A/N: This is a one-shot I wrote to accompany a ppicture I posted on DA. I decided to upload it here for more people to enjoy.
Disclaimer: Sailor Moon (C) Naoko Takeuchi, I own nothing.
Serenity hurried up the glowing staircase. She'd spent more time with Endymion than she'd originally intended, and now she was rushing to return to the Moon before the Inner Senshi woke up. She'd left as soon as she saw the dawn light on the horizon. If the sun rose while she was still on the Earth, then she wouldn't be able to return for an entire day since the Mirror Staircase vanished with the coming of the sun.
She stumbled on the hem of her dress, and gathered the many layers of folds into her hand. She'd had no time to change out of her wedding dress before leaving for the Earth. Jupiter had insisted that she try it on before they went to sleep, since the wedding would happen in less than a month. Serenity hated that. She wanted to marry Endymion, but he was already engaged to Lady Beryl of the Elision Court, and she herself was engaged to the young emperor of the Black Moon clan. She hated disapointing her mother, but she didn't want to marry the young emperor. Oh, if only she could have another chance at love.
Serenity sighed, then continued hurrying up the staircase of a thousand steps. Soon the sun would rise and the moon would set. She would have to wait until tomorrow night to see Endymion again, perhaps longer if the Senshi suspected that she had traveled to the Earth. She hurried off, unaware of the shadow that watched her from one of the mirrors.
Saturn looked on as the Moon Princess ascended the steps, the crescent moon on her forehead glowing brightly. Soon she would be needed. She could sense that the end of both the Moon Kingdom and Elision was drawing near, she only hoped that she could give Serenity another chance. Serenity, the only person to truly accept her, the only person willing to spend time with her. Serenity had often visited Saturn when she was a child. They had talked and laughed together, and Serenity had cried on Saturn's shoulder when she learned that visiting the Earth was forbidden. Saturn wished that she could go back to those times, before the Council of the Moon Kingdom had decreed that Serenity was not to visit any of the Outer Senshi again. She knew that the other Outers missed Serenity just as much as she did, and that they often cried at their lonely posts, with no one there to comfort them.
Soon...soon the end would come...and then a new beginning.