Chapter 3
The Crystal Warrior
Adonis dodged the knife in Makoto's hand as it came down, crashing into
the window. "Makoto!" he yelled as he slipped out of the girl's grasp.
"Stop! What are you doing?"
She turned her white eyes on him and shouted fiercely, "What does
it look like I'm doing? I'm trying to kill you!" With that, she slashed
the knife at his throat. He quickly stepped back. After two more strikes
he ducked down and punched her in the stomach. She doubled over but got
up straight again. For the briefest second, Adonis thought he saw
something behind Makoto. A person.
"Stay still!" she ordered as she made another swipe at him.
"You've gone crazy!" he said as he flipped over her.
Taking her chance, Makoto reached back and grabbed his leg. She
threw him down to the floor. He groaned in pain as she released him,
only to get his neck. She pulled him up so that they were eye-to-eye.
"What happened to you, Makoto?" he gasped.
Her grip suddenly tightened. "What happened to me?" she repeated.
A cold smile spread across her face. Waves of black energy started
radiating from her. "I grew stronger and more powerful. That's what."
The door flew open. Sailor Venus, Mars, Mercury, and Pluto came
through it.
"Mako-chan!" Mercury gasped. "What are you doing?"
"Is everyone gonna ask me that question?" Makoto said as she
threw Adonis into them. The force of her throw was so strong that it
caused them all to go straight through the wall.
Mars struggled to sit up. "How did she get so strong?" she gasped.
A soft but wicked laughter made its way through the dust created
from the wall's destruction. A dark outline of Sailor Jupiter appeared
in it. Her white eyes visible. Adonis rubbed his head as he sat up. He
looked to see Jupiter's foot coming toward his stomach. With no time to
react the foot connected. The blow caused him to go flying backwards.
As Jupiter followed him Mars noticed something: Jupiter's shadow
wasn't doing what she was. She was walking but the shadow acted like she
was pounding against a door. Mars twisted around and shook Mercury,
"Mercury! Look!" When Mercury saw she immediately scanned her.
She gasped at the readings. "That Jupiter isn't the real one!" she
said.
At the sound of her voice 'Jupiter' stopped and turned around.
"She's a fake!" Mercury finished.
"Shut up!" the false Senshi shouted as she threw a dark energy
bolt at her.
Mercury crossed her arms to block when suddenly a wall of blue and
white light appeared in front of her and stopped the bolt. She looked,
amazed at her hands.
'Jupiter' muttered somthing under her breath. "She can't have..."
her voice trailed off as Pluto stood up.
"It's time that you stopped this foolish attempt on Adonis's life,
creature," she said as she raised her staff. "Dead Scream!!" The blast
shot at the other Senshi. It struck her.
A dark form flew out of her back. Jupiter fell to the ground,
unconscious, and demorphed. The form began to take shape.
"You!" Venus shouted when she recognized the assassin, even though
she blocked the light from her face.
"Okay, missy," Mars said, "you have no place to run this time, so
tell us who you are."
"Hmph, you really want to know, don't you? All right then." She
stood up straight and placed her arms at her side. Everyone gasped. It
was Makoto! As if reading their thoughts the double replied, "I'm not
the Makoto you know, in a since I am though."
"What did you do to the real Makoto?" Mars snapped.
"The real one? Nothing." She looked down at Makoto. "But it seems
to me that Sailor Pluto over there killed her."
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Makoto lay facedown, but there was no floor; only nothingness. Slowly
her eyes opened. "Where am I?" she wondered. A sudden of light caught
her eye. She searched for the source but didn't see it until she looked
down. There in her lap lay a small crystal made of glass. A small ball
of light came from it. She picked it up and studied it all over.
"Jupiter..." a small voice called.
"Who's there?" Makoto answered.
"Sailor Jupiter..." the voice continued.
Makoto saw that inside the crystal was a small girl! The light was
coming from her.
"What do you want?" she asked the girl.
"Sailor Jupiter. Please help me," the tiny person said. "You must
break the crystal open and free me. Once I am them you can help you
fellow Senshi."
"How do I break this thing?" Makoto pondered as she shook it.
"That won't work!" the girl shouted, trying to get Makoto to stop.
