PHEW! This is the last chapter of SG! Yay me!
Dedications:
Ellie: You read it and you didn't know I wrote it and you STILL liked it!
Josh + Katie Kate Kate: I love you two dearly thanks for everything in the world (except for grossing me out with threats of sex talks from Kate's Mom)
Laura M: For keeping me smiling and being a happy Caterpillar.
Mr R: My physics teacher. You keep me laughing and interested in class, and on those days when I feel horrible you never wake me up from sleeping at my desk.
Corinne: For making me food even though I insult your cooking technique. AND YOUR FUDGE IS GOOD! Oh, and sushi ball rice is SUPPOSED to be slimy
Sam-sam-chan: I love you Sam! You are the only one who shows up to anime club other than me on a religious level lol. You are great and a funny person.
Reviewers: To all of you, thank you!
Reader: Staying with me while I become a lazy ass lol
I ABHOR you:
Ms. J: Who gave me that damn vocab word. YOUR ENGLISH SUCKS! (and you TEACH 10th grade English!)
Mrs. N: You are an annoying ass principal
Responses to last time's reviewers:
Elena: They are Serenity and Makoto… their lines switch… and they use each other's names…
Optical: Arti is a bit oblivious at times…
Let's start shall we?
The next morning Minako woke up early and quickly getting dressed, ran to the kitchen where she had a quaint meal before running back to her room. Sighing she shut the door, thinking she was up early enough to have escaped meeting her guardian or at least think of what she was going to say to him.
"I would think you were avoiding me." A male voice came from behind her. With a jump, the princess turned from the door to the source of noise. Why did none of her plans work right?
"Hey Artie! How are you? Had a good time with Luna?" She said scratching the back of her head in embarrassment.
"Come and sit." Minako politely obeyed the command and sat as far away from her guardian as possible on the long couch.
"I apologize for transporting you. I hope you found your way to the place easily enough?"
"Yes." Artemis replied, deciding it best for his pride to leave out being lost for quite a while with a huge looming castle behind him. "I am sorry that I angered you but I am not sorry for telling you."
"Why didn't you tell me before?"
"Would you have acted any different?"
"Yes!"
"No, even though you would not be in love with another man, you were colder back then and would have sent me away for good."
Minako sighed and got up. Kneeling down on the floor, she crowed her arms and laid them under her head on Artemis' knees. "Artemis, you know I am going to die soon right?"
"You are never going to die Venus."
"Liar. I will die, you will not however. Promise me to stay with the Queen and Luna and not to leave them no matter what."
"Anything for you." Artemis said petting his love's hair. His heart twisted in the thought of having to just watch her from afar. At least she wouldn't abhor him in the end.
Two days of almost pure bliss past for the warrior occupants of the Lunarian castle. They awoke with the sun, and generally retired along with it. Minako had decided that for the sake of skill level and to eliminate the tiring magic use, the Senshi would be paired with a General. Unfortunately due to the hope of equal skill level, Minako had to make each set of lovers sparing partners. Hence the bliss, each couple was together every day, and no one wished to know if they were at night.
"ENDYMOIN! What the hell do you think you are doing?" Minako yelled on the last day of training before what she dubbed the long wait. The Venusian was constantly checking the others while still fighting the silver-haired general, who at the moment was blocking himself from another one of her attacks.
"I'm fighting!" The Earth Prince called back. With an angry hiss the blonde struck Kunzite's sword particularly hard and sent him reeling back. She stalked over to the Prince and standing directly in front of him, grabbed his collar and dragged him down to eye height.
"Listen, you are not to teach Serenity any of your damn techniques! She has to master the ones I instruct before she can even fight a newt! DO NOT tell her how to hold sword or how to wield it. She will never improve if you barley touch her with your weapon! You must attack her if you know the meaning of that word." Minako stopped her rant and turned to Serenity who was looking ready to cry. "Serenity, abandon the sword, you are going to use magic for the battle. Don't look so sad, even you could beat the Prince."
Serenity smiled widely at the alleged complement while the others, except the Earth Prince, burst into to quiet laughter. With a slight smirk the tyrant princess ordered the sparing to start again.
"Minako, that wasn't nice…" her partner whispered as the two became locked in a battle of strength, pushing each other swords with their own.
"That was nice for me."
"I know you can be so much sweeter." He said, quickly kissing her nose before pushing back and attacking again. Pouting for a second Minako turned her eyes to the Earth, remembering her time there.
"Minako… what's that?" Serenity said coming up to her leader's elbow and pointing to a black cloud that was eclipsed by the Earth.
"Metallia." Minako replied while glaring at the void. "Something's not right… training is over! Ami, do you have your visor?"
