Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Death, Be Not Proud... ❯ Death, Be Not Proud ( Chapter 1 )
[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]
By: blackbeyond 
Usagi has hid her condition thus far, but when she is forced to transform in front of her senshi, she finds that having Chaos as a part of her has altered her costume. She is able to bluff the senshi but when she meets with a perceptive youma, will she make it out alive?
Anime/Manga: Sailor Moon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 09.27.2002 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.1K | Visits: 534 | Status: Work In Progress
Usagi has hid her condition thus far, but when she is forced to transform in front of her senshi, she finds that having Chaos as a part of her has altered her costume. She is able to bluff the senshi but when she meets with a perceptive youma, will she make it out alive?
Anime/Manga: Sailor Moon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 09.27.2002 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.1K | Visits: 534 | Status: Work In Progress
Death, Be Not Proud....
Underneath Society
underneath_society@hotmail.com
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Let's keep this one at a nice PG13, hmm? Sailormoon and Gundam Wing aren't mine, yatta yatta, and you'd better review if you want any more of this. That's it.
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*It'll never work out. We'll kill each other first. I'm different now... why can't they see it? I'm not quiet anymore... I'm ME. I'm not the little baby anymore... I'm... I'm not Usagi anymore. I'm sick of acting, sick of this facade... sick of being treated like the child that died as soon as I held the ginzuishou. Had to keep acting... had to keep making the enemy underestimate me... had to watch them all die so they wouldn't discover my act... but... goddess be damned, the wars are over--- SETSUNA PROMISED ME... I'm being myself... and they treat me like a goddamned time bomb!*
Usagi looked up sourly, realizing that Ami had asked her a question.
"Pardon?" She asked.
It took every ounce of Ami's self-control not to roll her eyes. Lately, Usagi had been becoming more and more sullen, more and more distant.
"I asked you what you were planning to do next Friday, Usagi." Ami pursed her lips, increasing Usagi's annoyance. Minako alone noticed how the blonde's hands balled up into fists and her frame tensed. "I wanted everyone together so I scan you all and determine if the Last Fight didn't leave anyone with any deformities."
Rei and Makoto looked up sharply at Usagi's gasp.
*Naw... the others are okay... but if Ami scans me she'll henshin and kill me, no questions asked. I didn't tell them that... no, can't do this...*
-Yes, think, your highness,- the voice sneered.-How will you get out of this one? DO tell!-
*Shut up, bastard.*
"I'm sorry, Ami." Usagi said, her voice almost too level. "I have a previous engagement I can't get out of."
-Oh, please....-
Ami sighed. "Usagi, we don't know what effects the battle had on you! It's been half a year and I've not scanned you once. You could be dying, or something!"
-Oh, dying? Go ahead, Serenity. Tell the soldier the truth!-
*If you don't shut the hell up, I'll let her scan us and die happily.*
She felt the voice hesitate. Anger that was not her own pierced her.
-Bitch.-
She smiled.
"I'm sorry, Ami. Maybe later." She would have said more, something more convincing to deplete the dubious stares she was getting from her friends, but something painfully familiar hit her senses just before Rei jumped to her feet and Ami's palmtop went berserk.
-Leftover youma attack, Serenity. Get out of this one, I DARE YOU.-
*Shut the FUCK UP!* She screamed at the voice. Her own mind raced as her senshi transformed and looked to her expectantly.
"What are you waiting for, Usagi?" Mars asked impatiently. "You know the drill! Get a move on... or else there won't be anyone left to save."
Usagi climbed her feet and took the broach she'd started keeping in her pocket and raised it.
-This is gonna be FUN...-
*Speak for yourself...*
"M--moon Eternal... Make up!" She stumbled over the first word and held her breath as the locket opened and started to pulsate with light. It was impossible not to notice that the light, instead of being a pure white as it always had been, was a blue in color and sharper than usual.
-If they don't notice, then I OVERESTIMATED you. And that would be saying something, since I had you and your group of misfits pegged as a bunch of teenagers who couldn't walk properly, let alone fight. You're the only one worth something, but I can't do anything about it.-
*Oh. POOR you... If this doesn't get us killed, I will be thankful. Selene, goddess, please. Just let me live to fight another day and I'll never, ever complain about this abomination in my head.*
-Uh-huh. Lie to your own deity, Serenity. There's not much else you can do to piss her off. Not anything you've not done already, that is.-
*Fuck off.*
-Such language, my my....-
Ribbons of the purest black and ribbons of the most brilliant silver began to explode from the locket in her hands, drawing gasps and exclamations of shock from the four senshi watching. They watched as the ribbons wrapped around Usagi, and then a wall of silver and black fire spun out of the warrior's outstretched palms, weaving a sphere of pure power around her, hiding her from view as the final changes took place.
