Fan Fiction / Crossover Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Eclipse ❯ Chapter 2: Descent Into Darkness ( Chapter 3 )

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So. What's up?

Well I'm happy. How `bout you? I got to watch Phantom of the Opera for the first time and I LOVED it. (squeals) I'm a die-hard Gerry fan! (giggles) He's got such a nice ass too! I stole my best friend's Phantom plushie and I-

“CERIS!”

(glances nervously over shoulder. eyes widen in fear)

Oh, shit. I'm going to let my good pal Nenya do the disclaimer. BYE!

((Nenya looks about disinterestedly.))

DISCLAIMER: Ceris doesn't own shit. I'm sure if she did, she'd be able to afford a better place than this.

Eclipse

Chapter 2: Descent Into Darkness

By: Ceris Malfoy

Usagi could feel the raw elemental energy of the moon and something else -something cold and dead; yet enticingly alive - flow through her; completing her in such a way that she had never thought possible.

Usagi's eyes snapped open and, as if this were some kind of signal, the change began.

Her sapphire-blue eyes flashed once and then seemed to melt into triple-colored irises. The inner ring was violet, the middle silver, and the outer ring was ebony. The violet color streaked through the silver and flowed into the ebony, creating a lightning effect with the silver. Her sunshine-gold hair burst out of its odangoes and cascaded in a wavy waterfall down her back to her calves. Her hair glowed brilliantly for a brief moment before the glow finally died, revealing her new hair-color. The color was a bloody-wine-red; a red so deep it looked black unless the light shown on it in exactly the right way.

Her body grew and developed, until she went from her accustomed height of 4'8” to a more mature height of 5'6”. All her baby-fat finally disappeared and she had just the right amount of curves in just the right places.

Her cheekbones were higher and her eyes were more narrow and slightly slanted -giving her eyes the peculiar look similar to that of a feline's. Her lips thickened, becoming fuller; and gained a permanent blood-red stain. Her rosy-peach colored skin paled until her skin gained the same coloration of a bleached-skulls, with the only difference of a slight lavender glow to it. And oddly enough, it suited her and didn't have the effect of creating a slickly image. Her ears became tipped and her fingers were slightly elongated.

The up-turned crescent moon on her forehead seemed to crack and finally shatter. A circular onyx jewel formed in the hollow of her throat, embedded into the skin. Three crescent moons -two on top and one right underneath them- took residence between her imperiously arched eyebrows.(1) (A/n: I'm only gonna say this once. This sigil is here-by termed the `Eclipsed Sigil'. That is the description that will go with the term. I'm not giving the description again, so pay attention.) It radiated a strange light; pulsing in time with her heartbeat.

The Imperial Silver Crystal shot out of her broach and vanished. A strange crystal took its place. It was perfectly round -with no flaws or facets anywhere and it had no definite color. The thing seemed to shift between black, violet, amethyst, lavender, and lilac.

Usagi sat on the ground and placed her tiara, her scepter, her Luna-disguise pen, her moon-rod, and her tier in front of her. Placing her hands delicately over the weapons, she closed her luminous eyes and concentrated. Quickly, her aura -a shifting mixture of black and nightmare purple- surrounded her. The aura quickly spread to the weapons and they started to shift into their true forms.

The tiara shifted only slightly. it was thinner and had an ebony stone in place of the brilliant ruby. It was also no longer dominantly gold, but instead a more subtle silver.

The scepter expanded until it was a longer, more royal scepter. The new scepter was at least five-and-a-half-feet long. It's handle and its body was carved from one single piece of ebony-colored moon-rock. It had silver engravings in her native tongue -the long-dead language of Suukanian (2)- crawling up the body. The top had a crescent moon-shaped blade. The blade was completely flat, the curve of the crescent-moon serving as a rather sharp and completely lethal weapon. In the center of the moon's tips was a crystal ball, one that pulsed with an eerie green glow.

The disguise pen melted into a silver-colored puddle of raw moon-ore. The puddle twisted and intertwined until it reached the desired shape and then solidified. The pen was now a chocker. There was no clasp, no seem, so once it was put on, it wasn't about to come off. it was unadorned. It was, however, engraved with what closely resembled Celtic knots.

