Usagi’s Decision: I Will Do Anything To Get Seiya Back!
Usagi’s voice: Universal Crystal just appeared. I am so excited. That means we are going to be able to fight with the new enemy. Also, Mamoru-san and Chiyoko-chan, my dear sworn sister, are deeply in love. Of course, most importantly, Chiyoko-chan is able to go to get Seiya back for me soon. This is so great!
Sailor Moon, Protector, Uranus, Neptune, the inners, and Tuxedo Kamen are still at Usagi’s home. Everyone except Protector is still in great shock. They all stare at Protector with nobody move. Protector transforms back to Chiyoko. She waves her right hand smiling.
Chiyoko: Hey guys, are you going to stand here overnight?
[Title Screen]
Everyone finally recovers and transforms back to normal. Usagi runs to Chiyoko.
Usagi (excited): Chiyoko-chan, that was the Universal Crystal, right?
Chiyoko (smiling): Yeah.
Usagi: That means we are able to fight with them, right?
Chiyoko (nodding): Yeah.
Usagi (jumping up): Woo! I am so happy.
Chiyoko knows she is thinking of Seiya so she blinks to Usagi with a smile. Usagi is blushed immediately when she sees that. Everyone looks at them with amazement, especially Mamoru, who is happy to see their metapsychosis and tacit understanding.
Chiyoko: By the way, I heard that Three Dreams were very strong. They were good at giving illusions. People seldom could resist the illusions given by them. People could be saved only if the Three Dreams were dead. How did the five of you make it? (Looking at the four inners,) Ami-chan? (Then turning to Mamoru,) Mamoru-chan?
Ami (smiling): We told Icelus that we only wanted to be our princess’s friends and protect her and this planet forever.
Four inners, Haruka, and Michiru nod with smiles.
Usagi (having tears in her eyes): Thank you, everyone.
Mamoru (to Chiyoko): How come you know about the Three Dreams?
Chiyoko: Victoria was my cousin, remember? Then what about you, Mamoru-chan? How did you make it? The same?
Mamoru (smiling): In the illusion, the “Chiyoko” told me that she didn’t want to be a fighter. But I remembered that you told me before that you wouldn’t mind to fight forever, as long as you are with me. So I realized that it was not you actually.
Chiyoko (smiles): So you won’t listen to any dreams anymore, right?
Mamoru is in a little bit shock first because he doesn’t understand what she’s saying. After he noticed that Chiyoko meant the dream that made he dumped Usagi once, he smiles and nods. Chiyoko looks at Mamoru with a sweet smile. Usagi looks at them. Her smiling face is fading away. Everyone sees that. They think that Usagi is uncomfortable for those two. Only Mamoru and Chiyoko know the true reason. Chiyoko goes to her and holds Usagi’s hands in her hands.
Chiyoko (smiling): How are the stars and cranes going? Don’t worry. He will be back. If he cannot get the message, I will go there and get him back for you. After all, I need a good boy for my dear sister, right? (Chiyoko blinks and Usagi is blushed.) I won’t get marry unless you get marry. We are sworn sisters. We have to get married on the same day.
Mamoru (mocking voice): What? You won’t get marry unless she gets marry? What about me? You told me that I was the top on your list!
Chiyoko (sounding like Michiru): Oh, I didn’t know you would be jealous.
Everyone rushes into laughter except Haruka who is blushed. They realize everything is going to be ok. All laugh with true happiness. ^_^ The next day, Chiyoko wants to cheer up Usagi so she gives Usagi a call.
Chiyoko: Usagi-chan, would you like to have a drink with me?
Usagi: But I would like to continue…
Chiyoko: Usagi-chan, you should take a rest. I don’t care. You have to come. I will wait for you at the Crown.
Then Chiyoko hangs up. Usagi feels very warm because she has many caring friends around her. Although she prefers to stay at home to continue on making the stars and cranes, she dresses up and goes out. When Usagi arrives the Crown, Chiyoko is already waiting there with a drink.
Chiyoko (smiling): Good afternoon, Usagi-chan.
Usagi (smiling): Good afternoon. (To the waitress,) I would like to have lemonade.
Chiyoko (smiling): How’s your work going?
Usagi (excited): The cranes are done and the stars will be done soon.
Chiyoko (smiling): That’s good. You are quick. It has just been few days and your work is almost done already.
