(Chapter Six)
No data found. "Damn!" yelled Sailor Pluto smashing a fist down in frustration. There is absolutely no evil being alive that could perform that strong a binding spell." Sailor Mercury walked over. "Nothing on my palm top either Setsuna_chan." She reported, there's absolutely no clue that I can find." Sailor Pluto shook her head wearily. "We can't find whoever did this." She hung her head for a moment. "Come on, we must find the Princess as quickly as possible." She walked over to the door that led into the room where the others were helping Chibi-Usa further her training to become Sailor Chibi-Moon.
As Sailor Pluto and Sailor Mercury entered, all motions stopped and they all turned to look at two. "Well?" asked Sailor Jupiter, "Where is she?" the two looked at each other and commenced in an explanation that they didn't know. Usagi's presence could be detected very faintly but the actual Usagi was missing. The Senshi were shocked. The brains and the Senshi of Time couldn't find their princess. "Chibi-Moon ran over to Pluto. "Luna P is Mommy really gone?" she asked tearfully. Pluto looked down at the girl. "Yes. But we're going to get her back."
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"You don't know." Repeated Diamond slowly and his voice deadly. "Like hell you don't know. You went to that other man I saw in the scrying pool didn't you? Didn't you!" he yelled at her again punching her jaw in anger. She reeled, but she still had to answer. "Yes." She whispered through her parched lips. His face contorted in anger and he yelled at her. "You will never see him again, I tell you. Never again!" she nodded mutely. He waved a hand at her. "Now leave." She obeyed and left quietly through the window. He looked at her and knew that she was in pain. But he did not regret it. He had gone through all this to make her his and he would not lose her to another man.
He walked in front of the mirror and looked at his reflection. "Now, let's see who this mysterious man is." He mused and waving his hands in several complicated gestures, the mirror began to swirl and he peered deep into the recesses of the glass. The mirror showed an identical reflection of himself. "What the hell?! How could she be with my body? It must be some dark magic!
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Usagi ran home quickly and she wondered what she had done to deserve the bruises on her face. As she opened the front door, Ikuko who had glanced up gasped as she saw her daughter's face. "Usagi, what happened?!" she cried and ran to her. "Who did this to you?" she asked angrily at the thought that someone dared harm her little girl. "I can't say, Mama." She spoke slowly and Ikuko saw the dark circles under her eyes. "What do you mean, you can't say? I am your mother! Tell me who was the one that would do such a thing to you?" Ikuko was frantic. Why would someone try to hurt Usagi? "Mama, I can't tell you because he ahs forbidden me to speak a word and I cannot disobey him even if I try!" Usagi broke and she fell into her mother's arms, her face wet with tears.
"U-Usagi!" the frail voice emanated from her throat. "Mama, I have to fix this on my own. Whatever this man commands me to do, I have no choice but to obey. He would do anything to keep me. I can't let you or Daddy or Shingo get involved." Usagi's voice, though a little frail was still of a strong heart. Her mother listened and believed that her daughter would pull through and all would be well. "I believe you Usagi. And I also believe that you will make the right decision. I doubt that calling the police will be of no avail." Usagi looked up into her mother's face. "Yes Mama. I will conquer whatever has such a hold on me and I will come back triumphant." Her voice was strong and her mother was surprised that her little bunny sounded almost like a…
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Dark Endymion paced the obsidian cave. One of the guards stared at him nervously. This was a man who had destroyed kingdoms without mercy and now, here he was worrying about a single girl.
Dark Endymion himself was furious. "So, Prince Diamond was once again in the world. He could tell that Usagi was trying her hardest to break free of Diamond's hold. He also knew that it was impossible unless Diamond himself agreed to release her. He opened a portal and walked through. He would find Usagi and try to explain how to break free of Diamond.
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Usagi opened the door and saw Dark Endymion in dark jeans and T-shirt. She immediately felt the burning pain in her head and she cradled her head in her hands and leant heavily on her doorway. Dark Endymion noticed this and reached out to steady her. "No!" she gasped out. "Diamond… ordered me not to… see you… or else." Dark Endymion nodded and he tossed her a cell phone. "Here, if I can't see you, I'll call you. I have to tell you how to break free of this curse." He smiled sadly and walked away.
