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She Who Must Stand Alone Chapter 28
Tuxedomask gritted is teeth, biting back the cry of pain that sprang to his lips as she sunk her hard thick nails deeper into his chest. The pain was excruciating but it was the least of his worries. He was cold and clammy and his vision had begun to blur, leading him to the realization that his body was going into shock. Which meant that he didn't have much time to think of a way out of this mess. He had to think and fast before his body gave out and he lost consciousness.
The situation wasn't good. Her strength was constant and unwavering as his was swiftly depleting. His left wrist was now numb, making it even harder to keep his grip on her arms. But then again it didn't seem to be helping matters anyway, as it didn't seem to be stopping her from sinking her nails into his chest.
Perhaps he was fooling himself, in thinking that anything he did would matter, or change the outcome, but he couldn't bring himself to lower his hands. To do so would be admitting defeat, and he was damned if he was going to surrender without a fight. It didn't matter that the odds were against him; he still refused to give up. He had to much to fight for, too much to live for.
His thoughts drifted towards Serena. Serena? Was she all right? Had the danger he sensed her in passed? Or was she even now waiting for him to save her? No. Tuxedomask shook his head. He couldn't think about that right now; if he did, he'd lose it.
If he was going to help Serena he first had to figure away to keep this psychotic woman from tearing his heart out.
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With the care of a prey that knows it's being stalked by a dangerous predator Sailormoon remained frozen in place, not moving, not even daring to breath, afraid that even the tiniest of movements would cause him to pounce
She wanted to run she wanted to scream but she knew that panicking now was the worst thing she could do. She knew that to survive she needed to keep her wits about her. Ever so slowly she let out the breath she had been holding. Ignoring the loud buzzing in her ears and the over-loud pounding of her heart she looked straight ahead, straining her eyes in an effort to see anything. But it was no use, even with her enhanced vision she couldn't penetrate the dense blackness of the mist. She'd never see him until he was right on top of her, and the realization let her feeling exposed and extremely vulnerable.
She still didn't understand how he had managed to get in front of her but that hardly mattered at the moment, the fact of the matter was that he had and now she had to deal with it. She couldn't see but maybe she could use her other senses to find him, leaving only one problem. What was she going to do once she found him?
She had no plan, no strategy coming into the mist other then finding her friends and getting them out of here. And now she could only pray that she had succeeded. Either way she was no alone with the creature, which inhabits the mist.
"I warned you of what could happen if you came here," he said suddenly causing Sailormoon to shiver "Your friends are safe, which hardly matters as they no longer matter to me. Only you do, and the precious energy you possess. I do regret the timing; I had so looked forward to our battle. I'm truly sorry it has to end this way; I know you would have been glorious. Now I'm afraid this is the end of our association. There will be no stopping us now; we hunger and we must appease that hunger."
Sailormoon didn't bother to respond as anger began replacing the fear that she had felt and which up until now had kept her immobile. Although she was grateful that her friends were safe, she just couldn't believe what she was hearing. He was sorry, only he wasn't sorry for nearly killing her friends or even for what he planned to do to her. No, he was sorry because he was disappointed that the great battle he had envisioned between them could never be. Why? Because he didn't deem her strong enough to stand up to him and actually stand a chance of surviving, at least long enough to give him a descent work out as he never expected her to actually beat him.
This sudden knowledge and understanding of the creature before her gave sailormoon a sense of power. As the adrenaline pumped through her body she felt a strange calm settle over her. And amazingly a smile graced her lips. If he thought she was going down without a fight, then he was about to be in for a very nasty surprise.
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"We can't just stand here and do nothing." Jupiter cried
"I know" Mars agreed Although they had no idea what was waiting for them inside the mist they couldn't remain out here and do nothing, not when there was even the slightest of chances that there friends needed them. "Let's go"
They both took off running towards the mist, only to pull up short when they noticed that something or someone was coming out. When they saw that it was Mercury and Venus they both let out cries of relief. But there relief was short lived when they saw the condition that they were in, and how heavily Venus was leaning on Mercury.
