Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Alone ❯ Chapter 13: Purity ( Chapter 13 )

Alone
Chapter 13: Purity

By Selenity Jade
Rated: PG

 

Disclaimer: Anyone else get tired of these? I don't own it.

 

Pairing: Chrno/Rosette

 

AN: Updated 3/26/08

 

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Tuxedo Kamen entered the room hesitantly. The room started to glow slightly as it felt a presence inside of it. Looking around the crumbling chamber, he saw various panels against the walls and a few holographic screens.

 

He wasn't sure if he had to activate it or if just willing himself was enough. He walked over to the most important looking panel on the right and glanced it over. It appeared to be written in the musical, artistic language of the lunar people so long ago.

 

He had learned it once, but it had been over a thousand years since he had employed that knowledge. It looked almost like gibberish to him now. Pretty gibberish, but gibberish just the same.

 

He did recognize one of the symbols though. It was one he would never forget. The symbol for the females of the lunar royal family. It used a small crescent moon as its base, and a specific symbol for the princess or queen it represented. It wasn't his Serenity's symbol, he'd never forget that. Maybe a symbol of his love's mother or her predecessor.

 

He decided it didn't matter and straightened. How was he going to get it to work? He turned to ask Queen Serenity, but she wasn't in the doorway any longer. It seemed that he was supposed to work this out himself.

 

Figures.

 

He sighed and studied the panel, searching his memories for the language he had learned shortly before the Moon's fall. It was difficult. He had only learned it because he had been in love with the Princess of the Moon and he hadn't used it. Not once did he remember ever having employed the language.

 

It was almost impossible.

 

His eyes scanned over the panel to his left, frowning as he came across another familiar symbol. This one he recognized as Mars. Well... he was getting somewhere, wasn't he?

 

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Usagi opened her eyes slowly. Her entire body felt heavy, like lead. She lifted her head slightly, glancing around. She was alone for once. The few times she had awoken before, she had sensed Diamond watching her. Rather than face another conversation with the dark prince, she simply pretended to continue sleeping. The pretending didn't last long, soon she really had fallen asleep.

 

Whatever they were feeding her, this dark energy he called it, was making her sick and very tired. She was beginning to wonder if she'd survive it.

 

It was killing her.

 

Her heart felt the same, so she knew it wasn't having the effect Diamond desired. She would not change her mind about him, not even with this dark energy. She would never join his side.

 

She was too strong for that. And she knew it.

 

She rested her head back onto the pillow, and stared up at the dome-like ceiling warily. She couldn't even try to escape. She was too tired. She didn't even know if she could walk.

 

Would he come for her?

 

Would Mamo-chan come?

 

"I see you're awake, Sailor Moon."

 

Usagi turned her head, and blinked at the green-haired woman standing in the doorway. She hadn't expected Emerald.

 

"You don't look like you'll be changing sides any time soon," she commented almost absently, and walked towards the bed. "I'm glad."

 

The blonde-haired teenager blinked, confused. "What?" Her voice sounded weak, even to her.

 

Emerald smiled, though there was no humor in it. "Prince Diamond is going to do nothing more than kill you with the dark energy, isn't he? I suppose that will take care of you for me."

 

Emerald walked towards the dresser, her back turned towards Usagi. The younger woman was unable to answer that. What could she say? She simply stared at Emerald's back.

 

"We never wanted this, you know," the jade-haired woman said softly, almost sadly. "Prince Diamond only wanted us to be able to live on this green planet. He was too angry to try to do it peacefully, but he wasn't really a cruel man. He wanted revenge for his people, for us having been sent to that dark planet. He didn't think it was right that we were being punished for something our ancestors did two thousand years ago to some queen we can't even remember."

 

Emerald turned to Usagi, watching her. "Before we came here, he wanted to conquer. He was angry that you people got to live here, carefree and unburdened by a planet without life. But he wasn't a killer. And neither was I. Or Rubeus. Or sisters. Sapphire wanted to settle things peacefully, even. We simply wanted to live where we wouldn't be in the dark anymore."

 

Usagi's sad blue eyes followed the older woman's steps. "You could... have simply asked. I... my future self... would have allowed it. I know she would have... because I was always...so forgiving, so tenderhearted."

 

Emerald nodded. "I know that now. But back then, we all pictured you Earthlings as monsters. Cruel monsters who'd abandon children to etch out a life where plants cannot grow. And my Prince was too angry to see reason anyway. He was burdened with our suffering and it enraged him. Sapphire counseled peace, but he did not listen. I would have never gone against Diamond's wishes."

 

She paused, looking out the window. "Soon after my Prince turned fourteen, something changed. Wiseman appeared and Nemesis awoke, filling the place with dark energy. Even if we had wanted to come peacefully our hearts had started to change. Everyone has darkness in their hearts. The dark energy expanded that darkness, made it grow, until we were no longer ourselves. I cannot feel anything but anger, hatred, and my obsessive love for Diamond, which perhaps isn't really love anymore. But I remember a time when I laughed, joyfully, and danced and played as a child would and I remember a time when I had been happy."

 

She looked at Usagi. "Even knowing you are dying and with your death there will be no more competition for Diamond's attention, I cannot feel happiness. And it was then that I realized, we had all changed. We are not ourselves any longer. We're puppets."

 

"Then fight back," Usagi whispered tiredly.

 

"We can't." Emerald smiled bitterly. "Everyone can be turned with the dark crystal. Everyone, but you. You will die because the dark energy cannot grasp onto darkness in your heart. You are pure. It's amazing, Sailor Moon. That there exists a pure being on this planet or any planet for that matter. Even that Small Lady brat had been turned, but you cannot."

 

Usagi gasped, pushing herself up. "Chibi-Usa? What have you done to her?"

 

Emerald shook her head. "I have done nothing to the brat. Wiseman has turned her to our side. She calls herself 'Black Lady' now."

 

"No!"

 

The woman nodded. "Yes. As well as your Sailor Senshi friends. All of them have been forced to his side. You should have fallen too. But your purity... How can you be so pure?"

 

Usagi forced back tears, staring at Emerald. "I can't help what I am. I simply am. I cannot hate. I can forgive anyone. I cannot help those traits. That is who I am. Who I was born to be and who I am now. Not even the dark crystal can change that. I was born a thousand years ago on the moon, a princess. I carry the Silver Crystal. Only one of my lineage can wield it. And they cannot do it with darkness in their hearts."

 

"I see. It is fortunate then that you cannot use it here."

 

"I will get my friends back, Emerald. I will get Chibi-Usa back."

 

The older woman nodded soberly. "I would have expected no less from you."

 

"I will not die here!"

 

Emerald smiled slightly. "Then escape, Sailor Moon. Save your friends. Save us all."

 

With those words, the green-haired woman departed and left a confused, weary, and anguished Usagi alone with her fears.

 

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"Got it!" Tuxedo Kamen cried, pushing a button. His entire body glowed, and then he disappeared.

 

Queen Serenity watched from the shadows sadly. "I hope you win her back, Prince Endymion. She needs you. Good luck."

 

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AN: I guess we're getting somewhere... slowly.

 

Lovies!