Seeing that I have posted another segment of my other story Unusually
Unusual I will post the long awaited chapter to Unexpected Suprises, which
if you're here I am hoping you are reading and will review. As always
thank you to each and every one of my reviewers or fans and my best friend
who has given me so many great ideas and is a talented author herself.
Enough of my chit chat and on with Chapter 16, enjoy and if you have time,
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Chapter 16 Evil Be Gone
She was back and everything would be okay. They would find the crystal, reunite the star-crossed lovers, and she would have her best friend back. Everything would be okay because she was back.
Raye's red heeled shoes clicked along the pavement at a hurried pace because she had felt the energy, the aura of her friend before she received the call from Luna. The minute she felt Serena's energy actually Sailor Moon's energy, although a bit different, enter the world she had begun to transform. The call came moments later.
"Raye! Attack at the park! Hurry!" Luna's worried face filled the screen and Raye nodded her head to affirm her.
"I'm on my way!" Raye replied as she shut the communicator down with a resounding click.
That was where she found herself presently running towards the battle in anticipation that she was back. Raye knew in their past she had said cruel words and always treated Serena like a baby, but since she had been gone Raye respected her and missed her more than ever before. Upon nearing the battle she slowed to a stop to search for her comrade. When she found her what she saw made her jaw drop in shock.
Sailor Moon was throwing lethal blasts of energy towards innocent humans. The smile on her face as they screamed in pain and raced from her dangerous hands only made her cackle in delight. What had happened to the kind innocent best friend, the best leader, the most compassionate and sweet girl she had ever known? The girl she loved like a sister was gone and replaced by her evil twin.
Sailor Moon having seen the red sailor suited warrior turned and faced her a smile gracing her features. "I knew you would come. You came to finish me off as you finished him off right?" she raised an eyebrow at her as a frown settled on her face.
"What have they done to you? What's happened?" Sailor Mars cried out as tears dripped from her face.
"I was shown the truth, how my best friends killed him, how they would have killed me had the Negaverse not taken me. How could you kill him Raye, I thought you liked him?" she mocked as a few tears came down her face. She willed an attack to her hands and aimed at Raye. "What happened to me Raye? You above all people should know because you ended my life! My life as the wholesome warrior, the protector of innocent people's everywhere because you killed him!" she screamed. "I died that day Raye, how can you my," she paused and gathered more power to her hands, "best friend," she choked out, "ask me what happened? Tell me! Why?" She screamed.
She went to release the energy from her hands but felt her heart painfully constrict when she went to do so. The energy evaporated and she fell to her knees, try as she might to destroy the girl who had ruined her life she couldn't. She was a failure once again.
"Serena we didn't attack him! He's not dead! You have, you've been deceived Sere! The Negaverse is using you as a pawn, they tricked you not us. We would never hurt you!" Raye finished as she walked carefully towards her friend. Out of the corner of her eye she saw the other scouts arrive and she smiled in relief.
"You're lying." She whispered as she turned and faced her betrayers. Her eyes glinted black with evil and the scouts cowered in fear at their friend acting in such a manner.
"Serena," Mercury began.
"I am Sailor Moon! Not Serena! Serena was a fool, a weak coward, a stupid pathetic attempt at a warrior. The Serena you once knew doesn't exist anymore because you killed her!" she screamed as she fired her tiara at Venus.
Venus wasn't quick enough to jump out of the way and the tiara sliced her attack arm. She let out a cry in pain, as her gloved arm quickly became a light shade of red. Mercury walked over to aid her when Sailor Moon raised her hand and willed energy to hit her body.
Mercury went flying into a nearby tree and slid down the trunk. Jupiter faced Mars and they each nodded to each other. They each ran to help one friend, Jupiter to Mercury and Mars to Venus.
"You think that will stop me? Think again!" A slight pain filled her heart and a pounding in her head kept repeating like a mantra, "This is wrong!" She ignored the voice and cried out as she let more attacks fly from her hands.
Both scouts were hit, Mars in her leg and Jupiter in her side. They each collapsed in pain. They looked up in fear at their friend who was slowly approaching Venus.
The minute she was feet from her she spat at her. Venus stared at her in the face. "How does it feel Princess to kill?" Sailor Moon mocked.
