The senshi arrived in a cold, dark hall, a monolithic temple of black marble. Their shoes echoed loudly as they ran through the massive building toward the only structures in the cold, tomb-like room, an impressive an ornate alter, a single flat, broad, smooth surface that rose seemingly from the sea of black floor. As they came closer, the image of a lifeless man loomed above the alter, suspended against the surface of a towering black obelisk, his arms held out and hanging limply against the shiny black stone. And laying on the alter below him was a beautiful blond boy, nearly entirely undressed, unconscious, and tied to the sacrificial slab. It was only when the senshi came close enough to see the face of the golden haired man that another emerged from the shadows, a white haired man with wicked eyes and bearing a large knife of the same black, sinister stone of the mausoleum.
"I have gathered all the elements here, senshi," the man said softly, leaning over the sacrifice. "With this, I can obtain the power of the dark god."
"You don't have to do this!" Sailor Moon shouted, stepping forward and readying herself to draw upon the Silver Crystal.
"Senshi," he said softly, patronizing the young woman and raising the knife. "It is already done." With that, he plunged the knife down, the demonic blade tearing through the man's body, and the sacrifice arched off the stone, screaming in agony and blood running in thick, dark red streams off the alter.
There was a flash of light, and a powerful, single pulse from the body of the man that hung from the obelisk, knocking the senshi back as a great roar tore through the air as the temple cracked and crumbled around them…