HELLO!  It's me Stefanie! *Waits for the groans to fade and the people 
to finish escaping before continuing.*  Here's another story for your 
enjoyment!  This is my second fanfic. This has absolutely nothing to 
do with "Nowhere to Run, Unable to Hide," my first fic.  This is 
called "Final Awakenings."

In order for things to not get confusing for you, I have written a 
"Read Me" that is important for you to read to understand my story!  
Please read it!

As always thanks to Nikki-chan and Ti'ana-chan and Firestar and everyone 
else who is keeping in touch with me for their support and advice and 
wacky letters!  Hey onee-chan, you can't yell at me for stealing your 
plot here!  This is *my* time line!  It's not from yours! *sticks out 
tongue at onee-chan* Everyone, check out Ti'ana and my onee-chan Nicole 
Cherre's work!  They're both great authors that I highly recommend!

Another thanks to Butterfly!  This girl is so sweet!  If you ever get 
a letter, or have gotten one, from Butterfly write her back!  She is 
just a sweetheart!  Now I'm gonna get another letter from her that'll 
make me blush...

Enjoy!  (*on knees begging*) Please enjoy!

DISCLAIMERS: I'm poor!  I can't pay a lawyer to defend me if they 
decide to sue me!  I don't want it!  I don't want it!  Well, I do want 
Darien... (Hee-hee, I know Amber-chan does too!) That guy is perfect!  
Well, except when he brakes up with Serena to protect her...Let's not 
go there.

RATING: PG-this is a pretty mild chapter.  Not really much of anything
going on here!

FINAL AWAKENINGS
PROLOGUE  

It was a bright and sunny day in the city of Crystal Tokyo.  In a park 
a young girl with 'meatball' hair was running feverishly from two 
people.  A man with a lavender tuxedo (no mask in my fic!  We want to 
see those gorgeous blue eyes!) along with a woman in a flowing white 
gown were hurriedly chasing after the girl.  The young girl, who looked 
to be about eight years old, was wearing a blue jumper with a pink 
shirt underneath.  The only jewelry she wore was a pair of pink stud 
earrings and a gold crescent moon necklace that had been her mothers.  
She laughed mirthfully as they, yet again, missed her.

"Alright, Rini!" the woman with sunshine-golden hair also done-up in 
'meatballs' yelled to the young girl with determination in her eyes.  
The sunlight caught a glimpse of the gold and red tiara that adorned 
on her head.  "You are not getting away!"

The man in the tuxedo running next to her had an idea.  Grinning to 
himself, he did an impressive flip over the other two and landed in 
front of Rini.  Reaching out his arms, he grabbed her and held her to 
his chest.  The girl squirmed and giggled trying to get out of his 
grip.  "NO FAIR, DADDY!" Rini yelled. 

The woman stopped beside the two breathing hard, yet smiling.  "I 
haven't run that much in years," she panted out.

The other two laughed merrily and King Endymion put his daughter down.  
Smiling mischievously, Rini looked up to her mother, Neo-Queen 
Serenity, and replied to  her, as she would have to her younger self, 
Serena Tsukino.  "Not since your last daily-dash to school, huh?"

Serenity and her daughter often had fights when she was in the past, 
but not in the future.  Rini had never said so, but she missed her 
daily argument with Serena.  Now seemed to be a good opportunity to 
try and have a play fight with her mother.

Serenity saw where she was going and smiled.  "Well *spore*," she 
started, sounding like Serena again, "for your information, I outgrew 
that habit when I was about sixteen!"

"Yeah!  Sure you did...Meatball Head!" Rini laughed.

"Why you," Serenity started as Rini ran off.  Turning to her husband, 
who was also laughing, she poked him in the chest with her finger.  
"This is your fault!" she hissed at him.

Laughing, Endymion grabbed her hands and pulled her close.  "Now *why* 
would you say that, Meatball Head?"  Serenity crossed her eyes at him 
and gave a small giggle and then a sigh.  Endymion leaned forward and 
gently kissed her lips.  Before they could do anything else though, 
Rini screamed.

Snapping back to where they were, the two ran off for their daughter.

When Endymion and Serenity reached her the sight before them shocked 
them.  Standing there, hovering over Rini was a man.  He had flame 
orange hair and wore dark colored clothes.  Getting over the shock at 
seeing this man, who obviously intended harm to their daughter, 
Endymion pulled his sword out from his dimensional pocket and charged 
at him.

