Sorry everyone! I didn't mean to make you wait so long. I kept losing my flash drive for several days or weeks at a time before I could finish. But anyway, here it is! The last chapter!

Note: Sailor Moon doesn't belong to me, only the story does.

Enjoy!

Chapter 12

"Are you all prepared to take over the Earth, destroy the warriors and avenge our master?" said the high commander.

"Yeah!!" said the warriors of the Darkmoon.

"Then let's go!"

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"Warriors," said Pluto suddenly on alert, "someone has just broken the Earth's atmosphere and is approaching very rapidly."

"That must be them," whispered Diamonds.

"Then we must go and do what we were destined to do," Reni said to them.

"Yes," agreed Pyro readily, "we must do what we have always done; fight for our planet and our princess and future queen."

"Right!" they said in unison.

"But remember," Reni began, "I am still unable to protect myself and I need protection until I have regained my strength."

"I will protect you," said Warrior Earth, as he kneeled.

"As will I," said Diamonds, bowing as well.

"I thank you both," She said to them, "but we best be off now. They'll be here in any moment."

"Right let's go. For the Earth and our Future Queen Serenity," called out Jupiter.

"For the Earth and our Future Queen Serenity," the warriors called out. And they were off to the battlefield to face down a very powerful enemy. From what Diamond had told them in those few moments before the battle was that the warriors of the Darkmoon were coming down in waves of 100 every hour. There were twenty waves in all, making up two thousand warriors of the Darkmoon against eleven warriors of the Moon. These odds were only good if they were able to take down their enemies as soon as they came down.

Since Reni was out of the battle for about another forty-five minutes and the two men guarding her, it only left about eight warriors left to fight. What they had decided to do was to split up into groups of two, an inner with an outer warrior, and each group would take on 25 of the 100 Darkmoon warriors. This way they could use mostly low to mid level attacks to get rid of them before the next fleet arrived to help.

When they arrived at the point Pluto had informed them where the first fleet would land, they quickly hid among the bushes and waited for the fleet to land their battleship. Finally after what seemed like hours instead of mere minutes, they landed.

"Alright warriors," Reni whispered quietly, "spread out and get into your teams. Defeat them as quickly as you can, then run back to another hiding spot. Timing is everything. I will join you as soon as my strength is back. Good luck my friends."

"Take care, Princess Serenity," they chorused softly to Reni, then leaped away quickly to their hiding spots.

"I hope this works," Reni whispered, the desperation present in her voice.

"Don't worry Serenity," said Warrior Earth, taking her in his arms, "it will work and then everything will be back to the way it is supposed to be."

"Yes, I hope so." But little did they know the general had altered the plan slightly, and decided that they should attack all at once. When the first ship came down, all the warriors got in their places and readied for attack, but soon after the first one came down, the rest of the ships descended soon after. Everyone froze. Not a breath was taken. They all stared at the on coming fleets of ships, wondering how they were going to pull this off. As soon as the initial shock wore off, they all quickly and quietly went back to where Reni was, in order to discuss what they were to do now.

"Serenity," whispered Mars, "this is going to be a lot more difficult than we had expected."

"You're right," Reni agreed. "This battle will test our strengths and our teamwork. To do this will require craftiness, which is exactly what we have." Everyone crowded in closer to hear what the plan was. Since Reni still had about 30 minutes until she was back to full strength, she was to be placed in a barrier field that would protect her from any attack. Everyone else would spread out and surround all the ships. As soon as Reni gave the signal, a robin birdcall, Mercury would begin her attack on a ship near the middle of the group, followed by Mars, then Jupiter, and so forth until everyone was throwing their powers at them. But the powers they were to throw were low powered ones that could do damage, but not completely drain them. They essentially wanted the damaged ships to damage ships below them so they could concentrate on the ones entering the atmosphere. When Reni was able to fight again, she would give them the signal again and they would attack with their most powerful attacks.

When Reni finished explaining, they all got into their places around the awaiting army. As soon as everyone was placed in their spots and posed to start their attacks, Reni gave the call. Mercury quickly picked up on it and attacked.

