Sailor Chibi Star Fighter: By the way....I'm actually starting to indent my paragraphs!! *gasps in shock* R & R MINNA!!!
Chapter Six
Battle of a Lifetime, Queen Olivia of Nightmares
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Grim poked his guard teasingly. "So.... you DO like Venus!" he danced around the older boy. "I knew it! I knew it!"
Liam sat on the floor glowering. Grim continued in his teasing while dancing around, running up the walls, using his special powers to climb on the ceiling and sing, "LIAM LOVES VENUS! LIAM LOVES VENUS!" Liam sat there, flat eyes, and an exasperated look on his face.
Grim landed next to Liam and screamed in his ear. "LIAM LOVES VENUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Liam turned. "Shut up!" but Grim kept hoping around, singing a new song.
"Liam and Venus siting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G, Prince Yaten caught 'em, threw Liam outta the tree. Now the Prince and Venus are K-I-S-S-I-N-G!!!"
As Liam and Grim got into a fight, Olivia watched from the shadows. "Maybe it was a mistake to let them keep their past memories....Grim and Liam both have weaknesses among the senshi.... It is time a test each one's alliance. Tomorrow...Sailor Star Fighter and the other Sailor Senshi will die for good...."
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Everyone made Fighter as comfortable as possible with the resources that they had. Most senshi donated cloth for a bandage; skirt scraps, bows (back, front, or the bows in hair, in Venus' and HealerVenus' cases), etc. Mercury and MakerMercury wrapped Fighter up as best they could. Under different circumstances, Fighter would have looked quite comical.
Sailor Moon held Fighter always as this was going on. FighterMoon sat beside her mother, and Wolf stood off to the side, always watching. Kakyuu was being consoled by Healer and Maker, who were also being hugged by their daughters.
Inners (besides Mercury) and Outers alike stood quiet and still, sometimes watching, sometimes turned away, but always expecting the worse. One thing all but Wolf seemed to have forgotten, was that she was already dead. Even the wounded herself.
And Fighter slept.
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The next morning, when everyone awoke, Fighter had improved greatly. She had to use people's help to walk, but at least she could stand.
Healer and Sailor Moon helped her as they headed back towards a real bed for Fighter, and some better medical care.
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"Liam...I don't want to fight her."
"I don't want to fight Venus.... Here's a thought. We separate the two groups. You'll fight the Earth Senshi, and I'll take the Lights and their Princess. We both ignore any cries we hear, and don't greive until it's over."
"Alright...I'll try..."
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The palace was in ruins. It had gone from being a seven story building, to part of the building to no floors. Hardly any tiling of the first was left at that. The Starlights could only stare in shock at the destruction. Kakyuu's eyes hardened. "Whomever has done this WILL pay...." Liam and Grim appeared in mid air. Grim faced the Earth senshi. "Our orders are to destroy the Earth senshi and the Starlights!" Liam smirked and faced the Starlights and Kakyuu. "Totally and compeltely destroyed." Wolf stepped up next to her father. "Well, in that case, we're not Earth senshi. Nor are we Starlights. But we are connected with them. You cannot kill us; that's not your orders. But you have to fight us if you want them." The Wild senshi stood with the Starlights, while the Celestials stood with the Earth Senshi. Grim fought not to look at Fighter and instead stared at the Earth senshi.
Liam looked at the injured Fighter. "Now we can finish this."
Wolf stepped in front of her. "You'll have to go through me, first!"
"Very well. Stricking down both Fighter and her shadow should prove fun work."
He drew his sword. Wolf did as well, the Wild senshi had swords. Wolf had a saphire on the hilt of her sword, Tiger had an emerald on her hilt, and Hawk had a amethyst on her's. Metal clashed on metal. The others would have helped her, but a groups of youma appeared, occupying them.
Liam brought his sword down again, and once again it was blocked. "You're rather good."
"So are you. Especially for someone so young."
"I was born for this. I was born to fight." With practice expertice, he slashed at her. She moved quickly to the side, but not enough. The blade edge caught her arm. Liam smirked. "This is too easy. I thought you'd be more of a challenge."
Grim studied the Earth Senshi closely. They looked strong. They most definately outnumbered the Starlights. Then there were the three Celestials. Young, but strong. That was already obvious from one display. He frowned. It would be a challenge, but he had to kill them all.
He called up a group of youma for himself and Liam. No matter what he said, he would need them.
The tall blonde went after him.
Uranus ran at the boy floating and leapt up into the air at him. She punched but her fist hit only air, Grim was gone. She turned as the young boy sent her flying with a kick. Saturn, Neptune, and Pluto attacked.
