POV LIST
(?) Villians / Usagi / Chibi-usa / Usagi / (?) Villians / Michiru / Kaolinite / Chibi-usa / Usagi / Michiru / Usagi
* ACT 19 *
"Still does the Messiah of Silence sleep," the professor said looking at the prone figure laying unconscious upon a throne like chair surrounded by stuffed toys. "If my plan succeeds she shall awaken soon," a voice behind the professor said causing him to turn to see a figure with dark blue hair kept in a ponytail standing their, she wore a lab coat closed and buttoned so you could not see what was below it and strange pair of glasses, the lens over her right eye was small and round like a circle while the lens over her left eye was larger and had a triangle like shape. "Cyprine, last and greatest of the Witches 5," the professor said with a smile. "My thanks for such kind words professor, my plan is flawless, and not even the guardians will interfere," Cyprine said as the professor placed his hands on her shoulders. "I trust your judgment it this Cyprine, all of our hopes now lie with you," the professor said as Cyprine nodded her head her eyes going to Kaolinite's scowling form hidden in the shadows giving the Magus a small smirk of triumph.
"I shall do my best professor," she said bowing before vanishing from the room in a stream of blue energy. "Why, when the professor said he needed my skills as well," Kaolinite said. "Cyprine, you fool, I now know the one who has the greatest pure heart, a pure heart that drew our Messiah of Silence from her slumber, yes, I shall bring the pure heart of that child, with her pure heart shall our Messiah of Silence finally be awakened," Kaolinite said as with a wicked gleam in her eyes she herself vanished from the room in a display of red sparkling energy. "Kaolinite what are you planning," the professor thought to himself having felt the Magus's energy before she had left the room, but he had no time to worry about that as he turned back towards the prone figure slumped in the chair surrounded by toys, knowing that his patience to come into this world and bring the Silence was growing thin.
~ PGSM S ~
"How are you feeling, Chibi-usa," I asked having come up the stairs after hearing the door to the bathroom open to see my future daughter with a content smile on her lips a pink fluffy towel wrapped around her. "I feel better now, Usagi, relaxing in the tub really did help, arigato," she said her cheeks turning a light shade of pink. "I'm glad, but you should head to bed before you get cold," I said the worrisome mother in my coming out causing my future daughter to smile and nod her head. "I really am alright," Chibi-usa said from the door leading into her room. "Because I know you and the other girls will do all you can to save Hotaru-chan," she said and all I could say in reply was, "that's a promise," as Chibi-usa wished me a good night, me doing the same before she went into her room.
"Usagi," my name was whispered from behind me causing me to turn to see her standing their with a worried look in her eyes. "Luna what's wrong," I asked also in a whisper as I walked towards her. "I just got a call from Artemis, the students of Mugen Gakuen Academy are gathering at the school, they seem to be in a trance like state," Luna told me. "Are the other girls already heading their," I asked pulling my Heart Moon Broach from underneath my shirt. "Yea, Minako-chan made all the calls they will meet you their," Luna said as we went down the stairs. "Can you call Mamoru for me," I asked stepping outside. "Hai, and don't worry I'll keep an eye on Chibiusa-chan as well," Luna said. "Arigato," I said before saying, "Moon Cosmic Power, Make-up," allowing the power of my henshin to come over me once again. "Be careful," Luna said, "I will," I replied before dashing off in the direction of Mugen Gakuen.
~ PGSM S ~
"Hotaru-chan," I said a dark void of nothingness around me as I walked. "Chibiusa-chan," I heard my friends voice say causing me to smile only to look up to see my friend tied to a cross by old tattered pieces of rope. "Hotaru," I said tears in my eyes rushing towards my friend only for hands to come out of the darkness and grab her dragging her into it. "Chibi-usa," she said fear in her eyes the last thing leaving my lips was "iie," before I set up in bed realizing that I had just woken from a nightmare that was far to real for my liking. Looking across the room I breathed a sigh of relief to see Luna asleep in the room we shared. I knew deep in my heart what I now had to do, Hotaru was in trouble, I had to return to her home one last time, somehow I felt I would be able to help her if I did. "Don't worry Hotaru-chan, I'm coming," I thought to myself as I silently got dressed before sneaking out of the house never realizing that Mamoru had been up getting a glass of water and seen me, and was now silently following from the shadows to keep me safe as well.
