~*~Powers Revealed~*~

~*~Chapter Five~*~

Elios stepped forward as the King and Queen took a few steps back from him and Usagi. Usagi felt new and untapped power brimming from within her. She was anxious to use it and terrified to at the same time. Though all her doubts and fears diminished as she looked into Elios's warm, loving golden eyes. He moved in a little closer to her and placed his hand over the Cresant Moon Brooch, closing his eyes, concentrating his power. She stayed perfectly still, her eyes fixed on him. A thin beam of whte light passed from his hand to the brooch. Both the golden horn in his head and the red jewel on his forehead began to fade till they disappeared all together. The light faded as well and he removed his hand as the brooch began to glow again. It looked as if it would change form again but it didn't, the only thing that had changed was that the Silver Imperium Crystal in the center was now a beautifuly irridescent pink color. Usagi smiled, then closed her eyes once more and as if by instinct she held the brooch a little more outward from her body and both the brooch and the moon symbol on her forehead began to glow. The moon symbol disappeared from her head and the brooch was changing its form again. It became smaller in form, though the crystal was the same size, and a silver chain was now attatched to both points of the Cresant Moon Pendant. She put it around her neck. She then ran into the loving arms of her mother and father and everyone in the crowd got on bended knee to their princess. Both Usagi and Queen Serenity were crying in happieness. It was over, the ceremony was finished and Usagi now knew, she was ready.

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The party went on for a few more hours. Usagi and Elios found a quiet corner in which to talk. She told him of the kind of life he could expect to have in Crystal Tokyo and how they would all try to make him feel completely welcome. He told her how things had been in his home.

"You must miss being there terribly." She knew all too well what it was like to leave a place you had grown attatched to. She missed being in the past with all her friends constantly, though she always remembered she had family and friends here who loved her dearly, simply knowing that lessened her yearning for the past.

"I do, its the only home I've ever known. But I'm not afraid of change Usagi. I know I'll have a good life here, after you annihalate this new treat of course."

She nodded, not at all sure she could accoplish that at all though that was the furthest thing from her mind at the moment. "What do you plan to do once you're settled in here Elios?"

He smiled again, that boyish smile of his that made her simply melt. "I want to be an artist. Back in my home, Elysion, I painted. I believe I'd like to do that here as well." He looked to her. "Would you like to see some of my paintings Usako?"

She nodded happily, though she tried to hide her obvious entusiasm. He stood, took her hand and led her to a room in the palace which Luna had reserved for him once she knew he was there. She was suprised to see that all his belongings were already there, many unopened boxes, a few suitcases. She figured it was probably one of the last things he did while he still had his powers. She stood near the doorway while he went to get the paintings. When he came back he was holding three wrapped paintings. He unwrapped the first to reveal a beautiful painting which appeared to be the Crystal forest, in which he and a younger version of herself stood near the lake. He unwrapped the second in which a serene moonlit feild was depicted with Neo Queen Serenity in the background, the Silver Imperium Crystal shining stunningly in her open hands. He unwrapped the third now in which the cresant moon could be seen in the background of a dark blue starlit sky, twords the front were Elios and her, looking remarkably as they were now, in a loving embrace, looking as if they were about to kiss.

She was speechless for a few moments. She then managed to say, "Oh Elios, they're gorgeous, you have an immense talent."

He smiled a bit as he looked to the painting of him and her. "They're good, I suppose." he looked to her. "But it still doesn't come close to the kind of beauty I see in you Usagi." he placed a gentle hand on her cheek, looking into her dark red eyes.

Her cheeks turned a rose red color and her heart was racing as she stared into his golden yellow eyes. He leaned in closer, she knew he was going to kiss her. She closed her eyes as his head lowered. Their lips touched in the most gentle kiss, she thought she might cry. Her arms linked around his neck as his wrapped around her waist, pulling her closer to him. The sweet embrace lasted a few moments, then Elios pulled away only slightly to smile down at her. Her eyes opened and she felt, for the first time that they were this close, that his heart was beating as fast as hers was. He smiled that gorgeous boyish smile, she smiled back sweetly. She took her arms from his neck, as he took his from her waist, and took a small step back to try and achieve some kind of coherant thought.

