Sailor Moon: World Rebirth -Part 2, Beyond the Horizon of Time
Episode 15 'Luna's Tale'
Luna as a cat saw a full array of colours up ahead she saw Sailor Moon and
Tuxedo Kamen but they floated away in opposite directions.
She was alone.
She saw colours.
Then black.
Luna woke up cold and wet. When she opened her eyes she found herself up in
a tree. She was in a forest and she was lying on a tree branch. "Usagi!" she
called out. "Mamoru! Anyone!" There was no response. She was alone. She
decided to go find some some sign of civilization. She looked around below
and jumped down on to a pile of leaves. But the pile of leaves was actually
a trap and she fell right through it. She just missed a very sharp stick. It
wasn't very deep so it was obviously made by a child. Luna easily hopped
out. She started to run. There weren't any more traps so she made good time.
Suddenly she came around a corner and stopped just before she went into the
mouth of a giant snake. The snake chomped and then lunged forward. Luna had
no chance and was sucked into the snake. Luna struggled and screamed but it
didn't do her any good. "Help! Help me I've been eaten!"
She could feel the snake's body crushing her and the acids burning her skin.
Then she came up with the an idea and did the only thing she could do. Luna
started to glow. She turned into a pile of yellow goo and passed right
through the body of the snake. Then she started to grow. The snake turned
around to see what happened to its meal. Luna grew into her human form.
Fortunately the snake was incredibly scared of humans because they hunted
it. It got out of there as fast as Usagi when she's hungry and has to get
some food. When Luna opened her eyes it was gone.
When she looked around, in one direction she saw lots of light. More light
than the others. She walked in that direction. In a few minutes she was
looking out over a field. She took a step and then fell to her knees holding
her head. She screamed. A flood of memories flowed through her find. It was
too much for her and she lost consciousness, and then woke back up. She kept
on falling unconscious and regaining it. In a minute it stopped. She just
laid there on the ground, looking up towards the sun. It was the middle of
the day and the sky was dark. It was then she realized that she wasn't on
Earth. She had regained all of her memories of the Silver Millennium. But
why? Is this where she was now? She saw a village across the field and
decided to find some answers there. She started to run and tripped. She was
still getting used to moving around on two feet. She decided to walk the
rest of the way.
It wasn't a very big village. It had a few stores, and a few houses. Most of
the people probably lived out in the country. Signs and names of stores
weren't even in Japanese, but she still recognized them. She found what she
recognized to be a restaurant and realized she was starving, but didn't have
any money. She sighed and put her hands into pockets in her dress. She
brought her hands back up and found she had some weird looking coins in her
pockets. She figured they might be money and went into the restaurant.
The restaurant just had some seats at a bar and some tables. She took a seat
and sat down at a table. A waiter came and gave her a menu. She took a look
at the menu but she didn't recognize any of the names of the dishes. "What
would you like to order Miss?" The waiter had come back.
"I don't know. I don't know what any of these are. Could you just bring me
something that is tasty and suitable for a lunch?" She handed him the menu.
"Certainly. You're not from around here are you?"
"No, I'm not. Tell me, have any irregular people been showing up? I'm
looking for someone."
"Not that I know of. Is there anything else?"
"Yes. I've been out of it lately. Could you tell me where I am?"
"You're in Volkia."
"Yes, where?"
"In the Moon Kingdom."
Luna jumped in her seat. The Moon! "And what is the year?"
"It is the fifth revolution of the Silver Millennium. Why do you ask?"
"Oh no specific reason. Like I said, I've been out of it for a while."
"You must be of royalty."
"What do you mean?"
"You have the symbol on your forehead. How else?" The young man walked off
to get Luna's meal.
Luna reached up and touched her forehead. The crescent moon! Only those of
royalty who lived in the Moon Palace were supposed to have it. She grabbed
the handkerchief off of the table and tied it over her hair, covering the
symbol on her forehead. She would have to get something to replace it later.
The man came back with some hot soup and buns with some kind of pasty
looking stuff on them. "Here you are. Don't worry I won't tell anyone."
Luna started in on the meal. It was quite good but could have been a little
spicier. With how hungry she was though, it didn't really make a difference.
When the man came back she was done and he took her dishes. "That will be
two sorne." Luna took out the coins that she had found in her pocket and
held them out to him.
"Is there enough here?"
