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„I think we should force the entry and just destroy everything we find in our way!" Diamond burst out in anger, in the middle of the council.

"Diamond, it's a fortress! You don't just barge inside a fortress, escpecially when you don't know what's waiting for you on the other side!" Kunzite started shouting, hoping that maybe Haruka's husband would finally understand and back off his direct plan. Unfortunately for the shitennou's leader, Diamond continued:

"These shadowsians are nothing but some creatures that love to think big! Oh, come on! Don't tell me that you're afraid of these bugs!"

"They're not bugs!" Jeadite tried with no success to keep his voice calm. "Bugs wouldn't be able to build a construction like that so close to our teritorries. Kunzite is right! Until we don't find out more about these creatures, we really should not even get close to those walls."

"I don't believe this! Are you really the shitennou? Those shitennou who had won against so many enemies?" Diamond asked them after a moment of silence. He received immediately his answer. Kunzite burst out in laughter and turned away from the table, shaking his head.

"Don't try that trick on us. It's useless!" Zoicite entered the conversation.

"So, just stop it! Do all of us favour and stop it!" Nephrite asked him while studying several battle plans and mapes.

Watching each and everyone of them in part, Diamond bowed his head, but got up again moments later and left the room, making everyone think that he had finally understood and accepted. Behind the closed doors, the meeting went on without the stubborn dark shitennou.


"So… what do you think the guys decided?" a curious Mako who was diggind through her closet asked.

"I don't know… and, come to think of, I don't even care…" Mina mumbled while absently observing two beautiful gold earrings.

"What do you mean you don't care?" Rei's voice turned the calm atmosphere into a volcanic one. At the sound of her voice, Mako got out of the closet, leaving her clothes messed up, and Ami left her book, eyeing both the women from her seat.

"Why should I care, Rei? My fights, our fights have finished a long time ago. Since then, we've all given birth at least once! We're not senshi anymore, we're not soldiers… we are mothers and wifes. Our duties right now should only consider our families." Mina had spoken the words without blinking, her blue eyes staring non-stop into Rei's amethyst ones. She really meant her words and she was indeed planning to stick to her children and husband.

"How can you say that? Yes, we do have families and they are an important part of us, but we still have powers and owths to fulfill considering the protection of the Nine Planet System Alliance!" Rei couldn't help herself and exploded.

"I never said that we don't have powers anymore or that we shouldn't use them… I'm just saying that we should start focusing on some more important things that this solar system.

"Mina…" the martian queen wanted to start, but was fastle cut off.

"Rei, the system will survive with or without us. But our children won't… and right now they need our entire attention and help!" the blonde finished her speech, dropped the two earrings on the floor and left the room and three of her best friend's from within it.

A long perdio of silence followed. Rei had fallen on the king-sized bed, Mako was still in the middle of her closet and Ami was staring outside the large windows, from a big armchair and still holding the book in her hands.

"You think she really meant it?" the tall auburn-haired woman asked and moved in the center of her bedroom, standing tall.

"You heared her…" the brunette could only whisper, unsure if she was going to cry or to kill someone.

"I believe that Mina-chan, being the oldest of us and our leader, has learned in time the there are a great many things more important than the battle. And being the Senshi of Love, she learned them with her heart. She believes in her family more than anything… and I believe in her." Ami spoke, not stopping for even one second to look out the windows. Both Makoto and Rei watched her and they could clearly see tears in her deep blue eyes. That moment, Rei closed her eyelids and appeared to have entered a deep trance. Moments later she came back and stared at her blue-haired friend, who had left the landscape from outside for the two women next to her.

"I feel it too, Ami-chan… I feel that this could be the end for our world…" she whispered and shivers got her entire body.

From behind the closed curtains sitting in between Makoto's bedroom and the living room of her appartment, Haruka was listening quietly… She had heared everything the blonde had said and the conversation afterwards. Inside her, she knew that she was sharing Mina's beliefs, but her senses, as Sailor Uranus, still told her to protect the moon queen before anything else. After having heared the former priestess' prediction, a single tear appeared in the tall, blonde woman's eyes, but vanished as fast as it came.


"Haruka?" the Senshi of Uranus lifted her eyes to see the silhouette of her former partner and now her best friend. She barely smiled and dropped her head again. "What's wrong Haruka?" the blue-haired woman asked and touched the other one's shoulder with her hand.

"Michiru… have you ever wondered why we had to fall in love, get married and have children?"

"Haruka…"

"I witnessed today a conversation between our younger friends. Apparently Minako-chan has turned against the others."

"How come?"

"She believes tha right now her and everyone's powers should be used in order to help their children, protect their families… not the whole Alliance. What do you think?" she asked back and gazed at the woman who was standing in front of her, staring into her eyes. Michiru slowly mover next to her and sat down on the bench.

"I consider that our original mission never ended."

"Finding the talismans?" Haruka rose an eyebrow. The blue-haired woman laughed softly, covering her lips with a hand.

"No, protecting and helping in every way we can our leader… and Serenity is that leader."

"So, you don't agree with Minako's opinion?"

"Yes and no… But I do agree that this battle will probably be our greatest and final test."

"Test?" the blonde woman asked, got up and looked suspiciously at the other.

