Akina's Notes: I could have gotten this out over the weekend, but to tell
the truth, I didn't feel like writing…I can get kinda lazy. Yes, Usagi and
Duo are going to be a couple for this story. Haruka Wufei a couple? No,
no, no, see I just wanted Wufei's view on woman to be changed. I am going
to leave Mirchiru and Haruka together. Meaning that Haruka won't be paired
with anyone different. So don't worry! I was looking through my chapters
and noticed that for some reason my first chapter went after my second
one…I think I fixed it though. Oh, yes thank you to everyone who reviewed!
I hope I answered some of your questions
Disclaimer: I own none of these characters! I just like to write stories about how messed up their lives can be ^_^.
Warning: This chapter has some nasty language… You'll see, but I can't have you liking the enemy.
Chapter 10: Ghostbusters
(I don't own that either! I just thought that it goes well with this chapter… Sorry about how it's a sort of pun… well; it sort of is anyway. O.K. I'll stop typing now. Right now!)
Running down the path towards the room that she shared with Rei, Usagi was lost in her thoughts. She wondered if Mamoru would be angry with her for agreeing to go on a date with Duo. He probably would. She was shocked when she realized that she didn't care. 'What is happening to me?' she wondered for what seemed to be the thousandth time.
She reached the door of the building that her room was in. Stopping so she could reach the handle to open the door, a cold hand grasped her shoulder. The grip of the person behind her was extremely strong; it felt that the pointed fingers would seem to tear her shoulder right off. Wincing in pain, Usagi tried to break the painful grip.
"Sorry my little senshi, but I don't think that my master would be to happy with me if I let you go." Usagi's stomach wrenched when the voice called her a senshi. 'How does it know about me being a senshi?' Suddenly, the thing holding her turned her around to face it. Usagi gasped in shock at the figure's face. The skin was sunken in looked like wax, the eyes were yellow and glazed over. When the thing smiled at her wickedly, Usagi caught a glimpse at rotten teeth and a whiff of stale breath that smelled like death.
"I am sure you have noticed that I am a little dead." The yoma smirked. "Of course, you are right, sadly I died almost a year ago, then my master found me. She gave me life and offered me a place in her army. Now, I work for her and am more powerful then I would have ever imagined. She would like to offer you a place in her army."
Usagi was still being held tightly by the monster's hand on her shoulder. She began to struggle at the dead woman's last statement. "I will never join her army!" she spat. The hand on her shoulder tightened and another grabbed her throat, strangling her.
Lifting Usagi off the ground, the dead woman hissed, "You think that you can stop her from forcing you? You are powerless in this world! My master is offering you a chance to live, take it or die."
"I would rather burn in the fiery depths of Hell!" declared Usagi. The creature roared, angry at her refusal.
"Well then, time to die," she growled. Throwing Usagi to the ground, she began to focus her energy to create a black ball of energy.
Usagi, tried to stand up, but found it very difficult. Being held up in the air by your neck had its way of choking a lot of air out of you.
"Usagi-chan! Watch out!" a voice called out. Looking up Usagi was able to see and dodge the energy ball hurled at her. She turned to see that the owner of the voice was Rei. Even though she knew that her tall friend wouldn't be able to help much, it was a comfort to have her strong presence there beside her.
"Rei-chan, how did you know to come quickly?" asked Usagi curious as to how Rei knew that she would be in danger.
"I guess that not being able to transform doesn't do anything to my ESP," she joked. The two girls shared a small smile.
"This is very touching and all, but I think that I still have to finish my job," sneered the monster of a woman that was still floating a few feet away. "Don't think that this is going to stop me from killing you. Another dead senshi will get me bonus points with my master, know?"
"You know that you are getting to be a very annoying yoma?" asked Usagi, more confident now that Rei was here.
"You know, it's not very nice to call people that," stated the yoma in a matter of fact type voice. Usagi and Rei sweat dropped not sure how to respond to that.
"Well, you are a yoma right?" questioned Rei.
