I swear something is happening this chapter! Don't hate me! Haha, just kidding, you guys have been cool with the lack of action. (Even though it was piss me off.) But never fear! For stuff is about to happen!

Note: Rei uses her ofuda in here with the phrase 'Akuryo taisan' which is 'evil spirit begone.' Which I'm sure all of you knew and are annoyed with me for even bringing it up.

Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon or Codename wa Sailor V. (It occurred to me I should really be putting that in the disclaimer, considering all those aces…)

Warnings: Angstariffic (My spell check hates me.)

Close Your Eyes

Chapter Thirteen

The streets were dark, even the street lights couldn't really light up this night. It felt so dark and cold. Rei turned her head, feeling the wind go through her hair, tonight was the night. She kept quiet but she wondered if the others could feel it too. They had heard about an attack and were going towards it.

They were already transformed, Sailor Moon leading the bunch. Usagi looked strangely determined as though she knew that tonight was going to be very different from the usual youma attack.

The monster was not a monster, but what appeared to be a man with silver hair. Kunzite, the last general of the Dark Kingdom. Rei looked at Minako's slightly narrowed blue eyes.

"So you have finally decided to join us." Kunzite raised his eyebrows at them. "Tonight is the night you finally die."

"That's where you're wrong!" Sailor Moon struck her pose. "I am a pretty soldier in a sailor-suit, Sailor Moon! In the name of the moon, I will punish you!"

"And we'll help." Sailor Jupiter muttered under her breath and Rei almost laughed at it.

Kunzite didn't waste anymore time with talk, just threw a blade of silver energy at them. Sailor Moon wailed as she threw herself out of the way. Sailor Venus stepped forward, even in front of Sailor Moon.

"Crescent BEAM!" She yelled, and the shot of light whizzed past Kunzite's shoulder. Rei didn't like that at all. She glanced over at Sailor Mercury who was furiously typing into her computer as her visor analyzed the enemy.

"There's some sort of force field around him!" Sailor Mercury informed them. "I don't know how to get past it."

"Well, I know one trick that usually works." Sailor Mars pulled out an ofuda. "Akuryo TAISAN!" The ofuda hit Kunzite but didn't do anything at all. He reached over, pulled it off of him, and then proceeded to tear it in half.

"Didn't work this time." Sailor Jupiter pointed out.

"Worth a shot." Sailor Mars defended herself. "No one said that Shinto was the universal truth."

"True." Sailor Jupiter agreed. "Hey, Mercury, your computer have anything yet?"

"Not quite yet." Sailor Mercury bit her lip. "The computer is making it appear that he's surrounded by energy from another dimension."

"…Damn." Sailor Jupiter swore. "So, Plan B then?"

"What's Plan B?" Sailor Moon asked.

"Just attack him until something gives." Sailor Jupiter cracked her knuckles. "Supreme Thunder!"

This too was deflected and then Kunzite sent several more blades of silver energy slicing through the air towards them. Rei received a cute on her leg from throwing Sailor Moon out of the way.

"You are very boring for Sailor Senshi." Kunzite taunted them. "Don't any of you have any real attacks?"

"Moon Tiara Action!" Sailor Moon had thrown her tiara but it only went around Kunzite and back into her hand. She seemed confused by this because this attack was usually the answer they were looking for.

"That's it?" Kunzite formed another two blades of energy and threw them. "These won't be so easy to get rid of!" Sailor Moon ducked one of them but it came straight back to her and the other one seemed dead set on attacking her as well.

"We've got to get them to stop!" Sailor Venus shouted.

"But how?" Sailor Mars was trying to run alongside Sailor Moon to help her duck.

"Maybe we can use them against Kunzite!" Sailor Mercury suggested as they were now all running. "We could somehow use the weapon against him."

"Great idea Mercury, now how do you propose we do it?" Sailor Jupiter asked her as they ran.

"We could oomph!" Sailor Mercury had tripped while running and unfortunately knocked into Sailor Jupiter who went crashing down as well.

"Crescent Beam!" Sailor Venus fired another shot of light but towards one of the blades of energy. It didn't do anything to it, something Sailor Venus wasn't expecting and she had to duck as quickly as possible to avoid it.

"Sailor Moon! Stop running!" Sailor Mars yelled. "Run in this direction at least!"

"I can't!" Sailor Moon yelled over her shoulder as she ran from the blades. She did a classic Sailor Moon maneuver and tripped, falling flat on her face. She was about to get hit with both blades at once when something happened.

Someone grabbed her and jumped out of the way just in time and the blades hit each other and disappeared in a flash.

Tuxedo Kamen was standing there, holding Sailor Moon in his arms.

"Tuxedo Kamen-sama!" Sailor Moon was obviously delighted and hugged him quickly.

"Good of you to join us." Kunzite snapped his fingers and the tree branch broke that was Tuxedo Kamen was standing on. He quickly leapt from it to the ground. "I think we'll put an end to your roses." Tuxedo Kamen put Sailor Moon down and pulled out his cane. It extended to hit Kunzite but Kunzite batted it away and threw a blast of energy towards Tuxedo Kamen.

Who was too stunned to dodge.

The power ripped through him and everyone's faces went from determination to shocked horror. Tuxedo Kamen had just been hit.

