Chapter Thirty-Two
LadyPrin
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Final Chapter
Serenity felt her daughter's life flicker out of existence, and she started crying.
She had known that this would happen. She had known from the very moment that she had found out that the Scouts were dead, that this would happen.
This was the big battle where Good had to lose to Evil. Where a big sacrifice on the Good side had to be made in order to balance out the scales.
Summoning strength from her sorrow and anger and the Crystal, Serenity wiped out all of the monsters on the face of the Moon.
Beryl wasn't worried though. She had plenty more where those came from.
But then Serenity did something unexpected.
The Crystal was the source of power for the atmosphere. The Crystal was what made the atmosphere here on the Moon, which was what made it possible for living beings to live there.
Serenity made the Crystal shrink the atmosphere to just a medium sized bubble around herself.
Beryl had to quickly make an air bubble around her in order to stay alive as the cold vacuum of space pushed in upon the Moon's surface, putting out the fires, pushing over more ruins, killing off plants, drying the lake, and spreading dust everywhere.
Beryl couldn't see where Serenity was for all the dust hid her from Beryl's view, but Beryl was patient.
She waited.
Serenity leaned back on a fallen pillar, catching her breath.
She raised her hand and looked at her Crescent Moon wand. The Impearium Silver Crystal glittered in its place on the inner bottom of the Crescent Moon.
"You're Majesty!" Two voices cried to her.
She looked around and saw Luna and Artemis running toward her through the dust.
They both were in their human forms, Luna her long black hair flying about her, Artemis his short blond hair all messed up.
They came to her side and their personal atmospheres joined with hers.
"My Lady!" Luna cried as she knelt beside the pillar.
"Luna, Artemis! I'm so glad to see you two!" Serenity exclaimed.
"My Lady, everyone is dead!" Luna cried as tears spilled from her eyes.
"I know." Serenity assured her. "But there may still be hope, since you two are here. I have enough energy left to do one last thing."
Luna and Artemis stared at her for a moment and then glanced at each other with wide eyes.
"But you're Highness, you'll die!" Luna cried.
"Yes, but all my precious Moon Children will live, so I don't mind." Serenity replied. "You know what is required of you right?"
"Yes." Luna and Artemis replied in union for Serenity had discussed this plan with them once soon after the last battle with Beryl.
Luna and Artemis backed up and transformed back into their cat selves.
They silently watched as Serenity gently pulled the Crystal off the wand. Serenity let go as the wand hung in the air, disappearing in little sparkles. When it was gone, Serenity held the Impearium Silver Crystal up in the air and let go. It hung there for a moment suspended, and then suddenly it was encased in a pink broach that had the marks of the Moon, and four inner planets.
Serenity held the broach in both her hands for a moment.
"You know what to do after I've finished right?" She asked them.
"Yes." Luna and Artemis responded.
Serenity closed her eyes, and combined the last of her energy and power to the Crystal's power.
A blind white light enveloped the whole Moon Kingdom, and bodies started rising up from the rubble, all surrounded in their own little bubble of air.
'Pluto, I know you're still alive, and can hear me. Please, help me one last time.' Serenity pleaded.
Pluto opened her eyes halfway to see that she was surrounded by hundreds of monsters. They were ignoring her, because they all thought her dead.
After she did what she was planning on doing, she would be.
She had used the Granite Orb to focus all her power on the Time Gate, because if she focused all her raw power on the Gate without something for it to channel through first, the Time Gate could be destroyed, or the travelers might come out in the wrong place, or they might come out in the right place just not with all the right body parts. Now matter what the outcome might be though, she knew that after using all her raw power like that, she would die.
But the Granite Orb was shattered; she had no choice.
She drew all her power together within herself, which attracted the attention of the monsters, but before they could do anything, she flung her power at the door.
The symbols all moved across the doors with more speed than ever before.
The planet symbol stopped on Earth, the Time Destination symbol stopped too, but Pluto couldn't see on what because a monster had blocked her vision.
With the last of her power, Pluto moved the Time Gate.
It disappeared from her view and hopefully reappeared beside Serenity.
'Thank you, dear friend!' Serenity whispered in Pluto's mind, confirming the arrival of the Gate.
Pluto smiled one last time.
A monster moved to strike a final blow, but Pluto the Guardian of Space and Time was already dead.
Serenity used the Crystal's power to move the Time Gate up high above her.
She maneuvered all the Moon Children straight through it.
Beryl tried to stop her, but the Crystal kept flinging her further away each time she got too close.
Serenity even reached out to Pluto and Saturn, encased them within their own air bubbles, and sent them through the door.
"Hurry!" Serenity cried to the cats.
The cats ran at her and jumped as if to jump up on her chest.
The Crystal quickly encased them in their own air bubbles, but since they weren't dead, they could still move around.
Serenity held both bubbles for a moment.
Then she pushed them up toward the Gate, pushing the Crystal's broach into Luna's bubble where it disappeared inside Luna's dimensional pouch.
