First things first! I'd like to thank all those who have emailed me.
They are: StarGazer, Polgara, and Donnelaith.
Thanks for all your wonderful and encouraging comments.
Donnelaith has a nifty fanfic titled "Thicker Than Water".  Go and read
her Fanfic people! (AFter you finish mine of course!(^_-)

All right! Here are the rest of the chapters to my story that you have been
waiting for.  Let us continue on starting with Chapter 5, shall we?
Please keep that in mind the fact that this story is manga 
related.  

I've decided to use English translation names for the Inner Senshi and 
Japanese names for the Outer, since I have no clue 
as to what their English translated names are.  And Haruka and Michiru are 
only close friends not gay.
It only makes it easier for me to write.

Please email me and tell me what you think of my story so far.  
This story is rated PG, well some slight violence and maybe language later 
on.  Well, enough of my babbling! On with the show!

Usual disclaimers:  Sailor Moon and all its characters and likeliness 
belongs to Naoko Takeuchi, Kodansha/Toei.  English translation is made 
possible by DiC. 

My email address:  ml_eclipse@hotmail.com]
EMAIL ME! My inbox is starving to death! (^_^)

<< >> = thoughts
[ ] = author's note
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O' Rose thou are sick.  The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm
Has found out thy bed of crimson joy
And his dark secret love does thy life destroy.


[Can you guess where you may have heard that poem in SM?]


Serenity's Legend      written by Cosmos

Part V:  The Dying Light


"Who are you?" Serena screams in the darkness.  She can hear laughter 
all around her, evil, mocking laughter aimed at her, but she cannot 
see anyone through the brooding darkness.  "Why did you bring me here? 
What is it that you want?"

"I have been waiting for you to ask that question," says a haunting 
voice somewhere in the darkness.  Serena hears sneering laughter all 
around her.  The laughter comes from all directions.  The darkness seems 
to surround her in a tight grip and squeezes her slowly until she feels 
that her very life is oozing out of her body.  The laughter swirls 
around her in the darkness, mocking her.  Suddenly she feels dizzy and 
grabs her head.  Somehow she senses that the room itself is spinning in 
circles before her eyes.  <>

"Moon Eternal Power!" she screams…but nothing happens.  "Whuh?…It…didn't 
work."  Again she hears the same sinister laughter, "You cannot 
transform here, Eternal Sailor Moon.  Your power is too weak to defy 
mine."

<> her mind thinks desperately.  
<> her mind screams.  <>  
her mind begs in desperation. Feelings of utter despair and 
hopelessness engulf her.  And realization dawned on her like a slab 
of brick…she is alone…and no one will save her…not this time.

"What is it that you want," Serena asks again in an almost tearful 
and frightened voice.

"Your life," came the solemn reply,  "I want your soul and body."

"Why are you doing this to me?" Serena screams out in anguish as she 
feels the darkness closing in on her.  She feels a strange dark force 
invading her mind and slowly taking control of it.  The laughter 
and darkness, in addition to the fear and desolateness, slowly breaks 
down her resistance and eats away at her soul.

That dark voice speaks again, "Soon Sailor Moon, your power and your 
being will be mine.  And I will use it to destroy all that you have 
treasured and love.  With you under my control all of space and time 
will finally belong to me."  Serena hears a spine-chilling trill 
followed by a sinister laughter that causes her skin to get goosebumps.  
She tries to fight against the invading darkness that she knows is 
seeping into her soul, darkening it.  <>, she 
thinks determinedly, whatever that IT may be.  She feels as if she 
is fighting a loosing battle from the beginning.  This is something 
she has never before encountered, and it is scaring her to death.  
This darkness overcoming her numbing mind is spreading through her 
body like heat from a fire, slowly, gradually taking over and there 
is nothing she is able to do to stop it.  Even as she is desperately 
trying to figure out a way to free herself, she can feel her soul and 
mind giving up on her.  This is nothing like the brainwashing she has 
experienced from Prince Diamond or the Wiseman from the Dark Moon Family.  
At least with brainwashing, she knows what she is dealing with, but 
this…this strange flow…almost like she is drinking an elixir that she 
just can't stop herself.  She feels as if she is fighting against 
herself, much less against an embodied thing, with neither shape, face, 
sound, nor sense.

