The Greatest Dream of All
by Fiona Lim
flim@hotmail.com
Chapter Three
Moon Palace, Moon
Moon Kingdom
Serenity Crestmoon shed the persona of the Queen of the Kingdom as
she stepped into her daughter's suite. She drifted through Serena's
rooms till she reached the innermost chamber - the room which only a
select few - mostly herself and Serena and her own Inner Court - people
had seen - the Princess Serenity's bedroom.
"Hello Mother." Serena greeted, looking up from where she'd been
pulling off the gown she'd worn to her Birthday Celebration at Court.
"I see Prince Darian sent you his gift privately again." Serenity
commented with a fond smile as she sat down on her daughter's bed.
Serena smiled shyly as she sat down in front of her mother, "They're
beautiful aren't they, Mother?" she said, picking up one of the glowing
sun-roses from the vase they were sitting in, staring into the black
centers.
Every year, Prince Darian of Earth had gifted her daughter with the
special roses Serena had named sun-roses for the soft glow they gave
off. In the past three years that he had spent with his brother, Prince
Caraein, leading the Earth Armies against the Amazon Queen's Armies,
he'd been sending Serena five roses instead of planting a whole bush
with her. Serenity smiled inwardly - somehow, Darian always managed to
get past the guards and slip into Serena's bedrooms unannounced. It
didn't surprise her that he'd managed to slip his present past the
security once again.
*The fact that he managed to get AROUND the barriers and restrictions on
all the Earth Ports leading to space is what surprises me.* Serenity
frowned, *I've got to ask him how he did this. Hopefully a time when I
have to seal off a planet to keep a dangerous person from contaminating
the rest of the Kingdom will never accure again. . . But if it does -
and there's a way to get through those barriers -* she shook away the
thought, she would handle this matter later.
"I just wish he could give them to me in person like he use to."
Serena added wistfully, glancing out the balcony-doors of her room at
the private gardens.
The Earth hung in the sky, full and glowing, the sky was dyed a mirade
of colors as the sun started setting beyond the horizon, "Do you think
the war on Earth will last much longer, Mother?" she asked, her large,
blue eyes worried as she turned to look at Serenity.
Serenity sighed sadly, "All the news from Earth says it should end very
soon, Serena - but I don't know for SURE. The war on Earth might seem
long to all of us - three long years - but there's been wars that have
lasted a great deal longer."
Serena bit her lip, "We've got so many armies, Mother. All the nine
Planets. Can't we just destroy this Amazon Queen and her army that
Darian is fighting?" she asked hopefully.
Serenity turned her daughter around so she could look at Serena's face,
"You don't think this war is fair to the Earthians, do you, Serena?"
"Of course not, Mother!"
"War isn't something that ANYBODY starts without a lot of thought.
The Earthians are all afraid now because of this War, both of their
Princes are out there, fighting and leading their families in attack
against an enemy. Many of them are frightened and in the zones of the
war. Food is being deployed from markets and taken from farms to feed
the armies. Homes have been burnt down, and brothers, fathers and
sisters have been killed and murdered on both sides." Serenity's eyes
grew hard as she spoke, her voice becoming soft and harsh, "Do you think
that the Earthians are happy, Serena?" she asked.
Serena shook her head furiously, "No, Mother! But I wasn't saying that
we should start another war, just that we should end the war on Earth by
bringing in more armies. . ." she trailed off as she realized what
she was asking.
Serenity nodded, "Precisely, Serena. If *I* brought in the Nine Planets
Armies - even the Moon Army here on the moon - we would be bringing
another planet into a War nobody except the enemy wants. And bring in
an off-planet army and you open routes towards space and all the other
planets. So far, the Earth has managed to keep the Amazon Queen on
planet - right?" Serena nodded - she had been sitting in on the Council
session when the last messanger from Earth had reported that all Ports
leading off-planet had been shut down on Earth. "Think what would
happen though if this Amazon Queen manages to get off-planet? With
soldiers pouring in and out, it would be easy for her to capture a
ship." Serenity looked down in dismay as Serena started crying, "Oh,
dearling - I didn't mean to make you cry." She said, hugging her
daughter tightly.
"It's not you, Mother!" Serena whimpered, "It's what down there -
and I can't stop it. Can't do anything to help the people down there.
I couldn't BEAR living in a war like that. No way of escape. . ."
she hugged her mother tighter, "I just want it to *end*. All that
hurting going on - " she shuddered in symphatic pain.
