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Chapter 14 – A World Without Them: New Futures Await?

Galaxia stood there in her golden uniform, her henchmen bowing to their mistress.

'You have interfered with my plans too much. This shall be your punishment…suffer til I take your seeds, weaklings…' she said flatly.

Bright lights erupted from her wrists that then flew at Sailor Io's' broken form, lighting her up and making her let out a blood curdling scream, before her body stilled.

Suddenly, the darkness erupted into a shining bright light. Sailor Io's fell limply to the ground in front of the Starlights and the two Solar Sailors as her star seed floated in the brightened night. It was beautiful. It was shaped like a almost mirror-like, silver oval who's shine erupted into the night.

'It's perfect…' Galaxia murmured as the star seed floated over to her.

Sailor Star Healer fell to her knees as she grabbed Io's in her arms gently. 'Io's?…' she murmured. 'Kaiya?…Please answer me…'

'Healer…' Io's breathed softly; 'I'm sorry…' was the last thing she said as she faded away.

Healer knelt over and started sobbing loudly. Sailor Moon was sobbing in Sailor Star Fighter's arms as Sailor Mercury and Sailor Star Maker knelt next to Healer giving her a hug, Mercury just sat with Healer's sobbing form in her lap, crying softly.

Sailor Galaxia smiled evilly before disappearing with her henchmen following quickly.

The phage turned to the sobbing Sailor's. 'You want to dance, Sailor Brats?' it cooed softly as it twirled in on it's Pointe shoes in a red ballet costume.

'Try dancing with us, ballerina.' called a voice from the darkness.

The Outer Scouts all stepped into the dim light cast by the street lights.

'Deadly Scream' whispered Sailor Pluto attacking the phage.

Fighter whispered softly. 'Get it, Sailor Moon.'

Sailor Moon nodded silently through her tears, turning around to face the phage that was still grinning mockingly through the pain. 'This is for my friend…Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss!'

Saturn looked at the two Sailor scouts that had returned to their lovers arms. 'Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury, get away from the outsiders.'

'Go…away…I can't deal with this…right now.' managed Sailor Moon through the new tears streaming thick and fast down her face.

'Princess, get away from them before they hurt you.' said Sailor Uranus.

'Them? Hurt us? It isn't likely…about 0.001% chance actually. If that.' muttered Mercury.

'They are outsiders. They can't be trusted, Princess. Please don't make us come and get you.' pleaded Sailor Neptune.

Sailor Pluto had just stood there silently, not moving, not talking until suddenly. 'I'm sorry for your loss.' she said softly to Healer before jumping away.

The other outer scouts looked at each other, puzzled, but didn't follow her. 'Princess, Mercury. Get away from them now.' Uranus said angrily.

'If they wanted to…they would have already.' whispered a small voice from the darkness.

'Venus…' Sailor Moon whispered, 'Your ok?'

'Sort of,' Sailor Venus replied sadly as she walked out of the darkness, she cried out as she grabbed her head, falling to the ground.

'Venus!' called Mercury as she ran over to her fallen comrade and friend, 'What's wrong?'

'I know what it is,' Moon murmured softly, 'Go on, Venus. We will be fine. You need to clear your head and that is an order.' She finished with a small smile.

'Sure…thank you but first,' she turned to the outer scouts, 'leave them be. You interfering will not do anything good, trust me.' She turned and leaped away as Sailor Moon turned to the Starlights.

'Sailor Venus is the scout of love…She can sense the ties of love between people. The heartbreak here at the moment sent that talent into overdrive.'

Fighter nodded slowly as she watched Healer, looking broken and lost. 'Maker…get her home…'

Star Maker nodded as she gathered Star Healer in her arms and jumped off into the night.

'You always were a pathetic, weak scout Sailor Moon. But Sailor Mercury? We never thought you'd be the same.' Came a bitter voice from the darkness, as the rest of the inner scouts minus Venus stepped onto the rooftop.

'You're coming with us, Moon. We need you to make Crystal Tokyo, but otherwise…' Said Sailor Jupiter grimly, 'You are worth nothing. You are weak as anything, not to mention stupid. You have to come with us because you are nothing without us.'

'I told you I should have been leader,' sneered Mars, 'why they made an idiot that that leader I will never know.'

'I know,' muttered Neptune, 'I mean she is siding over than outsiders rather than too. We have done everything for her, we even died for her…not that it was worth it…'

Mars looked at Mercury. 'You were never much better. We just kept you around because you were smart. But you were never good for anything else. You're as pathetic and just as weak as the Moon Brat.'

The outer scouts walked over to the inners, showing their agreement.

