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Title: The End
Author: Venus

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The sky rumbled, the thick atmosphere hovered over the City. Gray smoke rose into the sky, trying to break free from the deadliness. Nevertheless, instead of bursting free, they became a part of the ashen sky. I watched in pain at the eerie environment. The air was so thick I could taste it. The flavor of ugliness, despair, and most of all, the end of our kingdom. It seemed unreal that it's over. A month ago, the sky was clear blue, the birds were chirping and Tokyo was full of vitality. With a blink of time though, all that seemed a century ago. My head ached, but it couldn't compare with the hollow feeling in my heart. I'm Tsukino Usagi, SailorMoon, and I've failed, I've failed my friends, my people, my world. I've heard too many times that good always beats evil and how the power of love can save the world. Well, I love the world and I love my friends. Where are they now? Gone, vanished, faded away, evaporated into thin air. And I cried, cried for them, cried for myself. But I am alive. I could still feel the breeze, even if it is filled with pain and despair. The air seems to be whispering, hissing their cruel words into my head, "you should have died too." I would love to have died, to be with Mamo-Chan, Rei, Minako, Ami, Makoto, Haruka, Michiru, Setsuna and Hotaru. But they save me, with their lives. Why? Because they believed in me. "Usagi-chan can make our world beautiful again." Venus whispered as she disappeared.

I was betrayed though. By fate, by destiny, by life. I've come to the brink of losing my friends and my world a couple times. But I believed in myself, I believed in love and somehow, I always find a path to tomorrow. This time though, all was lost, everything. So what's the point of living? Why am I left to be alive? Why? "Let me die!"  I cried into the empty sky. My voice echoed, then swallowed by the atmosphere, never to be heard. When I was a child, I use to have a list to live for. It was a list of what wonderful things will happen to me. It was the list that kept me alive, it told Usagi that you can't sleep your life away. I reflected on some of the bullets I made. Searching for something that will keep me living now.
Marry Mamo-Chan and we live happily ever after. "Mamo-Chan..." I whispered, "Mamo-Chan..." I sobbed, surprised there were any tears left in my eyes. Mamo-Chan was gone. Gone Gone Gone. The words echoed in my mind, like shots from a gun. I shut my eyes...the words flooded through my mind. ...When Ami-Chan wins the Nobel prize, when Usagi goes to College...when Rei admits she's wrong...when... I squeezed my eyes shut. I have nothing to live for. I have no one left. There's no point in living.
I walked around the city, trying to blind myself from looking at people groaning, moaning in pain. I failed them too. And then out of nowhere, I heard a whimper. I opened my eyes. A little girl with raggy clothes was crying. I've failed her too. I thought then begin to leave, but the girl's cry became louder. I turned to face the purple haired girl, she had crimson eyes that seem to be drilling into my eyes. She was hurt, bleeding...blood. I hate blood, I've seen too much blood in my life. Standing still I avoided the little girl's eyes. My own eyes were filled with tears again. I ripped my tattered blouse... "Hold still." The voice that belonged to me was scratchy and my throat felt like sandpaper. Gently, I wrapped the fabric around the girl 's cut as her crying belittled. "Thank you..."the girl murmured, her voice was light, sweet and echoic.
'Thank you...' I know what those words meant.

'Thank you Usagi, if it wasn't for you, we would be so lonely...'

'Thank you Usagi, you are a true friend...'
'Thank you Odango, I will always remember you...'
'Thank you Usako, I love you very much...'
The words flew in her head. The girl with the crimson eyes smiled shyly then turned away, vanishing among the ruins of the city. "Arigatou." She whispered away. I stopped crying. I won't feel sorry for myself when I can change the world still. 'As long as there is hope I'll fight.' 'as long as my friends lives in my soul I'll fight.' 'As long as there is tomorrow I'll fight.' I walked down the path to the enemy. My friends were gone, but they still lived, in my heart. I won't give up, I won't let them ruin this world yet. Not when love still exists. Not till the day I die. "Arigatou." I whispered to the sky, to my friends, to the girl that gave me strength, to anyone. With that, Usagi carried her ginzinshou, fighting for her world, once again. And once again, her friends were behind her. She's Sailor Moon, Champion of love.

~the end~
~and a beginning of a new ending~

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