SailorStar9: Yup, and another chapter goes up. I did my research folks and the real name of the Time Gates is the Space-Time Door. This is Chapter 3. Read and review.
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Chapter Summary: The Outers finally show up and Hakura isn't exactly pleased. But with the Eredar snapping at their heels, the Outers have no choice but to follow Mercury's leadership.
Chapter 3: The Outers Arrive
After Hyoga left her, Erii walked towards the beach, her mind controlled by the the power of the Golden Apple. Arriving at her destination, she reached out and took hold of the Golden Apple, Eris' spirit entering her new-found host.
With the Goddess of Dispute awakened, the four Ghost Saints awoke from their graves.
The next morning, Saori was out riding in the nearby woods when she saw Erii and pulled over.
"Erii, how come you are here?" she asked.
The possessed girl turned to look at her.
No! Not Erii! Saori realized as Erii's French braid came undone, her Cosmo possessing the horse Saori rode on.
"Who are you?" Saori demanded as the horse went awry. Then the horse skidded, throwing Saori off its mount.
Eris smirked deviously at the unconscious Athena at her feet.
"It's so late and she still hasn't come back." Shun remarked worriedly. "Where has Miss Saori gone?"
"Should be just seeing something in the woods." Seiya waved his concern aside. "Don't worry."
"Seiya." Miho poked her head into the room.
"Miho, what's the matter?" Seiya asked.
"Can't see Erii anywhere." Miho replied.
"What?" Seiya gasped.
"Even Erii too..." Hyoga gasped.
"Hrm..." Miho began.
"Yes?" Seiya asked.
"Has anyone of you seen Ami-san?" she inquired. "There are four women here to see her."
The three Saints blinked and Shun replied, "She's still attending to Rin-san."
A few minutes later, Miho poked her head into Rin's temporary room
"Ami-san?" she inquired.
"Yes?" the blue-haired genius asked.
"There are four women downstairs to see you." Miho replied.
Ami nodded and headed out, knowing who they were.
"So, the little coward finally shows her face." Tenoh Haruka sneered distastefully.
"Outside. Now." Ami spat back, her glare never leaving one person, Meiou Setsuna.
Once the group was out of the earshot of the three Bronze Saints in the house, Haruka began her tirade of accusations.
The Senshi of Uranus had been brutal, accusing Ami of failing in her duties, of being less of a Senshi than those who had fallen in battle.
However, her string of charges were immediately cut off when the azure-haired Senshi ignored her and turned her heated glare at Setsuna, spitting out, "Why won't you there?"
Taken aback at not only of Ami's death glare and also the questioning looks the three Outers gave her, Setsuna stammered a reply, "I was caught off guard. The Eredar had slipped under my nose at the Space-Time Door. I wasn't aware."
"So, the Eredar was so powerful that they even gave the almighty Sailor Pluto the slip, did they?" Ami accused.
"You won't there Uranus, so don't you even dare call me a failure." she hissed angrily.
Turning the screen of her hand-held computer, she added, "Just watch what happened then you tell me if I am a failure or not."
Haruka, Michiru and Hotaru watched in horror as the computer replayed the destruction of Crystal
Tokyo, Setsuna had her head turned away the entire time, she had seen the whole thing reenact at the Space-Time Door.
"What would you have done in my place?" Ami pressed Haruka hotly.
For once, the Senshi of Uranus was silent.
Meanwhile...
"Did you sleep well here?" Eris' voice rang out.
Athena awoke to find herself prisoner on a stone alter in the middle of Eris' Temple.
She gasped further when she saw Eris walking up the stairs, the Golden Apple in hand.
"Erii!" she blinked.
"No! Who are you indeed!" she demanded. "What do you want to do?"
"Think about it carefully." Eris began. "Athena will soon be the treasure in my hand."
"That's the Golden Apple!" Athena gasped as Eris raise the said object in front of her.
Then, she recalled the legend.
By the lead of the Meteor, the Goddess of Quarrel will take use of the Golden Apple to revive then destroy the whole world.
"You are Yurisu!" Athena commented.
"You'll surely like being in this Golden Apple." Eris remarked. "And I'll be just like you, going back to the land in glory."
