This is a crossover of Sailor Moon and the game Terranigma; it may make a
little more sense if you had played the game. Parings go along with those
in "The Vega Saga" but this alternate from that fiction.
All characters belong to their respective owners.
~*~
"The planet had two souls, an external face and an internal face, Lightside and Darkside."
"Since the planet's birth growth and decline circled to two wills."
"At the will Lightside new life is born, at the will of Darkside ice ages descend."
"Lightside willed intelligent beings and rapid progress; Darkside's will breed fear and disharmony."
"They came to called 'God' and 'Devil'." ~ opening lines of Terranigma.
A New Earth under the Moon by Richforce.
Chapter one: Earth's last day.
"And the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is..." Serena already knew who would win it before she even turned the TV on. "Professor Asimov Beruga, for his work in sharing the results of his biotech theory with third world countries." A Russian man with a green beard and black glasses stepped up to accept the award.
"No one else could have won it." said Darien.
"He did change everything." said Serena as she kissed her husband. It was true; Beruga was called the greatest genius in history, he mastered just about every scientific field there was. His research had cured many recurrent diseases and doubled lifespans. Serena and Darien both were about fifty but looked like people half that age before Beruga and his work.
The scouts and their loves the knights were not needed for a long time and had spread out across the planet. Serena and Darien were the only ones still in Japan, Amy and Greg were in Germany, Raye and Chad were in China, Lita and Ken were in Canada, Mina and Jamie were in Italy, Amara and Miguel were in Mexico, Michelle and Walter were in England, Trista and Gary were in France, Hotaru and Anthony were in Australia and Molly and Melvin were in America. They stayed in touch but Serena was still excited about the reunion they had planned for five years now. "We haven't exactly seen each other for...Oh my, twenty five years!"
"And it would look like we haven't aged a day!" said Darien.
"That Beruga really is a genius, he would make Amy look like me!"
They turned their attention to the television again. "You keep helping people to live longer fuller lives." said the reporter.
"Stick around." said Beruga. "I may get rid of death entirely." No one noticed that it didn't seem like he was joking.
~*~
Meanwhile a young man with spiky blond hair and shining blue eyes looked at a small Scandinavian village. "I will return here to get the box." He thought to himself. "Pandora's Box, a fitting name; in Greek myth Pandora opened a box and let loose all the evils of the world closing it in time so that only hope was left in it. Now that box contains the hope of the entire earth." He wrapped a red cape around himself. "I have to go to Japan; the last battle of this age will start there, if only the protectors knew about the hidden evil that is coming with their next foe." He turned around and walked through the snow covered forest.
~*~
Darien and Serena waited at the airport baggage claim. "They'll start arriving here soon sugar." said Darien. It was very early in the morning.
"They all booked flights that would arrive around the same time." said Serena.
Molly and Melvin were the first ones to arrive. "Serena! Darien!"
They gave each other a big hug. "It's so good to finally see you face to face again!"
"Same here!" said Molly. "So how are the law and the hotel business going for you?"
"Very well." said Serena. "I arranged five star rooms for all of you."
"The usual." said Darien. "Someone gets in an accident I try to find them justice. How about research or teaching?"
"Another day another breakthrough." said Melvin. "Thanks to that new engine we came here in just two hours."
"Well kids are still kids." said Molly. "Makes me want one even more."
"You too?" said Serena.
"Yes. With all the progress in the last thirty years no one can help me have a baby." She sniffled.
"It's just as much our problem." said Darien.
"This condition affecting you and as much as Serena, Molly and me?" asked Melvin.
"Yes, we all got it, scouts and knights alike." In one of their last battles they got a condition that kept them from conceiving. They continually hoped that someone, mostly Beruga, would find a cure.
"Come on now." said Serena. "We can't look so sad when they come. This should be a happy time."
"Hey there!" said Amara as she came with Miguel.
"How have our amigos been?" said Miguel.
"Just great." said Serena. Amara and Miguel were both world known motor sports personalities.
