*Chapter
10: Sayonara*
By:
Kohan
"Dead
Scream..." Pluto whispered, the sound of her voice breaking
through the deep silence that had gathered. Pluto's powerful
attack surrounded Saloirjupiter, making her fall to the ground,
her body limp and lifeless. Meanwhile, Usagi had just regained
consciousness, and was checking her clothes for something.
"My...my brooch...where is it?" She looked around on
the ground, Wufei was looking as well. "Mammoru must have
it!" She yelled, Mammoru heard, and started advancing on the
two. Wufei got up and pulled out his katana, a small, evil smile
playing on his lips.
"I'll get your locket, back, onna. He deserves what he has
coming." Wufei said, and walked slowly towards Mammoru.
Mammoru took out his cane (yes, by God, he still has it!),
prepared to fight. Wufei lunged forward with his katana, managing
to cut Mammoru's cloak. Something fell from the pocket that had
been sliced, and hit the ground with a dull thud. It was Usagi's
locket. Usagi saw, and the locket was only about 10 feet away
from her, if she could just...she got up and started running
forward. Mammoru saw her, and threw Wufei off him, he then went
to grab Usagi before she could reach her precious brooch. Instead
of grabbing her, though, he raised his cane, ready to strike her.
He brought it down, preparing to hit her on the head, but instead
of making contact with Usagi, it hit the solid staff of the
silence glaive. Mammoru let out a surprised yelp, and the tried
to force Saturn to the ground.
"I'm going to kill you, little Saturn." He said.
"What're you going to do?" Saturn said, struggling,
"Spear me with a rose?" Usagi had managed to reach her
locket, and held it up in the air.
"Moon eternal! Make-up!" Usagi transformed, and then
ran to the aid of Sailor Saturn.
"Usagi...get out of here, save yourself...I can end
this." Saturn said, the two pushed up on the silence glaive.
"I won't let you die!"
"It's the only way..."
"No!"
"Damn it, Usagi!" Hotaru said, "For them,"
She jerked her head towards the Gundam boys who were armed with
their guns. Usagi let go of the staff of the Silence Glaive, and
Mammoru stopped pushing down on his cane. A white ball of energy
gathered in his hand.
"This one's for you, Usagi." He said, and let the
energy go. It flew towards Usagi, but she ducked, and instead it
hit Sailorvenus in the chest. She fell down, gasped fresh breaths
of air. Mammoru was the enemy...how could her mind have been
blinded to that? She must fight for her princess...for
Sailormoon.
Usagi, having the kind heart she did, ran to Venus' side.
"Usagi...I was wrong..." Venus said. She got up
shakily, why didn't Mammoru's attack kill her? "Could you
ever forgive me."
"I already have," Sailormoon said. "but I think we
need to end this."
"Usagi...the shadow creatures...Mammoru still has their
souls under his control." Venus said between gasps.
"Where are they?"
"He's calling them out now...let me handle it." Said
Venus, and indeed, Mammoru was calling out the shadow
creatures...hundreds of bodies of swirling darkness popped up
from the ground.
"Sailormoon, I think you need to use an old attack for
them...like your spiral heart attack..." Venus said,
preparing herself to attack.
"What are you doing, Venus?" Mammoru yelled, his hands
again forming the bright light.
"Protecting my princess! Love and beauty shock!" The
attack took out several of the shadow creatures, and the ones
that were gone didn't return.
"Spiral heart attack!" Sailormoon's old attack took out
the remaining creatures. Sailorsaturn was now standing by
Sailormoon, who hadn't even realized Saturn was there.
"I'll say it again." Saturn whispered, "Get your
fuku covered ass out of here...you too." She looked at
Venus, who nodded. Saturn then turned to Heero, who was standing
beside her. "Here..." She pulled off the several
pointed star from the center of her bow. "Keep this for me?
I'll be back for it someday."
"Firefly...?" Heero said,
"No..." Said Sailormoon, and made a move forward to
grab Saturn, but she was too quick for her. Saturn put her glaive
out to stop Sailormoon.
"We've been in a position like this before...don't make me
make you leave."
"You don't have to do this, we can defeat him
together!"
"NO! We can't! I will not let you get yourself killed when I
can do it by myself without you getting yourself killed!"
Saturn said.
"Aishitaru, Firefly." Heero said, he smiled faintly,
and then wiped a tear off Sailorsaturn's face then grabbed
Sailormoon, Venus grabbed her also. "Wufei, Trowa, Quatre!
Let's get out of here! See you again, Firefly." He added to
Saturn, and they left, leaving her and Mammoru alone.
"We end this now, Saturn. You will die."
"But not alone." Saturn said. Mammoru's white power
gathered in his hands, and Saturn started to glow a deep purple.
Mammoru muttered a few words, just as Saturn started to glow the
brightest. "Shinokisu..." She whispered, and the purple
power flew out from her, engulfing everything around, including
Mammoru.
When
the purple mist subsided, all that remained was the perfectly
normal center of town. There was no blood, there were no bodies,
there was nothing except the regular.
***
"What
is she going to do?" Heero asked, pushing Usagi along a
little.
"In a way..." Usagi said through a few tears.
"she's like you. Hotaru plays by her own rules. She's going
to do what you would call self detonate. Anything to get the job
done, damn it."
***
"You'll
be leaving then?"
"Hai," Usagi answered Quatre's question sadly. It had
been two days since the encounter with Mammoru. "Setsuna
says that they may be there when we return...we can only
hope." She sad, nodding to Minako and Setsuna.
"Does that mean that Mammoru will be there as well?"
"He is the Prince of Earth...he must have been reborn. We
can only guess to the fact if he'll be evil or not."
"Heero and Duo send their regards, they're sorry they
couldn't make it to see you off." Quatre said in an
apologetic tone.
"Will we be seeing you again?" Asked Trowa.
"I don't know." Said Usagi, and looked up at the sky,
it was a bright blue. "I suppose we'll have to see you guys
again, Rei and Hotaru promised Duo and Heero..." Usagi
sighed. Setsuna transformed into Sailorpluto, and raised her
timestaff.
"Good-bye, Onna." Wufei said to Usagi.
"Sayonara, Wufei." Usagi and the others disappeared in
the mists, leaving the three boys standing by themselves.
"Do
you think they'll be there?" Minako asked Setsuna.
"It's possible, though they will probably be in different
places...I imagine that Haruka, Michiru and Hotaru will be in our
house, and Rei will probably be in her temple. Makoto and Ami
will probably be in their apartments, and Mammoru will most
likely be in his. Though I could be wrong." Setsuna said.
They were walking down the streets of present-day Japan.
"What if they're not there?" Asked Usagi.
"I don't know then..."
"It's sad saying 'sayonara' ne?"
"We'll be seeing them again. I don't think Rei and Hotaru
would have it any other way."
"I'm glad. I would miss them."
"Hai."
***