Queen of Legends, part eight, June, 2001, by Sailor GlitterGirl


	*blush*

	*shuffles from foot to foot, looking embarrassed*

	Um...gomen?

	Oh, minna-chans, I am soooooo sorry for not
getting this out sooner! But as you can see on my page,
I've been working like a dog on my other fic, 'The Light
Never Fades,' which I am co-writing with the most 
wonderful girl, my best budd ever, ROSE AQUARIUS!!!!

	But, now that we've finished book one (In only a 
little more than a month!) we're taking a break to work
on our own fics (She's doing a TITANIC one!!! *whimper* 
Wish I'd come up with it!) so I should get quite a bit
of this done in no time.

	Man, it is HOT!! I'm practically melting! *pant
pant* Oh, man... *groan* I've GOT to get my mind off this
suffocating heat! *sigh* Alright, here goes.

	Once again, sorry this took so long, but here it is!


DEDICATED TO THE BEST 'BEST FRIEND' I'VE EVER HAD, THE ONE
		   AND ONLY ROSE-CHAN


		*****QUEEN OF LEGENDS*****

Part Eight: Allies and Enemies
Rated: PG, for darkness, and potential violence
By: Sailor GlitterGirl
At: sailorglittergirl@sailormoon.com


	"Shazal," She hissed.

	"Hello, my darling Serenity." The voice 
snickered. "I'm flattered you remember me." Serena
remained silent, absolutely repulsed that this guy was
even TOUCHING her.

	"You know, darling, you never did answer my
question last time we met." Shazal continued, a finger
stroking her arm. "You are quite remarkable, in many
ways. I could make you into something. Something 
worthwhile. For instance, I forget I caught you trying
to break into the Royal Office, I could forget-"

	"Yes, you can and will forget, Shazal," A new
voice said evenly, darkly, a hint of disgust in the
voice. Shazal whirled, one hand still clutching 
Serena's. A swift twist and jab with her fingernails
produced a shriek of pain from Shazal, as well as the
result of freeing her. Spinning out of his grip and 
jumping away, Serena turned enough to see a tall, dark
figure in black with a dark blue tunic, arms crossed, 
glaring.

	"Good morning, your highness," Serena said
evenly, still keeping her gaze on Shazal.

	"Good morning, Miss Serenity," Darien replied,
then turned his attention to the glowering lord.

	"Tell me, Shaxal, aren't you hungry? I believe
breakfast is waiting. And you, Miss Serenity?"

	"Famished." Serena said coolly, and walked down
the corridor, towards and then past Darien, keeping an 
eye on Shazal as long as possible. Only once she was 
past him did Prince Darien turn and follow her.

	"Nice talking to you again, Shazal," Darien 
called back. Serena could almost feel the anger 
radiating off of Shazal, warming her back. 

	"Thank you, your highness," Serena said, 
seemingly through clenched teeth. She narrowed her eyes
as she looked straight ahead. "I am in your debt."

	"Don't be," Darien said lightly. He sighed, and
Serena felt a strong hand clamped down onto her elbow, 
pulling her aside.

	"Listen, princess, I owe you an apology," The 
Prince said, rather quietly. Serena's eyebrows shot up,
and she looked up at him, startled. Whatever she'd been
expecting it wasn't THIS!

	"What...what for?" She demanded, her voice 
softer.

	"For doubting you." He hung his head, "I was a 
jerk and a royal pain, and I know it." He looked up at 
her, smiling a smile that nearly melted the golden hair 
beauty into a puddle of pudding.

	"Forgive me, Lady Serenity?" Darien asked. 

	"Does...does this mean that...that Dr. Anderson
has won his bet?" Serena asked cautiously.

	"That is does." Darien nodded. "They began work
on the construction of Lunar Academy yesterday, and it 
is to be dedicated to you and your friends." Serena was
reeling by now. She had never in a million years 
expected a noble to apologize to her for ANYTHING! Let a
lone a prince, or THIS prince!

