Crystal Tokyo


Chapter Sixteen




Courage often looked at the heavens, wondering what it would be like to run free and wild again. "You are running free," Hope quietly said beside him.He turned and tugged on her ear, laughing as she snorted and butted him to the side, nipping his mane and yanking him down. "You're right, but I miss my home, the gods and the fruits of Olympus."

"We belong here, Courage. Peace will only last for so long; can we expect the senshi to handle the enemies on their own? And Honor, what would happen to him? If we didn't bring him food, he would have starved long before now."

Courage snorted, his tail flickering in annoyance. "There was a time when we only cared about ourselves, not the mortal realm. Still, you're right about Honor. We will not leave him here."

"That was before our power was threatened. Zeus and Chronos grew to love us so much, that they gave us the chance to survive. Our souls moved throughout the the galaxy, being reborn every time we died. Not until a thousand years ago, were the three of us re-united again."

"Will we be allowed to stay together now?"

"We'll see." Hope walked over to the senshi and longed to see their laughing faces. They had been moved to a cave where the grass, fruit and water still prospered. This was to ensure that nothing happened until the time came to awaken. They were the future of the world.

"I want another child," Courage stated, coming up and nipping hard on Hope's neck. She gazed at him with a longing and wild urge sweeping through her body.

"We must wait until the Earth is warm and green again."

Courage waived his mane and rose high into the air, wings spreading wide apart. "I'm tired of waiting. How much longer before they wake up? Besides, any child we have will be unaffected by the ice."

"The ice hasn't even begun to melt and it's been a thousand years." Shaking his mane, the fire in his blood became more intense as he circled Hope, determining whether to challenge her or not.

The senshi and Z fighters were a distant memory to the two winged unicorns, reminded only when they saw the silver crystals incasing their bodies and their son silently guarding them. Courage and Hope were wild, running and flying with joy filling their hearts and the winds wipping their hair and tail back. Serenity and Vegeta's personalities were still apart of them, but they had merged with who they originally were. This is why Hope hesitated and didn't leave her mortal friends behind.

Hope, with laughter in her eyes, wanted to tease Courage. Launching into the air, she shot off faster than he could catch her, but not wanting to be out classed, he sped after her and slowly gained the ground he had lost. Being three feet taller, he had an advantage over her with speed and strength. However, what made her a good match was her cunning and intellectual mind when she dove underneath him, his teeth reaching out to grab her tail.

If people could see them, they would notice two Unicorns flinging hooves at each other and beating their wings behind them in a symbolic and graceful dance. Necks would drape over each other, bodies would rub together and the love that existed between them was so powerful that the galaxy could feel it.

Galaxia, who had been saved by Sailor Cosmos and Eternal Sailor Moon, felt a change on Earth and chose to investigate it. After a thousand years, she grew tired of being a Sailor Senshi, comptemplating on passing her powers to another. The moment she stepped foot on the frozen world, Hope and Courage felt her presence. "What happened here?" Galaxia growled, trying to find the source of what caused the drastic change.

"Who are you and why are you here?" A golden unicorn demanded, landing in front of Galaxia.

For the first time in her life since Chaos, she was afraid, staring at the two magical beings before her. Keeping her thoughts and emotions to herself, she stood straight and proud. "I'm Sailor Galaxia. Where are the sixteen sailor senshi that guarded this world?"

"Safe," Hope stated calmly. She thought the woman felt and looked familiar, but the past was clouded. Gazing into her silver eyes, Galaxia recognized the purity and innocence that could be in no other.

"Princess Serenity?"

Hope started, trying to remember. 'Where have I been called that before?' Walking closer, she was about to reach out and touch Galaxia when Courage flung himself in front of her. Blocking her path, he rose on his hind quarters ready to kill the woman, feeling a lot of power that could hurt his mate. "Courage, she's not a threat. Let me handle my own fights."

Touching the outstretched hand, Hope whimpered, everything coming back in a flood. The woman before her had been through hell and back, given a second chance after Sailor Moon had spared her life. "I remember. Has it been that long, Galaxia?"

"A thousand years, and I'm tired. After this stop, I was planning to pass my powers to someone and rest in peace."

"Have you lead a good life?"

