Usagi and Mamoru fall to the ground, blood spewing out.

"Prince!!" the others call. "Princess!!"

Minako runs to Usagi, and lifts up her blood-covered body. Usagi's skin melts away from her body. Minako drops her in horror. "Noooo!!" she screams.

"Princess!" yells Ami.

"Oh my..." thinks Haruka. "Oh my god..."

"This!" yells Rei. "This is a nightmare!!"

SCENES ARE CHANGING BACK AND FORTH HERE FROM PERSON TO PERSON

"A nightmare!?" thinks Usagi. "What happened?" She looks around and sees the dead bodies of all the others. "Everyone!? Mamo-chan!? Chibi-Moon!? Saturn!?" Her rotting body drips blood on her sailor suit. "Oh no... This... is a nightmare...!"

"Hahaha!" laughs the immense Zirconia, towering over the crystal-covered city. "This planet forever belongs to our Dead Moon. Weak ones, forever become vagabonds, inside the darkness and nightmares of the new moon!"

"Look!" says Artemis, pointing to the monitor in the command room below Crown Game Center. "Earth is being engulfed in darkness! At this rate, the surface will give way and Elysion's crystal barrier will be broken! The surface will be drawn into that new moon!"

"Nobody's responding, Artemis!" says Luna, wearing her headset.

"Oh no!" thinks Diana. "Was everyone... By the Dead Moon... Small Lady! I shouldn't have left your side!"

Luna stares into the monitor. "Earth is..."

"I'm going to the Dead Moon Circus!" Diana says.

"Wait! Diana!" calls Luna.

Diana stops.

"Let's stay on alert here for a while."

"Our soldiers won't lose to this!" says Artemis. "We believe in them! The sailor soldiers will surely protect this planet!"

"Usa!"

A hand slaps across Usagi's face, jarring her eyes open.

He slaps awake Minako and Rei.

"Get a hold of yourselves!" Mamoru says. "These are the enemies' nightmares!"

"Mamo-chan!" says Usagi, holding her red cheek.

"Prince!?" say the others, seeing the two alive. "Princess!?"

"Look!" Mamoru shouts.

"Zirconia!!"

"Be strong!" Mamoru says. "Do you want to hand this planet over to them!? Defeat them and protect this planet!!"

"Prince...!" think the three outer soldiers as they look at Mamoru. "He broke through that nightmare with his own strength...!?"

"Mamo-chan...!" thinks Usagi. "Oh... That's right... I just swore to you that I would forever defend the happiness of the people on this planet. And that wasn't a dream. Defending this planet has always been our reality. To nightmares... To our own dreams... We can't give in to such things! We sailor soldiers can't give in!"

"Right," thinks Haruka. "Princess, our everything... Our life and our death, our despair and our hope, and our dreams, forever shining, lie with you." She thrusts her hand into the air. "Prince!" she shouts. "Princess!! Whatever happens, we will protect you! Sailor Planet Power! Uranus!"

"Neptune!"

"Pluto!"

"Mercury!"

"Mars!"

"Jupiter!"

"Venus!"

"Meditation!!!"

The eight join hands as they kneel in a circle, and power shoots into the air.

It strikes Zirconia, knocking him from the sky, and he falls to the ground. "G- God damnit...!!" he says. He flies back up, disappearing into the circus big top.

The soldiers run to it.

"Mars... Flame Sniper!"

"Venus... Love and Beauty... Shock!!"

A hole blasts open in the tent.

"There!" says Ami, looking through her visor.

They rush in after Zirconia. Zirconia places his hand against the black mirror, pushing it in. He moves through it. "Into the mirror!?"

Usagi follows him, running through the mirror.

"Sailor Moon!?"

Minako rushes after her, and slams against the hard glass of the mirror.

Usagi sees a black figure sitting among broken glass. The woman has long, long dark hair, falling to the floor. Three joined crescent moons adorn her forehead.

"This place!?" Usagi thinks. "That woman!?"

"Heh heh heh..." the woman says. "Such power! Allowing you to make it in here. At last, the time has come for the brilliant, unmatched power of that planet to belong to me, Queen Nephelenia. Heh heh heh."

"Queen... Nephelenia!?"

Usagi looks around. "I feel it... The brilliant power of the planet... The brilliant power of the planet's protection! From where!?" She looks at the ground. "Those four stones... and shards of glass!? Chibi-Moon!! Saturn!!"

