This is the completed chapter four. Sorry about the delay, but it's Finals
and I've been cramming, writing papers and doing the usual routine all
university students must suffer through.
Thanks for reading everyone. I'll try to put out five very soon.
Sean.
This is an A/U fic, etc, etc, etc.
I don't own Sailor Moon, I'm just a fan.
Chapter Four
Queen Serenity was never more peeved than she was at that moment. And to think after all these years, no, *the millenniums,* she had wasted and tried to bring peace to this worthless system and sacrificed herself and her kingdom when Helios' heir had been there the entire time. It galled her to think, he could have stopped Ananke before all this happened had he just called upon Elysium and that alone could have spared them all the pain of death and destruction and the horrors of rebirth.
No she did not think he would have ever understood, not like she. Endymion just watched the betrayal of his people and the murder of his family and closest friends, but he had been spared seeing the destruction of his world, his people, and his entire life's work. He never knew what it was like to watch your entire world come to a chaotic end as you stood there, made helpless by the words of a traitor, and forced to watch your universe crumble into dust and the use all of your life force to propel everyone into a future were you were told that you would never exist.
Queen Serenity excused herself from the others immediately after Endymion had finished telling them about his powers and how close he was to being a Guardian in this life time. She could not guarantee if his safety where she to remain in the same room with the Terra King, so she left, saying she wanted to consult with Pluto.
Queen Serenity did not know how that statement shook the terrans and Neptune to core, but the others took it in stride, it helped the Lunarians to think of Patricia as Pluto and Ananke as herself.
Sere watched her mother leave and her heart went out to her, it was hard for her not know what she feeling, yet she could understand why Endymion responded in the manner in which he had. His entire world had been destroyed before his very eyes by the *very* people he had been sworn to protect. He had been in shocked and coupled that with the backlash of receiving full contact with Elysium for the first time, it was no wonder his reactions had been off time and defensive almost non-existent. She was sure if he had been more focused neither Beryl or Metallia would have stood a chance with him and her mother standing side by side in battle.
"So what is our next course of action?" Apollo asked, looking around the room expectantly.
Eros took a deep breath and although it was killing her to do this, she turned to Endymion, surrendering her leadership of the Senshi over to him.
"Lord Helios," she said formally, "I request that we Senshi be allowed to continue our training in the hyper space chamber so we maybe allowed to reach Alpha status."
Endy mentally winced when she called him by his father's name. "Please, Eros," he said, his tone neutral as he looked at her, "My father was Helios, I will never bear his name as he would have never bore his father's. I am simply Endymion."
She accepted this with a curt nod. "With your permission, Endymion?" She asked politely.
"I have one request, Lady Eros," he held up one hand as all the Senshi rose, "I want my Guardians to train as Senshi."
That request startled everyone in the room, except Serenity. She looked pleased with that suggested and offered her opinion in favor of it.
"That's a wonderful idea, Endy," she said brightly, "All the planets in the system have planetary Senshi all but Terra, and these four shall be the first in the history of Galaxy."
Endy could not keep the pleased look off his face. Finally, he and Sere were working together in away that benefited the universe they would one day rule. He reached out and took her hand as he turned back to Eros.
"While you all commence with your training, Serenity and I will return to Terra."
She looked at him curiously, "Why, the Moon Palace is very secure and you both will be safe until we come out…"
"Eros," he drawled, "I was not asking for your permission, I was telling you to reconvene once you've completed your training." He stood up and tugged on Serenity's small hand and she followed suit.
"If I may speak, milord," Kris asked. Endy nodded, "Why are you taking the Princess to Terra?"
"Not that it's any of you business, I'm taking her there for practical reasons." He told him, "Artemis has agreed to help her in swordsmanship—"
"What?" Serenity cried angrily. "I practice every day with Eros. I'm very good…"
"I'm not saying that you aren't." He said exasperatedly. "Eros is one of the best swordsmen—women that I've ever seen. However, Artemis was her instructor in the past and he trained us all. I'm sure Eros would vouch for him."
Serenity looked to Eros for confirmation. And all the Senshi nodded. Artemis had trained each of them as well the forces of Terra for the last thousand years. She agreed work with him until they had returned.