"Are you alright?" Jupiter asked in concern as she moved in to take Venus's weight off Mercury. Sliding an arm around Venus's waist Jupiter pulled her body up against hers and then placed Venus's arm around her neck.
Venus leaned against Jupiter, grateful for her friends support. She was still a little weak in the knees after her encounter with the mist and she needed more time to regain her strength.
She looked over her shoulder at the mist as Jupiter and Mars led her and Mercury away from it, and knew that time was something that they didn't have. They had to go back for Serena, she was alone in the mist and not knowing what was happening to her was enough to make her want to scream and cry at the same time.
They never should have left her behind. They should thought of something or done something to make her come with them. Now that they'd found the others they could go back in after her. Only? She shook her head. As much as she hated to admit it she was in know condition to go rescuing anybody, knowing that she'd be more of a hindrance to them and Serena then of much help, hurt her more then anything ever could.
"Where's Sailormoon?" Mars asked suddenly. She had been watching the mist, anxiously waiting for Sailormoon to exit behind them, but as each second past she began to get more anxious, she had a bad feeling in her gut and now that Sailormoon was appearing she feared the worst.
Mercury looked at them with sober eyes, eyes that told there own story, and which let them know that they were not going to like what they were about to hear. "We left her behind. We didn't have a choice," she explained at their shocked gasps.
"What do you mean you didn't have a choice? What the hell happened in there?" Jupiter barked angrily not believing what she was hearing. There had to be some sort of mistake. She knew that Mercury and Venus would never leave Sailormoon behind, not for any reason.
Mercury shook her head tiredly. Slowly as if each word she spoke pained her as she began telling them what happened, leaving nothing out she started from when she and Venus first encountered the mist.
The others were quiet throughout Mercury's telling of the story, nobody interrupted although they all longed to ask questions. No one interrupted her because they all desired to know what happened as quickly as possible. When she was done there was complete silence as each of them struggled to understand and comprehend everything that she had told them.
Mars was shaken by what Mercury had revealed, and a dozen questions lingered on the tip of her tongue, questions that for the moment went unasked. As much as she longed for answers, they would have to wait. She didn't need to know right now how Sailormoon became filled with that strange energy again or what made her stay behind instead of trying to escape with the others. Right now all that mattered was finding Sailormoon and getting her out of that place.
"Is Sailormoon wearing her communicator?" She looked over at Mercury "If you found us by tracking Jupiter's communicator, then we should be able to track Sailormoon through hers."
Mercury nodded her head. "We can do that but finding her want be the problem" she cautioned "Once inside we'll be blind and I don't know how much help we'll be once we find her."
"It doesn't matter." Jupiter replied hotly "We can't just sit by and do nothing and hope for the best. Not when what happened to you could be happening to Sailormoon as we speak."
"I'll stay here." Venus said quietly she looked at the others with pained eyes. "Once inside you'll need to find your way out. I'll stay behind and you can track me through my communicator."
Mars looked over at the two Sasha's who were still passed out on the ground and wondered how much longer they would be out, the last thing they needed was another complication. "We're not leaving you behind."
"I'm in no shape to be of any use. And we don't know what kind of condition Sailormoon will be in once you find her. You don't need both of us to worry about."
"Leaving you out here by yourself with those two is out of the question we don't know how much longer they'll be out and we can't take the risk. At least inside you'll have us watching your back. And" she continued when it looked like Venus was about to continue arguing "If you stay out here where just going to worry about you, in your condition you wont have a chance against both of them, and that will only distract us from finding Sailormoon and getting her out of there."
"Mars is right we can't leave you out here alone you. You have to come with us."
"But then how will we find our way out? "
Jupiter took off her communicator and dropped it onto the ground. That took care of that problem, now they just had to hope that nothing happened to it while they were inside.
"That takes care of that, now lets go."
"The mist" Mercury cried suddenly, "It's disappearing."
