Disclaimer: I don't own the anime or manga Sailor Moon and I am not affiliated with it in any way.

Author's Note: Again, thanks to the reviewers, for taking the time to review this story! I love hearing your opinions!

To Krysia: Thanks for your compliments! Just thought I'd try to clear things up. The first chapter was supposed to be in remembrance of Usagi, but in the first chapter, the reason that Queen Serenity comes back is to tell Naru that she is Princess Naru, Serenity's sister, of the Moon Kingdom, so that she can save Earth while Usagi is away. At that point in the story, Usagi is still away but Naru wants to tell Usagi about being Princess Naru when Usagi returns. I probably put the line in a bit of an inappropriate place, but that's all Naru is saying. I took all of Chapter 1 from the anime or manga Sailor Moon but I made up the part about Naru being princess. Anyway, sorry about that, I hope that this clears things up.

Chapter 8

Standing, looking at Usagi in the fire, was perhaps one of the largest shocks I've had in my life. She still looked like Usagi, and was acting like Usagi, so how could she be our enemy?

I felt my emotions overcome me. I wanted to be alone, so I stood up, and lacing my shoes, ran outside and away from the Sendai Hill Temple. Dealing with all I had in the past few days, and the past few years, I'd say that I was taking this quite well. I guess I just couldn't quite accept the fact that the Usagi I knew and the Usagi who was my friend, was evil.

It was early evening now, and there had been a quick sun shower while we were inside. The scents of the trees and the fresh earth were in the air. I ran down the road, not knowing where I was heading, and not wondering, not caring whether the senshi followed me. Maybe I was letting everyone down, but I couldn't think clearly with all of these facts swarming my head. Up ahead I saw a guy who looked familiar. He was very handsome, and his hair was matted to his head. He looked forlorn. I walked up to him, despite my own worry and asked him if there was anything wrong. He looked up at me, and for a minute I thought I saw recognition in his eyes.

"Do I know you?" I asked. "Have I met you before?"

Suddenly he reached out and grabbed me, hugging me. I was at loss for words.

"Naru, it's me!" he whispered. "It's Umino. Don't you remember?"

He looked different without his glasses: much different. I was surprised that he was here. He had left for university some time ago and I hadn't seen or heard from him.

"Umino, are you just back for the summer?" I asked.

"No. I'm back for good. I had to come back, Naru, for you. I missed you so much."

"I haven't heard from you in over a year." I said.

"I know," he told me. "I couldn't write to you because of the circumstances."

"Umino, I have a lot on my mind right now. I don't know what to believe." I said. In all my life there had only been two men I loved: Nephrite and Umino. Now I truly wanted to be with Umino but he hadn't called or written me when he was gone. I wanted to believe that there was an explanation, but truly, I didn't know if there was. My head started to swarm with thoughts, facts and memories again.

"Umino, can I talk to you about this later? Please?" I asked him.

He nodded. "Would you like to have lunch tomorrow?"

"Sure."

With that I continued walking on my path to nowhere in particular. I had to find somewhere to sort this all out, where I wouldn't be bothered. But as everyone knows, peace is hard to find.

Walking down the street I noticed shadows of people moving but there were no people on the street. The ginzuishou started pulsating. I took that as my cue. Yelling out "Eos Moon Power Make Up!" I transformed into Sailor Eos and looked around for my enemy.

Suddenly a shadow reached out, grabbing my neck. It lifted me up off the ground and suddenly, many other shadows approached. Moving my hand up to my tiara I whispered "Moon Twilight Flash" and blinded the shadow, which then let me go. Hikari had told me that for now, I could use Sailor Moon's attack phrases, within reason, but once I became more powerful the words would come to me for my own. So, for now, I hoped that I could remember attacks that Usagi had used in battle.

