Today's my 28th birthday! As a present to you all, I'm posting multiple chapters!

If Nanoha was amused at the fact Chibiusa might end up dating either Alicia, Yuuno or both, it was nothing compared to the reaction Neo Queen Serenity had.

She broke out laughing like her old self, and her next comment had her husband grimacing at the reminder.

"Well at least neither of them will be forced to simply throw roses at the enemy," said Usagi, snickering.

Endymion winced. He had worked hard to forget that part of his life. It wasn't easy maintaining your position as a guy when your girlfriend was more useless in a fight and she was a total crybaby at the time. Or that your only 'attack' was throwing roses as a distraction. To be fair, the roses only should have worked a couple of times, but most monsters usually couldn't believe someone actually used them as a distraction.

Like Chibiusa told Nanoha, her parents could care less if she were straight, lesbian or bi, so long as both parties loved each other.

So no, Neo Queen Serenity had no issues of her daughter finding a girlfriend or a boyfriend, so long as she was happy about it. Or, and this was the most amusing prospect, having both.

"What."

Nanoha looked angry at Chibiusa for some reason, however after learning the girl's insane training regimen before now, Lindy had to says he agreed with the decision.

Chibiusa had put a 'lock' on Raising Heart that would cut out after a specified number of hours...in this case 120, or five days. Essentially Raising Heart would refused to upload any of the training exercises for a full twenty four hours at least. And if Nanoha didn't take a break for a month or tried to parcel out the training to last the full week, then she would lock Nanoha out for a full three days and force the girl to rest.

Intelligent Devices might be machines, but when they genuinely liked their master they would go above and beyond their duty. And Raising Heart would do it's best even if it lead to her own destruction to complete anything Nanoha asked of her.

So being discreetly given the medical history of Nanoha and finding out that her core would fracture when she turned fifteen from overwork, Raising Heart agreed to lock out her master.

Either way, the end result was the same. Nanoha was absolutely furious at Chibiusa.

About the only thing Raising Heart would allow during the lock out was the 'game' Nanoha had shown Chibiusa.

Nanoha put all her annoyance and irritation towards the pinkette into the game...and for the first time since they started the ongoing bet, she beat the girl.

Alicia and Fate couldn't understand the reason for Nanoha's slack jaw and sudden cheer until Chibiusa explained it to them. And since Yuuno would probably find this fascinating too, she brought him too.

"Alright, now spill," said Nanoha eagerly. Chibiusa's origin planet was something of a debate with the Bureau, though they had no idea why she regarded it with such secrecy.

Instead Chibiusa decided to kill two youma with one hit.

"Luna P, display all data on the Ace of Aces, AKA the White Devil."

Nanoha's confusion turned to shock...and then annoyance.

"White Devil?" she repeated, eyebrow twitching.

"Remember that red head who kicked your ass and had that big hammer? She coined the phrase and it stuck," said Chibiusa negligently.

"It fits," muttered Fate. Especially since Nanoha's barrier jacket was white. Nanoha shot her a look, and she grinned.

Chibiusa carefully didn't tell her the full story.

"What is this anyway?"

"Remember how I said there was a reason I couldn't explain where I'm from? I'm guessing Lindy tried to track all magical ways of leaving the garden and never found out how I left," said Chibiusa.

Nanoha nodded. It had been that and the fact that Alicia clearly remembered a woman taking the pink-haired girl who had fallen unconscious that they had hoped Chibiusa was still alive.

"I come from about a thousand years into the future," said Chibiusa.

Nanoha blinked. Out of the four there, only Fate believed her immediately.

"That's impossible!"

"Just like it's impossible to revive the dead through sheer willpower and a fancy stick?" deadpanned Chibiusa, nodding towards Alicia.

Nanoha's mouth shut in a snap.

Yuuno blinked.

"That's how you got past the Arthra's defenses. You already had their programs memorized," said Yuuno.

"Where I'm from, it's so outdated it nearly rates prehistoric. I'm used to outwitting the TSAB and playing merry havoc on their systems, and Amy would have to get up very, very early to come up with something I haven't seen before and countered. It doesn't help that I've always been fascinated by the three Aces since I first heard about them," said Chibiusa.

"Three Aces?" repeated Nanoha.

"Takamachi Nanoha, Fate T. Harlaown and Yagami Hayate. Three girls who proved you don't have to be a teenager to kick butt and take names, and who are overpowered compared to most mages."

They were her age and still useful in a fight. They were also ideal role models for a young girl to have, even a princess, because they got that way through hard work and perseverance despite the odds. And they were easier to relate to in a way Sailor Moon wasn't.

She had been raised on stories of Sailor Moon, the invincible Senshi who became Queen. It made her harder to connect to her mother.

The Three Aces, however, had been her age when they first started making a name for themselves.

So she had learned everything she possibly could about them, down to the nitty-gritty details only a scholar would care about.

"I've been stuck at nine years old for several decades," said Chibiusa. While it wasn't an outright lie, it wasn't the entire truth. "My parents realized something was wrong when I turned thirteen but hadn't displayed any signs of having hit puberty. It wasn't until I hit twenty they had me tested, hoping that maybe I had a slower growth rate than normal."

"Wait...how old are you?" asked Yuuno. Chibiusa gave him a look, as did the other girls. "Never mind."

