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This holiday tale that is our "Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Stars" season movie, takes place in between Sailor Stars Episodes #187 Baseball "The Shining Power of a Star! ChibiChibi's Transformation" and #188 Plane ride "An Invitation to Terror! Usagi's Night Flight".
Story based on "Sailor Stars Merry Christmas" Poem, Prologue, & Song Album. Please watch for several scenes included in this story, based on artwork in the CD booklet and the Christmas songs sprinkled in as the Three Lights play and carols are sung by the five Inner Sailors on the CD. We wish you a Merry Christmas as we celebrate the gift of Jesus together in this four-part Christmas story, Sailor Moon style!
"Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon"
"Sailor Stars Merry Christmas"
Prologue
"A Christmas Wish"
"Dear Mamo-chan,
Hi there! How are you doing? Christmas Eve is coming up soon, so I'm having so much fun getting ready for it! Party and cakes and cookies…and Santa Claus…and PRESENTS! I'm so excited and happy!
…..Really…really I am, Muffin. There's such a pretty sunset now. I just had to write you about it. Stars will be coming out soon, and a blue moon too, everyone says. But I think the clouds are closing in around me. Sometimes I'm sure of it. Really, this year is so full of expectations of me…my varied, varied heart…"
A golden head gazes out the window, towards the sunsetting evening sky. Her heart pounds in her ears at the silence surrounding her teenaged bedroom. The pen slips down to the desk, that this young girl sits writing at. She bites her lip as a tear or two rolls down onto the letter that she was so painstakingly trying to sound lighthearted in.
But I'm not happy, am I? Oh Mamo-chan I miss you so much! At times like this especially. At Christmas especially. Everyone should be together at Christmas. Everyone who loves each other should be-WE should be, Mamo-chan! We should be…
Usagi Tsukino hangs her head down for a moment, the pain of her beloved being so very far away heartbreaking for this sixteen-year-old teenager. More than that, it was for this child of moonlight who had come to know her true and destined partner in life. For him to so heartlessly leave her, some would say, with neither letter nor phone call, nor communication of any sort, for months now, since he left to study at Harvard University in America. But Usagi, desperately in love with this man, her sweet loving heart so perfect and pure, could never see it that way. She never believed her love to be cold and cruel. She never once thought that Mamo-chan was the one wrong to leave her.
No! My Mamo-chan is never wrong!
It was just that she herself wasn't strong enough. It was just that she was too wimpy and weak and-
Mamo-chan, I bet you're simply too busy with projects and work to write me! So...let's see if I can cheer you up from all that hard school work!
Quickly wiping away a forbidden tear, Usagi scoops up the fallen pen. She begins to scribble again in her scrawled handwriting that only those who loved her could truly decipher. Determinedly, she starts where she left off, crossing out the last few sad lines and writing again after the "…happy!"
"…It's going to be so much fun! Mom said I could invite all the girls over for our Christmas party. It's going to be a blast! Too bad though, our good friend Setsuna-san is taking little Hotaru-chan to see her Dad in the recovery hospital he's in in Switzerland now. That's where Professor Tomoe and Hotaru-chan are from originally. Did you know that? Of course you did! Duh! Anyway, I guess it's good though anyway that's she going to be with her daddy on Christmas, so—"
Usagi's yellow meatball head bobs up and down as she chews on the end of her pen, thinking what else to write.
