Disclaimer: The name Selene is the name of the Moon Goddess who is the daughter of Zeus, according to Greek legends.
Author's note: As promised, here's the rest of the epic battle and then some. Get ready for it!
I only own the rights of Jason, Lyla, and Chancellor. The rest belong rightfully to Square Enix, Disney, Nintendo and Toei.
CHAPTER 37: Fates and Hope.
When Mickey had woken up, the last thing he remembered was the giant explosion that swallowed him and his friends up. As he stirred himself awake, he found himself floating in the Lanes Between before positioning himself upright. His first thought was that he had actually died, but when he felt himself and realised that he was still alive, memories of what happened came back to him instantly and he gasped, looking around for any signs of Jason, Grovyle, Serenity, Ven and Aqua.
"Jason! Grovyle! Sailor Moon! Ven! Aqua! Where are ya's!?" Mickey called out, cupping his hands around his mouth to make his voice louder, hoping against hope that nothing else horrible happened to them, or worse...they just disappeared. He was also expecting and hoping to see anyone that was named Terra...
But no one answered his call.
Mickey felt his heart ache as he gazed down, until he sensed familiar lights coming from his right. Turning to gaze as light shined down, descending from the heavens, he couldn't help but ask, "What's that light?"
As he floated to investigate, just a few yards away and to Mickey's great big relief, the light shined onto Serenity who's hand was held by Aqua who also held onto Ven's left hand. Surprisingly, Ven's right hand was being held by Grovyle's left claw as the Pokemon's right claw was held onto Jason's left hand. All five of them were unconscious, but thankfully still alive.
But as Mickey reached them, he gazed at Ven when he...couldn't feel anything from the boy's body. While the teenager was alive and back to normal...his chest just felt...empty. He couldn't sense the boy's heart while at the same time, he could feel the hearts of the others and it seemed as though Serenity had lost her life...and was just beginning to regain it, as though she was resurrected. Floating just in front of her was the Cresent Moon Wand and the Silver Crystal that glittered slightly back to life. Was this the light that brought him to them?
The young mouse couldn't understand why, but Mickey could feel the radiant light from the tiny crystal that was warm and bright...and extremely powerful. Could this be what destroyed the X-Blade that caused the massive explosion? Shaking his head and deciding to worry about this later, Mickey knew that there was other important issues to worry about, like getting his friends back to safety. While he felt guilty for not seeing Terra as he still didn't know what the missing wielder looked like, Mickey knew that the others's safety had to be taken care off first.
And he knew where to go to heal up. So, after carefully pocketing the Cresent Moon Wand and Silver Crystal in his pockets since he knew it was safer with him until Serenity woke up, Mickey took hold of Serenity's left hand while pulling out the Star Shard that this time stayed with him, and focused on his wish from within his heart.
Granting his wish, the Star Shard then glowed brightly and engulfed the six of them into the familiar light, taking Mickey and his friends of the past, present and future back to Yen Sid and the Mysterious Tower.
(~The Key of Light-KH:BBS~)
Her body felt heavy, yet light as a feather at the same time. The last thing Serenity remembered was using the power of the Imperium Silver Crystal to destroy the X-Blade and restore Ventus into his original form. Other than that, everything else was blank. All around her, was floating mists of light.
Did this mean...this was death?
"Serenity..." A familiar voice, one whom Serenity never thought she would hear again, spoke softly.
Opening her eyes, Serenity gazed up, seeing a familiar beautiful woman with lavender long dress and crimson long hair with lavender-blue eyes, smiling warmly down upon her.
Immediately, the young Moon Queen recongised her. "...Mother?"
Selene nodded to confirm her daughter's thoughts. Not saying anything at the moment at first, the former Queen then held out her hands, as the familiar two important items that had saved the Realm of Light of the past and the future. The Cresent Moon and and Silver Crystal that were lost in the X-Blade's destruction, now restored. As she placed the combined items in Serenity's hands, Selene spoke to her, with tears forming in her tone as this was a final goodbye, "It's not yet your time, Serenity. You still have a future ahead of you...even if..."
