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Endless Waltz -- by Ravyn Knyght

"Oh come on girl! Get over it! We'll all be there!" Lita pleaded with Mina over the phone. Mina tried to act sad. "No! I'm not going. It'll be embarrassing going by myself. I could never live it down!" but she had every intention of being there. 'Just you wait! Tramp!' she thought and smiled to herself. "I've got some things to do so I'll talk to you later, okay?", "Yeah, sure, bye!" Lita said as she hung up. "Me an' my big mouth!" she sighed and tried to think of a way to convince Mina to go to their high school prom. Just then a thought came to her mind. "Oh Yeah!" she said out loud and snapped her fingers. Lita picked up her phone and hit a number on her speed dial.

Serena picked up the ringing phone. "Darien!" she sang and Lita rolled her eyes, "No he's busy going down on me! I just called to give you a play by play of what he's doing!" Lita said laughing at the cold remarks that were emanating from her phone. "Hey Sere, could I talk to Reeny? I wanna ask her somethin'." "Uh, sure!" Lita's request puzzled her. She put the phone down and walked to the kitchen. In the distance Lita could hear "Hey, brat! You're wanted on the phone! No not you, Sammy, the other brat!" Lita heard the phone get picked up and Reeny muttering something under her breath. "Yeah." she snapped. "At it again huh?" Lita laughed. "Oh hi Lita!" Reeny pushed Serena out of her mind, for now. "Reeny listen where do you....I mean.... how do you get a hold of Millennium?" Reeny wondered what Lita was up to. "You can try Dischord and Malice. I'm sure they can find him." she told Lita. "Oh, okay! Thanx!" and hung up. Reeny thought about it for a second but got interupted by Serena. Then Reeny remembered she had to do something to Serena for calling her a brat and kicked her. This resulted in a fight. "Here we go again!" was the sigh of Serena's family.

Lita went to the Tomoe mansion the next morning. 'Even in the daylight this place creeps me out!' she thought as she took in the sight of the huge mansion. She walked along the path to the back of the mansion thinking that the two dogs would be there tied to a tree with no food or water if Amara had her way. Instead she found Malice in a flower bed digging it up. "Michelle is gonna castrate you!" she said and startled the dog. "No, this time he's helping!" said Amara coming out of the green house with a load of potted plants. "Yeah, we were training Hotaru and this flower bed got wrecked. But instead of letting the kid repair it Michelle is making us do it. It was all Amara's idea, but I got blamed for it!" the dog complained. "So why are you helping him Amara, I mean gardening isn't your thing?" Lita asked. "Because somebody told Hotaru to make my Porsche disappear!" she said glaring at Malice, "And I won't tell her to bring it back until this bed is back to normal and somebody comes clean!" Malice growled back. "Could I talk to Malice for a minute....in private?" Lita asked, Amara agreed grateful to get a break. Malice followed Lita into the house, "So what's up, sweet thang?" he asked. "Could you tell Millennium that I want to talk to him. Tell him to come to my place, okay?" she said. "Sure." he replied and teleported to where Millennium was.

Malice found himself in the middle of a fierce battle. Millennium found the remaining three and was trying to defeat them all at once. But they escaped and left a few dozen monsters to slow Millennium down. "Hey boss!" Malice called as Millennium destroyed a huge bone dragon. "What?" was his cold reply as he plunged his sword deep into another creature's belly and dragged the blade upwards, splicing the great beast open. "Lita wants to talk to you! At her place!" Malice said as he helped take down a black widow type monster. "About what?" Millennium said looking around to find no monsters remained. "Dunno. Sounded important though." Angered that the remaining shards got away he growled out "Alright. It'd better be important though." and vanished. "Now back to the garden!" Malice said and vanished as well.

