How to Defeat Death
Chibiusa, Orca and Christen tore down the hill as fast they could to get down to the Crystal Palace where they're made by a great gathering of people. To one side was the Sailor Senshi holding their daughters tightly as if afraid to let them go.
On the other side was the same picture on it was a group of Senshi that Chibiusa and Christen didn't recognize; on the other hand were dressed similar to Orca so it must the Aqua Senshi with their daughters who'd answered the call to arms.
Awaiting at the front with the moon cats was Neo Queen Serenity, King Endymion on the left and next to them both in their human forms was Queen Oki and her husband who must have been in a full blown panic to leave the Crystal Seas without even its King was King Delphin.
He was in his human form tall as Chibiusa's father with spiky hair the same color as that streak in his daughter's hair that ended in a long braided ponytail that reached his mid-back and was dressed as colorful as coral reef with bright ocean blue eyes.
Clearly everyone had been holding their breath worrying the three of them wouldn't have escaped the catacombs alive and now let out that breath they'd been holding to see the last three soldiers had made it back to the Palace alright.
The three girls were immediately ambushed by their mothers but no mother was more enthusiastic to see their child then Mars who never showed much of a maternal side in her youth but right now she was smothering her daughter to death with hugs and kisses as wells as looking over every inch of her while bawling her eyes out.
Christen who never cried before anyone else in the past was bawling her own eyes out before as she sobbed into her mother's chest happy to be reunited with her mother at last.
No-one said or did anything and of course no-one made any judgments. They didn't even try to strain to listen as mother and daughter started to whisper to each other softly about what had gone on during Christen's absence and why she'd done what she'd done.
All they did manage to hear was Christen whisper was the words "I love you, Mommy," and Rei reply back "I love you, Christen more then you'll ever known." and everyone knew whatever had gone on was now forgiven, forgotten and never to be brought up ever again.
This tender moment was broken up by an apologetic Neo Queen Serenity who told Rei that while she understood exactly what she was feeling that they still had an army of demons coming their way and they must be stopped at all cost or no-one would be with their children ever again.
Nodding that she understood Sailor Mars gripped her daughter's hand and went to join the other Senshi as they prepared for the coming doom. The children of both sets of Senshi however wanted to know what they're up against though their parents and the Royals agreed they didn't have time to explain the whole details of the last battle on that the telltale signs of the demons approach were already being shown.
The blackening sky, the bloody rain and the decay that came from everything they touched. But the children said unless they knew what came before they couldn't be any help.
Luna and Artemis step forward at this moment with their children and said they'd had the ability to transfer the memories of their mothers' memories of the previous battle with the demons into the children's mind. They see the memories as if they're living them as if they're their own but warned them it wasn't pleasant viewing and these memories would become part of them forever.
The Neo Senshi and Neo Aqua Senshi both agreed if they're to help fight the demons they had to have these memories and if that meant to be sacred by their own mothers night terrors so be it.
The five cats took a deep breath and asked one final time were they sure and the girls nodded adamantly. So the five cats all closed their eyes and faced the seventeen new soldiers and let the light from their crescent moons hit the girls on their foreheads and soon the girls all had blank looks on their faces and their mothers were holding them steady.
Their daughters were witnessing the terrors of war that no child even a child of the age of 912 should have to witness. The bloody carnage, the horrid stank of death and howling pain of misery as the two teams had worked together and nearly been defeat by these unholy monsters.
These being whose sole purpose in existence is to do harm being of pure evil and such savagery and rage and it looks like the Succubus was the Queen of the Demons and her lust for blood and violence was unbridle even a 1000 years ago.
The devastation around them was too unimaginable with everything soaked and chocked in blood from the skies to the ground to the air itself even the sea was blood red!
Finally in a last desperate attempt to defeat these demons they'd used both the Sailor Planet Attack and combined it with the Seven Seas Attack stop the Army. Then they watched as both Queens had used their Crystals working in harmony to create the Demon Graveyard to hopefully seal them away and everyone had worked with their remaining power to hopefully make it impossible for them to be ever found or freed.
