A/N: I'm sooooo sorry! My little brother broke my monitor and we had to get a new one...unfortunately, my father didn't think it necessary to buy one immediately, so I had to wait 'till he thought it was time to buy one, which happened to be two days ago!
Well...as you noticed, this story isn't over (duh). It should have been over about a chapter ago, but thanks to the many e-mails and reviews that ask that I keep going, I decided to stretch it a bit more. Not much though.
Okay, I wont stall you any longer then. Enjoy the chapter, and don't forget to leave a nice pretty review!Big thanks to the following:
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Pluto's eyes flared as she lifted her hands in the air along with her beautiful, but heavy staff in the air. With a silent plea, she called forth the portal that would lead her to the mystical gates of time.
Her domain.
She was trying her best to ignore all the commotion behind her as the portal materialized before her. The girls and Mamoru, who was now Tuxedo Mask, were all solemn and anxious at the same time. She hoped it wasn't contagious. The last thing she needed was to take on the traits of children, well...children compared to her, anyways.
As soon as the black portal appeared completely in front of them, she turned around and gazed at the senshi. "Let's go" her voice faltered a bit but she was quick to regain herself.
Tuxedo Mask was the first to enter, soon followed by Mars and so on and so on. The last to enter was Pluto, naturally.
Once the group had all safely arrived at the gates of time, they were greeted with a beautiful, but tormented voice. "Endymion, senshi. I welcome you to this place even in the hardest of times"
All at once, they kneeled before the beautiful white figure. "Queen Selenity." Their voices echoed throughout the black void in space.
Selenity gave then a light smile, extending her arms toward the kneeling bunch of teens, motioning them to stand up. Her eyes began to glaze over with unshed tears as she began to embrace each one of them individually, but only when she reached for Tuxedo Mask, did she really let them slide down her cheeks.
"I know how much you have suffered, but you have much more that you must endure if you want to see her again. Do not lose faith" she whispered so only he would hear. He tilted his head, telling her silently that he heard her loud and clear. She then clasped her hands together, and addressed the rest of the women in the room.
"Please, you must get to her as soon as possible! I know in my heart that you will save her...You have my trust. I have seen you hurdle through obstacles, tackle objects that are far greater than anything I have ever seen. Battled horrendous monsters that you could only imagine in your worst nightmares. If you could defeat those, then you must be able to save my daughter!...You must..." her body began to shake uncontrollably as she fell down to the floor and wept. Her hands covered face in shame as she shed the tears she swore she wouldn't. If she couldn't be strong how did she expect them to be?
Venus, being the most sentimental of the group apart from Usagi, stepped up and embraced Selenity. Knowing what she was going through, she decided to give her, her shoulder to cry on.
Selenity cried in her embraced for a minute then remembered the task at hand. Gently, she pushed herself out of her ex-niece's arms. She wiped away her tears with her delicate fingers and her weak, fearful eyes hardened practically into stone. "You must go now"
Everyone gave a slight nod before turning around to where Pluto was standing calmly. She jerked her head at the green portal beside her, and they all walked into it. Disappearing one by one.
- Mamoru's P.O.V -
My heart is always in pain...at times, I believe that I'm not allowed to feel any ounce of happiness. So many bad things have happened to me and I'm pretty sure that my luck wont get any better.
First with the Silver Millennium, and now this life.
Sometimes I wish that I didn't exist. If I didn't then it would save Usagi from all the pain that I would cause. She would be so much better without me. Finally being able to live her life as carefree without having a cold hearted jerk like me dragging her down.
I'm so dark...so tainted.
Everything she should be destroying, but her heart refrains her from doing so.
She deserves everything...so much more then I can give her.
I can't keep her safe...usually it's her protecting me! (something she'll never admit).
I will get her back...even if I die trying!
After what seemed an eternity, they were dropped out of the sky like garbage and onto a dusty hard surface.
"Geez Pluto...you didn't break all my bones there, maybe next time we should land from a higher altitude!" Jupiter remarked while holding her head. She stood up and dusted herself off then look around and was utterly disappointed. "And here I thought that Mars was the only planet with stupid ugly rocks! Nemesis is just as ugly as Mars"
"I resent that!" Mars lashed out at Jupiter, managing to slap her upside the head. "Mars is very beautiful, you just don't know how to appreciate real beauty!"
