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"SAILOR MOON ETERNAL"
The 6th Season of the Sailor Moon Saga
Chapter 50
"Everlasting Friendship"
Shimmering into human form again, three energy stars land upon the snow crusted ground of this most western portion of Russia.
A little bumpy, hmph. Eternal Sailor Uranus sourly noted with a shake of her golden short-haired head at her scatterbrained travel agent, whose skinny now female body begins to shiver the minute they step into the subfreezing Russian city of St. Petersburg.
Like stepping into a romantic Russian novel where Rachmaninoff classical music plays in the background, the gorgeous frozen landscape was all too familiar to one of the three new arrivals. But the almost painful, biting cold was nothing to Alex Sokova, as this child of this northern region feels not the ice, nor the chilling winds biting against her cheek.
But rather the lonely pang of a memory.
Therein, the true pain of an unhappy past spent here was long and best forgotten as the golden-yellow uniformed Sailor Soldier gazes at the stark grey skyline. The bitter cold view was only broken by the soft nostalgia of her warm green eyes landing upon a singular angel dotting the Slavic city's horizon which bore Christ's Holy Cross gleaming in gold high into the dusky sky.
As a small child, Alex had believed that massive archangel was carrying the colossal crucifix like a sword as if to pierce the firmament between Heaven and Earth...
Shake, shake, shake.
Sailor Uranus shakes her sentimental head when a sweet silky voice breaks into her self introspection and contemplation of her forsaken childhood spent here on this very soil.
"Geez, it's cold out here, Ally! How could you have ever lived here as a kid? Brr!" The underdressed female form of Eternal Sailor Star Fighter was whining as he literally shivers, trying to gain some warmth from his partner as he wraps his pleathery blue-black arms around her slender white waist.
"Why don't the bad guys wait until summer, or at least spring to pull this crap—" Any further complaint was cut off by Uranus' hand shooting up for silence, as she shrugs her mate hard away from her body, denying Fighter the tenderness and body heat he was searching for.
"Quit complaining, you pathetic soldier. We've got a job to do here." No-nonsense Eternal Sailor Uranus sharply snaps, her voice as frigid as the nipping breeze as a painful remembrance of yesteryear and the approach of danger on this unknown mission—plus more than a bit of annoyance at her husband on this unmentioned anniversary date as well—had put her in a mood as cold as the ice.
"At least you've been promoted from just a bra to a vest, too. Next time, maybe wear a little more than your underwear outside, Anklewings." She brusquely remarks upon Fighter's feathered Eternal upgrade, purposefully stinging, before stalking off towards her premonition of evil as Fighter's lips pucker in reciprocal insulted annoyance.
"Fine." Feeling more than brushed off, pouty Eternal Star Fighter straightens up his new navy-black metallic leather vest's tall collar, then pulls the third member of their little military force into his arms in his intractable wife's place. "'Chelle won't mind keeping me warm, do you 'Chelle?" Defiantly being an insubordinate soldier to Uranus' self designated 'boss' status on this operation, former Starlight leader Eternal Sailor Star Fighter leans his curly navy blue head to Eternal Sailor Neptune's aqua sea of curls.
He gazes into her distant blue eyes with genuine caring, despite his own hurt feelings. Michelle, through his deep love for Alex—and a bond with his erstwhile Starlight brother, Robin, too—had become so very important to Sayer, just as much.
"No." Eternal Sailor Neptune responds in a small voice without emotion, not returning Fighter's smile as he sidles up to her frilly double aqua and teal skirts. Sayer's inviting grin quickly turns to a concerned frown at her dazed, disconnected attitude. Surely in the past the snobbish debutante would've pushed him aside with a snooty remark, once upon a time before her soul had been ripped away from her. Sighing at the hell life had dealt out to his beloved pair of earth soldiers, Eternal Sailor Star Fighter pulls Neptune even tighter, closer to him, as they both follow Uranus' lead into the heart of the foreign city.
"Strange." Eternal Sailor Uranus comments to Eternal Sailor Neptune and Eternal Sailor Star Fighter as they join her side in the middle of the empty historic street.
"Where is everyone?" Neptune asks, her mind adrift, as if forcing herself to say something to be part of this mission merely for her Outer Scout partner's sake.
"Maybe they're all smart and stayed inside where it's nice and warm…?" Shivering as he claps his hands together, glad for the short, PVC leather vest and albeit open, high collar covering his otherwise fairly bare back and neck, Fighter starts to reason in his comical way.
That is, until Uranus' hand gives his clapping ones a whack to cease their useless noise and distraction, her hard-pressed palm to his mouth stopped Fighter's rambling words mid-sentence.
"Shut up." She whispers harshly, angrily, at her lover, her blazing green eyes flitting up and down the street, up to the sky she called her own and then sharply down to the ground.
"It's coming." Eternal Sailor Uranus enigmatically stops and states succinctly. "Hold on to each other." She orders, grabbing hold of Neptune's puffed sleeve shoulders as well, to support her friend. Fighter's brows furrow, wondering what his lover could possibly be talking about in a deserted street so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
Then Fighter's own 'perfect soldier' keen ears perk up at the sound of distant thunder, but instead of in the sky above, the rumbling seemed to come from somewhere beneath his tall booted wedge-heeled feet.
"AHHHH!" The screams of the well hidden townspeople could be heard throughout the supposed safety of their shelters as yet another tremor shakes the ice strewn land. The fresh powdered snow scatters as the ground roils, it was plain to see for Uranus, Fighter and Neptune the extent of the damage already. Their eyes quickly examine the cracks up and down the city streets and buildings, opening up again now as an inexplicable earthquake seems to be on the verge of roiling in, right where they stood…
"Jump!" Uranus doesn't have to order a quick footed Star Fighter as a yawning crater begins to open directly beneath his feet, the Starlight leaping to the safety of an icy snow bank to the side of the street. But the gaping hole continues to spread, becoming an enormous division in the street, splitting the once peaceful burg of St. Peter's in two as everything shakes violently.
Even the best built of buildings and historical locations that displayed columns of ivory and gold, fall into ruin under the impact of this well over 9.5 earthquake on the Richter scale.
CRASH! BANG! SLAM! SMASH!
Star Fighter could barely stop his thoughts from shaking as the tremored surge rushes straight through his body before he was able to continually leap high above. But the screams of thousands of innocents below ring in his deafened ears as chunks of pavement, pieces of building and bits of falling shrapnel spew out from every edifice along the decimated main street.
With quick reflexes and swift eyes, Uranus and Neptune pull each other to dodge away from the collapsing world about them, out of their control from an earthquake that lasted much longer than any of them had ever experienced before.
