To Wish Upon a Star- Ch 3

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This story takes place during the seperation of usagi and mamorou during the R season of sailormoon, it takes place in the episode about the promise rings in which usagi tries yet again to get mamoru to "love her". After they meet up on the street corner and mamoru refuses to look at her when she trips and falls, she goes home, and makes a very special wish on a shooting star.

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I am taken to a secret entrance in the palace, where we walk through dirt corridors with torches hung every few feet on the wall to light our way. We are joined by Endymion's other three generals, Nephylite, Zoicite, and Jadeite. They give me the same cold stare, the same heartless laugh, as they tell what Kunzite has already told me.

"You are a prisoner of war Princess!" Nephylite laughs evilly.

"What do you think her mother will do to have her back?" Jadeite snickers.

"She'll hand over the Ginzuisho and surrender the moon kingdom for sure, once she finds out we have her precious heir!" They join together in malicious laugher that echos off the cold stone walls around us.

At least they do not know that the locket contains the Ginzuisho! I think to myself. Oh please, do not let them find it!

After walking for what seems like hours, we come to a solid oak door. Through it, is a long line of cells, and for a moment, I fear they mean to put me in one of them, but instead they lead me past the cells, through another door, up a flight of stairs, down some long hallways now dark with the night, and to up some tower stairs. They lock me in a room in the tallest tower. I can see everything from here.

The rain beats heavily against the glass of the window, the only light in the room coming from a few candles stuck haphazardly on the mantle above the fire. Why would they do this to me? I keep asking myself. They were each one of them in love with one of the girls! How could they betray us? They were supposed to stand with Endymion in trying to forge a peace between our kingdoms!

Usagi...a voice says. I glance up, and Sailor Moon is back, standing before me in a ghostly transparent form. It may be my imagination, but it looks as though she is getting fainter by the minute.

"You are still not ready to accept that this must all end." It is not a question, but I look away from her, unable to bear the truth she is trying to open my eyes too.

"Why can't it be real?" I say, a little sadly. "Why can't I go on being the princess forever with Endymion! Why would I want to go back to that other world, with all it's hurt, and all it's destruction!"

"This world also has destrucion and death in it," she replies. "You cannot run from your fate, it will find a new way to weave the future for you."

"Then I will change it!"

I know now know that none of this is real, that I am only her because I wished it to be so. Some things are still blurry, but I can still remember excatly why I wished for this.

"They miss you," the ghostly figure of Sailor Moon says. "They search for their princess, and they worry that something might have happened to their dearest friend."

"And Mamoru!" I snap. "Does he worry about me as well? Does he suffer sleepless nights of pain, wondering about me!"

Sailor Moon regards me for a moment.

"He worries most of all. He is trying to comfort your daughter. She will dissapear if this continues."

"If she dissapears, she will only reappear in this time. Endymion and I will just have her in this time period!" I am trying to reassure myself, but I find that I am not doing a good job.

Sailor Moon seems fainter than ever, but she nods in acceptance, or defeat? I do not know which it is.

"Very well than, we shall see if you can change your fate. I will give you the means to begin, but remember, the longer you stay in this world, and the stronger your desire to make this a reality, the more you will forget these other memories, those who are important to you." I hear a soft click as the door is suddenly unlocked. When I turn my head back to thank her, she is already gone.

I will change it! I swear! I think as I open the door a sliver and peek out into the hallway. Both sides are clear, and, picking my gown up, I tiptoe out and down the hallway. Bright flashes of lightning illuminate my way well enough to see without any light. I do not see a tinge of color in the night sky, so I estimate that I must still have a hours before dawn. Enough time to find Endymion, retrieve the Ginzuisho, and get back to mother. I just hope fighting has not broken out on the moon yet!

I have only been in the Earth's palace a few times, and on all of those occasions, I was sneaking around with Endymion and his guards. I cross several hallways, go through a few doors, and dash across outside enclosures, before I come to the main part of the palace. It is a little frightning to think that you are the only one in such a large place when you do not see anyone going about their normal activities. Where is everyone? They can't all be fighting in this war! I find myself facing the great throne room. I have been told it is even more magnificant than the one on the Moon, with it's entire ceiling made of glass, special glass that magnifies the stars and the moon so that you feel you can reach right up and touch them! Unfortunatly, it also has the effect of magnifying the lightning streaks when there are thunderstorms.

As I creep in and slide the heavy golden doors shut behind me, I notice that one of the thrones is overturned on the far side of the room. A figure in servant's clothes is kneeling over two still figures, but I cannot see what she or he is doing. As I move closer on tip toe, I realize that the woman is Beryl!

"B-Beryl?" I stammer. She turns to me, and blood is splashed across her white uniform. Her skin and hair is covered with it as well, and it appears as though she might have been drinking it, from the smears across and around her mouth. Her eyes are are filled with a hate-filled glow.

"You!" She screams. "You stole everything from me!" She reaches up and suddenly she is strangling me, lifting me off my feet with only the power of one hand gripping my neck!

"H-h-howdi-d-I-?"

