Chapter 11 - Final Combat
A little warning: This chapter has violence in it, a little more an America version of Sailor Moon, more like the Japanese version, so this is a warning incase any little kids read this. There, now I can't be blamed for anything.
Please, enjoy! (Can you tell I'm a Mortal Combat fan? hehehe)
A Zaibach soldier ran at Sailor Venus. She jumped to the side, twirled, and kicked him in the back. Then she did a back flip and landed behind another soldier who thought he could sneak up on her. She did a sweep kick on him and he fell hard to the ground. She kicked him in the stomach. He curled up in pain and she took that opportunity to take his sword from him.
Venus was mad. Nothing made her angrier than cocky negaverse trash. Adellus's little speech ended up fuelling Venus's rage instead of intimidating her. She tightened her grip on the sword and felt her own powers massing inside her.
Venus ran over and helped a guy fight off a Gockipa. She didn't know the finer points of sword fighting, except that the sharp side is used against the enemy. At some point during her mad slashing, she got the odd feeling that she used to sword fight long ago. She surprised herself, and Van who was nearby, by performing some rather basic, but efficient, sword fighting techniques. Something was coming back her, but this wasn't the time or place to think about it.
Venus looked around to see Gaddess pinned down by a Gockipa, whose eyes started to turn blue. Gaddess was desperately reaching for his daggers, but couldn't get to them.
"VENUS CRESCENT BEAM SMASH!"
The powerful beam hit the Gockipa off Gaddess and smashed it in to the cave wall. The beast didn't get up.
Gaddess quickly stood up and waved a quick thanks in Venus's direction. She sighed. The beast didn't have anytime to drain him, he'll be fine.
Venus glanced up at Adellus to see her still sitting in her thrown, watching the fighting the way someone would watch an entertainer. Venus growled. The giant Gockipas were still by her side. Venus reasoned that she'd have to get rid of them before she got close to Adellus. THEY were intimidating.
She ducked as a charging Gockipa leapt over her. She turned and stabbed her sword through its head. She left the sword there and ran off. She took that opportunity to look for Allen amongst the fighters. He was easy to spot. He was fighting soldiers one after other, jumping, twirling, slashing, it was almost like watching an artist. Venus didn't have to worry about him. He was so impressive. His golden locks flew behind him as he slashed and parried. He was her gallant swordsman...WAIT, this is NOT the time to think like that! Mina scolded herself.
Venus ended up near Van again. The two of them made short work of another Gockipa. How many of these things were there!? As Van looked over to give Venus an encouraging smile, a small stream of black energy suddenly hit him. He was thrown a couple of feet and hit the ground. He moaned.
"Van!" Venus yelled as she ran to his side.
"Opps! Did I do that?" Venus could hear Adellus mock. Her laughter followed.
"Van, are you okay?" Venus asked frantically. Van moaned, but pushed himself up.
"I'll be fine. It's not bad. Just got the wind knock out of me." He said coughing. He stood up and Venus could tell he'd be fine. He ran off to help some others.
"Alright witch, it's time to rumble." Venus said under her breath.
Sailor Venus whirled around and jumped to a nearby ledge.
"That's enough Adellus." She yelled. "I'm going to stop you here and now. I won't let you hurt anymore of my friends. I am Sailor Venus! I stand for love and justice! And of behalf of Venus, I will destroy you!"
Adellus merely grunted and snapped her fingers. A pack of normal-sized Gockipas, that had been waiting below her, got up and sprinted towards Venus. There were about five or six of them.
So, she thinks she can overwhelm me, can she, I'll show her. Venus mustered all strength together. She remembered Van getting hit by the beam and used her anger to grow stronger.
"VENUS CRESCENT...SHOWER!" (*Pssst...sorry I got it wrong last time!*)
The shower of beams spread out and hit all the Gockipas. They howled in agony as they were thrown back.
Venus looked up and was startled to see Adellus alone up there. She must have sent her huge Gockipas away to join the fight, she thought. This is my chance.
Venus took a mighty leap into the air, straight towards Adellus.
"VENUS LOVE CHAIN...." Venus started.
Adellus looked over to see a Sailor Scout soaring towards her. Venus was waiting for the look of shock and surprise to appear on her face, but it never came. Instead, Adellus grinned wickedly and her eyes flared red.
