Golden Millennium

Sailor Moon Millennium - Dark Sun Rising

Sailor Moon Millennium – Dark Sun Rising
Chapter # 14 – Frayed Ends Of Sanity : A Glimpse of the Past –
Created June 10th, 2002
By K.W. Isenor (sailor_sun_@hotmail.com) & Jason (Omartin6@home.com)

Sailor Shaula nodded before looking over at Sailor Sun. "You could use one" she said.

"Alright then lets get going!" Sailor Capella said, but first I think we might want to de-transform." She added as she looked down at her uniform.

They nodded and then de-transformed, none of them noticing that Reptile was once again watching them.

Skorr held Sailor Eclipse in his arms, she'd been crying herself to sleep lately and it worried him a lot, the only times she actually seemed to be happier was when he was holding her.

He then wrapped his wings around her smaller form, his tail whipping back and forth at a gentle pace. He felt at peace when she was with him.

He smiled then began to purr low in his throat in an effort to soothe her, nuzzling her he smiled as she yawned and smiled up at him before placing a gentle kiss on his cheek.

"Hey" he said softly as he hugged her.

She looked up into his eyes. "Yeah?" She said softly.

"How are you feeling?" he asked her.

"A little better." She admitted.

"I'm glad," he told her, before he then kissed on the tip of the nose. "Hungry?" he asked her.

"I don't know. I could go for some ice cream." She admitted, "it always cheers me up," she added.

"Want me to go and get you some?" he asked her.

"We could go out together, me as Tasha you as Jason?" She suggested.

He nodded then kissed her deeply. *Anything for you my princess* he said in her mind purring slightly. *I am after all yours* he said and she smiled a bit before kissing him back both passionately and possessively.

Sailor Eclipse looked into Skorr's eyes after the kiss. "Just remember that you are mine and mine alone." She snuggled into his chest.

"Always" he said as his image rippled into that of Jason Marks, and her image rippled into that of Tasha, smiling he got up then extended his left hand to her. "Shall we go my lady?" he asked her.

"Yes we shall." She said happily.

He purred before he opened a portal and the couple left, appearing in an alleyway nearby the ice cream parlor.

Skorr stiffened, "your cousin's here" he said, sensing Sailor Sun close by.

"Oh great, what should we do? I don't want to fight." She looked up into Skorr's eyes pleadingly.

"We could shape shift, I'm not in the mood for fighting anyways. What I am in the mood for is pleasing you," he told her and she smiled up at him.

"Yes you can, but I can't." Tasha said sadly.

He looked at her before blinking in understanding. "That was the lesson that Shang never got around to teaching you wasn't it?" he asked her.

Tasha nodded. "Is there anything you can do?"

He nodded, and then gently bit into her neck before withdrawing his fangs and wiping the blood over the wound before his hand glowed and her image changed, rippling to a girl with all black hair and a paler skin color. "You like?" he asked her as he handed her a mirror, and she looked at her clothes, which were now more jean based.

Tasha flinched as she saw her cousin and her friends sitting and eating ice cream at a nearby booth in the shop - her cousin looking more serious then usual and for a moment her heart went out to her red haired cousin.

Although she and Skorr had assumed different forms, the leader of the Apocalypse Scouts was still upset and nervous. What if Jessica recognized her? What if she screwed up? What if Skorr went back on his word? It had been nearly 1,999 years since she had seen him and although she was happy with the demi-god, she was very afraid for his sanity and her cousin.

She knew how determined he could be once he set his mind to something...

As if he had sensed her train of thought; Skorr ordered some ice cream for the both of them, and taking her hand he led her towards a booth in the back.

"You okay?" he asked her in concern, his now jade green eyes never leaving her face and her own eyes.

Upon seeing the love and concern in his eyes, Tasha smiled at her lover. "A little bit" she said honestly.

"Want me to summon Ermac and have him distract them?" he asked her in a soft voice, a voice that seemed to not even be his own.

"No," she began, hesitating before she then smiled up at him again. "I-I-I-I-I just want to be here with you." She replied as she snuggled against him.