The man took a couple of coins and put a couple back into her hand. "There
you are. Thank you for eating here. Please come again." He disappeared into
a back room and Luna left the restaurant. She walked aimlessly down the
street until she found what she was looking for. A jewelry store. When she
went in she was shocked. The jewelry they had in the Silver Millennium was
amazing. For a while Luna just walked through the store looking at all the
different works they had. After she had seen everything, she chose a simple
tiara that came down on her forehead and covered up the crescent moon. When
she went to buy it she handed the cashier a coin that looked like it was
worth a lot. Fortunately it was and she got a few coins back. She went back
outside and tried to find out where exactly in the Moon Kingdom she was, and
how to get to the palace. At the other side of the village was a transport
that you could ride to anywhere in the Moon Kingdom. After spending a bunch
of time trying to figure out how much of her coins it would cost, and with a
frustrated clerk, she was on the transport, headed towards the Moon Palace.
On the train there was a group of young women gossiping about current
events. "So what are you going to wear to the annual masked ball? Do you
have a date?" one girl asked another.
"No. I'm going alone, but I'm sure some cute guy will ask me to dance. I
heard Prince Endymion of Earth is going to be there. I wonder what he looks
like."
"That's probably just a rumor," a third girl said.
"I heard that another sailor senshi has showed up and has been helping the
others when they run into trouble. There are some kind of enemies that have
just shown up and continuously attack the palace. I was prying information
out of the palace guard and he said that they were youma, whatever that is."
This new person really got Luna's attention. She had regained her memories
of the Silver Millennium and she didn't remember any attacks on the Moon
Palace before Metallia arrived. Something must have followed them through the
time portal.
"Do you know where the new senshi was from?"
"He said that the senshi called herself Sailor Earth. Isn't that cool, now
we have a senshi of the Earth."
"But Earth doesn't have and can't have a female senshi!" Luna exclaimed
suddenly. The other women turned to her.
"Why not?" One of the insisted.
Luna blushed for eavesdropping. "Because the senshi of the Earth is a male.
It's always been like that and always will be. The moon represents the
female section of Earth with Princess Serenity."
The girl pouted and turned away from Luna. She must have been the leader,
one of the most popular of the group because all of the others followed her
lead. Usagi must be up to something. It made sense, because Usagi wouldn't
have been able to become Sailor Moon without bringing herself into trouble.
But if she took a disguise -it sounded like she had- she could help the
senshi.
Mamoru must not be with her otherwise those girls would have mentioned him
first. Luna figured that all three of them must have been split up. If they were at the Moon
Palace or near it they would attend the masked ball. She might be able to
grab them during it. For the rest of the trip Luna sat there and stared out
the window. It had been such a long time since she had been here. It was
just as she remembered.
In a short time she arrived in the main city. There were people arriving
from everywhere to attend the ball. In the rush of people she slipped into a
dress shop. It was crowded, but not as much as the streets. It was mostly
filled with girls looking and trying on the marvelous looking dresses that
they could never possibly afford. Luna found a white one with blue trim that
suited her. She paid with the coins. It seemed she had enough money for
whatever she would need. It was a fairly cheap dress. Waiting for evening to
come she stalled and walked around the city, remembering all of the good
times she had. It seemed that she hadn't actually just recovered all of her
memories, but a process had been started. She kept on remembering things
gradually. Since becoming a cat had granted her immortality near the
beginning of the Silver Millennium, she had quite a lot to remember.
She bought dinner at a fine looking restaurant. By the time she got out she
had quite an understanding of how the lunarian currency worked from all the
times she had been using it. After she had finished she slipped into the
ladies' room and changed into her new dress. When she got outside it was
starting to get dark. But there was no way she could have gotten lost
because there was a stream of people leading towards the palace. When she
reached the ballroom it was too crowded to find anyone. All of the men were
wearing masks. There was no way she was going to find Mamoru in all these
people with different masks. Maybe she could recognize Usagi. But she would
have some kind of disguise on. She might look completely different. What the
disguise pen could do had endless possibilities.
She just made her way to the side and leaned against a wall. She tried to
look through the crowd to see all of the different people but it was of no
use. She should have gotten there early. Everyone was starting to pair off.
Luna closed her eyes and sighed. She wouldn't be able to do anything until
the next day. When she opened her eyes there was this incredibly
good-looking guy standing in front of her, holding his hand out, as an
offering for a dance. It would be rude to decline, so Luna went off with him
onto the dance floor. Maybe Usagi would recognize her instead. Probably not.
She'd probably be drooling over all of the guys. Luna zoned out into her
partner's eyes and danced the night away.
