So all of the usual disclaimers apply here...etc...Okay, here is the second chapter. Keep reading and reviewing. Thanks for your input!
Promises Fulfilled
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They stood on the balcony; the pre dawn light cast a strange glow over the gardens. He had a preoccupied look upon his face as he sipped his coffee. Ever since he'd received that message the day before from his generals he'd seemed so distant, and he refused to talk civilly about it. She sighed, shaking her head. It was now or never.
"Endy, what's bothering you?" She asked daring to peek out of the corner of her eye at him. His expression grew hard.
"What do you mean Serenity?" He asked, calmly taking another sip as he turned away.
Serenity turned to him her eyes aflame, "What do I mean? You have spent the last twenty-four hours in a distracted, temperamental daze. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON ENDYMION?" She grabbed him by the shoulder and spun him around to face her. Angered, she wanted to get to the center of this storm.
He scowled, his voice rising, "A war Princess, one that you seemingly have not concerned yourself with. A war of good versus evil, but unlike in your damned fairy tales the good is losing these battles and evil may prevail in the end. The fate of the universe is resting upon the lives of two people Serenity. That's what's bothering me. That is what's on the minds of every other person in this damned kingdom. You and me Serenity! Our love, our hopes, our dreams!"
She turned away the tears coursing down her cheeks. Of course, she knew, she just hadn't been willing to admit it. Ever since that kiss they'd shared a week before on this same balcony during the ball, it seemed every eye was on her, everyone thrilled with the news of their engagement, asking when the wedding was to be. She didn't know what to do, what to say. She loved him, he loved her. What more were they all asking for? She wasn't ready for marriage. She was only 16! He was nearly 21! She knew with all of her heart that Endymion was whom she wanted to spend the rest of her life with, that she wanted him to be the father of her children, but she wasn't ready for the responsibilities of marriage, or of the thrown!
"You think I don't know that Endy? You think I don't feel the pressure as well? I love you, and right now that's all I can give, I..." Her voice was lost in her tears.
He wrapped his arms around her, resting his chin on her shoulder.
"Serenity, my love, I understand what you are going through right now. I know you don't feel that you are ready to marry just yet, and I will respect that decision, but Beryl and her troops are advancing everyday upon us. She will destroy us if we do not do something! Anything! Our men and women are being slaughtered on the outskirts of the solar system. General Malachite is not sure we can sustain many more losses."
"Like I said, I love you Endy, that's all I know right now. The war just seems so far away."
She turned in his embrace and wrapped her arms around him. He buried his face in her soft tresses.
"I know Sere, if only it would stay that way..."
*********
Jupiter ran after him, "Tuxedo Mask! Damn you, you fool!"
She kicked violently at the soft dirt, raising a maelstrom of dust.
Sailor Venus shook her head, "What are we supposed to do now? We can't just sit here and...let them..." She stopped in mid sentence, her eyes on Lita, who had collapsed to the ground.
"Let them die, you mean." Mercury choked on her own words.
"STOP IT! Just shut up! I don't want to hear it! We need to stop acting like sniffling school girls, we're Sailor Scouts, born, bred, and trained, and we're too much of a group of scrappers to just give up like this!" Sailor Mars shook a fist at the skies above, "Emerald you bitch, where the hell are you hiding now?"
Ami put a restraining hand on Mars's arm, "Raye, she's gone, they're all gone. I can't get any readings. We have no idea where she took Darien and Serena."
"What the hell are we going to do then?" She bitterly asked, repeating Venus's earlier question. "What can we do? We don't know where they are, how to follow them. What are Luna and Artemis going to say? And Reeni? What are we going to do without them?" Raye picked up a stone and heaved it with all of her might into the swirling ocean below.
"I just feel so damned helpless. Like I could've done something more."
"Join the club." Mina muttered staring off into the distance, her hands on her hips. Tears spilling onto her cheeks from her soft gray eyes.
Lita wrapped her arms around her knees and glared up at the clouds, the rain pelting against her face. This couldn't be happening. Sailor Moon was their leader, their Princess, the one they'd searched so long for, right under their noses the entire time. She was their friend, their confidant... she couldn't be gone. Jupiter didn't want to face tomorrow if there was to be no more laughter...
