I notice many of you may not be reading all the other chapters for previous volumes of this series. If that is true, then I strongly recommend that you do so, so that you might be able to better follow along with the course of its related timeline or timelines. For otherwise, you might miss something along the way, as the events of the timeline occur. Reading all the existing chapters will hopefully help you all better understand where things have been, why things are as they are now in this story, and where things likely will go, as this series develops, folks.
Especially when it comes to the main characters in it, such as Serena, her sisters Destiny and Bethany, and others, for example. We will also see quite a bit more of Sylvia and Rolando in this series as well, among various others, for sure. And we will see more of the Scouts' special friends, as well, who we have already seen in this story series.
But before that happens, we will have to get everyone now on Tarokauni III back to the Moon, even if it's only the Moon of 174 BC at this point in time with this story. That will happen in this chapter, as a matter of fact. But there will still be a good amount of this story left, by the end of this chapter. And if my math is correct enough here, six or seven more chapters to post, after this one. Including at least with more fighting, before this story finally ends here.
With no further ado, then, let's see how the Scouts and their current companions manage to get back to the Moon of 174 BC, okay? Until later, I'll close this. TUS out.
On Or Near A Bridge Of Light
September 28, 174 BC
Kenokoa Beach, Katrelomisian Empire, Tarokauni III
By the time that the cross then began fading from Serenity's view at least to a noticeable enough extent for her, at least, the Sailor Scouts' camp was completely struck. And everyone else besides her in the party had begun to move toward the necessary bridge, after she'd told them all to begin do so. She told Chrysalis, Calypso, and Peppermint to watch one end of their party's group, and Skyhorse, Rainbow, and Jasmine to do the same for the others. Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus were to watch their left side. While Moon, Corona, Eclipse, and Mini Moon were to do the same for their right side. Her Beta-level Scouts were to protect their party from any possible attacks that might come from anywhere above the heads of their traveling party's members. Everyone else was to watch for any possible attacks that came from directions below them. Or they were to help out any of the other Scouts as situations might then require them to do so. She also told everyone to expect her to fly for a time over their heads to scope out their general location, through Moon.
When Moon and Mini Moon asked exactly how and why she might be able to do that, she said, "Girls, I can't tell you that right here. For it falls into the category of things I can't share with you right now, at least, if I'll ever be able to do that eventually. But do expect me to do somehow just as I've said for you all to expect here and now, Junior Sailor Moon and Super Sailor Mini Moon."
"Understood, Sentinel Serenity," responded Moon, seconds later, for all the other members of their traveling party. Then Serenity saw all her Scouts arrange themselves quite quickly as she'd just directed them to arrange themselves now. She waited until the first of the members of her traveling party began stepping onto the bridge of light, and then jumped off her rock, if she'd not already done so by then. She returned to their now-struck camp's bluff. And she paced off a certain number of paces, so that she could quite hopefully have a good enough idea of how much room she might then have available to her before she'd have to take flight, somehow, into the air. The cross still stayed visible to her, at least, if not to anyone else in her party as well. But it was still fading from view, just the same, here.
She quite quickly cleared an area that was at least six feet wide, and at least eight hundred feet long, of any possible debris that might cause her any conceivable enough trouble as she made her take-off run toward the area of the bridge, for the obvious reasons. And she did so rather quickly, in fact. It was completely clear of such debris within two minutes after the first Scout's stepping onto the bridge in question here. Whether or not it'd been that way before, it now was that way, within two minutes of Skyhorse's first stepping onto the bridge.
She then very briefly ducked into a nearby cave of sorts, and she called upon a certain power of hers that she'd used very rarely to date in her own life. For it'd often take quite a bit of her energy and/or strength for her to be able to use it periodically in her life, in fact. She might also not be able to use that certain power of hers again for a certain length of time afterward, once she returned it to its normal inactive state of being.
This power was quite similar to the power that Moon and Mini Moon might later have when they either wanted or needed to fly in the future, if it wasn't the exact same one in actual reality. She'd call for it, however, by saying "Celestial Wings, Activate!" as loudly as she could, without letting anyone else who was sufficiently sentient nearby hear it. Except for God, of course. If she could do this sufficiently well, at least two rather large and rather usable wings would soon enough appear just as if they'd just come out of thin air on the back of her current Sailor Scout uniform, somehow, whichever uniform it might actually be for her at such times as she might ever call for that power of hers.
