Sailor Moon: World Rebirth -Part 1, The Gathering
Episode 11 'Finally Reunited'
"Oh Michiru, your wedding is going to be so great. I'm so jealous of you."
Michiru, who was staring into a mirror, had her mind elsewhere. Coming back
she just answered, "Uh, yeah." A while back she would never have thought
about this happening. Was she making a mistake, giving up hope? She hoped
the senshi would come, but they were probably off saving the world
somewhere. Maybe she should have gone with them. But still, she had had a
feeling of returning power just less than an hour ago. Something was going
to happen.
"Come on Michiru, let's go." Michiru had herself led out of the room.
***
Haruka was up in the cockpit now because she was so anxious. "Can't we go
any faster?"
"Well," Ami said. " You can press this button so that our speed will
increase.
Haruka pressed the button. The ship accelerated so quickly that she went
flying back to where the others were.
***
In the little church they didn't have a pipe organ so the people gathered
there had to hum the tune for the wedding along with some makeshift musical instruments.
Kengi wanted a traditional western wedding. Michiru walked down the aisle...
***
The ship landed in the middle of Dohilne. the cockpit window opened and
Haruka, who had returned to the cockpit, jumped out. She ran towards the
sound of voices humming the wedding tune to a small church.
***
"If there's anyone who thinks this bonding should not be, speak up now,"
Haruka came bursting through the doors. She ran down a short hall while the
minister was saying "Or forever hold your peace."
"I do!" Haruka said. Everyone in the church turned to look at her. "Haruka!"
Michiru gasped. "But you're-" Suddenly the roof of the church was ripped
off. A giant bird flew down and ate the groom.[How convenient! :)] Michiru
and Haruka's eyes met.
"Neptune Eternal, Unite!"
"Uranus Eternal, Unite!"
"Neptune Water, Craze Tornado, Strike!"
"Uranus Meteor Comets!"
Just before the two balls of energy hit the bird they merged into one. The
bird disappeared in a swirl of blue and with multiple meteors flying into
it. The others came into the room and Michiru and Haruka changed back.
"We saw it. It came from the last island." Murmurs of fear shot through the
room.
One person spoke up, "There must be something controlling the monsters
there."
"Then we'll just have to go stop it, whatever it is!" exclaimed Haruka. "We
have the most part of the senshi, and I'd rather not have the Saturn power
awoken unless we absolutely need it." The senshi returned outside to find
their ship in two pieces.
Ami hit a building. "Darn! This is going to take at least a week to fix."
"Then we're just going to have to walk." Haiku said. "And anyway, if we took
the ship, then whoever was there would definitely see us coming."
So after packing a little bit of food the senshi left the village. "We want
to get there as soon as we can. Who knows what is going on on that island,
or what the creatures there are going to do. The senshi ran off.
Haruka and Michiru were running next to each other. "Oh Haruka, I thought
you were dead. What happened? You died in my arms..."
"Well yes, I guess I was dead for a few minutes, but what Setsuna did, saved
me. When she binded us to the planet, once the change of the world had
begun, it took effect. It guaranteed that we'd make it through the darkness
and meet back up later. I woke up in the Volcanic Region. I didn't see any
sign of life and it was pretty dangerous there so I left. I built a pathetic
little boat that only made it across the ocean because it was the time of
the darkness. During that time the water didn't move even a bit so
travelling went pretty slow. I got to watch quite a bit of the world form
out on the ocean. I reached Toria. From there I 'acquired' a good boat and
I've been searching for you ever since. I found the temple where Setsuna had
put the artifact the was talisman combined so now we have them returned."
"So that's what I felt."
"What about you? What happened to you?"
"I woke up on Dohilne Island. Scouts sent to the mainlands reported that the
world was not in very good shape and advised that we stay out of it. So I've
spent the whole time here. But now I'm with you so we can be happy again
once this is all over."
Minako came up beside them and they dropped back a little back. "So,
Minako," Haruka asked, "Who is this girl Haiku? I don't trust her."
"I don't know a whole bunch about her past. I know that she spent six months
training for this mission."
"Which is?"
"To gather all of us. When she's done, "The Gathering" is supposed to take
place. Its where we take on the Creators. Somehow, the good people of the
world are going to help us. I think there's something more to The Gathering.
There's something more important happening there besides the battle. Haiku
said that the 'Messiah' is going to arrive."
"Sailor Moon?"
