Serena and the girls filled the back benches to watch the dance performance. Raye and the twins didn't notice Vanessa, Victor, and the Alexs walk in and sit near the front.
"I wonder if this is where mom learned to dance?" Sara asked herself and Reeny.
Mina looked up, before looking between the twins, girls, and Arianna wondering if anyone else heard the child slip up. Mina relaxed when she heard the upbeat hip/hop music the dance group was doing a routine on.
"We're attacking when the song is done." Vanessa said to everyone.
The three nodded in agreement.
As the girls were using their finally moves, Tony opened his mouth.
"Hey Reeny that girl has the same hair style as--" he started, before his sister screamed, then burst into tears.
Vanessa and Victor sighed, but the Alexs took no time and transformed into Gem and Mione the blue and red monsters.
The crowd screamed and tried to run away, but Vanessa used all of the spheres made by Roxna to stop the panicked people.
The Sailor Scouts were transforming when Arianna was hit with the gun they used on Neo Queen Arianna. Mione grabbed the star seed and blinked out with the rest. The crowd was still in the spheres being drained of their energy, and Reeny and the twins were hiding under the bleachers. The scouts couldn't even say their speeches because they were too speechless from what just happened.
King Darien, trying to control Queen Arianna's life gasp as he watched her fade away.
"No!" he screamed.
King Dean ran into the room from the hallway to see his wife and mother of his children fade away in his friend's arms. "Gods no!" he screamed and ran to her fading side.
He looked up searching for something in the Earth Protector's pale face. All he could find was a lost soul.
"Guys!" Star cried out to the group, holding Arianna's already fading body.
"No!" Courage cried.
"Arianna." the others cried out.
Reeny tried to hold the twins back while calling Sailor Pluto with DB but they got away. Serena and Mercury saw the kids run to their fallen friend and grabbed them trying to hid them from the scene. Soon Mercury and Sailor Moon weren't holding onto the twins anymore, they disappeared.
"What can we do?" Sailor Yang asked everyone ringing her gloved hands.
Everyone looked hopeless, except Star Dust who was searching her mind for something.
"Lend her your powers." she said. "She'll be a ghost without her star seed but at least she'll be with us."
"How could we do this?" Nemesis asked.
"Just accept your powers to her, belive in her." Sailor Moon whispered, tears brimming around her eyes.
The four nodded and closed their eyes. Their auras of purple, yellow, black, and white, glowed about them, their coloured lights flowed into their fallen leader. Sara and Tony soon came back as translucent shadows, and were able to be held. Arianna became solid but had a far away look in her eyes. Everyone sighed, the unknown sailors were in normal clothes and looked exhausted.
Arianna just sat up and looked at everyone blankly. The twins were bawling their eyes out.
"Guys." Cera gasped out. "The people, they're still trapped."
The scouts looked around, Uranus's grey face brightened slightly before slicing open all the spheres with the help of Tuxedo Mask's roses.
"Good job." the Sovereign smiled at what was left of his group looking at the Light's star seed.
The group murmured thank-yous before looking expectantly at their leader.
"You'll all be rewarded for your help." he smirked before blowing up all the witches into dust, their star seeds floating where they were just standing. He released the rest of the seeds from their jars, and ate all the seeds that were before him leaving the Light's for the last.
He transformed into a huge blue dragon, and laughed evilly before going out to destroy Tokyo and take over the world.
The scouts ran out of the building, Mini Moon joining the group and looked out at the damage being bestowed to the city.
"This doesn't look good guys." Jupiter said, surveying the damage the blue dragon was making.
"Yeah I would say that," Star Dust said from behind Tuxedo Mask. "though I'm hoping that is not the king of the zodiac..."
"Zodiac King?" Saturn asked, looking at Star.
"Husband to Cassandra, turned evil and controlled half the kingdom." Star said looking nervously at the dragon circling the city.
"That doesn't help much." Venus said.
"And how are we getting him down here?" Mars asked. "Our powers can't get up that high."
"Well can't Sailor Moon or don't those wings work?" Star asked slowly coming from behind Tuxedo Mask looking at Sailor Moon.
"These?" Sailor Moon looked at her wings. "They're not built for altitude."
"Isn't this just dandy?"
"Hey Dragon!" Mini Moon called up to the skies. "Get down here, we want a fair fight."
The Sovereign growled and swooped over the Sailor Scouts. The scouts held their ground.
"Do you think 'Sailor Transportation' will work?" Venus asked.
"Right!" Jupiter said.
The scouts gathered into a circle and started to call out their power.
"Wait!" a woman called out through the chaos.
"What you're going to do won't work!" another woman's voice yelled.
Sailor Pluto and Sora ran up to the scouts.
"He's emortal now, he's taken Ari's Star Seed. Your attack won't work on him." Sora said, with anger in her voice.
"Well then what are we suppose to do?" Uranus asked now getting impatient.
"I don't know, it would have been great if we still had the Phoenix." Sora sighed, feeling like her work has gone down the drain.
"What?" the scouts cried out confused, feeling helpless.
