When she went back downstairs, Bulma was handing Ami her scouter.

"What's going on?" Chichi asked, as Ami henshined and took out her palmtop.

"I'm checking Usagi out." Mercury said, with everyone looking over her shoulder anxiously, waiting for any news.

"Why?"

"Because she might have snapped and this could be a droid, etc." Vegeta said, like Chichi was the stupidest thing alive.

"Okay..." Ami flicked on her visor, and began typing, aiming at Usagi's room.

Her face pale, she quickly turned it off and took up the scouter.

"This is impossible." She muttered, typing into the computer.

"What? What's wrong?" Goten asked.

"Well... my visor didn't tell me anything. The computer says yup, it's our Usagi. But it tells me that Usagi has no power. None. Not even enough for a ki blast. The scouter says she's at power level 30... wait, 35."

"But..." Bulma looked dumbfounded, as Gohan stalked over to the couch.

"Wait..." Ami opened a new file on her palm top. "Bulma..." she handed the older woman a purple vial, that was made of something that looked like plastic but felt like metal, with a needle. "Go get some of Usagi's blood without waking her. You know how." She began to type, setting the file up.

"What is that for?" Goku asked.

"I'm going to analyze her blood. See if the human parts of it have taken it over, to lower her ki that much." Ami answered distantly. "It is possible."

"And if it did happen?" Krillin asked.

"She will have lost all access to any power she had." Ami answered.

After a few minutes that seemed like forever, Bulma headed back, the vial clutched in one hand, the oddest expression on her face.

Ami ignored it, snatching the vial. She let the palmtop analyze the contents befre reading the results out loud.

"Human Blood Trace: 0.0%." She looked over the results again. "That's not possible. All of us are about fifty percent human."

"Ami... what color is your blood?" Bulma asked, her voice shakey.

"Red. Of course."

"And that applies to all senshi?"

"Yes."

"Well... look in the vial."

"It's blue." Vegeta said, surprised, as Ami ripped off a Kleenex and dabbed some of the blood onto it.

"Is Usagi's blood supposed to be blue?" Krillin asked.

"N-n-no..."

"Is there a *reason* her blood is blue?" Gohan demanded.

"Yes."

"Not that Pluto chick again." Krillin was promptly thrown behind the couch by Goten.

"Well?" Ami asked. "Why is her power so low and her blood blue, Sailor Pluto."

"Usagi did something very foolish." Pluto related the events, not very detailed but enough to where Gohan's blood was past the boiling point and to where even the gentle Ami was thinking not-so- gentle thoughts. She didn't tell them about what happened after Usagi woke up. She was serious wondering if Gohan was going to jump up and try to find Diamond. "When she called for the power of Selene, it was from the heart, out of true fear and desperation. Selene took pity and granted it to her. But that power comes at a price. Usagi doesn't know how long she was in that place. Meaning that when she is told that she has been missing for two weeks, she won't be that surprised. But actually, she was in Diamond's palace for two days. She woke up, had some unfriendly events, and left. And she woke up, to her only two days later."

"But actually nine days. Where was she, Pluto?" Ami asked.

"In the Ni Plane. Where everything that is real here is not there, and where everything real is impossible and the impossible is possible there."

"Okay... whatever..."

"Usagi is dead." Pluto said, glaring at Vegeta.

"WHAT?!"

"Her body was decentigrated at the sheer amount of power that went through it as she called for the power. In the Ni PLane her truest form became reality, and using the ginzuishou, Usagi unconsciously reformed that body here, so that it is real. The woman who exists now is not Tsukino Usagi. She is the purest of pure. She is the one foretold to purify the world of the Dark. She is not human, nor lunarian, nor any other mortal being. She has done what even I thought impossible, by joining with the one once looked upon as the goddess Selene to create Imperial Serenity."

"Does she know this?"

"In some ways. She knows she has changed."

"What about her power."

"It is concealed, even to those who sense it. She can let it be seen, but it would probably make your scouter explode." Pluto grinned faintly. "Chibi-usa is going crazy. She says that when Rei hears about all this that she's going to croak, literaly, and Rei's supposed to be in charge of security, and there's no way Rei can be head of security if she croaks."

They all looked towards the stairs to see Usagi sitting on the bottom one. "Pluto, please go. I must tell them this in my own way."

"I will, My Queen." Pluto smiled. "I understand." She opened her portal and stepped into it.

"Pluto was wrong. I did know I wasn't Usagi anymore. I didn't know how, though. I should thank her sometime for her explanation. She has always been so good to me."

