Serena ran back to her apartment as quick as possible to meet with the other girls. She saw them waiting for her in the car, parked in front of the building.
" Let's go." She said as she jumped into the back seat.
Haruka nodded and started the car. They drove to a field, deprived of any signs of human habitation and got out. Setsuna looked at Serena and she nodded. Serena closed her eyes as she concentrated and she started to glow faint silver.
" Cosmos Teleportation." She whispered and they were encased in a silver sphere.
The sphere lifted off the ground and in a streak of silver upward, they were gone from the planet Earth. As they headed off to Pluto, Setsuna stepped next to Serena and whispered in her ear.
" What took you so long?"
" I think I used to much power Setsuna."
" What? Why?"
" It triggered something in Heero's memory and he-he remembered the Silver Millennium."
Setsuna looked wide-eyed at Serena and bit her lip as she saw the dazed expression. {She doesn't remember him yet. She doesn't remember what happened between her and the God of War. But she will,} Setsuna looked at the others, {they all will. They'll remember their soul mates once again. I'm sure Luna and Hotura felt some kind of bond with Duo and Trowa. Back in the silver millennium, Luna thought Artemis was her soul mate, but alas it was not. It had always been prince Trowa of Jupiter though she had not known.} She looked back at the circle that was Earth. {Oh Fei-chan, I wish we didn't have to leave. I want to be with you, even if you don't remember me.}
The circle became smaller each second until it was nothing more than a dot. As the sphere flew past Saturn, Jupiter blocked Earth from view totally.
( + A week later on Earth + )
Heero was on the laptop typing. He was searching for a specific someone. {Dammit! Where did Serenity go?!?!?! It's been one week and I've found absolutely no information about it!!}
Duo, Quatre, Wufei and Trowa burst into his room.
" Have you seen Hotura?"
" Setsuna?"
" Or Luna?"
" Where's Serenity??"
The guys were frustrated, they had not seen the girls for the whole week. Plus, Relena had appeared the day after they disappeared and said that she had just been on a vacation. A vacation, some how the pilots didn't believe that, but everyone else did. Millardo had given her back the rule of Sanq Kingdom and she had taken up to stalking Heero again.
" Where could've they gone?? It's like they've disappeared form the face of the Earth AND the colonies!!" Duo said running a hand through his bangs.
Heero snorted, " I think they did."
" Do you think they went to the moon?" Quatre asked.
" No."
" We'll there's no where else they could go! The settlement on Mars have been evacuated and no one in allowed there anymore!!" Trowa said as he took a seat on the edge of Heero's bed.
" They can't be on Mars!! The oxygen supply has been cut!" Wufei put in from the position on the wall, he crossed his arms. " They can't live in space!!"
Heero looked at Trowa, then his eyes strayed to the bed itself and remembered the scene with Serenity. He blinked as something clicked in his mind. " You don't remember."
" Remember wha-AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Duo screamed as he clutched his head in pain.
" AAHH!!!" Quatre was next, then Wufei and then Trowa.
Duo glowed black, Quatre glowed yellow, Wufei a forest green and Trowa an emerald. They were all of breath and gasping when the auras surrounding them faded.
" Hotura..." Duo gasped.
" Set-chan..." Wufei blinked.
" Luna..." Trowa murmured softly, then narrowed his eyes. "Artemis." He spat out the word like venom.
" Ami..." Quatre whispered to himself.
" So now you remember." Heero said as he looked at them.
" Where's my Shinomegami?!" Duo demanded once he got up.
" Where did Luna go?" Trowa said. {If she went to see Artemis...} Trowa thought in seething.
" Ami-chan...Why weren't you here with them?" Quatre asked softly.
" I think the girls are gone to think things through. Without us to distract them." Heero said, " I can't seem to find them."
" Don't think you can either Aries." Wufei said, " If Setsuna had a hand in this, which I sure she did cause she IS in this. It'd be a long time before we can find them."
" Why did Relena show up again?" Quatre asked.
" Probably because since they won't be here to bring about peace, they'd have to fix the fold in time they caused." Wufei commented, " If I know my intended right, it's exactly what they did."
" So how do we find them now?" Trowa asked.
They looked at each other and sighed exasperated, they each took out their own laptops and started searching for any information that might help them.
" It's times like these I'm not sure whether I should be impressed or annoyed at my ananta's skill at hiding things." The Dragon Lord muttered.
The others grunted in agreement.
( + A year later on Earth + )
It had been a year and the guys still had no idea where the girls might be. Heero was furiously typing on his laptop, as were the others. They had just finished a mission yesterday. Missions, after the first week since then, were a way to release the pent up frustration and anger.
The doctors came in to see the five pilots almost burning up their laptops in their fast paced typing.
" Give me the damn info before I blow you up!!" Quatre screamed.
