Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Sailor X ❯ SX26: Death of the Quartet ( Chapter 26 )

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Sailor X #26 Death of the Quartet

By: John Brengman

Los Angeles

"Yes folks", the weird red-headed ringmaster shouted over the
microphone to the roaring audience. "JunJun the Acrobat has put the
gold ring in the lion's mouth!" Actually, the ring had been slipped
around one of the lion's huge teeth just as another woman, this one
with blue balls strung from her hair had tapped on the lion's nose, a
signal for the beast to open its massive jaws.

"Let's give it up for JunJun and ParaPara!" VesVes yelled, then she
joined in the cheering. Far above all of this, CereCere sat perched on
one of the trapeze landings taking in as much of the adoration as she
could before she and the other trapeze artists would finish the show
with a flourish.

The noise of the crowds could still be heard as VesVes slipped behind
the inner folds of the circus tent and into the dim corridors that led
to the private rooms of the performers. Somehow the magic of the
circus tent persisted after the demise of the evil Dead Moon Circus
and now the circus tent/ship was now the permanent home of the Amazing
Amazoness Quartet's Flying Circus.

The curious were told that the circus moved like a balloon, with huge
gas bags that could be filled when they needed to move. Other
explanations ranged from something near the truth to things that could
not possibly be true. It was okay as long as the public bought it. The
uniqueness of the circus was one of its bigger drawing points.

There were problems, however, and these were what caused VesVes to
droop her shoulders as she walked. She didn't make it to her room
before she leaned against a heavy wooden post, gazed skyward, then
closed her eyes as a silent tear fell.

It was getting closer and closer with each show. CereCere had missed a
move during the show and had ended up in the nets. Again. JunJun
pushed herself very hard, but the stress was starting to show on her
face. VesVes sometimes felt as though she were inundated with all
sorts of details that were simply boring. The weight of her world
seemed to fall right on her shoulders.

The only one who didn't seem to be affected by all of this was
ParaPara, who laughed at practically everything, but quickly excused
herself from the room whenever any of the others seemed about to
argue.

"And to top it all off," VesVes thought, "my birthday is next week."
She tried not to think about it. She tried not to think of the fact
that her age now started with a three. Yet that was also part of the
problem. No matter how hard they tried to keep their childhood alive,
no matter how healthy they kept themselves, their age was beginning to
make demands that they could not meet.

Sooner or later, the circus would have to close permanently.

VesVes allowed herself to cry softly. After a minute or so, she would
be able to reel in her feelings and continue with the business of
running the circus. Besides, it would not do for ParaPara to see her
cry.

An acrid smell then caught her attention. Opening her eyes, VesVes saw
a thick purple fog. Suddenly she felt light-headed. She didn't notice
that she had fallen until after it had happened. Then she was standing
again, looking around for the source of the fog. Then she heard the
voice.

"Never doubt the power of innocent dreamers."

"Never doubt the dreams of innocent children."

"Never doubt your worst nightmare."

"Wha.." VesVes stammered just before she saw the dark shadowy
figure...its face was hidden by a large cowl.

The figure stepped forward as the woman in front of him fell to the
ground. Then he reached up and pulled back the cowl.

"I believe that's how it goes," Scaramanga said grimly.

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Sailors Mars, Venus, and Moon found themselves summoned to the Medical
Center. Venus and Mars met shortly before they got to their
destination.

"Do you know what this is about?" Mars asked.

"Nope," Venus said. "And we just had physicals done."

Mars simply shrugged his shoulders and the two continued down the
corridor.

"While this sort of monitoring of a private business is questionable,"
Amy told the group of Sailors gathered before her, "the Amazoness
Quartet's agreement with us states that they will keep us updated on
where they are performing."

"They've kept this up for fifteen years?" Sailor Venus asked.

"Ves Ves has actually been very good about keeping their end of the
bargain," Amy replied

"What's our part of the bargain?" Sailor Moon asked.

"We help with government inquiries and bureaucratic procedures," Amy
said. "And we keep in touch with them."

"So they forget to tell us that they've moved to the next city," Mars
said. "One time in fifteen or so years?"

"Normally I'd agree that it's not a big deal," Amy said. "But, they
were scheduled to leave Los Angeles two days ago, and they haven't
moved. Neo-Queen Serenity has authorized a team to investigate the
situation."

"We'll be glad to do it," Sailor Moon said. "The Amazoness Quartet
have gone a long way since they were our enemies. If there's something
wrong, they deserve our help." The others nodded their agreement, then
they started for the door.

