Rei was deep in thought when she and Kasumi were wandering through the woods.
Kasumi turned around. "What's on your mind, Rei?"
"Oh, it's... It's nothing," the raven-haired girl replied. "I only... Well, I have a bad feeling about just leaving Hotaru and Chibiusa back at the camp."
Kasumi smiled. "I'm sure they'll do fine. They will search inside the camp for the amulet, we'll search in the adjoining woods. Don't worry! There are adults within the camp as well, you know?"
Rei sighed. While that was true, she had the feeling that those adults couldn't do much if a Youma appears.
On the other hand, both girls had already faced several dangerous opponents before, such as Nehelenia. Perhaps she was just worrying too much.
"This is too much," Chibiusa grumbled. "Those stupid counselors... I don't plan in joining any of their stupid games they have prepared."
"Hey, take it easy," Hotaru told her. "I've never done anything like a 'scavenger hunt' before. Besides, during the game, everyone will be distracted, so we can search for the amulet."
Diana looked down from Chibiusa's head. "Why should we go hunting for scavengers?" she wondered. "I see no reason for it..."
Chibiusa groaned. "Diana, it's just the name of the game..."
The grey kitten blinked. "Hunting scavengers must be really fun, then. I mean, if they even make a game of it..."
Chibiusa and Hotaru face-faulted.
They weren't the only non-canadian girls visiting the camp today. Not even the only non-american girls...
"This sucks," Jade grumbled as she angrily kicked a rock against a tree. "I could go along with Jackie and help him search for that other amulet, but nooo... I have to stay here with the little kids... great..."
She sighed and began picking up fir cones. It was a stupid way of spending her time, but at least more interesting than joining that silly scavenger hunt...
While walking around a tree, she didn't see the other girl approaching her.
The two girls bumped into each other. "Huh?" Jade said. "Oh, sorry... I didn't look where I was walking..."
The black-haired Japanese girl smiled. "It's okay, I was kinda distracted myself."
"Hey," her pink-haired companion shouted. "You're collecting fir cones? It was a hobby of mine for some time..." That was true, as the fir was a rare tree in her own century, she always brought some cones back home when she returned back to Crystal Tokyo.
"Well, mainly because I was bored..." Jade replied. "These games the counselors come up with are kid stuff."
Chibiusa giggled. "You're right, they're boring. Hey, you look Asian as well! Are you from Japan too?"
"No, I was born in Hongkong, but normally, I'm living with my Uncle Jackie, in San Francisco. Jackie Chan, you ever heard from him? He's a famous archeologist."
Chibiusa shook her head. "No, can't say we have. By the way, my name is Usagi, but call me Chibiusa, everyone does."
"And I'm Hotaru," her black-haired friend smiled. "Nice to meet you!"
"I'm Jade..." Jade said with a smirk. "Jade Chan."
"Well, has been nice meeting you," Jade finally said and left.
Hotaru smiled as she watched their new friend walking away, every now and then bowing down to pick up a fir cone. "Jade sure was nice..." Then something came to her mind. "Jade... Jade... Now where did I hear that name before?"
"Hey Hotaru!" Chibiusa called her. "Look at this! Here's something hard underneath the fir needles..."
"Really?" Hotaru asked. "Perhaps it's the Taurus Amulet..." Together, they digged in the piles of needles, until they found the hard thing Chibiusa had felt.
"Awww, it's just some pice of stone," Chibiusa pouted.
Hotaru looked closer at it. "Strange... it's not a normal piece of rock... Look, there's a tiger carved in it's surface. Looks like some sort of talisman or something..."
"You think Jade dropped it?" Chibiusa wondered. "Maybe she is born in the year of the tiger, and this is her lucky charm." She giggled.
"Year of the tiger?" Diana asked naively.
"Yes, year of the tiger... the Chinese Zodiacs, Diana! Hello? Do you actually remember Mercury's lessons back at home?"
"Actually... I mostly fall asleep when she starts her lectures," the kitten blushed.
Hotaru turned the talisman around a few times. Then she gasped. "Now I remember... Makoto told me she met a girl named Jade in California! And she also had an uncle called Jackie... You think it was her?"
