Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Princess Mercury: her past and her promise ❯ The final batt;e ( Chapter 7 )

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Chapter Eight
The Final Battle

"You did it!" Mina cried as her handcuffs gave a click.

Amy had been the twisting the hairpin in the cuffs for fifteen minutes and just as Mina was beginning to lose hope she did it.

The handcuffs popped open and fell away from her wrists.

Mina stood and rubbed her wrists. "Remind me never to wear bracelets again!" Mina declared. "Now I'll get you out as well!"

~*~*~

"This is the end Mu!" Fargo cried.

"You're right. This is the end of your miserable life!" Mu's voice boomed as he raised his power and his eyes took on their golden glow. "Now die Fargo!"

"Wait!" a voice cried.

Everyone looked at the other side of the balcony where Sailor Mercury and Sailor Venus had appeared.

After getting Amy out of her handcuffs Mina had managed the smash out the door of their room. They had then found and searched Merula's room and found their Communicators and Transformation Pens in the drawer of a dresser. Wasting no time Amy and Mina had transformed and had come straight here.

"Mercury my dear! I see that you have made it here to watch your would-be fiancé die!" Mu sneered.

"You're wrong Mu." Sailor Mercury replied quietly. "I have come to say farewell to you. I am free of the bonds that once tied me to you."

Fargo was watching her curiously. She seemed to be taking the fact that she was his bride very well. Too well in fact for it to be natural.

I'll deal with it later, he decided.

Mu's face contorted with fury.

"Come here." He whispered in a deceptively quiet voice.

Mercury faced him quietly, her eyes of crystal blue shining with pride and defiance.

"Never Mu." She whispered with steel in her voice.

Mu choked as his rage nearly drove him insane.

Fargo waited for the emperor's anger to reach its maximum before he spoke.

Sailor V was grinning. Atta girl! She thought.

Fargo spoke when he saw that the time was right.

"Princess Mercury is lost to you Mu." He said in velvet tones. "She was never destined to be yours and will never be."

That was the stick that broke the camel's back.

Mu's eyes filled with murder and hatred as he realised the truth in Fargo's words.

"You…you lowly scum…" the emperor whispered in a low choking voice. "You filthy wastrel…"

"Fargo is more than you will ever be." Mercury spoke loud and clearly. "I would far rather be his than yours."

Hmm would you? Fargo thought.

He just couldn't silence the doubt in the back of his mind.

"Shut your mouth wench!" Mu roared. "Or…"

"Don't threaten her Mu." Fargo cut in. "The power is no longer yours."

Mu's eyes blazed at first Sailor Mercury and then Fargo in hatred. Then he transferred all of his attention to Fargo.

"Well Fargo do we fight over the lady's honour? I use the word 'lady' very loosely of course."

Fargo's eyes narrowed but he kept his cool. Activating his levitation spell he rose into the air.

Mu used his mental power to follow him.

Fargo and Mu stood in the air twenty feet above ground. Fargo dropped into his fighting stance as Mu began to power up…

~*~*~

Meanwhile on the balcony Sailor Universe had stepped directly in front of Sailor Mercury.

"At last! I can kill you at last!" Universe breathed in ecstasy. Sailor Mercury faced her coolly.

"I don't think so." She snapped.

"You will." Universe sneered. "This time there's nothing holding me back!"

"You'll have your hands full!" Sailor V declared joining Mercury. "This time you have two of us to deal with!"

Mercury's eyes narrowed.

"I can handle her on my own Venus!" she snapped.

"You?" Universe laughed mockingly. "You can't handle anime on your own!"

"I can handle you!" Mercury snapped suddenly restless from all of Universe's taunting since the day they had met.

"Man! I'm sick of your little toughie act!"

Mercury's eyes narrowed into slits. She could feel the intense anger flaring up inside her long before it spilt out.

"You're sick of me?!! You arrogant witch!!! You abduct, strip, tie-up and humiliate me all for your own selfish reasons and you're sick of me?!!" she yelled. "Well I'm sick of you and I'm not gonna take it anymore!"

Raising her hand and pulling it back she punched Sailor Universe full in the face.

Stunned, Universe sprawled on her back and was out cold on the floor.

Venus and the other girls jaws all hit the floor.

Sailor Mercury dropped her fist again breathing heavily. "So…there!" she gasped.

~*~*~

Fargo moved quickly to avoid a blow from Mu's gloved fist. Mu grinned at Fargo as he hovered in the air to face him.

"What kind of a man would fight for a wench who feels nothing for him?" he taunted.

Fargo fought back the tide of fury that these words ignited within his soul.

It was true that he had sacrificed his freedom for Amy who didn't love him but it didn't matter.

He had not agreed to help Queen Serenity for love.

Fargo had done it because he had seen no reason why Mercury hadn't deserved his help.

Doing all he could for her was all he could ever have dreamed of.

