A fan fic by Caleyndar.
Rating: PG.

Notes: If you don't say it, it's not true, is it? Keep 
hoping, Endymion. Keep praying. But time is running out. 
The final battle between rivals. The arrival of the final
enemy. "People can't really even understand themselves,
much less each other."
	The second last chapter to the Part Five: The War
of Peace... We'll soon Knock on Heaven's Door.

Gomen for taking so long getting this chapter out! I guess
I've been caught up with school work, and for a time there,
the words would not come... No use writing if that happens,
ne? Well, I hope to finish at least Part Five before school
resumes. Yes, we can always hope!
	By the way, 'Serenity' by Bunny is the OFFICAL 
companion story to this story. It follows this story 
from Serenity's point of view. Read it if possible;
it might just clear a few things up! Besides, it good!

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Email: caleyndar@tac.com.au

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Disclaimer: None of the characters belong to me; only the
few I make up. The story, however, is mine.


The Name Endymion...

Part Five: The War of Peace...

Chapter Six...

	The life around me stopped its eternal flow. Dust 
froze, shifting no more on the unseen air currents. All 
movement ceased. The swaying of one?s hair, the exhale of 
breath. A grim sense of death stole over the entire command 
bridge and silence set in.
	A flicker of movement, of light shinning. Confusion 
clouded my mind, stirred my every thoughts. Something I 
meant to do. Some loved ones I had to help? Save? Bright 
light, golden light. A rip in the fabric of reality. My 
eyes focused as shock left me and movement entered my limbs. 
Serenity. She looked at all those around her, so still and 
without life they seemed to be chiselled from stone. 
	In barely a whisper, her name escaped my lips. It 
was enough. She flew into my arms, burying her sweet face 
into my chest. The sight, for all its picture like 
qualities was gruesome. And that tear in the empty space. 
It now formed a portal. Who else would step from it but 
the Soldier of Time and Space? Dressed in her dark uniform. 
The female version of Death.
	"Should I be angry?" I demanded coldly. "Or 
should I praise you for your gift?" Glaring blue locked 
with deep red. 
	"I do this for you, Endymion. I do it for my 
Princess. They were not meant to arrive before the Sun 
Kingdom," Pluto said softly. "We wait now for that." Her 
eyes moved to a digital display set into one of the walls. 
It began to move forward in time. Minutes passed like 
seconds. 
	I laughed bitterly. But I would not say what my 
heart screamed. What? Wait for what I know must happen? 
Life did so like to taunt me with such sufferings. The 
laughter died. "You have no right to play God. If such a 
being existed, pray he?ll make you pay for your self 
endowed insight." My voice died to little more than a 
whisper. "I wish you were dead."
	This was insanity knocking apon my door. Knowing 
what would happen. If it was not for her, the great goddess 
Sailor Pluto, at least I would not have to know! I would 
not have to suffer like this now. Being so still here, 
locked in a coffin of metal, waiting for fate to strike, 
watching my friends out there, frozen so still they 
resembled a painted picture!
	Pluto did not reply. Did a tear for in her eyes? 
No more words were said. Still the digits apon the clock 
ticked faster and faster. She turned in silence and 
vanished through the portal.
	"I am sorry, that I am so cruel," I choked once 
Serenity and I were alone once more. "I just hate that she 
knows so much! I hate it how she has seen all, yet will not 
intervene! She just follows it all!" I was sobbing now. It 
was no longer I who comforted Serenity. It was she who 
caressed my head and enfolded me in her tender embrace. 
	"No, not cruel. It is human nature," was her reply 
to my outburst. 
	Her voice, her words. They made me want to cry 
more. But I had to be strong. I had to do this. And so, 
when all was said and done, crying accomplished nothing. 
So, Endymion, dry up the tears and think logically about 
this situation as it now stood. 
	I bit my lip, letting the stinging pain halt my 
eyes. I gave my only love a brave smile, kissing her
thankfully on her sweet lips. "You are my pillar of 
strength. I love you for that."
	She smiled at me, bright blue eyes trusting in me. 
It hurt me to see her look at me with such hope. She who 
longed for the future. But there was none, was there?
	I turned my glazed blue eyes to the monitor where 
my generals and the Soldiers stood, poised to attack those 
