This is the last chapter of Time Vortex One, and it has been a wild and crazy adventure for many, with many unexpected occurrences during it. Much history has been revealed about the Moon Kingdom and at least a few of its leaders, and its societal and cultural developments, et cetera, for sure. I have not decided when and if most of the characters seen in this story will appear again later in its story series who are not native to the Moon Kingdom of the late 10th Century AD, but we may indeed see at least a few of them later on in the series, if and when I might feel the need to have them appear again in it, folks.

Feel free to let me know if and when you would like to see more of certain characters in this story series who aren't yet major characters in it, at least. If you do, maybe I can find a way for them to appear at least once more in it, even if they've only appeared in this volume for it so far. After all, this story has been called Time Vortex One, and seeing as that's the case, there'll obviously have to be at least a story called Time Vortex Two at some point for its series, you'd think, right?

Until later, then, I'll close this. I really hope you enjoy and are entertained by the last chapter of this particular story, though, of course, everyone. TUS out.

Near And In The Double Earth Palace

Crescent, Moon Kingdom, Moon

June 10, 987

Eventually, they were all expelled in the exact same manner that all the other members of their earlier traveling party had been when their times had come to each of them. And they were all dropped exactly where they'd all been captured by the vortex, no matter where it was, in the area of Crescent on the Moon. This meant, of course, that Luna and Artemis were returned to their hiding places under certain bushes and/or trees on the Double Earth Palace's grounds. While each of the Scouts was deposited exactly where they'd been when captured by the vortex themselves, not too long after the cats had been restored to their previous locations on the Double Earth Palace's grounds in Crescent.

In the exact reverse of the order they'd earlier been captured in by the vortex, then, each of the still-remaining Scouts was expelled from the globe now in question here. No matter when and where they'd all been at the times that they'd each been grabbed up in their turns by the aforementioned time vortex, they still were all returned in the exact same time and place that they'd each been taken from, in fact.

The last of them to be expelled from the globe by the vortex was Royal Sailor Serenity. For she'd somehow been grabbed up last of all the Scouts that'd been taken by the vortex from the late 10th Century AD. And she soon appeared exactly where and when she'd been taken up by the vortex as well. And in exactly the same form that she'd been in when she'd been taken up by it, as a matter of fact.

Serenity soon accounted for all her current companions. And she saw that Luna and Artemis were no longer with them, at least not in a physical sense. But she knew that they'd been taken up by the vortex at least a little bit later than she and the other Scouts from this time period had earlier been. So she wasn't actually all that worried about Luna and Artemis at the current time.

And her present serenity about such things was proven to be quite appropriate, once she and all of her current companions had each returned to the Double Earth Palace's grounds. When they each finally finished doing what they'd earlier been doing when the vortex had grabbed them all up, they eventually found that Luna and Artemis were exactly where Serenity had expected them both to be. Which, in fact, had been right under at least one bush or tree on the Double Earth Palace's grounds, if not more than one of either kind of plant or both kinds of plants. For as she'd been taken up by the vortex originally, she'd somehow received a vision of Luna and Artemis trying to hide from the vortex as well. Even before they'd been picked up by it too. That was why she'd expected to find them under that bush or tree, or those bushes or trees, if not at least one of either. By then, all the Scouts had actually transformed back into their normal non-Scout states of being in their lives, no matter what those states of being were in actual physical reality.

Serenity said, then, right after finding her cats exactly where she'd expected to find them both, "I hope you're feeling okay, you two."

"We're fine, it seems, Niti. That was some adventure of ours, wasn't it?" asked Luna.

"You still remember it?"

"Yes, of course I do, and I'm reasonably sure that Artemis does too, Niti," answered Luna, in very short order.

"Just how long of a break do you really think we'll eventually find ourselves having, before our next adventure comes to us all?"

Artemis said, "I hope that it's a break that'll last at least a little while, of course, Serenity. This is for all the obvious reasons, quite naturally."

"I could most definitely do without having to fight monsters for at least a month or two, Artemis," said Serena. Her sentiments about such things were quite quickly echoed in quite similar manners by most, if not all, of her other current companions, in fact.

