It was midnight and a sallow moon hung in the sky over Tokyo Bay. A rare lotus blossom glided past Hotaru who ignored it, glaring at the canary yellow moon and the serrated clouds surrounding it. Silver doves flew over the windswept waters and toward the moon.

Hotaru stared at the doves with admiration, wishing she could be one of them. Able to go anywhere effortlessly carried by whatever direction the wind blew and always artificial lights reflected off the surface of the chlorine infected water of the swimming pool Hotaru stood beside. It had been a long day for her. So much she didn't understand. One moment, she was normal and the next she was waking up from some blackout. She needed to get away from it all. Her parents constant bickering, the embarrassment and humiliation she had faced on her face day of high school, being a senshi. She just wished she could erase herself and start over with a clean slate.

Hotaru stood as far from the latest Haruka vs. Michiru battle. The back of the large house that overlooked Tokyo Bay was the perfect getaway from whatever argument Michiru and Haruka had, though most of them ended with Michiru winning, Hotaru was unsure which way this one would go.

Haruka was pretty pissed off about everything today and showed no signs of giving in as she normally would.

"Hotaru," Michiru called approaching her daughter. Apparently, Hotaru had overestimated Haruka's stubborn attitude since it appeared the argument was over already. "Aren't you cold, it's freezing out here?"

"…No," Hotaru said, her eyes still on the fading doves.

"Are you alright Hotaru?"

"…I don't know." Hotaru replied down casting her eyes, "It's happening again. I'm becoming evil, I don't want to hurt anyone…I can't," Hotaru began as tears began to spill from her eyes and onto her cheeks, "I can't control it."

Michiru eyed her daughter trying to feel the pain her daughter was feeling at the moment. "I'm afraid of what I might do. What if I become a monster, what if I already am?" Hotaru sobbed.

Michiru wrapped her arm around her daughter, "Let's go inside." "…No," Hotaru sobbed, "I want to stay here," She said staring through her blurred vision at the stars above her head, "I want to…be free. Will I ever be free," She asked the cosmos. "HAVE I LOST MY MIND?"

Michiru eyed her daughter skeptically. "Come on Hotaru, your body feels like ice. Let's go inside and have hot chocolate."

"…My sins…my lust for freedom…all paid in full by the devil…THIS IS NOT ENOUGH," She said staring into her mother's eyes.

"Hotaru?" Michiru cried. Hotaru placed her hands on her mother's shoulders for support. "…This is not enough," She repeated, "Mother looking at me; tell me what do you see."

Michiru gazed at her daughter, "Hotaru?"

"…I've lost my mind." Hotaru said and without another word she twisted Michiru's neck snapping it like a twig. Michiru tumbled onto the ground as the salty waves churned up, crashing into the shore. Hotaru stared down at her mother who she had just killed, her eyes were wide with fear but her heart was hollow as death filled and corrupted it.

"No," She said in disbelief, "No, what's going on? What's GOING ON!?" She screamed in terror at what she had just done. "Hotaru," Haruka called approaching the scene her eyes wide with disbelief. "No," Haruka said dropping to Michiru's side, she then looked up to her daughter, "Hotaru," She said in a whisper, "What have you done?"

Hotaru backed away in disbelief at what she had just done, "No…I...I-it-I didn't mean for it to happen." She said quickly. Regretting that she had been swayed by the temptation of desire perpetuated by the aspect of blood, crawls within the minds of madness.

"You murdered Michiru," Haruka grunted with an eyeful of tears. "We were supposed to keep you alive, but you're too dangerous. I promised Michiru, I promised her…and now I've done it I've left her to be all alone again." Haruka grunted, she then pulled out her transformation pen, "Get ready to drown in your blood." Haruka warned, "Uranus Cosmic Power." In a flash of golden light Haruka was loaned the powers of the inverted planet Uranus. She came from the light wielding her space sword and with transparent shoulder pads.

"No…papa," Hotaru sighed, looking into her papa's menacing eyes. "SPACE SWORD BLASTER!" Haruka cried firing a barrage of energy orbs at Hotaru who was too scared to move. The orbs crashed into Hotaru burning her fragile body and knocking her onto the ground.

"Papa," She sobbed, crawling away, "…Please." She pleaded. Haruka raised her hand above her head, "Woooorllld…," She called making a spark of orange energy come into the palm of her hand, "SHAKIIING!" She slammed the energy into the ground and it rushed for her daughter. Hotaru screamed in pain as her papa's attack collided with her. Her body felt as if it were splitting in two, and as she felt this incredible amount of pain a voice called to her.

"Hotaru…let me help you." Sailor Saturn begged. "No, I won't hurt anyone else." She shot back as Haruka advanced on her and kicked her in the mouth. "She'll kill you," Saturn said. "Maybe I'm better off dead, have you ever thought that?" Hotaru retorted as Haruka plunged the Space Sword into Hotaru's arm. Hotaru screamed in pain as it pierced her bicep.

Haruka tore the scimitar out of the arm of her daughter and tossed the Space Sword in the sky and thrust her palms at Hotaru and cried, "Uranus…Whirlwiind…," Two orbs sparked in a separate hand, one a crystal clear color, the other a bright orange, "Tremor!" She slammed the orbs together fusing them into one. The space sword fell from the sky, through the giant orb and quickly absorbed it and plunged into the ground. Hotaru's body was surrounded by a massive tornado that lifted her into the sky, she screamed pain as the wind was painted crimson by her blood and a tremor tore through Tokyo splitting the ground they stood on, chunks of rock were tossed up by the tornado and sent crashing into Hotaru, who yelped in pain waiting for her life to end.

Haruka watched as the boulder's collided with Hotaru, satisfying her anger as Hotaru screamed in agony and suddenly the ocean churned up growling in fury from the sudden shifting of plates and a second later the water assembled charging at the one responsible, Haruka.

Haruka spun around staring at the incoming tsunami in terror and the next second she was hit with the force of a runaway train flying faster than a bullet. The whirlwind became a giant waterspout as the giant tsunami ripped through Tokyo taking no prisoners only lives of the innocent as it knocked buildings down punched trees over and drowned citizens.

Hotaru tumbled from the waterspout and into the flooded city with a giant splash, her body was decorated with cuts and scars that burned when she hit the water.

Hotaru could hear the thousands of screams and feel the waves hit her as the population struggled for survival. And as all the things she said ran through her mind, she began to wonder is this her gift to the world. Is this all that she was? Death?