Chapter 2
"You are serious?" Usagi muttered, her voice shaky as she stared intently as her guardian cat. She instead gave her a sympathetic look. It was her fault after all that her princess was confused. If she hadn't mistaken their bond then they wouldn't be in this problem.
"Yes Princess, I am very serious. I am so disappointment in myself. How could I have not recognised you? I raised you! And you are wearing your mother's signature hairstyle! Good god!" she slammed her head on the bed as the last thing hit her head. Usagi's unique hairstyle wasn't out of the blue. Now she remembered the Queen's hair. Everything screamed that. What was wrong with her?
Luna was so busy beating herself up that she didn't notice Usagi's wide eyes and her open mouth.
"Wait, wait, wait! What do you mean you raised me? And what's this about my hair?" She leaned over her bed, which Luna was currently occupying and then scooped her up in her own arms.
Luna settled herself in Usagi's arms as she sighed. Wondering how start, she pulled her thoughts together and looked up at her owner. Even more so now that her identity had been revealed. She was always destined to be the princess's guardian. So she had been horrified at being attached to Usagi, because she knew that once the princess was revealed, she would have moved to wherever the princess lived. She couldn't have afforded to be attached to Usagi for the inevitable separation. Not to mention senshi's life expectancy wasn't the best because of their duties. So to find out that she really was her princess made things easier for her, yet it made her realise how dim she actually was.
"In your past life I was the one who practically raised you. Queen Serenity at times was busy being…well a Queen. So I was there for you all the time," she said, her eyes going glazed as the hidden memories surfaced. Of being in the palace. Of the Princess herself. As memories rushed, she blinked and looked up at Usagi in surprised.
Without her memories, she had painted Serenity as graceful as princesses were supposed to be. But as her memories were clearing, she remembered even in past Serenity was a free spirit. Always tending to sneak around and avoid work. Difference only was that in the past Serenity had been forced and trained to appear poise in front but in this incarnation she didn't have any rules imposed on her like that. Her personality thrived without the burden of royalty.
"Wait! So the queen's, my past mother's name was Serenity too? Did they run out of names?" she muttered while looking at Luna. Her absurd sentence brought her out of her thoughts and she looked up at her princess.
"Of course not! It was a Lunar Royalty tradition! Every daughter would be named after their mother, carrying on the line. Exactly as the hairstyle. The hairstyle you wear is what the Queen did, and what her ancestors did too. A signature of being the Lunar Royal. Subconsciously you must have remembered that, so you wore it that way…" Luna trailed as she rubbed her head on her arm.
"Huh! So what if the child had been a boy, would they have been named King Serenity?" Usagi trailed confused. She wasn't sure that name would go down well with any boy.
"What!" Luna shouted aghast at that absurd thought "No! That's not possible. The Lunar Royalty have always been girls. Even if there are boys, they usually come in pairs of twins, so a boy and a girl. But no lunar royal can only have a boy. They always will have one girl at the least. So the tradition can carry on Usagi. The Goddess Selene made it that way." Luna spoke in her matter of fact voice, re-educating the little Princess. She didn't really blame her. She, hadn't even died and forgot vital details. How could she fault Usagi for not remembering?
"What on earth does a goddess have anything to do with my past life?" Usagi screeched, not liking how she was jumping topics.
"The Lunar Royalty descends from the goddess Selene that's why," Luna spoke patiently. At that word Usagi let out another screech.
"You mean a part of me is a Goddess! Oh my god!?" She accidentally dropped Luna. At this she let out her own yelp but landed on her feet. Usagi looked down at her and smiled sheepishly.
"Sorry," she muttered while rubbing her head. Then her eyes went wide and she looked at Luna with wide eyes.
"Oh! Now we can tell the senshi that we don't have to look for the princess, because she is me!" Usagi squealed as she clapped her hands. But as soon as Luna heard that, her eyes bugged out and she jumped to land on the desk and look at Usagi in her eyes.
"Oh no, we are not telling the other senshis," she spoke firmly. Eyes filled with horror.
