Untitled 2/?
Disclaimer: The following story is not enfringment of
any kind. Mummies Alive! is property of Dic, and
Sailor Moon is property of Saban. Sanura and Rydul
are property of Liz.
Note: I use the t.v. series spelling for the Sailor
Scouts. For all you Luna and Artimis fans out there,
yes, Luna and Artimis are in this story... somewhere.
I am post this for Liz (who is a great writer). Please R&R.
Well on with the story!!! =^_~=
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Ja-kal ran over to Nefertina. "Are you ok?" He
asked.
"I should be asking you the same thing." Nefertina
replied.
"I'm fine. It wasn't a real blast. It was a fake.
It still knocked be down." Ja-kal
said. "Is Sanura going to be ok?"
"I don't know. I don't know what they did to her."
Nefertina said, looking down
at her comatose sister. Sanura's armor fizzled away,
and her gauntlets didn't give off the
same live feeling they usually did. "We have to get
her inside."
Ja-kal nodded as Presley ran out of the bush. "Is
she going to be ok?" He asked,
ignoring the audience they had.
"We don't know, but we need to get her inside and
figure out what they did to
her." Ja-kal said, leading Nefertina and Presley
towards the Sphinx.
"Wait." Serena called. "Let us come with you. We
know who those men were."
Amara had a sour look on her face as she abandoned her
uniform.
"Why should we trust you?" Ja-kal asked. "From what
I saw, if Scarab and
whoever was helping him hadn't come, you would have
attacked Nefertina and Sanura."
"Ja-kal, wait." Presley said. "What if they do know
whoever helped Scarab? If
we pass up this information, we could be in major
trouble."
"Prince Rapses is right." Nefertina said, still
holding her sister. "We have to trust
them."
Ja-kal frowned under his helmet. "You wait here."
He told Serena and her
friends. "I'm going to talk to the rest of my team
and-"
"There are more of you?" Hotaru asked, wide eyed.
"- figure out what to do from there." Ja-kal
finished, slightly annoyed. "If you
really want to help us, then stay here."
Serena nodded and leaned against a lamp post.
Everyone else murmured and sat
down and tried to make themselves' comfortable.
Ja-kal, Nefertina, and Presley ran around to the back
of the Sphinx and opened a
rarely used door. They made their way down the hall
to the main room, where Rath and
Armon were. "Rath, we need you to look after Sanura.
Something happened, and we
don't know if she's going to be alright." Ja-kal
said. His armor disappeared, and
Nefertina's did the same.
"What happened?" Rath asked, clearing a space on a
nearby table for Sanura.
"She looks as if someone hit her in the head and
knocked her out."
"You could say that." Presley said. "Ja-kal, are we
gonna let those girls help us?"
"I was going to ask everyone here." Ja-kal said. "A
group of teenage girls outside
said they knew who the man was that helped Scarab. We
don't know if we should let
them in."
"I say let them help. If they can help San, then
they can also help us fight
Scarab's new buddy." Nefertina said, sitting down in
a chair next to the table.
"Then we'd have a chance at defeating Scarab." Armon
said, eating something.
No one bothered to ask what he was doing eating.
"Well, I suppose we could let them help. But we
should keep them in this room,
that way they won't get to the garage or sarcophagi
room." Rath said. "Nefertina, will
you move Sanura to the sarcophagi room?"
Nefertina nodded and gathered her sister up again.
As Rath and Nefertina left
with Sanura, Ja-kal turned to Presley and Armon. "I'm
going to go get those girls. Stay
here, I'll be right back." Armon and Presley nodded
as he left.
Serena and the others waited outside the Sphinx.
Suddenly, the mouth and chin of
the Sphinx began to lower itself into a ramp. On the
ramp stood the mummy Ja-kal.
"Follow me." He said. "We've agreed to let you help,
but you are to stay in the main
room." Serena and the others followed Ja-kal into the
Sphinx. Once inside, the ramp
closed up, and the Sphinx resumed its normal
position. The girls were led through a
hallway to a large room, the main room. They saw a
big one armed mummy and the boy
Presley sitting on a couch, watching t.v. "Stay here
until Rath and Nefertina return."
Ja-kal said, sitting down in a chair and looking at
the girls.
"Where'd they go? What about Sanura? Won't she be
coming too?" Raye asked.
She was worried about the young mummy girl, even
though she was a mummy.
"I'm not going to talk about it. We all will find
out soon enough what's going to
happen with Sanura." Ja-kal replied. He was still
annoyed, and didn't want to get
snappy.
Just then, another mummy walked in. He had a very
tall green hat on, and he
looked worried. "Ja-kal, Nefertina refuses to come.
She won't leave Sanura."
Ja-kal sighed. "Thank you. I guess Nefertina won't
be joining us." He turned to
the girls. "This is Rath." He said, pointing towards
Rath. "And that is Armon." The big
mummy waved from the couch. A big cat mummy walked in
from the hallway and gave
the new girls an odd look. "And that is Kahti, our
sacred cat." Ja-kal said. Kahti hissed
at the girls and went back into the hallway.
"My name is Serena." Serena said. She introduced
everyone else, then took off
her backpack. "And this is Luna." She said, opening
the backpack. A black cat with a
moon shaped mark on her forehead jumped out.
"I have Artimis." Mina said, opening her own
backpack. A what cat with the
same moon mark on his forehead jumped out and sat next
to Luna.