"Elios....that kiss.....It wasn't just one between friends, was it?" she prayed it wasn't, he simply had to have felt the same way she did.

He closed the gap between them and took her hands in his. "No Usako, it wasn't. I'm sure you must know that what I feel for you goes far beyond friendship. I never wanted you to forget you were always with me, and it was my secret promise to you in your dreams that I would come back to you." he gently tilted her head upward so their eyes met. "I have you now Usako, and I promise you nothing will ever seperate us again."

She smiled, even through the tears which were welling up in her eyes. He hugged her and she hugged back, that simple embrace saying more than mere words ever could. They both pulled away slowly. He kissed her forehead and said softly, "Its been a long day sweet one, you need your rest."

She nodded and after another sweet kiss she left his room and went to hers which was further down the same hall. Once there she brused her teeth, changed into a night dress, and brused her hair, all with a smile on her face. Elios was here and Elios was staying, those were the only thoughts which seemed to be in her head. She sat on her bed, took off the Silver Cresant Moon Pendant, and examined it criticaly for the first time. It was very beautiful, she could only imagine the kind of power it had, thanks to Elios. She was anxious to use it now, to see what it could really do, but she knew that time would come. She put it back on her neck, remembering the training session schedualed for the first thing in the morning. She lay down and yawned, then fell groggily into a sweet sleep full of dreams of only Elios.

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It was a dark greyish void of nothingness. The sound of wind could be heard in the desolate place. Only a tiny flicker of light could be seen, it was a small shining orb, about the size of a baseball, on it flashed images of happieness, families, love. In front of the orb stood a child which looked about thirteen or so in age, clad in all black cloathing. As he stared into the orb a look of sheer disgust came to his face. He waved his hand and the orb was gone. He turned and two figures appeared out of nowhere, kneeling in front of him. One was a man who appreared to be in his late teens with long black hair in long robes of midnight black, and the other was a girl looked remarkably like the man who stood beside her exept for the fact that she wore all white and had hair as white as snow. The childs glance went from the man to the girl. "I wish to start as soon as possible, I trust you two know what to do."

They both stood and the man in black spoke. "Of course Lord Cosmosis, we'll get started on it right away, it should be quite fun to terrorize this planet." he smiled a deviously omious smile, but if faded quickly as he saw Cosmosis was not amused in the least.

"Do not underestimate this force Azure. That woman, the Ruler of Crystal Tokyo, she has the crystal that banished me into a black hole all those centuries ago." his features became completely bitter as he stared straight foward.

The girl stepped forward now, her voice sounding reasuring. "We'll take great care my lord but honestly no mere crystal can rival your power."

Cosmosis looked to her and smiled evily. "You're right Tarda. Still, don't get in over you're heads and most importantly don't fail me and expect to return without consequesnces." With no further word he walked off and vanished into the utter darkness.

Tarda looked to Azure and he smiled. "So sis, whos going first, me or you?"

"I'll go first, I wanna see just what earths forces have to give." she giggled playfully.

"Yeah, sure, you can go first, this way if you skrew up I can pick up the peices." he laughed.

Tarda glared at him and lightly punched his arm. "I can't believe you actually said that! I won't skrew up!" she crossed her arms and turned her back to him.

He smiled and hugged her from behind. "Calm down, I was just messing with you, you'll do fine, I know that."

She smiled and turned to face him. "Alright, I'm outa here." she giggled playfully and vanished.

"Have fun."

"You know I will." her voice came from no where then vanished as well with the sound of passing wind.

