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Chapter 5
Everyone took their seats when they entered the dining room. Cambertin and Ariya each sat on one side of Serenity. Once everyone was content, having eaten and drunk their fill, the peaceful atmosphere once again became serious.
"Now," started Serenity, "tell us your story from the very beginning. Every detail is important!"
"Well," explained Cambertin, her face completely serious, "I was born on April 1, 4136 at precisely...OUCH!!!"
Ariya whapped Cambertin on the side of her head. "Not that 'very beginning'."
"Well sorry," grumbled Cambertin, sulking slightly. "She did say the very beginning though."
Serenity started to giggle at these antics, and soon it turned into outright laughter, for she had seen no one, absolutely no one, quite like these two. Sweat drops formed on the inner senshi's heads as they watched Ariya lecturing Cambertin, and Serenity going into hysterics.
Once everything was back in order, Ariya took over the story telling. "Now this is the beginning of our story," started Ariya, looking down at the still-sulking Cambertin, who was glaring back. Meanwhile, Serenity once again had to stifle her laughter. "As we said earlier, we're from the year 4153. I'm the constellation scout of Draco, and..."
"I'm the constellation scout of Pegasus," interrupted Cambertin.
"Cammy," mumbled Ariya, "It's not nice to interrupt."
"So what."
"Anyways. There's been some major attacks at home lately. Some of the planets are merely covered in ruins now...including our home planets."
"But you said that you lived on a constellation!" exclaimed Minako.
"Minako," whispered Rei, "a constellation is made up of several stars or planets."
"Oh," laughed Minako, "Oh, yeah!! I knew that! Ha! Ha! Ha! Silly me!"
Cambertin stared at Minako for several moments before whispering to Ariya, "I thought the books said that the Queen of Venus was smart and calm."
"She was," whispered Ariya, "but they also said that she took the longest of the inner senshi to mature."
"Oh."
"Well, as I was saying," continued Ariya. "Our home planets were destroyed. For our homes, the people were infected with a horrible disease. Me and Cambertin got off lucky, and barely missed it. The reason for that was that we were sent to chase after the Shadow Stars and eliminate them. Those two are the ones who caused all of this mess! We've been chasing them for almost a year, and two more sailor soldiers joined us in the chase. The Shadow Stars have led us to her, and this is where we stand now."
"Or sit," snickered Cambertin.
"That's horrible!" exclaimed Serenity. "We will help you in any way we can!"
"That's very kind of you, but I'm afraid that we cannot endanger you or the sailor scouts' lives."
"But you are endangering your own!"
"Yes, well.."
"I KNOW!!!!" exclaimed Cambertin, standing up suddenly, "We could heighten your transformations and attacks!"
"Heighten our..."
"No, no, no," countered Ariya. "We can't do that!"
"But in the history books, they say that two sailor soldiers from the future went to the past and heightened everyone's power levels."
"None of the history books say that!"
"This one does!" Cambertin pulled a history book out of nowhere, and Ariya gasped at the sight of it.
"Cambertin! That's one of the forbidden.."
"Yup! I've got a whole stash of forbidden books back at home!"
"Still, we can't do that!"
"Sure we can! We're from the future, we came to the past, and now we're going to heighten their levels!"
"But they have to grow through several levels to get to where we are!"
"Then we'll just do it one at a time, or all at once!"
Serenity and the inner senshi watched Cambertin and Ariya back and forth as they discussed what they should or shouldn't do.
"Then heighten our levels," interrupted Serenity. "It is my duty, as well as these sailor senshi's, to protect this planet as well as their own."
"See, I told you!" teased Cambertin, sticking her tongue out at Ariya.
"Well," sighed Ariya, "we're going to need a big room with a lot of junk that you don't want anymore inside. We'll also need to put a barrier around the room so it doesn't get damaged."
"You mean a training room?" asked Makoto.
"Basically."
"With a lot of junk in it?"
"Yeah. You're going to need some target practice before you try fighting me and Cambertin."
"Fighting you and Cambertin?! We couldn't possibly do that!"
"Don't worry! There's no way on earth you can hurt us. We'll make sure of that," snickered Cambertin.
Serenity and all of the sailor senshi, including Ariya, stared at Cambertin, as sweat drops formed on their heads.
"This way," ordered Serenity, standing up and heading down a hallway.
All of the soldiers followed her around the castle. It took quite awhile, but finally they were taken into a large room with torn up cushions and junk everywhere.
"It's perfect!" exclaimed Cambertin happily.
