Chapter 9: The Worlds Collide
Eve inhaled deeply, licking the blood from her fingertips, making smacking sounds with her lips.
"I do love blood that's energized with power," Eve sucked her thumb.
Sailor Uranus held her arm, as blood seeped through her fingers, she was standing in front of Sailor Neptune as Neptune wrapped her arms around her, fear marring her face.
"Why haven't you killed us, you witch!" Uranus shouted.
"Because I have a show, I want you to see," Eve chuckled. "Bring out the other two with power."
Eve snapped her fingers, and a vampire lumbered off into the shadows.
"God was always a prude with his power," Eve scoffed, "never letting his children play with any, but Selene, on the other hand."
Eve started clapping, hard and loud. "Well, she's not one to disappoint. Giving her children god-like powers. It's incredible."
"What the hell are you talking about, you evil snake!" Haruka winced, one eye closing as pain jolted up her spine. Her legs gave out, landing hard on her knees, and Sailor Neptune fell with her.
Before Eve could speak again, the vampire came back holding two kicking children, one in each hand, both clawing at him, and he threw them at Eve's feet.
"I sense the goddess in you the most," Eve knelt onto her knees in front of the children. She lifted Rini's head with her index finger. "Who are you?"
Rini swallowed hard, her eyes wide in fright.
"Leave the child alone!" Michiru slowly stood, her white gloves clenched into fists.
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"We got to find Rini!" Serena cried, tears slipping down her cheeks.
A gust of wind blasted the girls from behind, knocking them to the ground. They cried out in shock as they turned to see Sailor Pluto with her staff raised high, her heart gauntlet pulsating. Her green hair held in her signature style – half-bun with the rest cascading down her back, but her brows narrowed, and her lips drawn down.
If looks could kill, Pluto would have annihilated the girls.
"Pluto!" the girls shouted.
Sailor Pluto thrust her staff into the air, and time stopped.
"You assholes!" Pluto marched and touched both Serena's arms.
Serena and Sere were brought outside of time.
"Are you trying to destroy the worlds!" Pluto shouted at them.
"Pluto, we are trying to fix the worlds!" Serena hollered back.
"All the timelines are messed up. I've been given special permission from Selene to help you. Time will not stay still for long." Pluto explained.
"What's going on?" Sere stepped forward.
"Back up abomination, or my rod will smite you," Pluto warned Sere.
"Pluto!" Serena gasped, "You will not treat Sere like that. It's not her fault."
"But it is my queen," Pluto bowed her head to Serena. "If she'd just stayed in purgatory, then Eve wouldn't be in our world."
Both Serena's gasped, covering their hands over their mouths at the same time.
"Eve's here?" Sere couldn't believe her ears.
"Yes, and she has the princess," Pluto's voice softened as she spoke of Rini.
"Pluto, can you take us to her?" Serena choked on her words, the fear of losing her daughter stabbed at her heart.
"No." Tears slipped from her downcast eyes, "Eve's hidden from my sight."
The silence after her words grew thick in the air, almost choking them. Time around them started up again, and the girls got to their feet.
"Pluto, what's going on?" Lita rushed beside Serena.
"There's no time to explain; we have to find Rini before it's too late," Pluto sprinted off.
The scouts looked at each other in puzzlement before running after Pluto.
"We should call Sam and Dean!" Sere panted.
"We don't know where they are!" Rei hollered.
"They don't know this city, they'd most likely gone to my place," Lita's long strides matched Ami's and Rei's while the Serena's kept pace in the back, "I will head there."
Lita veered right at the corner, heading to her apartment.
Eve grabbed onto Hotaru's dark hair, pulling the back of her head against her chest. Hotaru's eyes teared up as she stared at her new friend Rini, knowing they're both going to die.
"This one is going to finish what I had started so long ago," She smiled, "My favourite child is hiding inside this small vessel, and I am going to set her free."
"Over my dead body," Sailor Neptune roared. "Deep submerge." Her powers sizzled out at the end of her fingertips.
Eve laughed, "Please, use more of your gifts. These walls are energized with magic, and the more magic you pour into this place, the deeper the gash to the other worlds opens."
Sailor Uranus took out her sword, pointing the tip at the demon witch, "You're not freeing Mistress Nine!"