"We can only hope. And then there's the fact that Haiku seems so familiar,
but we can't figure out who she is. It's so frustrating. All I can really be
sure about her is that we can trust her. She saved my life more than once,
starting way back when she saved me first. The only thing I'm not sure about
is how Setsuna is going to come to us, or if she even can."
"What do you mean?"
"Setsuna was captured in the same place as I was. A flying fortress. We
transported out before the ship crashed but she didn't make it. That was
over at the other side of the Universe."
"Don't worry. Just like Michiru and I, because of what we did with our
talismen she'll live, and meet up with us again. And now she even has her
talisman back. She has power over time beyond imagination. She'll be okay."
The three of them caught up with the others.
"Haiku, do you know what those chaos dragons are and what these scales are
for?"
"Well, actually, yes I do have a little bit of an idea. In theory, they were
created from the dark half of your power when rebirth occurred. There are
eight of them in all, one for each planet. It seems that only the senshi it
was created from can defeat it."
"But what if we run in to the dragon created from the Saturn power?"
"Well so far it seems that the dragons have only been attacking our little
group, and only when the appropriate senshi is present. I don't think
there's much chance of running into it, but I'd count on meeting Jupiter's
and Mercury's dragons sometime in the near future. As for the scales, I have
no idea what they're for. But I'm sure we'll find out. All I can tell you is
that there is no trace of dark energy left in them. In fact, they're full of
completely the opposite. Actually it's not the Saturn dragon I'm worried
about, but the chaos dragon of Earth."
"But there isn't any senshi of Earth."
"I know, I think it's a combination of all of the powers put together, and
combined with power of the moon. But, I don't think we'll run into it until
all of the other dragons are beaten, and after The Gathering."
The senshi spent the rest of the day, and most of the next day travelling
from island to island. They ended up swimming between them. At about mid
afternoon they were looking across the water to the last island. It
consisted of a forest surrounding a hill, with a fortress on top of the
hill." On an inspection by Haiku it was found that all of the strands of
magic running through it were infected with dark energy and they could only
be used by someone truly evil, or just control some dark powers. Worse yet,
it was some kind of virus and was spreading outwards from the island. Haiku
set temporary blocks around the island that were undetectable so that the
virus would be contained for a little while. They spent the remainder of the
daylight sleeping and eating. When it was twilight they swam across the
water to the island. It had to be at least ten degrees cooler on the new
island.
"Mercury Eternal, Unite!"
"Mars Eternal, Unite!"
"Jupiter Eternal,"
"Venus Eternal, Unite!"
"Uranus Eternal, Unite!"
"Neptune Eternal, Unite!"
Haiku pulled a black cloak out of her pack and attached it at her shoulders.
She wrapped it around herself. "Dark cloak activate!" The cloak flashed
white and then faded away. Haiku just seemed to get darker. You had to
concentrate to see her. It was as if she was in the shadows, even if she
wasn't.
"Nice trick."
"It also allows me to move quickly and softly like you can as senshi."
The senshi slipped through the forest unnoticed. There were even sentries
that they passed. They didn't see the senshi and the senshi didn't see them.
Except Haiku. Haiku led them through the forest, around to behind the
fortress. To get to where the fortress was, one of them had to climb up a
vertical wall. When they got to it, a rope was tossed up and melted to the
rock. With their hands on the rope, the senshi were able to take a couple
steps up the wall and then fling themselves up to the top. When they were
all up, they burned the rope so well that there weren't any ashes or smoke.
The senshi were split into two groups. One to scale up the outside wall of
the fortress, and one to sneak through the inside. They were to meet at the
top. Group 1 consisted of Haiku, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Mars. Group 2
consisted of Neptune and Uranus. Group 1 circled around the side of the
fortress while Group 2 attached ropes to the walls.
Haiku found a sewage exhaust that hadn't been used yet and went in there.
She followed it to a part where the tube just went straight up. Bracing
themselves to the sides of the tube the senshi climbed up it. At the second
outbranch Haiku turned in to it. The hole came up into an empty room. The
way the hole was placed it seemed that it was a cell. The cell was unlocked.
The senshi then slipped into the ventilation system. They followed it up
many floors until they couldn't go any farther. They got out of it at the
top of a flight of stairs. At the bottom there were guards. Haiku estimated
that they were one floor below the one they wanted to be on. At the end of
the hallway there was a staircase. At the top of the staircase were a couple
of shadows.
"BLAZE!"
"FREEZE!"
They were easily removed.
