Silver Legends Act VI

‘Such ideas are selfish and naive... unworthy of a true Sailor Scout’ Murua talked as she rised from Aarla’s side and placing herself between Dark Moon and her mentor; ‘Princess...’ groaned Aarla looking into her blue eyes, they weren’t gentle or frightened anymore, a spark had lighted on them and now they were filled with decition. ‘Are you going to do something more than give me a speech, ginger?’ Asked Dark Moon turning her sidewards mocking Murua with a childish voice and smirking; ‘A true Sailor Scout doesn’t fight for personal gain or  for excitement; they don’t do that for revenge or because it’s fun... they fight, when it’s the right thing to do and the last option; like Moon did...’ As the girl spoke a faint golden glow had to spark from her heart, ‘when their heart and soul... burns with the flames of justice’ Murua said placing her hand over her chest and closing her eyes as a warm feeling began to spread all over her body.

Suddenly Dark Moon’s realized something and she roared reaching for Murua as her face now was filled with anger and shock ‘NO!, DON’T WAKE UP ON ME YOU LITTLE...!’; ‘MARS FLAME SNIPER!’ yelled Aarla rising to her knees and launching a perfectly aimed flaming arrow to Dark Moon’s arm, the evil scout was thrown away by the impact as she was about to reach the Sun Princess that had begun to burn in a migthy golden fire whirlwind that had sprouted from her heart.

‘Why do you want to fight, young one?’ asked a voice insede her head; the voice was a gentle man’s voice who spoke kindly. ‘I want to do this... because people that I’ve just met are doing it for for me’ she replied as fire consumed her normal clothing, ‘They are risking their lives and it’s not fair for them to be doing that while I’m safely hidden. I want to help them protect my friends and my people’. ‘You’re making a choice that cannot be undone, you’re comiting yourself to a very risky life... would you be willing to take that responsability by your own?’ asked the man’s voice; as she opened her eyes she replied ‘No, I won’t be on my own... because I have a duty and a destiny to fulfill’ she replied opneing her eyes as a golden brooch appeared on her hands; ‘Fine then, honour the name of the Fire Keeper and fullfill your destiny, young Murua’ finished the voice talking on her head. ‘SILVER CRISIS SUN POWER MAKE UP!’ Said Murua rising her left hand with the brooch... a golden beam erupted from the whirlwind to the sky, illumintating the dark clouds in gold por second as the whole city shined and hummed heavenly.

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A massive ammount of fire fell trough the skies towards the Outer Scouts and Venus; the creatures roared in excitement after the massive fireball fell over the Scouts and some of them drew closer to be the first ones in claim their fallen prey; some lizardfolks managed to jump into the remainig smoke but were suddenly repeled by a strange force. Murmurs of confusion and stange noises arose on the creatures lines, wich suddenly became roars of anger and frustration, for the 5 Scouts were unharmed and safe on an energy field created by Saturn that was raising her glaive horizontally with both hands.

‘Nice Pressure Wall, Saturn!’ said Uranus back to back with Neptune; ‘Indeed your skills are awesome, Saturn!’ added Venus looking to the effort the girl was doing to protect them; as Pluto turned and said ‘Looks like they won’t give up easily’ as she noticed the catfolks preparing more fireballs to launch at them; ‘Good!, neither we do, right girls?; specially when we’re fighthing for those we care and love...’ said Venus whipping her chain; ‘I couldn’t expect less from you Sailor Venus’ commented Neptune smiling as she prepared to another round against the marching horde. ‘For the Princess!’ Yelled Venus as she and the other Sailors launched themselves against the hordes of hissing creatures.

Love Me Chain, Dead Scream, Space Sword Blaster Attack and Deep Sumberge  inflicted heavy number of casualties among the monster lines as a well placed Pressure Wall caused several of the creatures to be confused of being rejected by an unknown force. Crescent Beam Smash and World Shaking made a gap on enemy lines as Neptune kicked down some monsters aided by Pluto’s powerful bashses using her staff. To make their way back to palace. ‘Hang on Serena!’ Tought Venus as she used another Crescent Beam Smash to blast a pouncing catfolk, unaware of the group of creatures that lurked on a nearby roof. ‘Incoming!’ Yelled Pluto as another round of fireballs were falling from the sky; ‘Got it!’ said Saturn preparing her Pressure Wall, the moment the looked over her head and prepared to rise her glaive once again she knew that was hopeless as a mixture of more than 20 creatures were falling towards them.

‘JUPITER SUPREME THUNDER DRAGON!’ rorared a tomboyish voice and a lighthing dragon took out more than half of the falling creatures and made an empty building crumble; ‘FIRE SOUL!’ yelled another voice causing a counter fireball that caused the falling fire to explote in midair. ‘Jupiter, Mars, Mercury!’ Yelled delighted Venus as she saw her friends standing on a nearby ceiling. ‘We’ve got a little sidetracked because we found someone who wanted to have some fun with you guys!’ said Mars from above pointing at Jupiter; ‘You OK, pretty?’ asked Uranus to Jupiter winking an eye; ‘Just fine!, the ones that won’t be as good as I am... are those things down there!’ she said crunching her knuckles loudly as Mercury gave a nervous chuckle.

