The Death Scout
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Chapter 4: Outer Moon: Good or Evil?
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Sakura sat with the scout group at lunch and met them at the front gate after the school day was over.
"So, you guys like your new, stronger powers?" Sakura asked the other girls on the way to the temple.
"Yeah, their totally cool." Mina answered for everyone.
"Do you all think you have a hand on the concentration needed, or do you need more practice on concentration and control?" Sakura continued, eyeing Serena.
"Well, Me, Amy, Mina, and Lita all have great control. Serena, on the other hand…she could easily use some work on control." Raye chimed in with a malicious grin.
"Hey!" Serena cried, "I can too control my powers completely!"
"Ready to prove it? Outer Moon Power!"
"Bring it on! Moon Locket Power!"
Outer Moon set up a barrier around the two of them to protect everyone and everything else. As the two girls battled, Serena proved Raye correct. Although Serena could not control her new, stronger powers, she knocked Outer Moon on her butt numerous times.
"You're not controlling that power! Now, concentrate!!" Outer Moon would yell over and over.
When the little fiasco was over, Outer Moon was half in tatters because of Sailor Moon's lack of concentration. Sailor Moon was completely in tatters, but not from lack of control from Outer Moon.
Once Sailor Moon retrieved a decent concentration level, Outer Moon stopped the battle and let the safety barrier down. "You'll last."
"Are you sure?" Amy commented, "She doesn't have a fraction of the control you do!"
"Yes. She'll last for now. I have done what was needed for today, I'll see you all later." Outer Moon turned and started to walk off when a cylinder of darkness surrounded her. When she was visible again, she was detransformed again.
"That was cool!" Serena watched in awe.
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"Pluto!" Sailor Outer Moon called the keeper of the time gate, "What do I do now? I did what you said to, what's the next step in your plan?"
"You don't have to scream, you know." Sailor Pluto was standing behind Sailor Outer Moon, "Thank you for doing as I asked of you." Pluto received a glare saying, 'What?! You didn't ask, you forced me to do this!' in return.
"O.K., thank you for not just leaving and for actually helping." The glare softened a tad.
"Well, what next?" Outer Moon prodded when Pluto paused.
Sailor Pluto let out a sigh then continued, "Next…" Pluto took a step back, making herself out of Outer Moon's initial range of attack, "Next, you have to work with them, become friends with them, and make sure that they succeed."
"WHAT!?!" Sailor Outer Moon gave Sailor Pluto a glare that could kill just as easily as her strongest attack, "I am not going to stay here with them! They can take care of themselves just fine without my help!!"
"No they can't, Sakura. If you want any family at all in the future, you have to do this." Pluto tried to reason with the enraged Sailor Scout of Death.
"Who cares about family right now? You know that I don't work with the other Scouts very well! Even in the future!" Outer Moon snapped back.
"Please. For everyone's sake!" Sailor Pluto tried to reason with the only Scout that would not listen to her as if she was their own mother.
Sailor Outer Moon whispered something too quietly for Pluto to hear. Then the next thing Pluto knew was that she was in the most pain she had ever felt, and that there was a smugness on Sailor Outer Moon's face that she didn't like.
"You know what happens every time I work with the Scouts, so don't blame me for the consequences of your decision of who to use for this…" Outer Moon paused for a second, "…this manipulation of time." She walked off.
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"Uh, Scouts." Sakura poked her head through the front door of the temple, "I need to tell you something."
"What?" Raye opened the door for Sakura and motioned for her to enter.
"Sorry, but I can't stay. I just thought that you'd like to know, I saw Sailor Pluto by the lake and she didn't look too well." Sakura turned and walked away before they could flood her with questions, "Oh, and by the way, she deserved what she got!" Sakura yelled over her shoulder.
"That did not sound good!" Mina commented.
"Serena, Scout emergency!" Amy called Serena over their comm-system, "Meet us in the park next to the dock!"
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A couple of minutes later, Sailor Moon met the other four scouts in the park by the lake dock, "What's wrong?" She asked, fear crossing over her face as she constantly looked around her for another possible monster.
"Sakura stopped by the temple and informed us that Pluto is out here and not looking too well." Mercury replied.
Walking around the lake, the scouts found Pluto crouched on the ground, trying to use her time staff for support, a small puddle of blood to one side of her.
"Ohmygod!!" Sailor Moon ran to the side of the downed scout, "What the hell happened?!"
"Outer Moon." Pluto said weakly.
"But I thought Outer Moon was on our side." Sailor Mercury was scanning Pluto to find the extent of the injury, "If this isn't healed right away, the result will be death."
"What do we do now? We can't let her just die like this!" Sailor Jupiter cried.