********
The wind howled around Sailor Uranus and Neptune as they climbed up the side
of the fortress. They were a few feet from the roof when Sailor Neptune
slipped. Sailor Uranus just managed to grab her hand before she fell. She
swung her over to a platform they had just passed and dropped down after
her. Actually, it was more like a balcony, with two shadows standing watch
beside the door inside. They were taken care of in a sec. Sailor Uranus and
Neptune ran through the door and up a flight of stairs. They met the other
senshi at the top. Together they turned and went up the one final flight of
stairs. At the top they entered a room that was completely dark. They
couldn't see anything. After they were all up, a trap door closed over the
stairs so there was no way back. Then the area around them lit up. They were
surrounded by about 40 shadows that had mechanical body parts. "ELIMINATE
THEM, SHADOW-MECHS," a voice boomed.
Sailors Mars and Mercury were able to take out most of them because their
attacks could fire over a large area. Sailor Jupiter formed a cage of
lightning around them and shot it outwards, taking care of whatever was
left. While no one was paying attention to her, Haiku slipped off to the
side and was completely camoflagued in the dark.
All was quiet. Then there was clapping. The senshi turned to see a man
standing off to the side. "Congradulations. I knew you could do it. I see
you have defeaten my brothers. Even if it is my fate to perish, I won't go
without a fight. "REVERT TRUEFORM!" The man stepped forward. Then he morphed
into the Thunder chaos dragon. "EEEEEEEIIIIIAAAAAA!" It screamed and let
loose dark energy into the ceiling of the room. Then the energy travelled to
the center of the room and bombarded the senshi. They scattered.
Sailor Jupiter threw her hands back and then together in front of her.
"Jupiter Lightning Wave Shock!" Sailor Jupiter shot a beam of energy at the
dragon. Surprisingly quickly the dragon melted away. It didn't even put up a
fight. "That was easy," she commented as she received her dark
green-coloured scale.
"OF COURSE IT WAS EASY." A new voice said. This time, female. "I ALREADY
DRAINED MOST OF MY PATHETIC BROTHER'S ENERGY TO FORM THIS FORTRESS, AND FOR
MY OWN USE. HE IS NOT WHO YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN WORRIED ABOUT." At another
side of the room another light lit up over a throne. There was a woman
sitting in it, in a long black gown. "NOW YOU WILL MEET, THE REAL TERROR."
She stepped forward off of the throne and to the floor. A beam of dark light
shone down on her and she was lifted through the ceilling.
"Uh oh. This better not be what I think it is." Sailor Uranus said. "Can we
handle it?"
The ceilling and walls of the room melted away. They were now open to the
outside. The wind threatened to blow them away. A large form dropped from
above and on to the platform. It was twenty feet tall and showered the
senshi with dark energy.
"I AM DEATH ITSELF. I AM THE CHAOS DRAGON OF SILENCE. YOU HAVE NO CHANCE
AGAINST ME. SURRENDER NOW AND I'LL MAKE YOUR DEATH QUICK AND PAINLESS."
"Never! Uranus, Space Sword, Meteor Comets!"
"Neptune Water, Deep Sea Reflected, Craze Tornado STRIKE!"
The dragon flew out off of the fortress. Comets showered down on it from the
Heavens, and a water tornado was tossed back and forth through the dragon.
Then it was caught in the middle of the water twister and meteors crashed
down on it. When everything was clear the dragon was still flying there, not
even a scratch on it. "WAS THAT IT?"
"No way!"
"There's no way it could have survived that."
"NOW YOU WILL COWWER BEFORE ME!" The dragon blasted Sailor Uranus and Sailor
Neptune with dark energy from all directions at once. When he was done and
the two senshi dropped, they were bleeding from a few wounds, and blood
blisters were all over their bodies. they colapsed together, their energy
drained, barely alive. "WHAT'S NEXT."
"The only chance we have," Sailor Mercury said, "Is to try a sailor planet
attack." The senshi held hands in a circle and simultaneously individually
called upon their power.
"Mercury Eternal,"
"Mars Eternal,"
"Jupiter Eternal,"
"Venus Eternal,"
"UNITE!!!!"
In between the senshi a fantastic amount of energy gathered. It shot up as
far as they could see. "SAILOR PLANET ATTACK!" Instead of shooting up into
the air the attack curved and slammed into the dragon. The dragon fell back.
"SUCH POWER, ...ALMOST A MATCH." The dragon countered with dark energy to
keep the attack away from her. Then she shot dark energy out and into the
sailors. They screamed and let go of each other's hands. The were left in a
condition similar to Sailor Neptune and Uranus, and like them, still
conscious.