Lita busied herself in the kitchen making a lunch for herself and her soon- to-arrive guest. "Oh! The wine!" she said and turned to the cupboard to get it but was scared senseless by Millennium who appeared in front of her. She started to fall backwards but he caught her just in time. "Can't you use a door, like normal people!" she berated him and then realized the position she was in. He had her by the right arm and waist while she gripped him by his left arm and had her left arm wrapped around his neck. Their eyes met and she blushed slightly, then pulled herself up and the two let go of each other. "You had something important to talk to me about?" His directness was matched by Lita's coy evasivness. "Take your jacket off and sit down. I made you a little something." she motioned to the impressive spread on the table while she helped him take his jacket off then pointed to his sword belt. He sat down at the table while she hung his jacket and sword up. "I didn't know what you liked so I just made a little of everything." she said coming back into the kitchen. Only to find he wasn't eating. "You don't like any of it?!" a heart broken look came to Lita's face. He saw the look and then started to eat not wanting to hurt her feelings. 'Works every time!' she giggled to herself and sat down across from him.

Lita then remembered the wine again. She got the bottle and poured some for the two of them. Millennium's patience was starting to slip away. "You said you wanted to talk about something important. What is it?" he said pushing the plate away. While the two talked Lita's communicator was beeping but she didn't here it. "Oh well! I'm almost there anyway." Mina said to herself as she turned the corner and walked down the street towards Lita's house. "Well you see it's like this..." Lita stammered trying to get it out of her, but the way Millennium was looking at her made her nervous. "...If you weren't doing anything important...." she faultered again. She then noticed that his shirt had several tears across the front of it. "Oh, take that thing off and I'll sew it for you!" She quickly went to work unbuttoning it and taking it off of him, the whole time Millennium objected but wasn't heard. Lita looked over the torn shirt. "It won't take that long!" she said but stopped in her tracks when she saw Millennium's bare muscular arms and chest. She blushed slightly as she looked him over. 'Damn he's built!' she thought as she tried to take her mind off of him long enough to sew the shirt.

"Oh sit down! I'll be finished soon!" she said trying to make him stop pacing the kitchen floor. He didn't hear her though. 'Scortase, Raamil and Norkai couldn't have gotten that far but I can't sense them! And how did they get so strong?' he continued to pace. "Sit down and eat something!" Lita said but didn't look at him, she was trying to convince herself that Ken was the only guy for her but it was hard when there was a guy as good looking as Millennium standing over her without his shirt. She started to blushed a deeper red.

Millennium was about to say something when a knock came at the door. Lita opened the door and grew pale when she saw Mina on her front step. 'Oh shit! Not good!' she swore to herself as she looked back to the kitchen. "Uh Mina...What are you doing here?!" Lita nervously said while trying to prevent Mina from coming in. "We're having a scout meeting tonight. I tried your communicator but you didn't answer." Just then Lita heard footsteps coming closer from the kitchen. Mina used the distraction to get in the door. "Hey! You've been cooking again! Great because I'm starving!" Mina headed for the kitchen but Lita stopped her while giving a worried laugh. When she put her hands up she realized she still had Millennium's shirt. 'Oh, no!' she thought. 'If Mina gets into the kitchen and sees a half naked Millennium she's gonna think something's going on between us!' Mina noticed the torn shirt. "So that's why you didn't answer!" giving Lita a sly wink. Lita blushed and gave a nervous laugh. "Well I'll let you and Ken get back to whatever it was you were *Ahem* ...doing!" Mina blushed from embarrassment for interupting the two of them. "Well...uh...I'll see you tonight then...maybe?" Mina said then started down the walk way. Lita waved good bye and gave a huge sigh of relief then quickly went back to the kitchen.

