Transformations of Time
A Sailor Moon fanfic by Beholder

Standard disclaimers apply.  I do not own Sailor Moon, those characters are owned by 
Naoko Takeuchi.  All other characters are owned by me.

Thanks go to:
DQBunny, Lady Snowbreeze, Lady Amethyst, and many others for editing/critiquing
DQBunny, Ajax, Elizabeth Turkwood, Tim Nolan, and John "P-chan" Laughlin for 
writing some very good stories that inspired me to write this, and some ideas which I 
borrowed from those stories, changed and incorporated into mine.

Notes:  I am using the Japanese names.  I have modeled the Japanese high school 
calendar after the USA high school calendar, just because I was more familiar with it and 
since I based my timelines on it, it's too late to change it now.  I also do not know how 
Japanese high school graduations go, so once again, I modeled it after my own.

Please send any comments and criticism to:  beholder@icwf.org




Prologue:  Catching Up With the Senshi

	Rei looked into the mirror as she finished buttoning the top buttons of her red silk 
blouse.  She looked up at herself, and quickly shrugged, letting the blouse naturally rest 
on her shoulders, then smiled and quickly sighed.
	A faint knock came from the door to her bedroom.  "Come in!" she shouted.
	Mamoru pushed the door open, hesitantly at first, then seeing Rei was decent, he 
pushed the door wide open. Mamoru was dressed in a blue Polo t-shirt and nicely-pressed 
khaki pants.   "The ceremony is gonna start soon.  Are you ready?" he asked.
	"One sec," she replied, then walked to her dresser, opened an ornate jewelry box, 
dug around for a bit, selected a gold necklace with a small open heart pendant, and put it 
on.  "Ready!" she announced, then walked out of the room.
	She and Mamoru walked down a hallway, then opened a door that led to the 
courtyard of the Hikawa Shrine.  Outside, Rei's grandfather and Yuuichirou were tending 
to the grounds.  "We're heading out now, grandfather!  I'll be out late, so don't wait up!" 
Rei called to her grandfather.  Both he and Yuuichirou looked up briefly to wave and 
smile at her.
	Rei and Mamoru walked down the high stone stairs that led to the shrine proper to 
Mamoru's red Corvette that was parked right along the street in front of the shrine.  They 
climbed into the car and sped off through the streets.
	A half an hour later, the red Corvette pulled up to the parking lot of Juuban High 
School.  Dozens of people were pouring into the high school gymnasium, all dressed in 
semi-formal clothing of all kinds.  Mamoru climbed out of the car, ran to the other side, 
and opened the door for Rei.  She climbed out with a grin on her face, and watched as 
Mamoru closed the door behind her, then offered her his arm.  "My, aren't we being 
chivalrous?" she said with a hint of sarcasm.  They began to walk into the building.
	"I wouldn't be a proper escort otherwise," he said with a grin of his own.  "Just 
keep your eyes peeled for Usako."
	"No problem, Mamoru-san.  If she saw me on your arm, she'd probably go into 
one of her fits."
	Rei and Mamoru walked into the gymnasium and saw that the seats were all 
mostly filled.  A stage was at one end of the gymnasium with two sets of stairs in front of 
the stage at each side and a red velvet curtain drawn closed, and along each side were two 
dozen pull-out bleachers.  Most of the bleachers were already filled, except for the ends 
that were furthest from the stage.  On the floor of the gymnasium where the volleyball 
games were usually held, about forty rows of chairs were set up with an aisle between the 
chairs and the bleachers as well as an aisle dividing the chairs into two sections.  Rei and 
Mamoru walked down the center aisle, searching for some good seats, when a familiar 
voice called out.
	"Mamoru-san!  Rei-chan!"
	Rei and Mamoru looked around for the voice, then saw in the center of the sea of 
folding chairs Hotaru and Setsuna, smiling and waving.  Rei and Mamoru quickly moved 
to join them and saw that Hotaru and Setsuna had saved two seats for them, right along 
the center aisle.  "Hello, Hotaru-chan and Setsuna-san," Rei said with a smile as she and 
Mamoru sat.
	"It was good of you both to come," Mamoru said.
	"It was our pleasure, especially after Usagi-chan asked us so nicely," Setsuna 
began.
	"And persistently," Hotaru added.
	"Usagi can be very persistent," Rei said, rolling her eyes.  Mamoru chuckled, then 
the others joined him.
	The other people entering the gymnasium had been making a fairly dull roar, of 
private conversations and of high heels and shoes tromping along the wooden, lacquered 
floor.  The dull roar was beginning to die down now.
	"It's starting," Hotaru whispered, filled with anticipation.
	"This is a very memorable day," Setsuna added, looking over to Rei and Mamoru 
who returned her glances, then all eyes focused on the stage.
	The curtains began to slowly open.  A podium was first to be revealed with the 
Juuban High School logo on the front of the podium.  As the curtain continued to part, 
several chairs on one side and behind the podium were revealed, and very important 
people in suits and dresses were seated in those chairs.  On the other side of the podium 
revealed a young woman with sea-green hair holding a violin on a stool and behind her 
was a young blonde woman seated at a grand piano.  The curtain opened completely and 
a few seconds later, the women began to play "Pomp and Circumstance".
	After a few bars of their beautiful rendition of the song, Rei leaned over to 
Setsuna.  "Do you have any idea how Usagi talked Haruka-san and Michiru-chan into 
playing?"
	"Hai," Setsuna replied.  "It didn't take much.  Apparently, Haruka-san and 
Michiru-chan have many fans at the school.  They were overwhelmed with requests and 
eventually agreed."
	"I think they're a perfect choice."
	"Hai, Rei-chan."
	As Michiru and Haruka continued their duet, a double-door opened in a corner of 
the gymnasium, adjacent to the stage.  A line of young men and women, dressed in robes 
and with mortarboards on their heads with tassles drooping over the left side.  The young 
men and women walked out and began to fill the first several rows of folding chairs on 
the floor.
	"There's Minako-chan!" Hotaru whispered.
	Minako looked over her shoulder and caught Rei and Mamoru.  She flashed a 
quick "V" then focused back on the event at hand.  Rei watched the line coming in, but 
soon, the view was obstructed by the first people who came in.  After a few minutes, 
Michiru and Haruka concluded their song and the robed men and women sat down.
	The next fifteen minutes or so seemed like an eternity to Rei, as various school 
officals welcomed them to the "Class of '98 Graduation Ceremonies at Juuban High 
School" and gave speeches on why this class was so special.  Rei yawned.  She'd heard 
pretty much all the same speeches at the T*A High School Graduation Ceremony 
yesterday when she was the one in the robe and mortarboard.  Her interest perked up 
again when they began to hand out the diplomas.
	Several people that Rei didn't know walked up on stage on the right side, walked 
across to the podium, accepted their diploma from the school headmaster or principal 
(Rei never knew which term was used here), shook hands, walked across for a photo op, 
then walked down the steps on the left side and returned to their original seat.
	"Aino Minako!"
	Rei began to smile at the mention of her friend's name as Minako walked up the 
stairs gracefully, then accepted her diploma.  As Minako turned to walk down the stairs, 
her mind began to wander, thinking about her past achievements and when she and the 
other senshi nearly lost her.