The next thing Luna knew they had stopped dancing and her partner was saying
something about having to leave. She nodded. He gave her a kiss and left.
Luna was happy. She hadn't had this much fun in a long while. She decided to
leave before the ball ended so not to get caught in the rush. She didn't
even notice the two couples still dancing and everyone watching them. She
went out into the palace courtyard and dashed behind a bush when no one was
looking. She sat down and turned back into a cat. Being careful to stay in
the shadows Luna made her way around the palace to the royal gardens. She
found a nice tree and laid down to sleep the night away there.
The next morning Luna woke up nice and early refreshed enough to concentrate
on the situation. She could have a catnap later. She decided to take a tour
of the palace. Most of the people would be sleeping because of how late last
night's party went on for. Luna crawled out from under the leaves she had
slept under and stretched. She transformed back into a human. She was still
wearing the dress she had worn the night before at the ball. She took her
regular clothes out of her subspace pocket and changed in the early sun. The
white dress was put in the subspace pocket along with the tiara she had been
wearing. If there was anyone up and about they wouldn't question her being
there because of her crescent moon.
She wandered around in the garden for a while, going around in circles until
she reached the gates leading out of the gardens. She walked down the long,
beautifully crafted walls, her footsteps on the clean and polished floors.
Every so often a servant hurried past her, having some special job or daily
chore to attend to. When people began to get up she was finishing up her
simple tours. She made her way to her past selves' quarters. All through
yesterday and today her memories had and were still being restored. She
briefly remembered meeting her future self one day. Maybe this was it, only
this time she was the future version.
When she had lived in the Moon Palace she had had a small room, a perfect
size for a cat which branched off from the princess's room. Some nights she
slept alone and some nights on Princess Serenity's bed. Luna slipped into
her old room, and she saw her past self snoozing on a pillow. She was still
working on how she was going to introduce herself, but her memories of the
event were coming back. She covered her mouth and smiled when she remembered
how she had been woken up on that day, so long ago.
She went into the princess' room; the door had been left open. The princess
was sleeping soundly, probably being awake through the whole ball and much
afterwards. Luna filled a cup with cold water and returned to Luna's room.
She was about to reach out and touch Luna when a time lesson taught by
Setsuna for Usagi came to mind. Something about the horizon of time, and if
something after it came in contact with something before it the results
would be disastrous. The horizon of time was about 500 years after the
Silver Millennium she recalled. Luna pulled her hand back and grabbed a
towel to put around it. She reached out and rubbed the cat's belly. She
began to purr in her sleep. Luna had made sure the door was closed before
she did this. Just before the cat woke up, Luna poured the cold water all
over her and jumped back. Luna, the cat jumped up and screamed and slashed
all around herself. When she finally recovered her composure she noticed
Luna the human, sitting there laughing her head off. "Oh Luna, it was so
funny. You should have seen it."
The wet Luna growled. "And who are you? And what are you doing in my room! I
will have you punished, whoever you are. Intrusion on royalty is a capital
offense!" She shook her fur and water sprayed everywhere. She dived under a
towel and dried herself off.
"Come on Luna, you know me."
Luna, the cat looked up at the woman. Their eyes met and she saw the
familiar crescent moon, only on someone she had never met before. "W-who are
you?" Luna, from the future turned back into a cat. "How can this be? You
look just like me. What is your evil mission? Are you some kind of
shapeshifter?"
"No Luna, I'm you. Only from about 1000 years in the future. Sailor Pluto
sent me back after some people."
"If you're me, then what am I thinking about?"
"Either going back to sleep for a catnap before you have to do something or
the safety of the princess."
"But, how?"
"Like I told you, I'm from the future. This is the second time I've been in
this conversation."
"Then why are you here?"
"The sailor senshi in the future, lost an important battle. Sailor Pluto
sent the future reincarnation of Princess Serenity into this time, and her
protector Tuxedo Kamen followed. I followed them. Are there any puzzling
people who have arrived in the last few days."
The Luna of the past seemed to trust her now. "Yes, now that I think about
it, quite a few days ago, and quite suddenly Princess Gaia arrived from
Earth. I didn't even know she existed. The Queen seemed to accept her
quickly so I didn't give it a second thought. Is this your princess? She
doesn't look anything like my princess."
"That's because she is using the disguise pen to use an advanced disguise on
herself. I believe that's also how she became Sailor Earth. She used the
pen to change her fuku."
"You mean the disguise pen is actually used in the future? That's good to hear.
But what's this about the future princess becoming a sailor senshi."
