Princesses of Time, Style, Death, and Rebirth
(Written by Japananimegirl minor editing by myself)
The woods surrounding the graveyard had been nothing short of dark, creepy, and twisted, even in the light of the girls transforming into Neo-Sailor Senshi, but the graveyard itself was ten times worse!
Even if the trees in the forest were alive and just dark, the ones in the graveyard were rotting to death into a pitch black color, knee-high fog shrouded the ground, almost to invisibility. The air was so cold it bit right down to your bones and the statues of various demon forms on top of the graves looked foreboding. Yes, this place seemed like the perfect paradise for Christen, although it screamed 'RUN!' to everyone else!
Neo-Sailor Saturn used Silence Glaive Surprise to create a barrier around them all to protect them from the same demonic energy that was slowly killing Demi. Surprisingly, they quickly found Neo-sailor Mars just sitting on a bench practicing her fire powers as if this wasn't an evil place no-one in the right minds should be at all. On the other hand she didn't seem pleased to see them at all!
"What are you bitches doing here?!" Neo-Sailor Mars cursed angrily at them as her teammates as they approached her.
"Looking for you! Everyone been really worried about you! Have you been just sitting here the whole time?! Why didn't you come home?!" Neo-Sailor Moon yelled at her in a thunderstruck tone of disbelief.
"How sweet of you, but you don't need to worry about me. I CAN take care of myself! I've had to for quite a while!" Neo-Sailor Mars spat in her princess's shocked face.
"Christen, what do you mean you've had to take care of yourself for a while?!" Neo-Sailor Venus asked in an incredulously manner at her clearly deranged friend. Although she was a second away from drawing her Holy Stone Sword in anger, however she was more curious about Neo-Sailor Mars last sentence and knew this was an issue Christen had and not the Sailor Senshi she pretended to be.
"I always hated growing up with all of you! Love, cheery, warm, and sappy, UGH! Can't one of you see the more serious side of being a Sailor Senshi?! Do you know what it's like living with the fear one of your parents is going to leave you?!" she snapped furiously at them as her wild fire and dark hair flared both dramatically as if to emphasize the point as she continued on with her ranting.
"It happened to Emily and Trisha, but they are still praised more than me! I'm too different from all of you, but I'm a Sailor Senshi too, I deserve some love!" Neo-Sailor Mars screamed, tears streaming down her reddened face.
As stupid as it seemed, Emily and Trisha understood how Christen was feeling. Trisha is one of the few, who understood the severity of being a Sailor Senshi and Emily knew all too well the pain Hotaru went through when Emily's father left them.
Emily didn't even know his name and she was reluctant to bring up the matter with her poor mother. Fact is: So, what? Bad things happen. That's life. It can get worse, but after it does, it can only get better.
"Christen, we just turned 12, well physically anyway. We've got quite a few more years before we need to worry about the more serious stuff." Neo-Sailor Moon knew Usagi was only 14 when she first became Sailor Moon and didn't deal with the greatest evil right away.
"Being the Princess of Love, I can see Rei and Yuuichirou aren't going to be divorcing anytime soon." Neo-Sailor Venus smiled reassuringly to dark haired beauty who only scowled.
"Trisha and I may not see our fathers anymore, but we can't let that consume us." Neo-Sailor Saturn remarked a little coldly as she was still mad at Christen for pulling a stupid stunt like this.
"Sorrow and anger will only bring more pain, not healing. You are not too different from us, young one. You are praised, but only when you do well, which has become rare. Nevertheless, we still love you so, Christen." Neo-Sailor Pluto stated in her mystical voice.
Suddenly, the Succubus appeared beside Neo-Sailor Mars. Neo-Sailor Pluto noticed Neo-Sailor Mars pendent looked a little dim in color. Could the reason the kittens couldn't track Christen is because her energy had been fluctuating so much? Plus. Neo-Sailor Mars was looking a little paler too.
"What is you plan with Christen?" Neo-Sailor Pluto demanded in a stern voice to the she-demon before them glaring at with narrow jade chips in silent rage.
"Before I explain my plan, let me tell you little girls a story," Despite the girls not trusting this evil and clearly insulted by the "little girls" comment they felt they finally got a shot at getting some answers within this tale.
"One thousand years ago, when Crystal Tokyo was just starting to be built, all the demons of the world, myself included, gathered together to fight the Senshi! We couldn't be cleansed and the Senshi couldn't defeat us, even combined! So, they called on their allies, who were dealing with the demons, who went by sea, threatening the Kingdom of the Crystal Seas, the Aqua Senshi!
