Chapter 25: The Beast

"Heh, this is your end, Sailor Mercury!" Berthier's hand transformed into a long iced spike aimed at the trapped Eternal Sailor Mercury.

Frantically, the blue haired senshi struggles to escape the hold but it was no use, she turns her sapphire frightened eyes towards the pale woman that was coming towards her at full speed.

"Mercury!" Eternal Jupiter cries even as she herself was caught in another attack and screams.

"Submarine Violin Tide!"

"Garnet Ball!"

"Glaive Surprise!"

"Space- Turbulence!"

"Pink Sugar Heart- Attack!"

The Ayakashi Sisters didn't know what hit them as each of them were picked off the Inner court and then struck with a blinding pink light that followed. They fell into a heap, Cooan was out cold, but the others only groan in pain trying to move.

"Thanks." Eternal Mars breathes a bit getting up, " They're way stronger then before."

"Thank us later." Eternal Uranus said looking at the women, "We're not done yet."

"Well, that hurt.." Calaveras mutters getting up but her eyes widen a bit at the sight of Cooan still out. "Cooan? Cooan!"

"She's just out cold." Bertheir said but gets up shakily, "Always knew she was such a weakling."

"It's their fault. Who invited them to this?" Petz glares at the group, "Come sisters, we'll defeat them once and for all!"

"We don't want to kill you, but we will if you leave us no choice!" Eternal Saturn announced, "Please, let go of the darkness. It'll do you no good!"

"Ugh, this is making me SICK!" Calaveras attacks using her multitude of whips that held explosive energy sending them towards the senshi.

"Me too!" Bertheir added her icy spikes to the mix, launching them at them.

"Silent Wall!" Eternal Saturn held up her Glaive, trying to fend off most of the attacks, but the combination was almost too much for her.

"Chronos Typhoon!"

"Pin-"

"No, Small Lady." Pluto gritted her teeth keeping her eyes focused on the energy sailing towards the Ayakashi Sisters. "You must help Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Kamen. You have to help save your brother."

"But.." Chibi Moon looked torn between wanting to help them and wanting to help her family. "Are you sure?"

"I am. Now go."

"Hm." She nods and took off towards where Eternal Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Kamen were battling Hyacinth.

Hyacinth held in his hands a crystallized sword, flying at both Eternal Moon and Tuxedo Kamen like a vengeful demon as he swung it . Trying to hurt or kill them both.

Tuxedo Kamen held his cane, much like he would a sword, and fought back just as intensely as the man dealt out. Only problem for Hyacinth was that he didn't have as much experience as the caped tuxedo hero.

Hyacinth jabs the sword at him, causing the man to turn-barely missing him by precious few centimeters- before turning to attack Sailor Moon in the same breath.

"Pink Sugar Heart- Attack!"

He hadn't expected that as the powerful pink beam hits him, causing him to stumble back and fall onto one knee breathing hard.

"Chibimoon!" Eternal Moon looks over at her so relieved to see her and moves to hug the little girl. "You're alright!"

Chibimoon froze for a moment unsure what to say. After all, her hero was there and hugging her like she knew her. The pink haired girl blushes furiously and smiles a little, "Hm. I came to help you!"

"Be careful." Tuxedo Kamen said breathing hard, "He's very strong. It'll take all of us together to defeat him."

"Darius..." Chibimoon looks towards her brother with such sadness in her eyes that she was close to tears actually. He looked as if he was in so much pain...

Eternal Sailor Moon smiles a bit at her, " We'll help him soon enough."

He was clutching the side of his head with one hand but hadn't let go of the crystal sword, breathing heavily as he glares at them. He knew it. Just like before. Just like them to so willingly accept her but never him. Never the spare.

It was enough to make him sick. He moves to lift the sword, rage pumping through him but he felt the pain sharpen and he cries out. Unable to stop it as his entire body convulsed making him drop the sword. It was so painful, something inside him was twisting, shifting changing all together that he held himself.

He could hold back the tears that flowed freely as a response to the pain. "Make.. it.. stop.." His trembling lips could barely make out the words between the clenched teeth.

"Darius!" Chibimoon looked horrified by what she was witnessing and clung to Eternal Moon's hand. "What's happening to him? Why-?"

"I don't know." The blonde woman replied, transfixed but wearing a similar expression.

"Heh, so, you're finally fit." The image of the cloaked figure appears behind the young man. "Took long enough. Now, give yourself over to me, Hyacinth. They do not want you, they don't need you like I do. Your power and youthful body will serve us well. Come...Prince.."

"Wiseman." If there was ever a look that could be called complete 'hate' the one Eternal Moon was giving the cloaked figure came very very close. "Stay away from him! He's not yours to use!"

The dark figure chuckled, "Oh? Is that what you think? He came so willingly before. Given up everything you've ever taught him to be come what he is today."