Lita eventually said, "I don't really know about the rest of you. But for some strange reason, I'm quite intensely feeling the urge to prepare a very large feast for this evening and night."

"Maybe you want us to celebrate the fact that we're actually back where and when we should be in our lives, Lita," said Raye.

"Yes, I suppose you might say that, Raye. And maybe even a little bit more powerful too, if I'm not too mistaken here, for at least one, if not more than one, of us. I mean, I didn't have at least one of my current powers when we all left here earlier like we did."

"Maybe so. But we still might not be able to beat the Negaverse well enough without Queen Serenity's help." These things were said by Mina, as a matter of fact.

"Well, I'm almost always ready to fight the Negaverse, whenever the need arises for me to do so. Even if it means my potential loss in battle. I really do hate seeing innocent people being picked on by monsters and other terrible things, in fact. And I'm quite sure that the rest of you would probably agree quite strongly with me about such things, whenever possible, in your own lives."

"And what if we all get killed by Queen Beryl and her forces, Lita?" asked Amy, a few moments later, as everyone soon began walking to the Double Earth Palace's main dining hall.

"Then we do, Amy. If I must actually die in battle, then I really do hope that I die while I'm still fighting to the best of my abilities to do what I can against our enemies. There's no greater honor in battle, if one must die in it, than to die giving your best possible effort in order to protect those who you're supposed to protect for as long as you can protect them in your own existence. I hope that if I ever do get killed in battle, it'll be while I'm protecting as many of my friends and relatives as I possibly can, to the best of my ability to do just that somehow. Including, of course, Serena, if the need ever arises for me to try to do that somehow. She may die before me, or I may die before her. But I'll still do my best to protect her and anyone else that I can, for as long as I can in my own existence, just the same."

"There may be a good chance that we'll all be killed by our enemies, Lita. Except for maybe Queen Serenity, of course," said Raye.

"Then so be it, Raye. I'll absolutely not run from any future battle, if I can possibly avoid it, if it comes, and I'm still alive and able to fight well enough in it. I won't kill myself either, if I don't absolutely have to and if I can possibly avoid it, in battle against any foes that we may ever face in our lives. No matter who or what they may actually be, I won't run or kill myself in any battle, if I can possibly ever avoid it at all."

"What if I can't possibly fight any longer, for any reason whatsoever, at least in this time period, eventually?" asked Serena.

"Then those of us who can still do so, somehow, I really hope, will do all they possibly can to protect you and anyone else who can no longer fight our enemies, in whatever time period we may actually find ourselves in, Serena," said Lita.

"Even if it may mean your deaths, Lita?"

"Even if it means our deaths. For we've promised to protect you with our very lives to the best of our respective abilities to do so, Serena. Just as countless other Scouts have most likely done ever since the very beginning of the Scouts, with the appropriate other people in their own lives. Whether they're Queens of the Moon Kingdom, or Moon Princesses of it," answered Lita.

"But what of those who are from Earth, by any chance?" asked Mara.

"I'm primarily talking about those Scouts who are actually from our Moon Kingdom, Mara," said Lita, as everyone eventually began entering the palace's main dining hall.

"Of course, there are probably others from other worlds in this Universe that have agreed to do the same thing, whenever possible, in each of their own lives, including those who've actually been from Earth in actual physical reality. And I happen to think that all eight of you who are actually also Monitors have now agreed to do so in your own lives, whenever possible. And I also do believe that the Israelite Princess Sylvia Wakefield has now also agreed to do so, whenever possible, in her own life, Mara." Everyone soon began getting themselves things to eat and drink as they saw fit to do there.

"As far as I know at the current time, I am the leader of all current Monitors, Lita. I don't really know if any of our other Monitors actually do still survive, in actual reality. Or if they do, what their statuses are, for all the obvious reasons. I really hate the fact that they've killed at least a few members, if not all the other members, of my family, at least. Plus at least a few members of at least a few other families from our nation, if not all of the rest of each of them."

"I've heard this strange saying from somewhere or someone that I can't quite recall at the moment, Mara. And I think it goes something like this, if I'm not too mistaken about such things here, 'Revenge is a dish best served as cold as possible,' or something similar to that. I don't know who or where I might have heard it from. But I still know that I've heard it or something sufficiently similar to it before, somewhere, at least once before in my life, if not more than that."