Something's wrong! It's going on too long! Knowing earthquakes very well indeed, Uranus shields Neptune's body with her own, with no place to run from the abundant tremors the Sailor pair must evade all the crater ice ground holes that were inexplicably spewing out steam and heat from somewhere beneath their feet.
Uranus, familiar with causing some earth-shaking herself, knew instinctively deep inside that this extremely lengthy quake was something far less than natural, particularly in this calm area. Her instincts pay off as a red ruby flashes in the sky and the lady of the same name appears, devilishly laughing at the chaos and destruction ensuing beneath her with every slice of her now full red corundum gemstone in the shape of a deadly sharp dagger.
"I've been expecting you, luvs. How do you like my formidable 'Tectonic Magma Earthquakes' that my Opie designed for me? I've got more where they came from, if you're interested! And even if you ain't! Hahaha!" Lady Ruby cackles down at Uranus especially, the two tough women having unsettled business between them. Ruby was obviously more than recovered from her last encounter with Jupiter earlier in the day by a certain healing powered Metallia's Heir after making a quick stop back at the dark kingdom lair to power up.
"Halt!" Lady Ruby's sharp command rings out and the tremors abruptly subside, Uranus and Neptune falling to their knees at the sudden sweeping jolt.
The molten hot jet of iron this ignorant ignoble so flippantly released was nearly as scorching as the sun. Her mastermind inventor husband, Lord Opalson, was just scratching the surface of what her wickedness could wreak on the subject of magnetism and polarity when subject to her fire wielding experimentations upon rubies. Lady Ruby's gemstone dagger encompasses the magma lava stopping as well at her command to a high melting point productivity and density.
"Good, ain't I, with my Opie's latest genius invention?" Ruby's new earthquaking attack had the added dangerous incentive of causing scorching destruction on the way up as well as out. The crazed woman was utilizing her powerful husband's scientific knowledge combined with Metallia's dark Chaos energy which enhanced their abilities anew. The fully ruby dagger upgraded her firepower to move molten lava surges, to be summoned from deep under the earth's unnaturally disturbed crust.
"Look what you're doing to the city, to these people! What 'good' could you possibly think this is to destroy all this beauty so meaninglessly!" Incensed, Uranus was surprised of the conviction in her own voice, her childhood years spent here as a very young girl being filled with so many thoughts that were far less than beautiful. But still, this was her homeland…
"Beauty? I don't see nothin' but some old crumblin' shacks and that oddball eyesore of a supposedly holy chapel up the road where these silly peasants worship some supposed holy deity. Hah! I'll give them 'holy!' Just think of me as a home wrecker to come tear down all these dilapidated haunts with my fire's demolition ball. And then Metallia can take over as the energy draining cleanup crew of this dump left behind. That is, if my molten lava iron river doesn't do them all in first! Ha ha ha!" Sacrilegious Ruby laughs at her own blaspheming comparative pondering, she obviously didn't give a care to any of the dislocated population's human life here.
Suddenly, she snaps her fingers again, and without prior warning, pressure builds to a burning hot jet of boiling lava that had been simmering beneath the earth's long extinct volcano under the ground. Sweltering heat now again begins to steam up from the accelerated bubbling molten volcanic emission that Ruby was summoning to the surface. At her malignant command, it roils up from the chamber deep below the surface, causing liquefied magma to move through the channels in the crusted, cracked ground until it escapes out onto the planet's surface.
The well past destructive force shockwaves emanating from the disturbed underground volcanoes rocked the city again. Multiple buildings come down with people screaming and fleeing the now quickly set aflame combustible flooring which was melting beneath their feet. Very few of these antiquated Russian structures on this historic district were able to withstand the right off the Richter scale volley of earthquakes.
Ruby's cackles were the only other thing beyond screaming and crashing to fill Uranus' fuming ears. Unexpected tears form in her eyes as she watches even the glorious Russian Orthodox Cathedral, its majestic, multi-tiered bell tower crowned with a landmark gold needle and Baroque, Western-style stone structure, begins to quiver and crack. Its trembling centuries-old tallest spire threatens to collapse in, as its hundreds of years old ornate cherub statues, decorative panel wall pilasters, and stained glass window shatter before her stunned eyes.
But what struck Uranus' heart most was when the symbolic Christian crucifix cross weathervane on the incredibly tall spire, held up by that golden copper gilt mighty archangel she, as a child, had always gazed up to on its highest bell tower peak begins to sway in the sky, to Heaven he was pointing up to. That flying angel bearing that holy cross had symbolized so much for so many devout Russian Catholics in this Slavic area, as it perilously wavers back and forth in a way which Amaralexis Sokova had never believed she would witness—that the impressive monument would go down before she would.
"URANUS SPACE SWORD BLASTER!" Eternal Sailor Uranus reaches for the winds to create her gleaming talisman sword, taking precision aim, despite the rocking earth beneath her high-heeled white boots to let its wind powered energy fly towards the evil creature causing this chaos.
Ruby strikes back with angry eyes flashing as she wraps her enhanced pure Ruby dagger out to block Uranus' Space Sword descending upon her to send its gleaming gold energy flailing back, knocking Uranus down to the numbing, rumbling ground.
Alex's head hits hard against a large jagged stone that had risen from the unruly earth's surface, blood freely flowing from her forehead as Uranus falls unconscious on the trembling ground.
"Uranus!" Sailor Neptune was immediately at her side, holding her own to cross the raging, quivering ground to stay upright on her tall booted dexterous feet. Once there at Uranus' side, Neptune looks up into Ruby's flashing red eyes when the Negaverse villain swoops down upon them again.
"NEPTUNE SUBMARINE REFLEC—!" Eternal Sailor Neptune quickly cries out, holding up her mirror of vision to shine back a defense at Ruby's too close, glowing evil dagger attack on her prone best friend.
SM-AA-CCKK!
"Ohh!"
With Ruby's back hand, the vicious woman swats away at Neptune's visions mirror, her talisman taking the majority of the impact of Ruby's chaos energized destructive blow.
Michelle's heart's mirror clatters to the ground meters away, leaving a shaking Neptune undefended. She falls to the ground, winded, as the crazed woman continues to swoop down towards the vulnerable pair. She was ready to plunge her powered-up dagger in Neptune's vulnerable chest with one hand, building a fire in the other malicious fist to send a vindictive ball of flame towards the head of a bleeding Uranus at Neptune's feet, her Eternal partner's body weak and just coming back into consciousness…
"STAR SERIOUS LASER!"