She called upon that power. And once she felt those very same wings materializing on her uniform's back, she stepped out of the cave that she'd just stepped into briefly. By the time that she was five feet or so away from that cave, then, her wings were completely materialized and in the necessary orientations on her back. Two of those wings looked like multi-colored butterfly wings. While two of them looked like angels' wings in any number of artworks from any time in the Universe's own history or histories. Whether those artworks were from the current past, the current present, or the current future, in it or them, as the case might actually be for each and every single one of those artworks, that was still the case here.
The butterfly-like wings were closer to Serenity's arms, while the others were closer to her spine. And the ones closer to her spine were considerably larger than the butterfly-like ones, in fact. She could even control any or all of them just by thinking of doing so, for that matter. And she'd do so, of course, for all the obvious reasons.
She tested them to see if she'd be able to use them as she normally was able to use them in her life. She did this by first moving one wing of the four at a time, then both wings of a pair, followed by three of the four wings, and finally by all four of the wings, of course. She moved each and every one of the wings just mentioned as much as she could through their available areas of movement. First by rotating each and every one of them as much as she could through 360 degrees of a circle in a vertical enough orientation on her back, then by stretching them all out as far as she could do that here, and finally by moving them all up and down as much as she could between her head and her heels, either in front of or in back of herself. When she'd done all those things as much as she could with each and every one of the wings now in question, she paced off the distance that she'd just cleared for her take-off run toward the bridge at least once more. She did this then, for all the obvious reasons, just before she'd actually make such a take-off run toward the required bridge, of course.
After doing that at least once more, then, and making quite sure that it'd met sufficiently well with her approval, she returned to the place from which she'd begin to make that take-off run of hers toward that bridge. By now, half the Scouts, at least, were now on the bridge, if not more. She suddenly sent a wolf howl toward her Scouts to let them know that she'd soon enough be joining them, if possible. When she heard a lion's roar from Corona, she knew that they'd received her message, and that they'd acknowledged her sending of it.
Wasting no more time in doing so, she looked one last time at the place where she and the rest of her traveling party had spent at least a few hours while waiting for the now-invisible comet and now-fading cross to appear in their general area of the Katrelomisian Empire. And she looked at the road they'd most recently used in order to get to the western shore of Lake Kenokoa. She thought, "I think that I really might not mind leaving this place once and for all, if we never have to come here again involuntarily. I don't know if I might ever want to come to this world again someday. But if I ever do, I really hope that I'll never have to fight beings such as I and others with me had to fight here on this world again." Then she turned her face back to the bridge again, and she chose not to look back at where she and her companions had come to this place from. Not even once more, as a matter of fact.
She took a few quick, yet deep, breaths, just before she suddenly began her take-off run. Ten seconds into it, she was already at a speed of at least thirty miles an hour, if not even faster than that. Twice that length of time, she was at a speed of seventy miles an hour. And if she'd not already done so, she was beginning to lift herself off the ground below her feet. As she began to lift herself off the ground, if she'd not already done so, all four of her current wings began to move quite rapidly and quite efficiently as needed. She gained ten feet of altitude within three seconds of her feet beginning to leave the ground, in fact. And no more than a minute or so after her feet finally lost contact with the ground, she was at least a thousand feet, if not even more than that, above the nearest part of the bridge to her. The Moon-born Skyhorse was already four miles from the bluff, as she led their party toward the necessary mountain on the nearby mountain. The nearest Sailor Scout to Skyhorse was no more than twenty yards from her quite mobile position on the bridge, and about three or so miles in front of and below where Serenity was now flying over the bridge of light.
Serenity maintained an average altitude over the bridge's main level of about four or so thousand feet, whenever she could possibly somehow do so. And she did that whenever she could, so that she could see enough of the area around herself and her traveling party's other members easily enough, for all the obvious reasons, of course. While she did so, she also maintained voice contact with the other Sailor Scouts through Corona and Skyhorse, at least, if not through any of the other Scouts as well, in fact. Or at least whenever she could possibly do so while she still flew above all her party's other members, anyway.