"--mmmh! And Haruka-san and Michiru-san said they might come. But I don't know for sure. We're never sure about those two adult outers! Haruka-san and Michiru-san still have their "secrets" they keep from us. I wish we could break down their cool barrier even more. Last time I talked to her, I think Haruka sounded a bit…I don't know…like Haruka on the phone. So I hope they do come. We'll set out two extra places for sure anyway. You should see the tree my dad's putting up! It's so beautiful and extra super big too! Me and Mom and Sammy—even if he's been SUCH a pain this year, I don't think Santa should bring him anything—have decorated the house and we'll going to do the tree tonight, with Rei-chan, Mako-chan, Minako-chan, and Ami-chan too. Yeah! I'm going to have all my bestest friends around! And it's going to be so much fun tonight…I know! Just like last year. I still remember last Christmas when you and ChibiUsa were both here-"
And there the pen stops short again, lost in not so far off memory of a Christmas past. One where Usagi could clearly recall the joy of being about to be finally kissed under the mistletoe by a certain handsome young man with dark hair and blue eyes that were shining just for her. It was then a small lady pink jellybean, decked out with Christmas ribbons and finest red velvet, had ruined the tender scene, purposely, Usagi was sure at the time. ChibiUsa, when adjusting the 'crooked' star atop the tree, had 'accidentally' spilled her chocolate milk all over Usagi's white fur trimmed party dress. Her livid face and tangled hair were 'pink sugar chocolate attacked', too, on the mischievous imp's chortling descent.
At that last Christmas, Usagi was furious at her wicked "Small Lady". ChibiUsa had not even feigned innocence at her "mistake", sticking her tongue out and laughing tauntingly as Usagi had chased her round and round the shaking Christmas tree. Everyone had dodged the pair of rabbits as Mamo-chan tried to calm them down without much success. That evening had ended, after much ado, with Usagi and ChibiUsa finally making up after some of Mom's delicious Christmas pudding together, in which Usagi gotten a little back, smashing with delight plum sauce all over ChibiUsa's smug round face. ChibiUsa had been angry at first, but one taste of the sweet pudding was enough to soften her to want to reconcile for the presents and picture time. The two bickering meatball and cone-headed girls had forgotten all arguments of before, joining together with smiling faces in a portrait with beloved beau "Tuxedo Mamo-chan", in which the three of them looked so much…a family…
"Seems so much quieter around here this year...ChibiUsa's been gone for so long, too…Oh, Mamo-chan! I miss you both so so much!" Usagi's eyes fill with tears again…tears of pent up months of loneliness. ChibiUsa went off to the future first, and then Mamo-chan… "Mamo-chan, I want to be with you now." In her desperate need to be near him, his name echoes throughout her soul. His scent, his touch, his protective arms, just having him near, that safe feeling he always gave to her. Usagi could no longer take it, the building tears on the verge of spilling out uncontrollably.
"Usagi? Open up already! Are you even in there?!" Abruptly, just at this moment, fiery Rei-chan Hino's irate voice pierces the silence of Usagi's bedroom from outside the door, the long raven-haired female standing impatiently with hands on sassy hips after having knocked on the door like a thousand times.
"Usagi are you in there?" Ami Mizuno's softer, lilting tones then echo the question from the hall as the sweet-faced young genius puts down her book to give her dear friend all her attention.
"Rei-chan? Ami-chan?" Usagi's saddened mind tries to pull herself back from the flood about to break open as she turns around, straightening the picture-framed photo she had been hugging back to her desk so quick, Usagi does not even hear her friends come in, so engrossed was she.
"Hey, Usagi. Luna said you've been quiet all afternoon, Usagi." Her tall friend Mako-chan's firm hand was on her shoulder now after she had naturally taken the worried initiative to open the unresponsive girl's bedroom door.
"So we've come to cheer you up in the way only we can do, of course! Right, Artemis?" Minako-chan's happy voice fills Usagi's depressed ears as the blonde bombshell lights up the still room.
"Guys?" Usagi was still blinking back the tears, and the four girls filled with worry, exchange looks.
They could sense when their dearest friend was depressed…and they all knew exactly why.
"Is that a letter to Mamoru-san, Usagi?" Makoto Kino prods gently, looking over Usagi's shoulder at the carefully pored over paper full of scribbles and scratched out lines.
"Mmhmm." Usagi nods at the unfinished letter on her desk absently, beginning to fold it up in almost...shame.
"Did you tell him how much fun we're going to have tonight?" Minako Aino interrupts with her brightest smile—and that was bright enough to light the entire world when she directed it to.
"Mmhmm." Usagi tries to return the smile, finding it almost impossible to pull her emotional heart from it's doldrums. She wanted just to give up and…
"Usagi?" Rei's voice filled with such worry, looks to her friend, right in the eye. Ami, Makoto, Minako, Artemis and Luna, all, too, gaze at her with much concern.