"Usagi-chan, if you knew... why?"

"You heard what that bastard did to me. I knew it would kill me... in a way. But I couldn't stand being so close to that darkness. It makes me sick... really."

"I'm going to absolutely murder than son of a --"

"No, no you're not, Gohan. That will be my sick pleasure for the millenium. I'm going to make him pay. But first, I need some time to figure something out." She turned ever so slowly, ever so painfully, and walked back up the stairs.

She seemed ever so much older than her twenty some years at the moment.

Perhaps she was.

~**********~

I have never spoken against them.

I have always seen the good side.

I've never chanced a look at the bad.

It was habit.

But now I see the what if.

I did not voice the pain I felt when he turned against me so many times.

I would never turn against him.

I never spoke of the true angish when Rei voiced her comtempt with my leadership.

I can save their world.

I can save my own.

I can destroy Diamond.

But what good will come of it?

Evil always finds a stronghold.

Always finds the simple human to feed off of.

And then it grows.

And fills the world once more.

And it will be up to Mother and I to destroy it again.

It is just a never-ending cycle that can only be slowed down.

Dispair?

No. I do not dispair. I know I can do it all.

I just want to know...

Why was this given to me?

~********~

"Come on, girl."

"Bulma, I need to think."

"No, you're not going to think anymore. We're going shopping."

"But Bulma..."

"Usagi, do you realize that for the incredible length of time you have been here, you have not seen our fabulous shops? Come on. No ifs ands or buts. Ami's coming too."

"Alright.." Usagi stood up, thorwing on a t- shirt and skrit, noticing with distaste that the t- shirt was way too small for her new, older, more developed body.

"See?" Bulma giggled as she dodged the flying pillow.

~*******~

"Bulma, I am so glad you forced me to come! This completely took my mind off everything!" Usagi exclaimed as she took another bite of her hamburger.

"Yes, it has been fun!" Ami agreed.

"Wait, we've still got tewn thousand shops to hit! We're not nearly through." Bulma motioned to the food court and the stores surrounding it. "We've only touched a forth of this mall."

"Alright!" Usagi giggled, finished the other half of her burger in one bite. "This is fabulous. I wish we had one of these food places back home."

"Bulma-san--"

"Bulma."

"Bulma, why didn't Chichi come."

"Chichi wanted to come, but Gohan is way behind on his schoolwork. She had to play teacher, or rather, warden."

"Poor Gohan. Such a cute boy. I wonder why he's so unpopular in school."

"He studies all the time. Chichi pushes him far more than Goten because Gohan is first born."

"Ami... do you think I could pass for a seventeen year old?"

"Of course, Usagi. But why-- no way! I won't let you."

"What?"

"Is it possible for you to find a way for me to get in the school systems here?"

"Sure--" Bulma was interrupted by the sound of gunfire. A man in a black mask began to go through the food court, demanding jewelry while two others emptied the cash registers.

"Give me your purse." he yelled at Usagi. Ami and Bu;lma shrank back from them, as the man pointed to gun at Usagi.

"I wouldn't point that at me if I were you." She said, standing up. "Ami, tell him he shouldn't point a gun at a lady."

"Technicly Usagi..." Ami began, but then she caught the look in her friend's eye. "No, Usagi! Serenity... he's *not* Diamond! Wake up! Usagi!" She shouted, and lunged over the table to stand beside her friend. "Snap out of it!" She jumped back instinctivly as the gun fired.

Usagi looked down at her arm, which was oozing silvery blue liquid.

"You did not just shoot me." The focus had returned. She shook her head. "I don't appreciate that." The blood stopped, and the wound was gone." "Now, you will give all these nice people their money and possessions back."

"Do what she says." Ami was now holding a harp made of water, and Bulma had a hand laser, one of her prototypes, pointed at Mr. Mask.

"Man, I just wanted the money! This is too much!" Mask threw the bag down and marched over to the mall cops, hands up. His partners did the same.

"I think that we'll go to Gadzooks next, Bulma." Usagi shook the scene from her memory and grinned at her companions.

~**~**~

That very night, the light of the full moon streamed in through a young woman's window.

She turned around quickly, shocked, as her door opened and shut quietly.

She didn't know whether to smile or frown at the familar shape as it moved towards her, but found her answer as he moved forward quickly, pressing his lips to hers with urgency and passion.

She pushed him away.

"This isn't right..." She gasped.

"It's as right as anything." He replied, bring her back into his embrace. She didn't resist this time, not even when they fell into her bed, moving with the moonlight.

