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CHAPTER 3: PARTING BRINGS SUCH SORROW
All three of her family members stared for a while, not knowing what to make of the news they just received, when suddenly the silence was broken by Sammy's laughing. Actually, it was more like guffawing. Her mother began to chuckle as well, trying her best to cover her mouth with her hand but failing. Serena's dad just rolled his eyes at her.
"I can't believe you called us all together to tell us some lame and unimportant joke." Serena began to sink under her father's glare and reprimand when a voice reminded her of the horrible monsters that she faced almost every day. Compared to them, her father was nothing. As she watched her father begin to turn his back to walk out of the room she yelled after him.
"DADDY!" Serena began to tear up at the thought of her father walking out on her. As for him, he hadn't heard her call him that in years. Something was amiss.
"I can prove it!" That immediately shut up Sammy and his mother as they heard her announcement.
"Now Serena," Her mother wiped a tear from her eye and tried to calm herself down. Grabbing her broach out of her pocket, she raised it in the air and yelled the well-worn incantation.
"MOON COSMIC POWER!"
Swirls of lights and ribbon-looking things began to circle her body before they formed her Sailor fuku. As she landed on the ground, fully clad in her outfit, she could see the shocked looks on her family's faces. She held out the famous "V" sign and stood proud and tall for the ones she loved the most.
Her father stood silent like he normally did when his children revealed to him that they were super heroes. Sammy chanted, "cool," while Ilene burst out in tears because her daughter had been the one to defeat all those big ugly monsters that attacked the city.
"My baby girl is a super hero," Ilene wailed. "I'm so sorry that you had to fight those ugly monsters. Please, promise me that you won't ever do it again!" Serena just laughed into her mother's hair as she tried her best to comfort her. Under the noise of her mother's wailing, Serena could hear wood cracking. She realized her mistake and slowly rose from in front of her mother to face the very handsome and very ticked off Tuxedo Mask.
He slowly made his way to her side before saying anything. "I hope you have a good explanation for this."
Serena's father was getting very angry at the way this strange man was talking to his daughter. His face was getting red and his fists were clenched...just waiting for the perfect moment to...
"I do." She said before turning back to her mother.
"Well?" he said impatiently with his arms crossed over his chest.
"Darien, I'd like you to meet my family." He was apalled that she used his real name in front non-super heroes.
Trying his best to keep control of his temper he warned, "I hardly think this is the time and place to..."
She didn't let him finish. "And I hardly think breaking down my front door was very appropriate. I was just about to tell my family something and if you would like to be patient and hear what I have to say, then you may stay and SIT on that couch over there." She pointed to the couch with a very displeased look on her face.
"You just said my name in front of your family! I can't believe you just did that!" He yelled.
Serena made her way closer to him and he caught the sad look in her eyes before she whispered to him, "It doesn't matter. They won't remember anyway." Her response to his reaction was like throwing a bucket of water on a small fire. Darien immediately calmed down and sat on the couch he was directed to without saying another word. He understood what she was doing now and felt humiliated.
Ilene had quieted down to sniffles at that point after hearing the tone her daughter was using with the man in the tuxedo. Her head turned toward the front door again as she heard footsteps getting louder and louder. Four other females dressed in similar outfits to Serena's ran in the door with their ragged breathing, a sign that they did not take their time in getting there.
"Where's the youma?" the one in red asked to which Tuxedo Mask answered, "There is none."
"What?" With the temper that flared, you could almost see little flames bouncing off of the girl.
"Why are you here anyway?" asked a confused Sailor Moon.
"I called them on the communicator when I thought you were in trouble!" he admitted unapologetically.
"Eh!" Sailor Moon silenced whatever cruel remark was bound to come out of the fire senshi's mouth with a raised pointer finger. "Please come and sit and make yourselves comfortable. It looks like this is going to take longer than I thought." She motioned for the scouts to come and sit on the remaining seats in the living room while the men shifted to the floor as a courtesy, Sammy getting a glare to remind him of his manners.
Serena detransformed back into the clothes she was wearing earlier, which left the scouts stared at her as if she had grown a third 'meatball' on her face. "Luna mind meld," she said to them and they all nodded in understanding.