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Usagi woke to the sound of a small bell. It was Diana walking into Usagi's room, the bell necklace she always wore dinging lightly on her neck. Usagi sat up in her bed to see Diana standing at the foot of her bed smiling. "Good, you're awake, I was just about to wake you."

Usagi rubbed her eyes a bit and said groggily, "What time is it?"

Diana walked across the room to Usagi's large closet. "Its 6:45 in the morning , Ami-Chan is already here with Elios, in the training room. Rei-Sama and Mako-Chan are on their way. Minako called and told my mother she'll be here as soon as possible but with the way that work-aholic does things we can count on her being at least fifteen minutes late. King Endymion is waking your mother as we speak. My mothers overseeing breakfast." she stoped to catch her breath and to pick out clothes for Usagi to wear. She walked back to the bed and placed a pair of black denim jeans at the foot of it along with a pair of socks, a pink long-sleeve shirt and a matching black denim jacket. "My father went to pick up Hotaru at the airport." she looked at her watch. "They should be here in a little while, maybe in time for breakfast."

Usagi's eyes lit up at the last bit of information. "Hotaru's coming? I thought she couldn't make it."

Usagi had been saddened a few days ago when she learned that Michiru, Haruka and Hotaru wouldn't be there for the ceremony, though she understood knowing that Hotaru was just starting out in a collage in Paris and both Michi and Ruka-Chan both had the busiest lives there as well.

Diana nodded with a smile. "She felt really bad about not being here for the ceremony, and your birthday, she caught a flight out of Europe last night." She looked to her watch again. "Well I'll leave you to get ready. Everyone wants to get an early start on this, personally I can't wait to see what your new powers can do."

Usagi nodded. "Alright, I'll be down as soon as I'm ready."

Diana nodded as well then left the room. Usagi pushed the covers off and stretched as she got out of bed. She went into her bathroom and came out within the short span of ten minutes, washed up, refreshed and ready to start the day. She changed quickly and brushed her hair a bit before getting dressed, she checked the bedside clock which now read 7:25. She looked at the Silver Cresant Moon Pendant again, running her index finger slowly over the crystal rose which entwined around the pendant. She remembered last night when she'd felt new power within her as her mother transfered the power of the crystal into her, then how she'd felt that same power grow immensely as Elios gave the crystal all his powers. She let out a soft sigh, she was looking foward to this mornings training session, but she was also nervous about using the new crystal and her new powers. She quickly checked her reflection in the mirror then exited her room and walked down the long hall and staircase to the dining room. Once again everyone, exept Minako and Artemis, was seated and talking amongst themselves, seemingly waiting for her. And as she walked to her place at her mothers side her eyes were fixed on the newest addition to the royal court, Elios. She took her seat and was pulled into instant conversation with Diana and Rei. She answered their questions about the way the new crystal was making her feel with a smile. Then suddenly the footsteps were heard and in the doorway to the dining room there stood a smiling Atremis and a very dignified looking Hotaru. Usagi rose from her chair and ran to hug her dear friend.

"Hotaru! God, I've missed you so much!" she said happily as she hugged the girl lovingly.

"I've missed you too Chibi-Usa, it gets so lonely over there without you." Hotaru said as she returned Usagi's hug.

Just then almost everyone began to giggle as the girls came out of the hug.

"Whats so funny?" Hotaru asked with a confused look to her face.

Usagi giggled. "Well you called me Chibi-Usa, at breakfast yesterday everyone decided to call me Usagi from now on."

Hotaru smiled and giggled a bit. "Oh I see, thats quite an adjustment but I guess I'll get used to it....Usagi." she paused and giggled. Once contained again she looked to the Queen and bowed her head. "Haruka and Michiru send their best wishes and are truely sorry they could not make it."

Serenity nodded. "Its quite alright, we'll have to catch them when they actually have some time off, we all miss them very much."

Hotaru giggled. "Good luck your majesty, they dont even know the meaning of the words 'time off', they are true work-aholics."