Out of seemingly nowhere, the giant Gockipas all jumped at Venus. One after another, they slammed into her still flying body. Venus yelled in pain. She fell to ground and landed hard. She was bruised and bleeding in places. She moaned and forced herself to stand up.
"I tried to tell you Sailor Venus, I'm much stronger than you could ever hope to be." She laughed and sent a dark beam at Venus. Venus tried to dodge it, but she was too slow. The beam knocked her over on to the ground again.
Come on Venus, get up! She thought. She ached all over and tried to stand. She eventually got up and faced Adellus again.
"Well, I have to admire your spirit Sailor Venus." Adellus said. Venus looked up to see that Adellus had left her thrown and was floating towards her. "Unfortunately, it's not going save you."
Adellus threw out both of her hands and waves of dark energy blasted out. They hit Venus at full force, smashing her against the cave wall. Venus screamed in agony as the dark energy continued to hold her there.
"Mina! NO!" Someone yelled.
Mina forced her eyes open and saw Allen running towards her.
"I don't think so." Adellus said as she diverted one hand (the other was still blasting Mina) and pointed it towards Allen. She sent out a beam and it hit Allen with full force. He yelled and was hurled back. He fell to the ground. His arm hit the ground and his sword slide away from him. He wasn't moving.
"NOOOOOO!" Venus screamed.
Adellus brought her hand back and blasted Venus again. Venus's screams increased. Adellus laughed and released her beams. Venus crumbled to the ground. She couldn't move. It hurt too much. She heard Adellus approaching her. Adellus reached down and grabbed Venus around the neck. She yanked her up and held her against the cave wall. Venus wrapped her hands around Adellus's, but she couldn't get free.
"Goodbye Venus." Adellus whispered, her eyes glowing red and her and black hair floated around her. "Take comfort in knowing your friend died quickly." Adellus's eyes started glowing blue. Venus could feel her life force start to slowly drain from her body. Tears filled her eyes. Is this how it is going to end, she though. She glanced at Allen's lifeless body. Her tears started to flow. Please, she prayed, closing her eyes to the sight of Adellus, please, it can't end this way...it can't end this way.... Mina could feel herself starting to drift away. She was so very tired...........
"SPARKLING WIDE PRESSURE!"
A powerful white light crashed into Adellus. Adellus was sent flying, while Venus collapsed to the floor and started coughing. She could start to feel her energy slowly returning.
Jupiter? She thought excitedly. Is it possible?
"MERCURY BUBBLES!"
A familiar fog filled the cave and Mina felt friendly hands pick her up and carry her to safety.
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"WHAT IS GOING ON!" Screamed Adellus as she picked herself off the floor. Why couldn't she see anything?
"It seems the forces of evil will never learn that the Sailor Scouts will always be around to conquer evil." A high pitched voice yelled. "Even forgotten negaverse trash!"
Adellus looked near the entrance to see five figures cloaked in fog. Slowly the fog started to vanish, and Adellus's party crashers were revealed one by one.
"I am SAILOR MOON!" Yelled a girl with long, blond pony tails, red boots, and a red and blue uniform.
"I am SAILOR JUPITER!" Yelled a girl with a brown pony tail, short green boots, and a green and pink uniform.
"I am SAILOR MARS!" Yelled a girl with a long black hair, red heals, and a red and purple uniform.
"I am SAILOR MERCURY!" Yelled a girl with a short blue hair, blue boots, and a blue uniform.
"And I am SAILOR VENUS!"
"We fight for love and justice!" Yelled Sailor Moon. "We won't let the negaverse exist anyway in this universe and we're here to see to that. On behalf of the moon...."
"WE WILL PUNISH YOU!" They said in unison.
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"Drat! Where did YOU come from! Get them! TEAR THEM APART!" They heard Adellus scream.
Her four huge Gockipas got up and dashed towards them.
"Come on guys," Jupiter said to Mars and Mercury. Sailor Moon was supporting Sailor Venus who was still weak. "Let's show her what were made of!" They grinned and nodded.
"JUPITOR THUNDER...CRASH!"
"SHINE AQUA...ILLUSION!"
Mercury and Jupiter's attacks combined and collided with two of the beasts. They were covered with the water and electrocuted. They howled and slumped over.
"MARS CELESTIAL FIRE...SURROUND!"