"Revenge can be quite poisonous, Lita. It can turn people into something or someone that they'd best not turn into in their lives. It'll do no good for us to act in a revengeful manner against our enemies. Or we will run the risk of being taken over by them," said Serenity.

"But who will avenge the Moon Kingdom, if it gets ruined by our enemies, if I may ask you this here?"

"I believe that vengeance is the Lord's, Lita. Whether it's gained by human means or by divine means, I believe that it's the Lord's, just the same, here. If the Moon Kingdom is to fall, then I'm sure that God will make it possible for it to be avenged in time. Even if it means that the Moon and all the other inhabited worlds of our Moon Kingdom must remain uninhabitable for at least a little while, if not forever. We must absolutely trust that He knows what's best for His entire Universe. Even for our own particular part of it, we must still do so, to the best of our respective abilities to do just that in each of our lives. If we die, we die. If we live, we live. He ultimately runs things in this Universe of His. Each of us has a finite amount of time we can live in His Universe, at least in our mortal bodies. And that'll always be the case for as long as we have such bodies for ourselves. Now I may actually be able to put you all to sleep, in a manner of speaking later. But that still won't change the fact that we'll each have a certain finite lifespan in our mortal bodies, until it's time for all of the rest of eternity to begin once and for all."

"Even if the Imperium Silver Crystal is involved?"

"Yes, Lita, even if it is. He created it, and He was the One who made it what it has been since its creation. If the Negaverse gets control of it, then no world in this solar system, at least, if not in any other solar system elsewhere in the Universe as well, may be safe from harm because of them. So we must do all that we possibly can to keep it away from our enemies. Most especially the Negaverse, for all the obvious reasons, of course. No matter what the cost to us and our worlds may actually be here."

All of the assembled people spent at least the next few hours with each other, if they wished to do so, before they eventually parted from each other for at least a little while, if not a long while. And they also did whatever they wanted to do for as long as they either wanted or needed to do it, before they'd eventually have to return once again to the Moon City area again.

Before local nightfall, however, at the very latest, they all assembled in the Double Earth Palace's South Garden with all the things that they either wanted or needed to bring back with them to the Moon City area of June 10, 987. They quite naturally did this for all the obvious reasons, of course. They left some of their things in their respective Double Earth Palace chambers, if and whenever they felt they could do so, and if Serenity allowed them to do just that somehow. Everything else, they quite naturally brought back with them when they returned to the cavern somewhere under the Crystal Palace of Moon City.

Before they left for the Moon City area of the Moon again, they all transformed into one of their respective Scout states, whether or not they had only one, or they had more than one, currently in each of their lives. Serenity became Royal Sailor Serenity before she'd have to teleport with the rest of her Scouts. Luna and Artemis took up the exact same relative positions in the Double Earth Palace's South Garden that they'd been in when they'd materialized there some time before. Which actually meant that they'd been on Serenity's very own shoulders at that time, of course. And so did all the other Scouts, when they actually each needed to do so, at the current time.

When Serenity saw that all of her Scouts and both cats were ready for the necessary teleport to a sufficient enough degree, she soon began the required teleportation process in the proper manner or manners. And she had all the others continue it as needed, at least until they were all light again, if not even longer than that, in fact.

Off the Moon's primary sun shield they all then went. And some length of time later, they all began materializing again on each of their appropriate tiles in the large depression that was in the middle of the cavern that they'd often teleported from in the past. The Monitors/Scouts materialized on the same tile or tiles that they'd left from earlier in that depression. If they didn't each have a certain tile for themselves, each of them materialized on a tile that was marked with the known astronomical symbol for Earth.

Eventually, all of them were totally accounted for by Serenity, including herself, of course. And she soon enough dismissed them, when their current situation actually allowed her to do so here, quite naturally enough. Even Luna and Artemis, as a matter of fact, could then leave, if they wanted to, after she did that.

As soon as they could do so, it wasn't very long afterward that Moon and the rest of her fellow Scouts, besides her mother, powered down, and hurried up to the surface as quickly as they could do so. As they all left after powering down again, Serenity quite soon began hearing quite a bit of gleeful enough laughter from her still-young charges. For they were exceedingly glad that they could get away from being Scouts for at least a little while longer, most likely.

