I don't own Sailor Moon.

Yes, I know that Chapter 8 was posted twice. (Actually, it was
posted three times, but I got the third chapter off.) I was having
trouble with so it got posted more than once. I
hope that doesn't happen again! Now on with Chapter 9.

Let's Start at the Very Beginning

-CHAPTER 9-

"Well, why don't all you boys go off for a little while,
while we talk." Starlite suggested. "You four could show
Endymion around."

"Come on Endymion." Malachite said. Malachite and Endymion
left, and the rest of the younger boys followed.

"So, do you come here often?" Jedite asked.

"Well, I just started coming weekends, but I will be coming
here every weekend until the summer begins."

"What are you doing in the summer?" Zoisite asked.

"I go to a friend of my mother's. So what do you guys do
here? Are you old enough to enter the tournament?"

"No, we're only fifteen. We are not yet old enough to start
training for the tournament. You must be sixteen to enter. So we
will start out training for that next year. Besides, the
tournament's six years away." Nephlite said.

"How old are you?" Zoisite asked.

"I'm ten." Endymion said. 'The young Senshi are only a year
younger than them.' Endy thought. 'That reminds me, I should
make sure that I ask Terrance if it is okay if I train with the
Senshi.

"Only ten? You sure do not act like it." Zoisite said.

"That's what everyone tells me!" The five boys laughed.
"So, you haven't told me what you do here if you are not in the
tournament."

"You don't let anything distract you, do you? Well, we are
here to train to become Guardians of prince Judis." Malachite
explained.

"But we really do not want to." Jedite said.

"We are supposed to bond to the heir to the throne of
Terra, but it just isn't working. We believe that Judis is not
really Terrance's son at all. We are bound to our fathers, and
our fathers are bound to Terrance. There is no feeling of
friendship or any bound to protect Judis." Zoisite explained.

"What do you mean bond?" Endymion asked utterly confused.

"Well, we should be linked to the prince from birth because
of a promise of some sort made thousands of years ago. We don't
know exactly why, but we would be able to do about the same
things as if we were two soul bound people. Although not nearly
as strong as a soul bound."

"Zoi, how in the world is Endy going to know what a soul
bond is? Just get on with it." Jedite said.

"Actually, I already know. A friend of my mother's told me
all about it this week. She seemed to be really keen on me
knowing everything about it. A soul bond is when two soul mates
touch and bond before either of them turn a year old. Sometimes
they can feel each other's feelings and know where the other is,
and they also know what the other is thinking. Well, when they
reach a certain age, then they soul bond."

"How did your mother's friend know that?" Malachite asked.

"I dunno. How do you guys no what it means?" Endymion shrugged.

"Can you keep a secret?" Malachite asked.

"Yeah, of course." Endymion replied.

"We know about it because my mother is a Venusiarian."

"Why should that be kept a secret?"

"Many people feel that people from different planets are a
threat." Jed explained. "All of our mothers are from different
planets. Malachite's is from Venus, Mine is from Mars, Neph's
Jupiter, and Zoi's Mercury. We're all half alien half human."

"I think that it is stupid that just because a person might
have a different background than people are used to, it makes
them threatening. They only feel those people as a threat
because they do not understand them. Really, it's not their
fault they were born that way." Endy said.

"Man, you are very smart for a ten year old." Malachite
said. Can you guys feel something weird about Endymion?
Malachite asked telepathically the guys through their bond.
Yeah, a strong sense to protect him. Jedite sent. I can hear
you, you know. Endymion sent likewise telepathically. They all
gawked at him.

"What?" He said out loud. "You guys could do it, what's
wrong with me doing what you did?" They only gaped at him more.

You don't happen to be Terrance's son do you? Malachite
sent. Endymion looked rather nervous. What makes you say that?
Because we can hear your thoughts and you can hear ours. Sorry
bud, we are not going to let you off the hook that easily. Neph
sent. Endy, you have got some explaining to do. Jed sent.

-Meanwhile, back with the older Guardians and Terrance-

"Who was that Terrance?" Jenite asked.

"I told you, Endymion is a very good friend of mine.
Gregory, my gardener, requested that Endy become his apprentice.
There was just something about Endy that made me request for him
to train with me. He is, as I said, an excellent archer,
swordsman, and not to mention he is only ten. There is just
something about him."

