The four men stood in front of the invisible barrier. Hands locked, white light shimmered around them. They were the four most important people in Serenity's past, present, and future; good or bad.
That bond, in theory, would painfully get them to Serenity. With deep breaths they plunged into the barrier. It went dark. Pain, agony, desperation, despair, loss, longing swam in an endless bout of emotion through their minds.
But they focused on their happiest memories of Serenity, Serena, Sailor Moon. Dancing together in the moonlight was Endymion's, laughing over some secret was Dagda's, horseback riding was Senya's, and fighting hand-to-hand combat was Malachite's.
These memories pierced the dark and the dark thoughts like a shining white arrow. Then they were in a grassy meadow surrounded by trees. The men were standing together and Serenity was walking towards them.
All of them immediately wanted to go to her but she held up a hand, "you have come and it is time for explanations." She stood in black instead of white and her hair was in a simple braid instead of in its normal meatball style.
She looked them all directly in the eye and spoke, "what you have seen, felt, and heard are real. They are my memories. I have never really died. I was cursed with immortality and could never die until I found you all. My mother had to take the same painful trip through time though she had her scouts."
She shook her head as if in regret, "as you four figured out, you all are the most important males in my life, past, present, and hopefully future." She turned to Malachite, "you for always being there for me when I was down or just needing someone to talk to."
She turned to Senya, "you for being my brother and always comforting me as only family can." She turned to Dagda, "you for being my first friend and love." She finally turned to Endymion, "and you for loving me for who and what I am and accepting my flaws.
For showing me passion and love. For being my soul mate. The fact that you four were able to get here shows that you all mean something important to me. When Dagda unlocked those memories from long ago it triggered this," she waved her hand at the field, "it forced me to face these memories and, if so, be killed by them.
All of you got caught in it." She turned to stare at the woods, "The Imperium Silver Crystal is connected directly to the bearers emotions. It created the world you all went through; the darkness, the black crystal room, all of it.
Over the years I have learned to control my emotions so as to not let this happen." She held out her hand and the Silver Crystal appeared in it.
In front of their eyes the black in the crystal drained, the darkness disappearing into nothing, leaving the crystal as it had been before. Serenity turned her head and said,
"You have helped me by fighting my own power, my own emotions. I will need time to stay here and sort through them." She waved her hand and the field started to disappear. "I will return to earth when I am ready.
Until then do not fret or worry I will be fine." With that the meadow disappeared and the four landed with a thump in Tokyo park, the scouts and other generals around them.
3 days later
Darien sat and sulked over his coffee in Andrew's Café. They had explained everything to the girls and now they waited. Waited for even a sign from Serena. God he missed her. Missed her sarcastic comments, missed her laughter, missed her.
He sighed, 'damn you got it bad.' Dagda had relinquished Metallia and was now staying at the Generals' under their protection. He was worse off than himself. Then again if you tried to kill your best friend because she was on the opposite side of reality it kind of leaves you like that.
Pluto had stayed behind and was comforting Dagda while Haruka, Michiru, and Hotaru stayed in a nearby apartment. He sighed again and sipped his coffee. Andrew was baffled.
First Serena doesn't show up like she normally does for her fudge sundae; second Darien is acting like someone tried to forcefully take out a lung. He was as confused as confused could be but he left if alone and decided to act as if everything were normal.
Later
Kimerina cackled as she shot ice at the warriors whom were pitifully trying to stop her. They were so pathetic! Tuxedo Mask tried to dodge the attack again but the ice caught his leg.
The others were frozen in place and he was the only one still moving. He fell to the ground with a thud and winced as he felt ice start to creep up his torso. Kimerina laughed, "now die in a frozen hell Prince."
The ice was creeping over his throat and he was having trouble breathing. Suddenly the ice started to crack and break and he sucked in air with hard ragged breaths.
He looked up to see his savior and seen the person he had been pining for, Sailor Silver Moon.
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