SailorStar9: After getting Chapter 2 out, this is Chapter 3 of this fic. (Sighs) Guys and girls, is it too hard for you to leave a review, instead of just putting this fic up on your favorited list and story alerts?

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Chapter 3: The End of Time! Kikyo's Prayer of Love


What is this unsettling feeling I sense? Kikyo frowned, in the midst of her daily shrine rituals. What the… I can't sense Haruto anymore. Nii-san… she looked at the Wolf constellation in the sky. Please protect Haruto.


"Haruto." Ryuho spotted the older Saint. "Where are we?"

"I don't know." Haruto admitted. "That Gold Saint brought us to another weird place. They seem to enjoy that."

"This is the end of time." Tokisada informed the boys. "A space beyond time. A future where past, present and future overlap. Once you arrive at this place, you can never leave. Not even with my power."

"If you knew you couldn't return, why would you come here?" Haruto asked.

"I was ordered to send you here." Tokisada replied. "Without sacrificing myself, it would have been impossible."

"And you didn't care what happens to you?" Ryuho inquired. "That's some loyalty."

"Foolish loyalty." Haruto retorted.

"This was the only way." Tokisada corrected. "If I fail… It doesn't matter to you."

"We need to go back to Koga and the others." Ryuho realized.

"Weren't you listening?" Tokisada snapped. "Once you come here, you can never leave."

"If there's a way in, there a way out." Haruto shot back. "That's how it works."

"We'll get out of here." Ryuho swore. "Rozan Syoryu Ha!" he released his attack.

"Hakurouken: Denshin Musou!" Haruto fired his attack.

"Those won't help you." Tokisada remarked, blocking off the combined attack with one hand. "The attacks of mere Bronzes…" he spotted the scratch on his cheek.

"Your Cosmo was spent during the fight with Genbu, and you were hurt." Haruto taunted.

"Even if you are a Gold Saint, in your current condition, we can win." Ryuho added.

"Time Reverse!" Tokisada unleashed his energy wave.

"You don't have the Cosmo to use that." Haruto snapped, both Bronze Saints charging in.

"Just as I suspected." Tokisada remarked, his wound healing. "My power… My ability to manipulate time has returned."

"He's recovered his Cosmo." Haruto realized, both he and Ryuho were flung back into the sand.

"A pleasant miscalculation." Tokisada chuckled. "This world is well suited to my power over time. Here, I can infinitely expand my Cosmo. If I can heighten my Cosmo enough to equal the explosion that birthed the universe and time, the Big Bang, and cause it to explode, I can destroy time and escape. Not only that, from here, where past, present and future connect, I can go anywhere. Time will be under my control. I shall be invincible. My power will exceed that of Mars and Medea, and the world will be mine. Excellent, I shall test my new power on you. Do you really think you can catch me here, at the end of time?" he taunted the downed Bronze Saints. "I can control what has happened here," his next assault destroying Ryuho's shield. "And what is still to come. You can no longer fight me. Even if I control time, my Cosmo does not fade. And your Cosmo is nearly gone. Will you still fight?"

"I swore I'd never run again." Haruto stood his ground. "My brother and this Cloth taught me that running accomplishes nothing. Never again!"

"Your brother?" Tokisada echoed. "I see, so you were that boy with him? I let you live because you were a child. Yet you would throw your life away? In the next world, tell the Wolf that came before you… Farewell!" he readied his next attack when he paused. "What?" he looked around. "It seems that the morose pneuma isn't aimed at my Cosmo. This is a prayer." He realized, the stream of purple thought bubbles flooded the desert. "It's too distraught."

"Kikyo?" Haruto breathed, recognizing the familiar warmth. "She's waiting for me back in the village. I can't die like this."

"By defeating you fools who opposed Mars, I became a Gold Saint." Tokisada continued. "And now, I have infinite power, and will become the ruler of time. You still stand?" he looked at the battered Wolf Saint. "It's true. It would be disappointing if the bearer of the Wolf Cloth were to die so easily. That's right." He grinned, striking two more punches. "That's what I want to see."

"Doton: Sashin no Mai!" Haruto let loose his dirt storm.

"You believe a child's trick like this would work on me?" Tokisada mocked. "Stop!" he froze the tornado. "I merely need to stop time." And deflected the attack back at its caster. "I'm sure that Wolf is upset." He laughed. "Not only have you failed to avenge him, but his killer will take your life. Again?" he stopped in his tracks. "Where is this prayer coming from? That voice troubles me. I feel too distraught. Where?" he wondered and focused. "That's…" his mind sent him to the Shrine's Sacred Fire Room. "That mark…" he recognized the scared symbol of Goddess Vesta at the door. "Is this the girl?" he centered on the praying Kikyo, the glowing amethyst magatama between her clasped hands. "She's the one who disturbed my mind just now. Die, child of Vesta!" he paralyzed Kikyo with his psychokinesis.

"Stop, it, Tokisada." Haruto got to his feet, realizing what Tokisada had meant to do.

"He's still conscious?" Tokisada wondered. "It seems that girl was regretful of you." He mocked, having blasted Kikyo against the Shrine wall and knocking her unconscious, Kikyo's hand still holding onto the magatama charm.

"It won't return…" Haruto continued. "What you've lost… The past… It won't return. No amount of hatred or tears will bring it back. But even so," he turned back to his opponent. "You may lose, but there are things you gain. A heart that will not run. That's why I won't lose. Unlike you, I grow with the passing of time. I fought with my friends, and each time I was hurt, I grew stronger. This danger will strengthen me once more."

"You grow as time passes?" Tokisada echoed, as Haruto's Cosmo exploded. "Then I shall steal away your time. With the ultimate skill of the Saint of Time, Tokisada, 'Chrono Execution'! Time and space will all be drawn within it!" he laughed, draining Ryuho of his time.

"You even treaded down Kikyo's love." Haruto roared, activating his Seventh Sense. "I won't lose anyone else! Hakurouken: Toga Shissou!" he let his attack loose.

"Haruto!" Ryuho was immediately at the Wolf Saint's side. "That's…" he spotted the one of Libra Gold Cloth's chains descending from the space above them. "Is it connected to our world?"


"I felt a great Cosmo." Genbu explain, Ryuho having brought both of them back to the Libra Temple. "It finally showed me where you were. It was his Cosmo?" he spotted the exhausted Haruto.


"Vesta…" Mars mused, sensing the familiar Cosmo. "Even you will stand in my way?"


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