"What are you talking about?" she replied calmly as she wiped the spit from her face.
"You let him die when all he ever did was care for you, no love you! How could you let him die like that?" she asked as she raised Venus's form from the ground. She dropped her roughly and turned to face Mercury. "And you, you let him die even though you knew all the medical tricks in the book. Have you no heart?" she asked as she kicked dirt in her face. Mercury coughed and moved to grab her computer.
The computer appeared in her hand until Sailor Moon yanked it out, "I don't think you'll be needing this anymore." She dropped the computer and moved to crush it with the heel of her boot when she felt warm arms surround her and hold her tight. "No let me go!" she screamed as she struggled.
"Sailor Moon, Serena! Thank god you're alright." He wrapped his arms around her trembling frame in a tight embrace.
She pushed against him, it had to be an illusion for he was dead. "No!" She screamed as she found herself free from his arms. She took her tiara from her head and released it mere inches from his chest. He cried out in pain as he fell to his knees.
"Sailor Moon, how could you?" Jupiter whispered before climbing to her knees. "What happened to my friend, my companion, our princess?" She raised herself to her full height before helping Mars and Venus to their feet. Mercury was quickly analyzing his body with her computer, it had been a hard hit but he would make it.
"What are you talking about? She is the princess and that is the only reason I'm here! I need the crystal where is it?" She pointed her gloved hand at Venus.
Venus's love chain wrapped around her wrist and she shook her arm violently to remove the constraints. "I'm sorry Serena but you have to hear us, have to believe what we tell you. You just hurt Darien, as did the Negasleeze you work for. We have only tried to help him."
"She's right, we only harbor bad feelings to the Negaverse because they took you from us and hurt your love. Now you have too, it wasn't an illusion, he isn't dead."
"That's right Meatball head, you never were the best in health class," Raye added, "but we care for you! You are our best friend and you are our leader, not Venus."
"This can't be!" Sailor Moon screamed and grasped her head in her hands. She raised her tearful face to them and grimaced. "How can what you say be true when I saw him die? The real Darien cares for his princess not me! He cares for his dream, his princess, his past, not me." She finished as she fell to her knees.
"You're wrong." A hoarse voice called out from what sounded like so far away.
"What?" she perked her head up noting her hands were still bound.
"What you said was untrue Sailor Moon. I do not care for Sailor Venus, nor my dream princess anymore because I found the true holder of the key to my heart." All the while he was speaking he was cautiously walking towards her as he clutched his chest. At his final words he stooped down and cupped her damp face with his gloved hands. "Do you know who that is Sailor Moon?"
"Your princess?" she bitterly spit out as she looked away from him noting how gentle he was as he wiped away her trails of tears.
He shook his head in slight amusement, had she always been this stubborn? Then again, he would have her no other way. "No, try again." He coaxed slowly.
"Let me think, Sailor Mars. I mean if you really think about it you were a couple." She sarcastically replied.
Mars and Tuxedo Mask shook their heads no in reply. "We never were a couple Sailor Moon, as Raye and Darien I mean." Raye blushed at the thoughts that he was truly interested in a relationship with her, how wrong had she been.
"How about one more guess Sailor Moon?" he replied while tilting her chin up to look him in the eyes. She shook her head in defiance although her heart was hammering in her chest and her head was screaming for her to say her own name. Her conditioning refused her the pleasure.
"No? Then I'll have to show you." He bent his head down and captured her lips in a tender kiss. As he began to pull away she felt her conditioning from the Negaverse melt away and she found her hands were no longer bound. She wrapped her gloved hands around his neck and pulled him close to her. He eagerly responded when he heard a startled gasp from the scouts.
A shining light was forming in between their two close bodies. The light began to fade and a silver crystal was spinning lightly in the air. Serena was amazed as the crystal pulsated and her locket lifted off her uniform. She reached out to grab it when the crystal entered the locket and it fell gently into her hands. Tuxedo Mask's warm hands surrounded her own and in the far reaches of her mind she thought she heard screaming.
All the evil she felt had left her body, the spell was broken and she hugged Tuxedo Mask for dear life. "I'm so sorry!" into his blood soaked shirt.
