The silence stretched and was so thick that it could be cut with a sword. Cosmos watched as the young girl seemed to agonize over this. She pitied Elysion. The poor thing didn't seem to understand it.

At the moment, however, Kritra looked to Jamil; both were sharing their thoughts to each other.

Before Neo Terra replied, the two warriors rushed them, Kritra seemingly going after Terra Warrior and Jamil going after Cosmos.

It wasn't until the last moment, did they switch on them and Kritra ended up slashing at Cosmos with her halberd and Terra warrior and Jamil were fighting with their swords.

The other senshi moved to help, but the Shadow demons appeared again and stopped them.

Neo Moon looked at neo Terra, almost as if to glare. "Stop them! They're your relatives, surely you can make them stop."

Neo Terra shook her head. "I can't."

"You mean you won't." Jupiter says as she began to battle a shadow demon. "Thunder Dragon!"

While they were fighting the shadow Demons, Terra Warrior blocked Jamil's sword with a small grunt. He could feel his energy wane a little underneath the sword but pushed back. Jamil looked a bit surprised at this but renewed his efforts to defeating the masked man.

"How could you betray your own kind?" He growls at the king attacking. " Put an invader on the throne as queen?"

Defending himself, Terra Warrior held his hand out, "Celestial Bomb!" The power gathered in his palm and then spiral towards Jamil.

Jamil held up his sword, "Shield!" A barrier shielded him from the blast. When he looked back Terra Warrior was already raising his sword high to deal the killing blow. Jamil barely blocked it. He came back pushing the King back to a corner.

"Long live the King…." He sneered.

Cosmos was having a hard go at it herself. Kritra had proved to be a hard opponent to fend off. Every time the Queen took a breath to say a phase, Kritra would attack with abandonment to keep the queen from saying the words.

"Why?" Cosmos huffed as she held her staff in front of her, "Why do you attack us so?"

Kritra's dark eyes held little emotion as she answered, "Because you are not worthy of the throne. The Earth's throne belongs to her children, not an alien." She moved back and spun her halberd to where the sharp blade pointed to Cosmos's chest. "All invaders shall be destroyed."

"Silence wall!" Saturn shouts as the shadow demon charged and hit the invisible wall.

"Chronos Typhoon!" Pluto held the garnet ball in front of her and two of the shadow demons seemed to disappear into dust.

Venus did a round kick to one of the monsters then said, "Venus love and beauty shock!" The monster was paralyzed for a moment before it screamed it's dying breath.

"Pink lady's freezing Kiss!" Neo moon says thrusting her hands in front of her destroying another Shadow demon.

"They just keep coming!" Mercury says, "Aqua Rhapsody!"

"I know! How do we stop them?" Jupiter asks as she punched one in the gut.

Venus ducked as the huge black arm swiped at her, "We have to find the source. Mercury see if you can locate it!"

"Right." Scanning the area Mercury found the place where they were coming from. "There! We have to put all our power into making it collapse."

"Everyone, over there by the lamppost, put your power into it!" Pluto shouts, "Pluto Crystal power!"

"Jupiter crystal power!"

"Saturn Crystal power"

"Pink Moon Crystal power"

"Venus crystal Power!"

"Mercury Crystal power!"

"Sailor attack!" The powers combined spiraled towards the distorted area that was producing the shadow demons. But it seemed to have not affect, "We need more power," Mercury says.

Neo moon looked over at the still froze Neo Terra and yells at her, " Elysion snap out of it and help us!"

It seemed as if a spell had been broken and Neo Terra turned to her half sister and joined them, "Terra Power!"

"That's it! Just a little more and it'll be gone." Mercury told them as the added power helped them close the portal.

Exhausted, they all turned to fight what was left of the shadow demons. When the last demon fell, they looked towards their monarchs who were struggling against Kritra and Jamil. Once more a great stillness fell over Neo Terra as she watched in horror to what Jamil was about to do. Both she and Neo moon were far from them, but they ran towards them, both yelling as they went.

Kritra looked over at her brother, her eyes widen. This was not part of the plan. If she had known earlier that he was going to kill Mamoru, she would have never agreed to it.

With her being closer and Cosmos gasping out her beloved's name, Kritra dashed towards them.

Just as his sword fell, it connected with Kritra's halberd. He looked at his younger sister with what could only be called hatred. "Why? Why do you stop me in punishing this…this traitor?"

