An: So, what do you guys think? Does this have the makings of a sequel yet?

"In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." ErasmusAdages

"It's been so quiet." Elysion said quietly looking around the palace. It wasn't exactly deserted, but she saw no signs of the remaining senshi at all. Shivering she rubs her arms slightly.

"Too quiet." Terran agreed as he trotted next to her. " Something is up and I think they left us out."

She shrugs slightly glancing at him, "Well, we're not exactly on their good list either, Terran."

"Well still." The wolf huffed, " They should keep you in the loop. After all, you are the –true- crown princess of Earth! They ought to-"

"Shh…" She paused, sensing someone familiar near by. " Do you hear that?"

Both gray ears moved forward listening. Three pairs of footsteps were coming down the hallway. "Quick, lets hide." He told her motioning to a room.

They slipped in just in time as the advisors walked into the hallway. Elysion peered out through the crack as they paused. Luna looked visibly shaken by something, and Artemis and Diana looked grim.

"They're still not back yet, Artemis." Luna says quietly. " I'm worried something terrible has happened to them. What if they don't come back this time?"

Diana spoke up shaking her head, "We have to believe they will." She said before looking down. "I know…I know they're still okay." She paused, "Maybe we should tell Elysion. Then that way they might have a chance…"

"No…no.." Luna shook her head this time, "Usagi wanted her to stay here where it's safe."

Artemis stared at her for a moment then glances down at the crystalline floor. "Are you so sure?" Everything about him was neutral as he spoke. "Lately she…you know how she is towards that girl. There is a chance that she left her out on purpose that has nothing good."

"No!" Luna glares making a fist, "Usagi-chan…Usagi-chan has a pure heart. I –we all know this, Artemis. I lived with her for years, ever since I gave her the brooch…. she's always had good intentions with those around her."

Artemis didn't say anything else as he pulls her into a hug and kisses her forehead. " I know Luna." Still didn't mean he didn't think it wasn't a slight chance. He knew they all had that in them, whether they liked it or not.

"I...still think we should. After all, it affects her...us a lot. It's her family up there and ours too." Diana said.

Wait, my family…? Does that mean…?

The door flew open as she stepped out, "Where are they? Tell me!"

The advisors jumped slightly at this. They hadn't noticed that she was there. Sighing softly, Luna straightens up a bit. "Elysion, were you spying on us?"

"Rightly so!" Terran stepped behind his charged in his human form. "Otherwise the princess wouldn't have learned a thing about her own family."

Luna looks up at him, "The queen said she must stay here."

"Well the queen is –not- my mother." Elysion told her before looking over at Artemis and Diana, "Tell, me… please, where did they go?"

Diana looked between her father and mother before saying, "They went to get the starseeds back and to defeat your uncle."

"My...wha…" Shakes her head sighing softly. "How do I get to where they are?"

They looked between each other before looking back at the girl.

Kritra forced Neo Moon and Terra warrior down two flights of stairs, still dragging Cosmos without a care that the woman might break something.

"To the end of this all." She instructs the pink senshi. "Face the wall."

Terra Warrior had been trying to work himself free, figuring this shadow rope would probably break if he used fire, but she was watching them now even as he heard her typing in something. There was a soft 'whoosh' sound as the door slide open.

"Alright, in you two." She told them.

Reluctantly, the two moved into the windowless room with a source of light that was undetectable, just four black walls and nothing else. Turning, Neo Moon gritted her teeth slightly. If only…

"Backs against the wall, kneel on the floor." Came Kritra's voice once more as they heard the sound of a body hitting the wall near them and a soft scream that came with it.

Terra Warrior dared to look up in time to watch it happen. "Usako!"

Cosmos groaned softly, her entire body hurt- her head most of all. Slowly, her eyes fluttered as she opens them. "Ma…Mamo-chan?" She tried to turn her head towards him.

"Mama…Mama, are you okay?" Neo Moon also looked over at her mother worriedly.

