1.1 Chapter 2 - An Encounter with Evil
"Well," said Artemis, "Lets start this meeting!"
"Okay!" said the new girl who was very excited that she had found the Moon Princess and some new great friends. They had called a meeting to discuss her problem further.
"By the way," said Luna. "What do you want us to call you?"
"My name is Princess Leahtair of the planet Aldebaran."
"Princess Leahtuh. . . what!?" attempted Serena.
"Can we make a nick name for you since Serena has a hard time saying your name?" asked Lita with a smile.
"I guess." she said.
"Hmm," pondered Serena. "How about Aneres?"
"That's pretty cool, Serena." said Rei. "Where'd you come up with that one?"
"It's my name spelled backwards!" she said with a smile.
"Oh yeah!" said Rei, "Well I can think of a name better than that! How about Ier? That's cooler than Aneres!"
"Give it a rest!" said Serena, "You're just jealous because mine's cooler!"
"Am not!"
"Are too!"
"STOP IT!!!" shouted Luna after a couple rounds of 'Am not's and 'Are too's. "We aren't arguing about who's name is cooler when spelled backwards, we're discussing what to call a human being!"
"Really, you guys." said Ami in a bored tone. "This is a situation where an argument won't help."
"Are too!" whispered Serena to Rei when Luna wasn't looking.
"Hey!" said Artemis.
"What is it?" asked Lita "Did you think of a good one?"
"Artemis spelled backwards is Simetra! Isn't that cool!"
* whack *
"Artemis! You aren't helping, here!" said an enraged Luna.
"So! You didn't have to go and hit me with a newspaper!"
"How about Leah?" spoke up their new friend.
"Ah!" sighed Serena. "It's beautiful!"
"Thanks." said Leah. "It's my nickname."
"Okay!" sighed Luna. "Let's re-start this meeting! So, Leah, we need to know more about you since you'll be staying here for a year."
"Well," Leah began, "I don't know really what to say. I told you pretty much all that I can: an evil force is attacking my universe, the Moon Princess is the only person who can help, and I need to find as many people to help in a year!"
"Hmm." Rei thought out loud. "So you want all of us to come help you?"
"If you would, I would be forever in your debt!" said Leah.
"I don't see any reason why we wouldn't help." said Lita who respected her new found friend.
"So," said Ami, "I guess we should spend a majority of this year training and preparing for what lies ahead."
"Sound's cool." spoke Mina.
"I could set up a battle situation that might occur while we go to save your universe." said Ami as she got out a piece of paper. "There is a way to train as if we were fighting them for real!"
"How?" asked Rei.
"I can make it like a virtual reality arcade game. That way no one gets hurt, but they also train as if they were really fighting!"
"VR Game!?" said Serena as awoke from her little daydream and wiped off the drool that had gathered at the corners of her mouth. "They don't stand a chance against me or my VR buddy, Sailor V!"
"V stands for victory!" chimed in Mina as she gave the V sign and started to pose.
"Maybe we should give it a try!" said Luna as she smiled and Ami started scribbling away the plans on her piece of notebook paper.
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"Okay!" said Ami. "After a week of unsuccessful attempts, it is finally done!"
"What is finally done?" asked the usually clueless child of the Moon.
"The game Ami was building! I swear, sometimes you are so thick headed I don't think anything could penetrate your wimpy skull!" shouted Rei as her hair stood up on end.
"That's an oxymoron, Rei." said Ami as she went on. "I've decided we can all try it out by twos. I think Leah should be one of the first to try, should we draw on who else gets to experience my machine's maiden voyage?"
"Why don't we just let Ami go?" asked Mina. "I mean, she built the thing!"
"I didn't know you took Spanish!" said Serena laughing uncontrollably. "Get it? Ami go, Amigo!? HA-HA-HA!"
"I'm gonna kill her, I'm gonna kill her." whispered Rei as she attempted to restrain herself from wringing Serena's neck.
"Fine with me!" said Lita as everyone else agreed.
"Okay, then." said Ami as she turned to Leah. "Put on this mask and once I turn it on, we will be zapped away to the world I have invented!"