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Los Angeles

The tent-ship that served as the home of the Amazing Amazoness
Quartet's Flying Circus didn't seem spooky in the sense that there was
no aura of evil, no foreboding premonitions of utter doom.

However, the fact that no one was milling about the tent made up for
what fear was lost by the seemingly normal-looking tent.

"Well," Sailor Moon thought, "as normal as any circus tent could be
when combined with whatever it is that makes it able to move through
the air." All she said to the other two Sailors was a stern: "Hurry
up!"

Soon the three women were standing just outside the tent. Sailor Moon
looked over at the nearby tent flap that covered an entrance into the
depths of the tent.

"Well," she said. "Who goes first?"

Dead silence answered her.

"Well, don't all speak at once."

Sailor Venus started forward before the others could speak. Suddenly,
she had tossed aside the tent flap and disappeared into the darkness
beyond. Sailor Mars approached the entrance and pulled the flap back.
Sailor Moon came forward and looked inside.

"It's okay," Venus called from the darkness. "There's nothing in
here."

Sailor Moon stepped into the tent, and the darkness swallowed her as
Sailor Mars followed behind her.

"What now?" Sailor Moon asked the darkness.

"Before the light went out, I saw three ways we could go," Venus
replied from beside Sailor Moon. "One hallway to the right, another to
the left, and a longer one straight ahead."

"Okay, let's split up," Sailor Moon said. "Venus, take the left, Mars,
take the right.

The Sailors murmured their agreement, then Sailor Moon started
forward. She was beginning to wonder how she was going to see anything
at all when the lights flickered to life.

"I found the power controls," Mars said over the communicator.
"There's a lot of stuff to check out here, so I'll get back to you."

"I found the circus area," Venus said as she stood in the center ring.
"I'll look around out here."

Sailor Moon gazed down the hallway in front of her. The hallway gently
curved to the left, and along the right wall was a set of doors. The
first four doors had small golden stars on colored diamond
backgrounds. Sailor Moon walked by each door, noting the names on the
stars.

Ves Ves

Jun Jun

Paea Para

Cere Cere

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Drabesh Palace

Sailor Moon's image flickered in the ether inside the crystal ball.

"Ah," Scaramanga growled from his throne. "The cowboys have arrived."
With that, he stood up and strode down the stairs in front of the
throne.

"Well my dears," the villain said. "I am trembling in fear. I guess I
should just turn myself in and throw myself on the tender mercies of
Sailor Moon and those peace-loving idiots at the Luna Foundation!"

When he reached the end of the black carpet that extended from the
throne, Scaramanga whipped around.

"NEVER!"

"If the Sailors insist on playing the white hats," Scaramanga growled,
"I guess we should provide them with the villains!"

Then he laughed a maniacal laugh and gazed upward. Four cylinders were
hanging in a row in the air near the wall. Inside the each of the
cylinders was a member of the Amazoness Quartet. Shimmering energy
cascaded over their naked bodies and Scaramanga could see that they
were screaming.

Not far away, a large mirror hung suspended in the air. The
raven-haired form of Queen Nehellennia gazed down at the scene in
front of her.

The laughter continued.

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The dressing room belonging to Ves Ves was completely wrecked.
Furniture was strewn around and broken. The white desk was the only
piece of furniture that was not smashed, but the mirror that was
attached to the back of it was. Cans and jars of perfumes and sprays
were scattered about and fingernail polish was spilled across the
dress and had dripped to the floor.

The same situation was repeated in the other three dressing
rooms...with one difference. In Para Para's room, Sailor Moon
discovered a message scrawled on the wall above the blue-bedecked bed
that was smashed nearly beyond recognition.

"SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN TO COME UNTO ME!"

And underneath that was a scrawled signature: "Scaramanga". With a
gasp, Sailor Moon looked closer at the writing.

It was written in blood.

"My God..."

Then Sailor Venus screamed over the communicator.

Sailor Moon and Sailor Mars rushed into the circus and saw that Sailor
Venus was surrounded by four gray forms.

"What the..." Mars exclaimed.

"It's them!" Venus shouted. "The Amazoness Quartet!"

Sailor Moon looked again, and sure enough, it was the foursome...but
there was something wrong. However, the gray form of Ves Ves threw a
gray ball into the air, whipped out a huge bat, and whacked the ball
toward Sailor Venus, who dove to the ground to dodge the projectile.
The ball exploded as it slammed into the ground behind her.

