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Let's Start at the Very Beginning
-CHAPTER 22-
Shocked at the sudden appearance of Endymion, Beryl pulled
the sword from his stomach and dropped it to the ground. Beryl
looked at him horrified once before she disappeared. Endymion
let out a gasp of pain as he dropped to his knees. Blood spilt
forth from his wound as he fell completely to the ground. With a
look of utter disbelief on her face, Serenity gasped as she
crouched down and cradled Endymion's head in her lap.
"Endymion..." Serenity trailed off, not knowing what to say
to her fiancé who had just traded his life for hers.
"I promised, I would never let her touch you." Endymion
said between breaths. Serenity started crying hysterically. Her
whole body felt numb with disbelief.
"Promise me that you'll never leave me!" She cried.
"Serenity," Endymion choose his words carefully, "I don't
think I can promise that I will always physically be with you,
but I promise I will always be in your heart." He promised her.
"That's not good enough!" Serenity said as Endymion started
to close his eyes.
"Keep your eyes open!" She ordered. He took her hand in his
weakly. "Keep talking! Don't you die on me! Can you heal
yourself?" Serenity asked frantically.
"No. I don't have enough power left in me, and Mother Earth
has the Gold Crystal to help heal those left on earth." Endymion
said, each word more painful than the last.
"Endy!" Serenity's sobs were shaking her body.
"Please stop crying. It hurts..." he had trouble speaking,
"even worse to see you cry...then this wound does." He said
breathless. "Promise me that you'll always be happy...with or
without me." Endymion coughed, blood spat out from his mouth.
"I can't live without you." Serenity whispered.
"Find someone that can make...you smile. I...couldn't bear
knowing...that you were unhappy. I had hoped we could...grow old
together, forever...watching our children...grow up. I thought
that we'd have...a child with your smile, and...your spirit. The
only thing I'll regret...is not being able to be with you. Never
getting a chance...to see you..." his breaths became shorter,
"in your wedding gown...never becoming a...father." Endymion and
Serenity had never talked about children, but Serenity could
feel now how much he had wanted a family with her. She could
tell that he had wanted both parents to love his child at all
times, unlike Endymion who had only just gotten both his parents
back together. Serenity cried silently as she listened more.
"But...you've given me...love ...and so much...more. I can
die...knowing, you'll live." He smiled weakly at her. "I love
you Sere." He whispered before he closed his eyes for the last
time.
Serenity looked at his face, horrified. "No...No! NOOO!"
Serenity screamed as she realized that he would be gone forever.
She felt a part of her rip apart. "NOOOO!!!!" She screamed
again. The tears burned down her face. She got up and ran to the
balcony's edge. The only thing she saw was death splashed below
the balcony. All of her people and all of the brainwashed
Terrians lay dead. Her friends...the senshi. Even Endymion's
generals. They had all died. And why? What was the cause of this
damned war? "WHY?!?!" The heart broken princess screamed into
the night. She had been left alone.
Her entire palace was in ruins. The places she went as a
child laid in ruble. The battle had been short, but their was no
way the scars could ever be healed. Each life taken was a deep
scar on the Earth and the Moon. Serenity would never be able to
live her life as she once had. Serenity looked over at her
beloved's lifeless body as silent tears continued to trail down
her face.
It had been bloodcurdling as she watched the fake Endymion
die early that night. She didn't think she would ever have to
see it for real. Her eyes drifted to the sword stained in
Endymion's blood a little way past his body. With her eyes as
lifeless, but even more pained and haunted than Endymion's,
Serenity sauntered to where the blood soaked sword laid.
"Everyone, please, forgive me. There's no one left. I don't
want to be alone." With a swift movement, she stuck the blade
into her stomach in her moment of angst. Serenity felt no pain
from the sword, only the pain in her heart. On shaky legs, she
walked back to where Endymion laid. She practically fell on
Endymion's body. Weakly, she wrapped her arms around his neck.
"I will...always be with you...in your heart. And wherever...you
go. I...couldn't bear...to carry another man's ...child. I would
never...be happy without...you. I love you Endy." Serenity
whispered to Endymion before she let the darkness cover her
vision.
A still wind blew over the blood soaked moon. An eerie
silence washed over the dead. All was still.
Queen Serenity looked over her fallen people. Her fallen
Senshi, her friends. Her future son-in-law that had been like a
son to her. And her daughter, her own flesh and blood. Serenity
clutched the chain that she wore around her neck that held the
Silver Crystal. She remembered so long ago when her husband
David had died. Back then he had let himself die because he knew
that even though she could heal him completely, there was a very
high chance that she could die healing the disease that had
killed him.
