It was an old abandoned shack, probably from the anime that
used to reside in what is now Sailor Moon territory. Ami
wondered if it was old enough to have existed during the time of the
Great War that brought the Anime Realm close to destruction many
years ago.
"I don't want to go in there!" Serena whined. Ami
quickly put her hand on Kale's, preventing him from unsheathing his
sword. Sekhmet covered the ears of the serpent that rested on
his right arm and eyed the Moon princess warily. Her whining
was painful to listen to. "I mean, perhaps the Dynasty
Loyalists choose a different place to hideout."
"Hmph. This place is perfect," Dais commented, "Common
people never come here so it would only make sense that the Loyalist
choose this place for a good hideout."
"Okay, so let's just go in and get all the information needed
to make a portal to Dura's throne and leave," Sailor Jupiter
suggested.
"Oooohh, that place gives me the creeps!"
"Well, complaining about this doesn't help our situation!"
Sailor Mars yelled.
Dais and Sekhmet seperated the two before Serena could retort
while Tuxedo Kamen did his best to calm her down. Finally, the
warlords, Sailor Scouts, and Tuxedo Kamen were able to enter the
building. They began their investigation for Dynasty Portals
immediately. The Warlords were in their sub-armor except for
Kale, who was in full-armor, and the Sailor Scouts were in their
Fukus.
The room was filled with wooden chairs and tables with a pool
table in the center and a bar that used to be for serving drinks
opposite the stairs to the second floor. For some strange
unknown reason, the Warlords and Tuxedo Kamen decided to investigate
the bar while the Scouts looked up the stairs.
Without warning the room was instantly filled with Dynasty
Soldiers. Dais and Sekhmet didn't have enough time to armor
up. The four men jumped on top of the bar; Kale sliced the
vile creatures with his sword while the others punched and kicked
the soldiers out of their way until they were eventually knocked
over onto the other side. They sat and covered their heads as
he glass above them exploded from the intensity of the
battle.
"Are they going to be alright?" Tuxedo Kamen yelled against
the sounds of battle.
"Are they warriors?" Sekhmet asked.
"Then, they should be alive after this battle is
over."
Suddenly, they heard someone scream in pain. "That was
Sailor Mercury!
Is she okay?" Tuxedo Kamen asked Kale who looked up from the
counter. The Warlord leaned his head a little to the left as a
Soldier flew by and crashed into the wall,
breaking the shelves and shattering more glass. Kale
sat down and leaned
back
against the counter,"Just a small scratch. It's nothing
to worry about."
Tuxedo Kamen glared at him in disbelief. Kale shrugged,
"Scratches like
that happen frequently in battle. It's how I got this
scar." Somehow,
his words weren't too comforting.
A Soldier tried to stab Sailor Jupiter with the hilt of it's
sword, but the Senshi dodged, grabbed the hilt and thrust the sword
into the chest of her opponent. She envied the other scouts
who are still able to use their various elemental attacks when two
more soldiers replaced their fallen comrade; the battle appeared to
be without end. Lita would never tell them that she had her
electric attacks taken away from her for fear that they would
prevent her from fighting and no one even suspected anything was
wrong; she was certain that it was Queen Dura who had taken
away her powers.
The Dynasty's warriors descended in waves upon waves to
slaughter and Sailor Jupiter found herself seperated from the others
and surrounded on all sides by soldiers. One threw his spear,
but she dodged and broke the spear with her hands. Then, she
grabbed it's arm and tossed it out the glass window. She
continued to do that with the other soldiers until Sailor Moon
yelled, "Sailor Jupiter, stop throwing those things out there!
There are civilians out there."
She saw a man wearing dark green samurai armor with the most
beautiful sea blue eyes and... for some odd reason... there was a
pikachu sitting on top of his helmet... She quickly got out of
his way as the Samurai warrior ran into the building through the
broken window, slicing soldiers everywhere he went in a mad
frenzy. Soldiers with gold breast-plates appeared and gained
up on the Samurai. He went down from the repeated blows and
when he came up, he no longer had the pikachu. Jupiter saw the
furry pokemon run away near the corner and wait.
Something hard and sharp jabbed him forcefully in the
stomach. His vision blurred as the pain blinded him
momentarily. His thoughts swirled around him aimlessly and his
insides felt weak and wobbly as if he was sick. Suddenly, his
mind was cleared and clouded again by fear as he realized that he
was leaning against some raised, flat surface with a with a sharp
dagger above him ready to slice open his throat.
Kale sprang up from his hiding spot and stabbed the soldier
straight in it's eye, killing the vile thing instantly while Sekhmet
and Dais pulled the Ronin over to the other side of the bar to
safety.
Sage took a deep breath a coughed up a few drops of
blood. "Did Kyra get the other Ronins? Where are they?"
Dais asked when he thought Sage was ready to handle
questions.
"Huh? Nani? What happened?" Why were Sailor
Moon characters fighting Dynasty Soldiers?
"The Evil Dynasty has again risen to power," Dais explained
in a simple sentence, not wanting to go too much into
detail.
