A/N: Sorry this took a while to get out. Again, I want to apologize for whatever shortcomings this fic has. Thank you everyone who is following this, you make the Internet feel friendly again. ^_^ Many thanks. Ja for now!

Usagi, I told you earlier that I couldn’t get a good reading except that Peruru-san was somewhere in the higher part of the atmosphere. And that can’t really help us much.” Rei said, a bit disappointed in herself.

“We need Michiru-san’s Deep Aqua Mirror.” The others were even more worried because it was very hard trying to find the outer senshi. Mamoru was troubled and angry, for it was the second time he couldn’t protect his daughter when she was in a life-threatening situation. The others didn’t look too much happier.

Suddenly…

“Hurry up and transform everyone, we have a future princess to save!” Sailor Uranus called from the doorway with a challenging smirk. Everyone looked up in surprise to see the three outer senshi.

“Uranus! Neptune! Pluto! How did you know—“ Usagi stammered.

“I had a feeling Chibiusa was in danger so I checked my mirror and confirmed it.” Sailor Neptune explained with a calm, but serious expression on her face.

Sailor Pluto then spoke up.

“We need to move! There is no time to waste!”

They all transformed and used a Sailor teleport while the outer Senshi and Tuxedo

Kamen took Sailor Uranus’s helicopter (Pretend she got a replacement, ok?), and they made their way to the Black cloud.

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Sailor Chibimoon couldn’t believe what she was seeing. There he was, the person she was looking for all this time, but…but there was something different about him. He looked pretty ragged, like he had taken a beating from 5 people. His eyes, which were usually full of life, were cold and empty, like those of a corpse.

“Oh no…’she almost cried, ‘KISAMA!! How could you do this to your own brother, Pupuran!?” She choked through tears that threatened to well up in her eyes.

Pupuran almost couldn’t take her ranting because he felt a bit of truth to those words, but he screamed back at her from the shadows, almost hysterically.

“Shut up! If it hadn’t been for you, he never would’ve turned against me in the first place!!”

Just then, Peruru tried to tackle her, but she used her wings, which now looked invisible to the rest of them, for there was no moonlight to reflect off them. He fell to the floor behind her, for his wings were not present. She might have had the advantage over him, if she had the intention of fighting him. She was hoping to find an opportunity to stabilize him and try to heal him with her crystal, but he recovered quickly from the fall and jumped an incredible height and caught hold of her foot. He then tried to climb onto her to take the crystal from her possession to disable her powers.

*What have they done to him? The Peruru I know would never do this because he was so shy…but then, this is not really him is it?*

She twisted around fast enough to knock Peruru off of her back, but he caught her foot again. She knew she couldn’t stabilize him like this now, so she brought her knees up and kicked outward to throw him off. It worked but he just came at her faster than before and she missed his fist by bare inches. She was shaken up by the last attack and didn’t see him come from behind and ram his knee into her back. She fell to the ground with him on top of her. He had winded her and she couldn’t get it back as quick as she needed to. Peruru grabbed her shoulder roughly to turn her over and tried to punch her in the face. Luckily, she slapped him in the head with the flute, which she pulled back out suddenly as her only weapon, and caught him by surprise. She then placed her hand on his diaphragm and pushed upwards quick enough to shorten his breath and push him off just like Rei and Makoto taught her. She struggled to her feet and jumped again, attempting to fly higher than last time so Peruru couldn’t grab her. Meanwhile, Bananu was watching them with amusement while Oranjiya tried to figure out how Sailor Chibimoon was able to hover. So was Pupuran, who still loomed in the shadows. Even he had to admit that he was impressed. He didn’t think she would’ve lasted this long but she managed. But he wanted this to stop.

Sailor Chibimoon took this as an opportunity to try to talk to him.

“Peruru, please stop—don’t you recognize me? Peruru, I—“ Her attempts were in vain because as she tried to speak with him, he kept striking out at her, each time getting harder and harder to dodge. Finally, he landed a punch to her stomach. She keeled over onto his arm, gasping for air and said shakily:

“I came…because I…I…don’t want to…be…alone anymore.”

She looked into his blank eyes as she said it, before he gave her an uppercut. Blood came from her lip and stained his tunic and landed on his face. She flew back unconscious. Pupuran looked taken aback at Peruru, for he didn’t really believe his little brother was capable of such bloodshed if any violence at all, even if he was under influence of the dark energy. He was about to tell Oranjiya and Bananu to call them off each other, but he was interrupted.

“FIRE SOUL!!!” a voice screamed in pure fury, joined by an equally angry voice that yelled:” SPARKLING WIDE PRESSURE!!”

A massive blaze of fire made direct contact with Oranjiya’s face and a crackling disc of electricity hit Bananu right, uh…well, where it really, really hurts. ^_^;

“Can’t…breathe…” and with that Bananu collapsed.