"Yes but-"
"Check the velocity of our enemy." The orange clad woman commanded. Her blue counterpart sighed and flipping her visor on ran some quick calculations before gasping.
"It's going three times as fast as yesterday! No, five!"
"Shit, she might be attacking today." Minako hissed to herself. "Serenity, Endymoin, you are no help here, go to the castle and ready the guard, we might be fighting for the universe in only a minute. The rest of you, fall in, girls line up with me, generals, behind us."
As the Earth Prince and Moon Princess had barley made their way to the Lunarian castle, the massive cloud was over head and a blood red light emitted from it. After a few seconds of scanning the area, the light focused on the eight warriors in the courtyard, soon narrowing to only the back line. With unsuspected quickness, the generals of the Earth where flying up towards the cloud, each attempting to break free of the evil laser.
"Nephrite!" Makoto called before a beam from the cloud hit her into an unconscious state.
"Zoicite!" Ami yelled, meeting the same fate as the Jupiter princess.
"Jadeite, get back here!" Rei cried with fresh tears as the blood red lightening bolt hit her as well.
"Fuck you Metallia!" Minako screamed as she dogged the bolt and transported upwards, quickly gaining on the beam's prisoners. As she was about to follow them swiftly into the dark cloud, she was repelled back, as though she had crashed into a wall. Transporting again and again Minako bashed into the invisible wall with her sword, hoping it would break.
"I'm going to kill you if you touch my precious Kunzite…" Minako whispered as her vision went blurry and she fell back to the ground one last time.
"Fuck, did I pass out?" Minako asked the ceiling as she opened her eyes. She had seen that ceiling way too many times to forget it. She was in the Lunarian infirmary, meaning she was in a bad enough shape to be under a nurse's constant watch instead of slumbering in her chambers.
"Behave Minako, you shouldn't get yourself so excited."
"Oh bite me Ami!"
"She's right you know, we are going to have some serious problems if you pass out again. You know you've been asleep for two whole days?"
"You're lying, aren't you Rei?" Minako said sitting up.
"No, and the cloud is still here. No word or movement other then the occasional red bolt. Killed twenty people already and according to the weather-fortune tellers, a storm shall break today."
"Metallia's storm. Get the guard ready, I'm taking one division to the east side, it is the least protected. Makoto, the west, Rei, you have South and Ami, you have the North. Serenity, I know you are in here! You have the courtyard." Minako jumped out of the bed and left the room with each Senshi following her, including the Moon Princess who was attempting to escape the wrath of her leader's training.
Before long the girls separated with promises to meet at the palace after they had cleared of any evil scum.
Hours later
Minako surveyed the battlefield, carnage lay every where the eye could see. Blotting the horrible images of her world gone to ashes out of her mind, she turned and ran to the entrance stairs to the palace. She found the other four Senshi and Prince Endymoin gathered there. All but the Princess Serenity drenched in blood, the Moon Princess was cowering near her lover, in her long white ceremonial gown, the hem and her shoes pink and muddied.
"Serenity, what the hell are you doing without your uniform?" Minako questioned harshly and sheathing her sword. Upon no answer from the lace and satin clad girl, the blonde leader slapped her across the face.
"Minako! Go easy on her! Her whole kingdom was just destroyed!" Ami pleaded, not only mad at the outburst, but for the interruption to the calculations of enemy forces she was doing.
"Minako, you may not hit her, think of all she's been through in the last few hours." Endymoin proclaimed as he caught the Venusian's wrist as it recoiled from hitting the one it was to protect. Unfortunately for the Prince, he did not see the other glove encased fist that was flying towards his stomach.
"You shall not give me orders, and never ever shall you be one to judge on a Senshi's tolerance from destruction. Forget it not that this is a planet I also call my home, one I hold as dear as Venus on which I've defended many times from invaders." She said coldly, glaring at the disheveled Prince who had been thrown to the floor with her attack. She turned on her heels to the blue haired Princess of Mercury. "As for you Ami, I hope you know that Metallia's forces have not only swamped the Earth and the Moon, but your dear icy planet will soon fall."
"I… I know." Ami replied, turning away from Minako to shed her tears. The green and red suited princess-senshi also had turned their backs on their leader and were looking down.
"Enough! Where is the Queen?" Minako demanded.
"Safe, she sealed herself away from the battle with the crystal, not even all of Metallia's forces could get her now." Rei answered, drying her wet cheeks and gazing towards the oncoming shadow.
"Shall we fight? There are still mean youma outside the gates, and our peoples are fighting them with all their strength." Makoto said gazing off towards the once pearly white gates that lead to the outer citadel.
