Rules
1. Entries must be 1000 words or less. 
2. Entries must be rated PG13 or lower. 
3. Entries must be related to the theme. 
4. Your entry must be a new entry created specifically for this challenge. 
5. You may only submit one entry. 
6. You may not show your entry to anyone else or post it elsewhere on the Galaxy Cauldron until after the contest is over and the winner is announced. 
7. Sailor Moon themed entries are encouraged, but not required.

Note: Please PM your entries to Tuxedo Mistress by July 27, 2013.  All questions may be directed to Tuxedo Mistress.

BUMP! My PM box is super lonely =(

I will probably do this one...Probably tomorrow. I've been typing up chapter 18 of my fanfic so. xD

Sounds like fun. I'll probably write it out tomorrow.

I'll see about getting one typed up after I do dishes I already have an idea of what I want to do.

i think i will work on this tomorrow.

must think of SOMETHING!!!! XD

I'm waffling on ideas. I have two and I'm trying to decide which is the best one. But I figure I'll write up something in a few hours.

i have mine written- just have to type it up and submit it.

bump! please, let's take part =]

I had an idea; I think I'll write an entry tonight or tomorrow afternoon.

And sent in my entry. It took forever to decide on an idea. But I'm happy with how it turned out. I can't wait to see all the entries.

I HAVE THREE ENTRIES!!! WEEEEEEEEEEE

c'mon, let's have a celebration! \o/

Can you do any theme?

if it's related to celebration, yes.

any sort of celebration

LAST DAY! C'MON, LET'S TAKE PART!!!

Entry #1

Usagi's Graduation

            She set her alarm early. She needed all the time she could get. Tomorrow would be a bug day for her and her friends. Usagi didn’t want to be late, not for this.  Usagi’s alarm went off at 6AM. After eating some breakfast, Usagi showered and did her hair. Today was a special day so she went with a fish braid for the event. Next Usagi went to her closet and picked her purple short sleeve kimono. Mamoru had given it to her for Valentine’s Day and she was waiting for the right event to wear it. After getting dressed, she did her make-up. It was 8:30 by the time she was ready to leave. She told her family she would see them later, and went to Juuban High to meet her friends. The girls all hugged each other. “I can’t believe today is finally here,” said Ami. “ We are finally graduating high school,” said Makoto. It’s time to pursue our careers,” said Minako. “ I still can’t believe you’re graduating Usagi” said Rei as she hugged her. “ Rei, I studied, and without the help of Ami, Makoto, Minako, and you, I could not have made it to today.” The girls chatted until the bell rang for the graduates to line up.

                “Thank- you for coming today graduates, family, and friends…Usagi’s mind drifted to a daydream during the speeches. She was now going out into the real world, what would she do? Things had been quiet since defeating Galaxia. Usagi wondered what a normal girl would do… “Tsukino, Usagi!” She heard her name and was brought back to reality. She walked up to the stage to get her diploma. As she crossed the stage she saw her family cheering for her and searched for Mamoru- but could not find him, until she saw the rose. She looked up in the crowd and saw her Mamo-chan in the stands hidden in the crowd smiling at her. Usagi walked across the stage full of pride as she received her diploma. Several names later- now presenting the class of 2013! Caps flew and the crowd cheered as the graduates processed out to find their family and friends.
                When Usagi found her family, they embraced her and told her how proud of her they were. Even Shingo was nice and didn’t tease his sister. Usagi thanked her parents for their support and told them that she would meet up with them later. Usagi met up with her friends and they all went to the Crown Fruit Parlor for dinner and milkshakes to celebrate. Just as the girls were about to go, Mamoru walked in and hugged Usagi from behind the waist and told her how proud of her he was. He gave her a kiss before sitting with the girls for a brief chat. He congratulated all the girls on their accomplishments. After saying her goodbyes for the day, Usagi and Mamoru left the parlor. Usagi and Mamoru walked off into the moonlight hand in hand, enjoying the simpleness of being together.

Entry #2

Taking one deep, bracing breath, Rei entered the party hall Minako had reserved for their graduation party and immediately her ears were assaulted by the sound of one of her best friends trying to sing Britney Spears. Her eyes literally crossed as she stared up at Usagi as the blonde danced across the karaoke stage, her blonde pigtails dancing behind her. She was butchering the song but the sheer joy on Usagi's face kept Rei from taunting her as she made her way to the table where their three friends had gathered.

Rei glared at Minako and pointed an accusing finger at the beaming blonde. “You are no longer allowed to be in charge of party planning.”


Makoto snickered as Minako's grin faded just a little and shifted in her seat. “You don't like the theme, Rei?”


“Karaoke, Minako, really?” Rei demanded. She sat down next to Ami and winced as Usagi hit a particularly high note. “What on Earth made you think it would be a good idea.”

“Because it's fun, Rei,” Minako said brightly and gestured at the stage where Usagi finished her song with a flourish. The party goers, friends and family, applauded loudly as the blonde exited the stage. “Did you see how much fun Usagi was having?”

“Did you even hear her sing?” Rei said bitingly. “Honestly, Minako.”


