Warning: This story is as A/U as it gets. If you don't like that, SeiUsa romances, and a life after the Stars Saga, don’t read on!

Here a small summary, so you lot won't be completely lost ;) : Chaos defeated and gone, Usagi and her friends settle down to their normal lives at last. But tragedy strikes once more, leaving Usagi not only utterly alone, but also immortal. The Gates of Time now unguarded, strange things start to happen, parallel universes overlapping, the forces of time jumbled. Bruised and broken, Usagi has to learn to get on alone, damned to eternity, fighting the new enemy that has come upon Tokyo: vampires. Time passes, leaving her almost unrecognizable to the shining star that returns to the blue planet one day.

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"Bloodstained Angel"

by Greta

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"Cheers," she said, raising the clear bottle of whiskey to the sky, leaning back against the rough trunk of a tree. Overlooking the city she had been protecting for far too long now in her opinion, she sighed once, uncapping the bottle slowly before taking a large swallow of the amber liquid, being so used to its taste, she barely felt the fiery trail it left as it ran down her throat.

She felt the need of getting drunk tonight, very, very drunk. Not only up to the point of feeling stoned and plastered, no, today she needed to go further, much further. She wanted to reach the sweet point of no return, where she could at last forget her mind and body, and let herself fall back into the open arms of the sought-after unconsciousness, no thoughts or dreams to disturb her for a few precious hours.

Closing her eyes while raising the glass bottle once more to her crimson-red lips, she could feel her thoughts wander, wander off exactly to the place where she didn't want them, didn’t need them. Those memories that she wanted to avoid like none other and yet never ever could.

Today was the anniversary, and today it wasn’t just any anniversary either. Not even she could deny this.

The anniversary of a day so long ago in the past, it seemed strange to her that she could still recall it exactly as it had been.

Her head leaning back heavily, her eyes shut for a moment and her pale fingers lead the bottle of alcohol to rest beside her.

She could remember it all. The cool air of the morning that had chilled her to the spine, letting goose bumps rise on her slender limbs, menacing clouds marring the light blue sky, as she watched the day progress from her room, never once realising it would be the last time that she sat in her room in such a carefree manner.

She had used to love the sun spilling on a glorious day, its warm rays reaching her very core. But there was nothing wonderful about the sun for her anymore. All it did was remind her of what she didn’t have, could never have again, over and over again.

Digging her nails into her palm, she forced herself to open her eyes, draining the whiskey faster, not being able to wait for the glorious release, even if it would only be for a short time.

"One hundred years," she whispered slowly to herself, her body torn in two, as the one part of it kept trying to keep all pain as far away as possible, while the other savoured slowly torturing her soul. Scrunching up her forehead in thought, she tried to think of how old that made her now, laughing silently as she realized that the years were getting hard to count now.

"I guess you've really turned old, girl," she continued talking to herself, only the inky silence of the night there to keep her company, just the way she liked it.

The bright lights of Tokyo sparkled up at her, garish and unfriendly in all their bright neon colours. The long time she had known this city now, had, strangely enough, barely done a thing to change its scenery, only even higher, even more modern bodies of buildings taking over its centre.

Lifting her eyes from the city that had brought her so much pain up to the stars above, she grimaced at the moon hanging innocently in the sky, bright and full. It seemed to mock her in its peacefulness once again, having stayed behind in happier times. Oh, how she hated looking up at the moon. It never did her any good, the good memories it brought up in her making her as furious as the bad. "Fuck you," she muttered, her lips at the bottle once more, her swallows of whiskey becoming larger.

"I think it's time for a toast," she mumbled, sitting up straight. Her long and slender lags, clad in black high-heeled leather boots, were hanging over the edge of the narrow cobble-stone wall she was sitting on. It had already seen better days, as it was slowly crumbling into dust. It was after all older than she was which did mean something nowadays. The low wall had been erected on an innocent-enough looking hill, which rose softly, only to turn into a steep cliff unexpectedly and without warning, the only way to keep people from stumbling over it blindly being the little wall she sat upon. Her hands brushed the stone wind and weather had turned smooth and soft, before raising herself to her feet.

There was no better view of Tokyo to be found, but she had yet to meet another living soul up here. The narrow wall gave her feet just enough space to stand upon it, her high-heeled shoes adding to the danger. But the danger left her cold and unexcited, as she had lost her fright of heights a long, long time ago, the steep cliff, with its jagged rocks, where many souls had surely found their death, only morbidly fascinating her, especially in this darkness, where it seemed to be endless.

Crouching down slightly to pick up the bottle holding her precious whiskey, before straightening once more, she looked deep in thought, her silver hair swaying in the breeze as she stood proudly upon the small ledge.

"To … to myself, these bloodstained fingers, and my curse of eternity upon this hell," she whispered to the sky, raising the bottle clenched tightly in-between her fingers up to the sky once more, before taking a large swallow of the alcohol.

As if in silent answer, a shooting star crossed the sky she had toasted to, passing the moon.

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Well, please tell me what you think! I’d really appreciate reviews.

Greta