A/N: Chapter seven!!! Yea! Okay not to much to say so on with it already!!!!!! The surprise might come this chapter…then again it may not!
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Title: Lost Star Light, Burn Bright
Chapter Seven
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Smoke rose in a gigantic cloud and Mars didn't wait for it to settle. Sailor Mars did a back flip off of the balcony and landed on the ground below. From there she didn't bother to stop, but ran as soon as she hit the Earth, and raced her way into the cloud that hid her secret love.
With the aid of Teres's groans of pain she made her way to the brunette and pulled her up.
" Teres? Can you still fight?" Teres pulled away from Mars and stood on her own as the smoke and dust settled finally. A cut traced her tan cheek and all over her legs were scratches, she appeared to be hardly hurt.
" I've taken worse blows. Where's Sailor Moon?" Mars pointed up to the balcony where Sailor Moon still stood with Star Fighter.
" Sailor Moon! Come quickly!" Moon nodded, and jumped down, running over after landing successfully.
" Teres are you alright? You shouldn't race into battle like that! You could die!" Teres frowned at that phrase.
" We could die by just standing here Serenity. The fact is that we are up against a very intelligent, very powerful being. His name is Quorphoin, he's from a race of creatures that resemble closely to dragons. Only the crystal will get rid of him." Moon nodded and looked over to the large monster still snickering at them all.
" Why is it here though? Why our system?" Teres looked up at Quorphoin. He was laughing that horrible laughter.
" I'll distract him, get ready with the others. We can end this quickly with little damage if you focus your power directly at Quorphoin. He's big but he isn't very agile. Tell the others to group. Make it fast and put everything in it!" Black angel wings sprouted from her back and before anyone could stop her, Teres was in the darkened sky. Mars watched worriedly as Teres became a flying speck by Quorphoin.
" Senshi!" Everyone stopped their fighting and congregated around Moon, with the exception of Teres.
" We have to use our main weapon…" They listened intently as Teres battled near the clouds.
" Why are you here Quorphoin?" The gray thing laughed at her.
" You killed my brother before Setertain killed off your people. Imagine how great it was to finally find out you were still alive! You can't hind from us who can see farther than any eye Teres!" At the mention of an eye Teres made her way in and plunged her beautiful weapon into his left socket. A howl like no other arose from within the pits of the beast. Teres pulled out her bloodied present.
" Well you see that I am alive o' ignorant beast. How did you find me?" Quorphoin was still holding his eye, and raging from the pain, but he smiled crookedly for a beast, and looked at her with cold black eyes.
" Your planet was empty Senshi, you shouldn't have left it unprotected. I must have arrived the day you left and could still feel the magic used to open the portal here to this puny planet. I came, but not after blowing away the spirits of the dead planet and their memories!" Teres looked like she had taken a hit from his words. She never saw the cruel beasts attacks coming from all sides.
- There's no escape. I'll die here. The others are done powering up for the planetary attack. I've served my purpose…- Teres's brain then flared to life as nerves were shocked from the energy enveloping her in agony. Negative power ripped through her like a dagger. She started to fall just as the attack from the others was sent past her ragged body in the air.
Quorphoin screamed in pain while his body started to smoke. Something was wrong though and Moon knew it. The power from the nine Senshi wasn't enough and they were loosing their grip.
" Sailor Moon! It isn't destroying him! We need more power!" Serenity doubled her efforts, it wasn't helping all too much.
- Teres, we need you now…please hurry…- Her grip slipped and she struggled to keep her power at the level needed.
Teres raised herself from the crater she had created when she met with the green grass. Her wings were tattered and her clothing was covering just enough of her. Scratches left no room for tan skin and blood hid what was still there. Still she walked out of the crater, limping with each step and gaining speed. Soon she was running and almost close enough to the others. Her head lifted up and she noticed Serenity in the sky. The blonde's face was twisted in determination and strength seeped from her. With a small smile she started to glow, and Teres's tiara disappeared to show the sign of her birthright.
Sailor Moon gasped and her eyes opened wide at the sensation of a hand on her shoulder. She turned her head to see the smiling face of Teres and turned back to face the struggling Quorphoin. A whisper in her ear turned the tides of the battle.
" Teres Universal." Power slammed through the Neo-Queen and hit into the beast who finally blew up in a fit of flames and dust. Moon caught the exhausted Teres and flew them down wearily to the rest of her drained Senshi.
" I believe that was the most exhausting but quickest battle ever!" Uranus was ready to collapse right there and she would be just fine.
" Serenity?" Serena looked at the tattered Teres standing now only a few feet away.
" Why, tell me now please, why am I truly here?" Everyone held their breath but Mars, Teres, and Sailor Moon. Serenity detransformed into her nightgown she had been wearing. Everyone followed and Terri slipped from the energy loss. Serena glanced over to Rei who looked confused but wanting the answer as well.
" Rei." Two sets of eyes widened at the name.
" What?" Serena looked at them both.
" I brought you here for Rei. Hoping that you would fall in love and be happy. To end her sadness." Rei paled but then flushed back with color. She walked over to Serena and brought up a hand.
Serena felt the sting and new the handprint was still there.
" Rei!" Terri pulled her away from Serena and soothed the blonde. Rei looked even more upset, tears welling up in her eyes.
" How can you be forgiving to her? Because of her your planet is barely hanging on! Why can't you ever leave a life alone Serena? If I was going to fall in love with Terri, fate would have found a way other than to get your hands in it!" Terri's head shot up from soothing Serena.
