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Sailor Moon L(ovecraft)
Episode 3.6!
The Storm Breaks
Dance, Interrupted
Note: Understanding this story requires no prior knowledge of H.P. Lovecraft or any of his writings. It does, however require a fair bit of knowledge of the anime series Sailor Moon. Like you'd be here if you didn't already have that.
This story takes place after Sailor Moon S. It can be considered an alternate universe, since it takes the place of Sailor Moon Super S.
16
"So let me get this straight; you like Ami, but you were going to ask Minako because you thought that she liked you? Baka!"
WHACK!
Iain rubbed his head and glared at Haruka as she continued to expound on his stupidity when it came to relationships. "You are a frickin' moron." Iain opened his mouth to speak, but she didn't let him. "And certainly don't listen to monkey-boy Toji over there. Even if you had been sure she liked you, doing that would have only ended up with you hurting Minako and denying yourself happiness. You can't be greedy when it comes to relationships. You have to have mutual attraction-" he almost interrupted again at this point, but she just kept talking "-physical and emotional. You have no emotional attraction for Minako, do you?"
"I, er-"
"Didn't think so. So what you've got to do, if you are really so worried about saving face, is find out if Ami would be willing to go to the dance with you, and then ask her and go from there." She shrugged. "Sorry I can't help you more; Michiru's my soul mate, so it was pretty easy to get together with her."
Iain snorted. Yeah, well, I've seen what happens to soul mates, he thought, a little resentfully. Why couldn't he have a soul mate?
17
Ami sighed as she packed up her books at the end of history. The dance was only a couple days away and no one had asked her. It wasn't really being dateless that bothered her; it was that all her friends had dates. Usually at dances, the four Inner Senshi could have a fun time hanging out and laughing at Usagi stepping on Mamoru's feet, but this time... she'd be all alone... a wallflower all over again...
Sigh. She was just about to leave when Misato said, "Hey, Ami-san? Can you stay a minute?"
"Oh, sure, Misato-san." She paused as Misato puttered around her desk for a moment, then walked over.
"First of all, I want to congratulate you. You and Rei have the top grades in my class. I'm very impressed with you both." Misato smiled at Ami, who blushed a little with pleasure. "Secondly, I was wondering how my penguin is..."
Ami laughed. "He's doing well, Misato-san. I think my mom is a little irritated with him, though."
Misato frowned. "Why? What'd he do?"
Ami laughed again. "Beat her at chess the other night. Three times."
Misato blinked. "Well, he's had a good teacher. I am fairly well versed in strategy; chess or otherwise." She paused for a moment. "Of course, he beats me, too..."
They both laughed at that. Then Ami said, "Well, is that all? I need to go shopping for a dress for the dance..."
"So you found a date? Who is he?" Misato grinned.
Ami blushed. "Uh, well, I don't really have a date, but I'm still going, so..."
"Really? Gee, there was a student fourth period who was complaining very vocally about not having a date... Iain, the exchange student Washu's experimenting on, with the sword. You know him, right?"
"Oh, Caduceus-kun?"
Misato nodded. "Yeah, he was whining like the world was ending and his rocket had been delayed. Toji nearly beat him to death." She chuckled. "You should ask him. He lives with Rei, doesn't he? I know you two're friends, so it should work pretty well."
Ami was blushing again. "Er, I don't know, Misato-san. I... I'm not sure I'm up to... you know, after Urawa..."
Misato's face softened. "I'm sorry. I was only trying to help." She unconsciously touched her cross pendant. "I'm sure his soul is somewhere better than this."
Ami smiled. "Thank you, Sensei. I need to be going now."
"All right, don't have too much fun!" Misato winked, and got to work. Ami left.
18
When Ami got home, she was surprised to find the door unlocked. Mom must be home, she thought. That's unusual.
As she walked in, she called, "Taidama!"
Then she stepped into the living room, and both her jaw and her shopping bags dropped. Iain was sitting at the coffee table blinking stupidly at a checkers board, as Pen-pen took seven of his pieces in one move. "Well, crap," he said.
"What the heck are you doing in my home?!" Ami screeched.
He looked up at her, his face brightening. "Oh, Ami! Hi! Uh, I came by to talk to you, and Pen-pen let me in. You weren't home, so he challenged me to a game of chess while we waited." He made a face of the checkers board. "We switched to checkers after he checkmated me the third time."
"Are you crazy?!" she nearly shouted. "What if my mother had come home?"