~ PGSM S ~
"Moon, thank goodness," Ami-chan said seeing me first. "We can't stop them from going in," Mako-chan added. "It's like they are in some sort of trance," Rei-chan added as Venus emerged from inside the building. "Oh, Usagi-chan you're here," Minako-chan said looking relieved I was their. "They are gathering around a large statue inside, I think it is suppose to be of an angel of death, because the figure was holding a scythe, but so far nothing else is happening," she said as I nodded suggesting we should all go inside. "Alright, but we should be careful," Minako-chan said. "I couldn't sense any real threat but that whole lobby made me feel uneasy," she said as we all nodded making our way inside.
~ S ~
"It would seem that the guardians have come," a voice whispered in my ear causing me to nod my head, "just as we predicted they would," I replied. "We can not allow them to interfere with the plan," the voice whispered in my ear once again. "And we shall not," I replied snapping my fingers causing the guardians who had entered the lobby and had made their way towards the statue I had created to hold the pure heart crystals surrounding them in a translucent bubble and teleporting them away to a different part of the building. "Students of Mugen Gakuen Academy, I thank you all for coming here," I said appearing in the room. "I am Cyprine, and your pure heart crystals shall insure the resurrection of our Messiah of Silence I said raising my golden rod with a black star pendent at the top into the air causing all the hypnotized students to scream as their pure heart crystals were taken and stored inside of the statue I had created. "Now we should deal with the guardians," the voice whispered in my ear as with a nod I vanished from the room.
~ S ~
"Damn we were to late," Haruka said slamming her fist into a pillar of the large welcoming floor of Mugen Gakuen Academy. "Do you think the princess and her guardians will be ok," I asked causing Haruka to turn towards me. "They will have to be Michiru, right now we have to find a way to destroy that thing, we can not allow the Messiah of Silence to be awakened using these students pure heart crystals," Haruka said looking at the large statue that the woman who had called herself Cyprine had used me only nodding my head as the two of us revealed our bracelets preparing to henshin.
~ PGSM S ~
"So the child was foolish enough to return to this house after all," Kaolinite said seeing Hotaru's friend, the one she had called Chibi-usa standing outside the now empty house. "Ok, Chibi-usa you can do this," Kaolinite heard her say as she took a deep breath. "Don't worry Hotaru-chan, I will save you," she said pulling a broach out from underneath her shirt and yelling the words, "Moon Prism Power, Make-up," transforming into Sailor Chibi-Moon. "The child is a sailor senshi as well, how interesting," Kaolinite said as Sailor Chibi-Moon made her way towards the front door that with a snap of her fingers Kaolinite opened causing Chibi-Moon to jump back having being startled before steadying herself and entering the abandoned home.
~ S ~
Hotaru's home was still empty and felt abandoned but I was not going to give up as I rushed up the stairs, the dream I had, it had been so real, I dashed towards Hotaru's room opening the door, a figure was their standing by her window, but it was not Hotaru-chan. "You," I said bringing my Moonlight Stick to my hands. "Where is Hotaru-chan, what did you do with her," I said pointing the Moonlight Stick towards the red headed woman who simply smiled before vanishing before my eyes. "Got you," I heard her voice from behind me but it was already to late as a blast of energy from her sent me flying out the window and towards the ground below, as I closed my eyes preparing for the impact only for me to feel someone's arms wrap around me holding me close as they instead took the impact. "Tuxedo Kamen," I said looking up to see Mamoru was the one who had caught me.
