Part 8: The Death of Sailor Moon!
"NOOOOOO!!!!!" all of the Sailor Soldiers cried.
"Naru-chan!" Sailor Moon screamed.
Saturn took her staff and shouted, "Silent...Wall!"
All of a sudden, a barrier protected Naru. She concentrated extra hard to try to raise her back up to the surface...something she's never done. Guess you could call this an improved "Silent Wall" attack. (^_^)
"Oh, please, help her," Sailor Moon begged, tears in her eyes.
Koori looked on in amazement.
"Why are you pitiful Sailor Soldiers even trying to stop us...there's no way you can stop us!"
Koori laughed again, especially after Sailor Saturn had suceeded in bringing Naru back to the surface. They ignored him and ran towards Naru.
"Damn you!" Sailor Jupiter shouted angrily, her fists bawled as she noticed Naru. "This is not her!"
In Naru's place was an exact replica of Naru.
Koori laughed.
"I'm the trickster of the family and I must say, my illusion was wonderful, don't you think."
"Where is she! What'd you do to her!" Sailor Moon demanded. "Why did you kill her!!!"
"Now I wouldn't do that," Koori snarled. "Saturn was right. I was only bluffing."
"I knew it," Saturn said. "Ami said that they were storing energy for something...they can't get energy from a dead person."
"Wow, you airheads are a lot smarter than I thought," Koori said. "I notice that that airhead, Sailor Venus, isn't here. She's probably the biggest out of all of them, next to Sailor Moon that is."
He started to laugh at his own bad joke.
"Who are you calling an airhead," a voice from behind them called.
Everyone turned to see who it was. There stood a girl with a white cat by her side.
"Artemis, Sailor Venus!" Luna called out happily.
"I'm Sailor Venus, the solider of love, and how dare you call us air heads! In the name of Venus, I will show you how much of an 'Airhead' I really am!"
Koori started laughing his head off.
"An airhead wouldn't be smart enough to do this!" Venus said, about to attack head on using an old attack of hers. "Sailor V Kick!"
Koori laughed even harder, not feeling threatened at all, even though Sailor Venus was coming towards him. He just moved out of the way.
"Ooh, you tried to kick me, on no," Koori said with hints of sarcasm in his voice when he noticed that Venus was going to try that move of hers again.
The blonde haired heroine got mad and stopped in her tracks.
"Venus Love Me Chain!!!" Venus shouted.
A bunch of chained hearts started to head towards Koori, tying him in place.
"Puh-lease," he yawned. He just froze the chain and it fell to the ground. "You girls can't beat me, besides, I got what I wanted."
They then heard a scream coming from down in the pit, screaming, "Help me!"
"Naru-chan," Sailor Moon called out.
They all looked down into the pit; it was empty. All they saw was Naru trapped in a barrier...there was no fire, and there were no spikes...it was all just an illusion that Koori had created somehow with the help of his two sisters. All of a sudden, a lady floated down. She chuckled lightly.
"Good job, Koori," the lady complimented.
"Yes, Archadia-sama (Lady Archadia)," Koori bowed down. "I have single handedly captured..."
"Single handedly," two voices shouted, interrupting the smug boy. It was Sekai and Inazumi.
"Well, I don't see you two doing anything," Koori retorted.
"Isn't it obvious he's the youngest," Inazumi said, rolling her eyes.
"I was the one that opened up the ground so that you could drop her in," Sekai said. "And I set up the spikes!"
"I was the one to help make the fire," Inazumi said.
"Well, I was the one to make it look as if it were real," Koori cried.
"You and your stupid practical jokes," Inazumi muttered in annoyance.
Archadia and the other solidiers sweatdropped.
"WILL YOU THREE SHUTUP AND GET HERBACK TO OUR QUEEN!!!!" Archadia shouted. "Let's go!"
"You're not going anywhere until you tell us what you're going to do with Naru-chan!" Sailor Moon threatened.
"That's for us to know and for you to find out, Sailor Moon," Archadia chortled evily. "And believe me, you'll soon find out."
Archadia put out her hand and a cage rose from the pit with Naru in it. It had an electrical forcefield around her and it had knocked her out completely.
"No!" Sailor Moon wailed.
"Sekai, I want you to come with me," Archadia said. "Inazumi, Koori, you two stay here and take care of those Sailor idiots and just in case, I'll leave you a bit of help."
Archadia gave Sekai a look. Sekai got what she was thinking and used her power to summon some type of an animal or insect of some sort. An unusual amount of Bats, Fireflies, and Butterflies appeared.
"Ooh...Hotaru," Chibi-Usa exclaimed happily trying to catch them.
"Huh," Hotaru asked.
"Oh, sorry." Chibi-Usa apologized.
*That wasn't really supposed to be a joke (who knows...maybe in my subconscious mind it was). "Hotaru" is the Japanese name for a "Firefly," which is what Hotaru's name ironically means.*
Hotaru then noticed the Butterflies.
"Butterflies? At night," Hotaru said in a puzzled tone.
