FD: Hello there!!! I know, it has been a very long time since I updated, but hey it's better late than never ne? Anyway, I just know you'll kill me when you read this chapter ^-^. Oh well, thanks to everybody for the wonderful reviews and I hope you like it.
Disclaimer: I don't own Dragon Ball Z nor Sailor Moon in any way or form so stop hassling me!!!!
Ch 9
By Fire Dragon.
The Inners looked at the destruction that they had inflicted. Half the room lay in ruins while the floor directly in front of them was blown into smithereens, making them smile crudely. Their eyes traveled farther down until it landed on their target, however what they saw there wasn't exactly what they wanted to see. The girls watched in disbelief as Mamoru, now clad on Endymion's armor, lay lifelessly on the floor in front of Serena who had put his head over her lap and kept stocking his hair.
"NO! HOW CAN THIS BE?!?!" Rei yelled outraged.
"He threw himself to save them." Makoto sneered.
"You'll pay to what you have done." Serena looked up and narrowed her eyes.
"The prince gave up his life to save those who he so loved." Setsuna shook her head sadly.
"Stupid Mamoru, not even with the dark water mist he was able to love me!" Rei said venously. "But I'll finish the job!" She said but was stopped by Minako.
"Stop it, this place is gonna collapse any second now. We have to go, we'll finish this later." Minako said grabbing Rei by the arm.
"Fine, but I swear I'll kill you." Rei glared at them before disappearing into a portal.
"We have to get out of here before we're buried alive." Michiru put a hand over Serena's shoulder.
"But-" Serena widened her eyes as Endymion coughed and steered. "Ma-Mamoru?"
"Serenity." The man opened his eyes as he coughed once more and a trail of blood ran from his mouth.
"You're still alive!" Serena whispered. "Don't worry, I'll help-"
"No." Endymion said faintly. "No, please." He gave her a weak smile. "Don't you see Serenity that this is what I've been looking for all along?" He asked before convulsing.
"What?" came four different astonished gasps.
"All our life…all of our lives…we've been puppets." He gasped for air. "I was so tired of following Destiny's every command." He grabbed her hand. "I fell in love with you on the Silver Millenium…but then, I couldn't fall in love with you here." He said painfully. "I tried, the goddess knows I tried, but I just couldn't. That's why it was so easy for me to leave you after all those dreams…it pained me to see you suffer, but I just loved you as a part of my family, so I left you when those dreams said that if I stayed with you it would be fatal." He convulsed again.
"But-"
"No, the mist just made me realize it." Endymion said. "I couldn't just let you die." He coughed blood. "Life after life I've been your guardian." He looked up at Vegeta who stood on the far corner. "And now I ask you to please look over my Usako." He looked on the man's eyes. With a silent nod, Vegeta looked from the dying man to Serenity and then he looked out the window.
"After all this lives, I'm so very tired. I just want to rest and not be revived anymore." More blood ran down his throat covering his armor and Serena's gloves. "Please Usako, do that for me, let me die in peace, let me find my final rest knowing that you'll be safe-." He said before his eyes rolled back and his hand dropped to the floor.
"Don't worry Mamoru; you'll be tired no more." Serena kissed him on the cheek before drying her tears and standing up.
"Look!" Hotaru pointed at Serena.
"Huh?" Serena frowned looking at herself before Michiru gave her her mirror. Raising the mirror to her face, Serena's tiara caught her attention. There, besides the moon stone shone brightly a new golden stone with the symbol of the Earth on it. "Mamoru." She whispered while touching the stone lingeringly.
"Let's go before this place caves in." Vegeta barked. The girls gave a last look at Endymion's body before Setsuna opened a portal and walked with the others behind towards the Gates of Time.
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"No I didn't!"
"Yes you did!"
"That is the last time-"
"I didn't need your help!"
The Outers rolled their eyes again. For the last two hours Vegeta and Serena had been yelling back and forth about her throwing herself before the blast.
