Chapter Eight
Lita was sitting on the couch in a worried state, the remote was in her hands and pointing to the TV but she didn't pay attention to it. Serena was in the same state next to her. They were both worried about the others and the fight to come. They just hope nothing wrong was going to happen and that the others would be ok until they could get them. Both girls were too busy worrying that they did not hear Yuli came out from the kitchen. The seven year old boy was chewing on something Mia and Cye was cooking when he turned to look towards the leaving room, he saw both girls on the couch looking out of it and he sighed lowering his head. He hated to see other people down or wounded, it reminded him too much when Talpa was attacking the earth. He smiled once he got an idea.
Running up to them with white blaze following he snatched the remote from Lita's hands making her jump a little and getting Serena's attention. He quickly turned off the TV and grinned at them before running away. "Hey!!" Lita yelled but he didn't stop. She turned to Serena and they both nodded and got up going after him and white blaze. "Yuli give that back!" Serena yelled. They both passed Sage, Rowen and Mira as they ran outside following Yuli and white blaze while laughing and giggling. The got the attention of everyone and they all went to watched the event with laughter and confusion.
Yuli yelled when Lita pulled him to the ground, Serena was keeping white blaze busy so Lita could retrieve the remote from Yuli. She took the remote from him and pinned him down as she yelled for Serena to run over here, the blonde giggled as she turned to run to Lita but White blaze bit into her t-shirt keeping her from running. She cried out as he pulled her down. White Blaze ran to help Yuli he bit into Lita's shirt and pulled her back like he did with Serena. Yuli got up and ran away laughing after he got the remote again. Both Serena and Lita sat up and watched as Yuli hid behind Ryo. They were all there laughing. The girls blushed and stood up dusting themselves.
Lita walked up to Yuli who was laughing, she knelt down and said. "Yuli come out." She whispered. Yuli still hid behind Ryo. "No." He said. Lita looked up at Ryo with a mischievous smile. "Fine." Standing up she turned around and walked away pretending to be hurt. Serena still stood where she was giggling. "Now I really know how you feel about me Yuli." She let few tears run down her cheek turning to face the others. When she saw Yuli peeking out from behind Ryo looking at her she smiled to herself. 'I should be an actress.' She thought as she continued to walk away. "Fine, I see…I'll---I'll just be going now…. even though I have no where else to go." She walked faster. She could have fooled all of them if she wished it
Yuli gasped thinking Lita really meant it, he only wanted her to be happy but instead he made her cry and felt unwanted. He quickly ran to her feeling bad and once he reached her he stopped her by tugging her jeans. Lita slowly turned to face him. She watched as he handed her the remote. "I'm sorry Lita." He whispered.
Lita smiled at him as she squatted to look at him in the eyes. She wiped her tears from her face and brightened her smile. She kissed him on the cheek and said, "Thank you Yuli." She then threw the remote to Serena who caught it. Yuli turned and walked in the house blushing, everyone laughed, Sage kissed Lita on the cheek when she got near and told her well done but she only giggled.
It was late at night and everyone had decided to stay together since the day they dreaded was only a sunrise. Mia had offered her room to Serena who had protested until giving in. Cye offered his room to Mira but she had told him that She would not kick him out of his own room; she would either share it or sleep downstairs. Cye had agreed to share the room but he made Mira take his bed while he slept on the floor. Ryo and Mia had gone through the same conversation together. Ryo had made Yuli go back to his mom worried about his safety, he didn't know if him himself would come out of this alive and he wouldn't want the same fate for Yuli. He had commanded White Blaze to go with him and to not leave he's side. Lita and Serena even though in different rooms looked at the ceiling of their rooms. None could sleep they just stared thinking of what would happen the next day. If the others were ok? But none of their questions could be answered. When they had finally went to bed it was four in the morning.
When everyone was up and ready a gate appeared in front of him or her and the mysterious beautiful senshi of Time stepped out of it. She greeted all of them. "Are you sure Ronin Warriors? You will not have the chance to turn back once your there." She spoke in soft yet firm voice.
"We are positive." Sage whispered as he held Lita's hand. "We will help them with everything we have."
Serena couldn't help smiling. He sounded so sincere. 'Lita you finally found a keeper.' She thought. Her eyes narrowed and she turned to Lita with a slight nod Lita knew what she meant. Both broach and stick appeared in there hands. They were the only ones not transformed. "Moon Eternal, Make Up!" Serena yelled.
"Jupiter Crystal Power!"
With a crack of lightning and a rain of feathers, Sailor Jupiter and Eternal Moon now replaced Lita and Serena. "Lets go." Jupiter whispered firmly. All trace of amusement or doubt gone, replaced by anger and determination.
Everyone nodded and Pluto opened a portal. She looked at them seriously as she said. "Once you guys are there you will accouter dangerous foes. You may end up separated but please be careful." With that said they all piled up in the portal and disappeared. Pluto sighed as she shook her head guilty. "I should have went with them but I know chronos won't allow it." She started to vanish. "I wish you all luck." She vanished.
