Don't Walk Away Rated pg-13 HP/SM Disclaimer: Anything you recognize I don't own, anything else is just coincidental.

'It whispers to me even as I am here. I am not alone, but that haunting mantra does not leave my mind. Can anyone hear the whispers that wrap around me so tightly I can't breathe? The words consume my every though now. I think of nothing else. I want nothing else. It will be mine. I can taste it. The raw power flowing through my veins. Feed me the light so as it is channeled through me it becomes black and thick; full of malice and hate. I need it more than ever. It will make me whole. It will cast aside my adversaries on a whim of my fancy. It wants me to find it. It burns only for me. Whoever hides my treasure will surely die. I will attain that which rightfully belongs to me. The one true Lord of Darkness who has awoken to realize the full potential of supreme rule. All will bow before me and tremble in my wake. There will be no others after me. I am eternal.'

A sliver of the moon hung lazily in the sky overlooking the sleeping town. The moon's rays reached out and embraced their princess who was sleeping fitfully. She awoke from the same nightmarish dream as she did every night. The remnants of the dream echoed in her mind, 'I am eternal…' It was times like this she wished someone was here to talk with about her dreams, especially Rei. Thinking of her senshi caused her heart to constrict and her eyes to tear up.

Things were never the same after the battle with Chaos. There was an unspoken distance between everyone. They wanted to forget the pain and heartache, the realization that they died one more time and wondering if it was enough. It was time to move on, because their secret lives were wearing them thin. Everyone came back changed and sullen. Usagi told them that they were not obligated to stay now that the last of the evil the universe had to throw at them had been defeated. So the senshi each went their separate ways in hopes for a better tomorrow. Even Mamoru had gone, leaving a broken hearted Usagi in Tokyo. She didn't know where he went or why, he was just gone. There were no goodbyes. She longed for him and the future he represented. She often found herself dreaming of that utopia, but it always ended in ruin. With a strangled sob, she climbed back in bed and fought for sleep.

Within minutes of her eyes closing and the sandman claiming her, a quiet 'POP' echoed through her bedroom. There stood a fierce man with white blonde hair garbed in black robes, and skin as pale as the moon itself. His steely eyes fell on the slip of a girl snoring slightly in her quaint bed. His upturned nose wrinkled in disgust as he brought the end of his cane up to poke her for any reaction. With a flick of his wrist the sleek cane became a wand and he whispered a few words which enchanted the girl. With another flick and a chant the duo were gone.