Everyone stood there for a moment to shocked to react as they saw that mercury was right the mist was rapidly dissipating before there eyes.
"Sailormoon" they cried as one and began running towards the mist. But it was too late. In mere seconds it was gone as if it had never been.
"No!"
"What are you going to do?"
"She's gone"
"We'll never find her now."
Mercury sank to her knees shaking her head frantically. She couldn't believe what was happening. Sailormoon couldn't be gone she just couldn't be. Taking out her mini computer she starting pounding away at the keys telling herself that this was a trick that it was still there and they just couldn't see it. She wasn't leaving her behind again.
"There has to be something we can do." Mars barked harshly while fighting back tears. She refused cry. It would mean that she'd given up hope and that was something that she'd never do. There had to be something she could do.
Mercury dismissed what her mini computer was saying. The mist was really gone but an idea on how to track sailormoon came to her and she focused on that and not on the possibility of never seeing her again.
On reflex she tried her communicator but got no reading so either she was too far away or something was interfering. Okay think Mercury how else can we track her, how else can we reach her. "Of course" she cried and mentally began beating her head against a wall. She should have thought of it right away.
"What? What is it?"
"Did you find something?"
"Have you located her?"
"No, but Darien can" she looked at them with slight desperate eyes. "He did it once before, he can do it again." She began to track him with her mini computer. It was there only chance. She had witnessed the mists powers, experienced its hunger and felt the pain of its embrace and the thought of Serena going through all that because of her was almost enough to break her. The only thing that kept her going was the knowledge that Serena needed her; she couldn't afford to fall apart now.
Mars frowned. It's true that Darien had managed to make contact with Serena had first been taking but there was an obvious flaw in this plan, one that she was sure the other realized as well, but no one wanted to say aloud. The fact was that when Darien had reached Serena the last time he himself had become entrapped by the dark mist, and only by feeding him there energy had they managed to keep him alive. He couldn't help Serena then and too this day they still didn't know how Serena had managed to find her way back.
By sending Darien after her again they could be placing him in danger as well. But she didn't say so because she knew it didn't matter as Darien wouldn't have it any other way, he would go after Serena with or without there help. She wondered why he wasn't here he should have been here by now. Suddenly uneasy feeling in her gut flared. Oh no. She had thought that whatever she was feeling was related to Sailormoon she never thought that something could be wrong with Darien. But there was no mistaken it now, this sick feeling she had in her gut had nothing to do with Sailormoon, it was Darien who was in peril. "Where could he be?" she wondered aloud
Jupiter slapped herself on the head "I can't believe I forgot." She shot them an apologetic look. "Sailormoon and I separated because we learned that there were now three Sasha's instead of one."
"Three?" they exclaimed and looked over at the two Sasha's laying comatose on the ground. There was another one still out there?
Jupiter nodded her head. "One was fighting Venus, one went after Mars and the other one went after Tuxedomask."
"You don't think something happened to him do you?" Venus asked in concern
"I have a bad feeling about him." Mars admitted
"Could he be trapped in the mist as well?" Jupiter asked, "I mean Sailormoon went after Darien and she showed up here without him. Maybe that's because he's in the mist as well"
"She didn't mention Darien being trapped in the mist." Mercury remarked and fought back a shiver at the memory of being trapped in that place. She never imagined pain like that and never wanted to experience it again. "I'll see if I can locate him through my mini computer.
"How do you plan to do that?" Venus asked, "He doesn't have a communicator."
"We really should think about getting him one." Jupiter grumbled. And the others heartily agreed
It's true that I can't locate him the way I located Jupiter but there is another way." Her fingers flew over the keys. "If he is fighting another Sasha then they both will be giving off tremendous amounts of energy."
"You're a genius," Venus cried leaning down to see watch her work.
Jupiter grunted and shifted her weight to accommodate her.
"Sorry." She quirked "If we can trace a fiend giving off negative energy then we should be able to locate Tuxedomask by tracking his energy signal."
