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Chapter 27 – The beginning of the end

Heero's gun dropped to the floor, followed by his body as his knees failed to hold. His eyes shut, not wanting to open.

"You're not Sailor Mercury! You are an illusion, you are an illusion..." whispered Heero hoarsely.

"Heero's cracked or did we miss something important?" asked Duo walking over to his best friend.

"What are you doing here in the first place?" asked Michiru.

"We saw it on the news. How Heero leapt infront of a truck to save that man looking onna!" exclaimed Wufei angrily.

"He's right! She isn't Sailor Mercury!" exclaimed Sailor Ar. "And Heero knows it! Come on Heero, get up and be a soldier. You are the only one who can help us!"

Heero's eyes shut firmly. Why didn't he just shoot? He wasn't the perfect soldier he once was! He was a stupid jerk!

The same loud cry filled his ears again.

"Heero! I know you're mad at me, but please! I'm so sorry!" the voice called.

That's Sailor Mercury! I, no, I can't... NO! yeah but… NO, but you have to, NO!!! You love her you moron!!!! Heero stopped. His eyes flung open and he got up and stared at Sailor Herm again. Duo jumped back from him with a worried look on his face.

"You aren't Sailor Mercury! You are an illusion, hidden under a watery blanket and you have Sailor Mercury somewhere. I want her back!" said Heero firmly, his gun pointing at her head again.

Sailor Mercury's cool face faltered a little and a look of worry flickered on her face.

"I am Sailor Mercury! You just don't want me to be like this Heero!"

A loud noise came from Heero's gun as Mercury disapparated.

Damnit, I was too late thought Heero.

Damn him! He knows and he can see it! His true powers will come out soon! This must stop!!! thought Sailor Herm as she stared down at Heero from the ceiling.

"Come back you coward!" screamed Sailor Ar with tears in her eyes suddenly. "Come back, scout of water, illusion and ice! Come back, Sailor Herm!!!" Sailor Ar's voice carried across the hall silencing everyone.

Sailor Herm's pupils dilated in fear. "She knows" whispered Sailor Herm, watching her sister's movements.

"Bring back Sailor Mercury!" said Heero trying to block out the voice in his head – "I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry Heero. Please forgive me!!!!"

"Everyone stop!" exclaimed Quatre suddenly, who hadn't said anything the whole time. The crowd turned to look at him quickly. "Screaming to thin air won't help anyone and you're wasting your breath. You have to think of strategy."

"Nah, I dunno," joked Duo suddenly. "Can't we just splatter her with a gundam?"

"You can't do that. This fight isn't in size, but in physical strength of the person's magical capacity. No matter how big a machine you throw at her, it's just the same. She'll bounce off a mouse with the same energy level as a gundam, because there is no magical capacity in it," explained Minako. Duo blinked. He didn't know Minako could say something as smart as that.

Heero's eyes narrowed and he looked around the room. He could feel her prescence. She was still here! She wouldn't leave on such an important conversation.

Herm stared at Heero. Suddenly his head shot up and his eyes stared right at her as if he could see her. He glared angrily and threw out his gun shooting at the ceiling, causing the scouts to shriek.

"Heero, why are you shooting the ceiling?" asked Makoto.

"I know she's here! Can't you sense it?" asked Heero shooting at the ceiling a couple more times.

"Why can you sense her, and her own sister can't?" growled Wufei.

"I don't know," whispered Sailor Ar through tears.

Heero's shots suddenly became more rapid and louder. Suddenly a bullet rebounded in the air and dropped to the floor silencing Heero. Heero shot again until a bullet rebounded again.

"Damn that bitch! I know she's here!!!!" screamed Heero. "AARRRGGGHHH!!!!"

"Heero, relax!!!" exclaimed Duo but he hoped Heero would hit her again.

"Show yourself, SAILOR HERM!!!" screamed Heero. Suddenly the gun flew out of his hand and he felt a strong force hit his cheek. Jumping back to his feet he punched the air before leaping for his gun and twirling around, shooting at the ceiling again.

"Very well Heero. You want me to show myself, I will! But I'll let you see your precious love too!" echoed a voice in the hall. Heero backed away a bit as Sailor Herm appeared. A huge vine appeared in front of Sailor Herm, with Sailor Mercury wrapped in it. The thorns were protruding through her skin and a thin line of blood was trickling down the vine.

Heero shot at the vine but it tightened itself around Sailor Mercury. She opened her mouth to scream but nothing came out except a low whine.

"Damn you for doing this! Why?" said Sailor Moon walking infront of Heero. Suddenly she fell into a run and grabbed the vine with her hands trying to pull it off Sailor Mercury.

"Why you ask?" said Sailor Herm. Her hands flicked and Sailor Moon went flying back. Mamoru leapt forward and caught her before she collided with the floor.

"Because Sailor Mercury and Sailor Ar the only two Sailor scouts who can challenge me! That's why! But I can beat them both. I was close to killing Sailor Ar today, if it wasn't for Heero who jumped on me giving Sailor Ar time to cool down. Sailor Mercury's life is in my hands, and I love watching her cry in mercy. Now that sailor Mercury's energy has almost been sucked out I think I can get Sailor Ar too!" said Sailor Herm throwing out her hand.

Everyone flew across the room except Sailor Ar who was enjoying the wind, spreading the flames surrounding her body. She felt the power rise within her.

"You are a foolish girl," said Sailor Herm throwing out a water beam that circled around Sailor Ar in a flash and covered her in stinging water. Sailor Ar screamed in pain as a watery string surrounded her body and tightened her, placing her next to Sailor Mercury.

"Well, now that I have both of them I can't afford to lose them," said Sailor Herm through Ar's screams. "Never challenge water against fire, Sailor Ar. I told you, you were foolish!"

