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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 Five

Saturn raised her glaive again to bring about the destruction of more warriors when a warrior blocked it. He was cloaked in darkness and had a crossbow strapped to his back. In his hand he held a bladed shepherd crop. It was this he used to block her attack.

"Oh, come now Saturn, you must be able to do better than that!" He declared carelessly and she swung it out of it's arc and began attack, and each time he blocked it.

"Your lucky I'm not using any powers." She said breathlessly and the man smirked.

"Ditto." and the crop's end caught onto the glaive and pulled it out of her grasp and she pulled her hands back in self defence quickly grabbing a blade from a dead warrior.

"Who are you?" She whispered.

"Warriors call me Pride. For that was how Beryl caught me. She used my Pride and magnified it to become a sin. But Beryl calls me Prehnite. I unlike my careless sister remember it." Saturn began to spar continued till she was in a position to retrieve her glaive which she did.

"But you know me by my name as well. I am Apollo. " Saturn gasped as the cloak fell away to reveal the zealous twelve year old but her glaive work did not falter.

"Apollo! Why!" She asked and Apollo smiled.

"I could go sappy and you and say I loved you but twelve is too young to know love." Saturn gasped and swung her glaive again. "Or I could say my pride made me." His eyes looked at her sadly for a moment and glazed over and stopped. Saturn missed and his armour fell off.

"Apollo?" She looked at him questioning.

"My sister has been dead for an hour." Saturn blinked.

"What?" She whispered and Apollo looked at her, and she noticed how the whites of his eyes were blood shot.

"Apollo..." She whispered.

"Kill me, take a swipe at my head. Kill me. SATURN!" He screamed and she took a step backwards.

"Apollo, I can't I haven't known who've I've killed before and most are usually commoners."

"I bleed the same way. I have ashamed my heritage. I am not of Earth Royalty. The oracle of Delphi was right. We're now a cursed family." Saturn took a step backwards.

"Somebody said Earth was a Rat's Kingdom, that even it's crown heir couldn't bear being there. That's why he was always on the Moon. They escalated around the palace but I ignored them. I was one of the thirteen. It was my job. But then Beryl came and she said she could get the Dark Kingdom to restore Earth to glory and my pride stepped in. The Pride that said my planet could be the best and they played off that. I joined. I've killed so many innocents Osirus. Kill me." Osirus blinked at him for a moment before raising her glaive.

"Why? Why now when your sisters dead?" Apollo looked at her with unnervingly dark eyes that he, like the rest of his family possessed.

"Because I have realised without the innocence Earth is nothing." Saturn blinked and closed her eyes letting the glaive fall with a dull thud. She walked through the battle field again, destruction following in her wake.

"I love what I've done to the place." Serenity's eyes widened at the sight of the woman before her.

"Beryl." She whispered and the woman laughed.

"How cute! The woman Serenity knows my name!" and her body guards laughed. Serenity blinked at the body guards and gasped.

"Kunzite! Jadeite! Zoisite! Nephrite!" She gasped in horror.

"Yes, fine additions to my army don't you think?" Serenity looked at them.

"You betrayed your loyalties to your prince." She whispered and the four men answered in unison.

"Our only loyalties are towards our eternally beautiful queen." Beryl smirked.

"How dashing! I think I'll show you the finest additions to my army." Serenity's eyes widened. A Huge shadow creature was making it's way towards her as were nine other cloaked beings.

"See this beauty, this is the Seven Shadows, a merged being of the seven of my finest warriors." Serenity looked at the huge shadow creature.

"It is the one who decimated the sol scouts." Serenity could feel her friend tense.

"Don't worry Sol." She whispered.

"And these four delightful women are the horseman of the apocalypse. Famine, War, Pestilence and Death. Formerly known as the eldest five of the royal family." Beryl's eyes swept over them and Serenity shivered.

"Where is False-Belief!" The red head exclaimed and War smiled eerily.

"She is the oldest of us, she has deserted us." Beryl's eyes flashed.

"She will be dealt with later. For now I curse her and her descendents for they are naught but betrayers." She turned back to Serenity.

And these four lovely ladies and one lovely gentlemen are part of my seven deadly sins. Where are the other two?" She demanded and one of the women blinked.

"They are dead. Killed in the battlefield. Envy and Pride." Beryl's eyes bore into her.

"Good. Thankyou Sloth." The women bowed and Beryl turned her attention back to Serenity.

"I am no weakling to be misjudged am I Serenity?" Slowly Serenity shook her head.

"Good. Die!" And she threw a column of dark energy at the Queen, Serenity threw her arms to protect herself and her moon wand activated, holding it she shouted.

"Moon Healing Escalation!"

