Chapter 3

Haruka found herself in completely black space, which seemed to stretch out without the end. The girl felt terrible cold on hands and the face. Absolute silence prevailed there; Haruka could hear every beat of her heart and the smallest movement inside her body. She lost the form of Sailor Uranus for unknown reasons; she was wearing brown trousers, the jacket, black shirt and the cross on her neck. It was really strange because she didn't even have these clothes in the hotel room. She was horrified; she didn't know what to do. Michiru figure and fear of what could happen to the girl after they lost contact appeared in her thoughts. She noticed some faint light. It was becoming more and more bright; it seemed to invite her to its inside. Uranus ran in its direction. Despite she was moving fastest she could, she thought that she was approaching it entire eternity. When she was already very close and the light became as great as her body, she noticed that it was assuming the shape of the girl wearing white dress. Her black hair was waving on the non-existent wind. When eyes of the blonde got used to the glitter, she recognized the face of the apparition.

"Ariel? What are you doing here?" The girl asked.

"I used the chaos to reach you crossing the barrier between worlds. I traveled time and space and the endless number of realities in order to give you a message. Haruka, leave your world full of pain and suffering. Leave the fate which causes you only continuous unpleasantness. Go with me. We will go to the place where nobody find us... Together we can change this world, all worlds, to better."

She raised the hand out to the girl and gave her a genuine smile.

"Quickly, I cannot talk to you longer."

"I cannot. Michiru is waiting for me. She's in danger; I must come back to her, irrespective of everything."

Ariel became sad.

"Goodbye Haruka, we will never meet each other again. Irrespective of what the Tearing will bring to us..." Specter of the young elf figure disappeared in the darkness.

"Raise the eyes over the lie!" Uranus heard a squawking voice of the old witch.

"Force your way through the charm of the illusion! See the world as it really is!"

"Fight the lie! See the truth!" Body of the girl was flooded by white, warm lighting. It was too bight for her, she closed her eyes. She opened them feeling a puff of wind on the face. As it turned out she was again in the forest. A few hours had passed, because it was already bright and the Sun was rising above the horizon. Haruka looked around herself. Forests were whispering around her and their green acted tranquilly on the girl. She noticed small lake steamed up with a fog and old, breaking down wooden house in the vicinity. The blonde realized that something was wrong. There was no hotel or nearby buildings, not a sign of Michiru and other persons. The girl became nervous.

"Michiru! Can you hear me? She was running around the forest clearing searching for the track of any elements of the small town. She stopped suddenly noticing the old woman standing on the shore of the lake. She became irritated very much and ran up to her.

"What did you do to me? Where did you take me! Where is Michiru!" The old witch didn't answer, didn't even turn around. Uranus jumped before her.

"These are your spells! Am I right? Where am I?"

"In the real world..." The woman replied.

"In the real world? What happened to the hotel? Where are Michiru and the others?" Haruka wanted answers.

"Don't talk to me this way. You should thank me that I helped you." the witch answered.

"Where are the hotel and friends of mine?"

"Heh... you won't give up... There is no hotel because it never existed. You and your acquaintances became victims of hateful women, you let lure yourselves to their illusion. I managed to drag you out from there... One day longer and you would become their next victim."

"Their? Who are they? What is happening there? You probably don't realize who I am, woman?" "Yeah, yeah... I know who you are... but it does not make any difference for them... even if they won't overcome your minds, because they cannot... they will remove you from their illusion as weeds from the perfect garden." Haruka clenched fists.

"I must come back there. Immediately! Michiru's still there! If something happened to her during this time..."

"No! I didn't take you from there just to give you back to them in a minute! Next night I will go for the girl provided they don't kill her earlier!" Uranus came closer to the old woman. She took her sword out.

"You must take me there! I'll drag her out from there immediately!" She said with a hate. The old person shrugged her shoulders.

"How are you going to get her out of the place about which you know nothing? How are you going to fight with the enemy you don't know?"

"Excellent! In that case I'll find the entry to this place alone, I managed it once."

"Because they wanted it!" The old woman shouted.

"Don't annoy me, witch! I can defeat you." Uranus' Sword glimmered with a bright light.

"And never be able to rescue your lover!" The witch hissed spitting on her legs. Haruka lowered the sword.

