New Beginnings Chapter 22 - Roses, a sailor moon fanfic

A/N - I have every other chapter in HER done but I am still writing HIM chapters right now. I hope everyone is liking it so far. I have taken bits and pieces from the series. I have the manga books but still am looking to watch Crystal. I know enough from the manga to put together what has happened in Crystal.

I tend to write to the epic trailer and movie music on you tube. I just stream it. So there are a few that have been replayed over and over as it streams.

Please read and review it is much appreciated. If something doesn't jive let me know.

Enjoy!

~Munchkin1978

Chapter 22 – Her

Roses

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.

He sat down on the bed beside me and turned to me taking strands of my hair in his hands and just letting it run over his hands. His jet black hair so dark compared to mine. With the moonlight and the crystal it changed my clothes to the dress he saw me in all those years ago. Silvery white with golden strands. Pearls over the shoulders draped just enough to make a sleeve.

I didn't wake up with a start again. I had more pains in my chest though. I was assured that there was nothing wrong when I went to the hospital last night by Darien. My phone I could hear was buzzing from the counter top. I got up and came out of my bedroom and picked it up. It had a message from Ami that she was up and around today. I texted her back and said that I had been at the hospital last night and was well looked after by Dr. Michaels. I neglected to tell her that he also drove me home and bought me coffee yesterday. She didn't need to know that. I smiled at the thought of last night. He was close and I could feel the sparks between us. I was drawn to him. There was something about him. I turned my attention back to my phone and continued with my messages.

I shot Mina a text as well and said I was fine and would see her on Monday at the school but I may need a ride since my car was caput with out an alternator. She said sure and to let her know. I put my phone face down and I pulled my lap top across the counter and pulled up the internet. I typed in Darien's full name and a newspaper story popped up.

I skimmed it and learned that his father owned a huge medical company. He wanted to go out on his own and separate himself as a doctor from the company but that didn't stop him from inheriting the company when his father passed. He already had a chunk of the money when he turned 18 which the article said he used for school, and then when he turned 25. He was one of the cities top bachelors but he had no dating history in the article outside of one girl who he was no longer with it said.

I sat and just starred at the article in front of me. The picture of him smiling back at me starred at me. It was like he was starring into my soul. I couldn't help but blush. I was acting silly. It was just a picture for Fuck sakes. I looked away and started to head to the bathroom. I quickly washed my face and tied my hair up. I had no where to go. So I dress in lounge wear. I put on another tank top over my bra and the yoga pants I had on last night. I came back out and again started to look at the article. I left the picture up as it followed me around the kitchen.

The doorbell rang as I poured my coffee into a cup. I was glad I had dressed as I was not expecting anyone to be at my door today. I was just going to watch movies and lounge in bed to catch up my sleep. I looked through the peep hole first and all I saw was flowers. Roses. I opened the door and the delivery man had a rose delivery for Serena Knight.

"That's me." I said as he held out the pen.

"Sign here please."

I took the pen and signed and handed the pen back to him as he handed over the vase full of roses. They were big and so beautiful. I was about to close the door with my elbow when it was blocked by something. I opened it back up with my elbow and foot to find Darien standing there with a rose in his hand leaning on the doorway. If I hadn't known better he was trying to look sexy and it was working because I noticed.

"Hi." He said as he held the rose close to his face. "I hope you like them." He said as his eyes looked at the vase full of flowers.

"Huh?" I questioned him. I realized in a split moment that I had no makeup on my long blonde hair was tied up in a messy buns on either side of my head. I looked like I had just rolled out of bed which I pretty much almost had. I looked at the card on the vase and they were from him.

Hope you feel better soon!

Hope you like them.

Darien

"You sent them?" I asked looking at him over the flowers. My eyes wide as I inhaled the smell of the roses.

"Yes I felt bad that we couldn't figure out what was going on. Plus your car. There is something about you that I am drawn to. Like I need to protect you from something. I hope it is okay that I sent you flowers? I also have news of your car." He was trying to get everything out before I closed the door on him which was not happening.

"No one has ever sent me flowers before. Thank you it is more than okay." I smiled. "I thought you were only interested in your career?" That is what you had said last night. I knew the questions he had last night were more than what he was letting on. Especially the round about boyfriend question. I smiled to myself at the thought.