"All right, Cambertin," stated Ariya, "now about that shield?"
"Right!"
Suddenly, two feathered wings sprouted from Cambertin's back, which she had hidden earlier. Ariya's wings also flourished from her back. Serenity and the inner senshi stared at them in surprise. "Cool wings!" exclaimed Minako. "Let's get going!" ordered Ariya. Cambertin straightened her arms out so that they were pointing out away from the sides of her body. Her middle and pointer finger were pointed out like a closed peace sign on both her hands. She raised her arms above her head and crossed her wrists. As she did this, two streaks of light, one purple, the other silver, made a trail that followed her fingers to where they were now. Then, like ribbons, they began to cross over each other as they moved downward, turning into ribbons with the colors of rainbows. "Rainbow..!" yelled out Cambertin, moving her arms downward and then spinning around, "Prism BARRIER!!!!" With these last words, she crossed her arms over her chest, her fingers still pointing, and then made a circle motion around herself with her hands open and stretched out. All of the ribbon-like light had wrapped itself loosely around Cambertin, while moving. The jewel on her tiara suddenly lit up, changing colors over and over, and the rainbow-colored ribbons of light shot out all around the room. A crystal-like film began to cover the walls of the room and then hardened into a solid prism barrier.
"Wow!" exclaimed Minako, the only inner senshi whose mouth hadn't dropped to the floor, "That's soooo cool!! Will I get to do something like that?"
"Maybe," laughed Cambertin, "It just depends!"
"All right," interrupted Serenity, "Now just how does this work?"
"Queen," apologized Ariya. "I'm afraid you'll have to be excluded. You're going to need special training, being the fact that you lost most of your powers when you were crowned. I, personally, will train you, while Cambertin trains Ami and the others."
"That's fine," replied Serenity, as she started to leave the room, "Good luck to you, my friends! Work hard so that we may defeat the enemy!"
"No problem!" exclaimed Makoto.
"You can count on us!" exclaimed Rei.
"We'll do our best!" agreed Ami.
"Yeah!" agreed Minako, "before you know it, we'll be brand new, all- powerful sailor senshi!"
Serenity laughed and waved goodbye before leaving with Ariya for her own training. Cambertin shut the door behind them, and then, turning to the inner senshi, she grinned. "All right now! It's training time!"
"So what do we do?" asked Makoto, placing herself in a fighting stance.
"I want each of you to attack me, in turn, with your most powerful attack!"
"WHAT?!! Attack you?! We can't do that!"
"Trust me. Just trust me! I won't get hut, I swear. Princess Makoto.."
"Please, just all us by our first names," sighed Minako.
"All right then. Makoto, you attack me first, since you're the strongest."
Makoto's face was one of a very wary person.
"Come on! Just do it!"
"Well if you say so." Makoto began to lift her hands up as she yelled, "Jupiter!......Oak EVOLUTION!!!!!" As Makoto spun around, the leaf-shaped blasts of energy shot towards Cambertin. The inner senshi watched in horror as they exploded in Cambertin's face. When the smoke cleared, Cambertin was gone much to the senshi's surprise. Ami gasped and whirled around at the sound of Cambertin's voice.
"Not bad you know...but, first off, it was way too slow. It was like a slow- motion flick for me. And the strength of that probably wouldn't have scratched me if I had chosen to stay there. That means the Shadow Stars would beat you up to death in milliseconds."
All of the inner senshi face-faulted at these words. Makoto was turning red in the face with frustration.
"Now, now, now!" comforted Cambertin. "Don't forget, me, Ariya, and the Shadow Stars were born way in the future!" Cambertin held out her hands, and a glowing sphere began to take shape. When the light disappeared, four tiny metal pieces were in her hands. "Now," ordered Cambertin, "I need for each of you to attach these somewhere on your henshin stick." She handed one to each of the sailor senshi. They each placed it against their henshin sticks, and it immediately stuck. "Now," continued Cambertin, "Yell out, for example, 'Mercury Starlight Power'."
The inner senshi held up their sticks as they yelled out heir new transformation call.
"Mercury Starlight Power...MAKEUP!!!"
"Mars Starlight Power...MAKEUP!!!"
"Jupiter Starlight Power.MAKEUP!!!"
"Venus Starlight Power...MAKEUP!!!"
When they had finished transforming, nothing seemed different, until Minako realized... "Hey! You're glowing, Ami!"
Each of the inner senshi were glowing with their new powers.