"If Princess Serenity uses the ginzuishou, she will become the senshi of the
moon, Sailor Moon. In the future, danger threatens her so it was necessary
for that transformation to occur. But in this time she would rouse a bunch
of trouble if she fought as Sailor Moon. And the only way that the senshi
can beat the youma is with Sailor Moon's powers. I believe something came
after us through the portal we came here in."
"Well that's certainly a good story. I believe you, but we better go see the
queen. You better do that human trick of yours. People will be wondering
about two cats that look the same." The Luna of the future nodded and
changed back into a human.
"You can do that too. You just need some time. And the help of a certain
white cat." Luna, the cat, followed Luna the human down the halls of the
Moon Palace. Luna, the human, paused at Queen Serenity's door.
"Go right in. The Queen is always up bright and early. You should know
that."
"I know, I know. It's just I haven't been here in such a long time." The two
Lunas went into Queen Serenity room.
A couple hours later they were finished explaining the situation to her.
Queen Serenity wasn't that surprised to see a second Luna after meeting
Usagi. Luna was welcomed to enjoy her stay until Sailor Pluto came for her.
Although Luna wasn't too happy to find that Usagi had lied to the
queen.-that she was a future descendant rather that reincarnation she
understood and told the Queen no different. When Luna the cat tried to say
something Luna the human gave her a little kick. Queen Serenity gave
directions to Usagi's room. Then Queen Serenity and the Luna of the past
went off to attend to their daily duties. When Luna reached Usagi's room it
was empty. She looked out the window to see the sailor senshi fighting some
youma. She figured Usagi was somewhere down there. Luna changed back into a
cat. She took this chance to have her catnap and fell asleep on Usagi's bed.
She was surprised but happy when Usagi showed up with Mamoru. Now they were
all together and just had to wait now. She could get Mamoru's story later.
The next morning Usagi was up early and told Luna that she wanted to go out
for an early morning workout.
Usagi changed into some clothes suitable for exercising and slipped out of her room with Luna. It
was quiet and when she passed through recently cleaned spots in the hall
that were still wet her shoes squeaked. The palace guards at the gate
must have thought that since she was already in the palace there was no
threat to letting her out. Once in the city she jogged through the alleys
and shadows so not to draw attention. In a short time she reached the
outskirts of the city and the beginning of the woods. Usagi looked around
but saw no one and transformed into Sailor Earth. She began to run through
the forest. Luna could barely keep up. Just before Sailor Earth went out of
range she jumped and grabbed on to her back bow in her teeth and she held on
for dear life. After what seemed like a very short time to Usagi she stopped
running and Luna slammed into her back. She was in a clearing, looking up
into the sky at Earth. Luna was about to yell at Sailor Earth for running so
fast when Sailor Earth picked up Luna and gave her a hug. "Oh, isn't it
beautiful Luna? Everything is so beautiful here but I wonder what happened
to our friends."
"Don't worry Usagi; remember, you have even seen your future self so you
know it will turn out all right."
"I know, I know. It's just . . ." Suddenly Luna and Sailor Earth were
blasted apart. Luna took most of the blast. Four youma descended into the
clearing. One of them shot a wave of fire at Sailor Earth which she jumped
over. "Sorry guys, you picked the wrong girl to mess today." She took off
her tiara and threw it at the youma, which stunned them. "MOON SPIRAL HEART
ATTACK!" Sailor Earth dusted three of the youma. She faced the remaining
youma.
"Sailor Earth, watch out behind!" Sailor Earth heard Luna's cry and turned
around to face four more youma. Suddenly there was a piercing pain in her
back and she fell forwards. The youma that was left behind her had stuck a
knife into her back. It flooded her body with dark energy and she screamed.
From the end of the knife shot ropes of energy that surrounded her. An end
shot out to one of the youma. Luna ran at the youma holding the rope with
claws flailing but was blasted back. She was blasted again and sent crashing
back into a tree. They dragged Sailor Earth across the ground a little ways
and then took off into the air.
Luna just laid there on the ground and watched. Tuxedo Kamen came running and
knelt down beside her. "I felt Usagi was in trouble. What happened? Are you
alright Luna? Where is Usagi?"
"We were . . ambushed by a group of youma. I'll be alright but they took
Usagi to the east. They flew off with her."
Tuxedo Kamen stood up. "You're sure you're okay?"
"Yes. Now go save Usagi. I'll catch up later."
Tuxedo Kamen took a look at the sky and then at Luna. "Alright." He ran off.
