A/N - This chapter was actually the first chapter I had written for this story. I just had to connect the dots.

I had the songs listed below on repeat as I wrote it.

Battle Cry – Imagine Dragons

Revolution (featuring Ruelle) – Unsecret

Hold on for your Life (featuring Sam Tinnesz) – Tommee Profitt

When I decided to do a Him chapter and then a her chapter all the little pieces and characters fell into place. There is more after this. I just haven't caught up yet.

Enjoy!

~Munchkin1978

Chapter 16 – Her

The Moon Crystal's Power

"Serenity it is time to dress."

"I don't want to."

"Prince Diamond will know if you don't arrive."

"I…"

"We know. We don't want to do this either. The Queen had told us if anything should happen we were to use our own crystals. She taught us to be protectors for you if you should have been compromised." Rei said softly.

"We will look after everything else that may come at you. You concentrate on being away from the core like Prince Endymion said. The silver crystal will no doubt react. You need to be able to control it."

"I know Mina. You have no idea." I just wanted to curl up and cry and wait for Endymion to come back for me. We could go back home to the Moon or to another planet.

I stared at my crown. My mothers crown. It had sat on the table since he had taken it from my head. The room was the same as I had left it yesterday morning. I was still in my blue dress from yesterday. I rose and went to the bath. I basically dunked myself and remembered our bath.

He picked me up as he sat on the edge of the tub and placed me around him. "Princess." He said as he entered me again. He moved me in such a way that I had arched my back and my hair had just covered us.

He always called me Princess or Serenity. I want that right now. I want him here. He should be here. I stood from the bath and wrapped a towel around myself. I dressed in my undergarments as I remembered arriving here on earth. Something I didn't want to do as well but in the end I found what I was looking for. I came out of the bathing area trying to be brave for the moment. I looked at all of them waiting for me as I sat. Mina brushed out my hair and pinned it up like I always had it. I was not going to change anything. She placed the crown on my head and helped me up. The others had my dress. I looked at it. "I can't."

"We will protect you Serenity." Mina said.

The tears started to fall as my friends and sisters helped me put on the dress. They slipped the silver white gown over my under clothes on with ease. The crown sitting tightly on my head. The moon crystal placed itself back around my neck. I could feel its power as it knew something was happening. The stand of simple pearls around my wrist completed the look. I looked like my mother. I looked like a queen yet I felt so small. I didn't wish this on anyone let alone myself. I could not believe time had changed. Pluto had guarded the gates of time and space since I was small. I had never met her and no one had ever travelled to the gate. She must be livid if time was taken from her. I stopped crying. I had to be brave. I didn't like it. My friends didn't like it. Endymion didn't like it but I had to be brave. I smoothed down the crease in my dress and followed my ladies out. My tear soaked cheeks dried leaving a slight pink hue. I didn't speak. I just kept my head and eyes down. The shadows in the hall outside my room had changed again. It was past dusk and the full moon was rising. I had started to glow even more than usual. The crown on my head had another piece of the silver crystal that hummed with power. I had not noticed it before as I was not in danger before. Now that I was walking into it I could feel them both. The dress was hers the day she got married to my papa. I should be wearing it for Endymion not Diamond. We were all solemn as we walked down the hallway. No one spoke. No one turned. We knew what we need to do. We felt like we were going into battle. This was the last internal cry we had before we could possibly disappear if Diamond was not stopped.

If you had asked me what I would be doing two weeks ago I would have said I would be on the moon continuing my studies not getting married to an infiltrated prince who was bent on destroying everything to gain the universe. You could not have told me I was going to fall in love with an arrogant prince trying to hide his feelings that matched my own. That the silver moon crystal around my neck would know my destiny with my prince and claim us both.

I stood as tall as I could without raising my head with my hands at my sides. I had no tears in this moment. I realized I had a job to do. I couldn't cry myself out of this. I had to get myself out of this. I am being brave mother. No matter what happened I was brave. I hope you can feel that. I hope you will know that.

Like the day when we arrived just a few days ago, my court stood in front of me shielding me from the guests that had arrived. It had changed here. It seemed larger. The shadows of an hour or so ago long gone. The golden crystal core glowing as my hair did. I didn't dare look up again to see what other changes had been made. I kept to myself and my emotions ran rampant inside but I did not show them. When the girls moved aside letting me step forward was the first true moment I looked up. The fear of the moment this was to begin inching forward.

Everything ran through my head at this time. My heart wished it was Endymion standing beside me. He should be the only man I was to marry. My destiny was with him. The crystal had told us that. The king rose from his throne. Endymion was standing with him and Diamond took his place at my side. I could feel his excitement as he was getting what he wanted. It was mixed with hate and anger. He was gloating that he was getting his way and we had done nothing to stop him. I did not dare look at Diamond I had only eyes for Endymion. I held my arms in front of me as the King descended towards us stopping just a few steps up beside the core.

The core was an awesome power. I could feel it. As I was sure all the rest of the guests could feel it. The surges it had as it flowed through the core and back up. It was searching. I felt it looking for the shard it was missing. I locked eyes not with the King but still with Endymion as his eyes searched my own.