"All right!" exclaimed Cambertin, clapping her hands together. "The words should come to you. Each of you, in turn, attack an object in the room."
Rei stepped forward and concentrated on a couch. Then, her eyes widened as she began to make motions with her hands. Finally, she yelled out, "Mars...Ruby FIRESTORM!!!" A jewel appeared over the couch, began to glow, and then disappeared in a whirlwind of pure fire. When it disappeared, there weren't even any ashes left.
"Whoa..," muttered Rei, "I did that?"
"Yup! OK! Who's next?" asked Cambertin.
"Venus...Topaz HEARTACHE!!!"
"Mercury...Sapphire MAELSTROM!!!"
"Jupiter...Emerald TYPHOON!!!"
It didn't seem long before it was dinner-time. Cambertin stopped the training so they could all eat. "You are all doing magnificent!" exclaimed Cambertin, as the inner senshi walk by her wearily. "I've never seen someone do so many level-ups in so little time!"
"Probably 'cause nobody has," muttered Minako.
When they reached the dining room, Neo-Queen Serenity was already sitting there, eating to her heart's content. Upon their entrance, she looked up, smiling happily, and waved. They all took their seats and started piling the food onto their plates, eating hungrily.
"Hey!" exclaimed Cambertin suddenly, "Where's Ariya?"
"Cleaning up," replied Serenity, "It seems that it didn't take me long to catch up."
"I see. Well, that's a good thing! You're strong enough to help us defeat the enemy!"
"What about my soldiers?"
"It'll take another day to get them to our level probably, but they're making good progress!"
"Another day?!" exclaimed Minako. "You mean we're not even close to getting there?! After all of those power-ups?!"
"You only have to go through a few more levels, but these once take a little while before actually taking effect."
"Oh."
Ariya walked into the room just then, smiling proudly. "Did the Queen tell you, Cambertin?" she asked.
"Yup! Good work! Maybe you can help me finish these guys up tomorrow."
"We don't have that much time."
"I guess we could start up again after dinner! They'd be finished before breakfast!"
"Good idea!" agreed Serenity, clapping her hands together. "Let's go ahead and start now. It looks like you've finished eating!"
The inner senshi looked at each other and sighed exasperatedly, knowing they had a long night ahead of them."
Chapter 5
Everyone took their seats when they entered the dining room. Cambertin and Ariya each sat on one side of Serenity. Once everyone was content, having eaten and drunk their fill, the peaceful atmosphere once again became serious.
"Now," started Serenity, "tell us your story from the very beginning. Every detail is important!"
"Well," explained Cambertin, her face completely serious, "I was born on April 1, 4136 at precisely...OUCH!!!"
Ariya whapped Cambertin on the side of her head. "Not that 'very beginning'."
"Well sorry," grumbled Cambertin, sulking slightly. "She did say the very beginning though."
Serenity started to giggle at these antics, and soon it turned into outright laughter, for she had seen no one, absolutely no one, quite like these two. Sweat drops formed on the inner senshi's heads as they watched Ariya lecturing Cambertin, and Serenity going into hysterics.
Once everything was back in order, Ariya took over the story telling. "Now this is the beginning of our story," started Ariya, looking down at the still-sulking Cambertin, who was glaring back. Meanwhile, Serenity once again had to stifle her laughter. "As we said earlier, we're from the year 4153. I'm the constellation scout of Draco, and..."
"I'm the constellation scout of Pegasus," interrupted Cambertin.
"Cammy," mumbled Ariya, "It's not nice to interrupt."
"So what."
"Anyways. There's been some major attacks at home lately. Some of the planets are merely covered in ruins now...including our home planets."
"But you said that you lived on a constellation!" exclaimed Minako.
"Minako," whispered Rei, "a constellation is made up of several stars or planets."
"Oh," laughed Minako, "Oh, yeah!! I knew that! Ha! Ha! Ha! Silly me!"
Cambertin stared at Minako for several moments before whispering to Ariya, "I thought the books said that the Queen of Venus was smart and calm."
"She was," whispered Ariya, "but they also said that she took the longest of the inner senshi to mature."
"Oh."
"Well, as I was saying," continued Ariya. "Our home planets were destroyed. For our homes, the people were infected with a horrible disease. Me and Cambertin got off lucky, and barely missed it. The reason for that was that we were sent to chase after the Shadow Stars and eliminate them. Those two are the ones who caused all of this mess! We've been chasing them for almost a year, and two more sailor soldiers joined us in the chase. The Shadow Stars have led us to her, and this is where we stand now."