"My daughter..." Serenity nodded, knowing that this was indeed the final time she would see her mother until her own death, continuing while thinking about the little girl she met on Earth, "...Serena..."
"She will be the Silver Crystal's new beginning." Serenity and Selene concluded in unison.
"Your friends are waiting, my sweet daughter." Selene told her, gently cupping Serenity's cheek in the palm of her hand, adding with tears falling, "You are always in my heart."
"And you in mine, mother..." Serenity replied, her own tears shedding.
As though feeling her life returning to her body, Serenity felt herself descend, drifting away from her mother who continued to smile in goodbye towards her, knowing that Serenity was being resurrected to return to the Realm of the Living.
While closing her eyes once more, Serenity promised for the final time, "We will meet again...someday."
Then...Serenity's vision went black...
(~End The Key of Light~)
A little while later...
"Ow...where am I?" Jason grumbled, rubbing the back of his head as he found himself awakening from a sitting positon, before finding himself in a familiar place and a sense of deja vu hitting him.
"Is everyone all right?" A familiar voice questioned.
Snapping fully awake, Jason turned to see Serenity, Aqua and Grovyle also having awoken up just about a few seconds ago, all of them sitting up. It'd been Grovyle who spoke.
"Grovyle!" Jason muttered in relief. He was also relived that the others were okay, as he also noticed Ven who still seemed to be unconscious, and Mickey who stood beside them as the young king also sighed in relief that they were all safe and alive.
"Jason, you, Grovyle, Serenity, and Aqua lost consciousness." Yen Sid's voice suddenly spoke, causing the said four to gaze up to see the said sorcerer standing over them, with a recovered Sailor Pluto(who had came once she sensed that something happened) standing beside him, Lyla kneeling at Jason's right, and Celebi hovering behind her, while Yen Sid answered the unasked question, "Fortunately, Mickey found you all and Ventus drifting in the Lanes Between, and brought you back to me to receive proper care."
While it was a relief that most of them were here, they couldn't help but notice that one of them was missing, as Aqua, Grovyle and Serenity gazed around, until Yen Sid apologised to them gravely, "I am sorry, but there was no sign of Terra."
"I know." Grovyle muttered, "Terra...he's..." but found himself unable to continue, and it made him mentally frustrated. He couldn't find the courage to speak of Terra's fate; that Xehanort had taken over the youth's body. It was bad enough for the others to come to their own conclusions. Yet, the gecko-Pokemon still believed that there was a way to restore Terra to normal and extract Xehanort's heart from his friend's body.
"I see." Aqua muttered sorrowfully, but at the same time, she felt that Terra would still be alive. Just missing. While the others lowered their heads in sadness, she then turned her attention to Ven, and shook him gently to try and wake him up, "Ven?"
But when he didn't respond, she shook him a bit harder, saying again, "Ventus!" only to realise he wasn't waking up, making Aqua, Serenity, Jason, Grovyle and Lyla all concerned, even Mickey who still didn't know what was going on since Yen Sid told him that it was best that everyone else would know once.
"Why isn't he waking up?" Lyla asked, worriedly.
"Ventus' heart is sleeping." Sailor Pluto answered this time, grimly.
Ven's heart was sleeping? As in like a coma?
"How long will he be like this?" Jason asked, hoping that it wouldn't last long. A sleeping heart couldn't be as different as being comatose, could it? He knew that a coma could last for at least a few years, depending on how bad it was. If it wasn't as bad as it seemed, it usually takes about a few days, a week tops.
Unfortunately, Jason's hopes were slightly dashed, as Sailor Pluto shook her head, saying, "I cannot say. There are some things that the Time Gate cannot tell me."
When the others turned to Yen Sid, the sorcerer responded, "I cannot say either. It is almost as though his heart has left. Should it return, he may very well wake. Should it not, then he may sleep like this for all eternity."
The eyes of Serenity, Jason, Grovyle, Lyla, Mickey and Aqua widened in horror and devasation, before they realised the reason why Ven's heart had left; His heart along with Vanitas's created the X-Blade, but since Ven had indeed been fighting from within while they fought against Vanitas in the real world, the cost of destroying Vanitas from within not only gave Serenity the chance to use the Silver Crystal to destroy the X-Blade, but it also caused Ven's heart to be damaged to the point of leaving his body, leaving him in a sleep-like state, similiar to Snow White's and Princess Aurora's condition but worse.