Tears came to her eyes and without realizing it, she threw her self at Hope and wrapped her arms around her neck. "I owe you everything, but never could find anything to repay you with. I've tried fixing all the damage and destruction I caused, but it has weighed heavy on my heart. I can no longer look at the agony and destruction that I've caused."

"Stop blaming yourself for what Chaos did."

"Does it matter? I killed those people and laughed while I did it."

"Are you sorry?" Courage demanded.

Galaxia turned to him, gasping when she saw understanding instead of anger or hatred. "Yes, every waking moment."

"Then leave it be and die in peace. You can't change the past, but learn from the mistakes you make and build a better present and future. The pain is a reminder of what you have done, to make sure you don't repeat the same mistakes over."

"Will this world have life again? It's so baren and lonely now. Can you two fight a lone if necessary?"

Hope licked Galaxia's nose and stepped back. "We're fine. Go in peace Galaxia. Know that I never blamed you for what happened and I'm glad I spared your life."

"I wish that I had a chance to relive it all over again, to do things right the first time."

"Are you sure that's what you want?"

"What do you mean?"

"I will grant your wish and have you reborn as the person with your powers. It will only awaken when another evil strikes again."

"That is what I want. Thank you, Princess."

"I am no longer her, but Hope."

Galaxia faded away, smiling as she was reborn in the future a happy girl and woman. “I told you that you were too soft,” Courage snorted.

“And you were making her feel better because you were being cruel?”



Four thousand years later, Hope was flying over the world when something caught her attention below. Moving closer, she stopped short at the sight in front of her. "It's starting." With a light flashing in the sky, she signaled her mate and son with the power of her horn.

Courage was eating some apples near Honor, when they looked up to the sky and felt Hope calling them. Her ki was irradicate and she seemed to be excited. Without hesitation, they launched into the sky, Honor leaving his mate for the first time in five thousand years. Quickly they flew towards Hope, concerned about an enemy attacking her. When they got closer, he noticed that she was flying back and forth, her body tense and jumpy. She was looking down at something and then he froze. Staring at them was a school of dolphins swimming around in a section of the ocean that had finally broken free of the Ice. Hope was only a few feet from the water and she touched noses with the beautiful creatures and was over joyed to know that the animals did not die because of Chaos.

“Do you see, do you see?” She danced and kicked in the air; Courage and Honor could only shake their heads in amusement. It was so easy to make her happy, but Honor understood. If the oceans were starting to melt, then the senshi were close to waking from their long sleep.

“I see the Ice is starting to break up. How much longer?”

Hope stopped to think and looked around. Much of the world was still encased and this was the first sign she had seen that things would be free again. “It's been five thousand years and it's just now making a dent in what the nothingness has done.”

“Can't we just melt the ice ourselves? I'm tired of waiting and I want my mate!” Courage stomped his feet and she could only glare at him back.

“Yes we can, but do you want everyone to drown? The whole world would be under water if we melted it all at once.”

Courage was upset and flew off. He could easily take her, but force was never his issue and his longing for her grew with each passing year. She refused to have a child in this Ice world, afraid that it may die in the cold. Hope noticed his anger and her heart ached to give him what he wanted, but this was not the kind of place she wanted a child in. She flew after Courage and he finally landed where they lived and she went up to him, draping her neck over his.

He couldn't stay angry and they slept side-by-side, praying this ice age would be over soon. She was right, he couldn't rush things or everyone would die. That was not their mission.

Honor too longed for the day when his mate would be his again, holding their child in her arms. He couldn't wait to spoil her, watch her grow heavy with the life in her womb.



After nine thousand years, the land was once again blooming and flurshing with life. However, one thing was not changing back to normal. Hope and Courage noticed that all the buildings were falling apart, unable to be lived in by humans when they started to roam the planet again. "We have to do something."

"What?" Courage asked.

"The way things look, I give it a thousand years more before everything is completely free of the Ice. We need to build a structure that the warriors can live in. This world will be starting anew and we must be ready to help them."

"I was starting to like the solitude of only us."

"Let's put it this way," she whispered, coming closer to him with a teasing glint in her eyes. "When everyone's awake, we can have the child you've been wanting so badly." Her mouth nibbled his ear, making him move closer and wanting more.

He tried to grab her, but she bolted past him as he bit down on air. The next thing he knew, she was playing tag with him and winning. "Get back here!"

"Catch me first!"