"Uh huh. That's why back during the Silver Millennium everyone was rushing to visit and see it's many 'wonders'" the tall brunette said, emphasizing 'wonders'. She snorted slightly as she began dusting herself off.
"Well beauty or no, we must keep going" Neptune half suggested-half demanded. Everyone have a light nod, and followed Jupiter's example and began to dust each other off.
"Mercury, try to pin point her exact location. It'll be a waste of time if we walk without knowing where we're going" Mars said. Mercury gave her a light nod, then in an instant made her computer appear in her dainty hands. With a slight sigh, she began to push certain buttons, beeps echoing all around them.
"She's that way!" Mercury point behind her, towards what seemed like a dark endless tunnel. Slowly, everyone turned around and followed her finger to where she was pointing to.
"Y...you sure that we have to go through th-there?" Venus' light blue eyes quivered with fear. Saturn quickly laced her arm with Venus' gave the other girls a grim look.
"Afraid so, doll face. Now lets get moving!" Jupiter yelled. She walked right past them and grabbed Venus by the skirt and pulled her along, dragging poor Saturn along for the ride.
"But...there might be another way around!"
"Uh uh...no other way but through that tunnel" Mercury informed. She glanced over at Mars and gave her a small smirk. As if asking her to take over.
"Are you sure? I mean...there could be something you missed!" The love goddess grabbed Mercury by her bow and asked desperately
Mercury only shrugged and reassured her comrade that there was nothing to fear except fear itself. After receiving a blank stare from Venus, she jolted out of her hands and walked calmly into the darkness, with everyone else trailing after her.
Venus gulped and stood there all alone outside the tunnel. "I am strong...I can do this...I am a Sailor Senshi...I can do anything..." behind her she heard a loud crash and she jumped slightly. "Wait for me!" she yelled at the top of her lungs, running after everyone else.
"Mars, light please" Neptune asked politely, trying her best to avoid confrontation between her and the inners.
Mars nodded and lifted her hand in front of her and a ball of fire appeared, illuminating the tunnel, causing the shadowy figures to retreat father into the dark abyss. Venus and Saturn both let out a sigh of relief but neither of them letting go of the other senshi.
Uranus stood in front of them, leading them further into the tunnel, making herself seem unafraid of the unknown creatures ahead when truly she was shaking as much as Venus was and found herself wanting to grab onto Neptune, but restrained herself from doing so. 'I will not be weak...' she kept chanting to herself.
Jupiter was behind her, walking with her hands clenched tightly together. Fear gripped her heart. Not because of the monsters ahead, rather how they were going to find Usagi. Is she still alive? Was she alright? Many questions plagued her mind, some she was terrified to know the answers of.
Mercury was beside Jupiter, still typing away on her computer. She was grateful she had it as it proved to be a distraction from everything around her. She glanced up at Jupiter and Uranus and saw a determined look on their face, it's to be expected, of course, then resumed back to her task.
A beautiful aqua haired woman was struggling with a young black haired child and the Goddess of Love. Neptune tried her best to get their clammy hands off of her arms but as soon as she pried someone's hand off another shot up to take it's place. Her arms were throbbing from the lack of blood. "Umm...can you let go of me?" she whispered to the two girls. Venus and Saturn looked at each other and quickly shook their heads, grabbing onto Neptune tighter. With a loud and obvious irritated sigh, she gave up and continued to walk with two leeches attached to her arms.
"Merc. are we even close to the end of this stupid tunnel? My arm is getting numb!" Mars whined. She held her extended arm in support, as the fire on her other hand was about to go out.
"Just wait a little bit longer. We're almost out" Mercury responded, not even bothering to look up at her. "I'm sure you can hold it for a couple more minutes, right?" her lips curled into a small smirk and her eyes twinkled with amusement.
Mars nearly lashed at her. She didn't like to be mocked...much less by little quiet Ami. Instead of lashing out, she only shot her a warning glare, tempting her to say more. Mercury didn't take the bait though, much to her disappointment.