"We found out through the TSAB that there was a seal on my linker core that stopped the aging process, though we have no idea when it was applied or how, considering I was kept safe in the castle until after they realized I wasn't aging. And since I've never hit puberty or aged a day since, they still treat me like a child."

Most of the girls (and Yuuno) winced.

"Add on top of that the fact I never had the royal crest until recently, most people doubted my claim as my mother's daughter," Chibiusa made a face. "Most of them were jerks. I was glad when mom said I could visit P-chan so long as I wasn't causing trouble and she said it was safe to do so. It's actually why I fell in love with history in the first place."

Seeing Yuuno perk up, Chibiusa had a mischievous idea.

"Luna P, display the first meeting between Yuuno and Nanoha."

Watching with mouths open in shock, Yuuno asked "How did you do that? I put a barrier up almost immediately!"

"Pluto lets me watch the time mirrors so long as I don't focus them on Sailor Moon. It's not the past of my planet, so there's really very little damage I could do to my own future," said Chibiusa.

Yuuno looked speculative.

"Is it possible I could ask this...Pluto...to let me look through the time mirrors?"

Chibiusa shook her head.

"Sailor Pluto is really, really strict on anyone in the realm she lives in. She protects Time itself, so she pretty much attacks anyone who comes near the Door that allows time travel. I'm an exception because she served my family for a long time and she likes me. I'm one of the rare few who can pass between the past and the future and that's only because I agreed to avoid my own planet's past unless an emergency comes up. The only reason I came back was because there was nothing we could do in my time to break whatever seal is on my core, but a few weeks in the past managed to put a crack in it."

"Has the crack caused any other noticeable changes?" asked Yuuno seriously.

"I've grown an inch. And while that might not seem like much, considering the fact I haven't aged or grown taller since I turned nine, it's a big deal. I should be able to age normally once the seal breaks. The doctor said that if I were to fully activate Luna P it might shatter and unlock my full linker core."

"Wait...fully activate?" repeated Nanoha.

Chibiusa held up Luna P.

"Luna P is a nickname. And like Raising Heart I have to say the full activating phrase in order to unlock my barrier jacket and the staff."

"So why don't you?" asked Alicia.

"Never had a reason to before. Not to mention after I caught the TSAB trying to steal the royal jewel, and my mom banned them from our sector learning their style of magic hasn't been encouraged."

Most of them winced.

"Why did they try to rob you?" asked Alicia.

"The jewel was something they called a 'Lost Logia', and by that time they had developed a bit of a hair trigger towards them. They never even bothered to ask if my mother knew what it did before they signed a requisition order demanding that she hand it over to be sealed or destroyed. Since I broke an arm when I found out what they were doing, my mom got angry and threw them out. And that was before she found out why they were trying to steal the thing," said Chibiusa.

She showed them the order, only this time she only had the 'sector' and 'planet designation' blotted out.

Alicia focused on something the others either hadn't seen, or had skipped over.

"Wait...why does this say 'Neo Queen Serenity'?"

Chibiusa looked at Fate amused. Fate looked sheepish.

"It skipped my mind, and didn't seem important with Alicia suddenly back alive," she admitted.

Chibiusa got out of her chair and grinned at them all.

"Perhaps I should formally introduce myself. My full and proper name is Crown Princess Usagi Small Lady Serenity Tsukino, or Chibiusa for short. I am the thirty-ninth heir to the Moon Kingdom and the daughter of the Earth King Endymion and his wife the thirty-eighth Moon Princess Neo Queen Serenity."

Seeing their jaws drop, she smiled at them after doing a proper curtsy.

"I did say I lived in a castle before," she reminded them. Her grin widened as her mischievous nature poked through again. "Want to see where I live?"

Yuuno nodded eagerly, as did Alicia without hesitation.

Chibiusa had a holographic projection of Crystal Tokyo, giving them a rough tour of her home. Because she rarely left the castle, or spent more of her time on the library in the Moon Kingdom itself, she didn't really know much about it.

Yet another reason her mother was quick to approve the idea of her daughter living on another planet in the past. Being exposed to normal people would do wonders for her self-esteem and teach her how to socialize properly without having to worry overly much about protocols she didn't really care about.

Well that and she knew that while Chibiusa's "dream" was to become a lady like her mother, her real desire was to become a librarian or a historian. She considered being a princess a hobby at best.

"Perhaps we should change the subject...like the fact that the Book of Darkness is active again, and the fact they attacked Nanoha," said Fate.

"Tome of the Night Sky," corrected Chibiusa without thinking about it.

They all looked at her, particularly Yuuno.

"The true name of the Book of Darkness is Tome of the Night Sky. Somehow the original name was lost, probably around the same time the book was infected with something known as Nachtwal."

"More of your future knowledge?" asked Nanoha.

"Again, I took an interest in you and Fate. You were both attacked by the Wolkenritter and got involved in the incident, and I have the mission reports. Before you ask, no, you can't borrow them and I'll have encrypted them before you think to tell Lindy."

"Why not?" asked Nanoha.

"Let me put it this way. When you find out who the current owner of the Tome of the Night Sky is I want to make it abundantly clear I'm a neutral party. Besides, even after this is over I plan on staying a civilian consult."

She had heard things about the Infinity Library, and she fully planned to work there the first chance she got.

As it was, she quickly volunteered to join Yuuno in researching anything that mentioned the name "Tome of the Night Sky" and see if it really was the same book.