Chapter 15 - Silver Angel

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AN: Well now.finally the next chapter of this climactic episode has been downloaded. Thanks again to all who have been with this story from the very beginning. Thank you for the reviews.

Sailor Moon is not owned by me, I am just borrowing the characters to create this story. The Silver Lady (Lexa) and the Lord are my creations as well as the Creatures called Feuerdamons.

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Tuxedo Mask watched helplessly as the Black Damon unleashed its black fire and as it raced with blinding speed towards the Scouts. There was no time act, no time to scream, and no time to defend.

Within a moment the power made contact with the ground to where the Sailor Scouts stood. Just for a moment all was silent as the power struck and then like a tuning fork the sound and the ground below erupted like a volcano, sending asphalt everywhere.

The buildings on the side of the street collapsed as brick, steel and mortar fell from the sky like rain. All other sounds ceased, except the terrible destruction and binding metal from the debris scraping and landing on the ground. A terrible dust cloud at the same time filled the air, not allowing Darien to see if there was anyone down below, any survivors.

Suddenly from the depths of the dust filled air, a black blur, sparkling with silver arose from the streets below, landing beside the warrior in silver. Darien waited a few moments, hoping what his heart already knew, did not come to pass.

Come On Scouts! You have survived in tougher situations than this! Darien thought to himself as he remembered all that they had all escaped from.

Then from what seemed to be from above him, he heard a piercing laugh and he let his eyes and head lift to find The Silver Lady staring at him with a smug look.

"So dear Prince, where are your girlfriends now?" She said with fake concern as she looked onwards to the street, which was still covered in debris and dust.

Darien looked again to the street, hoping against all hope that maybe they had survived. The nightly breeze that had just began, and within a few moments began to lift the cloud until all could be seen once more.

The masked man looked with eagerness as his eyes combed the street on which the Sailor Scouts had once stood, his heart fell when at last the area that Uranus and the others had occupied came into view.

Gone was the asphalt and the people that once stood upon it, now all that remained was a pile of steel, brick and concrete that stood like a mountain rising to meet the sky, marking it like a grave to the people who could not have survived.

Even if anyone had, the debris would have crushed them and the dust would have suffocating them. Not to mention the power of the black fire itself that had been unleashed.

No.the scouts could not have survived. He was alone. He and his Princess were all alone. And that meant only he stood in-between this evil and his love. Only he, and his powers were useless against such odds.

Tuxedo Mask stood from his knees where he had fallen from when the explosion had occurred. From within his mask, his eyes began to burn like coals and looking down at his hands began to shake as if he had turned cold. A laughing filled the air the same one that had taunted him before. The masked man looked upon the woman, who had destroyed the only hope for the earth; she hadn't even lifted a finger.

"You are pathetic prince; you and this whole little earth. I shall have the privilege of killing you and destroying this planet and knowing that you can't do anything to stop me. Your girlfriends are gone and if everything went as planned so is your little princess."

At that Darien's face turned white and he knew then that what she spoke was true. Pluto had cautioned them that they had eyes and ears everywhere. If they were indeed watching them, then they had known he had left Serena alone.

Good God he had failed her! Again!

Darien's fists came down like a hammer against the rooftop's floor. He hadn't felt the sting that occurred as his fists made contact with brick, nor did he felt the blood that slowly ran down his hand. All he felt was the hollowness in his heart and mind at his love's fate and his stupidity. He should not have come.

What was anger and loss in his eyes before changed into that one of fury and insanity. He was going to take this person out even if it took until the last breath of air in his body. He looked back at her with such madness in his eyes that the Silver Warrior stopped laughing and stood back.

There was nothing more dangerous then a mad man who had lost everything except maybe a mad man who had a power himself.

With every ounce of anger in his body, he began to glow a fiery red. With a flick of the wrist, Tuxedo Mask threw five red roses towards her with a speed that made the Warrior gasp in surprise. That was her first mistake.

The roses landed all around her that as they made contact with the rooftop, they glowed and came alive caging her in a red force field.

With a snarl she unleashed her own silver fire upon the red petals that had her imprisoned. However the silver fire bounced back as it made contact with the red energy fields and shot back straight at her like a boomerang.

She had to quickly reflect it using her powers and as her attention was drawn to this, Tuxedo Mask had already leapt into the air and was now in mid-flight to wards her with his cane unleashed and his body burning with an all out rage. She didn't see the cane extend and coming towards her like a bullet.