These two Senshi teams, along with they're Queens, combined both their powers and the crystals to imprison us in the Earth!
However, they miscalculated the limits of the magic they placed on the graveyard. There are loopholes to every rule, such as if a demon is free, this graveyard can remain open and we still had the power of possession.
Now that I am free I will carry out my mission to finish what us demons started a millennium ago!" she paused a moment to let out a malevolent and ominous chortle as she continued to give details on the diabolical agenda of her and the rest of her unholy brethren quite plainly to the frighten young Senshi quaking in their boots. She seemed to be savoring this moment very much.
"First, I will continue to feed off Demi as her energy seems to allow me to regain most of my strength and powers. Then, I will use the energy to free my demonic brethren and get revenge on those who imprisoned us. After that, we will proceed to possess all living beings on land and under the sea to help in constructing the planet as our demonic playground forever!" the Succubus finished with a about of insane sounding laughter until a fist to the face from Neo-Sailor Venus stops her!
"You value me as a member of the team? SHOW ME! FIREBALL!" Neo-Sailor Mars hurls a small ball of fire from her fingertips at Neo-Sailor Venus.
"Crescent Beam…SMASH!" From her pointer finger, Neo-Sailor Venus counterattacked the fireball with a destructive beam of golden light.
Through the smoke from the colliding attacks, the Succubus attacked Neo-Sailor Venus, but she held her own with her Holy Stone Sword! Neo-Sailor Moon, Neo-Sailor Mercury and Neo-Sailor Neptune soon joined her in the fight!
With the Succubus preoccupying 3 of her teammates, Neo-Sailor Mars turned her burning eyes on Neo-Sailor Uranus and yelled, "Flaming Triangles!"
As the fire-incased triangular projectiles sped toward Neo-Sailor Uranus, she pulled out another sword! This one was Uranus's Space Sword. "Blade Bazooka!" Neo-Sailor Uranus sent a series of light purple, slash-shaped swings to counter-combat each triangles, causing even more explosions!
Using this smokescreen Neo-Sailor Mars called her Flame Bow and Arrows to aim at Neo-Sailor Saturn and Neo-Sailor Pluto and summoned Phoenix Strike up against Neo-Sailor Jupiter!
Neo-Sailor Saturn's Silent Wall still protected her and Neo-Sailor Pluto. Neo-Sailor Jupiter's Electric Dragon battled it out with the Phoenix!
Neo-Sailor Uranus was about to jump back into the fight when screaming caught they're attention! Neo-Sailor Mercury had used "Ice Freeze", but only succeeded in freezing the woman's legs, so Neon-Sailor Venus used "Neon Venus Shower", surrounding the Succubus in smaller beams of gold light as Neo-Sailor Moon used "Moonlight Harmony Glow!"
However, that attack was so powerful, it broke the Ice Freeze and Neon Venus Shower, allowing the Succubus even though severely wounded to attack Neo-Sailor Venus and Neo-Sailor Mercury injuring them!
Feeling retreat would be the best option for now the Succubus and Neo-Sailor Mars ran deeper into the fog of the graveyard disappearing from view.
"Should we go after them?!" Neo-Sailor Saturn inquired in a panting voice after such intense battle.
"No! We've done as much as we can for now. We need to get Neo-Sailor Venus and Neo-Sailor Mercury help!" Neo-Sailor Moon looked at her friends in alarm as they're Senshi forms faded.
Thankful to just be getting out of the forest was enough to give everyone hope. Back at the Crystal Palace, Neo-Queen Serenity explained to Neo-Sailor Moon how to heal Gracie and Crystal. "You need to use Moon Healing Escalation. Minako, Ami, I think you should and the other Neo-Senshi should help."
"Yes, my Queen!" Minako and Ami replied and they transformed into they're Super Sailor forms.
As Neo-Sailor Moon called up the needed ability, colors of gold, aqua, red, green, yellow, blue, purple, and black gleamed to life, one-by-one, inside the red gem in the cross-guard of the wand!
Balls of white light raced into Gracie and Crystal, slowly waking them up as if from a coma. After the crying of joy and hugging died down, the Neo-Sailor Senshi began to explain what the Succubus had told them.
Neo-Queen Serenity's decision on what to do next was immediate.
"I believe it's time for land and sea to come together once more!"