Chapter 6: 14 is Gone
17 frowned slightly as he looked at his companion. She seemed
to recognize the man in front of them. For some reason, he found the
idea disturbing. He said nothing though, simply watched.
"Your name is Jadeite, correct?" 14 asked, sounding surer of
herself. The man she was speaking to looked stunned. 17 could tell he
had not expected something like this to happen, because he felt the
exact same way.
Mamoru walked towards the elevator from his parking spot in
the underground parking garage. He and Serene had broken up the night
before, and though he felt as if he should be at least slightly upset,
he instead found himself feeling as if he could float on air, he was
so free. He no longer felt any resentment for being trapped in a
relationship he knew to be wrong, and a giant burden had been lifted
off his shoulders.
He pushed the elevator button to go up. While he was waiting,
he found himself joined by another man. He looked at the newcomer from
the corner of his eye. Looking back towards the elevator door, he
found himself swearing that he had seen the man before.
Once the elevator door had closed them off from the garage,
the man turned his head towards him.
"It's been a long time, Mamoru. It looks like you have done
well." Mamoru now had a better look at the man. He had long black hair
tied back in a ponytail. He was shorter then Mamoru, but not by much.
Trying to think of where he knew the man, Mamoru raked his mind for
old memories. A sudden flash of a woman in a skimpy leather senshi
uniform came to mind. He chuckled, and then looked back at his
companion.
"Fighter. It has been a long time. I never thought I'd see you
again."
"Nor I you. I do wish that this visit were for fun though."
"I suspect it has something to do with our new enemy. Am I
right?" Mamoru asked, looking up as if he could see his floor
approaching through the ceiling.
"I believe so. Has Ami been able to identify the energy
patterns of this one yet?"
"Afraid not. Rei has kept them all looking for her boyfriend
who was taken in the only attack, and Ami hasn't gotten a thorough
scan of where the attack took place yet."
"Well I was hoping I could gain some information from you
about it, but it seems you know less then we do. I trust you remember
Galaxica." Mamoru gave no response other then the nodding of his head.
"When we defeated her, Chaos was dispelled from her body. I believe
that it has only taken on a more pure form. We were able to trace the
energy back to Earth."
"If we are truly dealing with Chaos again, why have we only
had one attack? What is it waiting for?"
"I'm not sure. Taiki believes it has something to do with
another power on Earth here. It seems to be almost equal in strength,
but there is no sign if it is joined with Chaos or against it."
Mamoru nodded as the doors opened onto the fifth floor of the
hospital. He stepped out. When Seiya remained in the elevator, he
turned back and looked at him, raising an eyebrow.
"I'll see you around Mamoru. Say hi to the girls for me." The
doors shut before Mamoru could respond. Shrugging, he turned and went
to work.
Piccolo sat calmly a mile or so away from the Son household,
his eyes closed. All was silent except for the birds and the wind. He
smiled faintly.
"Hello Setsuna," he said, never moving his head to face his
visitor.
"You always manage to do that Kami. And I have yet to figure
out how." She smiled as she stood beside her old friend.
"And I have yet to convince you that there is no trick
involved." He raised his eyes to look at the sailor senshi of time.
"And the reason for your visit today?" He stood up, the green Namekian
even towering over the tall Pluto.
"The newcomer among the Z Fighters, the new android, she is
needed by my friends." Pluto turned to face the distant house and
those within and around it.
"She is only an android. A machine. Why is she needed?"
"She is one..." Pluto's eyes suddenly widened in shock.
"Shimatta. They cannot." She turned to Piccolo. "We must hurry. We
must stop them!" Piccolo looked in the direction of the Son house and
frowned.
"Rei! Wake up, Rei." Ami was leaning through the open door,
trying to get some kind of response from the Shinto priestess, but she
remained fast asleep. Finally giving up, Ami stood up outside of the
car and shook her head at Minako. "Its no use."
