Back in Time. A Love Story.
By oranjitenshi
Chapter 4 The Plan, Memories Part 1
Disclaimer: I do not own sailor moon.
A/N: Once again I have to excuse myself with you minna, but there have been a lot of things going on that have made it almost impossible for me to write as much as I would want, I promise that even if it takes a while I will continue with this story and hopefully I will update faster during Christmas break. I hope you enjoy this chapter and once again gomen nasai. Please read and review!!
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Everyone slowly entered the palace, looking with amazement at all the little details that the decorations of the walls, ceiling and even the floors had on them. It was incredible how Queen Serenity had managed to rebuild everything to the last detail, even those that to the simple eye would be considered insignificant.
After a few minutes of walking, the queen stopped in front of a wall that didn't seem to have anything in particular, until she pressed a little engraving on a pillar that would never have been noticed, and the wall started to separate, letting it clear that not all things inside the castle could be what they seemed. Stepping into the room, they saw a lot of machines that covered most of the walls.
"What is all of this mother?"
"The reason I made all of you come here today. I know that your memories of your live in this palace are very few and most of them make no sense or are just very horrible, so I am giving you the choice of returning those memories if you want them, but before I must warn you that if you decide to take my offering, I won't be able to extract the sad memories from the happy ones, all of them will come together…" said Queen Serenity looking at each one of them. "You don't have to answer right now; you will have until tomorrow evening to give me your answer. For now lets retire for today, it is getting late. Girls, Luna will be the one to take you to your rooms."
As she was summoned, Luna appeared in the middle of the room in her human form.
"Is good to see you all again"
"Luna, it's good to see you again too" Usagi answered as she approached and embraced her guardian.
Luna, never having had the opportunity to hug her charge back, felt an indescribable feeling as they hugged; she was like a daughter to her and didn't want anything bad to happen to her, being able to demonstrate that sentiment on a simple hug, was one of the most important things to Luna at the moment.
"I missed you too Usagi-chan" Luna said looking at the young princess. "Well girl, follow me, I'll take you to your rooms"
With that the scouts left with Luna, leaving Mamoru and Usagi with the queen.
"Follow me you two, I'll take you to your rooms"
And they started to walk through the halls again and going up flights of stairs.
"We are here Endimion, this will be your room" said Queen Serenity pointing to the door right next her. "And that was your old room Serenity, so you can have it back" she said pointing to the very next door.
"This is where I leave you, think about what I said, in the end it's entirely your decision, after everything you two went through is understandable. We will see each other in the morning; try to rest all you can. Good night"
Usagi and Mamoru looked at each other trying to seek an answer in the other's eyes that wasn't there. They said good-bye with a kiss and went to their respective rooms.
When Usagi entered, she didn't recognize anything in particular but somehow knew nothing was misplaced; the bed, the dresser, the decorations, everything. She approached the bed and laid on it, thinking.
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Hours passed and Usagi didn't seem to be near sleep, she had a lot of things roaming in her mind. She really did want to remember what had happened in her past life, but what is what she found was something she couldn't take.
Usagi couldn't take being in bed anymore, so she walk to the window and opened it to reveal a balcony. She looked to the sky to see Earth gazing down on her.
"What should I do?" she asked no one in particular, half hoping someone would appear and give her an answer.
Suddenly, on her hand appeared the golden star shaped locket, it was feeling her distress and as an answer to those feelings, it opened itself to reveal its sweet melody.
In the other room Mamoru was in a state much the same as Usagi. He kept thinking of what would change if they remembered their pasts.
After some time a melody interrupted his train of thought. He would recognize that melody anywhere. He followed the sound to hid window and went out to find his princess on the next-door balcony with her eyes closed.
"Shouldn't you be resting Usako?" he said startling her
"Oh Mamo-chan, did I wake you up?"
"No, I couldn't sleep. So, you didn't answer my question"
"I couldn't sleep either so I came here and the locket appeared out of nowhere"
"I guess it felt something was wrong"
"Probably… I really don't know what I want"
"I don't know either, but we still have time to decide"
"I know"
Mamoru could feel her distress from their link, e wished he knew what to tell her and comfort her, but he didn't have an answer to her question. So he decided to clime to the rail of the balcony and jumped to where Usagi was standing. After a few moments they both went to each other's arms seeking for comfort.
"I know it's not easy Usako, but will get through this, we have done it before"
And they stayed like that for a long time until Mamoru felt Usagi relaxing and falling fast into slumber. At that moment he picked her up gently, took her inside and laid her on the bed. After tucking her in and watching her for a few moments, he went back to his room to try and get some sleep.
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The next morning came and the royal advisors, Luna and Artemis, awaked all the girls and Mamoru. After much effort, everyone was up and ready at the dining hall for breakfast.
Queen Serenity didn't appear in the dining hall during the curse of the meal. Usagi wasn't sure what that meant; she hoped her mother wasn't mad about anything.
The day went by very quickly; all of them stayed in their rooms, thinking what they were going to do.
By the time Artemis came to tell them it was time, they had everything sorted out.
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"Well here we are all again, remember this is something you are forced to do this… it is your own choice" said the queen as they entered the room. "Now I want that those who don't want to do this take a step back" After a few moments no one moved and the queen smiled.
"Very well, girls go to the machines that are behind you with the color of your respective planet. Serenity, Endimion come her to the center"
The girls stepped to the machines and entered them. Then the program recognized each of them and the door closed in front of them. Seconds later a sleeping gas invaded the small chamber, making the girls fall asleep instantly and to start glowing indicating that the machine was working.
2Alright, the girls have begun the process, I'll ask you both again… are you sure you want to do this, both of you have strong memories that maybe you don't want to know about" asked the queen looking at them with concern in her eyes.