Mar's attack bombarded the other two with fiery projectiles. They were burned and also slumped to the ground.
"AGGHHH!" Adellus screamed in frustration. She hurled dark energy at them, but they all jumped aside.
They spread out and one at a time, Mercury, Mars, Venus and Jupiter attack her with their powers. They had little or no effect now that Adellus was ready for them. She laughed as she flew out of the way. She turned on them and sent her power at them. They were each hit and knocked over.
"Your turn Sailor Moon!" Venus yelled.
"Right!" Sailor Moon nodded, holding a scepter with a heart-shaped end.
"MOON SPIRAL HEART...ATTACK!" Sailor Moon yelled as a pink beam smashed into Adellus. Adellus screamed as a giant pink art crumbled around her. She fell to the ground and didn't move.
"Alright!" Sailor Moon yelled. "I did it! Hahahaha! Yah!" She said as she danced around laughing.
"Oh NO! Look!" Mars yelled.
They all watched as Adellus slowly picked herself off the ground.
"I can't be defeated...." She puffed in a weak voice. "I'm stronger than all of you and I will not lose!" At that moment her eyes started to glow blue.
In the cave, her Zaibach slaves started to drop like flies. The Crusade guys looked around in astonishment.
"She's taking back the energy scouts, she's powering up, we have to do something!" Venus said as they gathered around.
"It seems we have no choice but to combine our powers and use the sailor planet attack." Mercury said.
"But Mercury, Adellus is going to be done powering up before we are. How are we going to buy the time?" Venus asked.
"Leave it to me Mina!" Van yelled.
Mina turned to see Van rip off his shirt and sprout long white wings from his back. The scouts gasped in wonder. Van took some daggers from Gaddess and launched himself in to the air. He through a dagger at Adellus. It skimmed her arm.
"Aggh!" She screamed looking around frantically. Then she noticed the flying man in cave. Van was circling above her and swooping in to take another shot at her.
"How dare you!" Adellus yelled. Then she looked thoughtful. "With powers like that, your energy will surely complete mine. Come here!" Adellus flew up after him, but Van evaded her.
"Let's do it scouts!" Sailor Moon yelled. The formed a circle and joined hands.
"MOON COMSIC POWER!"
"JUPITER STAR POWER!"
"VENUS STAR POWER!"
"MERCURY STAR POWER!"
"MARS STAR POWER!"
The space around the scouts started glowing their respected colors. A magically wind swirled around them. The moonlight that filtered through the top of the cave intensified and surrounded them.
"SAILOR...PLANET...POWER!"
Their powers merged into one and formed a beam of swirling colors of pink, blue, red, green and orange. It shot out from their circle and flew at Adellus. Van saw it coming and dove away.
Adellus turned around and saw doom headed towards her.
The explosion shook the cave. Everyone shielded their eyes and took cover. Then it was over. Adellus was gone forever.
Van landed and retracted his wings. As he went to grab his shirt he saw Hitomi and Merle huddled together.
"What are you two doing here?" He asked.
"We're sorry Lord Van!" Merle said, cutting him off, "but we saw this bright light off in the distance and went to investigate. We didn't get very far until we saw four people running towards the cave. We couldn't tell who they were so we came to warm you, but it looks like they beat us here." Hitomi nodded.
Van turned and walked over to Sailor Venus and what were obviously her friends. They were all hugging her and talking at once. Van smiled as he realized these much be her friends and fellow soldiers that she always talked about.
Venus turned and saw Van.
"Van! You were so brave! You saved us all." She said with a grin.
"No, you girls destroyed her, I was just the decoy." The others giggled and Merle's growling could be heard in the background.
Mina was so happy her friends were here. Just as she was about to ask how in the world they found her, she suddenly remembered....
"Oh no." She whispered as her eyes filled with tears. She dashed to over Allen's still body and kneeled down beside it.
"Allen...no...please be okay." She cried. She brushed the hair away from his face. His face was dirty and bruised, but it was relaxed. Mina couldn't find a pulse.
"No Allen, you can die!" She screamed. She shook his body and pounded on his chest. "No Allen...." And then Mina had a terrible thought. This was exactly what had happened to Molly and Nephrite. She shook her head in denial.
"NO...I never wanted this...please don't take him from me! ALLEN!" She sobbed as she buried her face in his chest as she hugged his body.
