The next morning, Gabriel, and the rest of the Celestials made their final preparations for their journey to Astromia. Gabriel was eager to get to his kingdom, but yet didn't want to leave his angel after being kidnapped, not months before.

The Scouts, Queen Serenity, and, naturally, Serenity walked the five warriors to the fountain in the courtyard to say their goodbyes. Gabriel turned to his wife and kissed her soft lips, then looking into her tear filled eyes.

"Serenity, I will be back as soon as I can," Gabriel said holding her close, not wanting to let her go.

"The Scouts and I can still come with you, please just give us time to pack." Serenity said sniffing and tears began to run down her face.

"I can't, not this time;" Gabriel said wiping a tear from her eyes. "All I can ask is for you to stay her and wait for me."

"I will, I promise." Serenity said kissing his lips. "Just be careful."

"I will."

"Remember Serenity, Gabriel is considered to be one of the best warriors in Astromian history," Lance said reassuringly. "Trust me, he will be back, we all will;" He said now looking at Venus and smiling.

"We better get to Astromia, the sooner the better." Ryan said.

They all said their goodbyes, each guy kissing their girlfriend, before turning around and walking to the center of the path.

"Gabriel, wait…NO!" Serenity said grabbing his arm. "Don't leave, I need you."

"I know and I need you, but I have to stop this from getting any worse." Gabriel said looking into her desperate eyes. "Remember, you have two things to know I am with you, the star locket and this necklace." Lifting the necklace around Serenity's neck; it was the very necklace he gave her the day they met; the one with a gold phoenix, encased by a diamond which was attached to a crescent moon that matched the symbol of the moon kingdom.

"If you every get lonely, grip or kiss the necklace and listen to the locket. It will be a reminder of my vow to come back." Gabriel added then kissing her again. "I love you Serenity."

"I love you Gabriel." She kissed him one last time before the five transformed and were gone.

That day Serenity did nothing but stay in her room, gripping the necklace with the music playing from the locket. "I hope it ends soon, I miss him so much," she said out loud to herself.

Astromia

The five landed at the palace gate and transformed back to their human forms.

"Prince Gabriel, it so good to see you again," said a broad chested soldier, with long brown hair down to his shoulders and blue eyes.

"Good to see you Leonius, where are my parents?"

"They are in the throne room, shall I get them?"

"Yes, tell them to meet me in the command center and make sure Captain Tryso is there as well."

"Yes sir," the soldier bowed and ran towards the palace, while the Gabriel and the Celestials headed towards the military base.

On the way, the Celestials spotted a look on Gabriel's face, it was the very look when it came to Prince Diamond…determination and anger. They knew not to say anything to him when he had that look. They arrived at the command center. The Astromians were very high technological for the era; the walls were white marble; with black marble flooring; they had a center alter, also in black marble to blend in with the flooring, with a digital hologram of the entire kingdom; on the wall was a screen marked of all the attack locations and what order they were made; with four men in the room monitoring it.

As Gabriel walked in they all stopped and bowed.

"Your majesty it's so great to…." A young soldier started to say before Gabriel held up his hand.

"Not now, what are we looking at?" Gabriel said.

"Yes sir, it seems that from what we are determining most of their attacks are coming from the west."

"Is there anything else? Where was their heaviest attack?"

"It was our arms development; Captain Tryso stopped that assault," the young solder said, "no further attacks there at this time."

"How many men?"

"Approximately 10,000 lives lost on our end the Torturians at least 50,000."

Leonius walked in alongside Gabriel's parents, Queen Noel and King Alexum.

"Oh darling it so good to see you," Queen Noel said going to give her son a hug, but he put his hand behind him to stop her.

"Not now, where is Captain Tryso?" Gabriel said in a commanding tone

"Here your majesty," said a broad shouldered man, jet black haired man and green eyes, with silver chest plate and a black sheathed sword with a gold grip, holding a silver helmet at his side, "as you requested."

"Good, come I need to know the status of where our positions are." Gabriel said, with that the captain walked over and stood next to Gabriel.

"Our positions are here…here…and here." He said pointing at the mountain, forest, and an ocean based regions. "Our weakest seems to be in the forest and ocean areas."

"Ok what weapons, do we have in each region?"

"The mountains have about 20% of our infantry and 20% of our archery; the ocean has mostly all horsemen and the ocean about the same."

"What about the field in the center?"

"Not much, we figured we'd set up on the sides, they mostly head to the center."

"Alright, I see what you're trying to do in the forest area. However, we need to remove half of the archery in there, but leave the ones on the mountains. Remove at least 10% of our infantry from the mountains and stick them in the forest, after all the snow from the mountains will slow them and us down enough, as it is. I want a mix of archers and horse man mostly there. If we're going to do guerilla warfare; we're going to do it right. It's a 'U' shaped pattern in the field covered by forest so that will do it."

"Yes sir, what about the water side of it?"

"How much action have they seen?"

"Not much, sir"

"Alright, pull out all the horsemen. Yes, ALL of them the brush from the forest will cover that from our amount there. Once, that's done take a quarter of the set up that is on the western side and put it in the south and the east, and the best archers and horseman in the mountains. Also, make sure you have Astromian scouts observing the kingdom from the mountains. "

"Yes sir."

"Dismissed," Gabriel said with that the captain left, "keep me informed."

"Yes sir, by the way your majesty it's great to see you again."

Gabriel smiled at the man as he walked out of the command center, closing the door behind him.

"Now, we can talk," Gabriel said smiling and looking at his mother before they embraced.