Houki sat up, shock in her eyes. "Sailor Pluto!" She felt her life stop leaving her and the destruction ceased, leaving silence in its place. She looked to where she had last seen Setsuna and saw her raised onto her knees, Glaive gripped in her uninjured hand while the other hung uselessly at her side. "No," she whispered, horrified.
Somehow, Mitsukake made it to Setsuna's side. "You are injured, love," he whispered, gathering her against him and beginning to work his gift.
Setsuna smiled weakly. "I am dead," she corrected him. Slowly, she began to fade. "I do love you, Mitsukake. Live well." She was gone then.
"Setsuna, Dark Lady..." Mitsukake stared in horror at the place where she had been. He leapt to his feet and spun around, searching vainly for Sailor Pluto. "SAKURA! COME BACK! AAAGGGHHH!" He feel to his knees and pounded the ground with his fists. His shoulders hook from his sobs.
Houki looked away, crying. "What happened?" Hotohori whispered. Tamahoma and Miaka were holding each other and staring at the destruction around them I awe. Nuriko, Chichiri, Chiriko, and Tasuki moved closer, shaken by what they'd just seen.
"Sailor Pluto stopped time," she said. She had never seen her do that in all of the lives she had lived. She hadn't ever imagined that the Guardian of Time would ever break her rules. "She is forbidden to stop time...and death is the payment if she ever does."
"You will live?" he asked, pulling her close and staring down at her.
She looked up at him and smiled sadly. "No, Setsuna has only given us a last moment together, but I, too, must pay for that attack with death." Her voice choked up slightly and she leaned close to him. "I love you, Hotohori. You have been the greatest gift that I could ever imagine being given. I will never forget you, nor will I stop loving you." She felt time beginning to move again as her life started to leak from her again. The destruction however, didn't begin again. Once stopped, the attack was finished until Houki called it again.
"Do not leave me, Houki," he said brokenly. "I have searched my entire life for you and didn't even know I was looking for you. Now that I have found you I cannot imagine life without you. I need you, for the rest of my life, I need you with me." He caressed the side of her neck, then leaned down and kissed her. Her last breath was given to him in that kiss.