"One day, there WILL be a war, Serena. And you might be the Queen
when that happens." Serenity said slowly, "You will have to face the
choices when that happens." She went on, knowing that Serena was
mentally memorizing every advice, every word for future use when she was
Queen, "You will have to make choices for the good of your people. My
mother, your Grandmother, told me this once." She reached up to where
the Moon Wand hung from the Moon Necklace around her neck and took off
the Imperial Silver Crystal, "There might come a time when to defeat
your enemies, Serena, you might have to destroy some of your people."
"Never! I'll never kill our people to win, Mother!" Serena protested.
Serenity shook her head, "But what if that was the only way? If the
enemy would destroy them later when they DID win, otherwise?" she
asked, "The Silver Imperial Crystal is the most powerful weapon in the
Kingdom, it alone will be able to bring something like the total
destruction of an army around. But such powers brings its own
consequences. Not only on your concious, but also physically - when you
are ready to die from the drain of energy to see that your people not
come to harm, then, the final option of the Crystal will be for your
use." She said slowly, holding it in the palm of her hands.
Serena shook her head, fear shinning in her eyes as she looked down
ashamedly, "I don't think I'll ever be able to do that, Mother." She
said in shame, "How can I use something knowing that I'll KILL people
when I use it - that *I* will die when I use it as well?" she bit her
lip.
Serenity lifted Serena's face, "Perhaps you'll never have to face the
choice, Serena. Certainly none of the Crestmoons have had to face it in
more eons than can be counted." She said, "There's no shame in not
wanting to kill - it's something to be proud of that you'll look for
other sources before turning to death for victory." She said.
Serena nodded, then looked down at the Silver Imperial Crystal, touching
the surface reverently - a look of surprise passed across her face as
she frowned, "It feels just like another jewel doesn't it?" she said,
"It's so small for so much power."
Serenity grinned, "That's what I thought as well, but it is the most
powerful Planet Stone in the Kingdom and maybe beyond in the other
systems outside our own as well. The Moon Kingdom is special that it
holds three Planet Stones." At Serena's confused look she explained,
"Planet stones - usually gems of some sort - are stones which have been
created with the energy of the Planet it comes from. The Crestmoon
Family have been the protectors of the Moon Kingdom for eons."
"Like the Sailor Scouts."
"Sort of. In fact, a long time ago, one of your greatest grand-
mothers was a Sailor Scout. They called her Sailor Moon and she saved
the Moon Kingdom in a round-a-bout way."
Serena looked up in surprise, "None of my teachers ever told me that!"
she said.
Serenity laughed - Serena had inherited her dislike of dry history
tomes. *Goddess only knows how many times I hid away so that I wouldn't
need to do my homework!* she thought. "Probably because it's nothing
more than a foot note in history - and you've been learning Kingdom
History not the Crestmoon History. Princess Jadera Crestmoon was the
daughter of the first Serenity - the first Queen of the Moon Kingdom.
Back then, the Moon Kingdom only stretched several light-years past
Pluto. There was an enemy kingdom who called themselves the Negaverse.
They attacked and captured Pluto, and would have set that up as a base
to attack Saturn, Neptune and Uranus - capture them and from there the
inner planets as well."
"What happened?"
"With the use of the Silver Imperial Crystal, Princess Jadera
transformed into Sailor Moon, the Guardian of the Moon. You didn't know
WE had a Guardian as well did you?"
"No. I always thought it was because we orbit around Earth instead
of the sun - because we were a sattelite of Earth." Serena admitted.
"We do. And we weren't always the People of the Moon Serena - once
there was a planet for us as well - Earth's twin sister in all aspects,
except it was destroyed a long time ago. But that's another story to be
told later." Serenity frowned, "Now where was I?"
"Princess Jadera transformed into Sailor Moon." Serena prompted.
"Yes - back then, only three sailor scouts had been found. Sailor
Pluto - the Guardian of Time, but she was rarely around even then - and
Sailor Mercury and Mars - the Healer and the Spirit Guardians."
"Princess Jadera was unsure what to do. And the three Sailor Scouts
who were her protectors wanted to take her back to the safety of the
Moon, but Jadera didn't want to leave the People of Pluto in their time
of need. For you see, the King and Queen of Pluto were the first to die
in the attacks, and their daughter was only five or six years old - too
young to be a true ruler. With Jadera and her three Sailor Scouts, the
Queen Erina of Earth was there as well, and neither she or Jadera wanted
to leave the Plutonians without helping as much as they could."
