Chapter 29 …… Reborn
"Venus you must save us all." Says Pluto.
Venus turns around just as Pluto, Artimis and Luna slump to the ground dead. "I don't know what to do!" cries Venus.
"You have to bring me back Venus." Says a girl's voice from behind Venus.
"I know that voice." Whispers Venus as she slowly turns around to see Sailor Saturn standing beside Hotaru's body. "I killed you."
"Yes you did. This is just an illusion of me. Venus to bring everyone back to life you have to save me."
"But you'll just kill everyone again."
"Whose crystal do you think that is?" asks Saturn as she holds up her Glaive and points it at the crystal in Venus's right hand.
"It's yours. But I don't want you back."
"Venus you must save her to save us all." Says another voice.
Beside Saturn an image of Princess Serenity appears.
"Princess?" asks Venus.
"Save Hotaru and you will save us all. Trust her, and me." Says Serenity before she disappears.
"Serenity!" screams Venus.
"So Venus do you trust your Princess? Bring Hotaru back to life." Says Saturn.
Venus stands there looking at the crystal in her hand, after a minute she looks up at Saturn, "How?"
"Just put the crystal over Hotaru's heart." Says Saturn as she disappears.
Venus stands there for a moment while looking at Hotaru's body. She finally moves and kneels beside Hotaru. Before doing anything else she looks around and sees that the rain has stopped and it's now daybreak, then she sees everyone's dead body and Mercury and Jupiter in the ice crystal. Venus closes her eyes and places the crystal over Hotaru's heart.
The crystal glows on Hotaru's chest as Hotaru starts to breathe again and is changed back into Sailor Saturn.
Venus stands back up and watches Saturn recover.
Saturn stands up slowly and looks at Venus, "Thank you."
Venus looks at Saturn's eyes and sees that they are no longer dark, they are bright and happy. "Will you save them all?"
"Yes I will." Says Saturn as she smiles.
"Thank you." Whispers Venus as she watches Saturn walk into the middle of the dead bodies.
"REBORN!" shouts Saturn as she swings her Glaive around while dancing in circles.
Venus watches as small balls of white light shoots from Saturn's Glaive and travels to each body.
Saturn finishes her dance and stands there watching and waiting as everyone starts to breathe again.
Venus looks over at Mercury and Jupiter and sees the ice melting and Jupiter's wound healing, she then looks at Mars and sees her wound healing. One by one everyone is healed and starts breathing. They all slowly sit up and look around like they were all in a deep sleep.
Venus walks over to Saturn and smiles, "Thank you. I am sorry for not wanting you back."
"It's ok Venus you had a good reason not to want me back. But I'm glad that you let your heart guide you and not your brain."
Venus looks around and sees everyone now standing up and looking around. Suddenly Venus feels very weak and moans as she slumps to the ground as she passes out.
Saturn was able to catch Venus before she hit the ground.
Endymion looks over and sees a strange girl in a scout uniform holding Venus. "Venus!" he shouts and runs over to the two girls and takes Venus in his arms.
"Thank you Endymion she was kinda heavy for me."
"Who are you?"
"Oh I'm Sailor Saturn. You died before you ever saw me."
"Oh, well thank you for catching her." Says Endymion as he changes back into Darien.
"Saturn thank you for saving us all." Says Pluto as she walks over and hugs Saturn.
"No problem." Says Hotaru with a faint laugh.
Mina moans and opens her eyes to see Alex sitting beside her looking down at her. "Alex!" shouts Mina as she sits up and wraps her arms around his neck, hugging him close.
"Hey Mina. Good to see you awake. You missed school today."
"Oh Darn." Says Mina with sarcasm in her voice.
"Oh but we were nice enough to get you your homework." Say Lita and Ami with a smile holding Mina's books.
"Gee thanks guys." Groans Mina. "Where's everyone else?"
"They are at Darien's. Settling Hotaru in." says Lita as she drops the books on the floor and flops down on the bed beside Mina.
"Thanks for saving us Mina." Says Ami as she sets the books she's holding down and sits on the bed beside Lita.
"I almost didn't." says Mina softly as she leans back against the headboard of her bed.
"What do you mean?" asks Alex.
"To save you all I had to bring Saturn back to life. I almost didn't do it."
"But you chose the right path Mina." Says Trista from the doorway with two other women behind her.
"I know." Says Mina softly. "Who's that with you?"
"You don't recognize them?" asks Trista as she and the other two walk into the room so Mina can see them better.
Mina shakes her head no.
"I'm Amara and this is Michelle." Says the tall blonde hared woman.
"I'm Neptune and she is Uranus." Says the girl with sea green hair.
"Oh wow. It's nice to meet you. Where's Artimis?" says Mina looking around.
"Um well him and Luna kinda didn't return a normal." Says Pluto.
"What the hell do you mean?" yells Mina.
"She mean's we are no longer cats Mina." Says Artimis as he walks in the bedroom in his human form.
"Oh. So do you two have a place to live?" asks Mina.
"Well my home has always been here right?" says Artimis with a crooked smile on his face.
"You and Luna can stay here. I don't mind. You give me some company." Says Mina with a smile. "Now I want to go see everyone else."
"Ok off to Darien's I guess." Says Alex as he helps Mina out of bed.
"I hope Mina's ok." Says Serena as she leans back against Darien as they sit in Hotaru's room watching t.v.
"She's fine Serena." Says Hotaru.
"Why did she pass out though?" asks Rei as she leans back against Chad.
"Like I'm going to tell you guys." Says Hotaru with a smile.
"You know why she passed out?" asks Darien.
"Yup. I'm not going to say anything either. It's not my place to say. Besides Darien you may want to go get the door. They are all here."
Just then the intercom in Hotaru's room crackles and Mina's voice can be heard, "Darien come let us in. Your guards are being bitches." Says Mina and in the background you can hear a man yell, "Hey I'm not a bitch."
Serena gets up and runs from the room, she runs down to the first floor and throws open the front door to see the whole group standing there with about three guards. "Oh for Christ's sake. Let them in." sighs Serena with a smile.
The guards nod and leave.
Serena steps back into the house and smiles as she sees Rei, Chad, Darien and Hotaru on the stairs. She walks over to them and watches everyone else walk inside.
"Serena, I save your life and I don't get a hug?" asks Mina as she steps out from behind everyone and smiles at Serena.
Serena smiles and bounces over to Mina and hugs her tightly. "Thanks Mina."
"Thank for making me trust Saturn."
Serena breaks the hugs and steps back; "I didn't do anything."
"Yes you did. I saw an illusion of you as Serenity. You told me to trust Saturn." Says Mina softly.
"No I didn't Mina."
Everyone looks up at Hotaru who is smiling, "Well I had to get her to trust me and I knew she wouldn't trust just me so I kind of made up a vision of Serenity for Venus to believe."
"Your right but it was a dirty trick Hotaru." Says Mina.
"Yeah but…"
"I know and don't even say it. What happened then is between us." Says Mina as she walks up to Hotaru and hugs her.
"Well damn now what's going to happen. We got everyone together and won the battle." Says Lita.
"I think I would like to rest for a bit." Says Serena.
Everyone laughs and heads up the stairs to Hotaru and Darien's entertainment room.
"Damn Sailor Scouts and their Prince's. They won't get any rest until I kill them all." Says a woman with long white hair looking at the group in a huge sheet of Ice.
The End???????????
Hint: there will be a sequel to this story.