Pupuran then stepped out of the shadows to see who threw the attacks.

“In the name of the moon, I shall punish you again!” Sailor Moon said, as she posed like usual.

“We’re the Sailor Senshi, and we won’t forgive you this time either.” The inner senshi shouted, striking their own poses.

“The soldier of grace, protector of the heavens, Sailor Uranus!” The golden haired warrior smirked, taking her stance beside her partner.

“The soldier of affinity, mistress of the depths of the ocean, Sailor Neptune!” She smiled sweetly as she crossed her arms and gently lay her own back against Sailor Uranus.

“The soldier of revolution, guardian of time and bearer of revolution, Sailor Pluto!” The Time Staff was planted before the solitary soldier warningly.

“The three soldiers of the outer rim of the solar system…have arrived!” The outer trio announced.

Pupuran glared, infuriated at them.

“You are not getting my brother again.” He said rigidly.

“We never took him in the first place, he joined with us when you three kidnapped Sailor

Chibimoon!” Sailor Mercury explained to him.

“I’ve heard enough of lies! You tricked him into turning against us!” He shouted back at her.

“No! Pupuran, Badiyanu had deceived you and I know she did, which is why I know you aren’t evil like her. So please, make the children stop hurting each other, this can’t be what you really want…” Sailor Venus said, pleading with her eyes at Pupuran who stared back at her in shock. She had thought he was one of the evil ones? What surprised him even more was that he agreed with her.

While he dealt with the Senshi, Oranjiya helped the now squeaking Bananu to a semi-standing position.

“I think I would rather watch him kill her!” Oranjiya taunted as Bananu tried to recover.

“You won’t take our life of our future princess! DEEP SUBMERGE!!” Sailor Neptune said as she aimed her attack at Peruru, who was well worn-out with trying to attack Chibimoon, who had just regained consciousness. She saw the attack coming straight at Peruru who didn’t seem to notice it, for he kept staring at her with empty hatred as she got up.

“No! Please! Don’t hurt Peruru! He doesn’t know what he is doing! It’s not his fault!” She screamed, just before she and Peruru were hit with the attack and they screamed in pain, before falling unconscious again.

“NO! Small lady!!” Sailor Neptune shrieked in remorse. Tuxedo Kamen, in a rage, hurled a rose at Oranjiya, hitting him across the face, as he charged at Bananu, preparing to beat him with his cane. Bananu dodged his cane…

“VENUS LOVE-ME CHAIN!!”

…But didn’t see the next attack…

“Dead Scream.”

…and, therefore, couldn’t dodge the next one. ^_^; He yelled as he got hit by it. Pupuran jumped out defensively towards them.

“You’ll pay dearly for that, whore!” He yelled at the Sailor senshi.

“Enough talk! WORLD SHAKING!!” Sailor Uranus responded.

Pupuran leapt out of harm’s way and turned his glare on her alone.

“We have a score to settle…” he grimaced at her.

“Then let’s get started…” she smirked at him. He charged at her, getting ready to punch her in the stomach with an energy pulse, like he had done with Tuxedo Kamen, before. Sailor Uranus easily stepped out of the way, grabbing his arm and throwing him behind her.

“You have to do better than that…”

Sailor Mercury stepped in the way to stop them.

“This isn’t necessary, you can fight your personal battles later. Right now, the children’s lives are more important! BUBBLE SPRAY!!!”

Pupuran then couldn’t see where he was, so he jumped out of the mist that surrounded him. He knew she was right as he saw his little brother regaining consciousness, preparing to fight again.

“Oranjiya! Bananu! Stop this now! I only wanted my brother back, not this bloodbath!” He hissed at them. They just looked at him incredulously.

“You’ve grown weak…” They hissed back in unison. Pupuran then noticed that their eyes looked as cold and as dead as Peruru’s had when they pulled him out of the Dream Coffin. Just then, the black cloud that surrounded them shot out more black lightening that struck Pupuran; knocking him unconscious and making him fly back a few yards.

Sailor Moon was shocked. They were supposed to be a team and she didn’t expect them to attack their own partner. However, Sailor Mercury pointed out the more important fact: The black cloud was really the Black Dream energy that was left over and growing since the last time they had destroyed it’s main source. She was about to tell the others when Sailor Venus launched one of her attacks at the remaining, conscious fairies in a fury that no one had ever seen from her before.

“CRESCENT BEAM!!” she screamed at them. Tuxedo Kamen followed her attack with a barrage of roses, all of which hit their target. This only enraged the fairies more.

“Well, Oranjiya, since everyone wants the brats to stop fighting, let’s stop them.”

