(Chapter Three)
Somewhere in another apartment, Dark Endymion rested and watched through his portal that he had created, the image of Usagi asleep in her bed under her ridiculous pink blanket of bunnies. A moonbeam shone on her sleeping form, making her really seem like a princess, despite the blanket. Her eyelashes fluttered and she turned in her bed moaning and then she shuddered, her eyes clenched tight before she began to whimper.
He sat up and decided to go see her once more. He slipped out the window of the apartment and he ran leaping gracefully across roofs of many houses and buildings that were between him and his princess. He slipped through her window. She was still whimpering. He gave himself into temptation and picked her up in his arms. Hearing a sudden movement near the door to the room, he exited the window with her in his arms but not without leaving a note on the bed that was pinned to a red rose which was so dark, it was almost black. It read as follows,
Dear Mummy and Daddy,
I have gone out for a walk in the beautiful moonlight in which I have such a spiritual connection to. If you look out at this moment, can you see it shining? I will be back soon, Usagi
As her eyes fluttered open and she awoke, Usagi didn't recognize where she was and was frightened. She looked around her wildly and recognized a figure sitting there watching her. She at first thought it was her Mamo-chan, but after a second look, she knew it was the stranger from the other day. She sat up in an instant and stared at him through narrowed eyes, determined not to show him how frightened she was. "Where have you brought me?" she asked coldly.
He smiled at her. "You're in the Charlene Hotel where I am staying. You can leave." he said motioning towards the door. She stared at him wondering what he was doing. "Or-" his voice stopped her and she turned around wondering what he was going to pull. "Or you can stay for a while and talk. You have my word, that you are safe and that no harm will come to you." she stared suspiciously but she nodded and sat down hugging herself.
He brought her a blanket. She glanced at it suspiciously before wrapping it around her. He smiled again. "You might not believe me but this all started back in the days of the Silver Millennium, back when the galaxy was at peace, and when I first met you..." As he spoke, she could see exactly what he spoke of and she knew he was telling the truth.
The night was crystal clear and the water showering down from the fountains were sparkling in the light radiated from the very ground that they were set. The grass rippled and the flowers on their stems waved in the light breeze. In the middle of the immense garden, was Princess Serenity. A young man was watching her from behind a marble column and was so near that he could smell her scent of apple-blossom as it drifted on the wind. They met that night as sun set and the silhouette of the Earth was clear in the night sky, they met outside the grand party that the Queen held at the palace.
Princess Serenity had wandered away from the endless talking and laughing that was the life of the moon. She looked towards the Earth in which to it, the Moon was just a satellite in the sky. From here, the Earth was a beautiful mix of blue and green and white. Prince Endymion had come up and taken her hand. As she looked up, he held to her a rose that glowed in beauty from the light of the Moon in which they stood upon. When he asked her why she was not dancing, she replied blushing that she was quite self-conscious around people when dancing.
Instead of the laughter that she had expected, it was met with his beautiful midnight-blue eyes staring at her softly. He held out his hand and asked to dance out here where they were alone. She agreed and soon they were sailing and swirling along with the music that came clearly through the silent night. Queen Serenity saw them and tears ran down her cheeks in happiness that her dear little daughter had finally found her soul mate. After their dance and after Serenity was too exhausted, they stopped. Serenity led him to her favorite place on the whole of the Moon.
Leading him, she led him to a tiny alcove that overlooked Glimmer-Glass Lake, and above was the Earth. They sat there talking and asking questions of each other's lives and their hopes. It was there that they had first kissed. And where Serenity had first fallen in love. As he led her back to her room in the palace, he promised that he would help defend the Moon if evil forces ever attacked it.
But as he left her, the evil force that he had promised to fight against surrounded him. They opened a portal that glowed of evil and plunged him in, then following before the portal closed and without a trace that there had once been one. That night, Endymion became a warrior for the Negaverse. Even as his mind filled slowly with the evil, his heart remained pure and untouched. He was determined that he would not break his promise to Serenity. He was able to contact his twin brother that looked exactly like him and make him promise to protect his one love until he was able to break free. He also told Queen Serenity about what had happened. She had told him that she would not tell, unless it was time.