And Darien...
She smiled sadly as the tears welled up in her eyes.
"All we can do is hope and have faith."
*********
The nebulae in which he was now lost was a time stream of memories he didn't want to have to face.
"SERENA!?!?" His voice cracked with his weariness. He stumbled foreword as images of his past assaulted him from all directions...
"Complete amnesia, no recollection of his past whatsoever."
The orphanage...
"Help me Tuxedo Mask...."
Serena... OH SERENA!
He had to find Serena! He had to!
The grief came back to him, like a cancer choking his lungs, his throat, his heart. There had not been a day when it hadn't come back to him like this, with knifing pain, yet he hadn't allowed himself to give in, for fear of losing her forever... and without her laughter, without the wry glint of amusement in her eyes, without the scent of her hair and the solace of her arms wrapped around him, there was only night without end. He had to find her here! He just had to! Despite doing as he'd been forewarned to do, she'd still been taken from him- and he would not let her become one of the lost souls left to haunt his dreams and the shadows of his days... for life would lose all meaning without her...
"The Rainbow crystals will be mine!"
The Negaverse...
"Serena's... Sailor Moon?"
The Doom Tree...
"Who are you?"
Beryl...
"Oh Darien, come back to me!"
The Moon Kingdom...
"We are free."
"NOOOO!" He fell to his knees, his head buried in his hands. A sob escaped his throat.
"Leave me alone!"
Her irritating laugh filled the air.
"But we haven't even gotten to the best part yet..." Emerald cackled.
"I don't fucking want to see anymore!"
He glared at her and she returned the gesture, his arm throbbing with pain. What if he couldn't find Serena? What if... He took a deep breath and let it out slowly. No! She was not dead! She couldn't be.... he would rather die a thousand deaths than to ever have to face a day without knowing she was out there, alive, and breathing. Everything was going so damned fast. One moment she'd been lying in his arms, her lips pressed against his, the next she was being swept off into some distant dimension...
"Where did you take Sailor Moon?!"
Emerald snorted, "No, you listen here you impertinent, insignificant little upstart, soon the darkness shall overpower your pathetic diminutive planet Earth and the Negamoon shall reign. And I will personally see to it that your precious Moon princess will be no more!"
Darien stood up slowly; vehemently glaring at Emerald as he brushed his sweat soaked bangs out of his despondent sapphire eyes, "Over my dead body."
She smiled coldly, a dark glint to her dead eyes. "So be it."
*********
Malachite slammed his fist against the wall.
"Damn it!"
The boy bowed his head in silence, fearing the wrath of the great Earth general. The news was not good.
"Seven-thousand troops wiped out in a single attack, approximately one million civilian deaths as of oh-two hundred hours... the fighting continues in the northern..."
Prince Endymion rested his head in his hands. His people were dying. No longer able to listen to the boy as he read the latest list of casualties and damage, he closed his eyes, trying to shut out the images of carnage and blood shed...
What were they going to do? It seemed like a no win situation. With each victory, Beryl seemingly became stronger, millions upon millions were dying throughout the Universe under her satanic rule, and one by one, the planets of the Silver Millennium were falling...
Serenity was waiting for him on the balcony. They were to attend a ball in honor of their engagement. His beautiful Sere... How her mere touch sent a tingling spark of fire up his spine, setting his desires aflame. How the slightest smile could make his pulse race with anticipation... and her eyes... no words could express the depth and understanding, the love radiating from those seemingly windows to her soul...
"Sir?"
Startled from his daze, Endymion looked up. "Yes?"
"There is more yet... during the attack, they destroyed our planetary shield system. Somehow, Beryl is finding out our battle strategies before we even finalize them; it's beyond even our central intelligence. I'm sorry sir, but the news gets worse..."
"Yes?" He asked impatiently once more.
The boy gulped, sweat began to bead on his forehead. "The troops report that the capital city has been demolished and... the fighting is soon to spread to the Moon, which appears to be Beryl's primary target..."
*********
('Don't shut me out of your life! I don't care what happens to me, I just want to be with you! Even if the world collapses, I just want us to be together!')