"You tried to force Princess Mercury to love you." Fargo replied. "She never loved you. She was terrified of you. Who could blame her?"

Mu scowled darkly and tried to slam Fargo with a mental blast.

Hmm can't take what you dish out eh? Fargo chuckled inwardly.

"Now what kind of a man would try to force himself upon a beautiful lady? You know Mu I don't think that you're a man at all!"

Mu snapped again and with a bellow of rage he assaulted Fargo with a second far more powerful mental blast. Fargo needed to be quicker to dodge this one but he managed it just in time.

Whew! I'm actually fighting someone who can smack me around with his mind! Gotta be crafty or I'm finished…

Slowly Fargo began to gather his power little by little…

"So what are you then Mu? Are you one of the undead warriors that serve you?"

Mu choked and hurled a third and vast mental blast which was so badly aimed that Fargo side-stepped it in the air with the greatest of ease.

"Skeletons don't get angry and anyway you're a little fleshy to be one. Okay next guess. Are you a being from the Negaverse?"

~*~*~

"Got it!" Venus cried as Rei's cuffs opened.

"Thanks!" Rei whipped out her Transformation Pen. "Mars Star Power! Make Up!"

Now all the Sailor Scouts were back apart from Sailor Moon.

"Your turn Serena!" But as Venus turned to unlock Serena's handcuffs something whizzed down from the air and cut the chain in half! Startled the girls looked at the floor.

A red rose.

"Sorry for being a little late. I just got back and got the scoop from Luna and Artemis." Tuxedo Mask apologised as Serena gave a squeal of delight.

Suddenly Sailor Mercury thought of something.

Whirling around and staring at the spot where she had last seen Sailor Universe lying on the floor she saw exactly what she had expected.

Sailor Universe was gone.

~*~*~

"Die!" Mu hurled Fargo against the wall with a blast of psychic power.

Fargo struggled for breath. Slowly his power was nearing its maximum.

Just a few more minutes and…

Mu's eyes looked desperately around the lobby below. His gaze became fixed on Sailor Mercury who stood at the edge of the balcony looking down on the others. She had her back to him and had not noticed that he was looking at her.

Breaking off his psychic assault on Fargo Mu suddenly dropped straight down and landed on the balcony just behind Mercury.

"Look out!" Sailor Moon screamed.

Mercury whirled around and gasped as she saw him standing there.

"Won't you reconsider my proposal?" Mu asked with an unusual mildness in his voice. "Think again and choose me over Fargo, Princess. After all you know that I'm the only one who can give you what you need."

"Never!" Mercury cried.

"Naïve fool!" Mu snarled enraged once more. "What makes you think that Fargo will be any better than me?"

"Because he has to be." Mercury whispered. "He just has to be." And turning around she flung herself over the edge of the balcony.

The other Scouts screamed and closed their eyes as Mercury fell.

"The little fool…" Mu muttered, shocked despite himself.

But suddenly Mercury felt something stop her in the air.

As Mu watched in amazement Fargo rose into sight from below the balcony carrying Sailor Mercury in his arms. Her arms were around his neck and Fargo stood in mid-air staring down at Mu.

"I really don't think that that's any way to talk about a Princess." He snapped.

Swooping down to the ground Fargo deposited Mercury with the others who were out of their minds with relief and then returned to his confrontation with Mu.

Fargo pulled for his power. Most of it had gotten away when he had had to rescue Mercury but with a few more seconds…

"This the end for you you gutter crawling dog!" Mu snarled.

Mu began to gather together all of his power at once for one killing blow.

Fargo pulled harder.

Come on!

Mu laughed as he gathered the power for the blast.

Come oooooon!

"And now…I win." Mu laughed as he pointed at Fargo with enough power to kill him instantly.

"No!!!!! I win!!!!" Fargo screamed.

He had finally reached enough power for his ultimate attack.

"Light of Death!!!!" he screamed aiming his finger at Mu.

Fargo's fingertip crackled with energy.

Before Mu's shocked eyes Fargo's finger discharged a spiralling combination of three energy beams of immense power.

The beam hit Mu head on punching a hole through his chest instantly. The light departed and Fargo dropped his power gasping for breath.

Mu stared blankly at the bloody hole in his chest as if he could not believe his eyes.

How could such a lowly rat have such power? How? Were the powers of honour and pride really so great?

With a gasping sigh as his strength left him Mu felt himself become light. Everyone stared breathlessly as a white glow of light surrounded the emperor's body engulfing him.

After all these centuries emperor Mu was dying.

Then there was an ear splitting crack of thunder and the light erupted into heat which scorched the air.

When the heat had died down there was no sign of Mu.

Fargo dropped back down to the floor and stood a short way of from the Scouts and Tuxedo Mask.

"Topping night huh?" Fargo said as a little of the familiar happy-go-lucky flippancy returned to his face.