Author’s Note: This songfic was originally meant to be part of the

 manga series that I was working on, but after taking nearly two years

 to finish merely the S season, I don’t think I’ll be able to finish

 SuperS or Sailorstars as I had originally planned. On the other hand,

 this afforded me the opportunity to write another songfic that I had

 wanted to do for quite a while. I thought that the song ‘Kryptonite’

 by Three Doors Down fit this scene perfectly, so I wanted to

 incorporate it into the story. This takes place late in the Bishoujo

 Senshi Sailormoon Sailorstars manga right up near the end. All of the

 Senshi have been killed with the exception of Sailormoon, ChibiChibi

 (Sailor Cosmos), and Sailor Chibimoon. The Quartet survived this

 encounter in the manga, but were knocked unconscious by two of the

 Inners. I thought it would have been much more fitting had they been

 killed by the girl who had positioned them as ChibiUsa’s guardians in

 the first place, Hotaru. All of the other Senshi have been brought

 back by Galaxia as dark versions of themselves to halt Sailormoon’s

 progression into the Shadow Galactica and the Cauldron. This story is

 a what might have been if Saturn had been able to confront Chibimoon

 instead of Chibimoon simply dying when Mamoru got killed. The

 characters are copyright the wonderfully talented Naoko Takeuchi and

 whatever other parties are involved while the song is performed by

 Three Doors Down. I’m just borrowing all of these elements for a

 romance story starring one of my absolute favorite couples. ^-^

 Please enjoy!

 

 // means song lyrics.

 

 

 

 Kryptonite

 by The Amazoness Duo

 amazonessduo@hotmail.com

 

 

 

 	The Silence Glaive swung down in a long arc towards the pink haired

 Sailor Senshi. ChibiUsa barely outdistanced it, the sweep of air

 passing along her bare skin. Blank violet eyes met her gaze as she

 looked pleadingly at the girl she loved. Saturn lunged forward, again

 trying to cut the future princess in two. “Hotaru-chan, please! You

 have to listen to me!” In answer, the raven haired Senshi of Death

 and Rebirth merely took another swipe at her former lover. Chibimoon

 lifted her wand, ready to attack, but she couldn’t get herself to

 concentrate. Saturn took advantage of the slight hesitation, bringing

 herself within inches of the other girl before bring her Glaive

 sweeping towards ChibiUsa. The blade serrated cloth and skin alike as

 a biting pain flared in ChibiUsa side. Blood dripped down her side

 from the cut, seeping into the white cloth.

 

 //I took a walk around the world to 

 Ease my troubled mind. 

 I left my body laying somewhere 

 In the sands of time. 

 I watched the world float to the 

 Dark side of the moon. 

 I feel there is nothing I can do, yeah//

 

 Reeling back, ChibiUsa let out a stifled cry. She didn’t have time

 to fully dodge Saturn’s next attack, a sharp explosion of pain and

 color appearing in her right arm. Saturn was still moving towards her

 from the movement of her attack, but it would take vital seconds to

 get her Glaive ready, giving ChibiUsa a perfect chance to attack. She

 quickly lifted the wand with her left hand, her vision blurring with

 hot tears. This wasn’t Hotaru. It was her body being used by Galaxia

 to fight them. Hotaru was dead, her Sailor Crystal stolen. 

 The wand fell from numb fingers, clattering uselessly to the floor.

 The princess couldn’t accept that. She couldn’t just give up on her

 best friend, her love. “Hota-chan! I know this isn’t you.. Please,

 please.. please...” Tears rolled down her cheeks 

 as she kept her gaze on the cold form of Saturn before her. “Hota-

 chan, I love you. Please fight this. Don’t let her use you.” ChibiUsa

 barely had time to dodge the swipe to her legs, hopping back. “Please

 remember. Hota-chan, I love you. Don’t you remember me?” 

 

 //I watched the world float to the 

 Dark side of the moon. 

 After all I knew it had to be something 

 To do with you. 

 I really don't mind what happens now and then 

 As long as you'll be my friend at the end.//

 

 A stab of fear shot through her, tenfold worse than the pain in her

 side and arm. Hotaru had just killed the Sailor Quartet, her

 guardians. The guardians she’d decided to have protect ChibiUsa. What

 if she was wrong? What if there was nothing left of the girl she

 loved in there? Had she just made a terrible mistake? No. Even if she

 died, she knew that she could never fight Hotaru. She had to get

 through to Hotaru the only way she could. She -had- to. “It’s me,

 ChibiUsa. Hota-chan, you’re important to me. Can’t you remember that?

