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"It looks like something
the Dynasty would make," Sekhmet approved and complimented Ami's
handiwork.
"Yeah..." Sage agreed
though he wasn't as impressed as Sekhmet.
"It's ugly!" Sailor Moon
vehemently threw in her opinion.
"Well, it doesn't matter
what it looks like as long as it gets us to Dura's throne!" Sailor Mars
retorted.
"So, how does it work?"
Sage of Halo asked Sailor Mercury, ending Serena's and Raye's short
arguement.
Sailor Mercury explained
it and in order to prevent an arguement over who was going to offically
open the portal, said that Sailor Moon should be the one to open it since
she got an Anime and a territory named after her. Sekhmet and Kale
already had identical expressions of boredom as she began that long drawn
out sequence...
"Hey, Rowen!
Touma!" Sai called out to the Samurai bookworm.
"Hmnm." was the
response, acknowledging he heard something, but that the book was by far
more interesting.
"Touma! Shu's set
your favorite tree on fire! Go stop him!"
"Hm, hmnm."
Translation: later, I'm reading.
"Touma! Shu and
Ryo set your entire libary on fire!"
"Touma! Ryo threw
your new computer out the window!"
"What!!" That got a
reaction out of the normally book-absorbed Samurai. Rowen instantly
sprang to his feet, ready to strangle Ryo for commiting the ultimate evil,
but those violent thoughts were quickly dismantled when he saw Sai and
realized that the Warrior of Trust was joking.
"Don't even joke about
defenestrating a computer," Rowen said stiffly. A year or two ago,
he went to a college for the summer to take some special classes and his
roommate got really aggravated over something and tossed a computer out
the seventh floor window. Rowen witnessed the entire incident and
shuddered whenever he thought about it. Computers are sacred, holy,
more valuable than books even!
"Kento says that
Kousei's gonna call sometime today and Ryo hates phone calls for some
reason."
"I can't help you
there," said Rowen. "I still have the brusies from last
time."
Sai tossed a roll of
thick grey tape, "There's an easier and less painful way of dealing with
him." Sai suddenly had a mischievous smirk. "Less painful for
us. Might be painful for him."
Dura sat back on her
throne. The Messiah was angry and he had good reason to be.
Pacifists hate armies and this totally went against his teachings.
She had tried to give her "enemies" the impression that she was a madwoman
on her own free will and that the Messiah was no way involved in
this. That ploy failed thanks to Durog and things were going rapidly
downhill.
Cautiously, she went
over her choice of options. Running from a fight was the coward's
way although she would leave and demoblize the army if there was no danger
and Jupiter would not be a threat. But ironically, Jupiter would
definitely be a threat after all that's happened...
Don't you just hate it
when all your meticulously planned plans just go kaput?
"This place gives me the
creeps," Sailor Moon commented. Everyone stood, except for Pikachu
who sat atop Sage's helmet, on the same grassy marsh that Rowen and Ryo
crossed years ago. The place was not designed for Sailor
Senshi.
"It's still the same as
I remember it," Sekhmet said somewhat happily.
"Yeah, not very
attractive," said Sage.
There was a large tower
toward the horizon. Kale pointed to it, "Dura should be in
there." Towers like that were commonplace in the
netherworld.
Ami checked her
mini-computer, "No, she's not. She's in a building north of
that."
"We should split up into
two groups," Sekhmet ordered.
There were some minor
protests, but it ended up all the boys in one group and all the girls in
the other.
"Um, you should take the
kitten off your head," Sekhmet advised Sage, looking at Pikachu with a
strange mixture of disgust and disbelief, "and give it to the
women."
"Kitten?!" Pikachu
shrieked, "Kitten?!"
Instead of waiting for
Sage to obey him, the Warlord of Venom grabbed Pikachu by its tail and
tried to yank the animal off forcibly. Pikachu desperately clinged
to the helmet's two golden horns and poor Sage's head was stuck in the
middle... "Hey!"
Sekhmet finally
succeeded and tossed the furry pokemon into Sailor Jupiter. Then,
the two groups went their separate ways. Dais, Kale, and Kamen tried
to hide their laughter as well as possible.