Heero and Wufei just took out their guns and shoot their portable computers. Trowa and Duo threw theirs at the wall, smashing them. It was the fifth time this week, and it was only Wednesday.
The doctors were not sure what to make of this scene.
" You do know," Dr. J said hesitantly, " that you got the disk yesterday...?"
Quatre scrawled down at his laptop and closed it. He sighed and ran a hand through his hair. " It's nothing. Now what did you came to see us for?"
" We have a new mission for you all." Dr. J said. " To protect Relena Peacecraft."
" Mission rejected." Heero said in his monotone.
" What?!" The doctors yelled out. Heero had NEVER rejected a mission before! Same as the others.
" Why?" Dr. J wanted to know. This was NOT how he raised his perfect solider.
" This war bores me."
" Well excuse me, but we can't stop a war just because it bores us!!" Dr. O snapped at him.
The guys looked skeptical.
" You'll be surprised." Heero said smirking.
A week later the war stopped, no one had the urge to fight anymore. It did not mean that peace was reached, just that there was no war. Relena tried her best to reach peace while the guys joined the Preventors and used up most of their spare time when they were not eating or sleeping, looking for their loves. It was a fruitless search still.
( + Another year later + )
Serenity stared up at Earth from her room window on Venus. The girls had been slowly regaining their memories of the Silver Millennium for the past 2 years. Now they remembered all. How they meet, how they fought, how they trained. And, also, they remembered, whom they loved. Serenity sighed. She slowly drifted back to a chosen memory. They were return to Earth tomorrow.
*** Flashback***
Princess Serenity of the moon stared helplessly into the mirror. Her eyes were bleary and shimmering, she brought her arms around herself. Seeking comfort, which was not there. In the mirror around her golden upturned crescent moon on her forehead, a eight-pointed star was faintly seen. Each a different color; blue, red, green, yellow, turquoise, sandy yellow, dark green and finally a purple so dark it seemed almost black.
{ The colors of my senshi.} she thought. She choked down a sob, but she could not stop the tear that rolled down her cheek. { But I don't want to be her!! Why is the prophecy wrong? I thought it was to happen to the generation after me!!} she closed her eyes almost in pain, maybe it was pain. Inner pain.
:: The prophecy was intentionally made wrong for your safety.:: A voice answered her in her mind, sounding very like hers. :: Nobody knows this but you.::
" But I don't want to stand alone and lose all my loved ones." Serenity whispered.
:: But you are the only one able too. You are the only one strong enough to keep standing. Any other will fall. It cannot be helped.::
" But you are Cosmos, not me." Serenity said.
" Yes WE are," The voice came from behind her. " but I'M not."
Serenity turned around, not fast though. It was like she had expected this. There standing in her room was someone that looked very much like her. Expect she had silver hair in heart odangos and she was a scout. Wings were spread out behind her. She was also a bit taller. She was also almost see threw.
" We are one and the same." The scout replied. " We are 2 pieces of one whole. Right now, I am nothing but a spirit that guards the universe with great power." The scout looked at the princess. " Your power. My power. OUR power. You are the physical form while I am the spiritual. We became separate at birth to be able to keep the balance of the universe. But now, we are to become one again. Whole. Become who we are. Who we're suppose to be."
The spirit flew toward the princess with opened arms, it held the princess in a tender embrace, and then it shimmered and went into the princess. Serenity swallowed a sob.
" Who I am." Her voice broke and she threw herself onto the silver bed. She clutched her pillow as she cried and the eight-pointed star glowed brightly around the crescent moon before disappearing, sinking into her skin. Leaving only the crescent moon visible.
Serenity cried herself to sleep that night. Cosmos thought no one knew the truth about the prophecy expect for her, but she was wrong. One other knew, one GOD knew. One very specific god. Heero Aries, the new God of War.
Heero looked down at his beloved on Mount Olympus. It squeezed at his heart to see his Serenity like this. His, not the stupid arrogant Prince of Earth, Endymions'.
~~~ Serenity's Dream~~~
{ Where am I?} Serenity asked herself as she gazed around the white mist. { Is this a dream?}
From the mist footsteps were heard. Serenity turned toward the sound. Her dress swirled around her, making her seem to be a vision more than a princess. The footsteps stop for a moment as the figure gasped at the sight. Then they continued.
" Who's there?" Serenity asked.
" Me." A voice answered.
From the mist stepped a handsome young man. He had unruly brown hair and bangs that fell over his eyes when his head was bowed as it was now. Prussian eyes stared at her through the bangs. He wore a black armor somewhat like Endymions, trimmed with red where Endymions was white. A black cape bellowing behind him, the inside of the cape was a blood red. On his forehead was a red 'A'. He was a sight to behold.
Serenity gasped and her hands flew to her chest, over her heart.
" You startled me." She said almost like an apology.
