From: ChibiMagic To: Subject: [neosenshi] Power of Love: Chapter Three! Date: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 7:57 PM Neo Senshi ML - http://www.angelfire.com/anime/motoki I'm so happy from all the feedback I've been getting! Arigato guys! Here's chapter three! But I wanr ya, this chapter is pretty...eeeevviiillllllll!!!!! As in, spooky. ^_^ ChibiMagic http://geocities.com/chibimagic_2000 .................................................................................. The Power of Love: Chapter Three: "No!!!! LET GO!!! PLEASE!!" TuxedoKamen weakly opened his eyes and saw Soul form a portal and saw him disapear with SailorMoon. "MAMO-CHAN!!!" was SailorMoon's last cry. "Usako!" he cried as he tried to get up. "USAKO!!!!" Mamoru stood unmoving staring at the spot where SailorMoon had disappeared. "It can't...be..."he said quietly. There were faint shuffling noises behind him as the others awoke into conciousness. "Mamoru-san...where is SailorMoon?" asked SailorMars weakly. Everyone looked towards him for an answer. "I couldn't protect her..."he said slowly. They all let out gasps of shock. "Usagi!" cried SailorVenus bitterly. "I feel we will be having the biggest battle of our lives soon." said SailorSaturn softly. SailorPluto was standing very still in deep thought. Then she spoke , "Yes, we will." "Usako.."whispered Mamoru. "Who are you?" Usagi screams in the darkness. She can hear laughter all around her, evil, mocking laughter aimed at her, but she cannot see anyone through the brooding darkness. "Why did you bring me here? What is it that you want?" "I have been waiting for you to ask that question," says a haunting voice somewhere in the darkness. Usagi hears sneering laughter all around her. The laughter comes from all directions. The darkness seems to surround her in a tight grip and squeezes her slowly until she feels that her very life is oozing out of her body. The laughter swirls around her in the darkness, mocking her. Suddenly she feels dizzy and grabs her head. Somehow she senses that the room itself is spinning in circles before her eyes. < "Moon Eternal Make up!" she screams.but nothing happens. "Whuh?.It.didn't work." Again she hears the same sinister laughter, "You cannot transform here, Eternal Sailor Moon. Your power is too weak to defy mine." < her mind thinks desperately. < her mind screams. < her mind begs in desperation. Feelings of utter despair and hopelessness engulf her. And realization dawned on her like a slab of brick.she is alone.and no one will save her.not this time. "What is it that you want," Usagi asks again in an almost tearful and frightened voice. "Your life," came the solemn reply, "I want your soul and body." "Why are you doing this to me?" Usagi screams out in anguish as she feels the darkness closing in on her. She feels a strange dark force invading her mind and slowly taking control of it. The laughter and darkness, in addition to the fear and desolateness, slowly breaks down her resistance and eats away at her soul. That dark voice speaks again, "Soon Sailor Moon, your power and your being will be mine. And I will use it to destroy all that you have treasured and love. With you under my control all of space and time will finally belong to me." Usagi hears a spine-chilling trill followed by a sinister laughter that causes her skin to get goosebumps. She tries to fight against the invading darkness that she knows is seeping into her soul, darkening it. <, she thinks determinedly, whatever that IT may be. She feels as if she is fighting a loosing battle from the beginning. This is something she has never before encountered, and it is scaring her to death. This darkness overcoming her numbing mind is spreading through her body like heat from a fire, slowly, gradually taking over and there is nothing she is able to do to stop it. Even as she is desperately trying to figure out a way to free herself, she can feel her soul and mind giving up on her. This is nothing like the brainwashing she has experienced from Prince Diamond or the Wiseman from the Dark Moon Family. At least with brainwashing, she knows what she is dealing with, but this.this strange flow.almost like she is drinking an elixir that she just can't stop herself. She feels as if she is fighting against herself, much less against an embodied thing, with neither shape, face, sound, nor sense. "WHO ARE YOU?" Usagi screams in pain as the darkness spreads deep within her mind, distorting everything in it. Her memories of the past and those