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Five persons yelled as they dropped to the ground from the air each moaned in pain as they slowly stood up. The ronins looked at each other and sighed they didn't see Moon or Jupiter anywhere not even Callisto and Io. "I knew this was going to happen." Strata whispered a bit angry.
"Well, let's not dwell on this and search our way to them." Torrent said calmly but he was very worried for all four girls. Halo, Wildfire, and Hardrock nodded in agreement. They walked straight ahead taking in the area they were in. It looked like everything was made of black crystals but they couldn't say, it was all beautiful and they all wondered why they were here? After walking for what seems forever they stopped at a grand door. They all debated if they should go in until Wildfire made the decision for them. Opening the door, they all stepped in and immediately they did the door slammed shut behind them. They all turned surprised and shocked each having a bad feeling in there stomachs. "This isn't good." Hardrock whispered.
A cackle was heard and a man behind them half covered by the shadows of the room. "Welcome to my domain!"
"Damn." Wildfire cursed underneath his breath as they turned to look at the man in front of them.
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"Sailor Moon are you okay?" Jupiter asked as she knelt by Sailor Moon who still lay on the ground out of it, Io and Callisto were behind Jupiter. They had landed hard on the ground in a room that was barely lit. Suddenly they heard a groan and a horsed whisper. "Can't Pluto have dropped us a little more gentle?" Complained the blonde. Jupiter giggled and helped her princess up. Eternal Moon then looked around and noticed five of them missing and she sighed. "Why did I know this was going to happen?" She asked not really wanting an answer.
"You were suppose to meet me at the shrine." A voice boomed. "But I guess I should thank you for not wasting my time."
Io and Callisto gasped, they knew that voice. Callisto's eyes grew teary as the man stepped in front of them, she stepped closer to him wanting to go to him but Io stopped her as she spoke loud and clear pushing back her own tears. "Callisto stop! He's not Keiji anymore…. and he never will be again." She whispered the last part.
Callisto swallowed her tears pushing them away from her. She couldn't fail both princesses, she had to be strong and she knew Io was right; they would never be together again and now she knew she loved someone else but it still hurt to see him. She stood her grounds and glared at the man in front of them. "Where are the others?" She asked in a firm voice.
Keiji grinned his hateful grin as he said, "Give up Jupiter and I'll take you to them."
Both Io and Callisto stood in a fighting stance. "Like hell we will." Io sneered.
Keiji only grinned; he mentally commanded tentacles underneath them to attack. This trick did not work on either senshi as it worked for Rei. They both split up leaping out of the way. Jupiter took Moon's hand and pulled her way, She knew she had to keep her safe no matter what even though she knew they were after her and not her princess. They stood a good distance away from the raging fight between long time friends and watched as the scene unfolded.
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In another room Jokitsu was watching both fights very amused. "Brother you will never learn." He whispered. He suddenly saw Jupiter standing in front of Eternal Moon protectively and smiled a twisted smile as he looked into her narrowed green eyes. "You still protect others even though you're the one being hunted." He whispered softly as his eyes seemed to release the coldness in them. "I can't stand it anymore, I'll finish the job my self." As he said that his hand began to glow a strange red color. He brought it in front of him as if reaching for something, suddenly ripples showed in front of his fingertips and his hand disappeared as if it went through water.
Eternal moon turned her head to the side when she noticed something from the corner of her eyes. She was a couple of feet behind her friend. She gasped when she saw a hand come out of nowhere and headed for Jupiter. "Jupiter!!!" She screamed running to her.
Jupiter turned around quickly when she heard Eternal Moon call for her and immediately the hand grabbed her neck. She was to shocked and surprise to do anything, she could feel the hand puling her forward. "Se-re-na." She whispered when she felt a tug from behind her knowing it was her princess. She held the hand that was around her neck with one hand while the other one was being pulled by Eternal Moon who screamed for the others to help her. Io and Callisto all looked back and gasped immediately they ran to their princess and grabbed one to her pulling her back. "Jupiter hand on." Callisto yelled as she desperately tried to pull her back but the hand seem to stronger then any of them. Jupiter was already half gone only her lower body was still outside of the portal. Keiji smiled thinking it was Takiru's doing he brought out his hands and the tentacles appeared wrapping them over the three senshi then black lightning was created. Each senshi screamed in pain letting go of Jupiter and falling to the floor. When they looked back Jupiter was gone. "Noooooo!!!!" Eternal moon screamed.
Keiji then attacked them again and this time they all fell unconscious.
Halo who was just about to bring down his sword yelled out in pain folding his hands around him while dropping his sword. Takiru seeing his chanced fired one of his attacks at him and Halo came in contact with a wall. He felt as his whole body was aching with pain in every corner, but it wasn't his pain he felt it was Jupiter's something was wrong. He could feel Strata at his side asking him if he was ok but he couldn't answer him back the pain was beyond describable to him, the only word that came out of his mouth before he fell unconscious was "Jupiter."