"Luna, Artimis, tell them who the StarSlayers are."
Amy said.
Rath raised an eyebrow. "Now whoever heard of a
talking cat? Much less two of
them." He sniffed.
"Fine, we won't tell you." The white cat Artimis
said. The mummies and Presley
blinked in surprise. "Don't worry, I'm kidding." The
cat said, laughing.
"We watched the earlier battle with Rydul from the
backpacks, and we know what
danger your friend is in." Luna said. "Rydul is the
leader of the StarSlayers, a band of
evil knights from another realm. They wanted to take
over this realm, starting with Tokyo,
so the Sailor Scouts fought Rydul. He is a very
strong opponent, and with your beetle
friend, he may be impossible to beat."
"Scarab wants to become immortal, and he also wants
world domination." Ja-kal
said. "If this Rydul wants to take over this
world..."
"Then he and Scarab are gonna have their own fight."
Armon said. He had
turned his attention to the conversation, and Presley
had already turned the t.v. off.
"They're probably focused on us, though." Setsuna
said.
"Hey, I got a question. Do you all transform like
Amara?" Presley asked.
Serena grinned. "Yep, we do. Watch."
"MARS CRYSTAL POWER!"
"MERCURY CRYSTAL POWER!"
"VENUS CRYSTAL POWER!"
"JUPITER CRYSTAL POWER!"
"MOON PRISM POWER!"
"SATURN PLANET POWER!"
"PLUTO PLANET POWER!"
"URANUS PLANET POWER!"
"NEPTUNE PLANET POWER!"
"MOON COSMIC POWER!"
Once the light faded, the girls wore the same suit
Amara did when she
transformed, only they each had different colors.
Raye had red, Lita had green, Mina had
orange, Amy had blue, Serena had rainbow colors, Rini
had pink, and Amara, Michelle,
Setsuna, and Hotaru had on the same dark blue to black
shade. "Whoah..."Presley said.
"Now I am called Sailor Moon." Serena said. She
then introduced everyone
again, and started to explain who and what they were,
and their past.
As the others talked, Sailor Neptune pulled Sailor
Uranus over to one side.
"Come on," Neptune whispered. "Let's go see if we
can find Nefertina and Sanura."
Uranus nodded. "The least we can do is apologize."
She said. The two quickly
entered the hallway and looked to make sure that no
one had seen them. They carefully
walked down the hall until they heard a hiss of
warning.
They looked down to see Kahti blocking the doorway in
front of them. Kahti
hissed again and bared her fangs and claws.
"I don't think she wants us down here." Uranus said.
Neptune knelt down in front of Kahti. "It's ok, we
mean no harm. We just want
to go see Nefertina and Sanura."
Kahti hissed again.
"You're talking to a cat." Uranus said. "A dead
one." This earned her yet
another hiss.
"We talk to Luna and Artimis all the time." Neptune
replied. She turned back to
Kahti. "Please, we want to apologize to Nefertina for
the way we acted earlier. We want
to make sure that Sanura will be alright."
Kahti's face softened, as if she was taking this into
consideration. She finally
walked to one side of the hallway and let them pass.
Neptune gave Kahti a pat, then
walked down the hall with Uranus to another room.
The room was large. At the far end stood a row of
sarcophagi. One had what
looked like a falcon headed man on the lid. Another,
a cat headed one. Another
sarcophagus had a ram headed man on the lid. One had
a man holding a scroll in one
hand and a pen in the other, and was encircled by a
snake. The last one had what would
have been a lion headed goddess, but the lion head
had no mane, and there were two
very long fangs sticking out from the mouth. "A
Sabertooth tiger's head." Uranus
whispered.
In the middle of the room was a large table. On one
end was a miniature pyramid
about the size of a printer box. Near the pyramid was
various scrolls and items. Some of
the items was an amulet in the shape of a sabercat's
head and a pair of gauntlets, the same
pair wore by Sanura. At the other end of the table
was Sanura's unconsious body, and
Nefertina.
Nefertina had her head resting on Sanura's stomach.
She had already removed her
younger siblings amulet and gauntlets. Sanura was
still breathing, or what appeared to be
breathing, because she didn't have any lungs to breath
with. Nefertina's eyes were
closed, but she was listening to every single noise
she heard.
"Who's there?" She called out, not opening her eyes.
The sound of the two
Scouts boots had drawn her attention, and she new it
wasn't the other mummies or
Presley.
Uranus looked over at her partner, she nodded. "It's
me, Amara. Michelle's with
me." Uranus said.
Nefertina didn't say anything for a moment. "What do
you want?"
"We came to apologize." Neptune said. She walked
closer to the table, pulling
Uranus with her.
"I don't want to talk to anybody right now."
Nefertina replied. She kept her head
where it was, and reached a hand up to brush Sanura's
bangs to one side. She had opened
her eyes, but didn't look at Uranus or Neptune.
"Sulking isn't going to do anything, Nefertina. You
wouldn't have been able to
stop what happened. It was planned." Uranus said.
"Now talk to us, we came to talk to
you and-"
"Well, what would you do?" Nefertina asked,
interrupting Uranus. "Michelle
means a lot to you, I can tell. What would you do if
you lost her?"
Uranus opened her mouth, then closed it again. "I
don't know. I'd be upset. But
I wouldn't sulk."
"That's because you'd probably be fighting someone or
something." Nefertina
said. "Right now, I'm not fighting, so all I can do
is sulk."