Next came Raye and Chad who were in Tibet studying under a religious philosopher named Kumari.
"Hey guys!" said Chad.
Raye greeted them with one of Kumari's favorite sayings "You belong to no one and therefore you are important."
"Raye you're off that mountain now." said Serena. "You can relax a little."
"I just wanted to show you a little of what I learned."
Then Amy, Greg, Mina, Jamie, Michelle, Walter, Trista and Gary came up. "Greetings from Europe!" they all said.
"I didn't expect a continental welcome!" said Darien.
"We came up with it on the plane." said Amy. Her skills as a doctor brought people from all over the continent.
"It was Amy's idea really." said Greg. He was also a very renowned doctor.
"We brought along a couple you may know." said Mina. She had become a very successful model.
"They even gave me a few ideas for some of my books." said Jamie who was now a career novelist.
Mina picked up a pet carrier and Serena peeked inside to find Luna and Artemis. "Finished eloping?" Serena said.
"You still call it that?" said Luna. She left with Artemis when Mina went to Italy.
"I call it an extended honeymoon." said Artemis.
"What about your painting work Michelle?" asked Amara.
"You can see some my work in the Louve now." said Michelle. She had been quite the successful painter.
"But she keep our portrait in our home." said Walter. He became a very good actor who traveled Europe frequently.
"I see your fashions are still all the rage." said Molly.
"I just make what I like." said Trista. After Cronos had dismissed her as the guardian of time she became a world famous designer.
"And I just tell the truth." said Gary. He was a famous reporter for the BBC.
Lita and Ken came next. "Sorry we're late." said Lita. "But we did bring something for everyone to eat." She had become an exceptional chef with her own restaurant.
"And we've had twenty five years to perfect the recipe." said Ken. He was also a chef and was Lita's full partner.
Hotaru and Anthony were the last ones to come. "G'day mates!" said Anthony. He had become a successful business man and was vice-president of a very large company.
"Is everyone in as good health as we are?" asked Hotaru. After Beruga's discovery Hotaru and Anthony's health turned around, they rarely caught colds anymore. Hotaru now worked as a pharmacist making new medicines.
"As much as can be expected." said Serena. "We better get you checked in, then we'll all take a look around and see how much things have changed in the last twenty five years."
They left not knowing that a blonde young man wrapped in a red cape followed them.
~*~
"...And then he said 'Stick around, I may get rid of death entirely!'" Serena said. They were all having a nice dinner in a private dinning hall in the hotel Serena owned.
Everyone else laughed. "Beruga's so humble and caring yet he has a sense of humor." said Michelle.
"He may put me and the Mercury family out of business." said Hotaru.
"Well Kumari doesn't see things that way." said Raye.
"He always told people to be wary of him." said Chad.
"I never heard of anyone who didn't like him." said Molly.
"He allowed us to get Beruga's gene therapy treatment when it was offered in China." said Raye. "But he refused himself, I guess if you remember all of your past lifetimes how long one would last wouldn't matter that much."
"Well I for one am glad I took It." said Serena. "If we didn't we'd all be a bunch of old fogies and bitties right now!"
"Thank goodness!" everyone else echoed.
"Do you guys ever think about Crystal Tokyo?"
"Everyday." said Mina.
"It's been thirty years." said Raye. "When you think it start to come?"
"Maybe soon." said Amy. "Things are peaceful enough as they are and we all took a big step toward immortality so maybe we're all here for a reason."
"I for one can't wait!" said Lita.
"I guess we had to see It." said Chad.
"But your descriptions are enough for us to look forward to It." said Ken.
"I'm worried about Rini though." said Serena. "If I can't have a baby then..."
"I'm sure you'll have one." said Trista. "When I left the time gate I checked one last time and I saw that she was fine, and she wasn't your only child."
"Great!" said Darien. "I may get that son I was hoping for after all."
"What about the rest us?" asked Michelle.
"We can all expect to have big families." Trista said.
"Then let's toast." said Serena. "To Crystal Tokyo, old friends and Professor Beruga."
