Chapter 24

Sailor Terrors: Past Life Stories

The karaoke party was winding down and people were all getting anxious to leave but of course no one wanted to go home until the situation with Pluto, not being able to transform, was resolved. Unfortunately the problem couldn't even be discussed with Naru there. Everyone was at a loss as to what to do. Except the conniving Rei who noticed Naru and Youchiro had seemed to practically be inseparable since they met. Rei decided to ask her brother a favor. Walking over to Youchiro and pulling him aside discreetly Rei asked him in a whisper that no one noticed over the loud singing of Minako and Usagi.

"Hey Youchrio could you do something for me?"

"Sure Rei what do you need" Youchiro asked his dark haired sis.

"Well we need to talk about senshi things and normally that wouldn't be a problem if it was just you but Naru doesn't know. Could you somehow get her to leave" Rei asked.

"You want me to ask her to leave" Youchiro said in a confused voice.

"No, you doofus, I was thinking more along the lines of asking her to go get ice cream or something then you can drive her home." Rei said.

"Drive her home? Rei I don't have a car, I walked here." Youchiro stated then smiled as Rei held up the keys to Minako's rented 2009 yellow ford mustang convertible. Youchiro took the keys placing them in his pocket and said.

"I'll see if she will go with me but she was burned pretty bad by her ex, she may not want to go out with me" Youchiro said in an uncertain voice with his hands in his back pockets and looking at his shoes.

"I think she will" Rei said with a smile and walked towards the stage to see if she could get Minako to sing one more song for the group before the party became officially over. 'I just love her voice' Rei thought with a smile.

"Hey Mina would you sing one more" Rei asked just as Minako was stepping off the stage.

"Ahh come on Rei, I sing all the time, for a living in fact, and I'm a little tired of it" Mina said kindly. Rei pouted a little , which was completely out of character for her and threw Mina off greatly, 'she's so cute! That may be my new favorite expression of hers. Second only to her scowl' Minako thought.

"for me" Rei said still in a pout and gently placed her hand on Minako's arm caressing it a little with her thumb. Mina smiled and whispered back.

"Anything for you" and the blond turned around going back to the stage. Minako typed the code for a song she knew well and turned to find Rei who had taken her seat at the back of the room where they had been sitting before.

The karaoke machine was still searching for the correct CD when Youchiro and Naru announced that they were going to go after this last song, since Naru wanted to hear Minako sing by herself once, Rei smiled. 'good, then we can get down to business and they can get some time to get to know each other' Rei thought as the music to Minako's song began and Rei smiled recognizing the song as one of Usagi's favorite love songs. Minako locked eyes with Rei from across the room as she began to sing the lyrics to 'My Only Love'

"Deep in my soul, a love so strong, it takes control"

"Now we both know, the secrets bared, the feelings show"

"Driven far apart, I'll make a wish, on a shooting star"

"There will come a day, Somewhere far away, In your arms I'll stay, My only love"

"Even though you're gone, Love will still live on, The feeling is so strong, My only love"My only love"

"There will come a day, Somewhere far away, In your arms I'll stay, My only love""You've reached the deepest part, Of the secret in my heart, I've known it from the start,My only love"

"There will come a day, Somewhere far away, In your arms I'll stay, My only love""You've reached the deepest part, Of the secret in my heart, I've known it from the start,My only love""My ..only ….love.."

As the song ended and the group clapped loudly Rei was surprised at how much Minako singing to her had effected her. The dark haired women was practically shaking and a tear slid down her cheek. 'that was so beautiful' Rei thought as she wiped the single tear away before anyone noticed. But not before Minako had noticed and was a little worried about why Rei was crying, and in public, Rei hardly ever cried and especially not in public, but Minako didn't get a chance to think about it for long before she was giving Naru and Youchiro hugs goodbye, along with the rest of the group.

Once the soon to be new couple was out the door Setsuna went straight to Luna and Artemis who were sitting on one of the couches in the room. Everyone followed so they could have their meeting.

"So what's the problem" Luna asked while looking at Usagi.

"I can't change" Setsuna blurted out.

"What?" Artemis asked looking a little worried.

"I cant transform into Sailor Pluto I tried to earlier, a few times, and nothing happened, Mercury's computer couldn't even find out what's wrong." Setsuna continued. "And everyone else can change, its just me"

"Why wouldn't you be able to change" Artemis said while getting a little agitated which showed greatly in his voice. Luna just stared at Setsuna and seemed to be deep in thought. 'no way its not possible, there is only one reason I can think of that would stop a senshi from transforming, but not Pluto, no way, Its not possible'

"I DON'T KNOW" Setsuna yelled now losing all composure, she had been the time senshi for a VERY long while, she didn't know what else to do with her life. John noticed her distress and walked over to his girl pulling her into a tight hug.

