Okay so I know it's been a while. I'm gonna do 3 more chapters if I get enough people to let me know what they think I'll keep it up so please send me feedback. I do not own Sailor Moon. But all my original characters are mine.

Chapter 7

Makoto was at a severe disadvantage. What had been three on two was now three on one. The Shadow had now taken an almost spectator like position choosing to stand back and let the others do the fighting, but he would jump in occasionally when it seemed it was needed. Makoto's breath was coming out through ragged gasps. It was astonishing that she had been able to hold her own against the three of them for this long, but she realized as her breathing became much more labored that she was at the limits of her energy. All she could do now was buy time and hope that the others could save Rei and Minako. The dark soldiers and the Shadow had seemed content to leave them be now that she was by herself. Drawing upon the last of her energy she drew herself back ready to pounce at the nearest of her two foes, as they slunk around her in a circle like predators waiting to devour their prey once it was too tired to fight back. She leapt forward with great speed and hurled a ball of electricity at the man in front of her. Sadly he had moved even quicker and her attack exploded into the ground. The soldier brought his palm down towards her neck holding a glowing red ball of energy that she knew would end her life. She closed her eyes and apologized to her friends for her lack of strength. She felt arms wrapping around her and lifting her up. She opened her eyes and saw Mamoru holding her like she weighed nothing.

"I'm glad we made it in time." he said softly as a sigh of relief passed through his lips. She had a million questions she wanted to ask, but before she could decide which one she should choose as her first a loud crash drew her attention away from his face. The soldier that had been about to end her life had gone flying through a tree; the impact of which had split the tree apart from the force. Seth stood where the soldier had been with an expression of composed rage.

"You did very well Jupiter. I'm proud of you, but we'll take it from here so just rest up." he said still not taking his attention from the three enemies around him.

"Be careful the Silver Shadow is on their side." she warned, but only Mamoru could hear her.

"That's not the Silver Shadow." he replied in a harsh voice staring at the fake Silver Shadow. "And after what the real one just did to save us I would love nothing greater than to make him pay for dishonoring that man." Mamoru stepped back and set her gently down beside Minako who was being looked over by Ami. She turned to thank him, but he was already gone.

* * *

"So the brat has arrived with the rest of them. I guess Sasori wasn't as tough as she claimed." called the fake Shadow who had now moved away from the tree he was leaning against.

"I'm no fool. I realize this is no more than a delaying tactic so that you can continue to draw energy." Seth replied ignoring the fake Shadow entirely and speaking directly to the soldier he had sent through the tree. "Leave now and I promise I will spare your lives. I will not hunt you down. I'll leave you in peace." he offered.

"Our orders stand. We are to hold you here until we are done." the soldier replied.

"Then I apologize." Seth replied. "It seems I will not be able to let you carry out your duties." he nodded as the soldier stood up and smirked. The second soldier appeared behind Seth before Mamoru could react.

"Don't take us so lightly! We are not of the same level as Sasori!" he shouted driving an energy ball to Seth's spine. The ball exploded harmlessly into the ground before him. As the dirt and debris cleared Mamoru saw Seth holding the soldier by the throat with his feet dangling inches above the ground.

"Then I am truly sorry for this. I do not have the time to waste playing into your hands." he whispered as the soldier began to crumble into ashes. Mamoru was startled until he saw a beam of white energy explode from the back of the soldier's neck. "I must stop the energy absorption quickly and then tend to the wounded. I do not have time for your games." he said turning to the other two. Before stating softly that he would leave the other soldier to Mamoru.

* * *

The fake Shadow cold not believe what he had just seen. Somehow that boy had grown to dangerous proportions in the short time he had fought Sasori. He reached for the communication holo on his wrist to inform Lord Akalyte, but the boy had grabbed his wrist and yanked it away from the comm device and hurled him several feet away.

"As if I'd let you contact your superiors for reinforcements." Seth said coldly staring the man in the face. "You should not have worn that disguise. It only serves as a reminder of my greatest failure, and rubbing it in my face only encourages my anger." he said lifting him up by the collar and slamming him into the trunk of a tree. He pressed his palm against the face Shadow's chest and he could feel the burning energy pouring through his body as he slowly turned to ash.

* * *

"I don't wish to end your life. Could you not just simply stop?" Mamoru asked the soldier that remained.

"Our orders are absolute and we do not run away." the soldier replied. Mamoru nodded. So there were members of the Dark Army that fought with an honor code.

"I understand than I will not insult you further by asking you to behave in a cowardly manner. Please forgive my rudeness." Mamoru responded as they both vanished from sight holding energy balls in their palms.

* * *

"How are they?" Seth asked approaching Ami and Usagi who were busy checking on their friends' damage.

"Makoto seems to be okay she's just drained." Ami replied.