A long watery blanket surrounded the two struggling scouts as Heero began firing at it again.

"Let them go," said Heero in his cold monotone voice.

"Or what?" asked Sailor Herm in an amused voice. "Now that I have those two, there is only one person that can challenge me! But I will destroy him before his power awakens. Its quite funny actually, that the last person who could possibly kill me is pointing a useless gun at me face right now and is ready to die this minute. Heero Yuy, I will destroy you before you let loose your powers!" Sailor Herm said in a triumph voice.

Heero's hand shook. Me? ME!? How could I do anything! I have no powers!  Heero's finger slipped, shooting a bullet at Sailor Herm. She smirked and lifted her hand making the bullet reverse and shoot at Heero at amazing speed. Heero leapt into the air dodging the bullet but it twirled around and shot at him again.

"Wish you hadn't done that eh? I wonder how long you'll manage to dodge that bullet," said Sailor Herm.

"Please stop Herm! What you are doing is wrong! I will stop you! Scouts, please help me!" exclaimed Sailor Moon closing her eyes.

Mars Power

Venus Power

Jupiter Power

Saturn Power

Uranu … AAAAAAA

Uranus flew back, hitting the wall and collapsing into unconsciousness.

"Uranus," exclaimed Michiru, rushing to her girlfriend's side.

"You can't hurt me Sailor Moon. I told you, the only ones who could challenge me aren't capable of it anymore. There is nothing you can do. Foolish new scouts! You should have united with Sailor Moon. Then you could have killed me, but you followed your hearts and stayed with Heero. Now look what you have brought onto yourselves. Friendship and love is a weak illusion," said Herm.

"It's not weak. They followed their hearts and I'm not a little bit mad at them for it. I'm sure if I was in their position I would have chosen the same thing," said Sailor Moon.

"That's right! We don't care if we perish right here and right now as long as we've had our taste of love, friendship and happiness," said Sailor Hade.

"You're all wrong! You're all so wrong!" laughed Sailor Herm. "You think I'm going to let you go the easy way by killing you! No, of course not! I will let you suffer like the other two and watch as this world falls to bits! I will enjoy your torture for the rest of eternity." Sailor Herm licked her lips in anticipation. She couldn't wait any longer. She was sick of waiting. Her finger pointed to the sky as a small ball of water energy appeared. She threw it at the bullet, making it fly straight at Heero before he could dodge it. The bullet pierced his skin and blood shot out, covering his arm in a red liquid.

"Damn you," said Heero letting all his bullets fly at Herm at once. She smiled and flicked them off, shooting them back at him.

"Alright, this time I won't cheat. Lets see how long you can really dodge four bullets at once," said Sailor Herm, before looking at Sailor Ar who seemed to still be struggling.

Heero's mind raced as he leapt into the air and tried to knock the bullet off course using his gun as a shield. For once in his life he knew he was so close to dying. One wrong move or slip would mean his death and suddenly he didn't want it anymore. The throbbing pain in his arm grew stronger as he leapt through the air.

"This is very impressive. I've been considering in leaving you like that for eternity instead of putting you in a vine like the others," said Sailor Herm.

"Then I have no choice," said Sailor Saturn stepping forward. "I will destroy you by using my double edged sword. I will erase you from time!"

Sailor Herm laughed and threw out her beam, cracking Sailor Saturn's glave scythe in half and throwing the sharp part of it in her leg, pinning her down to the floor. Saturn's piercing scream filled Heero's ears and he turned not realising that the bullets were shooting straight at him from all opposite sides. Sailor Ar screamed and with the last of her strength broke loose of the power beam tied around her and jumped infront of the bullet as did Hade, Aphro and Ze. Before Heero knew it the scouts had surrounded him and shielded him as the bullets flew into their bodies.

Heero dropped to his knees breathless as the girls collapsed to the ground in a heap of blood.

"Damn them! Jumping infront of those bullets the way they did. They're cowards! I was planning to torture them but they took the easy way out by killing themselves!"

"Killing?" asked Heero dumbly. His eyes glanced quickly at their bodies, realising the bullets had pierced them in the stomach. Blood poured around him.

"How dare you call them cowards! They loved Heero and didn't want to see their prince dying! They protected the only one who could save the world!" exclaimed someone behind Heero. He looked up to see Sailor Pluto standing infront of him.

"Prince?" asked Sailor Venus.

"I came here because I was concerned that Endymion, Mamoru had come here but I see I came at the wrong time. I should have told you earlier that he was the prince!" said Pluto.

"Why?" asked Heero staring at the breathless girls around him.

"To save, the one person we ever loved," said Aphro.

"To help the only person who could help save this world," whispered Ze.

"To help you realise your powers," said Hade.

"To show you love, the way you showed me what happiness and friendship was when my heart was still cold and mind was naïve," said Ar.

"Damn," said Aphro through tears as her body began to disappear. "I wish I could have met you earlier. I was too late wasn't I?" her voice faded until only the evidence of their existence, the blood on the floor, was left.

"This is what Pluto meant by them being destined to the princes, but not receiving their princes in the end," said Heero. "How cruel for them to die in such a way! They should have united and learned to love their own princes!"

"That's right Heero. They should have! Because I... was destined... to... you," said Herm with a little laugh.

AN: AHAHAHAHAHAHA! MAJOR CLIFFIE!!! AND THAT'S ALL FOR THE DAY!!! EEEEEEHEEEE HEEEE HEEE! If you want the next chapter up tomorrow, I better be getting a lot of reviews for these chapters. So let's make it, for the next chapter to come out tomorrow, I must have 10 more reviews ^_^ and who knowz, it may just be the last one, and super long too ^_~ oops, did I say too much? :P