Promise of the Rose
As the vines released her body from Fiore's cursed body she fell limply to the ground; she was on the verge of unconsciousness, her energy level completely zapped to the point not one muscle in her body would obey her command to move. Fiore laughed maliciously then with a mighty yell released his vines like sharp curving blades at her prone body; a flash of red flew past her line of sight toward Fiore, the next thing she knew the vines were scattered around her, but none had pierced her. Voices came to her ear; her friends and Darien were trying to make Fiore understand why she was so important to them. As they explained memories with her the images of their tales filled her mind and tears pricked her eyes, she wished she had the strength to tell them how much they meant to her as well.
No matter what they were saying nothing helped except Darien's words that between his past friendship with Fiore when they were young boys and his love for her he would choose her. Somehow she had touched Darien even before he had met Fiore. The outer shell of Fiore's transformed body shattered returning his body to its original form, or so they thought. Xenian's powers had seeped into him and twisted his mind. With his newfound powers he set the asteroid on a collision course with Earth, this knowledge sent a wave of energy through her. With a good bit of effort she pulled herself from the ground to face the man again. Much to her friend's disagreement she called the silver crystal to her hands and began to transform into the Moon Princess, but before her transformation was complete he grabbed the crystal. The pressure of his grip on the crystal caused her a slight pain, but pushing it aside her hand came up and took hold of his hand; shock ran through him at her gentle touch. She explained to him that he could still be cleansed of Xenian's influence if he would just trust her, however Xenian kept whispering in Fiore's ear that she was lying to him, this made him squeeze harder onto the crystal causing her to expel some power to push him away, with this release of power a memory flowed into Fiore from Serena.
'A little girl walked up to younger Darien and introduced herself as Serena, she asked why he was crying. He told her that his only friend was leaving and was never going to see him again. The young Serena took a rose from the boquet she was holding and explained that they were for her mommy who had just had a baby boy that day, then held out the single rose to him and declared that she would be his friend too.'
Again shock ran through him, the rose Darien had given him all those years ago had been her gift to Darien first due to his leaving Earth. This realization set Fiore's mind free of Xenian's control and the power of the silver crystal filled him and then he was gone. Her next mission was to get the asteroid off of it's collision course, with the help of Darien and her scouts they managed to fix their course, but with so much power running through the crystal it shattered leaving Serena lifeless. Fiore's spirit appeared to a distressed Darien and told him to give the last of his power to the girl to save her, and as Darien's lips touched Serena's the life of Fiore flowed into her and her eyes flickered back to the present much to everyone's relief.
