http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Villa/4808/ ______________________________________________________________ d e s t i n e d b y l a d y s e r e n i t y ______________________________________________________________ chapter twelve ______________________________________________________________ "Iie... you can't kill him." A soft spoken voice said as the beam of light headed towards the dark haired man disappeared in front of him. He stared, in awe as Metallia stood, angry. "Who is it that dare interfere with my actions?" She questioned, as she looked around, but she only saw that there was only the two of them. Darien watched her, in interest, in shock, but mostly in confusion. Why didn't the beam hit him? He questioned, but most of all, he wondered, 'Who was she talking to?' Soft laughter rang in her mind, as the silvery voice filled Metallia's mind. "Ohh dear Metallia, did you not know my child would never allow you to hurt his father? As long as you still hold *my* child, you cannot bring any pain to those I love. It is the child of light, not the child of darkness you want to corrupt it as." Metallia screamed in frustration. ______________________________________________________________ Torn apart, Sailor Mars de-transformed, bitter thoughts rang in her mind. 'I thought I can outrun my destiny but fate is so cruel.' Bitterly, she sobbed. Her destiny was to protect her princess - her best friend, but all she really did was cause her best friend to leave her. Caused her so much pain that was so unbearable to look at anyone in the face again. "Damn it Serena, can't you see that we need you? That I need you?" She knelt down, as the fire in front of her brightly burned in reaction. She looked up to see an image - a vision - a memory. The memory was set in a beautiful room, the sheets decorated in bright colors. Baby blue, lavender, pink, yellow. It radiated with innocence yet style. "Raye-chan, will you always be here for me?" The princess of mars stared surprise at her friend. "What do you mean?" "I mean, I know I'm a brat sometimes, and that I can act rather..." Raye cut in, "spoil? Arrogant? Stupid?" "Ack! Mars, come on, let me finish!" She cleared her throat again, "I can act rather, profoundly, but will you always be there for me?" Mars looked at her, smiling at her. "Why hime-sama, I will always be there for you. There is no doubt about that. Although my temper and stubbornness can cause me to go into a horrible state, I know, that I will always be the one to catch you when you fall... that is, if you don't find some prince to do it for you..." The bright flame flickered for her again as the memories - the visions had disappeared into nothingness as the flame steadily burned again, giving it's worth and comfort. "I'll catch you when you fall Serena..." with that, she stood up, determined. "I'm going kick some negaverse butt and get you back here where you belong princess!" With that, she clicked on communicator. "Hey senshis, come on, let's make a plan. We can't stay like this forever." She had exclaimed into the communicator. _____________________________________________________________ Kunzite looked at it in interest and nodded. "Now, how do we make these crystal as one? The pureness of the crystal should ward of Metallia... it's in the Lunar books." The thoughts of lunar books had caught her attention as she profoundly asked, "Lunar books?" With a nod, Kunzite quickly exclaimed, "Lately, I been returning to the moon whenever I can. I am trying to figure out how to save Serenity. And I stumbled upon a book saying that an evil that touches the crystal would be destroyed. Although it is Serenity's body, Metallia is controlling it. So if we have the crystal, Metallia would die from the pureness of the crystal. "Can you take us to the moon to look up more of these books so we can possibly find a way to save Serena?" Kunzite nodded as a black portal open up in front of him, "This way." The two senshis looked at each other with a nod as they disappeared into the portal after Kunzite, as the portal closed after them. ______________________________________________________________ Metallia calmed down somewhat, as she could still hear Serenity's voice in her mind. This insanity was driving her crazy. Not only did she have Serenity's soul inside her talking to her, now she had some child of light? Heavens forbid on if the child was one in many. "Although that would be nice would it not be Metallia? My child driving you into the insanity that you drove me by causing me to see my people die... my love die... my kingdom die!" With an angry laughter, Serenity's light voice became heavy and dark, "I want you to come to the stage where you don't know what is better, death or life." Metallia covered hear ears but no avail, Serenity's laughter rang in her mind. She looked up at Darien, her eyes in turmoil of emotions. "I hope you die soon." With that, she disappeared, as Darien just stared surprise, as he questioned out loud, "What type of threat is that?" ______________________________________________________________ Lita climbed the high steps, as she finally made it to the top of the Cherry Hill Shrine. She looked around to see Raye in her Shinto outfit sitting on the steps on the wooden patio. With a grin, she smiled beautifully, "I'm glad someone finally got into their senses. I really want to kick some of that negaverse behinds!" She clutched her fist in the air as if punching the air as she took a seat next to Raye. Laughter and light talking filled the nervousness as the other