In the midst of Castle Dark, O'Chunkten made his appearance, empty handed, once again, much to the disappointment of Count Dark and the others.
"O'Chunkten," Count Dark began, "I see you have returned emptied handed once again…"
"Aye, the target wasn't a holder of a Pure Soul!" O'Chunkten protested.
"So, you're 0 for 2 now," Mimi sighed, disguised as a girl she had seen on TV recently.
"What about those Sailor Scouts?" Count Dark asked, "Did the Black Bull destroy them?"
"Yeah! I think it did!" O'Chunkten replied excitedly.
"You THINK or you KNOW?" Nastansia asked, adjusting her red glasses.
"I think…" O'Chunkten replied, rubbing the back of his head while he looked down at the ground.
"My, my, O'Chunkten," Dimentio started in a taunting tone, "You've been slipping up lately, haven't you?"
O'Chunkten shot a glare at Dimentio, "Hush lad!"
Mimi giggled slightly, "If /I/ were the one collecting Pure Souls, I wouldn't let anything stop me!"
"You'll get your time, Mimi," Dark said, "As will Dimentio."
"Aye…I'm pretty sure those Sailor Scouts are dead though!" O'Chunkten said confidently.
"Don't drop your guard," Dark replied, "They may still be alive."
"Sir," Nastansia chimed in, "Do you have any more information concerning the next target?"
"Yes, I do," Dark chucked a picture towards O'Chunkten, "I believe this is something the humans call a…Librarian."
"Librarian?" O'Chunkten asked, a puzzled look appearing over his face, "The hell is that!?"
"You're such an idiot…" Mimi sighed.
"Oh yeah, if you're so smart, tell me what it is!" O'Chunkten replied.
"…Ask around, duh…" Mimi casually brushed off her shoulders and yawned, "You just went out though, so you might wanna wait."
"Mimi raises a point," Dimentio said, nodding, "Indeed."
"Aye, I guess I'll go out tomorrow then," O'Chunkten said, nodding.
Juuban Middleschool:
School was over, classes had ended, and now everyone was swarming in the hallways to see the results of the exam they had taken.
"These teachers grade fast…" Mako mumbled before smiling widely at her result, "I got an 85!" Mako said happily, jumping for joy once, then she turned to Usagi, "What did you get, Usagi-chan?"
Usagi nervously waved her hands, "O-Oh…it doesn't matter…It's not like I got a 15 or anything…hahahaha…Uh…how about you, Ami-chan?"
Ami was frowning heavily, and she sighed deeply before mumbling, "I got a 99…"
"A 99?" Mako repeated, "That's great!"
"No it's not!" Ami practically yelled, her panic starting to show, "What if my grades slip to this level!? What if I'm not able to get into medical school because of this!?"
"Ami-chan!" Usagi said, placing her hands on Ami's shoulders and shook her a bit, "You'll be FINE!"
"Yeah," Mako chimed in, "Everyone had trouble with these exams, so don't feel so down."
"Not that person…" Ami sighed, pointing over to a crowd of people surrounding someone.
"Another new student?" Usagi asked.
"But why would someone enroll in a school during an exam day?" Ami questioned, "How could you possibly know the material?"
Marcus then appeared, attempting to shoo off the crowd of amazed students, "Alright, alright, that's enough. Anna's just a normal student like everyone else, if you're wondering how she got what she got, simple. She studied." The students groaned and dispersed. When the crowd was gone, a tall girl, not as tall as Mako, was revealed. The girl had black hair and green eyes, she was rather attractive, and her left cheek showed a dimple when she smiled.
"Thanks Marcus," Anna said, smiling slightly.
"Not a problem," Marcus replied.
Usagi, Mako, and Ami walked up to the two, and Usagi poked Marcus' shoulder, "You know this girl?"
"Yeah," Marcus nodded, "This is Anna Kyo. She's one of the three new students who enrolled here."
"Nice to meet you!" Anna exclaimed, smiling brightly at the three.
"Nice to meet you too! My name is Usagi Tsukino, and these are my friends, Ami Mizuno and Makoto Kino!" Usagi replied, "Wait, there's more?"
"Yeah," Marcus said, "Grace Hikari and Kate Hibiki. They're sisters, and should be around here somewhere…" Marcus mumbled the last part, looking around the hallways slowly.
"Anna?" Ami asked.
"Yeah?" Anna replied.
"Why were all those students surrounding you?" Ami asked, shuffling a bit awkwardly.
"Oh, that's because I scored a 100 on that exam," Anna replied, smiling proudly at herself.
