Moving Changes

Author's Notes: Once again, thanks, reviewers. I personally think this is a kind of fun chapter- tell me what you think of it!

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In Cambridge, Massachussets, 12:38 AM Eastern Time, a bright golden light, as bright as the sun, shone out of a second story window in a city apartment. Flowers bloomed, leaves on trees regrew, patches of brown lawn became a vibrant, healthy green- and stayed that way. The golden light shone fierce in a burst of energy, then dissapeared. All that came out of the second story window was light from a few lamps. Inside, a general knelt before his prince.

"Rise, General Kunzite," the prince commanded, "Rise, friend." Both men faded out of their stately uniforms in a small light flash. "Kunzite," Mamoru continued tiredly, "You and I need to get training as soon as possible, now that you're awakened. Enemies come when least expected, so we should at least be prepared." He yawned. Kent smiled.

"All that glowing really takes a lot out of you, huh." Mamoru nodded sleepily in agreement.

"THIS is why I asked you if you had any morning classes- we'll need the sleep. By the way, you and I need to write to Si tommorrow. He's closest to Usagi, he'll be next," Kent agreed, falling asleep himself.

"Hai, Ojisama. Send a letter off tommorrow. All hail your greatness," he grumbled, half sarcastic, half serious, mainly sleepy. "Can we go to bed yet?"

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"Holy...wow...," Si breathed as he read his friend Kent's letter, which had arrived the day before- Wednesday- but he hadn't found time to read until then. He felt bad that Kent had had to hear of his school life through the second hand account of Jed, who he wrote to semi-regularly. He just had so much work, especially since he was tutoring Serena, that he couldn't cut the time out of his day to write another letter.

This news from Kent, however, was completely unexpected. Serena- no, Usagi- wonder why she never corrects me?- engaged? To Kent's roommate? Unbelieveable. In addition, Kent said that one evening with his roommate, Mamoru, he discovered something incredible about their "Latin Quartet." In order for Si to find out this information, Kent wrote, he had to go to Usagi and give her some long secret password. He couldn't believe that she was in on it, too. Some secret "big enough to destroy the universe," Kent said. The password was part of a long planned conversation. Well, he thought, I better go to Usagi this evening and find out what all the fuss is about. He folded the letter carefully and put it in his pocket to memorize the password later, and picked up the phone to dial Usagi's number.

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Later that evening found Si standing at an assigned point in the nearby park, waiting for Usagi. Finally, he saw her pop out of her dad's car, shutting the door and waving before her dad pulled away. The sun was nearly set in the nearby hills. She turned and walked to the tree where Si stood. "So! You said you had something very important to say," she smiled. He gave her a smile back that didn't reflect in his eyes.

"Yeah, I got a letter in the mail from an old friend in Cambridge, Mass." Usagi raised an eyebrow, though she recognised the name- Mamoru was living there. He gave a short sigh, and then a deep breath before saying, "The moon is bright tonight." She looked up.

"So it is," she answered with a trace of caution in her voice.

"They say there is a princess in the moon." Usagi's head turned slightly to look at him.

"Is she a warrior?" she asked.

"Yes, she is."

"What of the others?" Her captivating eyes bored holes in his head. He swallowed.

"They say the other inner princesses are her guard, and her true love lies in the blue orb of Earth," he took a deep breath- the long password was hard to remember, "The crystal of the Mother shines light- and life- on every subject. The moon is best at its fullest." Usagi's eyes flickered to the moon for a moment, then turned to him as her back became stiffer and she grew more regal.

"Speak," she commanded, "What is it you know, who gave you the password, and what is it you need to know? Tell me now." Si found himself unconciously taking a step back, almost having a desire to bow before this suddenly aweing figure.

"I recieved a letter," he started, "from my friend Kent in Cambridge. His roommate's name is Mamoru Chiba," she nodded, her face softening a bit with the mentioning of the name. He continued, encouraged by the loss of her frown. "Kent said in his letter to tell you the past, and to tell you that the Prince," he held a question in his tone, "sends his regards and that 'this' is one of his guards. Also to say that I'm good now and I might be enlightened and am one of the 'four,' a reincarnation of those whom you first fought. Did you get any of that?" Usagi stared at him, and then the ground, long and hard, puzzling.