As they parted, the Senshi went with their Princess' final blessing and one from Endymion. When the time came, they would be invincible. But Eros wondered, would this be enough?
Queen Serenity had retreated to the Pray Room. She knelt before the crystal column, tears were streaming down her face as she relived the final moments of her kingdom. She could still here the screams, smell the burning flesh that was left in the wake of Metallia and then her own death.
For them to have been reborn on Terra, it was not supposed be the gray, violent world envisioned by Ananke, it had been their chance at peace; A new, bright and shining world built by Serenity and Endymion together, but that was not the way of Chaos and it was not the way of a Senshi.
The pale Moon Queen looked up at the tall column and she without thinking, she laid her hand upon the crystal surface. A bright, silver light illuminated the chamber. Queen Serenity looked directly into this light and smiled.
Pluto led the Senshi and guardians to their respective training chambers. The Senshi were each in full battle armor as were the terrans.
"Before we enter," Eros turned to them, "We shall go in with our natural partners. Nike, you are with Nephrite. Athena Diana, Zoicite. Bellona, you're partnered with Jadeite, and Kunz, you're with me. We will then switch, the outers will train with their respective inner, Xanthe, you are with Athena. Kore, you and Bella, Apollo you will train with Nike."
She made a gesture and held out a heart shaped crystal to him. "This is the secondary Senshi crystal, aka Elemental Class," she explained. "its power level is higher than the Beta planetary transformation rods you were equipped with, but it's less than a star crystal." She looked at Apollo hoping to god that he would get all of this. "The five point star is what you will evolve to while training with Nike, that is the Eternal class, but we will not stop there, you will have to make force yourself to at least Beta Class Celestial, I'm not expecting you to make the jump from Beta planetary to Alpha. It would be impossible."
"But we have ten years in each chamber." Troy pointed out, "I think he could do it."
Eros shook her head, "I know it should be and maybe it could be," She turned back to Apollo. "But it's not." She said truthfully, "Had you been born to be the Senshi of your planet, it would be true, but it was just as intense if not more so for us. You will take on the training we endured as children and if you do not break, we will welcome you into our ranks as our brother."
Apollo didn't know how to feel after that. He basically felt insulted that Eros had presumed him weaker than all the others, he had been a Senshi as well even if he had never been an Eternal and he was a military officer on Terra. He started to point out all of this to his new Commander when she said, "The actual time out here will be one day. Each room will represent our strengths and our weaknesses. Athena Diana and Xanthe, I fear the most for you two, keep safe. Troy, I will charge you to make sure that both my Senshi make it out of there alive."
Troy nodded, unable to say anything. He did not understand why Eros would charge him with such a task when considering who those two were. But he agreed.
Eros looked at them, silently praying to her Goddess and the God of War, "Pluto will come for you all when it's time. Until then, may the Gods be with you all."
Pluto stepped forward and rapped the butt of her staff on the marble floor and in the once empty corridor, four doors appeared.
"Please, enter." She told them. Each group stepped forward and entered the chambers and then the doors closed. Pluto rapped her staff once more and the door vanished, leaving her alone in the corridor once more. Her garnet ball started to hum, she closed her eyes, a deep frown marred her face as she tried to concentrate on what was pulling at her.
One of the levels of fourth dimension had been disturbed, her novice skills weren't in tuned with her planet. She left the corridor and went to find her Queen, something was really wrong and she needed guidance.
Serenity and Endymion left for Terra after she had said her good-byes to her mother. Endy had been feeling restless before the Senshi and his guard entered the chambers and now that they were gone, it had returned full forced and some of his anxiety was being transferred to Serenity.
"I can't say that's Chaos," Endy said once they appeared in the teleportation chamber of the mansion. Umnio stepped away from them and hurried off to his labs with the data he had collected.
Serenity was tempted to follow the busybody, but Endy grabbed her hand and led her out of the room, in search of Artemis. Erebus followed close by, tensed and ready for battle if something came close to his master and his master's mate.
Artemis met them in the main foyer. He bowed to Serenity before turning to Endy.
"Terran has returned from Pluto," Artemis said crisply as they began their walk towards the training room. "We are tracking that entity but so far nothing has shown that it plans to invade the system as of yet."