They both grinned dangerously and began to levitate, the darkness in their eyes growing. The Black Dream energy that surrounded them started to form into a storm in between Oranjiya and Bananu, and it grew steadily…

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(Back on the ground level)

“Artemis! Look at the sky!” Luna began to panic. Her husband, Artemis struggled to comfort her and their daughter, who had burst into tears since she and her mother had come to get him and tell him what had been happening.

“I know, Luna, but we must have faith, all of us.” He said. Luna and Diana nodded their heads in agreement. Diana then wiped her eyes with her paw and stopped crying.

“I know they will be ok, they have to be, so I won’t cry anymore.” She said with newfound hope.

“That’s my brave girl.” Artemis said with a comforting smile. They all turned their gaze to the sky above them, which began to grow darker with each passing second.

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(Back to the sky area, where the important people are…*Author gets attacked by the cats *)

“Ugh…”

Peruru shivered as if he were waking from a nightmare. He felt terrible and didn’t remember much after being taken prisoner by his own brother. He looked around groggily and found it difficult to stand up. The fairy child struggled and eventually stood halfway up. Glancing down, he found blood on himself.

*What? How did this happen? * He thought as he looked at his tunic. He felt blood on his face, but found no wound.

*If there is no wound, then how did this blood get here…and whose is it? *

He almost feared the answer. He tried to think of how this all happened, and then he saw his brother, facedown a few yards from him. He gasped in shock.

*What has happened? I thought he was working with the others…*

Peruru, who had been oblivious to the scene around him, turned around to see what he wished he hadn’t. The Sailor senshi were all standing around staring at a huge hurricane forming in front of them, and Oranjiya and Bananu cackling hysterically at them.

Sailor Mars was the first to spot him awake.

“Peruru-san! Are you alright now?” She asked, worriedly. He nodded, but had no idea why she was worried about him when they were all in danger.

*Was I in danger before? I don’t understand what she is asking—*

He then looked in front of him a few feet. There was a silent figure, lying unconscious…and bleeding profusely from the face. He looked back at the other senshi and couldn’t find her there…

*…Chibiusa…?*

He finally stood up and stepped over to the motionless form a few steps to get a closer look…It was dark, so he could be wrong, and that the figure was not Chibiusa at all…but he felt a heavy coldness land in his heart. As he moved closer to it, he stepped on something…a flute. He bent down and picked it up carefully and felt around the familiar holes as he examined it. His eyes began to sting as warm tears formed in them and he ran over to the dying body of Sailor Chibimoon. He picked her up gently and rested her head in his arms. Stroking her face, wiping away the blood, tears started to fall from his face and fell onto hers.

“No…it can’t be…NO!! Chibiusa! No, please don’t let this be happening…I never meant to harm you, please…please wake up…”

Seeing her unmoving, but beautiful face become lifeless, he began to cry uncontrollably into her hair as he cradled her body close to his.

“No, you can’t leave, you said we’d see each other again, remember…remember…? Please, Chibiusa, don’t leave me…” he whimpered softly.

*Peruru, he sneered at himself, are you still confused why she is so important to you now? Are you still even more foolish to deny your feelings for her? You are the cause of all this and now she won’t even know how you felt…you are a fool.*

He cried more and then cast his gaze to the two fairies who started to laugh at his misfortune and became infuriated.

“Are you happy?!! You’ve destroyed two children! You have taken her life, so you have also taken my own! I hope you burn in Hell for what you have done!!” He seethed at them.

Oranjiya ignored him while Bananu got an empty look that took over them when they had begun to summon the Black Dream energy. They were no longer laughing for some reason.

“ANSWER ME!!” Peruru raged at them hysterically. He still got no answer, not even a taunt. He was about to burst out in fury when he heard a breath of a sound, hoarse and as tiny as it was…

“…Peruru…?”

Peruru looked down at the broken bundle in his arms. His eyes began to form new tears in them all over again.

“…Chibiusa?! Chibiusa…am I already dead or are you really…Chibiusa, I’m so…so sorry…” He apologized quietly. She looked up at him, smiling faintly, tears forming in her own eyes.

“Peruru-san, don’t cry…it’s not your fault, and…you’re starting to make me cry…” she started to smile through her tears. Peruru looked at her, shaking his head.

“Chibiusa…it is my fault…they came after you because of me, and I hurt—I think I’ve…killed you.” He choked out, turning his eyes away from her. He was too ashamed to look her in the face. She only smiled warmly and reached up to his chin, turning his face towards hers again. He looked at her in amazement as she continued to smile.

“What are you do--” he started. She quieted him with her index finger to his lips.

“You’ve done nothing wrong, just please don’t let me be alone anymore, it hurts more than this.” She pleaded. His eyes widened in shock, he still didn’t have his memory completely back, and he didn’t know that she had missed him as much as he had missed her. He finally started to smile through his tears and nodded. She then smiled again and reached for his face. He leaned down to greet her lips with his…

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