"No, Jammy." She said simply and gave Terra Warrior the look and he moved away from the siblings. "This is not the will of Gaia."

He withdrew and glares at her. "The will of Gaia…. she does not want a traitor in her mists. He placed an invader on the throne that is rightfully ours! Forever we have been denied the right, must we be denied anymore of what is rightfully ours?"

She held her halberd up and stares at him. "You know the code she gave us. We are Guardians, not royalty and are treated thus." She drew in a breath, "We protect the rightful heir to the throne of Earth, a Terrain. We are not meant to sit upon the throne, Jamil."

He laughs at her, "Oh? And what stopped King Welkin? He ruled justly and was loved by all. He was one of us."

She frowns, "yes and? But he died horribly as well. Now stop this madness and do what we are meant to do."

Cosmos and Terra Warrior hugged each other in relief and watched the two silently as the others did when they approached. She glances at the others as they all stood. She had to eliminate the threat. Her crystal started to glow with purpose. She would do it. She would seal them away til they knew what to do with them

Neo Terra caught the glow at the corner of her eyes. Behind the black mask she felt her eyes widen and both she and Terran moved before Cosmos and the others and stood their ground. "I won't let you hurt my mother."

Cosmos looked at her, "Stand aside Elysion."

Neo Terra's eyes narrowed, "No."

Sailor Cosmos stared the young knight down, " I don't want to hurt you." She says slowly, "Move aside and they will be healed." It was half-truth and half a lie. No, she did not want to heal this woman- the woman that had begotten a child with her Mamo-chan and the man that threaten to topple everything that they had all worked so hard for. Sacrificed their teenage years- years of being normal people and saving the world….just to save them. As a soldier, she learned what the others tried to show her. That some times you couldn't save everyone.

Like Beryl.

Or Queen Nehellenia.

Neo Terra gripped her sword tightly and liked her lips nervously as her eyes flitted from her to the others that were battling the Shadow Demons. What should she do? If she stayed, she was siding with her mother and uncle and viewed as a traitor. But…. isn't that what a child is suppose to do? Stand with their parents?

Her head started to pound dully as she tried to make a choice. Her mother over her father; her Father over her mother…how can any child of two caring parents make that decision? Still, she wasn't dealing with her father- no…but she was dealing with…. Sailor Cosmos. Elysion had yet to bring herself to call the woman anything remotely motherly yet, but staring into those big blue eyes she caught a glimpse of something…something that didn't look motherly at all.

"No. Stay away from them!" Dear gods, what was she doing?

' I have no choice', Cosmos thought with a kind of sickening glee that was mixed with pity, ' I have to stop them!'

"After all we've done for you, do you betray us?" Jupiter asked staring at the girl starting to get a little angry, "Do as the queen says, step aside so they can be healed."

"No."

That was all Cosmos needed, " Cosmos Shattering Heart!" the staff glowed brightly nearly blinding everyone as she twirled it and points it towards them.

The blinding power flew towards Neo Terra and her small family.

'Oh no.' She thought and closed her eyes awaiting her death, 'We're going to be killed!'

Yet, a moment passed and there was nothing. Cautiously, she opened her eyes and found her mother in front of her and her father not too far off.

"You may do whatever you wish to me, Serenity." Kritra said holding her weapon out. Amazingly she had dispelled the power with her shield. "But you may not kill my family."

Cosmos glares at her- an actual angry glare of hate for the woman before her. "Your 'family' is trying to destroy the very thing they should be protecting! How can you stand there and dare be righteous with me?"

"The same way you are."

For a moment there was silence until a shrill sound of laughter echoed through the battle scene-as two senshi screamed.

"Pluto!" Neo Moon's crimson eyes were wide in shock and disbelief as they ran over towards the fallen warriors. "Saturn! No!"

It was then they saw Lady Avon with the pretty garnet and amethyst starseeds that had been inside of Sailor Pluto and Sailor Saturn. "The Time and Rebirth Star Seed is ours, my lord!" She cackles floating up in the air, her eyes alight with laughter.

"Return to base." Jamil moved and grabbed his sister by the arm. "We'll see you again, Sailor Senshi…and next time…only one of us will walk away…" As he says this both he and Kritra disappeared leaving Neo Terra there with Terran staring up at the sky.

"Mama…."

Hope this is better- Kuroshi