Chapter 6

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Setsuna went outside, leaving the group to ponder what she said, but also to think for herself.

"How could he get through the timegate...I thought Chronos had protected it so that things like this wouldn't happen." She thought to herself when she went outside.

Seiya wasn't too far behind her.

"I still think that since I am going to be married to the Queen, I should get some respect, even from you, Setsuna." He said, sitting down a good ways away from her reach.

"No one ever said you married the Queen..." Setsuna said fiercely, but quietly.

"Um...yeah...I did...in the future, remember?" Seiya said with a bit of defiance in his voice. "He said that the Queen that I marry is more beautiful than even I know now...and right now, my heart tells me that Usagi is the most beautiful creature I've ever seen...so how can it NOT be her?" Seiya said.

"I don't want to talk about your failed love life anymore, Seiya." Setsuna said, getting up.

"I have a concert in two weeks...and I'm going to take that time to propose to her." Seiya said, his eyes starry and dreamy.

"And you will get a refusal." Setsuna said, breaking his concentration.

"What makes you say that?" Seiya said.

"Because...her daughter is alive and well right now in this time...That means that she at least marries the king...uh...King Endymion, that is...until Chibi-Usa is born..and if YOU were her father, she would have told me about that...and she wouldn't address Darien now as her father." Setsuna said, breaking his bubble of happiness.

"I swear...because you can't be happy, you're not going to let anyone be happy, are you?" Seiya said, disgusted with her.

"I am letting Usagi and Endymion be happy." Setsuna said.

"Well, maybe proposing at the concert would be a bit too soon.." Seiya said, thinking on the matter.

"I can't believe you!" Setsuna said, rolling her eyes heavenward at him. When her magenta eyes got about halfway, they stopped. Their attention was directed at something in the air. Something was flying in front of the moon.

"How pretty....that bird looks especially shadowed from the light of the moon." Setsuna thought for a second. Then it hit her.

"Wait a minute..." She thought. "..that is an ESPECIALLY big bird!"

"Oh my God..." Setsuna whispered. Seiya was in the background muttering to Setsuna.."..and let me tell you something else about happiness.."

"Shut up!" Setsuna said, not moving her eyes from the bird in the sky.

She pulled out her wand.

Seiya stood up, threatened.

"Now look here...you have no right to be jealous!" He said, still looking at the ground.

"Will you just shut up!" Setsuna said through her gritted teeth, still not taking her eyes off of the thing in the sky.

Seiya looked at her. "If you're going to threaten me, at least look at me." He said, walking up to her and trying to get her attention.

Setsuna put her hand on his face and looked it up at the sky.

"What is that!?" Seiya asked, now alarmed.

"When I say shut up....I'm not kidding!" Setsuna said, pushing her wand into the air.

"Pluto Planet Power...MAKE UP!" She said, engulfing herself in the light and coming out as Sailor Pluto.

"Star Fighter Power!" Seiya said, becoming Sailor Starfighter.

"This looks like a little gift from Taron." Pluto said.

Starfighter went and knocked on the door. "We've got trouble!" She shouted.

All of the others henshined too.

They all waited for the coming trouble.

MEANWHILE

Taron watched from the sanctity of his headquarters as the falcon approached the senshi.

"This ought to be fun." Taron said.

He watched the falcon approach as Pluto let out the first attack. It hit the creature dead on, but didn't seem to phase it.

"That's right, Pluto..try all you might, but you won't bring this one down so easily." He said.

One by one, the senshi fought it, all seeming to have trouble.

Taron inched closer to his orb to see all of the senshi exhausted from the effort of trying to get rid of such a creature.

Sailor Saturn was hooked by the creature's talons and fell to the ground.

Taron smiled with amusement. "Looks like Saturn will be the first of the senshi to go." He said, clasping his hands together.

MEANWHILE

Saturn went down with a thud on the ground. Pluto had seen what happened and ran to her. She picked her up and took her out of the way.

Pluto turned and headed back to the group still fighting the winged creature.

"We need to get rid of this thing quick." Pluto said, looking to Sailor Moon.

"Quick, Sailor Moon...combine your powers with Sailor Chibi-Moon and vanquish the beast!" She shouted.

Moon and Chibi-Moon combined their staffs.

When they attacked, it was enough to destroy the monster, but both of them fell. Pluto caught Chibi-Moon just before she hit the ground.

Starfighter and Tuxedo Kamen both went for Sailor Moon as she fell. Starfighter pushed Tuxedo Kamen out of the way slightly so that she would have a better grasp on Moon than Tuxedo Kamen would have.

Uranus balled her fists in fury. "How dare you touch the Moon Princess!" She yelled with utmost disgust.

Tuxedo Kamen stopped her. "No...it's okay, Uranus...we all know who she is going to marry." He said, taking Sailor Moon from Starfighter.

"We'll just see about that." Starfighter said quietly.

She looked to Sailor Pluto, still holding Chibi-Usa in her arms. Her eyes looked sadly to the girl. Pluto's timestaff lay on the ground.

Starfighter had never seen Pluto look any other way before. She looked almost....motherly.....to Starfighter.

Perhaps she was the mother of Chibi-Usa in the future...her and King Endymion...after all...even though Chibi-Usa looked alot like Queen Serenity, there was no denying that Chibi-Usa had maroon eyes...like Pluto. Perhaps there was a secret that Pluto was hiding after all...she was Chibi-Usa's real mother!

Starfighter couldn't help but notice that, when she wasn't mad or disgusted, she was actually very beautiful. Not as beautiful as Usagi of course, but she was very pretty in her own way. Darien went over to help Pluto and Chibi-Usa.

"I'll take her.." Darien said exhaustedly. When Starfighter saw the two of them together, she just knew that that was something that Pluto kept hidden. She was the mother, and King Endymion was the father of Chibi-Usa....and Usagi must have been able to marry someone else!

Starfighter smiled to herself. For the first time in a very long time, she would be happy...she would propose to Usagi, as Seiya at the concert that the Three Lights were going to do in two weeks..and no one was going to stop it. And Usagi was going to say Yes!