Glad that I had trained that morning, I jumped out of the way of many attacks from shadows. When they started to surround me, I knew that I had to change my plan. I touched my tiara, taking it off, much like Sailor Moon does, but this time I brought it down to my ginzuishou. It sparkled and glimmered, and then gave off a great glow. Pressing it to the shadow's head closest to me, it wrinkled and died. I picked up my tiara and put it back on. One down, seven to go.

Dodging their attacks, I tried to get in a hit whenever I could. I used my "Moon Tiara" attack on three monsters and managed to destroy them. Now I had four left. Three shadows surrounded me and used me as a punching bag. One snuck up behind me. It slung its arm toward me, which connected quite well, and slammed me into a concrete wall. Bruised, scratched, and cut, I stood up.

"Eos Boomerang!" I yelled, as I took off my tiara and it became a boomerang. I directed it through one shadow, destroying it, and through another, destroying that one too. I caught it as it returned and placed it on my forehead. Running toward one shadow I jump kicked and hit it in the face and then swung around and punched the other. I turned around again to throw another punch, but a shadowed hand stopped mine.

I looked up. Ten more shadows had appeared, and the largest one was grasping my hand.

"Oh, great." I muttered, as the shadow slung me across the pavement on the road.

The word pain couldn't have begun to describe what I was feeling. I was sure I had two broken ribs, a sprained ankle and a fractured arm, but I stood up again. I heard voices from the left. It was Hikari and the others. Thankfully, they had followed me.

All of the senshi yelled out their transformation phrases, followed by Hikari with "Cosmos Power Make Up!"

Hikari rushed over to me, and asked me if I was okay. She noticed that I was wincing and sat me down, telling me to let them take care of it. I watched as each senshi took on two shadows. What surprised me was that they were losing!

"Sailor Cosmos! Isn't there anything you can do? Surely you are more powerful than all of us!" I yelled over the commotion.

She looked over at me and I knew the reason. She was very weak. She had already fought with all that she had in the future and had given a lot of energy to Queen Serenity's star seed to keep it from dying.

Suddenly I noticed a caped figure that looked like Tuxedo Kamen, but it wasn't. It wasn't Kin either. His suit was more of a navy blue. He jumped down, and looked at me and smiled. He said, "Sailor Eos, try lending your power to them." I looked away for a second, and when I looked back, he was gone.

I stood up again, withstanding the pain, and tried to remember the lesson on lending my power to others. Concentrating, I willed the light of my ginzuishou to aide the star seeds of everyone. I watched as the bright light entered each one and their henshin sticks transformed, having four wings instead of two, and having a heart shape containing their symbols. I watched as they yelled out, "Mercury Eternal Make up", "Mars Eternal Make up", "Jupiter Eternal Make Up", and "Venus Eternal Make up," transforming into their most pure form, the eternal sailor senshi of the Sun's solar system.

All I could think was, "Wow, I did that?" It was a good feeling.

Each senshi became more powerful and easily destroyed the two shadows that attacked them. Even Sailor Cosmos became more powerful and used her ginzuishou to destroy her two shadows in one hit.

Suddenly, a young girl who looked like Chibi-Usa appeared. "You'll pay for defeating my shadows!" she said, and disappeared.

"Wait a minute!" I cried. "You mean to tell me that they have Chibi- Usa too?"

I sighed. We all powered down and the girls brought me to the hospital, where I was patched up. I found out that I felt worse than I was, and that I didn't have a fractured arm or broken ribs, but only a sprained ankle. When we were alone, Ami asked me, "Was it your power that let us become eternal?"

I nodded. Ami showed me her henshin stick. It was back to normal.

"I guess it was only temporary." I said. Then, changing the subject I asked, "Does anyone know who that guy was: the one that showed up and looked like Tuxedo Kamen?"

I was out of luck. No one had seen him.

The doctor returned and told me I was free to leave, so we all returned to the Sendai Hill Temple for the night. By now it was 11:00 p.m., so we decided to discuss this in the morning. That night, however, I couldn't help but wonder who the man in the Tuxedo was.