There ends Volume 12. We open volume 13 seeing Chibi Usa staring into the hand mirror Michiru gave her. She keeps remembering Elios saying 'Don't Cry small maiden'. She sighs and whispers that Elios hasn't appeared since then. Usagi appears and we see the same bounce back/sunny disposition in her that Usagi also has.

"Chibi-Usaaa?" Usagi says. "Want an afternoon snack?"

"I don't have an appetite. I'm full." "What!?" Usagi cries. She leaves the room. "Oh well, too bad. Today we've got lemon pie, melons, chocolate cake, and sherbet..."

Chibi-Usa's eyes widen. She charges downstairs. "I don't have an appetite, but!" she says. "I'll eat."

"Okay, okay." Usagi puts on a jacket and heads for the door.

"Where you going?" asks Chibi-Usa.

"Mamo-chan's," says Usagi. "He's been really sick, and he's resting at school. I thought I'd go visit him. You want to come?"

Chibi-Usa thinks of Elios. "Oh," she says. "No. I'll stay. From now on, I've decided not to come between you two. See you later."

"How'd she come to that!?" Usagi thinks. "The world must be coming to an end!"

Usagi leaves and Chibi Usa thinks to herself. She states she has only been thinking of Elios and remembers how he kissed her. She thinks everything out in her mind, why Elios isn't appearing, if his human form was his true form and if so, why he appeared as a Pegasus. She concludes that he has many secrets and she wants to make him strong. She feels lost and wonders who she can go to for advice. Amichan, she says, will talk forever and the Dead Moon Circus will be the first thing on her mind, Reichan doesn't like to talk about feelings, Minakochan will interrogate Chibi Usa and ask if she and Elios are involved, and Makochan will try to set Elios and Chibi Usa up just like that.

"Usagi's great... She can ask advice from anyone. She has lots of friends." Chibi Usa says.

"Small Lady," says Diana. "Your body is still in training! Comparing your position with Usagi-sama's! They're not equal situations."

"I know... Someday, I'll be a fine soldier too. I hope the time comes... the time when I can have friends like that."

We then see the injured Pegasus lying caged on the floor. "Have to hold on," he thinks. "Unless I hold on, even the Prince's body will be ruined... And then the planet, too..."

We then go to the next day, where Chibi Usa and Usagi come to Jupiter's rescue and save her from an attacker. When they are through......

Chibi-Usa hears a ringing sound. "A bell!" she says. "Elios!?" She takes out the small bell. "Elios! Is he calling me from somewhere!?"

Usagi and Chibi-Usa suddenly gasp together. "Mamo-chan!?" They run to his apartment and burst through the door. The Pegasus stands over Mamoru's unconscious body. Lemures attack them.

"Mamo-chan!!"

"Elios!!" says Chibi-Usa.

Shouting Moon Crisis Make Up, the girls transform and hold out their kaleidoscope rods. "Moon Gorgeous Meditation!!" The lemures are destroyed.

"Maiden..." gasps the Pegasus. He collapses on the floor.

"Elios!?" cries Chibi-Usa. "There are wounds all over his body!?" Mamoru coughs hard.

"Mamo-chan!?" says Usagi.

"Don't look," he says.

She sees the blood on his hands. "Mamo-chan!? Black blood!?"

"Mamo-chan!!" Mamoru kneels on his bed, coughing. The Pegasus stands next to him.

Makoto runs into the room. "Mamoru-san!!"

"Black blood!!" says Usagi. "Mamo-chan! How long? Why is your blood black..."

"I don't know," he says. "Since a little while ago. My chest started hurting..."

"And the black shadow in my lungs..." he thinks to himself.

"Elios!" says Chibi-Usa. "Tell me! You must know! Is Mamo-chan's black blood related to the enemies and you? Is this the enemies' doing!?"

"It seems the time has come already," says the Pegasus. "Let us talk." In a glowing light, the Pegasus transforms into a man, with the same gold horn on his forehead. He kneels before them. "I am Priest Elios of Elysion," he says.

"Priest Elios, of Elysion?" asks Chibi-Usa. "Elysion?"

"Elysion is the holy land that protects Earth," he says. "It quietly rests deep in the Earth, a place like the heart of this planet. I serve as a priest there. My mission is to continue watching over Elysion, and this planet Earth, and you, Prince Endymion. I am also the guardian priest of this planet and you."

"My guardian priest...?" thinks Mamoru.

"Since the distant past," continues Elios, "you have protected this planet all alone. Noble Prince Endymion."

"Do you know me?" he asks.

