Chapter 4
Who's Next?
Makoto leaned against a wall in the throne room. In front of her were
the other Senshi.
Queen Serenity sat on the throne, head in hand. "Mako-chan," she
said at last. "Please tell us what happened after you left the infermery
room."
Makoto sighed, "I walked down the hall a ways when Ami-chan came
after me. We...had a small fight. I was saying that Adonis was the one
behind the assassin. Pretty soon we noticed that Adonis was behind us. I
felt ashamed of what I said and left. I stopped further down the hall
way. I thought about what I had said and wondered why I had said them.
Then I heard a voice telling me to get a hold of myself. I looked but
couldn't find the source. It continued to say that if Adonis dies then
no one else would be hurt and that I should kill him. I started to
appose when I was grabbed from behind. I struggled but couldn't get
free. I looked up and saw the assassin. Her eyes seemed to glow and I
felt them reflect in mine. The next thing I know, I'm not controlling my
body. It what like I was unable to move."
"Makoto," Setsuna said. "Where were you exactly when you were
grabbed?"
Makoto thought before answering, "I was leaning against the wall."
She stopped and looked at the others. "But...then how could, what was
her name, Zeus grab me if I was against a wall?"
Minako spoke up, "When Jupiter started walking toward Adonis, Rei
said she noticed that her shadow was hitting something like an invisible
door." She turned to Setsuna. "Could it be that..." she let it hang.
"...the assassin changed places with Makoto," Setsuna finished.
Makoto scrached her head and said, "Huh?"
"The assassin always stayed out of the way of light until she took
control of you. My guess is that she, and the others we saw, were
Shadows."
"Shadows?" everyone but the Outers and Minako asked. "I think I
should console with the Queen before I tell any more," Pluto finished.
The others left the two women to talk.
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"Idiot!!"
A large ball of energy flew from the man that spoken. It struck
the girl that was in front of him.
"I thought I had trained you better than this!"
The girl, carefully lifted herself off the floor. "I'm sorry," she
replied to the man.
"Sorry won't undo what happened because of you, Zeus!"
"I know, master."
"You and your comrads had best finish the mission and soon or else
I will! Leave, now!"
Zeus quickly left the room. In the hall, she met Hermes. "He gets
worse everyday," Zeus stated.
Hermes nodded in agreement.
"We need those crystals!" Zeus exclaimed as she punched her palm.
"If only we had them, then we could take control of this pathetic
world!"
"Don't worry," Hermes said with an evil grin. "I'm sure Ami will
give us plenty of information when it's my turn."
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Adonis stood right outside his room, where the large hole still was
still in the wall. He still couldn't believe what had happened, yet
right before him there was proof that it had happened. He stepped
through the hole and into the room. He surveyed the damage that the
dopplegannger and Makoto had created. The dent in the wall, the rubble,
traces of blood, everything lay as it had been since the day before.
Adonis walked towards the place where Makoto changed into what Zeus had
called a 'Crystal Warrior'. The floor was singed from the energy she had
expanded. He bent down and gently touched one of the scroched markings.
He closed his remaining eye and concentrated.
Images filled his mind. He saw a little boy running down the halls
of the palace then into this room he was in now. The boy peeked out the
door to see Makoto rush by calling his name out.
Adonis drew his hand back quickly. The vision was powerful, more
than he had thought. He shook his head, trying to get his thoughts
straight. "That was weird," he said out loud.
"What was?"
He turned around to see Ami standing behind him. "Uh, nothing.
Just thinking about something," he answered. "What are you doing here
Ami?" To himself he thought, "IDIOT IDIOT IDIOT!! Why'd you go and have
to come here to do that?! You could have come later when no one was
around!!"
Ami replied, "I was going to check on Small Lady and saw you here.
Why are you here anyway?"
"No reason. Just a little bored I guess." Adonis took notice that
Ami stared at him strangly, like she was thinking about something. "Is
there anything wrong?" he asked.
She shook her head, not taking her eyes off his face, and
answered, "No. You just remind me about someone I knew." She walked out
of the room and down the hall towards the imfermery.
Adonis sighed with relief at her departure.
