Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Don't take me home ❯ Chapter 14 ( Chapter 14 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Hello all and welcome to the final chapter of this story! I hope you all enjoy it, and I do hope that you will read other stories that I publish online! I am mostly back in good health and decided that today was the day I'd finish this story. I hope it lives up to everyone's expectations. Please remember No Flames. Standard disclaimers apply…I do not own Sailor Moon yet…



Naru closed her eyes and let herself re-live and remember how wonderful she had felt when Nephrite had found her and Ami and trained them back in Juuban. Though he had been dead, he had been with her and should give anything to see him one last time. She had knowingly and willingly left Umino, possibly breaking his heart but unable to really make herself care, because Nephrite meant so much to her. When he had died, she nearly had died and it was then that she realized her destiny was meant to be with him. She called out his name at night and remembered their stolen moments from when he was alive, and yearned for just a moment in his arms once more. "Naru," a voice said in the silence of the room. She opened her eyes and saw Usagi standing before her and her eyes filled up with tears. Words had never been necessary with Usagi; the two were too close for that. Usagi drew Naru close to her and let her cry.

"I miss him." She confessed, more for her own comfort that Usagi's. "I want him back."

"Does he want to be flesh again?" Usagi asked in a quiet voice, her hand moving the hair on Naru's face.

"I know he does." Naru nodded. "But he never left Tokyo. I don't know why."

Usagi sighed. "Because the incantation I used when I brought him back bound him to one place. He was not able to travel with you and Ami because he could not. Your love was strong to save his soul from eternal damnation, but it was not strong enough to break the laws of the afterlife."

"Can you make him flesh again?" Naru looked up at Usagi, hope in her eyes.

Usagi nodded. "I could, but it wouldn't be him. It would be his soul in someone else's body, living with their soul as well."

Naru shook her head. "I don't want that then."

"He has been redeemed Naru and all I can tell you is that he will be reborn, much like Makoto." Usagi explained. "If you are not together in this life, small consolation I know, you may be together in the next."

Naru tightened her grip on Usagi. "Hold me Usagi and let me forget about the evil that awaits you."

Usagi hugged Naru firmly. "I leave tomorrow to fight Rei. If I don't come back, I want you to know I love you Naru. You are my best friend and always will be."

"Promise me you'll come back."

"I can't Naru. I can make no guarantees about this. I fight the Void itself. The heart of darkness. A force that is black than jealousy…" Usagi trailed off. "A force I am not yet strong enough to fight."

"How will you defeat Rei then?"

"I don't know."



Setsuna paced the living room, dodging Haruka who paced as well. Michiru and Hotaru remained seated on the couch watching them pace. "So what do we do?" Haruka asked for the millionth time. "She has to fight Rei tomorrow, she's not a full Lunarian and therefore she'll be destroyed!"

"Haruka, this is not helping." Setsuna said, sidestepping her again.

Hotaru cleared her throat. "I have an idea. If Setsuna is willing, she can be a full Lunarian and fully in her powers by tomorrow."

Setsuna's eyes lit up. "For her I would do this." She nodded.

"Get her now." Michiru nodded.

Haruka was already halfway up the stairs.



Minako and Artemis held each other, possibly for the last time. "Why do you have to go with Usagi tomorrow?" she wailed softly.

Artemis turned to her, pulling a sheet up further. "Luna wants me. If I go with Usagi to fight then I can keep her from trying to turn the tide of battle. This fight is meant to be between Rei and Usagi and I will not have anyone prevent that, not even a totally insane person like Luna."

"Luna will kill you though." Minako said quietly. "I couldn't live without you Artemis."

"Don't think about it my love." Artemis kissed her, pulling her close. "Things will work out in the end."



Ami smiled as Naru finally came out of her room. "Hey Naru," she greeted her. "I was just going for a walk…do you want to come with me?"

Usagi gave Naru a small push. "Go on Naru, some fresh air would do you good."

Naru nodded. "Sure Ami thanks."

As Naru and Ami left, Usagi shook her head. She never would have guessed that they would have grown so close in those months together, and she was glad. "Usagi." Haruka called to her.

She glanced over to Haruka. "Yes?"

"Come downstairs. Setsuna wants to talk to you."

"Coming." Usagi followed her down. "What is this about 'Ruka?" she questioned.

Setsuna smiled when she saw her. "Usagi!" she exclaimed. "Just who I wanted to see."

Usagi watched her, askance. "Why?"

"You cannot beat Rei yet." Hotaru said bluntly. "But Setsuna knows of a way to complete your transformation into a full Lunarian, so you can claim your birthright before your birthday."