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Suddenly a golden beam arose from the palace to the sky as Sailor Pluto said hopefully ‘Sailor Sun has awakened...’. ‘I have no idea of what’s happening right now Setsuna, but you and Aarla need to talk a little more open with all of us, OK?’ Said Uranus looking to her partner; ‘Sure thing, you want to do that now or right after we’ve managed to stay alive for having this chat another time?’ replied Pluto as she rised her staff to defend herself of a group of 5 charging catfolk.

‘Oh no, you won’t you bastards!’ yelled Jupiter as she dropped herself over one of the 5 catfolks crunching him to the ground; the remaining four turned against her as she gracefully twirled like a ballerina to avoid their claws; as the creatures attacked the scout, she seized an opportunity and launched a straight jab to the face of one of the creatures, pummeling its nose and dropping it inconscious to the floor; as the remaining three still charged against her; once again she gave another graceful twirl on the air, launching a sweeping strike with her hands as she landed knocking down two more creatures, as for the third creature tried to charge once again her from behind, she rised up in a tumble and launched a reverse punch with her right arm. She knew her strike was a succeful one when she saw some crimson drops coming from the creature’s face. Narrowing her eyes and taking the momentum of her move she grabbed the creature with her left hand on its chest and crushed it to the floor on a take down move, striking the creature that meowed in pain.

The two catfolk nearby Jupiter cowed behind each other as Jupiter rised in the middle of a dusty cloud grabbing their unconscious partner on her left hand and an angered look on her eyes; a threatening smirk on her face as she asked gruffly; ‘What’s the matter?; you kittens never have seen a girl fighting like a man before?... or should I call you chickens?’ she ended showing a more determinated face as some sparks glistened on her tiara. All the monsters surrounding them ran away trying to put the longest distance between them and the Sailor. ‘Hpmh...those monsters weren’t much’ she snorted, ignoring the astonished looks and dropped jaws on all her mates behind her as she relased the monster she had on her hand to the floor who mumbled something that sounded like ‘Thank you... it hurted you know...’ before getting unconscious once again.

‘Well then... The Princess needs us!’ she said as she sprinted to the palace ignoring the terrified wailings of the creatures hiding on the alleys; ‘Wa... wait for us!’ said Venus following her closley with Mars, Uranus and Neptune, as Mercury, Pluto and Saturn were alone again; ‘Pluto... these creatures’ masters came here looking for a Princess and a treasure, but they didn’t knew that Serenity was in here too, and you know that many people out there might want to lie their hands on the Silver Crystal... instead they came straight here, you do know what’s in here, right.’ Mercury said, not as a question but as a fact. Pluto merely nodded as she turned to the Sun Palace wich still gleamed in gold; and said before sprinting to the Palace with the others ‘All of you deserve answers... and if we manage to free ourselves of the fallen one... you’ll get to hear the whole story’

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Slowly, with a heavy burn on her right arm Dark Moon rose again as the whirlwind of fire  started to shine in gold; her expression was unreadable as she turned to Aarla, the moment she made eye contact with the woman her eyes turned in a deep reddish tone as she roared once again and charged against the exhausted steward; ‘It’s all your fault you old hag!’; Aarla tried to prepare another Flame Sniper, but it extinguished at the second she conjured  it with her blue fire bow . ‘Hold it right there, Dark Sailor Moon!’ said Murua’s voice coming out from the fire whirlwind as a wall of fire arouse between Aarla and Dark Moon.

‘What’s going on?’ asked Endimion as Chibimoon was rising her mother again; her face was entirely white and her expression hollow. Slowly, Moon rised her head to see the golden flames extinguish, a few steps echoed on the demoslished throne room as the Sun Princess had assumed her new power  as a Sailor Scout. ‘No... you shouldn’t.. have...’ mumbled Moon as Sun rised an arm pointing at Dark Moon, whose expresion was now disenchanted and anger; ‘You dare to destroy this peaceful place and hurt your own mates like you did it in the past; such terrible deeds musn’t be forgiven on behalf of the mighty Sun, I’ll punish you!’; ‘You speak a lot like that one over there’ Dark Moon replied shaking her head to the place where Moon was lying; adding as she created a dark energy dish on her hands ‘I’m a simple person; I don’t get words: I need facts’

Dark Moon released the energy that inmediatelly splited into several pieces that flew towards Sun; by instinct she dived sidewards to avoid them; streching her hands towards her enemy and pouring her mind on it. A massive fire stream sprouted from them towards her target, melting the floor below; as Dark Moon jumped real high to avoid the attack and landed far from her new opponent. ‘Wow!, It worked!’ said Sun looking amazed at her hands as the air on the room was still rippling due the heat. ‘Princess you have to be more careful!’ Yelled Aarla as she rised once again and walked limping outside the room, ‘You’re not going anywhere Mars!’; yelled back Dark Moon as she moved her hand and caused an air bubble to blast the woman away. She smirked looking back at Sun, as she heard Aarla fell in the far distance of the throne room. Sun narrowed her eyes and breathed deeply.

