Welcome to chapter 7. Thanks to Ellen, Sailor Bubs, Silver Moonlight-81, Bunnychu, and Panther Queen (Matakishi hirata-San?) for reviewing for the last chapter.
Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon.
Dedication: To the men and women who serve in the USA military.
Enjoy!
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Book I: Alone
Chapter VII
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Blackness, a dreadful blackness filled a room. The room reeked of evil and despair. It was the sort of place that no living man should enter.
Yet, seated in the center of the room was a man. An eerie, surreal glow surrounded him, but cast none of its light elsewhere. The glow was no color in particular, and it had no apparent source; it was just there. In the dimness of the light the man's form could be seen.
He sat in a relaxed position, and he had even causally draped one of his legs over the chair's armrest. Long dark hair fell onto his shoulders, and ebony bangs covered his eyes.
"Why has only one spirit been destroyed?" the man asked unemotionally into the darkness, his thin lips hardly moving as he spoke the words.
"My Lord, I have run into an unexpected problem: it seems that there is a defender of this planet. She has laid waste to all of the warriors that I have sent," was the fearful reply of an unknown voice.
"I don't want excuses, fool," the man replied in the same cold and unemotional tone.
"Of, of course, my Lord. The failure lies completely in me."
"Stop babbling, idiot. Why was there no attack on the city tonight? Are you admitting your defeat, or are you just being lazy?"
"No, my Lord, I was merely changing tactics. Sending one monster to attack the city has failed; instead, I fell that two monsters would cause more damage than just one."
"That does not answer my question: why was there no attack on the city tonight?"
"My sorcerers are only capable of sending one soldier between our worlds. After that one monster they are completely drained of their energy. My sorcerers have discovered that they can send two soldiers by holding one of them in between worlds for a day, and after they have regained their energy they can send another soldier through with the first. The process means that one day goes by with out an attack."
The man held up his hand and slowly shook his finger from side to side in a scolding manner, "I would do better if I were you, Deivic. I am displeased with performance of the delta troops, and I am displeased with your ability to train them to win."
"Yes…yes, my Lord," Deivic stammered.
"Leave my presence," the man commanded as he flicked his hand. A light shot from his hand and flew into the darkness. It came to rest on a man who had previously been cloaked in darkness.
For a brief instant, the man called Deivic could be seen standing a few yards from the sitting man. The glow illuminated his short, crimson colored hair and his shining black eyes. Then, suddenly he vanished into the air.
The room was now empty except for the presence of the seated man. The glow that had once surrounded Deivic faded into nothingness, and the room was black again.
I awoke with an awful start. A shudder ran through my spine as I tried to recall what I had just been dreaming. All that I could remember was darkness and two voices. The conversation between the voices was slipping from my mind.
I tried to shrug off the bad feeling that I got from the dream. I tried to tell myself that the stress was getting to me. I tried, but I something inside my mind told me that the dream, even though it was awful, was important.
The ominous feeling left me after I drew back my curtains and allowed the sunshine to pour into my bedroom. I sat on my window seat basking in the warm of the sun. I had nothing to do today, absolutely nothing.
On previous Saturdays I would have a Scout meeting and then go shopping or out with Darien. I couldn't do that today. Hanging out with them is no longer an option. I thought about going to see Molly, but I remembered her saying that she was spending the day with Melvin.
A tear rolled down my cheek. I knew that I had to stop pitying myself, but I missed having my boyfriend to hold me when I had a bad day, and I have been having a lot of bad days.
I wiped the tear away and blinked back other tears that threatened to spill from my eyes. In order to distract myself I began to furiously clean and straiten my room. My mother came in an hour later to find a nice and clean room.
"Serena, are you okay? I didn't ask you to clean your room this morning, but I do appreciate it being clean."
I grinned sheepishly, "I tripped on something while I getting out of bed this morning, so I figured that it was time for a cleaning."
My mother laughed when she heard my explanation, but I was grimacing on the inside. I hated lying to my mother, but what else was I supposed to do? I couldn't tell her that I was cleaning my room to distract myself from thinking about how I killed my friends.
"If you're hungry, I have some breakfast downstairs for you."
"Am I ever not hungry, mom?"
Together, my mother and I walked down the stairs and into the kitchen. I had a large stack of blueberry pancakes, my favorite.
"Serena, what are you planning to do today?" My mother asked me after I had finished my breakfast.
"I don't think that I have anything to do. Why?"
"Would you mind going shopping for me? I need a few ingredients for tonight's dinner."
I told my mother that I would love to go to the store, and I quickly got ready and jogged over to the nearest supermarket. When I enter the place I found myself at a loss; I hadn't shopped for groceries since I started going to school during the day.