 You were everything to me. You are everything to me. Please.. I won’t

 fight you. I don’t care what’s at stake. I can’t. You mean too 

 much to me.” Another slash, another cut. ChibiUsa’s lungs were

 starting to burn, aching with each breath. She was laboring to keep

 up her pace. At this 

 rate she knew there was no way she could keep dodging Saturn. 

 Saturn leapt into the air, bringing the Glaive down as she landed.

 Some wisps of pink hair fell slowly to the floor. ChibiUsa’s vision

 blurred further, blood mixing with her tears. Her gloved fingers

 brushed the wound on her head and she 

 immediately wished she hadn’t. Pain shot through her, a wave of

 dizziness engulfing her. She stumbled back, catching another swipe in

 her side. The pain 

 was becoming unbearable for the pink haired girl. She wanted to curl

 up, for this to all go away. To wake up back in her own bed back in

 Crystal Tokyo. 

 

 

 //If I go crazy then will you still 

 Call me Superman? 

 If I'm alive and well, will you be 

 There holding my hand? 

 I'll keep you by my side with 

 My superhuman might. 

 Kryptonite//

 

 Chibimoon slowly regained her resolve as she remembered why she was

 there in the first place. When she’d found out in the future that

 something was wrong, she knew she had to come back, to help Hotaru.

 Finding out that Galaxia had killed her love had torn her up inside.

 The only thing that kept her going was the hope that Sailormoon would

 be able to bring her back along with the others when this was all

 over. Seeing Hotaru here at the Cauldron had caught her off guard.

 That had cost the Quartet their lives. In her moment of jubilation at

 seeing Hotaru alive, Saturn had attacked, killing the Quartet as they

 took the attack that had been meant for her. 

 

 //You called me strong, you called me weak, 

 But still your secrets I will keep. 

 You took for granted all the times 

 I never let you down. 

 You stumbled in and bumped your head, 

 If not for me then you’d be dead. 

 I picked you up and put you back 

 On solid ground.//

 

 Now here she was, face to face with the girl she loved, pain

 wracking her young body as they squared off. This was it, all or

 nothing. The last hurrah. She had come back for Hotaru. And now was

 her one and only chance. Mustering the last of her strength, the pink

 haired girl stood up as she 

 locked eyes with her raven haired counterpart, her arms held in

 front of her chest. Those dark eyes.. so many other times she’d gazed

 into them, losing 

 herself in their mysteries. This time it was like looking into those

 of death itself. “You can fight this, Hota-chan. I know that. I know

 you. You were 

 always such a mystery, but I finally understand. You’re the strong

 one out of us, Hotaru. You always overcome the pain, the obstacles in

 front of you. You 

 fought off Mistress 9’s control to save my life. You survived a life

 that I never could have hoped to live through. You’ve fought off

 Saturn’s control for me. You came to fight with me again, even after

 Elios. Hota-chan, this won’t defeat you.” A small smile 

 crossed her soft lips. “Because I believe in you, Hota-chan. I know

 you can overcome this. I know you. I love you.” 

 

 //If I go crazy then will you still 

 Call me Superman? 

 If I'm alive and well, will you be 

 There holding my hand? 

 I'll keep you by my side with my 

 Superhuman might. 

 Kryptonite//

 

 ChibiUsa’s arms opened as her smile 

 grew, realization dawning upon her. Her sparkling crimson eyes met

 dark violet. “You always said you needed me, but you were wrong, it’s

 I who needs 

 you. I can’t live without you. I need you.” 

 Saturn thrust forward in a fluid motion. The future princess hadn’t

 the time nor will to dodge. The Glaive cut deep into ChibiUsa’s small

 body. Time seemed to freeze as the pink haired girl crumbled to 

 the floor. Saturn stood over the fatally wounded princess, dark

 blood dripping from the end of her Silence Glaive. The color had

 drained from ChibiUsa’s usually warm skin. Pain burned through her

 entire body like a forest fire, catching everything in its path.