~*~
On a rooftop the caped man watched the sky. "It's about to begin." He thought. "The one from Nemesis is coming and with him the star of darkness that carries the destroyer. I'm to face him with the protectors but I will not survive. But when my dark self and I become one I will take Pandora's Box and use what is in it to restore the balance. Only after I finish my task can the protectors be reborn and usher in the New Age. Tomorrow you will all revel who you are to the world and then the last battle of this age."
~*~
No one expected that the next day a black sphere the size of the moon appeared in the sky blotting out the sun. Everyone was awed and terrified at the sight. Serena however was unaware until Darien turned on the news. "The object appears to a planet or asteroid."
"Or a dark moon." said Serena.
"The United Nations has sent a research team and peacekeepers to Tokyo but...wait were getting a live feed from a man who descended from the object!"
The scene on the TV changed to man with black hair black robes. "I am Obsidian, king of Nemesis! We have come to rule over what is left of the Moon Kingdom, a civilization now ruined. The only thing left worth ruling is your planet. I will only spare your lives on the condition of your immediate and unconditional surrender!"
"Looks like it's time." said Serena.
"We better go downstairs and wake the others." said Darien.
"Tell them to call their families before we go. We're going to revel ourselves now so we better tell them first."
"Are you sure?"
"Nemesis was the last foe we had to face before Crystal Tokyo was created. We have to show ourselves."
"Then in that case I'll get everyone, you have some calls to make."
Serena then picked up the receiver for her video phone and punched the number to her parent's house. Her mother's face appeared on the monitor she didn't appear that much older than when Serena was a teenager. "You saw the news." She said.
"Yes, can you get dad on the phone too? There's something I want to tell you."
"Sammy is also here I'll get him too."
After they were on the phone she began to talk to them. "Mom, Dad, Sammy there is something I want to tell you..."
~*~
Obsidian tossed aside the peacekeepers that attacked him. "Fools, you can not harm me!"
"Stop right there!" said Serena as she came out of the shadows, the others came soon after her.
"Who dares to defy me?!"
"My name is Serena Collins, but the world knows me and my friends better as someone else." They all transformed. "I am Sailor Moon!"
"And we are the Sailor team!" her friends said.
"And together we will punish you!" they all said together.
"Serenity's daughter, we finally meet." Obsidian said.
"Obsidian I will banish you and those of Nemesis back to where you came from!" said Sailor Moon.
"You all plan on facing me?"
"Them and I!" said a new voice. A red cape flew to the ground and then the young man who wore it jumped down from a rooftop with a spear in his hand.
"And just who are you?"
"I am the representative of Lightside; I am the hero who appears when this planet needs one the most. My name is Ark!" Ark then rushed Obsidian.
Obsidian then knocked him back with an orb of black light. "Ha! Insignificant insect!"
Sailor Moon went to Ark's side. "Are you ok?"
"You must stop him, I was meant to die in this battle. Bury me at the grave at time's end in Antarctica after you destroy him. What's going to happen next will prepare the world for the new era, but the one who seems to be this world's best friend will turn out to be a pawn of its greatest enemy..."
"New Era, you mean the Crystal Millennium?" But Ark said no more. "Their can be no forgiving you now Obsidian!"
"MOON POWER!
"MERCURY POWER!"
"VENUS POWER!"
"EARTH POWER!"
"MARS POWER!"
"JUPITER POWER!"
"SATURN POWER!"
"URANUS POWER!"
"NEPTUNE POWER!"
"PLUTO POWER!"
"SAILOR PLANET ATTACK!"
As the attack hit Obsidian he said something very strange. "Star of Darkness unleash Asmodeus, the destroyer on this world! Poison it, stain it red!"
"What are you talking about?" said Sailor Moon.
Obsidian turned to the Scouts and Knights as he began to disintegrate. "The star of darkness above us has released Asmodeus."
"Asmodeus." said Sailor Mercury. "That's Latin, it means destroyer."
"Precisely. It is a virus, a virus so infectious that even as I speak these words it is spreading all over the earth!"
