SailorStar9: With Chapter 85 uploaded, this is Chapter 86 of this fic. For everyone who put this fic on your favorited and followed lists and/or story alerts, thank you, but remember everyone, a lot of authors (myself included) sustain on readers' reviews.

Pairings: Established!Zen/Ami, Established!Rikuo/Hotaru

Disclaimers: This fic idea and the Rikuo/Hotaru pairing belong to Pavel123; I only own the plot idea and the main pairing. Anything else belong to their respective owners.

Chapter 86: Shadows of Destruction! The Awakening of the Messiah of Silence

Later that night...

"Come, students." Cyprine was luring the top students of Mugen Academy back to the school. "To Mugen Academy, and into our hands."

In Mistress Nine's new room...

"This isn't good." Professor Tomoe noted, seeing Hotaru using a 'Silence Wall' barrier around herself to stop the female Daimon from possessing her body. "I can't believe Hotaru is able to utilize Sailor Saturn's power in human form."

"We urgently need more Pure Hearts." Cyprine pointed out. "I have already finished the preparations. I, Cyprine, the last and greatest of the Witch of the Witches Five, will do my best for you, Professor."

"I"m counting on you, Cyprine." Professor Tomoe fed the Witch his usual line. "Now, the only one I can rely on is you."

"Fine." Kaolinite hissed in jealously. "I'll get a hold of the best Pure Heart there is." the target is the boy who Hotaru has opened up to the most. The heart of that boy named Rikuo.

"The superior students of Mugen Academy." Cyprine lured the gathered students to the central control room. "Now is the time to sacrifice your Pure Hearts to us, the Death Busters. The time has come. Sacrifice your Pure Hearts to the grand Death Busters." she declared, extracting the students Pure Heart Crystals en masse. "That's right, your Pure Hearts. Ladies, outsiders are not allowed to come onto school grounds." she rebuked, using the crystal pillar to absorb the extracted Heart Crystals and teleported the Inner Senshi to Professor Tomoe in a red bubble.

"Welcome, Sailor Senshi." Cyprine greeted the girls. "Nice to meet you. I'm Cyprine, the last and greatest of the Witches Five."

"I guess there is no need to hide our identities." Makoto snorted.

"Everyone, transform." Minako instructed. "Venus Planet Power, Make Up!"

"Mercury Planet Power, Make Up!"

"Mars Planet Power, Make Up!"

"Jupiter Planet Power, Make Up!"

"Moon Cosmic Power, Make Up!"

"Soon, this planet will be surrounded by Silence." Cyprine chuckled. "We, the Death Busters, will be victorious."

"Phoenix Immortal Fire!" Sailor Mars let loose her multi-shot attack.

"Mars!" the rest of the Senshi gasped when two energy blasts shot out from the smoke that emitted from the Fire Senshi's attack and hit the Mars Senshi.

"Light Cannon!" Sailor Venus attacked the laughing Cyprine with her light beam.

"You think I'm defeated by a weak attack like that?" Cyprine giggled and Sailor Venus was knocked to the side by an energy blast from the side. "I'm Cyprine." she reintroduced herself.

"And I am Ptilol." Ptilol appeared beside Cyprine.

"Two together make one." Cyprine stated.

"The one and the same." Ptilol added.

"It doesn't matter if it's one or two." Sailor Jupiter hissed. "Lightning Bullet!"

Raising both their wands, Cyprine and Ptilol absorbed the rapid lightning attack. "Such a thing has no effect on us." they redirected the attack back at Sailor Jupiter.

"You just hide behind a shield?" Cyprine mocked, seeing Sailor Mercury block out hers and Ptilol's attacks with an 'Avalanche Defense' snow wall.

"The Sailor Senshi really aren't much, are they?" Ptilol taunted.

"Hotaru wants to see you, Nura Rikuo." Kaolinite appeared in front of Night Rikuo. "She wants to see you and have your Pure Heart."

"Rikuo-sama!" the Sanba Karasu, in their Yokai forms, placed themselves before Kaolinite and the Third Heir.

"Take that!" Kaolinite fired an energy blast at Night Rikuo who cut the attack into two with Nenekirimaru.