He beamed happily upon hearing her statement, her words and actions had always made him feel as if he belonged somewhere, or rather with her and her alone. To him her words, her compliments, along with her loving and accepting side, only added to her fierce determination, her fiery passionate side, her beauty, poise, grace, intelligence, and powerful spirit only serving to make him love her even more then he'd thought he was capable of!

"Then you will have it my princess," he said with a small shy smile, and idly he hoped that things would always be good between them both. "Along with anything else your heart desires" he promised.

Tasha smiled and she fought back the urge to not cry - it had been so long since she'd been happy - so long since she'd felt truly loved and now here was this demi-god, this demon making her happy.

He; the insane, souless, ruthless, demonic creature from a realm far darker then any she had ever known loved her with his entire being - reaching up she kissed him on the lips, feeling safe.

"Right now - all I want is you," she said as she pulled away from him, a smile on her face before she looked over at Jessica, and her friends and sighed. "Mostly" she said in a whisper.

"You miss her." He pointed out before he hugged her in a soothing, comforting manner. "I'm sorry,” he said.

"For what?" she asked as she blinked in astonishment while looking at her mate.

"For making things worse between you two" he said honestly.

She recoiled in shock; did he actually think that this was his fault? She asked herself before she grabbed him then kissed him deeply.

"I choose you and while I am sad and miss her I don't regret choosing to be with you or my friends." She said with conviction though they both knew that deep down she did regret it somewhat. "I love you and only you, and no one is going to take you away from me!" she said in a dark voice. "No one's going to split us up again! I'll die before that happens!!" she stated before kissing him again.

"And I love you" he admitted before he returned her kiss with a passionate one of his own. "I just wish I could make you truly happy." He said in a resigned tone.

"Don't talk that way! You do make me happy. I feel so safe and secure and carefree when I am with you" Tasha admitted, "Jessy just wouldn't understand, not well enough to accept me for who I am now!" She said angrily trying not to raise her voice.

Skorr nodded, hugging her - neither of the pair seeing Jessica who had been within earshot of the conversation, which not only floored her but, also hurt her very deeply.

Jessica stared in shock, not believing that Tasha would say that she couldn't understand her and accept her as she was now.

"You, you don't mean that do you?" Jessica asked in a soft voice, it was barely audible.

Tasha blinked then looked over her now blue eyes meeting Jessica's, Skorr meanwhile growled protectively, putting an arm around Tasha as if afraid to lose her to Jessica.

"Why?"

"Because you never did,” she said in a cracked voice.

"I have tried Tasha, I really have, but you are hurting yourself. Just look into a mirror, there is no possible way that you can't tell me that you aren't hurting yourself in any way shape or form."

"Baby? What's she talking about" Skorr asked as he looked at her.

She looked away and he frowned, "your wrong, she's never hurt herself" he said.

"Yes she has, and she is even trying to hide it from you."

"Is that true?" he asked Tasha who nodded once showing her right arm which had been slashed repeatedly.

"I am only trying to protect her from hurting herself." Jessica said as she looked from Tasha to Skorr.

"And I am trying to make her happy" he said with a growl before his eyes glowed and instantly all time around the group was frozen.

Jessica looked around, there was a woman walking her dog on the other side of the road and they were stopped in mid stride, in the park in the distance Jessica could see a batter read to hit the ball that was only a few inches away from his bat. She turned back to Skorr.

Tasha looked up at him but said nothing; she knew he was trying to protect her from what he perceived to be a threat.

"That's only a small glimmer of the power I happen to have, want me to cause a plague to descend on a large city? I can do that to and create things out of pure matter" he said with a challenge, "and since I've got enough power I can simply erase the matter that creates you, but I won't for Tasha's sake."

"Look, I just want to help Tasha, can we please not make this into a pissing contest of power?" Jessica pleaded.

Skorr's eyes glowed and he snarled. "You just want to take her away from me" he hissed, the other scouts getting up and standing beside Jessica.

"No I don't! I just want to make sure she does hurt herself!" Jessica pointed to her cousin's arm."

He roared as he shifted into his true form his eyes blazing and pulsing with energy and before anyone could even move Jessica found herself floating in mid-air, her throat being crushed by something invisible.