"What's a Luna Mind Meld?" the young boy asked.
"It's a secret, but I'll tell you about that in a minute," she said, "but first I'm going to tell you how all this mess started."
Her family sat in awe and fascination as she unfolded the stories of the moon kingdom, the beginning of her career as Sailor Moon and up to the present day. "My mission has changed now and have been given full control of the crystal, which has become one with my body. I have been told that I will be going to another world and dimension to train to use my powers so I will be able to defend this world once again from some other aliens that want to destroy it."
"You're leaving?" came the startled voice of the man in black.
Serena's eyes lowered to the ground. "Yes."
"When."
"Tomorrow."
She silently waited for the reaction of her teammates. It was just as she thought it would be. 4 heads snapped into attention as all eyes were focused on her as one voice spoke out.
"You said you were leaving on Saturday," whined Mina.
"I know. I'm so sorry and I was going to come straight over and tell you guys, but on the way home, Pluto grabbed me and told me that it was most important that I leave tomorrow, something about the gates lining up or...yeah. I leave tomorrow night." Serena wiped the tears from her eyes that appeared when she saw her best friends crying. None of them were in uniform as a request from Serena when she told the story of how they came to be friends. She could even see the tears showing themselves in Darien's eyes.
Something else also caught her eye. It was the aura between Darien and one of the scouts. They seemed to be reaching out to each other, but now wasn't the time to be thinking of things like that. "Time to power up ladies and Darien," she said standing up. After they did, which was followed by more "oohs" and "ahs", Serena looked at her little brother Sammy, who she loved so much.
"Here's that Luna Mind Meld trick Sammy," she said with sadness in her voice. Sammy looked on eagerly as Sailor Moon raised her arms into the air. She looked at her family once more and whispered, "I love you" before closing her eyes and chanting the words to the spell.
"LUNA MIND MELD!" A bright light encompassed the room and like an explosion, swept across the city and and unseeingly, the whole world. All records, papers, memories, and pictures of Serena were erased outside the circle of her protectors.
As the light dissipated, one lone tear escaped her eye. She walked over to Sammy, who blinked a couple of times, before handing him a small piece of paper. "Here ya go sport. This coupon is good for 5 free milkshakes at Crown Arcade. You won the contest for the highest score at the Sailor V game!" she said, hiding her sadness from him.
His eyes lit up as he took it from his favorite hero and hugged her. "Thanks so much! You guys are the coolest ever!"
The family of now three waved goodbye to the Sailor Scouts as they walked out of their house and their lives, jumping from building to building before coming to the temple where they detransformed as a group for the last time.
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"Why'd you do that, Serena? You could have spent your last day with them!"
"I know Raye, but it would hurt more to spend more time with them that they wouldn't remember."
To lighten things up a bit, Lita added in her sarcastic wit. "Oh, so you're saying that you're not going to miss us then, huh?" A smirk crossed her lips.
"Of course I'm going to miss you guys, but at least you'll remember me and..." She couldn't finish her sentence. Tears were pouring out of her eyes and everyone came in for a group hug.
They went to the crown arcade where they played games and treated Serena out since it was her last day. She got to see Andrew for the last time, even though he didn't remember her. One day she was going to come back though, and one day everyone would remember her again. She looked forward to that day.
Everyone, including Darien, spent the night at the temple. The scouts and tux had sweet dreams that night and the dream that the young princess had been having for the last few nights came back again.
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* SERENA'S DREAM *
She looked out across the ballroom from her throne and saw Prince Darien making his way towards her. She knew her love was here, but where was the question. She could always feel his presence near and could feel his gaze boring into her.
"Hello Princess. How are you this beautiful evening?" The prince bowed and kissed her hand before escorting her to the dance floor. Everyone knew that the Prince of Earth and the Moon Princess had been seeing each other for quite sometime. That's what engaged couples did, after all. After spinning her out a couple of times, he reeled her back in, holding her close to his body.