"What?!" said Moon Knight.
"It infects all living things and has a very high mortality rate. I give this world about two years until it becomes a lifeless piece of rock!"
"I'll use my crystal to stop it!" said Sailor Moon.
"It won't work and even if it did you'd never be able to stop it in time."
"Why?!"
"It's called poisoning the well, the ultimate act of spite, if we can't have this planet then no one will!"
"No!"
"My sons will carry on my legacy..." Obsidian was then destroyed.
~*~
They did as Ark requested and buried him at Antarctica. Asmodeus spread through out the world, the mortality rate was read at 90%. Professor Beruga tried to make a vaccine before he put himself in a cold sleep and succeeded with one that allowed those infected to have an 80% recovery rate but only so much could be made and lack of food spelled doom.
Serena and the others had gathered one last time underneath a now red sky. "My mother came to me in a dream. *cough* *cough*." They were all very sick from Asmodeus. "I'm ok, well ok as one would expect."
"We should all be in bed." said Amy.
"It wouldn't help." said Serena. "Anyway she told me that the souls of living things will go underground for the thousand years between now and the Crystal Millennium."
"Well Kumari did say that living things are reborn into another form after they die." said Raye.
"Yes." said Serena. "We will be reborn after a thousand years and then Crystal Tokyo will be born."
They all looked at each other and understood. "I guess all we have to do now is to wait for the end." said Darien.
"So I'll start life over as a baby again." said Hotaru.
"The same thing will happen to us." said Trista.
"Who knows?" said Serena. "The next time we see each other we could all be in diapers!" They all laughed but the laughing turned into coughing.
"So do we just sit here until we die?" asked Amara.
"I don't know about the rest of you." said Michelle. "But I want to die in my lover's arms."
"Yes, that's what's I want too." said Mina.
"Me too." said Lita.
"Then why don't we break into pairs find someplace a private and die making love to the man or woman we care about most." said Serena.
They all found a secluded place and had their final happy moments on earth's last day.
~*~
Don't worry they won't stay dead. Just until the next chapter.
All characters belong to their respective owners.
~*~
"The planet had two souls, an external face and an internal face, Lightside and Darkside."
"Since the planet's birth growth and decline circled to two wills."
"At the will Lightside new life is born, at the will of Darkside ice ages descend."
"Lightside willed intelligent beings and rapid progress; Darkside's will breed fear and disharmony."
"They came to called 'God' and 'Devil'." ~ opening lines of Terranigma.
A New Earth under the Moon by Richforce.
Chapter one: Earth's last day.
"And the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is..." Serena already knew who would win it before she even turned the TV on. "Professor Asimov Beruga, for his work in sharing the results of his biotech theory with third world countries." A Russian man with a green beard and black glasses stepped up to accept the award.
"No one else could have won it." said Darien.
"He did change everything." said Serena as she kissed her husband. It was true; Beruga was called the greatest genius in history, he mastered just about every scientific field there was. His research had cured many recurrent diseases and doubled lifespans. Serena and Darien both were about fifty but looked like people half that age before Beruga and his work.
The scouts and their loves the knights were not needed for a long time and had spread out across the planet. Serena and Darien were the only ones still in Japan, Amy and Greg were in Germany, Raye and Chad were in China, Lita and Ken were in Canada, Mina and Jamie were in Italy, Amara and Miguel were in Mexico, Michelle and Walter were in England, Trista and Gary were in France, Hotaru and Anthony were in Australia and Molly and Melvin were in America. They stayed in touch but Serena was still excited about the reunion they had planned for five years now. "We haven't exactly seen each other for...Oh my, twenty five years!"
"And it would look like we haven't aged a day!" said Darien.
"That Beruga really is a genius, he would make Amy look like me!"
They turned their attention to the television again. "You keep helping people to live longer fuller lives." said the reporter.
"Stick around." said Beruga. "I may get rid of death entirely." No one noticed that it didn't seem like he was joking.