"But you're acting like she's never going to wake
up." Neptune said. She was
starting to get upset.
"That's because Rath and I don't know if she will
wake up. We still have no idea
what Scarab and that man did to her." Nefertina said.
She took a deep breath. About
3500 years ago, my sister was born. I was happy,
because that would mean that I
wouldn't be an only child. I took care of her until I
left for the Palace, because I was
going to work as a court musician. I had lost her the
day that I left, and we didn't know if
we'd see each other again. While I was there, I
learned to drive chariots. I disguised
myself as a man so I could race, and earned my money
by winning races. I was saving up
to go back to my sister. Well, one day, I won a race,
and was ordered to become a
guardian of the Living Horus, the newborn Prince
Rapses. I knew then I would never
return home." Nefertina stopped.
Uranus and Neptune waited a moment. "How did you
find each other then?"
Neptune asked.
"Sanura received a dream from the goddess Sekhmet,
and was ordered to go to the
Palace by that goddess. When she woke up, she had
received her gauntlets. The
gauntlets contain a magical energy that comes out in
the form of a cord. Sanura can do
just about anything with them, but she doesn't use
them often. She traveled to the Palace
in time to stop an assassination attempt on the
Pharaoh. She recognized me in my
disguise, and when I was told to take her to her room,
she told me so. We were together
again." Nefertina said.
Uranus looked down at Sanura and noticed claw marks
on her left side. "Well,
then what happened?"
Nefertina smiled weakly. "You're wondering about her
scars." She said,
touching one of the claw marks. "She was made a
guardian of the Prince as a reward for
saving the Pharaoh. Her patron goddess was Sekhmet,
and when she went to the vizier
Scarab for her amulet and armor, she received the
extinct sabertooth tiger as a patron
animal."
"I thought Scarab was your enemy." Neptune said,
frowning.
"He is, but back then, we didn't know what he was
planning. For training to
become a guardian, the high priests of Sekhmets Temple
told Sanura to go out into the
desert to a sacred shrine of Sekhmet to meditate until
noon. When she was out there, a
lion attached her, giving her these scars." Nefertina
said. "Before she passed out, she had
commanded her cords to take her back to the Palace.
One carried her while the other
wrapped around her to slow the blood flow."
"How did you die?" Neptune asked. Uranus was still
looking at the claw marks.
"One night, Prince Rapses went missing, and Scarab
was missing as well. All of
Rapses' guardians followed the chariot tracks to
Scarab, where he was planning to
murder the Prince. We tried to stop him, but we
failed. Scarab's Shabti overwhelmed us,
then he killed us with some sort of magic spell. We
had failed to protect our Prince, I
failed to protect my sister, and we died that night.
I think one of us lived, and told
whomever found us who had killed us and Rapses. None
of us remember it."
After a moment of silence, Uranus spoke up. "That's
terrible. And now with
Rydul and his StarSlayers working with this Scarab,
we're all in trouble."
"Who are the StarSlayers?" Nefertina asked.
"They're a group of evil men from another realm
dressed as mediaeval warriors.
Rydul wears metal armor while his men wear leather
armor. They have special magic
attacks, and we've been fighting them for the bast
five months." Neptune replied.
"We're told he wants to take over this world."
Nefertina remained silent while Uranus and Neptune
stood there. Nefertina
opened her mouth to say something when Sanura's hand
twitched.
Sitting up, Nefertina looked down at her sister. As
she watched, Sanura's eyes
opened. But they were different. They...
"Look! Her eyes! They're red, and she doesn't have
any pupils!" Uranus cried
out, stepping in front of Neptune. She was right,
Sanura's eyes were no longer their usual
gray, like Nefertina's, they were completely red, and
she didn't have any pupils.
Nefertina jumped up and watched in utter shock and
horror as Sanura began to
change. Sanura's hair shrank back into her head, and
was quickly replaced by spikes that
curved back. As Sanura stood up, her muscles and
bones grew in size. Her bandages
melted into her skin, and large, overlapping plated
scales appeared on her chest. Her
spine shot out and became a tail, with a spike of the
tip and four curved blades
surrounding it, pointing towards the spike. The
overlapping scales appeared on her thighs
and shins, upper arms, and forearms. Where the scales
did not grow, leathery skin was
produced. Smaller scales that fit together appeared
on her face as her face bones fused
together to form a lizards snout. Large sharp teeth
replaced her normal human ones as
her feet became lizard like. As the claws on her
hands and feet sprouted, a pait of huge
dragon like wings sprang from her back, and a trail of
spines grew out of her backbone
down to the beginning of her tail. Once her
transformation was complete, Sanura opened
her toothed mouth and let loose an angry roar, then
turned her sights on the two scouts.
"Ja-kal! Rath! Armon! Help! It's Sanura!"
Nefertina screamed, drawing
Sanura's attention.
"Scouts!" Uranus and Neptune yelled together.
Ja-kal, Rath, and Armon had been talking to the
Scouts when they heard
Nefertina's cry for help. Everyone jumped up and ran
down the hall in time to see a
larged, two legged winged creature advancing on
Uranus, Neptune, and Nefertina, who
had not yet called her armor.
"WITH THE STRENGTH OF RA!" Ja-kal, Rath, and Armon
transformed
quickly. Ja-kal loaded his bow and shot a flaming
arrow at Sanura, which embedded
itself in the back of her thigh where the big scales
had not grown.
