SPIN THE BOTTLE 2 By Princess Destiny [ princessdestiny@hotmail.com ] Chapter Three ["My Mothers"] Usagi had said. Ikuko smiled down at her daughters and felt a surge of pride. Despite the fact that she'd just discovered that she was having a baby-which was really a thousand year old Queen...Her blue eyes glazed over slightly at the thought. Her new daughter was actually the MOTHER of her OTHER daughter. So-that made Queen Serenity...Usagi sister ALSO? "This is giving me a headache" she groaned aloud, head thumping back against the pillows. The baby smiled slightly, then was silent. The golden crescent moon on her forehead glowed slightly as she looked closely into her daughters eyes, as Serenity lay with her arms about her and Ikuko. ["Serenity"] she thought longingly, wishing that she could hold her daughter once more. "Mother-how?" The Princess began, eyes staring right into those gray one's of the baby on Ikuko's stomach only a few centimeters away. The baby looked so innocent, as any baby would, all but for the eyes. Her Mother's eyes looked ageless. ["Later, Serenity"] Queen Serenity soothed, waving about a small hand rather imperiously. Rei got to her feet from her kneeling position, looking VERY confused and shocked. "Queen Serenity? Umm-Can you tell us why you're here?" she said nervously, unsure how to treat the small baby. She WAS their Queen after all. "First things first, Rei!" Kenji said, glaring around at everyone because he was so shocked over the events. His wife had just given birth in the space of an hour-to a thousand year old dead Queen! His daughter's MOTHER for crying out loud. "WHY did you use MY wife?" he demanded. Every else got to their feet, tempted to yell at Kenji for speaking to the Queen and a BABY in that manner, but also afire with curiosity. ["Ikuko was the most perfect of choices to be my Mother. Other than it being foreordained"] the baby said mysteriously, soft mature voice brushing their minds. It was NOT the voice of the baby before them, but rather a woman. A Queen who had seen so very much and lost so much and whose spirit had survived it all. ["You see, Ikuko-though her name was not that then-was my nurse when I was a child"] Everyone gaped, eyes popping open wide at THAT revelation. "So-so, my MOM was from the Silver Millennium TOO?" Shingo gasped out incredulously. His eyes went to his mom, who was looking similarly stunned. Serenity blinked, surprised. "Truly?" she breathed, tilting her head back to look into Ikuko's eyes. She frowned slightly. "So-we are sisters then, Mother?" she murmured, perplexed. The baby laughed musically into their minds, while her mouth never moved. And her small silver eyes were vastly amused as they swept over everyone's faces. [I will tell you one day all about this, everyone. Serenity. But for now, call me Seline"] she instructed them. Ami smiled slightly at the name. "As in the Moon Goddess?" she inquired. Queen Serenity's tiny lips curved into a disconcertingly proud smile. To see such emotions on the new born baby's face was-inconceivable! ["Exactly"] she said, pleased. ["You always were the most intelligent of my daughter's Senshi, Mercury"] Ami blushed. "My name is Ami here, Queen Serenity" she muttered, lowering her eyes. She really didn't know how to act! ["I know. I know all of you from my daughter's mind. I know- everything"] the baby told them with a significant look at Serenity and then Mamoru. The Princess flushed. "Mother!" she protested. "Right!" Kenji said, frowning heavily upon his daughter and then at Mamoru. "Exactly WHAT was going on with you two? Hmm? You were making out like there was no tomorrow-" he shouted hotly, having remembered his wrath. ["Perfectly normal, Kenji"] Queen Serenity interrupted him gently. Kenji and Ikuko blinked at him, while everyone gaped. "NORMAL? Excuse me?" Rei exploded. "Queen Serenity-did you SEE them? They couldn't control themselves!" ["You have to understand the nature of the bond that my daughter and Endymion share"] Seline said quietly. ["Serenity and Endymion