“Honestly, Rei,” Minako shot back mockingly. “This party is about having fun. It's a celebration!”

“What's a celebration?” Usagi asked as she joined them, still breathless from her turn on the stage. “Rei! You finally made it.”


“The party, Usagi. Rei was expressing her opinion about karaoke,” Minako explained with a sly grin.


Usagi's eyes brightened and she turned to Rei, grinning. “It's so much fun.”


Rei opened her mouth to tell Usagi what she really thought, but when she saw the excitement and pleasure in Usagi's blue eyes, she just couldn't bring herself to be so harsh. Not when her friends were obviously having so much fun. She sighed, giving in to the inevitable. “You looked like you were enjoying yourself.”


Usagi nodded happily and looked around. It was so nice to see everyone enjoying themselves. It was hard to believe that it had been two years since the defeat of Chaos. They had gone from constantly fighting to peace and it had been liberating. 

Usagi smiled and looked at her friends. They had come so far since she first met them. All of them. Ami was no long the painfully shy bookworm who hid behind her books, Rei didn't lash out at everyone who looked at her sideways because of her psychic abilities, Makoto didn't glare at everyone because of her size, and Minako didn't fear being alone because of her duties as a Senshi. They all had each other.


“We did it,” Usagi whispered faintly.


Ami looked up from her conversation with Makoto and Rei. “Did what, Usagi?”


Usagi smiled brightly at her friend. “We survived.”


“High school?” Rei asked, one brow raised. “Yes, why do you think we are having this party.”


“No, yes that too, but no,” Usagi said with a little laugh and lowered her voice, “The Dark Kingdom, the Black Moon Clan, the Death Busters, the Dark Moon Circus, Chaos. The pain, the suffering. The endless battles, never knowing when it was going to end. The fear of losing each other? We survived that.”


Startled, Ami, Rei, Makoto, and Minako pulled back and looked at each other and then back at Usagi, who had tears shimmering in her eyes. Ami was the first to act. She reached over the table and laid a hand on Usagi's. “Usagi, we wouldn't have survived without you, you do realize that, right?”


Makoto nodded. “You brought us all together.”


“It was your strength and convictions that held us all together. You never lost faith, not once,” added Minako.


“You made us all believe,” Rei whispered. “Somehow you made us all believe in a klutzy crybaby who couldn't even manage to get to school on time. You gave us all hope when we had none.”


Usagi laughed and swiped at her tears. “None of that would have been possible without you, no matter what you might think. No matter how hard it got, I knew that it would be okay because I had my friends.”


“Oh Usagi,” Ami sighed and wiped at her own tears.


“If you make my mascara run before I have a chance to sing, I'll be very upset with you,” threatened Minako.


Rei snickered, “Ever the diva, our Minako.”


“She's right though, this is supposed to be a party,” Makoto said, clearing her throat as she wiped away a tear that slipped from her eye.


“To celebrate everything,” Usagi cheered. “Come on Rei, you are next. I want to hear you sing.”


“Oh sweet lord, I should have stayed at home,” Rei moaned as she let her four friends drag her up to the karaoke stage. Ami, Minako, and Makoto laughed, knowing that Rei didn't mean it. Usagi watched her friends fondly as Minako and Rei bickered over what song Rei would sing while Makoto tried to convince Ami to sing. Seeing them like that, having fun without worrying, she knew that no matter what happened in the coming years, it would be okay because they were together.

Entry #3

Usagi Tsukino learned the hard way that knowing the future did not necessarily mean she did not feel anxious or scared anymore. As she lay on her royal bed on the eve of June 30th that year, waiting patiently for her daughter to be born, she couldn’t keep herself from wondering; what if the birth didn’t go smoothly? What if something went wrong? What if…

Knowing for a fact that her daughter would be perfectly fine and that she would grow up as a fine lady wasn’t enough to ease her mind. After all, hadn’t they changed the future when they changed the past? Maybe all the catastrophe that would be fall Crystal Tokyo would not happen, but what if something worse happened? Time was an ever fluid and changing thing, and you could never know what might result from one tiny change. There was a theory for something like that… The Butterfly Effect, she thought it was called (Ami was the one who educated her about it of course).

Essentially, by changing the future, it was no longer certain, and thus anything could happen now. They could no longer be sure about anything.

The door to her room opened, and when she looked up and saw her husband, her worries abated slightly. He smiled and went straight to her side, squeezing her hand.

“How are you?” he asked gently. “I know that look. You’re worried about something.”

“I’m worried about everything,” Usagi admitted. “Mamo-chan, what if I’m not cut out to be a mother? You know what I’m like. What business do I have trying to raise a child? And that whole thing when Chibiusa was brainwashed… what if some of those things were real? Obviously I was sure that we love them in the past, but now it’s really happening and what if I screwed it up?”

Mamoru shushed her and encircled his arm around her shoulder, sitting beside her on the bed. “Don’t be silly. You have grown so much from that fourteen year old girl I first met who got a thirty on her test.” Usagi pouted at the reminder and he laughed. “But I’ll never forget that first meeting because I knew how special you are even from then. You have so much love to give, Usako. You will be the best mother ever.”