"Cool!" said Leah as she waved good-bye to everyone and strapped on the helmet and visor.
"When I count to three," said Ami, "I want Luna to push the button. Ready, Leah?"
"Yep."
"Okay, 1... 2... 3!" said Ami as Luna hit the button and the two girls disappeared into thin air.
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"Where are we?" asked Leah. "Is this my planet?"
"No," said Ami as she looked around at all the desolation and emptiness of her imaginary planet. "It's a world I made up. I did, however, feature real things on here. For instance, it has the same gravitational pull as earth, and I featured your bad guy. I didn't know what to call the bad guy, so I named him Dominion 2. Kinda spooky, huh?"
"I'll say!" said Leah as the ground started to rumble. "What's that!?"
"I don't know exactly." said Ami as she pulled out her computer and started assessing the situation.
"I think something bad is about to happen!" said Leah as she put her hand in her pocket.
"You're right!" said Ami. "Dominion 2 happens to be approaching us!"
"Kilagniso Aldebaran Henshinoh Uratorymoss!" shouted Leah.
Ami looked over when she heard Leah's familiar voice speaking in her original language. She figured the youma had attacked her from behind but was wrong. Leah had whipped out a transformation pen similar to that of the rest of the scouts! She started spinning as her body turned a vitreous purple. Then purple electric wave flew up from the ground.
"No way!" thought Ami. "She never told us she could. . . ."
Leah walked up to her and said "Come on, Ami, I can't do this on my own!"
". . . transform." finished Ami to herself as she took a good look at her friend. "Since when could you do that!?" she managed to pull together and spoke to the newest member of the Sailor Team.
"Since when!?" laughed Leah. "Since forever! I guess I forgot to mention it, sorry."
"Don't worry about it." said the still shocked Ami as she pulled out her pen and shouted "Mercury Star Power!"
Just as Ami finished transforming, a shadow cast over the two girls. They turned around and gasped when they saw the scariest youma they had ever seen. There was a giant, dark frame that outlined a pair of blood-red eyes that looked straight at them.
Ami took a deep swallow and said "Well, let's see what you can do." to her friend on her right.
"You want me to attack him?" asked Leah.
"Yeah!" said Ami as if to say 'Hurry up!'.
Leah jumped up in the air, then reached her arms up to the dark sky and shouted "Shadows of the Double Star, give me the power!" then she and spun around as a ring of purple mist surrounded her. She suddenly slowed, crossed her arms across her chest, and then slowly raised her elbows and kept her hands on her shoulders so that her arms were right below her nose. Then she released her hands and raised them up so that they were crossed in the air and she shouted, "Solar Winds!" A purple hurricane appeared from behind her and flew directly towards the youma.
"Woa!" thought Mercury to herself. "That is a way powerful attack! My computer can't even tell it's power level, it's so high! I never realized how strong she was!"
The youma was engulfed by the winds as he screamed for mercy. None was given. The winds finally went away and all of the dust they had picked up began to settle when a loud roar interrupted the silence. The youma wasn't even scratched!
Mercury's computer beeped. "There is no way an attack that powerful could have no effect!" she pondered while she typed away. "He's stronger than I thought!" then she shouted to Leah, "Try something else!"
But it was too late; the youma (now very, very angry) had fired an attack right at Leah. "Look out!" shouted Mercury as she looked up just in time.
"Seismic Reflection!" shouted Leah as she somehow formed a barrier that threw the youma's attack right back at him.
"Unbelievable!" thought Mercury again.
"Lunar Rainbow Encasement!" Leah attacked again.
"Shine Aqua Illusion!" shouted Mercury as she fired at the youma as well.
"Earth Shining!" shouted Leah attacked again, this time lighting up the entire sky!
"Mercury Ice Bubbles, Freeze!"
"Eclipsing Binary!"
"Okay, Leah, I think he's had it!" said Mercury as she and Leah stopped to catch their breath. They were wrong; the youma had somehow survived all of their attacks.
He fired something at the two girls. It hit them with full force! They both flew off as though they had been hit by a speeding train.
"Ami?" asked Leah as she managed to pull herself up to an almost upright position. "Are you OK?
