PTWITBOAA
Chapter 10
"Yarnspinner"
by Black Beyond
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Usagi watched Voldemort's ranks hesitate after she successful dispatched their army of creatures. Even the vampires had obeyed her order to retreat, something she had not expected. It seemed that Voldemort hadn't expected it either. Armed with only his Dementors and his Death Eaters, she could see the that his gait had grown all that less confident. As the professors stood ready before the gates of Hogwarts, Usagi turned in midair and flew higher to gaze upon the chaos of wood splinters and blood that was left of Hogsmeade.
"Ready yourselves!" She shouted down. "He still has forced to be reckoned with! I'll keep them from passing you." She had, after all, proclaimed the Potter boy as her ward. It was her duty and now her obligation to protect him. It was justified by the laws.
"And such laws. You should not say must to princes." She muttered, watching as three familiar shapes appeared at the top of the astronomy tower. She cursed very darkly as she recognized the trio from Gryffindor, come to watch battle and hence putting themselves in a direct line of danger. She saw Voldemort spot them as well, but ripping into his mind she saw he thought them more aurors, standing from a vantage point.
This was even more. He ordered a small group of Death Eaters to aim for them, to get them down. Usagi but on a burst of speed and just managed to hit the three students with her own body, knocking them down as several killing curses went green over their heads.
"Fools! You've put yourselves in such danger! Voldemort is not blind!" She kept her wings open, a silver shield against the curses of Death Eaters. It would take the dark lord only a few seconds, she knew, to realize who was worthy enough of Usagi's protection, and then the real curses would start.
She bit her lip anxiously and stared at the three students. "What are you waiting for? Get inside the castle! Come with me!" She threw open the door that they had come through and hurried them down it, slamming it just as she heard footsteps touch. Death Eaters on brooms or levitating spells, she knew. Using her own brand of magic, she secured the door and concentrated on Severus's mind.
-I have to save the Potter boy from his own foolishness. There are enemies on the roof, but they won't get in this way. You have no cover in the sky for a while.-
She heard his curse in reply and could only agree.
"Stay close." She said aloud, to her new charges. "They won't come through that door, but there is no telling what dangers might show themselves." She carefully put up her barriers around herself and Ron nearly shouted when the magnificent queen suddenly became a mousy little girl... she looked familiar, maybe a first year.
"Come on, then." Her commanding voice hadn't changed. "We'll be safer if I don't attract attention."
"Uhm... Usagi?" Hermione whispered tentatively, unsure of how to address the girl who was currently leading her down corridors she had never seen before.
"What is it?" Usagi was preoccupied and paranoid, turning corners at dizzying speeds, not caring that the three students panted to catch up. She paused as the corridor branched into seven before choosing one quickly and resuming her impossible pace.
"Where are you taking us?"
Usagi shook her head. -Somewhere safe. I don't know who to trust- She spoke to their minds in a hurried manner. Four more turns and she came to a screeching stop in front of a door. Hesitating only long enough for Ron to open his mouth to ask what the matter was, she flung it open and all but shoved them inside before dashing in herself just as footsteps sounded in the corridor. She locked it with her most powerful magic and then sighed.
As Usagi sank against the door in relief, the other three slowly caught their breath and began to look around. It was a small room, maybe twelve feet by twelve, with gray stone walls and nothing to relieve it except the two mirrors, opposite one another at either sides of the room, and almost exactly the same except one was silver and the other jade.
Harry recognized one. "That's the Mirror of Erised!" He pointed to the silver one. Hermione stepped around to look into the jade one, but Usagi's sharp voice made her freeze.
"Don't!" There was a haunted tone underneath the warning. "You might not want to do that, Hermione. That is the Mirror of Treah. It shows you what you really are inside."
"How do you know?" Ron asked boldly.
"Because I had the distinct pleasure of looking in it, Mr. Weasley!" Usagi snapped, and then closed her eyes when Ron drew back, startled. "I'm sorry. I'm a little at edge. I didn't mean to be so rude."
"How long are we going to be in here?" Hermione asked, before Ron could dig himself further into a hole.
"Until Severus comes to retrieve us." Usagi muttered. "One word about him and I'll save Voldemort the trouble."
Harry grinned. "Do you fancy him?" He asked, taking a seat beside her, the stone sending a chill down his back.