Sadly that hadn't been the case given what was going on now as the girls came out of the memory trance and their mothers held them tightly again.
The girls came to one conclusion form the memory and all seventeen of them said it at once.
"We cannot simply try and simply imprison them again. They must be banished back to which they came. Return to their rightful place and seal that entrance to ensure they never walk this Realm ever again. They must go back to Hell!"
"And we must free Demi from the Succubus too! She still lives I can feel it but she's almost dead and if we don't free her now she will die!" Chibiusa stated though she had tears in her ruby eyes.
Christen step forward and nodded in agreement. "What Chibiusa said is true. The Succubus was ready back the graveyard to take Chibiusa's body as her own. She told me herself her time in Demi's body is short. Demi is hanging on to the mortal plan by a thread.
She was weak to begin with because of the abuse she suffered under her parents but the Succubus's control has left her less than an inch from death. If we don't get rid of the Succubus within the next few hours she'll die. And I'm telling the truth the Succubus wants no other host body then Princess Small Lady herself," turning to a stunned Chibiusa she stared at her with a strange and sad look.
"She's wanted you for her host body since the first day of school when you're kind to Demi. She wants both your body for your strength, longevity and as revenge for your mother's imprisoning her in the first place.
Trust me, Chibiusa she won't rest till she claims your body as her own. She's that obsessed with it."
"Is the Succubus wanting to claim all of us, Christen as host bodies for her fellow demons? As a form of revenge?" asked her mother sternly to which her daughter nodded looking revolted and unnerved by what she was about to tell them.
"She told me everything as she made me sharpen the daggers for the blooding of the students. She loves to talk she's so arrogant. She told me again the demons are now little more than parasites with how their demonic possession works and yes need to make bloodstones to hold that possession.
On the other hand they need strong bodies to do it and who is stronger and more powerful than us? The Senshi and the Royal Family? With us as host bodies they get their revenge and then it be easy pickings to get the rest of the world; both on land and sea, to gather all the host bodies they wanted, before remarking the world in their dark, twisted image of their idea of a paradise."
"This cannot be allowed! How are we to stop them this time when we couldn't stop them the first time around?" questioned King Delphin angrily.
"If we're to think about this logically we must combined our own powers with how people would've banished demons in the ancient past," proposed Luna and her husband Artemis agreed.
"Our family been doing a great deal of research on the wide range of beliefs on how to banish ghosts, spirits and demons from the Earth of the past and we think we can combined that with the powers that you all already possess."
"So you're saying we fight both with fire and the powers of old beliefs that would hopefully finally rid this world of all these demons and we could live in our paradise again?" inquired King Endymion.
"That would be the logical thinking in the matter, my King," Comet told him. "There are many events of demon activity in the past and most sources seem to confirm these old rituals and items do work. Still fighting the army important but there still two things to take care off before we can even get to do banishing them."
"What is that my feline friends?" inquired Oki curiously.
"We do need to exorcise the Succubus possessing Demi and though we don't have a priest or anything we feel that Princess Small Lady and Princess Lady of the Sea have the power within them to do this exorcism and free Demi from this demon." Asteroid explained.
"Us?! You want us to perform an exorcism!? Are you nuts?!"
"It must be you two that we are sure of and when the time comes to do it you'll know what to do."
"What the second thing that must be done?" asked Neo Queen Serenity as she eyed the darken horizon.
"The Senshi must hold off the demon forces till we can get all these items together to cast the banishing spell which must be performed by both royal families. That we are also certain of." Diana answered in her own adamant tone as she printed out a list of what they needed.
"Alright we have less than ten minutes to get this stuff. Sailor Senshi of both land and sea we need both generations to fight this battle to give us the time we need to set this up.
So fight with all you got while we set up for the banishing spell. Can you do that?" asked their queens to which all the Senshi fell to the ground and spoke in unison. "We serve a queens and serve the world and we live and die in the name of love, justice and peace of the world! We face death in honor standing and with pride!"