Ikuko stared at her daughter. She had been listening behind the door and she was wondering what was happening. "Usagi?" she asked her daughter as she stepped back from the door. "What is going on? How could you be in so much pain if someone forbids you to see someone else? Wasn't that Mamoru?" Usagi stared at her mother. "If I tell you, you would stop me from doing my duty. If I told you that I risked my life every single day, would you be sick with worry?" she asked her mother seriously.
"You are my daughter. Whatever you decide is right is what you will do. I have no power to stop you. I followed my own path years ago and I have found my decision was the right one all along. Tell me." Usagi sighed, "First let me get Luna." She told her mom and disappeared up the stairs. As she walked down with the black cat in her arms, Ikuko wondered once more about why there was a golden crescent moon on its forehead.
"Mom, I am Sailor Moon." Usagi told her mother seriously. Luna's body jerked and her head slammed up. "Iie Luna, it's time." Luna nodded and Ikuko heard a sigh. "Well, I suppose that they had to be told sometime soon." Said the cat. As was expected, Ikuko almost jumped a mile in the air.
"Luna… can talk?" gasped Ikuko. "No, Mama, don't get too worked up. Yes she can talk. And I am Sailor Moon." Ikuko turned pale and she stared at her daughter. "H-How?" she gasped. "It's a long story Mama." Ikuko spoke firmly. "I have all the time in the world."
"Well, I am really the princess of the moon. A thousand years ago, in the Silver Millennium, I was born to Queen Serenity. I fell in love with a man. But a evil Queen tried to take over the Universe and Queen Serenity used the last of her strength with the Silver Imperial Crystal and captured them within its shining beams. She sent us to Earth where we were re-incarnated as you now know us. The other Sailor Senshi were also re-incarnated. Ami is Sailor Mercury, Rei is Sailor Mars, Makoto is Sailor Jupiter, Minako is Sailor Venus, Chibi-Usa is Sailor Chibi-Moon, Hotaru is Sailor Saturn, Michiru is Sailor Neptune, Haruka is Sailor Uranus, and Setsuna is Sailor Pluto. Mamoru was supposed to be re-incarnation of the man I fell in love with, but I recently found out that I had really fallen in love with was his twin brother who had been captured by the evil Negaverse."
Luna turned her head and stared at Usagi with her garnet eyes wide in surprise. "You never told me that!" Usagi shrugged and said, "I just learned a little while ago myself." Turning back to her mother, she began to speak once more. "Chibi-Usa is really my future daughter a thousand years into the future. We will all live in a beautiful time in a city called Crystal Tokyo. You remember when you though that Chibi-Usa was my cousin?" At Ikuko's nod, she continued. "Well, she had traveled back in time to escape the war that was raging. She had also tried to find the ginzoushou that I have. When she finally figured out that her real mother was me, she left to go back to go to the future but she has come back, now as Sailor Chibi-Moon."
Ikuko listened to the story that Usagi was spinning. Somewhere in the back of her head, she knew that this whole story was ridiculous. But most of her knew that her daughter spoke the truth. "Back to what is wrong with me. Dia… I'm sorry, he has forbidden me to say his name in front of everyone else. But, the man that I fell in love with is now known as Dark Endymion. Mamoru opened a scrying portal and he saw me with another man. He was so jealous that he welcomed the evil spirit of Prince Diamond and he cast this spell upon me. That man that you saw earlier was Dark Endymion. Dia- Mamoru ordered me not to see him again."
At that moment, the cell phone that Dark Endymion had tossed her rung and she turned it on. "Moshi Moshi."
"Usagi? Daijabou?" came the voice of Dark Endymion. "Hai, I'm fine. How am I supposed to break free of this curse?"
"It'll be very difficult. My twin brother has almost succumbed totally to Diamond, but the way you have to do this is not by force. It is if you make Diamond cancel the spell himself."
"Nani?! How am I supposed to do that?"
"I don't know. But try your best. You have one strength. Both my brother and Diamond love you. If you can convince him that releasing you will be the best choice, then you will win and Diamond will surely disappear."
"Alright. I will try." Sighed Usagi, her eyes closed and her breath slight. "I know you can do this." He hung up. As Usagi turned off the phone, she noticed that her mother was staring at her. "What are you supposed to do." She asked her daughter seriously. "I have to go back and convince Dia- Mamoru that breaking the spell will be the best." Luna gasped. "But how will you do that?!" Usagi smiled grimly. "I did it once did I not? I will do it again." Ikuko gasped. "How many battles have you fought that I have missed?" she cried, tears streaming down her face. "More than I can count. Luna, you stay with Mama. I will go to Prince-. Ahh!" she screamed suddenly. "What is it?!" cried both Luna and Ikuko in alarm. "He's calling me. I have to leave." Usagi ran out the door.