Usagi snorted. "If I did, it wouldn't help either of us. I'm a MONSTER, Harry, and you need to understand that. If my blood and the blood of a human was crossed, the chances of it being one huge genetic freak of a beast are more likely than not. So it doesn't matter if I like Severus. Because we both know nothing could come of it."
Ron raised his hands in surrender and looked at Hermione hopelessly. He knew better than to get involved in that kind of thing. Experience was the best teacher.
"What did you see in the mirror?" Hermione fumbled for a subject change and floundered with the question that she found rather appalling the second Usagi looked up to glare at her. But the harsh look in Usagi's eyes faded to something that Hermione couldn't identify.
"Fine. We'll have storytime. But to understand what I saw in the mirror, you're going to have to get a little bit of background history. I'm from another dimension. In this dimension, there is another Usagi Tsukino who hasn't awoken to her powers yet. She is innocent and sweet, blonde, and as pure as you get. But in my dimension, when I was about ten, a powerful sorceress bitch took over the world. Happy times, let me tell you.
"But three years after that, when Beryl the Bitch was in her prime, I was awoken to my powers as a magical warrior by one naïve fool of a cat. We fought, lost, won, blah. We got sick of that and invaded her fortress. I sent my fellow warriors back to safety and took Beryl's Mistress head on. I destroyed that plane entirely, and fully intended to die. But I didn't. And somehow, my most powerful weapon got it into its crazy little head to send me to a third dimension where Beryl invaded AFTER Usagi Tsukino had been given her powers.
"I spent a lot of time there, playing around. I shared Usagi's body with her own mind, and that was fine. Until Luna decided that if the war went on much longer, the entire place would blow. So we teleported into Beryl's plane and went looking for her.
"That's when the shit hit the fan...."
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Sailormoon looked around, nervous. The place was too familiar to her, the harsh, metallic scent of blood permeating the very air around her. It was the smell she would forever associate with Metalia: the scent of rancid and fresh lifeblood mixing together in the wind.
The other senshi looked sick to their stomach, but Sailormoon was enjoying her sense of relief that they had avoided the maze of caves that haunted her nightmares from before. She didn't see Zoisite anywhere, nor any youma. Actually, she couldn't see much of anything.
"Something isn't right." Mars whispered, just as Sailormoon heard the familiar whistle of something flying through the air.
"Get DOWN!" She screamed, and kissed the floor hard just as the twangs of a thousand bows filled her sensitive ears in the inky darkness. She heard Mercury's voice scream in anguish and the sound of bodies hitting the floor. Sailormoon cursed inwardly and wondered how many had followed her command in time.
To her left, a torch flared with a sudden violet flame, and then another, and another, until the entire cavern was lit with varying shades of purple and orange.
"It was a trap." Uranus's voice, behind her, followed by a string of very explicit curses from Venus.
"So... Kunzite. I hadn't really expected you to have had the balls to betray me." Sailormoon's eyes adjusted to the light quickly and she paled to find that she had teleported directly into the center of Beryl's throne room. Surrounded by hundreds of nasty, burlesque youma, all armed with bows, swords, and claws, she could feel the enthusiasm of the senshi drain away.
"Milady, I live only to make your life as miserable as I can possible achieve." Kunzite replied, from his prone position on the floor. Beryl made a rude comment in reply about Kunzite's ancestry, but Sailormoon shook her head and slowly stood up.
"This is futile, Beryl." She managed the confidence of one who had already won, when inside she was sobbing from the suicidal situation she had put the senshi into. "You can't kill me. It's impossible. And you have nothing to gain from killing the senshi, as they will only return. There's still a way to stop this. You don't even have to surrender. Just see that Earth isn't worth it. There are better planets to take over."
Zoisite, from his comfortable seat in midair, eyed his queen questionably. But they were in Metalia's stronghold, where Her influence was at its strongest. Beryl stood and shook her head, smirking.
"You will not work your Lunarian sorcery upon me here, my pathetic little princess! No, you will watch your senshi have their souls ripped from them and placed into the special holding capsules my queen has made for them. They will not come back! And as for you... you will see that there are so many things worse than death..." Beryl laughed shrilly, on an octave that, if she had dared, would have made Sailormoon hold her ears.
But she only nodded and turned to survey the damage. No one was dead yet, but there was an arrow sticking out of Mercury's side and Tuxedo Kamen was busy trying to extract one from his thigh. Neptune was whispering that he should be extremely happy it hadn't gone an inch higher and two to the left while she tried to help under the glare of Uranus.
