Moon Cats

Chapter Twenty one

Reika crawled out from behind the heavy mattress looking and listening for any signs of danger. Several minutes before she had been thrown from her bed and the warehouse had been filled with small explosions and weird lights. Reika had hidden when her prison window had shattered.

Carefully she slid on her flat shoes and walked to the windows, peering out into the main area. What she saw made her gasp in shock. Her brother had a gun to the head of Sailor Moon, while one of his friends, and ten golems surrounded six more Sailors along with Tuxedo Mask a black cat woman, and Artemis.

"Well now, what do we have here?" Her brother asked with sarcasm drifting across the battle-ravaged warehouse. The hero's glared silently at him, the anger at their current impotence filling their stances.

"What? Nothing to say?" One of the Sailors, wearing a red skirt, twitched. "Don't move! Unless, of course you want her pretty head blown across the floor!"

"Let me go!" Sailor Moon demanded then gasped as Akuma tightened his arm around her neck. In spite of her magically enhanced strength, Akuma's advantage of leverage and size was overpowering.

"Akuma! Let her go! Reika hadn't even realized she had spoken until he looked at her.

"That wouldn't be real smart of me, Reika! They will be on me the instant I do that. No, she's not getting loose just yet." He gestured to his car, remarkably untouched by the battle. "Now, dear sister, come out of there and get in the car. You, Ms. Moon here, and me are leaving!"

Reika slowly exited the office, trying to think of anything she could do. The thug was already across the room and opening the doors, his own gun pointed at the other Senshi.

"You have to give this up Akuma." Reika pleaded. "They aren't going to let you leave."

"They don't have much choice! Now move!" He gestured with his pistol again, which was all the mistake he needed to make.

Fred, who had gone unnoticed by everyone in the last few, tense minutes unsheathed his tiny Katana and drove the blades tip through Akuma Hagisaki's leather shoe.

The mobster screamed in pain, releasing his hold on Sailor Moon and falling to the floor in pain. Inadvertently he kicked Fred high into the air. Sailor Moon, seeing the world's tiniest hero's danger dove under him and caught him before he shattered against the floor.

Fortunately, no one heard her say "Owe..." from the less then graceful impact with concrete.

"Mars Flame Sniper!" Mars fired at a golem.

"Venus Crescent Beam!" Venus destroyed another.

"Uranus World Shaking!" The older Senshi managed to take out two at once.

While Mercury and Jupiter destroyed two more between them Artemis used the less poetic "Eat this!" Battle cry, and clawed the face, and runes off of another.

Forgoing the Golems, Tuxedo Mask tossed a rose into the human thug's gun, causing the man to yell in pain and drop the weapon. He quickly ducked into the waiting car and slammed the door.

"Damn you!" Akuma bellowed, aiming his revolver again at Sailor Moon. The prone girl tried to roll away, but knew she wouldn't have time.

Akuma didn't know he was already out of time, until a flash of light glinting of metal blinded him for a moment before a pearl handled knife buried its self into his wrist. The clatter of the gun falling was drowned out by the mans screams of pain.

The Senshi, again confused by events around them, all looked from the screaming man to the warehouse doors. They were shocked to see an older, well-dressed man recovering from his expert knife throw. Two large men stood toe either side of him, impassive.

The angry expression on the older mans face, so similar to Akuma himself, was shocking and focused fully on Reika's brother.

"Father?" Reika gasped, shocked as the hero's surrounding her.

Akira ignored his daughter for the moment, instead striding to his son and kicking his gun away. "How could you!" He hissed in rage.

Akuma struggled to his feet, stumbling and wincing in pain as his injured foot protested his weight. "Why? Why what father?" He sneered, even while clutching his wrist in pain. "

"Why would you risk what we've been working for and risk you own sister in the process! Are you completely insane?"

"Insane? I want power, you old fool! That's not insanity!" He pointed a bloody finger at his father. "But you've gotten soft, with your 'Legitimate' businesses, and keeping her locked away when Reika is the best tool...the key to everything!"

"Her hobby was going to let you rule the world, is that it?" The Oyabun gestured around the warehouse, for all the world seeming completely unaware of the Sailor Senshi, who for their part weren't sure WHAT to do. "They didn't hold up to well, did they?"

The older man turned his eyes to the Sailors, and to Sailor Moon who sat holding the tiny warrior golem. "I must thank you all for stopping my idiot son, Sailor Moon, but this is now family business. Please tell your rather angry looking friends that!"

She stood up, and nodded vaguely intimidated. "Um...Yes sir. Let's step back guys, and give them some space."

Reluctantly the confused girls moved away from father and son, and the last two golems who had gone motionless after the knife struck Akuma.

"You are my son, and a fool!" Akira hissed. "You have been to jail, as have I! You wish to go again? To send your brother or your sister there? I do NOT!"

"We're laughing stocks father!" The son hissed back. "You've made us weak!"

"Oh yes, Massive wealth and political contacts. We are oh SO weak!" The father growled sarcasm thick in his voice. "Do you really think violence equals power?"

"You tell me!" The younger Hagisaki yelled. "Kill Him!"

The two forgotten golems were on the older man in an instant. The bodyguards, and Senshi, quickly rushed in to save him. Akuma used the distraction to dash into his car.

"Drive!"

The hiding thug gunned then engine and slammed it into gear, tearing out of the warehouse with the smell of burnt rubber and fishtailing wildly as they turned onto the road.

Meanwhile the two golems were destroyed, Akira Hagisaki hurt but alive. "We must catch him!" He yelled.

Sailor moon smiled a surprisingly malicious expression on her usually caring face. "Don't worry. It's cool."

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Outside, the car was picking up speed heading straight towards a Senshi neither man recognized. The Senshi, wearing purple, stood in the path of the car. The driver was going to dodge around her, but Akuma grabbed the wheel. "Ram her!"

The engines howl filled the night air, as Sailor Saturn calmly lifted her glaive and softly said "Silence Wall!"

Akuma thought it strange that he heard her whisper, then the car slammed into an invisible barrier, and blackness claimed him.

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When Akuma regained consciousness he found himself handcuffed to a hospital bed. "Oh, you're awake." Reika's voice came from his left. "The Doctors said you should be soon." She appeared above him.

"What's going on?"

"You were arrested." She replied. "I got a friend of a friend to let me see you."

"Yeah? Why?"

"Two reasons." She replied. "First to say, that I forgive you."

"And second?" He sneered.

"Secondly, father does not." She turned away and walked to the door, Akuma painfully turning his head to watch her. "He'll send no lawyers and you are no longer on the family register. You have been disowned. Goodbye."

Reika Hagisaki walked through the door, without looking back.

AN: Yes, short...for some reason the chapters have been... but give me credit for pace and hopefully a good story! Next...the Epilogue...