"Ami always was the best at riddles," she sighed, "Well, I'm the only one here now." She gave him a sudden glare again. "Why didn't you call Makoto, too?"

"I don't know!" he held his hands out in a defensive gesture, "the letter didn't tell me to." Curious now, he asked, "Why, is she in this too?" Usagi nodded and sighed again.

"They always said I wasn't the brains of the group...Let's see... four... fought them..." she trailed off, pulling out a hairband from her pocket, and giving it to him. "Put it on."

"Wha-?"

"Just put your hair in a ponytail. Do it!" He did as told, pulling his semi-long blonde curls into a low ponytail, and looked at her again. She was shaking her head, arms crossed puzzling over why that image should look familiar. Suddenly, something flashed in her eyes, a horror, a fear, then, cold hate, but as soon as he recognised it it was gone. "So," her voice held a cold tone and barely veiled hatred, "Zoicite. Could you remind me of why you're here again?" He hurridly restated all he told her before nervously- he did NOT like this new Usagi. She stared hard at him and swallowed. "You're good now. You're one of us. You- and the other generals- are Endymion's guard." She sighed and began pacing. Si was completely baffled. "You should find a place to sit down, Si- Zoicite-, this will take a while." He sat on the ground, and she kneeled before him, reaching into her skirt pocket and taking out her brooch. She softly called out one of the first incantations she learned, "Moon Crystal Power." In a brief flash of light, the golden brooch transformed int othe silver crystal. "This," she said, "is my mother's crystal. This will, hopefully, help you remember. You won't remember everything- since you were Mamoru/ Endymion's protector, only his golden crystal can heal you fully." Si, now nervous and not sure what to make of this, scooted back a bit. Her eyes narrowed a bit. "You don't trust me? Listen, Zoicite. This is sudden- and I know you haven't remembered anything yet, so this is probably a very large shock to you. However, I can not delay this. Whenever we think it is peaceful again, a new stronger evil always comes up. It is the way of the universe, it seems. I will not have you not be definetly on our side, or risk you being turned evil, and neither I, nor Endymion, will stand for you not being with us because you are afraid of what you are not familiar with." She stood up, and smiled softly, "There are always things you don't know, are not familiar with. But you must know this," Her voice again grew determined. "Your destiny is to be with us. You are one of the few and highly respected Generals. You have always been so, and will continue to be so, whether you like it or not. This is a very large responsibility, and we don't expect you to take it lightly, be prepared for it, or even like it. But you must accept it. This is your destiny, and it is a hard path, but it is yours. Will you see it and accept it?" She looked long and hard at him, and he at her. He was amazed that such words of power and authority could come from the little body of the sophomore girl standing before him. But she was much, much more than that, he could tell. He knew that, if it came down to it, he would trust his life in her hands, and she would trust her life in his. She was that sort of girl- no, woman, her body did not fit her mind and heart. He gave a half-smile.

"Yes."

She smiled, closing her eyes.

Si stared in awe as the crystal flashed before him, glowing stonger and stronger as Usagi murmured unidentifiable words to it in a launguage neither English nor Japanese. He continued staring as all of a sudden Usagi began to float, and her clothes began to flicker between her normal attire and a pearly white dress. She gave a final shout, became completely white and glowing, and then all Si know was white light.

He screamed as all the memories came rushing into his head. How he and the other Generals were the best of friends, and how they had faithfully served Endymion until Beryl and Queen Mettalia brainwashed them. The guilt he felt from that betrayal! Also, the overlaying guilt that he had somehow done when half of him was reincarnated and fell once more into Beryl's grasp. How had Queen Mettalia gotten to them before they reached their Prince? Yes, he, the Prince, the other Generals had all been friends. And the Generals were always faithful. His body began to glow and he thought, We always will be faithful. Yes! His memories restored, he glowed light blue in his grey uniform. He heard a faint cry in front of him and looked to see Usagi detransforming from whatever state she was in. They both stopped glowing, the crystal turned into a brooch, and Usagi fainted to the ground.