It also made Mickey realise why he couldn't sense Ven's heart, and it was no wonder too. It was far worse than...a certain realm he ventured into before.
Serenity closed her eyes, knowing that she failed to fully save Ventus. The Silver Crystal was too powerful and now she knew that she had to be more extremely careful in how to use it without costing the lives of those important to her and others.
"That's awful..." Lyla muttered.
"Isn't there anything we can do to get Ven's heart back?" Jason asked, almost pleadingly, not wanting to believe that Ven was gone forever.
That's when Aqua nodded to herself, before saying with determination, not wanting to leave her comatosed friend unprotected, "I'll keep him safe-until he wakes. Forever if I have to." which caused the others to gaze at her.
"Aqua..." Serenity muttered, worriedly.
"I will tell you what your friend needs right now. It is not your protection." Yen Sid told the female Keyblade wielder.
(~Theme of FFVII-Piano version-FINAL FANTASY VII: ADVENT CHILDREN COMPLETE~)
When Serenity and the others gazed at the sorcerer who turned his back to them, but he did continue while approaching his desk, knowing fully well how Ven's heart will be able to survive, "He needs you to believe. You see, Ventus's heart hangs in the balance. It sleeps in the place between light and darkness. From all I can perceive, that means he will be looking for a friend-one who believes in him, to show him the way home. Just as long as you love him...then Ventus will be able to find you when he wakes."
As Yen Sid took a seat at his desk once more, he concluded, "He can follow that love back to where he belongs-the realm of light." looking at the others behind him and smiled, confident.
That's when Mickey quickly and fully understood what his mentor meant and smiled as well. He knew that confident look on his master's expression and soon the king's own confidence entered his heart as well. He turned to his new friends and told them optimistically, "Don't you worry, Aqua. I believe in Ven, too. Gosh, he's been as good a friend to me as anybody. And if both you and me believe in him with all our hearts...then he'll have two lights to follow instead of one."
"Make that three, even if I won't exist if we change history." Jason spoke up once he and soon everyone else understood as well, smiling, "Ven's my friend too."
"Four lights, because Ven is my friend as well." Grovyle spoke up in agreement.
"Five lights, and the Silver Crystal will help guide him." Serenity agreed with a nod, and she knew, the Crystal's future-self was here in the present, waiting to be rediscovered.
"Six lights." Aqua told them. When the others gazed at her in confusion, she answered their unasked question, "Terra."
This only made the others sadden, with Jason pointing out, "But...Terra might be gone..."
"Maybe for good." Mickey muttered in sadness.
"I don't think there's anything we can do to help Terra." Grovyle admitted.
However, Aqua was confident, as she took out her Wayfinder, with hope. "I think I know how to find him." covering her charm with both her hands. Terra was still alive, she could feel it.
"If I believe in Ven too, does that make me the seventh light he can follow?" Lyla spoke up, wanting to believe as well, when the others gazed at her.
Suddenly remembering what he had to tell Lyla, Jason shrugged, deciding that it was time for everyone else to know about his, Lyla's and Grovyle's fates should history change, "I guess so, but uh...about what I said earlier...about the future changing...um..." though he found he was having trouble in saying it.
Fortunately, Grovyle, who also knew about the cost of changing the future, turned to Jason and asked, a bit surprised, "You know about the risks?"
While Jason had no idea who Grovyle knew already, he nodded and answered, "Xehanort told me. But how'd you know?"
"I told Grovyle and Lyla about the risks of ceasing to exist, but both of them understand just like you." Celebi answered instead as he hovered closer towards the group, which came to a surprise to Jason who gazed at Lyla who shrugged with a somewhat sad smile.
"Lyla! You know too?" Jason asked, blinking.
Lyla nodded, explaining, "That's why I wasn't scared when I came here. Celebi told me everything and...when you asked me to take your place if anything happened to you and Grovyle, I've made up my mind too-" adding with determination, "-I'm going with you guys to figure out how to save Temporal Tower."
