It's a double header today I finished this chapter 2 days after chapter 5. Please leave feedback. I do not own Sailor Moon all characters (other than my originals) belong to Naoko Takeuchi.

Chapter 6

Seth was dealing with his own problems at the moment. Sasori was moving much faster than she had in their previous battle. Seth was having a hard time keeping up and defending himself.

"Pathetic, to think that you two kids are responsible for all our problems." Sasori laughed hurling a bolt of dark lightening at them.

"I'm sure that by ourselves we mere children don't pose much of a threat, but when we work together we are a force to be reckoned with." the Shadow said letting loose a beam of silver energy the size of shopping cart. It flew forward and slammed into a shimmering layer of air a few inches in front of Sasori before disappearing all together. "I see you have an energy barrier as well. We both know you couldn't survive that blast without it." he grinned and leapt forward to force another opening.

"These guys are on a different level then the ones we fought earlier." Makoto cursed under her breath,

"We have to keep our guard up. I'm starting to get used to their movement. I just didn't expect to have to deal with the Silver Shadow as well." Rei replied as she leapt away to avoid another explosion from an energy ball.

"Three on two is not the kind of odds I was looking for." Lita muttered.

"Well if we don't take them down soon Minako is gonna be in a much worse state." Rei said sparing a glance at her unconscious friend. She could feel that here life wasn't in any great threat at the moment, but if the enemy decided to take advantage of her state they could easily kill her.

"Fine let's try to clean this mess up quickly." Makoto grinned and leapt to her left as she poured energy into her palm to form a palm sized mass of electricity. "Sparkling Wide Pressure!" she called before releasing the attack and hurling it at one of the dark soldiers, who knocked it away as it were a mere bug.

"Looks like were gonna have to use speed to close in on them and catch them head on with our attacks." Rei called ducking a blow to the head from the Shadow.

"Yeah, but how long are we gonna be able to maintain that kind of speed? I don't know if I have that much stamina yet." Makoto countered.

"I don't know but out attacks aren't doing anything at this point so we're just wasting energy from trying. Remember these guys are just a delaying tactic." Rei replied.

"And a damn good one might I add." Makoto grinned. As the Shadow broke away from her long enough to stand before Minako with his palm raised to hit her with an energy ball. "Minako!" she shouted as more energy poured through her body re energizing her. She moved faster than she ever had before and prayed that she made it in time to save her friend.

"She's not just using the barrier as a shield, she's absorbing your attacks." Ami shouted.

"Let's see if she can absorb this." Mamoru called as he leapt from the tree he was standing in and hurled a bundle of roses into the ground around Sasori in a circle.

"Such poor aim." she taunted.

"I wasn't aiming for you." Mamoru replied as he landed in between Seth and the Shadow, who was grinning with amused understanding. The roses around her began to glow with a strange light before the petals detached from the stems, hardened, and flew at her forcing her to destroy each petal individually as they swirled around in the air around her at random. Mamoru used this distraction to call energy to his palm and release it in a large beam only half the size of the one the Shadow had created. "Tuxedo the Smoking Bomber." he muttered as it flew away from his palm at Sasori. It slammed through the shield she was incapable of holding together and hit her head on.

"My turn." Seth mumbled coldly and leapt forward before anyone else could move to stop him. He reached her quickly, she hadn't even recovered from Mamoru's blast when Seth brought his fist to her ribcage. He pounded into her body over and over as the Shadow leapt forward to help. Seth slammed his fist into her jaw and was rewarded to see blood spit out of her mouth. She had finally managed to recover however, and caught his fist on his next attack and hurled him into the Silver Shadow. They flew backwards until they hit the wall of the school building which cracked from the force of the impact as they both fell to the ground.

"Seth!" Usagi shouted as anger poured over her. With tears beginning to fall from her eyes she leapt at Sasori. Somehow the sight of Seth falling had set something off in her and power pour through her like she had never felt before. Before she knew it she was standing in front of Sasori her fist inches away from her face. All she knew was she had to protect Seth no matter what.

