InuYasha Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Breathless ❯ Bleeding ( Chapter 35 )

Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon, Inuyasha, or anything else that you recognize from those shows.

 

 

Chapter Thirty Four.

 

 

`Bleeding'

 

 

She had more important matters to sort out at the moment… she could not afford to waste time by entertaining misguided people and allow yet another of these stupid happenings to distract her! This was why she decided then and there to put an end to this particular misunderstanding quickly, by straightening things up immediately.

 

Taking in and out slow breaths several times to get hold of her growing frustration, she raised her head to smile up at the stranger apologetically.

 

“I'm sorry, sir, but you must be mistaken… I am not Serenity, my name is Usagi…” she crossed her hands in front of her in polite humbleness, so as to sound more convincing.

 

“Lies!” the man's single visible eye narrowed as he hissed at her more threateningly, coming even closer “you are Serenity… I will not be fooled. Your mother and the Inu no Taisho might have wanted to keep you sealed and hidden, but nothing passes by my senses; if you weren't Serenity, my staff wouldn't react to your mere presence as it is doing this very second; there is noerror…” the man's staff began to glow “and because you've tried to deceive me, I shall not delay this… I shall take great pride in the task of your elimination!” he raised the staff high in the air, towering above her.

 

That was when Usagi's eyes finally widened… Mistake or no, this guy was seriously planning to kill her!

 

“MEIDOU ZANGETSU-HA!” she heard a stern voice shouted.

 

 

With dread, the blonde realized that it'd been the masked man's voice.

 

 

“W-Wha-??!” she could only stare on frozen as a black ball of energy formed above the strange individual's staff and then headed straight for her... Once she saw it almost upon her, though, she managed to snap out of her shock in time to scoot out of the way.

 

 

Yikes!

 

 

However, when she turned around to inspect the damage done to the trees behind her, what she saw made her blood run cold.

 

 

Nani!!!

 

 

There were no trees… no nothing; just barren land in the shape of a circle, everywhere the ball of energy had passed.

 

 

Nothing.

 

 

…Was this what would have happened to her if she'd been caught?

 

 

NO!!

 

 

“Sir, please! I'm just trying to help a friend! I'm not--!!” when she saw him throw at her another one of those balls, and then another, she couldn't continue.

 

 

She had to get out of their way…

 

 

“Who are you?! Why are you doing this?!” she yelled as she got on her feet again, in the middle of a very battered part of the forest and having avoided at least four those things, she was beginning to feel not only frightened, but this time angry as well…

 

 

She was growing so very sick of being pushed around

 

 

“My name is of no consequence to you, Princess” the unknown man told her “for very soon you shall be dead…”

 

 

Gasp. “I TOLD you I am NO PRINCESS! WHY CAN'T YOU GET IT THROUGH YOUR HEAD!!” she screamed her head off at him, hoping it'd make it through…

 

 

…She wasn't a princess! She was just a normal person trying to help her friend!

 

 

…Just what was this guy's problem? Why couldn't he understand?!

 

 

“BE SILENT, WENCH!” he yelled at her just as loud, and raised a hand towards her to send a quick blast of light, which this time she was unable to dodge.

 

 

“Aaaaahhhhhh!!!!!!!” the poor girl could only cry out in pain as she felt her body being sliced through by wave after wave of electrical-like shocks, burning her skin and organs from the inside.

 

 

When the torture was finally over, she fell down like a ragdoll.

 

 

The masked man smiled.

 

 

“There's nowhere to run, now. What's the matter…you don't like pain, Serenity? How unfortunate, because I do happen to like it very much… But never fret; it'll soon be over” he raised his staff high in the air again “if I can't send you to hell directly with my technique of Meidou Zangetsu-ha, I shall tear you to pieces, then…CRESCENT BLADES!!”

 

 

This time, crescent shaped blades of energy shot from the staff in her direction, and that was when Usagi's rational side stopped working altogether, to concentrate on one thing, and one thing only…

 

 

Survival.

 

 

Diving away from their reach, she managed to avoid the first five, but the sixth and seventh blades still managed to impact on her delicate form, cutting deep slashes on her torso and stomach as she hit the ground with a thud.

 

 

At the sight of her own crimson blood soaking the grass under her, slowly forming a pool around her, Usagi's mind completely shut down; sheer panic and hopelessness turning off all of her awareness.

 

 

Her once lively blue eyes became glazed over and dead.

 

 

“Have you given up, so?”

 

 

As if from miles away, she could still hear the evil taunts of her assailant.

 

 

Condescending...

 

 

“That was not nearly enough to kill you yet, but I'm afraid I must now proceed to put an end to our little fun. Good bye, princess… Do not forget to say hello to your wondrous mother for me in the afterlife…Crescent Blade!”

 

 

Another flash of light, and the blonde closed her eyes, preparing herself for the worst…

 

 

…But suddenly…

 

 

“DON'T YOU DARE GET YOUR HANDS ON USAGI-SAMA!!!” she heard another male's angry yell as a blur of black, blue and lavender charged furiously at said assailant, successfully knocking him away before he could finish performing the deadly attack.

 

 

Then it sounded like the two had started fighting each other.

 

 

The clash of their weapons like a distant echo…

 

 

“Boy! How dare you interfere!!” the voice of the enraged masked man, her attacker, demanded “I shall skin you alive for this!”

 

 

“Please... I could not care less what you think. Do as you wish with me, but I can't and I won't allow you to hurt her!!” the second voice, the one of the newcomer, shouted.

 

 

That voice…

 

 

Despite her fogged up mind, she still was capable to recognize it.

 

 

She'd heard it before… many of times.

 

 

Some newborn spark of light began to shine in the depths of Usagi's deadened eyes. She felt herself become enveloped by an unknown though also strangely familiar power as well… her body starting to emit a brilliant, silver light.

 

 

`…Aku…?'