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DISCLAIMER: Sailor Moon is copyrighted 1992 by Naoko 
Takeuchi.  All except the characters I created belong
to her.  I'm just borrowing them for awhile :-)  Any 
and all problems with this can be directed to the 
University of Alabama administration.  It's their fault
I had a chance to get addicted to the series to begin
with!
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SENSHI IN COLLEGE: EPISODE 12 - Usagi?s Desperation.  
Foreshadows of an approaching destiny.
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	"Moon Eternal...Make-UP!"
	Usagi thrusted her brooch in the air, and it opened 
to reveal the ginzuishou.  But, it did not sparkle.  She 
closed her eyes and waited for the pulsating waves of 
energy to wash over her that would change her into Eternal 
Sailor Moon.
	But nothing happened.
	Usagi lowered her brooch and gazed at it.  "Why?" she 
whispered in a low voice.  "Why can?t I transform?  Why are 
you doing this to me again, ginzuishou?"  
	Suddenly, she heard a clicking sound in front of her 
and Usagi looked up to see Misora standing before her, 
youma at her side.  The older woman pointed at her.  "Get 
Sailor Moon?s hopeful soul!" she yelled.
	"No!" Usagi screamed. "Leave me alone!"

	**********
	<No!  Leave me alone!>
	Mamoru shot up in bed and looked around, hearing 
Usagi?s voice in his mind as clearly as if she had been 
standing in the same room with him.  He looked around and 
saw that room was dark.  Debris still littered the floor 
from where the battle with Misora had taken place just 
three days before.  He shrugged and laid back down.  His 
eyes focused on the ceiling, which boasted several new 
cracks in it.  So much for the security deposit, he 
thought, his gaze focused on a piece of plaster dangling 
from the ceiling.
	For the past two days, he had been looking through 
the newspaper for a new apartment.  A larger apartment, one 
with two bedrooms.   Houses were out of the picture, they 
were both still in school.  He frowned, thinking about the 
money in the bank.  The money that had always seemed to be 
there since he turned 18 and was able to flee from the 
orphanage.  No matter how much the cost of living was, 
there always seemed to be enough, if not extra.  No amount 
of tracking on his part seemed to be able to trace where 
the money came from.  
	However, not long after his 18th birthday, Mamoru had 
met Usagi and fighting with Sailor Moon and the other 
Sailor Senshi caused him to abandon his search for where 
his source of income came from.  He held odd jobs during 
the summer because he knew he should save money for the day 
when this mysterious trust fund would run out.  But all of 
that money was still in a savings account at the bank.  It 
had never been used.
	He knew he should try looking for this mysterious 
benefactor again.  He yawned and closed his eyes.  He 
needed to tell Usagi about it.  She once asked him how he 
was able to survive without working a lot, but he had 
shrugged and given her a vague answer.  Yes, she deserved 
to know, and they could go looking for this benefactor 
together.
	<NO!!!!!!>
	A vision of Usagi facing off against Misora, brooch 
clutched in her hand, filled his mind.  Mamoru shot up in 
bed again, knowing this time it was the real thing.  He 
reached over on the nightstand and grabbed a gold pocket 
watch off it.  He gazed down at it, wondering if it would 
work for him again.  He nodded.  It had to.  He threw back 
the covers, jumped out of bed, and ran out of the room.

	**********
	"NO!!!!!!"
	"Usagi?" Chibi-Usa threw open Usagi?s bedroom door to 
see her tossing around in bed, holding her brooch in her 
hand.  Chibi-Usa ran over to the bed and tried grabbing 
hold of her shoulders.  "Usagi, wake up!" she cried.
	"Usagi-chan!" Luna jumped up on the bed.  She swatted 
her paws in Usagi?s face, knowing that had worked before.  
However, this time Usagi did not respond, and she kept 
screaming.
	"Luna, what?s wrong?" Chibi-Usa yelled to Luna over 
the deafening noise that now echoed through the entire 
house.
	"She?s caught in the middle of some weird dream," 
Luna hollered back.  "We can?t get her out of it!"
	The balcony door opened and Tuxedo Kamen dropped into 
the room.  He surveyed the area quickly for youma and 
instead saw his future daughter trying to get his future 
wife to stop screaming.  Chibi-Usa looked over at Mamoru 
gratefully.
	"Mamo-chan, she won?t wake up!" she cried, her voice 
bordering on desperation.
	