They're all so worried about me, aren't they? I'm sorry, guys...Some days I just feel like curling up in a corner of my bed...
But...NO! I won't give up, for all of you guys.
'I can't stand people who give up.' Somebody just told me that and I'm gonna stick to it! You're right, Seiya, you're right. Usagi's mind smiles at yet another recollection, a more recent one of a special young man whom she had slowly accepted as a new friend. One who had wormed his way into her heart despite her best efforts to dissuade him. And throughout this school year, his rockstar confidence and indefatigable inner shine had slowly become the strength and courage over these past few months Usagi needed, since her Mamo-chan was not present in her life.
For Seiya Kou was very, very special to her. Now, more and more…
"Hey! Everyone, I'm fine! Let's go on down and help Mom decorate the tree, okay? It'll be such fun! And I think she's got a new batch of sugar cookies going too! Oh boy! I'm hungry!" Usagi had learned to smile through her pain, jumping up and grinning at her beloved friends, making them all smile big again.
"All right! That sounds right up my cooking street, Usagi." Mako-chan leads the way towards the door, glad Usagi was ready to enjoy things with them today, despite the sadness her friend had deep down. For none of them were aware that Mamoru wasn't writing back all those endless stream of letters Usagi had been scribbling on every day. But they did understand the sadness enough of not having her boyfriend near, especially during this holiday time.
"Sure does! Race you guys down to the kitchen!" Combustible Minako explodes out the door, dragging an unbeknownst Ami out and down the stairs. Artemis and Luna chase the thundering, hungry girls down, warning them not to run and fall. Which Minako nearly did anyway, if not for Makoto's strong arm catching her midstride.
"Usagi?" Rei was the last one there, her mesmerizing purple eyes still tender with concern. She was a soulful girl with a deep, deep heart and soul that knew what it was like to have affection for a certain man. And she understood Usagi's much deeper bond with him must be in torment. As she turns, Rei sees Usagi stop and hesitantly touch a hesitant hand to her desk.
"I'll be all right, Rei-chan. You go on. Just gotta wish Mamo-chan a 'Merry Christmas' and I'll be finished with it. Then, I'll be coming right down, okay?" Usagi grabs her pen, determined to finish her letter off, in the brighter mood she was slowly growing into, thanks to her friends. She didn't want her Mamo-chan to sense the torture her heart was going through for him either when he received the missive.
"Okay." Rei understood Usagi needed a moment more alone, and goes out the door, leaving the room quiet and still again, beyond the chattering and clattering going on downstairs in the kitchen.
"This year's going to be just as fun too! I wish you were here, Mamo-chan. But I'm sure you're having a good time with all your new college friends and everybody. Have a Merry, Merry Christmas, Muffin. I hope this letter reaches you soon. I'll save my present for you till you get back. Can't wait for that time. I love you so much. Merry Christmas! Love and hugs and kisses, Your Usako."
Usagi quickly scribbles, and lays down her pen, refolding the letter to send off tomorrow. It's go-time, girl! She nods in the determination someone else had instilled in her not to ever give up and races out the door, to find Rei still waiting there for her.
"Time to start Merry Christmas-ing, Rei-chan!" Hugging her friend's arm warmly, they walk down the stairs arm in arm.
Rei, upon finding Usagi's spirits uplifted enough, scolds her about eating too many cookies and making a mess with the ribbons Ami and Minako were neatly tying around the cookie gift baggies Usagi's Mom wanted. After smacking the guilty paws of a fellow cookie monster crunching Artemis, Luna remarks how little ChibiChibi was a little "piggy", just like Usagi, who always ate the whole batch when no one was looking, as the tiny child had quietly devoured all the wreath-shaped doughnuts Mako-chan had just made, much to Usagi's hungry tears' dismay.
Nonetheless finding smiles with the help of her Sailor Scout friends surrounding her full heart, this eve before Christmas Eve was starting out as a good one for this Moon Princess.