Chibi-Usa and Hotaru wake up in glass prisons. "Where are we!?" they think.

"Chibi-Moon! Saturn! You're in there!?"

"Sailor Moon!!"

Nephelenia laughs as she shoots glass at Usagi. The glass forms a wall, surrounding Usagi.

"Chibi-Moon! Saturn!" She grabs her kaleidoscope rod. "Moon Gorgeous Meditation!!!" The glass around her shatters, and Chibi-Usa and Hotaru are freed. "Chibi-Moon! Saturn!"

"Damn you!" shouts Nephelenia.

Usagi and Chibi-Usa hold out their kaleidoscope rods. "Moon Gorgeous Meditation!" Glass shatters, leaving a wavering image of Nephelenia.

Minako and Haruka pound on the solid mirror. "Sailor Moon!!"

"Everyone!? I saved Chibi-Moon and Saturn! Break the mirror!"

"Mercury... Aqua Rhapsody!" The glass cracks.

"Let me!" says Makoto. She runs forward and throws her fist into the mirror.

Nephelenia's face cracks. Her image wavers and breaks apart.

"Ohhh!" says Zirconia. "The beautiful Dead Moon's Queen Nephelenia will not die! She will not die yet!" He flies into the blackness. "Next time we will take everything, and rule space!"

Hotaru kneels on the ground and picks up the four stones, staring at them.

"Saturn!?"

The room begins to crumble around them. They run and jump at the mirror, breaking through to the other side, rejoining the others.

"Sailor Moon!!"

The eleven of them stand in the crystal-covered street and stare into the sky, where the winged ship of the Dead Moon spews spirits into space and slowly shrinks.

It drops to the ground at Usagi's feet.

"Sailor Moon!! Chibi-Moon! Saturn! You're safe!"

They look around at the empty street.

"Has the Dead Moon Circus... disappeared?" says Michiru.

"There's no change in the city or the atmosphere," says Setsuna.

"They..." says Haruka.

"Where did they disappear to!?" says Ami.

"Oh no!" says Usagi.

Her eyes meet with Mamoru's.

"Elysion!?"

"Elysion's in danger!" she says to the others. "We're going to Elysion! Guard the surface!"

"We're going too!"

"No," Usagi says. "Wait here."

"Elios..." says Chibi-Usa. "Has something happened to Elios? I'm going too! To Elysion!"

Mamoru holds out his hand. "Let's go. To Elysion!!"

They all join hands and descend through the blackness to the decrepit land of Elysion. Across the calm lake stands the old shrine, where two women wait on the steps.

"We have been waiting," says one.

"We are the maidens who serve this shrine," says the other.

"Elios..." says Chibi-Usa.

"This way."

The women lead them to the back, where the Pegasus lies in a large cage.

"Elios!!"

"Chibi-Moon!" says Usagi. "Don't touch the cage! It's dangerous."

"Elios!" shouts Chibi-Usa. "Elios! Why won't you answer me? Wake up!"

"Elios used all of his power," says Mamoru, "to protect the city and its people from the enemies. And then, his power gave out."

"Did he die?" Chibi-Usa asks. "It can't be. It can't be! Elios! Answer me! Elios!" The small bell drops to the ground. She picks it up, tears in her eyes. "He's not dead," she says. "Elios isn't dead yet! His power hasn't given out! Because Mamo-chan, and Elysion, and Earth, they're alive!"

Rei's head jerks up. "An evil spirit!?" she thinks. "Is somebody, somewhere, watching us!?"

"Yes," says Haruka. "The enemies aren't dead yet, either. Our fight isn't over yet!"

They hear a scream.

Usagi turns and looks into the sky, and sees the ship flying toward them. "The Dead Moon's ship...!" A black mirror appears, and Zirconia's winged eyeball flies toward it. "That mirror!!" The image of the dark woman appears inside it. "Queen Nephelenia...!?"

"Heh heh heh..." she says. "I am the queen of the kingdom of the new moon's darkness, Nephelenia. Sailor Moon... No. Brilliant Princess of the White Moon Kingdom, the Silver Millennium. Your mother, too, was thinking, to have you reincarnated on this planet in a new body. Your reborn body, that body, is a carbon copy of your mother's. Hahaha."

"The Queen..." says Usagi. "Do you know her?"

"I will again be Queen of the Moon Kingdom," says Nephelenia, "and this planet belongs to the Moon Kingdom! So who is the true ruler of this planet? It seems the time to decide has come."