	Usagi closed her eyes, preparing for her hopeful soul 
to be stripped from her.
	"Usako, wake up!" She could hear Mamoru?s voice in 
the distance calling to her.  She reached out and vainly 
searched for him.
	"Mamo-chan!  Help me!" she screamed.  "Rei-chan!  
Ami-chan!  Mako-chan!  Minako-chan!"
	"Usagi!" Chibi-Usa?s equally worried voice echoed in 
the room.
	Usagi whirled around, expecting to find Sailor Chibi 
Moon somewhere in the battle ground.  "Chibi-Usa!" she 
cried just as her world went black.
	Slowly, she opened her eyes.  Two fuzzy blue circles 
and two fuzzy cinnamon circles were staring at her.  She 
blinked several times until they came into focus, and she 
realized they were Mamoru and Chibi-Usa?s eyes.  She looked 
around and realized Mamoru, now detransformed, was holding 
her in a sitting position in his lap and Chibi-Usa stood by 
her bed.  Luna sat on the edge of the bed.  In the doorway, 
Shingo stood holding Chibi Chibi in his arms.  He had been 
helping to take care of her because Ikuko was still in Sobe 
with her brother.  The little girl was the only one still 
asleep.
	"Are you okay, onee-san?" Shingo asked in a low 
voice.
	"It was a dream?" Usagi asked, still feeling 
disoriented.  She looked at Mamoru for confirmation and he 
nodded.  She relaxed against him, allowing him to comfort 
her as he stroked her back.  She sighed, feeling exhausted 
from the experience she had gone through in the dream.
	"What happened, Usagi?" Chibi-Usa asked.
	"I don?t know.  Misora and a youma were trying to 
attack me, so I tried to transform.  But, my brooch 
wouldn?t work.  It was like back when the Death Busters 
first came, before I received my power-up."
	"But, you can still transform, right?" Shingo asked.  
The young man leaned against the doorway, adjusting the 
little girl in his arms.  He admitted there was much to his 
sister?s secret life that he did not know about, but this 
clearly worried her.
	"I don?t know," Usagi admitted.
	"Why don?t you try it," Luna urged her.
	Usagi nodded to her and got up.  She reached on her 
nightstand for her brooch and held it up in the air.  "Moon 
Eternal...Make-UP!"
	Moments later, Eternal Sailor Moon stood before them.  
Moon smiled in relief and touched her brooch.  She 
detransformed and sat on the bed next Mamoru, who put his 
arm around her.  She smiled at him.  Shingo yawned and left 
the room with Chibi Chibi, muttering he would put her back 
in her bed.  
	Chibi-Usa yawned as well and went back to her own 
bedroom.  In the doorway, she turned around and looked at 
Usagi and Mamoru sitting on the bed together.  She frowned, 
remembering Tuxedo Kamen?s entrance.  He had not been 
wearing a hat and his tuxedo looked vaguely different.  She 
shrugged and left the room.
	Usagi laid back down on the bed and yawned.  
"Arigato, Mamo-chan," she said.  "How did you know I was 
having a bad dream?"
	He stood up and stared down at her, all sorts of 
thoughts crowding into his mind.  He simply leaned over and 
kissed her on the forehead and smiled.  "Let?s just say for 
now it was a connection," he commented, then walked over to 
the bedroom door.  He flipped off the light on his way out, 
deciding to leave the house like a normal man.  "Oyasumi 
nasai, Usako."
	Usagi watched her bedroom door close and groaned.  
She turned onto her stomach.  "We?re engaged to be married 
and he kisses me on the forehead," she muttered.  "Some 
romantic he makes."
	Meanwhile, Mamoru reached the front door of the 
Tsukino house when he heard his name being called.  He 
turned around to see Luna sitting at the bottom of the 
steps.  A mischievious twinkle glittered in the cat?s eyes.
	"Mamoru-san, you looked, didn?t you?" Luna said.
	"Looked at what?" Mamoru stared at the cat.
	"Usagi-chan.  When she transformed."
	Blush stained his cheeks and he turned toward the 
door, trying to remember how to turn the knob.  "I plead 
the Fifth," he commented.
	"Nice try, except we don?t operate under the United 
States Consititution in Tokyo," Luna said.
	"Oh hush," Mamoru said, finally remembering how to 
turn the knob and left the house.  He started whistling as 
he walked down the sidewalk to his car.  Oh, Luna would 
kill him if she knew of his real reaction to whenever he 
got lucky enough to see Usagi's henshin.  He couldn't keep 
the grin off his face as he got into the car and drove back 
to his apartment.


	**********
	"What do you mean you haven?t seen her in three 
days?" Hino?s eyes narrowed across his desk at Moreno.  
"She takes the kontsu and disappears off the face of the 
earth!  You?re her brother!  Fine her now!"
	"Hai, certainly," Moreno muttered, turning on his 
heel and walking out of the room.  His heart thundered in 
his chest after the thirty minutes of yelling Hino had 
done.  The man had grown cold and ruthless, and he doubted 
his sister would survive if she returned to Hino.  Her 
recent failures coupled with her disappearance meant that 
her life was suddenly expendable in Hino?s eyes.
	Moreno walked back in the laboratory and closed the 
door behind him.  He looked over at a table where Misora 
had worked before he joined the team.  He walked over to 
the table and opened the one drawer in it and pulled out a 
framed photograph of a pregnant Misora standing in front of 
a handsome man with sandy blond hair.  He stared at the 
photograph for a moment, then felt a hand on his shoulder.  
He turned around to see Hino pointing a copy of the kontsu, 
which Moreno had just finished, at him.  Before he could 
say anything, Hino shot him.
	Moreno crumpled to the ground, faint traces of a 
hopeful soul glittering in the air.  Hino switched the mode 
on the kontsu to vacumn and sucked in the hopeful soul.  He 
removed the vial from the gun and tucked it into the pocket 
of his coat.  He looked on the table and picked up a needle 
filled with a grey liquid and knelt down next to Moreno?s 
unconcious body.  Hino quickly stuck the needle in Moreno?s 
arm, then stood back up.  
	"Just as I figured, enough of a hopeful soul to have 
him think about turning away from me," Hino commented to 
himself.  "I must have him under my complete control."  He 
tossed away the used needle and picked up the photograph of 
Misora that Moreno had been holding.  He gazed her for a 
moment, then scowled.  "You are of no further use to me," 
he said, then tossed the picture against the wall.  The 
glass shattered as the photograph hit the wall, then fell 
to the floor.  

