The yellow sun shined brilliantly overhead. Usagi stretched out and let out a sigh of pleasure. What a great day to be at the beach! She was so happy to be there along with all of her other friends who all happened to be sailor scouts. Even Sailor Uranus and Neptune had tagged along despite generally not particularly liking to hang out with them. Usagi was wearing a blue swimsuit with large white polka dots. Mamoru laid next to her in the sand in a matching blue and white polka dot speedo. She was so happy.
Suddenly, Usagi saw someone in the distance. Running down the beach. He had bright orange hair. The young man seemed quite out of place on the beach, and yet no one seemed to notice him in his odd attire. Full black garment with traditional straw sandals and a intimidatingly large sword in hand. It was all quite odd! Usagi sat up on her towel, looking to Mamoru next to her, shaking them to consciousness, "Hey- look there." she said pointing to the man running. "Please tell me you see that."
Mamoru looked cross, "what are you talking about Bun head? Can't you see that I'm trying to enjoy the sun?"
By now all the other sailor scouts were paying attention to Usagi.
"I don't see anything," Minako said, frowning.
Rei, who had been quietly napping stirred and rubbed her eyes. They widened in surprise, "Holy crap. You guys don't see that boy? Could he be a new enemy? But why can only Usagi and I see him?"
"Well there's only one way to figure this out!" Usagi said, she jumped to her feet, "hey orange hair!" she shouted, "what's your deal?"
Ichigo had been running along the beach in attempts to draw the creature he was fighting away from the more populated area of the beach- but much to his surprise, a small gathering of humans lay this far off. And even more to his surprise, they called out to him. This news was enough to distract Ichigo, causing him to trip over half buried driftwood, somersaulting and landing on his back, his sword having flown from his hand and penetrating deeply into the sands of time.
"Aaahg…" Ichigo groaned as he pushed up to a slightly more elevated position, looking to the group before him.
"You can see me?" he asked cautiously. The two girls staring at him seemed human enough. "You aren't dead… are you?" He questioned skeptically.
"Of course we aren't dead!" Usagi exclaimed in a piercing yet endearing voice, "why? Would you say that? We're not ghosts are we? Rei! What if we're ghosts!"
"Of course we're not ghosts, you idiot!" Rei exclaimed, "Do you remember dying ever?"
Usagi furrowed her brows together and frowned in concentration, "No, I guess not."
"What are you talking about?" Ami asked Rei and Usagi worriedly, "Better yet, who are you talking to?"
"Rei!" Usagi said, her voice trembling like a scared and excited bird, "what if he's a ghost!? Are you a ghost?! Go away!" And then Usagi began to recite the lord's prayer in an attempt to ward off Ichigo.
Ichigo tsk'd at Usagi's use of prayer on him. It was pointless and stupid. "Che- shut it already, you're annoying." Ichigo said, glancing behind him and sighed in annoyance, Jackie Chan'ing to his feet, his delicate orange hair ruffling in the sea breeze.
"You're obviously just humans. Not sure how you got the kind of power to see me, but it's not safe here. You'll only be in the way, so get your friends and leave will ya?" Ichigo said as he moved to his large black sword, gripping the dark steel and unsheathing it from the golden sand that it pierced.
It was visible at this point, the thing Ichigo had been drawing off from the crowds, and the two girls, Usagi and Rei could see it. It was a horrible monster. More horrible than any of the monsters that the sailor scouts had ever fought before. Besides maybe the main villain in season three of Sailor Moon which was pretty terrible.
Usagi and Rei exchanged glances silently debating whether they should transform in front of this boy. There were no other people around besides him, so at least when they transformed no one else would see it. With that thought they simultaneously transformed into sailor scouts. Now they were Sailor Moon and Sailor Mars.
Sailor Moon shouted her signature battle cry, "In the name of the moon we will punish you!"
and Sailor Mars followed with hers as well, "In the name of Mars I will chastise you!"
The other sailor scouts looked at Usagi and Rei like they had finally fought one too many times and had finally lost their minds.
Usagi and Rei ran to Ichigo's side. "We aren't going to let you fight this monster alone. We are sailor scouts and this is our duty. don't try and stop us because we know what we're doing."
