Disclaimers:
This story, while having ideals, meanings, and religious settings, does not intend on insulting others or proving a point. This story has no relation to anything fiction and is based on the original story Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon.

That Eternal Light that is Our Souls

Tenshi stretched as she looked outwards at the bright sunlight. Amidst her garden of flowers, she felt at peace, as she had for a long, long time.

In the distance loomed the crystallized statue of the embodiment that was Crystal Tokyo. She could feel each one of the senshi, each one of her friends, course through her momentarily as she paused.

She turned away then, to look back along the further reaches, the city bustling with life and energy.

"It's so quiet," Yuki sat down quietly, holding a young two year old boy in his arms. Time had been good to both of them, and each were well off in their path of life.

"You know.. Sometimes I wonder, what would it have been if I hadn't had you?" She turned toward him, smiling. "To know that our daughter wouldn't be born, that we couldn't find love with each other, do you wonder what it'd be like?"

"Frankly, no. There has always been you and there will always be you," Yuki leaned next to her to plant a soft kiss to her cheek. "No one else for me."

She laughed softly. "How is Chino doing?"

"Little rascal finally fell asleep," he drawled, shifting the small form to the other side of his arm. "I think running from Daddy wore him out."

"And did Daddy get worn out?" She smirked at him.

"Daddy always has energy for Mommy," He waggled his eyebrows as she snickered.

"MOMMAA!" Chibitenshi sniffled. "I fell down the stairs!" The little girl, around six, wailed as loud as possible. She'd only fell down a set of two steps but still, she had to milk it. Especially if Mommy and Daddy were being 'friendly'.

"Sigh..." Tenshi stood up and shook her head. "We had to have more kids..."

"Not my fault..." Yuki winced as she stepped on his foot. "Ow, ow, ow.."

"Not my fault, huh? Who's the one that was pushy?" She stuck her tongue out at him.

"Chibitenshi!" The little girl, the mini Yuki if you will, was currently chasing a familiar family dog.

"Can't catch me," Izzy shouted, dodging under Tenshi's feet, causing her to fall behind her.

"Augh!" Tenshi nearly screamed as her youngest daughter gleefully jumped her.

"Gee, got your hands full, Mom?" The tall brunette with aquamarine eyes, smiled openly. The oldest at fifteen, she was well on her way as a person. Tenshi wondered if she would ever awaken. After all, she was said to be the Guardian of Mortality.

"Or something like that," Tenshi rolled her eyes. She merely wanted Himeko to live life her own way without this task.

And herself?

"So, Mom, I was talking with Usagi the other day," Himeko began.

"Uh huh?"

"And she said that her mom had personally met Sailor Azrael and since you knew the Queen since her teenaged years, did you ever meet her?"

"Oh, of course, many, many times."

"Ah huh...So, where is she?"

Tenshi smiled widely. "She could be near, she could be far. She might not even be around."

"Mom..." Himeko said warningly.

"Who do you think she is?"

"What do I think? Mom, I think you know what I think!"

"Well, good for you!" Tenshi beamed. "Right now, I have to tend to Chibitenshi."

"But mom!"

"Himeko!" A very pinked hair girl came flying up, her rabbit 'ears' bobbing at each step. "Come on! You promised to take me shopping!"

"Oh, all right..." Himeko sighed. "This isn't over Mom! Sooner or later, you'll tell me!" And with that, she turned off and ran to Usagi's side, both of them talking animatedly.

And Tenshi watched her leave. "A life again and again...But this time around, we are almost eternal..."

She saw them, just their faces, of her friends, those who were willing to be by her despite her own selfishness. She saw Yuki standing closer still, and the sunlight behind them all, shining.

"A new day dawns and I begin reborn once more," Tenshi smiled wistfully. "This time, I won't let loneliness plague me. I chose this path not just for me but for all the people in this world that need that second chance."

She felt tugging at her hand as Chibitenshi beamed up at her. She held to her daughter's hand, smiling with her.

"Someday, my precious daughter," She said to Chibitenshi who merely smiled at her. "I'll tell you the great story of Azrael, of the power of the heart and soul that exists in each of us. Within us lay the path of life and death and only if we are strong, if we are true and loving, can we reach out for that second chance."

"And someday, when all else has faded into the next, the Eternal Light will rise with each passing season, to bring life again and again so that our souls are forever eternal..."

"For that is what the Eternal Light is, Chibitenshi," She told her little girl, seeing Yuki cooing at their son. "When we leave, we will always return. Not in the same form or the same lifetime but we will come back. Souls are things that will exist forever, until the time comes that we may finally all meet as one in that Celestial Star..."

And far away, that Eternal Light, that sole person who had the power to renew life just by existing, continued to live unaware of the past and time of which a decision was made between life and death, between a mother and a daughter.

Who are we to say that life ends in this one that we live? If we think like that, then what do we have to hope for? Our souls, our hearts, make us who we are. There is darkness and light, loneliness and kinships, yin and yang. We follow a path in each lifetime that is different, based upon our decisions, our own inkling of existence. And while faces fade into the crowd, people are forgotten and history falls further back, may we return to each life with that single strand of hope renewed so that we may live once more...