"I am but I thought you would like them." His facial expression didn't match what he had said but I didn't bring it up. He looked like he wanted to be closer to me. I would not have objected to it in the least.

"I do. Thank you." They were large roses and so beautiful. They reminded me a lot of my tattoo and the one I had seen on his arm last night at the hospital.

"However the delivery man missed one."

"What?" I said as I invited him in. I did a mental note as to the state of my apartment as I put the vase down and quickly closed the laptop. He didn't need to know I was doing a search on him. I glanced at the rest of the apartment and it was decent enough. I turned back around and he stood before me holding a single red rose.

"It spilled out of the vase." He held it between his fingers and it was like I was drawn to him. Like he had done this before. Something about this moment I had lived before.

I reached out and took the rose from him. My hand connected with his. The spark we had felt days ago on our finger tips again. It was in that moment I felt every movement of my heart. Every beat I had ever had. It felt like it had exploded in my chest and stopped all in one. The past few days ran through my head like a movie in fast forward. I dropped to the ground in a trance like sleep. My eyes were open and I could see but not really see. He had dropped to the ground like I had. It was like we had both been struck down by lightening. It was like I had left my body and was seeing myself lying there with him. A jolt of memories flooded my head. One after another, in slow motion. A journey of arrogance, love, evil and rebirth all in one as I was sucked back into my body.

I was young it was before my papa died in the Earth war. The fighting had subsided enough for a gathering to recoup and plan the next stages. It was a party and I saw another young boy with jet black hair following another boy with bluish silver hair similar to my own. I watched them run circles around each other in the garden as the older one dangled something over the other's head. The younger one jumped high and fell hurting his hand. 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.

I pulled my hood down to look around and again my hair started to glow in the moon light. I ran forward only to trip and fall and be caught by someone. They had me by the waist a grip I had felt before. A grip that had lingered just a little too long earlier. I turned and the Prince was face to face with mine. His dark eyes glittered in the darkness and his face was soft not the arrogant smirk I was used to seeing when he was in close proximity to me. He loosened his grip on my waist as I got my footing. Again his arms lingering just a little longer this time.

"Be careful Princess. You are going the wrong way. Camp is that way." He pointed us in the right direction and started to walk. "Are you coming? Like I said I don't want you lost in the woods."

"I am to look after you." He was smirking again. Even though I could not see it. "Besides you can't go out looking like that. Someone would steal you away. You are glowing."

"You are fragile and not of this planet. We must change not only our appearance but our names as well. I am Darien when I come here. You should change your name as well. We will be a travelling couple." He paused. "My brother is not to know I brought you here. He would disapprove along with my Father."

"You are easily moved aren't you?" He asked not moving. He was watching my eyes. He was trying to feel out what was happening. I didn't move from him or fight him. I like him, was watching. My anger was gone. He pulled me closer. "I know you are my brother's but I am drawn to you." He pushed a stray strand of hair out of my face from across my eyes. "You are his..."

"I think I am just as drawn to you as you are to me. I don't know what it is. I have never felt like this before. I've never been kissed before. I have never had someone with me other than my court beside one time. That one time I was on my own and they were kind enough to give me a rose. They disappeared before I could thank him."

His facial features changed again. "As a young boy I remember playing in a garden." He paused. "A girl was watching my brother and I playing. I got a way from him and found a perfect rose. I picked it and gave it to the girl in the white dress." He was talking as if he was in a trance. Like he was living it right now. "She was about to talk to me when Father had called for me." He paused and looked at me. "She was you, wasn't she?"

I nodded. "You disappeared before I could thank you. I was so young and I couldn't follow you. I wasn't supposed to be at the party so I stayed in the gardens to watch. When I arrived on this planet I started to remember. It has been in my dreams since I arrived. It was one of the last days my papa was alive. He died here on Earth sealing the evil away that infiltrated this planet."

I sat on the bed. The moonlight shining through the open window hit my silver hair. I took a strand and twirled it around my finger. The crystal around my neck and the silver crystal on my wrist glittered. I couldn't hide them at this moment. I wasn't trying to. The moon light felt good. I loved my home and wanted to be there again but knowing now what I do that the little boy that handed me the rose was standing before me. I reached up and touched my lips. It felt right. I looked at Endymion who was still watching me.