"I sensed it too." Starlite said "Endymion seems to be a
very powerful individual. There is something special about him."

"He is a unique individual. Although he does not know it.
Gaia told me that he is a god, but he does not know he is a god
himself." Terrance explained.

"Gaia? As in Queen Gaia, the love of your life? When did
you talk with her?" Jenite asked intrigued.

"When she came to pick up Endy."

"Do you mean to tell me that she knows him too?" Kunzite asked.

"Yes." Terrance asked. Starlite was looking as if he
was not paying attention to what they were saying. In fact, he
looked like he was off on another planet. "Starlite, are you
alright?" Terrance tried to get his friend's attention.

"Yes Terrance?" Starlite came out of his apparent trance.

"Are you alright? You were not with us a moment ago."

"Terrance, Endymion is more than what he seems. I heard you
say that he was a god. Did you not say yourself that you
believed Gaia is a goddess?"

"Gaia is a goddess. She even admitted it to me when I saw
her the last time, yet what does that have to do with anything?"

"Terrance, are you aware that there is only one earth
goddess left actually living on this earth?" Starlite asked.

"No. I did not. It must be Gaia then."

"There is a rumor that she has a son." Starlite said gently.

"What?" Terrance said faintly. 'A son? Who would her son
be-'

"How many earth gods are there believed to be?"

"One." Starlite answered, obviously expecting Terrance's question.

"Endymion." Terrance whispered faintly. Millions of
questions swirled in his mind. Gaia's voice rang in his ears:
His father does not know that Endymion is his son. He
remembered the dream he had, a boy named Endymion that was his
and Gaia's son. The strong bond between Endymion and himself.
All of their likenesses. All of the times Gaia tried so hard to
tell him that one night: Oh Terrance, forgive me. It is
about Endymion. There is something you should know about him,
myself, and you. This is hard and I do not see how you will ever
be able to forgive me... Even what Endymion had said once
about not being able to tell Terrance something. ...I promised
I would not. Forgive me, but I cannot break this promise.
'Gaia had tried to tell me. She even told Endymion not to I bet.
Why did you hide my own son from me Gaia?' Pain tore at him as
he felt betrayed. 'I guess I do deserve this for what I must
have put you through.' After a moment a much more pleasant
thought came to his mind. 'Endymion is my son.'

"How could Gaia keep this from me? She would not dare take
any revenge this far." Terrance said bitterly.

"She may not have done it for revenge." Kunzite said.

"Do you think she somehow saw Judis as a threat to
Endymion?" Tinite asked.

Endymion can only stay weekends. His mother does not wish
to live here. She has a problem with Judis.

"She did say that she had a problem with Judis, indirectly.
What she actually said was that Endymion's mother had a problem
with Judis."

"Are you going to tell Gaia that you know?" Jenite asked.

"That would be a pleasant conversation. Hello Gaia, I know
that Endymion is our son. By the way, since you took him from me
for his whole life until now, he is going to stay with me from
now on." Terrance said sarcastically.

"If you do that she might use her powers against you and I
do not want to be cleaning you off the floor and see Judis get
the throne. Nothing personal Terrance, but it is looking less
and less like he is your son." Tinite said amused.

"Wait just a moment. Judis might not be heir to the throne.
I mean, think about it. Gaia left after you and Serpentiara slept
together so-"

"You do not have to go reminding me of what an ass I am
Kunzite. We all know that I would do almost anything to make
that up to Gaia in anyway I could." Terrance said defensively.

"Let me finish. Gaia would have to have been pregnant
before Serpentiara because she left right after she found out
about you two."

"So that means that Endymion should be older than Judis,
making Endymion heir to the throne." Terrance finished for him.

"And if Judis found this out, it might have meant sibling
rivalry between Endymion and Judis. I know that would unnerve
Gaia enough to not tell you about Endymion." Tinite said.

"I honestly don't know. What could Judis do to hurt Endy?"
Terrance's question went unanswered as an awkward silence hung
in the air.

"Are you going to tell Endymion that you know?" Starlite
asked, breaking the silence.

"I don't know. He may get upset and feel that he betrayed
his Mother." Terrance said pensively.

"Don't you feel as though he has betrayed you?" Tinite asked.