Endy nodded, a thoughtful frown on his face. Something still did not feel right, even though he and Serenity were safely hidden from all the terrors of the universe, he could not shake the feeling that he was being watched.
"I want the psychics monitoring our barriers at all times," he told him. The door to the training room opened and he led them inside. "I have an easy feeling about what's going down and I did not want to be caught unawares."
Serenity pulled free of him, "So I'm not the only one who thinks Ananke isn't dead." She said thoughtfully.
Endy nodded. He looked at Artemis who was staring at them both in horror, Endy nodded, there was a dangerous look in his eyes.
"Atalanta was pawn," he told his mentor. "Ananke played upon her lust and desires to convert her and to Chaos used it to control her."
Serenity stepped away from them and looked up the high ceilings, sunlight poured in from the high arched windows. "I feel a disturbance in time," she whispered.
"The bitch refuses to go down easily." Endy growled. He took a deep breath and then turned to Artemis, "Work with Sere for a while," he told him, "Eros has been training her as I am sure Nike and Athena Diana has as well."
"Are you going to your chambers?" Artemis inquired.
Endy shook his head, "I'm going to take Erebus for a walk; I need to clear my head and connect with the planet for a while."
"Endy," Serenity said quietly, "Don't worry, it's all going to work itself out."
Trust his angel to want to make him feel a bit better. "Artemis, don't work her to hard."
When Endymion left, Artemis and Serenity finally faced each other for the first time. Artemis looked the delicate little Moon Princess over critically. She was small, but worked with the other Senshi when they were hardly more than babes. She carried herself well, he noticed her right arm had a bit more muscle development than her left, she was going to have to work on that not to appear hunched back. All in all Princess Serenity looked as if she be wrapped up in lambs wool and tucked away in some palace instead of running about with a staff and a sword.
He walked over to a far wall, a panel opened and chose two swords.
"There is a changing room to your left," he called over his shoulder. "Change and come back, we will start as soon as you return."
Apollo fell from his position in the air with a loud thud. Nike flew over him, her pale rose wings brushed over his back as he tried to push himself up. He never knew that training could be so painful.
From another corner, Nephrite lay moaning, it seemed as if a year had gone by and in that year all he and Apollo did was lie about, moaning and groaning from pain. Nike on the other hand had become stronger, she announced a few months ago that she had passed gamma level and they could see the difference in her physically and feel it with her increased strength.
Athena did a back flip, just missing Xanthe's blast by mere inches and she came back with ice shards that were easily dodged by the Neptunian Senshi.
"Shabon Spray!" She called, unleashing her weakest attack, but it was more controlled that when she first gained her powers on Terra. She released a concentrated bit right at Xanthe's face and followed in quickly with a blow to her midsection. Xanthe went down to her knees with a pain filled grunt. But she paid Athena Diana back and with interest, first with a powerful jab to Athena's mid section and then swept her with a low kick. Both women flipped up. Xanthe wiped some from the corner of her mouth, Athena spat out some. The stood their for a moment in the sweltering heat, both ready to collapse as the temperature in the room increased.
Troy watched in morbid fascination as the two water Senshi basically threw themselves at each other. The sounds of their battle reached him from his place on the platform and the very air seemed to ripple with each blow. They were using their elements now, both in complete control of the powers that it seemed impossible to determined were the elements left off and the person began. He turned his attention back to fight just as two intense yet varying shades of blue energy met and exploded.
If they did not reach Alpha soon, he was sure they were going to kill each other.
Bella grabbed her waist, warm blood spurted through her fingers. She faced Persephone who stepped back with a whirl of her glaive. Bella winched, that last round had taken a lot of her mentally as well as physically.
In the back of her mind, she felt Jade's energy signature rise like a small flame. It had taken them a bit of time, but she and Kore had managed to create a magical focus for him, which drew on his latent magical gifts and helped him to direct them once he could summon them. For them, it had been akin to watching a lower level Senshi when he first started, but like the Senshi, he was able to evolve and almost able to summon his attacks mentally, almost.
Kore glanced over Bella's shoulder, a small frown turned down her lips.
"I think the terran is about to blow himself up again," she said almost distantly.
Bella turned slightly and swore. "I swear he only does that for attention."