~**~**~

"She was just... gone! Not even there. She was seeing Diamond, I know it. I'm glad Ami stopped her before she blew the whole building up."

"Bulma... You think she would?"

"Probably. Man... didn't you see the fire in her eyes whenever we talk about him? Like she's going to explode right then and there."

"She really does hate him."

"No. I don't think... well, yeah."

"huh?"

"Nevermind. Chichi, Usagi wants to go back to senior year of high school."

"Whyever would she want to do that?"

"My guess is that it was just a joke. But knowing them... she probably will. She's very nervous, Chichi. I've never seen anyone so nervous. She's always looking over her shoulder. My guess is Diamond did a lot more than tie her up and then she escaped. Pluto and Usagi both are leaving something out."

"You don't think--"

"Not that bad. Maybe he tortured her with mind control, telling her stuff about her family. Or maybe he did go so far. But Usagi would be in a lot worse mental shape if he had. I don't know."

"Bulma, that would be horrible. I'd like to get my hands on him for two minutes, you watch me!"

"Chichi, she said it herself-- she will be the one to kick Diamond's butt. And I can't blame her. That guy has royally but her through hell."

"I sure don't envy him, that's for sure!"

~*~*~*

Usagi stood in the middle of a clearing, unaware of the two shadowy figures in the trees that watched her intently.

Silently, she lifted her arms to the sky, her gaze on the moon and never shifting from that. She eyes slowly lost their focus, and she began to chant in a very accented voice.

"Dead is alive and dead is dead.

Ghosts are beckoned and spirits condemned.

By the Moon I call to you.

Trainers of the Great Endymion.

Awaken. You are alive once again." This she repeated once more as a light grew in front of her a ways, and began to grow.

Four men appeared.

One of the figures gasped.

The Dark Kingdom generals!?

"Jedite!" Usagi's eyes returned to normal and she threw herself into the arms of the blonde man. "I've missed you guys!"

"We've missed you too, Usagi. It's been forever since you called us." Zoisite said.

"Sorry about that. I've been kind of busy.

Diamond's returned, and he's back to his little 'Oh, you're going to be my queen Usagi' self again."

"Why didn't you call us before? We could locate him and then you guys could go down and wreak havoc..." Nephrite began, but Usagi shook her head.

"I only have one senshi with me, guys. Sailor Mercury. Pluto pops in here and there but that's all. I'm in another dimension. But don't look at me like that, there are people here that have great power. They help me."

"You promised you wouldn't go anywhere without at least TWO bodygaurds." Kunzite said, pouting.

"Guys, don't give me this. I wasn't expecting to travel. I just wanted to talk to someone, but not about bodygaurds!"

"Sorry, Ren. But we've been bored up there with your mother and Pegasus and all those other people that aren't any fun. The only thing to do was to worry about you or think of ways to con that stupid crystal ball out of Peg. And since he's so stubborn, we decided to worry about you. And the senshi." Zoisite grinned, sitting down on a log, Nephrite taking a seat beside him.

"You guys are impossible. I told you pacificly not to worry about me. And besides, I've got something to tell you. I died! No... shut up, let me finish. I got a little paniced, and called on to much power, and it more or less decenigrated me. BUT-- I sent a little time in the Ni Plane. And I got the body of my former self and the goddess Selene, melded. So I'm better than ever. Meaning you didn't have to worry."

"You died. And you got a new body. And we're not supposed to worry?" Jedite asked, as he quite visibly tried to hold his temper in.

"Nope." Jedite stomped off and began hitting his head against a tree.

"He's worried about you more than we have, Ren." Kunzite explained.

"Yea, but here's the good thing. I can bring you guys back! Because I've got Selene's power now. And if you guys really want to, after I get rid of Diamond, I will."

"Ren, are you joking?"

"Would I joke about something like this?"

"I'd get to see Mako again?"

"Yup." Usagi grinned as Nephrite hugged her.

"Ren, that was a horrible risk you took." Zositie said quietly.

"I know. I'm sorry. But Diamond makes me nervous."

"With good cause. If we'd been alive the first time he came around I would have diced him-- and then let my V take over." Kunzite grined as Usagi play-slapped him on the shoulder.

"Hey, guys, off the morbid topics. Do you think I could pass for a teenager?"

"You? Teenager?" Nephrite roared with laughter and even Jedite had to laugh.

"What? I don't look *that* old, do I?!" Usagi exclaimed. "I know my hair's turning white but still...."

"No... not that old." Nephrite gasped.