"This planet belongs to the people of Earth!" Usagi says. "You have sprinkled it with your evil spirits and nightmares! I am Sailor Moon, and in the name of the moon, I will punish you! Here, together with your nightmares, you will be destroyed!"

"You cannot defeat my curse," says Nephelenia.

Usagi grabs her chest in pain."Why!?"

"You want to know? Cute Princess... Heh heh."

"The mirror!!" Usagi thinks. She grabs her kaleidoscope rod. "Moon Gorgeous... Meditation!!"

Power shoots at the mirror holding Nephelenia.

"Sailor Moon!!" calls Michiru.

The attack bounces off the mirror, and shoots back at them.

They find themselves in another world, surrounded by prisms of color.

"This..." says Chibi-Usa. "It's just like... we're inside a kaleidoscope...!"

"Damn!" thinks Michiru. "It was reflected! Are we inside Sailor Moon's attack!?"

Now we get to see into the past, to the story of Usagi/Selenity's birth and what happened. Very important stuff.

"Selenity... Selenity..."

Usagi looks around.

She sees a woman with a crescent moon on her forehead kissing a baby.

"Selenity, my pretty girl. I'm truly glad you were born."

"Queen!?" Usagi thinks. "Is this a vision... of my previous life!?"

"Now, let us celebrate. Everyone, come in!"

Usagi looks around the room, and sees a large mirror on the wall.

"Nephrenia's mirror!? Why is it in the Queen's room!?"

Four small girls in sailor suits run into the room.

"Congratulations, Queen!"

"I've been waiting for you," says Queen Selenity. "Mercury! Mars! Jupiter! Venus! The four guardians of Princess Selenity!"

They kneel to her.

"Queen, we have been eagerly awaiting this time. We shall devote our lives to protecting her! So that someday, she may be Queen."

"Soon, she will grow, and catch up to you," says the Queen. "It shall be fun. I wonder what kind of princess she'll become."

People come to the Queen, bringing gifts.

"Queen, a gift!"

"Congratulations!"

"Here's a gift!"

A dark woman, cloaked in shadow, enters the room.

"I, too, have a gift," she says.

The four girls run between her and the baby.

"For the biggest celebration on the moon," Nephelenia says, "I was the only one not invited."

Present time, Makoto thinking as she now remembers:

"That's right..." thinks Minako. "There was a single uninvited guest. She came trailing black shadows. That was the very inhabitant of the world of darkness!"

"Polluter of the holy palace!" shouts Venus. "Who are you!?"

"Well," says Nephelenia. "Even I live on the moon. But I come from the depths of the moon."

"You lie!" says Jupiter. "You don't live on the moon!"

"That's right!" says Mars. "You crept into this planet in secret, to spread your darkness as an incarnation of bewitching evil!"

"I remember," thinks Setsuna. "It was enclosed in my memory. What happened on that horrible day. The white light of the moon wasn't yet darkened by a single cloud. There was only peace and happiness. Where they came from, and since when they had been living deep in the moon, nobody noticed. Nobody knew that the power of light was drawing in darkness."

"Uninvited guest," says the Queen. "If you are looking for peace, and want to stay on this planet, we shall welcome you. But, I shall not allow you to bring the darkness of evil to this planet!"

"That's funny," says Nephelenia. "You, too, were brought to this planet from far across the galaxy. Are not our origins the same? Queen, the darkness is necessary. If you will simply take my hand... If you will accept the darkness..." (so it seems the moon people are from a far off galaxy and not from the moon actually)

"Stranger!" shouts Mercury. "Begone this instant!"

"Where there is light, there is darkness. The darkness calls to the light, and the light shall call to the darkness again!!"

Nephelenia begins glowing with power.

Queen Selenity grasps the crescent moon wand, and holds it out at her.

Nephelenia is absorbed into the Mystical Silver Crystal.

"I seal you!" the Queen says. "Forever inside the world of darkness!"

She points the wand at the large mirror, and Nephelenia is spewed into it, locked inside.

"A present in celebration!" Nephelenia says. "That you should receive my beautiful curse! Before long, this kingdom shall perish. The beautiful Princess shall die without inheriting the throne. That is my present! And when my curse is fulfilled, the Silver Millennium shall be destroyed."

"By Nephelenia's curse..." Usagi thinks. "The Silver Millennium was destroyed!?"

"The destruction of the kingdom and the death of the Princess are not a curse!" says Michiru. "It was destiny! You can't change destiny!"