who would want to cause them harm. Diamond. Were it not for 
me, you would have your humanity. And Sapphire. We could 
have been friends. Ruby and Emerald. Little I knew of the 
two of you. But you have no cruel features to your face. 
Under the beauty, you may have been kind, caring. 
	Lowering my eyes, I shifted away from the screen. 
Nick stood where we had only moments ago embraced. How like 
a wax figure did he look. It frightened me. They all looked 
so dead! No more. I shut my eyes. Looking at them. No more. 
Avert your gaze, Endymion. This will pass. Everything ends
sooner or later, whether or not that end is death.
	"The time monitor," Serenity?s voice whispered 
softly. A breeze through the uncanny stillness. Stirring 
the death that lingered everywhere. If only she was Life. 
Then she could not die.
	I looked up at the digital clock which I had only 
observed moments ago to be racing forward in time. It now 
slowed. Until finally the seconds passed as they should. 
The digits now read eight hundred hours. In the vast 
darkness beyond the windows of the space craft, tiny 
pinpoints of lights which marked another fleet arriving 
appeared in flash.
	"The Dark Dragon fleet," I murmured under my breath. 
	My words had hardly been spoken when one 
communication screen flickered with movement. It appeared 
that Sailor Pluto had given us a link to the outside world, 
where there was a semblance of reality left still. I 
squeezed myself inbetween the officers who were frozen to 
their seats and hard as marble and slammed my hand down on 
the receive button. The connection was at once completed, 
and the face of Armand filled the screen.
	"Armand!" I exclaimed, glad to see a moving, if 
not living being. "Sailor Pluto has stopped time in order 
of the Sun Kingdom to arrive sooner. Is time passing as it 
should where you are?"
	Armand frowned. "Here it is, where the majority of 
our ships now stand. However, some of our smaller fighters 
has gone further in, and has been caught in your time 
distortion and are unable to return to us. In other words, 
we can not reach you. May I ask, why are you not affected?"
	"I do not know. Maybe Sailor Pluto likes to see me 
suffer," I sneered slightly. "Whatever the case, do not 
concern yourself over me nor Princess Serenity. Time may be 
stopped, but it does not mean you can not attack. Fire at 
the Black Moon Kingdom and the Shadow Kingdom fleets now. 
When time resumes its course, the ammunition will reach 
there target and disable the ships."
	Armand nodded, and turned away briefly to give the 
order. He then looked closely at me. "You have changed, 
Endymion. You seem colder, yet stronger." But it was not a 
question. Merely a statement. "Until time continues its 
eternal journey, Prince Endymion. I wish you well."
	The transmission was terminated, and I closed my 
eyes. I had changed. But then, the only thing sure in life 
was change. Thus one must deduce that even a tortured soul 
such as I must change. 
	When I opened my eyes once more, they were locked 
on the distant display of light that appeared from the Dark 
Dragon Fleet. They would race towards the still fleets of 
the Black Moon and Shadow kingdoms, and then stop, caught 
in the time distortion. 
	"What is Sailor Pluto doing?" I wondered out loud. 
	"She waits for the arrival of the Sun Kingdom. They 
must be a vital key in this mystery," Serenity spoke up 
quietly, deep in thought. "It is almost as if Sailor Pluto 
has seen that the Sun Kingdom has the ability to open the 
Space Divider Field in the future, and now awaits for the 
awakening of Sailor Saturn by them."
	"But why?" I demanded. "Why would she want this 
universe to be destroyed and theoretically be reborn? It 
makes no sense."
	"Perhaps you were right. She may not want this. She 
may very well want to do everything she possibly can to 
stop the awakening of Sailor Saturn. But her duty is to see 
that the Time Stream travels its course as it should. And 
so she had no choice. As it was with you at one point of 
your life," Serenity explained carefully, delicately 
reminding me of my dark past.
	"If that is so, then why does it have to be this 
way? Why does Sailor Saturn have to awaken and destroy 
this universe?" I questioned, glaring at the Space 
Divider Field.
	"You may as well ask why there is a universe, why 
we are alive. Perhaps for nothing. But I hope for a 
brighter future, filled with peace and happiness," Serenity 
whispered with a smile on her face.
	I grimaced, not having the courage to look at her. 
The future. Something we did not have at this point in time. 
