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I don't own SM or DBZ!!!!!!!!!!!!! But I do own Shadow..and nothing can
take her away! DO YOU HEAR ME GOD DAMMIT!!??? Sorry and I also own Karlie,
'Mom', Toren, Kuma, Mikara, and the idea of The Black Imperium/Balance
Crystal...Pray for Shadow-babe!!...S.N.
Chapter Nine: Summons
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"Quite a departure, ne Kuma?" Usagi whispered from her perch in the tall
oak, smiling.
Kuma smirked, her arms crossed over her chest, as the branch she was on
swayed. She shifted her position, and leaned up against the trunk, Usagi
on the opposite side of the trunk, now in the same position.
"Have you any idea what we're helping the Z-fighters with?" Kuma asked
quietly.
Usagi shook her head. "There is more to it than the androids..could have
something to do with the being that killed onnii-san."
Kuma smiled at the use of onni-san to describe Toren, but it seemed right.
Even in death, they were all related in a way, triplets in a sense. "Could
be.." she stated, looking at the rising sun on the horizon. So much had
happened in just one night, as if Pluto herself had slowed time. In one
night she had found a love, a family, and a power all her own. Some night
it was. With the day, came new chances, for both revenge and renewal. Even
if they had not been sent to help with the androids or the being called
Cell, revenge called for him to be killed. Revenge called for all of them
to be killed.
"With morning light comes renewal." she heard Usagi whisper.
She continued the well known phrase. They had used it so many times before
a big event. "With evening sky comes time, to find the morning light again."
Kuma wasn't quite sure what part she had to play in the poem, time? Or
maybe the answer..finding. Not that she cared all that much. If there was
a spare part at all, she would consent to playing it.
"We should sleep Imouto." Kuma said. She felt, instead of saw Usagi's silent
nod. She sat, making herself comfortable on the branch, hearing her sister
do the same. She sighed, closing her eyes, praying that their dreams wouldn't
be plagued with visions. Answers could wait one night. They both deserved
sleep.
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"So they just left?" Yamcha asked. It was about 8:00 in the morning and
Trunks and Gohan were explaining what had happened the night before.
Gohan and Trunks nodded simultaneously at the stunned crowd before them.
They would have shown the group the necklaces, but felt they were more
of a private promise, and had decided to keep them to themselves earlier.
"I knew those onnas couldn't handle the androids." Vegeta said. "They arrive
in two days!"
"Did you forget Vegeta?" Piccolo spoke up. "They arrived earlier, and one
of those onnas, destroyed one of the androids!" The rest of the Z-fighters
nodded in agreement.
Vegeta glared at the namek, then turned away, admitting his defeat.
"They said that they'd be back to help." Gohan said quietly.
"But that is no guarantee Gohan." Tien said, equally quiet. He was much
shyer without Choutzu around, as he forced him to go to Master Roshi's
to wait out the end of the android fight.
"You're wrong!" Trunks started. "They.." but he stopped at Gohan's warning
look. "Umm.." He continued,
"We really have to
go...to umm.. train, yeah!" With that the two boys fled out of the living
room, the rest of the Z-gangs eyes following suspiciously behind them.
"What do you think they're hiding?" Goku asked no one in particular.
"I don't know Kakkorott" Vegeta spoke up. "But I don't think I like it."
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Usagi woke up to the twitter of a bird, which unsurprisingly had landed
on her shoulder. She rubbed her finger across it's head and it twit happily,
flying swiftly away. Usagi was aware that her imouto was in the shade of
the tree's branches, as it always was. There was probably a raven by her
sister's hand pecking at the tiny ants on the tree. So was their fate,
dark and light. She heard her sister stir, and the telltale caw of the
raven as Kuma pet it and sent it on it's way.
There was a slight chuckle from the other side of the tree as Kuma spoke.
"Musing over me sister?" She asked. Usagi frowned in response.
"I wish you wouldn't read my mind like that." She stated, then went back
to her perky self. "So are we training today?"