"Nephrite means--" Jedite chuckled. "Is that you couldn't pass for a teenager because... well... does anyone have a mirror?" he laughed again.

"Renity, your problem is that you don't look like a kid anymore." Kunzite said, with a deadpan face that only made Nephrite laugh more. "You're a gorgeous woman. Student? I think not."

Zoisite stopped laughing, an question and an idea popping into his mind.

"Ren, Why would you want to go to school for the third time?"

"To help Gohan."

"Well-- what about a teacher? You could get Pluto to scam your way in, and then you'd just have to make up tests and tell the kids to read so and so chapters. A lot easier--" Zoisite was cut off when Usagi hugged him.

"That's a perfect idea, Zoi." She exclaimed. "I can always count on you and Ami-chan for a good idea."

"And you can always count on Minako and Jedite to trash them." Kunzite muttered.

"What was that, my dear friend?" Jedite growled.

"Hey-- don't get started. I can send you right back and tell Styx to lock you in seperate cells."

"You wouldn't!"

"Watch me."

"She means business, guys." Nephrite finally stopped laughing and stood up. He lookee over to the tree-line in curiousity.

"Hey, Ren, we've got company." He said softly.

"Who?" Usagi turned to the direction he was looking, and said a bit louder, "Yeah, I think that's the big dipper, Nephy."

Jedite cracked up.

"Mercury." Zoisite whispered. "And an unknown power. Really close to her." He said in jealousy.

"It's probably Gohan or Goku, maybe Vegeta. Not Piccolo-- though I wouldn't doubt it."

"You just make it clear that Ami is mine."

"Yeah-- after you convince her you're not a dark kingdom general!"

"Guys, I think you should go now so I can chew them out for following me. See you later, k?"

"Sure thing, Sere." Kunzite said. "And remember-- we'll be worrying!"

"Bye!" She called, as they disappeared. Looking nonchantantly at the place where she sensed Mercury, she laid down on the soft grass and loooked up at the starry sky.

So vast...

"So... you guys can come out of the trees now... if it wouldn't be too much trouble." She said, never taking her eyes from the sky.

Sheepshly, two figures made their way across the clearing.

"Ami, I don't like being followed. You know that." She said softly.

"I made her come with me. I didn't know how to find you." A new voice, one that she hadn't heard in this world before, but was very familar, said.

Usagi sat up faster than a shot.

"Can it be..." she whispered. "Chibi-usa- chan! You shouldn't be here-- it's too dangerous! I'm gonna kill Pluto..." She hugged her daughter.

"Don't hurt Puu. I pulled rank on her." Chibi-usa admited.

"Now, I know I've told you not to do that. Sometime or another..."

"You have."

"Then why..."

"Because it's fun worrying the senshi, Usagi- baka."

"Try cruel." Mercury said. "Come on. We've really got to get back."

***********************

It took a while for everyone to understand who Chibi-usa was. And to get used to the spore herself. Vegeta had a grudge because a fourteen-year old could kick his butt, SSJ or no SSJ.

Goten and Chibi-usa hit it off well. They sparred together, Chichi and Usagi looking on.

Usagi began watching the spars between the SSJs, Piccolo, and Krillin.

One day, Goku and Vegeta, who were closest in power levels, were sparring, and it looked like it would gone on until forever.

After Piccolo broke it up and the two had rested, unexpectedly, a voice was heard.

"Selene Hime Make up!" Usagi cried, letting the fire take over her body to form Sailor Selene.

"So," she said, casually, ignoring their gawking stares. "Who wants to spar with me?"

"Are you serious?" Gohan asked. "Sadly, yes. I'm out of practice." Selene sighed. "I don't like fighting but it seems to be the only way, this time." A flashback to Galaxia made her shudder.

"I will." Vegeta said, standing up.

"No way." Goku began, but Selene nodded.

"Alright. Vegeta." Selene said, going into a fighting stance. "Let's go!"

Vegeta ran at her. His fist connected with her stomach, but she acted like nothing had happening and quickly kicked his feet out from under him.

After that, they began going at each other so fast it was hard for even Goku to follow them.

There was a sickening smakking sound, and Vegeta was suddenly thrown half way across the courtyard.

"He's good." A slightly disheveled Sailor Selene admitted, as Vegeta stood up and went for her with a yell.

"She's good." Goku said in amazement, as she was pinned against a tree before blowing the tree up. "Vegeta's hard to fight because when he's fighting, he thinks about nohting but the fight. Concentration is at a peak."