The pale woman tried to move, but found that she was still bound, "I...I think so...Chibiusa-chan."

"Thank goodness." Neo moon was so glad her mother seemed to be fine that she didn't correct her.

Kritra said nothing at this display and turned to leave until she heard the sound of her name from Terra Warrior.

"Kritra," He still refused to believe she would let her brother and Avon order her around like this. He remembered how she used to be. How did she become like this? He waited for her turn and look at him. His mask had fallen some time ago, so she was staring right into his eyes. "I know this isn't you." He had to try. At least try to reach the person she used to be. "What happened to you?"

She stared at him for a while. Then she moved over to him and grabbed him by the chin, tilting his head a little.

"Get your hands off of him!" Cosmos yells at her. "Don't touch him any more!"

Neo Moon was saying something similar that her mother had said.

Kritra ignored them. "You want to know what happened to me, my sweet Ru?" She asked softly. There was a flicker of emotion in her eyes. "Stay here in the darkness with your family and see what happens." Her face was so close to his. " If you survive, I'm sure no one will have a problem if I kept you."

"You can't keep me Kritra." He says softly, " You and I can never be. You know where my heart lies."

"I do." She says with a small smile," But soon, it won't matter at all once you stayed here long enough."

He scoffs lightly, "Do you realize how many times an enemy had said that and never succeed?"

"Ah, but they are not me, Ru. They are not me." With that she kisses him deeply before pulling back with a small smile, "Because you still…feel something for me."

With that she turned and left the room. The door closed seamlessly into the wall to them. Leaving them in what looked to be darkness.

He leaned up against the wall and closed his eyes. How could this have all happened?

Neo Moon's blush died down after Kritra left. Damn her. She glances at her father for a while hoping what that dark woman said was a lie. Nothing was turning out how it should've been.

Her eyes turned towards her mother, who was also looking to the side. She looked angry too. Suddenly a thought came to her, when all this was over, would…would they get a divorce? In the situation they were in, she should be thinking how to escape, but the thought of her parents separating was more terrifying to her. Kids she had known, at least in passing, had gone through it. Some were better for it and some…some were not and then there were those that lost themselves.

It was only then that Neo moon found she could move. "I can move…" She looks up at the place of where they had come through before jumping up. "Pink Lady's Freezing Kiss!"

She directed the power at the wall, willing with everything in her for the door to open now. After a while she stopped and breathed a little. There was nothing. Not even a scratch. Crimson eyes turned to her parents. "Mama, Papa, come on! We just have to attack together!"

Cosmos stared at her daughter before smiling a little. She had grown up more then she had noticed. Cosmos stood, as did Terra Warrior. Together they directed their powers towards the hidden door.

Nothing happened.

After several tries, they gave up for a while. Terra warrior suggested they save their powers and destransformed.

"I was sure it would work." Usa sighs softly. She was dress in her usual royal attire: a long pink dress with matching pink satin shoes. The crescent moon still showed on her forehead in plain view.

Serenity smiles softly at her daughter hugging her slightly, " I thought so too, Usa." She said glancing up and looking at the door with a sigh. Somehow…they'd make it out and rescue their friends' starseeds after they defeat and banish their enemies. She was sure of it. 'Especially, Kritra.' She thought to herself. 'She did this. She stole their lives, it's only natural to return the favor.' These types of thoughts were no longer strange to the pale haired woman. Her dark blue gaze rested on her husband who was looking off in deep thought.

"Mamo-chan?"

The man didn't stir for a moment before slowly turning his head to look at his wife, "Yes?"

Serenity licked her lip, very aware her daughter was listening, but she had to know. "Is what Kritra said true?" She moved her arm from around her daughter before standing up. Her dress made it hard to even attempt to crawl, so, she walked over to him, looking down at the man she had loved for so long. Kritra had to have been lying. He couldn't feel for someone like her. Someone that killed their friends and slowly killing their way of life; he couldn't possibly feel anything for her. Serenity was sure of it, but she had to make doubly sure.