" Oh? What if it was fate that brought her to me? Maybe it was the only way? You believe in destiny Rei, tell me, are there other roads? Did you fall in love with me?" The anger in her voice made Rei bend her head down and kept the others from remembering the important element called oxygen.
" Well?! Answer the damn question Rei Hino!" Rei looked up.
" Yes." Came the almost inaudible reply. Terri's breath caught and Serena snapped her head up.
" Yo..you..you said…" Rei nodded.
" Yes, I did. Now I don't think I can ask for it in return. You were wronged by being forced to come here, any love from you wouldn't be true, just an idea." Anger replaced the shock that burned in her eyes. Terrestria stood. Leaving Serena in Seiya's care.
" Neo-Queen Serenity and Neo-King Seiya, I hereby resign from your court. By noon tomorrow I'll have left for my home planet which is in need my assistance." With out turning back around Terrestria Gun jumped the three hundred feet height to her balcony and into her room.
Everyone began to move again. Amara stalked over to Rei and shook her by the shoulders.
" How stupid can you get?! Your letting her slip through your fingers Rei! She loves you and you love her, we all know. You know! She will be gone tomorrow and probably never to return. How can you think that everything you know about destiny is true?! Snap out of it!" Rei looked shaken but brushed Amara off violently.
" Keep your ideals to yourself Uranus."
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The Senshi went to bed that night saddened and upset. Neither Rini nor Hotaru were told of what happened after Quorphoin was dusted, but they knew something was so very wrong. Before slipping into bed next to her husband, Serenity placed the silver crystal on it's pedestal in the room just off the throne room. Energy flew around it colorfully, immediately keeping it protected.
Later into the night the crystal flashed a bright warm white light that engulfed the room. In a second it was gone as it had came. The Senshi never noticed, not even Terrestria.
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Terrestria Gun woke that next morning feeling absolutely fine when she should have felt horrible after such a battle. When she moved out of her bed to stretch her arms and legs, all of her wounds were gone. Not a trace of even a bruise. She moved over to her vanity and sat down. Terri picked up her silver brush and pulled her hair back into a bun. After grabbing her robe she headed out the door. She wouldn't be joining them at breakfast this morning. She doubted anyone would want to be at the same table with all the tension from last night. While stepping down the stairs Terri felt suddenly nauseous and her stomach lurched with the sickening feeling. Her first reaction was of course to head to the bathroom, which she did. There the contents of her stomach were poured into the porcelain toilet…
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Ami opened the door hesitantly to Terri's room and walked in to find her not downstairs. The blue haired genius came to check on her, worried as she was for the wounds she had sustained from the battle. Including the emotional ones.
A strange sound reached her ears from the second floor and so she traveled up the crystal carpeted stairs. Through the large bedroom the sound became more clear and the Ice Senshi began to panic. The sound was of someone throwing up in the bathroom connected to Terri's room. The only one here other than her self was…She ran through the bathroom door and gasped.
" Terri!" Terrestria wiped her mouth with a towel she had grabbed and looked up at the person in her bathroom.
" Ami? My vision is kinda blurry from staring at the toilet for an hour…" Ami moved over to her and pressed a hand to her friends forehead.
" No temperature. Terri, what's the matter? How long have you been throwing up?" Terri pushed back her now messy hair.
" I'd say an hour here puking my brains out. I feel so horrible." Ami nodded and lifted her up.
" Let's get you to my lab. I need to examine you." Terri didn't have the strength to resist and let Ami heave her up and out of the bathroom.
Slowly they made it through the hallways but luckily they came upon Amara who carried Terri the rest of the way. Inside the laboratory Amara set the sick brunette on a table and flipped open her communicator to call Serena.
" Alright Terri, now I want you to tell me your symptoms." Terri rolled her eyes.
" Ami, I'm not a child! All I feel is nausea and light headedness. Maybe hunger but I'm not sure." Ami nodded and brought out a needle. Terri's eyes widened in horror.
" What do you think your going to do with that???" Ami laughed while getting some rubbing alcohol.
" I need some blood. I can tell right now you don't have any usual cold or virus. It may be your appendix or liver. Plus I'm gonna need a urine sample." Amara started to laugh but stopped when her arm stung from a punch administered by Terri.
" Amara!" The tall blonde calmed down soon enough. Serena came running in, looking flushed from her race to the lab.
" What's the problem?" Ami patted her back and handed her a glass of water.
" Sit down Sere. Terri's in the bathroom giving me a urine sample. I've taken her blood and the computer is analyzing it right now." A toilet flushed and Terri came out holding the cup out at arms length.
" I hated doing this when I was young. Every year I had to have a total physical to make sure I was in tip top shape. I didn't get sick very much." Ami nodded and started to put the liquid into a container so the computer could check it.
" How long Ami? I could really use some food." Ami smiled and pressed a button to order breakfast into the lab.
" Breakfast is on the way for all of us. The results should come through when we're finished." Terri perked up at the sound of food and practically sang when it arrived.
Surprise filled her three companions when she ate more than Serena. The computer beeped as paper made it's way out of the printer when the trays were taken away. Ami tore off the sheet and scanned it thoroughly. The blue haired woman shrieked and started typing furiously on the computer of her lab.
" Ami? What is it? What's wrong???" Ami started shaking her head and turned to them all in her swivel chair.
" It's as accurate as us being Senshi. The tests conclude that your pregnant Terri." The brunette's glass fell to the floor.
" WHAT?!?!?!" Terri was standing now looking like she was going to fall…
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A/N: She's PREGNANT!!!!! What the hell AM I thinking!!!!!! Please Please Please Pleaseeeeeeeee Review!!!!! C ya!
JupeJupe ^_^