‘You should worry about yourself, rather than those weaklings’ said Dark Moon showing her upper teeth like a wolf about to strike; ‘Stop doing that!’ said Sun; ‘If the old witch had taught me something, is that the strong ones are the ones setting the rules of the game’ replied Dark Moon, adding before attacking ‘And you ginger are far from being on that place!... DARK EXPLOSION!’ Another darkness sphere flew over the room towards Sun that once again rised her hands and launched another flaming torrent to avoid the attack; for several seconds both energies clashed on a rain of purple and golden sparks, before the dark energy dissapeared in the midst of a golden stream.

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Several creatures were running towards the palace; screeching and wailing as they saw the upcoming offensive... Leading the line were Uranus and Jupiter whose sword and fists respectivelly, were causing panic amongst the creatures; behind them the quick and nimble Neptune and Venus were taking on those that dared to attemp ambush from behind their mates. From a nearby ceiling more catfolk punced to attack from above, but a well aimed Flame Sniper managed to knock them out as the rear was well protected by Pluto, Saturn and Mercury.

At last they had arrived to the Palace Gardens; where no other creature dared to enter. ‘There are two very strong presences...’ said Mars as they stopped their march; ‘What about the Princess?’ Asked Uranus as Neptune and Pluto moved away carefully searching for a possible ambush; ‘I... can’t tell; the energy of these two is really impressive’ replied Mars as they started walking to the main building; followed closely by Mercury and Saturn, While Jupiter and Venus were on the rear.

‘Got ya!’ said a female voice ad shadow leashesh rised from the floor and grasped Jupiter and Venus; ‘Oh, shit!, not again!’ said Jupiter as the shadows rised them up; ‘Let me go!’ cried Venus as she struggled to release herself from the enemy’s hold. ‘Girls!’ yelled back Mars as Neptune and Uranus ran towards them. A fireball fell from the sky enclosing Neptune and Uranus on a fire dome; as the plants on the ground mutated into several vine made monsters wich attacked the remaning scouts.

‘Welcome Sailor Scouts!’ Said a booming male voice; ‘We’ve been waiting for you to come!’ added a hissing female voice as a second female voice, wich dragged the words and was a little more soft added ‘To your grave...!’. ‘Cowards, attacking from behind!;  show yourselves!’ yelled Jupiter despise being crushed by some shadow binds. A huge silouethe arose from the upper wall revealing a male catfolk wearing a set of dark robes,  this one was more human than beast with a large black mane of hair and deep yellow eyes; from the nearby trees a hybrid half woman and snake crept down to the floor, this one also was larger than her regular kin; her pink eyes glowed evilly in her green skin and dark hair as for the shadows a lizard woman arose as if she had been part of them, she also had dark hair and green eyes with slits instead of pupils.

‘Disgusting!’ Said Venus looking at the lizard woman at her eyes; she dragged her to the floor next to Jupiter and then tossed them away; landing Venus over Jupiter ‘You should think better wich words to say to the one that’s holding you by your neck next time Venus’ replied on a groan Jupiter as the vine creatures attacked them. ‘Now...  you won’t move an inch away from here, as we’ll finish you, as Miss Hecatia ordered!’ Said the lion man; ‘What?!’ Yelled Pluto conmoted, ‘She’s... here?; but she... left after... that... why?’. ‘Pluto!’ said Saturn as her mate dropped pale as a ghost,  as she asked ‘What’s wrong?; who is this person?’.*

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‘A Keeper that has been recently awaken is indeed a tremendous force to face...’ Tought Dark Moon; as she managed to dodge barely another fire stream from Sun. ‘Is she OK?’ asked Endimion who was carrying Sailor Moon on his arms asn Chibimoon carried back Aarla with them dodging some parts of the crumbling ceiling; the columns of the room were dissapaearing one by one either on a explosion or melted down by the fire. ‘The Princess!, is she...?’ asked horrified Aarla by looking the sad shape of Moon. ‘No, she’s fine... we still have a chance to win...’ said Endimion looking Chibimoon on his eye’s corner as she noticed this and noded seriouslly. ‘Why...?’ asked with her eyes closed Sailor Moon as the room was lighted on a golden rain of sparks

‘Why does everyone keep hurting each other?, can’t we understand ourselves and the others to be able to work together and being friends?... I hate this... I LOATHE THIS!’ yelled Sailor Moon as she awakened entirelly. Alerted by her scream both Sailors stopped her fight at once turning their faces towards them, listening to her words; ‘People just shows up here and claims something I don’t even know what it is, threatening innocent people that has nothing to do on their fight; and yet you carry on...’ she said looking at Dark Moon who had a wary expression on her face, her emerald eyes were staring on a strange way to Sailor Moon. ‘You’re a Sailor Scout, you’re supposed to be a protector instead of a destructor. People here should admire you instead of fear you; like the rest of us... if only you...’ were saying Sailor Moon; ‘ENOUGH!’ said with a powerful tone Dark Moon.

