THE UNWELCOME INTRUDER :
{May 5th is the Naki Sumo Baby Crying Contest in Japan }
What better way to welcome the first grandchildren of Neo-Queen Serenity and King Endymion then put him a annual Japanese festival. On the grounds of Senso-ji Temple in Asakusa, Tokyo with around 100 babies competing this year after register closed. Where he will be placed in the arms of student sumo wrestler in an open-air sumo ring with referee trying scary him. He was the first to give a strong, loud crymoves onto the next round until they reach the finals. Where the winner of the final round isbestowed with a blessing of good health with the child held high into the air.
"This is odd way to present one's child to the world." Angel thought a private party would have done better.
"I kinda worried this may be traumatizing experience." Andor was worried.
"Why weren't we told about this earlier?"Ciprian asked Reika.
"..."Dann went quiet.
When the first round starring first public appearance of Helios and Princess Lady Serenity first born, Prince Takeo Tsukino. He had his aunt Kousagi's lavender hair, his grandfather's eye color, his grandmother's skin tone, and father's physical features. Plump cutie carried the same air of innocence his grandmother was known to have back in her high school days. Came face to face with another baby in the arms of another sumo wrestler staring blankly right back at himl.
"From what my mom used to tell me about the Queen," Reika spoke about stories from her mother, "He's going to win."
"This is going to be short." Amelie was already guessing.
"I am already bored." Mina yawned.
"You think we're going to be asked to babysit?" Mako asked.
When the referee stepped into the ring with their face painted and started to scare the babies that round started for them. Not a peep came from the baby prince was against when the referee distorted their face into ugly expressions. Now when the referee turned toward the prince without even twisting his face into scary fight of the child. The prince broke out into a full on cry with flailing arms and even endless tears that didn't seem to stop when rocked.
"Promise me when we do have a child," Ammar addressed Hiddenite. "We're not entering our child into this."
"You got my vote." Hiddenite covered his ears.
"I quiet agree," iara surprise answered them. "Your child be a natural crier."
Her closeness had Hiddenite crossing his arm very slowly when he could feel one of his eye brows twitching as he face Ammar. Asking him about rouge mermaid they been after was standing a few feet away from them in shorten kimono. Hair done up and rest of her looked lied any other girl traditional dressed for such an event in a rather calm manner. Two sumo wrestlers were already on either side of her as Hiddenite was given a solid head nod from Ammar
"You here to cause the usual trouble?" Ammar came to ask iara.
"Yes, but sight of all this youth stopped me." She stepped forward.
Last thing Hiddenite recalled before slipping under her telepathic song was Ammar quickly holding is arms around to catch him. Who hand find their footing when effects of her mental tune also started to lull him into a droopy state. His vision was on the verge of blurring with his body to about to given into false sense of sleep with threat before him. Trying ot find his voice to warn everyone iara was here before harder and harder when his eye lids got heavy. He ended up sending one of his silvery butter flies toward the nearest shoulder before he fell holding Hiddenite.
"How much you two remind me of loving bond." She stepped over them.
Protective manner that she saw one had over the other in their unconscious state reminded her of what of about her brother. How he gave away his connection to the sea in order to save a member of idol singing group to fully recover. Just months back angered her in a unknown way as she stepped forward from her placed in the crowd with eyes focused. Each person unaware of the strange song taking over their thoughts and slowing their actions before falling. On they fell with their energy slipping out of them into the air as crying of unattended babies filled the air within seconds.
"I should done this at the beginning." She came to announce herself.
"My my," Setsuna spotted her. "You all were certainly were right about her."
"Want to share?" She asked spotting Setsuna.
Setsuna ended up completely ignoring iara for the crying babies that didn't have someone conscious to tend to them. Mako and Angel ended up helping her to quiet each baby down with Derek and Kousagi in tow to keep away form iara. Leaving others in a sour mood over iara's presence after individual times she attacked them when they were separated. Reika was still mad while Amelie and Andor felt their peace was dusturb after what happened at the cram school. Mina wasn't very happy with how her natural talent she shared with Dann to sing was compared to a deflated tire. Set the mood for iara when she busied her self with sucking what energy she can while figuring what to do. About getting access to the high energy out put in form of the whining children that were being tended to by Setsuna, Angel and Mako.
To be reminded she had able bodies in the form of student ranked sumo wrestlers that were still some how conscious enough to stand. When she started to lift one of her sleeve covered arms to point toward what she wanted taken down. Pointing toward the small group between her and another energy supply that keep her full til her next feeding. Way she licked her lips before she could utter the words was all that was needed for Reika, Mina, and Amelie to take hold of their Star Power Stick. Strike of Red, Orange, and Blue pain the sky when they call out 'Star Power, Make Up'. Wrapped around the girls while Andor and Dann found themselves standing iara and her path to source of the crying.