Hearing this made Serenity, Aqua and especially Mickey shocked and even more sorrowed, realising that even Time has it's limits, with the latter asking, unable to believe it, "You mean...if the future changes, then you'll all disappear?" gazing at the four who came from the future who sadly nodded to confirm it. So this kind of time-travelling was different to another that he knew?
Mickey had always believed that there'd been a catch in changing the fate of Temporal Tower, but this wasn't what he had in mind. This meant that he would be losing his two close friends from the future who would...just be gone, not be born. It wasn't fair. Then again, what happened to Ven and Terra, and what happened to Serenity's family wasn't fair either.
"It's a heavy price, but, well, it's the only way to save Temporal Tower." Grovyle grimly said.
When Mickey didn't respond, Jason smiled and told him confidently once more, "Don't worry, Mickey. Even though we'll never see each other again, even if Grovyle, Lyla and I disappear, I don't think we will completely disappear."
"Huh?" Mickey blinked, confused.
"I think I believe what Jason is saying." Serenity smiled, both sadly and warmly, knowing that the Time-Paradox can at least give them some hope as she explained her theory, "You can alter the timeline despite the deadly risks, but in some people who's hearts are connected by the strong power of their lights, their memories cannot be altered. Meaning, Jason and Grovyle and even Lyla will continue to exist in our memories, because not even their actions here can be altered."
"Queen Serenity is right." Sailor Pluto agreed with a nod and a smile, "It is because all of you are part of the great Time Paradox that is meant to be, and I have a feeling that time is to be changed to protect the worlds and the light, while other futures need to be protected from changing."
To protect the worlds, light and Time, some parts of history must be changed, while other parts of history are to remain the same, the others thought. It sounded tough and dangerous, but if the group was willing to do anything, even by risking a Paradox or two or maybe even several that was meant to be, then maybe it was worth it.
"Yeah. Someday in ten years time from now...Temporal Tower will be saved." Jason concluded, knowing that team-work and friendship will be the key as he held out his hand in confidence.
One by one, Grovyle, Lyla, Serenity, and Mickey, who smiled and understood with a nod , joined hands with Jason. Aqua joins her hand and Ven's hand together with the others as well, knowing that while this was a form of goodbye, their hearts had been connected and it would move on into the new coming future in years to come.
"On behalf of the Moon, our hearts will be connected." Serenity stated, before gazing at Mickey, who alone would be the one to lead everyone, even Aqua and Ven, into the new future and she had a feeling that he would be there to meet an older Serena of the present someday, requesting him, "And Mickey, keep us in your memories, always."
Mickey nodded, silently promising that he would. He would even write a small journal as a reminder of this adventure of what he learned, in order to keep the memories of his new friends close to heart forever. He may have failed his Mark of Mastery and title as Keyblade wielder, he hasn't lost who he was and deep down, his friends, both old and new, will all have a place deep within his heart.
"Even if we become separated...we're always together in spirit." Jason concluded, fully ready for the challenges and trails ahead, as the shards of the future Star Shard crystals on his wristband, Grovyle's necklace, and Lyla's hairclip gleamed slightly in the light. (~End Theme of FFVII-Piano version~)
This is where most of the group's journeys had come to an end...yet for one of them, the final crue fate of the present would about take place and for the other of the present...they would be the last true hope for the future that, in the new time-line, would be there for other chosen ones in years to come.
(~Aqua's Theme-KH:BBS~)
A little while later, after a tearful goodbye to Mickey who promised to always remember them and a fond goodbye to Yen Sid who wished them all well, Serenity, Jason, Grovyle, Lyla, Celebi, Sailor Pluto and Aqua who was carrying the comatose Ven on her back all stepped out of the tower before stopping on the grass, splitting up into three groups.
It was time for one last goodbye.
"This is where we go our separate ways." Serenity stated, her heart hanging in sadness, but at the same time, knew that the time had come for her to return to the Moon Kingdom in the past within the Solar Universe. She had her duties to fufill.
Aqua, gazing at her once travelling partner who had become a good friend on their journey together, said with tears in her voice, as well as respect, "Sailor Moon...Queen Serenity, thank you." to which Serenity nodded in sadness.
