AN: Finally FF.net is up!!! Its been what, two months since I last updated? Anyways, this chapter is extra long to make up for the wait. I would like to thank Jenni-chan for her help if it wasn't for her this chapter would still be a blank page.
Disclaimer: What is the point of disclaimers? Do the Powers That Be really need to see these on everything us mere mortals tamper with? I mean you'd think controlling your own universe would be enough to feed their ego's. But because I have nothing to give but so much to lose I must say this one thing: I don't own shit. Thank you for your time.
Immortal Habit X: Ultimate Loss
Last Time on Immortal Habit...
"I'm sorry my queen I have nothing but bad news," Pluto said sadly.
"What is it?" Serenity asked.
"Endymion found out that you left and followed you."
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"At least he doesn't know where we're staying," said Heero.
"I wouldn't be so sure," said a voice.
Serenity and Heero whipped around to see the one person they least wanted to see.
*******
And now on with the story....
"Endymion," Serenity whispered not so much in shock but in hatred.
"Thats right, lover, it's your old flame," Endymion sneered.
"What do you want?" asked Heero.
"I want to invite you and your little friends to a contest to the death. Winner takes all."
"Why? You obviously have the upper hand. Why don't you just kill us in our sleep?" Serenity inquired.
"I want to see your face while you watch you friends die one by one, of course!" Endymion said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"What if I win?" Serenity demanded, a small shimmer began to appear in her hand and the form of a sword began to flicker in and out of exsistence.
"You get the pleasure of killing both me and Zylstra and if I win I get to have you as a... distraction," Endymions eyes swept over Serenity's body with lust.
"Over my dead body!!!" Heero yelled and pulled out his gun and started shooting with deadly acuracy.
Endymion laughed as the bullets bounced off him, leaving him unscarred.
"Emivage!" Serenity gasped in lunarian. (Translation: Evil mage or wizard. Someone who works with dark magic.)
"You honor me with you're words, Serenity. I'm really just a dabbler, it's my wife you must worry about," Endymion said and he melted into the shadows and disapeared.
"This is bad," said Heero.
"No shit, Sherlock!!!!" Serenity said sarcastically as she began to pace the room.
"Renity, there's no use in worrying about it now. The sun has set it's time to find Len," Heero said, he walked over to Serenity and wrapped his arms around her.
"I'm just so stressed. For so long I have been the one making the waves and fucking up peoples lives but here I am pregnant, searching for my runaway sister, and all the while being stalked by my ex-fiance. Can life get any worse?"
"You just jinxed it, you know," Heero sighed.
"I know, I know. I just needed some serious ranting time."
"Ranting isn't going to do anything, Sere," Heero said and he moved away and grabbed both their coats and threw one to Serenity who put it on.
"Who the hell are you? My mother?"
"No I'm your sugar daddy," Heero said with a rougish smile.
"I'm gonna shoot Duo when we get back," Serenity muttered and rolled her eyes.
Serenity reached into her interdimension space pocket and brought out a suit case. She opened it and revealed multiple guns. Serenity scanned the selection and chose two Glock 21pistols and stuffed one into a shoulder holster and the other into a back holster. Then she grabbed three magnums, ten extra clips, and two clips of some enchanted silver bullets and stuffed them into her space pocket. Then she grabbed two daggers and put them down her boots and a switch blade put in her coat pocket.
"Gonna put some grenades in there too?" Heero asked sarcastically.
"I'm all out," Serenity said simply.
Heero stepped up two the suitcase and chose two AK-47 and stuffed them into who knows where, four extra clips, and one dagger.
"That's all?" Serenity asked.
"It's the past how dangerous can it be," asked Heero.
"That means nothing! Heero you should know better. No matter where you are in time there is something bad going on!" Serenity scolded him.
"But-"
"No, I'm not losing you because you underestimated something that doesn't have the header 'Mission' on it. Take some E.S.B's, if we run into a youma nothing short of a miracle can help you if you don't have a magical defense," Serenity told him and then handed him a couple clips of enchanted silver bullets.
Heero took the clips and stuffed them into his jacket pocket. Serenity grabbed some keys off the night stand and they walked out the door. When they got outside quickly organized a plan to first search the park and then go check the hotel that was a block away from it. They only searched these parts of Tokyo because do to personal experience Serenity knew that everything happened in the park.
***The Park an hour later***
Serenity and Heero had been searching the park forever but had found nothing. They were just about to leave to check out the hotel when there was a bright flash and a scream. A Glock 21 was instantly in Serenity's hand, she quick reached into her space pocket and brought out a clip of ESB's and exchanged the regular clip in the gun for it. Heero watched Serenity's doings and decide to change one of his gun's magazines also.They ran for where the light had been and as they got closer you could hear the sounds of fighting.
"Mars Flame Sniper!" a voice shouted and there was a another flash of light.
"Endymion! Get your chicken ass down here!" another voice yelled.
Serenity stopped in her tracks. She knew which battle this was and had no wish to relive it but she also knew that if she and Heero didn't get there soon the timeline would be toast.
"Sere? Are you in there?" Heero asked.
"I'm here. C'mon those people are gonna need help!" Serenity dashed off and soon she was just outside a clearing where a magical battle was progress.
