Here's the nineth installement of the story. ^^ It took some sense, but lemme tell you, I think at the end of the March Break, this will be completed. Anyways, read and review!
~*In the Circle of the Battlefield*~
~The Apocalypse of Silence and Chaos~
"Wh-Who are you?" Hotaru asked nervously.
The man was now close to her range, and she could almost smell whatever cologne he was wearing. He was surprisingly her age, only with a strange look on his face that made her look older.
"Don't you remember me, Princess?" he asked calmly.
She blinked. "Am I supposed to?" she countered back.
He shook his head and tsked. "I supposed the Reincarnation really did blur your memory. Think back, Princess, think back a long time ago, this place, this world, that time, a long, long time ago..."
***Flashback***
"Tell the Princess and her Majesty that I cannot attend," Hotaru said softly from the terrace, where her palace glimmered in architecture. It was turning night as from the sky, the holy rings were slightly visible in the horizon. The palace was situated in the northern hemisphere from the rings, but it gave view to some of the moons revolving the planet.
"Anything else, your Highness?"
"No, that will be all. Thank you---"
Gray.
Mist.
Shift.
A man, brushing his hand against her pale complextion. Hotaru gasped is surprise when she found out who the person was---it was Chaosis himself. He was in a neat suit of black, latest fashion in the Imperial Kingdom. He was smiling charmingly, which didn't make him look like a bad guy.
Hotaru's past self was in a long flowing gown of lavender, her hair down as always, her neck adorned with crystals. Her eyes were so calm as she looked straight at him without a flinch or concern. She blinked and turned away to face her kingdom.
"You know I can never join you, Chaosis, you and I both know that," she said calmly, tersely. "You can plead and flatter me for all eternity and you still won't win me. We are on opposite ends of the playing board; who will win, I cannot know..."
"Princess," he cooed. "You can taunt me all you like, but we are destined---"
"To what? Fight for all eternity?" she snapped, turning towards him.
"Maybe," he said cautiously, cocking his head to one side, savouring in the beauty of Hotaru's risen temper. This past Hotaru was somewhat different from the one she knew. "Or something much greater..."
She scoffed. "Your strategy is tiring me," she said dryly. "Leave me if you love your life for I have no time for your sentimental fantasies..."
Gray.
Mist.
Shift.
The battle scene. Hotaru could remember asking her imperial guards to evacuate the planet and send them to the moons for protection, some to the other planets near by. Her past self was now standing in a cleared out battlefield, the columns now shattered by the fight.
Before her was Chaosis, the form he was now, only more coloured. He was no longer in the suit, but in a more warrior suit. Hotaru's past self was in the ancient senshi suit she saw in her vision as she was fighting breathlessly and passionately with her glaive.
"I'm giving you a chance to join me, Princess! Why don't you understand?"
"Because as much as you want to believe you can make me love you, I can't! We believe in something else, and believe it or not, they don't run the same path! You are my nemesis, my opposite! You make chaos out of this universe, turning people against each other. I must make right what you made wrong!" she finished passionately.
I love it when she gets all passionate of her cause, he thought to himself. It's a shame though she's on the side of silence...her powers could be useful to me. Oh well, you can't have everything. "There's always the Moon Princess..." he said harshly.
"She has her own battles to face!" she cried back, waving her deadly glaive in her hands. "As for you---you're battle is with me!"
"Oh, Princess, I only wish---"
Gray.
Mist.
Shift.
"Princess! Please!" A gateway was behind him, looming, opening its mouth with void waiting behind his weary and wild body. He was scarred all over the place, his hair messy now and his eyes wild with fear and desperation. Deception and craftiness. "We can work this out, I know we can---"
"I'm sorry, but you are Chaosis," was all she could say. As much as she hated what she was to do, as much as she wanted to show mercy, she could not let go of the cruelties he had inflicted to the universe as a whole. Everything was difficult. "I cannot let you get away so easily...Silence...Sphere..."
"Princess, please, listen to---"
"...Engage!!!!"
