SailorStar9: With Chapter 91 out, this is Chapter 92 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.
Just in case anyone is still confused, Kubo Satoshi is the Present Day Tieria Erde and Faheem Kamal is the Present Day Setsuna F. Seiei.
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 92: A Mystic Flower That Steals Hearts! The Third Witch, Tellu
Backstage...
"To eradicate their own ally..." Sailor Pluto was shocked by the Death Busters' ruthlessness.
"Horrible people they are..." Sailor Uranus hissed.
"We can't be too idealistic, either." Sailor Neptune reminded.
"Let's go." Sailor Uranus told the Outer Senshi. "We must defeat the Messiah of Silence as quickly as possible."
In Mistress Nine's room...
"Pure Hearts..." Mistress Nine droned. "Are they here yet?"
"I am terribly sorry." Professor Tomoe bowed. "Please wait a little longer."
"Pure Hearts..." Mistress Nine continued. "And lots of them. Unless I get ahold of them, it is impossible for me to fully awaken. I will not forgive anyone who gets in the way of my revival. Just collect the Pure Hearts."
In the Witches Three office...
"This is Tellu's desk at Witches Five." Tellu took the call.
"It's me." Professor Tomoe responded from the other end of the line. "I just glanced through your report. I have gotten to like your plan to use plants to steal Pure Hearts. The plans that use Daimons have been failing as of late. I thought it was interesting to change how we approach things a bit for once. I'm counting on you, Tellu."
"Professor." Kaori started, standing behind Professor Tomoe. "I brought you some coffee.
"Sorry to trouble you so much all the time." Professor Tomoe stated, taking the offered cup. "You perfectly support my job as my secretary. But it really is a shame to use all your skills just as a secretary. You know what I am talking about, don't you, Kaori? I want you to go back into the field. You are the only one I can count on, Kaolinite." he walked Kaori.
"Understood." Kaori muttered and let the evil energy buried within her expand, shedding her Kaori form and reverting back to Kaolinite. Without a word, she vanished.
Later, in Tellu's specialist florist shop...
"Tellun?" Setsuna walked past the shop. "I've never heard of such a flower..."
"And the odds of it being an enemy's trap..." Hotaru trailed.
"Let's investigate." Setsuna nodded.
In her room...
"The power to absorb water in the atmosphere into its body?" Setsuna was running scans on her computer. "Impossible. To think that a planet like that exists. That strange incident where massive amounts of plants wilted. Perhaps it has something to do with this plant." she turned to the Tellun that was kept in a glass case.
"What in the world..." Hotaru frowned, seeing the Tellun suddenly glow. The outsurge of power shattered the glass and reached out to the two Outer Senshi.
Hotaru instantly summoned the Silence Glaive and used the weapon to block out the energy.
In front of the Tsukino household...
"I'm here to pick you up, Tsukino Usagi." the newly revived Kaolinite appeared above the two Rabbits who were about to head out. "Our Messiah of Silence has picked you to be her vessel. Get out of the way." she blasted Chibi-Usa back, nabbed Usagi and vanished.
Later...
"Puu!" Chibi-Usa hurried to Haruka's apartment. "Kaolinite..."
"Chibi-Usa, calm down." Hotaru led the wheezing girl in and settled her on the sofa.
"Tell us what happened, Chibi-Usa." Michiru spoke.
"Kaolinite took Usagi." Chibi-Usa sobbed.
"But I thought we defeated her." Haruka frowned.
"But we can't confirm that Kaolinite died on the scene." Michiru pointed out.
"About the Tellun," Hotaru expressed. "Setsuna-mama and I have confirmed it; when it blooms, it will abduct people's Pure Hearts. If all the flowers that are now all over town started blooming all at once..."
"It's totally different from what they're doing until now." Haruka was stunned.
"Perhaps there is a situation now that requires them to have many Pure Hearts." Setsuna surmised.
"Now I remember!" Chibi-Usa gasped. "Kaolinite said that Usagi is going to be the vessel for the Messiah of Silence!"
