Hello everyone!! We finally succeeded in posting this episode 20 that will soon be followed (this time we promise) by episode 21 and 22. Many reasons kept us away from continuing with this fanfic and the main one is that we have been tormented for months by a writer block. But, luckily, this bad moment had passed and it's thank to you, to all your lovely e-mails of support. We ask for excuse if we couldn't reply you, but we want to thank you all anyway. Thanks to: Sailoraurus (Thank you for your picture! And excuse us for not replying before!), Chris (please, go on supporting us!), Gypsy Faye (you never signed with your name, this was your e-mail address. We just wanted to tell you, that your e-mails touched our hearts ^_^), Holly, Peter/NightWolf (here you are the new chapter! ^.^ Sorry for making you to wait for so long!), Tinion Catonn (you're right, sorry. With all these senshi, sometimes we make mistakes! ^.^ Gomen ne!), Sailorzeus (Thanks for the picture! And also if late, Happy B-day!), Camila (we understood perfeclty what you wrote us, but we couldn't reply because we don't speak spanish! ^.^), Nacchan, Kre-chan and last but not least Sharon-chan. Thank you, from our hearts!

** Tokyo, Year 199X **

Chibi-Usa reopened her eyes. The darkness of her eyelids left space to the blurry image of a familiar visage,
    "Mommy?" the child asked, but then realized that the young woman who was standing in front of her, wasn't her mother. Chibi-Usa sat up, Kakyuu lovely smiled at her,
    "How do you feel?" she asked with soft voice,
    "Who are you?" Chibi-Usa asked, wrinkling her forehead suspiciously,
    "I am Kakyuuhime, princess of the planet Kinmokusei. I am also part of the Sailor Starlights and my battle name is Sailor Fireball". The pink haired girl didn't reply anything, "Do you remember me?" Kakyuu asked gently. Chibi-Usa nodded slowly, but with few convinction: yes, now that she thought to it, the child could recognize in Kakyuu the senshi who had protected her. "May I know your name?" the alien princess asked again.
    "My name is Usagi" the kid replied with an unpleasant tone, "Tsukino Usagi".
    "You finally woke up" Yaten spoke, leaning over her and gazing her with his penetrating green eyes. Chibi-Usa stiffened in alarm on her place, she hasn't noticed the three youths before.
    "She's really the identical copy of Usagi, eh?" Taiki added with a smile,
    "Shut up you two" Seiya found nothing better to say.
    "Don't worry" Kakyuu said, "They too are Sailor Senshitachi" Chibi-Usa widened her eyes, "And they are my trusted guardians".
    "Let's quit with those nonsense" Yaten exploded, "Do you come from the future?" he asked pointing at her. Chibi-Usa gave him a resentful look and turned her face from the other side, with childlike indignation. Yaten seethed with wrath, "But look at this...". Seiya gave him a small knock in his forehead,
    "Take it easy" he exorded with amusement, "Neither children like you, you see?".
Kakyuu put her hands over the shoulders of the kid and smiled her gently,
    "Please, trust us" she murmured. Chibi-Usa stole a look at the woman, not very sure, yet and, in that moment, her body was assailed by a terrible ache and for few instants again, while she was yelling and writing, she turned transparent. Seiya, Taiki, Yaten and Kakyuu exchanged a silent look, filled with anguish.
    "What's happening to me?!?" Chibi-Usa cried, looking for refuge into Kakyuu's arms, "What's happening?" she shouted frightened.
    "Listen" Seiya bited his lips and then restarted to talk, with his quietest tone, "A mysterious enemy had begun to modify the past and now, he's trying to share forever..." also if he had took his decision about Usagi and mamoru, the youth found hard to pronounc the words "your father and your mother". Chibi-Usa hugged Kakyuu even more at those words,
    "If Usagi and Mamoru won't meet today" Taiki hesitated, "... you'll disappear forever. And all your age, together with you".
    "We are there in order to help the Sailor Senshi and your parents" the alien princess murmured to the child "We please you to have trust us..." Chibi-Usa finally lifted her glassy eyes to Kakyuu's: that woman reminded her her mommy, so much...