As Mina walked along she saw Ken driving past her. Mina stopped. 'If that's Ken then who's...?' a terrifying thought gripped Mina. 'Oh no! He's gonna walk in on Lita and see her with another man!'. Mina moved quickly across the backyards to Lita's house trying to beat Ken there. 'Please let the back door be open!' Mina thought as she raced across the backyards. Lita just got finished sewing Millennium's shirt and was helping him put it on. "So you'll go then?", she asked. "If it means that much to her then yes I will." he replied. "Seeing how you got all these cool powers and stuff could you make a real flashy entrance?" she said while straightening his shirt. She ran her hands across his broad shoulders and down his arms to even out the shirt. She then started smoothing out the wrinkles on the front of his shirt. As she ran her hands down his chest she could feel his hard muscles. Her mind was wandering because her hands were going slower as she felt every muscle. She realized what she was doing and started to blush. Then she made the mistake of making eye contact. She stood there staring deep into his emerald green eyes, 'Oh gawd! He's such a fox!', she reached up to straighten his shirt collar. Only a few inches separated their lips. It took everything Lita had to resist kissing him. Just then the back door flew open and Mina rushed in. The sound of the door banging open startled Lita and she jumped into Millennium's arms. She looked to see a shocked Mina staring at the two of them holding each other. "I just saw Ken coming this way. I thought I'd warn you." Mina gave the two a cold look and then walked out. Lita ran after her. "It's not what you think! Really!" she pleaded with Mina to believe her. "Whatever!" Mina said not looking at her. Lita watched Mina sprint down the street as Ken's car pulled into the driveway. 'Ugh! What a mess!' Lita thought to herself as she turned her attention to Ken.

Later that night everyone gathered at the temple for the meeting. "There's Amara and Michelle, let's start!" pleaded Reeny not able to contain her secret any longer. Once they all gathered around the table both Serena and Reeny filled them all in. "So what's the secret?" Amy started. Serena and Reeny were fighting over who got to tell it. "This may be a shock to you..." Serena started, "Millennium is Hotaru's father!" Reeny blurted out. All the other's sat in shock. "That can't be true!" Michelle said. "It is! I had several flashback dreams from the Silver Millennium. In one of Raye's fire readings I saw Millennium handing a small baby to my mother." "It was just a dream, it may also be a trick." Amara answered back worried that Millennium would try to take Hotaru from them. "Nope! It's the real thing! And if we don't do something about it right now, Hotaru will kill him!" Reeny said. "What do you mean 'Kill him'?" Amy asked. Reeny started "Long story short, Millennium asks my mom to order Sailor Saturn to kill him because she is the only one with enough power to do it." "Why?!" asked Mina shocked at what was to happen in the future. Serena fielded that one. "Because he blames himself for Azura's death." Everyone looked at each other 'Azura?' they thought. "Azura was the first Sailor Saturn." said Artemis, "We never told you about her because we were sworn to secrecy by Queen Serenity." "Hotaru was to take her place when she became older. I still remember the day Millennium came to Queen Serenity." Luna said.

**Flashback**

"Forgive me. I could not protect Azura, her death is my fault and I take full responsibility." Millennium sadly said while cradling his daughter in his arms. "Why are you here? Your mere presence is causing a disruption among my people." Queen Serenity questioned him in dispairing tone, she too was still grieving over the loss of Azura. "I fear for the safety of my daugther, Hotaru. I am asking for you to keep her safe here." he said knowing it would be hard to give her up but the best thing to do right now for her. "I shall accept her." she said taking the sleeping infant into her arms. "But I cannot garuantee her safety, she will be raised to take her mother's place. With her combined power she will be both a healer and a destroyer. It would be dangerous for her if people knew she was the daughter of Queen Beryl's son, so from now on she is no longer yours. She is not to know of you and if it comes to it she will be your enemy and treat you as such." Millennium reluctantly agreed and watched as Serenity handed the child over to Sailor Neptune who took the child away.

Serenity then held up her Silver Crystal and it began to glow a pale silver light that shot forth from the crystal and struck Millennium. The blast dazed Millennium but he quickly recovered. "What did you do to me?" he asked. "I bestowed upon you the power of immortality. It will help you in your battles ahead, and also be your punishment for your failure. Go and never return to this place." she ordered him out.

**End Flashback**

"That poor man! What he must have went through all this time!" Serena wailed pulling out a tissue. "Turn off the water works! We've got to think of a way to stop all this!" Reeny said angrily while swatting Serena across the back of her head. "You can't! Queen Serenity forbade it then and she'd fobid it now!" Luna warned the scouts. "Yeah, well I don't see her around, do you?" Reeny answered back. "I have an idea, if we get hold of the three remaining shards, we can use them to keep him from fufilling his promise to my future mom." Reeny stated. "How's that?" Lita asked. Well if he can't get all the shards, he can't go back. If he can't go back..." Amy finished Reeny's sentence, "...He won't die." Serena stood up, "Then it's agreed! We get the other shards!" Reeny stood up and cheered with her. Amara quickly killed the moment. "How can we get them if even Millennium is having a hard time getting them. It's my understanding he's immune to the dark shard's powers, but he still can't get his hands on them. How are we to do it?" Everyone's optimism quickly faded. "Amara don't ever take a job for a suicide hot-line. 'Kay?" Serena said patting Amara's lap.