Serenity glanced behind her and noticed Heero had kept pace with her the whole way and was now watching mesmerized as nine women and one girl fought a huge ugly monster that looked to be made out of...pudding??? There was also a man in a tree behind the monster who looked very familar.
"That's Endymion," Heero whispered.
"Yup, right before he dies," Serenity said with a slight glint of joy in her eyes.
"This is the last battle in this timeline Endymion appears in. Sailor Moon and Zylstra kill him after this youma is gone," Serenity explained.
"Jupiter Oak Evolution!" yelled the girl in green.
The youma dogded the attack and threw a bunch of pudding at Jupiter. She tried to duck the attack but she was hit. The pudding began to harden around her and soon Jupiter could not move. Serenity remebered this part of the battle and shot at the casing making it break away. All the Scouts looked at Jupiter, who shrugged and started up another attack. This was the beginning of a cycle, the youma would try and encase someone and Serenity or later Heero would shoot it away, then the monster would slowly get his ass kicked. Soon the monster was gone and all that was left was the Scouts and Endymion.
"Please, come back to us, Darien," Eternal Sailor Moon begged.
"And stop all the fun? Never," Darien snapped and began throwing black roses at them.
All the Scouts dived except for Sailor Moon, the roses never hit her but fear flashed in her eyes. Then one rose came flying towards Sailor Moons face, as it hurtled closer the other Scouts yelled at her to move but all their cries fell on deaf ears. When the rose was an inch from her Sailor Moon plucked it out of the air and as soon as Sailor moon touched it the rose once again turned red and then slowly all the petals fell and were swept into a wirlwind that began to surround Sailor Moon. The Sailor Scouts cried out for their princess and tried to save her but when they got within five feet of her they were thrown back. Endymion/Darien was confused, he seemed to know nothing of what was going on. Then as suddenly as it began it stopped and the rose petals fluttered to the ground. Where Eternal Sailor Moon once stood now stood Princess Serenity with a blue and silver sword in her hand.
"Come play with us, Zylstra!" Princess Serenity yelled at the forest surrounding her and her protectors.
"Of course, Your Highness," said a sugary sweet voice.
A slender form walked out. The woman had death black hair with red stripes running through it and her were the color of burgandy wine, she was quite beautiful and quite insane. She wore an old dress made of black satin and red lace. This was Zylstra, the bane of the reincarnated princess' lives.
"Zylstra, I challenge you to a duel to the death, winner takes all," Princess Serenity said in a regal voice.
"Whatever her ladyship wishes," Zylstra giggled, a sword made of onyx appeared in her hand and she took a fencing stance.
"No, Princess! You don't know how to use a sword! You'll never beat her!" Sailor Mars shouted.
"All heirs to the Moon know how to wield the Sword Of Selene," the Princess replied, she took an unfamiliar stance and waited for Zylstra to strike.
Zylstra did indeed strike first. She lunged for the princess' throat, thinking that this would be an easy battle, but to her suprise the gleaming blade of Selene blocked the attempt.
"C'mon, is that all you've got?" Princess Serenity asked mockingly.
"I will not be beaten by a child!" Zylstra growled and renewed her attack.
Each time Zylstra swung Serenity would hop back, like a carrot tied to a donkeys head. Zylstra was quickly losing her temper and giggled gleefully when they reached the edge of the clearing. She once again readied her fatal strike to the throat and lunged for the princess. And once again the attack was blocked.
"My turn," the princess whispered.
Princess Serenity began a pattern, a sweep to the knees, a swing to the head, and a lunge for the stomach. Every time she was blocked but Zylstra did not grin or giggle at the impossoblity of getting hurt. She knew that if either of them screwed up they were dead.
***Endymion/Darien's POV***
Endymion watched as the to women countinued their deadly dance. He knew that Zylstra was beat no matter what. The moon brat had the edge and the experience. He watched as the minutes seemed to stretch into hours and the hours into eternity and as Zylstra began to tire. Endymion knew that people made mistakes, often deadly mistakes, when they were tired. He saw the change in pattern before anything else. Serenity was going to attack the knees a second time while Zylstra was moving to protect her head, this was one of those deadly mistakes. Endymion acted on his emotions and flew down into the fight to try and stop the death of his dark beloved. Endymion dived inbetween the two ladys and felt the burn of a sword in his legs and his throat. Then everything went black.
***Serenity and Heero's POV***
Serenity and Heero watched as Endymion died to protect Zylstra. They saw his head be disconnected from his body and his right leg hang uselessly, held togther by a tendon. They saw Zylstra fall to the ground and cry black tears in sorrow. And they saw Princess Serenity shed a single tear for her former lover. The sword and gown flicked and dissapeared leaving Eternal Sailor Moon gripping nothing but air.
"So thats why Endymion didn't die the first time around," Serenity whispered to herself.
"What do you mean? He looks dead enough to me," Heero quipped.
"Endymion was an Immortal like I am now. Only an Immortal can kill another Immortal and there's a special way an Immortal can die. I wasn't an Immortal at this time only a Lunarian. I understand why Endymion didn't pop back up like any other Immortal but what's odd is that I didn't see him again until recently," Serenity explained and turned her attention back to the clearing.