From across the way, a perfect laser beams through the chaos, causing Ruby's deflected flaming dagger to just graze Uranus' instantly scorched skin as Alex had incredibly managed to jump up and intercept the red hot blade coming towards Neptune's path. Fortunately, due to Fighter's timely shot, it only sears the left trail of the green shining bow of her Uranus' uniform's chest right off, leaving a horizontal rip in the cosmic fabric of the new white and golden yellow Eternal uniform, over Uranus' heart instead.
"STAR FURIOUS PUNCH!" That's when Eternal Sailor Star Fighter's desperate cry calls over the numerous craters between them with his second power punch delivery, his glowing steel blue fist of fury valiantly knocking Ruby's aflame, red hot chaos dagger kilometers away.
Suddenly the tremors stop as Ruby was caught off guard by the sheer force of Fighter's star-powered fist pounding attack which sent the Negaverse upgraded red Ruby dagger designed to channel the magma below, splattering dozens of kilometers away into the cold Russian snow.
"Your turn, Red!" With another mighty, glowing pale blue left fist now as he takes the stance and poise of a true boxer in the ring, Eternal Sailor Star Fighter then employs all his residual star energy to gather into his less dominant hand. With a swift speed follow-up motion, Fighter spins to land a mean punch right into Ruby's ugly face, next sending the lady herself launching into the air in the opposite direction with a secondary cosmic pounding punch.
That gives a physically and emotionally shaking Neptune the chance to flee the battle as Fighter grabs her up in his arms to deposit the shaken Guardian to the relative safety of the Neva River bank nearby to recover.
Judging Neptune relatively safe, Fighter leaps over the broken street's craters again between himself and his wounded love. "U! Are you okay?! Does it hurt bad?!" Hearing his anxious voice as Sayer frantically assesses the not so deep slice and burn slash over her ripped uniform's revealed left lower breast, Alex's eyes open wide at his tender touch and saliva lick to debride a cool and analgesic quell on the second degree burn there over her heart to prevent blistering.
Bearing the pain with gritted teeth, Uranus quickly stands to her feet, helped up by Fighter's long limbs back to the battle scene with the regimen of a true soldier.
"Never mind me, you fool! Focus on the mission! You were told to get those people to safety back there! You just do your end of the job! I can handle this witch by myself! I don't need you to save me!" No damsel in distress, irritated Eternal Sailor Uranus growls the rebellious order with little compassion and a biting, snide retort instead of the gratitude she should have had for her fellow soldier. Humiliated as a warrior to have required her husband's protection, she shakes him off again, wiping the blood away from her own mouth with the back of her quickly stained white glove.
This independent, always self-sufficient Sailor's defiance spills over when she saw the crowd of frightened people still huddled within the crumbling Cathedral that so many had taken refuge in even as it was seriously beginning to teeter back-and-forth in collapsing debris.
"On it, U!" Never taking her outbursts personally because of his deep belief in his strong partner, Sailor Star Fighter believes in Sailor Uranus' ability to come out on top more than anything. Even though he had no idea why she had been snapping at him all day, his good nature assumed it was just anxiety for this upcoming battle.
And yet—Sayer Starr's heart still ached to see his tough Ally wounded and bleeding as she fought against this seemingly strength-enhanced enemy.
But he must turn and follow what leader Uranus had ordered. Fighter knew she was right, these poor innocent lives in danger was the reason they were here in the first place.
After a quick appraisal on the still dazed Neptune's whereabouts and Fighter's dash into the St. Peter's Cathedral just down the street of her former hometown, Uranus raises her steel sword for the next assault on this frigid cold, late December falling night upon her sworn enemy.
But Ruby had also risen to her feet already, nursing her bloodied broken jaw that Fighter's infamous furious punch had aggressively connected with and sent the dark energy shielded woman flying back minutes ago.
"You're gonna pay for that, you jackass." Spitting up blood, bile and broken teeth, the wicked red witch's fuming mad venom at Fighter under her breath pauses momentarily when something catches her eye in the waning Russian twilight. On her treacherous way to return to the town center, after being thrown many meters away from it by Fighter's swing, Ruby now moves towards the glistening water halfway back in her raging mad path.
There, the smirking villain takes aim at a defenseless Neptune who was gazing forlornly into her slightly cracked and irrevocably cloudy, lacking luster mirror talisman where she knelt on the Neva riverbed edge.
"Are you watching, Uranus?! I'm gonna rip everything you love from you, you bitch! Starting with that blasted Heir's precious pet. Spoiled rotten floozy." Ruby obviously had no love lost for anyone, including Metallia's 'Heir' who, despite giving their attacks some inside job insight and Chaos power infusion now and again, Ruby still was rather bitter how that little man had taken over a great deal of their power conquest in the Dark Kingdom. And so any Sailor Soldier of this planet he had some strange connection with was no favorite of hers, either.
"Keep away from her! URANUS SPACE TURBULENCE!" Panicking, Uranus bellows out, sending a wildly tempestuous and violent air pressure flow in Ruby's direction to stop her as Alex races like the wind towards the riverbed some distance away. But the wily woman dematerializes from the road in ample time, as Uranus' new Eternal power missing its mark entirely.
At super speed leaps and bounds, Sailor Uranus was relieved at least to be successful in reaching the riverbed shore to stand in defense of Sailor Neptune. Alex embraces Michelle to her, with Ruby appearing nowhere in sight. Guarded, Uranus gazes around the perimeter with the waterway at her back suspiciously, only to have her heart frozen in her chest in the next second.
And it was not due to the well-below freezing Russian temperature of 3° and dropping as the sun had fully sunk. The dread came more at Lady Ruby's evil dripping cackling which was now emanating from the hundreds of feet across the crippled street Uranus had just left behind.
"Ha ha ha ha hah! You fell for my trap, Uranus! I knew you would always choose to protect that worthless shell of a weakling Sailor Soldier first, you stupid dingo!" Ruby's red eyes were laughing at Uranus' startled ones as Alex defensively stands, shielding Neptune behind her readied body.
"Guess you made your choice, Uranus! But may I say: you choose poorly, luv." As she spoke, a diabolic ball of incandescent fire was almost fully formed between Lady Ruby's fiendishly itching for vengeance hands behind her back.
"That perverted bastard of yours is gonna be smashed to smithereens, scorched to a crisp, a melted down broken carcass for messin' with my face!" The look of pure sadism on Ruby's scarred, disfigured face could only be born of Chaos' hatred and despise.