Kuma stood slowly on the branch, and leapt from bough to bow, coming to
a tree that rested over the river's edge. "No, I think it would be best
to summon the guardians first, and if we don't want attention we need to
create a ki barrier.
Usagi jumped from the last bough to come to rest on the branch beside her
sister, nodding silently in agreement. She certainly did not want to go
through the 'kill me imouto' experience again, not wanting to cause any
more pain.
"How do we go about creating a barrier?" Usagi asked, starting to focus.
She was still rather sleepy. They had most likely only gotten an hour or
two of rest tops.
"I could use Saturn's silence wall.." Kuma suggested, thinking quietly.
It would definitely do no damage to the former saturn, besides making her
a bit queasy.
"Yes, I believe that would work, and I can modify it to block our specific
ki signatures with Mercury's computer." Usagi said.
"You, using a computer?" Kuma mused. "I never thought I'd see the day.."
Usagi playfully slapped at her sister's arm, giggling. It was nice to laugh
again, after such a long hard battle. And it would be even better with
Firefly and Sauna around. Though they were guardians, they were playful
at heart and dear to both of the girls.
"Oh shush imouto, and concentrate." Usagi said, starting to concentrate
herself.
Kuma gave a smirk and closed her eyes, a light purple aura surrounding
her body. The Royal symbol of the Saturn Princess appeared on her forehead,
and her fuku instantly appeared on her body, only where black once was,
now was a deep purple. When
she reopened her eyes, they were the same deep purple, pupiless, and cold.
She smirked again in satisfaction, and looked over at her twin, who was
now surrounded in the light blue glow, a trademark of the Mercurian Princess.
The Royal symbol of Mercury shone on her forehead, and just as Kuma's had,
her fuku appeared. The only changes were the white of the suit being turned
to a navy blue and the small dark blue and black device clipped onto the
lobe of her right ear. The change also shone in her now prussian blue eyes,
also pupiless and cold as ice.
"Well done Usagi." Kuma said. She waved in her hand in thin air, and a
large black glaive appeared in her hand. She raised her other hand to rest
in front of her, and leapt into the air, swinging the glaive in a circle
while shouting two words, modifying them for the occasion. "Silence Barrier!"
When she landed back onto the branch almost soundlessly, the area the two
girls were in was surrounded by a dome of purple light. Usagi instantly
set to her own task, a visor of light blue shading her eyes as she clicked
a button on the device attached to her ear. With a wave and a smirk of
satisfaction the Mercurian computer appeared in her hand, and she set to
typing in the modifications for the barrier.
When she was done, the barrier shimmered for a moment, and seemed to disappear,
taking on an invisible sheen. In a flash of deep purple and navy blue,
the two girls were back to their normal selves, smirking at their unseeable
handiwork. It felt quite strong, and would probably outlast the summoning
of Sauna and Firefly.
"We are really a great team Kuma." Usagi said quietly. "A great team indeed."
Kuma nodded silently, and leapt from the tree, stopping in mid air just
as she was about to plunge in the river's depths. Usagi followed suite,
and they floated silently above the water, rippling the surface slightly.
Kuma put her hands up to her sister's own, and fingers entwined, they wove
the summoning spell.
"Darkness of the coldest night. Within and yet just out of sight. Kuma's
soul mate in her flight. Come hither forth, Firefly."Kuma chanted, waiting
for her sister to add her own phrase.
"Light of the brightest day. Full of hope and fun, to play. Usagi's soulmate
with to pray. Come hither forth Sauna." Usagi said. A sudden wind picked
up, swirling around the two girls and making their long hair fly. However
tightly they grasped, the two girls were pulled slowly apart, encased in
tornadoes of wind.
Usgai's tornado swirled into a brilliant gold, as Kuma's swirled into a
bright silver, and as suddenly as the wind picked up, it stopped, and the
girls stood on top of the depths of the deep river, now accompanied by
a guardian each.