"Well. It'll be like you want. You'll tell me everything what you know about them. Later you're taking me to Michiru."

"Good, good..." The old woman glowered at her and asked to go after her toward the forest.

Michiru was looking all around trying to find the familiar Haruka's figure in the darkness, unfortunately without any success. She didn't feel the bond with the girl which she had from the moment they had met for the first time. It could mean that the blonde was somewhere very far or she didn't live. But Michiru didn't allow the second alternative.

"I'll find you and we'll leave from here together." She said trying to support herself. She knew that she must ensure security for Sakiko and Ruri, girls which were defenseless against the evil magic embracing this place. She ran up to first of them. Black-haired girl was feeling much better; she was sitting at Ruri's side and was embracing her gently.

"What's with her?" Neptune asked.

"She's in a state of shock. There isn't any contact with her. She could see how it had taken her boyfriend. It had her in its grasps also; it isn't obvious what damage it could make to her mind."

"How are you feeling?"

"I'm okay, Michiru... but when I was unconscious I saw something strange. I think I moved to different place."

"You'll tell me about it later. Now help me lead Ruri to her room." Ginger girl was kneeling on the grass. Her entire body was shaking. Her eyes were opened; streams of tears were flowing from them. Her mouth was moving, but she didn't manage to produce any sound.

"You knew that I was Sailor Neptune and Haruka was Uranus... all the time right?"

"I told you I had the gift of seeing the true nature of things."

Girls helped their friend to get up and they led her inside the hotel. All three entered one of guest rooms. Sakiko put Ruri on the bed. The girl curled up in a ball, she was shivering all the time. She pressed her hands to the bedding. Black-haired girl leaned against the wall. She swept hair aside from her eyes. Her forehead was poured with sweat drops.

"Michiru... I'm feeling terribly bad. I'm so weak... I think I'm going to faint..." She came up to the bed and lay down on it, beside her red haired friend. She pressed hands to bed and lost consciousness. Michiru also was feeling very bad. The image smudged in front of her eyes. She felt that her awareness was swimming away somewhere. With her last breath she managed to take her Mirror out.

"You won't get us so easily..."

"Submarine Reflection!" She shouted surrounding the space around the bed with a round barrier of magic water. She fell on the bed losing consciousness and her mirror fell down on the floor. The shadow of the being with three heads appeared on one of walls. It looked out as if it was observing the flickering barrier created by Neptune.

"This time you escaped…" It whispered with a voice coming from the other world.

"But there is a night tomorrow... and we have a time... a lot of time." The shadow laughed.

Haruka followed the old woman through the forest thicket. The witch trampled the path down removing branches standing on her way with a gnarled cane. Uranus was furious, she felt like fighting with the woman. She knew, however that she must preserve the peace and the cleanness of her mind, because although witch could be an enemy and cause of all evil in her surroundings, she was the only person able to take her to the place where Michiru was imprisoned. She didn't like prevailing silence, but every attempt to speak ended with putting the cane to her head and hateful look of the woman. After long minutes of walk they both reached a small glade on which the wooden house stood. It was very old, covered with a moss and well integrated into a nearby forest. There were a few wooden statues stuck into the marshy earth in front of the house showing terribly warped bodies and faces frozen in a cry of anger and fear. The witch ordered the girl to wait and she alone came up to the door of the cottage. She tapped it three times with her cane. The door opened with nasty creaking. The old person moved aside, she smiled asking Haruka to enter first. Uranus took her sword out in the case of a threat and crossed through the doorstep of the house. Darkness, stink of the damp, old place and the webs hanging from walls, the ceiling and the furniture inside the house greeted her. The girl was looking around carefully. She noticed bookshelves and shelves full of large jars, roots, books and objects which origin and role she didn't even want to guess. Something meowed. A black cat with one eye cuddled up to legs of the girl. Uranus felt unsteadily but she smiled to the animal. The cat was more and more pushy; the witch chased it away with knocking her cane off. The animal ran away somewhere behind wardrobes with a squeal.

"He is very irritating... but keeps me company every day." The old woman squawked.

"He didn't disturb me..." The girl said examining shelves.

"Heh..." The woman waved the hand.