‘Don’t you think I knew these thing you’re saying, Mama’s Princess?; but what really matters at the end is... achnowledgement’ she said looking at the sky spreding her arms; ‘Either by love of fear, but the admiration and respect of the others... to prove them all wrong!; don’t you think I knew what happened after I left?, people was glad to see me leave There goes the traitor... I’m glad she’s getting the hell out of here... Oh, the Shame of the Silver Millenium they mumbled...’ She said pointing at Aarla, ‘But I wanted to improve... to be better than them, to have them begging for my pardon!. ‘I don’t know what happened, but if that’s making you feel any better...’ Said Sailor Moon riging up tumbling, Endimion and his two companions looked rather alarmed s they saw Sailor Moon kneeling before Dark Moon that stared at her rather amused ‘Please... Dark Moon, forgive us’

A wind blew, Sun looked rather shocked as the steward groaned in disbelief, but Endimion and Chibimoon looked rather worried as Dark Moon approached to Moon, her steps echoed all over the place; slowly she kneeled that her mouth got closer to Sailor Moon’s ear and whispered so only she could hear her words‘Thank you, sis... but’s now that’s not enough’; after listening these words, Sailor Moon’s expresion was a shocked one as Dark Moon tossed her back to her companion ad turned back to Sun, ‘A mere apology from the “rightful heir” it’s not good enough for me or my master, for we’re looking for something even bigger... and you my dear ginger, are using it on a poor performance... a power that dates from the time before time itself... a force capable of miracles and curses, worthy of a wise ruler that will lead the galaxy to a new order, after the mess your little friend Galaxia caused’.

‘How come you know what’s in here?’ asked Moon, as Endimion and Chibimoon were taking care of her again; Dark Moon rised an eyebrow and her smile twiled on the edge of her mouth, her eyes turned back to Sailor Moon and there was something familiar... like she had seen those eyes a long time ago; ‘You... don’t know what’s in here?, boy... you sure a naive one...’Dark Moon turned now back to Sun and said pointing her brooch,  ‘Your  little friend’s new toy is once of the five sacred relics that forged this universe shape on The Beggining; she has been blessed with the power of the Fire Keeper, ruler of the blazing flames. According to the legend of the Silver Millenium, an ancient Keeper chose to left his treasure in here, the Final Stronghold,  passing it on his descendants until the time returned in wich he or she will join the fight against their enemies’.

‘Wait a minute!, how come you know these legends... Mistress Aarla said that only the Queens and the Sailor Scouts knew this place; and I know the Moon Queen wasn’t fool enough to share it with Neherenia and a traitor witch like you!’ yelled at her Chibimoon; ‘You were a child of the Moon Kigndom corrupted by Neherenia, there’s no possible way for you to know this!’ added Endimion standing up; ‘Hmmm... you’re not as dumb as you look... The Earth Prince, right?, but pinky over there is even smarter... but she missed a crucial point about Mama Moon and that’s because...’ Dark Moon said curling her lips on a smile and relaxing her eyes; Aarla inmediatelly tried to yell something but it was too late as the following words left Dark Moon’s lips ‘I’m her daughter too’

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The sky sparkled... A lighthing shone... A thunder roared... Sun covered her mouth with her hands horrified... Chibimoon looked confused... But all of this was nothing compared to the hollow expression that had appeared on Endimion’s face after Dark Moon’s words. ‘There... was... another...’ mumbled Sailor Moon as Aarla frowned her face in pain and said with a suffocated voice, her closed eyes dropped tears as she spoke heavily ‘Nehrerenia was envious of everything your mother had... even her child; so once she used her lemurs to make her move; she created a replica of her and...’ she could not keep on due the pain of the memories.

‘I was taken and introduced to a larger world, widening my perception of both sides of the coin and understanding the meaning and the reason of the way Old Neherenia was... she wanted to have her chance to shine, to show what she was capable to, but our mother denied her that chance, arguing that she was evil and sending her stooges back to attack her... a foolish move indeed’ she said seriouslly looking at Aarla, whose eyes were now open and bursting with sadness and rage tears as she remebered the casualties that her younger self witnessed... Allana and Siera were taken down by Dark Moon  herself; as Kina, Naru and Hena were disposed by the evil Queen before they managed to get a hold on Dark Moon forcing Neherenia and her remaining lemures to retreat; still she managed to get Athari while enraged, she attacked her own mother leaving Eelysa and herself as the last two former Sailor Scouts.

‘And by the looks of it, you haven changed at all Hecatia...Queen Serenity would be so disappointed’ said Aarla returning to the present, ‘You... you did all these things?’ asked astonished Sun, while Sailor Moon was again shocked at hearing this information; ‘She promised her mother to never return here until she considered herself redeemed... and this isn’t exactly my idea of redemption’ replied Aarla; ‘You were foolish enough to be decieved by such master mind as Neherenia, you couldn’t deal with the consequences of her and your acts and now I’m here not to talk about the past, but to take the first stone to build a better future, now ginger... give me the crystal or else...’ she was saying turning again to Sun, and if she hadn’t turned on that moment, she would have recived a direct hit of a stream of golden fire, Dark Moon dived but the flame consumed her long mane of hair, leaving it up to her shoulders.

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‘CRAAAAP!’ Yelled Jupiter as Lacerti  tossed her and Venus to a pond; as Mars and Mercury were dealing with several vine creatures that continued spawning every second; ‘PRESSURE WALL!’ attacked Saturn the dome leaving a gap  on top of it, allowing Uranus and Neptune to return the battle,’Nice one little girls, but you can deal with this?’ said Elapida crushing the ground with her tail and causing several debris to hit the girls; Saturn flew away as Uranus Stabbed the creature’s tail with her sword that roared in pain, Uranus looked at it over her shoulder and then she droped to her knee as Neptune still was breathing for fresh air.