Silence once again overtook them, until they were engulfed in bright light.
Venus and Saturn both ran out of the tunnel and inhaled deeply, before grabbing onto each other in joy. "See Saturn...I told you there was nothing to fear! It was only your imagination. You have to learn how to be mature!" Venus said, while trying to stifle a yawn.
Saturn shot her a surprised look, "Y-you...you didn't say that to me! Mercury did! And this coming from a woman twice my age that has to sleep with two nightlights on, or else she'll pee her pants. Oh yeah...real mature" Saturn said in a low rasp voice that caused Goosebumps to form on Venus' lovely skin.
Venus' eyes widened at one of her secrets revealed, she neared the teen with her hands balled up in the air "Why I oughta-"
"Enough!" Tuxedo Mask yelled out firmly. He didn't stop to look at them, he didn't even look back when he walked right past them. He was pissed, and anyone with at least two brain cells could see that.
"She started it!" -which was why Venus couldn't.
A pair of dark cold blue eyes stared into her own, and she grew fearful...Never had he looked at her like this before. She gulped, and as soon as he turned away she let out air that she didn't even know she was holding
"You should have kept your mouth shut, V" Jupiter chanted with humor clearly written on her face. Venus shot her a glance and mumbled something incoherent then promptly walked away, joining Tuxedo Mask.
After walking for what seemed to be like less than an hour, in the distance they saw a dark outline. And as they neared the dark shape looming before them, it grew and grew, soon taking the shape of a castle.
"We made it!" Venus jumped high and slapped Saturns' hand, giving her a high five.
"Yes...we did. Now for the hard part" Neptune stated, running her hand through her silky green hair nervously. She looked over at Mercury, as did everyone else.
"There seems to be no force field or anything around the castle" she said slowly.
"A trap" Uranus half asked, half stated.
"Most likely"
"Then...do we stay here and wait until they come out? Or charge in?" Jupiter asked, still looking at Mercury for the answer.
She shrugged slightly "Don't ask me...Ask him" she tilted her face in the direction of Tuxedo Mask, who was just standing there, observing the castle walls.
"So...what's it going to be Tuxie? In or out?"
His gaze shifted over to Mars "In" he stated simply before running off.
Mercury magically put away her computer, and ran to catch up to him as did everyone else. Then suddenly...
"Dammit!" Tuxedo Mask roared.
"What's wrong?" Saturn asked in concern. She walked up to him and as soon as she laid her eyes on him, she found herself trying to suppress her giggles. Tuxedo Mask was down on the floor, his face facing up, and her was holding his entire face. It seemed like he was crying!
"That hurt!" he groaned in pain. "I ran into something" he informed them before standing up.
Saturn finally let herself laugh as Tuxedo Mask removed his hand from his face. His face looked as red as those red roses he was always throwing!
"Yeah yeah yeah...laugh it up"
"I'm s..sorry...T..Tuxedo Ma..sk" Saturn said in-between giggles. Tuxedo Mask just rolled his eyes and began to walk forward slowly with his arms extended out.
"There's something here...I know it...I felt it" he whispered. He was suddenly stopped as his hands came in contact with something solid. "Mercury are you sure there are no force fields...Because this kind of tells me otherwise"
"There wasn't when I checked! Honestly! They must have just activated them" she said in defense.
"Great. Back away until we find a way through it" he commanded.
"Ummm...I don't think that's possible!" Jupiter yelled from behind.
"Why not?" Tuxedo Mask asked.
"There seems to a force field behind me too!" she swung her fist behind her to prove her point.
"Shit! We're trapped!" he cursed himself for being so stupid. In his hurry to get Usagi out of there, he walked straight into a trap.
"Oh looky at what I caught...New Toys!" a loud sarcastic voice echoed around them. Swinging their heads from left to right, they saw nothing.
Suddenly a woman appeared before them, grinning. She swung her green hair over her shoulder and her deep red eyes gleamed dangerously at them. "Lets play"
A/N: I could have made it longer, I suppose...but I wanted to post something as soon as possible. I hate leaving you guys waiting for so long!
If there are any mistakes, which I know there will be plenty, please forgive. I was in a hurry to get this out before anything else went wrong with my computer.
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