They didn't have much time to think because all the signs that the demons were coming was speeding towards them on the horizon. So the Senshi took their possession while the Royals and their servants were quickly hurrying to gather what was needed to get things set up for the banishing spell.
They could see the Succubus leading the charge and the rest of the demons looked like the things of nightmares even beyond nightmares really. But the girls stood next to their mothers unafraid. The girls saw even the Aqua Senshi and their children had the same look unafraid.
They knew death was coming but if they're going to go down? They do it standing tall and proud and they fight till they drew their last breath. And for their mothers they die first before their daughters.
The Succubus and her demons stopped just for one moment to look down at the army of Senshi as it was just silent for a moment as army looked at army before she screamed loudly "Take them! This is now our world my brothers! TAKE THEM OUT!"
And the hoard of monsters came stampeding down towards them growling, snarling and ready to kill and take the females as their own bodies. It seemed at that moment history was gonna repeat itself.
But if the demons thought no-one ever learned from history this time they're dead wrong. Because this time around the Senshi weren't just fighting for the people of the world or even two kingdoms. They're fighting to protect their own flesh and blood, their daughters.
They're mothers and a mother will protect her child at all cost and there is no fury worse than either a woman scorned or even worse a mother whose child is in danger! And apparently none of these demons from hell had never learned that vitally important lesson.
So as the demons were closing in for the first strike they struck first. Mother and daughter teams of Uranus and Neptune working in tandem with Pacific and Atlantic who were apparently the powerhouses on the Aqua Team unleashed their powerful attacks.
The demons weren't expecting the powerful attacks and even though they're somewhat rejuvenated from the energy they'd managed to salvage from the teenagers they'd abducted from the botched attempt to take as host bodies they had half their powers returned.
These were the same demons the Senshi had faced before so they remembered all the attacks before and had the knowledge of their powers and tactics and all that still with them.
But even with all that knowledge they didn't recall this level of power. Even the puny power boost from their daughters who they'd fought shouldn't be enough for this kind of power! What kind of power grant them this level of power and strength? That was almost a 1000 times more powerful than a 1000 years ago?! It didn't make sense!
Though caught off-guard by the stunning display of power and blown away by the sheer strength of it the demons rallied together and tried to combine their own power together and threw it back at the female soldiers but they merely got out of the way so quickly it was like they'd never been there and then before the demons could think they got sneak attack from behind!
Two more powerhouse attacks came from behind that seemed to be double that which had come already at them. Looking up floating in the air was Pluto and Saturn with their daughters and standing on water spouts was Indian and Artic with their daughters and all four they were pissed off.
The demons looked equally pissed off though before they could even counterattack from the west came a wave of ice and fire from Mercury and Mars with their daughters and the east while simultaneously a torrent quadruple water attacks from the east from Gulf and Mediterranean.
Then to really stop the army Jupiter and her daughter standing on a high pillars electrocuted from north and south at the same time.
The demons who were truly only at half strength couldn't hold up against the power of two generations being fueled by mothers protecting their daughters, daughters who wanted to make their mothers proud and the combined will to protect everyone on this planet.
The army was beaten without realizing this time around they didn't have chance. The Succubus was screaming in outrage she was cursing and shouting profanity and yelling in disbelief! No way after all she'd gone through that they could be beat so easily!
They were never this weak and she couldn't understand how even though they're at slight disadvantages they could've so easily gone down. Screaming her animalistic howl she wasn't going to go down.
She looked and spotted Chibiusa and Orca standing in front of the Crystal Palace guarding their parents who were finishing setting up for the banishing spell. Locking on her prey she blazed past the other Senshi and was almost at Chibiusa when she was blown back two beams of power.
"Tuxedo La Smoke Bomber!"
"Aqua Fury Hydro Flow!"
The two energy blasts sent the Succubus 40 feet way knocking her unconscious and pinned against a crystal were the energy became shackles and both girls looked at the fathers who looked beyond furious.
Both said at the same time. "No-one threatens my daughter not while I live!"
