Everyone turned against the voice, prepared to transform.
A lady in mid-thirties appeared, The vision of her wavered.
Makeing it clear that she wasn't there. Somehow the senshis
and the knights had turned into their princess dresses and armours.
The Inners dresses where looking exactly identical, only the color
was different. It was a full ball length gown, without straps
and they had long white gloves. Amys was iceblue, Reis were a bright red,
Venus had an orange dress and Lita had an emerald green.
The knights had their armours that looked like Endymions,
but where Endymions armour where gray, theirs were their planets
color. Like the senshis dresses, Gregs was Iceblue, Chads was bright red
and Erics was orange.

The woman that had appeared,
was wearing a deep green, early 18th century dress, her hair was
up in a very complexed french braid, topped by a golden crown with
three diamonds in a row and over in the middle was a single
emerald glistening. Her aura and the way she held her self cleryly
radiated that she was royal. Only Luna and Artemis seemed to recognize the
person as they bowed. "Gaia, we're honored by your presence.
But why have you come here?" said Luna.
"Thank you Lady Luna. As I said, Endymion must pass a test to gain
the Golden crystal." "What do I have to do?" asked Darien,
now transformed to Endymion.

"If you choose to go you'll have to face three challenges.
For the heart, for the soul and for the body. Only then you can acquire
the golden crystal and be Earth Knight." "When will I have to leave?"
"You may leave when you wish to." "Usako, I'll be right back."
"I trust you Darien. Come back to me". They kissed once,
then Darien turned and said: "I'm ready. Open the portal please."
Gaia opened the portal. Endymion bowed to Gaia then went into the portal.
The portal seemed to waver around him when he went inside. He hestitated,
what if he died, what if he didn't make it. No, he shrugged of those thoughts
and went inside. 'I'll do whatever I can to save you Usako.'


The portal seemed to be a door to a stairway that went down.
He couldn't se the end of the stairs. 'Oh well, better start walking then'.
He started going down the stairs, trying to figure out what kind of a test this was.
It seemed like he'd walked there for ages, it was then he noticed.
Lying infront of him on the floor, were a piece of a cape. He bent down and looked
at it. 'Exactly like mine, but mine's whole'. He tugged at his cape an looked at it.
Sure enough, there was a piece missing. 'This was strange,
unless I've been going around in circles. Yeah, that must be it. Now how do
I get out of this loop? Maybe I'm going the wrong way. I should be going upwards.'
A laughter was heard, then everything went black.


When Endymion regained consciousness, he noticed that he was in the
middle of a room with no entrance. It was a small room,
maybe 10x10 meters with no windows. The room was clinical white,
so white that it blinded him slightly. He slowly stood up,
and started looking around. Checking the far left wall,
he noticed a button. 'What harm can come from pushing a button?'
he thought and pushed it. Suddenly 5 youmas appeared and
surrounded him. 'Okay. Shouldn't have said that.'
Endymion drew his big two hands sword and waited with closed eyes.
A youma came up in front of him, but he whirled around and
quickly beheaded the youma that came up behind him. Then he
turned and kicked the youma that was in front of him. The other
youmas was stunned. They didn't think he would manage to kill
one youma and there he was, with closed eyes and still he had
beheaded one youma and kicked the other away. Soon they all
charged at him but he jumped high in the air, avoiding getting
hit by the youmas. The youmas crashed into each other, not being
able to slow down. He landed behind one and swiftly beheaded it
of them. The other three quickly scrambled away from him, trying to
regroup. He charged at them at full speed, when he was almost there.
He jumped and landed behind them. Kicking one of them away,
while beheading two of them. He dispatched of the last youma and a door
appeared on the left wall.


This time, it wasn't any stairway to go down or up. It was a tunnel,
leading slightly uppwards. He walked towrds the light, when he was
about two meters away. The light died out and then flared up.
Again, everything went black.


This time he didn't wake up in a room, this time he awoke in the
middle of a bloodbath. In front of him was a young woman, maybe
13 or 14 years old. Weeping over her dead mothers body. He knew
that it was he who had killed the woman, her mother. The thing
that was troubling him the most was the fact that he remembered
that he had laughed while he slowly killed her. He had tortured her,
cutting her on various places without bringing her closer to the edge.
She'd een concius of every little cut he had made and he'd enjoyed it.
He couldn't think much about it as another knight came up
and killed the girl, addressing him as King Endymion.

It was then, it seemed like his mind was pushed away. He was there,
he just couldn't do anything but listen.
"Your Highness, your wife, Queen Beryl is waiting for you. She said
she had a gift for you" said the knight. "Well,
what are you standing here for?" asked a very angry King Endymion,
"Get me a horse or you'll be whipped 30 times and then hanged!"
"Yes your Highness, right away" the knight said quickly searching
for a horse. The solider found one at last.

Soon Endymion was in a castle, he recognized it as
his father's castle. He went inside the castle grabbing the
nearest servant,
"Where is she?" "Where is who? Your Highness?"
asked the very frightened servant. "Where is who? Where is who?
Where is your mistress? Queen Beryl, of the Earth,
ruler of the former Silver Alliance? Does that ring a bell perhaps?"
he said sarcastically. "I'm sorry your Highness.
She is in the torture room." "Well, what a good servant you were.
Report to the captain and say he's to whip you 20 times. Now run along."
"Yes your highness. Right away" said the servant,
running away with tears in his eyes.
"It's so hard to find good servants now days" mumbled Endymion as
he made his way to the torture room.


