The guests in the palace looked towards the high pitched scream, it had been the only noise they'd heard all night, but who had it come from and what had cause it? They looked towards the balcony that only Serenity and Endymion, as they had learned to call them now rather than Usagi and Mamoru, and saw Endymion rushing towards it.
"Serenity!" he cried. The guests stared on in horror as he brought out the pale figure of the princess. Her body was limp and unmoving in his arms. They had no idea what it was, then they saw the same two talking cats from before.
"Serenity wake up!" the black cat, Luna yelled to her princess. Tears were forming in both cats eyes now, they could not lose their princess again, they had seen the future.
"What's wrong with her?" Endymion asked Artimis.
"There is a major flux of negative energy pulsing through her. Had she had the ginzouishou on her this would not have happened to her. But what I want to know is where are the other senshi?" he said. Endymion looked around, where were they, surely they had heard her scream. He had been in the rose garden on the other side of the palace when he had, and the girls were right close to her.
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Elsewhere in the palace Ami slowly started to wake up, then it dawned on her, the entity had gone after the others much like it had herself, slowly working its way towards something, or someone important. Serenity. Standing up quickly she grabbed her transformation wand and moved out of the door to the hallway. She was so sure that she had heard a scream, was she too late to save their princess? Once out of her room and moving towards the star balcony, she spotted the other girls.
"Ami…you too?" Michiru asked her.
"Yes, and apparently the same thing has happened to all of us…but the princess," she started to say.
"Yes, we must hurry, I fear Serenity is in great danger," Setsuna said, with that the girls continued to run towards where they could feel the energy, and it was rapidly growing. What they all saw shocked them. The princess was pale and looked almost dead, unmoving even. Serenity had all been able to help them, but not able to help herself.
"Serenity?" Makoto asked as she knelt beside her. Still, like when Endymion had tried, there had been no answer.
"Senshi…" Luna started to say, but never finished. The Senshi looked at each other and they all had tears in their eyes, how could they save their princess, they owed her so much, and they had failed at their mission. As their tears fell… a figure of a person formed in front of them and the other guests in the palace.
"Queen Serenity," they all seemed to say at the same time.
