Disclaimer in Prologue.......



Death and Renewal: Part 3
by Sarah Lynne

Zoomite had followed the suspected Senshi to a Shinto
temple. When she happened to look
through a window, the planet glare nearly blinded her
senses. Every person in the room,
excluding the cats, had planet power. Some in more
degrees than others. These people were
definitely Sailor Senshi. Zoomite chuckled as she
opened a portal behind herself. Soon, those
planet powers would be tested.

* * *

After hearing Rei's hurried words, the Senshi
transformed into their respective alteregos.
They charged together to their hardest battle yet.
Sailor Mercury halted at the edge of the battle
to analyze the portal with her visor to make sure all
their enemies were present. She flipped her
Mercury computer open and started punching away.
Numbers started to flash and the final result
was not good. All of the youma's were out, but a
far larger energy source was approaching the
portal from the other side. This energy source far
surpassed any of the Senshi, including Sailor
Pluto. Soon Sailor Mercury had to look away from the
portal with her visor on, otherwise she
would have been blinded.
Meanwhile, the other Senshi were handling the
situation the best they could. The youma
were unusually powerful this time. Yet the Senshi's
powers seemed capable of handling the
pressure. The shouts of battle rang throughout the
battlefield. Jupiter was handling a ring of
twelve youma's with her lightening. Yet she wasn't
coming out unscathed. Small and large cuts
could be seen over her legs and arms. The youma's
claws were speckled with her blood. Sailor
Mars was faring worse than Jupiter. She seemed to
limp slightly on her right foot and a large
gash on her forehead let blood flow into her eyes
and down her cheeks. This gave her a grisly
look as she threw fireballs at the eleven youma's
surrounding her. Sailor Venus was doing great.
Her body was nearly unscathed except for a slight
gash on her bicep. The ten youma's around
her were going under in a hailstorm of love chains
and crescent beams. Pluto was throwing her
dead scream attack around. So far none of the
youma's seemed to have the power to match
her. Her body was untouched by cuts and bruises.
Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Kamen were
proving a hard match for the youma's as well.
Tuxedo Kamen would be a decoy for youma's
while Sailor Moon used her scepter to finish them off.
They were pretty much unmarked as well.

* * *

Sailor Jupiter threw her lightening as fast as she
could at the youmas. The cuts on her
arms and legs singed a little, but they didn't hamper her
performance. Soon every youma
around her was gone. Jupiter turned her emerald green eyes
upon her fellow Senshi to assess
their damage. Besides Mars' wounds, the Senshi's damage was
minimal. Jupiter sighed with
relief. Her Senshi comrades had survived the hardest fight
they had endured since Wiseman.
But her relief was short lived as a bright ring of light
started to emerge from the still standing
portal. As the light grew even more intense, a gray-clad
leg started to step through...

* * *

Sailor Mars winced in pain as she landed on her
bad ankle again. The blood running into
her eyes threw her depth perception off. Thankfully, she
had been throwing fireballs long enough
to sense where her targets were. Otherwise, she would
have been toast long ago. Finally, she
threw her last fireball at the eleventh youma.
Afterwards, she gazed at her fellow Senshi with
her mystical violet eyes. Except for her, major
injuries had been avoided. Then a craze of bad
vibes hit Mars with the force of a cement truck.
At the same time, a bright light started to
emanate from the black portal. Mars was forced to
shade her eyes as a leg started to emerge
from the portal...

* * *

Sailor Venus finished off the last of her
opponents with a love chain. The gash on her
arm stung a little, but that was the extent of her
injuries. As she looked the scene over with her
bright blue eyes, the same couldn't be said for Sailor
Mars. The gash on her forehead looked
pretty bad. Yet head wounds tended to bleed more than
other wounds. The rest of the Senshi
were in good shape, except for Jupiter who had enough
cuts on her arms and legs to make an
army surgeon faint. Venus was about to congratulate her
fellow Senshi when a bright light
started to come from the black portal. This light got so
bright, Venus had to look away. Through
her fingers, she glimpsed a leg emerging from the light...

* * *

Sailor Pluto finished the last of the
attacking youmas and looked around with her red
eyes. Her fellow Senshi were in various stages
of injury. Mars was seriously hurt with a
sprained ankle and a bad gash on her forehead.
Venus and Jupiter sported cuts, but that was
all. Moon, Mercury, and Tuxedo Kamen were uninjured.
Pluto was tired. She was not used to
directly fighting enemies. Guarding the Time Gate
was usually an uneventful job. She practiced
her attacks, but that was different than actually
using them in combat. Her thoughts were
brought back to the present when a bright light started
to come from the portal. Pluto felt great
power behind this light. The Senshi were in for a greater
fight than their last one. Soon the light
got so bright, she had to look away as a leg started to
exit the portal and light...

* * *
Sailor Mercury winced as a bright light started
to come through her visor. It got so bright
she had to look away and take her visor off. She
looked to the portal to see a light starting to
emanate from it. Before it got too bright, she
turned her ice blue eyes to look upon her fellow
Senshi. Except for Jupiter's and Venus's minor injuries
and Mar's semiserious injuries, they were
alright. She started to shout a warning of something
coming through the portal, when a bright
flash from the portal stopped her. She looked through
her fingers to see a gray-clad leg coming
through the portal...

* * *

Sailor Moon finished off the last of the
youmas attacking her with the help of Tuxedo
Kamen. As she paused to catch her breath, she
checked out her followers. Except for some
injuries, they were fine. She turned her sky blue
eyes to see if her love was alright. He was just
fine. He smiled his radiant smile at her to reassure
her. His blue eyes brightened as they looked
at her. Moon was going to tell him how much she loved
him, when a bright light from the portal
stopped her. She soon had to shade her eyes from the
light. A leg started to appear from the
portal, and Moon started to feel come up her spine.
Something bad was going to happen to
someone she loved...