"Oh, hi, Ami," her mother said, coming in from the kitchen with a plate of cookies. "Pen-pen let your friend in, and I couldn't very well kick him out when he needs to talk to you, so I made him some cookies." She smiled cheerfully as she sat down the cookies. "Help yourselves. I'll bring out some milk in a second."
Ami briefly wondered if her mother had been kidnapped by aliens. "Mom? Why...?" She couldn't think of a way to phrase the question.
"Why didn't I get angry and kick him out like I should have?" Ms. Mizuno asked. "I don't mind. I think Pen-pen is responsible enough; he can make judgments on whether to let someone in or not."
"He's a penguin, mother!"
"He beats us at chess. He reads the paper and watches TV. He uses the computer. He-"
Iain spoke up, then. "If you guys had a better computer, I could play Unreal Tournament with him over the Internet."
Ami's mother nodded. "See? He's just as intelligent as any human. I don't have a problem with him letting in friends to play."
Ami stared at her mother as if she was crazy.
"And anyway. Playing with him has improved my chess game. I beat the Director for the first time yesterday. I'm feeling lenient." With that, she withdrew to the kitchen.
Iain smirked at her, while she just rolled her eyes. That made more sense. She sat down next to Iain on the couch, and pointed out his best move. Iain grinned as he took it, while Pen-pen gave her The Evil Eye. She rolled her eyes at him. "It doesn't matter. He can't win anyway."
Pen-pen shrugged, then waddled off to get a soda. Ami looked at Iain. "So what did you need to talk to me about?"
He blinked, then got very red. "Urm, well, I, uh, I was just, er, wondering, you know, if you, if you, er-"
She sat there listening to him stutter, and was suddenly blushing, herself. She smiled though, and said, "If I'll go to the dance with you?"
He blinked. "Yeah, that."
She hesitated for a moment. She still had points where she would break down crying over Urawa. However, she didn't think Urawa would want her to go be lonely at the dance while her friends had dates. Besides, Iain could be sweet, in a pathetic kind of way. If Naru could go out with Umino, it wouldn't hurt her to go on a date with Iain.
"Sure. I'll go with you."
His eyes lit up. "Really?! Great! I, er, well, I need to go do some homework for Misato's class, but I'll, er, talk to you later!" He made a fairly graceless exit, nearly falling head over heels as he nervously backed out of the front door.
She managed to contain her laughter until after he left.
19
On the night of the dance, Yuiichiro was in a funk. Kensuke had already come and picked up Rei, and he couldn't believe she'd agreed to go out with such a dork. If Grandpa hadn't been there seeing them off, Yuiichiro would have kicked the living daylights out of that pitiful excuse for a male. He saw red just thinking about Kensuke being with Rei.
Having nothing better to do, he was busy reading the book Grandpa had given him. This was the first time he was reading it, since he'd sort of ignored it the last couple of days. He was too angry to sleep right now, though, so he was reading in hopes of boring himself into that happy state of being.
So far, he wasn't seeing any connection to the little Shinto training he'd absorbed so far in his career as a temple acolyte. It seemed to be a sort of strange babbling about Great Old Ones and Outer Gods; he was very sure that the ancestors didn't have those terms applied to them. Not to mention he didn't recognize any of the names.
"'...and Y'golanac will come forth, to consume the enemies of his host and take that Innocence the host has so long desired to taste. Unjustly spurned, ignored in favor of men far less worthy, the Maid mocks him, so in righteous retribution...' Fuck, sounds like me. Poor guy." Suddenly, he leapt to his feet, anger twisting his face. "Damn it, I don't have to take this! I'm going over there and telling Rei that she has to be with me!"
And with that, he charged out of his room. As he thought about what they would do when Rei finally understood that they were meant to be together, he licked his lips hungrily. Of course, both tongue and lips were on his palm...
20
Rei sighed. It would have almost been better if we'd come without dates. At least the others are having fun... She was standing near a wall, reflecting on the group dynamics thus far into the evening. Ami and Iain had been nervous as hell around each other all night, but also had seemed to be happy. Minako was on Cloud Nine, of course, dancing all the time with the attractive Maxwell Duo, and they'd all been surprised about how inoffensive Toji had been around Makoto so far.
Rei, though, was bored to tears by Kensuke's prattle about guns and warfare. She enjoyed military history, but he somehow managed to ignore all the strategy that went into battles and wars, and focused on explosions. It was all very well and good for a while, but she was quickly getting tired of it.