	"I admit I was wrong, my lady, and I humbly ask
your forgiveness," Serena looked at the man that was 
looking down at her with true sincerity.

	"I...I accept..." She said, still somewhat 
cautiously. A brilliant smile covered his lips, and he
swooped her into a hug. Shrieking, Serena gasped for
air. The Prince laughed and set her down, then reached
for something in his pocket.

	"Here, this is for you," he said, holding out a
small velvet box. "A sort of peace offering, I suppose."

	Cautiously, Serena took it, and opened the box
slowly, looking at the prince with a sly eye. Glancing
down once the box was open, she gasped, her eyes going
wide.

	It was a large electrum ring, a costly and hard
to make mixture of the purest silver and gold, set with
diamonds and pearls, the delicate and costly metal was 
wound into an intricate patern, forming an unmistakable
seal.

	"The symbol of the People's Elite..." Serena 
whispered. "These haven't been seen in decades...Why 
now?" Serena looked up at the Prince with wide, trusting
eyes, and Darien felt himself reel with shock. How long 
had he wanted her to look at him with something other 
than hate and loathing? Now she was gazing up at him 
with wonder in those large, star kissed sapphires.

	Regaining himself, Darien chuckled and took the
box from her, plucking the ring from it's slit and 
reaching for Serenity's hand.

	"Lady Serenity Lunari," Darien said as he
slipped the ring on her middle finger of her left hand.
"Over the past few months, you have portrayed a great 
loyalty not only to those you care about, but to your 
people. I am putting you in charge of a new legion of 
special and elite spies/warriors. These people will be
in charge of ensuring the safety of the people, making
sure that they are being treated fairly, and that their
over lords and nobles give them what they are due.

	"But that is not all." Darien went on. "You will
be commanding the People's Elite, the new legion I 
mentioned. They will do all that you command, and you
will be doing the things I just mentioned. But the 
People's Elite will also make sure that the other 
various sorts of soldiers treat the people correctly,
as well, and on top of that, ensure that the people do
not rebell, and ensure that they don't have a REASON to 
rebell.

	"All in all, you will be keeping myself and all
other royals and nobles in line when it comes to 
treating others of lower positions than us fairly. Do
you accept?"

	For a full five minutes, all Serena could do was
stare at her ring, then at the prince, then back to her 
ring agan, and back to the Prince Darien.

	Finally, once the realization had sunk in, 
Serena threw herself into the arms of the Crown Prince,
a brilliant smile lighting up her very being as she 
gripped the heir with all her might.

	Laughing, Darien simply hugged her back.

	"I'll take that as a yes?" Darien laughed. 
Pulling away very self conscious, Serena squared her
shoulders, and curtsied.

	"My life and my sword is yours, highness," she 
pledged, and rose, smiling for real for the first time
in a long, long while.

	"Good, I accept," The prince nodded, he, too was
smiling. "I would like you and your group to meet me and
my Generals by the lake tonight, on foot, after dinner."

	"Will do." Serena nodded as the prince continued
walking, and she followed, falling into step beside him.

	"Oh, and don't tell anyone about this, all 
right?" Darien asked suddenly. "I have reasons. If the
nobles found out, they might get...unpleasant, and could
have me dethroned, if they got mad enough."

	"Wh-"

	"Don't ask now; it's complicated." He cut her 
off. "Please? That's what the meeting tonight is for." He
gae her a wristfull look. "It's to explain just why I've
been a jerk."

	"All right." She said, nodding, her brow creased
in slight puzzlement.

	They stopped before the large doors that led
into the dining all, and Darien gripped the handles,
ready to pull them open himself, ignoring the attendants
on both sides, when Serena placed her hand over his.

	"How did we go from being mortal enemies to 
comrades in under ten minutes?" She asked, not really
expecting a reply.

	"Well, saving a damsel in distress and then 
giving her a ring can have that affect," The prince 
said, smiling at her glaring eyes and opened the door
and walked in, Serenity at his side.