"Halo!!!" Strata yelled as he panicked quickly he felt for his pulse, once finding it he sighed knowing Sage would be ok. He looked around him and saw all his friends gathered behind both him and Sage, they all had bruises and cuts on them but nothing major. "Takiru left as soon as you reached Sage." Cye explained the reason why they were not fighting. They all stayed there with their guards up until Sage woke up, they were worried about him, and the way he doubled over in the air like that was frightful. They didn't know exactly what happened to him but they knew it had to do with Lita and it got them even more worried. When indigo eyes finally opened they search the area and when everything went back to him, he sat up quickly while he gasped. "Lita."
"Whoa dude, relax!" Kento said as he tried to push Sage back down but he refused.
"We better get going." Sage said as he stood up almost falling again because the pain he had felt before weakened his legs but he managed to catch himself. He was too worried about Lita to just fall and sleep off the pain. He knew something happened to her and he need to find her as quickly as possible.
"I think you better rest a while Sage. You don't look to good." Cye whispered very concerned for his friend as he helped him up.
"I'm ok lets go." Sage insisted pushing Cye away and stood up straight.
"Alright, if you insist." Ryo whispered not to sure if he should agree with him, but he knew when Sage was like this he had a good reason for it.
They all walked together for a while all keeping an eye on Sage discreetly until they arrived in a huge room. The room was dark but they could make out objects in front of them, tall objects but they didn't know what. Suddenly the lights turned on and every one of the Ronins had the look of shock, surprise and fear at what they saw. In front of them were eight crosses about five to six feet tall attached to them was everyone but Lita. Some of them were dangerously sagging while the others looked fine except they were unconscious. "What the hell…?" Ryo whispered. His eyes scanned all of them and rested on Callisto worried.
"Mira." Cye whispered as he looked up at her with sadden and angry look. She looked ok except for cuts and bruises.
Amy, Mina, and Raye looked as if they were half dead, while Ken, and Andrew looked almost to that point. Moon, Io and Callisto looked fine.
"Is this a sick joke?" Kento asked obviously pissed off. His friends were up there like they were being crucified, some barely even hanging on and what pissed him off even more was that he couldn't find Lita. He knew Sage was also angry and past the worried stage.
"I don't think of it that way." A voice laughed. They turned around to see Keiji walking towards them stopping fifteen feet away.
Ryo growled at the smirk on the man's face. He was also angry with him for betraying his princess and teammates. "Get them down now!!!" He yelled. Fists clenched and teeth grounded. He was keeping himself from lunging at his foe.
Keiji tilted his head to the side. "I don't think so." He chuckled. "If you don't work with me you will all regret it?" He snarled.
The Ronins frowned confused; Keiji only smiled and then snapped his fingers. Behind them silver and black lightning came shooting from the ground and went towards the unconscious group. It wrapped itself around each and ever person on the crosses; each of them screamed an excruciating scream. The pain was so intense that they woke up from unconsciousness because of it. The ronins all looked back at their friends horrified. Seeing them like that brought forth anxiety, and anger. "Stop it!!!" Cye screamed as fear gripped him strongly. He turned back to Keiji and screamed it again. Keiji snapped his fingers again and their heads dropped immediately. "Don't do it again, we'll do whatever you like." Cye whispered.
Before Keiji could say anything a soft and voice full of pain talked. "Don't…"
Everyone looked back and gasped. Eternal Moon slowly brought her head up tears of pain ran down her face. "Please don't, find Lita b-before sh…AHHHHHHH!!!" She screamed again as the lightning surrounded her again. She looked at them with determined eyes. "She's taken away f-from us, ah, ::pants:: Please." Her head suddenly dropped her head and didn't move.
"Serena!!!" Rowen yelled. Tears ran down his cheeks as he watched all his friends. New and old. Anger grew in him as he thought they didn't deserve what they were getting none of them did. His anger grew so much that he started to glow dark blue. He cried out a cry full of rage and turned to Keiji who was smirking, that in angered him more. His bow appeared in his hands and pointed it to Keiji, strong power gathered around him. "Arrow of the Stars…" an arrow appeared by the strings in his hands. He felt a new power in him as he screamed the last word, "Eradicate!!!" He unleashed the arrow that somehow grew more powerful. Before Keiji could do anything the Arrow pierced through him killing him completely.
When Keiji was no more the crosses slowly faded away giving back some of the energy it stole from them. They all started falling. Ryo and Cye caught Mira, Andrew and Mia while Sage caught Eternal Moon and Ken. Kento caught Mina while Rowen caught Amy and Raye. They all placed all of them down gently as they could. Kento looked at Sage as he asked. "Sage can't you help them?"
Sage shook his head. "They are to many, if I healed them all I'll end up like Mina, Raye and Amy. I can only heal three people."
"The you should heal the most injured." Rowen Whispered.
Sage stood up and walked up to all three girls and closed his eyes concentrating on healing them and ignoring the sore, protesting muscles and pain. Around Amy, Raye, and Mina red, blue and gold glow flared and each felt as they were pulled away from death's door. Raye was the first to open her eyes slowly. When she did she commanded Sage to stop, without thinking he stopped. The Ronins looked at Raye surprised.