"Yes..." thinks Hotaru. "However many tragedies occurred one after another, like dominos, we followed our destiny of destruction. I thought everything was wiped out and reborn, but here there is one piece left!"

"At that time," says Nephelenia, "all the moon's light was lost. The ones of its kingdom, along with the silver crystal, were destroyed. But they can't be defeated that easily. Where has it disappeared to!? I thought I had taken all of this planet! As this planet's ruler, the proof of the true queen of the moon! The planet has hidden the unknown power, that won't yield to the silver crystal! The silver crystal must be shining in that planet!"

The brooch on Usagi's chest breaks open, and the Mystical Silver Crystal flies into the air.

"Sailor Moon!?" Minako calls.

The crystal flies into Nephelenia's grasp. "Hahaha!"

Usagi begins coughing up blood.

Mamoru runs to her.

"Usa!"

He starts to hack up blood as well.

"Hahahaha!" says Nephelenia. "This is not a dream! You cannot defeat my long, long curse!! The Silver Millennium, and Elysion, will be destroyed now, here! Completely! I finally have it! The proof of the queen of the moon! This planet, and the Mystical Silver Crystal!!"

The crystal glows brightly, as Nephelenia grows with its power.

"The Mystical Silver Crystal is-!?" gasps Ami.

Usagi cries out and falls back, her sailor suit gone.

"Usagi!!"

"Come on, Mamoru!" Mamoru thinks. "If you don't live, Earth and Elysion won't be saved!"

"I have the power!" says Nephelenia. "You are as good as dust! Be destroyed! Now, everything is mine! I have the unbeatable power! Only I am the true ruler of space!!"

"No!!" Usagi shouts. She grabs Mamoru's outstretched hand. "Mamo-chan!"

"Give me strength, Usa!"

They hold each other and kiss deeply.

"We can't be destroyed here!" Mamoru says.

"Right," says Usagi. "We can't give in to this nightmare!!"

A sphere of light glows around the two.

The Mystical Silver Crystal disappears from Nephelenia's hand.

Usagi's sailor suit reappears on her body, as she kisses Mamoru.

"My chest is hot..." Usagi says.

Light shines from Usagi and Mamoru's chests.

"Power is being born, but... I see."

"No, this can't be!!" shouts Nephelenia.

"Power isn't taken," says Usagi. "It's born. And power isn't born alone. You can't use it alone! I won't lose to anyone! I will show you our power!!"

The golden crescent moon shines on her forehead as she faces Nephelenia.

"Queen Selenity!?" Nephelenia says. "No, damnit!!"

Usagi reaches her arms to the sky, as the light shines above her.

The light spreads all around her. The sailor suits on the other soldiers vanish, replaced by dresses.

The three cats disappear from the command center, and appear with the others, all in human form.

"Small Lady!!" calls Diana.

"D- Diana!?" says Chibi-Usa.

Four miniature versions of the inner soldiers appear.

"Princess Mercury!"

"Princess Mars!"

"Princess Jupiter!"

"Princess Venus!"

They are held in spheres of light, and float into the hands of the soldiers.

"Princess!? You...!"

Four more small soldiers appear.

"Princess Uranus!"

"Princess Neptune!"

"Princess Pluto!"

"Princess Saturn! We are your sailor super guardians. You are the sailor princesses of the solar system!"

"Super sailor guardians!? The sailor princesses of the solar system!?"

"The time has come for the new change of the soldiers," says Saturn.

"Borrow power from the castles of your mother planets," says Uranus.

"Give your power to Sailor Moon's holy chalice!" says Venus.

In the light above Usagi, a new chalice appears.

"Look!" says Chibi-Usa. "The holy chalice...!!"

"The sign of our gathering... That we have always been searching for... The holy chalice...!"

"Everyone!" Usagi shouts. "Give me your power!"

"Mother planet, Mercury, Mariner Castle!"

"Mars, Phobos Deimos Castle!"

"Jupiter, Io Castle!"

"Venus, Magellan Castle!"

"My planet, Uranus, Miranda Castle!"

"My planet, Neptune, Triton Castle!"

"My planet, Pluto, Charon Castle!"

"My planet, Saturn, Titan Castle!"

"Crystal Palace of the 30th century! Send me power!"

"Send our power to the holy chalice!! Our power, all of it, here!!"

