Venus Stands Alone
By Trey Hayes
Phase 1
15 years can go by in a heart beat.
It had been about five years since Minako Anio and Chibiusa Tuskino had seen any of their friends. I was about right 10 years after they had defeated Galaxia and the world had been brought to peace. Usagi and Mamoru had been wed and Usagi gave birth to Chibiusa.
The date was June 30th, the birthday of both Usagi and Chibiusa. There was a huge party being thrown in honor of the Queen and the princess. While the attendants got the entire party together, the queen sat in the royal garden and watched her daughter play with her toys. The princess was turning seven today and it was the day they had decided to bestow upon her the power of her families bloodline.
As the princess played, the queen noticed that they sky was getting dark. Queen Serenity didn't really pay attention to the coming darkness because it happened regularly. Since she had re-awoken the earth from its second Ice Age, the Earths temperature had risen about three and a half degrees. The raise in temperature often created short storms that occurred usually daily. But this wasn't any regular storm. In fact it wasn't a storm at all. Just as Serenity called her daughter to come inside with her a massive bolt of lightning lanced out of the sky and struck the garden. The blast threw Serenity and Princess Chibiusa away from each other.
"CHIBIUSA!!!" Serenity shouted as she flew backward and crashed into a tree. She struggled to lift her head up but as she did she caught sight of a large creature. The creature was all black with spikes running along its back where its spine would be. The creatures face protruded outward and as it roared it showed many rows of fangs and large teeth.
Serenity did not have the silver crystal with her, it was locked up securely in the palace but she did have her eternal transformation broach, just incase there was trouble and she was alone. She the broach above her head as she shouted,
"MOON ETERNAL MAKE…."
Her call was cut short as the creature moved with blinding speed and grabbed serenity around the neck. Serenity tried to call for help but she only make short choking sounds. She could see her daughter laying lifeless on the ground but it was unknown if she was dead or unconscious. The creature squeezed harder and harder until it herd a pop. Then it released its grip on the queen and she fell the ground lifeless, her neck broken in three places. The creature licked its lips and changed directions moving toward Chibiusa. Chibiusa was just coming back into consciousness and when she opened here eyes she was confronted by the evil creature. Chibiusa let loose a terrifyingly high pitched scream and the creature grabbed her. It raised the small pink haired child above its head with intent to kill when…..
"MARS, FLAME SNIPER!!"
The flaming arrow slammed into the back of the creature setting it ablaze. The creature dropped the child who was caught by a blue blur. The creature shook its body a few times and extinguished the flames. It turned to the direction of the attack and saw the Sailor Senchi standing in front of the fallen body of the queen, which was being held by the King of the Earth, Endimion.
Tears streamed down the face of the king as he placed his deceased wife on the ground. Chibiusa came up to her father and saw her mothers body and immediately began crying. The king reached to his side and drew the large jeweled sword from its sheath. Driven purely on emotion and anger, the king lept into the air before any of the senchi could stop him and lunged at the monster. The monster followed suit and lunged at the king and the two traded shot after shot. Quickly the king was over powered by the creature and was thrown to the ground, his sword knocked out of his hands. The creature moved quickly for the kill and the king closed his eyes whispering "I will be with you soon my love." but nothing happened.
There was a loud grunt and then a scream and the king opened his eyes to see Sailor Jupiter kneeling in front of him with the hand of the creature punctured straight through her body. The creature retracted its hand and the blood poured from Jupiter's fatal wound.
"JUPITER!!!" all of the other senchi shouted running to the side of the king. Jupiter had collapsed into the arms of the king and her blood stained his suit and white gloves.
The senchi, all stood and their faces showed a rage that they had never had before. The all ran to the creature releasing their various attacks.
"BURRNING MANDALA!!"
"SHINING AQUA ILLUSION!!"
"CRESENT BEAM!!"
The battle raged on for about an hour. There were only two survivors.
It is now five years later, and Minako and Chibiusa are the only ones that are living in the palace. Chibiusa is queen but faces a new invasion problem. A race of creatures was approaching the planet with intent to seize the earth. The race was the same as the creature that the senchi had had so much trouble defeating five years ago.
The queen decreed that all citizens of Crystal Tokyo be evacuated from the city into special underground shelters. The earth was about to wage a war that it might possibly not win.