This part is basically when Mars dies, so there will be character deaths and sadness. This chapter contains some angst. I don't own Sailor Moon
Rei laid on her bed, head full of worry for what she must do. Shutting her eyes, she rolled over and felt a tear fall down her face.
Wiping it away, she faintly heard her grandpa mumbling about the world turning bad and natural disasters and such.
Rei felt the tears come back. "Grandpa, I won't be able to see you again…" she cried softly, letting the tears fall.
Sitting up, she rearranged herself. "The girls will be here soon. I have to be fine or they'll worry." She stood up and rubbed her red eyes one last time.
Hearing a knock at the door, Rei took a deep breath and walked over to answer it.
Opening the door, she was greeted with three solemn girls. "Where's Ami-chan?" Rei asked.
"She'll be a little late…" Minako explained, as the three girls walked in.
Rei nodded and shut the door. She turned and watched as the girls began to tear up as well. "Don't cry, guys. I'll start crying…" She felt the tears fall down her cheeks, but did nothing to wipe them.
The others nodded, tears falling down as well. "Why don't we think about something happy?" Usagi suggested.
Makoto nodded. "Good idea…" She wiped her tears. "Hmmm…"
"Boys?" Minako suggested.
Rei felt her heart break at the thought of boys. She couldn't and hadn't been able to stop thinking about Jadeite since their meeting at the ski slopes. He hadn't appeared since then.
She faintly heard Mako-chan talking about her boyfriends. "I can't believe I won't have another one…" she whined, but Rei could hear sadness in it.
She sighed. 'All of us are sad, even Ami-chan. Where could Zoi-chan have gone?' she thought.
She heard laughter. "We're going to take on the most powerful being in the universe and you're worrying about boys?"
The girls turned to the approaching girl. "Hey, Ami-chan." Minako greeted, hugging her.
"Hey, girls." Ami hugged back, waving to the others.
"So, Ami, who do you miss?" Rei asked, cursing herself for making Ami look so sad.
Ami blushed. "No one."
Usagi stepped forward and enveloped her. "You're worrying about Zoi-chan, aren't you?"
Ami nodded, tears softly falling. Usagi hugged tighter. "Don't worry. When we come back, we'll find him and you will have a happy reunion and hug and kiss and we'll gag…" She laughed, but the laugh was a little hollow.
Ami hugged Usagi. "Usagi-chan, don't worry about Mamo-chan. He'll be fine." She hugged her tighter, slowly rocking as Usagi cried.
Artemis jumped in and told them that it was time to change. Nodding, the girls took out their wands/broach up and shouted out:
"Moon Prism Power…Mercury Power…Mars Power…Jupiter Power…Venus Power…MAKE UP!"
Standing in their senshi forms, they hold hands in a ring and concentrate. An energy field forms around them.
Artemis shouts out. "Sailor…TELEPORT!" and the girls are gone.
"Good luck…" Artemis murmurs, staring at the spot. Luna walks up to them and rubs against him. "I hope that girls are going to be okay."
Artemis returns the rub. "We can only wait now…"
Mercury opens her eyes and looks around. "We're at the North Pole." She states the obvious.
Moon shivers. "I'm cold."
"Deal with it." Mars snapped at her and with that, the senshi move toward the entrance, a dark, purple doorway.
"So they made it here, huh?" Beryl sits on her throne and stares into the crystal ball she has. She calls out for her five most powerful youma.
They appear and Beryl tells them to stop and destroy the Sailor Senshi before they can enter the Dark Kingdom.
Meanwhile, the girls make their way across the terrain. "At least the storm has stopped and the weather has cleared." Venus said out loud to lighten the mood.
When no one answers, she sweat drops and becomes silent. Moon suddenly stops.
The girls turn around to see her rushing forward. "Wait!" they shout, piling on top of her.
"Let me go! He needs help!" she cries out loud, struggling.
"Who?" Mercury asks, then looks up to see Tuxedo Kamen hanging on ropes.
