The Awakening of Crystal Tokyo
Chapter 7
The Awakening of Crystal Tokyo
Sailor Moon fought her anger and sadness and continued to focus all her power. The Four Tuxedoes had rushed into battle, holding the phages away from the Senshi. And little by little, the darkness gathered into the cloud and returned people to normal, yet the Tuxedoes were going under a lot of bodily harm.
"Let's keep it up;" Tuxedo Asteroid said breathing heavily, bleeding from his lips.
"You won't get the chance to whip me again." Said a familiar phage's voice. Sailor Basketball stood behind Tuxedo Asteroid. "360 Dunk!" A Basketball hit Tuxedo Asteroid a few feet backwards. As Tuxedo Asteroid got up, the cloud had absorbed Sailor Basketball's darkness and Sailor Basketball returned to normal – for good.
"You better be glad I didn't have to whip you, because I'd have whipped you good." Tuxedo Asteroid asked holding his head.
"Asteroid, behind you!" Tuxedo Kometto shouted. Behind Tuxedo Asteroid was Sailor Doctor. As Tuxedo Asteroid turned around, Sailor Doctor injected him with a needle full of poison. Tuxedo Asteroid's face turned very pale and he fell to the ground as Sailor Doctor then returned to normal.
"Asteroid!" Kometto exclaimed again. As he was running towards his friend, Sailor Astronaut stood in front of him.
"Booster Pack!" A huge rocket was launched at Tuxedo Kometto and instead of hitting him; it launched him into the air. The Dark Cloud absorbed Sailor Astronaut's darkness and she returned to normal. Already very high in the air, the rocket lost power and fell. Kometto yelled until he hit the ground and gulped. He went into a cardiac arrest and died.
"Help them!" Sailor Moon ordered as she continued to focus. "Help them, now!"
"Sailor Moon, remember to focus; the world depends on it!" Tuxedo Kamen said caringly.
Tuxedo Sun was being attacked by Sailor Clay, Rei's cousin. Tuxedo Sun was hit by clay pot after clay pot and continued to keep his guard up until he was backed up against a wall. "Failure!" Sailor Clay said making a clay knife which he was about to shoot at Tuxedo Sun.
"Tomoshibi," Tuxedo Star thought to himself, as both Sailor Butlers returned to normal behind him. "I won't let it happen this time!" Tuxedo Star took a step forward and brought out his cane. "North Star Reflection!" Tuxedo Star threw his cane and it pierced through Sailor Clay's body.
"Failure!" Sailor Clay shouted. Sailor Clay looked down to see the cane within him and pulled it out. He turned around and flung it back at Tuxedo Star. Stabbed by his very own cane, Tuxedo Star fell to his knees.
"Tuxedo Star!" Tuxedo Sun said hitting Sailor Clay who then turned back into Kengo. Sailor Gekisha (Saki, the photographer) stopped Tuxedo Sun and they began their own fight.
"Go help them!" Sailor Moon said. "I see what's happening, and they need our help!"
"Sailor Moon, you can't fight destiny!" Sailor Pluto shouted. Sailor Moon stopped focusing her power and looked at Sailor Pluto.
"You go or I'll stop." She said. "You go or I'll stop!" she said loudly. Thus, the Sailor Senshi ran and left Sailor Moon alone with Tuxedo Kamen who begged her to continue.
Before the Senshi could arrive at the scene Sailor Gekisha used her camera attack the same time Tuxedo Sun through his darts, and although Gekisha's camera was destroyed, Tuxedo Sun was hit and was blown back towards Tuxedo Star.
"So you join me?" Tuxedo Star said breathing slowly. Sailor Gekisha turned back into Saki and fell.
"Yes, I thought you needed some company." Tuxedo Sun smiled. Overhead stood the Sailor Singles from the wedding.
"Not so fast!" Sailor Neptune, Sailor Uranus, and Sailor Pluto told them. As the Sailor Singles were distracted, Tuxedo Star and Sun got them by the ankles.
"Do it now, weaken them!" Tuxedo Sun ordered.
"But how about you?" Sailor Uranus asked.
"Do it now! They will attack your princess!" Tuxedo Star explained.
"Neptune... Deep Submerge!"
"Pluto... Dead Scream."
The two planet attacks hit the Sailor Singles but they also cost them the lives of Tuxedo Star and Sun.
Tuxedo Sun crawled his way towards Tuxedo Star and put his arm around him. "This looks like a familiar situation." Tuxedo Star said half-dead already.