"Or sit," snickered Cambertin.
"That's horrible!" exclaimed Serenity. "We will help you in any way we can!"
"That's very kind of you, but I'm afraid that we cannot endanger you or the sailor scouts' lives."
"But you are endangering your own!"
"Yes, well.."
"I KNOW!!!!" exclaimed Cambertin, standing up suddenly, "We could heighten your transformations and attacks!"
"Heighten our..."
"No, no, no," countered Ariya. "We can't do that!"
"But in the history books, they say that two sailor soldiers from the future went to the past and heightened everyone's power levels."
"None of the history books say that!"
"This one does!" Cambertin pulled a history book out of nowhere, and Ariya gasped at the sight of it.
"Cambertin! That's one of the forbidden.."
"Yup! I've got a whole stash of forbidden books back at home!"
"Still, we can't do that!"
"Sure we can! We're from the future, we came to the past, and now we're going to heighten their levels!"
"But they have to grow through several levels to get to where we are!"
"Then we'll just do it one at a time, or all at once!"
Serenity and the inner senshi watched Cambertin and Ariya back and forth as they discussed what they should or shouldn't do.
"Then heighten our levels," interrupted Serenity. "It is my duty, as well as these sailor senshi's, to protect this planet as well as their own."
"See, I told you!" teased Cambertin, sticking her tongue out at Ariya.
"Well," sighed Ariya, "we're going to need a big room with a lot of junk that you don't want anymore inside. We'll also need to put a barrier around the room so it doesn't get damaged."
"You mean a training room?" asked Makoto.
"Basically."
"With a lot of junk in it?"
"Yeah. You're going to need some target practice before you try fighting me and Cambertin."
"Fighting you and Cambertin?! We couldn't possibly do that!"
"Don't worry! There's no way on earth you can hurt us. We'll make sure of that," snickered Cambertin.
Serenity and all of the sailor senshi, including Ariya, stared at Cambertin, as sweat drops formed on their heads.
"This way," ordered Serenity, standing up and heading down a hallway.
All of the soldiers followed her around the castle. It took quite awhile, but finally they were taken into a large room with torn up cushions and junk everywhere.
"It's perfect!" exclaimed Cambertin happily.
"All right, Cambertin," stated Ariya, "now about that shield?"
"Right!"
Suddenly, two feathered wings sprouted from Cambertin's back, which she had hidden earlier. Ariya's wings also flourished from her back. Serenity and the inner senshi stared at them in surprise. "Cool wings!" exclaimed Minako. "Let's get going!" ordered Ariya. Cambertin straightened her arms out so that they were pointing out away from the sides of her body. Her middle and pointer finger were pointed out like a closed peace sign on both her hands. She raised her arms above her head and crossed her wrists. As she did this, two streaks of light, one purple, the other silver, made a trail that followed her fingers to where they were now. Then, like ribbons, they began to cross over each other as they moved downward, turning into ribbons with the colors of rainbows. "Rainbow..!" yelled out Cambertin, moving her arms downward and then spinning around, "Prism BARRIER!!!!" With these last words, she crossed her arms over her chest, her fingers still pointing, and then made a circle motion around herself with her hands open and stretched out. All of the ribbon-like light had wrapped itself loosely around Cambertin, while moving. The jewel on her tiara suddenly lit up, changing colors over and over, and the rainbow-colored ribbons of light shot out all around the room. A crystal-like film began to cover the walls of the room and then hardened into a solid prism barrier.
"Wow!" exclaimed Minako, the only inner senshi whose mouth hadn't dropped to the floor, "That's soooo cool!! Will I get to do something like that?"
"Maybe," laughed Cambertin, "It just depends!"
"All right," interrupted Serenity, "Now just how does this work?"
"Queen," apologized Ariya. "I'm afraid you'll have to be excluded. You're going to need special training, being the fact that you lost most of your powers when you were crowned. I, personally, will train you, while Cambertin trains Ami and the others."
"That's fine," replied Serenity, as she started to leave the room, "Good luck to you, my friends! Work hard so that we may defeat the enemy!"
"No problem!" exclaimed Makoto.
"You can count on us!" exclaimed Rei.
"We'll do our best!" agreed Ami.
"Yeah!" agreed Minako, "before you know it, we'll be brand new, all- powerful sailor senshi!"
Serenity laughed and waved goodbye before leaving with Ariya for her own training. Cambertin shut the door behind them, and then, turning to the inner senshi, she grinned. "All right now! It's training time!"