** Tokyo, Year 200X **

Silently, Arashi sneaked off her bedroom and, entering the dining room, she approached the window. The sky was still lead-like and oppressive The woman closed her eyelids and slowly turned to face the inside of the dining room. It was in that moment, that she noticed something abandoned on the sofa. And when she neared it, for seeing what it was, a tight knot formed in her stomach: it was the shirt that Phoenix used to wear. She kept on gazing at it blankly. She opened her hands and closed them in fists, but she made nothing else.
    "Why don't you want to admit it?" Selene's voice make Arashi to bump. The parakeet was standing on the table behind the blonde, "At least with yourself. It doesn't matter if you don't want to admit it with the others, but at least, you must do it with yourself". Arashi's expression turned extremely hard,
    "Yeah, I admit it" she spoke with grieved derision, "I admit that I've been always right, that I've always known he was a betrayer", her voice wasn't trembling, it was sharply and peremptory, though a bit weak. Selene shook her head,
    "You perfectly know what I mean" she said, "I know it, and you too".
    "I warn you," Arashi gave her back on the parrot, "quit now".
    "I can shut up" Selene went on, "But, can you shut your heart up, as well? Why - for once - you don't admit your feelings? You love us... You love Maiko, you love me and, over all the others, you love..."
The door opened and Maiko entered. Selene break off and Arashi caught the occasion for leaving the room. Maiko looked at Arashi with a vaguely irritated glance: she hadn't forgiven her of driving Phoenix out, the harmony that had been between them, had broken.

Usagi turned in her bed and found herself, gazing the stone ceiling. She felt empty.
Two warm tears ran down her cheeks, 'till they turned cold. The young woman sat up on the sheets and, gently sweeping back her long blond hair, she decided that it was time for getting up definitely.
She approached the vanity table and, sitting down on the stool, she asked herself what was her misdeed. What she had done of bad. And new tears joined the ones already shed. In that moment, the mirror seamed to darken. Usagi concentrated her attention on her reflection. It looked nomore her image, but...
The bronze door of her room, suddenly bursted open, going to bang against the stone wall, with a dumb sound of struck bell. Usagi bolted on the stool,
    "Good morning mommy!!" the blond Chibi-Usa shouted, flying between the woman's arms. Serenity smiled against her will, for the amazing enter of the child. "Come mommy, come having breakfast! Hurry!!" and, grabbed the woman's hand, Chibi-Usa began to drag her towards the door. Giggling, Usagi let the kid to bring her away, forgetting the strange shadow seen in the mirror...

With a deep bow, the two menservants, opened before Usagi the double door of the dining room and an breathtaking sight welcomed Serenity: the room was almost taken by a huge appareled table, decorated by candles and bouquet of stone flower.
    "But..." Usagi walked amazed between the lines of servants which bowed to her passage, accompanied by Chibi-Usa's satisfied giggles, "What?"
    "My best wishes for a joyful birthday, Serenity" said a voice. The last couple of servants moved aside revealing Actaeon presence at the bottom of the dining room. With an amused smile, the prince slowly bowed before Usagi, "Hoping you'd be able to forgive me, because preparations stole me much time". Chibi-Usa ran to her father, while Usagi kept still, gazing at him. "What's happening?" the man asked, loosing his smile.
For all that time he had... And she had accused him... She had told him all those awful things... Usagi's eyes filled with tears once more.
    "What's up, mommy? Aren't you happy?" Chibi-Usa asked with saddened voice, Usagi replied back to her with a radiant smile,
    "I am" she murmured, "Thank you. Everything is beautiful...".
She shifted her blue irises on Actaeon's eyes: thank you, thank you, thank you - they looked like saying, for all the words she couldn't say, and also - pardon me, pardon me, pardon me... And then... Then, another thing which, confused and shapeless, was tossing inside her heart and which made her to suffer and to be happy, all at once.
Prince Actaeon wrinkled his lips in a relieved smile. He neared the young woman, passed his arm around her waist and,
    "Wait to see our gift for you" he whispered.
Usagi's heart bumped in her chest.
*Actaeon, I... I...*
With extreme kindness, the prince pushed her towards the exit of the dining room. The two, followed by the blond small child, gradually vanished into darkness.
Myhannan stared at the leaving trio with disgusted expression,
    "Serenity" he said under his breath, "You are our ruin...". A feminine featured shadow appeared behind his shoulders,
    "You aren't far-sighted" it murmured, "I believe instead, that the Princess will be our key for achieving the aim" hissed.
Myhannan gave it, a glance beyond his shoulders,
    "Are you sure, Sister?" he asked. The figure nodded silently.