The chase was on as he played with his soul mate. The bond between them was impossible to break, neither baring the idea of being separated for more than a couple of hours before they sought each other out again.



Honor knew what he had to do and one day disappeared, startling Courage and Hope. They tried to search for him, but he kept his power hidden. With heavy hearts they waited, knowing he would return when it was time. Pluto was the first to open her eyes and glance around.

She stood and stretched, her expression confused. Pluto felt relaxed and refreshed, as if she had taken the nap of several life times. The other warriors were still asleep, but free of the ice; she had no idea of what had happened or how long ago. "What happened; where is Kakarot?"

The sun was bright and unusually warm. Lifting her arms to block the bright rays, she noticed two Unicorns eating quietly, their wings folded calmly at their sides. One was a beautiful gold with flame wings, mane and tail. By his side, was a slightly smaller Unicorn, her body silver with rainbow hair, mane and tail. On their heads were a golden and silver horn, both with the powers that had protected the universe for so long.

'Where is Serenity and Vegeta then? Why is everything so different and quiet?'

She felt warm breath on the back of her neck and turned with a scream at the back of her throat. The last thing Pluto expected to see was another unicorn with a golden body like his father and wings of both parents, mixed with gold and silver. His horn was almost silver, with gold running in circles around it. His golden eyes regarded her with warmth and with powerful wings, he wrapped her in their protective hold.

"Who are you?" she managed to stutter out, reaching up to touch his nose. Courage and Hope felt their son return and quickly ran up to him.

"Where were you? Why did you disappear?"

"I have something to show everyone."

Pluto climbed onto the creatures back, surprised at how gentle he was being before he rose into the air. The earth was beautiful, purged of all the polution and contamination that humans had caused through hundreds of years. Crossing a mountain, the woman gapsed, tears welling in her eyes. "Oh my..." she choked.

She now understood and looked down at the Unicorn gazing at her. "Crystal Tokyo?"

He nodded and landed in front of the castle's entrance. "I knew the warriors needed a place to live when they awoke, especially since several were pregnant. Do you like it?"

"It's beautiful, but where's my mate? Did he...?"

She almost thought the Unicorn was laughing at her, his head shaking. "No, your protector has never left your side, guarding you for ten thousand years."

"Then where...?" She studied the Unicorn closer, understanding flashing in her eyes. "Kakarot..."

"I've almost forgotten that name, but yes... I am he." Letting her climb down off his back, he draped his powerful neck on her shoulder, her arms holding him tight. "Finally, you're free and I kept my promise. You were never alone."

Hope and Courage landed beside him, nodding in approval of the castle. "It will suit their purpose."

"Serenity, Vegeta?" Pluto wasn't sure, but she was hoping that the two Unicorns were them.

"The others are awakening and I know they have a lot of questions," Hope told her.

After they arrived back at the cave, everyone was starting to sit up and wonder around, wiping the sleep from their eyes. “What the hell happened?” Krillan and Piccolo demanded.

“You've been asleep for ten thousand years.”

They whirled around to face three Winged Unicrons and Pluto sitting on one. “Who are you?” Piccolo asked cautiously. These were the most powerful creatures he had ever felt in his life.

"You can't recognize the people that fought by your side," Hope said, bumping the Namek in the chest.

"You can talk," a sleepy Goten asked, reaching up to touch her mane.

“Can't everyone?” Courage asked. Everyone remembered the Golden Unicorn and stared at him in awe and respect.

“You're the one that saved Serenity from dying on the Ice-jin world. Where is Serenity and Vegeta? I didn't see them among the others sleeping.”

“We haven't heard those names in so long, that we nearly forgot them.”

All the senshi blinked as they slowly began to recognize the ki signature coming from the golden Unicorn. It was much more powerful, but it was still him. “Vegeta! I can't believe that you're a horse,” Krillan shouted without thinking again.

His ears laid back at the insult and was about to bite him, when Hope glared at him. “We're not horses. We're magical creatures created by the hopes and dreams of mortals, given the power of the silver and golden crystals. We fused with them and now we're free again.”

Pluto sat back up holding her head and stood up, hugging Hope. “I saw this a long time ago, but I didn't know what it meant. Are we going to have you back the way you were Serneity?”