"Look at her go..." Piccolo whispered to himself, as he watched Selene best Vegeta. "I've never seen such skill."

"I was trained by the best of the best." Selene said. She dehenshined. "Thanks, Vegeta. That was fun."

Even Piccolo's jaw dropped.

"FUN?!" Vegeta roared, and stomped back into the house.

"Fun?!" Goku echoed, laughing. Gohan just looked stunned, as did Krillin and Piccolo.

"You call that fun? Geez-- you just kicked his ass! That's not fun-- that's hard!" Goten exclaimed.

"Hard? Not quite." Usagi looked at their increduous faces. "Well-- wasn't it supposed to be easy?"

At this, Krillin nearly passed out.

"Not quite." Piccolo mumbled.

"Mama! Henshin!" Came Chibi-usa'a frightened voice as a warrior came into view.

"Gotcha! Selene Eternal Moon Make up!"

"Mercury Crystal Power Make up!"

"Moon Prism Power Make up!" the three senshi fell back as Earth's Special Forces moved forward.

"Kamehameha!" Goten and Goku shouted, as the others threw ki, Krillin with a destructo disk.

The warrior merely laughed and deflected both attacks away, back at the two stunned fighters.

"No way! Moon Barrier!" Selene stopped them before they could hit.

"Mercury Aqua Rhaspody!"

"Cresent Moon Heart Attack!"

"Fight, Usagi." Chibi-moon looked at her mother, who had bit her lip as she stared at the warrior.

"I... Chibi-usa-chan..." "Mama, there's nothing to be afraid of anymore. You *are* better than Diamond. Please, fight."

"Yes, Usagi. Your fighting skills were never the best, they are now. Yuo must use them if you ever want to win-- can't you see that? You've got to prove them all wrong."

"If you can kick Vegteta's butt and call it easy, this guy isn't even a match for you." Krillin added.

It's not that, Eternal Sailor Selene thought. I know I can beat them. That's not the problem.

My problem is Diamond.

"If you want someone to pick on, you piece of dirt, here I am." She said, wishing she was as indimidating as Haruka could be.

Her eyes suddenly went blank. Completely blank.

Chibi-Moon pulled Mercury back, a cry of despair in her throat that refused to surface.

That only happened when Usagi surrendered to the warrior inside of her and fought. Usagi was gone for those few minutes. Only a battle-hungry senshi existed, one out for blood and revenge.

"Back off, everyone." Chibi-Moon warned. "She'll kill you too if you get in the way."

"But---"

"Gohan, she's not who you think right now."

"Fine."

The pair went for each other. The warrior roared, but Selene remained silent, her eyes catching every movement, her lips in a frown as she threw punches and kicks with a grace that only she could have.

The warrior was countering feircly, but it was losing.

"Moon Concentrated Sun Attack!"

The warrior vanished.

"What happened?" Bulma asked.

"A concentrated laser beam travelling at frecencies unimaginable, which burned every last atom of the warrior." Mercury said, her voice unsteady.

She had no idea that Usagi could be like this.

There was a deadly silence that seemed to last forever until it was broken by Selene.

"Mercury, I would like to speak with Sailor Pluto."

"Here, my Queen." Pluto appeared behind a trembling-back-to-her-senses Selene.

"We need to talk."

~*~*~*~*~

No one had any idea, not even Chibi-usa, what Usagi wanted to talk to the senshi of time about.

But when Usagi came back, she was dressed in a white, toga-ish robe. She bid goodnight to all, even though the sun was just beginning to set. She all but ran up the staircase to her room, where she locked the door and reinforced it with her magic, which Gohan discovered the hard way when he tried to break it down.

Inside, Usagi could be heard chanting, and occasonally there would be a bright flash of light. Even Vegeta was concerned about her.

"I don't know what she could be doing." Chibi-usa said. "But whatever it is, she's not even touching the ginzuishou. I'd be able to tell."

"Do you think she finally snapped?" Goten asked.

"Doubt it. It would take a lot more-- well. No, I don;t know anymore." Ami sighed. "I used to be able to tell what she'd do anytime anywhere-- but I don't know anymore. She could have very well snapped. But the readings she is giving off shows that she is control of her power-- a good thing."

Goku opened his mouth to say something, but a banshee scream made him freeze.

"Mama!" Chibi-usa murmured, as she instantly tansformed, without any will of her own. Ami also henshined without her wand or words.

"This can't be good!"

~*~*~*

"WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING?!" Diamond screamed, as a crack appearedin the Dark Crystal.