Tuxedo Mask slammed into the wall with a cry of pain.
He flinched as her irritating laugh assaulted his ears. Emerald continued to bombard him with grisly bolts of power...
("Every moment I spend with you seems like a dream..."
He took her hands in his, the wind whipping his hair about his face, and smiled, "Ditto.")
Darien spun in mid air as he rappelled off of the wall, a shower of roses exploding from his grasp, striking their target with deadly accuracy...
(He slid to the floor, his back up against the door. Her sobs could be heard from the other side... "Why does it have to be this way?")
"Enough with the games cape boy, fight like a man..." She snarled as she flew back, her arms waving high above her head... as she sent a brilliant flash of light pummeling towards him...
Darien did not see it coming. At the last possible moment he whirled sharply to his left, but was unable to dodge the oncoming carnage.
He was thrown across the room by the blast, crumpling to the ground, nearly unconscious.
'I've got to get up... I must save her...'
He tried to stand, only to collapse once again under the strain. His energy drained he could feel consciousness leaving him. The pain was almost unbearable. He couldn't go on anymore.
'Darien, please, you must... try again. I believe in you!'
Could that be?
"Serena!" He moaned, only to berate himself. It was just another one of Emerald's mind games...
'No, Darien it is me, please you must be strong. Believe in the power of our love. It is all that can get us through these hells...'
"Where are you?" he asked, his voice no more than a hoarse whisper.
'You will find me, in time.'
He rolled onto his side, confused... Emerald's irritating cackle echoing off of the chamber walls as she gloated in victory, "The great Prince of Earth... nothing but a mere mortal, weakened by his own pathetic emotions..Ha...."
"I can't do it alone..."
'I am never far from you.'
The memories fading into his past he flexed his hand as he tested his pain.
It was now or never. He could either lay here and die, leaving her, the scouts and the Universe in the hands of the enemy, or he could at least go down fighting...
'You can do this, I'll stand by you to the grave and beyond...'
He lay there a moment longer, pulling every once of strength from his reserves... feeling her devotion and will power wash over him, revitalized, he rose silently to his feet, catching Emerald off guard. Within moments, he felt the power coursing through his veins, howling in his ears as it emancipated in the surrounding air...
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" Emerald writhed in pain as she was bombarded by Tuxedo Mask's effulgent, bursts of energy. He fell to his knees, his strength quickly depleting...
For their past...
For the present day injustices...
And for their future...
She fell back, her entire being scorched, bloodied and battered she disappeared, sobbing, her last cry ringing in his ears...
"I'll be back."
*********
Lita ran over the hill, towards Raye's temple. Two days had passed since Darien and Serena had been lost.
Life had gone on. Difficult, yes... but...
She shook her head as the tears began to glisten in her eyes... NO!
She sighed as she spotted Ami ahead of her and waved.
"Have you spoken to Artemis or Luna yet today?"
Lita shook her head once more, "No, but Mina said that they'd discovered an entrance into some type of dimensional warp zone that they think might lead us to where Emerald may have taken Darien and Serena. However, it's doubtful. It may just be some type of time disruption from the gravitational pull of a black hole."
Ami laughed, "Massive words coming from you!"
Lita cracked a smile.
"Hey you guys! What's up?" Mina poked her head out of Raye's window.
"Get your asses in gear, we have Sailor business to attend to!" That had to be Raye...
Ami grabbed Lita's arm and pulled her foreword.
"So, how is the parental plan coming along?"
Ami ran a hand through her voluptuous, cropped hair. "They're falling for it. But I don't know how much longer we can keep up the charade. It's difficult making the audio messages from Serena to her parents. And what are we going to do if we don't get them back within the next two weeks? The tutoring camp that Ms. Hiruna told us about lets out on the twenty-first, and her parents will obviously expect her to come home... I just hope that..." She swiped at her eyes. They'd all tried so hard to be brave. What if they'd truly lost Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask? They couldn't fight the Negamoon without them! It seemed like their situation was hopeless. They had no idea as to where to even start the search! Lita placed a comforting hand on Ami's arm. "We'll find them. It's destiny. They're meant to live on. As are we... we just have got to keep it together girl."