"Don't." She whispered. "We'll be fine just go get Lita before it's too late."
"But…" Kento started.
"It doesn't matter if you heal us or not. We will still be too out of it to help. It's a waste of your energy just go." Amy said with posses in some part of the sentences.
"I now realize that it's up to you guys now. You…you must save this world and to save it you have to kill Takiru and get Lita. Please do it…we are all counting on you." Mina said undertone. Light blue, blue and dark violet eyes closed as a small sigh escaped their mouths while they fell back unconscious.
Callisto who was still kept in Ryo's arms stirred. She reached to cup his cheek getting his attention. "Ryo," She whispered getting the attention of all the ronins. "Ryo…" She repeated. "Please get Lita back. You guys please, everything rests on Lita. If she is pulled into the evil everything we know and love will be gone." She took a deep breath before continuing. "I swore…Mira and I swore to protect her and Ken but we can't right now, so please do it for us."
They all nodded, it was now they understood why everything happened. Why Lita was always attacked, why her friends were taken it all made sense. Sage made a fists of both his hands as he swore to himself he would get Lita back no matter what he will get her back.
"Ryo," Mia whispered so only him could here. "If we don't come out alive…know that I love you." She closed her eyes and her hand fell limp to the ground. Ryo stared at her shocked at what she had said.
"Now go!" Mira whispered firmly. She had woken up when Mia had. "Leave us!" She looked up to Cye who was still holding her and mouthed the word 'go please.' He nodded and overcoming his shyness for a little while he kissed her on the forehead and laid her gently on the floor. The Ronins all stood up and nodded at each other before they ran out of the room leaving the fallen warriors behind.
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Lita woke up moaning her head was throbbing and she felt the room spin. She looked up to see she was on the cold hard floor and in pitch-black…room? The only light was a burning torched hanging on the wall far from her. Slowly with the small strength she had she stood up taking fast breaths as she did. Her body was aching beyond her imagination, she just wanted to collapse and fall asleep but she knew she couldn't risk it. She had to find Serena and the others. As she saunter down the dark hall slowly she felt her glove that was holding her arm soaked. She moved her fingers to feel the thick sticky liquid and knew it was blood meaning her arm was wounded. How deep? She didn't know.
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"What the hell were you thinking?" Takiru yelled at Jokitsu. He was so enraged he forgot whom he was talking too. "Jupiter is my problem! You are to get all the other planets and I give you Jupiter that was the deal and you better stay out of it." Takiru looked at his brother that didn't pay any mind to him.
"You're taking to long." Jokitsu whispered to calm. "I want Jupiter NOW!" Takiru took a step back when Jokitsu gave him a dangerous look. "You are pushing your luck Takiru. I'll stay out of it but you better give her to me before the day ends or I'll kill you." With those angry words Jokitsu vanished into thing air.
Takiru narrowed his eyes at the departing brother. "I had it planed. Everything was planed so I could get her, but no he had to go screw everything up! Damn Keiji is gone he was suppose to keep Jupiter in that room until I came but no Jokitsu had to pull her away and put her god knows where." Takiru yelled angrily.
He disappeared.
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The Ronins continued to run blindly down a hall hoping they were going the right way; they suddenly stopped when they heard something. Concentrating on the noise they noticed it was footsteps, not knowing if the person was a friend or a foe they got into a defensive stance. Ready if they tried anything. Far from them was a burning torch that only brightened the place a little but it was barely enough to see. Once the person stepped into the light they all gasped. Jupiter stood in front of them a couple feet away battered, cut and bleeding. They ran up to her worried.
Jupiter looked up at Sage who was in front of her asking if she was all right but she couldn't answer, the pain was tearing at her. "Sage." She whispered before he legs caved in and she plunged to the ground
"Lita!" Sage yelled as he caught her and fell to his knees.
"God, what happened to her?" Cye asked worried as he looked at the barely conscious woman in Sage's arms.
"That's what I want to know." A new voice asked. Sage looked up while the others turned around, they all glared once they saw who it was.
Ryo lost his glare when the statement of Takiru sunk in. "What are you talking about?" He asked annoyed and confused. "If you didn't do it then who did? You're the only one left."
"Yeah, who did?" Kento joined Ryo.
Takiru smirked. "Sorry to burst your bubble but I had nothing to do with her being beaten or what ever happened to her." He said honestly.
"And why should we believe you?" Rowen asked.
"I really don't care if you don't. I'm behind schedule and I need that troublesome woman so please hand her over now." Takiru stepped forward as he brought his hand forward expecting them to give him Lita, instead Sage held Lita more protectively while the others stood in front of the couple defiantly. He sighed. "Fine we'll do this the hard way."
Author's Note: Ok done with typing this chapter. I'm working on rewriting We Meet Again and that's why it's taking so long. Please bare with me and review this chapter.