"What happened?" Serena pushed, "Stop stopping Mother!" she
protested jokingly.
Serenity laughed, twigging one of Serena's long pig-tails, "Impatient
little child!" she said, feigning a stern look before grinning again.
Being with her daughter always made her feel light and care-free even as
she felt the worry of a mother, "Well, Jadera and Erina were talking in
one of the chambers of the Pluto Palace when a commando team from the
Negaverse infiltrated the Palace and managed to open the gates to the
army. There was fighting everywhere and Sailor Mars and Mercury were
hurt, leaving the two - Queen and Princess - unprotected. Just as the
Negaversians were closing in, intending to take them away as protection
from the Armies of the Kingdom - and also as an incredibly strong
position to start the war they wanted - Queen Erina's crown started
glowing. Except it wasn't her CROWN that was glowing, it was the stone
mounted there. And right then, was when the third Planet-Stone was
discovered and the first Sailor Earth was found. But even with Sailor
Earth fighting, there still was too many of the enemy. Then the Silver
Imperial Crystal Jadera had been wearing as her mother's representative
glowed as well. And she shouted some words and there stood Sailor Moon,
Guardian of the Moon and the Silver Imperial Crystal." Serenity said.
Serena took a deep breath, her eyes excited, "And they won and threw the
Negaversians away right?" she asked.
"Well, not exactly, but the two new Scouts kept the Negaversians at
bay till the Plutonian Royal Guard reached them and destroyed all but a
few. Those that survived returned to their Kingdom - wherever that is -
and we haven't heard from the Negaverse ever since." Serenity went on.
Serena's eyes glowed, "How can they NOT put that in the History books?
The founding of two new Sailor Scouts?" she exclaimed.
"Not truly. It wasn't the founding of two more Scouts - not
formally. Sailor Moon was never seen again. Jadera has been the only
Sailor Moon in the history of the Kingdom. There hasn't ever been the
need of a Guardian of the Moon since then, the Queen does the duty of
protecting the Crystal just as well." Serenity explained, "And Erina
wasn't officially Sailor Earth. She had the duties as the Queen of
Earth you see, so she couldn't become the Sailor Earth, one of the Inner
Court of Princess Jadera. Her youngest daughter became Jadera's
daughter's Guardian though, many years after."
Serena sighed and nodded, then stopped, "You said that the third Planet-
Stone was discovered when Sailor Earth appeared. What do you mean?"
Serenity frowned, "You mean you don't know, Serena?" she looked
worried, "I have to talk to the teachers. Perhaps it's time that it was
decided what is important and what is just boring history." She
murmered.
"There are three important gems in the Kingdom. The Planet-Stones -
they're called that because their owners use them to transform into the
Sailor Guardians of their planet. The Silver Imperial Crystal is the
most powerful. The second is the Earth, and is known only as the Earth
Stone. Sailor Earth carried it till she vanished in the border
fighting." Serenity looked sad as she went on, "When you were born, a
search started, to look for ten chosen children who have the sign of
their planet on their foreheads. The ten girls are called the Chosen
Ones, the Sailor Scouts who will make up the Princess Serenity's Inner
Court. But other than the unborn baby - the Princess Serenity - and
people whom we call 'sensatives', only the Guardian of the Planet can
see the sign easily. When you were born, Sailor Earth had died ten
years earlier in the border fighting. Since then the Endymion Family
have guarded the Earth Stone as they waited for the new Sailor Earth to
be found."
"What about the third Planet-Stone, Mother?" Serena prompted - her
mother had a habit of wandering off course when telling a story.
Serenity held out her hand and the air around it shimmered, and a
gleaming, shining gem dropped into her hand. It glimmered slightly in
the pale light from the candles lighting the room and the faint glow
from the sun-roses.
"This is the third Planet Stone and the second one which the
Crestmoons now guard. It's called the Moon Sapphire. Your Father -
Anderel - was gifted the Guardianship of this when the Sailor Scout of
his planet vanished in the border fighting. Your husband or the Sailor
Scout it belongs to will carry this one day, but till then, you will
have the care of it."
She said, reaching out into thin air again and taking out a golden, star
shaped locket, with a flip of a finger she opened it, the strains of a
song Serena didn't recognize drifted out.