When she did the girl informed her, "The only way it to say what's in
your heart."
The blank look on Makoto faced caused a sweatdrop to appear on the
little person. "Okay, maybe that wasn't the best way to explain it. I'll
try again. There's something you wish to do or say but you haven't yet.
You need to speak what it is in order to break this crystal."
Now Makoto understood what she was saying. "But how do I know what
it is?" she asked.
The girl remained silent. She waved her hand in a sweeping motion.
In front of Makoto appeared another ball. In it she saw what had
happened the past few days, and what she had done. She saw the way she
treated Adonis in the hospital room, her accusation of him almost in
front of the King and Queen, her fight with Ami, and almost killing him.
Makoto hung her head. "You're right," she said as the ball
disappeared. "I'm sorry for the way I've been acting against Adonis. I
have no reason to accuse him of being the bad guy. I didn't mean all
those things I said about him to Ami. I deserved being slapped."
Suddenly the girl started glowing pink outlined green aura. Makoto
looked up in surprise. Lines began to form on the crystal until it
shattered. The girl, still glowing, landed in Makoto's opened palm. She
smiled up at her. Makoto gasped. It was Sailor Jupiter! She looked like
a miniature version of Jupiter in her eternal fuka, except that her bows
were made of crystal-type material, the stone in her tiara held two
rotating colors, green and pink, in the center of it was the sign of
Jupiter, on her choker there was her sign, and the stone on her chest
was crystallized. Slung around her shoulder was a long blade. At the
hilt was a jewel that bore two colors (you guess it!) pink and green.
"Thank you," Sailor Jupiter said.
"What are you?" Makoto breathed.
"All shall be explained in time."
The light around her grew brighter until it blinded Makoto.
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"Now you shall join your fallen Senshi!" the double screamed as she
jumped at the others. In her hand, the poisonous blade appeared. She
sliced it at Mercury who dodged.
A sudden light blinded them. "What?" the double shouted as she
looked at the source.
Still on the floor, Makoto glowed with the same pink-green aura as
the one in the crystal. After a few moments Makoto opened her eyes and
slowly stood up. Turning to face them, her gaze fell on her double.
"Darn it!" the double yelled raising her blade. "I'm not giving up
yet!" She raced toward her.
Makoto's gaze never subsided. The double jumped and thrusted the
knife toward her. The aura created a wall, much like Mercury's only pink
and green, covered Makoto and protected her. It stopped the blade.
The double's eyes widen. "How--?" the double started when Makoto
reached through the shield and grabbed the blade. It turned white and
shattered.
"Fool," Makoto said. She threw out her arm. The double went flying
back and struck the remainder of the wall. A large dent in the shape of
a circle stuck in it as she fell to the ground.
Makoto touched her right shoulder. A white light appeared in it.
She withdrew her hand. In it was a crystal! It shone green and pink.
"No," the double whispered her eyes wide. "It can't be. She
didn't!"
"Oh, yes," Makoto said. She raised the crystal above her head. A
new transformation phase came to her mind just as she shouted, "Jupiter
Thunder Crystal Activate!" The crystal grew brighter. "Make-up!!" Green
and pink colors from the crystal surrounded her. As they flew off they
revealed her dressed in the same fuka as the one in her vision.
"S-Sailor Jupiter?" Mercury gasped. The others around her also
gaped in wonder.
"So," the double scoffed as she got up. "One Crystal Warrior has
been unsealed."
"You can bet your butt on that," Jupiter said. "But I think it'll
get whooped instead." She raised her hand again. Lightening swirled
circles around it. "I call upon the power of Jupiter!" she shouted.
"Lend me thy strength!" The lightening started to gather in the shape of
a sword. "Green Lightening! Appear!" The lightening hardened into the
sword. Jupiter took hold of the hilt of the blade and raced toward the
double. "Jupiter Sword," she commanded, jumping into the air above her.
She thrusted it down as she finished, "Strike!" The sword cut down her
chest.
She toppled backward back against the wall. Black blood ran
between her fingers as her hand grasped her injured chest and out of the
corner of her mouth. "I...won't...die," she gasped.
"I think not," Jupiter replied. She raised the sword to strike
again.