***Third Person POV***
"I'm going to rip your heart out and feed it to the pigeons!" shouted Zylstra as she stood.
"I can't take all the credit," Sailor Moon said coldly.
"Fine. I call a truce for two days so I may properly mourn for my loss," Zylstra sighed.
"And we get two days off to celebrate," Sailor Moon agreed.
Zylstra glared at Sailor Moon and jumped through a black portal that appeared behind her.
"Sailor Moon! Are you alright?" the other Scouts asked.
"I'm fine everyone. Let's go home," Sailor Moon replied in a emotionless tone.
The Scouts glanced worridly at Sailor Moon and went their own ways. Soon everyone but Sailor Mini Moon and Eternal Sailor Moon had left.
"What's really wrong Serena?" Mini Moon asked.
"I just killed your father Rini. Why haven't you dissapeared?" Sailor Moon asked in a daze as her transformation melted away.
"Puu is giving me some time to say goodbye," Rini whispered.
"I'm going to miss you you little spore," Serena said affectionately and embraced Rini in a hug.
"I'm gonna miss you too, Meatball Head," Rini said.
Then Pluto appeared from one of her portals.
"Come, Small Lady, it is time," she said.
"May I please stay one more day to say goodbye to everyone else?" begged Rini.
"No," Pluto said sadly.
"Please, Puu, please!" Rini cried.
"Please Pluto. Let Rini stay another day?" Serena pleaded.
Pluto looked at them both and sighed.
"One more day," she said and disappeared.
Rini smiled happily and started skip home forgetting Serena for the moment.
"I know you're there. You can come out now," Serena called to the bushes Heero and Serenity were hidding in.
Heero and Serenity traded glances and stepped out from their hiding place.
"Who are you really? I remeber you from the Arcade but you seem much more familar," Serena commented.
"Like we told Andrew. We are Pheobe and Actaeon," Serenity said.
"Ya right. I asked who you really were not who you say you are," Serena sounded slightly offended.
"I guess it doesn't really matter. Unless Actaeon here is more paranoid than I think," Serenity sighed.
"Go ahead and tell her, you wouldn't tell her if something bad would happen," Heero consented.
'Something bad always happens,' Serenity tells Heero mentally.
"My name is Serenity and this is my silent friend Heero," Serenity introduced them.
"Are you me?" Serena asks Serenity.
"A thousand years in the future, yes."
"Wow, so we beat Zylstra," Serena said with hope.
"The timeline is always changing, Serena. Even in the past."
"So...I should keep my options open," Serena said warily.
"In a nutshell, ya," Heero smirked.
"Well, thank you for your help. Is there anything I can do in return?"
"Ya, kick Zylstra's ass for me," Serenity said.
"I think I can do that," Serena smiled and ran off to hopefully catch up with Rini.
***Back in A.C. 200***
"Target in site, everyone is position?" Love asked.
"Nereid, ready."
"Wind, ready."
"Firefly, ready."
"Shinigami, ready."
Four voices came over Mina's com. link. They were getting ready to destroy a shipment of mobile suits going to the L1 colony. The mission said to leave no survivers.
"Good, when I get to one I want everyone but Shini-chan to attack," Mina said trying to lighten the mood.
"Ah shucks Love. Don't get protective," Duo laughed.
"You heard what Rhea said, Shingami gets no action tonight," Hotaru entered the conversation.
"Does that mean I get some action later?" Duo asked.
"You better not be talking like that to my daughter, Duo," Amara growled.
"Never!"
"It's okay Amara. I think of Duo as a brother. The idea itself has scarred me," Hotaru laughed.
"Okay guys, settle down, 10..."
"9..."
"8..."
"7..."
"6..."
"5..."
"4..."
"3..."
"2..."
"Here we go!" shouted Hotaru.
"1..."
Four gundams attacked and massacred the cargo. Firefly took out two carriers with her glaive and Love got one with her energy sword. Nereid and Wind fought the mobile suits and dolls, that were guarding the shipment, with their trident and sword, and Duo watched from the sidelines.
***On Board the guard ship for the M.S. shipment***
"Lieutenant General Sheilds!!! We're being attacked!!" yelled an officer.
"By who?" Zylstra Shields asked.
"Gundams, ma'am," the officer told her.
"Which ones?" the Lieutenant General asked.
"They're new ma'am. No identifacation available."
"Are you sure?"
"Positive."
"What were the colors on the gundams?" Zylstra asked.
"One was orange and yellow, the second was sea green and blue, the third was yellow and blue, and the last one is purple and black," the officer reported.
"Venus, Neptune, Uranus, and Saturn. They finally sent someone to play," Zylstra giggled.
"Ma'am?"
"Good work, soldier. What is you're name?" Zylstra asked.
"Norman Willsby, ma'am."
"Well Officer Willsby, you are now Captain Willsby for you good work and calmness in battle," Zylstra announced.
The officer, I mean captain, saluted and hurried off.
"You sent some off you're most loyal to play, Serenity. I commend you for you're cunning," Zylstra said to no one, "The war begins again cousin, and this time I will win."
Zylstra watched the battle for a second from a window and then turned to an officer.