"Tuxedo Kamen! I'll help you!" Moon pushes the others off, but Jupiter hangs on.
Mercury takes out her computer and, typing in a few numbers, gasped. "Sailor Moon, that isn't Tuxedo Kamen! That's a youma!"
"No, it can't be! It's really him!" Moon breaks out of Jupiter's grasp and runs to him.
"Sailor Moon!" they cried, running after her, but the blond girl was pretty fast.
"Tuxedo Kamen!" she cried, tears running down her face as she reached out to him.
"No!" Venus cried, grabbing her from behind and threw her to the ground. They began to roll around, getting covered in snow.
"We have to get rid of it now!" Mars cried.
"Way ahead of you!" Jupiter cried, getting ready to destroy it when the image changed to Nephrite.
Jupiter hesitated, which was bad, because 4 tentacles grabbed her and suspended her 10 feet in the air!
The youma attacked with electricity, causing Jupiter to cry out. "Jupiter!" the girls shouted, getting ready to attack, but Jupiter got their before them.
She invoked her "Supreme Thunder" and fought electricity with electricity . Two of the youma are destroyed by the backlash.
Jupiter was left lying on an ice mound. A guilt-ridden Sailor Moon tries to get to her, but Jupiter simply wishes some words of encouragement and dies. Sailor Moon screams and begs Mako-chan not to die.
Mars could see how sad and desperate Sailor Moon was by Mako-chan's death. Heck, they all were sad and desperate.
She stood up and yells to the Dark Kingdom that the crystal is theirs.
"Stop it!" Mars and Venus shout, grabbing Sailor Moon, who doesn't stop struggling and crying.
Mercury walks over and slaps the hysterical Sailor Moon. Everyone is of course shocked, but Mercury apologizes.
"I'm sorry, but Mako-chan died for this job that we're all committed too…" But she was interrupted when her computer began to beep.
Looking at it, she could tell that the other 3 youma have regrouped and were heading their way.
Closing her eyes, she spoke up. "I'll lead the youma off by using myself as a decoy."
"No, Mercury. I can't lose anyone else." Sailor Moon cried, but Mercury interrupted her.
"It's better this way since I am the least powerful of all of us and maybe I can buy enough time for you guys to get in."
Nodding, Mars and Venus gripped Moon's arms and lead her away.
After walking for a few moments, Mars could sense Mercury's death and felt horrible.
Moon must have sensed it as well. "How could we leave her? How could we leave her and Jupiter? You guys don't have any feelings!" she accused, collapsing and hitting the ice in frustration.
Both Venus and Mars noticed that the ice below Moon was glowing, and Venus pushed Sailor Moon off only to be caught in the trap.
The youma took Sailor Venus underground where she was tortured.
"STOP! I'll GIVE you the ginzuishou!" Moon cried, but her cries went unheeded
Underground, Venus struggles and opens her eyes to see a youma in front of her. With her last strength, she forms her "Crescent Beam" and fires at point blank range. The blast kills both of them. Above, the ground explodes into an ice mound and Sailor Venus' body rests on top of it...
Sailor Moon called out Minako-chan's name as Sailor Mars drags her away. The two remaining youma appear before them.
"Please Mars, don't fight them…" Sailor Moon begged.
Mars cheerfully said, "I'm not going to die…after all, I'm the most powerful of us all." She joked, as she moved ahead, ready to use her Fire Soul. But the youma dove underground and attacked, encasing Mars in an ice mountain.
One of the youma bursts free and dove to attack Sailor Moon. The shell-shocked Sailor Moon only stares blankly at the approaching youma. A fireball bursts out of the side of the ice mountain and destroyed the attacking youma. The last youma dove to attack Mars…
"Over my dead body!" a masculine voice cries out as a power attack stopped it.
The youma looked up to see a man with blond hair and blue eyes. "Lord Jadeite!" the youma gasped, watching their master walk over to Mars.
"Jadeite, does this mean…" Mars weakly began, but was stopped when Jadeite gathered her into his arms.