	Serena had to stifle a laugh at the looks her
friends gave her when they saw her enter while laughing
and glaring playfully with the prince, and he with her, 
winking at the golden beauty as he made his way to the
head of the table, with two of his Generals on either 
side. Serena smiled back as she sat at her own spot, 
halfway down the long table, two of her friends on 
either side.

	"Don't ask," Serena said, holding up both hands
on either side of her as all four of them simontaniously
snapped out of their shocked reverie, their mouths 
opening to bombard her with questions. "You guys will
hear all about it later on," she said as she saw them 
open their mouths once again. Their faces fell, but 
Mina, on Serena's right, suddenly pounced on Serena's
right hand that she had halfway lowered.

	"What in the..." Mina trailed off as she saw the
insignia. "Serena, do you know what this *is?* Where did
you get it?" She looked up at Serena with wide eyes. 
Serena, looking around frantically, quickly snatched her
hand away and twisted the ring so that the tiny seal was
on the inside of her hand, only the simple silver-gold
band showing outwardly.

	"Sssshhhh!" she hissed quietly to Mina. "Not a 
word of this to anyone! Not even to the other Senshi." 
Mina opened her mouth to protest, but Serena put a 
finger to it, looking around to make sure no one had
noticed. "I promise I'll explain later." She said 
quietly. Reluctantly, Mina nodded, and turned back to
her meal, thoughts and suggestions swimming through her
head like a whirl pool. Something told her that their
stay in the palace from then on would be quiet different
somehow.


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	"Alright, Rena; SPILL!" Mina pounced on Serena the
moment they were all safe in Raye's rooms, the decorations
creating the illusion that you were inside a dancing flame.

	"Spill what?" Serena asked innocently. The girls
all rolled their eyes simontaniously.

	"Serena, one day you and the Crown Prince Endymion
are at each others throats," Lita told her, plopping down
and giving her an incredious look. "You trying to prove 
what an egotisticle jerk he is, along with how evil nobles
are, and he trying to prove just how low peasants.

	"Now all of the sudden you walk in the door
lauging and smiling and looking like best friends."

	"Plus he WINKED at you!" Mina added. "And WHAT is
with that ring? The one I'm betting he gave you?"

	Shrieks and esclaimation of 'can I be a 
bridesmaid?'filled the room as the girls all but tackled
Serena, the golden haired girl laughing her head off.

	"Alright, alright, I'll explain!" Serena laughed.
"But first we all need to get into our riding clothes.
Once you're all dressed and read to go for a midnight
ride, we'll meet in the stables, and I'll explain on the
way to the lake."

	"The lake?" They all asked. Serena rolled her 
eyes. "Just *go!*" She cried, smiling, pushing Lita 
towards her dressing room with one and hand shooing out 
the rest of the girls with her other, herself included.

	Laughing as she entered her room, Serena
immediately sensed that something was out of place. Her
azure eyes swept the room in the pale moonlight, searching
for something that didn't belong.

	She found it almost immediately on her pillow; A
full, blood red rose, thornless, as the pointy atributes
of the flower had been carefully snipped off.

	Smiling as she went to the bloom and lifted it to
her nose, she saw a folded piece of parchment under it.
Setting down the rose as she sat on her bed, she picked up
the paper and saw that it was two. One was a letter,
which she read quickly, discovering that the rose was
from the prince, and she couldn't help but blush.

	The letter also said named the horses that they
were to take, and informed her that the other paper was
a map of the routes they were to take to get to the lake.

	Reading and rereading the letter, she burned it in
her fireplace; there could be no evidence that she and the
prince were getting along, that went without saying. The
map she memorized quickly and thoroughly before folding it
carefully and placing it on her nightstand.

	Quickly she dressed herself in black leggings,
black sink blouse and silver tunic. Black boots with
silver lacings, and white ribbons with a silver sheen
were intertwined with her golden locks when she braided
the long masses down her back, twisting it up around her
head like a silver and gold crown.