Usagi (smiling): I really want him back as soon as possible, you know. I am spending most of my time working on it.
Chiyoko (becoming seriously): I hate to mention it but I would like to remind you that I told you this was fame only. I’m not sure it would work or not. Even though it do work, it will take sometime for him to get here. Moreover, he may have something important going on his planet that he cannot come right away. You should prepare for that. Do you understand?
Usagi (with a sad face): I know. I am prepared. But at least I can convince myself that he will be back soon so I can go on. I understand what you are trying to say. But no matter it works or not, you can go there and bring him back for me, right?
Chiyoko (smiling and nodding): Of course. That’s a promise.
Usagi (smiling again): Then I am fine.
Chiyoko: You really love him. He is really lucky.
Usagi (shakes her head): No, I am the lucky one. He was in love with me so much that he didn’t actually tell me that he loved me. He didn’t want to put me into a difficult choice. He only knew how to consider me without considering himself at all. And I was so stupid to give him away. I need to pay for that. I don’t care how long I need to wait. I am going to wait for him.
Chiyoko (giggling): When did you become so deep? Anyway, I promise you. I’ll go bring him back for you as long as this battle is finished if the fame doesn’t work. OK?
Usagi nods and smiles. At night, Usagi is making stars and cranes in her room in her pink pajamas. There are a bottle on her desk and a box besides her on the floor. There are many cranes in the box and the bottle of stars is two-third full.
Usagi (smiling): It’s almost done now. I can send them out in a day or two.
Just then, Luna comes in and sees what Usagi is doing.
Luna (thinking): She’s really in love with him. Chiyoko-chan was clever. This is the only way to keep Usagi busy so that she won’t get upset until this fighting is over and Chiyoko-chan can leave the Earth to get Seiya-kun back.
At the same time, Usagi is thinking of the time she shared with Seiya. She starts crying when she thought of his kiss and what she said that they would be friends forever. Luna jumps up to her desk and looks at Usagi’s eyes.
Luna: Don’t cry, Usagi-chan. Please, don’t cry. He will be back. You should be confident to him, and yourself.
Usagi: I have dreamed of him every night recently. I really miss him. But I am afraid that he doesn’t love me anymore. After all, I was the one who told him that we would be friends forever. I was the one who didn’t realize his love and hurt him. I don’t have the confidence that he will still love me and will come back for me.
Luna: If you really love him, you should trust him. He was deeply in love with you that he gave up anything, including his mission and life for you. How could you think that he will forget you so easily?
Usagi (nodding and wiping her tears away): Huh, I would finish the work as soon as possible. He will be back soon.
Although she still has tears in her eyes, she smiles and continues on her work. Meanwhile on a distant planet, a girl with dark blue eyes is lying on her bed in dark.
Girl (thinking): I can feel her sadness. Possibly that guy is hurting her again. Did I make the right choice to give her up? But she said she loved that guy. She still loved him even though that guy hurt her. (Sighs and chuckles sadly.) Stop it. You are just missing her so much that you begin to have imaginations. Just go to bed.
Then the girl turns off the light and falls to sleep. Meanwhile in the hall, Phantasus and Morpheus are bowing to Nemesis and Cassandra, who are very mad. They even get smoke above their head.
Cassandra: I told every one of you a hundred times. The sailors work as a group and so shall we. Working as a group makes you stronger. Why didn’t you listen to me?
Nemesis: I believe that was not the main reason. They are just too stupid and useless, or they did use all their power to fight hard.
Morpheus: We don’t know why Icelus failed. I taught him a really good method. We don’t know that he didn’t follow or what. But we promise you that we will bring back the Crystals very soon.
Nemesis: I heard that a hundred times. But you keep disappointing me.
Phantasus: Please give us one more chance.
Cassandra: Ok, go, but remember, do your best otherwise you will look like Icelus.
Nemesis: We will kill you even they don’t, if you don’t get back the Crystals.
Back in their room, Phantasus and Morpheus are discussing.
Morpheus: I believe that Universal Crystal was formed. That’s why Icelus failed.
Phantasus: May be. Are we going together this time?
Morpheus: Sure. Do you want to get killed?
Phantasus: Have you got a plan?
Morpheus: Icelus told me he was going to a girls’ home to get the Crystals because there were many girls staying in that house. Now Icelus was killed. There must be some problems about that girl. We can find out who she was and make her our target.