As soon as the words left Luna, Usagi's own jaws fell once again.
"What! Why not! Why on earth would you want to hide this news, when you have been making us work hard to find, well…me!" Usagi couldn't understand why Luna would want to hide this. Did she not trust the senshis? Her senshis? They were her partners and friends.
"Because. Right now, being Sailor Moon protects you. As Sailor Moon, you are not a threat to the Negaverse. Just a nuisance, a senshi. But if word gets out that you are the Princess they will target you because you are the rightful owner of the silver crystal. And the worst part is they will succeed. You don't have the power to defeat nor endure their power Usagi. Your power is in the silver crystal and right now the crystal is divided into the seven rainbow crystals. As long as you don't have the crystal, you are in serious danger. And if the senshi's now, they can slip up. So no. We mustn't tell them yet. Once we get our hands on your crystal and you unlock your full potential, then we will reveal everything. But for now, you must keep on the charade that you are the senshi of the moon, not the Princess. After we get the crystal, you will cease being Sailor Moon, its too dangerous. I am unhappy that we have to keep this charade on further," Luna muttered under her breath, feeling uneasy to keep sending her into youma battles now. But knew she had to continue it for her own protection. She started to think of excuses on how to convince the senshis to protect Usagi even more in the battles.
"So there is no other way I can defend myself apart from using the silver crystal?" Usagi wondered out-loud. At least now she had valid excuse for at times feeling useless as a senshi. She hadn't been one in her past life while the others had. Which explained why they had more effective offensive attacks and she didn't. Hers was through the crystal.
"No, the silver crystal is the most powerful crystal in the galaxy. There is only one other crystal which can equal its power," Luna trailed, as she remembered the dark haired young prince of Earth. She looked Usagi, feeling glad at time now that she didn't have her memories. She hadn't seen Endymion yet, so if she had remember, then Usagi would have been sad at not having found the young prince yet. Luna wasn't even sure if Endymion had even been reincarnated. If he had, shouldn't he have showed up by now?
"The golden crystal?" Usagi repeated, with wide eyes, as she looked at Luna. Feeling excited now.
"Yes, it was the opposite of the silver crystal but power and strength wise was an equal. It was the crystal which belonged to Prince Endymion of Earth, just as the silver crystal belongs to you." She hesitantly uttered Endymion's name, wondering if it had any effect in her at all.
As soon as she said that she saw Usagi visibly stiffen.
"Endy…mion?" she spoke it outloud. Just saying that name triggered feelings of intense love, happiness and utter agony. This paradoxical mix of feelings confused her. But as soon as she said the name out-loud, her dream from earlier became clearer in her mind and she remembered the prince in her dreams. She also remembered that she had called that name to him!
"Did the Endymion dude by any chance had really dark hair and wore a black and silver armour with black cape with red inside it?" Usagi wondered out-loud, as the dream flashed through her mind, more crystal clear now.
"What? Yes, how did you?-" Luna stuttered, finding it unbelievable that Usagi described the young prince's outfit flawlessly. Yes it was rather simplified but that's exactly what he wore.
"Just, I've seen him in my dreams. Umm, I think I've seen Endymion, in person," Usagi trailed as she sat down on her bed. She couldn't believe. She couldn't believe it, because now she had connected the dots. What were the odds that she was the Moon Princess and he was the Prince of freaking Earth!
"What! Who! Who is Endymion?" Luna demanded, eyes wide. How on earth had Usagi met Endymion and she hadn't? And how could she connect the dots and Luna couldn't! Maybe Usagi was mistaken! Surely she would have noticed him.
'But I couldn't recognise my own princess, what hope did I have recognising the prince of earth!'
She looked Usagi with abated breath. Then Usagi looked at Luna and smiled sheepishly.
"Well…the Prince in my dreams, he kind of threw roses to protect me. And I saw his back, the silhouette and posture, well they look identical to Tuxedo Mask…" Usagi muttered while looking at Luna while biting her lips.
Luna blinked. She opened her mouth and then closed it. After few more seconds she cursed loudly.
"For god's sake, how blind am I!"
