Chapter 10

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The entire group had set out to find Sailor Jupiter.

"Lita!!" They all cried in unison.

"Maybe we should split up." Mamoru said, being interrupted by Setsuna.

"No...whatever Taron is doing, he is taking us one at a time when we are alone....it wouldn't do us any good to split up now." She said, precision in her voice.

"That means....Sailor Jupiter.." Usagi said, tears starting to well up in her beautiful crystal eyes.

"We'd better henshin." Setsuna said, taking out her wand.

"Pluto Planet Power!!" She shouted, becoming Sailor Pluto. All of the others followed in unison, lastly being Usagi.

"Moon Crystal Power...MAKE UP!" She shouted, turning herself into Sailor Moon once again.

As they continued on, they came upon Sailor Jupiters' fuku. Sailor Moon fell to the ground.

"Nooo!!" she shouted, tears now freely cascading down her cheeks. "Why does he want to get back at me?" She cried.

MEANWHILE

Taron had seen that the heartless did not defeat Sailor Venus. "Hmm...she is going to be a tougher enemy than I thought." Taron mused as he looked over the sight of the senshi finding the fuku of Sailor Jupiter.

He couldn't hear, but he saw Sailor Moon crying over Sailor Jupiter, so he decided to go there.

When he got to present day Earth, he saw her crying over the fuku.

Pluto saw him first.

"Taron!" she called, getting all of the senshi attention. Sailor Moon stood up, her teary look replaced by a look of pure hatred and loathing.

"You took my friends!" She shouted, taking her moon scepter out.

Taron looked upon it and laughed.

"Moon Princess Halation!" She shouted. However, the attack just bounced off Taron as he put up his shield to defend it.

"Can't you understand, your Highness?" He said, bowing slightly. "It's useless...nothing you can do can defeat me." He said, smiling brightly as if he had just told her something funny.

"So what are you going to do?" Pluto demanded. "Finish us off one by one?" She asked.

"Why are you doing this?" Sailor Starfighter interrupted the conversation.

"I'm doing this for revenge." He said, then he laughed and disappeared.

Starfighter looked at Pluto. "Revenge for what?" She demanded, looking down on the frail Sailor Moon, now in tears again because her attack failed.

"I have no idea." Pluto said..."Unless..."

"Unless what?" Starfighter asked.

"Well...we all thought that he was dead when Beryl attacked the Moon Kingdom...he was among the first to fight...we never had any idea that he had ever betrayed us...." Pluto went through the files in her head looking for any information she could find about him.

"I was very young...and all of the people on my planet...including my parents...were killed...I don't have any idea why he would have betrayed them..I knew that he and my mother did not get along, but my father seemed to have a genuine liking for him. He always told me that Taron was special. He made him captain of his guard at a very early age...said he had a gift for it...perhaps it is revenge for what he feels is a betrayal by the Moon Princess for not loving him..for loving another instead..." Pluto kept rambling, trying to find an answer.

"...when the Moon Princess killed herself because of the grief of Beryl killing Endymion...maybe it set something off in his mind of a betrayal.." Pluto continued.

"Maybe his being captain of the guard wasn't enough." Starfighter chimed in.

"Of course it was....it was an honor to be made captain of the guard of Pluto." Pluto said, ignoring him slightly.

"All I know is that my future self said I was going to be married to Usagi." Starfighter said, getting a rise out of the rest of the group.

"I don't know why you would ever think that she would marry you." Tuxedo Kamen said out loud in rage to him.

"You're just jealous." Starfighter said in anger.

"That's enough, both of you!" Sailor Moon shouted, still knelt at Jupiter's fuku. "I need some time to grieve." She said, taking Tuxedo Kamen's hand.

"Two friends in one day is just too much." She said wearily, henshining back to Usagi.

"I don't think it is a good idea for our princess to be alone right now." Venus said quickly.

"It's alright, I'm with her...and Chibi-Moon will come with us as well." She said, seeing Chibi-Moon inch forward to her mothers call.

"I still don't think anyone should be alone right now." Starfighter said.

"Well, then your brothers and you will come with me." Pluto said suddenly, making everyone in the group look at her weird.

"We will split up into groups...if anything happens, use your communicators and call us right away." Neptune said, backing Pluto up.

"Venus, Mars...you two stay together." Usagi said to them, each of them nodding.