"So you made use of Erii's body!" Athena demanded.
"This is just like my staff." Eris replied. "I take use of Erii's wish to revive. This is my freedom."
"No! Goddess of Quarrel, Yurisu. I can't let you hurt others to fulfill your ambitions." Athena declared.
Eris gritted her teeth, "Later on, I'll breath in all your energetic spirits."
Then, she smirked, "Now, let's worry about your situation. You'll have the same fate as Erii."
"So what?" Athena challenged. "The Saints of Athena will protect me for sure. You haven't thought of that before?"
"What?" Eris hissed.
Even laugh with such confidence. She sneered.
"Really funny." the Goddess of Dispute laughed. "The Saints of Athena will die before you one by one. You will see. At that time, your smile will turn hopeless."
Then she turned and a thin beam of light shot from the middle spike of her trident.
The light traveled all the way to Seiya's mansion, shattering a glass window and a grandfather's clock, before etching out a map on the wall.
Still outside, Ami frowned when she heard a window shatter and an eerie aura shook her to her bones.
"The Eredar." Setsuna gasped in recognition.
Shun was the first to burst into the room, stunned beyond words as the map was engraved on the wall.
Seiya and Hyoga followed closely behind.
"Shun. What's this?" Seiya asked.
"It's telling us to go to that place to see Athena." Hyoga remarked. "This sign is..."
"Yurisu." Shiryu supplied.
"Shiryu." Seiya turned to the Draco Saint.
"This is a challenge letter to us." Shiryu added.
"The Eredar has resuscitated her." Setsuna remarked from behind the four boys.
"The four of you... I can sense a very strong Cosmo coming from all of you. Who are you, really?" Seiya demanded.
"Senshi just like the four of you. The only exception is that our powers come from the planets." Ami replied.
"Eredar is our enemy, not yours. Just leave this one to us." Haruka commented.
"We can't." Shiryu interjected. "Yurisu has captured Athena. It is our responsibility to see that she is safe."
"Athena is our responsibility. Like it or not, we're going." Seiya stubbornly retorted.
"Err guys, you aren't going to like this." Hotaru, who was silent the whole time, spoke.
"What Hotaru?" Michiru asked.
"The Eredar not only revived Yurisu, the Ghost Saints were also resurrected." Hotaru replied.
"Double damn." Haruka cursed.
"Things just keep getting better." Setsuna muttered.
Meanwhile, the five Ghost Saints had arrived before Yurisu.
"Master Yurisu." the leader knelt before the Goddess of Discord. "Please forgive us for arriving this late."
"Maya of Shoot." the first introduced himself.
"Orpheus of Raira." the second added.
"Borudo of Southern Cross." the third remarked.
"Yan of Tateza." the fourth commented.
"Zyaga of Orion." the leader wrapped up the introductions.
"I have waited for so long, my five Ghost Saints." Yurisu turned to address her Saints.
"You are..." Saori gasped.
"Saints just like you., but they come from hell." Yurisu supplied. "And by my power, they were given new bodies."
Scene cut to the four Bronze Saints trekking into the forest, the five transformed Sailor Senshi leaping from branch to branch.
"One more thing I have to tell you." Yurisu turned to Saori, holding up the Golden Apple. "In order for me to revive, this Golden Apple should be linked to you. And only when you die, Erii will totally revive."
"What are you saying?" Saori demanded.
"It's time to fight." Yurisu announced to her Saints.
"Now, you should enjoy this Golden Apple." she smirked, attaching the said fruit to Saori's chest.
With the Apple in place, Yurisu declared to her fighters, "They'll come soon. Go and face them, Ghost Five."
The five Ghost Saints nodded at their Goddess's command and took off to their battlefield.
"Athena, this time the misery will start from you." Yurisu laughed at the suffering Goddess.
"The legend of Yurisu reviving is true." Seiya noted, stopping at the entrance of Yurisu's Temple. The four bronze Saints had droned on their Cloths on the way.
"Then we have no time." he turned to his friends.
"Hope Miss Saori is okay." Hyoga voiced his concern.
"Brother Ikki is not here now." Shun mused.