"We must get rid of the source before finding Usagi." Michiru nodded.
Opposite of Tellu's shop...
"Tellun is being sold there." Setsuna informed Haruka and Michiru.
"Let's go to the back entrance." Michiru suggested.
In Tellu's shop...
Closing the shutters of her shop, Tellu knocked out her customers with sleeping gas. Activating all the Tellun in the shop all at once, she extracted all of the customers' Heart Crystals and gathered them into a star-shaped pad in her palm.
"Guess you were right, Setsuna." Haruka whispered, the three Outer Senshi were peering out from the office door and witnessed Tellu steal the Heart Crystals. "Uranus Planet Power, Make Up!"
"Neptune Planet Power, Make Up!"
"Pluto Planet Power, Make Up!"
"The Sailor Senshi, huh?" Tellu turned to see the three Outer Senshi. "To find out about this place so easily, you aren't as stupid as I thought. I guess I'll take your Pure Hearts as well. It's no use trying to escape." she warned, the electric attack from the gathered Tellun split the three Senshi apart. "This shop is filled with Tellun."
"Space Sword Blaster!" summoning her 'Space Sword', Sailor Uranus let loose two energy arcs.
"How impudent!" Tellu snapped and countered with her vines.
"Submarine Violon Tide!" Sailor Neptune released a tidal wave of seawater from her violin.
"Flowers are supposed to bring serenity to humans." Sailor Mercury spoke, a sharp icicle stabbing Tellu on the palm. "Using them for evil is never allowed. Crisis Make Up!" she wasted no time in summoning the Grail's power. "Aurora Execution!" she then blasted the powerful blizzard of absolute zero at Tellun plants, destroying every one of them.
"My dear flowers." Tellu sneered. "How dare you? Don't assume you're out of the woods." holding out a Tellun pot, she injected a rapid-growth serum. "You'll regret making me angry. This Hyper-Tellun will be your enemy. It's a monster that reacts to only Pure Hearts. This is a scary one. After taking out the Pure Heart, it self-destructs along with the owner of the Pure Heart. I'll leave you to go against it. I have to deliver this to the Professor." she held out her Heart Crystal storage device.
"Do you think we're that stupid?" Sailor Mercury flung a sharp ice dart at the star-shaped pad, destroying it and letting the gathered Heart Crystals fall out.
In response, the Hyper-Tellun turned to Tellu and trapped her within its vines.
Tellu tried to defend herself by entangling her vines around the Hyper-Tellun, only to have the giant plant explode with her in its grasp.
"This is..." Sailor Mercury picked up the handbook Tellu left behind. "A student handbook from Mugen Academy? Ruru Teruno?" she read the student name.
"Mugen Academy is fishy, after all." Sailor Uranus stated.
In Mistress Nine's room...
Kaolinite dumped Usagi in front Mistress Nine's posh chair.
"Welcome, Tsukino Usagi." Mistress Nine greeted her new vessel.
"You..." Usagi tried to shuffle back, only to have Kaolinite stop her by pressing both her hands on the blond's shoulders.
"You poor, poor thing..." Mistress Nine tsked in mock pity. "To think one of your Guardians stole the power that was supposedly yours. How would you like to gain more power to lay claim to the Grail's power?" she purred.
"I refuse!" Usagi refused vehemently. "The Grail has a will on its own; I cannot fault it for choosing its real owner."
"You really are selfless, aren't you?" Mistress Nine sneered. "Leave us, Kaolinite." she instructed the redhead. "Let's see if I can convince her, otherwise."
"Understood." Kaolinite bowed and teleported.
"Moon Cosmic Power, Make Up!" Usagi held up her henshin brooch and transformed.
"What?" Mistress Nine was shocked by the revelation.
"Moon Spiral Heart Attack!" Sailor Moon blasted the Messiah of Silence with her attack. "Sailor Teleport!" using the distraction, she teleported out of the enemy hideout.
SailorStar9: Any OOC-ness is regretted. *Sighs* Don't you just hate plot bunnies sometimes? Read and review.