~*~
Meanwhile a young man with spiky blond hair and shining blue eyes looked at a small Scandinavian village. "I will return here to get the box." He thought to himself. "Pandora's Box, a fitting name; in Greek myth Pandora opened a box and let loose all the evils of the world closing it in time so that only hope was left in it. Now that box contains the hope of the entire earth." He wrapped a red cape around himself. "I have to go to Japan; the last battle of this age will start there, if only the protectors knew about the hidden evil that is coming with their next foe." He turned around and walked through the snow covered forest.
~*~
Darien and Serena waited at the airport baggage claim. "They'll start arriving here soon sugar." said Darien. It was very early in the morning.
"They all booked flights that would arrive around the same time." said Serena.
Molly and Melvin were the first ones to arrive. "Serena! Darien!"
They gave each other a big hug. "It's so good to finally see you face to face again!"
"Same here!" said Molly. "So how are the law and the hotel business going for you?"
"Very well." said Serena. "I arranged five star rooms for all of you."
"The usual." said Darien. "Someone gets in an accident I try to find them justice. How about research or teaching?"
"Another day another breakthrough." said Melvin. "Thanks to that new engine we came here in just two hours."
"Well kids are still kids." said Molly. "Makes me want one even more."
"You too?" said Serena.
"Yes. With all the progress in the last thirty years no one can help me have a baby." She sniffled.
"It's just as much our problem." said Darien.
"This condition affecting you and as much as Serena, Molly and me?" asked Melvin.
"Yes, we all got it, scouts and knights alike." In one of their last battles they got a condition that kept them from conceiving. They continually hoped that someone, mostly Beruga, would find a cure.
"Come on now." said Serena. "We can't look so sad when they come. This should be a happy time."
"Hey there!" said Amara as she came with Miguel.
"How have our amigos been?" said Miguel.
"Just great." said Serena. Amara and Miguel were both world known motor sports personalities.
Next came Raye and Chad who were in Tibet studying under a religious philosopher named Kumari.
"Hey guys!" said Chad.
Raye greeted them with one of Kumari's favorite sayings "You belong to no one and therefore you are important."
"Raye you're off that mountain now." said Serena. "You can relax a little."
"I just wanted to show you a little of what I learned."
Then Amy, Greg, Mina, Jamie, Michelle, Walter, Trista and Gary came up. "Greetings from Europe!" they all said.
"I didn't expect a continental welcome!" said Darien.
"We came up with it on the plane." said Amy. Her skills as a doctor brought people from all over the continent.
"It was Amy's idea really." said Greg. He was also a very renowned doctor.
"We brought along a couple you may know." said Mina. She had become a very successful model.
"They even gave me a few ideas for some of my books." said Jamie who was now a career novelist.
Mina picked up a pet carrier and Serena peeked inside to find Luna and Artemis. "Finished eloping?" Serena said.
"You still call it that?" said Luna. She left with Artemis when Mina went to Italy.
"I call it an extended honeymoon." said Artemis.
"What about your painting work Michelle?" asked Amara.
"You can see some my work in the Louve now." said Michelle. She had been quite the successful painter.
"But she keep our portrait in our home." said Walter. He became a very good actor who traveled Europe frequently.
"I see your fashions are still all the rage." said Molly.
"I just make what I like." said Trista. After Cronos had dismissed her as the guardian of time she became a world famous designer.
"And I just tell the truth." said Gary. He was a famous reporter for the BBC.
Lita and Ken came next. "Sorry we're late." said Lita. "But we did bring something for everyone to eat." She had become an exceptional chef with her own restaurant.
"And we've had twenty five years to perfect the recipe." said Ken. He was also a chef and was Lita's full partner.
Hotaru and Anthony were the last ones to come. "G'day mates!" said Anthony. He had become a successful business man and was vice-president of a very large company.
"Is everyone in as good health as we are?" asked Hotaru. After Beruga's discovery Hotaru and Anthony's health turned around, they rarely caught colds anymore. Hotaru now worked as a pharmacist making new medicines.