Archadia then got a sneaky, mischevious look about her face and shot out a beam towards the group of butterflies and bats that were just flying around minding their own business.
"Arigatou, Sekai," Archadia said, still with the evil smile.
The Bats and Butterflies then started to transform...only some of them though. The rest of them flew away.
"Uh-oh," Chibi-Moon said, holding on to Luna P and Saturn.
"This is getting a bit scary," Saturn said, just as scared as Chibi-Moon.
"Have fun, Sailor Brats, with my creations, *Kyuuketsuki, Kochou, and Chouchou!*" Archadia said as she and Sekai took off towards the sky with an unconscious Naru.
*Note: Kyuuketsuki is one way of saying "vampire." Kochou is one way of saying "Butterfly" and so is Chouchou. I know, bad pun. -_-*
Kyuuketsuki was very tall and pale and had razor sharp looking fangs. He wore a dark outfit, his bat like wings tucked under, and his eyes looked as if they were currently lacking life.
Both Kochou and Chouchou looked like two girls dressed for a Halloween party, only the costumes were real. Both had beautiful, white wings and they both had attenaes sticking out from their foreheads. Both wore a bikini top and a skirt. Kochou's outfit was a bright yellowish color, while Chouchou's was light, bluish color and both had long, dark red hair and light purplish skin.
"NARU-CHAN!!!" Usagi screamed as
she saw them taking her best friend away.
****
Meanwhile, in the alley where Neptune
and Haruka had their fierce battle....
"Well, what have you found out, Mercury," Rei asked.
"Nothing much," Ami said. She then put on her visor to look for clues. She then noticed something.
"What's the matter?"
"This...this...Raccoon," Ami said. "And these Cherry Blossoms."
"I didn't even notice them," Rei said. "An evil force was definitely here...I feel it...but what do these blossoms have to do with a dead Raccoon?"
"Its energy was drained at an unusual rate," Ami said while inputting some calculations.
Rei was about to pick up one of the Sakura (Cherry Blossom) petals, until Mercury smacked her hand, shouting, "NO!"
"Huh, what?"
"They're the reason this raccoon's energy is depleted! Those Cherry Blossoms are energy drainers and it drained the energy out of that Raccoon like it was nothing!" Mercury warned. "Let me analyze it first."
Mercury used her small computer and her visor to make out the properties of the Blossoms. She then spoke up.
"I hate to say it, but either Beryll is back or either Metallia is," Ami frowned. "These Blossoms have the exact same properties of those whose energy was taken away when they were around before!"
"But that's impossible!! Sailor Moon defeated both Beryll and Metallia!"
"Hmm, according to this, it came from a creature with nature like powers."
"How do you know?"
"Well, I'm quite sure since this computer of mine has been upgraded, I can pinpoint exactly where it is!"
"Wow, you've been working hard on that thing."
Ami started pressing buttons again. She then got a screen with a map of Tokyo. There was a blinking pink light.
"There!" Ami pointed. "This pink flashing light is the creature that zapped the energy of that racoon! It seems to be flying towards someplace in the center of Tokyo!" The girl thought for a moment. "Tokyo Tower!"
"But why would they want the energy of a racoon and what's the blue flashing light and that red one with it?"
"I don't think it was intentional," Ami started. "I'm sure it was an accident because according to this, the amout of energy that was taken from that raccoon would be enough to knock out a human, not kill them, like those blossoms did with this poor raccoon. I don't know who the others could be with this youma, but it could be the two victims!"
"What should we do, where are the others?"
Ami pinpointed them on her computer. There was a dark green flashing light, a light pink flashing light, an orange flashing light, a dark purplish flashing light, and a white flashing light in one spot,along with two more flashing lights and about three more around them that Ami couldn't make out, and in another, near Tokyo Tower, was a flashing green light, a flashing black light, a golden yellow flashing light, and an aqua green flashing light.
"Here they are," Ami said. "It only picks up the Soldiers, nothing else though, only if I ask it specifically, and only if it's some kind of a demon creature, or Tuxedo Kamen-sama. It's programmed for that."
"So it seems that Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Chibi-Moon, Sailor Venus, Sailor Saturn, and Sailor Moon are in this area, right there," Rei pointed, "and Sailor Pluto, Tuxedo Kamen-sama, Sailor Uranus, and Sailor Neptune are near Tokyo Tower."
"Right!" Ami said. "But where do we go? Do we go to Tokyo Tower or do we go to where Sailor Moon and the others are? It looks like some type of a battle is going on over where they are with all those other flashes."
"I say we go help them kick some butt, then we go join Uranus and the others!" Rei said. "We are a team!"
Ami nodded.
"Let's go then!"
The two took off...following the
location on Ami's computerized map of the city...
****
"How could they get away with her,"
Sailor Moon cried. "It's all my fault!"
Jupiter blocked off an attack that was headed towards Sailor Moon.
"Get on your feet, Sailor Moon!" Jupiter told her. "You have to fight and sitting there isn't going to bring Naru back!"
Sailor Moon knew that she was right. She nodded.