"So you have a protector it would seem, well that doesn't matter," Kaolinite said forming a red orb of energy in her hands. "Dead Scream," a voice said causing the Magus to turn intercepting the attack sent at her with her own causing a cloud of debris and smoke to fill the air and in the confusion of the blast Mamoru realized far to late that Chibi-usa was no longer in his grasp. "Plu, Tuxedo Kamen," Pluto and Mamoru heard Chibi-usa yell and Tuxedo Kamen realized that during the explosion when Kaolinite's energy met Pluto's his future daughter had been taken from his grasp and was now in the Magus's grasp. "Let her go," Pluto said stepping to my side her staff lowered as Kaolinite only smiled. "You won't attack," she said holding Chibi-usa in front of her like a shield her iron grasp easily holding the unconscious child under her right arm. "Not as long as I hold this child, sayonara," she said vanishing from our sight as red sparkles drifted to the ground as they slowly vanished from view. "Small Lady," Pluto yelled at the same time Tuxedo Kamen said, "Chibi-usa," each blaming themselves for what had happened.
~ PGSM S ~
When the translucent bubble lowered myself and the girls who had surrounded me found ourselves in a spacious but modest office. On the large desk wooden oak desk there was a small name plaque that read Professor Tomoe Souichi. "The sailor guardians, truly this is an honor," a voice said from the large office chair behind the desk that was turned towards the window but swung to face us a young woman with strange glasses one lens small and round the other large and triangular in shape, and dark blue hair setting within it. "I am Cyprine, the last and greatest of the Witches 5, and this," she said extending her left hand as a figure identical to her in every way except she had deep red hair materialized, though in the light of the room it was almost as if you could see right through her. "I am Ptilol, you could call me Cyprine's other half," the figure said in a whispering tone of voice. "Together we shall end you senshi," Cyprine said standing her hand never leaving Ptilol's as the two had intertwined their fingers.
"You can try," Venus said sharing a look with Mars who had nodded making a familiar meditative pose with her hand as Venus brought out her red and golden blade. "Fire Soul," "Venus Wink Chain Sword," the two yelled as one sending their attacks towards Cyprine and Ptilol who didn't even try to move as instead they simply raised their intertwined hands stopping the two attacks in their tracks before saying as one, "go," sending the attacks back towards us and only because of training were we able to avoid being hurt badly as the combined attacks exploded around us sending us flying. "Is that the best you can do," Cyprine said, "Viluy, Tellu, Mimete, Eudial, Kaolinite-sama, how could any of them fall to you," Ptilol added a smirk coming across her lips as the five of us regrouped sharing a look. "Round two," Jupiter said as Mercury yelled "Mercury Aqua Mist," changing the attack as she had once before against black lady to make it like a thick fog.
"Do you really think this will help you," Cyprine said. "Sparkling Wide Pressure," "Burning Mandala," Jupiter said her attack flying with amazing speed towards Cyprine as Mars attack moved with the same speed towards Ptilol the two twins raised their hands this time forming a shield around them, but when the shield lowered Mako-chan hit Cyprine in the back of the head sending her to the ground. "You," she said chasing after Jupiter. "No, Cyprine," Ptilol said seeming even more translucent than she had though once Rei-chan hit her in the middle the red haired girl was chasing her. "Fool feel your own power," Cyprine yelled sending the energy of Jupiter's attack back towards her at the same time that Ptilol did the same to Mars but the two simply smiled as Ami-chan grabbed onto Mako-chan at the same time that Minako-chan grabbed Rei the two of them moving the two out of the way as the fog cleared and Cyprine and Ptilol realized to late that the attacks they had sent were now heading straight for one another. "Cyprine," "Ptilol," the two said as the attacks struck destroying the two in a spectacular explosion that busted the windows out of the sky high office room.
"What is that," Mako-chan asked pointing towards what could only be described as a rip in the sky that seemed to lead into a dark and well quite frankly spooky laboratory. "Whatever it is I feel a large amount of evil coming from it," Rei-chan said looking into the space. "This could lead us to the enemy," Minako-chan said, "so we should go in," I said as Minako nodded so after taking a steadying breath to calm ourselves we all stepped into the sub space pocket ready to face whatever may come.
