Author's Note: Okay. I'm back. Sorry about the long wait, but that's what happens when you're enlisted in the Navy. Nevertheless, that doesn't matter anymore since I'm now discharged from it. But that's beside the point. I'm hoping to use this chapter for the background story. Let's see if it turns out okay.
Disclaimer: All characters of the series "Sailor Moon", except for Sailor Storm, Thunderstorm, the Sailor Elements, the Five Storms, and all other Original Characters, are under copyright protection of Naoko Takeuchi.
Sailor Storm: The Lost Element
Ch. 7: Explanations Needed
Silence, a very eerie silence, had filled the throne room of Queen Beryl ever since she learned of Thunderstorm's appearance and self-control, Jedite's betrayal and death, and now a new version of Sailor Storm making himself known. This silence was once interrupted by a servant who wanted to see if his Queen needed anything, but the Negalyte was instantly destroyed and turned into ash by Beryl who didn't even flinch. After about half an hour of constant silence, Beryl grabbed her staff while swiping at it hard. She then slammed it into the floor as she got up and walked to the adjoining room on the right side of the throne room (to Beryl's left side). The sounds of the staff slamming the floor and Queen Beryl's heels clacking echoed throughout the room disturbing the silence. The youma and Negalytes saw where the staff was slammed into the floor and saw that several medium and small cracks had spidered out from the indentation it left. It didn't last long as the indentation and cracks were already reversing themselves as if the whole event had never happened.
Beryl was seething with rage when she reached the other room. Seeing the events that had taken place no more than an hour ago had caused her to not only to be almost at her breaking point, but to actually manage to break out in a sweat. Queen Beryl never sweated ever since Metallia took her over, and this was a sign that she was truly scared. Once she realized this, Beryl broke through her breaking point. Her blood red hair immediately flew upwards as she tried to scream her lungs out of her mouth. Her power was also mixed in with her rage as it blew a 50 foot wide hole in the roof from where she was standing. The hole, needless to say, went all the way to the arctic surface. Of course, her power was more than enough to blow through dark structure, ice and snow, and still have momentum to continue rising in the air. After doing this for three uninterrupted minutes, she finally calmed down to begin thinking rationally.
"Those blasted Sailor Senshi have seriously become a pain in my ass, and I have that new sailor brat to thank for it. Especially since she turned out to also be a reincarnation of Thunderstorm. Now I have to deal with two Sailor Storms and one extremely powerful reborn Negalyte elite," Beryl thought.
"How did those brats manage to turn him against us? How is it possible that Thunderstorm is Sailor Storm at the same time and can actually turn into the first male Sailor Senshi in existence as if it wasn't enough? There has to be some kind of reason for this."
Queen Beryl pondered for a moment.
"Wait a minute. I remember that the secret identities of all of the Sailor Senshi are girls. So why would one of them actually want to be a male version of one? Unless... Sailor Storm wasn't born a girl. Is it possible that Sailor Storm was born a boy?"
"It is actually quite possible, Queen Beryl," a voice answered inside her head.
"Queen Metallia, is that you," Beryl asked the air. An image of an extremely pale evil woman with green hair in a floor length red dress appeared in front of Beryl.
"Yes, Queen Beryl. The possibility that Sailor Storm being born on Earth as a male is not far-fetched at all. It most likely has to do with the fact that Thunderstorm's power must have greater influence in certain areas; in this case, gender. However, none of this matters at all. What does matter is how you are going to react to this."
"How should I react then? What must I do to prevent any more failures?"
"Revive the rest of the Five Storms. Use Firestorm first as he has the best chance. If you play your cards right, Firestorm might be able to convince Thunderstorm to return to where he belongs. And in the process, you will also get a dark Sailor Senshi out of the deal, one who doesn't require Negaversal energy and has more than enough power to ultimately defeat all of the Sailor Senshi in one blow. Imagine that kind of power in our hands. The Negaverse will be absolutely unstoppable!"
"I am prepared to make this a reality, Queen Metallia."