He murmured comforting words into her hair as his warm breath tickled her neck and face. It felt so good to be in his arms again. She moved to kiss him when she noticed the dark glint in his eye and his shaking arms.
"Darien, what's wrong?" she asked as she pulled away from him to study him carefully.
"I'm not sure." Suddenly he screamed out in pain as black light consumed him.
"Darien!" Sailor Moon latched her arms around his neck to hold him close but to no avail his trembling from was slipping out of her reach.
His hands were the first to go although she could swear she still felt a faint trace of them stroking her back and hair. His legs and torso were the next to go and soon only his upper chest and face. His eyes glimmered with pain and his lips whispered the words she longed to hear, "I love you."
She sobbed and pressed her lips to his. After a chaste kiss she noticed his lips were no longer pressing against her own. He was gone. She had lost him once again, but how. What happened?
"Mercury?" she asked seriously as she turned to face her concerned friends.
"Sailor Moon when he kissed you he broke the spell, as did the release of the Crystal. You were then protected from evil since you found your true love. As for Darien, he had no protection and the evil invaded him. I'm sorry Sailor Moon." She whispered as she wiped a few stray tears from her face.
"Well why weren't we inhabited then?" Mars asked.
"Were Sailor Scouts, our powers protect us." Venus supplied and everyone looked to her in shock.
"I think that you're hiding something from us V." Jupiter looked at her newest friend with disdain.
"You're right, I haven't told you," she paused, "everything yet." She choked out the last few words. "You don't know how hard it is to remember our lives, the true horrible past that we all had on the Moon when our kingdom was ruined. The sacrifice that she made for all of us, for him. I've had to live with the memories for as long as I can remember and I'm so sorry I couldn't tell you earlier, but you just couldn't handle it. Please forgive me." She lowered her head in defeat and sorrow, she had failed once again. It seemed that was all she would be, a failure to her princess and prince.
"Come on, let's figure out what to do from here." Raye replied softly looking at her best friend out of the corner of her eye. She looked heartbroken and she felt a pain in heart in seeing her so miserable. They all walked through the shadows of the night towards the temple. The moonlight reflected off the five female figures all drowning in their sorrows.
That's it! Hope you liked it! Till next time! Frozen Fire
Chapter 16 Evil Be Gone
She was back and everything would be okay. They would find the crystal, reunite the star-crossed lovers, and she would have her best friend back. Everything would be okay because she was back.
Raye's red heeled shoes clicked along the pavement at a hurried pace because she had felt the energy, the aura of her friend before she received the call from Luna. The minute she felt Serena's energy actually Sailor Moon's energy, although a bit different, enter the world she had begun to transform. The call came moments later.
"Raye! Attack at the park! Hurry!" Luna's worried face filled the screen and Raye nodded her head to affirm her.
"I'm on my way!" Raye replied as she shut the communicator down with a resounding click.
That was where she found herself presently running towards the battle in anticipation that she was back. Raye knew in their past she had said cruel words and always treated Serena like a baby, but since she had been gone Raye respected her and missed her more than ever before. Upon nearing the battle she slowed to a stop to search for her comrade. When she found her what she saw made her jaw drop in shock.
Sailor Moon was throwing lethal blasts of energy towards innocent humans. The smile on her face as they screamed in pain and raced from her dangerous hands only made her cackle in delight. What had happened to the kind innocent best friend, the best leader, the most compassionate and sweet girl she had ever known? The girl she loved like a sister was gone and replaced by her evil twin.
Sailor Moon having seen the red sailor suited warrior turned and faced her a smile gracing her features. "I knew you would come. You came to finish me off as you finished him off right?" she raised an eyebrow at her as a frown settled on her face.
"What have they done to you? What's happened?" Sailor Mars cried out as tears dripped from her face.
"I was shown the truth, how my best friends killed him, how they would have killed me had the Negaverse not taken me. How could you kill him Raye, I thought you liked him?" she mocked as a few tears came down her face. She willed an attack to her hands and aimed at Raye. "What happened to me Raye? You above all people should know because you ended my life! My life as the wholesome warrior, the protector of innocent people's everywhere because you killed him!" she screamed. "I died that day Raye, how can you my," she paused and gathered more power to her hands, "best friend," she choked out, "ask me what happened? Tell me! Why?" She screamed.