" May I ask for your forgiveness then Serenity?" he asked as he stepped up to her. He kissed her forehead, right above the crescent moon. He then tilted her head up with his finger by her chin.
" Who are you?" she asked breathless, looking into his eyes.
" Heero. The God of War." He whispered as he leaned toward her.
" But I thought uncle Aries was..." Serenity murmured barely able to reply. The girls were as close as sisters and they considered themselves family. So Rei's family was Serenity's family as well. That goes same for the other scouts.
Heero knew this of course. So he paid it no mind.
{ If I had my way, it would be FATHER Aries Serenity.} He leaned in closer. " Shhh..." he whispered as he saw her try to say something.
He kissed her on this lips, a feather light kiss.
{ My...first...kiss...} she thought. Her lips parted, asking for more. He kissed her again, with more force. But not forceful, he kissed her slowly, letting her choose the time to stop.
She wrapped her arms around his waist and he looped his around her. The did not notice the red energy that transferred from Heero to Serenity. They didn't notice both when it died down and a white energy transferred from Serenity to Heero. Though Heero knew what was taking place Serenity didn't.
When they pulled back after a while breathless, both of them. Serenity looked up to see the 'A' on Heero's forehead surrounded by a multicolored eight-pointed star. Her eyes widened. She did not feel as the eight-pointed star appeared on her forehead.
" How-What-Why-" Serenity's voice caught.
Heero chuckled as he looked at her face and felt his forehead.
" I did not expect you to respond like this, but it is a good thing, thought unexpected."
" What are you talking about?" Serenity asked him.
He turned her around and a mirror appeared from the mist. She gasped as she looked at her reflection. There was the star surrounding her upturn crescent moon, but what caused her to gasp was there, on top of the crescent moon, inside the star, a bright red 'A' was shining.
" Wha-what happened?" she asked as she fingered the 'A'.
Heero wrapped his arms around her waist, brought her against him and placed his head on her shoulder.
" I claimed you." He whispered in her ear, causing her to shiver. He tightened his grip.
He smiled as he looked on the star one his forehead.
" And you claimed me." He chuckled, " I didn't know you were territorial."
Serenity blushed and he laughed.
" You have to wake up now." He said as he felt her start to disappear.
" When will I see you again?" she asked.
" When it is fated to be Serenity. Remember me. Always." He kissed the symbol on her forehead again and she disappeared.
~~~ End of Serenity's Dream~~~
Serenity bolted upright in her bed and turned to face the mirror. Her eyes widened, there was the star surrounding both the moon and the 'A'. Proof that it had NOT been a dream. It was real. Then the star and 'A' faded to leave only the crescent moon.
She smiled as she touched where it had been, but suddenly she clutched her head in pain.
Fate had intervened, it was not time yet. She would not remember this. Not the dream, not Heero or that she was Cosmos. Not till the time was right.
" What? Where am I?" Serenity asked as she looked around her room. She looked into the mirror and saw her wet cheeks. Her hand slowly touched it. " Was I crying? Why?"
Her hand raised to touch her crescent moon. It felt like there was something missing. But she didn't know what. It was like she should have remembered something. But she couldn't.
She quickly dismissed the idea and washed her face. She looked at the time and quickly went to meet Endymion.
Endymion kissed her then and she didn't respond to the kiss. She just let him kiss her. Embarrassed that she didn't know what to do, but she had reason. It was her first kiss! Wasn't it...?
Up on Mount Olympus Heero cursed fate and all the things associated with it. His knuckles were white as he clutched the armrest of his chair.
*** End of Flashback***
Serena sighed. {They say Fate is cruel and Destiny is kind. We'll find out soon ne, Heero? Let's put the theory to work.}
She didn't turn as a portal of white and blue opened behind her and a girl stepped out in a scout suit. She held a staff that looked much like Poseidon. Maybe it was. The scout got to her knee and bowed.
" Princess." She said.
" You've finally chosen to show yourself?" Serena spoke out the window, but was addressing the scout.
" I'm sorry my princess, but I could not dismiss my duty."
" I understand Guardian of the Dimension gate. The dimensions were clashing together in the battle against Chaos. You had to leave before the all became one."
" Forgive me my princess for I could not have helped it."
" Do not ask for forgiveness when there is no need for it. I never blamed you. I knew you survived the battle when the dimension stayed apart from one another. I was happy to know there was another scout that survived the battle." Serenity said. " And I do not blame you for the million years I had to spend by myself. It was fated to happen." She turned to the scout. " So you'll be coming with us back to Earth tomorrow." A statement not a question.
" If my princess allows it."
" Of course." Serenity smiled, " I like to have my friends by my side. He's there." Serenity whispered.
" I know." The scout was tense. " How-how is he...?"
" He's fine, but he'll be happy to see you again."
Serenity put her hands on the scout's shoulder and the scout slowly stood up.
Hope shone in blue eyes.
" He missed you Sailor Mercury."