"Well at least you can come quickly when I call you now." Spoke Diamond roughly. Usagi was pale and her eyes were staring right at Diamond. "Why must you still keep me in this torture? If you love me, would you try to cause me this much pain?" she cried softly. Diamond stopped and his heart thudded. "You-you would only go back to that other man. I know it."
"Maybe I would. But look at yourself. He is still with the Negaverse, his body still black with hatred and evil and yet he has not resorted to this kind of magic." Diamond glared at her. "When you died, you told me you loved me. You died saving me from Wiseman, remember? That was exactly what he did for me. He fought the darkness within him and was able to know what true love is. He would have let you have me if only it would keep me safe."
Diamond had sat down and listening to the words of Usagi, knew that she was right. But how could he live without this girl of whom he had spent so much energy binding to him? The small particle that was still Mamoru called through. "But I thought that we were destined to be with each other forever!" he cried, and Usagi looking up saw a different light in the man's eyes. "You don't remember do you Mamoru? Remember back in the Silver Millennium? I fell in love with your twin brother. But he was captured and became enslaved in Beryl's orders. He told you to be with me and to protect me. But you fell in love with me as well and you forgot all about your brother." She said softly.
"Please let me free." Her voice was so soft and pleading that the Mamoru that was still there was touched. "Yes." He passed his hands over the top of her hair and a black fire from within her came running out through her skin. It took up a face of a monster for a moment before it disappeared. Suddenly Mamoru's eyes were glazed. "No!" Usagi knew that Diamond was fighting with Mamoru. "Let us have a battle. If you defeat me, I will be yours forever." Diamond nodded and Usagi pulled out her communicator. "Sailor Senshi!" the faces of her friends appeared on the tiny screen and they were all worried. "Come now. We're going to face the biggest battle that we've ever had." They nodded solemnly and signed off.
Usagi turned back to Diamond. "Get ready to rumble."
No data found. "Damn!" yelled Sailor Pluto smashing a fist down in frustration. There is absolutely no evil being alive that could perform that strong a binding spell." Sailor Mercury walked over. "Nothing on my palm top either Setsuna_chan." She reported, there's absolutely no clue that I can find." Sailor Pluto shook her head wearily. "We can't find whoever did this." She hung her head for a moment. "Come on, we must find the Princess as quickly as possible." She walked over to the door that led into the room where the others were helping Chibi-Usa further her training to become Sailor Chibi-Moon.
As Sailor Pluto and Sailor Mercury entered, all motions stopped and they all turned to look at two. "Well?" asked Sailor Jupiter, "Where is she?" the two looked at each other and commenced in an explanation that they didn't know. Usagi's presence could be detected very faintly but the actual Usagi was missing. The Senshi were shocked. The brains and the Senshi of Time couldn't find their princess. "Chibi-Moon ran over to Pluto. "Luna P is Mommy really gone?" she asked tearfully. Pluto looked down at the girl. "Yes. But we're going to get her back."
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"You don't know." Repeated Diamond slowly and his voice deadly. "Like hell you don't know. You went to that other man I saw in the scrying pool didn't you? Didn't you!" he yelled at her again punching her jaw in anger. She reeled, but she still had to answer. "Yes." She whispered through her parched lips. His face contorted in anger and he yelled at her. "You will never see him again, I tell you. Never again!" she nodded mutely. He waved a hand at her. "Now leave." She obeyed and left quietly through the window. He looked at her and knew that she was in pain. But he did not regret it. He had gone through all this to make her his and he would not lose her to another man.
He walked in front of the mirror and looked at his reflection. "Now, let's see who this mysterious man is." He mused and waving his hands in several complicated gestures, the mirror began to swirl and he peered deep into the recesses of the glass. The mirror showed an identical reflection of himself. "What the hell?! How could she be with my body? It must be some dark magic!
