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Destiny Tower was a place that held a great amount of significance for Sailor Chibimoon. When she had been the dark woman known as Black Lady Serenity, it had been her refuge. The one place where she could hide high above the city, looking down on the lights and indulging her dark, dark thoughts without benefit of an audience. She hadn't wanted one and had never gotten one. So high up it was also easy for her to fool herself into thinking that she was back in Tokyo. Crystal or otherwise it was a place that had signified home to her.

It was no hardship to meet Europa here. It was hard to get across any sort of nervousness through a text message. The princess had no idea that she was walking into a judgement that would essentially be the do or die of her senshi career here on this Earth. So the super senshi had a bit of a bounce in her step. The nights were getting cooler, her moon was half-full in the sky and shining down on the city, she was going towards her favorite place in the entire collective of buildings in the downtown area.

Chibimoon was actually quite grateful to climb all the way up the tower to the Observation Deck, a smile evident in her face and eyes as she faced the Senshi of the Deep. "This is the very best place. I am so happy to be here!"

Chibi was not always the fastest person in the universe. She couldn't really grasp yet still the nuances of English and when someone talked a little too fast or used just a bit too much slang, she could miss out on a point entirely. There were, thankfully, universal languages. Emotion was one of them. Who better than her to understand that being a senshi was, at its very core, the most emotional job that some people would ever undertake? It demanded everything from you, even your identity sometimes. Chibimoon could not say definitively who she even was anymore except that she was the Senshi of the Moon.

Everything else was a convenient lie. Yes she was Perry Westerman's daughter in her heart but legally Coralie Williams aka Coralie Westerman had never been born. Neither had Tsukino Usagi Serenity. She simply did not exist.

Yes, she understood very well how confusing it could be to be a senshi.

"No sorry." Reaching out, a hand lightly touched Europa's shoulder. Had Allie known the Senshi of the Deep a bit better, she would have been given a rather fierce hug. But there was nonetheless a firm, supportive pressure from the teenager and an understanding, if solemn smile. "A bad thing happened and you are not sure where to go now. Who you can trust?" It had never been an issue for her. In Mama we trust which made her pity these senshi who had no star to guide them so brilliantly. It even scared her a bit.

Reaching down to grasp both of Europa's hands, Chibimoon squeezed them in yet another supportive gesture. It was worrisome that this strong senshi who was an Eternal, who had strong ties to the rest of the senshi, might not trust her now. Might regret ever becoming involved with the pink princess of the future. It could ruin everything she had been trying to do. Panic rose but was beat back down hard, the struggle showing in her ruby eyes.

"Can you tell me about the bad princess? I want to say you can trust me but that is just words. You need to know. To see." It was the burden of her station and situation that there was no proof. She couldn't simply pull out her crystal and show it to Sailor Europa. Besides, what good would that do? The idea of a false princess doing bad things, leading her people into darkness, was worrisome.

Even more so than this.

There was a rapid flicker of emotions across Chibimoon's face as Europa spoke. First was the curl of her lip into a rather disdainful look at the mention of the parallels, but it was stopped short by Ares being described as a princess. The last time she had seen Sailor Ares, the senshi had been trying to recover from losing their Queen Nehelenia. That awful creature had deserved the fate she had succumbed to; Allie had wished nothing more for all of those b*****d Mirror Senshi to return to their world when Helen had died.

Apparently that had been impossible. Her sixteen year old face grew more and more angry until incensed, Chibimoon turned to stalk away and let out a cry of frustrated rage off the side of the building. Had Europa been listening closely she could have clearly heard the scream being one exaggerated "Biiiiiiitch!" It was before there was a screaming, arm-waving tirade at thin air in rapid-fire Japanese. Pigtails flared, the shimmer of her bow vibrated with anger, and Coralie's eyes were vibrant with incandescent rage.

