Crystals of Love: Destined Couple
Title: Crystals of Love: Destined Couple
Author: kazeko
Show: Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon
Rating: PG13
Chapters: 4
Complete: no
Series: Crystals of Love: Tales of the Heart from Crystal Tokyo
Couples: Haruka/Michiru
Timeline: "A Child of Darkness and Light", "The Last Sacrifice: The End of the Silver Millennium", "CAS 1: The Trouble with Love is the Lovers", "CAS 2: To Defy Destiny", "Every Cloud", "Crystal Shards", "CAS 3: Unwilling Accomplice", "Our Past 1: The Reason We Fight", "CAS 4: Princess of Light", "Our Past 2: The Reason We Still Fight", "Our Past 3: The Reason We Fought", "CAS 5: One Last Shining Star", "In the Darkest Forest", "Destiny or Duty", "Desperately Searching", "Kazeko", "Chronicles of the Star Senshi 1: The Gathering", "Chronicles of the Star Senshi 2: Castle in the Sky", "Chronicles of the Star Senshi 3: Queen of the Moon", "Chronicles of the Star Senshi 4: Separation Anxiety", "Crystals of Love: Betrayal", "Crystals of Love: Forsaken", "Chronicles of the Star Senshi 5: Black Moon Family", "Crystals of Love: Destined Couple", "Horoscope"
Time: 1000 years after "Kazeko"; during the Black Moon crisis
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters or the songs I'm using. All of the songs are from the anime or the Musicals.
Chapter 4: Motto Suteki na Asa ga Kuru yo
Haruka and Michiru formed a shield around them, pouring their power into the blue and gold shield, listening to the scream as Neptune's power fought the combined power of the two Senshi. Michiru could feel Haruka's power surround her, protect her, pull her away from her planet. The gases of the giant planet reached up, reached for Michiru, and Haruka forced her planet to fight back. As the power of the two gas giants met, an explosion of gold and blue light filled the area, and Michiru gasped as something inside her changed, clinging tightly to Haruka as they flew away from Neptune, both closing their eyes as a cloud of garnet power caught them.
Haruka and Michiru opened their eyes to find themselves staring at a pair of white boots and the heel of a very familiar staff. They pushed themselves up, Michiru touching her belly, as they looked into Setsuna's garnet eyes. "Setsu-chan."
"At least your memories are intact." Pluto watched as Uranus helped Neptune to her feet, as always protective of the smaller senshi. "Are you two ready?"
"Ready for what?"
Pluto rolled her eyes. "Come now, don't tell me you've forgotten the stories the younger senshi liked to tell you about how they defeated the Black Moon Family in the past? How Usagi was infected with a deadly poison and Makoto kept her alive with blood transfusions until she had nothing left to give? When Usagi slipped into a coma, Makoto planned to give all of her blood to save the princess the next morning. I was watching and I knew that she would not survive the night."
"But she did. Ami told us that she woke up the next morning when Mamoru went to her. She mentioned that she detected a strange power signature . . ." Michiru trailed off, sapphire eyes wide as Setsuna nodded. "Usagi has O-type blood. Makoto has O-type blood, which is why she was able to donate. But that day, Ami detected sea-power in Usagi's blood. And the third Senshi with O-type blood is . . . me."
"Correct. The two of you need to follow me into the past to save my daughter at the most critical moment in the battle with that poison. She has to survive to see the sunrise or Mamoru and Chibiusa will never be able to save her and the future. We will fight the Black Moon Family in our own way."
Michiru nodded and pulled Haruka after her as she followed Setsuna toward a fog-clouded door in the distance. "Setsu-chan, I thought you were exploring the next galaxy over with the Star Senshi."
Pluto glanced over her shoulder and rolled her eyes. "You've been dead a long time, Michiru. I control time, remember? Besides, the Star Senshi should be back in time to celebrate the fall of the Black Moon Family."
"Isn't Ailan lonely?"
"She's not lonely because I am still with her, in Andromeda."
Haruka groaned and shook her head. "Setsuna, there are too many of you wandering around right now. There have been two of you for centuries already."
"Soon there will only be one. Me. Well, the me currently in Andromeda. Right now, it is the night after the Black Moon Family is vanquished and Ailan is sleeping peacefully. She's pregnant again. After seeing so much death she wanted more life. She'll tell you when you return that she's thinking about conceiving that night, and you should tell her to go for it. She'll be happier, trust me. When she wakes up, I will be back by her side and our daughter and granddaughters will be safe once more."
Michiru reached out and caught Setsuna's arm. "Pluto, Usagi only has one child."
Pluto blushed. "I forgot that you don't know yet. Usagi has been pregnant for a month now and she hasn't told anyone yet because she knew that it meant the Black Moon Family was coming. She'll tell you when Small Lady returns."
Michiru sighed. "I hate paradoxes."
"Someone called?" Another Sailor Pluto, this one in her first evolutionary form, stepped out of the mist as the trio reached the Time Gate. "Oh, it's you. Are you heading for the past?"
"Of course. The future does not need my help. I told you that Neptune and Uranus would be along shortly, and here they are."
"Free of your planets, then? Have fun on Ancient Earth, and please protect the princess and her daughter. Oh, and Happy Valentine's Day."
