Raina had debated back and forth on calling the police. She wanted to, however she knew from formative years, that they wouldn't look yet. Not until a certain time limit had passed. Especially since nothing extra had been taken.

Yet it didn't still her shaking hands or quivering stomach in the least. She knew she wouldn't be able to calm down unless she could hold them again in her arms. For now, she paced her home, restlessly going from one room to the next, trying to find some clue of what had happened.

On her third circuit around the house, the door bell rang startling her from her thoughts.

The shot of hope went through her as she went to the door. Maybe he just forgotten his keys? He used to do that when he had been studying for his doctorate... She wondered, idly, if his nightmares were the cause of this one. Maybe..?

"Coming." She said, hoping her voice was steady, even though her throat felt dry. Maybe it's him.. maybe...

However, as she opened the door, she felt hope deflate at the men that stood there on her porch seemed to be looking around expectantly. Nervous and not wanting to let them know she was very much alone, she kept the door semi-closed staring up at them.

"Can I help you?"

"Is this the Chiba Residence?" The blonde asked nicely enough. Though there was something about his eyes..

Raina pursed her lips, "It is." Her eyes flickered back and forth, "Is there something I can help you with?"

"We're looking for a Mamoru Chiba." The brunette told her flashing a smile, "We were hoping to find him here."

"What do you want with him?"

The wheat blonde sighed in annoyance, "That is between us and your boss."

"Excuse me," Now Raina's eyes narrowed threateningly on him, "Mamoru is not my boss. He's my husband." She got an extremely satisfied feeling at seeing that look being wiped off their faces. "I think I've heard enough. Get off my property before I call the police."

The tallest of the four shot a look at the wheat blonde, who just seemed to cower a little under it. He then turned to look at her, "I apologize for his rudeness." He told her, "He's young and hasn't been socialized well."

"Hmph." She wasn't impressed. "No excuse. Get out and leave me alone."

"Please, if you would-"

"Would what?" Now she was completely losing her patience. Not only that, she could feel tears welling up, stinging her eyes. "What do you want? why don't you just leave me alone already? Go to his office!"

"Ma'am.. we did but-" The other blonde paused for a moment, "Well they said he hadn't come in."

"And they gave you our home address!" Raina was outraged. How could they do that?

"No, no.. please, just hear us out." the tallest one again. "If we may introduce ourselves?" At her continued silence, he went on, "I am Kunzite. These are my friends, Jadeite, Nephrite, and the rude one was Zoisite." He bows slightly to her, "We are the Four Heavenly Kings."

She raised a brow at the names, "What are you? A boyband?"

"No, but if you give us a few moments of your time, we will explain."

Raina looked from one to the other before she finally nodded, "Allright, but under two conditions."

Relieved, Kunzite smiled, "Anything."

"First," She held up one finger, "Take off your shoes. I rather not vaccum today." She lifted up a second finger, "Second, Zoisite has to apologize for being rude."

"What?!"

"You heard me." She folded her arms, "You apologize, or you can sit in jail for ten hours or so. What do you say?"

Zoisite looked to Kunzite and the others at a loss before closing his mouth. He then bowed to her while saying his apology.
"No, like you mean it." She chide him.

He sighed, though acknowledged that he had no one but himself to blame for this. "Please accept my humblest apologizes, my lady. I was wrong to address you in such a rude manner."

After a moment, Raina smiled, "Good." She turned and went inside, "Take off your shoes before you come in here."

Mamoru didn't hear the gasp from the others in the room. In fact, it felt like all his senses had dampened and focused tightly on the woman in white. He knew, with utterly startling clarity, that it was her. The woman that had haunted his dreams in more than one way. This woman he had a strange unnameable connection to. He had no idea why he stood up, or if he even did so consciously.

He just knew that the moment she touched his cheek with her hand, the eyes filled with a certain kind of longing, that he lost himself. Going back..back to a place he's certain he's never been before.

Yet, he could see it- even feel it- by the touch of her hands.

She was younger in his vision, not a queen...princess? Yes, a princess. He saw himself and her under the moonlight kissing. It flashes to a profession of love and a gift of some sort, yet he can't see it clearly. The flashes came faster than he could completely grasp it. It felt like he was reliving them now.

'Endymion?' the princess had drawn closer to him in this one, 'What are those black rocks?'

'I do not know.' he had said to her, sensing danger, 'They appeared one day.'