"You just had to be the most beautiful! You had to be the only thing he would ever look at! Even these," she gestures with her free hand at the still figures laying on the floor in pools of their own blood, "his own parents could not accept me above you!"

"W-wh-at-are-yo-u-talki," Silver flecks dance before my eyes, and with a frightning calm, I know I am going to die. I couldn't change the future, and prehaps I have only made it so the future will be worse than before.

"Silence! Worm! I will take everything you love, everything you cherish! I will take him, I will take your mother, your friends, your future! Just as you have taken mine!"

Something rises over her shoulder, and I am dropped, gasping for air and clawing at the ground to get away from her. She lays still before me, blood seeping from a wound to her temple. Someone grabs me into strong arms and I am lifted from the floor. Once I catch the scent or roses, I begin to cry in joy!

"Endymion!" I stammer. "Oh Endymion, she was trying tokill me! What has happened!"

"I amthe unofficalKingof Earth," he manages. His voice is shaking, I realize he is gripping me harder than I ever thought possible.

"How is that" I stop, as I realize who the figures on the floor are. "Oh Endymion, I'm so sorry!"

He pulls away and looks me deeply in the eyes.

"It is not your fault Serenity. I must protect you now more than ever! We will have to leave Earth, and go back to the Moon Kingdom however, because...Earth has fallen to the the Zellots I was telling you about, the ones claiming to be ancient gods from the sun."

"We can't go back yet," I interject quickly. He looks at me in confusion. Taking a deep breath, I spill out what I have done. "I took the Ginzuisho from the Moon, and brought it here to Earth. I thought that I could save Earth with it, but Kunzite and the others took it! I do not know where they took it..."

He lifts my chin up and strokes my cheek softly where a single tear has fallen from my eyes.

"Do not worry, we will find the Ginzuisho." He takes my hand and leads me carefully from the throne room, never looking back at his parents.

Is this what happened on Earth, back then? I wonder as he leads me through the palace. Before he came to the Moon Kingdom on that faithful night, did he have to experience the deaths of his parents, the destruction of his kingdom? Is this the pain he feels even in the future? Is this why he ignores me and shoves me away? Shaking my head, I think, I will not think like that! We can still change things! We can!

He stops me before large wooden doors in a part of the palace I have never seen before. Pushing them open softly, he watches for several minutes before pushing his way into the room with me in tow. In a glass display case, across the room, lies the Ginzuisho. I move as if to snatch it up, when Endymion grabs my hand gently and pulls me back. From the shadows of the room, move his four generals.

"We have been waiting for you Prince!" Malachite snickers. He removes a sword from his hip.

"Yes, we have been waiting to see if you would come after the Ginzuisho. Did you think we wouldn't find out it was in the locket!" Jadeite laughs.

"Queen Serenity was deeply saddend by the news of her daughter's death at the hands of Endymion," Nephylite mocks.

"Not to mention, that the King and Queen of Earth had been secretly plotting to steal the Ginzuisho and use it's power to defeat the Moon Kingdom, even under the farce of peace talks!" Zoicite adds.

"So now that you have been labeled a traitor on the Moon Kingdom, will you protect her so willingly!" Kunzite asks. "Come Prince, let us see if my long years of training have bought you a few extra minutes of life!"

"Serenity, run!" Endymion shouts as he leaps towards Kunzite with his sword drawn.

I move towards the door, but the three other generals block my way. With a cry of fear, the cresant moon on my forehead suddenly explodes in white light. They are knocked backwards into the door and the explosion of wood sends chips and splinters everywhere! I can still hear Endymion and Malachite dueling in the background, but my body is as light as air. I move without thought, across the room. The glass case is under my fingertips, but my hands seem to fall right through it, or the Ginzuisho rises to meet me, I am not sure which.

We are as one, the Ginzuisho and I, as though I had been born with parts of it flowing through my body, whispering the words to me all these years. I speak the words,"Crystal Power!"and the world is enfolded in light. Kunzite is thrown backwards into the glass display case, and Endymion crouches with his cloak draped around him protectivly, sword laying on the floor at his side.

When it is over, I am laying streached out on the floor. I can hear Endymion's voice as he calls to me, begs me to awaken. My body, how good it is to feel my body! I think as I open my eyes. He is hovering above me, his face stained with tears. Without thinking, I draw him onto me and we share a deep and gentle kiss. It was like how I almost kissed him, that time he died during the battle with Beryl. I think to myself. I won't think of that right now, we are alive, and together.

I sit up, and feel the weight of my locket cupped in my hands.

"Where are they?" I look around, but the generals are nowhere to be seen.

"They ran from the room, but I don't think they are evil anymore," he says gently. "I think whatever you did with the Ginzuisho has healed them. I cannot say for sure about that young servant, wandering through the hallways as though in a trance. I think I heard her mumbling about attacking the Moon Kingdom, now that they are powerless to resist."

"We have to get back to the Moon Kingdom!" I cry as I jump up! "Mother is powerless without the Ginzuisho!"

He nods, and we rush from the room together, him supporting me because for some reason, using the Ginzuisho has drained me. I can almost remember something about the dangers of drawing to much from the Ginzuisho, but I dismiss them as fancies created by my mind from all the excitement.

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