Ancient Prophecy 4
Fight Me, Demon--Fight Me, Witch
I do not own any of the characters from Sailor Moon & Ronin Warriors. Except for Akira and the brethren of his clan.
It was turning out be a good day on the Moon Kingdom, besides the fact that Princess Serenity's father couldn't share the experience of announcing her engagement with Prince of the Earth, Prince Darien. However, the unexpected, happened. A dark shadow came across--like an eclipse--over the moon kingdom and Earth.
"Where did this darkness come from?" Sailor Mercury asked.
"Be alert," Sailor Mars warned, "We are not alone."
Seven dark shadowy demons fell from the shadows and advanced to the sailor scouts and others.
"Protect the princess!" Sailor Jupiter cried and looked at Prince Darien, "Your highness, please get her inside. We'll handle them!"
"Be careful," Princess Serenity said as Prince Darien pulled her away.
"I'll be your only defense if something happens to them," he told her. "We don't know who or what these things are."
Queen Serenity backed up and hid behind a pillar. 'I know those things.'
The five inner sailor scouts tried to fight the demons but they were much too strong for them, too fast. They could not match up to them. One by one, the sailors were killed.
"No!" Princess Serenity cried, trying to get out of Prince Darien's grasp. "My friends! What are those things? What do they want?"
"You stay here," he ordered, "let me handle them."
"But you are outnumbered!" she argued, "You won't make it! Darien!"
"Here, daughter!" Queen Serenity called, "here!"
Princess Serenity hugged her mother, "what are those things?"
"Shadow Warriors," Queen Serenity replied through a clenched mouth. "Queen Beryl's most deadly warriors."
"Who's--"
A demon-looking woman walked out of the shadowy foggy darkness. She had rear-length dark red hair and wore blue violet dress with a headdress and she carried a staff with a dark orb at the top. "Lovely home, you have here, Serenity."
"Beryl," Queen Serenity muttered angrily.
*****
They fired arrows at him but they did no damage whatsoever. The creature, man, demon, whatever it was, was over twelve feet in height and wore the most indestructible armor any of the mortals had ever seen. He was mounted on a black staillion and cut the warriors down.
"You cannot destroy me, foolish mortals!" he roared. "I am Talpa the demon emperor."
"It's no use," Akira said to Alden as the other breathren ran toward the demon to fight. "He's too strong." He grimaced, looking at the men that were all ready dead.
"Wait," Alden told him, "I have an idea. You and the others go ahead." He turned to the temple.
"Alden, where are you going?" he called after him.
Alden went to the room Master Bolo always taught them lessons about the uture. He found the box that held the magical sword and he pushed the lid off. As he grasped the sheathed, he felt a deep magic power flow into him. He placed the sheath onto his belt and went outside, pulling his helmet on that covered his eyes.
He approached the window and stared outward. No mortal weapon could touch the demon. Alden hoped the sword could be the one thing to stop him.
*****
"I demand you to stop!" Prince Darien comandded, "leave the moon kingdom!" The seven shadow warriors rounded on him but Beryl told them to hold back.
"He is mine!" she hissed.
"Darien!" Princess Serenity shouted.
"Go!" he told her, "run! I'll protect you!"
Queen Beryl created an ice shard and threw it into his heart.
"Oh no, Darien!" Princess Serenity cried, running to him as he fell down. She came to his side, "Darien, don't go!"
"Beryl, enough!" Queen Serenity shouted, "I demand that you take your shadow warriors and leave my home or face the consequences."
"He's dying…" Princess Serenity whispered, "he's gone! Mother!"
"He saved you, Serena," Queen Serenity said. "Remember his sacrifice."
"How cozy," Queen Beryl muttered.
"I cannot stand to be a part from him," Princess Serenity sobbed, reaching for his sword, "I want to be with my prince!"
"Serenity, don't do it!" Queen Beryl orderd, "If you do then his sacrifice would be meaningless! No love is worth taking your life!"
But Princess Serenity was too naïve to listen, "I'm sorry, Mother," she said and rammed the sword through her heart. She fell next to her prince.
"Nooooo!" Queen Serenity screamed, falling next to her dead daughter, "I don't beleiveit! My daughter…"
"Well, I suppose I didn't have to kill them both after all," Queen Beryl said, "she made it easier for me."