"So what do we do?" asked Makoto, placing herself in a fighting stance.
"I want each of you to attack me, in turn, with your most powerful attack!"
"WHAT?!! Attack you?! We can't do that!"
"Trust me. Just trust me! I won't get hut, I swear. Princess Makoto.."
"Please, just all us by our first names," sighed Minako.
"All right then. Makoto, you attack me first, since you're the strongest."
Makoto's face was one of a very wary person.
"Come on! Just do it!"
"Well if you say so." Makoto began to lift her hands up as she yelled, "Jupiter!......Oak EVOLUTION!!!!!" As Makoto spun around, the leaf-shaped blasts of energy shot towards Cambertin. The inner senshi watched in horror as they exploded in Cambertin's face. When the smoke cleared, Cambertin was gone much to the senshi's surprise. Ami gasped and whirled around at the sound of Cambertin's voice.
"Not bad you know...but, first off, it was way too slow. It was like a slow- motion flick for me. And the strength of that probably wouldn't have scratched me if I had chosen to stay there. That means the Shadow Stars would beat you up to death in milliseconds."
All of the inner senshi face-faulted at these words. Makoto was turning red in the face with frustration.
"Now, now, now!" comforted Cambertin. "Don't forget, me, Ariya, and the Shadow Stars were born way in the future!" Cambertin held out her hands, and a glowing sphere began to take shape. When the light disappeared, four tiny metal pieces were in her hands. "Now," ordered Cambertin, "I need for each of you to attach these somewhere on your henshin stick." She handed one to each of the sailor senshi. They each placed it against their henshin sticks, and it immediately stuck. "Now," continued Cambertin, "Yell out, for example, 'Mercury Starlight Power'."
The inner senshi held up their sticks as they yelled out heir new transformation call.
"Mercury Starlight Power...MAKEUP!!!"
"Mars Starlight Power...MAKEUP!!!"
"Jupiter Starlight Power.MAKEUP!!!"
"Venus Starlight Power...MAKEUP!!!"
When they had finished transforming, nothing seemed different, until Minako realized... "Hey! You're glowing, Ami!"
Each of the inner senshi were glowing with their new powers.
"All right!" exclaimed Cambertin, clapping her hands together. "The words should come to you. Each of you, in turn, attack an object in the room."
Rei stepped forward and concentrated on a couch. Then, her eyes widened as she began to make motions with her hands. Finally, she yelled out, "Mars...Ruby FIRESTORM!!!" A jewel appeared over the couch, began to glow, and then disappeared in a whirlwind of pure fire. When it disappeared, there weren't even any ashes left.
"Whoa..," muttered Rei, "I did that?"
"Yup! OK! Who's next?" asked Cambertin.
"Venus...Topaz HEARTACHE!!!"
"Mercury...Sapphire MAELSTROM!!!"
"Jupiter...Emerald TYPHOON!!!"
It didn't seem long before it was dinner-time. Cambertin stopped the training so they could all eat. "You are all doing magnificent!" exclaimed Cambertin, as the inner senshi walk by her wearily. "I've never seen someone do so many level-ups in so little time!"
"Probably 'cause nobody has," muttered Minako.
When they reached the dining room, Neo-Queen Serenity was already sitting there, eating to her heart's content. Upon their entrance, she looked up, smiling happily, and waved. They all took their seats and started piling the food onto their plates, eating hungrily.
"Hey!" exclaimed Cambertin suddenly, "Where's Ariya?"
"Cleaning up," replied Serenity, "It seems that it didn't take me long to catch up."
"I see. Well, that's a good thing! You're strong enough to help us defeat the enemy!"
"What about my soldiers?"
"It'll take another day to get them to our level probably, but they're making good progress!"
"Another day?!" exclaimed Minako. "You mean we're not even close to getting there?! After all of those power-ups?!"
"You only have to go through a few more levels, but these once take a little while before actually taking effect."
"Oh."
Ariya walked into the room just then, smiling proudly. "Did the Queen tell you, Cambertin?" she asked.
"Yup! Good work! Maybe you can help me finish these guys up tomorrow."
"We don't have that much time."
"I guess we could start up again after dinner! They'd be finished before breakfast!"
"Good idea!" agreed Serenity, clapping her hands together. "Let's go ahead and start now. It looks like you've finished eating!"
The inner senshi looked at each other and sighed exasperatedly, knowing they had a long night ahead of them."
