SailorStar9: With Chapter 11 uploaded, this is Chapter 12 of this fic. Read and review. (Sighs) Guys and girls, is it too hard for you to leave a review other than just simply putting this fic up on your favorited list and story alerts?

Disclaimers: Me no own, you no sue.

Chapter 12: Usagi Is Confused! Did She Kill The Shitennou?


Usagi's Dream Sequence

"Endymion!" Serenity ran after the Terra Prince who was dashing towards the burning Moon Palace. "Endymion!" she teared. "Why..." she sank to her knees as the flames rolled past her and Endymion vanished from her sight. "Why do you have to go? I don't want to be left alone... again... why does it have to be this way?" she sobbed.


"No more..." Usagi muttered in her sleep. "No more of me being the Moon Princess. No more having to fight against the Dark Kingdom. I don't want that. I just want stay normal..."

"Usagi, hang in there." Luna encouraged. "You have to keep yourself together."

"Endymion... don't leave..." Usagi mumbled.


Usagi's Dream Sequence, Continued

"Endymion, don't leave me!" Serenity pleaded, tugging the dark-haired Prince's sleeve as he readied to return to Earth via the teleportation pod.

"Serenity, I have to." Endymion insisted, pulling Serenity's hold off. "My people need me."

"You can't leave me alone!" Serenity protested. "What if I'd never see you again!?"

"The Shitennou..." Endymion trailed.

"PLEASE!" Serenity begged, turning the 'Allure Charm' she cast on her eyes on at full force. "I don't want to be left alone anymore!"

"Of course, Serenity." the besotted Endymion smiled and let the Moon Princess lead him away.

"Sleep tight, Endymion." Serenity whispered, shutting the Terra Prince's bedroom door. "I mustn't let him leave me again." she swore and slipped out to the teleportation pods. "If I close the pods to Earth on this side, he'll never leave me." activating the console, she shut down the Earth teleportation pods, along with all communications.


Back on Earth, the four Shitennou were in the midst of a strategic meeting.

"Damnit, where is Endymion?" Jadeite hissed, looking furtively at the large door on the basement library. "He should've be here by now! Didn't he say he'll return last night?"

"Serenity must have stalled him." Kunzite surmised. "Tanzanite, Nephrite." he looked at the two Shitennou. "Are there any communications from the Moon?"

"That's the odd thing." Tanzanite replied, frowning. "The teleportation pod to the Moon is closed."

"And it's from the Moon's end." Nephrite added.

"Who could have..." Kunzite mused. "We need Endymion to give us further instructions to deal with this... threat."

"And since Endymion isn't here," Nephrite looked at his leader. "It's up to you to make the decision, captain."

"If I may," Jadeite spoke up. "The enemy is coming from the south; myregion. It's only natural that I lead a recognizance team to scout the location. Am I not the leader of the Special Forces?" he looked at his brothers-in-arms. "This is my duty."


Serenity might not have known it, but her selfish desire to keep Endymion with her on the Moon had doomed the Shitennou; without Endymion's guidance, Jadeite succumbed to Beryl's darkness, helping her attack Terra and subsequently, enabling Beryl's versions of the Shitennou to murder Endymion's chosen Kings.


"No, this can't be!" Usagi shot up from her pillow. "How could this be... how could I be so selfish?"

"Usagi..." Luna looked at the reincarnated Princess, worried.

"Luna, is it true?" Usagi demanded. "Did I really shut down the Earth teleportation pods and cut off all communications to Earth just because I didn't want Endymion to leave me? Is it because of me that the Shitennou are dead?"

"This..." Luna looked away.

"Answer me!" Usagi screamed.

"Yes." Luna sighed. "But you didn't know at that time..." the Mau cat argued.

Yes, Usagi was in self-denial. I did not know what was happening on Earth at that time. It's not my fault the Shitennou were dead; they died themselves.


SailorStar9: Well, that's one chapter down. Remember, read and review.