She stayed in the cavern for about ten or fifteen minutes with her two cats. And she said, "My, Luna and Artemis, they must really be quite happy not to most likely have to be Scouts again for at least a little while longer, if I'm not too mistaken here about such things."

"I do believe that you're so right here, Niti," said Luna.

"Should I let them have fun for at least a while, if at all possible, then, Luna?"

"By all means, Niti, I think that you should, if possible. I mean, it'll probably be at least a little while longer before we'll have to fight any beings from the Negaverse again. God willing, of course. And remember, it's going to be your twin daughters' shared birthday tomorrow. So I think that you should let them have some fun for at least a while, if nothing happens to cut it short again for at least a while."

"I suppose you're right. This last adventure might have been quite hard on all of us, to at least some degree, if not to a great deal, Luna. But at least we had other Scouts with us at the same time, as we were having it."

"Even your own mother, who seemed to be much younger than you now are, during it, Niti," said Luna and Artemis together.

"Yes, even my own dear mother, you two. I miss her very much. And now that I've actually seen her as a rather young woman or girl, I miss her even more now."

"I suppose you might, Niti. But God saw fit to call her home to Him while she was with your father and a few of your siblings, as well as my parents and so many other sentients at the same time, Niti. Maybe because He obviously knew what was yet to come, and will come, for us here in the Moon Kingdom, I think. He may have thought that your parents might not have been able to protect our Moon Kingdom, at least as well as you might have been able to do, any longer. So He brought them home. Nothing He ever does ultimately works out for the worst for all of those who trust in Him, His Son, and the Holy Spirit. Supposing, of course, that they're actually saved for Him in their very own existences. He often works in quite mysterious ways, Niti," said Luna.

"But that doesn't mean I can't miss my parents, does it, Luna?"

"No, it doesn't. However, you should remember that they accepted His Son as their Lord and Saviour before their unfortunate deaths, Niti. And because of that, I believe that we'll all eventually see them whenever we want for the rest of forever, once all that's mortal and saved is made forever perfect in every single way in God's own Universe."

"Supposing, of course, that we're saved as well, I believe?"

"Yes, that's what I mean," said Luna.

Artemis said, "If you ladies will now excuse me, I think that I want to go see if I can find Mina again, so that I can take a nap in her chambers for a while."

"Fine. Do your thing, then, Artemis," said Serenity.

Artemis left almost immediately, followed at least a few minutes later by Luna. But both cats didn't necessarily go to the exact same place, in fact. Luna went, in fact, to Serena's Crystal Palace chambers. That left Serenity alone for at least a few minutes more, before she too eventually left the underground cavern through the necessary tunnel. Serenity spent whatever amount of time that she stayed alone there mainly reflecting rather silently on the events of her and her Scouts' most recent adventure. But even she didn't want to spend the rest of her life there, if she didn't absolutely have to do so at all, quite naturally. So she finally left them as well, and she began looking for her husband and/or her brother.

She left the cavern through the necessary tunnel. And she left the Sailor Scout Garden again as well. She went to her Crystal Palace chambers in very short order. And she went to sleep in her bed for at least an hour or two, if not even longer. Supposing that she wasn't disturbed by anyone or anything at any time even sooner than that, of course. She, in fact, only woke up again when Daniel found her lying down in her bed, and when he kissed her quite briefly on the lips.

She opened her eyes after he'd kissed her a few times on her lips. And she soon exclaimed, "It's so good to see you again, Daniel! You don't know how long it's been since I've seen your face in actual physical reality!"

"Sure I do, Niti. It was before you left for Crescent earlier today."

"Maybe to you, Daniel, but it seems like ages since I've seen your very wonderful face in actual reality."

"I don't understand, honey."

"I went more than a millennium into the past, Daniel, with my Scouts and our cats."

"And where were you, if I may ask?"

"Part of the time, we were in the Moon City area of 174 BC. And part of the time, we were on a world in another galaxy. But we were not alone, for several other Sailor Scouts were with us as well."

"Like Sailors Chrysalis, Calypso, and the Moon-born Skyhorse?"

