149.72 million km [Tuxedo Mask]

Act 13 • Final Battle - Reincarnation

Word Count : 1897

Mamo-chan, I love you. Endymion... You are my first and only true love. I know I will see you again in my next lifetime, and... we will fall in love with each other again. Beyond time, we will be reincarnated, and we will...

I think back to all the moments we spoke before and after our reincarnation. When we first met, when we danced together, when he saved me time and time again. I felt everything go completely black before I even hit the ground.

It didn't take long for the enemy to make their next move. During this period of darkness Queen Metalia had absorbed the Legendary Solar Crystal along with Tuxedo Mask and I. The other Sailor Guardians continued to fight with all their powers. Until the final moments where they used the last of their power to send a message out. The many voices rang out and I awoke.

Everyone... Where am I?

"I'm... alive?" The first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was the Legendary Solar Crystal floating in front of me. As my gaze went further I spotted Tuxedo Mask on the other side of the crystal. "Mamo-chan!" I cried out. I felt my hand holding the pocket watch. I stared at it seeing that the glass cover had shattered. Memories of the sword piercing the watch and not me flashed in my mind. "The watched... it stopped the sword. You saved me again. I'm the only one still alive."

"My Legendary Crystal..." the voice of Queen Metalia echoed loud and clear. I felt a sudden pain in my head as I listened to the millions of voices shouting in my head. They were the shouting and feelings of pain of the people of the Earth suffering in the darkness.

"Stop it! I don't want to hear it!"

"Listen to those beautiful voices, the voices of human's darkness and suffering. And it's all thanks to the Legendary Solar Crystal." Queen Metalia laughed, her voice echoed around me as she circled around. "All the humans and this planet are going to fade into darkness."

"Please stop!"

"Now it's time for you to disappear into the darkness as well, girl descended from the Kingdom of the Moon and Sun." I felt arms grab me from behind, holding me in place. "Become a part of me."

"No!"

"Protest as much as you want. There's nothing you can do."

I can't stay here. I'll be taken into the darkness. I have to get out of here. Please Legendary Solar Crystal, give me strength.

I reached out to grab the Legendary Solar Crystal fighting the force trying to keep me back. "Take me... to where everyone is!" I shouted when my hand grasped the crystal.

"This power... My body is getting hot. What did you do?!" A surge of power blasted us out of the Queen and back to the ground. We had escaped and I stood alone. The Crystal floating in front of me and Tuxedo Mask was lying on the ground at my feet. I leaned down, placing my hand on his.