Van, Merle, Hitomi, the scouts, and the soldiers slowly gathered around. Hitomi was crying openly. Merle's tears ran down her face but she kept quiet. Van's head was bowed and a few tears could be seen rolling down his checks. The scouts were shocked, stunned, about what was taking place. Obviously, this man had meant a lot to Mina. Silent tears ran down their face as they felt her pain.
Mina cried a little longer until she felt a gentle hand on hers. She looked up to see Sailor Moon kneeling across from her, on the other side on Allen.
"Mina," she whispered, "let me try to help him." Mina looked into her eyes. She saw the wisdom of her leader and princess. She slowly got up and Jupiter came over to support her. Venus turned her head and cried into Jupiter's s shoulder.
Everyone watched as Sailor Moon, who was still kneeling, removed her broach and took out a heart-shaped, pink crystal, and held it above her head.
"Moon healing." She whispered. A soft white light came out of the crystal and surrounded Sailor Moon and Allen. Everyone could still see them. Sailor Moon had her eyes closed in concentration. Everyone waited anxiously. The light slowly faded. Then, Allen's arm twitched.
Sailor Jupiter's gasp caused Mina to turn around. Her teary eyes widened as she watched Allen sit up and rub his head. He looked around in confusion, embarrassed, to see everyone gathered around him, and a girl in a sailor uniform kneeling beside him.
"What happened?" He mumbled as he stood up. Then he looked over to see Mina (still Sailor Venus) staring at him with wide eyes. She had obviously been crying and still showed evidence of her injuries. She was surrounded by three more girls that were dressed like her.
"Mina! You're okay!"
Mina burst into tears all over again and ran to him. He caught her in his arms.
"Oh Allen!" she sobbed, "I thought I had lost you." Mina blocked everything else out, until she felt as if she and Allen were alone in the cave together. She took in his touch, his smell, his voice. She couldn't believe what had happened. Allen stroked her hair and calmed her down. Mina relaxed and regained her senses.
"Oh!" She said a little embarrassed. She blushed. Everyone was watching them with big grins on their faces and tears in their eyes. Van had made his way over to Hitomi and they were holding each other.
"Allen, Van, everyone..."she began as she walked over to join her fellow scouts, "these are my friends, Sailor Mars, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Moon." They all bowed.
"Oh...you must be the Princess of the Moon Mina keeps telling me about." Allen said as he bowed to Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon started giggling and nodded.
"Uh...Mina?" Mars said, looking worried.
"It's okay guys, they know who I really am. I didn't have much of a choice and I'm not on Earth so I thought I could get away with it." Then Sailor Venus shimmered and Mina was left standing there.
The other scouts looked at each other and shrugged. They too de-morphed and were left standing in their school uniforms.
"This is Rei, Amy, Lita and Serena." Venus said. "Now please, tell me, how did you get here?" She asked them.
"Well," Lita started, "after you were pulled up in that beam of light, Rei and I tried to reach you on your communicator, and it work, for a while. We were able to hear you tell us you could see the moon and the earth in the sky. We couldn't make any sense of it, so we called an emergency meeting at the temple."
"We didn't get anywhere at first," Rei continued, "but then Amy came up with an idea. She analyzed my communicator and searched specifically for a signal from another dimension, since that seemed to be the only possibility."
"Eventually I found that signal," Amy continued, "and with Luna and the old moon computer's help, I pin-pointed the location in space. It was hard because of the trans-dimensional coordinates, but I realized we could use the Sailor Teleport to get here. Since we were missing a scout, we had to wait for the full moon to reach the optimum power level."
"We only arrived a little while ago." Serena said. "Then Amy used her computer to locate you, and just in the nick of time if you ask me."
"I'm so glad you guys are here!" Mina said hugging them all fiercely. She didn't realize how much she had missed them.
"Now perhaps you can tell us what happened to you?" Serena asked.
"I think we should continue this on the Crusade." Allen said. Everyone nodded and started to make their way out of the cave.
Mina took Allen's hand and they walked out together.
NOTE: Wow! That was long! I hope you all enjoyed the surprise! I hope it wasn't predictable. That was a long chapter and I enjoyed writing it. Don't worry, I've got more chapters coming. Will Allen and Mina be able to stay together? Stay tooned! Please let me know if you liked my story. I'd really appreciate knowing :)
A little warning: This chapter has violence in it, a little more an America version of Sailor Moon, more like the Japanese version, so this is a warning incase any little kids read this. There, now I can't be blamed for anything.