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Keiko
Lita was sitting on the couch in a worried state, the remote was in her hands and pointing to the TV but she didn't pay attention to it. Serena was in the same state next to her. They were both worried about the others and the fight to come. They just hope nothing wrong was going to happen and that the others would be ok until they could get them. Both girls were too busy worrying that they did not hear Yuli came out from the kitchen. The seven year old boy was chewing on something Mia and Cye was cooking when he turned to look towards the leaving room, he saw both girls on the couch looking out of it and he sighed lowering his head. He hated to see other people down or wounded, it reminded him too much when Talpa was attacking the earth. He smiled once he got an idea.
Running up to them with white blaze following he snatched the remote from Lita's hands making her jump a little and getting Serena's attention. He quickly turned off the TV and grinned at them before running away. "Hey!!" Lita yelled but he didn't stop. She turned to Serena and they both nodded and got up going after him and white blaze. "Yuli give that back!" Serena yelled. They both passed Sage, Rowen and Mira as they ran outside following Yuli and white blaze while laughing and giggling. The got the attention of everyone and they all went to watched the event with laughter and confusion.
Yuli yelled when Lita pulled him to the ground, Serena was keeping white blaze busy so Lita could retrieve the remote from Yuli. She took the remote from him and pinned him down as she yelled for Serena to run over here, the blonde giggled as she turned to run to Lita but White blaze bit into her t-shirt keeping her from running. She cried out as he pulled her down. White Blaze ran to help Yuli he bit into Lita's shirt and pulled her back like he did with Serena. Yuli got up and ran away laughing after he got the remote again. Both Serena and Lita sat up and watched as Yuli hid behind Ryo. They were all there laughing. The girls blushed and stood up dusting themselves.
Lita walked up to Yuli who was laughing, she knelt down and said. "Yuli come out." She whispered. Yuli still hid behind Ryo. "No." He said. Lita looked up at Ryo with a mischievous smile. "Fine." Standing up she turned around and walked away pretending to be hurt. Serena still stood where she was giggling. "Now I really know how you feel about me Yuli." She let few tears run down her cheek turning to face the others. When she saw Yuli peeking out from behind Ryo looking at her she smiled to herself. 'I should be an actress.' She thought as she continued to walk away. "Fine, I see…I'll---I'll just be going now…. even though I have no where else to go." She walked faster. She could have fooled all of them if she wished it
Yuli gasped thinking Lita really meant it, he only wanted her to be happy but instead he made her cry and felt unwanted. He quickly ran to her feeling bad and once he reached her he stopped her by tugging her jeans. Lita slowly turned to face him. She watched as he handed her the remote. "I'm sorry Lita." He whispered.
Lita smiled at him as she squatted to look at him in the eyes. She wiped her tears from her face and brightened her smile. She kissed him on the cheek and said, "Thank you Yuli." She then threw the remote to Serena who caught it. Yuli turned and walked in the house blushing, everyone laughed, Sage kissed Lita on the cheek when she got near and told her well done but she only giggled.
It was late at night and everyone had decided to stay together since the day they dreaded was only a sunrise. Mia had offered her room to Serena who had protested until giving in. Cye offered his room to Mira but she had told him that She would not kick him out of his own room; she would either share it or sleep downstairs. Cye had agreed to share the room but he made Mira take his bed while he slept on the floor. Ryo and Mia had gone through the same conversation together. Ryo had made Yuli go back to his mom worried about his safety, he didn't know if him himself would come out of this alive and he wouldn't want the same fate for Yuli. He had commanded White Blaze to go with him and to not leave he's side. Lita and Serena even though in different rooms looked at the ceiling of their rooms. None could sleep they just stared thinking of what would happen the next day. If the others were ok? But none of their questions could be answered. When they had finally went to bed it was four in the morning.
When everyone was up and ready a gate appeared in front of him or her and the mysterious beautiful senshi of Time stepped out of it. She greeted all of them. "Are you sure Ronin Warriors? You will not have the chance to turn back once your there." She spoke in soft yet firm voice.
"We are positive." Sage whispered as he held Lita's hand. "We will help them with everything we have."
Serena couldn't help smiling. He sounded so sincere. 'Lita you finally found a keeper.' She thought. Her eyes narrowed and she turned to Lita with a slight nod Lita knew what she meant. Both broach and stick appeared in there hands. They were the only ones not transformed. "Moon Eternal, Make Up!" Serena yelled.
"Jupiter Crystal Power!"
With a crack of lightning and a rain of feathers, Sailor Jupiter and Eternal Moon now replaced Lita and Serena. "Lets go." Jupiter whispered firmly. All trace of amusement or doubt gone, replaced by anger and determination.
Everyone nodded and Pluto opened a portal. She looked at them seriously as she said. "Once you guys are there you will accouter dangerous foes. You may end up separated but please be careful." With that said they all piled up in the portal and disappeared. Pluto sighed as she shook her head guilty. "I should have went with them but I know chronos won't allow it." She started to vanish. "I wish you all luck." She vanished.