"Could be," Chibiusa pondered. "Didn't Makoto say something about how she had some magic talismans? Hey, maybe that's one of them."
Then Hotaru realized something. "Strange... there is some sort of curved line in the middle of it... like it's actually composed of two parts..."
"Maybe you can take it apart?" Chibiusa wondered. "Lemme try..."
She grabbed at the talisman hastily. "Careful, you'll break it," Hotaru said.
"I only wanna take a look..."
"Hey, stop pushing me..."
CRACK!
FLASH!
Chibiusa and Hotaru fell down on their little bums, each one of them holding one of the talisman halves. Blinking, they looked at each other.
Then they looked upwards to the faces of the two women that appeared between them.
Black Lady smiled as she looked around the landscape and took a deep breath. "Aaaah, feels good to finally get out of that sticky mind..."
Mistress 9 smirked and nodded. "Indeed, and I have the feeling our celebration of return will be exciting..."
Hotaru and Chibiusa gulped as they looked up at their evil, grown-up counterparts. Now this meant trouble...
Diana let out a nervous laugh. "This is bad, isn't it?"
All Jade heard was the surprised shout of her two new friends, then something that sounded like evil laughter. A crackling sound followed.
"Oh no, what happened now?" Jade mumbled and turned around, running back to where she met the two. "Can't I for once travel somewhere without getting thrown into some dangerous adventure..." Then she grinned. "On the other hand, it's better than this boring camp."
When she reached the place, Chibiusa was sitting on the ground and cried. Hotaru was crouching next to her, consoling her friend.
"There, there..." she murmured. "Everything's going to be fine."
Chibiusa sniffled. "B-b-but that meanie took my Luna-P! Why? I d-d-didn't do anything... Whaaaah!"
Jade sweat-dropped. "Is she always that emotional?"
Hotaru stood up and smiled. "Oh no, but she just had a hard day, that's all..."
"Okaaayyyy... what just happened here?"
Hotaru smiled again and showed Jade one half of the broken talisman. "We found this and broke it by accident, and then those two evil ladies appeared and took the other half with them... as well as her Luna-P."
Jade stared at the piece of stone in Hotaru's hand. "The Tiger Talisman..." she groaned. "Greeeaaaat... Just WHY did I bring that thing with me? It always causes trouble..."
She took a deep breath. "Okay, to make it short: The Tiger Talisman separated your evil side from your good side... Got it? Yin-Yang! And to become one with your other half, you and your evil halves have to put the Talisman back together again... while both of you are touching it..."
She scratched her head. "Well, I guess in this case it's more like 'the FOUR of you'. Dang, this is going to be hard..."
"I don't think I wanna go near those scary ladies..." Chibiusa whined. "They're mean... and dangerous."
Jade sighed. "Hey, they're just two girls like us, right? I mean, it's not like we have to find the evil half of some kick-ass martial artist like my uncle..."
"Well, they're no martial artists..." Hotaru carefully said.
"Good!" Jade smiled.
Hotaru sighed. "But they, like us, have the special powers of the..."
Chibiusa put her hand on her friend's mouth. "Hotaru," she said in a shocked voice. "We can't tell anyone about our powers. My mom told me so."
"Since when do you listen to your mom?" Hotaru frowned.
"Well... rarely in the past... and I'm horribly ashamed for that." Chibiusa cowered down. "But, there is always a time to change your ways, right?"
"I think you should tell her," Diana suddenly exclaimed. "If she has more of those Talismans Makoto told us about, she could help us."
Jade stared down at the grey kitten.
"Diana, you shouldn't talk in front of anyone that doesn't know our secret," Chibiusa scolded her. Diana smiled. "Sorry?"
"A talking cat... special powers... Wait a minute... Did you just say 'Makoto'? Don't tell me... You're Senshi as well?"
Hotaru smiled. "Well done, Jade! You're a clever girl, you know that?"
Jade groaned. "Oooooh no... instead of an evil badass like Uncle Jackie's evil side, I have two evil girls with Senshi powers... Bad day, if I may say so..."
"Actually, they're adults," Hotaru explained. "Black Lady and Mistress 9... you see, both of us turned evil once in our lives..."
"Don't remind me of that time," Chibiusa sniffled. "It was scary..."