	**********
	Michiru knocked on the door to Setsuna?s room.  She 
waited a moment, then pushed open the door, which was 
already ajar.  The aqua-haired woman gasped when she saw 
the mess of papers on every surface of the room and Setsuna 
asleep at her computer desk.  She approached the desk, 
stopping to move the papers at the end of Setsuna?s bed to 
reveal a folded blanket.  She took the blanket and gently 
draped it over Setsuna?s shoulders.
	Michiru looked up to see that Setsuna was connected 
to the Internet.  She picked up a sheet of paper off the 
printer and scanned it briefly.  She frowned at the 
heading.  Mirakuru Full Moon, she read.  What is this?
	Setsuna stirred at that moment.  She opened her eyes 
and sat up, rubbing the back of her neck as she did so.  
She turned her attention back to the computer, shutting off 
the Internet.  She then stood up and stretched.
	"Setsuna, what?s going on?" Michiru asked, holding up 
the paper.
	Setsuna yawned and moved over to her dresser, kicking 
aside papers strewn on the floor as she did so.  She opened 
one of the drawers and pulled out some clothing.  She 
glanced up at Michiru.
	"Part of my job as senshi of time is to make sure the 
timeline flows smoothly.  Some job.  Queen Serenity 
mentioning something about it being hard, but I didn?t 
realize the timeline would constantly be tampered with by 
villians, fights between lovers, and cute pink-haired 
little girls.  The thing is that I can?t tell the people 
involved what to do, but I can sure nudge them in the right 
direction."
	"I take it that this has to do with the Princess and 
the Prince," Michiru said.
	"But of course.  99.9% of things that go wrong with 
the timeline have to do with the Prince and Princess.  The 
other 1 billion people on this planet take up the remaining 
0.01%," Setsuna shrugged.  "Sometimes, I feel I need an 
assistant."  Or a good, stiff drink, she thought to 
herself.
	Michiru chuckled.  "So what does this Mirakuru Full 
Moon have to do with them?"
	"Well, if the prince and princess aren?t nudged in 
the right direction by October 15th, then the lives of the 
Sailor Senshi will be changed forever," Setsuna said.  
"Damnit, I had to stand by and watch the Black Moon nearly 
take over the 20th and 30th centuries and all sorts of 
mayhem.  I?m tired of being the passive senshi."
	"But won?t this bother with the timeline?" Michiru 
asked.
	"Not if I do it right," Setsuna said.  "I?m going to 
take a shower."
	Michiru watched Setsuna walk into the bathroom and 
pondered for a moment over the odd behavior of the senshi 
of time.  Poor Setsuna, she thought.  She really does need 
a break. 

	**********
	Moreno looked down into his communicator.  He stood 
on the Quad at Azabu University, students milling around 
him on the large park-like area.  It had been less than 24 
hours since his meeting with Hino, about four hours after 
he woke up on the laboratory floor not remembering how he 
got there.  
	"Do you have your instructions?" Hino?s voice came 
over the communicator.
	"Hai," Moreno said, then shut off the communicator.  
In his office, Hino leaned back in his chair and gazed at 
the ceiling.  To prove Moreno?s worth after getting rid of 
what remained of his hopeful soul, Hino decided to send him 
out as a distraction to the Sailor Senshi.
	He gazed around the area, looking for a good object 
to use as a youma.  He didn?t care about making sure the 
job was done at this point, something inside him said he 
needed to find Misora and fast.  A sinking feeling in his 
heart told him that if Hino reached her before he did, then 
she would not live long.  However, something inside him was 
controlling him to the point where he had to do this.  
Moreno frowned.  It was as if he was losing control over 
his mind.
	He glanced up into a tree and saw a nest of baby 
birds. The branch they were on was low enough for him to 
reach up and get the nest without disturbing the birds.  He 
knelt on the ground, placing the nest before him.  Then, he 
slipped his hand in his jacket pocket and pulled out a vial 
with a purple liquid in it.
	Moreno opened it and poured the contents of the vial 
on top of the baby birds and jumped back to see them grow 
to huge proportions.  He stepped back and nodded.  "Go!" he 
yelled.  "Find and distract the Sailor Senshi anyway 
possible!"
	The two birds now looked like ten foot tall 
disfigured eagles.  Their yellow beaks were twisted in such 
a way that it looked like it would be impossible to open 
them.  Still, they stretched their massive wings and 
screeched out their answer to his command, causing a strong 
breeze and many students on the Quad to look their way and 
gawk.  Hino simply watched as the birds soared into the 
air.  Moreno turned and headed toward the street.  He had 
to find his sister as fast as he could...before Hino could.

	**********
	Makoto gazed at the circle of cherry blossom trees 
surrounding the bell tower. There were no blossoms on the 
trees now, the September breeze blowing the browning leaves 
off the tree.  The senshi of nature squinted to see a young 
plant, still green, struggling to grow against the odds.
	"Poor thing," Makoto muttered out loud, approaching 
the tree and moving aside the branches to reveal the young 
plant on the end of a branch.  She looked around for a 
moment, then wrapped her hand around the branch and closed 
her eyes.  A green glow lit up her hand and spread to the 
plant.  Moments later, the plant opened into a fully-
bloomed cherry blossom.
	Makoto released the branch and stepped back.  The 
other branches of the tree covered the one blossom, but she 
knew it was still there.  Makoto knew she shouldn?t had 
tried her powers in public like she did, but something in 
her heart sympathized with the young plant.
	"It?s like me," she said to herself in a whisper, her 
emerald eyes filled with longing.  "I want to grow and 
blossom, just like that plant.  But...but I can?t."  Tears 
filled her eyes, and she hastily rubbed them away with the 
sleeve of her blouse.  She was Kino Makoto!  One of the 
strongest of the Sailor Senshi.  She was not suppose to cry 
or feel sorry for herself.
	An eerie feeling washed over Makoto.  She suddenly 
glanced up in the sky to see a huge object coming toward 
her.  She gasped when she saw the object was actually a 
huge, deformed bird, screaming "Tori! Tori!" at the top of 
its lungs.  The wind caused from its massive wings nearly 
blew Makoto off her feet.  Several feathers dropped from 
its dingy brown coat, landing several feet away from her.  
	Makoto ducked between two of the cherry blossom trees 
and pushed her blouse sleeve up to reveal her communicator.  
She hit the all-call button.
	"Minna!  There?s a youma attack on the Quad!" she 
said, reaching in her pocket with her free hand to grab her 
henshin brooch.
	"We?re on the way!" Rei?s voice answered back.
	"Do you need me?" Ami?s voice sounded over the link 
as well.
	"Not yet, just keep an eye on us...," Makoto?s words 
were cut short as something propelled into her hand and 
knocked her brooch out of it.  It landed on the ground 
about several feet away from her.  Makoto glanced down at 
her hand and screamed when she noticed that the youma?s 
weapon of choice was huge bird droppings.
	"Mako-chan?" Ami?s voice sounded over the 
communicator, but another round of droppings hit Makoto?s 
wrist, cutting off the communication.
	"Shimatta," Makoto muttered, backing away from the 
youma and pulling her handkerchief out of her pocket as 
best as she could without messing up her clothes.  She 
wiped her hands and wrist clean and tossed the cloth away.
	The youma screamed out again and Makoto looked up to 
see it heading straight toward her.  She backed up and 
looked around to see she was trapped.  The bell tower was 
behind her, and there was no cover other than the cherry 
blossom trees.  She didn?t want to risk hurting them 
either.
	Makoto closed her eyes and prepared for the youma to 
overwhelm her.
	"MERCURY AQUA MIRAGE!"
	Makoto?s eyes flew open in time to see a blast of 
water send the youma into the bell tower and dissolve.  She 
looked up to see Sailor Mercury standing near the cherry 
blossom trees
	"Sailor Mercury!" Makoto cried in surprise.  "What?re 
you doing here?"
	"I could sense you were in trouble," Ami said.  
"Rei-chan and Minako-chan are fighting another youma near Azabu 
Sandwhiches and Snacks.  There?s two more, but I?m not sure 
where they are.  They?re probably probably near the 
library."
	"Have you found Usagi-chan?" Makoto asked.
	Ami shook her head.  "She has her communicator 
turned off."
	Makoto groaned, then ran over to her brooch and 
picked it up.  She wiped it off on her skirt and sighed.  
Her clothes were ruined anyhow.  She transformed and the 
two ran to assist Mars and Venus.

