The Sailor Starlights led the way to their rooms. They placed Serenity on the bed in the middle chamber. As soon as she was down Saturn and Endymion got on either side of her. Jedite laid Jupiter on the couch in the same room, knowing that if she came to she would want to be with her Princess. Venus was sitting in an arm chair watching what was happening; Malachite was sitting on the floor in front of her. Everybody was in the middle chamber. They were watching Saturn, Endymion, and Serenity but also keeping eyes and ears open to their surroundings.

As Endymion and Saturn began to heal Serenity the air around those three began to glow. Serena's breathing started to become normal again after a few minutes. After Endymion noticed the change in her breathing he stopped. Saturn looked at him and he just nodded.

"Why are you stopping?" Fighter asked when she noticed.

"We have to take time with this. Neither one of us has the strength or the power to heal her completely." Saturn replied. "But she'll live; we've managed to close the wounds. Getting more blood in her is going to be tricking. I think we all need to rest now. We can take shifts in keeping watch."

"What about Jupiter? I'm concerned about her; she hasn't woken up yet." Jedite didn't look at anybody but Jupiter who lay motionless on the couch.

Endymion got up and walked over to them. "Dear friend, I didn't see it till now. Step aside. Let me see what I can do." Jedite looked up at his friend and saw understanding. Endymion knelt down and laid a hand on Jupiter's forehead. As he began to heal her the two began to glow just like before. Suddenly Jupiter's eyes opened, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thank you, Darien." Jupiter whispered when she realized who had healed her.

"You should thank Jedite, Eila, he's the one who saved you, not me." Was all Darien said before going back to Serenity's side.

- (in their own corner)

"Zoicite?"

"Yes, Pavati?"

"Why do you care about what happens to us?"

"What do you mean?"

"She's talking about the time when we fought against them." Nephrite had approached the two.

"Amy, he probably doesn't remember." Mars had followed Nephrite.

"Kenna's right, Pavati. Only myself, Jedite, and Malachite remember. Well, Prince Endymion does too and apparently you haven't forgotten."

"No we haven't." Mars' voice was so full of anger that Nephrite had to take a step back from her.

"Forgotten what?" Star Maker had noticed the little pow-wow and decided to join. She wanted answers.

"Maker! You scared me."

"Sorry, Sailor Mars, I didn't mean to startle you but I was curious as to what you four were talking about."

"As we all are now." Fighter said from across the room.

"Well, this is just great. All I wanted was a little private conversation with General Zoicite and now everybody's in on it." Amy rolled her eyes, but knew that this was needed. Everybody had questions they wanted answered.

"We were talking about the time when us generals fought against the Scouts." Nephrite said.

"Wait, you guys fought against the Sailor Scouts?" Uranus was shocked and also a little angry.

"Yes and in doing so we also fought against our Prince for of course he is Tuxedo Mask." Malachite answered, wincing at the memories that came flooding back.

"It wasn't their fault. They were brainwashed. Even Prince Endymion fought against us for a time." Venus laid a hand on Malachite's shoulder causing him to jump a little. When he turned his head to look at her he was shocked by the way she was looking at him. Her eyes were filled with forgiveness and understanding. Now if only she would look at me with love.

"It is true. I did fight against them once; under the control of Queen Beryl and the Negaverse. But thanks to Serenity, my love, I broke free of Beryl's hold over me." Endymion hadn't looked up from watching Serenity but he was fully aware of the conversation going on around him.

"I guess we can't say anything, Dara. We too fought against them at one point. But we had a mission and we weren't going to let five, young girls get in our way. Thanks to Sailor Moon we saw that we were going about it all wrong. And in the end she saved us all." Neptune looked at Uranus and then her gaze settled on Saturn who only nodded in understanding.

"Are you forgetting, Marinus, the time we challenged Sailor Moon? When we wouldn't let a whiney, crybaby take the throne of the Moon Kingdom? But she proved her worth, didn't she?" Uranus said with a smile remembering back to when Sailor Moon stood up to them and proved her true self.

"Haha… How could I forget that?" Neptune laughed remembering the same fight Uranus was.

Saturn stood up. "I think I've got you all beat though."

"How so, Saturn?" Healer was curious as to how these people had remained friends after everything that they've been through.

"She was Mistress Nine. She had stolen Rini's heart crystal in order for the Heart Snatchers and Pharaoh 90 to take over Earth." Mars looked at Saturn who just dipped her head in shame.

"Omid, it's ok. You were not responsible for what happened. You didn't know what was going on till it was too late." Pluto laid a hand on Saturn's shouldering trying to reassure her.

"It was because of Sailor Moon that I was able to be reborn as a baby and grow up to live a semi-normal life until Saturn re-awoken when Nehellenia was freed from her mirror."

"Yeah, by the way who was Nehellenia?" Neptune asked.

"Before she was freed from her mirror? Before she kidnapped Darien? She was an evil queen who was vain and wanted the Golden Crystal so she could remain young and beautiful forever. On top of that she wanted to destroy or steal all that Serenity held dear. She kidnapped Rini, threw her off the top of a tent that was flying really, really high in the sky. Sailor Moon jumped off and caught her. Pegasus, or Helios, saved them." Mercury replied.

"Ok. That makes sense, I guess." Uranus nodded.

"Wait, who's Rini?" Healer questioned.

"Um, well… What I'm about to say may shock some of you. Rini is Sailor Mini Moon, but more importantly she is the future daughter of Prince Endymion and Princess Serenity." Pluto watched the faces of the Generals and the Starlights for their reactions. The Starlights were shocked, though Fighter looked a little disappointed. Jedite and Zoicite were shocked but neither Malachite nor Nephrite. Pluto figured that Endymion probably told Malachite and Nephrite… but it was more likely that Nephrite knew from his star readings.