Tuxedo Sun faked a smile and asked, "Are you afraid to die, Tuxedo Star?" Tuxedo Sun watched as his friend shook his head. "Good, because there is no need to be. Someone once told me death only comes to the evil and the cowards; you will not die. Tuxedo Star, our mission is complete." Tuxedo Star removed his mask and let Tuxedo Sun look in his blue eyes – eyes that showed contentment and a sense of completion. "Your eyes are more different than last time, why is that?"
Tuxedo Star ran his bloodied and frayed fingers through Tuxedo Sun's short black hair. "Because, we've completed our purpose... we've done what we've set out to do." Tuxedo Star ceased moving and died.
Tuxedo Sun looked up to Sailor Neptune, Pluto, and Uranus. "You didn't attack, Uranus."
Uranus paused. "I knew they had it covered."
"Arigato, Uranus. Protect the prince and princess." He said as his parting last words.
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The four Tuxedoes were dead and the darkness was almost done absorbing the dark energy from the star-seeds. The cloud had grown large, ready to complete Sailor Saturn's vision and engulf everything and it did. The phages that returned to normal were engulfed and so were the corpses of the four men who fought nobly for earth.
"It's heading for Sailor Moon!" Sailor Mars yelled running back to her post. "Mars flame sniper!" her power didn't even get close to the cloud and Dark Lightning struck the girl and she screamed in pain. Sailor Jupiter came and joined her pain as well as Venus, and Mercury.
"My friends," Sailor Moon whispered.
"Its okay, Sailor Moon, just continue to focus. Once you're done, the pain will all be over." Tuxedo Kamen reassured her.
"I won't give up!" Sailor Moon responded. Soon all the Sailor Senshi were being struck by the lightning, protecting Tuxedo Kamen and Sailor Moon.
"I don't know how much more I can take!" Sailor Saturn announced.
"We can't give up!" Sailor Mars responded. "Don't give up Sailor Moon!"
The cloud was enormous now and it looked down upon the Senshi with superiority. "Get ready for another blast!" Sailor Neptune told everyone. And the blast came stronger and harder than before!
"Hold on, my friends!" Sailor Moon shouted. "I can feel the power rising within me!"
"Don't give up Sailor Moon!" Tuxedo Kamen told her again. "I'm with you!"
One by one the Sailor Senshi fell until nothing was between the cloud and Sailor Moon. Another beam of dark lightning shot out of the cloud but Tuxedo Kamen jumped in the way, blowing off his mask and cape. He continued to stay in its path so it would not hit Sailor Moon.
"Tuxedo Kamen!" Sailor Moon shouted.
"Don't... worry... Sailor Moon." Tuxedo Kamen said in agony. Tuxedo Kamen fell to hands and knees and the cloud moved towards Sailor Moon. Another bolt of lightning went for Sailor Moon, but again her beloved Tuxedo Kamen stopped it from touching her, screaming in his agony. "I won't let you hurt her!" Tuxedo Kamen shouted. "I refuse... to let the earth... turn to darkness!" Even with is pledge, the pain was too much and he fell on his side this time.
The cloud rumbled and began to suck everything in. First the unconscious people were sucked in followed by the four dead Tuxedoes. Once they were sucked in, it moved towards the Sailor Senshi who hung on for dear life. Yet, it didn't try as hard for them; what it really wanted was Sailor Moon and as she focused her power and watched as her tier was erupting with it, she began to feel her legs move towards the cloud. Suddenly, she was lifted off her feet and was heading straight for the cloud.
"Sailor Moon!" the Senshi exclaimed.
"I'm going with you..." Tuxedo Kamen whispered on the verge of unconsciousness as he grabbed her boot. When Sailor Moon opened her eyes, her fuku was turning to ribbons... the darkness within the cloud was too much. She looked to her right and there was Roiyaru's lifeless body beside her.
"Roiyaru-san." She gasped. She looked to her left and there was Tomoshibi and beside him was Zachary and Kasai. She turned her head upward and held back tears. "I've failed." She suggested to herself. She opened her eyes and a hand was coming for her. "Leave me alone!" she yelled but it was only Mamoru, in the rags of his tuxedo. The darkness was torturing him because he did not want it to touch Usagi. "Mamo-chan."
Mamoru was being hit by lighting strike after lightning strike but he would not move. As long as he willed not to let anything happen to his Usako, the pain would be inflicted upon him. The shadows held his neck and choked him. Even in the darkness, Usagi saw his veins pop up all over his face even though she could not see the shadows or lightning hit her beloved.
