Suddenly, it dawned on her. Darien was nowhere to be found. She looked over
to where tuxedo mask was once standing, but he was no longer there. Instead
of a dashing gentleman in a cape, there was a beaten man lying slumped on
the ground in a pool of his blood. A silver tear ran down her porcelain
cheeks as the two of them got up off the ground and raced over to him.
She slid on the floor, soaking her white dress in his blood.
"Darien!" She cried.
Disclaimer: Sailor Moon is not mine, but this story is. Yay! I own something! Too bad it isn't sanity, or a pair of clean bananas.
Within heartbeats, everyone was standing over him.
"Brother!" Daymon cried, kneeling in the growing pool of blood. "Brother, please wake up." He shook him gently, trying not to aggravate his wounds. The scouts watched on in distress, as he desperately tried to revive his brother.
"I don't get it." Jupiter said to no one in particular. "We were all healed when Serenity's light touched us, why not him." The scouts all looked to Serenity for an answer.
Silently, she knelt down next to Darien and ran her delicate fingers through his ebony hair. Her movements were calm, as though she was not upset at all, but her true feeling lied within her breathing. Quick, short breaths, like she was having an anxiety attack. "I can't heal him," She spoke in a breaking voice. A silver tear ran down her cheek and splashed onto Darien's lips.
Very heavily, Darien opened up his ocean blue eyes. "Serena." He smiled lovingly. "See, I told you that you could do it. You just had to believe."
She placed a finger over his lips, trying to make him conserve his energy. "Darien, please." She looked into his eyes and wept. "You can't leave me. You mustn't leave me." She clutched his hand tightly to her chest, never wanting to let it go.
Darien tried to force another smile. "I'm afraid that I have no choice in the matter."
"No!" She cried, "I won't accept that!" More tears ran down her glistening cheeks. "I am going to help you, just hold on." She drew in a deep breath and held up her new heart shaped crystal. "Universal, Love, Healing." Her silver heart crystal glowed, but only for a second.
"Why isn't it working?" Mercury whispered to the scouts that were next to her, but she only received a shrug for an answer.
"Universal, Love, Healing!" She yelled again, desperately trying with every ounce of energy in her body to heal him.
"It's okay, really Serena." He squeezed her hand tightly.
"No!" She raised her voice at him; more silvery tears were escaping from her lash prison. "UNIVERSAL LOVE HEALING!" She screamed again. She could feel her heart break with every beat, the pain that came with every thump. His life was slipping away before her, and all she could do was watch.
"Serena." He said and wiped her teary cheeks dry. "Don't be so sad. You still have Daymon." He tried to put on a brave face, but she could feel his hurt. "Besides, you never really knew me anyway."
Out of nowhere, she slapped him. "Don't say that!" She cried, anger burning in her glistening eyes. "Don't you dare say that! I loved you Darien, I always did, I always will."
"What about him?" He asked looking over at his brother, but there was no hatred in his eyes, only sadness. "Don't you love Daymon?"
"Yes," She cried. "I can't explain it, but you both own a place in my heart. I love him." She cried. "But Darien, I love you. I love you with all my soul. I love you with every breath in my body, with every beat of my heart."
Darien smiled lovingly back at her. "It is okay. You don't have to be confused anymore." He looked over at Daymon and smiled. "Take care of her, won't you?"
"No! Brother, you can't leave me." He clutched Darien's other hand tightly. "Not after we have finally been reunited!"
"It is okay, really." He coughed up a speck of blood. "I could think of nothing better, my brother to look after my love."
"You have to do something!" Mars yelled from nowhere. Serenity looked up at the scouts. All of them had tears streaming out of their bloodshot eyes.
"There is nothing I can do." Serenity cried with a heavy heart. "Why can't I help you?"
"Look to your heart." A whisper came on the wind. She turned around.
"Who, who said that?" Serenity asked to the scouts behind her. All of them gave her a blank look.
"Look to your heart." The whisper came again.
"My, heart?"
"Look to your heart." It faded away softly.
"Is that it!" She shouted, bordering on hysterical. "The love of my life is going to die, and all you can say it 'look to my heart'!" She was in pain. Real pain. She could feel the hurt inside, greater then any sword or knife could deliver.
"Serenity, calm down." Mercury said, worried about her friend's sanity. "Whom are you talking to?"
"Wait a second." She interrupted. "What did you just call me?" Something Mercury had said struck a distant memory in her.