Haiku stood up and removed the power of the cape. She brightened back up and
the cape appeared, which she tossed away. "SO YOU ARE THE GATHERER."
"You do know that you will be stopped."
"BY YOU?"
"If necessary." Haiku opened her hand. Sitting in it was a crystal. It
glowed and spread light in the dark night. "Light always removes the dark."
"WHO ARE YOU?"
"That is for me to know. Just me, for now, until the time is right. Until
time chooses that it be known. The silence has been defeaten before."
"NO. YOU'RE JUST STALLING ME. WHY? DIE!" From the mouth of the dragon came a
shoot of dark energy. In both of her hands Haiku held the crystal in front
of her. The dark energy shot off to the sides.
"Now, perish!" Haiku shot a beam of light out of the crystal and into the
dragon. The dragon fell back over the side of the fortress. Haiku turned her
back to it. Her mistake, because the dragon flew back up. It shot a small,
quick, arrow of dark energy at Haiku and it hit the crystal out of her
hands. The crystal slid off across the floor. Haiku turned around to be
blasted by dark energy. She stumbled back. Another blast brought her to her
knees.
"I'M GOING TO ENJOY KILLING YOU."
As the dragon shot a blast of dark energy at Haiku, someone flew down,
picked her up and flew away before the energy hit. The person came back
around where the dragon was firing and set Haiku back down. Haiku turned
around to see who saved her. "Hotaru....."
It was Eternal Sailor Saturn, now at about age 17. The power of death is
already eternal, and unlike the other senshi, her fuku hadn't changed.
Except for the fact that she now had two giant black wings instead of a back
bow. "WHAT IS THIS?"
"Chibi-usa?" The spell was shattered. All of the senshi now recognized
Haiku, as Chibi-usa, but from the future? And so much older..... Haiku and
Sailor Saturn hugged. Sailor Saturn then turned to the dragon.
"Your reign is over."
"BUT HOW? YOU WERE JUST A CHILD."
"I grew up. If you treasured your life you would have stayed hidden. There
can be only one." Sailor Saturn pointed the silence glaive at the dragon.
"Silent Destruction." At first nothing happened. Then the dragon slowly
dissolved into nothing, without a sound. All that was left was a scale which
floated down to Sailor Saturn. "Help them Chibi-usa."
Chibi-usa recovered and held up the ginzuishou of the future. "Moon
Healing..." For the moment, she only healed them enough so that they were
all completely conscious and not in the immediate threat of dying.
Sailor Saturn closed her eyes and held her arms out and up. She spoke
softly. 'Saturn, dark elemental typhoon, erupt........' All around everyone
the wind picked up. Lightning streaked across the sky. The ground started to
shake. The forest below caught on fire and the winds grew even stronger.
"What's going on?!" Sailor Mars screamed.
"Sailor Saturn is destroying the island. Quickly, form a circle around her."
The senshi slowly fought against the wind to make a circle around Sailor
Saturn. Chibi-usa stood beside Saturn. It didn't help that they could barely
move because they were in such bad shape.
"Let's go back to Dohilne."
"SAILOR TELEPORT!" The senshi were barely able to transport out of there,
but they succeeded.
They appeared in the center of Dohilne where the people were looking out
across the water at the island. They were watching it go up in flames and
the fortress fall apart. The senshi who were still wounded badly collapsed.
Haiku aka Chibi-usa and Sailor Saturn stood watching the island sink into
the ocean. "Did you really have to do that much?"
"I'm not sure. There was a tremendous amount of dark energy stored there and
there was also a virus that was affecting the strands of magic. It was the
only way to make sure it would all be purified."
"I guess I have some explaining to do." Chibi-usa sighed.
"I don't know what's been happening, but from the intensity of that spell I
looked through you must have really wanted your identity hidden. Do you have
the power to heal them?"
"Probably. I'll try." Chibi-usa held up the crystal above herself and her
princess dress appeared. The bandana fell away revealing a shinning crescent
moon. "Moon Healing." Energy from the crystal filled the senshi's bodies,
healing their more serious wounds and restoring some of their energy.
Chibi-usa's original clothes returned and she replaced the bandana. Everyone
started to ask questions at the same time.
"Everything will be explained later. Now, everyone, let's do another Sailor
Teleport. There's somewhere we should all go to first."
All of the senshi gathered in a circle holding hands, including Chibi-usa.
"SAILOR TELEPORT!" All around the senshi the wind started to pick up and
swirl about. "Now, everyone, just picture yourself somewhere else than this
place and I'll do the rest." Chibi-usa instructed. The senshi lifted just
off the ground and vanished.
