I run down away from the flat and out into the fully blown storm. the silver lightning escaping the dark clouds scares me just as much as the fierce roars that comes with it. i am running out with my light green raincoat, the hood hiding my blonde odongos like a young frightened child.
Dumplings, that's what Mamoru called it. at first it was a light tease but lately it is more playful since two years ago we remembered memories of our past life in the moon kingdom and discussing our future in crystal Tokyo with Chibiusa. That can't happen now, nor can Chibiusa. i think about the tiny bratty girl who tormented me. pink-haired rabbit we protected against the moon clan. the one who fought beside me. moon sisters, mother and daughter.
i never knew how much i would miss her. I think of her as i dash into a telephone box to escape the leaky rain. i imagine her on King Endymion's shoulders, getting a piggyback. i imagine her disappearing. Neo Queen Serenity holding her in a close embrace, her darling daughter fading from her grip. it stabs my chest with a sword of guilt.
I am her Mother, Mamoru her Father. that is what we have been informed. i think of how it could happen now. it can't. when we were at the harbour, the golden sun setting in the pinky purple sky, i asked him this, : do you love me?
he said yes. of course. we had a kiss. i felt like the one and only sailor suited pretty solider even though there are heaps. it was like a tree of Scouts. It was me, then Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Venus. then chibi moon, Saturn, Pluto, Neptune and Uranus. it progressed until it was as if the tree was in spring, a beautiful cherry blossom of incredible power saving our new home. Earth.
Mamoru was there too. he transformed into Tuxedo Kamen. His cape a shield, his thorny roses a sword and a funky extendible cane. it came in handy when i was captured in the black moon clan creepy castle.
if he saved me then, would he save me now?