Grim doged their attacks and shot out beams at the inners. MakerMercury tackled her mother away, FighterMoon put up a sheild, Jupiter and Mars leapt away and HealerVenus leapt infront of her mother. The beam caught the silverhaired girl in the stomach, sending her flying all the way into where the Starlights and Wild Senshi were fighting Liam.
She hit the ground hard, loosing her breath. Tiger slammed through youma, taking out one after another, to get to her sister. She kneeled down and pulled her up on her lap. "Kaela..."
She looked up at him. "K-koran...." She smiled a bit. "That kinda hurt..."
Tiger helped her up. "Here, come on." HealerVenus stood up. "I'm ok now. Thank you." She hugged Tiger.
Liam saw this out of the corner of his eye and froze. A great rage swept up with in him. Wolf brought her sword down, but it met air. She looked around and cried out in surprise. "TIGER! LOOK OUT!"
Tiger turned sharply, pulling out her sword, but too late. Cold metal bit into her shoulder.
"AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" She dropped, hand covering wound. HealerVenus gasped, and looked in fear at the grim face of Liam (isn't that terrible, the GRIM face of Liam?) His eyes laughed, even if he smiled not.
She looked down at her sister. "Koran..." She clentched her hands into fists. "You....you..."
He looked at her and smirked. "Me, what?"
"HOW DARE YOU HURT MY BROTHER!!!!!" She punched him hard in the gut.
The punch didn't hurt so much as the meant action and the words. "Your....your..." He stared at her. "Your brother? B-but...I thought...."
"I don't care what you thought, but you thought WRONG!!!!" She fell to her knees and hugged the whimpering Tiger. "Go away."
Wolf growled as she stared at her two cousins. "THAT DOES IT!!!" she roared. She leapt at Liam and swiped her sword down. Liam got out of the way just in time. Wolf howled like a wolf and their swords clashed. "YOU NEARLY KILL MY FATHER!!" *swipe* "YOU HURT MY COUSIN!" *slash* "AND YOU MAKE MY LITTLE COUSIN CRY!!" *swing* "YOU ARE SCUM!!!" *clash* She leapt back, breathing heavily. Liam breathed heavily too. "I...I..." He couldn't look at any of them. Their accusing eyes always seemed to reflect hers....Kaela, was it? And Venus... "I..." He closed his eyes. "I....don't....c-care...." He dissappeared again. "Why does he keep doing that?!?!" Wolf demanded of no one. Healer looked up startled from where she was helping Fighter as Liam appeared right above her. She shoved Fighter away and jumped back from the boy's blade. Healer cursed at her disadvantage, she needed a sword. "OTOSAN!!" Tiger screamed from her position on the ground and threw her sword to Healer. Healer smiled. "That'll work, what a nice kid I've got.." Liam blinked. "Why do I always fight someone related to that girl........." he groaned. He clashed swords but then there was a cry from the Earth senshi's 'area.' It was Grim.
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Saturn held her glaive no more than an inch from Grim's neck. "Now how is it to be on the reciving end of your guard's earlier actions?" she asked. "I may be young but I'm not weak. I have the power to destroy entire planets and solar systems.... Don't you dare hurt my friends again." she said, glancing over at Uranus.
"She attacked me first! I was only defending--"
"Yeah, right! You came out of no where and attacked us! You're youma hurt poor HealerVenus!" Grim winced. He knew Liam wasn't going to like that. "Not to mention you tried to hurt our princess. And you tried to kill my best friend!!!!!" She raised the glaive, but froze. Liam stood behind her, sword at her back. Grim scrambled away, muttering, "Queen Olivia won't like this one bit..." He stood up. "Liam!"
The older boy was by his side in an instant. Grim frowned at the scene around him. "We need to retrete and regroup. We're not going to beat them like this." Liam nodded.
Grim glanced at Fighter, with Wolf by her side, helping her stand. It was a wonder how much alike they were, in face and spirit.
Liam himself looked to the girl dubbed Cheetah. Her returned his gaze, her eyes full of confusion as she held Tiger.
He could have taken her out. Both her and Tiger. But what he said to Wolf....he acted like he did....care.... HealerVenus looked down from his fixed gaze on her, blushing a bit.
Liam bowed his head as well, then looked to Grim. "Grim-sama?"
Grim seemed startled as he looked to his gaurd from the Starlights. "Hai. Let's go."
And they left.
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Later, Grim approached Liam. "Queen Olivia wants to have a word with us."
"About nani?"
Grim shrugged. "How should I know. Probably about our failure. You know she keeps getting madder about those."
"Yeah..."
The two boys walked down the hall in silence, the only sound the click click of their footfalls.
When they reached the throne room, Liam let Grim go in first. Both boys approached the throne and kneeled. Olivia pretended not to notice them for a moment, then stood over them, faced twisted into a scowl. "Three times." She said. "Three times you have failed me on this mission!"