	**********
	"What?s going on?" Usagi asked, sitting next to 
Mamoru on the picnic blanket.  He had unexpectedly shown up 
after her chemistry class, saying they needed to have a 
talk.  The two now sat under a tree near the middle of the 
Quad.  It was something they had always talked about doing, 
but never did anything about.  A picnic lunch from Azabu 
Sandwiches and Snacks was spread out before them, but 
neither of them touched it.
	"Well, while you were gone, I had taken Chibi Chibi 
out to lunch when...," Mamoru started to explain, but 
before he could get very far, a cheerful voice sang out to 
them.
	"Usagi!  Mamo-chan!" Chibi-Usa said, skipping down 
the path with her valise in hand.  Behind her, Chibi Chibi 
toddled down the path as well.  Chibi-Usa reached the 
picnic and dropped down to her knees.  She grabbed the 
nearest plate, one full of chips, and began eating.
	"Chibi-Usa!" Usagi cried.  "We?re suppose to be on a 
private picnic!"
	"In the most public area of Azabu University.  
Right."  Chibi-Usa picked up and sandwich and handed it to 
Chibi Chibi.  
	"What happened to school anyhow?" Usagi gave into a 
childish impulse and snatched the last sandwich off the 
plate before Chibi-Usa could help herself to it.
	"Give that back!" Chibi-Usa cried.
	"It?s not yours!"
	Chibi Chibi ran over and snatched the sandwich out of 
Usagi?s hand.  "Mine!" she cried with pride before 
consuming it in about two seconds.
	While the girls were fighting, Mamoru?s attention had 
shifted to the sky.  Something did not feel right, he 
realized.  But, he had been feeling very strange ever since 
he gained the power of the Golden Crystal.  It was like he 
had been blind for all of his life, then miracolous, was 
able to see.  He was a fully-grown man, yet a toddler 
trying to take in everything at once.
	Usagi would be the first to tell him about something 
like this, but he hadn?t said anything to her because he 
needed time to come to terms with it for himself.  Usagi 
would probably laugh and say it was just like him to sit 
and analyize something out before bothering to talk about 
it.  Still, it was something he needed to do in order to 
come to terms about the changes in his life.
	Usagi?s communicator started beeping.  The girls 
immediately stopped fighting and started at it.  Makoto?s 
voice came over it, frantically telling them about a youma 
attack on the Quad.  They jumped to their feet immediately.
	"We need to transform!" Usagi said, looking around 
for a place to hide.  The four of them were sitting in the 
middle of the Quad with no trees nearby to shield them.
	"Let?s head for the trees over there," Mamoru pointed 
toward the center of the Quad.
	Chibi-Usa stared into the sky, shielding her eyes 
from the sun with her left hand.  With her right, she 
pointed to something in the air.  "What?s that?" she asked.
	Everyone else gazed into the sky to see two very 
large birds soaring toward them.  
	"What are those?" Usagi asked, using her hand to 
shield her eyes from the sun as well.
	"Tori!  Tori!" Chibi Chibi chanted.
	"Awful big birds, ne?" Chibi-Usa commented.
	Suddenly, the Tori-sans nosedived toward the four 
standing around the picnic blanket.
	"Run!" Usagi and Chibi-Usa screamed.  Mamoru grabbed 
Chibi Chibi in his arms and the three took off as fast as 
they could in the opposite direction from where the birds 
were flying.
	"Girls!" Mamoru yelled as they sped down the Quad 
toward the library.  "Henshin quickly when we reach the 
library!"  All of them had to duck a sudden flurry of bird 
droppings, some of which got on Chibi-Usa's school uniform.
	"ICK!" The girl slid to a stop, and held out her 
skirt.  "Ikuko-momma is going to be mad at this!"
	"Come on!"  Usagi and Mamoru both reached out, and 
pulled Chibi-Usa to safety in the shadows of the library 
steps, which they had managed to reach.
Chibi-Usa grinned sheepishly, then grabbed her 
brooch. Usagi grabbed hers as well, and the girls nodded to 
each other.
	"Moon Crisis...Make-UP!"
	"Moon Eternal...Make-UP"
	Nothing happened.
	"Nani???" All of three of them shouted.  "Chibi 
Chibi?" the littlest asked.  
	Usagi stared at Chibi-Usa, trying her hardest not to 
panic.  She had been able to transform the night before.  
What happened?  The dream where she had been attacked by 
the youma replayed in her mind.
	"What do we do?" Chibi-Usa asked Usagi, fear in her 
voice.
	Usagi put her arm around Chibi-Usa's shoulders, and 
drew herself to her full height.  "Don't worry, 
everything's going to be alright."
	"You've got to help them," Elios's voice suddenly 
rang in Mamoru's head.  "Henshin quickly."
	As if she was reading Mamoru?s mind, Chibi Chibi 
gazed up at him.  "Henshin yo," she told.
	"Mamo-chan?" Usagi stared at him oddly.  Why would 
Chibi Chibi tell him to henshin, she thought.  What is 
going on here?  Chibi-Usa stared at him as well.  
	Mamoru slowly withdrew his watch from his pocket, and 
stared at it for a moment, as if still not quite sure of 
the power it contained.  Despite transforming the night 
before, the events that took place in his apartment a few 
days before seemed like a vague dream.  Then, he pressed a 
button on the side, and it opened up, and he held it in the 
air.
	"Mamo-chan...," Usagi said in disbelief.  Chibi-Usa's 
eyes grew huge.
	A sudden bright flash of light filled the area.  The 
girls watched in amazement as he transformed before their 
eyes.
	It was almost like one of their transformations.  
When it was finished, he stood before them in his new 
outfit, which still felt pretty uncomfortable to him.  In 
his right hand, he held a staff.  The top of it looked like 
the top of Setsuna's staff, but with the Golden Crystal 
softly glowing from it instead of the Garnet Orb.
	Usagi and Chibi-Usa simply stared at him in shock. 
Oh...Kami-sama...he was naked, was the only coherent 
thought Usagi managed to put together out of all the 
confusion in her mind.  <Yes, yes, yes!>
	Before he could explain anything, the Tori-sans 
shrieked in unison, and came flying toward them.  Both of 
the girls screamed, and Usagi grabbed Chibi Chibi and tried 
to shield both her and Chibi-Usa with her body.  Tuxedo 
Kamen turned to the youma, and pointed his staff at it.  
His eyes narrowed in concentration and the Golden Crystal 
began to glow.  Suddenly, a beam of light shot out from it 
and killed the youma.
	"Tuxedo Kamen-sama!" Usagi and Chibi-Usa cried out in 
glee.
	Usagi ran to him, and grabbed his arm.  "Mamo-chan, 
when did this happen?"
	"I'll explain later," he told her, as another youma 
came flying toward them.  He grabbed Usagi, pushed her 
behind him, and deflected the attack with his staff.  He 
tried to draw up enough energy to repeat the attack, but 
found he was too weak to do so.  He stumbled as the lack of 
energy threatened to overwhelm him.
	Usagi grabbed his hand.  "Mamo-chan, daijobu?"
	Mamoru squeezed her hand comfortingly.  "I'm okay, 
Usako.  You and Chibi-Usa need to go find safety."
Usagi shook her head.  "Iie, I'm not going to leave 
you!"
	Chibi-Usa ran around and grabbed his other arm.  "I'm 
not leaving you either!"
	"Chibi Chibi!" Chibi Chibi ran and attached herself 
to his leg for a moment.  Then she let go, and stood in 
front of the three, giving them all long looks.
	Usagi reached over and put her other arm around 
Chibi-Usa.  "We're your family," she said in a mature 
voice, reminding Chibi-Usa of Neo-Queen Serenity.  "We're
going to be by your side no matter what happens."
	Suddenly, both Usagi and Chibi-Usa began to glow.
They reached down until Usagi was holding hands with
Chibi-Usa and Mamoru, Chibi-Usa was holding hands with her
parents, and he was holding hands with both of them.
Suddenly, the Golden Crystal began to glow, and Mamoru
felt an incredible wave of power wash through him.  It 
started from somewhere within his body, and swept through 
his arms into his hands, and from there the glow around 
Usagi and Chibi-Usa brightened.  Suddenly, both girls were 
engulfed in a flash of golden light, and when it died down, 
they wore new fukus.
	Sailor Chibi Moon's fuku was just like the other 
Sailor Star uniforms, except her skirt was layered with 
several shades of pink.  Her red ribbon in the front of 
her uniform changed into a light pink one to match the 
longer one in back.  In her hand, she held a smaller 
version of the Eternal Tier.  
	Sailor Moon's fuku was her eternal fuku, but the 
wings were transparent instead of feathered.  Her skirt was 
layered with white and silver instead of many different 
colors, and did not stick out like they were full of 
starch.  Her ball-shaped sleeves were now transparent with 
a silver glow instead of pink.  In her hand was her Eternal 
Tier, the one she had lost in the fight against Galaxia.  
They all gazed at each other in shock for a moment at 
the unexpected transformation.  Chibi-Usa immediately let 
go of their hands, and suddenly started her attack on the
final bird youma flying around them.
	"PINK LADY'S" She bowed her head in a prayer for a 
moment, then glared at the youma with a determined look in 
her eyes. "FREEZING..." She twirled around on her toes in a 
circle. "KISS!" She aimed the rod at the youma, and a beam 
of pink energy shot out from it, stunning the youma.  It 
quickly fell to the ground.
	"Now, Sailor Moon!" Mamoru yelled, trying to hold 
himself up with his staff.  She grew blurry before his eyes 
as a wave of exhaustion nearly overtook him.
	"Hai!"  Usagi raised her tier and pointed it at the 
youma.  Before she could say anything, the head of the tier 
began to glow and rainbow-colored rays shot out of it. The 
youma screamed, then blew apart into dust.
	"We did it!  Nani?" Usagi and Chibi-Usa cheered, then 
gasped as they powered back down, and detransformed into 
their normal clothing.  
	"It's only temporary?" Chibi-Usa asked.
	"It looks that way for now," Usagi said.
	"Usako..."
	The girls whirled around to see Tuxedo Kamen lose his 
fight with exhaustion.  He slumped to the ground, 
detransforming as he did so.  He landed face first into the 
grass, his watch landing beside them.  
	"Mamo-chan!"  Usagi and Chibi-Usa raced to his side, 
and knelt down on the ground next to him.  Usagi gently 
turned him over to his back, and wiped the dirt off his 
face with her hand.  She cradled his head in her lap, and 
tried to wake him up.  "Mamo-chan, daijobu??"
	He opened his eyes, felt for her hand, and squeezed 
it lightly.  "I'm okay," he whispered to her, before 
lasping into unconsciousness.  However, within moments, the
prince of the Earth slipped from unconsciousness into
a deep, restorative sleep.

