This pertains mainly to the original Japanese manga.
Credit goes to Mori no Kami for correcting my Japanese. (though neither of us pretends that it's perfect)


It wasn't as if she was thinking, "I'm going to compose a poem." Neo-Queen Serenity wasn't even that poetically inclined, but somehow standing in above the crowd of the people on the balcony cheering, she wondered how much she had really lost.

A pain jabbed her in her middle. She still hadn't recovered from the labor from that morning. Endymion flashed her a look of concern. She smiled and tried to get out of her head the poem that kept nagging her.

The moon was full and then the poem formed in her mind more clearly. She thought,

"きみの悲しい目見たい
もっともっとあたしの手知ったい
涙中で幻の内
海の堅海が満ちたい
でも、悲しいを伝て
エウトピアのプライス見せて"

It was only a thought. Perhaps it was said before. Perhaps someone had said these things to her, but she could not remember who or why they would said these things. It was time. Luna stood besides her with her new crown to be placed on her head. Destiny had come.

The pain in her belly did not compare to what others had suffered before her. But she pushed those thoughts back. She summoned her voice and spoke to the crowd...


Michiru and Haruka idly packed. They hadn't spoken to each other all week. But it was what needed to be done. They both knew the truth. Neither of them really wanted to speak of it, so they didn't say anything at all. The old Victorian house was going for sale. Crystal Palace was built. But the truth was...

Hotaru smiled at them brightly, which was rare for her to do. Perhaps she was just trying to cheer them up, but somehow it seemed so empty.

"Haruka-papa, Michiru-mama, is it true that Setsuna-mama is going to leave?"

"We already told you that she was," Haruka snapped. It was a bit more harsh than usual.

Michiru expected her to be irritated. If it was in her, Michiru thought she would feel the same, but as it was she didn't. It just felt empty as the coming nostalgia threatened her. Hotaru had been acting more like her appearance's age than she had in the past. It had gotten more pronounced in the last week.

Michiru never expected Hotaru to ever act what she appeared to be. But the truth was this was the last chance Hotaru ever would have to be a child. Saturn and the castle there would be lonely and not much of a comfort. Hotaru had to leave the planet as Sailor Saturn, and spend her time maintaining the shields. Michiru looked at Haruka with this thought. She did not want to think about it.

Setsuna had disappeared a long time ago. None of the Senshi from the Outer Solar System knew where she was. It was clear that the time had come. Michiru had no one to tell of the coming danger. She needed no one to tell, she expected Haruka to be the same.

What Haruka had built for herself as a life would end today. Everything that ever meant anything to her would end in duty. She would not race cars, run track, or go to concerts. She did not have anyone to tell of the danger. She did not need to. Those who she would tell would never listen. She did not care to save them anyway.

Hotaru looked at her remaining parents. She was going to leave today. She was going to abandon her friends and spend life along on her planet or until the invaders got past the shields. She missed Chibiusa--but the memory of the cone-odango-ed girl was getting harder and harder to remember. She didn't know she was going to be subject to such memory erasure as well. Sometimes she wondered, "What's the point of abandoning everything?" But then duty called her stronger than when she needed to eat or drink. It was a need she needed to answer. If no one protected this solar system, then who would? Chaos was coming to the planet. If they could prevent it, it might be worth it. Without Pluto to guard her planet, the shield would be weaker. They needed to work hard to make it happen.

Hotaru left the room and took her bags downstairs. The front room was a mess. It had several large boxes for things to sell or give away. However, Hotaru had no reason to stay one extra day. What needed to be done was done. As she left the house that's when the memories of her friend disappeared.

The first wave had come. They were too late. Chaos was here.

A large cloud spread over the city. The once blue sky was instantly covered in black. Hotaru could hear screaming in the distance. She knew what was happening. Chaos had come to corrupt the minds of the people. It would get revenge for what Eternal Sailormoon and Usagi had done to its body. Hotaru, even though it was rare, let a tear slip down her cheek.

Haruka and Michiru were instantly beside her. They had felt the presence of Chaos. Haruka made her crystal appear before her. She was going to transform.

"Haruka--Haruka. We cannot help. We cannot stay. This is their fight now," Michiru said.

"It is our fault that Chaos entered. We must help." Haruka said sternly.

"We cannot stay. It's their battle now. You know that."

"What if they fail? What then? Will we watch the destruction of the Earth like we did before!" Haruka shouted.

"We will come back if they lose the battle," Hotaru said darkly.

Both of the older soldiers knew what this meant. The Earth and everything in the solar system would be destroyed. Everything. Chaos could not live in this solar system. Nothing escaped the Silence Glaive. Nothing.

"You would let this happen?" Haruka asked. "How do you feel about just letting people die?"

Even Hotaru knew it was more than that.

"We should leave now," Michiru replied.

All three transformed, and they took their bags with them. They transported themselves to their castle.

