Nehelenia's Void Eternity

Chapter 9

Authors note: (craaaaaaaap! I saw the mistake I made at the very end of that chapter…. Brain. Needs focus. And sugar to focus. Heehee. Ok here's number 9. 3)

Serena's mind was lost in a graying haze, until she heard someone call her name. she heard the same voice call again. The grey haze around her turned black. "Serena!" she groaned. Finally feeling the pain in her head she was feeling. "Serena?" a uncertain voice, familiar. She opened her eyes slowly and saw Nehelenia standing not too far away, though she faced away from Serena, her head was turned the child's way. Serena's eyes shifted over to who stood in front of her. Nehelenia was restraining several people back. She vaguely remembered them. They were supposed to exist in her past only. Not the past, or present. But yet, here they were. Instant anger builded up inside her, fueling her mind's function to work as she managed to stand up by Nehelenia's side. "Why are they here?" she aqsked Nehelenia. She noticed Darien among them. Lita began to speak but Nehelenia swirled her black strands on top of Lita's mouth, silencing her. Nehelenia grinned. "They were hoping to take advantage of your weakness, trying to kick you while you were down." Serena looked at them coolly. The only one out of the four Sailor scouts that could meet her eyes was Rae. Darien couldn't look at her either. "Release them Nehelenia." Nehelenia stiffened for a second. "I have been told what I must do, to fully unlock these powers. I have only started unlocking them. I understand certain things they seem to not." Serena's eyes flickered with a new fire that made the five of them uneasy. Nehelenia smiled and let go of all of them, letting the five of them drop hard to the ground. Mina spoke towards Serena and demanded "What is it that you think you have to do? You're one of us!" Mina's shrill yelling caused the other to rise from the ground. Serena gazed at them with cold eyes for a moment before replying "No. I'm not one of you." Serena raised one hand in the air slowly. When it was fully raised and pointing skywards, she whispered "And now you will see why I am not one of you." Nehelenia's chesire cat grin got bigger, she snapped her fingers and disappeared from thin air. Serena raised her other hand and placed it over where her crescent moon mark should have been. Wityh her one e4yes and forward covered, she whispered to their stunned faces, "The Sailor Moon you know is gone. I'm sorry." With that, her forehead began to glow, and she removed her hand. A slim lightning rod poured from the sky and arched down her arm. She let the others see what her mark had become. She watched the shock upon their faces, as her moon mark transformed to that of a ecplipse. She saw looks of disgust form on one face. Rae's. No shock. Just disgust. Rae would be the first to be defeated, she decided. The light from her mark intensified, and she transformed into the dress that was like her old one's only it had a black and gold top part with strips of black and gold. The lightning that graced her arm darkened until it solidified, in the shape of a staff. Instead of her old one, she found it replaced with a design much like her forehead's mark. There where other little details, but she could not care to look. It was there, and that was what mattered.

Darien stared it complete, utter shock at the mark on his lover's forehead. An eclipse? ... It took him a moment to register that and eclipse was the combined forces of both dark and light itself. He felt the other scouts and their shock, fear, and disgust. Disgust? He glanced at Rae, only wishing to confirm what he already knew. Rae's stance was defiant, her eyes cold. He looked over at Usako's eyes. They where filled with a hollow, haunting sadness, that she had tried to hide. But he knew her better. She nearly met his eyes for a moment, but she must have thought better of it and turned her gaze to Rae. Serena spoke plainly, a slight chill behind her tone. "So Rae, you think you are powerful enough to become the scout's leader next do you not?" A look of surprise flicked in Rae, and Serena caught it and smirked. "The only way you will ever be worthy of being my former comrade's leader is if you are strong enough to defeat me." The light from Serena's mark increased, and her staff began to glow. "So, come then." Serena raised her left hand, palm facing upwards. "Come, Rae." She whispered her former comrades name. Rae charged and Serena frowned. She tapped her staff on the ground one time *Bam* once more, *Bam* and time slowed down. Serena smiled and walked casually to stand in front of Rae. "Over." Serena smirked and blew a cloud of black, star like dust into Rae's face. She stood back, snapped her fingers once, and time regained to its normal flow. Rae screamed and fell to the earth, clutching and clawing at her face. The others blinked in shock at Rae laying crumpled on the ground. Serena took her gaze off Rae and looked to the others. A purr in Serena's voice could be heard as she said "Over." "Game Over." She shifted her staff to the other hand and questioned "Who's next then?" Lita ran over to Rae. "Rae?!" she shook Rae's shoulder and the dark haired woman pushed her away, a moment enough to see what Serena had done. She gasped in shock and stumbled back, causing her to flop down in front of Rae. Rae turned away from them all. Darien stood up and yelled over at her "How am I supposed to tell Chibi-Usa about this?!" he demanded. Serena slid her gaze over to Darien. "You will not. I will tell her, and that will be my burden and mine alone." Just then, Lita came from behind her. Serena grinned. How sly, she didn't even hear her move from Rae's side. Serena ducked in time to dodge a furious kick that had been unleashed at her head. She turned and launched her own attack at Lita. She ignored her own surprise when the nails on her hand grew into long, sword-like blades. The attack caught Lita in the chest and blood red lines formed through her Sailor's uniform. A sudden surge of anger gripped Serena, and she slashed and slashed again, until the uniform was nothing more than than loose ribbons hanging from trembling shoulders. She hated that uniform now. She remembered Lita's love for roses and she snickered. "Every rose has it's thorns." She continued, her voice cold. "Lita, I shall plant you a curse. You will have the one thing you love most, roses, but you will die because of them." Lita raised her hands over her face as Serena thomped lita in the ribs with her staff. Lita couldn't resist the urge to cough and as she did blood formed on her lips. Lita's eyes widened and she screamed, clutching her chest, as she felt something sharp like knives slither around her ribs, caressing her heart. Serena stood over Lita, watching her pain with grim satisfaction. "Living rose vines line your ribcage now, and inch by inch, day by day, they will move closer and closer, until your heart is so punctured from wounds that you will die." She turned back to the others, and said simply "Over." "Again."