"Hai, but I have a name why don't you use it," this was beginning to get weird to Usagi. She decided to make an end to this strange conversation as soon as possible.
"All right, what is your name?" asked Usagi.
"It's Madeline," stated the yoma in a tone like it was obvious.
"Well, Madeline, you are beginning to overstay your welcome," said Rei. She didn't try in anyway to hide her annoyance. Taking up a fighting stance, Rei prepared for the attack that was sure to come. She waited and waited. It never came…
Looking up Rei saw Madeline doubled over laughing hysterically. "You, hahaha, you think, muwhahaha, you think you can beat me?" Rei looked even more annoyed then before. Usagi just stared at Madeline. 'Being dead must not have that many exciting things if she's laughing so hard at someone who is going to try to kick her ass.'
"Um, Rei-chan I think do you think that now would be a good time to kick her?" asked Usagi with a smirk. When she got Rei's nod, Usagi jumped in the air and kicked out at Madeline, producing an uff out of the yoma.
"Ouch! That hurt! That wasn't fair, kicking me like that! I wasn't even ready," whined Madeline. Rei and Usagi sweat dropped, this was the big bad yoma that was going to kill them a few minutes ago.
"I'm…. sorry?" Usagi was thoroughly confused. What exactly was going on? Watching Madeline practically in tears wasn't what she expected at all. Then something even weirder occurred. Madeline began to writhe in the air. Usagi began to hear two different voices coming from the yoma's mouth.
"You little whining whore, you're supposed to be trying to kill them! Instead you go off almost like you are trying to make friends with the little bitches!" yelled a voice that was far from Madeline's real voice. It was more menacing and it was higher.
"I'm sorry, I really am! I just wanted them to know the name of their enemy," whimpered Madeline's voice.
"Well, you know that master didn't you to be inefficient!" snarled the other voice.
"Right, you're right. I'll get back to work now," Madeline's voice became stronger with each word. Now she was back to the Madeline hat had assaulted Usagi before. "Now, who would like to die first?" Madeline's voice had a deadly edge to it, and so did her insanely long and sharp nail now protruding from her fingers.
Usagi looked from the nails to Rei and said, "Rei-chan I think now is the time we start to run!" She began to run, looking over her shoulder she saw that Madeline was struggling with her fingernails that were embedded in the ground that was where Usagi had been standing a few seconds ago. "I hate my life!" wailed Usagi, with tears coming out of her eyes as she began to run again.
Rei watched her leader run frantically away from the dead woman chasing her. 'Just when I thought she was beginning to change for the better.' Sighing Rei began to study the monster that was trying to kill her leader. 'She'll never be able to keep up that pace,' thought Rei as she saw Usagi barely jump out of the way of a swipe of Madeline's nails. Rei tried to find a weak point in Madeline's attack pattern. She saw it soon enough, lucky for Usagi.
Just as she was getting ready to go in for the attack, Usagi tripped and fell on the ground, sliding a few feet. Rei winced at the fall, knowing that it would leave some nasty scrapes and bruises. When Usagi didn't get up Rei knew that her friend had to have hit her head or something. Then she realized that Madeline was getting ready to dive on Usagi. 'If something doesn't get Usagi up fast, a couple of scrapped knees is going to be the least of her problems.'
Running at full speed, Rei headed to Usagi's aid. "Usagi-chan get up," she said under her breath, upon realizing that she couldn't get to the fallen princess in time to spare her life. 'Oh shit she is going to be killed!' At the very same time that the thought ran trough Rei's head, a figure that she vaguely recognized jumped to Usagi's side, picked her up the jumped put of the way, all in the blink of an eye.
"Thank kami you got here Haruka-chan!" Rei felt like she could hug the sandy haired woman that had just saved Usagi.
"You don't have to thank anyone. If I had let the princess die then I'd have hell to pay later. Now, can you take care of the yoma?" asked Haruka hurriedly.
"I think so…"started Rei; she was cut off by Madeline screeching at Haruka.
