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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 Four

Serenity ran out into the battle field to see the huge battle before her.

"Oh! Goddess..." She whispered. Looking at the destruction before her. Most of the people fallen were Earthlings but she could only see that due to the fact that they were outnumbered 20 to one by the Earthlings.

"Exactly." She whirled around to face a dark haired girl.

"Artemis." She whispered but the girl shook her head.

"Artemis! Nephrite said you had chosen the Dark Kingdom! That the Sins and the Horsemen of the Apocalypse were loose." The girl nodded.

"True, Serenity." She whispered and Serenity looked at her future-sister-in-law in horror.

"Who are you?" She whispered at the girl cocked her head.

"Beryl-sama gave me a new, more pathetic name. I can't be bothered to use." Serenity blinked.

"I am Envy." Serenity took a step backwards.

"Do you know what I was Envious of your majesty?" Serenity shook her head.

"I fought against everything even when my brother was away. I was the last to fall to the Dark Kingdom but I got jealous. And Beryl used it. She used it and I became Envy. Can you guess what I was Envious of Princess?" Again, tearful Serenity shook her head.

"I was Envious of the fact that my brother spent more time off the Moon then on the Earth with his family. It was only a little Envy. But it's cursed us Serenity-hime. It has cursed our blood for eternity." Serenity shook her head.

"No! Artemis! It hasn't! Your not cursed. You have the power to fight it." But Artemis ran at her with the sword and Serenity avoided and held her hands before her. Still grasping the dagger of hope and Artemis saw this. And in a moment of sanity an idea appeared in Artemis's brain. A idea to stop her killing the Princess. The girl her brother loved.

"Serenity-hime! Forgive me." She whispered and Serenity's eyes grew wide as she plunged the dagger into her own chest.

'It's so easy.' Were the words running through her head. 'It's so easy to die.' She quickly put those thoughts aside and ran again. She ran up the stairs of the palace that was now becoming a shell and she kept running.

"What have we here? A Princess who's far from home?" She skidded to a stop as the voice's owner became apparent. A red headed woman stood before her.

"Beryl." She whispered and Beryl smirked.

"Yes, little princess. Now what are you going to do? Run?" Serenity grasped her hand tightly.

"No. I don't run from bitches." She forced out and Beryl smiled coyly.

"Then maybe you'll run from this!" and she raised her hand and sent black lightening her way. Serenity raised her arms to brace herself and the disguise pen shattered. As the magic fell to her feet Serenity looked up in fear.

She took hold of the transformation brooch and was about to power up when it was shot out of her hand by the electricity.

"No!" She screamed but her screams were too late for the black magic that Beryl had released sent her body spinning off the balcony and onto the ground below breaking her neck. Beryl walked over to her.

"Poor weak little princess. Can't even survive without your scouts help." She smirked and walked away. The balcony no longer existed. It had been destroyed by the electricity that had broken Beryl's fall.

Queen Serenity looked in horror at her daughter's body.

The first white clad body had been that Venus. The things that made her who she was had been destroyed. Her hair was shaggy and covered in blood, her nose was missing, and a long red gash ran across her eye sockets, her fingers were missing and red gashes ran along her entire body but what shocked Serenity the most was the fact Aphrodite had detransformed and her feet were missing. Her assailant had given her no mercy and she had even been stabbed through the heart with her own sword. Serenity felt sick. She had run past Sol and gone to her daughters' room. Blood was everywhere but it was clear that only Venus had been killed there. It was also obvious that the attacker had continued through the secret passage and Serenity followed, so anxious that she barely noticed Sol with her. They reached the end of one tunnel and saw Hermes' body lay there. It was done by a different craft and knowing Mercury it was done by magic. Gashes were found along her body; similar to that of Venus but each of the gashes were festering and had already gone gangrene. Serenity kept the wish to hurl inside her because the body was headless and hanging in the centre of the cave it hung. The eyes had been gorged out and the skull had been cracked open and as it spun Serenity could see Mercury's brain was missing. Telling herself that Queen's didn't spew she turned around and ran down a different passage. This time ending up in a room that looked charred and old. She saw Mars and ran to her. The upright body displayed no recognition at the sound of her voice. She reached the body and realised why. The senshi of fire was hanging by harp strings from the roof and as Serenity walked to the front of the body she suddenly wished she hadn't. Mars's front looked like a damaged target board; over four thousand burning arrows were inside her but it was the eyes that freaked her out the most: lifeless.

But Mars was still in her fuku she reasoned till a weak hand touch her and she realised why: Mars was still alive.

"Ares.." She whispered and the senshi's head fell forward.

"Sama, I... gave... hime... the ... bag.." Serenity blinked and watched as Ares' fuku disappeared and became what it she had worn to the ball.

"Thank-you my daughter." She whispered and turned around and ran again. The bile pouring out.

"Serenity. It's okay. We haven't found your daughter." Sol placed her hand on her shoulder but the Queen shrugged it off.

"Sol! I knew destruction was coming... but I thought they would be spared." The pain was eminent on her face and Sol turned her toward the final passage. They travelled out of it and into the battle. Serenity looked around in horror at the corpses but kept walking. Her foot brushed against a young woman's corpse and as she bent down she shuddered.

"Your Majesty? What is it?" Sol looked at her.

"On earth they have many names for the moon goddess; Chup-Kamui, Coyolxauhqui, Ilazki, Góntia, Chang'e, Losna, Artemis, Artume, Diana, Hecate, Phoebe, Selene, Anumati, Ka-Ata-Killa, Mama Killa, Dewi Shri, Silewe Nazarate, Leucothea, Xbalanque, Ixchel, Mayari, Ina, Lona, Mahina, Marama, Diana, Myesyats, Bendis, Selardi, Bahloo, Blood Moon, Dziewona, Hygieia, Rhea, Tanit, Tonantzin, Xochiquetzal, Áine-"

"Serenity?" She looked at Sol,

"Sorry, got caught up. It's my one flaw. When I am trying to explain. I go too in-depth."

"I've noticed."

"Anyway, when we began negotiations twelve years ago Gaia gave birth to a daughter and named her after a Moon goddess. She was my priestess." Sol raised an eyebrow.

"I probably saw her four times in her life. Artemis they called her, a third of their triple goddess."

"I see..." Sol blinked.

"No, you don't. This girl is ten year old and by direction of this dagger she killed herself. This is Artemis."

"It might just be a random soldier Serenity." Sol said looking at her sorrowfully.

"No, see this tattoo. Only the royal family has it." Softly she indicated to a tattoo on the inside of the ankle. Sol closed her eyes. Pass slowly child into the next afterlife. She whispered and Serenity blinked and shut the child's eyes.

Slowly she stood up and kept walking. She found Serenity's mangled body. Slowly she closed her daughter's eyes and pressed her hand against her forehead. The telepathic link told her quietly that only several warriors still remained; Saturn, Jupiter, Endymion, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, the delegates of Mau; Artemis and Luna. Everyone else was dead.

"Beautiful isn't it?" Serenity blinked and her head shot up. Beryl stood before her, Metallia hovering over her like a shadow.

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