"don't worry babe we will get this figured out" he whispered to her but everyone else was close enough to hear anyway. 'Ok never mind, I guess it is possible' Luna thought then giggled a little and placed a big smile on her face.

"What are you giggling for" Artemis asked.

"Wow Luna has really changed" Rei whispered to Minako. Mina just giggled a little and leaned a little closer to her girlfriend so that there arms were touching.

"Setsuna, is John your boyfriend" Luna said while grinning and ignoring Artemis's question..

"What does that have to do with the present situation" Setsuna asked.

"Oh I was just wondering" Luna said innocently.

"No he's my husband now can we get back to the problem"

"Husband? When did you get married" Artemis asked wondering how they had missed something so important.

"We haven't yet, at least in this life we haven't, we still need to do that" John said. Artemis and Luna both smiled widely and said in unison.

"Ahh Prince Solarus"

"How is it that they always know everything" Makoto said to Ami.

"Honey it's there job to know more about the past life then us" Ami answered.

"Yes, we know he is Solarus now the problem please" Setsuna continued in distress answering the guardians previous comments..

"It's not a problem" Luna said.

"its not?" Artemis asked and wondered why Luna seemed to know what was going on and he didn't. They were supposed to have the same knowledge about the senshi .

"how can this not be a problem" Setsuna said.

"Its perfectly natural your going through a lot of changes" Luna continued.

"Natural, what am I like going through senshi menopause or something?" Setsuna asked a little embarrassed. Luna giggled again.

"No, more like a vacation the beginning of your senshi maternity leave, not being able to transform is a normal part. Kinda like morning sickness." Everyone was speechless and had no idea what Luna was rambling about. Except Artemis who's confused look went away 'oh lady things, yeah I don't know about this stuff'. When no one said anything for a while Luna sighed and stated clearly.

"Setsuna your pregnant" Everyone was speechless again except John.

"WHAT!! Pregnant?" he asked.

"Yes" Luna stated. Setsuna came out of her stupor to stammer out in a bit of a whisper.

"what, how could that happen, I mean I know how that could happen but. How could you even know that, we have only been together for less then a week its to soon to know" Setsuna said then she plopped into a puffy couch not far from her, putting her head in her hands. John went to sit next to her putting his arm around her for support. No one knew what to do or say, so Luna decided to give them more facts about senshi pregnancy.

"I didn't think I would need to give you all this talk for a while, at least not until Chibiusa came along, but when a senshi gets pregnant the baby is partially sustained by the mother's life force. A senshi's life force contains her powers and will be the beginning of the babies powers as well, but in this case the fathers life force will be an issue as well since he also has powers. Although his powers aren't effected like the mothers it can still be physically draining on his body and the babies to be transformed for a long period of time. Transforming for the mother however is not possible it would put to much strain on your life force and the infants to be in that state. It can only be done in times of great emergency, which your body will be able to detect, but it will most likely result in the lose of the baby. So it has only been done in extremely life threatening situations." Luna said. Setsuna still didn't move so she continued. "But senshi pregnancies are very different then human pregnancies in one big way, besides the lose of power control and the inability to transform. Senshi pregnancies are greatly accelerated and happen very fast. Which is how we know already, not being able to transform is an early symptom. Your bodies are meant to do this that way, so you wont be out of commission for so long"

"Wait she's going to start to lose control of her powers" Michiru asked.

"Yes, and it can be a little dangerous, I remember back in the silver millennium when Queen Serenity, Lady Venus and Lady Mars were all pregnant with Usagi, Minako and Rei around the same time. We had just got over getting electrocuted around Lady Jupiter before Makoto was born, and then we had to deal with all three of them at the same time" Luna giggled a little. "Of course things seemed to only get worse once Rei was born she wouldn't stop crying. Then Lady Mercury got pregnant causing more drama. Soon after Rei was born Minako followed and Rei would only shut up if Minako was in the nursery with her. I don't know why? Minako only seemed to aggravate Rei but she was quiet. Usagi was the happiest baby but she would always cry along with Rei when ever she was having one of her frequent tantrums. Ami was the quietest of the group and only Makoto could get her to make any noise." Everyone was smiling while listening to the stories of them selves as infants in their past life's. Artemis decided to add a little more to the story while smiling.

