Here's the 10th installment to the story. ^^ Hope you enjoy it. Please R&R... these characters do not belong to me 'cept Chaosis. ^^

~*Desperate Moments Calls for Desperate Actions*~
~Apocalypse of the Silence and Chaos~

"Let me gooooooooooo!" Sailor Moon wailed as she squirmed at the grasp of the dark man, who was now snarling, his arms around the slim body of the princess. Her long hair bobbed as she desperately tried to loosen the strong grip. She spitted, she stomped, she squealed and screeched but he wouldn't budge. "Wait till Mamoru finds out, he'll---"

"Help! Help!" Mercury cried from a short distance. She was being pulled into a computer laptop, its screen turned to a dark hole that would suck the ice senshi whole. She was gritting her teeth and struggling, but she could make no attack.

Jupiter was being chased by what was the puppy, now grown to a size of a tiger with snarling, sharp teeth, dark fur and eyes so piercing, it scared anyone. She was jumping here and there, using her thunder and earth attacks, but the dog was equally determined to bite her down to size.

Fire circled Mars as she desperately tried to get out the ring.

Uranus was too busy trying to outwit a motorcycle.

Pluto was fighting phantoms with her Time Staff.

Everyone was too busy to fixate their concerns to Moon, who was too busy trying to get out of the man's grip. Her head suddenly jolted above; Hotaru! Everyone was so busy with the nuisances that they were unaware that Hotaru was already in combat with someone.

Moon shivered. Chaosis.

Saturn lunged, dashed, dodged and ducked as she desperately tried to go offensive. But Chaosis wouldn't let her, and made her fall back defensive. It was a tactic; it all was, making her fall into weariness and tiredness so he could launch a major assult. She had to end the battle---fast, before her body gives out on her.

She dashed out her glaive, but it clanged with his dark rod.

"Give it up, Samurai," he hissed. "You can never win!"

"We'll see about---that!!!!" She leaped again, glaive out, the tip facing him. She then swung across, but he got the message and ducked, her glaive missing him by the hairs, as he stuck out his rod. Seeing this rapid movement, she leapt in the air, making a somersault and then landing---in air. Strange but it worked.


They turned around quickly, facing each other, hands on their weapons.

"You catch on quickly," he complimented in a neutral tone.

Two can play that game. "They don't put me in a gifted school for nothing."

"Well, did they teach you---this!!!" He lunged out, as if a sword fight, the tip of his staff a pointed spear. She dodged back as she missed the tip of the staff from her belly. She whirled around, glaive out, and aimed square at his head. She slammed him with the smooth edge of the glaive.

"Curses," she said beneath her breath.

Pluto was visciously slicing and dicing the phantomed articles of clothing with her Time Staff. This is incredibly odd, she thought through breaths as she fought continously. Phantoms and fire...this is incredibly off charts. Hmm...this is to keep us off the main battle? I wonder---

Mars was fighting the fire, her face dripping with sweat. This fire was not the normal fire she dealt with day in day out. This was a chaotic fire, a fire that was not a very pleasant one and did not welcome her presence. Nonetheless, she would conquer it. "Fire...fire of Mars...hear me heed! Seperate, get away! Go under my power!"

No response.

This is going to be harder than I thought, she thought ruefully.

Jupiter was still being chased by the viscious dog. She gritted her teeth so hard, she was going to grind them off her gums. Nothing seemed to be working, and this was what was ticking her off completely.

"Jupiter...Oak...Evolution!"

Nothing. She was ready to kill it bare hands.

"C'mon, Samurai," Chaosis coaxed. "You can do better than that."

Saturn was now panting on top of the boulder, her legs given out on her as sweat had dripped off her forehead and made patterns on the rock. The idiot was smart, really. Now she was breathing hard, as hard as she had from Phys. Ed. class, which she dreaded so much. She looked up from the slits of the eyes to see Chaosis floating in the air, looking superior. Superior to the ape kings, she supposed.

"Giving up all too soon, Samurai?" he mocked.

I'll give you giving up...She closed her eyes, focusing.

"Taking a nap, Princess?"

Pluto snapped her head up within the battle. Energy was gathering from the distant stars all to Hotaru's tired body which sat on a boulder standing out at the middle of the battlefield. Suddenly, she got the message of what she was supposed to do.

"Moon! Mercury! Mars! Jupiter! Uranus! Listen to me!"

Despite their struggles, they listened as much as they could.

"We must help each other if we are to win these minor problems," she told them, "for we are need of for a greater battle! Hotaru is gathering energy, supposed for a final blow, or maybe transformation. She needs out help, so we must help each other!"

