(Gothic: Now unto chapter nine.)

Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon, this includes all characters, storyline, everything Sailor Moon. Nor do I own Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. I just own the videos and game. That's all. Also, the only thing I do own is this particular plotline and Alexander. Not back off lawyers!! No filing suit against me!! XD

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The rest of the senshi made their way back to Mamoru, nay, they ran back to him upon hearing his scream. And as they slowed down they noticed Minako's body was clean of blood and free of its wound, if not that they noticed her chest moving as she took in air.

"Minako's alive!" Mamoru exclaimed. "She's not dead, for some reason she came back to life!"

They all sat next to her body, examining it carefully for any signs of malice and malign harm, and surprisingly enough they found none. Not a drop of blood found on her shirt or skin. Ami took Minako's wrist and checked her vitals, and found a pulse, weak though firm, pumping vital crimson fluid through her system. Rei placed her ear close to her nose, listening to her breathing. It was deep and slow and not rapid and shallow, which only meant she was breathing normally.

"Her breathing's OK, but I don't feel any sign on her energy. I can't seem to locate it, or it's just not here." Spoke Rei, placing her hand over Minako's heart. "She might be in a coma."

"See Rei, I told you!! I told you she wasn't dead!!" Usagi screamed, beating down on her back from the previous slap.

"Well, being in a coma isn't any better, either, so back off!" Rei yelled back

"But at least she isn't dead!" Retorted Usagi

Ami pressed her earring and took out her mini-computer, her visor appeared in front of her face, displaying random data ratios and progress. One number blinked on her cursor, the memory check, and then it went blank, uploading the Senshi Operating System [S.O.S.]. She linked her mini-computer to her visor and took out from her bag a couple of sensors, placed them on the small USB port and attached them to Minako's temples.

"Pretty nifty thing you got there, Ami!" Exclaimed Michiru. "See you took some liberties with Queen Serenity's gifts, huh?"

"Yeah, and it helps that my mom works at the nearest hospital or else I don't know how I could have gotten the USB pads." Ami responded.

"Do you get Ai To Iu Nano Moto Ni? Or, ooh, ooh, ooh, how about Sailor V?!" Usagi asked in a rather chipper mood.

"Bakayareu!" Exclaimed Rei and bumped Usagi very hard on the head.

"Aiya!" Usagi yelped in pain, "What'd you do that for!?"

"No, Usagi, I don't get Ai To Iu Nano Moto Ni, I tried installing a video program but it wasn't compatible with S.O.S." Ami responded with a weak smile, humoring the princess. As soon as she pressed the pads unto Minako's skin, she ran the program she had modified from her mother's EEG computer. She had tested the program vigorously for months at end until she had gotten it right, though she had to make a couple of setbacks on the program itself.

Her visor came online and displayed Minako's brain activity, and to say the least there was none--only the perfunctory waves which kept the body alive--and to Ami's surprise there were enough brain cells to keep her normal stasis under control. She kept a close eye on the data as she looked at everyone and they looked back, waiting on her diagnosis like a worried parent when they take their child to the emergency room after a major accident, hoping to hear good news.

"She's alive, somehow," Ami reported, "her vital signs are all under par, which means she's not all back. It all pretty well means she's in a coma."

"Just what Rei said," commented Makoto, "though this is a lot better than no life at all."

Setsuna still pondered the event that had taken place from the moment they had felt Saturn's aura, the weird apparition beside the dead Alucard, and now the very-alive senshi on the floor. It did not make any sense whatsoever to the senshi of time, so much that she had to unlock her regressed memory, something she was not allowed in her civilian form.

'Alucard...the son of Dracula, here...' She thought, 'and that was an angel standing above him, as if they had some sort of conversation...that sword. That sword looked awfully familiar'

"You know, that aura we felt before wasn't Hotaru." Rei thought out loud.

"What do you mean, Mars!" Exclaimed Haruka. "How could it not be if what we felt was Saturn!"

"See, that's what troubles me," Rei continued, "the fact that it was Saturn in her teens when we all know she's just a babe. And whom we felt was not Hotaru."

"I guess," spoke Michiru, "but how can there be two different auras for one single person?"

"Gabriel!" Setsuna though out loud. "That's who he is, that was Gabriel!"

They all looked at Setsuna quite puzzled, she hadn't spoken since the fight between the vampires, and all of a sudden she yelled as if possessed.

"You're right Rei, that wasn't Hotaru who we felt earlier, but her angel form! It all makes sense."

"Angel form?" Usagi asked

"Gabriel was the Queen's advisor from God. I remember seeing him wondering the Great Libraries of the Old Moon Kingdom, he was always carrying his sword unsheathed and his wings always proudly displaying his scars." Setsuna continued

"Setsuna!" Exclaimed Haruka.

"Let her be, Haruka." Michiru intervened

"Saturn was the little girl who always accompanied him to the libraries. I always though she was his daughter..."

"Right now, we don't have time for this," Rei interrupted, "we need to get back to the shrine and get Minako some medical assistance, and stat!"

Usagi giggled at Rei's last comment before being bopped over the head again.

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// Minako, I love you and I'll always be with you, even if you don't remember any of this. Live and be happy, don't be forced down my doomed path...I'll find a way to be with you forever. //

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Minako was awakened by the scent of incense and flagrant green tea, which brought her from her purgatory and locked her to her physical body, leaving behind the astral dimension. When she came to, rising from her bed, the first thing she did was look about the room, and she noticed Rei cleaning the coffee table a few feet away from the bed. She was wearing her priestess robes, and in fact she had her hair tied in the priestess manner. Though Minako had finally awaken, she said nothing until she gathered where she was, took a good look at the clock and tried getting up from the bed.

Minako had been asleep a good four hours and she wondered what had happened, that as she took the first steps out of the bed, Rei heard the sheets move and looked back at the sleepy Love Senshi.

"Get back on that bed." Rei ordered. "You've not recuperated fully."

She took a cup and saucer that had been sitting on the coffee table and gave it to Minako, along with a plate full of small cakes.

"You need strength, so eat up. Makoto will be here shortly with a feast just for you, so just rest a little longer" She explained in a calmer manner this time, giving Minako a warm smile.

"What happened?" Asked Minako. "Why am I here? I though we were supposed to be at the park for the eclipse."

"Don't worry about it, we'll explain what we can to you later, right now you need to rest and regain your strength." And having said that, Rei returned to her chores and Minako began to take sips from her warm cup of tea and to nibble on the sweet cakes. It was then that she took notice of the pads on her temples and the wires that connected them to a small computer on the nightstand, displaying her brain activity.

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"She's finally awake," Hotaru said, "so I guess your time is up."

Alucard look down at her half-asleep, drifting slowly to an eternal slumber. He felt happy knowing she was alive, happy knowing she had ended his curse. He extended his hand as if trying to touch her but the wall on which the projection was shown stopped him.

"Yeah, I guess." He managed to get out. "As long as she's alive...I'm ready to go to hell now."

"OK." She simply said. She placed her palm on his forehead and teleported his soul to Judgment and his body to hell.

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(Gothic: I want you to know that...Why did Hotaru send his soul to Judgment and his body to hell? You'll find out! My ninth chapter is done, finitto, caput! FINISHED!! And now I'll have to get chapter ten out of the way. Two shout-outs I have to do!!

tHe_InSaNe_KiWi: The Love of my life and the initial inspiration for this story, thanks for the support and editorial help!

Fhqwhgads: Dude!! Thanks for reviewing my story and your positive posts!! Thanks a lot!!)