Serena had come out of the trance like sleep in which she had had a long talk with her mother. She had found the reason why she had to take that painful trip into her past and had decided she should put the past behind her but not forget its lessons.
She had needed a day to recover and when she had felt the ice witch's power in Tokyo she had transformed and left. She wasn't back up to full power mentally but physically she was fine.
She had arrived to see everyone frozen and Tuxedo Mask on the brink of suffocation. She had easily broken the ice on him and settled her eyes on Kimerina. The ice witch cackled, "Well this is the pathetic moon princess I've heard so much about. It's about time you showed. Time to die!"
She tossed ice bombs at Sailor Moon, who easily dodged them. Sailor Moon's staff came to hand and she pointed it at Kimerina. When she had been in her mind and had talked with her mother she had tapped into her mother's store of knowledge and had now learned everything her mother knew and her grandmother and so forth.
She closed her eyes as ice engulfed her in a frigid bubble. She focused her energy onto the small point of her staff and her eyes snapped open, "Silver Shadow Eruption!"
Molten moon rock raced from the end of her staff, melting the icy bubble and a screaming Kimerina. Sailor Silver Moon didn't watch as the ice witch was fried but went over to the others and unfreeze them.
When Kimerina was nothing but a puddle of ash and blood, she went over to Tuxedo Mask. A small sliver of molten moon rock had flung onto his arm and had burnt it pretty badly. She knelt by Tuxedo Mask's side and put a gloved hand over the burn.
Tuxedo Mask winced but then his eyes widened. Sailor Moon's hand started to glow a white and it felt as if cool water was flowing onto the burn. A second later she removed her hand to see Tuxedo Mask's arm without a single mark to say the burn had been there. He stared at it then turned his astonished face to look at Sailor Moon.
She smiled slightly and stood holding out her hand to help him out. No one had said a word but had stared, awesome struck. Sailor Moon smiled fully at them, "lets get back to the house and get you all warm."
She made a circle with her staff and the circle turned into a portal. Everyone stepped in. The last was Tuxedo Mask whom stopped when Sailor Moon made no move to go with him. Seeing him stop she shook her head,
"I have some business to attend to at the moment." Nodding Tuxedo Mask stepped back away from the portal in clear message he was going to go with her. With a shrug she closed the portal and held out her hand.
The generals and scouts and Senya were at Serena's place wondering where the hell she and Darien were. Their questions were answered when a portal opened and Darien, Serena, and Helios walked through.
Serena quickly went up the stairs and came back down with a tin of something. "Lita can you come here for a moment?" Confused Lita went over and Serena whispered something to her.
An evil grin came over Lita's face as she nodded and took the tin into the kitchen. Serena went over to Senya and next to collapsed in his arms. She didn't cry. Didn't sob. But just cling onto him as if she let go the world would blow up. Senya held her and was grateful his sister was back.
She finally let go and did the same with Malachite and Helios. Lita came back in with the tea and all the Generals paled, "No! Please God no! Not that tea!" Nephrite said and forced away the cup Lita had handed him.
The other Generals did the same with the same expression on their face, fear. Serena got up and walked over in front of them, "do I need to result to earlier measures I had to use to get you four to drink this?"
The Generals, if possible, paled even further but still wouldn't touch the tea. Serena sighed and shrugged. She snapped her fingers and shadows locked the Generals' arms and legs together and forced their mouths open.
The teacups raised and dumped their contents down their throats. She snapped her fingers together and the shadows went back to the dark corners. The Generals' faces got really red and you could pretty much see the fire coming out of their ears. Serena turned to the others and raised an eyebrow at their still full cups.
They all hastily drank it, and saw why the Generals didn't want to drink it. It tasted like liquid fire. But it warmed their still partially frozen blood. While she got many glares, Serena just smiled, "aren't ya glad that I'm back?"
She sat and they all talked. It turned out Serena learned more than spells from her mothers mind and saw signals for a Metallia attack. Kimerina and Dagda (whom had joined them after the tea episode next to squeezing the life out of her. She had kissed him and said it was fine when he began to apologize) had only been probing attacks to test the scouts' abilities and proneness in battle.
If they were to get Metallia and bring her down before she sent in things that were so powerful they made Dagda look like a playful kitten, they had to bring the fight to her.
Which meant they had to enter the Negaverse. For this they had to be united since there was still some frigid tension between Raye and Serena. They talked things over and came to a temporary compromise.
Raye had been wrong to send Serena away but Serena had acted somewhat childish when fighting. When everyone went to bed, Darien stayed. Serena knew what he wanted. She took him up to her own room instead of a guest room.
When the door closed Darien came over to Serena, took her by the shoulders and kissed her, hard. Serena had missed him, much so she didn't resist but kissed him back. When they came up for air, Serena stayed in his arms.
"I missed you" Darien said simply. Serena nodded. "When I looked back I had seen what I needed. I'm sorry for waiting. I love you Darien. Each and every form of you." Darien smiled and picked her up in his arms and carried her to the bed,
"I love you too Serena. Each and every form of you." So that night in Serena's room, they proved it.
A week later they were all back up to full power. It was full moon and they were in a circle in Serena's back yard. "Let me remind you we all won't come out of this alive. That is certain."
They all nodded. Sailor Moon took a deep breath; "give your power to me and Endymion." They all nodded and focused their power. In a flash of light they weren't on the green ground of Serena's backyard anymore. They were in a cold palace.
The palace of the Negaverse.
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