"Think positively, Usako; or you won't be able to break out of here." He said grunting with pain. Usagi watched as piece by piece of clothing was ripping right of Mamoru's back and he was shouting in pain as his torture continued. Mamoru's eyes went pitch black and when he opened his mouth to speak, Usagi heard the manifestation of evil. "You'll never break free!" she heard as the echo of evil wrapped itself with the handsome voice of Mamoru voice. "The darkness will prevail!"
"You can't be Mamo-chan anymore!" she said closing her ears.
Mamoru regained control for a short time and told her, "You know it's not me Usako! Baby, don't let the evil lie to you..." Mamoru gagged as the shadows choked him.
As Usagi looked on at Mamoru, the evil possessed Roiyaru. "You will lose! All of this is in vain! You're friends will die in vain!!!"
"No!" she yelled back.
"That's what I want to hear." Mamoru gagged as his nose bloodied and the blood floated in the atmosphere of the darkness. Again, he gave up his body and voice to the evil and let the words of deceit and darkness fill Usagi's ears.
"This is true darkness, and you'll lose!" Kasai said under the influence of the evil.
"Just give up and die! Die like your friends!" the possessed Zachary added.
"It didn't end with Chaos..." Tomoshibi hissed.
"It'll never end... NEVER!!!" the four yelled at her. As they said it, Mamoru's screams became realer, scarier, and more tortured than ever before.
"Usagi, I love you!" he assured her. "Don't listen to the evil; the Tuxedoes were your friends! Don't let them die in..." Again Mamoru was gagged and then he was forced to yell again.
"Yes," Roiyaru said smiling. "Scream... let her hear the pain the whole world will be under once the evil has won!"
"Scream, Prince Endymion, scream!" Tomoshibi shouted.
"This is destiny, Sailor Moon!" Kasai yelled at her.
"You cannot run from destiny!" Zachary added. The four laughed.
Mamoru grumbled and tried to hold in the pain. Blood rushes out of his back and floated around. "I won't ever give up on you Usagi... please don't give up on yourself! They can't touch you Usako." He said losing energy. "Only the evil can, and as long as I'm alive it won't."
"Shut up!" the four guys said again.
"Mamo-chan..." Usagi cried. "I can't let this happen to Mamo-chan... or the world!" she thought to herself. "I can't let Roiyaru, Kasai, Zachary, and Tomoshibi; my new friends to die in vain once more! I must awaken the power; I must awaken the light... I must awaken Crystal Tokyo!" Usagi's crescent beam shined on her forehead. "Silver Moon Crystal Power Kiss!" she exclaimed.
Suddenly she was spit out of the darkness onto her naked back. She stood up and brought out her crystal which was shining magnificently. "I won't let the darkness overcome this world... Power of the Millennium, I beg of you give me the power to return this world to the peace it once saw and a peace even better than this! Moon Princess Make up!" Usagi became Princess Serenity and lifted her crystal to the sky against the dark cloud. "I banish you forever!"
"Never," Serenity heard the people in the darkness yell back.
"Forever!" The power of the crystal was awakened and all of a sudden the other Sailor Senshi, (who were left on the ground, beaten and un-energized) stood up.
"Is this a new power?" Sailor Mercury asked.
"This power feels endless," Sailor Mars said.
"It's so warm, you guys." Sailor Jupiter put in.
"I feel Serenity's love! I feel her power concentrate within us!" Sailor Venus exclaimed.
"This must be eternal power of the Senshi!" Sailor Saturn concluded.
"The eternal power of the Senshi?" they all asked.
"The power that protects Crystal Tokyo!" Sailor Pluto responded.
"Eternal Senshi... make up!" they all yelled. Suddenly, every Senshi's star-seed appeared in front of them and turned into a tier alike to Eternal Sailor Moon's. Once they all touched their tiers they became Eternal Sailor Senshi with the same outfit as Eternal Sailor Moon had (save the wings).
The Silver Crystal pulsed and suddenly the cloud gave way to Mamoru who fell to the ground, but when engulfed by the Silver Crystal's light, became Prince Endymion. He stood beside Princess Serenity and embraced her arms.
"Silver Millennium... Crystal Power Sealing!" Princess Serenity shouted. The Sailor Senshi's signs began to glow until they shot like rays of light into the dark cloud. The people captured within the dark cloud, except the dead Tuxedoes, were spit out and The Silver Crystal's light engulfed the darkness and sealed it away in a crystal alike to the Silver Crystal.
