Author's Note: Here is the final chapter along with the epilogue. I apologise now- they haven't been edited.... at all... I started college again this week and its got me kinda buisy atm. If I get the corrections from Z I will add those in the future, but for now, this is what I have. Its been fun, I really hope you guys ahve enjoyed this story, I know I had fun writting it. Thanks for the support and encouragement. Hopefully it won't be so long before I get something else posted, I already have something new in the works... and it looks to be comical. :D

Right then! On with the end!

Serenity struggled to slip out of her bed and away from Endymion's sleeping form that held her so close. As she slowly moved she focused her thoughts soothing, peaceful, and loving trying desperately to keep Endymion from waking. 'Every time I try and walk away, I end up in his arms.' She smiled as she remembered exactly how they had spent their afternoon and evening after Endymion's proposal. She felt him start to stir as her mind filled with the intimate thoughts. She stopped clearing her mind, 'No more thoughts of naked Endymion.' A picture flashed. 'Of intimacy.' A scene of their afternoon flashed. She felt him stir once more. 'Dammit. Not again. He cannot wake up!' She forced herself to concentrate on a Mercurian algorithm, starting at the beginning working her way through the math and the logic to the solution. After a few minutes, she took a deep breath, focused on soothing Endymion's resting mind as she struggled to get her left arm and leg from beneath him. With one final strong pull, her naked butt hit the cold stone floor. "Shit." A hand slapped to her mouth, she froze startled for a moment before sending soothing emotions to the sleeping form. Serenity frowned as she realized that even though she was no longer touching him she could still see hints of the meadow where Endymion seemed to be while dreaming. She slowly got to her feet, testing the soreness of her form, finding joints and muscles she did not know she possessed ached with pleasure. Forcing her mind to stay clear of thoughts and her emotions calm, Serenity walked over to her wardrobe. Selecting a light pink summer peasant dress, Serenity dressed before twisting her hair into the royal style of the moon maids. She picked up a pair of shoes, touched the necklace and pendant that had not left her neck since she had placed it there, and scanned the room for anything else she might need. Seeing nothing, she stepped to the (I don't freakin know- the frog, yeah, she walked over to the frog. Kissed him, he turned into a real, prince, not like that hotty jack ass Endymion- nah, waaaay better more like Edward. Yeah, the frog turned into Edward. Edward would make an awesome and sexy prince- he composed a song for his princess! Damn he's fine. I'll work on this later, I'm gonna go find me an Edward frog.) right of her wardrobe, and winced at the noise the stone made as the door in the wall opened. She slipped into the hall, slipped on her shoes, and rushed toward the Observation Chamber.

As the door to the chamber opened Ikuko's warm smile greeted her. "Ah, there you are, child! Did Selenity ever find you? I wouldn't have sent her toward the chambers, but she insisted it was important."

Serenity nodded. "She did. She found me in my chambers." She pulled the pendent from beneath her clothes. "She wanted to give me this"

Ikuko's eye went large. "The crystal?" Serenity nodded. "Good. That should help things move along more smoothly. Wasn't the previous plan to steal it?" Serenity nodded grinning widely. "So are you feeling better?"

"Whatever do you mean?"

Ikuko raised an eyebrow. "What do I mean? You were in your chambers all day yesterday? I assumed you were recovering from the deaths."

"I- ahhh--" Serenity raised her left hand. Ikuko's jaw dropped. As she struggled to find her voice Serenity rushed to explain. "He canceled the betrothal. He thought it was already done- I told them about everything. About how the goddess had freed me, but I forgot to mention that I was still obligated to follow through will all commands from my queen up to that point- So he thought I was free. We went to his kingdom," She closed her eyes relishing the memory. "We disguised ourselves, and I took us to his castle. I asked him to sentence me for my crimes. Instead he thanked me, and he said he knew my goddess had released me from my obligations, but he wanted to as well."

"Wait- he released you from your betrothal only to propose?"