were bonded by the Crystal, but to fully bond to their heritage, each other and the Crystal...they must consummate their union as the Crown Princess of the Moon Kingdom and the Crown Prince of the Golden Kingdom"] "C-CONSUMATE?!" Kenji roared at the baby. His glare was one of death as he shot a look at the shocked Mamoru. He'd become very close to the young man, but there was NO WAY IN HELL that he was going to consummate ANYTHING with HIS little girl! "Over his dead body!" "Kenji!" Ikuko yelled, startling Serenity and Seline with her anger. "Stop being so immature about this! You KNOW that Usagi has to be able to control the Crystal-" tears gathered in her eyes. "Or she might die again!" Makoto's eyes boggled at the thought. She looked from Serenity to Mamoru-a large grin curving her lips. "So-you two have to do the dirty for destiny to be fulfilled?" "MAKOTO!" everyone shouted. Serenity shot up from Ikuko's chest, spinning to look at her love. "Consummate? Why does that sound so familiar?" she wondered aloud, meeting his dark blue eyes. ["You tried once before, Serenity. Just before the great ball when Queen Beryl destroyed our kingdom. Without having completely bonded, then Crystal could not protect you"] Seline sounded sad beyond comprehension. ["I had to watch you die"] "I-remember a little. But not much, Mother" the Princess apologized, trying to avoid Mamoru's penetrating gaze. "Really?" Mamoru drawled mischievously. He met Kenji's enraged stare and carefully changed his expression to a shocked on. "Really?" he said, sounding utterly horrified at the thought of himself CONSUMATING their union. He suddenly got a picture of Usagi's long slender legs wrapped about his middle and an explosion of pleasure spiraled through his body. He groaned. Serenity shook her head, groaning also. She sort of-slumped and then it was Usagi's eyes staring at Mamoru. ["Mamoru. Stop that!"] she growled at him, radiating outrage. Both she and Rei caught snatches of uncontrollable desire coming from the dark-haired guy. "Stop WHAT?" Kenji demanded, looking quickly from Usagi to Mamoru and then to Rei accusingly. Rei glared at Mamoru, folding her arms. ["Hentai"] she said, frowning at him like a thundercloud. Usagi and Mamoru stared at her and then at each other-and immediately sank in their depths of each others eyes. Everything vanished from around them. Without even noticing, both staggered towards each other, arms outstretched and eyes glazed with passion. Excitement spiraled through their bodies....and then Ami moved between them, cutting off their view of each other. "REALLY you two! Get a room or something" Rei snapped at them in exasperation, fanning her face. She looked uncomfortably red about the checks. ["Oh dear, I forgot how uncontrollable it was"] Seline said, sounding startled. Everyone had bore witness to the way that Mamoru and Usagi had practically ate each other up without even TOUCHING. "We can't even put them in a room alone" Motoki noted, slipping an arm about his girlfriend's waist. Marie was curious, eyeing Mamoru and Usagi like rare species of animal. "It was like this before? And they never consummated. Oh dear" she murmured. "This could be potentially disastrous" "TELL me about it!" Shingo groaned, looking rather disgruntled. He really didn't get older people and their kissing! "Well we can't separate them. And I can't LEAVE them...So Luna can be chaperone again" Rei announced, looking about for the small black cat. "Again?" Luna said with exasperation, jumping onto the bed. She gave the baby an unhappy look. "How did I handle this LAST time, Queen Serenity?" she inquired. The baby smiled serenely. ["You managed quite well, Luna. And Artemis helped, of course" "HIM" Luna shot a disbelieving look at the white cat. "That lazy- bones?!" "Hey!" "Don't mind her Artemis, you still have me" Minako said brightly, leaning down to sweep the cat into her arms. She smothered his face with kisses, making Luna glare and Artemis blush. "Put me down, Minako!" he ordered, tail stiffening. She let him go