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Five persons yelled as they dropped to the ground from the air each moaned in pain as they slowly stood up. The ronins looked at each other and sighed they didn't see Moon or Jupiter anywhere not even Callisto and Io. "I knew this was going to happen." Strata whispered a bit angry.
"Well, let's not dwell on this and search our way to them." Torrent said calmly but he was very worried for all four girls. Halo, Wildfire, and Hardrock nodded in agreement. They walked straight ahead taking in the area they were in. It looked like everything was made of black crystals but they couldn't say, it was all beautiful and they all wondered why they were here? After walking for what seems forever they stopped at a grand door. They all debated if they should go in until Wildfire made the decision for them. Opening the door, they all stepped in and immediately they did the door slammed shut behind them. They all turned surprised and shocked each having a bad feeling in there stomachs. "This isn't good." Hardrock whispered.
A cackle was heard and a man behind them half covered by the shadows of the room. "Welcome to my domain!"
"Damn." Wildfire cursed underneath his breath as they turned to look at the man in front of them.
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"Sailor Moon are you okay?" Jupiter asked as she knelt by Sailor Moon who still lay on the ground out of it, Io and Callisto were behind Jupiter. They had landed hard on the ground in a room that was barely lit. Suddenly they heard a groan and a horsed whisper. "Can't Pluto have dropped us a little more gentle?" Complained the blonde. Jupiter giggled and helped her princess up. Eternal Moon then looked around and noticed five of them missing and she sighed. "Why did I know this was going to happen?" She asked not really wanting an answer.
"You were suppose to meet me at the shrine." A voice boomed. "But I guess I should thank you for not wasting my time."
Io and Callisto gasped, they knew that voice. Callisto's eyes grew teary as the man stepped in front of them, she stepped closer to him wanting to go to him but Io stopped her as she spoke loud and clear pushing back her own tears. "Callisto stop! He's not Keiji anymore…. and he never will be again." She whispered the last part.
Callisto swallowed her tears pushing them away from her. She couldn't fail both princesses, she had to be strong and she knew Io was right; they would never be together again and now she knew she loved someone else but it still hurt to see him. She stood her grounds and glared at the man in front of them. "Where are the others?" She asked in a firm voice.
Keiji grinned his hateful grin as he said, "Give up Jupiter and I'll take you to them."
Both Io and Callisto stood in a fighting stance. "Like hell we will." Io sneered.
Keiji only grinned; he mentally commanded tentacles underneath them to attack. This trick did not work on either senshi as it worked for Rei. They both split up leaping out of the way. Jupiter took Moon's hand and pulled her way, She knew she had to keep her safe no matter what even though she knew they were after her and not her princess. They stood a good distance away from the raging fight between long time friends and watched as the scene unfolded.
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In another room Jokitsu was watching both fights very amused. "Brother you will never learn." He whispered. He suddenly saw Jupiter standing in front of Eternal Moon protectively and smiled a twisted smile as he looked into her narrowed green eyes. "You still protect others even though you're the one being hunted." He whispered softly as his eyes seemed to release the coldness in them. "I can't stand it anymore, I'll finish the job my self." As he said that his hand began to glow a strange red color. He brought it in front of him as if reaching for something, suddenly ripples showed in front of his fingertips and his hand disappeared as if it went through water.
Eternal moon turned her head to the side when she noticed something from the corner of her eyes. She was a couple of feet behind her friend. She gasped when she saw a hand come out of nowhere and headed for Jupiter. "Jupiter!!!" She screamed running to her.
Jupiter turned around quickly when she heard Eternal Moon call for her and immediately the hand grabbed her neck. She was to shocked and surprise to do anything, she could feel the hand puling her forward. "Se-re-na." She whispered when she felt a tug from behind her knowing it was her princess. She held the hand that was around her neck with one hand while the other one was being pulled by Eternal Moon who screamed for the others to help her. Io and Callisto all looked back and gasped immediately they ran to their princess and grabbed one to her pulling her back. "Jupiter hand on." Callisto yelled as she desperately tried to pull her back but the hand seem to stronger then any of them. Jupiter was already half gone only her lower body was still outside of the portal. Keiji smiled thinking it was Takiru's doing he brought out his hands and the tentacles appeared wrapping them over the three senshi then black lightning was created. Each senshi screamed in pain letting go of Jupiter and falling to the floor. When they looked back Jupiter was gone. "Noooooo!!!!" Eternal moon screamed.
Keiji then attacked them again and this time they all fell unconscious.
Halo who was just about to bring down his sword yelled out in pain folding his hands around him while dropping his sword. Takiru seeing his chanced fired one of his attacks at him and Halo came in contact with a wall. He felt as his whole body was aching with pain in every corner, but it wasn't his pain he felt it was Jupiter's something was wrong. He could feel Strata at his side asking him if he was ok but he couldn't answer him back the pain was beyond describable to him, the only word that came out of his mouth before he fell unconscious was "Jupiter."
