SPIN THE BOTTLE
By Princess Destiny
[princessdestiny@hotmail.com]




Chapter Twenty



"Usagi?" someone whispered fearfully.
Serenity turned her head slightly to see that Mars, Mercury and Jupiter 
were crouched close to her, eyes filled with horror and fear. Behind 
them were three strangers. A woman with blue hair, a man with glasses 
and brown hair and a young boy. The three looked just as horrified and 
as if they were in acute shock. They didn't seem to know what to do, 
but merely stood there, frozen statues. "Mars?" Serenity whispered back 
with difficulty, trying to swallow back the blood that had invaded her 
mouth.
Mars shook her head, looking incredibly sad and bewildered. "No, Usagi-
I'm Rei....Don't you remember me?" the girl asked, voice trembling. Her 
purple eyes were filling slowly with despair, as were those of Jupiter 
and Mercury.
Serenity was perplexed, even through her incredible pain. ["Why do they 
call me Usagi, Endymion?"] she threw at him mentally. But still her 
tone was so weak that she was not sure he had heard her. Her love was 
dying even faster than her. In fact, they were both surprised that they 
had not already died...
["I-don't know...Serenity"] Endymion managed, eyes closing.
["Endymion?!"] Serenity cried out, involuntarily jerking against the 
blade of the sword. Pain ripped through her chest, blood flowing into 
her mouth. She fell into a couching fit that left her even weaker. She 
slumped against Endymion's chest, spent.
"I'm alright, Serenity" he whispered just above her ear, breath weakly 
stirring the silver bangs at her temple. The bright blue symbol of 
earth began to fade upon his forehead and he knew that Serenity's 
beautiful golden crescent moon was fading also, as their lives spilled 
form them onto the floor of this strange place. He still didn't 
understand what they were doing there. Who the strangers were-and why 
Malachite was there. But somehow, he knew that this was earth. He could 
feel the strength of the planet beneath him. It was the only thing 
currently sustaining him-and his love. She didn't realize it, being so 
weak-but he was giving her energy just to keep her heart beating.
"Usagi?" Shingo whispered, deathly afraid. His sister no longer looked 
like Usagi-but a stranger. A beautiful older stranger, who had shown 
amazing powers. But somewhere inside, he was sure his sister was there.
Serenity slowly turned her head, still resting her cheek against 
Endymion's cold armor. She looked at the boy over her Senshi's 
shoulders and saw the fear and pain in his eyes. He was scared for 
HER...so, who was he? "Who is this Usagi?" she asked gently. Perhaps, 
she reminded him of someone he knew? Even as she knew she was dying, 
her gentle nature reached out to comfort a young boy, who seemed in 
such mental anguish.
"You are!" Sailor Mars burst out, eyes blazing. She reached out and 
grasped Serenity's shoulder hard, making sure that she did not jolt the 
Princess and her wound. "Usagi! Don't you REMEMBER?!" these last words 
were almost screamed, seeming to come right from the soul.
It touched Serenity, the way they were all staring at her longingly. As 
if she were this girl-Usagi. "But Mars...You know that I am Serenity" 
she said, rather bewildered. For a moment, her lashes dropped over her 
silver eyes, darkness swimming in.
"USAGI! NO!" a voice cried out. 
A small weight hit the side of Serenity's body, jolting her slightly. 
She winced in agony and then managed to open her eyes and glanced down. 
It was Luna. The cat looked frantic, agonized-her small warm body 
pressing hungrily against Serenity's side as if she would never leave. 
"Luna" Serenity said softly, a smile curving her lips. Luna had always 
been there. "My dear friend and advisor"
"Oh Serenity!" Luna cried out, tears running freely from her eyes. She 
rubbed her furry face against her Princess' bloody side. "Usagi"
Serenity's eyes clouded as she heard her advisor say that girls name 
again. Even Luna had called her Usagi..."Who is Usagi?" she demanded 
slowly, trying to focus her thoughts. it was so hard though. So hard...
"You are" Ikuko woman burst out, voice strangled with tears. Her eyes 
were blood-shot. "My daughter"
["My daughter..."] the woman's words echoed around Serenity and 
Endymion's heads like a bell-tone. Suddenly, everything around them 
disappeared in a bright silver light. When they could see again, they 
were standing side by side in the ruins of a palace-and standing before 
them was Queen Serenity.
"Mother!" Serenity cried out, running towards the Queen. She threw 
herself into her mother's arms and held her tightly, feeling a steady 
heart-beat against her chest. 