"I want fifty more soldiers out there in the best suits we got," she commanded.
***Battlefield***
"Hey Shini! How do you think we're doing?" asked Firefly.
"You guys are naturals," Duo said without enthusiasm.
"What's up Shini? You sound less than thrilled," asked Love.
"I'm bored," Duo said simply.
"Then get your ass in the action idiot!" Amara laughed.
"Really?" Duo said hopefully.
"Of course Duo, have fun," Michelle said amused.
"Woohoo! Here I come!" yelled Duo as he entered the battle.
Soom everyone was swept up in the battle. In minutes most of the suits were gone and the gundams began to relax and check for damage on their suits.
"Hey guys I'm in trouble. My trident is almost dead and I have no ammo," Michelle said.
"Same here. I barely have enough power to fly back," Amara announced.
"We're all in bad shape but we have even more trouble we got fifty more suits coming at us and their armed to the teeth," Mina said.
"Damn, they never give up," Duo sighed.
"I'm calling in for back up," Mina said.
"Hey people! We could use some help here!!!" Mina yelled into her speaker.
"What do you need?" Ami asked.
"Help, we got fifty new suits coming and we won't last through ten of them," Michelle entered the conversation.
"Okay, I'll send the guys out, okay?" Ami said.
"Sounds good, how fast can you get here?" Hotaru asked.
"10 minutes if we hurry," Quatre's voice was heard on the speaker.
"Then hurry, these suits will be here in five," Amara growled.
"Can you hold on until then?" Ami asked.
"Duo can but I'm not sure about the rest of us," Mina explained.
"We'll hurry," Ami said and the connection was lost.
"Now all we can do is wait," Michelle said quietly.
***2000 AD***
After their talk with Serena, Serenity and Heero started searching for Selenity again. They had checked out the rest of the park and the surrounding area but still no ex-pacifist princess.
"So what do we do now?" asked Heero.
"What I should have done in the first place," Serenity and started chanting.
Above her head apeared a bunch of golden strings pointing out in different directions, a small black ball appeared on one of the strings and started to roll down it soon it disappeared and then came back and satred on another string.
"What's that?" Heero asked.
"That is a simple locating spell. Those threads lead to all different sorts of magic in this city, the ball goes to the source of those threads to see what kind of magic it is, if the magic isn't Selenity then it will come back and start a different thread, if it does find her the ball will come back and stop, marking which string leads to Selenity so we can flollow it," Serenity explained. (I do not own this spell, it is from Patricia C. Wrede's book called Searching for Dragons.)
Heero nodded and watched the ball start another string.They waited for seemed forever and it looked like the ball was on the string before the first one it searched, the ball came back and stopped.
"Let's go," Serenity said and they ran off towards Selenity.
Soon they realized that their target was to far away to run to it and they slowed down to a walk. As Heero walked the began thinking and somehting began chewing at his mind that his memory wouldn't, and couldn't answer.
"Ren, has Relena always been a shapeshifter?" he finally asked.
"Well, during the Silver Millenium it was uncommon to have more than one royal child of the Moon Kingdom. So my mother was the blacksheep of the family, she had three, me and Quatre and then Selenity. It was a total surprise that Mother had twins. The scientists of Mercury and Neptune did multiple tests to see how it happened. In the end we found out that my mother had uh...slept with Helios the thousandth, king of the Sun or Sol Kingdom, and his sperm had fertilized another egg only a week into mothers pregnancy, so Quatre and I are not really twins because twins come from the same egg. Anyways I was naturally announced as the heir to the Moon and Quatre was announced heir to the Sun, end of problem. But a year later mom and Helois, who was now a sort of stepfather to me, did it again and mother gave birth to another bouncing baby girl. My mother saw right away that the girl held the power of the Sol but having a strange sense of humor made her name the baby Selenity. For ten years Selenity lived a fairly normal life for a princess of two joint kingdoms. Then our cousin, Zylstra, from the Red Moon of Nemesis came for a visit. She was beautiful just like all the women in the family and had strong magical ability but an accident in a town marketplace left her slightly insane I guess. Anyways, Selenity was trying to be friendly and help her out when Zylstra blew her top and started casting spells. Most of them were very small, all the water turned red and we had a slight locust problem, but the really bad curse ended up on Selenity. I think the spell went sorta like this 'Sun and Moon, Day and Night, Darkness and Light seperated by the horizon. Their love feed by glimpses at dawn and dusk. Child of the dawn and dusk let thy blood seperate and never combine again. As the sun rises your blood mourns for the moon. As the moon glows down your blood will boil for the warmth of the sun' it was a real whammy. The spell made Selenity, for some odd reason, a tiger during the day and a princess at night, instead of a moon sprite or something," Serentiy explained.
"Couldn't you have given me the short version?" Heero complained.
"That was the short version!" Serentiy growled.
The strand of golden string began to glow brightly.
"We're getting close," Serenity's voice dropped to a whisper.
"No, never would have thought," Heero replied.
Serenity slapped Heero on the head and walked around the corner of a building. There she saw Endymion zipping up his pants and Selenity's bruised body covered by bloody rags that used to be her clothes.
TBC....