"MERCURY...WATERSHIELD...BLAST!!" Water shaped like a giant shield shot up towards the ship, then blasted it with jet stream force water. Soon after the blast hit the first ship, Mars called out, "MARS...FLAMES...SCORCH!!" Ribbons of flame bursted forth and wrapped around another ship. By the time the ships were on alert ready to fire at the warriors, the rest of the warriors had already begun attacking them with their initial and subsequent blows. But the Moon Warriors knew that they wouldn't give up that easily. As they had anticipated, the ships that were already close to the ground began releasing Darkmoon warriors, ten to a row. They then seized their attack and waited. As soon as they were all out of the ship the tallest one among them called out to them.

"Surrender now warriors of the moon," in an authoritative voice, "or be prepared to perish."

"We will never back down to you," Reni called out to them. "We are the Warriors of the Moon and we will fight to the end."

"If that is your final decision," the man started.

"It is," She announced cutting him off.

"Fine. Warriors of the Darkmoon, attack the Warriors of the Moon!!" When the warriors charged at them, they all quickly maneuvered around them. Half of the group concentrated fire on the ships still descending while the other half fired on the ground troops. When everyone had scattered, Reni found herself in the middle of a group of warriors, all trained on her. Her friends moved to assist her but Reni gave the signal to let them know that she would be all right; she had her full powers back. The warriors backed off and continued the assault. Once they were back to fighting Reni turned her attention to the ones in front of her. She still didn't have her full powers back but she had enough to help them get through the battle, hopefully.

The warriors of the Darkmoon, then began to attack her with their powerful blasters, but she was prepared; she reinforced the shield to further protect her from anything that they threw at her. Once the warriors were firing on her, Reni called out to her warriors.

"Attack them now!"

"RIGHT!!" they called back. They all called forth their strongest battle commands and, all at once, the blasts hit hard and destroyed many of the warriors, but a few of the stronger ones made it through. After firing their most powerful attacks, the warriors were drained and couldn't muster another high level attack. Reni decided that this was to end for the last time so she brought forth the most powerful attack that she had.

"Now it is time that we end this." Reni paused and looked around at all of her friends, advisor, and finally her dearest love in the entire world, then began to do what she had to do, knowing that it could kill her.

When Reni's eyes had locked onto his, Diamonds knew something was wrong. Just before firing on the enemy, he had secretly check on the status of her power with his sensing abilities. Noting that Reni's power had only reached 70%, Diamonds had used only a mid-level attack on the enemy so that he wouldn't be drained when Reni fired her attack that required about 95% of her strength.

"Powers of the Moon, past and present, bring forth all the strength I need to do what needs to be done." She looked up to the moon, then said in a strong, soft voice, "MOON…STARLITE...CRYSTAL...REFORMATION!!" While she was saying those words, she began to pulse a soft white that grew brighter as she continued the incantation. When she finished her incantation, the white, pulsing light disappeared as suddenly as it had started. When nothing happened the DarkMoon warriors began their attack again. The Moon Warriors braced themselves for the assault when, all of a sudden the ground began to shake. All eyes turned again to Reni to see that the white glow had returned and was growing brighter every second. Soon, the light was blinding and everyone had to turn their eyes away.

While the light grew brighter, Diamonds could feel Reni's power diminishing exponentially. Diamonds quickly brought his staff forward and focused his power to it. Once he had gathered all that he could he sent it surging into the light, adding his power to Reni's.

Inside the light, Reni had felt her power waning but fought to keep the spell going as the light grew brighter. Reni knew that she didn't possess the power required to complete the spell but she fought harder, pushing through the fatigue. Soon after the light had obtained its optimal brilliance, she felt a surge of power coming from outside of her, supplementing her diminishing power. With this surge, Reni gathered all the power that within her and from the outside source and sent it pulsing out in bright, colorful waves that filled everything with its brilliance and destroyed all the evil that surrounded the area. When the light had died down, everyone looked around and found that it had destroyed all of the warriors and shielded the Moon Warriors, while restoring the area to normal.

As quickly as it had started, it ended and Reni bent her head down and crumpled to the ground. Earth warrior ran to her side and caught her before she fell with the warriors quickly gathering around her. When they looked down at her they found that her face was deadly pale and her skin growing colder by the minute.