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"Okay, Mako-chan," Minako's voice boomed from the speaker on the ceiling
of the training room, "Get ready."
Makoto stood in the middle of the large, circular room, her green
eyes darted form left to right. Suddenly a youma appeared in front of
her. She grunted as she delivered a powerful kick to it's leg, knocking
it out. It screamed in pain as Makota leaped into the air. She swung her
leg down and hit it's head. It dropped to the ground and disappeared.
Minako and Rei sat in the control room and watched in amazement as
Makoto defeated youma after youma without so much as breaking a sweat.
"Wow," Rei said. "And she's doing this without transforming?"
"Yeah," Minako replied. She tapped a series of buttons saying,
"Let's see how she does with level 3." The computer beeped and she told
it, "Soildify the youmas." Inside, Minako thought, "I can't believe it.
She's awakened. But it's too soon. Way too soon."
In the shadows of the room, Setsuna stood. Her red eyes troubled.
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Adonis knocked on the door to the training room. It opened. Adonis
looked in shocked at what was in the room. Makato was sitting on a huge
pile of unconcious youmas, which looked like heck, with a smug look on
her face.
"Hi Adonis," Minako said into the mikecrophone. "Mako-chan just
finished the tests."
Makoto looked up at the control room and said, "How'd I do?"
"I think you already know the answer to that, Mako-chan."
"Cool."
Rei and Minako sighed. Makoto just smiled.
"Uh..." Adonis said, still surprised, "...okay."
Ami appeared from behind Adonis. She looked into the room, a
surprised look on her face at the site. The look passed and she said,
"Mako-chan, can you come with me for a sec?"
"Okay." She jumped off the pile and walked to her.
----------
Ami tapped the keys to the computer. Behind the computer, on a scanning
machine, sat the pink and green crystal Makoto had transformed with the
other night. Lasers ran through it. Behind Ami, Makoto, Minako, and Rei
stood waiting for the results.
"Tell me again what you're doing?" Rei asked.
Without looking up, Ami answered, "Trying to see what this crystal
is. It doesn't read as any type I've ever seen before." She stopped
typing and the lasers went off.
The glass opened and Makoto picked up the crystal. She looked it
over as Ami said, "It has a great amout of power in it, kinda like our
transformation wands. Except it has more power, a LOT more. By the way,
can you call your wand forth?"
Makoto shrugged. She raised her hand and her wand appeared in it.
"I guess it still wo-" she started to say when the crystal gave off the
pink and green aura as before. The wand also started glowing. "What the
heck?!" Makoto gasped. The two objects floated from her hands into the
air above her. They began to spin around in a tight circle. Faster and
faster until they were a blur. Then, in a bright flash of light, the
wand was absorbed into the crystal. The crystal floated back down to
Makoto's hands. In the center of it was the symbol of Jupiter.
Ami was the first to find her voice. "M-Mako-chan. Trying
transforming." Makoto just nodded.
She raised her hand with the crystal. "Jupiter Thunder Crystal
Activate!!" she repeated the phrase from the other night. It glowed as
she finished, "Make-up!!" Pink and green colors surronded her form. As
she was transforming, something appeared in her mind. An image. She saw
Chibi-usa, lying on her bed in the infermery room. Suddenly a black
cloud began to surrond her. Jupiter finished morphing and stood in front
of the three spectartors. They stared at her. "What?" she asked.
"Something wrong."
"Uh," Minako started. " Um--Mako-chan? Your, um, your hair."
"My hair? What about it?"
"It's green."
"It's WHAT??!!!!"
Sure enough, Sailor Jupiter's hair had turned from chestnut-brown
to a dark green. Rei could bearly keep herself from giggling, but one
icy glare from Jupiter silenced her.
Ami intterupted, "That's not all. Look at your back."
Jupiter, scared at what she would see, turned her head. On her
back, close to her shoulders, a pair of wings were attached. They were
as wide as Eternal Moon's were and had a green tint to them and they
moved at Jupiter's will. "Whoa," Jupiter said. The others just nodded.