"Take care of Ven, okay, Aqua?" Jason requested to the blue-haired Keyblade Master who nodded to him.
"I'll do my best."
"I'm happy that I got to meet you all." Grovyle said, his eyes glittering in goodbye and sadness, as Serenity and Aqua both nodded, proud to have met him and Jason and even Mickey as well.
Lyla sighed, having grown to like how time moved in the past, mentally wishing to have stayed for a little while longer, but knew that it wasn't meant to be, "I'm gonna miss the past."
"Me too." Jason sighed. He was missing Mickey already, and the king had become his third best friend of his life, and the first friend he ever made here in the past.
Serenity gazed at all of her friends of the future, saying fondly, "I will never forget you. Not ever."
"Thanks, Sailor Moon-" Jason quickly then corrected himself, "I mean, Queen Serenity."
"It's been an honor in meeting you, your highness." Grovyle added with a slight bow of respect. He still hasn't told her about her future and decided that it was best that Serenity would know on her own.
The Moon Queen nodded warmly, not minding despite the fact that she can longer be known as 'Sailor Moon'. That idenity isn't used for another long time unless she had to fight once again.
"M'lady." Sailor Pluto spoke up, saying, "It's time."
"Yes." Serenity agreed, while shedding tears. It was sad to leave her friends behind, but she knew, she would always remember them in her heart, and she had a feeling that her future-self, who was in the afterlife at this moment, was watching over this. This was the Time-Paradox.
"Better get going. We still have a lot of work to do." Celebi told Jason, Grovyle and Lyla who all nodded, knowing that it was time to go, to return to the future and begin their long task of researching in how Temporal Tower came to be destroyed in the future and then figure out how to prevent it's collaspe here in the present.
As they stood in front of the group, Celebi and Sailor Pluto, both with their powers, concencrated before two Portals of Time opened up, one that would lead into the future of darkness, and the other that would lead to the Earth's Moon in the past. As Serenity joined with Sailor Pluto while Jason, Grovyle and Lyla joined with Celebi, both Serenity and Jason thought of the one friend who helped them and saved them.
'Mickey...Thank you for everything.' Both of them unknowingly thought in their minds at the same time.
"Good bye, everyone." Serenity farewelled her friends.
"See ya later." Jason waved, even though he, Lyla, Grovyle, Serenity and Aqua were all shedding tears, and even Ven, his expression lifeless, actually sheds a single tear as though he was aware of this goodbye.
"Partings Such Sweet Sorrow." Grovyle spoke for the final time.
With a nod, He, Jason, Lyla and Celebi all walked into the portal to return to their home as the portal into the future closed behind them, vanishing without a trace. Serenity and Sailor Pluto, with a nod likewise, and nodded to Aqua, entered the portal to the past which closed behind them and also disappeared, returning to their own time, leaving Aqua alone with the comatose Ven.
Even though she was sad to possibly never see her friends of the past and future again, Aqua knew she still had more tasks ahead of her, saying to herself, "Ven needs a safe place."
Just then, as though hearing what Aqua said, Ven's right hand twiched slightly. To her surprise as she then noticed, his hand raised by itself and summoned his Keyblade before a light shot out in front of them, creating a large portal-like Keyhole of light. Light bursts out of the Keyhole, opening a door made of light. While stunned, as Ven's hand then dismissed the Keyblade and dropped, Aqua then smiled, realising what this meant. It did make it a little easier than having to summon her glider.
Wherever the place the portal would lead them to was, Aqua decided that it was the best bet, saying to her comatose friend, "All right... If that's where you want to go."
She then fixed her hold on him and walks through the door. What she would find...would leave her heavy hearted.
Silver Millinum in the Past...
The portal of the past led Serenity and Sailor Pluto into the darkness of the Moon Kingdom. The young Queen gasped when she sees what has happened to most of her people, who are all lying dead with blood seeping from their bodies. The kingdom itself looked darker than usual, but other than that, there wasn't much damage at all. She looks around trying to take it all in when she then gasped in sadness as she spotted the body of her beloved mother lying on the ground. She remembered the last words she said to her mother before she left.
"I, Serenity, swear shall do. Very well. I accept the quest."