She could see about ten miles in any direction, more or less, while she still flew about four or so thousand feet above the bridge's main level. She stayed aloft at least until the other Sailor Scouts were no more than about a Terran statute mile or two from the mountain's side of the bridge of light, if not even longer than that.
When a path leading from the bridge to a previously-undetected cavern in the mountain became sufficiently visible to her, she began to descend from whatever height above the bridge that she'd just been flying at here. Which, at the current time for her, just happened to be at least three miles, if not more, above the very tops of that mountain. This was because a rather sudden updraft had carried her to an altitude of at least 22,000 feet above the bridge's main level, if not even higher than that. But she still didn't do it too quickly, for all the obvious reasons, at the very same time. She then gradually descended toward that cavern. She did that while also periodically circling the very tops of the mountain now in question here. She descended at an average rate of about five hundred feet a minute. Even while she was still circling the nearest tops of the mountain now in question here.
There were three main summits to the mountain. And they formed a triangle, as well, in terms of their summits' positions on the mountain. The largest of the summits was the one that was closest to the bridge. While the other two summits actually formed an angle of about eighty degrees that had the largest summit as the vertex of that angle. The second of the summits was the vertex of an angle that was about 55 degrees in size. While the other summit was the vertex of an angle that was formed by the positions of the first two summits in relation to itself, quite naturally. That angle, then, took up the remaining available degrees for a triangle's configuration, of course. All triangles had a total of only 180 degrees of size available to them.
Ten minutes after she began to descend toward the bridge, then, she was no more than about a thousand feet above her Scouts, who were now about half a Terran statute mile, at the very most, from the end of the bridge attached to the mountain in question here. And no less than half that distance, at the same time, in any case at all. She cleared the last of the vertical struts that was perpendicular to the main level of the bridge by about twenty feet of altitude. And then she briefly circled it, just before she landed for just a moment on it. She adjusted the position of her wings for at least a few seconds, if not longer, as she judged the necessary angle she'd need to fly at in order to land safely enough on the bridge no more than about twenty feet in front of her most-advanced Scout on the bridge. And whether or not she'd be able to use those wings to also fly herself into the just-spotted cavern, as well.
She reached into an inside pocket of her current uniform, and briefly withdrew a small canteen of sorts from it. This canteen had a bit of water in it, as a matter of fact. She took two quick sips of water from it, and then put it back in the required pocket of her uniform, of course. With that done, she told her Scouts to stop moving forward immediately, so that she'd have enough room to land as planned just in front of them. She saw them comply immediately. And she watched them all either sit or stand in each of their current locations on the bridge as the mood struck each of them to then do here.
Fifteen or so seconds later, then, she arranged her wings again in the necessary orientations for her to make the last part of her descent to the bridge's main level. And she took three more deep breaths before leaping up into the air once again, as she'd originally done at least a little while before. She leapt up, and within another twenty seconds, she was two hundred feet in front of and above the last vertical strut of the bridge nearest her Scouts and the rest of their traveling party's members. She reached an altitude above the level of that strut's topmost part of about four hundred feet, before changing her main orientation into that of a steep dive. She began diving only once she was sure that she'd be far enough away from that strut to do so safely enough. She dove for two seconds at an angle of about 15 degrees from the perpendicular. And then she buzzed her Scouts briefly at a speed of about forty miles per hour, more or less, and at an altitude of about ten feet from the nearest parts of their heads, in fact. She swooped past them all, and into the just-seen cavern for a few moments, before she came back to them all in the required manner. Meaning, of course, while she was still flying in the air, for all the obvious reasons.
She hovered briefly over her chosen landing area, at an altitude of about twenty feet above their heads, and then began descending to the level of the bridge's main level very gradually, of course. She quite gently brought herself down to her chosen landing location. And she soon landed while facing toward all the other members of her current traveling party, in fact.
After she did so, Moon soon found her, and she exclaimed, "Wow, Sentinel Serenity! You were really something, it seems, while you were still in the air!"