The gray form of Jun Jun launched itself at Sailor Mars, who tried to
duck out of the way. She didn't, and the two combatants ended up in a
heap. Sailor Mars was not very good as a physical fighter and she
ended up trying to fend off the blows from the villain.

Cere Cere attacked Sailor Venus with a whip. After a couple of attacks
that missed her, Venus threw her hand into the air.

"VENUS WHIP!"

A whip handle appeared in Sailor Venus' right hand and she slung her
hand out at the shadowy villain. As she did so, an orange energy
ribbon shot out. At the same time, Cere Cere threw her whip forward
and the two weapons entangled each other. Now it seemed as though this
test of wills between Sailor Venus and her foe would come down to a
tug of war.

Sailor Venus wasn't done though. Switching the whip to her left hand,
she again threw her hand into the air.

"VENUS CRESCENT BEAM SMASH!"

She brought her hand down, and instead of pointing directly at Cere
Cere, she touched the handle of the whip. The energy bolt sizzled
along the whip, then crossed the knotted weapons and continued until
it slammed into Cere Cere. The villain's whip disintegrated under the
power of Venus' energy, and Venus was then surprised when the beam
seemed to incinerate her opponent. The scorched gray form of Cere Cere
pitched forward to the ground. When it landed, the body of the villian
fell apart into clay-like clumps.

Sailor Moon had continued to dodge the attacks of Ves Ves, and she was
getting tired. Sooner or later, she would get too tired to get out of
the way of one of the incindiary balls that the gray-like villain was
hurling at her. When that happened... That was a subject that hurt to
think about, Sailor Moon thought as she continued to run while
dodging.

Just then, Venus yelled: "Hey guys, use one of your powers on them!"

"Gotcha!" Sailor Moon said as she skidded to a stop. Ves Ves silently
threw another ball into the air, and whacked it toward the Sailor
soldier.

Sailor Moon pulled her tiara from her forehead.

"MOON TIARA MAGIC!"

The tiara shot forward toward the villain. It collided with the ball
Ves Ves had shot toward Sailor Moon and cleaved it neatly in half. The
two halves dropped to the floor and exploded. The tiara continued
until it sliced into Ves Ves, neatly severing the villain's head from
her shoulders. Sailor Moon barely had time to let out a horrified
"Eeep!" before the body tumbled forward, clumps of gray clay and sand
spraying out on the ground as it fell.

Jun Jun and Sailor Mars had continued their wrestling through this
all, and now, both had their hands around the other's neck. Both were
squeezing very hard, and already Sailor Mars could feel the haze of
unconsciousness coming fast.

"Hey guys, use one of your powers on them!" came Venus' voice from
somewhere far away.Then her vision faded, then went black.

Sailor Mars awoke suddenly with her mouth full of gray dirt.

"Eww!" she yelped as she started spitting out the gritty material.
"What happened?"

"I used my tiara on the one attacking you," Sailor Moon said. "Venus
got the last one." She paused as Sailor Mars got to her fet. "You
know. You really need to work on your fighting skills."

"I'm just not good at it," Mars replied weakly.

"Practice, practice, practice," Venus scolded mildly, receiving a
grimace from Mars in return.

"Okay," Sailor Moon said quickly before Mars could say anything more.
"What did we discover?"

"The controls for flying this thing are in the same place as the
lights," Mars reported.

"The dressing rooms are trashed," Sailor Moon said. "And it's a good
bet that Scaramanga is behind all of this?"

"Isn't he dead?" Mars asked. "We got rid of him when he went down
after the last time he tried to destroy the universe."

"I thought he was dead too," Sailor Moon replied, "but apparently he's
still quite alive."

"Did any of you notice anything strange about these...whatever it was
we were fighting?" Venus asked, motioning to the four piles of gray
stuff.

"You mean besides the fact that they're all made out of what looks
like clay?" Sailor Moon asked.

"And they were gray?" Sailor Mars asked.

"Those are all weird too," Venus replied. "But did you notice that
these villains looked to be teenagers?"

"Wait a minute," Sailor Moon said. "You're right...but the Amazoness
Quartet are in their thirties."

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Outside Drabesh Palace

The Sailors walked purposefully toward the dark castle ahead. Behind
them, the doors of the shuttle closed and locked.

"Thanks for coming," Sailor Moon told Sailor Mars and Sailor Venus.
"You didn't have to."

