Chapter 9: A Struggle for Hope and An Impending Doom

There it was, as the scouts struggled to regain themselves, they watched as their Moon Princess; wrapped tightly with vines, pressed close to the red eyed flower, who eyed the silver crystal with a vengeance and a need for power.

"You don't know, to be exiled without love, because you live off the power and energy of others. You will see I am the most beautiful, the most powerful, and this will become my universe!"

"You...don't have...to do this...we can live in peace...power and beauty are only vain destroyers of the soul..." The princess squeezed out the words delicately between the grunts and gasps caused by the pain of the energy loss and constriction.

"What do you know! A measly princes with beauty, love and power, you are competition too my flowered name!"

The scouts watched; what was once a mind controlling entity, was living off of pain and jealous energy, thriving in her last attempts to take over the earth. She was a full youma like entity, stronger off the pure isolation and jealous rage that had gifted Fiore with such a lust and need for Serena's friendly personality; a metaphor for the rose image he had created for her. Darien needed to stop this; Fiore had suffered once more, his princess was suffering, all because he once helped a lonely boy who like him suffered from isolation from the world? Did roses really represent this pain, rather then the friendship intended?

"We need to help her..." He pressed himself up.

THe scouts followed, regaining themselves enough to get to their feet to fight back.

"I will win this battle! I won't fail again! Fiore's flowers will not parish!" She cackled a high pitched cackle, coming from her purple lips. Her green tinged arms wrapped around the princess in a bind, her pink hair covering her chest, and the red petals worn like a dress but remained part of her own flower, sent forth a sparkling red energy that awoke the flowers in the ground, that regrew vines from the ground that leapt towards the crew in an attempt to restrain them.

"We can't let them get us again!"Jupiter said, as they ran to Serenity, they wrapped around them from the back to the front, acting as a restraining barrier from letting the scouts move any closer, like a web that was catching them in it's threads, and entwining them.

"Why are we so powerless, is jealousy really this strong?" Neptune said as she tried to push through the vines that were holding her back.

"No matter how many we destroy, they come back!" Uranus said who had been trying to slash them with her sword but instead was loosing the battle to the unlimited number.

"Jealousy and pain is around you! Energy is unlimited from you humans! And the amount of energy you, have is all mine!" She directed her attention to her entrapped princess.

"I won't let you ...win." Princess Serena was about to use her powers again, in a last attempt as she felt the pain rush through her with Xenian's rush of determination, the feeling she had before she left her conscious last time, when she heard a voice that caused her to stop in her tracks.

"STOP THIS!"

As if a silence filled the air, they all stopped their struggle to look over to see Fiore, clutching his chest full of blood, in a struggle, much like a rag doll, to manage his legs to support him, his head hanging heavy.

"This is not what i intended. I don't want anymore pain. Xenian blossom, you were the most beautiful flower, that is why i brought you back to Darien before. But beauty in the world is not like the inner beauty of a good person. Leave Serena, alone!" He felt a surge in his chest and couldn't withstand his pain, his barely withstand-able wounds, and fell to the ground, still clutching the wound.

"Fiore!" Tuxedo Mask yelled, as they all watched in a surprised horror, for the suffering and bravery Fiore had once again shown.

"Can't you see the damage your doing?" Jupiter looked at the blossom with a harsh stare.

"You're only killing, and with death brings no beauty." Mars added.

"Freedom can only be found in happiness and harmony." Venus looked over, directing her attention to the also frozen Xenian Blossom.

"You cannot win admiration through jealous thoughts and destruction." Mercury continued.

"Stop being so blind as to what your doing! Your foolish to think that you can take and never give!" Uranus said sternly.

"Let our princess go, and she can show you how to live freely!" Neptune pleaded, delicatley.

The Xenian Blossom Youma, stood in the silence as if taking in their thoughts when one more lingering voice took the air with a bellow over the silence.

"After you destroy it all; you will be no more beautiful then any other flower. Flower's are delicate, and supposed to bring people joy and peacefulness, but there will be nobody to enjoy such things..." Tuxedo Mask said as he crushed a rose in his palm, which was strung up by a vine and let the flower petals fall to the ground.

She loosened her grasp on the princess, and she fell slightly away from the Blossom. The Blossom looked at loss, as if some inner struggle was going on within her, and Princess Serena knew it was the right time. She took a breath trying to muster up any energy she had within her left.

"Let me help you be free of this, show you a new way of life; free of jealousy, where you can be beautiful inside and out." She pleaded, holding out her silver crystal.

Xenian kept her head down, submissively, they saw her as almost seeming like there was so much pride she couldnt possibly utter the words of agreement, but took it none other as a yes.

They knew the Princess had to use the crystal, but now, they watched hoping peace would resume, in the anticipation to see what the Xenian Blossom would be like; free of anger, a strive for domination, jealousy and vanity.

"Silver Crystal, help heal ..."

"Heh, heh, heh, heh..."

The Xenian Blossom began to laugh in a smugly hysterical way, over top of the Princess' silent prayer to save her, giving the air an eery atmosphere.

"...accept our help?" The princess finished, almost asking the Blossom through the prayer, to accept their assistance.

"Why would I need your help..." The Xenian Blossom started, "...if you just handed me the only competition for a beautiful flower i had in this universe?" Her head snapped up, eyes glowing with rage and power, as if the inner struggle had been overpowered with evil, as they watched as seconds passed like a slow motion of hours, as a claw of vines, glowing with dark energy, contracted itself around the floating silver crystal in the outstretched hands of the Princess, and began to constrict the white light.

Shattered hopes.

Blank blue eyes.

Hopelessness in the midst of destruction.


So i know that was dark...but i like cliff hangers...and no its not the last chapter...i just wanted to end this one with a bit of impending doom...updates will come as soon as they can...moving back to UNI soon so until the next one :) The power of jealous rage, and the power of want are desctructive forces.

PS. NEW SAILOR MOON IN 2013...yep...and its supposedly supposed to come to the North American side too; fingers crossed for some of the same voices to come back for the DUB! ...let the legacy live for generations to come! :D