Hm, I doubt she'll want
to eat week old chocolate. Now where is it? He thoroughly checked the cabinets by taking out all the
stuff and placing it back where it belonged. Then, he checked the
fridge. All the other places he could think of were
unsanitary. Grumbling in frustration, he reached for the freezer
handle, wondering, I have low blood
pressure and the chocolate helps raise it to a normal and safe
level. That should be a good excuse. It is true after
all. Rowen opened the
freezer door, only to be attacked on top of his head by a bucket of ice
cream.
"Ow!" He placed his left
hand on top of the aching head and peered inside. Then, he began to
pick through the frozen vegetables and found Mia's old wallet.
Truly strange...
...Where is that chocolate?
Without warning, Kento
barged in the house in full armor, instantly taking a battle stance.
Sai barged in through the same door as Kento, also in full armor, and
raised his trident. Kento blocked the blow with his staff.
Rowen decided to put the ice cream and wallet back in the freezer before
they noticed him.
"Gee, Kento," said Sai,
"You're better at fighting now than you were a few minutes ago!"
Apparently, they had just gotten back from cleaning out the natural
portal.
"Yeah, well, you're...
you're..." he tried to think of a reason to explain his previous actions,
"You're stronger than those tin cans!"
"That's still no
excuse!" Sai removed his trident off the top of Kento's weapon
and struck the Warrior and Trooper of Justice straight in the chest,
sending him flying across the room. "And you're still not focused
now!"
"Um, what happened?"
asked Rowen.
"Kento wasn't paying any
attention to the fight!"
"That's a first.
What was he doing?"
"Daydreaming," Sai said
vehemently. "I've never seen anyone so love sick!"
Rowen blinked,
"...Kousei?"
"Um, guys, I am still
here." Kento hadn't even bothered to get up from his current
position on the floor.
"Well, I can understand
why you would act like that," Rowen said to the Samurai who still laid on
the floor. "Kousei is rumored to be the most beautiful woman in this
Realm and you have a hard time getting a girlfriend. Everyone in
your family has a job now and you're left to babysit all your younger
siblings and cousins, so that takes alot of your time." Out of the
five, Kento was the eldest in an extremely large family.
"I love my siblings and
cousins," Kento said, finally sitting up, "You don't have to read so much,
you know. I haven't seen you with any girlfriends around lately
either."
"I merely haven't found
one intelligent enough."
"Oh, yeah. I
forgot you have a 250 pound IQ. You're gonna have a hard time
finding a girl with a brain like that."
Sai remarked, "I don't
think it's possible to meet girls by reading books."
"Yeah, no girl wants to
show their parents a bookworm."
Now unarmored, he sat on
the counter, looking at the rolls of duct tape beside him. He had
yet another one of those insights and he could almost figure out the exact
minute she would call. He'd had those insights all his life, but now
he was getting them more frequently. "Where's Ryo?"
Childish, Dais thought, listening
to Kamen and Sekhmet banter. Tuxedo Kamen was busy convincing
Sekhmet that he is a warrior by explaining how dangerous a rose actually
is. The two were really annoying Dais.
"A rose has thorns on
the stems and thorns hurt. Thorns pierce the flesh of the enemy,
causing them to drop their weapon and leaving them powerless. Roses
can be extremely deadly when the thorns are dipped in
poison."
"Still a pathetic
weapon!" Dais surpressed a laugh.
Kamen pulled out a rose
and showed it to Sekhmet, "See the thorns? Touch it and see how much
it hurts." Dais raised an eyebrow inquiringly, wondering what would
happen next.
Sekhmet, rather
curiously, touched the stem and pulled his hand back, a sheepish and angry
expression on his face. "I am wearing armor! If it cannot
pierce armor, then it is not a warrior's weapon!"
Dais couldn't help, but
laugh and collapsed on the floor. Sage remained silent. Kale
nudged Dais with his foot, trying to get the man to stop his incessant
laughter until he was able to stand. Then, the blue-haired warlord
shook his head sadly.
"You'd better get used
to having the Senshi around, Sekhmet," Kale advised. "so stop
complaining."
"What's that supposed to
mean?"
"The four of us are more
than likely going to get an apartment when this is over," said
Dais.
If they got an apartment
in a border town or any normal town, then Kale would be closer to
Ami. "Why? There's no point in it! We shouldn't do
something because of one man's affections!"
"C'mon, Sekhmet!" Kale
spat. "If we get an apartment in a normal town, it'd be a very good
tactical advantage for you and your pathetic little anti-pokemon
club! You'd be closer to Venus, your new recuit!"
