Silver and Rubies
By: Princess Ashley
*sniffle * *couch * I. *hack * I've got a cold. Poor me! *hack, sniffle * I'm fine. I've got my Sailor Moon box of tissues right here, my beloved hot chocolate with pink marshmallows, and my Harry Potter pillow. ^_^
Sorry I haven't updated in a while. I've just got this damned cold and I'm just now getting to finishing up the eleventh chapter. Well, I'll shut up now and let ya'll read. Talk 2 ya later!
Chapter 11: Anguish
"Where am I? Mina-chan? What's going on here!?"
He was floating in an unknown world, he watched different dimensions pass him by, there were so many of them, he could figure out which was which.
"Oh, you don't need to worry about your precious Minako; Usagi will take good care of her."
Tuxedo Mask turned, he looked around quickly. He saw no one. Only the light years and black and white stars fly by, a cosmos was in the collage as well. There was no one in there with him. No one, or, for as much as he could see.
"Scared, Endymion?"
Tuxedo Mask cried out in frustration at the unknown person who was calling him. "Who are you!? What do you want with me! Where is my Minako!?"
"Believe me, I have no pleasure being here, but I will in a few moments when I rip you limb from limb. Minako is safe for now, but in a little while, the poor Neo Queen will have lost her shine, courtesy of the Negamoon." The deep and rich voice chuckled mirthlessly, but evilly.
There was a flash of red, and there was a blast behind him. There was a lot of cracking, little the shattering of a mirror. Suddenly the atmosphere cracked. And beautiful Crystal Tokyo appeared behind him. He gasped as he saw the darkness take over the once beautiful city. Gold covered the city, and soon a black figure appeared over it. It's golden hair surrounded the city, and the crystal turned to silver and rubies. The palace looked like the very home of the devil. It was beautiful.
"You see what your precious kingdom will look like once the rightful heir returns to his throne?"
"Minako and I are the rightful heirs. What are you talking about?"
"Ha, yeah right. The rightful heir is Prince Diamond. You are the very beings that banished your ruler from this planet. Do you really think you can still defeat us while we have all your scouts on our side? Some loyalists."
Ami? Makoto? They betrayed us? First Rei, now them? No! It cannot be! "You're lying, Ami and Makoto have consciences; they wouldn't turn their backs on their king and queen!" He was panicking. He was alone, alone with this voice that was mocking his power. Or, the power he thought he had.
"If you'd only open your eyes, young king. This is not reality. You think that this life is only full of loving your queen and neglecting your own daughter. You have no knowledge of ruling a kingdom. Without you're scouts and protectors, you're nothing. Face it, you're doomed."
"Rubius!!!!!!"
Rubius' blocks were down. Endymion could see him now, standing right in front of him. There was another voice calling his name. It was feminine. It was so familiar. They looked when they saw a beautiful silver glow come from another part of the time warp, but it was bright enough to break the atmosphere around them. Some thing was wrong. Very wrong.
He knew the silver light that brightly shone on him now wasn't anything from the Negamoon. It was something pure, but there were hints in it. Someone was fighting it. It was faint. Whoever fought against the light, they were loosing, loosing badly.
***
About an hour before that, in another place in the time warp.
"I'm going to kill Rei when I get my hands on her. Betraying us! I was supposed to get back at that meatball brains and then she has go and foil it!"
Minako was floating around in the time warp. There was nothing to do but wait till her beloved or someone else came to rescue her. *Humpf, I bet that Mercury and Jupiter are on their way right now. I must remember to criticize them for taking so long. Suwannee little bitches. Who needs to do any work when you have other people to do it for you? *
"Must be nice, just laying around all day, snogging with your boyfriend, making others do your work. What a delightful concept. Maybe that's why you're starting to look like a seal, fatso."
Minako jumped, but then just managed to sink herself deeper into the time warp. "Mercury? Jupiter? Where are you? Who are you? Well, whoever it is, you're late, took way to long to find me. Now get your vetoed ass over here and get me out of this warp, my hair is starting to frizz with all this pressure. "
"Oh don't worry, you're hair isn't going to be the only thing that's going to frizz when I'm done with ya."
Minako looked up, there was a small pop, and there was the object of her fury and anguish.
"USAGI!"
Usagi smirked as Minako's mouth became the size of a blue whale, she could say the same thing about her eyes, but then again, with the way she was slacking off these days, she might as well be a whale.