"Stop that," Venus replied. "Of course we had to."

"We're glad to do it," Mars said.

The Sailors walked through the shadowy corridors of the palace. They
entered an intersection with a wide hallway that was well-lit with
flickering torches. There was a set of double doors a short distance
away, and Sailor Moon nodded in that direction.

The huge double doors opened and the three women entered the throne
room. Light from the torches outside spilled into the darkness that
flooded the room. Heavy stone columns supported a ceiling that could
barely be seen.

Then the Sailors saw Queen Nehellennia's mirror...and the four
cylinders containing the Amazoness Quartet. Nehellennia still stood
motionless in her mirror, and each of the Quartet still seemed to be
screaming as sizzling energy flowed over them. The mirror and the
cylinders were resting upright on the floor.

The Sailors slowly circled the cylinders, examining them.

"What the..." Sailor Moon said slowly.

"This is the Amazoness Quartet," Sailor Venus said. "The real ones."

"They don't look so good," Sailor Mars muttered.

"I know Scaramanga is evil," Mars said, "but this..."

"Brutal," Sailor Moon said quietly. "It must be stopped."

Just then, a new voice called out from the darkness.

"Never doubt the power of innocent dreamers."

"Never doubt the dreams of innocent children."

"Never doubt your worst nightmare."

"You'll have to excuse me," Sailor Moon said loudly into the darkness,
"but we've heard that spiel before! We didn't buy it then, and we
don't buy it now!"

"But it's so catchy," Scaramanga said as he appeared near the throne.
"I thought I might frame it," he said with a chuckle as he gestured
toward Nahellennia's mirror.

Sailor Moon stepped into the center of the room. With a glance toward
the trapped quartet, she confronted the villain. "Let them go."

"Oh gee, let me see," Scaramanga said, feigning thoughtfulness.
"Uhmm...no! I'm giving the Amazoness Quartet exactly what they
want...eternal youth. The only thing I ask for in return is that they
give me a small portion of their life energy so that I can GET RID OF
YOU!" With that he whipped his arms upward and huge chunks of the
floor erupted under the Sailors' feet. The women were scattered under
the convulsing floor and some of the flying debris shattered the glass
of the four canisters. The torrents of energy that showered down on
the captured women ceased.

"Damn!" Scaramanga yelled. "See what you did? Do you know how much
those things cost?"

"Sue us!" Mars yelled. Then: "MARS FIRE IGNITE!" The roaring fireball
roared toward Scaramanga.

"DARKFORCE FIRE IGNITE!" He yelled, and his evil energy shot forward
and consumed Mars' attack.

Sailor Venus let out a fierce yell as she threw her arms straight out
from her body, then shouted "VENUS CRUCIS MAGIC!" A dull-yellow glow
in the shape of a crucifix appeared within the form that was Sailor
Venus. As she held her arms steady and her hair waved around her head,
the cross seemed to glower angrily. Suddenly, it shot out from Sailor
Venus in a spiral and went directly toward Scaramanga who dived
forward to avoid the attack. The slowly-spinning cross-like energy
bolt landed behind the throne and exploded, showering the throne with
shards of rock. The crystal ball shattered under the pummeling.

Scaramanga found himself near the still-prone form of Ves Ves. Pulling
a knife from his clothing, he dragged the woman to her feet and put
the knife at her throat.

"Back off!" He said, "or the Quartet becomes a trio!" Then he ripped
the knife across her throat. Blood gushed as the major arteries in her
neck tried to pump the fluid into a part of the body that seemed to
have vanished. The villain dropped the bloody corpse.

"Oops!" He said with a grin as he held up his blood-stained hands. "I
slipped!" He started toward the next unconscious form.

"NO!" Sailor Moon screamed as Scaramanga pulled Cere Cere up by her
hair. She ripped her tiara from her forehead.

"MOON TIARA MAGIC!" The tiara shot forward and slammed into the
villain, ricocheting off his face. He went down, but his hold on the
limp form of Cere Cere did not weaken. He seemed to be hiding behind
her.

The Sailors then heard the rip as the knife pierced her body, and dark
blood bubbled from Cere Cere's mouth. The Sailors rushed forward to
protect Jun Jun and Para Para only to see Scaramanga heave the mangled
body of Cere Cere at Sailor Moon, who stumbled as the blood-riddled
corpse fell on her and toppled to the ground.