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Usagi ran home quickly and she wondered what she had done to deserve the bruises on her face. As she opened the front door, Ikuko who had glanced up gasped as she saw her daughter's face. "Usagi, what happened?!" she cried and ran to her. "Who did this to you?" she asked angrily at the thought that someone dared harm her little girl. "I can't say, Mama." She spoke slowly and Ikuko saw the dark circles under her eyes. "What do you mean, you can't say? I am your mother! Tell me who was the one that would do such a thing to you?" Ikuko was frantic. Why would someone try to hurt Usagi? "Mama, I can't tell you because he ahs forbidden me to speak a word and I cannot disobey him even if I try!" Usagi broke and she fell into her mother's arms, her face wet with tears.
"U-Usagi!" the frail voice emanated from her throat. "Mama, I have to fix this on my own. Whatever this man commands me to do, I have no choice but to obey. He would do anything to keep me. I can't let you or Daddy or Shingo get involved." Usagi's voice, though a little frail was still of a strong heart. Her mother listened and believed that her daughter would pull through and all would be well. "I believe you Usagi. And I also believe that you will make the right decision. I doubt that calling the police will be of no avail." Usagi looked up into her mother's face. "Yes Mama. I will conquer whatever has such a hold on me and I will come back triumphant." Her voice was strong and her mother was surprised that her little bunny sounded almost like a…
Queen?
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Dark Endymion paced the obsidian cave. One of the guards stared at him nervously. This was a man who had destroyed kingdoms without mercy and now, here he was worrying about a single girl.
Dark Endymion himself was furious. "So, Prince Diamond was once again in the world. He could tell that Usagi was trying her hardest to break free of Diamond's hold. He also knew that it was impossible unless Diamond himself agreed to release her. He opened a portal and walked through. He would find Usagi and try to explain how to break free of Diamond.
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Usagi opened the door and saw Dark Endymion in dark jeans and T-shirt. She immediately felt the burning pain in her head and she cradled her head in her hands and leant heavily on her doorway. Dark Endymion noticed this and reached out to steady her. "No!" she gasped out. "Diamond… ordered me not to… see you… or else." Dark Endymion nodded and he tossed her a cell phone. "Here, if I can't see you, I'll call you. I have to tell you how to break free of this curse." He smiled sadly and walked away.
Ikuko stared at her daughter. She had been listening behind the door and she was wondering what was happening. "Usagi?" she asked her daughter as she stepped back from the door. "What is going on? How could you be in so much pain if someone forbids you to see someone else? Wasn't that Mamoru?" Usagi stared at her mother. "If I tell you, you would stop me from doing my duty. If I told you that I risked my life every single day, would you be sick with worry?" she asked her mother seriously.
"You are my daughter. Whatever you decide is right is what you will do. I have no power to stop you. I followed my own path years ago and I have found my decision was the right one all along. Tell me." Usagi sighed, "First let me get Luna." She told her mom and disappeared up the stairs. As she walked down with the black cat in her arms, Ikuko wondered once more about why there was a golden crescent moon on its forehead.
"Mom, I am Sailor Moon." Usagi told her mother seriously. Luna's body jerked and her head slammed up. "Iie Luna, it's time." Luna nodded and Ikuko heard a sigh. "Well, I suppose that they had to be told sometime soon." Said the cat. As was expected, Ikuko almost jumped a mile in the air.
"Luna… can talk?" gasped Ikuko. "No, Mama, don't get too worked up. Yes she can talk. And I am Sailor Moon." Ikuko turned pale and she stared at her daughter. "H-How?" she gasped. "It's a long story Mama." Ikuko spoke firmly. "I have all the time in the world."
"Well, I am really the princess of the moon. A thousand years ago, in the Silver Millennium, I was born to Queen Serenity. I fell in love with a man. But a evil Queen tried to take over the Universe and Queen Serenity used the last of her strength with the Silver Imperial Crystal and captured them within its shining beams. She sent us to Earth where we were re-incarnated as you now know us. The other Sailor Senshi were also re-incarnated. Ami is Sailor Mercury, Rei is Sailor Mars, Makoto is Sailor Jupiter, Minako is Sailor Venus, Chibi-Usa is Sailor Chibi-Moon, Hotaru is Sailor Saturn, Michiru is Sailor Neptune, Haruka is Sailor Uranus, and Setsuna is Sailor Pluto. Mamoru was supposed to be re-incarnation of the man I fell in love with, but I recently found out that I had really fallen in love with was his twin brother who had been captured by the evil Negaverse."