"Phoenix, birth right of the royal people of Nemesis." Sora growled. "And by the time Galaxia comes, I suppose our future will be finished."
"Why Galaxia? Arianna is still here..." Tuxedo Mask said, not too sure if Ari was fit to fight.
"What do you mean?" Sora said, her growl was less intense.
"Nemesis and the others gave their power to Arianna so she could live until we get her seed back." Sailor Moon explained.
"That's what it was?" Pluto sounded kind of relieved. "There was a huge positive shift in the time stream, I was wondering what had happened."
The scouts didn't look that much better off.
"So Arianna is alive?" Sora asked.
They nodded and the dog ran toward the building where Arianna was.
"Some of us should try to hold off the dragon, while the others try and help Sora." Pluto told everyone.
Uranus, Venus, Mercury, Star Dust, and Tuxedo Mask went back into the building. The five ran into the building to see the young twins still crying, holding onto Arianna. As they neared the scene they heard what the Twins were crying, 'Mommy, don't leave!' They looked at each other before going in to try and help.
"Is it worse than we thought?" Mercury asked.
"She's not responding." Sora growled.
DB started to glow, before it broke apart to revealed another star seed. Then it put itself together again. The seed floated to Arianna and hovered in front of her chest.
Everyone gasped, the twins backed off.
An identical shadow form of Arianna was kneeling in front of her and it whispered with a smile, "Let our light shine."
The seed shone brighter, and Arianna's pendant floated in between the two. The seed was absorbed into the crystal and an explosion of fire enveloped the half dead 15 year old. She was now the fire, and you could still tell who she was.
Everyone's eyes grew twice their normal size.
"She's on fire!" Uranus cried out.
"She's the Phoenix." Sora said solemnly.
Arianna, now the Phoenix walked out of the building and saw the dragon. The rest of the scouts stared at their friend who was engulfed in fire.
"Phoenix!" she cried out, her voice almost unearthly.
A huge fire bird was burning a hole in the concrete. It took off to the sky to meet the huge blue dragon.
"Back off from Earth." it said angrily, it's voice echoing into the air.
The dragon started to laugh manically.
"I'm am the Phoenix, I protect the innocence and strength of a planet. You have desecrated this world, and my heart." it screamed, sending chills down the spines of those who were listening. "Now I warn you again, back off from Earth or else."
"You have nothing against me!" the dragon growled.
The fire bird squawked before flying higher and then diving at the dragon.
The scouts below watched helplessly but with hope at the fight above them.
The fight was heard almost half way across the world, with the legendary creatures growling and attacking each other. Fire and ice were being exchanged destroying the city. Soon Phoenix was obviously tiring out, it's flame not as red and it wasn't flying as high. When the Phoenix crashed to the ground finally and the dragon came down on top to kill her. Sailor Moon couldn't take it anymore and took out her tial and asked the scouts to attack the monster together. The attack just brought sparks upon the dragon. Sailor Moon screamed as Phoenix's light was fading out, and Arianna was in plain sight.
"Guys!" Sailor Moon yelled to the others. "we have to do something!"
"Let's also give our powers to her." Saturn offered, flinching as the dragon was trying to get to the 'heart' of the bird.
The sailor scouts' glowed their respective auras before part of their magic flowed into the fire bird. The bird's flame intensified to a white glow, and it's eyes glowed a dangerous red. It yelled, and flipped the dragon off it's breast. The bird flew high into the sky before throwing massive fire balls at the blue dragon who screamed in agony when he got hit. The bird flew down and caught it in it's white hot talons, and brought it up into the sky. It squeezed it's talons until dark light exploded from the dragon, it screamed in agony but the Phoenix's song over wrote the scream of pain. White light joined the dark, the lights were so bright the people on the ground had to cover their eyes. Soon there was an explosion of true white light and the dragon dissipated leaving behind 12 shinney lights and a small girl. They came back to earth fast, and the sailor scouts ran to where they thought Arianna might land.
Arianna landed in a pile of rubble protected by 12 star seeds, including her own.
"Is she alright?" Venus asked.
Tuxedo picked her up to carry her to a better place, but 11 of the stars' Sailor shadows awakened.
"Wow, what happened?" Sailor Aquarius, Arial, asked everyone.
"How about, where are we?" Sailor Taurus, Ty, over wrote Arial.
"Oh my word! You guys are the Milkyway Sailor Scouts!" Sailor Libra, Lindsay, squealed.
"So we're on Earth? But were we not on Planet Z?" Sailor Scorpio, Stephan, said.
"I don't remember." Sailor Cancer, Caleb, said.
"Oh no! Is she dead?" Sailor Geminis, Alexis and Alexandria, asked Tuxedo Mask together who was still holding Arianna.
The solar sailor scouts were lost for words.
"You don't remember anything?" Pluto asked.
"Because you were the ones who helped make this mess." Uranus accused.
"No." Darius, Sailor Aries, said. "How... how could we?"
"Yeah like our powers aren't..." Libra started until she took a good look at her friends and saw right through them. She screamed.
