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1 Author’s Note: This songfic was originally meant to be part of the | |
2 manga series that I was working on, but after taking nearly two years | |
3 to finish merely the S season, I don’t think I’ll be able to finish | |
4 SuperS or Sailorstars as I had originally planned. On the other hand, | |
5 this afforded me the opportunity to write another songfic that I had | |
6 wanted to do for quite a while. I thought that the song ‘Kryptonite’ | |
7 by Three Doors Down fit this scene perfectly, so I wanted to | |
8 incorporate it into the story. This takes place late in the Bishoujo | |
9 Senshi Sailormoon Sailorstars manga right up near the end. All of the | |
10 Senshi have been killed with the exception of Sailormoon, ChibiChibi | |
11 (Sailor Cosmos), and Sailor Chibimoon. The Quartet survived this | |
12 encounter in the manga, but were knocked unconscious by two of the | |
13 Inners. I thought it would have been much more fitting had they been | |
14 killed by the girl who had positioned them as ChibiUsa’s guardians in | |
15 the first place, Hotaru. All of the other Senshi have been brought | |
16 back by Galaxia as dark versions of themselves to halt Sailormoon’s | |
17 progression into the Shadow Galactica and the Cauldron. This story is | |
18 a what might have been if Saturn had been able to confront Chibimoon | |
19 instead of Chibimoon simply dying when Mamoru got killed. The | |
20 characters are copyright the wonderfully talented Naoko Takeuchi and | |
21 whatever other parties are involved while the song is performed by | |
22 Three Doors Down. I’m just borrowing all of these elements for a | |
23 romance story starring one of my absolute favorite couples. ^-^ | |
24 Please enjoy! | |
25 | |
26 // means song lyrics. | |
27 | |
28 | |
29 | |
30 Kryptonite | |
31 by The Amazoness Duo | |
32 amazonessduo@hotmail.com | |
33 | |
34 | |
35 | |
36 The Silence Glaive swung down in a long arc towards the pink haired | |
37 Sailor Senshi. ChibiUsa barely outdistanced it, the sweep of air | |
38 passing along her bare skin. Blank violet eyes met her gaze as she | |
39 looked pleadingly at the girl she loved. Saturn lunged forward, again | |
40 trying to cut the future princess in two. “Hotaru-chan, please! You | |
41 have to listen to me!” In answer, the raven haired Senshi of Death | |
42 and Rebirth merely took another swipe at her former lover. Chibimoon | |
43 lifted her wand, ready to attack, but she couldn’t get herself to | |
44 concentrate. Saturn took advantage of the slight hesitation, bringing | |
45 herself within inches of the other girl before bring her Glaive | |
46 sweeping towards ChibiUsa. The blade serrated cloth and skin alike as | |
47 a biting pain flared in ChibiUsa side. Blood dripped down her side | |
48 from the cut, seeping into the white cloth. | |
49 | |
50 //I took a walk around the world to | |
51 Ease my troubled mind. | |
52 I left my body laying somewhere | |
53 In the sands of time. | |
54 I watched the world float to the | |
55 Dark side of the moon. | |
56 I feel there is nothing I can do, yeah// | |
57 | |
58 Reeling back, ChibiUsa let out a stifled cry. She didn’t have time | |
59 to fully dodge Saturn’s next attack, a sharp explosion of pain and | |
60 color appearing in her right arm. Saturn was still moving towards her | |
61 from the movement of her attack, but it would take vital seconds to | |
62 get her Glaive ready, giving ChibiUsa a perfect chance to attack. She | |
63 quickly lifted the wand with her left hand, her vision blurring with | |
64 hot tears. This wasn’t Hotaru. It was her body being used by Galaxia | |
65 to fight them. Hotaru was dead, her Sailor Crystal stolen. | |
66 The wand fell from numb fingers, clattering uselessly to the floor. | |
67 The princess couldn’t accept that. She couldn’t just give up on her | |
68 best friend, her love. “Hota-chan! I know this isn’t you.. Please, | |
69 please.. please...” Tears rolled down her cheeks | |
70 as she kept her gaze on the cold form of Saturn before her. “Hota- | |
71 chan, I love you. Please fight this. Don’t let her use you.” ChibiUsa | |
72 barely had time to dodge the swipe to her legs, hopping back. “Please | |
73 remember. Hota-chan, I love you. Don’t you remember me?” | |
74 | |
75 //I watched the world float to the | |
76 Dark side of the moon. | |
77 After all I knew it had to be something | |
78 To do with you. | |
79 I really don't mind what happens now and then | |
80 As long as you'll be my friend at the end.// | |
81 | |
82 A stab of fear shot through her, tenfold worse than the pain in her | |
83 side and arm. Hotaru had just killed the Sailor Quartet, her | |
84 guardians. The guardians she’d decided to have protect ChibiUsa. What | |
85 if she was wrong? What if there was nothing left of the girl she | |
86 loved in there? Had she just made a terrible mistake? No. Even if she | |
87 died, she knew that she could never fight Hotaru. She had to get | |