"I found him" Mercury announced, "Oh no, this is not good"
"What is it?" Mars demanded anxiously
"I found him alright but the amount of negative energy that the Sasha he must be fighting is giving off is more powerful then the other two Sasha's combined."
"Your right that's not good." Jupiter said, they had a problem dealing with just one Sasha and barely managed to knock those two unconscious she couldn't imagine how he was doing by himself against such power.
"Where is he? Venus asked anxiously
"He's not far from here, he's only a couple blocks away but we'd better hurry." ................................
Sasha felt the tension in the body under hers, noticing the pallor of his skin she felt a twinge of disappoint. It looked as if her fun was in danger of being cut short. His strength was waning and it didn't look liked he'd last much longer. Oh well she had promised him a slow painful death and although she usually enjoyed breaking her word almost as much as she enjoyed breaking other things it looked like she would have to speed things along a bit and smiling sunk her nails deeper into his chest.
She felt him flinch any yet still not one sound of pain passed his lips. It amazed her, his high threshold for pain, as well as his single-minded determination not to give into it. It was a shame that his body was failing him; she would have enjoyed playing with him further. But before the end before the last breath left his body leaving behind a cold shell she would break him. He would meet his end but not before his cries of pain and desolation caressed her ears.
Smiling down at him with a wicked gleam in her eye she took him by surprise when she suddenly jerked her hand free of his chest.
Tuxedomask gasped, his back arching as he struggled with the unexpected pain that one move had inflicted. His hands flopped uselessly by his side.
Sasha enjoyed his reaction but it was still not the one she desired. She wanted him howling in pain, reveling in agony and begging her to stop. Raising her hand in front of his face, she clicked her nails together, making an ominous sound.
Tuxedomask watched her unblinkingly. His determination to thwart her to the end and deny her what she truly desired was the only thing he had left to fight her with.
Sasha sneered at this display. Leaning over him she whispered menacingly in his ear. "You will scream for me, I promise you that. You... will... scream."
She Who Must Stand Alone Chapter 28
Tuxedomask gritted is teeth, biting back the cry of pain that sprang to his lips as she sunk her hard thick nails deeper into his chest. The pain was excruciating but it was the least of his worries. He was cold and clammy and his vision had begun to blur, leading him to the realization that his body was going into shock. Which meant that he didn't have much time to think of a way out of this mess. He had to think and fast before his body gave out and he lost consciousness.
The situation wasn't good. Her strength was constant and unwavering as his was swiftly depleting. His left wrist was now numb, making it even harder to keep his grip on her arms. But then again it didn't seem to be helping matters anyway, as it didn't seem to be stopping her from sinking her nails into his chest.
Perhaps he was fooling himself, in thinking that anything he did would matter, or change the outcome, but he couldn't bring himself to lower his hands. To do so would be admitting defeat, and he was damned if he was going to surrender without a fight. It didn't matter that the odds were against him; he still refused to give up. He had to much to fight for, too much to live for.
His thoughts drifted towards Serena. Serena? Was she all right? Had the danger he sensed her in passed? Or was she even now waiting for him to save her? No. Tuxedomask shook his head. He couldn't think about that right now; if he did, he'd lose it.
If he was going to help Serena he first had to figure away to keep this psychotic woman from tearing his heart out.
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With the care of a prey that knows it's being stalked by a dangerous predator Sailormoon remained frozen in place, not moving, not even daring to breath, afraid that even the tiniest of movements would cause him to pounce
She wanted to run she wanted to scream but she knew that panicking now was the worst thing she could do. She knew that to survive she needed to keep her wits about her. Ever so slowly she let out the breath she had been holding. Ignoring the loud buzzing in her ears and the over-loud pounding of her heart she looked straight ahead, straining her eyes in an effort to see anything. But it was no use, even with her enhanced vision she couldn't penetrate the dense blackness of the mist. She'd never see him until he was right on top of her, and the realization let her feeling exposed and extremely vulnerable.