Luna turned her head and stared at Usagi with her garnet eyes wide in surprise. "You never told me that!" Usagi shrugged and said, "I just learned a little while ago myself." Turning back to her mother, she began to speak once more. "Chibi-Usa is really my future daughter a thousand years into the future. We will all live in a beautiful time in a city called Crystal Tokyo. You remember when you though that Chibi-Usa was my cousin?" At Ikuko's nod, she continued. "Well, she had traveled back in time to escape the war that was raging. She had also tried to find the ginzoushou that I have. When she finally figured out that her real mother was me, she left to go back to go to the future but she has come back, now as Sailor Chibi-Moon."
Ikuko listened to the story that Usagi was spinning. Somewhere in the back of her head, she knew that this whole story was ridiculous. But most of her knew that her daughter spoke the truth. "Back to what is wrong with me. Dia… I'm sorry, he has forbidden me to say his name in front of everyone else. But, the man that I fell in love with is now known as Dark Endymion. Mamoru opened a scrying portal and he saw me with another man. He was so jealous that he welcomed the evil spirit of Prince Diamond and he cast this spell upon me. That man that you saw earlier was Dark Endymion. Dia- Mamoru ordered me not to see him again."
At that moment, the cell phone that Dark Endymion had tossed her rung and she turned it on. "Moshi Moshi."
"Usagi? Daijabou?" came the voice of Dark Endymion. "Hai, I'm fine. How am I supposed to break free of this curse?"
"It'll be very difficult. My twin brother has almost succumbed totally to Diamond, but the way you have to do this is not by force. It is if you make Diamond cancel the spell himself."
"Nani?! How am I supposed to do that?"
"I don't know. But try your best. You have one strength. Both my brother and Diamond love you. If you can convince him that releasing you will be the best choice, then you will win and Diamond will surely disappear."
"Alright. I will try." Sighed Usagi, her eyes closed and her breath slight. "I know you can do this." He hung up. As Usagi turned off the phone, she noticed that her mother was staring at her. "What are you supposed to do." She asked her daughter seriously. "I have to go back and convince Dia- Mamoru that breaking the spell will be the best." Luna gasped. "But how will you do that?!" Usagi smiled grimly. "I did it once did I not? I will do it again." Ikuko gasped. "How many battles have you fought that I have missed?" she cried, tears streaming down her face. "More than I can count. Luna, you stay with Mama. I will go to Prince-. Ahh!" she screamed suddenly. "What is it?!" cried both Luna and Ikuko in alarm. "He's calling me. I have to leave." Usagi ran out the door.
"Well at least you can come quickly when I call you now." Spoke Diamond roughly. Usagi was pale and her eyes were staring right at Diamond. "Why must you still keep me in this torture? If you love me, would you try to cause me this much pain?" she cried softly. Diamond stopped and his heart thudded. "You-you would only go back to that other man. I know it."
"Maybe I would. But look at yourself. He is still with the Negaverse, his body still black with hatred and evil and yet he has not resorted to this kind of magic." Diamond glared at her. "When you died, you told me you loved me. You died saving me from Wiseman, remember? That was exactly what he did for me. He fought the darkness within him and was able to know what true love is. He would have let you have me if only it would keep me safe."
Diamond had sat down and listening to the words of Usagi, knew that she was right. But how could he live without this girl of whom he had spent so much energy binding to him? The small particle that was still Mamoru called through. "But I thought that we were destined to be with each other forever!" he cried, and Usagi looking up saw a different light in the man's eyes. "You don't remember do you Mamoru? Remember back in the Silver Millennium? I fell in love with your twin brother. But he was captured and became enslaved in Beryl's orders. He told you to be with me and to protect me. But you fell in love with me as well and you forgot all about your brother." She said softly.
"Please let me free." Her voice was so soft and pleading that the Mamoru that was still there was touched. "Yes." He passed his hands over the top of her hair and a black fire from within her came running out through her skin. It took up a face of a monster for a moment before it disappeared. Suddenly Mamoru's eyes were glazed. "No!" Usagi knew that Diamond was fighting with Mamoru. "Let us have a battle. If you defeat me, I will be yours forever." Diamond nodded and Usagi pulled out her communicator. "Sailor Senshi!" the faces of her friends appeared on the tiny screen and they were all worried. "Come now. We're going to face the biggest battle that we've ever had." They nodded solemnly and signed off.
Usagi turned back to Diamond. "Get ready to rumble."