So, she had sent him off to get some punch just as a slow dance started. He'd looked a little disappointed, but gone. She stood in her elegant red dress, watching her friends dance with their dates. Duo seemed to be grateful for the break from fast dancing with energetic Minako, but Makoto was wincing a lot as Toji kept accidentally stepping on her feet. Poor Makoto, she thought. At least they get along.
Iain and Ami made a pretty pathetic dance couple. Yeah, they were slow dancing, but their arms were almost straight, as if they were afraid to touch each other. Rei noticed Michiru and Haruka laughing at the couple a little ways away.
She felt, rather than saw or heard, someone come up beside her. "May I have this dance, m'lady?" she heard the figure say. She blinked and turned to him, for he had the most familiar voice...
He was tall, as tall a Mamoru, and as broad shouldered and athletic looking. In a sharply tailored grey tuxedo, he smiled charmingly and wiped a wisp of blonde hair out of his face. The only catch was that he wore a Tuxedo Kamen style mask over his eyes, concealing his features. She went with her first instinct at the sight: she laughed and said, "Who're you, Tuxedo Kamen's brother?"
He bowed low and said, "I cannot produce roses from nothing, m'lady, but I do have this." He held up a pink chrysanthemum, and with one deft movement affixed it in her hair. She blinked in surprise, and let him lead her out onto the dance floor, where they began to dance.
He led her in some sort of waltz. She couldn't remember learning it, but somehow she seemed to know the steps to it anyway. Far more advanced than the shuffling hugs that the other slow dancers were engaged in, it soon began drawing attention. Within moments, other couples had stopped their shuffling, and were simply watching the elegant performance. Kensuke was blinking in surprise with two glasses of punch. Not that he felt he had any reason to complain; if some rich handsome senior wanted to steal a beautiful girl like Rei away from him, he was at least thankful he'd spent time with her.
She didn't notice all this, though; her attention was fixed solely on her dance partner. This whole situation was so surreal, and yet, so dreadfully familiar... "Who are you?" she whispered.
"A friend," he replied. "We knew each other long ago."
Even his voice was familiar. She was about to reply when something blurred by them and hit the wall with a loud crunch. She turned and looked; it was a person. A person that was now leaking bodily fluids on the floor next to the wall. "Kami-sama..." she whispered, her eyes widening as she turned to look the direction that shattered figure had come from.
Standing in the doorway was Yuiichiro, his eyes glowing. His hands hung limply by his sides, but she couldn't help noticing the twitching things extending from his palms. Wondering what he was doing, she started to move towards him, but before she took three steps, someone grabbed her arm. She turned to find that it was her mysterious dance partner. "I suggest you do what you have to do, m'lady. This doesn't look safe. Young Caduceus and I will hold him off until you can return."
"But, it's Yuiichiro!" she snapped. "I need to find out what's going on." She pulled away. As she turned back, though, she saw that Iain had already intercepted him.
"Yuiichiro, dude, what are you doing?!" he cried, aghast.
"I'm here for Rei," Yuiichiro said, as he took a step towards her. His eyes were fixed on her, still glowing, and he looked wrong, somehow. Even past the glowing eyes.
"What do you mean, man?" Iain said, half slipping into English in his agitation. Then his eyes widened. "Holy shit- his head is shrinking!"
And so it was. With every step, his head grew smaller, and his body grew larger. He'd taken five steps into the room when his clothes started ripping and falling away. He grew huge, flabby, and naked. Worst of all, his head kept shrinking, until it disappeared entirely.
Rei stared in horror as the monster that seconds ago had been Yuiichiro advanced on her and raised its hands, exposing a toothy mouth in each palm, each with a long thick tongue licking its lips. Behind her, her mysterious dance partner said, "Professor, we've got the Hands That Feed up here." A pause. "No, I mean the fucking Defiler! You know who I'm talking about!"
Then Iain drew Lightbringer, lighting up the darkened gym, and lashed out at the monster. One of the hands came up and caught the blade by the tip, the sword going right into the mouth. And going farther, as the mouth seemed to gulp at it, swallowing the sword and finally biting it off at the hilt. Darkness returned.
"IAIN!" Ami screamed. The people in the gym, who had until this point been frozen, watching, could move again. They began screaming and running away. Rei started struggling forward, trying to pull out an ofuda as the monster's other hand came up and slammed into his face, palm first, before he even had a chance to scream. The huge fingers closed around his head, and she didn't want to imagine what that mouth was doing to his face. The other hand, after swallowing, said in a strange, chittering voice, "Tasty good, we like swords!" With that it ripped off his pants as he struggled wildly.