The man smiled and dodged the attack.  He and Endymion faced each 
other and prepared to continue fighting.

Serenity ran to her shocked daughter and pulled her into her arms.  
Rini threw her arms around her mother's neck and began to sob.  
Serenity watched the battle warily.  'Oh Endymion!' she thought.  
'Please don't get hurt.'  

"SERENITY!" he yelled to her as he dodged another blow and countered.  
"GET RINI OUT OF HERE!"  She was about to protest until she looked at 
the girl in her arms.  She couldn't let her daughter get caught up in 
this.  Nodding, she turned and ran toward the palace.

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Halfway there, Serenity decided she would kill for her communicator.  
She needed the Scouts right now, and had left it in the picnic basket 
on the hill.  She would have to remind Mars to smack her later.  'No, 
I won't even have to remind her.  She'll do it anyways.'

She was running past the crystallized structures of her city when she 
heard a deafening roar overhead.  Looking up, she saw the sky being 
to turn a harsh black color and demons began to appear everywhere she 
looked.  Clutching her young daughter closer, she raced faster towards 
the Crystal Palace.  Without warning, a jarring pain raced through her 
body.  Serenity stopped and gasped.  She all but dropped Rini as the 
pain hurled into her full-force, causing her to collapse to her knees.

"Mommy?" the girl whispered hoarsely.  "What's wrong?"

Serenity gasped out the only thing she could, "Endymion..."  Rini's 
eyes filled with tears as she realized what her mother was saying.  
Her father was hurt, and her mother could feel it.  Before either 
could react a shadow came over them.

"Excuse me, Your *Majesty*," a new voice said.  Serenity looked up and 
gasped.  Before she could call out, she was unconscious with Rini in 
her arms.

Rini looked to the woman who had done this, and began to run away.  
She tripped and fell, landing on her face.  The only thing she could 
see was a flash of red and that the woman had an evil look in her eye 
as she came in towards Rini.  Rini began backing up, still on the 
ground.  She was about to scream, but the woman hit her with a blast 
of energy before she could think about it.  The last thing she heard 
before she was pulled into unconsciousness was a round of evil 
laughter.

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The next thing that Rini heard was very familiar voices.  She 
struggled to open her eyes, but they wouldn't obey her command and 
stayed sealed shut.  She could vaguely hear the conversation going 
on around her.

"She must...back.  It is our only..."

"If only I had paid more...the fire."

"...not your fault, Mars."

"Is she going...okay?"

"...not sure..."

Rini couldn't make sense of what was going on around her.  She knew 
the voices were those of the Sailor Scouts, but she didn't know what 
they were talking about.  Everything was too vague, it was too much 
for her.


The next moment, she felt a pair of familiar feminine arms pick her 
up gently.  The owner of the arms began to speak, and Rini understood 
what it was saying.  "She will go back to the past.  It is our only 
hope of protecting her."  Rini struggled to open her eyes and when 
she did, she saw the woman who was holding her.  She had long black 
hair, and sparkling eyes.  She had on a very dark colored Sailor fuku.

Right before Rini passed out again she managed to whisper, "Au-"

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Seventeen year old Serena Tsukino smiled as she walked through 
Fairview Park.  She breathed in the sweet smell of the rose gardens 
she was walking through.  Serena was glad that the park had never been demolished, Mr. Baxter had organized enough of a protest three years 
ago to keep it from becoming an office building.  'The Negaverse 
influence probably helped!' she thought with a giggle.

She sobered up at the thought of the Negaverse.  She hadn't really had 
a battle for two years.  Not that she was complaining about *that*.  
There just wasn't as much action as there used to be.  Not since Rini 
had left and gone back to the future two years ago.  "Rini," Serena 
whispered sadly.  The only person who knew how much she missed her 
future daughter was Darien.  And that was because he missed her just 
as much.  She had loved the little spore even before she had known 
who she really was.  When Rini had left, Serena felt a part of her 
leaving too.  She hoped, she knew, that she could regain that part of 
her after she and Darien got married.

Suddenly, Serena felt familiar hands come over her eyes and herself 
being pressed against a warm body.  There were a pair of smiling lips 
near her ear, "Guess who?" a voice whispered huskily.