Ami nodded slowly as her gaze drifted up to the blue skies above. The two friends stood silent for a moment. A vigil for their lost friends, a plea for their safe return sent out on unseen winds... crossing time and space...
Mina appeared flustered, "You guys I swear Raye is blowing some major steam and..."
"HURRY IT UP YOU SCOUTS ARE BECOMING MORE AND MORE PUDDING BRAINED LIKE SERENA EVERYDAY!"
The three friends exchanged amused glances and smiled. Laughing hysterically, they sprinted towards the temple entrance.
Perhaps, Ami thought sadly, Life could go on... Perhaps...
*********
The Earth was lying in waste, his parents were dead, and the Moon Kingdom was to be no more.
It couldn't be happening. Not now. Not ever.
Serenity gazed into his eyes as their final moments neared. Fairy tales never ended like this...
A sob escaped her throat as he pulled her closer and pressed his lips hard against hers.
Passion, understanding, and a sense of eternity lingered in the air as she pulled back just far enough so that their lips were no longer touching.
"I love you Endy." She whispered softly into his ear.
"And I love you Sere."
He kissed her forehead gently, his fingers tracing her tears...
Her cackle could be heard in the distance, as the air of death grew nearer. The beginning of the end... His cry of terror barely could be heard over the rumble of thunder as Endymion was torn from her embrace by the torrential forces of the nearby explosions. Serenity fell to the marble floor, blood trickling down the side of her face as she was hit by falling shards of glass.
"Endymion! What is happening???" She shrieked in confusion.
"Run Sere, Just run!" He yelped.
She staggered to her feet, Her eyes wide and brimming with tears.
"No Endy! I won't leave you!"
Throwing caution aside she took a running start and leapt off of the balcony...
"Serenity NO!"
"Endymion!"
...She hit an updraft of the raging storms and strained to reach him... their fingertips met, just before their eyes...
And a blast of infinite darkness struck them as they both fell back into oblivion...
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So there you go. The finale will be up within a few weeks. It's finished, it just needs some editing since I wrote it so long ago. Stay tuned folks. There will be more to come.
Promises Fulfilled
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They stood on the balcony; the pre dawn light cast a strange glow over the gardens. He had a preoccupied look upon his face as he sipped his coffee. Ever since he'd received that message the day before from his generals he'd seemed so distant, and he refused to talk civilly about it. She sighed, shaking her head. It was now or never.
"Endy, what's bothering you?" She asked daring to peek out of the corner of her eye at him. His expression grew hard.
"What do you mean Serenity?" He asked, calmly taking another sip as he turned away.
Serenity turned to him her eyes aflame, "What do I mean? You have spent the last twenty-four hours in a distracted, temperamental daze. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON ENDYMION?" She grabbed him by the shoulder and spun him around to face her. Angered, she wanted to get to the center of this storm.
He scowled, his voice rising, "A war Princess, one that you seemingly have not concerned yourself with. A war of good versus evil, but unlike in your damned fairy tales the good is losing these battles and evil may prevail in the end. The fate of the universe is resting upon the lives of two people Serenity. That's what's bothering me. That is what's on the minds of every other person in this damned kingdom. You and me Serenity! Our love, our hopes, our dreams!"
She turned away the tears coursing down her cheeks. Of course, she knew, she just hadn't been willing to admit it. Ever since that kiss they'd shared a week before on this same balcony during the ball, it seemed every eye was on her, everyone thrilled with the news of their engagement, asking when the wedding was to be. She didn't know what to do, what to say. She loved him, he loved her. What more were they all asking for? She wasn't ready for marriage. She was only 16! He was nearly 21! She knew with all of her heart that Endymion was whom she wanted to spend the rest of her life with, that she wanted him to be the father of her children, but she wasn't ready for the responsibilities of marriage, or of the thrown!
"You think I don't know that Endy? You think I don't feel the pressure as well? I love you, and right now that's all I can give, I..." Her voice was lost in her tears.
He wrapped his arms around her, resting his chin on her shoulder.