"Yes… now we will see who has changed during these marriage years and who hasn't." At the hearing of the word "marriage", Haruka felt a strong, deep pain inside her chest and acted in consequence, placing a hand ever her heart. "Haruka, Haruka what's happening to you?" Michiru jumped from the bench in panic. When she tried to approached her, the taller woman got away and whispered, while in a great deal of pain, as for herself:

"Diamond, no…" Then she closed her eyes and disappeared from that place, teleporting herself somewhere else.


Michiru ran as for her life to the main gathering room. She entered like a tsunami, wanting to reach the windows, but getting trapped in Sapphire's arms.

"Where's Diamond? Where's Haruka? What happened?" she demanded, struggling useless against her husband's arm.

"Michiru, calm down!"

"Why aren't you letting me to the windows? What's happening outside?" she asked scared, with tears already springing from her eyes, but calming down partly.

"Michiru…" Sapphire whispered and hugged her tightly, allowing her head to drop and bury in his dark blue jacket.

"That fool!" Kunzite shouted, amking everyone feel as if the palace itself had shivered at the sound of his strong voice. The first shitennou was together with his friends and allies, right behind the windows from their palace, still not believing what Diamond had done.

"Kunzite, it's not your fault!" You've already done what you could do by explaining him the risks." Zoicite tried at least to calm him down.

"Yeah! And besides… you saw yourself how strong-headed he was about his plan!" Jeadite spoke from next the other blonde general. The two received an icy and angry glare from their leader, who was standing on his feet, on the opposite side of a large table.

"Bottom line is that now, thanks to Diamond…"

"His sacrifice!" the silver-haired man cut Nephrite off.

"His sacrifice, we now know exactly what these shadowsians can and can't do. We can now figure out their weak spots and maybe even destroy them." The auburn-haired explained calm.

"Yes, but that still doesn't justify Diamond's actions!" Kunzite complained.

"He was the one leaving for that black fortress, he was the one taking the samll army, he was the one dieing together with his men and he was definitely the one who saved the day and gave us enough info about out enemies. He's a hero!"

Kunzite broke himself off his place and approached a window, looking again at the battle field several kilometres away, right in front of that black fortress. There, the earth was covered with the dead bodies of Diamond's soldiers and the dieing body of the dark shitennou himself, caught on a black stone and stabbed by many spikes. And the, thorugh the dead ones, his trained eyes caught the image of an alive one.


"Haruka?" he asked himself, not believing his eyes.

Apporaching the dark stone with large spikes surrounding it, the Senshi of Sky saw her husband: he was more dead than alive, with his white hair and ripped uniform filled with blood. His contrasting blue eyes caught up her sight and were still looking at her with pride and amusement, no matter in what kind of terrible pains he was. He managed to smile, warmer than usual.

"What are you doing here?" he could barely ask.

"What I am doing here? What are you doing here!" she burst out in anger, but also a terrible amount of sadness could be seen in her eyes. "Why? Why Diamond, why did you do it?" she rose up her tone as a single tear crossed down her cheek… a tear that killed him inside.

"Who are you and what have you done with my wife?" he asked jockingly, managing to release an arm and reaching her, erasing that drop from her beautiful face. "Where is that all-mighty and powerful Sailor Uranus that I married?"

"She's still here, hating herself for allowing you to become her greatest weakness!" she fought back.

"She shouldn't… for she is mine and my greatest weakness for decays now." He warmly confessed, talking and behaving in a way that she never considered him capable of. "But I have to go now… and I have to release her, even if it hurts me more than these damn spikes killing my body. Don't worry, my Sky Goddess… I'll be waiting for you… and for our children when their times will come."

"Our children will survive… they are strong and wise… they will survive…" she repeated just like a person who was on the verge of taking the biggest decision in their life. "As for me…" she started determined, with that unstopable will in her eyes and voice. "You won't have to wait at all." And she approached her husband, practicly throwing herself into the spikes exiting his body and stopped only when she got in front of him.

"Haruka!" his voice was drowned. In pain and his eyes in tears. She smiled, ignoring the pain inside all her body and glanced one last time at the palace, where her mind's eyes saw Krystal staring at them, behind him Onix and Opal with sadened and Topaz holding a crying Amara. Haruka's sight returned to her husband. Her arms hugged his torned body tightly, pushing herself even deeper in the spikes. He accepted her sacrifice and held her with his losen arm. He could now see that her beautiful hair and her long, dark blue dress were stained with her blood… their blood. They pressed their lips together and tasted one another's tears for the last time, before their end.

Dieing, their torn bodies vanished and transformed into air, the wind's echo carrying further and further their last owths, a confession formed of three simple words that none of them dared to release during their marriage: "I love you…"


"Haruka…" Michiru whispered inside the palace, drowned in salty tears. She managed to break away from Sapphire's arms, she ran to the windows and, hitting them, she released a small part of her anger and pain, shouting strongly: "Haruka!"

The room was filled with the leaders of the Nine Planet System Alliance. In the middle of the floor, Michiru was crying and holding little Amara, who understood what had happened to her parents, but didn't know how to react. Up on his feet, in the middle of the light shitennou, Sapphire was holding Diamond's favourite crystal glass… the glass he always drank his wine from… always. Krystal, Opal and Onix were standing away from everyone, behind them; Krystal was alone with his thoughts, while the twins were sitting acroos the room, with each other, looking at the blue-haired woman who cared so much their mother and for them. Topaz was still away… out in the battle field.