"We should do something?" Kousagi asked Derek.
"Like what?" Derek wondered, "Our weapons don't have names and we don't have any attacks."
"Does Golden Heart Wand and Truncheon Swirl, sound ok?" Kousagi asked Derek.
Before he could tell her how he liked the names she came up with since the sounds the stomping of feet at iara's command. Had him not wanting to look up to see the familiar faces of student ranked sumos just heading toward them. Under the telepathic thrall of iara to fight and bring back upset children that were currently wailing to iara. Somehow angered him as he felt Kousagi take hold of his hand and tighten her hols out of worry when she looked up. Her voice caught in her throat a fear she could stop babies from having their energy stolen without being given a chance to fight. Had her standing up with her hand still holding to Derek while used her free hand to lift into the air to point at iara. Her lifted hand looked like it she was imaginary holding the linear-shaped cylinder of her golden-winged wand. A single sphere of white light the shape of a tennis ball slowly opened her loosely fisted hand and appeared in the middle of her palm. Slowly started to form a transparent surface encasing a bright light into a transparent rounded inverted pyramid shape. Slowly spun in place to form a blooming white Japanese show lily with a warmth that reminded her of her mother and older sister.
"It's an Imperium Silver Crystal!" Setsuna, Angel, and Mako shouted at the same time.
Andro and Dann had to shield their eyes from the blinding light that reminded them of step- mother's recreation magic. Just the dazzlingly brightness and supremely powerful light were far purer with white sheen all its own. Came with the warmth of being greeted or wrapped in the embrace of a departed loved one was one of many sensations. Derek knew all too well since this light didn't dazzle him like everyone else that was watching Kousagi's crystal start to form. Ended up making its way Kousagi's lavender sugar compact and turning into sparkling bits of light to enter the compact. Filling Kousagi with the same power she heard about from her father as bedtime stories. One that had her weaving her fingers with Derek broke the hand holding the two had.
"I wouldn't let you hurt my little nephew and his future friends." Kousagi found the courage to further speak.
"Who is going to stop me?" iara asked with a giggle.
"We are," Sailor Venus, Sailor Mars, and Sailor Mercury stood before her. "Got a problem with it?"
The point was further made when a thick mist formed within the gap of space and made seeing a thing in front of you impossible. Sumos ended up stopping in their steps out of natural instinct then whatever iara was commanding them to do. Since her control of them was cut short when she had dodged a series of fireballs in the shape of snakeheads. One ended up leaving a nasty burn to the left side of her body when she second-guessed how to move in the last few steps. Down she went with a golden chain made of heart-shaped links cutting into the sleeves of her kimono to bind her wrists.
"We got a hold of Ben and help is on the way," Dann yelled with Andor on the phone.
"Tell them to bring Mehr," Sailor Venus suggested.
Having to come face to face with her brother in his new form somehow brought tears to her when she struggled to get to her feet. Buried memory of when her brother was back on Maameido or their homeworld where merfolk live. Bring the only male of their family came with a set of flowing fins that were translucent in the brightest colors. The ratio of scales to the skin on his half-fish/half-human form made many jealous since they blended well. Gills at the side of his neck and just under where lungs were on a human torso. We're one of many traits that made many jealous of this form he had when in the water. Was no more and now only existed in her memory as she wobbly got to her unbound feet. She tried to fight the tears that fell from her eyes not caring how the droplets of water from her tear ducts started crystalizing. Roll down her cheeks when forming a series of Melo Melo Pearls that fell on the ground beside her feet. Just she couldn't bring herself to look upon shades of oranges the pearls came in without being reminded of her brother. Her brother took on a luminescent glow that took on the color of the sun during the homeworld's nocturnal phase.
"Why?" She cried to the heavens.
As her tears increased in volume while memories of never seeing her brother enter the water and morphing process of flesh to scales. Watch his legs disappear as rows of flattened appendages start to form and the warm peach turns to fluorescent hues.
"To mend the one your hurt," A familiar whisper turned her head. "You left that young man on death's doorstep."
"...for that he traded his fins away..." She spoke through her tears.
"Equal trade needed to be made for me to heal." An explanation was made.
Phantom Sailor Funna ended up gathering the pearls up from the ground by having an orb of light scooping the small hard, lustrous spherical masses in clusters. While releasing two more spheres that self-levitated around iara's head with lights synchronizing with the siren's telepathic song. Drawing the private melody out from her mind into open for all to openly under the veil of Mercury's misty.
"She's here?" Mako asked about Phantom Sailor Funna.