Queen Serenity's arms closed warmly about her daughter, but her eyes as 
she met Endymion's were filled with a great sadness. "Serenity-
Endymion...you must listen to me" she said urgently. "My time is short 
in this place"
"Where are we, Queen Serenity?" Endymion asked, bewildered. Hadn't they 
been somewhere else a moment before? Somewhere with-people crying over 
them?
The Queen's beautiful face crumpled slightly. "We-are in the ruins of 
the Moon Kingdom" she admitted hesitantly.
"The ruins?" the Princess said, bewildered. "But-"
"Serenity, please listen very carefully" Queen Serenity said gently, 
but with a sense of urgently that sent waves of unease through her 
daughter and her prince. "Something has happened that was too early and 
it has thrown off all of time" she looked up into their eyes, just as 
the golden crescent moon on her forehead began to blaze with light. 
"Come with me now, to the final days of the Silver Millennium..."

"Oh my god!" Ikuko screamed, lunging past the girls. She fell to her 
knees beside Serenity, who was slumped limply over the armor of Prince 
Endymion-blood pooling over the carpet beneath and all around them. In 
seconds, Ikuko's blue dress was staining brown from the hem up, but she 
never noticed. "Usagi. My Usagi" she whispered, hands fluttering 
helplessly over her daughter's body.
"Is she alive?" Rei whispered, voice breaking. Her eyes were large 
pools of purple pain and horror.
Shingo clung to his dad, eyes glazed with shock. What they had 
witnessed in the last half hour had been more horrific than he could 
ever have imagined in his worst nightmares. ["Usagi..."] he thought 
fearfully, eyes sweeping over the barely-recognizable form of his 
sister. She looked beautiful, even covered in blood, a strange dress, 
older and...possibly dead. So beautiful. Like an angel.
Sailor Mercury crawled closer to Ikuko and inserted her arm between the 
woman and the Princess. She tentatively picked up one slender wrist 
belonging to Serenity and held her breath. She felt a faint pulse. very 
faint-but there. Mercury's breath exploded out so fast and loud that 
everyone jerked in shock.
"Is she-" Jupiter said, eyes shadowing with grief.
"She's breathing" Mercury reported, reaching up a gloved hand to wipe 
the sweaty bangs back from her eyes. next, she reached for Endymion's 
wrist. He too was still alive, but his pulse was even slower than the 
Princess. "Endymion is also-but barely" the blue-haired girl shook her 
head, pulling her arm back into her lap and gazing solemnly at 
Serenity's profile.
"Can you take that sword out? It looks so..." Motoki choked, hiding 
Reika's face into his shoulder. It was all his fault. They'd led that-
woman right to their friends. And now Usagi was laying dying. Mamoru 
too. "It's my fault" he whispered, shutting his eyes in grief.
"It's not your fault, Motoki. Or Reika's. It's Zoisite's and 
Malachite's" Rei said harshly. She crawled close to Ikuko and touched a 
hand lightly to the sharp blade protruding from Serenity's back. it 
looked so ugly there, against the purity of the dress. And she still 
didn't understand what was going on. How could the Princess and Prince 
have transformed into those clothes? And-why did they still look like 
Usagi and Mamoru.
"I feel your pain grand-daughter" Grandpa boomed from behind them all. 
He had stood there at the back with Yuuchiro, not wanting to interfere 
with such a delicate moment. But now, he felt that he must speak.
"Grandpa?" Rei said hopefully, eyes turning to look back at him. 
["Maybe he knows what's going on?"] she thought desperately.
"No" he shook his head, reading the question in her eyes. "I can't say 
what has happened, Rei" Grandpa shook his shoulders, looking grim. 
"I've never felt such power between these two. Never"
"I know" Rei whispered, turning back to Serenity. She reached out to 
touch a long lock of silver hair, trailing into the blood and over the 
Prince's body like a cloak. Her fingers dipped into a pool of blood and 
pulled out a handful of silver-red hair. She cradled it gently. 
]"Usagi. Come back to us"] Rei thought, sending out her words as 
strongly as she knew how. "Don't leave us"
"Don't leave us" Ami and Makoto repeated, as if urged.
Rei's eyelashes closed over her purple eyes to hide the expression in 
them-one of cool calculation. "How did Zoisite come to be here?" she 
asked slowly, a strange inflection in her voice. Her fingers continued 
to caress Serenity's long gently.