Hesitation was in her eyes, but she nuzzled Pluto's neck. Courage looked up to notice that Trunks was standing further back than usual. Walking over to him, he threw the boy on his back, and handed Bra to him. The searing fire did not harm them, surprising everyone that had watched.

“Where's the enemy?” Uranus demanded. The sky was clear and it wasn't hot anymore.

“Dead,” Hope and Courage said.

“Where's Bunny?” Mars cried out in worry. “Oh my god! She wished us away from the fight and stayed. No!” Mars broke down and started crying, Turn trying to comfort her. The woman was in sobs, thinking that her friend had died and her friends didn't know what to say. Courage couldn't believe that the girls cared about his mate enough to cry over her. Hope walked through the group and gently pulled the priestess out of Turns grip, bringing her close. Her sobs were racking her entire body and Hope cried with her. The sight was something that surprised everyone, including Courage and the woman stepped back.

“She's alive. This is her true form, but I hesitated from going back home, because you and the others pulled me to stay.”

“Are you saying you're not Serneity?”

“I am in the humanoid form, but my real name has always been Hope. Vegeta was the same way, because he is Courage. A long time ago, we were sent away from our homeland to hide from the enemy. The crystals were our power and that is what we used to aid us in battles. During the fight with nothingness, we died, but were sent back and told to call the names of the crystal to help us. When we did, our memories were awakened and the powers of the crystal fused with us, making us change into our original and more powerful forms.”

Mars quit crying and started to smile. “I'm glad you're al right. I was so afraid that you wouldn't be able to defeat the nothingness without our help.”

"Who's the third Unicorn?" Gohan asked, looking around for his father.

"His name is Honor, our son before we were forced to live different lives. He is also know as Kakarot."

"Dad?" Gohan and Goten squeaked.

Honor shook his head and snorted, tapping his sons on the top of their heads.

“You wouldn't have been able to beat the enemy, Uranus," Hope continued. "We decided that if anything happened you would be whisked away from the fight. I didn't tell anyone, because I knew you and the others would have argued.”

Turn and Pars glared at Courage. “How can you call us your protectors if you don't let us fight?” Turn demanded. Courage didn't know what to say. He felt their hurt and anger, curious about how much they really cared for him.

“How can you not trust us?” Pars continued. “We have protected you time and time again and never have I been so upset to find out that you would make us feel disgraced and dishonored by not allowing us to fight beside you!”

Courage trembled, but he stood his ground. “If I have offended the two of you, that was not my intentions. My life as Vegeta was an arrogant one, that never put my pride aside to think about the safety of my men or whether or not they could handle the mission or not. I've been responsible for so many deaths that could have been prevented. When Serenity told me what she was planning and that the senshi were not strong enough to handle the enemy, I realized that neither were any of my Saiya-jins or your friends. This was not a decision I made to be selfish, but one that was designed to save the people that have sacrificed everything for me. I never once said thank you to Kakarot for sparing my life, beating Frieza or any other instances. I still wonder if I would have changed if I had not found my soul mate or my memories?”

They were quickly losing their anger the more Courage told them everything. “You were protecting us?”

“Yes. A leader is suppose to not let his men die because he makes them, but because they want to. I decided to repay my debts to you, Turn and Pars.”

A silver light flashed from Hope and the next thing they noticed was Dende, Princess Kakyu, Vedel, and Pan standing in front of them in a daze. They smiled and ran to their loved ones, happy to see them alive again. At that moment, a golden stair case filled with light, formed in the sky to touch the ground. Courage and Hope glanced in the direction with their ears pricked all the way up and bolted towards the stairs when they saw Zeus coming down with Chronos. Chronos smiled at Pluto and then looked at the two Unicorns that eagerly came flying towards them.

Hope quivered as Zeus touched her neck and wanted to be in her homeland again so badly that she almost forgot her friends. “Do you two still wish to remain here?” Hope was going to say no when she saw that this time, Courage was the one who wanted to stay behind. He stood beside Honor and continued to keep Trunks and Bra on his back. With a gentle tug, he picked up Bra and held her with his wings over his back. Bra giggled and wrapped her tiny fingers in his hair and Hope pawed the ground to get his attention. She ran up to him and nipped his neck, looked at him and then Zeus. His heart would always want to be in the mountains of Olympus, but for now, he knew he couldn't let his Saiya-jins down. Hope had created the Lunarians to protect, as he had created the Saiya-jins.