"How?" Mercury blurted from the intense grip.

"It's Chaos," Mars replied for Pluto, getting the idea. "Hotaru is the main problem of Chaosis, especially her silence. So we use the silence of our hearts to fight these minor---er, problems."

"Agreed!" Jupiter agreed. "Jupiter...Oak...Evolution!"

Uranus muffled some response. "Uranus...World...Shaking!"

They stated their attacks and threw it towards their enemies, ducking them as they criss-crossed their way; Uranus' attack to the large, viscious dog and Jupiter's attack to Uranus' little motorcycle problem.

"Mars...Flame Sniper!"

"Mercury...Ice Beam...Attack!"

Mars' fire attack snapped the grip of the laptop from Mercury, dropping her to the ground as it scortched the laptop to burnt crisp. Mercury's ice attack zoomed through the air and turned the fire into beautiful icicles. Mars leaped over it, careful not to break them, and met up with the ice senshi.

"Pluto...Death...Scream!"

"Moon...Tiara...Go!"
The ball of death raced over to Moon's supposedly glorious man and threw him back, killing off his words and letting go of Sailor Moon. Her tiara came over to Pluto's end and sliced the phantoms, silencing them and returning to Sailor Moon's forehead.

"Great move, Pluto," she acknowledged as the other senshi came over.

Mars was watching Hotaru as she helpless draw energy. "We have to protect her from Chaosis long enough for he to replenish again," she told the others, turning back to them. "We have to help her. Now."

"Agreed," Uranus agreed boldly, leaping over to where Chaosis stood. She produced her Space Sword and swung it a couple of times to get the feel of it. She smiled gingerly at the dark figure that loomed above her, anticipating a move or a reaction, but got none. So she decided to make the first move. "Uranus...space...blaster!!!!"

"Pathetic!" Chaosis shouted, blocking the attack efficiently and bouncing it back to Uranus. Too surprised to move, she got hit square on the belly and was thrown several meters back.

"Uranus!" Moon cried helplessly as Jupiter and Mercury leaped into the scene, replacing the fallen Sailor Uranus, tense and in position to attack, back to back. They glared at Chaosis, who welcomed the dare as if it were only child's play.

"Jupiter...Thuder...Now!"

"Mercury...Ice Beam...Attack!"

The two inner senshi's attack went off towards Chaosis, who laughed vulgarly and blocked it again, sending the very same attacks back to the two senshi. They leapt off the boulder in time before the attacks slammed into the boulter, shattering it to pieces.

"It's no use!" Mercury cried. "He has some sort of forcefield around him, enabling him not to get hurt in any attack we use!"

"He's just too strong!" Jupiter cried helplessly.

Uranus groaned to her feet as Moon ran to help her up all the way. The strong outer senshi waved her assistance away briskly, and limped to the other senshi. "We must find some way to penetrate through the shield---"

"Sailor Moon, you will have to transform," Pluto intervened.

"Got it," she nodded. "Moon...Crisis...Make-Up!" In a flurry of movement, she had transformed into Super Sailor Moon.

Pluto nodded intelligently. "All together now!"

The senshi nodded. "Right!"

"Pluto...Dead...Scream!"

"Mars...Flame...Sniper!"

"Mercury...Bubbles!"

"Jupiter...Oak...Evolution!"

"Uranus...Space Blaster!"

"Moon...Tiara...Attack!"

The attacks flew from them and hovered together to form one gigantic weave of attacks all rolled into one. It zoomed towards Chaosis, who looked at with a momentary surprise before he regained his composition and blocked the attack. The attack crashed to the six normal attacks and started falling---to Hotaru!
"Oh no...Hotaru!" Moon shouted.

"Sailor Saturn! Get out!" Pluto shouted.

The girl didn't even move. She just sat there, rocking back and forth, as if chanting some kind of prayer. Whatever she was doing, she was so into it, she didn't recognize the things going on around her.

"Hotaru!" the senshi cried in unison.

Chaosis smiled at his ultimate achievement; the death of the silent samurai. It was something in his soul that he always wanted to happen, but---that meant losing a chance of being with her for all eternity. Oh well, he said dismissively.

"I can't watch this!" Moon squealed in horror, shutting her eyes.

"Hotaru," Rei grumbled. "Snap out of it..."

Pluto sighed. "Oh, Little One..."

Something extraordinary suddenly happened.


~*End of Book 10*~
So...what do you think? ^_~ The circle is almost complete. R&R!