Well here we go again. Yet again I managed to get this out. Hope you don't think it complete crap. Let me know what you think.

~Ravyn~

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Rei opened her eyes and smiled against the heavy pallet that covered her cheek. Her smiled widened when she felt the warmth behind her back move and incoherent words mummered against her hair.

Rei closed her eyes and sighed against the morning. They would still have problems, lord only knew they had so much to talk about. It was going to be a very rocky start and they were more than likely going to have a few burns, but somehow she knew that it would work. After all how many guys waited a couple thousand years for a girl?

Rei heard the soldier's mummer as they to woke up from the rough night. Dawn was approaching, how she knew, Rei had no idea, and it was time to wake sleepy head up.

Rei rolled over and sighed as his arms tightened. " Jason we have to wake up." Rei hissed, careful to keep her voice down so that it would not carry. She refused to have her love life broad casted across the entire camp.

Jason's only answer was to moan and roll into his pillow, which happened to her neck. Rei stuff a giggle back to be it belonged, in the back of her throat, and punched him lightly in the shoulder.

His startling clear eyes met her with slight irritation. " What is the meaning of waking a guy up with you fist? You lips are much preferable." He mummered, he as well taking note of where they were and keeping it down.

Rei bit the inside of her check to keep from howling at his disgruntled expression. Rei grinned at him cheekily and whispered back. " Two words hot shot. Morning breath."

Jason rolled his eyes and grumbled under his breath about women, which only succeeded in getting him punch, harder, again. Both occupants scrambled to their feet when they heard Minako barking about though. Seemed as though she wanted to be at Beryl's castle as in yesterday. Or something along those lines.

~*~

Makoto stared at the castle wall and glared at it, as if her glare could tear it from its hinges. The last time she had been here, Makoto narrowed her eyes.

" Minako, I would prefer to not to take the west side this time. Passing the place were I met my demise is not the best thing I would spend my time doing." Rei yelled from where ever she was standing.

Makoto nodded her head in agreement and sighed. Ami could take the East and she would take the south. Her lips thinned as she thought about what had happened. Turning she saw Zavier wrap his arm around Ami's waist and kiss her forehead. She smiled slightly as she felt a hand slip into her.

She was not one to like open sign of affection, unless its behind closed doors, then bring it, but she accepted his offered comfort and she squeezed his hand offering the same comfort.

Minako stared at the dangerous place and could feel the evil permeating in the air. It was like breathing smog. Or the ash and gas combination that comes from the mouth of a volcano before it explodes with the large chunks of lava that were so deadly.

And just like the volcano it was a warning sign that something was was just below the surface. A warning that something was dangerous, that you should leave. It was like a large get out sign. It caused the adrenaline to flow through her veins and her eyes to sparkle. Her fuku was tossed around her legs with a careless grace.

Minako felt her lips twitched as she watched Jason. His eyes were glued to the legs under Rei's skirt. Rei reached over and slapped the back of his head as she stared at the new charts she was looking at.

Ami leaned against Zavier and drowsily tapped at her keyboard. The images on the screen must have caused her alarm because she suddenly bolted up and looked at her with terror. She managed to scream a single word before the world irrupted in chaos.

"AMBUSH!"

Rei felt something crack over the back of her head and pain rip through her side. She heard the screams and managed to feel supremely pissed. She felt more than heard Jason's scream of absolute terror.

Endymion looked up and saw Serenity was between Minako and Makoto. Nothing could get to her in that protection. His eyes landed on Rei's form and he moved. Reaching down he gently scooped her up.

This caused him to not be able to fight, but he was the expert at dodging (how many times had he done it with Serenity?) and the yoma's were slow anyway. But what Endymion never expected was the small whole large enough for him to fall through. He never expected to find himself stuck in the middle of no where with a badly injured Mars. And with very large spiders.

~*~

Jason watched Endymion look up and the slowly fall back wards. He watched the hole close, and he watched Rei disappear with him. Something inside him froze over. To loose Rei, again, would shatter his soul. To loose Endymion would destroy what little was left of his mind. To loose them both would destroy him beyond repair.

He narrowed his eyes and reached for the energy that he normally used to turn into Endymion's general. To his surprise he felt more than normal, he felt, different.