and he dropped to the floor, sniffing disdainfully. Artemis muttered something under his breath about blondes and stalked from the room. Luna cast a significant look at the baby, red eyes triumphant. "SEE?" she said. "A hopeless case" Seline looked somehow teasing. "You REALLY should learn to get along with him again, Luna" the silver eyes turned sly. "You WERE a lot closer back in the Silver Millennium" "WHAT" Luna yowled disbelievingly. "With HIM?!" she shook her head, looking dazed. "I must have had no taste" The baby giggled, then looked sharply to the left. "Serenity!" she scolded. Usagi started, hand flat against Mamoru's naked chest. She turned her head, looking guiltily at her Mother. "Sorry, Mother" she apologized, blushing brightly. She tried to take her hand back, but Mamoru covered it with one of his own, the other snaking about her slender waist. "I THINK that you can appreciate my NEED to be as close to my fiancée as possible, Queen Serenity" he said innocently, pulling Usagi closer so that she molded to him. Queen Serenity looked amused. ["Don't try to play THAT game with me, Endymion"] she told him calmly. ["I know full well the ramifications of you and Serenity getting 'close'"] "MOTHER!" Usagi wailed into Mamoru's ear, making him wince. "Usagi! Move away from him" Kenji ordered, crossing his arms and glaring. It seemed that all his good will towards Mamoru had disappeared with the er-blatent display earlier. Motoki and Mamoru exchanged a rueful look. "He's right buddy. You two can't be trusted to keep your hands off of each other" "Thanks a lot, BUDDY" Mamoru ground out, through clenched teeth. He reluctantly let go of Usagi, who moved a few steps away sheepishly. "There will be NO consummating in THIS house!" Kenji thundered, startling them all. "We'd already established that, dear," Ikuko said calmly. He looked nonplussed. "Oh. Right" A faint beeping began, unnoticed at first. Then Ami looked down at the Mercury computer in her hand and her blue eyes widened as she saw the flashing red light on the side. "Oh no!" she exclaimed, opening it. She paled. "A Youma!" "Where?" Mamoru said curtly, suddenly all business. "In the center of Juuban, near the Mall" Ami said after a moment. She looked up. "What do we do?" "I'll have to pretend to be Sailor Moon again and use the Luna Pen" Usagi said nervously, not sure if she liked that Idea at ALL. ["No. You are NOT to leave here,"] Queen Serenity said harshly. Everyone jumped and looked at the baby in shock. "But Mother-" Usagi began. "No. You're helpless at this moment. You must stay here and help me with the Crystal" "But what about the battle?" Rei demanded. "The Senshi can't be without Mars, Moon and Tuxedo Kamen!" "Mars and Tuxedo Kamen WILL be there" the baby said, more calm now. She pinned her daughter with her silver eyes. "This will require all your concentration daughter. You must become Serenity and stay that way until Mamoru and Rei return" "STAY that way?" Usagi said in horror. "But Mother-I can't control it!" ["You will have to"] the Queen said firmly, but gently. ["Mamoru and Rei can go to the battle as long as you are concentrating on your past self and then Silver Crystal-but if you should loose concentration all three of you will die"] "Die?" Usagi cried out, eyes wide with disbelief. "But Mother-" "Queen Serenity is right, dear" Ikuko cut in, uncharacteristically stern. "You're the most important to us at the moment. Being my daughter, the Princess AND possessing such a powerful object as the Silver Crystal" "Ikuko's right" Marie murmured. "From what you've told me, the Dark Kingdom would just LOVE to get their hands on the Crystal" Usagi bit her lip, knowing that they were right. ["But that doesn't change a thing! I'm still worried about Mamoru and Rei" ["We'll be fine, Usagi"] Mamoru murmured to her, wrapping an arm about her waist comfortingly. Both of them tingled strangely, but suppressed the feelings. The situation too important. ["Mamoru is right"] Rei said, reaching out to touch Usagi's shoulder lightly