SAILOR MOON: 1987
ANOTHER DISCLAIMER: Naoko Takeuchi created Sailor Moon, I didn't. I created what I created, and nothing more.
ORANGEFAIR PLAZA, FULLERTON, CALIFORNIA
DECEMBER 30, 1986, 6:15 PM
"Sailor Moon!" Golden Hawk said. "Use your Moon Stick!"
"Right," Sailor Moon said. "Moon Healing, Escalation!" she said, pointing the Moon Stick at Sister Mayhem, and firing a crescent shaped beam of pure white light at her, changing her back to a nun.
"What happened?" the nun asked, as she returned to normal.
"Same thing that happened to me last week," Golden Hawk said. "You and I were two of the hosts of the Seven Great Beasts."
"Seven Great Beasts?" the nun asked.
"Eons ago," Luna said, coming up and sitting on Golden Hawk's shoulders, "there was something called the Legendary Silver Millennium Crystal. To keep it out of the hands of those who would use it for evil, Queen Serenity divided it into the Seven Rainbow Crystals. In each of the Rainbow Crystals, Queen Serenity sealed one of the Seven Great Beasts, and sent them into the future, where each Crystal was reborn inside of one of seven people. Golden Hawk here was host of the first beast to be revived, and you were the second. Zoicite doesn't care about the hosts, except he wishes to use the Seven Great Beasts to cause destruction and death to Earth. He just wants the Seven Rainbow Crystals, to recreate the Legendary Silver Millennium Crystal, in order that his master, Metalia, could gain the power to take over Earth."
"I pray that never happens," the nun said.
"It won't," Golden Hawk said, removing the Blue Rainbow Crystal from the pouch where he put it. "He needs all seven to recreate the Legendary Silver Millennium Crystal, and I have the Blue Crystal. Someone else has the Yellow Rainbow Crystal, the one that was taken out of me. As long as just one of us doesn't lose our crystal to Zoicite, the world is safe. I ask you pray that never happens."
"I will," the nun said.
"I can't put my finger on it," Sailor Moon said, as she transformed back into Usagi Tsukino, "but there's something familiar about that nun. Like I met her before."
"You have met her before," Ikuko Tsukino said, arriving to where the Sailor Soldiers were, just as they changed back to their civilian identities. "In a way, that is. Usagi Tsukino, I would like to introduce you to Serena Campbell, your birth mother."
EPISODE 14: USAGI LEARNS THE TRUTH
"My birth mother?" Usagi asked. "She can't be my birth mother, my birth mother is dead, she died giving birth to me."
"That's what I wanted Kenji and Ikuko to tell you," Serena Campbell said. "I thought if you thought I was dead, you wouldn't try looking for me."
"Why wouldn't you want me looking for you?" Usagi asked.
"Because," Serena said. "Let's just say I wasn't exactly brimming with pride that I gave birth to a daughter on my sixteenth birthday. And besides, back in 1970, girls my age didn't raise children as single mothers. At least, not in respectable families. When I first found out I was pregnant, I was pressured to terminate the pregnancy, but I didn't want to. I'd known Ikuko Maeda for years, she and my older sister have been best friends pretty much forever. She had just married Kenji Tsukino when I found out I was pregnant, they agreed that once I gave birth, they would adopt you. I named you Usagi, after my favorite aunt, Bunny, who was the only one besides my sister who didn't turn their backs on me when I got pregnant."
"I thought you named me Bunny," Usagi said.
"In a way," Serena said, "I did. I just named you Bunny in Japanese, since you were going to be adopted by a Japanese couple. But as much as I didn't want to be reminded of my past, I loved you more than anything. I knew Kenji and Ikuko could and would give you the life you deserved. I also knew they would nurture your kind heart. They've been sending me letters, ever since they adopted you, telling me all about you, and also sending me photos. You could say I've watched you grow up into a beautiful, kind, and generous young lady, the daughter any mother would be proud of. Not long after you were born, I had a calling, and joined a convent, and you are the only link I have to the life I had before becoming a nun. The only link I want to have. I didn't want you looking for me, but I knew one day you would find me, I just never imagined it would be like this. I'd heard of Sailor Moon, I just never imagined she would be the daughter I gave up all those years ago."
"You know?" Usagi asked. "How do you know?"
"You just transformed right in front of me," Serena said.
"Oh yeah," Usagi said.
"I'm sure you have at least a few questions for me," Serena said.
"Would it upset you too much if some of those questions had to do with my biological father?" Usagi asked.
"Not at all," Serena said. "I figured you would want to know about him as well. His real name is Mike Landis. He just turned 18, the night you were conceived was the night before he was to ship out to Vietnam. I loved him. Anyways, a couple months before you were born, I got a telegram from his brother. He said that Mike's platoon was ambushed by Charlie, they wiped out half the platoon, Mike included. He had turned 19 the day before he died. He never knew I was carrying his child. I thought it best not to tell him, since I already decided that Kenji and Ikuko would adopt you."
"Your father and I never had any regrets about adopting you," Ikuko said. "Like Serena said, we kept her updated on you, sent her pictures of you, and wrote letters about you. However, we didn't tell her that you were Sailor Moon. I know Serena's your birth mother, but your father and I felt that wasn't our secret to tell."
"And I appreciate that," Usagi said. "Anyways, where's Golden Hawk?"
"I saw him disappear just as I got here," Ikuko said. "Tossed a pellet down, and disappeared in a puff of smoke, like a ninja or something."
"He doesn't really like to stick around longer than he has to," Usagi said. "At least, not as Golden Hawk."
"Usagi," John McCoy said, returning to the scene of the last battle.
"John," Usagi said, running up to him, and giving him a quick kiss. "There's someone I want you to meet. Serena, this is John McCoy, my boyfriend. John, this is Serena Campbell, my birth mother."
"Nice to meet you," John said. "Usagi's not only my girlfriend, she's also my best friend, and the candle that lights up my world."
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