"Do you feel something for her?"

For Endymion's part, he said nothing. That was what he had been thinking about. The dark haired man puzzled over it for a long time while they were there. Hell, even when Elysion had showed up and said she was Kritra's daughter…. there had been a curious emotion then, something akin to disappointment. He still wasn't sure about it now. How could he even give an answer to his wife, someone he died for more then once and loved, when he couldn't place the answer himself?

Like how he felt when he found out that Elysion was his child. Then, it had been guilt and shame mixed with a bit of pride.

He glances over at his daughter, Usa, sitting there in her pink dress with her pink hair and shoes with eyes like rubies...and a golden crescent moon on her forehead.

He rubbed his face taking his mask off. Endymion sighs softly before returning his wife's stare.

He was taking too long to answer for Serenity's taste. Why didn't he just say 'no' and be done with it? 'It's because he never lied to you.' Another voice, different from the other one, told her. 'He's an honest man.'

Still, his honesty might not be appreciated at the moment. "Well?"

"I don't know, Usako. I don't know."

"Elysion, reconsider this." Terran said as he walked behind her in his human form. The brown-skinned man gestures with his hands as he spoke. " You should let me come with you."

Shaking her head, Elysion went about the soldiers' armory. Apparently, even though there were Senshi to protect the planet, there was still a need for an army and right now Elysion was taking advantage of their weaponry.

"No, you must stay here. It's easier with just me to worry about Terran." Turns to him, " Listen, your suspicious nature mixed with Artemis's will keep this place standing politically. We need that since the others are absent."

"But…" Terran looked at her like he wanted to whine.

She smiles a little rising up on her tiptoes and kissing his cheek. "If anything, Terran, be my representative to the world."

The man sighed before nodding with a smirk, " You're truly becoming a princess worthy for the throne."

She raises a brow as she slipped the gun like weapon into her holster that was secured to her belt. "What makes you think I even want the throne, Terran?" She asked softly before slipping some ammunition in her pouch. "What if I want to be something else?"

"What do you mean?" He asked her. This was the first time he had ever heard this. "Don't you wish to rule the throne of your forebears? You are the rightful heir, Elysion."

She paused for a moment as she closed the pouch. "At first, Terran, I didn't want anything to do with the throne of earth." She watched him with careful blue eyes. " I would've been happy to see Usa on it and deal with that problem. Being a monarch is…it looks stressful. I've been watching- I know you have too- from day one. They don't spend as much time together like Mama and I do."

Runs her hand through her mini braids before sighing. " Ever since I was found out, I was put through the same training as Usa because I'm a potential heir if it turn out that I take the throne instead of her. Before, I was a nobody and no one paid me any attention."

Elysion stopped talking for a moment, "I didn't care then. All I wanted really was for…daddy to pay attention to me too."

Turns away and rubs the back of her neck feeling embarrassed. She had never told anyone aside from Grandpa about this. " Is it selfish, Terran? That I would give up everything just for him to be like a father to me? You see how he acts. It's…odd. Like he doesn't know what to do with me. Yet, with Usa…"

She felt his arms wrap around her, "It's not selfish, Elly-chan." He told her kissing the top of her head, "I don't know why I haven't seen it before. I, your partner, was too engrossed in prophecies and getting rid of the moon wenches that I didn't notice. And for that, I'm sorry."

She smiles a little, "It's okay."

"But," He adds, " I think he treats you both the same."

"huh?"

"You and Usa. He's trying hard not to favor either of you and trying to be equal to both."

She fell silent for a moment before nodding, "I see." After a moment longer she moved from his embrace before looking at him, "You know why I'll bid for the throne, though, Terran?"

He shook his silvery-gray head, "No, why?"

"Because, the queen's heart is tainted. She's tainting her daughter's views. I cannot allow such a stain remain in power."

"Do you know who a hero is? Nine times out of ten, a hero is someone who is tired enough, cold enough, and hungry enough not to give a damn. I don't give a damn." Hawkeye Pierce