You're So Beautiful
By: Psyche
Email: psychemegami@yahoo.com ~~NEW EMAIL!! YEAH!!!
Website: http://www.angelfire.com/anime2/paradox/
http://gundamwinghq.trifocus.net/
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Dear Readers,
Well...it's been awhile...and I've been busy...gomen ne! I've been workin' on my
school work! Summers almost here..YEAH! lol...NEwayz...I've also been workin' on
my other stories! lol...winks...Gomen nasai about not postin' this soon enough.
I got some reviews askin' me to "liven it up" a bit...cuz it's gettin' "depressing"...well.
I guess I'll have to do just that!
Luvz yaz lotz!!
~~Psyche~~
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Chapter IX
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Usagi was cold. Shivering cold. And she didn't even seem phased...though every
time she shivered, it made Vegeta flinch. She was like a daughter to him, and he
was hurt by the fact that she was this way. She wasn't meant to be this way...
And there was nothing he could do about it. Well...almost nothing. He could get
the one person she wanted most to be here with her. He'd do if he had to hogtie
the stupid half-Saiyan to the chair...
No one hurts Usagi and gets away with it...he'd make sure of that. And once they
helped Usagi, they would go after the ones who had caused her to enter this state.
Dimando and Saffir. And...
Vegeta didn't know how he knew it, but there was something else out there.
Something more powerful than all of them put together. It was after Usagi, he knew
it...
And whatever this...this Darkness was...he would find it...and destroy it.
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I cried inside. The pain. The Darkness. It surrounded me. It help me in it's grasp.
And I felt the raw power coming from it. Evil...
Dark.
It was the Darkness that had claimed me for so many years. Claimed me sight and
my soul. I had never realized it before. But it had always been there...
Since the battle with Beryl. It had been in Metalia. Beryl. Kunzite. Zoisite.
Nephrite. Jedite. It had been in Endymion as he began to strike me down. And it
had flowed through each of my enemies as we fought.
It terrified me. I remembered it so well...this Darkness. I remembered it's pleading
words and comforting actions. Begging me to set it free.
Free? Had it been captured?
I remembered. It had been the only way to save Earth. To take the Darkness and
place it within myself. It was how I had defeated Metalia...It was how I defeated
every evil. I had taken it, and placed it within myself. Securing it away from the
world. Securing it away from the Senshi I love so much...but it had gotten free!
That was what had happened.
During the fire, it had taken it's chance...taken the opportunity to take over long
enough to destroy my sight and escape.
That is why I had become blind...That was why all this was happening!
I gasped in pain. The Darkness. It...it's eyes. It's eyes. They were so comforting.
Yet terrifying. Midnight blue. Full of love...emotion...
And it was calling me. Asking me to join it.
It's face was slowly becoming clearer. And the tears formed in my eyes as the
Darkness took form.
"Mamoru..." My voice was a sob.
"Usako." His voice was so soft. Sweet. Asking me to come to him. His hand was
reached out, so inviting. Like his eyes. He smiled at me. That charming smile I had
fallen for so long ago..."Please, Usako. Come with me. Let me help you..."
And I couldn't help it...I reached out for his hand.
~~~~
Gohan slowly walked up the stairs to Usagi's room. It hadn't taken much convincing
by Vegeta to get him to go...though his bruised eyes and bloodied lip proved
differently. But he hadn't retaliated. All of them had taken Usagi's state pretty
hard.
But none as hard as him. He had been unable to face her. Been unable to look at
the face of the one who had claimed to love him...only to have him turn against her.
Tell her he didn't love her.
...And there was nothing that he regretted more than that. If there was anyway to
save her, he would do it...Anything at all...even if...even if...
Gohan shook his head as he reached the door, ending his train of thought before it
reached a point of no return. He could never...ever...
Slowly, his hand reached up to the door...opening it.
And the site before him almost made him cry.
Usagi was pale as a ghost. Her skin the color of the white sheet covering her frail
body....
She wasn't meant to be this way. No. She was meant to be full of life. Full of
hope. Full of peace and happiness....and most of all. Full of love.
Love...
Why hadn't he seen it before? Was he truly that blind. More blind than Usagi had
been. Was...
Gohan sighed, sitting down next to her on the edge of the bed. He gently brushed
the hair from her face, staring at her...
