Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon.

Summary: The Moon Kingdom ended…. In war… In pain… yet it was some how different… something was changed.

- 'Till the end.' -
by: Sirenic Griffin

Part Three

"Ares-chan? I'm really scared." Ares turned around to look at her princess and smiled.

"You were bored." She said politely.

"I'd take boredom any day!" She stated worried.

"Come on we've got to continue." Serenity nodded and Ares started to run.

"I can't keep up with you!" Serenity yelled moments later and Ares turned around momentarily annoyed and glared at her.

"My skirt, it's difficult!" Ares eyes flamed.

"Can't you just hoik it up!" Serenity looked at her shocked.

"It's unlady like! What if somebody saw me?" She gasped and Ares shut her eyes in exasperation.

"You STUPID MEATBALL HEAD! Do you care more about your dignity or your life?" Serenity blinked at her friends' outburst.

"My life... I think!" Ares looked at her.

"Of course my life!" She smiled and Ares rolled her eyes.

"Look Serenity, have you ever tried to run in high heels." Obediently Serenity nodded.

"Yeah! It's hurts like hell." She said smiling.

"I wouldn't do it again if I was paid all the marshmallow rabbits in the world." Ares looked up to the roof and Serenity's eyes travelled to Mars's shoes.

"Geez! I am so sorry Ares. I forgot being Sailor Mars equals high heels. If I ever become a scout I'm going to have shoes like... Like Pluto and Mercury!" Ares rolled her eyes playfully.

"Don't worry about it my meatball headed princess. I can handle it. Just try to think of other people's problems as well." Serenity nodded.

"Come on, the exits just around the corner." Serenity blinked and smiled.

"Then let's go!" She yelled and grabbed her skirts and bolted. Ares rubbed her fingers on her temple for a second before realising the danger of letting her princess go off alone. Swearing to herself she drew her bow and an arrow and ran after her. Sure as fate itself Serenity was at the end of the tunnel in the grasp of the enemy. Automatically she fired a fiery arrow at the mans hand causing him to let go of Serenity who ran back to behind Ares. The man turned but Ares already knew who it was.

"Jadeite." She whispered and he smirked.

"Of course, well, isn't it the lovely Ares-hime. How are you?" Ares looked at him distrustfully.

"Serenity?" She turned around and the girl blinked.

"Ares?" Ares smiled.

"Catch." She raised her arm and threw a pink velvet bag at her which Serenity clumsily caught.

"What is it?" The girl asked confused and Ares smiled at her.

"Aphrodite is in charge of leading our team, Hermes the smarts but what is Ares in charge of?" Serenity looked at her for a moment.

"Spirituality." She whispered and Ares smiled.

"Basically, inside that bag is what I would've given you when you graduated your first course." Serenity blinked at her confused.

"Sweetie, it's a transformation brooch, a disguise pen, and the dagger of hope." Recognition floated across Serenity's face.

"I don't want to fight." She murmured. And Ares smiled.

"Use it as a front then." and the girl nodded and Ares faced herself for the biggest decision she was ever going to make.

"Run Serenity. Run far away from us. If you see any of the other senshi join them but don't turn around."

"But-" She began but Ares cut her off.

"Look, we aren't a match for anybody at the moment. Chances are the others are already dead. My job is to protect you but what if I die now? Huh?" Serenity blinked at her and Ares cursed the girls' stupidity.

"I will want to die knowing that you are far away from here okay?" Serenity nodded and turned and ran.

"You know Hime, that the other entrance is blocked by Nephrite." Ares turned in horror to Jadeite and made to follow her princess but the entrance was blocked with stone at the click of Jadeite's fingers.

Shocked she turned around to have Jadeite press her against the wall.

"Hime? Join us!" He whispered in her ear. But Ares took a breath in a raised her knee to his groin, completing a cartwheel over his head she landed bow and arrows drawn.

"Never. I will never betray that of which I am sworn to protect." She spat at him and Jadeite's eyes changed from the carefree green to a deadly blue.

"Well then. Prepare to die Mars." She nodded and was prepared.

Serenity ran, her pigtails flowing behind her. The darkness of the tunnel no longer bothered her. She was determined to follow Ares orders. She grasped her new brooch fearlessly and ran. Not sure how to use it. She saw light ahead and continued to run. Head down clutching at her skirts.

'Bang!' She smashed right into him. His back to her she thought he looked familiar.

"Endymion?" She gasped in shock but recognised him when he turned around.

"NEPHRITE!" The man blinked for a moment and smiled.

"Serenity-hime! It's good to see you again." Serenity looked at him as he gestured towards his hand. Cautiously she grabbed it as he pulled her to her feet.