"They are strong opponants, Lady."
"DID I TELL YOU TO SPEAK?!?!" Grim winced and shook his head. "Now then. I feel that there is more than the strength of the opponant that is holding you back. You are strong, but in them you find a weakness."
Liam stiffened, sensing what she was planning to do. But Grim remained oblivious.
"Each of you has a soft spot for one, maybe more that one of those brats. And that is because you knew them before."
Grim drew in his breath and glanced at Liam, who glared at the floor. He knew. And his bodygaurd knew.
"And so..." Olivia put a hand on each head. "I release you from that prior aquantance."
Grim closed his eyes. Fighter....
The extraction began. Both boys cried out in pain. Liam tried to pull away and draw his sword, but it stopped.
There was an emptiness that neither of them could explain. It seemed like something was missing, yet everything in their lives was in place.
Olivia smirked as they bowed and left. Things would go so much smoother now. Nothing could stop her. The Starlights would die for certain.
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Olivia sat on her throne, one leg cocked up over the chair arm. A hologram of Seiya was in front of her. She smirked evily. "You break my heart....I'll break you..." and she blasted the projecter and the hologram went up in flames.
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Wolf helped Fighter over to the destroyed palace door. "Otosan, are you alright?" she asked worridly. "H-hai....I just need...to sit down...." Wolf set her down on a peice of debris and let her lean back against the broken wall of the palace before running over to help Tiger and HealerVenus.
HV had Tiger's good arm around her shoulder, helping her walk, but she was also injured. They stumbled and started to fall but Wolf caughter HV and Hawk appeared and caught Tiger. "Are you okay?" Wolf demanded of HV. She nodded. "Yeah, it'll take more than that to hurt me badly!" she winked and Wolf smiled.
"SEIYA!!!" SM screamed and every turned in time to see Fighter topple weakly off of the debris she was sitting on, into the grass, and de-transform into Seiya.
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Cold, dark. A 10 year-old Prince Kareon, clad in his armor, was leaning up against an invisible wall, hugging his knees. He started to cry. "Why have I been shut out..." he whimpered. This Kareon....this Kareon was Grim's past memory of the Silver Millenium, his past self. "Fighter..." he whimpered. "Fighter help me!!" he cried.
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"SEIYA!!!" Sailor Moon ran, FighterMoon and Wolf right after her, sliding next to the fallen ravenhaired boy. Wolf closed her eyes, then they shot open in shock. "Hes in perfect health...there aren't even any signs of the attack by Liam that first time!" SM looked at her sharply. "Then why did he colapse?!!" Wolf shook her head. "I-I don't know...." then she got it. "Okaasan, let me see the locket..." SM wordlessly hand the precious jewlery over to her. Wolf looked at it closly. It's light was fading and growing dark. "Its losing it's power...." she gasped. SM gasped as well. "But he said...that it didn't have a limit or anything like that!" Wolf shook her head. "It does, if it stays open for too long....its power will die for good....and so will he...." the girl swiftly closed the locket and Seiya dissapeared. Usagi sighed and looked away. Wolf put a hand on her shoulder comfortingly. "I know its hard Okaasan...if it helps you understand.... The locket is in reality, Otosa-.....I've got to stop that..." she sighed. "The locket is in reality....Seiya-sama's star seed..." Healer looked over sharply. "Nani?!!" Wolf turned to her. "Hai, the locket is actually his star seed, thats why you didn't feel it reappear with it's owner, it is with Usagi-sama, not Seiya-sama." She looked down. "But he wouldn't collapse like that....if it was just his star seed's energy that was the problem....he wouldn't collapse.....I don't understand...."
Wolf sat, pondering her fathers predicament with HealerVenus asleep on her shoulder. She looked at her little cousin and smiled. At least everyone else could get some sleep. She looked over to her mother and little sister. Sailor Moon was crying in her sleep, muttering about Seiya. Wolf half smiled. They were so close.
She scanned the rest of the senshi, putting her arm around the one upon her. A flash off to the side drew her gaze. She drew in her breath. Grim and Liam were there, wicked expressions on their faces. She carefully laid HV down and crept over to a closer position.
"This is perfect. They're all asleep." Liam smirked.
"Let's get this over with quickly. I don't know why Queen Olivia wants this so bad. I think it's a total waste of time." stated the smalled Grim.
Wolf blinked. They were acting different. Something about them.....something was wrong...very wrong....
Liam turned to Grim. "So, which ones do you want to take out first?" he asked.
Grim smirked. "How about those pesky Starlights? Especially that brat Star Fighter!"
Wolf clapped a hand over her mouth to stifle a gasp. "I have to warn the others!!" she hissed and crept out of the bushes, starting to run. Before she had barely started her sprint, she was tackled and a cold blade was pressed against her back.