"She pushed herself to her limits. Which means she'll be breaking them soon." Seth nodded and sighed knowing that she would be demanding more training as soon as things were better.

"I won't pretend to know anything about medicine or the human body but it feels like there is something wrong with Minako's back." Usagi said looking up at him as she had finished rubbing her hand along her spine. Seth bent down and did the same while closing his eyes to focus on his sense of touch more.

"Her spine is broken in three different places. We need to get through with this quickly or risk her suffering permanent damage." he replied opening his eyes once more.

"You mean you can fix her?" Usagi asked eyes full of hope.

"Sort of." Seth replied moving on to check on Rei.

* * *

"You're faster than I expected." the soldier grinned and brought his hand down just millimeters in front of Mamoru's face. The energy from the man's palm brushed against his mask causing one of the eye plates to crack under the pressure.

"Not fast enough apparently." Mamoru mumbled as he barely dodged another attack that would have surely killed him. OkJust why did you leave this fight to me Seth? He wondered as he back stepped another round house aimed for his temples and leapt up to avoid a sweep to the legs. He threw another ball of energy to the ground causing the soldier to retreat back a few steps. He pivoted in mid air to let an energy ball graze past his jacket. Before landing on the ground with one hand touching and slinging a bolt of energy towards the soldier with the other.

* * *

"It's like watching a dance." Usagi commented looking up at the fight going on to her left away from them.

"He should be able to handle this on his own and it buys me time to look after Makoto for now." Seth said as he placed his hand on Makoto's stomach.

"What do you mean?" Ami asked.

"She's suffering from severe energy loss." Seth explained as his right hand began to glow over her stomach. "I have to lend her some so that her body doesn't start feeding off of her life force to stay working. It sounds more dangerous than it really is." he smirked.

"How is Rei doing?" Usagi asked.

"She's got a broken leg and some internal bleeding." Seth replied not taking his eyes off of his work. "I can fix most of that. We just need to stop this energy drain first. Once I heal everyone up I'm going to be drained for a while. So it's better to take care of everything now."

"And here I thought you'd turned into some sort of superman." Ami chuckled.

"Just a temporary energy boost. My body isn't used to the merger yet. I won't have my full strength for a while." he explained. Though his explanation simply left Ami feeling even more confused.

"What do you mean?" she asked wrapping Rei's leg in a splint and sending Usagi away to find something to lay Minako on. Usagi obeyed but had a smirk on her face when Ami finished her question.

"Looks like I am the Silver Shadow. My memories came back along with a good deal of my former powers, but my body wasn't ready for it yet." he explained "Guess that's what he meant by forcing it on me." he mumbled under his breath. "I'm not gonna overload or anything, but once I'm drained I'll be useless for a few days." Seth added.

"I understand. We'll look after you in the meantime then." she encouraged.

"No. You're going to go through even harder training while I'm out. I need to know I can sleep without risk." he remarked. "I don't mean to be rude, but if we stop them now I doubt they're just going to let it go with that." he said pulling his hand away as Makoto took her first deep breath in what felt like hours.

"Let me see if I got this right." she gasped in another lungful of air. "You're the Silver Shadow?"

"Seems that way." he chuckled and moved over to Rei.

* * *

The fight was wearing on both of them it seemed they were both just standing in front of each other trying to catch their breath while waiting for the other to attack.

"If they all fought like you. I would be worried." the soldier said cracking a smile. Mamoru simply grinned back. "But sadly, this has to end sometime. I can't afford to waste all my energy on you." the soldier said gasping in another breath.

"Then the next one will end this." Mamoru nodded. They leapt into the air and the soldier fired and energy beam that landed directly on Mamoru's chest.

"I'm sorry. I did enjoy this very much, but I have to follow my orders." the soldier said appearing above him with another energy ball held in his palm.

"I'm sorry too." Mamoru grinned and the soldier finally caught on. He looked down at his legs and noticed the rose thorn vines that were now wrapped around them up to the knees. "They're draining you and feeding me." Mamoru replied to his confused expression as the ball of energy in his hand fizzled out. "I am the heir of this planet after all." Mamoru responded making an energy ball in his own hand and slamming it into the soldiers chest turning him to ash.

"Incredible!" Makoto blinked stepping beside Mamoru. "I had no idea you could do that."

"Well, Seth gave me a few suggestions when I told him my lineage. He just started listing off ideas during training, but I never had a chance to really use them before. Honestly, this was just luck."

* * *

Rei opened her eyes to see Seth's face above her. He was looking off to his right and saying something. Her hearing was gone but sounds were slowly retuning.

"... concussion." she caught him saying. She blinked a few times to get rid of the blur her eyes. She began moving to stand and found that he had a solid grasp on her and wasn't letting her move. Since when did he have arms like steel?