"Of course when you became toddlers you were little terrors! Especially Usagi and Minako. Rei and Ami were both the loners mostly quiet, but Rei would scream her head off when Minako and Usagi would pick on the two, Ami would just cry quietly and Makoto, being the oldest, would come and glare at the two blond terrors until they left, but for some reason Rei would follow and pick on them right back, Usagi would cry and Minako would fight back. Causing more then a few fights between the young heirs of Venus and Mars, but not long after that you were all taken back to your home planets and didn't return until you showed signs that your powers were developing." Artemis finished

"Ah that's so cute" Chibiusa said.

"Can you imagine them as little toddlers running around picking on each other" Hotaru said. Luna decided she liked this topic and continued.

"and Oh my gosh was that a trying time, when you all came back, having a bunch of 12 and 13 year olds running around the palace, especially with your lack of power control was practically a nightmare everything with you was drama. Of course Makoto and Rei showed up first. They kept on burning and shocking each other and seemed to think it was some kind of fun game. The med center began to threaten to tell the queen if I couldn't control the two barbarians. Of course the queen knew and also found it funny as long as you weren't getting seriously hurt.

When Minako showed up she tried to get Rei and Makoto to be her friends, which was ok with Makoto, but for some reason Rei wanted nothing to do with her, and Minako cried and cried. Until finally Minako decided to do something about it, which was hilarious, she walked right up to Rei who was just ignoring her until Mina punched her straight in the face knocking her to the ground. Then she said 'Artemis said I don't need you as a friend and I think your mean!'. After that she turned around and started to walk away. Minako was very confused when Rei giggled and jumped up after her grabbing her arm and pulling her along to go play. 'I thought you didn't like me' was all Rei said. You see on Mars an open act of acute violence was a way of showing affection or interest. Yeah Martians had some of the strangest cultural interactions. Then Ami came to the moon and she was shy and wouldn't talk to anybody. Until one day Usagi and Minako decided she needed to be pranked, and that would make her feel better, so they dumped her in the lake, of course it only made her cry and Makoto glared at the blond hellions and just picked up Ami and took her back to the palace. For a long time Ami would only talk to Makoto. Until she got over her shyness and let the others be her friends starting with Rei then Usagi and finally Minako."

By this time Setsuna had calmed down and was smiling at the stories about the inner senshi as children. 'I wasn't sure about the idea of having a baby but after hearing these stories It might not be so bad. For some reason it just seems right' John didn't know what to say. 'I'm gonna be a dad' he thought

"oh god'" he whispered as he started to feel light headed. Setsuna noticed and turned to him

"are you alright?" she said.

"Yeah, I just don't fancy having to run after a screaming 12 year old who may accidentally throw me back to the Jurassic period" John joked, but Setsuna didn't notice the joking just the words and started to tear while looking at her lap. A few tears dropped before she whispered.

"You don't want to have a baby with me?"

"What?" John asked.

"You don't have to stay if you don't want this, I can do this on my own" Setsuna said with tears streaming down her face and into her lap.

"Suna, I never said I didn't want this, I just wasn't ready for it, it took me by surprise, just like it did you, and I'm sorry if I say or do the wrong thing because honestly at this point I don't know what to say or do, but I do know I want to be with you and I want our baby" John said while pulling the tan skinned women into a tight hug.

Ever the doctor, Ami couldn't seem to control herself and had to ask questions.

"So senshi pregnancies are shorter then normal human pregnancies?" Luna answered.

"Yes, what takes humans nine months to do senshi can do in about three of four." Setsuna finally calming down said loudly.

"Three or four? That hardly gives us any time to get things ready." Luna chuckled.

"Setsuna there will probably be none of you getting anything ready, a few days after your unable to transform, most start to get morning sickness and become extremely hormonal. You see since senshi pack all nine months into three their symptoms are much more extreme. You will probably get mad and sad at the drop of a hat. When Queen Radiance was pregnant she cried when ever she or anyone else dropped something. When Queen Scarlet had Rei, Lady Radiance cried all day then got mad when we couldn't make the birth go any faster, then cried again once Rei was actually born"

"So I guess that leaves it up to me and the girls to get everything ready for the little guy." John said.

"Little guy? You mean little girl." Setsuna said.

"Well what ever it is I'll only be able to teach it sports and all other sorts of manly things, but I think either way that will be ok" John said while smiling and placing his hand onto Setsuna's flat belly.

A/N 'My only love' is a song in the English dubbed anime. Mostly about Usagi and Mamoru but I thought it fit good for Rei and Minako this time. (P.S if you haven't heard it you should look it up). Oh BTW Radiance as Queen of Venus was a name I read in another Fan Fic that I really liked as a name for queen V so I decided to use it I just wanted to let everyone know I didn't make it up someone else is way cooler. As most of you know Scarlet is a reddish color so I made it Queen Mars's name, I thought it was pretty. ; ) Please review I get Discouraged if I don't get reviews : (