Prologue

Usagi stared out of her bedroom window. The moon was waning thin, and not without good reason. For the first time since the night of her rebirth, there was to be a new moon on June 30th. Now only a week away, the moon had shifted down to only one fourth of its light being visible. It was to this fraction of moonlight that Usagi prayed for guidance.

'Mother.' She thought. 'I know you and father can hear me, just as I know that you are always with me. I need your guidance, and so I seek your answer. I feel something big is about to occur, but for some reason I do not feel as though I can share this with the other senshi. Please, help me to decide what I must do.'

She kept her gaze on the light, never breaking the connection. Usagi stretched as far as she could mentally, hoping for the answer. Unfortunately, as so many times before, it did not come. Often it seemed that whenever Usagi was not in mortal danger, her mother would not tell her important information about herself. Usa couldn't help but wonder why her past was being kept hidden from her. She sighed and went back to bed, carefully placing herself between Chibi-Usa and Luna.

'Tomorrow,' she thought as she fell asleep. 'tomorrow I'll find out. Maybe I can make Luna tell me. If not her, then central or my mother will. Someone is going to tell me the truth before not knowing makes me go crazy.'

Usagi's Dream

The corridor was long and lacked any defining characteristics. Everything seemed to be obscured by shadows, and nothing was clear, except herself and her long white dress. She was the princess of the long gone Moon Kingdom once again.

"Mother?" Serenity tentatively spoke aloud. "Are you here? Where am I?"

The silence echoed momentarily, before an answer at last returned to her.

"I am not your mother, or anyone else's for that matter. Nonetheless, I am here with you now. Tell me who you are or I will kill you." A shadow formed in front of her. Although Serenity could not discern who the person was, she felt it was someone she knew, or at least was connected to. She was about to speak when a third presence joined their gathering.

"Leave her alone. She has never been here before, and is most likely unsure of what to do, or think, or say. You must admit it confused both of us when we first arrived here." This voice was gentle, calm, and friendly. It was the voice of someone else who she knew and loved. She strove harder to make them visible, but their images remained foggy. The second voice spoke again. "Don't worry, I won't let him hurt you. He's always been a little trigger happy."

"Thank you." She said softly. In the darkness, her voice echoed with purity rarely heard, and seemed to create a soft light, as the glow of a candle or the last embers of a fire. It had a musical quality that twinkled in the dim hush. She wished to speak more to these two who stood before her, but before she could make another utterance, she was pulled away from them.

Dimension SM

Usagi woke with a start. She was quite surprised to discover that she was now soaking wet. Water clung like dew to every part of her face and upper body.

"Hey Usagi, will you get up now?" Chibi-Usa's voice teased her. Usagi sat up quickly and grabbed the little spore in an affectionate hug.

"So that's the way you wanna play, huh? Well then, I guess we'll just have to all share in the wet love." Usagi squeezed her close so that the wet fabric of her pajamas merged with the dry cloth of Chibi-Usa's, effectively making it sopping wet. She then set about tickling her future daughter mercilessly until her mother called for them to go down to breakfast.

Dimension GW

Heero and Quatre both jerked into a sudden state of awareness. The "perfect soldier" let his face show no emotion, but Quatre allowed some of what he felt to filter across his face. They turned to look at each other.

"Do you know who that was?" Heero asked in his usual monotone.

"No, but there was something so familiar about her. Something I just can't quite put my finger on." Quatre looked puzzled for a few moments, and then settled back to sleep. It seemed that he and Heero would no longer be allowed to enjoy their all-night-in-spite-of-resting-simultaneously planning sessions. Heero remained awake for a few moments longer, allowing himself a short time to think about the mysterious girl before returning to his own night's rest.