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"Sting Chameleon? What kind of name is that? You sound like some supervillian from one of those western comic books!" Mina laughed. I admit I didn't think it was the best time to be cracking jokes.
"Hehehe. Mock me if you wish, but you will not be laughing when I feed your rotting corpses to the worms." Chameleon hissed as he leapt from the tree to the top of the temple. He was incredibly agile for someone who seemed to be covered in armor.
"I don't like this. Theres nothing but darkness and cold coming from him." I whispered to her.
"Like you couldn't tell from looking at him." Mina always had a habit of being overly cocky, especially against enemies we knew nothing about.
"I admire your courage, but they do say cowards live longer. A piece of advice you should have listened to!!" Suddenly I saw what looked like a green light that shot from his arm. I barely saw it coming the first time, but now there was no way I could warn Mina in time. But I didn't have to and fell to the left just as it whizzed by her and impaled itself into the ground.
"What in the heck are those things?!" I heard Mina ask me, I didn't have the faintest idea. Whatever they are they seem to dissipate after a few seconds when they hit something solid.
"Mina! Your head!"
I heard Raye yell something about my head, thats when I felt something trickling down my cheek. I reached to my temple and felt something wet, when I inspected my hand it shocked the hell out of me. "Its blood......." I couldn't comprehend how it had hit me, I was sure I had moved out of its way. Or maybe it was just so fast that it nicked me as it went by.
"MARS CRYSTAL POWER!!!" Raye gave the cue, this guy was not going to be push over.
"VENUS CRYSTAL POWER!!!!!" We were both Super-Sailors so I figured we would have a chance at beating this guy, proves how much I know. When I was done transforming the lizard was already gone, transformation takes about two seconds at max, how could we have lost sight of him so fast?
"Where did he go?" Raye looked over to me and I didn't know what to say. I was looking frantically around the temple to find any place he could be hiding when..........
"MINA!!!! LOOK OUT!!!!!" Raye screamed to me. I looked foward only to see his face right in front of me, the next thing I felt was what had to be my stomach being knocked out of my back as he kicked me in the gut. I was sent literally flying, I crashed right into the brick wall that surrounds the temple. I don't think I had ever been hit that hard.
So far that thing had proved that it was faster and stronger than both of us combined. After it had kicked Mina who knows how far he turned his attention to me, unfortunately.
"MARS FLAME SNIPER!!!" It was my strongest attack so I was thinking it would have some affect, it didn't. The arrow struck him right in the chest, but didn't even scorch the armor let alone do anything else.
"Such a pathetic attempt. And to think I that I thought that you would a challenge." His tail whipped out like a bullet, it was wrapped around my neck and depriving me of air before I knew what was happening. He hoisted me into the air violently and slammed me into the ground just as hard, he repeated it over and over until I started spitting out blood on each impact. When that happened he flicked me away like a typical rag doll and I went right into a tree. My entire body was on fire, I could hardly move and the fight hadn't even lasted five minutes yet.
Only a minute or two had passed when I regained consciousness, the curse of having magic enhanced healing. When I came to I saw Raye being whipped away like nothing, she didn't look too good and slamming into a hard object at the speed that she did couldn't have helped any.
"VENUS RANDOM BEAM SHOTS!!!!!!!!" I shot off my revised version of the Crescent Beam Smash. I don't think I need to voice my dissappointment again when I saw every single shot either miss or bounce off his armor. He was on me in under a second, he charged full speed and he would have rammed his fist straight through my head if I hadn't moved. I was barely able to tilt my head left just as his smashed into solid rock without any trouble. He had to free his hand before he could do anything so I jumped clear, as a senshi I can jump pretty high, but it was apparently nothing to him. He suddenly appeared in front of me and backhanded me down to the ground. He landed on me feet first at incredible momentum, he was definitely heavier than he appeared. I felt something snap and I knew he just crushed several ribs.
I woke up to Mina screaming. I that creature standing over with a foot on her chest, every time he pressed down she screamed. That sadistic monster was torturing her and there wasn't a thing I could do to stop it.
"Feel free to help her whenever you want." that thing taunted me.
"MARS.......................FIRE......................" WHAM. Before I could say the last word there was a glowing knife in the shoulder. At first I didn't feel anything, then I felt my arm go dead, then I noticed the blood running down my arm, then I saw the knife..................