Serena smiled and began throwing guesses.  "Luna?  No, that can't be 
she has fur.  Amy's not the type for these kinds of games.  Mina's 
with Lita who's out guy shopping (again) today.  Raye?  No she's too 
big of a brat.  Maybe it's that jerk of a boyfriend of mine, Darien 
Shields?"

Darien chuckled and took his hands off of her eyes and wrapped them 
around her waist instead.  "Hi, Meatball Head!  What are you doing?"

Serena smiled and turned around in his embrace.  "Nothing.  And how 
many times have I told you not to call me 'Meatball Head?'" she asked 
in mock anger.  He knew that she actually like that nickname, but she 
couldn't help but patronize him when it came to her pet name.

Darien laughed and pulled her closer.  "You said I could call you 
that, remember?"  He planted a small kiss on her lips.

Serena's face brightened up, and wrapped her arms tightly around his 
neck.  "I could use a reminder."  

Darien grinned and leaned forward, kissing her passionately.  They 
stayed that way for a few minuets, not caring about anything else in 
the world.  They were together.  That's all that mattered to them.

A sudden thunderous sound made the two of them jerk away from the 
other.  It sounded like the rumbling of thunder, but not.  Besides, 
there were no clouds in the sky.  

'I have heard this sound before...' Darien thought as he looked 
around.

Serena looked directly above her head, and saw a strange pink cloud 
forming over her.  She gasped and held her breath when she saw it.  
'Isn't that what happened when Rini...RINI?!'

First, Luna P came out of it and landed off to Serena and Darien's 
right.  "Luna P?!" they said together.

Just after that, a little girl tumbled down from the cloud.  Serena 
gasped at the recognition of who that little girl was.  "RINI!"

Darien raced forward to where she was falling, and caught her 
effortlessly.  Rini grabbed the fabric of his shirt and held it tight 
as she buried her face into the warmth of the material.  She didn't 
look up, until she heard very familiar voices asking if she was ok.

"Mommy?" Rini whispered hesitantly, afraid that if she looked up, it 
would be an illusion from the enemy.  She cast a glance up and saw who 
it was that caught her.  "Daddy?"

She turned to her side and saw her future mother standing there, 
looking very worried and very confused.  'Serena and Darien,' she 
thought somewhat happily.  'I'm in the past again.  No...'

She was upset that she had to come again, she didn't even know if her 
parents were alright, but she was happy to be near familiar people.  
People who she knew she could trust.  "DADDY!  MOMMY!" she cried as 
she left Darien's arms, and leapt in to her mothers.

Serena was surprised at first, but then slowly slid to the down into 
the damp grass with her daughter in her arms.  Rini clutched Serena 
tightly with tears streaming down her face, repeating 'Mommy,' over 
and over.  Tears began to slide down Serena's face as well.  Darien 
pulled both of them into a hug and, he too, let a few tears leak from 
his eyes.

"Oh, gosh, Rini!" Serena exclaimed.  She pulled away from her daughter 
and looked at her.  She looked basically the same, cotton candy pink 
hair done in cone 'meatballs.'  Her large cinnamon pink eyes radiated 
love and innocence, just as her mothers did.  She was taller then when 
they had seen her, she was now at least eight.   Her hair was longer 
too, it reached almost down to her knees.  

"What are you doing here?  Is something wrong, Honey?" Serena asked 
her questions and hoped that she was wrong.  She prayed that everything 
was just fine and that this was a social visit.

She always did hate it when she was wrong.

"Mommy, Daddy," she whispered struggling against the tears that 
threatened to break loose again.  They pulled her in for another hug.  
She whispered to them the answer to their questions.  "The future's 
in danger."

Serena and Darien pulled back, wide-eyed, in horror.  They knew that 
it was bad if Rini had been sent to come and stay with them.  She 
hadn't been in the past in over two years, not even to visit, and now 
she was coming because of every circumstance that Serena and Darien 
had prayed that she wouldn't come for.

"How?" Serena asked gently, attempting to keep her voice from shaking.  
She was scared.  It was hard enough for Darien and the Sailor Scouts 
of to know that one day she would fall into a sleep where no one could 
reach her and it would force her daughter to journey to the twentieth 
century.  They were dreading the day that would happen.  Now it seemed 
that something else was going to happen that they would need to fear.  
Rini hadn't said anything except for those four words, but already 
Serena and Darien knew it had to be horrible.