A portal suddenly opened behind the injured doppelganger. Three
figures jumped out of it. One raced to the injured one. "Zeus!" she
cried.
"I'm...all...right," she weakly replied before she collapsed. The
other turned to the surprised Senshi.
Jupiter wondered.
The girl reached for the dagger beside Zeus.
"Wait Aphrodite!" another commanded. "You can't win against a
Crystal Warrior."
Aphrodite grumbled, "All right, Aires," and withdrew her hand.
"Who are you all?" Mercury demanded. The three stood up into the
light one by one. Rei, Ami, and Minako!
"W-What?" Venus stammered. The one named Aphrodite was her double.
"How--?" Mars started. The one called Aires was hers.
Mercury just stood, shocked, staring at hers.
Her double turned to her partners and said, "We need to leave. The
boss will have to heal Zeus right away."
"Right, Hermes," the two chorused as they picked up Zeus.
As the four entered the portal Hermes turned around. She smirked
at Mercury, "You're friend was easy to control, I wonder how you will
do." With that, she stepped through the portal and disappeared.
"Who," Pluto said, shock filled her voice. "in all of time were
they?"
The other Senshi looked at one another. One thought crossed each
of their minds: If Pluto didn't know who they were, they could be
dangerous. Very dangerous.
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Chibi-usa tossed and turned on her bed. Wild visions raced through her
confused mind. She saw Crystal Tokyo as a battlefield. At the top of the
castle, a boy in black clothing stood. He watched as youmas destroy
everything they found. Suddenly, eight warriors appeared before him.
Each resembled a Senshi, but a dark aura surrounded them. Another boy
appeared, floating in the air a few feet away from the first. He was
clad in white. Eight other warriors appeared beside him. The aura around
them was as white as can be.
"What is this?" Chibi-usa cried out loud to no one. "What is going
on? What am I seeing?" A flute from nowhere played in her vision. As it
progressed, the eight white warriors attacked the eight dark ones while
the boys fought one another. "What is happening? What?!"
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NEXT: Another vision? This time we see more. But of what? The future?
Who are the sixteen warriors in the vision? Why did Makoto's
transformation change? Is she more powerful?
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The Crystal Warrior
Adonis dodged the knife in Makoto's hand as it came down, crashing into
the window. "Makoto!" he yelled as he slipped out of the girl's grasp.
"Stop! What are you doing?"
She turned her white eyes on him and shouted fiercely, "What does
it look like I'm doing? I'm trying to kill you!" With that, she slashed
the knife at his throat. He quickly stepped back. After two more strikes
he ducked down and punched her in the stomach. She doubled over but got
up straight again. For the briefest second, Adonis thought he saw
something behind Makoto. A person.
"Stay still!" she ordered as she made another swipe at him.
"You've gone crazy!" he said as he flipped over her.
Taking her chance, Makoto reached back and grabbed his leg. She
threw him down to the floor. He groaned in pain as she released him,
only to get his neck. She pulled him up so that they were eye-to-eye.
"What happened to you, Makoto?" he gasped.
Her grip suddenly tightened. "What happened to me?" she repeated.
A cold smile spread across her face. Waves of black energy started
radiating from her. "I grew stronger and more powerful. That's what."
The door flew open. Sailor Venus, Mars, Mercury, and Pluto came
through it.
"Mako-chan!" Mercury gasped. "What are you doing?"
"Is everyone gonna ask me that question?" Makoto said as she
threw Adonis into them. The force of her throw was so strong that it
caused them all to go straight through the wall.
Mars struggled to sit up. "How did she get so strong?" she gasped.
A soft but wicked laughter made its way through the dust created
from the wall's destruction. A dark outline of Sailor Jupiter appeared
in it. Her white eyes visible. Adonis rubbed his head as he sat up. He
looked to see Jupiter's foot coming toward his stomach. With no time to
react the foot connected. The blow caused him to go flying backwards.
As Jupiter followed him Mars noticed something: Jupiter's shadow
wasn't doing what she was. She was walking but the shadow acted like she
was pounding against a door. Mars twisted around and shook Mercury,
"Mercury! Look!" When Mercury saw she immediately scanned her.
She gasped at the readings. "That Jupiter isn't the real one!" she
said.