Dais smirked at
Sekhmet's puny, fumbling retorts and comments. They'd all made some
type of attachment to the Senshi ever since they arrived and moving into
one of the towns did sound like a good idea. Kyra quickly befriended
all of the Senshi. Kale became attracted to the intelligent female
of the group. Sekhmet's always looking for people to recuit into the
anti-pokemon club. Living with all the modern technology definitely
would be a change and Dais was getting tired of all this old stuff.
Only one of them in the group didn't seem to have change with the Senshi
around.
"Are you attracted to
any of the Senshi, Halo?" Dais asked.
"Me? NO!!" he
replied fervently.
"Um, are we going to
have to tackle him?" Rowen asked the other two, surpressing the nearly
irresistible urge to run around, as they watched the unsuspecting
Ryo. Sanada Ryo was siting in a chair in the living room, reading
the newspaper. A soccer game was on the TV. "We can't tackle
him if he's reading a newspaper."
"Get over it," Kento
whispered to the blue-haired teen.
"Well, the news is a
seriously vital part of life-" he was going to say more, but Kento covered
his mouth with his hand.
"Let's see if he'll
willingly be taped first," said Sai. The other two gave him a weird
look. "Well, I hate fights," he replied meekly.
"Well, if we're going to
do anything to him," said Kento, "we have to do it now."
The skinnier members of
the group took a deep breath, "Let's do it."
The three of them
strolled into the living room, duct tape in hand. Sai turned off the
TV. Ryo still read his newspaper, unaware of the
danger.
"Put the newspaper down,
armor boy!" Rowen demanded, causing Kento and Sai to give him strange
glances. Then, Kento looked at Sai, questionly.
"He kept searching for
Kousei's chocolate, so I gave him some candy," Sai explained Rowen's
unusual outburst. Kento nodded in understanding. Hopefully,
the taping of Ryo would cure Rowen's sugar high.
Ryo, rather dully,
folded the newspaper and set it aside. Then... he noticed what was
in their hands... The bearer of Wildfire sprang up in his
chair. "Never!" he shouted ferociously. Then, he charged
towards the closest escape route.
Sai tripped him and held
his hands together while Kento binded him with the tape. Rowen taped
his legs, but not before stripping off the pants. The bearer of
Strata took off the socks and taped his feet, making Ryo feel extremely
uncomfortable. For a moment, they stood, watching a partially taped
Ryo squirm on the floor. The tape around his wrists was extremely
tight.
"Shu," Rowen had an
idea, "Remember when Seiji got that letter from Shingo? The one that
suggested he cut his hair?"
"Yeah, I can't believe
how upset Sage got! It's not like a hair cut's gonna kill
him."
Because of the battle
with Arago, Seiji did not attend the local Kendo tournament that
year. Shingo won the championship that year and later wrote a letter
to Seiji, hoping that they'll meet at next year's tournament. It was
in this letter that Touma and Shu got the idea to cut Seiji's hair.
Shingo had written that Seiji didn't look bad with both eyes showing, why
didn't he cut his hair? Touma and Shu chased Seiji with
sissors.
"Well, Ryo," he motioned
to the massive amount of black hair, "Doesn't even cut it. At least,
Sage keeps it at a good length."
Shu's and Shin's eyes
widened as they realized what the Trooper of Intellect was saying.
Before Ryo knew what was happening, he was being dragged into the bathroom
and propped up on a small stool. When he saw the sissors in Sai's
hands, he understood the horrible evil his friends had planned for
him.
"No!" he tried to stand,
but his legs were thoroughly bound together and he began to
collapse. Kento caught him before he hit the floor. They taped
his mouth and placed a piece of tape over his eyes when the tears began to
fall. Then, the sound of snipping and electric razor filled his
ears.
They found an
underground tunnel and went down there in order to avoid a horde of pesky
nether spirits, only to find the passage full of pesky soldiers which they
gleefully evaded thanks to Ami's technology pieces.
"I'm so tired of
walking. Let's take a break," grumbled Sailor Moon.
The tunnel split in two
and they had to choose which way to go. Sailor Mercury stopped,
staring intently at her mini-computer, so everyone else stopped as
well. It was the standing still for a second and then walking again
that hurt poor Serena so much. As soon as they stopped, the muscles
in her legs began to heal in relief and to start walking again was
torture.