**********
Episode 11 'Finally Reunited'
"Oh Michiru, your wedding is going to be so great. I'm so jealous of you."
Michiru, who was staring into a mirror, had her mind elsewhere. Coming back
she just answered, "Uh, yeah." A while back she would never have thought
about this happening. Was she making a mistake, giving up hope? She hoped
the senshi would come, but they were probably off saving the world
somewhere. Maybe she should have gone with them. But still, she had had a
feeling of returning power just less than an hour ago. Something was going
to happen.
"Come on Michiru, let's go." Michiru had herself led out of the room.
***
Haruka was up in the cockpit now because she was so anxious. "Can't we go
any faster?"
"Well," Ami said. " You can press this button so that our speed will
increase.
Haruka pressed the button. The ship accelerated so quickly that she went
flying back to where the others were.
***
In the little church they didn't have a pipe organ so the people gathered
there had to hum the tune for the wedding along with some makeshift musical instruments.
Kengi wanted a traditional western wedding. Michiru walked down the aisle...
***
The ship landed in the middle of Dohilne. the cockpit window opened and
Haruka, who had returned to the cockpit, jumped out. She ran towards the
sound of voices humming the wedding tune to a small church.
***
"If there's anyone who thinks this bonding should not be, speak up now,"
Haruka came bursting through the doors. She ran down a short hall while the
minister was saying "Or forever hold your peace."
"I do!" Haruka said. Everyone in the church turned to look at her. "Haruka!"
Michiru gasped. "But you're-" Suddenly the roof of the church was ripped
off. A giant bird flew down and ate the groom.[How convenient! :)] Michiru
and Haruka's eyes met.
"Neptune Eternal, Unite!"
"Uranus Eternal, Unite!"
"Neptune Water, Craze Tornado, Strike!"
"Uranus Meteor Comets!"
Just before the two balls of energy hit the bird they merged into one. The
bird disappeared in a swirl of blue and with multiple meteors flying into
it. The others came into the room and Michiru and Haruka changed back.
"We saw it. It came from the last island." Murmurs of fear shot through the
room.
One person spoke up, "There must be something controlling the monsters
there."
"Then we'll just have to go stop it, whatever it is!" exclaimed Haruka. "We
have the most part of the senshi, and I'd rather not have the Saturn power
awoken unless we absolutely need it." The senshi returned outside to find
their ship in two pieces.
Ami hit a building. "Darn! This is going to take at least a week to fix."
"Then we're just going to have to walk." Haiku said. "And anyway, if we took
the ship, then whoever was there would definitely see us coming."
So after packing a little bit of food the senshi left the village. "We want
to get there as soon as we can. Who knows what is going on on that island,
or what the creatures there are going to do. The senshi ran off.
Haruka and Michiru were running next to each other. "Oh Haruka, I thought
you were dead. What happened? You died in my arms..."
"Well yes, I guess I was dead for a few minutes, but what Setsuna did, saved
me. When she binded us to the planet, once the change of the world had
begun, it took effect. It guaranteed that we'd make it through the darkness
and meet back up later. I woke up in the Volcanic Region. I didn't see any
sign of life and it was pretty dangerous there so I left. I built a pathetic
little boat that only made it across the ocean because it was the time of
the darkness. During that time the water didn't move even a bit so
travelling went pretty slow. I got to watch quite a bit of the world form
out on the ocean. I reached Toria. From there I 'acquired' a good boat and
I've been searching for you ever since. I found the temple where Setsuna had
put the artifact the was talisman combined so now we have them returned."
"So that's what I felt."
"What about you? What happened to you?"
"I woke up on Dohilne Island. Scouts sent to the mainlands reported that the
world was not in very good shape and advised that we stay out of it. So I've
spent the whole time here. But now I'm with you so we can be happy again
once this is all over."
Minako came up beside them and they dropped back a little back. "So,
Minako," Haruka asked, "Who is this girl Haiku? I don't trust her."
"I don't know a whole bunch about her past. I know that she spent six months
training for this mission."
"Which is?"
"To gather all of us. When she's done, "The Gathering" is supposed to take
place. Its where we take on the Creators. Somehow, the good people of the
world are going to help us. I think there's something more to The Gathering.
There's something more important happening there besides the battle. Haiku
said that the 'Messiah' is going to arrive."
"Sailor Moon?"
"We can only hope. And then there's the fact that Haiku seems so familiar,
but we can't figure out who she is. It's so frustrating. All I can really be
sure about her is that we can trust her. She saved my life more than once,
starting way back when she saved me first. The only thing I'm not sure about
is how Setsuna is going to come to us, or if she even can."