"Not really a wolf are you? But a Sailor Senshi snoop!!" Liam sneered.
Wolf growled and brought her legs back, grasped the sword with her feet, deflected it from her back, and kicked Liam off, all in one fluid motion.
Liam cursed and ran after her, Grim following close behind.
"Minna! Abunai!! Grim and Liam are here!!!! Minna-baka!! WAKE UP!!!!!!!" Wolf screamed as Liam leapt at her again. Rollign to the side, she raised her arm and screamed an attack that the others had never seen or heard her use before.
"FULL MOON WEREWOLF FLASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Liam blinked in shock as the energy flew at him. It came in contact with the boy in a horendous explosion. When it cleared, Liam hovered there in the air, breathing heavily, looking at Wolf with rage in his eyes.
"You wanna try that again?" He smirked, eyes rock hard.
"STARLIGHT BEAUTY SHOCK!!!!!!!!" Wolf looked over and was surprised to see HealerVenus leading up the other senshi; but only because she was the fastest. The girl smiled at her older cousin. "Im not that light a sleeper. The minute you tried moving me, I was awake."
Wolf sat, pondering her fathers predicament with HealerVenus asleep on her shoulder. She looked at her little cousin and smiled. At least everyone else could get some sleep. She looked over to her mother and little sister. Sailor Moon was crying in her sleep, muttering about Seiya. Wolf half smiled. They were so close.
She scanned the rest of the senshi, putting her arm around the one upon her. A flash off to the side drew her gaze. She drew in her breath. Grim and Liam were there, wicked expressions on their faces. She carefully laid HV down and crept over to a closer position.
"This is perfect. They're all asleep." Liam smirked.
"Let's get this over with quickly. I don't know why Queen Olivia wants this so bad. I think it's a total waste of time." stated the smalled Grim.
Wolf blinked. They were acting different. Something about them.....something was wrong...very wrong....
Liam turned to Grim. "So, which ones do you want to take out first?" he asked.
Grim smirked. "How about those pesky Starlights? Especially that brat Star Fighter!"
Wolf clapped a hand over her mouth to stifle a gasp. "I have to warn the others!!" she hissed and crept out of the bushes, starting to run. Before she had barely started her sprint, she was tackled and a cold blade was pressed against her back.
"Not really a wolf are you? But a Sailor Senshi snoop!!" Liam sneered.
Wolf growled and brought her legs back, grasped the sword with her feet, deflected it from her back, and kicked Liam off, all in one fluid motion.
Liam cursed and ran after her, Grim following close behind.
"Minna! Abunai!! Grim and Liam are here!!!! Minna-baka!! WAKE UP!!!!!!!" Wolf screamed as Liam leapt at her again. Rollign to the side, she raised her arm and screamed an attack that the others had never seen or heard her use before.
"FULL MOON WEREWOLF FLASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Liam blinked in shock as the energy flew at him. It came in contact with the boy in a horendous explosion. When it cleared, Liam hovered there in the air, breathing heavily, looking at Wolf with rage in his eyes.
"You wanna try that again?" He smirked, eyes rock hard.
"STARLIGHT BEAUTY SHOCK!!!!!!!!" Wolf looked over and was surprised to see HealerVenus leading up the other senshi; but only because she was the fastest. The girl smiled at her older cousin. "Im a light a sleeper. The minute you tried moving me, I was awake."
Grim sent attacks out at the senshi who doged them. Sailor Moon shouted and started to bring out her teir but then it hit her. Her teir had been destroyed in the battle with Galaxia... "Mama!! Abunai!!!" FM screamed. SM looked up and was throwna few feet away. The necklace flew off of her neck and sailed through the sky, bouncing off a rock and landing on a stone by the pond, tottering on the edge. SM screamed and tied to run for it but she tripped and couldn't reach it. Liam blasted at HV who leapt awy just in time, but it was that blast that shook the locket enough and it went over the edge. "NOOOO!!!!!!!!" SM screamed.
The locket opened on the floor of the pond. Fighter appeared, standing knee deep in the pond. She looked around and sweatdroped. "This is new....." she muttered. "FIGHTER!!!!!! ABUNAI!!!!!!!" Fighter spun around just to get thrown back a few feet and looked up to see SM blasted again. "ODANGO!!!!!" she screamed in rage.
Grim turned at the sound of her voice and smirked. "Risen from the dead. Lucky. For me, that is. Get rid of this waste of time."
Fighter tilted her head. This kid was acting weird. Before, he was heisitant to even look at her. Now he wanted to kill her straight up? Weirdo. "Good luck, kiddo."
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*stretches* well the end of yet another chapter! And yet another mean cliffhanger ^_~ Tee hee, don't 4get, I REALLY like reviews!! ^_^;;;;; R & R!!!