As everyone left, Lita stopped Mina, "I swear there's nothing going on between me and him. I was trying to get him to take you to the prom! Honest!" Lita pleaded her friend to believe her. 'That's right sweat it out!' Mina thought and smiled. "You believe me?" Lita asked seeing Mina's smile. "I suppose." was Mina's reply. This brought a partial look of relief to Lita's face. The two walked along the darkening streets, "So you really like him?" Lita asked, Mina blushed. "Well..." Mina stalled, "Oh come on! Admit it already! Eversince you first saw him he's all you can think about!" Lita pressed her.. "But I don't know how he feels about me. He's soo cold and distant, like he doesn't feel anything." she said staring up at the darkening star filled heavens. "You'll find a way to open him up. It'll just take some time." Lita assured her. "Oh by the way, thanks for asking him to take me to the prom but I got to him earlier." Mina said absent-mindedly. Lita's rage boiled over. "You bitch! You mean I went through all that for nothing?!" Lita was going through a mix of embarrassment and blinding rage. 'All that cooking and restraining myself for nothing!' Lita screamed to herself. "Mina Aino, I'll kill you!" she roared as she chased a laughing Mina into the twilight.

Amara and Michelle drove Amy home. The entire car ride was taken in silence each one thinking about what they just heard. After dropping Amy off, the two headed back home. Hotaru was in bed sleeping with her arm tightly wrapped around Dischord. "No problems there I guess." Michelle said checking in on her. "So what do we tell her?" she said walking into the den. Amara thought for a moment. "Nothing." she then said. "But if he's her father..." Amara stopped Michelle, "He gave her up. She is what she is because of him. He did this to her." Michelle noticed Amara's fearful tone. "You're afraid he'll take her away, aren't you?" Michelle said putting a hand on her shoulder. "It's just that..." Michelle stopped Amara, "You love her like your own?" All Amara could do was nod as she tried to keep herself from crying. "I don't think we have much to worry about. He seems willing to let her stay where she is. If he wanted her, he could have taken her anytime he wanted." the thought made the both of them shiver. "Then we should make ourselves clear. Hotaru is staying with us!" Amara said with a determined tone in her voice. "You just like being called Auntie!" Michelle said and the two started laughing.

Darien drove a contented Serena and an extremely relieved Reeny home. "I'm just so glad I can finally let the cat out of the bag!" she said hugging Serena. Dariens' car only had two seats so Reeny had to sit on Serena's lap. It was a bit akward but the two of them took comfort in it. "I'm too old to do this in the future." Reeny said squeezing Serena a little tighter. "Nonsense! When is a child too old to sit on their mother's lap?" Serena said. "When she inherits her mother's black hole of a stomache!" Darien laughed. "Hey!" the pair shouted in unison hitting him causing the car to swerve.

A few days later, houses were in turmoil and nerves were frazzled as the fierce battle raged on. "Mom! I'm a hippo! This dress won't fit!" wailed Serena trying to get a strapless, blue sequence dress on. Elsewhere a frantic Lita was trying to decide which shade of black stockings went with her emerald green Chinese cocktail dress. "Aw, screw it! I'll just wear these!" At the Hino residence Raye was strangling Chad for not picking up the dry cleaning. "You idiot! What are we supposed to wear to the prom!? Cracker barrels!?!" she shrieked as she bitch slapped him about, then sent him off to retrieve their outfits. Amy and Greg were having their picture taken by her mother. "Why didn't you wear that -other- outfit you bought. You know, the pale blue one!" Greg whispered in her ear and Amy blushed a deep red realizing what he meant.