"How?" Usagi questioned. She paused for a moment while she thought of it, her eyes lighting up. "You're going to send me into the future aren't you?"

Setsuna nodded. "Very good Princess. Yes, I am going to send you three months into the future to the day of your eighteenth birthday. You will then be able to complete your metamorphosis so to speak, come into your full powers and return here to kick the crap out of Rei."

"Let's do it." Usagi nodded.



Rei made plans. They didn't make sense nor did they have any purpose, but she made plans. Convinced of her victory over a half trained moonchild, the Dark Flame felt the evil within her rise to new proportions as she yearned to make this city a smoking crater in the ground. Luna slept, muttering in her sleep, the name Artemis constantly passing her lips. Disgust made Rei shake her head. She could have killed Artemis when Usagi had been struck with the plague, but she hadn't. Rei should have killed Mamoru then, but instead she had fled, unwilling to face her former lover, the one who had cast her aside for the purity and goodness that was Usagi. She shrugged. She didn't need him in any case. She needed no one as long as she had the Void. The Void nursed her and raised her, never leaving her, always with her. She triumphed in having killed Jadeite, knowing that those who underestimated her died slowly and painfully. She debated on whether or not to have her minions attack as she herself fought Usagi in an anything goes fight to the finish, but decided against it. She wanted to imprison the senshi and force them to watch her victory over her eternal rival at last, that being the torture before she slaughtered them like cattle. They had no senshi pride, no warrior values like Makoto had. They would die defending the memory of a weak and pathetic Princess whereas Makoto had at least died with dignity.

Rei no longer cared about anything, driven by her desire for blood and vengeance. "Tomorrow fate will be decided at last." She decreed. "Destiny will belong to me."



Usagi walked back out of the gates and into the living room, unaware of the shocked gasps that followed once Setsuna closed the gates. Haruka was the first to drop to her knees, crossing her left arm over her chest. "Princess, so do I live to serve." She vowed.

Mamoru did nothing, unable to do more than to gape at this beautiful vision. She surpassed her mother in beauty, and was different from the Neo- Queen Serenity of the future. Usagi stood before them, a vision none had ever seen. Her hair cascaded to the floor and then out behind her for a foot or so, no longer blond but silver-blond, her body more mature. Her crescent moon glowed brightly on her forehead and they knew instinctively that it would never be hidden again. Her eyes were still the deep blue they had been, but shot through with streaks of silver and her pupils were the shape of stars. The ginzuishou hung, shining brightly from a chain around her neck. Usagi's skin shimmered with a type of silver dust, making her appear a fairy, her nails silver as well. She appeared ethereal, beautiful, exquisite. None had ever seen this kind of beauty before and they doubted they ever would again. In her full glory, her full power radiating from her, tangible to all who were near, the senshi dropped to their knees unable to look upon the full feature of the last Lunarian, the white moon princess. "Sailor Moon is gone." Usagi said in a quiet voice. Her voice was firmer, stronger.

Mamoru managed to close his mouth, rapidly walking over to her. "Usagi, you are so beautiful. I never would have imagined." He breathed.

Usagi smiled. "Now Mamoru, you accepted your final form years ago but hid it from us all. From this day forth you will have to embrace who you are to be my equal."

"Of course." He nodded.

Minako was the first to rise. "Oh Usagi. You're just…wow!" she let out a little giggle.

Usagi grinned at Minako, and then surveyed the room. "Oh for goddess' sake get up!" she said in an exasperated tone. "I'm still Usagi!"

"You are the Queen." Hotaru said quietly.

"Not until I'm twenty-two." Usagi reminded her.

"It matters not Usagi," Setsuna replied. "You are now a full Lunarian in complete control of all her powers, unanswerable to no one, unable to be killed by youma or minions or anything other than an evil that rivals your power. In those few moments you were gone, you became essentially immortal. You are the image of the Moon Goddess, your great great and then some grandmother, the one your family is descended from. Mamoru stands by your side, the only one who could be considered your equal."

"Yet you all must stand aside while I battle Rei. This is my fight. This is personal and I've said so from the beginning. The Void versus Lunarians…a battle that has raged for millennia will end today for good or for evil." Usagi said in a gentle voice.

"Then let us get it over with." The sneering voice of Rei came to from the door. "I don't know how you managed to complete your transformation, but I rejoice in knowing Sailor Moon will never rise again."

Usagi calmly turned to Rei. "I wondered how long it would take you, knowing you'd never wait until the appointed time."

Luna's eyes blinked at Usagi from behind Rei. "So you are now Selenity."