Minako was then seen at the door as she tried to sneak into her chair without being noticed.

"Speaking of work-aholics." Rei said as she looked to Minako.

Minako sat down and giggled weakly. "Sorry guys."

Makoto rolled her eyes as Rei spoke up. "I'm not going to get into this again but mark my words Minako-Chan, that Modeling Agency of yours is going to be the death of you one day."

"Duley noted." Minako said with a happy girlish smile.

Everyone giggled. Usagi led Hotaru to an empty seat then went to take hers over by her mother again. Artemis went to take his as well and kissed Luna on the cheek before sitting down. Breakfast arrived from the palace kitchen and everyone happily conversed while they ate, though Usagi's eyes seemed to be fixed on Elios most of the time. Which the queen noticed.

Once everyone was finished eating the entire group walked down the long halls to the elevator which was strictly authorized personel only, access only being granted to those of the Royal family and the Senshi. The large elevator went far, far down into the earth, miles and miles below the palace. It came to a stop and everyone followed Ami down another brightly lit long hallway as she explained the many modifications she'd made to the training simulation upon Elios's guidance. The group went into the observation room while Ami led Usagi and Makoto to the training simulation room then left them to join the others, taking her place at the main training console.

Usagi looked around the room, remembering it all to well. She'd spent most of the first two years of her return being trained by Makoto, Minako or Rei in this room. It had been a while since she had to be down here to train. She looked to Makoto and smiled.

"Whenever you two are ready." Ami said into the microphone.

Usagi looked to her mother through the thick clear glass to the observation room where she got just what she wanted, a reasuring smile. She looked back to Makoto and nodded.

"ETERNAL JUPITER POWER, MAKE UP!!!" Makoto yelled as she was surrounded by a bright green light, green leaves then engulfed her and when she could next be seen she was in her Eternal Senshi fuku, two large pink bows on her outfit, one on the front and one on the back, her white gloves reaching her elbows. She went into her final pose as the transformation was complete. Eternal Jupiter looked to Usagi and smiled.

"Right then, here goes nothing." she closed her eyes and the motions came to her as if by instinct. The chain attatched the Silver Moon Pendant disappeared and as she held it up over her head it grew till it became the size it was the night before, the Silver Moon Brooch. Then the words came to her as well, "NEO CELESTIAL MOON POWER, MAKE UP!!!!" she yelled as she was enveloped by shiny irridescent moon dust. She began to glow both white and pink before she appeared in her white, pink and yellow senshi fuku. She wore a silver tiara with a cresant moon in the center. White gloves appeared on her hands though they were not long, they only went a little past her wrists, pink at the top. Her pink boots were high laced and reached her knees, silver at the top. There appeared two beautiful silver clips in her pink hair. Two large bows appeared on her outfit, one in red on the front of her outfit and one white on the back of her skirt. The brooch then appeared in the center of the red bow on her chest. She then went into her final pose as the transformation was complete.

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Tarda looked down on the masses of people of downtown Crystal Tokyo from her place on the roof of a tall building. She was now in the casual dress of japan, being clothed in sneakers jeans and a pristine white t-shirt, her snow white hair swaying in the breeze. In one gracefull leap she was down in an alley, she then walked onto the sidewalk and went along with the flow of people around her. True this was a bit off course, she was to destroy them, not mingle with them, but the way civilization was programed now-a-days always fascinated her, to no end in fact. She saw people walking and checking their watches, some like time was running out and others like they had all the time in the world, the mere sight made her giggle. She branced off once more into an alley where no one would see and leaped up to the roof of another building. It was deffinitely time to get to work. She brought her hand up and looked at it as it began to glow, an extrememly serious look to her face. She then pointed her hand to the street down below, her hand glowing brighter and brighter, till suddenly and oh so silently a hot white light beam emitted from it and as the beam hit the street below it caused a huge explosion. She giggled and began to shoot white orbs at the fleeing humans, the orbs exploding on impact. It became a game to her, she silently kept score as she shot off more deadly orbs.