The silence had become heavy and unbearable inside the chamber, even Michiru's cries having calmed down and even stopped. Suddenly, the doors opened and two people enetered. They were soon recognized by the group: Ami and Zoicite had returned to the palace with the very few survivors. Their hands were covered in strange blood and their bodies still clocked in armours for protection.

"That's it! There's no one left alive behind." Zoicite announced them and Kunzite bowed his head in recognition.

"On the way back I contacted Hotaru. She and Rubeus were already on their way here. She said she had felt something was… wrong…" Ami explained dropped her eyes to the floor. Feeling her emotions, the green-eyed, blonde man who happened to be her husband embraced her.

"What about Setsuna and Tokaji?" Nephrite asked from his armchair.

"They surely must know what happened… They'll be here to help us when necessary…" Kunzite answered and almost immediately the sound of breaking glass filled the air. Inconstiently, Sapphire had broken Diamond's glass in his right palm. Without feeling any carnal pain, but with a huge wound in his heart, the black shitennou looked down at his hirt hand, which was bleeding but still carried some shards, the rest being scattered on the floor. His face features remained unchanged, as if he had become a stone sculpture.

Michiru, who was no longer holding Amara, stared at him for a moment, her eyes enlightened by an interior spark. Before one of the ice doctors could react, she got up from her place, toiched his hard hand with hers and, looking into his eyes and viceversa, she pulled him from his place, leading him out of the room. The way to the infirmery led through the main hall. Crossinf it, Sapphire suddenly stopped, at the sight of Haruka's youngest son, Topaz, who had been with Ami and Zoicite out in the field, but was barely now returning. One of his hands carried his father's ancestral sword, while he was going to the room where everyone was gathered, walking absently, absorbed by his thoughts, not noticing anyone and with pain showed on his bowed face.

Realising why her husband had stopped, Michiru pulled his sleeve again and forced him to continue his way.

Entering the infirmery room, the couple ordered everyone inside to leave them. Slowly, Sapphire sat up on a bed, while Michiru arranged a chair in front of him and everything she needed to clean his wounds.

"What's happened to us, Michiru?" he asked staring into the void. Refusing to look elsewhere than at his hand, his wife responded:

"We've gotten out of shape. We thought we could always be the winners… apparently we were wrong…"

"Why did they have to die?" he inquired and saw in her gestures anger and many repressed emotions.

"Haruka and Diamond were always crazy and did at least curious things, both had an unbelievable behaviour which always seemed normal for them. That's why they were perfect for each other, even though none of them recognized it… not even in the day of their wedding." Michiru answered and shivered, ending her work on his hand and feeling the tears reclaiming her eyes and cheeks. However, a moment later she took a deep breath and got a grip. Rising, she finally accepted to look into his eyes.

"You know what we have to do!" he said.

"We don't have to do it… but we will… for our friends, for their memory." She spoke back. He got up and lowered his eyes into the floor. By now, they were very close, almost feeling each other's breaths. Suddenly, Michiru grabbed one of his hands and whispered sweetly: "I will always follow you… no matter where you take me…"

"Because otherwise we would die without one another and we will know that wherever we will be…"

"We will be happy… for we would be together…" She completed his words and smiled. Sapphire's eyes were now calm and filled with love. He lowered his head and his lips met Michiru's for a deep, passionate kiss, that ended barely moments later. Taking her hand, the blue haired man nodded and both of them teleported out of the palace, reaching outside the dark foretress' walls.


Once with their arrival, the wind turned faster and faster, loosening the woman's hair and and making her shiver underneath her sea-colour dress without sleeves but covering her beautiful neck. She could almost hear Haruka's dead prayers and she was close to almost listening to the whispers lost in the wind, when her husband saved her by drawing his sword and lifting it up in the air. The woman looked at him from behind and admired his entire self one last time Her smile disappeared from her face when she heared him saying:

"This is for you, Diamond!" Ending his last word, he lowered the sword with speed and strength into the soil in front of the fortress, splitting the ground in two. His weapon, formed of lava and cooled down with water, always seeming to be made of ice, entered the soil and broke it, forming a huge hole right below the fortress. Almost immediately, the dark powers within it started growing and wantng to get outside the walls, to kill them. But the lady f the Seas wouldn't allow them… not yet, anyway.

The blue haired woman rose her hands in the air and started enchanting, calling upon the keepers of waters, receiving her true powers. Moments later she allowed her arms to drop and a terrible silence filled the static air. The quietness was only long enough for her husband to reach and embrace her. Then, suddenly, the Earth started quaking more and more, untila hgue amount of of water burst at the surface, swallowing the dark fortress and the couple who stood outside it's gates. Through the following disaster, Sapphire held tightly his wife, none of them feeling when the water reached their position.

After a while, the two opened their eyes and gained several more minutes of consciousness before their inevitable deaths.

They were still clinging to each other, only this time they were caught in the ground, unable to move, up to their waists.

"That's it!"

"The fortress was destroyed, but we've only managed to force the shadowsians to leave for a small period of time.

"We've bought them some time. Just enough to survive through the battle."