Usagi looked at Mamoru and in his eyes saw that he wanted the same as she did, so she took his hand in hers and turn to look at her mother.
"We are sure, we have been through so much, and we can do this if we are together"
"Very well then, if you both are sure, step into the compartments here in the center"
Usagi and Mamoru walked towards the machines, and with one last look at each other they entered it slowly. After a few minutes they felt sleepy and fell through a black pit back to their memories.
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It was a sunny day; a little princess Serenity could be seen running through the paths of the palace garden. She loved to see the flowers, the birds and the butterflies.
"Serenity! Serenity where are you?"
"I'm right here Luna"
"Luna, in her cat form approached the young girl.
"Princess, your mother is looking for you, remember that today it's very important"
"Yes I know Luna, but I thought I had enough time to come and play in the garden. I will go and seek my mother right now"
And so princess Serenity stated to go towards the palace, where her mother was waiting for her. Luna couldn't help but see the young princess had learned so fast how to act towards adverse situations and give the correct answers, she could really amaze everyone sometimes.
As soon as the princess entered the palace halls she started to greet everyone that she crossed with, every servant, every guard, every maid. Her cheerfulness was well known all around the kingdom. Her smile could bring light to any room and cheer anyone who saw it. Also no one that met the princess could find anything to hate her for.
Soon, Serenity reached the throne room where her mother was sitting at the end of the hall.
"Serenity dear, come we have to be ready to receive our guest, they will arrive at any moment now"
"Sorry mother, I guess I lost track of time"
"It's alright my daughter, I know you didn't mean to"
'Sometimes I wonder if she is growing up to fast… sometimes she doesn't act like the children her age, perhaps now things will change" the queen thought.
Minutes later Luna entered the room.
"Excuse me your majesty, the guests have arrived, they are at the palace entrance"
"Thank you Luna will be there shortly to greet them"
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Endimion couldn't believe his mother would make him come to this strange kingdom only to meet a silly princess that probably was just the same as the ones back home. After a few moments the doors opened to reveal behind them two figures, one tall and another small.
"Welcome King Alexander, Queen Gaia it is an honor to finally meet you"
"The honor is all ours Queen Serenity. Here I present to you my son and heir Prince Endimion" Said King Alexander while little Endimion stepped up front and bowed.
"It is a pleasure being here at your kingdom Queen Serenity"
"You are very welcome here young prince, now I would like to introduce you to my only daughter, Princess Serenity" the little blond appeared from behind her mother and bowed to the king and queen and afterwards to the prince in front of her, to whom she gave a big smile.
Endimion was taken aback by the brightness of the girl in front of him, he didn't know how to react towards her, she was like no princess he had seen before; all of them looked like they where fake, but this one looked totally different he just couldn't put a finger as to what was different.
"We will leave you two alone while we have a meeting, get to know one another. Serenity you could show Prince Endimion the palace grounds" said Queen Serenity while all the adults entered the palace's halls.
A few minutes where past in an awkward silence, but then Endimion managed the courage to speak first.
"So… what do we do now?"
""Do you like horses?"
"Yeah why?"
"Well we have a stable that is near here, would you like to go for a ride?"
"That sounds great!"
After that both children started to run towards the stables where they found Henry, the keeper of the horses.
"Hello Henry! I came to take Sunlight for a ride"
"Well hello little princess, I haven't seen you in a while… and who is your companion this morning?"
"Oh, this is Prince Endimion, he is one of our guest from the Earth"
"I'm pleased to meet you young prince, will you be accompanying the princess on this morning stroll?"
"Yes Mr. Henry, if you have a horse I can borrow"
"Please don't call me Mr. Your highness, any friend of the princess is a friend of mine. Now why don't you two wait outside while I prepare your horses"
"Thank you so much Henry!" said the princess; giving him the same smile she had given Endimion a while ago. Again Endimion didn't know how to react, her smile was something he could not understand.
After a few moments Henry came outside with a white horse and another one black. Serenity seeing him ran towards him started to mount the white horse that Endimion had supposed from the beginning was Sunlight.
"This one is here will be your horse prince, his name is Lightning and is pretty friendly"
Endimion approached the horse with caution, after he mounted he knew everything was safe and he and Serenity parted to stroll around the grounds. That's how they spend the rest of the day, Serenity showing him her favorite places around the castle, even some whom not everyone knew about. Both royals where becoming fast friends, and Endimion found in Serenity that had he had been missing until that moment, a person who could make him laugh and at them same time wasn't around him because he was the future king.
After the stroll they returned to Henry so he could take care of the horses, then Serenity and Endimion, walked towards the castle and Serenity showed him where his bedroom was so they could get ready for dinner.
"Well I'll see you at dinner prince Endimion"
"Princess wait!"
"Yes, is there something wrong?"
"No, I just wanted to know… we are friends right?"
"I would like to think so yes"
"Well then if we are friends could you call me Endimion or Endy, that's how my friends call me?"
"Only is you call me Sere instead of princess"
"Alright" said Endimion shaking her hands. From tat moment he was sure they would be friends for a long time.
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A/N: Well minna there you have it. Once again I'm so sorry about the delay but my studies haven't let me dedicate a lot of time to my writing and it's starting to get frustrating (that's why I wanted to give you a chapter that is somewhat long)… But I won't give up on my story.
I want to thank all of those who have read my story; especially to those who have written reviews, it helps a lot to know that you guys like the story, it's what keeps me writing.
Next chapter I hope it won't take to much time, but who knows. I'll make an effort to finish it soon. See you on the next chapter and remember to review!!!
Oranjitenshi.