							June 2000

			Secret Garden 3: Final Battle
				     Scene 11


	Queen Serenity watched as the room about her crumbled,
 the atmosphere venting into the airlessness of space as the
 protective energies of the ginzushiou failed at last.  A
 loud rumbling began under her feet and spread out towards
 all the four corners of the room.  Uranus and NEptune
 disappeared into the power of the ginzushiou as stones fell
 from the cieling almost on top of them.  The palace
 shuddered and finally gave way, crashing to the ground in
 slow motion and sending a cloud of moon dust into the air.

	"Mother!"

	"No!  Serenity, stay back angel."

	"Mother, do you not see what you are doing?"

	Beryl spun as Princess Serenity and Prince Endymion
 became visible through the cloud of dust.  She snarled and
 turned on Queen Serenity, "You see the destructive nature
 of your precious ginzushiou now, Queen Serenity?  Do you
 now see why I had to eliminate you?"

	"The only destruction that is going to happen this day
 will be yours Beryl." Endymion swore as he places Serenity
 on the ground and drew his sword.  He approached
 cautiously, watching her for the signs of powers he didn't
 know.

	Queen Serenity took the opportunity to fling a beam of
 energy at Beryl, drawing her attention away from the Prince
 and making her focus on her defences.  Behind Beryl,
 Princess Serenity colapsed to the ground shaking. 
 "Mother," she gasped, "Can you not see that your use of the
 ginzushiou is killing me?  Please..."

	Queen Serenity stopped abruptly, colapsing to the
 ground at the base of the stairs.  "What have I done?" she
 asked softly, looking about a if waking from a dream.

	Beryl took the opportunity to advance on her and
 stopped just out of arm's reach, "What do you think, Queen
 Serenity?  You have done exactly what I made you do, what I
 wanted you to do.  Your reign is at an end, and mine will
 now begin."

	"I do not think so, Beryl," Queen Serenity looked up
 at her and then smiled, her face drawing into a withered,
 tired smile, "You will die this day, and my daughter will
 reign when her time comes."

	Beryl laughed, clapping her hands together and forming
 a staff of dark energy.  "Not today, Queen Serenity." she
 raised the staff above her head and then jerked as Prince
 Endymion's sword burst through her chest from behind.

	"Today, you die." he told her softly as his sword
 pierced her heart, "You die for all those innocents you
 have murdered."

	Beryl convulsed as the energy staff disappeared,
 unable to speak.  Endymion pushed her to the side, his
 sword still embeded in her chest, and watched her fall. 
 Blood oozed from her mouth and coated her lips as she
 breathed her last.  Her body shuddered in its death throes
 and finally lay still.  The Lady Beryl, was dead.

	Endymion turned to Queen Serenity and took her hand in
 his, "What did you mean, rule in her own time?"

	Queen Serenity closed her eyes tierdly, "There is
 enough power stored in the ginzushiou that I can send
 everyone still alive on this planet to Earth.  But it will
 be in the future, to be reborn, and you will have no
 recolection of this place, of each other, or of what has
 transpired.  Serenity is dying, Endymion, and I cannot save
 her.  If she dies, so does the very future of your world
 and mine.  I cannot allow that to happen.  Bring her to
 me."

	Endymion rose to his feet and quickly went to collect
 his wife.  He picked her up, gently cradling her in his
 arms.  She was light, so very light, and pale as death. 
 Quickly, knowing that time was of the essence, he carried
 her to her mother and laid her down carefully on the
 ground.  "She is here."

	Queen Serenity lifted her hand with obvious effort,
 "Put my hand on her, please."

	Endymion did as she asked and Queen Serenity's hand
 convulsed on her daughter's head, "I am sorry, my darling,
 I did not mean for things to go this way.  Look for her,
 Endymion.  If you remember nothing else, remember you are
 searching for her."

	"Through eternity, Queen Serenity, even if I did not
 know who she was."

	"That is how it shall be.  Good luck, my children."

	Endymion clasped his wife's hand in his as Queen
 Serenity raised the ginzushiou and they disappeared in a
 flash of brilliant light.

********

	Queen Serenity opened her eyes tierdly and looked at
 the glowing ginzushiou.  "I do not have the power to do
 much more than send them into the future, but I will wish
 for one thing.  I wish for a guardian, for my daughter, who
 can lead her to be what she was meant to be, and who can
 guide her back to her prince.  Good luck, my Angel."  she
 opened her hand and the ginzushiou blinked once, twice, and
 then again and again, picking up speed.  Finally, it
 blinked and vanished.  Queen Serenity closed her eyes, a
 single tear slipping from her eyes, as she laid her head
 back down.  Now, she could know peace.  

********

	A dark figure stood by a swirling vortex, a small
 bundle in her grasp.  Everything had taken place as it was
 supposed to. Now... red eyes turned to the small bundle and
 she held it up, light glinting off the face of the handsome
 male child.  Now, the Terran line would be rebuilt, and one
 day, in the far future, deliver a Prince who would search
 for his Princess.  And Sailor Pluto smiled. 

The End

********

 Author's Note:  Alright, That's it, it's finished, it's
 over... and -waaaaay- too many things were left
 unexplained, I'll be the first to agree with that!  What
 happened to the generals, you ask... well, think about it,
 were they killed?  Nope... Sheesh, I hope you readers
 realize this leaves me open to completely rewrite the whole
 series of Sailor Moon with Serena and Darien.  Heck, I
 could do a whole other series with how they meet again back
 on earth (complete with strange flashes of why they should
 know this person but don't understand) to my own story...
 lordy!  Anyway, I'm going to take a vote on here... you'll
 have to write me for this, I'm afraid... Who wants a second
 series (or maybe an epilogue..) as to what happened with
 the senshi and the generals and Serenity and Endymion.  Or
 maybe an epilogue with Pluto raising Damien to rule a good
 kingdom with no knowledge of the moon kingdom or the Silver
 Millenium?  Let me know if you do or do not want to see
 more along these lines...

 I can't believe I'm finished this finally! Wow, what a
 project!

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 just a note to say hi, write me at:

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 And to everyone (That's Lynette, Kelly, Bei Lei, Stef,
 Heather, Starlite.. and anyone I missed) who wrote me
 continously throughout this story... I couldn't have done
 this without you guys!  Thank you!! Thank you soooo much! I
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