"Whatever," Jade impatiently said. "But... you still have half of your power, right? You should be able to fight them."
Hotaru looked shocked while Chibiusa looked scared. "Fighting?" Hotaru gasped. "Oh no, that's not a good idea... We have to find a way to solve this without resorting to any senseless violence..."
"F-f-fight them?" Chibiusa squeaked. "Are you c-c-crazy? They'll kick our butts!"
Jade sighed. "Not this again..."
Mistress 9 and Black Lady peered around several trees. Before them, a small group of girls was playing. The two women smirked at each other.
"Showtime..." Mistress 9 murmured. "Oh, this will be fun..."
"After you, Missy," Black Lady grinned.
Mistress 9 scowled. "Don't call me that!" she snapped.
"Whatever you say, Missy," Chibiusa's evil counterpart snickered.
Mistress 9 growled. Then she smirked. "Okay then... let's do it... Blacky!"
Black Lady grimaced. "Point for you..." she mumbled.
Little Cassie was happily humming while she pulled her lunch box out of her backpack. Mommy prepared it for her this morning, before she left her here at the camp.
And yummy! She remembered to make her a sandwich with cheese... Perhaps she should share this with her friend...
While Cassie was busy munching on her sandwich, she didn't notice the strands of black hair that sneaked past her, grabbed her lunch box and snatched it away.
Cassie looked up... and saw two strange women pulling out her lunch of the box. "Hey! That's mine!"
'Blacky' grinned as she bit into a green apple. "Mmmm, delicious... but a little too much vitamins for my taste..."
'Missy' searched around the lunch box. "Dang! No cheese?" She looked over to the bewildered little girl and smirked. "Oh, I'll just have to help myself..." And she walked over to Cassie and took her sandwich.
After taking a bite, she nodded. "Yes, that's good..."
Cassie wailed. "Whaaaah! Miss Parker! Those mean old ladies stole my lunch box!"
Black Lady snarled angrily. "Old? Who's old?"
Suddenly, one of the camp's counselors appeared. "Hey! What are you doing here? This is a camp for children, you know? And give back that box, or I'll call the police!"
Mistress 9 grinned. "Well, she will be certainly more fun than those annoying little kids, huh? Blacky, why don't you take care of her?"
Black Lady pulled out the Luna-P. "Gladly!"
Miss Parker nervously stepped back. "What... what are you doing?"
With a puff of smoke, Luna-P turned into a handy vacuum cleaner. "Time for some spring-cleaning," the pink-haired villain smirked. And she activated her 'weapon of choice'.
SSHHHHLUUUURRRPP!
Miss Parker gasped as the Luna-P-vacuum sucked in all of her clothes except her underwear. Blushing madly, she desperately tried to cover herself.
Mistress 9 and Black Lady cackled madly as they saw how the embarrassed counselor hightailed through the trees, hoping that no one else would see her before she was able to get some other clothes.
Jade looked around the forest. "They have to be somewhere around here," she said. "Have you seen them yet?"
Chibiusa shook her head. "N-n-no way! I just c-c-can't bear looking at their s-s-scary faces." She shuddered.
Hotaru hugged her distraught friend. "Now, now... All will turn out fine, you'll see. We'll just talk to those bad ladies and tell them what they did was not nice. And when they realize how much you missed your Luna-P, they'll give it back for sure."
Jade groaned. She almost forgot how annoying the 'good' sides of a human personality can be.
"How long are they going to be like this?" Diana asked.
"Until we convince or trick the two bad ladies to take their half of the talisman and put it against the other half while our two girls over there hold it... But if your pink-haired friend stays as frightened as she is now, I have the bad feeling it won't be that easy..."
Suddenly, she saw something... Something round and black was zipping through the forest.
"Say... didn't you tell me this 'Luna-P' thingy would be a round, black ball that looks like a cat's head?"
Diana nodded. "Uh-huh!"
"Good, because I think I just saw it flying around here. Come, hurry up, you two! We may have a chance of getting them if we follow that ball."
"You know, you really should relax a little," Hotaru said. "Why don't you try doing some Yoga...?"
They managed to follow Luna-P to the entrance of a dark cave at the foot of a hill. Jade peered into the blackness.