"Well it was not exactly like that. He released me, and then we came back. He was going to leave- I could not for bare him to go after he was being so kind and sweet-- Not when I know what I must do. So he stayed with me, simply because I asked. We slept. That is how Selenity found us. After she left, I made to leave as well- to make preparations for today, and he asked me to return to him. He heard me thinking 'One last night'-"

"Wait a second he heard you thinking?"

Serenity blushed and looked to the floor. "Did I forget to mention that? It started that we could just feel what the other felt, but now..."

"Now he hears your thoughts?"

Serenity nodded. "Its hard. Even now as he sleeps, its taking most of my concentration to keep from alerting him." Ikuko smiled and nodded signaling Serenity to continue. "So he heard me think 'One last night', and so I lied. I told him I simply meant that if all went well we would be returning it our separate homes. Thats when he proposed. Its strange, considering everything. How we felt about each other just the other day. But he loves me. He told me. And- - And I can feel it!" She looked up from the floor. "I feel it in myself as well- I think I love him, too!"

Ikuko smiled. "I know, Child." She placed a hand under Serenity's chin. "Does this mean you have changed your plan?"

Tears slipped down the porcelain cheeks. "Yes." Ikuko breathed a sigh of relief. "Now things must move much faster, least he wake to try and stop me."

Dinning Hall ~ Red Lady's Castle ~ Just Before 5 O' Clock

"Endymion!!" Ikuko rushed into the room pushing several people aside. With her hurried entrance a hush had fallen over the room, but she continued to shout. "Please, I must find Endymion!! Is he here?" Her frantic gaze searched the room before she turned to leave.

"Ikuko?" Endymion's voice boomed over the quiet.

She turned back a crazed look in her eye, blood trickling down her forehead. "She's gone!!"

Endymion had had a feeling of unrest since he had awoken alone in Serenity's chambers, but he forced it to remain calm, but Ikuko's anxiety was destroying the calm he had worked so hard for. "She has her meeting?"

"You don't understand!! She planned this from the start! She knew the witch would fight her when she was no longer necessary! She plans to destroy the Negaverse!"

"An entire sub-dimension? But how?"

"The goddess could only free her from duties to come, but Selenity had already commanded she marry you with a smile! Don't you understand?? This was her final escape!" Ikuko sadly shook her head.

Horror filled his features. "But I released her!"

Ikuko shook her head, tears falling down her face. "Yes. And it changed everything. This is no longer a final escape, but rather a punishment- She feels losing you will be worse than any that could be found in Hades. She wanted you to have this afterwards." She held up his engagement ring.

Endymion gently took the ring from her grasp, his voice barely a whisper. "When did she go?"

"I don't know. I was speaking with her this morning, when I believe she struck me with a candle stick." She touched her head indicating a bleeding wound. "I awoke a half an hour ago. I've been searching for you since."

"We must find her-"

"How? She's disabled everything in the Observation Chambers."

Oblivious to anything but their conversation, Endymion and Ikuko had failed to notice the small crowd that had swallowed them. Though the room remained packed with every gypsy, peasant, and royal in the palace; Serenity's and Endymion's guard had closed in. "Zoicite and I could repair the damage."

Ikuko shook her head at Ami's response. "It would take days, I'm not sure we have minutes!"

"Endymion could find her."

Endymion looked to Mina confused. "How? I have no more resources than anyone else."

Mina smiled nervously. "I think you are bonded with her. I am not sure how or what type of bond, but from what I saw in the Queen's chambers."

"But I cannot even feel her any more! She is simply to far away!"

Ikuko shook her head. "The Lady said she was blocking her emotions and thoughts from you, that could still hold true."

Endymion looked to the older woman puzzled, "Thoughts? But we can only hear those when we are touching?"

Ikuko shrugged and opened her mouth to respond, but Mina's musings cut her short. "We'd have to know the type of bond to determine for sure, or even what ritual to use to locate her."

Rei looked to her. "It has to be a -"

"We do not know that!" Mina said shaking her head.

"But I saw it, too!" Rei argued.

Endymion frowned. "What are you talking about?"