"Ai------------"
All Sailor Saturn could do was stand dumbfold at why he said "Ai" as she watched him float into the hole she had opened, still shouting with all his might as she watched the gateway slowly close itself.
"Ai------------"
Then, the Negaverse appeared.
***End of Flashback***
Hotaru was now trembling at what she saw and experienced because of two things. First, her past self was so much stronger than she was now, phsically and mentally. She was more passionate of what she believed in and sought to fight for it. And second was that Chaosis was totally getting into her. Now she was filled with doubt and a thin veil of fear.
"Now you see, Princess?" he asked calmly. "You trapped me, yet I escaped. You refuse, yet I insist. I return, and so will you."
She turned defiantly at him, now back in control. She had to continue what she fought for before and for the future. Besides, his smug attitude was really ticking her off. "Yes, I have returned, only to find out that things like you followed us Senshi to this century," she replied. "Now I must finish what I had sough to do before...finish you off!!!"
His mouth snarled as his face crimpled visibly. Then he sighed and regained his complextion. "You haven't lost your passion, Princess," he said snidely. "But I'm afraid I've gone stronger since we last had our little dance..."
"Fine by me. I've gotten stronger too."
Oh, that hit the spot. Now he was getting angry. "You are testing my patience, Princess---"
"The name's Hotaru, and I will stop you!"
Light blasted from the heavens and washed her whole as she appeared as Sailor Saturn, but not Sailor Saturn. She was in a partial-senshi outfit, but she was in a long robe to top her outfit, a long, dark purple one, with silver lining. Her face had the tiara, but the stone had the Saturn insignia as her earrings jingled as she moved. Her gloves ran up to her mid-biceps as her right hand clutched her precious glaive. Her eyes were still wide but now she showed a different expression in her eyes...they were much more stronger and darker than previous.
Chaosis was gaping. "How---what---"
"I am the Samurai of Silence," she proclaimed. "The guardian and princess of this planet. I hold the horrible weapon of destruction with the promise of rebirth...and you are my enemy. I will stop you from polluting chaos throughout the universe." She narrowed her eyes. "I will defeat you."
Chaosis now recovered his expression as he smiled smarily. "You think you can defeat me, Samurai?" he asked arrogantly. "You're just as talkative as your senshi friends over there! Too much talk, no room for fighting! A bunch of pacifists! You are ruining my ultimate plan! Hmm...nonetheless, I got the upper hand on this---Princess." The word "princess" came out in a snarl.
So there was his true colours, she mused, but watched in stupefied horror as her friends began to scream. The puppy Jupiter was holding attacked her visciously as Uranus started running for her life as the motorcycle strangely came to life. Mercury was now intwined in the computer and was struggling as Pluto watched the clothes come to life and attack her. Mars was now being chased by wild flames as Moon was screaming as the dark guy was chasing her.
"Stop it! Your battle is with me!" Hotaru cried.
Chaosis laughed. "I missed to watch the battle last time because of what you did to me," he stated coldly. "This time, they can take part to the wonderous things I've thought up. Brilliant, huh?" He wagged his eyebrows arrogantly.
Hotaru scoffed. "Sicko!" She lunged forward with her glaive upfront to an offensive position, trying to stab the black-hearted minion with the tip. He was caught by surprise as he dodged, the tip slicing into his bicep, making a long, thin cut, oozing with blood.
"You little bi---"
"Hotaru!" Mars shouted as she leapt from a boulder to a smaller boulder. "Be careful! He's crafty and he'll do---"
"Shut up, fire senshi," Chaosis snarled and waved his arm, throwing Mars to a sharp end of the boulder. She crumpled to the floor with dust billowing from her silent body.
"Sailor Mars!" Hotaru cried but was cut off as she was punched at the cheekbone by Chaosis. She stumbled back, losing her balance, feeling a fiery bruise on her cheek. It was painful and she winced slightly, turning back to the brash Chaosis with a new vengeance. "Aaaaghhhh!" she cried as she lunged again, fist first.
Her fist hit his face, pounding him hard back.
So the battle for the future began.