"I can't often fly like that, Moon. I sometimes wish that I could, but I just can't, Moon."
"How much longer will you be able to maintain those wings of yours here, if I may ask you this here?"
"I don't know, Moon. But I think that I can do so for at least a little while longer here."
"Are they attached to your physical back or your uniform's back?"
"Moon, they're attached to my uniform's back, in fact. But I can still control them just as if they were actually attached to my physical back, Moon."
"May I ask why you flew into the mountain, then, Sentinel Serenity?"
"I wanted to see if our way home would be inside it, Moon. It is. If you all will follow me, then, I'll bring you to the necessary place inside the mountain."
"As you wish, Sentinel Serenity," answered Moon, a few seconds later, at most. Moon then told everyone to follow her and Sentinel Serenity into the mountain as needed, no matter who or what they might actually be. All of the other members of their traveling party then began to do so, as directed by Moon and Serenity, of course. Serenity then walked on the bridge toward the mountain, with Moon no less than about three to five or so feet behind the nearest part or parts of any or all of Serenity's currently-available Celestial Wings, for all the obvious reasons.
As Moon did so, she talked in a rather low voice with Serenity about various things that'd happened while the rest of their party had still been moving on the bridge with Moon. Serenity was rather pleased to hear her daughter tell her exactly what'd happened for her Scouts while they'd still been moving on the bridge in front of and below her. Or at least for the most part, she was rather pleased to hear about such things, whenever they came up in Moon's conversation with her. This, of course, was for all the obvious reasons, in fact.
Serenity and Moon led everyone off the bridge, and down a path that Serenity had earlier seen while flying above everyone else in her party. The path was of a nature that was at least a little similar to that of the bridge, but not entirely similar to it. Serenity still walked on it with a mood that completely matched her own name, even though it also had a great deal of distance beneath it. And even though the slightest misstep could quite possibly prove fatal for such a being, if they ever made such a misstep in their own lives. Moon was worried at least a bit about that very thing. But not enough to show it yet, most likely, if she ever might possibly do so. She too remained quite calm, at least on the outside, if not also on the inside. And she trusted that both God and her mother wouldn't deliberately cause her to misstep on the bridge for any reason whatsoever at all.
Corona followed her older sister at a distance of about ten feet, at the very most, as she too remained quite calm, for all the obvious reasons here. Eclipse came next down the path, followed in single file by other members of their traveling party as was then needed by them all here.
The path wound around the mountain partway, until Serenity came to a series of pillars of sorts. All of which were no more than about waist-height for Serenity, generally, whenever possible. Serenity touched each of them in turn, with whatever hand she needed to touch them with at such times. As she touched each of those pillars as needed, certain energy fields that she'd earlier detected from the air then lowered themselves just enough to allow the passage of the rest of her traveling party into the recently-detected cavern in the mountain. Those fields would come back up once all the members of her current party had gotten far enough into the necessary mountain here.
Serenity led her entire traveling party into the mountain now in question. And once she'd done so to a sufficient enough degree, she told Moon to form groups of Scouts that were no larger than about six at a time, if at all possible. As the last member of their party then entered the mountain, the gold cross above their heads finally disappeared completely from everyone's own sight.
Moon began choosing the necessary groups of Scouts here, as Serenity also walked to the center of the cavern now in question here. After doing that, Serenity suddenly jumped up onto various nearby projections of rock that periodically came out of the cavern's walls. She sprang from one projection to another, until she was then able to build up enough speed to fly herself up to the cavern's own roof. The ascent to that roof took a few minutes, due to the height of that roof being at least two thousand feet above everyone else's head. She grabbed one last projection near the roof, just before she reached it, and swung from that projection until she was able to fit her feet into certain holes in the roof. Those holes would then somehow allow her to be able to hang upside down from the roof at least long enough for her to reach over to yet another nearby projection, and to touch certain areas of that projection either with her hands, fingers, and/or wingtips as needed, if not even longer than that.
