Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon Eclipse 11
http://hizashi.net/eclipse/
By: Jackie Miller
The Last Straw
Usagi sat down on the edge of her bed heavily and sighed. She put her head in her hands and slow tears trickled down. Yesterday, they had all packed up from the mall and walked back to their van. Mercury and Venus had been hurt badly, they had to be carried by Jupiter and Uranus When they arrived at the Hotel, they were no better, and the girls had trouble sneaking them into the hotel, without anyone seeing their fuku's. When Mamoru and Artemis arrived back at the hotel, they had been shocked at the outcome of the battle. Usagi smiled faintly, remembering Karei, 'At least I have a new friend.' she thought to herself. She stood up and walked down to Mamoru's room she opened the door, surprising him, and sat in a chair,
"Mamo-chan, I've decided. We need to go home. And...I want to ask Karei if she will come with us." she said firmly. Mamoru looked surprised,
"Usako, do you think she will come? Doesn't she have relatives here? How will she explain it? I mean, she's only 17." he said calmly, standing up and walking over to her. Usagi lowered her head,
"You're right, but she has to come with us! How can we beat the enemy if we are not at our strongest? Mamo-chan, I...I'm scared. This enemy is so strong, she destroyed Saturn!" Usagi confessed. Mamoru smiled gently and hugged her, "It will be all right, I will protect you! We'll go talk to her tomorrow if you want." Usagi stood up, and hugged him fiercely. "Ai shiteru, Mamo-chan." She whispered. He smiled and kissed her gently. They stood that way for a moment, Usagi broke and smiled up at him, he wiped the tears from her cheek and she blushed,
"I'll go tell the others." She said softly as she opened the door…
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Mistress Luna appeared before Planet in a shimmer of glitter, bowing grandly.
"Hai?" Planet asked, swirling her wine in her black goblet.
"My queen, the senshi have gathered again, do you wish me to attack now?" Luna asked, smiling. Planet regarded her,
"Hai, but don't attack to kill, just hurt them a little, I want to have some fun with them first." Planet said. Luna grinned evilly and bowed, departed in a burst of sparkles.
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All the Inners, Mamoru and Usagi gathered at Karei's house. Haruka, Michiru and Artemis stayed to arrange their travel back to Tokyo. Usagi knocked, and Karei's aunt opened the door, "Yes?" she asked pleasantly.
"We're here to see Karei-san." Usagi said, bowing respectfully.
"Ah, Konnichi wa! I am her aunt, Yuchino Aya. Hajimemashite. You must be her new friends from Japan, ne?" Aya asked. She gestured for them to come in.
"Hai, Karei told us about you, I'm pleased to make your acquaintance." Mamoru said, smiling. Aya looked up at him, he was at least a 2 feet taller than her, and smiled. All the Inners smiled too.
"Just a moment, make yourselves comfortable." Aya said, she walked up the stairs. Usagi and Mamoru sat together on a love seat and the others stood, looking around the room. It was large, compared to the houses they lived in, it was a little bigger than Usagi's house. Their was a large spiral staircase down the other side of the wall. A large t.v was situated in the center of the room. The living room was lavishly decorated with pictures of Karei riding a white horse over huge fences, and the walls were decorated with ribbons, and their was a small bookcase stuffed with trophies. A moment later, Karei came running down the staircase, "Ne minna!" she said breathlessly, brushing her long green hair back from her flushed cheeks. Usagi smiled, "Can we talk somewhere...private?" she asked. Karei's eyes widened knowingly,
"Oh yes, come up to my room." She led them up to her room, which was very grand and spacious. It was also decorated with a horse motif, with pictures of Karei sitting bareback on the same white horse, and model horses were placed on every available surface. "Please, sit!" she said gesturing to some chairs. The senshi sat around her. Usagi took a deep breath,
"Karei, I have something very important to ask you." she said seriously. Karei looked slightly nervous. "So do you like being a senshi?"
"Oh yes! It's great, I love all you guys!" Karei said. "It's so much fun to be a senshi, who would ever have thought that little old me would be something so cool and mysterious, just like James Bond or something!" she gushed. Usagi smiled knowingly, 'I thought the same thing when I first became a senshi, she'll learn.' She thought herself.
"I'm glad. Well, I'll cut to the chase, we came to ask you to come with us, back to Japan." Karei let out a deep whoosh of air, and sat on her bed.
"I..I don't know. I want to, but Aunt Aya, Melody, and Demetria, I can't just leave them." she said sadly. Usagi looked confused,
"Who is Demetria?" Rei asked.
"Oh, she's my horse, I love her sooo much! I couldn't possibly leave her, who would take care of her?"
Usagi contemplated for a moment.