She still didn't understand how he had managed to get in front of her but that hardly mattered at the moment, the fact of the matter was that he had and now she had to deal with it. She couldn't see but maybe she could use her other senses to find him, leaving only one problem. What was she going to do once she found him?
She had no plan, no strategy coming into the mist other then finding her friends and getting them out of here. And now she could only pray that she had succeeded. Either way she was no alone with the creature, which inhabits the mist.
"I warned you of what could happen if you came here," he said suddenly causing Sailormoon to shiver "Your friends are safe, which hardly matters as they no longer matter to me. Only you do, and the precious energy you possess. I do regret the timing; I had so looked forward to our battle. I'm truly sorry it has to end this way; I know you would have been glorious. Now I'm afraid this is the end of our association. There will be no stopping us now; we hunger and we must appease that hunger."
Sailormoon didn't bother to respond as anger began replacing the fear that she had felt and which up until now had kept her immobile. Although she was grateful that her friends were safe, she just couldn't believe what she was hearing. He was sorry, only he wasn't sorry for nearly killing her friends or even for what he planned to do to her. No, he was sorry because he was disappointed that the great battle he had envisioned between them could never be. Why? Because he didn't deem her strong enough to stand up to him and actually stand a chance of surviving, at least long enough to give him a descent work out as he never expected her to actually beat him.
This sudden knowledge and understanding of the creature before her gave sailormoon a sense of power. As the adrenaline pumped through her body she felt a strange calm settle over her. And amazingly a smile graced her lips. If he thought she was going down without a fight, then he was about to be in for a very nasty surprise.
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"We can't just stand here and do nothing." Jupiter cried
"I know" Mars agreed Although they had no idea what was waiting for them inside the mist they couldn't remain out here and do nothing, not when there was even the slightest of chances that there friends needed them. "Let's go"
They both took off running towards the mist, only to pull up short when they noticed that something or someone was coming out. When they saw that it was Mercury and Venus they both let out cries of relief. But there relief was short lived when they saw the condition that they were in, and how heavily Venus was leaning on Mercury.
"Are you alright?" Jupiter asked in concern as she moved in to take Venus's weight off Mercury. Sliding an arm around Venus's waist Jupiter pulled her body up against hers and then placed Venus's arm around her neck.
Venus leaned against Jupiter, grateful for her friends support. She was still a little weak in the knees after her encounter with the mist and she needed more time to regain her strength.
She looked over her shoulder at the mist as Jupiter and Mars led her and Mercury away from it, and knew that time was something that they didn't have. They had to go back for Serena, she was alone in the mist and not knowing what was happening to her was enough to make her want to scream and cry at the same time.
They never should have left her behind. They should thought of something or done something to make her come with them. Now that they'd found the others they could go back in after her. Only? She shook her head. As much as she hated to admit it she was in know condition to go rescuing anybody, knowing that she'd be more of a hindrance to them and Serena then of much help, hurt her more then anything ever could.
"Where's Sailormoon?" Mars asked suddenly. She had been watching the mist, anxiously waiting for Sailormoon to exit behind them, but as each second past she began to get more anxious, she had a bad feeling in her gut and now that Sailormoon was appearing she feared the worst.
Mercury looked at them with sober eyes, eyes that told there own story, and which let them know that they were not going to like what they were about to hear. "We left her behind. We didn't have a choice," she explained at their shocked gasps.
"What do you mean you didn't have a choice? What the hell happened in there?" Jupiter barked angrily not believing what she was hearing. There had to be some sort of mistake. She knew that Mercury and Venus would never leave Sailormoon behind, not for any reason.
Mercury shook her head tiredly. Slowly as if each word she spoke pained her as she began telling them what happened, leaving nothing out she started from when she and Venus first encountered the mist.
The others were quiet throughout Mercury's telling of the story, nobody interrupted although they all longed to ask questions. No one interrupted her because they all desired to know what happened as quickly as possible. When she was done there was complete silence as each of them struggled to understand and comprehend everything that she had told them.