Madison jumped in the air and swung a hard kick at Skorr's arm, which was held up and appeared to be clasping the air. Tasha's leg kicked out knocking Madison down before she transformed to Sailor Eclipse in front of them and the other two Apocalypse Scouts appeared out of nowhere.

"Skorr, please let her go," she pleaded.

Snarling Skorr nodded then released Jessica before he turned his attention to Madison. "YOU DARE TO DEFY ME?!!" he roared in a voice that boomed like that of thunder itself.

The ground began to shake and the untransformed Stellar Senshi found it hard to find their footing.

"I WILL DESTROY YOUR ATOMS FOR ALL THE PAIN YOU'VE CAUSED MY MATE!!" he said and instantly lightning shackles appeared around Madison's feet and hands.

She found herself unable to move and with a bright flash a jolt of electricity was sent through her body, she shook in pain and screamed.

Jessica stared in horror before she and the other scouts transformed. "Tasha, please make him stop!" Sailor Sun pleaded with her cousin.

Tasha looked over at Skorr, "please Skorry stop" she said and as Skorr was about to stop a brilliant lightning bolt hit him and threw him into a counter.

The Stellar Senshi ran to catch their friend as she fell to the ground. She gulped in the air as fast as her long would allow.

"SKORR!!!" Tasha screamed as she ran to her lover's side and the demi-god groaned in pain as she helped him up.

Skorr groaned, his skin looking charred a bit as Tasha helped him to her feet then turned her eyes to see the man who had been in the booth behind the Stellar Scouts as he got up and his image rippled and shifted into the image of a man dressed in white and some brown, with a Chinese Hat on his head and all white eyes with no pupils.

"Rayden" she hissed in anger as she glared at the newcomer in anger.

The man - Rayden sighed. "Tasha" he said sadly. "I should have known" he said ruefully as he looked at her before he turned and looked at the Stellar Scouts.

Tasha glared at Rayden and her arms started to glow before Skorr put a hand on her left arm. "I see that we aren't wanted around here so we'll leave now" he said and a portal appeared out of nowhere, Skorr, Sailor Eclipse, Sailor Scourge and Sailor Malice jumping through it before it then closed up.

Sailor Sun looked towards Rayden.

"My apologies Princess Cassandra, had I known that Skorr and Takai were here I would have come sooner, but they have been limiting their powers in an effort to keep themselves cloaked from myself and the other beings that imprisoned them" he said with a small smile. "Your mothers would be very proud of all of you," he said truthfully before his image shifted into that of a young man with black hair and he then sat down beside them just as time restarted.

Brooke looked at the man as she searched her memory before she smiled shyly. "Your the person who helped Kurai-ki" she said.

Raydan nodded slowly as recognition dawned on the entire group. "I am also the one who imprisoned Akujun."

"So when Skorr showed too much power you knew that something wasn't right?" Alissa asked.

He nodded. "Yes, thankfully Skorr's insanity clouds his intelligence at times."

"So what are you going to do now?" Jennifer asked.

He sighed, "try and keep Skorr and Takai from releasing their father and from bringing about Armageddon by merging their realm with this one."

"That doesn't sound good." Jessica said as she turned her worried blue eyes from Rayden to her friends.

"Is there anything we can do to stop it?" Madison asked impatiently, she hated this chitchat.

"Find out how they are going to release him and stop them from doing so. Their father is sealed in the Neatherealm - breaking free would require tremendous amounts of power."

"Where would you find yourself some tremendous amount of power just lying around?" Brooke asked softly.

Rayden looked at her before frowning, "the only answer I could think of would be Akujun’s amulet, it harnesses the power of all the elements."

"And let me guess you have no idea where it could be hidden?" Madison said angrily.

Rayden chuckled, "on the contrary I was the one who took it away from him."

"So where is it?" Madison said as she jumped up from her seat.

"The temple of the four winds in Nepal" he said calmly.

Madison let out a big sigh and sat down. "So how and the hell are we going to get there?"

Jessica cleared her throat. "I might be able to teleport us, but I don't know if I am strong enough."

"Why not just let me open a portal to the place, like I did when Alissa was fighting Scorpion?"