"I need your guys' help for what I'm about to do." Sailor Moon glowed a blinding gold for a second and then was visible in her princess dress form the Silver Millennium, "Moon Crystal Power! Please help my friend, Sailor Pluto!" The rest of the scouts present formed a circle of linked hands around their Princess and Pluto, freely giving over their energy to the Silver Crystal to heal Sailor Pluto.
Light from the Silver Crystal filled the air around them momentarily before encompassing Sailor Pluto. When the light disappeared and the Crystal returned to its former place, Pluto slowly stood up, clutching the side that was injured.
"Pluto Time (attack)!" Pluto sent her attack right by Mars' head into an oncoming monster.
"What was that for?!" Mars thought the attack was aimed at her.
"Behind you." Sailor Pluto pointed past Sailor Mars.
"Mars Flame Explosion!" Mars fired off her newest attack. The attack mearly knocked the monster on its backside.
"What do we do?! Jupiter Thunder Gravity!" Jupiter called out, "We can't hold it forever, how's Serenity?!"
"She's out! And it doesn't look like she's planning on waking up anytime soon!" Sailor Mercury was by the unconscious leader of the group.
"We need Outer Moon." Sailor Pluto answered Jupiter's first question, "She's the only one left that can take that thing out."
"I am not a thing!" The monster protested against Pluto's comment, "I'm Quill, the gate keeper of the afterlife realms of the Porcupines!"
"Quill?? What are you doing here? What happened?" Sailor Pluto suddenly recognized the strange creature.
"I was told that someone was preparing to attack my gate and that if I didn't go after them, they'll have an army when they attack."
"Well, believe me, no one would even dare think about trying to attack you." Sailor Pluto walked over to him, "Now you might want to return to your post before you get caught away."
The guardian of the porcupine afterlife realms agreed, then went back to where he had come from.
"That must have been a diversion, there must be another, real monster somewhere that was supposed to cause havoc while we were fighting Quill." Sailor Venus put forth a possible explanation for Quill's appearance.
As if in answer to Sailor Venus' suggestion, a scream floated by on the wind followed by an evil laugh.
"I'll stay with her," Pluto indicated Sailor Moon, "You girls go work on that monster."
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"Make-up, retrieve that girl's life force for me!" Someone who looked like a young boy called to an extra-large stick of lipstick.
"Yes sir!" The monster called out, then raced toward its target.
"Back off!" A voice came from behind the girl, "If you want this girl, you'll have to go through me, Sailor Venus!"
"And me, Sailor Jupiter!"
"And me, Sailor Mars!"
"How many of you are there?" The boy cut in.
"Just one more, and that is me, Sailor Mercury!" Each of the girls stepped out of the shadows.
"Get what you came for and them get me the souls of those other girls." The boy ordered.
Faster then the scouts could see, Make-up pulled the girl's soul from her body.
"That isn't a pure soul! I want to see the souls of those girls!" The boy pointed to the scouts.
One by one, the monster went to each scout and collected their souls. Although the girls all fought back with all they had, the monster picked them off one by one until they were all down.
"Good job, Make-up!" The boy motioned for the monster to follow him, "Let's go. They'll want more since we were given the wrong target." As the kid started on his way, a sphere of darkness flew into his stomach, sending him flying backwards.
"Where do you think your going?" Someone whispered from the direction of the attack, "And who are you?"
The boy stood up and answered, "I am Bob. The Leader of the soul eaters. And I am on my way to gather more souls, starting with yours!"
"Outer Moon's Kiss of Death!"
The monster disappeared. With Make-up no longer in existence, the souls of the girl and scouts raced back to their original bodies.
"What?!" Who are you and what did you do to Make-up?!" Bob started to panic
"Sailor Outer Moon, the Sailor Scout of Death and the worst nightmare to those who piss me off!"
"And what happened to Make-up?" Bob interrupted.
"She's gone." Outer Moon said coolly, "In the same place I'll be sending you…"
Before Outer Moon could say any more, Bob disappeared.
During Bob's and Outer Moon's little conversation, the scouts had gotten up and escorted the girl away from the battle that they thought was imminent. They returned just in time to see the boy vanish.
"What is going on with you?!" Venus demanded.
"What are you talking about?" Outer Moon was still in a horrible mood.
"We mean Pluto, and then this." Sailor Mercury said firmly, "First you give us interesting new powers, then you almost kill Sailor Pluto, and then you save our necks for the second time."
"So, what is up with you?! Are you a friend or an enemy?!" Sailor Jupiter chimed in.
"It all depends on you." Outer Moon turned and disappeared.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Sailor Mars gave voice to what everyone was thinking. "Let's get back to Pluto and Sailor Moon."
When the scouts returned back to their friends, Sailor Moon was back up and supporting Pluto.
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