Then the images changed to people- he can't see their faces well- but he knew he trusted them. They were like family and to hear them say these things, hurt and ached.

'Stop this madness!' he had shouted protecting the princess but it was no use. They had to go. They had to warn the Queen (but what queen? He doesn't know but it was important.).

He sensed, rather than saw, the darkness creeping up on him and her. That someone called out to him and he turned to tell them something. Another familiar but too consumed by darkness. And then-!

'Endymion!' The princess was screaming, crying..he hadn't...she should run. she had to run but he was..

Mamoru stumbled back from the queen's grasp, feeling sick and sweat matting his forehead as if he had been running too fast and hard, he felt his vision swim.
"It..was you.." He panted, "The princess in my dreams...Princess Serenity."

"You should sit down." Mercury advised, her voice tinged with worry. "At this rate you'll pass out."

He shook his head but did sit, running his hand through his hair, "What.. what was that? What is all this? Why-" He was at a loss for words for a moment. This was impossible! "Why did I see that? Why are you calling me Endymion?"

There was a pained look that crossed the queen's face, yet she seemed to have made up her mind. "Luna..can you bring his memories back? With the mind meld?"

Luna blinked and frowned as she thought about it, "I..well perhaps, yes, I think I can."

"Mind meld?" Mamoru eyed them warily. "What is that?"

"It'll help clear up your confusion about this matter by reawakening your past-life memories." Mercury explained handing him a glass of water.

Venus moved over to the queen, whispering, "Are you certain about this?"

"Shouldn't we?"

"There's no real guarantee that he'll stay, you know." Venus looked at her seriously, "He has a child with another and also married. Do you really want to make him choose?"

That made the queen hesitate. For so long she had dreamed of him, dreamed of the time they may be together. Now, with him before her- so close- and yet...

She steadies herself, in a quiet voice she asked him, "Do you wish to remember?"

Mamoru frowned, "Remember...?"

"It is up to you to decide if you wish to remember the past." Serenity told him quietly, "I cannot make this decision for you."

Mamoru sat back for a long while, thinking before finally, after what felt like an eternity, he looked up at her, "I wish to remember."

"Now you two stay out of trouble." Jupiter was telling Chibiusa and Nijiko, "I have to go check on something."

"We will!" Chibiusa told her with a smile, "I'm going to show Nijiko the play room!"

"Very well then." Jupiter smiled at them before leaving the girls alone to their own devices under the eye of Diana.

Nijiko was still looking around in amazement, "Everything is so pretty- like a fairytale!"

"I guess it does.." Chibiusa giggled, "Come on, we can play dress up and Diana can be our baby."

"Okay!"

Diana pouted, "Why am I always the baby?"

"Because," the princess grinned as they entered the very large room filled with toys and a swing set, "you're little enough to be one."

For a while the girls played in the playroom, Chibiusa taking pride in showing everything to Nijiko, even letting her have one of her many dresses.
"I got lots of them." She had told her friend, "I'll get more anyway, so you can have it."

Once Nijiko was dressed in the shimmering blue dress, Chibiusa proposed they go exploring.

"I want to show you something really cool!" She said. "Mama has this really pretty crystal in the prayer room and there's this really neat mirror in her room too."

"A crystal? Mirror?" Nijiko was puzzled by this. What could be so interesting about those? Then again, she thought the crystal would be pretty at least, but mirrors are just...mirrors.

"You'll see." Chibiusa told her as they hurried down the marble and crystal hallway with giant pearls wrapped around the columns. "It's this way!"

"Slow down!" Nijiko pouted and glanced over at Diana, "What's the crystal she's talking about?"

Diana mews softly, keeping up. "Well, it's this really powerful crystal that belongs to the queen. My mama said that it's an heirloom to the royal family and only those of royal blood can bring out the full potential of it."

"Oh.." Nijiko said pondering, "What's Potential?"

"I think it means stuff you can do but haven't done yet?" Diana's ears went back. "I don't think we should see the crystal, though. It's really important to everyone. Papa said that if it disappeared, it'll mean everyone will be in danger!"

Nijiko slowed her pace, now cautious. "Maybe we shouldn't, Usa?" She felt nervous, staring up at the door where the crystal was supposedly kept. "If it's that important, maybe we should do something else?"

"Why?" Chibiusa felt a bit put out. She really wanted to show Nijiko the Silver Crystal. "I can get in with Luna P!"