Makoto was already walking slowly towards the four farther
down the road, despite orders by Minako to wait for them. When Ami
read the information on her computer about the other two, she had
alerted the others immediately. There were traces of energy similar to
that of their last enemy, and it only made it worse that she could see
it was Tobias and his little sister. "Or Jadeite and Wolf, whoever
that is," she said quietly to herself, remembering the name Mamoru and
Rei had repeated after the attack in downtown Tokyo. Mina looked over
at her friend.
"So that is Jadeite? I thought he was supposed to be dead,"
she said quietly.
"We never saw him die, he just stopped showing up. I guess he
didn't die." Ami frowned. "I suppose we should catch up with Mako."
"Or drag her back here, willing or not," Mina said, sighing.
"Are you sure that is Usagi?" she asked suddenly. Ami looked at her
leader and nodded slightly.
"Positive. The energy pattern is just emerging now, but that
is defiantly Usagi. Why?"
"She just seems so, well, cold." Mina frowned, her eyes on the
android in the distance. "The way you described her behavior. Usagi
was never like that. She was always so happy, open to others."
"She is a different person, Mina. This is a different lifetime
to her. I don't know if the Usagi we knew will ever be back." Ami
turned back to those in the distance. "We had better do something
about Mako soon, or she might jump in on their little party."
Makoto was indeed very close to the four standing in the road.
She listened from the trees to their conversation, but Mina's and
Ami's fears that she would jump into the circle weren't necessary.
She remained among the trees, watching. She didn't have to wait long
before something interesting happened.
She almost missed the object. It had been thrown from Wolf,
her arm was still coming down from the throw, but it had been so fast
that she missed it. One moment it left Wolf's hand, the next it was in
14's.
It was a small black orb, she saw now. 14 looked at it
curiously, then back at the others. Mako turned her head as well to
find Wolf smiling. Jadeite had a small smirk on his face.
"Good catch, Android 14," he said softly.
"So you know my name as well. Mind telling me where we've met?"
"You will soon know everything," his reply came, drifting
along with the wind. Mako watched as 17 stepped forward towards 14. A
moment later, he was stepping towards empty road.
Mako turned her head from side to side, trying to find where
they could have possibly gone. She stepped from the forest out onto
the road, searching for any possible trace of what happened. Beginning
to realize what happened, she turned towards the remaining android. He
was staring at the empty space in front of him in shock, an expression
nearing horror on his face. She stepped closer to him, much the same
way he had done so to 14 just moments before, when she felt two new
presences on the road with them. Turning, she saw a tall green alien
and Sailor Pluto step closer.
"Chaos has the princess." Pluto shook her head sadly. "This
just made things far more difficult."
Purple eyes watched all of this calmly from deeper in the
forest. She turned away and walked off, vanishing.
"So Usagi is alive, right?" Mamoru asked excitedly, looking at
the crowd in his apartment later that night.
"Mamoru, listen to us! Chaos has her! She is in enemy hands."
Makoto had been the most persistent in trying to get Mamoru to
understand the problem, but no mater how hard she tried, he still
seemed to be oblivious in the fact that there was more to the
situation then their princess being alive again.
"Just tell me straight, will you? Is Usagi alive?"
"Yes Mamoru. Usagi, the princess, 14, whatever you want to
call her, is alive again."
"Then we will just have to save her. We'll get her back. She
saved me when I was brainwashed by Beryl. We'll get her back from
Chaos."
"I wish I was that optimistic," Mina said softly to Ami. The
water senshi smiled faintly in understanding, though her mind was busy
thinking. Why was Chaos finally attacking again, now, after all those
years? Did it have something to do with the princess?
"You must not forget, Mamoru. This is not the princess we
knew. This is another life for her. She is quite different. You may
find her to be the exact opposite of what you knew." Setsuna sat
across from Mamoru on the couch, her eyes half closed. She had managed
to get in touch with Hakura and Micheru earlier that evening, and was
expecting the two to reach Tokyo the next day. She felt they were
going to need all the help they could get.
Plans were going very well indeed.
