Disclaimer and Author notes: As much as I would love to own the characters in this story, I don't. All I own is the concept for the story. So please don't sue me. Also I want to give a big thanks to Keemew2 for writing this with me. (If she hadn't, this story wouldn't be here today!) So enjoy and please R&R if you won't another chapter.

Kingdoms Lost and found

"No please don't leave me, I don't want to be left alone!" cried the lone figure as she watched her friends disappear one by one into the abysmal shadows. "No! Please!" The figure sank, sobbing, to her knees. Her dream, once again, repeating itself. The death of her friends and love, dying to protect her. "I'm all alone." She sobbed, "I'll never see my friends again. They died protecting me! I should have protected them! WHY!?" She shouted out, "Why couldn't I protect them? Like they did me? I didn't deserve any of them. Their friendships." She slammed her fist into the ground as she watched her friends disappear again. She looked up with sudden realization, "They would have been better off never have knowing me; they would still be a live then." Her eyes filled with tears once more, "No, they would just have become slaves to Beryl if they hadn't met me." She sighed as she saw her friends disappear for the third time that dream thinking as each one vanished. "Never again will Love and I go boy stocking together. Wisdom won't be helping me study for that next test, and Pyro and I will never have another tongue war. I'll never get to taste Sparky's great cooking again, and poor Firefly never even got a chance to grow up! Sea, I'll never get to learn how to play the violin with you, and Wind, you and I will never get to race like we wanted to one day, though…I know you would win. And Puu. I will never get advice from you again. My love is dead and with him the hope of having the Spore," sob. "Why did they have to die? Why couldn't it have been me?"

"Because we love you and would do anything to keep you safe," said a transparent figure. The lone one looked around quickly.

"Puu, is that you?" she asked.

"Yes Hime, it is. You should really stop punishing yourself; this dream of yours is really starting to hurt you subconsciously, and can even affect you consciously."

The lone figure smiled sadly and shook her head.

"Puu don't call me that. You know I don't like it…Wait! Where are the others and why are you still here?" She asked quickly

"The others are where they belong. In the Elysian Fields, where they can watch over you always. I'm still here because I'm still in charge of guarding the Time Gates."

"Good, I'm glad they are where they should be. They deserve to be happy, but so do you. Can't you leave the gates?" "No," She replied with a soft, yet sad, smile, "It is my job to always watch over them. Besides," She said impishly, "I'll be able to keep an eye on you Hime, and don't worry about being alone Hotaru will be reborn one day."

"She will? Why of course! That makes perfect sense! After all, she is death and rebirth. Do you know when she will be reborn?"

"Oh, she has already been reborn. It is her job to keep the balance, even if she is unaware of what she does. She will always be reborn, but not always be aware. She will die many times, and then be reborn once again. But she can't become aware, not until a thousand years. It is the order of things. In a thousand years, she will be born and at the right time after, she will be aware as well. So, don't worry Hime. Know that we all love you and you won't be alone for ever," the transparent Puu stated as she began to dissolve, "I'll be keeping an eye on you."

"Bye Puu, I'll miss you and the others so much. And don't call me HIME!" shouted Cosmos

*~*~*~*~*~A thousand years later~*~*~*~*~*

"It's a boy Mrs. Winner" announced the doctor almost sadly.

"May I hold my son?" She asked weakly.

"Let me just get him cleaned up Mrs. Winner." said the nurse. A few minutes later the boy was given to her. "Here you go Mrs. Winner. Your new baby boy."

"Thank you Madeline." Mrs. Winner blinked and everyone and thing seemed to be frozen. "My son," she said, much more strongly now, "Because of you I'm not the last of my kind anymore. But now I have to leave you so that I can see your Aunt Hotaru. It's been a thousand years since I last saw her and she should have been reborn by now. She will finally be aware. I will need her help to fight the growing evil I feel. I'll need your help one day to but until then I want you to live the life of a normal little boy and grow knowing that you are loved. I will always watch over you and so will your Aunt Puu. I'll see you in your dreams my sweet little boy, but now I have to go. Grow up to be the gentleman that I know you will be. Until then I love you." She blinked again and everyone and thing resumed there action. The nurse took the boy from her and handed him to her husband, the proud father. He held the child and looked sadly at his wife.

"I don't know any other woman as rash as you... You knew that giving birth to this child would cost you your life, Quaterine" Quaterine looked kindly at her husband.

"But... I wanted to have your child...."

"...Quaterine." He mumbled as she slowly closed her eyes.

"She's passed away now." The doctor said softly. The baby in Hiram Winners arms started to cry, as if he knew his mother was gone.

"Quatre, take a good look. Your mother was a proud and strong woman...as her son…no doubt will you be the same."

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