"That's Sanura!" Nefertina yelled. She transformed
and brought out her whip,
waving it at the winged lizard in front of her.
Sanura stepped back a bit, then her red eyes
flashed as she swung her tail at Nefertina. The mummy
jumped into the air, then landed
again, swinging her whip.
"Rath, is there any way you can control Sanura?"
Ja-kal asked, loading another
arrow.
"Yes, but it may take some time. Keep Sanura busy."
Rath replied as he ran to
the table. He unrolled scroll after scroll, looking
for a solution.
"Armon, protect the Prince." Ja-kal said, firing his
arrow at Sanura. This one
bounced off the scales of her chest, but she was
clearly angry.
Rath searched his scrolls frantically, looking for a
cure. As Nefertina and Ja-kal
kept the enraged monster down, Armon stood by the
Prince, ready should Sanura find
something else to play with.
"Venus Whip Chain Harness!" Venus yelled, and threw
a yellow chain at Sanura.
Sanura roared, furious, and bit through the chain.
She unfurled her wings to show off a
wing span of about 14 feet from wing tip to wing tip,
and took to the air. She circled the
mummies and the scouts, angry that she couldn't even
hit them.
"She's too slow!" Ja-kal yelled to Nefertina from
the air. "Just keep her off the
ground!" Nefertina nodded to show she understood, and
continued to brandish her whip.
"I've got it!" Rath exclaimed, holding up a scroll.
Ja-kal turned to look at Rath,
and as he did so, Sanura tried to chew off his helmet.
She was knocked back by a well
delivered punch from a gloved fist to the side of her
head, and she fell to the ground,
stunned.
"Can you get her under control? Can you fix her?"
Nefertina asked, anxious.
"I can get her under control, but I wasn't looking
for a way to change her back. I
will once she's back to normal ... personality wise."
Rath said. "Scarab used an
enslavement spell on her, and has probably instructed
her to try to destroy us. But, since
she is an inexperienced fighter, and her fighting
skills have only been improved through
occasional training lessons and battles, she was
unable to. If she had been experienced,
she would have been able to destroy us all with very
little effort." Rath said.
"So you can get her to act the way she used to before
all this happened?"
Nefertina asked hopefully.
"Of course I can. Just watch." Rath said. He
opened the scroll, pointed an open
palm at the stunned monster that was Sanura, and began
to chant. A beam of green light
was shot at Sanura, and once Rath finished his chant,
the beam disappeared.
The lizard groaned and moved slightly. "Ouch ... my
leg." Sanura said, in her
own voice. Nefertina sighed with relief and ran
towards Sanura. She knelt and placed a
gloved hand on San's injured leg, examining the arrow
sticking out of her thigh.
"Hey, you're gonna be ok. Don't worry. Rath said
he'll get you back to normal."
Nefertina said, pulling the arrow out of San's
lizards thigh.
"I'm different ... the potion, it changed me... Scarab
cast a spell and..." Sanura was
too weak to even speak, so she just stayed in her
prone position, breathing heavily. She
realized that since she had changed, she now contained
blood, other bodily fluids, and
internal organs. She had forgotten what it was like to
actually have lungs to breath with,
blood to bleed, and a stomach to use.
"It's ok. Rath said he'll get you back to normal."
Nefertina said, tossing the
arrow aside.
Jupiter and Mars walked up to them. "You ok?"
Jupiter asked.
Sanura looked at Jupiter through her usual gray eyes.
"I don't know." She
moaned.
Mars held up a hand and a slip of paper with oriental
writing appeared between
her index finger and middle finger. She said some
sort of prayer and dropped the paper,
which then flew to Sanura on its own. It slipped
itself into the belt of Sanura's kilt,
which she still wore. "That should numb the pain."
Mars said, smiling.
"Thank you." Sanura said, still weak.
Rath approached Sanura. "I'm going to find a way to
make you normal again, or
at least get your normal body back. It is possible
you may keep this body, to be able to
transform into it, like we do with our armor. Until
then, you might as well get used to
your new wings." He said.
"I'll probably just put it away and not use it."
Sanura said. Her voice was slightly
slurred because of her lizard like tongue and mouth.
"I just need to rest."
"You can rest here. I'm not going anywhere."
Nefertina said, relaxing and
sending her armor elsewhere. She watched as her
sister closed her eyes and fall asleep.
Nefertina felt a hand on her shoulder. She looked up
at Sailor Moon. "Don't
worry." Sailor Moon said. "She'll get back to
normal."
"I hope so." Nefertina said. Ja-kal sat next to her
and brought her close to him in
a reassuring hug. He didn't know what else to do.
"Blast it!" Scarab said as he threw an empty clay
jar at the wall. Rydul watched
with amusement as Scarab fumed.
"At least she won't be fighting. I doubt that she'll
fully understand the
capabilities of her new body. I don't think any of
them will get her back to normal.
She'll never be able to use that body properly. The
only thing she'll become a
professional at would be flying. But even then, she'd
wouldn't be able to stay in the air
forever. She'd eventually tire." Rydul said.
"I hope you're right." Scarab said. He was still
mad. "She wasn't able to destroy
even one of those mummies!"
"Then that means she's much weaker than she was,
right?" Rydul asked. "You
should be able to destroy her now. We'll both get
what we want now, won't we?"
Scarab calmed down a bit, then finally laughed.
"You're right! Why didn't I see
it? She *is* much weaker now!" He grinned evilly.
"Now, the real fun starts!"
