:Author's Note On Chapter Eleven:
During the next chapter, there will be names of songs, and the artists that wrote them, at the beginning to certain sections. This is to add to the drama of the events in the next chapter. At this point, I can only suggest you play the song if you have it, or download it so that you can listen to it. If you don't know the songs, I'm afraid you'll have to settle with reading it the lyrics posted elsewhere on my page. I hope the songs add emotion to the story and give you a chance to get into it more. I thank you for your time to read this story and hope you enjoy the conclusion in the next two chapters.




                                               Chapter Eleven: Saying Good-bye              



"Where are we?" Eternal Sailor Moon said quietly as she and Tuxedo Kamen got to the top of the spiraling stairs. They stepped put into a large room that was empty, except for the support pillars and a beautiful table in the center. On the table there sat a large prism, slowly spinning a foot above the table, "Hello?"

"The others aren't here, let's go back down." Tuxedo Kamen suggested but the stairs suddenly melted away disappeared into the floor, leaving them trapped in the room with the Prism. With a suspicious tone in his voice, Tuxedo Kamen looked around and tensed up a bit, "It's a trap!"

The Prism started to glow and rose higher off the table, spinning faster and resonating a quiet voice, "Welcome. I knew you would come."

Both of them looked to the glimmering Prism and Tuxedo Kamen blinked at how familiar the voice sounded, "Who's there? Show yourself!"

A soft laugh came from the Prism and Eternal Sailor Moon couldn't help but feel she knew that voice as well. The voice seemed to fill the air all around them, like the room was filled with the presence of the Prism, "Come now, no need to be rude. I will gladly tell you who I am. I am the one the Priests called Master. Destroyer of all things beautiful and preserver of the Void."

Eternal Sailor Moon blinked in surprise, finally coming face to face with the evil that had plagued the Shadow senshi throughout their lives, "The Omega Master?"

"I have been known by that name before."

She glared at the thing and clenched her fist, talking rather sternly, "You're the one that destroyed the Shadow senshi's universe. You created the Priests and ordered them to destroy us!"

"Yes, I have been rather busy lately. But now to the matter at hand, I suppose you are here to make sure I don't try and destroy your universe either, correct?"

She nodded once and held her Eternal Tier up threateningly, speaking with a still confidence in her voice, "That's right, I'll make sure you never get out of that prism."

"Really? Well, I hate to disappoint you but....." The Prism started to spin much faster and was covered with a glow, making rays of light shoot off around the room and fill every corner with brilliance. It started to crack and suddenly shattered, sending sparkles of crystal and energy flying all about the room. Eternal Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Kamen watched as a single figure floated down to the ground in front of the table, dressed in a hood and cloak just as the Priests were.

Eternal Sailor Moon glared at the figure in fear, then was suddenly choked at the revelation of what must have happened to set him free, "But if you are free, that means the Shadow senshi are....."

That soft laugh came from under the hood and a sole hand raised from the cloak, gesturing to her calmly, "Dead? No more? Finitio? Sleeping forever? Yes, the Priests took care of them and now I'm free to reek havoc once more. Isn't it wonderful?"

Choking back her fear for a moment, she was almost afraid to ask her next question, "Does that mean the Sailor senshi are gone too?"

"No, I'm afraid not. The other four are very much alive."

She blinked for a bit and Tuxedo Kamen just remained silent behind her, staring at the figure, "Four? What about the others?"

A disturbing silence followed until the figure spoke again, "Your other friends aren't even in this place." An image of the three other senshi lying on the ground outside of the destroyed portal appeared before them, and the Omega Master spoke in a dry tone, "Apparently, the late, great Shadow Mars had the sense to leave them as far from me as can be. Though, once I finish with you and your friends, they will be next."

"I've heard enough." Tuxedo Kamen suddenly chimed in and burst into a sprint right towards at him. The Omega Master casually raised a hand and Tuxedo Kamen froze instantly, floating into the air.

"Tuxedo Kamen!" Eternal Sailor Moon yelled and ran up to him to help him, but suddenly she froze just the same and floated up next him. The Omega Master walked casually over to them and peered up at the struggling Tuxedo Kamen.

"So, you are Tuxedo Kamen. My Priests told me about you, but the likeness is uncanny."

Tuxedo Kamen's mask floated off his face and fell to the floor, revealing his staring down at the Omega Master in anger, "What are you talking about?" The Omega Master laughed softly and slowly pulled his hood off to reveal a smiling face, an exact mirror image of Mamoru. His face was twisted into a dark smile and held up his hand, clenching his fist, eyeing them both with a devious intent, "Well, what a situation. The protector of the Earth an exact duplicate as the one who will destroy this and many other universes. Doesn't fate have a wonderful sense of humor?"

