Disclaimers: I do not own Sailor Moon or any of its affiliates.

Author - Shadow

Rating - Not to sure but there are one or two (billion), bad words and some violence, maybe even some adult situations.

Title - Till the Shadows of Night Come

We just recently had a loss here at my school EHOVE Career Center. Two girls and a young man from here went out for a drive Sunday morning and went 85 mph over a rail road track and crashed. The young man died and the two girls are in critical condition. Please pray for them guys! The accident was January 8, 2006.

Chapter 13 – Won't you protect me?

"stop that…stop that…stop that…stop that…stop that…WILL YOU STOP THAT ALREADY!" Serenity yelled at Mina and Rei as they crooned over her disheveled state.

"I'm sorry but Serenity…will you look at yourself? You have a wound in your gut; you were in a house of hunters and you almost went insane." Rei said cleaning Serenity's wound.

Mina handed Rei the materials that she needed "Even we vampires kill vampires that went off their rockers. And if you had an argument with your conscious you were very close to falling off your rocker and landing in a padded cell until a jury tries you." She sighed and shook her head "But the question is why were you close to loosing it?" Mina bit into a ham sandwich and waved her hand around "you have love, friends, money, a successful job…"

"Hunters trying to kill me, a dead sister, and a dead mother…eternity just doesn't seem worth it anymore…" Serenity sat back and sighed. "I lost the love of my life because he had to be an honorable knight and take over when his father passed away."

Ami came back into Serenity's room and handed Serenity some tea, "it is hard to live without your family. But Serenity…you have great friends. You have Rein, Kamina, Lita and hopefully after this situation, me. And as for the hunter, I don't think you have to worry about him any more. I saw the way he looked at you."

Lita laughed "he wants your goody bags! He likes you. Hell he saved you because he didn't want to see you hurt and think about what he told you. "Because you're like a falling a star…everyone looks at it and sees beauty, but no one thinks of it as a living thing…no one thinks that it has feelings…but you my dear star, I heard what you said and I know that you do have feelings and I wish to catch you as you fall" HELLO! If he doesn't like you after saying that to you…well I don't know what he would say if he did like you."

"Lita…you're an idiot." Ami said taking off her trench coat and throwing it across the room.

Serenity smiled and leaned back against the wall. "You guys…maybe, just maybe you all will keep me sane. And Ami, yes I do want you as a friend…it's just weird to have a werewolf as a friend…" She cocked her head to the side.

Ami nodded and sat down on the bed with the other girls "but we have bigger problems…and it's not the hunters."

Serenity cocked her head to the side "then what is it?"

Ami shook her head, "we were being followed on our way to get you, and so I really didn't get a chance to check out what it was. We'll just have to wait and see…"

Endymion sat on top of the roof of the store next to the park staring, but not really looking at anything any one else could see. He was seeing a star inside of his mind. "Serenity." He smirked and shook his head. The little vamp had found a way somewhere no one else had ever been since the death of his father. He looked up at the moon and sighed wistfully. Damn that little vamp, all these centuries of plotting vengeance, and within a few blissful moments of being wrapped in her arms he had fallen in love with her. He looked down at the happy couples in the park, love.

He stood and climbed down to the street below only to see a young Goth girl with short blonde hair with hot pink tips wearing a long black trench coat, a pink and black plaid miniskirt with a black tank top on with a small red line visible on her stomach. He shook his head, that Goth girl was Serenity. He shoved his hands into his coat and followed after her into the park.

Serenity ran through the park ignoring everyone around her, she loved the park; it was her one solace from the world around her. She slowed down as she approached the pond. With a small smile on her face she sat next to the water and pulled her leather clad booted legs against her chest wrapping her arms around them resting her head on top.

"What's a star doing away from heaven?" She looked over her shoulder and saw Endymion approaching.

"Pretty words, curses and insults I swear that's the only thing that exits from that mouth of your Endymion." She looked back out at the water as he sat next to her.

"What would you prefer?" He cocked his head as he looked at her.

"Well, since neither of us wants to kill each other anymore, how about a normal conversation?" Serenity asked as she looked over to him.

He nodded and stood holding out his hand to her. She sighed, "If you can't beat them, join them…" She took his hand and let him walk with her, but to her own surprise, he never let go of her hand.

They walked along the streets looking like the other couples, only creepier. Endymion looked down at the blonde woman "Why are you out of bed?"

"What do you mean?" She looked up at him then looked forward.

"What I mean is that I can still se the red mark on your stomach from where you impaled yourself upon the cross of the church."

"I got bored sitting in bed all day and decided to go out, I told Ami where I was going."

"Serenity, I can feel you leaning against me, you're still not strong enough. What if someone tries to attack you?" She looked up at him and saw the genuine concern and fear for her sparkling in his deep blue eyes.

"Well, I have you standing next to me don't I? Who said I would have to fight alone."

"What if you were alone, one false move and they could have your head off and which would give them room to cut out your heart." He took his hand from hers and wrapped it around her waist.

Serenity paled and looked over at the passing cars "thank you for reminding me about your past…" She said in a sarcastic tone.

"Serenity…I'm sorry, but I'm also worried about you." He stopped and pulled her against him.

Serenity sighed and leaned against him "Ami said that on their way to come and get me that they were followed, but she didn't want to try and track them because she wanted to get to me. Something's out there…I saw three dead vamps, one dead fairy, four dead ogres and two dead werewolves tonight all of them torn up and the marks weren't anything we've ever seen before…"

He stiffened and looked down at her, "all of those creatures were torn up?" Serenity nodded.

"There were more weren't there?" Serenity nodded again. "What and how many?"

"Ten torn up hunters…don't worry none of them were Zoicite, Nephrite, Malachite, or Jadeite…they were from the underground pop culture hunter's group, "The Van Helsing Group." The wannabe vampire hunters." Serenity said pulling away from him and walked down the sidewalk.

Endymion followed her "If that many people have been torn up then maybe…" but before Endymion could finish Serenity went running out in front of a large semi-truck grabbing something off the rode, but at the speed she was moving the truck driver didn't even notice her movements.

When the road had cleared up he ran across the street to see Serenity cradling a small black cat with a bald crescent moon in the middle of its forehead. She crooned over the cat and looked up at him and smiled innocently "Kitty."

"I see that…why did you do that?" Endymion crouched down and looked at the small black furry creature poking it a couple times before its paw lashed out and scratched him.

"Because she would have been hit and killed by that semi truck! I can't let a poor kitty be killed!" Serenity pouted and stood up. Endymion just started laughing. "What's so funny?"

"You are! Big bad vampire girl has a soft spot for furry creatures! Oh no! Big scary vampire Goth girl saving poor defenseless kitty cats!" Serenity growled at Endymion and with the kitty cat in her arms she left him rolling around on the ground.