Preface

This thing
Posted originally on the SquidgeWorld Archive at http://squidgeworld.org/works/60312.

Rating:
Teen And Up Audiences
Archive Warning:
Major Character Death
Category:
F/F
Fandoms:
Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon | Sailor Moon [Anime & Manga], Cthulhu Mythos, H. P. Lovecraft - Works, Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon | Sailor Moon - All Media Types
Relationships:
Aino Minako | Sailor Venus/Hino Rei | Sailor Mars, Hino Rei | Sailor Mars & Kino Makoto | Sailor Jupiter, Hino Rei | Sailor Mars & Mizuno Ami | Sailor Mercury, Hino Rei | Sailor Mars & Tsukino Usagi | Sailor Moon
Characters:
Hino Rei | Sailor Mars, Aino Minako | Sailor Venus, Original Non-Human Character(s), Original Monster Character(s), Tsukino Usagi | Sailor Moon - Mentioned, Kino Makoto | Sailor Jupiter - Mentioned, Mizuno Ami | Sailor Mercury - Mentioned
Additional Tags:
Horror, Fire Powers, Body Horror, Character Death, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Madness, Blood, Rain, Fire Magic, Lovecraftian, Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, Friendship, Word count: 100 - 500, Post Sailor Stars, POV Third Person Limited, Female Protagonist, Japanese Character(s), Manga & Anime, Bittersweet Ending, Sailor Moon Manga, POV Hino Rei | Sailor Mars, Femslash, Female Relationships, Reinako, R'lyehian Language, Footnotes, Cross-Posted from AO3, Betaed – No, Sailor Moon Crystal, Magical Girl, Autistic Author
Language:
English
Stats:
Published: 2022-09-19 Words: 459 Chapters: 1/1

This thing

Summary

A Lovecraft-style Sailor Moon story.
Rei digs. She digs the wet earth. She digs deeply. Her body is sore from the effort. Her eyes have difficulty staying open. But she doesn't stop.

This thing

Rei digs.

She digs the wet earth.

The earth ravaged by time, by worms, by blood, by darkness, n'ghanglui. [1]

Rei hears the sound of flowing water.

There is a small river not far away.

A river with gn'th'bthnkor ng [2] brown liquid.

Rei is still digging.

She digs deeply.

Her body is sore from the effort.

Her eyes have difficulty staying open.

But she doesn't stop.

Rei cannot stop.

Blood is running down her temple.

Blood runs down her legs.

Rei digs deeper and deeper.

In a frantic, crazy way.

Why does she dig like that?

For how long?

She doesn't know.

The hole in the ground seems gaping.

As if it wanted to devour Rei.

With its big jaws full of pounding bthnkor. [3]

Rei digs.

She digs the wet earth.

Then she remembers.

Why she digs like this.

Minako, her love.

Her beautiful Minako.

Dead, killed by cahf hnah. [4]

Cahf hnah who sleeps under the ground.

Cahf hnah who has to die from Rei's hands.

Rei digs, again and again.

Her heart is beating so fast that it's in danger of bursting.

Then she finds something hard.

A coffin.

A coffin covered in lice, worms, turn'ghftor ng n'ghftorog [5] crystals.

The coffin of cahf hnah.

Rei smiled mischievously.

It's time.

"Mars Crystal Power, Make Up!"

Sailor Mars opens the coffin with a kick.

Then she sees cahf hnah.

A monstrosity with long blond hair.

It has a red ribbon in its hair, like Minako.

It has Minako’s face, Minako’s eyes.

"Sailor Mars! My love, you saved me! That monster had me trapped in this magical coffin and..."

But Rei hears something else.

"Lw'nafh'nahor, y' ephaidevour ymg' bthnkor!" [6]

"Sailor Mars? What's happening to you?"

"Hnah, Y' ymg' ephaiah'mgehye, llll Minako!" [7]

Sailor Mars is no longer Sailor Mars.

Minako knows this now.

All she can do now...

"FM'LATGH [8] MANDALA!"

...is to scream as her love’s flammes consume her.

Rei detransforms and she laughs.

She laughs more and more loudly.

Cahf hnah is dead.

Minako, her beautiful Minako is avenged.

It begins to rain.

A blood red rain.

Rei can't wait to tell Usagi, Ami and Makoto the news.

Usagi, who cried so much when Minako died.

Who, however, always remains mgmgepah'bthnk. [9]

Ami, whose eyes have become empty.

A purple gaze. Tentacles sprouting from her back.

Makoto, whose face is always sad.

A face covered with blood and lice.

Usagi, Ami and Makoto, Rei's dear friends.

"C' ephaiahna ehye syha'h." [10]


 R'Lyehian Translator ― LingoJam

[1] (the) plague

[2] red and

[3] flesh

[4] this thing

[5] green and purple

[6] Weak, I will devour your flesh!

[7] Thing, I will destroy you, for Minako!

[8] BURNING

[9] untouched

[10] We will stay together forever.

Afterword

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