88 through to Hotaru the only way she could. She -had- to. “It’s me, | |
89 ChibiUsa. Hota-chan, you’re important to me. Can’t you remember that? | |
90 You were everything to me. You are everything to me. Please.. I won’t | |
91 fight you. I don’t care what’s at stake. I can’t. You mean too | |
92 much to me.” Another slash, another cut. ChibiUsa’s lungs were | |
93 starting to burn, aching with each breath. She was laboring to keep | |
94 up her pace. At this | |
95 rate she knew there was no way she could keep dodging Saturn. | |
96 Saturn leapt into the air, bringing the Glaive down as she landed. | |
97 Some wisps of pink hair fell slowly to the floor. ChibiUsa’s vision | |
98 blurred further, blood mixing with her tears. Her gloved fingers | |
99 brushed the wound on her head and she | |
100 immediately wished she hadn’t. Pain shot through her, a wave of | |
101 dizziness engulfing her. She stumbled back, catching another swipe in | |
102 her side. The pain | |
103 was becoming unbearable for the pink haired girl. She wanted to curl | |
104 up, for this to all go away. To wake up back in her own bed back in | |
105 Crystal Tokyo. | |
106 | |
107 | |
108 //If I go crazy then will you still | |
109 Call me Superman? | |
110 If I'm alive and well, will you be | |
111 There holding my hand? | |
112 I'll keep you by my side with | |
113 My superhuman might. | |
114 Kryptonite// | |
115 | |
116 Chibimoon slowly regained her resolve as she remembered why she was | |
117 there in the first place. When she’d found out in the future that | |
118 something was wrong, she knew she had to come back, to help Hotaru. | |
119 Finding out that Galaxia had killed her love had torn her up inside. | |
120 The only thing that kept her going was the hope that Sailormoon would | |
121 be able to bring her back along with the others when this was all | |
122 over. Seeing Hotaru here at the Cauldron had caught her off guard. | |
123 That had cost the Quartet their lives. In her moment of jubilation at | |
124 seeing Hotaru alive, Saturn had attacked, killing the Quartet as they | |
125 took the attack that had been meant for her. | |
126 | |
127 //You called me strong, you called me weak, | |
128 But still your secrets I will keep. | |
129 You took for granted all the times | |
130 I never let you down. | |
131 You stumbled in and bumped your head, | |
132 If not for me then you’d be dead. | |
133 I picked you up and put you back | |
134 On solid ground.// | |
135 | |
136 Now here she was, face to face with the girl she loved, pain | |
137 wracking her young body as they squared off. This was it, all or | |
138 nothing. The last hurrah. She had come back for Hotaru. And now was | |
139 her one and only chance. Mustering the last of her strength, the pink | |
140 haired girl stood up as she | |
141 locked eyes with her raven haired counterpart, her arms held in | |
142 front of her chest. Those dark eyes.. so many other times she’d gazed | |
143 into them, losing | |
144 herself in their mysteries. This time it was like looking into those | |
145 of death itself. “You can fight this, Hota-chan. I know that. I know | |
146 you. You were | |
147 always such a mystery, but I finally understand. You’re the strong | |
148 one out of us, Hotaru. You always overcome the pain, the obstacles in | |
149 front of you. You | |
150 fought off Mistress 9’s control to save my life. You survived a life | |
151 that I never could have hoped to live through. You’ve fought off | |
152 Saturn’s control for me. You came to fight with me again, even after | |
153 Elios. Hota-chan, this won’t defeat you.” A small smile | |
154 crossed her soft lips. “Because I believe in you, Hota-chan. I know | |
155 you can overcome this. I know you. I love you.” | |
156 | |
157 //If I go crazy then will you still | |
158 Call me Superman? | |
159 If I'm alive and well, will you be | |
160 There holding my hand? | |
161 I'll keep you by my side with my | |
162 Superhuman might. | |
163 Kryptonite// | |
164 | |
165 ChibiUsa’s arms opened as her smile | |
166 grew, realization dawning upon her. Her sparkling crimson eyes met | |
167 dark violet. “You always said you needed me, but you were wrong, it’s | |
168 I who needs | |
169 you. I can’t live without you. I need you.” | |
170 Saturn thrust forward in a fluid motion. The future princess hadn’t | |
171 the time nor will to dodge. The Glaive cut deep into ChibiUsa’s small | |
172 body. Time seemed to freeze as the pink haired girl crumbled to | |
173 the floor. Saturn stood over the fatally wounded princess, dark | |
174 blood dripping from the end of her Silence Glaive. The color had | |
175 drained from ChibiUsa’s usually warm skin. Pain burned through her | |
176 entire body like a forest fire, catching everything in its path. | |
177 “Hotaru...?” the future princess got out weakly, her voice sounding | |
178 like it was coming from the long forgotten past. All she could see | |
179 was Sailorsaturn standing over her, Silence Glaive held tightly in | |