"We don't know what kind of ambush awaits us." Eternal Sailor Pluto remarked. (A/N: All the girls are Eternal now.)
"Pair up and split. We meet at the Temple." Eternal Sailor Mercury instructed.
"Four of them, five of us." Eternal Sailor Uranus noted. "Who's going solo?"
Nobody answered.
"Correction Uranus, no one's going solo. Pluto just vanished." Eternal Sailor Mercury remarked.
"Just like her to disappear at a time like this." the Senshi of the Skies muttered.
First fight, Seiya and Eternal Sailor Uranus versus Maya of Shoot.
"I've waited long for you." Maya announced as the two fighters came to the battlefield.
"Who are you?" Seiya demanded.
"You should have heard about the duty of Saints." Maya began. "The target chosen should be defeated. Let me take you to heaven by an arrow. I'm Maya of Shoot."
"Maya of Shoot." Seiya echoed.
"Die, Saint of Athena." Maya declared, powering up his attack.
The two Saints leapt into the air and fired their shots at each other before landing on opposite sides.
"I have to deal with this quickly to stop Yurisu." Seiya mused, performing his usual pose.
"Pegasus Ryuu Sei Ken!" he fired his attack.
Maya immediately split into five replicates, causing Seiya's attack to miss its target.
"You're over!" Maya declared from behind. "It's my turn. Holy Arrow of Orion!"
He leapt into the air, a stream of arrows flying from his waistband.
"Uranus..." Eternal Sailor Uranus began her attack.
Strong winds picked up around Uranus as she pointed her right arm at the onslaught of arrows.
"Deadly Twister!" A massive vortex of wind shot from Uranus' outstretched arm, trapping all of the arrows directed at them and turning them back on Maya.
"It seems that I have forgotten about you." Maya hissed, dodging his arrows as he powered up another attack.
"Pegasus Ryuu Sei Ken!" Seiya blasted his attack at the tirade of arrows. The attack punched through the stream of arrows before hitting Maya full force.
With a scream, Maya crashed against a wall and fell headfirst onto the ground.
"Where's Miss Saori? What's Yurisu doing indeed?" Seiya asked the fallen Ghost Saint.
"No use asking him." Eternal Sailor Uranus shrugged.
"Let's go." she gestured.
Seiya nodded and followed the Wind Senshi.
Second fight, Hyoga and Eternal Sailor Saturn versus Borudo of Southern Cross.
The two warriors were walking through a temple when an Egyptian statue suddenly fell forward, barely missing them.
Saturn had leapt backwards to avoid that attack, while Hyoga rolled backwards.
Borudo was seen laughing on top of the statue.
"Really Hyoga." Borudo mocked.
"Who is it?" Hyoga demanded.
"Borudo of Southern Cross." Borudo introduced himself.
"Impossible! What's Southern Cross?" Hyoga accused hotly.
"We revived by the call of Yurisu, Ghost Saint." Borudo replied.
"Yurisu." Hyoga gasped.
"See my power!" Borudo announced, jumping down.
"Hyoga, you're surely lose this time." he declared.
"I don't think so." Hyoga rebuked, preparing his attack. "I still have something to ask you Borudo.
"Diamond Dust. It's the real crystal." Borudo smirked, preparing his attack.
"Southern Cross Thunder Fist!" Borudo released his attack.
"Diamond Dust!" Hyoga let his attack loose.
After the attacks hit, it was obvious that Borudo had won when a deep cross-shaped crack was seen on Hyoga's breastplate. But then, Hyoga's attack showed their true power when Borudo found himself frozen up to the neck.
"Don't worry." the Cyrus Saint turned to Borudo. "This is just a track dealing with little kids."
Walking forward, he added." Now, answer my questions."
A bright light then entered the scene when a voice asked, "You are Hyoga?"
The Cyrus Saint turned around.
"The little guy in Erii's heart. I come here to see you personally." Yurisu replied, her trident shining golden.
"Erii!" Hyoga gasped.
"She isn't Erii anymore." Saturn told him.
"She's right." Yurisu replied. "I'm Yurisu."
"What?" Hyoga gasped.
Just then, Borudo unfroze himself and grabbed the half Russian by his shoulders. Lifting him up, he tossed the younger Saint against a pillar before proceeding to choke him.