At the sound of her voice 'Jupiter' stopped and turned around.
"She's a fake!" Mercury finished.
"Shut up!" the false Senshi shouted as she threw a dark energy
bolt at her.
Mercury crossed her arms to block when suddenly a wall of blue and
white light appeared in front of her and stopped the bolt. She looked,
amazed at her hands.
'Jupiter' muttered somthing under her breath. "She can't have..."
her voice trailed off as Pluto stood up.
"It's time that you stopped this foolish attempt on Adonis's life,
creature," she said as she raised her staff. "Dead Scream!!" The blast
shot at the other Senshi. It struck her.
A dark form flew out of her back. Jupiter fell to the ground,
unconscious, and demorphed. The form began to take shape.
"You!" Venus shouted when she recognized the assassin, even though
she blocked the light from her face.
"Okay, missy," Mars said, "you have no place to run this time, so
tell us who you are."
"Hmph, you really want to know, don't you? All right then." She
stood up straight and placed her arms at her side. Everyone gasped. It
was Makoto! As if reading their thoughts the double replied, "I'm not
the Makoto you know, in a since I am though."
"What did you do to the real Makoto?" Mars snapped.
"The real one? Nothing." She looked down at Makoto. "But it seems
to me that Sailor Pluto over there killed her."
----------
Makoto lay facedown, but there was no floor; only nothingness. Slowly
her eyes opened. "Where am I?" she wondered. A sudden of light caught
her eye. She searched for the source but didn't see it until she looked
down. There in her lap lay a small crystal made of glass. A small ball
of light came from it. She picked it up and studied it all over.
"Jupiter..." a small voice called.
"Who's there?" Makoto answered.
"Sailor Jupiter..." the voice continued.
Makoto saw that inside the crystal was a small girl! The light was
coming from her.
"What do you want?" she asked the girl.
"Sailor Jupiter. Please help me," the tiny person said. "You must
break the crystal open and free me. Once I am them you can help you
fellow Senshi."
"How do I break this thing?" Makoto pondered as she shook it.
"That won't work!" the girl shouted, trying to get Makoto to stop.
When she did the girl informed her, "The only way it to say what's in
your heart."
The blank look on Makoto faced caused a sweatdrop to appear on the
little person. "Okay, maybe that wasn't the best way to explain it. I'll
try again. There's something you wish to do or say but you haven't yet.
You need to speak what it is in order to break this crystal."
Now Makoto understood what she was saying. "But how do I know what
it is?" she asked.
The girl remained silent. She waved her hand in a sweeping motion.
In front of Makoto appeared another ball. In it she saw what had
happened the past few days, and what she had done. She saw the way she
treated Adonis in the hospital room, her accusation of him almost in
front of the King and Queen, her fight with Ami, and almost killing him.
Makoto hung her head. "You're right," she said as the ball
disappeared. "I'm sorry for the way I've been acting against Adonis. I
have no reason to accuse him of being the bad guy. I didn't mean all
those things I said about him to Ami. I deserved being slapped."
Suddenly the girl started glowing pink outlined green aura. Makoto
looked up in surprise. Lines began to form on the crystal until it
shattered. The girl, still glowing, landed in Makoto's opened palm. She
smiled up at her. Makoto gasped. It was Sailor Jupiter! She looked like
a miniature version of Jupiter in her eternal fuka, except that her bows
were made of crystal-type material, the stone in her tiara held two
rotating colors, green and pink, in the center of it was the sign of
Jupiter, on her choker there was her sign, and the stone on her chest
was crystallized. Slung around her shoulder was a long blade. At the
hilt was a jewel that bore two colors (you guess it!) pink and green.
"Thank you," Sailor Jupiter said.
"What are you?" Makoto breathed.
"All shall be explained in time."
The light around her grew brighter until it blinded Makoto.
----------
"Now you shall join your fallen Senshi!" the double screamed as she
jumped at the others. In her hand, the poisonous blade appeared. She
sliced it at Mercury who dodged.
A sudden light blinded them. "What?" the double shouted as she
looked at the source.
Still on the floor, Makoto glowed with the same pink-green aura as
the one in the crystal. After a few moments Makoto opened her eyes and
slowly stood up. Turning to face them, her gaze fell on her double.