"We're trapped," Sailor
Mercury said after a moment of silence.
"That's not good,"
Pikachu, the monarch of understatements, commented.
"Either way we'll go,
we'll encounter soldiers," Mercury reported.
"So, let's just go and
fight some," said Sailor Jupiter.
Sailor Moon had an
idea. "Let's just wait here for them to come and rest up while we're
waiting. That way we'll be stronger when we do fight them since we
can't prevent a battle with those things anyway."
Surprisingly everyone
agreed, even Sailor Mars.
"Ow..." Pikachu once
again rubbed the area just above it's zigzag tail gently. Pikachu's
tail twitched painfully every now and then. "He didn't have to pull
so hard, you know!"
"He's such a pig,"
commented Sailor Jupiter.
"Sekhmet's really not
that bad," said Sailor Venus. Of course, she was just defending him
cause he was the only other person she knew who hated
Pokemon.
The rest of the group
stared at her as though she was crazy, but decided not to explore the
matter any further.
Sailor Jupiter leaned
back again the tunnel wall. How exactly did Dura
take away my attacks? Ami hasn't detected any special machines or
powers and neither has Raye, but then again I guess Ami hasn't checked.
"Hey, Sailor Mercury, is
there anything different about Dura that we need to know about? In
order to defeat her so that there aren't any surprises when we fight
her?"
Sailor Mercury checked
through her visor and mini-computer. "No."
After a few moments of
quiet resting, Sailor Moon asked Pikachu convesationally, "What are you
gonna do after this is over?"
"Oh, normal stuff.
The usual."
Mina, Sekhmet's new
recuit, held an expression of complete disgust at what Pikachu had to
say. Everyone else, however, was curious as to why Sage and Pikachu
left their native territories.
"We left something in
Irumsa," Pikachu explained that question. This felt oddly like an
interrgation which made the furry animal nervous. In order to
prepare for another question, it began to think of a complete story AKA
lie. Unfortunately, it began thinking too late.
"What were you doing in
Irumsa anyway?" Sailor Mars wondered.
"Yeah, what did you
leave there?" Sailor Moon added to Mars's question.
"Um..." They
caught Pikachu off guard there and in a desperate attempt to change the
conversation, it turned to Sailor Jupiter who wasn't in on the
cross-examination. "It's really kinda important so we don't want to
talk about it. You understand, don't you, Lita?"
"Huh?" Sailor Jupiter
was pulled away from her planning and thoughts.
"When you lose something
really important and you don't want to talk about it cause it's really
important. You understand, right?"
"Um, yeah." Now,
everyone's eyes were focuced on Sailor Jupiter and the interrogation soon
ended.
Suddenly, something
seemed to click in Makoto's mind. Dura is using the Dynasty which
brought the warlords here. Sage is from the same Anime as the
warlords and Sage has an electric attack. Lita shook that notion out
of her head since Kale also has an electric attack and she's seen him use
it frequently. Her brain went to work again and she remembered that
Kale's attack wasn't orgininally electric. The Warlord of
Corruption's attack only turned electric because of the dub. Sage's
attack was orginally and will always be electric. Lita also
remembered that she's never seen Sage use his attack and she hasn't seen
Pikachu's attack either.
"You're known as the
electric mouse, right?" Sailor Jupiter asked the furry
pokemon.
"Yeah, but I hate being
called that."
"You're electric though,
right?" If Sage and Pikachu both have electric attacks and she has
never seen their attacks and they say that they have "lost something" that
they don't want to talk about, then perhaps they have also lost their
electric attacks? If that was true, then why would Dura take away
Pikachu's attack? Dura was just plain crazy...
"Yes..." Pikachu
answered nervously.
The Demon of Darkness
swung his sword down, slicing his enemy in half. Despite their
precautions, they were ambushed by a couple dozen legions of mindless
soldiers. He and his group were winning, but there were jusr too
many soldiers which made the battle really annoying. Kale blocked a
few surprising blows with his sword and things turned into a
routine. Block, parry, kill soldier, kill soldier, kill soldier,
parry, block, kill soldier, kill soldier...
Everyone was fighting
valiantly and they all formed fighting routines. Sekhmet seemed to
be thoroughly enjoying himself, slashing his enemies without
end. Sage was not as battle-happy as Sekhmet and followed a battle
routine similar to Kale's. Dais methodically hacked away at his
enemies and Kamen was... doing decently well.