"No, we shall not." Minako said, everyone turning to her in surprise. "I can feel her, Beryl is coming and I'll give you three guesses to figure out who the four possessed warriors following her are."
"Not…" Rei whispered.
"My Generals?" Endymoin said barley louder than Rei.
"Of course. And they are going after us, who else could she procure that would know not only who we are but our weaknesses and possibly our techniques?" Minako said her eyes set on the darkness that was approaching the once holy place. "Rei, Makoto, Ami, we'll each have out own problems, I leave you two, Endymoin and Serenity to kill Beryl. She's a damn sage, and a weak one at that, I should hope you can master her, yet one of you may need a different outlook on this situation."
Serenity shrunk back as Minako set her cold gaze forward and walked down the stairs followed by her Senshi. The cloud was soon above them and the girls formed a line ten paces to the right or the left of one another. From the cloud, five shapes dressed all in black floated slowly down. Two men flocked to each side of a tall woman with long red hair and a boomerang-like crown.
"Beryl- I'm going…" Minako started
"No more baking lessons for us, Nephrite my love." Makoto whispered thinking of the first time she had taken his hands in hers and taught him how to kneed the dough.
"Our last battle together, to bad it's against each other you damn Jadeite." Rei started to herself thinking of the first time he saved her from a giant lizard deamon who had her pinned to a tree.
"I'll find you in the next life and I promise to walk under a canopy of iris with you, this time I'll be wearing a wedding dress, wait for me Zoicite." Ami muttered, thinking of when she had sat by him in the Earthen gardens and he had bent down in front of her and held out the small white velvet box.
"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU FOR TAKING THE ONE MAN I HAVE LOVED AWAY FROM ME!" Minako cried, drawing her sword and charging forward, her girls quickly following suit.
Wouldn't that be a GREAT place to stop? Lol no? let's continue then!
The Generals dispersed from their master's side with unmatched and never before seen speed, running straight for the girl who had uttered their names a second before. Minako evaded Kunzite and leapt, holding her sword high at Beryl who was standing and admiring her work. The blonde was almost a foot away from the terrified sage's face when Minako was pelted back with amazing force, sending her colliding into a wall. Her vision blurred slightly as she heard the sickening thud of the impact and began to slid to the ground. Shuttering, she closed her eyes as she saw a shadow in the already dark courtyard hover over her.
"Minako, you alive?" a cold yet familiar voice whispered.
"Get away Kunzite, I can still kill you I hope you know!"
"I know, think of this as," he said pulling her up and crushing her already aching body against the brick. Breathing down her neck, he continued. "torture."
"Fight me or don't Kunzite, but…" Minako said peeling her eyes open and looking up into what she suspected were grey pools of nothing in his eyes, finding herself wrong she gasped. "You, you…. your eyes- you aren't possessed!"
"You could say that." He said, not moving from his spot and began nuzzling her neck. "But you also could say that I'm self-possessed."
"Kunzite… what do you mean…" Minako whispered and hearing a rustling noise strained her neck to look over his shoulder. She was surprise again as she saw that a pair of huge tall wings, black and leathery, had ripped through the back of his shirt and were covering them.
"I've learned a lot about deamons the past few years, and I found it possible to become half-deamon from a special potion, yet it is known for its tendency to kill the drinker before they can finish it. While you were gone, I was sure of your death, so I made and bought parts of the concotion, carrying it with me at all times, and by chance, it was in my jacket pocket when we were whisked away to the cloud castle. Metallia knows I am now a deamon but I am sure in secret she knows that having the gift of flight is the only way for me to kill you in a battle. Her eyes are entrusted to Beryl, and as the sage is unskilled in mystical lore outside her field, she believes me possessed by her master."
"Well then why did you save her? I could have killed that damn woman and left the darkness weak and blind! Kunzite let go of me! We must protect the others!" Minako said struggling against him. Kunzite closed his eyes and growled.
"Stop it Minako! I might kill you if you continue!" He said, his words taking her by surprise. "I told you I was self-possessed, and there is a down side to being a deamon, obsession. The one thing that was on my mind when I drank the potion will forever be my obsession, in all of my next lives. I live for it and it alone. This life and the next, I shall search for it and make it mine."
"What is it?" She whispered her heart beating fast as she was starting to think that her lover would kill her.
"You, my dear Princess." He said wrapping his arms around her waist. Stealing a heated kiss from her, he dragged his mouth down her jaw line and neck. Upon reaching the curve of her neck, he harshly bit down on her skin, holding his new found fangs in place for a few seconds as blood started to pour slowly out.
