Chapter 24 – Family and Enemies

AN: Hi everyone I am back for another chapter. Sorry I was late on this one. Again I do not own SM, just borrowing the characters to create this story. Silver Lady. Prince Abol are my characters.

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It just couldn't be! Could it?

Abol looked into his mirror and was astonished at what he found.

The Moon Kingdom was restored to its former beauty. For the first time in many centuries, he felt that perhaps the gods deemed him worthy to save. All he knew he had a long road to make amends, starting with his friends.

"Lexa!" he called out and immediately silver flames ignited in the centre of the room that dispersed as suddenly to reveal the Silver Lady.

"My Lord."

She stood as cold as the silver in her eyes but with a hint of a smile on her face as she waited.

"You have served me well these past few centuries as both advisor and leader of the army of the Abyss. Unknowingly you have also served as my conscious and friend. Will you follow me once more and help me start over?" he asked in a low voice, his amber eyes dull and lifeless.

"You don't even have to ask my Lord. Already the lands have felt the light enter your heart. The land and the people know and are ready to stand once more with you. I will stand with you again as I have always."

Abol turned back to his mirror and without a glance back he whispered, "Thank you."

Lexa smiled slightly, a tinge of warmth entering her otherwise silver cold eyes. "Where do you think we should begin."

Abol sighed deeply closing his eyes as the image of Serenity appeared in his mind. "My love" he whispered achingly and he knew where to start.

"We will start where this began a millennium ago. You and I are going to give our allegiance once more to the Moon Kingdom. I also need to talk to Serenity alone."

Lexa looked as a teardrop fell from Abol's tightly shuteyes as if the light was too much to bear. She also knew that Abol had a lot to sort out in his mind and heart and the only one of two people that could give him some peace was the cause of where they were now.

"As you command. We should leave immediately to the moon and I must recommend we bring some protection. I do not know how kindly we will be greeted."

Abol only nodded his head and opened his eyes to look back at the mirror. "I understand, yet perhaps I know of something that may help us out. Leave me. I will be ready in 10 minutes. There is something that I need to confer."

Lexa bowed and disappeared in silvery flames.

Smiling Abol looked into the mirror as it played images of Serenity and her guards on the moon. "Yes perhaps I can redeem myself after all."

Pluto and Saturn had helped their princess to a seat that encircled a lovely marble fountain that seemed to be in the centre of the city square.

Serenity had gone deathly pale as the last of the silver crystal's power vanished into the air. Her paleness and weakness had been the result of using too much of the crystal's power.

"How are you feeling now Princess?" Saturn asked from beside her.

"Tired dear little Hotaru. Tired. However with the rebirth of the moon I feel its power and healing affects on me as if I were its child. I will soon be okay." She informed her guardians as she managed to drink some water the Time guardian offered.

"However first things first. I must hide the newly revived kingdom before the people of earth discover it." The princess closed her eyes in concentration as the crystal reappeared for instant, flared then disappeared as a pulse outstretched from the lunarian royalty expanded until it disappeared.

"It's done." She mentioned as her eyes opened. "Should we go exploring?" Pluto and Saturn were about to say something when a voice, low and brusque seemed to echo through out the court.

"May we join you Princess?"

Turning around, Pluto and Saturn came face to face with the people who were responsible for the deaths of the Scouts. Right before them stood the Lord of the Abyss and the Silver Lady.

With a flick of her wrist, Saturn's glaive appeared in her hands and aimed its head towards that of the murderers.

"On behalf of my planet, I am the Sailor Scout of Destruction. Why does the traitors to the Silver Alliance dare show their face in this holy place?"

Serenity looked up from her seat at the base of the fountain's edge, her eyes glaring brilliantly as her gaze met those of whom she had once called friend.

Pluto had gotten into a defensive stance along with the youngest Scout, blocking any access to their ward. She looked around in the minute area and notices no other signs of activities and no other forms of life other then those of theirs. Pluto looked warily into Lexa's face and noticed that neither her nor the Lord of the Abyss took no offensive positions.

"Why have you come?" Pluto asked, not moving from her position.

If one were to have known better one would have seen the brilliance of his eyes as if his whole heart were in sorrow. Serenity saw this as her heart warmed at the sight of this unsure creature that once stood so proud before her, was now in remorse and in shame at his crimes.