"Usa-chan..." He murmered. How could he? How could he have let this happen to
his Tenshi? "I'm sorry."
Tears were falling. His tears. He hadn't cried in such a long time. In such a long
time...
He had been through a lot in his life. He had experienced the death of his father
multiple times. He had endured his mothers tormenting study hours and Piccolo's
long trainings. He had even defeated the monsterous Cell. But nothing was like this.
Nothing was like the feelings he felt now...
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My hand was in his. And a chill ran over me...My hand become colder...so much colder...
And I looked back up into his eyes. And they made me gasp. Black. Pure black.
"No..." My voice was a whisper, and by the look on his face, I knew that this
nightmare was real. "Prince Endymion."
He laughed at me, pulling me towards him. "So, little princess...you've finally come
back into my grasp."
"No...NO!" I pushed him away. But he was too strong.
Suddenly, a bright light surrounded us, and we both screamed. The next thing I
knew...I was waking up from this nightmarish world...
~~~~
Gohan held her hand in his. Staring down at her...and he couldn't resist.
"Aishiteru..." He whispered, then his lips briefly touched her pale ones in a chaste
kiss. A kiss he had been wanting to give her for so long...but had never had the
courage to deliver...
And then he felt it. The soft pressure back onto his lips. The gentle kiss being
returned to him.
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The Darkness screamed in pain. No. How could this happen!?!? It had been
winning. It had been on the verge of having the Princess...the world...the universe!
And this boy had stopped him! This boy and his sick emotions of love and hope.
The Darkness stared out through it's black eyes...through Mamoru's eyes.
It would have to change it's strategy...and killing the young Saiyan would be the
first step...
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Usagi was back. Though it was hard to believe...after so many weeks...almost a
month of being in her still, lifeless state, she was back. Or was she?
None of them were sure. She was here with them, and she was able to respond
to them. She wasn't the same girl she had been. Gohan spent each moment with
her wishing he could take the pain away, but that was impossible. She was lost in
her own despair.
She had told them about the Darkness, but nothing of Mamoru. Nothing. She
couldn't tell them that.
Bulma spent all her time searching for the answer to what truly happened to the
senshi. None of them believed that Usagi was capable of killing them, even in her
lost, emotionally troubled state. The only thing they hadn't done was talk to Usagi
about it...
...but they would have to.
They would have to soon.
~~~~
Gohan sighed. Why was he the one stuck with this job? Why couldn't Vegeta...or
Bulma ask. Yes. Bulma should ask. She was the one searching for the truth. But
it had been voted on...and he had lost.
So here he was, stuck with the knowledge that HE had to ask...
"Usagi?"
Usagi smiled as he sat next to her, leaning against him. And for a moment, Gohan
remembered what it had been like when she had first awoken...and almost cringed
as he remembered it.
She hadn't been too happy with him. As soon as she realized what she was doing
and who she was with, she pulled away as if he was some plague that she had to
get as far away from as possible. And he had been hurt by it. But she had the right
to be angry. He had hurt her. He had hurt her more than anything else...and she
had the right to not trust him.
But now she did. She wasn't scared of him like she had been at first.
...He hadn't been able to tell her he loved her, though. And he knew that he would
have to soon...but not today. Today, he had other things to worry about.
"Yes, Gohan-san."
Such as the fact that she called him 'Gohan-san' instead of Gohan-chan like she had
always done before.
"I have to ask you something, Usagi..." He whispered calmly. Yet inside, he was
a bundle of nerves.
"What?" Her voice was soft...confused.
"Usagi. Please don't be upset when I ask you this...but..." He paused. "What did
you do to the Senshi?"
Her face went from light to dark in a second. Her smile turned into a twisted look of
pain. "I...I killed them, Gohan." She whispered.
Gohan paused, he had been expected that answer. "Usagi...think for a moment.
Would the Crystal have allowed you to kill them?"
"I-I don't know." Again, she was confused. Sad. Tortured. Confused. All bundled
up inside in a world of emotions...
"Think, Usagi. In your heart, did you truly wish to kill the Senshi? Any of them?"
"Iie."
He paused for a moment. "You once told me, Usagi, that the Crystal only responded
to the wishes of your heart."
There was silence.
So he continued. "And if, in your heart, you didn't want them to die, then they
didn't, Usagi." He smiled at her comfortingly, though he couldn't see it. "They are
still alive..."