Mamoru moaned...
The pain... The pain was unbearable... Was happening to him?
The mind of the young man dimmed: he had no-more memories, he had nothing! Staggering, he neared the door of his own jail. The corridor was desert, there it were nomore sentries before his door.
A fierce twinge in his forehead, made him to fall forward, sending his face to smash against the wall.
    "Usagi" he groaned, with the face twisted into mask of pain.

Tokyo, Year 199X **

Megimi was fiddling with the Stone Key, which had made her and her mates to travel around Time.
She raised her eyes on her friends: Yuki and Hayasi, who were sending back to her the same empty and vaguely cruel look, and then, Nadakai, who was staring at her with a resentful expression.
    "Spoke" Hayasi said, "What His Majesty has told us to do?",
    "Prince Actaeon has been so magnanimous to grant us a second chance" Megimi began quietly, "This time we MUST succeed, so that Endymion won't be anymore a block on His Majesty's way".
    "What do you mean?" Nadakai crossed her arms, "Explain yourself".
All of a sudden, Megimi grabbed the Stone Key and squeezed it in her hand,
    "When... When Chiba Mamoru was only a child, his parents died in a car crash. A car crash in which, him too risked his life". Yuki nodded,
    "No wonder if the child too will die, *this* time...",
    "Precisely" Megimi replied coldly.
    "What?!" Nadakai exploded, gaping at her three mates as she was seeing them for the very first time, "You ALL went OUT of MIND??".
The black key dangled down Megimi's hand,
    "This is an order of His Majesty".
    "I DON'T CARE!" the brown-haired girl replied, "I won't ever do such a thing!".
    "So... You're refusing to" Yuki raised an eye-bow,
    "YEAH! And you too should do it! It's despicable to kill a kid, a creature that can't defend himself! It's DESPICABLE! We have never killed 'till this moment. Why now yes, instead?" Nadakai roared, "Hayasi!" she turned to her heart-friend, "You say nothing?!?"
The three remaining Moon Senshi had no reactions, they kept standing before Nadakai in silence.
    "Tsukinomaho Nadakai" thundered a voice, coming from behind the three girls and a fearful black shadow, took shape. "Sailor Magicmoon, you can't escape the Black Sun's will...".
Nadakai moved a step back, scared to death by that presence. Who, what was that... thing?
In a moment, also her eyes lost the natural light and turned vacuous.
    "A... Sailor senshi... doesn't kill... a child..." her conscience had a last desperate attempt to escape that shadow that was filling also her mind, "A... Sailor..."

    "You are Sailor Moon's daughter" Yaten said, "You can use your power for helping us".
Chibi-Usa shot him a disconcerted glance, thinking to the Silver Crystal vanishing into her hands. Seiya understood that, as usual, Yaten had talked too much.
    "What's the matter with you?" he asked with warmth to the girl. Chibi-Usa waited a moment before replying gloomily,
    "I... I have no powers..."
The three youths exchanged a puzzled look,
    "And that blast of energy...?" Taiki asked,
    "You really want make us to believe, that it hasn't been you?" Yaten asked with impatience in his voice. Chibi-Usa suddenly buried her face into Kakyuu's breast,
    "I've NO POWERS!" she shouted, "NO POWERS!!".
Seiya sighed. It was clear that the girl was still frightened. To press her now, wouldn't be of any help.