Disclaimer: The following story is not enfringment of
any kind. Mummies Alive! is property of Dic, and
Sailor Moon is property of Saban. Sanura and Rydul
are property of Liz.
Note: I use the t.v. series spelling for the Sailor
Scouts. For all you Luna and Artimis fans out there,
yes, Luna and Artimis are in this story... somewhere.
I am post this for Liz (who is a great writer). Please R&R.
Well on with the story!!! =^_~=
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Ja-kal ran over to Nefertina. "Are you ok?" He
asked.
"I should be asking you the same thing." Nefertina
replied.
"I'm fine. It wasn't a real blast. It was a fake.
It still knocked be down." Ja-kal
said. "Is Sanura going to be ok?"
"I don't know. I don't know what they did to her."
Nefertina said, looking down
at her comatose sister. Sanura's armor fizzled away,
and her gauntlets didn't give off the
same live feeling they usually did. "We have to get
her inside."
Ja-kal nodded as Presley ran out of the bush. "Is
she going to be ok?" He asked,
ignoring the audience they had.
"We don't know, but we need to get her inside and
figure out what they did to
her." Ja-kal said, leading Nefertina and Presley
towards the Sphinx.
"Wait." Serena called. "Let us come with you. We
know who those men were."
Amara had a sour look on her face as she abandoned her
uniform.
"Why should we trust you?" Ja-kal asked. "From what
I saw, if Scarab and
whoever was helping him hadn't come, you would have
attacked Nefertina and Sanura."
"Ja-kal, wait." Presley said. "What if they do know
whoever helped Scarab? If
we pass up this information, we could be in major
trouble."
"Prince Rapses is right." Nefertina said, still
holding her sister. "We have to trust
them."
Ja-kal frowned under his helmet. "You wait here."
He told Serena and her
friends. "I'm going to talk to the rest of my team
and-"
"There are more of you?" Hotaru asked, wide eyed.
"- figure out what to do from there." Ja-kal
finished, slightly annoyed. "If you
really want to help us, then stay here."
Serena nodded and leaned against a lamp post.
Everyone else murmured and sat
down and tried to make themselves' comfortable.
Ja-kal, Nefertina, and Presley ran around to the back
of the Sphinx and opened a
rarely used door. They made their way down the hall
to the main room, where Rath and
Armon were. "Rath, we need you to look after Sanura.
Something happened, and we
don't know if she's going to be alright." Ja-kal
said. His armor disappeared, and
Nefertina's did the same.
"What happened?" Rath asked, clearing a space on a
nearby table for Sanura.
"She looks as if someone hit her in the head and
knocked her out."
"You could say that." Presley said. "Ja-kal, are we
gonna let those girls help us?"
"I was going to ask everyone here." Ja-kal said. "A
group of teenage girls outside
said they knew who the man was that helped Scarab. We
don't know if we should let
them in."
"I say let them help. If they can help San, then
they can also help us fight
Scarab's new buddy." Nefertina said, sitting down in
a chair next to the table.
"Then we'd have a chance at defeating Scarab." Armon
said, eating something.
No one bothered to ask what he was doing eating.
"Well, I suppose we could let them help. But we
should keep them in this room,
that way they won't get to the garage or sarcophagi
room." Rath said. "Nefertina, will
you move Sanura to the sarcophagi room?"
Nefertina nodded and gathered her sister up again.
As Rath and Nefertina left
with Sanura, Ja-kal turned to Presley and Armon. "I'm
going to go get those girls. Stay
here, I'll be right back." Armon and Presley nodded
as he left.
Serena and the others waited outside the Sphinx.
Suddenly, the mouth and chin of
the Sphinx began to lower itself into a ramp. On the
ramp stood the mummy Ja-kal.
"Follow me." He said. "We've agreed to let you help,
but you are to stay in the main
room." Serena and the others followed Ja-kal into the
Sphinx. Once inside, the ramp
closed up, and the Sphinx resumed its normal
position. The girls were led through a
hallway to a large room, the main room. They saw a
big one armed mummy and the boy
Presley sitting on a couch, watching t.v. "Stay here
until Rath and Nefertina return."
Ja-kal said, sitting down in a chair and looking at
the girls.
"Where'd they go? What about Sanura? Won't she be
coming too?" Raye asked.
She was worried about the young mummy girl, even
though she was a mummy.
"I'm not going to talk about it. We all will find
out soon enough what's going to
happen with Sanura." Ja-kal replied. He was still
annoyed, and didn't want to get
snappy.
Just then, another mummy walked in. He had a very
tall green hat on, and he
looked worried. "Ja-kal, Nefertina refuses to come.
She won't leave Sanura."
Ja-kal sighed. "Thank you. I guess Nefertina won't
be joining us." He turned to
the girls. "This is Rath." He said, pointing towards
Rath. "And that is Armon." The big
mummy waved from the couch. A big cat mummy walked in
from the hallway and gave
the new girls an odd look. "And that is Kahti, our
sacred cat." Ja-kal said. Kahti hissed
at the girls and went back into the hallway.
"My name is Serena." Serena said. She introduced
everyone else, then took off
her backpack. "And this is Luna." She said, opening
the backpack. A black cat with a
moon shaped mark on her forehead jumped out.
"I have Artimis." Mina said, opening her own
backpack. A what cat with the
same moon mark on his forehead jumped out and sat next
to Luna.
"Luna, Artimis, tell them who the StarSlayers are."