Using up all his will power, he was asleep all the thousand years that had occurred. His plan had backfired somehow. His twin brother also fell in love with Princess Serenity. After Queen Serenity defeated Queen Beryl for the time being, she died and his twin forgot all about his brother and the promise that he had made. When Sailor Moon had defeated Queen Beryl and Queen Metallia, she had also defeated the one way he knew of when he had awoken that would have changed him back...
"And that's what happened Princess. I've been waiting to see you all these years, dreaming of you in my sleep and yet you have never known me." he spoke softly and his eyes glimmered slightly with unshed tears. Even through the evil, when Usagi dug deeper, she could feel the purity of his heart. She got up from where she had sat and walked towards him. As he looked up, she could see the pain in his eyes, warring with the evil that had filled him those thousands of years ago. Yet, his love for HER could be seen clearly through it all. She melted in his arms in a big hug. And before she even knew what she was doing, she kissed him. With that, any disbelief in his story flew right out the open window.
She suddenly pulled back and gasped. "But what about Mamo-chan?" she cried and she felt deceitful. He tried to hold her but she stood up shaking, her tears falling like crystal droplets to the floor. He could see without any fierce straining of his eyes the purity that she saw everything through and of her heart. He gulped. "I'll take you home, it will be quite hard to talk away taking a walk in your pajamas." she looked down. "Oops." she muttered.
He smiled and picked her up. "Let's go." he jumped smoothly out the window and holding her close, soon brought her to her room where he left her. "Wait!" she called and he turned from his position of jumping out the window once more. She went over to her dresser and grabbed something. She turned and gave it to him. He looked down and saw a small red pendant dangling from a chain. "It was my great-grandmother's. She told me that it was a symbol of trust and that's exactly what I've given to you." she explained.
He smiled down at her. "Thank-you." he whispered in her ear. As soon as he did, he was gone and out the window. She stared after him, as he jumped from rooftop to rooftop gracefully until he was out of sight. She dropped down on the bed, her legs crumpling under her. She heard a crinkling of paper and noticed that she had sat down on a note. As she opened it and looked at the beautiful rose that had come with it, he knew that Dark Endymion had left it just in case Luna or her parents noticed she was gone. She flipped it open and read it. Yes, he knew it would give Luna a definite explanation and also her parents knew that she was safe.
"Usagi?" came a definite British accent and the door opened to reveal a small black cat with a gold crescent moon on its forehead. "Yes Luna?" she asked dreamily. Luna cocked her head. "Did you go out to see Mamoru?" she asked. "Hmm? Mmm-hmm." came the response. Luna noticed the dazed expression of confusion that wrinkled Usagi's brow and she nodded to her. "Very well, I'll see you in the morning." she leaped onto the windowsill then jumped out. Usagi stared at a framed photograph of her and Mamoru. She was sitting beside him, her head resting on his shoulder and smiling at the camera with such happiness. Mamoru had one arm over her shoulders.
She sighed and then went back to sleep and dreamed. She was being torn between two people. She knew it without seeing them clearly that it was Mamoru and Dark Endymion both fighting for her heart. She wondered how she would ever explain this to the other senshi. "USAGI!" she awoke abruptly to Luna on her stomach staring into her face. "You're going to be late!" Usagi's eyes shot wide open and she scrambled out of her bed and into her school uniform. Before Luna could say anything else, Usagi had already disappeared into the adjoining bathroom to brush her teeth.
She ran out of the house and down the street. She rounded a corner and collided with Mamoru. She looked up and jumped back looking at his strangely. "Go-Gomen Mamo-chan. I've got to get to school." she took off again leaving Mamoru standing there to wonder what had just happened. Usagi ran up and found Minako in a similar action, which was racing to school. She caught up and they ran side by side panting to get to their different schools. Minako veered into the turn of her private school while Usagi ran straight ahead with heavy breathing. When she reached the classroom, her odangoes had become untied and her hair flowed freely after her. The path through the classroom became littered with hairpins and classmates helping her pick them up as she jumped in her seat right before the bell rang and collapsed.