"Dead Scream," Pluto whispered as she raised her key and the black cloud of her attack whispered towards the Dark Kingdom Soldiers as the attack entered their mouths and forced their souls out of their bodies. Screaming the soulless corpses fell to the ground. If the bodies weren't buried they would become Youma's.

"World Shaking!" Uranus attack rang out decimating the forces as well as the Oceanic attack of Neptune.

"Deep Submergee!" She called out and all three attack matched. The outer scouts had lost their entire army but kept up the hopeless battle. Their was no weakness, just sheer and overpowering numbers. Then suddenly Pluto's eyes glowed dangerously.

"Our Queen is in danger." She whispered and the scouts turned around, this time each nodded and Uranus drew her sword again.

"SPACE SWORD!" She screamed and ran towards the eastern side of the army and cut her way through it, her two companions following in her wake.

"Endymion! Guard me!" Jupiter called out in the heart of the battle and a nod indicated a yes from the prince. He stood in front of her and she raised her arms above her head.

"Supreme..." Lightening bolts began to be attracted towards her staff and the lightening conductor which had appeared shooting out from her tiara, she had asked Endymion to guard her for while this attack was extremely powerful it lacked the speed of generation of other attacks.

"THUNDER..." The lightening generated even more static and began to create a influx in gravity causing those in a ten metre radius around her begin to float.

"DRAGON!" She screamed and the lightening accumulated and formed the shape of a dragon.

"Your Majesty," The dragon stated quietly in a deep thundery voice.

"Storm." Jupiter said acknowledging. The Dark Kingdom forcing blinked and began to back away but the dragon turned it's head, a manically smile on it's face.

"Food!" Jupiter nodded and the dragon took off, its wings helping to gather more enemies. By the time it was finished it returned to Jupiter and she nodded and smiled and the dragon flew off into the sky and Endymion dropped heaving.

"Are you okay?" She asked quietly.

"No, I grew up with all these warriors and now they want to destroy everything I love." Jupiter sighed.

"I've been alive for many millennia Endymion, seen massacres, seen countries torn apart by everything; war, famine, pestilence, death, greed... everything. But I thought the moon kingdom was different. The Outer scouts say they protect the solar system from invasion but they also grew up with the Queen, so they'll protect her." Endymion blinked at her.

"They don't look that old." He muttered and Jupiter smiled.

"No, but would you believe me if I said that I grew up with the original moon goddess; Selene." Endymion looked at her.

"No," And Jupiter smiled ruefully.

"Then you'd be right. I grew up with her daughter; Phoebe who sired Princess Serenity's great great great grandmother." Endymion looked at her suspiciously and she patted him on the back.

"Don't worry Endymion. Everything will be alright in the end I promise. The storm has just begun." He looked at her and she blinked.

"That wasn't so reassuring was it?" And he shook his head.

"The storm will rage for millennia's and the result... well the result my dear Endymion will bring you and Serenity together." Endymion nodded thoughtfully.

"That's more reassuring but why does it have to be my people?" He asked her evenly and she smiled.

"Centuries ago the gods created a box and a woman for the earthling Prometheus as a 'gift' for giving humanity fire." Endymion blinked at her.

"Pandora's box." She nodded in accent.

"Pandora, the woman was driven to open the box and when she did the sins poured out but Prometheus was a smart man and he went to the divinity Gaia and asked for her help. And with her help they sealed the sins in the box as well as the horsemen of the apocalypse who Gaia was unhappy with." He nodded and she smiled.

"The God's were unhappy with this move. You see they don't handle matters as we do and they are often jealous. So they cursed us and said the apocalypse would fall on our people and we'd be eliminated. They got the Moirae, the Fates, to weave it into their tapestry but the fates however are kind people and live in their hole in the Elysion Field with the Charities."

"Elysion Fields?" Endymion muttered and Jupiter smiled.

"Yes, the fields. It is one of the three ways to access the underworld. I am guessing the portal is under your palace." Endymion nodded.

"So they added a loophole. The solar system would face the apocalypse and everything would die but Earths people would begin from the very beginning again." Endymion blinked.

"All intelligent life forms dead?" She nodded and he sighed and began to ask another question when Jupiter's head shot up violently.

"We have to find Saturn; she separated from us in battle. The Queen in danger." Endymion drew his sword and they rushed towards the west section of the palace.

Saturn continued to battle without emotion. Emotion had caused her to become attached to him, to Apollo. Suddenly she heard a hail from the west side of the army.

"Earth Harvest!" She whispered and the earth grabbed her enemies feet and dragged the into the ground, freezing the in their place of horror, she turned around slowly to see Jupiter and Endymion running towards her and she knew why.

"The Queen..." She muttered and ran with her comrade towards Queen Serenity.

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