No answer.
She started to cry. "Ami? Are you OK?" she tried again.
After the third time, she was on her feet and tears were streaming out of her eyes. "No! Ami! She's . . . . gone! What am I going to do? I can't beat a youma all by myself! I'm not strong enough!"
She was too scared to do anything, so Dominion 2 kept on attacking. This time, though, he didn't stop. He hit her with his numerous attacks one after another and she was too scared to fight back. 'I can't do this by myself!' the thought kept running through her head.
After awhile, Dominion 2 figured she was dead. She wasn't moving. When he turned around, she managed to prop herself up on her elbows. "I can't beat him, I know I can't!"
She flew into the air after she had gained enough strength and started regenerating as much power as possible.
"Solar. . . ."
*crash*
The youma had hit her while she was gathering energy for her attack. She flew to the ground. That was the last hit she could take. Then, she blacked out.
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She awoke to find all of her new friends around her. She had been lying on Rei's floor for the last five minutes and the rest of the scouts were wondering if she was dead. "Are you OK, Leah?" asked Ami.
Leah jumped up to hug her friend and tears of happiness fell from her purple eyes. "Ami! I thought you were gone!"
"Don't worry!" said Ami, "I planned ahead so death was impossible! It was more like a game over than a life over."
"Thank goodness!" whispered Leah to herself.
"Did you guys win?" asked Serena.
"Not even close!" said Leah as she wiped away her tears. "We didn't even touch him!"
"Woa!" said Mina. "It's a good thing we can practice on him before the real thing!"
"Um, guys?" spoke up Ami.
"What is it?" asked Lita.
"That youma I designed. . ."
"Yeah."
"He featured only a portion of the real evil's power. I thought if we had time, we could work our way up to the real thing!" she said as she looked at the floor.
"You mean the freak we just lost to was only half as bad as this guy I'm gonna fight!?" asked Leah as though she was saying 'Just kill me now and get it over with!'.
"Not even half." said Ami. "More like a quarter."
"Oh no." Leah breathed as she looked out the window and said a short prayer in her native language.
"Well," said Artemis, "Lets start this meeting!"
"Okay!" said the new girl who was very excited that she had found the Moon Princess and some new great friends. They had called a meeting to discuss her problem further.
"By the way," said Luna. "What do you want us to call you?"
"My name is Princess Leahtair of the planet Aldebaran."
"Princess Leahtuh. . . what!?" attempted Serena.
"Can we make a nick name for you since Serena has a hard time saying your name?" asked Lita with a smile.
"I guess." she said.
"Hmm," pondered Serena. "How about Aneres?"
"That's pretty cool, Serena." said Rei. "Where'd you come up with that one?"
"It's my name spelled backwards!" she said with a smile.
"Oh yeah!" said Rei, "Well I can think of a name better than that! How about Ier? That's cooler than Aneres!"
"Give it a rest!" said Serena, "You're just jealous because mine's cooler!"
"Am not!"
"Are too!"
"STOP IT!!!" shouted Luna after a couple rounds of 'Am not's and 'Are too's. "We aren't arguing about who's name is cooler when spelled backwards, we're discussing what to call a human being!"
"Really, you guys." said Ami in a bored tone. "This is a situation where an argument won't help."
"Are too!" whispered Serena to Rei when Luna wasn't looking.
"Hey!" said Artemis.
"What is it?" asked Lita "Did you think of a good one?"
"Artemis spelled backwards is Simetra! Isn't that cool!"
* whack *
"Artemis! You aren't helping, here!" said an enraged Luna.
"So! You didn't have to go and hit me with a newspaper!"
"How about Leah?" spoke up their new friend.
"Ah!" sighed Serena. "It's beautiful!"
"Thanks." said Leah. "It's my nickname."
"Okay!" sighed Luna. "Let's re-start this meeting! So, Leah, we need to know more about you since you'll be staying here for a year."
"Well," Leah began, "I don't know really what to say. I told you pretty much all that I can: an evil force is attacking my universe, the Moon Princess is the only person who can help, and I need to find as many people to help in a year!"