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I'm back and I'm bad!!!! Hehehehe...suddenly its not funny any more -_-. Please REVIEW I've been without them for so long I can't really remember what they are ;_;.
Disclaimer: What is the point of disclaimers? Do the Powers That Be really need to see these on everything us mere mortals tamper with? I mean you'd think controlling your own universe would be enough to feed their ego's. But because I have nothing to give but so much to lose I must say this one thing: I don't own shit. Thank you for your time.
Immortal Habit X: Ultimate Loss
Last Time on Immortal Habit...
"I'm sorry my queen I have nothing but bad news," Pluto said sadly.
"What is it?" Serenity asked.
"Endymion found out that you left and followed you."
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"At least he doesn't know where we're staying," said Heero.
"I wouldn't be so sure," said a voice.
Serenity and Heero whipped around to see the one person they least wanted to see.
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And now on with the story....
"Endymion," Serenity whispered not so much in shock but in hatred.
"Thats right, lover, it's your old flame," Endymion sneered.
"What do you want?" asked Heero.
"I want to invite you and your little friends to a contest to the death. Winner takes all."
"Why? You obviously have the upper hand. Why don't you just kill us in our sleep?" Serenity inquired.
"I want to see your face while you watch you friends die one by one, of course!" Endymion said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"What if I win?" Serenity demanded, a small shimmer began to appear in her hand and the form of a sword began to flicker in and out of exsistence.
"You get the pleasure of killing both me and Zylstra and if I win I get to have you as a... distraction," Endymions eyes swept over Serenity's body with lust.
"Over my dead body!!!" Heero yelled and pulled out his gun and started shooting with deadly acuracy.
Endymion laughed as the bullets bounced off him, leaving him unscarred.
"Emivage!" Serenity gasped in lunarian. (Translation: Evil mage or wizard. Someone who works with dark magic.)
"You honor me with you're words, Serenity. I'm really just a dabbler, it's my wife you must worry about," Endymion said and he melted into the shadows and disapeared.
"This is bad," said Heero.
"No shit, Sherlock!!!!" Serenity said sarcastically as she began to pace the room.
"Renity, there's no use in worrying about it now. The sun has set it's time to find Len," Heero said, he walked over to Serenity and wrapped his arms around her.
"I'm just so stressed. For so long I have been the one making the waves and fucking up peoples lives but here I am pregnant, searching for my runaway sister, and all the while being stalked by my ex-fiance. Can life get any worse?"
"You just jinxed it, you know," Heero sighed.
"I know, I know. I just needed some serious ranting time."
"Ranting isn't going to do anything, Sere," Heero said and he moved away and grabbed both their coats and threw one to Serenity who put it on.
"Who the hell are you? My mother?"
"No I'm your sugar daddy," Heero said with a rougish smile.
"I'm gonna shoot Duo when we get back," Serenity muttered and rolled her eyes.
Serenity reached into her interdimension space pocket and brought out a suit case. She opened it and revealed multiple guns. Serenity scanned the selection and chose two Glock 21pistols and stuffed one into a shoulder holster and the other into a back holster. Then she grabbed three magnums, ten extra clips, and two clips of some enchanted silver bullets and stuffed them into her space pocket. Then she grabbed two daggers and put them down her boots and a switch blade put in her coat pocket.
"Gonna put some grenades in there too?" Heero asked sarcastically.
"I'm all out," Serenity said simply.
Heero stepped up two the suitcase and chose two AK-47 and stuffed them into who knows where, four extra clips, and one dagger.
"That's all?" Serenity asked.
"It's the past how dangerous can it be," asked Heero.
"That means nothing! Heero you should know better. No matter where you are in time there is something bad going on!" Serenity scolded him.
"But-"
"No, I'm not losing you because you underestimated something that doesn't have the header 'Mission' on it. Take some E.S.B's, if we run into a youma nothing short of a miracle can help you if you don't have a magical defense," Serenity told him and then handed him a couple clips of enchanted silver bullets.
Heero took the clips and stuffed them into his jacket pocket. Serenity grabbed some keys off the night stand and they walked out the door. When they got outside quickly organized a plan to first search the park and then go check the hotel that was a block away from it. They only searched these parts of Tokyo because do to personal experience Serenity knew that everything happened in the park.
***The Park an hour later***
Serenity and Heero had been searching the park forever but had found nothing. They were just about to leave to check out the hotel when there was a bright flash and a scream. A Glock 21 was instantly in Serenity's hand, she quick reached into her space pocket and brought out a clip of ESB's and exchanged the regular clip in the gun for it. Heero watched Serenity's doings and decide to change one of his gun's magazines also.They ran for where the light had been and as they got closer you could hear the sounds of fighting.
"Mars Flame Sniper!" a voice shouted and there was a another flash of light.
"Endymion! Get your chicken ass down here!" another voice yelled.
Serenity stopped in her tracks. She knew which battle this was and had no wish to relive it but she also knew that if she and Heero didn't get there soon the timeline would be toast.
"Sere? Are you in there?" Heero asked.
"I'm here. C'mon those people are gonna need help!" Serenity dashed off and soon she was just outside a clearing where a magical battle was progress.