"I HAVE A NAME!"
"You better take care of it before we all end up dead." Rei nodded and began to charge at Madeline once again. Only to be interrupted by a shot that rang out through the air. Turning to see where the shot had come from, Rei was ready to kill the person who had stopped her once again from attacking the yoma. She was getting annoyed. Stopping herself from pouncing on Heero was difficult.
"What is with you baka humans! All your little acts of bravery are pointless. You'll all die anyway. Another thing I'm already dead! Bullets can't kill me! I would have thought that you would be smart enough to figure that out!" Madeline went into an all out rant. Heero stared at what he thought to be a human floating in the air. He then did the only thing he could think of, he shot three more bullets at the yoma before realizing that it wasn't working. "Shit," he said shock written all over his normally expressionless face.
"You know what? I don't think I like you all that much," stated Madeline flying through the air towards Heero, her hands (and nails) stretched out in front of her. Heero decided to jump out of the way just in time to dodge her, which almost gave Rei a heart attack. Watching as Madeline chased Heero around, and him expertly dodging the attacks, Rei waited until she saw the same patter she saw with Usagi. Moving into action as soon as she noticed it, Rei prayed that there was not another interruption. Once she felt that she was close enough, Rei jumped into the air and landed right on target, which happened to be Madeline's back. Rei then wrapped her arms around the waxy neck. Being this close to Madeline made Rei want to hurl. The feel on her skin was gross enough, but to help with the dead feel came the wonderful smell of death and decay.
Carefully, Rei reached out and grabbed Madeline's wrists. She was rewarded for her efforts when upon grabbing them the yoma began to thrash violently. Still clinging for dear life, Rei wrenched Madeline's arms back in a position that required a sickening snap to get there. The new position of her arms must have made Madeline very angry because along with thrashing about, she began to scream wildly. Still working, Rei began to chant. She was suddenly very happy with her training to become a priestess. Slowly, Madeline's efforts to get Rei off her back became weaker. Soon, Rei was on the ground, exhausted, but her efforts had paid off. Madeline was now on the lying on the ground calmly; Rei had still more work to do. In spite of what her brain and muscles told her, she began to chant again. Much to everyone's surprise, the yoma was disappearing. Once there were no signs of Madeline left; Rei stopped and collapsed on the ground.
She heard multiple pairs of feet running towards her. She looked up to see the worried expressions of Haruka, Relena, and Duo gazing down at her. "I'm fine. I'm just worn out. Usagi-chan, is she O.K.?" she asked.
Haruka nodded, "Hai, she'll be fine, she's still knocked out and should probably see a doctor, but I don't think that she'll need more then a few stitches at that." Rei smiled relieved.
"Sailor Mars?" asked a silvery voice. Without thinking, Rei sat up to see who was calling her. She immediately recognized the translucent figure that was floating before her to be Madeline. There was a significant difference now though. Instead of waxy skin that looked as if it were rotten, Rei saw soft, silky skin that replaced it. Her face now beautiful, like it once was. Rei couldn't be sure of any of the colors since the ghost was only made up of silvery blue colors. Madeline smiled at Rei, showing off a smile that was complete and cheery. "I would like to thank you for saving me from the witch that held me prisoner. She has been going around, making the afterlife very difficult to live in peace. She has been imprisoning souls, like me, to be soldiers in her army. You freed me from my slavery. In thanks, I will award you and your comrades with what powers I can, I ask you to use them to help free the other poor souls that She has trapped." With her speech made, Madeline disappeared into three rays of silver light. Then Usagi's brooch and Rei and Haruka's henshin sticks rose from their spots of safekeeping, a ray of light entered each. Giving them a soft silver glow. Rei thought she heard a soft voice whisper, "please help the others." But she wasn't sure.
"You know babe, I think you have a lot of explaining to do," demanded Duo. Rei looked at him.
"I'll explain everything once Usagi wakes up, but right now she needs a doctor," she was going to say something else, but passed out from exhaustion again.
