Kindled Spirits- Chapter 2br
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p"So, will you all please take a seat? Miss Lorraine, Nicole, Heather, and, is it Karla?" The chubby African American woman asked the angry teenage girl with her bangs dyed blue, black hair flowing down to her shoulders, a furry baby blue bikini top with a striped dark blue, not even knee length skirt and long, black leather boots that reached an inch above her knees. "No. It's Kayla, bitch." The girl replied shortly after. "Well I never!" The woman immediately stood up, defending herself from the foul mouthed teen. The other girls began to laugh with delight. "Sit down NOW! All of you!" The woman roared and watched as the girls giggled again and reluctantly took a seat. As she began talking, Kayla removed a piece of cold, hard bubblegum from her blue backpack and began chewing like a cow and aggravating the principal well enough. The girl beside her, Lorraine, with bangs dyed in red, black hair longer than Kayla's, a red striped plaid skirt with a black and red furry top, popped out a makeup kit and began to examine herself in its mirror. /p
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"Miss Lorraine!"
Principal Cooper blared and pounded her palms roughly against her desk with a fuming anger that caused all four girls to jump, startled, and fearfully stop their foolishness for awhile. "I expect a whole lot more of respect coming from you girls, especially at your age! Seventeen, going on to eighteen! You're all a bunch of maniacs! According to the recent report given to me, you all will be expelled from this school!" A small girl with cute, short, dark red hair smiled evilly. She moved her completely tattooed arm through her hair, "Why? We didn't do nothing wrong," "If you recall one little thing, Heather!" Heather shrugged, "Which is what?" By this time, Cooper was close to having a tremendous fury control her temper, "Which is what?! You were all caught in that bathroom, with those three boys selling cocaine! And you ask what?! Bullshit!" "That's exactly what you are!" Lorraine yelled, stuffing away her makeup kit and storming out of the room. Heather slammed her hand down on Cooper's desk angrily before following Lorraine and Nicole out of the room. Kayla was the last to leave as she spit down on her desk, grabbed her black metal guitar and crashed it against vases of decorative flowers. Cooper screamed and grabbed the phone in search of help as Kayla overturned the chair she had sat on and ran out, screaming furiously, "Fuck this!"
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"Well, here we have the perfect team. A bit angry, yes, but that's something important in order to destroy. What anger, what teenaged anger! It's beautiful!" Lamya watched from her throne, or some chair which she called her "throne", to comfort the uneasy and painful truth that she was not a Queen. Once she found all seven objects she needed to release Sailor Macrocosm, then her dream to become a Queen would finally come true! "But how, and who, more importantly, can behold such powerful objects? There is the fire and ice blade, the crown of Purity, the bow, and the arrow, of the Golden Sprites, the scalpel belonging to the Red Dragon, whoever that is, the Blade of Shadows, and the last and most precious one, the Sacred Ring of Serenity. If I could just have some powers of my own!" Lamya pushed back her black hair, with a single bang colored in white, as she moved away from her throne and flung open the doors to a long, black row of drawers.
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Deeply tucked inside the fourth drawer, she threw out a heavy, thick old book and struggled with it a while before she succeeded in opening its tough cover. Inside, she ran her finger up and down the columns until she found the name 'Beryl'. "Thank goodness I have all these other failures to help me accomplish my goal. Shit! All these damn evil doers had one damn thing in common, they had some crazy crap called Sailor Scouts to destroy and retrieve powers from! Where the hell am I supposed to get those?!" Lamya looked around the empty and dark room, which held an enormous visible screen located in front of her throne that allowed her to view most things that were ungodly and evil, a few times leading her eyes to the good of the universe. p
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Lamya looked back into the screen, showing the four girls walk down dark alleys and across streets with broken street lights. "Should I take them now? No, it's too soon. I'll have someone else do it for me…but who!?" She turned her attention back to the book and after awhile, found out about Beryl's four Generals. "That's it! That's the plan now! I'll just make my own generals! Of course, stronger than Beryl's, hopefully more useful. Now, to set to work!" And with that, she slapped the book closed and moved it back into the fourth drawer, which she shortly after closed as well and opened the top drawer. From it, she found four small bottles of black, chunky liquid. "I've been saving these since the Silver Millennium! Now, time to unleash them and prove their worth!" She picked out one of the bottles, tossing the rest back into the drawer. "Not even Beryl can make such fine generals as I!" She cackled, and broke open the bottle top, flinging the chunky fluid into a boiling mass of gray mist that never seemed to escape the open top of the large cauldron in the middle of the room.
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After a few moments, the gray mist turned black, and it poured out heavily, then rising up in the empty form of a female. "Welcome to life Nefertari." Lamya said as she departed away the black mist from the face of the creature. At first, Nefertari seemed un awakened by the calling, until Lamya removed the rest of the mist and painted a hard slap across her face, "Wake up damn you!" Nefertari quickly somersaulted backwards, landing on one knee and twirling her ancient Egyptian Staff in a circle before pointing it's flashing red ruby in Lamya's direction. "Wait, hold it!" Lamya exclaimed. "That was just your awakening, so don't get all pissed at me. You need to help me figure out just who exactly you'll really need to fire that thing at." Lamya said. "That's easy, the Sailor Scouts," Nefertari spoke with a beautiful feminine voice as she picked herself up and waited for Lamya to speak again. Lamya crossed her arms and studied her for a few moments. "Well," Lamya continued, "how can it be that you know about the 'Sailor Scouts' and what they are, and I don't! No matter, you'll have to help me find them and destroy them! That way, I'll get my wish," "Wish? What kind of wish?" Nefertari questioned. "Never mind you!" Lamya answered, waving her away, then pointing to a black portal in the corner of the room. "You obviously know well enough were to find these Scouts," Nefertari nodded and Lamya continued, "Alright then, go and find them. Demolish them!"