"Not yet you're not, Queen Beryl. You require a very large amount of life energy from those humans on Earth for you to be able to resurrect the Storms. Otherwise at your current rate, you will never have enough power to resurrect even one."
"But what can I do? Those sailor brats seem like they're always around the corner no matter where the target is in Tokyo."
"Then use your intellect, Queen Beryl. Don't you dare act dumb around me now!"
Beryl's face had hardened to her most serious and determined look.
"What must I do?"
The morning sun rose above the skies of Tokyo on a Saturday. The streets were somewhat occupied by the teenagers heading towards school for their half-day. However, one such teenager was exempted from it only because his cat had managed to convince the staff through the student's paperwork. With that being said, the student named Kyle Tera Rayden was able to attend Juuban High School with the same weekly schedule as he would have in an American high school.
Kyle woke up from a well deserved sleep due to the events which occurred last night. His regaining control of Thunderstorm, his new (and now preferred) version of Sailor Storm, the defeat and destruction of Jedite, and the celebration where Serena acted like an ice cream vacuum cleaner had managed to take their toll. Luckily for him, it was his weekend. He got out of bed and stretched out in his nightclothes (a T-shirt, and a pair of pants) when he noticed something was a little off.
"Zeus," Kyle asked the apparently empty bedroom.
However, Zeus was at the moment nowhere to be found. Kyle shrugged it off and mumble "weird cat" under his breath. It was around that moment he remembered the conversation he had with the souls of Sailor Storm and Thunderstorm yesterday. More specifically, he remembered what Sailor Storm had to do to make sure that there wasn't an imbalance of power inside Kyle's body. Kyle suddenly glanced at the blue watch he had subconsciously put on after he woke up. He had decided to check out this new ability of his. After staring at it for minute, he looked around again slightly desperate to make sure no one could see him. After he was sure, he hesitantly pressed the top button. The transformation only took a split second, so Kyle was barely able to feel any affects. That is until she felt her weight shift after her transformation into a girl had completed. Kyle looked at her new body while tested her voice. Coincidentally, her voice was an exact match to her original Sailor Storm's voice. Not to mention, Kyle noticed that she now looked exactly like her original Sailor Storm form (her now long hair in the same ponytail style), but without the uniform. She started moving around to get used to it when she suddenly noticed something feeling different. For some reason, it felt like her shoulders were being pressed by something very thin while she felt a taught material on her back and her newly developed chest. Using her hands to find out, she noticed that she was now wearing a bra. How the hell it got there completely bewildered her, but it was there nevertheless. A blush spread across her face as her hands went below the waistline of her pants. What she found had confirmed her thoughts. She was now wearing girl's underwear, top and bottom. She quickly flipped up her shirt and lowered her pants to see for herself. The bra and panties were of a white satin and lace design looking like an expensive set.
"You have got to be kidding me," Kyle said while she dropped the shirt and pulled her pants back up.
"So it's not enough that you turn into a girl while transforming into Sailor Storm. You now can just simply turn into a girl," Zeus said suddenly behind Kyle on the desk.
Kyle suddenly twisted around while she jumped back startled, landing on her rear with her right hand suddenly in a girlish fist right in front her mouth. Of course, she caught on quick that she was subconsciously acting like a girl even though her masculine mind was still consciously in control. Nevertheless, she didn't even bother to notice it as she looked at Zeus's face all covered in anger.
"Zeus, I-I can explain-," Kyle tried to say.
"Explain? I would really love an explanation for all of this. Let's start with how in the hell you are able to transform into a MALE Sailor Senshi," Zeus asked heatedly.
Kyle got into a more comfortable position and proceeded to tell her guardian cat everything since the first transformation into Thunderstorm. She told him about the conversation between her and the previous Sailor Storm and Thunderstorm, and how she now has two new abilities. Zeus sat there quietly with his face softening into a calm and listening expression, soaking in every word. Finally, Zeus shook his head and chuckled.