Truly, it was a spectacular tantrum. Swapping to English, the voice was half-anger and half...triumph? Vindication? "I told them! I told them all that a parallel was a bad thing! No one would listen to me but now they know!" Looking at the tearstained face of one of her very first believers, shoulders slumped and a lot of the energy deflated from her small body. "But I did not want anyone to suffer for it. Your cousin is with Ares now?" The idea of it was horrifying. More senshi being turned to Chaos? It was Galaxia all over again, a nightmare from the Sailor Wars that couldn't be borne.

Of course it would come through a parallel!

Chibimoon could easily shake her head now. "I know that...you have heard things. That I was dark once. But I was always alone. I never took a senshi in the dark with me. To do that when they are not willing is worse than death." Lips pursed. "It is disrespectful." Respect was one of the few tenets that she had always held her life by. Respect for herself, respect for authority no matter whose it was she followed. "But I was in the dark when I did not know there were good senshi here. I thought I was the only one left and there was not a thing to live for. I will not go into the dark again...I have Kurma. My dad. I have friends." She had a family now. There was a reason to be a light. She was Juno's light, Mu Cephei's light, even Ollie's. She had a friend to protect!

"I do not think Ares had a light anymore."

Now Chibimoon did hug Europa, smiling slowly like a blossom unfolding beneath sunlight. "No, no one should have to be alone. But I came from so very far and there was only Wiseman..." Leaning back on her heels Coralie thought of Ray Gordon and how truly charming and caring he had been towards her. He'd made a very lost, very lonely little girl feel like she had somewhere she belonged. Yes, he'd been funneling corrupt power through her soul but hadn't she welcomed it? Hadn't she wanted the cold comfort of Chaos?

But she'd awoken from it and tried to make the very best of this new life she had been given. So far, Chibiusa felt like she was making huge strides of progress. There had been a lot of things lost but now she had Perry and Suki and all of her friends. The Amazons were there and they had been her closest friends in the future. She could tell them anything!

The warmth of it, just thinking of it, Allie couldn't ever imagine going back to the cold darkness. There was even Cosmos there to understand, to be there for her. Even if everything else was lost Cosmos would endure and Chibiusa would stay at her side to help protect the balance. There was always hope and it had been something she had forgotten. That idea was shared now with Europa. "That's why you have to show them light. Talk to them, make them see, bring them back." Her mouth tightened a bit. "But not Ares. There is a point when you are so far in the dark you can't come back. Not ever. Ares is too gone."

Biased? Absolutely. But she would never again suffer a parallel soul to exist in this universe. Had she known the truth of the Dark Mirror Court she might have despaired a bit. But she had no idea that it was not a genuine corruption, did not know that the universes were once again bleeding into each other and the walls were falling down. She probably would have had a conniption had she known. "We will choke her back."

The teen was struggling with that idea of not being willing to kill. It was something that her mother had been adamantly against, the taking of a single life, but you had to understand one simple fact. Tanzanite, Ares, all of those that had sold themselves so fully to Chaos...they had no lives. Usagi had never crossed that line into darkness to understand that when you gave your soul to the darkness there was nothing left for you to live for. Only once had Black Lady gone so deep into the darkness that it had taken the power of two Silver Crystals to pull her back from that edge.

That was something they did not have in this time and place, nor something she would have ever advocated the use of. After all, hadn't she slipped back into those same dark shoes a second time? The potential was always there once you had crossed a certain line. Tanzanite had crossed it, as had Beryl and Ares. They had to be destroyed.

Biting her lip, she shook her head. "It takes a crystal to get rid of Chaos. A princess, prince..." Hesitation and sadness sounded in her voice. "If I was strong like mama I could. But I am not strong yet. I would maybe hurt more than help if I got a try." It was her personal failure. Chibimoon never had, and at this rate she despaired of ever gaining, control over her crystal. It also was sadly not something that could truly be taught.

"But we have Cosmos. She is strong." The invitation came as a surprise, the pleasure of it lighting up the princess' face. "Yes! I would very much like that!" An invitation meant that there was at least a modicum of trust. Coralie would not have wanted Europa to force her team to trust and follow Chibimoon into the fray. She didn't want anyone behind her that didn't want to be there.

