Usagi was still screaming while the black energy washed over her. Her eyes were locked on her mother's, still thinking that she really wasn't one of the Dark Kingdom.
The energy stopped suddenly, and she fell to her knees, shaking.
"I did what you asked, why are you attacking me?" she asked, placing her hand on the ground to keep her balance.
Kunzite shook his head. "You should have never came to this place alone, Sailor Moon." He looked at the girl in front of him. "You aren't ready to protect the princess!" He shot another beam towards the weakened girl.
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Tuxedo Kamen looked up to the moon, which had started to grow brighter.
"Sailor Mars, what's going on?" Mercury asked from somewhere behind him. He heard a slight tapping.
Sailor Mars sighed. "She's calling us. Everyone, stand in a circle, now!" They all did as they were told, and they disappeared in a beam of white light.
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pov: Usagi
I don’t know.. One minute, I’m screaming my head off, the next I’m just sort of floating there, the shield thingie gone. My mom, dad, and Kunzite seemed to have disappeared, trapped in the darkness of this.. dare I say, void?.. that threatens to take me.
I wrap my arms around my chest, struggling to breathe. All around me, this nothingness pulses with a strange sort of life. I feel so alone here. It’s eerie in it’s own way. It feels like when you’ve run out of options and have to do the one thing you’ve never wanted to do.
Why do I feel this?
I mean, honestly, I’ve never had to pass up the chance to save the world, have I?
I’ve never had to leave everything behind. .
I’ve never had to say..
Goodbye...
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When the light cleared, the sailor soldiers were shocked to see Sailor Moon staring towards the top floor of the tower, her eyes unseeing. She had a soft glow around her, something familiar.
The group, excluding Mars, started to rush to their immobile leader. A voice held them back.
"I wouldn’t if I were you."
Everyone stopped what they were doing and whirled around. Mars and Tuxedo Kamen both dropped to their knees while the other three stood, awestruck.
"Stand, my friends. You know how much I hate formalities. However, I am impressed that you should remember me, after all that has happened," the figure said as the two on the floor slowly rose.
"My Queen, I am afraid that we have come to have a.. problem with things that have happened," Mars said. "How do we awaken the Princess before she transgresses her limit?"
The queen smiled. Mercury opened up her computer, taking a scan of the once-queen. She gasped. "You are a hologram!"
Serenity sadly nodded. "When the Moon Kingdom fell, I was able to put a likeness of my persona into the palace’s computers. The time has come that I may help reawaken my daughter to her rightful name." She turned from Mercury and looked at her daughter.
"Usagi is the princess?" Venus asked, eyes wide.
The queen’s shoulders tensed from laughing. "That she is, but only because her sister couldn’t handle the powers of the crystal."
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pov: Usagi
This darkness.. It’s growing. How am I to stand against this?
I feel there is much to do. I can feel the horrors that mankind has brought upon this marble. I can feel their negativity. Kami-sama, what am I to do?
I see now. There is a light. . one that must be free.
Blessed bittersweet agony. .
Take me. .
Home. .
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The queen smiled and started to fade away. "I must be leaving, my soldiers. Take care of the princess."
"How do we unlock the powers she has to control to defeat the Dark Kingdom?" Jupiter asked, reaching out to the ghost-like queen.
The queen pointed. "Even as we speak, the seal has been broken." She turned her head to look at the four. "You have my blessings. Farewell." In a burst of silver and blue sparkles, the queen was gone.
The group turned to see a bright flash of light. Tuxedo Kamen rushed to the source while the others covered their eyes.
"Usagi!" someone screamed from behind as time seemed to slow down.
Sailor Moon held her arms out from her chest, cupping the air between her hands. The light from the flash started to collect in the middle of the air, just above Sailor Moon’s heart.
Tuxedo Kamen felt his transformation drop as he watched Sailor Moon change back into Usagi. Still he rushed on, hoping to help.
The others watched in horror as another bright flash erupted from Usagi’s brow and from the sky.
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pov: Usagi
Why do I feel so.. trapped? Has everything in my life been a lie?
I can see the blurred image of my mother ahead of me. I reach out to touch her, but she smiles and backs away, shaking her head.
"Usagi, you are my daughter. But now, you have a greater problem." She turns away from me, and I see the air around her start to shimmer. A picture forms.
"Just before you were born to us, I had a strange dream one night of a lady from a far away land. She told me the horrors that would soon befall the Earth, and asked for my help."
"Mama, don’t.." If she heard, she didn’t show it.
"I told her I would do anything in my power I could, and she told me I had to watch. I was shocked, when she started to chuckle.
"’The night is always darkest before the dawn,’ she said, ‘however, sometimes the sun and moon need a little help.’
"A glowing light appeared before me then, and she continued.
"’This is what I mean by you have to watch. You have a choice, Tsukino Ikuku. You can either help or walk away. Either way you choose, it wouldn’t change my opinion of you.’
"I asked how I could help, and she told me to touch the glowing sphere in front of me. I did. She gave me the best gift I could ever receive."
"What gift was that, mama?" I asked, tears glistening in my eyes.
"She gave me you." Mama turned around and with tears in her own eyes, continues. "Now it is time for us to help you." The shimmering became brighter as I saw papa appear behind her, wrapping his arms around her stomach. "We give you the gift of light."
I screamed as I saw the blast that I knew would kill my parents somehow become localized as it turned into a brilliant sphere. I reached out to touch it and was instantly filled with light.
I’m going home..
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The light slowly faded away as the Soldiers lowered their arms from their eyes.
"Princess!" Mercury screamed, starting to run toward her friend before being stopped by Mars.
"No! If we go now, we’ll be more harm than good."
The four stood, watching the couple before them.
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