Author's Note: There is no fighting in this chapter; basically, this chapter is just background info for the story. However, there is a little something about a school shooting in here. No one gets killed or anything, but I just wanted to warn all of you. I'll put that part in blue.

Ami turned the page of her book. Mako grabbed a few strays and continued to braid Minako's hair. Setsuna and Hotaru were playing patty cake. Michiru was playing with her fingernails, Haruka was playing with her bubble gum, and Rei was staring at the door. Where is she?
Cough
Sigh.
Rattle.
Pop!

"That's IT!!!!!" yelled Rei, causing everyone to jump. "I told her about this meeting two hours ago and she's still not here!!" Rei looked over and saw Ami holding a ripped-out page of her book. "Gomen ne, Ami-chan. I'll buy you another one."
The sound of what appeared to be a herd of buffalo grew louder. "You made me late!" yelled Usagi.
The girls thought Usagi was blaming Mamoru for something he didn't do, but it was a female voice that said, "Well, if you had told me you had a meeting today, I wouldn't have invited you for ice cream!"
Usagi and Candra burst through the door, tripping over the other one's feet. Usagi's face met a leg of the table while Candra did a little front flip, then fell on her butt.
"Usagi, are you okay?" asked Michiru.
Usagi sat up and started rubbing her nose. "Yeah. I'm fine."
"Usagi-chan, what is Candra-san doing here?" asked Ami.
"Yeah, this is a secret meeting and, no offense, but Candra can't be part of it," added Rei.
"Will you let me stay if I show you this?" asked Candra as she pulled out her brooch.
All the Inners gasped. "Sailor StarMoon?" asked Minako.
"Wait! How do you fit into this?" asked Mako.
Candra laid her brooch down on the table. A hologram of the Moon Kingdom shot out as she began to narrate. "During the time of the Silver Millennium, the Queen of the Moon was only able to give birth to one child. It wasn't law; it was some kind of biological thing." A hologram of Queen Serenity holding a baby arms and a young Princess Serenity standing next to her popped up. "But a year after Queen Serenity gave birth to the heir of the throne, she gave birth to a second child, me!"
"You're a Moon Princess, too?" asked Minako.
The hologram started showing pictures of the sisters as they grew. "Yes. And since this had never happened before, everyone was afraid that I would get jealous and fight for the throne. But I never felt that. The two of us grew up best friends even as everyone else treated me as an outsider.
"Anyway, there was this guy named Sir Grety. He was in love with Serenity. Well, actually he was infatuated with her. He had two problems, though. He always confused Serenity with me and she was in love with the Prince. She only saw Grety as a friend. So he thought that he if he couldn't have Serenity, no one could." And just as she finished, the hologram started to act out a scene.

The Prince kissed the Princess on her hand. "I will see you later."
Serenity smiled. "I cannot wait." She sighed as her true love walked away.
Shake. Shake. Giggle. Serenity looked towards the bushes. "Who is there? . . . If that is you, Cynthia. . ."
Giggle. Shake. Cynthia stepped out of the bushes. "That was such a wonderful kiss. When will I find love?" She started making kissing faces as she tried to embarass her sister.
"When you start acting like a lady and stop spying on others," Serenity playfully shot back as she stood.
"Well, that wasn't my original intention," Cynthia told, "though I did not mind."
Serenity crossed her arms. "I am sure you did not. Well then, what was your orignal intention?"
"I came out here to tell you that Mother wants you to get ready for the party tonight."
Serenity nodded. "Okay. Let us go, then."
The two joked and laughed as they walked home. Serenity noticed that Cynthia looked over her shoulder a lot more than usual. "Cynthia, are you alright?"
"I swear someone is following us."
"Seriously, Sister. We are going to be in hot water if we are late."
"I am being serious!" Cynthia saw something move in the tree tops. "What was that?"
Annoyed, Serenity sighed. "What was what?"
"That!" Cynthia pointed and Serenity looked up in the direction Cynthia was pointing. There was Sir Grety with a new model of gun. "I've been meaning to try this thing out!" He pointed it at Princess Serenity. "If I can't have you, no one else can!"
"Serenity!"
Serenity fell to the ground, then looked up in horror to see her sister take the blow. The beam passed right through her. Her face had a look of shock, which was replaced with lifelessness as the twelve-year-old fell.
"Supreme Thunder!"
"Crescent Beam!"
"Shabon Spray!"
"Fire Soul!"
The Moon's highest ranking General was killed instantly by the attacks. However, his death would not reverse her's. "Cynthia! NOOO!"