Sapphire smiled warmly, staring into his wife's eyes. She smiled back and spoke up:

"Some might hate us for what we've done…"

"No… maybe for a while… but then they'll undestand the meaning of out sacrifice. And then they will love us once again."

"I'm afraid for our children… what will happen to them… where will they go, what's to become of them?" she asked fightened in his arms, staring at the temporary swamp her waters created. Picturing her twin son and daughter, Sapphire smiled and got a twinkle in his eyes which could tell that their children will manage to survive the battle and to lead further the family heritage. Then, suddenly, in the silence and darkness of the swamp, shouts and lights appeared, coming from two running silhouettes: Cianna and Coral, their beloved twins.

"They are coming for us…" his almost dead voice spoke.

"They aren't the only ones…" she said aslready feeling her body being turned into solid rock. "I'm scared!"

"Don't be!" he begged and managed to hold her as close as her could, smiling warmly to his children and being transformed completely into a satue made of stone.


"No!" a shout broke out. "Don't go! Don't leave us! Mother! Father! No!" Cianna's voice yelled desperately, while she reached the two embraced statues and embraced them with tears down her cheeks. Her face was red from running and she breathing hard. Behind her, looking down at the scene, was standing on his feet her twin brother, Coral, with pain showing all over his face. But he couldn't react any other way than staring at his sister and stoned parents, while squeezing his blue sword, whose shape reminded somewhat of the sign of Neptune.
Their kingdom belonged between skies and surface, beyond the normal limits of space and time. Their palace held the misteries and the controls of life. Their reign was about everything and nothing.

It was a very tall room, endless we might say, considering there wasn't any ceiling… or walls… or maybe even a consistent floor… People couldn't reach this place… only the royals were allowed and accepted by the forces as their rightful leaders.

The king stepped on large pieces of black and white marble, put together to create a huge chess board. In the middle of the room, a distorsion in time and space was held continuously by the queen, who stood in front of a large mirror, a window to Earth, through which she could see what was going on down there. He came behind her and watched the scenes inside the mirror, seeing how the leaders of Neptune were transformed into two lifeless stones.

"It's sad… so sad." the queen whispered,

"How many must die for you to understand?" the king asked with anger in his voice. At the eharing of his question, she signaled the mirror, making it disappeare and ending the distortion. She turned around to her husband and sent him an icy look.

"You know our mission. We must not interfere… not yet!"

"Why? Because some obscure future self of yours ordered you to?"

"No! Because that future self was me! Nothing was changed and you can't argue that!

"Setsuna!"

" I don't want to hear it, Tokaji!" she said angrily and vanished into thin air, leaving him alone in the "hall". For a moment he remained still, but then signaled and the mirror reappeared, this time showing Cianna and Coral standing next to their parents' grave.


"Tara…" she heared her name and opened her eyes slowly, getting used to the light outside. Searching around her room she suddenly saw her mother, standing turned away from her, looking out the window. Tara knew that her mother had spoken her name, though her lips hand't moved and her voice hadn't filled the room. From her bed, the young girl stared puzzled at her mother's silhouette. A moment later, the woman turned around to her daughter and said four simple words that have always shaken the world:

"The revolution is coming." That moment, Tara re-lived her mother's memories, every time when, as a reborn child or even already grown senshi, she had spoken those words.

"Mother?" Tara got out of bed and approached her, still not understanding, when the door to her room oepned and her father entered, appearing to be in a hurry.

"Have you told her?" he asked, glancing at his wife.

"Not everything!" she responded.

"I can feel disorder within the solar system, but I can't explain it." The teenager interrupted the two. "What is it?"

"Hotaru, you have to tell her!"

The saturnian stared at her husband decided and finally, after a few moments, nodded in acceptance. Puzzled, the girl glanced at both, trying to figure out what it was that they were hiding from her.

"The Guardians of Uranus and Neptune died."

"Amara… Cianna… Coral… Krystal…" Tara mumbled pacing the room, not believing her ears.

"We have to go on Earth and help them." The man said.

"Rubeus!" We're not taking her with us!" Hotaru glared at him.

"Hotaru, she's old enough and we all could use her powers. She's strong enough." Before the Senshi of Rebirth could answer, her daughter spoke up.

"Listen to him, mother! He's right!" That moment, the saturnian queen stared at her child and could almost see her aura fully-grown, already capable to wheel powerful forces. Sighing, she nodded and accepted her daughter to join them in their quest.

Half an hour later, the young heiress exited her chambers and met her parents in the palace's hall, all set and ready to go. Destination: Earth.

Before starting the teleporting, young Tara looked at her parents, noticing once again that they seemed greater than the old gods from their mythology. Her mother had very long hair, reaching down her ankles, black inessence but with shades of purple. Same went for her eyes, appearing as if made of amethyst and onix. She had on a purple dress, allowing her body's features to be well noticed. The dress had no sleeves and a deep cleavage. She carried the sign of Saturn incadrated by a jewel up on her forehead and two bracelets made of black jewels, on the right wrist and left arm. Her whole outfit was covered by a long, dark coloured cape.

Her father, on the other hand, was dressed as if he was going to a simple hunt and not to a war. He had on abrown leather costume, formed of a pair of thight trousers, clinging over hunting boots, and a jacket covering a sleeveless shirt. The entire outfit showed off his body constitution and his muscles. His read hair was messy, as usual, giving him the look of a young man between his teenage years and the twenties, ready to do some scams.