Sasori was caught completely off guard she had assumed that the only truly dangerous foes would be the Silver Shadow and the young boy. The fact that this girl could reach her level of speed and power had never even occurred to her as she went sailing through the air from the punch Usagi had delivered. She had to kill this girl quickly if the rest of them were capable of reaching this level of speed and strength then the other team would need help quickly. Usagi moved to catch up and was in front of her again, but all Sasori could do was move to defend herself and wait for an opening.

Makoto grabbed hold of the Shadow's wrist and jerked it away from Minako, but not before he had released his attack. It caught her on the side most of the damage had been diverted by Makoto shoving his arm away, but she had still caught some of the blast.

"Minako!" Rei shouted.

"Traitor!" Makoto spat at the Shadow who simply smiled and slammed Makoto back with another energy ball. Makoto dis appeared from his sight. Her speed increased this much?! The Shadow thought to himself as his eyes widened in disbelief.

"She moves pretty quickly." one of the dark soldiers said from behind Rei. She hadn't even known he was there. She turned to defend herself from him, but it was too late. He already had formed a dark energy ball the size of a softball n his palm by the time she ahd turned to face him. The ball exploded in a beam of dark energy that pierced her and sent her flying through the air. She tried to scream but her voice could not form the sound with no air to use. She let out a silent telepathic plea to Seth before the world became black around her and unconsciousness took over.

Seth opened his eyes and tried to push himself up. He was sorry he had as sharp stabbing pain climbed up his spine and his sore muscles screamed in protest before he fell flat faced on the ground.

"How do you feel?" the Shadow grunted out the question from beside him.

"Like a boulder fell on my chest and I got sliced across the spine. Oh yeah and my muscles feel like they just got taken out of the blender." Seth groaned back through clenched teeth.

"She used her energy to temporarily increase her physical strength.

"Seems to have worked pretty well." Seth groaned trying and failing to pick himself back up again. "How are we gonna finish this?" he asked glancing over at the Shadow who was sitting up watching Usagi fight with a proud little smirk.

"Whoa!" was all Seth managed to say as he saw Usagi fighting.

"It seems your training has given some results after all." the Shadow said picking himself up off the ground and rolling Seth over so that he could help lift him up. Seth leaned on the Shadow for support for a moment to get used to standing.

"Does this bitch have a weakness of some kind?" he asked continuing to watch the fight.

"We need to distract her a hold her in place temporarily so I can finish her off." the Shadow replied.

"Your highness, it appearers your brother has found a reservoir of energy." Krystyl said appearing before his throne with a slight bow of her head.

"Yes I'm looking at the readings now." he said reading from a list of scrolling numbers above the arm of his chair. "Have we actually been collecting all this energy?" he asked still unsure as to whether the numbers scrolling across his screen were accurate.

"Every bit of it. The reserve energy tanks are now completely full and the main tanks are half full at present we have enough energy to generate the remaining amount. However, if we continue this for half an hour longer we will have filled all the back up tanks as well." She explained very straight forwardly.

"How much damage has the planet suffered from this drain?" the prince asked looking up at Krystyl for the first time since she had appeared before him.

"None that we can see so far. It seems to be less than one percent your highness." she explained.

"How much longer would we need to hold to make full repairs to the ship as well as the Dagger and the Protector?" he asked.

"One hour at most. The repair crews have now managed to start fixing half of the minor problems that were getting in the way of making full repairs to all three ships." she answered.

"Very well, we'll hold for another hour. It seems my brother is making better progress than either you or the Foreseer anticipated." the prince grinned.

"Provided he can keep this up for another hour." she replied with a slight touch of annoyance in her voice.

"SETH!!!" Rei's scream echoed through his mind. Seth looked over to see the Silver Shadow holding his forehead.

"Rei's in trouble." he said.

"I heard it." the Shadow replied and again Seth wondered how he knew only what Seth should know. "Can you stand now?" he asked.

"Yeah the pain is starting to fade away." he answered.

"Good." he said removing Seth's arm from around his shoulder. "Sailor Mercury!" the Shadow called. Ami turned around to look at him and went wide eyed.

"You're hurt!" she cried.

"We'll be fine." he said brushing away her concern with a slight smile of amusement and looking back toward the fight between Usagi and Sasori. "I need you and Tuxedo Mask to help me with an idea I just had to get Sailor Moon out of the way and distracting Sasori long enough for me to attack her from behind and take her out." he explained as a hole opened up in the air and a rather long glaive with a crescent moon on top of it fell into the Shadow's hands.