Hyacinth fell over, something strange was happening to his body. His hands were shifting and changing into something claw like that looked utterly painful. They seemingly broke against the crystal floor, elongated fixing itself into an almost bird like claw.

"What in the world..." Tuxedo Kamen couldn't believe his eyes. What was he turning into? He frowns seeing the cornet flash again before looking over at Eternal Sailor Moon and Chibimoon. "That silver cornet he's wearing. That must be the link!"

Chibimoon nods, though she had never seen such a thing before, she held her wand in her hand, "If we break it, then he'll be ok."

"Like you can do that?" Wiseman chuckles deeply, "Soon he'll be nothing more then another vessel. I grow tired of this one."

Hyacinth's screams of agony filled the room as the shirt suddenly rips and out of his now bloody back came the wings full black feathers that shook off the small patches of skin and blood it had came out with.

Hyacinth, himself, was beyond pain but his body couldn't stop reacting. He couldn't stop the screams or do anything as the transformation was taken place and his voice became strange. Sounding as if two people were talking at once.

"We need a clear shot." Eternal Moon ignores Wiseman's words. Soon, they'll get rid of that evil man! "Right now if we throw everything at him- he'll seriously get hurt more then before."

"But.." Chibimoon wanted to look away. She wanted to run to her Mommy and hide until her Daddy told her it was over and everything was alright. But she couldn't. She couldn't because she couldn't look away.

Gasping for air, Hyacinth's trembling hand reaches out to Wiseman, his blue eyes turning into a strange purple color that was bleeding into red slowly as he looks up at him.

"What.. have.. you..done?" Then collapsed again as another wave of pain hits him and his legs were changing ripping out of the shoes he wore as the pants also became torn with the expansion of it. "Wha...?"

"Hmph, stupid boy." Wise man didn't even turn his head towards him.

She couldn't watch any more! She just couldn't and raises her wand, "Pink sugar Heart- Attack!"

The pink beam sails through the air towards the blonde- now turning black- man's head aimed for the cornet, but a barrier unexpectedly reflected the pink power causing it to sail off and nearly hitting one of their own still fighting the powered up Ayakashi sisters.

"Watch it!" Eternal Mars breathes, gods will this never end? But it seemed that the women were running out of steam. That was good. "Alright, we can hit them together!"

"Hm." Eternal Mercury nods, "One Sailor Attack should be able to end it."

Eternal Jupiter threw up her hands, "And I was so hoping to not do this."

"We have to finish this and help the Prince and Princess." Eternal Uranus casts a cautionary look over, "They look like they'll be in some real trouble."

"Alright, together now!" Eternal Venus cries summoning her powers as her friends did the same.

"What..what are they doing?" Cooan's eyes widen, she had woken up sometime during the fight to help her sisters out again. She was hurt, bleeding and felt like she couldn't do any more.

"I don't know.." Calaveras held Petz, who was knocked unconscious for now. "I-"

"Sailor Planet- Attack!"

It was enough that the Ayakashi Sisters scream before they died , engulfed within the light of the combination attack.

The Senshi were exhausted but turn their attentions to the twisted monster that Hyacinth had become.

The transformation was complete-at least it seems so as the creature got to it's feet unsteadily. Black in appearance, it looked much like someone had taken different parts of different animals and put them in the blender and he was the result. With a humanish face where only the silver cornet could be seen glinting among the now black hairs of his head held in place by spiral horns that jutted out from his head. His entire torso was as lean as that of a wolfhound and a narrow waist connected to what looked like to be legs of panther with a tail like a whip-similar to a lizard's but the spikes on it were all alligator.

"What.. the hell-?" Eternal Uranus steps back, her face frozen for a moment, "What is that?"

She, like the others, had been harden by what the enemy threw at them before but this... This was something else entirely different! The power coming off that creature was in waves and oppressive enough that it made her and other feel sick.

Eternal Moon swallows and for the first time she wonders if she could save this boy that was her future son.

The Creature, that was once Hyacinth, steps forward and roars loudly enough that the walls shook with the force of it. Sightless eyes peered down at them, for he was twice the size of what he had been, and snarls at them with white sharp teeth. His face, like the rest of him was black but had strange red markings that went up to his forehead where the black crescent moon had turned blood red and glowed with an eerie light of it's own.

"Excellent." Wiseman chuckles, "Perfection at it's best. Now go, my creature, destroy them all! Kill the ones that betrayed you!"

Wings outspread, he roars again before taking off. The Sailor Senshi braced themselves for battle, though not knowing what would happen.

He rose as high as he could before diving with claws outstretched heading straight for the princesses and the prince.

Eternal Moon could do nothing more then push Chibimoon down and shielded her, feeling someone else was also protecting her as well, she could only glance for a mere second at her future husband with absolute fear in her eyes before squeezing them tight waiting for the inevitable pain to come.