Oh, shit! Not that! Rei thought frantically, and threw the ofuda as she broke free of the crowd. She saw the other Senshi burst out of the crowd as well, all the alter egos except for those of Moon, Pluto, and Saturn,. The ofuda smacked into the creature's flabby chest, and the hand that was about to grasp Iain's other head gave a chittering cry. The creature dropped the poor exchange student, and staggered back, shrinking and growing a head. Iain gasped and vomited, and then Duo, of all people, rushed up and grabbed him, pulling him away from the creature.
Within moments, Yuiichiro was standing there, still naked. He looked around wildly, stared at the half naked boy before him and the angry girls closing in, then turned and ran. They could see that there were still mouths in his palms as he left.
21
The dance was over. Only the Senshi and their dates remained. Rei looked around. She didn't see her mysterious dance partner, but Toji and Kensuke were hanging back nervously. Iain was sobbing on the floor, trying to cover himself with his ripped pants, while Duo knelt beside him, as a loss on what to do. Her three friends were still stunned by the horror of what they had seen, while Haruka and Michiru raced to the door. As soon as they had glanced both ways out in the hall, Haruka yelled, "FUCK! He's gone already! He's fucking fast!" They moved out of sight into the hallway.
"What the fuck was that thing?" Duo asked no one in particular. Toji and Kensuke came up silently and pulled Iain, still crying, to his feet. His face seemed none the worse for wear, except for the glistening around his... mouth...
"It kissed him, didn't it?" Rei asked Minako softly.
She nodded. "I think so."
Rei swallowed. "Fuck." None of them swore, ordinarily, but this situation seemed to call for it.
"Come on, man," Toji said to Iain. "Let's get ya home. You'll be alright."
"It fucking pushed its tongue into my fucking mouth, Toji," Iain whispered. "I was fucking gagging on it. It tasted horrible. It was going to give me a fucking blow job with its other fucking hand!"
Toji didn't respond, and the four boys started heading towards the doors, not looking at the girls as Iain kept crying.
Before they got their, Haruka, Michiru, Usagi, and Mamoru appeared in the doorway, Usagi's eyes wide as Michiru quietly explained what had happened. Haruka said, "Come on, everyone, we need to get out of here." Translation: Let's get away from these people so that we can transform and find that thing!
The four Inner Senshi all nodded and moved, still not talking.
22
As they left the school, they found Pluto waiting for them in the parking lot. "Gendo contacted me. They have someone tracking him. Come-"
"No, they don't. I lost him," Rei's mysterious dance partner said, appearing out of the darkness. "Still, I would suggest you ladies transform.
They all looked at him for a moment. "Who are you? You seem familiar..." Usagi said, frowning.
The man replied, "I'm afraid that I can't tell you right now. It would cause more problems than it's worth. Let's deal with the Defiler, and then you can unmask me."
"What is that thing? The Defiler?" Ami said shakily. "Was it about to do what I think it was about to do to Iain?"
"Yeah, it was," the man said, looking grim.
Pluto spoke up. "The Defiler is a Great Old One, a carnal monster that can possess those who know its true name. When it does, it will... violate all those close to its host, and anyone that gets in the way.
"You mean it rapes them," Makoto said flatly.
"Yes," Pluto replied. "Then it will consume the souls of the victims and the host, and leave."
"Lovely," Mamoru grimaced.
"And Yuiichiro's its host," Rei said softly.
Pluto nodded, though it wasn't a question. "Yes. Though how he learned its name, I don't know."
The discussion might have gone on, but at that point they were interrupted by a scream that came from the direction the boys had taken Iain in.
"We're fucking idiots!" Haruka shouted, already running. "Come on, SAILORS! LET'S GO!"
They went.
23
A dark figure chuckled as it waltzed into Yuiichiro's room and took the book.
24
The Defiler had just finished with Duo when the Sailor Senshi and the two masked men arrived. It stood and smiled at them with both its mouths.
"Pretty sailors, pretty soldiers," the right mouth chittered.
"That felt good, oh so good," gibbered the left one.
With that, the monster stepped onto Duo's back, snapping it with a crack very reminiscent of a dry branch.
"NO!" Minako shouted.
The other boys were all unconscious. Iain looked dead, lying in a pool of blood close to Duo, though which boy the blood belonged to wasn't clear. Toji was lying against a tree, and Kensuke was face down, draped over Toji's legs.
"Fuck," Uranus spit. "Those were good kids! Eat this, fucker!" With that battle cry, she produced the Space Sword and charged.