Eternal Sailor Moon just stared at him in disbelief, and then looked to Tuxedo Kamen as well. Her stomach churned at the thought of the Omega Master looking the exact same as Mamoru, but suddenly looked to him with a stern glare, "You'll never destroy our universe while I'm here."

The Omega Master walked slowly to her and grabbed her cheeks lightly, looking over her face carefully, "Very beautiful, I see you have good taste, Tuxedo Kamen. She is an exotic creature, and very powerful." He grinned at Tuxedo Kamen, then turned around and started to walk back to the place where the Prism was.

"What are you going to do, leave us here?"

He ignored Eternal Sailor Moon for the moment and stretched his arms above his head, letting out a light sigh, "It feels great to be out of that prism." A mound slowly grew out of the floor in front of him and shaped into a throne. Turning around quickly, he sat down on the throne and crossed his left leg over the other, looking at him with a wicked smile, "I'll think of something to do with you, Sailor Moon."





Foo Fighters "Walking after you"


Super Sailor Mars was stumbling her way the trees with eyes full of tears and the piece of the Ginzuishou in her hand, though her mind was a million miles away. She pushed through some vines into the clearing where she started, much to her own frustration. She let out an exhausted sob and turned to a tree, leaning on it and taking a moment to let her tears fade. Her mind, however, started to remember Yamito, and how his sheer arrogance at first angered her, then attracted her to him. His cool, serious approach to everything he did. How he attacked Kiga in spite of his being only human. His intoxicating stares he would cast upon her and the feelings they welled up inside of her. Even the time he transformed into Super Shadow Mars and absorbed his darkness back into him after killing Kiga.

Suddenly, a distant voice rang into her head and made her slowly look up at the tree she was leaning on, "Rei." She looked around quickly, but found nothing at first. Slowly a weird glow appeared in the middle of the clearing and a semitransparent figure appeared shortly after, looking at her with ghostly eyes.

"Yamito?"

"That is a matter of opinion. I suppose you could say, the ghost of Yamito?" Super Shadow Mars said with a light tilt and a warm look to her. She suddenly got steamed at him and reared back her arm, then threw it forward and let her fist crash into his face, "How dare you not tell me that you would die if you killed Kiga!"

His head snapped to the side quickly, and he then he slowly looked back at her sobbing face with the same look in his eyes, "You would have tried to stop me if you knew."

She growled at him fiercely and looked as if she was going to deck him again, but suddenly closed her eyes and hugged herself lightly, speaking in a passionate voice, "Yes, I would have."

Watching her with sad eyes, he stepped closer to her a moment and his voice dropped a few tones, "I came to say good-bye, Rei."

Slowly looking up at him, the tears burned hot down her face once more and she clenched her teeth, "Why do you have to go? Can't Sailor Moon bring you back with the Ginzuishou?"

"Now isn't the time. It was my place to die here, as was the others. All Shadow senshi everywhere are now extinct. It was our destiny to set the stage for the Omega Master to be destroyed."

She looked at him passionately and shook her head, stepping forward towards him and yelling, "That's a lame excuse to die for, Yamito! I've never known you to just roll over and take what's been given to you!"

Looking at her silently, he felt the sting of her words and sighed, then turned to the side a bit to leave, though his eyes never left her, "We will be together again. Can you see it in my eyes?"

The words made her heart race and she really could see it in the depths of his dark eyes. After a moment, he turned away and walked into the trees, his figure disappearing into the shadows. She watched as long as she could, then cried out as he left and started to run after him, "Yami! Don't go!" Her arms stung as she pushed through the trees but she refused to let him go so easily. Coming to another clearing, she watched his figure walk through a swirling portal that set inside of a tree trunk. Taking a deep breath and walking up reluctantly, she wiped the tears from her eyes and stepped in as well.





U2 "New Year's Day"


Super Sailor Venus sat looking into the fire, the flames reflecting off the tears in her eyes and the piece of the Ginzuishou in her hand. She was lost in thoughts about Suteki taking her from her house in her nightgown, just to walk with her in the park. His strategies to get her out of the house, such as when he pretended he was a salesman just to get her to elude her mother. When he snuck up through her window and hid in her stuffed animals so he could surprise her and be her very own. His innate talent at sports, including her beloved volleyball. His ambitions to be a model dashed upon the reality that being a senshi never let one live a normal life. Nothing but the lake made a sound around her and she closed her blue eyes, letting the tears roll down her cheeks.