"I never would've believed it if I had never seen it. What's the main difference between the two forms," Zeus asked.
"Pretty much speed and power. It doesn't take as much power to speed up time while I'm a girl, not to mention how fast I am already. But when I'm a guy, I do slow down a bit and it takes a little more effort to speed up time, but all of my powers are more than doubled in strength. That's why I prefer my new male version over the original one now," Kyle said.
"I see."
"There's something else too. Last night, I managed to do something that I've only done once before out of reflex. I was roof hopping towards the airport, and I missed a roof while landing on the tram tracks. I don't know how I did it, but I pretty much suddenly turned into pure lightning and traveled across the tracks all the way to the airport much faster than I would have normally."
"Hmm. Sounds like an elemental ability that you might have gained from being Thunderstorm. But what do you mean it happened once before?"
"Back home when I was running from the cops. Only that time, it happened while I was in the river."
"Okay. I take back my last statement. It must be some kind of elemental ability you've received ever since you first became Sailor Storm, or at least that's my guess."
"Some guess," Kyle said under her breath.
"Look, I'll figure it out sooner or later. In the meantime, we need to discuss this new gender changing ability of yours," Zeus said.
"Ability? I don't know. It feels more like a curse to me."
"How's that a curse? You can control it, not to mention transform in both forms, am I right?"
"I don't know. I never transformed like this before."
"Work on it. I also suggest that you come up with a girl's name for this. Kyle is just too masculine for a girl's first name."
"You'd be surprised about that, but I have a name already."
"Which one?"
"My middle name. Tera."
Zeus suddenly looked at her with an incredulous look on his face.
"THAT'S your middle name?"
"Knock it off, Zeus. You should've already known that by now."
"No, I didn't actually. Well, I guess that settles the problem for finding you a girl name then, huh?"
Tera just looked at him like he was an idiot. It was apparent to anyone that she wasn't amused.
"Okay, Tera. You do realize that you are going to have to explain everything that you know to the girls, right? They are going to find out sooner or later, so you might as well tell them yourself."
"Okay, just so you can shut up. But I AM NOT telling them about me turning into girl. And I don't need to explain the reason why to you either."
Later that day after the half-day let out, Kyle called Ray and Serena to arrange a Senshi meeting immediately. Even though they had shown up at different times with Serena last, everyone did manage to make it without any problems. The surprise was that even though Serena was last, she wasn't actually late.
"Well, it's nice to see you're here actually on time, Serena," Ray said snottingly.
"Could you two please stop before you start? I'm the one who called this meeting for I feel that you all need to know about my past, and I'm NOT about to let you have your petty squabbles while you waste everyone else's time," Kyle said darkly.
Everyone, including Zeus, were shocked at Kyle's sudden maturity gain. Zeus, however, did quickly suspect that Thunderstorm's power may have permanently influenced his personality.
"Kyle's right. We should go ahead and let him say what he has to say," Luna said.
"Okay, Kyle. The floor is all yours," Lita said.
"Thanks, Lita," Kyle said. "This is what I now remember..."
Kyle then, without hesitation, began his explanation. In a time long before the creation of the Silver Millennium, there existed a conflict between a force from the Universe and a force from the Negaverse. The Sailor Elements (Sailor Lightning, Sailor Fire, Sailor Wind, Sailor Water, and Sailor Ground) were defending their distant star system against the Five Storms of the Negaverse who were forcibly influenced by the Negaforce of the time to destroy the only defense of the Universe. However, the goal of the Negaverse was only victory and not invasion of the Universe. The Sailor Elements, unlike the Sailor Senshi of today, were born as Sailor Senshi and nothing else. The Five Storms were the Negaverse's most elite force of the time only taking their orders from the essence of the Negaverse itself. This conflict had lasted over a period of three years barely non-stop, until finally a change was in order. This change occurred when Sailor Lightning was by herself one night and was suddenly approached by Thunderstorm. Sailor Lightning immediately went into a ready stance despite the fact that she was utterly exhausted from all of the fighting for the last week straight, but Thunderstorm didn't make any move except to tell her to stand down as he wasn't there to fight her. Sailor Lightning slowly eased off from her fighting position into a tense relaxed state. She waited for several minutes before she started speaking again.