	**********
	Usagi pulled the bedroom door shut, and faced the 
gathered senshi.  "He's still sleeping," she said.  
"Arigato, Haruka-san and Mako-chan, for helping me get him 
home."
	"Might want to suggest to him to lay off the curry," 
Haruka teased her.  She frowned when that failed to bring a 
smile to Usagi?s face, or even a remark in his defense.  
Instead, Usagi looked much older than her age, and 
extremely worried.
	"He's going to be okay, isn't he?" Makoto asked Ami, 
who was using her laptop to configure information.
	"He's drained from using the power of the Golden 
Crystal," Ami explained.  "He's never been used to wielding 
so much power before.  It's like with Usagi and the 
ginzuishou.  If he uses all of the power at once, then he 
could..."
	"Ami-chan," Michiru laid a hand  on Ami's shoulder to 
stop her talking, noticing how Usagi's face suddenly lost 
all of its color.
	Ami looked up from her computer, and gave Usagi a 
sympathetic look.  "Gomen nasai, Usagi-chan, but..."
	"I need to know," she said in a whisper.
	Makoto draped an arm around Usagi's shoulders.  "He's 
going to be all right."
	"But, he can't power you up forever."
	Everyone stared at the doorway, where a new figure 
stood.  The outers immediately sprang to their feet.  
"Setsuna-san!" the inners cried.
	Setsuna walked in the room, over to Usagi, and laid a 
hand on her shoulder.  "We need to talk.  You, me, and 
Mamoru-san."
	"Doushite?" Usagi asked, looking extremely confused.
	"Trust me, we need to talk," Setsuna dropped her hand 
from her shoulder, opened the bedroom door, and moved 
inside.  Usagi quickly followed her.  The inners all sprang 
up, and Chibi-Usa ran to the door to follow Usagi in.  
Hotaru grabbed her arm, and stopped her.
	"Not now, Chibi-Usa-chan," Hotaru told her.  "It does 
not concern you."
	Chibi-Usa gazed at her best friend, then at the 
bedroom door.  Please, let Poppa be okay, she prayed in her 
mind.

