Hello! It's me again. So here's Chapter 18.

A few notes to remind the readers though:

-Haruka is fighting in the future, so the Sailor soldiers in this chapter (except Uranus (of course), Pluto, Saturn and Chibi-moon) are all the future kids of the senshi.

So anyway! Enjoy Chapter 18.

Chapter 18: Dark Rumors

The shrill cackling of the twin-monsters pierced through the ears of the younger senshi, causing some of them to cup their hands over their ears. Enraged at the sound, a now fully grown Sailor Mars made a mad dash toward the pair, calling out her attack.

"Burning Madala!"

It was a miss. The twin-monsters were too fast, their long legs rotating about like bicycles on the pavement of future Tokyo, their white hair, looking much like shredded paper, dancing about in the breeze they created, as if taunting their opponents. The cackling continued, much to the annoyance of the senshi.

"Let's get this done with already! That laughter beats Venus!" Sailor Chibi-moon exclaimed, eliciting a complaint on the heiress senshi of love. "Heey, you're the one to talk," Sailor Venus whined, still cupping her hands over her own ears. Suddenly, the twin-monsters lashed their whips at the two bickering senshi, causing both to cry out as they tried to avoid being hit.

Sailor Jupiter clenched her fists, running toward one twin, swinging her fists toward it several times, missing every time, except once, causing the monster to tumble backward, away from its sister, shrieking garbled phrases as it did. Pluto then raised her garnet rod, lighting it up, and maneuvering the weapon calmly, she barely whispered her attack in that low, chilling voice.

"Dead Scream."

A flash of magenta, a swirl of gray clouds forming into a ball hurled toward the distracted twin. The creature started cackling once again, but slowly, her laughter turned to a shrill scream, as she dissolved into a pool of liquid, before evaporating instantly. Its twin sister, seeing the end of her duplicate, started dashing away, masterly lashing her whip behind her as she did, keeping the senshi at a distance as they ran after her.

"Uranus!" Mercury cried out, lagging behind Vesta.

With simper of acknowledgement and a sided smile, the senshi of the sky increased her pace, going ahead of the creature. Finally, she was actually rushing to meet the monster, her space sword gleaming from the side as she held it out. The creature however, lashed her whip toward the tall senshi's direction. The wind senshi started skipping backward, barely avoiding each whiplash.

"Venus Love Me Chain!"

A golden band of hearts appeared between Uranus and the creature, interlinking with hook of the monster's whip. Taking this opportunity to encage the monster, Venus pulled the chain with both her hands. The monster was strong however, pulling the warrior of love and beauty down.

"Venus!" Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and a few others came to help her, pulling the chain as well to keep the monster in place. Younger Neptune rushed toward the remaining creature and held her mirror against its sickly eyes, blinding it momentarily. As she passed the monster, she gave a slight nod toward the senshi of the sky, who nodded back in acknowledgement.

"Space Turbulence!"

Beams of energy were thrown toward the monster, making it shriek in pain before finally dissolving into a cloud of dust. They could barely see, and Uranus being a little distance from the others, could not even see the shadowsof the younger generation of senshi.

"So you are the wildcard. Aside from Saturn and Pluto that is." The voice was low, mocking, and female.

"You already know that, now show yourself!" Uranus commanded in a strong voice. Not again! Uranus could not even hear her companions. She felt cold and completely alone.

"Ah? Then what? I know you wouldn't even dare kill me, because you think I know something you don't."

The senshi of the sky blinked, her grip on the space sword tightened.

This…mysterious voice, this creature that seems to be always bothering her the past few times she went to the future, really does seem to know something. And every time she returns to her present, the seed of curiosity grows. She knew she was not supposed to give in to those teasing remarks, yet she knew, if she didn't, she would never know what is there in her future.

"Don't you ever wonder why you always had to travel here? Don't you ever feel quite alone in all this?" the woman, creature, or whatever it is started speaking again, making the tall senshi snap out of her thoughts.

"They all care, so just fight me and quit talking. Don't touch them." There was a slight quiver in her voice as she said that. It was true.

But some decisions had to be made.

"Oh? They all care? Why is it then that you're never told?"

There was a long silence. This was the longest time that she had in that cloud, with that mysterious familiar voice. The coldness started chilling her through every bone, making her shudder.

"Told what?" her voice was unsure this time.

"Oh I don't know." There was fake innocence in that voice as it started to fade. The cloud was quickly disappearing. Uranus gasped, searching all around her. For the first time, she didn't want that cloud to go away. A garnet orb started whooshing through the clouds, breaking it and finally, she could see Pluto's figure, along with the others. Uranus kept her sword, but took something out as the cloud cleared away. Holding on to a small item, she gazed into Pluto's eyes with tears in her green ones. Magenta eyes widened as Pluto made her way toward the tall blonde, lifting her garnet rod and frantically speaking out a few phrases.

"I'm sorry Pluto," Haruka whispered with a sad smile on her face as she held the key out.

"Haruka no!" Pluto screamed out, but it was too late. The senshi of the sky disappeared in a blinding light, Pluto almost quickly following right after. The other senshi looked on, dumbfounded, a worried glaze over everyone's eyes.

"Haruka-papa…" Saturn whispered, detransforming, breaking down into tears into Neptune's arms. Neptune quickly detransformed and held Hotaru by the shoulders, looking worriedly into Chibi-moon's eyes.

"Please do something," Namiko pleaded, as tears started streaming down her eyes as well.

Chibi-moon shrank back, unable to figure out what she needed to do at the moment. Puu was out running after Uranus, and some things really can't be stopped.

Chapter finished. Will be uploading a new one soon. Please read and review, thanks!