What Jason missed while sitting there in his quite rage was that his uniform had shifted. The double swords on his back glowed with power. Two crystal pendants were set on the breast pocket of his double-breasted cover shirt. His uniform was now trimmed with blue instead of grey. A cape glinted to the middle of his back. Jason had reached the finale and last transformation. A Crystal General.

Kris gaped and then he two reached for the power and felt a long time barrier give. Each General shimmered in power as they changed forms. Kris had one Crystal Pendent signifying his rank as first. Nathan had three and so on. Each had a cape, though Kris' was by far the most spectacular, and each had a weapon. Zavier looked at his battle-ax and rolled his eyes. This sucker belongs in Nathan's hands. Kris' had a sword and Nathan had some arrow contraption that re-loaded itself.

Minako looked at Ami and Makoto with fire in her eyes. All three nodded and raised there voiced in unison.

Minako felt the worlds stop around her feet. Large amounts of gold and glitter filled her vision. She felt like she was floating with absolutely no sense of time. Minako smiled and felt the world erupted at her fingertips. Opening her eyes she grinned wickedly.

Makoto felt the lighting fill her veins. It was like the most pure and thrilling drug. Not that she ever did drugs; it was heady though, what ever it was. The cracking in her ears was electrifying. Or maybe it was the electrifying feelings in her veins. Makoto cracked her knuckles and grinned. Beryl skinning time.

Ami just felt nothing. Like being in a desert full of ice. But that was contradiction because ice and desert could not be together. But whatever she was in, it lifted and gave her courage. Courage to face down the nightmare she was facing. Ami opened her eyes.

~*~

Rei opened her eyes wide and promptly closed them again. The site caused large amounts of fear, pain, and utter frustration. Spiders. The one thing that Rei hated more than Beryl. The little tiny creatures that snuck into your bed and bite you leaving you sick for days.

" Endymion." Her voice was low with restrained panic. " I want Jason, NOW." Her eyes were wide with un-restrained fury at being in the situation she was in. It was not just the fact that they were spiders, they were twelve-foot spiders with two-foot fangs.

" Well Jason is not here right now," Endymion hissed keeping his eyes locked on the problem. " Serenity trusts me, can't you?"

" Let me put it this way. There is about six inches of muscle between me and those fangs, which are about two-foot thick. Would you trust you?"

Endymion was opening his mouth to reply when he hit jackpot.

" Those are not real spider Rei."

" Huh? What do you mean those are not real spiders? They look like spiders, they smirk like spiders, and they are eyeing me like a piece of meat leftover like a spider. I really don't want to get close enough to TOUCH one, so I am going on by what I see…what the HELL are you doing?"

Endymion walked forward with a smirk. He walked right through the spiders, had Rei SCREAM, and boy did that girl have lungs, in his ear the entire time. He figured on a Richter scale for Serenity she reached an eight.

" Will you be quite? You might dislodge your ribs that I KNOW are either broken or bruised. So site there be quite…. and do you have any idea where we are?" Endymion finished with a flare.

Rei closed her eyes and mummered in the ancient language of her people. Endymion figured if he knew what she was saying it would cause him to turn beat red. To say that Rei had a way with words was an understatement.

" I think, if I can trust me instincts, which about five seconds ago proves I might not be able to do, then we are almost directly under the thrown room." Rei finally answered.

Endymion blinked in surprise. " And how do you know that?"

Rei rolled her eyes and mummered under her breath. " Because, dolt, I can practically cut the evil in that room with a knife."

"Oh." Endymion mummered, his eyes narrowed and he reached into the earth and felt it heaving against the evil that rolled through it. The earth was just barley restraining from hurling the castle to its knees.

" This is not good. We had better do what we need to do and do it soon. Or we might loose the ground out from under our feet literally." Endymion mummered.

Rei nodded and them something caught her attention. From somewhere ahead there was…a different feeling, almost the color of gold. Rei jerked in his arms, and then hissed in vexation at the pain in her side.

" Endymion, we need to go forward. We also need to go really fast." Rei concentrated on the Senshi and almost lost the connection at the pure power that was coming from them. They also, it seemed, had reached eternal. Good for them, hopefully it would buy him and Endymion time. The evil in this place was horrible, and it would take more than the Senshi to beat it this time.