The golden crescent moon on Usagi's forehead shines brightly as her sailor suit transforms in a burst of feathers.

"Eternal Sailor Moon!" Diana calls.

Usagi stands in her new suit, the tiara gone. A crescent moon is joined to the heart shape on her chest, fastened to a bow shaped like a pair of wings.

"Carrier of the closest power to that of the Queen!" Diana says. "Eternal Sailor Moon!!"

ACT 42: EARTH AND MOON DREAM

Usagi stands in her new suit, the tiara gone. A crescent moon is joined to the heart shape on her chest, fastened to a bow shaped like a pair of wings.

She thrusts her arm out, and a glowing scepter appears in her hand.

"Our protectors, light of the planets!" she shouts. "Sailor Crystal Power of the solar system! Gather that power in this Eternal Tear! Silver Moon Crystal Power!"

The Mystical Silver Crystal appears before her, spreading open like a flower and revealing a crescent moon of light.

The other nine soldiers in dresses watch.

"Sailor Moon's silver crystal transformed!?" thinks Chibi-Usa.

"Venus Crystal Power!" "Jupiter Crystal Power!" "Mars Crystal Power!" "Mercury Crystal Power!" "Uranus Crystal Power!" "Neptune Crystal Power!" "Pluto Crystal Power!" "Saturn Crystal Power!"

"Me too!" says Chibi-Usa. "My silver crystal power to Sailor Moon! Moon Crystal Power!"

"If truly," thinks Mamoru, "the Golden Crystal is inside of me..." He holds his arms to his chest, and another glowing crystal appears. "Give its power to Eternal Sailor Moon!"

"Prince!?" the human cats call.

All their power flows to Usagi, a ball of light encircling her.

"All our power! Here, now!"

Mamoru sends the power of his crystal.

Usagi points her scepter out.

"Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss!!!"

Light blasts at Nephelenia. She screams as she shrinks from her giant size. Her body mutates, shedding its form as a woman and changing to a small, wrinkled body.

"Ohhh..." she says. "I... I will always be the beautiful Queen Nephelenia."

She stretches her hand toward Mamoru as she is sucked down.

"Prince," she says. "Prince of Earth, protected by the sun. I shall take your hand... As the true queen of the moon... As the ruler of the matchless power of this planet of the solar system..." (important to remember that she said Mamoru is protected by the SUN)

Nephelenia's spirit is sucked into the large mirror, and she is sealed inside.

The cage holding the Pegasus vanishes.

The giant dark moon over Tokyo disappears.

The moon begins to move past the sun.

The crystal formed around the city fades away, leaving the streets clean.

The people of the city awaken.

"Huh? What have I been doing...?"

"I feel like I was sleeping..."

They look into the sky at the moon moving out of the path of the sun.

"That's..."

"An eclipse?"

Michiru watches the occurrences through her mirror.

"The surface is returning to normal...!" she says. "The long nightmare of the total solar eclipse... Now, finally, it's passed...!"

"The long, long nightmare..." thinks Usagi. "Now it's finally over."

FLASH BACK

The young Princess cries as she wanders into her mother's room.

"What's wrong, Selenity?" asks the Queen.

"I can't sleep," she says. "When I close my eyes, a black monster comes after me. Venus and the others told me a scary story. That inside the mirror, there lives a horrible black monster, that eats crybabies. Is it true?"

"Selenity. We, everyone, carry a star in our hearts."

"A star?"

"Light and dark are always accompanied by each other. If you're frightened even a little by the dark, and show it your tears, the dark will become great and come after you, and it will swallow the light. Selenity, to resist the spirit of the darkness, always make the star in your heart shine. That is your most precious mission."

The Pegasus fades away, leaving the body of a man lying alone on the ground.

"Elios!?" says Chibi-Usa.

She goes to the body.

"Elios?"

She kneels and leans toward him.

"Elios... Wake up... Please, please..."

A tear drops from her eye as she bends down and kisses him.

"Wake up..."

The Mystical Silver Crystal from her brooch open up like a flower, radiating light.

Elios opens his eyes, and sees the woman with two pointed balls of hair looking down at him.

"Princess Lady Selenity...?" he says. "Why... are you crying? Small maiden."

"I'm happy," Chibi-Usa says, holding his hand to her face. "You woke up, I'm so happy, and tears are coming out."

"That crystal..." he says.

"Your silver crystal has been reborn, Small Lady," says Diana. "All of the sailor soldiers have Sailor Crystals, with the power of their planets hidden inside themselves. That is your Pink Moon Crystal, Sailor Chibi-Moon."

