The two surprised senshi fell in silence for only a short time before Crystal Sailor Moon panicked and screamed, wailing until the darkness became alight with rainbow fires. A wall became visible, and a floor shortly after. Without thinking about it, Jupiter summoned her staff and took hold of Moon's arm. With a firm hold on both the leg and the staff, Jupiter stabbed the wall with the scythe. The began to slow down at the scythe cut into the stony wall. Finally, they came to a stop, and yet Moon continued to wail. "Moon!" Jupiter shouted. "We've stopped!"
Moon stopped wailing and looked around. "Oh, so we have." Jupiter rolled her eyes and let go. Moon yelped as she fell the few feet to the floor, landing on her back. Jupiter kicked herself off of the wall, pulling the scythe free and landing roughly beside Moon.
The two of them stood, Jupiter with much difficulty, and surveyed their surroundings. They were in a circular room with dark walls and no means of getting out. "Where are we?" Moon asked. Her voice, as soft as it had been, echoed off of the walls. As if in answer, muffled clanking and shouting arose. Moon squealed and slid behind Jupiter. "What is that?"
Jupiter looked around at the walls before speaking. "Friends, is that you?" she shouted. The muffled noises grew louder. "If it is you, stop making noises!" The noises then stopped. Jupiter smiled.
Crystal Moon stood up. "Amazons!" she shouted, "If you are here, each of you make one noise, going from Ceres to Juno to Pallas to Vesta!" One after another, four muffled shouts were heard. "They are here!" Moon said excitedly.
"I could have told you that, child," said a cold, raspy voice. The dark walls of the chamber suddenly lit up. Along the bottom of the wall, running in a half-moon shape, were a series of glass cells. Within each cell was a sailor senshi, including Sukotto in between Uranus and Pluto as well as a lady they did not recognize. The run of cells began and ended at a small flight of steps that led to a throne. Sitting at the throne was a woman in a black dress with dirty-blond hair that was layered in jagged rows. Standing to either side of the throne were the generals. Lady Ouranus and Chronos stood to the left; Herumesu and Zeusu stood to the right.
"It seems Zeusu has finally come through with one of his plans," the lady in the throne said. "With all of his failures, I was sure you would not show up. Of course, then I remembered that sailor senshi hold a bond and when one is in trouble, all will come to help and vice versa."
"You would know all about senshi bonds, now wouldn't you Sailor Seraphim," Crystal Moon said without question, her voice being cold and nasty.
The lady stood up looked evilly at Moon. Suddenly, her rage subsided and she sat back down. "Of course," she said. "A child from the future would know if this. I am no longer that weak child. I am no longer the duty-protecting sailor senshi who would put my life in the face of danger for love and justice. No, I am no longer that child. I am now the lady of darkness who will follow in Queen Beryl's footsteps! I am Mistress Star of the Black Sun Dynasty and no child or ghost will stop me!"
"Well, no child or ghost will stop you today," Jupiter said with a step forward. "Rather, two sailor senshi, neither children nor ghosts, will put an end to your reign of terror!"
"But that is the beauty of it," Mistress Star said. "You two are senshi, yes, but you are still and ghost and she is still a child." She smirked. "Perhaps you have not heard the prophecy of the child of the future and the ghost of the past? Yes, that is it. Allow me to educate you. The child of the future and the ghost of the past are two senshi destined to travel across time to battle an evil terrorizing the future of the ghost and the past of the child. I am that terror. You can obviously see who is the ghost and who is the child"
Jupiter and Moon looked at each other. "I have a past life," Jupiter whispered. "I was reborn on Earth. I am the ghost..."
"...And I am the child of the future," Moon said. Then she smiled. The looked at Mistress Star and said, "In that case, we really will put an end to your reign of terror!"
Mistress Star smiled. "I have taken precautions to prevent this," she said. "While it may have been prophesied that I take into my command the resurrected spirits of ancient rulers, I have had a spice added." She pointed one finger lazily behind the two senshi. They turned and looked up. Above the cells of Eternal Moon and Keeper Venus was a general that looked to me no more than a mere child. "His name is Ashi," Mistress Star explained. "He was unable to awaken the remaining power of Queen Beryl and so brought me to it. He manipulated Ahurodite's reborn life to lead her to the seal. She broke it, unleashing the power and allowing me to absorb it. He brought the rest of the resurrected spirits to me and in return asked only to be made the most powerful general."