"Serenity-hime are you okay?" She nodded her head for a moment then began to shake it.

"No? What's wrong Princess?" His brown eyes looked at her with concern.

"Everything's gone so horribly wrong! My scouts are battling their lovers, Endymion is missing. Wars everywhere and I am scared." Nephrite blinked and smiled.

"You know Beryl used their love of the scouts against them." Serenity blinked at him.

"She told them that their lovers would outlive them by millennia but they stuck by them so she reverted their love." Serenity blinked.

"Huh?"

"She changed their love for the scouts unto herself." Serenity gasped at the circumstances.

"THAT'S AWFUL!" She shuddered.

"I know. She did it to the whole planet." Serenity blinked looking up at him.

"What?"

"Mostly she used everybody's lust for the immortality that you had."

"Ohh..." She sighed looking at the ground.

"But for the royal family it was special." Serenity's eyes widened as she looked up.

"First she murdered Queen Gaia which stirred up the twelve's hearts."

"Twelve? I thought there were thirteen earth royalty." Nephrite raised an eyebrow at her interruption.

"Endymion has been far to distracted up here to notice Earth's goings on."

"But you did?" Serenity asked, her mouth screwed up.

"Stop pulling that face," Nephrite said laughing, Serenity automatically stopped. "Thank-you, the other generals were fixated on the other senshi but the one I love is never up here, she travels around earth so I have to listen for rumours." Serenity sighed.

"Fair enough. But you should just tell Jupiter." He raised his eyebrow again.

"But that isn't as nearly as fun!" He exclaimed and Serenity looked at him.

"Anyway, she distracted Pandora from the box and let the horsemen and sins out." Serenity eyes widened.

"Exactly. They infested the royal family. Overpowered or possessed them. False-Belief, War, Famine, Death, Pestilence, Anger, Greed, Gluttony, Lust, Sloth, Pride and Envy. That's the royal family" Serenity gasped.

"Beryl. Why's she done so much evil?"

"I don't know. Rumours say she's in love with Endymion." Serenity screwed up her mouth again.

"I remember a while back that all somebody said that the Shitennou had all joined Beryl." Nephrite nodded looking up at the sky.

"Does that mean you have as well." Nephrite attempted a sheepish smile and Serenity looked at him annoyed.

"Nephrite! Why?" Looking even more sheepish he fiddled with his toes and mumbled something.

"I didn't hear that!" She looked at the brunette soldier.

"I said everyone else was doing it and being on Earth all by myself is really lonely." Serenity looked at him.

"Well! It was!" Serenity blinked at moved closer to his face, accidentally he blushed and she slapped him.

"OW!" He exclaimed rubbing his red cheek.

"Exactly! If everyone else was jumping off cliffs or taking aphrodite would you?" Serenity looked at him fiercely.

"I would if it made me feel good." He muttered and was given another slap.

"OW!" Serenity breathed out heavily.

"Your one of Endymion's protectors! Why aren't you protecting him?" She asked.

"Huh?" Nephrite looked at her confused and she breathed out frustrated.

"You need to get your head out of the stars Nephrite."

"And back into fire magic?" He looked at her for a moment and sighed when she nodded her head.

"I'm not protecting him because he yelled at me." Serenity looked at him flatly.

"He came back when Jadeite, Malachite and Zoisite had converted and I was in Egypt." Serenity raised an eyebrow.

"It was purely innocent." Both eyebrows rose.

"I was spying on Seth. Okay!" She nodded delighted.

"Anyway, he assumed I was doing something for Queen Beryl and threatened all of us that if we ever came near him again it would be" And he indicated his dagger towards his neck.

"And you didn't say anything?" Serenity looked at him.

"This is going to sound weird but this yellow thingy stopped me." He held up his wrist and Serenity darted back.

"It's a yellow bellied snake." She whispered and Nephrite shrugged.

"So I joined the Dark Kingdom. I'm not going to do anything for them though that's why I'm going to stay here and look at the stars." He stretched his arms out leisurely and lay down.

Serenity stood over him tapping her foot.

"Yellow-Bellied snake means cowardliness." She said sweetly and kicked dust at him before walking away.

Nephrite sat up and poked his tongue at her.

He looked at the stars till a huge monster landed before him.

"The Seventh Shadow..." He whispered and the monster indicated a Yes.

"You have not been fulfilling your duties Nephrite." He crawled to his feet at the snake around his wrist let go and crawled to the seventh shadow.

Instantly all of Nephrite's memories came back and the seventh shadow picked up the snake and tossed it to Nephrite and it threaded around his throat and bit deep.

"Attitude Readjustment." The Shadow muttered and turned to walk away leaving a EVIL Nephlite to follow.

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