Boat Trip and a New Life
Chapter One: Birthday Surprise
Usagi sat underneath the Willow Trees that relic in her back yard. Today was her 18th birthday. The day she can be considered an adult and she was sitting here drawing her new comic book. She had taken up drawing at an early age and then moved onto making her own comics. At the age of sixteen her friend Minako had found a Comic Book Publisher and saw to it that she showed him one of them. She did and he had liked it. Ever since she was an author for Comics more people have been asking her how she drew such characters, how did she get her ideas? Later that night when Minako had come over to tell her she had found a publisher, she found out it was for her sweet sixteen. Usagi was kind of disappointed, but to all the same rather excited to finally have someone look and like her comics, well beside her friends.
She and Darien had broken up when she was 17. She had fallen to like girls more than guys. She couldn't explain how or why, she just did. She had begun to like Ami at one point, but since no one had attacked Tokyo in two years, Ami had left and became a German Doctor. Later she had met a girl named Umiko Hayabrashi who she thought she could like, but later found out it was Darien's new girlfriend. Yet her heart did fall or feel heavy about learning that news, she actually felt happy for him. Though he won't be Prince of Earth or the Moon he was rather happy with his new life; from what she seen anyway.
Luna and Artemis had another kitten named Selene. She was grey as well, but a little fluff ball. She was less playful than Diana and a lot calmer. She was born about three weeks ago so Luna was still nursing her and Selene still needed time to grow up.
Rei and Minako had finally become singers like they wanted to do when they were younger. Rei owns the shrine now, her grandfather had passed away when they were sixteen and Minako owns her own professional Volleyball Court that they put in the new college they built two blocks down from Usagi's house.
Mikoto had moved a city away because she had found a bakery for sale and she had bought immediately and was now a successful bakery owner. Once in awhile she would send letters to her telling her that she still reads her comics as well as her other friends Rei, Minako, and Ami. She says that she gets a good laugh with them when she takes breaks at her shop and she needs to relax. Minako and Rei read them when they aren't touring and Ami only reads them sparingly since she has become a doctor and his little time on her hands.
Usagi continued to draw under the shade of the Willow Tree as she had thought about her friends. She had put bits and pieces of them in her comics and thought they were coming out great. Her parents are a big help with her stories, they were pretty much the comedy parts and her friends the more serious ones. She had also added some of their old enemies in the story as well like Queen Beryl, and Queen Nehelania.
She looked down calmly at her comic book. She had just finished her new one. IT had taken her nearly three weeks to get it down. She also had her other job at the publisher's office where she got to view other comics that was rolling in from other young and talented kids who wanted their comics to be seen around the world.
Usagi sighed. 'Another world. That's where I wanna be. Someplace different, somewhere I can let my wings free and not just kept in my Eternal form. I want to finally be queen of Crystal Tokyo. Someday I'll fly. Like Haruka down the race track or Michiru in the sea.' Usagi set her comic to the side and lifted her knees to her chest and rest her head down. Her hair was in the same way she had always had it, only it was a little longer. When she had it up, her pig tails would usually reach down to the middle of her shins. When she let her hair down it reached her ankles. She had desperately wanted to cut it to at least her waist, but Luna had refused because that was the style of the moon family and she had to honor them.
Usagi's hair whipped softly around her in the breeze as she fell asleep soundly. Her dreams were peaceful. She had seen herself at the beach with her friends playing around like they did when they were younger. Chibi- Usa was there playing with Hotaru and kittens in the sand. Minako was playing volleyball with Mikoto, Rei and Setsuna. Michiru and Ami were sitting at the edge of the water talking about what they wanted to be when they grew up. Haruka was lying in the chair next to Usagi sun-bathing and Artemis and Luna were trying to catch the crabs that would scurry away in the sand. Everywhere she looked she could see her friends enjoying themselves, but for her she felt like she was missing something, something important to her, to her soul.
A hand gently shook her shoulder and Usagi woke up. Her little brother Sammy stood there looking down at her, but then he smiled.
"You done with your next comic, sis?" He asked his now teenager voice. Usagi smiled and giggled. She reached for her new comic and handed it to him. He thanked her and told her that their mom had something in the kitchen for her. She said she would be in as soon as she finished picking up her art stuff that she used to draw the comics and her notes that helped her write more to the story line. As soon as she walked into the house she headed straight for the kitchen get a glass of milk. Her mother was sitting at the kitchen table with her father and brother. Sammy had his nose glued to her book. Her mother and father smiled at her and then handed her a card. She could obviously tell it was a birthday card. She opened it and gasped.