No! The Cathedral I sent Fighter into…Damn it, Starr! Get out! Alex's quick mind warns, swearing at herself more than Sayer for ordering him into that already precarious spot, as she reels for those split seconds of her incorrect battle decisions which might have just cost her lover his life…
"STOP!" Her deep voice cries out even louder than the screams in her heart when Uranus' eyes glaze over as Ruby's most malicious, hottest lava ball, drawn straight from the heated center of the earth, boils to the surface before it makes direct impact to the highest tower point of the city, the unsuspecting, three century-old Holy stone cathedral that had survived war and upheaval and multiple lightning strikes—St. Peter and Paul's Cathedral.
The vengeful spewing magma directly strikes its already shaken, glorious clock bell tower which crumbles like a cake under the Chaos powered red-hot vengeful anger and forceful unrestrained resentment of an untamed, feral woman's wrath. And worst of all, the golden copper plated spire crowning it with the landmark needle topped by the flying figure of that archangel bearing the Holy Cross of Christ, begins to sink its great crushing weight through the 400 foot tall disintegrating bell tower roof.
The angel's pointing up hand reaching to the distant sky above was the last thing seen as it slips straight down, losing the battle between Heaven and Earth…
Alex, as a little girl, had looked up to that selfsame golden angel's renowned statuette many a time with soulful questions way too mature for a child of such early years which the now adult version of that young girl could only now watch descend, layer by layer, crashing down to its ultimate demise. That magnificent angel still enduringly held on to the Holy Cross of Christ which tiny young Alex had thought resembled a sword pointing to Heaven that could right the wrongs of this fallen earth with one mighty swing upwards…
Now, here again, years later, her body moving mindlessly, impulsively, her eyes widen in pure shock, and Uranus leaves Neptune unattended at the riverbed. With new emotions taking hold of her for another vulnerable heart in her care, this daughter of Uranus flies on the wind she commanded back towards the distant, record high Cathedral that was utterly, tragically collapsing into itself by now.
FIGHTER—!
As she ran towards the building he was still in, Uranus' eyes witness in sheer pain as the remainder of the historical, religious edifice finally flattens into a massive plume of dust and smoke and ash at ground level. It had stood for hundreds of years as a beacon of goodness and hope and faith and refuge for so many broken souls—and now, in a matter of minutes, by the hand of pure evil, it had been reduced to a broken, empty shadow of itself.
Just like my heart without you to fill it, Starr.
With decimated eyes, the realist in Uranus recognized this awesome level of destruction gave little hope for any survivors left within the rubble of the once majestic Russian Orthodox Cathedral.
You can't be dead, Starr!
As the closing in night darkens, Uranus' stolen breath catches in her dry throat as, all at once, the melody of her life stops beating its rhythm she never before realized had been composed in Alex Sokova Starr's slowly unraveling soul.
How can my life keep going on beyond this dark night?
In slow motion, incinerated ashes pour over her head, her face, coating her eyes and filling her mouth and nostrils. Alex's heart cries out silently, the angry vengeance growing with each unconscious step to utterly destroy the sadistic, brutal female opponent had no bounds now…
Eternal moments before…
"STAR SERIOUS LASER! STAR FURIOUS PUNCH! STAR DELIRIOUS KICK!"
Seriously, furiously, deliriously, shooting, punching and kicking his pure star energized path straight into danger, Eternal Sailor Star Fighter blasts his way into the collapsing building. All the while his precise aim was continuously zapping with every power at his disposal the plunging down debris and golden icons descending from the balustrade above the altar gate from striking the many trapped people still inside. All while yet trying to clear a safe escape route from the earth shaken, superstructure wavering Cathedral.
But the weary Russians did not know what to make of the dark leather clad alien Soldier who was wildly and powerfully punching his glowing pale blue fists and kicking up blinding light show as he first entered the ornately decorated holy Cathedral.
Was this newcomer a friend, or part of the otherworldly, inexplicably attacking foe?
Eternal Sailor Star Fighter did not appear as the traditional shining white knight in heroic armor that people would easily recognize. The already terrorized citizens back away from the less than formally dressed, darkest blue black collared feminine figure who may or may not be responsible for setting ablaze their besieged sacred church.
With scared eyes, many of them had returned back into the creaking, crumbling sanctuary of their beloved holy shrine which they had more faith in finding refuge within than the frightening earth, wind and fire energy exchange going on outside.
"Hey! It's clear! Come on out now! Come on! Everyone! Oh, what's with them?! Please don't be scared! I'm a friend! Come on, Russkies! How can I talk to you, to make you understand?!" Sailor Star Fighter's quick hand motions with a residual bluish glow from all the expelled raw power of his called upon Fighter Star Guardian to get out of the earthquake beleaguered building.
But Fighter's best attempts to communicate and most winning smile only seemed to frighten the mostly women, children and older people all the more.
None of the poor to middle-class Russians in this older neoclassical section of the city had an inkling of any language other than their own. And this person coming in, laser shooting from the hip, punching and kicking like no soldier or Cossack they'd ever seen before, seemed more than a little terrifying to approach.
Action hero Eternal Sailor Star Fighter, desperate to get the innocent people moving, made the mistake of grabbing a frail elderly woman's arm with the kind intention to lead her outside to safety. But for that he gets slapped across the face instead—hard too!—with the old lady's handbag, along with many a Russian exclamation that he was sure she was cursing at him to go along with it. Everyone around crowds charily about this obviously foreign invader into their peaceful city, as a frustrated Star Fighter does his best to gather as many people as he could to escape from this imperiled St. Peter and Paul's Cathedral.
But the people could not be blamed, they were in more than alarmed confusion at the destruction of their beloved Imperial capital, not to mention this most hallowed of St. Petersburg's revered religious monuments, too.
SCRR-UNNCCHHH!
Just then, unbeknownst to those within, the massive, viciously flaming molten lava ball of fire had hit the top bell tower, rocking the entire historical ancient cathedral, adding flaming insult to already earthquaked injury to the sacred shrine.
Vindictive Lady Ruby had deviously targeted St. Petersburg's oldest church with the sole purpose to eradicate her most hated rival—Sailor Uranus' precious partner and lover, Sailor Star Fighter, who had made the mistake of personally scarring Ruby's unforgiving face.
No matter how much history, how many innocents, nor the high amount of disrespect to Heaven, this wicked female was hell-bent upon trampling everyone and everything in her vengeful path.
