dear_mun | moonlocket bound

How touching! [Have a bright, clearly fake smile from Mercury.]

And how unnecessary.

It's entirely necessary. As the soldier of the moon, it's clear the other sailor soldiers don't realize the full threat that awaits them.

The sailor senshi will never open their eyes. That's why there are other protectors of that planet.

[The sailor senshi are... an anachronism, at best. Invaders with no rights to the place they pretend to love, but destroyed and allowed to be destroyed instead.]

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They must! Or else, the Earth will truly be destroyed by those who mean it ill will.

[She had to have faith they would save the world. ~~What if she couldn't continue as a sailor soldier...~~]

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[It's something she's beyond tired of: that assumption that the sailor senshi are needed. That if she isn't with them, she has no one. That if they aren't defending Earth, no one is. To hear their rhetoric and speeches, one would think the galaxy entirely devoid of anyone else.

How sad for it.]

They've already failed in that mission. So they won't be allowed to lead it down that path ever again.

You're wrong. The sailor soldiers are the only one on Earth who can stop the war. They are neither human nor yokai. They can withstand the darkness and overcome the trickery of the Ultimate Bible.

But to do that they must learn the truth...!

~~[...Mercury hadn't been bitten by Vampir, had she?...Wasn't it Mars...?]~~

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There are no more sailor senshi on Earth.

[The outers stay away, back to their destined posts in the reaches of space. The others... live small lives. A priestess, a florist. A child.

And Mercury, who no longer counts herself among them.]

...if there are no more sailor soldiers on your Earth...then how will anyone overcome--?!

[And then the voice laughs, and she feels pain. Perhaps Mercury can feel the malevolent darkness within the sailor soldier.]

[If she notes it, she fails to show concern for a sailor senshi - or fear for the Darkness.]

There are powers other than sailor senshi, more reliable and useful.

[Hadn't she already said the sailor senshi would not be allowed to bring the planet's destruction again?]

They won't be permitted to touch it.

No power born of Earth can penetrate the veil born from that one's eternal hatred. If the sailor soldiers cannot be shown the truth, then...

[Something suddenly happens. Her eyes harden, and she holds her head up.]

...then that's fine. Earth has run its course, after all.

Earth has people who won't let it go that easily.

[They just aren't the senshi, who were only harmful to it from the start.]

[She just smiles.]

I've heard that declaration before. You claim you'll save the Earth, that you'll change it for the better.

But you're incorrect in thinking you and your allies ever had the Earth as yours to begin with. So you will fail as all others before you have.

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[It's all she has to believe in.

And she knows her place in the scene she's painted: An outsider, from planet Mercury, admired but not loved, with no more claim or place on Earth than the sailor senshi. ~~Good enough to fight their war, nothing more.~~

But if not the shitennou, who were its chief men even in that distant past...]

Who do you say should claim it?

[That smile widens; it is not a pleasant one.]

What makes you believe you are worthy of such knowledge?

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If you know who I am, you already know that for yourself.

And yet despite who you are, your education is woefully lacking.

I will enlighten you enough to help you realize that your attempts against me, should you be so unlucky to encounter me, are wholly useless. Even with your inhuman body and its past lives, all the years of your reckonings are but a drop of water compared to the ocean which is the cup of my life.

I am weary of Earth and of life. So as its true ruler I have decided that both shall end. All which is on it shall also die.

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[She'd heard variations of that from too many enemies - all defeated, now - to feel properly threatened.]

Go ahead - if you can. [The same invitation as always. And she'll back it with her sword, if the time comes.]

However, if the one who's tired is you, why not be the one to die yourself? [Her tone suggests this is a perfectly reasonable idea and offer.]

Oh? Do you believe your immense power could freeze my heart, and turn my bones into icicles? Perhaps you think your sword could destroy me? Or perhaps that it could even come close to my sword without shattering into cubes?

[She nods in derision, clearly amused by the bravado.]

