Chapter 15
Duo walked out of the palace like he was brave and powerful, he tight held onto his scythe and raised it high in the air and started to fight every soldier there was standing in his way. The Sailor Scouts followed him and started to do their attacks as well. They all fought with effort. Princess Serenity watched in horror on what was happening to the once beautiful Moon Kingdom.
"This is horrible!" Princess Serenity said watching the war from her balcony, she quickly turned around and walked inside her chambers. "I need to do something" she thought to herself. She ran to her door, just as she was turning the door knob, she heard a familiar voice.
"Going somewhere Princess?"
Princess Serenity turned around slowly to see Prince Endymion standing on her balcony. Princess Serenity quickly panicked, "You mean, you, joined their side?"
Prince Endymion just gave a little chuckled and started to walked towards Princess Serenity. He first turned around to close the doors from her balcony, then made his way towards the Princess. Princess Serenity was curled up in a ball in the corner of her room as the shadow of Prince Endymion was shone on her shaking body.
Duo and the Sailor Scouts were busy killing soldiers one by one. Duo was trying to not watch the horror of the own people of the moon get killed right in front of him, he had faced death before in his life, he didn't know why he kept cringing so much. He raised his scythe into the air and slashed a soldier into two halves. He whipped the sweat from his forehead as he gasped from air. Killing people was a lot of work for him.
He then heard a familiar laughter in the visible air, he turned around to see who it was, but no sign of the person. He then saw Jedites image appear before him holding a sword and a shield.
"Jedite.." grunted Duo getting ready to fight one of Beryl's generals.
"It was foolish of you to join the Moon Kingdoms side" laughed Jedite as he was walking towards Duo holding his sword.
"I will fight for peace any day, than fight for someone who just wants the Universe to herself" barked Duo as he chuckled to himself.
"Are you talking about Queen Beryl?" yelled Jedite.
"You're damn right" laughed Duo as he charged after Jedite with his scythe.
Jedite fought back with his sword, the two men were fighting. Jedite was a bit impressed with Duo's fighting skills, he did get stronger over the years and his power did improve. Near by, Sailor Mercury just finished up some soldiers, she glanced over to see Duo and Jedite both fighting. She decided to step in.
"Mercury Bubbles Blast!" called out Sailor Mercury.
Jedite and Duo both looked towards Sailor Mercury, Duo teleported and left Jedite in the fog. "Don't be a coward and hide" said Jedite as he was looking around for Duo. It was pretty hard to find him in the fog. Jedite looked around and still no sign of Duo anywhere, he grunted to himself silently.
"Here's Shinigami!" hollered Duo as he appeared behind Jedite, he raised his scythe high into the air and brought it down heavily on Jedite. Jedite screamed in pain and agony as he was cut in half. Jedites cut up body fell to the ground and laid there, Duo looked down at it pitifully.
"That was too easy" said Duo out loud. He then turned to Sailor Mercury. Sailor Mercury stood there with her usual smile on her face, Duo gave a little nod for a "Thank you". With out her fog, he wouldn't have been able to defeat Jedite so quickly. Sailor Mercury returned the nod and took off fighting again.
Duo turned around waiting for other challengers, he then heard the same voice that he always heard, Queen Beryl.
"I'm surprised Duo, you really did improve over the years" smirked Queen Beryl as she appeared in the air in front of Duo's face. Duo just gave the evil Queen a usual pissed off look.
"Jedite was weak anyway, but now, your all mine" laughed Queen Beryl as she looked at Duo with her glaring red eyes.
"If your going to fight me, go ahead and make your move" snapped Duo cocky as he was becoming impatient.
Queen Beryl just laughed at the God of Death, "Actually, I have my other ways in fighting you". She then raised her staff into the air and waved it once. Duo was not impressed at all. Once Queen Beryl let her staff touch the ground once again, four familiar bodies started to rise in the air. Duo's eyes got big and watery as he saw his four friends from long ago.
"Heero, Trowa, Quatre, Wufei…their remains?" wondered Duo to himself. He then got focused on Beryl.
"What are you doing with their bodies?" asked Duo trying not to show his weakness at the Queen.
"I brought them back from the dead, they're still in eternal sleep but, I'll make a deal with you. Hand over your scythe and their lives are returned" answered Queen Beryl as she gave Duo a little evil smile.
Duo took one look at his scythe, and looked at his friends bodies. He wanted them to come back to life, but if he returned his scythe to Queen Beryl, the Universe would be in more danger. As much as he would have liked them to return, he slowly looked up at Beryl. "Never!"