"Umm, I called you Serenity." Mercury said again in her usual timid voice.
The voice on the wind returned. "..ren... and ..dy.. ...er"
"There it is again!" She said, and then looked into Darien's eyes. "Can't you hear it?"
He closed his eyes, a tear of blood spilled forth. "No, I cannot."
"What does it say?" Venus asked.
Serenity was starting to worry herself. "I don't know, I can't hear it very well. I might just be hearing things."
"Maybe you should listen." Jupiter started but was interrupted.
"I am listening!" She yelled at Jupiter, finally venting all of her frustration on her unlucky friend. "I am trying my best to listen!"
"If you let me finish," Jupiter said calmly. She was not angry at Serenity, she knew that she had been through a lot. She cleared her throat to start again. "I was going to say, maybe you should listen to your heart."
Serenity nodded and closed her eyes.
Silence.
Silence, so loud it was deafening. The silvery tears continued to stream down her face. 'I am listening!' She said in her head over and over again. 'There is nothing in here. There is nothing in my heart!'
But then a whisper broke through the silence. "..renit. and ..dy.. for..er" It came again, this time, it was a fraction clearer.
She listened closer, intent on hearing what the voice had to say. 'I hear it!' She thought, but she still couldn't make out the words. She drew in a deep breath and opened her eyes. Once again, she was somewhere different. She was completely surrounded by a white light.
"Hello?" She said into the endless light. Suddenly, out of the brightness came a woman. Slowly she walked towards Serenity. She was beautiful, more beautiful then anyone could possibly imagine. With only a few elegant strides, she was standing eye to eye with Serenity.
"Hello." Sung the woman in an angel's voice.
"Why, you're me!" Serena realised as she looked at the woman. She was staring at herself, only different, this woman had an grace that she could never even dream of.
"You're me!" The woman spoke back.
"I need to listen to my heart, but I can't hear it. Do you know what is says?"
"Need to listen to my heart, what does it say." The woman echoed, only her words were not as hasty as Serenity's.
"Wait!" Serenity said and the looked closer at the woman. She soon discovered that she was staring into a mirror. "My reflection!" She exclaimed, disappointed at her discovery. "I am talking to my reflection."
"Heart." The woman shook her head disappointedly. "No, my dear. You are talking to your heart."
The mirror then vanished and the beautiful angel within it.
"Wait!" She called out into the air, "I need to listen to you. Come back. I need answers!" She screamed into the fading light. "Please!"
Unexpectedly, the voice came faintly back to her. "You already know them."
Serenity closed her eyes for one last time. Desperately trying to listen. "Please, tell me. Just one last time." A tear rolled off her ghostly face. "I am listening. Just one, last, time."
"Serenity and Endymion forever."
With a flash, Serenity opened up her eyes. Only to find that she was back, kneeling over Darien in a pool of his blood, but instead of sadness, she was filled with a new calm.
"So?" Jupiter asked. "What did it say?"
She smiled down at Darien. "You will be okay."
"Really?" Venus said happily. She wiped away one of her golden tears. "So the crystal will work on Darien?"
"No." Serenity shook her head. "The crystal will not work on Darien."
The scouts all look on in confusion.
"The crystal will work on Daymon, I have been trying to heal the wrong brother."
"But Daymon is fine, he is not the one dying." Mars said, thinking that her friend had lost the plot.
Serenity looked at both brothers. "They are both dying. They can not live like this for much longer." But there was no sadness behind her voice.
"Hold up, Serenity." Jupiter said. "What are you talking about?"
"Look at them." She answered. "What do you see?"
The scouts looked at the two brothers. Both of them were as handsome as the other. There weren't any distinguishing marks to tell them apart. Every last detail was the same, their raven hair, cerulean eyes their tanned skin. The only difference was that one was now stained with his own blood.
"They are twins." Jupiter said, looking closely at the two brothers.
"Not just twins," Mercury added. "They are Identical twins."
"There was never supposed to be Darien and Daymon. There was only supposed to be one of them." Serenity looked up at Mercury, hoping that she might explain it better.
"That's right. Identical twins were originally the same person, but they were separated before the egg developed fully." Mercury cut in with one of her textbook definitions.
The other scouts still looked on with blank faces.
"Serenity, what aren't you telling us?" Mars asked, needing to know an answer.
Serenity gazed down at Darien. "Everything will be okay," She placed a tender kiss on his hand reassuringly, and then looked up at Daymon.