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Well...that seemed like the perfect place to end it...so...
I will!
pauses
Okay, okay....I guess I'll go on with the fic before you all kill me!
smiles innocently and continues fic
PS: FOOLED YA!
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"Alive..." I whispered. The thought had never accured to me. So...how...why...
when...what had I done!?!?
"Yes, Usagi. Alive." He replied from beside me.
I couldn't think. Alive...how was it possible. But it made sense! It made SO much
sense!!
I couldn't speak. Not a word. I was speechless....
So he continued. "And I think I know what happened to them..."
I turned sharply towards him, my blind eyes staring at him in shock.
"What? What happened?"
And he explained it. That the Crystal had taken them and hidden them away
because it couldn't fulfill my request...
And I cried. Cried tears as he spoke. The thought had never accured to me. The
thought had never once entered my mind. My foolish mind...so caught up in other
things. Guilt. Love. Death. Loneliness. Regret.
But...I could save them. I could! If only...if only I had the strength of will.
I wiped away my tears, standing up.
I could save them. Right now. But...
Would they hate me? I was terrified of the thought. What if they hated me!?!?!!
What if they turned against me...?
/Serenity.../
I turn.
/Serenity...we love you, Serenity.../
Mars?
/We will always be there for you.../
Venus!?!
/Don't worry, Koneko! We believe in you...and you can beat this evil, with or without
us.../
Haruka!
Tears coursed down my cheeks. And I raised my arms into the air, feeling the power
that I hadn't felt in so long. The Silver Crystal.
/Use the Crystal, Princess...We are within it. It is more powerful
now than it ever has been.../
Michiru...
/Use it...it is now powerful enough to return your site to you, Serenity-hime/
Setsuna...no...no no no!
"No!" I whispered angrily...I would not use the crystal with them still in it. I
coudln't! Arms wrapped around me. Hands held mine. Gohan.
/Do it not only for yourself, Serenity...but for Gohan. He loves you, Princess.../
Venus...Minako...no...no...
/DO IT!!/
NO!!!!!!!
/Please, Princess. Do not worry about us. We have given our lives to protect you!
We live to serve you!/
Tears. Tears fell.
I couldn't. I couldn't do this. I couldn't betray them for my own needs. I couldn't...
I lowered my arms, the Silver Crystal continued to radiate a warm energy though...
And it increased with every second. After a moment I realized what was happening.
NO! STOP!!
/We must, Princess.../
AMI!
/Forgive us, Serenity-hime...but we love you. We will do anything for you/
Hotaru...
/You've done a good job surviving without us, Princess...you do not need us
anymore...This is our last gift to you.../
Makoto...
/Do not worry, Princess. We will not die like this. We will be reborn and live normal
lives like we have all dreamed about. Through our sacrifice, you will be given the
power that is rightfully yours...the power of Cosmos! Use it wisely, Princess...my
Queen. Only you can defeat the Darkness.../
Setsuna...
And the energy was released...washing over me. Caressing me. Filling my mind,
soul, body...love. peace. harmony. joy.
...and each face flashed by my eyes...eyes that were able to see the world around
me...
Each face held a joy I had never once seen upon their faces. A peace. They were
going to be normal now. They would be reborn into lives that didn't involve constant
battles...
My vision blurred with tears that I quickly wiped away...And I turned towards him.
Reaching up and touching his face. He loved me. He loved me. He loved me. He
loved me. He loved me....
HE LOVED ME!
I cried. Tears of joy. Tears of sorrow. Tears of painful memories. Tears of happy
futures.
I stared into his eyes. "Gohan..."
And his eyes widened in recognition of what had happened. "U-Usagi? Your...your
eyes...they're silver. And...your hair..."
I nodded. "I can see, Gohan. I can see!!"
And before either of us could react, we kissed. A passion-filled kiss.
I was in love. And he loved me in return. All mistakes had been forgiven...
But one thought was still in the back of my mind.
The Darkness.
It would pay...I now understood everything that they had said...had not said.
The Senshi were no more. They were in me now. And they're souls would be reborn
into normal lives that didn't involve me or battles. Peace. They were at peace.
And the Darkness. It would pay...
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The Darkness screamed in anger.
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Cosmos. She was Cosmos now. Sailor Cosmos. The most power Senshi. And she
was preparing to fight...