"An attack, sir." His new second in command told him nervously.

"Where?"

"We-- we don't know."

"WHHHHHAAAAAAAAAT?!"

"It appeared to be a concentrated burst of energy. We're fighting it to the best of our ability, but we cannot see the attacker, sir. It's like they're not here, but their energy is."

Diamond's eyes narrowed.

"Serenity."

"What was that, sir?"

"I want those defenses up to maxium!" Diamond snapped.

"But an overload like that could cause the dark crystal to explode."

"NOOOOOW!"

"Yes sir."

Diamond sat back in his throne, seething, not even noticing the sense of deja vu that lurked in the back of his mind.

No, Serenity was resisting him again. She and her senshi were much more powerful now. She had escaped him, right beside his dark surce of power.

And now she was fighting back.

"So, my darling kitten has sprung claws. That's fine." Diamond smirked. "She'll be mine."

~*~*~*~*~*~

The two senshi ran up to the door, only to be blasted back by whatever power Serenity had placed upo it to keep them from entering.

Chibi-Moon growled in frustration.

"Crescent Moon Heart Attack!" She screamed, blowing the door into splinters.

And then, all of Earth's Special Forces, the two senshi, saw what had been hidden.

Serenity was hovering in the center of the room, glowing with some unseen power, a faint chant whispering in the breezes. A pair of the clearest, faintly colored butterfly wings were keeping her in the air, her dress that of the Neo-Queen, the ginzuishou above her head, her arms to her sides.

Her eyes snapped open, unseeing.

"Diamond, this will be our last fight!" She screamed, and the room, if possible, was alightened more my the sheer light that she gave off.

"It's her soul." Chibi-moon gasped, backing up until she hit the wall, and then slid down it until she knelt on her knees. "All these years... how could I have not seen it?" She moaned.

"What?" Gohan asked.

"It's her soul. She's fighting for her soul, her spirit, her will to live! He stole them from her, and until now, she's never had the strength to fight for them... oh, Mother, how could I have not..." a tear made it's way down her check.

"You mean that..." Mercury softly cursed. She looked at her princess, the fallen angel battling for her heart, her purity. "Kick his ass, Usagi. Do it for that innocent girl we all love."

"I will defeat you!" As if in reply, the crescent moon on her forehead manifested, and then ginzuishou poured forth it's power...

The sky blazed silver, and the wind echoed the sound for miles...

~*~*~*~

There was a cracking sound, and then a shattering.

Dark energy suddenly gave in to the Light energy, and Diamond had once last word before his body was destroyed and his soul sent to the eternal damnation that was his destiny.

"Serenity..."

~*~*~*~

Usagi looked at the men who had been her sanity for the long time she had been on Their earth. She hugged Bulma and Chichi, and said a tearful goodbye to them all.

"I do not want go..." She said softly. "But I must. My fate awaits, and a confrontation my senshi will never forget must be undertaken."

"I'll miss you, Usagi." Gohan said. His eyes held something that Chichi couldn't decipher as he stared at Usagi.

Almost a longingness.

"We all will." Goku echoed. Even Vegeta and Piccolo nodded, and were the target of many strange looks.

"Thank you for taking care of Mama." Chibi- usa hugged Bulma.

Sailor Pluto cleared her throat.

"The time is right. We must go now, My Queen, if you wish to go home at all."

"Alright... Puu." She said, grinning. "I promise I'll try to find some way to visit-- this time without wreaking havoc on your lives."

She began to waver, and then, quite suddenly, she vanished, along with the other three senshi.

"Goodbye, Usagi." Goten called after her vanishing figure.

"Goodbye, Odango..." Gohan whispered.

~*~*~*~

The four reappeared... where else? In a secluded area of the park.

"Of course. Everything always happens in the park." Usagi murmured. She looked down at her cut off denim shorts and her white tank top. "Time to make a debut. The new, improved Usagi meets Tokyo."

"Ami, you'd better go home and tell your mother you're alright. At the moment, you can tell her the truth or whatever you want to explain." Pluto said softly. "And Usagi, head over to the temple. It's empty right now, giving you time to set up a 'I'm back' scenerio. I must return to the Gates."

"Goodbye, Pluto. Thank you for everything." Usagi said.

"This goodbye, unlike the others, will not be for long." Sailor Pluto gave Usagi and all-knowing wink before stepping into one of her portals.

"I wonder what that meant." Ami murmured. Chibi-usa only giggled, and Usagi bit her lip in concentration.