Venus gave her a reassuring smile as she lent Mars her hand to pull the fire senshi to her feet. Jupiter was already up and inspecting Mercury's wound. Pluto gave her a grim stare, and Sailormoon sighed. Kunzite cocked his head slightly but made no giveaway comment.
She wished violently that Saturn was there.
"What? No more pretty speeches intertwined with your seductive Lunarian words?" Beryl taunted, her eyes flashing blood.
"No, Beryl. No more pretty speeches." She said wearily.
-Woah. What the FUCK are you doing?!-
"They never seem to work." Sailormoon continued, blocking the real Usagi's voice from her mind. "This time, I'm going to tell you the truth, but first, I need to deal with something. Could you have patience for a mere second?" She slowly raised on of her hands in the air so that no youma was startled and snapped her fingers once.
Zoisite nearly fell out the air when every youma in the room vanished. They simply blinked out of existence so softly that it took a moment to realize it. Beryl started, and the first vestiges of fear tickled the edges of her mind.
"I know you have more, but that makes me feel better for the moment." Sailormoon smiled blankly. "Now, let me say one word. I am not Sailormoon. I am not whoever you think I am or have been led to believe. I am not Princess Serenity, and I am not stupid. I am the Daughter of Etern. With the same snap of my fingers it took to kill half of your remaining army, I could have Metalia dead. That is the truth. But what is also the truth is that I can't do that. If you decide to try and rip the souls from the senshi, that's your business. But I have only one more thing to say before you do this."
Beryl glowered. "What's that?"
"The senshi have been powering up while you were listening to me babble." Sailormoon smirked and then hit the floor again just as Venus called out the words of magic.
"Sailor Planet Attack!"
Instead of the attack heading for Beryl, as expected, Zoisite found himself screaming in torment as he was dissolved into dust by the power of the attack. The doors to the throne room as more youma burst in, more than had been there before.
Beryl, her face contorted by the sheer amount of wrath in her head, screeched at them the command to attack. The army swarmed the senshi, but not before the outer duo, working as perfectly as the wind and the waves had ever danced, raced for her neck, a small tsunami gathering in Neptune's fingers while Uranus brandished her Space Sword, a blazing beam of energy.
"Venus Crescent Beam Shatter!" Venus screamed, turning back to her own problems. She heard Mars and Jupiter sound their battle cries and moved quickly to protect the wounded Mercury. Tuxedo Kamen joined her, slashing out with the razor edge of his cane while hurling roses with his other hand. Mercury smiled before jumping high and screaming out the words that deal a good deal of youma frozen in ice.
"Sailormoon! Watch your back!" Kunzite shouted, as he gathered fistfuls of ki to throw at the youma that had once fearfully answered to his every whim. Sailormoon took out her own sword gracefully and began to cut through the youma swiftly.
"No...." Metalia's soft whisper twisted through the battle like a foul stench. All at once, forty youma turned to Sailormoon and leapt upon her all at once, knocking her weapon from her hand as the blade of the Space Sword bit into the inviting flesh of Beryl's back. Mars screamed and threw her scrolls at the youma who had attacked her queen. Kunzite gasped and quickly began hacking at the youma who tried to go for Mars' own back.
"Ginzuishou!" Sailormoon yelled, gasping for air as she fought against the never ending barrage of slashes and hits that tore her fuku apart and ripped her ivory flesh.
The resulting explosion threw them all away and filled the room with an intense, bright light. It died away slowly, reluctantly, and when it did, the occupants of the dark dimension found themselves looking at two people, each Usagi Tsukino.
One, one with golden hair and wearing the unmarred, old uniform of Sailormoon, stumbled and blinked, holding the Crescent Moon Wand in her gloved hand, and was very disorientated.
The other stood tall and proud, her silver-white hair streaming around her naked, torn body, blood that was both hers and not hers dripping in rivulets down the milky curves of her body. She grasped a staff and looked exhausted, the light of the ginzuishou still around her. Uranus paused over the corpse of Beryl to stare.
"She looks like the old queen." The words left her mouth before she could think them and Uranus wasn't entirely sure what they meant.
"I need to go." The silver Usagi whispered, and a portal opened beneath her. "You should know how to win, Sailormoon."
With a howl of fury, Metalia sent the youma after her as she dropped out of sight.