"Exactly, darling. I saw my mother as a young girl, and as a Sailor Scout called Peppermint."

"Tell me whatever you feel you can about your adventure, please, Serenity. But only whatever you feel that you can tell me safely enough. I'd love to hear more about your mother, for instance, if you can tell me more about her than I may already know of her in my life."

"All right. You might want to sit or lie down, then, if you really want me to tell you as much as I can now tell you about our adventure in the past. While you do that, then, I'll make as sure as I possibly can that we're not going to be disturbed here for at least a little while, if we don't want to be, and don't have to be."

"I suppose that I could do that, then, Niti." He complied with her request, once he'd briefly gotten some water to drink from her bathroom area. As he got some water to drink, and he proceeded to do as she'd just suggested that he then do, she also secured her chambers in all the necessary enough manners, as well. After she'd done that, they spent much, if not the rest, of the evening and/or night in private with each other. What exactly they said and did after she secured her chambers from unnecessary intrusion would never be known, most likely, from that time on, by anything else mortal that hadn't been in them at the very same time. Those actions and words of theirs would most likely remain undisclosed to mere mortals forever, if at all possible. God would know, of course, all about them, and so might they, quite naturally, but nobody else mortal most likely ever would, in fact.

As for everyone else, they all eventually tried to get their lives as much back to normal as they possibly could, after the events of their most recent adventure as Sailor Scouts. This particular adventure, which had been quite weird, to say the very least, for them all in their own lives, they'd eventually call "Time Vortex One", for some reason they didn't yet know well enough in each of them. And it'd then join the four previous tales that were already part of the Chrysanthemum Chronicles story series that it'd belong to, quite naturally. It, however, would most likely not be the last of the stories in that series. For the Negaverse hadn't yet been able to invade the Moon Kingdom to a sufficient enough degree, if they'd even thought about trying to do it by then. This was most likely for reasons that were probably too numerous to mention in great enough detail, at least as of the current time. But they'd eventually come. And they'd seek to conquer or destroy it to the best of their own abilities to do either or both of those things, Serenity and at least a few others in the Moon Kingdom were now quite sure in each of their own lives.

They didn't know yet for sure exactly when they would come against the Moon itself. But they knew that the Negaverse would eventually do so someday. And they knew that Serenity would most likely have to sacrifice both herself and her own dear Moon Kingdom in order to save as many of her Kingdom's current inhabitants as she might actually be able to save here easily enough and safely enough. No matter what the cost might actually be for her or for her Moon Kingdom, they now knew Serenity would most likely have to commit a dual sacrifice in order to save as many of her Kingdom's inhabitants as she possibly could save for the distant future.

But that time hadn't yet come. And, God willing, it still wouldn't come to pass for at least another few years, if not for at least another decade or so, in each of their lives. Or at least that was currently their most fervent and most obvious hope, of course, in them, whenever possible, if it wouldn't always be, in them. Whether or not it would actually come to pass in them, it wasn't yet known. But it'd eventually become known by all the necessary people, if and when the need ever arose for them to ever know it for any reason whatsoever at all, in each of their own mortal lives, at least. That was most definitely a certainty. No matter how long it might actually take for them to know it, if and when they ever had to know it for sure, in them.

End of Story Five

This hereby concludes Book V for The Chrysanthemum Chronicles story series. Operation Cocoon One will follow this story in very short order, most likely. I'll try to begin posting it as soon as I can, folks, and if I remember things correctly enough from it, both Sylvia Wakefield and Rolando Volois will be major participants in both Books VI and VII of this series, as well.

So it might be a very good idea for you all to read every chapter of Books II and III, at least, to re-familiarize yourselves with them, as best as possible and as quickly as possible. Sylvia also appears in Book IV, while Rolando may not be seen much in that particular volume, if I remember correctly.

Expect more adventures for all the main Scouts for quite a while yet, folks. They won't generally be very pleasant from now on, or at least not for the most part, anyway. But they will still have some adventures coming their ways periodically, of course, as the fall of the Moon Kingdom inevitably will continue to approach them all, for sure.

Until the next story, then, folks, I'll close this. Thank you for reading this story and all, if you have, and I hope you join me and perhaps others when the next story in this series finally begins to be posted. TUS out.