World Rebirth -Part 1, The Gathering
Episode 5 'Fight for Freedom'
"What's your plan?"
"Well, we're going to have to enter the fortress from three different points
because of the little time we'll have, and the lesser chance of being
detected. When the shield starts to fade you'll have to place something on
it and when the object falls through you'll have to follow it as fast as you
can. Minako, you'll have to round up as many people as you can and get them
to help. I'll go for whatever controls the shield. Ami, we're going to need
a diversion to draw the master out of the temple. As soon as Minako and I
are done we'll come join you. Any questions?"
"I guess it could work...." Minako trailed off.
"Off the topic for a moment; Haiku, how did you pass through this field
we're in? We didn't turn it off for you or anything." Ami asked. Haiku
smiled.
"It's my shield, therefore fine tuned to my aura. Anything else that touches
it isn't recognized. I don't know how it works. It's one of the many things
I was given by Resistance.
"Come on," Minako urged. "It's going to take us a while to find three
different trees that are next to the fortress. Let's go!" They cleaned up
their site and dropped the shield. It was practically pitch black. Haiku
formed a flame in her hand, and Minako strung her bow.
"Follow me," Haiku whispered as she led them in a large arc towards the
fortress in order to not go anywhere near the main entrance. It took a while
but eventually they reached a wall. "You two follow the wall to the left. I
left the equipment that I need at a tree to the right, a short ways away
from here. Ami, when you're ready send a ball of light across the top of the
fortress. Don't transform until you need to. It could increase the time of
your diversion. Take this with you." Haiku handed Ami a small package with a
string coming out of the top of it.
"What is it?"
"It's an explosive. Find something to blow up near the front of the
fortress. It should get someone's attention. Mina, when you're ready send
the yellow arrow up above the fortress. Try to make it land as close to the
middle as you can. Okay? And be careful. As I've already found out, we don't
know what lurks out here at night. Haiku drew her sword and vanished into
the dark, her light now gone.
"Ami, could you help me find a yellow arrow in this darkness?"
"Certainly."
********
It didn't take long for Haiku to reach her tree. When she was in a good
position to see the others' signs she took a white crystal out of a hidden
pocket. Just by holding it she could feel it focusing her energy. She used
some of that energy to close the cuts on her back. Every time she had moved
beforehand it had hurt. She knew there was no way she could have done
anything without healing it. A sudden wave of dizziness overtook her for a
second and she almost missed Ami's signal. Shortly after that she saw
Minako's signal. Time to take action. She stuck the T into the shield. Then
she grabbed one of the animals that were now hanging in the tree and tossed
it onto the shield. When the number reached zero she jumped and dropped the
10 or so feet to the ground. Quickly and silently, she hid behind the
nearest tree. Although it was black outside there was a slight amount of
light coming from the dome above. It was enough light to see where one was
going but someone could easily hide in the shadows. Passing late-night
walkers and guards she carefully wove her way to the temple.
********
Ami landed near the back of the complex. It was far from where she was going
but took her time to get to the front.
********
Minako landed on a couple of young girls. She had to cover their mouths to
keep them from screaming. "Don't make any noise please. I've come to help."
"W-what do you want with us?"
"I need you to gather as many people as you can into the front yard. Also,
find whatever you can in the way of weapons. The rest will be taken care of
in the yard. Can you do that for me?"
"Well uhh, why do you want to do this?"
"Are you happy with the way your living?"
"All right we'll do it." The two girls hurried off towards the temple. The
place consisted of a temple in the middle, two buildings off to the sides
and another one behind. There was a great big yard out front with a statue
of the master in it and various other things. All around the outside walls
were trees. The temple was very small, not even close to the size of Rei's
temple. Minako went up to the side building she was closest to.
********
When Ami reached the front she walked right out into the open. A few people
stopped to stare at her. There was a statue near the front gate so she went
over to it and set the package on it. She pulled the string and ran for the
shelter of some trees. The package blew the statue up sending a shower of
rock all over the place. Ami walked back out to the statue, crossed her arms
and faced the temple. Her work was done for now.