‘You should have remained inside, at least you’ll have left your bodies unharmed...’ said calmly Raksha as he prepared more fire coming ut of it’s mouth; ‘This guy’s a pain in the...!’ said Uranus, ‘Heads up!’ yelled Pluto as she repelled the fire with a Dead Scream; ‘Good timing!’ whispered Neptune as Pluto covered their positions against the lionlike man; ‘Your will is strong indeed Sailor Scout, but everything has a limit... and you’re reaching it’ he said, noticing that now the vine creatures were entangling Mercury and Mars and slowly drained their energy.

‘You’ll be amazed of what we can do... DEAD...’ she said and the crature vanished on a flame and appeared behind her; ‘and I say that you have to keep your dignity and give up, Sailor’ he said as she fell to the ground, wounded by his claw; ‘Pluto!’ Yelled Uranus trying to charge at the man, but more vines had sprouted from the ground and were now holding Neptune, Saturn and her, as the lizard woman now was dragging back to the shore an unconscious Venus and a stunned Jupiter.

The vines began to move apart of each other, dragging the girls in the soil. Pushing their bodies to the limit they were trying to break free from their grasp, but in it were hopeless; ‘DAMN!’ said Jupiter trying to break her way out, while Mercury and Mars were too drowzy and didn’t moved at all as Venus and Pluto already had disappeared beneath the surface. ‘HARUKA!’ Yelled Neptune trying to reach Uranus with all her strenght ‘DAMN IT MICHIRU, DON’T GIVE UP!’ she replied as she tried to reach her lover’s hand outstreching her own as far as she could... but she only managed to touch the tip of her fingers before the ground claimed them.

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Slowly the last flame stream faded, as ashed were now covering Dark Moon’s shoulders, pieces of her burnt hair fell over the floor as Sun was breathing heavily; ‘You were such a terrible monster... you’ll never regect anything of your past deeds!; you’re a shame!’ she said putting special emphasis on the last words. More lighthing began to strike the city, demolishing the bouildings as Dark Moon lowered her face, the last word echoing on a thousand mocking voices on her head, her shoulders trembled as she rised her face on a sudden move as her face was distorted by pure rage and her eyes were on a deep crimson tone. ‘I’M NOT A SHAME!’

On a swift blinding move, she was all over Sun... she had moved at an impressive speed in a blink, and then launched a kick to her rival launching her outside the throne room crashing the remains of the window; ‘I’ll deal with you two later...’ she threatened Aarla and Moon as she left the room too, looking for Sun. ‘Come on, we have to do something!, she’s going to kill her!’ said Chibimoon sprinting up the windows, Enidimion and Aarla followed her at one, but Moon remainded down there, ‘What’s wrong, Serena?’ asked Endimion; ‘I... I can’t do it...’ she simply said.

Aarla and Chibimoon looked stranged at each other, as Endimion placed gently her hands over her shoulders and said ‘Serena, I understand... after all she’s your realtive, well... used to be; but even more will go trough this if we don’t stop her now’; ‘But... I don’t want anyone else to suffer... including her... Darien, I could see through her soul... she’s in so much pain... it’s not her choice to be like this, she was set on these path and I don’t think that fighthing her would be a solution’ She replied begging on her eyes; ‘Typical...’ mumbled Chibimoon with sad eyes, for she didn’t liked to see her mother like this; ‘What are we going to do then, Princess?’ asked Aarla; Sailor Moon standed up and walked strongly with determinated eyes.

‘You’ve done too much a fool of mee, little ginger...’ Said Dark Moon as she drew closer to Sun, that was lying in a broken posture groaning of pain. ‘You’re hurted here?’ she asked placing her boot over Sun’s arm, who flinched at once; Dark Moon bent over Sun and whispered to her on her ear ‘You wasted your chance allowing me to speak, well you see, I’ve done my reseach very well indeed and a Keeper that’s just awakened have a short window of boundless energy; after that the person is no more than pinky over there...’ Sun only looked at her with angry eyes gasping and moaning on pain as Dark Moon kept her foot on the arm.

‘Me on the other hand... Like I said to you before, I like to fight giving it all’ she tapped the brooch on her chest twice, and she added as she prepared a new dark energy sphere ‘Experience makes perfection, and sadly for you... you wont’ get any, bye ginger!’. ‘On a burst, Sun glowed in a golden light again that expelled Dark Moon toward the air and she crashed on the floor rolling over several times, still dazed she saw Sun gleam on the spot with a golden fire, more bright and shiny than the previous one and she was preparing to launch it against her. As the moment she tried to jump to avoid it she realized that her feet were tied to the gound by a fire ring that was covering all the floor; expecting the final blow she merely smirked as she said staring at the eyes of an enraged Sun ‘Do it ginger, keep the hatred!’ Focusing all her might on it, Sun launched her flame stream that striked...

‘SERENA!’ Yelled Endimion as Chibimoon, resignated, breathed deeply and closed her eyes. ‘PRINCESS!’ cried Aarla in tears as Sailor Moon had dived to be Dark Moon’s human shield and recived a full impact for her enemy; to suprise of both Sailors. ‘Serenity...’ mumbled Sun as the golden glow surrounding her faded once again and she fainted exhausted; ‘What the hell are you doing...?’ Asked herself Dark Moon as the person standing right in front of her seemed frozen in time, taking for her a maelstrom of fire.