Rei spoke up before Mina had a chance to hide their assumptions again. "A soul bond. We think you are soul mates." She creased her brow as she tried to explain their reasoning. "Mina can saw the aura around you to that comes from a bond created from love-"

"But we did not do that till yesterday!"

Mina had to stifle a laugh as the others blushed. "That was not exactly what Rei meant. But moving on, Rei saw the bond too! Which means it is on a spiritual level. I just do not understand because something had to trigger this kind of thing. Furthermore with the betrothal-" She stopped, shaking her head, failing to find the right words.

"What about blood?" Ikuko looked to Endymion's hand.

Rei looked at Ikuko and followed her gaze. "How do you mean?"

"Serenity's asinine plan." He dropped his gaze as his previous white lies came to surface. "It was her blood. She- I came across her in the Observation Chamber. Every shadow she killed in the village, she lived through their death. Felt the slice of her own blade, and the spilling of her own blood." He shook his head, and when he looked up to meet their accusing gaze tears filled his own. "I used my healing powers to share in her deaths. Through battles and wars, I have learned that when healing others my magic works best when my blood mixes and flows through the other person's veins. Up to this point I had only tried it with my four guard." A rough sweep of the hand pushed the tears from his face. "She did not want you to know, and I did not want to betray her wish. There is nothing you could have done for her at that point, as I had already helped her."

Mina beamed. "Why did you help her?"

Endymion became puzzled as their anger seemed dismissed. "Excuse me?"

"Why did you help her?" Mina repeated.

"I do not know exactly. Is this really important?" Mina nodded and Endymion sighed. "I suppose it is because I had heard Molly's tale, and I could see on their faces what she did for those people. I had finally realized what she had done for all of us. So I suppose when I stumbled upon her, watching her destroy herself for the sake of others- I could not allow such a beautiful person to fade from existence."

Mina nodded, still grinning. "Tell me about the bond itself."

"Is this important?"

Mina sighed. "Yes, Endymion. And since we are on a limited time, the quicker the better. Now, tell me about the bond. When did you start sharing emotions like you were in the Queen's chamber? Tell me everything."

"I'm not sure. I first recall it when we-" He paused blushing at the memory. "When we healed each other. It was with touch. By the following morning, I could hear her thoughts when we touched and I could always feel her emotions."

Mina nodded. "Which means that silly dolt, is using a great deal of her concentration to block you out now."

"How do we know she has not exhausted her resources and died already?"

Mina rolled her eyes. "Well, Endymion as you are not dead we can assume the Lady is not. This type of bond is rare, not many have seen it. But from everything I understand, you will know the moment she dies and you would not be able to bear the burden of a life without her." He nodded. "Alright we can use this. We should be able to channel our energy through Endymion- Since we do not know where she is it would be helpful if we had some idea what she was planning. Ikuko, did she say anything?"

"The flash of light." Endymion mumbled, before his eyes got wide. "The flash of light!! The witch! She plans to over come the darkness with her own light! And-" He paused as he concentrated on Serenity's memories. His gaze shifted to search out that of the girls. "She said the Witch's master was in the sun? None of her thoughts were very clear."

"She will be trying to complete a purification ritual." Selenity's voice rang clearly through the quiet murmurs in the room. "If she really thinks this entity is the cause of the Great Solarian Disaster and the problem in your north, that would logically lead her to conclude that each planet could be tainted. If we are to help her, we need to hurry. We should go to the meadow the closer to the universe the better. You will form a circle, Endymion and myself in the center, a senshi from every planet surrounding us. If Endymion and I mix our blood, and we all combine our energy, we should be able to help her complete her task and still pull her back to us, safe and sound. I will need a silver dagger, Ikuko. It is the best kind of blade for ritual blood mixing- all metals can taint the blood but silver is the purest."

Ikuko nodded. "You will want to use one of the keys and travel to Elysian. We are not currently in your dimension." A shadow floated into the room handing Selenity the item she had requested. Seeing this, Ikuko pulled a key from her pocket, leading the group over to a closed door. Sticking the key in the door she hesitated a moment. "Only the Senshi, Endymion, and Selenity may come through. Should anything go wrong the rest of you will remain safe. The Lady has gone to great trouble to see to your well being, I won't jeopardize that any more then necessary." Receiving no arguments, she made the final motion and turned the key in the lock. She pulled open the door and allowed Selenity to lead the way down the steps of the Holy Temple of Elysian.