"No moving around for you right now." he responded turning back to face her. "You took a pretty nasty blow to the head and your leg is broken." She reached up and stroked his face to make sure he was real and smiled.

"You heard me." she said her grin growing wider.

"Yeah I did... twice in fact." he chuckled to himself. Rei was too disoriented to pick up on that. She just lay in his arms and focused on clearing her head.

"So what do we do now?" she heard Usagi ask. Great! I'm injured and Baka-Usagi is just fine. Guess she wasn't as outnumbered as we were.

"You're going to the temple. I'll meet up with you after I stop this absorption flow." he answered.

"Wait! We're not coming with you?!" Usagi cried grabbing hold of his shirt.

"Not this time. You're not ready to take on the guy in charge yet. For now you should make sure that the others are okay." he relied in a soothing tone while rubbing her head and Rei wondered when they had found the time to start acting so close. "It's time to get you guys out of here." he said letting Rei go and stepping away from them as a yellow sphere of energy encapsulated them all except for Seth.

"Don't take too long." she heard Mamoru reply.

"I don't think it will. Look after them while I'm gone." Seth nodded and they all disappeared.

* * *

"So you came alone?" Akalyte mused as Seth appeared before him dressed as the Silver Shadow.

"No other choice right now. They're not ready for you." Seth remarked.

"I see." Akalyte nodded in understanding.

"I don't suppose I could convince you to leave either?" Seth sighed.

"I doubt it, but let's find out, shall we?" he replied opening the holo communicator on his wrist. The image of a young man sprang up from the center. "It's seems that the delaying tactic has reached its end." Akalyte began reporting.

"I see. So this conversation is being observed?" the prince asked.

"It is."

"Very well. We received more energy than I had initially anticipated." the prince continued. "You may return."

"Wait my Lord." a new voice replied. "If we get rid of this one now then we have may be able to return later should we need to make any further repairs. And at the very least he has seen you. He should not be allowed to live." the new more sinister sounding voice continued.

"Who are you to be giving him orders?" Akalyte responded in a much more aggressive tone then he had used on Seth.

"I disagree with the first reason. The second does hold some validity." the prince mused. "Akalyte do you see any difficulty in ending his life?"

"A little." so this one wasn't a complete fool Seth thought.

"I see. It would be trouble if he decided to hunt us down now that he has seen my face." the prince continued.

"If I may." Seth interrupted. Akalyte turned so that the prince could face him directly.

"Go ahead." the prince responded.

"If you leave now and promise never to return I can guarantee that will never happen." Seth responded.

"I'm afraid I cannot make that promise I have no idea how things may turn out in the years to come. We are at war right now." the prince sighed.

"Then it seems this fight is unavoidable." Seth sighed.

"I'm sorry, but yes." the prince replied.

"Then you are now facing two wars at once. No mere battle is going to solve things I fear." Seth responded in kind.

"I agree. Akalyte please finish him, but make sure he receives an honorable death. He has shown character and that is uncommon of most of our enemies." the prince commanded softly.

"It will be done my lord. I will see you shortly." Akalyte replied and closed down the device.

"I hate it when two compromising people can't compromise." Seth sighed.

"The circumstances are usually the issue. But those are my orders and I will carry them out to the letter." Akalyte said and leapt forward to attack.

* * *

He's very fast. Seth thought as he ducked down to avoid a clean shot to his left temple. He through his fist forward to slam him in the stomach, but Akalyte leapt back in time to avoid the blow.

"It seems we're both taking the other too lightly." Akalyte grinned. Seth simply nodded in agreement as they both brandished energy balls and slung them at each other before disappearing from the spots they were standing in. Seth was the first to hit the ground. He rolled back as Akalyte's knee came down in the spot where his head had been. The ground below buckled and then cratered away at the force of the impact. "Stop holding back on me." Akalyte chuckled and leapt quickly to the side as an energy ball sailed past him to explode into a tree. Seth flew forward and nailed him in the face with a punch to the jaw that send Akalyte sliding a few feet back. "That's better." he said wiping blood from his lip as Seth lunged forward again. He was stopped short as Akalyte Made contact with his foot to Seth's face causing the mask to go flying. "YOU!" he exclaimed in surprise.

"I guess it's only right that you should see my face too." Seth grinned. Now we're even for earlier. "The others can't be here to see this. What I have to do to protect this planet she gave us is not something they are ready to see." Seth stated.

"I understand. We must keep the horrors of war away from those we care about." Akalyte nodded in understanding. "So stop holding back already. If you're trying to conserve your energy to heal the others later it will only result in your death and then what will you be able to do for them?" Akalyte replied.

"As you wish, but I did wish to give you a much more honorable fight." Seth responded.