As the need and mood then arose for her to do so, she proceeded to touch the necessary areas of the required projection with her hands, her fingers, and/or her wingtips. That made a large enough hole appear near her in the roof of the cavern. This hole let in a great deal of light from outside the mountain's own shape and structure. The hole was quite deep, as well. And it ran up through the mountain from the roof of the cavern to a point about a hundred feet short and about twice that distance east of the largest summit's highest point.
The inside of the cavern then lit up quite a bit indeed. And it did so until a large computer console of sorts came into view in it, as well as six mirrors of yet-unknown design. The console was in the approximate center of the cavern, but not exactly. It'd been quite close to where Sentinel Serenity had only moments before jumped up onto one of the rocky projections sticking out of the cavern's walls, in fact. Serenity took her feet out of the holes she'd just put them into a little while before. And she then did a dive that consisted of three twists and half a somersault, in actual reality, here. She landed quite gently on her feet as well, not more than two feet from the console that was now visible here in the cavern. Her Celestial Wings quite soon enough vanished from everyone's view, once she felt she no longer needed them at the current time here.
She next began pressing certain panels on that very console, until the mirrors all began to shimmer quite brightly in a rather soothing pattern. After they began doing so, Serenity told the groups that Moon had earlier chosen to stand in front of one of them in a certain order. She assigned one mirror to each group, as she tied them all together with a series of commands that her Imperium Silver Crystal had translated into an understandable enough language for her sometime before she had to do just that somehow.
The first group consisted of Corona, Eclipse, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus, under the control of Mercury. The second group consisted of Bamboo, Calypso, Chrysalis, Cinnamon, Rainbow, and Jasmine, with Chrysalis leading it. The third group consisted of Saturn Beta, Uranus Beta, Neptune Beta, Pluto Beta, and the Moon-born Skyhorse, with Skyhorse controlling it. The fourth group consisted of Amilaram, Sierra, Paquasim, and Onziza, under the leading of Amilaram. The fifth group consisted of Firehawk, Sacala, Enisangob, and Ocabirama, with Firehawk leading it. While the last group would then consist of Serenity, Moon, Mini Moon, Peppermint, Luna, Artemis, and all of their current horses, for obvious reasons, of course. Serenity would control that group as well, quite naturally.
When all the chosen groups were in the required positions in front of their currently-assigned mirrors, Serenity told their members to each form a line no wider than the pane of each of those mirrors, headed by each of the necessary Scouts. Moon stood in front of the sixth mirror, and she patiently awaited her mother's eventual joining of her group, once the needed commands had all been input as needed into the now-present computer console of some yet-unknown sort.
Serenity began making sure that the necessary commands were quite accurately input into that console. When they'd been input enough to allow the first group to then depart the area they were now all in, she briefly notified the appropriate Scouts, of course.
Ten seconds later, Mercury led the first group into the required mirror, and she hoped that it wouldn't drop her or the rest of her group in a place they weren't expecting to land in, or in positions they weren't expecting to land in either. In fact, it actually held them inside it temporarily, and it'd do so at least until all of the groups' various members had been sufficiently accounted for somehow.
Exactly twenty seconds after Eclipse was the last of the Scouts to completely enter the first of the mirrors, Bamboo then led her group into their assigned mirror just as planned. As had happened with Mercury's group, Bamboo's group was also held inside their mirror for a time.
Then Skyhorse's group entered their assigned mirror, beginning to do so exactly twenty seconds after Sailor Jasmine had finished entering the second mirror completely. Pluto Beta brought up the rear for that group, as a matter of fact. When she completely disappeared from sight as well, her group's own mirror held them just as the first two mirrors had done with their own groups.
After another minute or two had passed, Amilaram's group was completely inside the fourth mirror. And it was being held in it for the time being, at least. Twenty seconds after the last possible sight of Onziza vanished from everyone else's view, Firehawk's group would have to begin entering the fifth mirror, of course.
Within yet another three minutes, then, Ocabirama was the last member of her group to completely disappear from the sight of everyone else who was still in the cavern with them. Serenity made sure that Peppermint would be able to ensure that all their horses would be transported as well by the required mirror, once she herself would have to enter it in her own particular turn, while Ocabirama and Enisangob were both still in the process of entering the fifth mirror. It'd be up to Peppermint to make as sure as she possibly could that all of their horses would be able to enter the mirror in question before she was the last member of their entire party to enter any of the mirrors, as a matter of fact.