She finally understood who the Darkness was...
It had always been there. In Beryl. In Metalia...and she had taken it in herself to
save them...but slowly, it escaped...entering Ann and Alan. Entering Dimando. Wise
Man...The Death Busters...Mistress 9...Pharoah 90...The Dead Moon...Amazon Trio...
Amazoness Quartet...Nephrenia...
And then. And then the fire came and she was weakened. The Darkness took it the
weakness as a reason to escape. And it did. It escaped, leaving enough of itself to
blind her. To take her site...and it had entered Mamoru.
Mamoru.
He was not to blame. She could sense it. The Darkness within him...he must have
always had it...
She remembered when he had been brainwashed. The Darkness had consumed him,
and nothing she could have done at that time could have taken it all away. It must
have been an influence when he left her because his dreams...it must have always
been there...waiting for an opportunity to take control once more. And now it had.
She had dispelled it from herself, but she had to go and gather it all again in one
place. Destroy it all before it could destroy the universe. The balance was tipping.
If the Darkness took control, there would be no more Light. And...the world would
die.
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She stared at them all. Gohan. Goku. Vegeta. Trunks. Piccolo. Krillin. Tien.
Yamcha. The first time she had seen them all together in one place...
But it wasn't a time of joyfulness. The seriousness on her face seemed to seep
through to all of them. They all seemed to sense it. This was a moment of
importance.
Finally...she broke the silence. "It is time to fight the Darkness. We must seek it
out...all of it. Find it and destroy it..."
...Starting with Mamoru.
And they nodded in understanding. Each could feel the power within her...she alone
could stop the Darkness. But they would help as best they could.
~~~~
The Darkness narrowed it's eyes. So the little Moon Princess had managed to get
rid of it's influence. But she couldn't stop it. It had it's hold on too many things...
on too many people. It would be able to easily defeat her...
But one thing bothered it. A memory. A legend...
A face.
A face it hadn't seen it so long...for thousands of years.
Cosmos.
And for a moment, it shook in fear.
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Well...REVIEW! smiles innocently...k? ja ne!
Email me!!!
psychemegami@yahoo.com
Thanx!
~~Psyche~~
By: Psyche
Email: psychemegami@yahoo.com ~~NEW EMAIL!! YEAH!!!
Website: http://www.angelfire.com/anime2/paradox/
http://gundamwinghq.trifocus.net/
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Dear Readers,
Well...it's been awhile...and I've been busy...gomen ne! I've been workin' on my
school work! Summers almost here..YEAH! lol...NEwayz...I've also been workin' on
my other stories! lol...winks...Gomen nasai about not postin' this soon enough.
I got some reviews askin' me to "liven it up" a bit...cuz it's gettin' "depressing"...well.
I guess I'll have to do just that!
Luvz yaz lotz!!
~~Psyche~~
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Chapter IX
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Usagi was cold. Shivering cold. And she didn't even seem phased...though every
time she shivered, it made Vegeta flinch. She was like a daughter to him, and he
was hurt by the fact that she was this way. She wasn't meant to be this way...
And there was nothing he could do about it. Well...almost nothing. He could get
the one person she wanted most to be here with her. He'd do if he had to hogtie
the stupid half-Saiyan to the chair...
No one hurts Usagi and gets away with it...he'd make sure of that. And once they
helped Usagi, they would go after the ones who had caused her to enter this state.
Dimando and Saffir. And...
Vegeta didn't know how he knew it, but there was something else out there.
Something more powerful than all of them put together. It was after Usagi, he knew
it...
And whatever this...this Darkness was...he would find it...and destroy it.
~~~~
I cried inside. The pain. The Darkness. It surrounded me. It help me in it's grasp.
And I felt the raw power coming from it. Evil...
Dark.
It was the Darkness that had claimed me for so many years. Claimed me sight and
my soul. I had never realized it before. But it had always been there...
Since the battle with Beryl. It had been in Metalia. Beryl. Kunzite. Zoisite.
Nephrite. Jedite. It had been in Endymion as he began to strike me down. And it
had flowed through each of my enemies as we fought.
It terrified me. I remembered it so well...this Darkness. I remembered it's pleading
words and comforting actions. Begging me to set it free.
Free? Had it been captured?
