Period 3: Math
Theme 4: Remainder
Words: 316
Author: Lillie Bell
Usagi felt it when he was dead. The link that even in hibernation had always pulsated with the smallest energy was severed. It was sudden and abrupt and she fell forward under the sudden weightlessness of her soul.
The second soul it had been both parasite and symbiote to was gone.
The emptiness within her soul threatened to collapse like a vacuum. There was nothing to fill that void.
Her friends winked out of existence, their loss felt, though not on the same scale. They had betrayed her, attacked her, but she had loved them just the same.
And then Chibi-usa disappeared.
It was the logical progression of things, seeing as how Mamoru was gone. But it still hurt when that final cord uniting them was cut. It was not severed like Mamoru's, this was slow and agonizing and she could feel with each desperate breath her daughter dying as if it were her own body. Usagi held her tight, tears spilling onto the girl's chest as their child gasped before time caught up to her and she disappeared into the mists. Only a memory.
"This is what Chaos does," Cosmos said at her right. "He takes everything." There was something haunting in her eyes, as if she were watching a scene she'd played out many times.
Everything—but her. She was the only one left. The only remainder of a happy past, present, and future that had once existed but was no more. Only she survived.
But she refused to believe that. The ginzuishou flared from within her chest, her soul igniting with its burning wish to be free. She would save them. She had to save them. She would never be alone—couldn't be alone. She spread her arms wide, wings unfurling against her back. She would bring them back from the non-existence of the cauldron, or follow them to hell.
She jumped.