Chapter 8: Living Once More

Black Star puts her hand on her heart and stands up. Jinkoshi grabs her free hand and asks, "What's wrong?" He grabs his chest too and coughs. She falls to her knees. Jinkoshi falls and looks at the queen. Her old wrinkled skin turned young in a flash. He looked at his skin. It was getting wrinkly. They both transform back into Serena and Darien. He falls gently back. Serena falls back and reaches her now pruned fingers out toward Darien. He reaches back and touches her cold fingertips. He slowly crawls to her. He stops and gasps for air. Serena coughs and kisses his hand. She cries and looks up at the enormous roof. She looks over to Darien and looks up at the door. A shadowy figure shushes her and whips out what looked like a crossbow. A golden arrow was placed on it and the crossbow was pointed at the younger looking queen. Serena's eyes start to roll back. The figure shoots the arrow and Serena and Darien die.

The golden arrow flies and Hinkishi sees it first. He looks at the queen and at the golden arrow then jumped up and the arrow kills him. The queen gasps and then kneels. Hinkishi says, "My queen...*cough*...I want to let you know...*cough cough*...that you are always protected." He dies and the queen screams out, "Who did this?! WHO!" Another golden arrow cuts the air and strikes the queen in the heart. She screams as the spirits float up and then go to their owners. Serena wakes up and sees Darien's spirit enter him. She smiles and Darien wakes up. He looks over at her and moves his fingers so they almost touch hers. She starts to cry and looks at the queen. Queen Hikmonigoshiko's pale skin turns into gray wrinkles. The queen nervously looks at her wrinkled hands and screams, "Whh...what? I am not suppose tooo!!" She looks angrily at the shadow of the girl and screams a high pitched scream.

"YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME!" The frightened queen backs a few steps and leans against the wall. Serena looks back and sees the girl who saved them. The girl walks out of the shadows and stands in the light. The girl had short black hair which was in piggy tails and piercing green eyes. On her forehead was a symbol and there was two others on her cheeks. The queen says in almost a whisper, "You....you....I thought I got rid of you Bihishu." Bihishu replies, "Nope sorry queen. But you'll just have to die." The crossbow was thrown to the ground and she leaps at the queen. The queen, knowing Bihishu would do this, lifts her hand and blasts a yellowish light into the girls stomach. Bihishu coils into a ball around the light. Her bright eyes grow dull. The queen laughs and watches as her skin gets younger. Serena crawls to the crossbow, just to find there were no arrows.

Bihishu cries out in a different language. She starts to chant. A bluish green light starts to silhoutte her body. It grows brighter and blinds the queen, Serena, and Darien. Bihishu transforms into a little cat and charges at the blinded queen. Bihishu jumps up and scratches at her face. The queens crown falls and Serena snatches it. The queen screams as Serena tries on the crown. Serena starts to float with the queen gawking at her. Queen Hikmonigoshiko runs and jumps grabbing Serena's foot. Serena waves her hand and a great red ball of light flies out striking the queen. "I will not surrender!!!" The queen shrivels up and becomes dust. Bihishu transforms back to her human form and walks up to Serena. Serena cries as the crown disappears from her head, "Oh my gosh! What did I just do? What happened? Who are you?" Bihishu laughs her reply, "I am Bihishu...Princess of the planet Kyronekyo. I have come to rid her evil power and find 14 of our guardians who have traveled from the Milky Way Galaxy nine planets and the moon to Earth with different identities and bring them to my planet." Serena laughs and murmurs, "Who are these guardians?" "Rini, princess of the moon; Rei, princess of mars; Mina, princess of Venus; Ami, princess of Mercury; Lita, princess of the planet Jupiter; Amara, princess of Uranus; Michelle, princess of Neptune; Trista, princess of Pluto; Hotaru, princess of Saturn; Darien, King of the moon and prince of Earth; and you, Serena, Queen of the Moon. I have you and King Darien...I need to find the others. I need your help." "Ha ha! You must be joking kid...I am not a queen......Darien....he...he can't be king of the moon...Its a scam!" "Sorry queen. Sorry I didn't come sooner. Please help me. Help me and you'll see."