Blueeyeddevil06 thank you for being my beta on this. You had such great ideas for this chapter!

I am working on a new short story right now titled "Fidelity."

Summary: AU story about Princess Serenity and Prince Endymion. King Diamond has decided that he wants Princess Serenity as his wife and is rejected. He then leads his Kingdom to attack Serenity's, the kingdom of Luna. Her mother, the Queen, sends her away for her safety. She goes to stay with the King of the neighboring kingdom and his two sons, Endymion and Arcas.

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There is one more chapter left after this one, it's the Epilogue. I hope you enjoyed my story. Thank you all for reading it!


Chapter 60 - The Beginning Of The End

The next morning, Serena woke up to her brother's yelling. Sammy had marched into their room without knocking and announced, "Ryan has been kidnapped by Beryl! We have to save him!" He noticed his sister wrapped up in Darien's arms waking up. He blushed when he also noticed that she was holding the covers up to her chin. He immediately exited the room yelling, "I will wait in the living room!"

Serena and Darien dressed very quickly and joined Sammy in the living room. "Beryl kidnapped Ryan? How do you know?" Serena asked, worried.

Sammy sighed, "I was in the bathroom when she took him. I thought it would help him more if I didn't get caught too and came to let you know. She did something to get him to go willingly. I think he is under the influence of the dark energy she uses."

Darien held Serena tightly, he knew she wouldn't take it well. He then put out a group text message for everyone to meet at the penthouse immediately.

He was pleased with how quickly everyone responded and started arriving. Once everyone was there, he alerted them to the problem. As he was telling them about Ryan, a red light blinded them and suddenly Ryan was standing in the middle of the living room.

He smirked and strode towards Serena, "So, you are Sailor Moon? Fascinating. It will be fun to kill you." He quickly blasted dark energy at her, and she was knocked back.

Immediately, everyone began transforming into their superhero forms. Serena became Eternal Sailor Moon and stood facing Ryan. "You don't want to do this. You are Sammy's friend. Please stop."

"Oh, no, I absolutely want to do this. I serve Queen Beryl." He then tried to blast Sailor Moon with dark energy again, and Tuxedo Mask got her out of the way. Ryan said, "You really are a sissy aren't you?"

Darien transformed into Endymion and drew out his sword to point it at Ryan. "I will protect her. Even at the cost of your life."

Ryan laughed, "Queen Beryl asked me where Sailor Moon lived. I, of course, had just figured out that she was Serena. I was more than happy to tell her. Now, I will be able to deliver Endymion to her. She will be so pleased." He stepped to the side, and Beryl appeared next to him.

Beryl smiled at Endymion and reached out her hand, "Endymion, my love, come to me, and we will rule Earth together. Serenity isn't here, and even if she was, she never compared to me. I am the love of your life."

Sailor Moon just laughed, "You are just a witch that wanted power. You don't know what true love is." She then transformed into Serenity. "I have been here all along." She reached out and held Darien's hand. "We found each other in two lifetimes. He doesn't belong to you. He's mine, bitch."

Beryl screamed and launched a blast at Serenity in anger. It raced at her, and at the last minute, Sammy stepped in front of his sister, putting up a shield to protect her. He glanced sideways at Darien and said, "You aren't her only shield it seems."

Serena was smiling, and it faded as she saw Ryan launch an attack at Sammy's unprotected side. Amy launched a mist attack and managed to stop Ryan's attack.

Much to everyone's horror though, when the mist cleared, Beryl had managed to get Serena by the throat and was choking the life out of her.

Beryl shouted, "He will be mine! Do you hear me? I loved him before you ever came along. I wanted for him, and he never saw me. You are always in the way!" She squeezed harder.

Everyone was afraid to launch an attack. They didn't want to accidently hit Serena. Ryan was working very hard to launch his own attacks to keep everyone from reaching her. Beryl shook her.

Darien was wrecked. He couldn't save Serena. He was watching her die, and he could do nothing. Ryan was drawing on the full power of Metalia. He was incredibly strong and had knocked out Mina, Kunzite, and Nephrite.

Amy shouted, "Destroy her necklace! That is where her power is coming from!"