"What do you mean?"
"Setsuna was captured in the same place as I was. A flying fortress. We
transported out before the ship crashed but she didn't make it. That was
over at the other side of the Universe."
"Don't worry. Just like Michiru and I, because of what we did with our
talismen she'll live, and meet up with us again. And now she even has her
talisman back. She has power over time beyond imagination. She'll be okay."
The three of them caught up with the others.
"Haiku, do you know what those chaos dragons are and what these scales are
for?"
"Well, actually, yes I do have a little bit of an idea. In theory, they were
created from the dark half of your power when rebirth occurred. There are
eight of them in all, one for each planet. It seems that only the senshi it
was created from can defeat it."
"But what if we run in to the dragon created from the Saturn power?"
"Well so far it seems that the dragons have only been attacking our little
group, and only when the appropriate senshi is present. I don't think
there's much chance of running into it, but I'd count on meeting Jupiter's
and Mercury's dragons sometime in the near future. As for the scales, I have
no idea what they're for. But I'm sure we'll find out. All I can tell you is
that there is no trace of dark energy left in them. In fact, they're full of
completely the opposite. Actually it's not the Saturn dragon I'm worried
about, but the chaos dragon of Earth."
"But there isn't any senshi of Earth."
"I know, I think it's a combination of all of the powers put together, and
combined with power of the moon. But, I don't think we'll run into it until
all of the other dragons are beaten, and after The Gathering."
The senshi spent the rest of the day, and most of the next day travelling
from island to island. They ended up swimming between them. At about mid
afternoon they were looking across the water to the last island. It
consisted of a forest surrounding a hill, with a fortress on top of the
hill." On an inspection by Haiku it was found that all of the strands of
magic running through it were infected with dark energy and they could only
be used by someone truly evil, or just control some dark powers. Worse yet,
it was some kind of virus and was spreading outwards from the island. Haiku
set temporary blocks around the island that were undetectable so that the
virus would be contained for a little while. They spent the remainder of the
daylight sleeping and eating. When it was twilight they swam across the
water to the island. It had to be at least ten degrees cooler on the new
island.
"Mercury Eternal, Unite!"
"Mars Eternal, Unite!"
"Jupiter Eternal,"
"Venus Eternal, Unite!"
"Uranus Eternal, Unite!"
"Neptune Eternal, Unite!"
Haiku pulled a black cloak out of her pack and attached it at her shoulders.
She wrapped it around herself. "Dark cloak activate!" The cloak flashed
white and then faded away. Haiku just seemed to get darker. You had to
concentrate to see her. It was as if she was in the shadows, even if she
wasn't.
"Nice trick."
"It also allows me to move quickly and softly like you can as senshi."
The senshi slipped through the forest unnoticed. There were even sentries
that they passed. They didn't see the senshi and the senshi didn't see them.
Except Haiku. Haiku led them through the forest, around to behind the
fortress. To get to where the fortress was, one of them had to climb up a
vertical wall. When they got to it, a rope was tossed up and melted to the
rock. With their hands on the rope, the senshi were able to take a couple
steps up the wall and then fling themselves up to the top. When they were
all up, they burned the rope so well that there weren't any ashes or smoke.
The senshi were split into two groups. One to scale up the outside wall of
the fortress, and one to sneak through the inside. They were to meet at the
top. Group 1 consisted of Haiku, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Mars. Group 2
consisted of Neptune and Uranus. Group 1 circled around the side of the
fortress while Group 2 attached ropes to the walls.
Haiku found a sewage exhaust that hadn't been used yet and went in there.
She followed it to a part where the tube just went straight up. Bracing
themselves to the sides of the tube the senshi climbed up it. At the second
outbranch Haiku turned in to it. The hole came up into an empty room. The
way the hole was placed it seemed that it was a cell. The cell was unlocked.
The senshi then slipped into the ventilation system. They followed it up
many floors until they couldn't go any farther. They got out of it at the
top of a flight of stairs. At the bottom there were guards. Haiku estimated
that they were one floor below the one they wanted to be on. At the end of
the hallway there was a staircase. At the top of the staircase were a couple
of shadows.
"BLAZE!"
"FREEZE!"
They were easily removed.