Tara smiled to both of her parents and, suddenly, they all disappeared from the main hall of the saturnian palace.


"Father!" Tokaji heared his apelative, closed the time portal he was looking through and turned to see his eighteen year-old son, standing in front of him.

"Tristan?"

"Is it true that you've known for some… time now about the wars and deaths on Earth?" his son's voice sounded angry.

"Yes." He confessed.

"Then why haven't you reacted!" Tristan burst out. "Two of the Senshi are dead, along with two of the Dark Shitennou!"

"I wanted to! But your mother stopped me!" Tokaji explained the situation. "You know how she gets after she receives a message from the future…" he continued on a smaller tone. Partly, Tristan understood and his glare softened. Few moments, the two sat in silence, until trsitan noticed something weird in his father's constience.

"You know who will die next." He concluded, looking at him as if he was a traitor. Then, the young man's eyes widened in surprise… a painful surprise and his voice whispered harshly: "Tara!" The next moment, his body disappeared from the timeless palace, teleporting himself to Earth, in order to stop his love from dieing.


The three reached the Earth and came out from the portal Rubeus had created somewhere in the fields outside the palace. In front of them, the great capital of the Nine Planet System Alliance could be seen in all it's greatness: filled with busy and prosperous people, living in peace and trusting the royal family leading them. Hotaru's sign appeared brightly on her forehead, as she felt the powers concentrated within the palace's walls. Indeed, the auras of Uranus and Neptune were missing, as well as Pluto's. However, at a closer look, she saw the city almost entirely empty, saddened and weakened.

"Something is wrong!" she Senshi of Rebirth said and they all turned around, feeling another presence. Behind them, they actually saw the spikes that killed Diamond and Haruka, sapphire and Michiru's grave in fron of the ruins that once were forming the shadowsian fortress. But above everything, they saw the black force remained behind. The whole sky, land and horizont were darkened by this appearance, this being. Suddenly, the blackened energy formed a shape filled with power, ready to blast away and kill the saturnian royal family. However, the three vanished intot hina ir, and reappeared in front of it, at the same height, winning against the force of gravity. Hotaru and Rubeus were closer, while Tara was "flying" behind them, standing at a safe distance. Surprised, but annoyed in the same time, the force formed a smaller ball, which got bigger and bigger in less than a second, blowing up and sending the three further away in the atmosphere.

Knowing where they were supposed to land and die, Hotaru formed in her hand the Silence Glaive and her shout quaked the entire surface:

"Silence Wall!" It was a very old attack, but nonetheless one that she could rely on, when it came to bulding strong shields around herself… or her family, in this case. The three stopped from their trajectory and repositioned themselves.

"Alright, time to act!" Rubeus spoke up with fire in his eyes and a wicked smirk showed up on hid face. Up in the air, he formed a sphere of his own power, seeming to be built out of an infinite number of long and sharp shards or knifes, and sent it directly into the source, or what remained of it after the sacrifices of Uranus and Neptune. The shards did serious damage, forcing a loud sound out of the darkness, like a defeated shout.

"How dare you try to vancuish my presence from this palace?" an impersonal, inhuman voice shook the atmosphere and filled the saturnians' ears. Rubeus widened his eyes and remained shocked. Hotaru got a hold of herself, but not before signaling Tara to go even further behind. The shadowsian leader was constient and could communicate with the exterior world.

"How dare you intrude our world and interfere with our lives?" Saturn shouted back, regaining her confidence.

"I am here to give you all eternity! You should be thankful that we have arrived here to cherish your souls…"

"We do not need to live forever, we just need these lives!" Rubeus spoke with dignity, crossing his arms over his chest.

"Well, I want your eternity and you cannot stop me! The voice shouted and quaked the earth again. Spinning the Glaive in her hands, Hotaru pointed it at the center of the darkness and spoke up, revealing all the royalty flowing through her veins.

"In that case, I see no other solution that to chase you away from our eternity… by sacrificing myself!"

"Hotaru!" Rubeus spoke and she glanced at him, to see him ready to protest against her decision. Behind her, Tara hadn't reacted at all. Inside Hotaru a feeling of accomplishment and joy grew: her daughter knew what it meant to the Soldier of Death and Rebirth. She ahd been well taught. Now, only she had to received her entire power in order to become the true leader of Saturn and a worthy Senshi.

"Wait! Maybe we could understand each other!" the voice claimed at the sight of the deadly weapon. The two husbands exchanged yet another rglance: this time they were both aware of the traps this proposal could hide. Therefor, they both got ready to attack at any moment.

"What are you suggesting?"

"You are very powerful enemies… you could be even more powerful allies."

"Us, but who are we? Do you at least know that?" Rubeus asked in mockery.

"The leaders of Saturn. You are the Senshi of Death and Rebirth" it spoke to Hotaru, "and you are one of the black shitennou, general of unseen forces." It spoke to Rubeus.

"Right… and that makes you?" Hotaru asked on the same tone as her husband, earlier.

"We are Ankhra, the evil in charge with the shadowsian force…"

"A demon…" Tara's voice was ehared form behind.

"An ancient demon." Rubeus completed.