Phantasus nods.
[CM Break]
When Usagi is doing her homework at home alone at night, the doorbell rings suddenly. She goes to the front door.
Usagi: Who is it? (No answer, but the doorbell keeps ringing)
Usagi: Who is it? (Still no answer)
Usagi (thinking): Who would that be? Who will visit me at this time? Shall I open the door? (Suddenly excited,) maybe that’s Seiya. He wants to give me a surprise.
Usagi quickly opens the door. However, standing outside is not Seiya but Chiyoko. She is listening to the CD player. That’s why she didn’t hear what Usagi asked. Usagi’s shining face quickly fades away. Chiyoko puts the CD player in her bag.
Chiyoko (smiling): Good evening, Usagi-chan. Sorry I didn’t call before I came. I heard your brother is in boarding school now and your parents have gone for few weeks. You don’t have companions tonight. So I came here to stay overnight with you. But seems I’m not welcome.
Usagi (smiling sadly): I thought you were Seiya.
Chiyoko (seriously): You miss him that much?
Usagi lowers her head and tears quickly come out from her eyes. Mamoru walks in.
Mamoru: Don’t cry, Usagi-san. He will be back. You must keep that in your mind.
Usagi nods and leads them to the living room and goes to make them some tea.
Chiyoko: She loves him very much.
Mamoru: I can see that. Why don’t you leave now and bring him back? I’ll go with you. They may be able to create another Universal Crystal.
Chiyoko: Do you believe that I didn’t think about it? After all, she is my sister. I love her. However, we can’t leave now. We are the only pair who has the Universal Crystal. It is too dangerous for us to leave now. We cannot put the safety of the Earth and our friends in risk. If we are not going to wait until the battle is over, we have to wait until we can find anther pair at least.
Mamoru nods. Then Usagi comes in with the tea so they stop their topic.
Usagi: Did you guys bring your pajamas?
Chiyoko: Of course. Here they are.
Usagi: You guys can use the bathroom over there. Chiyoko-chan, you may stay in my room. Mamoru-san, you may spend the night in the guess room.
Mamoru: Of course.
Usagi: No problem. I will go prepare the sheets for you, Chiyoko-chan, and finish my homework. Mamoru-san, make yourself at home. Chiyoko-chan, why don’t you take a shower first?
Chiyoko (smiling): I’ll. Thank you, Usagi-chan.
Mamoru (smiling): Thank you, Usagi-san.
Chiyoko: Don’t be diffidence, Usagi-chan. We can take care of ourselves.
Usagi nods with a sweet smile and goes back to her room. Chiyoko takes a shower and then goes to see if everything is ok with Mamoru. When she walks back to Usagi’s room, Usagi is putting the cranes in a chain in her pajamas.
Chiyoko: Usagi-chan, you did a great job. They are almost done now.
Usagi nods with a smile.
Usagi: (Looking at the stars and cranes,) I think I can finish them and give them out tomorrow. (Looking over Chiyoko,) where is Mamoru-san?
Chiyoko: He is having a shower. Have you finished your homework?
Usagi: Um, don’t worry. I finish my homework before I make them everyday. Because I think that the God and Goddess will not fulfill my wish if I don’t do that.
Chiyoko (giggling): You are right. They won’t be happy to see that. But it is very late now. Shall we go to sleep first?
Usagi (nodding with a smile): Let me finish the cranes chain first. It’s almost done.
Chiyoko arranges the sheets while waiting. Usagi leaves the finished crane chain on the desk and puts the star bottle, which is almost full, in her drawer. Usagi sleeps in her bed and Chiyoko sleeps on the floor in Usagi’s room. After they fell asleep, Phantasus and Morpheus show up floating outside the balcony of Usagi’s room.
Morpheus: There are two girls in this room. Who should be the one?
Phantasus: Why don’t we give illusions to both of them separately?
Morpheus (shakes his head): We have to combine our power and try to control one of them. We are going to lose if we don’t do it and one of them is the one.
Phantasus: Then which one should we choose?
Morpheus: I think we should choose the one on the bed. If one of them is Princess Irene, they won’t let her to sleep on the floor, right?
Phantasus: You’re right. Phantasus’ Delusion!
Morpheus: Morpheus’ Dreamscape!