The general called Ashi smiled and jumped from his perch, landing mere feet in front of Jupiter and Moon. "It is a pleasure to meet you," he said. His childlike voice sounded unnaturally course. "It is also a pleasure to destroy both prophecy and destiny." A flame erupted from his hand and turned into a fiery whip. He snapped it at Moon's feet, making her jump back.
"Moon, try to free the others," Jupiter whispered. "I'll handle the kid."
"No," Moon said. "You free your friends. That is what you came here to do. I'll take the kid." Jupiter sighed and nodded, running to the nearest cells. She then ran directly at Sailor Neptune's cell and brought her scythe down on the glass. It connected and made an awful screech, but the glass showed no result.
Meanwhile, Moon was dodging the blows of the whip while Ashi laughed maniacally. "You dance funny!" he shouted as he continued. Then the whip wrapped around Moon's arm. It burned through her glove and into her skin before it loosened. Moon gripped her arm in pain.
"You want to play rough?" she said in a cocky voice. "All right, I'm game!" She put her hands palm to palm. As she pulled them apart, a glowing golden beam appeared. She pulled them apart quicker and quicker until the golden beam floated on its own. The gripped on end with her right hand. As she did, the beam turned into a thin silver blade embedded with twelve different-colored stones. Around her hand appeared the handle. The hilt was gold and embedded with four gems, each being either red, pink, blue, or green. "Bring it on!" Moon yelled as she twirled the sword expertly. The fiery whip turned into a fiery sword. Ashi smirked and charged at Moon. Moon charged, too, meeting him half-way. The sword clashed again and again. Ashi's height gave him no disadvantage, but rather an advantage as twice he slid between Moon's legs.
At the glass cells, Jupiter tried again and again to strike them with her scythe but it was no good. "You'll never get in that way," said a voice. Jupiter looked up. Standing on top of Neptune's glass cell was Lady Ouranus and General Chronos. Chronos jumped and tackled Jupiter, pinning her to the glass floor.
"You'll pay for murdering our sister," Chronos growled. Jupiter kicked him, sending him flying into Neptune's cell.
"Your sister?" Jupiter said as she stood. Ouranus came up behind her and grabbed her shoulders, spinning her once and throwing her across the circular room. Jupiter hit Mercury's cell with a crack that left her numb. She turned her eyes to see Ouranus coming down on her. Her ice blue nails were growing into lethal daggers. Jupiter, unable to move, closed her eyes. Before Ouranus could strike, Jupiter was swept up. Ouranus' nails struck the glass of Mercury's cell, going straight through. Ouranus took no notice as she pulled her nails from the glass, but Mercury did.
Jupiter opened her eyes and saw Crystal Sailor Moon running. "Aren't you glad I came along?" she asked. She stopped abruptly and spun on her left heel. The two watched as Ashi, Ouranus, and Chronos approached. They backed up until Moon's back hit one of the glass cells. She put Jupiter down and pulled her sword out of nowhere. Jupiter was facing the cell and saw Sukotto. There were tears in his eyes. As a twinge of feeling, primarily pain, crept back into her arms, Jupiter placed a hand on the glass. Sukotto placed his hand on the glass as well, lining his up with hers.
Moon took a defensive stance as the three approached. Then Moon smiled. She swung her sword up and held it there a moment. Then she yelled, "Scorpio Poison Crush!" She swung it back down at the three of them with a crushing force. From the blade spilled an ocean of water that was tinted red. Ouranus and Ashi leapt out of the way, landing on the row of glass cells. Chronos summoned a violet barrier to stop the water, but the water broke through and swallowed him up. Then the water disappeared, leaving a badly-burned Chronos on the glass floor. He was screaming in pain as it became clear to the rest of the senshi: The water was poisonous, as its name suggested. Ouranus leaped down to Chronos, but didn't dare to touch him. He withered in pain until suddenly, he stopped screaming. His burned and bloody body fell limp before bursting into flames.
It was easy to see the surprise on Mistress Star's face. She was leaning in to get a better look. Zeusu and Herumesu looked equally surprised. Crystal Sailor Moon leaned her sword against her shoulder and said, "Next!" Ouranus reached her shaky hands toward the burnt glass before tightening them into white fists. With a sobbing scream, she spun herself around to glare at Crystal Moon.
