Chapter 9:
Magic Box:
"Dawn! I cannot believe that you would just blab out something so important like that! You didn't do stuff like that back when Glory was still around, did you!? If you did I am amazed that you're still alive right now and even more so that Glory didn't get her pit-fire hands on you sooner than she did!" Buffy was yelling at her sister.
"RINI! You blabbermouth! You do not go around telling total strangers, as soon as you meet them, everything about yourself and all of your secrets. I cannot believe that you could be that selfish you little brat! I don't know why or how I still tolerate you after all the things you've done to me you ungrateful little…" Serena was yelling at her future daughter.
The two youngest shared sympathetic looks with each other before grinning at each other and then pointedly turning their back on their still yelling guardians and walked over to the register counter to get to know each other a bit better. "HEY!" both Buffy and Serena yelled at the same time. "Don't you walk away from us! We're not done! You are in such big trouble right now!" the both continued to yell in synch.
It wasn't until there was yet another chime of bells from the front door that the two blonds calmed down and everybody turned to regard the new visitors. The first, a medium build girl about 18 years old with shortly cut blue hair with marine blue eyes in a pair of dark slacks and a pink sweater. She was flanked by a much shorter and extremely timid looking wisp of a girl with pale skin, neck-length midnight black hair, and wide purple shaded eyes. Behind them were the ones that got Buffy's attention though.
The one Buffy immediately classified as first threat was a woman at least a foot, maybe more, taller than her with boyishly cut dirty blond hair and angry blue eyes. The one next to her had shoulder length aqua green hair that fell in smooth waves and had the same color eyes. Both were dressed identically, in jeans and blouses, though the hard-eyed blond had a black shirt while her companion had a soft green blouse. Yet it was the last that Buffy knew had to be both the leader and the most powerful out of these three. She was the tallest, except maybe for Darien, in the room, and had green hair so dark she briefly mistook it for black flowing in a ponytail down to her waist and was dressed rather conservatively.
"AMI!" Lita suddenly shouted and ran forward and embraced the blue haired girl, and before anybody could react to that, kissed her fully on the lips, and it soon became more than obvious that the kiss was being reciprocated.
"I missed you," Lita whispered to her love, her Ami, after they finally released each other.
"I missed you too," Ami whispered back and almost kissed her amazon again, but a small slight cough from Serena and Buffy quickly broke them up.
"Ami, Hotaru, Hamara, Michelle, Trista?" Serena listed the names of the strangers, "What are you doing here? Come to think of it, what are we all doing here?"
"I'm afraid, your highness," Trista answered formally, stepping to the lead of the group, "that we're about to find out. Some dark force is awakening here atop the Hellmouth, and only the Sailor soldiers can stop it. No offense to the current guardians atop the Hellmouth, but this force I am afraid is too powerful. Even for the Slayer."
"Wonderful, another Glory," Xander muttered darkly. Then he looked up at his cousin with the blue haired girl. "And what is it with me and the girls I grew up with turning out to be lesbians anyway?!"
That elicited some soft chuckles, but the tension was running too high for anything else to come of it.
"Don't worry, it's not you Xander," Willow assured. "Besides, I didn't see you complaining when I let you watch me and Tara kiss when you drove us home that night."
Xander nodded his head, conceding the point, but flushed red when Anya exclaimed, "You drove them home 'that night'!?"
Xander managed to contain the urge to roll his eyes and turned to his fiancée and explained. "It's not what you're thinking An. We were patrolling over the summer, see? And it was late and I was just driving them back to their house, uh Buffy's house and they started to…well mess around a little in the back seat. I swear, I said and did nothing, and drove straight home after dropping them off. Then we…well, that was the week that you and I…" Xander's eyes gave most of the hint of what he was saying, and Anya figured it out, remembering the week in question.
"Oh!" she briefly exclaimed. Then she frowned. "So the entire time you were having sex with me you were remembering Willow and Tara kiss?"
"No!" Xander denied immediately. Then he scooted closer to Anya and whispered, hoping only she would be the one to hear him, "I, uh, I was actually thinking, um, about you and Willow and Tara kissing…each other." Anya was left blinking for a couple seconds after that before responding with a slightly deflated, "Oh."
"I really did not need to know that," Buffy muttered.
"Same here," Dawn snapped from across the room.
"I didn't quite follow it, what did he say?" Rini asked in Japanese.
"Never mind!" Buffy and Serena snapped back, one in English, the other in Japanese.
"So what are you three doing here?" Rei asked suddenly. "You never show up unless…unless its about to get really bad."
"How bad?" Willow couldn't stop herself from asking.
Buffy and Serena shared a glance, both knowing exactly how bad this one was going to get. Trista and Hamara answered the red witch's question anyway. "Bad," Hamara said shortly and extremely ominously.
"The last four times that we have worked in tandem with the Inner Sailor Soldiers," Trista began, "It was the end of the world each time. The first, we stopped the Sovereign of Silence, most of downtown Tokyo was destroyed as a result of that battle. The second, we stopped the world from becoming a frozen block of ice, and the third, we returned just in time to help the Scouts save thousands of children from an endless sleep where their dreams were used to fuel something called the Black Dream Hole. It would have swallowed the Earth and had us all living in an endless nightmare if it hadn't been for Sailor Moon. And the last…"
Another slight cough, from Serena only this time, stopped Trista mid-sentence. The slight shake of the Moon Princess's head was all it took to end the explanation fully. "It was just as bad," Trista finished. "And this time, it may be something worse. As it stems from the Hellmouth itself. We are used to dealing with Daemons, but those always have an agenda and are weakened by our own magical powers. Pure demons, that congregates around the Hellmouth… They are more for pure destruction, and their agendas lead only to complete destruction of everything. And while our powers are actually three times as effective against them, they are simply too numerous to handle, even with all of the Sailor Soldiers here."
"So in other words, we're facing an army and we need to help each other just in order to survive," Buffy summarized.
Trista nodded, but before she could speak, another voice answered.
A craggily, deep and deathly dark voice spoke suddenly from the back room. "Too true Slayer, too true. Sadly, it will not do you any good." Every one turned in shock and stared in partial disbelief as twenty seven foot tall demons that looked like they were made out of stone, lava, and ice, entered and filled the other half of the room. Dawn and Rini quickly joined the mass of Slayerettes and Sailor Soldiers, those at the table jumping up as well.
"Kill them," came the order. "Except for the young ones and the two blonds in the middle. And Her! Kill the rest." He pointed at Hotaru. The demons surged forward, and the melee was on!
TBC…