"What if we could take her to Japan with us?" she asked seriously. Mamoru's jaw dropped,
"Do you have any idea how expensive that would be!" he exclaimed. Usagi smiled,
"We senshi have another form of travel." she said. The Inners looked surprised,
"Do you think we should use it for that?" Ami asked. Usagi bowed her head,
"It would be worth it to have Karei with us." she said softly.
"Wait a minute, what are you talking about?" Karei interrupted.
"Well, when we are senshi we can teleport ourselves to wherever we want." Minako explained.
"Oh." Karei said incredulously, not quite believing them. Makoto started to say something, when there was a strangled scream from downstairs, "Aunt Aya!" Karei yelled, she pushed past the others and ran down the stairs, to see her aunt lying in a heap, with a woman in a indecent gold dress, smiling beside her. "Kami-sama!" Karei yelled, "Busu! Why did you do that to my aunt?! She was innocent!" the woman smiled,
"I'm not so innocent." she said snidely. She whipped up a fan she was holding and pointed it at Karei, who was blasted by a large burst of gold energy. She flew back and slammed into a wall, plaster flying everywhere. She lay there for a moment, then started to struggle and weakly stood up.
"Onore!" she yelled, her green eyes snapping sparks, "Earth Crystal Power, make up!" she yelled, holding a pink pen in the air, a yellowish-green ball flew up onto it and she transformed into super sailorearth. The woman looked slightly surprised as Karei transformed.
"You'll pay!" Earth yelled. "I am the pretty sailor suited soldier, Sailorearth, in the name of earth, I will punish you!" she cried posing. The woman snickered behind her fan,
"So you are the power everyone is making such a big fuss about!" she sneered, "You don't look so scary to me!" She laughed and spun around as she said this, flapping her fan, a even bigger blast of energy struck earth unprepared. Earth started to fly into a wall again, when suddenly a black cape whirled, and Tuxedo Kamen caught her and landed on the ground. The woman gasped and looked up. Standing at the top of the stairs were 5 soldiers.
"We are the pretty sailorsuited soldiers, and we will punish you!" they yelled together. They all jumped down and landed in a circle around the woman who snarled and crouched into a fighting stance. Sailormoon gasped,
"Luna!" she cried. She started to run to her, but Sailormars held her back,
"No! Look...she's evil!" she said quietly.
"Yes, I am evil." Luna sneered, flicking her fan open and fanning herself snidely with it, "And I am no longer plain boring Luna, I am now Mistress Luna, servant of Controllerplanet." She smiled almost graciously and bowed slightly. Sailormoon gasped and took a step back.
"No, it can't be!" she cried, putting a hand to her mouth.
"Yes, it is true, why, you should have been there when planet destroyed that pitiful girl the other day. What was her name? Hotaru something? It was marvelous." Luna laughed behind her fan. "Now shut up, and fight!" she hissed, crouching again. She spun quickly, holding her fan above her and suddenly a beam of energy shot from it towards the ceiling and the broke into 5 separate blasts that fell down on the senshi. They all cried out and fell to their knees. Sailormoon weakly stood up, using her staff for support.
"Luna, no." she whispered, a small trickle of blood poured from her lip. Luna laughed.
"You are weak, I will destroy you." she laughed. She fluttered her fan and a bolt of energy headed towards Sailormoon who just stared in shock,
"How could you?" was the last thing she said, before it hit her, she fell to the ground unconscious.
"Usako!" Tuxedo Kamen yelled. He threw a rose at Luna, it hit her cheek, badly cutting her. Luna laughed,
"You and your pitiful rose, do you think you can possible harm me with that? Unless I'm allergice that is. Oh! Achoo! Achoo!" Luna mocked, laughing at her own joke. She waved her fan at her face, the soft breeze instantly healed the cut. Luna laughed, "I don't know why she stays with you, you couldn't save her in the Silver Millenium, and most of your time together, you hurt her!" Luna laughed. Kamen's face fell,
"That's not true! We love each other!" he yelled. Luna laughed,
"You have hurt her so many times, she only stays with you because she has no choice!" she yelled. Kamen frowned and looked around, he was the only one standing, 'maybe she's right.' he thought to himself.
"You couldn't save her then, and you can't save her now!" Luna hissed, she held a hand out and her long gold nails stretched into razor-sharp claws, which she extended towards Sailormoon's exposed neck.