*We're... powerful... beyond even Queen Serenity's imagination!*
-This... The voice sounded awed. This, I did not expect.-
Sailor Moon, if she could even be called that anymore, wore a senshi fuku unlike any that had graced mortal sight before, a creation of the darkest violet and lightest lavender, of the most pure white and of silver. The skirt was longer, no longer pleated but more fine, a material that looked like satin and left like liquid fire. The bows that were standard on any senshi fuku were of the same slinky material, and these were the violet coloring on the fuku. The locket had placed itself between the bow upon her breast, not different to even the most scrutinous of gazes.
The gloves were finely made and reached to her elbows, of a material that didn't tear, rip, or snag, silvery in hue. Her boots were black, and now of a design frighteningly similar to Uranus's. The sailor handkerchief around her shoulders was lavender, as was the stone in the center of her forehead, the stone that was there without any assistance of a tiara.
The bodice was white and strange against her skin, so fine it almost wasn't there, but when she tried it later, the cloth wouldn't give under the sharpest of blades nor the fastest of bullets. The balls in her odango were lavender and silver studs decorated her earlobes.
-I hate to be the one to say this, but we, my admirable adversary, are in deep shit.-
*No duh, Sherlock. What was your first clue?*
"What are you staring at?" Sailor Moon demanded harshly. "My transformation changed a little... so what?"
"I would most definitely NOT call that a LITTLE change in transformation." Jupiter murmured.
"What happened?" Mercury asked.
Sailor Moon fumbled for a bluff. "It changed after the battle with Galaxia." Not a complete lie. "Nothing big. Are we gonna save the world or are we gonna sit around and stare at my stunning beauty?" She cracked a grin as Mars rolled her eyes.
"Oh, pul-eaze!"
Mercury smiled in spite of herself, and Venus giggled, while Jupiter laughed and tried to muffle it, failing miserably.
-Did they... buy it?- The voice was hesitant, not believing their fortune.
*God, Chaos. You're right-- they ARE a bunch of dingbats!*
The voice snickered. -Took you how long?-
*Don't make me tell you to shut up again...*
-I'm shaking, let me tell you about it.-
"Well, you heard the girl!" Venus said. "Let's go kick some youma can!" She flashed them her V-for-Victory sign and giggled, striking the familiar poses. "We can't allow evil to even think they can do a hit and run energy steal thingie!" Sailor Moon closed her eyes-- this was painful. "They must accept their punishment in the name of... well, since I'm saying it... in the name of Venus!"
-I'm just not going to comment. That was too painful for words-- you people say that willingly?-
*Well, it was the best one. The other was "I'm gonna kick your can because I am Sailor Moon!" And then cackle evilly. I never had the cackle down.*
-Hades, you can kill me.-
*One can only hope!*
=Smile when you say that.-
They left the temple, Sailor Moon behind the others, arguing with Chaos. The voice distracted her at the worst of times, but it had saved her grades, which had fallen steadily since she received Luna's gift of power. But now, with Chaos helping her-- "teaching her what he knew"-- things were balancing out. Whether either of them liked it or not, Chaos was there to stay. He could help or remain silent, and he never had been the quiet type.
When Galaxia had released Chaos into the minds of everyone, it was an unspoken agreement that Usagi take the brunt of the evil being. Usagi did it willingly and had no one to curse but herself and her deity-- herself for being foolish enough not to just kill both Galaxia and Chaos and her deity for allowing her to survive all the battles that she had survived.
"I can sense it! We're drawing closer!"
Usagi and Chaos had worked out an agreement not to fight for control. Chaos was the brains, Usagi was the warrior. A perfect combination for the perfect warrior. A paradox that was self contained, one that could heal everything or kill it all in a matter of microseconds.
Aka, if she got mad, it's bye-bye earth.
*The youma are getting a sense of originality.*
-Naw. They've always wanted to hit different places. It was our master plan-- attack the same places repeatedly and after you got comfortable, attack a completely different spot. But you destroyed me before we could pull it off.-
*And you say we're idiotic.*
This particular youma was actually fully clothed, semi-normal looking, and not at all dangerous in aura. It was sitting on a park bench, terrorizing any small child that wandered too close.
