Time of Corruption
by DarkPluto
DarkPluto4@aol.com
 Chapter 11 - Prisoner of Loneliness
Rating: PG-13

 Author's Note: Nope, this isn't going to be the long one.

        Sailor Pluto was almost bored as she watched all the fallen Sailors.
The flash of light, and she felt all the energy seep into her.  She felt a
small grain of joy for the first time in months at destroying the last
galaxy
besides the Milky Way.  It had been months since that day so long ago when
she abandoned her duties.  She had broken every single rule she had received
as a Keeper.
        Never alter time was one of the most significant of the three major
rules.  She had to.  She could no longer keep her destiny as she knew it
would come.  She had a right to live!  And she wasn't living.  It was a
curse
- the same day repeating over and over, never changing, always mocking her.
She had fallen into a trap, into the cage of Life.  And no one came to help
her.  She had always been deserted, had always been the one alone.
        She was born an only child.  Alone in the house?her mother guarded
the Gates.  Her father?had been killed.  She never knew her father.
Choosing
to take the duties left upon her by her mother and forced upon her, nearly,
by Queen Serenity was her biggest mistake - a mistake that would tarnish and
eat away at her life forever.  Standing alone, always, staring at Gates.
She
had become a master at acting.  She always acted calm acted peaceful, acted
mature and perfect.  She acted so unemotional and frosty, controlling the
wild, chaotic mess inside her that many thought she was a robotic, unfeeling
woman.  And she remembered when the Moon Kingdom fell.  She went out and
fought with cheerfully and vigorously, glad to be free of the Gates.  But
Queen Serenity called to her toward the middle of the battle and told her to
go back to the Gates.  She said she could not afford to lose her for who
would then guard the Gates?  Once again, them, valuing her for her power and
saying that to her face.  If she had not had the power, no one would have
cared if she died in battle or not.
        And back to the Gates she went.  And felt the agony as Sailor
Neptune, Sailor Uranus, and Sailor Saturn fell.  And then?the emptiness came
over her again.  At night, she couldn't sleep.  Transporting herself to the
Moon Kingdom as quickly as possible, she gasped.  The Moon Kingdom was no
more.  It was destroyed and defeated.  Looking at the dead body of the Queen
and the Sailors, she realized she was alone - alone as she was always cursed
to be.  The Lone Sailor.  She was alone then.  Even finding the Soldiers
later reborn on Earth and safe, she was alone - far too old to fit in with
them.  And now, more than a millenium later, she was still alone.  The
centuries of guarding the Gates had been unbearably lonely, but now, they
had
pushed her to this.  She was a Lone Rebel, the enemy of all the Scouts.  And
she was still her own enemy.  Battling the other Scouts had been so simple.
Battling all the enemies in her life had been so simple, too.  But there was
one war she could never win - the battle against herself.
        She sighed as she stood up.  The Darkness had come over the entire
Universe.
        A dark shimmer came.  "Congratulations," The Master smiled.  "Only
one Galaxy awaits you.  I believe many of the Scouts had already fallen,
though, in the various campaigns of combined powers of Scouts to destroy
you.
 It should be quite easy.  The Milky Way Galaxy will fall, too, soon,
right?"
        "Yes," she said hollowly, automatically tightening her grip on the
staff.
        "And then, soon, I take control of the Galaxy, and you take control
of the Moon Kingdom," he smiled.  "And we shall both live happily.  You've
done a marvelous job, Sailor Pluto."  He patted her.
        Pluto felt nothing.  She never felt much anymore.  The only thing
keeping her alive was the hope of finally taking Endymion and the revenge on
the Scouts - the Scouts that had been the source of all her pain.
Destroying
all the other Scouts had soon stopped producing any effect on her.  She felt
indifferent to it all.  Even in battles, she felt indifferent.  Nothing gave
her joy.  But she WOULD take joy at killing the Solar System Scouts.  They
would pay - especially Serenity - for her years of torment.  They would pay
for taking her life!  They would pay?oh yes, they would!  Pluto felt herself
completely washed and in the tight grip of Hate and Anger.
        The Master smiled, feeling the Darkness grow in her.  "So when are
you going to teleport?" he asked her impatiently.
        "I will now," She said, holding on to her locket.
        He glinted and was no more as she shouted "Pluto Universal Power -
Teleport!"  Yes, the final battle was approaching.  And her days as a Lone
Soldier would end?everything would end?

 Author's Note: Wow, this really was an incredibly short one.  But the LONG
LONG one(s) is (are) coming up.