"Boze moi! Boze moi! Boze, sochrany nas! ('My God, My God! Dear God in Heaven, preserve us!') The elderly priest cries out from further up on the church's front altar platform as he sends up a prayer when he sees the rows of shelves filled with their sanctified chalices, carved consecrated icons and gold cast saintly treasures, come smashing down as the entire church building shivers from the structural damage above that was starting to emanate downwards. On top of that clattering pandemonium, the holiest of holy doors which led to the tall sanctuary full of tiers of meters high iconostasis golden saintly icons, paintings of Old Testament scenes, and carved gospel depictions of the Savior begin to teeter from the already cracked, Bible religious painting embellished walls that had been created for all parishioners to clearly worship the one true living God—
But now, all that heavy gold ornamentation was threatening to crash death down upon the blessed church sanctuary of the Eastern Orthodox Slavic Christian tradition; crushing, instead of serving the purpose to redeem, the souls of many of the humble worshipers.
Seeing imminent danger, hearing the desperate cries of people terrified below all around, feeling the need to protect the innocents that this holy shrine was meant to shelter, Sailor Star Fighter swiftly rushes forward, physically catching the entire golden entablature, as the falling ceremonial holy gate's high shelf baldachin plummets down towards the screaming people.
The weight almost beyond his incredible, otherworldly star strength, Fighter holds the structural pillar golden baldachin canopy's holy altar gate upright as the fleeing townspeople escape its deadly descent.
"Svyatoy gospod iisus, pojaluista, zashchiti svoikh detey!" ('Lord Jesus, please protect your children!')
"Father—ugh—please—ughh—" With great effort as his thin sinewy arms both push up against the overwhelmingly large, sculpted bronze canopy's burden, Eternal Sailor Star Fighter turns to the wide-eyed priest, praying with everything in him for the older Russian man to understand the words he was speaking. "—get these people out of here! The whole damn church—oh, pardon me, Padre—is gonna—ugh—come down soon! I can't hold this up much—ughn—longer." Star Fighter grunts out, his sweatdrop soaked forehead motioning at the terrified children who had been hiding under the golden canopy altar gate hugging themselves and each other in fetal positions for whom he was miraculously holding it up still above them.
Fighter goes above and beyond his already phenomenal star strength, raising the gold plated heavy bronze baldachin just high enough to not crush the dozens of small children huddled below. But time was ticking down as even this incredible warrior from the stars strength begins to waver, Fighter's knees buckling under the considerable weight. Not to mention the burning hot melting steel of the disintegrating chapel bells and pieces of the distressed copper roof that had been obviously hit from the outside and was starting to liquefy down to pelt the inhabitants below.
"Ahhh! Christ help me do this for these little kids!" As he pushes himself beyond his limits for the most innocent of tiny victims, Star Fighter screams out for Divine assistance from the serene-eyed, yet strong in spirit, face of the Son of God he didn't know much about, but still somehow had a simple trust and belief He existed.
Sayer Starr, in his moment of most heavy-laden need, envisioned himself as one of those lost little orphans, as he calls out to the Savior depicted on the wall gathering little children beneath His robes, directly in Sayer's blurring, tearing eyed vision, even as the heroic Star Fighter begins to sink under the enormous weight.
Within his imploring, intense focus to save others more than himself, a Force greater than Fighter's inhuman stamina keeps his strengthened muscles able to hold the massively wide baldachin canopy's altar gate up. With it, Fighter was unbelievably still sheltering the children frozen in place below its thick canopy, blinking up at him in childlike hope, even as the rest of the damaged stone and concrete building begins to spill down upon this single Sailor Soldier's small but phenomenal shoulders that protected them.
Through all the noise pounding in his ears, Fighter all of a sudden hears Russian words all garbled and spoken quickly, hurriedly. He opens his clenched closed eyes, beyond grateful to see all the wide-eyed, endangered children who were still clinging at his winged feet, along with the remainder of the refugees under his proverbial wing who had taken shelter under the gold baldachin structure he had held up over them, now all scurrying out at the priest's direction.
As the last one was ushered out, the moved man of the cloth pauses at the last remaining standing buttress column in the doorway to motion for Eternal Sailor Star Fighter with a gesturing hand. The holy father calls for their singular heroic rescuer to hurry out to safety, along with those he had saved where the rest of the dislodged Russian innocents had escaped out of the dilapidated Cathedral doors.
But it was too late, as the real firestorm of demolition was about to come down, blocking the exit doorway where Sayer thought he'd glimpsed the priest making the sign of the Cross for the benefit of his eternal soul.
Suddenly the lateral wing's steel trusses and vault stonework arches finally give way to the searing magma dripping down, pushing the heavy baldachin canopy down over him, even layered heavier than before. The rest of the building's gravity crushinf descending superstructure rocks the remainder of the holy shrine's architectural timbres which Sailor Star Fighter had been heroically holding up for the sake of the innocent people of the city that had given birth to the woman he loved.
Could this place you were born be the place where I die, Ally?
Hmph. Almost fits us.
Sayer thinks with a smile despite all the intense pain of his badly burned, scorched black and blue bruised arms, with innumerable deep injuries from shrapnel and falling heavy pieces of metal and concrete that had hit his small, but eternally wide shoulders, finally pinning Eternal Sailor Star Fighter down to the charred ground.
All around him, the church girders start to buckle, explosions from above rocking the damaged timbres as the thousands of tons of monstrous crushing bells from the decimated belfry were quickening their final descent directly above where he lie.
Too injured to move, all energy spent earlier not yet recovered, Fighter realized that he would not make it out alive this time, the fallen choir apse at his side being the apt place for this singer's last song.
In the intense heat of the flame engulfed, decimated holy Cathedral that was once the pinnacle of Christianity's pilgrimages in the Eastern European nation; sweat, blood and tears stream down Sailor Star Fighter's proud face.
'The name of the battle we fight is 'Destiny'
Gives a second chance for lovers to reunite
But in raging war, words of separation will be whispered…'
The lifelong trained star warrior in him sensed that this battle may just have been his ending crescendo. He was willing to die in this war to protect the world of those he cared deepest for, knowing with every ounce of strength in him he was a Fighter to the end. A shooting star who would shine brightly, give his everything to fulfill destiny, live brilliantly through any pain, even to burn out and die in this fierce storm for the sake of the woman he loved, sung in a perfect soldier's poetic lyric...
Ally, thanks for being my friend in our days that will never end. I will always love you.
The Sailor of the Star Fighter—Sayer Starr's last coherent thought for his Alex echoes across his soul as the building entirely gives out.
Screeching sounds of metal mixes with the scorched scent of famed artist religious paintings and melting iconostasis statues which had all fallen in earth trembled shivering around the venerated Romanov dynastic marble tombs. The Eastern Orthodox Church's Baroque architecture in all its golden, revered glory, comes crashing down upon this heroic, passionate soldier, who was ready and truly willing, in more than just words, to sacrifice his life for this world that had opened up to him the miracle of so much love.