"Serenity, my love, I understand what you are going through right now. I know you don't feel that you are ready to marry just yet, and I will respect that decision, but Beryl and her troops are advancing everyday upon us. She will destroy us if we do not do something! Anything! Our men and women are being slaughtered on the outskirts of the solar system. General Malachite is not sure we can sustain many more losses."
"Like I said, I love you Endy, that's all I know right now. The war just seems so far away."
She turned in his embrace and wrapped her arms around him. He buried his face in her soft tresses.
"I know Sere, if only it would stay that way..."
*********
Jupiter ran after him, "Tuxedo Mask! Damn you, you fool!"
She kicked violently at the soft dirt, raising a maelstrom of dust.
Sailor Venus shook her head, "What are we supposed to do now? We can't just sit here and...let them..." She stopped in mid sentence, her eyes on Lita, who had collapsed to the ground.
"Let them die, you mean." Mercury choked on her own words.
"STOP IT! Just shut up! I don't want to hear it! We need to stop acting like sniffling school girls, we're Sailor Scouts, born, bred, and trained, and we're too much of a group of scrappers to just give up like this!" Sailor Mars shook a fist at the skies above, "Emerald you bitch, where the hell are you hiding now?"
Ami put a restraining hand on Mars's arm, "Raye, she's gone, they're all gone. I can't get any readings. We have no idea where she took Darien and Serena."
"What the hell are we going to do then?" She bitterly asked, repeating Venus's earlier question. "What can we do? We don't know where they are, how to follow them. What are Luna and Artemis going to say? And Reeni? What are we going to do without them?" Raye picked up a stone and heaved it with all of her might into the swirling ocean below.
"I just feel so damned helpless. Like I could've done something more."
"Join the club." Mina muttered staring off into the distance, her hands on her hips. Tears spilling onto her cheeks from her soft gray eyes.
Lita wrapped her arms around her knees and glared up at the clouds, the rain pelting against her face. This couldn't be happening. Sailor Moon was their leader, their Princess, the one they'd searched so long for, right under their noses the entire time. She was their friend, their confidant... she couldn't be gone. Jupiter didn't want to face tomorrow if there was to be no more laughter...
And Darien...
She smiled sadly as the tears welled up in her eyes.
"All we can do is hope and have faith."
*********
The nebulae in which he was now lost was a time stream of memories he didn't want to have to face.
"SERENA!?!?" His voice cracked with his weariness. He stumbled foreword as images of his past assaulted him from all directions...
"Complete amnesia, no recollection of his past whatsoever."
The orphanage...
"Help me Tuxedo Mask...."
Serena... OH SERENA!
He had to find Serena! He had to!
The grief came back to him, like a cancer choking his lungs, his throat, his heart. There had not been a day when it hadn't come back to him like this, with knifing pain, yet he hadn't allowed himself to give in, for fear of losing her forever... and without her laughter, without the wry glint of amusement in her eyes, without the scent of her hair and the solace of her arms wrapped around him, there was only night without end. He had to find her here! He just had to! Despite doing as he'd been forewarned to do, she'd still been taken from him- and he would not let her become one of the lost souls left to haunt his dreams and the shadows of his days... for life would lose all meaning without her...
"The Rainbow crystals will be mine!"
The Negaverse...
"Serena's... Sailor Moon?"
The Doom Tree...
"Who are you?"
Beryl...
"Oh Darien, come back to me!"
The Moon Kingdom...
"We are free."
"NOOOO!" He fell to his knees, his head buried in his hands. A sob escaped his throat.
"Leave me alone!"
Her irritating laugh filled the air.
"But we haven't even gotten to the best part yet..." Emerald cackled.
"I don't fucking want to see anymore!"
He glared at her and she returned the gesture, his arm throbbing with pain. What if he couldn't find Serena? What if... He took a deep breath and let it out slowly. No! She was not dead! She couldn't be.... he would rather die a thousand deaths than to ever have to face a day without knowing she was out there, alive, and breathing. Everything was going so damned fast. One moment she'd been lying in his arms, her lips pressed against his, the next she was being swept off into some distant dimension...
"Where did you take Sailor Moon?!"