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Eternal Jupiter stared at Neo Sailor Moon in awe, as did everyone else in the observation room. Neo Moon looked down at her outfit with a suprised look on her face.

"Shall I start with the simulation, or are you guys going to go at it a few rounds first?" Ami asked

Eternal Jupiter smiled. "No simulation Ami, I wanna test her abilities myself."

Ami nodded and went to take a seat with the everyone else.

"Ami, do you think shes an equal match for Eternal Sailor Jupiter now?" Serenity asked as she looked at Neo Sailor Moon.

Ami nodded. "Maybe even more so, her power level numbers are almost off the charts. I did an initial reading right after she transformed, she could probably take Jupiter, Venus and Mars without breaking a sweat. The only problem is that she really doesn't have total control of her powers yet, she could annihalate nearly anything that could possibly come against her but she'd end up either drained or worse, its really a sixty fourty chance, though the only way for her to gain control is to test her powers."

A worried look crossed Serenitys face. She then felt a warm light squeeze on her hand and looked to King Endymion. "Trust in her my love, she'll be fine, shes our daughter." he showed her a reassuring smile.

She smiled back and nodded. "I trust in her, and the crystal." she then looked back to the training room.

Eternal Jupiter smiled and readied herself to attack. "You Ready Neo?"

Neo Sailor Moon went into a fighting stance, a serious look to her face, and nodded.

"Alright, I'll atart with something easy." she held her hands out in front of her, her palms facing Neo Sailor Moon. "ETERNAL THUNDER SPIKE....!!!!" blue thunder began to form a spike like shape from her palms. "STRIKE!!!!" the spike then went straight tword Neo Sailor Moon.

It came at a good speed, but Neo Sailor Moon began to glow a pastel pink color, she placed her arms in an X like formation over her chest and as she yelled "CELESTIAL SPHERE PROTECT!!!!" She was encased in a large pink glowing orb and as the thunder spike hit it was absorbed by the sphere.

"Whoa, pretty impressive, I thought you would have tried dodging but thats a hell of a lot better, none of us have defense moves like that. Ready for another?"

Neo Sailor Moon stared at her hands for a moment, she could barely believe she did that. She'd felt such power when she cast the orb, and she hadn't even been using a fraction of her real power. "Yes, I'm ready."

Eternal Sailor Jupiter had been about to yell an attack but Ami burst in. "Guys, we've got a problem!" Both Eternal Jupiter and Neo Sailor Moon turned to face Ami as the glass that separated them from the observation room served as a transparent kind of computer screen. Ami began to type furiously at the keys in front of her.

"Ami, whats happeneing?" asked Queen Serenity.

Eternal Jupiter and Neo Sailor Moon went out to the observation room and almost as soon as they did the large computer screen began to show footage of downtown Crystal Tokyo. People were running and screaming, then being blasted out of nowhere. Everyone seemed to gasp in unison.

"What the hells going on out there!?" said King Endymion with a shocked look to his face.

"Whos doing it Ami, can you tell?" questioned Queen Serenity, seemingly calm.

"No, whatever it is seems to be high up, in the air or on top of a building, there aren't any cameras down there that can get a decent visual."

Rei stood. "Alright lets go, you guys ready?"

Minako giggled "Its been a while, but yeah."

"ETERNAL MARS POWER, MAKE UP!!!!"

"ETERNAL VENUS POWER, MAKE UP!!!!"

"ETERNAL MERCURY POWER, MAKE UP!!!!"

"SATURN PLANET POWER, MAKE UP!!!!"

Once everyone had transformed Queen Serenity went to Neo Sailor Moon. "Be carefull sweety, please."

"I will mother, don't worry." she gave her mother a quick reassuring smile then went with the other scouts where they gathered to teleport.

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