	A black belt at her slim waist, sporting a small
bag with a few medical herbs and a hunting knife 
completed the ensemble. She tucked the map into the 
pouch, and slipped silently out the door, the rose still
on her pillow.

	As soon as she had closed the door quietly behind
her, a slithering black shadow creeped off the walls and
along the floor, over to the bed. 

	It slid up over the sheets, around a pole, seeming
to sniff the air, then crawled and slinked over the plush
white coverlet to the single speck of red in the room;
the rose. Lifting it with a transparent, shadowy black
tendril, it brought the rose closer to it, as if it were
smelling it.

	The evil creature recoiled from the sweet scent,
tossing it back down to the pillow before letting loose
a low, sinister hiss that was meant as a malicious laugh.


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	"Serena, what are we *doing?*" Raye hissed as she
and the others each led one of the spare horses of the 
Guardian Generals of the Prince. 

	"Just trust me." Serena whispered back as she 
motioned them over to a much more shadowed corner of the
courtyard, near an unguarded gate. "Come on; mount up."
Raye grumbled, and followed suit as Serena swung herself
up into the saddle of a lovely gray mare, whose coat 
looked almost silver in the moonlight. Fittingly, she was
named 'MoonBeam,' and her brother, 'NightShadow,' was the
prince's main horse.

	"Say, Serena?" Mina whispered, quietly as she
settled herself into the saddle of a light reddish
brown, almost an orange stallion.

	"What?"

	"What *is* with that ring?" The petite blonde 
asked. "You did say you'd start explain on the way. Now
how did you end up with the ring worn only by the 
official *Commander* of the People's Elite?"

	Serena sighed. "Let's just wait till we're in the
woods; then I'll start talking, deal?"

	"Deal." The others murmured.

	Twenty minutes later found five girls mounted on
fine steeds trampling as quietly as possible, with only
moonlight to guide them and Serena's memory to give them
directions.

	Without prodding, Serena told them how Shazal had
cornered her, how the prince had 'come to her rescue' and
of how he had apologized, and unoffically appointed her
Commander of the People's elite. Amy, atop a black, newly
broken in quarter horse, was delighted to know that the
school was to be built within the next five years.

	"I can't believe it!" Raye whispered, her face a
mask of utterly disbelief. "We did it! We actually did 
it! And...and we'll probably be the first mistresses for
that new school, and Rena's gonna be one of the highest
ranking officers on the planet! This is amazing!"

	"Yeah, totally," Lita's eyes were sparkling, her
lips in a wide grin. "But there's bound to be *some*
setbacks; all good things have them," the brunnette 
pointed out.

	"True," Serena ackowledged, leading them around
a large tree. "We're going to explain things futher
and work out the details at the lake."

	"'We?'" Mina echoed. "Who's 'we?'"

	"You'll see, Mina," Serena said, smiling
miscieviously, her eyes twinkling.

	It took the small band of renegades, lead by
Serena, to find their way to the edge of the woods, 
where the ground sloped down slightly to meet the indigo
dark water of Crescent lake, the large, perfectly arched
body of water that was the heart of the royal forests.

	Mina gasped, and everyone stiffened, going into
defense positions the moment they spotted five other
figures, rising from their sitting positons on the 
shore and walking towards them.

	"Oh, stop that," Serena sighed, and walked 
towards the group, her friends looking at each other
with puzzled, but no less curious, looks before 
following.

	"My Prince," Serena murmured, bowing slightly,
briefly, as part of her still felt a bit...uneasy doing
this. Only yesterday she was treating him with scorn, 
and now she had to admit she held some respect for the
man; he did know when he was wrong.

	"My lady," Darien bowed in turn, and the others
nodded their heads. Serena stiffened, then relaxed as
she suddenly felt Mina's cool hand on her forehead.
Raye went to the prince and did the same.

	"Are...are you guys...feeling okay?" Mina asked
hesitantly, running had hand over the sides of Serena's
face.

	"They don't feel feverish," Raye commented.

