The battle had be hard. Harder than she'd first though it would be. She worried about the toll it would take on the others. She worried most for her children. She gazed across the courtyard at where they were sitting, eating it appeared and probably talking some strategy or another. She smiled it always warmed her heart to see them like that. Then again there was no one else to stand with the other but the two of the. The royal princess and prince, the very light in Neo Queen Serenity's heart. 

The memory faded as she found them again on the battle field. Terror gripped her heart as she watched her children, her babies, fighting. Not each other as they had most of their lives but an enemy that never seemed to end. The hordes came in wave after wave never seeming to stop. It was with great reservations that she even let them on the battlefield. If she'd gotten her way, they'd be off anywhere but here. They fought as a unit, well oiled and trained. They grew into the rhythm of each others movements and could without speaking a word communicate on a level that was only seen in battles like this. Her children were fine warriors, and it broke her heart. 

"They never should have had to fight." She'd said one night in the room she shared with her husband. 

And yet they fought. Keeping them off the field of battle was nearly impossible. Chibiusa, her sweet brat child, had fought in the past. She was a trained senshi in her own right and had powers and abilities that where only hers to command, and Haru had learned from the best how to fight and defend from attacks, even picking up a little of his father's flare, even if he didn't mean to. Or maybe that was just Serenity trying to see her beloved in the boy. Endymion had been lost some days ago, and the pain of it was still far and close to the queen's heart. 

She saw the flash in the sky first. She watched, her brilliant blue eyes tracking the thing in the sky as it sped towards the ground and the battle that was below. Her breath caught as her eyes found where it would land. She was on her feet and away from Mercury and Mars so fast neither knew she was gone till it was over. She ran her red boots so well worn with years pounding on the gravel and crushed crystal under foot. She had to get there first. Running was never something she was good at unless you counted running to school, but then she was always late, she hoped that this time she would be fast enough. Her blonde pigtails flared out behind her and she skidded and turned, fell, regained her footing and balance and started her frantic race against the most powerful attack they had thrown at them yet. 

The blue collar of her Senshi suit was torn, the white not longer while but a dirty gray from days at battle, the skirt torn and frayed, her oodango shields lost somewhere along the way, and her choker dark with sweat. She was missing a glove nearly to the elbow the only remaining bit was the piping from the top, and the other had missing fingers and holes, her boots where covered in dust and grim the heels long since gone. Frayed and battle worn Sailor Moon ran with everything she had. 

She ran towards where the attack would land. 

But more that than she ran towards her children. 

Her prayers were answered and she threw her arms around them pushing both her daughter and son to the ground and in the process threw up a shield from her silver crystal. The sparkling Lotus flower formed over her heart as the bright white light engulfed the mother and her children only seconds before the attack hit. The attack that neither the princess or prince saw coming, focused as they were on the battle. 

It hit and the two powers met. The light was brighter than all the suns in all the universes combined, as the powers battled for the lives of the Queen and her heirs. Silver light shot upward with such force one might wonder if it wasn't pushed out of the earth itself. The silverly light shot through the air like bullets tearing through the enemy craft still in the sky, and taking out the tanks on the ground. It shot into the space around the Earth where the enemy mother ships waited to deliver more troops to the pointless fight. The light washed over the world, then the solar system, and it took with it the enemy they had so fiercely been fighting.

CRACK 

The sound echoed across the now silent battle field as the light from the battle of powers faded, leaving only the Queen and her children. Something was wrong. She wasn't standing up. Why was Lady cradling her head in her lap? Why where tears thick in Haru's eyes?

"My sweet Moonbeams." She said her voice shaking, the setting sun glinting of the broken pieces of her silver lotus crystal. "I love you both so much." She inhaled a shallow and shaky breath. "I am so proud of you both." She said her eyes closing. "You were the lights of my life, guiding me when I thought all was lost and the darkness would win. Never give up on each other." She exhaled the last word and would never draw breath again.

Lady's screams where heard across the city. The light of her transformation was seen miles away. The pale pink light shot into the sky as the sun set on one Queen. The pink light faded and where she had been Eternal Sailor Chibi Moon, she was now Sailor Moon, or as she would be known later, Neo Sailor Moon. The time had come for her to take the mantel, she'd waited for this day, trained and thought about the day she would become Sailor Moon defender of Love and Justice, but this was not how she wanted it. Never like this. She screamed till her voice gave out, but the tears kept flowing. Her body shaking from the now silent sobs tearing through her, Lady looked at her brother sitting holding their mother's hand, his tears fell silently in rivulets down his cheeks to the ground below.

The had won but the cost was far to great.