"Four tickets on a cruise to Hawaii. Oh my god! Thanks mom, thanks dad. So are we all going to Hawaii, just the family?" She was excited to receive such a big gift and couldn't wait to go shopping for new clothes and bathing suites.
"Well actually the three other tickets are for who ever you want to go, honey." Her mother smiled softly. Her little girl was now a grown woman and she knew she could make her own decisions. She didn't need her old mom anymore to do that for her.
"Well I already know who I want to go with me." Usagi smirked a little and looked at her brother you looked up from her comic. "I want you three to come with me. It'll be a fun family outing. We haven't had one in years." 'Yeah the last one we went on, the evil-brainwashed-Prince Endymion had attacked us.'
"Are you sure you want us to come with you?" Her father asked her in a curious tone.
"Yes. I'm positive that I want you all to come." Usagi smiled as she saw her brother closed her comic book and high-tail it up store singing one of his songs when something good happens. Her mother and father stood up as well and smiled to her. They gave her a hug and then her mother grabbed her hand and pulled her to the door.
"Well then we better get shopping." The two laughed as they walked out of the house.
Two hours later after Usagi had returned home from shopping, she had already finished packing for two week long vacation. She was lying on her bed with Luna, Artemis, Selene and Dian lying next to her on her bed.
"So yeah, Luna, you and the others get to have some time to your selves just to hang out and do some family stuff. Sounds like fun. You won't have the annoying-crybaby-always late girl around here for two whole weeks." Luna laughed.
"You have grown up Usagi. You aren't the annoying-always late-crybaby- piggy-little-girl we all new all those years ago. When you defeated Chaos you've changed and I think it was for the best. You are now fit to be a queen."
"Thanks Luna. Well I think I need a good nights rests for tomorrow if I wanna be awake for the first day of the cruise." Usagi leaned over her pillow and turned off her lamp and then she cuddled down into her deep violet blankets and fell asleep.
"Tomorrow is going to be a big day. Good night." Usagi whispered and Luna, Artemis, and Diana had said good night as well. The four cats sleeping quietly next to her.
Usagi sat underneath the Willow Trees that relic in her back yard. Today was her 18th birthday. The day she can be considered an adult and she was sitting here drawing her new comic book. She had taken up drawing at an early age and then moved onto making her own comics. At the age of sixteen her friend Minako had found a Comic Book Publisher and saw to it that she showed him one of them. She did and he had liked it. Ever since she was an author for Comics more people have been asking her how she drew such characters, how did she get her ideas? Later that night when Minako had come over to tell her she had found a publisher, she found out it was for her sweet sixteen. Usagi was kind of disappointed, but to all the same rather excited to finally have someone look and like her comics, well beside her friends.
She and Darien had broken up when she was 17. She had fallen to like girls more than guys. She couldn't explain how or why, she just did. She had begun to like Ami at one point, but since no one had attacked Tokyo in two years, Ami had left and became a German Doctor. Later she had met a girl named Umiko Hayabrashi who she thought she could like, but later found out it was Darien's new girlfriend. Yet her heart did fall or feel heavy about learning that news, she actually felt happy for him. Though he won't be Prince of Earth or the Moon he was rather happy with his new life; from what she seen anyway.
Luna and Artemis had another kitten named Selene. She was grey as well, but a little fluff ball. She was less playful than Diana and a lot calmer. She was born about three weeks ago so Luna was still nursing her and Selene still needed time to grow up.
Rei and Minako had finally become singers like they wanted to do when they were younger. Rei owns the shrine now, her grandfather had passed away when they were sixteen and Minako owns her own professional Volleyball Court that they put in the new college they built two blocks down from Usagi's house.
Mikoto had moved a city away because she had found a bakery for sale and she had bought immediately and was now a successful bakery owner. Once in awhile she would send letters to her telling her that she still reads her comics as well as her other friends Rei, Minako, and Ami. She says that she gets a good laugh with them when she takes breaks at her shop and she needs to relax. Minako and Rei read them when they aren't touring and Ami only reads them sparingly since she has become a doctor and his little time on her hands.