	"No, but perhaps its a magical disease." Amy
suggested. 

	"Or it may be an elaborate joke," Lita suggested
dryly.

	Serena looked at the prince, and together they
burst out laughing.

	"Well, we didn't give them much reason to 
expect this," Serena reasoned.

	"True, very true; I was horrible to you." Darien
said, his voice sudden series. "All of you. I hope you
can forgive me. I was...blinded at the time that I made
the bet, and afterwards when I realized I'd been stupid,
my pride wouldn't let me do anything but go through 
with it." He sighed. "But, I'm afraid that that's not
the only reason I've asked you here."

	The mood of the group of ten suddenly became
more serious.

	"Things have been happening that only myself,
my parents advisors, and my own advisors know about,"
Darien motioned to his guard. "Longs story short; the
king and queen are out of commission."

	Mina and Amy gasped, Lita narrowed her eyes 
after blinking away her initial shock, as did Raye, her
dark purple eyes flashing. Serena looked only mildly 
surprise, realization and understanding taking posession
of her facial features.

	"That explains quite a bit," She said quietly.
"That's what you meant by you could be dethroned."

	"Yes," Darien rubbed his brow tiredly. "In the
absence of the King and Queen, usually the prince -if
there is one and he's old enough- takes over, but, 
somehow the royal advisors managed to convince my parents
otherwise. So until they return, or until my powers as 
crown prince are awakened, it is the advisors that reign
over this kingdom. And yes, if they get mad enough, they
can and will strip me of my title, taking away any chance
of me turning around what they've done to the kingdom."

	"So all this time," Mina whispered. "We, all of
the people, have been placing the blame on the royal
family, when the fault lies with the advisors."

	"It's no surprise," Lita spoke up. They all looked
at her. "Well, think about it," she said. "This way, they
have total control, but if something happens that puts the
royal family back in power, then there is a chance that
the people will revolt, thinking that it was them that made
them suffer all this time, and the advisors can claim to be
the saints, and take control again."

	Darien nodded. "It's logical. And if my parents
*don't* come back, then they can still use me and my 
descendants as puppets." His voice was low and filled with
loathing. Kunzite chuckled.

	"Somehow I doubt *that* will ever happen," the
lead General grinned. The other's nodded and smiled their
agreement.

	"Alright, so you've apologized, explained your
reasons for being a totall jerkasaurous, and what's really
been going on," Raye said, hands crossed over her chest.
"So I just have one more question."

	"Shoot for it, doll," Jedite winked at her, and
she glared.

	"What I want to know is; why?" Raye cocked her head
as the other girls expressions stated that they wished to
know the same. "Why tell us all this?"

	"Because," the prince said slowly, a smile donning
on his face. "Well, I'm sure Serena has already told you
of her new, however unofficial, position as Commander of 
the People's Elite, correct?"

	"Correct," Amy confirmed.

	"Well, I don't know how much you know about the 
People's Elite, as they haven't been in action since my
grandfather's reign, but under the Commander were four
generals, or captains, and they commanded the four aspects
of the people's elite. The court, the spies, the patrols,
and the soldier units." He looked them each in the eye
as he said each one. "And I would like you four to command
those four branches."

	"US???" The girls screeched, and the Generals
laughed.

	"Yes, you." The prince chuckled. "Friends?" He 
said to his Generals, and they each reached into their
pockets. Kunzite stepped up to Mina, and handed her a black
box. She opened it, and her eyes bulged as she took out
the signet ring inside. It, too, bore the seal of the
People's Elite, only with a few specific additions marking
her as a General of the People's Elite, commander of the-

	"I hearby dub the lady Mina Aino as General of the
People's Patrols, second in command of the entire
People's Elite Leigon." Darien said, smiling. Mina was
still gaping as Kunzite put the signet ring on her finger.

	Next, Jedite stepped up to Raye, and with a 
miscievious grin, knelt before her on one knee and held up
the open ring box, marriage-proposal style. The girls
giggled, and Raye glowered, snatching the ring out of the
box. Looking at it, her eyes widened.