The energy field that encaged her started to dissipate and disappear and the Silver Lady began to look around for her prey. She found him.a little too late. The moment she had spotted him was the same moment the cane collided right into her shoulder. The power of the impact sent her sprawling back into a brick wall and landing onto the pavement below with a soft thud.

Darien landed onto the street below just a few feet where Lexa had landed. Tuxedo mask straightened and came towards the woman with his cane in one hand and his rose in the other. His eyes were on fire, which meant nothing would stop him from doing what he wanted to do. He was so furious that he had only one thought.

Destroy his enemy.

The hurt and the pain he was in was overwhelming and all the pity and mercy he had, his knowledge of right and wrong were misplaced and only the anger and hatred remained.

He was going to put an end to her and all of her evil with her.

In all his anger and rage he never, not for one moment, recalled the other two creatures that had stood to the corner awaiting their command. Lexa pulled herself into a seating position and noticed that the Prince was within moments to strike her down once more.

With a silent command, she ordered the Damons to attack.

Without any sound, the Damons began to run towards their intended victim. However, Darien in all his madness had followed Lexa's movements and a warning bell entered his mind.

The Damons!

Turning quickly from his initial target, he scanned the area for the other two creatures. He only saw the one. With quick movements he sent two roses hurdling like arrows towards the silver creature that was less then 50 meters away. As they two roses mahe their way home, the Silver Damon was thrown across the street and into a pile of debris that had fallen before with the fatefull explosion which made another piece of the wall above lose its hold and came tumbling down on the unsuspecting Damon, trapping him in tons of debris.

That should hold him, Darien thought. For awhile.

Scanning for the other demon he didn't see nor hear a stone move. All there was, was a deathly silence as the moon from above shown below.

The masked man looked for any silvery shine deep within the shadows where he knew the creature waited. Meanwhile the Silver Warrior had gotten up from her fall, her face in full fury. This pitiful human was not going to defeat her!

In silence and in a blur of black silver, the Black Damon finally showed itself. Darien didn't have a chance to even catch sight of the creature as it knocked him in the stomach sending headlong into a building that to some luck, maintained its glass. In pain and bleeding from the cut he received from the broken glass, Darien stood up and faced his opponents.

No one noticed that the moon seemed to glow a moment, making the debris filled streets grow brighter just for a split second. Then suddenly as the black Damon was going to lunge again towards the prince, the moon seemed to explode with light, making the darkness dissipate only leaving faint shadows in deep crevasses in the streets and tumbled down buildings.

The Silver Damon, who had just come gotten loose from his confines, shrank back into the shadows as if the light burnt him. Even the black creature that before just a moment ago seemed indestructible shrank bank as if the light was deadly.

Lexa looked up towards the brilliant light and for a moment became blind as she struggled to get her bearings and those of her creatures.

"What is happening? What is this?" she screamed into the air.

Then the ground began to shake as if the earth had come alive. The mound of debris that had covered the scouts where they had stood seemed to take on a life of its own as sounds those resembling lightning crashes came from deep with as the ground began to split and silver light seemed to peek through from its depths growing until all was bathed in silver light from above and below.

All sense of direction was lost as the light blinded everything and everyone. Darien's sense of balance left him as another earthquake shook the ground from beneath him and he fell to the floor.

He had no idea what was happening as he lost sight of the Silver Lady and the two Demons

Was this it? Was this the end that the Future King of the Earth had predicted?

Then abruptly, without warning, the light faded. Tuxedo Mask hands quickly came to his eyes and hoping his eyes could get used the darkness again. He was still seeing bright spots that blocked out the darkness and everything else.

Then a warm feeling washed over him that in reaction made him close his eyes letting the heat surround him and penetrate his mind, soul and body. In a moment he felt cleansed and without pain. He felt like he had come home, complete. There was only one thing that could make him felt his way.

With a moment's hesitation, from the fear of being wrong, he opened his eyes again and was surprised he could see. He looked to where the Silver Lady had been and saw that she also had regained her sight and was staring with astonishment over her face. Darien too followed her gaze.

At what he saw, his heart leapt, his eyes starting to fill with tears. For just about 100 hundred yards a way, where the mound of debris had fallen on the scouts from the wrath of the Black Damon's powers, stood his Silver Angel.



To be continued.