"As much as can be expected." said Serena. "We better get you checked in, then we'll all take a look around and see how much things have changed in the last twenty five years."
They left not knowing that a blonde young man wrapped in a red cape followed them.
~*~
"...And then he said 'Stick around, I may get rid of death entirely!'" Serena said. They were all having a nice dinner in a private dinning hall in the hotel Serena owned.
Everyone else laughed. "Beruga's so humble and caring yet he has a sense of humor." said Michelle.
"He may put me and the Mercury family out of business." said Hotaru.
"Well Kumari doesn't see things that way." said Raye.
"He always told people to be wary of him." said Chad.
"I never heard of anyone who didn't like him." said Molly.
"He allowed us to get Beruga's gene therapy treatment when it was offered in China." said Raye. "But he refused himself, I guess if you remember all of your past lifetimes how long one would last wouldn't matter that much."
"Well I for one am glad I took It." said Serena. "If we didn't we'd all be a bunch of old fogies and bitties right now!"
"Thank goodness!" everyone else echoed.
"Do you guys ever think about Crystal Tokyo?"
"Everyday." said Mina.
"It's been thirty years." said Raye. "When you think it start to come?"
"Maybe soon." said Amy. "Things are peaceful enough as they are and we all took a big step toward immortality so maybe we're all here for a reason."
"I for one can't wait!" said Lita.
"I guess we had to see It." said Chad.
"But your descriptions are enough for us to look forward to It." said Ken.
"I'm worried about Rini though." said Serena. "If I can't have a baby then..."
"I'm sure you'll have one." said Trista. "When I left the time gate I checked one last time and I saw that she was fine, and she wasn't your only child."
"Great!" said Darien. "I may get that son I was hoping for after all."
"What about the rest us?" asked Michelle.
"We can all expect to have big families." Trista said.
"Then let's toast." said Serena. "To Crystal Tokyo, old friends and Professor Beruga."
~*~
On a rooftop the caped man watched the sky. "It's about to begin." He thought. "The one from Nemesis is coming and with him the star of darkness that carries the destroyer. I'm to face him with the protectors but I will not survive. But when my dark self and I become one I will take Pandora's Box and use what is in it to restore the balance. Only after I finish my task can the protectors be reborn and usher in the New Age. Tomorrow you will all revel who you are to the world and then the last battle of this age."
~*~
No one expected that the next day a black sphere the size of the moon appeared in the sky blotting out the sun. Everyone was awed and terrified at the sight. Serena however was unaware until Darien turned on the news. "The object appears to a planet or asteroid."
"Or a dark moon." said Serena.
"The United Nations has sent a research team and peacekeepers to Tokyo but...wait were getting a live feed from a man who descended from the object!"
The scene on the TV changed to man with black hair black robes. "I am Obsidian, king of Nemesis! We have come to rule over what is left of the Moon Kingdom, a civilization now ruined. The only thing left worth ruling is your planet. I will only spare your lives on the condition of your immediate and unconditional surrender!"
"Looks like it's time." said Serena.
"We better go downstairs and wake the others." said Darien.
"Tell them to call their families before we go. We're going to revel ourselves now so we better tell them first."
"Are you sure?"
"Nemesis was the last foe we had to face before Crystal Tokyo was created. We have to show ourselves."
"Then in that case I'll get everyone, you have some calls to make."
Serena then picked up the receiver for her video phone and punched the number to her parent's house. Her mother's face appeared on the monitor she didn't appear that much older than when Serena was a teenager. "You saw the news." She said.
"Yes, can you get dad on the phone too? There's something I want to tell you."
"Sammy is also here I'll get him too."
After they were on the phone she began to talk to them. "Mom, Dad, Sammy there is something I want to tell you..."
~*~
Obsidian tossed aside the peacekeepers that attacked him. "Fools, you can not harm me!"
"Stop right there!" said Serena as she came out of the shadows, the others came soon after her.
"Who dares to defy me?!"