"Good luck. . . ."
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Episode 15 'Luna's Tale'
Luna as a cat saw a full array of colours up ahead she saw Sailor Moon and
Tuxedo Kamen but they floated away in opposite directions.
She was alone.
She saw colours.
Then black.
Luna woke up cold and wet. When she opened her eyes she found herself up in
a tree. She was in a forest and she was lying on a tree branch. "Usagi!" she
called out. "Mamoru! Anyone!" There was no response. She was alone. She
decided to go find some some sign of civilization. She looked around below
and jumped down on to a pile of leaves. But the pile of leaves was actually
a trap and she fell right through it. She just missed a very sharp stick. It
wasn't very deep so it was obviously made by a child. Luna easily hopped
out. She started to run. There weren't any more traps so she made good time.
Suddenly she came around a corner and stopped just before she went into the
mouth of a giant snake. The snake chomped and then lunged forward. Luna had
no chance and was sucked into the snake. Luna struggled and screamed but it
didn't do her any good. "Help! Help me I've been eaten!"
She could feel the snake's body crushing her and the acids burning her skin.
Then she came up with the an idea and did the only thing she could do. Luna
started to glow. She turned into a pile of yellow goo and passed right
through the body of the snake. Then she started to grow. The snake turned
around to see what happened to its meal. Luna grew into her human form.
Fortunately the snake was incredibly scared of humans because they hunted
it. It got out of there as fast as Usagi when she's hungry and has to get
some food. When Luna opened her eyes it was gone.
When she looked around, in one direction she saw lots of light. More light
than the others. She walked in that direction. In a few minutes she was
looking out over a field. She took a step and then fell to her knees holding
her head. She screamed. A flood of memories flowed through her find. It was
too much for her and she lost consciousness, and then woke back up. She kept
on falling unconscious and regaining it. In a minute it stopped. She just
laid there on the ground, looking up towards the sun. It was the middle of
the day and the sky was dark. It was then she realized that she wasn't on
Earth. She had regained all of her memories of the Silver Millennium. But
why? Is this where she was now? She saw a village across the field and
decided to find some answers there. She started to run and tripped. She was
still getting used to moving around on two feet. She decided to walk the
rest of the way.
It wasn't a very big village. It had a few stores, and a few houses. Most of
the people probably lived out in the country. Signs and names of stores
weren't even in Japanese, but she still recognized them. She found what she
recognized to be a restaurant and realized she was starving, but didn't have
any money. She sighed and put her hands into pockets in her dress. She
brought her hands back up and found she had some weird looking coins in her
pockets. She figured they might be money and went into the restaurant.
The restaurant just had some seats at a bar and some tables. She took a seat
and sat down at a table. A waiter came and gave her a menu. She took a look
at the menu but she didn't recognize any of the names of the dishes. "What
would you like to order Miss?" The waiter had come back.
"I don't know. I don't know what any of these are. Could you just bring me
something that is tasty and suitable for a lunch?" She handed him the menu.
"Certainly. You're not from around here are you?"
"No, I'm not. Tell me, have any irregular people been showing up? I'm
looking for someone."
"Not that I know of. Is there anything else?"
"Yes. I've been out of it lately. Could you tell me where I am?"
"You're in Volkia."
"Yes, where?"
"In the Moon Kingdom."
Luna jumped in her seat. The Moon! "And what is the year?"
"It is the fifth revolution of the Silver Millennium. Why do you ask?"
"Oh no specific reason. Like I said, I've been out of it for a while."
"You must be of royalty."
"What do you mean?"
"You have the symbol on your forehead. How else?" The young man walked off
to get Luna's meal.
Luna reached up and touched her forehead. The crescent moon! Only those of
royalty who lived in the Moon Palace were supposed to have it. She grabbed
the handkerchief off of the table and tied it over her hair, covering the
symbol on her forehead. She would have to get something to replace it later.
The man came back with some hot soup and buns with some kind of pasty
looking stuff on them. "Here you are. Don't worry I won't tell anyone."
Luna started in on the meal. It was quite good but could have been a little
spicier. With how hungry she was though, it didn't really make a difference.
When the man came back she was done and he took her dishes. "That will be
two sorne." Luna took out the coins that she had found in her pocket and
held them out to him.
"Is there enough here?"