"A-A perfect score!?" Ami asked, her eyes widening slightly.
"Oh, it's not a big deal," Anna replied, waving a hand.
"Heeeeeyyyyyy guyssssssss~!" the girly voice caused the group to turn around. Two girls were walking over to the group, grinning.
"Here they are!" Marcus said, grinning himself, "Grace and Kate!" Grace had long brown hair with a hint of blonde to it, blue eyes and was only shorter than Anna out of the three; Kate had short blonde hair, also blue eyes, and happened to be the shortest out of the three, only being barley taller than Usagi.
"Sorry we're late," Grace said, "This one here almost gave us detention," She nudged her head at Kate.
"SORRRRRY," Kate said in a monotonous voice, "Hey, who are these guys?"
"I'm Usagi Tsukino!"
"Makoto Kino."
"Ami Mizuno."
"Nice to meet you!" Grace and Kate said in a sisterly way in unison.
"Hey, Usagi-chan," Ami whispered, "We don't wanna be late…and I have to get by the library before it closes too…"
"Hai," Usagi nodded, then turned to the group of four, "Well, it was nice meeting you! We have to get going now, but I hope we can see you soon!" Usagi waved to the group of four as she left with Mako and Ami.
"Oi, took you long enough to get here," Marcus said, "I thought I was gonna have to do the heavy lifting for a few more days…"
"Yeah, yeah," Grace replied, waving a hand.
"You might wanna take a look around the city," Marcus suggested, "Get to know your way around."
"Aren't you coming to show us around?" Kate asked.
"Busy…with…you know…things…" Marcus replied, sheepishly rubbing the back of his head.
"Sounds good to me," Anna said with a grin, "Let's give ourselves a tour~."
"Don't get side tracked shopping…" Marcus muttered.
At Usagi's house, Usagi, Chibiusa, Luna, Mamoru, Ami, Mako, and Rei were sitting in the living room, patiently waiting for Minako and Artemis.
"Ugh, when are they gonna get here?" Rei asked, tapping her foot on the floor impatiently. A few minutes later, there was a knock at the door.
"I'll get it!" Chibiusa said happily, skipping over to the door and opening it, revealing Minako and Artemis.
"Sorry we're late!" Artemis said, walking inside with Minako, "This one here got sidetracked with a few boys…"
"Hmph…" Minako crossed her arms and huffed, walking inside.
"Took you long enough," Rei commented.
"Now that everyone's here," Luna began, "we can finally begin to discuss what I think this new enemy may be after."
"What is it?" Usagi asked, tilting her head.
"Artemis and I have done a little more research unto this matter of the Pure Souls," Luna started, "It appears that there are eight special colors of Pure Souls."
"Special colors?" Ami asked, rubbing her chin slightly.
"Red, Blue, Green, Purple, White, Yellow, and the most important two, the Gold and Dark Souls," Luna nodded as she finished the list.
"Dark…Gold?" Mako repeated, "Are they the most powerful or something?"
"We're not sure yet," Artemis chimed in, "But, if the enemy somehow manages to collect all of these souls, it won't be good…"
"But…wait…" Minako interrupted, "Didn't you say that if a soul is removed…that person dies…?"
After Minako's comment, things were silent for a bit, but Rei shook her head lightly, "I don't think they care about that…We can't just let them take away people's souls…but we can't let those people keep their souls either…they'll always be a target…" Her comment didn't help the silence, but it was one of those things that everyone needed to hear, but not what they wanted to hear, especially for idealist such as Usagi.
"There has to be a way…" Usagi mumbled.
"Hey guys…" Mako started, "I just remembered…does anyone know who that guy was?"
"Which guy?" Mamoru asked.
"That Masked Crusader guy!" Mako replied.
"Masked who?" Luna asked, tilting her head.
"This guy who looked exactly like Mamo-chan when he's Tuxedo Mask!" Chibiusa shouted, flailing her arms around.
"What…?!" The two cats were confused. They hadn't heard about someone like this before.
"He seemed experienced too," Mamoru said while crossing his arms, "I'm not sure who's side he's on…but I'm sure we'll want to keep a careful eye on him…"
"There's no way all of this could be a coincidence either…" Ami mumbled under her breath. Just then, she remembered something and she shot up, "Oh no, the library!"
"What's wrong, Ami-chan?!" Rei asked, a worried look on her face.
"I forgot to return these books! And it's almost closing time!" Ami said, starting to panic.
"Oh…" Rei sighed, shaking her head lightly.