"Yes, Prince. But you probably don't know me. This planet is protected by the holy land Elysion. I live together with that Elysion. You, this planet, and Elysion and me. Our four spirits and bodies are linked. And those four spirits and bodies are starting to resonate."

"Our four spirits and bodies are... linked? Resonating?"

"But for that," says Elios, "this is happening." A beam of light shines from his forehead to Mamoru's chest. A dark flower appears in front of him.

"Mamo-chan!?" says Usagi. "Inside your chest...!"

Mamoru looks at himself in the mirror.

"Inside my chest..." he thinks. "A black rose is blooming...!?"

"In my chest as well," says Elios. "A cursed black rose is ruining me. It is a sign of Elysion's ruining. Prince, you are suffering from a curse just like I and Elysion are."

"Inside Mamo-chan's chest..." thinks Usagi. "A black rose...? A curse!?"

"The form you are looking at is an illusion of me," says Elios. "My body now is also being changed into a Pegasus by the curse. I am confined to Elysion."

"A curse!?" says Chibi-Usa. "Confined!? Who could do such a thing...!?"

"There is only one who could do this. In the kingdom of nightmares, inside the new moon. Queen Nephelenia of the Dead Moon. The Dead Moon, their kingdom was sealed deep in the darkness of the new moon. Since long ago, they have been plotting to overthrow the kingdom of light, the Silver Millennium, and rule Earth. The Dead Moon's Queen Nephelenia is an apparition of revenge. If the shining power of the Silver Millennium is eliminated from the moon, and they cause damage to Elysion, this planet will fall easily. From inside the darkness, the heart of the Earth, Elysion, was cursed. First, to lift the curse from within, I prayed continually. But with my small power, my prayers were not answered. The curse spread like a nightmare. Elysion was ruined, and soon the power protecting Earth faded away. Taking that chance, they crept in the moment of the beautifully cursed solar eclipse. It seems this planet is now being invaded from within and without. Due to the curse on Elysion, its dying condition is under rule by darkness and nightmares. If these conditions continue long, the nightmares will shortly spread to the surface as well, making this planet a dead planet, and making it theirs. Princess Selenity. No, Super Sailor Moon. They are not aware of the reincarnation on this planet of the successor to the Silver Millennium, you. Please, I request that you use your power and the power of the Mystical Silver Crystal to defeat them."

"I understand!" says Usagi. "I will defeat the enemies! If I do that, I'll save Elysion, you, and Mamo-chan, too!"

"It's regrettable," says Elios, "but even if you defeat them, with only the Mystical Silver Crystal, you cannot lift the curse on Elysion and the Prince."

"What are you saying!?"

"In this ruined body, it was quite hard getting to you and the Prince. Then I finally found you. Princess Selenity, if you are indeed the chosen maiden, you should be able to search out the Golden Crystal and bring forth its power. If you have the beautiful dream, protected by the light of the moon. If you are the princess soldier. If you are the chosen maiden, who carries the crystal that can break the seal on the Golden Crystal."

"The Golden Crystal?"

The wings sprout out from his back, and he hunches over.

"Elios!?"

He reverts to his form as a Pegasus. "Maiden," he says. "I am a priest. I only have the power to pray for salvation and watch over. Maiden, I need your power. The day to break the seal on the Golden Crystal has come. Please, save everything from the nightmares with the power of the Mystical Silver Crystal and the Golden Crystal..." He disappears.

"Elios!" Usagi calls. "Without the Golden Crystal, I can't save Mamo-chan and Elios, and Elysion and Earth! The Golden Crystal!! Where is it? How can I find it...?"

Mamoru coughs up more blood. "Mamo-chan!?"

"You should stay away from me!" he says. "This curse... You might catch it! You shouldn't stay with me."

"I can't even lend you my strength with this body," he thinks to himself sadly.

"I will stay with you," says Usagi. "Just like you feel the pain of this planet, your pain is my pain." She runs to Mamoru and throws her arms around him. "I'm going to make you get better! So I'll always stay with you. We'll get through this together!"

"Usa...!"

"I'll protect this planet, you, and everyone!"

"Elios...!" thinks Chibi-Usa. "I want to help him... Elios."

"Without the Golden Crystal," thinks Makoto, "the Prince and Elysion won't be saved. And maybe even this planet. The Golden Crystal... Where could it be? What kind of crystal is it!?"

