Blood Lust: Part Ten

By: SalrAnime

Finally decided to update this because despite the fact I haven't written for almost two years (or something like that) I keep getting reviews! Thanks guys, sorry it still isn't finished. And obviously Sailor Moon is not my creation.

"Usagi, no matter what I'll always love you"

She stopped, green eyes became blue again, and she was suddenly hit with a clarity that she never had before.

"Damieno..." Her voice was low and huskier than normal, but he liked it, it excited him, and now with Mamoru gone, he would be able to hear that voice for the rest of eternity. She began to walk towards him slowly; his green eyes following her every sensual step. She walked like a cat, languid and precise...she was no longer the clumsy girl that everyone thought her to be.

"Yes, Serenity?" He shivered when her soft lips brushed against his own. She was like a drug to him, he was lost in her.

"My locket, may I have it back now?" Her soft hands were touching his now, his mind becoming fuzzier by the moment.

"Anything for you my Serenity" Her hands clasped tightly around the locket...her transformation broach. It was hope. She stepped back from Damieno and began the words that would give her the power to defeat Damieno.

"MOON..." What was she doing!? Damieno watched in confusion as a bright light began to engulf Usagi.

"PRISIM..." The light was becoming too bright, it was engulfing the whole room, and the lesser vampires were already being burned alive by the brilliant light.

"POWER!" Seris shielded her pale green eyes as the light became too bright for her to watch.

This is impossible. There were only four scouts, only four! Damieno watched on in confusion as Usagi's clothing dematerialized, and was replaced with the uniform of a sailor scout. But there were only four.

Her transformation was complete, and now they had a chance.

"Serenity?" He asked, unsure that the sailor suite warrior before him could truly be the mild mannered princess he had fallen in love with so many years ago. He had miss calculated and assumed her present self to be the same as her past self, but this one was stronger.

Blue crashed against a sea of green, and she smirked at his predicament, a feeling of power she had never felt before rushing through her...or maybe it was anger. She didn't really care at the moment. All she knew was she wanted to defeat her enemy, now!

"Moon Tiara..AHH!" Usagi's screamed in shock as a burning pain shot through her body, shock quickly turned to fury when she turned to see Seras licking her deep red blood from claw like nails. Seras' eyes became slits of glowing green as she zoned in on her target.

"BITCH! I'll kill you if it's the last thing I do!" Seras lunged at the petite blond, knocking her off balance. They both hit the ground hard, with Usagi on the bottom pulling at Sera's hair. It would have been a bonafide chick fight except neither of the two ladies planned on letting the other go with a few scratches.

"GET OFF HER NOW!!" Damieno bellowed and both women immediately froze in confusion for a split second before pushing away from each other. Usagi once again reached for her tiara but was stopped by Damieno who came at her in a high speed blur and violently ripped the offending weapon from her forehead revealing a golden crescent moon underneath. Damieno momentarily looked hurt and Usagi wanted to curse him for the emotion. How could he be hurt by her trying to escape when he had done all this to her!

"How...how can you still want to protect her she wants you dead!" Seras' voice broke through the silence of the dark hall, beginning as a voiced thought and ending in a boisterous yell directed towards Damieno.

"I mean..." Seras began as tears filled her light green eyes. "You told me she was nothing to you! You said she was just going to be your play thing and now, now it's clear you would rather die than to be without her!?" She pointed at Usagi accusingly to emphasize her point. "Why did you never tell me about the book? About the moon? I've been with you for thousands of years I was your first! ...I was to be your last. In all these years I've been with you and you've never..."

"I've NEVER loved you! It's always been her." Damieno finished her thought and crushed Seras' pseudo spirit only to twist the knife even harder in her heart by kneeling in front of the petite blond and begging her first with his eyes, then with his words to "love me..."

"Impossible" She spoke with words with no anger, no resentment or need to hurt, only a finite truth. There was no more to be said. All this time he had been trying to make her fall in love, make her want to be with him, need him and it was useless. No matter what spell he managed to use on "his Serenity" she would never truly love him...it would all be fake and eventually it would shatter like the weakest glass and leave him still seeking what never existed in the first place. A beautiful princess to that loved him back as much as he loved her.

"How does it taste, Damieno?" Was the whispered question Seras asked the defeated monster. He kneeled frozen in pain and disbelief. Should he just accept it? Somewhere in his foggy mind he thought he imagined a deep throated moan coming from the place where Endymion's dead body laid but it couldn't be him, the man that had taken his princess from him. It couldn't be...

"Mamoru!" The joy in her voice sounded like punishment from the gods. Once again the dead thing made noise, then it moved and Damieno realized it was not dead at all.

In an instant she was at his side smoothing stray strands of hair from his cool forehead.

"Usagi?" He speaks. He touches her, holds her. He owns her...no. He clouds her mind with a lie, he didn't even remember who she was didn't remember their love!

"He is NOT worthy of her!" Damieno shouted to the heavens before lounging at the couple on the ground drawing a sword from its sheath causing Usagi to jump to her feet ready for a fight, however she was surprised when he turned the blade towards his own heart.

"And yet, she will only love him." In one quick motion he plunged the sword deep into his own heart, his last gift to the woman he loved, his own life.

"NOOO!!!" The forgotten Seras screeched as she caught Damieno's falling body.