"I guess we're done here then," Mamoru said, "I have something I need to take care of, but you all stay safe, alright?" The girls nodded and he kissed Usagi's cheek before leaving.
"I have to get going to the library…" Ami said, quickly picking up her bag.
"Hey wait!" Mako quickly jumped up, "How about we all go together?" If the enemy happens to attack either you or us, it wouldn't end well, and there's strength in numbers, right?"
Ami nodded, "of course, Mako-chan."
At the library, Marcus, Grace, Anna, and Kate were all sitting at a table, having some kind of discussion. They were too into their conversation to notice O'Chunkten, who was bumbling around, lost in the building.
"And that's basically the entire rundown of what happened last night," Marcus said, nodding.
"Sounds like they had a rough time, and you an easy one," Kate replied.
"Oh yeah, it was a breeze," Marcus smirked, rubbing the bottom of his nose with his finger, "But, I think we should keep an eye on them, you know? Just in case things happen to go south?"
"I understand," Grace said.
"Hey guys," Anna chimed in, looking around at the lack of people in the building, "It's almost closing time, should we continue this later?"
"Oi…it is late…" Grace said, a bit surprised that time went away so quickly, "Yeah," she said, standing up along with the others, "Let's go home, and finish this another time." The four walked out of the building, passing Usagi, and her friends on the way out, giving them a slight wave before exiting.
Minako, Chibiusa, and Rei tilting their heads in confusion, "Who were those guys?" Minako asked.
"Oh, just a few new people we met in school yesterday and today," Usagi said, smiling lightly.
In the back of the library, O'Chunkten was constantly glancing at the picture of the target he and been giving, looking up to see where he was going, but it wasn't too effective as he kept getting lost, "Aye, I hate this place already," he muttered, accidently bumping into someone.
"H-hey!" O'Chunkten had bumped into a woman with blonde hair, her hair tied up in a bun and she was wearing what you would normally expect to see on a female Liberian."
"Oh, terribly sorry la-" O'Chunkten started his apology, then looked at the picture he had been given, then back at the woman, giving a smirk, "Found ya."
Ami casually placed the books she had borrowed into the return slot, and grinned slightly, "All finished!"
"Great!" Chibiusa began, "Now let's get out of here! This place is putting me to sleep…" She yawned slightly, but a sharp scream quickly put her on her toes, "W-What was that!?" The girls ran to the source of the scream, peering behind a shelf and spotted O'Chunkten.
"It's him again!" Mako mumbled.
"Girls, let's go!" Rei shouted.
O'Chunkten pried the soul out of the woman's chest, frowning heavily as he only pulled out a pink sphere, "Are you kidding me?!" O'Chunkten groaned, "Lousy…"
"Hold it right there!" Sailor Moon commanded.
"Oh you can't be serious…" O'Chunkten dropped the body, letting the soul fall back into the woman's body as he turned to the Sailor Scouts, "You lasses AGAIN?! Can't you take a break or something!?"
"We won't rest until we stop you and your evil plans!" Venus shouted.
"Aye…just when I thought the Black Bull got rid of ya…" He sighed, "Well, I suppose it's time I introduced myself! The name's O'Chunkten, strongest minion to Count Dark!"
"Huh..." Mercury tapped her chin at the unfamiliar name, "Who is Count Dark?"
"You're gonna have to live without knowing who he is," O'Chunkten replied, smirking deviously, "Because you're all gonna die tonight!" He snapped his fingers, "Black Armor, teach these girls a lesson!" A dark hole opened up, and a large black knight's armor spawned from the hole, holding a black sword and a black shield. "I'm gonna make sure you all die tonight!"
"EYAH!" Sailor Moon backed away a little at the sight of the black sword, "IT'S HUGE!"
"Stay on your toes, everyone!" Mars cautioned.
Jupiter, smirked, placing her hands together, "You know what they say," she gathered electricity in the palm of her hand, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall!" She hurled the Sparking Wide Pressure at the Black Armor, but the energy disc merely dissipated once it hit the Armor, having no effect, "W-What!?"
O'Chunkten laughed a hardy laugh, "Oh, I'm afraid that's not goin' ta work lasses!" The Black Armor then brought its sword down, causing the girls to jump away from each other, crashing into some of the shelves. "Oh ho! Did that hurt?"
"Shut up!" Venus summoned her Venus Love me Chain, wrapping it around the Armor's sword, attempting to tug it away from it, but she was having a hard time doing so, "S-Stop struggling!" Before she could yank the sword away, the Armor tugged on the chain, pulling Venus forward, then used its shield to knock her away, causing her to hit the wall and fall over, "Ugh…"
"Don't let up!" O'Chunkten laughed once again as the Armor slammed a foot on the ground, knocking over the Scouts who were still on their feet.