"Not at all." Terrance said.

"Do you think that he might not know that you are his
father?" Jenite asked.

"No, I think he knows. He always seems to want my approval
for anything and everything. He also seemed uncomfortable when I
told him about a dream I had about Gaia and I having a son. Only
in my dream he looked just like me. Except for the fact that he
had Gaia's eyes and her hair."

"I wonder why he does not look like you or Gaia." Jenite
voiced his thoughts.

"Maybe he does." Kunzite suggested. "I mean, that dream
that you had sounds pretty strange. Do you suppose that Endymion
might look how you described him, but is hidden with some sort
of magic. I know that my wife knows that Queen Serenity can do
things like making people look different. Maybe Gaia got Queen
Serenity to do that."

"Or she may have done it herself." Starlite added.

"Are you going to tell her that you know?" Tinite asked.

"I really am not sure if I should. What if she gets scared
and takes him away from me?"

"Do you really think she would do that?" Starlite wondered.

"I honestly don't know anymore. What could have possessed
her to not tell me? It just could not have been Serpentiara and
what we did. It meant nothing!"

"But it meant something to Gaia." Kunzite stated.

"I know." Terrance buried his face into his hands. Just
then all five boys came back. Endymion looked very ashamed of
himself. It was then that Terrance looked up to see Endymion
looking so ashamed.

"Endy, are you alright?" Terrance went over to Endymion and
put a comforting hand on Endy's shoulder.

"I need to be alone right now." Endymion gently pushed off
the warm hand from his shoulder and then ran away. Terrance was
about to follow until he was interrupted by a young voice.

"He should be alone right now." Malachite said.

"What happened?" Terrance asked. All of the boys looked
almost as ashamed as Endymion.

"We hurt Endymion pretty badly." Zoisite said. "Not
physically but emotionally mind you." He added, sing the puzzled
looks on the older men's faces.

"What happened exactly?" Terrance asked starting to get worried.

"We were talking, and we were thinking how there was
something special about Endymion. So we started to use our link
to talk to each other so he wouldn't know what we said about
him." Jedite paused. "That is when it happened."

"What happened?" Terrance repeated again for the third
time, noticeably annoyed.

"He sort of talked to us." Nephrite said.

"What's wrong with that?" Starlite asked clearly not seeing
the relevance of the conversation.

"He talked through our link." Nephrite said. 'I hope
Terrance won't be mad. Endymion told us why he was not supposed
to tell anyone about himself being Terrance's son.' Nephrite
thought. Good job Neph. Endymion said that he did not want us
to tell Terrance. Besides, how do you think Terrance will react
to this? Jedite sent.

"So now he feels bad because you know that he is my son.
Well, don't worry about it." The four boys looked at one another
confusedly and then up at Terrance.

"You mean you're not surprised that he is your son?" Jed asked.

"We had just figured it out." Tinite spoke up. The older
four Guardians filled their sons in on what they had been
talking about while Terrance went to go find Endymion.

-In another part of the training area-

Endymion laid by a tree. 'I can't believe I told them that
I am Terrance's son. And now he knows.' Endymion had heard
Jedite yell at Nephlite through the link. Although he had barely
heard it because he was not very close to them. A shadow loomed
over him. He looked up to meet the gaze of his own father.
Endymion pulled his knees to his chest in shame and bowed his
head. Terrance sat down next to Endymion.

"Endy, we need to talk." Terrance's voice was calm and gentle.

"You're not mad at me are you? I'm so sorry. Please forgive
me. I'm so sorry." Endymion looked up at his father. Terrance
saw unshed tears in his son's eyes and he immediately reassured him.

"I am not mad at you at all. You did nothing wrong. Gaia
told you not to tell me, didn't she?" Endymion only nodded.

"Mother Earth may not trust me because I told the boys and
they told you." Endymion sighed, nearly shedding his tears.

"Well, I had just figured it out right before they told
me." Terrance smiled down at Endymion.

"You did? How?" Terrance explained the conversation that
they he had had with his guardians, but being true to his word
to Gaia and leaving out the part that Endymion was a god, and
Gaia a goddess. He instead told him that Starlite could read the
stars.

"Starlite and Kunzite were right you know." Endymion said.

"What do you mean?"

