(Behind Galaxia's barrier.) A quiet had settled over the ranks of dark creatures, each stopping it's attack on the wall as their dark queen walked before them, pacing back and forth beside the golden barrier. "You promised to have the barrier down for the attack Galaxia." Beryl murmured quietly to the wavering form shown in the dark orb in her hand, elegantly flicking a cascade of long crimson hair over her shoulder. "The kingdom is yours once my princess returns to me." the golden senshi murmured in return, obviously in a stronger state of mind now that the attacks had stopped. "And Endyimon? He is destroyed? I want him dead Galaxia!!" Beryl screeched, causing the ranks behind her to fall back and cringe. "It will be done! I will receive great pleasure from killing him. I shall lower the wall, but give me an hour. Then you may attack." Beryl nodded slowly, a slow smile crossing her lips as she turned from the orb. "Oh, and Beryl? If you do not obey me.I will also take pleasure in delivering your head to the Abyss." The smile faded slowly as Beryl looked back to the now dark orb floating gracefully toward her. Turning in a swirl of long purple skirts, she looked down on her army. "Attack now.Find the Princess.and kill her." the dark queen ordered, watching her dark generals walk past the slowly receding barrier. @}~ @}~ @}~ @}~ @}~ @}~ @}~ @}~ @}~ @}~ @}~ @}~ @}~ @}~ (Back on the island.) "Galaxia.was that wise?" the retransformed sailor Saturn asked quietly, touching her lieges arm with concern, an act so out of character for the death senshi that Galaxia simply stared for a moment. "No.it most likely was not.but I have no choice, any further wounds would make it impossible to fight and transport from here with my outer senshi and Serenity." she whispered back, watching with hopeful eyes as the voices of Haruka and Michiru could be heard. Sudden raw fear soon replaced the feeling, as the two emerged from the mist alone. "Where is Serenity!!" Galaxia demanded harshly, earning a slightly scared look from the two, immediately making her regret her harsh tone. "She asked to be let alone to say goodbye to her court and her family. I'm sorry Lady Galaxia, but she is our princess and we could not disobey." Michiru offered timidly, feeling more confident with her decision when her lover placed an arm around her waist. Galaxia nodded, turning from the three girls to lean against the tall tree that hid them from the moon's sight, forbidding them from seeing the dark clouds gathering around the palace as the first unheard explosions silently crept by the four safe senshi. @}~ @}~ @}~ @}~ @}~ @}~ @}~ @}~ @}~ @}~ @}~ @}~ (The Palace gates.) "FALL BACK!!!" Sailor mars screamed to the other senshi as swarms of demons massed at the first set of gates, taking out most of the upper guards. The four senshi jumped from the tall gates, running to the place where Pluto stood, ready to attack. "Stand with me senshi!" the green haired woman called, powering up her long staff. "We're with you Pluto!" Jupiter called, standing ready beside the time guardian, powering up a blast of electricity. "When the gate is down ladies! Wait till you see them then take 'em out!!" Sailor Venus called, stepping forward to use her power, being the strongest of the inner senshi and leader of the scouts. Flashes of every color were seen as the first attacks were thrown at the swarming army, each blast seeming to add space for more and more of beryl's demons. "There's too many of them!" Mercury called, shrouding the planes with mist as she tapped away on her computer, "We must fall back or we'll be destroyed!!" "I'll fight these demons to the end! Are you with me girls?!" Venus screamed over the rising noise of the attacks. Three answers were heard from the inner court as Venus turned to nod at Pluto, "go protect my princess!" Pluto nodded, turning with tears welling in her eyes to flee the scene, heading, not to the queen and her daughter, but to her position at the gates, leaving the senshi.the kingdom.to their own ashes. @}~ @}~ @}~ @}~ @}~ @}~ @}~ @}~ @}~ @}~ @}~ @}~ @}~ (Palace grounds.) "Mother!! Mother where are you?!" Sere screamed, hitting the hard marble wall of the main hallway of the palace, as the grounds were shook by the force of the fight raging outside. The Senshi had fallen back to the inner gates, a bare distance from where Serenity was. "SERENITY!!" the queen yelled from the top of the elegant, yet crumbling stairway at the other end of the hallway. Serenity stepped forward, only to have her attention drawn away as the sound of one of her friends screaming in pain had her running in the opposite direction, toward the sound. As she broke through the barrier that stood at the arched doorway of the palace, a pained sound ripped from her throat as she saw her closest friend, Mars, lying on her side, a dark saber of energy thrust in her side as the dark blood of her life spilled from her wound. "P-princess." the senshi choked, crimson blood gurgling in her throat as she tried to warn her princess away. Unheeding of her friend's plea, the silver haired girl ran forward, unaware of the swarming demons that flooded the palace grounds. Kneeling beside the raven haired girl, she tenderly picked her friend's head off the ground, cradling it close to her chest as tears welled and spilled onto the senshi's face, making new trails in the drying blood. "Don't leave me Rei.please don't leave me." Sere whispered, gently brushing a few blood soaked strands of hair from the other girls face. Mars smiled up at the younger girl, taking her hand in one crimson stained white glove. "I live forever princess, I'll see you someday.I promise." Sere let out a pained sob as the fingers holding her own relaxed, the girl in her arms going limp with the cold surge of death. Throwing her head back, the silver haired girl let out a piercing scream, throwing all of her pain and anguish into the one vocal moment, before standing up, her hand reaching for the small crystal on her necklace. Pulling it roughly from the chain, she watched in morbid silence as it transformed, not into her usually colorful pen, but into a darkly colored black transformation pen. Looking around her, she stared at the cleared area, the swarming army already having past the outer gardens to invade the palace. Lying in the littered mess of blood and corpses, the bright uniforms of the senshi were among the fallen. "Venus." Golden hair lay matted with blood, as the beautiful love senshi's chest had been ripped open, almost allowing Sere to see her unbeating heart. "Mercury." The small computer Serenity had given the genius senshi lay smashed, next to the girls' broken, torn body. "Jupiter." The girl seemed to be asleep, the only mark on her body being the small hold in the front of her sailor fuku, which seemed to prove to be a saber of energy letting her blood flow out of her back. "Mars.I'll avenge you all." Sere murmured, her tone seeming to deaden further with each passing second, the sight of her friends dead bodies killing her senses of justice and mortality as the pen in her hand darkened further. "Serenity don't!! Please darling don't!!!" Queen Serenity screamed from behind the barrier that kept her safe from harm. "My Queen don't!" a sudden warning kept the queen from moving past the barrier as the arm of Endyimon blocked her path. "Endyimon! My daughter! The pen has been corrupted! I'll loose her if she transforms into a senshi!!!" the queen screamed, struggling against the young terrain prince's restraining arm. Serenity stood in the center of the blood bath, watching as the second wave of demons came forth, led this time by the red-haired demon known as Beryl. "Little princess.planning to fight?" Beryl whispered as she landed gracefully on the litter of dead bodies, seeming to enjoy the blood soaking her deep purple heels. "Moon.Prism.Power!!!" Time seemed to stop as Sere stared up at the transformation pen in her hands, waiting for her transformation. "Looks like you've broken it. Time to die you little brat!" Beryl screeched, raising her hand to end the princess' feeble life.
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