Kore looked at her strangely, that was when it happened. Another explosion and Jade passed out. She sighed and shook her head, "Shall we continue?"
Bella nodded, "Let's." He had to come out of it sometime, so why should they waste time waiting for him to wake up? Bella flaming red hair danced wildly about her shoulders as the room's temperature began to drop drastically.
Kore raised her glaive, ready for the attack. Living flames whirled around the Martian Senshi and in deafening roar, she unleashed her thousand flaming arrows at Saturn. Kore dropped down and rolled out of the way, she came up quickly, swinging her glaive and there was a resounding clash of steel on steel. The Crown Princess of Mars winked at her friend, they both leapt back, Bella brandishing her sword, Kore nodded and their battle began again.
Eros threw Kris over her shoulder and followed up with a high slash of her sword, but his blade came up and stopped hers from cleaving him in half. Kris raised rolled back and kicked his lady love full in the chest and he came up on his feet.
Eros stumbled slightly, having the wind just knocked out of her, but she was not down, not by half. With a mighty roar cry, Eros charge him, Kris turned around and was going to kick her in the midsection again, put the leader of the Imperial Senshi was a sly and dirty one. With a wink at the guardian, she caught his leg in mid swing, using that coupled with her own momentum, she leapt up, her grip on his ankle surprising loose, but the speed of which she had moved with had him following her crazy lead, she did a forward flip over his head, her in her left hand appeared her crystal sword, Kris almost toppled back, but with her sword, Eros tripped his other leg, causing him to fall back in the other direction with a resounding thump. Eros came out of her crouch and just smiled blatantly at him.
He laid staring at what passed for a ceiling, with a dazed look in his gray eyes. She laughed as she walked over to him and sat down on his chest.
"Come on, love," she said brightly, "It wasn't that bad."
He raised his head up from the floor slightly and shook it to stop the ringing. Eros was looking down at him and laughing her head off. Suddenly she patted his chest and stood up.
"Come on, Kris, outside the day is wasting and we have a long way to go before you become an Eternal."
The sound of metal on metal rang throughout the corridors. Staff and Soldiers of all ranks stood in the galleries watching what only a rare few had ever seen before, the training of a Senshi.
Serenity and Artemis floated back from each other, both breathing hard as sweat dripped from faces. The small navy running shorts she wore were cut and ripped in strange places, her wings were missing feathers on the right and the left had cuts. Artemis had several slashes on both his arms and around his chest area. He was impressed but the Princess' technique, it looked as if Eros had trained her well. Serenity went for no prisoners, the Code of the Sword Bearing Senshi was truly in effect with her. Artemis wished he had more time with her, the Princess had great potential and he knew if she could master a particular style, she would be damned near invincible.
Sere dragged a hand over her mouth. Silently she thanked Athena Diana for making her exercise with her every morning and evening, she needed the stamina after just seven hours of non stop training with Artemis.
She extended her left wing and winced. She was going to need Kore to patch her up. Absently she noted all the terrans standing about, who had for the last few hours, watched as she and Artemis sparred. It was past dinner time, but no one had moved, not even Endymion's mother who stood clinging to door as she stared up at white winged Lunar Princess. Serenity wanted to laugh, the look on Caroline's face would have made Endy happy for three years.
Speaking of the rat, just where was Endy?
The scene changed and Endymion and his loyal pet found themselves on the grounds of his mansion. All was not well in the System and until the Senshi returned, there was nothing he could do except wait and pray.
He felt the air about him change, Erebus looked up and bound over to a figure who stepped out of the shadows. Red hair and warm brown eyes met Endy's as he came closer to the Senshi of Time.
"Patricia," he called, "What brings you away from your post?"
She reached down, his eyes followed and rested on the head of a dark- haired little boy. Endy faltered, the child, he looked, he looked—
"Darien," she said quietly to the little boy, "This is Endymion, he's a friend and he will protect you."
Darien? Endy's eyes went wide as he looked wildly from the Senshi to the little boy. It couldn't be, he looked just like himself at that age—
Could he be…?
He looked to her again and tried to ask the question by was unable to. The little boy was looking up at him with big, innocent sapphire eyes…
Who was he?
