Chapter 3 - SMG
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It was another day and another place. Usagi, Chibi-Usa, Mamoru and the four girls stood in a flower shop. Chibi-Usa entertained herself with Mamoru as he followed Usagi who was admiring some pink roses. Minako and Makoto were glancing through a section with daisies and lilies and Ami was with Rei at some sunflowers.
Ami spoke with Rei about something she heard on the news as Rei poked through the flowers, "There seemed to of been another strange happening in the park."
Rei turned quickly to her and asked, "Another attack?"
Ami shook her head and said, "No, it just seemed some person had been giving large amounts of money to the homeless in the area."
Rei nodded slowly somewhat bemused but she wore a smile.
Meanwhile Usagi and Mamoru were looking through roses, moving from pink to red, as Chibi-Usa wandered off to where Rei and Ami were. Usagi picked one out and handed it to Mamoru with a smile saying, "Here, this one is nice."
Mamoru smiled back at her and told her, "Thanks Usako, one more won't hurt."
Usagi nodded with a smile, then after looking over around the area, wore a conspiratory expression and whispered to Mamoru, "Isn't the guy next to us the one who saved Chibi-Usa? I think Minako-chan said he was called Shen."
Shen was indeed nearby questioning an employee about blue-grey shadow roses he heard about, with the employee responding with that she heard about them but they had none.
Suddenly Minako was next to him with Makoto close behind. Minako greeted Shen with, "Good afternoon Shen-san."
Makoto followed saying, "Hello Shen-san. Did you know I..*" but she got cut off by Minako.
Minako interrupted Makoto by pointing out, "Hey, I'm sorry about having left so fast before but I can get my things that I bought from you, come on." She then pulled him out of the flower shop still before the somewhat surprised Shen could even say a word.
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Shen found himself pulled along by the blond girl away from the shop. He silently decided that he would not investigate if a certain flower existed just because the human who told him about it called it a shadow rose. He shouldn't care about minor things in this world and because he had this teenager was now kidnapping him. He was worrying, though, about what the shard of light had done to him. He sighed and looked over at Minako who had an expectant expression on her face and he seemed to recall she said something, he thought. Something about asking where was he staying so he asked, "Why do you want to know that?"
Minako looked up into the air, "Well, I'd think that is where you put my things, right?"
A frown crossed Shen's face as he silently willed that his allies did something to help him. After a few moments he said, "Ok.. it's this way.."
He wound his way by a few street corners as Minako asked him a few questions about his family and friends to which he gave short, vague answers. Finally they reached a small house positioned between two stores. The outside had grey siding, white windowsills and a black front door, all looking a bit dull though perhaps it was because one of the buildings next to it cast it's shadow onto the house. Shen quietly let Minako inside.
After taking off their shoes Minako could look around the hallway and living room which were all a light grey, with the ceiling colored white and the carpeting was colored black. All the pieces of furniture were some shade of grey and she seemed to be the only bit of color in sight. Minako blinked as she looked around. "Interesting style," she remarked.
A shrug was the reply from Shen and he said, "Stay in the living room. I'll get your things," and with that he left the room.
Minako looked around the room, looking for anything that might be interesting to look at. She wasn't able to find much, however, not even any pictures of his family or anything.
Minako heard a noise behind her and she turned to see Shen behind her holding various items. He handed them to her and said, "This is all the things you bought.." then he added, "That didn't break when your stray thrown item knocked me over as you ran off before."
Minako turned a little red then said quietly, "I hope you didn't get hurt." She carefully put the things down on the floor and looked around again. She thought for a moment then said, "It seems a little empty here. Just move in? No pictures at all, not even of your parents. Where are they?"
Shen looked up at her from glancing at the items she had put down. He thought for a moment then replied, "Yes, I did more here recently you could say. I planned to come here for several years but I only got here just recently." He then paused a little more before adding, "As for my parents, I never knew my father and my mother.. is no longer among the living.."
Minako nodded a bit solemnly and offered, "I'm sorry to hear that." Then, somewhat uncomfortable with the surroundings and not doing good at conversation, she decided to leave. "I guess I better get going," she said as she glanced at a phone and quickly copied the number listed on it. "But I'll call you later in the week, ok?"
She was greeted by silence for a few moments before he said slowly "Oh.. be well.." She nodded, picked up her things, put on her shoes and then with a quick bow she left.
She quietly carried her things in the bag Shen had put them in as she walked down the street, and she felt a little sad. Suddenly she stopped and said to herself, "I should go back. He needs someone to cheer him up. Besides his home is a little depressing. I'll go back and help him decorate. Yay!" She then turned back enthusiastically on her heels and headed back.