It had actually been easier then first thought to brainwash
the android. When they first began the process, it was discovered that
she had an implant in her brain that, when correctly used, opened the
rest of her mind to external forces. It was believed that the implant
was there to make orders more easily accepted. For some reason, the
implant had been deactivated, but it was quickly reactivated, and from
that point on, she was practically under Chaos army control.
"17, it would be helpful if you would participate in this
conversation," Android 18 said, her voice betraying her annoyance at
her brother. When her only response was a cold glare, she felt it was
time to just leave him alone.
"Are you sure there was no trace of where they vanished to?"
Gokou asked Bulma for what seemed like the millionth time.
"Gokou, I'll say it again. There was nothing, zip, that could
have pointed to them. It was like they could use Shukdan Idou and
somehow brought 14 along with them."
"Well then how can we fight these guys if we don't know where
to find them?!"
"What ever happened to those women that were here?" Gohan
asked softly. "I saw them on the road around where it happened, and
then they all suddenly left. Did anyone get any information about
them?"
"They are the sailor senshi," a voice from the doorway said.
Piccolo stepped into the room, no more information coming from him as
he sat down. He seemed extremely out of place in the small room, but
did not seem to care.
"Sailor senshi? Who are they?" Gokou asked
"I believe I remember hearing something about sailor senshi
before. But they were around a long time ago. If they really exist,
they should all be old women now. But those women were in their early
twenties." Gohan said, becoming curious, as it seemed something from
his history lessons was coming alive.
"Maybe they have a form of time travel, like what was created
for Mirai Trunks," Bulma replied, thinking of the most likely
explanation.
"Piccolo, what else do you know about them?" Gohan asked his
old mentor. The Namekian looked at Gohan for a few moments before he
spoke.
"They are a lot older then they seem, especially the senshi of
time. They are planning on fighting a power named Chaos, the power
who's army just managed to take the android 14, their reincarnated
princess." No one spoke for several minutes. The only one in the room
who did not seem surprised was Piccolo himself.
When Goten and Trunks came in, they stood just in front of the doorway
for a moment, wondering what was going on. Goten finally broke the
silence hesitantly.
"Um, there are some guys outside. They said they wanted to
speak to Earth's defenders. I guess that's us."
"Princess?! Nani?!"
"Senshi of time?"
"Reincarnated?!"
"Do you think they'd mind if we helped them with Chaos?" The
last came from Gokou. He had a large, hopeful grin on his face,
looking forward to the fight he wasn't even sure he would participate
in.
Yaten pulled one of his hands out of his pockets, running his
fingers through his bangs. "Are you sure they will help us?" he asked
Seiya. "I mean, all we know about them is that they've fought before.
This probably isn't their kind of enemy. From what I've heard, they
could at least LOCATE their enemy! That's a hell of a lot more then we
can claim."
"They call themselves Earth's defenders. If what we're doing
is not considered defending Earth, I don't know what is." Seiya was
leaning against the Capsule Corp. aircraft they had flown to the
out-of-the-way home. A large number six was printed on the side.
"Have you spoken with Mamoru?" Taiki asked.
"Hai. They know less then we do. Though I must admit, that is
not much in the first place. That attack we heard about in the news
though, Mamoru and Rei were indeed there. And apparently Rei's
boyfriend was taken."
"Why would the Chaos army want a normal human?" Yaten asked,
looking over at his friends. There was no chance for a response before
they were joined. The three Starlights looked over at their hosts.
Seiya frowned slightly, noticing something about many of the men.
"Is it just me, or do they look saiya-jin?"
"All they need is the tail and an evil glare," Taiki whispered
back. "They look too friendly. Besides, all of the saiyans are dead."
"Well, oh great leader, you're up," Yaten said quietly,
grinning.
"Thanks for the support," Seiya whispered, rolling his eyes.
He stepped up to face the small group.
"We were informed we could find Earth's defenders here." Seiya
had taken on the roll of a diplomat within a moment. Yaten and Taiki
worked to hide the grins the sudden change in behavior gave them as he
continued. "Am I correct in my assumption that that is you?"