"Okay, Thunderstorm. If you're not here to fight me, then tell me what you are doing here now and leave," Lightning demanded.
"I'm only here to talk to you, Sailor Lightning," Thunder said.
Sailor Lightning waits a little while before nodding her head to acknowledge him to continue.
"I've been having a problem lately. It seems that for the past month, I'm finding it easy to battle against you Sailor Elements like we've been for the past three years except for one."
"Oh really? Who is that then?"
"You, Sailor Lightning."
"What," Lightning barely asked as her face shown utter shock.
"For some reason, I can't bring myself to even think about harming you. Every night, I keep thinking about you. Not what to do to you, but just you standing there smiling at me. It torments me down to my soul. Why?"
"I don't know, but for some odd reason I'm starting to feel the same way about you. I always feel that there is some good in you that is trying to get out into the real world."
"I'm not sure about that. I was always under the impression that my enemy is never good."
"But we are. All we do is for the benefit and care of others. It's our job to protect the innocent from enemies like you and the other Storms. We do, however, try to understand your motives and see if we can't help out or not. All we want is to see everyone happy."
"So why am I having a hard time even thinking about hurting you?"
"Well, in my world there is such a thing called love. It's a very powerful emotion that we also try to protect. No one can live in peace without love. It's just impossible."
"Love? Are you saying that I can't fight you anymore because of love?"
Lightning actually had to stop and think about this one. She had been having these feelings around Thunderstorm even longer than he's been having them. Was it even possible? Could the two of them actually be destined for each other?
"I... I don't know. I think it might be possible. But it just wouldn't seem right."
"If there is one thing I've learned, it's that sometimes the right choices do not even resemble seeming to be logically correct. Nevertheless, I think the both of us should stay out of our battles for now so we can think on it."
"I think you have a good idea, but we are not to see each other either until we have both figured this out."
"Agreed," Thunder said before disappearing in lightning.
Soon afterwards, the two of them had found out that their feelings are definitely strong for each other and that Sailor Lightning does believe that they are destined to be together. It was only a matter of time before they had finally shown their feelings for each other and fell in love. They went as far as getting married privately, and Sailor Lightning changing her name to Sailor Storm. It was also when she received her sword from Thunderstorm. Their lives have found the missing pieces they have had ever since they were born.
Unfortunately, none of this had gone completely unnoticed. Firestorm, Thunderstorm's twin brother, had devised a plan to tear the Sailor Elements from the inside out for deceiving his brother. He had used Sailor Fire, who was hurt the most from Sailor Storm's actions for they were best friends with each other. He manipulated and hypnotized Sailor Fire to turn rogue and kill the Sailor Elements. She killed Sailor Water first since she was the most unprepared, and her element was the most effective against fire. Sailor Wind died after Water leaving Sailor Fire to take out Sailor Ground. Sailor Storm found out what was going on since her magical field reacted to Sailor Water's death. She had a strong feeling on where the others were and both she and Thunderstorm headed there as fast as they could. They were about 20 seconds away when Storm felt her comrade, Sailor Wind, fall as well. Upon reaching the area, both of them saw Sailor Fire standing opposite to Sailor Ground. Storm could see the blind rage in Ground's eyes, but both she and Thunder could literally feel the Negaversal power emanating from Fire. Storm did feel sorry for her and also that she felt responsible to this mess, but with Thunder's help she steeled herself so she would be able to do her job. Sailor Storm adamantly decided that Sailor Fire, her long-time best friend, was now her enemy. After telling Thunderstorm to stay out of the fight, Sailor Storm jumped in next to Sailor Ground's side. Sailor Ground was already suffering from injuries, but was determined to fight to the death. During the battle, all three Senshi suffered burn injuries; Storm and Ground from Fire's attacks, and Fire with electrical burns from Storm's attacks. The battle wasn't strictly just magical attacks as they also got up-close and personal. Sailor Storm had the group in speed, but lacked in strength, Sailor Ground excelled in strength but was slower than the other two, while Sailor Fire was in the middle of the stats giving her the best edge against her opponents. However, she let that get to her head causing her to get sloppy. Not to mention, she was still pretty strung out from the other fights as she didn't have adequate time to rest. Finally, the time came. Sailor Fire made one simple mistake by hesitating, giving Storm the well-used chance to strike Fire with her new sword. Sailor Ground then moved in to attack Sailor Fire without mercy, and without resistance. After she was done, Sailor Fire was barely alive and barely standing while Sailor Storm and Sailor Ground stood beside each other, charged up their fists (Ground was right-handed while Storm was a southpaw), and struck Sailor Fire as hard as they could for the last time. The attack was too much for Fire to survive. Her body disintegrated before it hit the ground, evident that her body was controlled by the Negaverse.