The cutie-moon-rod developed into a staff. The staff was about six-feet tall. The handle was made of unbroken, unflawed amethyst. The body was carved from a single piece of ivory-colored moon-rock imported all the way from one of Venus' moons.

The tier enhanced itself until it became a scythe. The body was carved ebony. The handle was ivory. The blade was slightly curved, and tapered off into an extreme point.(3)

Usagi waved her hand and everything disappeared into her sub-space pocket. Sighing, she stood up. Fixing her gaze upon the Heavens, she raised her arms in the age-old gesture of beseechment and defiance as she cried aloud her decree.

"Hear me Fates! Hear me Destiny! Hear me my benevolent Aunt! I take up my role; my own path! No longer shall I play the part of an innocent. I am the Shinemegami, the Shi-no-Tenshi, the Messiah of Death, and I have awakened! I claim my birthright and I claim the throne that is rightfully mine. What is more, I claim the name MY MOTHER gave me the day I was born. I am, and always shall be, the daughter of Neherenia Indrani Nyx Nemesis Revati and the god Anubis. I am Siva Selardi Ningirama Caelestis Amanita Renenutet Revati.(4)"

Gently touching her broach, she closed her tri-colored eyes as she struggled to recall her henshin-phrase. A slow smile curved upon her lips as she finally remembered. "Daemonicus Lunaris Ekleipsis (5). MAKE-UP!"

Usagi glowed as she twirled `round faster and faster as she rose rapidly into the air. A bright flash of light blinded everything from view until Usagi's heels once again touched the ground.

(A/N: By the way, Usagi's new fuku is based off of Dark Saturn's, Galaxia's, and the Eternal Sailor Stars' fukus.)

Her hair was pulled back into a tight French-braid with black leather strips weaved into the braid as well. Twin black pearl clips with ebony wings attached to them held her wild bangs in check. Her fuku was a slightly brighter shade of red as her hair. The sailor-collar was ebony. The front-bow was a transparent crimson. Her broach sat in its center. Two ribbons were tied around her waist, both long enough to form her back bow. One ribbon was transparent crimson, the other was ebony. In the center of the two ribbons, where they met the front of her skirt was a small miniature of her broach. Exact copies of her wings flared out from the mini-broach. She had a double-layer skirt. The top layer was crimson and the last one was ebony. The thin, silver tiara with the ebony stone was now perched proudly on her brow -her tri-crescent-moon-insignia having sunk back into her skin until such a time as needed. The silver chocker was clasped around her neck. In the hollow of her throat was the circular ebony stone, still embedded in her skin. She wore knee-high, black-leather, 3-inch stiletto-heeled boots. She wore no gloves, but instead wore black-leather wrist-bracers. She had petal-shaped sleeves that were the same color as her fuku. Flaring out behind her, with a wingspan of 14ft. (7ft. per wing) was a pair of angel wings -both as black as midnight with each individual feather dipped in crimson.

“I am…” the newly reborn senshi's brow creased as she tried to remember her form's true name. “I am…Sailor Eclipse….”

YESSS! DONE I'M DONE!

At least with this chapter anyway. Hope ya'll like it!

NOTES:

1. Almost identical to Queen Neherenia's insignia, except the top two are silver instead of silver and gold, and the bottom one is black instead of gold.

2. I'm not sure where, but in one of the DBZ/SM crossover fics I read, Vegeta called Usagi a 'Suukanian', whatever the hell that is. Lunarian is completely over-used. So, the way it works is this. Lunarians are the White-Moon Kingdom moon-people. Nemesians are the Black-Moon Kingdom moon-people. And Suukanians are the Dead-Moon Kingdom moon-people. Think you can remember that?

3. Imagine Saturn's glaive with the color and blade changes

4. Indian Royalty had names six miles long. So did Greek, Latin, and Egyptian Royalty. Just carrying on the tradition.

5. "Demonic Lunar Eclipse" in Late Latin, Latin, and Greek, respectively.