"Well, its not often that people come looking for us, but yes,
we have gone by that name," the blue haired woman replied for the
group. The two younger boys watched the strangers, curious. The others
stood casually around, their own curiosity less obvious then the boys'.
"I suppose I could say we have a job for you." Yaten couldn't
stop the snort of laughter as it escaped. Taiki elbowed his white
haired friend in the side, rolling his eyes. Seiya ignored the antics
of the two behind him and continued. "Some friends of mine, including
the two with me now, will be encountering some trouble soon. We have
reason to believe that our combined power will not be enough. We were
wondering what we could do to enlist your help."
The woman that had replied the first time chuckled faintly.
"You don't have to act very formal with us. I'm sure that you will get
your help. Gokou here is nearly going crazy from boredom." Seiya could
tell which was Gokou by the sudden, over excited nod from a tall man
with very spiky black hair.
"What about 14?" A voice came from the doorway to the house.
The lights turned to see who had spoken. A man with shoulder length
black hair stepped out into the sunlight. "I have no intention of
leaving her with Chaos or whatever it is. I will go after her alone
if I must."
"Chaos?" Taiki stepped forward. "What do you know of Chaos?"
"A friend of ours seems to have been taken by Chaos. I'm
afraid we'll have to pass on your job. We cannot leave her where she
is." A man with short spiky black hair that looked similar to Gokou
said this calmly as he stepped forward.
"We have no intention of leaving her there. Chaos is the power
we will be fighting," Yaten said as he joined his companions.
"Starlights." Another voice from the house drifted across to
Seiya, Taiki and Yaten. They watched in quiet astonishment as the tall
green alien that had spoken stepped out. He looked at the three with a
cold gaze. "The danger must be to more then just the Earth if you have
returned."
Well, there it is, the long awaited chapter 6. I expect there should
be around four more chapters. I'm one of those authors who don't write
down a strict storyline in the beginning, even if I do have a loose
one. I expect you all have probably guessed who Android 14 is.
(M. Jade: Well, in a way she's from the Moon Kingdom. Just a few
lifetimes back. *grin*)
~Jade
moon_archer82@lunap.com
17 frowned slightly as he looked at his companion. She seemed
to recognize the man in front of them. For some reason, he found the
idea disturbing. He said nothing though, simply watched.
"Your name is Jadeite, correct?" 14 asked, sounding surer of
herself. The man she was speaking to looked stunned. 17 could tell he
had not expected something like this to happen, because he felt the
exact same way.
Mamoru walked towards the elevator from his parking spot in
the underground parking garage. He and Serene had broken up the night
before, and though he felt as if he should be at least slightly upset,
he instead found himself feeling as if he could float on air, he was
so free. He no longer felt any resentment for being trapped in a
relationship he knew to be wrong, and a giant burden had been lifted
off his shoulders.
He pushed the elevator button to go up. While he was waiting,
he found himself joined by another man. He looked at the newcomer from
the corner of his eye. Looking back towards the elevator door, he
found himself swearing that he had seen the man before.
Once the elevator door had closed them off from the garage,
the man turned his head towards him.
"It's been a long time, Mamoru. It looks like you have done
well." Mamoru now had a better look at the man. He had long black hair
tied back in a ponytail. He was shorter then Mamoru, but not by much.
Trying to think of where he knew the man, Mamoru raked his mind for
old memories. A sudden flash of a woman in a skimpy leather senshi
uniform came to mind. He chuckled, and then looked back at his
companion.
"Fighter. It has been a long time. I never thought I'd see you
again."
"Nor I you. I do wish that this visit were for fun though."
"I suspect it has something to do with our new enemy. Am I
right?" Mamoru asked, looking up as if he could see his floor
approaching through the ceiling.
"I believe so. Has Ami been able to identify the energy
patterns of this one yet?"
"Afraid not. Rei has kept them all looking for her boyfriend
who was taken in the only attack, and Ami hasn't gotten a thorough
scan of where the attack took place yet."
"Well I was hoping I could gain some information from you
about it, but it seems you know less then we do. I trust you remember
Galaxica." Mamoru gave no response other then the nodding of his head.