Sailor Moon grabbed Sailor Mercury. 'Come on, Mercury. I have a feeling our friends will take us in.'

Fighter nodded mutely. 'I'll see you in a few minutes.' she murmured to the two scouts who jumped off to their respective houses to grab some things.

Sailor Star Fighter looked at the remaining Solar Scouts. 'That was a really stupid thing to do…' she muttered before jumping back to her apartment to tell the others what had happened.

Sailor Uranus turned to the rest of scouts. 'How are we going to get the brat's crystal?'

Usagi sat curled up in a ball, rocking backwards and forward slowly, staring at nothing, just straight ahead. She hadn't changed out of her now dirty evening dress. Ami was in a slightly better state.

'I'm not worthless…' she mumbled as she sat doing problems on her Mercury computer, sitting in the corner of their room in the apartment of the three lights. Taiki had told them they were going to shop for a house tomorrow so they could all have their own rooms.

Seiya sat their watching them. It was horrible. They hadn't eaten, they hadn't slept and they hadn't changed out of their party clothes.

Ami murmured softly. 'You should get an extra room in the house…Minako might need it…'

Before they had gotten into this state, they had told their boyfriends everything. Who the scouts were, what had happened on Earth before they had gotten here and anything else they could think of, so it made sense to Seiya when he realised Minako, also known as Sailor Venus, had stood up to the other scouts as well, which meant she would be next.

'Ami?' he asked quietly.

Ami looked up at him, her eyes blank, expressionless.

'You should both get changed and showered at least…I haven't known her for as long as you have, so maybe you know something that could wake her up?'

Ami smiled slightly. 'Usually it would be her favourite store was having a 60% off sale or something but…'

'Your right, that wouldn't really work in this situation would it?'

'Not really. Hang on this will give me something to do…' she pointed her computer at Usagi and began tapping away at it for a minute, 'Got it. Hey, Usagi? Rei is at the front door asking after the silver crystal…'

'WHAT!' Usagi screamed, jumping off the bed and running towards the door before Seiya grabbed her and pulled her back into his lap.

'Wow. Nice work, Ami.' Seiya muttered, 'Usagi, she isn't really there but it did wake you up didn't it…'

Usagi looked at him. 'That was cruel.' she said curtly.

Ami smiled. 'Maybe, but we need to get ready for school…'

'You are making me go to school?' Usagi screamed.

Seiya looked at her. 'Even Yaten's going…but we are transferring to a nearby private school at the end of the week…reckon you can avoid hitting them for 4 days? Just while we move schools…'

Usagi narrowed her eyes. 'Maybe…if I try really hard…and if you guys don't leave alone…'

Ami grinned. 'Don't worry, Usagi. I'll make sure you don't do something you regret.'

Usagi scowled. 'I wouldn't regret it. They would just end up with their faces in the wrong place…'

Seiya looked around. 'I don't suppose any of you know how to cook do you? I mean Taiki is looking after Yaten and Kaiya usually…'

His looked away, he hadn't meant to bring her up.

Ami looked at Seiya, who now seemed to be lost in his thoughts. 'I can cook bacon and eggs,' she murmured, as she rose from the floor, tucking her computer back into her subspace pocket, 'I'll start them now…'

Usagi gave Seiya a hug and a kiss on the lips. 'Don't ever trust me in a kitchen, ok? Prior warning, I burn everything. I even managed to burn tea once…' She let out a nervous chuckle, 'I might go help her get the ingredients out…' she whispered as she got out of Seiya's lap and made her way out of the room.

Seiya stepped into Yaten's bedroom, which echoed with the sounds of water and walked over to Taiki. 'How's he doing?' he muttered.

Taiki looked at him sadly. 'Angry. He is just pissed at the world, doesn't get why they let Galaxia take her. He said he should have gone after her quicker, or something. But he is picking up the pieces…he is getting better because he believes that when someone kills Galaxia…all the star seeds will return, whence she will. It is true. I just don't have the heart to tell him that no one might be able to kill her, she is getting too powerful.'

Seiya looked at him. 'Yes, but if we can just find our princess…she might be able to do something…'

Taiki sighed. 'Yes, she might, her or Usagi, the moon princess…'

Seiya nodded. 'Yes, the power of the Moon Princess is astounding, like the powers of our own princess.'

Just then, a timid knock sounded at the door. 'If you guys want any food, you might want to come now before Usagi eats it all.' Ami called.

The water turned off as Seiya and Taiki walked to the door. 'Hurry up, Yaten or we are going to school hungry.'

'Minako Aino?' the teacher called for the roll.

'Here…'

The roll call droned on and on. The six who knew the reason for the empty seat next to Yaten were tense.

