Chapter 1: I'm the Beautiful Soldier of Happiness! (Galaxia's Final Ride)
"Anri!" Sanrio Yoshimota turned at the sound of her name. A girl with pink hair came running up to her, frantic.
"What's wrong, ChibiUsa?" ChibiUsa caught up to her and tried to catch her breath.
"Eternal… Sailor…. Moon…. fighting Galaxia! We have to go help!"
"But," Anri started. "I have soccer practice! I can't miss it or the coach will cut me from the team!"
"What's more important? The fate of the planet or soccer?"
Anri nodded and the two quickly transformed.
"Moon Crystal Power!" ChibiUsa shouted.
"Rainbow Crisis Power!" Anri cried.
"MAKE UP!" they both shouted together. The two transformed into their Sailor Scout fuku and ChibiUsa called on her friend, Pegasus, to give them a ride to the place where Sailor Moon was. Anri watched as the world flew by. It was dying, because Galaxia was sucking the life out of it. Someday, I'll be a proud Sailor Senshi, and I can protect the world from dying, like Eternal Sailor Moon! She thought. Then I won't have to worry about giving anything up. I'll be so powerful, no one will ever tell me I can't save the world and have a life at the same time! Pegasus landed in the once fruitful land of Elysion, and the girls saw Eternal Sailor Moon and Galaxia immediately. ChibiUsa wasted no time.
"Moon Gorgeous Meditation!"
"Galactic Tsunami!" The attacks hit Galaxia, knocking her sideways. She quickly stared at the two scouts and growled.
"Who are you?"
"Us?" They said in unison. "We're the Sailor Senshi's token Chibi Senshi!"
"The beautiful senshi of love and justice! Sailor Chibi Moon! The future Queen of Crystal Tokyo!" Chibi Moon's pink hair bounced as she struck a pose.
"The beautiful senshi of Love and Happiness! Sailor Chibi Galaxia! The true future Queen of Crystal Kyuji!" The two of them stood back to back and pointed at Galaxia.
"And as Chibi Senshi," they said in unison, "we're here to punish you! In the name of the moon!" Galaxia just laughed.
"Such young children! Wouldn't you rather be growing up instead of throwing your lives away as senshi?"
"No way!" Chibi Moon shrieked. "I know I'll never truly grow up unless I embrace my sailor senshi powers! And growing up is my one truest dream! To deny my powers would be denying my dreams!" She grabbed her tiara. "You're foolish words will not stop me from becoming the strong and powerful senshi I am destined to be! Moon Tiara Magic!" Galaxia shrieked in pain. "Get her, Chibi Galaxia!" But Chibi Galaxia couldn't move. She was scared and confused at the same time.
"She's right," she mumbled, "I am wasting my life as a senshi. What if it's all in vain, Chibi Moon? What if we are doing all this work and all we will get from it is being alone?"
"What are you talking about? Right now isn't the time to be pondering such things!" Eternal Sailor Moon shouted at the girls. "We need to finish her!" Chibi Galaxia sighed, then decided that, for the moment, being a senshi was the best thing she could do.
"Okay," she shouted, "Let's finish her!" Chibi Moon smiled, and the three joined hands.
"Moon palace of the 30th century, send me your strength…"
"Kyuji shrine of the 30th century, send me your power…"
"Sailor Senshi of the present, gather all your power here!" Sailor Moon gripped the rod that appeared before her, and the two chibi senshi grabbed their crystals, which then turned into rods as well.
"Let's finish this witch! Starlight Honey Moon Crystal Kiss!"
"Pink Sugar Crystal Kiss!"
"Rainbow Crystal Death Blow!" Three power beams shot out of the rods, and Galaxia shrieked in pain as the blasts tore through her. She disintegrated before their eyes, and all the senshi began to cheer. Chibi Moon hugged her mother and the two danced around happily as Chibi Galaxia stared on. Her own mother, Kino Makoto (Sailor Jupiter), came up behind her and gave her a hug.
"We just won, why the long face?"
"What if she was right, momma? What if I am wasting my life, and I could be doing better things?"
"Well, if you think about it honey, being a sailor scout is all about choice. You are given the power, but it is up to you whether you use it or not, or how you use it."
"So, if I decided that I didn't want to be a sailor scout, then I wouldn't have to be one?"
"That's right, but you do have to think about the consequences as well."
"Consequences? What are those?"
"That's what you need to figure out. Now, go celebrate. You just helped save the world, and this is no time to be sad." Anri smiled at her mother and ran to go hug Saturn and Chibi Moon. Pluto and Venus came up beside her and smiled.
"She's growing up so quickly," Pluto said. "Almost as fast as Hotaru."
"And her powers are evolving so fast," Venus said.
"She is a strong senshi, and she is meant to do big things. I just hope she will be able to figure that out on her own."