I think I wanted to laugh at the irony of my words, but the 
bitterness bit into my soul and killed that desire. I felt 
utterly sick inside. The urge to throw up was almost 
overwhelming. But I did not. For Serenity?s sake, I could 
not break down now. 
	"Endymion! Look!" Serenity suddenly cried, her 
slender hand pointing towards the stationary Dark Dragon 
fleet. Their rapidly moving lazar fire sudden stopped in 
their track as something slowed them down. A giant hand 
had reached out, closing the time distortion around them 
in its fist, freezing them in time as everything else 
already was. 
	My eyes widened with disbelief, and then narrowed 
as my gaze quickly darted to the clock. Already the digits 
were speeding up. We were hurtling into the future. 
	"It seems Sailor Pluto can not want for the end of 
the world," I said with a touch of bitterness. "Well, 
wouldn?t it be nice if everyone just died," I muttered 
under my breath, too soft for Serenity to hear the 
little curse. 
	"Twelve hundred hours," Serenity said after a 
moment of silence. 
	Armageddon descended apon us. 
	In the blink of an eye, time jump started, a dead 
thing bursting to life. All the fire the Dark Dragon fleet 
had released shot forward and impaled the ships of the 
Black Moon and Shadow fleets. Hell broke out there as 
thousands, if not millions of lives were wiped from 
existence. 
	Another fuel for the raging fire. The second Earth 
fleet arrived, storming in on the terror and confusion, 
blasting away at the weakened opposing fleets.
	And the command bridge. It was a frenzy of movement 
and noise, one which froze me for a moment until Nick 
grabbed my shoulders suddenly and shook me. Hard.
	"Why are you still here?" my oldest friend demanded, 
hidden panic surfacing. "And why in Hell are the Dark 
Dragon and second Earth fleet here? They are not suppose 
to be arriving until," he trailed off as his eyes landed 
on the time counter. "By God, what has happen?"
	"Endymion, there is no time to explain! The Senshi 
and your generals!" Serenity cried out. 
	I swallowed my own confusion and shock, clamping 
up my fear and masking it with determination. "Serenity is 
right," I said in an unbelievably calm voice. "Nicolas, 
take care of this situation. Know only that two of our 
fleets has arrived and that the two enemy fleets have been
damaged. Good luck, friend."
	That sickening feeling again. Bitterness. I was 
walking towards my undoing.
	Taking Serenity?s hand in mine and giving it a 
gentle squeeze with a soft and trusting smile, we summoned 
our powers and teleported off the command ship into Death?s 
open arms. 
	Repulsion. The first force to greet us as space 
reformed around us. Like a great wave of heat, it seemed 
to drive us back, to say, come no further less you be 
burnt. What was this force when all there was around 
Serenity and me was the depths of dark and cold vacuum?
	But no time to dwell, to ponder. Real heat tumbled 
against us, the energy of the force field my generals had 
in place as soon as time rolled forward on its normal 
course once more. Venus was at once by Serenity?s side, 
demanding why she had come, risking her own life. No 
answer. Only the bright glow of the Silver Crystal as she 
produced it and held it high, ready at a moment?s notice 
to use it to save our lives. Venus saw this and gave the 
one she served a tight smile, and turned to confront 
the enemy. 
	With the generals holding the shield, it was left 
to the Senshi and myself to attack the Black Moon Family 
and the lone Weapon who stood atop her creation, 
expressionless. She did not care for the outcome of this 
war. Nor did she care if she died. Michelle. I shut that 
thought out and summoned the energy to my hands, ready to 
defend and to attack. 
	An unspoken signal was given. 
	Without warning, the Black Moon Family raised their 
arms and slammed their energy into out force field. Blue, 
red, green, white beams of light that blinded those who 
dared to look too closely. It was strong. My generals 
staggered under the force. They would not be able to hold 
it back for much longer. The Senshi attacked with their 
magic, sending all the natural elements through the energy 
field to damage those who would do us harm.
	But Sword would have none of it. Before the 
Senshi?s attacks even reached the Black Moon Family, her 
metal beast sucked up the energy and took it into itself. 
Converting and doubling the power, it sent the energy back 
towards us, blasting into the force field with such 
strength it knocked the generals off their feet and 
tumbling back. The shock wave that followed it sent us all 