She went to release the energy from her hands but felt her heart painfully constrict when she went to do so. The energy evaporated and she fell to her knees, try as she might to destroy the girl who had ruined her life she couldn't. She was a failure once again.
"Serena we didn't attack him! He's not dead! You have, you've been deceived Sere! The Negaverse is using you as a pawn, they tricked you not us. We would never hurt you!" Raye finished as she walked carefully towards her friend. Out of the corner of her eye she saw the other scouts arrive and she smiled in relief.
"You're lying." She whispered as she turned and faced her betrayers. Her eyes glinted black with evil and the scouts cowered in fear at their friend acting in such a manner.
"Serena," Mercury began.
"I am Sailor Moon! Not Serena! Serena was a fool, a weak coward, a stupid pathetic attempt at a warrior. The Serena you once knew doesn't exist anymore because you killed her!" she screamed as she fired her tiara at Venus.
Venus wasn't quick enough to jump out of the way and the tiara sliced her attack arm. She let out a cry in pain, as her gloved arm quickly became a light shade of red. Mercury walked over to aid her when Sailor Moon raised her hand and willed energy to hit her body.
Mercury went flying into a nearby tree and slid down the trunk. Jupiter faced Mars and they each nodded to each other. They each ran to help one friend, Jupiter to Mercury and Mars to Venus.
"You think that will stop me? Think again!" A slight pain filled her heart and a pounding in her head kept repeating like a mantra, "This is wrong!" She ignored the voice and cried out as she let more attacks fly from her hands.
Both scouts were hit, Mars in her leg and Jupiter in her side. They each collapsed in pain. They looked up in fear at their friend who was slowly approaching Venus.
The minute she was feet from her she spat at her. Venus stared at her in the face. "How does it feel Princess to kill?" Sailor Moon mocked.
"What are you talking about?" she replied calmly as she wiped the spit from her face.
"You let him die when all he ever did was care for you, no love you! How could you let him die like that?" she asked as she raised Venus's form from the ground. She dropped her roughly and turned to face Mercury. "And you, you let him die even though you knew all the medical tricks in the book. Have you no heart?" she asked as she kicked dirt in her face. Mercury coughed and moved to grab her computer.
The computer appeared in her hand until Sailor Moon yanked it out, "I don't think you'll be needing this anymore." She dropped the computer and moved to crush it with the heel of her boot when she felt warm arms surround her and hold her tight. "No let me go!" she screamed as she struggled.
"Sailor Moon, Serena! Thank god you're alright." He wrapped his arms around her trembling frame in a tight embrace.
She pushed against him, it had to be an illusion for he was dead. "No!" She screamed as she found herself free from his arms. She took her tiara from her head and released it mere inches from his chest. He cried out in pain as he fell to his knees.
"Sailor Moon, how could you?" Jupiter whispered before climbing to her knees. "What happened to my friend, my companion, our princess?" She raised herself to her full height before helping Mars and Venus to their feet. Mercury was quickly analyzing his body with her computer, it had been a hard hit but he would make it.
"What are you talking about? She is the princess and that is the only reason I'm here! I need the crystal where is it?" She pointed her gloved hand at Venus.
Venus's love chain wrapped around her wrist and she shook her arm violently to remove the constraints. "I'm sorry Serena but you have to hear us, have to believe what we tell you. You just hurt Darien, as did the Negasleeze you work for. We have only tried to help him."
"She's right, we only harbor bad feelings to the Negaverse because they took you from us and hurt your love. Now you have too, it wasn't an illusion, he isn't dead."
"That's right Meatball head, you never were the best in health class," Raye added, "but we care for you! You are our best friend and you are our leader, not Venus."
"This can't be!" Sailor Moon screamed and grasped her head in her hands. She raised her tearful face to them and grimaced. "How can what you say be true when I saw him die? The real Darien cares for his princess not me! He cares for his dream, his princess, his past, not me." She finished as she fell to her knees.
"You're wrong." A hoarse voice called out from what sounded like so far away.
