SailorStar9: This is Chapter 27 of this fic. (Sighs) Guys and girls, is it too hard for you to leave a review, instead of just putting this fic up on your favorited list and story alerts?

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Chapter 27: Hunting Season, Part Four


"A bird-suited man?" Kyoya echoed. Once again, the Senshi were meeting at their base, and Ami had just told them about their battle with Vulture.

Ami nodded "Yeah. He called himself 'Vulture.'"

"That Rex guy is tough," Minako admitted. "We'll need more power to beat him."

Ami was meanwhile trying to find some data in her computer. "Hmmm... Interesting..."

"What did you find?" Makoto asked.

"According to the data in my computer, the solar system is not the only populated planet -"

"No surprise there, we have Ail and Ann, the Dark Moon, the witches, and now these hunters..." Minako listed, interrupting Ami.

"I didn't mean that. I mean, it's not the only planet populated by humans. There were missions sent out into the outer space by the Moon Kingdom, but there are no records of their exploration. Maybe these 'hunters' have really been hunting others like us. Humans."

"Oh... So there're humans in other worlds?" Kaoru was intrigued.

Hotaru shook her head. "Not likely. They may have the same ancestors but the environment of their planets may have changed them with time. Maybe that Rex guy is 'human' too."

"But... He's evil," Minako said.

"One word: Politicians." Hikaru smirked.

"Point taken."

"We all should be careful. We don't know who Rex will attack next, or if Rex and Vulture are the only ones in that ship," Makoto cautioned.

Ami smiled. "By the way, guys... One week until classes start again. "

"Hell yeah, we'll be able to torment our teachers again!" Hikaru cheered.

Kyoya shrugged "I hope I can get to the first place in the national rankings this year."

"Dream on," Ami teased.

"We'll see," Kyoya smiled.

"There they go again..." Kaoru muttered.

"Not our fault, study is fun," Ami said. The others, except for Kyoya, looked at her. "What?"

"Never mind," the others said in unison.

"One day I'll figure out how we do that," Kyoya muttered.

"Do what?" everyone else asked in unison.

Kyoya shook his head and sighed.


Later, Hikaru and Minako were returning to Hikaru's penthouse.

"I can see thing won't be calm for a while." Hikaru noted.

"Hey don't worry; the Goddess of Love will defeat this enemy." Minako boasted.

"I didn't know Ami was the Goddess of Love." Hikaru joked and promptly dodged Minako's right hook. "Just kidding, Mina..."

"I know," Minako said with a smile.

"Hello there, Senshi."

Minako looked at the creature in front of them. Humanoid, metallic, just like the others had described those Droids. But this one had a dozen huge lights on its chest. "What the hell are you?"

"I'm LightDroid, and I'm here to hunt you."

Minako looked around to make sure no one was watching them, before frowning at her new foe, "You'll leave with empty hands. That is, if you can leave at all. Hikaru, get out of here! Venus Zate Guardian!"

The Guardian of Light faced the Droid. Its chest lit up with light, and the Senshi frowned. "What, is that supposed to hurt us?" she asked.

"No, I'm just charging up for THIS!" A massive light energy wave shot forwards, giving the Senshi no time to dodge. Venus was knocked into a wall.

"Okay…" Venus got back to her feet and charged at the creature and tried to slice it in half, but failed. She spun on her heels and summoned her attack. "Light Sword Barrage!" The Droid was sent rolling on the ground, but sent another energy wave at the Senshi. "Light Shield!" The shield absorbed the attack, but the distraction gave the robot enough time to charge at her, knocking her to the ground.

"Look at the birdie!" the Droid said as he readied his lights to send another light wave at point blank range. It never had a chance to.

"Morning Star Smash!"

The attack came from right in front of the Droid, vaporizing it's head instantly. The Droid's body exploded and the Senshi of Venus sighed in relief.

"Nice one, Mina." Hikaru came out of hiding.

Venus smiled. "The Goddess of Love saves the day again!"

