Hello All! I'm sorry for the delay, if it ever happens again feel free to flame me.

Ages:

Inners: 17
Hotaru: 15
Pluto: Do we really want to know? I didn't think so . . .
Mamoru: 21
Michiru&Haruka: 19

GW boys: 18






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Walking down the street, Tsukino Usagi, known to a select few as Sailor Moon and Moon Princess, was having a fight with her boyfriend. Actually, to be truthful, it was more like a cold, calculated argument, but that wasn't the point. For two people who had been through what they had, and still come out together, the idea of having a relationship threatening argument was almost impossible.

But almost impossible wasn't the same as impossible.

"Mamoru, I still think you're over reacting. Just because I knocked over one glass of water at dinner does not mean that everyone thought I had bad table manners. We didn't have to leave the resturaunt early." Mamoru sighed. Couldn't she see the point? "Usagi, it's not just tonight. It seems that every time I take you someplace, something bad happens. Throughout the early years it was usually a youma, but lately it's been other things, usually you acting childish. To tell the truth, I think we should try seeing other people for a while." An appalled silence filled the street. Finally Usagi spoke up. "Do you really want to break up Mamo-chan?" Although she had been trying to keep her voice steady, it came out as a broken whisper.

Mamoru sighed. She just wasn't taking this right! "Usagi, it's not that I want to break up, it's just the pressure of having my life planned out for me. I think it would be good if we made absolutely sure that this is what we want. That way we won't have any regre. . ."

Looking down at her toes, Usagi was startled by the abrupt stop. "Mamo-chan?" Looking up, Usagi found the reason for the sudden stop in conversation. While they had been talking, each lost in their own thoughts, it had turned dark, and in the shadows between the street lamps four men had hidden. Surrounding the oblivious couple, they now stood in a circle around Usagi and Mamoru.

Thinking quickly, Mamoru spoke. "Gentlemen, can I help you?" Sifting nervously from foot to foot he prayed that they would decide to leave him and Usagi alone. No such luck. "Yeah, you can help us. Hand over your cash and anything worth money and no one will get hurt," one of the larger ones said. Moving in closer, they started to look upset. "Look, we don't wanna make this rough, so just hand over the stuff!"

Throughout this Usagi had been moving closer to Mamoru. Quickly looking up at him she softly spoke. "Mamoru, just give them the money. It's not that important." Nodding Mamoru complied and emptied his pockets to the men. Usagi quickly removed her jewelry and handed it and her purse to the man closest to her, absorbing the silver crystal hidden in her pocket book quickly. It wouldn't do to loose that.

Quickly rifling through the two's possessions, the apparent leader became upset. "Hey! I said everything! There's barely enough here to make the job worthwhile!" He started to advance on the nervous couple, but Mamoru spoke up defensively, "That IS all we have! Please let us go." This was starting to look bad. Suddenly one of the men reached out and grabbed Usagi, pulling her away from Mamoru and the two men advancing on him. Startled by this, she began to struggle. "Hey! Let me go!" Biting and sratching she barely noticed the fight breaking out between the thugs and her love. She DID notice the cut off yell Mamoru gave.

Quickly looking up she watched in horror and the lifeless body of Chiba Mamoru slid to the ground, the knife embedded in his heart a testament to how the man had died. In shock she watched as three of the men rifled his body for possessions, the fourth still holding her. Mamo-chan . . . gone . . . Screaming, she began to struggle with renewed strength, praying. "Noo! Mamo-chan . . ." A hand was slapped over her mouth.

Her voice had drawn the attention of the rest of the gang. "Dammit! What are we 'sposed to do with her? She can identify us to the police!" "I duno, don't look at me" "Chikusho! I hate it, but you know what we have to do." The others looked unhappy but muttered agreement. Advancing on her with a knife, the leader spoke. "Look, I don't like this any more than you do, soo. . . ."

As he brought the knife down on Usagi's throat, the ginzuishio within her reacted and her eyes flashed a blinding silver before everything went black.

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Throughout the world a group of eight women came to a dead stop in panic and prayed that what they knew was true was not.

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In Elysion a young man mourned for the passing of a king and of a future princess who would never be born.

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And in Tokyo a mother felt a sudden and unexplainable sense of loss.

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Sooo, how do you like the new one? Sorry for the delay.