He whispered into her ear, "In a half hour we're going to walk out of here and go to our little hide-out. They said they'd meet us there." Serenity giggled. Her and Prince Darien had been best friends since they could remember and unfortunately for their mothers, that was the way they were going to keep their relationship. They had many talks about it while growing up. Darien fell in love with a member of Serenity's Royal Court. She had such a fun time trying to get them together and sneak them around so no one would get suspicious.
On one of their many evening strolls through the Palace Gardens, they stumbled upon a hole in the ground, which lead to a bigger hole in the ground. They guessed it to be an old shelter, for who or what they didn't know.
In every dream that Serena had, more and more memories were restored through them. Through them, she remembered Earth's Royal Court, the first time they found that cavern and other random bits of information that she tucked away. Never once in her dreams did she see the face of the other two lovers.
As they headed out a half hour later from the dancing crowd, one of her friends followed them out with a nod from Darien. The figure raced through the shadows and she lost sight of it once they were in the large garden. They headed to the spot where they would disappear underground and before they did, they checked to make sure no one had followed.
Darien lifted the wall of ivy to reveal a staircase heading down into the earth. Serenity had never dreamed this part before so she took in all of her surroundings. The first thing she noticed were the glowing mushrooms that were growing on the dirt wall and more along the stairs to light their path. Once they reached the bottom, she waited for Darien to pass by and she followed him the rest of the way.
A squeal of joy was heard as two lovers were reunited. She saw a streak of blonde and when they pulled away from kissing, Serenity saw it was her cousin, Mina! Memories flooded her mind as she remembered how Darien and Mina met one day when the Earth Alliance came to the Moon for a Planetary Conference. It was love at first sight, and being the best friends that they were, Darien had Serenity make arrangements for them to meet privately, since they themselves had been betrothed since birth.
For some strange reason, she couldn't remember what her love looked like. Oddly enough, she remembered some things he told her on his visits during those conferences. He was a scholar and scientist as was his father before him and his father before him. He accompanied the Prince of Vegeta-sei as a personal guard as well as the delegate for such things. The Saiyans were known for their strength and as for their standing in the universe, their power was only preceded by that of the Queen of the Moon, bearer of the Imperial Silver Crystal.
Most people stood in fear of the "barbarian" race, but the Moon welcomed them with open arms. Not many people looked close enough to realize how good of friends the two Saiyans were with the Moon Princess and her court. It was at one of those conferences that Serenity fell in love. She fell in love, not with Prince Vegeta, who was a strong and proud man, but in love with his traveling companion, whose name she couldn't remember. Serenity loved intelligence, and the way he used his brain before his brawn had made her fall for him all the more quickly.
The Chancellor of Vegeta-sei was equally smitten by Princess Serenity and luckily for him, Serenity had made plans for Darien or Endy, as she liked to call him, to meet with the chancellor and tell him of their meeting place. The four met every night of each conference they had together and had agreed that on the day that Endy and Serenity were to get married, they would announce a double wedding. Surely, the queen wouldn't be able to resist her own daughter and niece on their wedding day in front of the whole galaxy. Well, that's what they were all hoping for.
Serena smiled after seeing Mina and Endy happy together and wondered where her own love went. Suddenly she felt arms wrap around her waist as she was drawn near to another body, a very warm, very Saiyan body.
"Hello my sweet," whispered the voice as it kissed a trail from her shoulder to her ear. Serenity just sighed and melted in his arms. She could feel his strength around her and could hear what his voice sounded like as a whisper, but couldn't see him.
He slowly dragged her to a darker part of the cavern, leaving the other two lovers alone to themselves. It was too dark for her to see his face, but she could make out his outline and what a handsome one it was. He had a large, very muscular frame and had hair that couldn't be tamed, she knew from experience. Even though she couldn't see the details of his face, she could feel him staring into her big, blue eyes, causing her to blush, for which she was thankful there was no light.
His lips gently assaulted hers as he pinned her against the wall with his hands on her shoulders. The Chancellor was 2nd in strength, only to Prince Vegeta, yet it never ceased to amaze her how gentle he always was with her, especially at times like these. As the kiss deepened his hands traveled down her sides and pulled her towards his body. Serenity's hands grabbed the front of his uniform and pulled him closer to her, trying to get as close to him as she possibly could.
