I sat at my desk, trying to do my homework but I couldn't. Something was wrong in the universe. It was whispering to me. I pulled out my diary. This wasn't any normal diary but the diary where I record any Senshi stuff in it. I still write in it even though there have been no enemies. But Death whispers to me. Something is coming. I opened it up and posed my pen on the page.
"Mighty Saturn, I call to you. You tell me truths now tell me what you whisper." I chanted and suddenly I felt my hand moving. I didn't look at what I was writing because I knew it would distract me from what I was doing. Finally the message was over and I looked at what I had scrawled.
"In light there is always darkness but in pure darkness there is never light. One must end. It is the beginning of the end or the end of a beginning. Senshi together or apart… Senshi powerful or powerless. Your true form revealed or forever locked away. The beginning or the end? It is up to the Light or the Darkness. Only one may help. One who is composed of both. One who is a shadow, neither light nor dark." I whispered. I heard the doorbell ring downstairs. I ignored it, knowing that Amara or Michelle would get it. I reflected for a moment, before returning to the cryptic message from Saturn. I used to call Amara and Michelle "mama" or "papa" but since the battle with Galaxia I cannot. It is impossible. It's not that I don't trust them; it's that they killed me and Trista- mama. They say it was a plan and for Serena's sake all the Senshi went along with that idea. But those two are a danger. They are in love with each other and only each other. They swear that they would do anything to protect the Princess but I wonder if Amara was given the choice Serenity's or Michiru's death, would she pick Michiru? I wonder the same about Michelle. I love them. They are my parents but I wonder if they could pose a danger to Serenity. But I digress.
I heard a knock on my door and quickly through my diary in my drawer. No one knows I keep the diary. I stood up and answered it.
"Serena is here." Michelle said. She looked serious and I followed to the living room. Serena sat next to Amara, sobbing. I sat at Serena's feet.
"Koneko, what is wrong?" Amara asked. I touched Serena's knee. Light met Darkness. I guess, in a way, I don't have a lot of self- esteem. I grew up thinking I am Darkness. I was born to destroy things. Sailor Uranus and Neptune, my own parents, wanted me dead and now, so they believe, they protect me from the Sailor Saturn. Serena looked at me.
"Not darkness…" she whispered. I don't think Amara heard.
"Chinsei," that was my nickname for Serena, it means tranquility, "what's wrong?"
"The Inners… they have all disappeared. Mina and Amy both disappeared tonight! And no one knows where they are! What if they are dead? Or worst? They left?" Serena began to sob again. I kept my hand on her knee. The Inner Senshi left? I thought to my message. Could that be related to this?
"Have you talked to their parents?" Michelle asked.
"Mina's and Amy's know nothing. Do you think it's the Magic of the Family?" Serena asked. Amara looked at Michelle.
"Magic of the Family? A couple of years ago 'Mara and I did some research on that. We found out that once we became Senshi any magic they might have had disappeared. This is something else."
"But Amy said that it was. Amy is never wrong. She spoke like she knew completely it was! Like Raye told her before she left!" Serena cried. She jumped to her feet, causing me to fall back. I didn't care. Why wasn't I informed for that research? Didn't I have a right to know? But I knew this wasn't the time to question it. Amara stood up and put a hand on Serena's shoulder.
"Sit. Amy could be wrong, you know." Serena whirled at her older friend.
"Amy is never wrong!" I stood up.
"Chinsei, please calm down. What else could it be? Who else would do this?" I asked. Serena shrugged as tears began to fall again. I thought of my message from Saturn. I ran upstairs, ignoring my parents questions. I yanked out my diary,
"Saturn of death, tell me what it going on!" I cried and began to write. Pluto… Guardian of Time… Light and Darkness must battle for a time of peace or destruction. A place of love or hate. Powers missing but if Light prevails powers are gained. Light isn't alone "Light has her Shadow. Firefly, what is this?" Serena asked me softly when I was finished.
"Saturn whispers. We must go to Pluto." I said as I conjured my henshin stick. Amara and Michelle ran up and saw my wand and that Serena was holding her brooch.
"What is going on?" Amara demanded.
"No time, Transform! Moon Eternal Power, Make- Up!"
"Saturn Planet Power, Make- Up!" We both transformed. Eternal Sailor Moon looked at the remaining Senshi.
"Amara, Michelle, stay here. Call the Aino's and the Mizuno's" Michelle nodded. You could tell they didn't like the idea of me and Sailor Moon going anywhere without them. I didn't care and with a flash of dark purple and white we were gone.