** Tokyo, Year 200X **

    "You can look, now" Actaeon's voice said.
Serenity lifted her eyelids and, for a moment, she had to close them again.
The sunlight! It has been sunlight! She urged her eyelids to reopen and gasped: she was in a Garden! A real Garden! The grass was green and true, not the gray and stony one. Usagi bowed to grasp it: it was soft and alive, alive like the flowers who bloomed all around her, like the trees, like the impalpable mist hanged between the branches.
    "Do you like it, mom?" the blond Chibi-Usa asked with a smile. Usagi moved her eyes from her small face and her sight embraced everything,
    "It's for me?" Usagi asked with weak voice. Actaeon nodded and kept gazing his princess, to walk slowly towards the small wood, as she couldn't believe that all was seeing was real. Chibi-Usa outstripped her mother in the race and, tearing her silk gown with an amused giggle, invited her to the game.
The Prince stood on his place, staring at both: Serenity was an angel in his white dress, she was simply...
    "... beautiful..."
Serenity was exactly like the first time he had seen her... How many centuries before? How many millenniums? The Eternity is an unbearable weight, if you have to live it all alone.
Ha had always loved her. He had always waited for her. But he had always simply looked at her, from afar. Exactly like in that moment. Actaeon half closed his eyes.
    *I'd give you everything you wish. Just tell me that you'll stay with me forever*.
    "There's also a pond!" Usagi's voice exclaimed happily in that moment. Actaeon slowly walked towards his beloved's voice, trough the wood, to the small rounded poll.
    "Come and play with us!" the young woman addressed him,
    "Yesss, daddy!" Chibi-Usa yelled, "COME!" she squealed, kicking the water and jumping between the splashes. But Actaeon remained on the poll's side. All of a sudden, the child sprang towards the man, rounded him and then pushed him into the water.
Usagi replied to the prince's disconcerted expression with a giggle. With a mad laughter, the kid disappeared between trees and bushes. Actaeon stood up, turned around for reproaching the girl, but even before his lips could open, Usagi's index came to close them.
    "Please, don't get angry for this" the woman murmured with a wide smile. The right hand of the man, slowly flew to reach Usagi's one and lovely squeezed it.
    "I love you" those words had come out of Serenity's lips. Amazingly, that thing that she was feeling inside of her, had finally come out. Spontaneously.
Surprising both two.

** Tokyo, Year 199X **

Sailor Silvermoon lifted her Stone Time Key to the sky dome,
    "Father Chronos!" she invoked. To that call, dark clouds went gathering over the city of Tokyo with unnatural velocity. Soon, the blue sky turned totally lead colored.

Yaten raised his eyes to the sky...
    "What a hell of weather" he mumbled, "A minute before the sun is shining and minute later...". Kakyuu observed with worry the darkening haven,
    "It's strange, don't you think?" Taiki spoke. Seiya shivered: he had a bad feeling.

    "Open your doors! Give us the might for traveling trough Time!" an icy wind raised all of a sudden, and began to dance widely all around the four senshi reunited in a circle. The small gem chastened into the Stone Key glowed, releasing a beam of light that headed upwards, drawing a white line onto the gray sky. In the space of few seconds, the beam grow becoming a column of pulsating energy.

    "Look that!" shouted Kakyuu. The four champions of Kinmokusei looked each other simultaneously.

Lowering the hand that was holding the magic item, Megimi turned to look Yuki, Hayasi and Nadakai.
    "Come on" she incited them. Shinymoon moved a step towards the column first.
    "Star Serious... LASER!" screamed a voice and pale blue beam cut the way to the senshi in dark-red, who was forced to stop over her place.
    "Sailor Starlights!" Magicmoon grunted, darting her eyes all around,
    "Hurry, enter the ray!" Megimi urged, "Don't waste precious time!".
    "You'll go NO where!" Sailor Starmaker yelled, slinging over Goldmoon and knocking her down. The remaining Starlights - with Sailor Fireball, holding Chibi-Usa in her arms - appeared all around the Moon Senshi.
    "Bashing..." Magicmoon got ready,
    "Star Sensitive..." Starhealer posed,
    "REMORSE!"
    "INFERNO!!" the two contrasting energies exploded one on the other.
Shielding her eyes, Sailor Silvermoon shot a glance to the helpless Fireball,
    "DESTRUCTIVE CURSE!!!" she decided suddenly, pointing her hands towards Kakyuu.
    "NO!" the three Starlights exclaimed almost at the unison, "PRINCESS!".
The silver spheres of energy quickly devoured the space between Megimi and Kakyuu. The red-haired woman gave instintively her back on the incoming blast, shielding the scared child in her lap.
    "STAR SERIOUS LASER!"
    "STAR SENSITIVE INFERNO!"
    "STAR GENTLE UTERUS!"
The triple attacks of stellar energy gathered on Silvermoon's, annihilating it at the instant, in a colored boom. Taking advantage of that distraction from the Starlights, the Moon Senshi disappeared quickly into the beam of light, that faded off in a dull blaze.
    "O-Hime-sama!" Yaten rushed over the princess, who had fell on her knees. "Are you two alright?" Starhealer asked with a worried look. Kakyuu nodded silently, looking up to her guardian with a smile of gratutide.
    "Get ready to pay for this too" Taiki murmured, pulling out her own Time Key. "Follow them..." she ordered panting. The pink light kindled...

[To be continued]