Minako closed her eyes and sighed. She thought sadly,
----------
Hotaru stood beside Chibi-usa's bed, a look of reget on her face. She
raised her hand and let it hover over her friend's forehead. "Chibi-
usa," she said, remembering the fun times they had together. "I'm
sorry," she whispered. "But I have to do this." The same pink and purple
aura sorruonded Chibi-usa's form as a black and purple aura surronded
Hotaru.
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Ami closed the door to her room. She walked to her bed and collasped
onto it. She let out a tired breath. She rolled onto her back and stared
at the ceiling. "This is so tiring," she thought. "Running test after
test can sure wear a person out. It would be easier if I didn't have
to."
As if what she thought surprised her, she sat up on her bed,
looking confused. "What am I thinking?! Oh yeah, Ami, just ignore
youself." Now she was even more confused.
(A.N.--since this scene is VERY confusing, I'll put it like two people
are talking. Work with me here people!)
"I repeat: What the heck am I thinking?!!"
"That's smooth, argue with yourself why don't ya."
"This is weird! Maybe I should rest a while."
"Yeah maybe you should...if ya want to ignore what's happening!"
"Uh...What?????"
"Look: Makoto has just gotten a power-up on her Senshi powers. A
HUGE power-up. Dosen't that make you a little uneasy?"
"Uneasy?"
"Yeah. With her power she could destroy this whole city if she
wanted."
"I wouldn't say that."
"It's true. Don't you think that that crystal of hers should be
kept under someone else's care?"
"'Someone else's care'?"
"I mean, come on! Makoto's got this thing that could level a
mountain without so much as a thought! Don't you think some else should
keep it?"
"I don't know..." Suddenly Ami felt something grab her from
behind! She started to scream when a hand went over her mouth.
"Interesting," a voice from behind her said. Ami gasped. The voice
belonged to Hermes.
----------
Rei knocked on Ami's door. "Ami-chan! Are you in there? Ami-chan!"
Behind her, her shadow moved closer to her...
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NEXT: Hermes's back! Will she take over Ami? What will happen to Rei?
Why is Makoto's hair green when she transforms? What happened with the
wand? What about that image she saw when she morphed? And by the way,
what did Hotaru do to Chibi-usa?
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Who's Next?
Makoto leaned against a wall in the throne room. In front of her were
the other Senshi.
Queen Serenity sat on the throne, head in hand. "Mako-chan," she
said at last. "Please tell us what happened after you left the infermery
room."
Makoto sighed, "I walked down the hall a ways when Ami-chan came
after me. We...had a small fight. I was saying that Adonis was the one
behind the assassin. Pretty soon we noticed that Adonis was behind us. I
felt ashamed of what I said and left. I stopped further down the hall
way. I thought about what I had said and wondered why I had said them.
Then I heard a voice telling me to get a hold of myself. I looked but
couldn't find the source. It continued to say that if Adonis dies then
no one else would be hurt and that I should kill him. I started to
appose when I was grabbed from behind. I struggled but couldn't get
free. I looked up and saw the assassin. Her eyes seemed to glow and I
felt them reflect in mine. The next thing I know, I'm not controlling my
body. It what like I was unable to move."
"Makoto," Setsuna said. "Where were you exactly when you were
grabbed?"
Makoto thought before answering, "I was leaning against the wall."
She stopped and looked at the others. "But...then how could, what was
her name, Zeus grab me if I was against a wall?"
Minako spoke up, "When Jupiter started walking toward Adonis, Rei
said she noticed that her shadow was hitting something like an invisible
door." She turned to Setsuna. "Could it be that..." she let it hang.
"...the assassin changed places with Makoto," Setsuna finished.
Makoto scrached her head and said, "Huh?"
"The assassin always stayed out of the way of light until she took
control of you. My guess is that she, and the others we saw, were
Shadows."
"Shadows?" everyone but the Outers and Minako asked. "I think I
should console with the Queen before I tell any more," Pluto finished.
The others left the two women to talk.
---------
"Idiot!!"
A large ball of energy flew from the man that spoken. It struck
the girl that was in front of him.
"I thought I had trained you better than this!"
The girl, carefully lifted herself off the floor. "I'm sorry," she
replied to the man.
"Sorry won't undo what happened because of you, Zeus!"
"I know, master."