"You sure that they're in here?" Chibiusa whined.
"Perhaps..."
Just then, a voice that was well-known to Chibiusa echoed through the dark cavern. "Yoo-hoo! Little girls wanna come in and play?"
Chibiusa squeaked. "T-that's her..."
"All right, now's our chance," Jade grinned and pulled the reluctant Chibiusa after her.
"That's right," Hotaru smiled. "After all, it's about noon... we can ask them if they'd like to have lunch with us."
Black Lady peered out of the small chasm where she and her Luna-P were hidden. She giggled. Those stupid little girls were walking right into their trap... They didn't even realize how they were walking past her...
"It's so dark..." Chibiusa just whined. "I can't see a thing..."
Black Lady scowled. How she detested that little brat. To think she was once part of her... And just the thought of becoming one with her again... horrible!
She waited a few more minutes, then stealthily hurried back to the cave's entrance. She stepped back behind the trees and sent her Luna-P up to the hilltop.
Mistress 9 smirked as she saw the cat-shaped ball approaching her. That was the signal. Now she could get her revenge on that pesky little Hotaru...
True, she wasn't the real Mistress 9, but as she had all of Hotaru's memories as well as the will to continue the real Mistress 9's evil deeds, it wasn't a big difference, she thought.
Using her supernatural strength, she shoved one of the big boulders lying around her, and let it roll over the edge of the hill.
While rolling down, it caused multiple other boulders and rocks to come down, thereby causing a small avalanche.
When Jade and her friend reached a dead end, she let out a desperate groan. "But I'm sure I heard her," she grumbled. "How could we miss her like this?"
Just then they all heard the loud rumbling of the avalanche.
In a hurry, they ran back to the entrance... and found it blocked by big boulders.
"Oh no," Hotaru shouted. "We're trapped."
"WHAAAAAH!" Chibiusa instantly wailed. "Now we'll be stuck here until we die from starvation..."
"Would you two just stay quiet for a while?" Jade snapped. "I'm trying to think here..."
There just had to be a way out of here.
Perhaps the rocks weren't really that heavy...
She decided to try it. After all, it wouldn't hurt to try, would it?
She pushed her hands against the front rock and pushed with all her might.
"Um, I don't think you will be able to move that," Diana wanted to point out. But Jade wasn't listening. She used all her force to move the boulders at least a little bit.
It was like trying to move a massive truck with your bare hands.
"That's it," Jade shouted. "Do I have to call for Jackie every time I get in trouble? Move, you damn rocks, MOVE, I said!"
And suddenly, she felt a sudden surge of power within her muscles. The strength flowed through her body and gave her a new confidence.
And when she pushed this time, the rocks slowly gave way and rolled out of the way.
The other three just gasped at this display of power. "No way..." Chibiusa mumbled.
Jade grinned and flexed her arms. "Jade Power! Take this, you stupid rocks!" Then she blinked. "I wonder if I activated the Ox Talisman by accident..."
Then she remembered something. "Strange, I really didn't take the Ox Talisman with me... So how did I get that strong all of a sudden?"
She scratched her head and turned back around to her friend.
They gasped when they saw the glowing sign on Jade's forehead. A symbol showing the head of a bull...
"I can't believe it..." Hotaru murmured. "Sailor Taurus?"
"I can't believe it," Jade said, a big grin on her face. "Me, a Sailor Senshi... Just wait until I tell Jackie..."
"We can't tell anyone of our powers," Chibiusa reminded her. "It will just make us easy targets."
"Awww, bummer..." Jade whined. "Oh, doesn't matter... I still got these kick-ass powers." She flexed her arms once again. "And you tell me that if I find the Taurus Amulet, I'll become even stronger?"
"Most likely..." Hotaru said. "Although it won't be good to use all that brawns just for senseless violent acts..."
"I get the picture..." Jade groaned.
"Um, excuse me..." Diana tried to get their attention.
"But Jackie is already trying to find the amulet," Jade explained. "He already guessed it could be something similar to the Virgo Amulet, but he didn't want to risk it being stolen by someone... bad."
"Where is he right now?" Hotaru asked.
"I guess he's searching the woods around the camp..."
"Sorry, but I wanted to..." Diana tried again.
