Still Confused, but Hopeful (…Mostly Confused)

All is dark…

There is but a single light, cupped in a pair of small, delicate hands…

Serena

The voice in her head was calling her name, as if to wake her up. She could feel her blinking eyelids, the slow movement of breath in her lungs, and the weightlessness of her body, as if she were once again afloat in the outer reaches of space.

(Am I lost again? Where is everyone?)

She'd been here before. As a young girl, she'd had black-out moments, patches of time where she couldn't remember anything but this darkness. But never had there been this light. Only the voice, ever teaching, ever comforting.

Who was she? Or rather….Who were they?

Serena

Frustration wells up in her heart, and the light flickers.

SERENA

The voice becomes louder, more insistent, as if in warning. The light flickers again, harder, faster.

Serena, listen to me!

"WHAT?!? WHAT DO YOU WANT!" she bursts out. How much longer would this enigmatic presence keep calling her, as if she'd already given instructions and now urged Serena to follow them. "I don't know what you want from me!!" She yells into the void, the light in her hands growing dimmer.

….Silence…

With a tired sigh, tears of frustration well up in her eyes. ((And now comes the inevitable feeling of failure. How can I defeat an enemy I cannot see?...))

…………"huh?" She blinks…..she felt movement…..she wasn't sure how. There was no air or wind or any sort of reference point by which to know she was moving. She just….felt it…. "Where are we going?" Her voice is small, resigned. She doesn't expect an answer.

The light in her palms had steadied. What was it? She brings it close. It floated an inch above her hand, and the stronger its light, the stronger she felt the energy flowing from it and through her. Instinctively, she becomes aware that it is her own power, a kind of spiritual energy. Why was it so dim?... "What's wrong with me?..."

Don't go, Serena!

((Don't go?...but…I'm right here…Don't go where?!?)) The light flickers yet again as her mood takes another downward spiral. This was making NO SENSE! And she was completely sick of it.

"Usagi"….

Her head snaps up! Who…?

((Ok…that definitely wasn't Rose…))

"Come on, Meatball head. Get up…"

Her heart skips a beat. Meatball head?...surely it couldn't be….The voice is unclear, like an echo from far away. Isn't that always the way with dreams? Her shoulders straighten. She couldn't stay here any longer. The voices were right about that at least. She wasn't sure what had happened, and she definitely didn't know what the voice of that woman was trying to tell her. There were a lot of pieces to this puzzle that she had yet to figure out, especially the whole "Coyo" thing. But…..she had started to get a clearer picture of Rose's place in this at least. And perhaps….perhaps even Darien's…

Her light had begun to grow brighter, pushing back the darkness. In a matter of moments, she finds she can no longer look at it. And just as she feels herself being pulled from that familiar non-world, she feels the hands of another cup her cheeks and kiss her brow.

"Save us and Make us free…"

Serena smiles, suddenly at peace with her coming destiny. Even as she ascends, Sailor Moon holds a fist to her chest, renewed in spirit and ready to conquer all evils.

"I don't totally get it, but I've never let that stop me before. I've got a world to save."

She is reminded of all those she loves, both past and present and future.

"Don't worry, guys, I wont get defeated so easily. Count on it!"

And with that, a determined Usagi breathes again the air of the living.

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…..And smacks head first into the similarly hard head of her partner when she jerks up in surprise.

"Oooooowwww!" she wines, rubbing her forehead, and slowly laying back down for a moment on the cold gravel beneath her. She slowly opens her eyes, sitting up yet again as she does so…and for a moment she's completely at a loss as to how to handle the information greeting her.

It was cold because they were outside. It was gravely because they were in a rock garden abundant with an array of gorgeous flowers……on a roof?

She blinks….and then notices the most disturbing thing of all. Heero Yui was beside her…shirtless….

((What the?!?))

She gaps, just taking in this entirely surreal situation. They were in a roof-garden, with the stars shining brilliantly above them, and beside her was the hottest guy she knew shirtless because he was using his shirt to stifle his bloody nose (the reason for which was that he'd obviously been leaning perilously close to her face). Other than the bloody nose part, this had to be the most romantic setting EVER.

…..If only she knew what to do with it?....