 “Hotaru...?” the future princess got out weakly, her voice sounding

 like it was coming from the long forgotten past. All she could see

 was Sailorsaturn standing over her, Silence Glaive held tightly in

 her hand as blood dripped down the curved blade. And even that was

 fading quickly. What hurt more than the searing pain that now claimed

 every inch of her being was the thought that she had been wrong, that

 there was nothing left of the girl she loved inside of her killer.

 But even through that sense of betrayal, even though she knew she lay

 dying, she couldn’t completely give up hope. There had to be

 something left. Coughing painfully, a small cloud of blood further

 blurred her vision. 

 

 //If I go crazy then will you still 

 Call me Superman..? 

 If I'm alive and well, will you be there 

 Holding my hand..? 

 I'll keep you by my side with 

 My superhuman might. 

 Kryptonite...

 Yeah!!//

 

 

 This couldn’t be the end. There was still so much she had wanted to

 say, so much she had wanted to do with this dark haired girl. She

 wanted to spend her life with her, to follow its trail wherever it

 led alongside the pale woman. But now that future she had so longed

 for was slipping through her fingers like grains of sand. Cold tears

 slipped their way unnoticed down her cheek. She tried to speak again,

 but nothing came out as her lips trembled. Trying desperately to

 remember Hotaru’s words from so long ago, dismay overcame her as they

 eluded her. She was so tired. Fear of her own imminent death clung

 franticly to her heart, but it was short lived. She could already see

 Death coming for her. Her unseeing eyes followed Death’s movements as

 she came closer, a raven haired girl wearing what amounted to a white

 cloth. Bending down gently, Death pulled her close, her pain replaced

 by a warmth that flooded through her being.

 

 

 As the life slowly drained from ChibiUsa's eyes, she quietly let out

 a single word.. "Hotaru..."  Driving the scythe of the goddess of

 death deeper into the pink-haired girl's body, the phage of Saturn

 finally spoke. "Farewell, ChibiUsa." She was mildly uneasy about the

 way ChibiUsa’s crimson eyes had been following something that wasn’t

 there, but she hardly had time to concern herself with it. The deed

 was done. Blood stained her white gloves and the skirt and bodice of

 her costume. The blood of her lover. She brought her fingers to her

 lips, briefly rubbing the still warm liquid into them. She had done

 Galaxia’s bidding, had been reincarnated by the Golden Senshi for

 this specific task, just as the other Senshi had been brought back to

 stop Sailormoon’s progress. 

 But what Galaxia hadn’t counted on was that Rebirth was Hotaru’s

 role in the grand scheme of things. She was the one who was behind

 rebirth, the one who guarded the thresholds of death. One did not

 resurrect Saturn and expect to command her. She was no one’s tool.

 But to get to Galaxia, to put a stop to her mad attempt at finding a

 purpose in this swirling mass of confusion, she had to get to her.

 And the only way to do that was to appear controllable, to follow the

 commands of her new ‘mistress’. Which is why she had to kill the only

 one her lonely heart had ever truly loved, the only one that could

 quell the darkness that reigned over her lonely world. “ChibiUsa-

 chan, I’ll join you soon,” she whispered as she watched the unmoving

 corpse of her future princess. 

 No, things ended here. No more games. No more enemies. Saturn’s job

 was to put an end to things when they got out of control. She would

 accomplish that task once and for all. She would follow Sailormoon

 and Galaxia to the heart of the Cauldron, to the heart of Chaos

 itself and she would put an end to everything. Let Galaxia find her

 purpose in death. Let Sailormoon find peace in eternity. When she

 brought down her Glaive this time, all life in the galaxy would

 cease, the Cauldron feeling the true power of the Goddess of Death.

 She would lead all of the souls to their final resting place. And

 there she would finally be able to spend forever with her pink haired

 princess. Her heat pained her at that thought, at the betrayal that

 must have coursed through her lover as the blade pierced her soft

 skin. But it had to be done. And she had told ChibiUsa long ago that

 with death came hope and rebirth.

 Hoisting the Silence Glaive up in front of her, the Silent Messiah

 turned on her heel and ran into the darkness. The end was nigh.

 

 //If I go crazy then will you still 

 Call me Superman? 

 If I'm alive and well, will you be 

 There holding my hand? 

 I'll keep you by my side with my 

 Superhuman might. 

 Kryptonite//