"Say, did you realize that we left the woods some minutes ago?" Chibiusa suddenly said.
They looked around. She was right... the forest was a small distance behind them. In front of them, behind a fence, they could see hills and fields.
"That's what I tried to tell you the whole time," Diana said. "If we continue walking, we'll reach the edge of the camp... and I don't think Mistress 9 and Black Lady would be there."
Jade sighed. "Well I guess we just have to turn around and go back the way we came, right?"
She picked up a small boulder, hurled it over the fence and turned around.
The boulder flew through the air, over the fence and hit a dark and massive shape standing on the field.
The bull raised his head. There he was, peacefully munching on some grass, when suddenly, a big chunk of rock hit his head. Angrily, he looked around. Whoever did that, he should be ready to face the consequences...
The he saw the three girls walking towards the forest.
He also saw Jade's t-shirt.
Jades RED t-shirt.
"MOOOOOO!"
"Huh? Did you hear that?" Jade looked around.
Diana turned around and yelped like a dog. "LOOK OUT!"
The three girls turned around... and screamed as they saw the massive shape of the bull approaching them at high speed. He easily broke through the fence and continued storming towards them. The girls turned back around and ran back towards the forest, screaming like little girls...
Well, they are little girls... Okay, not that little, but... never mind...
"Why don't you use your incredible strength to stop him?" Chibiusa shouted.
"Why don't you use your awesome Senshi powers?" Jade shouted back.
"I don't know about you two," Hotaru interfered. "But I'm not going to stop and find out if Jade is actually strong enough to take on a charging bull."
They managed to reach the forest in time, and quickly, they climbed on a tree.
The bull stopped in time before he ran into the trunk. He looked up at the three girls furiously. Then he snorted and stomped back to where he came from...
Jade let out a sigh of relief. "He's gone..."
"You think it's safe enough to climb down?" Chibiusa whined.
Jade looked after the bull. "Um, I think we should wait in case he returns..."
"Hey!" Diana suddenly shouted. "I think I found something..." She looked inside one of the tree's knotholes.
Jade grabbed inside and pulled out something shiny. When she opened her hand again, they all gasped. "The Taurus Amulet..."
"Where is the Taurus Amulet?" the horned creature roared.
Sailor Mars yelped as she dodged the massive punch of the beast. "How many times do we have to tell you? We're searching for it as well."
"Wrong answer!" The bull-headed Youma lowered his head and stormed towards the Senshi of fire to gore her.
Rei jumped up, bounced off his broad shoulders and landed behind him. "Virgo, can't you do anything to calm him down?"
"I can't," Kasumi replied. "He's filled with so much anger... Perhaps it doesn't work because he's a Youma..."
"Great, do you actually have ANY offensive powers?" Mars asked, firing a Fire Soul at the Minotaur-like beast.
The monster took the hit and snarled. "I'll bury you alive!"
Suddenly, a big blast of energy hit him from behind. The Youma slowly got up. "Who dares...?"
Jackie smirked as he held up the Dragon Talisman. "Well, Jade was right... The talismans DO come in handy..."
Black Lady sighed as she let her feet dangle down from the branch she was sitting on. "Missy... I'm bored..."
"I thought I told you not to call me that," Mistress 9 snapped. "And is it my fault that all of those kids ran away after you scared them with your 'monster imitation Luna-P'?"
Black Lady giggled as she twirled Luna-P on her index finger. "Yeah, that was kinda funny... but they left in such a hurry... I had really no time to enjoy it..."
Mistress 9 was fuming. "Oh, you're such a... such a... baby sometimes!"
"Say what?" Black Lady angrily shouted and jumped down from the tree. Angrily, she glared at her violet-haired companion. "You take that back!"
"Oh, do I?" Mistress 9 asked. "You always act like everything is a big game... You only want to have fun. Did it occur to you that we might have a bigger purpose in life than just being pranksters?"
"You're just a big spoilsport," Black Lady spat. "Do what you want, but I don't plan on doing something like the Wiseman... You know what happened to him, do you?"
Mistress 9 snarled. "You're actually not too different from that spoiled, pink-haired brat."
"You take that back!"
"Yoohoo," another voice interrupted their squabble. "Wanna have some fun?"