	**********
	"There are things in this world I know of, things I 
am forbidden to tell you," Setsuna started speaking, 
frowning as she did so.  She hated to sound so serious, but 
she knew that was the only way to get this across to them.
	Usagi sat next to Mamoru on the bed, both of them 
giving the senshi of time their fullest attention.  He had 
finally woken up after several hours, and it was now night.  
During that time, Rei had taken care of explaining to Ikuko 
where Usagi, Chibi-Usa, and Chibi Chibi were, and everyone 
else had ordered pizza.  Makoto and Minako had rented some 
movies, and now everyone was watching a movie in the living 
room.  Occasionally, laughter filtered through the walls.
	"I know of your pasts.  I know what happened to your 
real father, the husband of Queen Serenity, Usagi," Setsuna 
said. "I know your past, Mamoru, who you really are, where 
you were born, the memories you lost on your sixth 
birthday. These are all things you may one day regain."
	"I know of your future, and of the next years lying 
ahead of you.  I know the hardships you will both face that 
will be a test to your love."  Setsuna's expression grew 
gentle.  "I also know, as do you two, that you were meant 
to be together. Your love grows stronger every day, and 
it's a force that no one will be able to penetrate in life 
and death." Setsuna watched as Usagi's eyes grew misty, and 
she laid her head on Mamoru's shoulder.  He took hold of 
her hand.
	"There are different paths that people take in the 
course of their lives.  There is the intended way, which 
doesn't cause any changes in the time warp, and then there 
is the unexpected, which does cause changes.  The Black 
Moon, Hotaru's reawakening, Galaxia, this new enemy...they 
are all unexpected things which has changed the time warp.  
Yes, everything is pretty much as it should be now, but 
that may soon change."
	Setsuna stood, and gazed at the door.  "You two took 
the unexpected path when Usagi decided to postpone your 
wedding, and go to college.  I think overall, that was a 
wise decision, Usagi, to further your education.  I 
realized your interaction with Chibi-Usa and what you do 
know about yourself in the future is a strong motivation 
behind your chosen path.  It is something that will be of 
use to you as queen.  However, this does pose a problem."
	She turned back to the couple.  "I can not tell you 
why, this is something you'll find out on your own.  But, I 
will tell you this.  If you two do not get married soon, 
there will be grave consequences, the first of which, 
you're already experiencing.  You both hold unique powers.  
When combined, those powers can save the world. When the 
holders of the Silver and Golden Crystals have matured 
enough to wield their powers, then it is time for them to 
unite."
	Both of them stared at Setsuna in shock, and simply 
nodded.  The senshi of time smiled.  "The next time the 
moon is full will be in three weeks on October 15th.  That 
is the best time to be married. Do you think you will be 
ready by then?"
	Usagi and Mamoru nodded silently.
	"Good."  Setsuna turned to leave the room.
	"Setsuna-san," Mamoru called out.  She stopped and 
glanced back, waiting for him to ask his question.
"Why did it take so long for me to gain control over 
the Golden Crystal?" he asked.
	Setsuna smiled.  "Why, Mamoru-san, didn't you know 
that girls mature faster than boys?"  She left the room to 
the sound of Usagi's laughter.