"Well then, tell me demon, why are you so sure that we will change side minutes after we've defended ourselves in front of your attacks and after we've attacked you ourselves?" Tara asked, proving her heritage.

"Smart lady… very well, we shall humour you and answer the question. Because, even thought you haven't shown it already, we felt the powers you hold inside. You are strong and there aren't many with your kind of gifts in this system… on this planet.

"What will this conversion be exactly?

"Pardon us?"

"It means what we will have to give up and what we will receive instead." The man explained annoyed.

"You will receive part of our powers, just enough to complete your forces and assure us of your loyalty."

"For what price?" Tara's voice sounded ice-cold.

"All the connections with this world cut, of course, and complete obeyance to us…" As soon as the voice ended, Hotaru's eyes widened and looked up at Rubeus, who was puzzled by the proposal. Few moments of silence followed. "Well, what will your answer be?" Rubeus burst out in laughter and added:

"You really must be joking! What in the world makes you think we willa ctually help you destroy our home?"

"Should we take that as a no?" the voice sounded angry.

"Judge for yourself!"

"Are you sure there isn't any other way for us to persuade you?"

"Like?" Hotaru asked worried and ready to react.

"Like threatening you with the loss of one very important thing to you… or person…" the voice said and the two realised after few seconds what the creature was talking about. They turned around from the darkness in the same time. But it was too late: long and sharp vines appeared from the earth, somewhere below and grabbed tightly the saturnian heir.

"Tara!" Hotaru yelled.

"Pandora!" Rubeus shouted aswell, as they both moved towards their daughter, who was pulled under the ground and bruised. Before her parents could reach her, a strong wave shook the entire ground and air, a loud whisper filling the atmosphere:

"Death Voice…" A wave passed the two and Rubeus couldn't wait anymore and moved into the ground. When he exited the cloud of dust created, his daughter was holding onto his neck. She was bruised and cut, but she was alive and partly well. Rubeus took her up, where she allowed her to embrace her mother. The moment the two touched, a strong violet light came out, surrounded them and pointed directly into the darkness, towards where the voice could be heared.

When the two came apart they expected to see the darkness vanished. Instead, they saw in front of them Rubeus, fighting against the vines, but with his left foot already caught. He had been protecting them from the long tentacles.

"Rubeus!" Hotaru's shout broke the silence. She swirled the Glaive again and pointed it at the black sphere. But before she could attack, the vines reached her, stole the Glaive away and kept her tightly.

"Mother! Father!" Tara yelled as she was surrounded by the tentacles and found herself pulled down again. This time, she couldn't find the power to fight back. She felt her body being dragged down and she could only reach out an arm in the direction of her trapped parents. Tara was ready to close her eyes and accept her destiny, when she felt herself being caught by another hand… a strong hand. Her eyes opened and rose up, to see the plutonian heir holding her, trying to get her out of the spikes.

"Tristan, you'll get caught too. Go away!" Tara almost begged him.

"I'm not leaving you behind, Pandora!" he fought back with jaws clentched. Feeling that he couldn't pull that strongly without his powers, Tristan moved his left hand, gestured something and revealed his powers of time. After the attack, the vines were supposed to be trapped in time. But there were many surprises still kept by the shadowsian force. One of them was they imunity against time and space breaches.

"The attack didn't affect them!" Tara said frightened, staring with scared eyes at the tentacles holding her.

"Hold on!" the plutonian said, holding even stronger, not realising where he got his strength from. The vines had become very painful for both the teenagers and Tara almost lost her consciousness. Feeling that he was losing her, Tristan shouted again, trying to wake her up: "Pandora! Pandora!" He almost lost her hand from his, when, suddenly, small shard surrounded them and cut all the vines holding the girl's body. Tristan pulled her up and held her body into his arms, the girl already being inconstient. He looked up to see Rubeus. The father had managed to free his arms and to attack one last time, thus saving them.

"Get her out of here! Go!" he shouted and the plutonian didn't hesitate. He opened a space portal and both of them vanished from Earth.

"You refused out offer! Now you will have an eternity to think at your msitake!" Ankhra's voice was heared one last time.

"It's never a msitake to do the right thing…" Hotaru whispered. But her body was already held in the spikes, surrounded by a violet light. Her energy was taken from her, along with all her powers. Turning asied, she saw Rubeus in the same position as her. Smiling weakly to her, he tried to rher closer. She smiled back and tried to reach him too. But when their hands were an inch apart, the vines moved and kept them away from each other. When the vines stopped, the two were spiritually and mentally dead, with their bodies still alive and feeding the dark force with energy.


"That's it! I'm going out there!" Kunzite said, straightening his uniform and arranging his weapons.

"No… Kunzite, wait!" Mina shouted behind him and ran to his position.

"Minako, you've seen what happened with Diamond and Sapphire. And if Rubeus and Hotaru's energy will get to sustain the shadowsian force, it will be unstopable!" Kunzite shouted angrily, walking even faster.

"If you go like this, unprepaired, you'll die!" mina forced him to stop and look at her, "I don't want you to die… Your children don't' want you to die!" she spoke with tears in her eyes.

"Minako…" he whispered, softening his tone and sighted. "I won't die… I can promise you that. Your love and our children's love will keep me alive." He said, kissed her and left behind. He would gather his army and start a war against the shadowsians. It was time for the fate of the Alliance and their lifes to be settled.

