It had gotten late and Mamoru felt obligated to make sure everyone had some where to sleep more comfortable than the heap they had spent the past three days and nights in. He offered his queen sized bed to any three people who wanted it and then brought out the sofa bed. He hadn't purchased the couch for the bed, he almost never had any over-nighters. But now he was glad it had the extra feature.
Usagi, Luna and Minako got dibs on the bed. Rei and Ami claimed the couch bed and Makoto was going to sleep on the displaced couch cushions. Artemis got a little camping hamock strung out on the balcony and Mamoru took some blankets left over from distribution and used them to make a rough futon on the balcony floor.
Makoto was ignoring the bed set up in the other rooms and was instead raiding Mamoru's pantry, looking for something to cook for the eight people. Luna and Artemis had to be especially hungry. Makoto found some pasta, some chicken and some mushroom soup. Inspired by the items she had come up with, she began to madly cook again.
Once every one had eaten the spaghetti and the mushroom sauce chicken* (see below! i have an easy recipe for the chicken dish), everyone was too tired to fight over the two little TVs and went straight to bed.
"So you and Luna, eh?" asked Mamoru to Artemis as they lay looking at the stars.
"No. No. We toyed with the idea. But it wouldn't work out." said Artemis, with a very slight, hidden tone of regret in his voice. He didn't realize how much he needed Luna.
"To bad..." mumbled Mamoru as he fell asleep.
"Mamoru! I've found you again! Did my otherworld counterpart pull you from the dream world Mamoru? Which world is better love? The world of pain and suffering...the world where you lost your parents...or this world?" Mamoru couldn't wake up and Beyrl was trying to put him in that deep trance again.
"This world isn't real. You aren't Serenity." said Mamoru shortly.
"You hurt my feelings when you took the Crystal to her ENDYMION..." Beyrl pressed on the name, trying to pull the man under her gauzy controll.
"I don't care!" snapped Mamoru. He was trying to wake up so hard... how could he get out?
Artemis woke up. He had been asleep for only a few hours, but now he heard something. It was Mamoru, tossing and turning. His forehead felt hot, but the rest of him was cool. It couldn't be a fever... wait! What was Mamoru saying? "This world isn't real. You aren't Serenity." Could it be Beyrl, like the dark haired man had said at the arcade? Artemis ran to the bedroom, where Usagi was.
"Usagi! Usagi! Wake up Usagi!" hissed Artemis, shakeing the girl roughly.
"Mmm...what is it now? You want me to eat icecream for you?" mumbled Usagi.
"Come on Usagi! MAMORU needs you!" Usagi rolled out of bed and looked up at Artemis.
"Mamoru?" she said, looking a bit dazed.
"Transform now!" hissed Artemis.
Usagi sleepily did so. "Whats wrong Artemis?" she asked more coherently.
"Beyrl has Mamoru again." he said tersly.
"Shit!" yipped Usagi. She ran out to the balcony and tried shakeing the sleeper. No result.
"To keep this from happining again we can't kill Beyrl since she is merely a ghost. We have to seal her away. We can't let her be able to reach other pockets of the underworld either, she will break free again and go after Mamoru. We must prison her up far away." explained Artemis.
"Fine. But Mamoru is still in there. We have to get him out before we deal with Beyrl or Mamoru will be stuck in a coma!" Usagi thought about this for a minute before saying, "And I don't want to date a vegitable!"
"Lay down Sailor Moon. I'm going to hypnotize you."
As Artemis hypnotized Usagi she felt herself falling asleep. Drifting furthur from shore... she saw brilliant colors that faded into grays and whites and blacks. And then faint color... the underworld?
Then Sailor Moon saw Beyrl and Mamoru. Beyrl was standing before Mamoru clutching his shoulder in a powerful grip, desperatly clinging to him. Mamoru was stare straight ahead, arms crossed at the chest with a look of annoyance and anger. He wasn't deciveing her at all. He didn't want to be here. Usagi ran foward and Beyrl turned at the sound of feet on the tall grass.
"YOU!" she hissed, panther like and eye glittering with venom.
Sailor Moon sidestepped the once-Queen and took Mamoru's hand. Beyrl struck her away. "He's mine you harlot! Mine forever."