"We could, but we can't go right now. Eclipse and Nova aren't here and neither is Kevin. And I am guessing we are going to need all of the help we can get."

Rayden nodded slowly. "There's also the matter of your cousin's soul" he said.

Jessica looked at Rayden with questioning and worried eyes. "What?"

"Her soul is on the line, it could go either way like her mother's could have once had Akujun not had Takai poison it even worse then it was already poisoned."

Brooke moved uncomfortably in her seat. "So what do we have to do to save her?" Jessica asked. "I will do _anything_."

"Try to get her away from Skorr, the darkness you feel from him is clouding her judgment" he said in a disgusted tone.

"But every time I try o get her away from him, she goes closer to him." Jessica pointed out.

He frowned for a moment. "What do you know of your cousin's past?" he asked her uncomfortably.

"A lot, the drugs, sex and alcohol." She said sadly.

He nodded, "do you know of her nightmares?" he asked her.

"No..."

Sighing Rayden extended his hand to hers. "I think you need to see them if you are going to save her" he said.

Jessica slowly took his hand and instantly there was a rush of light as Rayden's eyes glowed as bright as lightning and instantly she found herself ... at her home … her home of the past - her friends beside her and Rayden watching them silently.

"We are here during the time up to and before your mother banished Skorr" he said slowly, "we can only see the past as it happens."

Jessica looked around; everything was so familiar, yet it was still a strange place. She slowly took a step forward and let her hand out to touch a smooth marble wall, just to make sure it was real.

He watched as her eyes widened upon feeling the marble wall, "in just a few hours your cousin and Skorr will be discovered, your aunt will banish Skorr out of fear for her niece's life - only to instead be killed by Princess Ravina who then takes her own life."

"I, I don't know if I want to see this. Where am _I_ right now?" She asked as she looked down the long corridor.

He was about to reply when she noticed a dark haired tan skinned girl with black hair; the girl wore a red dress and was now sneaking out of the castle.

The girl looked around the locust tattoo on her arm glowing a bit, she looked sad and alone at least until she saw a shadowy figure emerge from the shadows. "I was beginning to think yo-you-you'd never come." she said in a soft whisper.

"By all that's unholy of course I'd come" the figure said adamantly in a familiar male voice before walking out of the shadows and Jessica watched as Skorr enfolded her cousin from the past in a hug. "I missed you" Skorr said with a small smile, "thought your aunt was never going to let you leave - her being a stick in the mud and all" he said with a chuckle before she punched him in the right arm playfully.

"Be nice," she said with a small smile. "She's family," she said.

The demon paused for a moment then hugged her gently. "I'm sorry," he said as he kissed her. "Takai's going to make sure that she'll end up in hell where she belongs," he promised.

Ravina smiled as she snuggled against him. "It's not your problem Skorr," she said as she looked up at him.

"I know," he told her before she offered him her neck and he purred then bit into it gently.

Queen Solarity walked in from the Garden. Her long golden dress trailed behind her. She was very beautiful, with soft flawless skin, small blue eyes and long flowing red hair that went down to the floor. On the top of her brow was a crown lines with red jewels and in the center there was a golden sun.

Rayden gently put a hand on Jessica's shoulder, "are you okay?" he asked in concern. Jessica blinked back the tears, oh how she wanted to run to her mother and prevent the death of her mother.

Skorr slowly withdrew his fangs and he looked at Ravina who smiled looking a little flushed. "Wow" was all she said.

"I concur," he said with a smile, "I - I - I never felt emotions like those from anyone."

The Queen glided down the corridor silently, obliviously to what was happening just around the next corner.

"Is this what it's like to be claimed?" she asked shyly.

"I think so, I've never done it before - truth be told there was never anyone I wanted to claim" he said before he kissed her. "Before now" he said as he then lightly traced his tongue along the bite marks on her neck.

She had just rounded a corner when her eyes widened in horror upon seeing the hulking creature, thing that was draining her niece of blood in front of her!

The Queen summoned forth the Solaris Scepter and directed it at the demon. She chanted a few words silently and a golden ray of light shot forth from the top of the Scepter.