"Noroi no Fubuki, Fūsei Kakurei!" Tsurara cast her freezing blizzard at Kaolinite.

"Weak!" Kaolinite broke free of her ice prison. Raising a red fog to conceal herself from the gathered Yokai, she laughed as she vanished into a portal with Night Rikuo.

"Oh no!" Tosakamaru cursed.

"It's mine!" Kaolinite bragged. "The best Pure Heart there is!"

"Cryoblast!" Sailor Mercury fired her ice blast at Cyprine, who absorbed the attack with her wand and redirected the attack back at the water/ice Senshi.

"They're strong." Sailor Jupiter admitted, Sailor Mercury jumping back to dodge the deflected attack.

"Their teamwork is just too good." Sailor Mars remarked.

"If there's a way to overload their staves..." Sailor Mercury was already churning out plans. "Sabão Spray!" she cast her trademark fog to conceal the other Senshi's movements.

"Blocking out vision?" Ptilol mocked. "How useless."

"Sailor Planet Attack!" the five Senshi fired their charged up attack at the twin Witches, the fog was dispelled by the powerful energy beam, the sudden attack leaving Cyprine and Ptilol too shocked to defend themselves and the attack hit the twin Witches, destroying them.

"This..." Sailor Mercury then spotted a portal opening in front of them, the other end revealing the interior of Professor Tomoe's laboratory. "It's a distortion in space." she brought out her crystal visor. "It's connected to another dimension."

"Welcome, young Sailor Senshi." Professor Tomoe greeted Sailors Uranus and Neptune, the older Senshi were approaching the alter he was standing in front of.

"So, you finally show up." Sailor Uranus noted.

"You are very lucky." Professor Tomoe declared. "You get to participate in the ceremony that is about to begin."

"That boy..." Sailor Neptune gasped when the light shone on Rikuo's unconscious human form. "Nura Rikuo."

"It seems as though you all made it in time." Professor Tomoe adjusted his glasses as the other Senshi gathered.

"Rikuo-sama!" Sailor Mercury exclaimed in shock, her eyes centering in Day Rikuo.

"Soon, the Messiah of Silence will awaken to her full powers." Kaolinite appeared beside Professor Tomoe. "Using the Pure Heart of this boy as her energy. You really shouldn't care about him, Sailor Moon." she smirked. "He is, after all, a quarter Yokai."

Mistress Nine's eyes glowed an eerie red and a shadowy limb grew out of her chest and grabbed onto Rikuo's chest to extract his Heart Crystal when a blinding white light exploded from the teen's body and deflected Mistress Nine's assault.

"You're..." Sailor Mercury was stunned, as the ghostly figure of Yōhime appear above Rikuo. "Yōhime-sama..."

The sakura-kimono clad woman then turned to Hotaru smiled and pointed a finger at her.

The Senshi of Death nodded and called forth her henshin pen. "Saturn Planet Power, Make Up!" now transformed, she leapt and gathered Rikuo in her arms, before jumping to join the other Senshi.

"I am the Messiah of Silence, Mistress Nine." Mistress Nine declared, now awakened.

"It is our victory, Professor." Kaolinite turned to Professor Tomoe.

"Your job is over now, Kaolinite." Mistress Nine took out the red-haired woman with a rain of lightning blasts. "We will now start preparing for the next step."

"What in the world..." Kuroumaru gasped, the Sanba Karasu were in front of the crumbling Mugen Academy.

"Nii-san, Mercury-sama and Saturn-sama are still inside." Tosakamaru told his elder brother.

"They're out!" Sasami pointed as the Senshi dashed out of the collapsing building. "Rikuo-sama!" she gaped at the unconscious Rikuo in Sailor Jupiter's arms.

"He's alright." Sailor Mercury assured the three crow Yokai. "He's just unconscious. Kuroumaru," she turned to the eldest sibling of the Sanba Karasu. "How fast can you get word to the Keikain Fukuju Branch?"

"You need..." Kuroumaru realized what the ice Senshi had intended. "I understand."

SailorStar9: Well, this chapter is done. Thoughts, reviews, anyone?