"That's a beautiful song." Serena said, taking the locket from her
mother and listening, "But it's so sad." She added.
Serenity smiled in remembrance, "This was mine once when I was small.
When your Grandmother gave it to me, that song was a favourite at Court.
The song originated from Earth actually, though it's VERY old." She
said, lifting the chain hanging from one of the points and fixing it
around Serena's neck. Then, quietly, she took the Star Locket from
Serena's hands and placed the Moon Sapphire into a small dip at the
center of the inside that seemed made for it, "Carry the Sapphire with
you everywhere, Serena. It will guard you against all harm." She said
softly.
Serena cradled the Locket, staring at the blue Sapphire, "What planet
did Father come from, Mother?" she asked softly, "You never told me."
Serenity's eyes grew distant, "I guess I never have, have I?" she said,
"Anderel was the son of King Ronald and Queen Sonaril, he would have
been King if we hadn't met and fallen in love. Your older brother,
Andrew, was Ronald and Sonaril's heir. He would have been King of the
Planet Solar."
"The Dead Planet." Serena murmered.
She knew the story of Solar, the closest Planet to the Sun, whose people
were now scattered across the Kingdom - the Sun Dancers. She knew that
her Father and Andrew had died on a trip to Solar, their space ship
exploding in light-jump. Five years after she was born, the path Solar
took around the sun had wobbled for some strange reason nobody could
figure out. Solar had drifted closer towards the sun, and the
astrologers of the Sun Dancers had discovered that within two years,
Solar would begin a thousand-year orbit too close to the Sun for life to
survive on Solar. By the end of the thousand years, Solar would
detonate directly against the surface of the sun. All the Sun-Dancers
had been evacuated and Solar was now merely a speck against the glowing
light of the Sun, a molten rock of heat that could support no life at
all - the Dead Planet.
"Then the Sailor Solar would have carried the Moon Sapphire." Serena
said, staring at the Sapphire before she frowned, "But why is it called
the MOON sapphire, not the SUN Sapphire?"
Serenity shrugged, "The Sun Dancers never really named it, and when
Anderel was crowned as King of the Kingdom on Earth, the Earthians
called it the Moon Sapphire because of the way it glowed like the Moon
from Earth." She brushed a finger over the surface of the Sapphire
before closing the locket for Serena, "Take care of it, Serena, it will
protect you and all you love. That's what Anderel promised me." She
said.
Serena nodded, wide eyed, "Thank you, Mother." She said, throwing her
arms around Serenity.
Serenity shook herself mentally, "Lets not have TOO many touching
mother-daughter moments tonight." she said, laughing slightly as she
hugged Serena back, "Come on, let me comb your hair." She said.
Serena nodded, reaching up to unbind the two, long tails as her Mother
took up a comb.
Serenity combed silently, pulling the comb down till Serena's hair
gleamed. She enjoyed this time - it was a tradition between them.
Every day, she would come and comb Serena's hair smooth and straight,
and they would talk. She would tell Serena about what happened during
the day, what she'd had to fix, and Serena would tell her about her
Sailor Scouts. This was the only time they usually had just to be
mother and daughter.
"Do you think there'll ever be another Sailor Moon, Mother?" Serena
asked.
Serenity opened her mouth to say no, and paused, mid-stroke as a strange
feeling went through her, "You never know, Serena. Let's just hope
there's never a need for a Crestmoon to use the Silver Imperial Crystal
with such force EVER." She said instead.
Serena nodded, and picked up one of the sun-roses in the vase by her
bed. Serenity stared at them with a frown.
"Aren't your sun-roses usually yellow?" she asked, looking at the
black shot heart.
"They were, till I was about thirteen - the last bush Darian gave me
was yellow with pink and red in the very centre, and for the past two
years, the roses have been a dark red with only the outsides of the
petals glowing and yellow." Serena admitted.
Serenity continued frowning as a tingle went down her back for the
second time in a minute, "Still - why are they black instead of red?
Look - you can almost SEE the black through the yellow." She pointed
out.
Serena was looking worried now as well, "Mother - how DID Darian get the
roses through. The messanger said all the space-ports were closed on
Earth. And the Portal between Earth and the Moon was shut down two
months ago. . ." her voice trailed as she stared into the depths of
the black sun-rose, "It wasn't this black before, Mother. When I first
got them, it was only a little heart right at the heart - !" with a
shriek, Serena dropped the rose, "Mother!" she screamed, pointing.