Her heart was stronger now. She had stretched herself using
the Crystal so nothing like that would happen again. This war
however, had caught her off guard. But her daughter would live
again. Queen Serenity looked at where her daughter and Endymion
laid.
"Queen Serenity!" Luna and Artemis yelled as they ran up to
their Queen. The two cats looked around with looks of disbelief.
"It was just this evening, when I talked to them last."
Luna said as tears streamed down her face as she looked at the
bodies of Serenity and Endymion.
"They will live again." Serenity said, taking the Silver
Crystal from her neck.
"But your highness, you'll die." Artemis said warningly,
trying to persuade her otherwise.
"So much death has happened tonight. A queen's duty is to
protect her people. And a mother's duty is to protect her
children. My death will not be in vain, if they can all live. In
the future my daughter and Endymion will be able to find each
other and live together, happily. They will have tough times, I
am sure of it, but they will be together. In the future when
they are reborn, I only hope that the scars of this time will
have healed."
Queen Serenity looked down at the two cats. "The only way
I can save everyone is to send the evil into the future as well.
I am going to send you two into the future also. You will not
have all of your memories restored to you right away. All you
will need to know is to find the younger Senshi, so that they
can protect my daughter. I will send the Crystal into the future
with my daughter. Find the Silver Crystal, and you will find my
daughter." Queen Serenity stopped talking a moment as she
thought.
"You must re-train the Senshi, not only as protectors, but
as fighters. They must fight the evil that will be sent into the
future. Train my daughter to be a Senshi too. She will need to
protect herself." Serenity looked around the moon. "The moon's
people have all been killed. There will be no Queen here either
after I die and send them to the future. They will live on earth
instead of here. All of them." Serenity had a sudden thought.
Queen Gaia and the Older Senshi would want to know what had
happened on the moon, as would her daughter someday.
Holding the crystal above her head, she lifted the dead
Terrians, Moon subjects, Senshi, Serenity and Endymion into
bubbles that entered the crystal. Queen Serenity felt weak. The
act of placing everyone inside the crystal had drained much of
her energy. Channeling the Silver Crystal's powers, she encased
the two cats (who silently on looked their Queen's actions) into
time capsules. They would reawaken when the evil on earth was
unleashed. Beryl had disappeared and she would come out of
hiding again when all of the others were reborn. Serenity
powered the crystal to send itself and everyone inside of it to
earth sometime in the future. Queen Serenity watched as the
crystal floated off into the night's sky, the two time capsules
floating next to it.
With the last of her strength, Serenity used her goddess
powers to set up a hologram that would activate when Queen Gaia,
one of the Senshi, Luna, Artemis, or Serenity came to the moon
in search of an explanation. The last thing Queen Serenity
remembered thinking, was that her daughter and Endymion would be
great rulers someday.
-Around the same time-
Queen Gaia had felt like a knife had ripped through her.
The sensation lasted a moment, but she knew that it had really
happened, and she knew it had happened to Endymion. At the
moment, she had to deal with the people of Atlantis. There had
been an attack on Atlantis the same time as there had been one
on Terra, but Atlantis had come out by far better than Terra.
Queen Gaia had received a premonition of the attack and had
protected her castle. There had only been twenty casualties on
her side compared to the Terrian casualty of over two thousand.
She was using the Gold Crystal to heal others, so her connection
to Endymion was strengthened. She feared that he no longer
lived.
Her husband had arrived, and she had been helping him late
into the night when she had felt the pain. She tried denying it,
but as a mother, she knew in her heart that her son had died.
Even Terrance had looked at her, with unshed tears in his eyes.
He had felt it too. Tomorrow, they would go to the moon. Gaia
had no doubt that the moon had been attacked that day too.
-The next day-
Gaia had transported herself to the moon and had taken
Terrance with her. The two royals looked around the moon in
horror. Terrance had taken a few steps before he spotted Queen
Serenity's body. He looked away towards his wife. Taking her
arm, he pointed to where the fallen Queen lay. Gaia let out a
horrible sob. They walked over to where Serenity's lifeless form
was sprawled. All of a sudden, a hologram appeared. A projected
picture of Queen Serenity stood before them.
"Gaia," the image smiled sadly, "As I'm sure you can see,
Beryl attacked us. She brainwashed Terrian troops to help fight
by her side. The generals were with them." Terrance winced.