Unfortunately Saiyans and Lunarians require air to live and so they parted, gasping for the desired oxygen. They heard someone clearing their throat and Serenity was the first to turn away from the heated gaze they were in.
"It's time to go back up there." Serenity pouted which evolved into another passionate kiss. When they parted again, he growled with frustration and held her close while they made their way back to the stairs.
Endy and Serenity were the first to emerge from their sanctuary, making sure that no one was around to discover their hide-away or the "Love Shack" as Aphrodite's daughter liked to call it. Hand in hand, they walked back to the dance and continued dancing through the night. That was the last time that the four would be together. The Chancellor was scheduled to go home that night and he had to actually leave after their little rendezvous.
No one knew of the little affairs that were going on in the castle, not even the queen herself. She refused to abuse her powers and read her daughter's mind. She allowed herself to feel when her daughter was in danger and to some extent, her emotions. Queen Serenity never wanted to know the particulars of the origin of some of her daughter's feelings, not wanting to break her loved ones' trust and all was happy. Little did they know that their happiness was soon coming to an end.
Prince Vegeta and his friend and companion were almost home, when they picked up a disturbance coming from around earth. Numbers were dialed, contacts were made and within seconds they found out the earth was under attack. The ship was ordered to turn around and head back to the moon.
Queen Beryl attacked mercilessly and wiped out the inhabitants of the moon kingdom, all except one. The Queen. She raised the crystal high above her head and called upon the power of the planets. Queen Serenity felt power rush into her body as the energy of the solar system made her stronger, making the crystal stronger as well. Her only child was dead, her daughter's court who were like daughters to her were dead, and Earth's prince was dead. After banishing Beryl and trapping her with the crystal's power, she used the last of her strength and life energy to make one final wish. She wished that her daughter, her daughter's love and her friends would be sent to the future, where they would be able to start a new life. Serenity, Endy, Lita, Raye, Ami and Mina were sent to the future along with two tagalongs who had no idea what was going on, but it didn't matter because none of them would remember anyway.
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CHAPTER 3: PARTING BRINGS SUCH SORROW
All three of her family members stared for a while, not knowing what to make of the news they just received, when suddenly the silence was broken by Sammy's laughing. Actually, it was more like guffawing. Her mother began to chuckle as well, trying her best to cover her mouth with her hand but failing. Serena's dad just rolled his eyes at her.
"I can't believe you called us all together to tell us some lame and unimportant joke." Serena began to sink under her father's glare and reprimand when a voice reminded her of the horrible monsters that she faced almost every day. Compared to them, her father was nothing. As she watched her father begin to turn his back to walk out of the room she yelled after him.
"DADDY!" Serena began to tear up at the thought of her father walking out on her. As for him, he hadn't heard her call him that in years. Something was amiss.
"I can prove it!" That immediately shut up Sammy and his mother as they heard her announcement.
"Now Serena," Her mother wiped a tear from her eye and tried to calm herself down. Grabbing her broach out of her pocket, she raised it in the air and yelled the well-worn incantation.
"MOON COSMIC POWER!"
Swirls of lights and ribbon-looking things began to circle her body before they formed her Sailor fuku. As she landed on the ground, fully clad in her outfit, she could see the shocked looks on her family's faces. She held out the famous "V" sign and stood proud and tall for the ones she loved the most.
Her father stood silent like he normally did when his children revealed to him that they were super heroes. Sammy chanted, "cool," while Ilene burst out in tears because her daughter had been the one to defeat all those big ugly monsters that attacked the city.
"My baby girl is a super hero," Ilene wailed. "I'm so sorry that you had to fight those ugly monsters. Please, promise me that you won't ever do it again!" Serena just laughed into her mother's hair as she tried her best to comfort her. Under the noise of her mother's wailing, Serena could hear wood cracking. She realized her mistake and slowly rose from in front of her mother to face the very handsome and very ticked off Tuxedo Mask.
He slowly made his way to her side before saying anything. "I hope you have a good explanation for this."
Serena's father was getting very angry at the way this strange man was talking to his daughter. His face was getting red and his fists were clenched...just waiting for the perfect moment to...