She left a rush of terror-- -Oh, SHIT! They said they'd killed her! Get them the fuck away from her, Sailor Moon! NOW!-
*But--*
-NOW!-
Sailor Moon ran for Jupiter as the Jovian senshi was marching up to the youma. The youma's interest had been perked with the tall brunette and she held up a strange black spear. The whole while, Chaos was screaming obscenities and all sorts of awful profanity. She gathered that the youma was a special one and one bitch to deal with.
"Goddess be damned, I get it already!" She yelled aloud, knocking Jupiter away. "This youma is a--" She repeated the string of insults that Chaos had just yelled in her mind. "Get away. Do not let spear hit. Blah Blah. If you don't shut the fuck up, I'm going to release you and kill you the hard way!"
The youma paused. The senshi paused. They looked at the blonde senshi like she'd lost her mind. Usagi, of course, was oblivious.
"Listen. I don't care if your animate thingies told you shit, the youma's here. I'm trying to get used to this freak of a senshi fuku you made me create so please SHUT YOUR MOUTH AND LET ME FIGHT."
She paused, gasping for breath.
-You do realize you're saying this *out loud*, correct?-
"Am not."
-Are too! Listen to yourself, Serenity. Look around you-- they think you're mad.-
Sailor Moon looked at her incredulous senshi, the dawning comprehension on Mercury's face, and the smug smirk of the youma, who stood up, sauntered over to the senshi of the moon and of death, and knelt.
"Master, I was sure you had died." The youma said. "My apologies. I do wonder how you came to share this girl's body and why she is still in charge, but I am a patient demon."
"Master?" Mars's eyes flickered from youma to leader.
"Chaos..." Mercury gasped, her voice a faint whisper.
-We are so scuh-rewed!-
*Commentary is neither needed nor necessary. Now what's so bad about the youma?*
-The-- huh? Oh. OH SHIT! MOVE!-
As all warnings usually are, Chaos's scream came only seconds to late. The youma had watched the mental exchange and grinned. Her master had been whipped by this creature of the shadows and moonbeams. "A fitting end-- do you like war, my senshi friend?"
And the spear came down-- right into Sailor Moon's heart.
-Did I say screwed? I meant fucked. We are fucked.-
*Forget fucked. We're dead. Quite literally. Damn. And before I ever convinced Mamo-chan to sleep with me. I hate Fate.*
Venus cried out as blood gurgled from between Sailor Moon's lips and her power ebbed away back into the locket as a singular trickle of scarlet made its way down her chin and fell. Usagi stared at the youma in shock as Mars and Jupiter both fired their strongest at the youma, and Mercury fainted and Venus just screamed--
And then it was worse, for Usagi vanished as the youma-- oh, the horrible youma-- just laughed as it died in a terrible clashing of fire and thunder.
"She's dead! She's gone!"
"We've failed..."
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I love crossovers.... They're so much fun... and I also love cliffhangers.
Underneath Society
underneath_society@hotmail.com
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Let's keep this one at a nice PG13, hmm? Sailormoon and Gundam Wing aren't mine, yatta yatta, and you'd better review if you want any more of this. That's it.
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*It'll never work out. We'll kill each other first. I'm different now... why can't they see it? I'm not quiet anymore... I'm ME. I'm not the little baby anymore... I'm... I'm not Usagi anymore. I'm sick of acting, sick of this facade... sick of being treated like the child that died as soon as I held the ginzuishou. Had to keep acting... had to keep making the enemy underestimate me... had to watch them all die so they wouldn't discover my act... but... goddess be damned, the wars are over--- SETSUNA PROMISED ME... I'm being myself... and they treat me like a goddamned time bomb!*
Usagi looked up sourly, realizing that Ami had asked her a question.
"Pardon?" She asked.
It took every ounce of Ami's self-control not to roll her eyes. Lately, Usagi had been becoming more and more sullen, more and more distant.
"I asked you what you were planning to do next Friday, Usagi." Ami pursed her lips, increasing Usagi's annoyance. Minako alone noticed how the blonde's hands balled up into fists and her frame tensed. "I wanted everyone together so I scan you all and determine if the Last Fight didn't leave anyone with any deformities."
Rei and Makoto looked up sharply at Usagi's gasp.
*Naw... the others are okay... but if Ami scans me she'll henshin and kill me, no questions asked. I didn't tell them that... no, can't do this...*
-Yes, think, your highness,- the voice sneered.-How will you get out of this one? DO tell!-
*Shut up, bastard.*
"I'm sorry, Ami." Usagi said, her voice almost too level. "I have a previous engagement I can't get out of."
-Oh, please....-
Ami sighed. "Usagi, we don't know what effects the battle had on you! It's been half a year and I've not scanned you once. You could be dying, or something!"