"Beryl tried to kill Serenity," Queen Serenity paused, "but
Endymion stopped her...by sacrificing his own life." Terrance
and Gaia brushed away tears as they continued listening to the
message.
"In her grief, Serenity followed the process of harakiri
and killed herself." A tear dripped down the face of Serenity's
image. "The younger senshi were also killed. Please tell the
older Senshi what has happened, and if they wish, tell them to
come here. A message will await them similar to your message."
The image of the dead Queen flickered.
"I have used the Imperium Crystal to send all the deceased
into the future. They will all be reborn again." Serenity smiled
slightly. "Our children will live again in. When they go to the
future, they will have no memory of what happened. However, when
they meet again, their memories will slowly return to them. I
can only hope that they will not have to go through the same
turmoil as they did here." The image faded completely.
Gaia walked over to where her friend laid. Using her power,
she conjugated a glass coffin, and placed her friend inside it.
"We're never going to see Endymion again." Terrance said
sadly.
"You don't know that for sure." Gaia said, an idea forming
in her mind. Terrance turned to his wife.
"You have something in mind, I can tell. What do you plan?"
He asked, hopeful, as he wiped more tears from his eyes.
"I was born to live a long life," Gaia started to explain,
"but you were not. It would shorten my life span, but I know of
a method that would hide Atlantis, and all of its people. We
could go into a deep sleep and reawaken when Endymion is reborn.
We would be able to see him again, and make it so that Serenity
and he would become the rulers of a new time. First, we must
alert the older Senshi of our plans." Gaia took a hold of
Terrance's hand as she transported to the planet of Mars first.
Gaia put a hand to her mouth as she saw that the Mars
kingdom had likewise been attacked. The palace was not as in as
bad shape as the Moon's was. Gaia had teleported to the court
yard within the Mars palace.
"There must have been seven of those shadow warriors. One
hit Terra, one Atlantis, one the Moon, one Mars, and probably one
that attacked Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter." Gaia concluded.
"Gaia!" A voice rang through the court yard. Gaia turned to
see Queen Mars.
"Mars, you're alive!" Gaia ran to greet her friend. They
embraced in a hug.
"What are you doing here?" Mars asked. "My daughter's dead,
isn't she? I could feel it." Mars said as tears began to stream
down her face.
"They're all dead." Gaia stated through tears. "Endymion,
Serenity, Queen Serenity, and all of the younger Senshi."
"We should tell the others." Queen Mars said. Gaia nodded.
"Terrance, this is something that I think we should do by
ourselves." Gaia said as she turned to face him.
"I understand." He walked over and gave her a hug.
"I'll be back shortly." She took his hand and transported
him back to the Earth and transported back to Mars. The two mothers
transported to Mercury, then to Venus, and then finally
to Jupiter. Each time, finding the same destruction, and each
Queen already knowing in her heart that her daughter was dead.
Gaia told them of her plans for Atlantis and invited them all to
come with their husbands and their subjects who survived.
"I think that that would be a good idea to do." Queen Venus
told Gaia. "I would like to see my daughter again."
"As would I." They all agreed. They did not expect to live
long enough to see their children again. They had already lived
nearly ten thousand years, which was like a hundred years for
regular humans.
"Meet me at Atlantis tomorrow." Gaia instructed. The Queens
transported back home.
-The Next Day-
Everyone had arrived by midday. Queen Gaia had explained to
her people what had happened. Some did not want to be frozen in
time, so they had left Atlantis. Others had been more than
willing to be able to wake up in what they hoped would be a time
long after the war. The people from the Senshi's planets were
given homes before Gaia would freeze her kingdom in time. The
Senshi were given rooms in the Atlantis palace with their
husbands.
Gaia laid down on her own bed; Terrance laid beside her.
Terrance squeezed her hand reassuringly as she channeled her
energy to freeze the kingdom in time until Endymion was reborn.
Atlantis seemed almost as deserted as the Moon had as the
people of Atlantis froze. They would stay like that, waiting for
a new beginning.
The End? Not quite...
I wish to address how stupid I think suicide is. It is selfish,
and in my religion, it will send you straight to hell. I just
wanted those who read this to know that I was just going along
with the original version of the way things were done in the
Manga. Well, with that said, I hope that you enjoy the Epilogue!
Sorry that this chapter was so down. The Epilogue sets the stage for
a sequel. Yes, no? Review below. - Jelp