She turned down the street his house was on and skidded to a stop between the two stores where his house had been. She blinked, with her eyes wide for what she saw between the stores now was a small parking lot. The house was gone.
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In the night clouds slowly enveloped the sky making the stars wink out one by one. As dawn approached they sky was completely overcast and wind blew small items down the street. Down that street Argon floated invisibly. He looked around then pointed at a building of offices. From the swirling clouds above a funnel of wind started to descend towards the building.
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Ami sat in her room reading a book and listening to the news. She looked up as she heard the news switch to an emergency broadcast. She watched the TV wide eyed as it showed a tornado in the city destroy a building. She looked at the screen closely then used her communicator to call the other senshi.
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The tornado, with glowing red eyes floating on the sides of the funnel, was claiming another building as the senshi arrived, all a bit bug-eyed. Accompanying them where both Luna and Artemis along with Tuxedo Kamen, his cape whipping in the wind.
"How are we going to beat this thing, guys?!" screamed Makoto over the wind.
Mercury proceeded to take out her computer and punch keys at the same time as Mars tried to sense it's power center. They both answered at the same time.
"It's weakness is in a spot at it's lower back!" Mercury responded.
"The strongest point of it's dark energy is on it's upper right!" Mars contradicted.
"Please make up your minds would you?!" Venus pleaded.
"I'm sorry. It keeps moving!" was Mercury's apologetic reply.
Luna reasoned, "Well to stop it we first need to get near it!"
As if by Luna's command the tornado changed direction and headed towards the senshi, swallowing up all in it's path. Artemis only had time to yell, "Look out!" before they got sucked up into it.
Moon wailed as she got batted around with the others in the wind, Tuxedo Kamen partially protecting her with his body. Suddenly despite Tuxedo Kamen's protection a light blue gem whacked her on the side of her head. Mercury shouted as the item floated away that it was the power source that just hit Sailor Moon. Moments later a large stone struck Mercury and knocked her unconscious, much to the others' alarm.
Rei screamed, "What now?!" and got knocked out by a large flying object, and soon as anyone else said anything loud enough to be heard they got knocked out cold too. Soon only Sailor Moon, who simply had continued being noisy from before, because she had never stopped, along with Artemis and Venus were conscious. As the light blue crystal shot into view again Artemis screamed, "Sailor Venus, use the magic boost that you didn't before to take out that thing, we don't have much..*" He was interrupted by a tree branch bouncing off his head, knocking him out.
Venus made as if to shout something, but stopped and with eyes blinking from the flying particles, she put her hands together and pointed at the gem with her index fingers as she shouted, "Venus Beam!" A ray of light energy about a foot in diameter shot from her pointed fingers to crystal, enveloping it in energy. Venus however was quickly knocked unconscious.
Sailor Moon fell silent finally and watched with big eyes as the glow subsided and the gem was in one piece, until, that is, it collided with another rock. The gem shattered and the wind about her almost seemed to cream. A moment later it was Sailor Moon's turn to scream again as everyone fell, a thankfully short distance, to the ground. Sailor Moon laid about as still as the rest of the senshi from shock and some dizziness.
Argon appeared next to the fallen senshi and companions and shook his head. "A waste of a good youma. Hrm. At least it seems I succeeded where Queen Beryl had failed. The Senshi have fallen."
One of the senshi rose from the ground however. Sailor Moon stood up, a bit wobbly and pointed to Argon. She yelled, "I am the pretty sailor suited sen.. um." She opened her eyes and revealed little whirls in them showing how dizzy she was. She tried again, not so loud, "I am the sailor suited pretty senshi, um, Sailor Moon. I may be an, um, airhead but I'll blow your house down cause you are so long winded, um." She blinked a few more times and just said, "I will punish you!"
Argon just looked at her trying to figure out how many bad puns she just had attempted. Then he shouted at Sailor Moon, "If you are going to fight, do it right! Don't add those, stupid, annoying, moronic, simplistic, bad jokes with your.. *" He was suddenly and totally interrupted by an energy blast.
In his shouting he had missed the whispered words, "Dead Scream," which was followed by a purple sphere flying at him, followed by two others. The first sphere blasted him into the side of a building. The other two, a yellow one and green one, struck him right after, and they wounded him mortally. Argon then crumpled onto the ground and muttered weakly, "May there at least be no more jokes, again to.. reach my.. ears.." His eyes slowly closed and his body vanished, having turning into some kind of gas, with only his uniform left behind.
Sailor Moon blinked a few more times and looked at three figures nearby. She smiled and waved tiredly, saying, "Hey, Sailor Pluto, Uranus and Neptune. Thanks.." and with that she let the shock and pain overwhelmed her and she slipped to the ground and lost consciousness.