"Your grace?" Sailor Pluto spoke up as she approached the saddened Serenity.
While her heart ached, Serenity then steeled herself, and nodded, making her way towards her home, knowing that she had two things to do as her first task as fully fledged Queen; to find Grimoire, and bring the light back into the Kingdom, as she remembered her parting words to her true love.
"I promise I will return, Grimoire."
And Serenity had kept to her promise on that.
Land of Departure in 1988...
As she stepped out of the portal Ven created, Aqua gasped in shock and devasation of where they were. The Land of Departure, her home, once proudly filled with light, now in complete shambles, all light extinguished. The Forecourt, missing an entire section of the ground. The castle that once stood tall, now a single broken tower. The destruction is unimaginable, unthinkable. Aqua looked ahead and with a gasp of sadness, recognizes the Keyblade of Master Eraqus lying on the
ground, a reminder that, with Terra's gullible help, Xehanort had murdered Eraqus and most likely used his darkness to cast this world into ruin.
As she bend down to pick up Eraqus's Keyblade, Aqua then felt it's remaining power surge into her vains, realising that the Keyblade, with no longer a master, had already chosen her as it's new master along side her own Keyblade, while remembering her final conversation to her master...with a promise that she failed to keep.
"Of course. I would never let that happen. I promise you I will bring Terra back... Only this time, you'll see he has what it takes to be a Master."
Knowing now what to do, Aqua nodded, before she begins ascending the front steps of the stark and broken castle.
"He's not as weak as you think."
Dusk Forest in the future of darkness...
The portal of the future led Jason, Grovyle, Lyla and Celebi to Deep Dusk Forest, where the entire journey had really began. Jason, Grovyle and Lyla shiver in sadness as they recongise the ruins of the Pokemon World, trapped in the Realm of Darkness of no Time. They look around trying to take it all in until Lyla spotted two more Celebi's, one who is female and is crying over the dead body of another female Celebi lying on the ground. The male Celebi, seeing this upon realising that something happened while they were all in the past, hovers over and does his best to comfort his fellow Celebi.
As the trio sighed in sadness, both Jason and Grovyle remembered their conversation they had before they entered Dusk Forest.
"Could it really be true if Time Travelling still exists and it might be the only way to restore Time? You know, to change history?"
"I'm not sure, my friend. To tell the truth, I doubt this human Time Guardian will help us."
Realising that now was the time to first reveal finally to what they found to the Planetary Investigation Team, with Lyla now joining as well, she, Jason and Grovyle all nodded to each other with determination, before following the two living Celebi's out of the forest, resolving to learn as much as they can to change and erase this future at the cost of their lives and very existance. Even if it meant it would take time-less years and that their own children would have to take their place.
""In legend, a human and a Pokemon would travel through time, and with the aid of allies they meet in the past, they may have discovered a way to perhaps prevent the darkness from forming"? I wonder..."
(~End Aqua's Theme~)
Back in the distant past...
While Serenity had yet to return to her true form, she and Sailor Pluto ventured to the dungeons where Chancellor had imprisoned Prince Grimoire, with every intention of freeing him before she would preform her task to restore the Moon to it's former glory...while thinking of a certain secret her mother, Queen Selene, had once told her the day before Serenity herself gained the power of the Silver Crystal.
"Serenity."
"Yes, mother?"
"Now that you are our Kingdom's new ruler, there is one secret in particular you must know. Should anything happen to me, and there was a traitor within the Palace...I ask you gain the power of rebirth of your successor, should evil come invade not just the Moon, but all of the Universe as well. Perhaps you are to have two daughters, not one."
"What?"
Finally reaching her destination, with Sailor Pluto's help, Serenity unlocked the dungeon's door and opened it, gazing inside. There sat at the far end of the stone ground, was a slightly battered and tattered but very much alive Prince Grimoire who heard the door open and light shining onto him. When he looked up, his eyes widened in disbelief and then with great relief. Immediately, he stood up and reached to her as she reached out to him, both of them meeting half way across the room and held each other in their arms, with Serenity half-burying her face onto Grimoire's shoulder.
"Serenity...You're back." Grimoire whispered.