Please, enjoy! (Can you tell I'm a Mortal Combat fan? hehehe)
A Zaibach soldier ran at Sailor Venus. She jumped to the side, twirled, and kicked him in the back. Then she did a back flip and landed behind another soldier who thought he could sneak up on her. She did a sweep kick on him and he fell hard to the ground. She kicked him in the stomach. He curled up in pain and she took that opportunity to take his sword from him.
Venus was mad. Nothing made her angrier than cocky negaverse trash. Adellus's little speech ended up fuelling Venus's rage instead of intimidating her. She tightened her grip on the sword and felt her own powers massing inside her.
Venus ran over and helped a guy fight off a Gockipa. She didn't know the finer points of sword fighting, except that the sharp side is used against the enemy. At some point during her mad slashing, she got the odd feeling that she used to sword fight long ago. She surprised herself, and Van who was nearby, by performing some rather basic, but efficient, sword fighting techniques. Something was coming back her, but this wasn't the time or place to think about it.
Venus looked around to see Gaddess pinned down by a Gockipa, whose eyes started to turn blue. Gaddess was desperately reaching for his daggers, but couldn't get to them.
"VENUS CRESCENT BEAM SMASH!"
The powerful beam hit the Gockipa off Gaddess and smashed it in to the cave wall. The beast didn't get up.
Gaddess quickly stood up and waved a quick thanks in Venus's direction. She sighed. The beast didn't have anytime to drain him, he'll be fine.
Venus glanced up at Adellus to see her still sitting in her thrown, watching the fighting the way someone would watch an entertainer. Venus growled. The giant Gockipas were still by her side. Venus reasoned that she'd have to get rid of them before she got close to Adellus. THEY were intimidating.
She ducked as a charging Gockipa leapt over her. She turned and stabbed her sword through its head. She left the sword there and ran off. She took that opportunity to look for Allen amongst the fighters. He was easy to spot. He was fighting soldiers one after other, jumping, twirling, slashing, it was almost like watching an artist. Venus didn't have to worry about him. He was so impressive. His golden locks flew behind him as he slashed and parried. He was her gallant swordsman...WAIT, this is NOT the time to think like that! Mina scolded herself.
Venus ended up near Van again. The two of them made short work of another Gockipa. How many of these things were there!? As Van looked over to give Venus an encouraging smile, a small stream of black energy suddenly hit him. He was thrown a couple of feet and hit the ground. He moaned.
"Van!" Venus yelled as she ran to his side.
"Opps! Did I do that?" Venus could hear Adellus mock. Her laughter followed.
"Van, are you okay?" Venus asked frantically. Van moaned, but pushed himself up.
"I'll be fine. It's not bad. Just got the wind knock out of me." He said coughing. He stood up and Venus could tell he'd be fine. He ran off to help some others.
"Alright witch, it's time to rumble." Venus said under her breath.
Sailor Venus whirled around and jumped to a nearby ledge.
"That's enough Adellus." She yelled. "I'm going to stop you here and now. I won't let you hurt anymore of my friends. I am Sailor Venus! I stand for love and justice! And of behalf of Venus, I will destroy you!"
Adellus merely grunted and snapped her fingers. A pack of normal-sized Gockipas, that had been waiting below her, got up and sprinted towards Venus. There were about five or six of them.
So, she thinks she can overwhelm me, can she, I'll show her. Venus mustered all strength together. She remembered Van getting hit by the beam and used her anger to grow stronger.
"VENUS CRESCENT...SHOWER!" (*Pssst...sorry I got it wrong last time!*)
The shower of beams spread out and hit all the Gockipas. They howled in agony as they were thrown back.
Venus looked up and was startled to see Adellus alone up there. She must have sent her huge Gockipas away to join the fight, she thought. This is my chance.
Venus took a mighty leap into the air, straight towards Adellus.
"VENUS LOVE CHAIN...." Venus started.
Adellus looked over to see a Sailor Scout soaring towards her. Venus was waiting for the look of shock and surprise to appear on her face, but it never came. Instead, Adellus grinned wickedly and her eyes flared red.
