Darkness Sees the Light
Note: This is a POSSIBLE sequel to "Light Meets Darkness"
Disclaimer: Neither Usa-chan, nor I own Sailor Moon or Gundam Wing but the plot and such belongs to us. Please don't steal it.
Chapter Fifteen: Shinigami's Dues
Usagi's mouth was open in a never-ending shriek as the monster dived for her its claws and jaws outstretched and ready to rip her apart. Her eyes widened in pain as a painful sort of acid dripped from the thing's mouth and splattered onto her skin with a hiss. She had to look away as she both felt and smelt her flesh beginning to boil where the liquid had touched.
Heero reacted quickly and shoved the in pain Usagi securely behind him as he faced his latest obstacle. "Relena?" He whispered his shock clearly evident. Now that Usagi had unlocked his emotions he was a lot more free with them and was able to clearly express himself.
Relena's eyes darkened as she saw the evident shock. "She's a witch, Heero! She took you away from me!" She bared her teeth at the whimpering girl and smirked as she crouched lower. "She's not fit for you," her voice was little more than a growl but still Heero had understood.
"You hurt her, Relena." He remarked his voice going deadly soft. "You hurt her," He repeated his eyes filling with hate, yet another emotion he had never expressed.
Relena pulled back and stared at him confused her eyes filling with fury as Heero protected the worthless girl. "HEERO!" She objected reaching out and swatting him to the side with much more force than she had intended. She froze startled as she realized she had sent his body into the wall.
"Heero!" Usagi gasped shocked before getting to her feet and rushing to his side. She knelt beside him and waited anxiously for his eyes to open. "Heero, please get up! Don't let me lose you too…" she pleaded.
Relena growled in fury and stepped forward only to be stopped by a gunshot. She winced as the bullet slammed into her arm but apparently her new body was bullet resistant. Her head turned and she snarled as she saw a furious Duo. "You'll pay for that…" she promised.
Duo smirked as he glanced at Usagi and Heero. "You okay?" He noticed something odd bubbling on the girl's arm and her look of pain and realized that the monster had already done some serious damage.
"I'm fine…" Usagi responded. "Demo Heero…" She glanced down at the motionless pilot and tried to stop her tears. She held his head close to her body and hugged him as tightly as she could ignoring the roars of outrage coming from Relena.
"Let him go!" Relena demanded stepping forward and preparing to tear the girl apart piece by piece. "He's mine!"
"Boy, have you forgotten your leader?" mused a voice well above Duo. Endymion watched as Duo glanced up and he snapped his fingers watching with amusement as the boy's eyes turned dark. "I plan to kill Usagi to avenge the death of my daughter. Do what you will with her then give her to me to finish off."
Usagi frowned in fury up at the ruler. "Its your fault she's dead," she hissed. "If it wasn't for your selfishness she'd still be alive!"
"When it was your lover who killed her?" Endymion snapped. "Its your fault for coming here in the first place, tramp!" He watched in cold satisfaction as she reeled as if from a slap. "Face it, if you hadn't been so obsessed with these children she'd still be alive! You're centuries older than any of them."
Usagi glanced down at the still out of it Heero and bit her lip. "Demo…" she whispered and hugged Heero tighter. "I love Heero, Endymion… I've loved him for so long… I can't give him up. Don't you have anyone you've ever loved?"
He snorted at her. "Do you really think I even thought about such things after realizing my destiny? Of course not! I was destined to be with you and that was fine with me!" His eyes flashed with fury and insanity and forced the girl to look away.
The distraction was all Duo needed to grab a hold of her. "Usagi-chan," he whispered in her ear as he held her from behind. "You'll forget all about Heero when you're with me… I promise."
"Baka Maxwell," Wufei grumbled as he walked in on the scene. "What are you doing?"
Duo's eyes flickered to the Chinese youth. "Doing?" He questioned with a carefree smile. "Endymion-sama has given me permission to have her before she's sacrificed to bring…" he trailed off his eyes sliding to a suddenly furious Endymion. "Said too much?"
Endymion nodded. "They don't need to know because they'll be dead." He turned to the confused Relena and his eyes narrowed. "Kill them!"