"What?" she perked her head up noting her hands were still bound.
"What you said was untrue Sailor Moon. I do not care for Sailor Venus, nor my dream princess anymore because I found the true holder of the key to my heart." All the while he was speaking he was cautiously walking towards her as he clutched his chest. At his final words he stooped down and cupped her damp face with his gloved hands. "Do you know who that is Sailor Moon?"
"Your princess?" she bitterly spit out as she looked away from him noting how gentle he was as he wiped away her trails of tears.
He shook his head in slight amusement, had she always been this stubborn? Then again, he would have her no other way. "No, try again." He coaxed slowly.
"Let me think, Sailor Mars. I mean if you really think about it you were a couple." She sarcastically replied.
Mars and Tuxedo Mask shook their heads no in reply. "We never were a couple Sailor Moon, as Raye and Darien I mean." Raye blushed at the thoughts that he was truly interested in a relationship with her, how wrong had she been.
"How about one more guess Sailor Moon?" he replied while tilting her chin up to look him in the eyes. She shook her head in defiance although her heart was hammering in her chest and her head was screaming for her to say her own name. Her conditioning refused her the pleasure.
"No? Then I'll have to show you." He bent his head down and captured her lips in a tender kiss. As he began to pull away she felt her conditioning from the Negaverse melt away and she found her hands were no longer bound. She wrapped her gloved hands around his neck and pulled him close to her. He eagerly responded when he heard a startled gasp from the scouts.
A shining light was forming in between their two close bodies. The light began to fade and a silver crystal was spinning lightly in the air. Serena was amazed as the crystal pulsated and her locket lifted off her uniform. She reached out to grab it when the crystal entered the locket and it fell gently into her hands. Tuxedo Mask's warm hands surrounded her own and in the far reaches of her mind she thought she heard screaming.
All the evil she felt had left her body, the spell was broken and she hugged Tuxedo Mask for dear life. "I'm so sorry!" into his blood soaked shirt.
He murmured comforting words into her hair as his warm breath tickled her neck and face. It felt so good to be in his arms again. She moved to kiss him when she noticed the dark glint in his eye and his shaking arms.
"Darien, what's wrong?" she asked as she pulled away from him to study him carefully.
"I'm not sure." Suddenly he screamed out in pain as black light consumed him.
"Darien!" Sailor Moon latched her arms around his neck to hold him close but to no avail his trembling from was slipping out of her reach.
His hands were the first to go although she could swear she still felt a faint trace of them stroking her back and hair. His legs and torso were the next to go and soon only his upper chest and face. His eyes glimmered with pain and his lips whispered the words she longed to hear, "I love you."
She sobbed and pressed her lips to his. After a chaste kiss she noticed his lips were no longer pressing against her own. He was gone. She had lost him once again, but how. What happened?
"Mercury?" she asked seriously as she turned to face her concerned friends.
"Sailor Moon when he kissed you he broke the spell, as did the release of the Crystal. You were then protected from evil since you found your true love. As for Darien, he had no protection and the evil invaded him. I'm sorry Sailor Moon." She whispered as she wiped a few stray tears from her face.
"Well why weren't we inhabited then?" Mars asked.
"Were Sailor Scouts, our powers protect us." Venus supplied and everyone looked to her in shock.
"I think that you're hiding something from us V." Jupiter looked at her newest friend with disdain.
"You're right, I haven't told you," she paused, "everything yet." She choked out the last few words. "You don't know how hard it is to remember our lives, the true horrible past that we all had on the Moon when our kingdom was ruined. The sacrifice that she made for all of us, for him. I've had to live with the memories for as long as I can remember and I'm so sorry I couldn't tell you earlier, but you just couldn't handle it. Please forgive me." She lowered her head in defeat and sorrow, she had failed once again. It seemed that was all she would be, a failure to her princess and prince.
"Come on, let's figure out what to do from here." Raye replied softly looking at her best friend out of the corner of her eye. She looked heartbroken and she felt a pain in heart in seeing her so miserable. They all walked through the shadows of the night towards the temple. The moonlight reflected off the five female figures all drowning in their sorrows.
That's it! Hope you liked it! Till next time! Frozen Fire