"I think I know, but why spoil a surprise?" she asked. "Now, Ami, you'd do as Pluto said. Chibi- usa, you go and tell Mamo-chan-- seomthing. I'm going to the temple." As she spoke, Usagi took out her odangos, letting her silvery hair fall to brush the back of her calves, and her quiet silver blue eyes twinkled at them.

"There. I don't think they'll recognize me now, say you?" She asked, in a broad scotch accent.

Chibi-usa and Ami laughed.

"No, Usagi, I don't think they will." Ami whispered.

~*~*~*~*~*~

Got up this mornin'

On the right side of my bed.

With all these crazy thoughts

Screamin' through my head

I can't wait to see

What this world holds for me

Oh, it's a new day

And when I see you,

Anytime or anyplace.

You are the reason for

The smile on my face.

Cuz you make me feel

All my dreams can be real

Oh, it's a new day

Feels so good to be alive

Even if a little rain should fall

Cuz every moment brings a

New surprise to my soul..

Oh, it's a new day

Here in you I've found a friend

You'll be with me to the end.

Oh, it's a new day.

~*~*~*~*~*~

"Maybe I'm being a bit harsh..." Usagi couldn't help but wonder, as she climbed up the many steps of the Hiwaka Shrine. Her hair blew back with the summer breeze, and her cheeks were tanned with the stronger sun of Gohan's world. She knew she was very pretty, and her theory was only justified when she reach the top step.

Quietly, she stepped up to Yuichiro, who was at the charm selling booth, reading a magizine.

"Excuse me, sir." She said.

"Huh?" Yuichiro looked up at her and gulped.

"Yes?"

"Is Rei-chan here?"

"Uh--no."

"Oh, what a pity!" Usagi smiled. "I have something very important to tell her." "Well, she'll be back in a few minutes, she went off with that blonde friend of her's."

"Minako?"

"Yeah, her."

"Oh... well, if you don't mind, Yuichiro, I'll go to her room and wait for her. When she gets back, please tell her that Hime is waiting for her."

"Hime? Sure thing!" Yuichiro grinned.

"Thank you!" Usagi disappeared around the corner of the shrine, finding Rei's room quickly.

'Hime-- hoo, boy, will Rei be confused!' Usagi thought, as she stepped to the middle of the room and outstretched her arms in front of her.

A light, flowly aura appeared over her, and she became the creature of purity, Queen Selene, with the ever so faintly tinted butterfly wings and the dress and crown of Serenity.

She took out her communicator.

"Ami," She said, hiting the sky blue button.

"I'm here, Usagi."

"Good. Get everyone over to the temple-- but don't tell them why."

"The outers?"

"No. Chibi-usa told them I'm alive. Just those three girls, one guy, and two cats."

"Sure thing, Usagi."

"One thing down." Usagi said, putting her communicator up, and sitting down in one of FRei's chairs, a Sailor V manga in her hands. Her aura still glowed faintly around her, making her glow like a spirit. "One to go."

She was halfway into the maga and at the good part, where Sailor V tells Justin that she's in love with him, when she heard soemthing that made her fling away the manga and stand up.

It was Rei's voice.

"YUICHIRO, YOU HAVEN'T SOLD A THING I OUTTA-- "

"Whoa, Rei, Babe, chill! You've got a visitor."

Usagi could almost see the surprise on Rei's face.

"I do?"

"Yeah, she said her name was Hime-- and that she'd wait for you in your room."

"Hime? I don't know anyone... Hime..." Usagi laughed. Rei's face, and the face of whoever was with her must be dead white.

"You don't think--" Makoto's voice sounded strangled.

"You're being rediculous, guys. Usagi's been gone for a long time. She must be-- you know." Ami's voice was clipped, matter of fact, like she was angry.

'Oh, no.' Usagi thought, frowning. 'The totally grilled her out. Ami hates that.'

"Come on. let's go meet this Hime." Minako's voice was forcedly cheery.

'Good.' Usagi lifted herself off the ground a few inches, her wings fluttering every few seconds as she listened to the footsteps in anticipation.

The door creaked open.

Four girls stepped in, heads down, and Ami, the only one who saw Usagi, closed the door behind her.

~*~*~*~*~

"Hello, Sailor Senshi." Usagi said, in her new, soft, regal voice. A frown was on her face.

"Wha?!" Three heads snapped up. Three jaws fell open, and three pairs of eyes bugged out.

Usagi lowered herself to the ground, and sat back down in her chair.

