I know I've finished writing the Problem with Time: Dark Kingdom, but I don't have much time for posting it with all these preparation for University... Damn it all.
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Chapter 13: OP but Not So OP Kunzite vs Mars... and Sailor Moon!
Mars screamed as one of Kunzite's purple beam hit her abdomen, throwing her few paces back. With a groan, she rubbed her bruising knee, a result from an incorrect landing earlier. Kunzite's attacks were relentless, but as he never opted for melee attacks she could find some time for dodging and countering with her flames.
She scanned her surrounding, then aimed her left hand to a medium sized tree before blasting its trunk with Fire Soul. Kunzite leaped back to avoid the collision, with Mars dashing away from him with the dust still blocking his view.
Kunzite snarled as Mars once again made a run from him, and with a flap of his cape he teleported to the sky.
Unknown to him, the remaining Sailor Senshi saw a glimpse of him but no sign of Mars. Jupiter was ready to attack him from behind, but Sailor Moon held up her arm in front of her. Just then, the afternoon orange sky turned red and the lamps flickered off.
"Mercury, scan the area for any civilian."
Mercury nodded and took out her super-computer. A brief moment later her computer beeped. "No civilians inside radius of 15 meters. Where had they gone off to?"
Almost at the same time, they turned around to look at their surroundings.
"This place is an abandoned area of Tokyo, I guess." V said with a shrug, her eyes were twitching as she examined the unkempt building around her.
"But this place was usually quite crowded!" Jupiter argued immediately. "My apartment is near this area."
"Same with me." Mercury agreed. "This place was usually quite crowded in the afternoon. Why it's now no more than an abandoned area?"
"No." Sailor Moon dismissed the idea. "I don't think this is Tokyo. Weird." She placed a hand to her brooch, where the six pieces of Rainbow Crystals were kept. It glowed faintly, indicating the last piece was indeed near.
I don't remember Kunzite trapping us inside a pocket dimension. I didn't even know he was capable of it! Could… could it be this Kunzite is stronger? What had happened?
"We're in a pocket dimension!" Mercury exclaimed after examining the data inside her computer. "Look, only small part of Tokyo is recorded here. We're inside another world!"
"Let's go." V finally said after a pause. "If we're here, chances are Mars could be here too. Maybe with Shitennou and Tuxedo Kamen too." She wasn't convinced that the Shitennou would stay away, despite the promises.
Mercury and Jupiter nodded. Sailor Moon nodded hesitantly.
Mars panted as she rested against the wall on an alley. Her feet weren't quite tired, but her left knee had already bruised badly, so as her abdomen. Mars groaned as the sky turned red. Kunzite was indeed hell-bent on killing her and taking the crystal off her dead body.
The raven haired warrior stared at the communicator on her wrist. What if Kunzite had captured one of them and forced them to show where she was? Her mind gone awry at the thought of Usagi/Sailor Moon, or the rest of the senshi was hurt because of her. So she slammed her communicator to the ground, blasting it off with a small explosion.
With a sharp intake of breath, she began to run again.
A small explosion near them made the quartet became more restless. They dreaded to meet Kunzite, if the explosion was from him, which would mean he was near them.
"It doesn't work!" A panicked V said after trying to contact mars from her communicator. "Mercury, can you track Mars?"
Mercury shook her head sadly. "It was fine earlier, but Kunzite's power interrupted my computer." V cursed as she picked up a speed, catching up to Jupiter and Sailor Moon who led the group.
"What's that shiny thing?" Jupiter asked suddenly as she halted, pointing at a blinking light on a dark alley. V casted a light beam to illuminate the dark place and after finding it safe, she walked to it. Bending down, she noticed the bits of Mars' communicator over a scorch mark and a large blot of blood. Mars was injured, V decided.
"This mark was still warm," V informed them as she rubbed her gloveless hand to the scorch mark. "That explosion earlier must be Mars. She couldn't have gone too far."
"Indeed," Sailor Moon agreed. Once again they took off, now with V leading the group of four. V saw faint footprints leading deeper into the alley, the patterns resembled Mars' heels implicitly. That, along tiny blots of blood.
She cursed as her finger shot out another fireball toward the man, only for him to deflect it with his purple barrier, with a deep smirk settling on his face. Mars scowled, her amethyst eyes glaring at him in irate.
"Is that all you've got, Mars?" He sneered, as he blocked a medium sized fireball. Mars' strength would gradually deplete with each fireball she threw at him, and both of them knew that. Kunzite was aiming to tire her out, while Mars was pushing all of her strength to protect the piece of crystal.
Mars smiled. "You don't know all of my tricks, Kunzite." Once again, she aimed her finger to him. Kunzite summoned a barrier, smirking as he advanced to her. Mars smirked and shot out a larger fireball toward the ground – inches from Kunzite. Mars once again made a run as large explosion blocked both of their view, leaving an angry Kunzite behind.
"Another explosion!" Jupiter exclaimed, stopping on her track. She pointed at black smoke behind a large building in front of them. "It must be Mars! Come on!"
"Behind you!" The three chorused, dashing to catch up to Jupiter.
In truth, Mars didn't run far from the explosion place. She only hid on another dark and narrow alley; her right hand was clutching her gloveless left hand. Due to her continuous fireball shooting and parrying Kunzite's attack with bare hand, the gloves were torn and unusable any longer. Without any protection for her hand, her hand was burning red.
She gritted her teeth.