Amy said.
Rath raised an eyebrow. "Now whoever heard of a
talking cat? Much less two of
them." He sniffed.
"Fine, we won't tell you." The white cat Artimis
said. The mummies and Presley
blinked in surprise. "Don't worry, I'm kidding." The
cat said, laughing.
"We watched the earlier battle with Rydul from the
backpacks, and we know what
danger your friend is in." Luna said. "Rydul is the
leader of the StarSlayers, a band of
evil knights from another realm. They wanted to take
over this realm, starting with Tokyo,
so the Sailor Scouts fought Rydul. He is a very
strong opponent, and with your beetle
friend, he may be impossible to beat."
"Scarab wants to become immortal, and he also wants
world domination." Ja-kal
said. "If this Rydul wants to take over this
world..."
"Then he and Scarab are gonna have their own fight."
Armon said. He had
turned his attention to the conversation, and Presley
had already turned the t.v. off.
"They're probably focused on us, though." Setsuna
said.
"Hey, I got a question. Do you all transform like
Amara?" Presley asked.
Serena grinned. "Yep, we do. Watch."
"MARS CRYSTAL POWER!"
"MERCURY CRYSTAL POWER!"
"VENUS CRYSTAL POWER!"
"JUPITER CRYSTAL POWER!"
"MOON PRISM POWER!"
"SATURN PLANET POWER!"
"PLUTO PLANET POWER!"
"URANUS PLANET POWER!"
"NEPTUNE PLANET POWER!"
"MOON COSMIC POWER!"
Once the light faded, the girls wore the same suit
Amara did when she
transformed, only they each had different colors.
Raye had red, Lita had green, Mina had
orange, Amy had blue, Serena had rainbow colors, Rini
had pink, and Amara, Michelle,
Setsuna, and Hotaru had on the same dark blue to black
shade. "Whoah..."Presley said.
"Now I am called Sailor Moon." Serena said. She
then introduced everyone
again, and started to explain who and what they were,
and their past.
As the others talked, Sailor Neptune pulled Sailor
Uranus over to one side.
"Come on," Neptune whispered. "Let's go see if we
can find Nefertina and Sanura."
Uranus nodded. "The least we can do is apologize."
She said. The two quickly
entered the hallway and looked to make sure that no
one had seen them. They carefully
walked down the hall until they heard a hiss of
warning.
They looked down to see Kahti blocking the doorway in
front of them. Kahti
hissed again and bared her fangs and claws.
"I don't think she wants us down here." Uranus said.
Neptune knelt down in front of Kahti. "It's ok, we
mean no harm. We just want
to go see Nefertina and Sanura."
Kahti hissed again.
"You're talking to a cat." Uranus said. "A dead
one." This earned her yet
another hiss.
"We talk to Luna and Artimis all the time." Neptune
replied. She turned back to
Kahti. "Please, we want to apologize to Nefertina for
the way we acted earlier. We want
to make sure that Sanura will be alright."
Kahti's face softened, as if she was taking this into
consideration. She finally
walked to one side of the hallway and let them pass.
Neptune gave Kahti a pat, then
walked down the hall with Uranus to another room.
The room was large. At the far end stood a row of
sarcophagi. One had what
looked like a falcon headed man on the lid. Another,
a cat headed one. Another
sarcophagus had a ram headed man on the lid. One had
a man holding a scroll in one
hand and a pen in the other, and was encircled by a
snake. The last one had what would
have been a lion headed goddess, but the lion head
had no mane, and there were two
very long fangs sticking out from the mouth. "A
Sabertooth tiger's head." Uranus
whispered.
In the middle of the room was a large table. On one
end was a miniature pyramid
about the size of a printer box. Near the pyramid was
various scrolls and items. Some of
the items was an amulet in the shape of a sabercat's
head and a pair of gauntlets, the same
pair wore by Sanura. At the other end of the table
was Sanura's unconsious body, and
Nefertina.
Nefertina had her head resting on Sanura's stomach.
She had already removed her
younger siblings amulet and gauntlets. Sanura was
still breathing, or what appeared to be
breathing, because she didn't have any lungs to breath
with. Nefertina's eyes were
closed, but she was listening to every single noise
she heard.
"Who's there?" She called out, not opening her eyes.
The sound of the two
Scouts boots had drawn her attention, and she new it
wasn't the other mummies or
Presley.
Uranus looked over at her partner, she nodded. "It's
me, Amara. Michelle's with
me." Uranus said.
Nefertina didn't say anything for a moment. "What do
you want?"
"We came to apologize." Neptune said. She walked
closer to the table, pulling
Uranus with her.
"I don't want to talk to anybody right now."
Nefertina replied. She kept her head
where it was, and reached a hand up to brush Sanura's
bangs to one side. She had opened
her eyes, but didn't look at Uranus or Neptune.
"Sulking isn't going to do anything, Nefertina. You
wouldn't have been able to
stop what happened. It was planned." Uranus said.
"Now talk to us, we came to talk to
you and-"
"Well, what would you do?" Nefertina asked,
interrupting Uranus. "Michelle
means a lot to you, I can tell. What would you do if
you lost her?"
Uranus opened her mouth, then closed it again. "I
don't know. I'd be upset. But
I wouldn't sulk."
"That's because you'd probably be fighting someone or
something." Nefertina
said. "Right now, I'm not fighting, so all I can do
is sulk."