"I know what you are talking about." Daymon nodded. "I have felt wrong all my life. Like that there was something missing." Darien nodded aswell; he too had felt the same way.
"Daymon, lie down next to Darien. Scouts, please take a step back." Serenity got up off the floor and looked at her two loves for one last time.
She held up her heart crystal to the ceiling and yelled. "Universal Love Energy!" Suddenly, a blinding flash enveloped the two boys. They were both completely surrounded by Serenity's pure light.
"Serenity, what is happening?" Mars asked.
She paused for a moment, entranced by her own light. With a blinding flash, the light cleared. The scouts all stood on, waiting to see what had happened.
Suddenly, out of the light stepped a dashing man, his jet-black hair standing out against the contrasting white light. With a tear of happiness, Serenity ran to his side. "Now we are finally together!" She cried blissfully.
"Yes." He embraced her and kissed her forehead tenderly. "I am finally whole." He said with a smile. "Thankyou."
"Who is that?" Mercury asked, "Is it Darien or Daymon?"
Serenity kissed him back softly on his ruby red lips and then looked up at the scouts. "Both of them. Their souls had been split up into two bodies, but now they have been reunited. They have become one."
They all gave her a blank look.
The dashing man bowed politely, introducing himself. "I am Endymion."
*******
A.N. So I decided to kill both of them. Mwhahaha! Long chapter hey. But seeing as this one had the lack of action, I decided to post it all up. ^_^
Also, just so you all know. One anonymous reviewer wrote that I should join their souls, (Back in chapter 25). When I read this comment, I screamed my head off (Just kidding) because I was always going to do that, hence why I changed the spelling of Daymon's name. I just wanted to let you all know that I had been planning this for ages, and I did not take the idea. (Besides, I have proof, I changed Daymon's name, BEFORE I got this review. :-P )
Well, I think that there are only two chapters to go, and there will be action in both of them. And BIG revelations! It would be great if you all could stick with me till the end!
A HUGE thankyou to: Ashley, Christina Santiago, MoonWonderer, serenity's rose and JadesRose.
Peace to all, and thanks for reading.
xxx Destiny xxx
Another Note: The reason why I changed the spelling of Daymon's name =
If you rearrange the letters from "Darien" and "Daymon" They spell Endymion.
"En (dariEN) d (From both Darien and Daymon) ym(daYMon) i (darIen) on (daymON)
Mwuhahaha! My evil plan is coming together nicely.
She slid on the floor, soaking her white dress in his blood.
"Darien!" She cried.
Disclaimer: Sailor Moon is not mine, but this story is. Yay! I own something! Too bad it isn't sanity, or a pair of clean bananas.
Within heartbeats, everyone was standing over him.
"Brother!" Daymon cried, kneeling in the growing pool of blood. "Brother, please wake up." He shook him gently, trying not to aggravate his wounds. The scouts watched on in distress, as he desperately tried to revive his brother.
"I don't get it." Jupiter said to no one in particular. "We were all healed when Serenity's light touched us, why not him." The scouts all looked to Serenity for an answer.
Silently, she knelt down next to Darien and ran her delicate fingers through his ebony hair. Her movements were calm, as though she was not upset at all, but her true feeling lied within her breathing. Quick, short breaths, like she was having an anxiety attack. "I can't heal him," She spoke in a breaking voice. A silver tear ran down her cheek and splashed onto Darien's lips.
Very heavily, Darien opened up his ocean blue eyes. "Serena." He smiled lovingly. "See, I told you that you could do it. You just had to believe."
She placed a finger over his lips, trying to make him conserve his energy. "Darien, please." She looked into his eyes and wept. "You can't leave me. You mustn't leave me." She clutched his hand tightly to her chest, never wanting to let it go.
Darien tried to force another smile. "I'm afraid that I have no choice in the matter."
"No!" She cried, "I won't accept that!" More tears ran down her glistening cheeks. "I am going to help you, just hold on." She drew in a deep breath and held up her new heart shaped crystal. "Universal, Love, Healing." Her silver heart crystal glowed, but only for a second.
"Why isn't it working?" Mercury whispered to the scouts that were next to her, but she only received a shrug for an answer.
"Universal, Love, Healing!" She yelled again, desperately trying with every ounce of energy in her body to heal him.
"It's okay, really Serena." He squeezed her hand tightly.
"No!" She raised her voice at him; more silvery tears were escaping from her lash prison. "UNIVERSAL LOVE HEALING!" She screamed again. She could feel her heart break with every beat, the pain that came with every thump. His life was slipping away before her, and all she could do was watch.