"I do." She said before turning back to her mother.
"Well?" he said impatiently with his arms crossed over his chest.
"Darien, I'd like you to meet my family." He was apalled that she used his real name in front non-super heroes.
Trying his best to keep control of his temper he warned, "I hardly think this is the time and place to..."
She didn't let him finish. "And I hardly think breaking down my front door was very appropriate. I was just about to tell my family something and if you would like to be patient and hear what I have to say, then you may stay and SIT on that couch over there." She pointed to the couch with a very displeased look on her face.
"You just said my name in front of your family! I can't believe you just did that!" He yelled.
Serena made her way closer to him and he caught the sad look in her eyes before she whispered to him, "It doesn't matter. They won't remember anyway." Her response to his reaction was like throwing a bucket of water on a small fire. Darien immediately calmed down and sat on the couch he was directed to without saying another word. He understood what she was doing now and felt humiliated.
Ilene had quieted down to sniffles at that point after hearing the tone her daughter was using with the man in the tuxedo. Her head turned toward the front door again as she heard footsteps getting louder and louder. Four other females dressed in similar outfits to Serena's ran in the door with their ragged breathing, a sign that they did not take their time in getting there.
"Where's the youma?" the one in red asked to which Tuxedo Mask answered, "There is none."
"What?" With the temper that flared, you could almost see little flames bouncing off of the girl.
"Why are you here anyway?" asked a confused Sailor Moon.
"I called them on the communicator when I thought you were in trouble!" he admitted unapologetically.
"Eh!" Sailor Moon silenced whatever cruel remark was bound to come out of the fire senshi's mouth with a raised pointer finger. "Please come and sit and make yourselves comfortable. It looks like this is going to take longer than I thought." She motioned for the scouts to come and sit on the remaining seats in the living room while the men shifted to the floor as a courtesy, Sammy getting a glare to remind him of his manners.
Serena detransformed back into the clothes she was wearing earlier, which left the scouts stared at her as if she had grown a third 'meatball' on her face. "Luna mind meld," she said to them and they all nodded in understanding.
"What's a Luna Mind Meld?" the young boy asked.
"It's a secret, but I'll tell you about that in a minute," she said, "but first I'm going to tell you how all this mess started."
Her family sat in awe and fascination as she unfolded the stories of the moon kingdom, the beginning of her career as Sailor Moon and up to the present day. "My mission has changed now and have been given full control of the crystal, which has become one with my body. I have been told that I will be going to another world and dimension to train to use my powers so I will be able to defend this world once again from some other aliens that want to destroy it."
"You're leaving?" came the startled voice of the man in black.
Serena's eyes lowered to the ground. "Yes."
"When."
"Tomorrow."
She silently waited for the reaction of her teammates. It was just as she thought it would be. 4 heads snapped into attention as all eyes were focused on her as one voice spoke out.
"You said you were leaving on Saturday," whined Mina.
"I know. I'm so sorry and I was going to come straight over and tell you guys, but on the way home, Pluto grabbed me and told me that it was most important that I leave tomorrow, something about the gates lining up or...yeah. I leave tomorrow night." Serena wiped the tears from her eyes that appeared when she saw her best friends crying. None of them were in uniform as a request from Serena when she told the story of how they came to be friends. She could even see the tears showing themselves in Darien's eyes.
Something else also caught her eye. It was the aura between Darien and one of the scouts. They seemed to be reaching out to each other, but now wasn't the time to be thinking of things like that. "Time to power up ladies and Darien," she said standing up. After they did, which was followed by more "oohs" and "ahs", Serena looked at her little brother Sammy, who she loved so much.
"Here's that Luna Mind Meld trick Sammy," she said with sadness in her voice. Sammy looked on eagerly as Sailor Moon raised her arms into the air. She looked at her family once more and whispered, "I love you" before closing her eyes and chanting the words to the spell.
"LUNA MIND MELD!" A bright light encompassed the room and like an explosion, swept across the city and and unseeingly, the whole world. All records, papers, memories, and pictures of Serena were erased outside the circle of her protectors.