'Only our hot passion for one another can't be lost
You gave me your strength and courage to breathe on
For the sake of those I love, I will give my life
Most likely in this battle…'
Sailor Star Fighter's entire world then goes dark as the massive, once magnificent St. Peter and Paul's Roman Orthodox Cathedral, filled with many glorious Bible themed works of artists and hundreds of golden iconostasis statues. The three century-old edifice built by Peter the Great at the historical heart of the city on the beautiful Neva River also featured one of the most important symbols of the Russian landscape. But that figure of a winged archangel heralding Jesus Christ's Holy Cross—that once could be viewed for miles beyond the snowy hills—no longer could be seen pointing up the symbol of Redemption up to Heaven as the Cathedral roof beneath it collapses. The four-hundred foot tall spire of this glorious monument to God also housed an early eighteenth century multi-tiered Cathedral bell tower which held fifty-one bells that weighed over three tons apiece, now melting down to descend from the tallest church steeple in the world, raining hot molten death upon this special Soldier from the Stars...
"STARR!" Eternal Sailor Uranus' deep and loud heartbreaking cry trembles the earth and the skies combined anew as she sees the Cathedral, that she like a cold calculating drill sergeant, had ordered her husband into its collapsing wake, flattened before her devastated eyes.
One of the most awe inspiring churches of worship in all of Eastern Europe had been utterly demolished in fluttered fiery embers of burnt ashes in place of a Russian snowfall in a matter of minutes as her heart freezes.
Uranus had seen in the corner of her militaristically trained tactician eyes the chilling moments of all the innocent people and children that Sailor Star Fighter had ushered out of the building as she had instructed him. But with rapid eyes scanning the crowd that had retreated towards the fortress nearby, Alex saw that the only one not present there with the rest of the escapees brought to safety, as she holds her breath—
—was her own lover.
Her eyes wildly search the crowd, her soul dying at the thought of her Star Fighter, her fellow Sailor Soldier and husband, being so horribly killed, crushed and burned alive in the ultimate sacrifice of giving up his life in order to spare that of many others.
As a perfect soldier selflessly should.
'You're a pathetic soldier.' That was the last thing I said to him.
Alex's eyes shiver unfocused when she realized those echoing words in regret, damning herself for the harsh attitude and nasty words, all at once wishing them all back, wishing him all back in a thousand different ways—
"Oh that's too bad. Has your lover been smashed, crushed and burned to bits before your eyes, luv? Oh, you poor thing!" Ruby cackles, wickedly glad that she had dealt the final death blow to that collapsing Cathedral with that despicable Sailor Star Fighter still trapped inside when it came down. Her own cursed heart had not a care about someone else's heart-aching pain, in fact treating it as a weakness to be exploited for one's own gain and gloating.
"I imagine that lovely, oh-so-vital body you have perversely enjoyed has been reduced to compacted charcoal ashes by now." The devilish woman dangles the cruel taunt, having sold her soul to evil so long ago Ruby could never know the extent of the true love Sailor Star Fighter and Sailor Uranus shared. She believed love was only deceitful and manipulative in order to use others, her heart lost beyond repair as she laughs at the pain behind her opponent's devastated, stricken and shattered eyes.
"NO! Can't be! You monster! URANUS WIND TURBULENCE!" In unadulterated eternal pain, her furious rage kindled at this vile creature, Eternal Sailor Uranus' deadliest new planet power attack unleashes in her let loose heart's deepest sentiment of love for another, amidst the tumult of sharply raging windstorm battering Ruby down to the ground.
Uranus seethes, seeing nothing but red as all reason collapses, her normal self-control gone as fast as the wind—no faster—as she lashes out her anger, caught afire in the flames still raining down from the flattened to the ground, decimated ruins of the once awe-inspiring St. Peter and Paul's Cathedral.
Uranus had reacted so fast and feverishly that it stun shocked a gut punched, air-sucked-out-of-her Lady Ruby. The incensed Soldier of the wind smashes her enemy over and over with furious fists and kicks as she physically grabs the vile woman's head by a thick shank of her red hair. Uranus punches Ruby squarely in her already scarred face, smashing the messy askew redhead mercilessly to the rocky ground in pure rage. Uncaring of the severe burns which direct contact to the ruby dagger caused, Uranus wildly wrenches it from the villainess' hand quickly in a frenzied crack of the iniquitous woman's wrist, plunging the powerful dagger deep into the snowcapped dirt.
"Uranus!" Neptune's voice cries out to her best friend and cousin as she runs as fast as she could to the bloody scene full of fire and fury. "Uranus!" Neptune calls again upon deaf ears it seemed, Alex shutting her out as she was fully prepared to obliterate the degenerate who had dared take away something that meant so much her. Alex did not even realize just how terribly much he meant to her until this very moment, as she deals deadly blow after deadly blow to her enemy.
Lady Ruby certainly didn't expect so much passion from the believed cold soldier who was apparently fully ready to pass judgment and justice upon her despicably heinous and depraved adversary.
"Amara, you must listen! Listen to me!" Michelle runs right up to her Outer Sailor Soldier partner and yells right in her ear. But far beyond the sense of hearing, incensed Sailor Uranus does not let up from the fierce pummeling of the demonic creature who had just viciously murdered her own Star Fighter.
"AMARALEXIS! HE'S ALIVE! SAYER IS STILL IN THERE SOMEWHERE, BUT I CAN ONLY SENSE HIM FAINTLY—JUST ABOUT ALIVE! HE NEEDS YOU NOW!" Frantically, Neptune finally uses all of her mental focus that had been escaping her in her own sorrow in order to scream straight into Uranus' angry soul. In that blinded moment, Uranus had already unsheathed her gleaming sword at Ruby's neck, about to end her sorry existence once and for all…
Eyes going wide, Uranus immediately ceases her torrential assault upon the badly hurt but still breathing redhead, pulling back her Space Sword as she drops Ruby like a lifeless doll hard to the ground.
Alex turns to Michelle plaintively, with a skipped heart in her chest that starts racing again with hope in unreal disbelief.
"Michelle?" Alex quietly whispers, instant, stupefied tears cascading down her cheeks as she sees in her beloved partner's also tearful eyes herself reflecting back in them, staggered by her grief and the pain of losing someone so cherished, so special—the shining star who touched her soul in irreplaceable ways. All at once, the knowledge made Alex Starr realize she and her partner truly did share the same soul.