~*End of Book 9*~
What do you think? Yes, I'm climbing to the climax, and all shall be revealed and resolved. Please R&R!
~*In the Circle of the Battlefield*~
~The Apocalypse of Silence and Chaos~
"Wh-Who are you?" Hotaru asked nervously.
The man was now close to her range, and she could almost smell whatever cologne he was wearing. He was surprisingly her age, only with a strange look on his face that made her look older.
"Don't you remember me, Princess?" he asked calmly.
She blinked. "Am I supposed to?" she countered back.
He shook his head and tsked. "I supposed the Reincarnation really did blur your memory. Think back, Princess, think back a long time ago, this place, this world, that time, a long, long time ago..."
***Flashback***
"Tell the Princess and her Majesty that I cannot attend," Hotaru said softly from the terrace, where her palace glimmered in architecture. It was turning night as from the sky, the holy rings were slightly visible in the horizon. The palace was situated in the northern hemisphere from the rings, but it gave view to some of the moons revolving the planet.
"Anything else, your Highness?"
"No, that will be all. Thank you---"
Gray.
Mist.
Shift.
A man, brushing his hand against her pale complextion. Hotaru gasped is surprise when she found out who the person was---it was Chaosis himself. He was in a neat suit of black, latest fashion in the Imperial Kingdom. He was smiling charmingly, which didn't make him look like a bad guy.
Hotaru's past self was in a long flowing gown of lavender, her hair down as always, her neck adorned with crystals. Her eyes were so calm as she looked straight at him without a flinch or concern. She blinked and turned away to face her kingdom.
"You know I can never join you, Chaosis, you and I both know that," she said calmly, tersely. "You can plead and flatter me for all eternity and you still won't win me. We are on opposite ends of the playing board; who will win, I cannot know..."
"Princess," he cooed. "You can taunt me all you like, but we are destined---"
"To what? Fight for all eternity?" she snapped, turning towards him.
"Maybe," he said cautiously, cocking his head to one side, savouring in the beauty of Hotaru's risen temper. This past Hotaru was somewhat different from the one she knew. "Or something much greater..."
She scoffed. "Your strategy is tiring me," she said dryly. "Leave me if you love your life for I have no time for your sentimental fantasies..."
Gray.
Mist.
Shift.
The battle scene. Hotaru could remember asking her imperial guards to evacuate the planet and send them to the moons for protection, some to the other planets near by. Her past self was now standing in a cleared out battlefield, the columns now shattered by the fight.
Before her was Chaosis, the form he was now, only more coloured. He was no longer in the suit, but in a more warrior suit. Hotaru's past self was in the ancient senshi suit she saw in her vision as she was fighting breathlessly and passionately with her glaive.
"I'm giving you a chance to join me, Princess! Why don't you understand?"
"Because as much as you want to believe you can make me love you, I can't! We believe in something else, and believe it or not, they don't run the same path! You are my nemesis, my opposite! You make chaos out of this universe, turning people against each other. I must make right what you made wrong!" she finished passionately.
I love it when she gets all passionate of her cause, he thought to himself. It's a shame though she's on the side of silence...her powers could be useful to me. Oh well, you can't have everything. "There's always the Moon Princess..." he said harshly.
"She has her own battles to face!" she cried back, waving her deadly glaive in her hands. "As for you---you're battle is with me!"
"Oh, Princess, I only wish---"
Gray.
Mist.
Shift.
"Princess! Please!" A gateway was behind him, looming, opening its mouth with void waiting behind his weary and wild body. He was scarred all over the place, his hair messy now and his eyes wild with fear and desperation. Deception and craftiness. "We can work this out, I know we can---"
"I'm sorry, but you are Chaosis," was all she could say. As much as she hated what she was to do, as much as she wanted to show mercy, she could not let go of the cruelties he had inflicted to the universe as a whole. Everything was difficult. "I cannot let you get away so easily...Silence...Sphere..."
"Princess, please, listen to---"
"...Engage!!!!"
"Ai------------"
All Sailor Saturn could do was stand dumbfold at why he said "Ai" as she watched him float into the hole she had opened, still shouting with all his might as she watched the gateway slowly close itself.
