Chapter 13:
Behind Princess Serena's eyes she saw Crystal Tokyo, it blurred. She wavered; she knew it was all over. She fell to her knees in order to try fighting for longer. She felt her breath getting shallower and the image in her mind faded more and more. She knew any second now she would end. The tears stopped falling, they too went into her power, to try and fight…
Sailors Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Venus managed to arrive before the others, with out hesitation they all blasted an attack at the woman towering over their princess. She was pushed back, but maintained her attack. They stood trying to formulate a plan, waiting for the others to arrive. They quickly explained what happened and we're formulating a plan to save their weakening princess. Sailor Mini Moon arrived last, but ignored the cries from the Sailor Scouts. She ran past and pulled out her crystal she stood beside her future mother and started sharing her power. As she did she transformed into her princess self. The scouts then grew even more desperate to help.
"Maybe Mini Moon has the right idea…" Sailor Pluto said softly. "If we all help to power up Princess Serenity maybe she can find the strength to win." The all nodded and concentrated on giving their power to their princess.
"Mercury Power!"
"Mars Power!"
"Jupiter Power!"
"Venus Power!"
"Saturn Power!"
"Uranus Power!"
"Neptune Power!"
"Pluto Power!" Tuxedo Mask stood behind his future wife and daughter, ready to help them if they suffered. Princess Serenity glowed and felt stronger.
The world around her was black, she felt so cold and alone. In her long battle against Lady Distress, no thought filled her mind; she concentrated only on defeating the evil before her. Then she felt a pink glow beside her and heard Sailor Mini Moons voice.
"Mama, you can win. I know you can!" Princess Serenity tried to warn her daughter, but she couldn't speak, and the energy Mini Moon was giving her made her feel stronger. Soon she felt, one by one, her friends surrounding her, giving her their power too. She heard yells of encouragement. It was as though she'd been pulled up out of a black hole.
My friends… She thought, they are here, they came… And as that thought passed into her mind she felt the world coming back into vision, she saw the beams coming from her friends, empowering her. She stood up again. She heard Lady Distress' cries of surprise and outrage.
"What is going on here?" She demanded as she felt herself weakening, though she was winning only minutes ago. Princess Serenity pushed all the energy forward, and smiled.
"You will never defeat the power of Love!" She cried, again pushing more energy upon Lady Distress. Lady Distress could no longer hold back the attack and slowly gave in to Serenity's power. She felt herself being destroyed and screamed. Princess Serenity felt the spirit dissolve. And released her power. She transformed once again into her sailor uniform and fell to her knees. Cries of surprise and relief came from the scouts around her. These cries soon turned to ones of shock and Sailor Moon looked up, the smoke spirits had returned and were floating above.
"My Queen," The red man addressed her, "We are forever sorry for the trouble we caused you."
"I am sorry also." She said tears flowing, the knowledge that she hurt people she loved began to overwhelm the young heroin. "I don't know what I can say to make up for destroying you…" She whispered.
"We knew it would be against your wishes for us to come back here and destroy innocents," The blue woman spoke.
"But we had to do something." The green man finished.
"There are hard times ahead, my Queen." The yellow woman warned. Sailor Moon smiled softly at them. And they smiled in return and faded away. Sailor Moon turned to face, Mini Moon, who had returned to her scout uniform, and pulled her into a hug. Tuxedo Mask out his arms around both of them and heard Sailor Moon, whispering as she detransformed,
"I'm sorry, I'm so, so sorry…" Over and over again, soon Serena's friends walked over to retrieve their own hug from their friend.
Seeing her friends converging on her, Serena stood up and faced them all.
"I'm sorry," She cried, "I can't deal with this right now." She fled. She ran as fast as she could. She ran full pelt back to the modelling agency and shut herself in her room. On the way in she passed Kiara, Tai and Luna all looking very worried, they called out to her, but she ignored them. She crawled onto her bed in her room and sobbed, with relief, guilt and fear.
The others stared after her in surprise, but none of them went after her. They all looked at each other.
"I guess she just needs time." Ami said.
"Time for what?" Rei said, falling back into character knowing everything was okay now.
"Well, I'd feel pretty bad putting my friends through that, I think Serena just feels guilty and wants to apologise, but she's pretty weak right now." Lita said with some aid from Mina. They all slowly walked back into the city and towards the hotel.