Mars was shaken by what Mercury had revealed, and a dozen questions lingered on the tip of her tongue, questions that for the moment went unasked. As much as she longed for answers, they would have to wait. She didn't need to know right now how Sailormoon became filled with that strange energy again or what made her stay behind instead of trying to escape with the others. Right now all that mattered was finding Sailormoon and getting her out of that place.
"Is Sailormoon wearing her communicator?" She looked over at Mercury "If you found us by tracking Jupiter's communicator, then we should be able to track Sailormoon through hers."
Mercury nodded her head. "We can do that but finding her want be the problem" she cautioned "Once inside we'll be blind and I don't know how much help we'll be once we find her."
"It doesn't matter." Jupiter replied hotly "We can't just sit by and do nothing and hope for the best. Not when what happened to you could be happening to Sailormoon as we speak."
"I'll stay here." Venus said quietly she looked at the others with pained eyes. "Once inside you'll need to find your way out. I'll stay behind and you can track me through my communicator."
Mars looked over at the two Sasha's who were still passed out on the ground and wondered how much longer they would be out, the last thing they needed was another complication. "We're not leaving you behind."
"I'm in no shape to be of any use. And we don't know what kind of condition Sailormoon will be in once you find her. You don't need both of us to worry about."
"Leaving you out here by yourself with those two is out of the question we don't know how much longer they'll be out and we can't take the risk. At least inside you'll have us watching your back. And" she continued when it looked like Venus was about to continue arguing "If you stay out here where just going to worry about you, in your condition you wont have a chance against both of them, and that will only distract us from finding Sailormoon and getting her out of there."
"Mars is right we can't leave you out here alone you. You have to come with us."
"But then how will we find our way out? "
Jupiter took off her communicator and dropped it onto the ground. That took care of that problem, now they just had to hope that nothing happened to it while they were inside.
"That takes care of that, now lets go."
"The mist" Mercury cried suddenly, "It's disappearing."
Everyone stood there for a moment to shocked to react as they saw that mercury was right the mist was rapidly dissipating before there eyes.
"Sailormoon" they cried as one and began running towards the mist. But it was too late. In mere seconds it was gone as if it had never been.
"No!"
"What are you going to do?"
"She's gone"
"We'll never find her now."
Mercury sank to her knees shaking her head frantically. She couldn't believe what was happening. Sailormoon couldn't be gone she just couldn't be. Taking out her mini computer she starting pounding away at the keys telling herself that this was a trick that it was still there and they just couldn't see it. She wasn't leaving her behind again.
"There has to be something we can do." Mars barked harshly while fighting back tears. She refused cry. It would mean that she'd given up hope and that was something that she'd never do. There had to be something she could do.
Mercury dismissed what her mini computer was saying. The mist was really gone but an idea on how to track sailormoon came to her and she focused on that and not on the possibility of never seeing her again.
On reflex she tried her communicator but got no reading so either she was too far away or something was interfering. Okay think Mercury how else can we track her, how else can we reach her. "Of course" she cried and mentally began beating her head against a wall. She should have thought of it right away.
"What? What is it?"
"Did you find something?"
"Have you located her?"
"No, but Darien can" she looked at them with slight desperate eyes. "He did it once before, he can do it again." She began to track him with her mini computer. It was there only chance. She had witnessed the mists powers, experienced its hunger and felt the pain of its embrace and the thought of Serena going through all that because of her was almost enough to break her. The only thing that kept her going was the knowledge that Serena needed her; she couldn't afford to fall apart now.
Mars frowned. It's true that Darien had managed to make contact with Serena had first been taking but there was an obvious flaw in this plan, one that she was sure the other realized as well, but no one wanted to say aloud. The fact was that when Darien had reached Serena the last time he himself had become entrapped by the dark mist, and only by feeding him there energy had they managed to keep him alive. He couldn't help Serena then and too this day they still didn't know how Serena had managed to find her way back.