Shock and awe filled the faces of those in the group of eleven who had yet to see a display of this particular magic. Selenity stopped in the knee high grass surrounded by wild flowers, insects, critters, and life in all forms. She waited for the Senshi to circle around her Mercury taking point and the rest follow in the order in which the universe had placed their planets. "Ladies, for this, I need you to forget your humanity and become everything that is your world. Let the planet take over your bodies, and when you have reached that state of truly being alien, I need you to focus the power and energy through to Endymion and I." The nine girls nodded and concentrated. "Endymion, I need you to do the same. Once you have all reached that state, I need you to search within your self, and follow your half of the soul to Serenity's. Use that connection to find her. You will then push everything we are offering through the link. When she has finished her work you will pull her back to your side. Its easiest to think of your connection like it is a chord that connects you, find it within yourself and pull." He nodded. "Now focus on your Mother Earth."

The Senshi all took a moment to transform before concentrating on the task from their Queen.

Sailor Merucry began to feel the cool rivers flow like blood through her veins. She could feel the gentle snow crush under her feet as she shifted her weight. The cold arctic breeze sift and ruffle through her hair before becoming one with it. The solid glaciers from the frozen north became her form.

Sailor Venus felt the heart of her people run to her core replacing her singular life energy. She smiled as soft amber grass tickled her feet. Flower petals trickled down her back flowing, mixing, replacing the luscious locks. The soft, rolling hills of the surface became her physique.

Sailor Mars felt the lava from her volcanoes explode through your veins. The rough rocky terrain shift gentle under her weight. The intense fires burned away at her scalp replacing her hair. The ancient unforgiving mountains replaced her flesh.

Sailor Jupiter shivered as the cool rain washed through her veins. She felt her feet take root in embracing mud beneath her toes. The vines from the trees lengthened and strengthened her hair from the roots. She felt her skin harden in the face of a storm, becoming firm and unmoving like that of a mighty oak.

Sailor Saturn felt the stillness of life slow the flow of her veins almost to a stop. The hard even rocks of the surface remained unmoving below her weigh. The rings of ice surrounded her head like a halo. She felt her flesh still and harden like cool stone.

Sailor Uranus felt the freedom of the spirits of her people embrace the center of her everything. The sandy surface constantly shifted, embracing and releasing her feet. The warm summer winds tangled her short hair shifting and turning until there was no difference between wind and hair. Her form became the constantly shifting sand dunes, each particle moving and changing with the wind that was her hair.

Sailor Neptune embraced the flow of the cool streams run through her veins. The delicate swampy surface tickled her toes and licked at her ankles. Water lilies trickled down her spine where once soft aqua colored curls had laid. Her shape shimmered and flowed as she became one with the flowing oceans of her home.

Sailor Pluto felt time flow around and through her with it taking and giving life. The ground beneath her feet shifted and altered with the flow of time; cool morning dew of spring, tickle of summer grass, crackle of fall leaves, crunch of fresh winter snow. Gentle snowflakes dripped into water that streamed down her spine in place of the soft dark green locks. Her form remained in a constant state of flux shifting through the seasons with time, flowers of spring forming into the warm gray grass of of summer, to the pale red leaves of fall, the hard icy blocks of winter.

Endymion felt the energy of his people charge through his veins. The warm soft earth encompassed his toes with gentle tufts of the grain that was used to sustain life. The rich green grass flowed across his scalp gently tickling his skin where it brushed. He felt his form soften, particles loosening as shifted they into dirt like that below the meadow.

A moment after he his body shifted, his eyes snapped open as Selenity used the silver knife to make a diagonal slice across the left side of his chest. A small sad smile lit her face. "Where you keep her." Without further explanation she placed her bleeding right palm over his heart. "Find her."