********
Haiku had crept right up next to the entrance of the temple when Ami saw
her. Haiku saw the blast and decided that the package had worked better than
she thought. Haiku gave her a thumbs up. They waited for about a minute and
then a crowd of people burst out of the temple led by a couple of young
girls. The crowd moved off to the sides of the clearing, but the two girls
ran off. Haiku figured that they had been talking to Minako.
********
Minako walked right up to the building and opened the door. Inside there
were groups of people huddled together. There were some who were sleeping.
She wasn't noticed until she had stepped into the middle of the room. She
was approached by a man from her side. "Who are you?" he demanded.
"My name is Minako and I've come to set you all free from your master."
"Forget it," someone else in the room said. "It cannot be done. He's too
powerful."
"Then we're just going to have to try won't we. Right now one of my friends
is blowing up the statue out front." There were some gasps from around the
room. Minako continued before anyone could speak. "I need all of the people
who live here gathered up. If we all stand together we can win. But first I
need you to gather all of your people and go to the front yard with whatever
you can gather for weapons. I already have people getting everyone who is in
the temple, out of it. So do you want to help me or do you like the way you
are living."
The original man who spoke to her talked again. "Please go outside and wait
while we discuss what we will do." Minako stepped outside to see the statue
blow up. Her job was done for now.
********
A man dressed in robes stepped out of the temple and looked directly at Ami.
"Who disrupts my slumber?"
"I do!" Ami called. "Mercury Eternal, UNITE!" A few seconds later Sailor
Mercury stood there. The man in robes started to laugh. "All people deserve
to live their own lives. I'm Pretty Soldier Sailor Mercury and on behalf of
Mercury I will punish you!"
"Will you eh, all by yourself?"
"No. With us too." They looked to see the man that Minako had spoken to
earlier. "We've all had enough of being controlled by you." Behind him it
looked like were just about all of the place's inhabitants.
"Very well then. You're all currently traitors. Knights of Justice attack!"
He put up his arms and about 50 of his soldiers appeared around everyone.
"Everyone, get down!" Ami called out. Some people hesitated. "Now!" Everyone
got down and the ones who didn't, got pulled down. "Mercury Polar Ice Sheet
FREEZE!" This time Sailor Mercury sent her ice wave in all directions. It
froze all of the soldiers. Before anyone could react she turned to the man
in robes and held up her finger. "FREEZE!" A beam shot out of her finger
towards the man. He blocked it with his hands but got knocked down.
Meanwhile, as soon as the master had left the building Haiku had slipped in.
The temple consisted of two rooms. A main room and some quarters. Haiku
couldn't find what she was looking for so she started sending balls of
energy flying throughout the main room. One ball hit an altar and the altar
vanished. Below it Haiku followed some stairs leading underground. Here she
found a futuristic control room. Already having intermediate knowledge of
how all of this equipment operated she quickly got to work. The exterior
dome shield was shut off in a second. She also increased all lights to
maximum and disabled all security functions. Then she ran outside to help
her friends. She was in time to see Sailor Mercury blast the master.
They could now see up into the night sky. Haiku ran over to Sailor Mercury.
"So you disabled the shield guarding my fortress did you? For that I'm going
to have to thank you."
"What....."
"Ha ha ha. Did you actually think that I would stay here when there's a
whole world to conquer? I was imprisoned here by the Creator. It decided
that it didn't want me killing everyone. That shield was the only thing that
was keeping me here. And my new order will start with the destruction of
everyone here. Now face my true form. Ha ha ha ha ....." The man started to
grow. Only he wasn't a man anymore. His skin turned to scales as he changed
into a dragon. But he didn't stop there. He kept on growing until he was
about 15 feet tall. His giant wings shadowed everyone. "Now face me! I am
Gragon the chaos dragon of fire!"
"Mercury, Ice Shield." A dome of ice formed around all of the people there.