I couldn't breath. At least not regularly, every breath felt like my lungs were imploding. He finally took his foot off me and turned his attention to someone else. I managed to turn my head over to what he was looking at. Raye was rendered unable to fight, to say the least. I couldn't bear to see her in that much pain, but there was nothing I could do. I was feeling something I hadn't felt for a long time, something I hadn't felt since that day at D-Point. I was scared, I knew that he could kill us at any moment he pleased. He had just been toying with us since the beginning.
"You may not be normal humans but your just as helpless. I thought we would have other opposition here besides the Hunters but it seems I was wrong. You'll become nothing more than just another organic to add to the list of the many the Hunters were unable to save."
The knife had since dissipated and now there nothing more than a gaping hole in my shoulder. I was starting to lose consciousness, and that thing didn't look like it was going to break a sweat anytime soon.
"Pathetic, the sight of you organics sickens me." He lifted me by my throat. "I'll enjoy snapping your neck in two like a twig." He started squeezing, I knew it would be over in a couple of seconds.
"PUT HER DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I heard Mina scream. He seemed surprised by her sudden burst of rage. A massive beam of light suddenly slammed into his face, he dropped my abruptly and was sent sliding several feet away. "Oh my god, are you okay?" Mina limped over to me. She sounded beaten and exhausted, even more so than I was.
"We............we can't beat him...........on our own. We have to get out of here and warn the others." I was able to get out. I saw the look on Mina's face, it revealed what she was thinking at that moment. "You don't think we can beat him, even if we were all here."
"Something about him..................he's too powerful. He's like nothing we've faced before." Mina watched him begin to stagger to his feet. "I've never seen anything so fast and so strong. That armor he wears, its tougher than any youma hide I've ever seen. And as for the two of us..................." Mina suddenly started coughing violently. She was coughing up her own blood.
"MINA! You can't stay here, you'll die if you do!" I tried to get her to leave here, if she died, I didn't know what'd I'd do.
"You kidding? You think I'll let you stay here and fight this thing all by yourself? Don't worry I've had worse than this." she smiled. I guess she was a sucker for punishment.
I admit, I really wanted to run for my life. But I couldn't leave her alone. No matter what, I at least had to make sure she got out of this alive.
"YOU LITTLE BRAT!!! YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!" the lizard screamed at us. He didn't look happy at all.
"Can you stand?" I asked her.
"Barely. I don't know how effective I'll be though. I suppose I can shoot Fire Soul with one hand." I'm starting to rub off her. Making light of a situation is usually my job.
"DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" he threw about five of those laser knives. I saw one heading right at me, I could've tried to avoid it. But then I saw another one headed for Raye...............
"MOVE IT!!!!" Mina shoved me aside. I was thrown to the ground, I heard a what sounded like a tearing sound. I looked up, and I saw Mina...................impaled by one of those things. I was shocked into silence. She had taken that for me, I should've been the one not her.
Sting Chameleon smiled at his handiwork.
"Another pathetic human bites the dust. Now for my next victim"
He watched as her partner went to her immediately trying to see if she was still alive. She had taken a Chameleon Sting right through the chest, the chances of her survival were minimal at best.
"Please you have to wake up!! You can't leave me, not now!!"
"Get.................out of here.....................please. " Venus managed to get out. She could feel herself slipping away quickly.
"No......not like this. I.................I still haven't......................we haven't...................."
"Just...................go......................please. You..................already...................know...................how I feel. Save..................yourself." Her magically-enhanced Senshi body was keeping her alive for those last few seconds. Its both a blessing and a curse.
"Mina? MINA?!" there was nothing. Her eyes had already closed, her blood was already staining the ground. "No................no....................."
"Don't worry. You'll join her soon enough." he readied another Chameleon Sting. Suddenly he stopped in his tracks as his external temperture gauge began to steadily rise. "What is this? What could produce this much heat in such a confined space..........."
The word fire was always accompanied by the emotions of passion, anger, determination. As a priestess she had always been trained to keep those as well as all her emotions in a constant balance, of course there were obvious times when she neglected her teachings and let those feelings get the better of her.