"Serena." He said and wiped her teary cheeks dry. "Don't be so sad. You still have Daymon." He tried to put on a brave face, but she could feel his hurt. "Besides, you never really knew me anyway."
Out of nowhere, she slapped him. "Don't say that!" She cried, anger burning in her glistening eyes. "Don't you dare say that! I loved you Darien, I always did, I always will."
"What about him?" He asked looking over at his brother, but there was no hatred in his eyes, only sadness. "Don't you love Daymon?"
"Yes," She cried. "I can't explain it, but you both own a place in my heart. I love him." She cried. "But Darien, I love you. I love you with all my soul. I love you with every breath in my body, with every beat of my heart."
Darien smiled lovingly back at her. "It is okay. You don't have to be confused anymore." He looked over at Daymon and smiled. "Take care of her, won't you?"
"No! Brother, you can't leave me." He clutched Darien's other hand tightly. "Not after we have finally been reunited!"
"It is okay, really." He coughed up a speck of blood. "I could think of nothing better, my brother to look after my love."
"You have to do something!" Mars yelled from nowhere. Serenity looked up at the scouts. All of them had tears streaming out of their bloodshot eyes.
"There is nothing I can do." Serenity cried with a heavy heart. "Why can't I help you?"
"Look to your heart." A whisper came on the wind. She turned around.
"Who, who said that?" Serenity asked to the scouts behind her. All of them gave her a blank look.
"Look to your heart." The whisper came again.
"My, heart?"
"Look to your heart." It faded away softly.
"Is that it!" She shouted, bordering on hysterical. "The love of my life is going to die, and all you can say it 'look to my heart'!" She was in pain. Real pain. She could feel the hurt inside, greater then any sword or knife could deliver.
"Serenity, calm down." Mercury said, worried about her friend's sanity. "Whom are you talking to?"
"Wait a second." She interrupted. "What did you just call me?" Something Mercury had said struck a distant memory in her.
"Umm, I called you Serenity." Mercury said again in her usual timid voice.
The voice on the wind returned. "..ren... and ..dy.. ...er"
"There it is again!" She said, and then looked into Darien's eyes. "Can't you hear it?"
He closed his eyes, a tear of blood spilled forth. "No, I cannot."
"What does it say?" Venus asked.
Serenity was starting to worry herself. "I don't know, I can't hear it very well. I might just be hearing things."
"Maybe you should listen." Jupiter started but was interrupted.
"I am listening!" She yelled at Jupiter, finally venting all of her frustration on her unlucky friend. "I am trying my best to listen!"
"If you let me finish," Jupiter said calmly. She was not angry at Serenity, she knew that she had been through a lot. She cleared her throat to start again. "I was going to say, maybe you should listen to your heart."
Serenity nodded and closed her eyes.
Silence.
Silence, so loud it was deafening. The silvery tears continued to stream down her face. 'I am listening!' She said in her head over and over again. 'There is nothing in here. There is nothing in my heart!'
But then a whisper broke through the silence. "..renit. and ..dy.. for..er" It came again, this time, it was a fraction clearer.
She listened closer, intent on hearing what the voice had to say. 'I hear it!' She thought, but she still couldn't make out the words. She drew in a deep breath and opened her eyes. Once again, she was somewhere different. She was completely surrounded by a white light.
"Hello?" She said into the endless light. Suddenly, out of the brightness came a woman. Slowly she walked towards Serenity. She was beautiful, more beautiful then anyone could possibly imagine. With only a few elegant strides, she was standing eye to eye with Serenity.
"Hello." Sung the woman in an angel's voice.
"Why, you're me!" Serena realised as she looked at the woman. She was staring at herself, only different, this woman had an grace that she could never even dream of.
"You're me!" The woman spoke back.
"I need to listen to my heart, but I can't hear it. Do you know what is says?"
"Need to listen to my heart, what does it say." The woman echoed, only her words were not as hasty as Serenity's.
"Wait!" Serenity said and the looked closer at the woman. She soon discovered that she was staring into a mirror. "My reflection!" She exclaimed, disappointed at her discovery. "I am talking to my reflection."
"Heart." The woman shook her head disappointedly. "No, my dear. You are talking to your heart."
The mirror then vanished and the beautiful angel within it.
"Wait!" She called out into the air, "I need to listen to you. Come back. I need answers!" She screamed into the fading light. "Please!"