"Halo!!!" Strata yelled as he panicked quickly he felt for his pulse, once finding it he sighed knowing Sage would be ok. He looked around him and saw all his friends gathered behind both him and Sage, they all had bruises and cuts on them but nothing major. "Takiru left as soon as you reached Sage." Cye explained the reason why they were not fighting. They all stayed there with their guards up until Sage woke up, they were worried about him, and the way he doubled over in the air like that was frightful. They didn't know exactly what happened to him but they knew it had to do with Lita and it got them even more worried. When indigo eyes finally opened they search the area and when everything went back to him, he sat up quickly while he gasped. "Lita."
"Whoa dude, relax!" Kento said as he tried to push Sage back down but he refused.
"We better get going." Sage said as he stood up almost falling again because the pain he had felt before weakened his legs but he managed to catch himself. He was too worried about Lita to just fall and sleep off the pain. He knew something happened to her and he need to find her as quickly as possible.
"I think you better rest a while Sage. You don't look to good." Cye whispered very concerned for his friend as he helped him up.
"I'm ok lets go." Sage insisted pushing Cye away and stood up straight.
"Alright, if you insist." Ryo whispered not to sure if he should agree with him, but he knew when Sage was like this he had a good reason for it.
They all walked together for a while all keeping an eye on Sage discreetly until they arrived in a huge room. The room was dark but they could make out objects in front of them, tall objects but they didn't know what. Suddenly the lights turned on and every one of the Ronins had the look of shock, surprise and fear at what they saw. In front of them were eight crosses about five to six feet tall attached to them was everyone but Lita. Some of them were dangerously sagging while the others looked fine except they were unconscious. "What the hell…?" Ryo whispered. His eyes scanned all of them and rested on Callisto worried.
"Mira." Cye whispered as he looked up at her with sadden and angry look. She looked ok except for cuts and bruises.
Amy, Mina, and Raye looked as if they were half dead, while Ken, and Andrew looked almost to that point. Moon, Io and Callisto looked fine.
"Is this a sick joke?" Kento asked obviously pissed off. His friends were up there like they were being crucified, some barely even hanging on and what pissed him off even more was that he couldn't find Lita. He knew Sage was also angry and past the worried stage.
"I don't think of it that way." A voice laughed. They turned around to see Keiji walking towards them stopping fifteen feet away.
Ryo growled at the smirk on the man's face. He was also angry with him for betraying his princess and teammates. "Get them down now!!!" He yelled. Fists clenched and teeth grounded. He was keeping himself from lunging at his foe.
Keiji tilted his head to the side. "I don't think so." He chuckled. "If you don't work with me you will all regret it?" He snarled.
The Ronins frowned confused; Keiji only smiled and then snapped his fingers. Behind them silver and black lightning came shooting from the ground and went towards the unconscious group. It wrapped itself around each and ever person on the crosses; each of them screamed an excruciating scream. The pain was so intense that they woke up from unconsciousness because of it. The ronins all looked back at their friends horrified. Seeing them like that brought forth anxiety, and anger. "Stop it!!!" Cye screamed as fear gripped him strongly. He turned back to Keiji and screamed it again. Keiji snapped his fingers again and their heads dropped immediately. "Don't do it again, we'll do whatever you like." Cye whispered.
Before Keiji could say anything a soft and voice full of pain talked. "Don't…"
Everyone looked back and gasped. Eternal Moon slowly brought her head up tears of pain ran down her face. "Please don't, find Lita b-before sh…AHHHHHHH!!!" She screamed again as the lightning surrounded her again. She looked at them with determined eyes. "She's taken away f-from us, ah, ::pants:: Please." Her head suddenly dropped her head and didn't move.
"Serena!!!" Rowen yelled. Tears ran down his cheeks as he watched all his friends. New and old. Anger grew in him as he thought they didn't deserve what they were getting none of them did. His anger grew so much that he started to glow dark blue. He cried out a cry full of rage and turned to Keiji who was smirking, that in angered him more. His bow appeared in his hands and pointed it to Keiji, strong power gathered around him. "Arrow of the Stars…" an arrow appeared by the strings in his hands. He felt a new power in him as he screamed the last word, "Eradicate!!!" He unleashed the arrow that somehow grew more powerful. Before Keiji could do anything the Arrow pierced through him killing him completely.
When Keiji was no more the crosses slowly faded away giving back some of the energy it stole from them. They all started falling. Ryo and Cye caught Mira, Andrew and Mia while Sage caught Eternal Moon and Ken. Kento caught Mina while Rowen caught Amy and Raye. They all placed all of them down gently as they could. Kento looked at Sage as he asked. "Sage can't you help them?"
Sage shook his head. "They are to many, if I healed them all I'll end up like Mina, Raye and Amy. I can only heal three people."
"The you should heal the most injured." Rowen Whispered.
Sage stood up and walked up to all three girls and closed his eyes concentrating on healing them and ignoring the sore, protesting muscles and pain. Around Amy, Raye, and Mina red, blue and gold glow flared and each felt as they were pulled away from death's door. Raye was the first to open her eyes slowly. When she did she commanded Sage to stop, without thinking he stopped. The Ronins looked at Raye surprised.