"You want her so badly," he grunted. "You can have her." With that, he
shambled slowly toward Jun Jun.

"Enough!" Venus shouted as she threw her hand into the air.

"VENUS WHIP!"

A whip handle appeared in Sailor Venus' right hand and she slung her
hand out at Scaramanga, who looked very horrid at this point. Sailor
Moon's tiara had scorched the left side of his face, and his left eye
looked dangerously close to falling out. Venus shot her whip out at
the villain...and he caught it.

Venus gasped, but still Scaramanga held the crackling energy from the
whip in his bare hands even as it blackened the skin.

"DARKFORCE WHIP!" A whip appeared in Scaramanga's right hand and with
a flick of his wrist, it's silvery energy arced toward Sailor Venus.
The energy smashed into her and she screamed, then collapsed.

By this time, Scaramanga had reached Jun Jun. He grinned. "That looked
painful," he muttered with a nod toward Venus. With a flick of his
wrist, the whip he was holding was tightening itself around Jun Jun's
neck. Smoke rose into the air as the energy from the whip incinerated
the woman.

"Yep," Scaramanga said simply. "That was painful."

"This has to stop now," Sailor Moon thought desperately, "before
there's nothing left of the Quartet." But as she tried to get to her
feet, Scaramanga saw her.

"Who told you to get up?" He growled as he stood over the prone form
of Para Para.

"They did," Sailor Moon said. "The dead. They told me top get off my
ass and put an end to you, once and for all, and I intend to do it."

"End me?" Scaramanga said. "End me! Oh my dear, that is just
hysterical" Suddenly he was in front of Sailor Moon. He grabbed her by
the chin and slammed her head-first into one of the stone pillars. A
wave of dizziness flooded over her along with the white-hot pain.

"Now you get this, you little bitch!" Scaramanga said acidly. "I am
not anything like our good queen over there. Your past villains have
all had a single goal, and once those grand strategies failed, they
were destroyed like the nothings that they were. I am different. My
only goal is to spread as much pain and death as I can, and if I am
somehow killed, I am sure I will come back from the grave to continue
to spread my brand of chaos!"

Sailor Moon could see only one thing that would get her out of this
situation. Clenching her fist tightly, she drove it into Scaramanga's
remaining good eye. Then as he fell back screaming, she quickly kicked
him between the legs. He howled in pain as he fell to the floor

The strain of that movement was too much however, and Sailor Moon
collapsed at the base of the stone column.

"Didn't my mother's first battle happen at the base of a column?" She
thought hazily

"Sailor Moon!" Luna's voice seemed to call to her. "You must fight
this evil or the entire world will be destroyed!"

"I don't want to play this game..."

Sailor Moon tried to reach past the throbbing pain, past the
dizziness. She embraced the memories of her mother. She floated among
them until she seemed to be naked, surrounded only by her mother's
memories. Finally, she felt as though she was clad only in the
memories of her mother, as if they were a suit of armor.

"Now..." a soft voice said.

Sailor Moon stumbled to her feet.

"MOON CRISIS POWER!"

A soft white light flowed in on Sailor Moon, and she basked in its
warm glow as it cascaded over her. When she opened her eyes, she saw
that she wore a silky white dress with gold embroidery along its
edges. The thin crown of the crown princess of the Moon Kingdom sat
lightly atop her head.

Having completed the transformation, Princes Sandra shouted, "MOON
STAFF!" A golden light flared and the Moon Staff, appeared in her
hands.

With a little sigh, Sandra closed her eyes and thought of her mother.

"Please forgive me, mother," she thought.

"MOON ZERO MAGIC!" A disk of destructive magic appeared at the tip of
the staff and floated outward towards Scaramanga, who had gotten to
his feet and was vainly trying to run away when the energy from the
staff hit him. The golden energy enveloped the villain, and Sandra
thought she heard him scream as the energy slowly faded away, taking
him with it.

As the last of the energy faded into the cold darkness of the room,
Sandra lowered the Moon Staff and tiredly closed her eyes. With a
flare of white light, she transformed back into Sailor Moon

Just then the room shuddered as the throne exploded.

"Oh no," Sailor Moon thought with a glance at the throne. The
explosion had rippled through the entire room and now she could see
dust and small rocks falling from the ceiling. She rushed over to
Sailor Mars, who was still trying to assist Sailor Venus.

"Can you move her?" Sailor Moon asked.

"Yes," Mars replied. "She's burned pretty bad but nothing's broke..."