"I …" Abol stopped looked at Serenity and lowered his gaze for once losing the ability to speak.

Serenity waited, as did Lexa who stood beside her Lord. Pluto was smiling on the inside.

Before you knew it Abol had collapsed to his knees and the tears flowed from his face. The once proud Prince became human at that moment. "Forgive." He whispered.

Lexa fell to one knee and lowered her eyes in remorse waiting for her punishment for her traitorous acts.

Serenity stood and quietly motioned Pluto and Saturn to step to the side to let her pass. "What you have done to both my Kingdom and guardians, could only ever paid in full would be your heads as the law states. However I feel you were not in control either back then or now. I feel another presence that surrounds you and tries to break through the control you have gathered to break the spell cast over you."

Serenity slowly walked to Abol until she stood above him. Slowly she raises her hand until it touches his shoulder. "I can free you. Let me heal you so that your heart doesn't seem so heavy."

Abol looks up from the ground with tears in his eyes and nods. "I am sorry." He whispers again. Serenity only smiles slightly and looks over to Lexa who nods her head in approval.

"Do you pledge once more to the crown of the Silver Millennium and uphold your honor and take your place in the Silver Alliance once again?"

"I plege upon my people and of my lands to pledge my service to the crown and accept my place within." Abol said the words his father once took thousands of years ago.

"I will also pledge my services to the crown." Lexa followed her Lord.

"Crystal Healing Activation!" Serenity said as she closed her eyes and once again the crystal appeared in front of her enveloping the group and cleaning the hearts of those who lost their way.

"DRAT!" a woman screamed at her mirror as the scene she had saw exploded in light. "He has escaped my control! It looks like I will have to step up my plans. Come here my fine warrior. Go to the universe of Selene and do what ever you have to stop Serenity and her guardians."

From out of the shadows, with hair like the sun, cut short all around. "I will do as you command my Queen."

"Good Jedite. Be sure you don't fail me as you did with her. I will not be so kind as to send you to eternal sleep."

"I will not fail."

With in a haze of shadows and wind he disappeared.

"How do you feel Abol?" Serenity asked as Pluto and Saturn helped the young Lord to his feet after being bombarded in waves of purified energy.

"I feel like I did back in the old days. Thank you my lady. Though I cannot undo what I did. I will make it up to you and your guardians. And especially to my best friend, and also to you my sister." Abol spoke as his gaze met those of Pluto.

Serenity smiled as Trista and Abol came together and hugged each other. "I knew you could do it little brother. I foresaw this."

Serenity looked at Pluto and nodded to herself. She knew that Pluto hadn't told them much as to what was to happen. She also knew she had foreseen the destruction of the other scouts and didn't say anything.

"Life is no more than a fleeting dream with memories. If we can control those dreams than we can change them. Seek the guardian of dreams."

A voice echoed through her mind as her gaze fell upon her once betrothed. Then a thought struck.

"Abol?" Serenity said is name to gain his attention.

Abol nodded. "Yes?

"If my memory services me. Your land takes us through many passageways throughout the universe and beyond. Is there a doorway to where the Sailor Scouts are, the Land of Dreams?" she asked her voice shaking with hope.

Abol thought for a moment and then answered. "There once was a way to the Land of Dreams. In a way my people are the guardians to the passageways. However not everyone can pass through the doors and worse still, when Beryl gained my realm, she destroyed all keys in or out. The only reason I escaped from there was through a mirror. Only my father or I had those keys. However there is a chance that the doors will open automatically to the holder of the Silver Crystal."

Pluto could only nod her agreement and Saturn looked sceptical at trusting these traitors. Serenity smiled, her eyes glowing that familiar gleam at thought of finding her friends.

Saturn looked around the newly built city and said, "I guess exploring will have to wait. I suggest that we return to the apartment. Prince Endymion will be wondering where his Serenity is.

Serenity just blushed at the thought of her prince. Abol looked sadly on at the love of his life, in love with his best friend. Looking down on Lexa, he noticed her gaze had never left his as she looked at him in sympathy. She gave him an encouraging smile and he smiled slight back to her.

Pluto looked at the group and nodded. There was still far to go, however another battle has been won. The war for the future has only just begun.

The End of Part One.