"Yeah, that's... kinda obvious."
Tuxedo Kamen decided to explain further, "A woman from the
Sailor Moon territory, Dura, took control of the Dynasty in order to
defeat the Sailor Scouts. We are currently trying to get the
information to make a portal to Dura's throne."
So, this has nothing really to do with the Ronin Warriors
and I'm still stuck with Dynasty problems...
"There must be an open portal in here." Sekhmet observed, "It
should be impossible for this building to house so many
soldiers."
"Then, we have to destroy it, right?" asked
Sage.
"The only way we can get to Dura is through an open,
unguarded portal," Tuxedo Kamen told the Ronin. "We could go
through that portal instead of waiting."
"The route through that is obviously full of peril. We should
be able to open our own portal once Mercury gets all the needed
information." Dais advised.
Tuxedo Kamen sighed forlornly. He disliked dealing in
matters that did not originate in his native territory. "Is
this ever going to end?"
"Fight and enjoy the battle, Kamen," Sekhmet leaped over the
counter, "Don't be in such a hurry for peace."
"I was wondering the exact same thing myself," Sage told him
before resuming into battle once again.
Kale swung his huge nodatchi, slicing the spear that was
headed for Sailor Mercury. He glanced breifly at the cut on
her left arm. Nothing serious. The warlord spun around
and sliced two soldiers with a single sweep. "I believe
there's a portal up those stairs," he told her, "We have to destroy
it in order to stop the income of soldiers and I need your
assistance."
Raye and Dais, now in full armor, followed. The scarred
warlord growled when he saw an empty hallway with all the doors
closed and no signs of soldiers ever passing through. Ami put
on her visor and pointed to the door which held the portal,
"There."
Sage swung his huge sword and the tin soldier went
down. Green smoke emanated from it; the usual sign that a
Dynasty Soldier had just died. The Ronin Warrior was still
tense. The soldiers had stopped coming and whenever that
happens a bigger, more dangerous battle is about to take
place. Cautiously and slowly, he began to walk backwards,
listening carefully for any signs of the enemy. Suddenly, he
backed up against something, spun around and swung his sword in one
single movement. A fist connected with his eye; he was blinded
as a sharp jolt of pain paralyzed him. The Ronin dropped his
sword; his head was about to explode!
"I'm sorry," a female voice said quickly, "Are you
alright?"
The Samurai slowly opened his eyes to see the brown-haired
Senshi
that he saw eariler. "Calm down, Sage," he heard
Pikachu advise him.
"I'm fine," the warrior told the Sailor Scout. The pain
had subsided
although his eye was slowly getting heavier.
She told him her name and Senshi title, "I'm Lita Kino and
"Sage Date." he picked up his sword and put it back in the
sheath.
Lita noticed that the skin right under his eye was turning a
dark
purple and he was having trouble keeping it open. "You
know, if
you didn't try to chop me in half with that little knife of
yours, I wouldn't have punched you so hard."
Sage was about to reply when Sekhmet suddenly yelled out,
"Seth! Where's Seth?" Someone upstairs screamed in
fright and the Warlord of Venom ran up to investigate.
"Oooohh, I hope that thing is dead!" Sailor Moon cried
out. "It's so ugly and it just gives me the
creeps!"
"Who's Seth?" Sage asked, but no one answered him cause
Sekhmet came down shortly afterwards with a green snake wrapped
around his arm. "There was a Dynasty Loyalist upstairs. Seth
poisoned him."
Upon seeing the snake, Pikachu jumped in front of Sekhmet and
began spinning out profanitiess that were directed at the
serpent.
Sekhmet, baffled, took a step back and covered Seth's
ears. Kale
picked the vulgar pokemon up and held his claws close to it's
throat.
Pikachu was totally unaware of the danger it was in and
continued
cussing at the little snake.
"Does this belong to anyone in here?" The Warlord of
corruption
demanded, "I'll kill it unless it's trainer claims it right
now!" And he has a very strong urge to kill a
very
annoying thing...
Sage, embarrassed, walked over to the warlord and took the
pikachu. The mouse-like pokemon, unaware of the very recent
events, was still shouting out profanities at the little snake until
the Ronin put his hand over it's mouth. There were questions
that he had and answers could not be given until Pikachu was
quiet.
"You said that this Dura person came from the Sailor Moon
territory?" he asked Kamen, who nodded. "And she took control
of the Dynasty in order to defeat the Senshi? Isn't that
illegal? The Dynasty orginally had nothing to do with the
Sailor Scouts."
"We thought so too at first," said Dais, "but the common
people of this territory are becoming loyal to the Dynasty on their
own free will and, since the creators don't pay much attention to
them, common people have more independence than main characters,
plus Dura is also a common person."
"But, now she's using the Dynasty against the main
characters of a different anime."
"She is weak," Sekhmet explained, "We can defeat her easily
so there's no need to inform the capital." Common people have
more independence than main characters because they're rarely shown
in the anime. Sometimes they appear in only one episode and
their names are never mentioned. |
