Chapter 19 -Awakening
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AN: Chapter Nineteen is here. I do not own Sailor Moon, only borrowing the characters to make this story. Everything else is my creation.

It may be awhile for the next chapter to come up as I am in the midst's of other things that need getting done. I hope you enjoy. Please R&R.

This chapter answers some questions you may have had from the beginning and others that pertain to more questions. Have fun!

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Morning came quickly to Tokyo as Darien held his morning coffee out on the balcony overlooking the city. The sunrise gave little comfort as its warm rays touched and tried to warm the now cold heart of the Earth Prince.

He had lost his parents, his childhood and now his friends. He couldn't bear thinking what would happen if he lost his last link to his heart. She was his Silver Angel, the last pure light penetrating his growing cold heart.

What was he? What use was he?

He knew. Nothing.

Looking inside he saw the small figure of Hotaru, in her human form, leaving the bedroom. On her arrival late last night, she had indicated that she would sit up and protect her so Darien could get some sleep. Talk could wait until morning. He hadn't argued, he was only glad there was someone there to help.

Of course there was Pluto, but she hadn't been a big help. When he had proposed the question some days ago regarding which she would choose, her duty to the crown or her duties as time guardian, she had stated that she had already chosen, Darien had surmised that she had chosen to stick by her princess and protect her.

Was he ever wrong! If she had chosen to be by them, she would have shown up and protected the Scouts. But she hadn't and the Scouts paid the heavy price with their lives.

He would never forgive her.
Pluto looked at the time stream and sighed heavily. No one understood at what she was trying to accomplish. No one had ever really understood what she went through time after time except Queen Serenity.

She always did what she had to do to preserve the timeline at all costs, no matter the pain, no matter the loss. This was her job, this was her duty and duty was everything.

Then why did you let the Sailor Scouts die? A little voice spoke from the depths of her mind.

What of her duty and obligation to them?

True. She had foreseen this happening. She could have prevented it. Like she prevented the Future King from being killed.

They were her friends. She should have. But she couldn't.

The time was drawing closer and everything had to be in its proper place. The true enemy would soon be revealed and the countdown towards the end would take place.

Life or Death?

Gazing into the stream, even she, the Guardian of Time and Space, did not know.
The dark penetrated the halls of the fortress of the Lord of the Abyss as Abol gently gazed at his love in the mirror. She was sleeping so soundlessly and innocently that he couldn't help but smile to himself.

Was his sister right? Was he killing her, his serenity?

Sighing he turned from the golden mirror that hung from the stonewall in his private chambers. Gathering his cloak, he took a seat in a throne like chair and looked up at a painting that hung several feet from the mirror.

It was a picture of him and Endymion riding after some game. It had been painted when they had been young men, neither one had met Serenity then though they both had known that Abol was betrothed to her.

Closing his eyes in agitation, his hands came up and rubbed the pounding at his temples. He recalled when he had received a visitor to his door some months before the terrible battle that had taken place. His father had gone on a visit to the Moon Kingdom and Abol had been left to attend the Kingdom.

The visitor had been beautiful, hair as red as fire and eyes as dark as the abyss. She had called herself the Duchess Andrias. She had been the one who had told him of her own love lost to the hands of the Moon Princess. Together, she had said that they could tear the lovers apart.

Little he had known that she had been using him to gain secrets of the Silver Alliance and power that only he or his father had access to, but by then his heart had been filled with thoughts of revenge and longing for his betrothed and not even the signs deterred him away from his prize.

Taking his head between both of his hands, slouched on his chair in grief.

The so-called Duchess had even lied about her name and it wasn't until after the first attack he realized his mistake. Beryl as she had been really named had used her feminine charm and own anger against him. He had shown her the only access way through the abyss to the nether region of darkness and pain. She had given it the name, Negaverse.

The land of Abyss was the aperture of many doorways through dimensions and space, and also had an access way to the gateways of time.

It was through his land that the evil had its gateway into the universe and it was by his own hand that opened the tunnel to Earth. The evil empire had went through his own Kingdom leaving death and destruction.

There had been no escape as Beryl had used her powers to close all the portholes into and out of the Abyss, forever sealing the people and him in a ruined land.

Now here he was again.

His people cried out for justice, but who was to pay the price.

He looked at his hands and then to the mirror. His heart knew the answer but was he ready to listen.

So deep in thought that Abol didn't see the mirror flicker darkly nor seem to see the faintly outline of a figure suddenly appear, darken then disappear with in the mirror's depths.
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My Daughter.

Serenity looked out into the garden of the palace as her mother joined her.

"Hello Mother. I had almost forgotten what the gardens looked like. They are as beautiful and full of irresistible aroma, just as I remember."

Serenity.

"You are leaving aren't you?" was all she said as a tiny tear sauntered down her pale cheek.

My little Moon Princess.

"Will you ever come back?" she asked as she turned around and saw her mother bring her hand up to gently stroke her daughter's cheek.

Serena.

"I will miss you mother." she said as she walked into her mothers waiting arms and hugged her.

Sailor Moon.

"I am all of these. And yet none." She said as she wiped the tears from her eyes as they flowed like a river in droplets.

I love you.

"What is to happen to me? Who am I? Who will I become?" she asked as the scenery around her started to fade and the darkness appear.

You are one.

"Please. All these memories. These feelings. I need to know? Please mother. I need you. I can't do this on my own.

You are free.

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Hotaru looked at the sleeping figure of her princess as she re-entered the room. Darien had left the apartment sometime ago; to pick up some supplies as Artemis and Luna went with him to put the families of the Scouts in a trance until all was certain.

She held a cup of hot chocolate and sat on the chair that had been placed the night before beside the bed.

Earlier that morning Luna had asked her; why hadn't she come sooner? All she could do was raise her shoulders and shake her head. She did not know the answers, only Pluto did. All Hotaru saw was the need for her to be there to protect her princess and perhaps for something more.

The powers of Saturn have laid dormant within for many millennium. Something was stirring within her. Her true powers were awakening. Not since the time Pharaoh Ninety had awakened within her, had she felt this way.

Sailor Saturn was afraid.
To be continued.