Chapter Five soon.
Remember: NO FLAMES, IF YOU DON'T LIKE THIS DON'T READ IT.
See ya
Thanks for reading everyone. I'll try to put out five very soon.
Sean.
This is an A/U fic, etc, etc, etc.
I don't own Sailor Moon, I'm just a fan.
Chapter Four
Queen Serenity was never more peeved than she was at that moment. And to think after all these years, no, *the millenniums,* she had wasted and tried to bring peace to this worthless system and sacrificed herself and her kingdom when Helios' heir had been there the entire time. It galled her to think, he could have stopped Ananke before all this happened had he just called upon Elysium and that alone could have spared them all the pain of death and destruction and the horrors of rebirth.
No she did not think he would have ever understood, not like she. Endymion just watched the betrayal of his people and the murder of his family and closest friends, but he had been spared seeing the destruction of his world, his people, and his entire life's work. He never knew what it was like to watch your entire world come to a chaotic end as you stood there, made helpless by the words of a traitor, and forced to watch your universe crumble into dust and the use all of your life force to propel everyone into a future were you were told that you would never exist.
Queen Serenity excused herself from the others immediately after Endymion had finished telling them about his powers and how close he was to being a Guardian in this life time. She could not guarantee if his safety where she to remain in the same room with the Terra King, so she left, saying she wanted to consult with Pluto.
Queen Serenity did not know how that statement shook the terrans and Neptune to core, but the others took it in stride, it helped the Lunarians to think of Patricia as Pluto and Ananke as herself.
Sere watched her mother leave and her heart went out to her, it was hard for her not know what she feeling, yet she could understand why Endymion responded in the manner in which he had. His entire world had been destroyed before his very eyes by the *very* people he had been sworn to protect. He had been in shocked and coupled that with the backlash of receiving full contact with Elysium for the first time, it was no wonder his reactions had been off time and defensive almost non-existent. She was sure if he had been more focused neither Beryl or Metallia would have stood a chance with him and her mother standing side by side in battle.
"So what is our next course of action?" Apollo asked, looking around the room expectantly.
Eros took a deep breath and although it was killing her to do this, she turned to Endymion, surrendering her leadership of the Senshi over to him.
"Lord Helios," she said formally, "I request that we Senshi be allowed to continue our training in the hyper space chamber so we maybe allowed to reach Alpha status."
Endy mentally winced when she called him by his father's name. "Please, Eros," he said, his tone neutral as he looked at her, "My father was Helios, I will never bear his name as he would have never bore his father's. I am simply Endymion."
She accepted this with a curt nod. "With your permission, Endymion?" She asked politely.
"I have one request, Lady Eros," he held up one hand as all the Senshi rose, "I want my Guardians to train as Senshi."
That request startled everyone in the room, except Serenity. She looked pleased with that suggested and offered her opinion in favor of it.
"That's a wonderful idea, Endy," she said brightly, "All the planets in the system have planetary Senshi all but Terra, and these four shall be the first in the history of Galaxy."
Endy could not keep the pleased look off his face. Finally, he and Sere were working together in away that benefited the universe they would one day rule. He reached out and took her hand as he turned back to Eros.
"While you all commence with your training, Serenity and I will return to Terra."
She looked at him curiously, "Why, the Moon Palace is very secure and you both will be safe until we come out…"
"Eros," he drawled, "I was not asking for your permission, I was telling you to reconvene once you've completed your training." He stood up and tugged on Serenity's small hand and she followed suit.
"If I may speak, milord," Kris asked. Endy nodded, "Why are you taking the Princess to Terra?"
"Not that it's any of you business, I'm taking her there for practical reasons." He told him, "Artemis has agreed to help her in swordsmanship—"
"What?" Serenity cried angrily. "I practice every day with Eros. I'm very good…"
"I'm not saying that you aren't." He said exasperatedly. "Eros is one of the best swordsmen—women that I've ever seen. However, Artemis was her instructor in the past and he trained us all. I'm sure Eros would vouch for him."
Serenity looked to Eros for confirmation. And all the Senshi nodded. Artemis had trained each of them as well the forces of Terra for the last thousand years. She agreed work with him until they had returned.