"When we defeated her, Chaos was dispelled from her body. I believe
that it has only taken on a more pure form. We were able to trace the
energy back to Earth."
"If we are truly dealing with Chaos again, why have we only
had one attack? What is it waiting for?"
"I'm not sure. Taiki believes it has something to do with
another power on Earth here. It seems to be almost equal in strength,
but there is no sign if it is joined with Chaos or against it."
Mamoru nodded as the doors opened onto the fifth floor of the
hospital. He stepped out. When Seiya remained in the elevator, he
turned back and looked at him, raising an eyebrow.
"I'll see you around Mamoru. Say hi to the girls for me." The
doors shut before Mamoru could respond. Shrugging, he turned and went
to work.
Piccolo sat calmly a mile or so away from the Son household,
his eyes closed. All was silent except for the birds and the wind. He
smiled faintly.
"Hello Setsuna," he said, never moving his head to face his
visitor.
"You always manage to do that Kami. And I have yet to figure
out how." She smiled as she stood beside her old friend.
"And I have yet to convince you that there is no trick
involved." He raised his eyes to look at the sailor senshi of time.
"And the reason for your visit today?" He stood up, the green Namekian
even towering over the tall Pluto.
"The newcomer among the Z Fighters, the new android, she is
needed by my friends." Pluto turned to face the distant house and
those within and around it.
"She is only an android. A machine. Why is she needed?"
"She is one..." Pluto's eyes suddenly widened in shock.
"Shimatta. They cannot." She turned to Piccolo. "We must hurry. We
must stop them!" Piccolo looked in the direction of the Son house and
frowned.
"Rei! Wake up, Rei." Ami was leaning through the open door,
trying to get some kind of response from the Shinto priestess, but she
remained fast asleep. Finally giving up, Ami stood up outside of the
car and shook her head at Minako. "Its no use."
Makoto was already walking slowly towards the four farther
down the road, despite orders by Minako to wait for them. When Ami
read the information on her computer about the other two, she had
alerted the others immediately. There were traces of energy similar to
that of their last enemy, and it only made it worse that she could see
it was Tobias and his little sister. "Or Jadeite and Wolf, whoever
that is," she said quietly to herself, remembering the name Mamoru and
Rei had repeated after the attack in downtown Tokyo. Mina looked over
at her friend.
"So that is Jadeite? I thought he was supposed to be dead,"
she said quietly.
"We never saw him die, he just stopped showing up. I guess he
didn't die." Ami frowned. "I suppose we should catch up with Mako."
"Or drag her back here, willing or not," Mina said, sighing.
"Are you sure that is Usagi?" she asked suddenly. Ami looked at her
leader and nodded slightly.
"Positive. The energy pattern is just emerging now, but that
is defiantly Usagi. Why?"
"She just seems so, well, cold." Mina frowned, her eyes on the
android in the distance. "The way you described her behavior. Usagi
was never like that. She was always so happy, open to others."
"She is a different person, Mina. This is a different lifetime
to her. I don't know if the Usagi we knew will ever be back." Ami
turned back to those in the distance. "We had better do something
about Mako soon, or she might jump in on their little party."
Makoto was indeed very close to the four standing in the road.
She listened from the trees to their conversation, but Mina's and
Ami's fears that she would jump into the circle weren't necessary.
She remained among the trees, watching. She didn't have to wait long
before something interesting happened.
She almost missed the object. It had been thrown from Wolf,
her arm was still coming down from the throw, but it had been so fast
that she missed it. One moment it left Wolf's hand, the next it was in
14's.
It was a small black orb, she saw now. 14 looked at it
curiously, then back at the others. Mako turned her head as well to
find Wolf smiling. Jadeite had a small smirk on his face.
"Good catch, Android 14," he said softly.
"So you know my name as well. Mind telling me where we've met?"
"You will soon know everything," his reply came, drifting
along with the wind. Mako watched as 17 stepped forward towards 14. A
moment later, he was stepping towards empty road.