Out of seemingly nowhere, the giant Gockipas all jumped at Venus. One after another, they slammed into her still flying body. Venus yelled in pain. She fell to ground and landed hard. She was bruised and bleeding in places. She moaned and forced herself to stand up.
"I tried to tell you Sailor Venus, I'm much stronger than you could ever hope to be." She laughed and sent a dark beam at Venus. Venus tried to dodge it, but she was too slow. The beam knocked her over on to the ground again.
Come on Venus, get up! She thought. She ached all over and tried to stand. She eventually got up and faced Adellus again.
"Well, I have to admire your spirit Sailor Venus." Adellus said. Venus looked up to see that Adellus had left her thrown and was floating towards her. "Unfortunately, it's not going save you."
Adellus threw out both of her hands and waves of dark energy blasted out. They hit Venus at full force, smashing her against the cave wall. Venus screamed in agony as the dark energy continued to hold her there.
"Mina! NO!" Someone yelled.
Mina forced her eyes open and saw Allen running towards her.
"I don't think so." Adellus said as she diverted one hand (the other was still blasting Mina) and pointed it towards Allen. She sent out a beam and it hit Allen with full force. He yelled and was hurled back. He fell to the ground. His arm hit the ground and his sword slide away from him. He wasn't moving.
"NOOOOOO!" Venus screamed.
Adellus brought her hand back and blasted Venus again. Venus's screams increased. Adellus laughed and released her beams. Venus crumbled to the ground. She couldn't move. It hurt too much. She heard Adellus approaching her. Adellus reached down and grabbed Venus around the neck. She yanked her up and held her against the cave wall. Venus wrapped her hands around Adellus's, but she couldn't get free.
"Goodbye Venus." Adellus whispered, her eyes glowing red and her and black hair floated around her. "Take comfort in knowing your friend died quickly." Adellus's eyes started glowing blue. Venus could feel her life force start to slowly drain from her body. Tears filled her eyes. Is this how it is going to end, she though. She glanced at Allen's lifeless body. Her tears started to flow. Please, she prayed, closing her eyes to the sight of Adellus, please, it can't end this way...it can't end this way.... Mina could feel herself starting to drift away. She was so very tired...........
"SPARKLING WIDE PRESSURE!"
A powerful white light crashed into Adellus. Adellus was sent flying, while Venus collapsed to the floor and started coughing. She could start to feel her energy slowly returning.
Jupiter? She thought excitedly. Is it possible?
"MERCURY BUBBLES!"
A familiar fog filled the cave and Mina felt friendly hands pick her up and carry her to safety.
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"WHAT IS GOING ON!" Screamed Adellus as she picked herself off the floor. Why couldn't she see anything?
"It seems the forces of evil will never learn that the Sailor Scouts will always be around to conquer evil." A high pitched voice yelled. "Even forgotten negaverse trash!"
Adellus looked near the entrance to see five figures cloaked in fog. Slowly the fog started to vanish, and Adellus's party crashers were revealed one by one.
"I am SAILOR MOON!" Yelled a girl with long, blond pony tails, red boots, and a red and blue uniform.
"I am SAILOR JUPITER!" Yelled a girl with a brown pony tail, short green boots, and a green and pink uniform.
"I am SAILOR MARS!" Yelled a girl with a long black hair, red heals, and a red and purple uniform.
"I am SAILOR MERCURY!" Yelled a girl with a short blue hair, blue boots, and a blue uniform.
"And I am SAILOR VENUS!"
"We fight for love and justice!" Yelled Sailor Moon. "We won't let the negaverse exist anyway in this universe and we're here to see to that. On behalf of the moon...."
"WE WILL PUNISH YOU!" They said in unison.
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"Drat! Where did YOU come from! Get them! TEAR THEM APART!" They heard Adellus scream.
Her four huge Gockipas got up and dashed towards them.
"Come on guys," Jupiter said to Mars and Mercury. Sailor Moon was supporting Sailor Venus who was still weak. "Let's show her what were made of!" They grinned and nodded.
"JUPITOR THUNDER...CRASH!"
"SHINE AQUA...ILLUSION!"
Mercury and Jupiter's attacks combined and collided with two of the beasts. They were covered with the water and electrocuted. They howled and slumped over.
"MARS CELESTIAL FIRE...SURROUND!"