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A.N.: Well now that took me forever to write! Like I said before, this kind of contains more language then usual, about the whole afterlife thing in the end, I had to put that in there for the sake of the plot. I don't really believe in ghosts… Well, stay tuned for the next chapter coming out soon! Please review!
Disclaimer: I own none of these characters! I just like to write stories about how messed up their lives can be ^_^.
Warning: This chapter has some nasty language… You'll see, but I can't have you liking the enemy.
Chapter 10: Ghostbusters
(I don't own that either! I just thought that it goes well with this chapter… Sorry about how it's a sort of pun… well; it sort of is anyway. O.K. I'll stop typing now. Right now!)
Running down the path towards the room that she shared with Rei, Usagi was lost in her thoughts. She wondered if Mamoru would be angry with her for agreeing to go on a date with Duo. He probably would. She was shocked when she realized that she didn't care. 'What is happening to me?' she wondered for what seemed to be the thousandth time.
She reached the door of the building that her room was in. Stopping so she could reach the handle to open the door, a cold hand grasped her shoulder. The grip of the person behind her was extremely strong; it felt that the pointed fingers would seem to tear her shoulder right off. Wincing in pain, Usagi tried to break the painful grip.
"Sorry my little senshi, but I don't think that my master would be to happy with me if I let you go." Usagi's stomach wrenched when the voice called her a senshi. 'How does it know about me being a senshi?' Suddenly, the thing holding her turned her around to face it. Usagi gasped in shock at the figure's face. The skin was sunken in looked like wax, the eyes were yellow and glazed over. When the thing smiled at her wickedly, Usagi caught a glimpse at rotten teeth and a whiff of stale breath that smelled like death.
"I am sure you have noticed that I am a little dead." The yoma smirked. "Of course, you are right, sadly I died almost a year ago, then my master found me. She gave me life and offered me a place in her army. Now, I work for her and am more powerful then I would have ever imagined. She would like to offer you a place in her army."
Usagi was still being held tightly by the monster's hand on her shoulder. She began to struggle at the dead woman's last statement. "I will never join her army!" she spat. The hand on her shoulder tightened and another grabbed her throat, strangling her.
Lifting Usagi off the ground, the dead woman hissed, "You think that you can stop her from forcing you? You are powerless in this world! My master is offering you a chance to live, take it or die."
"I would rather burn in the fiery depths of Hell!" declared Usagi. The creature roared, angry at her refusal.
"Well then, time to die," she growled. Throwing Usagi to the ground, she began to focus her energy to create a black ball of energy.
Usagi, tried to stand up, but found it very difficult. Being held up in the air by your neck had its way of choking a lot of air out of you.
"Usagi-chan! Watch out!" a voice called out. Looking up Usagi was able to see and dodge the energy ball hurled at her. She turned to see that the owner of the voice was Rei. Even though she knew that her tall friend wouldn't be able to help much, it was a comfort to have her strong presence there beside her.
"Rei-chan, how did you know to come quickly?" asked Usagi curious as to how Rei knew that she would be in danger.
"I guess that not being able to transform doesn't do anything to my ESP," she joked. The two girls shared a small smile.
"This is very touching and all, but I think that I still have to finish my job," sneered the monster of a woman that was still floating a few feet away. "Don't think that this is going to stop me from killing you. Another dead senshi will get me bonus points with my master, know?"
"You know that you are getting to be a very annoying yoma?" asked Usagi, more confident now that Rei was here.
"You know, it's not very nice to call people that," stated the yoma in a matter of fact type voice. Usagi and Rei sweat dropped not sure how to respond to that.
"Well, you are a yoma right?" questioned Rei.
"Hai, but I have a name why don't you use it," this was beginning to get weird to Usagi. She decided to make an end to this strange conversation as soon as possible.
"All right, what is your name?" asked Usagi.
"It's Madeline," stated the yoma in a tone like it was obvious.