"Yes you did!"
"No I didn't!"
"Feh, and this is the thanks I get, I would have let them hit you." She fumed.
"And the blast would have only given me a scratch!" He yelled back.
"I was trying to save you!" Serena snarled.
"Foolish girl, that blast could have killed you!" He yelled exasperated without even knowing what he had said.
Serena blinked while the four Outers leaned closer to the door trying to hear them.
"I- Well, I didn't think of that." She scratched her head while Vegeta scowled.
"Precisely, you don't think! You didn't stop and think on what would have happened if you had died there because of me." Vegeta snapped. "You didn't think of what I would have done if you did." He practically yelled on her face.
After several seconds of staring at each other, Vegeta realized what he had been saying. Widening his eyes, he took a step back.
"Wait!" Serena grabbed his arm. "Tell me." She said.
"What do you want?" Vegeta growled.
"Tell me what you would have done if I died." Serena whispered.
Vegeta paled before scowling down at her. "Forget about it, we have to train if we want to beat them." He turned and walked to the other side of the room, and as he opened the door, the Outers fell on a pile, which Vegeta just walked over without paying them any heed. Shaking her head, Serena followed him knowing that there was no way in the seven hells that he was going to tell her now.
"Damn it! And now that it was getting good!" Haruka swore.
"I'm sure there will be more opportunities." Hotaru shrugged.
"C'mon, we should go after them." Setsuna dusted her fuku.
"Yeah, we wouldn't want to miss the action." Michiru smirked.
"Uh, kinky." Haruka hugged her lover while kissing her on the neck.
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"So, what do we do now?" Hotaru asked once they stood in front of the Time Gates.
"We brainstorm." Haruka said. "We have to find a way to weaken them before striking."
"Hmph…The Makyo star!" Everybody turned to see Vegeta.
"Makyo star?" Serena asked.
"Yeah, I heard Dende and Piccolo talking once about how the Makyo star was Garlic Jr.'s source of power." He said.
"So what you are saying is that we have to destroy a star to weaken them." Setsuna stated.
"Wow, and here I thought you were unable to put two and two together." Vegeta snorted.
"C'mon children stop fighting." Serena mocked while Hotaru, Haruka and Michiru snickered.
"Anyway, we must destroy the source of their power if we want to succeed this time." Vegeta said.
"But how do we destroy something that is thousands of miles away?" Haruka scratched her head.
"Leave that to me." Hotaru took a step closer, putting her glaive in front of her and turning to Setsuna, "Can you take me there?" She asked to the Senshi of Time.
"Of course." Setsuna nodded.
"Great, then we should strike then." Serena said.
"Yes, it would be wise if we sneak inside their lair while they still don't know of the destruction of the star." Michiru said.
"Fine, whatever. Just tell me when we leave, meanwhile I'm hungry." Vegeta shrugged and left the room. (FD: -.- I'm still not sure from where those stupid rooms come from...*waves her magic wand to create a chair to seat on*…I'm telling you, those things come out from nowhere!)
"I think he's right, we should rest and prepare for tomorrow." Setsuna said.
"Tomorrow?!?! So fast? I thought that we would wait until at least a week to recover!!!" Haruka all but yelled.
"No, the faster we do it, the best. We shouldn't give them time to recuperate." Setsuna shook her head.
"Ok people, you heard her." Serena sighed, "Let's go get some hours of sleep and then we'll try again tomorrow."
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FD: Ha, you weren't expecting that now were you! And yes, yes, I know this was way short but I swear I couldn't find anywhere else to end this chapter. However, I'm pretty sure that I'm just about a chapter away from the end of this story so don't worry, I'll finish it (and believe me, you have no idea of what I'm planning for the end *laughs maniacally*.) Anyway, I'll try to make my muse work overtime, although I'm totally busy with my classes. Oh well, until next time, Ja ne.