"Are you alright, dearest?" Darien asked of her. Reni gave no reply. The warriors looked at each other then back at Reni with looks of apprehension and worry.

"What are we going to do?" asked Mars with a slight quiver in her voice. No one spoke for a moment, getting the feeling that there wasn't much they could do. After a few more moments, Venus stood up with a determined look on her face.

"We will do what we have always done," she said in a commanding voice. "We will give the Princess our support for she is more than our princess she is our friend." Everyone stood up.

"Right!" everyone chorused and quickly formed a circle around Reni facing towards her with Darien and Diamonds in the center. Diamonds placed the Moon Staff in the ground near Reni.

"WARRIOR…PLANET…PROTECTION!!" yelled out all the warriors. The warriors glowed their respective colors for a few seconds then glowed white before shooting their powers towards the moon staff. Once the powers were gathered there, Diamonds pulled the Moon Staff from the ground then brought it above Reni's body. Once there, the power shot into Reni's body making it glow every planet's color in repetition. As she glowed, the warriors gathered around close and waited.

Meanwhile, Reni found herself floating in a white space, curled up on a soft pillow. As she snuggled deeper, she felt a warm hand brushing her hair. Feeling warm and safe, Reni gave a deep sigh. She then heard a soft voice laugh.

"Are you going to sleep forever, my sweet Serenity?" asked the voice.

"No, not forever," Reni answered with her with her eyes still closed. "Just until I feel rested, mother." A few seconds passed, before she realized what she had just said. Reni quickly opened her eyes and turned her head in her mother's lap.

"Mommy!!" Reni exclaimed.

"Hello, Serenity. It has been a while since I've seen you," Queen Serenity said with a sad smile. "You've grown into a beautiful young woman."

"Mom!" Reni turned fully in her mother's lap and sat up to give her mom a big hug; tears streamed down her face. Queen Serenity fully returned the hug with matching tears on her face. After a few moments of tears, Queen Serenity set Reni at arms length and wiped away both of their tears.

"Dearest, as much as I wish to be with you as we are now, I'm afraid that our time here is short."

"What do you mean, Mom?"

"Sweetie, don't fuss," Queen Serenity reprimanded gently, "The only reason you're here is so that you can be refreshed. Even now the warriors are giving their power to you so that you can restore your own."

"They are?" Even as she asked the question, Reni could feel everyone's energy surging into her body, willing her to return. Reni refocused on her mom. "But I don't want to leave you again, like I did the last time." Tears once again flowed from her eyes. Queen Serenity wiped the falling tears from her daughter's face.

"Don't worry about me, dearest. You will never leave me for I will always be here with you in your mind and heart, guiding you and loving you for always." The two embraced for a final time, then with a parting kiss on the forehead, Queen Serenity said goodbye to her daughter.

Once her mother had left, Reni closed her eyes and concentrated on the energy of her friends to guide her back.

As Reni guided herself back, her friends sat around her in a circle, waiting anxiously for any sign of recovery. After a few long tense moments, Reni's complexion began to return to normal; shortly after she began to stir in Darien's arms. Everyone leaned forward in anticipation. Reni opened her eyes and looked around at all of her friends.

"Hey guys, I'm going to resemble the moon if you all keep boring holes with your eyes." Everyone stared a moment longer before they all busted out laughing, relieved that Reni was alright and back to normal.

"We have defeated the enemy, my queen," said Pluto happily, the first to recover from the laughing fit.

"Yes, we have indeed," Reni said with a note of finality, rising to her feet with Darien's help.

"Now let's go home. We have the rest of our lives to live and I, for one, plan to enjoy every moment of it." Reni changed back to her regular form, as the others had done already. They left the site of the battle with smiles on their faces, but with the knowledge that there would be more battles to fight even more difficult than this one. However, as long as they stood united, they would always have the day. As they were leaving the site, Chronia stopped where she was and stared up into the sky.

"I pray, my powerful father, Chronos that our princess is able to face all of the challenges that lie before her." She left the battle site with that hopeful prayer hanging in the air.

Well? R&R and let me know what you think. Should there be more? I leave it to you. All ideas are welcome.

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