"Welcome. Let the marriage between the Moon Kingdom and Earth commence." He paused. "Prince Diamond of Earth, Princess Serenity from the Moon, the moon is full and as with tradition of both our kingdoms I instill them to you. I King Michael of Earth grant this marriage between worlds to become one. Let this marriage stabilize our core and move us forward towards Peace."

When the king spoke of the core Endymion nodded that it was time. He removed the golden crystal from around his neck showing Diamond what he had. I watched it drop on the chain and glitter in the cores light. The little crystal shard I once had around my neck sparkled and glowed as it realized it would be joined with the much larger core where it belonged. I could feel the anger in the growl Diamond released from his lips. He had not known about the golden crystal I had given to Endymion apparently. Endymion opened his hand that still had the chain and released the crystal into the core as I attempted to stand back. Diamond did know what would happen if the crystal had ever come in contact with the core though. He grabbed my wrists holding me in place. I tugged as hard as I could but to no avail. My pearl bracelet breaking in the process. Diamond's eyes were full of hate and rage. I had never seen anyone with so much rage in my young life. The fear that I would be caught up in the crystals power flooded into me like a storm. It was then I felt the golden crystal meld together with the core sealing it, fixing it, cleansing it. The power of the crystal was reaching out cleansing the evil that was present in the room. The light and power it had reached out to me but it did not envelope me as we had thought it would. It did not destroy me it worked with the silver moon crystal within me instead, forcing me to rise like the moon. The power of the crystal sought out the closest evil which was not Prince Diamond.

The crystal with the moonlight shining on it activated drawing out the Wise One who had magically appeared to direct Diamond to take the silver crystal from me. The agents he had placed with in the guests rose to attack and take what energy they could. The crystal sealed the Wise One taking away all the power he had over everyone else. Diamond could not help but cry out in pain as a crystal shard struck him cleansing him. His real brother had materialized at that moment and he too was sealed by the crystal.

"By the power of the moon and the moon kingdom I exile all evil here."

The crystal rose from within me taking over everything. Whether it was evil, good, prince or princess it enveloped everything and everyone. It sent the evil back to where it had come from leaving the just and good behind. The light that was coming from me ceased as I fell to the floor only to be caught by someone. Everyone was stuck in limbo. A trance like sleep as they all lay on the floor. The power of the crystal was gone from within me. I could not feel it any longer. The hum from my chest and the hum from my crown ceased. It was then I felt despair. The moon kingdom and the power to hold the universe together had ceased to exist. I had the crystal and my mother was powerless to save herself and the moon kingdom. I felt each and every moment as my mother did what she could to suspend them in time like it had been done here. Then she too died from the power she had held. It was as if I was watching it happen before my eyes as she fell to a heap on the ground.

"Be brave and just my princess. Fight for what you believe in. I will always be with you."

"Noooooo." I cried out and reached for the sky. The moon was high in the sky and it had a ring of light around it as it exploded and lay dormant. I watched the sky go dark. The moon disappearing from my sight. The surrounding stars taking up the night sky in its place.

My mother was gone. I could not feel her. The people of the moon kingdom suspended in time. I was in a trance. The crystal lost no longer within me or a fragment left around my neck. I felt Endymion crawl over to reach my side and take my hand.

"Serenity, Princess, my love." Oh my Endymion I reached out with my other hand. My eyes trying to focus just on him.

"I sealed the evil away. I was brave like she asked me to be. I was careful like you asked me to be. She is gone. Her power is mine now but the crystal was too much for me. I love you Endymion. So much. I am glad we found one another."

"You will be okay Serenity." He cried out and caressed my face with his fingertips. "The evil has gone. The Wise One, Diamond. Everything has been cleansed. They are gone. Come back to me my love. Come back and be with me. Live for me."

I felt my chest. The place where the crystal had been within me had left a bloody hole. I had scratches on my chest and arms from the shards of the golden crystal cleansing the evil. It was like the silver crystal was ripped from my body to help the whole universe. I could feel I was not going to make it. I was brave mother. You told me to be brave. I was brave. I was careful Endymion. I was careful for you.

"Serenity your life force is tied to your love. Should one of you die the other will die with you and then you both will be reborn. Always to find each other as this is your destiny."

"No Endymion, my love. We will find each other again." I shed a single tear and closed my eyes and entered a dream like sleep. I was suspended in time like the moon kingdom. I relived my dream over and over. The little boy with the jet black hair had picked one of mother's roses and he had presented it to me while I sat on the bench. A red rose. His rose, his touch and our time together. Endymion my love, my destiny. I remembered my friends and sisters. Ami who always had water and a book, Lita who loved the thunder, rain and green, Rei the future teller and fire starter, and Mina my love sick always there for you friend and sister. My mother, my father and the Moon Kingdom. We had peace again. The universe was at peace. Nemesis had been sealed yet again and I died just like my papa did sealing it away. Just like my mother on the moon did.

The moon kingdom destroyed, earth had been destroyed. I could feel the power of the crystal even though it has left my body. It was working to secure and restart. It was searching for the rebirth. The power of the crystal was restarting the universe. We were suspended in space. I felt sparks of life. Earth and the Moon had been reborn. The planets and the universe had been reborn.

I felt it eventually return to me as I slept in suspended trance like animation.

Then I opened my eyes…