"Glad to see you remembered my name. That's one on you. Next thing you know, you'll start to remember your 'daughter's' name." She mocked.
"I'm going to kill you. Then you'll be begging me to forgive you for that comment!" Minako's face became purple with fury. There was nothing in her face that resembled competence. She could resemble a balloon better than a Neo Queen.
"Yeah," she mocked her again. "And Rubius will grow a beard. Not likely.
"LOCKNESS TIDES!!"
Minako was pushed further into the time warp. She was bleeding in the head, and what was worse; her head felt like it was on fire. Her hair was in her way; she didn't have the strength to fight back. She had been stupid to go on untransformed. Very stupid. Now Usagi had the upper hand.
"DARK MOON SANDSTORM!!!"
Minako felt the familiar sand rise around her, clogging her eyes. She closed her mouth, eyes, and held her nose, but the sand whipped at her and flung her hands away. She couldn't breathe. Usagi closed in on her, watching in delight at how her prey was so easily being defeated.
"I once said that I liked being the cause of other people's pain. But this is pathetic. Where is the fun in defeating a weak enemy? No sense of accomplishment, nothing. Just a wimpy excuse for a soldier on the ground, wiping her eyes, trying to get the blood to stop."
Minako sputtered, but she managed to speak. "It's called sadism, and it's a mental disorder. Maybe you should talk to a physiologist, they could help with that small little problem."
Usagi frowned. "You're in a right good position to be throwing comebacks at me. One more attack, and you can die right now. There is nothing you can do. To bad your precious Mamoru can't be here to help you. But Rubius is taking care of him. Don't worry, you'll be together in hell very soon, my dear." She smirked as Minako tried to stand.
There was little mistaking her weak body and knocking knees. Her skirt was shredded. The girl's ego had taken a big downfall. But was there confidence in that girl's stance? Usagi became irritated with the girl's sense of pride. Now she would get rid of her once and for all.
Usagi raised her hands to make her last blast the biggest and most painful. Minako still tried to stand, and held hands up to let herself speak.
"You may have won the battle, but the war is not over yet. There is one thing that I have that you will never have."
Usagi stopped, her hand still raised above her head.
"And what would that be?" She asked, not letting her nervousness show. What did this girl have that Usagi couldn't have?"
"Love. I have the love of a man that would give his life up for me if it came to that. He loves me and I love him. That is one thing that you can never have. The love of another. You're so evil that no one could ever love you. You're nothing but a coward that doesn't feel. That makes me much, much better than you." She smirked, thinking she had won. But Usagi knew better than that.
"And you think that by saying a few meaningless words, you have won?" Usagi raised an eyebrow. "Nothing matters more than the secures of the prince. You mistake me for a human. I am not. I'm a soldier. Solitary, I feel nothing. Sure I can have a few laughs, there are times I like to have fun with the people I know, but I am not allowed to get close. Do you know who my father is?" She looked at Minako, who now had a blank look on her face.
"He makes sure there are no emotions. His life is devoted to the prince, as is all the generals. Me, Rubius, Emerald, Sapphire, Prisma, Avery, Catzie, Bertie, everyone! And now Lady Rei, Ami, and Makoto are as well. Nothing else is allowed. And soon," Usagi smiled evilly, a mad look in her eye, "he will return to his throne, and punish those who banished him a long time ago. You all will die. Lucky you, you have the pleasure of dieing first."
Minako's face scrunched up. Her nose wrinkled, and her lips pursed. She then took the last resort; she pulled something out of her sailor collar, and held it as it began to hover and glow in her hands.
Usagi gasped. "The silver crystal."
She watched as the crystal floated higher and higher into the air. *Is she crazy? She'll kill the both of us! Is she really this thick!? * "What are you doing? That crystal is too strong for you. You'll end up killing us both!" Usagi shrieked as the crystal only rose higher.
Minako had a made glint in her eyes, insanity was written all over her. Usagi knew the crystal had the power to take control of the master, which was why you had to have enough energy in your body to control it. But Minako didn't have any energy, Usagi had taken it all, the little energy she had left entered the crystal. She tried desperately to console it, but her energy was drained completely, and the light left her eyes.
"It may as well, but at least I know that you are dieing with me. I won't be alone, and all I care about right now, is that you are gone. The silver crystal won't let its holder die." She said, smiling insanely. She was scaring the shit out of Usagi.
