A.N. Thankyou to JadesRose and Ashley (sunstardp) for reviewing.



Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon.



Silence.

The room filled with stillness. Not a peaceful silence, but an eerie silence, the silence that lurks in the dark of the night. The silence of death.

'Doomed, you are all doomed.' The wind around them whispered. They all heard it, except Neptune. Mars could see Saturn search around the room, trying to find out who was talking. 'Doomed, you are all doomed.' It whispered again, breaking through the deadly silence.

"Who is saying that?" Jupiter asked, standing in a battle pose, ready to strike at anything that moved wrong.

"I don't know." Mars answered. "Neptune, can you hear this? Any ideas?"

Neptune closed her eyes and listened carefully to the wind. 'Doomed, you are all doomed.' The whispering sung again.

"Stop!" Neptune shouted to the other scouts. "Do not listen to it! Please, try to ignore it."

'Doomed, you are all doomed.' The whispering came through the silence.

"What is it?" Saturn asked, getting panicky.

"That is the darkness. If you listen, it will infect you. Like it has infected Sailor Moon."

"How do we make it stop?" Jupiter asked, thrashing at the air, like she was fighting an invisible enemy.

"You can't stop it, but if you don't listen, it is harmless."

"Harmless?" Uranus asked, slightly confused. "If it is harmless, then why bother? Is it just to freak us out?"

Suddenly, it dawned on Neptune. This was all just a ploy. A cleaver plot to keep them distracted, while he gathered up more strength. She looked over at Daymon, who had started glowing frosty blue in colour. "No, it is worse." Neptune gasped. She hated to be the bearer of bad news. "He is not just using our attacks for energy, he is using our attacks."



Suddenly, a terrible rumble broke through the silence. A gushing noise came from somewhere around them. "It sounds like," Venus began, trying to listen closely to the noise. "Like a stampede."

"No!" Mercury corrected. "It's Water!"

Suddenly, torrents of water surged down from the ceiling. The water burst through the roof and came falling down on top of the scouts.

"He is using my attack," Mercury said, almost offended. "Only it is much, much stronger!"

The gush of white water came pounding down, driving them into the ground. The tons of water weighed them down, making them feel like they were being bombarded with bags full of bricks. Mars tried to keep her feet, but she was pushed under the heavy current.

"It is no use!" Mars cried above the sound of the white water. "I can't move!" They were all being battered, unable to move. They coughed desperately as they choked on lung fulls of water, any moment now, their heads would be pushed under the water, leaving them do be drowned alive. "No!" Mars cried, sucking in another mouthful of wet death.

Suddenly, like magic, the flood disappeared. The drenched Scouts sighed with relief, but only for a second. "It stopped?" Uranus wondered. "But why?"

Looking more like wet rats, the eight of them strained as they pushed their tired bodies off the ground.

"I am not going to let you get off that easy!" He smiled evilly.

The temperature of the room started to rise gastronomically. "Is it hot in here?" Venus asked, fanning herself with her hand.

Out of the walls, holes started to open up. "This can't be good!" Jupiter said, staring closely at the holes. A loud bang came out of one of them, like a champagne bottle had just been opened up. "What the?" Suddenly, flaming daggers came shooting out of the holes, flying straight at the scouts. Like a team of gymnasts, they all dived and flipped out of the way, dodging most of the daggers. But there were so many of them. Shouts of pain came from the girls, as the daggers clipped and gashed their arms and legs. Five of the knives came shooting at Jupiter, she screamed out in pain as she missed all but one. She looked down at her leg and writhed, she had gotten impaled right below her knee and was loosing a lot of blood.

"Ahhh!" She screamed, collapsing to the floor. Sailor Venus was quick to rush over to her. The daggers had stopped shooting.

"Sailor Jupiter, are you okay?" She asked, but then winced as she saw her friend's leg.

"Get it out! Please!" Jupiter cried.

"I can't! I don't want to hurt you."

"Please, you don't understand, it burns!" She cried, her usual brave face twisted in pain.

Venus looked down at Jupiter's knee. All of a sudden it caught on fire, flames moving further and further up her leg, like she had been doused with gasoline.

"The oil!" Mercury thought, remembering the black rain from outside. 'I need to do something!' She thought and tried to put out the flames with one of her water attacks, it only made things worse. Her water was like petrol, only making the flame grow more intense. Venus cringed and fought the urge to throw up, slowly, she reached down and then swiftly ripped out the dagger from Jupiter's knee. The flames immediately disappeared.

"Thankyou." Jupiter said, fighting the urge to pass out. Mercury ripped off some of her already torn skirt and bandaged the wound.

"What are we going to do now?" Venus turned was almost on the verge of breaking. "This is hopeless."

A yellow spark burned in Uranus's eyes as she turned towards Daymon. "You're going to pay for that!" She yelled into the wind and charged straight at him. Gracefully, she flew in the air, trying to boot him in the face with one of her high kicks. He dodged her flying attack, and swung around in perfect timing, to punch her in her gut. With a groan, Uranus went flying against the wall, crashing into it with an enormous thud.

"Uranus!" Neptune yelled and ran over to her friend. Daymon, spotting movement, swung around and threw a fireball straight at Neptune. It hit her on her arm, and sent her careering into Uranus.

"Neptune!" Uranus yelled, looking at her friend lying motionless on top of her.

But his attacks didn't stop there. He turned to the remaining scouts, his eyes blazing with a bloodthirsty red. A bolt of lightening came shooting out of his hands, scorching the scouts and clinging around their bodies. The bolts continued to zap them, dragging the scouts to their knees. Electrocuting them.



A.N. I know it looks like they have no hope, but don't worry. I promise that there WILL be a happy ending. I just do this for suspense. Is it working? I love reviews.

Peace to all. xxx Destiny xxx