"I'm sorry," Sailor Moon apologized.
****
"Looks like Sailor Moon is losing
out on her concentration...don't you think?" Inazumi laughed.
"It sure does, sis," Koori agreed.
Inazumi then ordered Kyuuketsuki to attack Sailor Moon since she was the most powerful, as well as the most vulnerable, and Koori ordered Kochou and Chouchou to attack the others.
"If we can get Kyuuketsuki to bite
Sailor Moon then she'll join our side," Inazumi chuckled evilly.
****
"Usagi-chan, look out!" Luna called
out.
Another attack was headed towards Sailor Moon, it was Kyuuketsuki. He had thrown out these fang looking objects that were razor sharp! Thanks to Luna's call to her, she avoided it just in time.
Saturn and Chibi-Moon had their hands full with both Kochou and Chouchou. The Fireflies were giving them trouble also. They were all huddled together to make a big flashing light to blind them and to leave the two vulnerable for Kochou and Chouchou to attack them.
"I can't see," Chibi-Moon said, trying to attack. "Pink...Sugar...Heart...Attack!"
It missed the two completely.
"These kids can't do a thing! Look at her trying to hurt us with a bunch of pink hearts!" Kochou said, looking over at her sister.
"I know what you mean, sister," Chouchou laughed. "Fireflies...make the light more intense!"
"Yes...that way we'll have no problems with them!" Kochou snarled.
"Oh no!" Sailor Venus and Jupiter shouted as they saw Sailor Saturn and Chibi-Moon struggling to regain their sight.
Kochou and Chouchou were about to attack the two using a strange beam which shot out from their antennas. Saturn had dropped her staff and couldn't protect themselves by using her "Silent Wall" and Chibi-Moon's Pink Sugar Heart Attack wasn't very effective since she had missed hitting them altogether.
"Jupiter...Oak Evolution!" Jupiter shouted, blocking off the beams with her electrical leaves.
"Good job, Jupiter" Venus complimented.
"Thank you, Sailor Jupiter" Saturn and Chibi-Moon said.
"This is your chance," Koori shouted to Kyuuketsuki. "She's unprotected!
Kyuuketsuki got the message and went after Sailor Moon once again. As a matter of fact...Kyuuketsuki had been attacking her the majority of the time, but Venus or either Jupiter had blocked him off from her.
"Sparkling...Wide...Pressure!" Jupiter shouted as she tossed out a ball of electricity.
"Kyuuketsuki can withstand a bit of electricity," he snarled with his Translyvanian accent, "but what I want is blood!!!"
All of a sudden, Saturn and Chibi-Moon called for help once again. The two Butterfly sisters had the two tied up in this silky type of substance and it was holding the two together very tightly. Venus and Jupiter ran to their aid, leaving Sailor Moon "unprotected."
"I'm hungry," Kyuuketsuki said as he inched closer and closer towards Sailor Moon, who was now petrified with fear and filled with guilt over Naru's being kidnapped.
Jupiter, Venus, and the others couldn't get to her to save her. They had gone back to trying to help the younger members of the group but they too got caught in the silky substance that the Butterfly sisters had used catch Chibi-Moon and Saturn.
"Sailor Moon!" they all cried.
"A nice...yummy snack for me," Kyuuketsuki said in an eerie voice.
"No..." Sailor Moon whimpered. "No..."
He grabbed Sailor Moon and held his long, skinny hands around her neck and lifted her from off of the ground, her feet dangling trying to reach the ground. Sailor Moon had tears in her eyes as he held her by the neck. He then looked as if he were going to kiss her.
"No need for you all to see this," Inazumi said as she used her Haiden Attack, which was nothing but a distribution of electricity from her body. The four soldiers shouted out in pain from the attack.
"Finish them off," Koori ordered the two sisters.
"And don't forget to finish off that brat Sailor Moon," Inazumi added on.
"With pleasure," Kyuuketsuki said hungrily. "She's so full of life and energy and hopes and dreams! You will make one delicious snack!"
"Shabon....Spray!!!" a voice shouted.
"Huh...what's that?" Koori asked trying to see through the thick fog.
"sailor...mercury?" Sailor Moon said, gasping for air because of the tight grip Kyuuketsuki had on her neck. She felt herself growing weaker and weaker by the second.
Kyuuketsuki paid no attention to the fog that appeared suddenly and continued on with his task. He then bit down on Usagi. "Fog isn't going to stop me from carrying out my task!! What does it matter anyway if there is a bit of fog....all I wanted was a little snack!" He then laughed evilly as he felt Usagi falling from out of his grasp, as if she were dead.
"naru-chan...must..save...naru..." Sailor Moon said as she felt herself falling towards the ground.
Sailor Moon then passed out...no signs of life, what-so-ever.
*I'd like to thank my pals, Mystical Jade (for the translations) and Nukem (for inspiring me for the youmas for this part). Also another friend of mine, who helped me with the names of a few of these attacks...too bad he doesn't write fics. Thanks a lot you three. ^_^*