* * *

Tuxedo Kamen watched as his love finished
off the last of their enemies. His heart
swelled with pride as her blond hair flared with
energy and her blue eyes flashed with happiness.
He couldn't wait to take her from this place and
tell her how much he loved her. When she
turned her brilliant eyes on him, he smiled at her
to congratulate her. Then a dark feeling
entered his mind. Chills started to run his spine
as he looked to the portal in trepidation. A bright
light was illuminating the area. It was so bright,
he had to look away. He didn't see the leg come
through the portal...

* * *

Sailor Moon turned to look at her love after she
had finished off the last foul youma. The
bright light coming from the still open portal nearly
blinded her. She shielded her eyes with her
gloved hand as she tried to talk to her love...

* * *

General Mayhew walked in with triumph
glittering in his eyes. He was able to
see through Zoomite's, who was huddling in a corner
and whimpering, eyes to view his stunned
enemies. Unfortunately only one Senshi was badly
injured. That was the girl in red. As he
stepped through the portal, it shut down behind,
ending the bright glare so everyone could look
up again. Their jaws dropped and Sailor Pluto gasped.
There before them stood a large man
with a powerful build. From the way he was glowing,
you could tell he had powerful magic. The
rawhide whip in his right hand seemed to have a life of
its own. His eyes roamed till they came
to a blackclad figure with a tophat. Through the eye
holes of the mask, eyes of the purest blue
met his violet ones. Mayhew gasped to see his love
here on the side of the enemy. Then he
figured that Endymion's good heart would lead him down
a pathway of goodness. How lovely!
Then he saw the figure beside his unannounced love.
The tiara and the moon scepter in her
hand gave her away. It was his rival!! Well he
would just change that.
Before the Senshi could think, deadly magic
was hurled their way. Large blasts crashed
into Mercury, Mars, and Jupiter. They fell back
with cries and lay unconscious on the bloody
pavement. Venus, Moon, Pluto, and Tuxedo Kamen
shouted in protest, but they had to dodge
their own dangers. Pluto crashed against a wall
trying to get away from her blast. As she hit the
wall, she bounded back to hit Mayhew in the chest
with her heels. Mayhew fell back with a grunt.
Yet, before Pluto could move, a blast, crashed into
her from Mayhew';s outstretched hand.
Before he had recovered from Pluto's charge, Venus
sent the love chain into his back. He fell
forward and did a 180. A magic defense device from
his belt sent a bolt of lightening into
Venus's middle. She was electrified with 345 volts.
(I don't know much about electronics. Is this
a deadly amount or is it just static electricity?
Go ahead and e-mail me and let me know.) She
fell down into unconsciousness. Tuxedo Kamen
and Sailor Moon gaped in shock at how fast the
Senshi had been taken down. This would be the
battle of their lives.

* * *

Zoomite whimpered as her Master defeated
the Senshi. Her Master was so wonderful
and glorious!! She wished even now how she could
drag him off to bed. Then a black-redlined
cape filled her vision. She looked up to see her
rival standing before, blocking her wonderful
sight. She decided to right this great wrong.
She started to gather all her energy and life-force
into one spear of dark energy. When the deadly
weapon was ready, she hurled with all her might
and fell into eternal darkness...

* * *

Mayhew saw that he couldn't defeat Sailor
Moon when he switched to his magic sight.
He was able to see her magnificent aura of white
energy that was getting ready to blast him. So
he decided that if he couldn't have Endymion, then
no one could, especially that slut. He started
to gather his energy and life-force into one spear
of dark energy. When the deadly weapon was
ready, he hurled it with all his might and collapsed
into oblivion...

* * *

Tuxedo Kamen saw the crackling dark
energy headed his way and started to dodge it,
but then excruciating pain shot through his
back and entire body as the dark energy spear
pierced him from behind. The frontal one
slammed into the right side of his chest and he fell
with an agonizing scream, the dark energy disappearing
having done its evil work.

* * *

Sailor Moon was getting ready to morph into
Princess Serenity as she was better able to
handle the great power of the crystal when she saw a
bright glow start to surround General
Mayhew. As her sight morphed into magic sight, able
to see auras, she was able to see the bright
glow in her other sight as in the regular sight.
It soon centered around his hands in the form of a
spear and then it shot forward with the speed of an
angry Senshi. She saw its target but was too
slow to do anything about it. Her blue eyes darkened
with agony and pain as she saw her love
fall. Her heart was rent in two when his agonizing
scream filled mind spirit.
She ran to his side and cradled his limp head.
His eyes fluttered open and his mouth
opened to speak around his grasping breaths. She
looked down at his bloody chest and had to
look away quickly. She could feel the life draining
from him as was his blood. His breathing
slowed and his eyes fluttered more slowly.

* * *

Tuxedo Kamen could feel the oncoming
darkness. The dark forever oblivion waited for
him. He just wished he didn't have to leave his
one true love. His eyes opened slowly to gaze at
her lovliness one last time. She seemed to glow
with the leftover energy from the battle. He
smiled a wan smile and said what had been in his
heart for untold millennia. "I....love..........you,
my...............soul."
The last feeling he had was of her soft,
hot tears on his cheeks as he left for the calling
darkness.

* * *

Sailor Moon saw his beautiful smile and
her tears just fell harder. She knew that she
would never see that smile again. She heard his
last words and her being was rent in two.
"I....love..........you, my...............soul."
After he had gone limp in her arms, a
harsh, wailing cry was rent form her lips. The cry
echoed throughout Tokyo as the Princess Serenity's
soul and heart were shattered and left for
rags in the wind of her now barren essence.

...to be continued.


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