"Your pathetic ice cannot stop me." Gragon started shooting fireballs at the
ice shield. It didn't take long for him to melt it away.
"Mercury Polar Ice Sheet, FREEZE!" This time she directed all of the energy
into one single beam. The beam shot towards Gragon at an incredible speed
but Gragon already had his hands up and shot a beam from them. The two beams
met in between them. At first it seemed like they were evenly matched but
then Gragon's started to overpower Sailor Mercury's. Minako came up behind
Haiku.
"Can she handle it?" Minako asked.
"No." Haiku answered. She turned around to Minako. "We need Sailor Mars. I
don't care what you do, but we need Sailor Mars." Minako took off into the
crowd of people. Haiku came up beside Sailor Mercury who was now on her
knees. Haiku swung threads of magic around herself and shot a beam from her
hands to meet Gragon's. Together, they managed to force the beam back in
between Gragon and themselves but that was all.
Minako hurried through the crowd of people who were scared out of their
wits. She found Rei near the back of the group and grabbed her hand. "Come
on Rei, we need your help." Rei didn't move.
"You're one of those people that I saved earlier aren't you? What did you
call me?"
"Come on there's no time." Minako gave a good yank and pulled Rei back
through the group.
"Where are you taking me?" Minako pulled Rei in between the crowd of people
and the raging battle. Rei tried to run back but Minako held her tightly.
"You have to use your power to help them."
"NO. Then everyone will think I'm some kind of witch or something."
"You're not a witch! You're one of us. You're Sailor Mars. Come on, you have
to remember."
" ....... "
"Remember the times we spent at the temple making plans. Remember Darien and
that crazy rock guy who came to work at your temple.. Remember your
grandfather. And ...and there's no way you could have forgotten all of the
arguments you had with Usagi. Please remember!" Rei thought this woman had
just about lost it when it all came back to her. She pulled out her
transformation stick and the symbol of mars appeared inside the circle part
of it. A six pointed star grew out around the circle. Now it looked like
Ami's only it was red instead of blue.
"I remember Mina. I remember it all now!" Her heart leapt in joy. "Mars
Eternal, UNITE!" Rei transformed into Sailor Mars only when it was done her
skirt and her collar went white. Then like Sailor Mercury, three lines
appeared across the bottom of her skirt and on her collar, and she got two
red bracelets. A red ribbon falling down from her choker to the bottom of
her skirt, (Although most of it is hidden by her hair) and two more from the
sides of the top of her skirt just stopping before they touched the ground.
A transparent violet bow on her back that had the bottom parts almost
touching the ground and the top about half that length. She had clear cuffs
at the shoulders of her fuku (like super sm). Her high heel shoes went white
and the symbol of Mars was on them. The center of her front and back bows
turned from circles into six-pointed stars. It ended with the symbol of Mars
appearing in place of her tiara. She came up beside Sailor Mercury and
pulled out one of those pieces of paper that she seems to have an endless
supply of. "I call upon the power of Mars, dispose of this evil monster!"
She sent the piece of paper into the raging battle of energies, but strangely, it wasn't destroyed.
Sailor Mars held a hand up. "Mars," She spun around in a circle and fire
flamed all around herself while she said "Flaming," She held up both of her
hands in front of her at once and the flames focused towards them.
"Inferno,"(At this point the flames were so strong that Sailor Mars couldn't
be seen). "BLAZE!!!" All of the fire energy gathered into her hands and she
shot a beam into the other three. Now, with their combined power they were
able to force back Gragon's energy power. When it got close to Gragon it
slowed down because Haiku and Sailor Mercury were getting tired. This was
when Gragon noticed Sailor Mars. He looked at her.
"And who do you think you are?" he said.
