The task that was set before them was a grim one but they did it none the less. Vegeta and Serena fought their way through the legion of brainwashed minions loyal to Galaxia.
Several minutes passed until all of whom Galaxia had called had been destroyed. Serena and Vegeta stood shoulder to shoulder in front of her with grimaces on their faces.
"I'm going to give you one more chance. Live or die. Which one will it be?" Serena said repeating the ultimatum.
"I would rather die then join the forces of the goody goodies. But, I warn you, I will not go easily." Galaxia spat at Serena.
"I know that and you gave a good fight but now is the time when you will die." Serena said taking up a fighting stance.
"Are you sure we can do this?" Vegeta asked copying her fighting stance.
"Yes, follow my lead." Serena said powering up her most destructive attack and infusing it with the power of the crystal. Vegeta did the same and for the second time that night they launched their attacks at the same time. This time, after the attacks had just been released, they followed with a series of smaller blasts that were revered with a block that sent them back to them. After getting up and dusting themselves off from the attacks that did hit them they looked at where Galaxia had been.
Flames emerged from the rubble. Smoke was everywhere. The only thing that Serena and Vegeta could find of Galaxia was a dirty red pile in the mountains of rubble. Serena turned to Vegeta. "Why don't you go home? I need to do a little clean up work."
"No, I'm staying this time." He responded still checking to make sure Galaxia was dead poking at the pile with the tip of his boot.
"Please Vegeta, this day had been hard enough. Can you please just let me take care of this on my own? She dead and there's nothing else out her that can hurt me like se did." Serena pleaded with him as the tears began to collect in her eyes.
"Fine, but if you're not back in fifteen minutes I'm coming after you." He said turning and going through the portal Serena had already created for him.
Serena watched as the portal closed and sighed looking around at the scene around her. There was only one thing left to do now. She had to restore the city…and what's left of the world. Galaxia's influence had gone beyond just her home. She could sense it with out being told. She could feel the blanket of despair that cried out to her. This was going to take a lot of energy.
Sighing deeply, Serena began to float off of the ground. She kept going up until she was about five hundred feet in the air. Once again, and for hopefully the last time that night, Serena lifted her hands into the air. Concentrating with every bone in her body, Serena used the crystal to emit a healing glow. The glow that she created surrounded her body, surrounded the cit, the continent, and finally the world.
The sun was bright now as it shone over the newly restored city below. From her position in the sky, Serena could see people beginning to emerge from their houses. She smiled at the sight and the happy feeling within her. Suddenly the happy feeling inside her turned to intense fatigue and she began to lose her altitude.
She fell the five hundred feet to the ground and slowly opened her eyes. The light was fading. She couldn't think over the pain she was feeling. People had begun to crowd around her and somewhere in the distance she could hear sirens. Through the loud roaring in her ears she thought she heard someone calling her but she wasn't sure. She did the only thing she could think of doing and created a portal that she pulled her way through. What she didn't notice was that one of the on lookers had gone through with her. But before she could notice much of anything she lost consciousness.
Flashing lights. All that could be seen were flashing lights. Everywhere Serena looked lights blinded her. Then the lights began taking on different colors. There was a green, red, orange, blue, silver and royal purple light surrounding her. Suddenly the lights began to converge on her position. As they got closer they began to take on more and more shape. They got closer still until they were only a few feet separating them and they began to take on human shapes. Where the lights dimmed Serena took a deep breath. The images she saw in front of her couldn't have surprised her more. Her friends and her family stood in front of her, smiling. Before anything else happened another light appeared, approached and took shape.
"DAD!" Serena yelled as she ran up in front of her father and threw her arms around his neck.
Vegeta (remember dad's name is Vegeta too.) smiled to himself as he brought his arms up around his daughter. "Hey there princess." He said softly. "Long time no see."
"Long time no remember." She responded pulling away and casting her mother a scathing glance.
"Yes well that would have to be my fault. How was I supposed to know there would be that transdimensional rip thing that would take Vegeta to a different dimension?" She said waving her hand in front of her like she was trying to get a fly to stop bothering her.
"Vegeta, who's Vegeta...other then you of course your highness." Rei asked from the opposite side of the line.
"I think maybe you should return their memories mother." Serena said in a sarcastic tone.
"I think you should seeing as you have the crystal dear." Queen serenity responded in much the same tone.
"Well in that case maybe I should." Serena laughed. She took the crystal from its hiding place and holding it in front of her concentrated. The light from the crystal surrounded her friends and returned their long forgotten memories.
Well as you can see I got my computer back….but at a great loss…sniff…I lost everything I was working on. It's just a good thing that Death of a Hero was done and on the internet where it's access able and Mishaps and Mayhem has a hard copy sitting on my desk. I don't think I would continue the story if I had to write it all over again. As it is I'm struggling with typing this one up. My interests have turned more to Inuyasha stories. But I felt bad leaving all you people hanging who had begun to read my story and it was my fault I took it down and lost it anyway. So now I'm 'practicing' my finger work by typing up this story. By the end of this story I'm going to be ready for a kick ass typist job. Lol…well enjoy!