This pertains mainly to the manga.

This day had been coming for a long time, and everyone knew it. This was the day that the name Usagi Tsukino would go to rest. This was the day that she would become Queen of the entire solar system. She was to become "Neo-Queen Serenity" and shed her old identity. She would live with Mamoru--no King Endymion--for the rest of her life.

But this day wasn't earned without its perils. It was hard for anyone to accept that a young odango-sporting female, only 22 years old, was going to be Queen of the entire Earth. It was not a thing her parents took so well when she first told them. None of the relatives of the soldiers had. Well, except one, but he really didn't count. The announcement that changed the world, and made their lives a living hell before the official coronation.

The day they had to stop living their carefree lives and announce the truth changing everything.

Tsukino's First Announcement

The clock ticked in the Tsukino residence. It had been ticking like that for a good 5 minutes. Usagi had expected some reaction from at least Shingo or the sounds of utter disbelief so she would have to transform in front of her family, but they said nothing.

Shingo still had his mouth open and shut in turns. He finally said, "Usagi, you are Sailor Moon."

"But you can't tell anyone," she said to Shingo.

"Then transform!"

Usagi flipped the broach into the air and called out the words, and before Shingo knew it his eyes were covered as his nude sister transformed into the Sailor-Suited soldier for Love and Justice. When his eyes were uncovered, there she was, Sailor Moon.

Usagi struck the pose, and then showed them the broach. Shingo wondered how he could not have seen it earlier, how many other girls in Tokyo wore such a hairstyle? She was a crime fighter, she was a hero, and she'd saved the Earth.

"Then you're the one that purified the Earth..." Shingo started.

"After all this time, you've died, you've come back? What have you been doing Usagi blowing your curfew! I thought you were playing with your friends in the park!" Ikuko screamed.

She had failed as a mother. Ikuko was sure of it. Her daughter was supposed to be normal, happy, in school, earning good grades, but instead she was fighting aliens, criminals, and all sorts of people, and dying. Her daughter had died. Her heart clenched at that. She wasn't there to protect her, comfort her and tell her everything was alright. All of these years Usagi had been grown, making her own decisions. Ikuko couldn't stand it.

"Mama...I couldn't help it--I told you, it was Luna."

Luna had opted out of the family scene, though she had talked long enough for them to believe Usagi. She was going on another date with Artemis, mainly to get out of their way.

The room fell silent again and the loud ticks of the clock sounded off.

"You're responsible for that big growing contraption downtown?" Shingo said.

A few months earlier she had banished those who would not take the light of the Ginzuishou. She tried to give criminals salvation. It was the only way that Crystal Tokyo would be built. She had regretted it in many ways, but Pluto told her if she was to build Crystal Tokyo, Usagi would have to purify the Earth. She could not interfere with the stream of time. It was what was to be.

It was a few weeks later after Crystal Tokyo was built that Usagi had to make the next announcement.

Tsukino Second Announcement

After spending a night at Mamoru's apartment with the quartz complex of Crystal Tokyo coming together, Usagi had to make a second announcement. Her family in ignorance about what the Palace was going to be for, but she had to tell them the new news. It was one that she thought would bring her family joy after the first one had brought them such heartache.

"Papa, Mama, Shingo, I'm getting married," Usagi cried happily.

But there was the silence again. Again the clock ticked, and her mother looked concerned. Her father's mouth was set into a thin line.

"You're getting married?" Kenji said finally.

"Cool!" Shingo said.

"You're getting married?" Kenji repeated.

"Yes, Mamo-chan and I, we're getting married."

"You're getting married?" Kenji repeated yet again.

"But Usagi, college, your future what are you going to do for support? I know that Mamoru has a rich benefactor, but what will happen if that benefactor will not support you?"

"Mamoru went to Harvard, remember, and he's becoming a doctor," Usagi replied sweetly.

Ikuko nodded at that. Her daughter would be well-provided for, but it seemed to be all a waste after she'd worked so hard to be in Juuban High School.

Tsukino Third Announcement

Usagi hadn't hoped for it so soon. It wasn't something she had wished for, because if this was true, then how would her family take the fact she was going to be Queen of the Earth? When her daughter would be born, King Endymion said on her 22nd birthday was when she would become Queen of the Earth. But this occasion was also marked with something more that Usagi was afraid her parents wouldn't take too kindly to.

Usagi's parents this time looked determined. They had that look on their faces as if nothing could shock them this time.

"Mama, Papa, Shingo, I'm pregnant," Usagi announced.

That's when her mother, father, and brother all fell over. They didn't take that one well, so she thought she should wait for the last announcement. But if she waited too long, then what? It was her destiny. It was nothing she could change, and if she didn't tell them soon, they would be subject to the eventual attacks by the Black Moon. Sailor Pluto said that since she was supposed to not know about the future, her memory would have to be slowly faded of those future events so that they would not affect her todays. However, such an announcement could not wait, which is why she told them a week later.

Tsukino Fourth Announcement

"I'm going to be queen of the Earth. I will become Neo-Queen Serenity. There will be a second wave attack soon, and I will soon not be able to transform. That's why I'm begging you to live at Serenity Palace with us. Before I am made to forget--before I become Queen. Anyone living in Crystal Palace will be safe, please come to live there," Usagi begged them.

"After all we have done in a few month's time you are going to shed your name that we've given you, raised you on, and--?" Ikuko said.

That was the best Ikuko could manage. Even after Usagi's engagement to Mamoru and the scandalous news that Usagi was pregnant. Ikuko couldn't stand much more of this. Her daughter had grown up, but now was the talk of her friends. They were happy that she was getting married, but when they found out that she was pregnant too, the rumors had spread like wildfire. Not to mention no one seemed to understand why or how this big palace in the middle of town was there.

"Usagi--Why?" her father said.

Her father hadn't taken the engagement that well. It wasn't that he didn't approve of Mamoru, it was that he thought it was too early for his daughter to grow up that way. Then the announcement that she was pregnant a few weeks later, didn't sit well with him, it made him feel distinctly, well, old. He thought he'd failed as a father. What kind of father would let his daughter go out at late hours of the night? What kind of father would not know that his daughter was risking her life every day for the country?

Ikuko started to cry. All she could see were assassination attempts on her daughter, her daughter risking death without the protection of the Silver Moon Crystal that Usagi had sworn would protect her through everything. But the Silver Moon Crystal, as Usagi showed to them, was reverting back to the Ginzuishou in preparation for Usagi's daughter. The simple life that Ikuko cherished would change. She wouldn't be able to live in the house where she had chosen and bought with Kenji after he'd become a famous newspaper photographer. It would all change.

"Don't worry, I'll name my daughter Tsukino Usagi too... She will be Tsukino Usagi Small Lady Serenity. I will not forget my name," Usagi said smiling, though she didn't feel like it.

The announcements were hard on her family. Soon governments would fall, and she would have to resurrect them. Soon the paparazzi would come to their house.

And that was only the beginning. The transition had begun, it was nothing that could have prevented it. There was nothing that could be done. It was going to happen. Neo-Queen Serenity would bring peace to the Earth, but it was going to be at a price.

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