"I'm Eternal Sailor Mars! You've tortured me and these other people long
enough. On behalf of Mars, I banish you! BURN IN H**L!!!" Sailor Mars' beam
grew wider and stronger and Gragon was easily overpowered. When her beam
touched him he caught on fire. The fire quickly spread throughout his entire
body. In about a minute there was nothing left of him. All except for a
single scale which fell down to Sailor Mars. For a second no one moved. Then
Minako ran up and hugged Sailor Mars.
"You did it! Way to go. I knew you could do it."
"Yes. Welcome back Sailor Mars," Sailor Mercury said as she and Mars
embraced. Sailor Mercury powered down and Sailor Mars followed her lead. All
of the other people by now were realizing that they were no longer in danger
anymore and began wandering about. Rei turned to them.
"We're all free again," she cried. "You can rebuild this place the way you
want to." Haiku walked up to her and put a hand on her shoulder.
"Welcome back to the Senshi, Rei. My name is Haiku, and my mission is to
gather all of the senshi together again. I'll explain better later." She
turned to Ami and Minako. "Will you two go get our stuff? Just follow the
outside wall to the right. I'm going to restore the shield. We'll spend the
night in the temple."
"Haiku," Rei asked as she followed Haiku into the temple, "Why didn't Minako
transform?"
"She ...hasn't regained her power yet. I think there has to be a special
desire for a senshi to recover their powers in this world. Even if she had
transformed she wouldn't have had the power to help us win. Only through
your hate for Gragon and the power of fire were we able to win." Haiku went
into the temple and restored the shield.
The next day the villagers eagerly helped the senshi prepare their packs.
Haiku showed a few of the villagers how to control the shield and other
things that kept the fortress functioning. Rei wrapped up loose ends. The
next day after that they set off. Rei insisted on not wearing what the
others were wearing but instead something of her own. She wore dark green
pants, a red shirt and a green coat. She said that she didn't need a cloak.
Instead of wearing her hair long like Sailor Mars, She kept her hair in her
double ponytail loops.
But before Haiku left she spoke her message to the people. "If you crave the
old times, or something better, meet your destiny at The Gathering. If your
cause is true, when the sky turns green, you will find your way to Crescent
Island."
**********
Episode 5 'Fight for Freedom'
"What's your plan?"
"Well, we're going to have to enter the fortress from three different points
because of the little time we'll have, and the lesser chance of being
detected. When the shield starts to fade you'll have to place something on
it and when the object falls through you'll have to follow it as fast as you
can. Minako, you'll have to round up as many people as you can and get them
to help. I'll go for whatever controls the shield. Ami, we're going to need
a diversion to draw the master out of the temple. As soon as Minako and I
are done we'll come join you. Any questions?"
"I guess it could work...." Minako trailed off.
"Off the topic for a moment; Haiku, how did you pass through this field
we're in? We didn't turn it off for you or anything." Ami asked. Haiku
smiled.
"It's my shield, therefore fine tuned to my aura. Anything else that touches
it isn't recognized. I don't know how it works. It's one of the many things
I was given by Resistance.
"Come on," Minako urged. "It's going to take us a while to find three
different trees that are next to the fortress. Let's go!" They cleaned up
their site and dropped the shield. It was practically pitch black. Haiku
formed a flame in her hand, and Minako strung her bow.
"Follow me," Haiku whispered as she led them in a large arc towards the
fortress in order to not go anywhere near the main entrance. It took a while
but eventually they reached a wall. "You two follow the wall to the left. I
left the equipment that I need at a tree to the right, a short ways away
from here. Ami, when you're ready send a ball of light across the top of the
fortress. Don't transform until you need to. It could increase the time of
your diversion. Take this with you." Haiku handed Ami a small package with a
string coming out of the top of it.
"What is it?"
"It's an explosive. Find something to blow up near the front of the
fortress. It should get someone's attention. Mina, when you're ready send
the yellow arrow up above the fortress. Try to make it land as close to the
middle as you can. Okay? And be careful. As I've already found out, we don't
know what lurks out here at night. Haiku drew her sword and vanished into
the dark, her light now gone.
"Ami, could you help me find a yellow arrow in this darkness?"