"You and your comrads had best finish the mission and soon or else
I will! Leave, now!"
Zeus quickly left the room. In the hall, she met Hermes. "He gets
worse everyday," Zeus stated.
Hermes nodded in agreement.
"We need those crystals!" Zeus exclaimed as she punched her palm.
"If only we had them, then we could take control of this pathetic
world!"
"Don't worry," Hermes said with an evil grin. "I'm sure Ami will
give us plenty of information when it's my turn."
---------
Adonis stood right outside his room, where the large hole still was
still in the wall. He still couldn't believe what had happened, yet
right before him there was proof that it had happened. He stepped
through the hole and into the room. He surveyed the damage that the
dopplegannger and Makoto had created. The dent in the wall, the rubble,
traces of blood, everything lay as it had been since the day before.
Adonis walked towards the place where Makoto changed into what Zeus had
called a 'Crystal Warrior'. The floor was singed from the energy she had
expanded. He bent down and gently touched one of the scroched markings.
He closed his remaining eye and concentrated.
Images filled his mind. He saw a little boy running down the halls
of the palace then into this room he was in now. The boy peeked out the
door to see Makoto rush by calling his name out.
Adonis drew his hand back quickly. The vision was powerful, more
than he had thought. He shook his head, trying to get his thoughts
straight. "That was weird," he said out loud.
"What was?"
He turned around to see Ami standing behind him. "Uh, nothing.
Just thinking about something," he answered. "What are you doing here
Ami?" To himself he thought, "IDIOT IDIOT IDIOT!! Why'd you go and have
to come here to do that?! You could have come later when no one was
around!!"
Ami replied, "I was going to check on Small Lady and saw you here.
Why are you here anyway?"
"No reason. Just a little bored I guess." Adonis took notice that
Ami stared at him strangly, like she was thinking about something. "Is
there anything wrong?" he asked.
She shook her head, not taking her eyes off his face, and
answered, "No. You just remind me about someone I knew." She walked out
of the room and down the hall towards the imfermery.
Adonis sighed with relief at her departure.
----------
"Okay, Mako-chan," Minako's voice boomed from the speaker on the ceiling
of the training room, "Get ready."
Makoto stood in the middle of the large, circular room, her green
eyes darted form left to right. Suddenly a youma appeared in front of
her. She grunted as she delivered a powerful kick to it's leg, knocking
it out. It screamed in pain as Makota leaped into the air. She swung her
leg down and hit it's head. It dropped to the ground and disappeared.
Minako and Rei sat in the control room and watched in amazement as
Makoto defeated youma after youma without so much as breaking a sweat.
"Wow," Rei said. "And she's doing this without transforming?"
"Yeah," Minako replied. She tapped a series of buttons saying,
"Let's see how she does with level 3." The computer beeped and she told
it, "Soildify the youmas." Inside, Minako thought, "I can't believe it.
She's awakened. But it's too soon. Way too soon."
In the shadows of the room, Setsuna stood. Her red eyes troubled.
----------
Adonis knocked on the door to the training room. It opened. Adonis
looked in shocked at what was in the room. Makato was sitting on a huge
pile of unconcious youmas, which looked like heck, with a smug look on
her face.
"Hi Adonis," Minako said into the mikecrophone. "Mako-chan just
finished the tests."
Makoto looked up at the control room and said, "How'd I do?"
"I think you already know the answer to that, Mako-chan."
"Cool."
Rei and Minako sighed. Makoto just smiled.
"Uh..." Adonis said, still surprised, "...okay."
Ami appeared from behind Adonis. She looked into the room, a
surprised look on her face at the site. The look passed and she said,
"Mako-chan, can you come with me for a sec?"
"Okay." She jumped off the pile and walked to her.
----------
Ami tapped the keys to the computer. Behind the computer, on a scanning
machine, sat the pink and green crystal Makoto had transformed with the
other night. Lasers ran through it. Behind Ami, Makoto, Minako, and Rei
stood waiting for the results.
"Tell me again what you're doing?" Rei asked.
Without looking up, Ami answered, "Trying to see what this crystal
is. It doesn't read as any type I've ever seen before." She stopped
typing and the lasers went off.