‘Princess Serenity... you’ve endured so many ordeals; and I’m so proud of you... but being willing to forgive your fallen sister and being capable of giving your life for her... it’s incredible’ Said queen’s Serenity’s voice on Serena’s head as she slowly was falling backwards to the floor; ‘Why didn’t you told me?... You thought I couldn’t understand it?’ she asked as her consciousness  began to leave her body; ‘Serenity, you have a good heart... and I never wanted to have something to trouble you; I expected this to happen sooner or later and leave the final choice to you, my beloved children, to forgive my dear Hecatia, or commit the same mistake I made a long time ago: leave her alone’ Replied the Queen starting to appear on Serena’s sight. ‘I... don’t want her to be alone, no one... we all deserve a chance to be happy and feel that you’re important to someone... that mo matter what have you done, someone loves you’ tought Sailor Moon as her eyes began to close.

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A silver beam erupted from Moon’s  broken brooch and rose to the heavens, dispelling entirelly the dark clouds; light poured itself over the ruined sun city, dispelling the curse of darkness that had fallen over it; te stranded creatures ouside the shadows were inmediately turned into ashes as the remaining ones tried to escape from the place, but every corner of the metropoli recieved the blessing of light and it shined all over the place, like if it had been always there. ‘What the hell is this?’ roared dazzled Raksha as his two mates covered their eyes confused and scared.

‘Young Princess Serenity, your heart has indeed suffered another ordeal, yet there are many more to come; however your unwavering soul and will are the power you need to overcome this; however they’re nothing compared with the power of your heart...’ Said the Queen appearing to her younger daughter as her ripped and burnt clothings began to change into ribbons; she outstretched her arms trying to reach something that no one else could see as she listened to that soft calm voice again; ‘Use the Imperial Silver Crystal as the way it was meant to since The Beggining: to heal and repair the wounds of the soul of your sister and ensure a bright future for you and all the other living beings’  A silvery spark stream arose from the ground in the throne room as Sailor Moon rised to the heavens. ‘What’s going on now?’ Asked Endimion amazed as Aarla’s tears dropped gently and Chibimoon started to glow in a silvery tone too.

‘This Imperial Silver Crystal... will be the beacon for those who seek justice, and it’ll help you’ll to keep on your fight for love and justice, Princess Serenity’ Said the voice as the dust twirled surronding her and protected the imperial Silver Crystal in a new brooch; ‘Now go!, face the evil that lies inside Dark Moon and release her soul from the spell of darkness that’s binding her!’ ordered the Queen Serenity as Serena slowly straightened on the sky, ‘Use these new words in your quest and bring back Hecatia... our link to the past and the future, First Keeper... ‘SILVER CRISIS MOON POWER MAKE UP!’ said both of them as Serena glowed in a silvery light, her body felt like never before, filled of so much energy and strenght; her heart seemed to beat a million times faster and she could feel herself more graceful and nimble than ever before, her mind flew to her friends and tought ‘You always have given me your strength on these dire times, now it’s time foer me to help you back...’ she said as some feathers gathered on her back and sone real white angel wings had appeared on her back.

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‘I don’t like this...’ mumbled Lacerti looking the silvery light bathing everything, ‘We’ve better go and help Miss Hecatia’ said Raksha at once turning to the palace; Elapida stared at the place the Sailors had sunken and crept alongside her companions, but before she could reach them she noticed something strange,  ‘You... there...’ she said ponting the place where some sparks had entered the ground. ‘What?, it’s just the ground... it’s not like these girls are coming back...’ mocked Raksha as a silvery white glove arose from the floor and grabbed him from the angle.

‘WHAT?!’ yelled all three creatures as slowly all the Sailor Scouts returned to the surface unharmed and whole; ‘It looks like it’s round three’ Said Jupiter punching her own hands, sparkling a little; ‘Sailor Team... let’s go!’ said Venus rising her finger and pointing the creatures; ‘Venus... what the blazes is that?’ asked annoyed Mars; ‘Well, since we’re a team and stuff, I think wee need a battle phrase, don you think?’ she replied as the other scouts looked cheerfully at them; ‘I personally like better “For the Princess! ”’ replied Uranus; ‘Yeah... it has more sense’ added Neptune... ‘OK then... FOR THE PRINCESS!’ yelled Venus again.

‘Foolish girls, the results will be the same!’ yelled at them Raksha as his companions summoned again the vine creatures and launched their attacks. Mars dodged Elapida’s smashing tail with an agile jump over her as Mercury gracefully attacked her a powered up Shine Aque Illusion freezing her in place, allowing that Uranus and Neptune to finish her using her combination of Deep Sumberge and World Shaking. ‘I CURSE YOU!’ She yelled as she disappeared in the midlle of the attacks; ‘Yeah right, like I’ve not hear that before...’ said Uranus as Neptune laguhed grafceully.