Kuma opened her eyes, and gazed upon Firefly with tears in her eyes. Firefly
looked up with the same sort of grief, it had been almost one thousand
years since they had last gazed upon each other. Firefly was a large panther,
entirely black in color, besides her bright indigo eyes. What set her apart
from most panthers, were the small markings just below her shoulder blades.
They dipped in a hooked kind of curve, colored silver to stand out from
her dark fur. When she or Kuma wished it so, large ebony, silver tipped
wings grew from these scars, enabling her to fly. Kuma couldn't resist
bending down to hug the large creature, burying her face in Firefly's warm
fur.
Usagi couldn't help but stare at the figure standing next to her in both
awe and happiness. Her eyes locked with Sauna's deep green ones, but soon
blurred with tears of happiness. Sauna was a beautiful lioness, with fur
of a deep golden color. She also held the ability to grow wings at a wish,
evident by the dark black scars just below her shoulder blades, though
hers were translucent white with golden tips. Usagi got to her knees on
the clear water, not sinking nor getting wet as she buried her face in
the crook of Sauna's neck.
Both girls stood, wiping their tears away, and Kuma spoke.
"Lower your ki's please." she said. "I don't have much time before the
ki barrier breaks."
"Yes, hime." Both guardians answered at the same time.
"Firefly, it's been over 1,000 years and you still call me hime?" Kuma
asked.
Firefly smirked and nodded. (S.N. What did you expect? These guardians
both speak, and smirk..got a prob. wit it?) Kuma put a hand to her temple
and rubbed it gently in annoyance, before smiling at Sauna, Usagi, and
Firefly.
"Come on," she said, hovering just below the tree line. "We have training
to do."
Usagi nodded, and Firefly and Sauna followed suit, trailing after the girls
throughout the foliage as they drifted lazily in the sky. They trained
for those last two days with reverie, and no sleep. The guardians had a
few attacks of their own, primarily based on their owner's own powers.
Sauna could create a barrier of light, and fire beams of sunlight from
her green eyes, a kind of laser. Firefly, on the other hand, could fire
a ki blast of darkness from her mouth, and could create a barrier much
like 'Saturn's Silent wall'.
On the last night, just before the morning that Twenty would arrive, they
sat on the river's edge, talking quietly. Kuma sat next to Usagi, with
Firefly on her other side, and Sauna on the other side of Usagi.
"I had a vision during our spar today.." Kuma started. Usagi nodded, a
signal for her to continue. "Twenty isn't the only android coming."
She was surprised when Usagi only nodded.
"I know." Usagi whispered. "But it will be fine, I think."
Kuma looked skeptically at her sister. "How is that?"
"They were human once.." Usagi said, a puzzling look on her face. "If I
use my Starlight Honey Moon Therapy Kiss, and you use your Starlight Dark
Moon Therapy Kiss, maybe we can sway them."
"True." Kuma said, a thoughtful look on her face. "They only want to go
after Goku because of Dr.Gero's orders. And sixteen is so gentle. Perhaps
we can prevent the whole android ordeal."
"Then do we go find them? Or do we wait until they show?" Usagi asked,
half to herself, as she stared out at the water. She turned her head to
look at Kuma, who still seemed deep in thought.
"Perhaps finding them will be a better idea. If they do refuse, no one
else will be involved." She gave a mysterious frown as she ended the sentence,
stroking the top of Firefly's head soothingly.
Usagi sighed. "It hurts.." she paused, and closed her eyes in silent pain.
"..to die Kuma. And I won't kill them.."
"I know.." Kuma whispered. "Let's just hope that they see how pure your
light shines, imouto, and how scary the dark can be if they refuse.."
Usagi nodded, and put her arm around her sister's shoulder, leaning her
head into the crook of Kuma's neck, and making herself comfortable. They
needed sleep, if only a little, for the morning was coming, and the saviors
of the universe still had so much work to do.
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Alright babes!! Another chapter
over and done with..What will happen next???? To tell you the truth, (Nah,
I'll lie!!) I Have No Idea!! No, I'm kidding, My next chapter is written,
but it must be modified, it will be up soon! Hope you enjoyed..Love Ya!!
.....S.N.