"My name is Serena Collins, but the world knows me and my friends better as someone else." They all transformed. "I am Sailor Moon!"
"And we are the Sailor team!" her friends said.
"And together we will punish you!" they all said together.
"Serenity's daughter, we finally meet." Obsidian said.
"Obsidian I will banish you and those of Nemesis back to where you came from!" said Sailor Moon.
"You all plan on facing me?"
"Them and I!" said a new voice. A red cape flew to the ground and then the young man who wore it jumped down from a rooftop with a spear in his hand.
"And just who are you?"
"I am the representative of Lightside; I am the hero who appears when this planet needs one the most. My name is Ark!" Ark then rushed Obsidian.
Obsidian then knocked him back with an orb of black light. "Ha! Insignificant insect!"
Sailor Moon went to Ark's side. "Are you ok?"
"You must stop him, I was meant to die in this battle. Bury me at the grave at time's end in Antarctica after you destroy him. What's going to happen next will prepare the world for the new era, but the one who seems to be this world's best friend will turn out to be a pawn of its greatest enemy..."
"New Era, you mean the Crystal Millennium?" But Ark said no more. "Their can be no forgiving you now Obsidian!"
"MOON POWER!
"MERCURY POWER!"
"VENUS POWER!"
"EARTH POWER!"
"MARS POWER!"
"JUPITER POWER!"
"SATURN POWER!"
"URANUS POWER!"
"NEPTUNE POWER!"
"PLUTO POWER!"
"SAILOR PLANET ATTACK!"
As the attack hit Obsidian he said something very strange. "Star of Darkness unleash Asmodeus, the destroyer on this world! Poison it, stain it red!"
"What are you talking about?" said Sailor Moon.
Obsidian turned to the Scouts and Knights as he began to disintegrate. "The star of darkness above us has released Asmodeus."
"Asmodeus." said Sailor Mercury. "That's Latin, it means destroyer."
"Precisely. It is a virus, a virus so infectious that even as I speak these words it is spreading all over the earth!"
"What?!" said Moon Knight.
"It infects all living things and has a very high mortality rate. I give this world about two years until it becomes a lifeless piece of rock!"
"I'll use my crystal to stop it!" said Sailor Moon.
"It won't work and even if it did you'd never be able to stop it in time."
"Why?!"
"It's called poisoning the well, the ultimate act of spite, if we can't have this planet then no one will!"
"No!"
"My sons will carry on my legacy..." Obsidian was then destroyed.
~*~
They did as Ark requested and buried him at Antarctica. Asmodeus spread through out the world, the mortality rate was read at 90%. Professor Beruga tried to make a vaccine before he put himself in a cold sleep and succeeded with one that allowed those infected to have an 80% recovery rate but only so much could be made and lack of food spelled doom.
Serena and the others had gathered one last time underneath a now red sky. "My mother came to me in a dream. *cough* *cough*." They were all very sick from Asmodeus. "I'm ok, well ok as one would expect."
"We should all be in bed." said Amy.
"It wouldn't help." said Serena. "Anyway she told me that the souls of living things will go underground for the thousand years between now and the Crystal Millennium."
"Well Kumari did say that living things are reborn into another form after they die." said Raye.
"Yes." said Serena. "We will be reborn after a thousand years and then Crystal Tokyo will be born."
They all looked at each other and understood. "I guess all we have to do now is to wait for the end." said Darien.
"So I'll start life over as a baby again." said Hotaru.
"The same thing will happen to us." said Trista.
"Who knows?" said Serena. "The next time we see each other we could all be in diapers!" They all laughed but the laughing turned into coughing.
"So do we just sit here until we die?" asked Amara.
"I don't know about the rest of you." said Michelle. "But I want to die in my lover's arms."
"Yes, that's what's I want too." said Mina.
"Me too." said Lita.
"Then why don't we break into pairs find someplace a private and die making love to the man or woman we care about most." said Serena.
They all found a secluded place and had their final happy moments on earth's last day.
~*~
Don't worry they won't stay dead. Just until the next chapter.