"We will find a thing to do. Ares can maybe just go back where she came from. Tanzanite maybe can be sealed? It is worth a talk. A try."

That was always the problem and the catch wasn't it? Someone had enough power to do one thing so someone automatically assumed all they had to do was expend enough of that power and it could solve all of their problems. It very probably could solve all of their problems but with all such things there was a terrible, horrible catch. A spate of frustrated Japanese came flying out of her mouth, the explanation in quick, perfect terms...if only Europa had understood. Tilting her lips with a little quiver of laughter, Chibimoon shook her head. "That is why." Like the Senshi of the Deep had understood and it was all okay now.

Taking a deep breath the girl leaned back against the railing and looked up at the stars. "The universe." A hand pointed up at the stars, the moon, waving vaguely at everything around them, above them, the pair of senshi themselves. "There has to be good and bad or things do not work right. If there is too much good there comes a very big bad to make it even. We cannot stop it we just have to...keep it in." Her fingers made what looked like a cage, glancing over to Europa to make sure she understood.

"You can get rid of some bad. A lot of bad like the Negaverse. But the big bad? You cannot kill it forever. Just keep it in a place where it cannot hurt anyone. Better than killing this way." There was a long internal debate where they stood in silence and when Chibi spoke again, it was with a great deal of reluctance.

"We have power. Cosmos, Castor, Chronos. Me." Fingers came to rest over her heart, thinking of the power of the Moon that slept inside of her and what it could do. "But it is not all good. We could kill all the bad....but all the good at the same time. If we used all of our power it would remove all life on this planet. That is not a thing we will ever do so you have to be strong too." Turning abruptly she looked out at the city, eyes skimming over every little light. "We cannot put out the light because when we do all that is left is dark." It was incredibly profound for a sixteen year old girl.

"I am sorry if you do not understand."

(( I moved Europa some in this. If it's no good lemme know please! <3 ))

It was so hard to cut through the bitterness to the core of everything wasn't it? The princess had tried so many times to shear off her own to find something worth believing in, something worth fighting for, returning every night to the memories and dreams of her own utopian childhood as her cause. She had to find out what had gone wrong and fix it because she was the only one left from that time and place that could understand it was possible to win. Cosmos had memories of a time when it had worked but Chibimoon had grown up with it, lived it, been nurtured in it.

She did not have all the answers and, thankfully, no one could say that she was pretending to have all of the answers. The candy-haired senshi could only share what she had, hope for the best, and perhaps take pressure off of those few people with enough power to destroy a planet before they were forced to use it by panicked teenagers.

"Dreaming is not a waste. I am princess of utopia -- Crystal Tokyo. We had long peace, almost no war, my mama and papa kept us all safe." There was a soft look in Chibimoon's eyes before they came down flat and hard. "We had too much good. So a very bad thing came and killed Sailor Moon and senshi before she could make utopia. I should not be alive." A bit selfish to do, and perhaps a bit vain, but one of the girl's own hands nudged Europa's up a bit so the two were just a hair closer together.

"There are many many senshi. Many more than all of them." Another nudge. "They have Tanzanite and Ares but we have Castor, Cosmos, Chronos, all of the Eternals like you with so much power." Another nudge up. "If there is time, if we are good and live long enough to do it, we can kill them. Kill Tanzanite. Kill Ares. Kill Beryl." That evened out the hands so that the pair were standing with Europa's palms even and Chibimoon's hands lightly on her wrists to hold them there.

"Then we work our way down. Generals we bring to us." The senshi hand was raised higher. "Captains and Lieutenants we make pure." Higher and higher. "Then all that is left is Chaos. We trap it, we lock it away, we win. But only for now." Releasing the Eternal senshi her own eyes burned with an awful truth she was not going to share. Not yet.

Because even if they eliminated the Negaverse, more Chaos could come. Already the rumors of what had gone wrong with Ares had her worrying so very much that another form of Chaos had gotten to the parallel because there were so many people doing good. "It will not be fair ever that they took your cousin. But we will take her back and make them know we will not give up. Ever." She smiled, hope and innocence in that whole look. "We will always win."