"What!" yelled Queen Beryl surprised at the choice Duo made.
"I'll never let you have my scythe! Do you think I'm that stupid?" yelled back Duo with watery eyes.
Queen Beryl just gave him on of her evil smiles, "Fine, have it your way I guess I'm going to have to make things a little harder for you boy!" shouted Beryl with anger. She once again raised her staff into the air. Duo saw his friends eyes open, their lives were restored.
"What? How can this be? Their lives are restored but what does she have in mind" thought Duo watching his friends float in the air.
"Duo?" called out Quatre as he looked at his friend.
"Where are we?" asked Trowa as he was looking around.
Heero and Wufei were both silent.
"Guys…"whispered Duo with his eyes sparkling with happiness.
His friends continued to float in the air, but then dark negative energy was forced onto them causing them horrible pain. The four once Gundam pilots were crying out in pain as the energy was being sucked out of their new soul. Queen Beryl laughed with excitement watching the four boys suffer.
"Stop it!" demanded Duo as he started to cry tears of anger as he watched his friends cry in pain.
"Not until you hand me that scythe!" barked Queen Beryl.
"Venus Crescent Beam Smash!"
A light yellowish ray hit Queen Beryl's hands causing her to stop the negative energy being forced on Duo's friends. Duo turned to see Sailor Venus standing near by with her long blonde hair blowing in the wind.
"Leave them alone Beryl" ordered Sailor Venus as she walked a little bit closer.
"Go away! You'll get hurt!" panicked Duo.
Sailor Venus ignored him and kept her eyes focused on Queen Beryl. Queen Beryl turned towards Sailor Venus, "I had enough with this, Seven Shadows arise!"
Duo returned his eyes on Queen Beryl and watched his friends bodies in horror turn into four dark evil shadows, the other three appeared in the sky and landed safely next to the four Gundam Pilots.
Queen Serenity was watching near by, she was being protected by two Moon guards, she saw the Seven shadows appear.
"The Legendary Seven Shadow Warriors.." whispered the Queen with fear. She then took off leaving the guards running down the steps of the Kingdom.
"Your majesty! Don't go out there its dangerous!" called out one of the guards.
Queen Serenity turned around, "I have to protect my Kingdom!"
Queen Serenity kept running and running, "I'll use the crystal, I won't let the Seven shadows fight!" she thought as she was running. She finally made it next to the God of Death.
"Queen Serenity.." said Duo with a surprised look on his face.
"Queen Serenity! You shouldn't be out here you'll get hurt!" called out Sailor Venus.
Queen Serenity ignored the comments and pulled out the crescent moon wand. She looked up at Queen Beryl and the Seven Shadow Warriors.
"Perfect! I can get rid of the Queen and the God of Death!" laughed Queen Beryl, "Seven Shadows Attack!"
The dark Seven Shadows then charged at both the God of Death and Queen Serenity. Duo became nervous, "Heero! Trowa! Quatre! Wufei! Stop! Your being controlled!" he called out as he watched them heading towards him. Duo closed his eyes, but reopened them to hear, "Moon Healing Activation!" Moon dust was then sparkling all over the place, the Seven Shadows were crying in pain as they were being healed. The Moon power was so strong that it trapped them into different colored crystals each and with the wave of the crescent moon wand from the Queen, the crystals flew high into the sky and headed towards Earth.
Duo wasn't too happy about what had just happened, four of the crystals did have his friends in them. He looked up at the Queen with anger, "What did you do to them.." he whispered coldly.
"Huh?" replied Queen Serenity as she looked down at Duo. "WHAT DID YOU TO THEM?" he yelled on the top of his lungs. Queen Serenity backed away, "To whom?"
"My friends you idiot! You locked them into those crystals and sent them to Earth!" again yelled Duo almost screaming on the top of his lungs.
Queen Serenity rested her hand on Duo's shoulder, "They were healed with Moon power and are being sent to earth being re born. With normal lives. The crystal is held inside of their hearts."
This made Duo even more mad, "You mean you sent my friends spirits to Earth where they're going to be re born? With no memory whatsoever!"
Queen Serenity sadly nodded her head, Duo started to cry tears of anger once again, he threw his hands and body to the ground, "No" he whispered to himself quietly, he then looked up into the sky with tears rolling down his cheeks, "NOO!" he shouted on the top of his lungs. Queen Serenity looked down feeling teary eyed herself, and Sailor Venus just stood their with no emotion.