with her fingertips. When the blonde turned to her the priestess gave her a grin. ["We have Tuxedo Kamen on our side! AND sailor Venus"] "That is right, Mars" the baby said, looking somewhat relieved. Her silver eyes became contemplative as she looked at the newest addition to the Senshi. Minako's eyes widened and she took on a slightly hunted look as everyone in the room followed Queen Serenity's gaze and stared at her. "What?!" she demanded. "What? Is my hair messy?" her hands went quickly to her wealth of golden hair, expression panicked. "Why didn't someone TELL me?" she almost wailed, flattening her hands frantically over her locks. Ami giggled. "No, no, Minako!" she said, blue eyes filled with mirth. "I think that Queen Serenity just came up with a plan" "She DID?" Kenji said, looking flabeghasted. He still wasn't used to the fact that his wife had given birth to a baby that could talk AND who was over a thousand years old! "I need a holiday" he muttered, rubbing a hand over his eyes wearily. "You'll be fine dear," Ikuko said, smiling at him. "All right?!" he suddenly burst out, pointing a finger at Usagi and Mamoru-then wildly gesturing at everyone else. "All right? My daughter was Sailor Moon! Heroine of Tokyo! Her ditzy friends are the protectors of the world! The guy Usagi hated turns out to be her true love, a Prince and a caped crusader of the night" he took a deep breath as Mamoru's face turned rueful. ["I think your dad just reached the end of his tether, Usagi"] Mamoru murmured wryly to Rei and Usagi, his deep blue eyes filled with laughter. Rei stared at Kenji. ["I think you're right. Look at that vein throbbing in his forehead!"] she remarked in fascination. "What? Usagi muttered, staring at her dad too. Her eyes widened as she saw the said throbbing vein. ["Oh dear"] "My daughter is a PRINCESS. Has a magical Silver Crystal that can destroy worlds. My WIFE just gave birth to a thousand-year-old Queen and-and-" his face turned red and thunderous, eyes murderously pinned on Mamoru's face. "YOU can't keep your hands off my daughter!" he boomed. "I'm going to marry her," Mamoru said lightly, standing bravely before a steaming Kenji. His arms crossed over his chest, blue eyes challenging. "That's no excuse!" Kenji almost screamed, "You stay away from her until she's 25!" "Dad!" Usagi wailed, outraged. "You can't do that!" she threw herself into Mamoru's arms, gripping his about the neck tightly in a strangle hold. ["I won't be able to kiss you or anything until I'm 25!"] she shouted mentally, making both Rei and Mamoru wince. "Odango! How many times do we have to remind you that WE'RE in here too?"] Rei bellowed back, voice ringing about Usagi's mind. ["HEY!"] Usagi yelled, glaring. ["Please don't start this now"] Mamoru groaned, bowing his head until it touched Usagi's. ["This really isn't the time or the place"] "Get your mitts off her!" Kenji shouted, like an enraged bull. He strode purposefully towards Mamoru and Usagi-who looked startled. Surprisingly it was Marie who cut him off, stepping in front of his path bravely. She took a hold of the man's stunned wrist, ignoring his gape. "Right-you need some time out" she ordered him firmly. "WHAT?!" he yelled at her, eyes wide and incredulous. His heels dragged as the determined doctor began to drag him from the room by one arm, to the amusement of all present. "Go doc!" Motoki grinned widely. "Mom!" Ami said, gaping at her mother. "I'll be back later dear," Marie said calmly, dragging Kenji out the bedroom door. "Kenji has to calm down before he has a heart attack!" "Be good, Kenji!" Ikuko called after him encouragingly. "IKUKOOOOOOOOOO!" Kenji shouted back, voice sounding fainter and fainter. "Heeeeeeelp!" Everyone burst into laughter as Kenji's outraged wails died away. "And HE'S a grown man?" Reika said in amazement, rolling her eyes. "That's debatable. Really" Ikuko said in a dry tone, running a hand soothingly over the baby's soft head. "Now what was it that you were thinking about, Seline?" she asked calmly, staring down at