Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ After the Battle is Over ❯ Chapter 1 Right After ( Chapter 1 )

Hi Everyone, I hope you enjoy this. It starts during Episode 200 and it changes to an A/U right close to the end. I recommend you watch the shows at least once before reading this or it probably won't make much sense. Any questions or comments can be directed to LoneMala@hotmail.com. Thanks.

Disclaimer: All of the characters and such all belong to Naoko Takeuchi's only the story ideas themselves are mine.

NOTE: Please make sure to take a look at whose POV you are reading from, it makes a lot more sense that way.

After the Battle is Over

Chapter 1

Mamoru's POV

The first thing I remember was a small red odango haired child taking my hand and pulling me along. It was the first time I'd actually had the sensation of a body since I'd landed in this is odd sort of black hole. I had no idea how long I'd been there but the only thing that had kept me sane was thinking about Usako and getting back to her. When the little girl stopped, I picked her up and in doing so noticed I was now in my Prince's armour. Then, my vision started to waver and forms started to become distinct right before my eyes. To my delight one of them was her. I had no idea what had happened but I knew it must have been bad because her reaction was not typical and she was . . . she was nude!

She was weeping, not wailing with arms flailing, and staring at those around her, whom I saw to be the rest of the Senshi. I had missed her so!

"Usako." At my word she flung herself around to look at me. "This little girl guided me to you, Usako."

"Mamo-chan!" She seemed to be pretty close to losing it.

"You did good, Usako." I assured her. After all she must have, I had been dead (I think) just moments earlier. She must have brought me back and beat the bad guys to do it.

"Mamo-chan" she cried again, and suddenly I had a winged goddess lunging at me. I wrapped my free arm around her as tightly as I could, breathing in her wonderful scent and revelling in being with her again. She was still weeping quietly and I rubbed her back trying to comfort her.

"Don't worry, it's all over Usako." I said as I held onto her even tighter. I wasn't sure what was going on but I sure hoped that this was the case! She seemed to calm down as I rubbed her back gently keeping my tight hold on her.

All of a sudden the little girl in my other arm started to rise into the air. I made a slight grab for her, thinking that in my absorption with Usako I had dropped her but stopped when I noticed that she wasn't falling, but rising.

Usagi's POV

He's here, he's not dead, he's here, he's not dead . . .

This was all I could think about as I snuggled deeper into Mamo-chan's chest. I didn't care that he had his armour on or that I was naked, all I cared about was hearing his heartbeat and knowing he was alive.

Suddenly I felt him make a sudden movement with his other arm and looked up. Chibi-Chibi was rising into the air.

"Chibi-Chibi?" What was going on? Where was she going?

"Arigatou!" she exclaimed, while she smiled her sweet little smile at me. Then in a bright flash of light she disappeared. I was in shock. Where has she gone? Would we ever see her again? "Arigatou, Chibi-Chibi you helped me truly find myself. I'm going to miss you!"

Mamoru's POV

After the little girl disappeared, I looked down at Usako hoping to find out what was going on and noticed her head leaning against my chest. Then it started to slide . . . she was falling! We all were!

As we slowly descended toward the ground I noticed that Usako had started to fade in and out. She was losing consciousness as I watched her . . . "Usako!" I yelled, thinking that she might have been hurt in some way.

"Daijoubu Mamo-chan, I'm just tired and sore. I can't stay awake much longer. Please make sure the others are okay, please . . . " and with that she was asleep. I swung her up into my arms just as my feet touched the ground. As they did, there was a bright flash of light and I was back to wearing my civilian clothes that I'd been wearing on the plane. Usako was now wearing her princess dress but still out for the count.

I laid her down on the ground and made sure she had been telling the truth about her injuries. When I was fully convinced that she was all right I picked her up again and stood up.

There in front of me stood all the Senshi. Each one, except Pluto, was crying, albeit silently and looking at Usagi as if they thought she was dead.

"She's fine everyone, just asleep."

Pluto's POV

*We made it, I wasn't wrong. Oh thank Kami.*

I stood and watched as the Inners reacted to Mamoru's statement with a queer sense of detachment.

I noticed Rei and Minako had dropped to their knees and were softly weeping into their hands in relief. Looking to the left I expected to see Makoto and Ami doing close to the same thing but was surprised to see Ami wrapped tightly in Makoto's arms sobbing, while the taller girl cried into the other's blue hair. I had wondered when that would finally develop.

The Outers had much the same reaction. Haruka was trying to hold up Michiru and Hotaru at the same time as both seemed to have collapsed with relief. However, she was having a hard time of it since she, too, was crying quite hard.

I walked over and gently took Hotaru out of Haruka's grip.

"Oh Setsuna-mama, she's all right! She's all right!" gasped Hotaru into my ear as I held her. She was crying hard and I settled her in my arms more comfortably.

"Yes, she is, hime-chan. Yes, she is. Everything is all right now. Everyone is okay." I know Hotaru has lived longer then most of those there, excluding myself, since she has been reborn so many times, demo, she is still a child, a young child at that. I continued to rub her back and talk nonsense while she started to calm down.

Yaten's POV

She's alive, our princess is alive . . . I can't believe it.

One moment I was standing on the ground watching as the Earth Sailor Senshi reappeared, (oh thank kami there's Minako!) and ignoring the pains throughout my body, when I heard the most beautiful thing I have ever heard in my life, "The angel has come down to Earth hasn't she?"

I turned around quickly to see a star seed blinking back into existence and then watched joyfully as it turned back into our . . . "PRINCESS!"