"As you told me I would be." Usagi replied. "Now you have not only betrayed Usagi and Sailor Moon, but Selenity as well. I hope the punishment Artemis metes out for you is adequate."

"Enough talk." Rei cut in. With a gesture of a hand that looked more like a claw, the other senshi were transported to an empty field where they were trapped in a cage, unable to escape, surrounded by minions. Artemis and Luna were gone and Minako feared for her beloved's life. Mamoru and Haruka stood side by side, cooperating for this one time only as they watched Rei and Usagi, the Dark Flame and the Moon Princess in their climactic battle.



Luna and Artemis faced off against each other, claws drawn in the manner of shape shifters, attacks being thrown in the manner of sorcerers. They knew that in a field some distance from them another battle was taking place. Artemis saw the blackness moving towards the moon, attempting to engulf it, attempting to destroy it. This was the Void, this was its physical manifestation, this was the time to either banish it completely or embrace it. "I don't want to hurt you Luna," Artemis said calmly as she swung another attack at his head. Sighing as she ignored him and attacked blindly, he took her legs out from under her and broke a rib. "That doesn't mean I won't."

Luna leapt above him, bringing a blade down in a deadly sweep towards his exposed chest. Artemis managed to back out of the way quickly, but not before the blade made contact and a line of blood appeared on his smooth skin and through his uniform. Smiling with victory, Luna moved forward. Artemis brought up a blade of his own and swung it in self defence. The first blood of the battle went to her. He struck forward aggressively, managing to cut open her cheek. Thus tied in a stalemate, the sized each other up before attacking again.





With regal dignity Usagi faced Rei, raising her arms to the sky and pulling down the power of the moon to her, as Rei pulled down the power of the Void. Surrounded by a darkness that light couldn't penetrate, Rei became the Dark Flame for the last time as she faced Usagi who had not become Selenity, but stayed as she was, confident in her power. With the ginzuishou shining in front of her, Usagi placed her right hand over her heart and with a wrench pulled her heart crystal from her body. Her eyes instantly went dead as she combined the two powers together, pulsing dangerously. With all the emotion in her heart, Usagi closed her eyes and allowed herself to feel, not running from her feelings any longer, rather she embraced them, merged with them and allowed them to give her the strength she needed.

The darkness had moved in and was ready to make the Moon the first of its conquered, Usagi its first slave. Opening her eyes, her crescent glowing in the rapidly growing and unnatural darkness, she held out her hands as the power flowed through her. With a shriek Rei cast her first spell, a dark flame that had been instrumental in killing Jadeite, Usagi blocked it with a simple moonbeam. Allowing herself to channel the full power of the moon that was her birthright, she threw Rei's spell back at her. Rei barely managed to get a shield up in time. With a gesture of her hand, Usagi's Tier appeared, once more as a quarterstaff, the crystal gleaming from the centre of it. Rei's hand clawed as a scythe appeared and they lunged at each other, the weapons crossing in front of the horrified and terrified faces of the senshi who were unable to do more than watch while the minions cried out support.



Luna and Artemis were at a disadvantage; both having discovered that they could not defeat each other, for they had always been equals and this was no different. They were equal in battle as well. Artemis began to feel despair, knowing he could not go on much longer. Bidding a farewell to Minako, he prepared to launch a final and fatal attack against Luna, so he was quite taken by surprise when Luna was unable to move. She fought invisible bonds, she fought to get free. "What the hell?" he asked aloud.

Nephrite appeared behind Luna, holding her with all his invisible being. Makoto stood next to him, adding her strength to his as Queen Serenity directed the attack. "If you are going to kill her Artemis, then do it now!" Queen Serenity ordered. "The dead can only manipulate the living for so long, and this is taking stores of energy that took years to accumulate!"

Artemis needed no further instruction, lunging towards Luna who writhed like a maniac to get free as he stampeded towards her, his blade up and prepared to impale her where she stood. In the moment before he struck, when the dead had let go for just a moment, he saw a brief glimpse of sanity in her eyes. "Kill me quickly," she whispered in her old voice. "Before the Void takes me over again."

Artemis was unable to move for a moment. "What?"

"I never should have turned against Usagi, but I was too weak to free myself from the mind trap as Makoto was and I betrayed her to her death for it. For just this moment I am free. Apologize to Usagi for me Artemis and know that I did love you." Luna said softly, her hands coming up to wrap around his. "Through my heart, right now."

"I can't, not like this." Artemis protested. "I can't kill you in cold blood now."

It was uncertain whose hands moved, whether Luna pulled the blade into her body or Artemis despite his protests struck her down, but Luna slumped forward, blood gushing from her chest and a smile on her face. "On behalf of the moon, I am free again." She breathed and then gave up her soul.