She winced at the order but with it her eyes flashed red and with a roar she attacked. Wufei was hard pressed to dodge her deadly drool while trying to find a weak spot his sword could easily slice through. She attempted to swat him with her claws but he was too fast. "Hold still," she growled.
Duo smirked as he watched Wufei in mortal danger. "That's what you get for always picking on me, Chang," he snarled before turning his attention back to the shaking Usagi. "Scared?" he questioned an evil smirk playing on his lips.
The girl struggled in his arms but he had learned from his previous mistakes and had used some of his newfound powers to bind her arms and legs. She was helpless in his arms. Practically a ripe peach begging to be plucked and eaten. His eyes filled with lust and he leaned down and forcibly kissed her. She would be his.
Wufei hissed in pain as one of the needle like claws pierced his stomach. "Disgraceful, Maxwell!" he snarled as he saw what the other was doing. "When I'm done with this onna I'll slice you in half!"
Duo ignored him as he enjoyed the moment. With Usagi helpless he could do anything he wanted to her… Anything. He started to deepen the kiss and his hands slipped into her shirt when he heard the sound of a gun being cocked. Without pulling away he glanced behind Usagi and saw a shaking with fury Heero. He smirked and felt the crying Usagi once more before pulling away. "I'll take care of him first then we can continue, Beautiful," he told her with a wink.
Usagi was shaking in fury and revulsion but was unable to do anything else. "Heero," she whimpered as she sobbed her skin still in unbearable pain. She bit her lip hard to stop from screaming as Relena turned from her torture of Wufei and managed to snag Usagi with one of her massive claws. Her body was lifted with the force and she was slammed into a pillar as five red stripes appeared on her body.
"Onna!" Wufei gasped in shock. True he didn't quite understand what the fascination the girl held for Duo and Heero was but he believed in protecting women. He was going to make Duo pay after he had destroyed the monster. "Maxwell," he hissed as he passed the smirking pilot and attacked Relena once more.
Relena laughed as she saw the marks across Usagi's throat, stomach, legs, chest, and the trace of red streaming from her head darkening her golden blonde hair to a deep dark red. "DIE!" She demanded.
Another gunshot rang through the air and Relena was pushed back by the close force. She turned with a snarl and paused startled as she realized Heero had shot her in the head point blank. "I'll kill you," he promised as he reloaded his gun.
Duo laughed and grabbed Heero off of Relena. "I believe we were fighting, ne?" he commented.
"Usagi-chan!" Minako gasped as she rushed to her friend's side and collapsed by him. She glanced at the others who had followed her in alarm. "Haruka, she's hurt pretty badly!"
Quatre shook his head in denial and glanced at the monster. "Relena-san?" he whispered horrified. "Duo, what's happening?"
"Keep away from him, Quatre," Heero demanded as he unsuccessfully fought the pilot. The new powers made him too fast for even the perfect soldier to contend with.
Trowa went to Wufei's side as he watched the monster. He carefully took out one of his knives and sneaked around the back of the creature as Wufei kept it busy. He plunged his blade into the back of its neck ignoring the startled cry of Quatre. "The only way," he replied to the hysterical boy.
Relena's eyes widened in pain and with a shriek she fell backwards almost flattening Trowa. Only his quick acrobatics saved him from being turned into a pancake. She shrieked again and blood flowed freely from the wound. Finally someone had found her weakness.
Endymion snarled as the monster fell to the ground and slowly began to bleed to death. "Worthless!" he spat before turning on Usagi. "Your turn, Usako," he growled his eyes flickering faster and faster as power built up around him.
To the astonishment of both senshi beside her and the startled Rei that had finally stumbled onto the scene Usagi's badly injured body was raised into the air much against the girl's wishes. "Endymion, leave them alone," she demanded her eyes locked onto his the only things she could move.
"Too late, Usako. The moment you set foot in this pathetic place you doomed them all. Were you not happy being Queen of all? Wasn't that enough for you?" he shook his head in disbelief. "You had a perfect daughter and the one that -murdered- her you want to save! You're a fool!"