"It's a miracle" I whispered in awe, aware, for the first time, of just how much Sailor Moon really was an angel. She had brought our Princess back to us, had saved her, even though we couldn't.

I heard Seiya exclaim, "Truly Wonderful!" and Taiki whisper the words we all wanted to say "Welcome back." I think I was still in shock at this point.

We all turned around in time to see the Sailor Senshi start to float back down to earth.

"We must check on the angel." said our Princess and Seiya needed no more prodding. She was off at a run but stopped abruptly behind the Outer scouts upon hearing Mamoru state she was all right. She hesitated there and I'm not sure why. Maybe she didn't think she belonged in that group of weeping girls, but for whatever the reason, she didn't go any further.

Then I saw Kakyuu-hime walk up beside me and put her hand on Seiya's shoulder. Seiya turned and looked at her with tears running down her face.

"She's all right Sei-chan. Come here."

I have never seen Seiya cry like that but all of a sudden she was sobbing on our Princess's shoulder and muttering incoherent statements about Usagi and Kakyuu-hime and being sorry and happy and a whole bunch of other things. I knew they would be all right, I could feel it.

As I turned and looked at Taiki, who was looking at Seiya and Kakyuu, out of the corner of my eye I spotted flowing blond hair. I quickly jerked toward it and finally spotted Minako-chan again, kneeling on the ground sobbing. She was crying so hard her body was shaking. I took another quick look at Taiki, who was now staring at Ami and Makoto and walked quickly over to the crying girl.

"Minako" I said quietly as I knelt beside her in the dirt and put my hand on her head.

Minako's POV

That voice I recognize it. She's alive. Warmth, I feel warmer. Need to be warmer.

Yaten's POV

As I slid closer to her, I was surprised to feel her curl closer to me herself, almost like a baby seeking warmth. I wrapped my arms around her and pulled her closer as she tried to speak.

"Yat . . . Yaten . . . you're alive!" Minako blinked up at me with tear filled eyes and I saw them shining with relief.

"Yes Mina-chan and so are you, thank Kami. Are you all right?" I asked, worried. I had watched her die before my very eyes. I never wanted to feel that way again. It had hurt almost as badly as watching Kakyuu-hime be killed.

"She's okay Yaten, your okay, I'm okay, it's okay," she muttered, tears continuing to fall.

It was then that I realized that she was going into shock. I held her tighter and started to rub her arms hoping to warm her up. I continued to talk to her, telling her it would be all right, hoping to calm her down somewhat.

After a while, it felt like longer then it was I'm sure, she started to calm down.

"Minako-chan, I'm glad your okay. Please don't ever do that again!" I said looking down at her.

Then she turned her head up and looked at me wiping her eyes at the same time. "Yaten-ku . . . I mean Healer, what happened?" I could tell her eyes were starting to focus more and as they did they started to take in my physical state.

Minako's POV

I didn't understand what was going on. Healer was hurt. Why was she hurt, none of those who'd come back had been hurt. We'd all been healed, I assumed by the Crystal.

"Why are you still hurt Healer-chan?" I asked in confusion.

"Still hurt Minako-chan, what do you mean?"

I sat up straighter and blushed a little on noticing that I had been crying into her bare stomach. Those uniforms didn't cover much. I also took in all the scrapes and other minor injuries I could see, I had no idea what I couldn't see and that sacred me.

"Are you hurt badly?"

"I'm okay Minako, better now that I know you're all alive and safe again. Even our Princess is back!" Her face was glowing now and I smiled purely in response to it.

"That's wonderful Healer-chan. I'm so happy that you finally found her for good!" I reached up and hugged the other girl tightly. I was thoroughly surprised when she hugged me back just as hard.

Mamoru's POV

I watched the girls react and tightened my hold on my precious bundle.

Everyone seemed to have paired off in their search for comfort; Ami and Makoto, Uranus and Neptune, Setsuna and Hotaru. One of the women I didn't know was kneeling with Minako, two of the others were comforting each other and a third one was hovering over both of them obviously worried about them. The only one by herself was Rei.

I walked over beside her and she glanced up at us. I noticed she was no longer crying, rather she was sort of breathing deeply, obviously trying to calm down.

Rei's POV

I looked up and saw the most wonderful sight. She was lying in his arms, with a peaceful smile on her face, as if she was having beautiful dreams. (Oh, course she would be baka, her prince is back!)

Mamoru's POV

She stared at her a moment then reached out slowly and touched her face. Usagi smiled even bigger in her sleep and snuggled in even more, which caused me to smile.

"Are you all right?" I asked raising my voice so the others could hear me, making good on my promise to Usako. I was genuinely worried as well.

There were many nods in response to my question but I also heard "NO! Yaten-chan is hurt, I can tell!" That came from Minako.

"Well then I think we should head back to my place, Usako needs to rest and you three" I indicated the girls I didn't know dressed in black leather (and I thought the girls Senshi fuku's were useless!) "are obviously injured. Between Mercury and I, maybe we can help. While we're doing that, someone can explain to me what happened."

"Endymion-sama." I turned and looked at Pluto, she was the only one whoever called me that. "I would advise not going back to your apartment. It has not been in use for many months, although Usagi did make an effort to keep it clean . . . " A few small chuckles could be heard around the group. After all, we all knew how good Usako was at cleaning anything. "Plus, we wouldn't all fit inside, there are quite a few here."

"You have a point Pluto-san."

"We could go back to our place," spoke up Neptune. They had a rather large home on the waters edge and I knew that we would all fit there easily. It was also out of the way so not many people would be likely to see us there, even by chance.

"Thank you Neptune that sounds good. Next question . . . where did we park the car?"