"So how long are you grounded?" Nigel asked her. He had met up with her after school and was walking her home. Since the palace was a few miles off, they had time to walk slowly.

"I think a month." She makes a face, "It's totally unfair!"

He looked thoughtful, "Are you sure? I mean, look at it from their point of view. They've done all they can and they can't stand anymore." Looks at her, "I don't think you're being far to them."

She sighs, "Okay…so …wanna get an ice-cream?"

Raises a brow, "I thought you couldn't go anywhere but school and the palace?"

Smiles wickedly, "So? He didn't say I couldn't stop for ice cream."

He laughs putting an arm around her shoulder, "Girl, you are splitting hairs."

"You're buying."

"How did you know of this place?" Endymion sighs softly looking at the shrine. He glances at Serenity for a moment. To his knowledge, only him, Elysion, Rei, Ami and the two priests know of the door. They were all sworn to secrecy. Though he hated to keep things from her, he had promised. And he was a man of his word.

She looked uneasy, "I followed Elysion here." She admitted, "After her birthday...as you imagine, I was …shocked."

'Not as shocked as you were when you found out she existed' he thought and sighs inwardly.

"Oh…is that so?" He says mildly. Lately thing were more then rocky between them. He hadn't shared a bed with his wife since the blood tests proved that Elysion was his daughter. Half of it was guilt and shame the other half was because he thought she needed breathing room. The only times they had seen each other was doing work and meal times.

Serenity looks at him; she hated this feeling and knew he was pulling away from her. She looks back around at the beautiful place, feeling a different type of loneliness engulf her. She loved him, with all her heart and soul. Yet, how could she loosen her grip on the betrayal that she felt?

She knew the year was almost over…yet she still clung to it. Looking over it, as a soft wind blew passed them; she spots one of the maidens of the shrine. They looked as if they were ghosts. They move almost ghostly towards the couple. Both dress in pale blue dresses with white circlets around their heads. A single diamond was the center of the piece.

One had pale lavender hair with light gray eyes while her twin had dark red hair and light green eyes.

"Our king" they said together and looked at Serenity, "Queen."

"Who are you?" Serenity asked.

"I am Matla." Lavender haired one said.

"I am Lily."

The one with the lavender hair spoke, "What brings you here to the shrine?"

"We came to wonder the fields of Elysian." Endymion said, almost as if it were a ritual.

"Ah," said the red head, "then have you seen our princess then?" She tilts her head, "She is getting behind in her studies here."

Serenity blinked, "your princess? I thought Endymion was the only royal here?"

"No, we speak of Princess Elysion, heir to this land…and the earth if she so chooses."

"What do you mean?" Endymion was unsure what was happening. Before, he thought Usa, their daughter, would rule after them. Now the Mandarin Maidens were saying something different. 'What could this mean?' he wondered.

Serenity voiced his concerns, "What about our daughter, Neo Princess Lady Serenity?" There was a thread of anger in the words, "Is she to be usurped from her line to the throne? After all we had seen of the future before?"

The two maidens looked at one another then at them, "True, your daughter is the first born and should be the crown princess but, here, in this land and earth is not hers. She is of the moon, where Elysion is of earth." The red head told them.

"Her line is an old one, from the time the king was once a prince of Earth. They were the first children of Earth- earth's first guardians."

They both looked shocked by this, "Earth had guardians?" Serenity exchanged glances with her husband. "Before…the silver Millennium?"

Malta nodded, "Yes, they were the first guardians born from Earth. They worked as the very last defense."

"But, after they went underground when Beryl nearly killed them all for opposing her and her dark queen." Lily looked very sadden by this. "The earth, was still safe, even if the moon kingdom was destroyed."

Serenity felt a pang of hurt in her. She had assumed that they would also be on the side of the moon but it seemed their only concern was for their earth. 'Are they that…frozen?'

"Does the moon mean nothing to you?" Her voice sounded hollow with pain.

They exchanged glances and looked at her. "Queen…we have only the concern for Earth. The moon is something that we care very little for. Not everyone like the Moon Kingdom them and tolerate it." Lily said.

Endymion looks from his wife to them, "How is Elysion connected to them?"

Again, they glanced at each other then at him, "It would be her mother's line." Malta said. "Her mother and her mother's brother are the last of the Trine Warriors."

"Trine warriors?"

Lily nods, "Yes. They are the last restore if earth should ever fall." She says this carefully, "Only the true heir and the royal king or queen of Terran descent can call them to help fight."

"But, they were so few, and some of them have wandered the world and they're descents do not know who they really are." Malta finished.

Endymion turns this all over in his head before nodding; "Thank you for that little information." He looks at is wife, "We have much to discuss. Usako, lets go…"

She glanced at them and nods. She felt cold inside. There were such people that did not hold the moon in such respect, or the people of the moon like Luna and the others had always sheltered her from those that were not even evil, who had no respect for such things.

'Not everyone is the same. The Americans from the US refuse our rule, yet they still live long lives as we do.' She thought as her husband guided her up into the castle again.

"I'm sorry." He says softly, "I …never knew how they felt about such things."

She looks at him, his blue-gray eyes held concern and worry. "It's okay Mamo-chan. Really."

He says nothing only pulls her into a hug. He didn't know how to make anything better. It just seemed to get worse and worse. "I wish I could take the pain from you, my love." He buries his head in her hair inhaling her own personal fragrance. "I don't know what to do…I honestly don't…"

She reminded silent and only hugged him back. A small part of her was glad he was feeling so bad.

"It'll be okay Mamo-chan. We can do this."

"I hope so, Usako, I really do." He mumbles in her hair.

"We were not meant for this, brother, and you know it."

He looks at her, bruised with a few cuts. He had to admit his baby sister had a lot of spunk. He leans back and considers her for a while. "We are meant to take the earth back. And She will do it for us."

Kritra looks at him with narrowed eyes, "and who is this 'she'?"

He grins and looks at his machine. It had taken him years to create; it was pointed out past the planets to somewhere unknown. "All you need to know is that she will come and get rid of those that leech off our home."

Her eyes softened, "You know I don't like them anymore then you, Jamil, but this…this isn't right." She gestures to the machine that held the crystals of Mars, Neptune and Uranus. " This is disgusting and against the Trine code."

He glares at her, "The age of the Trine is to an end, Krit. You know that."

"It doesn't have to be."

He looks at the machine and picks up his wineglass. He looks at the machine through it.

"But it is and then there will be a new Trine."

"I did not foresee this." Setsuna looks at the others. The Inners and Outer Senshi were in a common room. Like a living room really. "I did not foresee that child's birth." She shook her head and sighs, "This…this is such new terrain."

Ami blinks at her while poring over some book that was now all but forgotten, "I thought you knew everything about the future, Setsuna."

The dark woman shook her head, "It seems that I don't. Or I would have advise Mamoru to stay."

Minako frowns, "Why? Is it so bad that Elysion was born?"

"In a way yes, it is and no it's not." Setsuna said, "It isn't because then we would have more then one enemy on our hands instead of that one."

"And why yes?" Makoto tilts her head, nibbling on a cookie.

Setsuna thought about it, "Because it will and has changed the course of time as I know it. I do not like unknowns."

"But, what would this mean for the future?" Hotaru pondered, "In the past, they went with full bloods and those that are firstborn. What if the Earth does not accept Usa anymore?"

"The we," Setsuna said, "have a dilemma on our hands."

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