Peppermint quite efficiently and quite confidently assured her future daughter that she'd do absolutely everything that she'd have to then do for the rest of their group's current members, once Serenity was completely inside the necessary mirror. No matter what it was, and no matter what it'd take for her to do that, she'd still do so, somehow, as a matter of fact. Serenity soon accepted that promise from her future mother with quite a bit of pleasant relief spread somewhat liberally all around her, and also with quite a bit of the mood that shared its own name with her there as well.
Just as Ocabirama then finished disappearing completely from view, Serenity checked the necessary panels on the console at least once more quite quickly, of course. With that done, she quite quickly ran to the necessary position in front of Moon, for all the obvious reasons, as Peppermint also started counting down seconds from twenty seconds after Ocabirama had finished completely disappearing from their views. When Serenity heard the numbers that Peppermint was counting hit five, she then stepped toward the proper mirror in the cavern. At the very instant that Peppermint hit zero, Serenity made direct contact with the required mirror's pane, and began entering it as needed. Within another twenty or so seconds, then, Serenity was sufficiently deep inside the mirror, and waiting for Moon to join her there in like manner.
After Serenity entered the mirror completely, Moon began entering it when her count hit zero as well. Next came Luna and Artemis, in that particular order, in fact, when their respective times required them both to do so. Mini Moon checked all the connections that were currently joining all the horses in a line to each other as Serenity and Moon were each entering the mirror in each of their proper turns, with at least a little help from Peppermint, whenever the need actually arose for that to be the case here. By the time that Artemis had completely vanished from the sight of all the horses, Mini Moon, and Peppermint, all of those connections had been unquestionably secured just as they'd need to be, for all the obvious reasons.
Exactly twenty seconds after Artemis had completely vanished from sight, then, Mini Moon established direct contact with the mirror's pane, and entered it as well. It didn't take her very long at all for her to completely disappear from the sight of Peppermint and all the horses, in fact. But she still was in contact with the horses, at least, if not also with Peppermint at the same time. This was actually the case here because of the fact that she was still somehow able to be holding onto at least one of the aforementioned connections that ran between the various horses, if not more than one of them.
Mini Moon quite soon began leading the horses into the mirror as well by periodically pulling on that very connection or those very connections, once she was sufficiently into it herself to allow her to also do that. And once the horses all realized exactly who was then pulling them into the mirror, if they hadn't already done so by then, they calmed down quite a bit indeed, and walked quite serenely into it in each of their respective turns.
After the very last of the horses that Mini Moon had then been leading into the mirror disappeared completely from her sight, Peppermint began counting down one last time for a period of only twenty seconds of time. As she did this, she took one very brief last look around the cavern, before she said, "Fully activate the Chrysanthemum Portals in five minutes, and transport all their occupants to the chosen coordinates five minutes later!"
The strange computer console acknowledged in like manner, "Orders received. Portals will be fully activated in no less than four minutes and fifty seconds, and transport of all their occupants will then happen five minutes later, unless the process is aborted, once the appropriate code is given well enough here. Confirm final orders for execution with the appropriate code, please."
Peppermint immediately confirmed the orders no more than four seconds, and no less than two seconds, before she'd actually have to establish direct physical contact with the required mirror's pane. And she did so quite quickly indeed here just by saying, "Chrysanthemum! Moon! Sailor! Execute! Execute! Execute!" After the last "Execute!" passed her lips, the computer said, "Final orders for execution confirmed! Code accepted! No further abort orders will be accepted at this time through this console! Good luck to you all, wanderers! May you all return to your homeworld quite safely indeed!" That was the last thing she was able to actually hear just before she established direct physical contact with the required mirror's pane, and before she began entering it. Exactly five minutes later, the portals would all be fully activated, as planned. And exactly ten minutes later, they'd then transport everyone to the coordinates Serenity had earlier chosen for them all.
