[scene: Zoi's sweet sixteen. Chief Midori rushes to the microphone]

Chief Midori: Son, you mustn't joke around like this. People might get hurt from sheer panic.

Zoi: Um, Dad? Did you not hear me say I was going to kill everyone right now? Keeping people from getting hurt is not real high on my list of priorities.

Chief Midori: You're not a killer.

Zoi: [giggling] Oh, Daddy dear, don't lie. You know that is just not true. You watched me empty a gun into four men, before I ran out of bullets and had to grab another gun so I could shoot two more men in the back. Oops, I guess I shouldn't have confessed to that in front of a room full of witnesses. [twirls his hair and smiles] I guess that's just one more reason you all have to die.

Mamoru: Such words must never be spoken, not even in jest. The answer to violence relies not on violence, but in working together to–

Zoi: Blah blah blah. Oh, I disagree. Violence is the only answer. You see, the Death Phantom is going to make you all die horrible deaths. He's a lot more powerful than I am so there is nothing I can do to save your lives. However, I can make sure you all die swiftly and painlessly. And if I can dine on your energy, and poison away the last lingering shreds of my own humanity…I guess that is a win for me.

Mamoru: Humanity is not what you are, it is what you-

[Zoi knocks him down with a blast of energy]

Zoi: Sorry. It's my party and you'll die if I want to.

[He stretches out his hands a thin thread of energy is drawn from everyone's bodies into Zoi. As their lifeforce is sucked away they weaken and stagger. Except for Mamoru who is staring up at dark-eyed, crackling Zoi in disbelief and horror.

Death Phantom: What are you doing!

Zoi: [petulant] Doesn't ANYBODY listen to me when I'm talking!

[The Death Phantom stares at Zoi's father who is looking at his son with concern. Not for himself, but for what might happen to Zoi.]

Death Phantom: I don't need to look into your mind, little fool. I only need to look into the human who knows you best to see through your bluff.

[The older and weaker partygoers stagger and faint from lack of energy. The younger and more energetic stagger to keep their footing. Zoi shows no sign of relenting as he grows brighter and brighter.]

Zoi: Does this really look like a bluff to you?

[The Death Phantom grabs Naru by the arms and holds her in front of him]

Death Phantom: END THIS FOOLISHNESS OR I KILL THIS HUMAN NOW!

[Naru faints dead away. For a moment the Death Phantom is at a loss on how to proceed until he notices Usagi wailing nearby. He drops Naru, who is quickly dragged to safety by Umino and drags Usagi by the pigtail in front of the podium.]

Death Phantom: END THIS FOOLISHNESS OR I KILL THIS HUMAN NOW!

Zoi: Do it. I double dog dare you.

Death Phantom: [grips Usagi's wrists] I WILL PULL HER ARMS FROM HER SOCKETS.

Usagi: [sobbing] Oh, no! I really don't want my arms pulled from my sockets!

Zoi: Don't worry. You won't live that long.

Death Phantom: SHITENNOU! CEASE YOUR TRICKERY OR BY THE COUNT OF THREE-

Zoi: She'll be dead on the count of two.

Death Phantom: ONE…

Zoi: [Summons a crystal javelin] You really don't think I'm going to go through with this, do you?

Death Phantom: TWO…

Zoi: [hurls the javelin] Why is everyone constantly underestimating me?

[Usagi screams as it speeds straight for her heart but Mamoru leaps in front of her taking the spear right through the gut.]

Usagi: [lets out a heart wrenching scream as the spear goes in his belly and protrudes out his back] MAMOCHAN!

[He falls to the ground and Usagi gathers him into her arms, clasping his hand in hers.]

[He gazing up at her adoringly, stroking her cheek with one bloody shaking hand.]

Mamoru: You need to find someone…Someone better than me…Someone who will treat you the way you deserved to be treated.

Usagi: NEVER! There has NEVER been anyone for me but you! There will NEVER be anyone for me but you!

Mamoru: [to Usagi] I-I was never good enough for you.

Usagi: Stop saying that. You are the best. The greatest person who has ever walked the earth. How could I ever be with anyone else after loving you? After you gave your life for me. You are only one for me. If you die I will die too.

Mamoru: No, Usagi. The world is a better place with you in it than me.

Usagi: [eyes filling with tears] Oh, Mamo. Don't die. Please don't die. If you die, I don't think I could go on.

Zoi: [raises his hands to his mouth] Oh, dear. What have I done.

[Zoi gently drifts over to Usagi cradling Mamoru, and they both look up at him. Usagi's eyes are filled with hope. Mamoru's are filled with hate.]

Zoi: How could I have almost squandered the precious life force of my dearest friend Mamoru Chibi…

[He reaches out his hands to Mamoru, uncovering his mouth, which is grinning from ear to ear.]

Zoi…without remembering he's endless fountain of energy!

[Usagi and Mamoru scream and Zoi laughs like a madman, as Zoi draws in Mamoru's life energy as fast as he can.]

[The Death Phantom watches, perplexed until a cloud of petals form around Zoi]

Death Phantom: Oh, no.

Zoi: Oh, yes. I'm afraid you slipped up there, my dear Wiseman. You shouldn't have told me the key to escaping this is more energy than I currently have.

[Zoi laughs like a fiend as he slips through the dimensional fabric of the ballroom to teleport away.]