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"Puu?" Eternal Sailor Moon called out to the empty Gates of Time. I was familiar with this place. A couple of years ago Trista showed me around the Gates of Time and Space. She told me that I was second to be guardian if anything happened to her. I prayed that nothing would. I walked up to the doors, hearing Sailor Moon pleading that I wouldn't go far from her in the fog. Uranus and Neptune would have asked the same thing but they would have asked so they could come an eye on me, not so they wouldn't be scared. My foot touched something on the guard. I knelt and gasped at what I saw. Sailor Moon ran over to me.
"Saturn?" she asked. I clutched, in my free hand, the Time Staff. Why was that here? Light will feel alone. I heard whispered to me. Pluto was gone. My eyes filled with tears as I turned to Sailor Moon. She knew right away and the tears started again. I stopped myself from crying. I had to.
"Chinsei," I whispered, "we should go back." Suddenly, for no reason, ice filled me. Danger, something whispered.
"Teleport home." I commanded.
"But why?"
"Just do it." Then I, swiftly, put the Time Staff in my space pocket and teleported to my home.
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I ran, still as the Senshi of Destruction, to the living room. Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune were battling it out against a huge youma. Our living room was destroyed. I whistled to let the youma know another player was in the game. It turned to me and multiplied.
"What?" I cried, shocked. It couldn't do that!
"Careful Hotaru!" Neptune cried as she threw a Deep Submerge at one of the youmas. I jabbed it with my Glaive. It bleed purple blood. I saw my reflection in its blood. I was Darkness… I swung again this time slicing off its arm. It screamed in pain. I whirled once and finished the monster off. I turned to the remaining Senshi. Neptune was cornered against the wall and Uranus had lost her Space Sword. I went to help Neptune when the monster bit her. She screamed in pain and went limp. Uranus threw off the youma and with a grand scream she finished off her youma. I ran to help Michelle- mama but Uranus beat me. She summoned her sword and stabbed the youma to death. One more appeared.
"Uranus look out!" I cried as it bent down and bit her. Fear coursed through my tiny body. Only Serenity and I was left. I turned to face the horrid creature. It ran at me and I at it. I went to stab it but it caught my arm and I went flying forward. My Silent Glaive flew from my fingers and into the wall.
"No…" I whispered as I felt the monster sat down on my back, "No…" I could feel the burning sign of Saturn on my forehead, beneath my tiara as it bit my neck. I lost. Again I had failed my Princess.
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I hurt. I blinked once and realised that I was awake. Then I realised I was chained to a wall.
"Hotaru?" Neptune, no Michelle asked me. I wasn't in my fuku anymore but in dark purple sweat pant and a t-shirt.
"Hai." I whispered. I hurt.
"Serenity? Is she here?" I asked, panicked. How badly did I fail her?
"No child," Trista said, "she is still safe. The Inner Senshi are around too… but I don't know where. I sense them." A woman, then, walked into out little room. She was wearing a small red dress, again without any shoes. Her green hair was piled up in a bun on the top of her head.
"Good, you are all up." She said. Amara tried to pull away from the wall.
"Who are you?" she screamed.
"I am Heki. I am a warrior of the great Negaverse. You killed our Queen and our Master. You will be punished. But first I need your magic." She said. 'No,' I thought, 'I cannot let you take my power. It's the only way I can protect Serenity!'
"You cannot!" Amara hissed at Heki. The woman laughed.
"You cannot stop me," she raised her hand and a black crystal appeared in it, "I have transferred the Inner Senshi's powers into this Crystal thus making it the Inner Crust. Now that you have all joined me, I will make another Crystal, calling it the Outer Crust. When I make the Outer Crust I need your powers! Then when we get Serenity and Endymion…" Heki trailed off smiling happily. The Negaverse. They were why we died… why I was awoken in my past life. She raised a crystal that once was black but now swirled with colours of the inner planets. I briefly had a chance to wonder what happened to the Inner Senshi when I felt my powers leak out of me. the chains snapped at I cried. My powers were flowing out of me like purple ribbons.
"No…" I whispered, as I landed on my knees. I saw my Outer Senshi's outfits turned from their planetary colours to black. I saw them past out. I saw each Senshi that once promised to forever protect Princess Serenity of the White Moon fall. I looked at Heki as she grinned as the Outer Crust was added to her Crystal. She seemed confused to see me still awake.
"You are suppose to me asleep or something!" she cried.
"No…" I whispered again, my mind focused on saving Serenity. I felt the burning of Saturn again on my forehead and then I felt my body disappear from this plain.
Coming soon: The Senshi of Light.
The story continues from Serena Tsukino's point of view.