"There is no honor in a fight where your opponent will not fight you honestly." Akalyte retorted. Seth nodded and a pulse of power erupted from him in a shock wave knocking Akalyte stumbling back to fall onto his knees. Seth smirked and disappeared from view. A ball of energy slammed into Akalyte's back knocking him face first into the ground he picked himself up slowly while coughing up blood. Seth appeared before him and grabbed him by the throat and slung him into the ground causing another crater in the earth from the impact. "Why are you taking your time? Surely with this much power you could have killed me by now." Akalyte managed to choke out.

"Don't think I haven't been trying. You're just very stubborn, but I can't stay in this state for too much longer if I do want to heal them." Seth replied through clenched teeth as he slammed a third energy beam into Akalyte's throat. "You just seem to not get the message." he said tossing Akalyte's body to the side. Akalyte rolled up onto his feet and hurled a giant beam of energy at Seth who responded with a beam of his own. The two powerful forces of energy clashed vying for power. Wind ripped through the air pulling up tree roots and kicking dirt and dust everywhere. Eventually the beams cancelled each other out. Akalyte zoomed forward at Seth who simply vanished as he slid through the air Seth had just occupied. Akalyte turned at the sound of an explosion to his left to find that Seth had destroyed the energy absorption crystal.

"Very good! I didn't expect you to still be worrying about that." Akalyte grinned in amusement. "Time to end this."

"Agreed." Seth said and appeared before him. Only this time he had changed again. Akalyte's eyes widened in surprise. Seth's hair had turned into a soft blond color and power was flowing from him at an even greater rate.

"Not very fair holding such a secret back from me." Akalyte smiled knowing he had lost. "But now I know exactly who you are. General."

"What are you talking about?! How do you know my former title?" Seth asked in confusion. So he hasn't noticed yet. Akalyte thought as Seth's fist came forward and caught him in the stomach. More blood came flying out of his mouth. His vision was getting blurry.

* * *

Two more energy blasts. He knew he was reaching the end of what he could tolerate. Akalyte knew he had only one more blast of energy left in him. Legs giving out and vision fading he pulled himself back up. I will not retreat from and enemy! I will face him with honor! Miraculously he stood up and held out his palm a beam of energy the size of a two story building shot out he poured everything he had into it. He felt his energy fading as the beam began to wane. He fell to his knees and felt himself being caught.

"You should have let me know you could no longer see. That was hardly fair from my end." Seth replied.

"Did I at least graze you?" he chuckled.

"A bit. I won't be able to use my left hand for a while. It's gone numb." he heard Seth chuckle.

"Didn't want you to have murder on your conscience." he replied coughing up more blood. "But I won't surrender either. So I point... where I saw you... and fire." he said in between hacking. "Burned myself out fighting instead of going down in some unimpressive way!" he laughed and coughed. "I was going to lose this fight, but I'd rather do so on my own terms."

"What is your name?" Seth asked.

"Akalyte. Second general to the prince." he grinned in pride. Even with no longer being able to see and dying in the arms of his enemy he was happy.

"So, you're a member of the royal family then." Seth said hissing in a breath knowing this would most certainly not go unnoticed. "I shall tell you my name." Seth leaned in and whispered into his ear. Akalyte coughed loudly again, but this time in surprise.

"So it is true. I'm glad I could face you, even if you haven't fully awoken. It was my honor."

"The honor is mine today. To think I would meet a kind soul from the Dark Army." Seth chuckled.

"There are others." Akalyte responded.

"I look forward to meeting them." Seth stated and he could hear the sincerity and hope in his voice.

"I would like to think that you would get along better than we did." he chuckled as his body began to grow cold. "One last thing..." he choked out his voice was fading too. He had to make sure that he heard this last warning. "Beware... the Foreseer. That... thing... is evil."

"I will. Do you have anything you wish for me to relay to your family should I meet them?" Seth asked, and again Akalyte was struck by his kindness.

"They already know." he smiled as he felt himself slipping.

"I will stay with you then until you pass. A warrior deserves that much respect."

"Thank you..." he breathed. And then he was gone he could no longer feel the hands tightening around his arms or the tears flowing down his cheeks that were not his own. He had left his body and would see where he was headed next.

* * *

Seth laid his body on the ground and closed his eyes. He knew that they would be coming to reclaim his body. He had to leave soon. He thanked him one last time and disappeared before anyone else could show up.

Okay, so kinda sad for the ending, but I wanted you to miss the guy. Chapter it is going to take some work cause I have to remember the major plot lines for the story in my head cause all my hand written drafts got thrown away by ppl who weren't paying attention. (Otherwise this story would be close to finished by now) Please let me know what you think. And yes I didn't do a fight description this chapter cause there are major fights later that I'm having to focus on right now.