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Disclaimer:

The only thing that I can truly claim is my mind and sometimes even that goes walking without me.

Sailor Moon is not mine

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Twisted images.

Distorted not fully formed.

Darkness then heaviness.

Wait. Up ahead there's a light.

Head towards it.

Running.

Legs feeling like lead.

'Don't give up. Almost there. Huh? What's that? Who's there?'

So cold. So very cold.

"Mars fire bird ignite"

The firebird blazes from her fingertips then spins and soon drops to the ground frozen.

"What could be causing this?" Sailor Mars wondered as she hugged herself tight as yet another gust of cold air swirled around her body.

'It almost feels like...' she paused as blue eyes approached her from the darkness.

Watching she gasped as a man stood in front her with jet-black hair unruffled by the air that swirled around him.

Blinking Mars pushed back her long black hair, which was billowing with the wind covering her face.

"Go back. You don't belong here," she heard him say though not seeing his lips move."

"NO!!" Mars shouted" Who are you?"

"Who I am does not matter. It's who you're not that does," he said sternly. "Now go back!!" He made a move towards her.

"Mars celestial fire surround" Sailor Mars shot the flames towards the imposing figure.

He never moved as the flames passed straight through him only to drop into frozen circles behind him.

"It is only at her request that I come to help you out of here but if you do not stop with this foolishness, I will have no choice but to destroy you", Endymion's eyes blazed a deeper blue before turning silver.

"Who are you talking about?"

He smirked "Oh I think you already know."

With that his eyes glowed and Mars felt herself seeping through the floor.

"Stop... wait"

It was useless Mars found herself rejoining the other scouts back at the temple sans answers.

Before they could bombard her with questions Mars closed her eyes willing herself to see into the future.

What she saw was an image so frightening yet eerily familiar.

A small figure was approaching her followed by five other larger ones.

The coldness which had enveloped her body in that strange room seeped into her body once more as the small figure reached out their hand causing a cold blast to pierce her neck.

Gasping, blood poured from the wound, and she quickly covered it with her hand applying pressure.

Glancing upwards she looked at her attacker wanting to see the face of her destroyer.

Lightning flashed across the room and Mars saw the smile on the person's face, shock holding her body as her eyes caught the scene in a daze before her attacker once again raised their arm and placed it on her forehead about to deliver the last blow.

Screaming Raye awakened in a pool of sweat.

Covering her face with her trembling hands her violet eyes took in the familiar surroundings of her room in the temple but felt no comfort.

Raising her eyes to look out into the darkness of the night she said the name that now tortured her mind and lips "Ami".

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I'll try to post the other chapter later today. It's already in my head. I just need the time to type it up.

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