Walking through the hallways, prepairing the guards and soldiers, Kunzite suddenly woke up face to face with Tokaji.

"Greetings, leader of the light shitennou!" he spoke calmy. Surprised of his salute, Kunzite rose his eyebrow.

"Ok… this is weird… No more "whazzups"?"

"Funny…" Tokaji answered sarcastic. "I'm here for the heirs of Uranus and Neptune."

"Ok… but what's with the attitude?"

"New times have come… it's time for some changes… including attitude ones."

"Krystal is in his parents' room and Coral somewhere in the armury." Kunzite directed him and resumed his way, without a single extra word.

"Kunzite!" Tokaj stopped him again. Sighing, the general turned around and looked at the plutonian's back. "Be careful, Kunzite! The time has come for you to face your future and to make the ultimate choice: good or evil?" the shitennou asked and disappeared as if decomposing himself into air molecules.

The king of Venus remained still for a while, thinking at his friend's warning. When one of the royal family of Pluto made a prophecy it always fulfilled. Tokaji had seen something and came on Earth to warn him. He had to be very careful in the future battle.


Without being noticed by anyone, Tristan reappeared on Pluto and managed to sneak inside the palace. In his arms, he held Pandora, daughter of Saturn.

Silently, he entered the library in which he had spent months and years, reading and training his brain and powers.

Gently, he approached the set of couches and armchairs inside and he laid down the dear burdain he had been carrying, allowing her to continue her deep sleep, in the crimson light surrounding them.

He sat on the couch next to her and discovered that he just couldn't stop staring at her: her wounded and inert body was dressed in tight black trousers, ending with a pair of tall red sandals, with laces of the same material caught around her legs and partly covered by a black, mid-thies long and tight jacket, which covered her neck, her entire arms and forearms, leaving only her hands visible. Up, on the the couch's pillow, her long red hair, also containing several violet highlights was stretching and even falling onto the floor.

Looking down at her face features, Tristan admired her pale skin, her long eye-lashes, which hid at the moment a pair of blue eyes, and even the small amethyst stone pierced in her nose.

When his sight returned to her closed eyes, his hand reached out to hers and his healing power kicked in, making her wounds disappeare. After only few seconds her eyes opened and the two stared at each other, remaining unomved in that sunset light. Tristan's eyes were worried for her, Tara's eyes were sad for what had happened to her parents.

"Why did you save me?" she asked with a huge amount of pain in her voice, almost ripping out the heart of the teenager who kept on healing her.


Even though only the Earth royals were living during the entire year in the palace, the castle had been built with special rooms and places, kept for all the senshi and their counterparts.

In the arranged basement were the huge training rooms of Uranus and Jupiter and the pool of Neptune, On the first level the precious library of Mercury and the flower garden of Venus and on the second floor the mirror hall of Pluto and Saturn, along with the beatiful ballroom of Neo-Queen Serenity. Right outside the palace, in the labirinth park, there was another construction, tall, completely made of wood in old japanese style. It was Mars' temple, her own place of refuge, during the journeys on this planet.

Right after Diamond and Haruka died, Rei entered the temple and refused to leave until she had answers for her questions. Staring at the wild fire, deep in her trance, Rei started having a vision… in was a powerful one. Step by step, she saw the deaths of Uranus, Neptune, Saturn… and Jupiter? Her eyes widened in fear and a hand places on her shoulder woke her up, scaring the hell out of her.

"Jeadite! What the hell are doing!" the dark haired fire queen burst out as the flames behind her reached the ceiling.

"Wanting to make sure you're atill alive?" he asked an a small tone, giving her an angelic smile.

"In the middle of my visions!"

"You've been in here for hours!" he spoke up, getting back his force and stopping his mockery tone, while the priestess' fire calmed down and regained it's normal proportions. "So, what's the verdict?" At his question, her eyes sadened and stared at the floor. "Rei, what's going on?" he asked concerned. "Rei?" by now Jeadite was standing next to his wife, with his arms around her.

"Mako… Nephrite…" she whispered, turned around and stared into his eyes. "Jupiter is next!" But she didn't get to finish her words when an explosion not far from the city was heared.

"We have to go to Endymion… now!" he said staring to where the xplosion was and getting out of the temple, pulling Rei with him.


"That last one was close!" Zoicite announced staring at several screens.

"Where's Kunzite?" Nephrite showed up next to him.

"I don' t know, he disappeared hours ago and right now I only get shadowsian trails."

"Could he be trapped?"

"Neph, I'm sure we would have found out something byn now… I think he's still fighting…" Zoicite answered and gave him a weird look. "Do the stars give you some clues?"

"It's cloudy day…" the auburn-haired said.

"You're kidding!"

"Yeah… let's just say that the stars prefer remaining quiet… at least for the time being…" Nephrite said a bit irritated.

"What's the status?" King Endymion spoke as he entered with Serenity clinging on his arm and the guardians of Mars surrounding them. Behind them Makoto and Ami followed closely.

"The shadowsian movement is getting closer by the minute and still no sign of Kunzite!" Zoicite reported.