"Thank you Princess. You don't know what this means." He kissed me quickly before the others noticed. "The crystal connects to the center of the palace. It goes into the core of the Earth this is why the palace, the Golden palace is in middle earth at the center." He looked me in the eyes. "With out it the Earth is vulnerable to all evil and could be destroyed at any time."

We stopped after we put some distance from us and the brothel behind. I dismounted without help and just curled up on the ground in a heap of tears and crystals. What had I been sent to? Why was I here? Was this what was meant for me? Am I the one that will end everything? I cried out and when Endymion reached me he stopped his horse and flew off of him and reached the ground with out a second thought.

"Serenity, Princess." He pulled me to him as the crystals formed around us. They shielded us from the outside world. I cried as the crystals entered my body. They entered me but they also entered Endymion. They were tying our life forces together.

"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." The appearance of my mother in my mind told me.

I stopped crying as the crystals that had formed returned and entered into one crystal. The silver crystal was now around my neck hidden from the world around us.

"You die I die Endymion. We are one destiny." I said raising my head to his.

"Princess," he had my head in his hands and nodded he understood me.

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. I had worn it so I had felt its power at one time. 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 worked with the silver moon crystal within me instead, forcing me to rise like the moon.

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. Everyone was stuck in limbo. A trance like sleep. The power of the crystal gone from within me. It was then I felt despair. The moon kingdom and the power to hold the universe together ceased to exist. I had the crystal and my mother was powerless to save her the kingdom. I felt each and every moment as my mother did what she could to suspend them in time. Then she too died from the power she had held.

"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."

"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 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 crystal that was within me and around my neck connected and laced together as it hovered above me incasing both of us inside. The crystal that had remained in him connected to mine as we remembered each and every moment together from the past to the now.

"Endymion." I said as my eyes truly opened. My chest pain gone. "My love." I reached out with my hand to try and touch the memories but they were gone.

"Serenity, my Princess….." He was kneeling by my side now just as awake as I was. His fingers trailing the side of my face. I craved his touch in this moment and he had did just that.

I looked up and saw the crystal as it floated back down to my chest but it did not enter it. Instead it turned to a crystal flower. A flower that symbolized our destiny.

"We were reborn. Here on Earth in the future." I finally said looking up at him from the crystal.

Darien helped me sit up as the crystal landed in my hand. I looked at him as he was looking at me. "I remember everything. The golden crystal. The silver crystal. Us. The moment we left earth and the moment we were reborn."

"It drew us back together." I looked at the crystal as he picked it up in his hand. It glowed as if it had activated again. A figure came from the crystal and floated up like the moon. I looked at Darien and back at the figure. "Mother…." I whispered wide eyed.

"You both have a destiny to be with each other. All that were vital to the two of you will now remember that they were reborn. The moon kingdom lives within you my sweet princess. Cherish this life and live to your fullest and in time you will be reborn again as it is your destiny to always find each other in this life and the next. The past is no more but a memory. The Evil dispelled. Change the world my darling daughter. Be your best both of you. Should the evil arise again you will have the tools to dispel it."

"Wait were you not reborn?" I asked frantically looking at her.

"No my darling. I used the last of my own power to help the crystal create a new Earth. An Earth that would change its ways and excel. Not be the earth of the past. This core is stable it can not be destroyed. Time and space have calmed. You both will always be in my heart as I will be in yours. The silver moon crystal will always protect you both. But remember should one of you die the other will and both of you will be reborn."

I watched her disappear into the crystal as it floated back down to my hand. The rose Darien had in his hand lay beside me. I watched him pick it up and give it to me. The crystal sensing the trigger changed us both. My silver hair returned. My silver wedding dress. His uniform. He stood up and helped me up. His touch to the small of my back sent a thrill through me like never before. He pulled me closer and kissed me. We were strangers that had just met a day or so ago but we had waited billions of years for this moment. I looked at him through my silver blue eyes and really truly saw him. I touched his face with my hand and he pulled me in for another kiss.

"Serenity."

"Endymion."