"I- I've seen that before." Seth said staring at the glaive trying to figure out where he had seen it before.

"In one of your dreams perhaps." the Shadow grinned and Seth got the impression that the Shadow knew more about Seth than he did.

Ami, Mamoru, and Seth formed up behind Usagi. Sasori was no idiot, even though she was occupied by Usagi's attacks she took notice of them. Seth had to admit he was impressed. Not only had Usagi's speed gone up, but her strength had increased as well. The Shadow appeared behind Sasori and they sprang into action. Mamoru leapt forward and pulled Usagi away from Sasori who was moving back expecting him to attack as Seth hit her with a beam of energy drawing his attention back towards him. While Ami gathered a surge of ice and hurled it at her freezing Sasori in place from the waist down. Sasori unleashed a surge of power in a split second causing the ice around her to shatter and explode, but that was all the time the Silver Shadow needed. He released the energy he had been pouring into the glaive in a giant column of white energy as tall as he was from the center of the crescent moon. The cascade of destructive white energy to slam into Sasori's back shattering her shied and creating enough force that the wind and pressure from the attack nearly pushed the others off of their feet. When it was over all that remained of the once brown eyed woman was a small pile of ash that was quickly being swept away by the wind.

"Yes, they did it!" Mamoru smiled as he landed softly on the ground and placed Usagi gently back in the grass. Which was no easy feat considering the high of the fall, the explosion of energy had lifted them both above the trees in the school yard.

"It's done." the Shadow sighed and fell to his knees in exhaustion.

"Silver Shadow!" Usagi called out in concern.

"I'm grateful for your concern Serenity, but I'm afraid I can no longer continue on in this form." he smiled weakly. "I must return to where I belong." he added turning away from her to the person who would now bare the burden of looking after them from now on.

"Where is that ?" Mamoru asked.

"Closer than you think." he replied still looking at Seth. "I hate ask you to do this, I did not wish to force this burden on you so soon, but I need you to take this glaive." he continued. "When you do you'll understand." he said with a knowing smile.

"Sure." Seth replied and began to walk towards the Silver Shadow with a slight limp.

"I was glad to fight beside you, your highness." the Shadow said removing his mask for the first time and Seth found himself staring back into his own face though the man was blond and his hair a bit longer he could have been Seth's twin. He took Seth's hand in a firm grip. He returned the mask to his face and looked back at the others. "And it was nice seeing you all again." he smiled at them as his body began to slowly disappear and turn transparent. "It was good to see that things have not changed too much from the way they were before." he said softly still smiling as his body faded more.

"Nooooo!!!" Usagi cried and tore herself from Mamoru's grasp and ran towards the Shadow's form.

"There is nothing you can do Serenity." the Shadow chuckled then turned again to Seth. "Touch the glaive and you'll understand." the Shadow whispered and then was gone. Everyone stood frozen in silence as the fact that the Shadow was gone sunk in. Then Seth reached out and touched the glaive at the same time that Usagi reached out and grabbed a hold of his arm. They both went completely rigid for several moments as Mamoru moved forward to pull Usagi away. For the briefest of moments their minds were linked as a rush of thoughts, memories, and feelings long forgotten passed through them. Their minds were both spectators to these images and sensations and for a moment in time they were one person.

They stood there for a moment then Seth's hand dropped from the glaive and Usagi fell back into Mamoru's arms. Seth fell back to land in Ami's grasp. She looked down to see that his eyes were filled with tears.

"I didn't make it in time." he whispered leaving Ami to wonder what he meant.

"I'm not going to fail again." he said his expression turning cold and serious as he wiped the tears from his eyes and stood back up. A whole formed in the air as Seth grabbed the glaive again and returned it back to the space it had come from.

"You here to save them this time." Usagi grinned and Ami and Mamoru stared at each other as if wondering if the other knew what the hell they were talking about.

"I promise I'll explain all this later." Seth said as they gathered around him. "But for now we'd better go help the others. Now hold still." he warned as a yellow bubble of energy appeared around them, lifted them into the air and disappeared.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter I'm finalizing chapter 7 now please look forward to it. this is a 30 chapter story with an epilogue so bare with me.