Never Again

By TsukasaFanBOF

The confrontation

"Princess...Princess...wake-up Princess..."

Usagi woke up in the middle of the night to a distant voice. She was in a half asleep state and Seiya was still asleep next to her. She looked around the room and saw nothing and no one so she chose to drift back to sleep. She fluffed her pillow and then laid her head down upon it.

"Princess...Princess..."

Usagi shot up in the bed. She knew she wasn't dreaming this time. She waited for her eyes to completely adjust to the darkness and took in a quick evaluation of the room. There was no one there, and she couldn't figure out where the voice was coming from. She heard a thump come from the attic so she quickly but quietly got out of bed, threw on a robe and creeped out of the room.

THUMP

There it went again. She snuck up the stairs to the attic, the last place she had seen Chibiusa, thinking of that made her hopeful that it was Chibiusa. Her pace quickened at that thought. She even began to whisper Chibiusa's name. By the time she reached the room she actually spoke the name. "Chibiusa?!"

There was no response, no sound, and no light. No one was up there. Usagi's hope died and her spirits dampened a little.

"Princess..."

Usagi gasped audibly and turned toward the direction she thought the voice came from. it was the window that led to the roof. She cautiously approached the window and when she was certain that it was safe enough to crawl out of without being attacked off guard she did so. She lifted her night gown a bit to step out and then she hunched down as she crawled out the rest of the way. She crept up towards the top where she saw a shadow. She had reached the top of the roof and peeked over.

"No...way..."

Usagi's eyes widened as she recognized the person before her. She even stood up without thinking. The red hair, the dress, the pale skin...could it really be? As if reading her mind the figure turned around to face Usagi. Hypnotizing eyes. It is!!!!

"I was wondering when we'd meet again...you're highness."

Usagi stepped back almost losing her footing. "B-but, it can't be..."

"Oh it can, and it is."

"How did you know where I..."

"Lived? HA! That was the easy part...the hard part was getting you to come to me."

"What?"

"I hope you enjoyed it while it lasted...nothing pleases me more than to break your heart."

"What are you talking about?"

"Think about it Princess...why on earth would I want to drag you out here into the open? Why not just kill you in your sleep? Do you really think that I'd fight fair? You should know better."

Usagi thought about it for a bit. "Seiya!!!" She turned to run back but she hit something and fell back onto the roof.

"You're trapped...the moment you stepped out that window a barrier was placed around your home...only my minions are with your Beloved Starlight. HAHAHAHAHAHA"

As if on cue Seiya began to scream...terrible cries of pain and misery. He shouted his transformation but in the midst of it he let out the most blood curling scream that Usagi could literally feel her heart die in that moment. "SEIYA!!!!!!" Everything went silent, there were no more screams, no more cries of pain, no more fighting. Tears filled her eyes...her nails dug into the roof below her. She shot her eyes back and forth as if looking for a sign that he was okay. Something to tell her that he won. There was nothing.

"He's gone...Princess."

Usagi collapsed in her tears, her fingers were bleeding from digging into the roof so hard.

"Poor poor Princess, you just can't save anyone can you? You think you're so much better than me, than everyone...you deserve the death that surrounds you."

"USAGI!!!"

Usagi looked over to see who was screaming her name. It was Selena, she was with Alex and Alan. They flew to the roof on Alex's and Alan's boards.

They really do surf the wind...

"Hmm... more victims."

The red haired woman raised her hands and a light began to engulf her hands, she then looked at Usagi. "You think you're so much better than me? Then stop this!!!!" And with that she pointed her palms towards Selena and Alan and a light shot from her hands at them.

"NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! ALAN MOVE!!!!"

Alan heard Usagi's cry and without thinking to tell Selena to hold on he swurved out of the way of the attack. Unfortunately Selena fell the opposite way and got hit with the attack dead on. Her screams filled the shattered night and left no pain unheard.

"NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Selena's body fell and disappeared as it did so.

Usagi couldn't take anymore, her heart was dying and with it her anger grew. That's when she felt it, that endless darkness that is so alluring to the broken-hearted. She could feel it engulfing her heart. Her tears stopped and her fists clenched...revenge is what she wanted. Not justice, not anything that would be dubbed good. Just pure dark hateful revenge. She got to her feet and turned briskly towards the woman who was causing all of this. "What is your name?"

"Oh, have I hurt you're feelings Princess?"

"TELL ME YOUR NAME!"

"Why should I?"

Usagi could feel the heat in her hands, the fire of revenge, of death. "Because either way you're going to pay for what you did and I think the least I could do is place your name on a tombstone."

"Oooo such big words for a girl who's lost everything and everyone she loves."

"You MONSTER!!!!" Usagi threw her hand out and a fireball hurled out at the red-haired woman. She dodged.

"Have I angered you?!" She whirled around and threw a wave of compacted air at Usagi hitting her dead on, knocking her off of her feet. "DON'T YOU DARE CHALLENGE ME WITH THE POWERS YOU STOLE FROM ME!!! THAT'S ALL YOU DO...heh...you steal whatever is mine and you take it as your own..."

Usagi stood up. "I'm sure I have no idea what you're talking about."

"DON'T YOU LIE TO ME!!!! You took him from me, you made him fall in love with you with you're stupid Princess magic. You used him and then you threw him away!!! YOU LET HIM DIE!!!" Another wave of air but this time Usagi blocked it.

Mamoru was climbing out of the window of Usagi's house but stopped as he heard all the commotion outside.

"The ONLY man I've ever loved completely, betrayed me and became my worst enemy!!! He meant EVERYTHING to me and that was taken away from me. I finally found someone who could fill that hole in my heart and YOU TOOK HIM AWAY FROM ME!!! I have no clue who you're talking about, but if you couldn't keep him then he wasn't the one for you, and you didn't deserve him or vice versa!"

"You don't know what you're talking about...YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING!!!" A bolt of lightening crashed down upon Usagi, Alex, and Alan, knocking the two surfers off their boards and unconcious and sending Usagi off the side of the house.

Usagi tried to catch herself with something anything but found nothing. Suddenly she realized that she had stopped falling. She felt arms around her and she turned to see who had caught her. He was shadowed, she couldn't see his face. He jumped to the ground with her safely in his arms and set her down.

"Are you okay?"

Usagi nodded. "Mmhmm."

"Good. You should get out of here."

"Huh?"

"It's dangerous."

"No...I'm not leaving."

"What do you mean? You just about died."

"It's not the first time."

"Usagi just go!" The stranger said as he grabbed her and pulled her towards him, and he then kissed her. Usagi could feel some sort of energy flow through her and when she opened her eyes, it was morning and everyone was gone. She was laying in her swinging chair on her front porch. It was almost as if nothing ever happened. But Usagi knew better than to believe that...those things did happen and now she'll never know what happened to everyone else.