'Makoto Kino?'

'Here!' she called cheerfully, never taking her eyes off Usagi.

'Seiya Kou?'

'Here…' This is not going to end well, thought Seiya.

'Taiki Kou?'

'Here, Ms.' Replied Taiki dully.

'Yaten Kou?'

'Here…' Yaten whispered.

'Ami Mizuno?'

'Here.' She breathed. The drone continued until…

'Kaiya Tanaka?'

The silence in the room was stifling.

'Kaiya? Does anyone know where Kaiya is?'

Yaten's eyes were curiously blank.

Taiki looked up at the teacher. 'She disappeared at the charity event last night…' he said grimly.

The teacher looked at him. 'Oh? I hope Ms. Tanaka turns up safely. Usagi Tsukino?'

'Here…' came Usagi's tear stained whisper.

The group sat quietly under a large tree. Usagi perched on Seiya's lap; Ami nestled in Taiki's warm embrace. All eyes were on Yaten, who continued to look into space. The whole group was alone, the other students realising the tense atmosphere around the group and for the first time steering away from them.

The purple vortex exploded in front of them, causing them to curse and jump 3 feet in the air.

Usagi let out her breath. 'Pluto?' she asked.

The scout of time exited her time vortex quickly, looking at everyone's faces. 'Yes, sorry about that.' She said quietly, as she turned to look at Usagi, 'I have information, but you didn't hear it from me,' she sighed, 'the other scouts are planning on attacking you after school, when you get back to your home or when you are alone. So…be careful, Princess.' She finished as she stepped back towards her time portal.

'Wait, Pluto? You aren't angry at me too?' Usagi whispered.

'How could I be, princess? The future is always changing, there are several amazingly perfect futures available to us, you pick one you want.' She said cryptically as she stepped into her portal and disappeared.

Minako walked quickly towards the group, her face partly marred by a blue bruise appearing over her cheek. 'Was that, Pluto?' she gasped.

'Hello to you too Minak – What happened to you!' gasped Seiya.

'Nothing,' she mumbled, as she turned her face away to hide the disfiguring bruise, 'So was it?'

'Um yes and you are so lucky she didn't see that bruise! Minako what happened, please tell us!' pleaded Usagi.

Minako sat down slowly. 'Makoto slapped me. When I said you should be able to have a future you wanted, Crystal Tokyo or no Crystal Tokyo at the 'scouts meeting', pfft, more like the mutineer's…'

Ami moved around to sit next to Minako, gently probing her cheek with gentle fingers. 'Nothing is broken, which is good, but that bruise will take a day to go down. I must say we are very lucky that scouts heal so fast…'

Taiki looked at her. 'You are going to move in with us as well, Minako. We are looking at a house this afternoon.. It has 7 bedrooms 1 for each of us and a spare, each with an ensuite…a lounge area, dining room, kitchen, rumpus room, studio for us, a pool and a beautiful garden that goes all the way around the estate. It is filled with roses, lilacs, tulips, cherry blossoms and almost any other flowers you can think of.'

Minako and Usagi had stars in their eyes. 'Wow…' they muttered.

Ami laughed. 'We'll need to get heaps of furniture. You guys are going to need a bucket load, you sure you can afford it?'

Seiya looked at her funny. 'You realise who you are talking to right? The complete estate only costs around 4 million…state of the art security systems that will help with our scout problem and the furniture won't cost that much. Just make sure you have your colour schemes picked out by the end of the day.' he teased.

The Solar Scouts looked at each other quickly. 'Red, Blue and Orange!' yelled Minako at the same time Usagi yelled 'White, Pink and Gold!' and Ami yelled 'Blues!'

The girls looked at each other and burst into laughter. Seiya and Taiki smiled, even Yaten's lips twitched before got up.

'Where are you going, Yaten?' Taiki questioned.

Yaten smiled. 'I'll go buy the house now; you guys can grab furniture and stuff after school.'

Seiya smiled. 'Go ahead.'

Taiki looked at Seiya. 'It's the middle of school…'

'and he needs time to himself.' Said Seiya quietly, 'he knows to watch out for any scout ambushes, the way he is going he'll basically blast the street in half if they try anything…'

They all smiled as they headed back to class.

Definitely not one of my best chapters but I had to explain it so I can continue…hmmm I'm surprised I actually killed off my character too I didn't even think about it, I was just writing then I read back over it and she had died ;.; I will make it work tho Somehow. Even if I have the potential of crying? Anyway, I understand I didn't put it in here that Usagi, Ami and Minako asked their parents to move in with three hormonal teenage boys, but lets just say they asked/brainwashed them with the Silver Crystal?