"Certainly."
********
It didn't take long for Haiku to reach her tree. When she was in a good
position to see the others' signs she took a white crystal out of a hidden
pocket. Just by holding it she could feel it focusing her energy. She used
some of that energy to close the cuts on her back. Every time she had moved
beforehand it had hurt. She knew there was no way she could have done
anything without healing it. A sudden wave of dizziness overtook her for a
second and she almost missed Ami's signal. Shortly after that she saw
Minako's signal. Time to take action. She stuck the T into the shield. Then
she grabbed one of the animals that were now hanging in the tree and tossed
it onto the shield. When the number reached zero she jumped and dropped the
10 or so feet to the ground. Quickly and silently, she hid behind the
nearest tree. Although it was black outside there was a slight amount of
light coming from the dome above. It was enough light to see where one was
going but someone could easily hide in the shadows. Passing late-night
walkers and guards she carefully wove her way to the temple.
********
Ami landed near the back of the complex. It was far from where she was going
but took her time to get to the front.
********
Minako landed on a couple of young girls. She had to cover their mouths to
keep them from screaming. "Don't make any noise please. I've come to help."
"W-what do you want with us?"
"I need you to gather as many people as you can into the front yard. Also,
find whatever you can in the way of weapons. The rest will be taken care of
in the yard. Can you do that for me?"
"Well uhh, why do you want to do this?"
"Are you happy with the way your living?"
"All right we'll do it." The two girls hurried off towards the temple. The
place consisted of a temple in the middle, two buildings off to the sides
and another one behind. There was a great big yard out front with a statue
of the master in it and various other things. All around the outside walls
were trees. The temple was very small, not even close to the size of Rei's
temple. Minako went up to the side building she was closest to.
********
When Ami reached the front she walked right out into the open. A few people
stopped to stare at her. There was a statue near the front gate so she went
over to it and set the package on it. She pulled the string and ran for the
shelter of some trees. The package blew the statue up sending a shower of
rock all over the place. Ami walked back out to the statue, crossed her arms
and faced the temple. Her work was done for now.
********
Haiku had crept right up next to the entrance of the temple when Ami saw
her. Haiku saw the blast and decided that the package had worked better than
she thought. Haiku gave her a thumbs up. They waited for about a minute and
then a crowd of people burst out of the temple led by a couple of young
girls. The crowd moved off to the sides of the clearing, but the two girls
ran off. Haiku figured that they had been talking to Minako.
********
Minako walked right up to the building and opened the door. Inside there
were groups of people huddled together. There were some who were sleeping.
She wasn't noticed until she had stepped into the middle of the room. She
was approached by a man from her side. "Who are you?" he demanded.
"My name is Minako and I've come to set you all free from your master."
"Forget it," someone else in the room said. "It cannot be done. He's too
powerful."
"Then we're just going to have to try won't we. Right now one of my friends
is blowing up the statue out front." There were some gasps from around the
room. Minako continued before anyone could speak. "I need all of the people
who live here gathered up. If we all stand together we can win. But first I
need you to gather all of your people and go to the front yard with whatever
you can gather for weapons. I already have people getting everyone who is in
the temple, out of it. So do you want to help me or do you like the way you
are living."
The original man who spoke to her talked again. "Please go outside and wait
while we discuss what we will do." Minako stepped outside to see the statue
blow up. Her job was done for now.
********
A man dressed in robes stepped out of the temple and looked directly at Ami.
"Who disrupts my slumber?"
"I do!" Ami called. "Mercury Eternal, UNITE!" A few seconds later Sailor
Mercury stood there. The man in robes started to laugh. "All people deserve
to live their own lives. I'm Pretty Soldier Sailor Mercury and on behalf of
Mercury I will punish you!"
"Will you eh, all by yourself?"
"No. With us too." They looked to see the man that Minako had spoken to
earlier. "We've all had enough of being controlled by you." Behind him it
looked like were just about all of the place's inhabitants.