Mar's attack bombarded the other two with fiery projectiles. They were burned and also slumped to the ground.
"AGGHHH!" Adellus screamed in frustration. She hurled dark energy at them, but they all jumped aside.
They spread out and one at a time, Mercury, Mars, Venus and Jupiter attack her with their powers. They had little or no effect now that Adellus was ready for them. She laughed as she flew out of the way. She turned on them and sent her power at them. They were each hit and knocked over.
"Your turn Sailor Moon!" Venus yelled.
"Right!" Sailor Moon nodded, holding a scepter with a heart-shaped end.
"MOON SPIRAL HEART...ATTACK!" Sailor Moon yelled as a pink beam smashed into Adellus. Adellus screamed as a giant pink art crumbled around her. She fell to the ground and didn't move.
"Alright!" Sailor Moon yelled. "I did it! Hahahaha! Yah!" She said as she danced around laughing.
"Oh NO! Look!" Mars yelled.
They all watched as Adellus slowly picked herself off the ground.
"I can't be defeated...." She puffed in a weak voice. "I'm stronger than all of you and I will not lose!" At that moment her eyes started to glow blue.
In the cave, her Zaibach slaves started to drop like flies. The Crusade guys looked around in astonishment.
"She's taking back the energy scouts, she's powering up, we have to do something!" Venus said as they gathered around.
"It seems we have no choice but to combine our powers and use the sailor planet attack." Mercury said.
"But Mercury, Adellus is going to be done powering up before we are. How are we going to buy the time?" Venus asked.
"Leave it to me Mina!" Van yelled.
Mina turned to see Van rip off his shirt and sprout long white wings from his back. The scouts gasped in wonder. Van took some daggers from Gaddess and launched himself in to the air. He through a dagger at Adellus. It skimmed her arm.
"Aggh!" She screamed looking around frantically. Then she noticed the flying man in cave. Van was circling above her and swooping in to take another shot at her.
"How dare you!" Adellus yelled. Then she looked thoughtful. "With powers like that, your energy will surely complete mine. Come here!" Adellus flew up after him, but Van evaded her.
"Let's do it scouts!" Sailor Moon yelled. The formed a circle and joined hands.
"MOON COMSIC POWER!"
"JUPITER STAR POWER!"
"VENUS STAR POWER!"
"MERCURY STAR POWER!"
"MARS STAR POWER!"
The space around the scouts started glowing their respected colors. A magically wind swirled around them. The moonlight that filtered through the top of the cave intensified and surrounded them.
"SAILOR...PLANET...POWER!"
Their powers merged into one and formed a beam of swirling colors of pink, blue, red, green and orange. It shot out from their circle and flew at Adellus. Van saw it coming and dove away.
Adellus turned around and saw doom headed towards her.
The explosion shook the cave. Everyone shielded their eyes and took cover. Then it was over. Adellus was gone forever.
Van landed and retracted his wings. As he went to grab his shirt he saw Hitomi and Merle huddled together.
"What are you two doing here?" He asked.
"We're sorry Lord Van!" Merle said, cutting him off, "but we saw this bright light off in the distance and went to investigate. We didn't get very far until we saw four people running towards the cave. We couldn't tell who they were so we came to warm you, but it looks like they beat us here." Hitomi nodded.
Van turned and walked over to Sailor Venus and what were obviously her friends. They were all hugging her and talking at once. Van smiled as he realized these much be her friends and fellow soldiers that she always talked about.
Venus turned and saw Van.
"Van! You were so brave! You saved us all." She said with a grin.
"No, you girls destroyed her, I was just the decoy." The others giggled and Merle's growling could be heard in the background.
Mina was so happy her friends were here. Just as she was about to ask how in the world they found her, she suddenly remembered....
"Oh no." She whispered as her eyes filled with tears. She dashed to over Allen's still body and kneeled down beside it.
"Allen...no...please be okay." She cried. She brushed the hair away from his face. His face was dirty and bruised, but it was relaxed. Mina couldn't find a pulse.
"No Allen, you can die!" She screamed. She shook his body and pounded on his chest. "No Allen...." And then Mina had a terrible thought. This was exactly what had happened to Molly and Nephrite. She shook her head in denial.
"NO...I never wanted this...please don't take him from me! ALLEN!" She sobbed as she buried her face in his chest as she hugged his body.