Somewhere in another apartment, Dark Endymion rested and watched through his portal that he had created, the image of Usagi asleep in her bed under her ridiculous pink blanket of bunnies. A moonbeam shone on her sleeping form, making her really seem like a princess, despite the blanket. Her eyelashes fluttered and she turned in her bed moaning and then she shuddered, her eyes clenched tight before she began to whimper.
He sat up and decided to go see her once more. He slipped out the window of the apartment and he ran leaping gracefully across roofs of many houses and buildings that were between him and his princess. He slipped through her window. She was still whimpering. He gave himself into temptation and picked her up in his arms. Hearing a sudden movement near the door to the room, he exited the window with her in his arms but not without leaving a note on the bed that was pinned to a red rose which was so dark, it was almost black. It read as follows,
Dear Mummy and Daddy,
I have gone out for a walk in the beautiful moonlight in which I have such a spiritual connection to. If you look out at this moment, can you see it shining? I will be back soon, Usagi
As her eyes fluttered open and she awoke, Usagi didn't recognize where she was and was frightened. She looked around her wildly and recognized a figure sitting there watching her. She at first thought it was her Mamo-chan, but after a second look, she knew it was the stranger from the other day. She sat up in an instant and stared at him through narrowed eyes, determined not to show him how frightened she was. "Where have you brought me?" she asked coldly.
He smiled at her. "You're in the Charlene Hotel where I am staying. You can leave." he said motioning towards the door. She stared at him wondering what he was doing. "Or-" his voice stopped her and she turned around wondering what he was going to pull. "Or you can stay for a while and talk. You have my word, that you are safe and that no harm will come to you." she stared suspiciously but she nodded and sat down hugging herself.
He brought her a blanket. She glanced at it suspiciously before wrapping it around her. He smiled again. "You might not believe me but this all started back in the days of the Silver Millennium, back when the galaxy was at peace, and when I first met you..." As he spoke, she could see exactly what he spoke of and she knew he was telling the truth.
The night was crystal clear and the water showering down from the fountains were sparkling in the light radiated from the very ground that they were set. The grass rippled and the flowers on their stems waved in the light breeze. In the middle of the immense garden, was Princess Serenity. A young man was watching her from behind a marble column and was so near that he could smell her scent of apple-blossom as it drifted on the wind. They met that night as sun set and the silhouette of the Earth was clear in the night sky, they met outside the grand party that the Queen held at the palace.
Princess Serenity had wandered away from the endless talking and laughing that was the life of the moon. She looked towards the Earth in which to it, the Moon was just a satellite in the sky. From here, the Earth was a beautiful mix of blue and green and white. Prince Endymion had come up and taken her hand. As she looked up, he held to her a rose that glowed in beauty from the light of the Moon in which they stood upon. When he asked her why she was not dancing, she replied blushing that she was quite self-conscious around people when dancing.
Instead of the laughter that she had expected, it was met with his beautiful midnight-blue eyes staring at her softly. He held out his hand and asked to dance out here where they were alone. She agreed and soon they were sailing and swirling along with the music that came clearly through the silent night. Queen Serenity saw them and tears ran down her cheeks in happiness that her dear little daughter had finally found her soul mate. After their dance and after Serenity was too exhausted, they stopped. Serenity led him to her favorite place on the whole of the Moon.
Leading him, she led him to a tiny alcove that overlooked Glimmer-Glass Lake, and above was the Earth. They sat there talking and asking questions of each other's lives and their hopes. It was there that they had first kissed. And where Serenity had first fallen in love. As he led her back to her room in the palace, he promised that he would help defend the Moon if evil forces ever attacked it.
But as he left her, the evil force that he had promised to fight against surrounded him. They opened a portal that glowed of evil and plunged him in, then following before the portal closed and without a trace that there had once been one. That night, Endymion became a warrior for the Negaverse. Even as his mind filled slowly with the evil, his heart remained pure and untouched. He was determined that he would not break his promise to Serenity. He was able to contact his twin brother that looked exactly like him and make him promise to protect his one love until he was able to break free. He also told Queen Serenity about what had happened. She had told him that she would not tell, unless it was time.