I remembered. It had been the only way to save Earth. To take the Darkness and
place it within myself. It was how I had defeated Metalia...It was how I defeated
every evil. I had taken it, and placed it within myself. Securing it away from the
world. Securing it away from the Senshi I love so much...but it had gotten free!
That was what had happened.
During the fire, it had taken it's chance...taken the opportunity to take over long
enough to destroy my sight and escape.
That is why I had become blind...That was why all this was happening!
I gasped in pain. The Darkness. It...it's eyes. It's eyes. They were so comforting.
Yet terrifying. Midnight blue. Full of love...emotion...
And it was calling me. Asking me to join it.
It's face was slowly becoming clearer. And the tears formed in my eyes as the
Darkness took form.
"Mamoru..." My voice was a sob.
"Usako." His voice was so soft. Sweet. Asking me to come to him. His hand was
reached out, so inviting. Like his eyes. He smiled at me. That charming smile I had
fallen for so long ago..."Please, Usako. Come with me. Let me help you..."
And I couldn't help it...I reached out for his hand.
~~~~
Gohan slowly walked up the stairs to Usagi's room. It hadn't taken much convincing
by Vegeta to get him to go...though his bruised eyes and bloodied lip proved
differently. But he hadn't retaliated. All of them had taken Usagi's state pretty
hard.
But none as hard as him. He had been unable to face her. Been unable to look at
the face of the one who had claimed to love him...only to have him turn against her.
Tell her he didn't love her.
...And there was nothing that he regretted more than that. If there was anyway to
save her, he would do it...Anything at all...even if...even if...
Gohan shook his head as he reached the door, ending his train of thought before it
reached a point of no return. He could never...ever...
Slowly, his hand reached up to the door...opening it.
And the site before him almost made him cry.
Usagi was pale as a ghost. Her skin the color of the white sheet covering her frail
body....
She wasn't meant to be this way. No. She was meant to be full of life. Full of
hope. Full of peace and happiness....and most of all. Full of love.
Love...
Why hadn't he seen it before? Was he truly that blind. More blind than Usagi had
been. Was...
Gohan sighed, sitting down next to her on the edge of the bed. He gently brushed
the hair from her face, staring at her...
"Usa-chan..." He murmered. How could he? How could he have let this happen to
his Tenshi? "I'm sorry."
Tears were falling. His tears. He hadn't cried in such a long time. In such a long
time...
He had been through a lot in his life. He had experienced the death of his father
multiple times. He had endured his mothers tormenting study hours and Piccolo's
long trainings. He had even defeated the monsterous Cell. But nothing was like this.
Nothing was like the feelings he felt now...
~~~~
My hand was in his. And a chill ran over me...My hand become colder...so much colder...
And I looked back up into his eyes. And they made me gasp. Black. Pure black.
"No..." My voice was a whisper, and by the look on his face, I knew that this
nightmare was real. "Prince Endymion."
He laughed at me, pulling me towards him. "So, little princess...you've finally come
back into my grasp."
"No...NO!" I pushed him away. But he was too strong.
Suddenly, a bright light surrounded us, and we both screamed. The next thing I
knew...I was waking up from this nightmarish world...
~~~~
Gohan held her hand in his. Staring down at her...and he couldn't resist.
"Aishiteru..." He whispered, then his lips briefly touched her pale ones in a chaste
kiss. A kiss he had been wanting to give her for so long...but had never had the
courage to deliver...
And then he felt it. The soft pressure back onto his lips. The gentle kiss being
returned to him.
~~~~
The Darkness screamed in pain. No. How could this happen!?!? It had been
winning. It had been on the verge of having the Princess...the world...the universe!
And this boy had stopped him! This boy and his sick emotions of love and hope.
The Darkness stared out through it's black eyes...through Mamoru's eyes.
It would have to change it's strategy...and killing the young Saiyan would be the
first step...
~~~~
Usagi was back. Though it was hard to believe...after so many weeks...almost a
month of being in her still, lifeless state, she was back. Or was she?
None of them were sure. She was here with them, and she was able to respond
to them. She wasn't the same girl she had been. Gohan spent each moment with
her wishing he could take the pain away, but that was impossible. She was lost in
her own despair.
She had told them about the Darkness, but nothing of Mamoru. Nothing. She
couldn't tell them that.