"Well now, this could actually get interesting." if he weren't a machine you would hear a hint of uncertainty in his voice.
She really didn't know what would happen if a prietess of the flame truly lost control, she dreaded what would happen if it occured while she was in senshi form. As senshi they possessed power that couldn't be rivaled by any human on earth, but a machine had. They knew that they had to do all they could to ensure that nothing would cause them to lose focus, but a machine had. And now that same machine who dared to strike down a senshi would feel just how pissed off a senshi could get, to be blunt.
"This energy output.............its not possible...............how............!!!!!" He didn't have time to finish the sentence, because at that point a totally frenzied Princess of Mars came screaming toward him like a demon from hell. The sheer impact of her fist colliding with his metal face sent him careening into parts unknown.
"The only person that dies this day is YOU!!" Chameleon let loose a dozen knives and engaged his cloaking. The knives were thrown wildly and most of them missed, one of the of them raced across her face leaving a cut on her cheek, a second left a deep gash in her side. "HA!! YOU CAN'T WIN YOU PATHETIC ORGANIC, NO MATTER HOW MUCH POWER YOU SAY YOU HAVE!!!!"
The blood trailed down her body and evaporated before it hit the ground. The flames swirled around the wounds as they began sealing themselves, including the gaping hole in her shoulder that she was somehow ignored when this all started.
"WHAT!!"
Without another word she launched toward him leaving a streak of fire in her wake. Despite his cloaking he baely had time to register what was happening as she tore into him with a ferocity he had never seen in an organic. What felt like pistons, that were actually her own hands, pounded into his armored hide. His defenses were completely useless as he watched his armor crack and buckle, her foot rammed into him and he was blasted backward again, pieces of his shattered form were sent flying to the wind. In an instant she was on him again, he raced at inhuman speed and backed by that and her own newfound strength her fist traveled uninhibited straight through his mechanical body.
Her breathing was laboring. Her entire body was aching and she could barely think straight at the moment. She looked down at the remains of the machine that almost took her life, there was nothing left of him save random chips and circuit boards. Everything else was either melted, burned or broken to pieces.
"What have I done.....................Whats happening to me." her hands were swollen and cut, the combination of flesh impacting metal was never pretty but for some reason she didn't feel any pain. Her senshi uniform was in tatters, most of it was burned off. "Mina!" the word suddenly clicked in her brain and she raced to what remained of the Hikawa Shrine. It was in ruins the intial fight with Sting Chameleon and the subseqeunt beserk rage did it in.
"Mina.........." she choked as he held her still lifeless body. She was hoping that by some miracle she would be healed when the villian was beaten. No such luck this time. "This can't be happening.............Not like this. All this power and there isn't a thing I can do..........." then the miracle she thought wouldn't come, began. Her body was engulfed in flames again, but this time it was the burning rage that she felt earlier. This time it was softer, benevolent, and it covered herself and Mina's body.
She could watched in awe as the multitude of internal and external injuries on Mina's form began to seal themselves one by one. Tendrils of fire were reaching inside her body and repairing the damage caused by Sting Chameleon. Then her body began spasming in her arms like someone was taking defibilator padels to it.
"Mina............." she couldn't contain her tears as her eyes opened ever so slowly.
"R............Raye.............."
"Don't..........don't say anything. Thank the gods your alive."
"If you call the headache I have being alive then MMMM!!!" Mina couldn't finish speaking as she found Raye's lips on her own, she didn't even think of resisting.
"Does that make it feel better?" Raye smiled.
"I take it this means your willing to go all the way with this?"
"I've been ready for far too long. And today I learned that you might not get a second chance, so better late than never."
"What about the temple?" Mina finally managed to stand with some assistance from Raye. They both looked over the remains of the temple that she had cared for for as long as she could remember.
"I don't know. I never really imagined it could be destroyed. But it has then its meant to be, nothing happens by chance. Well........most of the time anyway."
"Speaking of which, what happened to that chameleon thing?"
"He.............we.................I'll explain later." Raye promised.
"This isn't over by a long shot. And if we had so much trouble with him.................." Mina shook at the thought.
"I don't know, but I can feel something in me now. Something that feels so right, the same thing that brought you back helped me destroy that monster."
"What?"
"I told you..................I'll explain it all later............."
To Be Continued................