two senshis came along, and surprisingly a disorientated Darien who had came there after his run in with Metallia/Serena, hoping that it might be a valuable information. "I had a run in with Serena," Darien said, the others looked at him, "Turns out she is totally corrupted with an evil bitch controlling her. And... she's also carrying my baby." Soft gasps came from the other girls as Lita slapped him at his back, "hey, you're going to be a daddy, smile." She said the last part forcefully as he let on a meek smile. "You're pathetic Chiba-san." "Hey Amy-chan, do you think we can locate a base and bust into the negaverse?" Raye asked, as Amy nodded, as she began to type furiously into her computer as the rest continued their chatter. "So, did she try to kill you?" Darien looked at her in surprise, "How did you know?" Raye shrugged, "I'm physic remember?" Mina groaned at that, "You are so uncompassionate Raye. This is love you are joking about, it shouldn't be something you play around with!" "Sorry!" "I don't know, I would have swore that she would have killed me and then all of the sudden the beam disappeared. Five feet away, I swear, it's like poof. It's gone," Darien said, "It was pretty shocking. But what shocked me to most was the fact that Metallia was talking to herself... hmm... I can't help but..." "Eureka!" Amy exclaimed, as the rest of them stared at her in surprise. Amy turned at dark red as she cleared her throat. "I mean, hey, I found the location." The rest looked at her contently to go on. "There is this strip of evil that's in the park... if we concentrate out powers there, we can get to the negaverse base." ______________________________________________________________ The portal opened up as they walked onto the surface of the moon. Nothingness filled it as Haruka looked questionably at Kunzite. "I don't see it..." Kunzite just smiled, a soft voice began to speak. "Only those who are worthy can see..." they looked around for the source of the voice as their eyes caught a glow. A figure appeared before them, her dark green haired was loosely in a bun, as it fell to her knees. She looked at them, her eyes bearing at the three, as she pointed her staff at the two senshis. "Uranus? Neptune? Have you finally come to find Serenity?" They nodded, as the senshi of time nodded. "Enter, but please, prepare your eyes for the sight..." The guardian of time waved her staff and the shield of magic broke, the kingdom began to appear. Destruction, emptiness, and despair entered their eyes, as Kunzite stood, unfazed by the sight. The other two was different. There home stood in front of them, ruins of nothingness and a figure caught their eyes. The figure of a dead queen. They sucked in a short breath. "Let's go." Kunzite said, as they nodded and followed him, as they wondered what had happen to the beauty of the kingdom that they love. "Hai..." ______________________________________________________________ Holding hands, the senshis called out the powers of their planets, as their symbols flashed on their forehead, their eyes closed, "Sailor Teleport Power!" Darien held onto his rose, as it flashed beautifully in front of him. "Lend me the power to save my princess..." with that, the plants seemed to will itself as beautiful cherry blossoms fell around him. He felt the power of earth arise in him as he felt a sensation surround him, golden light took him, as in replace of him was the prince of earth. The colors were in a fury as it surrounded them all, causing them to disappear into nothingness. ______________________________________________________________ Holding the book in her hand, Michiru read it. The title was embossed in gold, 'Myths and Legends' it was labeled, as she read it intently. "A fallen princess shall arise again, as her powers are welled by the love of her friends...?" Michiru raised her head. "I think this is talking about Serena..." She gave the book to Haruka, who was looking interestedly at her mate. "Hmm... love of her friends?" She looked at Kunzite. "Can the crystal be formed by the love of Serena's friends?" Kunzite shrugged, as they continued to look through the books. He winced as an incredibly pain took over him. "Kunzite, the senshis have found away to our headquarters, report back, immediately." With a telepathic yes, he looked up at the other two who looked at him in surprise. "The inners have entered the negaverse." They looked at each other. "We should go there also and help." "Yes you must... we must..." they turned to see the senshi of time. Hold a portal out for the other two senshis. She turned and looked at Kunzite. "Go as if you don't know anything prince, we'll meet you later on." With that they went their separate ways. _____________________________________________________________ Yes, the long awaited chapter finally came... I mean, I could have sworn that last week I was going to quit this story, guess I was wrong. Thanks to all those who kept on e-mailing me so I wouldn't stop writing this story. And thanks for those peoples who are going to email me (hint hint) at my NEW email address: serenity-hime@tuxedomask.com! Kawaii address ne? Anyways, also visit my small fanfic page at http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Villa/4808/ (sadly enough, every I haven't memories this address, I use the shortcut http://www.geocities.com/lshime/) Anyhow, this is the longest it I ever wrote for this story! Wow... ______________________________________________________________ Lady Serenity ______________________________________________________________