By sending Darien after her again they could be placing him in danger as well. But she didn't say so because she knew it didn't matter as Darien wouldn't have it any other way, he would go after Serena with or without there help. She wondered why he wasn't here he should have been here by now. Suddenly uneasy feeling in her gut flared. Oh no. She had thought that whatever she was feeling was related to Sailormoon she never thought that something could be wrong with Darien. But there was no mistaken it now, this sick feeling she had in her gut had nothing to do with Sailormoon, it was Darien who was in peril. "Where could he be?" she wondered aloud
Jupiter slapped herself on the head "I can't believe I forgot." She shot them an apologetic look. "Sailormoon and I separated because we learned that there were now three Sasha's instead of one."
"Three?" they exclaimed and looked over at the two Sasha's laying comatose on the ground. There was another one still out there?
Jupiter nodded her head. "One was fighting Venus, one went after Mars and the other one went after Tuxedomask."
"You don't think something happened to him do you?" Venus asked in concern
"I have a bad feeling about him." Mars admitted
"Could he be trapped in the mist as well?" Jupiter asked, "I mean Sailormoon went after Darien and she showed up here without him. Maybe that's because he's in the mist as well"
"She didn't mention Darien being trapped in the mist." Mercury remarked and fought back a shiver at the memory of being trapped in that place. She never imagined pain like that and never wanted to experience it again. "I'll see if I can locate him through my mini computer.
"How do you plan to do that?" Venus asked, "He doesn't have a communicator."
"We really should think about getting him one." Jupiter grumbled. And the others heartily agreed
It's true that I can't locate him the way I located Jupiter but there is another way." Her fingers flew over the keys. "If he is fighting another Sasha then they both will be giving off tremendous amounts of energy."
"You're a genius," Venus cried leaning down to see watch her work.
Jupiter grunted and shifted her weight to accommodate her.
"Sorry." She quirked "If we can trace a fiend giving off negative energy then we should be able to locate Tuxedomask by tracking his energy signal."
"I found him" Mercury announced, "Oh no, this is not good"
"What is it?" Mars demanded anxiously
"I found him alright but the amount of negative energy that the Sasha he must be fighting is giving off is more powerful then the other two Sasha's combined."
"Your right that's not good." Jupiter said, they had a problem dealing with just one Sasha and barely managed to knock those two unconscious she couldn't imagine how he was doing by himself against such power.
"Where is he? Venus asked anxiously
"He's not far from here, he's only a couple blocks away but we'd better hurry." ................................
Sasha felt the tension in the body under hers, noticing the pallor of his skin she felt a twinge of disappoint. It looked as if her fun was in danger of being cut short. His strength was waning and it didn't look liked he'd last much longer. Oh well she had promised him a slow painful death and although she usually enjoyed breaking her word almost as much as she enjoyed breaking other things it looked like she would have to speed things along a bit and smiling sunk her nails deeper into his chest.
She felt him flinch any yet still not one sound of pain passed his lips. It amazed her, his high threshold for pain, as well as his single-minded determination not to give into it. It was a shame that his body was failing him; she would have enjoyed playing with him further. But before the end before the last breath left his body leaving behind a cold shell she would break him. He would meet his end but not before his cries of pain and desolation caressed her ears.
Smiling down at him with a wicked gleam in her eye she took him by surprise when she suddenly jerked her hand free of his chest.
Tuxedomask gasped, his back arching as he struggled with the unexpected pain that one move had inflicted. His hands flopped uselessly by his side.
Sasha enjoyed his reaction but it was still not the one she desired. She wanted him howling in pain, reveling in agony and begging her to stop. Raising her hand in front of his face, she clicked her nails together, making an ominous sound.
Tuxedomask watched her unblinkingly. His determination to thwart her to the end and deny her what she truly desired was the only thing he had left to fight her with.
Sasha sneered at this display. Leaning over him she whispered menacingly in his ear. "You will scream for me, I promise you that. You... will... scream."