‘What’s going on here?!’ asked bewildered Lacerti as Mars consumed plenty of her vine creatures with a single Fire Soul; ‘They have... gotten stronger!’, mumbled Raksha as he barely dodged a Silence Glaive Slash; ‘I told you that we Sailor Scout were a tought ones’ said to him Pluto launching a Dead Scream, wich he also doged floating into the sky. ‘Lacerti, let’s go with the Miss!’ he ordered as she saw how the scouts were occupied  dealing with the rest of summoned creatures and his companion; ‘This one is for your welcome card!’ said Jupiter sprinting towards Lacerti charging a Sparkling Wide Pressure on her right hand. ‘LACERTI LOOK OUT!’ yelled at her Raksha but it was too late for his companion dissapeared on a shocking burst right after being smacked straight in the chest by Sailor Jupiter.

He roared on rage as he prepared a massive fire attack towards the Sailor Scouts once again; not caring of the chance he might die on it, what it really mattered was to punish those insolent girls; ‘Look out!’, yelled Mars as she noticed the huge flare. ‘Time to show him our moves!; Mercury, Neptune, Mars: Aim for the fire!; Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto and I will cut the exits; it’s all up to you little one!’ said Venus winking an eye to Saturn who looked a little annoyed but smiled as she turned up, ‘I’m not a child anymore!’.

The massive fire ball from the fiend clashed against a Mercury Aqua Rhapsody, a Deep Sumberge and a Burning Mandala; poruing all their might on their attacks, the girls dispelled the incoming attack; at once Oak Evolution, World Shaking, Dead Scream and a Love and Beauty Shock crossed the sky forcing the creature to defend itself from that massive attack; ‘What are you aiming for, you stupid girls!’ He asked taunting them; to his surprise he saw Venus waving goodbye  and pointing to the sky as a Silence Glaive Slash stroke him directly and Raksha was no more. ‘Master I’ve failed you....!’ He yelled before disspapearing on a burst of purple energy.

‘Phew!, that was a close call!’ said Venus bending over her knees, as Mercury and Saturn dropped themselves to the floor and Jupiter rubbed her knucles; ‘Pluto... what’s going on here!’ demanded at once Uranus; ‘First you know this secret place, later you know an ancient Sailor Scout and now you know the name of the enemy!; I barely can trust you anymore and if you don’t want me to go and find some answerd on my own you better tell us the truth now!’ she said as walked toward Pluto and grabbed her by her robes. ‘I never expected... to have the first Moon princess back again.’ Said Pluto to astonishment of everyone of the girls. ‘So... in short...’ said Neptune as Uranus dropped Pluto and walked away a little dizzy and infuriated. ‘An exiled Princess seeks a treasure they’re keeping in here; and your face tells me the she might be seeking something more than this treasure, right?, like revenge or payback.’; ‘Pretty much, not quite detailed, but that’s the main idea’ replied Pluto.

‘And what about that feeling I’ve had underground?; It was a gentle warmth that ran all over my heart, and then from all my body’ asked Mars; ‘That was the princess lending us her power...’ said Pluto looking to the palace where a little silver star was floating; ‘Then should we...?’ Asked Jupiter taking a few steps to the place; Pluto negated speechless closing her eyes; as she looked forward and said ‘This’ beyond us; it’s a test for the Princess, and she has to overcome it in order to heal the wounds of the past.’

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Light bathed the inner gardens of the palace as slowly, Murua regained consciousness... she had the most peculiar dream: she had been a Sailor Scout and faced a terrible foe... and now she was looking an angel on a sky; then she noticed other three people on the floor staring the spectacle on the sky... Aarla, she looked rather tired and crying, an unknown girl, a young man and a young woman and then she sudddenly realized that this was no dream... as she turned up again and discovered the Sailor Moon had changed to a white silvery one and from her back had appeared real angeld wings that gently flapped and kept her hovering; ‘Princess...?’ Murua mumbled as was looking at the other people in the garden.

‘I once saw... this on a dream...’ Dark Moon mumbled vagely as she looked at Sailor Moon on the sky... holding a large staff with an ornament on the top, it’s silvery wings sparkled as the golden moon on it that suported it reflected part of the light bursting from the Silver Crystal; but it’s greatest feature was the star on a golden dish on the middle of it; her clothes had changed radically adding a large cloak on her back that blew with the wind alongside her hair; as she opened her eyes again; Moon’s face was filled of comprehension and sympathy as she gazed down to Dark Moon that looked at her back astonished. ‘Are you OK?’ yelled at her Murua looking rather worried for she had not moved at all after the flame attack, she added as she drew closer ‘Hey, wicked Princess!’; ‘Don’t do that!’ Yelled Aarla as she slowly got close due her injuries; sudenly Dark Moon grabbed her face and screamed on pain and twisted on the spot, Murua froze inmediatelly 3 steps away from her as a dark energy began to flow from her, repelling the Sun Princess.

‘Big sister!’ Yelled Sailor Moon as the Dark energy emanating from her increaded it’s power and the dark clouds returned once again; ‘Your sister is no more, Sailor Moon... she never was meant to be with you at your side, she was mant to only one thing... to get me both crystals, it doesn’t matter to me is she lives or dies’ Dark Moon spoke with a different voice and her eyes were no loger that shiny emerald, but rather a dark reddish shade that hade pure hatred on every sigle line of them; a stream of energy surrounded her and black angel wings appeared on her back as she drew her level to Sailor Moon’s one on a swift move; ‘What are you talking about?, you’re a Sailor Scout you can overcome this!’, yelled back Sailor Moon.

