Disclaimer: Sailor Moon is not mine. Nor is Darien. He said that he would call but. (She mutters something under her breath and then smiles wickedly) I will get my revenge on him.. Whoops. ^_^



"No!" Serena shouted. 'I will never let you win.' She thought, as the cold grip of the shadows continued to claw at her back. Serena dropped down to her knees, her mind was exhausted from battling the air and her body ached with pain.

"Look at you!" He spat at her, "You are nothing but a weak, snivelling little girl!" He made his way over to her, his graceful movements sliced through the shadows in front of him. There was a disgusted look upon his face like he had just smelt rotten eggs. "I can't believe that you are the great warrior that I have heard so much about! The great Sailor Moon." He looked down at the beaten girl. "Not so great now, are you?" He kicked her in the ribs making her squeal out in pain, but immediately resumed her battle face. She would not let him win that easy.

Sailor Mars opened up her eyes just in time to see the look of pain on Serena's face. She looked next to her and saw that Neptune and the other Outer scouts were just laying there, they watching all that was going on but not helping Sailor Moon.

"How can you just lie there?" She said, lumps of emotions gathered in her throat making her voice crackle as she spoke. "Come on, we have to help her!" Mars said, trying to push herself up from the ground.

"Sailor Mars, don't." Pluto warned her. "You are too weak to help her."

"I don't care!" Mars said, her tears rolling off her cheeks and splashing onto the blood stained floor. With a moan, her arms buckled under her weight and she collapsed back to the ground.

"Sailor Mars, you must not help her." Neptune warned when she saw Mars try to get up again.

"I don't care if I am too weak. I am not going to stand by and watch her die." She looked over at Serena. She had started screaming and rolling around on the floor, trying to shake the darkness off of her. "Look at her!" Mars screamed at them, "Just look!"

Uranus crawled over to Mars and grabbed a hold of her arm. "No!" She said firmly, forbidding her to help. "You must not help her. She has to do this one on her own."

"She is the only one that can stop him, Sailor Mars." Neptune added. "You must give her a chance."

Sailor Mars looked at her leader, 'She needs my help!' Sailor Mars thought. 'I have to help her!'

"Mars, trust me!" Neptune said, as if she could read Mars's thoughts. "Trust in her."

Sailor Mars looked over at Neptune, she could see the faith that they all had in Serena. She wished that she had their faith. "Fine." She nodded, agreeing only because she knew she could offer little help anyway. "But I am not going to watch her die." She placed her head back down on the floor and closed her eyes. Mars scrunched up her face, she could still hear Serena's screams and the sound of the shadows high-pitched wails.

Saturn closed her eyes as well, this was too much for her to watch. The tortured look on Sailor Moons face would make even a murderer feel ill.

Neptune and Uranus, however, still watched on, reassuringly they squeezed each other's hands. "I hope we are doing the right thing." Uranus said as she saw Serena roll on the ground and start crying hysterically.

Neptune nodded. "Yes, I know that she can destroy this evil." She glanced over at Sailor Moon. "She just needs to have faith."

"Besides." Pluto added, eavesdropping on their conversation. "If she can't defeat the darkness." She said with a sunken heart. "No one can."



Serena felt sick, the shadows were trying to get into her body. She could feel them dance upon her skin, trying to infest her through her pores. The faint whispers on the wind came back: "Doomed."

"Not again." She whimpered and then looked around her is if searching for someone. Fed up, she yelled at the top of her voice: "Just give me a break!"

Suddenly, a blinding red flash came from out of the darkness. A red rose dropped at her feet, its crimson petals floated elegantly down to the ground. Serena looked up. "Tuxedo Mask!" She cried happily.

Sure enough, a dashing man dressed formally in a tuxedo stood through the darkness. With a tilt of his top hat, he smiled and looked up at her. For a second, the darkness cleared.

"Sailor Moon. You *can* overcome this evil." He said, his melodious voice sending Serena's heart a flutter. "Believe in yourself."

But then his strapping façade ended as he slumped against the wall in pain.

She looked over at Darien, he was incredibly weak, but a hopeful smile showed on his lips. "Tuxedo Mask!" She cried, worried for her love.

"Sailor Moon," he repeated, and then placed his hand on his chest like he was having a heart attack. With a moan, he shook of the pain and stood up straight, facing Sailor Moon. "Please. We all believe in you, just believe in yourself." Another stab of pain ran through his body, he swung his black cape around him, and in a flash he disappeared.

"Tuxedo Mask!" She cried again. Desperately praying that he was going to be all right. For a moment she felt like giving up once again, but then another voice broke through the shadows. She looked over to where the scouts were laying, and she saw that Sailor Mars was looking up at her.

"I believe in you, Sailor Moon." She whispered softly.

Somehow, even above the sounds of the screaming shadows, Serena could still hear Mars's words. Serena reassuringly nodded her head and gave Mars a loving smile.

With a new burst of confidence, Serena got up off the ground.

"You are better off staying down there!" Daymon mocked. "The ground is where you belong." He looked at Serena, expecting her to break down and start crying. Instead, he could see the determination in her eyes and for the first time, he got a little worried. "You know, Sailor Moron," he continued, hoping that he could bring down her confidence. "I have figured it out. I have figured out why Queen Beryl was so afraid of a pathetic dim- wit like you."

Serena stood up strong. She pretended like his words didn't hurt her, she pretended like her heart was encased in steel. She glowered at him through her dazzling blue eyes.

"It was the silver crystal." Daymon continued. "Maybe, with that pathetic little piece of jewellery, you provided at least a tiny bit of a challenge. But now I know the truth. With out the silver crystal, you are weak!" He laughed a viscous laugh. "Do you hear me girlie? Without the silver crystal, you are NOTHING!"



A.N. Sorry to leave it there. There is more, but it would have been too long of a chapter, so I will post the next part out really soon. I just have to fix it up/edit it. It will be out in less then 24hrs. I hope.

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