"Well, Madeline, you are beginning to overstay your welcome," said Rei. She didn't try in anyway to hide her annoyance. Taking up a fighting stance, Rei prepared for the attack that was sure to come. She waited and waited. It never came…
Looking up Rei saw Madeline doubled over laughing hysterically. "You, hahaha, you think, muwhahaha, you think you can beat me?" Rei looked even more annoyed then before. Usagi just stared at Madeline. 'Being dead must not have that many exciting things if she's laughing so hard at someone who is going to try to kick her ass.'
"Um, Rei-chan I think do you think that now would be a good time to kick her?" asked Usagi with a smirk. When she got Rei's nod, Usagi jumped in the air and kicked out at Madeline, producing an uff out of the yoma.
"Ouch! That hurt! That wasn't fair, kicking me like that! I wasn't even ready," whined Madeline. Rei and Usagi sweat dropped, this was the big bad yoma that was going to kill them a few minutes ago.
"I'm…. sorry?" Usagi was thoroughly confused. What exactly was going on? Watching Madeline practically in tears wasn't what she expected at all. Then something even weirder occurred. Madeline began to writhe in the air. Usagi began to hear two different voices coming from the yoma's mouth.
"You little whining whore, you're supposed to be trying to kill them! Instead you go off almost like you are trying to make friends with the little bitches!" yelled a voice that was far from Madeline's real voice. It was more menacing and it was higher.
"I'm sorry, I really am! I just wanted them to know the name of their enemy," whimpered Madeline's voice.
"Well, you know that master didn't you to be inefficient!" snarled the other voice.
"Right, you're right. I'll get back to work now," Madeline's voice became stronger with each word. Now she was back to the Madeline hat had assaulted Usagi before. "Now, who would like to die first?" Madeline's voice had a deadly edge to it, and so did her insanely long and sharp nail now protruding from her fingers.
Usagi looked from the nails to Rei and said, "Rei-chan I think now is the time we start to run!" She began to run, looking over her shoulder she saw that Madeline was struggling with her fingernails that were embedded in the ground that was where Usagi had been standing a few seconds ago. "I hate my life!" wailed Usagi, with tears coming out of her eyes as she began to run again.
Rei watched her leader run frantically away from the dead woman chasing her. 'Just when I thought she was beginning to change for the better.' Sighing Rei began to study the monster that was trying to kill her leader. 'She'll never be able to keep up that pace,' thought Rei as she saw Usagi barely jump out of the way of a swipe of Madeline's nails. Rei tried to find a weak point in Madeline's attack pattern. She saw it soon enough, lucky for Usagi.
Just as she was getting ready to go in for the attack, Usagi tripped and fell on the ground, sliding a few feet. Rei winced at the fall, knowing that it would leave some nasty scrapes and bruises. When Usagi didn't get up Rei knew that her friend had to have hit her head or something. Then she realized that Madeline was getting ready to dive on Usagi. 'If something doesn't get Usagi up fast, a couple of scrapped knees is going to be the least of her problems.'
Running at full speed, Rei headed to Usagi's aid. "Usagi-chan get up," she said under her breath, upon realizing that she couldn't get to the fallen princess in time to spare her life. 'Oh shit she is going to be killed!' At the very same time that the thought ran trough Rei's head, a figure that she vaguely recognized jumped to Usagi's side, picked her up the jumped put of the way, all in the blink of an eye.
"Thank kami you got here Haruka-chan!" Rei felt like she could hug the sandy haired woman that had just saved Usagi.
"You don't have to thank anyone. If I had let the princess die then I'd have hell to pay later. Now, can you take care of the yoma?" asked Haruka hurriedly.
"I think so…"started Rei; she was cut off by Madeline screeching at Haruka.
"I HAVE A NAME!"
"You better take care of it before we all end up dead." Rei nodded and began to charge at Madeline once again. Only to be interrupted by a shot that rang out through the air. Turning to see where the shot had come from, Rei was ready to kill the person who had stopped her once again from attacking the yoma. She was getting annoyed. Stopping herself from pouncing on Heero was difficult.