Glinting abyss eyes glared at the blonde, "so you already know about my child." The tip of her blade slowly slid down Hotaru's cheek.
The child whimpered in confusion, tears cascading down her cheeks.
"Please let me go," Hotaru choked on her words.
Instead, Eve plunged the dagger right into Hotaru's heart. Hotaru's purple eyes bulged, and as she fell, a couple of tears flew in the air.
Rini gasped, catching Hotaru's before she hit the ground.
"Hotaru!" Rini cried. She laid Hotaru's head on her knees, "please don't die." She yanked the dagger from Hotaru's chest.
Tears slipped from the pink girl's chin and onto her friend's face.
"R… i… n…i," Hotaru stuttered, her fingers crawling up Rini's white blouse, "I'm sorry."
Hotaru's fingers closed around Rini's heart locket, before snapping it off her blouse.
Rini gasped in shock, unable to move as Hotaru dropped the locket, and it fell right into her wound, disappearing inside of Hotaru. The wound closed, and the girl's eyes blackened as her hair grew longer, cocooning her body.
Sailor Neptune sprinted to Rini, and before the black hair could encase the pink hair girl, Neptune pushed her out of the way. They both smashed against the cave wall. The light in Rini's eyes had gone out, like a candle, her body unmoving.
"Princess," Neptune moaned, shaking the little girl, but there was no response.
Laughter held the attention of the room, and all eyes stared at Hotaru, but she was no longer a child, but a grown woman, with mid-night hair and abyss eyes, her look resembled Eve's, but she was wearing a low-cut navy dress with a cape, her ears pointed, fangs biting her lower lip.
"I'm free!" The once Hotaru shouted with glee.
"Mistress Nine, you are finally awake, and can help me bring the worlds together and destroy them all!" Eve mused, clasping Mistress Nine's hand, "I am glad to have my daughter by my side once more."
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Darien groaned in pain, placing his hand over his heart. It felt like something is missing as sweat soaked his brow and shirt. His breathing became erratic, and his knees failed him as he slumped down next to a tree in the park. A thin golden light shot from his chest, zigzagging through the park, and out of sight.
"Darien!" Serena called out to him as the scouts raced into the park.
The girls surrounded Darien, as Serena knelt beside him, her hand on his shoulder.
"Are you okay?" she whispered.
"We don't have time for this; we must find the princess," Pluto cursed, hopping from one foot to the other.
"So…me…things…wrong," Darien panted, "it hurts."
"What hurts?" Mina asked the girls crowded Darien, helping him to his feet.
"Can't you see the light?" Darien sputtered.
The girls stared at him in confusion, "No," they all said.
"The connection, Darien has a link with Rini, he can take us to her," Pluto stared at her king, "Take us to Rini."
Darien groaned, but a determination set in his eyes, and he nodded, with the girls help they chased after the light.
It took ten minutes to find the cave that the light led them to, and they raced in ready for a fight, but Eve was gone.
They found two new scouts and Rini in the main chamber of the cave, along with many dead bodies and a pool of blood. Serena and Darien took Rini in their arms, and Darien's hand glowed, as his power seeped into his daughter's skin. Rini stirred in his arms; her eyes opened for a minute.
"Please save Hotaru," Rini whispered, before passing out again.
"Neptune, Uranus, where is Eve?" Pluto stepped towards the new scouts.
"Gone, with Mistress Nine," Neptune spat out, "I'm sorry, we have failed you, Pluto."
"Who are you guys?" Sere asked, never meeting these scouts before.
All the girls stared at them in wonderment.
"New scouts, cool," Mina gushed.
"We work alone," Uranus spat, clenching her teeth. Neptune and Uranus left before anyone else could speak.
"We have to get Rini somewhere safe," Pluto bit her lower lip as she spoke, she knelt beside Rini and stroked her hair.
Pluto raised her rod, and within seconds they were at Lita's apartment surprising Dean, Sam and Lita.
"What the hell?" Lita demanded until she saw Rini in Darien's arms, "What happened?"
The world rocked again, this time, breaking buildings in half, the ground crashing up, trying to reach the sky. Thunder clouds blotted out the sun as lightning struck the earth.
Thanks to Pluto, Lita's apartment remained standing; the group eyed each other within concern and fear evident on their faces.
"You boys are in big trouble," Billy popped into the room with Bobby by her side.