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Chapter 10
"Yarnspinner"
by Black Beyond
--------
Usagi watched Voldemort's ranks hesitate after she successful dispatched their army of creatures. Even the vampires had obeyed her order to retreat, something she had not expected. It seemed that Voldemort hadn't expected it either. Armed with only his Dementors and his Death Eaters, she could see the that his gait had grown all that less confident. As the professors stood ready before the gates of Hogwarts, Usagi turned in midair and flew higher to gaze upon the chaos of wood splinters and blood that was left of Hogsmeade.
"Ready yourselves!" She shouted down. "He still has forced to be reckoned with! I'll keep them from passing you." She had, after all, proclaimed the Potter boy as her ward. It was her duty and now her obligation to protect him. It was justified by the laws.
"And such laws. You should not say must to princes." She muttered, watching as three familiar shapes appeared at the top of the astronomy tower. She cursed very darkly as she recognized the trio from Gryffindor, come to watch battle and hence putting themselves in a direct line of danger. She saw Voldemort spot them as well, but ripping into his mind she saw he thought them more aurors, standing from a vantage point.
This was even more. He ordered a small group of Death Eaters to aim for them, to get them down. Usagi but on a burst of speed and just managed to hit the three students with her own body, knocking them down as several killing curses went green over their heads.
"Fools! You've put yourselves in such danger! Voldemort is not blind!" She kept her wings open, a silver shield against the curses of Death Eaters. It would take the dark lord only a few seconds, she knew, to realize who was worthy enough of Usagi's protection, and then the real curses would start.
She bit her lip anxiously and stared at the three students. "What are you waiting for? Get inside the castle! Come with me!" She threw open the door that they had come through and hurried them down it, slamming it just as she heard footsteps touch. Death Eaters on brooms or levitating spells, she knew. Using her own brand of magic, she secured the door and concentrated on Severus's mind.
-I have to save the Potter boy from his own foolishness. There are enemies on the roof, but they won't get in this way. You have no cover in the sky for a while.-
She heard his curse in reply and could only agree.
"Stay close." She said aloud, to her new charges. "They won't come through that door, but there is no telling what dangers might show themselves." She carefully put up her barriers around herself and Ron nearly shouted when the magnificent queen suddenly became a mousy little girl... she looked familiar, maybe a first year.
"Come on, then." Her commanding voice hadn't changed. "We'll be safer if I don't attract attention."
"Uhm... Usagi?" Hermione whispered tentatively, unsure of how to address the girl who was currently leading her down corridors she had never seen before.
"What is it?" Usagi was preoccupied and paranoid, turning corners at dizzying speeds, not caring that the three students panted to catch up. She paused as the corridor branched into seven before choosing one quickly and resuming her impossible pace.
"Where are you taking us?"
Usagi shook her head. -Somewhere safe. I don't know who to trust- She spoke to their minds in a hurried manner. Four more turns and she came to a screeching stop in front of a door. Hesitating only long enough for Ron to open his mouth to ask what the matter was, she flung it open and all but shoved them inside before dashing in herself just as footsteps sounded in the corridor. She locked it with her most powerful magic and then sighed.
As Usagi sank against the door in relief, the other three slowly caught their breath and began to look around. It was a small room, maybe twelve feet by twelve, with gray stone walls and nothing to relieve it except the two mirrors, opposite one another at either sides of the room, and almost exactly the same except one was silver and the other jade.
Harry recognized one. "That's the Mirror of Erised!" He pointed to the silver one. Hermione stepped around to look into the jade one, but Usagi's sharp voice made her freeze.
"Don't!" There was a haunted tone underneath the warning. "You might not want to do that, Hermione. That is the Mirror of Treah. It shows you what you really are inside."
"How do you know?" Ron asked boldly.
"Because I had the distinct pleasure of looking in it, Mr. Weasley!" Usagi snapped, and then closed her eyes when Ron drew back, startled. "I'm sorry. I'm a little at edge. I didn't mean to be so rude."
"How long are we going to be in here?" Hermione asked, before Ron could dig himself further into a hole.
"Until Severus comes to retrieve us." Usagi muttered. "One word about him and I'll save Voldemort the trouble."
Harry grinned. "Do you fancy him?" He asked, taking a seat beside her, the stone sending a chill down his back.