"You crazy woman! It will only bring back its true holder. The princess of the moon, the rightful queen of Crystal Tokyo." Usagi said, getting even more nervous by the second.
Minako's hair flew around her, her face was hollow, and her eyes sunk deeper into the sockets. She looked like dreaded Medusa herself, her hair flying like the very snacks, and her face was waxy pale. She was dead. Dead on her feet, the crystal had her soul, and now Minako was being controlled, only her body remained. She might as well have been a zombie, back from the dead to seek revenge on Usagi. Funny how much that was to the truth.
The crystal's light went on, and soon, it had all the energy it needed, the energy from the time warp giving it everything it needed. And then it threw the light blast at Usagi, the light hurling towards her.
Usagi shrieked. "DARK CRYSTAL!!! POWER!!!!!"
The energy of the dark crystal summoned to her hands, and she threw it at the light. The energy coursed through her, and she could feel it slowly begin to take control of her. *So this is the power of the Dark Crystal. * She thought, but then she felt the pain of the power, too much for her to handle. *Now I know why I could never use the crystal before. The power was too strong. I should be able to handle it now, but it's too much. Oh, father where are you!?!?!?!?! *
"RUBIUS!!!!!" She yelled in pain, hoping to kami that he could hear her.
***
Rubius hurried to the spot where the light was being expelled. His breath caught in his throat as he saw that Usagi was on one end, black energy coursing through her bones, and the knuckles of her hands were showing through as the black energy went through her. He looked where light cam from. A skeleton stood on the other side. It was a corpse, controlling the power of the silver crystal. It was Minako who was dead, the one who was already dead, and it was Usagi who was coming even closer by the second to the state that Minako was in. Dead and walking.
"USAGI!!!" He called, but Usagi couldn't hear him. *What is she doing!? The power of the dark crystal; wha. *
Then their was a crack. It was painful, and a broken cry he heard from the right side of his ear. Someone had won, and someone had lost. He heard a thump as someone fell to the ground. Someone was dead, and he was afraid to look.
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Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear!!! You guys waited this long for another cliffy? Sorry bout that, I would have made it longer, but then again, I've got homework to do. Ja ne!
~PA
*sniffle * *couch * I. *hack * I've got a cold. Poor me! *hack, sniffle * I'm fine. I've got my Sailor Moon box of tissues right here, my beloved hot chocolate with pink marshmallows, and my Harry Potter pillow. ^_^
Sorry I haven't updated in a while. I've just got this damned cold and I'm just now getting to finishing up the eleventh chapter. Well, I'll shut up now and let ya'll read. Talk 2 ya later!
Chapter 11: Anguish
"Where am I? Mina-chan? What's going on here!?"
He was floating in an unknown world, he watched different dimensions pass him by, there were so many of them, he could figure out which was which.
"Oh, you don't need to worry about your precious Minako; Usagi will take good care of her."
Tuxedo Mask turned, he looked around quickly. He saw no one. Only the light years and black and white stars fly by, a cosmos was in the collage as well. There was no one in there with him. No one, or, for as much as he could see.
"Scared, Endymion?"
Tuxedo Mask cried out in frustration at the unknown person who was calling him. "Who are you!? What do you want with me! Where is my Minako!?"
"Believe me, I have no pleasure being here, but I will in a few moments when I rip you limb from limb. Minako is safe for now, but in a little while, the poor Neo Queen will have lost her shine, courtesy of the Negamoon." The deep and rich voice chuckled mirthlessly, but evilly.
There was a flash of red, and there was a blast behind him. There was a lot of cracking, little the shattering of a mirror. Suddenly the atmosphere cracked. And beautiful Crystal Tokyo appeared behind him. He gasped as he saw the darkness take over the once beautiful city. Gold covered the city, and soon a black figure appeared over it. It's golden hair surrounded the city, and the crystal turned to silver and rubies. The palace looked like the very home of the devil. It was beautiful.
"You see what your precious kingdom will look like once the rightful heir returns to his throne?"
"Minako and I are the rightful heirs. What are you talking about?"
"Ha, yeah right. The rightful heir is Prince Diamond. You are the very beings that banished your ruler from this planet. Do you really think you can still defeat us while we have all your scouts on our side? Some loyalists."