Serenity glanced behind her and noticed Heero had kept pace with her the whole way and was now watching mesmerized as nine women and one girl fought a huge ugly monster that looked to be made out of...pudding??? There was also a man in a tree behind the monster who looked very familar.
"That's Endymion," Heero whispered.
"Yup, right before he dies," Serenity said with a slight glint of joy in her eyes.
"This is the last battle in this timeline Endymion appears in. Sailor Moon and Zylstra kill him after this youma is gone," Serenity explained.
"Jupiter Oak Evolution!" yelled the girl in green.
The youma dogded the attack and threw a bunch of pudding at Jupiter. She tried to duck the attack but she was hit. The pudding began to harden around her and soon Jupiter could not move. Serenity remebered this part of the battle and shot at the casing making it break away. All the Scouts looked at Jupiter, who shrugged and started up another attack. This was the beginning of a cycle, the youma would try and encase someone and Serenity or later Heero would shoot it away, then the monster would slowly get his ass kicked. Soon the monster was gone and all that was left was the Scouts and Endymion.
"Please, come back to us, Darien," Eternal Sailor Moon begged.
"And stop all the fun? Never," Darien snapped and began throwing black roses at them.
All the Scouts dived except for Sailor Moon, the roses never hit her but fear flashed in her eyes. Then one rose came flying towards Sailor Moons face, as it hurtled closer the other Scouts yelled at her to move but all their cries fell on deaf ears. When the rose was an inch from her Sailor Moon plucked it out of the air and as soon as Sailor moon touched it the rose once again turned red and then slowly all the petals fell and were swept into a wirlwind that began to surround Sailor Moon. The Sailor Scouts cried out for their princess and tried to save her but when they got within five feet of her they were thrown back. Endymion/Darien was confused, he seemed to know nothing of what was going on. Then as suddenly as it began it stopped and the rose petals fluttered to the ground. Where Eternal Sailor Moon once stood now stood Princess Serenity with a blue and silver sword in her hand.
"Come play with us, Zylstra!" Princess Serenity yelled at the forest surrounding her and her protectors.
"Of course, Your Highness," said a sugary sweet voice.
A slender form walked out. The woman had death black hair with red stripes running through it and her were the color of burgandy wine, she was quite beautiful and quite insane. She wore an old dress made of black satin and red lace. This was Zylstra, the bane of the reincarnated princess' lives.
"Zylstra, I challenge you to a duel to the death, winner takes all," Princess Serenity said in a regal voice.
"Whatever her ladyship wishes," Zylstra giggled, a sword made of onyx appeared in her hand and she took a fencing stance.
"No, Princess! You don't know how to use a sword! You'll never beat her!" Sailor Mars shouted.
"All heirs to the Moon know how to wield the Sword Of Selene," the Princess replied, she took an unfamiliar stance and waited for Zylstra to strike.
Zylstra did indeed strike first. She lunged for the princess' throat, thinking that this would be an easy battle, but to her suprise the gleaming blade of Selene blocked the attempt.
"C'mon, is that all you've got?" Princess Serenity asked mockingly.
"I will not be beaten by a child!" Zylstra growled and renewed her attack.
Each time Zylstra swung Serenity would hop back, like a carrot tied to a donkeys head. Zylstra was quickly losing her temper and giggled gleefully when they reached the edge of the clearing. She once again readied her fatal strike to the throat and lunged for the princess. And once again the attack was blocked.
"My turn," the princess whispered.
Princess Serenity began a pattern, a sweep to the knees, a swing to the head, and a lunge for the stomach. Every time she was blocked but Zylstra did not grin or giggle at the impossoblity of getting hurt. She knew that if either of them screwed up they were dead.
***Endymion/Darien's POV***
Endymion watched as the to women countinued their deadly dance. He knew that Zylstra was beat no matter what. The moon brat had the edge and the experience. He watched as the minutes seemed to stretch into hours and the hours into eternity and as Zylstra began to tire. Endymion knew that people made mistakes, often deadly mistakes, when they were tired. He saw the change in pattern before anything else. Serenity was going to attack the knees a second time while Zylstra was moving to protect her head, this was one of those deadly mistakes. Endymion acted on his emotions and flew down into the fight to try and stop the death of his dark beloved. Endymion dived inbetween the two ladys and felt the burn of a sword in his legs and his throat. Then everything went black.
***Serenity and Heero's POV***
Serenity and Heero watched as Endymion died to protect Zylstra. They saw his head be disconnected from his body and his right leg hang uselessly, held togther by a tendon. They saw Zylstra fall to the ground and cry black tears in sorrow. And they saw Princess Serenity shed a single tear for her former lover. The sword and gown flicked and dissapeared leaving Eternal Sailor Moon gripping nothing but air.
"So thats why Endymion didn't die the first time around," Serenity whispered to herself.
"What do you mean? He looks dead enough to me," Heero quipped.
"Endymion was an Immortal like I am now. Only an Immortal can kill another Immortal and there's a special way an Immortal can die. I wasn't an Immortal at this time only a Lunarian. I understand why Endymion didn't pop back up like any other Immortal but what's odd is that I didn't see him again until recently," Serenity explained and turned her attention back to the clearing.
***Third Person POV***
"I'm going to rip your heart out and feed it to the pigeons!" shouted Zylstra as she stood.