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Nefertari glided swiftly through the dark emptiness of the portal, viewing images passing on the sides of her body as fast as lightning. Only when she turned to inspect them did they slow down to a viewing speed. They were images of the present time Earth. Catching one, she turned her body rapidly to the side and was sucked into the scene, transformed into a lesser eviler version of herself. She gazed around the many wandering students, deciding where the first batch of sailor scouts could be. A chime rang through the lot, and she found the clock barely striking four o'clock. "I don't know if some stay that late, but I'll give it a try," She said, smiling and moving forward slowly. "Hey, you new here?" A boy with black hair asked as she walked past him under the shade of a tree. Nefertari only looked at him blankly, then continued towards the side of the building…
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p"Just promise me you won't do it again, okay Ianthe?" Ianthe lifted her stern face from gazing down on the hard pavement and shook her head, "It's just a little cut, it's not so bad. I can't promise you nothing. You know, it helps me just deal with my stress, I need to." "Nothing, and I mean nothing, helps to deal with stress than talking with your friends! It's wrong, you could really hurt yourself one day!" Natalie replied. She sighed and looked down, her coffee colored bangs falling softly at the sides of her eyes. "But I've talked to Aysel already, so you don't have to worry," Ianthe tried to assure her, but Natalie was not close to being convinced. "Then I'm sorry about your mom," Natalie said softly. Ianthe did not respond as her energy sensing device vociferously burst into beeps. "What is it?" Natalie gasped. "Oh, looks like we got the Negaverse somewhere around." Ianthe answered. Natalie leaned over to view the screen closely, watching the small waves of red creeping up the entire screen at a snail's pace. "Hey Natalie. What's that? Some new make-up kit?" Another girl's voice called to them. Ianthe and Natalie looked up and were angry to see the most popular girl, Paula, approaching them along with some other bitch./p
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"Hide it, quick," Natalie motioned and whispered with her eyes and mouth. "No, wait a minute!" Paula blared, snatching up the sensor and inspecting it on her own. "That doesn't belong to you, give it back!" Ianthe affirmed, stepping closer to her with rage in her eyes. "Hmmm, nice play toy. Catch Lizzie!" She said, giving Ianthe a smirk and tossing the mini computer backwards. The girl behind her, Elizabeth, caught it easily and began fingering away at the buttons. "Hey!" Ianthe began to run forward when she felt Paula's white hands push her back with tremendous force, crushing the back of her head against the concrete wall. Natalie viewed the scene in a chaotic blur. Following the crash against the wall, Elizabeth gave a loud scream as her body was harshly penetrated by a flicker of golden light. Her body fell to the floor in a warm bundle, dropping and shattering the no longer beeping, flashing sensor as the same fate was directed for Paula. Natalie gave a loud gasp, her eyes cast down in terror at the dead corpses. Ianthe had fallen slightly unconscious and was barely regaining her stability when the light cleared away, revealing a woman dressed in Egyptian clothing, holding a staff tightly in her right hand, and smirking at them.p
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"Ianthe move!" Natalie screamed, throwing herself to the ground and grabbing wildly at whatever she could of Ianthe to move her away. The woman fired once more, blasting away a massive amount of concrete from the wall. "Who the hell is she?!" Natalie asked. Ianthe shook her head and stopped running, turning back, watching the woman begin to streak towards them. "Move!" Ianthe barged against the side of Natalie just as the woman was about to strike them once more. "No you don't!" Nefertari cried and swung the staff to the side, jabbing Ianthe's side with the sharp blade on the sides of the staff. Ianthe screamed and clasped her hands to her side instinctively, forcing Natalie to fall down to the floor with her. "Now I have you!" Twirling the staff so the blade pointed downward, Nefertari raised it high over her shoulder just as Natalie took out her yellow and white transformation pen and flashed a powerful beam of light against the coming blow of Nefertari's staff. "Damn!" She cried, as she skidded backwards, shielding her eyes with both her hands.
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A chill swept through the small area as liquid ice spilled over most parts of Nefertari's staff and arms. She screamed, trying to block it all away as she ran back through the crowd of horrified students. "What are you doing here, Noelani?" Ianthe asked the blonde sailor scout in a baby blue and white scout suit. "Um, well, I saw that you were being attack so I-" "Yeah, yeah. You came to help." Ianthe finishes, then quickly turns to Natalie, "We have to tell Aysel and Astra. Don't know what we have this time. Could be another evil empress, or a band of aliens, or worse, a cruel and hot guy!" "Like Jadeite!" Natalie exclaimed. "Nah, more like Nephrite!" Ianthe corrects her as they walk out from behind the wall and drown into the group of other teens.