	***********
	"Nani?" Ikuko and Chibi-Usa screamed at Usagi and 
Mamoru?s announcement.  They, along with Shingo, sat on the 
sofa in the Tsukino living room with Chibi Chibi sitting in 
Ikuko?s lap.  Ikuko's luggage stood near the door from 
where she had just come back from Kobe about thirty mintues 
before.  Usagi and Mamoru, who had arrived at the house 
shortly before Ikuko did, stood next to each other across 
the room from them.
	"Are you two nuts?" Shingo asked, knowing very well 
the answer to his own question.
	"Chibi!"  Chibi Chibi clapped her hands. "Wedding!"
Usagi groaned at her family?s reaction.  "Look, 
believe me when I tell you that we're getting married three 
weeks from Wednesday.  We have to get married that day!"
	Ikuko sprang up from her seat, and began to pace 
the length of the room.  She stopped suddenly, and turned to 
face her daughter and her fiance.  "Usagi-chan, are you 
pregnant?"
	"No!" Usagi and Mamoru both shouted at the same time, 
then grew very red.
	"Thank Kami," Chibi-Usa muttered.  Both Usagi and 
Mamoru shot a dirty look at their daughter.
	"Just remember who you are," Usagi leaned close to 
Chibi-Usa's ear.  "And remember that there are ways of 
preventing your birth."  Chibi-Usa returned the dirty
look. 
	"Usako...," Mamoru said in a warning tone, 
overhearing what Usagi had told their future daughter.  
This time Usagi shot him the dirty look.
	"What is so important about three weeks from 
Wednesday?" Ikuko flipped a page over on the desk calendar.  
"That?s October 15th."
	"I don?t fully understand it myself, but Setsuna-san 
said that was the day Mamo-chan and I had to get married." 
Usagi explained.
	"Setsuna-san?" Ikuko asked.
	"Sailor Pluto.  The senshi of time," Usagi said.  She 
had glossed over what each senshi was for when she 
originally told Ikuko and Shingo about the Sailor Senshi a 
year earlier.  "She would know best."
	"The 15th is also a full moon, Ikuko-san," Luna 
explained, walking in the room with Artemis on her heels.  
"The waxing and waning moons symbolizes hatred and unrest.  
The new moon means death and destruction."
	"The strongest power is from the full moon," Artemis 
said.  "It is good for visions of the future and for luck.  
It is the time when Usagi-chan?s powers are at their peak."
	"So what does them getting married this October 15th 
have to do with anything?" Ikuko fretted.  She sat back 
down on the sofa and buried her head in her hands.  "I 
don?t get any of this.  It?s been a year, but I still can?t 
comprehend that my only daughter is Sailor Moon...is a 
princess..."
	"Momma," Usagi said, sitting down next to her mother 
and putting her arms around her.  She leaned her head on 
her mother?s shoulder.  "I?m still your daughter."
	Ikuko patted Usagi?s arm and smiled.  "Aishiteru, 
Usagi-chan.  Things will work out in the end."
	"Ikuko-momma, I promise to take good care of Usako," 
Mamoru vowed.
	"I know you will, Mamoru-san.  Or else, Kenji would 
had used his shotgun on you a long time ago," Ikuko winked 
at him.  "I just wished we had more time to plan a 
wedding."  Her gaze turned back to Luna.  "Why this full 
moon?"
	"It?s hard to say," Luna said.  "I?m not quite sure 
if my hypothesis is correct or not about this full moon, 
but if they are, it is imperative that Usagi-chan and 
Mamoru-san marry that day.  If not, then the future is 
going to change."
	Everyone stared at Luna in shock.

	**********
	Ami nodded to the professor she had been talking to 
and bade him farewell.  The young woman walked down the 
hall and left the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard 
University.  She walked down Concord Avenue lost in her 
thoughts about what the astronomy professor she had talked 
to said about the nature of full moons and the signifigance 
of the one to occur on October 15th.  
	Eventually, she found herself at the Cambridge 
Common, one of her favorite places on campus.  She walked 
on a path in the common until she found some benches hidden 
behind a cluster of bushes.  Ami sat on one of the benches 
and pushed the sleeve of her blouse up until her 
communicator was revealed.  She punched in a button and 
after a moment Setsuna?s face appeared.
	"I went looking for the information you told me to 
find," Ami said.
	"Good," Setsuna said.  "Did you have any problems 
explaining were you were for the past day?"
	"No, Rachel covered for me," Ami said, admitting that 
there was an advantage to having her roommate know about 
her secret.  "But, I did find out the information you 
wanted to know.  According to Dr. Torres, this is the full 
moon that you were looking for."
	"Okay," Setsuna said, keying in some information into 
her computer.  "It?s imperative that Usagi and Mamoru not 
know why they have to get married that day."
	"But, they have a right to know.  Not even I fully 
know what?s going to happen because of this," Ami said.
	"You?re not suppose to," Setsuna said.  "Trust me, 
it?ll make the fun go away and I?ll be number one on the 
list of the Universe?s Most Wanted.  Being vague really 
sucks at times, but I?m afraid it goes with the job."
	Ami smiled.  "I?m coming home on the 12th.  I managed 
to find a flight back to Tokyo.  I?ll return on the 19th.  
I?ve talked to my professors and they said I?m so far ahead 
in my classes that I just need to e-mail in my 
assignments."
	"That?s good.  Don?t use your Mercury Teleport for 
this, it would cause too much suspicion," Setsuna said.  
"Trust me, this all seems odd now, but everything will be 
alright in the end.  Trust me."
	A small laugh escaped Ami?s lips.  "Why do I feel 
like I?m going to regret those works?" she said, then ended 
the link with Setsuna.
 