And Serenity stood up as well as she saw something that defied all the
laws of logic she'd ever known. The rose was QUIVERING! It was
shaking, and even as the two of them watched, the rest of the petals
outside turned black and the petals shrivelled away, turning to dust.
"Serena - get away from it!" Serenity shouted, a warning premonition
shaking through her.
"Moth - mummy!" Serena turned one hand out as if she was reaching
across a void, and then her eyes rolled and she fell across the bed,
shaking, "S-s-s-so c-c-c-c-cold -" she whispered, her face turning grey
as her eyes rolled upwards, "Mummy - the darkness. . . It's coming
closer -" she whispered, "S-s-scared. . ."
"Serena!" Serenity grasped the Imperial Crystal from around her neck
and concentrated, "Moon HeaLING POWER!"
The ray of intense light surrounded the fallen body of the Princess, for
an instant - just an instant - the color returned to Serena's cheeks and
then it vanished again, her eyes closed.
Fear tore in Serenity's chest - *What's wrong? Why did that take so much
energy and didn't do anything?* her mind shrieked. She touched
Serena's neck and whispered a quick prayer to the Goddess as she felt
the answering pulse - slow but sure. *Still alive, Goddess be thankful.
But for how long?*
"Guards!" Serenity's scream met the platoon of guards running into
the room, along with her Inner Court of Sensei.
"Your Majesty!" the first guard gasped, "Beg to report, y'majesty!"
Serenity slowly straightened, *Oh Goddess, not know - don't let there be
an emergency now. I need all my strenght to find out what's wrong with
Serena - why did she collapse like this? And what does it have to do
with the rose?*, "What is wrong?" she was surprised at how clear and
steady her voice was.
The oldest of her Sailor Sensei interupted, "Sailor Mercury has
collapsed in the Healer's Ward." Sensei Jupiter reported, "No known
cause - but the energy-watchers all jumped at the time she collapsed and
the Healers there report that Sailor Mercury's life-force signs are
barely within the frame to support life."
Serenity nodded, *Is this related? Serena and the Scouts DO have the
same link between them as I and my Sensei do. . .*
"Sailor Mars and Jupiter both fell down at about the same time in the
Fighter's Courtyard." Sensei Venus added.
"And Sailor Venus as well." Sailor Mars said, her tranquil face
marred by a deep frown as she stared out the open balcony doors towards
the hanging Earth, "And I believe we shall soon find that the Sailor-
Queens Uranus, Neptune and Saturn have also collapsed in their suites
and on their planets." She turned to Serenity, "You have used the
Imperial Crystal - and the Princess has also collasped it would seem.
What happened here?" she asked.
"I - I don't know." Serenity admitted.
"Guards, I want half of you to arrange a perimeter guard surrounding
this suite, the other half separate and gather the Sailor Scouts of the
Princess's Inner Court. Place them in the Healer's Ward and protect
them." Sensei Jupiter commanded.
The Guards saluted and left. Quickly, the Sensei surrounded the Queen.
"What happened, Here?" Mercury asked.
"We were talking, I was brushing her hair. Then we started talking
about one of those sun-roses Prince Darian Endymion -"
"The Prince of Earth." Sailor Venus supplied unnecessarily.
" - sends to Serena every birthday she has. We both noticed how
black it was. Then Serena dropped it, and it was writhing - and - and.
. ." Serenity took a deep breath, strugging for control, "And then, it
grew blacker and turned to dust. Serena collapsed on the bed, and she
looked like she was about to DIE!" again hysteria threatened and
Serenity fought back against the urge to collapse in terror - this
wasn't the time. "I used the Moon Healing and for a second it SEEMED to
work - she got some power back - and then she was the way she was."
Sensei Mercury had already taken out a small machine from somewhere on
her uniform and Sensei Mars was staring through a triangle made of her
forefingers and thumb, her face a study of total concentration as she
murmered.
"There was an energy drain from that area." Mercury reported,
pointing to where the black dusty remains of the dark sun-rose still
drifted, "And there was also a power surge and drain through a net-work
of bodies. I'd say that Princess Serena's body was drained of enough
energy to kill her if it wasn't for the energy she managed to pull
through the link holding her to her Inner Court." Mercury said.
"There was a definate surge and drop in energy here -" Mars
reported, looking up, "But there was also a spirit of some sort. It
reminds me very much of one of the very, very, very minor spirit that
some of the rogue Priestesses on Mars created to drain energy for their
own uses. It looks as if it didn't expect to meet that much energy to
drain, and was crumbled in the back lash - but not before it ferried the
energy back to it's maker."