"Of course I am...my love." Serenity replied, not wanting to let go. She may have lost her mother, and may never see her friends of the future again, but at least her lover was still alive...and her daughter Serena...and her other un-named daughter, as Selene had predicted despite not knowing it would be true or not, would both one day be born.
A few minutes later, both Serenity and Grimoire, healed from his injuries, enter the throne room as more bodies layed, Queen Selene's being among them, much to Serenity's saddnes, but she knew...there was nothing she could do. Sailor Pluto, while gazing in sadness at the fallen former Queen, stood waiting for the new Queen and her Prince and nodded when the said to arrived.
In a basket of a pillow, was the Moon Kingdom's guardian cats, Sabiria the grey and Leviathan the navy, with cresent moon symbols on their foreheads, rested with Sabira's new born daughter, a little black kitten with orange eyes she named Luna, and Leviathan's new born son, a little white kitten with blue eyes she named Artemis, as the two mother cats saw what was happening, yet did not say anything.
(~Lux-Dissidia 012-Final Fantasy~)
As Serenity stood in front of the throne, she finall discarded her 'Sailor Moon' attire and returned to her glamorous silver white dress, once more in her royal true form, before summoning the Cresent Moon Wand and Silver Crystal, having come to know how to heal the Kingdom, while she continued to remember the important knowlage Selene once told her.
"It is foretold that the Goddess of Light and Harmony, Cosmos, is the real reason of the Silver Crystal's creation, and half of her light would be reborn along with the light of a future Princess of our kingdom, one who would be all hope of life within the Realm of Light. But she would need to be reborn should anything happen to our Kingdom-both her, and her sister who would give her full support."
Once she knew what to say, Serenity held up the Wand and Crystal, chanting, "Moon, Healing, Activation!"
At her command, the Silver Crystal glowed brightly, slowly engulfing the room as the throne room, then the rest of the Kingdom was then restored to it's former glory, while sending the deceased bodies of those who died at Chancellor's hands into particles of light, sending them to rest in peace as their souls could not be saved...not by Serenity's power as she had no skill to do so. But she knew, that someone in the future generation would one day.
Because Serena is the one to be reborn, and she was already in the future on Earth. How it would come to be, Serenity would have to find out for herself. Her sister must be on Earth as well...she had to be. Just...not reborn as Serena's sister, but despite this, they would still be sisters. Serenity was certain of it.
"Use the Crystal to seal away the evil forces, and with the last strength of your life and for the love of your daughters and your successor's court, send them into the future on Earth and erase their memories until the time is right, should the enemy break free. No other would guide our light's hope to keep the Realm safe. None, Serenity, except you."
As Serenity closed her eyes in thought, she thought she could see what her friends of the future were doing in the two futures as well...while she would begin her task in years to come...
As the last Queen of Silver Millinium...
Back in 1988...
Aqua, who had done a similiar thing with Eraqus' Keyblade, had transformed the world as she remembered what he told her before the adventure began. When she opens her eyes again, she stands in a white room, a single door behind her. The walls are lined with symbols connected by chains, leading to a white chair in the center of the room. In the chair, sat the slumbering Ventus.
Dismissing Eraqus's Keyblade, Aqua runs her fingers through his hair, hoping he can hear her voice as she said to him motherly, "I know it's a lonely place, but you'll be safe. Terra and I will be back to wake you up before you know it."
As she then gently kissed Ven's cheek and smiling sadly, Aqua then turned and began to make her way out of the newly created secret chamber, and then eventually, the newly created castle that transformed into a dark golden castle with many twisting structures, in the dark abyss of a white dirt trail that leads into the darkness.
Before making her way to find Terra and save him, fully unaware that something else is about to go wrong that had already decided her fate...and the fate of the future generations...
Back in the Future of Darkness...
Jason, Grovyle and Lyla, having arrived back to the area, have told the Planetry Investigation Team of their experiences and what they had discovered so far, and that the was only one way to bring Time and Light back into this world.
To their relief, the head Pokemon nodded in full understanding, as Aggron told them with determination, "We will support you all the way until the end of our existance."
"Thank you." Grovyle nodded in respect.