Emerald snorted, "No, you listen here you impertinent, insignificant little upstart, soon the darkness shall overpower your pathetic diminutive planet Earth and the Negamoon shall reign. And I will personally see to it that your precious Moon princess will be no more!"
Darien stood up slowly; vehemently glaring at Emerald as he brushed his sweat soaked bangs out of his despondent sapphire eyes, "Over my dead body."
She smiled coldly, a dark glint to her dead eyes. "So be it."
*********
Malachite slammed his fist against the wall.
"Damn it!"
The boy bowed his head in silence, fearing the wrath of the great Earth general. The news was not good.
"Seven-thousand troops wiped out in a single attack, approximately one million civilian deaths as of oh-two hundred hours... the fighting continues in the northern..."
Prince Endymion rested his head in his hands. His people were dying. No longer able to listen to the boy as he read the latest list of casualties and damage, he closed his eyes, trying to shut out the images of carnage and blood shed...
What were they going to do? It seemed like a no win situation. With each victory, Beryl seemingly became stronger, millions upon millions were dying throughout the Universe under her satanic rule, and one by one, the planets of the Silver Millennium were falling...
Serenity was waiting for him on the balcony. They were to attend a ball in honor of their engagement. His beautiful Sere... How her mere touch sent a tingling spark of fire up his spine, setting his desires aflame. How the slightest smile could make his pulse race with anticipation... and her eyes... no words could express the depth and understanding, the love radiating from those seemingly windows to her soul...
"Sir?"
Startled from his daze, Endymion looked up. "Yes?"
"There is more yet... during the attack, they destroyed our planetary shield system. Somehow, Beryl is finding out our battle strategies before we even finalize them; it's beyond even our central intelligence. I'm sorry sir, but the news gets worse..."
"Yes?" He asked impatiently once more.
The boy gulped, sweat began to bead on his forehead. "The troops report that the capital city has been demolished and... the fighting is soon to spread to the Moon, which appears to be Beryl's primary target..."
*********
('Don't shut me out of your life! I don't care what happens to me, I just want to be with you! Even if the world collapses, I just want us to be together!')
Tuxedo Mask slammed into the wall with a cry of pain.
He flinched as her irritating laugh assaulted his ears. Emerald continued to bombard him with grisly bolts of power...
("Every moment I spend with you seems like a dream..."
He took her hands in his, the wind whipping his hair about his face, and smiled, "Ditto.")
Darien spun in mid air as he rappelled off of the wall, a shower of roses exploding from his grasp, striking their target with deadly accuracy...
(He slid to the floor, his back up against the door. Her sobs could be heard from the other side... "Why does it have to be this way?")
"Enough with the games cape boy, fight like a man..." She snarled as she flew back, her arms waving high above her head... as she sent a brilliant flash of light pummeling towards him...
Darien did not see it coming. At the last possible moment he whirled sharply to his left, but was unable to dodge the oncoming carnage.
He was thrown across the room by the blast, crumpling to the ground, nearly unconscious.
'I've got to get up... I must save her...'
He tried to stand, only to collapse once again under the strain. His energy drained he could feel consciousness leaving him. The pain was almost unbearable. He couldn't go on anymore.
'Darien, please, you must... try again. I believe in you!'
Could that be?
"Serena!" He moaned, only to berate himself. It was just another one of Emerald's mind games...
'No, Darien it is me, please you must be strong. Believe in the power of our love. It is all that can get us through these hells...'
"Where are you?" he asked, his voice no more than a hoarse whisper.
'You will find me, in time.'
He rolled onto his side, confused... Emerald's irritating cackle echoing off of the chamber walls as she gloated in victory, "The great Prince of Earth... nothing but a mere mortal, weakened by his own pathetic emotions..Ha...."
"I can't do it alone..."
'I am never far from you.'
The memories fading into his past he flexed his hand as he tested his pain.
It was now or never. He could either lay here and die, leaving her, the scouts and the Universe in the hands of the enemy, or he could at least go down fighting...
'You can do this, I'll stand by you to the grave and beyond...'
He lay there a moment longer, pulling every once of strength from his reserves... feeling her devotion and will power wash over him, revitalized, he rose silently to his feet, catching Emerald off guard. Within moments, he felt the power coursing through his veins, howling in his ears as it emancipated in the surrounding air...