As the light dissipated, one lone tear escaped her eye. She walked over to Sammy, who blinked a couple of times, before handing him a small piece of paper. "Here ya go sport. This coupon is good for 5 free milkshakes at Crown Arcade. You won the contest for the highest score at the Sailor V game!" she said, hiding her sadness from him.
His eyes lit up as he took it from his favorite hero and hugged her. "Thanks so much! You guys are the coolest ever!"
The family of now three waved goodbye to the Sailor Scouts as they walked out of their house and their lives, jumping from building to building before coming to the temple where they detransformed as a group for the last time.
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"Why'd you do that, Serena? You could have spent your last day with them!"
"I know Raye, but it would hurt more to spend more time with them that they wouldn't remember."
To lighten things up a bit, Lita added in her sarcastic wit. "Oh, so you're saying that you're not going to miss us then, huh?" A smirk crossed her lips.
"Of course I'm going to miss you guys, but at least you'll remember me and..." She couldn't finish her sentence. Tears were pouring out of her eyes and everyone came in for a group hug.
They went to the crown arcade where they played games and treated Serena out since it was her last day. She got to see Andrew for the last time, even though he didn't remember her. One day she was going to come back though, and one day everyone would remember her again. She looked forward to that day.
Everyone, including Darien, spent the night at the temple. The scouts and tux had sweet dreams that night and the dream that the young princess had been having for the last few nights came back again.
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* SERENA'S DREAM *
She looked out across the ballroom from her throne and saw Prince Darien making his way towards her. She knew her love was here, but where was the question. She could always feel his presence near and could feel his gaze boring into her.
"Hello Princess. How are you this beautiful evening?" The prince bowed and kissed her hand before escorting her to the dance floor. Everyone knew that the Prince of Earth and the Moon Princess had been seeing each other for quite sometime. That's what engaged couples did, after all. After spinning her out a couple of times, he reeled her back in, holding her close to his body.
He whispered into her ear, "In a half hour we're going to walk out of here and go to our little hide-out. They said they'd meet us there." Serenity giggled. Her and Prince Darien had been best friends since they could remember and unfortunately for their mothers, that was the way they were going to keep their relationship. They had many talks about it while growing up. Darien fell in love with a member of Serenity's Royal Court. She had such a fun time trying to get them together and sneak them around so no one would get suspicious.
On one of their many evening strolls through the Palace Gardens, they stumbled upon a hole in the ground, which lead to a bigger hole in the ground. They guessed it to be an old shelter, for who or what they didn't know.
In every dream that Serena had, more and more memories were restored through them. Through them, she remembered Earth's Royal Court, the first time they found that cavern and other random bits of information that she tucked away. Never once in her dreams did she see the face of the other two lovers.
As they headed out a half hour later from the dancing crowd, one of her friends followed them out with a nod from Darien. The figure raced through the shadows and she lost sight of it once they were in the large garden. They headed to the spot where they would disappear underground and before they did, they checked to make sure no one had followed.
Darien lifted the wall of ivy to reveal a staircase heading down into the earth. Serenity had never dreamed this part before so she took in all of her surroundings. The first thing she noticed were the glowing mushrooms that were growing on the dirt wall and more along the stairs to light their path. Once they reached the bottom, she waited for Darien to pass by and she followed him the rest of the way.
A squeal of joy was heard as two lovers were reunited. She saw a streak of blonde and when they pulled away from kissing, Serenity saw it was her cousin, Mina! Memories flooded her mind as she remembered how Darien and Mina met one day when the Earth Alliance came to the Moon for a Planetary Conference. It was love at first sight, and being the best friends that they were, Darien had Serenity make arrangements for them to meet privately, since they themselves had been betrothed since birth.
For some strange reason, she couldn't remember what her love looked like. Oddly enough, she remembered some things he told her on his visits during those conferences. He was a scholar and scientist as was his father before him and his father before him. He accompanied the Prince of Vegeta-sei as a personal guard as well as the delegate for such things. The Saiyans were known for their strength and as for their standing in the universe, their power was only preceded by that of the Queen of the Moon, bearer of the Imperial Silver Crystal.