	**********
	"I see.  Well, arigato goizaimou." Usagi hung up the 
phone and sighed.  She turned around to see Minako and 
Makoto gathered around a catalog and Rei scribbling down 
notes on a sheet of paper.  She walked back over to table 
and sank down onto the cushion next to Rei.  
	Makoto looked up from the catalog.  "What?s wrong?" 
she asked.
	"I?ve been calling every church in the area, but I 
can?t find anything for October 15th," Usagi said, then 
laid down on her back.  She stared at the ceiling.  
"There?s nothing available."
	"Let me try," Rei said, getting up and taking the 
phone off its base.  She dialed a number and noticed the 
others looking at her.  She grinned sheepishly at them.  
"One of my favorite teachers, Sister Michelle, is now a nun 
at Saint Michael?s.  She will make sure you two can be 
married there."
	"Arigato, Rei-chan!" Usagi said with a grin.  She sat 
back up just as the door to the room slid open.  She stood 
up as Mamoru entered the room and nodded to the other 
senshi before motioning her to come to him.  She ran over 
to him and he wrapped his arm around her waist and led her 
out the door.  The others watched them leave.  Rei turned 
back to the phone.
	The door nudged back open and Luna and Artemis walked 
in with Diana following them.  They sat on the cushion that 
Usagi occupied.  
	Makoto sighed.  "I don?t get all of the 
mysteriousness behind this wedding," she said.  "It?s like 
the world is going to end if Usagi-chan and Mamoru-san 
don?t get married on October 15th."
	"Nah...the world isn?t gonna end.  They just want to 
do ?it? so badly that it?s why the wedding?s being held so 
soon," Minako commented absently, still looking through the 
catalog.
	Makoto, Luna, and Artemis gasped at Minako.  Diana 
stared at her father.  "Poppa, what is ?it??" she asked.
	Artemis promptly fainted.  Luna hung her head and 
shook it sadly.  "Diana, ask us in a thousand years," she 
said.
	Makoto snatched the catalog from Minako.  "Minako-
chan, I can?t believe you would say such a thing!"
	Minako sighed.  "Well, I?m tired of hearing about 
weird prophecies and Setsuna being so secretive.  It?s like 
she?s trying to force the timeline to work to her will.  
Just let them marry when they want to!  I don?t care 
anyhow."
	Makoto started to say something, but Minako jumped 
up.  "I don?t want to hear it," she said.  "I?m going 
home."  She walked out of the room.  Makoto stared after 
her with a frown.

	**********
	Moreno stepped through the gates of the small 
cemetary and headed over to two stones grouped under a 
tree.  He stared down at the stones of his former brother-
in-law and niece, shoving his hands in his overcoat 
pockets.
	"I thought for sure she would be here," he said 
aloud.  "Where could she be?  She?s my imouto...I can not 
afford to lose her."
	His gaze turned to the sky.  "Misora," he whispered.  
"Where are you?  Your life is in danger.  But, if I ever 
find you, I have to kill you...because my life is not my 
own any longer."
	From behind a nearby tree, a woman watch him.  Her 
long black hair hung in stringy clumps with dirt and twigs 
strew threw them.  Her dress was torn in several places, 
dirt also streaking it.  She simply watched Moreno, eyes 
narrowing at his words.
	"Onii-chan, you betray me," she whispered in a low 
voice.  "But, I will get you back.  I will get you ALL back 
for the pain you have done to me.  Starting with you and 
Hino Soun."  Her eyes narrowed.  "I will make sure you 
never get to Sailor Moon."

	**********
	"I thought you were out looking at apartments," Usagi 
commented.  She and Mamoru walked down the street toward 
his apartment.  He had not said a word since leaving Hiwaka 
Temple.  She looked up into his eyes to find them distant, 
as if his thoughts were concentrated elsewhere.  But, the 
way he squeezed her waist betrayed him, letting her know 
that he needed her at this moment.
	He still didn?t say anything, but came to a stop 
outside of Osa-P.  He looked in the window where Naru?s 
mother was waiting on a customer.  In the back of the 
store, Naru sat in a chair reading a book.  Usagi started 
to knock on the window, but Mamoru stopped her, taking her 
hand in his free one.
	"Is something wrong?" Usagi asked, but he simply 
stared at the hand he held.  It was her left hand, the one 
with her engagement ring on it.  He rubbed her hand 
delicately, especially the ring.  
She sensed he was having a hard time trying to tell 
her how he felt.  It was something she had picked up on 
over the years.  Some people took his silence to be 
coldheartedness, but she learned it was because he could 
not always vocalize what he felt because of the way he had 
grown up.	
	They turned toward each other, their bond 
communicating what words couldn?t.  Since Mamoru had 
obtained the Golden Crystal, they could feel their bond 
growing stronger.  His ability to sense Usagi?s dreams had 
proven that.  
	"We?ve come full circle, haven?t we?" Usagi 
whispered.  "This is where it all began five years ago.  I 
came out of Osa-P and threw a test paper behind me and it 
hit you.  Then, that night, we saved the store from Jadeite 
and the youma he sent."
	He still didn?t say anything, just leaned toward her.  
She closed her eyes and met his lips, kissing him 
passionately.  Younger people passing them whistled 
appreciatively while older people avoided their eyes.  One 
woman passed by, muttering how it wasn?t appropriate for 
young people to make a public spectacle like that.  Still, 
Usagi and Mamoru ignored them all, lost in their own world.
	As they kissed, a figure appeared on the sidewalk in 
the distance.  As it approached, people could see it looked 
like a man.  A very familiar man to some of the college-
aged people who remembered seeing his face plastered on 
every available billboard just three years earlier.  He 
approached the kissing couple and stopped before them, an 
odd smile on his face.
	"Yo, Odango!" the man said, cheerfully.  "I?m back!"
	Mamoru instantly broke off the kiss to glare at the 
man, but the glare instantly dissolved in a look of shock.  
Usagi turned around, her cheeks flaming red.  Her jaw 
dropped when she saw who the man was who had spoken to her.
	"Seiya!"

	TO BE CONTINUED....IN EPISODE 13