"What did you spotted there? You have good eyes. It's the root from the world of dancing trees, singing a song about the missing unicorn... and this jewel case comes from the land of the eternal night placed in dead body of some god gone long time ago... and it's the book of spells which was ancient when Atlantis was born... and there is a large jar in which silicon dreams about electric sheep are whispering, I got it from King of Dreams himself - he also didn't resist my charm in my youth... as you see this place is full of unusual and precious things. Therefore there is no road to it, I must trample down new one every day... but you probably didn't come here to listen to stories about my house."

"You know well why I agreed to hear you out."

"Heh, sit down." The witch handed the small, three-legged wooden stool to the blonde. She sat down on a similar one. She spat to the fireplace and her saliva lighted a fire.

"Persons who created that forbidden place were very dear for me... a long time ago when they still weren't corrupted by the evil power... they were my three daughters. Don't ask where I come from and when I came to this reality, because you learn nothing from me. The fact is that I gave birth to triplets once, three girls, my three dearest daughters... I lived in the normal city then a long way from here, living or maybe pretending that I lived, the life of normal woman... I tried to break the connection with black magic towards which I had been attracted many years ago... When girls were born I thought that everything had already been all right, that I had left behind my former, bad life. In these times I saw no unusual things, my acquaintances from other realities didn't visit me anymore. Before having my daughters I decided to get rid of the entire magic sticking in me, I locked it up in this house; I stamped it with a seal of devil's skin and with the chain made by demons seething with a fire carrying false hopes. When girls developed normally and demonstrated no indications of oddities I thought that I had broken with my past entirely. I was happy being able to watch how they were growing up. I was wrong so much then... one day girls found the road to the black magic... they traveled around the city searching for books, people or any information about the magic... they were unhealthily interested in it, simply as if something called them from the other side, it tempted them with the power, it invited them into its embraces... I tried to do everything in order to turn them back from this way, but in a vain. One night they summoned the Triple Goddess using ancient manuscripts, Woman of the Night walking on forking roads during the full moon, having a lot of names, Hekate... during the ritual in which they made an offering for her of their menstrual blood, they summoned her to the Earth... The Moon was exceptionally big and beautiful that night... they cheated the Three Ladies offering them something false for the piece of their power... they became powerful, very powerful. The power closed in mortal bodies brought the frenzy to minds of girls. They thought that they were a Goddess, that they could arbitrate the life of ordinary men. They escaped from the house blotting all trails out behind themselves... in order to find them, and I had to do it because they were a threat to this planet... it was necessary that I came back to the former life, to become the Witch. So it happened...

Unfortunately when I found my children it was already too late. Using abilities stolen from Kindly Ones they tore the part of reality out from this place and created the zone in which their power was absolute... In order to stay powerful they had to steal souls from people... they fed on them. Using the memory and dreams of first killed people they created the illusion - the city and the inn into which they attracted passengers in order to take their life... Their illusion changed with passing years and every next human consumed by these devious witches. I have learnt how to enter their mirage and to drag their victims out from there. This was the only way I could fight them... to take food away from them and to weaken them and in the end they would be drained from the power they stole."

Haruka listened carefully to the story of old woman. When she finished, the girl got up. She was ready to act.

"Why won't the Goddess get back what they stole from her if she knows that she was cheated?" "Eternal beings are obeying principles about which we can know nothing..."

"Now when I heard this story out, will you help me to get to their illusion? Will you help me to rescue Michiru?"

"Ah, ah, ah... you are so stupid! Did you understand nothing from my history? You aren't able to defeat them in their realm! It is their world! They are almighty there! We can only weaken them through taking victims away from them! Nothing apart from that! If we tried to fight with them openly they would sweep us like dust!"

"I won't leave Michiru at the mercy of these monsters! I'll find a way to come back there, I'll rescue Neptune; I'll get her from their..."

"I told you that you don't have a chance with these witches! They don't have restrictions in their realm!"

"In that case, is there some way to take them out from there?"

"I have thought about it for years...it can't be done... they are connected with this place, they are there everywhere; they are that place..."

Uranus activated her magic sword. She grasped it strongly. The old woman sat more comfortably on the stool.