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" Emerald writhed in pain as she was bombarded by Tuxedo Mask's effulgent, bursts of energy. He fell to his knees, his strength quickly depleting...
For their past...
For the present day injustices...
And for their future...
She fell back, her entire being scorched, bloodied and battered she disappeared, sobbing, her last cry ringing in his ears...
"I'll be back."
*********
Lita ran over the hill, towards Raye's temple. Two days had passed since Darien and Serena had been lost.
Life had gone on. Difficult, yes... but...
She shook her head as the tears began to glisten in her eyes... NO!
She sighed as she spotted Ami ahead of her and waved.
"Have you spoken to Artemis or Luna yet today?"
Lita shook her head once more, "No, but Mina said that they'd discovered an entrance into some type of dimensional warp zone that they think might lead us to where Emerald may have taken Darien and Serena. However, it's doubtful. It may just be some type of time disruption from the gravitational pull of a black hole."
Ami laughed, "Massive words coming from you!"
Lita cracked a smile.
"Hey you guys! What's up?" Mina poked her head out of Raye's window.
"Get your asses in gear, we have Sailor business to attend to!" That had to be Raye...
Ami grabbed Lita's arm and pulled her foreword.
"So, how is the parental plan coming along?"
Ami ran a hand through her voluptuous, cropped hair. "They're falling for it. But I don't know how much longer we can keep up the charade. It's difficult making the audio messages from Serena to her parents. And what are we going to do if we don't get them back within the next two weeks? The tutoring camp that Ms. Hiruna told us about lets out on the twenty-first, and her parents will obviously expect her to come home... I just hope that..." She swiped at her eyes. They'd all tried so hard to be brave. What if they'd truly lost Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask? They couldn't fight the Negamoon without them! It seemed like their situation was hopeless. They had no idea as to where to even start the search! Lita placed a comforting hand on Ami's arm. "We'll find them. It's destiny. They're meant to live on. As are we... we just have got to keep it together girl."
Ami nodded slowly as her gaze drifted up to the blue skies above. The two friends stood silent for a moment. A vigil for their lost friends, a plea for their safe return sent out on unseen winds... crossing time and space...
Mina appeared flustered, "You guys I swear Raye is blowing some major steam and..."
"HURRY IT UP YOU SCOUTS ARE BECOMING MORE AND MORE PUDDING BRAINED LIKE SERENA EVERYDAY!"
The three friends exchanged amused glances and smiled. Laughing hysterically, they sprinted towards the temple entrance.
Perhaps, Ami thought sadly, Life could go on... Perhaps...
*********
The Earth was lying in waste, his parents were dead, and the Moon Kingdom was to be no more.
It couldn't be happening. Not now. Not ever.
Serenity gazed into his eyes as their final moments neared. Fairy tales never ended like this...
A sob escaped her throat as he pulled her closer and pressed his lips hard against hers.
Passion, understanding, and a sense of eternity lingered in the air as she pulled back just far enough so that their lips were no longer touching.
"I love you Endy." She whispered softly into his ear.
"And I love you Sere."
He kissed her forehead gently, his fingers tracing her tears...
Her cackle could be heard in the distance, as the air of death grew nearer. The beginning of the end... His cry of terror barely could be heard over the rumble of thunder as Endymion was torn from her embrace by the torrential forces of the nearby explosions. Serenity fell to the marble floor, blood trickling down the side of her face as she was hit by falling shards of glass.
"Endymion! What is happening???" She shrieked in confusion.
"Run Sere, Just run!" He yelped.
She staggered to her feet, Her eyes wide and brimming with tears.
"No Endy! I won't leave you!"
Throwing caution aside she took a running start and leapt off of the balcony...
"Serenity NO!"
"Endymion!"
...She hit an updraft of the raging storms and strained to reach him... their fingertips met, just before their eyes...
And a blast of infinite darkness struck them as they both fell back into oblivion...
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So there you go. The finale will be up within a few weeks. It's finished, it just needs some editing since I wrote it so long ago. Stay tuned folks. There will be more to come.
