Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Something to Stay Awake For ❯ Something To Stay Awake For ( Chapter 6 )

Chapter Six: Something to Stay Awake For

"Sailor Chibi Moon! No!" The words stretched on and on, each devastated one echoing with such misery and pain, such despair and such lost, such heartbreak… And as the poignant words rung through the night air, almost bouncing off the glowing moon they were so loud, Onihiko gasped as one by one, each senshi pulled out from under his mind control. Their dull, lifeless eyes suddenly became bright once again, and they looked around slowly, with dazed and confused expressions covering their faces, as if they had just woken up from a lengthy sleep. But their disorientation did not last long, when they all heard the agonizingly sad words and saw just who the young woman screaming them was.

Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Venus, Sailor Saturn, Sailor Uranus, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Pluto, and Onihiko all watched as Sailor Moon stumbled quickly over to the lifeless, disfigured body of her daughter. She cried hysterically, as her legs collapsed from underneath her, and she slumped down next to Sailor Chibi Moon and wrapped her arms around her, sobbing uncontrollably.

Sailor Chibi Moon's body was a mess. She was almost unrecognizable. She was completely soaked in blood, both her own and hornet blood. The hem had come out of her skirt, and her hair had completely fallen out of the two cone-shaped buns. She was soaking wet, and her skin was blue, as if she had been trapped someplace very cold. The backside of her uniform was totally gone, and they could all see that the skin on her back had been scraped off. On her arm was a deep cut that showed the bone, and on the back of her head, the skull was nearly completely crushed in. But the worst wound she had, the one that had obviously taken her life, was the enormous hole in her midsection. Sailor Moon burst into an even louder fit of tears and buried her head in her daughter's pink, blood soaked hair.

"Sailor Chibi Moon…" Sailor Saturn whispered, collapsing onto the ground. The other Outer Senshi and Sailor Jupiter did the same thing, shaking their heads and refusing to believe what had occurred. They were all in shock.

"Oh, no! Not Sailor Chibi Moon!" Sailor Venus cried, covering her face with her hands as she began to cry. Sailor Mercury and Sailor Mar's eyes overflowed with tears too, and all three dropped down onto the pavement next to Sailor Moon and her daughter's limp body. Sailor Moon screamed hysterically and cried so hard she couldn't breath, beating her daughter's chest and the blood-soaked pavement with her fist. She started murmuring quietly to herself, as the senshi stared at Sailor Chibi Moon with pain and love in their eyes.

"How sickening! How pathetic!" Someone laughed, and all of the Sailor Senshi spun around. Behind them stood Onihiko, smiling and looking extremely amused. His shoulders were pushed back, and his silver hair whipped chaotically around in the wind. "You all came out from under my spell, because of that little pink-haired brat! Well, I'm finished with you anyway. Time to be exterminated." The silver-haired man declared with a careless shrug, and all of the Sailor Senshi stood up and growled angrily, except for Sailor Moon…

Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Uranus went into a fighting stance, rage burning in their eyes. Sailor Mars clenched her fists, furious. "How dare you talk about Sailor Chibi Moon like that! I'm going to punish you!" She screamed, and Sailor Uranus and Sailor Jupiter echoed her cry. They all started to rush forward.

"You idiots! Do you seriously think you're going to defeat me?" Onihiko laughed, extremely entertained. Sailor Mars, Sailor Uranus, and Sailor Jupiter ignored the man's words and continued running toward him, fire in their eyes. Onihiko frowned for a split second before bursting into laughter. The senshi grew closer, and before they could attack, he hastily shot a beam of negative energy from his finger at them. The air resonated loudly with their surprised screams.

The beam disappeared as quickly as it had come, leaving the air filled with fading smoke and three very injured senshi. Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, and Sailor Uranus all drooped down to the ground. Various burns decorated their broken bodies, and the tips of their hair had been scorched. Sailor Jupiter groaned, as the other two wounded senshi gasped for breath. All of the senshi cried out.

"Oh, no! Sailor Uranus!" Sailor Neptune hollered, pressing her hand to her mouth. She rushed toward the fallen Outer Senshi, followed by Sailor Pluto and Sailor Saturn. They all kneeled by Sailor Uranus's side.

"Sailor Mars! Sailor Jupiter! No!" Sailor Venus shouted, running toward her injured friends. Sailor Mercury was close behind, tears streaming down her face.

Onihiko started laughing once more, as the senshi crowded around their hurt friends. He pushed off from the ground and floated above the entire group, watching the confusion down below. When Sailor Uranus tried unsuccessfully to get up, he threw his head back and laughed hysterically. All the senshi glared at him, daggers shooting from their eyes. Even Sailor Mercury, who was usually so composed and kind, looked deadly. Onihiko smiled at them all.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a beam of blinding white light appeared. It flew through the air, seemingly cutting the night sky as easily as butter. "AHH!" Onihiko screamed, as his face twisted with pain. The senshi gasped, as the white light shot into the yellow-eyed man hovering among the stars. They all watched, horrified and bewildered, as it connected with his arm, and then there was an explosion of light, blood, flesh, bone, and tissue. The remaining pieces of Onihiko's arm soared through the air, showering the senshi. They all made disgusted sounds, and all the while Onihiko was bawling at the top of his lungs, clutching what was left of his arm.