The two young princess let out a breath, smiled and said, "Thank you, Daddy!"
"You're welcome, now you must free Demi now. You know what you must do now. So do it our daughters and quickly. Then we must do this banishing spell before that thing or the demons regain their strength! So hurry!" their fathers told them.
Nodding their daughters quickly approached the unconscious she-demon and could hear faintly Demi's voice as well as her heartbeat slowing. They'd to act fast. They let go their conscience minds and let their hearts tell them what to do.
Their Senshi forms disappeared as they become clothed in their princess gowns, one a dress as white as snow the other as blue as the ocean. One girl had a gold crescent moon on her forehead the other had light blue waves on her forehead.
Cupped in their hands was the heart and power of their people. The Silver Crystal and the Heart of the Sea. The two most powerful objects on earth and yet they're also a sign of a long ago friendship that still stood today on the Earth of the 30th century. Like the friendship of the moon and the tides and the friendship that all the Senshi shared among themselves.
And the power of each Crystal reflect the love in the heart of its user and right now both of the young princesses felt the love of their families, their friends, each other and the whole world flow through them and the sensed the two world were indeed in harmony and working harmony the two powers combined could do a miracle that alone neither could do.
Their brilliant lights combined and the two of them spoke in ethereal voices as one and said to the Succubus, ""IN THE NAME OF THE HARMONY OF THE MOON AND SEA! IN THE NAME OF LOVE AND JUSTICE WE CAST THEE OUT AND REMOVE THY FOUL FIEND FROM DEMI! MAY HER SOUL BE PURGED AND SHE LAST BE FREE! WE REBUKE YOU NOW!"
The brilliant twin lights from the two crystal lights struck the demon in the place she didn't have but Demi did. The heart. The Succubus screamed bloody murder and tried to resist being exorcised from the body but she couldn't and finally after so long she was expelled from Demi's body and the really Demi fell to the ground looking almost dead with the three bloodstones a little ways a way.
The Succubus was now about 50 feet away and she was still weak and unconscious but they didn't know for how long. But Demi who was almost dead came to first and felt if she was gonna die she'd at least make sure that demon was going to go back to hell.
With the last ounce of strength she had she managed to get all three bloodstones in her hands and smash them on the crystal next to her destroying them for good and now making it impossible for the Succubus to repossess her and leaving her without a host body.
Now she was just as vulnerable to the banishing spell and Demi fell to the ground looking like she had died. The other Senshi went to Demi and told Chibiusa and Orca to go to their parents for the banishing spell they look after Demi.
Nodding though pained they hurried over to their parents as the last of the things needed were ready. They stood in a great circle of salt for protection within in a square of urns. In each of the urns was burning sage as well as boiling holy water to mix with the smoke. Tapped to the urns was the Lord's Prayer in Latin.
They're trying to blow it to the four winds so it go in all direction. Now the family were trying to concentrate on an ancient banishing spelling in one of the most ancient spell on how to send demons back to hell and combine that with their own powers.
It seemed to be working combining the two powers at first as the could see a large whirlpool opening but it seemed to be stopping halfway as the Succubus was now awake and doing all she could to use her own powers to prevent it from opening any further.
The other Senshi all of them from land and sea of both generation then lended their power to their queens and that managed to open whirlpool the rest of the way and ugly hands started to one by one grab all the unholy fiends and drag them one by one back to hell but the Succubus won't go without a fight.
She tried to fly away but then a giant clawed hand shot out of the center of the whirlpool and squeezed her tightly and she went kicking, screaming and cussing but it pulled her down and the whirlpool closed and then a bright rainbow light rippled from the spot where the portal had closed and enveloped the world and everyone could feel a sense of cleansing and knew in their hearts the demons were gone for good this time. They'd been sent back to hell for good and weren't coming back.
Everyone was rejoicing and then Chibiusa suddenly remembered Demi.
They looked at Sailor Uranus who was holding the lifeless girl in her arms and looking at her and no-one could tell if she was dead or alive…."
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