"I know it's not easy, but it's better for the Pokemon and Humans in the past to live out their lives in a world of time and light than this world of frozen time and darkness, right?" Jason said with a slight shrug.
Blaziken nodded in agreement, "Indeed. Research may take years, but this is our only hope."
"Don't worry. The future will change before we know it." Lyla told them as the Pokemon had agreed to let her become part of the team as well, especially since she was more than experienced to help aid them in the research.
"And if it's not us who will change the future...then perhaps our own successors. Our children, maybe." Grovyle concluded, having told Jason and Lyla what he heard earlier.
Despite the slight disappointment of not being the one to change the future, Jason shrugged, fully prepared for the costs. "Yeah...I guess that makes sense." as everyone else nodded in agreement.
Though despite the price, there was still a secret hope that could give at least some of them a second chance to live, as well as a chance to see and possibly live in the new timeline...
And that Grovyle himself would be one of them. (~End Lux~)
Back in the Past...20 years later...
It's been 20 years since Serenity had become Queen, since she learned and travelled into the future and accepted her duty and what would happen in the future. After her return and having restored the Moon Kingdom, she began her duties while, at the blessing of the Kingdom, and accepting the proposal, married Grimoire who had become her King where they both ruled the Kingdom together in peace and happiness.
Six years later, Serenity became pregnant with not one, but two daughters, twins in fact, with only one of them being able to take Serenity's place one day as Queen of Silver Millinium. However, it wasn't without a cost. The sudden invasion of an evil Queen who stole many people's Dream Mirrors, the source of people's dreams within their hearts, to remain beautiful and immortal, attacked and nearly killed Serenity. But Grimoire had sacrificed himself to save her, and in his dying breath, told her a secret that would one day be discovered by one of their daughters...
And he had requested one of their daughter's to be named Kurai. Serenity grieved for her husbands death, and knew that she could not tell the newborn Serena or the newborn Kurai of their father's death until the time was right.
But even then, she never got the chance to do this either.
Fourteen years on, Kurai had developed pure powerful darkness in her heart despite the strong kindness and love she held, and Serenity had done her best to protect her while having come to conclusion that Serena would be the new Queen someday. Fortunately, there was no jealousy, as Kurai loved her twin sister so much that she wanted to do what she could to support her.
Unfortunately, two Sailor Soldiers did not take the darkness kindly, and refused to see reason of Kurai's innocence, deciding that the fate of the Universe was far more important...and her murdered her. Neither Serenity or Serena knew who was responsible of Kurai's death, but Serena had grieved so much for the loss of her beloved sister that it was lowering her happiness and causing her to fall into despair, believing that she would never be ready to be Queen.
After resting Kurai's body to remain protected in the chambers of the Palace, Serenity, while not wanting to forget one of her sweet daughters, knew there was only one thing to do in order to keep the happiness going within the Moon and prevent treason from happening.
Standing on the balcony, Queen Serenity had once again summoned the Silver Crystal and Cresent Moon Wand, knowing what to do, with tears and heavy heart of regret and guilt. "In grief of my beloved Kurai's death, the only way to move on...is the memory of her to be forgotten, as though she never existed."
Instantly, the Silver Crystal glowed in pink, covering up the Moon entirely, spreading out to the minds of everyone, including Princess Serena...replacing the memories of Princess Kurai with false memories.
Yet, Serenity's memories remained the same, as she didn't want to forget and she had feeling that perhaps someday Serena would meet her sister again and remember her. "Kurai...Serena...I'm sorry."
A while later, Serenity entered the chambers again where Kurai's body layed, her hands onto her chest, lifeless, cold, unmoving. As the Moon Queen approached, she ran her fingers into her daughter's hair, which, while styled just like Serenity's and Serena's, the hair colour was black, just like the late King Grimoire's.
"I know it's hard, but I had no choice. One day...you and Serena will be together again." Serenity whispered to her daughter.
Little did Serenity know...the final years and days of the Kingdom was coming sooner than she expected.
A/N: Sorry that this chapter was shorter than the others, but I wanted to make the true final battle as long as I could, so the ending is up next and then the epilogue and secret ending. See you real soon!