"Darn it!" the double yelled raising her blade. "I'm not giving up
yet!" She raced toward her.
Makoto's gaze never subsided. The double jumped and thrusted the
knife toward her. The aura created a wall, much like Mercury's only pink
and green, covered Makoto and protected her. It stopped the blade.
The double's eyes widen. "How--?" the double started when Makoto
reached through the shield and grabbed the blade. It turned white and
shattered.
"Fool," Makoto said. She threw out her arm. The double went flying
back and struck the remainder of the wall. A large dent in the shape of
a circle stuck in it as she fell to the ground.
Makoto touched her right shoulder. A white light appeared in it.
She withdrew her hand. In it was a crystal! It shone green and pink.
"No," the double whispered her eyes wide. "It can't be. She
didn't!"
"Oh, yes," Makoto said. She raised the crystal above her head. A
new transformation phase came to her mind just as she shouted, "Jupiter
Thunder Crystal Activate!" The crystal grew brighter. "Make-up!!" Green
and pink colors from the crystal surrounded her. As they flew off they
revealed her dressed in the same fuka as the one in her vision.
"S-Sailor Jupiter?" Mercury gasped. The others around her also
gaped in wonder.
"So," the double scoffed as she got up. "One Crystal Warrior has
been unsealed."
"You can bet your butt on that," Jupiter said. "But I think it'll
get whooped instead." She raised her hand again. Lightening swirled
circles around it. "I call upon the power of Jupiter!" she shouted.
"Lend me thy strength!" The lightening started to gather in the shape of
a sword. "Green Lightening! Appear!" The lightening hardened into the
sword. Jupiter took hold of the hilt of the blade and raced toward the
double. "Jupiter Sword," she commanded, jumping into the air above her.
She thrusted it down as she finished, "Strike!" The sword cut down her
chest.
She toppled backward back against the wall. Black blood ran
between her fingers as her hand grasped her injured chest and out of the
corner of her mouth. "I...won't...die," she gasped.
"I think not," Jupiter replied. She raised the sword to strike
again.
A portal suddenly opened behind the injured doppelganger. Three
figures jumped out of it. One raced to the injured one. "Zeus!" she
cried.
"I'm...all...right," she weakly replied before she collapsed. The
other turned to the surprised Senshi.
Jupiter wondered.
The girl reached for the dagger beside Zeus.
"Wait Aphrodite!" another commanded. "You can't win against a
Crystal Warrior."
Aphrodite grumbled, "All right, Aires," and withdrew her hand.
"Who are you all?" Mercury demanded. The three stood up into the
light one by one. Rei, Ami, and Minako!
"W-What?" Venus stammered. The one named Aphrodite was her double.
"How--?" Mars started. The one called Aires was hers.
Mercury just stood, shocked, staring at hers.
Her double turned to her partners and said, "We need to leave. The
boss will have to heal Zeus right away."
"Right, Hermes," the two chorused as they picked up Zeus.
As the four entered the portal Hermes turned around. She smirked
at Mercury, "You're friend was easy to control, I wonder how you will
do." With that, she stepped through the portal and disappeared.
"Who," Pluto said, shock filled her voice. "in all of time were
they?"
The other Senshi looked at one another. One thought crossed each
of their minds: If Pluto didn't know who they were, they could be
dangerous. Very dangerous.
----------
Chibi-usa tossed and turned on her bed. Wild visions raced through her
confused mind. She saw Crystal Tokyo as a battlefield. At the top of the
castle, a boy in black clothing stood. He watched as youmas destroy
everything they found. Suddenly, eight warriors appeared before him.
Each resembled a Senshi, but a dark aura surrounded them. Another boy
appeared, floating in the air a few feet away from the first. He was
clad in white. Eight other warriors appeared beside him. The aura around
them was as white as can be.
"What is this?" Chibi-usa cried out loud to no one. "What is going
on? What am I seeing?" A flute from nowhere played in her vision. As it
progressed, the eight white warriors attacked the eight dark ones while
the boys fought one another. "What is happening? What?!"
----------
NEXT: Another vision? This time we see more. But of what? The future?
Who are the sixteen warriors in the vision? Why did Makoto's
transformation change? Is she more powerful?
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