Pupuran woke up groggily, and was very pissed off with Oranjiya and Bananu, and was going to express it when he saw them levitating, with the Black energy building up around them. He looked around and saw the Senshi staring at something in front of them. Sailor Venus caught his eye, and she looked up at him and he almost thought he saw a look of relief in her eyes. He stared at her, a bit confused.

*Why is she smiling like that? She knows that she is my enemy, even if my allies are unknown to even me…right?*

He then followed Sailor Uranus and Neptune’s gaze at the Black Dream energy. He also looked down and got a closer look at what he had missed before…he saw Peruru and Sailor Chibimoon.

*What has happened since I was out…? And when did my brother learn to do that!? Did the Black energy that was controlling him get direc—?*

He then caught on to what was going to happen. With a slow realization, he looked back at the Black energy and saw where it was aimed…straight for the children.

“Peruru! Get out, now! Oranjiya! Bananu! Stop, don’t do it!” He screamed, trying to warn his brother. Peruru either ignored or couldn’t hear him, but he didn’t move from Chibimoon’s side. The energy had now reached its full peak and it aimed one shot towards the children. Sailor Pluto noticed this and turned to Sailor Uranus and Neptune.

“Get the children out now!!” she yelled, something she rarely did. The Soldiers turned to do so, but were too late by a split second…

Peruru and Chibimoon broke their kiss and saw the attack heading for them.

“I’m still sorry, Chibiusa…”

“Oh, hush…” She breathed out with a playful smirk. They just lay there, holding one another, Peruru holding her gently to comfort her and himself.

“I’ll wait for you…” he said, all fear leaving him now. Chibiusa looked at him and kissed him once more on the cheek.

“I know you will…”

Then they closed their eyes just before the blast connected with them and their lives were taken.

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“NOOOOOO!!” Sailor Moon shrieked in horror. The rest of the senshi were speechless, and numb with disbelief at the motionless bodies and the cruel laughter that mocked them from above. Sailor Moon ran to the children, sobbing over them. Pupuran, who hadn’t been able to move from his spot, now stood up and was in just as much shock as the senshi. He descended to their bodies and knelt by Sailor Moon. He felt his brother’s pulse start to disappear, and then fade away completely. Then he let out the most painfully earsplitting scream.

“NOOOOOOOO!!!! KISAMA! YOU BASTARDS! HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO MY BROTHER?! My only family left, now gone…I should’ve listened to him all along…no, no, my brother gone, no…”

Sailor Moon looked at him with her tear-stained face in sympathy. He looked back at her with an equally grief-stricken face.

“I’m sorry I didn’t see the truth before I lost him…both of them.” He whispered shakily.

Sailor Moon saw him as he shook with tears and gave him a small, faint smile that seemed to express her understanding. She then stood up and spoke to Pupuran.

“I forgave you a long time ago, Pupuran. Sailor Mercury told me that Badiyanu had a strong hold over you because she was taking care of you and her powers were also very strong at that time. It took the powers of all my friends as well as my own to wake Chibiusa and revive our powers to defeat Badiyanu. I know that no one could ever hate their brother enough to kill them...”

Pupuran stared at her in disbelief for he couldn’t grasp the concept of forgiveness until now, and he gave her words some thought. He was willing to do anything to ensure the happiness of children, but to sacrifice his brother? He couldn’t remember making that decision mostly on his own…not without some persuasion from Badiyanu. He stared intently at her face as she stood up, ceasing all tears, to turn to the Senshi. Sailor Mars was still kneeling over the children.

“Sailor Moon, their heartbeats are very faint, but present, we must hurry.” She said.

Pupuran jumped up in an instant.

“How are they still alive? I felt Peruru’s pulse stop just moments ago…” he asked. She pointed at their hands, which were intertwined with each others…and there was a faint glow that settled around their hands, giving them a little bit of life.

“That look like an explanation to you?” She asked, still pointing at their hands. He smiled, knowing that his brother and the little soldier still had a chance.

“But as I said, we don’t have much time so we need to find some way to save them if the energy flowing between them runs out.” Sailor Moon looked at Tuxedo Kamen.

“Tuxedo Kamen, can you stabilize her life with your energy as you did before when she lost her heart crystal?” He looked at her doubtfully.

“Sailor Moon, he barely has enough energy to keep himself alive…I don’t think he has enough for even one of them.” Sailor Pluto said looking distressed at this simple truth. Sailor Moon began to worry and felt panic arise in her.

“But we can’t leave them! What are we to do?” She nearly screamed. Pupuran had been thinking all this time. He looked back at Oranjiya and Bananu, who kept building up the energy level to reach maximum point again. He turned his eyes back to the Senshi and then to the children.

*Come on you fool; think…if you still had your flute, you could redirect your own life energy to the children like you have done with the Bonbon babies…wait-!*

Pupuran noticed that in his brother’s free hand there lay his flute. He picked up his brother’s flute and got an idea. Turning to the Senshi, he told them of his idea.

“Sailor Moon, you need to worry more about how you are going to stop them…they’re getting ready to attack again…I just need Tuxedo Kamen for this if he’s up to the challenge.”

Tuxedo Kamen glanced up at him.

“Don’t talk such nonsense, of course I’ll do anything to save them. What do you plan for us to do?”

Pupuran explained to them.

“Our flutes have the power to redirect our own life energy to make inanimate objects move, like the Bonbon babies. If Tuxedo Kamen can stabilize Chibiusa at least, I can play my brother’s flute to redirect my own energy through him and maybe…”

“Yes, that’s a brilliant plan, Pupuran-san!” Sailor Mercury said, who had been tapping away at her mini-computer, trying to see if his calculations were correct. The others looked at her, so she explained further.