"What is with you baka humans! All your little acts of bravery are pointless. You'll all die anyway. Another thing I'm already dead! Bullets can't kill me! I would have thought that you would be smart enough to figure that out!" Madeline went into an all out rant. Heero stared at what he thought to be a human floating in the air. He then did the only thing he could think of, he shot three more bullets at the yoma before realizing that it wasn't working. "Shit," he said shock written all over his normally expressionless face.
"You know what? I don't think I like you all that much," stated Madeline flying through the air towards Heero, her hands (and nails) stretched out in front of her. Heero decided to jump out of the way just in time to dodge her, which almost gave Rei a heart attack. Watching as Madeline chased Heero around, and him expertly dodging the attacks, Rei waited until she saw the same patter she saw with Usagi. Moving into action as soon as she noticed it, Rei prayed that there was not another interruption. Once she felt that she was close enough, Rei jumped into the air and landed right on target, which happened to be Madeline's back. Rei then wrapped her arms around the waxy neck. Being this close to Madeline made Rei want to hurl. The feel on her skin was gross enough, but to help with the dead feel came the wonderful smell of death and decay.
Carefully, Rei reached out and grabbed Madeline's wrists. She was rewarded for her efforts when upon grabbing them the yoma began to thrash violently. Still clinging for dear life, Rei wrenched Madeline's arms back in a position that required a sickening snap to get there. The new position of her arms must have made Madeline very angry because along with thrashing about, she began to scream wildly. Still working, Rei began to chant. She was suddenly very happy with her training to become a priestess. Slowly, Madeline's efforts to get Rei off her back became weaker. Soon, Rei was on the ground, exhausted, but her efforts had paid off. Madeline was now on the lying on the ground calmly; Rei had still more work to do. In spite of what her brain and muscles told her, she began to chant again. Much to everyone's surprise, the yoma was disappearing. Once there were no signs of Madeline left; Rei stopped and collapsed on the ground.
She heard multiple pairs of feet running towards her. She looked up to see the worried expressions of Haruka, Relena, and Duo gazing down at her. "I'm fine. I'm just worn out. Usagi-chan, is she O.K.?" she asked.
Haruka nodded, "Hai, she'll be fine, she's still knocked out and should probably see a doctor, but I don't think that she'll need more then a few stitches at that." Rei smiled relieved.
"Sailor Mars?" asked a silvery voice. Without thinking, Rei sat up to see who was calling her. She immediately recognized the translucent figure that was floating before her to be Madeline. There was a significant difference now though. Instead of waxy skin that looked as if it were rotten, Rei saw soft, silky skin that replaced it. Her face now beautiful, like it once was. Rei couldn't be sure of any of the colors since the ghost was only made up of silvery blue colors. Madeline smiled at Rei, showing off a smile that was complete and cheery. "I would like to thank you for saving me from the witch that held me prisoner. She has been going around, making the afterlife very difficult to live in peace. She has been imprisoning souls, like me, to be soldiers in her army. You freed me from my slavery. In thanks, I will award you and your comrades with what powers I can, I ask you to use them to help free the other poor souls that She has trapped." With her speech made, Madeline disappeared into three rays of silver light. Then Usagi's brooch and Rei and Haruka's henshin sticks rose from their spots of safekeeping, a ray of light entered each. Giving them a soft silver glow. Rei thought she heard a soft voice whisper, "please help the others." But she wasn't sure.
"You know babe, I think you have a lot of explaining to do," demanded Duo. Rei looked at him.
"I'll explain everything once Usagi wakes up, but right now she needs a doctor," she was going to say something else, but passed out from exhaustion again.
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A.N.: Well now that took me forever to write! Like I said before, this kind of contains more language then usual, about the whole afterlife thing in the end, I had to put that in there for the sake of the plot. I don't really believe in ghosts… Well, stay tuned for the next chapter coming out soon! Please review!