"Is there some way to defeat them, or even to weaken them, some way which gives a slight hope for the victory?"

"Eh... you are stubborn one and you want to get your own way. There is a way. Hekate has to be summoned in that realm and we must convince her somehow to get back the power stolen from her by my triplets..."

Haruka smiled.

"Yeah what are waiting for?"

"Eh, eh, hoick! Summoning the Kindly Ones is time-consuming and complicated spell! These witches will destroy me before I manage to say the first words..."

"And what if I and Neptune fight with Sisters while you'll be summoning the Goddess?" The old person spat to the fireplace. The fire churned up.

"It has the off-chance of the success..." the witch admitted.

"In that case..."

"Heh... you must really love her to risk the safety of the world for her".

"You can't even imagine how much. World could not exist if Michiru wasn't in it."

Haruka set off to the door, she opened them. More pleasant forest air enfolded her.

"You are so young..." The witch whispered. Both women left the cottage. Blonde girl looked back. The house of old woman was completely different than she remembered it. It was smaller, wooden; it was standing on two chicken legs. The witch waved the cane and her cottage came off in unknown direction.

"I said that I always destroy the road to my retreat. If we will survive I will have to trample down new one." She waved her cane several times. A bright passage opened before Uranus.

The Sun rose above the hotel and the weather slowly became as hot as the day before. Live in nearby houses was progressing drowsily, people were bumming about aimlessly along streets, as if dramatic events of the previous night were only someone's nightmare. Rays falling through the opened window of the hotel accommodation on Michiru's face roused her. She turned to the other side of the bed and saw that Ruri was beside her. The girl was lying motionless, she was breathing calmly. Neptune was glad that she had managed to fall asleep after the shock she had survived few hours ago. She got up, combed her hair. She looked around in search of her second friend. She was nowhere to be seen. Green haired girl looked out through the window, filled her lungs with morning air and then she heard water pouring in the bathroom. Because the door was opened, she came inside. She spotted black clothes and the underwear left about after the floor. Naked Sakiko was standing in the steamed up cabin of the shower. Water was pouring after her body and hair. Michiru leaned against a door case, looking at her friend. After a few minutes Sakiko turned water off and came out of the shower. Seeing a familiar face she was disconcerted, she immediately wrapped up with black towel.

"Hello, I can see that you already woke up."

"I didn't imagine you as an early bird."

"Oh well, appearances can be deceiving..." Sakiko came to up to green haired girl. She touched her own neck covering something by hand.

"Listen, I'm feeling a bit embarrassed when somebody is looking at me. Can you leave me for a moment, I want to get dressed."

"No problem." Michiru was embarrassed and left the bathroom closing the door. She sat down on the bed, picked her mirror up from the floor but she saw nothing inside it once again. Sakiko appeared in the room dressed. She looked at Ruri.

"She's calm. She's sleeping. We'd better not to wake her up, let her organism recover.

"You're right; however we must have a serious talk. About you and about what's happening inside this place."

"I agree Michiru, but not here... let us leave outside. A lake is the only place in which I'm feeling relaxed."

"All right".

Both girls left the room. One of maids stopped them nearby the stairwell. She had a very unpleasant facial expression.

"Excuse me, but I received a lot of complaints about your behavior from our guests."

"What?" Sakiko was surprised. Michiru was mutely waiting for the course of events.

"I must ask you to leave this hotel. If you don't do it I'll have to call security." Neptune reached for transformation's pen.

"Go hide somewhere, Sakiko." The woman noticed that girls were ready for the escape. She appeared near Michiru very quickly and knocked the pen from her hand with a strong kick. The object rolled after the floor to the other end of the corridor. Neptune grasped her opponent by her clothes and threw her against a wall with all her might. The woman got up, her dressing changed into black, close-fitting costume.

"Since you don't want to adapt to my paradise... you will be removed from it like a bacteria from healthy organism!" A few rooms opened in a flash. Women dressed similarly in black emerged from them.