"Mercury Eternal Power... Mars Eternal Power... Jupiter Eternal Power... Venus Eternal Power... Uranus Eternal Power... Neptune Eternal Power... Pluto Eternal Power... Saturn Eternal Power... Crystal Moon Awakening!"
Beams from the Silver Crystal and every Senshi's individual tier shot up towards the moon. By this time, the eclipse was ending and once it ended, the moon began to sparkle. The moonlight shined down on earth and all the darkness that was not being imprisoned in the orb evaporated into nothing. The earth itself began to glow and every street and every road began to shine and glisten until the whole earth sparkled. In the middle of Tokyo, a palace was magically built and all was well and beautiful. The evil orb was then shot to the far end of the galaxy hopefully never to plague the Senshi again!
"Finally the world has returned to peace!" Princess Serenity announced.
At the sound of Serenity's announcement, the whole earth began to cheer in unison. "Hail Neo-Queen Serenity and Neo-King Endymion, majesties of peace and the Earth!"
Serenity looked around and smiled until something had occurred to her. "Where are the Tuxedoes?" she asked herself.
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The coronation service took place two days after the purification and the awakening of Crystal Tokyo. Before the coronation service, however, the Senshi, Serenity, and Endymion looked around for the dead bodies of the four Tuxedoes but they did not find them. "They were swallowed by the darkness," the Senshi thought. Serenity cried on Endymion's shoulder who tried to be strong for his wife.
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After the coronation service that the whole earth watched (in one way or another), Neo-Queen Serenity and Neo-King Endymion walked on the streets of Crystal Tokyo as balloons, confetti, and cards were made to celebrate the momentous day.
They made a stop at Serenity's earthly parent's house and there her mother and father bowed down to them. Serenity cried. "Mama, papa; please don't."
"I never thought that my baby would become queen of anything; I'm sure this was a destiny picked out for you long before you were even born!" her mother cried.
"And Ma... Endymion," her dad started.
"I'm thinking of letting those close to me call me Mamoru, still."
"King Endymion... Mamoru, please take care of my little princess... my little queen." He cried. Endymion couldn't hold back anymore and cried with the family. It was the most beautiful time the family had shared with one another. Kenji (Usagi's father) always thought they made a good match but to see them at the caliber they had become made him that much happier.
"Mama, I've come to move you guys close to the palace; that way we can see each other almost every day!" Serenity said glowing at her cheeks.
"Yes," Endymion added. "You can see all the bright lights from where you are; it'll be your piece of tranquility. You both and Shingo will love it."
"No thank you," Kenji replied. "I appreciate it, but I know you two will have more to deal with than having the parents move in right next door. We're happy here but just promise us that you'll visit occasionally." He smiled.
"Yes Tsukino-kun." Endymion bowed.
"'Father' would be just fine." The man smiled.
Serenity and Endymion walked out of the house and heavily thought upon the future of Crystal Tokyo. "I'm still worried about the Dark Moon Family, Mamo-chan."
"We have many centuries ahead of us to think upon that, but when it happens; we'll be ready for them." He smiled. "Now let's talk about something happy."
"You're right!" she exclaimed. "Did you see how my little brother flipped when he saw me as queen? It was priceless!" she squealed. "And my parents, I love them so much. My mother really didn't have any belief in me." she snickered a little. "I showed them who is boss."
"Technically you are, since you're queen." Endymion said causing Serenity to laugh. Serenity and Endymion walked down the crystal streets and were stopped and praised by the people of Crystal Tokyo.
"I hope I can get used to this royalty thing." She smiled. "People just bowing at my feet for no good reason; I thought it'd be a good thing but I'm beginning to think it's a little creepy."
"Well that's only one part of being royalty," Endymion said. "I think I'm going to have to show you the other part." Endymion teased. Serenity blushed.
"Mamo-chan?" Serenity called. "I love you."
"I love you too." He replied. They kissed and tears flowed down her eyes.
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The next morning Serenity woke up, naked in her bed. She heard Endymion in the bathroom washing up. "Mamo-chan?" she said sitting up. The shower was running and she thought that it'd be a good time to join him. As Serenity stepped into the shower she thought of the beauty that was Crystal Tokyo. She remembered every fight she had been to protect the wellbeing of the earth, from Beryl straight through Galaxia and the main war for peace she had just taken part in. Serenity remembered how diligently the Senshi and her husband fought with her from beginning to end and those who lost their lives helping them, especially her friends the Tuxedoes.
"Arigatou." She thought to herself. "You will never be forgotten... but where are you?"
The End
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