Most people stood in fear of the "barbarian" race, but the Moon welcomed them with open arms. Not many people looked close enough to realize how good of friends the two Saiyans were with the Moon Princess and her court. It was at one of those conferences that Serenity fell in love. She fell in love, not with Prince Vegeta, who was a strong and proud man, but in love with his traveling companion, whose name she couldn't remember. Serenity loved intelligence, and the way he used his brain before his brawn had made her fall for him all the more quickly.
The Chancellor of Vegeta-sei was equally smitten by Princess Serenity and luckily for him, Serenity had made plans for Darien or Endy, as she liked to call him, to meet with the chancellor and tell him of their meeting place. The four met every night of each conference they had together and had agreed that on the day that Endy and Serenity were to get married, they would announce a double wedding. Surely, the queen wouldn't be able to resist her own daughter and niece on their wedding day in front of the whole galaxy. Well, that's what they were all hoping for.
Serena smiled after seeing Mina and Endy happy together and wondered where her own love went. Suddenly she felt arms wrap around her waist as she was drawn near to another body, a very warm, very Saiyan body.
"Hello my sweet," whispered the voice as it kissed a trail from her shoulder to her ear. Serenity just sighed and melted in his arms. She could feel his strength around her and could hear what his voice sounded like as a whisper, but couldn't see him.
He slowly dragged her to a darker part of the cavern, leaving the other two lovers alone to themselves. It was too dark for her to see his face, but she could make out his outline and what a handsome one it was. He had a large, very muscular frame and had hair that couldn't be tamed, she knew from experience. Even though she couldn't see the details of his face, she could feel him staring into her big, blue eyes, causing her to blush, for which she was thankful there was no light.
His lips gently assaulted hers as he pinned her against the wall with his hands on her shoulders. The Chancellor was 2nd in strength, only to Prince Vegeta, yet it never ceased to amaze her how gentle he always was with her, especially at times like these. As the kiss deepened his hands traveled down her sides and pulled her towards his body. Serenity's hands grabbed the front of his uniform and pulled him closer to her, trying to get as close to him as she possibly could.
Unfortunately Saiyans and Lunarians require air to live and so they parted, gasping for the desired oxygen. They heard someone clearing their throat and Serenity was the first to turn away from the heated gaze they were in.
"It's time to go back up there." Serenity pouted which evolved into another passionate kiss. When they parted again, he growled with frustration and held her close while they made their way back to the stairs.
Endy and Serenity were the first to emerge from their sanctuary, making sure that no one was around to discover their hide-away or the "Love Shack" as Aphrodite's daughter liked to call it. Hand in hand, they walked back to the dance and continued dancing through the night. That was the last time that the four would be together. The Chancellor was scheduled to go home that night and he had to actually leave after their little rendezvous.
No one knew of the little affairs that were going on in the castle, not even the queen herself. She refused to abuse her powers and read her daughter's mind. She allowed herself to feel when her daughter was in danger and to some extent, her emotions. Queen Serenity never wanted to know the particulars of the origin of some of her daughter's feelings, not wanting to break her loved ones' trust and all was happy. Little did they know that their happiness was soon coming to an end.
Prince Vegeta and his friend and companion were almost home, when they picked up a disturbance coming from around earth. Numbers were dialed, contacts were made and within seconds they found out the earth was under attack. The ship was ordered to turn around and head back to the moon.
Queen Beryl attacked mercilessly and wiped out the inhabitants of the moon kingdom, all except one. The Queen. She raised the crystal high above her head and called upon the power of the planets. Queen Serenity felt power rush into her body as the energy of the solar system made her stronger, making the crystal stronger as well. Her only child was dead, her daughter's court who were like daughters to her were dead, and Earth's prince was dead. After banishing Beryl and trapping her with the crystal's power, she used the last of her strength and life energy to make one final wish. She wished that her daughter, her daughter's love and her friends would be sent to the future, where they would be able to start a new life. Serenity, Endy, Lita, Raye, Ami and Mina were sent to the future along with two tagalongs who had no idea what was going on, but it didn't matter because none of them would remember anyway.
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