"What have you done?" Minako questioned, her body tense and erect in pain. The wound did not hurt her in the slightest, it was the power surging through her veins. A great aching was piercing her back. Kunzite pulled away as he tasted a tear as it rolled down to where he was sucking on her blood. Although he had gained a slightly colder attitude from the transformation, her pain and tears greatly affected him.
"Are you alright?"
"Get away from me!" Minako cried as she could feel just his presence stifling her. As he took a step back, she knelt to the ground clutching her head. A great power of her own was growing inside her to kill the energy that was infecting her. Screaming out, she released the power.
"MINAKO-" Kunzite was cut short as the golden light engulfed him and the rest of the moon. The small satellite planet was purified by the light, as Metallia's ghostly form speed upwards in an attempt to escape. With in the blink of an eye, each human and youma, and anything that had breathed before the battle, raised from the ground inside a golden orb.
Minako chanted some few small words as she died, the same words that were forever engraved on her Holy Crystal sword, which say alone, stuck far into the ground after she had been thrown aside. The fleeting shadow was hurled towards the east where a large stone door had appeared and was slowly opening. With a hideous cry, Metallia was hurled inwards as the doors slammed closed with a thud. The noise set off a reaction, the energy not yet gone, quickly drew from the other inner solar system Senshi. In complete silence, the energy engulfed the planet and erupted, the bubble encased persons floating off towards the Earth.
"My love..." Rei and Jadeite whispered with their last breaths as they clung on to each other.
"I promise…" Ami and Zoicite said as they latched their hands together.
"I will…" Makoto and Nephrite sighed as their lips touched one final time.
"Find you…" Serenity gasped as she heaved a sword through her chest, her tears and blood falling on Mamoru whose bloodied corpse was laying on her lap.
"Again…" Kunzite cried as she cradled Minako's lifeless figure.
"So here ends this age." The Queen whispered as she released her shield and walked to her balcony. Astounded by the destruction and silence, she leaned against a pillar to regain her composure. Sighing she lifted her Crescent Wand, ready to send the orb to the Earth, where they would slowly awake, the weakest first, and her own dear Senshi and their counterparts almost a thousand years later.
"Wait! My Queen!" Luna called as she ran down the corridor in her cat form, Artemis at her side. "Do not send them off yet! There is still much to prepare for their awakening."
"You are right my little Mau child. Let us find a suitable resting place for you to meet me on your return." She said as she walked slowly away, her white gown and silver hair trailing slowly behind her.
"Our return?" Artemis pondered.
"Of course." The Queen said, taking her time to talk. "You and Luna shall be sent to Earth as well, and wake up when the girls are reborn. Luna will follow Rei and Artemis, you follow Makoto, I think they will receive their memories first. The Imperium Crystal will live inside Serenity, and she shall produce it in time, but she will need protection and that will require all the scouts."
"My liege, I would think that not wise." Luna commented as she pattered alongside the woman. "Surely then it would be wiser for me to train Serenity, as she will have some power with the Crystal inside her. As you well know, she may also need the most training."
"I would guess you right dear advisor. You then are now Serenity's advisor and guardian. But with all the girls assembled, how can they function without a capable leader? Artemis, I have changed my mind, you shall train Minako. She may awaken sooner than the others, for beholding this power," the Queen said motioning to the bubbles of beings. "I believe she may awaken as a Senshi before the others. You will find her and train her to fight her battles alone, once Luna and Serenity have gathered the others you shall join. Minako will have enough power by then to control the girls as she did this life time."
"My Queen, I would always take my duties as you know but I can not except this one. I have done something that I am sure Minako would not stand for me to guard her again." The white cat said sadly, knowing that Minako would assume that he would fall in love with her again and send him away sooner.
"She will not remember. None of you will remember, I shall seal away all of the memories from this time. You two shall keep fragments, but only enough to complete your mission. Ah, I have found my grave." The woman said kneeling down on the symbol in the center of the courtyard. Minako's sword was conveniently in front of her, and smiling the Queen looked to her advisors. "I shall not say goodbye, but only that I hope you well and that you should visit me soon. Gather all five, and allow Minako to pull her sword, as no other may lift it. I shall appear and meet you then."
"My Queen." The two cats said bowing. Holding out her wand, the Queen made a bubble appear around the two now sleeping cats. Flicking the wand the orbs rose and rocketed to Earth, to restart on a soon to be freshly healed planet. The queen held out her hand and allowed the wand to drift upwards and into the stream of golden light, knowing it would find its way to Luna.
"Go forth and save the next Silver Millennium." She said. Closing her eyes she smiled a joyful yet sad smile, and with that she melted into the stone and ground to await the coming of her daughter and her protectors.
Yay! It's done! I just need to post the sequel! (I must chapterize it first though)
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