"Uranus! NO!" Neptune cried. She moved forward as well, to back her lover up; or to avenge her.
"Okay, we'll let them have their shot," Pluto said rapidly. "Spread out, and be ready to hit it with your attacks as soon as they get out of the way.
In the mean time, the Defiler chuckled a particularly eerie chuckle. "You know we are, baby tasty," the left hand chittered at Uranus. The Senshi of the Heavens reached the monster and lashed out at it with the Space Sword. The right hand came up and repeated the earlier performance, catching the blade and beginning to swallow it.
Then Uranus shouted, "SPACE SWORD BUSTER!" Her sword glowed brightly for a moment, then the entire arm exploded, splattering Uranus with gore.
"YAAUGH!" the other hand screamed. But then something else sprayed out of the mouth; something whitish and sticky that slammed into Uranus and sent he sprawling like a fire hose, into the ground fifteen feet away.
"NO! NEPTUNE DEEP SUBMERGE!" The liquid energy lashed out, engulfing Y'golonac and throwing him back. Neptune rushed to her lover. "Uranus!"
"I'm okay, it's just hardened, I can't get out," Uranus snarled. "Just finish the damn thing off!"
Neptune nodded, then stood and turned toward the Defiler. It was now standing. She could see its flesh sloughing off in the after math of her attack, and grinned. This thing wasn't so tough.
Then something sprouted out of its stump and reformed into an arm in the matter of seconds. "Oh, shit."
The spray of whitish goop slammed her into a nearby tree, and almost instantly hardened, trapping her.
"Alright," Pluto said. "Blast it. Pluto Dead Scream..." she whispered, and her attacked blasted out and slam into the Defiler.
"WIDE SPARKLING PRESSURE!"
"VENUS CRESCENT BEAM!"
"BURNING MANDALA!"
"SHINE AQUA ILLUSION!"
The elemental attacks slammed into Y'golonac's massive torso, spraying burnt and frozen flesh. The Great Old One was temporarily obscured.
"Dodge," the mysterious masked man said helpfully.
Pluto and Mars both managed to leap out of the way, but Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter all were caught by the goop. Sailor Moon made a face and decided it was time to step in.
"CRISIS MAKE-UP!"
Y'golonac laughed at the obligatory display of butterflies. "Silly girl, pretty girl!" the right hand said.
"Luscious girl can't scare us!" said the left
"Yeah, well, I should! RAINBOW MOON HEARTACHE!"
"Blasts and bothers," the right hand of Y'golonac sighed. The two hands clapped together for a moment, and when they separated, long strands of darkness dripped from the mouths. Then the right hand wound of like a baseball pitcher, and faster than the eye could see lobbed a dozen balls of darkness towards Sailor Moon. Each ball slapped into a heart shaped piece of energy, snuffing it out like a candle.
"Oh, shit," Tuxedo Kamen muttered, then jumped and pulled Sailor Moon out of the way just before a ball of darkness exploded where she was standing.
"Pluto Dead Scream," Pluto whispered, blasting the Defiler again, giving them some time.
Mars began the Burning Mandela ritual again, when someone grabbed her arm. It was the mystery man. "What are you doing?" he hissed. "You've got to use a more powerful attack than that!"
"Enough of this," Pluto snapped. "Pluto Temporal HELIX-" The left arm of Y'golonac suddenly stretched over thirty feet and slapped wetly into Pluto's face.
"That is my most powerful attack!" Mars hissed back.
He shook his head. "No it's not! You've got to remember it! Your Meteorite attack?"
"MOON TIARA MAGIC!" The glowing disc smacked into the extended arm with an equally wet sound, severing it neatly. The stretched out arm fell with a thunk to the ground, and Pluto collapsed to her knees with a gasp. Y'golonac paused and seemed to concentrate, and the arm began to re-grow.
Tuxedo Kamen started chucking roses at the Great Old One. It ignored them as they imbedded themselves in its flesh. Then it leapt up to Tuxedo's branch with frightening speed. Tuxedo had enough time to say, "Oh-" before Y'golonac punched him through the canopy and into the air.
"TUXEDO KAMEN! NO!" Sailor Moon cried.
"Moon!" Pluto gasped. "Try healing him! It might drive out Y'golonac!"
"Damn it, Courage-chan, remember!" the mystery man shouted at Mars, shaking her. She shook her head; everything was so surreal! His identity, and so much more, were on the tip of her tongue.