~ S ~
"So you finally show yourself for what you truly are Tomoe Souichi," Haruka said from beside me. "Whatever it is you may have had planed it has failed, we have destroyed the statue holding the pure heart crystals of the students of Mugen Gakuen Academy," I added stepping next to my partner. "They are safe and the explosion opened up a rip in reality that led us here to this sub space," Haruka added as Souichi only laughed as Kaolinite appeared at his side the lights of the darkened room brightening to show the unconscious form of Tomoe Hotaru setting in a familiar chair but what made both mine and Haruka's eyes widen was the unconscious form laying on a stone slab at the bottom of the steps so close to the Messiah of Silence. "Ah Sailor Uranus, and Sailor Neptune," the professor said with a wicked smile. "Yes, you are right Cyprine failed me, but you Kaolinite, you, you brought me a pure heart crystal far more precious than all of those students combined," the professor said as Kaolinite her cheeks actually blushing though just barely said nothing as she lowered her head in a bow. "It was an honor, professor," she said as the sounds of boots and high heals filled the air and myself and Haruka found ourselves in the company of the other Sailor Guardians and our princess.
"Chibi-usa," the princess yelled making to rush towards her future daughter but it was not myself or Haruka who stopped her, as Venus had wrapped her hand tightly around the princess's gloved wrist. "see those strange pillars," I heard Mars whisper to her. "They form a barrier, of very dark energy," Venus added as our princess sadly nodded her head though she was at least no longer trying to rush to the little one's aid. "Ah so you noticed it," Professor Tomoe said with a dark smile. "A pity, but I didn't realize this event would have such an audience. Oh great Messiah of Silence, awaken now and claim this the purest of pure hearts as your own," the professor said as Tomoe Hotaru's eyes slowly began to open a dark purple, almost black energy surrounding her body. "No, stop this, she is your daughter, don't you love her," the princess yelled but Jupiter who Venus had given a look was easily holding her in place as the princess struggled helplessly against the strongest of her guardians.
"Love, I don't know what you mean," the professor said turning away from us all causing my eyes to widen as I stopped struggling from within Mako-chan's grasp and watched helplessly as the dark energy surrounding Hotaru formed the shape of an arm that reached towards the unconscious form of Sailor Chibi-Moon the hand going into her chest causing my future daughter's eyes to open. "Hotaru-chan," she said her eyes glassy as she smiled at the older girl. "I'm so glad you're ok," Chibi-usa said her voice weak before the hand within her chest came out bringing Chibi-usa's heart crystal with it, causing her henshin to fade as her head fell lifelessly to the side, her skin turning pale as death. "At last," a rasping voice so unlike the one full of energy and wisdom said from Hotaru's lips as the pure heart crystal went within her. "No," Uranus said falling to her hands and knees. "Saturn, will," Neptune added but was silenced when Hotaru began to change, but not into a guardian.
Hotaru became older, appearing to be somewhere between sixteen to eighteen years old, her black hair became so long that it almost fell to the floor, and the school uniform she had been wearing was replaced by a dark purple dress held on by shining silver pearls, the fabric of the dress sparkling like stars within the night sky. "You, you are not Sailor Saturn," Ami-chan said as the figure who had a dark black star upon her forehead simply smiled. "No, I am not," she said in that dark rasping voice. "I am Mistress 9, harbinger to our true ruler, Master Pharaoh 90, the Messiah of Silence," she said bowing as her cold lifeless deep black eyes looked towards Kaolinite. "You have served us well Kaolinite, but your skills are no longer required,' she said raising her arm, a wave of energy slamming into the Magus who flew into the barrier formed by the strange pillars erected around them, her crystalline cane shattering as her body slowly vanished, the last words leaving her lips being, "professor, why," as she vanished the fringed graying black dress she had worn burning as it fell to the ground.