Usagi continued to draw under the shade of the Willow Tree as she had thought about her friends. She had put bits and pieces of them in her comics and thought they were coming out great. Her parents are a big help with her stories, they were pretty much the comedy parts and her friends the more serious ones. She had also added some of their old enemies in the story as well like Queen Beryl, and Queen Nehelania.
She looked down calmly at her comic book. She had just finished her new one. IT had taken her nearly three weeks to get it down. She also had her other job at the publisher's office where she got to view other comics that was rolling in from other young and talented kids who wanted their comics to be seen around the world.
Usagi sighed. 'Another world. That's where I wanna be. Someplace different, somewhere I can let my wings free and not just kept in my Eternal form. I want to finally be queen of Crystal Tokyo. Someday I'll fly. Like Haruka down the race track or Michiru in the sea.' Usagi set her comic to the side and lifted her knees to her chest and rest her head down. Her hair was in the same way she had always had it, only it was a little longer. When she had it up, her pig tails would usually reach down to the middle of her shins. When she let her hair down it reached her ankles. She had desperately wanted to cut it to at least her waist, but Luna had refused because that was the style of the moon family and she had to honor them.
Usagi's hair whipped softly around her in the breeze as she fell asleep soundly. Her dreams were peaceful. She had seen herself at the beach with her friends playing around like they did when they were younger. Chibi- Usa was there playing with Hotaru and kittens in the sand. Minako was playing volleyball with Mikoto, Rei and Setsuna. Michiru and Ami were sitting at the edge of the water talking about what they wanted to be when they grew up. Haruka was lying in the chair next to Usagi sun-bathing and Artemis and Luna were trying to catch the crabs that would scurry away in the sand. Everywhere she looked she could see her friends enjoying themselves, but for her she felt like she was missing something, something important to her, to her soul.
A hand gently shook her shoulder and Usagi woke up. Her little brother Sammy stood there looking down at her, but then he smiled.
"You done with your next comic, sis?" He asked his now teenager voice. Usagi smiled and giggled. She reached for her new comic and handed it to him. He thanked her and told her that their mom had something in the kitchen for her. She said she would be in as soon as she finished picking up her art stuff that she used to draw the comics and her notes that helped her write more to the story line. As soon as she walked into the house she headed straight for the kitchen get a glass of milk. Her mother was sitting at the kitchen table with her father and brother. Sammy had his nose glued to her book. Her mother and father smiled at her and then handed her a card. She could obviously tell it was a birthday card. She opened it and gasped.
"Four tickets on a cruise to Hawaii. Oh my god! Thanks mom, thanks dad. So are we all going to Hawaii, just the family?" She was excited to receive such a big gift and couldn't wait to go shopping for new clothes and bathing suites.
"Well actually the three other tickets are for who ever you want to go, honey." Her mother smiled softly. Her little girl was now a grown woman and she knew she could make her own decisions. She didn't need her old mom anymore to do that for her.
"Well I already know who I want to go with me." Usagi smirked a little and looked at her brother you looked up from her comic. "I want you three to come with me. It'll be a fun family outing. We haven't had one in years." 'Yeah the last one we went on, the evil-brainwashed-Prince Endymion had attacked us.'
"Are you sure you want us to come with you?" Her father asked her in a curious tone.
"Yes. I'm positive that I want you all to come." Usagi smiled as she saw her brother closed her comic book and high-tail it up store singing one of his songs when something good happens. Her mother and father stood up as well and smiled to her. They gave her a hug and then her mother grabbed her hand and pulled her to the door.
"Well then we better get shopping." The two laughed as they walked out of the house.
Two hours later after Usagi had returned home from shopping, she had already finished packing for two week long vacation. She was lying on her bed with Luna, Artemis, Selene and Dian lying next to her on her bed.
"So yeah, Luna, you and the others get to have some time to your selves just to hang out and do some family stuff. Sounds like fun. You won't have the annoying-crybaby-always late girl around here for two whole weeks." Luna laughed.
"You have grown up Usagi. You aren't the annoying-always late-crybaby- piggy-little-girl we all new all those years ago. When you defeated Chaos you've changed and I think it was for the best. You are now fit to be a queen."
"Thanks Luna. Well I think I need a good nights rests for tomorrow if I wanna be awake for the first day of the cruise." Usagi leaned over her pillow and turned off her lamp and then she cuddled down into her deep violet blankets and fell asleep.
"Tomorrow is going to be a big day. Good night." Usagi whispered and Luna, Artemis, and Diana had said good night as well. The four cats sleeping quietly next to her.