-Oh, dying? Go ahead, Serenity. Tell the soldier the truth!-
*If you don't shut the hell up, I'll let her scan us and die happily.*
She felt the voice hesitate. Anger that was not her own pierced her.
-Bitch.-
She smiled.
"I'm sorry, Ami. Maybe later." She would have said more, something more convincing to deplete the dubious stares she was getting from her friends, but something painfully familiar hit her senses just before Rei jumped to her feet and Ami's palmtop went berserk.
-Leftover youma attack, Serenity. Get out of this one, I DARE YOU.-
*Shut the FUCK UP!* She screamed at the voice. Her own mind raced as her senshi transformed and looked to her expectantly.
"What are you waiting for, Usagi?" Mars asked impatiently. "You know the drill! Get a move on... or else there won't be anyone left to save."
Usagi climbed her feet and took the broach she'd started keeping in her pocket and raised it.
-This is gonna be FUN...-
*Speak for yourself...*
"M--moon Eternal... Make up!" She stumbled over the first word and held her breath as the locket opened and started to pulsate with light. It was impossible not to notice that the light, instead of being a pure white as it always had been, was a blue in color and sharper than usual.
-If they don't notice, then I OVERESTIMATED you. And that would be saying something, since I had you and your group of misfits pegged as a bunch of teenagers who couldn't walk properly, let alone fight. You're the only one worth something, but I can't do anything about it.-
*Oh. POOR you... If this doesn't get us killed, I will be thankful. Selene, goddess, please. Just let me live to fight another day and I'll never, ever complain about this abomination in my head.*
-Uh-huh. Lie to your own deity, Serenity. There's not much else you can do to piss her off. Not anything you've not done already, that is.-
*Fuck off.*
-Such language, my my....-
Ribbons of the purest black and ribbons of the most brilliant silver began to explode from the locket in her hands, drawing gasps and exclamations of shock from the four senshi watching. They watched as the ribbons wrapped around Usagi, and then a wall of silver and black fire spun out of the warrior's outstretched palms, weaving a sphere of pure power around her, hiding her from view as the final changes took place.
*We're... powerful... beyond even Queen Serenity's imagination!*
-This... The voice sounded awed. This, I did not expect.-
Sailor Moon, if she could even be called that anymore, wore a senshi fuku unlike any that had graced mortal sight before, a creation of the darkest violet and lightest lavender, of the most pure white and of silver. The skirt was longer, no longer pleated but more fine, a material that looked like satin and left like liquid fire. The bows that were standard on any senshi fuku were of the same slinky material, and these were the violet coloring on the fuku. The locket had placed itself between the bow upon her breast, not different to even the most scrutinous of gazes.
The gloves were finely made and reached to her elbows, of a material that didn't tear, rip, or snag, silvery in hue. Her boots were black, and now of a design frighteningly similar to Uranus's. The sailor handkerchief around her shoulders was lavender, as was the stone in the center of her forehead, the stone that was there without any assistance of a tiara.
The bodice was white and strange against her skin, so fine it almost wasn't there, but when she tried it later, the cloth wouldn't give under the sharpest of blades nor the fastest of bullets. The balls in her odango were lavender and silver studs decorated her earlobes.
-I hate to be the one to say this, but we, my admirable adversary, are in deep shit.-
*No duh, Sherlock. What was your first clue?*
"What are you staring at?" Sailor Moon demanded harshly. "My transformation changed a little... so what?"
"I would most definitely NOT call that a LITTLE change in transformation." Jupiter murmured.
"What happened?" Mercury asked.
Sailor Moon fumbled for a bluff. "It changed after the battle with Galaxia." Not a complete lie. "Nothing big. Are we gonna save the world or are we gonna sit around and stare at my stunning beauty?" She cracked a grin as Mars rolled her eyes.
"Oh, pul-eaze!"
Mercury smiled in spite of herself, and Venus giggled, while Jupiter laughed and tried to muffle it, failing miserably.
-Did they... buy it?- The voice was hesitant, not believing their fortune.
*God, Chaos. You're right-- they ARE a bunch of dingbats!*
The voice snickered. -Took you how long?-
*Don't make me tell you to shut up again...*
-I'm shaking, let me tell you about it.-
"Well, you heard the girl!" Venus said. "Let's go kick some youma can!" She flashed them her V-for-Victory sign and giggled, striking the familiar poses. "We can't allow evil to even think they can do a hit and run energy steal thingie!" Sailor Moon closed her eyes-- this was painful. "They must accept their punishment in the name of... well, since I'm saying it... in the name of Venus!"