As Beyrl laughed a deep throaty laugh, Usagi drew her Moon Wand and inserted the Imperium Silver Crystal. "Moon Cosmic Power!" the blast threw Beyrl's ghost back, but she was not damanged. "Run Mamoru! Run for the tree line!" screamed Usagi. Beyrl was powerless, but un-defeatable. How pointless. Sailor Moon ran after Mamoru, but she tripped and fell down. Mamoru turned and helped her up. At that moment Beyrl took hold of Mamoru from behind and pulled him away from the blond girl.
With a wave of her boney hand a snake came up from the grass and slithered towards Usagi. The girl screamed and backed away slowly. The snake slithered more quickly towards it's chosen victem and it continued aproaaching, it's cobra like hood fanned out and then- it struck. It's fangs pierced the delicate skin on the back of Usagi's upper calf. She recoiled and tried to stand up, but fell back down. Mamoru broke free from Beyrl and held Usagi close.
"That snake. It will make you a ghost like me Sailor Moon. And then Mamoru will live here, though I do not live. I don't want him, a prince! to become a sad little ghost. But you, I will have fun watching YOU suffer." Beyrl kept laughing and laughing as Usagi preformed the Moon Healing activation of her wand's power only to see it fail. Usagi saw herself flickering in an out as the venom spread through her blood stream. In desperation she picked up the snake and threw it at Beyrl. The viper latched onto the ghost's chest and clung to the death-pale skin. Though nothing happened to the un-dead woman, the snake couldn't bite Usagi again.
Mamoru scooped Usagi up and ran with her to the portal to the other world. Sailor Moon gripped her wand and started concentrating on the flow of energy into the pink stick. It glowed brighter and brighter, even as life ebbed from Sailor Moon. She was sealing her life force into the Crystal. To seal Beyrl away forever and for all time.
Artemis watched anxiously. The others were awake too and were holding hands, generateing power for Sailor Moon. Suddenly Usagi and Mamoru opened their eyes. The blond girl was haveing trouble breathing as an invisible poison penetrated her lungs and reached for her heart. Just as her heart pushed blood out for the last time, a great burst of power jetted up from her wand and-
Queen Beyrl cried out as a white light reached into her ghost/dream world and pushed her back towards the underworld. Thousands of millions of tiny particals of moonlight spurted from the portal and rose up into the sky before pelting down on Beyrl and driveing her through the ground back to where she had escaped from. As Beyrl disapeared and the light faded, stone spread over the landscape and a lone iron tree sprouted where Beyrl had returned to the underworld.
Usagi, Luna and Minako got dibs on the bed. Rei and Ami claimed the couch bed and Makoto was going to sleep on the displaced couch cushions. Artemis got a little camping hamock strung out on the balcony and Mamoru took some blankets left over from distribution and used them to make a rough futon on the balcony floor.
Makoto was ignoring the bed set up in the other rooms and was instead raiding Mamoru's pantry, looking for something to cook for the eight people. Luna and Artemis had to be especially hungry. Makoto found some pasta, some chicken and some mushroom soup. Inspired by the items she had come up with, she began to madly cook again.
Once every one had eaten the spaghetti and the mushroom sauce chicken* (see below! i have an easy recipe for the chicken dish), everyone was too tired to fight over the two little TVs and went straight to bed.
"So you and Luna, eh?" asked Mamoru to Artemis as they lay looking at the stars.
"No. No. We toyed with the idea. But it wouldn't work out." said Artemis, with a very slight, hidden tone of regret in his voice. He didn't realize how much he needed Luna.
"To bad..." mumbled Mamoru as he fell asleep.
"Mamoru! I've found you again! Did my otherworld counterpart pull you from the dream world Mamoru? Which world is better love? The world of pain and suffering...the world where you lost your parents...or this world?" Mamoru couldn't wake up and Beyrl was trying to put him in that deep trance again.
"This world isn't real. You aren't Serenity." said Mamoru shortly.
"You hurt my feelings when you took the Crystal to her ENDYMION..." Beyrl pressed on the name, trying to pull the man under her gauzy controll.
"I don't care!" snapped Mamoru. He was trying to wake up so hard... how could he get out?
Artemis woke up. He had been asleep for only a few hours, but now he heard something. It was Mamoru, tossing and turning. His forehead felt hot, but the rest of him was cool. It couldn't be a fever... wait! What was Mamoru saying? "This world isn't real. You aren't Serenity." Could it be Beyrl, like the dark haired man had said at the arcade? Artemis ran to the bedroom, where Usagi was.