"W-What do we do!?" Sailor Moon was panicking, quickly running out of ideas.
"You die," O'Chunkten replied, smirking at his soon to be victory.
"Hold it right there, vile villain!" A voice said from the entrance.
"What the!?" O'Chunkten turned towards the front door, spotting three familiarly dressed figures, "Who the?!"
Three girls were standing at the entrance to the library "We cannot allow such vile acts to go without punishment! Attacking innocent ladies is an unforgivable act! Pretty suited sailors with my sailor senshi! Sailor X!" When she stepped up, her outfit was just of that as the Sailor Scouts, but hers was Purple. She was tall, almost as tall as Jupiter, had black hair and green eyes.
"Sailor Y!" She was the shortest of the three, having short blonde hair and blue eyes. Her outfit was gray.
"And the leader of the three, Sailor Z!" She was in-between Sailors X and Y in height, had long brown hair, and her outfit was Yellow "In the name of the stars, we will punish you!"
"Oh you've gotta be kiddin' me!? MORE of you Scouts?!" O'Chunkten was in disbelief, how could there be more than six!?
"M-More Sailor Scouts..!?" Sailor Moon and the others were just as surprised as O'Chunkten was, and they had no idea who these girls were.
"Black Armor, get rid of them!" O'Chunkten yelled in frustration as he pointed his finger forward.
The Armor then raised its sword over its head, preparing to bring it down on the set of three scouts, "Not so fast!" Sailor Y yelled out. She opened one of her palms, a transparent ball of something forming, "Gravity Ball!" The transparent ball flew forward, hitting the sword the Armor was carrying, reducing the gravity on it and caused the sword to fly into the air.
"W-WHOA!" Chibi Moon was in amazement, she had never seen someone control gravity so easily.
Sailor X was next. She pointed her finger forward, a small meteorite appearing and quickly increasing in size, "Meteor Crash!" She fired the meteor forward, making direct contact with the Black Armor who tried to use its shield, causing it to stumble back and hit the ground.
"What the?!" O'Chunkten had to jump away from the falling suit of armor, completely amazed and in shock that it was being dealt with so easily.
"My turn!" Sailor Z stepped up, smirking. She pointed a hand out, a large white star beginning to form in her hand, "Star….Cannon!" She fired off the Star Cannon, the large white star instantly making contact with the Black Armor, but it seemed to have no effect.
"It didn't work…!" Mars croaked.
"Huh…Guess I was worried fer nothin'…" O'Chunkten sighed, rubbing the back of his head.
"Ah ah ah…." Sailor Z remarked, waving one of her fingers tauntingly, "Something with a hard exterior usually has a very soft interior," She smirked as she saw rays of white light emitting from the inside of the Armor, which eventually caused it to explode into light a few seconds later.
"No way!" Jupiter commented with her jaw wide open.
"They took it out in less than two minutes…!" Venus remarked, rubbing her head."
"I didn't plan for this…! Ack!" Without wasting another moment, O'Chunkten vanished.
"Whoa…" Sailor Moon shook her head, looking up at the trio of X Y and Z, "How did you guys do that…? We were having such a hard time and yet you guys came in and beat it quickly…"
"That's because you guys are weak," Sailor Z said, with a bit of attitude.
"Excuse me!?" Mars' hotheaded nature was easily brought into this by Z's remark.
"You heard her," Sailor Y stepped, in, giving a slight look of disappointment to the Inner Senshi.
"Who are you to give us attitude!?" Mars yelled at Y and Z, standing up to get in their faces, but Venus held her back, and all she did was glare.
"We're the ones who saved your hides," Sailor X said, sighing while crossing her arms and shaking her heads. "We didn't even get a thank you, not that we wanted one anyway. We didn't come to save you; we just couldn't allow something like that to roam this area."
"There's no need for attitude," Jupiter remarked, unable to help but return the look of disappointment with a look of anger.
"We haven't even been here for long and we're already protecting your city better than you," Sailor Z said, shaking her head, then she turned her back to the Scouts and looked over her shoulder, "You should really do some training or something, don't rely on us to save your hides again," as she said that, she, X, and Y walked out.
"Who do those guys think they are!?" Mars shouted, letting out a frustrated groan.
On a building near the library, the same figure from before had been watching, but they groaned, "Ugh…a Pure Soul wasn't there either…where are they hiding…"