Skorr turned then shielded Ravina with his body just as the blast hit him and threw him back and Ravina turned to her aunt and stared in shock before running over to the demon. "Skorr?" she asked as she hugged him.

"Anyone get the number of that dragon that hit me?" he asked weakly.

"Get away from me niece you monster!" The Queen shouted angrily as she readied her Scepter.

"Aunt Solarity stop!!" Ravina said as she moved in front of Skorr.

"Get back child! He is a monster! He will only end up hurting you!" She took a step forward and pointed the Scepter at Skorr's head.

"First of all I am not a child and second I love him" she shot back, her eyes flashing with anger before she kicked the Scepter out of her aunt's hands and it flew then landed on the ground.

"She's being manipulated highness" an old man said as he staggered in, looking like he'd been stabbed in the side, "this is the only way - use it and the Scepter!" he said as he threw a large black diamond to her then fell to the ground - not moving.

The palace shot, the Queen looked towards the ceiling, a tile fell from high above. She put her head down and looked at the black diamond in her hand. She breathed in deeply; Queen Hecate had begun the attack on the Palace. The protection shield had been shattered.

She closed her eyes, placing the diamond with the Scepter. She had to get back there but she couldn't leave her niece here alone with this monster. She sent another blast at Skorr.

Skorr staggered to his feet, shaking the dust off of himself. "I warn you Solarity that I am far different from any demon you've faced before."

"You all are soulless and are creatures of destruction." The Queen said as she stood there, hands clenched at her sides.

He snorted, "Just because I don't have a soul doesn't mean I can't feel things,” he said with a chuckle before he began to tap into the souls of the dying and his power began to grow. "Feel that? It’s the powers that come with being a demi-god."

"See you are just like the rest of them, feeding of the innocent souls of so many." Queen Solarity moved her hand so that it was facing the Scepter and it shook violently for a moment before it flew into her hand.

He yawned before he blasted her with dark lightning. "I'm strong her then they are," he said before Ravina ran up to him only to be knocked down by a pillar of energy that had been created by some of Hecate’s forces.

"RAVINA!!!" he screamed as he tried to go to her.

A protective shield had formed around the Queen and she was only shocked slightly.

"Princess!" The Queen shouted as she too ran to her niece. Suddenly there was another blast and both herself and Skorr were flung to the opposite walls.

Skorr got up and tried to get to his mate once more. Queen Solarity also stood and made her way towards her niece, fearful that she was dead.

He hissed then attacked her without warning, shoving her to the ground.

"SHE'S MINE!" he roared angrily. She dodged the crazed demon's attack and tried to fight back, for some reason the scepter wasn't working on him anymore. Skorr laughed insanely. "It doesn't work now that I've absorbed some of it's power" he said as if he was reading her mind, "time to die" he hissed as his entire body began to glow and chains made of energy shot towards her.

Instinctively Solarity clenched the diamond and the scepter both of glowed then annihilated the attack before a dark stream of energy shot forth from the stone itself and hit Skorr - throwing him to the ground.

He tried to get up but as he did so the diamond glowed and a tendril of energy shot forward, wrapping his body up and pulling him towards the stone which was no longer resting in the Queen's hands, it was now on the floor expanding. Skorr felt incredible pain and he slammed his hands into the ground, trying to pull himself away from the energy, he was almost free when he noticed Queen Solarity standing there before him.

"Don't - please" he whimpered.

The Queen held out a shaky hand and pointed the Scepter at Skorr. With one final blast it forced Skorr into the stone. There was a bright flash of black and purple light, followed by a strong wind that blew the Queen's hair in all directions. ... Then it was silent and the black diamond had disappeared.

"Skorr?" Ravina asked as she struggled to stand, looking for her mate.

"You are safe now Ravina." The Queen said as she breathed in a deep breath.

"What?" Ravina asked as she stared at the spot where her aunt and Skorr had been fighting.

"He is gone, you are safe now." She repeated.

"Ohh yes safe to be alone, without the person who loved me" she said bitterly as she looked up and glared at her aunt with anger and a deep pain.

"He would have destroyed you child." The Queen took a step towards her niece.