Closing his eyes once more Endymion searched within himself for his love. Using hands that did not exist anywhere else, he reached out tentative fingers to touch the delicate strings of his heart. They fluttered at his touch, and though they were dainty and new they remained strong and unyielding as he fully grasped them and followed them the other end. He hesitated when he reached the end, feeling nothing more, but for a fraction of a moment he felt her heart flutter and he pushed forward breaking down the walls of her mind and the barriers surrounding her heart.

Immediately he was overwhelmed with emotion. Fear, strength, anxiety, passion, sadness, joy, worry, and confidence. He took a moment to steady himself finding strength in his love for her, and then stepped forward into her thoughts.

He saw the day through her eyes. First as she slipped from bed, down the corridor. Next speaking with Ikuko before whacking her across the head. He paused on the memory to hear her next words, "I am sorry, my friend, but if I leave you conscious I should fear you would wake him and try to prevent this madness."

He found himself smiling at her explanation, but frowning at her actions and plans.

Next she watched herself in the mirror as she used her handkerchief to be the assassin. Using a key, she slipped from the palace to a small cottage in the woods. As she slipped from the kempt cottage to a brown mare, Endymion briefly wondered if this was the cottage his generals believed to have belonged the the grandmother of Rose. The journey through the woods was barely a flash of memory and before he noticed she was in what he recognized as the remains of Molly's village. He flashed through the memories of her tedious work – traps being set, runes being drawn in the ground and hidden in the dust, spells being set. It all proved preparations for a great battle as the demons of the Dark Witch choose to try and double cross Serenity yet again.

It seemed only a flash of time before only two demons were left incapacitated in the traps while the rest laid lifelessly on the ground and their blood quickly seeped from their mortal wounds. Serenity took a moment to instill the dead horde with a half life. With a flick of her wrist, the only truly living demons were released. And Endymion knew- as Serenity knew- that they did not realize what had happened or what amount of time had passed, only that it appeared to them that they had succeeded in subduing the red creature they had been sent after. The first creature opened a portal and the second creature dragged a seemingly unconscious Red Lady through as their prisoner, while the rest of the half demons followed through. The disorientating blackness fell from her eyes just in time for Serenity to see the half demons stray off with renewed purpose to the thing most familiar in their full life- most likely the barracks that had been their home, Serenity grinned at the carnage they were sure to wreak amongst Beryl's remaining forces. She quickly lost site of them as the two living demons dragged her limp form through the winding, narrow, dim hallways.

After several more minutes they arrived in the throne room. Endymion watched through Serenity's gaze and she was tossed into a tumble at the Queen's feet.

Screeching laughter filled the Darke Hall. "So this is the great and mighty assassin being unkind to her enemy? Let me say 'Ha'!"

Serenity quickly rose. In movements quicker than either Endymion within her or the Queen watching from her pedestal, Serenity had her sword at her side as the demon heads tumbled and rolled on the floor. "This is me being unkind." Endymion's time within her mind seem to alter and slow and in a moment he was certain that his progression through Serenity's thought was reaching the present time.

"Guards!"

"They are currently preoccupied. The rest of your greeting party did not survive as long as these two unlucky devils. I was sure you would want your entire crew returned, so I extended the same kindness I showed after you tried to double cross me. Last I saw them they took a left as we a right in the main corridor. For future reference- That is if you have a future. You may want to rethink double crossing the brains, muscle, and skill behind your entire evil scheme." As Beryl howled in rage Endymion felt the flow of time shift and flow, and instantly he knew he was in her now.

"Metalia! My Lady!!" Beryl's screech filled the room as she turned her back to Serenity only to face a large stone set directly behind the thrown. Soon the face of the large stone shifted, flitted, altered, and filled. A dark ferocious face with red glowing eyes, a bloody monstrous mouth, and a frightening lack of anything more filled the entire surface.

"Fool!"

"My Liege, I need your assistance. I underestimated the power that this pathetic-"

"You are the only pathetic creature in this room, Fool!"

"Please, Your Greatness, I only did-"

"This to further your own concerns-"

"To create an army for you!" Serenity's attention turned else where as Beryl continued her pleas.