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It was another day and another place. Usagi, Chibi-Usa, Mamoru and the four girls stood in a flower shop. Chibi-Usa entertained herself with Mamoru as he followed Usagi who was admiring some pink roses. Minako and Makoto were glancing through a section with daisies and lilies and Ami was with Rei at some sunflowers.
Ami spoke with Rei about something she heard on the news as Rei poked through the flowers, "There seemed to of been another strange happening in the park."
Rei turned quickly to her and asked, "Another attack?"
Ami shook her head and said, "No, it just seemed some person had been giving large amounts of money to the homeless in the area."
Rei nodded slowly somewhat bemused but she wore a smile.
Meanwhile Usagi and Mamoru were looking through roses, moving from pink to red, as Chibi-Usa wandered off to where Rei and Ami were. Usagi picked one out and handed it to Mamoru with a smile saying, "Here, this one is nice."
Mamoru smiled back at her and told her, "Thanks Usako, one more won't hurt."
Usagi nodded with a smile, then after looking over around the area, wore a conspiratory expression and whispered to Mamoru, "Isn't the guy next to us the one who saved Chibi-Usa? I think Minako-chan said he was called Shen."
Shen was indeed nearby questioning an employee about blue-grey shadow roses he heard about, with the employee responding with that she heard about them but they had none.
Suddenly Minako was next to him with Makoto close behind. Minako greeted Shen with, "Good afternoon Shen-san."
Makoto followed saying, "Hello Shen-san. Did you know I..*" but she got cut off by Minako.
Minako interrupted Makoto by pointing out, "Hey, I'm sorry about having left so fast before but I can get my things that I bought from you, come on." She then pulled him out of the flower shop still before the somewhat surprised Shen could even say a word.
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Shen found himself pulled along by the blond girl away from the shop. He silently decided that he would not investigate if a certain flower existed just because the human who told him about it called it a shadow rose. He shouldn't care about minor things in this world and because he had this teenager was now kidnapping him. He was worrying, though, about what the shard of light had done to him. He sighed and looked over at Minako who had an expectant expression on her face and he seemed to recall she said something, he thought. Something about asking where was he staying so he asked, "Why do you want to know that?"
Minako looked up into the air, "Well, I'd think that is where you put my things, right?"
A frown crossed Shen's face as he silently willed that his allies did something to help him. After a few moments he said, "Ok.. it's this way.."
He wound his way by a few street corners as Minako asked him a few questions about his family and friends to which he gave short, vague answers. Finally they reached a small house positioned between two stores. The outside had grey siding, white windowsills and a black front door, all looking a bit dull though perhaps it was because one of the buildings next to it cast it's shadow onto the house. Shen quietly let Minako inside.
After taking off their shoes Minako could look around the hallway and living room which were all a light grey, with the ceiling colored white and the carpeting was colored black. All the pieces of furniture were some shade of grey and she seemed to be the only bit of color in sight. Minako blinked as she looked around. "Interesting style," she remarked.
A shrug was the reply from Shen and he said, "Stay in the living room. I'll get your things," and with that he left the room.
Minako looked around the room, looking for anything that might be interesting to look at. She wasn't able to find much, however, not even any pictures of his family or anything.
Minako heard a noise behind her and she turned to see Shen behind her holding various items. He handed them to her and said, "This is all the things you bought.." then he added, "That didn't break when your stray thrown item knocked me over as you ran off before."
Minako turned a little red then said quietly, "I hope you didn't get hurt." She carefully put the things down on the floor and looked around again. She thought for a moment then said, "It seems a little empty here. Just move in? No pictures at all, not even of your parents. Where are they?"
Shen looked up at her from glancing at the items she had put down. He thought for a moment then replied, "Yes, I did more here recently you could say. I planned to come here for several years but I only got here just recently." He then paused a little more before adding, "As for my parents, I never knew my father and my mother.. is no longer among the living.."
Minako nodded a bit solemnly and offered, "I'm sorry to hear that." Then, somewhat uncomfortable with the surroundings and not doing good at conversation, she decided to leave. "I guess I better get going," she said as she glanced at a phone and quickly copied the number listed on it. "But I'll call you later in the week, ok?"
She was greeted by silence for a few moments before he said slowly "Oh.. be well.." She nodded, picked up her things, put on her shoes and then with a quick bow she left.
She quietly carried her things in the bag Shen had put them in as she walked down the street, and she felt a little sad. Suddenly she stopped and said to herself, "I should go back. He needs someone to cheer him up. Besides his home is a little depressing. I'll go back and help him decorate. Yay!" She then turned back enthusiastically on her heels and headed back.