Darien felt a peace settle over him and he heard: Give me your sword. He relaxed a bit when he realized that Serena was calm about what was happening.

He saw Serena reach behind her back, and he sent the sword into her hidden hand. He watched as she pulled the sword from behind her back and struck out at Beryl's necklace.

Beryl screamed in agony as the necklace shattered. She looked at Endymion and said, "I love you." She then quickly aged and turned to dust.

Ryan scowled, "You all will still die!" He then transported them all to the Dark Kingdom at D Point in the North Pole.

Serena collapsed on the floor coughing. She was gasping for air and her throat was killing her. Darien rushed to her side and picked her up.

He said, "Buns, that was brilliant."

She gave him a weak smile, "See, you are always protecting me. Thank you for the sword."

He kissed her throat and healed it with his Golden Crystal. "I will always protect you."

"Thank you. I feel much better now. That really hurt." she smiled up at him.

All of a sudden, Metalia loomed up in front of them all and cackled. She said, "I still have the power to defeat you. All I have to do is kill Serenity and take her Silver Crystal. Then I can be Queen of the Earth!"

Darien placed Serena back on her feet and stood in front of her. He yelled, "I will die first!"

"It's happened once before." Metalia announced. She launched dark energy at Darien, and he managed to pull them both out of the way at once. She yelled, "I will infect you with my dark energy, and you will bow to me and kill her. I will control you just like I control her parents!"

Serena was startled, "How would you know about my parents?!"

Metalia cackled, "When I sent Beryl and myself forward in time, I also used my dark energy to seek the new parents of Serenity and turn them against her. I don't know who they are right now, but I do know that they are cruel to you. I made sure they would be. Your mother tried to give you loving parents. Ha! I poisoned them with hatred."

Darien made the mistake of looking at Serena for her reaction and was blasted with dark energy from Ryan. Darien was quickly knocked out. He collapsed and hit the floor.

Serena screamed, and everyone launched into action. She ran to Darien, and tried to wake him up, only to find a massive head wound. He was bleeding profusely. She wept over him. She missed seeing the Sailor Scouts and Generals falling one by one. Even Sammy was collapsed on the ground when she finally looked up.

She stood on shaky legs and wept. "You are a monster. I will destroy you and save them." Ryan tried to launch an attack at Serena and she held up her Moon Wand. "Moon Healing Escalation!" She gave it everything she had. All the love and devotion poured through the wand. She felt an incredible amount of energy pour out of her. The moon above began to glow silver and she collapsed. But, not before Metalia was defeated, Ryan and her parents were released from the dark energy, and everyone else who collapsed was healed.

The room grew quiet as everyone woke up. When Darien looked at Serena, he wept. He ran to her, lifted her limp body and rested his forehead on hers. "I love you. Come back to me, please." he begged and then kissed her on the lips.

She blinked open her eyes and smiled at him. "I love you too, baka."

He laughed joyously. "I thought you were dead!"

"I think I was, but your kiss saved me."

He smiled down at her, "You saved all of us first."

Ryan stood awkwardly off to the side. Darien looked at him and smiled, "I am glad you are okay."

"I… do you all hate me now?" Ryan wondered.

Sammy laughed and said, "You were turned evil against your will. We know a lot more about that than you realize. You should come back to the penthouse with us, and we will explain it all to you."

Serena stood, dropped her transformation, and walked over to Ryan. "I am glad you are alright. Don't think we hold any of this against you." She smiled at him, and he gave a weak smile back.

Later that afternoon, they were all sitting around the living room filling Ryan in on everything about them. He was shocked that the guy he knew as Sapphire had actually been their enemy at one point. One that had tried to kill them and especially Molly. It did comfort him that his attack was in relatively short duration compared to Sapphire's.

Ryan did grow pale at one point and whispered to Sammy, "Sorry about what I said about your sister being hot."

Sammy just chuckled, "Don't worry about it. I told Darien you thought Tuxedo Mask was a sissy. We're even."

Ryan looked stricken. "He is going to want to kill me isn't he?"

"Na, he'll just want to punch you." Sammy replied.