Rei was very good with her scythe, almost as good as Usagi with her quarterstaff as they fought, casting spells and using their weapons. They dodged, lunged and attacked again, continuing a never ending circle. Usagi's determination and her love drove her, her emotions a holiness to match Rei's unholiness, a godliness to match her ungodliness, a purity to match her impurity. Thus equally matched, uncertain of how the tide would turn they attacked, unaware of the time, unaware of the spectators, unaware of the dead who had shown up to watch. Having completed another jump over Rei's head, Usagi panted as she circled Rei who attacked instantly, driving her back. She stumbled and Rei struck, her scythe driving deep into her side as Usagi fell, a wordless scream coming from her lips as she hit the ground. The senshi cried out in rage and horror, trying to get out of the cage and getting singed for their efforts, unable to go to her side. "Usagi!" Haruka screamed.

Usagi swallowed, ignoring the pain, ignoring the screams. Focusing her will, she drew herself into a kneeling position and raised her hands together as though praying. The senshi and the dead recognized this position for what it was. This was the final attack position of the Lunarians, used only when they had run out of options in battle and were exhausted. So with this in mind did Usagi begin her death chant. "Lo there do I see my mother, lo do I see my sisters and my goddess and my people. Lo there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning. They bid me come to them, they bid me take my place among them, in halls of the Moon Kingdom, where the brave may live forever." She murmured.

Mamoru and Haruka exchanged a horrified glance as Setsuna and Hotaru held hands tighter, neither able to know the outcome of this battle, but knowing that once a Lunarian gave a death chant, it meant that the person giving it had no intention of leaving the battlefield alive, nor did they expect to. Rei smiled, triumph racing across her features as she summoned her black darkness to her, knowing Usagi was now weakened and preparing to kill her. Usagi waiting until she was directly in front of her and then managed to land a palm heel strike to her nose, breaking it as she had all those months ago. Drawing her power to her, Usagi ignored the bleeding pain in her side and fought Rei into a rage, refusing to acknowledge the hurt and pain that Rei had caused her. "I believe in that one small hope left in your heart." She said quietly to Rei on her next pass.

Rei stumbled, her eyes widening. "You fool! I am the Dark Flame. There is no hope or love within me!" she snarled.

Usagi opened her eyes and looked at Rei, bringing Rei into those silver-blue depths. "I love you Rei." She said simply. "I forgive you."

Rei froze, unable to move, not expecting to hear those words and Usagi struck her down. She barely felt herself being cut almost in half, she didn't really feel the cold numbness setting through her as the Void prepared to swallow its Dark Flame and punish her for her weakness, for being distracted by those few little words. She reached out a flailing hand to Usagi, to touch this purity, realizing in her last moment that she didn't want to die alone, she didn't want to die in darkness and Usagi grabbed it. "You are forgiven." Usagi breathed in her ear. Rei saw light dispersing the darkness that was the Void, heard Usagi casting incantations to seal it and knew she had lost. Her hatred was unable to surge to the forefront as her mind cleared for the first time in a millennia and she saw how she had been used. Usagi with all her goodness and purity still loved her, though she was twisted and evil. Usagi with her infinite love had forgiven her. Rei died on that spot, the Void banished and sealed under the power of Usagi. Rei's body faded into nothingness and Usagi prayed strongly that Rei would be spared the torments of hell.

In those few moments after Rei died, nothing moved, nothing could. As the silence of peace descended on the smoking hole that had once been a field, Usagi knelt, her arms beseeching forgiveness from the sky as the crystal went back into her body and she collapsed.



Luna's body was burned, her ashes spread to the wind as Artemis mourned the loss of his one time friend. "She was free in the end." He told Minako solemnly.

"Then that is what we will remember." Minako replied.



Usagi recovered rather rapidly from the after-effects of the battle, though she never told anyone what she had said to Rei in those last moments to turn the tide of the fight and kill her, though she said that she did regret what she had done. No one bothered to question Usagi on anything, feeling her strength radiating from her. In a quick and quiet ceremony, Usagi and Mamoru were married on the day after her birthday. One week later, Usagi had the joy and privilege of marrying Minako and Artemis. Haruka and Michiru had decided they wanted to stay in Canada for awhile longer, Setsuna declaring she was going back to her gates and Solaris. Hotaru missed Tokyo so she journeyed with Usagi and the others home.



Naru stared up at the sky, feeling so alone and forlorn. "Naru," a familiar voice said behind her.

She turned to see Umino. "Oh hi Umino. How are you?"

"I'm glad you came back. Tell me all about being Sailor Mars." He asked.