Si looked over to where Usagi was, startled. He muttered a few choice words- a perfect situation to be caught in, in a funny uniform with a fainted girl. People would think he killed her or something. He picked up her fallen brooch and placed it firmly in her hand. That seemed to be where it most belonged, and he didn't want to be caught with that, either. He looked in her coat pockets for a cell phone. He came up with a few pieces of change, lint, another hair tie, and an old pink compact. As he pulled out the compact, it popped open showing a snowy video screen where the mirror should have been. Suddenly, a face appeared on the screen. "Makoto?" he wondered aloud. Her face formed a puzzled frown.

"Si? What are you doing? Did Usagi give this to you? Hey, wait a second..." Her face darkened the way Usagi's did when she first found out he was 'Zoicite.' "Zoicite," she pronounced his new name like a curse, hatred lacing her voice. She phased out in a series of beeps and started chattering in japanese to three new faces on the screen.

"No! Wait, stop what ever you're doing!" he shouted, "I'm not the Zoicite you think I am, however demented that sounds. Makoto, I need you to come to the park, Usagi... Look here, Makoto! I'm a good guy, I swear it. Listen! Call up... Mamoru. He'll tell you that I'm a good guy." The girls stopped their worried chattering for a moment to listen, catching Mamoru's name. "Mamoru told me to go to Usagi and tell her the password and resore my memories. Yes, I remember a form of myself was bad recently, and I was bad once in a former life. But I was completely a normal human being until Usagi pulled out this crystal thingy and went all glowy-floaty on me, and here I am. In this funny outfit. Oh- and Usagi fainted. I was looking for a cell phone to call her mom or something when this," he gestured at the compact, "popped open on me, and I found myself talking to you, ok?" Makoto still looked wary, but she had lost her look of absolute hatred. She turned in the screen and translated all he just said to the others, who didn't completely understand what he said. She then looked back to him.

"Zoicite, hold on a minute, we're confirming your story." He saw her pick up a phone and dial the number. It rang twice before it was picked up.

"Who is it, and what the Hell do you want at this hour of the night?" a voice Si recognised as Kent asked.

"I need to speak to Mamoru. Now. My name is Makoto," Makoto pronounced into the phone.

"Kent!" Si exclaimed, "Kent, all of a sudden everyone's calling me Zoicite and I think they want to kill me or something!" Makoto looked at him throught the communicator, peeved, and turned back to the phone, where Kent's deep laughter filled the reciever.

"So, he found out about us, too. Don't worry, Makoto, we're both on your side," Makoto's face whitened a shade as she comprehended that comment, and he began talking again. "I'll put Mamoru-kun on the phone, and he'll help explain everything, Ok?"

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Mamoru heard Kent drag himself out of bed at 11:45 at night- the one evening the two of them decided to go to bed early and get some sleep. Figures. He heard Kent grumble into the phone, a pause, and then his rich low laughter filling the quiet air of their tiny apartment. Still chuckling, Kent walked back to the bedroom the two shared. He moved next to Mamoru's twin bed and handed him the phone. "Makoto's calling for you. The others are on the communicator, I think. So is Zoicite." Mamoru pushed himself up so he was leaning against the headpost and took the phone.

"Hello, Makoto, Minako, Ami, Rei, Zoicite. Yes, Zoicite is good, yes, he IS Zoicite, and he is also a part of my guard- the former Generals. You could say that he's one of my Senshi, who protect me the way you protect Usagi. Kent is one, too- he is Kunzite. Now I know we all harbor hard feelings. However, the Generals weren't entirely the cause of our destruction, they were brianwashed by Queen Metallia at the time. So be nice to each other, kids. Where's my Usagi-chan?"