flying, unable to sustain our positions floating in space. 
	I knew not what happened next. All senses were 
tumbling against one another, and it took all my 
concentration and power to halt my head long tumble. But 
before I could even find my bearings in this world where 
only the tiny eyes of Heaven stared without emotion down 
upon our battle, I was bombarded with sharp and 
penetrating pain as my turned back was attacked.
	The hate that fuelled this power glowed white, so 
strong was it. This hate blinded all sense of logic in the 
attacker. There was no need to even turn to see who my 
assaulter was to know it was the Prince of the Black Moon 
Kingdom. Out of them all, he alone bore the hatred. 
	Without warning, before I had even the time to 
scream out in pain, Diamond released me. I had enough time, 
perhaps, to snatch a glimpse of the fate that had been 
dealt to my beloved Serenity before his cold harsh hands, 
formed in fists, impacted with my face and sent me reeling. 
	Rage tore through me, but I would not allow it to 
consume me. Or perhaps half of me wished for nothing more 
than to tear Diamond to pieces, yet the other side, the 
humane side, reasoned that he hurt me out of his own pained 
only, and that I should pity him. Had the following not 
occurred, perhaps things would not have ended as they did.
	"Do not look at me with such sorrowful eyes, Prince 
Endymion!" Diamond roared, eyes blazing with cold hate. 
"I will not be the one to die!"
	I was floating again. My face ached, burned, sent 
pulses of colour through my entire being from where Diamond 
had delivered his blow. And I realised even now I did look 
upon him with calm blue eyes that said so clearly that I 
was sorry he felt such pain, and that I had been the cause. 
	"Fight me!" the silver haired prince commanded as 
he materialised a blazing sword and gripped it feverishly 
in his hands, eyes ignited with insanity.
	"Why?" I whispered, regret and sadness the only 
elements now running through my mind. What had become of 
my other half? The hate, where had that gone to? I think I 
felt too much empathy for him. I understood all too well 
the emotions welling, burning in his heart. What could I 
do? Fight, die. This was despair again. A sigh escaped my 
lips. I was tired. Sick and tired of this war which had
consumed my very being. I too, like Serenity, longed 
for peace.
	It was always the same circle of thoughts, wasn?t 
it? You must have strength, you must have courage, you must 
fight, do as destiny demands of you! But why? Why bother? 
When I already knew how it will end, and that very thought 
drains my energy and makes me want to curl up and die? But
don?t you want to change it? Can I change it? In my past 
experience, this can not be so. Why try?
	"Damn you, Endymion!" Diamond growled. He had 
closed the distance between us. "You pathetic fool! All 
you can do is feel sorry for yourself! You can?t see what 
you have, you aren?t worthy of living, bastard! You are 
worse than a piece of shit!" his bellowed, his sword 
lifted, slashing down upon my cheek, cutting deep. 
	Blood flowed. Anger was born with the red liquid 
of life.
	"Fight me! Fight me for her!" the prince screamed 
at me, one hand trembling as he pointed to the distant 
white glowing figure of our dearest beloved.
	I think a tear leaked from my eye, mingling with 
the blood that coursed down my cheek. "Diamond, I am sorry," 
I said quietly, eyes now closed, blocking out the very 
image of her that blazed in my mind?s eye if not the one 
that saw reality. "I am sorry!" I suddenly roared, pulling 
out my sword and lunging at him, the tears still flying 
from my eyes. 
	This I never wanted! This fight. We had always 
been grown men inside the bodies of children. Loved the 
same angel we did, the light of our life, that had somehow 
become his destruction. I knew then, deep within the core 
of my being, I would not die. Not here, not now. I had one 
last unspeakable task to perform before I went out of this 
world like a smothered flame. 
	Our swords clashed, metal on metal. No power play 
here, now. We fought like the knights of old, welding our 
weapons, using our mortal strength and skill. Unrestricted 
by ground, air, gravity, we assaulted each other from all 
angles, slowly tearing each other to pieces.
	My mind was screaming. Why? Why! Why do you do this! 
	?Because it is meant to be.? Elios.
	?Because this is your destiny.? Pluto.
	I screamed again, slashing blindly down with my 
sword, as out of the corner of my eye, I could see the 
lifeless form of Sword floating into the endless darkness 
of the cold and empty space. Michelle. Twisted pieces of 