"They'll soon get in the city… and once entered they'll reach the palace!" Mako noticed, staring in the horizon. Ami looked at her jovian friend with frightened eyes. Then, she suddenly took a deep breath and her sight became determined. Turning around, the mercurian spke to the Earth royals:

"Serenity, Endymion, you must leave this place now!" the two leaders stared at her with puzzled faces. "If the city in conquered, it'll become a death trap!"

"Ami! Kunzite is out there!" Zoi spoke, not realising that Minako had just showed up. "He would rather die than let those evil creatures reach us!"

"Zoi!" Ami warned him for saying too much when Mina left the room as fast as she entered it. Smiling shily, the blonde-haired general rose his shoulders, apologizing somewhat to his wife.

"Nevertheless, Ami is right!" Nephrite stood tall, returning to the original subject.

"Kunzite is out there… I can't leave any friends behind!" the king motivated his denial.

"We're not just friends, Sire!" the auburn-haired general used his title specially. "We're soldiers born and raised to save you and the kingdom." A tough silence fell inside the room and the noises of the war going on outside the city's walls could be heared loudly.

"So, for once listen to our advices and get hell out of here!" the jovian queen forced the others to stare at her, not believing her words. The only one without a terrified look was her husband, who was smiling gently, having hoped that she would say something like that to their friends. "All of you!" she shouted again, almost commading them.

"Mako-chan!" Serenity called her by her old name with tears in her eyes, wanting to run in the amazon's arms, but being stopped by her husband's strong arm. After one pleading look, full-aware that the two would never back down, Endymion nodded gravely and got out of the room, pulling a crying Serenity after him. In silence and obedience, the mercurian couple followed. At the first glance maybe the two would have seemed cold and distant, but you could almost hear Zoicite's fast pulse and see the tears from the bluenette's eyes. Behind remained the martians. Rei and Jeadite exchanged a look, after which the blond general turned to his old friend, smiled brightly and grabbed his hand tightly, shaking it one last time.

"Have a good journey, my friend!"

"May us meet again when this is all over!" Nephrite wished aswell.

"Don't worry, we'll take care of the children…"

"Ok, Rei-chan, you're killing me…" the amazon almost begged the fire priestess to loosen the arms holding around her neck. "At this rate I won't have to wait for the shadowsians to kill me!" Hearing her words, the miko let go and stared angrily at her, with tears drowning her red cheeks.

"Don't even dare say that! You hear me, Makoto Kino? I order you not to die!" she burst.

"I'll try, Rei-chan!" the jovian smiled playfully. After one last shared look, the two couples broke apart, Jeadite and Rei leaving Nephrite and Makoto behind, alone in the evacuated palace and, soon, entire city.

One hour after their friends' departure, dark beings filled the streets and buildings of Crystal Tokyo. Looking through the widnows from the council room, the brown-haired woman could see the hell outside. Turning away from the view, she saw her husband sharpening his stellar sword. So she took her long lance from the table and undid it in two different weapons, each one carrying a thunder at one edge. Nephrite had finished his task, meantime, and was now standing in front of her. Several moments of silence fell between them, until a very loud bang was heared inside the palace, at the ground level.

"Showtime…" the genral whispered and the two left the room, getting ready to destroy every shadowsian standing in their way.


It was a large battle field, reaching almost the horizon. The sky had long lonst it's once bright colour and was now carrying heavy dark clouds, making it impossible for the travelers to know if it was night or day. The only sound heared in the thick atmosphere was the trrifying whistle of the wind. Only death and unfulfillment were left on the battle field, along with the blood of thousands of soldiers.

Minako stepped on the frozen ground, frightened of what she saw in front of her. No other war she had ever seen was as atrocious and horrible as this one. The view Mina saw was more than bareable. The Love Goddess stopped to see the dark force killing them very close to Kunzite, but a bit behind him. He had remained the only one alive in that cemetery and was standing as a block of ice, with cuts and bruises all over his body, with his shield and sword broken, on the ground, in front of him. He felt her getting close and he could almost feel her breath behind him, but refused to react just yet.

"When I heared about Uranus, Saturn and Neptune I knew it must have been bad… but this is more that I can bare…" he heared her voice sounding like a whisper. Turning to her, he could see that she was not by his side, but fallen on her knees onto the ground. Her hair more loosen than caught in the usual bun, her clothes already with stains on them, her eyes somewhat broken inside… her whole being almost defeated spiritually.

Feeling his sight locked onto her, she rose her head, stared directly at her husband and saw loss and devastation. He was as lost as her. Finally, she moved a bit aside and touched his left leg, almost clinging to his trousers as if they were a salvation boat in the middle of an ocean.

Then, suddenly, the clouds in the sky lowered and some turned into a giant dark ball of energy, right in front of the two, who were now staring at the entity.

"Greetings, venusian leaders… I am Ankhra… the shadowsian commander and I have a bussiness proposal for you." The same impersonal voice that had tried to trick Rubeus and Hotaru started it's speech.


And this is where it ends... for now! Some may already know how this fanfic begins, so please bare with us. We wanted to start it again and so we re-posted on our already existent account (therefor, you find it under the pen name of "illenutza" anymore). So please, for any suggestions send us a review or an e-mail ;) Probably there will a longer Note in the next chapter containing the couples and the children (quite a few as you've already noticed). But, until next time, enjoy...