"You've destroyed as all! All of us Damieno, for a child!" He smiled softly feeling content with his choice. He brushed a soft kiss against Seras' lips as his life began to fade faster and faster.

"I'll meet you again in hell Seras." Those were his last words before his body began to age quickly, his face gaining age spots and lines in a matter of seconds then becoming a skull with nothing but empty holes for eyes before turning to nothing more than bones, then finally to dust. Usagi watched in disbelief and horror, is that what would happen to her? An audible squeak then a horrible scream demanded Usagi's attention as Seras stared at her ands in horror as they became wrinkled and covered in age spots. "YOU!" She pointed a bony finger in Usagi's direction before lounging at her, causing her to fall back a few feet from where Mamoru still lay trying to get to his feet.

"You, you caused this!" Usagi fought the creature before her but found herself powerless to stop the now moving corpse the had it's long fingers wrapped around her neck chocking air from her lungs and causing spots to burst into her vision with every forceful slam of her head into the ground below her. She tried to scream or squeak, anything but there was no air left in her lungs for her to release a sound. She could feel her heart in her chest pounding and her head becoming light from the lack of oxygen and then it suddenly stopped. The air stung as it rushed back into her lungs, but she was thankful for the pain but her head had taken too much of a beating, and she felt darkness take her. The last thing she found herself able to focus on was a pile of dust with a perfect blood red rose embedded in it.

"Usagi...Usagi...honey wake up please!" The voice was her mother's, that much she knew, but the other sounds and voices around her made no since. Where was she? She tried to call back to her mother, but she found her throat too dry to make any audible noise.

"USAGI!? Kenji I think she's trying to say something!" Eyes painfully attempted to open as the light assaulted her eyes as if she had not opened them in years. Slowly fuzzy blobs began to gain shape and she could even begin to recognize some of them. The shiny silver of a metal pole with a bag filled with fluid attached to it; a plastic bracelet that currently itched the skin around her wrist. Then finally she focused on the faces. Her mother and father and a woman with a glass of water in a bright white uniform with red hair and brown eyes. How did she get in the hospital?

"Here you go honey, the doctor said you would wake up eventually and to just give you time but you gave your family quite a scare. " The red headed woman sounded slightly distant as she held the water close to her lips so she could lubricate the things that once allowed her to make noise.

"Mamo...Mamoru?" IT hurt a little for her to speak, and her voice was laden with exhaustion but at least it was once again working. Kenji and Ikuko perked up at the name happy to tell their daughter all about her savior.

"Usagi honey," Ikuko began.

"He found you! you were gone for so long the police had given up on finding you, EVERYONE had given up except for your father and I of course and Mamoru san" Her eyes were beginning to brim with tears and Usagi wondered just how long she had been missing and more importantly how long had she been in this coma.

"He told me that he wouldn't stop looking for you, but when he actually found you...Usagi you were close to death, anemic and half starved from lack of food. We still don't know what happened to you but it seemed a bunch of missing kids were found with you...some didn't make it."

"But, Mamoru san..Where is he" The cool liquid was finally being absorbed into her system and although she was tired, sore and had a huge headache, she was staring to feel her strength come back and her memory. When she had last seen Mamoru he could barely stand, was he ok?

"Mamoru san? Well he's fine honey, he got you to the hospital and didn't leave your side in fact he just left for coffee, he'll be right back. See he even bought flowers" She pointed to a long rectangular table across from her bed, with all kinds of get well wishes. There was even a huge Sailor V doll with two fingers u making a "V" for victory sign stomping on what could only be described as a green blob like germ, but somehow amongst all the gifts, a vase of red roses stood out the most to her. She let out an audible sigh of relief as her muscles relaxed and she began to sink back into the stiff hospital sheets.

"How long was I ...like this?" There was a moment of silence and her father's deep voice answered.

"Almost two weeks..." Usagi's eyes got wide in disbelief. Two weeks? For two weeks they had worried that she may not wake up. For two weeks they hadn't left her side all the while wondering if she had been found in time. She could feel her throat once again tighten as tears began to form in her sky blue eyes.

"I...I'm so sorry!" She released a flood of tears reliving what it must have been like as a parent to worry over your only daughter so much.

"Oh honey, it isn't your fault" Her mother wrapped her arms around her daughter trying to reassure her that she had done nothing wrong.

"Serenity..." He let the name roll off his tongue as if it was asking a question in the form of a statement. He could see the whole thing through the blinds of the small window that were supposed to give the patients privacy in the large window, he could see her crying, her mother hugging her and her father being the strong man he was, wipe a small tear from his left eye as he rubbed his wife's back. Unconsciously he rubbed at the rough scab on the side of his neck. 'I told her I loved her...'

"Do I?" a passerby eyed him strangely as he asked the question out loud. He was still watching her reunion with her family debating on whether or not to intrude. After taking the last earthy sip of his black coffee, he decided against it. He would simply leave her be for now. Maybe when he could name what he was really feeling, he would go to her, but for now he would simply disappear. He tossed the empty Styrofoam coffee cup in a nearby waste basket and walked back out towards his car. A lost kingdom on Earth and the Moon each with a royal family... "He audibly sighed as he turned the ignition to his car. "Who am I?"