Naru smiled wistfully. "Wish I could Umino, but I can't talk about what happened just yet."

"I understand." Umino paused. "I did something for you."

Naru arched an eyebrow. "What?"

"Look at me Naru."

Naru sighed and turned to look at Umino, her jaw dropping. He was still Umino, and he wasn't. His glasses were gone and his hair was longer. His attitude was still his, his characteristics were the same, but his voice was smoother. "Nephrite?" she breathed.

Umino nodded. "I saw his spirit after you left Naru and I spoke with him. He yearned to be flesh again to be with you and I wanted to see you happy. I told him he could join me in my body, we could become one person and we could both love you, if you'll still me."

Naru brought her hands to her mouth, her eyes tearing up with emotion. "Umino…to make such a sacrifice for me…"

"It was no sacrifice." He said simply. "And in the end there was no decision to make. I love you Naru and I would do anything for you."

Naru ran into his arms. "Nephrite or Umino I don't care. I love you for who you are."

Umino closed Naru in his embrace and held her tightly. "I won't let you go again."



Ami was nervous. It was her first delivery as a student, Mamoru having pulled some strings to get her in the delivery room and the thunder and lighting crashed outside making the lights flicker. The mother screamed and threatened her husband with great and immense pain as she fought to push her child out. As the child was born, a girl and she let out her first cry, a bolt of lighting tore across the sky as a deafening boom of thunder ricocheted through the city. Ami held the squirming mass, looking at her for the first time and gasping in shock. On the forehead of the girl was the symbol of Jupiter and suddenly the storm made sense. The lighting flashed again, heralding the arrival of its mistress and Ami bonded with the child in the first instant of her birth. The girls' eyes opened and for a moment they made eye contact and Ami saw Makoto's soul and knew things would be alright.



Mamoru held Usagi tight, grateful she was his and that they had survived all the trials that had been set down for them, knowing their peace would soon be at an end. Usagi smiled as she looked lovingly at her husband. "Do you mind having our child before the Great Sleep?" she asked softly.

Mamoru fell off the couch, blinking at her. "What?"

"Our child." Usagi replied. "Our son."

"Son?" Mamoru's eyes widened. "But what about Chibi Usa?"

"If she is born, it will be after Crystal Tokyo is established." Usagi explained. "And there is no guarantee she will be the same child who visited us."

"Goddess I hope not." Mamoru groaned. "A son…" he trailed off, smiling.

"And an era of future peace." Usagi replied.



Setsuna sighed from her gates, glad time had worked itself out at last. Closing one door she had been gazing through, she locked it and threw away the key, that time having finished, that future no longer going to occur. Things were now as they were meant to be, and peace flowed through her open door. She could no more avoid the catastrophe that would affect the earth in years to come, but they were ready for it. Smiling at Solaris who waited for her, Time's Guardian decided to take the rest of the day off and congratulate herself on a job well done.





And that is the end of this story! I hope you enjoyed it! I surely did enjoy writing this! Please NO FLAMES!! Read and review but be kind to me! I hope you all will read my other works that I'll be putting up! Please email me if anyone wants to co-author a story together! I think it would be fun! And before I go, I'll leave you a small teaser of my next story "Lead me not into Temptation…." Let me know if anyone would be interested in reading it! Talk to you soon!

Ja ne!



Temptation, that's what she was. She stood on every street just beyond his headlights. He saw her everywhere, standing on every corner and calling his name. She was his one obsession, his one joy and the one person he could never have. He longed to possess her, longed to be with her but she was someone else's and she hated his guts. Sighing, he kept his secret to himself and turned back to his law textbook.



Temptation, that's what he was. He inflamed her senses and distracted her. Caused her more detention than she actually deserved and it drove her mad. Her boyfriend thought things were strange because every time she saw him she fought with him, they used the verbal parry and thrust to it's full advantage, driving everyone around them insane, and not caring. She would find out why he was the forbidden temptation to her and then she would think of him no more. She could not give herself up to the feeling of love, could not want or need anyone, could never allow herself to feel that emotion, though she was tempted, for he was pure temptation.



Damned irritating, that's what they were. The brunette and the blond exchanged glances shaking their heads in disbelief. They truly had no idea how transparent and obvious they were about each other, rather thinking their thoughts were unseen and unheard. They dated others who were so wrong for them, but bore striking similarity to some aspect of their personalities, unwilling to admit that mortal enemies who would rather kill each other than kiss each other had some aspect of attraction to them. Having entered into a bet, nine girls, two cats and two men had decided to throw these two together or die trying, though given their stubbornness, death loomed for them all.