A Fanfic by Adyen
Chapter 4
"So King Agamemnon was able to secure the alliance with Serenity though a political marriage, though soon after the Chaos Wars forced him to return to his solar system where he perished, but not before striking a decisive blow and ending the War with many other Senshi." Setsuna explained.
It had taken a bit of explaining from the senshi of Pluto before Ranma had finally understood that he's been flung into another timeline with Ryoga. Needless to say, he wasn't too happy with the idea that it was entirely possible that whoever had caused that curtain of silver energy might still been alive back in his timeline.
However, once he's gotten over that fact, he decided to take it easy for now and listen to what else Pluto had to say, especially considering the supposed changes in the timeline.
Pluto had reverted to her passive form as a show of trust, and they began debating the differences in their timelines.
"Well, he might be rude and a blowhard, but even I would agree that he's an impressive fighter." Ranma said, glancing at Ryoga who still looked a bit crisp as if slightly burnt. Though honestly, the silver energy probably did burn out the dark energy from him without the whole healing part because of their fight.
Setsuna hummed non-commitedly while taking another sip from her tea. "I'm more surprised that I don't recall you from memory. How did you manage to marry Serenity?"
Ranma chuckled and shook his head. "That's a long story full of embarassing accidents and awkward moments. I would tell you about it, but I'd rather find out more about the situation first. Like how do you know me? Or the me in this timeline?"
Setsuna gave him a small glare at the dodge, but gracefully gave into the change of topic while promising herself to ask again later. "Did you know that life-energy tends to embody a little bit of chaos in it?" She casually mentioned. "It's what makes humans so adaptable yet susceptable to dark energy. Ranma and his little group has been throwing around this energy for nearly a year and it has taken me the entire time to keep a lid over it so to not lure every energy hungry being into a all you can eat BUFFET!"
Setsuna had been saying that with a calm voice, but even without stressing the last word it was rather obvious that she had been under a lot of pressure. It seemed that she decided to use this oppurtunity to vent her annoyance to the (somewhat timeline displaced counterpart) root of her problems.
Ranma merely sweatdropped as he could imagine how much work she would had to do if this timeline's Nermia was anything like his own. However, it also brought up another question.
"Then that means you had been here all this time even though the fall of the Queendom." Ranma said flatly as another flare of silver energy brought him back into his fully armored form.
"Tell me what happened to cause the death of my family."
It's been nearly an entire day since Usagi woke up in this timeline and when she was not spending time with her friends, she was spending time with her love. But underneath all the hugging and relaxing she couldn't help comparing them to her friends from the other timeline.
On the surface, they were pretty much the same people. They liked the same things, shared similar interests in fashion and people, even disliked many of the same things as well. However, if she wanted to use a single word to describe her current friends compared to her other ones, she would probably have to use 'matured'.
They had just been in a situation where it was possible that all life could have ended, and had been the only source of defense against it. They knew their responsiblities, and knew that they were up for what the world asks of them.
As for herself... she knew she was in a rather interesting position. She had two sets of memories about being Usagi, but they were pretty similar in most cases. It was the memories of being Serenity that has caused a change within her.
If someone had asked Usagi about what she thought being a princess was about before everything that had happened, she would have innocently gave the stereotypical answer and not given it a second thought. Now that she IS Serenity though, she's realized the true meaning of the word Responibility.
Serenity's life was in a way both a blessing and a curse. Groomed from birth to rule, she was in most way that mattered similar to her mother. Compassion was something that she knew herself capable of as both Usagi and Serenity, but now it was tempered with responsibility to her subjects and her queendom.
Well, her queendom of 6 currently (her love isn't really her subject) didn't have much requirements and she didn't have to about the inter-system economics required to feed them or anything, so her Usagi side decided to take a 'watch and wait' response and simply enjoy time with her love.
"So, I know they're still cleaning up, but do you think the movie theater is opened yet?" She asked Mamoru, who was walking with her though one of the many parks in Tokyo. They had decided to go a bit further than normal because one of the many traits that her senshi shared with her alternate timeline ones is their love for gossip and somehow crashing her dates.
"I don't know, but we can go and find out." Mamoru replied with an amused tone as he lead her out of the park. Usagi merely held her love tighter and enjoyed the time they currently have. She was optimistic, but not optimistic enough to let time with her love go to waste.