Chapter 15: Red with Rage
"What happened to Serena?" Venus asked, directing her question to Pluto.
"It seems the dark moon's gotten to her." Pluto said. "This is going to get interesting."
"But how?" Mars asked.
"You really want to know?" Lady Garnet interrupted them. "You never thought I was a good leader. You made fun of me, and questioned my authority as leader of the group, even though I was your princess. You pathetic fools."
They gawked at her. This was not the Serena they knew. She was outspoken. Her voice was icy and cold. Her contempt for them, mirrored the same contempt that Wicked Lady had spilled out to them the night before. And worst of all she hung on the arm of the Dark Prince like she was linked to him; like she had feelings for the evil man.
"Serena, you know that's not true." Tuxedo Mask pleaded. This wasn't right. He wouldn't loose both his girls.
"You of all people are one to talk. You spent your days with Rini once she came. You ignored me. You couldn't even save me when I needed you most. You pretend to be there for us, but when we really need you, your not there."
She glared at him hard. He knew that she may have still had hard feelings for all the times he had to ignore her within the last few weeks, and all the times that Rini had been hanging on to his shoulder, but was it really this bad?
"Serena, you know that's a lie. We support you as our leader, we may have questioned it once or twice, but we'd never abandon you." Mars said.
"It's Lady Garnet. And you were the worst of all, you never supported me. You would have loved to take my role, well be happy know because you have it." She said it to Mars with such a sting in her voice; Mars couldn't bear to hear it.
"You can't be serious Serena!" Luna desperately called up to her.
"You of all people should have supported me more. And once again it's Lady Garnet." She stared down hard at the cat, which had to divert her eyes from the once-moon princess.
"What about you Wicked Lady, can you truly say that we have abandoned you? I supported you?" Pluto tried to take it in her hands, to change the tone of the conversation.
"You never let me return to the future no matter how much I cried Pluto. The scouts abandoned me as a mere incapable child, and you left me alone when I needed you most. And you!" She stared hard at Tuxedo Mask. "You not only ignored Lady Garnet, but you left me alone when I needed you most. When I fell you lacked to help me up. Some father you were. Now you'll all pay!" She laughed with her harsh words.
"Is there any way that we can help them?" Jupiter said to Pluto with desperation.
"I don't know for sure. I know for one that Serena wouldn't have succumbed as easily. If I recall she resisted
Diamond once before. Something more sinister is at bay." She said eyeing up the evil Serena above them.
"She's right, it seems that the amount of negative energy around her is has a single point of conjunction." Mercury said, scanning the Black Moon beings infront of her.
"Meaning?" Venus asked.
"What she's saying is that something may be causing Serena to be so evil. It's not purely brainwashing like Rini. She was never this vulnerable before." Pluto explained.
"It's possible." Mars nodded.
"Stop you're blabbing it's time you paid for what you did." Lady Garnet threatened.
"We have not only the silver crystal in our possession but the most powerful women in the universe." Prince Diamond boasted, brushing his hand against Lady Garnet's back, making Tuxedo Mask shudder with the anger and jealousy that he was holding back.
Wicked Lady looked to Lady Garnet with a smile. This was going too well, she thought to herself. With one swift movement the who "Ladies" were back to back, using the dark energy, hair flowing upwards from the power, blasting their power towards their former allies, laughing a bitter laugh.
The scouts were blasted back with such power that they couldn't resist falling to their knees, feeling the power ripple through their bodies as they convulsed, becoming bait to their once Moon Princess and friend, and her future daughter.
"We have to resist!" Pluto called out to the other scouts in desperation.
"If I could just hold on a little longer…" Mercury called out, trying to target Lady Garnet behind her blue glasses. She soon realized that her power wasn't just coming from her hand but the ring that was placed on that same finger. "It's the ring!" She said before yelling in anguish as another blast.
The girls watched each other as they suffered by the hands of their once ally Sailor Moon.