The hologram disappeared. Usagi sniffled a little and Candra gave her a little hug.
"Wow. I didn't remember," said Mako.
"Well, I did. When I found out I was the Moon Princess, I started remembering things. But I thought that since she died before the attack, I wouldn't find her," Usagi told everyone. "So, I didn't say anything."
"How did you find out, Candra-chan?" asked Mako.
"Well, when I was five years old, I remember I had just been sent to bed after my father felt that the one B I had received on my report card meant I wasn't trying hard enough at school. . . ."
"That young?" asked Hotaru.
"Well, I skipped kindergarten, so . . .anyway, I was in my room when there was flash of light and I saw this fairy. She said her name was Serenity and I could talk to her whenever I wanted.
"She would come to visit me every night and we talked and played games and we did that for years. Then when I was 13, she came to me in her true form and told me about my past. She said that at first she thought I was her daughter, Serenity, but saw that I was her other daughter, Cynthia. She asked me to find you and gave me this brooch. . ." She pulled out her gray crescent brooch. ". . .to use to transform. I remember the first time I used it. It was about one week later. . ."

Candra quietly closed the closet door behind her. She tried her best to catch her breath, but the screams outside along with the gunshots weren't helping.
I hope Jim is alright out there. Please, dear Lord. Take care of him.
The doorknob started to turn. Candra gasped and tried to move farther into the corner. Oh no!
The door opened and there stood. . .
"Jim! Get in!" she said in a hoarse whisper.
"Candra!" The two hugged. "I thought you got out already!" He leaned his ear against the door. "I think I hear someone coming."

Knock, knock. "I think someone's in there!"
Jim and Candra grabbed onto each other.
Please God, help me protect Jim!
Candra's new brooch started to rise from under her shirt and started to glow. Five words came to her mouth and she just had to say them. "Moon. . .Starlight Power. . .Make UP!!!"
The door opened. It was one of the gunmen. "Hello."
Candra screamed. When she did, her brooch opened up and a flash of light sent him backwards.
In her head, she heard Serenity's voice.
Say "Crescent Chain" and tie him up! "Crescent Chain!" She tied him up. "Jim, grab the rope. We'll get him out and turn him over to the police. . ."

"How did you get the name 'StarMoon'?" asked Ami.
"Well, that was a few weeks later during the battle where I first met Uranus and Neptune. . ."

Candra looked behind her. I swear I heard someone. The high-school freshman shrugged and went back to reading her Algebra II book. Then, a Damion appeared. "I want your pure heart!" she yelled.
Candra screamed and threw her book at it. It distracted the Damion long enough for Candra to say, "So that's why math is so important!"
Candra's brooch lit up again and rose to eye level. "Uh, Moon Starlight Power, Make Up?" For the second time in her life, Candra henshioned.
The Damion threw the book aside. "Oh, great. Not another one!" she said as she disappeared.
Candra brought out the StarWand Serenity had given her, but if she couldn't see her enemy, what was the point?
"Um, hello? Um, if you don't show yourself right now, there's, uh, going to be trouble!"
Oh yea. That's telling 'em, she thought. "Because. . .because I am the, uh, the American Champion of. . . .Justice! I'm a, uh, Princess in a Sailor Fuku! Sailor Moon! No! Wait! There's already a Sailor Moon. Um. . ." She put her arms on her head, then saw the star on her wand. "StarMoon! I'm Sailor StarMoon! On behalf of the Moon and, uh, the Stars in the Sky, I shall punish you!"
That was good; now all you need to do is put some feeling behind it and stop sounding like a whimp.
The ground below her became liquid and went up StarMoon's body, then hardened again, trapping her. The Damion reappeared and laughed at the girl's plight.
Though scared out of her wits, she did remember the wand was still in her hand. "Moon Starlight Attack!" She did the best she could to aim at the Damion considering her arms were straight and she could only move her wrist and fingers. The Damion just grinned and knocked the wand away.
Luna-P hit the Damion in the back of the head, but it turned around and swatted the black floating cat head. "Luna-P!" cried StarMoon.
Someone else appeared. "Get her pure heart!"
"Hai!" said the Damion.
StarMoon screamed, but there was nothing she could do and they took her pure heart. Her face went pale and her head fell down. "Grab it and go!" said the second figure.
The Damion went to grab the pure heart, but in a split second later, it was gone. "What the. . .?"
"Looking for this?" Sailor Uranus showed the object in her hand.
"Hey! That's mine!" cried the second figure.
"Too bad, Kaolinite! You have the wrong girl!" said Sailor Neptune. "Deep Submerge!"
"I'm out of here!" Kaolinite disappeared.
"What a wimp. World Shaking!"
The Damion was destroyed. StarMoon's prison vanished and she fell to the ground still unconscious. Neptune caught her and Uranus returned her pure heart. "You know," commented Uranus said as StarMoon woke up, "even though this pure heart isn't a talisman, it was brighter than usual."
"Who are you?" StarMoon asked, rubbing her head. They didn't answer; they instead stood and started to walk away. "Hey! Maybe we should fight together! I could help you find that talisman thing-y!" shouted StarMoon.
"Sorry, but we don't need a rookie like you to fight with us," said Neptune.
"Hey! That's not my fault!" StarMoon yelled after them. . . .

"You know, that's basically the same thing they did to us." Usagi gave Haruka and Michiru a good, hard stare.
Both girls formed sweatdrops. "Gomen, Odango."
"You'd better be." Usagi flipped back her hair and looked at Candra. The two of them burst into laughter, followed by everyone else.

Chapter Seven: Candra, an aunt? A little girl returns to the past