"Beautiful, isn't it?"

She suddenly leapt to her feet and stared at Super Shadow Venus, not believing her eyes for a moment, "Is that you, Suteki?"

"Tch, like anyone else is like me." Walking up to her slowly, he smiled at her with that deviously charming smile, and made her tears run even more. After a moment, she broke down and lunged forward, throwing her arms around his neck and hugging him tightly.

"Don't leave again, please."

Having one of those rare moments when a serious expression washed over his face, he held her back and sighed, "I wish I didn't have to, but I do." She started to cry even more and he held the back of her head softly and closed his eyes, "Minako, could you possibly understand how much I love you?" His words made her twitch and hold onto him even tighter, which made him smile as a soft glow started to surround them both, "I will be with you again, love." Soon they both disappeared from the lake and left the silent wind to blow the waves onto the shore.





Red Hot Chili Peppers "Under The Bridge"


In that endless desert, Super Sailor Mercury dreamt about Kurai and the effect he had brought upon her life, despite a short time they were together. As they first met, the glances the two would exchange, signaling their mutual interest. When he startled her by slamming books down that first night in the library. Countless hours reading and studying together. His last look that he gave her before dying there in the sand. Imposing over the dreams, she started to hear a faint voice and she stirred a bit in the sand.

"Ami-chan. Ami-chan." She slowly opened her eyes to find a figure blocking the sun above her, and that voice which made her heart skip a beat, "Wake up, Ami-chan."

Her eyes narrowed a bit as she tried to focus in on this person, "Who are you?"

The figure let out a chuckle and held his hand out to her, "I knew that sun would do some damage, but I didn't think it would make you forget me that fast." She took his hand and was helped to her feet, thought she still felt a bit dizzy. Wobbling a bit and getting light headed, she held onto the arms of the person and slowly looked up to realize who it was.

"Kurie!"

He smiled lightly at her and kept holding her hands softly, nodding once, "There you go."

"I thought you were killed."

He got a solemn smile and nodded a few times, "Well, I was. I guess what you see before you now is an apparition." Her eyes widened a bit as she stared at him, not wanting to believe her was dead, but that made him just smile even more, "Ami, I've never felt the way I feel when I'm with you. I wouldn't trade the time we had for anything, aside from being able to stay with you now. Unfortunately, that isn't my decision, and I can't come back to you right now."

Her eyes wandered a bit to the side and she nodded slowly, at least understanding it, but not liking it. Still feeling her hands in his, she didn't want this to end and slowly closed her eyes, "How I felt when I saw you die? I never want to feel like it again."

He thought about that for a moment, then nodded a few times, "When I return, you never will." Another portal opened above them and hovered a moment, then fell down over them both and faded away, leaving the desert sands to be blow about by the wind.





Guns and Roses, "November Rain"


Makoto was still sitting in the snow with tears in her eyes, but really wasn't too concerned about it at the moment. Images of Kage flooded her mind as she stared at her henshin stick. The first time they met and the apparent interest he had taken in her. Watching him practice his martial arts on the park on a warm day. Even watching him having a spar against Haruka, and narrowly beating her where Makoto had fallen short. Even the confident grin he gave her before running off into the hallway to seal his own fate. Suddenly the snow stopped falling on her and she looked up to find Super Shadow Jupiter floating above her, blocking the snow with his own body. His arms crossed over his chest lightly, he floated down to the ground beside her and watched her rise to her feet, "You could catch your death of cold out here."

"I knew you'd comeback."

The snow fell on them both as he walked up to her and gently placed his gloved hand on her cheek, "I could never leave you." She pressed her head into his hand lovingly and closed her eyes. He couldn't help but smile and softly stroke her cold cheek with his thumb.

After a moment, she opened her eyes once more and stared at him affectionately, placing her hand on his wrist. He just stared back into her eyes and spoke in a deep voice, "Those eyes........I could fall into forever in those eyes."

"You......have to go, don't you?"

He nodded slowly and his smile faded away at the thought of leaving her, "Yeah. I would move the heavens to be able stay with you."

"I know."

He stepped away from her and moved his hand across a wall of ice. A swirling portal opened across it and he turned back to her, pulling his hand from her cheek, "Please transform." She nodded slowly and transforms into Super Sailor Jupiter before his eyes, which made his smile return. Without another word, he stepped backwards through the portal and left her alone and afraid. Though after a moment, his hand comes back through and waited for her, of which she took without hesitation and stepped through as well.