Haruka and Michiru exchanged a shocked glance as the older Pluto nodded. "Yes, about that. I know it seems strange, but make sure that any other Time travelers who pass through—the Senshi-shaped ones—end up on the same day. I need Serenity to awaken on Valentine's Day. She will find the coincidence amusing, and she will be more likely to announce her pregnancy. Come, let us go."
"You are so strange, Setsuna. Have you gotten worse while I was dead?"
"Possibly, Michiru. Possibly."
Doctor Mizuno sat beside Usagi's bed, sighing softly. There were no more senshi sitting outside the window, no more guards. She felt like she was losing a daughter, and she knew, deep in her heart, that Usagi would never wake from her coma. The blood transfusion was her last hope, if she survived to see the morning. What she hadn't been able to tell the senshi, what her daughter's computer couldn't tell her, was that Usagi was almost sure to die before sunrise. She had taken a second to consider her options before telling Makoto to wait until morning. As much as it broke her heart to lose a patient, Usagi's chances of survival were so slim that all the blood in the world wouldn't help. Given the choice between letting Usagi die or losing Makoto in a blood transfusion with little hope of bringing the blonde back, Kae had chosen to save Makoto. She knew that she had signed Usagi's death sentence, but she'd rather lose one patient than two. She was ashamed to realize that she hoped Usagi died before morning so Makoto would live. Kae knew the senshi wouldn't ever see it her way, even her daughter.
Kae dropped her head into her hands and sighed, glancing up when she caught a movement out of the corner of her eye. Three women appeared in the room, dressed in Sailor fuku, but they weren't senshi she knew. Even the fuku were strange, with double skirts, tall boots, long white gloves, long ribbons hanging from the bow in the back, and a star in the center of the front bow. One had long green hair and red eyes, her black and dull red fuku a perfect match for her coloring. She held a tall staff in her hand, a round garnet orb on top. By her side stood a senshi with powerful emerald eyes and short blonde hair, arms crossed in perpetual defiance, her fuku gold and navy. Though she wore a skirt, there was a definite masculine air about her. By her side, an extension of her soul, stood a woman with sapphire eyes and aqua hair, her turquoise and light blue fuku indicative of a water nature. They were very powerful, comfortable in their Sailor fuku, and Kae knew they were much older, had been senshi much longer, than Ami and her partners. The three smiled at Kae, glancing at their princess in the bed.
"She really is bad off, isn't she? Poor Usagi-chan. I barely remember her being this young and this blonde. Pluto, can we really help?"
"That's the idea, Uranus. You're Mizuno Kae?" The doctor nodded. "I'm Sailor Pluto, and this is Uranus and Neptune. We came from the future to help our princess."
"Wh-what do you mean?"
"Neptune has type-O blood; she's the third senshi that does. Usagi does need another blood transfusion, but it would kill Mako-chan. I won't allow that. She only needs enough strength to survive the night. Something will happen in the morning, depending on how well I did my job. Can you do the transfusion yourself?"
"Yes, I suppose."
"Good. Neptune, sit in the chair and take off your glove. None of the senshi can know about this, Mizuno-san. It's not time for them to meet the Outer Senshi yet. I trust you can keep a secret."
"If it will save poor Usagi, I can." Uranus sat on the arm of the chair beside Neptune, taking her partner's free gloved hand in hers. Kae knew without asking that they were lovers, partners in all things, and she smiled as she prepared the shorter woman for the blood donation. "You must love your princess."
Pluto smiled. "More than you can know."
"And pour your power into me."
Uranus closed her eyes and sent the power of her planet to Pluto, her mate echoing her actions. Pluto felt the power of Saturn join the others, accompanied by an amused chuckle. "As if I would have forgotten."
"Thank you, Hotaru-chan. Your parents will return shortly."
"I know."
Pluto sent the gathered power of the four planets through the portal in front of her, pouring it into the spirit of Endymion she could see standing outside of the pillar of black magic the Black Crystal exuded. She felt Usagi absorb the power of the four Outer planets and the four inner, followed by Earth. Smiling, she closed the portal.
"Well, that went well. Are you two ready to return to your present?"
Neptune nodded, rubbing her arm. "She looked so weak, Pluto. So small and fragile. I don't remember her being that young and tiny."
"Physically she has never been big, it's just that her spirit and her capacity for love are so huge that she seems bigger than life. She will be fine. We got to her in time." Pluto stepped through the Time Gate and headed for the present.
Neptune and Uranus stared out across the empty, darkened city. "Well, at least we can wipe that evil plague off this planet. Neptune, Pluto; with your help?"
Neptune raised the Aqua Mirror into the air, Pluto raising the Garnet Orb on the top of her Time Key, and Uranus raised her sword. "Aqua Mirror!"
"Space Sword!"
"Garnet Orb!"
"Cleanse this city of the darkness!"
Light from each talisman exploded forth, the aqua, gold, and garnet meeting between the three women, a familiar golden grail appearing above them. White light from the Holy Grail spilled forth and covered the land, the three Senshi transporting into the palace as the white light reached for the slumbering queen. Her soul fled back to her body from a thousand years in the past, the crystal around her body shivering and then shattering, crystal shards carpeting the floor.
TBC . . . the section with a sick Usagi and Michiru donating blood is from "Every Cloud"