In the torture room stood Queen Beryl wearing her usual clothes,
a dark purple dress which showed of much cleavage.
On the walls were four people, Queen Serenity, Princess Serenity,
Lady Luna and Lord Artemis. He crept up to Queen Beryl and kissed her brutally,
mashing their mouths together. Princess Serenity's eyes
had lit up when she noticed him creeping up to Queen Beryl,
but it soon died away when she saw him kiss Beryl with that fierceness.
"Mmm..I needed that honey" purred Beryl.
"So...what's the surprise?"
"This " said Beryl and gestured towards the four prisoners,
that hung on the wall. "Well...this was a really good surprise.
The ruler of the Silver alliance, the heir, and the two advisors."
"I thought you'd like it," said Beryl wearing a sadistic smile,
"May I watch while you torture them?" asked beryl with a sadistic smile.
"And why would I let you do that?" "I could do some 'things' with you later,
when we've dispatched of some business down here."
"Alright. You may watch. But later on we're going to do some
'things' on our own." He then turned to the four on the wall,
also wearing a sadistic smile.


"Welcome your Majesty, your highness, Lord Artemis and Lady Luna.
Welcome to my thresshold" He went to a stand picking out a
long knife with crooks and put it into the fire.
"You see this beauty here?" he asked. The prisoners nodded slowly.
"I'll heat it up and then poke it in your sides.
I think I'll start with you, your majesty."
He took out the now glowing knife and went up to the queen. He tore off the front
of the gown and then quickly jabbed her in her side with the hot knife,
a scream erupting from her, even though she tried to hold it in.
Princess Serenity screamed when she saw her bleoved torturing her mother.
He slowly turned the knife, letting it burn into her flesh.
When it finally had chilled down he put it into the fire again,
the fire heating the queens blood making it stink in the room.
He turned and went up to the stand. This time he chosed a long small stilleto.
He went up to Lady Luna and put the stilleto against her throat,
as he was about to slit her throat Artemis called.
"Nooooo...Please Endymion, don't do this. Remember us,
We're your friends!" "It seems as you two care for each other.
Bah...Love..*hmpf*.. Love isn't worth anything."
"Yes it is" said a new voice. "Don't you dare talk to me!"
"I do dare to talk to you Endymion. Remember me,
please Endymion remember me" said Serenity.
"and why would I want to remembe a moon brat like you?
Ahh...Now I know. Guards!" "Yes you highness?"
"Take the princess and move her so she's in front of her mother.
Make sure she sees her mother, then do the same thing to
Lady Luna and Lord Artemis."
"Yes your Highness." they said and quickly moved the two prisoners and
then left the room, wishing there was some way to give them at least a
quicker death.
"This way you'll watch when your loved ones die."
He took out the knife with crooks again.
"This knife isn't meant to hurt when it goes inside of someone.
It's meant to hurt on the way out. These little crooks will tear
out some nice things you really like having inside of you."
He went up to Princess Serenity.
"I think I'll start with you. Yes...I'll start with you" he said and
shoved the knife into her stomach. She screamed when the hot knife was
shoved inside of her, almost collapsing as he slowly turned the knife
then slowly with drawing it.
"Serenity" screamed the other three prisoners.
"Shut up, before I cut your tongues out" said Beryl, "Honey hurry up."
"Patience is a virtue, beloved"
"*hmpf*. I'll be in our quarters." said Beryl then marched out.
"Please remeber me Endymion...Darien..Remember me..." said Serenity.
As she said that, something clicked in his mind. This wasn't right.
How could he do that to her and her mother. He loved them,
he didn't hate them. He freed Lord Artemis, Lady luna then motioned
to them to come and help the queen. He then released the
princess Serenity from her holds. "Wait here for me.
I'll be back soon. I must do one last thing." Endymion turned and
went up through the door. Making his way towards their quarters,
he cringed at the thought of sleeping anywhere near her.

He went to their quarters. Beryl was lying a sleep on the big four-poster bed.
He went up to her and shook her awake.
"Hello lover" she purred and started rubbing her self on him,
not noticing his disgusted look. He rose from the bed and drew his sword.
Beryl didn't know what had happened as he beheaded her.
He walked out of the room and went to the torture room. The sight that greeted
him scared him, Queen Serenity, Luna and Artemis was kneeling beside Serenity.
"What's happened? he asked. "We managed to heal Queen Serenity, but not
Serenity. We need the crystal if we want to save her" said Luna with tears
in her eyes. Artemis put his arms around her, "Shuu, it's gonna be okay.
We'll save her."
"Serenity" he said and gently shook her. Slowly she opened her eyes and said:
"Endymion...You...you remembered me."
"Yes I did. I'll never forget you completely. Nothing can separate us.
Not death nor time, beloved." He bent down and kissed her tenderly as
she breathed her last breath. Not a single eye was dry when they left the room,
leaving the Supreme princess already cooling body.

As they walked out through the door, Endymion turned and looked one last time.
'Goodbye, beloved. We'll meet again.' He turned back and started walking,
a bright light engulfed him. He fell towards a light in high speed.
At the end, it all went black. He awoke in his bed, hearing someone pound on his door.
He went up and opened the door. A blond haired mass threw it self on him,
enveloping him in a big hug.
"Usako" "Usako? Who's Usako?" asked the blond girl.
Darien looked down, instead of his beautiful Usako stood a
blond and older version of his daughter.........

To Be Continued...........
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A.N
I just noticed, that I may have been using both the dubbed versions names
and the japanese names for Serena. But from now on, I'll stick to Serena
and that Darien calls her Usako sometimes.
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Everything is welcome, flames, suggestions etc.

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