"My... Pink Moon Crystal...!"

"And that power led Priest Elios to awaken."

"The small maiden..." thinks Elios. "She..."

"Come on, Elios!" says Chibi-Usa.

"For me, the maiden..."

"Hurry, hurry!"

"Sailor Chibi-Moon... It was you..."

He follows Chibi-Usa, running out of the shrine, and he sees the green land of Elysion, alive once more. The lake sparkles in the sunlight, and flowers bloom all around.

"Elios!!" says Usagi.

"Prince...!" he says. "Thanks to Sailor Moon, the Golden Crystal was freed."

Mamoru holds out the glowing crystal to Elios.

Elios takes it and fixes it to the top of a regal staff, and hands the staff to Mamoru.

Usagi appears in her flowing white gown, Mamoru in his lavender tuxedo.

"King!? Queen!?"

Usagi holds out her scepter at the large mirror, and Mamoru holds out his staff.

They draw the evil from the mirror, and raise it into the sky, where it is destroyed by the light.

The Princess's four guardian soldiers and the three outer soldiers appear in their royal gowns.

They all stand behind Usagi and Mamoru, who hold their rods.

"Just like a coronation ceremony," says the human Artemis.

"It is, Artemis," says the human Luna.

Hotaru kneels on the ground, and holds out the four stones in her hand.

"Saturn," says Usagi. "These..."

"Please," Hotaru says. "Use your Silver Moon Crystal Power on them..."

Usagi holds out her scepter, and the stones glow.

The stones rise into the air, and the four girls trapped inside are released.

"The Amazoness Quartet!?"

Tiaras appear on their foreheads, and they are clothed in sailor suits as they descend to the ground.

"We carry the protection of the four asteroids of the solar system," they say.

"Sailor Ceres."

"Sailor Pallas."

"Sailor Juno."

"Sailor Vesta."

The others gasp. "Sailor soldiers!?"

"In truth," says Ceres, "we were still in the middle of our sleep, deep in the Amazon. We were forced awake by the curse. In a nightmare, we were made to perform as servants of the Dead Moon. But we have finally been freed from that nightmare. Thanks to all of you. We will enter our sleep again, for our true awakening is still ahead. Sailor Chibi-Moon. From our hearts, we are awaiting the time when, someday, you will stand on your own as a soldier. That time is the time of our true awakening. If you need us, we will give our lives to protect you."

"No way..." thinks Chibi-Usa. "These four are my..."

"It's all right," says Hotaru. "Until then, we will protect the Princess."

The four asteroid soldiers smile as they become points of light, flying into the sky and vanishing.

"Sailor Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta...!" Chibi-Usa thinks. "The time may come when I will stand on my own as a sailor soldier. When I see you again may be the time when I can be a real soldier... A real lady..."

"Now," says Elios. "You should be returning to the surface. I will take you. With my favorite horse! Pegasus!"

A Pegasus appears, and Elios hops onto its back.

"Now! Follow after me!"

"Elios!"

She watches as he rides the Pegasus into the air.

"Just like a prince on a white steed..."

Everyone gathers at Ichinohashi Park.

"Please, take care of yourselves," says Elios. "I will continue my prayers for your safety in Elysion. And for you, Prince."

"Elios," says Chibi-Usa. "I'll see you again, right?"

"Yes, maiden. I will eagerly await the day when I can meet you again. Eagerly."

"Elios! We will! I'll go to see you again!"

Elios rides his Pegasus back to his homeland.

"Someday in the future..." thinks Chibi-Usa. "When I've become a real lady... So Elios can be my prince."

Tears well in her eyes.

"Well, let's go!"

"We'll see Elios again for sure."

"Until then, you can hone your skill as a woman, right, Chibi-Usa?"

"Right," she thinks, smiling. "So my many dreams will come true, for now, even though I'm chibi, I have to work through it!"

"Amazing," says Mamoru. "Even though the battle's over, I feel a warmth in my heart. Just like a star has been born in my heart. So this is the power of the Golden Crystal..."

"Mamo-chan," says Usagi. "All of us, everyone, have stars in our hearts."

"Stars?"

"Yes. And that warmth in your heart is a sign that your star is shining."

The others look at her.

"So that my dreams can come true, so I can protect the ones I love, so I can fight, please, star in my heart. Shine your light, and give me strength!"