"Beryl," Queen Serenity muttered, raising her head to her, "you're the cause of all this."
*****
"Hmm?" Alden looked up at the sky, hearing a sharp scream. "That sounded like Serenity--What is going on up there?"
*****
Queen Serenity smoothed Princess's Serenity's hair and stood up as Queen Beryl stared to leave.
"No! You coward," she snarled, "I will not let you leave just yet!"
"You're going to stop me?" Queen Beryl demanded.
"I will not allow you to enjoy this victory," Queen Serenity hissed, a long white staff with wings at the top next to a giant pearl. She held it at the base, right under the pearl in an angle. "You have come to my home, killed my friends and family, destroyed my kingdom but I am not going to let you get away with it! Fight me, witch!"
*****
Alden stepped up onto the battlefield with White Smoke at his side, growling. The other slain warriors lay perished on the ground. They were unable to stop Talpa. Alden wondered where his brethren were. Did they make it?
Talpa was mounted on his black stallion before Alden. "Who are you? Have you come to appose me?"
"I will not allow you to destroy any more," Alden said, pulling out his sword, "Fight me, demon!"
*****
"Destroy her!" Queen Beryl ordered her shadow warriors, but before they got within five feet of her, Queen Serenity held up her staff and seven different rays of light hit them, changed them into crystals. They became one large crystal and it came to Queen Serenity's hand.
"This is between you and me, Beryl!" Serenity yelled, whirling the crystal into space.
"You will pay for that!" Queen Beryl shouted, holding out her staff and sending a black energy blast toward her. Queen Serenity protected heself by sending a silver-white energy blast of her own. They jumped toward each other, scratching each other's faces and sending blows with the top of their staffs. Lights of black and white shot outward toward space and to Earth.
*****
"What are those lights?" Alden wondered outloud. "Something is not right up there." But he pushed that out of his mind and focused on his fight with Talpa. He wasn't sure why, but the sword seemed to have an effect on the demon lord. His horse ran away when Black Smoke growled at it. Left weak, Talpa tried to keep his balance.
"You are good mortal," he said, "but I will not die! You shall die!"
Alden jumped and rammed his sword into Talpa. Talpa let out a howl of pain. "Only one of us will walk away from this fight! I will make sure you are the one left behind!"
Talpa fell down dead and even though Talpa was gone, Alden knew he would come back. He stared at his armored body and thrust the sword in the middle of him. A black smoke escaped the armor.
"Alden, you're alive?" Akira asked behind him.
"Akira?"
"Alden, you're alive, old friend!" he hugged him. He noticed Talpa, "you killed him. WE've won! You did it!
"Is everyone all right?" Alden asked.
"No, we're the only two survivors," he said. "But at least he is gone." He nodded to Talpa.
"He can still come back," Alden said.
"He can?"
"Evil can still bring him back."
"What can we do?"
"We will make nine magical armors from the one from his body," Alden replied. "Nine good armors and we will tie them with nine attributes. Five with the powers of the elements and four of the seasons. The attribus will be so they are not evil too. Only those with those attributes, those virutes, can wear the armors." He looked at Akira, "Will you help me?"
"Yes, of course, old friend."
"Then get started," he said. "I will be back to help soon."
"But Alden," he said after him, confused, "where are you going old friend?"
"To the moon to be with my wife and daughter," Alden answered, nodding to the moon, which wasn't full and covered by the clouds, "I told Serenity I'd come as soon as I defeated Talpa. And I know that there is something wrong up there."
"Be careful, Alden," Akira wished and Alden pulled out the pearl.
*****
Though Serenity did not look so powerful, she had won her fight with Queen Beryl. Queen Beryl fell into a crater and looked up at Serenity as Serenity came upon her.
"Do it then and be over with it," she muttered.
"No," Queen Serenity said. "I will not let you go that easy. There are things much worse than death. I am going to let you live. I am going to send you back to the Negaverse for good and then, after 1000 years, you will die when my daughter and her scouts destroy you!"
"You'll regret this, Serenity," Queen Beryl hissed.