The bubbles speeded up and went through the Gate, which closed behind them with a final snap, and then disappeared itself.
As the bubbles left Serenity's personal atmosphere, she collapsed against the pillar.
Her last breath left her as her atmosphere shrank away.
The last thing she saw was the Earth hanging peacefully in the starry sky of space.
Beryl was really angry by now, but she was not ready to accept defeat.
"I cannot let the Princess regain the Crystal! It will ruin EVERYTHING!!!" She screamed to the now lifeless moon. "Luckily for me though, I saw the coordinates for where they went. Mettalia will help me follow them. I will see the last of the Serenity's dead!!!"
Then she too disappeared.
Years after years passed.
Layers of moon dust and space dust collected upon the ruins of the old Silver Millennium Moon Kingdom, covering it completely. Soon there was no sign that life ever existed on that rock.
The Earth meanwhile prospered, though all memory of the Moon Kingdom, Sailor Scouts, Prince of the Earth, and Magic died out.
After a thousand years of calm prosperity, scientists saw what they thought was a meteor shower, but in reality it was something much more.
The Time Gate opened up in the space above the moon's gravity pull.
Thousands upon thousands of the Moon Children came through the Gate, still in their bubbles, for them it only having been a minute since they left the Moon Kingdom.
They all fell toward Earth and then disappeared in flashes of light.
The Time Gate disappeared after Luna and Artemis came out.
Scientists think that the 'meteors' burned up in the atmosphere, but really the Moon Children were on their way to being reborn as Earth Children, having no memory of their lives before.
Fourteen years after they are reborn, Beryl will enter their time.
Luna and Artemis shall remember, and though their memories shall be sketchy, they will start searching for the Sailor Scouts and Moon Princess.
Artemis will be the first to find one. Sailor Venus will fight for a while in London as Sailor V, but when Artemis gets word from Luna that she's found another Sailor Scout in Tokyo, Sailor V will leave England and go to Tokyo to rejoin the group.
Though Luna will find Serena first, she will not remember that Serena is the Princess, nor will Serena remember.
Soon all the Inner Scouts, and Prince Endymion shall be reunited, and the Princess shall be revealed, and Beryl shall be destroyed once and for all.
But what happened to Alan and Ann? They died on the Moon and so they were reborn with the others, but not on Earth as human beings. The Time Gate dropped them off back at their own home planet, to be reborn with the Tree of Life. The royal line had been broken when Alan and Ann had died, so they are only civilians now.
But when Queen Beryl came into the future, the evilness she carried with her spread to Alan and Ann's home planet, and destroyed it.
Alan and Ann were the only survivors. They escaped with the Tree of Life, but the Tree was poisoned with evil already, and so Alan and Ann were poisoned to.
And though Alan and Ann's actions were evil, they were just trying to survive.
Serena as the Sailor Scout Sailor Moon shall use her love and power to purge the Tree of all the evilness within it, and so purge Alan and Ann of the evil within them.
Though none of them were ever to remember their first meeting over a thousand years ago, from that moment on they shall remember each other.
Now you might be asking what became of Sailor Galaxia? What was her punishment for tipping the balance of the Scales when it wasn't time to be tipped?
She eventually had to seal away Chaos itself inside of her, to save all the universes.
She suffered for years as Chaos ate away at her, and eventually took control.
She came to Earth chasing anther Princess, but that Princess's Sailor Scouts known as the Starlight's would team up with Princess Serenity in the end.
Using her power of Love and Forgiveness, Princess Serenity would release Sailor Galaxia from Chaos, and in doing so free her of her punishment.
Sailor Galaxia, having been through so much, would not remember why that punishment had befallen her, but she would go back to guarding the Galaxian Cauldron after reversing the destruction she had caused on many planets.
Eventually in time, the balance will naturally, permanently tip in the favor of Goodness.
Princess Serenity and Prince Endymion will finally marry, and take up the thrones of the new Neo Crystal Tokyo, as Neo Queen Serenity and Neo King Endymion.
And though evil will never fully be wiped out, and will never stop fighting for a handhold on what it considers to be rightfully theirs, the Light of Goodness shall never fade.
Neo Queen Serenity, Neo King Endymion, and all of the Neo Scouts descendents will make sure of that.
And should you ever get the chance to go to the Moon, perhaps you will be lucky enough to find the Everlasting Fire Rose that still burns bright underneath the dust and ruins to this day.
It is because of the Fire Rose that we sometimes see the Moon as gold colored, because every now and then, it blazes bright enough to warm the Moon when love on Earth is overflowing.
The End
It's been great writing this story! I've loved doing it! Thanks to all who reviewed, especially to those who stuck with me while I was banned from the site, and received the chapters by email.
This is probably the last Fan Fiction I'll be doing for a while, as I have books of my own in the process of being made. I want to devote my time to those in the hopes that at least one of them will be published one day. Wish me luck please!
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Once again, thank you all!
LadyPrin