	"General of the People's Spies?" She breathed. She
looked at Jedite, then at the prince with wide eyes. "I
don't know what to say..."

	"That's a first," Serena muttered, and Raye elbowed
her in the ribs, making Serena bend in half in mock pain.

	Laughing with everyone else, Nephlite presented
Lita with her own signet ring, and she pumped a fist into
the air when she saw that she'd been dubbed General of the
People's Soldier Leigon.

	"Perfect for me!" She said, giving Nephlite a big
hug and rendering the general a slight red.

	"And finally, Amy," Zoicite handed a blushing Amy
yet another black box, and Amy's eyes widened and began to
water when she saw that she'd been named the fourth General
of the People's Courts.

	"This is wonderful!" She cried. And the others
smiled. They knew how the unjust to the common folk was one
of the few things that could get Amy steamed, and now, once
the Royal Family was restored to its rightful place, she
and the others could do something about it. About all of 
it.

	"You know, we were wrong about you," Lita said
solomly to the Prince. "And I think I speak for all of us
when I say that you have our apologies." The others nodded
in agreement, and smiles blossomed on all of their faces.

	"Unfortunately," Kunzite said darkly, "That's not
all." The girls, the new Kingdom Generals, looked at the 
leader of the Guardian Generals.

	"What do you mean?" Mina asked worridly.

	"He means that now that we're as high ranking as
them, and now that we'll be working closely together they
need to tell us about an evil so great its mind boggling,
and how its coming right for us, and there's no one
powerful enough to even think of standing up to it."

	Everyone, including the Prince and his Generals,
turned to Serena as she spoke calmly, evenly, all in one
breath, and with complete conviction.

	Her sapphire eyes, glinting in the moonlight, gazed
stonily at the prince.

	"That's it, isn't it?" She told them, her tone
saying that she knew it was true, whether they denyed it or
not. The Prince sighed.

	"You may want to sit down," he said, and they all
went and got blankets from their horses, then sat in a 
circle on the wet grass, their blankets under and around
them.

	"Three days ago, the night of Lady Jasemine's ball,
Generals Kunzite and Nephlite confirmed the suspicions that
the Lady Beryl had been secretly and illegally tampering
with illegal and eteranally forbidden forms of magic. 
Namely...The Nega Forces."

	The young women gasped and shrieked, Amy promptly
fainting and falling to the damp ground before Zoicite 
could catch her, and he stood and went to her side, lifting
her light form into his lap, brushing aside dark indigo
bangs.

	Serena was the only one that remained perfectly
unfazed, for even the Guardian Generals had shuddered. The
golden haired woman narrowed her eyes as she fingerered her
Silver Star Power Rod in her hands, under her blanket.

	So that was the name of the evil force that was
coming their way, and Lady Beryl was one of them, perhaps
even one of the ring leaders.

	Suddenly, an unnatural movement caught Serena's eye,
over to the side. A silver gleem flashed momentarily over
her vision, and she somehow knew that it meant danger was
lurking.

	"Get up." She said stiffly, firmly to the others,
as she herself rose slowly to her feet, her senses at their
peek, wariness making her movements graceful and nimble.

	Slowly, puzzled, the others obeyed, rising to their
feet as they stared at Serena. As they watched, a sheen 
that glimmered silver washed over her eyes.

	"Get away," She said quietly, in a monotone voice.
The sense of lurking evil, of menacing danger was growing
and growing rapidly. "Run...Get out of here, go!"

	"None of you are going *anywhere!*" A voice, a voice
that was not a voice hissed, the sounds it was making that
somehow formed words like darkness on the wind.

	A sinister, ugly shadow suddenly sprouted up from
the center of the lake, the moonlight making it eerily
visible, like a dark ghost.

	"Go! Run, *now!*" Serena screamed. She had to get
them away so she could transform! She was the only one 
strong enough, the only one with power that was tuned 
specifically to fight the Nega Forces, as this shadow 
creature certainly was made of.