As the others digested what he said before, he heard a boy's voice faintly shouting at him, "She's with me. She fainted after using this crystal-thingy and going all glowy-white." Mamoru nodded to himself.

"I trust you, that does happen when she uses the crystal. Makoto, call the Tsukino house and have her mother pick her up. Say it's Senshi business. Whatever you do, don't let Kenji-san pick up, otherwise Zoicite will have his head bitten off. I know from experience. Give Usagi my love, I'm going to sleep. Goodnight." He hung up the phone without another word or room for questions. Sinking back into his covers, he put the phone on his bedside table next to his picture of the Senshi. Kent walked over to the other bed on the opposite side of the room and laid down, smiling a little.

"'Night, Kent."

"Oyasuminasai, Ojisama."

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Makoto stared in outrage at the phone. "I can't believe Mamoru hung up on us. Ugh. This is serious stuff, here!" Her voice resounded with indignition. Ami, always the voice of reason, spoke up.

"Makoto, he did explain everything to us, and he trusts Zoicite. I think we should give him a chance. Also, he gave specific instructions for you to get Usagi's mom to pick her up, not kick General rear end. Specific order: 'Be nice to each other, kids,'" she smiled. Minako spoke up from behind her.

"Give the guy a chance, Mako-chan. He's probably had plenty of opportunities to hurt you two if he really wanted, and he hasn't yet, has he? No, he hasn't even thought of it. And he hasn't troubled you at all- you were good friends half an hour ago. So I say, don't call the kettle black if you want him to be nice to you." The whole group looked at Minako strangely.

"Mina-chan," Makoto sighed, "I think you have your sayings mixed up again," she paused for a moment, "Fine, Zoicite lives, I don't mess with him. I call Ikuko-mama to have her pick up Usagi-chan, and we'll see what Usagi says when she wakes up."

Zoicite was completely lost during this conversation, since it was carried on entirely in Japanese. Makoto, noticing this, reiterated what they just said in English, "You live, Usagi goes home, we see what she says when she wakes up, got it? Good." She stared at him a moment. "I'm not sure how you detransform, so I'm afraid you'll have to come with Tsukino-san, Usagi and me. Usagi is the only one, I think, who can tell you how to detransform, so tell your parents you're spending the night at your friend's house or something. We'll be by in a few minutes." She gave him a wary glance again before she, and then the other girls, disconnected. Zoicite leaned against the tree again, head in his hands, and sat.

A while later, he saw two headlights pull up at the curb near the tree. The woman he recognized as Usagi's mother stepped out of the car, as well as Makoto. The woman glanced around worridly while Makoto glared at Zoicite. When the mother's eyes fell on Zoicite, she looked at him, puzzled for a second, then immediately brightened. That was the first person genuinely happy to see him all evening.

"You're one of the Senshi, aren't you?" she asked. He was about to open his mouth to respond when Makoto answered for him.

"Sort of. He's one of Mamoru's guardians, like we guard Usagi."

"Wait," Zoicite interjected, "I've heard of him, and I've heard him, but who is this Mamoru guy, and who are you all really? The only thing I know is that I'm serving this guy Endymion, and that that crystal turns Usagi into this floating girl in a white dress." Usagi's Mom raised an eyebrow.

"Oh? That's all? Well, dear, you have a lot to learn. Makoto, you and Luna will have to brief this nice young man when we get home. Now. Where IS my daughter?" Zoicite stood.

"She's over this way. I didn't want to move her in case she broke anything when she fell. But I guess we'll have to move her now." He led them over to where Usagi lay. He started to pick her up, but Makoto motioned for him to step back. She stepped forward, muttered something not in English, not in Japanese, leaned down, and picked up Usagi like she was nothing. Zoicite looked on, astonished, as she carefully placed Usagi in the back seat of the car and got in after her. Mrs. Tsukino walked up to him and patted hiim on his shoulder.

"Now don't be offended, she's just like that sometimes. She likes doing things her own way, doesn't like help, and she and the other girls are all very protective of my Usagi. Don't worry, she and the other Senshi will warm to you eventually. You can sit in the front, dear." With that they both got into the car and drove away.