Van, Merle, Hitomi, the scouts, and the soldiers slowly gathered around. Hitomi was crying openly. Merle's tears ran down her face but she kept quiet. Van's head was bowed and a few tears could be seen rolling down his checks. The scouts were shocked, stunned, about what was taking place. Obviously, this man had meant a lot to Mina. Silent tears ran down their face as they felt her pain.
Mina cried a little longer until she felt a gentle hand on hers. She looked up to see Sailor Moon kneeling across from her, on the other side on Allen.
"Mina," she whispered, "let me try to help him." Mina looked into her eyes. She saw the wisdom of her leader and princess. She slowly got up and Jupiter came over to support her. Venus turned her head and cried into Jupiter's s shoulder.
Everyone watched as Sailor Moon, who was still kneeling, removed her broach and took out a heart-shaped, pink crystal, and held it above her head.
"Moon healing." She whispered. A soft white light came out of the crystal and surrounded Sailor Moon and Allen. Everyone could still see them. Sailor Moon had her eyes closed in concentration. Everyone waited anxiously. The light slowly faded. Then, Allen's arm twitched.
Sailor Jupiter's gasp caused Mina to turn around. Her teary eyes widened as she watched Allen sit up and rub his head. He looked around in confusion, embarrassed, to see everyone gathered around him, and a girl in a sailor uniform kneeling beside him.
"What happened?" He mumbled as he stood up. Then he looked over to see Mina (still Sailor Venus) staring at him with wide eyes. She had obviously been crying and still showed evidence of her injuries. She was surrounded by three more girls that were dressed like her.
"Mina! You're okay!"
Mina burst into tears all over again and ran to him. He caught her in his arms.
"Oh Allen!" she sobbed, "I thought I had lost you." Mina blocked everything else out, until she felt as if she and Allen were alone in the cave together. She took in his touch, his smell, his voice. She couldn't believe what had happened. Allen stroked her hair and calmed her down. Mina relaxed and regained her senses.
"Oh!" She said a little embarrassed. She blushed. Everyone was watching them with big grins on their faces and tears in their eyes. Van had made his way over to Hitomi and they were holding each other.
"Allen, Van, everyone..."she began as she walked over to join her fellow scouts, "these are my friends, Sailor Mars, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Moon." They all bowed.
"Oh...you must be the Princess of the Moon Mina keeps telling me about." Allen said as he bowed to Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon started giggling and nodded.
"Uh...Mina?" Mars said, looking worried.
"It's okay guys, they know who I really am. I didn't have much of a choice and I'm not on Earth so I thought I could get away with it." Then Sailor Venus shimmered and Mina was left standing there.
The other scouts looked at each other and shrugged. They too de-morphed and were left standing in their school uniforms.
"This is Rei, Amy, Lita and Serena." Venus said. "Now please, tell me, how did you get here?" She asked them.
"Well," Lita started, "after you were pulled up in that beam of light, Rei and I tried to reach you on your communicator, and it work, for a while. We were able to hear you tell us you could see the moon and the earth in the sky. We couldn't make any sense of it, so we called an emergency meeting at the temple."
"We didn't get anywhere at first," Rei continued, "but then Amy came up with an idea. She analyzed my communicator and searched specifically for a signal from another dimension, since that seemed to be the only possibility."
"Eventually I found that signal," Amy continued, "and with Luna and the old moon computer's help, I pin-pointed the location in space. It was hard because of the trans-dimensional coordinates, but I realized we could use the Sailor Teleport to get here. Since we were missing a scout, we had to wait for the full moon to reach the optimum power level."
"We only arrived a little while ago." Serena said. "Then Amy used her computer to locate you, and just in the nick of time if you ask me."
"I'm so glad you guys are here!" Mina said hugging them all fiercely. She didn't realize how much she had missed them.
"Now perhaps you can tell us what happened to you?" Serena asked.
"I think we should continue this on the Crusade." Allen said. Everyone nodded and started to make their way out of the cave.
Mina took Allen's hand and they walked out together.
NOTE: Wow! That was long! I hope you all enjoyed the surprise! I hope it wasn't predictable. That was a long chapter and I enjoyed writing it. Don't worry, I've got more chapters coming. Will Allen and Mina be able to stay together? Stay tooned! Please let me know if you liked my story. I'd really appreciate knowing :)