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The wind howled around Sailor Uranus and Neptune as they climbed up the side
of the fortress. They were a few feet from the roof when Sailor Neptune
slipped. Sailor Uranus just managed to grab her hand before she fell. She
swung her over to a platform they had just passed and dropped down after
her. Actually, it was more like a balcony, with two shadows standing watch
beside the door inside. They were taken care of in a sec. Sailor Uranus and
Neptune ran through the door and up a flight of stairs. They met the other
senshi at the top. Together they turned and went up the one final flight of
stairs. At the top they entered a room that was completely dark. They
couldn't see anything. After they were all up, a trap door closed over the
stairs so there was no way back. Then the area around them lit up. They were
surrounded by about 40 shadows that had mechanical body parts. "ELIMINATE
THEM, SHADOW-MECHS," a voice boomed.
Sailors Mars and Mercury were able to take out most of them because their
attacks could fire over a large area. Sailor Jupiter formed a cage of
lightning around them and shot it outwards, taking care of whatever was
left. While no one was paying attention to her, Haiku slipped off to the
side and was completely camoflagued in the dark.
All was quiet. Then there was clapping. The senshi turned to see a man
standing off to the side. "Congradulations. I knew you could do it. I see
you have defeaten my brothers. Even if it is my fate to perish, I won't go
without a fight. "REVERT TRUEFORM!" The man stepped forward. Then he morphed
into the Thunder chaos dragon. "EEEEEEEIIIIIAAAAAA!" It screamed and let
loose dark energy into the ceiling of the room. Then the energy travelled to
the center of the room and bombarded the senshi. They scattered.
Sailor Jupiter threw her hands back and then together in front of her.
"Jupiter Lightning Wave Shock!" Sailor Jupiter shot a beam of energy at the
dragon. Surprisingly quickly the dragon melted away. It didn't even put up a
fight. "That was easy," she commented as she received her dark
green-coloured scale.
"OF COURSE IT WAS EASY." A new voice said. This time, female. "I ALREADY
DRAINED MOST OF MY PATHETIC BROTHER'S ENERGY TO FORM THIS FORTRESS, AND FOR
MY OWN USE. HE IS NOT WHO YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN WORRIED ABOUT." At another
side of the room another light lit up over a throne. There was a woman
sitting in it, in a long black gown. "NOW YOU WILL MEET, THE REAL TERROR."
She stepped forward off of the throne and to the floor. A beam of dark light
shone down on her and she was lifted through the ceilling.
"Uh oh. This better not be what I think it is." Sailor Uranus said. "Can we
handle it?"
The ceilling and walls of the room melted away. They were now open to the
outside. The wind threatened to blow them away. A large form dropped from
above and on to the platform. It was twenty feet tall and showered the
senshi with dark energy.
"I AM DEATH ITSELF. I AM THE CHAOS DRAGON OF SILENCE. YOU HAVE NO CHANCE
AGAINST ME. SURRENDER NOW AND I'LL MAKE YOUR DEATH QUICK AND PAINLESS."
"Never! Uranus, Space Sword, Meteor Comets!"
"Neptune Water, Deep Sea Reflected, Craze Tornado STRIKE!"
The dragon flew out off of the fortress. Comets showered down on it from the
Heavens, and a water tornado was tossed back and forth through the dragon.
Then it was caught in the middle of the water twister and meteors crashed
down on it. When everything was clear the dragon was still flying there, not
even a scratch on it. "WAS THAT IT?"
"No way!"
"There's no way it could have survived that."
"NOW YOU WILL COWWER BEFORE ME!" The dragon blasted Sailor Uranus and Sailor
Neptune with dark energy from all directions at once. When he was done and
the two senshi dropped, they were bleeding from a few wounds, and blood
blisters were all over their bodies. they colapsed together, their energy
drained, barely alive. "WHAT'S NEXT."
"The only chance we have," Sailor Mercury said, "Is to try a sailor planet
attack." The senshi held hands in a circle and simultaneously individually
called upon their power.
"Mercury Eternal,"
"Mars Eternal,"
"Jupiter Eternal,"
"Venus Eternal,"
"UNITE!!!!"
In between the senshi a fantastic amount of energy gathered. It shot up as
far as they could see. "SAILOR PLANET ATTACK!" Instead of shooting up into
the air the attack curved and slammed into the dragon. The dragon fell back.
"SUCH POWER, ...ALMOST A MATCH." The dragon countered with dark energy to
keep the attack away from her. Then she shot dark energy out and into the
sailors. They screamed and let go of each other's hands. The were left in a
condition similar to Sailor Neptune and Uranus, and like them, still
conscious.
Haiku stood up and removed the power of the cape. She brightened back up and
the cape appeared, which she tossed away. "SO YOU ARE THE GATHERER."