"Very well then. You're all currently traitors. Knights of Justice attack!"
He put up his arms and about 50 of his soldiers appeared around everyone.
"Everyone, get down!" Ami called out. Some people hesitated. "Now!" Everyone
got down and the ones who didn't, got pulled down. "Mercury Polar Ice Sheet
FREEZE!" This time Sailor Mercury sent her ice wave in all directions. It
froze all of the soldiers. Before anyone could react she turned to the man
in robes and held up her finger. "FREEZE!" A beam shot out of her finger
towards the man. He blocked it with his hands but got knocked down.
Meanwhile, as soon as the master had left the building Haiku had slipped in.
The temple consisted of two rooms. A main room and some quarters. Haiku
couldn't find what she was looking for so she started sending balls of
energy flying throughout the main room. One ball hit an altar and the altar
vanished. Below it Haiku followed some stairs leading underground. Here she
found a futuristic control room. Already having intermediate knowledge of
how all of this equipment operated she quickly got to work. The exterior
dome shield was shut off in a second. She also increased all lights to
maximum and disabled all security functions. Then she ran outside to help
her friends. She was in time to see Sailor Mercury blast the master.
They could now see up into the night sky. Haiku ran over to Sailor Mercury.
"So you disabled the shield guarding my fortress did you? For that I'm going
to have to thank you."
"What....."
"Ha ha ha. Did you actually think that I would stay here when there's a
whole world to conquer? I was imprisoned here by the Creator. It decided
that it didn't want me killing everyone. That shield was the only thing that
was keeping me here. And my new order will start with the destruction of
everyone here. Now face my true form. Ha ha ha ha ....." The man started to
grow. Only he wasn't a man anymore. His skin turned to scales as he changed
into a dragon. But he didn't stop there. He kept on growing until he was
about 15 feet tall. His giant wings shadowed everyone. "Now face me! I am
Gragon the chaos dragon of fire!"
"Mercury, Ice Shield." A dome of ice formed around all of the people there.
"Your pathetic ice cannot stop me." Gragon started shooting fireballs at the
ice shield. It didn't take long for him to melt it away.
"Mercury Polar Ice Sheet, FREEZE!" This time she directed all of the energy
into one single beam. The beam shot towards Gragon at an incredible speed
but Gragon already had his hands up and shot a beam from them. The two beams
met in between them. At first it seemed like they were evenly matched but
then Gragon's started to overpower Sailor Mercury's. Minako came up behind
Haiku.
"Can she handle it?" Minako asked.
"No." Haiku answered. She turned around to Minako. "We need Sailor Mars. I
don't care what you do, but we need Sailor Mars." Minako took off into the
crowd of people. Haiku came up beside Sailor Mercury who was now on her
knees. Haiku swung threads of magic around herself and shot a beam from her
hands to meet Gragon's. Together, they managed to force the beam back in
between Gragon and themselves but that was all.
Minako hurried through the crowd of people who were scared out of their
wits. She found Rei near the back of the group and grabbed her hand. "Come
on Rei, we need your help." Rei didn't move.
"You're one of those people that I saved earlier aren't you? What did you
call me?"
"Come on there's no time." Minako gave a good yank and pulled Rei back
through the group.
"Where are you taking me?" Minako pulled Rei in between the crowd of people
and the raging battle. Rei tried to run back but Minako held her tightly.
"You have to use your power to help them."
"NO. Then everyone will think I'm some kind of witch or something."
"You're not a witch! You're one of us. You're Sailor Mars. Come on, you have
to remember."
" ....... "
"Remember the times we spent at the temple making plans. Remember Darien and
that crazy rock guy who came to work at your temple.. Remember your
grandfather. And ...and there's no way you could have forgotten all of the
arguments you had with Usagi. Please remember!" Rei thought this woman had
just about lost it when it all came back to her. She pulled out her
transformation stick and the symbol of mars appeared inside the circle part
of it. A six pointed star grew out around the circle. Now it looked like
Ami's only it was red instead of blue.