Her cousin, her best friend, her forever soulmate—an extension of herself—the part she could hold onto through any raging emotional maelstrom to bring her to find her own closed heart nods with tears in her eyes. For Neptune truly understood Uranus' heart, and it mirrored the same immense scope of love for her Star Soldier in this moment that Alex finally understood what Michelle had been going through.
"URANUS…!"
The tall golden blonde stands to her Eternal Sailor tall white boots with imperative purpose as she calls upon her Guardian planet now with more urgency than ever. Battered and bloodied and beyond bruised, no more words need be passed between the pair as Uranus felt what Michelle felt, knew what Michelle knew, becoming one with her soulmate's embracing heart to know what her own was telling her.
Her Star Fighter, her Sayer Starr, was still alive. But he was just clinging to life, buried beneath that monstrous pile of burning melted metal and concrete rubble that could at any minute implode, crushing him where he already lie hurt badly with little to no air, perhaps suffocating. And needing her right now…
"URANUS—!" Suddenly the wind picks up, violently swirling around and around Uranus' sleek body in an enveloping yellow golden haze that the planet Uranus was sending down to this special Princess of it.
"—REBELLIOUS SQUALL MISTRAL RISE!" Raising her hand to the by now twilight darkened heavens, Uranus calls to each screaming, crying, thrashing wind from every direction all over the world, from the depths of the spacious skies to come and cease their rebellious wanderings to obey her full command now. Uranus' mind calls the gathered winds to become her outstretched hands, her soul grasping the reins of a localized violent storm that brings the windy strands of a full squall's power in perpetuity blowing through her. With those tamed wild winds forming invisible hands borne from the planet Uranus' pure energy in the rounded shape of the initial U continually encircling her, the Sailor Guardian becomes part of the sweeping wind.
As the wind I need to be…for you, Starr…
The awesome push and pull of all the winds on this planet and beyond this solar system at her telekinetic wind's fingertips and feet, Eternal Sailor Uranus now could exhibit the instant ability to not only hover her body aloft on those winds, but also vacillate any and all of them to perform her will between fierce and gentle on just a mental whim.
'My life's been spent wandering without a destination
Until you came I didn't have a clue on how to have joy'
With her missing lover's spirit playing music on the wind she was now immersed in, within Alex Starr's heart, tender notes of a soft duet's composition begin to weave somehow softly between her heart, soul and mind. Flying in towards the destroyed Cathedral's ground zero in perfect rhythm with the most emotional melody of her life, Eternal Sailor Uranus telekinetically utilizes her wind energy power to lift heavy objects beyond her normal physical strength, with the exchangeable squall's severity like a ferocious bull overturning two ton steel beams, or her mistral's gentility akin to a soft butterfly sifting one piece of dusted glass at a time through the shattered rubble. With this incredible new ability, Uranus could simultaneously levitate away large concrete and scaffolds, fallen walls and objects with the strength of one invisibly turbulent hand, while yet still be soft and gentle enough to carefully filter through disintegrating wood and plaster remnants harmlessly with her other intangible zephyr digits.
It was only through this new, wildly forceful yet intricately delicate capability to levitate objects that Uranus was able to not violently disrupt any single small piece of debris which may be dislodged and result in burying her Star Fighter alive.
Noisily blasting through the thick piled, still burning debris and ashes with her windstorm's wet gale powerful force on one side of the disaster zone, an immeasurable breeze tenderly moves across the molten hot metal seared pieces on the opposite end, speedily quelled by her squall's sleet of Alex's representative tears for her missing love.
'All the treasured memories that you freely gave to me
Composed a song of "Us" that has healed my closed heart'
The sincere melody for the individual who touched her heart in so many oh-so-imperceptible ways plays over Uranus' once tough as nails soul. Inch by inch she quickly, but not at all recklessly, guides the wind with her elegant hands extended to each side like a classical conductor through the flattened Cathedral in this Russian city of her birth. Each piece of fiery, ashen debris flies through the air which Alex commanded, lifted up powerfully and tenderly examined at a frantic, yet steady pace.
One with the wind, Eternal Uranus uses her airstreams to carefully blow away the melted steel and remnants of collapsed nave banisters. Beneath the open air dome of the dark sky now, there were still eerily burning scorched beyond recognition parts of the once beautiful Cathedral's gloriously architectural walls full of religious scenes now in utter ruin. The irretrievably broken stained-glass pious artwork would never again adorn a window to allow another light of day through, mirroring Alex's growing dismay at still coming up with nothing as precious seconds tick by.
'How can my life keep going on?
Beyond this dark night
Without doubt I must believe you'll still be
Part of my tomorrow, my friend…'
Moving deeper into the disfigured, full or partially melted down golden and bronze statues of the saints' iconostasis that seemed like they all were weeping for her pain, Uranus conducts her wind-hovering body over to the still red hot iron railing. Something mysteriously inside guides Uranus towards the wooden fine oak pews she once sat in as a child that were now reduced to mostly ashes in the fiery conflagration that had rained down from the punctured ceiling above. Her directed wind forces a series of the yet intact and un-melted, huge and heavy copper carillon bells that had pulverized the cathedral's thick concrete cement to instantaneous dust. It was now a badly cratered foundation base floor after enduring fifty-one lethally plummeted 400 foot bell drops, as she neared the center altar section of the eradicated holy shrine.
But nothing could stand against this force of nature called a strong willed woman, who, though beyond distressed at finding no sign as yet, refused to surrender her faith in that bright tomorrow with him to this overwhelming dark night. Alex was that determined not to lose this wonderful light of a star who never gave up on her. Sayer Starr had been so pigheadedly determined to be her special chosen one until stubborn Alex Sokova finally accepted his honest, open love into her closed heart. Theirs was an unbelievable everlasting friendship against all odds since the start of that bumpy first meeting involving both Michelle and the Moon Princess indiscriminately, to the culmination of Alex and Sayer's most unlikely love affair…
'Inside of my memories
You still reach your hand to touch mine!
Our fleeting hopes and dreams on this earth will be
Remembered in that faraway Heaven beyond reach…'
Through all cacophony of screeching metal, breaking glass and crashing down rafters from all around her surging new power, Eternal Sailor Uranus commands the tumultuous winds to be gentle enough to still whisper Amaralexis Starr's true love's song. The whistling winds of her heart cried out to reclaim her lover buried somewhere beneath all the destruction at a level beyond scale in this devastated Ground Zero, as scenes of their exciting, yet all too short, life together flash before her mind's eye.