Sailor Star Fighter is having a very strange feeling today. She feels very worried and uncomfortable but she doesn’t know why. She can’t concentrate even having the daily meeting with Princess Kakyuu, Sailor Star Maker, Sailor Star Healer, and other warriors. Just when the attack hits Usagi, Fighter feels a sudden pain in her heart. She falls to the ground with a painful face. All of the others are shocked. Kakyuu, Healer, and Maker quickly run to her with worried faces. Maker holds Fighter in her arms.
Maker: What is it, Fighter? Are you ok? How do you feel?
Fighter: I feel pain in my heart. (Wide-eyes,) it’s Odango. She is in danger. I can feel it. She is in huge danger. I have to go to save her.
Fighter tries to stand up but fails.
Healer: She has so many people to protect her. There is no your turn.
Maker (frowning): Healer!
Kakyuu: Fighter, can you undergo to see her again? Maybe you should stay here. I can go there with Healer and Maker to help her.
Fighter (smiling painfully): You know I can’t stay. I have to go to save her myself.
Kakyuu looks at Fighter and shakes her head. While the three lights and their princess are discussing to go back or not, Chiyoko and Mamoru have already transformed into Sailor Protector and Tuxedo Kamen in front of Phantasus and Morpheus.
Phantasus: So you are Princess Irene. Phantasus’ Delusion!
Protector and Kamen jump away and kiss to bring the scepter out.
Protector and Kamen: Universal Crystal Power Divine Love!
Phantasus is vanished. Morpheus is hurt so he leaves immediately. Tuxedo Kamen quickly runs to Usagi and holds her in his arm. Protector informs the others. Then Protector and Kamen transform back to normal form. Soon others come.
Haruka (worried): Is she going to be ok?
Chiyoko: We can’t save her if Morpheus is still alive, even Universal Crystal is useless. Our only hope is that she can resist the illusion and wakes up herself. Otherwise… (She is broken by tears and she starts sobbing.)
All (nervously): Otherwise what?
Chiyoko: Although she is still alive, she will be in the illusion forever.
Rei quickly runs to Usagi and shakes her.
Rei: Wake up! Usagi! You have to wake up! You have to wake up from the illusion. Seiya-kun is coming. You can’t stay in your dream forever. If you want to be with him, you have to wake up. Otherwise, I will steal him away from you. Wake up!
Everyone looks at Usagi with tears. In Usagi’s illusion, she is in a park with Seiya. They are having a sweet date. Seiya gave her many roses and she is holding them in her arm. They have dinner in a romantic restaurant. Then Seiya drives Usagi home.
Seiya (hugging Usagi in front of her house’s door): Did you have a good time?
Usagi (hugging Seiya and nods with a smile): Of course.
Seiya: Do you love me, Odango?
Usagi (blushed and puts her head on Seiya’s chest): Of course I love you, Seiya.
Seiya: Will you be with me forever?
Usagi (kisses Seiya and smiles, still blushing): You know I will. I will be with you and love you forever.
Everyone is scared to see the smile on Usagi’s face. That means she is very satisfied with her illusion and it is really hard for her to wake up.
Chiyoko (shaking Usagi and crying): Usagi-chan! Please wake up! We are sworn sisters. We swore to share everything together, get married together, and die together. How could you go first? You must wake up! I promise you. If you wake up, I will go to get Seiya-san back right away. Please! Wake Up!
Everyone is crying. But still, if Usagi doesn’t want to wake up, she is not going to wake up.
Wahoo! Three Lights finally stage on clearly! That’s great! But are they coming back to Earth soon? Will Princess Kakyuu let them go? Um, good question! Let me keep it as a secret. I’ll let you know next time. But I can give you a hint: “Kakyuu looks at Fighter and shakes her head.” They may need to beg some more. A reader of mine asked me about the stars and cranes thing. He or she asked me where I got that idea. Well, making stars and cranes had been a very common thing for a period of time in my hometown: Hong Kong. It’s a symbol of luck and wish coming true. It had been very popular. Now it’s outdated. But I still like to make some sometimes, just for fun. When I wrote last episode, the idea came to my mind so I added it. All right, that’s it. E-mail me at Princess_CynthiaK@yahoo.com.hk . I feel it’s a wonderful world as long as I get e-mails from my readers. Please keep writing to me. I’ll see you next time at episode 210, “Strong Enemy! Sweet Dream Tonight, Tsukino Usagi!”