"That is for everything, Onihiko!" Everyone gasped, ignoring the red rain, and they all turned around to see their leader, Sailor Moon. She was standing behind them, protecting the body of her daughter with her tear-stained face and swollen eyes. She was pointing the Moon Crystal at Onihiko, her body quivering as she struggled to catch her breath. Everyone's eyes widened, when they realized she had been the person who had shot the beam. "That is for destroying Tokyo twice! That is for killing millions of innocent people! That is for killing my beloved Tuxedo Kamen! That is for having me under your control for eleven years!" The senshi stared, mouths agape, at their leader.

"So…?" Onihiko breathed, holding his wounded arm. He had stopped screaming hysterically several moments before, and now he was concentrating on staying conscious. Blood gushed out from between his fingers, sloppily painting the ground beneath him. He was paler than usual, and his eyes kept trying to roll back into his head. The senshi looked from Sailor Moon to the struggling Onihiko than back again. Everything grew quiet.

Sailor Moon grew in a deep breath. She bit her lip and started shaking her head, anger enveloping her. She lifted the Moon Crystal, shaking with rage, and before any of the Sailor Senshi could even say a word, she whispered, with so much hatred in her voice that everyone backed away, "And this, Onihiko, is for my daughter." A beam of white light the size and speed of a train shot from the Moon Crystal, lighting up the entire night. It was so powerful, it sent Sailor Moon flying through the air and crashing onto the pavement, and even from space the resulting attack of Sailor Moon's rage could be easily seen. The ground trembled violently, and all of the senshi were thrown about, as cement cracked and the remainders of building crumbled.

Onihiko let out one finally scream as the light exploded into him. The senshi watched with wide eyes as the silver-haired man's body was ripped wildly apart by the blinding whiteness. Chunks of Onihiko went zipping through the air, landing with loud, nauseating thuds on the street. Bits of bone bounced down on the concrete, sounding like gravel. Onihiko was visibly very, very dead. The Sailor Senshi gasped for breath. They were all in shock.

Everybody turned and looked at Sailor Moon, their mouths dangling open. She was lying on the road where she had landed, crying softly. Her face was in her hands, and her body shook with silent sobs. The fight against Onihiko had finally come to an end, and the Sailor Senshi had been the winners. But so much had been lost that the victory hardly meant anything. Although Earth and the lives of countless innocents had been saved, Sailor Chibi Moon and Tuxedo Kamen were dead, Tokyo had been destroyed, harmless bystanders had lost their lives, and Sailor Moon's will to go on had disappeared along with the rest of the life shining in her daughter's beautiful, red eyes. The eight Sailor Senshi sighed.

The Sailor Senshi looked from Sailor Moon to Sailor Chibi Moon's lifeless body. She looked nothing like the cheerful nine-year-old they had known so well and adored so much eleven years ago. She was now a twenty-year-old woman, who wore a face that looked like it had suffered a life of terrible sorrow. She had died horriblyat the hands of her family and friends, the one group of people she was supposed to be able to trust. The Sailor Senshi all began to cry, even Sailor Uranus. How could they have done that to Sailor Chibi Moon, the little pink-haired angel that had lightened all of their lives? She had been so brave, and her efforts had not been in vain. She had succeeded in doing something that none of the other senshi could have done, and as their eyes overflowed with tears and their throats tightened, they all looked down at the courageous, noble face of a true heroine that could never be forgotten.

"Sailor Chibi Moon!" A tiny voice squealed suddenly, interrupting the silence. The eight women spun around, and their eyes widened in surprise as they saw the three guardian cats bounding towards them. Diana's soft pink eyes wavered with tears, as her small paws came to a halt in the puddle of blood surrounding her best friend's head. She stood there for a moment, totally silent, before bursting into a fit of hysteria. Luna and Artemis simply sat their on the cold pavement, the night breeze playing with their fur, as their eyes saw nothing but the broken body of the youngest senshi.

Each senshi and cat mourned that night on that deserted, scorched street in Tokyo, among the remainders of their life before the name Onihiko was ever knew, letting the moon and stars watch silently from their place in the dark sky. Although the senshi and guardian cats could guess what Sailor Chibi Moon had been through those past eleven years, only that moon and those stars truly understood the pain she had experienced. Only they knew about the long nights filled with memories and sadness. Only they realized how horrible the nights overflowing with pain and wistful thinking could be. Only they understood the number of nights that summoned up heartache and tears. Only the moon and stars knew that sleep had been her one peace, and now, they knew that if she had been alive, she would have finally had something to stay awake for.

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