Using up all his will power, he was asleep all the thousand years that had occurred. His plan had backfired somehow. His twin brother also fell in love with Princess Serenity. After Queen Serenity defeated Queen Beryl for the time being, she died and his twin forgot all about his brother and the promise that he had made. When Sailor Moon had defeated Queen Beryl and Queen Metallia, she had also defeated the one way he knew of when he had awoken that would have changed him back...
"And that's what happened Princess. I've been waiting to see you all these years, dreaming of you in my sleep and yet you have never known me." he spoke softly and his eyes glimmered slightly with unshed tears. Even through the evil, when Usagi dug deeper, she could feel the purity of his heart. She got up from where she had sat and walked towards him. As he looked up, she could see the pain in his eyes, warring with the evil that had filled him those thousands of years ago. Yet, his love for HER could be seen clearly through it all. She melted in his arms in a big hug. And before she even knew what she was doing, she kissed him. With that, any disbelief in his story flew right out the open window.
She suddenly pulled back and gasped. "But what about Mamo-chan?" she cried and she felt deceitful. He tried to hold her but she stood up shaking, her tears falling like crystal droplets to the floor. He could see without any fierce straining of his eyes the purity that she saw everything through and of her heart. He gulped. "I'll take you home, it will be quite hard to talk away taking a walk in your pajamas." she looked down. "Oops." she muttered.
He smiled and picked her up. "Let's go." he jumped smoothly out the window and holding her close, soon brought her to her room where he left her. "Wait!" she called and he turned from his position of jumping out the window once more. She went over to her dresser and grabbed something. She turned and gave it to him. He looked down and saw a small red pendant dangling from a chain. "It was my great-grandmother's. She told me that it was a symbol of trust and that's exactly what I've given to you." she explained.
He smiled down at her. "Thank-you." he whispered in her ear. As soon as he did, he was gone and out the window. She stared after him, as he jumped from rooftop to rooftop gracefully until he was out of sight. She dropped down on the bed, her legs crumpling under her. She heard a crinkling of paper and noticed that she had sat down on a note. As she opened it and looked at the beautiful rose that had come with it, he knew that Dark Endymion had left it just in case Luna or her parents noticed she was gone. She flipped it open and read it. Yes, he knew it would give Luna a definite explanation and also her parents knew that she was safe.
"Usagi?" came a definite British accent and the door opened to reveal a small black cat with a gold crescent moon on its forehead. "Yes Luna?" she asked dreamily. Luna cocked her head. "Did you go out to see Mamoru?" she asked. "Hmm? Mmm-hmm." came the response. Luna noticed the dazed expression of confusion that wrinkled Usagi's brow and she nodded to her. "Very well, I'll see you in the morning." she leaped onto the windowsill then jumped out. Usagi stared at a framed photograph of her and Mamoru. She was sitting beside him, her head resting on his shoulder and smiling at the camera with such happiness. Mamoru had one arm over her shoulders.
She sighed and then went back to sleep and dreamed. She was being torn between two people. She knew it without seeing them clearly that it was Mamoru and Dark Endymion both fighting for her heart. She wondered how she would ever explain this to the other senshi. "USAGI!" she awoke abruptly to Luna on her stomach staring into her face. "You're going to be late!" Usagi's eyes shot wide open and she scrambled out of her bed and into her school uniform. Before Luna could say anything else, Usagi had already disappeared into the adjoining bathroom to brush her teeth.
She ran out of the house and down the street. She rounded a corner and collided with Mamoru. She looked up and jumped back looking at his strangely. "Go-Gomen Mamo-chan. I've got to get to school." she took off again leaving Mamoru standing there to wonder what had just happened. Usagi ran up and found Minako in a similar action, which was racing to school. She caught up and they ran side by side panting to get to their different schools. Minako veered into the turn of her private school while Usagi ran straight ahead with heavy breathing. When she reached the classroom, her odangoes had become untied and her hair flowed freely after her. The path through the classroom became littered with hairpins and classmates helping her pick them up as she jumped in her seat right before the bell rang and collapsed.