The two evil women turned around... and faced a Sailor Senshi.
She was as small and young as Sailor Chibimoon and Saturn, but she was someone else. Her skirt was a bright red, and her gloves were spiked with sharp knuckles.
"Who are you?" Mistress 9 demanded to know.
The girl grinned. "I am Sailor Taurus... and you're going down!"
Hotaru and Chibiusa were watching her new friend engaging their two evil counterparts.
Hotaru frowned. "I still think we should talk to them. All of this fighting... is it really necessary?"
Chibiusa shuddered. "I'm getting scared by only looking at them... How can she do this?"
Diana sighed. Although she had preferred the two young Senshi to help Sailor Taurus, they probably wouldn't be a great help in their actual state. Besides, with half of their powers being absorbed by Mistress 9 and Black Lady, they really weren't that powerful anymore...
Nimbly, Taurus dodged another strand of hair from Mistress 9.
"Hold still, dammit," the violet-haired villain growled.
"Wait a minute, I'll get her," Black Lady grinned and transformed her Luna-P into a fan. Waving it around, she created a massive burst of wind that flew towards the young Senshi. But Jade saw it in time and jumped aside. Instead, it hit Mistress 9 and threw her to the ground.
"Watch where you're shooting!" she shouted.
Black Lady chuckled nervously. "Oops..."
Sailor Taurus raised her hands. "Time to shake you around a bit... Hammer Shockwave!"
And in a flash, two metal hammers appeared on her hands, attached to her gloves. She raised them high into the air and smashed them onto the ground. A massive shockwave rippled over the earth's surface and threw Black Lady and Mistress 9 high into the air.
Taurus quickly pulled out the ropes she had prepared and grabbed one of her trusty talismans.
"Rabbit Talisman, do your stuff..." She activated the magic and burst forward with the speed of the rabbit. She caught the descending villains, ran to a tree, and quickly bound the two of them to it's trunk with the rope.
Finally she stepped back and looked at her work. She nodded. Yes, nicely done...
The two women struggled against their bonds. "That's the last time I work with an incompetent loser like you," Mistress 9 told Black Lady.
"Oh, shut up, Missy," Black Lady growled back.
Jade smirked while Chibiusa and Hotaru came out of their hiding place. "Okay, now that this is settled..."
Chibiusa smiled as a round, black shape came flying towards her. "Luna-P!" She smiled and hugged the little ball.
Hotaru took a look at the two bound villains. "Well, I still think you shouldn't have been this violent... but at least you won."
Jade sighed. "You know, it's really time to re-merge you two with your dark counterparts... Chibiusa, you really think this idea of yours works?"
The pink-haired girl stepped forward. "Um, yes... at least I think so..." She held up her Luna-P.
"We need some handcuffs."
And with a puff of smoke, Luna-P turned into the needed item.
Jade took them and approached the two women with a smirk.
"Don't you dare," Mistress 9 hissed, but Jade had already connected both of their hands with the handcuffs.
"Now let's see..." She rummaged through the dress of the dark-haired villain.
"Hey! Get away from there!"
With a triumphant smile, Jade pulled out the dark side of the Tiger Talisman. "Okay, now to put it in your hands..." She grinned and cut off one of Mistress 9's dark hairs.
"Ow! Hey, what's the big idea?"
Still grinning, Jade put the talisman half into the hands of Mistress 9 and Black Lady and bound them tightly with the strand of hair. "Now, if you girls would..."
Hotaru and Chibiusa stepped forward, the latter one still nervous.
Hotaru raised the light part of the Tiger Talisman. Chibiusa grabbed it as well, and together, they approached their bound counterparts.
"NO! DON'T..." Black Lady screamed, but it was already too late.
The two halves of the Tiger Talisman reconnected, and with a flash, the four different bodies became two.
The Tiger Talisman clattered to the ground. Jade smirked and picked it up.
Chibiusa wrapped her arms around her body and shuddered. "We're... we're normal again, aren't we? Huh, to think that this evil... woman is a part of me... But still, I prefer my normal self to that scary crybaby I've turned into."
Diana smiled. "Good to see you're okay."
Jade pocketed the Tiger Talisman and looked down at her amulet with a smile. "Now how do I explain this to Jackie?"