"Kenna? Why did you say, during the battle, that you owe the Starlights everything?" Nephrite was remembering the comment that Mars had made when the Starlights showed up.

"We owe them everything because when we were killed by Galaxia/Chaos they helped protect Sailor Moon. They helped save our future, when we couldn't." Mars looked at Nephrite. She was fighting back tears remembering the fight with Galaxia that left them all dead.

"But if it wasn't for you Sailors we wouldn't have been alive to protect her." Fighter said.

"So really we owe you for so much more." Healer agreed.

"It was because of you that our Princess came and we found her, it was because of you that we were able to protect Sailor Moon so she could defeat Chaos, and it was because of you that we were able to return to our planet and rebuild." Maker summed up just about everything.

"What did you…? How did you…?" Nephrite looked at Mars.

"We took the hits meant for them." Mercury answered his question. "I stepped in front of Healer."

"I stepped in front of Maker." Malachite looked at Venus when she spoke.

"I stepped in front of Fighter." Jupiter was trying to sit up so Jedite moved onto the couch and had her lean against his side.

"And I… Gosh darn it!" Everyone looked at Mars as she punched the wall. "Why? I took the hit for her then… Why couldn't I do it this time?"

"Shhh. It's ok. She's going to be alright. You didn't know. Shhh. Please, love, calm down." Nephrite took her punches until she sank into his embrace and sobbed against his chest.

"Quiet!" Endymion stood up from the bed and held his hand up for everyone to quiet down as an image of his father began to appear from his ring. "Father?"

"What's happened? Queen Serenity is worried sick. She had been trying to contact her daughter all evening and hasn't gotten through. She asked me to contact you. So, what's happened?"

"Um… Well, we've had a slight problem, but everything is o…" Endymion started.

"Slight problem! Slight problem? You call Princess Serenity almost getting killed by a Fire Beast a SLIGHT problem?" Mercury was in hysterics. Everybody starred at her; they'd never seen her like this before.

"She what? Son, if the Princess is…"

"No, no, Father. She's going to be fine, there's no need to worry. I wouldn't let anything happen to her, trust me." He was thankful that his father couldn't really hear the tone in his voice. Now was not the time he wanted to answer questions about his feelings for Serenity.

"Alright, tell one of the Scouts to have their communicator on. I have to call the Queen now and no doubt she'll want to talk to one of her guards."

"Yes, take care, Father." The image of the king faded as the Sailor Scouts made sure their communicators were on.

Suddenly there was a knock at the door. Everyone tensed up not sure who it could be. Sailor Star Fighter de-transformed and went to answer it. "This was sent to you from Queen Serenity of the Moon." "Thank you."

Seiya came back into the room carrying a box. As soon as he placed the box on the table it began to move. Everyone stood ready to fight until they heard "Ok, you can let us out now." "Yes, please let us. I mean we are engaged but it's a little tight in here."

"Luna? Artemis?" Uranus asked looking at the box.

"Princess Dara, could you be a sweetheart and let us out of this box?" Artemis said.

As soon as Seiya opened the box the two cats jumped out of the box. "Oh, no. Serenity." Luna ran over to the bed where Serenity was laying.

"She's going to be alright, Luna. She's sleeping now. I would never let anything or anyone hurt her. Though…"

"I know, Endymion. It's just hard to see her like this; after all she has actually died several times already. She wouldn't have come back from this one."

"Though what, Sire?" Malachite heard the tone in Endymion's voice. "Sire, it's not your fault."

"No it's mine. I shouldn't have stopped you from following her." Mars stated with her head low. She was still in Nephrite's embrace but had gained control over her sobs in time for another well to overflow.

"It's nobody's fault. We couldn't have even fathomed that something like this would have happened. But also in a sense we're all to blame; we weren't protecting her like we should have." Jedite commented.

"Yeah, do you realize what that feels like to us? You didn't protect, sure, but we…" Jupiter was stopped by a lump in her throat and tears welling in her eyes.

"We failed her." Venus finished for her. Seeing Jupiter and Uranus breaking down was the last straw; they were the strong ones.

"Well, we betrayed our Prince. Which is worst?" Malachite said blinking back tears. He still felt horrible about serving the Negaverse even though Endymion had already forgiven him.

"We need to not feel sorry for ourselves. We have a lot more on our hands than blaming ourselves for things that were out of our control." Saturn said looking around the room. It took her a lot to say that knowing all that had happened in the past. She was no longer ashamed of what she did; she couldn't have controlled it.

The Scouts all de-transformed into their Princess attire. "We need to know more about that Fire Beast." Princess Pavati said stepping away from Zoicite and looking around the room. It was strange to see three of her closet friends relying on the support of three men who used to be their enemies.

"Kenna, what do you know about the Fire Beasts?" Taiki asked.

"I'm trying to remember. I never really thought they existed. I mean, I've heard legends but… I guess after all we've been through it shouldn't surprise me that they do. We know water makes them weak. They're strong; stronger than almost anything we've faced before. Someone had to unleash it though, because if I remember correctly they don't hang around highly populated areas. They stick to craters and canyons, away from people. They tend to live solitary lives. The thing is, I don't remember reading anything about them being vicious or attacking unprovoked."

"That means someone trained it to do that; taught it to be aggressive. We need to find out who it was." Malachite said.

Suddenly there was a knock at the door. Taiki answered it this time. "Sir, if you see Princess Kenna, please let her know that the Emperor would like to speak to her immediately."

"If I see her, I will pass along the message." Taiki told the messenger before closing the door and returning to the other room. "Princess Kenna…"

"I heard, Taiki. The Emperor wants to see me, though I'd rather not see him." Nephrite squeezed her shoulder and walked her to the door.