A/N - This is a little shorter than the her chapter but it used the same music.

Battle Cry – Imagine Dragons

Revolution (featuring Ruelle) – Unsecret

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

Enjoy!

~Munchkin1978

Chapter 17 – Him

The Universe

My father rose from his throne as I rose from beside him. Just an hour or so ago I had left her. I didn't want to leave her. In just a few days we had connected and become one. Learned our fate and embraced each other for it. It should be me standing there not Diamond. What ever had been done to his family to cause him to do this I didn't know. I watched Mina nod her head ever so slightly that they understood what was happening. I had placed my generals by the entrance of the many doorways to the core. They would assist if something should fail. I looked around before settling my eyes back to her. Mina and Ami parted and revealed Serenity to everyone.

Diamond was waiting for Serenity at the core as my father reached them. I had just witnessed her unveiling by her court. Much like when we arrived a few days ago but all with solemn faces. Determined faces to beat what they knew was coming in the moments that followed. Serenity had been crying when I left and I could see she had been crying again. Her face was dry however her eyes only looked upon me. Serenity kept her hands to her self as I saw Diamond try to reach for them. She continued to only look directly at me. She did not care that all she was doing was looking at was me. She was focused. She knew what I was going to do in just moments.

The crystal around my neck tucked under my royal seal was pulling. It wanted to reconnect back to the core where it belonged. I could feel its power trying to bond before it had touched the rest of the core. I didn't dare pull it out now. It was too early. I need just a few moments more.

I watched her eyes as they changed. She could feel the crystals power as well as her own. She blinked but did not break contact. As the guests and party stood still my father waved his hands and the guests sat. I moved one step closer to the core. Not taking a chance that I was too far away. I held my hands at my side, my gloved hand itching to remove the crystal and the power it held.

My father waited for the moment of silence before he spoke. "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."

I waited for when my father started to talk of the core and the stability of the moon and the Earth when they became one. I nodded at Serenity who had not once taken her eyes off me. She knew it was time. I slipped the golden crystal up and over from around my neck and dangled it in front of me. The chain remaining clutched in my hands as it swayed picking up the light from the core. The crystal caught the eye of Diamond. The very thing he had been searching for all along on Earth. The other crystals he was looking for was within Serenity and myself. The realization of what was going to happen evident to him as his whole demeanor changed. The anger he had in that moment surpassed the moment of anger I had when my mother died. I heard him growl such an awful guttural growl. I had one upped him. He had no idea I had the crystal when he claimed to know everything. He watched as I opened my hand. The chain and the crystal just up and left my hand joining it self back to the core from which it had come all those years ago. I watched as it fused itself making the core whole. Sparks flew out of the core hitting everything in its path as it fused. I stepped back as far as I could with out breaking eye contact with Serenity. The sparks and shards flew about hitting her and hitting him. She didn't flinch she didn't break contact with me. I saw everything she did as she saw everything I was doing.

Serenity attempted to move back from the core like I had told her to. She was stopped as Diamond had her wrists and holding her on the spot. I went to move to her but Diamond held her tighter. He did know what would happen to her if she did not move. She would be destroyed and hurt beyond recognition. I watched her struggle to break free. Her eyes frantic the fear present in all her movements. A spark flew out and pierced her arm shattering the pearls that lay over them.

I could see the rage from Diamond as he held her wrists breaking the other strand of pearls around her wrist in the process. His eyes told me everything I needed to know in that moment. Save Serenity at all costs. It was in that moment something else in her changed. The fear she had was gone. She had closed her eyes and was feeling the power of both the crystals. The one that was in the core and her own. I could feel it too. The sheer power of them fixing everything that was wrong with the core. The evil magic that had taken over the palace and certain people with in were cleansed. They were waking up fresh not knowing or remembering what had happened while they were in a trance. The crystal core reaching out beyond the palace grounds cleansing all that had been affected. The sheer power of the crystal's blinding light went through all of us around the core. The moonlight that had shone through elevated Serenity as if she was the moon rising into the night sky. The crystal rose with her as she held it over her head. The darkest of evil showing itself as she did in the sky.

Wise One

He rose from the guests as a hooded cloaked figure. The agents he had brought were taken down by my knights. Serenity's court used their own crystals to dispel the evil among them. I watched as Serenity sealed the Wise One and shatter the mirror she had sealed him in. The cry I heard after was Diamond as a mirror and crystal shard pierced him. He was cleansed of the evil magic that sat upon his head as hidden gem stone third eye. Much like Beryl he slumped over and turned brittle before returning to himself.

A dark haired young man materialized and helped Diamond up. Both were sealed into a mirror and sent away disappearing into thin air.

"By the power of the moon and the moon kingdom I exile all evil here." I heard Serenity cry out as the light she had been emitting again went through everything and everyone. No matter good or evil. They were all struck and sucked into a sleep like trance. My father included. She cried out tears falling from her eyes. The crystal was showing her the power it had on the universe and then the moon kingdom. Since I had a piece of the crystal within me I saw it before my eyes as well. Her mother's death in the moment the sky went dark as the moon exploded. The stars were the only light remaining for Serenity to draw power from.

I started to move but it was like it was slow motion. She dropped from the sky like a rock. I had to reach her before she fell to her death. The fear I had had forgotten as I jumped over sleeping bodies. I caught her just as she was coming down. Time suspended in this moment. It was just her and I. I crawled to put her head in my lap and took her hands in mine. I watched the crystal disappear before us not returning back to her as it should have. It was working. I could feel the power it had over the earth. It was holding on to both of us waiting.

"Serenity, Princess, my love." She reached up to the sky but not touching me or anything in particular. Her eyes were trance like as a spark of light glazed over them.

"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." Tears started to fall from her eyes as she touched my face.

"You will be okay Serenity." I told her as I did the same just touched her face, pulling away the strands of hair covering her eyes as she had fallen scratches evident as the blood soaked her hair. "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 cried out to her as I held her in my arms. Then I remembered what her mother had said about our destiny. I looked down at her chest. Where the crystal had been left a hole. The scratches from the core's crystal dotted not only her face but her arms as well. Her dress was torn and the pearl sleeves destroyed. She was a mess and I needed her to live. I needed her to fight. Fight for us, the moon and the earth.

"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."

She shed a single tear and closed her eyes. She entered a sleep like the others around us. I felt her slip away from me as I too in that moment slipped into a dream like state. I love you Serenity. I will find you again. I will always find you. It is our destiny and ours alone.

My princess, my love…. If only had found you sooner. Had more time with you.

Something was drawing me to her. Her eyes it was her eyes. They looked like she wanted to play. I stood up and watched as she was watching us. I went to the closest rose bush. My mother had these on Earth as well. I picked the prettiest one I could see. Just like my mother taught me. I broke the stem and left Diamond to fend for him self. He was coveting the stone that Father had given to me. He had entrusted it to me. I wandered over to the young girl. She was from the Moon. She had silver hair like the Queen and King. I was not much older than her yet she sat by herself outside.

I walked up to her and handed her the rose.

I took her face in my hands being as gentle as I could. I looked in her eyes and kissed her again. It was just as I remember. Her sitting on that bench watching me. "Serenity…." I said before I kissed her again.

"Endymion."

Then I too opened my eyes…

A/N - second note - debating if I should do the second part of this story within this one. I'll decide later. I am working on a few more of those chapters so it will be posted when I finish however I decide to do it.

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