Sailor Moon cried out and rushed to him as he fell. Blood was rushing from the wound, quickly staining his white shirt as she began crying. Kunzite was just watching, a horrible smirk on his face.

Sailor Mars rushed to be at Sailor Moon's side but suddenly, she had to stop. There was a strange twinkling white light that began to emanate from Sailor Moon as she continued to cry over Tuxedo Kamen.

And then her crying stopped as she noticed the twinkling. Something was forming, something right there in front of her.

"Omigod…" Minako trailed off in breathless disbelief.

"What is it…?" Sailor Mercury stopped typing on her computer and touched her earring, making her visor disappear to see better. "What's that light?"

"What is that?!" Kunzite looked like he had been caught off guard. Sailor Moon reached out as though mesmerized by the light forming in front of her. When her hand touched the ball of light, a flash swept through them all.

"Princess!" There was a castle, fallen but once so beautiful that all had bowed before it.

And a princess, dead by her own hand.

A fallen prince.

Sailor Moon was remembering things that had never happened to her. A palace she had never seen, a dress she had never worn, and a young man, a young man she knew so well but by a different name.

"Endymion…" She spoke the name and it felt so familiar. She took hold of the small ball of light and it felt like some wonderful feeling had past over her as the change came over. She was suddenly clad in a beautiful white dress and the light that had been shining too brightly to make anything else out had faded a little and she saw she was holding a beautiful jewel.

"The Ginzuishou!" Sailor Venus exclaimed. "Princess Serenity!"

Because that's who she was. That's who she really was. The princess was her. She turned her attention to Tuxedo Kamen who was staring at her with his large blue eyes, trying to express what he was feeling as he choked.

"Usako…you found it…the Ginzuishou…" Mamoru whispered to her.

"I found it." She felt the tears welling up. "It's okay, because I found it. Everything's going to be okay." She wasn't sure if she believed it, staring at his quickly dying body.

"Kunzite! Take the prince and leave!" An unearthly woman's voice echoed over head.

"Yes, my Queen." Kunzite nodded his head and Mamoru began to evaporate. Usagi cried out as he did, trying to clutch at him. Mamoru reappeared in Kunzite's arms and then the two disappeared.

It was almost like they had never been there.

"Endymion!" Usagi cried out. The shining light of the Ginzuishou was leaving it and it was fading to the normal brightness of a crystal. Her transformation was gone. She was once more in her sailor fuku, on her hands and knees, staring at the space where Kunzite and Mamoru had been only a moment before. "Mamoru!"

"Usagi!" They all de-transformed and rushed to her side. Usagi was still crying though, there was no help for it.

"What happened?" Ami asked. "I have memories that I had no recollection of until this day."

"They're your memories from the Silver Millennium." Minako told her looking away for a moment. "I've had mine for awhile…since when I was Sailor V."

"You've known this whole time?" Makoto asked. "What didn't you say anything before?"

"Because she knew you'd remember when you were supposed to." Rei answered quickly, putting her hands on Usagi's shoulders. "And now we know that Usagi is the Princess."

"I can't be…" Usagi shook her head, she de-transformed. "I can't be the princess because I couldn't do anything! I just watched Mamoru get kidnapped!"

"You are the Moon Princess." Rei stated again.

"The Protector of the Ginzuishou." Minako added on. Usagi looked down at the jewel in her hand. Rei hit her shoulder in a friendly gesture.

"It's a lot of responsibility but I know even an Odango Atama like you can handle it." Rei smiled at her.

"We believe in you Usagi-chan." Minako beamed.

"I suppose being a princess would be hard, but you could do it." Ami nodded her head in encouragement.

"I don't know if I can." Usagi sniffed.

"Of course you can!" Minako jumped up, pointing a finger at her. "You don't know how hard it's been, especially with this whole Mamoru business for me not to just tell you but…I was the leader of the Sailor Senshi and I was supposed to protect you. But I wasn't there when you…you…"

"Minako…" Usagi looked troubled at her friend's pained expression.

"I should have been there! But I wasn't. You died and I wasn't there to stop it." Minako went on. "So I promised myself when I remembered that I would protect you. I decided to be the decoy, which is why when I tried to tell you that I was the princess of Venus, Artemis made me shut up about it. I couldn't tell anyone I wasn't the princess of the moon."

"It's okay Minako." Usagi reached up to touch Minako's hand. "I just…Mamo-chan…is gone…"

"Why did the Dark Kingdom want him? I thought they were after the Ginzuishou?" Ami's brow furrowed as she thought. "And how do we get to them?"

"We have to find a way." Rei nodded her head. "They'll probably use Mamoru as a hostage."

"We've got to find Luna and Artemis. We've got to find their hiding place." Makoto suggested. "I think…it'll be better if Usagi just goes straight home."

"I agree." Rei nodded. "I'll walk her there. Luna will probably be there."

"What if he comes back and I'm not here?" Usagi asked her fearfully.

"We'll keep looking here for signs of what happened." Ami promised. "We'll call you as soon as we find anything."

"It'll be okay Usagi, we'll find him." Minako promised. "There's no reason they would take him if they were just going to kill him."

"You need rest Usagi; don't princesses like to get their beauty sleep?" Rei winked at her.

Mamoru…will I ever see you again?

Usagi looked up and found herself closing her eyes and letting herself be led home by Rei.

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That's it, no more chapter right now. I've got two other updates to do. Please review!