"I'm selfish," She responded with a nod. "Its my fault Chibiusa died, I know. Its my fault that they've went through all this because of my selfishness. Of course I realize all this!" She closed her eyes tightly as she felt tears building up. "But you could never understand… Endymion, if you knew what true love was you wouldn't of ever questioned me. Don't you see that power means nothing if you don't have love?"
He ignored her his eyes narrowing with malice. "Serenity, you're going to suffer now." He promised as he snapped his fingers and a scream of pain rang through the air.
Heero's fist plowed into a suddenly still Duo's chest as the boy began to scream. Heero pulled back startled and watched Duo's eyes change from black to indigo and back. "Duo?"
"Get…" Duo panted as he held his head in pain. The torture was unreal and what made it worse was the laughter that echoed throughout it. "Get Usagi…" he panted before collapsing into another bout of screams.
"Endymion, stop!" Usagi demanded. "I'll go with you just leave them alone!" she was pleading now but she was beyond the point of caring. "Please…"
He ignored her and smiled as Duo's pain-filled cries filled his ears. "Scream for me," he demanded as he licked his lips. "SCREAM!"
"ENDYMION!" Usagi snarled finally breaking free of her spell but too weak from her injuries to do anything to stop him. "STOP IT!"
Her senshi held the girl down to keep her from injuring herself further and glared up at their former ruler. Wufei was distracted between keeping his promise on the threats to Duo's life or destroying Endymion. Finally he decided that at the moment Duo was no threat and turned his attention to Endymion.
Endymion finally took note of the group around him and smirked. "You can't kill me… If you do I'll kill your friend or worse!" he threatened.
"Worse?" Heero questioned with a disbelieving look. "What could be worse?"
"What about being a mindless doll?" Endymion suggested with a smirk. "He'll be locked away able to see but never able to speak and always in immense pain. Yes, sometimes death can actually be merciful…"
Duo recovered for only a brief moment and as he spoke he panted. "Forget me… KILL HIM!" he demanded before his screams became even higher pitched.
Endymion scowled as the group advanced on him. "You don't believe me?" He demanded his eyes narrowing in hate. "I'll do it!"
Usagi hid behind a pillar out of sight and closed her eyes. What she was about to do was against every moral fiber of her being but Endymion had to be stopped. "Gomen, Duo-chan," she whispered softly so that only he could hear. What pain she had put him through… She had remembered her bout of misplaced memory and the kiss she had shared with him. He had been in love with her deeply. Perhaps she would have ended up with him if she hadn't been so stubborn on making Heero remember but not now. Though he now claimed a tiny piece of her heart that no one but her knew. "Gomen," she whispered before calling the Ginzuishou to her and closing her eyes.
Endymion prepared to put the finishing touches on ending Duo's happiness when he noticed a flash of pink hair. A feminine scream he knew to be Usagi's filled the air and he froze his eyes widening. "Black Lady?"
She stepped out from behind a pillar and leaned against it her ruby eyes twinkling. "Otousan… I've done it. I've killed Okaasan. I've made her pay for every bad thing she's ever done to us."
Endymion faltered and this was enough time for five gunshots to ring through the air and he stared startled at the five boys. "You may have killed me… but your precious Usagi is gone as well!" he smirked as he slumped to the ground. "We did it, Black Lady."
The girl went to her fallen father's side as tears trailed down her cheeks. "Otousan!" she gasped. He smiled at her before slumping over in death.
"You killed Usagi?" Heero demanded his eyes narrowing and advancing on the girl.
Black Lady turned around and smiled sadly her scarlet eyes slowly turning blue and her body acquiring five gaping wounds as she collapsed to the ground. Her hair had returning to a reddish blonde and she smiled weakly. "Is Duo okay?" she whispered.
Duo stared at her shocked and shaking. She had used her own powers to transform into the witch for his sake? But… He frowned. "Usagi… I'm fine. What'd you do that for?"
She smiled and closed her eyes as she swayed in exhaustion. "Baka… I couldn't let him kill you." Her eyes opened to slits and she managed to smile at the group. "We've got to go home together, ne?" the last part was inaudible as she collapsed forward.
::Fin::