"Let us take our leave," Mistress 9 said to the professor who bowed to her only replying, "hai," as the two raised in the air and vanished the energy being used sending the pillars to the ground and not even thinking I easily slipped out of Mako-chan's grasp and grabbed the lifeless Chibi-usa into my arms. "We have to get out of here this entire sub-space is collapsing," Uranus said and knowing she was right we simply nodded our heads as we rushed to make our way out of the building. "What about all the people," Ami-asked but Uranus said, "the prince, Shitennou and Pluto got them out after we saved them, come on," she said as we all rushed out of the building were a somber Mamoru and Setsuna-san who was being supported by Kunzite stood it seemed that the Shitennou's presence was the only thing keeping her on her feet. "Mamoru, Mamoru, she, Chibi-usa isn't breathing," I said near hysterical as I neared him an explosion from Mugan Gakuen Academy behind us destroying top part of the building and busting out the windows of what was left. "Chibi-usa he said laying his gloved hand on her chest a golden glow emitting from him that causing Chibi-usa to gasp, before she began breathing again, though just barely.
"Prince, your energy can keep her stable, but without her pure heart crystal," Michiru said not able to finish the sentence as tears fell from her eyes as Haruka went to her, the smaller of the two going willingly into the warmth of her partner. "Usagi, I've got her," Mamoru tenderly said to me and I nodded allowing him to take Chibi-usa into his arms the golden glow keeping her breathing, even though it was very shallow. "We must end this, before," Minako-chan said looking towards Chibi-usa. "Lets head for our home," Mamoru said. "If we are truly going to do this, we need to make a plan," Mamoru said as we all nodded. "Princess, Prince, we must prepare as well," Setsuna-san said looking up for a moment at Kunzite as if thanking him. "Master, I wish to stand with the guardians of the outer solar system for this," he said to Mamoru who simply gave the most powerful of his Shitennou a strange look before with a small smile he nodded his head.
"Do not forget were your loyalties lie Kunzite," Zoicite said to the general who first looked at Setsuna and then his fellow Shitennou as he replied. "This is a form of loyalty, Zoicite, Master, princess," he said helping Setsuna walk as the two of them followed Haruka and Michiru as myself and the others followed Mamoru who was holding Chibi-usa back to our home.
~ S ~
"I wish I could be their at your side Usagi," Mamoru said to me from the couch were he was setting so that both himself and the child in his arms would be comfortable. "You will be with me, here," I said putting a hand over my heart causing Mamoru to smile. "Zoicite, Nephrite, Jadeite, I ask that you protect my wife and her guardians be their for her and them sense I can not," Mamoru asked of his Shitennou who only bowed. "It will be an honor," Jadeite said. "I have something worth protecting as well," Nephrite said taking a step closer to Ami-chan putting his arm around her shoulder and making her blush. "So I know how you feel," he added looking down at Ami who only smiled as she leaned into his warmth. "I shall never once leave the princess's side, master," Zoicite said coming to stand next to me.
"Be careful, all of you," Artemis said from the loveseat as Luna who was at his side with a sleeping baby Chibi-usa in her arms added, "and come back to us," as we all nodded and after sharing one last kiss with Mamoru we were gone heading back towards Mugan Gakuen Academy to face whatever fate destiny may hand us this day.
Note:
And so ends Act 19. I am not sure how clearly it came across in the story so I will say it more clearly here. If you couldn't tell Ptilol, Cyprine's other half as she called herself wasn't truly real. Ptilol was like Cyprine's inner self, something that because of Cyprine's power as the greatest of the Witches 5 the young woman could actually manifest in the form you saw in the office battle were Cyprine and Ptilol were destroyed by the "inners" use of some amazing teamwork.
Well I hope that clears things up, about the twins, Cyprine and Ptilol. And at last I can say the end shall soon commence as the final battle between the Sailor Guardians and The Death Busters begins next act, but not to worry because there is still much to be told before all is said and done.
So till next act;
I remain a . . .
KuRSeofTime