180 her hand as blood dripped down the curved blade. And even that was | |
181 fading quickly. What hurt more than the searing pain that now claimed | |
182 every inch of her being was the thought that she had been wrong, that | |
183 there was nothing left of the girl she loved inside of her killer. | |
184 But even through that sense of betrayal, even though she knew she lay | |
185 dying, she couldn’t completely give up hope. There had to be | |
186 something left. Coughing painfully, a small cloud of blood further | |
187 blurred her vision. | |
188 | |
189 //If I go crazy then will you still | |
190 Call me Superman..? | |
191 If I'm alive and well, will you be there | |
192 Holding my hand..? | |
193 I'll keep you by my side with | |
194 My superhuman might. | |
195 Kryptonite... | |
196 Yeah!!// | |
197 | |
198 | |
199 This couldn’t be the end. There was still so much she had wanted to | |
200 say, so much she had wanted to do with this dark haired girl. She | |
201 wanted to spend her life with her, to follow its trail wherever it | |
202 led alongside the pale woman. But now that future she had so longed | |
203 for was slipping through her fingers like grains of sand. Cold tears | |
204 slipped their way unnoticed down her cheek. She tried to speak again, | |
205 but nothing came out as her lips trembled. Trying desperately to | |
206 remember Hotaru’s words from so long ago, dismay overcame her as they | |
207 eluded her. She was so tired. Fear of her own imminent death clung | |
208 franticly to her heart, but it was short lived. She could already see | |
209 Death coming for her. Her unseeing eyes followed Death’s movements as | |
210 she came closer, a raven haired girl wearing what amounted to a white | |
211 cloth. Bending down gently, Death pulled her close, her pain replaced | |
212 by a warmth that flooded through her being. | |
213 | |
214 | |
215 As the life slowly drained from ChibiUsa's eyes, she quietly let out | |
216 a single word.. "Hotaru..." Driving the scythe of the goddess of | |
217 death deeper into the pink-haired girl's body, the phage of Saturn | |
218 finally spoke. "Farewell, ChibiUsa." She was mildly uneasy about the | |
219 way ChibiUsa’s crimson eyes had been following something that wasn’t | |
220 there, but she hardly had time to concern herself with it. The deed | |
221 was done. Blood stained her white gloves and the skirt and bodice of | |
222 her costume. The blood of her lover. She brought her fingers to her | |
223 lips, briefly rubbing the still warm liquid into them. She had done | |
224 Galaxia’s bidding, had been reincarnated by the Golden Senshi for | |
225 this specific task, just as the other Senshi had been brought back to | |
226 stop Sailormoon’s progress. | |
227 But what Galaxia hadn’t counted on was that Rebirth was Hotaru’s | |
228 role in the grand scheme of things. She was the one who was behind | |
229 rebirth, the one who guarded the thresholds of death. One did not | |
230 resurrect Saturn and expect to command her. She was no one’s tool. | |
231 But to get to Galaxia, to put a stop to her mad attempt at finding a | |
232 purpose in this swirling mass of confusion, she had to get to her. | |
233 And the only way to do that was to appear controllable, to follow the | |
234 commands of her new ‘mistress’. Which is why she had to kill the only | |
235 one her lonely heart had ever truly loved, the only one that could | |
236 quell the darkness that reigned over her lonely world. “ChibiUsa- | |
237 chan, I’ll join you soon,” she whispered as she watched the unmoving | |
238 corpse of her future princess. | |
239 No, things ended here. No more games. No more enemies. Saturn’s job | |
240 was to put an end to things when they got out of control. She would | |
241 accomplish that task once and for all. She would follow Sailormoon | |
242 and Galaxia to the heart of the Cauldron, to the heart of Chaos | |
243 itself and she would put an end to everything. Let Galaxia find her | |
244 purpose in death. Let Sailormoon find peace in eternity. When she | |
245 brought down her Glaive this time, all life in the galaxy would | |
246 cease, the Cauldron feeling the true power of the Goddess of Death. | |
247 She would lead all of the souls to their final resting place. And | |
248 there she would finally be able to spend forever with her pink haired | |
249 princess. Her heat pained her at that thought, at the betrayal that | |
250 must have coursed through her lover as the blade pierced her soft | |
251 skin. But it had to be done. And she had told ChibiUsa long ago that | |
252 with death came hope and rebirth. | |
253 Hoisting the Silence Glaive up in front of her, the Silent Messiah | |
254 turned on her heel and ran into the darkness. The end was nigh. | |
255 | |
256 //If I go crazy then will you still | |
257 Call me Superman? | |
258 If I'm alive and well, will you be | |
259 There holding my hand? | |
260 I'll keep you by my side with my | |
261 Superhuman might. | |
262 Kryptonite// |