"I can't take all the credit," Sailor Moon said coldly.
"Fine. I call a truce for two days so I may properly mourn for my loss," Zylstra sighed.
"And we get two days off to celebrate," Sailor Moon agreed.
Zylstra glared at Sailor Moon and jumped through a black portal that appeared behind her.
"Sailor Moon! Are you alright?" the other Scouts asked.
"I'm fine everyone. Let's go home," Sailor Moon replied in a emotionless tone.
The Scouts glanced worridly at Sailor Moon and went their own ways. Soon everyone but Sailor Mini Moon and Eternal Sailor Moon had left.
"What's really wrong Serena?" Mini Moon asked.
"I just killed your father Rini. Why haven't you dissapeared?" Sailor Moon asked in a daze as her transformation melted away.
"Puu is giving me some time to say goodbye," Rini whispered.
"I'm going to miss you you little spore," Serena said affectionately and embraced Rini in a hug.
"I'm gonna miss you too, Meatball Head," Rini said.
Then Pluto appeared from one of her portals.
"Come, Small Lady, it is time," she said.
"May I please stay one more day to say goodbye to everyone else?" begged Rini.
"No," Pluto said sadly.
"Please, Puu, please!" Rini cried.
"Please Pluto. Let Rini stay another day?" Serena pleaded.
Pluto looked at them both and sighed.
"One more day," she said and disappeared.
Rini smiled happily and started skip home forgetting Serena for the moment.
"I know you're there. You can come out now," Serena called to the bushes Heero and Serenity were hidding in.
Heero and Serenity traded glances and stepped out from their hiding place.
"Who are you really? I remeber you from the Arcade but you seem much more familar," Serena commented.
"Like we told Andrew. We are Pheobe and Actaeon," Serenity said.
"Ya right. I asked who you really were not who you say you are," Serena sounded slightly offended.
"I guess it doesn't really matter. Unless Actaeon here is more paranoid than I think," Serenity sighed.
"Go ahead and tell her, you wouldn't tell her if something bad would happen," Heero consented.
'Something bad always happens,' Serenity tells Heero mentally.
"My name is Serenity and this is my silent friend Heero," Serenity introduced them.
"Are you me?" Serena asks Serenity.
"A thousand years in the future, yes."
"Wow, so we beat Zylstra," Serena said with hope.
"The timeline is always changing, Serena. Even in the past."
"So...I should keep my options open," Serena said warily.
"In a nutshell, ya," Heero smirked.
"Well, thank you for your help. Is there anything I can do in return?"
"Ya, kick Zylstra's ass for me," Serenity said.
"I think I can do that," Serena smiled and ran off to hopefully catch up with Rini.
***Back in A.C. 200***
"Target in site, everyone is position?" Love asked.
"Nereid, ready."
"Wind, ready."
"Firefly, ready."
"Shinigami, ready."
Four voices came over Mina's com. link. They were getting ready to destroy a shipment of mobile suits going to the L1 colony. The mission said to leave no survivers.
"Good, when I get to one I want everyone but Shini-chan to attack," Mina said trying to lighten the mood.
"Ah shucks Love. Don't get protective," Duo laughed.
"You heard what Rhea said, Shingami gets no action tonight," Hotaru entered the conversation.
"Does that mean I get some action later?" Duo asked.
"You better not be talking like that to my daughter, Duo," Amara growled.
"Never!"
"It's okay Amara. I think of Duo as a brother. The idea itself has scarred me," Hotaru laughed.
"Okay guys, settle down, 10..."
"9..."
"8..."
"7..."
"6..."
"5..."
"4..."
"3..."
"2..."
"Here we go!" shouted Hotaru.
"1..."
Four gundams attacked and massacred the cargo. Firefly took out two carriers with her glaive and Love got one with her energy sword. Nereid and Wind fought the mobile suits and dolls, that were guarding the shipment, with their trident and sword, and Duo watched from the sidelines.
***On Board the guard ship for the M.S. shipment***
"Lieutenant General Sheilds!!! We're being attacked!!" yelled an officer.
"By who?" Zylstra Shields asked.
"Gundams, ma'am," the officer told her.
"Which ones?" the Lieutenant General asked.
"They're new ma'am. No identifacation available."
"Are you sure?"
"Positive."
"What were the colors on the gundams?" Zylstra asked.
"One was orange and yellow, the second was sea green and blue, the third was yellow and blue, and the last one is purple and black," the officer reported.
"Venus, Neptune, Uranus, and Saturn. They finally sent someone to play," Zylstra giggled.
"Ma'am?"
"Good work, soldier. What is you're name?" Zylstra asked.
"Norman Willsby, ma'am."
"Well Officer Willsby, you are now Captain Willsby for you good work and calmness in battle," Zylstra announced.
The officer, I mean captain, saluted and hurried off.
"You sent some off you're most loyal to play, Serenity. I commend you for you're cunning," Zylstra said to no one, "The war begins again cousin, and this time I will win."
Zylstra watched the battle for a second from a window and then turned to an officer.
"I want fifty more soldiers out there in the best suits we got," she commanded.
***Battlefield***
"Hey Shini! How do you think we're doing?" asked Firefly.