"Remove these parasites!" The maid shouted. Four figures attacked the girls. Michiru avoided their blows, she even managed to throw down two opponents. Sakiko was standing in an out-of-the-way place all the time hesitating to act. Neptune wanted to hit the chin of one of assailants, but she blocked her blow. The second woman struck the girl in the stomach. Michiru hit the wall. The leader of women came up to her and slapped her in the face very strongly. Blood started flowing from the nose of green haired girl. Sakiko clenched her fist, her face expressed terrible anger. Her eyes started to change; pupils became thin like a snake's. She opened her mouth. Two sharp teeth sticking out beyond the line of others appeared inside it. The girl attacked women to help her friend. She threw the first woman down the stairs; then grabbed second one by her clothes and threw her away outside the hotel breaking the window. Two other assailants tried to defend themselves. Without any success, because might of Sakiko's blows were too great for them. Assailants butted against the wall breaking all their bones. The girl came up to their leader. She gripped her hand. When woman tried to defend herself, she broke her arm.

"This is for Michiru's stomach". After a moment she broke her second hand.

"This one's for her nose." The maid looked at her with a fear in eyes.

"What are you?" Sakiko laughed showing her vampire teeth.

"Nothing worse than you, certainly!"

After these words she broke the neck of the woman and put her on the floor. Michiru using the moment of the confusion ran to the transformation's pen. Unfortunately she was unlucky. Very fat woman who all the time loitered after the hotel leaped from the door. She captured the girl with her oily hands. She started constricting her. Neptune could not break free from her hug. She felt pain in the ribcage; she knew that one of her ribs had been broken. Sakiko seeing her friend in a danger again jumped on the fat woman. The lady hit her with her big paw. Black-haired girl lost her balance, but after a moment she regained it. She caught fat lady by her dress and threw her far from injured Michiru. She gathered speed and hit her in the face. Woman smashed stairwell balustrade up with her bulk and fell on the lower level. Sakiko being in a frenzy rushed after her not thinking of her own safety. She touched down on the fatso, and leaned above her. She plunged her teeth in woman's neck.

"Sakiko no! Sakiko, don't do it!" Michiru shouted. She was standing on stairs holding her ribs. Every word caused her pain and blood was still flowing from her nose.

"I beg you..." Black-haired girl left the fat lady alone. She got up and spat.

"What's this? What do they have in themselves! They aren't people..." She said. She slowly came up to Michiru and leaned against the wall by her.

"What have they done..." She slid down the wall and sat down on stairs. Neptune did the same thing. "Now you'll avoid the explanations no longer, who are you..." She whispered. She lost all her self-confidence; one can see that she felt bad.

"Yes... Do you feel really bad?"

"Worse... but if you'll bring me the pen to the transformation... In the Sailor Neptune form my wounds heal more quickly."

"Ok!" Sakiko came to the upper level and handed the pen to the girl.

"Neptune of Power Planets, Make Up!"

Michiru transformed into Sailor Senshi. Right after the transformation she clutched her rib feeling great pain. She sat down on the stairs again. The hemorrhage from the nose reduced but it didn't stop. Sakiko sat down by her.

"You said that you'd be ok."

"No, I said that I'd cure myself more quickly, not that I would heal immediately..." Girls didn't say word to themselves and after a moment Sakiko started the story.

"When I was thirteen... something, I don't have the slightest idea what it was... it bit me. I couldn't see exactly how it looked, it was certainly a man dressed in a black of the night... He did nothing more to me, he simply bit my neck..." The girl demonstrated two scars.

"I have them since that time. They're reminding me of what I was and what I became. After biting I started changing. The Sun, or any other dazzle annoyed me, my strength increased itself and one day I started feel hunger..."

"Hunger for blood?" Michiru asked.

"Yes, hunger for blood... Then I knew that I had become a monster. I was afraid of myself, I hated myself... I tried to take my own life but my wounds healed quickly... the life was a real nightmare for me. I escaped from my home and I had wandered for a few years trying to find my place on the Earth. As it turned out I'm not the real vampire, not like the one described in books. I can eat normal things; I can walk when there's the Sun, although I don't like it because it wounds my eyes... I'm growing old normally, today I'm 20 and probably I look 20... Blessed water, Christian crosses and other objects of this type don't cause me the pain... and from the aspen stake I'd most probably die like everyone else... I'm stronger than others, and..."

"Do you drink the blood of people?" Sakiko buried her face behind her hair.