the beautiful baby in her arms. Usagi blinked. "Seline? Oh right-you said to call you that Mother" she said quietly, disconcerted. The baby smiled, looking adorable. She looked then at Minako, eyes somehow taking on a cunning edge that looked startling in such an innocent face. "Venus-you will be Sailor Moon," she said cryptically. "Huh?" Minako said intelligently. Everyone stared at the golden haired girl and then the Queen, perplexed. "Umm-mother? I'm Sailor Moon" Usagi said tentatively, wondering if the birth had somehow warped her mother's memories. Seline's musical laughter filled all of their minds, feelings of amusement washing over them all. ["Serenity darling-I HAVE missed you,"] she said in delight. Usagi flushed brightly, realizing that she'd just embarrassed herself. ["Right! She said that Minako could BE Sailor Moon. Not WAS Sailor Moon"] she flushed brighter as Mamoru and Rei laughed at her teasingly, exchanging a look. ["Princess you may be my love, but you still have MUCH of the Odango Atama left in you"] Mamoru said mockingly, kissing her forehead. Usagi scowled and pulled away, sticking out her tongue at him. His eyes darkened and she spun away, face as red as a potato as she gleaned his thoughts. "Guys! Keep your hentai thoughts to yourself!" Rei shouted, flushing also as she got a visual from both of her mind bonds-coming from Usagi! "Stay out of my head, you Pyro!" Usagi shouted back, ears turning red with mortification. She threw a dark look at Mamoru-wondering what cosmic joke had them all linked together in such a way. "Serenity-you're projecting already?" Seline said with some interest, voice intent. Usagi turned to look at her Mother, blinking in surprise. "Projecting?" she queried. Suddenly, she got a vision of herself as a little girl, being held by Queen Serenity in the gardens of the Moon Kingdom. She gasped in wonder and delight. "What was that?" Mamoru said, stunned. He blinked a few times rapidly, as if trying to rid the vision from his senses. They had been incredibly clear. ["They were the royal gardens on the Moon"] Usagi thought in awe. ["I haven't seen them in so long. Mother used to take me there as a child..."] ["That is what a projection is, Serenity"] Seline said gently, mind stroking her daughters to calm the turmoil within. There was so much that her daughter did not remember. But she was glad that Serenity recognized something from her childhood on the Moon. The silver eyes grew wistful as she looked at the silver-haired girl. "It was-amazing! I saw the gardens perfectly!" Usagi exclaimed to everyone. "Gardens?" Motoki looked at Usagi and then Mamoru weirdly. "You two aren't starting to loose it are you?" he demanded suspiciously. Mamoru grinned. "No Motoki-we just got a vision projected at us from Queen Ser-I mean Seline. It was amazing!" he said with wonder. He frowned lightly, looking disturbed. "Why can't I do that?" he asked the baby. "You will, Prince" the baby assured him, projecting motherly feelings at his mind to calm it. She frowned lightly, startling them all with her intent expression. Once again, it was a shock to see such animation on a baby's face! "Serenity, it seems is projecting because if the Silver Crystal in her possession. I must admit that I did not expect it to happen this fast. The rest of you will learn in time" "All of us?" Makoto exclaimed in astonishment, abruptly breaking her brooding silence. Her green eyes glinted mischievously. "So-we can send pictures to each others minds?" "Like a photograph" Ami murmured, musing. She itched to take out her Mercury computer and enter in this amazing data-or perhaps there was something on it already there! Her expression grew hungry, fingers flexing. "Ami-you're scaring me," Makoto said tentatively, backing away slightly from the blue haired genius. Makoto's fingers went up to her ponytail, fingers winding into the long pink hair comfortingly. Ami's expression was-gleeful. "Hehehe" Ami giggled, rather evilly. Everyone stared at her warily. Ami giggled in amusement, looking around