Evil Destroyed
By: Katalinia

Disclaimer: I don't own Ronin Warriors or Sailor Moon. I'm just using them. I ^do^ own Sailor's Water and Thunder, Queen Tishina, Katrine, Nekko, Mezonite, and Tofu. I also own Byakuen, Black Blaze, and Talpa's form that I screwed with. I think that's it.


Chapter 12

A shadowed woman walked through a maze of halls. She didn't seem to have a particular goal in mind. Not much could be discerned about her, save the fact that she was either naked or in a dark body suit.
^This series of events puts a serious dent in my plains.^ she thought to herself. ^I can't win any of them over to my side. Not even that sorry excuse for an emperor, Talpa. They are to loyal to her.^

**FLASHBACK**
*dream-like sequence until otherwise noted*

Darkness. An endless expanse of it.
^It could be worse.^ Talpa thought to himself. ^This could be a room filled sharp objects.^ (The authoress: Ano...Ya know how Talpa's voice is all deep and stuff? Well, make it slightly softer and keep his little accent thing and that's his voice now. I'm changin' it because his old voice makes him sound evil. *Amy-chan* ^Gee, wonder why...?^ Be quite and read! Anyways, ON WITH THE STORY!)(Yes, I am on sugar high. Got a problem?)
"General Lord Talpa." a seductive female voice came form the shadows.
"Who's there?" Talpa asked, his black kimono replaced with his sub-armor.
"Wouldn't you like to know?" the voice said as the scenery changed.
Talpa now found himself in a bedroom. It was a traditional Japanese bedroom, with one little difference. There was a naked woman on the bed, with a sheet barely covering her dignities. This particular woman had long blue hair and familiar blue eyes.
"K...Kayura?!" Talpa stuttered, not believing what he was seeing. "B...but...wh...what...a...a...Anubis..." was all he could get out.
"Him? Oh, don't worry. He was starting to get boring, anyway. You, however, my lord Talpa, I haven't seen yet." The sheep slipped down a little, showing a lot of cleavage and coming very close to her inner thigh.
Talpa had overcome his initial shock, and was very un-aroused. Even if he wasn't in love with Nekko, Kayura shouldn't even know that he's alive. Even aside from ^THAT^, Kayura would never act like this, married or not.
"Who are you?" Talpa asked calmly.
"Why, I am Lady Kayura of the Nether Realm. You should know this." the woman who claimed to be Kayura said.
"The true Lady Kayura doesn't even know of this form, much less that I am alive. There isn't really a possible way that she could have found out, either." Talpa continued, still as calm as if he was talking to Suboshi.
'Kayura' seemed to anger at this, and began, for a second, to glow lavender, then immediately her aurora changed to a dark golden color.
"How dare you doubt me?!" the woman screeched.
Unfortunately for her, Talpa had figured out that he was in a dream, and forced himself awake before she could do anything.

Sitting in his room with a sheet covering his own dignity, Talpa wondered: ^What was that dream about? Could it mean that Kayura knows? No, that is not possible. Tishina has a barrier around this place. It is impossible for her to sense me unless she is taken into this castle.^ Talpa would have stayed awake and mused longer, except for that fact that an annoyed Nekko grabbed the side of his neck and pulled him into a passionate kiss. He pushed her down, and they proceeded with their earlier activities. (Sorry, folks. This ain't gonna be a lemon.)

**Flashback #2**

Katrine looked down at herself, then around. She was in her royal outfit (which looks the same as Ami's), and was on...
"Mercury." she said to herself softly.
"Katrine." came a male voice she knew well.
"Tofu?" she asked in disbelief. "What...what are you doing here?"
"What do you think, love?" he replied to her, smiling slyly.
Before she could say anything else, Tofu walked up to her and put his hands on her waist, pulling her a little closer. "Katrine." he said, making it sound like both a sentence and a question, but not waiting for an answer. "Tell me, do you love your twin sister?"
"What kind of a question is that, Tofu-koi? We have already discussed these matters, so why do you bring them up again?" Katrine asked, confused at her koi's actions.
"Because I want to be sure." he replied, but she noticed that he hesitated a little before, like he had been thinking of an excuse. ^Tofu-koi...he doesn't like to bring up things already resolved.^ she thought inwardly, outwardly narrowing her ice-blue eyes.
"What's the matter, koi?" 'he' asked her.
"Who are you? You are definitely NOT Tofu, so what is your real name?" Katrine said, pulling away and glaring daggers at him.
"Are you saying that I am no longer your koi?" 'Tofu' said, sounding strangely...feminine...in that his voice was...lighter. 'He' also glowed a lavender hue for a fraction of a second, before glowing a black-silver.
Unfortunately for him, and fortunately for Katrine, she knew that this was a dream and forced herself awake, sitting bolt upright in her room, and glancing to her side to see Tofu sleeping peacefully. She looked at him fondly for a second, before looking down at her lap.
^What kind of dream was that?^ she wondered. ^I know that it was induced by another, but...who? And for what purpose?^ She sighed softly. ^Could it have something to do with the evil presence that we all seem to sense?^