"This does not work this way... I said I could eat normal food. Blood only causes I'm feeling better and I'm really strong. I can hold on long without drinking... at one time even two years... One day I resolved that I would track down this monster which changed me. I'll find it and I'll destroy it so that he'll never destroy life of other girl. Since then I've been traveling around the world to places where strange events happen and I've been hunting beings which exploits people as their targets. This way I found my way to this place... but this time the case surpassed me."

"Saki, tell me did you drank a blood of ordinary man?"

"Yes..." Sakiko didn't want to look at the eyes of her friend. She turned away her head.

"But they have always been evil people who deserved to be punished."

"If circumstances were different I would have to fight with you. You're a threat to people." Michiru noticed that something strange was happening to her friend. The girl cringed. She went into convulsions; beads of sweat were flowing down her face. She became very pale.

"What is happening to you?"

"It's the hunger... it always appears when I plunge teeth in the skin and don't drink even a droplet... that something didn't have any blood inside... I'm feeling terrible; you'll probably have to leave me behind..." Michiru came closer to her. She showed her nose and the trickle of blood flowing from it.

"Will it be enough for you?"

"Michiru, I cannot... you're my friend." A convulsion caught her, she clutched her belly.

"Think about it like a favor". I need you to solve the riddle of this place." Sakiko slowly moved her mouth to the Michiru's face. She looked at her, hesitated for a moment… then she pressed the mouth to the place in which the streak of blood was flowing. She started to drink, her pupils became thin, she closed her eyes. She moved the mouth along the red path. After a moment she turned away from her friend.

"It'll be enough..." She leaned against the wall. Neptune was looking at her with sad eyes.

"Thank you Michiru... thank you..."

Meanwhile upstairs, cracks of the bones were heard in bodies of black maids. Their skeletons knitted themselves, and their bodies came back to life and the plenitude of power. After a moment all women got up, their leader showed the door leading to Ruri's room. Black figures moved to their side. Sakiko and Michiru heard the piercing scream reaching from the upper the level.

"It's Ruri!" black haired vampire said.

"Something happened to her!"

Neptune quickly got up. She felt a stabbing pain in the side again; she tried to catch her breath. Sakiko helped her to stay.

"You are so cold, Sakiko." Michiru said surprised.

"I'll be better..." Girls went one level up. They noticed a dozen black people standing in the circle in the middle of the corridor. The maid, their leader was holding unconscious Ruri.

"And who will win this time?" She asked.

"Leave Ruri be!" Sakiko shouted.

"This girl doesn't have a clue about what is happening here!"

"Ha! ha! And perhaps I will remind you something?" The woman caught Ruri as if she wanted to break her neck.

"Don't do it!" Sakiko yelled even louder.

"Well. If you want her to be alive, come to the square of the small town. Your execution will be held there!" All persons jumped out of the window, the figure keeping Ruri also. Sakiko ran up to the window and looked outside it. It was no sign of black women or Ruri.

"Damn it, it'll be hard... we're weakened and there'll be probably hundreds of these lice in the square."

"Most probably, but we must go there." Michiru was determined. Fat lady was standing on the stairs, she slobbered terribly.

"You'll go nowhere! And as for you, you gloomy, black whore! I'll eat you for the dinner." Fat woman opened her mouth from which saliva was dripping wide.

"Deep Submerge!" Michiru formed the bullet of the blue light and hurled it at the monster. The fatso was submerged deep in the wall of water. She fell on stairs without consciousness.

"Now, we must leave from here before she recovers!" Neptune caught Sakiko's hand and came off to the exit from the hotel. Girls were on the road leading to the city. They still were feeling bad but they knew that they must cover the distance and rescue Ruri from hands of monsters ruling this place. Neptune stopped for a moment. She clutched her side.

"Michiru, if it hurts very much, please stay. I'll try alone..."

"No, I'm Sailor Senshi. A protection of people against such threats is my duty and my destiny. I'll only need to catch my breath..." After a moment Neptune cleared her mind. Both girls started their walk towards the settlements. The walk was tiresome, the day was hot and the girls were injured after the fight with their enemies. They knew that they had to go forward, they could not give up. Finally, they found themselves at the foot of the small town. The view which they found there filled them with a terror. The square was covered by people of different ages dressed in black: men, women, children and old men. Amongst the crowd Michiru noticed the seller from the shop, guests from the hotel but also laughing Kazusa and Ichiban. The maid was standing in the very middle of the assembly. Her two companions were keeping dazed Ruri.

