Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Alone ❯ Chapter 15: Alone ( Chapter 15 )

Alone
By Selenity Jade

Chapter 15: Alone

Rated: PG13

Disclaimer: I don't own Sailormoon....

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Usagi blinked as she heard the small click on the door. When no one opened it, she hesitantly reached out to grip the handle and turned it. The door swung open effortlessly. She frowned.

 

Odd.

She poked her head out the door, glancing both ways down the dark hallway. When she didn't see anyone, she crept out of the room. She clutched the locket that held the Silver Crystal to her chest as she picked a random direction, and quickly - or rather, as quickly as she could in her weakened state - walked away from the bedroom that had been her prison.

She wasn't going to let Tuxedo Kamen be taken without a fight.

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Diamond stared down at the unconscious man who had won Sailor Moon's heart. "That was easy."

"He was weakened by the dark energy of Nemesis, Your Highness. It wasn't much of a fight."

"I can see that, Rubeus. You do not need to state the obvious. After all, you could not beat him on Earth."

The red-head scowled at the back of his prince's head. "I am aware of my failings, Your Highness."

"I'm glad the lesson finally hit home. Take this trash to the dark crystal. More negative energy will make the transition faster."

"Yes, Your Highness," Rubeus acknowledged, leaning down and hoisting the unconscious tuxedo-clad warrior over his shoulder.

Prince Diamond watched the lowest member of the Dark Moon family walk way with the newest member of their army over his shoulder. Everything was working out as planned. He had Sailor Moon in his clutches and Tuxedo Kamen would no longer be a problem. The only thing he had left was to destroy the Crystal Palace on Earth and that planet would be his.

And he would have the queen he had always wanted.

Life was wonderful.

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Usagi stumbled out of the palace and fell to her knees. She assumed she was at a back exit somewhere, since it didn't seem to be as grand as she pictured palace entrances to be.

"You should go, Sailor Moon," a voice told her, and her head snapped up. She stared in wide-eyed amazement at Emerald. "Your boyfriend has been captured and it will be impossible for even me to get him out. Wiseman and a few of our people are wrecking havoc on Tokyo in your time. Go save your world, Sailor Moon."

"I can't leave him here!" Usagi cried, staring pleadingly up at Emerald. "I can't abandon him!"

"Why not? Didn't he abandon you and your love for dreams?" Emerald smiled coldly. "Wiseman imparted that knowledge to us. That there was a rift between Sailor Moon and her protector, Tuxedo Kamen. He threw away the so-called love you shared because of a dream. You should pay him back for that. I would."

"He was only concerned about me!" Usagi yelled, furiously defending the man she loved. "He didn't want me to die because he was with me! That's all! He still loved me and he wouldn't abandon me here! I will not leave him here!"

Emerald snorted. "Pure-hearted as always, I see. Not even the pain of being pushed aside by some dream will make you feel anger towards him when his life is in danger. You are too forgiving, Sailor Moon. That could be your downfall."

"That is my strength! That is why Diamond cannot turn me with his negative energy. I don't have negative feelings! Sure, I get angry and jealous and upset, but I don't seek to hurt anyone! I can't hurt anyone! My emotions aren't dark!"

Emerald nodded. "I know." She glanced towards the palace. "Diamond will be missing you soon. You are too weak to save your boyfriend." She then looked back down at kneeling woman in her white dress. "You should go back to the Earth. I am sure Wiseman or Diamond will use Tuxedo Kamen to get to you sometime. You can attempt to save him then."

"No! I won't leave him!" she cried stubbornly. She wouldn't leave. Even if she died, she would not abandon Tuxedo Kamen, her Mamo-chan! She just couldn't...

"Sailor Moon," a voice said from behind her, and she glanced over her shoulder to spy a blue-haired man she couldn't remember seeing before. "Your time needs you. Your planet needs you. One man is not worth that. Not even your protector. He created enough of a distraction that you could escape. You should use that...and leave this planet. Save him when your energy returns."

Tears slide down her pale cheeks and she shook her head. "I can't leave him," she repeated again.

"Then we shall make that choice for you. Tuxedo Kamen will not be hurt, just changed. Perhaps you will get him back, perhaps not. But you must leave now." Sapphire leaned down and touched Sailor Moon's head. "Goodbye, Sailor Moon."

And with a swirl of dark energy, the tiny teenager disappeared.

"She should have made that choice, Sapphire."

"She wouldn't have chosen this on her own." Sapphire turned towards the palace. "Wiseman is up to something and I fear for my brother. She is a distraction to him, and yet..."

"She may be our only hope to survive," Emerald finished for him. "She may be Diamond's only hope too."

Sapphire nodded. "Yes. I'm glad you understand, Emerald."

The green-haired woman snorted. "I understand because you made me understand. We are betraying your brother, Sapphire. And it makes me ill to do so."

"Me as well," Sapphire agreed. "But there is no alternative. Wiseman's strings are too attached to my brother to let him see reason. He needs Diamond for now; he will not ease his control over him."

After a moment of silence, Emerald spoke. "What do you think he did with the rest of the Senshi?"

Sapphire shrugged. "I do not know. I cannot find them anywhere."

"Do you think they are dead?"

He hesitated. "I do not know."

"I don't know why, Sapphire, but I hope not. I think that girl needs her friends to fight. And if she can save them... she can save us too."

"And Diamond."

She nodded. "Diamond too."

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Usagi screamed as she found herself back in Crystal Tokyo. She slammed her fists into the ground repeatedly as she began to sob. Why did they do that? She needed to save Tuxedo Kamen! She had to! She couldn't fight without him...

She couldn't fight alone...

She was alone...

Her friends were gone and now he was gone as well...

She couldn't fight alone... She didn't know how! She wasn't supposed to be a fighter! She wasn't supposed to have to do any of this! She was born a princess, not a warrior! It wasn't supposed to be this way!

She was only supposed to fight with the Crystal and only when everything else seemed lost! She wasn't supposed to dust monsters or save her protectors! She wasn't supposed to have the world's fate in her hands! At least...not alone...

She sobbed as she rested her forehead against the smooth marble of the street, arms wrapping around her middle. She shook silently with her forceful weeping, unable to stop or scream again.

She didn't want to be alone anymore...

It was just like a thousand years ago and Endymion had died before her eyes. After seeing her friends die, and then the man she loved, the man she had sworn she would forever love, she couldn't do it anymore. She had chosen death instead of living a life alone.

She couldn't do it without her Mamo-chan, her prince. She couldn't fight without her Senshi. She couldn't do anything alone...

How would she survive? How could she save everyone, even her future daughter, all by herself?

She was worthless. A failure. A klutz. Mamo-chan... Everyone...

"Usagi."

She lifted her head from the ground, tears staining her cheeks. "King Endymion..." And just the name and the figure standing before her, so like her own love because he was the man she loved, sent her into another heart wrenching torrent of sobs.

"I failed," she whispered, crying from her soul. "I failed... and they're gone. I'm alone... Alone."

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AN: Wow, I hope that worked on SOMEONE.

Lovies!