Rini didn't answer; she just burst into tears again.

Serena reached into her pocket took out her communicator, pulling away 
from Rini momentarily.  Darien wrapped Rini into a fierce fatherly hug, 
letting her cry into his shirt.  Serena felt tears come to her eyes at 
the sight.  Wiping them away angrily she turned around, so that her 
back was towards Rini.  'Who ever did this, will pay dearly!'  She 
began furiously pushing buttons.

All of the girls' faces appeared on the mini screen of her wrist 
communicator at once.  

"What is it?" came Amy's voice as she jerked off her reading glasses.

"Something wrong?" Mina asked through a mouthful of food.

"This had better be good," Raye grumbled as she brushed her hair out 
of her eyes.

"Come on make it quick!" Lita told Serena hurriedly while her eyes 
looked beyond the communicator.  "There's this hunk nearby that looks 
like..." 

"Your old boyfriend!" the girls exploded into giggles.

"Am I *that* predictable?"

Serena inhaled deeply.  It had been a few months since their last 
demon attack, and she hated to spoil the peace.  Even without a big 
enemy, there were still left over demons and renegade monsters running 
around.

She let out her breath and spoke quietly.  "Guys, we have a problem.  
I need everyone at the temple NOW."

"Why, Serena?" Amy asked.

"Look guys, I know you have questions but, I need to see all of you 
now.  And if someone could find Luna and Artemis on their way, that 
would be great."

The other girls, still confused, murmured their acknowledgements and 
signed off.

Serena turned to Darien and Rini, who were still sitting in the grass, 
and told them what was going on.

The two nodded and Rini took each of their hands and the three of them 
began walking toward the temple.

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A girl with long midnight black hair awoke in her room.  'No it's not 
my room,' she thought bitterly. 'I'm back in the orphanage.'  It was 
the middle of the afternoon, and she still couldn't get out of bed.  
Tears fell from her eyes and into her already salty smelling pillow.  
She groaned and turned over.  She just felt like crawling under a rock 
and dying.  Her life was miserable.  No friends, no family, no love.

A small white object on her nightstand caught her eye.  A note.  She 
picked it up with trembling hands and began to read it.

Dear Roseanna,

I know that you are sad, my child.  I know that you had finally found 
a family, even if it was only for a short while.  Although we welcome 
you back with open arms, we wish we would never have had to.  The 
Kents, God rest their souls, were very nice and caring to adopt you at 
fourteen, for most that is unheard of.  But you are 17 and back here 
for another year.  I know you loved them and they loved you, but you 
must not shut the outside world out and not get close to anyone because 
you are afraid.  I knew a young man who did that, and to my knowledge 
he never had any friends.  Please come down stairs and join us when 
you feel ready.

Love,

Mrs. Jackson

Roseanna smiled as she read the note, and a few tears leaked from her 
eyes.  The Kents had adopted her three years ago, and just one week ago, 
had lost their lives the same way as her biological parents- a fatal 
car crash.  Everyone but her was killed and now she was alone again.  
She had very few memories of her past.  She was only two when her 
family was killed, so that made it hard enough to remember.  The only 
clues to her past were strange dreams, and feelings of de ja vu.

"Is it my destiny to be alone?" she asked out loud.  "To never love, 
to never know what it's like to have something solid?"  She began to 
hiccup and couldn't stop.  People she loved had been taken from her 
again, and it made her feel cold and hard.

"No," a new male voice came.  Roseanna jumped and turned towards the 
voice only to see a dark gray cat with something shining on its forehead 
coming towards her.  The cat looked up at her with serious green eyes.  
"Your destiny is to find the Moon Princess," the cat leapt onto the 
bed, "and protect her." 

TO BE CONTINUED...

I know it's short, but it *is* the prologue!

Who was the mysterious Sailor Scout at the beginning?  Who is 
Roseanna?  What is attacking Crystal Tokyo and trying to destroy the 
future?  Who is the mysterious cat?  Will Lita ever see a guy who 
doesn't look like her old boyfriend?  Will these question's never 
end?

Well, I guess they do! ^_^;

To answer these questions, stay tuned for chapter one!

No bad e-mail ok?  Only constructive criticism and praise!  I generally 
only accept, and receive, praise!  Only Nikki seems to like to flame 
me! 

See ya next week!

Stef-chan