“Courage?”

“Hope, right now, I'm needed here by the last remaining Saiya-jins. You are also the last remaining Lunarian. If we go back, we'll never know if they survived or not and we can use the power given to us to protect and build this planet again and the races that we created millineums ago.”

She was only a mere inch from his nose as she licked it with her tongue and nodded. Her rainbow wings picked up Trunks and tossed him in the air to land on her back. She turned around and walked towards Zeus, knowing what her answer would be. “Zeus, I want to come back, but for now, we must remain here. Can you wait for us until when we're not needed any longer, we will come home to you again.”

“It seems that you will be ruling crystal tokyo after all,” Chronos stated.

“Father, thank you for giving us the chance to defeat the enemy. You and mother both.” The two gods, walked up the stairs to have Selinity come down and hug her daughter. “I'm so proud of you child. Please forgive me for not having a stronger will to fight than I did.”

“I do.” The light disappeared and the senshi waited anxiously as Hope returned to them and gently put Trunks back down. A silver and gold flashed around them as they concentrated and everyone watched in awe as Courage and Hope transformed back to Serenity and Vegeta.

The change was odd and somehow not who they were, but they knew that this change would not last forever. “I think it's time to start rebuilding the homes before winter sets in about six months,” Serenity told them.

“Why did you not go?” StarFighter asked. “We wouldn't have stopped you.”

“I know, but I love you guys and when you no longer need us, we will return. I miss home, but right now, this is where we belong.”

“I would love to see the look on Bulma's face when she realizes she no longer has Capsule Corp.”

All the scouts de-transformed into their civilian forms and would worry about assuming their proper titles after the world was put back together again. “You know Mrs. Briefs?” Ami asked.

“She's the owner of capsule corp. and the mother of my two children.”

Vegeta looked at Ami closer and then something dawned on him. “You wouldn't happen to be her rival would you?”

Ami smiled at Vegeta and laughed. “I am Ami Mizuno, head of medical break throughs and science. Mamoru has been helping me market them and almost had a corporation going. It would have put hers to shame, but then we had the enemy again.”

Then it hit him on what he could do. “Kakarot, how would you, Turn and Pars like to form a company of our own?”

“What?”

Serenity looked at Vegeta as if he had gone crazy. “What do you need to work for?”

“We need money don't we and right now we should make plenty of it and have lots of work to do. There are no machinery that works right now and we are the strongest warriors on the planet. If we used the might of the Saiya-jins and the Z warriors, we can build this world back up and make our own equipment and electronics. Kakarot, Gohan and Turn happen to be from Bardock's line and the smartest technoligal geniuses there are.”

The women put their hands on their hips and glared. “And what about us?”

“You don't expect us to stand around and let you have all the fun do you?”

“What do you want to do?”

“Ami is a doctor as well as Mamoru, Jupiter is a chef, Rei is a promoter, Serenity is a director, Setsuna is a fashion and blue print designer.”

“Besides,” Serenity stated. “We need a teacher and that means Gohan is elected. “We're about to have babies in about nine months and he, Ami, Mamoru and Setsuna are the smartest people in the group.”

“You mean we still have to go to school?” Goten and Trunks cried out.

“Yes!” Kakarot and Vegeta roared.

Two boys hung their heads upset. Vegeta walked up to Serenity and whispered something in her ear and she nodded. “I can do that. It's simple. Trunks come here.”

Trunks did as she asked and looked at her. She smiled at him. “Do you still want your human blood or do you wish to become a lot stronger?”

“What do you mean?”

“Well, any children I have by Vegeta, would be half-lunarian and half-saiyan. Would you like to have their blood line as well. Vegeta knows as well as I do, that your Saiya-jin side is very active, but your human side is going to waist. Do you want my blood instead of your mothers?”

“You can do that?”

“Of course. I have the power of the Unicorn.”

“Yes! I want to be as strong as you and dad are.”

Serenity nodded and a silver light entered Bra and Trunk's bodies. Trunks felt much different and could feel a power inside of him other than his Saiyan half. “I'll teach you how to use the lunarian power when you're a bit older Trunks. As for Bra, Vegeta, can't you change her name?”

“Ichigo Presca. I'm a head of you on that. I will not have any more of my children named after clothing.”

“I kind of like my name,” Trunks stated.

“You would.”



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