of the present runs together, mixing into a jumble of visions neither recognizable nor clearly remembered. Visions of the Sailor Soldiers, ChibiUsa, the Moon Kingdom, Mamoru, everything gradually fades and disappears entirely. All that is left is the emptiness and the cruel driving force of that strange darkness. As the darkness takes control of more of her mind, Usagi can feel her strength weakening. She can sense her soul loosing its grip on her body and her mind on reality. Everything fades gradually, reality fades like the light of a dying star. That is just what she has become now, a dying star. "Do not fight me, Serenity," the voice invades her weak mind like a roaring thunder, "Instead you should rejoice that you will soon be on my side.sister." Usagi's eyes widen in shock and disbelief. "W-W-What?" Usagi struggles to speak. "What did you just say?" "Do you not know?" The voice asks mockingly, though not with surprise. "We are sisters you and I. We both came from the same origin, the Cauldron of the Stars. You are the light, and I am your counterpart." A silence envelops them both, Usagi senses that the dark being is smiling evilly down at her, seeming to enjoy her pain and suffering. Then a face appears out of the closing shadows. Usagi struggles to look up to see who is her captive. What she saw horrifies her. Meeting her gaze is the mirror image of herself. Yet, instead of blue eyes, the face looks at her through eyes that do not contain any color or pupils. It appears like swirling black empty void that can swallow one's soul by a simple gaze. "I am Chaos." "Nooooooo!" Usagi screams in pain as her soul shrivels and dies. She falls to her knees, grabbing her head as the last image in her mind fades away. She feels a strange coldness suddenly clutching her heart and freezing it into hard stone ice. She now realizes that this is one battle that she cannot win. The pain and heaviness forced upon her by the conquering darkness made her crouch low on the floor, holding her aching head. The darkness made its last strike and her soul slowly leaves her body. As a crystal tear, the only source of humanity that is now left in her, leaves her eyes and slides down her pale cheek, Usagi suddenly realizes what will happen after this moment. A strange vision of what will be flashed faintly, quickly in her dying mind. For that split second, she saw her herself holding a single red rose, and from the rose droplets of blood oozes out. She realizes that the rose is dying, and *she* is killing it. Sadly, she whispers in a dying voice, "Forgive me my friends.for what I will do." With a last desperate gasp, Usagi closes her eyes and the darkness swallows her. Suddenly the Silver Crystal radiates with intense light and disappears. Sailor Chaos looks at what had just occurred before her in solemn silence. A cruel contorted smile appears on her thin black lips. This is what she has been waiting for. Her quest for total conquest of the universe has been barred by a single Sailor Soldier whom she despises incredibly, and now with Sailor Moon as an addition to her army, this other soldier will be no match against her. Finally the strongest Sailor Soldier in the Galaxy, Eternal Sailor Moon is hers to control. And she will use her to defeat the Soldier of the Universe. The strongest soldier in the galaxy against the strongest soldier of the universe, < The body lying before her slowly darkens and a strange aura surrounds it. The brooding darkness around Chaos seems to be waiting for her to give a command to commence something that will inevitably change the future, forever. To Be Continued..... .................................................................... I know you're probably thinking...WHAT THE HECK!!!??? Chaos!?? Sailor Chaos!!? What happened to Soul!!?? What Soldier of the Universe!!???? And so on.... So sorry if you're all confused! But this story waaas supposed to be pretty intense and...YOU'LL HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENS!!! *groans of pain heard from audience* I'm sooo evil aren't I? Treating you readers like this? ^_^ Don't worry! I'll get the next chapter out soon!!! -ChibiMagic ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to neosenshi_ml-unsubscribe@listbot.com Online training from Headlight.com can improve your team's skills, and keep your business on the cutting edge! Act today and save $30. Prices starting at $12 Choose from 1,500 courses ranging from business to IT. Click here to save http://on.linkexchange.com/?ATID'&AID78