HEMORRHAGE: The Final Battle
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Previously in Hemorrhage: Usagi has her blood taken and examined, which stats show that a venom
was some how forced into her body to make her go out of control and turn against the Senshi. Minako
stared out at the last clear night sky and thought about the next day, the day when hell would
break lose.

This chapter is Rated R for violence and language.

Thanx everyone for all the good reviews! It has influenced me to write more and better. I am
expecting this fanfiction to have many chapters becuase there will be so much going on. But as
the chapters continue, the more exciting and tempting it gets! I promise! I'm aslo going to try
to find the time to right longer chapters! And I would REALLY appreciate it if you could leave a
review! Thanx again -Kasey

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NOTE: I do not own Sailor Moon or anything related to Sailor Moon.

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Chapter 5
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Daybreak finally arrived. I didn't have one bit of sleep but the day was going to be too
exhilarating anyway. Everyone was supposed to think about ways we could actually let people
detect that there is something out there for us to dispose of, human or non-human. I already knew
that the first thing to do was take the blood examples to the CDC (Center of Disease Control) and
see if our calculation was precise. I turned over to read the clock which read 5:30 A.M. I better
go get Artemis up so we can have an early start. Compelling my self, I got out of the bed and made
my way across the hall to his bedroom. I could only see a bundle of covers on the bed. As I
neared, the soft, sleek blond of his hair that lay flippantly about his pillow, I whispered his name
questionably but all I got in reply was a grouse. I couldn't keep my eyes off his incandescent face
and the smirk that formed. I didn't feel like wakening him, not for a day of hell. He looked so
passive and quiet in his innate delusion. I knew I had to, though. Right now until the war is over,
I can't be pulled into this hidden remorse.
"Artemis?" I shook him dimly hoping he would wake up so I wouldn't have to suffer by watching
him sleep so peacefully. He groaned but still didn't crack an eye open so I now started to shake
him brusquely.
"Whhaaaatt?" He called out, finally opening an eye. "Mina." He sighed and looked at the time.
"What? It's early." He nudged my hands off his shoulders and put the pillow over his head.
"Artemis, get up." I yanked the pillow off of him and threw it on the floor. "We need to
get an early start and get this blood taken in." He looked up, his eyes distended and a crimson
color. He moaned again and stepped out of bed, rubbing his eyes. I couldn't help but smile at his
shabby hair. "Get dressed." I told him as I left the room. I re-entered my space and pulled the covers
up over the pile of sheets. I felt too worn out to fix my bed up.
"Minako." Artemis sauntered in, napping down his hair. "I left-" He stopped a few inches from
my trash can. Oh no, I thought to myself in a panic. He tilted sideways to get a better view of
the inside. I gripped my upper part of my arm, just thinking about what will happen next made me
timid. He reached in and removed a long strip of towel with red stains on it. I knew those stains;
he knew those stains. The stains of my blameworthy blood.
"Art-" He cut me off with a horrifying stare. "I...I can explain!"
"Good, I'd like to hear it." He tossed down the towel like it was contaminated, which it was
with my guilt. I couldn't think of anything to say right then. As I began to open my mouth to spill
out a lie, he kicked the trashcan across the floor and the screech of the metal gliding across the
wooden floor was raucous. "You did it again." He garbled. "You are a cutter again, Mina. Don't try
to cover up for it."
All I could do was glare at the ground as a tear strolled down my cheek uncontrollably.
"I'm sorry." I knew the apology didn't give a damn to him. He walked up to me, angry and frustrated.
"We are about to go into war and you are damaging yourself! What do you think will happen
if you are lead up to protect the Earth of a plague when you can't even protect yourself?!" He spat
in my face as if he was my own father furious with me for having sex or doing the dip at an
illegal age. "What the fuck will happen?"
His temper made me even more offended. I had upset my guardian, the person who counts on
me the most and cares for me the most. Tears began to roll even more without me having to blink
them out of my eyes. He stomped off down the hall to get ready for the CDC. I managed to control
myself so I could call the others.

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Only Artemis, Rei, and I went to the CDC to take the blood. They let it in as an emergency
when we told them that this could indicate a new substance. Artemis went in and left us in the car
to wait on him. There was a dead silence. The only sound was the engine of a Miata beside us being
cut off. I turned around from the passenger seat to face Rei who was staring out the window with an
agonizing look on her pastel face.
Rei." I muttered, knowing she probably wouldn't turn away from the window, watching the last
sun- drenched day pass away, second by second. She raised an eyebrow, still gazing outside. "So,
have you been thinking about what's going to happen?" I questioned, hoping she wouldn't get offended
by it but this is what we came for anyway was to find out what would become of it.
"Yeah and what will happen to you." She snarled, offending me. Artemis must have gotten to her
when he went to greet her at the Hino Temple. I just kind of lowered my eyebrows in disgust and
turned back in front to see Artemis walking out of the CDC. I glared at the clock and it had been 20
minutes already. His eyes were earnest and taut. He wrenched the car door open and slammed it shut.
I could see Rei turn her head towards him hoping to get an explanation about the whole thing.
"They are going to contact the President as soon as possible." I gaped down at the floor as
we drove off without another word. When we reached the Hino Temple, Mako and Ami were greeting us.
I jumped out of the small worn down automobile and ran up to them.
"Hey!" They said at once. "What kind of information did you find out?" I panted before I
could answer.
"I don't know. You would have to get the facts from Arty." I pointed in his direction just
in time to see him stepping out of the car. Before they could go greet him, I responded again.
"They are going to contact the President." Ami and Mako stopped, exchanged expressions, and then
gawked at me, perhaps thinking it was unwise and fanatical like I was.
"Artemis!" Ami called out as he made his way slowly and patiently up the temple stairs;
following behind was Rei. "The President?!"
"We have to tell everyone about this?!" Mako frantically ran up to him. "But it would just
make things worst."
Artemis kept quiet. We all stood around him, waiting for our solutions. "Go inside. We'll
converse about it in there." When we all got seated around the colossal library the temple owned,
I put my hand on his thigh to let us know what is going to happen, what our plan to find out what
this is and how to conquer it. After gazing away at all the books and articles laying around, he
took a deep breath. None of us could even talk because we were so impatient. "Well, they don't
know what the chemical is, that's for sure. That is why they are going to get in contact with the
President."
"But why do we have to expose all this? It will create a massive panic and turn into a huge
massacre!" Ami let out her thoughts.
Another deep breath. "Because people need to know about this new disease before it kills off
everyone." We all questioned the statement he made about 'killing off.' "Look, if people get occupied
by this stuff, they will start killing others." He looked over at me. "Just like Usagi was trying
to do with you." Everyone's tense feelings let out with a long sigh. "Soon, the enemies will notice
their chance to take over. When everyone is going completely insane, the world will be helpless and
will be defeated."
"But that's where we step in." Mako commented.
"Yeah, it is." Artemis' face reddened. "But we will be helpless. Maybe even dead by then."
The answer made me nauseous and sick to the stomach. Now I knew this was when to tell them.
I opened my mouth to speak. "I had this vision..." Instantely, everyone's attention turned
to me. "...that I was walking in what this city would be in the future." From the corner of my eye
I could see Rei's face was getting uptight. "A man walked up to me, just staring into my eyes with
raw flesh hanging off by a filament and he died in front of my eyes." No one spoke, or blinked. "A
girl then ran at me, swearing at me and swinging her fists and that's when I woke up." I met Rei's
eyes. "Could you check on this, Rei?"
"Sure." Her voice was deep and petrified.
I smiled. "I guess we just have to wait now. See what happens."

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HEMORRHAGE
By Kasey West
Copyright 2001