Ami? Makoto? They betrayed us? First Rei, now them? No! It cannot be! "You're lying, Ami and Makoto have consciences; they wouldn't turn their backs on their king and queen!" He was panicking. He was alone, alone with this voice that was mocking his power. Or, the power he thought he had.
"If you'd only open your eyes, young king. This is not reality. You think that this life is only full of loving your queen and neglecting your own daughter. You have no knowledge of ruling a kingdom. Without you're scouts and protectors, you're nothing. Face it, you're doomed."
"Rubius!!!!!!"
Rubius' blocks were down. Endymion could see him now, standing right in front of him. There was another voice calling his name. It was feminine. It was so familiar. They looked when they saw a beautiful silver glow come from another part of the time warp, but it was bright enough to break the atmosphere around them. Some thing was wrong. Very wrong.
He knew the silver light that brightly shone on him now wasn't anything from the Negamoon. It was something pure, but there were hints in it. Someone was fighting it. It was faint. Whoever fought against the light, they were loosing, loosing badly.
***
About an hour before that, in another place in the time warp.
"I'm going to kill Rei when I get my hands on her. Betraying us! I was supposed to get back at that meatball brains and then she has go and foil it!"
Minako was floating around in the time warp. There was nothing to do but wait till her beloved or someone else came to rescue her. *Humpf, I bet that Mercury and Jupiter are on their way right now. I must remember to criticize them for taking so long. Suwannee little bitches. Who needs to do any work when you have other people to do it for you? *
"Must be nice, just laying around all day, snogging with your boyfriend, making others do your work. What a delightful concept. Maybe that's why you're starting to look like a seal, fatso."
Minako jumped, but then just managed to sink herself deeper into the time warp. "Mercury? Jupiter? Where are you? Who are you? Well, whoever it is, you're late, took way to long to find me. Now get your vetoed ass over here and get me out of this warp, my hair is starting to frizz with all this pressure. "
"Oh don't worry, you're hair isn't going to be the only thing that's going to frizz when I'm done with ya."
Minako looked up, there was a small pop, and there was the object of her fury and anguish.
"USAGI!"
Usagi smirked as Minako's mouth became the size of a blue whale, she could say the same thing about her eyes, but then again, with the way she was slacking off these days, she might as well be a whale.
"Glad to see you remembered my name. That's one on you. Next thing you know, you'll start to remember your 'daughter's' name." She mocked.
"I'm going to kill you. Then you'll be begging me to forgive you for that comment!" Minako's face became purple with fury. There was nothing in her face that resembled competence. She could resemble a balloon better than a Neo Queen.
"Yeah," she mocked her again. "And Rubius will grow a beard. Not likely.
"LOCKNESS TIDES!!"
Minako was pushed further into the time warp. She was bleeding in the head, and what was worse; her head felt like it was on fire. Her hair was in her way; she didn't have the strength to fight back. She had been stupid to go on untransformed. Very stupid. Now Usagi had the upper hand.
"DARK MOON SANDSTORM!!!"
Minako felt the familiar sand rise around her, clogging her eyes. She closed her mouth, eyes, and held her nose, but the sand whipped at her and flung her hands away. She couldn't breathe. Usagi closed in on her, watching in delight at how her prey was so easily being defeated.
"I once said that I liked being the cause of other people's pain. But this is pathetic. Where is the fun in defeating a weak enemy? No sense of accomplishment, nothing. Just a wimpy excuse for a soldier on the ground, wiping her eyes, trying to get the blood to stop."
Minako sputtered, but she managed to speak. "It's called sadism, and it's a mental disorder. Maybe you should talk to a physiologist, they could help with that small little problem."
Usagi frowned. "You're in a right good position to be throwing comebacks at me. One more attack, and you can die right now. There is nothing you can do. To bad your precious Mamoru can't be here to help you. But Rubius is taking care of him. Don't worry, you'll be together in hell very soon, my dear." She smirked as Minako tried to stand.
There was little mistaking her weak body and knocking knees. Her skirt was shredded. The girl's ego had taken a big downfall. But was there confidence in that girl's stance? Usagi became irritated with the girl's sense of pride. Now she would get rid of her once and for all.
Usagi raised her hands to make her last blast the biggest and most painful. Minako still tried to stand, and held hands up to let herself speak.
"You may have won the battle, but the war is not over yet. There is one thing that I have that you will never have."
Usagi stopped, her hand still raised above her head.