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The car pulled up to a fairly large house on a nice sized slice of land. Makoto carried Usagi inside, and Mrs. Tsukino and Zoicite followed her. Makoto brought Usagi up the stairs to her room, Usagi's mother went to find her husband (and hopefully sedate him a little before he caught sight of Zoicite,) and Zoicite tried to stay out of their way by sitting patiently in the living room. He heard shouting from upstairs and cringed. The female voice won the argument, however, when and older woman's voice interfered. That's funny, Zoicite thought, I don't remember meeting any older grandmas or aunts when I last tutored Sere- Usagi. Mental note: must remember to use her japanese name. He passed it off, however, as a relative staying for the week that Usagi didn't tell him about. Therefore, he was very confused when Usagi's cat came down the stairs, looked up at him, and ran away shouting, "Ikuko! Ikuko! You didn't tell me the nice young boy was Zoicite!" After a moment of shock, That cat just talked..., Zoicite got upset.

"Listen up, Kitty! I am sick of being in this funny outfit, I am sick of everyone running away from me, and I am sick of having to tell my story EVERY TIME someone runs away shouting 'Zoicite!' My name is Si, short for Simon, and I am a senior at Los Conejos High, not some evil being about to run around and shoot you or something," He had stood up from his seat, infuriated, talking angrily to a startled Luna. Makoto came flying down the stairway.

"What on Earth is going on here? Sweet Serenity!" Zoicite immediately answered her.

"I'm sorry, Makoto, but I just can't stand it anymore. I never wanted to be this 'Zoicite' person, but I might be able to tolerate it if you all didn't run away from me, or look at me with hatred, or fear. The worst thing I've done in this lifetime is - I don't know, can a freshman on a dare or something. I can't remember doing evil things in this form as Simon. As Zoicite a million years ago, yes. The other part of Zoicite a few years ago, definetly. But myself? No! Now, could you please explain to me why I just yelled at Luna, who talked to me, and, since she obviously doesn't like me any more, please explain to Luna why I'm here from your point of view." Makoto, feeling uncomfortable for being so harsh on him earlier, relayed the story to Luna as she knew it, including Mamoru's testimony to the truth and a possible Kunzite.

Luna agreed that the testimony sounded sincere, although she personally hadn't realized that the Generals' souls had split or something, to make two reincarnations so close to each other in age. But she and Makoto grew closer to Zoicite/ Si, and Si grew more adjusted to his new life story, and to the fact that Luna was talking to him. Luna and Makoto explained the entire Senshi story, from the discovery of Sailors V and Moon, through the Generals, Dark Moon, all the other enemies, and finally Sailor Galaxia and Chaos. They also explained everyone's position, save the Generals, in the Moon Kingdom. Si would have to go to Mamoru to find out about the Generals. Pausing in their narrative, they heard a rustling and a cry upstairs.

"That must must be Usagi," Mrs. Tsukino said. She had been standing at the bottom of the stairs for a few minutes, listening. "Luna, let's go check on her, shall we?" Luna bobbed her head in agreement.

"Of course! We hould alert her to the Senshi's status immediately," she answered. They were walking out of the room, leaving Makoto and Si (still in uniform) behind, when Si shouted out,

"Don't forget to tell Se- Usagi that Mamoru sends his love." Both Luna and Mrs. Tsukino sighed wistfully, though for different reasons. The two tromped up the stairs to give Usagi the update. Si called his parents to say he was staying at a friend's house that night, and would go to school with 'him' in the morning- "Don't stay up."

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AN- Again: Well... This WAS going to be way longer, but I lost a few vital pages. *sweatdrop.* ("Totally ditzed out this time, Pupetta") Unfortunantly, I have a LOT more written, but until I find those pages, this story is at a temporary halt! Since I'm off of school, I do have time to find it (thank goodness), so the next chapter should be up anywhere from tommorrow to two weeks from now. *Sweatdrop* Thanks for being patient, Minna!