Murakumo immediately felt something different about this fight…. Star Fighter seemed very reluctant to attack him…almost to reluctant…suddenly he screamed "Star Serious Laser!" Murakumo dashed to the side to avoid this beam of destruction and immediately countered with a lob of pure energy. This momentarily stunned Star Fighter into submission.
"Why are you doing this?" Screams Sakura
"I don't want to hurt the princess's beloved or friends but since he has my starseed all that I can do is follow his orders. Please end this now so that I may be in peace or at least destroy my wrist bands and I may be able to help you find Serena…"
While fighter was saying this Sakura had snuck up behind him and with the help of some of her minions had gotten fighter subdued. "Very well then…if you would be so kind Murakumo?" Sakura trailed off.
Murakumo then flew gracefully over to the pair and used his blades to destroy the bands. "Thank you now I can join Cosmos since my starseed has been freed from the prison of the wrist bands…"he immediately started to disappear…. "Follow my starseed if you wish to see Serena." Suddenly a light crystal floated off towards a dark corridor. The pair followed it and found a room with a barred door.
"This must be the place that Serena was telling me of…." He suddenly felt weakened…"Serenity!" and with that he burst through the door and saw his beloved lying on a bier of roses.
"Murakumo!" Kusanagi and Momiji scream.
"What!? How did you two get here?"
"We took the back way in. Oh and we think that only you can get her off of that bier…"
"Me why?"
"The roses…." They trailed off both shivering somewhat in horror. "They tried to kill us when we approached…"
"I see…. Damn Chaos thought of many ways to make this difficult!"
Murakumo then walked towards the bier. The roses paid heed and left him be but as he approached his love…he noticed something different about her…her energy patterns were different and lower as if chaos had been leeching power out of her for quite some time. He also saw that on one of her delicate wrists was a silver gold wrist band…."Damn you Chaos! What have you done to her?" Murakumo screamed but got no answer…he quickly gathered her into his arms and warped everyone to Susano-oh's domain.
"My lord! We have an emergency!" Susano-oh and Kaede rushed forward and took Serena from him and laid her on a bed. Kaede then began chanting a healing spell.
"Will my love be all right my lord?" asks a anxious Murakumo with the rest of the TAC members watching in silent fascination.
"Only time will tell." Susano-oh states somewhat worriedly.