"…resurrection, resurrection…" Queen Serenity traced a long, slender finger down over the crumbling pages of the ratty spell-book yet again, her usually calm silver eyes filling with frustration. "Where in God's name is it!" It wasn't in between 'resuscitate' or 'retain'[A/N: Please give me a break, my dictionary isn't any good. -.- ^^;;], as it should have been. Just like it hadn't been in between 'resuscitate' or 'retain' the last four times she'd checked.

Finally, Serenity found it on a ripped out page, stuck between two others in the back of the book. It figured. "Resurrection!" She crowed triumphantly, raising the yellowing paper upwards. Moments later, the spell cast, she sat back to await the spell's effects. She didn't have to wait long, however, because almost immediately the ground began to shake, a deafening roar filling the air. "I'm sorry, daughter…" She murmured almost sadly, though her eyes glowed with satisfaction as she watched the reddened sky above her tear in two. "It's for the good of the kingdom…Yes, the good of the kingdom."

She could not tear her eyes away from the breathtaking scene, unable to hold back a delighted smirk as a familiar scream echoed out. "Ta-ta, Seiya dear…"

~*~*~*~

Usagi was lying in Seiya's arms, more content then she'd been in as long as she could remember. "Do you think we'll always be this happy…" She murmured to him, smiling a bit as he traced a strawberry along her lips and parting them rather enticingly to accept the fruit.

"Of course, Odango," He smirked down, leaning over her. "After all, this is heaven, right? Or something like it…" He bent over her, brushing a feather light kiss to her soft pink mouth. She moaned softly and pulled him closer, entangling her fingers into the long black strands of his hair, her mewling cries muffled by his mouth as his hand slipped down and lightly played with her breast.

Their kisses had just begun to grow more intense when the ground beneath them shook, and for a moment Usagi thought hazily that if the earth moved, Seiya certainly had to be her true match, but then a deafening roar filled the air and her blackhaired companion tore away.

"What is that?!"

"I don't know! Could it be a—" Usagi never finished her words as a silver mist encased her, swirling faster and faster, her long white and gold dress falling away to expose her body, clad in only silky white ribbons. Horrified, she clapped her arms over her chest. "Seiya, what—" The fog around her grew heavier and heavier until she could feel it weighing her down. "Seiya!"

The anguished scream tore apart the night, the strange mist all gathering together around her until Seiya could no longer see her, suddenly lunging upwards and then shooting downwards, ripping through the ground and disappearing with one more tortured scream of his name.

"Odango!?" He leapt to his feet, pushing through a bit of lingering fog and searching desperately for those ever-familiar blonde meatballs, growing more and more frantic as time went on. Finally, he sank to his knees in despair, sobbing harder then he ever had before.

As the racking cries slowly died down, laughter echoed out, quiet at first, then growing louder and louder, the most mocking and infuriating laughter he'd ever heard.

But Seiya recognized that laugh, he knew it well…And he'd never heard it sounding as such. "S-Serenity?" He gasped out, quickly wiping his forearm along his soaked face. The laughter grew almost crazed.

"You'll never have her back!" A maniacal, barely recognizable voice cackled at last. "She cannot die now, I've fixed it as such! Say goodbye to her now…And then spend the rest of your days in loneliness." It was a hiss, something he would never have thought Queen Serenity capable of.

All the more bonechilling because it was at his expense.

~*~*~*~

Usagi landed with a thud on her bedroom floor seconds later, curled into a little ball and frozen, slowly gaining the courage to open her eyes and sit up a moment later.

She screamed.

A/N: There's more, if you wish to continue; the ending, in fact. But you might prefer to just leave this as the ending, because it works, too…The other is almost alternate.

It's dark, people! ^^; I actually scared myself while writing it. Everyone's asleep, so I'm still a bit frightened. Read on, at your own decision.