"You have no right to even say that - you never knew him" she said with a hateful spat. "Nor did you even know me or the fact that he saved me from Shao Khan!" she said and without warning a blast of shadowy energy slammed then threw her aunt across the room and Ravina who looked to be on verge of crying removed the Serpent's Eye Medallion.

"SERPENT'S EYE POWER!!!" she said and instantly she was transformed into the leader of the fallen scouts.

"Ra...Ravina?" The Queen took a step back.

"You don't deserve to even say my name" Sailor Eclipse said in a controlled and angered voice as she stalked forward. "You took the one thing that made me feel loved away," she began angrily.

"I am the Sailor Scout of Darkness, as well as the Leader of the Apocalypse Scouts, ruin my fun and I will ... take ... your ... very Soul!" she screamed as she hurled a ball of shadow energy at her aunt.

Solarity dodged the energy blast, never taking her eyes off her niece. She'd never seen that much power from Ravina before. "Ravina?" The Queen said as she looked at her niece with shocked eyes. "Please stop this, your mother attacks the Palace as we speak. She will destroy everything with her army of corrupted souls."

"Give me one good reason why in hell I should help you?" Sailor Eclipse screamed angrily. "YOU TOOK AWAY THE PERSON I LOVED!!!" she screamed.

"He is a demon, he would end up hurting you. If I had of known that you two truly loved each other I wouldn't have done it."

"Liar!" she said as she teleported then appeared behind her and punched her in the back twice, the blows sending Solarity stumbling. "Ohh and you can thank De'mitri for teaching me" she said as she hurled another energy ball at her aunt who managed to get away from the powerful attack.

"De'mitri has turned?" The Queen asked more to herself then to Ravina, she should have seen it coming.

"You outta know, you booted him,” Sailor Eclipse said angrily as her eyes crackled with power.

"But I never thought he would turn." The Queen said as she dodged another attack from her niece.

"He had no other place left to go - Skorr's dad's given him tons of power" Sailor Eclipse said coldly barely able to contain her anger

"Please Ravina, calm down. I must go see what I can do to protect the Sun Kingdom, and I need your help."

"Fat chance" she said before she closed her eyes and her body began to glow with a silver and black aura. "Inariaus gretaatricha cykriusden" Sailor Eclipse said as she began to chant in a strange tongue.

Instantly her entire body glowed before shadowy tentacles of energy lashed out at her aunt who dodged most of the attacks.

"And when I'm done with you, I'll take care of dear old neglectful mother" Sailor Eclipse said.

"Ravina please, listen to yourself" Solarity began frightened of her own niece. "You can't hate your own family for what she did."

"No but I can hate and kill you for hurting me" Ravina said before her eyes glowed and the entire building began to rupture as she caused it to fall on them both. "At least I will be with him," she said coldly.

"Ravina don't. For your sake don't." The Queen made her final plea.

"You took my sake, my reason for living away" she said as they met their death, a serene look on her face.

Before Sailor Eclipse met her fate, the Queen made sure that her niece’s soul, and essence was sent, sent into the future. Where she could start over. Start a new life.

The only problem was that Akujun had learned of where the soul would be going and had given De'mitri immortality in an effort to find the soul.

As the scene slowly faded back to the ice cream shop. Rayden looked at Jessica calmly. "Are you alright?" he asked kindly.

"Does Tasha feel any guilt at all?"

"I would assume so, but she's very angry which is why she is lashing out at you."

"Why is she so angry?" Brooke asked.

"She blames everyone for not being there for her save for her friends, De'mitri and Skorr (who had a legitimate excuse)."

"At least in her mind anyways, one has to remember she isn't exactly working with a full deck."

"So what can we do?" Alissa asked softly.

"I honestly have no idea. I'm not the elder god in charge of souls - Akujun was and now with his reemergence and that of his family well..." he trailed off and shook his head. "Best guess is to try and save her.”

"It will take awhile but I am willing to try anything." Jessica replied.

Rayden was about to speak before he looked up and sighed. "I'm sorry but I need to go" he sadly. "Akujun’s forces have launched an attack on the temple of winds," he said slowly. "But I will return" he said and before their very eyes he glowed like lightning then vanished in a boom of thunder.

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