This chapter was written by my Onne-chan Eternal Sailor M you can email her at [email protected] All future chapters will be dedicated to her and it's because of her this ficcie is being written. This prologue is rated PG13 for the mention of suicide. Please enjoy and review.

Give a Reason

Prologue: The Ungrantable Wish

Her heart was breaking.

At least that's how it felt to the queen. Though she looked as young as twenty-one that estimate was no where near close her real age. For the woman standing there tears trailing down her cheeks was over a thousand years old. Her husband was dead, of old age of all things, yet she lingered on, immortal in a world where people, even heros, eventually had to die.

Even the great King Endymion, Tuxedo Kamen, her Mamo-chan. . . And no one could bring him back. She knew; she'd tried. Even Pluto had refused her requests, her orders, her beggings. It was hopeless.

"Holy Ginzuishou," she whispered to the small crystal resting on its pedastel beside her so-lonely throne, "I must beg of you one wish. I haven't asked you for anything since the Crystal Utopia was formed, but now I must beg this." She cupped the crystal between her hands and held it before her staring into it seeing a slightly hazy reflection of her tear-stained face. "Please, let me die. Let me die now, and join Endymion in eternity."

The Ginzuishou flickered once, twice, as it tried to grant her request. She stared straight into it, hope that she hadn't allowed herself to feel in so long slowly seeping back into her. Maybe this time. . .

As she stared all she could think of was rejoining her friends. She'd outlived everyone, even her Inner Senshi. They had met their own true loves, and on their behalf she had asked the Ginzuishou to release them from the curse of their long lives, their barrenness, for love and family.

It had all seemed so romantic at the time and the Queen had never given a thought to what they were really giving up. That is until two hundred years ago when Ami died. Serenity closed her eyes in rememberance. She had went to the funeral and had been uprepared. She remembered staring in almost horror at the withered grey-haired form in the casket. Not her shy blue-haired friend but a stranger.

A mere twenty years after that Makoto had died. Serenity again had been in a trance as she had stared at the old woman who seemed asleep. They aged as she did not. She still looked as she had when she had married her Mamoru back when she was known as Usagi and didn't have the worries she now dealt with.

Then not even five years later Serenity's closest friend Rei finally died. Serenity bowed her head in almost shame.

That funeral had been the only one where she had cried for any of her Senshi, her friends. Minako and Makoto died one year later and with them went Serenity's tears. She had not shed a single tear until now. Until the death of her husband the only thing keeping her from killing herself.

Serenity's eyes opened and she glared at her flawless flesh. She well remembered the scars that should have been there. The scars that had been there merely a day before vanishing. She remembered the feel of the blade as it had sank into her tender flesh. She remembered seeing the white blood appear. Then she knew. She knew that she wasn't merely cursed with a long life but with an immortal one.

Endymion himself had been given a long life from the Ginzuishou, like the rest of the earth's population, a Lunarian's life span of 1000 years, but that hadn't been enough time. Not when she was still alive and still resembling the girl he had married while he was on his death bed.

And then there was her daughter, her ChibiUsa-chan. . . She did not deserve to face her daughter. Not now, not anymore. Even the pink-haired young woman agreed with her self punishment. Yes, it *was* all her fault that Endymion had died. Yes, she should have known he would have not gotten the immortality she had from the Ginzuishou. She was beneath even her daughter's contempt.

The Ginzuishou fell dark. Pain shot through her chest as disappointment set in. Even the Holy Ginzuishou wanted her to continue living and suffering. She tried to fight them back, but tears began to fall from her crystalline blue eyes, and once they started, she couldn't get them to stop.

Through some chance (or mischance), one of her tears landed on the crystal she held in her hands. As always, it reacted, trying harder than ever to grant her wish. It shook in her hand. She glanced sharply down at it, her tears ceasing, just as some sort of light exploded out of it.

'It's finally granting my wish,' she thought to herself, smiling into the light. 'Finally I'll be free.'

Then she realized it was shaking because it was shattering. . . No, it wasn't shattering. It was opening and growing! She stared at it shocked while it quickly grew to half the size of her and then she realized it was surrounding her. She stared at it in awe as it grew more and more. 'Is this it?' she wondered before the crystal completely encased her. She noticed the crystal had stopped growing and then there was a bright silver flash.

That was the last thing she saw, besides endless darkness, for a very long time. Therefore, she missed the facts that she had been imprisoned within what Pluto would call a subspace dimension within the Ginzuishou, and that it was flying off into the distance far, far away from Crystal Tokyo to heal itself, until it was strong enough to grant its owner's wish - and make her and itself mortal.

::End Prologue::

Written: January 26