Usagi snorted. "If I did, it wouldn't help either of us. I'm a MONSTER, Harry, and you need to understand that. If my blood and the blood of a human was crossed, the chances of it being one huge genetic freak of a beast are more likely than not. So it doesn't matter if I like Severus. Because we both know nothing could come of it."
Ron raised his hands in surrender and looked at Hermione hopelessly. He knew better than to get involved in that kind of thing. Experience was the best teacher.
"What did you see in the mirror?" Hermione fumbled for a subject change and floundered with the question that she found rather appalling the second Usagi looked up to glare at her. But the harsh look in Usagi's eyes faded to something that Hermione couldn't identify.
"Fine. We'll have storytime. But to understand what I saw in the mirror, you're going to have to get a little bit of background history. I'm from another dimension. In this dimension, there is another Usagi Tsukino who hasn't awoken to her powers yet. She is innocent and sweet, blonde, and as pure as you get. But in my dimension, when I was about ten, a powerful sorceress bitch took over the world. Happy times, let me tell you.
"But three years after that, when Beryl the Bitch was in her prime, I was awoken to my powers as a magical warrior by one naïve fool of a cat. We fought, lost, won, blah. We got sick of that and invaded her fortress. I sent my fellow warriors back to safety and took Beryl's Mistress head on. I destroyed that plane entirely, and fully intended to die. But I didn't. And somehow, my most powerful weapon got it into its crazy little head to send me to a third dimension where Beryl invaded AFTER Usagi Tsukino had been given her powers.
"I spent a lot of time there, playing around. I shared Usagi's body with her own mind, and that was fine. Until Luna decided that if the war went on much longer, the entire place would blow. So we teleported into Beryl's plane and went looking for her.
"That's when the shit hit the fan...."
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Sailormoon looked around, nervous. The place was too familiar to her, the harsh, metallic scent of blood permeating the very air around her. It was the smell she would forever associate with Metalia: the scent of rancid and fresh lifeblood mixing together in the wind.
The other senshi looked sick to their stomach, but Sailormoon was enjoying her sense of relief that they had avoided the maze of caves that haunted her nightmares from before. She didn't see Zoisite anywhere, nor any youma. Actually, she couldn't see much of anything.
"Something isn't right." Mars whispered, just as Sailormoon heard the familiar whistle of something flying through the air.
"Get DOWN!" She screamed, and kissed the floor hard just as the twangs of a thousand bows filled her sensitive ears in the inky darkness. She heard Mercury's voice scream in anguish and the sound of bodies hitting the floor. Sailormoon cursed inwardly and wondered how many had followed her command in time.
To her left, a torch flared with a sudden violet flame, and then another, and another, until the entire cavern was lit with varying shades of purple and orange.
"It was a trap." Uranus's voice, behind her, followed by a string of very explicit curses from Venus.
"So... Kunzite. I hadn't really expected you to have had the balls to betray me." Sailormoon's eyes adjusted to the light quickly and she paled to find that she had teleported directly into the center of Beryl's throne room. Surrounded by hundreds of nasty, burlesque youma, all armed with bows, swords, and claws, she could feel the enthusiasm of the senshi drain away.
"Milady, I live only to make your life as miserable as I can possible achieve." Kunzite replied, from his prone position on the floor. Beryl made a rude comment in reply about Kunzite's ancestry, but Sailormoon shook her head and slowly stood up.
"This is futile, Beryl." She managed the confidence of one who had already won, when inside she was sobbing from the suicidal situation she had put the senshi into. "You can't kill me. It's impossible. And you have nothing to gain from killing the senshi, as they will only return. There's still a way to stop this. You don't even have to surrender. Just see that Earth isn't worth it. There are better planets to take over."
Zoisite, from his comfortable seat in midair, eyed his queen questionably. But they were in Metalia's stronghold, where Her influence was at its strongest. Beryl stood and shook her head, smirking.
"You will not work your Lunarian sorcery upon me here, my pathetic little princess! No, you will watch your senshi have their souls ripped from them and placed into the special holding capsules my queen has made for them. They will not come back! And as for you... you will see that there are so many things worse than death..." Beryl laughed shrilly, on an octave that, if she had dared, would have made Sailormoon hold her ears.
But she only nodded and turned to survey the damage. No one was dead yet, but there was an arrow sticking out of Mercury's side and Tuxedo Kamen was busy trying to extract one from his thigh. Neptune was whispering that he should be extremely happy it hadn't gone an inch higher and two to the left while she tried to help under the glare of Uranus.