"Usagi! Usagi! Wake up Usagi!" hissed Artemis, shakeing the girl roughly.
"Mmm...what is it now? You want me to eat icecream for you?" mumbled Usagi.
"Come on Usagi! MAMORU needs you!" Usagi rolled out of bed and looked up at Artemis.
"Mamoru?" she said, looking a bit dazed.
"Transform now!" hissed Artemis.
Usagi sleepily did so. "Whats wrong Artemis?" she asked more coherently.
"Beyrl has Mamoru again." he said tersly.
"Shit!" yipped Usagi. She ran out to the balcony and tried shakeing the sleeper. No result.
"To keep this from happining again we can't kill Beyrl since she is merely a ghost. We have to seal her away. We can't let her be able to reach other pockets of the underworld either, she will break free again and go after Mamoru. We must prison her up far away." explained Artemis.
"Fine. But Mamoru is still in there. We have to get him out before we deal with Beyrl or Mamoru will be stuck in a coma!" Usagi thought about this for a minute before saying, "And I don't want to date a vegitable!"
"Lay down Sailor Moon. I'm going to hypnotize you."
As Artemis hypnotized Usagi she felt herself falling asleep. Drifting furthur from shore... she saw brilliant colors that faded into grays and whites and blacks. And then faint color... the underworld?
Then Sailor Moon saw Beyrl and Mamoru. Beyrl was standing before Mamoru clutching his shoulder in a powerful grip, desperatly clinging to him. Mamoru was stare straight ahead, arms crossed at the chest with a look of annoyance and anger. He wasn't deciveing her at all. He didn't want to be here. Usagi ran foward and Beyrl turned at the sound of feet on the tall grass.
"YOU!" she hissed, panther like and eye glittering with venom.
Sailor Moon sidestepped the once-Queen and took Mamoru's hand. Beyrl struck her away. "He's mine you harlot! Mine forever."
As Beyrl laughed a deep throaty laugh, Usagi drew her Moon Wand and inserted the Imperium Silver Crystal. "Moon Cosmic Power!" the blast threw Beyrl's ghost back, but she was not damanged. "Run Mamoru! Run for the tree line!" screamed Usagi. Beyrl was powerless, but un-defeatable. How pointless. Sailor Moon ran after Mamoru, but she tripped and fell down. Mamoru turned and helped her up. At that moment Beyrl took hold of Mamoru from behind and pulled him away from the blond girl.
With a wave of her boney hand a snake came up from the grass and slithered towards Usagi. The girl screamed and backed away slowly. The snake slithered more quickly towards it's chosen victem and it continued aproaaching, it's cobra like hood fanned out and then- it struck. It's fangs pierced the delicate skin on the back of Usagi's upper calf. She recoiled and tried to stand up, but fell back down. Mamoru broke free from Beyrl and held Usagi close.
"That snake. It will make you a ghost like me Sailor Moon. And then Mamoru will live here, though I do not live. I don't want him, a prince! to become a sad little ghost. But you, I will have fun watching YOU suffer." Beyrl kept laughing and laughing as Usagi preformed the Moon Healing activation of her wand's power only to see it fail. Usagi saw herself flickering in an out as the venom spread through her blood stream. In desperation she picked up the snake and threw it at Beyrl. The viper latched onto the ghost's chest and clung to the death-pale skin. Though nothing happened to the un-dead woman, the snake couldn't bite Usagi again.
Mamoru scooped Usagi up and ran with her to the portal to the other world. Sailor Moon gripped her wand and started concentrating on the flow of energy into the pink stick. It glowed brighter and brighter, even as life ebbed from Sailor Moon. She was sealing her life force into the Crystal. To seal Beyrl away forever and for all time.
Artemis watched anxiously. The others were awake too and were holding hands, generateing power for Sailor Moon. Suddenly Usagi and Mamoru opened their eyes. The blond girl was haveing trouble breathing as an invisible poison penetrated her lungs and reached for her heart. Just as her heart pushed blood out for the last time, a great burst of power jetted up from her wand and-
Queen Beyrl cried out as a white light reached into her ghost/dream world and pushed her back towards the underworld. Thousands of millions of tiny particals of moonlight spurted from the portal and rose up into the sky before pelting down on Beyrl and driveing her through the ground back to where she had escaped from. As Beyrl disapeared and the light faded, stone spread over the landscape and a lone iron tree sprouted where Beyrl had returned to the underworld.