She rested her head on his shoulder, sighing. “But Chibiusa and I fought all the time in the past.”

“That was in the past. You hadn’t given birth to her yet. Now you’re different. Now,” he lifted her hand to his lips and kissed the backs of her fingers gently, almost reverently, “you’re a queen.”

And with that word, Usagi felt the first sharp pain of contraction and knew that the time had come.

***

The birth process was a rather short one, all things considered. It seemed like Chibiusa was eager to come out to the world, unsurprising for everyone who’d known her so well. Usagi cradled her newly born daughter swaddled in a pink baby blanket, staring in wonder and amazement at this life she had brought into the world. 

Chibiusa looked so small, and her eyes were closed, sleeping peacefully for now. Yet her tiny hand seemed to be reaching out at something in her dream, as if she knew that her parents were right there and she couldn’t get close enough to them.

Usagi looked up at Mamoru beside her with tears in her eyes. “That’s… that’s our daughter,” she said in a whisper. 

She remembered a moment long ago in the past almost identical to this, only Chibiusa was more grown up then. That moment when she realized the pink-haired girl was her own daughter had felt surreal. She had expected this moment to feel more natural since she had known it for so long, but if possible, it felt even more unreal.

This was her daughter.

“What did I tell you? Everything’s going to be alright,” Mamoru kissed the top of her head and caressed Chibiusa’s head ever so gently. The baby shifted in her sleep and Usagi could swear she was smiling a little, feeling the love surrounding her. “She’s so beautiful,” he added, “just like you.”

“Well, we know what a nightmare she can be later,” Usagi said playfully. “Might as well enjoy her more peaceful moments now.”

“Usagi Small Lady Serenity,” Mamoru said the name reverently, smiling at his wife and his new daughter. “Welcome to the world.”

And that day, the whole of Crystal Tokyo rejoiced in celebration for the birth of the new princess.

Entry #4

Once upon a time, there lived a little girl.

In the beginning she was happy, encased in a cocoon of love.

But then there was the fire.

She lost both of her parents that night, her mother to the heavens and her father to work.

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Hotaru only remembers bits and pieces of what happened in between.

Never feeling quite like a person. Her bullying classmates. Always having to fight her demonic savior. 

As Saturn, she is never considered a comrade, but a homicidal maniac. Her fellow sisters plot her murder.

The only light of hope is from the pink-haired rabbit-like girl.

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It was quite ironic that her attempted killers became her adoptive mothers.

Haruka-papa, Michiru-mama, and Setsuna-mama all took her in after she destroyed the world.

Their house in the countryside is a paradise to the young girl. 

Once upon a time, there lived a bird called a phoenix. 

Every 500 years, it set itself on fire, only to be reborn from the ashes.


I an the phoenix, she thinks as she places the cake on the table.


This is my rebirth.

Entry #5

Haruka sat on one of the balcony lounge chairs and looked up at the sky. She was amazed at how many stars she was able to see, being so close to the city and all. Hotaru was sitting between Haruka’s legs and leaning back against her ‘papa’. Michiru sat on the chair next to them and Setsuna sitting in one of the table chairs they had on the balcony.

“Wow! Look at all the stars! I kind of wish we saw those shootings stars now than we did earlier!” Hotaru exclaimed.

Her three parents smiled and looked up at the sky as well. Tomorrow was a new day and they will be there together. This was how they celebrated. In silence and with the peace of mind that they were alive and here to enjoy the moment with the company of the family they made between the four of them. 

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Normally Ami would be studying like she always did, but after what she and her friends had been through this break was much needed. She was in the kitchen cooking, much to her mother’s surprise when Dr. Mizuno came home. It was a nice change of pace that wasn’t going to happen often, but for both of the Mizuno women it had been nice to catch up with each other instead of leaving messages on the whiteboard.

She couldn’t think of any other way to celebrate than in the company of her mother. Laughing and trading off stories from not seeing each other much.

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Not wanting to be alone, Makoto and Rei decided to have a sleepover and even invited Minako. They had the typical teenage girl sleepover: getting their nails done, eating food, trying out new makeup techniques, everything and anything they could think. When they were starting to crash and actually sleep Rei sent a text to Usagi, reminding their princess everything was going to be alright from now on.

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The pink cell phone buzzed, signally a new messaged had been received, but the owner of the cell phone didn’t hear it. She was fast asleep. Asleep in the protective arms of her fiancé. After spending the whole day and evening with him, she didn’t want to part with him fearing this was all a dream and Mamoru wasn’t really here.

While Usagi was held in her lover’s arms. Usagi gently held Luna in her sleep. She had made many friends ever since becoming Sailor Moon. Never in her dreams did she believe any of the events that have happened would have ever happened to her. It all started when she help the cat in her arms two years ago. Luna will always be her best friend through thick and thin. This was how they celebrated. Sleeping with the arms of the people they love around them.

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dang. I have two favorites. o.o 4 and 5. HONORABLE MENTIONS FROM URANUS TO BOTH 4 AND 5!