Venus gave her a reassuring smile as she lent Mars her hand to pull the fire senshi to her feet. Jupiter was already up and inspecting Mercury's wound. Pluto gave her a grim stare, and Sailormoon sighed. Kunzite cocked his head slightly but made no giveaway comment.
She wished violently that Saturn was there.
"What? No more pretty speeches intertwined with your seductive Lunarian words?" Beryl taunted, her eyes flashing blood.
"No, Beryl. No more pretty speeches." She said wearily.
-Woah. What the FUCK are you doing?!-
"They never seem to work." Sailormoon continued, blocking the real Usagi's voice from her mind. "This time, I'm going to tell you the truth, but first, I need to deal with something. Could you have patience for a mere second?" She slowly raised on of her hands in the air so that no youma was startled and snapped her fingers once.
Zoisite nearly fell out the air when every youma in the room vanished. They simply blinked out of existence so softly that it took a moment to realize it. Beryl started, and the first vestiges of fear tickled the edges of her mind.
"I know you have more, but that makes me feel better for the moment." Sailormoon smiled blankly. "Now, let me say one word. I am not Sailormoon. I am not whoever you think I am or have been led to believe. I am not Princess Serenity, and I am not stupid. I am the Daughter of Etern. With the same snap of my fingers it took to kill half of your remaining army, I could have Metalia dead. That is the truth. But what is also the truth is that I can't do that. If you decide to try and rip the souls from the senshi, that's your business. But I have only one more thing to say before you do this."
Beryl glowered. "What's that?"
"The senshi have been powering up while you were listening to me babble." Sailormoon smirked and then hit the floor again just as Venus called out the words of magic.
"Sailor Planet Attack!"
Instead of the attack heading for Beryl, as expected, Zoisite found himself screaming in torment as he was dissolved into dust by the power of the attack. The doors to the throne room as more youma burst in, more than had been there before.
Beryl, her face contorted by the sheer amount of wrath in her head, screeched at them the command to attack. The army swarmed the senshi, but not before the outer duo, working as perfectly as the wind and the waves had ever danced, raced for her neck, a small tsunami gathering in Neptune's fingers while Uranus brandished her Space Sword, a blazing beam of energy.
"Venus Crescent Beam Shatter!" Venus screamed, turning back to her own problems. She heard Mars and Jupiter sound their battle cries and moved quickly to protect the wounded Mercury. Tuxedo Kamen joined her, slashing out with the razor edge of his cane while hurling roses with his other hand. Mercury smiled before jumping high and screaming out the words that deal a good deal of youma frozen in ice.
"Sailormoon! Watch your back!" Kunzite shouted, as he gathered fistfuls of ki to throw at the youma that had once fearfully answered to his every whim. Sailormoon took out her own sword gracefully and began to cut through the youma swiftly.
"No...." Metalia's soft whisper twisted through the battle like a foul stench. All at once, forty youma turned to Sailormoon and leapt upon her all at once, knocking her weapon from her hand as the blade of the Space Sword bit into the inviting flesh of Beryl's back. Mars screamed and threw her scrolls at the youma who had attacked her queen. Kunzite gasped and quickly began hacking at the youma who tried to go for Mars' own back.
"Ginzuishou!" Sailormoon yelled, gasping for air as she fought against the never ending barrage of slashes and hits that tore her fuku apart and ripped her ivory flesh.
The resulting explosion threw them all away and filled the room with an intense, bright light. It died away slowly, reluctantly, and when it did, the occupants of the dark dimension found themselves looking at two people, each Usagi Tsukino.
One, one with golden hair and wearing the unmarred, old uniform of Sailormoon, stumbled and blinked, holding the Crescent Moon Wand in her gloved hand, and was very disorientated.
The other stood tall and proud, her silver-white hair streaming around her naked, torn body, blood that was both hers and not hers dripping in rivulets down the milky curves of her body. She grasped a staff and looked exhausted, the light of the ginzuishou still around her. Uranus paused over the corpse of Beryl to stare.
"She looks like the old queen." The words left her mouth before she could think them and Uranus wasn't entirely sure what they meant.
"I need to go." The silver Usagi whispered, and a portal opened beneath her. "You should know how to win, Sailormoon."
With a howl of fury, Metalia sent the youma after her as she dropped out of sight.
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