The glass opened and Makoto picked up the crystal. She looked it
over as Ami said, "It has a great amout of power in it, kinda like our
transformation wands. Except it has more power, a LOT more. By the way,
can you call your wand forth?"
Makoto shrugged. She raised her hand and her wand appeared in it.
"I guess it still wo-" she started to say when the crystal gave off the
pink and green aura as before. The wand also started glowing. "What the
heck?!" Makoto gasped. The two objects floated from her hands into the
air above her. They began to spin around in a tight circle. Faster and
faster until they were a blur. Then, in a bright flash of light, the
wand was absorbed into the crystal. The crystal floated back down to
Makoto's hands. In the center of it was the symbol of Jupiter.
Ami was the first to find her voice. "M-Mako-chan. Trying
transforming." Makoto just nodded.
She raised her hand with the crystal. "Jupiter Thunder Crystal
Activate!!" she repeated the phrase from the other night. It glowed as
she finished, "Make-up!!" Pink and green colors surronded her form. As
she was transforming, something appeared in her mind. An image. She saw
Chibi-usa, lying on her bed in the infermery room. Suddenly a black
cloud began to surrond her. Jupiter finished morphing and stood in front
of the three spectartors. They stared at her. "What?" she asked.
"Something wrong."
"Uh," Minako started. " Um--Mako-chan? Your, um, your hair."
"My hair? What about it?"
"It's green."
"It's WHAT??!!!!"
Sure enough, Sailor Jupiter's hair had turned from chestnut-brown
to a dark green. Rei could bearly keep herself from giggling, but one
icy glare from Jupiter silenced her.
Ami intterupted, "That's not all. Look at your back."
Jupiter, scared at what she would see, turned her head. On her
back, close to her shoulders, a pair of wings were attached. They were
as wide as Eternal Moon's were and had a green tint to them and they
moved at Jupiter's will. "Whoa," Jupiter said. The others just nodded.
Minako closed her eyes and sighed. She thought sadly,
----------
Hotaru stood beside Chibi-usa's bed, a look of reget on her face. She
raised her hand and let it hover over her friend's forehead. "Chibi-
usa," she said, remembering the fun times they had together. "I'm
sorry," she whispered. "But I have to do this." The same pink and purple
aura sorruonded Chibi-usa's form as a black and purple aura surronded
Hotaru.
---------
Ami closed the door to her room. She walked to her bed and collasped
onto it. She let out a tired breath. She rolled onto her back and stared
at the ceiling. "This is so tiring," she thought. "Running test after
test can sure wear a person out. It would be easier if I didn't have
to."
As if what she thought surprised her, she sat up on her bed,
looking confused. "What am I thinking?! Oh yeah, Ami, just ignore
youself." Now she was even more confused.
(A.N.--since this scene is VERY confusing, I'll put it like two people
are talking. Work with me here people!)
"I repeat: What the heck am I thinking?!!"
"That's smooth, argue with yourself why don't ya."
"This is weird! Maybe I should rest a while."
"Yeah maybe you should...if ya want to ignore what's happening!"
"Uh...What?????"
"Look: Makoto has just gotten a power-up on her Senshi powers. A
HUGE power-up. Dosen't that make you a little uneasy?"
"Uneasy?"
"Yeah. With her power she could destroy this whole city if she
wanted."
"I wouldn't say that."
"It's true. Don't you think that that crystal of hers should be
kept under someone else's care?"
"'Someone else's care'?"
"I mean, come on! Makoto's got this thing that could level a
mountain without so much as a thought! Don't you think some else should
keep it?"
"I don't know..." Suddenly Ami felt something grab her from
behind! She started to scream when a hand went over her mouth.
"Interesting," a voice from behind her said. Ami gasped. The voice
belonged to Hermes.
----------
Rei knocked on Ami's door. "Ami-chan! Are you in there? Ami-chan!"
Behind her, her shadow moved closer to her...
__________
NEXT: Hermes's back! Will she take over Ami? What will happen to Rei?
Why is Makoto's hair green when she transforms? What happened with the
wand? What about that image she saw when she morphed? And by the way,
what did Hotaru do to Chibi-usa?
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