At the Aino household Mina busied herself putting on an expensive dress that was sent to her by courier. 'Figures! After I blow all my money on that other dress...' she grumbled and looked herself over in the mirror. The dress was a white, strapless ballroom gown with a plunging V-neckline that showed just the right amount of cleavage. The dress was completed with matching white high heel shoes and long, white gloves. "I look like a princess!" she giggled, "Your not the only royalty, Serena!" as she spun around letting the long, pleated skirt fan out. Her mother took her picture while she waited for her date. Mina's eyes widened with amazed shock as an expensive horse-drawned coach came through her street and stopped in front of her house. Several people came out to see what was going on. A footman opened the door of the coach and Millennium stepped out, carrying a bouquet of white roses, a corsage, and a slim black, velvet box. He was wearing a black tuxedo with white gloves and had his hair tied back. "That's your date?" her parents asked. "Uh-huh." was her breathless reply. Black tuxedoes were all too ordinary but on him it looked incredible. Millennium kissed Mrs. Aino's hand and introduced himself. After presenting the flowers and corsage to his date he opened the black velvet box and took out an expensive necklace.

It was an exquisite piece of jewlery. Deep blue sapphire stones that matched the color of Mina's eyes, set in silver and diamonds. Both Mina and her mother gasped as Millennium put it on Mina. "Oh this is too expensive!" she protested but changed her mind when she saw herself in the mirror. "Shall we?" he took her hand in his, "We shall!" she replied in a regal tone, and he escorted her out to the coach. The coach was made out of the pureest silver and pulled by six of the whitest, biggest Clydesdales Mina had ever seen. After being helped into the coach they left for the high school.

Mina made sure she sat as close to the window as possible so everyone could see her. "So Hotaru's your daughter?" her question shocked Millennium. "Did Reeny tell you that?" he said, slightly angry that they found out. "Only after Serena figured it out. So are you still going to go through with it?" Mina was hoping he'd change his mind now that everything was out in the open. "That's something I'll have to think about. So who's going to be at this 'prom'?" he tried to change the subject, this made Mina laugh. The great warrior prince afraid of becoming a father, she couldn't stop laughing. "What's so funny?" his own demeanor was starting to break down as he gave an embarrassed smile. "The thought of you changing diapers." she laughed, but stopped when she saw how much it hurt him. Millennium looked out the window, "I wish I was there for that and everything else but this is how it was decided. I didn't know what else to do at the time. I just wanted her to be safe." Mina could tell this was hard on him, the cold determined look on his face was now replaced with one of regret and sadness. "What happened to Azura?", Mina couldn't believe she asked that question and got flustered, "If you don't mind." she added.

Millennium stared out the window for a few minutes, thinking of Azura. "If you don't want to talk about it, I'll understand. I just thought if you talked about it you might feel a little better, that's all." Millennium finally looked at her, "Yes, Pluto." his words confused her, "Huh?". "Pluto always says the same thing to me. Seeing how I needed to time travel to fight Valshir, Pluto made it a point to torment me at every chance." Mina started wondering if him and Pluto were involved. Seeing how they were always together, she couldn't help but think it. "About six months after Hotaru was born I had another battle with Valshir. I was severely wounded. I told Azura to get away but she didn't listen. While she was healing my wounds, Valshir attacked her. She was no match for him and he killed her. I tried to save her but it was too late. Valshir knew that her death would hurt me that's why he did it." "So you took Hotaru to Queen Serenity to protect her incase he tried to hurt her." she said, he nodded. "Looks like we're here." he brought Mina's attention to the fact that they were arriving at the school.