Their victory was very short lived as a thin fire beam shot through Sailor Ground's body, killing her instantly. Sailor Storm would have been Firestorm's next target if it wasn't for Thunderstorm getting her out of the way. She expected him to take her out of the battle, but Thunderstorm had other plans. It was then when the rest of the Storms had shown up.
"Brother! Why did you deceive us? How could you turn against even your own brother,"Firestorm yelled.
"Sailor Storm," Thunderstorm said ignoring Firestorm.
"What is it, Thunderstorm," Sailor Storm asked.
"I know that you are probably thinking that I am wanting to take them on myself. Am I right?"
"Yes."
"Well, I'm not. WE are going to take them on together because it is our destiny to do so."
Sailor Storm didn't say anything, but she cried tears of happiness and smiled since her husband wanted the both of them to do this together. After all, they wanted to be together literally all the time from now to forever. It was then that Thunderstorm finally turned to his brother.
"Firestorm, you have taken a new low using a dirty trick like that. You should also know that my destiny happened to be different path than the rest of you. My path lies with the defending of my newfound principles. I have never experienced love in my life until now. I am willing to defend that at all costs.
"Thunderstorm, are you meaning to say that you have completely defected to our enemy, and willing to fight against us for them," Rainstorm asked angrily.
"With my life," Thunderstorm simply answered.
"So be it, traitor!"
No more words were exchanged as the two forces immediately charged each other. Thunderstorm faced off with Firestorm and Rainstorm while Sailor Storm fought against Windstorm and Snowstorm. The battle lasted up to seven minutes until the Snowstorm was the first one killed. Rainstorm followed shortly thereafter. While Sailor Storm was then having her hands full with Windstorm, Thunderstorm and Firestorm were having a stand-off, seeing who would make the first move. Finally, both of them moved at the same time as dark blurs with the sounds of swords shattering against each other. Even though she was concentrating on her own battle, Sailor Storm could literally feel the dark power the two brothers were creating against each other. Storm's battle against Windstorm was a losing one however. Windstorm was more accurate and could use the wind to fly. Storm was lucky to get even a few hits in, but her opponent was still a little faster than her. Unfortunately, Sailor Storm was also showing signs of fatigue as Windstorm proved it by cutting her once on each arm. The wounds weren't deep or serious at all, but it shown that she was beginning to fall. It was time for one last blow. Windstorm landed on the ground and charged Sailor Storm, while Storm concentrated on focusing all of her power. At the last second, Sailor Storm counterattacked Windstorm by charging forward and releasing all of her built up power. The result was one she never expected to happen. Everything slowed down to crawl including herself, but the interesting thing was that Windstorm moved much slower than she did at that moment. She used this opportunity without thinking and fatally struck Windstorm with her sword while avoiding his Katana. Once she was out of the way, time returned to normal and Windstorm fell to ground dead before he exploded in white light. It was Sailor Storm's first Time Manipulation move.