"I suppose you might recognize me." She said, after long questioning silence. "But it has been a long time, Sailor Senshi. Have you forgotten me? Have you forgotten your oaths to Pricness Serenity? I must demand an answer." She said, in a soft, but angry voice.

Three senshi hung their heads in guilt.

"Queen Serenity?" Makoto asked.

"I'm flattered." Usagi wanted to giggle, but her forwn never slipped. "No. Queen Serenity is dead, as is Princess Serenity. Neither of them will walk the Earth again. Would you like to know who I am?"

"If you don't mind, yes!" Rei said, her violet eyes flaring.

"I am the Goddess Selene, the Imperial Serenity." She looked at them all. "Have you forgotten your oath? I demand an answer." Her voice never raised. it just remained that angry, but sad tone, above a whisper but just barely.

"No, Selene-sama. But Usagi was a clutz-- her death was of her own doing!" Rei protested.

"Wrong!" Selene's voice was like a slap. "She used the ginzuishou to save you all! That monster she was fighting was a thousand times stronger than any of you think. She sacrificed herself, as she has done before, to save all of you. Even though you shunned her! You took away her diginity when you took over the leadership of the senshi, Sailor Venus. And you didn't help any, Sailor Mars, scolding her. And Jupiter... you just let it happen."

"But it wasn't my fault! She couldn't lead anymore, not after the way she lost to that youma!" Minako exclaimed.

Selene's eyes flashed.

"No." The sadness was gone from her voice. "If you'd listened to her, if you'd listened to her daughter, you would have found different. No, Eternal Sailor Moon and Super Sailor Chibi-moon defeated that youma with ease!"

"But then how did she almost die?" Makoto demanded.

"The victim of the youma was angry that she didn't die. She wanted to die. But Sailor Moon prevented that, and in anger, she lashed out with a dagger. None of you would listen when she tried to tell you that. None of you would listen!"

"We're... we're sorry..." Minako whispered.

"Ami, did you tell them where you were?"

"Nope!" Ami grinned at Selene. "And I think you're doing a pretty good job, Lene. But you're being a bit harsh, don't you think?"

The other three turned to face Ami.

"You think so?" Selene asked, smiling faintly. "Gee, I guess you're right. I was angry. So, what did you tell your mom, Ami?"

"The truth. Pluto did say I could, after all."

"How did she take it?"

"She'll be awake in a few hours." Ami and Selene both laughed.

"What... is going on here?" Rei asked.

"Where's Luna and Artemis, Ami?"

"Couldn't find them." Ami answered. "But I figured letting Eternal Sailor Selene show up in battle would be better."

"I should have thought of that." Selene smakked herself on the forehead. "What a great idea."

"I know. So, how do you think you know who will take it you've been with a bunch of guys all this time?"

"Not well, probably." Selene let her wings vanish, the glow disapate, and her normal clothes reappear.

The other senshi were looking from a now normal looking woman to a grinning Ami as they chatted.

"How are you going to explain it?"

"Actually, I was planning on just... well, appearing."

"Uh-uh, he'll find out sometime."

"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?" Rei, Minako, and Makoto all screeched at once.

"Oh." Selene looked at them, and laughed. "Opps. Kind of forgot about you guys." She frowned again. "So, Ami, should we tell them or make them suffer."

"Tell them. I'm kind of mad at them, for grilling me the way they did, but I suppose this is enough."

"Good." Selene pulled out a small, heart shaped brooch. "Moon Eternal, Make up!"

It was instantanious, unlike all the other times.

"Do you guys recognize me now? Or do I have to do the Crisis transformation?"

"U-Usagi?" Rei asked.

"No no no no!" Eternal Sailor Moon said, clucking her tongue. "I told you the truth, Rei. Princess Serenity is dead-- and so is Usagi."

"Then who are you?!"

"Well, Makoto, it's like this. After I used the ginzuishou, I somehow ended up in an Alternate dimension..."

Four hours later...

"... And then I said goodbye and Pluto brought us all back home. We arrived in the park, and I took down my hair and told Chibi-usa to go see Mamo-chan and then Puu told Ami to go explain to her mother where she was."

"Diamond..."

"Selene..."

"Goku..." The last comment, from Minako, earned her several, 'How could you be daydreaming at a time like this?!' looks.

"Yeah. So you see, I've been a busy little goddess."

"I've got a question."

"What, Mako-chan?"

"Girl, you're absolutely drop-dead gorgeous, you look like you're twenty-five, you've got a body any person would dream of--"

"Yeah..."

"What's Mamoru going to say?"

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