"Stand down, Ouranus," Mistress Star said. She stood and descended the steps. "Leave and heal your wounds. Zeusu, Herumesu, Ashi; you three may leave as well." Ouranus bowed and disappeared. Zeusu disappeared as well. Herumesu and Ashi remained. "So, the pretty soldier thinks she can destroy one of my generals and get away with it." Star looked over at Venus, and then at Jupiter, whose arms had fallen limp. "Venus and Jupiter will meet the same fate you will: A torturous and slow death, courtesy of Lady Ouranus"
"You can keep dreaming, lady," Moon said as she spun her sword, turning it to be upside down. "That is all those things will be: dreams." She swung her sword up and shouted, "Pisces Ebbing Tide!" As she brought it down, a tidal wave of water crashed down. It violently attacked Star again and again, and yet she did not move from her stop. The water merely swished her dress and hair around and nothing more. The water disappeared, leaving Crystal Sailor Moon in shock.
"Your attacks will be powerless on me," she said. "I was born of the stars. The powers of the Zodiac will not effect me."
"Then I'll try this!" Moon shouted as she took how of her tiara with her index finger and thumb. It came off and turned into a golden disc. "Moon Tiara Crystal Action!" She threw the tiara at Mistress Star like a frisbee. Star smacked it with her hand, sending it fling into another direction.
"You are powerless against me," Star said. She held up her hand to Moon. Before she did more, the shattering of glass echoed through the chamber. Star spun around to see the glass wall to Sailor Keeper Mercury's cell fall to the floor. The tiara was now crashing through the walls that separated the cells from one another, freeing the senshi one by one.
Mercury jumped out of her cell and shouted, "Mercury Snow and Ice!" The chamber became a blizzard. Herumesu jumped into the air and summoned large ice spears. He sent them at Mercury, tearing through her. She fell into a bloody heap, shaking yet numb. Sailor Star Healer jumped to her aid and shouted, "Star Sensitive Inferno!" The attack slammed Herumesu into a glass cell on the other side of the room, shattering it. Healer looked surprised at the sudden power in her attack.
From the shattered cell emerged Soldier Saturn. Dosei Danbira in hand, she shouted, "Saturn Death Ribbon Waltz!" The attack snaked its way toward Mistress Star and it would have taken her but Star Prism interfered. She sent her own attack at Saturn's, destroying it. "What the Hell did you do that for!" she shouted.
"Don't kill her!" Prism shouted. "Eternal Sailor Moon, you must heal her!" Eternal Moon nodded as the blizzard subsided.
Herumesu grabbed Saturn by her throat and lifted her into the air, but Uranus and Pluto stepped behind him, staff and sword both shoved into his back.
"Uranus Space Sword Blaster!" Sailor Uranus shouted, lifting her sword and swiping it at his back.
"Pluto Keystone Chime!" Pluto shouted at the same time. Both attack connected with his back at the same time, disintegrating him in an instant, letting Soldier Saturn fall to the floor unharmed..
Mistress Star had been busy defending herself from Crystal Moon's sword and Keeper Mars' fire, but took high notice of Herumesu's demise. She watched him disappear and with a horrible, sobbing scream, she fell to her knees. Crystal Moon placed the blade of her sword to Star's neck. Across the room, Ashi was dueling Sailor Neptune and Sailor Star Maker. When he saw the sword to Star's neck, he disappeared in a burst of fire.
The senshi gathered around the weeping mistress. Sukotto was knelt beside Jupiter just feet away, holding her hand. The group couldn't see her, but a choked cry from Sukotto confirmed the fear some of them held: She was dead. Keeper Mars knelt beside her brother, her back to everyone as well. She wrapped her arms around his shoulders to comfort him. As she did, a faint glow surrounded Jupiter's body. The two of them stood and backed away. Jupiter's body faded away, leaving nothing behind.
Star Prism looked at Crystal Moon and Eternal Moon and asked, "Do you have the power of healing?"
"Yes," they both replied sadly.
"Good," Prism said. "Either of you must heal Mistress Star. She must be healed of the evil that poisoned her."
"Why should we!" Keeper Pluto asked angrily.
"Because she is Sailor Seraphim, one of three star senshi of a trinity of power," Prism explained. She looked at Star. "Do you still have the crystal?" Star did not respond. Prism bent down and grasped Star by the shoulders. "Do you still have the crystal?" She looked into Star's eyes and sighed. "She is broken. Obviously she was in love with Herumesu. Crystal Moon or Eternal Moon, please heal her."
"I'll do it," Eternal Sailor Moon said. She held out her staff and yelled, "Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss!" The light from the staff washed over Mistress Star. Almost immediately, the black dress began to glow. It turned into a glowing sailor uniform. The uniform then turned into civilian clothing. The blue diamond on Star's forehead had disappeared and her pink eyes seemed to be refreshed. Star's eyes closed and she fell forward. Prism caught her and sighed.
"Welcome back, Seraphim."