‘Don’t listen to her and the lies she learned from that wicked Queen; remember... they left you to your luck; if you hadn’t found us you would have been forgotten, eclipsed by the figure of these evil ones; but if you stand in our side... I can ensure you that no one will ever forget what have you done’ Said the voice inside Dark Moon’s head as she rised up her face again to confront again Silver Moon; her eyes were hollow and her voice was emotionless as she said ‘You’ve forgotten me... disposed of me like garbage... negelcted me... now... you must pay...’; dodging her attack Silver Moon rised above on the sky followed closelly by Dark Moon that prepared one of her Dark Explotions; taking her chances Silver Moon dropped herself to the ground evading the attack as their moves were followed closely on the ground by Aarla, Chibimoon, Endimion and Murua.

‘Quick little one, I need to turn on this thing again!’ Yelled Marua to Rini after a miraculous dodge that Sailor Moon had done to evade a charge attack; ‘Princess... these powers don’t work at your whim!; they’re a responsability that...!’ scolded Aarla; ‘I know it’s a commitment for life and I really want to help Serenity again  so if you have a good idea that might work you better tell me insted of wasting precius time hearing you ranting about it!’ answered back Murua, Endimion and Chibimoon gasped as Aarla looked rather stunned at the firce face Murua was showing at her, realizing that she had crossed an invisible line, Murua lowered her head and added ‘Please, I really want to help...’; ‘Are you OK? Asked Chibimoon to Aarla as Endimion was looking to the sky avobe; ‘Is that your true wish of your heart?, to help people... not to have fun, not to personal gain but because it is the right thing to do?’ Asked Aarla staring Murua to her eyes. A thunder stroke the ruins of the Sun palace as Silver Moon was striked by another one. ‘Yes... I do’ Murua replied simply as another golden glint sparkled from her eyes.

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‘¡Kyaaaa!’ screamed Silver Moon after the impact as she dropped her new staff; ‘How do you plan on fighting me without your weapon, foolish girl?’ asked in her hollow voice Dark Moon, grabbing her by the back and asked; ‘Does it really mattered if you relaesed your power now?, I don’t think so, now I’ll take your life and ginger’s one to claim my prized and plase my master’; ‘You... ‘re not... weak... you’re being... manipulated by someone... you must break free!’ said Silver Moon stiffly; ‘I think not... now the final showdown for the Silver Millenium heirs is on and after that... the galaxy will be mine!’ she said with that unknown voice and those reddish eyed filled of pure malice; ‘And now for the grand finale’ she said as her body began to spread more dark energy, creating a pulse that emanated from herself that slowly began to speed up.

A scarlet glint stroke Dark Moon in the eyes and dropped Silver Moon, that managed to get a hold of herself in mid air. ‘She’s going to inmolate herself!’ yelled Aarla;  and added ‘you’ve got to stop her!; ‘I’ll try!’ yelled back Silver Moon nodding as she dived again towards Dark Moon, but the waved kept increasing in both power and speed that hindered on a great measure Silver Moon’s movement; for a moment she seemed to be dragged away from Dark Moon but a golden glow outstretched her hand to grab her: With gorgeous phoenix wings Sailor Sun was there helping Moon and handing her over her staff. ‘You’ve dropped this!’ she said on a smile. Moon smiled back as she turned her eyes to the already shaking Dark Moon.

‘Any idea?’ asked Sun; Ideas... that was Mercury’s field of work, not hers... she was the leader and the joyful one, always messing on other people’s bussiness... not being an strategist. ‘I got an idea... it might not be a good one, but’s the only one I have’ she replied explaining the process to Sun; ‘Look at that!’ observed Chibimoon as a gigantic tornado was now forming over Dark Moon and every little rock on the floor was being dragged up. ‘You better do something now, Serena’ Mumbled Endimion as Aarla noticed something strange. ‘Are they holding hands?’; ‘That looks like...’ mumbled Endimion and then closed his eyes and tought ‘It better work Serena!’

Holding out hands, Sun looked rather confused, ‘Are you sure this’ going to work Serenity?’; ‘It better do, I don’t want to wait 1000 year to meet you again!’ replied with a fierce look Silver Moon, ‘Ready?’ she asked; ‘Not really!’ answered Sun, ‘Just foucs on your target... aim and release!’ said Moon as she flew upwards; the pulsations from Dark Moon were almost continuous as Sun looked at her blank eyes and her pain expression ‘This might hurt you a little, wicked princess’ she said as she outstreched her hands, closed her eyed and forced all the fire inside of her to create a ball; ‘why iit was so easy, it was like taking clay on her hands and shaping it, she kne she had to do it when Silver Moon yelled at her, ‘NOW!’.

A dark wave came out and then it clashed against a huge fireball; the rythm of the waves broke out and slowly decreased as Dark Moon, with her red eyes looked dazzled as an angel fell over her and placed gently her staff on her chest. ‘ATONEMENT OF THE SILVER PRINCESS!’ said Sailor Moon as the staff began to glow in a silver light, the same light that bursted out of Dark Moon’s chest now who roared in pain and her red eyes slowly tuned back to normal as her body dissapeared on a bath of light.