Artemis fell to the ground, blood spewing out.

"Artemis!" the others call.

Holly ran to Artemis, and lifts up his blood-covered body. Artemis skin melts away from her body. Holly drops her in horror. "Noooo!" she screams.

"Artemis!" yells Minerva.

"Oh my..." thinks Artemis Sr. "Oh my god..."

"This!" yells Butler. "This is a nightmare!"

Xxx

"A nightmare!?" thinks Artemis. "What happened?" He looks around and sees the dead bodies of all the others. "Everyone!? Father!? Mother?! Beckett!? Myles!?" His rotting body dripped blood on his suit. "Oh no... This... is a nightmare...!"

"Hahaha!" laughs the immense Zia, towering over the crystal-covered city. "This planet forever belongs to the New Moon. Weak ones, forever become vagabonds, inside the darkness and nightmares of the new moon!"

"Look!" said Artemis, pointing to the monitor in the command room below Crown Game Center. "Earth is being engulfed in darkness! At this rate, the surface will give way and the Dreaming's crystal barrier will be broken! The surface will be drawn into that new moon!"

"Nobody's responding, Arty!" says Beckett, wearing his headset.

"Oh no!" thinks Myles. "Was everyone... By the New Moon..."

Beckett stares into the monitor. "Earth is..."

"I'm going to the Dead Moon Circus!" Myles says.

"Wait! Myles!" calls Beckett.

Myles stops.

"Let's stay on alert here for a while."

"The others won't lose to this!" says Artemis. "We believe in them! They will surely protect this planet!"

He slaps awake Holly and Butler.

"Get a hold of yourselves!" Artemis says. "These are the enemies' nightmares!"

"Artemis!" says Holly, holding her red cheek.

"Artemis!?" say the others, seeing him alive.

"Look!" Artemis shouts.

"Zia!"

"Be strong!" Artemis says. "Do you want to hand this planet over to them!? Defeat them and protect this planet!"

"Artemis...!" think the three outer soldiers as they look at Artemis. "He broke through that nightmare with his own strength...!?"

Artemis remembered Kaguya. "Oh... That's right... I just swore to you that I would forever defend the happiness of the people on this planet. And that wasn't a dream. Defending this planet has always been our reality. To nightmares... To our own dreams... We can't give in to such things! We can't give in!"

"Right," thinks Artemis Sr. "Artemis, our everything... Our life and our death, our despair and our hope, and our dreams, forever shining, lie with you." She thrusts her hand into the air. "Artemis!" He shouts. "Whatever happens, we will protect you!"

The eight join hands as they kneel in a circle, and power shoots into the air.

It strikes Zia, knocking him from the sky, and he falls to the ground. "G- God damnit...!" he says. He flies back up, disappearing into the circus big top.

The others run to it.

Butler and Holly fired at the big top.

A hole blasts open in the tent.

"There!" says Minerva, looking through her visor.

They rush in after Zia. Zia places his hand against the black mirror, pushing it in. He moves through it. "Into the mirror!?"

Artemis follows him, running through the mirror.

"Artemis!?"

Holly rushes after her, and slams against the hard glass of the mirror.

Artemis sees a black figure sitting among broken glass. The woman has long, long dark hair, falling to the floor. Three joined crescent moons adorn her forehead.

"This place!?" Artemis thinks. "That woman!?"

"Heh heh heh..." the woman says. "Such power! Allowing you to make it in here. At last, the time has come for the brilliant, unmatched power of that planet to belong to me, Queen Bandiane. Heh heh heh."

"Queen... Bandiane!?"

Artemis looks around. "I feel it... The brilliant power of the planet... The brilliant power of the planet's protection! From where!?" She looks at the ground. "Those four stones... and shards of glass!? Beckett! Myles!"

Beckett and Myles wake up in glass prisons. "Where are we!?" they think.

"Beckett! Myles! You're in there!?"

"Artemis!"

Bandiane laughs as she shoots glass at Artemis. The glass forms a wall, surrounding Artemis.

"Beckett! Myles!" He grabbed his sword and attacked The glass around him shatters, and Beckett and Myles are freed. "Beckett! Myles!"

"Damn you!" shouts Bandiane.

Artemis, Myles, and Beckett attacked. Glass shatters, leaving a wavering image of Bandiane.

Holly and Artemis Sr pound on the solid mirror. "Artemis!"

"Everyone!? I saved Beckett and Myles! Break the mirror!"

Minerva tried to shatter the mirror.

"Let me!" says Juliet. She runs forward and throws her fist into the mirror.

Bandiane's face cracks. Her image wavers and breaks apart.

"Ohhh!" says Zia. "The beautiful New Moon's Queen Bandiane will not die! She will not die yet!" He flies into the blackness. "Next time we will take everything, and rule space!"

Myles kneels on the ground and picks up the four stones, staring at them.

"Myles!?"

The room begins to crumble around them. They run and jump at the mirror, breaking through to the other side, rejoining the others.

"Artemis!"

The eleven of them stand in the crystal-covered street and stare into the sky, where the winged ship of the New Moon spews spirits into space and slowly shrinks.

It drops to the ground at Artemis' feet.

"Artemis! Beckett! Myles! You're safe!"

They look around at the empty street.

"Has the New Moon Circus... disappeared?" says Angeline.

"There's no change in the city or the atmosphere," says Artemis Sr.

"Where did they disappear to!?" says Minerva.

"Oh no!" says Artemis. "The Dreaming!?"

"The Dreaming's in danger!" He says to the others. "We're going to Dreaming! Guard the surface!"

"We're going too!"

"No," Artemis says. "Wait here. I have to find Kaguya. I'm going to the Dreaming!"

They all join hands and descend through the blackness to the decrepit land of the Dreaming. Across the calm lake stands the old shrine, where two women wait on the steps.

"We have been waiting," says one.

"We are the maidens who serve this shrine," says the other.

"Kaguya..." says Artemis.

"This way."

The women lead them to the back, where Kaguya lies in a large cage.

"Kaguya!"

"Artemis!" says the woman. "Don't touch the cage! It's dangerous."

"Kaguya!" shouts Artemis. "Kaguya! Why won't you answer me? Wake up!"

"Kaguya used all of her power," says Artemis, "to protect the city and its people from the enemies. And then, her power gave out."

"Did he die?" Artemis asks. "It can't be. It can't be! Kaguya! Answer me! Kaguya!" The small bell dropped to the ground. He picks it up, tears in her eyes. "She not dead," he says. "Kaguya isn't dead yet! Her power hasn't given out! Because I, and the Dreaming, and Earth are alive!"

Holly's head jerks up. "An evil spirit!?" she thinks. "Is somebody, somewhere, watching us!?"

"Yes," says Juliet. "The enemies aren't dead yet, either. Our fight isn't over yet!"

They hear a scream.

Artemis turns and looks into the sky, and sees the ship flying toward them. "The New Moon's ship...!" A black mirror appears, and Zia winged eyeball flies toward it. "That mirror!" The image of the dark woman appears inside it. "Queen Bandiane...!?"