Mako turned her head from side to side, trying to find where
they could have possibly gone. She stepped from the forest out onto
the road, searching for any possible trace of what happened. Beginning
to realize what happened, she turned towards the remaining android. He
was staring at the empty space in front of him in shock, an expression
nearing horror on his face. She stepped closer to him, much the same
way he had done so to 14 just moments before, when she felt two new
presences on the road with them. Turning, she saw a tall green alien
and Sailor Pluto step closer.
"Chaos has the princess." Pluto shook her head sadly. "This
just made things far more difficult."
Purple eyes watched all of this calmly from deeper in the
forest. She turned away and walked off, vanishing.
"So Usagi is alive, right?" Mamoru asked excitedly, looking at
the crowd in his apartment later that night.
"Mamoru, listen to us! Chaos has her! She is in enemy hands."
Makoto had been the most persistent in trying to get Mamoru to
understand the problem, but no mater how hard she tried, he still
seemed to be oblivious in the fact that there was more to the
situation then their princess being alive again.
"Just tell me straight, will you? Is Usagi alive?"
"Yes Mamoru. Usagi, the princess, 14, whatever you want to
call her, is alive again."
"Then we will just have to save her. We'll get her back. She
saved me when I was brainwashed by Beryl. We'll get her back from
Chaos."
"I wish I was that optimistic," Mina said softly to Ami. The
water senshi smiled faintly in understanding, though her mind was busy
thinking. Why was Chaos finally attacking again, now, after all those
years? Did it have something to do with the princess?
"You must not forget, Mamoru. This is not the princess we
knew. This is another life for her. She is quite different. You may
find her to be the exact opposite of what you knew." Setsuna sat
across from Mamoru on the couch, her eyes half closed. She had managed
to get in touch with Hakura and Micheru earlier that evening, and was
expecting the two to reach Tokyo the next day. She felt they were
going to need all the help they could get.
Plans were going very well indeed.
It had actually been easier then first thought to brainwash
the android. When they first began the process, it was discovered that
she had an implant in her brain that, when correctly used, opened the
rest of her mind to external forces. It was believed that the implant
was there to make orders more easily accepted. For some reason, the
implant had been deactivated, but it was quickly reactivated, and from
that point on, she was practically under Chaos army control.
"17, it would be helpful if you would participate in this
conversation," Android 18 said, her voice betraying her annoyance at
her brother. When her only response was a cold glare, she felt it was
time to just leave him alone.
"Are you sure there was no trace of where they vanished to?"
Gokou asked Bulma for what seemed like the millionth time.
"Gokou, I'll say it again. There was nothing, zip, that could
have pointed to them. It was like they could use Shukdan Idou and
somehow brought 14 along with them."
"Well then how can we fight these guys if we don't know where
to find them?!"
"What ever happened to those women that were here?" Gohan
asked softly. "I saw them on the road around where it happened, and
then they all suddenly left. Did anyone get any information about
them?"
"They are the sailor senshi," a voice from the doorway said.
Piccolo stepped into the room, no more information coming from him as
he sat down. He seemed extremely out of place in the small room, but
did not seem to care.
"Sailor senshi? Who are they?" Gokou asked
"I believe I remember hearing something about sailor senshi
before. But they were around a long time ago. If they really exist,
they should all be old women now. But those women were in their early
twenties." Gohan said, becoming curious, as it seemed something from
his history lessons was coming alive.
"Maybe they have a form of time travel, like what was created
for Mirai Trunks," Bulma replied, thinking of the most likely
explanation.
"Piccolo, what else do you know about them?" Gohan asked his
old mentor. The Namekian looked at Gohan for a few moments before he
spoke.
"They are a lot older then they seem, especially the senshi of
time. They are planning on fighting a power named Chaos, the power
who's army just managed to take the android 14, their reincarnated
princess." No one spoke for several minutes. The only one in the room
who did not seem surprised was Piccolo himself.
When Goten and Trunks came in, they stood just in front of the doorway
for a moment, wondering what was going on. Goten finally broke the
silence hesitantly.