"WHO ARE YOU?" Serena screams in pain as the darkness spreads deep 
within her mind, distorting everything in it.  Her memories of the past
 and those of the present runs together, mixing into a jumble of 
visions neither recognizable nor clearly remembered.  Visions of the 
Sailor Soldiers, Reeny, the Moon Kingdom, Darien, everything gradually 
fades and disappears entirely.  All that is left is the emptiness and 
the cruel driving force of that strange darkness.

As the darkness takes control of more of her mind, Serena can feel her 
strength weakening.  She can sense her soul loosing its grip on her 
body and her mind on reality.  Everything fades gradually, reality 
fades like the light of a dying star.  That is just what she has become 
now, a dying star.

"Do not fight me, Serenity," the voice invades her weak mind like a 
roaring thunder, "Instead you should rejoice that you will soon be on 
my side…sister."  Serena's eyes widen in shock and disbelief.
"W-W-What?" Serena struggles to speak. "What did you just say?"
"Do you not know?" The voice asks mockingly, though not with surprise.  
"We are sisters you and I.  We both came from the same origin, the 
Cauldron of the Stars.  You are the light, and I am your counterpart." 
A silence envelops them both, Serena senses that the dark being is 
smiling evilly down at her, seeming to enjoy her pain and suffering.  
Then a face appears out of the closing shadows.  Serena struggles to 
look up to see who is her captive.  What she saw horrifies her.  Meeting 
her gaze is the mirror image of herself.  Yet, instead of blue eyes, 
the face looks at her through eyes that do not contain any color or 
pupils.  It appears like swirling black empty void that can swallow one's 
soul by a simple gaze.  "I am Chaos."

"Nooooooo!" Serena screams in pain as her soul shrivels and dies.  She 
falls to her knees, grabbing her head as the last image in her mind fades 
away.  She feels a strange coldness suddenly clutching her heart and 
freezing it into hard stone ice.  She now realizes that this is one 
battle that she cannot win.  The pain and heaviness forced upon her by 
the conquering darkness made her crouch low on the floor, holding her 
aching head.  The darkness made its last strike and her soul slowly 
leaves her body.  As a crystal tear, the only source of humanity that 
is now left in her, leaves her eyes and slides down her pale cheek, 
Serena suddenly realizes what will happen after this moment.  A strange 
vision of what will be flashed faintly, quickly in her dying mind.  For 
that split second, she saw her herself holding a single red rose, and 
from the rose droplets of blood oozes out.  She realizes that the rose 
is dying, and *she* is killing it.  Sadly, she whispers in a dying voice, 
"Forgive me my friends…for what I will do."  With a last desperate gasp, 
Serena closes her eyes and the darkness swallows her.  Suddenly the Silver Crystal radiates 
with intense light and disappears.

Sailor Chaos looks at what had just occurred before her in solemn 
silence.  A cruel contorted smile appears on her thin black lips.  
This is what she has been waiting for.  Her quest for total conquest 
of the universe has been barred by a single Sailor Soldier whom she 
despises incredibly, and now with Sailor Moon as an addition to her 
army, this other soldier will be no match against her.  Finally the 
strongest Sailor Soldier in the Galaxy, Eternal Sailor Moon is hers to 
control.  And she will use her to defeat the Soldier of the Universe.  
The strongest soldier in the galaxy against the strongest soldier of the
universe,  <>  The body lying before her slowly darkens 
and a strange aura surrounds it.  The brooding darkness around Chaos 
seems to be waiting for her to give a command to commence something that
 will inevitably change the future, forever.
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[A bit dark isn't it? But don't worry, my story will not stay that way.
 Things are really rolling now! On to the next chapter…]

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