Mercury and Jupiter immediately stiffened as the air crackled with some 
strange power-and it was coming from Rei.
It was Motoki who answered, voice filled with horror and guilt. "We 
came over here to see how Usagi was going. And that-woman followed us. 
We didn't realize until we'd arrived here. She wanted-" his voice broke 
off. "She said that she wanted a Rainbow Crystal"
"It came out of me and-something began to happen, but then Jupiter hit 
me with a bolt of lightening and I changed back" Reika went on, voice 
hollow. She turned her face towards Endymion. "And then HE came down-
and we knew it was Mamoru...but he acted so different..."
"We know the rest" Kenji said grimly, still holding onto Shingo. He 
honesty didn't know what to do. His life had turned upside down in only 
a few days. Keeping boys away from his little girl, he could handle. 
Work he could handle. But superhero's? Princes? Evil beings from 
another dimension? No...
Mercury reached past Rei to once again feel Serenity and then 
Endymion's pulses. "They're still there" she told everyone, taking a 
deep breath. She frowned at the Princess and Prince in perplexing. ["If 
the bodies die, will the Princess' soul be transferred to one of the 
Senshi's bodies?"] she thought, then almost slapped herself for the 
horrible things going though her head. ["Usagi is my FRIEND!"] she 
screamed at herself.
"Mercury" Rei said gently, forcefully removing the Senshi's gloved hand 
from about Endymion's wrist. Mercury had been squeezing so hard that 
the Prince had winced, even unconscious.
"Sorry" Mercury whispered faintly.
"Isn't there ANYTHING you can DO?" Ikuko suddenly screamed at them all, 
eyes wild. She held up hand covered in bright red blood. "She's DYING!"
"What can we DO exactly? Huh" Jupiter yelled back at the woman, green 
eyes blazing. She was close to snapping. And wanted nothing more than 
to destroy something. Her eyes fell upon the gaping hole in the wall, 
where Zoisite and Malachite had disappeared.
"NO!" Mercury's hand shot out once again, clamping in astonishing grip 
about the stronger girl's upper arm. "You STAY here with me" she hissed 
urgently. "Revenge later, JUPITER" she emphasized. "Our first loyalty 
is to the Princess" 
"She's right" Luna whispered, raising her head from where she had been 
buried against the Princess' side. Her whiskers and face were covered 
in blood. It looked as if Luna had been crying tears of blood.
"The PRINCESS?!" Kenji thundered, outraged. "What about my daughter? 
She's IN there! it might be that Princess' spirit, but it's Usagi's 
BODY!"
"Right" Rei murmured, hands tightening around Serenity's lock of hair 
painfully. ["There must be some way..."]
Suddenly, her skin began to crawl weirdly. She felt a tingling all 
over, as if covered with ants and gasped with surprise. She heard other 
gasps from the other girls and turned her head to see the other Senshi 
with their eyes wide and writhing about on the floor. "What-" Rei 
began, but was abruptly consumed in a searing wave of heat and power. 
Everything in her vision disappeared to be replaced with a haze of red 
fire...
Mercury screamed as her vision was covered up by a haze of blue fire, 
writhing about her body. The last thing that she saw was everyone's 
horrified eyes...
Jupiter held her breath as everything disappeared into green waves of 
fire, consuming her. ["Am I dying?"] she wondered, feeling a brief 
satisfaction. Perhaps she would join Usagi.
"Arrgggggggh!" all three screamed simultaneously, as a wave of power 
shot through their bodies from their toes to their head. Then-it was 
just gone. Their vision cleared and they were laying face-down on the 
carpet.
"Good lord!" Grandpa exclaimed, sounding...completely poleaxed. "Rei?"
"I'm-fine" Rei grunted into the carpet, wondering if it were true. She 
mentally checked herself before moving and realized that she felt-
amazing! ["What?!"] she gasped to herself, shooting up into a kneeling 
position. Her long hair fell over her shoulders to pool around her 
knees and hands and that was when she saw it. "Arrgggh!" She shrieked, 
purple eyes going wide with shock. "MY HAIR!"
"YOUR HAIR! WHAT ABOUT MINE?!" Jupiter screeched back.
Rei spun to look at Jupiter, who was also kneeling and holding a 
ponytail of-long PINK hair! Not bright pink, but still...a definite 
light shade of browny pink. Like a cherry-blossom in spring. Rei 
pointed, gaping. "Your-and mine...WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!" she shouted, 
flinging back her hair.