"And what would that be?" She asked, not letting her nervousness show. What did this girl have that Usagi couldn't have?"
"Love. I have the love of a man that would give his life up for me if it came to that. He loves me and I love him. That is one thing that you can never have. The love of another. You're so evil that no one could ever love you. You're nothing but a coward that doesn't feel. That makes me much, much better than you." She smirked, thinking she had won. But Usagi knew better than that.
"And you think that by saying a few meaningless words, you have won?" Usagi raised an eyebrow. "Nothing matters more than the secures of the prince. You mistake me for a human. I am not. I'm a soldier. Solitary, I feel nothing. Sure I can have a few laughs, there are times I like to have fun with the people I know, but I am not allowed to get close. Do you know who my father is?" She looked at Minako, who now had a blank look on her face.
"He makes sure there are no emotions. His life is devoted to the prince, as is all the generals. Me, Rubius, Emerald, Sapphire, Prisma, Avery, Catzie, Bertie, everyone! And now Lady Rei, Ami, and Makoto are as well. Nothing else is allowed. And soon," Usagi smiled evilly, a mad look in her eye, "he will return to his throne, and punish those who banished him a long time ago. You all will die. Lucky you, you have the pleasure of dieing first."
Minako's face scrunched up. Her nose wrinkled, and her lips pursed. She then took the last resort; she pulled something out of her sailor collar, and held it as it began to hover and glow in her hands.
Usagi gasped. "The silver crystal."
She watched as the crystal floated higher and higher into the air. *Is she crazy? She'll kill the both of us! Is she really this thick!? * "What are you doing? That crystal is too strong for you. You'll end up killing us both!" Usagi shrieked as the crystal only rose higher.
Minako had a made glint in her eyes, insanity was written all over her. Usagi knew the crystal had the power to take control of the master, which was why you had to have enough energy in your body to control it. But Minako didn't have any energy, Usagi had taken it all, the little energy she had left entered the crystal. She tried desperately to console it, but her energy was drained completely, and the light left her eyes.
"It may as well, but at least I know that you are dieing with me. I won't be alone, and all I care about right now, is that you are gone. The silver crystal won't let its holder die." She said, smiling insanely. She was scaring the shit out of Usagi.
"You crazy woman! It will only bring back its true holder. The princess of the moon, the rightful queen of Crystal Tokyo." Usagi said, getting even more nervous by the second.
Minako's hair flew around her, her face was hollow, and her eyes sunk deeper into the sockets. She looked like dreaded Medusa herself, her hair flying like the very snacks, and her face was waxy pale. She was dead. Dead on her feet, the crystal had her soul, and now Minako was being controlled, only her body remained. She might as well have been a zombie, back from the dead to seek revenge on Usagi. Funny how much that was to the truth.
The crystal's light went on, and soon, it had all the energy it needed, the energy from the time warp giving it everything it needed. And then it threw the light blast at Usagi, the light hurling towards her.
Usagi shrieked. "DARK CRYSTAL!!! POWER!!!!!"
The energy of the dark crystal summoned to her hands, and she threw it at the light. The energy coursed through her, and she could feel it slowly begin to take control of her. *So this is the power of the Dark Crystal. * She thought, but then she felt the pain of the power, too much for her to handle. *Now I know why I could never use the crystal before. The power was too strong. I should be able to handle it now, but it's too much. Oh, father where are you!?!?!?!?! *
"RUBIUS!!!!!" She yelled in pain, hoping to kami that he could hear her.
***
Rubius hurried to the spot where the light was being expelled. His breath caught in his throat as he saw that Usagi was on one end, black energy coursing through her bones, and the knuckles of her hands were showing through as the black energy went through her. He looked where light cam from. A skeleton stood on the other side. It was a corpse, controlling the power of the silver crystal. It was Minako who was dead, the one who was already dead, and it was Usagi who was coming even closer by the second to the state that Minako was in. Dead and walking.
"USAGI!!!" He called, but Usagi couldn't hear him. *What is she doing!? The power of the dark crystal; wha. *
Then their was a crack. It was painful, and a broken cry he heard from the right side of his ear. Someone had won, and someone had lost. He heard a thump as someone fell to the ground. Someone was dead, and he was afraid to look.
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Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear!!! You guys waited this long for another cliffy? Sorry bout that, I would have made it longer, but then again, I've got homework to do. Ja ne!
~PA