I AM SO SO SO SORRY IN ADVANCE BUT I WAS PROMPTED TO DO ANGST WITH THIS AND THIS IS JUST WHAT MY BRAIN SPAT OUT I'M SORRY BE WARNED. The tumblr crowd know this obviously, but ,yeah… here you go and I'll go hide in the corner.
A Kiss In Grief
Venus didn't have a lot of time left. She knew that.
She thrust her sword deep into the grey, barren soil outside the palace grounds, far away from the burning ruins of her formerly impenetrable home.
Her hands slipped on the hilt of the holy sword, caked in blood and dirt. When she coughed, small red droplets flew around her in the changing gravity.
Even the atmosphere of the Moon was burning, shriveling, dying. Soon, it would be inhabitable altogether.
Not that anything was left alive.
She was the last person with a beating heart on this rock. Not for long, that is. She could feel her stength slipping from her through the open wound in her stomach, held together only by a strip of cloth that used to be Sailor Mercury's skirts before she, too, fell in battle.
For some strange and unfair reason, Venus had outlived them all. Even her Queen lay dead in the prayer room, having used her last dying breath on a wish using the Legendary Silver Crystal. Venus wasn't sure if she believed this wish to be a blessing or a curse, or if it would work in any way.
She'd had a choice to make. Venus only had strength in her bones left to dig this one grave. Her princess or her Queen.
Her princess won, of course. It was the last service she could provide. A small token to dull her shame.
She was the shield. And yet she dug her princess's grave.
Only when it was deep enough did Venus allow herself to look again.
With a sob that tore through her very soul, she dropped the sword, and fell to her princess's side. Her body was cold when Venus lifted her. Her arms hung limp, her white dress had been stained a deep red from the chest out, from where Serenity had stabbed herself to death in her grief.
Venus choked on a violent sob as she pressed a kiss to Serenity's dead brow, before she carefully lay her in the way too shallow ground.
Then she turned and lifted the second body.
Endymion's body was much heavier. She felt her insides rip open farther under the strain, and dropping him into the ground was much less careful than with the woman whose death he had helped to cause.
Yet, Venus was a lot more careful when she turned them towards each other.
Serenity wanted to be with him. It was a wish she died for. It was the least Venus could do now: assure that her princess would be with her love in death, forever.
She turned them in a way that their lips touched.
With a sob that tore through her body, ripping her open in the truest sense of the word, she pushed the grey soil she had dug up into the pit, and buried them beneath it.
The soil trickled down onto their still faces first, covering them dust by dust, tiny pebble by pebble.
She didn't manage to cover them back up fully. She collapsed halfway. Breathing became harder in the thinning air, and her coughs rattled with the blood in her lungs as she fell with her back on the half-covered grave, out here in the endless grey soil of Mare Serenitatis, staring out into the dead, silent, gravely galaxy.
Death took her too, quiet and slow, lying on her greatest loss with her eyes wet and wide open.
Obvious Setting Tag: Silver Millennium
I AM SORRY. I blame my husband he encouraged me to write this atrocity. Monday's will be a happy one again I promise xD.