I looked at the list and tried to determine where I would find each item. I was rather thankful that I managed to make it out of the store the same day that went in there. For certain things I was walking around the place for what seemed like forever. When I got home hours later, my mother was worried sick about me.
"Where have you been? Is everything okay? There wasn't another attack was there?"
I laughed in spite of my self. My mother was worried that something had happened, but the only problem was that I didn't know how to shop for food. I told my mother my story through fits of laughter, and soon my mother was sitting there laughing with me, all her worries forgotten.
"I think that I'm going to go to the park and read. I have to read a few acts of a play."
"What play are you reading?"
"Umm, Oedipus Rex I think."
"Okay, honey, just be home by dinner. Don't be late or I'll start worrying again."
I seized my book off of my desk and jogged over to the park. I found my normal secluded clearing by the lake. I propped myself up against a tree and began reading the play. I hadn't even managed to read two pages before I felt the familiar warring pain of an attack, only it was sharper and more severe than normal.
"Spirit of the Moon, I summon thee."
I felt the silver rays of light surround me and form my uniform and moon staff, and soon I was Spirit Sailor Moon once again. I stole a glance at my discarded book as I sprang from the clearing towards the attack. The urgency that I felt was much greater than normal, so I pushed myself as hard as I could. I don't think that I have ever run so fast in my entire life.
The attack was across town at a place dubbed Lover's Getaway. It was as far away form the city lights as you could get while still remaining in the city confines. At night time it was a great place to look at the stars, though not many of the couples who went there were looking at the stars.
I came to a screeching halt in front of two hideous monsters. They looked exactly as the other beasts had. I was about to shout to the monsters, but time suddenly time stood still and my words died on my lips.
The monsters in front of me froze in their place. The screams on the lips of terrified teenagers died off in an instant. The world was still.
A vision appeared in front of my eyes. There were two lovers in their twenties cuddling after they had enjoyed a nice picnic. Out of nowhere two ugly claws appeared and thrust themselves into the bodies of the two lovers. I watched in terror as their spirits were devoured by two ugly beasts; the same two which now stood frozen in time.
The lovers disappeared into the air, and were replaced by a familiar couple. I could feel myself screaming when I saw their faces, but no sound issued from my lips. I tried as hard as I could to move to help the pair in front of me, but I stayed frozen in place.
'This isn't happening,' I kept repeating to myself over and over as I watched the scene unfold before my eyes.
Sitting in front of me was Molly and Melvin kissing one another tenderly and enjoying each other's company. Suddenly they broke their kiss quickly turned their heads to look at the approaching monsters. Molly opened her mouth and let out a scream which I could not hear, and Melvin bravely jumped up in hopes of defending Molly from the beasts.
In a lightning like movement one of the monsters yanked Melvin's spirit from his body and devoured it. Molly tried in vain to grab at the Melvin's body as it disappeared into the air. The second monster drove its claw into her and pulled her spirit to its revolting lip. The beast smiled wickedly right before it threw Molly's spirit into its open mouth. Molly's body faded away and the monsters turned in search for other victims.
Time began moving again with an awful jolt. I could hear my screams of horror loud and clear. I stared wide-eyed at the spot where my friends had recently been murdered. I was breathing hard and sharps breaths. The monsters turned to face me, and when they saw the state that I was in they laughed wickedly.
Their laugh brought my attention back to them. I charged forward to fight the monsters. With inhuman like speed and movements, I attacked both of the beasts.
The beasts staggered back at the force of my blows. I stopped my assault only long enough to show them that I was unscathed, and to gather my energy together for my next attack.
"Dead Spirits Attack."
A silver light flew out of my staff. It shot right through the first monster and straight into the second one.
"Give 'em hell, girlfriend," I whispered right before the monsters exploded.
I stood there dumbly staring at the spot where Molly and Melvin had died. I didn't want to believe what I had seen in that vision, but I knew that they were dead. I had called to their spirits to help me kill the monsters, and they had responded by doing what I asked.
My thoughts were broken by the sound of a person behind me. I turned quickly to see a man with blood red hair, dark skin, empty black eyes, and a wicked grin standing a few feet behind me. The man seemed familiar, but I shrugged the feeling off.
"You cannot beat us. You can only delay the inevitable. Just think of me when you watch everyone around you die and you can't do anything to help them."
The man laughed evilly at me as he started to glow. I decided that I wasn't going to lose an opportunity to attack my enemy.
"Spirit of Selene, strike."
My energy flew towards him faster than lightning, but I was too late. Right before the attack would have hit him he vanished.
I called my attack back into my staff a stared angrily at the spot that had just been occupied by my foe.
I could still hear his evil laughter burning in my ears.
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