Peppermint was completely inside the mirror she'd entered no more than thirty seconds after beginning to do so. She quite soon was able to find everyone else that'd entered any of the portals. And she told them all exactly what was going on, rather quickly, if they didn't yet know that at all to a sufficient enough degree, here. All of them soon arranged themselves in the same relative positions as they'd earlier been with each other when they'd been quite suddenly whisked away from the Moon and to Tarokauni III, if and whenever it was somehow possible for them to do just that then.
Exactly five minutes after Peppermint had established direct physical contact with the necessary mirror's pane, every single member of Serenity's current traveling party was in the same relative positions that they'd each been in, at least as much as they now could be, when they'd originally been whisked from the Moon to Tarokauni III in actual reality. They somehow stayed totally stationary for a period of exactly five minutes more, as they were all still in the process of being transported in the same manner, or at least in a similar enough manner, that they'd been whisked between both of the aforementioned planetary or lunar bodies anywhere in the known Universe. This was quite necessary, at least so that the flow of time could then be reversed enough to allow them to return to the Moon at the exact same time that they'd been carried away from it, if not for any other conceivable enough reason or reasons here as well at all, for all the obvious reasons, of course.
That time would be at whatever time of day or night they'd been carried away from the Moon for September 1, 174 BC. They'd still, however, somehow be able to remember all the things that'd happened to them over at least the last two or three weeks of time that they'd spent on Tarokauni III, most likely, if they were sufficiently sentient in each of their lives. Meaning, of course, if they were either of the cats or one of the Scouts, if not also any or all of the horses, for all the obvious reasons here.
They'd most likely also be able to use any or all of the powers and/or items that they'd discovered while on Tarokauni III, at least once more in their futures. If not more than once more for any or all of them, as well, in each of their futures. Or at least that was what they hoped would be the case for them whenever possible in their futures, for all the obvious reasons, if not for any other reasons at the same time or times in each and every one of them.
Exactly ten minutes after Peppermint had first established direct contact with the required mirror's pane, then, all of them were dropped back into the Moon's date of September 1, 174 BC, at the exact instant that they left it all earlier. It was then as if they'd never left, after the storm that'd taken them earlier from the Moon returned them to there, and rose back up into the sky just as quickly as it'd come down to whisk them away from the Moon. By the time that the storm that'd taken them away from the Moon had risen enough above the heads of all their traveling party's members, then, all the Scouts were back in each of their respective non-Sailor Scout states of being, no matter what they were in each of their own lives.
And they were in the exact same positions that they'd been in just before they'd been whisked up into the air by the storm that'd earlier grabbed them all up, after the storm then left them all quite behind once and for all. No matter what those positions actually were, they were all still in each of the exact same ones that they'd actually been in when they'd all been sucked up by the storm. And for that, at least, if not for any other reasons as well, they were all quite glad, as a matter of fact.
Okay, that's another chapter down, and now the Scouts and all their companions are back on the Moon, even though it's only the Moon of 174 BC. Several chapters still remain for this story, and there will be one more big fight before the Scouts can finally all return home to their respective proper time periods. Certainly many will not be happy about having to part from a lot of people that they will have met during this adventure of theirs. But they must all each return to their respective time periods, so that history can still unfold for the Moon Kingdom as it must in times later than 174 BC, of course. Or for those who come from times later than when the Moon Kingdom will fall, for sure, as well.
There are three more chapters left before the last fight in this story, and there will be three chapters after the chapter with that fight in it. So there are seven chapters remaining to the story after this one, folks. We still have about a third of the story to tell, but that shouldn't be too hard to do in the remaining seven chapters for it, I think.
Hope you have all been enjoying this story, and been entertained by it so far, and have been informed a great deal about the Moon Kingdom's history for this story's timeline, as well, folks. There's much more to learn of it in this and/or future stories in its series, for sure. But things will continue to get more dangerous for many in the Moon Kingdom and elsewhere, as it continues to develop, unfortunately. We know that the Moon Kingdom will fall, ultimately. But just how it does in this timeline, I still have not revealed, for it's not the proper time to reveal that sort of thing's exact details. In time, it will be, but not just yet, in any case.
Until the next chapter, I'll close this, then. TUS out.