at them all. "This is just too perfect," she said, as if it explained it all. "Perfect?" Rei said suspiciously, eyeing her friend. "How do you mean perfect?" "Just think!" Ami said in excitement, the blue symbol for Mercury glowing brightly upon her forehead. "We won't need the communicators anymore! We can talk directly to each other when we link and even project an image of our location!" "Wow-she's RIGHT!" Makoto said in delight and shock. "Wow-I never thought of it like that" ["That IS its purpose, Jupiter"] Seline said mentally. ["The bond was forged by the Silver Crystal the very day each of the Senshi vowed to protect the Moon Princess from all harm. Your minds were all linked to each other and her so that you could sense if she was ever in any danger"] "Truly?" Ami gasped, stunned at the Queens revelation. "But that's brilliant, my Queen!" she thought about it a moment more, as the others exchanged happy glances. They'd always be together, even if they were apart! "And you are linked to the Princess too?" it wasn't a question, merely a statement. ["Yes-and Luna and Artemis were linked to you all, as well as to each other. A different link again was between Endymion and Serenity when they became engaged"] Seline explained. Her eyes grew amused as she looked over to her daughter and her love. ["You wondered, Endymion, how you could sense whenever Sailor Moon was in danger? Why you always ran into each other? Why you couldn't stay away from each other, no matter how much you thought you disliked and annoyed? It was the bond working"] "And the Silver Crystal strengthened it. So-that's why Usagi and Mamoru began to remember their past?" Ami queried. ["No"] Seline said seriously, eyes hiding something in their silver depths. ["It began when Endymion touched the Moon Broach. He was never meant to, you see. Both he and Serenity were meant to remember their pasts when the Silver Crystal was formed. So that Serenity would be ready to be trained"] "And instead-my past self began to emerge within me. No WONDER I was confused and kept having blackouts!" Usagi said, mind-boggling. ["There is a time for everything, my darling"] Seline said gently. Her eyes firmed. "And now it is time for battle"] "OH MY GOD! The battle!" Ami said in horror. Everyone had similar expressions. How on earth had they forgotten something so important? "Some Senshi we are!" Makoto said with disgust. ["Be calm, children"] Seline told them softly. ["The Dark Kingdom wants the Silver Crystal now and that is all that they will aim for. They will have waited for you to arrive"] a mocking smile graced her lips. ["I imagine that the Dark Generals are QUITE infuriated by now that you have not appeared to battle them" Minako giggled. "To bad!" she taunted evilly. "So-what was this about me being sailor Moon?" she demanded directly. ["Serenity-give Venus the Luna Pen"] the baby instructed. Usagi gaped, feeling a fool. "Of COURSE! Minako can use the pen to disguise herself as me. The Dark Kingdom doesn't KNOW there's another Senshi yet!" she said happily, feeling her burden lifted from her shoulders. If she could not protect her Prince and her friends-then perhaps Minako could! ["Wow, Usagi...that IS you right? Not Serenity?"] Rei said with admiration and suspicion as she eyed the silver haired girl. ["You came up with that all by yourself?"] "Of COURSE I DID!" Usagi screeched at the purple haired priestess. "Don't scream at me, you ditz!" "I'm not a ditz!" ["Serenity! Mars!"] Seline's voice snapped like a whiplash in their minds. ["Venus, use the pen quickly"] she then urged the golden haired Senshi. "Right! Minako held out an expectant hand to Usagi. Usagi reached into her sub space pocket and grabbed the pen. She thrust it at Minako, eyes concerned. "Be careful, Minako-okay?" she murmured. Minako flashed her a v with her fingers. "Don't worry about it, girl! Sailor Venus to the rescue!" she giggled. "I mean Sailor Moon!" she glanced down at the pink Pen in her hands, frowning. "Umm-how do I use this thing?!" she asked sheepishly.