Inside of all these memories you so freely gave me, Starr, you were reaching your hand out to touch mine! Why did I never take that outstretched hand?! So many times I neglected to tell you how I felt…I didn't squeeze you tight, or hold you close, treasure your simple offering of friendship, my sweetheart….What I wouldn't do to I have the chance again...If just one more time…
Dammit! Why was I so distant and cold when all you asked for was my warmth?
Why him and not me!? Please God, if you're up there—if you can hear my prayer…my soiled soul may be beyond Redemption, but his heart is pure. I've been told You can forgive even a sinner like me. Maybe You have already done that by giving me a second chance to know his love...
While in the physical world her winds were unflinchingly determined and strong and fierce in their searching, in the realm of her mind, Alex was openly weeping for an ephemeral moment she wished back in her distress with someone as bright as a shooting star.
'You made my life worth living!'
Now at the heart of the blackened fire pit conflagration, Uranus had run into it with no thought to self, her stark white Eternal Sailor gloves and boots were by now sooty and filthy. The cooling wind at her fingertips and feet was so intense it quelled the raging fires to stone now, but she still hadn't found any sign in the burnt out church interior that would never again be the glorious sanctuary it had stood for centuries.
I'm too slow…it's getting too late…
Uranus' distraught countenance loses almost all hope as every wind tosses aside cracked icon remnants and charcoal disfigured holy relics which she had glimpsed in her youth many a time in wonder high atop that golden balustrade canopy. Alex strangely remembers now how she wondered then if its ornate décor really could draw a deserted, lost child that much closer to Heaven…or to Hell the jaded, broken woman long believed she more deserved…
'For Eternity
Where the strength of our love has no limit!
Together, come Heaven or Hell…'
The rushing wind Eternal Sailor Uranus was ensconced within brushes back the tears streaming down her cheeks that this toughened female never believed she could shed for anyone—no less, that man. But the tears were dashed away by pure grit as tough Sailor Uranus employs every wisp of the swift breeze to gale storm powerfully at her telekinetically directed concert pianist fingers' disposal, while at the same time temperate softly, with breezes and winds that lift each unrecognizable fallen relic and whatever construction material piece was left burning by Ruby's molten lava attack on the church.
In her wildly mad, but still tenderly careful path, Alex's conducted wind forces meticulously separate through the smoking rubble to recover her missing partner, passionate lover, fighting soulmate and yes, devoted husband from being buried alive.
He was perhaps alone in there, dying, in each damnably passing second as Uranus painstakingly sifts through the downed massive structure that once was the Lord's house of St. Peter and Paul's Russian Orthodox Cathedral now lying in utter ruin. It reflected Alex Sokova Starr's anguished spirit with each unsuccessful gust of her desperate wind that did not yet uncover her, just now realized to be, so very precious treasure. The shine of which could never be replaced in her shivering heart's darkest night now filled with dank, depressing, smoke-filled devastation as her eyes frantically search for one indication of Sailor Star Fighter's brilliant light she once thought indistinguishable…
"Starr… Where are you?!" Fearlessly racing straight through the hellfire of the disintegrating, still dangerously falling apart ill-fated Cathedral interior, Uranus calls out in a whisper. Through her maelstrom of searching winds, she fights back the tears wet on her disheartened lips, when her crestfallen eyes glimpsed no sign of life in the otherwise thankfully evacuated sanctuary after all innocents had been saved.
Only thanks to the sacrifice of a certain selfless friend from beyond the Stars…
Greetings, SM Eternal friends!
This emotional chapter starring Star Fighter and Uranus features the moving song "Memories of Life-Everlasting Friendship" from Final Fantasy IX was excellently, brilliantly created by MEllOWiNE葉 with Megumi Ogata and Shiho Niiyama AI voices singing the stunning duet. Thank you for this incredible blessing, otomodachi!
The pairing is especially poignant, because the renowned Japanese voice actor of Sailor Uranus - Megumi Ogata - even before their time recording Sailor Moon to back when the two were best friends in seiyuu school together - possessed a true, dear, extremely close friendship in the all too short, leukemia claimed young life of the gorgeous voiced 29 year old singer and beautiful soul who was Shiho Niyama, the actor who gave Sailor Star Fighter/ Sayer Starr such life and vitality.
When I first heard the stunning song in tribute to their friendship beyond all odds, I started crying, this duet evreything I always dreamed for my favorite Sailor Moon coupling. Especially hearing how the words and music fit in EXACTLY with the theme of this 25 years ago, already written emotionally charged battle chapter full of heartache and parting for true lovers. I hope you can hear their perfect duet emotionally playing throughout this chapter and the next continuing part, to be ensconced in the entire ambiance of this touching aspect of my personal favorite pairing of Sayer x Alex's incredible friendship and love story.
Thanks for reading! Please leave me a review of this thrilling cliffhanger chapter in this most important Uranus x Fighter tale of a hard-fought for, painful test of the strength of their everlasting true love.
God bless you all and my Mama too on this birthday!
HarukaKou
Here are the full lyrics I translated that fit right in to this chapter and the next continuation one:
"Memories of Life-Everlasting Friendship"
Megumi Uranus Ogata & Shiho Fighter Niiyama
Uranus: My life's been spent wandering without a destination
Until you came I didn't have a clue on how to have joy
All the treasured memories that you freely gave to me
Composed a song of "Us" that s healed my closed heart
Fighter: Each day we didn't have to promise to each other
We knew how we felt without saying any conscious words
Just the way you held me in your sure arms was enough
Blessed to be yours in our days that'll never end
Uranus: Inside of my memories
Fighter: You still reach your hand to touch mine!
Both: When you call my name, I'll find a way to come running back to you!
Fighter: I know you can change those tears flowing down
Into your dazzling courage I admire
Uranus: How can my life keep going on?
Beyond this dark night
Without doubt I must believe you'll still be
Part of my tomorrow, my friend…
Uranus: The birds above flying towards that distant sky
Have been entrusted to carry our memories up and away
Our fleeting hopes and dreams on this earth will be
Remembered in that faraway Heaven beyond our reach…
Fighter: How can anyone say that our meeting was coincidence?
So right together, we'd never part!
If only we had more time…
Even if I was destined to leave here now
As long as you're alive, I will fight fate!
Uranus: You made my life worth living
For Eternity
Where the strength of our love has no limit!
(Together, come Heaven or Hell…)
Fighter: Because of you, I can face down death now
Best every obstacle and beat any pain!
I'll keep living just for you
Both: For Eternity
Where the strength of our love has no limit!
Uranus: Together, come Heaven or Hell…