Yurisu smirked as she tossed her trident in the air and taking it by its handle, she threw it at the two struggling warriors.
Saturn jumped into battle, parrying the trident away with her Glaive.
"You're going up against me witch!" she snarled. "You have no loyalty. Your Saints are merely pawns to you!"
"Death Ripple!" she cried out her attack. Waves of death energy shot in all directions from her Glaive blade.
Yurisu was thrown off her feet by the attack. Frowning, she did what an evil Goddess would do in this situation; beat a hasty retreat.
"Now, for you." she turned and glared coldly at Borudo who was unfortunately caught in her energy ripple.
"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't kill you now?" she glowered lowly, her Glaive blade poised at his throat.
Borudo gulped nervously.
"No last words? Fine. Death Beam!" Saturn fired a wave of death energy from her Glaive point blank at Borudo.
With a wrenching scream, his body was obliterated from the dark energy wave.
"How could you..." Hyoga was stunned at the ruthlessness the petite girl showed.
"I am the Senshi of Death." Saturn shrugged and walked off, with Hyoga following her.
Third fight, Shiryu and Eternal Sailor Neptune versus Yan of Tateza.
"You're are Shiryu, right?" Yan's voice boomed as the Draco Saint and the Senshi of the Seas walked past a man made waterfall.
"Let me serve you!" Yan declared, jumping from the skies behind the two and sending a kick at Shiryu.
"It's heard that your fist and shield is the most powerful."Yan remarked to the Saint on the ground. "Now let's see which shield ism ore powerful, yours or mine."
"Yan, then I'll fulfill your will." Shiryu replied, picking himself up.
"Let my greatest Dragon Fist!" he threw his attack at Yan who merely blocked it with his shield.
"What?" Shiryu gasped when his arm guard shattered to pieces after his fist connected with Yan's shield.
"Breaking Bones Twister Kick!" Yan let loose his attack.
"Neptune..." Neptune began her attack as water circled her body.
"Flood Gate!" she ended her battle cry and released her attack. The water was absorbed by Neptune's body, only to be released in a massive tidal a second later and effectively washed Yan away.
"Never mess with fury of the oceans." she told the fallen Ghost Saint.
"Yurisu warned us about you Planet Senshi, but she never told us how powerful you can be." Yan remarked, wiping a trail of blood from his mouth.
Not giving Yan any time to retaliate, Neptune let loose another attack.
"Neptune Ocean Sphere!"
Yan could only watch on horror as the massive bubble of water thundered towards him. He had no place to dodge the attack and could only wait for his death as the orb of water crashed into his body.
"Now that's done." Neptune remarked.
"Let's go." Shiryu commented. The Senshi of the Oceans nodded and the two took off.
Fourth fight, Shun and Eternal Sailor Mercury versus Orpheus of Raira.
Shun was climbing up a cliff with the help of his chain with Mercury flying slightly above him.
The green-haired Saint thought back to what had transpired between them before they had started scaling the cliff and mentally chuckled. Like it or not, she was one interesting girl.
"Why climb when you can fly?" she shrugged, her fairy wings spouting from her back and she took off.
Just then, the two heard the strumming of a lyre from up above.
"What are the odds at that will be our opponent?" Mercury asked amusedly.
"Two to one?" Shun replied jokingly as he leapt onto the ancient Roman ground.
"What kind of music is this?" he mused, as the two walked towards the lyre playing.
"This is played for you specially, Andromeda." Orpheus remarked.
"How do you know my name?" Shun asked the lyre player.
Then he gasped, realizing his opponent, "You are... The Saint in legend who was described by the poets..."
"Right, I'm Orpheus of Raira. This music is a lullaby played for you." Orpheus replied.
"What?" Shun demanded.
Orpheus stopped strumming and leapt into battle.
"How wonderful that you can die in music." he remarked.
"My Lullaby of Death." he commented, resuming his playing.
"Move!" Mercury shouted, pushing Shun aside.
Orpheus smirked as he saw his attack hit the Senshi. Yurisu-sama will be pleased if he took down one of the Planet Senshi.
"If you think that worked, think again." came Mercury's reply.