"You have purple hair, Rei. And you Makoto have pink and me-" Mercury 
cast her eyes upwards expectantly. "Hmm-it's a little darker blue" she 
mused.
"What is going ON here?" Ikuko yelled, eyes impossibly wide.
"And what-" Shingo began. But he was cut off as something exceedingly 
bright exploded to their left. They all looked that way in time to see 
Serenity and Endymion's body's quickly consumed by a silver and golden 
light. It intermeshed in a beautiful display of color from their toes 
to their heads and consumed the two. They disappeared from sight for a 
moment-and when the light abruptly was gone...Usagi and Mamoru lay 
there.
Everyone gaped, too stunned to move. Usagi was in her bunny pj's, 
Mamoru half-naked and in his black slacks. The sword was gone from 
Usagi's back, all the blood had disappeared and, the two looked as if 
they were peacefully sleeping. The golden crescent moon and bright blue 
earth symbol burnt steadily on their foreheads. Usagi against looked 
only fourteen and Mamoru 19.
Rei's eyes went quickly to Usagi's chest, pressed against Mamoru's 
tightly as she lay above him. They appeared to be breathing normally 
and completely unharmed. "Usagi?" Rei whispered disbelievingly, half-
reaching out a hand for her friend.
Usagi's eyes opened slowly. At first, all she saw was a naked chest 
beneath her nose. Familiar. She raised her head and gazed up at the 
sleeping face of Mamoru. Not Endymion. ["Mamoru?"] she asked mentally, 
feeling slight fear. What if he hadn't returned with her.
["USAGI!"] Rei shrieked mentally, overjoyed. ["I can hear your voice 
again!"]
["So can I"] Mamoru winced, then opened his eyes. He looked up at 
everyone's stunned expressions. "We're all right" he told them.
Everyone was still frozen.
"You're-okay?" Mercury asked tentatively, eyes skimming over Usagi and 
then Mamoru.
"What HAPPENED?" Ikuko shouted, sounding hysterical.
"Mom" Usagi whispered, reaching out a hand. It was quickly clung to by 
Ikuko. "The Silver Crystal healed us" she carefully leant back onto her 
legs and revealed the front of her bunny pj's. There was her golden 
broach, the silver crystal nestled into the center of it.
"Serenity!" Luna whispered, eyes shooting up to Usagi's. "Only the Moon 
Princess can touch the Crystal! You remembered!" she cried out gladly, 
eyes filling with tears.
"What?" Rei said in a hushed tone. "I don't understand"
"Oh Rei-I saw my Mother-" Usagi began, then broke off as she looked up 
into Ikuko's shattered gaze. "The Princess' Mother, Queen Serenity" she 
amended.
"No-you said YOUR Mother" Jupiter said slowly, eyes narrowing. "Just 
what is going on here? One moment, you're dying and the next-everything 
is okay?" she spat out, eyes filling with tears.
Usagi's eyes went to Jupiter's pink hair and then Rei's. She smiled 
gently. "Just how I remembered you all" she told them, carefully 
pulling her hand from Ikuko's strangle-hold. She got off of Mamoru and 
knelt beside him as he did the same. Their hands reached unconsciously 
for each other's and fingers entwined. "It's-hard to explain...Luna?" 
she appealed to her guardian, silver eyes bewildered. Clearly, Usagi 
was still in shell shock from whatever revelations Queen Serenity had 
revealed.
"I've been lying to you all" Luna said heavily, closing her red eyes so 
that they wouldn't see the guilt in their depths. "When I first found 
Usagi-I truly thought that she was a Senshi. Such power I sensed-and 
the potential..." the cat trailed off, opening her eyes. "But she 
wasn't meant to be"
"She-not?" Jupiter said disbelievingly, staring at Usagi.
"She's not?" Rei and Mercury echoed, equally shocked.
"No" Luna went on, looking very guilty and stunned. "You see, when you 
were reborn...that is...you're not human any of you. Not really. When 
the Moon Kingdom was destroyed, Queen Serenity sent her daughter, her 
fiancée, her Senshi and I and Artemis a thousand years into the future. 
In case Beryl should ever escape her dimension again"
"I think that I see where this is going" Grandpa nodded, eyes a little 
wild.
"I don't" Yuuchiro said, perplexed.
"You've lost me" Shingo added, still clinging to his dad. Constantly, 
his eyes swung back to his sister, hardly believing that she was really 
alive.
"The Senshi were reborn through mortal families, but their souls 
remained intact. I could have given you your planet wands and if you 
hadn't had the soul's of the Senshi in you, they would never have 
worked" Luna said, trying to make them understand.