"You do know that you will be stopped."
"BY YOU?"
"If necessary." Haiku opened her hand. Sitting in it was a crystal. It
glowed and spread light in the dark night. "Light always removes the dark."
"WHO ARE YOU?"
"That is for me to know. Just me, for now, until the time is right. Until
time chooses that it be known. The silence has been defeaten before."
"NO. YOU'RE JUST STALLING ME. WHY? DIE!" From the mouth of the dragon came a
shoot of dark energy. In both of her hands Haiku held the crystal in front
of her. The dark energy shot off to the sides.
"Now, perish!" Haiku shot a beam of light out of the crystal and into the
dragon. The dragon fell back over the side of the fortress. Haiku turned her
back to it. Her mistake, because the dragon flew back up. It shot a small,
quick, arrow of dark energy at Haiku and it hit the crystal out of her
hands. The crystal slid off across the floor. Haiku turned around to be
blasted by dark energy. She stumbled back. Another blast brought her to her
knees.
"I'M GOING TO ENJOY KILLING YOU."
As the dragon shot a blast of dark energy at Haiku, someone flew down,
picked her up and flew away before the energy hit. The person came back
around where the dragon was firing and set Haiku back down. Haiku turned
around to see who saved her. "Hotaru....."
It was Eternal Sailor Saturn, now at about age 17. The power of death is
already eternal, and unlike the other senshi, her fuku hadn't changed.
Except for the fact that she now had two giant black wings instead of a back
bow. "WHAT IS THIS?"
"Chibi-usa?" The spell was shattered. All of the senshi now recognized
Haiku, as Chibi-usa, but from the future? And so much older..... Haiku and
Sailor Saturn hugged. Sailor Saturn then turned to the dragon.
"Your reign is over."
"BUT HOW? YOU WERE JUST A CHILD."
"I grew up. If you treasured your life you would have stayed hidden. There
can be only one." Sailor Saturn pointed the silence glaive at the dragon.
"Silent Destruction." At first nothing happened. Then the dragon slowly
dissolved into nothing, without a sound. All that was left was a scale which
floated down to Sailor Saturn. "Help them Chibi-usa."
Chibi-usa recovered and held up the ginzuishou of the future. "Moon
Healing..." For the moment, she only healed them enough so that they were
all completely conscious and not in the immediate threat of dying.
Sailor Saturn closed her eyes and held her arms out and up. She spoke
softly. 'Saturn, dark elemental typhoon, erupt........' All around everyone
the wind picked up. Lightning streaked across the sky. The ground started to
shake. The forest below caught on fire and the winds grew even stronger.
"What's going on?!" Sailor Mars screamed.
"Sailor Saturn is destroying the island. Quickly, form a circle around her."
The senshi slowly fought against the wind to make a circle around Sailor
Saturn. Chibi-usa stood beside Saturn. It didn't help that they could barely
move because they were in such bad shape.
"Let's go back to Dohilne."
"SAILOR TELEPORT!" The senshi were barely able to transport out of there,
but they succeeded.
They appeared in the center of Dohilne where the people were looking out
across the water at the island. They were watching it go up in flames and
the fortress fall apart. The senshi who were still wounded badly collapsed.
Haiku aka Chibi-usa and Sailor Saturn stood watching the island sink into
the ocean. "Did you really have to do that much?"
"I'm not sure. There was a tremendous amount of dark energy stored there and
there was also a virus that was affecting the strands of magic. It was the
only way to make sure it would all be purified."
"I guess I have some explaining to do." Chibi-usa sighed.
"I don't know what's been happening, but from the intensity of that spell I
looked through you must have really wanted your identity hidden. Do you have
the power to heal them?"
"Probably. I'll try." Chibi-usa held up the crystal above herself and her
princess dress appeared. The bandana fell away revealing a shinning crescent
moon. "Moon Healing." Energy from the crystal filled the senshi's bodies,
healing their more serious wounds and restoring some of their energy.
Chibi-usa's original clothes returned and she replaced the bandana. Everyone
started to ask questions at the same time.
"Everything will be explained later. Now, everyone, let's do another Sailor
Teleport. There's somewhere we should all go to first."
All of the senshi gathered in a circle holding hands, including Chibi-usa.
"SAILOR TELEPORT!" All around the senshi the wind started to pick up and
swirl about. "Now, everyone, just picture yourself somewhere else than this
place and I'll do the rest." Chibi-usa instructed. The senshi lifted just
off the ground and vanished.
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