All four Sailor senshi found themselves facing each other in a small, circular room with no doors or windows, just the company of each other. Super Sailor Venus looked at the rest of them with a smile and yelled out, "Ami! Makoto! Rei!" Suddenly, a weird glow appeared from the middle of the room and the four Super Shadow senshi appeared facing their respective counterparts.

All the girls froze where they were and stared at their fallen counterparts. Super Shadow Mars spoke, thought his voice carried to the others just as if he were facing them as well, "Sailor senshi, you are not finished with this fight. Since we are no longer able to give energy to keep the Omega Master sealed away in the Dark Prism, he has escaped and now has Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Kamen captured." An image formed above them and showed Eternal Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Kamen restrained and the Omega Master just idly looking at them in pleasure, deciding on what to do with them. Super Shadow Mars narrowed his eyes a bit and the image faded away, "You must go and save them."

Super Sailor Mars winced at the image, then held her fist up in determination, "Send us in there. We'll stop him!"

"Unfortunately, the Omega Master is too powerful. You would only get yourselves destroyed."

She looked at him slowly but Super Sailor Mercury spoke up before anybody else could, "What are we going to do? We can't just sit around while our friends are in danger."

"We can give you help." Super Shadow Jupiter said with a smile and placed his hands in front of him with his palms facing each other. The other Shadow senshi did the same and all started to glow in their respective color, their energy focusing into a point of light between their hands.

Super Sailor Jupiter watched him in curiosity and slowly looked into his face, "What is it?"

He slowly opened his eyes and looked at her, just as all the others were looking at their counterparts. This time, all four of them spoke in unison and held the energy out away from them a bit, "It is the last of our energy. We will give it to you and you must stop the Omega Master. This is the last bit of help we can give you. After this, your hope lies in yourselves and your fellow senshi." The four energy points absorbed into the Sailor senshi and made their clothes get the same glossy appearance as the Super Shadow senshi's. Their hair also got the unusual coloring to it, but not as pronounced as the Shadows'. They all looked to their bodies as a dull glow formed around them from the power. The four Shadow senshi stepped forward and approached their counterparts, giving out the final good-byes.

"Try and keep the odango atama in line, Rei." Super Shadow Mars said softly and Super Sailor Mars just smiled weakly, laughing a bitter laugh and nodding her head. As much as she didn't want to cry again, she felt a tear build in the corner of her eye, but she just wiped it away. In his usual fashion, he simply watched her, though a warm look filled his eyes as they shared their last moments together.

A few steps away, Super Shadow Venus ran his fingers through Super Sailor Venus's hair gently and smiled a bit to her, "Now, don't go chasing anymore boys while I'm gone. Beat them off with a stick if you have to, but the only guy who gets to steal you in your nightgown is me." Laughing a bit at him, she reached up and messed up his mop of hair, winking at him bitterly.

"Or your clone, huh? Baka blonde.....but you're my baka blonde. I'll wait for you, love."

Across from them was Super Shadow Mercury and Super Sailor Mercury, standing next to each other quietly and waiting. He glanced over at her for a moment and took a deep breath, "You remember how it turned out for Odysseus and Ithaca, right?" Super Sailor Mercury smiled and nodded once, but never looked away from the point of light that waited in the middle of them all. As he looked back forward as well, she took his hand gently and squeezed his fingers, waiting for the moment where he would truly be lost to her, and dreading it.

A few feet away, Super Shadow Jupiter ran his fingers across Super Sailor Jupiter's cheek softly and smiled, "You're simply beautiful. Until I get back, you keep Haruka on her toes and stuff. When I get back, we're gonna have that rematch and I'm gonna whoop her again."

She just laughed quietly and wiped a tear from her eye, then nodded and looked up into his eyes a moment. Almost forgetting, she suddenly turned her head to the side and removed one of her rose earrings, then fastened it to his shirt carefully, "So you always remember me. Give it back when to me return, okay?" He looked at it silently, then to her with a smile and nodded. Bringing their time together to an end, a light started to grow from inside the point of light and suddenly filled the room they were in. After that, the room just cracked and shattered, like a mirror that they had all been in for the slightest moment. They were sent to their proper places, some to the beyond, and the others to face the tremendous power that could never be destroyed, only sealed in it's known existence. With the reinforcements on the way, the final battle brewed inside the room where the Omega Master eagerly waited for an idea on how to play with his reflection, and the infamous Sailor Moon.



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