-I'm just not going to comment. That was too painful for words-- you people say that willingly?-
*Well, it was the best one. The other was "I'm gonna kick your can because I am Sailor Moon!" And then cackle evilly. I never had the cackle down.*
-Hades, you can kill me.-
*One can only hope!*
=Smile when you say that.-
They left the temple, Sailor Moon behind the others, arguing with Chaos. The voice distracted her at the worst of times, but it had saved her grades, which had fallen steadily since she received Luna's gift of power. But now, with Chaos helping her-- "teaching her what he knew"-- things were balancing out. Whether either of them liked it or not, Chaos was there to stay. He could help or remain silent, and he never had been the quiet type.
When Galaxia had released Chaos into the minds of everyone, it was an unspoken agreement that Usagi take the brunt of the evil being. Usagi did it willingly and had no one to curse but herself and her deity-- herself for being foolish enough not to just kill both Galaxia and Chaos and her deity for allowing her to survive all the battles that she had survived.
"I can sense it! We're drawing closer!"
Usagi and Chaos had worked out an agreement not to fight for control. Chaos was the brains, Usagi was the warrior. A perfect combination for the perfect warrior. A paradox that was self contained, one that could heal everything or kill it all in a matter of microseconds.
Aka, if she got mad, it's bye-bye earth.
*The youma are getting a sense of originality.*
-Naw. They've always wanted to hit different places. It was our master plan-- attack the same places repeatedly and after you got comfortable, attack a completely different spot. But you destroyed me before we could pull it off.-
*And you say we're idiotic.*
This particular youma was actually fully clothed, semi-normal looking, and not at all dangerous in aura. It was sitting on a park bench, terrorizing any small child that wandered too close.
She left a rush of terror-- -Oh, SHIT! They said they'd killed her! Get them the fuck away from her, Sailor Moon! NOW!-
*But--*
-NOW!-
Sailor Moon ran for Jupiter as the Jovian senshi was marching up to the youma. The youma's interest had been perked with the tall brunette and she held up a strange black spear. The whole while, Chaos was screaming obscenities and all sorts of awful profanity. She gathered that the youma was a special one and one bitch to deal with.
"Goddess be damned, I get it already!" She yelled aloud, knocking Jupiter away. "This youma is a--" She repeated the string of insults that Chaos had just yelled in her mind. "Get away. Do not let spear hit. Blah Blah. If you don't shut the fuck up, I'm going to release you and kill you the hard way!"
The youma paused. The senshi paused. They looked at the blonde senshi like she'd lost her mind. Usagi, of course, was oblivious.
"Listen. I don't care if your animate thingies told you shit, the youma's here. I'm trying to get used to this freak of a senshi fuku you made me create so please SHUT YOUR MOUTH AND LET ME FIGHT."
She paused, gasping for breath.
-You do realize you're saying this *out loud*, correct?-
"Am not."
-Are too! Listen to yourself, Serenity. Look around you-- they think you're mad.-
Sailor Moon looked at her incredulous senshi, the dawning comprehension on Mercury's face, and the smug smirk of the youma, who stood up, sauntered over to the senshi of the moon and of death, and knelt.
"Master, I was sure you had died." The youma said. "My apologies. I do wonder how you came to share this girl's body and why she is still in charge, but I am a patient demon."
"Master?" Mars's eyes flickered from youma to leader.
"Chaos..." Mercury gasped, her voice a faint whisper.
-We are so scuh-rewed!-
*Commentary is neither needed nor necessary. Now what's so bad about the youma?*
-The-- huh? Oh. OH SHIT! MOVE!-
As all warnings usually are, Chaos's scream came only seconds to late. The youma had watched the mental exchange and grinned. Her master had been whipped by this creature of the shadows and moonbeams. "A fitting end-- do you like war, my senshi friend?"
And the spear came down-- right into Sailor Moon's heart.
-Did I say screwed? I meant fucked. We are fucked.-
*Forget fucked. We're dead. Quite literally. Damn. And before I ever convinced Mamo-chan to sleep with me. I hate Fate.*
Venus cried out as blood gurgled from between Sailor Moon's lips and her power ebbed away back into the locket as a singular trickle of scarlet made its way down her chin and fell. Usagi stared at the youma in shock as Mars and Jupiter both fired their strongest at the youma, and Mercury fainted and Venus just screamed--
And then it was worse, for Usagi vanished as the youma-- oh, the horrible youma-- just laughed as it died in a terrible clashing of fire and thunder.
"She's dead! She's gone!"
"We've failed..."
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^_^
I love crossovers.... They're so much fun... and I also love cliffhangers.