Part II

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Cold. That's how she was. He knew it and she knew it. Perhaps even the Senshi knew it too after the first few centuries. The girls...
His mind strayed to the senshi that had always protected the Sol system. Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and Saturn.

What ever happened to them?

In this new world. This world without 'hate' without 'crime', they had been nothing more then bodyguards with their own corners of life. The Outers gone back to their Stations- just like before.

Only...Saturn... that dear girl...what became of her?

It would explain some thing of Usa, his daughter, feelings and her frigidness. Hotaru had always been physically weak like a newborn kitten.
One day in the beginnings of the new founded kingdom, Hotaru had a collapse and feel into a deep coma.

She was still there now, if he remembered correctly, still in her coma. And every day he had seen his daughter with flowers going to visit the comatose Hotaru.

"What are you thinking of Endymion?"

Again, her voice sent chills through him.

"Nothing, Serenity...nothing at all." He answered her but his back was towards her. He had to keep her warm... the secrets of the moon was still locked away in her.

He wasn't too sure why he thought that. Even his past life visiting the moon, she had been cold to the touch then.

What was it? The secrets of the moon? Why was it that the royal family and the servants were always pale and cold? Where they dead? The walking undead?

He never knew then but he was beginning to understand now.

"Oh, Endymion, you are thinking of something." She turns on her side the sheets pooling around her waist as she leans up to look at him. Her pale hand touched his arm. White hair spilled over her shoulder, it's silky strands fell on him.
"Tell me what is troubling you." Her smile...how lovely it was to him that he almost...almost said something. "I'll try my best to help you with it."

Looking at her, this false angel of light, he wanted to tell her that his mind was troubled over how they were apart from others. Never stepping out of the palace. How Usa, their only child, seemed too mature for a teenager. How unhappy everyone seemed to be.

But he didn't. He couldn't seem to make the words come out. Was it some sort of magick she was playing with him? Keep him dull and slow to command everything else with?

Suddenly, the thoughts, the thoughts from long ago sprang in his mind and he sat up moving away from her icy touch. His head was bowed with these thoughts and images. He touched his face- the mask was still there.

How long had he had this mask...? She...she gave it to him a long time ago at the ball before the last one. What was it that she had said then?
He wasn't sure anymore.

"Really, Endymion, you have been acting very ...odd lately." She told him, " What is wrong with you?"

"Wrong with me...?" He echoed it sounding more like a question then not.

"Yes, you haven't been the same since Chaos attacked... tell me, love, what is wrong." Her voice was pleading to him to open up.

It was a trick. It was always a trick she had even as Usagi to get him to open up to her. A soft purr here...an slight change of tone there and she had him- and others. Yes, Serenity hasn't lost her cunning at all- even as Usagi.

He felt a smile twisted on his lips. Maybe he should take off the mask that has always been on his face. His hand rose and took it off once more. This time he laid it on the night stand and stood. He glances at her for a moment with a strange look and shook his head before he went to take a shower and get dress.

He had to get out of this.

This was no way for people to live. She shouldn't be like this either...their friends... her friends...They were wasting away as well. Something had to change.

He was going to change it.

"Endymion, where are you going?" She pouted slightly, still nude in bed as she watched him get dress in causal clothes- where did he get those? - and then stop by the bed.

Her own eyes widen slightly before drifting close when he leaned over and kissed her soundly. A soft sound came from her before he moved back.
There was something in the drawer next to the bed.
He had always slept where she was now.

He had it for this type of situation.

"You still hadn't told me where you're going dressed like that, Endymion." She told him breathlessly.

She hadn't noticed what he was doing- getting out of the drawer was a simple kitchen knife.

He wasn't listening to her any more. He vaguely could see her eyes widen for the first time in a few centuries, in fear and then pain as he drove the blade into her heart.

"Wh.." Serenity didn't make a sound after that. The blood trickled out of the wound, her eyes rolled back into her head. Her body did not fall against the bed.

No, Endymion laid her back softly onto the white- now red- sheets. For the first time, he felt a flicker...something that sprung back alive.

Yes he would change it. This shining city and this crystal glided cage with its people mindless like the dead- they would all disappear.

He understood now what the Generals were about and what the Black Moon Family was talking about.

This type of peace was simply a quieter way to die inside.

Turning away from the dead woman, he made his way unhurriedly towards the time gate where Pluto stood.

"Is it done?" She asked wearily, her dark eyes stared into his.

He nods curtly only once, " It is. Now send me back. I want to change this future..." He looked towards the gate feeling something close to excitement run through him.

"Don't change it too much. " The Time Guardian warned him as the gates opened. "Or the future will never come to past."

His brows rose, "Sestuna...I don't care if it does or not. But I will not let the people of earth become walking ageless corpses. "

With that he turned and went into the gate. Where he in time he went...who knows.