"Don't." She whispered. "We'll be fine just go get Lita before it's too late."
"But…" Kento started.
"It doesn't matter if you heal us or not. We will still be too out of it to help. It's a waste of your energy just go." Amy said with posses in some part of the sentences.
"I now realize that it's up to you guys now. You…you must save this world and to save it you have to kill Takiru and get Lita. Please do it…we are all counting on you." Mina said undertone. Light blue, blue and dark violet eyes closed as a small sigh escaped their mouths while they fell back unconscious.
Callisto who was still kept in Ryo's arms stirred. She reached to cup his cheek getting his attention. "Ryo," She whispered getting the attention of all the ronins. "Ryo…" She repeated. "Please get Lita back. You guys please, everything rests on Lita. If she is pulled into the evil everything we know and love will be gone." She took a deep breath before continuing. "I swore…Mira and I swore to protect her and Ken but we can't right now, so please do it for us."
They all nodded, it was now they understood why everything happened. Why Lita was always attacked, why her friends were taken it all made sense. Sage made a fists of both his hands as he swore to himself he would get Lita back no matter what he will get her back.
"Ryo," Mia whispered so only him could here. "If we don't come out alive…know that I love you." She closed her eyes and her hand fell limp to the ground. Ryo stared at her shocked at what she had said.
"Now go!" Mira whispered firmly. She had woken up when Mia had. "Leave us!" She looked up to Cye who was still holding her and mouthed the word 'go please.' He nodded and overcoming his shyness for a little while he kissed her on the forehead and laid her gently on the floor. The Ronins all stood up and nodded at each other before they ran out of the room leaving the fallen warriors behind.
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Lita woke up moaning her head was throbbing and she felt the room spin. She looked up to see she was on the cold hard floor and in pitch-black…room? The only light was a burning torched hanging on the wall far from her. Slowly with the small strength she had she stood up taking fast breaths as she did. Her body was aching beyond her imagination, she just wanted to collapse and fall asleep but she knew she couldn't risk it. She had to find Serena and the others. As she saunter down the dark hall slowly she felt her glove that was holding her arm soaked. She moved her fingers to feel the thick sticky liquid and knew it was blood meaning her arm was wounded. How deep? She didn't know.
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"What the hell were you thinking?" Takiru yelled at Jokitsu. He was so enraged he forgot whom he was talking too. "Jupiter is my problem! You are to get all the other planets and I give you Jupiter that was the deal and you better stay out of it." Takiru looked at his brother that didn't pay any mind to him.
"You're taking to long." Jokitsu whispered to calm. "I want Jupiter NOW!" Takiru took a step back when Jokitsu gave him a dangerous look. "You are pushing your luck Takiru. I'll stay out of it but you better give her to me before the day ends or I'll kill you." With those angry words Jokitsu vanished into thing air.
Takiru narrowed his eyes at the departing brother. "I had it planed. Everything was planed so I could get her, but no he had to go screw everything up! Damn Keiji is gone he was suppose to keep Jupiter in that room until I came but no Jokitsu had to pull her away and put her god knows where." Takiru yelled angrily.
He disappeared.
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The Ronins continued to run blindly down a hall hoping they were going the right way; they suddenly stopped when they heard something. Concentrating on the noise they noticed it was footsteps, not knowing if the person was a friend or a foe they got into a defensive stance. Ready if they tried anything. Far from them was a burning torch that only brightened the place a little but it was barely enough to see. Once the person stepped into the light they all gasped. Jupiter stood in front of them a couple feet away battered, cut and bleeding. They ran up to her worried.
Jupiter looked up at Sage who was in front of her asking if she was all right but she couldn't answer, the pain was tearing at her. "Sage." She whispered before he legs caved in and she plunged to the ground
"Lita!" Sage yelled as he caught her and fell to his knees.
"God, what happened to her?" Cye asked worried as he looked at the barely conscious woman in Sage's arms.
"That's what I want to know." A new voice asked. Sage looked up while the others turned around, they all glared once they saw who it was.
Ryo lost his glare when the statement of Takiru sunk in. "What are you talking about?" He asked annoyed and confused. "If you didn't do it then who did? You're the only one left."
"Yeah, who did?" Kento joined Ryo.
Takiru smirked. "Sorry to burst your bubble but I had nothing to do with her being beaten or what ever happened to her." He said honestly.
"And why should we believe you?" Rowen asked.
"I really don't care if you don't. I'm behind schedule and I need that troublesome woman so please hand her over now." Takiru stepped forward as he brought his hand forward expecting them to give him Lita, instead Sage held Lita more protectively while the others stood in front of the couple defiantly. He sighed. "Fine we'll do this the hard way."
Author's Note: Ok done with typing this chapter. I'm working on rewriting We Meet Again and that's why it's taking so long. Please bare with me and review this chapter.
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Keiko