"Than a rogue-priestess did this?" Jupiter demanded.
Mars shook her head, "No, the creation of this isn't the same. More
alien - only the very basics are the same." She said slowly, "I think
that this was an assasination attempted."
"But what stopped it?" Uranus asked.
"There are three points here that stopped it." Neptune said finally,
"For the second and third, I'd say that the energy the Silver Imperial
Crystal gave to the Princess when you, Sere, used the Healing Power on
her, and the energy Serena pulled through her link with the Scouts
stopped Serena from being drained to nothing - but it also put her and
all of the Sailor Scouts in the stable condition they are in now -"
Neptune frowned, "But at the first? I don't know." She walked to where
Serena lay and touched the star locket on her chest, "Your old star
locket, Sere. Did you just give it to her?"
Serenity nodded, "Just then - to hold the Moon Sapphire." She nodded as
realization flooded through her, "And there's where the extra energy
came from. The Moon Sapphire is linked to the Crestmoons through
Anderel and the Solar Scout. It would have protected her at least a
little from that drainage."
"But how do we return them to life now?" Sensei Saturn asked.
"They are in a stable condition, but without help they can't pull
out." Serenity murmered, "And there isn't enough energy in the Imperial
Crystal to help, the Moon Sapphire is drained. The only Planet-Stone
left that can do this is the Earth Stone -"
"Which can only be activated by Sailor Earth." Sailor Venus finished
grimly.
"And with the link between Serena and the young Earth Scout never
made, and with Serena unconcious - there's a chance in hell that we can
find her." Neptune said.
"Can't we wait till the Moon Sapphire or the Silver Imperial Crystal
has been recharged?"
"It could take days - and how long will they stay in the stable
condition? They must be eating up their reserves in energy even as we
speak. They might only have HOURS." Serenity's voice held a tinge of
hysteria now.
"Days - at least four." Neptune said, her eyes half closed as she
calculated, "We have at least four days to either discover Sailor Earth
or figure out another way to heal Princess Serena and her Inner Court."
"Then Mercury and I will go to Earth and search for the Sailor Earth."
Venus said, "We are the two closest to Earth. Perhaps we can
search her out - somehow." She said, Mercury nodded.
"Why just you two - we will ALL go, the more to search the bigger the
chances." Neptune protested.
"No." Mercury said firmly, "If we all go, then Serenity will be
unprotected here, where an assasin managed to infiltrate the centre of
the Palace - the most well guarded place in the entire Kingdom."
"You others have to stay here to protect the Princess and the Inner
Court from whatever sent that - *thing*."
They nodded in other standing.
Mercury and Venus turned to Serenity, "Guard against all harm, Sere."
Mercury whispered, hugging her queen tightly, "We'll search through
every corner of Earth for the Scout of Life." She promised.
Serenity nodded tearfully - at times, she was fully Queen to these eight
Sensei, but at other times, she was the young princess that had grown up
treating them as her sisters. This was one of those times.
"Come home safely, my Scouts." Serenity said softly.
Venus and Mercury saluted and ran out of the room towards the Portals.
"What do we do now?" Serenity asked, her voice loud in the silence,
"What do we do when we can do NOTHING?"
Mars spoke up then, "Perhaps we should turn to what your people have
done in centuries since when they had nothing and no-one else to turn
to, Sere." She pointed out, "Pray that the Goddess, in her infinate
wisdom, will - somehow - bring the salvation we need."
"I never believed that there WAS a perfect, all knowing Goddess."
Neptune said as Mars bent down before the pale princess's bed, eyes shut
and lips moving in prayer.
"Well, this is the time to start beliving, because there is no other
we can turn to now." Saturn said as she stared out of the window
towards the stars, praying to her own deity.
"No other we can turn to."
There was no other way. A thin string of hope was all that seperated
the lives of Serena and seven young girls - barely adults - from certain
death.
*Oh Goddess.* Serenity pleaded, remembering a time so long ago when she
had stared out at the sky, and prayed, *Save my baby. Please - I don't
blame You for taking Anderel and Andrew. I KNOW that they are happy and
peaceful where they are now - I know that You would never harm us that
You care for us - * she took a deep breath, staving tears, *But not
Serena. Please Goddess. Not Serena too.*