The word of their arrival quickly spread as the gymnasium emptied out into the parking lot to see what the comotion was about. They all gasped at the sight of the horse-drawn coach as it pulled into the parking lot, the people standing on tip toe trying to see who was in it. The Sailor Scouts all knew who was inside, their best friend Mina and her royal date. As Millennium helped Mina down she smiled at the crowd, 'Top this entrance!' she silently mused, as a barrage of flashes went off and video cameras zoomed in. Immediately Serena and Lita started circulating rumours through the whispering groups of people. "Someone said that he's a prince from a foriegn country!" one girl exclaimed as she was almost in a state of drooling over Millennium. "I heard that she's spending the summer with him in his family's castle in Europe." said a guy to his girlfriend. "Oh wow she's hot! Was she here all year? Why didn't I notice her?" said another man who was promptly throttled by his girlfriend. "I think that's enough of you two!" Darien and Ken said taking Serena and Lita back inside knowing that they were the gossip queens that started the rumours. Lita looked back at the coach, 'That could've been me.' she thought and started getting jealous.

'Okay, Mina. Grace, poise, deep breathe, smile and what ever you do DON'T fall flat on your face!' Mina said to herself as she stepped down from the coach and took Millennium's arm and walked into the school. As they walked past the other students, Lita spoke, "Hey! Cool entrance!" she decided to be happy for her friend. But instead of thanking Lita for the compliment, Mina snubbed her. 'Yeah you're just jealous!' she thought to herself. Lita's jaw dropped and her anger started to build up. "Did you see that?! She snubbed me!" she growled to Ken. Serena interjected, "Well you knew that this would go straight to her head!" she laughed knowing Mina's super ego was soaring higher than ever. They both laughed then bowed to Queen Mina behind her back.

As the people came back into the gymnasium, they went about their previous activities. Guys showing off their girlfriends and vice versa. People getting together in their usual cliques, the Sailor Scouts were no exception. They all remarked on how great everyone looked. "Amy would look better though if she wore a -different- outfit." Greg said giving her a impish smile. Serena and Raye wondered why Amy blushed at the comment while Lita and Mina laughed hysterically. Just then the music started and they dispersed with their respective dates and had their first dance of the night. Lita thought this was the best way to get back at Mina for snubbing her earlier. "C'mon Ken! Let's show Miss Queen-of-it-all Mina how it's done!" as the two picked up the tempo. Lita knew Mina was not as good a dancer as her. Although not as good, Mina kept up with her partner, who seemed to be quite an excellent dancer. After the dance was finished they sat down, "Where did you learn to dance like that?" she asked her date. "One of Azura's favorite things was ball room dancing. She could dance for hours on end without getting tired. I sometimes wondered where she got all her energy." he said smiling as he fondly remembered happier times.

"Serena! Who's that guy with Mina!" Molly said excitedly as she rushed over to her long time friend. "He's sooo hot! That scar makes him look so rugged and dangerous!" she remarked keeping her eyes glued on the couple sitting a few tables over. "I can be dangerous!" Melvin piped up, starting to get a little jealous of the way Molly was looking at this new guy. Molly flashed an annoyed look at him "Yeah, as dangerous as a two week old kitten." then continued talking to Serena and Darien. "Come on. We'll introduce you to him. We're friends of his you know." Molly gave an excited squeal, she was about to meet royalty. Melvin went along but made sure he kept himself in plain sight of Molly.

"Would you stop looking at me like that?!" Amy whined. Greg had been leering at her ever since he picked her up and she was starting to feel uncomfortable with the amount of attention he was paying to her female form. "Well you shouldn't have bought that sexy underwear." he scolded. "And you promised not to use your foresight anymore!" she scolded him back. Elsewhere Lita scanned the room for Raye and Chad. "Now where did those two get off to?" she wondered out loud. "Probably went somewhere private for a make out session." Ken said giving her a sly wink. Lita knew it was true, Raye and Chad had a fire and ice relationship, if she wasn't at his throat she was in his arms. The pair wondered how they stayed together this long. "Let's go check on the royals!" Lita joked as her and Ken went searching for Serena, Darien, Mina and Millennium.