"What!" Sailor Virgo, Victor, screamed back at her.
"We're dead." she said, feeling very woozy.
"Huh, so we are." Cancer said, looking down at himself.
"Well we're going to be dead for a while so let's just help out Sailor Moon." Sailor Sagittarius, Sashi, said.
They all nodded.
"So what do you need?" Aries, the leader of the group asked the Solar Sailor Scouts.
"Her star seed." Moon choked out.
Vanessa, Sailor Leo, turned around and found the seed floating behind them and took it. She handed it to Sailor Moon who slid it back into Arianna. Another bright light shone around her and the scouts' powers exited her and again Neo Queen Arianna was standing in front of everyone.
"Well now that The Phoenix has awaken, I guess my job is done. But I have one more thing, Sailors of the Zodiac I'd like to give you another chance at life. Since I am related to Sailor Galaxia I am able to send Star Seeds back to where they belong, so what do you say?"
"Oh could you!" Sailor Pisces, Patrick, asked almost jumping for joy.
"Yes, now I just want to find my twins. I know they were protecting me from Evil." Queen Arianna said, and walked quickly through the rubble to where her children waited nervously.
All the scouts followed her.
"Ari?" Cera asked looking up at the look-a-like with long red blond hair.
"Mommy!" the young twins screamed, and ran to the shadow of their mom. "We missed you so much."
"I know." the shadow said with a slight smile.
Once Dean saw Tuxedo Mask carrying Ari, he went up to take her from him.
"I will now grant your wish," Queen Arianna said, turning to everyone, "then we may all go home." Once again the bright pure light flashed, and only one star seed remained.
Pluto pressed DB's nose and it once again sealed the queen's star seed. Arianna started to wake up in Dean's arms, and almost panicked.
"What happened?" she looked around at the half beaten sailor scouts.
"It's okay, don't worry." Sailor Moon said as nicely as possible.
Dean kissed her forehead as she looked up to see his eyes were brimmed with tears.
"I missed another fight didn't I?" Ari said with a small laugh looking at Pluto. Pluto just laughed with tears and came over to hug the child.
"Well we better get going." Pluto said, holding onto the twins' hands. "Reeny are you staying for a bit longer?"
Reeny looked over the exhausted Sailor Scouts. "Yeah, I think I'll stay."
"Bye!" the young twins yelled at the others waving their hands wildly.
"Bye." Reeny smiled hugging each of the twins. "See ya in the future."
Everyone waved off Pluto, Sara and Tony as they left back for the time gates with D.B.
"So, what did happen?" Arianna asked after everyone detransformed.
"You don't want to know." Mina sighed, wanting to go to bed.
"But you now can turn into the protector of Nemesis, The Phoenix." Sora smiled.
"Really!" Ari smiled brightly. "but I still missed everything."
"Not really, Ari, it was just a lot of white light from where we sat." Cera said.
"Yeah, we didn't see much detail of the fight because of that." Raye said.
"And you didn't miss anything, you were the fight." Lita said squeezing Ari's shoulders.
"But, but I missed it." Ari pouted and sat in Dean's lap.
"It's okay Ari, you'll be alive and conscious for the next fight." Aleisha said.
"Leisha!" Adam gave her a death glare.
"Well anyway, does this mean the big bads are done coming and we can go home?" Aleisha asked.
"Of course you can go home," Serena said, "but I have a feeling we're not done with the evils in the universe."
"Well then, when we graduate from high school, we're moving here." Aleisha said, ignoring her brother's complaining.
Arianna smiled tiredly as well as everyone else.
"Let's go home." Serena said, picking herself up.
"Fine but when I wake up could someone please tell me the details of the fight?" Ari asked, holding onto Dean for balance.
"Sure." Dean said as he held her up until she was steady on her feet.
"Alright, be sure to e-mail us some time." Leisha said and hugged everyone good-bye. Adam got up and shook everyone's hand and left with his sister.
Arianna was having a rough sleep once she got to Michelle and Haruka's apartment. She tossed and turned as her memory replayed the fight what happened just less than an hour ago. Right before she turned into the Phoenix, she was staring at two women who looked very similar to herself. One had blue eyes with red hair and blond tips, the other woman had bright green eyes with blond hair and red tips. Both were wearing the same coloured dress but the one with green eyes had long flowy sleeves, than the other with short slit-ed sleeves. The blue eyed look-a-like smiled while the other one whispered "Let our light shine." and she changed into the Phoenix. She felt surges of power as she battled the dragon, and when her life source finally gave out she was being protected by a man surrounded by a yellow light. He held onto her as she descended, and whispered encouragements to keep her life shimmering. When her dream self woke up her real-self woke up with it, only to see the rising sun's rays in her eyes. The same feeling and picture of a safe golden kingdom came to mind. She snuggled further into her covers and enjoyed the moment.
(Author's note): so this is the end... I guess. hee... I'm never sure how to end stories. I'm thinking on doing another sequel story. If anyone is interested in me posting that or somehow finish the Fanfic better... please tell me, thanks.