"But you're acting like she's never going to wake
up." Neptune said. She was
starting to get upset.
"That's because Rath and I don't know if she will
wake up. We still have no idea
what Scarab and that man did to her." Nefertina said.
She took a deep breath. About
3500 years ago, my sister was born. I was happy,
because that would mean that I
wouldn't be an only child. I took care of her until I
left for the Palace, because I was
going to work as a court musician. I had lost her the
day that I left, and we didn't know if
we'd see each other again. While I was there, I
learned to drive chariots. I disguised
myself as a man so I could race, and earned my money
by winning races. I was saving up
to go back to my sister. Well, one day, I won a race,
and was ordered to become a
guardian of the Living Horus, the newborn Prince
Rapses. I knew then I would never
return home." Nefertina stopped.
Uranus and Neptune waited a moment. "How did you
find each other then?"
Neptune asked.
"Sanura received a dream from the goddess Sekhmet,
and was ordered to go to the
Palace by that goddess. When she woke up, she had
received her gauntlets. The
gauntlets contain a magical energy that comes out in
the form of a cord. Sanura can do
just about anything with them, but she doesn't use
them often. She traveled to the Palace
in time to stop an assassination attempt on the
Pharaoh. She recognized me in my
disguise, and when I was told to take her to her room,
she told me so. We were together
again." Nefertina said.
Uranus looked down at Sanura and noticed claw marks
on her left side. "Well,
then what happened?"
Nefertina smiled weakly. "You're wondering about her
scars." She said,
touching one of the claw marks. "She was made a
guardian of the Prince as a reward for
saving the Pharaoh. Her patron goddess was Sekhmet,
and when she went to the vizier
Scarab for her amulet and armor, she received the
extinct sabertooth tiger as a patron
animal."
"I thought Scarab was your enemy." Neptune said,
frowning.
"He is, but back then, we didn't know what he was
planning. For training to
become a guardian, the high priests of Sekhmets Temple
told Sanura to go out into the
desert to a sacred shrine of Sekhmet to meditate until
noon. When she was out there, a
lion attached her, giving her these scars." Nefertina
said. "Before she passed out, she had
commanded her cords to take her back to the Palace.
One carried her while the other
wrapped around her to slow the blood flow."
"How did you die?" Neptune asked. Uranus was still
looking at the claw marks.
"One night, Prince Rapses went missing, and Scarab
was missing as well. All of
Rapses' guardians followed the chariot tracks to
Scarab, where he was planning to
murder the Prince. We tried to stop him, but we
failed. Scarab's Shabti overwhelmed us,
then he killed us with some sort of magic spell. We
had failed to protect our Prince, I
failed to protect my sister, and we died that night.
I think one of us lived, and told
whomever found us who had killed us and Rapses. None
of us remember it."
After a moment of silence, Uranus spoke up. "That's
terrible. And now with
Rydul and his StarSlayers working with this Scarab,
we're all in trouble."
"Who are the StarSlayers?" Nefertina asked.
"They're a group of evil men from another realm
dressed as mediaeval warriors.
Rydul wears metal armor while his men wear leather
armor. They have special magic
attacks, and we've been fighting them for the bast
five months." Neptune replied.
"We're told he wants to take over this world."
Nefertina remained silent while Uranus and Neptune
stood there. Nefertina
opened her mouth to say something when Sanura's hand
twitched.
Sitting up, Nefertina looked down at her sister. As
she watched, Sanura's eyes
opened. But they were different. They...
"Look! Her eyes! They're red, and she doesn't have
any pupils!" Uranus cried
out, stepping in front of Neptune. She was right,
Sanura's eyes were no longer their usual
gray, like Nefertina's, they were completely red, and
she didn't have any pupils.
Nefertina jumped up and watched in utter shock and
horror as Sanura began to
change. Sanura's hair shrank back into her head, and
was quickly replaced by spikes that
curved back. As Sanura stood up, her muscles and
bones grew in size. Her bandages
melted into her skin, and large, overlapping plated
scales appeared on her chest. Her
spine shot out and became a tail, with a spike of the
tip and four curved blades
surrounding it, pointing towards the spike. The
overlapping scales appeared on her thighs
and shins, upper arms, and forearms. Where the scales
did not grow, leathery skin was
produced. Smaller scales that fit together appeared
on her face as her face bones fused
together to form a lizards snout. Large sharp teeth
replaced her normal human ones as
her feet became lizard like. As the claws on her
hands and feet sprouted, a pait of huge
dragon like wings sprang from her back, and a trail of
spines grew out of her backbone
down to the beginning of her tail. Once her
transformation was complete, Sanura opened
her toothed mouth and let loose an angry roar, then
turned her sights on the two scouts.
"Ja-kal! Rath! Armon! Help! It's Sanura!"
Nefertina screamed, drawing
Sanura's attention.
"Scouts!" Uranus and Neptune yelled together.
Ja-kal, Rath, and Armon had been talking to the
Scouts when they heard
Nefertina's cry for help. Everyone jumped up and ran
down the hall in time to see a
larged, two legged winged creature advancing on
Uranus, Neptune, and Nefertina, who
had not yet called her armor.
"WITH THE STRENGTH OF RA!" Ja-kal, Rath, and Armon
transformed
quickly. Ja-kal loaded his bow and shot a flaming
arrow at Sanura, which embedded
itself in the back of her thigh where the big scales
had not grown.