Unexpectedly, the voice came faintly back to her. "You already know them."
Serenity closed her eyes for one last time. Desperately trying to listen. "Please, tell me. Just one last time." A tear rolled off her ghostly face. "I am listening. Just one, last, time."
"Serenity and Endymion forever."
With a flash, Serenity opened up her eyes. Only to find that she was back, kneeling over Darien in a pool of his blood, but instead of sadness, she was filled with a new calm.
"So?" Jupiter asked. "What did it say?"
She smiled down at Darien. "You will be okay."
"Really?" Venus said happily. She wiped away one of her golden tears. "So the crystal will work on Darien?"
"No." Serenity shook her head. "The crystal will not work on Darien."
The scouts all look on in confusion.
"The crystal will work on Daymon, I have been trying to heal the wrong brother."
"But Daymon is fine, he is not the one dying." Mars said, thinking that her friend had lost the plot.
Serenity looked at both brothers. "They are both dying. They can not live like this for much longer." But there was no sadness behind her voice.
"Hold up, Serenity." Jupiter said. "What are you talking about?"
"Look at them." She answered. "What do you see?"
The scouts looked at the two brothers. Both of them were as handsome as the other. There weren't any distinguishing marks to tell them apart. Every last detail was the same, their raven hair, cerulean eyes their tanned skin. The only difference was that one was now stained with his own blood.
"They are twins." Jupiter said, looking closely at the two brothers.
"Not just twins," Mercury added. "They are Identical twins."
"There was never supposed to be Darien and Daymon. There was only supposed to be one of them." Serenity looked up at Mercury, hoping that she might explain it better.
"That's right. Identical twins were originally the same person, but they were separated before the egg developed fully." Mercury cut in with one of her textbook definitions.
The other scouts still looked on with blank faces.
"Serenity, what aren't you telling us?" Mars asked, needing to know an answer.
Serenity gazed down at Darien. "Everything will be okay," She placed a tender kiss on his hand reassuringly, and then looked up at Daymon.
"I know what you are talking about." Daymon nodded. "I have felt wrong all my life. Like that there was something missing." Darien nodded aswell; he too had felt the same way.
"Daymon, lie down next to Darien. Scouts, please take a step back." Serenity got up off the floor and looked at her two loves for one last time.
She held up her heart crystal to the ceiling and yelled. "Universal Love Energy!" Suddenly, a blinding flash enveloped the two boys. They were both completely surrounded by Serenity's pure light.
"Serenity, what is happening?" Mars asked.
She paused for a moment, entranced by her own light. With a blinding flash, the light cleared. The scouts all stood on, waiting to see what had happened.
Suddenly, out of the light stepped a dashing man, his jet-black hair standing out against the contrasting white light. With a tear of happiness, Serenity ran to his side. "Now we are finally together!" She cried blissfully.
"Yes." He embraced her and kissed her forehead tenderly. "I am finally whole." He said with a smile. "Thankyou."
"Who is that?" Mercury asked, "Is it Darien or Daymon?"
Serenity kissed him back softly on his ruby red lips and then looked up at the scouts. "Both of them. Their souls had been split up into two bodies, but now they have been reunited. They have become one."
They all gave her a blank look.
The dashing man bowed politely, introducing himself. "I am Endymion."
*******
A.N. So I decided to kill both of them. Mwhahaha! Long chapter hey. But seeing as this one had the lack of action, I decided to post it all up. ^_^
Also, just so you all know. One anonymous reviewer wrote that I should join their souls, (Back in chapter 25). When I read this comment, I screamed my head off (Just kidding) because I was always going to do that, hence why I changed the spelling of Daymon's name. I just wanted to let you all know that I had been planning this for ages, and I did not take the idea. (Besides, I have proof, I changed Daymon's name, BEFORE I got this review. :-P )
Well, I think that there are only two chapters to go, and there will be action in both of them. And BIG revelations! It would be great if you all could stick with me till the end!
A HUGE thankyou to: Ashley, Christina Santiago, MoonWonderer, serenity's rose and JadesRose.
Peace to all, and thanks for reading.
xxx Destiny xxx
Another Note: The reason why I changed the spelling of Daymon's name =
If you rearrange the letters from "Darien" and "Daymon" They spell Endymion.
"En (dariEN) d (From both Darien and Daymon) ym(daYMon) i (darIen) on (daymON)
Mwuhahaha! My evil plan is coming together nicely.