The Death Scout
Warning: The beginning of this chapter does have some disturbing description…sorry, but I was on a spooky/ demented looking castle kick…^-^
Note: Well, this is it! The end of this fic! I'll shut up now and let you get on with it!
Special Note: HAPPY BIRTHDAY Arashi099!!! ^-^
Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon or any of the original scouts; Outer Moon is the creation of Princess Silver Serenity; and whoever has not been covered so far is either mine or if I missed anyone they belong to whoever created them.
Chapter 16: Victory or Oblivion
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"Sorry Serena…you can't go alone." Sakura said to herself, more to strengthen her resolve then anything else, "Although what you don't know won't hurt you or anyone else."
After making it to the edge of the city where no one would see her, Serena held the crystal up and called out, "Ultimate Crystal from the future, lead me to my nemesis, the Evil Queen Lagaia!"
What appeared to be a small bubble flashed into existence and started floating slowly over to the girl standing under the star-studded sky, holding a pure crystal above her head, and slowly engulfed her, growing as it covered the grim, yet determined girl.
Serena, inside the bubble, which had grown to fit her, began to make her way east. Serena's bubble traveled slowly at first, picking up speed as it moved until it was going about 200 miles per hour.
"Damn! Why does she have to be so fast!?" Sakura mumbled. She was using an enchanted, floating disc to follow Serena.
After about half an hour, Serena spotted a small island with a large, ominous castle reaching for the dark, cloudy sky with its black spires and ghastly walls. The walls were plain stone with boiling black, sticky stuff (tar) dripping down from the tops. Standing, walking and pouring the boiling black tar down the walls from along the top of the walls were what looked like zombies, skeletons, and ghosts. The spires rose above the walls by about twenty feet. They were manned by several different monsters; four creatures per spire. The pointed roofs showed hundreds of faces with expressions that were frozen in looks of horror and intense pain. The continual moving effect of the roofs was from each face being replaced by another equally tormented face every few seconds, always with several changing every second.
"How gross!" Serena cried out when she could see the constantly changing faces and lost her dinner, "Moon Locket Power!" She transformed.
The magical bubble carrying Sailor Moon slowed as it approached the grotesque castle.
Sakura, still following at a safe distance, saw the castle and lost her dinner as well.
As she approached the wall, several of the living dead stopped what they were doing and stared at the young woman in her bubble.
"Oh, My GOD!" Serena almost screamed when two monsters ran up from each side and several undead reached up towards her, "Hurry!!!" Instantly, she was at the front door , where she was deposited on her butt.
"Ow!" She commented, getting up and looking around.
The front door slowly creaked open, showing Sailor Moon a dark portal leading into the dark depths of the castle's interior. Taking a deep breath Sailor Moon quickly stepped through, into the dark.
"What took you so long?" The voice of Queen Lagaia echoed through the seemingly giant room.
The door clicked shut behind Sailor Moon and she gulped down her terror, and retorted, "I wasn't in a hurry."
Suddenly, the room went from the deepest dark to a brilliant glow. No windows adorned the walls and the ceiling was too high to even be seen. On the opposite side of the room, on a towering dais, was a large, diamond studded throne where Queen Lagaia was relaxing.
After the light appeared, Queen Lagaia stood up and said, "I do believe it is time to end this once and for all! DIE!!!" Queen Lagaia threw up her arms and released several magical arrows at Sailor Moon.
Sailor Moon dove to the left, trying to dodge the arrows. Once back on her feet, she retaliated with a devastating blast of her own.
Attacks flying back and forth, being deflected by magical shields lit up the room where Sailor Moon and Queen Lagaia were fighting.
"You and your meddling little friends will be destroyed tonight!" Queen Lagaia fired off a concentrated beam of light right at Sailor Moon who barely got out of the way in time. This time, instead of the attack stopping when it missed, the beam of absolute destruction followed the running Sailor Moon around the room.
Suddenly, as the beam was just about to catch up to Sailor Moon, it seemed to hit a barrier of some kind that had surrounded Sailor Moon. Inside the dome of protection, Sailor Moon heard the voices of her dearest friends.
"Sailor Moon!" Amy's voice sounded.
"The time has come…" Mina's voice trailed.
"For you to believe in yourself!" Raye's voice continued.
"And extinguish this evil!" Lita's voice added.
"We can't hold this for much longer, Sailor Moon!" Sakura's voice called out.
Then she heard everyone at once, "It's time to attack," a short pause where Sailor Moon held up the Ultimate Crystal and prepared, "NOW!"
Instantly, Sailor Moon's attack went off, the dome vanished, and Queen Lagaia's attack pulsed toward Sailor Moon, the two beams of concentrated, destructive energy colliding a measly 3 feet away from Sailor Moon.
The fight was coming to an end.
Sailor Moon thought of her friends who had given her this chance and poured the rest of her strength into the attack.
Queen Lagaia's part of the deadly beam shortened dramatically while Sailor Moon's part more then doubled in length.
"NO! This can't be happening! It's impossible!!!" Queen Lagaia screamed during her last few seconds of life before she was blasted into oblivion.
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As Queen Lagaia's last dying screams echoed through the castle, all the monsters manning the walls began to dissipate, starting with the weaker creatures first. As the echoes died out, the hundreds of seemingly eternally tortured souls began to fly off.
Watching as everything began to get lighter and the evil began to vanish, Sakura smiled and directed her disc to take her to Sailor Moon.
When she reached Sailor Moon, Sakura found her staggering toward the door.
"Sailor Moon!" Sakura called to the injured, but alive scout.
"Sakura? What are you doing here?" Sailor Moon asked the girl who had just recently become a close friend.
"I'm here to make sure that you get home in one piece." Sakura stepped off the floating disc and ran to Sailor Moon, embracing her in a hug.
"But what if I had lost?" Sailor Moon extracted herself from Sakura's grasp.
"Who cares? You won! The whole world is safe!" Sakura giggled, "Now it's time to get back home!"
Sailor Moon silently nodded her agreement and followed Sakura over to the disc hovering about a foot above the floor. Once they were both on, the disc started on its way back home.
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The next morning, the sun made its way high into the morning sky before either Serena or Sakura began to stir. After making it back to Sakura's place a few hours before sunrise, the two girls each fell across a couch, too tired to even make it upstairs, and remained there until they were roused by Sage late that morning.
"Hey, you two! Time to get up. The scouts are here. They want to see Serena." Sage announced.
"But I just want to sleep!" Serena groggily whined.
"Sorry, Princess, but they're already here and anxious to see you." Sage explained, "O.K. you guys! They're up!"
In came Amy, Mina, Raye and Lita, all excited that Serena was alive and seemingly uninjured. (All she had were a few scrapes and bruises left. She heals very quickly.)
"Thank god your alive!" Mina zipped over to Serena, followed by all the other girls.
"Are you ready to go home yet?" Luna was also there.
After a moment of thought, Serena nodded, stood up and started toward the door, the other four girls following.
Upon reaching the door, Serena stopped and turned, "Thank you Sakura." And she walked out the door.
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The End
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