"Iie!" he yelled. A bright white aura surrounded him, he floated softly off the ground, and Luna hissed and shielded her eyes from the light. His tuxedo shimmered, and shifted. It became a light purple color, and was more elaborate. His cape turned into a soft purple with a silver lining. His cane flashed, and turned into a tall staff, with a golden crystal at the top. His top hat disappeared, and his mask shimmered, and slowly jewels appeared on the surface of it. He lowered to the ground and opened his eyes. He stared at Luna who gasped, "Endymion!" She snarled and pointed her fan at him, and he calmly raised his staff, it formed a white barrier around him, which dissipated the attack. Luna gasped,
"I will be back, and stronger that before!" she screamed. She disappeared in a flash of gold. Endymion gasped and then turned and ran to Sailormoon, whose eyes were open and watching him. He helped her sit up,
"That was wonderful, I love your new suit." she said slowly, smiling a trail of blood coming from her mouth. She coughed slightly and stood up. The other senshi started to wake up as well. As they stood up, Mercury noticed him,
"You look just like King Endymion!" she gasped. The other senshi stared at him and nodded as well. Behind them, Earth stood up and looked confused,
"What did you say?" she asked, looking sick.
"I said he looks just like King Endymion." Earth gasped and paled slightly.
"Nani?" Mars asked, setting a hand on her shoulder.
"That name sounds so....familiar. I feel like I'm on the verge of remembering something…something that I forgot a long time ago." she said softly. Behind them, Aunt Aya groaned softly. Earth gasped, and she was surrounded in a yellowish green aura, and de-transformed. She rushed to her aunt, and knelt beside her. Her aunt was very pale. The other senshi detransformed and stood behind her. "We need to get her to a Hospital! Who was that woman?" she asked, scared. Usagi looked away, a sad look on her face,
"I'll tell you everything on the way to the Hospital."
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Karei sat beside her aunt in the hospital , holding her hand. Her aunt was injured badly, and had not woken up yet, she would have to stay in the Hospital for a while. Karei lowered her head, 'I want to go to Japan, to be with the senshi and my new friends.' she thought. She looked at her Aunt and a tear slid down her cheek, 'but I have to make sure nothing happens to my aunt..again.' she thought with guilt. She started when she felt a hand on her shoulder, she turned and Minako was standing behind her.
"We've decided to stay longer, to make sure your aunt is all right." she said gently, sitting on the edge of the bed.
"Arigatou. I really appreciate it." Karei sighed and looked down at her aunt.
"Karei-chan, why don't you go out and do something? We will watch your aunt. You need to take a break, get out in the fresh air." Makoto suggested, walking up with Ami. Karei bowed her head and nodded. She kissed her aunt's cheek, she turned and faced them,
"Arigatou. I think I will go riding." she said softly. Usagi smiled.
"Have fun, we will watch her. Don't worry." Mamoru nodded and placed a hand on Usagi's shoulder. Karei smiled and walked slowly out. She stopped at a pay-phone and called Melody.
"Melody? Do you want to go riding?" she asked.
"Sure! When?" Melody asked cheerfully.
"Umm, how about in half an hour, I'm at the Hospital, my aunt...had a heart attack." Karei said sadly. Melody gasped,
"Oh my gosh! Is she all right? Are you sure you want to go riding? I can come over to be with you."
"No, I...need to get out." Karei said quietly.
"All right. I'll be there." Melody said uncertainly.
"Bye." Karei hung up the phone and walked out to her car and drove towards the stables.
'I want to go to Japan so bad, but I need to take care of my aunt, and I can't leave Melody.' she thought. 'I'll tell them when I get back.' she decided with regret...
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Luna appeared before Planet, she bowed her cheeks were slightly flushed, and her eyes glinted with anger. "Gomen nasai, my queen. I wanted to leave while they were down." she said nervously. Planet turned from a hologram and smiled.
"You did well, you got them on their knees the first time. I will give you a energy boost, Matter-san has created a energy machine for me. He will take you to it." Luna bowed and breathed a sigh of relief. Matter appeared in a shadow, and smiled at Luna.
"This way." he said politely, bowing her towards the door. Luna sneered at him and walked ahead of him. Matter frowned and followed her. Planet smiled benignly and turned back to the hologram.
"Hologram! Show placement of powers." she snapped. The hologram beeped and showed where everyone was. "Hmmm, the weaker one is by herself. I should take of her now." planet mused. "Controllerfire!" she yelled. Fire appeared before her, bowing.
"Hai, planet-sama?" she said.
"I meant to ask you, why did Wind go to kill the senshi? I believe that I commanded you to do it." Planet said lightly, a underlying threat in her words. She glanced at Fire, her eyes a dangerous black. She opened her hand, Fire flinched, but a goblet of blue sapphire appeared in her hands, and she drank dark azure wine from it. "So?" she asked, her hands were white as the gripped the goblet.
Fire bowed again, nervously, "Gomen nasai, my queen. I know that you told me to do it. I was going to do it, but Wind went before I could. I don't know why she did it." Fire explained, her voice cracking slightly as she bowed deeper.
