Promise of the Rose, Part 2

EPILOGUE

After defeating Fiore and Kisenian blossom, the girls and Darien to decided to have a party.

"To Serena being completely healed- and for defeating our nemesis!"

"Hooray!"

Serena blushed as everyone cheered and raised a cup in her honor. They were only 14, so they used apple juice instead of wine, and Mina had no wine glasses, so they used Styrofoam cups. But no one cared.

For hours the girls danced, ate, watched movies, and then they decided to put makeup on each other.

"Hey girls", Darien said casually, making his way into the room. "Can I ask you something?"

Serena paused from putting eyeliner and Mina. "Yeah, sure, what?"

"I would like to know... what happened in the fight against Fiore? How did you beat him? And what happened to him?"

"Well" Mina said. "I guess I'll start.

We were flying through space, in our teleportation bubble, and we found the planet. The first thing we noticed was that it was covered in pink flowers!

When we got there, there was a droid waiting for us. So I came up with a plan...Sailor...Planet...Attack!"

"Yeah and that's exactly what happened. We got attacked." Serena said dryly.

"Oh hush" said Lita. "You're just mad because you landed on your butt."

Darien chuckled, but was quickly silenced by Serena's glare.

"Well, after we landed," Lita started, "A bunch of warped mermaids came shooting out of the flowers, and we were trying to destroy them, but we were losing energy fast.

Then Fiore made them all melt together, into a big green wall."

"When the wall started to close over us" Raye began, "I pulled Sailor Moon's arm and threw her down the hill. All I could think was, gotta get Sailor Moon out! Then everything went black."

Serena stared happily at Raye for a moment before taking up the story.

"After you guys disappeared I was really sad. But that's not the point. Fiore pulled you guys out of the ground, and you were wrapped in vines, floating in the sky."

"Oh, I remember," said Ami. "That jerk Fiore talked Serena into giving up her scepter. He said that was the only way we could go free."

Luna and Rini stood up at the same time and gasped. "He what?"

"Anyways," Serena continued, "After he let you guys go, he blasted through a big boulder! Then he held me and wrapped vines around us, then began sapping my energy."

Serena turned to Darien with big puppy eyes.

"It hurt" she whimpered.

Darien enveloped Serena in a warm embrace. "What happened after that?"

"When Fiore finally let Serena go," Mina said, "we were just starting to gain consciousness. Fiore was getting ready to ki- to ki-..." Mina began to falter. "Well, you know what I mean".

Lita stood up to grab cherry lip gloss off of Serena's lap. "We all started telling Fiore about how great a friend Serena was, so when he aimed at her, he missed.

I do recall him saying 'I'm not used to these emotions, Darien' "

Lita chuckled. "Har! He was still hung up over you Darien! Good riddance."

Amy neatly began polishing her finger nails. "But those emotions had made him so weak that the flowers disappeared, along with 75 of his power.

We were trying to get to Sailor Moon, who was still unconscious, but she was on a different section of the planet. We were about to call for help from Luna and Artemis."

"But then, Fiore appears again, with red fire glowing in his eyes!" Raye said furiously. "He set the planet on ultra speed so that it could crash into the earth, killing as many people as there are in two countries"

"I believe it was Canada and the United States of America" Amy said primly.

Everyone simply stared at her.

"What? You've never seen Canada before? I could tell by just looking at it!"

Everyone groaned, and you could see anime sweat drops slowly dripping down the back of their heads.

"That was when I woke up" Serena continued. "I used to Silver Crystal to stop the planet and instead make it just sit there in space. But I needed the help of the planet powers, and you too, Darien."

"Oh, that must be what I felt" Darien mused. "It felt almost like...you were calling out to me, and when I replied, my body began to glow a warm, golden light. Then Rini held my hand and began to glow silver."

"Did I do well, Serena?" Rini asked hopefully. 'Boy, I hope she says yes because I tried really hard!'

"Yes, you did" Serena said with a smile. "I could feel you too. You've made me proud".

Everyone smiled at each other and just reveled in the peaceful moment.

Then Mina broke it by asking, "Oh by the way, Serena, when Darien went to visit you for the first time in the hospital, what was that present he gave you? Rini said it's 'juicy' but she won't tell us!"

"Well," Serena started, "It was a ring. A promise ring."

Then Serena pulled out her left hand. On it, was a beautiful shining silver ring, with a shining red rose in the middle.

"Darien told me it was a promise ring, which means that...that..." Serena paused and blushed.

"Someday...he will propose to me...when I'm older. But we both feel we're too young to be fiancé's now, so he got me this promise ring instead."

"I call it...the promise of the rose."

THE END!

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