The man took a couple of coins and put a couple back into her hand. "There
you are. Thank you for eating here. Please come again." He disappeared into
a back room and Luna left the restaurant. She walked aimlessly down the
street until she found what she was looking for. A jewelry store. When she
went in she was shocked. The jewelry they had in the Silver Millennium was
amazing. For a while Luna just walked through the store looking at all the
different works they had. After she had seen everything, she chose a simple
tiara that came down on her forehead and covered up the crescent moon. When
she went to buy it she handed the cashier a coin that looked like it was
worth a lot. Fortunately it was and she got a few coins back. She went back
outside and tried to find out where exactly in the Moon Kingdom she was, and
how to get to the palace. At the other side of the village was a transport
that you could ride to anywhere in the Moon Kingdom. After spending a bunch
of time trying to figure out how much of her coins it would cost, and with a
frustrated clerk, she was on the transport, headed towards the Moon Palace.
On the train there was a group of young women gossiping about current
events. "So what are you going to wear to the annual masked ball? Do you
have a date?" one girl asked another.
"No. I'm going alone, but I'm sure some cute guy will ask me to dance. I
heard Prince Endymion of Earth is going to be there. I wonder what he looks
like."
"That's probably just a rumor," a third girl said.
"I heard that another sailor senshi has showed up and has been helping the
others when they run into trouble. There are some kind of enemies that have
just shown up and continuously attack the palace. I was prying information
out of the palace guard and he said that they were youma, whatever that is."
This new person really got Luna's attention. She had regained her memories
of the Silver Millennium and she didn't remember any attacks on the Moon
Palace before Metallia arrived. Something must have followed them through the
time portal.
"Do you know where the new senshi was from?"
"He said that the senshi called herself Sailor Earth. Isn't that cool, now
we have a senshi of the Earth."
"But Earth doesn't have and can't have a female senshi!" Luna exclaimed
suddenly. The other women turned to her.
"Why not?" One of the insisted.
Luna blushed for eavesdropping. "Because the senshi of the Earth is a male.
It's always been like that and always will be. The moon represents the
female section of Earth with Princess Serenity."
The girl pouted and turned away from Luna. She must have been the leader,
one of the most popular of the group because all of the others followed her
lead. Usagi must be up to something. It made sense, because Usagi wouldn't
have been able to become Sailor Moon without bringing herself into trouble.
But if she took a disguise -it sounded like she had- she could help the
senshi.
Mamoru must not be with her otherwise those girls would have mentioned him
first. Luna figured that all three of them must have been split up. If they were at the Moon
Palace or near it they would attend the masked ball. She might be able to
grab them during it. For the rest of the trip Luna sat there and stared out
the window. It had been such a long time since she had been here. It was
just as she remembered.
In a short time she arrived in the main city. There were people arriving
from everywhere to attend the ball. In the rush of people she slipped into a
dress shop. It was crowded, but not as much as the streets. It was mostly
filled with girls looking and trying on the marvelous looking dresses that
they could never possibly afford. Luna found a white one with blue trim that
suited her. She paid with the coins. It seemed she had enough money for
whatever she would need. It was a fairly cheap dress. Waiting for evening to
come she stalled and walked around the city, remembering all of the good
times she had. It seemed that she hadn't actually just recovered all of her
memories, but a process had been started. She kept on remembering things
gradually. Since becoming a cat had granted her immortality near the
beginning of the Silver Millennium, she had quite a lot to remember.
She bought dinner at a fine looking restaurant. By the time she got out she
had quite an understanding of how the lunarian currency worked from all the
times she had been using it. After she had finished she slipped into the
ladies' room and changed into her new dress. When she got outside it was
starting to get dark. But there was no way she could have gotten lost
because there was a stream of people leading towards the palace. When she
reached the ballroom it was too crowded to find anyone. All of the men were
wearing masks. There was no way she was going to find Mamoru in all these
people with different masks. Maybe she could recognize Usagi. But she would
have some kind of disguise on. She might look completely different. What the
disguise pen could do had endless possibilities.
She just made her way to the side and leaned against a wall. She tried to
look through the crowd to see all of the different people but it was of no
use. She should have gotten there early. Everyone was starting to pair off.
Luna closed her eyes and sighed. She wouldn't be able to do anything until
the next day. When she opened her eyes there was this incredibly
good-looking guy standing in front of her, holding his hand out, as an
offering for a dance. It would be rude to decline, so Luna went off with him
onto the dance floor. Maybe Usagi would recognize her instead. Probably not.
She'd probably be drooling over all of the guys. Luna zoned out into her
partner's eyes and danced the night away.
The next thing Luna knew they had stopped dancing and her partner was saying
something about having to leave. She nodded. He gave her a kiss and left.