Planet smiled slightly, and slowly sipped her wine. "Fine. I accept your explanation, just don't let it happen again." She sighed, and her eyes lightened, "I have another mission for you, just make sure that your mistake doesn't happen again." She smiled dangerously. Fire bowed and released a sigh of relief.
"My mission, my liege?" she asked, straightening.
"Ah yes, the smaller power is separated from the others, get rid of her!" she ordered.
"Hai." Fire bowed and disappeared in a pillar of flame.
Planet smiled as she left, but as soon as she was gone, the smile disappeared. She lowered her glass and frowned to herself, 'That power must be destroyed, and soon. She is my only weakness.' She thought to herself, the hand gripping her goblet grew paler and paler, until her goblet shattered in her hands, blue wine spilling everywhere…..
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Karei and Melody rode quietly side by side. Karei reached down and petted Demetria's neck.
"Melody?" Karei asked, turning slightly towards Melody.
"Yes?" Melody smiled and stroked her horse's, Artex, neck.
"Would you miss me if I left?" she said, her voice implying deeper meanings.
"Of course I would! Why would you say that?" Melody asked, shocked.
"Well, I have a chance to go back to Japan."
"Do yo want to go?" Melody said studying her.
"N...Yes, I do, but I don't want to leave Aunt Aya, you or Demetria." Melody watched her
"Karei, if you want to go, go. You're old enough to leave and make your own decisions."
Karei smiled at Melody, when suddenly a woman appeared in the air.
"Look!" Melody gasped, pointing.
The woman laughed, she was tall and beautiful in a dangerous way. She tossed her flaming hair, which whipped around her, tossing sparks.
"Sailorearth! I have come to destroy you!" she cried, pointing a hand, fire glew around her curvaceous body.
"Melody!" Karei cried, she shoved Melody off her horse, just as a fire bolt headed towards her. The bolt consumed Artex, Fire laughed and clapped her hands with pleasure at this turn of events. Artex spun in the air, his saddlery disappearing, and he turned until he was a solid red color. He lowered to the ground and snorted, smoke coming from his nostrils. He lowered his head and charged at Karei and Demetria, fire spurting from his nostrils. Karei screamed and she spun Demetria around, dodging to the side. Artex snorted and turned with them. Karei vaulted off her horse and slapped her, "Nigero!" Demetria ran into the woods, whining. Karei faced the woman,
"I don't know who you are! But I will not allow you to hurt my friends!" A dangerous yellow-green aura surrounded her. Fire laughed,
"You?! You, little girl, how can you beat me without your friends?" she laughed. "Horse! Get her!" she ordered. Artex snorted. He whinnied and a stream of fire shot out and headed towards Karei. She jumped up in the air and landed gracefully in a tree.
"Earth Crystal Power, make up!" she yelled and she transformed into Super Sailorearth. Artex snorted and reared. He pounded on the tree with hooves of iron, the tree splintered and Earth jumped down. She raised a hand to the sky and closed her eyes, "Solar." she whispered. She lowered her hand and opened her eyes, "Eclipse!" she yelled. A flare of light shot from her eyes and momentarily blinded both Fire and Artex. Earth rushed and grabbed Melody. She ran through the trees fast as lightning and carried her through the trees when she had traveled far enough, she gently lay her unconscious friend in the leaves. She flipped open the watch that Artemis had given her, "Senshi! I need help! Right away, I'm cornered!" she whispered fiercely. Usagi's face appeared,
*We're already on our way, we'll be there in 5 minutes!*
Earth closed her watch and looked at Melody with tears in her eyes, "Are you all right?" Melody's eyes opened. Even thought Karei had pushed her out of the way, she had gotten burned, her face was black and singed her, eyelashes were gone, burned from her face.
"Karei?" she whispered. Earth nodded, tears falling like diamonds.
"Yes, don't worry, I'll protect you!" she whispered. Melody nodded weakly and then fainted. Earth gently lay her back down, she stood, and made a fist, "She will pay!" she whispered, looking down at her injured friend. She turned and ran back to the clearing. Fire and Artex were nearly able to see again. Earth stood in front of Fire and cried.
"I am the pretty sailor suited soldier, Sailorearth! In the name of this love filled planet, I will defeat you!" she cried......
To Be Continued
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Here's a interesting tidbit, Demetria is named after the greek goddess of the earth, Demeter. I thought naming her such would be appropriate, since Luna, Artemis and Diana are all named after goddess' of the moon. The model Melody is based on my best friend, Melody Hollis, who looks and acts just like the character in the story. When I told her about it, I asked her what she wanted me to do, and she said she thought it would be cool if she had a red horse that breathed fire! So I told her I would work it in, and she wanted me to name the horse after the horse in 'The Never-ending Story'! So I did, Artex! So there's a little interesting sidenote! Jackie a.k.a. Lunita