"I really don't look like this. I look like you, but with-"

"Gaia's hair and eye color?" Terrance finished for him.

"Yes." Endymion smiled.

"Well, I took you here to train, so come on." Just then
Endymion and Terrance's stomachs growled.

"Can we eat lunch first?" Endymion asked.

"Sure." They went over to the horses and unpacked the food
that the cook had prepared for them. They went and joined the
older and the younger guardians. They ate lunch and then
proceeded to have a very important discussion.

"So here is what we are going to do. Endymion is going to
be Gregory's apprentice on Sunday's, and he will come training
here with his younger guardians on Saturday." Terrance explained.

"Does this mean that we will serve under Endymion and not
under Judis?" Zoisite asked.

"Yes." Terrance responded.

"Yes!" The four boys yelled pleased.

"What will Judis think?" Endymion asked.

"He probably will not mind. I think he would rather train
with Beryl rather than with you four. And I honestly could care
less what he thinks. Gaia and I both do not think that Judis is
my son. There are a lot of people who think that Judis is not
my son also, and many things are starting to point to it. For
one, how could she have known that she was pregnant about four
days after she and I slept together?"

"I think Serpentiara did something to your mind." Tinite said.

"As do I." Terrance agreed. "We are not going to tell
anyone else that Endymion is my son. Endymion, does anyone else
know that I am your father?"

"Beryl some how figured it out. That is why she was calling
me prince-ling. The Chibas, two of Gaia's most trusted servants,
were told as well. Gregory, Margret, and Andrew know. Queen
Serenity was told too."

"If Gaia told Serenity she might have also told the Queens
of Venus, Mercury, Mars, and Jupiter as well. They are all very
close. Gaia may also have told the Queen's daughters." Terrance
said. Endymion shook his head.

"I know that princess Serenity was not told. I don't think
the older and younger Senshi were, but they might have been. Can
we train now?" Endymion asked impatiently.

"Yeah, can we?" Jedite asked.

"Of course." Starlite replied. For the rest of the
afternoon the younger Guardians and their prince trained. The
Guardians found that although Endymion was five years younger
than they were, and that he had only begun his training where as
they had been training since they were five, he was as skilled
as they were!

"Don't you ever get tired?" Jedite asked avoiding a jab
from the end of Endymion's sword.

"Probably." Endy replied shifting his weight and switching
his sword from his right hand to his left. He lanced and it
startled Jedite enough for Endymion to unarm and knock him to
the ground.

"Endy, we need to head back now, it's starting to get
late." Terrance's voice rang.

"Yes, Mother Earth will be here soon." Terrance and
Endymion saddled their horses and started off at an easy trot.
They waved to their friends and then broke into a gallop to make
it home by nine.

-Later that night-

"Are you going to come with me to talk to Mother Earth,
Father?" Endymion asked. Terrance smiled.

"It sounds so much better when you call me father than it
does when Judis does it. Well, if I tell her that I figured it
out on my own, then she will have no reason to not trust you.
Your Guardians had already figured it out anyway so it's not
like you actually told them."

"Well, I already said good-bye to Margret, Gregory, Drew,
and Lizzie. So let's go." The father and son pair walked into
the area where Gaia usually met Endymion.

"That reminds me, may I train with the younger Senshi?"

"I would prefer if you did not." A comfortable silence hung
in the air for a few minutes before Terrance asked, "What do you
do at Atlantis?"

"Well, right now, Queen Serenity, the older and young
Senshi, and Princess Serenity are staying with us. The Senshi
all train just like the Guardians and I do, and Princess
Serenity is really, REALLY, sweet, and pretty, and funny, and-"
Endymion went on and on about her. Terrance smiled. 'Despite his
young years, my son has already fallen in love. Whether he knows
it or not I can't tell. He goes on like I do about Gaia.'
Endymion's praise of Princess Serenity was cut off by a golden
light. Gaia appeared. She looked at Endymion, and then over at
Terrance. Gaia opened her mouth as to say something, but
Terrance was the first to talk.

"Gaia, we need to talk."

Was that a good cliff-hanger? I hope so. Well, anyway, I hope that
you enjoyed it. Review below. Sorry it
took so long to get this chapter out. I've been away on vacation,
and I hope that I can get the next chapter out ASAP. Thanks for
reading! - Jelp