"Good," came the reply. "We need to leave. This place is coming
apart."

The two Sailors each carried a body toward the double doors they had
entered earlier. Along the way, they came to the huge mirror that
served as a prison for Queen Nehellennia.

"What do we do about her?" Mars asked.

"There's nothing we can do," Sailor Moon quietly replied, knowing she
was consigning another person to death. "We can't carry that mirror."
"Besides," she thought. "Para Para can still be saved and she can
still live a normal life. Queen Nehellennia is a lost cause and if we
let her lose, we'll probably run into her later anyway..."

With that, the Sailors fled the throne room, and the palace, which
collapsed in on itself soon after they left it.

"We made it!" Sailor Mars shouted as she turned to look at the remains
of the palace.

"Yes," Sailor Moon replied. "But I wonder if we paid too high a cost."

Nothing else was said as the two Sailor soldiers continued toward the
waiting shuttle.

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Keflavik Mental Institute

(on the grounds of the old Keflavik Air Force Base)

Iceland

MEDICAL REPORT - ADMISSION OF PATIENT NUMBER 135990

SELF-ADMITTED

Name: Subject identified only as Para Para

Age: 31

Gender: Female

Intake Parameters: Subject appears to have suffered a recent mental
trauma which is now causing delusions, possible multiple
personalities, possible paranoia. Possibility of other factors is very
high.

Procedure: Follow standard low-security monitoring procedures. Revoke
subject's legal status pending successful outcome of her condition.

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MEDICAL REPORT - DEATH OF PATIENT NUMBER 135990

Name: Subject identified only as Para Para

Age: 31

Gender: Female

Details: Subject assaulted a guard and obtained the guard's service
revolver...

FINI

EPILOGUE

Conception

The Aquarium Room was perhaps the most exotic room in the entire
palace. Built into the middle of a six-story salt water aquarium, this
private bedroom was surrounded on nearly all sides by the deep blue
waters and schools of exotic fish. Strategically placed windows made
the room seem to melt into the surrounding waters, and at the same
time, they afforded anyone using the bedroom with privacy

A droplet of water formed on the ceiling of the room. This was by no
means unusual. A combination of heat and the water on the other side
of the walls was often enough to cause water droplets to be formed.

The two people in the large bed below only added to the favorable
circumstances.

Clothing lay scattered on the floor and strewn on the bed but neither
man nor woman paid attention to the mess.

"Mmm...Darien," Serena managed to murmur in between long kisses. Then
her mouth found his again, crushing together. His arm laying lazily
over her body, Darien reached over and caressed his wife's breasts,
playfully fingering the hardened nipples. A moan escaped Serena's
throat as the tingling from her breasts flowed outward. She could feel
his stiffened penis pressed against her as his hands dropped lower to
first massage her stomach, then lower still. Serena lifted her leg
over Darien's body, silently signaling her readiness.

"My love," Darien said softly. "I've missed you so much." Then he
kissed her again.

"I've missed you too," Serena replied. A happy tear welled up and his
being her right now seemed to wash away the months of lonliness.

"It will never happen again," Darien said.

Serena nodded slightly. "We'll be together forever." With that, they
kissed again, their tongues wetly exploring the depths of each other's
mouths.

The droplet of water fell as Darien entered into his wife and the two
started the inter-tangled dance that melted away all of the
loneliness, all of the nights spent alone...

..."Hey Rini...don't ya worry. I'll always be there for ya"...

..."Hey Rini, let's go get some ice cream."...

..."Sure you can sleep over"...

..."You've cried enough, honey"..."Why are you always so mean to me?
Daddy, can you pick me up, please?"..."Try to get up yourself."...

..."I'll only take the Crystal for a little while...just long enough
to be a big girl...like mommy..."...

..."I was always alone! You left me alone!"...

..."Darien, I promise I won't lose it this time, but I need the Silver
Crystal."...

..."You've saved our world, my darling...welcome home"...

A droplet fell again as Darien and Serena climaxed together, their
cries of ecstacy absorbed by the reinforced glass walls of the room. A
school of brightly-colored fish swam below, oblivious to the life
being created above them.

Fanfic ©2001 - John Brengman and Artemis Publishing

Sailor X series inspired by Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon,

© 1992 by Toei Animation Co Ltd. and based on Kodansha's

manga production of "Sailor Moon", written by Naoko Takeuchi

This fanfic is freely distributed. Release date: March 17, 2001