Bulma spent all her time searching for the answer to what truly happened to the
senshi. None of them believed that Usagi was capable of killing them, even in her
lost, emotionally troubled state. The only thing they hadn't done was talk to Usagi
about it...
...but they would have to.
They would have to soon.
~~~~
Gohan sighed. Why was he the one stuck with this job? Why couldn't Vegeta...or
Bulma ask. Yes. Bulma should ask. She was the one searching for the truth. But
it had been voted on...and he had lost.
So here he was, stuck with the knowledge that HE had to ask...
"Usagi?"
Usagi smiled as he sat next to her, leaning against him. And for a moment, Gohan
remembered what it had been like when she had first awoken...and almost cringed
as he remembered it.
She hadn't been too happy with him. As soon as she realized what she was doing
and who she was with, she pulled away as if he was some plague that she had to
get as far away from as possible. And he had been hurt by it. But she had the right
to be angry. He had hurt her. He had hurt her more than anything else...and she
had the right to not trust him.
But now she did. She wasn't scared of him like she had been at first.
...He hadn't been able to tell her he loved her, though. And he knew that he would
have to soon...but not today. Today, he had other things to worry about.
"Yes, Gohan-san."
Such as the fact that she called him 'Gohan-san' instead of Gohan-chan like she had
always done before.
"I have to ask you something, Usagi..." He whispered calmly. Yet inside, he was
a bundle of nerves.
"What?" Her voice was soft...confused.
"Usagi. Please don't be upset when I ask you this...but..." He paused. "What did
you do to the Senshi?"
Her face went from light to dark in a second. Her smile turned into a twisted look of
pain. "I...I killed them, Gohan." She whispered.
Gohan paused, he had been expected that answer. "Usagi...think for a moment.
Would the Crystal have allowed you to kill them?"
"I-I don't know." Again, she was confused. Sad. Tortured. Confused. All bundled
up inside in a world of emotions...
"Think, Usagi. In your heart, did you truly wish to kill the Senshi? Any of them?"
"Iie."
He paused for a moment. "You once told me, Usagi, that the Crystal only responded
to the wishes of your heart."
There was silence.
So he continued. "And if, in your heart, you didn't want them to die, then they
didn't, Usagi." He smiled at her comfortingly, though he couldn't see it. "They are
still alive..."
~~~~
Well...that seemed like the perfect place to end it...so...
I will!
pauses
Okay, okay....I guess I'll go on with the fic before you all kill me!
smiles innocently and continues fic
PS: FOOLED YA!
~~~~
"Alive..." I whispered. The thought had never accured to me. So...how...why...
when...what had I done!?!?
"Yes, Usagi. Alive." He replied from beside me.
I couldn't think. Alive...how was it possible. But it made sense! It made SO much
sense!!
I couldn't speak. Not a word. I was speechless....
So he continued. "And I think I know what happened to them..."
I turned sharply towards him, my blind eyes staring at him in shock.
"What? What happened?"
And he explained it. That the Crystal had taken them and hidden them away
because it couldn't fulfill my request...
And I cried. Cried tears as he spoke. The thought had never accured to me. The
thought had never once entered my mind. My foolish mind...so caught up in other
things. Guilt. Love. Death. Loneliness. Regret.
But...I could save them. I could! If only...if only I had the strength of will.
I wiped away my tears, standing up.
I could save them. Right now. But...
Would they hate me? I was terrified of the thought. What if they hated me!?!?!!
What if they turned against me...?
/Serenity.../
I turn.
/Serenity...we love you, Serenity.../
Mars?
/We will always be there for you.../
Venus!?!
/Don't worry, Koneko! We believe in you...and you can beat this evil, with or without
us.../
Haruka!
Tears coursed down my cheeks. And I raised my arms into the air, feeling the power
that I hadn't felt in so long. The Silver Crystal.
/Use the Crystal, Princess...We are within it. It is more powerful
now than it ever has been.../
Michiru...
/Use it...it is now powerful enough to return your site to you, Serenity-hime/
Setsuna...no...no no no!
"No!" I whispered angrily...I would not use the crystal with them still in it. I
coudln't! Arms wrapped around me. Hands held mine. Gohan.
/Do it not only for yourself, Serenity...but for Gohan. He loves you, Princess.../
Venus...Minako...no...no...
/DO IT!!/
NO!!!!!!!