Only three things can truly hurt me. The Silver Crystal and he who is my detested brother can stop me, if for a moment. They can even seal me into the Underworld, if for a little while.

But you're mistaken to think you can kill me, even if somehow you managed to inconvenience me. My true death will only come when Earth is destroyed!

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[There's a part of her that can almost understand it. The desire to be finished and done, the extremes someone might almost go to. There is a part of her that also wants to rest.

But like the princess she vows to hate, it goes too far. Even for her. She notes, in a detached part of her intellect, that he can be sealed away in the underworld.]

Then sleep. Don't be a selfish child.

[There is a part of her that thinks of Mariner Castle.]

I shall sleep only when it is my final rest. The pieces have already been put into place.

And you will not stop me.

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If you come to this Earth, we'll find that out for ourselves. [Confident, this one.]

[Usagi sticks out her hand with a bright, frank smile.]

Then, let's protect it together. As sailor senshi and as friends.

Sailor Moon...

[She looks at the hand. Slowly, she goes to reach for that hand; several inches away, though, she stops.]

...I don't know if that can be our destiny, after all. I want it to be, but...

Then it can. [There's no way she'd abandon the fight for Earth. And while she feels a certain guilt that others are drawn into the battle as well... she won't turn them away.]

We'll make it so.

...Tsukino-san...

[She wants to believe. She wants to. But that other self who desires darkness flares up. She recoils.]

...I don't know. Instead of saving me, please, use the energy of the Silver Crystal to upset the enemy's plans. There is little time left for me, after all...

I just...want to give you what you need so you can fight. Before I'm overtaken.

No way! [That's a request she's utterly incapable of fulfilling.] We can find a way to save both. I'm sure of it.

...You...you truly believe that...

[It's who she is.]

I do. I believe we can find a way to protect what's important to us. All of us.

I'm glad...so, even if I die...at least, Earth is protected.

Don't say that! You won't die. [She will find a way to bring them all home, safely, all these noble soldiers who've sacrificed so much to protect what they love and what they believe in.]

Tsukino-san...

[In the wake of Usagi's determination, the dark voice retreats. Astarte can feel the pain ease and disappear altogether.

It is a temporary victory. They always are. But...perhaps...]

...I'll keep my faith in you. But first, save the Earth. Save it from the Lilim and the other me. At least then...at least then, I might have a chance.

[She... doesn't understand. These are enemies she hasn't heard of before, allies she hasn't met.]

I will. But who are they? What's going to happen?

[That's right. This Tsukino-san must be from another universe, so she must not know.]

I...I'm not entirely sure. But my mother...she's a good woman. I'm sure of it.

[She wants to think her mother is a good person.]

But she's protective of her children. She...she's the mother of a race, you see. They're not human. They're called Lilim. And my mother's joined forces with...with the other me.

[She can feel the dark voice in her head again. Its still weak, though. She can ignore it.]

The other me wants to hurt people. The other me has convinced my mother to...to replace humans with the Lilim. And that I'm supposed to be the goddess of them!

~~[But she is a goddess. Isn't she?]~~

I want to make the world a better place and I do honestly believe that Lilim...they shouldn't be cast out by humanity! But, I don't want the world to be destroyed by them, either.

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[None of it makes much sense to Usagi; but that's to be expected. What she understands is that this girl is in trouble, being used in a way that reminds her of Hotaru-chan a little.]

It won't happen. We'll find a way for Lilim and humans to live together. [It's been done before, with the Black Moon clan.]

[Salutes!]

If all of us combine our strength, there's nothing we can't do!

...

[Headtilt.]

Tsu...kino...san?

[...You look different.]

In the flesh! [He'll never got tired of that reaction.] In my universe, all the guys are girls and girls are guys.

What's your name? Just call me Usagi-kun, okay~?

Ok...Usagi-kun.

[She bows her head.]

I'm Shiva Shingetsu Astarte.

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[Another Sailor brat? Great.]

Who might you be?

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But Cain's sooooo not like the princess. He speaks more than four syllables at a clip!

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