"Reeny, what's a prom?" Hotaru asked. "That's a party for older kids where they dress up in beautiful suits and dresses and dance with each other. They say they're a lot of fun. I can't wait until I can go to mine!" Reeny said thinking of what her's would be like. "Dancing with boys? Yuck!" Hotaru said making a sour face while Reeny laughed. "You won't say that when you're older. Come on, let's go to the kitchen and get some ice cream." Hotaru cheered Reeny's suggestion and followed her friend. "Wait for me!" called Malice as he followed them only to be dragged away by Amara, "You lost your kitchen privileges, Fido!" she snapped. Just then the two sensed something was about to happen. "You feel that?" Malice asked as Michelle, Dischord and Setsuna came into the room. "Yes. The wind changed. Something is going to happen." Amara said as she shivered. For some reason both Amara and Michelle turned to Trista. "We should leave now." she informed the two women. "What's going to happen?" Michelle said as a dark feeling grew stronger within her. "Reeny. Stay here and keep Hotaru safe. Let's go." Trista ordered. The urgent tone in her voice made the three worry even more.

Meanwhile at the high school a flash of dark energy stopped Millennium in mid sentence. It was gone as soon as it came but it put him on high alert. Mina snapped him out of his daze. "What's wrong?" she asked seeing the stressed look on his face. "...Nothing." he replied but Mina didn't believe him. Elsewhere Raye broke away from Chad and went looking for the other scouts. She found Serena. "Bad news. I just felt a dark presence. Stronger than anything I've ever felt. Keep your eyes open." Both Serena and Darien took her warning to heart and found the other scouts. Lita found Mina and Millennium. "Hey! Raye says something's about to happen." Mina looked at Millennium. "Nothing, huh?" she gave him a hard look. "When it does just stay back. I'll deal with it." he warned the two girls.

It was the last dance of the evening. After a heated debate it was decided on that Melvin and Molly were the prom king and queen and started the dance off. "A Waltz!" Lita gasped, it was her favorite dance. Her and Ken quickly got to the dance floor. "Lita said if anything happens that Millennium will handle it." Darien told his future bride. "Good." she purred affectionately, "It's been such a terrific night, I hope nothing happens to ruin it. It felt soo good the last few weeks not to be fighting creepy Nega-trash monsters. All this free time has me spoiled I guess." she sighed and rested her head on Darien's shoulder. He silently agreed with her on that point. It was nice to be able to spend all this time together, he felt bad though about Millennium fighting on his own but he seemed used to it and was determined to keep them out of it.

"What will you do when you leave here?" Mina asked Millennium as they danced. Millennium said nothing but thought much. He was focused on trying to figure out what caused that massive surge. 'This isn't good.' he thought but didn't let on to keep Mina and the others from worrying. "Well?" Mina asked trying to make him answer. "I'm still not sure. I thought about making a request of Pluto to wipe everyone's memory but she refused on the grounds that this happened naturally." he said still thinking. "So you'll be around for a while longer then?" she asked. "It appears that way." he replied. "Good!" her reply puzzled him. "That makes you happy?" he asked her, "Why?". "Well..." she started, "This way Hotaru will not be put through such a traumatic ordeal and..." he urged her to continue, "...and we can spend a little more time together." she said quietly, not knowing what his reaction to that would be. He laughed at how her comment flustered her. She had a aura about her that made him feel relaxed and tensed at the same time.

"What do you remember about the Silver Millennium?" he asked her. Mina thought for a moment. "Not that much I'm afraid. Only little bits every now and then.". "Oh. So you don't remember how close you and Azura were?" he stated thinking back across the centuries. "We were?" she wondered. "You were best friends. You don't remember being a maid of honour at our wedding?" Mina was shocked, she had no idea and just shook her head. "You were a great friend to her and me. You were the only one that would invite us to socials that queen Serenity held, that meant everything to her. That is why we named you as Hotaru's Godmother." Mina was beyond shock now. 'Why can't I remember any of this?' she thought, "If I was that important to you both back then, why don't I remember?" she queried and gave him a hard look. "I guess Serenity didn't want you to remember." he told her. Mina finished the dance in silence thinking hard trying to remember the events of long ago.

Three People, shrouded in t he darkness, watched the couple. "So he wants to take a stroll down memory lane does he?" Scortase laughed. "Well let's give him a blast from the past he'll never forget!" Norkai joined in. "Then let's make this a night no one will ever forget!" snickered Raamil, as they left to prepare to carry out their plan.

--End of Part Three--

--Coming soon, Part Four: Un Solus Victus--

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