Slowly, understanding dawned in Ikuko's eyes. She gazed at Luna in some 
horror and disbelief. "Are you saying-that Usagi ISN'T really my 
daughter?" 
"Mom" Usagi whispered, looking anguished. "You know that you are-"
"No-let Luna answer" Ikuko demanded, throwing a haunted look at her 
'daughter'.
"Essentially-no" Luna admitted with a heavy heart. "Yes, you birthed 
her-but you had nothing to do with her appearance. Usagi and the Senshi 
AND Mamoru look exactly as they did on the Moon Kingdom 1000 years ago. 
The changed hair color included" she added, looking pointedly at Rei's 
deep purple locks. "You'll also receive increased powers and-possibly 
even start to age faster"
"WHAT?!" The girls exclaimed, gaping.
"But wait-" Mercury said, frowning. She still looked extremely 
confused. "You SAID that Usagi wasn't meant to be a Senshi-so who WAS 
she?"
Usagi smiled gently at everyone, as their eyes went automatically to 
her to seek the answers. "You haven't guessed?" she said clearly. "I'm 
the Princess"
"You're-" Rei gasped out, choking over the word. Now, everything made 
complete sense! "You weren't haunted at all! The Princess' soul was 
trying to get free!"
"Yes" Luna nodded, failing to see that the three Tsukino's had gone 
very still. "Usagi IS the Princess Serenity. Apparently, when Mamoru 
touched the Moon locket, he inadvertently freed Serenity and Endymion's 
souls into his and Usagi's bodies. Confused, the Princess and Prince 
emerged whenever they were together or their was danger"
"Sailor Venus is really the leader of the Senshi" Mamoru said quietly, 
fingers tightening about Usagi's.
"But we don't know her" Mercury said with dismay.
"I think that everyone is MISSING the big picture here" Shingo 
announced, pulling away from his dad. He got to his feet and glared 
around at each other. "Usagi might be a reincarnated Princess from 1000 
years ago, and so are you guys-but that doesn't change that you were 
ALL human girls born here in Juuban! Usagi is STILL my sister!" he 
breathed out urgently. "The blonde ditz!" he pointed at Usagi, who 
watched him with wide startled eyes. Suddenly, before anyone could 
speak, he threw himself bodily at her.
Usagi caught him up close and held his head against her shoulder 
tightly. "Shingo" she said delicately, breathing into his ear. "You're 
my brother too, no matter who I was" s he told him, closing her eyes 
and resting her face against his soft brown hair.
"And you're alive!" he sobbed at her.
Suddenly, there was a mad scramble as everyone also threw themselves at 
Usagi and Mamoru in a large group hug.
"You're right, Shingo" Ikuko said, sniffing. She held her daughter from 
the back, grip gentle yet desperate. "She's my daughter. Not matter 
what"
"And we'll all stay together, no matter what" Jupiter added tearfully, 
unabashedly kissing Mamoru soundly on the cheek and hugging the life 
out of him. 
Everyone was crying and clinging to everyone else, all trying to talk 
at once.
Mamoru held onto Usagi's fingers tighter. ["We stay together now"] he 
whispered to Rei and Usagi. He cast his blue eyes over the other two 
Senshi. ["I have a feeling that they will soon be joining us"]
Rei stiffened, arm freezing about Shingo's shoulders. She slowly looked 
up at Mamoru, purple eyes wide. ["That means that they have to die-
right?"]
["I can't let that happen"] Usagi said solemnly, making it sound like 
an oath. "Even to protect me" she finished aloud.
"Protect you" Kenji repeated. His abruptly straightened his glasses, 
looking determined. "Right! everyone up!" he ordered them, jumping to 
his feet. A dozen pairs of tearful and happy eyes stared at him as if 
he were mad. "UP PEOPLE!" he bellowed at them, gesturing wildly over 
their heads with his arms.
"Huh?" Ikuko muttered, wondering what on earth her husband was up to.
"Look!" Kenji said in exasperation, reaching down to yank Mercury up to 
her feet by one arm. he did the same to Shingo. "This Zoisite person 
knows where we live. They know what Usagi LOOKS like. We have to LEAVE 
now!"
"He's right!" Grandpa exclaimed, jumping to his feet. He hit Yuuchiro 
on the back with his cane demandingly. "Up boy!"