After resting on her knees to recover, Storm looked around for Thunderstorm. What she found were two brothers, one fighting for love and justice and the other blinded by rage and hatred, fighting against each other in mid-air. Firestorm was using his fire element to make him lighter than air, while Thunderstorm used a more complicated method involving magnetism in the air and ground. It seemed impossible, but he was pulling it off. What scared Sailor Storm the most was the fact that both Thunderstorm and Firestorm's eyes were fully glowing their respective colors. It only made Firestorm look more evil, but Thunderstorm was now down right scary. The speeds they were fighting were also unimaginable. While Firestorm's body looked like a dark blur, Thunderstorm half of the time looked more like he was almost teleporting. All of sudden, they stopped fighting and landed with a 40 yard distance between each other. Sailor Storm was wondering why they stopped when the ground started shaking from under her. The ground suddenly "cracked" all over the place as streams of flame started ripping out of them. Storm was now surrounded by fire, preventing her from moving, when she noticed the sky suddenly clouded up and darkened. Soon after that, large bolts of lightning shot through the clouds threatening to hit the ground. It would be a normal thunderstorm without rain, except the lightning was everywhere in the sky. The thunder wasn't very loud, but it became a constant sound. Sailor Storm was both scared and enraptured by the power and beauty of what she was witnessing: the two last Storms calling on their elements for their assistance. It was then when she could finally hear them speaking.
"You should have never joined with them. This never would have happened," Firestorm yelled.
"You can't make me decide what I choose to do. I chose to follow my destiny knowing full well what would happen. I fell in love with Sailor Storm and I will be with her for the rest of eternity beyond my life's end," Thunderstorm returned.
"Then this the end for you, my brother."
"You don't have to do this. I'm now giving you one chance to surrender and see for yourself what I have experienced."
"I WILL NEVER BETRAY THE NEGAVERSE AS YOU HAVE! NOW DIE!"
"So be it," Thunderstorm mumbled.
Firestorm let out a battle cry as he charged Thunderstorm for the last time, using the fire he summoned to fuel his power to maximum. Thunderstorm charged Firestorm doing the same thing with his power. When the two reached each other, Thunderstorm suddenly "blinked"out of existence and reappeared five feet behind Firestorm with his sword dripping blood. Firestorm's sword was clean until his own blood started dripping on it. It was then that Firestorm's body glowed red where Thunderstorm had fatally struck him ten times while stopping time. Firestorm hit his knees before his body exploded in red light, causing his summoned element to disappear while Thunderstorm's followed shortly after. The Negaverse had finally been defeated with the cost of too much bloodshed.
All of the girls were feeling a large set of mixed emotions after hearing Kyle describe the events of his predecessors. It took them quite a while for it to all sink in before one of them finally spoke.
"From what you said Kyle, it sounded like they might have been better off had they not have the war in the first place," Ray said.
"That may be true, but if that was the case then I wouldn't be here, Ray," Kyle said.
"Did the Sailor Elements have anything to do with the Sailor Senshi of the Silver Millennium at all, even if they didn't exist at the same time," Luna asked.
"No. The Sailor Elements were not predecessors to the Sailor Senshi. It was one thing that I forgot to mention. When all of the Elements were killed including Sailor Fire, their powers were done away with in a certain manner so they could not reappear in the bodies of new girls. When they died, their powers died with them."
"Then how come Sailor Fire met the same fate?"
"Because Sailor Storm already knew that the Sailor Elements were finished for good. She knew that Sailor Fire had her powers set to permanently destroy the Elements. Plus, she didn't want to take a chance with Fire somehow showing up again. It still almost killed her having to destroy her best friend though."
"But everyone lived happily ever after, right," Serena asked.
Kyle just looked at her with a hard look, not answering her question.
"Right," Serena asked again though now worry and fear crossed her face.
"I have a feeling that wasn't the end of it. Is it, Kyle," Zeus asked.
"No. It wasn't," Kyle slowly said after shaking his head.