Ichigo seemed surprised by their sudden transformation, and more so by their demands to help fight. "Okay, look, you're little trick was impressive, but will you be able to fight this thing while you prance around in skirts and heels?" He questioned dismissively.
"You should just leave this to me. I fight these things daily." he said quite cockily as he took his stance, preparing to fight the ever nearing foe.
Usagi and Rei looked at each other and rolled their eyes. The little boy thought his comment was so clever but they had most definitely heard that before, "dude," Rei said, "You're one to talk. you're wearing sandals. Tell me, how exactly is that appropriate to fight monsters?"
Rei made a valid point. All of a sudden the monster was quickly upon them, it swung at Ichigo sending him flying backwards, spraying a shower of sparkly golden white sand into the air and creating a crater in the sand like a comet might leave.
"You sure you don't need our help?" Rei now said smugly to the orange haired man.
"Burning Mandala!" Rei said, shouting her attack sending a wave of passionately hot fire at the monster.
Ichigo groaned from the impact, pushing up from his crater in time to see the monster in flames. He arched a brow, but nodded impressed. "Okay, okay, so you have a few more tricks. I'm not one to deny someone a fight." He said, standing with the help of his sword.
Jumping from the crater Ichigo once again stood by the girls. "Let's fight together then." He said before leaping at the creature, soaring through the air, as if he was flying.
Once close enough, Ichigo swung his mighty sword, slicing through the flesh of the monster with a spurt of blood as it's arm fell to the earth, spraying sand as it landed- still in flames.
The monster, however, was still alive despite losing one of its biggest appendages and being severely burned by Rei's attack. It was now enraged. The monster staggered to it's feet, letting loose an unearthly scream that was only heard by the three of them. Then, before any of them could react, the monster staggered to its feet and charged at the other girls and Mamoru who were sitting and enjoying the sun, having dismissed Rei's and Usagi's antics as merely unusual they had gone back to tanning their bodies.
The monster reached the girls and Mamoru before Rei, Usagi, and Ichigo could come in between them and stop the terrible writhing creature. It extended its one good arm and swiped the girls and Mamoru, sending them flying. But this might have been a blessing in disguise, a heavenly act by God in order to help Rei, Usagi, and Ichigo.
Although they were all injured now they could all also see the creature. Being hit by the monster had triggered something. Normal people would have been terrified, however these girls and Mamoru were not normal and plus they had no time to be scared. They realized they needed to transform. To save Rei and Usagi and the orange haired boy. To save the other people on the beach. And most importantly, the world. So they did so. Almost instantly there were seven sailor scouts standing in front of them. Slightly battered and bruised but ready to do what needed to be done.
"Quick!" Minako/Sailor Venus shouted, "let's combine our powers so we can defeat this thing!"
They all concentrated and combined their power, Sailor Moon channeled this power and unleashed it on the monster. With the combined attack, the creature was nearly done in- and with a final finishing blow from Ichigo, completely cutting the thing in half, it fell. Having finally defeated the monster, Ichigo moved to the group beside him. It was about time things were figured out. Who were these bunch, and how were they able to fight these monsters? The others would certainly get a kick out of these new developments.
The sailor scouts had similar questions too, "who are you?" Sailor Uranus asked. Her and Sailor Neptune had one arm casually over each other's shoulders, "are you an alien from another planet?"
Sailor Neptune flipped her glorious blue hair, "maybe now isn't the time to talk about this," she said, "people are beginning to stare. Let's find somewhere more private to talk."
The other sailor scouts nodded their agreement.
Conveniently Usagi's mom, brother, and dad were on vacation, "we can go to my house!" Usagi said brightly, "No one is there because my mom, brother, and dad are on vacation!"
So Usagi took out a piece of paper and a pen and scribbled down her address on the paper, "it's probably not a good idea to meet today, this is our vacation day plus I think we're all worn out from this fight."
Ichigo agreed, he was teenager after all, he wanted some free time to other things besides fighting evil by moonlight. The next moment Ichigo had vanished, running away at what seemed like an impossibly fast speed even to the sailor scouts and tuxedo mask.
"do you think we can trust him?" Ami asked.
"Guess we'll find out," Haruka said, mysteriously.