As they parted, the Senshi went with their Princess' final blessing and one from Endymion. When the time came, they would be invincible. But Eros wondered, would this be enough?
Queen Serenity had retreated to the Pray Room. She knelt before the crystal column, tears were streaming down her face as she relived the final moments of her kingdom. She could still here the screams, smell the burning flesh that was left in the wake of Metallia and then her own death.
For them to have been reborn on Terra, it was not supposed be the gray, violent world envisioned by Ananke, it had been their chance at peace; A new, bright and shining world built by Serenity and Endymion together, but that was not the way of Chaos and it was not the way of a Senshi.
The pale Moon Queen looked up at the tall column and she without thinking, she laid her hand upon the crystal surface. A bright, silver light illuminated the chamber. Queen Serenity looked directly into this light and smiled.
Pluto led the Senshi and guardians to their respective training chambers. The Senshi were each in full battle armor as were the terrans.
"Before we enter," Eros turned to them, "We shall go in with our natural partners. Nike, you are with Nephrite. Athena Diana, Zoicite. Bellona, you're partnered with Jadeite, and Kunz, you're with me. We will then switch, the outers will train with their respective inner, Xanthe, you are with Athena. Kore, you and Bella, Apollo you will train with Nike."
She made a gesture and held out a heart shaped crystal to him. "This is the secondary Senshi crystal, aka Elemental Class," she explained. "its power level is higher than the Beta planetary transformation rods you were equipped with, but it's less than a star crystal." She looked at Apollo hoping to god that he would get all of this. "The five point star is what you will evolve to while training with Nike, that is the Eternal class, but we will not stop there, you will have to make force yourself to at least Beta Class Celestial, I'm not expecting you to make the jump from Beta planetary to Alpha. It would be impossible."
"But we have ten years in each chamber." Troy pointed out, "I think he could do it."
Eros shook her head, "I know it should be and maybe it could be," She turned back to Apollo. "But it's not." She said truthfully, "Had you been born to be the Senshi of your planet, it would be true, but it was just as intense if not more so for us. You will take on the training we endured as children and if you do not break, we will welcome you into our ranks as our brother."
Apollo didn't know how to feel after that. He basically felt insulted that Eros had presumed him weaker than all the others, he had been a Senshi as well even if he had never been an Eternal and he was a military officer on Terra. He started to point out all of this to his new Commander when she said, "The actual time out here will be one day. Each room will represent our strengths and our weaknesses. Athena Diana and Xanthe, I fear the most for you two, keep safe. Troy, I will charge you to make sure that both my Senshi make it out of there alive."
Troy nodded, unable to say anything. He did not understand why Eros would charge him with such a task when considering who those two were. But he agreed.
Eros looked at them, silently praying to her Goddess and the God of War, "Pluto will come for you all when it's time. Until then, may the Gods be with you all."
Pluto stepped forward and rapped the butt of her staff on the marble floor and in the once empty corridor, four doors appeared.
"Please, enter." She told them. Each group stepped forward and entered the chambers and then the doors closed. Pluto rapped her staff once more and the door vanished, leaving her alone in the corridor once more. Her garnet ball started to hum, she closed her eyes, a deep frown marred her face as she tried to concentrate on what was pulling at her.
One of the levels of fourth dimension had been disturbed, her novice skills weren't in tuned with her planet. She left the corridor and went to find her Queen, something was really wrong and she needed guidance.
Serenity and Endymion left for Terra after she had said her good-byes to her mother. Endy had been feeling restless before the Senshi and his guard entered the chambers and now that they were gone, it had returned full forced and some of his anxiety was being transferred to Serenity.
"I can't say that's Chaos," Endy said once they appeared in the teleportation chamber of the mansion. Umnio stepped away from them and hurried off to his labs with the data he had collected.
Serenity was tempted to follow the busybody, but Endy grabbed her hand and led her out of the room, in search of Artemis. Erebus followed close by, tensed and ready for battle if something came close to his master and his master's mate.
Artemis met them in the main foyer. He bowed to Serenity before turning to Endy.
"Terran has returned from Pluto," Artemis said crisply as they began their walk towards the training room. "We are tracking that entity but so far nothing has shown that it plans to invade the system as of yet."
