Chapter 25: Return of Death

Koaru smiled as threw the energy sphere at a group of demons, who vanished from existence in a flash. "We...we thought..." Sailor Mars stuttered as Koaru approached them. Koaru seemed not to hear her as he walked past them all. He approached the woman as she stood up and used her magic to heal herself. "It's been awhile," Koaru said to her, "it's good to see you again...Queen Beryl. She stared at him with wide eyes, then she smiled. "That's where I saw you before. You're the brat the Soul brought back to convert."

Darien stepped forward. "I should have known," he said, "Queen Beryl." Koaru rolled his eyes, "Dude," he started," even I figured it out." Queen Beryl suddenly struck the group with a blast of energy that threw them all in different directions. Koaru landed and flew straight at Beryl before she even finished her attack. He gathered energy into his right fist and struck out at her, connected, and sent her for a fifty yard fly. As Queen Beryl got to her feet, Koaru blasted her with a barrage of energy spheres. As Beryl shielded herself from the onslaught, he charged in behind his last few blasts and struck her with another energy fist.

Beryl struggled to her feet as Koaru picked up a sword from a fallen solider and poured his power into the blade. Queen Beryl's eyes widened in shock as Koaru started to say an incantation under his breathe. "You can't..." she stuttered, "you can't use that attack without...no! You can't have a Shadow Scar!" Koaru slammed his palm against the flat of the sword as he finished the incantation. The blade started to glow a dark purple/black/green color as he positioned it behind his back at an angle. "Got it in one." he said in a steel-cold voice that sent shivers up the spines of all that heard him. The sword burned pure black with dark energy as Koaru sliced the air, crying out "Nega...Armageddon...Death Scythe!", and sent a burning arch of black fire that just stunk of death. Queen Beryl screamed as the fire washed over her. There was a flash of light where she stood, and she reappeared ten feet from where the fire imploded the ground where she had just stood.

Beryl was tattered and barely alive as she stood there glaring at the small group. "You..." she growled, "you...little...BASTARD!" As she screamed this, she blasted Koaru with an energy sphere that caught him off-guard. The blast sent him to the edge of Moon Canyon, where he scrambled to his feet, only to receive another blast to the chest. Koaru was shot right off of the edge of the cliff, and as he clawed at the air, he managed to grab the edge of the cliff face. Beryl roared in anger as she gathered a colossal amount of energy and shot it straight at where Koaru's hand was visible. "NOOO!" Sailor Mercury cried as the cliff edge blew apart in an explosion to rival that of a nuke.

Queen Beryl retreated right after her last attack. Koaru was confirmed dead by six Shadow Warriors who had gone to the bottom of the canyon to check right after the battle. They could not get his body then, they had told the Scouts, but they would as soon as they could. Amy was destroyed. She had lost Koaru and found him again, only to loose him again, and she had been unable to do anything. She had not spoken since that day, and it had been two weeks already. The others were starting to get worried about her, and rarely left her alone. Amy also wore the Shadow Crystal with her at all times, as well as the engagement ring. "We have to do something," Serena said one morning, "or else we may loose Amy in the next battle." She had no idea how close her prediction was.