Luna was happy. She hadn't had this much fun in a long while. She decided to
leave before the ball ended so not to get caught in the rush. She didn't
even notice the two couples still dancing and everyone watching them. She
went out into the palace courtyard and dashed behind a bush when no one was
looking. She sat down and turned back into a cat. Being careful to stay in
the shadows Luna made her way around the palace to the royal gardens. She
found a nice tree and laid down to sleep the night away there.
The next morning Luna woke up nice and early refreshed enough to concentrate
on the situation. She could have a catnap later. She decided to take a tour
of the palace. Most of the people would be sleeping because of how late last
night's party went on for. Luna crawled out from under the leaves she had
slept under and stretched. She transformed back into a human. She was still
wearing the dress she had worn the night before at the ball. She took her
regular clothes out of her subspace pocket and changed in the early sun. The
white dress was put in the subspace pocket along with the tiara she had been
wearing. If there was anyone up and about they wouldn't question her being
there because of her crescent moon.
She wandered around in the garden for a while, going around in circles until
she reached the gates leading out of the gardens. She walked down the long,
beautifully crafted walls, her footsteps on the clean and polished floors.
Every so often a servant hurried past her, having some special job or daily
chore to attend to. When people began to get up she was finishing up her
simple tours. She made her way to her past selves' quarters. All through
yesterday and today her memories had and were still being restored. She
briefly remembered meeting her future self one day. Maybe this was it, only
this time she was the future version.
When she had lived in the Moon Palace she had had a small room, a perfect
size for a cat which branched off from the princess's room. Some nights she
slept alone and some nights on Princess Serenity's bed. Luna slipped into
her old room, and she saw her past self snoozing on a pillow. She was still
working on how she was going to introduce herself, but her memories of the
event were coming back. She covered her mouth and smiled when she remembered
how she had been woken up on that day, so long ago.
She went into the princess' room; the door had been left open. The princess
was sleeping soundly, probably being awake through the whole ball and much
afterwards. Luna filled a cup with cold water and returned to Luna's room.
She was about to reach out and touch Luna when a time lesson taught by
Setsuna for Usagi came to mind. Something about the horizon of time, and if
something after it came in contact with something before it the results
would be disastrous. The horizon of time was about 500 years after the
Silver Millennium she recalled. Luna pulled her hand back and grabbed a
towel to put around it. She reached out and rubbed the cat's belly. She
began to purr in her sleep. Luna had made sure the door was closed before
she did this. Just before the cat woke up, Luna poured the cold water all
over her and jumped back. Luna, the cat jumped up and screamed and slashed
all around herself. When she finally recovered her composure she noticed
Luna the human, sitting there laughing her head off. "Oh Luna, it was so
funny. You should have seen it."
The wet Luna growled. "And who are you? And what are you doing in my room! I
will have you punished, whoever you are. Intrusion on royalty is a capital
offense!" She shook her fur and water sprayed everywhere. She dived under a
towel and dried herself off.
"Come on Luna, you know me."
Luna, the cat looked up at the woman. Their eyes met and she saw the
familiar crescent moon, only on someone she had never met before. "W-who are
you?" Luna, from the future turned back into a cat. "How can this be? You
look just like me. What is your evil mission? Are you some kind of
shapeshifter?"
"No Luna, I'm you. Only from about 1000 years in the future. Sailor Pluto
sent me back after some people."
"If you're me, then what am I thinking about?"
"Either going back to sleep for a catnap before you have to do something or
the safety of the princess."
"But, how?"
"Like I told you, I'm from the future. This is the second time I've been in
this conversation."
"Then why are you here?"
"The sailor senshi in the future, lost an important battle. Sailor Pluto
sent the future reincarnation of Princess Serenity into this time, and her
protector Tuxedo Kamen followed. I followed them. Are there any puzzling
people who have arrived in the last few days."
The Luna of the past seemed to trust her now. "Yes, now that I think about
it, quite a few days ago, and quite suddenly Princess Gaia arrived from
Earth. I didn't even know she existed. The Queen seemed to accept her
quickly so I didn't give it a second thought. Is this your princess? She
doesn't look anything like my princess."
"That's because she is using the disguise pen to use an advanced disguise on
herself. I believe that's also how she became Sailor Earth. She used the
pen to change her fuku."
"You mean the disguise pen is actually used in the future? That's good to hear.
But what's this about the future princess becoming a sailor senshi."