Endymion had started walking the second Rei gave the order. His feet propelled him as if they knew where they were going. Suddenly he stopped and stared at the figure before him. There was a woman was light pink hair that cascaded to the floor in a ribbon of pale fire. Her eyes were amber, almost russet, and her tall figure was stark against the blackness around them. But in her hands, there was a gold light, and it bathed over them, healing and refreshing.

" Hello, my son."

~*~

Makoto dodged a clumsy attempted to remove her head. She heard the sounds of dying all around her, felt the Senshi force their hands, and the electricity that was already over whelming her was growing in intensity. She desperately needed relief.

Twirling the large Bo in her hands she called the attack she had used once before. " Jaded Storms of Thunder, Chain WHIP!" Makoto screamed into the night.

Instead of the one rope of crackling leaves there were dozens, they raced forward, destroying everything in their paths, and kept black scorch marks were they echoed. The yoma had never knew what hit them.

Ami noticed Makoto attack, and somewhere in her mind she allowed herself to be awed, but right at that moment the calculating part of Ami took. The harp that she had kept just out of sight was attached to her fingers, and the haunting melody she had heard once before played form HER fingers, not Athena's.

Ice rolled around her and the fog turned into shards. Mass amounts of them circled her and looking the vast amounts of Vampire's and Yoma that would kill her, spoke the words that sealed there doom.

" Ice Pyramid Shards, Break." Hundreds of ice shards raced into the dark. A single pyramid of ice rotating over her head kept them going, and as long as her fingers played it would.

Minako felt the cool icy fingers of winter echo across her check and the bond. She had known the minute when Makoto had unleashed her fury. She knew the second Serenity stumbled. But she would never be able to pin point when the barrier in her mind broke.

Her sword was raised above her head. There was a single pulsing in her mind, and then warm light was around her. The wings of pure gold light added to the effect as they curled around her. Her eyes were the only thing could see, and they burned gold with more fury than ever.

" Venus Sunshine Love," The stars and glitter that were so associated with her circled her sword and arm. It built on her sword and as her wrist flicked to bring it down, showed the shape of an arrow. " IMPALE!" It echoed across the minds of all it severed and pierced the darkness to the core. Even Beryl who was behind her dark magic felt the faintest echo of it.

Minako raised her had to brush her hair back and felt it in the shape of a ponytail. The thick masses were pulled up and triple strands of braids held it in place on top of her head. She looked like an offended angle.

Her gaze swept Ami and Makoto and smiled at what she saw. Ami's short dark hair was pulled back at the sides and ice crystals were across her hair and if rain drops had fallen and froze there. The wings of perfect crystal only enhanced the look of ice queen. The same crystals were sown onto her fuku and her entire outfit was of dark blue, broken only by the crystals.

Makoto gave the impression of the long destroyed Amazon women. Her hair had gone green, green as the leafs of late spring. Here fuku matched her eyes to perfection. The long strands were pulled into hundred of braids and were half pulled away from her face, the rest hung loose and gave a swooshing sound when she moved. Leaves were etched all across the skirt in a find stitch that winked when she moved.

Minako ran a hand down the gold double plaited skirt on her own body and smile slightly. She experimentally moved her wings and was re-warded when her feet lifted slightly off the ground. She smiled; she had always envied Serenity and her ability to fly.

The silence in the courtyard was only broken by the mocking laughter of the one woman who they all wished would just fall down and die. Minako looked up and meet the eyes of pure blood. " Beryl."

" Hand over the brat and I will kill you quickly Ianna." Beryl told her, her eyes insane.

" Go to hell rat face, where you belong. And make sure you do it soon. The world is tired of dealing with your cottage cheese ass." Makoto spit.

Beryl raised her hands and laughed. The pure darkness that formed there caused them all to move to stand in front of Serenity. " Then you have met you doom."

AN: Aren't I a stinker? Hope you enjoyed this segment and I will have the last chapter out pretty quickly, I hope. There should be one more chapter and an Epilogue. I hope to wrap up all the loose ends. Well I do take bribes in the form of reviews!