"Pluto, you stay with the Kou brothers." Usagi ordered, seeing Pluto nod in response.

"Uranus and I will take Saturn with us." Neptune said quickly, seeing Usagi nod gratefully.

"Yes...." She whispered out. Starfighter went to protest the matchups, but quickly thought better of it. There were a few questions she had for Pluto anyways.

MEANWHILE

Taron had returned to his gloomy place in the universe. Umbra greeted him cheerfully.

"How did it go?" She asked, seeing a smile on his face.

"I've spooked them enough." Taron said without hesitation.

"That's good, right?" She asked hesitantly.

"That's perfect." He said, sitting on his throne.

MEANWHILE

Pluto de-henshined into Setsuna once again. "I can't believe I volunteered this....but to keep you off of Usagi." She ranted a bit.

"What do you mean, keep ME off of Usagi.." Starfighter enquired, de- henshining back to Seiya. The other two brothers also de-henshined.

"Seiya-san, you know that you do it..." Taiki interrupted the fray between them.

"Don't tell me you're going to be my conscience now, Setsuna." Seiya said sarcastically.

"If that is what it would take." Yaten spoke up after being quiet so often.

"I can't believe you two!" Seiya said harshly. "I can't believe you two are getting to be on her side!"

"You're the one always talking about how your future self said you were going to be married to Usagi and all that other stuff!" Taiki said just as harsh.

"Yeah, you are freaking us out...and your mind is so set on marrying her that you don't talk about anything else." Yaten said, Setsuna nodding her approval of their speech.

"We're not saying it for you, Setsuna...we're saying it for the good of our brother." Yaten said quickly.

"I can tell I'm not going to be happy with this arrangement." Setsuna said to herself.

When they got back to the apartment, Taiki opened the door. Yaten said in a sleepy voice, "I'm going to go get some beauty sleep." and went into his bedroom, shutting the door.

Taiki, too, decided on sleep as a means to an end for the day.

Seiya, however, was too angry at the lot of them for daring to say he was being stupid or ignorant about Usagi.

Setsuna laid on the couch, thinking that all of them had gone into their respective rooms and she was free to lounge around the couch and watch TV. All of a sudden, she felt a sharp pain in her legs as pressure reached them. She looked over to find Seiya sitting right on her legs. She retracted them from beneath him.

"What are you doing?" Setsuna asked angrily.

"I'm watching TV...you can't tell me I can't do that in my own apartment." Seiya said harshly.

"I don't care, do whatever you want." Setsuna said monotonally, and rolled over. She crossed her arms over her chest. Even though the couch was somewhat comfortable, she found herself to be a bit chilly. Soon, however, she found herself asleep.

Seiya flipped through the channels, not paying attention to what was on them. "I'll show all of them...when we go to the concert, I'm going to propose to Usagi..and she is going to say yes to me." Seiya thought to himself happily. He looked over to find Setsuna had fallen asleep.

He brought a cover and placed it on top of her. She looked cold. Seiya thought that she looked pretty when she wasn't mad and yelling at him. He was tired. He reached and yawned quietly, trying not to disturb Setsuna on the couch. He laid down next to her and pulled the cover over himself.

Next thing he knew, he was sleeping peacefully.

Usagi's sleep wasn't as peaceful. She had horrible nightmares about her future self and her husband and daughter being gone along with the rest of the senshi. All of her friends, gone....She woke up with a start, then started to cry.

"Mamo-chan.." She whimpered next to him. He sat up, putting his arms around her, comforting her crying.

"Usako...?" He said, his voice deep and serious.

"I had the most horrid dreams." She whimpered into his arms. "I dreamed that you...and all of the senshi...were dead...I was the only one left..." She sobbed.

"Usako, that is not going to happen...I will always be here for you." Mamoru said, comforting her in his strong arms.

MEANWHILE

Taron laughed as he saw the senshi go their separate ways yet again.

"If they are going to leave in groups, I guess I have no choice but to send my minions in groups, right?" he said menacingly.

He brought forth two creatures, a stronger heartless and a dragon that was made of fire.

"Go..after Venus and Mars." He said, opening the portal for them. They jumped right through.

The creatures snaked around Venus and Mars for the longest time before they struck.

Venus brought out her communicator first. "Senshi, HELP!!" She cried.