SailorStar9: With Chapter 83 out, this is Chapter 84 of this fic. Remember boys and girls, reviews are an author's subsistence. Really, is it so difficult for you guys to review instead of just putting this fic up in your favorites and alerts?
Pairings: Tieria/Ami, Mamoru/Usagi and quite possible Setsuna/Hotaru.
Standard BS Disclaimers: I do not own Sailor Moon, Gundam 00 or the pairings. If I did, the other Senshi would be as powerful as Sailor Moon and kicking MOTD ass more often and VEDA would have least an anti-hacker program installed. The only thing I do own is the plot.
Chapter 84: The Grail's Divine Power! Kheimon At Full Power
Previously...
"Imouto..." Sailor Uranus tried hard to breath. "I don't care what happens to us, please, protect these Talismans and find the last remaining Talisman. Hand the Grail to the legendary Messiah... our savior who can rescue us from the time of destruction, the horrible time of silence. When the Messiah get a hold of the Grail, the world will be saved."
"I can hear it." Sailor Mars pressed her ear against Sailor Uranus' chest. "It's faint, but I can still hear a pulse."
"How can we return these Talismans, their Pure Heart Crystals, back into their bodies?" Sailor Jupiter cursed.
"Sure enough, I have received the two Talismans." Eudial laughed, distracting the Senshi with her Fire Buster and snatching the two Talismans.
"I won't allow this!" Ami glared, and held up her upgraded henshin pen. "Mercury Planet Power, Make Up! Those two Talismans are the Pure Heart Crystals of my two important nee-chan. I will have you return them!"
"Fire Buster!" Eudial fired her flamethrower at the water Senshi.
"Diamond Dust!" Sailor Mercury countered with a powerful icy gust of ice shards from her fist.
"How's the power of Fire Buster II, with it's pending practically model patent, now with even more firepower than before?" Eudial bragged, her flamethrower overpowering Sailor Mercury's attack and encircled the Senshi in a ring of fire.
"Frozen Ground!" Sailor Mercury slammed both hands on the floor, intending to freeze the flames.
"Your attack won't be able to extinguish the flame of my Fire Buster." Eudial taunted, watching both ice and fire try to overpower the other.
"We shall see about that!" Sailor Mercury glared, expanding more ice magic into the area-of-effect spell.
"See you!" Eudial took off, not bothering to stick around.
"I'm glad we made it in time." Sailor Chibi-Moon entered the fight with Tuxedo Kamen, Sailor Mercury's ice spell having frozen the Fire Buster's flames.
"Hurry, the Talismans..." Tuxedo Kamen reminded and sent the girls forward.
"Sticky liquid!" Eudial stopped in her track and shot out a blast of glue-like substance at the Senshi closing in her on.
"Twin Dragon Blizzard!" Sailor Mercury channeled her ice magic into both hands and fired two ice dragons at Eudial, the resulting icy tornado freezing the yellowish liquid.
"See you later." Eudial took off running.
"Sailor Mercury is on fire." Sailor Mars gawked.
"So, you're all here." Eudial stopped within the cathedral's inner sanctum.
"I can't forgive you for stepping on someone's heart and trying to do away with their lives as well." Sailor Mercury snapped. "I am the Sailor Senshi of Love and Wisdom, Sailor Mercury! In the name of Mercury, douse yourself and repent!" brandishing a slim curved rapier-like blade, the 'Black Snow' the ice/water Senshi stood ready to face off Eudial who readied her Fire Buster II.
"Don't pretend to act tough." Eudial mocked. "It doesn't matter how much you power up, I'm much more powerful than you are."
"Ice Ripple!" Sailor Mercury held back her anger and fired a powerful blast of white ice from her sword.
"Fire Buster!" Eudial countered with her flamethrower. "A stalemate." she sneered when both attacks canceled each other out.
"Star Burst!" Sailor Venus was not one to not look a gift horse in the mouth and surrounded Eudial with her numerous light balls and exploding the spheres in unison, blinding the red-haired Witch.
With Eudial distracted, Sailors Mars and Jupiter dashed forward and snatched up the two fallen Talismans.
"Hey, give those back!" Eudial protested. "I stole them fair and square!"
"That's enough!" Setsuna entered the fight. "Eudial, I will not allow the Talismans to fall to your hands. Pluto Planet Power, Make Up!" the Time Senshi transformed.
"Sailor Pluto!" Sailor Chibi-Moon beamed.
"The remaining Talisman is in my possession." Sailor Pluto showed the Garnet Orb. Detaching the Garnet Orb from the Garnet Rod, she brought it before her, the Garnet Orb started glowing red and summoned the two remaining Talismans to her. All three Talismans then formed a triangle and Sailor Pluto's tiara disappeared, revealing her Planet symbol on her forehead. In response, Sailors Uranus and Neptune's Planet symbols lit on their foreheads and the two Outer Senshi were teleported before their own Talismans. With the Talismans revealed, the two Outer Senshi's Heart Crystals exited the Talismans and reentered their owners' bodies.
"The true Talismans..." Sailor Uranus was stunned.
"Didn't have to sacrifice anyone." Sailor Neptune breathed.
Smiling at each other, Sailors Uranus and Neptune took their Talismans which reacted with the Garnet Orb to summon the Holy Grail on the top of the light pyramid.
"Depending on who uses it, it is said that it can lead the world to destruction or salvation." Sailor Pluto declared. "It is the Holy Grail that has infinite power."
"The Grail..." Eudial muttered. "I'll take that!"
"I won't allow you!" Sailor Mercury called out and reached a hand out to summon the Grail to her. The Sacred Cup was willed to the water/ice Senshi's hands and she closed her hands on the Cup, the divine powers of the Grail enveloping her and she turned into her Kheimon form. The outsurge of pure energy also upgraded all of the Senshi present to their Super forms.
"Fire Buster!" Eudial fumed, firing her flamethrower at the Horae.
"Chilling Wave." Kheimon calmly countered with a huge wave of ice which not only froze the flames, and also sent Eudial out of the frosted window.
"Sailor Mercury... imouto is..." Super Sailor Uranus gaped.
"The Messiah that will save the world from Silence?" Super Sailor Neptune was shocked.
Kheimon just smiled serenely and closed her eyes, reverting back to Sailor Mercury, the Holy Grail had hence entered her brooch, giving it a snowflake imprint.
Why can't it be me? Sailor Moon wondered morosely as she watched Sailors Uranus and Neptune kneel before Sailor Mercury, acknowledging her as the Messiah they were finding.
In Professor Tomoe's laboratory...
"Professor, the Grail has appeared." Mimete ran in, the orange-haired Witch having sabotaged Eudial's car and causing the other Witch to crash into the ocean. "Furthermore, the Grail has landed in the hands of the Sailor Senshi."
"Mimete," Professor Tomoe started. "It's true that the Holy Grail has appeared. However, it seems that someone who can truly control the Grail has yet to appear. If someone who could control the Grail was really among them, this building of Death Busters as well as all of the Daimon Eggs should have crumbled to ruins. However, look around you. Not one crack has emerged."
"Perhaps," Mimete suggested. "There is someone who can control the Grail for us, the Death Busters, somewhere amazingly close."
SailorStar9: Any OOC-ness is regretted. *Sighs* Don't you just hate plot bunnies sometimes? Read and review.