Both Saints were shocked to see not one, but two Mercuries, one of them caught in Orpheus' tangle of strings and the other behind the Ghost Saint.
"Can you guess which one is the real one?" the Mercury behind Orpheus whispered.
Orpheus gasped when the Mercury caught in his strings dissolved into water.
"One of my many spells. Water Puppet." Mercury told him.
"Freezing Pulse." she whispered coolly, shooting a small ice ball at his shoulder.
Orpheus gasped as the ball entered his body. A second later, he fell face-first on the ground.
Shun went over and placed a finger under Orpheus' nose.
"He's dead..." the gentle Saint stammered, not believing the cruelty the seemingly gentle girl displayed.
"Why?" he asked softly.
"You won't understand." Mercury turned away. "Let's go."
"All of you have finally arrived." Yurisu announced as the group of fighters arrived at her Temple.
"You are..." Seiya gasped.
"Miss Saori!" Shiryu noticed the suffering Goddess.
"Everyone." Athena smiled painfully.
"The Golden Apple!" Hyoga noted.
"Miss Saori!" Shun called out.
"Right! The Golden Apple you saw. Only if absorbed all the energetic spirits of Athena, I'll let this Erii go. I don't need this body already." Yurisu laughed, removing herself from Erii.
"Erii!" Hyoga called out.
"No matter how, we'll die indeed. She is totally because of letting me revive. To die for replacing Athena." Yurisu laughed.
"Can't let you act carelessly." Seiya retorted and rushed forward.
"Zyaga." Yurisu called her fifth warrior.
"Zyaga, being the strongest Saint before, but now, help the Goddess of Quarrel, Yurisu act wildly." Seiya accused.
"For you, already cannot forget the darkness in heart." Zyaga replied. "But we'll soon create a dark world.
"Get away, I have to defeat you! Then save Miss Saori." Seiya challenged.
"Wait Pegasus." Eternal Sailor Pluto entered the scene.
"Pluto." the Senshi turned to the mysterious Senshi of Time.
"Why are you here Pluto?" Neptune asked.
"It's time to awaken the Sacred Cup of this world." Pluto replied.
The three Outer Senshi nodded and took out their Talismans.
The Space Sword, Deep Aqua Mirror and the Garnet Orb floated towards Mercury and Saturn and circled them.
Zyaga and Yurisu gasped at this unexpected turn of events as the Talismans floated around the two Senshi, their bodies covered in light.
"We have to stop them..." Yurisu told her last warrior.
"Mikada Shock!" Zyaga fired his attack at the two Senshi.
Mercury and Saturn opened their eyes as the attack came at them, the kanjis and 'Life' and 'Death' glowing on their foreheads respectively.
"Holy Life!" Mercury called.
"Sacral Death!" Saturn spoke.
A wave of energy washed over the two Senshi, deflecting the attack and consumed Zyaga completely.
When the light died down, the two Divine Angels stood in their full glory. Their Senshi fukus were gone, replaced by long flowing gowns and two pairs of wings on their backs. Their kanjis shined brightly on their foreheads. The Angel of Death had her Saturn's Glaive while the Angel of Life had a staff, the Ginzuishou 'floated' on the top.
Yurisu was horrified, knowing the full power of the two Divine Angels.
"Athena, don't move." the Angel of Life warned.
The Goddess of Wisdom nodded and before she knew it, a finger-thin light arrow shot from the Ginzuishou, stopping short of her breast and shattering the Golden Apple.
"Now, for you." the Angel of Death frowned at Yurisu.
Before Yurisu could do anything, a thin beam of energy shot from the Death Angel's Glaive and the Goddess of Quarrel screamed as her Life Jewel was removed and destroyed with that one blast.
"Now that's done." the Angel of Life remarked and the two turned to the group of warriors. Raising her staff, the Ginzuishou shone once more, encasing the entire group, along with Athena and Erii in a Life Bubble and escaped from the crumbling Temple.
Once landing safely outside the mansion, the two Angels stood for a second before their kanjis dimmed and they fainted. Shun and Hyoga caught the two before they hit the ground.
"They'll be fine." Pluto assured. "But their bodies aren't not used to their new power level yet."
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