As the delicate moon child reached for the power within her self she felt the presence of the one she was still attempting to block. 'Endymion?'

'What's the matter, Love? You seem surprised.'

'Endymion you must go.'

'So you can meet your end?'

'That demon started this fifteen years ago! And I have been working toward this end for months. It is time to finish this. Please, understand.'

'I'm bringing you back to me, Sere.'

'No. I need all my strength, there shall be none left for the journey back, Endy.'

'I have strength to lend- my own and others.' An image of the circle in the meadow flashed through Serenity's mind. 'I am bringing you back to me.'

'No! I will not let others fight my battles! If they are not careful they will take my death unto themselves!'

'Yet you would have me take your death?'

'No, Love! I beg you to leave.'

'Your death means my own.'

'You are being melodramatic!'

'Mina says we are Soul Mates.'

'But-'

'Rei sees our bond too. Would you risk this? Would you let your pride kill me?'

'Endy.'

'I have their strength, pull it into yourself, use their connection to heal the worlds as you planned. We offer more than sufficient strength and energy to complete your mission and keep everyone safe.'

'Endy.'

'If not for me, Sere, do it for them. You have only just returned to their side. If it is marriage to me that you fear, I release you back to your sisters.'

He felt her resignation. 'You have always been such a fool. I have one final surprise for this darkness, then send your strength and pull me back into your loving embrace. It seems I can never escape you for long.'

Endymion felt her attention shift back to the two creatures who stood with her in the throne room. Endymion shifted half of his focus back to his body, the purification ritual and the Queen, leaving the rest of his attention to watch the bickering evils with his love. "Beryl! Enough with your excuses! End this foolishness and her life! Only then can you still wish to claim the seats of power that she has cleared for the taking!"

"Gladly!" Beryl's crazed gaze followed Metalia's to the slight form of the Red Lady.

She took a step forward, but hesitated as the velvety voice of the Red Lady echoed through the room. "I have one more surprise for you fiends."

A delicate gloved hand slid to the knot in the handkerchief. As the glistening silver hair tumbled to the room, Beryl's gasp filled the silence. "Serenity! But-"

A wicked grin lit Serenity's usually gentle face. "Yes. And as I live, so do the others. However, I wish to repay your mistress for her kindness toward my father, Beryl. You both end here."

Serenity was filled with the energy of the Sol System as Endymion pushed the power to her. She felt a gentle pull as a portion returned to flow through her Senshi and her Love as they embodied their homes, riding every corner of the Sol System of the darkness that had tainted so much for so long. As the blinding light filled the final darkness of the chamber, Serenity felt herself yanked form the room as if by means of a rope.

Purification Circle ~ Meadows of Elysian ~ Minutes Before the Ritual is Complete

'You have always been such a fool. I have one final surprise for this darkness, then send your strength.' Endymion grinned. Leaving half his concentration with his lady love, he opened his eyes to address her mother. "I have found her. She is in the Throne Room of the Dark Dimension."

Selenity nodded as a tear fell down her cheek. The look turned Endymion's grin to a frown. The Queen closed her eyes a moment, pulling the strength of the warriors into herself. Placing her left arm around Endymion gripping him tightly around the shoulders. He felt a panic rise with confusion and he began to struggle, but could not find the strength to fight the Queen's hold in his current form. "Tell her this was the only way. Please, tell her I am sorry for all that I have done. I am sorry for the promises I have broken. And I am sorry for my own promises that I can no longer keep. This all I have left to offer her. It is my final gift to my Serenity. " She opened her eyes, to look directly into his own. "And please, tell my daughter I have always loved her."

Before Endymion could speak a word, power slammed into him taking away his breath and leaving him stunned for a moment. As the power forced its way through their connection, he remembered his purpose with renewed vigor. He grasped the connection in his hands, and as per the Queen's instructions he pulled with all his might, strength, conviction, and love.

As Serenity's unconscious body tumbled into his arms from the bright light blue sky above, Selenity's lifeless form fell from his arms to the soft green meadow below.