/Please, Princess. Do not worry about us. We have given our lives to protect you!
We live to serve you!/
Tears. Tears fell.
I couldn't. I couldn't do this. I couldn't betray them for my own needs. I couldn't...
I lowered my arms, the Silver Crystal continued to radiate a warm energy though...
And it increased with every second. After a moment I realized what was happening.
NO! STOP!!
/We must, Princess.../
AMI!
/Forgive us, Serenity-hime...but we love you. We will do anything for you/
Hotaru...
/You've done a good job surviving without us, Princess...you do not need us
anymore...This is our last gift to you.../
Makoto...
/Do not worry, Princess. We will not die like this. We will be reborn and live normal
lives like we have all dreamed about. Through our sacrifice, you will be given the
power that is rightfully yours...the power of Cosmos! Use it wisely, Princess...my
Queen. Only you can defeat the Darkness.../
Setsuna...
And the energy was released...washing over me. Caressing me. Filling my mind,
soul, body...love. peace. harmony. joy.
...and each face flashed by my eyes...eyes that were able to see the world around
me...
Each face held a joy I had never once seen upon their faces. A peace. They were
going to be normal now. They would be reborn into lives that didn't involve constant
battles...
My vision blurred with tears that I quickly wiped away...And I turned towards him.
Reaching up and touching his face. He loved me. He loved me. He loved me. He
loved me. He loved me....
HE LOVED ME!
I cried. Tears of joy. Tears of sorrow. Tears of painful memories. Tears of happy
futures.
I stared into his eyes. "Gohan..."
And his eyes widened in recognition of what had happened. "U-Usagi? Your...your
eyes...they're silver. And...your hair..."
I nodded. "I can see, Gohan. I can see!!"
And before either of us could react, we kissed. A passion-filled kiss.
I was in love. And he loved me in return. All mistakes had been forgiven...
But one thought was still in the back of my mind.
The Darkness.
It would pay...I now understood everything that they had said...had not said.
The Senshi were no more. They were in me now. And they're souls would be reborn
into normal lives that didn't involve me or battles. Peace. They were at peace.
And the Darkness. It would pay...
~~~~
The Darkness screamed in anger.
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Cosmos. She was Cosmos now. Sailor Cosmos. The most power Senshi. And she
was preparing to fight...
She finally understood who the Darkness was...
It had always been there. In Beryl. In Metalia...and she had taken it in herself to
save them...but slowly, it escaped...entering Ann and Alan. Entering Dimando. Wise
Man...The Death Busters...Mistress 9...Pharoah 90...The Dead Moon...Amazon Trio...
Amazoness Quartet...Nephrenia...
And then. And then the fire came and she was weakened. The Darkness took it the
weakness as a reason to escape. And it did. It escaped, leaving enough of itself to
blind her. To take her site...and it had entered Mamoru.
Mamoru.
He was not to blame. She could sense it. The Darkness within him...he must have
always had it...
She remembered when he had been brainwashed. The Darkness had consumed him,
and nothing she could have done at that time could have taken it all away. It must
have been an influence when he left her because his dreams...it must have always
been there...waiting for an opportunity to take control once more. And now it had.
She had dispelled it from herself, but she had to go and gather it all again in one
place. Destroy it all before it could destroy the universe. The balance was tipping.
If the Darkness took control, there would be no more Light. And...the world would
die.
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She stared at them all. Gohan. Goku. Vegeta. Trunks. Piccolo. Krillin. Tien.
Yamcha. The first time she had seen them all together in one place...
But it wasn't a time of joyfulness. The seriousness on her face seemed to seep
through to all of them. They all seemed to sense it. This was a moment of
importance.
Finally...she broke the silence. "It is time to fight the Darkness. We must seek it
out...all of it. Find it and destroy it..."
...Starting with Mamoru.
And they nodded in understanding. Each could feel the power within her...she alone
could stop the Darkness. But they would help as best they could.
~~~~
The Darkness narrowed it's eyes. So the little Moon Princess had managed to get
rid of it's influence. But she couldn't stop it. It had it's hold on too many things...
on too many people. It would be able to easily defeat her...
But one thing bothered it. A memory. A legend...
A face.
A face it hadn't seen it so long...for thousands of years.
Cosmos.
And for a moment, it shook in fear.
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