"The Goddess of Love, huh? You look more like the Goddess of Blob to me."

Venus looked up and glared at the man standing on top of a nearby rooftop. "I don't know who you are, but you're going to eat your words."

"Tsk, tsk... You can't defeat what you cannot see, Sailor Venus."

"Who are you, Felix?" Hikaru frowned, noticing the cat-like claws and the feline head drawn in his chest.

"My name's Jaguar, the fastest of Rex's allies. And I'm here to capture you both."

Venus frowned "I don't think so. Morning Star Smash!" Jaguar literally walked out of the way. "What?"

"If you were any slower, you'd be shooting backwards." He smirked and leapt down from the roof. "Now that's more like it. Let's see what you lighthead can do."

Venus charged at Jaguar and swung her sword, but Jaguar dodged. The Senshi tried to slash at his chest, but again Jaguar moved out of the way with an amazing speed. Venus tried to punch him, but again, Jaguar was way faster. The Senshi kept on trying to hit him, but the hunter was way faster than anyone would imagine.

After a minute, Jaguar leapt away from the Senshi, who glared at him tiredly. "You're tired already?" Jaguar asked mockingly.

"Morning Star Smash!"

Jaguar moved out of the way and yawned. "Girl, don't bother. You're too slow to get m-" He was cut off by Venus rushing at him and slamming him against a wall. "Damn you!" Jaguar shouted and leapt away, then run at the Senshi, so fast it was impossible to follow him. In a few seconds, Jaguar ran around the Senshi several times, punching and slashing at him with her claws, then leapt away, smiling evilly.

Venus fell to one knee and glared at Jaguar furiously. "You think you're fast, but light is my element, and nothing's faster than light. Cosmic Zate Guardian!"

A column of light surrounded Venus as she transformed, and as it ended, she was wearing a Cosmic armour with white, orange-trimmed skirt, longer back bow and transparent elbow pads with orange boot.

"Oh how cute, a new suit," Jaguar said and charged at Venus. He tried to punch her, but Venus dodged his blows effortlessly. He kept on trying to hit her but the Senshi of light just dodged or blocked the hits for a while. When Jaguar slowed down, Venus took the chance to kick him in the gut, sending him staggering back.

"A new suit, and a new power, moron. Venus Cosmic..." She summoned her chain, swinging it in front of her body. The chain started shinning with light energy and she smiled coldly at her foe. "Chain..." She tossed her chain forwards with amazing speed, wrapping it around Jaguar, as it continued shinning with energy. "Explosion!" As Venus shouted that, the energy gathered in the chain zapped Jaguar, making him fall on his knees. Venus fell to her knees as well. "Damn..."

"Is that it?" Jaguar asked.

"So what, you're out of energy too," Venus snapped.

"Not really, I can still do this," Jaguar said and ran at Venus, who was too tired to dodge, but stopped dead on his track when energy gathered in Venus' right fist. "Venus Light Geiser!"

Jaguar watched shockingly as a massive column of light shot from the ground... right underneath him. He was sent flying back a good hundred meters, and he hit the ground with a loud thud.

Venus looked at Jaguar, "Did I kill him?"

"Not... yet..." Jaguar muttered. "I admit defeat, but this is just the beginning." With that, he teleported out of the scene.

"I guess not all of those hunters are pushovers after all." Venus noted.

"Pushover or not, you beat him." Hikaru pointed out. "And you've got more power now to fight them."

Venus nodded "I just hope they give us a rest."


Jaguar teleported back into the ship, his suit wrecked and looking like he'd been beaten badly. Vulture looked at him and frowned "I take it you didn't get any of them?"

"Venus... light is not only her element... Her speed is amazingly high."

"Excuses, excuses," Vulture said.

"Touché," Jaguar muttered. "Is Lion done with his new Droid?"

"Not yet. And I'm working in something... How can I explain... huge. "

Rex walked out of the shadows and nodded. "I guess the Senshi will have a break. But once Lion's done with his Droid, we won't stop until we capture them all."


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