"Hmm." Rei thought out loud. "So you want all of us to come help you?"
"If you would, I would be forever in your debt!" said Leah.
"I don't see any reason why we wouldn't help." said Lita who respected her new found friend.
"So," said Ami, "I guess we should spend a majority of this year training and preparing for what lies ahead."
"Sound's cool." spoke Mina.
"I could set up a battle situation that might occur while we go to save your universe." said Ami as she got out a piece of paper. "There is a way to train as if we were fighting them for real!"
"How?" asked Rei.
"I can make it like a virtual reality arcade game. That way no one gets hurt, but they also train as if they were really fighting!"
"VR Game!?" said Serena as awoke from her little daydream and wiped off the drool that had gathered at the corners of her mouth. "They don't stand a chance against me or my VR buddy, Sailor V!"
"V stands for victory!" chimed in Mina as she gave the V sign and started to pose.
"Maybe we should give it a try!" said Luna as she smiled and Ami started scribbling away the plans on her piece of notebook paper.
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"Okay!" said Ami. "After a week of unsuccessful attempts, it is finally done!"
"What is finally done?" asked the usually clueless child of the Moon.
"The game Ami was building! I swear, sometimes you are so thick headed I don't think anything could penetrate your wimpy skull!" shouted Rei as her hair stood up on end.
"That's an oxymoron, Rei." said Ami as she went on. "I've decided we can all try it out by twos. I think Leah should be one of the first to try, should we draw on who else gets to experience my machine's maiden voyage?"
"Why don't we just let Ami go?" asked Mina. "I mean, she built the thing!"
"I didn't know you took Spanish!" said Serena laughing uncontrollably. "Get it? Ami go, Amigo!? HA-HA-HA!"
"I'm gonna kill her, I'm gonna kill her." whispered Rei as she attempted to restrain herself from wringing Serena's neck.
"Fine with me!" said Lita as everyone else agreed.
"Okay, then." said Ami as she turned to Leah. "Put on this mask and once I turn it on, we will be zapped away to the world I have invented!"
"Cool!" said Leah as she waved good-bye to everyone and strapped on the helmet and visor.
"When I count to three," said Ami, "I want Luna to push the button. Ready, Leah?"
"Yep."
"Okay, 1... 2... 3!" said Ami as Luna hit the button and the two girls disappeared into thin air.
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"Where are we?" asked Leah. "Is this my planet?"
"No," said Ami as she looked around at all the desolation and emptiness of her imaginary planet. "It's a world I made up. I did, however, feature real things on here. For instance, it has the same gravitational pull as earth, and I featured your bad guy. I didn't know what to call the bad guy, so I named him Dominion 2. Kinda spooky, huh?"
"I'll say!" said Leah as the ground started to rumble. "What's that!?"
"I don't know exactly." said Ami as she pulled out her computer and started assessing the situation.
"I think something bad is about to happen!" said Leah as she put her hand in her pocket.
"You're right!" said Ami. "Dominion 2 happens to be approaching us!"
"Kilagniso Aldebaran Henshinoh Uratorymoss!" shouted Leah.
Ami looked over when she heard Leah's familiar voice speaking in her original language. She figured the youma had attacked her from behind but was wrong. Leah had whipped out a transformation pen similar to that of the rest of the scouts! She started spinning as her body turned a vitreous purple. Then purple electric wave flew up from the ground.
"No way!" thought Ami. "She never told us she could. . . ."
Leah walked up to her and said "Come on, Ami, I can't do this on my own!"
". . . transform." finished Ami to herself as she took a good look at her friend. "Since when could you do that!?" she managed to pull together and spoke to the newest member of the Sailor Team.
"Since when!?" laughed Leah. "Since forever! I guess I forgot to mention it, sorry."
"Don't worry about it." said the still shocked Ami as she pulled out her pen and shouted "Mercury Star Power!"
Just as Ami finished transforming, a shadow cast over the two girls. They turned around and gasped when they saw the scariest youma they had ever seen. There was a giant, dark frame that outlined a pair of blood-red eyes that looked straight at them.
Ami took a deep swallow and said "Well, let's see what you can do." to her friend on her right.
