Chapter Eighteen
By LadyPrin
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Authors note: I love music! I love listening to music all the time! I wanted to use a song in here, but I didn't want to use someone elses song. Because I once did a songfic to Martina McBride's Concrete Angel, it didn't get many reviews and I forgot about it. A couple years later, I got banned for it, couldn't post for 3 months going on four, and so I left fanfiction, and only came back recently as LadyPrin instead of RoseWomen. Since I don't want to get banned again, I came up with my own song. I hope you enjoy it!
Sailor Galaxia stood watching the balls in the Cauldron.
So far no punishment had been handed her, but she knew that she was just waiting.
She had seen everything that had happened and heard everything that had been said in the gazebo.
She didn't like it anymore than Serena and Endymion did.
The future had been changed when Galaxia had snatched Serena and Serenity from their time.
Serena's wedding to Prince Alan had not been meant to happen, but to Galaxia it was preferable to Serena being dead.
But that didn't make Serena and Endymion's pain any less.
It had been an hour since the meeting in the gazebo. Serena had found her way out of the maze and was walking toward the lake.
Endymion had returned home and was just standing in his own garden staring unseeingly at the flowers around him.
Galaxia held the two balls in mid air above the Cauldron. One showed Serena, the other showed Endymion.
Galaxia was reminded of a song she had overheard once many lifetimes ago from another image ball.
She started singing it while watching the two lovers, and oddly enough Serena and Endymion seemed to make the song true in ways that Galaxia thought the writer of the song might never have thought of.
"When the silver moonlight shines across the frozen lake,"
(Serena was sitting on her knees beside the lake now, staring at her reflection in the water. Suddenly she hit the water with both fists and the whole lake turns into solid ice.)
"As your heart in your chest starts to break,"
(Endymion just let the tears flow, hoping that the plants were the only witnesses to his pain and tears.)
"The flowers all around you shall die, and the blue shall drain out of the now blackened sky,"
(The flowers around Endymion were overwhelmed with his pain. They couldn't deal with it, and so wilted. Above them, the sky slowly turned to the black of night.)
"Your feelings will show in the world around you, as your sorrow is reflected back at you,"
(Serena still saw her reflection in the ice. She saw her tear stained cheeks, her red puffy eyes, and she buried her head in her hands as the tears flowed some more.)
"The world knows how you feel, as you come to understand it's real,"
(Serena looks up at the Earth that still hung in the Moon's sky.)
"It's real,"
(Endymion looks up at the Moon)
"Your love was strong but brief,"
(Serena stood up and started walking back to the palace.)
"Almost like a falling leaf, broken from the branch it falls, to the ground without a pause,"
(Endymion notices a single leaf as it breaks from the branch of a tree without any reason, and floated slowly to the ground.)
"No wind blew to sweep it away, on the frozen ground it lay,"
(Endymion watched this solitary leaf, seeing it as a symbol of his love for Serena, hoping that the wind would blow and lift it up, and thereby give him hope that there was still a chance for Serena to be his.)
"Only to be covered up by time,"
(A skittish rabbit shot out from under a bush and trampled the leaf.)
"It never had a chance to shine,"
(Endymion went over and gently picked up what was left of the leaf by its stem. It wasn't even a full-grown leaf yet.)
"You are forced to wed another, forced to keep your emotions under, lock and key, how can this be?"
(Serena wonders into the Palace.)
"Your love for him you must forget, and stop seeing his silhouette, in every shadow that you see,"
(Serena paused for a moment as she thought she saw Endymion standing underneath the grand staircase. She let out a woeful sigh as she realized it was just a shadow.)
"Come on girl let it be, the more you think the more you yearn,"
(Endymion closed his hand around the leaf and held it to his chest.)
"The more you ask the more you learn, it's a love you should never show, and to them never say no,"
(Serena climbed the stairs to her room. She knew she couldn't say no to this marriage. No one would listen if she did, and she couldn't let her people down, neither the Earth people nor the Moon Children. Queen Serenity loved calling the Moon people, Moon Children.)
"You know you can act like you don't care,"
(Ami, Lita, Rei and Mina met her outside her door, asking if she was all right. She told them she was fine, even faked a smile before going into her room and closing the door.)
"But the love will always be there,"
(Ami, Lita, Rei and Mina all knew that she wasn't fine. They were connected to her now, both as friends and protectors, and they could feel her pain. Just like Nephrite, Jedite, Zoisite, and Kunzite could feel Endymion's pain, but they knew better than to ask if he was all right for they already knew the real answer, and they already knew the answer Endymion would give.)
"Both of you will know it, even though you never show it, the love in your hearts will always be there,"
(Serena stands on her balcony, sitting on the railing and staring at the Earth.)
"And a connection you both will always share,"
(Endymion still stood in his garden. Staring at the Moon.)
"But whether or not it will ever show, only time will tell and Heaven know,"
(Serena finally looks away from the Earth and stares at the floor of the balcony.)
"Only time will tell and Heaven, know."
(On that last word of the song, Endymion lets go of the leaf and it floats to the ground to stay.)
Galaxia lays the balls back into the Cauldron, and turns away.
Unshed tears in her eyes.
Please stay tuned, more to come!!! And yes, Ann will be showing up here soon!