The senshi then begin to think out how to find it and defeat their enemies. Later, they are being attacked by the Amazoness Quartet and are tied up in vines. Venus has escaped andwith Artemis' help recharges up into Super Sailor Venus. Meanwhile, the other 3 senshi are crying for Sailor Moon's help, and it at this point that the outer senshi, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto return to help their fellow soldiers.

Chibi-Usa stares out the window, at the dark sky. "I feel uneasy..." she thinks. "Tonight again, I can't even see one star." "That dark place is the city you were in until now," said the Pegasus. "Is this the enemies' doing too?" she thinks. "The darkness spreading, so I can't see the stars? Elios..." "I am confined," he said. "I want to go see him. I want to go help him right now. Where is Elios? Where is Elysion!?"

She hears a noise in the hallway. "Usagi?" She sees Usagi coughing. "You're late," she says. "How's Mamo-chan feeling?"

"He looked fine," says Usagi. She continues to cough.

"Usagi...?"

"Sailor Moon!" the four girls cry, held by the vines. The entrance to the circus tent bursts open and who appears but none other than our outer senshi! They quickly destroy the wines and the attackers. They then call to Sailor Moon but Uranus tells them in a wavery voice, "She may not hear you any more." It is because Usagi too - her lungs are filling up with the black rose and she too is dying.

"Usagi!" Chibi-Usa says. "Usagi!?"

Usagi lies in bed, coughing. "I'm okay. I'll get better if I get some rest..."

"Since you came back from Mamo-chan's, you've been in pain, Usagi." She runs out of the room. "I'm going to call the others!"

The Amazoness Quartet now attack all 8 senshi and they attack back all the while talking and axchanging info. Minako asks why Sailor Moon can't hear their voices and Rei asks why they came back to them.

"A crisis is approaching our Prince and Princess," says Michiru.

"We've gathered for that," says Setsuna. "We can't avoid that destiny. So we'll protect those two with all our strength. We must face and overcome that destiny. We'll cut our way through our new destiny. That is the true mission of us ten soldiers."

The girls continue to fight.

"Small Lady." Chibi-Usa halts. "Small Lady." "That voice...! It can't be..." (It keeps calling her small lady) "But that voice!" "Small Lady." "That voice!"

Usagi sits up in bed. "I feel it!" she thinks. "Those three are fighting! Everyone is gathering!"

Chibi-Usa runs to her room and grabs the mirror from her dresser. "Neptune's hand mirror!" She sees the four outer soldiers in it. "Everyone!?" "Small princess..." Michiru said. "We will return to you again. A sign of our promise." "Just like they promised!" Chibi-Usa thinks. "Those four! They came back!?" She runs to Usagi's room.

"Usagi!"

"I know...!" says Usagi, coughing. "I saw them too! Everyone! I'll follow right after you! So go on ahead, Chibi-Usa!"

"Moon Crisis!! Make Up!!"

Chibi-Usa holds up the mirror. "Submarine Mirror! Take me to Neptune!"

"I'm going right after you!" says Usagi.

Chibi-Usa vanishes with the mirror. The hand mirror appears before Michiru. She sees the image of Chibi-Usa in it. "Small Lady!"

"I have to go too!" Usagi says. She runs out of the house.

"Usagi-chan, wait!" calls Luna.

As Usagi runs through the street, she sees Mamoru running toward her.

"Mamo-chan...!"

"Usa!" he says. "I heard your voice, calling me..."

"I'm all right."

"Usa!?"

Her knees buckle, and she falls down.

"Usa!!"

Mamoru catches her.

"It can't be... Your body... Have your lungs been attacked too!?"

"We have to go," Usagi says. "Everyone's gathering. Something is going to happen. We have to go. I'm the one who has to defeat the enemies."

"The Prince and Princess in crisis!?" says Minako. "For that, all the soldiers are gathering...!" She grabs Haruka. "What's going to happen!? What'll happen to those two!?" She screams as knives fly past her.

"We don't have time for this nonsense!" says Michiru. She holds out her mirror. "Look! Submarine Reflection!!" The power blasts a giant hole in the top of the circus tent.

A dark moon looms in the sky overhead. "It's appeared over the circus! That huge new moon-- no, inside the darkness of the new moon, a wide mouth is spreading in outer space! The nightmares are rapidly spouting out from there, to the planet's surface."

"But...!" thinks Minako. "There was nothing when we entered the tent! No, from previous lives, the outside was already spreading strange air and darkness.

"People throughout the world, cities, engulfed in the nightmares of their creation. Around this planet, since long ago, it has been covered by a strange barrier of darkness. They plan to conquer this planet, and make it a planet of death."

The girls of the Amazoness Quartet laugh.