"You want me to attack him?" asked Leah.
"Yeah!" said Ami as if to say 'Hurry up!'.
Leah jumped up in the air, then reached her arms up to the dark sky and shouted "Shadows of the Double Star, give me the power!" then she and spun around as a ring of purple mist surrounded her. She suddenly slowed, crossed her arms across her chest, and then slowly raised her elbows and kept her hands on her shoulders so that her arms were right below her nose. Then she released her hands and raised them up so that they were crossed in the air and she shouted, "Solar Winds!" A purple hurricane appeared from behind her and flew directly towards the youma.
"Woa!" thought Mercury to herself. "That is a way powerful attack! My computer can't even tell it's power level, it's so high! I never realized how strong she was!"
The youma was engulfed by the winds as he screamed for mercy. None was given. The winds finally went away and all of the dust they had picked up began to settle when a loud roar interrupted the silence. The youma wasn't even scratched!
Mercury's computer beeped. "There is no way an attack that powerful could have no effect!" she pondered while she typed away. "He's stronger than I thought!" then she shouted to Leah, "Try something else!"
But it was too late; the youma (now very, very angry) had fired an attack right at Leah. "Look out!" shouted Mercury as she looked up just in time.
"Seismic Reflection!" shouted Leah as she somehow formed a barrier that threw the youma's attack right back at him.
"Unbelievable!" thought Mercury again.
"Lunar Rainbow Encasement!" Leah attacked again.
"Shine Aqua Illusion!" shouted Mercury as she fired at the youma as well.
"Earth Shining!" shouted Leah attacked again, this time lighting up the entire sky!
"Mercury Ice Bubbles, Freeze!"
"Eclipsing Binary!"
"Okay, Leah, I think he's had it!" said Mercury as she and Leah stopped to catch their breath. They were wrong; the youma had somehow survived all of their attacks.
He fired something at the two girls. It hit them with full force! They both flew off as though they had been hit by a speeding train.
"Ami?" asked Leah as she managed to pull herself up to an almost upright position. "Are you OK?
No answer.
She started to cry. "Ami? Are you OK?" she tried again.
After the third time, she was on her feet and tears were streaming out of her eyes. "No! Ami! She's . . . . gone! What am I going to do? I can't beat a youma all by myself! I'm not strong enough!"
She was too scared to do anything, so Dominion 2 kept on attacking. This time, though, he didn't stop. He hit her with his numerous attacks one after another and she was too scared to fight back. 'I can't do this by myself!' the thought kept running through her head.
After awhile, Dominion 2 figured she was dead. She wasn't moving. When he turned around, she managed to prop herself up on her elbows. "I can't beat him, I know I can't!"
She flew into the air after she had gained enough strength and started regenerating as much power as possible.
"Solar. . . ."
*crash*
The youma had hit her while she was gathering energy for her attack. She flew to the ground. That was the last hit she could take. Then, she blacked out.
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She awoke to find all of her new friends around her. She had been lying on Rei's floor for the last five minutes and the rest of the scouts were wondering if she was dead. "Are you OK, Leah?" asked Ami.
Leah jumped up to hug her friend and tears of happiness fell from her purple eyes. "Ami! I thought you were gone!"
"Don't worry!" said Ami, "I planned ahead so death was impossible! It was more like a game over than a life over."
"Thank goodness!" whispered Leah to herself.
"Did you guys win?" asked Serena.
"Not even close!" said Leah as she wiped away her tears. "We didn't even touch him!"
"Woa!" said Mina. "It's a good thing we can practice on him before the real thing!"
"Um, guys?" spoke up Ami.
"What is it?" asked Lita.
"That youma I designed. . ."
"Yeah."
"He featured only a portion of the real evil's power. I thought if we had time, we could work our way up to the real thing!" she said as she looked at the floor.
"You mean the freak we just lost to was only half as bad as this guy I'm gonna fight!?" asked Leah as though she was saying 'Just kill me now and get it over with!'.
"Not even half." said Ami. "More like a quarter."
"Oh no." Leah breathed as she looked out the window and said a short prayer in her native language.