"Go back to the Negaverse and stay there! You'll never harm the moon kingdom or Earth again!" She hit her with a brilliant, strong force and it pushed her through the crater and away from the moon to outer darkness and Queen Beryl screamed, her voice echoing.
This had left Queen Serenity weak. She looked around her home, which was now in ruins. Groaning, she walked back to Princess Serenity and fell down next to her. "I understand why you did what you did. I will send you and your court 1000 years in the future on Earth. This is the only thing I can do for you."
Alden arrived on the moon and fought back a scream when he saw the kingdom in ruins. He pulled of his helmet. "No, what happened here?" he ask himself. He found the dead bodies of five young women, sailor scouts like Pluto and Sailor Saturn. "There has been a battle…no, I've come to late! Serenity! Sailor Pluto! Saturn, someone please answer me! Anyone?"
Queen Serneity heard her husband's voice. "Alden?" she whispered quietly and stood up. "Alden, you're alive?"
He came into view, "Serenity!"
"Alden, you came at last!" she ran into his arms and kissed him. "Oh, Alden, you're alive! I thought you were dead!"
"I am back now," he said. "The demon lord is dead. I just killed him." He looked around, "Serenity, what has happened here?"
She frowned, "You weren't the only one in a battle, Alden. She came and destroyed my home--"
"She?" he asked, "who did this?"
"Queen Beryl," she replied, "It was going to be a lovely day, our daughter was going to be married to a prince of Earth. But before the ceremony, Queen Beryl showed up with her shadow warriors. They killed the sailor scouts and Darien, as he tried to save our daughter."
"Is our daughter all right?"
Queen Serenity sobbed, "She culdn't bear being apart from Darien and she killed herself! It wasn't her fault!" she cried, "It was Beryl's doing. I tried to stop her--Oh, Alden our daughter!"
Alden held her close, rubbing her back trying to calm her.
"You would've been so proud," she sobbed. "If only you were here and see how pretty she was. She wanted you to be here today."
Alden saw a girl in a dress like Serenity's perished next to a young man, "is that her, with that prince?"
"Yes," she said, "our daughter Princess Serenity, Serena."
Alden walked to her and knelt down. He couldn't believe the one time he got to see his daughter, was when she was dead. He held back his tears. "She's beautiful. Just like her mother."
Queen Serenity knelt down next to him, her palms on her left shoulder and laid her head on them. "The only thing I can do is send her and all her friends to the future on Earth. Queen Beryl is imprisoned in the Negaverse and they will kill her then."
"You can do that?" he asked.
"Yes, but it will drain me of all my strength," she said. "But it's the only thing I can do for them."
"Wait, Serenity," he said. "There is something I need to tell you. I believe Talpa will come back one day, maybe far into the future. Akira and I are the only ones who survived."
She gasped, "He killed all of your brethren? Even Master Bolo?"
He nodded. "Nothing could touch the demon, except this sword. Akira and I are going to make armors from his body. I want you to see the armors."
"Let me handle the job, your majesty," Pluto said, appearing with Saturn at her side.
"You two survived!" Queen Serenity cried.
"I know what we are to do," Alden said, "The elemental armors will be found by five young men, known as the ronin warriors. The four seasonal ones will be given to warlords. Talpa will try to get his armors again and the four he will get back and use the warlords as his servants. The sailor scouts will meet the ronins and fight together to defeat both Queen Beryl and Talpa."
"Sounds like a plan," Pluto said. "Saturn, help me gather the perished and bring them to the time gate."
Two more sailor scouts appeared, Uranus and Neptune.
"Uranus and Neptune," Serenity whispered.
"We'll help," Uranus said and went to pick up Sailor Mars and Jupiter.
"Let me say goodbye to my daughter first," she bent down next to her and kissed her forehead. "You will be on Earth, like you've always wanted.
"Everything will turn out for the best," Neptune said, trying to make them feel better, "you'll see." She picked up Sailor Mercury.
"We'll take care of everything for you," Sailor Saturn said. "Go back to Earth. We know you miss it."
"Thank you," Serenity whispered.
"Akira would like to see you again," Alden said. "We all missed you."
"Good-bye, your majesties," the outer scouts chorused and Alden and Serenity returned to Earth for the final time.
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