"I welcome you in our wonderful paradise! It's pity that you must be driven out from it, you dirty sinners!" Sakiko clenched her fists. Neptune held her back with a sign of hand.

"Hold on, I'll try to surround Ruri with a protective field..." She took her mirror out. At that very moment a shapeless creature of black mass formed nearby girls. It quickly changed its shape into the figure of the fat woman who girls squared up in the hotel. She took the mirror from hands of Sailor Neptune with a fast move.

"Hee, Hee, what a beautiful mirror... I'll look at myself." Fat played with the talisman.

Neptune could not make any move in fear of the ginger girl's life. She was hit by someone. She felt sharp pain in her broken ribs and fell to the ground. Ichiban came up to her. Michiru realized that the boy had kicked her firmly a moment ago. The four-eyes grabbed her by the hair. He pulled her face to himself.

"Now you'll be mine, dyke. I'll demonstrate you how to be with the real man". Kazusa ran up to black haired Sakiko.

"I've never liked you misfit. But I have always wanted to check out how it's like... to fuck with such a freak!"

"My darling! Destroy them! Throw parasites out from our quiet region! Tear these weeds out!" The crowd started going in the direction of girls. The Ichiban hand reached under Michiru's skirt and Kazusa tried to tear clothes from black-haired vampire. After a moment eyes of everyone were blinded by huge glitter.

"Space Sword Blaster!" Light blade tumbled down in the direction of Ichiban. The boy covered himself, but in a vain. The weapon affected him. The four-eyes left Michiru, he walked away of few steps. After a moment it turned out that the blade had cut him in two pieces. The boy dispersed turning into the puddle of black liquid. Neptune smiled seeing the familiar figure of the short-haired blonde in the gleaming teleportation gate.

"Uranus!" The gate closed. Everyone noticed Haruka and the old witch keeping her company.

"Heh... Hoick!" The witch spat. After a moment two root grew from a ground nearby Ruri, they entangled the girl, sank below the ground with her and then they emerged from the surface at the foot of the old woman. Haruka ran up to the fat lady. She took a swing with the sword and incised the fatso into two even halves. Fat lady changed into bubbling, black liquid screaming frightfully. The blonde picked the mirror up from a grass and threw it to Michiru. She smiled to her.

"World Shaking!"

"Deep Submerge!" Two bright bullets soared up toward the black crowd. Huge explosions shook the surroundings. Demons were ripped to shreds. Sakiko freed herself from the embrace of Kazusa. She broke his arm and then hit him right in the middle of his belly with all her might. The boy was thrown toward the steel fence. He got caught on spikes sticking out of the fence and turned into black gunk hissing.

"The freak is able to defend itself". Sakiko announced.

"Fire Ball!" The witch shouted sending a few fiery bullets from her walking stick toward the maid and her retinue. Women were consumed by the fire and they turned into black powder. Michiru ran up to Haruka. The blonde hugged her firmly.

"I thought that I had come back too late."

"And I was afraid that I had lost you." Girls kissed.

"My beautiful work! How dare you to destroy it!" Everyone heard the triple voice reaching from everywhere. In the middle of the battlefield figures of three women appeared. The all were beautiful, they had golden, gleaming hair. Their dark blue patterned dresses were blowing on the breeze.

"We are the Triad and this place is our property!" Three women announced.

"You desecrated it; you destroyed my dolls which I have gathered together for years so diligently. We don't know what penalty impose on you for such an evil act. We hope that you will provide us with at least short entertainment dying".

"Uranus! Remember what I said you!"

"Of course, Witch, I remember everything". The blonde looked at Michiru.

"We must fight with these women. We must withstand longest we can."

"I still don't know what is happening here..." Green haired girl asked.

"Trust me, I'll explain you everything as soon as everything ends. Now we must fight. Are you with me!

"As ever Haruka, to the very end". Sailor Senshi were ready for fight with the very dangerous enemy who were able to control every aspect of their artificial world.