**Flashback #3**

Tofu was practicing his swordsmanship skills in a pitch-black room, lit only by small, silver dots on the walls, ceiling and floor.
"Tofu-koi." came the seductive voice of Katrine, surprising him in more then one way.
He turned to face her, and was shocked to see her wearing only a loose Japanese shirt that she was holding shut. All he could get out was: "K...Katrine..."
She walked slowly up to him, obviously taking the time to attempt to be seductive. When she reached him, she pressed up close to him, burying her free hand in his raven hair and pulling his head towards her so she could look deep into his bright baby blues.
"Tofu, what do you think of my sister?" she asked, not so obviously trying to sound innocent.
"Haven't...haven't we already discussed this?" Tofu asked uncertainly. Katrine wasn't acting herself.
She hesitated a little to long to be remembering before she answered. "If we have, then I have forgotten. Please, Tofu-koi, I just want to be sure." The last part came out as a cute child's whine. (Not annoying, just that thing that really little kids do when they want something. Not crying, either.)
Tofu was now very suspicious. Katrine, even when being romantic, never acted like this. Not even when she was drunk. He closed his eyes and placed his hands on her shoulders. Her eyes widened slightly in surprise, then narrowed in anger as he pushed her away and stepped back.
"Tofu-koi." she whined, but there was also an unmistakable dangerous note mixed in.
When Tofu just starred back at her, she clenched her fists and growled. For a split second, she glowed a light lavender, then Katrine's normal blue hue. Tofu knew he was in danger, but also that he was in a dream, so he woke himself up.
Tofu sat bolt upright in bed, and heard a soft gasp come from beside him. He turned his head to look into Katrine's eyes.
"Did you dream?" he asked her quietly.
"Hoi. Did you?" she whispered her answer.
"Hoi." he answered her just as quietly.
They both looked down to their laps, lost in their own thoughts.
^That dream was definitely induced. By darkness, I could feel it.^ Tofu's eyes narrowed in frustration. ^But where is this darkness? And why is it sending us dreams like this?^

**Flashback #4**

Nekko sat meditating on a rock in the middle of a grassy field with wildflowers growing in it.
"Nekko." an eerie voice drifted to her with the breeze.
Nekko's cat-like eyes snapped open. She quickly stood, and then said loudly and importantly: "Who's there? Show yourself!"
"Nekko, why do you follow this path?" the voice asked.
"Huh?" she said quietly to herself, the louder: "What do you mean?"
"Why do you follow so loyally the woman called Tishina? Especially when you know so little of her."
"I follow her because she saved me." Nekko said, now standing in her normal posture and staring at one particular point in space.
"From what?" the voice asked. "The collapse of a kingdom?"
Nekko narrowed her eyes, not rising to the challenge hidden in the voice's words.
"She caused the collapse of that kingdom, you know. She has your trust now, but she will eventually..." the voice never finished her speech, because just then Nekko sent a powerful blast of wind and energy at the place she had been staring at. Someone shrieked in pain.
When the aftermath had completely cleared, a youma was left lying on the ground. The top half resembled that of a cat-human, while the bottom that of the rear end of a goat. Nekko didn't wait for it to regain consciousness. She powered up an attack.
"Grand Hurricane!"
Hurricane winds flew around her, and then launched at the youma mixed with an invisible, but present, energy. The youma once again shrieked in pain, and was destroyed. Nekko then woke up.
Nekko sat slowly up in her bed. She starred down at her lap, her eyes narrowing slightly.
^What has been going on lately?^ she wondered to herself. ^The evil presence in my dream...is the same one that we have been sensing for so long now. What could it be?^

**Flashback #5**

Mezonite sat wide-awake in her room. Her surprisingly long lavender hair flew strait up and all around her with the force of an invisible wind. Her lavender eyes were wide open, completely blank and seemingly pupil-less. She was surrounded by her normal lavender aurora, and also an almost black purple aurora. She laughed evilly, and to anyone just passing by, it sounded normal. But if you listened closely, then you would hear how this voice was slightly deeper then her normal.
"Soon," Mezonite said in this strange voice. "Soon they won't be able to resist me." More evil laughter followed.

**End Flashbacks and dream-like sequence**

The dark figure arrived at a room and entered. She whispered "Mashona.", and a young girl appeared.
The girl was bathed in red light. She had loose, light red hair that hung to mid-back. Her eyes were an unnatural coal black, and her skin was evenly tanned. She wore a red bikini-top and skintight pants with lighter red gauze stuff over them. The pants ended as long peddle-pushers that showed off her red ankle-boots, the gauze stuff touching the very tops of the boots. She also had red leather cut-off gloves (the ones that only go to the knuckles). The left one had a ruby-like gem on the back.
"You called me, mistress." the girl said, her voice flowing and bubbling like lava.
"Hoi. I want you to disguise yourself as..." the woman paused to think for a minute, then grinned evilly. "General Lord Talpa." She cackled lightly, and her servant smirked evilly.
Then, the redhead was engulfed by flames. When they cleared, and exact copy of Talpa stood there. There was one small difference, though: there was a ruby-like gem on the back of his/her left hand.
"Now, go attack them, before that brat tells them what's really going on." Mezonite ordered.
"Yes, mistress." the fire-girl hissed in Talpa's voice.

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^grimaces^ Oh...Hope I didn't give the whole thing away in this. I don't think I did. I'm posting these as fast as I get them typed. I only have one more finished chapter to type, so it should be too much more then a couple days, I hope. Anyway, hope you're enjoying it so far! ~~Katalinia~~