Endy nodded, a thoughtful frown on his face. Something still did not feel right, even though he and Serenity were safely hidden from all the terrors of the universe, he could not shake the feeling that he was being watched.
"I want the psychics monitoring our barriers at all times," he told him. The door to the training room opened and he led them inside. "I have an easy feeling about what's going down and I did not want to be caught unawares."
Serenity pulled free of him, "So I'm not the only one who thinks Ananke isn't dead." She said thoughtfully.
Endy nodded. He looked at Artemis who was staring at them both in horror, Endy nodded, there was a dangerous look in his eyes.
"Atalanta was pawn," he told his mentor. "Ananke played upon her lust and desires to convert her and to Chaos used it to control her."
Serenity stepped away from them and looked up the high ceilings, sunlight poured in from the high arched windows. "I feel a disturbance in time," she whispered.
"The bitch refuses to go down easily." Endy growled. He took a deep breath and then turned to Artemis, "Work with Sere for a while," he told him, "Eros has been training her as I am sure Nike and Athena Diana has as well."
"Are you going to your chambers?" Artemis inquired.
Endy shook his head, "I'm going to take Erebus for a walk; I need to clear my head and connect with the planet for a while."
"Endy," Serenity said quietly, "Don't worry, it's all going to work itself out."
Trust his angel to want to make him feel a bit better. "Artemis, don't work her to hard."
When Endymion left, Artemis and Serenity finally faced each other for the first time. Artemis looked the delicate little Moon Princess over critically. She was small, but worked with the other Senshi when they were hardly more than babes. She carried herself well, he noticed her right arm had a bit more muscle development than her left, she was going to have to work on that not to appear hunched back. All in all Princess Serenity looked as if she be wrapped up in lambs wool and tucked away in some palace instead of running about with a staff and a sword.
He walked over to a far wall, a panel opened and chose two swords.
"There is a changing room to your left," he called over his shoulder. "Change and come back, we will start as soon as you return."
Apollo fell from his position in the air with a loud thud. Nike flew over him, her pale rose wings brushed over his back as he tried to push himself up. He never knew that training could be so painful.
From another corner, Nephrite lay moaning, it seemed as if a year had gone by and in that year all he and Apollo did was lie about, moaning and groaning from pain. Nike on the other hand had become stronger, she announced a few months ago that she had passed gamma level and they could see the difference in her physically and feel it with her increased strength.
Athena did a back flip, just missing Xanthe's blast by mere inches and she came back with ice shards that were easily dodged by the Neptunian Senshi.
"Shabon Spray!" She called, unleashing her weakest attack, but it was more controlled that when she first gained her powers on Terra. She released a concentrated bit right at Xanthe's face and followed in quickly with a blow to her midsection. Xanthe went down to her knees with a pain filled grunt. But she paid Athena Diana back and with interest, first with a powerful jab to Athena's mid section and then swept her with a low kick. Both women flipped up. Xanthe wiped some from the corner of her mouth, Athena spat out some. The stood their for a moment in the sweltering heat, both ready to collapse as the temperature in the room increased.
Troy watched in morbid fascination as the two water Senshi basically threw themselves at each other. The sounds of their battle reached him from his place on the platform and the very air seemed to ripple with each blow. They were using their elements now, both in complete control of the powers that it seemed impossible to determined were the elements left off and the person began. He turned his attention back to fight just as two intense yet varying shades of blue energy met and exploded.
If they did not reach Alpha soon, he was sure they were going to kill each other.
Bella grabbed her waist, warm blood spurted through her fingers. She faced Persephone who stepped back with a whirl of her glaive. Bella winched, that last round had taken a lot of her mentally as well as physically.
In the back of her mind, she felt Jade's energy signature rise like a small flame. It had taken them a bit of time, but she and Kore had managed to create a magical focus for him, which drew on his latent magical gifts and helped him to direct them once he could summon them. For them, it had been akin to watching a lower level Senshi when he first started, but like the Senshi, he was able to evolve and almost able to summon his attacks mentally, almost.
Kore glanced over Bella's shoulder, a small frown turned down her lips.
"I think the terran is about to blow himself up again," she said almost distantly.
Bella turned slightly and swore. "I swear he only does that for attention."