"But-"

"Luna P!" The toy zoomed over to it's mistress from wherever it's been and landed in her hands. "Great, now.. just wait." Chibiusa said holding it up to a strange key pattern. It was a few long intense moments before the keypad clicked and glowed. With the doors sliding open, Chibiusa grinned at her companions, "See? What did I tell you?"

Nijiko worried her lower lip and reached out to grab Chibiusa by the shoulder, hiding behind her. "Is-is it safe?"

"Of course it is." Chibiusa walked in, though ehr heart was pounding like crazy. She had only come here with her mother once before when she was younger.
Her mama had told her it was important and that it could heal everything and defeat any bad things that could come. "There it is.." She whispered as they drew closer to the Prayer pillar with the round crystal floating before it. "The Silver Crystal."

Nijiko's eyes widen, mostly because she felt.. weird..not a bad weird but a good one. Like a warm comfortable thing. She thought it was a lot like being hugged by her Mommy and Daddy. Safe..warm...but also there was something strong but she didn't know how to really describe it. Like something..something was glowing inside of her...

Diana glanced around nervously but looked up at Nijiko and Chibiusa. She was about to warn them again, when she noticed something about Nijiko's body. Something was there, she could see it, but she didn't know enough to know what it was. Other than it was similar to Chibiusa's normal glow.

She thought to tell her mama and papa about it later.

For now she had to get the girls out of there. "I hear footsteps!" Diana told them, "We better go!"

"Right." Chibiusa nodded and smiled at the startled Nijiko, "Lets go to mama's room and see the mirror."

"Ok."

So the trio rushed off from there, as to not get caught, and headed to the Queen's room. Chibiusa pushed the door open and smiled brightly at the huge soft white bed and the large paintings that were everywhere. It was one of her favorite places in the palace.

"Wow, her room is really pretty." Nijiko said slipping in behind Chibiusa. "It's like an entire house could fit here!"

"I guess so." Chibiusa commented and went over to the usual place where her mama kept her jewelry. "Mama has a lot of interesting books and stuff." She started to spread the jewelery around. "Everything is really pretty.."

"Hm.." Nijiko nodded but looked towards the elaborate mirror. "Wow.." She walked up to it curious and touches the cool glass. "It looks cool."

"Mama told me that there was another world on the other side of it." Chibiusa said holding up a crystal earring. "That my grandma, Queen Serenity, locked something bad away there."

"Really?" Nijiko looked over at her, "Is it still there?"

"I don't know." Chibiusa picked up another piece, smiling, "But she said that since Queen Serenity that it's safe and the spell keeps us safe from those people."

"Oh." Nijiko eyed the mirror, finding herself staring deeply into it. Something in the depths of the mirror darkened and shifted before her. She leaned closer trying to figure out what it was. "Usa..there's something there..."

Chibiusa hadn't looked up, "Hm?"

" U..Usa..." Nijiko backed away, "Th-there's something in the mirror!"

"What do you ..." Chibiusa trailed off, " mean.."

Before them was the image of a beautiful little girl with black hair pulled up into thick pigtails with round buns on either side of her head, with cat-like eyes and a soft smile. "Come to me." she said to them, "Come play with me..please?

Nijiko felt as if she was floating. The child in the mirror didn't sound bad at all. She even sounded lonely. Her dress was really pretty and she had pointy ears like an elf. Nothing that pretty should be so bad... "How..?"

Chibiusa was struggling between singing the child and a stranger image flickering between it of a wizen old woman, but she wasn't sure which was real. She decided that the best thing to do would be to run, but to her surprise- she couldn't move!

Oh no! She thought, ruby red eyes widening as she saw Nijiko sink into the glass. Niko! NO!

Just then, Diana jumps up and nips Chibiusa's ankle, causing the girl to yelp in pain, but it freed her from the spell she was under.

"Diana!" Chibiusa looked at her advisor in confusion.

"Not now!" Diana rushed forward, "We have to save Nijiko!"

"Right-!" Chibiusa lunged to her feet and ran towards her friend who was disappearing into the mirror. She gasped as she saw that the child in the mirror had been a lie and it was really a strangely dressed wizen old woman that held Nijiko by the hand. "That's not a girl! Niko! Niko, wake up! It's not a girl! Niko!"

But they were too late.

The two hit the mirror, Chibiusa could only helplessly watch as her friend was dragged way while she beat at the door calling out to her.

"Niko!"