"I remember Mina. I remember it all now!" Her heart leapt in joy. "Mars
Eternal, UNITE!" Rei transformed into Sailor Mars only when it was done her
skirt and her collar went white. Then like Sailor Mercury, three lines
appeared across the bottom of her skirt and on her collar, and she got two
red bracelets. A red ribbon falling down from her choker to the bottom of
her skirt, (Although most of it is hidden by her hair) and two more from the
sides of the top of her skirt just stopping before they touched the ground.
A transparent violet bow on her back that had the bottom parts almost
touching the ground and the top about half that length. She had clear cuffs
at the shoulders of her fuku (like super sm). Her high heel shoes went white
and the symbol of Mars was on them. The center of her front and back bows
turned from circles into six-pointed stars. It ended with the symbol of Mars
appearing in place of her tiara. She came up beside Sailor Mercury and
pulled out one of those pieces of paper that she seems to have an endless
supply of. "I call upon the power of Mars, dispose of this evil monster!"
She sent the piece of paper into the raging battle of energies, but strangely, it wasn't destroyed.
Sailor Mars held a hand up. "Mars," She spun around in a circle and fire
flamed all around herself while she said "Flaming," She held up both of her
hands in front of her at once and the flames focused towards them.
"Inferno,"(At this point the flames were so strong that Sailor Mars couldn't
be seen). "BLAZE!!!" All of the fire energy gathered into her hands and she
shot a beam into the other three. Now, with their combined power they were
able to force back Gragon's energy power. When it got close to Gragon it
slowed down because Haiku and Sailor Mercury were getting tired. This was
when Gragon noticed Sailor Mars. He looked at her.
"And who do you think you are?" he said.
"I'm Eternal Sailor Mars! You've tortured me and these other people long
enough. On behalf of Mars, I banish you! BURN IN H**L!!!" Sailor Mars' beam
grew wider and stronger and Gragon was easily overpowered. When her beam
touched him he caught on fire. The fire quickly spread throughout his entire
body. In about a minute there was nothing left of him. All except for a
single scale which fell down to Sailor Mars. For a second no one moved. Then
Minako ran up and hugged Sailor Mars.
"You did it! Way to go. I knew you could do it."
"Yes. Welcome back Sailor Mars," Sailor Mercury said as she and Mars
embraced. Sailor Mercury powered down and Sailor Mars followed her lead. All
of the other people by now were realizing that they were no longer in danger
anymore and began wandering about. Rei turned to them.
"We're all free again," she cried. "You can rebuild this place the way you
want to." Haiku walked up to her and put a hand on her shoulder.
"Welcome back to the Senshi, Rei. My name is Haiku, and my mission is to
gather all of the senshi together again. I'll explain better later." She
turned to Ami and Minako. "Will you two go get our stuff? Just follow the
outside wall to the right. I'm going to restore the shield. We'll spend the
night in the temple."
"Haiku," Rei asked as she followed Haiku into the temple, "Why didn't Minako
transform?"
"She ...hasn't regained her power yet. I think there has to be a special
desire for a senshi to recover their powers in this world. Even if she had
transformed she wouldn't have had the power to help us win. Only through
your hate for Gragon and the power of fire were we able to win." Haiku went
into the temple and restored the shield.
The next day the villagers eagerly helped the senshi prepare their packs.
Haiku showed a few of the villagers how to control the shield and other
things that kept the fortress functioning. Rei wrapped up loose ends. The
next day after that they set off. Rei insisted on not wearing what the
others were wearing but instead something of her own. She wore dark green
pants, a red shirt and a green coat. She said that she didn't need a cloak.
Instead of wearing her hair long like Sailor Mars, She kept her hair in her
double ponytail loops.
But before Haiku left she spoke her message to the people. "If you crave the
old times, or something better, meet your destiny at The Gathering. If your
cause is true, when the sky turns green, you will find your way to Crescent
Island."
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