"MOON HEALING ACTIVATION!" The healing energy washed over the monster as it jumped down to Sailor Moon.
The mouths grinned. "Nice try, Princess." WHAM! Sailor Moon skidded to a stop forty feet away.
"SERENITY!" Mars cried, spinning. Then the mystery man jumped over her head and a blast of pinkish red lightening shot out of his hand at Y'golonac. She blinked, sure she'd seen something like that before, back when she'd first become Sailor Mars. He landed in front of Y'golonac, and a sword and shield materialized in his hands.
"Once again, no cigar," the right hand said. It lashed out in a blur and smacked him across the face. Mars saw the mask go flying, but his back was to her.
"Shit! He's gonna-"
The man drove the sword into the spot where the head should have been, but the Defiler didn't even seem to flinch as it wound up and slammed a fist into him, crumpling the shield like paper and sending him flying back into her, knocking her back.
They skidded several feet, and came to a rest with Mars sitting with her back against a tree, his head in her lap. She stared down into his beautiful blue eyes and watched him cough up blood. He smiled. "It's up to you now, Courage-chan."
And she remembered. "Jadeite? Jade-chan? How-" But he was unconscious. She stood up, reveling in the memory of excitedly showing her lover the brand new attack she'd created, even more powerful than the Flame Sniper, while the stars and the great blue and green crescent shone down from above.
"MARS CRYSTAL POWER, MAKE-UP!"
As light washed over her for the second time that night, her skirt became white, with yellow and red bands along the hem, and a belt with the symbol of Mars appeared. She posed her pose.
"Cut the speech!" Pluto shouted. "Just attack! Pluto Dead Scream..."
Mars nodded as the blast of purple energy knocked back the creature. She stretched her arms up above her head, with the palms straight up. "MARS!" Similar to her Burning Mandela attack, balls of fire appeared in a circle around her. Her right arm circled down until it was straight out in front of her. "BLAZING!" Streamers of flame started to flow out of all the balls and into one directly above her head. In a moment a glowing white sphere of super condensed flame floated above her head. "METEORITE!" She brought her left hand down and slapped it against her right, and the globe of flame flew into Y'golonac's chest at the speed of a bullet, leave a trail of after glow. There was only a slight flash when it struck the monster.
Even so, the attack left her nearly blind in the darkness. When her eyes grew used dark again, she saw Y'golonac swiftly shrinking down and growing a head. In a moment, Yuiichiro was standing there, blinking in surprise, with a fist-sized hole through his chest where his heart would have been. After a second, his eyes rolled up and he quietly collapsed.
Super Sailor Mars felt herself transform back into Hino Rei. And then darkness washed over her, and she knew nothing else.
25
Sailor Pluto leaned heavily on her staff, tasting blood and something far less pleasant. She looked around at the unconscious and trapped warriors around her, then sighed and set to releasing those still trapping in the... goo.
26
And not half a mile away, though at a far lower altitude, a woman stood laughing. She smiled at the unconscious bodies of all the HERZ council members except for Washu, Ritsuko, and Ruri, who were in Washu's lab. Oh, and Reinard Megumi wasn't their either, for this woman was Reinard Megumi, or had been, until she'd accidentally summoned the Crawling Chaos. And so, she grinned at those whom she'd once worked with, and then set about putting the Messenger's plans into effect. And the Stars grew ever closer to being Right.
The End... for now.
Author's Notes: Yo, yo, yo! Things are getting even spookier! Oooh. All sorts of mysteries left. Are all the Sailors okay? What about Iain and the other boys? What was Jadeite doing there, and why did seeing his face trigger Mars' memory of her attack? Is Y'golonac really gone? What's going to happen to Gendo and the rest of HERZ? What horrors will occur next? MWA HA HA! You'll have to wait until the next installment of Sailor Moon Lovecraft!
Or at least you would, if there was anyone actually reading this. For Serenity's sake! If you read this, review! Just a note, this is the first revision of this chapter.
Now the actual notes. The chrysanthemum, according to my Encarta encyclopedia, is Japan's royal flower, or something like that. So I thought it'd be at least somewhat appropriate for Jadeite to give to Rei. I am standing behind my R rating, just because of the movie Pulp Fiction, which I saw the other day. I don't describe anything, just imply it, so there. Finally, there is precious little info on Y'golonac out there, so I mostly built on what information I got from Children of an Elder God.
Disclaimer: I own none of the characters in this fic except for Iain Caduceus. Don't sue me.
This story is Copyright 2002 by C-kun and Book, Staff, and Spirit Productions.