“I’ve found that the glow around their hands is like a bridge joining their life force, so if Pupuran and Tuxedo Kamen can combine their energies, they can keep both children alive for quite some time, at least until we can get them medical attention.” The others breathed a sigh of relief and Sailor Jupiter was the first to speak.

“All right, now that we have that problem solved, let’s get rid of them!” she said turning around to face Oranjiya and Bananu. They looked at her emptily.

“Go and do as she says, Sailor Moon, or none of us stands a chance of living to see what tomorrow brings.” Pupuran reassured her that she could do no more than this. She turned around to look at them too, for she didn’t wish to kill anyone, but she did not, for the moment, know any other way to stop them. She looked back at the other Senshi.

“Minna-san, I need your help once more to pull this off.”

They all nodded in agreement. She smiled and began to focus on her own Silver Crystal.

Shining brightly, her brooch opened, revealing the sparkling gem. It levitated between her palms and she started to concentrate. The other soldiers concentrated on their own powers and they all began to glow with their corresponding auras, the light growing brighter with every second.

At this point, Sailor Moon was able to hear everyone’s thoughts as they focused on giving their energy to her. She listened to their words as a source of inspiration. Sailor Jupiter thoughts were the first ones that she heard.

*”I know we can defeat them, so no one should doubt themselves, I won’t let it happen…”*

Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune were the next thoughts Sailor Moon acknowledged.

*“For the future princess…Michiru, you know, for a guy, Peruru’s a cute kid.”*

*“Haruka, let’s not match-make right now, we have to save the future royalty first.”*

*“Look who’s match-making now.”*

Sailor Moon began to smile in her trance of concentration. The next voice Sailor Moon could hear in her heart was that of Sailor Pluto’s, who had always been like a second mother to Chibiusa.

*“For you, my small lady…”*

The next telepathic thoughts she heard were from all the inner senshi at once.

*“Let’s do this for Chibimoon and Peruru, and all young lovers!!”*

Sailor Venus added in a silent thought to herself, but forgot that Sailor Moon could hear every thought at the moment.

*“And for you Pupuran-kun…”*

Sailor Moon smiled with new hope and was able to summon all the power she needed to protect them.

*Thank you, my friends…*

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Oranjiya looked down at the senshi with his now empty, cold eyes, and look angrily at them, but said nothing for he felt the Black energy still rising in power, growing strong enough to decimate a rather large part of the planet. Bananu laughed incredulously at them as they began to close their eyes to concentrate.

“HA! What do you think you can possibly accomplish?! Are you going to think us away?!” He sneered at them, with his lifeless eyes. Oranjiya then looked over at Pupuran, where he continued to play his brother’s flute. He then noticed the ethereal glow that had settled around the children’s hands and that was steadily starting to spread around their bodies. He dismissed the golden aura and began to taunt them again.

“Pupuran, you fool, all the flute playing in the world won’t bring him back to you…that is if there is still a world for him to come back to, and I doubt that, much less, you surviving long enough to welcome him!” He continued to laugh at him.

Pupuran continued to play the flute and resisted the urge to attack the taunting figures above him. After all, he still had his brother to think of.

*We’ll see what we’ll see…*

Oranjiya and Bananu then ceased their taunting as if they had heard his defiant thought and got an expression of absolute fury, as the energy reached maximum level…

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The Sailor Senshi began to levitate as their auras grew so brightly that their forms were illuminated within the clouds surrounding them that were ebony in color. They floated slightly at first, and then, one by one, ascended to a specific position in the sky in front of the vortex of evil dream energy, until they formed a circle in between them.

Tuxedo Kamen looked up from the children at the Soldiers, as did Pupuran who still continued to play the flute. Neither one of them had any idea what they were planning to do, for they had never seen this attack. Their eyes followed Sailor Moon to the center of the circle that had formed in between the Senshi.

*I hope they know what they’re doing,* They both thought.

Oranjiya and Bananu had been watching the Senshi all the while, and grew angry and nervous. This time, they could not ignore the illuminating colors that originated from them, Sailor Moon’s light being the brightest. She opened her eyes and stared at both of them.

“SILVER—“ They all began. Sailor Moon had activated the crystal, which was gaining all of its power from the Senshi’s auras.

“PLANET BARRIER—“

The energy suddenly cut off its flow of power to the crystal, and the energy collected glimmered inside the crystal, like the beat of a heart. The auras then flashed into each corresponding Senshi’s planet sign and solidified behind them. Both Oranjiya and Bananu got furious.

“This is for you, Badiyanu-sama!!” They screamed and then they released the Black energy in one enormous beam that flooded out of the hurricane. Sailor Moon closed her eyes once more but not in fear, as if she were being possessed by another entity…

“SANCTUARY!!” The Senshi finished. The circle that had formed between them had suddenly exploded out in a flash, but did not come out as a beam as the Black energy did, but instead formed a wall of the brightest luminosity. It absorbed the energy that was directed at them, and was soaked up like water by a sponge.

Oranjiya and Bananu just gawked at them in front of the Black hole that replaced the cyclone, which had emptied itself of power.

“How could this have happened?!” Bananu raged at them.

“It’s not possible!” Oranjiya gasped.

Just then the moon finally tore through the clouds and shined its light on them all. Sailor Moon, who was still in her trance, took this time to make the offensive strike.

“LUNAR BEAM REFLECTION!!” She called out to the sky. The light within the barrier intensified from the moon’s presence and shot back, disintegrating the empty cavity that had formerly been the Black dream energy, climbing to its peak, and sent both of them into what seemed oblivion…

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