"Kenji is right. If Zoisite knows where we live, then she can come back 
anytime" Mamoru said, getting to his feet gracefully and pulling up 
Usagi after him. Everyone else reluctantly got to their feet, seeming 
automatically to look at Mamoru for orders. He grimaced slightly at 
them. He was a Prince-but one who didn't fully remember his past! 
"Gather anything that you can carry-we have to leave NOW"
"NOW?" Ikuko said in dismay, staring about the ruins of her once-
beautiful house. "I suppose you're right" she looked at the Senshi and 
Mamoru. "Go up to Usagi's room and put on anything warm you can fit 
into. Mamoru, put back on your shirt and jacket. Shingo you go to your 
room and grab a coat and some shoes. Grandpa and Yuuchiro come with 
Kenji and I-we'll find something for you to wear"
"I doubt it" Grandpa smiled up at her from his diminutive height. He 
seemed very approving of the battle plan.
"Umm-is the bond still working?" Rei asked Usagi tentatively, as the 
girls followed Mamoru up to Usagi's room hurriedly.
"Yes" Usagi said slowly, thinking hard. "My Mother-that is, Queen 
Serenity said that the more I become the Princess, the less the bond 
will become. We will always be able to hear each other's thoughts 
though" she finished impishly, trying to break the tense atmosphere. 
She really didn't want to think about how close she and Endymion had 
come to death-or what her Mother had told them in that world where she 
existed in the ruins of the Moon Palace.
["Be careful Serenity"]
["I will Mother"] Usagi whispered mentally, hoping that her Mother 
could hear. She'd have to talk with her mom later. Ikuko. She looked 
so-devastated to learn that Usagi wasn't her real daughter...
["Later, my love"] Mamoru murmured silently, urging Usagi forward with 
a hand in the base of her spine. The girls all rushed to Usagi's 
wardrobe and grabbed up what warm clothes they could.
"Blankets too" Mercury muttered, hastily rushing to Usagi's bed to tear 
off the covers. Makoto did the same with Mamoru's make-shift bed, 
shuffling a pink coat on one arm.
"Good, you're ready girls. Lets go" Ikuko called from the doorway.
Usagi sighed and threw a blue coat over her pj's, then slipped her 
school shoes on. She double-checked that the Moon Broach was still on 
her chest and then they all excited the room.
Kenji, Motoki, Reika, Yuuchiro and Shingo were already gathered in the 
front hall, looking nervous.
"Let me check first" Jupiter advised, slipping up to the front door. 
She wrenched the knob open and glanced outside, at the ready to attack. 
The ruins of the window and wall from the lounge were all over the 
front lawn, but there was no sight of Zoisite or Malachite anywhere. 
"It's clear" she told them in a hushed voice, leading the way.
"To the Temple?" Grandpa asked Kenji inquiringly.
Kenji shook his head, then glanced at Mamoru almost reluctantly. 
"It might not be safe to go back to ANY of our houses. Who knows how 
long Zoisite was following Motoki and Reika?" Mamoru said shortly. His 
deep blue eyes glinted strangely in the sunlight. "Drive us to the 
nearest real-estate agency. I can find us a large secluded house 
somewhere and pay for it with cash"
"You're rich?" Ikuko said, surprised.
Mamoru smiled wryly. "Very" he ran a hand through his dark hair in 
distraction. "Lets go"
They all piled into Grandpa, Motoki and the Tsukino's cars, slowly 
moving down the street like a funeral procession.
Usagi looked out of her passenger window sadly, stroking Luna's head 
gently. Her house was in ruins, as was her life. In just a few days, 
everything had been destroyed. But she had also found love and an 
incredible bond with her friends. Her parents also. Everything would 
work out. ["I know it will"]
["We'll start afresh"] Mamoru murmured mentally to her, arm going abut 
her slender shoulders.
She leant her face against his chest and saw Rei do the same on 
Mamoru's other side. ["This isn't the end Usagi"] the priestess said 
solemnly, staring directly into Usagi's silver eyes. "This is the 
beginning. And we still have Zoisite to battle" she finished aloud.
"And Malachite" Jupiter murmured from the front seat, next to Kenji.
"And Beryl too" Mamoru said, voice cold as ice. "We mustn't forget HER"
Usagi's fingers curled into Mamoru's Tuxedo jacket, eyes turning into 
chips of silver ice. ["Oh no"] she thought purposefully, memories of 
the pain and despair that the evil Queen had left in her wake, filling 
her mind's eye. ["We mustn't forget Beryl at all..."]
 
The End