"Damn it," She whispered, a trail of tear escaped from her eye in pain.
She shakily clutched her hurting hand as she watched her friends entered the view, examining the place where she exploded the ground earlier. Though hurting, she managed to pull her lips into a smile.
"Minna," She croaked, as she tried to move from her spot. She failed horribly, however, as her legs gave in. She was running for nearly an hour or two without any significant pause, it was a miracle she didn't faint for the fact she was exploiting her strength to protect the crystal. So she slumped against the wall, ignoring the dirt that would definitely stain her skirt.
Once again, she smiled. The others couldn't see her, but she could see them clearly from her current position. The alley was dark, dark enough for them not to see shining amethyst eyes and blazing red fuku.
She wanted to walk toward them, but her legs had given up since Kunzite blasted off the ground below her. Naturally, her legs fell victim.
Kunzite sneered as he watched the group of Senshi running aimlessly around in search of Mars. They did not realize that he himself was hovering over them, carefully watching all of them.
He could see all of them. The Senshi were close, but they didn't know Mars' location. They were in one area, at least. And one more.
A man. Man in tailcoat and cape, with complete with mask and tophat. His jaw tightened. He could kill Mars, he really could. But the man always interrupted him with his elongated cane and roses. By the time he wanted to direct his attack to him, the man had already fled. So did Mars.
Smirking to himself, Kunzite called Sailor Moon instead of sneak-attacking the group of four. The sneak attack would fail as Mars or the man would probably interrupt him once again. So why not striking them head-on?
"Sailor Moon!" Kunzite called out loudly, drawing attention of the group of Sailor Soldiers on the ground.
"Kunzite!" Sailor Moon exclaimed, seemed to be surprised at the call. V was also taken aback, and moved in front of her almost immediately.
"Sailor Moon," Kunzite drawled, his eyes narrow. "I must say I am impressed you were able to collect all of the Rainbow Crystals. Truth to be told, I never expected you would be… capable of it."
Kunzite didn't notice an angry twitch on Sailor Moon's eyes.
"Let's make it easy, Sailor Senshi. Surrender the crystals and I shall grant you your deepest desire. Normal life is what you wanted the most, is it not? Plus, your friends would be safe and sound, if only you give me your crystal!"
Both Mercury and Mars, though in different location glanced wearily to their Moon leader. Sailor Moon seemed not to be breathing as she gave short glances to her comrades. She released a soft sigh and her body began to glow. There was no sign of hesitation on Sailor Moon's face as the six Rainbow Crystal appeared on her hand.
Kunzite lunged, but Sailor Moon caught his movement and swept her hand as if banishing him. The crystals responded her movement, sending a powerful force of beam to send Kunzite few paces back. He could stand, but when he wanted to move, he couldn't.
"I've never gave you a permission to move now, have I?" She haughtily questioned, lips pulled into a smirk. The silver haired man winced; a flash of memory emerged.
"I've never gave you a permission to touch His Royal Highness now, have I?"
His hand was around Serenity's outstretched arm, yearning to reach Endymion. Serenity stared at him in fear as he raised his sword; but Endymion blocked the blade with his body.
"Princess Serenity?" Kunzite whispered, clutching his forehead.
"Sailor Moon?!" V moved closer after noticing the state Kunzite was in, but Sailor Moon stopped her with her free hand. Another short glance and V nodded. If she asked her to trust her, then V would gladly trust her with her life.
"Of course. Normal life is what I always wanted," Said Sailor Moon softly. The crystal on Mars' hand began to glow and float, as it moved toward Sailor Moon. Mars reached her hand to catch the floating crystal, but the crystal suddenly bolted right to Sailor Moon's hand.
"But then I met my friends," she continued just as softly as the crystals began to glow together, slowly merging to each other. "Truthfully they aren't my first group of friends; but I won't trade it with anything," She paused to chuckle, just as the merging crystal began to take shape and glow even brighter. Everyone was taken aback. "And you offer me a chance to be a normal girl – far from my friends?" She snorted. "Hilarious."
V smiled as she watched Kunzite looked ashamed, but his facial expression quickly hardened.
"But really, if I really should choose on being totally awesome, rich, have plenty of friends, and popular, but always have to risk my life on saving Toky- I mean world or being a simple normal girl with straight A and have the brightest of the brightest future ahead of me, but won't meet these wonderful girls; I'd rather choose the former," Her eyes narrowed. "Because you know what, my life would be boring."
Mars shook her head. The blonde had never stopped catching her off guard and amazed her. In a bad way. And it looked like Kunzite was having the same thought.
"For Love and Justice, I, Sailor Moon, in the name of the Moon shall punish you!" Just as she finished her speech, the complete Silver Crystal appeared on her hands, its glow expanded and finally enveloped Sailor Moon in a soft, white dome of light. Sailor Moon smiled to herself as she summoned the Moon Stick to her hand, and the crystal then attached itself to the Moon Stick.
V immediately ushered the others to back off.
"Silver Moon Healing Escalation!" She hollered, shoving the Moon Stick outstretched. Rainbows of rays shot out from the crystal, aiming for him and were successful on hitting Kunzite right on his chest. He let out a pained scream throughout the process, leaving goosebumps on the girls and a masked figure hidden on the shadow.
When the process ended, the sky was no longer red and gloomy. There was nobody there, but they could hear life buzzing from another area.
And laying on the ground was Kunzite, with his fellow generals circling him.
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