A brilliant light penetrated the darkness over the city. Hovering above the city was the graceful figure of Neo-Queen Serenity.

"If you do not get healing from this crystal you will not survive! Come to Crystal Palace!" she announced over the city.

The light penetrated the darkness, but it was not enough. The Sailor Soldiers--the remaining ones--stood by her side. King Endymion took his place beside her and the battle that would take months began. The one that would banish those who were infected with Chaos would be banished. But by then no one remembered, and people were already dying from Chaos's attacks. Only one person that remained knew of what was to happen. But she was not one to give away the future or secrets of what was to come. Setsuna. Meioh Setsuna, Sailor Pluto. She wanted to watch from afar. Events had to happen as she knew they would.

In the mail, Michiru, Haruka and Hotaru had written a good-bye to Neo-Queen Serenity and King Endymion. The couple was married now, and the child was going to be expected within a few months. The Sailor Soldiers from the Outer Solar System knew they could not stay. Each wrote their own letter, and in the letter, Michiru wrote what she knew would soon disappear with time. It was a poem.

The three worked diligently on the shields. With time Neptune hoped that Chaos would be eliminated. It took them several weeks, especially without Pluto's expertise on the matter. It was when it was over, and the atmosphere of Earth was still black with the presence of Chaos that Neptune and Uranus finally had time to share alone.

Neptune and Uranus met in Triton Castle. They said nothing for a long time. Whatever they might say to each other was useless right now. They would not be able to live together, and be together for a very, very long time. If destiny was cruel, this was the proof of it.

But in the silence Neptune brought out her violin. She made the violin cry. It cried for a long, long time, playing a piece that Michiru herself had taken time to compose. Now as Sailor Neptune she played it perfectly. Yes again, no words were needed. When the last note was drawn, Neptune took Uranus's hand. She looked into her eyes.

"Uranus, you asked me how I feel," Neptune said.

Uranus was silent.

"I feel that my violin will only cry until I can be with you again."

Uranus nodded her head. They would meet again. They would be together again. If destiny was cruel, fate was not. Like Endymion and Serenity, they'd met over and over again, became partners, friends and came to know each other so well, that the simplest gesture meant something more. Every quirk the other had, they knew more than they knew their own. But right now, destiny was stronger than fate.

Michiru placed a paper in Haruka's hand. Haruka opened it as she walked away from her lover.

"Kimi no me kanashii mitai
Motto Motto atashi no te shittai
Namida naka de maboroshi no uchi
Umi no katsumi ga michitai
Demo, kanashi o tsutate
EUTOPIA no PURAISU misete."

Only the sea knew where the wind was going, and the wind could only reply with a soft howl.


The coronation was short, but hard. Standing in high heels for a good hour or so, and trying to swear to things that she said she would do for the world was hard. Even Naru-chan seemed to be exhausted and bored with the proceedings. While she hadn't come to Usagi's wedding, she had come to Crystal Palace. Umino was there too, but Neo-Queen Serenity wondered who was not. Even as her stomach cramped, she remembered those who did not make it. She wondered if all this was worth it. When she was 14, she knew she would have been delighted to think she would be queen, but now, somehow it seemed so very empty.

The truth was that Neo-Queen Serenity was in no shape to do such a ceremony, on her feet or otherwise. But she held out for as long as she could, ignoring the pain. After King Endymion took his place, he tried to brace her, but she proudly refused it.

It was only when she got back to their room that she let the mask slip from her face. Exhausted, Neo-Queen Serenity collapsed in her bed. Doctors swarmed around her. Several of them checked her vitals and intruded on her with various probes to see if she'd held up during the ceremony. At the moment she didn't care.

"How do you feel?" Endymion asked placing down their crying daughter on the bed. It was a relief to know she could cry. She was hungry.

"I feel like a planet landed on me," Neo-Queen Serenity replied a bit crossly.

"No, about what's happened," Endymion asked.

He knew her all too well. Even through her bitter mood and exhaustion, she felt her heart melt a bit when he spoke like that.

"Neptune... Long ago, she told me a poem. One before she left for the outer rim of this solar system. I think this is how I feel."

She rested Small Lady in her arms to let the baby feed. Through some bit of idiocy on her part, she had not asked for the drugs. She thought that the Ginzuishou would protect her. Of course this ended up being folly, but she needed the political illusion that this was so. This allowed her to breast feed, though she was still tender and tired from the day's work.

She quoted softly,

"You want to see my sad eyes
More and more you want to know my hands
Tears inside my Illusion House
sea of sea mist want to be full.
But sadness follows me
Look at the price of Utopia"

END


I swear I didn't know Neptune and Uranus had to break up. I swear it. Oh that's the end, that's the whole story. If you want more sorry, that's it. Oh and I'm sorry if the Japanese didn't show up properly on your screen. (And it is the same poem). And yes, I wrote the poem so, no I don't need to beat my own drum. I composed it in Japanese first, translated it in English later. I make no pretends that it's perfect.

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