"You guys are naturals," Duo said without enthusiasm.
"What's up Shini? You sound less than thrilled," asked Love.
"I'm bored," Duo said simply.
"Then get your ass in the action idiot!" Amara laughed.
"Really?" Duo said hopefully.
"Of course Duo, have fun," Michelle said amused.
"Woohoo! Here I come!" yelled Duo as he entered the battle.
Soom everyone was swept up in the battle. In minutes most of the suits were gone and the gundams began to relax and check for damage on their suits.
"Hey guys I'm in trouble. My trident is almost dead and I have no ammo," Michelle said.
"Same here. I barely have enough power to fly back," Amara announced.
"We're all in bad shape but we have even more trouble we got fifty more suits coming at us and their armed to the teeth," Mina said.
"Damn, they never give up," Duo sighed.
"I'm calling in for back up," Mina said.
"Hey people! We could use some help here!!!" Mina yelled into her speaker.
"What do you need?" Ami asked.
"Help, we got fifty new suits coming and we won't last through ten of them," Michelle entered the conversation.
"Okay, I'll send the guys out, okay?" Ami said.
"Sounds good, how fast can you get here?" Hotaru asked.
"10 minutes if we hurry," Quatre's voice was heard on the speaker.
"Then hurry, these suits will be here in five," Amara growled.
"Can you hold on until then?" Ami asked.
"Duo can but I'm not sure about the rest of us," Mina explained.
"We'll hurry," Ami said and the connection was lost.
"Now all we can do is wait," Michelle said quietly.
***2000 AD***
After their talk with Serena, Serenity and Heero started searching for Selenity again. They had checked out the rest of the park and the surrounding area but still no ex-pacifist princess.
"So what do we do now?" asked Heero.
"What I should have done in the first place," Serenity and started chanting.
Above her head apeared a bunch of golden strings pointing out in different directions, a small black ball appeared on one of the strings and started to roll down it soon it disappeared and then came back and satred on another string.
"What's that?" Heero asked.
"That is a simple locating spell. Those threads lead to all different sorts of magic in this city, the ball goes to the source of those threads to see what kind of magic it is, if the magic isn't Selenity then it will come back and start a different thread, if it does find her the ball will come back and stop, marking which string leads to Selenity so we can flollow it," Serenity explained. (I do not own this spell, it is from Patricia C. Wrede's book called Searching for Dragons.)
Heero nodded and watched the ball start another string.They waited for seemed forever and it looked like the ball was on the string before the first one it searched, the ball came back and stopped.
"Let's go," Serenity said and they ran off towards Selenity.
Soon they realized that their target was to far away to run to it and they slowed down to a walk. As Heero walked the began thinking and somehting began chewing at his mind that his memory wouldn't, and couldn't answer.
"Ren, has Relena always been a shapeshifter?" he finally asked.
"Well, during the Silver Millenium it was uncommon to have more than one royal child of the Moon Kingdom. So my mother was the blacksheep of the family, she had three, me and Quatre and then Selenity. It was a total surprise that Mother had twins. The scientists of Mercury and Neptune did multiple tests to see how it happened. In the end we found out that my mother had uh...slept with Helios the thousandth, king of the Sun or Sol Kingdom, and his sperm had fertilized another egg only a week into mothers pregnancy, so Quatre and I are not really twins because twins come from the same egg. Anyways I was naturally announced as the heir to the Moon and Quatre was announced heir to the Sun, end of problem. But a year later mom and Helois, who was now a sort of stepfather to me, did it again and mother gave birth to another bouncing baby girl. My mother saw right away that the girl held the power of the Sol but having a strange sense of humor made her name the baby Selenity. For ten years Selenity lived a fairly normal life for a princess of two joint kingdoms. Then our cousin, Zylstra, from the Red Moon of Nemesis came for a visit. She was beautiful just like all the women in the family and had strong magical ability but an accident in a town marketplace left her slightly insane I guess. Anyways, Selenity was trying to be friendly and help her out when Zylstra blew her top and started casting spells. Most of them were very small, all the water turned red and we had a slight locust problem, but the really bad curse ended up on Selenity. I think the spell went sorta like this 'Sun and Moon, Day and Night, Darkness and Light seperated by the horizon. Their love feed by glimpses at dawn and dusk. Child of the dawn and dusk let thy blood seperate and never combine again. As the sun rises your blood mourns for the moon. As the moon glows down your blood will boil for the warmth of the sun' it was a real whammy. The spell made Selenity, for some odd reason, a tiger during the day and a princess at night, instead of a moon sprite or something," Serentiy explained.
"Couldn't you have given me the short version?" Heero complained.
"That was the short version!" Serentiy growled.
The strand of golden string began to glow brightly.
"We're getting close," Serenity's voice dropped to a whisper.
"No, never would have thought," Heero replied.
Serenity slapped Heero on the head and walked around the corner of a building. There she saw Endymion zipping up his pants and Selenity's bruised body covered by bloody rags that used to be her clothes.
TBC....
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I'm back and I'm bad!!!! Hehehehe...suddenly its not funny any more -_-. Please REVIEW I've been without them for so long I can't really remember what they are ;_;.