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Chapter 8: Introductions

The room had cleared. They stood there in clumps, wondering what to do – Sora, Donald, Goofy, the five senshi, and the newly transformed Endymion. The heartless had vanished after Sailor Moon had been taken. They all seemed sort of stunned, unsure of what to do next. Everything had happened so fast that it was more like a blur than a battle.

Endymion fell to his knees. He couldn't believe that they had taken her. Grief, anger, and sorrow raged within him, fighting the battle to see who would win out. He had been so hurt by the loss of his daughter, but Serenity? His wife? How could this have happened? He felt so useless, so full of emotion that he couldn't do anything. And to make it worse, the wretched beasts responsible for all of this had disappeared right after they had taken her, not even staying around for him to exact revenge upon them. He wanted to scream. Suddenly he heard footsteps behind him, and he stood, whirling around and grabbing for his sword, thinking that maybe one of them had remained behind for him to take care of. He wanted for someone to pay.

Sora looked up as a figure materialized from the shadows in the back of the room. He recognized the black robe covering him, and he frowned, his hands tightening on his keyblades. He stopped when he saw the figure raise his palm out toward Endymion, halting his hand that was trying to draw his sword. As the figure spoke, he let go of his keyblades, and they disappeared.

"Be at ease, Endymion. I'll not harm you or yours." Donald and Goofy gasped. The figure reached up toward his hood slowly, the tension building in the room as he moved to reveal who he was. His hand was just reaching his hood when he was suddenly knocked back by a wild tackle in a flurry of gangly arms and legs by none other than Goofy. The two almost certainly would have fallen to the floor in a heap if not for the grace of the figure in the robe. When he took the impact of Goofy's sudden leap, his hood had been thrown back revealing the surprised face of…a mouse.

"King Mickey!" Goofy's voice seemed to fill up the room. "I knew that was your voice!" His great hyucking laughter echoed around the walls. Endymion's eyebrows were raised in disbelief and confusion, the girls were outright shocked, and Sora was laughing along with Donald.

After introductions had been made, Sora turned to the King with a hopeful light filling his eyes. He grinned as the King turned to him.

"King Mickey, is Riku with you still? Last time we got a message from the castle, Queen Minnie said that he had been traveling with you." His grin slowly faded as he saw the serious expression on the King's face.

"Sora, to be perfectly honest with you, I don't know where Riku is. When…when he left, I'm not sure that even he knew where he was going." Sora's smile faded completely. He had so hoped to see him again…but no time for that now. He had two people to save – Sailor Moon and her daughter. He could already see the anxiety building up in Endymion's face. The two people dearest to him had been taken. Sora looked up at Mickey again.

"King Mickey, it's kind of a long story, but the heartless have taken Sailor Moon, and her daughter Usagi. Do you know where they might have taken them?" Mickey thought about this for a long second, and then shook his head slowly.

"I honestly don't know, Sora. All I know is that we are on a world different from any other world that any of us have been to yet. My belief is that we are in an undiscovered solar system, but there's time for theories later. Right now it would seem that we have some princesses to save."

Princesses? There's more than just Serenity? How do they keep snatching so many, and who's behind it this time? Questions raced through his mind, but when he opened his mouth to put voice to them, Mickey cut him off, turning towards Endymion as he spoke.

"You are Sailor Moon's husband, correct?" He gave a short nod. "Good. Your feelings for her may very well be what help us save her. However I have a very difficult question for you." Endymion arched an eyebrow. "We can only save one of them at a time. I cannot go two places, and to split up what forces we do have in this place would be disastrous. Which one do you want to go after first?" Endymion's hesitation only lasted a moment. A frown crossed his face and he bit his lower lip in thought, but after that he simply nodded to himself.

"It's not so difficult a question at all. Chibi-Usa is vulnerable, and we must preserve her child-like existence for the sake of our world, and possibly all others. My wife can hold her own. She has the heart of a true warrior, and she would never give in to anyone. We need to save my daughter." Mickey nodded as though he had expected no less.

He motioned for them to follow him as he walked toward the exit. When everyone had gathered near the door he turned to them once again.

"What I need for all of you to do is to concentrate on the little girl. Focus on her as much as you possibly can. When I tell you, just walk through the door while holding her image fast in your mind." The group of nine nodded in unison and closed their eyes. Each of them held different images; in some she was laughing, in others she was trying to be cute or teasing her mother. To a few, she was only an infant. When Mickey called for them to walk forward, they did, and were enveloped in light once again.

Usagi woke up, and for a moment she couldn't remember where she was. Then her eyes focused and she recognized the cold black stone beneath her. She rolled over onto her back with a slight groan. She hurt everywhere, from being violently picked up and thrown into a stone cell. Luckily nothing felt broken, but her stomach churned as she remembered the noise her head had made when it had struck the floor just before she had lost consciousness. She gingerly felt the back of her head, wincing as she felt a very tender spot where some blood was matted in her hair. She sighed, which also hurt.

As she sat up, Usagi realized that she was dressed differently. With an odd sense of deja vu, she dusted off her snowy white dress – the dress not of a queen, but of a princess from very long ago. She frowned, plucking at the soft material and trying to remember when she had transformed. She sat that way for several minutes, trying to clear her head.

As her mind picked through the events that had happened recently, she surveyed the cell she was in to keep from becoming depressed. She had to think hard and find a way to escape so she could find Chibi-Usa and save her. She would save her.

The cell was small and barren. A single door with a small, bar-covered opening in the top let in a little light from the hallway. Otherwise the room was mostly empty with just an old tattered blanket crumpled in one corner, and a small hole in the floor in another. She frowned, rather certain of the hole's functional purpose. A small hole in the wall on the other side of the room caught her attention.

With great care she managed to get on her hands and knees and shuffle-crawl over to the opening in the wall no bigger than a closed fist. She sat down next to it, trying with little success to peer through it. She thought she could see the shape of a person lying on the floor beneath a ratty blanket, but it was very difficult to tell through the gloom. She tentatively called out to the slumbering form.

"Hello?" The figure stirred. What looked like a female shape sat up, yawned and stretched, and shuffled over to the hole. A soft voice drifted through the hole, both sweet and a little child-like. Usagi wanted to smile when she heard that voice – it reminded her of how she used to be, back when she had first become Sailor Moon, both naïve and happy no matter what.

"Hi there! I see I finally got a neighbor." She paused a moment, and then gave a short laugh. "It gets kinda lonely around here. It's sad that we gave to meet under such circumstances." Another pause. "Are you a princess too?"

For a moment Usagi wasn't quite sure what to say. Was she a princess?

"I suppose I am. At least, I used to be, though time doesn't really seem to matter much anymore. My name is Serenity, or you can call me Usagi if you want." She could almost feel the smile seeping through the wall.

"Usagi is such a cute name! It's very nice to meet you, Ms. Usagi. My name is Kairi."