"Um, there are some guys outside. They said they wanted to
speak to Earth's defenders. I guess that's us."
"Princess?! Nani?!"
"Senshi of time?"
"Reincarnated?!"
"Do you think they'd mind if we helped them with Chaos?" The
last came from Gokou. He had a large, hopeful grin on his face,
looking forward to the fight he wasn't even sure he would participate
in.
Yaten pulled one of his hands out of his pockets, running his
fingers through his bangs. "Are you sure they will help us?" he asked
Seiya. "I mean, all we know about them is that they've fought before.
This probably isn't their kind of enemy. From what I've heard, they
could at least LOCATE their enemy! That's a hell of a lot more then we
can claim."
"They call themselves Earth's defenders. If what we're doing
is not considered defending Earth, I don't know what is." Seiya was
leaning against the Capsule Corp. aircraft they had flown to the
out-of-the-way home. A large number six was printed on the side.
"Have you spoken with Mamoru?" Taiki asked.
"Hai. They know less then we do. Though I must admit, that is
not much in the first place. That attack we heard about in the news
though, Mamoru and Rei were indeed there. And apparently Rei's
boyfriend was taken."
"Why would the Chaos army want a normal human?" Yaten asked,
looking over at his friends. There was no chance for a response before
they were joined. The three Starlights looked over at their hosts.
Seiya frowned slightly, noticing something about many of the men.
"Is it just me, or do they look saiya-jin?"
"All they need is the tail and an evil glare," Taiki whispered
back. "They look too friendly. Besides, all of the saiyans are dead."
"Well, oh great leader, you're up," Yaten said quietly,
grinning.
"Thanks for the support," Seiya whispered, rolling his eyes.
He stepped up to face the small group.
"We were informed we could find Earth's defenders here." Seiya
had taken on the roll of a diplomat within a moment. Yaten and Taiki
worked to hide the grins the sudden change in behavior gave them as he
continued. "Am I correct in my assumption that that is you?"
"Well, its not often that people come looking for us, but yes,
we have gone by that name," the blue haired woman replied for the
group. The two younger boys watched the strangers, curious. The others
stood casually around, their own curiosity less obvious then the boys'.
"I suppose I could say we have a job for you." Yaten couldn't
stop the snort of laughter as it escaped. Taiki elbowed his white
haired friend in the side, rolling his eyes. Seiya ignored the antics
of the two behind him and continued. "Some friends of mine, including
the two with me now, will be encountering some trouble soon. We have
reason to believe that our combined power will not be enough. We were
wondering what we could do to enlist your help."
The woman that had replied the first time chuckled faintly.
"You don't have to act very formal with us. I'm sure that you will get
your help. Gokou here is nearly going crazy from boredom." Seiya could
tell which was Gokou by the sudden, over excited nod from a tall man
with very spiky black hair.
"What about 14?" A voice came from the doorway to the house.
The lights turned to see who had spoken. A man with shoulder length
black hair stepped out into the sunlight. "I have no intention of
leaving her with Chaos or whatever it is. I will go after her alone
if I must."
"Chaos?" Taiki stepped forward. "What do you know of Chaos?"
"A friend of ours seems to have been taken by Chaos. I'm
afraid we'll have to pass on your job. We cannot leave her where she
is." A man with short spiky black hair that looked similar to Gokou
said this calmly as he stepped forward.
"We have no intention of leaving her there. Chaos is the power
we will be fighting," Yaten said as he joined his companions.
"Starlights." Another voice from the house drifted across to
Seiya, Taiki and Yaten. They watched in quiet astonishment as the tall
green alien that had spoken stepped out. He looked at the three with a
cold gaze. "The danger must be to more then just the Earth if you have
returned."
Well, there it is, the long awaited chapter 6. I expect there should
be around four more chapters. I'm one of those authors who don't write
down a strict storyline in the beginning, even if I do have a loose
one. I expect you all have probably guessed who Android 14 is.
(M. Jade: Well, in a way she's from the Moon Kingdom. Just a few
lifetimes back. *grin*)
~Jade
moon_archer82@lunap.com