Thunderstorm and Sailor Storm quietly celebrated their victory by resting with each other for a few hours. However, it seemed that the news of the entire recent ordeal had spread throughout Sailor Storm's home solar system, the rest of Universe, and throughout the Negaverse as well. Unfortunately, they concentrated on the events of Sailor Storm and Thunderstorm falling in love as well as Thunderstorm defecting to the Universe. The entire Universe was now after Sailor Storm's head for conspiring with the enemy, while the entire Negaverse wanted Thunderstorm destroyed for defying and humiliating them. They knew that they didn't have very long to be discovered by both factions.
"I guess our victory was short lived," Thunderstorm said.
"It's like we weren't meant to live in peace, but always at war. Is that our purpose in life," Sailor Storm asked.
"It seems so."
"I can't believe you said that. I can't believe that it's true. Is this all what we are? Just soldiers who cannot exist unless they are constantly fighting," Storm emotionally asked.
"Sailor Storm, listen to me. I've learned that my destiny has led me to you, to love you and to fight for the Universe in hopes of living in peace. This is where our destiny begins; with two choices."
"What choices?"
"One, we go to war against the Universe and Negaverse in which we might accomplish the two to be in peace with each other, but at the cost of so many lives."
"Or," Storm asked.
"Or we guarantee the peace between the Universe and Negaverse... by going to war with each other."
Sailor Storm just stares at him with shock plastered all over her face.
"You.. don't mean-."
"I mean we kill each other so they can't destroy our love. So that we can be together for the rest of eternity. And should we ever rise again, I will search endlessly to find you again," Thunderstorm said with difficulty.
"Thunderstorm," Sailor Storm said with tears flowing down her cheeks. "I love you so much, and I will promise that I will search for you just as hard shall we ever rise again. Nothing will ever keep us apart. Nothing."
"I love you, Sailor Storm."
"I love you, Thunderstorm."
Both of the lovers had charged each other blindingly fast. They ended up kissing each other as hard and passionately as they can. However, they had also had their swords drawn and ran through the other's abdomen. Sailor Storm's wound started glowing red as Thunderstorm's was glowing white, and they pulled out their swords at the same time and threw them away. The two ill-fated lovers started collapsing as their kiss ended, proving that their wounds were indeed fatal. It wasn't much of war for they wanted it to be quick and as painless as possible. The bodies of Thunderstorm and Sailor Storm had collapsed and were laying on their backs. Even though they were now dead, they still had one hand joining the other's hand and they were not letting go. When they died, their souls had lifted from their bodies and joined as one before disappearing altogether. This entire set of events, fortunately, were witnessed by a collaboration of Universe and Negaverse soldiers who were to surprise attack the two "traitors." However as it turns out, their sacrifice had shown them that the two would rather kill themselves to ensure lasting peace than to stay alive and make so many more sacrifices for the same goal. The soldiers had then honored the dead, and returned to their commanders to report what they have seen. It was soon after when the Universe and Negaverse had celebrated peace between the two dimensions, as well as mourn for their losses.
"...and that's all I can remember," Kyle concluded.
Kyle had finally finished his story, and again the room was dead quiet. However, the change made from before was that only Artemis and Zeus had dry eyes. All of the girls were pretty much silently crying while Kyle was borderline to having tears coming down his face. He managed to fight them back eventually and waited for the girls to calm down.
"It's too hard to believe it. How could they be traitors if they won the war to ensure love and justice in the Universe," Serena shakily asked.
"All people, no matter what timeline, have the tendency to make mistakes in their lives. It's our way; human nature," Luna said.
"Their love for each other was so powerful that they would rather die together so their souls would stay together, rather than fight and risk the chance of them drifting apart. It's so romantic," Lita said.
"I can't argue with that, nor could I have said it better myself," Mina said.
"Kyle, I take it that when Sailor Storm received her sword, it is the same one that you use as Sailor Storm. Am I correct," Amy asked.
"Yes, I have the same swords for both Sailor Storm and Thunderstorm," Kyle said.
