenly and she threw her arms around the figure.
"What a welcome." The dark figure said, smiling.
Usagi pulled back and stared into his eyes. "I thought . . . I knew . . . I knew that I would see you again, my love."
The light in the room got brighter, and the dark figure came into the light.
"I'm so sorry that I had to make you cry, but it was the only way that Pluto said we could have done it. I had to do it so I could be erased from everyone's memories." He picked up a piece of her golden hair that had fallen out of her Odangoes. "Aishiteru, Usagi."
"Aishiteru, Seiya." Usagi squeezed him tighter.
"Come now, let's awaken our New Kingdom, together." Usagi took Seiya's hand.
"Sounds fine to me." Seiya smiled and walked into the middle of the room with Princess Serenity.
Princess Serenity produced her crystal from inside of her, and Seiya lent his powers to her as the palace suddenly turned brighter, and a warm wave of silver light flooded the galaxy. "Welcome home . . ." Princess Serenity whispered.
***
"This is so creepy, you know, coming back here." Yaten whispered to his brother.
"I know it is, but I just want to make sure I understand what happened with Seiya and Usagi. Usagi said we should visit her, so theoretically, she should be in a place where we had seen her before, meaning The Moon Kingdom." Taiki mused.
"You'd do me a favor if you thought in your head." Yaten complained.
"There it is!" Taiki pointed in front of him, as the Milky Way Galaxy quickly approached them.
"Wow, look at it! It shines so brightly now, before it was dull." Yaten gasped at the beauty the galaxy was giving off.
"That must mean that Usagi is there, alive and well." Taiki smiled.
When the two princes touched ground at the palace grounds of Crystal Tokyo, three guards approached them.
"State your business coming to The Moon Kingdom." The first guard said.
"I am Ojisama Taiki and this is Ojisama Yaten of the planet of Kinmoku. Our business is with Usagi . . .I mean, Princess Serenity."
"Hold on a moment, please, I'll go and see if you are on the clearance list." The first guard ran into the palace.
"Sure looks good here." Yaten smiled at Taiki.
Around the palace were countless gardens and fountains. The sun was shining brightly and everything just seemed beautiful. Birds and butterflies could be seen in the gardens, and all of the palace workers seemed to be in good dispositions.
The first guard returned quickly and bowed to Taiki and Yaten. "Forgive me for the way you have been treated, but it is the process which we have to screen all visitors to the King and Queen."
Taiki and Yaten both looked at each other a moment. "King?" They both said.
"Hai, follow me please," The first guard led them into the palace.
"Well, they really have stiffened security since we visited last time, they only had to check you at the Throne Room door, not when you just arrived." Yaten said as he walked behind the guard.
"Hai, I'm sure it was because of the previous attack." Taiki added quietly.
The guard opened a door that was on the right side of the hallway and motioned Yaten and Taiki to come inside. They did so, and found a few seats in the room.
"You can wait here for a moment, I'll go tell the King and Queen of your arrival." The guard bowed and then quickly left.
"Well, look at that." Yaten said as he sat down in a chair. "Seiya would have become a king, regardless, but he chose it to be some foreign place."
"Yaten, don't talk like that, I know that you had grown attached to Usagi, just like I had." Taiki sat down next to Yaten.
"Well, I hope we don't have to wait for very long, I'm already tired from the trip." Yaten sighed and looked out the window.
Suddenly the door flung open, and all Taiki and Yaten saw a bright flash of white, and before they knew it, they were pulled into a hug, by Queen Serenity herself.
"Yaten-kun! Taiki-san! I missed you so much!" Queen Serenity looked up at both princes and pulled out of the hug. "What brought you here?"
"Just a visit, we were both getting fed up with Kimiko's orders." Yaten sighed.
"Oi, long time no see." A voice called from the doorway.
"Seiya!" Yaten and Taiki both jumped up.
Seiya smiled with a gleam in his eye. "You know, you're supposed to bow to a king."
"Seiya!" Queen Serenity laughed.
"Yes, but you don't have to bow to your brother." Yaten smiled.
"Touché, Yaten." Seiya smiled.
"I hope everything has been well here." Taiki smiled.
"Hai, things have come together flawlessly." Queen Serenity smiled.
"I'm glad they have." Taiki smiled and then looked around. "The palace seems warmer, do you know what I mean? It glows brighter then it ever did before."
"Really?" Queen Serenity blushed.
A knock was heard on the outside door.
"Come in," Queen Serenity answered. The door opened to reveal a girl in an orange fuku. Her long blonde hair was tied back with a red ribbon . . .
"What is it?" Queen Serenity smiled.
"Gomen to disturb you, but I have to . . ." Sailor Venus's eyes strayed around the room for a moment, and suddenly stopped on Yaten. She stopped what she was saying and just stared at him.
Yaten did the same, he felt as if he had seen a ghost. Both looked at each other for a long time, and then they both fainted in unison.
"Venus-chan!" Queen Serenity ran over and caught Sailor Venus.
"Yaten!" Taiki caught Yaten in his arms and then looked back at Queen Serenity. "Does this mean . . ." He looked at her.
"Hai, Taiki-san." Queen Serenity smiled.
Taiki responded by letting tears come to his eyes.
"I didn't know you guys had gotten yourselves so attached to them." Seiya grinned.
"It must be their earthen charm, Seiya." Taiki wiped his eyes with his free hand.
"Well, it has been nice seeing you two." Seiya smiled. "Are you intending on going back?"
"Well, I don't know." Taiki gently laid Yaten down on the floor. "I suppose we were going to, but maybe we'll change our minds."
"You are welcome to stay in our kingdom as long as you want to, Taiki- san." Queen Serenity smiled.
"Arigato, Serenity-sama." Taiki smiled.
"Oh yeah, I wanted to ask you a question, Taiki." Seiya looked up at Taiki. "What ever happened to Kakyuu?"
Taiki laughed. "Oh, she and Nibori, the high guard were engaged."
"I'm sure they make a perfect couple." Queen Serenity laughed.
"Actually, they do, surprisingly." Taiki laughed.
"All well that ends well." Queen Serenity smiled. "Come on, we'll leave Venus and Yaten in here, and I can find Mercury, I'm sure you two have a lot of catching up to do."
"Arigato, Serenity-sama." Taiki left the room along with Seiya, off to his new life, and off to his new fate.
Sailor Pluto stood at the Gates Of Time, musing to herself. "From both singular events, how can so many new things happen? Through both pain and suffering comes love and happiness. And now, we can see that two different people, aligned with two different lives, can come to live, One Single Fate."
[A/N: Well, it's over, I'm sorry if I disappointed you all with the ending, but I'm afraid this fic has reached the point where I had to bid it adieu. There will be no epilogues, or anything after that, I think that it ends on a good enough note while still leaving the audience wondering. Thanks for sticking by me with this fic, I'm personally glad to announce that my 2nd fic is done.]