Kill soldier, block,
parry, parry, kill soldier, kill soldier, block, parry... Kale
struck his sword straight through the chest of a Dynasty soldier and
struggled to pull his nodatchi out of the dull ugly green armor. His
sword was stuck! He desperately attacked his enemies with his claws,
but that wouldn't work for too long so he held onto his sword tightly and
shouted out, "Black Lighting Slash!"
The other members of his
group trotted back towards him, sweaty and bored. That leigon of
soldiers was wiped out completely by Kale's attack. The Warlord of
Corruption felt very, very annoyed at how weak those soldiers were.
He looked up and saw at least two hundred more soldiers ready to be
slaughtered. Kale sighed, very annoyed. "It's your turn,
Halo," he said dismissively, gesturing for the Samurai to use his major
attack.
About an hour after the
duct tape attack, Kousei called and Kento was able to pinpoint her exact
location. The somber Ryo was freed and everyone enjoyed his new
haircut, excluding himself. Kento was truly an expert at using the
electric razor and sissors.
"Is she really going to
watch boxing?" Rowen was on the verge of incredulous as he flipped a
page. The bookworm knew absolutely nothing about women, but he
didn't think they enjoyed that.
"I was only joking," Ryo
confessed, rubbing the fuzz on his head. At least he wasn't
completely bald. They just had to take their frustrations with Sage
out on him, didn't they? If only Sage allowed them to tamper with
his hair that one time, then Ryo's hair wouldn't have had to
suffer...
Kento shrugged, highly
doubting it now. It seemed like a good idea at the time since she
always loved to fight. "I do know that she wants to eat dinner here
and she wants to meet you guys." That meant either Sai or Mia had to
cook.
"Isn't she a vegan?" Sai
wondered. Every single Magia in history was known to be a vegan and
Kousei is the future Magia... Sai knew nothing about vegan
meals.
"Not yet," Kento
replied.
"You are going to flee,"
Dura stated to Durog, looking at her choice of weapons.
"Yes," he
admitted. "This is all very messed up."
"I agree. It was
your idea after all. I, however, will stay and try to get rid of
Sailor Jupiter. I sent a few legions to separate her from the
others. When they succeed, I will attack."
"If they fail, then they
fail and I will think of another strategy. If you're going to be a
coward, then run away now."
"Huh?" Sage wondered if
Kale actually said what he thought he said.
"It's your turn, Halo,"
the warlord repeated. "Go Thunderbolt cut'em."
"Um, no. I
can't. I don't want to." Sage looked at the other men.
"Sekhmet? Dais? Kamen? Do any of you want to take out
the soldiers?" They gave him baffled looks. Sage said to Kale,
"I just really don't want to."
Sekhmet and Dais, tired
of their childishness, combined attacks and destroyed a few more
legions. A dozen replaced the three that were
destroyed.
"Well, here they come,"
Sailor Jupiter said, standing up.
"Oh, my poor legs,"
Sailor Moon whined as she stood up.
The five Senshi and one
pokemon got up, ready for the enemy. Sailor Moon, Mars, Mercury, and
Venus used their special attacks to wipe out the first group, but as usual
several more replaced the ones who perished. Pikachu stayed close to
Sailor Jupiter who litterally threw herself in the midst of soldiers,
punching and kicking ferociously. Soon, she was surrounded on all
sides by Dynasty Soldiers for as far as she could see. The
brown-haired Senshi could hear the battle cries of her friends in the
distance.
"Um, Lita, shouldn't we
go back?" Pikachu asked, dodging blows, noticing she was going foward
towards more of the soldiers and putting herself in more
danger.
"Don't worry.
They're Sailor Senshi. They can take care of
themselves."
"I wasn't worried about
them." Pikachu sighed. "Nevermind."
Sailor Jupiter dodged a
blow and kicked a soldier straight in the chest, knocking it into more
warriors and providing a slight clearing from which she stepped
foward. The ground felt crunchy under her feet and she heard a
masticate sound as she moved. Pikachu ran closer to Sailor Jupiter
as more soldiers came. Suddenly, the ground beneath them disappeared
and rapidly moving air that came from below surrounded them, lashing their
skin. They were falling. |