"Ai------------"
Then, the Negaverse appeared.
***End of Flashback***
Hotaru was now trembling at what she saw and experienced because of two things. First, her past self was so much stronger than she was now, phsically and mentally. She was more passionate of what she believed in and sought to fight for it. And second was that Chaosis was totally getting into her. Now she was filled with doubt and a thin veil of fear.
"Now you see, Princess?" he asked calmly. "You trapped me, yet I escaped. You refuse, yet I insist. I return, and so will you."
She turned defiantly at him, now back in control. She had to continue what she fought for before and for the future. Besides, his smug attitude was really ticking her off. "Yes, I have returned, only to find out that things like you followed us Senshi to this century," she replied. "Now I must finish what I had sough to do before...finish you off!!!"
His mouth snarled as his face crimpled visibly. Then he sighed and regained his complextion. "You haven't lost your passion, Princess," he said snidely. "But I'm afraid I've gone stronger since we last had our little dance..."
"Fine by me. I've gotten stronger too."
Oh, that hit the spot. Now he was getting angry. "You are testing my patience, Princess---"
"The name's Hotaru, and I will stop you!"
Light blasted from the heavens and washed her whole as she appeared as Sailor Saturn, but not Sailor Saturn. She was in a partial-senshi outfit, but she was in a long robe to top her outfit, a long, dark purple one, with silver lining. Her face had the tiara, but the stone had the Saturn insignia as her earrings jingled as she moved. Her gloves ran up to her mid-biceps as her right hand clutched her precious glaive. Her eyes were still wide but now she showed a different expression in her eyes...they were much more stronger and darker than previous.
Chaosis was gaping. "How---what---"
"I am the Samurai of Silence," she proclaimed. "The guardian and princess of this planet. I hold the horrible weapon of destruction with the promise of rebirth...and you are my enemy. I will stop you from polluting chaos throughout the universe." She narrowed her eyes. "I will defeat you."
Chaosis now recovered his expression as he smiled smarily. "You think you can defeat me, Samurai?" he asked arrogantly. "You're just as talkative as your senshi friends over there! Too much talk, no room for fighting! A bunch of pacifists! You are ruining my ultimate plan! Hmm...nonetheless, I got the upper hand on this---Princess." The word "princess" came out in a snarl.
So there was his true colours, she mused, but watched in stupefied horror as her friends began to scream. The puppy Jupiter was holding attacked her visciously as Uranus started running for her life as the motorcycle strangely came to life. Mercury was now intwined in the computer and was struggling as Pluto watched the clothes come to life and attack her. Mars was now being chased by wild flames as Moon was screaming as the dark guy was chasing her.
"Stop it! Your battle is with me!" Hotaru cried.
Chaosis laughed. "I missed to watch the battle last time because of what you did to me," he stated coldly. "This time, they can take part to the wonderous things I've thought up. Brilliant, huh?" He wagged his eyebrows arrogantly.
Hotaru scoffed. "Sicko!" She lunged forward with her glaive upfront to an offensive position, trying to stab the black-hearted minion with the tip. He was caught by surprise as he dodged, the tip slicing into his bicep, making a long, thin cut, oozing with blood.
"You little bi---"
"Hotaru!" Mars shouted as she leapt from a boulder to a smaller boulder. "Be careful! He's crafty and he'll do---"
"Shut up, fire senshi," Chaosis snarled and waved his arm, throwing Mars to a sharp end of the boulder. She crumpled to the floor with dust billowing from her silent body.
"Sailor Mars!" Hotaru cried but was cut off as she was punched at the cheekbone by Chaosis. She stumbled back, losing her balance, feeling a fiery bruise on her cheek. It was painful and she winced slightly, turning back to the brash Chaosis with a new vengeance. "Aaaaghhhh!" she cried as she lunged again, fist first.
Her fist hit his face, pounding him hard back.
So the battle for the future began.
~*End of Book 9*~
What do you think? Yes, I'm climbing to the climax, and all shall be revealed and resolved. Please R&R!