"What were Sailor Storm's powers when she was Sailor Lightning as well?"
"Sailor Lightning had only her elemental attack and her hand-to-hand fighting. When she became Sailor Storm, her sword was added to her attacks, allowing her to power it with lightning to come up with more combinations."
"If that's the case, then where did Sailor Storm acquire her guns and the ability to use her tiara as weapon?"
Kyle paused for second.
"I don't know. I do know that she couldn't have gotten them before she died though," Kyle said with his expression matching his answer.
"There are still a number of things we don't know about both Sailor Storm and Thunderstorm. However, I'm afraid that we will have to cover them at a later time when we have the information available," Zeus said.
"Hmm..," Artemis said concentrating.
"What is it, Artemis," Luna asked.
"I don't know. Something I sort of remember during the Silver Millennium, but I can't recall what it was," Artemis replied.
"Hopefully, things will become clear later on."
"I hope so. Thank you all for your time. Unless there happens to be something else to discuss, I believe this meeting might be over," Kyle said.
"There isn't anything else. We gladly appreciated your story and your time as well, Kyle," Luna said as everyone was getting up to leave.
Kyle was making his way down the steps of the temple when someone behind him called out.
"Kyle. Wait," Lita said.
Kyle stopped and turned around to look up at her.
"What is it," Kyle asked.
"I've been meaning to apologize to you."
"Apologize for what?"
"Ever since you had first shown up, I've been jealous of your powers. At the time, my lightning attacks were so weak while yours was so dominating. I couldn't help but feel deep anger, especially when I found out that the new Sailor Senshi was you. I'm very sorry about that."
"You don't have to apologize."
"Yes, I do. My honor depends on it."
"You admitted that you felt jealous over me and realized your mistake. It happens all the time. Nevertheless, I humbly accept your apology, Lita."
"Thank you, Kairu-kun," Lita said while bowing at the waist.
"Huh," Kyle asked.
"Oh. Kairu is your name in Japanese, Kyle."
"No. I mean the other part '-kun' that you said after my name."
"It's an honorific. Japanese males are either normally addressed as 'san' or 'kun'; San is simply a common honorific given to address people we don't know, while Kun is given to males whom we have grown more accustomed to. Actually, they're more complicated than that, but that's them in a nutshell," Lita said while fidgeting.
"Okay. Thank you for the explanation," Kyle said while bowing. "I wonder why she's fidgeting like that," Kyle thought.
"Oh. The pleasure is mine," Lita said returning the bow.
"I'll see ya later then."
"Okay. Bye, Kyle."
Kyle waved his right hand once while still walking down the stairs.
Later, the part of the city where Neflyte was ordered by Queen Beryl to attack is now under chaos. A quarter of the people were citizens trying to get away from the youma, another quarter wearing black (cops) were trying to fight it off, while the other half consisted of both citizen and police who already had their life essences sucked out. The cops were fighting at the best of their ability including the SWAT team that was called in, but all their efforts were for naught as the youma managed to retrieve more life essences than its required amount. When there was only ten humans left, Neflyte called back the youma from the girl it was inhabiting and dissappeared back to the Negaverse. The ten humans that were left went to get help when the rest of the police force and medics arrived to make sure everyone was still alive. Luckilly, no one had died nor did they suffer permanent damage, but there was no force available that was able to stop the monster. The reason was because the Sailor Senshi were in Japan. The city that was just attacked was Kyle's hometown.
A/N: I do hope that shines some light on Sailor Storm's past. Of course, it doesn't explain Kyle's entire past because I'm not ready to write down that information... yet. I have to write down certain events before I can explain everything. It'll take time, but everything will be revealed before the end of the story. I promise.
pscycogirl234: I appreciate your patience and I hope your waiting has paid off
wwe wraith, guardian knight, and Dark-Magician-41: I do hope that you have all had patience with me as well. I highly apologize for not replying to your reviews. I have no excuse for it, but I will be trying to correct my mistakes, including this one. Thank you for your attention.