She turned down the street his house was on and skidded to a stop between the two stores where his house had been. She blinked, with her eyes wide for what she saw between the stores now was a small parking lot. The house was gone.
* * * * *
In the night clouds slowly enveloped the sky making the stars wink out one by one. As dawn approached they sky was completely overcast and wind blew small items down the street. Down that street Argon floated invisibly. He looked around then pointed at a building of offices. From the swirling clouds above a funnel of wind started to descend towards the building.
* * * * *
Ami sat in her room reading a book and listening to the news. She looked up as she heard the news switch to an emergency broadcast. She watched the TV wide eyed as it showed a tornado in the city destroy a building. She looked at the screen closely then used her communicator to call the other senshi.
* * * * *
The tornado, with glowing red eyes floating on the sides of the funnel, was claiming another building as the senshi arrived, all a bit bug-eyed. Accompanying them where both Luna and Artemis along with Tuxedo Kamen, his cape whipping in the wind.
"How are we going to beat this thing, guys?!" screamed Makoto over the wind.
Mercury proceeded to take out her computer and punch keys at the same time as Mars tried to sense it's power center. They both answered at the same time.
"It's weakness is in a spot at it's lower back!" Mercury responded.
"The strongest point of it's dark energy is on it's upper right!" Mars contradicted.
"Please make up your minds would you?!" Venus pleaded.
"I'm sorry. It keeps moving!" was Mercury's apologetic reply.
Luna reasoned, "Well to stop it we first need to get near it!"
As if by Luna's command the tornado changed direction and headed towards the senshi, swallowing up all in it's path. Artemis only had time to yell, "Look out!" before they got sucked up into it.
Moon wailed as she got batted around with the others in the wind, Tuxedo Kamen partially protecting her with his body. Suddenly despite Tuxedo Kamen's protection a light blue gem whacked her on the side of her head. Mercury shouted as the item floated away that it was the power source that just hit Sailor Moon. Moments later a large stone struck Mercury and knocked her unconscious, much to the others' alarm.
Rei screamed, "What now?!" and got knocked out by a large flying object, and soon as anyone else said anything loud enough to be heard they got knocked out cold too. Soon only Sailor Moon, who simply had continued being noisy from before, because she had never stopped, along with Artemis and Venus were conscious. As the light blue crystal shot into view again Artemis screamed, "Sailor Venus, use the magic boost that you didn't before to take out that thing, we don't have much..*" He was interrupted by a tree branch bouncing off his head, knocking him out.
Venus made as if to shout something, but stopped and with eyes blinking from the flying particles, she put her hands together and pointed at the gem with her index fingers as she shouted, "Venus Beam!" A ray of light energy about a foot in diameter shot from her pointed fingers to crystal, enveloping it in energy. Venus however was quickly knocked unconscious.
Sailor Moon fell silent finally and watched with big eyes as the glow subsided and the gem was in one piece, until, that is, it collided with another rock. The gem shattered and the wind about her almost seemed to cream. A moment later it was Sailor Moon's turn to scream again as everyone fell, a thankfully short distance, to the ground. Sailor Moon laid about as still as the rest of the senshi from shock and some dizziness.
Argon appeared next to the fallen senshi and companions and shook his head. "A waste of a good youma. Hrm. At least it seems I succeeded where Queen Beryl had failed. The Senshi have fallen."
One of the senshi rose from the ground however. Sailor Moon stood up, a bit wobbly and pointed to Argon. She yelled, "I am the pretty sailor suited sen.. um." She opened her eyes and revealed little whirls in them showing how dizzy she was. She tried again, not so loud, "I am the sailor suited pretty senshi, um, Sailor Moon. I may be an, um, airhead but I'll blow your house down cause you are so long winded, um." She blinked a few more times and just said, "I will punish you!"
Argon just looked at her trying to figure out how many bad puns she just had attempted. Then he shouted at Sailor Moon, "If you are going to fight, do it right! Don't add those, stupid, annoying, moronic, simplistic, bad jokes with your.. *" He was suddenly and totally interrupted by an energy blast.
In his shouting he had missed the whispered words, "Dead Scream," which was followed by a purple sphere flying at him, followed by two others. The first sphere blasted him into the side of a building. The other two, a yellow one and green one, struck him right after, and they wounded him mortally. Argon then crumpled onto the ground and muttered weakly, "May there at least be no more jokes, again to.. reach my.. ears.." His eyes slowly closed and his body vanished, having turning into some kind of gas, with only his uniform left behind.
Sailor Moon blinked a few more times and looked at three figures nearby. She smiled and waved tiredly, saying, "Hey, Sailor Pluto, Uranus and Neptune. Thanks.." and with that she let the shock and pain overwhelmed her and she slipped to the ground and lost consciousness.