"Why do you say that?"
"Because," Mako-chan said, "every senshi has their season, and I think mine is up. I haven't been feeling well lately. I think it's time for me to turn in the fuku and begin ruling like I should… I need to go home."
"You haven't told her that she's adopted yet, have you?" Mars asked.
"No, but she'll figure it out."
"Momma, c'mon! We're gonna go get some Ice Cream!" Mako-chan smiled with tears in her eyes.
"One thing is for certain," she said. "I do love that girl as if she was my own, and I will miss her."
Two weeks later…
"But who's going to take care of me?" Anri had tears streaming down her face, and Mako-chan was trying hard not to cry herself.
"Usagi-chan said she will look after you for me. I have to go, sweetie. It's who I am, it's my job."
"But being a Sailor Senshi is you job! Don't go momma! I don't want you to go!" She wrapped her arms around Mako-chan's neck and clung to her. "I don't want to be raised by Usagi! I want to go to Jupiter with you! I want to go home too!" She buried her face in Mako-chan's shoulder and cried.
"You'll never learn to be a powerful senshi if you go with me. You have to stay here and—"
"I don't want to be a strong senshi!" she shouted. "Not if it means we have to be apart! You said I had a choice! I choose to go with you! Don't leave me behind mamma!" She began to cry harder, and finally Mako-chan began to cry as well.
"I don't want to leave you behind, honey. But I have to go and be a grown-up, and you have to stay here and be a kid."
"But I'm a grown-up too! I'm not a little kid! I'm a strong senshi and I need to go with you!" Usagi and ChibiUsa each took a hand, and Mako-chan kissed her daughter on the cheek before sailor teleporting to Jupiter. "No! Mamma, don't go! MAMMA! PLEASE I WANT TO GO WITH YOU!" She fell to her face and started crying. ChibiUsa tried to comfort her friend, but it was no use. Mamo-chan finally picked her up and carried her back to their place and put her to bed, where she cried herself to sleep.
11 years later…
"Hey, ChibiUsa! Phone call!" ChibiUsa came flying down the stairs and Anri tried to keep the phone away from her. "Who's so important, huh? What does my 16 year old little sis have that I don't know about? A boyfriend, maybe?"
"Gimme the phone, baka-chan! It's probably Helios!"
"Now you won't ever get it! You didn't have to call me baka-chan!"
"Gomenesai! Onegai, gimme the phone!" Anri gave up and gave ChibiUsa the phone. "Helios? Hello? Hello? Anri, there's no one there…"
"I know," she said, "I made you beg me for a phone that no one was on the other end of… my my my, how gullible we are!" She ran out the back of the house with ChibiUsa following close behind. The two girls were laughing and playing when suddenly, Usagi called for them.
"Crisis downtown! It's sailor senshi business!" Anri checked her watch.
"You've got to be KIDDING me!" Usagi looked at her questionably. "I've got a date with Anakin in like, 30 minutes! Now I'm gonna be all dirty and smelly!"
"I doubt we'll have this finished in 30 minutes," Mamo-chan said.
"You mean I have to CANCEL? Are you SERIOUS? This is bogus to the max!"
"Anri c'mon!" ChibiUsa said. "What's more important?"
"I know I know, saving the world or a cute boy? Well, I'm gonna say the cute boy this time, cuz I am sick and tired of always calling off my plans to go do senshi stuff!"
"Anri!" all of them shouted.
"Alright, alright," she said. "I'll go cancel." She walked to the phone and dialed Anakin's number.
"Yeah?"
"Hey, guess what? I have to cancel again."
"Again, are you serious? Why?"
"You know, things n' stuff…"
"This isn't really working out, is it?" Anri was quiet for a while, then sighed.
"Please, give me another chance! I'll call you when I get home and we can go out then, I swear!"
"Okay, but if you cancel this time, we're over, got it?"
"It won't get canceled this time, I promise!" she hung up and frowned. The thing was, she couldn't ever be sure that things would turn out alright, or that she would be able to go out with Anakin later. Galaxia's words rang through her mind.
Such young children! Wouldn't you rather be growing up instead of throwing your lives away as senshi?
It was difficult for her to listen to such things back then, but in the heat of the moment, they were becoming more and more tempting. Throw away the fuku… how easy would that be? You said it was my choice mom. I know what I choose.
She transformed and followed Eternal Sailor Moon and Super Sailor Chibi Moon. Her own fuku, the one of Super Sailor Galaxia, was beautiful in the fading light of the sun. As the three beautiful warriors met up with the other senshi, thoughts were running through Anri's head.
I'm a strong senshi, mamma. I think it's time. No matter what happens in the future, I know one thing for certain. This is the last time I wear the sailor fuku. This is Sailor Galaxia's Final ride.