	"We're not leaving you!" Mina growled, taking up a
defensive stance next to Serena. Serena grabbed her friends
arm and whirled her around to look her in the eye.

	"I said *go!*" She hissed. "I have my reasons. I'll
be fine, now get the others out of here!"

	"Not on your life, meatball brains," Raye agreed
with Mina, as Serena released the blonde. 

	"Get down!" Lita shoved all three of them to the
dirt as the men ducked, Zoicite shielding Amy's still
unconscious form with his own as the shadow creature surged
forward, sending black electricity dancing from its dark,
extended tenticles.

	All of them gritted their teeth to keep from 
screaming as the negative energy lanced through their
nerves, sending bolts of pain dancing through their bodies.

	"What will it take for you guys to get the message
that I *need* you guys to scram?" Serena raged. 

	She grabbed a fist sized stone in her hand, leaping
to her feet, and luged it at the shadowy form floating 
above them. The creature caught it, and charged it with 
black power, and threw it back like an electricity powered
cannon.

	"Get *out!*" She cried. She could transform in front
of them! That would put them in even more danger, with them
knowing who she was!

	"Not a chance!" The shadow hissed loudly, and
blackness lanced from it's body, surrounding them and the
lake in a bubble of darkness, cutting them off from any
escape.

	"You shouldn't have done that," Serena hissed lowly,
her feet planted firmly on the ground, rage boiling inside
of her.

	"And why not?" The shadow taunted. Serena looked up,
and the others, who had all risen to their feet, Amy awake
though rather dizzy, all gasped. 

	Her eyes were living lightning, crackling silver
with gold pupils. Golden, thrashing and wild whips of gold
danced through the silver of her eyes. 

	An invisible wind picked up, swirled around her like
a minature wind storm at her command. The hurricane
surrounding her picked up her long locks that had somehow
come loose, whipping the masses of gold up and around her 
like vengeful lightning.

	"You shall pay," she said lowly, quietly, almost a
whisper, and yet her voice was like thunder. "You had a 
chance as long as there was a possibility that my friends
didn't have to see this, but in cutting off their escape,
you cut off your own!" As she said his, she raised her hand,
glowing asilver, threaded with hot pink, and called upon
her power, newly harnessed to her will, and her will alone.

	"Silver Star Power: TRANSFORM!!!" Same as that first
time in the tower, silver and white galaxies surrounded her,
an invisible force lifting her into the air as she rotated
like an expert ballet dancer.

	Within moments -in which everyone was froze, whether
by shock or magic, no one knew- a silver, gold, and white
clad warrior goddess stood tall and proud, her silver 
tresses bound up into an odd hairstyle, but one that fit
her. In her hand was an arm length wand, which she placed
her hand on the bottom of. Drawing her hand downward, the
wand lengthened into a staff, the other gaping as they
looked on.

	"So, my mistress was right," The shadow sneered.
"You *are* the Ambassador of Moonlight, representative of
the Lunar Princess, the only one with the power to stop us.
In that case, I shall destroy you now, instead of wasting my
time toying with you!"

	He shot along snake of blackness out towards her,
quick as lightning. But quicker still was the newly dressed
Serena, as she leaped away, landing gracefully atop a large
boulder. Her Silver Star Staff in hand, she snarled up at
the shadow, ignoring the wide eyed stares of her companions.

	"I am Sailor Silver Selene, Ambasador of the Moon
Kingdom, Representative of the Lunar Princess." Sailor
Silver Selene shouted. "I fight for peace and justice, and
on behalf of the Moon, you shall pay for the terror you 
have caused, undoubtedly many times before. You shall suffer
your fate at my hand!"


To Be Continued...


	Hey, there! I thought I'd try a new approach to
finding the other Sailors, instead of the time common, time
consuming method of finding them one. By. One.

	So until next time, minna-chans! Don't forget to 
check out 'The Light Never Fades.' Ja ne!

-Sailor GlitterGirl


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