"That's Sanura!" Nefertina yelled. She transformed
and brought out her whip,
waving it at the winged lizard in front of her.
Sanura stepped back a bit, then her red eyes
flashed as she swung her tail at Nefertina. The mummy
jumped into the air, then landed
again, swinging her whip.
"Rath, is there any way you can control Sanura?"
Ja-kal asked, loading another
arrow.
"Yes, but it may take some time. Keep Sanura busy."
Rath replied as he ran to
the table. He unrolled scroll after scroll, looking
for a solution.
"Armon, protect the Prince." Ja-kal said, firing his
arrow at Sanura. This one
bounced off the scales of her chest, but she was
clearly angry.
Rath searched his scrolls frantically, looking for a
cure. As Nefertina and Ja-kal
kept the enraged monster down, Armon stood by the
Prince, ready should Sanura find
something else to play with.
"Venus Whip Chain Harness!" Venus yelled, and threw
a yellow chain at Sanura.
Sanura roared, furious, and bit through the chain.
She unfurled her wings to show off a
wing span of about 14 feet from wing tip to wing tip,
and took to the air. She circled the
mummies and the scouts, angry that she couldn't even
hit them.
"She's too slow!" Ja-kal yelled to Nefertina from
the air. "Just keep her off the
ground!" Nefertina nodded to show she understood, and
continued to brandish her whip.
"I've got it!" Rath exclaimed, holding up a scroll.
Ja-kal turned to look at Rath,
and as he did so, Sanura tried to chew off his helmet.
She was knocked back by a well
delivered punch from a gloved fist to the side of her
head, and she fell to the ground,
stunned.
"Can you get her under control? Can you fix her?"
Nefertina asked, anxious.
"I can get her under control, but I wasn't looking
for a way to change her back. I
will once she's back to normal ... personality wise."
Rath said. "Scarab used an
enslavement spell on her, and has probably instructed
her to try to destroy us. But, since
she is an inexperienced fighter, and her fighting
skills have only been improved through
occasional training lessons and battles, she was
unable to. If she had been experienced,
she would have been able to destroy us all with very
little effort." Rath said.
"So you can get her to act the way she used to before
all this happened?"
Nefertina asked hopefully.
"Of course I can. Just watch." Rath said. He
opened the scroll, pointed an open
palm at the stunned monster that was Sanura, and began
to chant. A beam of green light
was shot at Sanura, and once Rath finished his chant,
the beam disappeared.
The lizard groaned and moved slightly. "Ouch ... my
leg." Sanura said, in her
own voice. Nefertina sighed with relief and ran
towards Sanura. She knelt and placed a
gloved hand on San's injured leg, examining the arrow
sticking out of her thigh.
"Hey, you're gonna be ok. Don't worry. Rath said
he'll get you back to normal."
Nefertina said, pulling the arrow out of San's
lizards thigh.
"I'm different ... the potion, it changed me... Scarab
cast a spell and..." Sanura was
too weak to even speak, so she just stayed in her
prone position, breathing heavily. She
realized that since she had changed, she now contained
blood, other bodily fluids, and
internal organs. She had forgotten what it was like to
actually have lungs to breath with,
blood to bleed, and a stomach to use.
"It's ok. Rath said he'll get you back to normal."
Nefertina said, tossing the
arrow aside.
Jupiter and Mars walked up to them. "You ok?"
Jupiter asked.
Sanura looked at Jupiter through her usual gray eyes.
"I don't know." She
moaned.
Mars held up a hand and a slip of paper with oriental
writing appeared between
her index finger and middle finger. She said some
sort of prayer and dropped the paper,
which then flew to Sanura on its own. It slipped
itself into the belt of Sanura's kilt,
which she still wore. "That should numb the pain."
Mars said, smiling.
"Thank you." Sanura said, still weak.
Rath approached Sanura. "I'm going to find a way to
make you normal again, or
at least get your normal body back. It is possible
you may keep this body, to be able to
transform into it, like we do with our armor. Until
then, you might as well get used to
your new wings." He said.
"I'll probably just put it away and not use it."
Sanura said. Her voice was slightly
slurred because of her lizard like tongue and mouth.
"I just need to rest."
"You can rest here. I'm not going anywhere."
Nefertina said, relaxing and
sending her armor elsewhere. She watched as her
sister closed her eyes and fall asleep.
Nefertina felt a hand on her shoulder. She looked up
at Sailor Moon. "Don't
worry." Sailor Moon said. "She'll get back to
normal."
"I hope so." Nefertina said. Ja-kal sat next to her
and brought her close to him in
a reassuring hug. He didn't know what else to do.
"Blast it!" Scarab said as he threw an empty clay
jar at the wall. Rydul watched
with amusement as Scarab fumed.
"At least she won't be fighting. I doubt that she'll
fully understand the
capabilities of her new body. I don't think any of
them will get her back to normal.
She'll never be able to use that body properly. The
only thing she'll become a
professional at would be flying. But even then, she'd
wouldn't be able to stay in the air
forever. She'd eventually tire." Rydul said.
"I hope you're right." Scarab said. He was still
mad. "She wasn't able to destroy
even one of those mummies!"
"Then that means she's much weaker than she was,
right?" Rydul asked. "You
should be able to destroy her now. We'll both get
what we want now, won't we?"
Scarab calmed down a bit, then finally laughed.
"You're right! Why didn't I see
it? She *is* much weaker now!" He grinned evilly.
"Now, the real fun starts!"