Kore looked at her strangely, that was when it happened. Another explosion and Jade passed out. She sighed and shook her head, "Shall we continue?"
Bella nodded, "Let's." He had to come out of it sometime, so why should they waste time waiting for him to wake up? Bella flaming red hair danced wildly about her shoulders as the room's temperature began to drop drastically.
Kore raised her glaive, ready for the attack. Living flames whirled around the Martian Senshi and in deafening roar, she unleashed her thousand flaming arrows at Saturn. Kore dropped down and rolled out of the way, she came up quickly, swinging her glaive and there was a resounding clash of steel on steel. The Crown Princess of Mars winked at her friend, they both leapt back, Bella brandishing her sword, Kore nodded and their battle began again.
Eros threw Kris over her shoulder and followed up with a high slash of her sword, but his blade came up and stopped hers from cleaving him in half. Kris raised rolled back and kicked his lady love full in the chest and he came up on his feet.
Eros stumbled slightly, having the wind just knocked out of her, but she was not down, not by half. With a mighty roar cry, Eros charge him, Kris turned around and was going to kick her in the midsection again, put the leader of the Imperial Senshi was a sly and dirty one. With a wink at the guardian, she caught his leg in mid swing, using that coupled with her own momentum, she leapt up, her grip on his ankle surprising loose, but the speed of which she had moved with had him following her crazy lead, she did a forward flip over his head, her in her left hand appeared her crystal sword, Kris almost toppled back, but with her sword, Eros tripped his other leg, causing him to fall back in the other direction with a resounding thump. Eros came out of her crouch and just smiled blatantly at him.
He laid staring at what passed for a ceiling, with a dazed look in his gray eyes. She laughed as she walked over to him and sat down on his chest.
"Come on, love," she said brightly, "It wasn't that bad."
He raised his head up from the floor slightly and shook it to stop the ringing. Eros was looking down at him and laughing her head off. Suddenly she patted his chest and stood up.
"Come on, Kris, outside the day is wasting and we have a long way to go before you become an Eternal."
The sound of metal on metal rang throughout the corridors. Staff and Soldiers of all ranks stood in the galleries watching what only a rare few had ever seen before, the training of a Senshi.
Serenity and Artemis floated back from each other, both breathing hard as sweat dripped from faces. The small navy running shorts she wore were cut and ripped in strange places, her wings were missing feathers on the right and the left had cuts. Artemis had several slashes on both his arms and around his chest area. He was impressed but the Princess' technique, it looked as if Eros had trained her well. Serenity went for no prisoners, the Code of the Sword Bearing Senshi was truly in effect with her. Artemis wished he had more time with her, the Princess had great potential and he knew if she could master a particular style, she would be damned near invincible.
Sere dragged a hand over her mouth. Silently she thanked Athena Diana for making her exercise with her every morning and evening, she needed the stamina after just seven hours of non stop training with Artemis.
She extended her left wing and winced. She was going to need Kore to patch her up. Absently she noted all the terrans standing about, who had for the last few hours, watched as she and Artemis sparred. It was past dinner time, but no one had moved, not even Endymion's mother who stood clinging to door as she stared up at white winged Lunar Princess. Serenity wanted to laugh, the look on Caroline's face would have made Endy happy for three years.
Speaking of the rat, just where was Endy?
The scene changed and Endymion and his loyal pet found themselves on the grounds of his mansion. All was not well in the System and until the Senshi returned, there was nothing he could do except wait and pray.
He felt the air about him change, Erebus looked up and bound over to a figure who stepped out of the shadows. Red hair and warm brown eyes met Endy's as he came closer to the Senshi of Time.
"Patricia," he called, "What brings you away from your post?"
She reached down, his eyes followed and rested on the head of a dark- haired little boy. Endy faltered, the child, he looked, he looked—
"Darien," she said quietly to the little boy, "This is Endymion, he's a friend and he will protect you."
Darien? Endy's eyes went wide as he looked wildly from the Senshi to the little boy. It couldn't be, he looked just like himself at that age—
Could he be…?
He looked to her again and tried to ask the question by was unable to. The little boy was looking up at him with big, innocent sapphire eyes…
Who was he?
Chapter Five soon.
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