"She's been a neutral player," Angel explained. "Give her a minute."
iara pushed herself onto her feet while refusing aid from Phantom Sailor Funna in turning herself into proper authorities and reunite with her brother. Ran into the opposite end of the cloud that wasn't in the direction of the Senshi and the children. Leaving behind a civilian Phantom Sailor Funna holding the collected pearls and pulsing orb filled with recorded song. Some how ended up soothing the cries of the babies that were struggling to be quieted by Mako, Angel, and Setsuna during the confrontation. Bothered Sailor Venus, Sailor Mars, and Sailor Mercury while Dann and Andor couldn't step anywhere since mist kept them from seeing their own hand in front of their face. Left the only person that could see what happens within the mist and see what was happening by shouting at the top of his lungs as he walked into mist.
"Sailor Funna!" Her name was called by Ciprian. "Having your fun with her?"
"..." Phantom Sailor Funna didn't know how to answer.
When the mist started to fade that good chunk of it was captured by yet another orb belonging to Phantom Sailor Funna before she started to fade away from the eyes of everyone calling her. The person she looked towards with a smile on her face was known other Derek as he still tightly held hands with Kousagi still standing beside him. What drew a smile on her face was the joy she felt for the newly created crystal resting in compact worn by Kousagi and how the girl was one step closer to becoming a fulfilled senshi.
"Congrats little one." She gave her last words to Kousagi before disappearing.
The moment everyone's eyes were off iara to watch Phantom Sailor Funna slowly disappear from their line of sight, was the moment the siren got to her feet and turned on her heels. Making a clean getaway from them while shaking the orbs that were moving around her by shattering them with the highest musical note she could naturally reach. Also using her sadness and anger toward her brother giving up his fins to intensify the damage with a sense of relief she can privately hear her own song.
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Finding Mehr wearing a pair of light blue hakama, a white kosode, and some white ribbon in his lengthening hair. Tabi and zōri he wore when he stood there to greet Reika when she stopped in place staring at him. He held what looked like a three-tier set of bells, suspended by coiled brass wires upon a handheld rod.
"You really gave up your..." She stared at his covered legs. "...fin?"
"I didn't want that young man to suffer from what my sister did'" He sighed as he rolled the item in his hands. "How did you find out?"
"Sacred fire reading and my ESP." She reminds him of skill she inherited from her mother.
"Does your brother..." Mehr asked about Saualpite.
"No, but he's kinda picked up of your lack of fin." She came to point out.s
Mehr sighed and knew he should have told Saualpite what he did as he spoke about how he left a meal for her in the kitchen. All she had to do was heated it up since the food was he's first successful attempt at cooking earth based cuisine. Came out good since her great-grandfather wanted second helping and her mother offical handed cooking duties to him.
"Who came out the winner of this contest you went too?" He asked.
"Takeo." She spoke in passing.
"What your guys taking about?" Saualpite asked joining them.
Reika wished Mehr luck in telling her brother what he been keeping back since he become completely human after giving up his fin. Cawing that came from two black crows on a near by branch somehow adding to the pressure to confess. Left Mehr about to open his mouth and find the voice that got stuck in his throat when Saualpite ended up joining them.
"I already know you don't have your fin anymore," Saualpite lifted one of his hands toward the crows. "Fact you spent more time out of foot pool to help great- grandfather around, explains it."
"That was easy." Reika spoke with wave of her hands.
Over to her the crows would fly after her to leave Mehr and Saualpite alone for some private chat when a odd tension entered the air. Her yelling at them to take their time in making up since she had great- grandfather covered covered. Made Mehr gulp as he watched Saualpite pull a gold band with a stone in middle out of his brief case and as he waved his sister. Stating he set all day getting the paperwork together and visiting with Mehr's sisters in secret over a private issue.
"Marriage?!" Mehr yelled staring at Saualpite's hand.
"Stone is a polished pebble of from Martian meteorite and gold was mined from greece," Saualpite explained. "I had Dann make the ring."
"I should have seen this coming." Mehr sighed.
He ended up allowing Saualpite to get close to him enough to slip the ring on the fourth finger of his left hand. He allowed to be admired for a second before noticing was wearing a matching ring on Saualpite's own left's hand's fourth finger.
"Any thing else I am going to pulled through?" Mehr asked with lifted eye brow.
"This isn't a three ring circus." Saualpite joked.
"I worked in a carnival as management for the our family's underworld shows," Mehr reminds Saualpite. "Try me."
Saualpite ended up having the lepal's of his blazer he wore grabbed by Mehr before having the Kagura suzu pushed into his arms. Acting as a distraction for when Mehr connecting their lips in a forceful kiss with giving him a chance to breath. Which he accepted for a good minute and half when his stomach started to growl from hungry. Had Mehr laughing to himself before stepping a inch or two away from Saualpite to allow him to breath. Before stating he should go in the house and enjoy the left overs for a meal since he needed to close up.