"If Princess Serenity uses the ginzuishou, she will become the senshi of the
moon, Sailor Moon. In the future, danger threatens her so it was necessary
for that transformation to occur. But in this time she would rouse a bunch
of trouble if she fought as Sailor Moon. And the only way that the senshi
can beat the youma is with Sailor Moon's powers. I believe something came
after us through the portal we came here in."
"Well that's certainly a good story. I believe you, but we better go see the
queen. You better do that human trick of yours. People will be wondering
about two cats that look the same." The Luna of the future nodded and
changed back into a human.
"You can do that too. You just need some time. And the help of a certain
white cat." Luna, the cat, followed Luna the human down the halls of the
Moon Palace. Luna, the human, paused at Queen Serenity's door.
"Go right in. The Queen is always up bright and early. You should know
that."
"I know, I know. It's just I haven't been here in such a long time." The two
Lunas went into Queen Serenity room.
A couple hours later they were finished explaining the situation to her.
Queen Serenity wasn't that surprised to see a second Luna after meeting
Usagi. Luna was welcomed to enjoy her stay until Sailor Pluto came for her.
Although Luna wasn't too happy to find that Usagi had lied to the
queen.-that she was a future descendant rather that reincarnation she
understood and told the Queen no different. When Luna the cat tried to say
something Luna the human gave her a little kick. Queen Serenity gave
directions to Usagi's room. Then Queen Serenity and the Luna of the past
went off to attend to their daily duties. When Luna reached Usagi's room it
was empty. She looked out the window to see the sailor senshi fighting some
youma. She figured Usagi was somewhere down there. Luna changed back into a
cat. She took this chance to have her catnap and fell asleep on Usagi's bed.
She was surprised but happy when Usagi showed up with Mamoru. Now they were
all together and just had to wait now. She could get Mamoru's story later.
The next morning Usagi was up early and told Luna that she wanted to go out
for an early morning workout.
Usagi changed into some clothes suitable for exercising and slipped out of her room with Luna. It
was quiet and when she passed through recently cleaned spots in the hall
that were still wet her shoes squeaked. The palace guards at the gate
must have thought that since she was already in the palace there was no
threat to letting her out. Once in the city she jogged through the alleys
and shadows so not to draw attention. In a short time she reached the
outskirts of the city and the beginning of the woods. Usagi looked around
but saw no one and transformed into Sailor Earth. She began to run through
the forest. Luna could barely keep up. Just before Sailor Earth went out of
range she jumped and grabbed on to her back bow in her teeth and she held on
for dear life. After what seemed like a very short time to Usagi she stopped
running and Luna slammed into her back. She was in a clearing, looking up
into the sky at Earth. Luna was about to yell at Sailor Earth for running so
fast when Sailor Earth picked up Luna and gave her a hug. "Oh, isn't it
beautiful Luna? Everything is so beautiful here but I wonder what happened
to our friends."
"Don't worry Usagi; remember, you have even seen your future self so you
know it will turn out all right."
"I know, I know. It's just . . ." Suddenly Luna and Sailor Earth were
blasted apart. Luna took most of the blast. Four youma descended into the
clearing. One of them shot a wave of fire at Sailor Earth which she jumped
over. "Sorry guys, you picked the wrong girl to mess today." She took off
her tiara and threw it at the youma, which stunned them. "MOON SPIRAL HEART
ATTACK!" Sailor Earth dusted three of the youma. She faced the remaining
youma.
"Sailor Earth, watch out behind!" Sailor Earth heard Luna's cry and turned
around to face four more youma. Suddenly there was a piercing pain in her
back and she fell forwards. The youma that was left behind her had stuck a
knife into her back. It flooded her body with dark energy and she screamed.
From the end of the knife shot ropes of energy that surrounded her. An end
shot out to one of the youma. Luna ran at the youma holding the rope with
claws flailing but was blasted back. She was blasted again and sent crashing
back into a tree. They dragged Sailor Earth across the ground a little ways
and then took off into the air.
Luna just laid there on the ground and watched. Tuxedo Kamen came running and
knelt down beside her. "I felt Usagi was in trouble. What happened? Are you
alright Luna? Where is Usagi?"
"We were . . ambushed by a group of youma. I'll be alright but they took
Usagi to the east. They flew off with her."
Tuxedo Kamen stood up. "You're sure you're okay?"
"Yes. Now go save Usagi. I'll catch up later."
Tuxedo Kamen took a look at the sky and then at Luna. "Alright." He ran off.
"Good luck. . . ."
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