"Aaaaaaah!" With a loud yell, Jackie came flying out of the bushes and rolled over the ground.
Jade sighed. "Jackie always knows how to make an entrance..."
Suddenly, a small tree got snapped in half when a massive shape came crashing out of the forest. It was humanoid, but very big and VERY muscular. It was walking on two big hooves and its head looked like a bull's head with the facial expressions of a human. He wore some sort of mask, but his horns, ears and snout stuck out of it.
His gaze fell on Sailor Taurus. He grinned. "Give me the amulet!" he demanded and stretched out his arm.
Sailor Taurus scowled. "In your dreams, buddy!"
The bull-creature grinned and picked up the small tree he had broken in half. Swinging it around like a club, he tried to hit the young Senshi.
Jade braced herself and caught it with both of her hands, stopping the powerful swing.
While sweating, she struggled against the might of the powerful Youma. She shouted: "Hey Hotaru! You're still thinking violence isn't a solution?"
Saturn grinned. "Saturn Star Power, Make Up!"
Sailor Saturn smirked and summoned her Silence Glaive. "I say: Let's kick his butt!"
Jackie stood up and rubbed his head. "Ow... what hit me?"
"Stay back, Mr. Chan," Chibiusa warned him. "We'll take care of this."
She grasped her locket. "Moon Cosmic Power, Make Up!"
Jackie just stared as Chibiusa turned into Chibimoon.
He stared even more when Sailor Saturn hacked the big tree club of the Youma in two, using her weapon.
"I've been saved by young girls..." he muttered. "Jackie, you have to work on your fighting skills, old buddy..."
Growling, the bull-monster threw away the tree. "I'll take you out with my bare hands!"
Taurus smirked. "Bring it on!"
The Youma roared and lowered his head. Like a bull, he came charging towards the young Senshi.
Jade watched him calmly as he came closer. She only had to grab him by his horns...
Then she gasped as she looked at his head. This mask... could it be...?
Then she once again concentrated on the fight, grabbed the monster's horns and threw him over her shoulder. Using her new strength, this was easy.
Just then, Mars and Virgo came running out of the forest. "Chibimoon! Saturn! Are you all right?" Mars asked. But when she saw Sailor Taurus, she gasped.
Chibimoon grinned. "Yeah, not only found we the Taurus Amulet, but Sailor Taurus as well."
The massive beast stood up from the ground. "You... I'll pound you into the ground!"
"Not today," Taurus shouted. "Mars... um, that's your name, isn't it? Well... Mars, I give you my power!"
Mars felt Taurus' power flowing through her. She stretched her arms out to the left and right.
Moving them around in a circle, she shouted: "RED BULL!"
Above her head, a round portal of fire appeared, out of which a big bull made of flames stormed. He jumped to the ground and looked at the horned Youma.
Kasumi blinked. "Red Bull?"
Rei sighed. "Well, yeah..."
Chibiusa stared. "RED BULL?"
"Yeah, I didn't choose the name..." Rei said.
Hotaru snickered. "Red Bull..."
"Okay, I GOT it already," Mars snarled angrily. "Now, could we please continue this fight?"
She gestured towards the Youma. The flaming bull charged at its opponent, hurling him upwards with its horns. Then, it jumped up and surrounded the monster with a sphere of flames. Afterwards, it vanished.
Scorched and battered, the horned beast fell to the ground. Growling, it slowly raised its head.
Jade stared. "No WAY! He's still alive after that attack?"
"Not... not bad," he chuckled. "You win this round, Senshi... But I'll be back, just you know it... Remember my name, because I will be the one that kills you: I am... Minaton!"
And he vanished in a cloud of black smoke.
Sighing, Jade looked to the ground. She really hoped she was wrong, but... that mask... the voice... could it really be?
"I felt something..." Mars suddenly said. "I think that was no normal Youma... it might have been a normal human, turned into this monster."
"I think I heard his voice somewhere before," Jackie murmured as he approached the five Senshi.
"You're right, Jackie," Jade sighed as she dropped her Senshi transformation.
"What the...?" Jackie said. "Jade?"
Jade looked up at him. "It was... El Toro Fuerte!"