ruined metal surrounded her. My scream redoubled in volume 
and insanity as I desperately sought to find the flesh 
with which I could tear and make it feel pain. 
	?Death is meant to be!? my mind cried out 
unbelieving. ?This is my destiny!? Sobs of a child. 
	No, no, no! 
	Yes. Good. There is the anger! Use it, don?t let 
this happen. Take advantage of the anger! Change what has 
to be! Never give up, Endymion!
	Elios and Pluto watched. Pity. This was threaded 
through their gaze.
	Diamond was smiling now. The same demented 
expression he had worn on his face when he last spoke to 
Serenity over the communications channel. "Why are you 
sorry, Endymion? You have everything you want, don?t you?"
	"Shut up!" I screamed again, taking a swing at his 
head as he effortlessly moved out of range. "You don?t 
understand anything! You don?t understand the hopelessness 
of all of this!"
	"You think so?" he laughed. But it was not him. 
	"I don?t have everything I want!" I roared, taking 
another swing at him.
	"You have her!" Diamond growled back.
	The tears poured down my face again, stinging the 
burning cut I had yet to heal. "You know nothing! I won?t 
have her!" I cried, as I suddenly materialised a black rose 
and sent it hurtling with great speed into his right eye.
	The unnaturally sharp end stabbed into his eye 
with a sickening sound, as he suddenly pitched backwards, 
hands dropping his sword and groping at his eye. 
	I gasped in shock, freezing in my position. Time 
only stood still for the two of us. Battle still raged all 
around. The Space Divider Field still remained. She was 
still alive.
	He had torn the rose out, it black crushed petals 
reverting back to red as they drifted off into space, some 
splattered with Diamond?s blood. No scream of pain had torn 
loose from his throat. He was staring at his hands, stained 
with his blood, some from his eyes, some from the cuts 
received on his hands by the rose. 
	"A rose. A symbol of love," he said softly, voice 
catching in his throat. "Love is painful, isn?t it? With 
or without it." He smiled bitterly at me. "I envy you," he 
whispered darkly as he took hold of his sword again. "I 
hated you the moment I laid eyes on you because she loved 
you. And you will have her for eternity." The amount of 
loathing in his voice was almost terrifying.
	"You?re a fool to envy me," I whispered back, shock 
still making it impossible for me to move freely. It had 
cut away all the hot anger.
	"No, Endymion. You are the fool. Remember the 
saying you once said to my brother." Flash of torn dark 
blue suit, blood staining his bare skin, his gapping wound 
to the stomach, his motionless face staring into the void 
of nothing, eyes empty. "It is better to have loved, and 
lost love, than to have never loved at all." A small laugh. 
"It is true of me too, isn?t it? I?m pathetic."
	The Prince of the Black Moon Kingdom?s inverted 
symbol upon his forehead glowed as his body summoned the 
last of his energy. 
	His brother was dead. 
	Sword was dead. My sister had died a second time.
	The Senshi? My generals? I did not know.
	Diamond?s sisters? I did not really care.
	Serenity? She was alive. I could feel her life 
beating in my veins.
	I closed my eyes, a blissful smile on my face. My 
arms opened, my face lifted. I think I welcomed the death 
Diamond offered then. I wondered why, as in my mind?s eye 
I saw Diamond gathering a crackling ball of white energy, 
his eyes possessed. 
	A scream erupted. Pain tearing through a body, 
silencing the life.
	My eyes snapped open as before me stood four young 
powerful women, their bodies glowing with light, hair of 
different seasons flaring out behind them. In all their 
hands were long lances, each different to match the owner. 
	And these lances, their weapons. They were all 
speared through the body of the Prince of the Black Moon 
Kingdom. His blood dripped from all four sharpened tips.
	Revulsion. It hit me, and it hurt. 
	One of the women, adorned with long blond hair, a 
single rainbow streak running through it, smirked. Her 
golden eyes blazed as she sharply withdrew her weapon from 
the shattered body. "We are the Seasons of the Sun Kingdom. 
We are here to fulfil your destiny."
	No sooner had these words left her mouth than two 
of the women vanished. Serenity let out a scream, and 
suddenly they were before me again, holding the unconscious 
form of the Princess of the Moon Kingdom between them.
	"Welcome to the end of the universe, Prince 
Endymion," the women said, as the space around us blackened 
to become something much more sinister.

End of Part Five, Chapter Six.