"Yes. I remember everything." He helped her up. "I'm sorry for not remembering sooner, but I had some troubles." Glaring at the still shocked youma, he continued. "This is one of Beryl's most powerful youma. We must be cautious."
Still a little shocked, but also happy over Jadeite remembering, Mars weakly nodded. "Yes…"
Recovering, the youma laughed. "Wow, you actually think you can beat me? I'm the most powerful there is and no one is going to stop me!"
Anger coursing through her blood, Mars ran up to them and kicked the youma's feet, causing the youma to fall down.
"I'm going to…" it began, but Jadeite's power attack flew at it, causing a bright light.
Mars watched cautiously. "Is it dead?" She leaned in closer.
Jadeite sensed the evil still there. "Rei-chan, move!" he cried, running at her.
Mars looked up to see a huge power attack heading straight for her. She shielded herself but felt herself being pushed to the side.
Opening her eyes, she gasped, seeing Jadeite hurt and dying. "Jadeite, stay alive! We'll get help!" she cried, running to him, tears streaming down her face seeing her true love in so much pain.
"I'm sorry, Rei-chan. I guess I won't be able to go swimming with you anymore…" he coughed as she fell to her knees, clutching him to her.
"No, Jad-kun. We'll go swimming soon." She cried as he went limp in her arms. "I promise…" she begged, crying harder.
He looked at her, locking eyes. "Don't cry, Rei-chan. You always looked more beautiful when you were happy. Please stay happy for me." With that, he closed his eyes and went completely limp.
"No, Jadeite!" Mars cried out in pure heartache.
The youma floated in front of Mars. "Looks like he's gone…" she laughed.
Mars glared at the youma. "You killed him! I'm going to make sure you meet the same fate!" She screamed, using her Fire Soul to kill the youma, but killed herself as well...
The ice mountain explodes and Moon sees two bodies; Mars and Jadeite holding hands. "Mars! No!" she screamed, sobbing helplessly.
"Don't cry, Moon." a ghostly Sailor Mars told her.
"But all my friends are gone…" She sobbed.
"No we're not. Call us when you need help. We'll come…" With that, Mars disappeared, leaving a distressed Moon.
"I promise I'll get my revenge. I'll make sure Beryl pays for the pain she's caused.
Meanwhile, the ghostly Mars watches over her, tears falling. "Stay safe, Usagi-chan…"
"You always had a big heart…" a masculine voice said.
Rei looked up, shocked to see the two figures from her dream. "You are from my dream. But who are you?"
"You know us. In your mind." another voice, this time feminine, answered.
Rei began to cry, recognizing the voices at once. "Ma? Pa?" she whimpered as the familiar adults smiled at her, arms open.
"Yes…" the woman smiled as Rei ran into their arms.
"Ma! Pa! I've missed you so much. I've lost everything!" Rei sobbed into her parents' embrace.
"Shh, we know." the man said rubbing her back softly.
"Can I come with you?" Rei asked suddenly.
"No." Hope told her, a sad smile on her face.
Rei was shocked. "What? Why not?" she asked, tears slowing down a little.
"Because you are needed here on Earth." Manganeite whispered in her ear as they began to let go.
Rei panicked. "No! Don't leave me!" she cried, reaching out.
Hope smiled as she leaned into Manganeite, tears slowly running down her face as well. "We've never left you. We're always in your heart, mind and dreams."
Manganeite nodded, tears running down his face as well as he embraced his wife. "Goodbye, our sweet daughter Rei, Princess of Mars." With that, they disappeared completely.
"No!" Rei fell to her knees, sobbing hard. "Come back…" she sobbed.
Just as Rei was about to give up hope, she faintly heard Princess Serenity cry out. "Everybody, lend me your strength!"
Realizing what she had to do, Rei took one last look at the body of her one true love and closed her eyes, arriving to help Serenity beat the evil Queen Beryl.
And we know what happened after that, so we'll stop here. Okay, so Rei didn't really die, but in a way she did. Next part is the future! Please RR