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Patrols and Ambushes.
"What, what was that?" said Raye, waking suddenly.
"That was so weird," said Lita, shaking the others awake.
"It felt, familiar somehow," said Charisma.
"Yeah, like it's a memory we forgot," agreed Hope.
Darien looked at Luna, Artemis and Zabadws. "What just happened?" he asked.
"We restored your full memories of the Silver Millennium," said Luna.
"And we let you see the early forms of Obsidian, and when they were created," added Zabadws.
"What were those robed thingy's?" asked Serena.
"They were the Justices, and they were responsible for creating Obsidian," said Luna.
"Were they gods?" asked Catalina.
"No, not as such," said Luna.
"So they were, what exactly?" asked Amara.
"Think of them as the physical incarnations of the 'important' trials and emotions of human life," said Zabadws.
The entire group, the Inner and Outer Senshi, Obsidian, Lee, Jacen, Darien and the two cats looked at him in confusion.
"And of course, we really know what they are," said Kalista, sarcastically.
"Well, there were seven of them. Seven is one of the 'mystical' numbers, I guess, along with three, four, six, nine, and the other multiples of three. There was a Justice of Death, Life, Time, Chance, Fate, Love and Pain," he continued.
"Pain? How on earth is pain a justice? At least the others all make sense, in some way or another," protested Jasmine.
"Simple really. Without pain, how would humans know how to feel pleasure? It's the reason why there are people who have said that evil is necessary," said Zabadws.
"Evil is necessary?" asked Serena in disbelief. "How can that be? Without evil, there'd be no pain or suffering in the world," she said.
"Without evil, there would be no good," said Zabadws.
The group fell silent, lost in their own thoughts.
"Would that mean that there will always be an Obsidian or form of the Senshi to stop evil?" asked Amy.
"Perhaps. I can't help you there, I'm afraid," answered Zabadws sadly.
"Life's a bitch," said Kalista.
"You're telling me," agreed Hope glumly.
"Hey that doesn't mean it'll be you guys who have to stop evil forever," said Mina, trying to cheer them up.
"Nope, 'cos we'll die and then the next Obsidian will carry on our job," answered Kalista.
"Oh," said Mina. "Sorry," she added.
"Does anyone want any tea?" said Trista, asking the one thing she could think of to get the talk away from the idea of evil needing to exist.
"I'll come help," said Charisma.
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The clock on the wall read nine o'clock. It was quite dark outside, but it wasn't raining. Not yet anyway. Rain had been forecast for the night, rain and thunderstorms.
"Everyone, transform, and get into your groups," said Luna.
"Moon Crystal Power!" shouted Serena.
"Mercury Star Power!" said Amy.
"Mars Star Power!" said Raye.
"Jupiter Star Power!" said Lita.
"Venus Star Power!" said Mina.
"Uranus Planet Power!" said Amara.
"Neptune Planet Power!" said Michelle.
"Pluto Planet Power!" said Trista.
"Saturn Planet Power!" said Hotaru.
"Cosmic Power!" said Charisma.
"Blaze Inferno Power!" said Hope.
"Spirit Power!" said Jasmine.
"Ice Spray Power!" said Catalina.
"Sea Spray Power!" said Kalista.
"I'd better stay in my human form, unless there's any trouble that we run into," said Jacen.
"I hope I run into trouble," said Hope. "A good fight's just what I need right now."
"Okay, everybody, listen up," said Artemis.
"When we split up, if anyone encounters any trouble, contact the other groups immediately. No solo play, understand?" said Zabadws.
The others nodded their heads in agreement, although Hope and Amara looked as if they both had something to say about it.
"Let's go," said Luna, leading her group towards the door.
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The group who were patrolling the school looked around them at its remains.
Sailor Moon looked through the wreckage gleefully, searching for past test papers that she could alter to her satisfaction.
"Serena, you had seven percent on a math test?" asked Cosmos, giggling.
Sailor Moon snatched the test from the purple haired girl, glaring.
"Hey! Don't tell everyone how bad I am," she said. Then she added, "And don't use my real name either, I don't want anyone knowing who I really am."
"Sorry 'bout that. Slip of the tongue, I guess," apologised Cosmos.
"S'ok," said Sailor Moon.
"Things look kinda quiet here, don't they?" said Jacen.
"They could be waiting for us," said Tuxedo Mask.
"Or they could be going after the others first," said Jacen.
"Or maybe they've got the others," said Tuxedo Mask.
"Aren't you two quite the happy bunnies of life?" said Cosmos, laughing at the two guys.
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Sailor Mars paced along the perimeter of the Cherry Hill Temple anxiously. Sailor Saturn was sitting down, her glaive laying on the floor beside her. Galaxia waited, with her arms folded, leaning against a tree. Lee was also sitting down, his hands behind his head.
The dead leaves crunched beneath Mars's feet. Galaxia sighed, and placed her sunglasses that were a part of her outfit, upon her head, revealing her green eyes.
"You want me to fly in closer, to see what you granddad's doing?" she asked Mars. Mars nodded, and Galaxia changed her form, from a human, into a raven, like Mars's pets, Phobos and Deimos.
After a few minutes, she came back, and landed, morphing into her human form again.
"Everything's A-ok," she said.
"Thanks," said Mars, smiling.
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Infernia waited across the road from the hospital, in an alleyway. Sailor Jupiter waited beside her, flexing her muscles every now and again.
Sailor Venus was watching the back of the hospital, where the ambulance drop off points were. Artemis was with her, and both she and Jupiter were using their communicators to stay in touch.
"How's it looking at your end of the hospital?" came Mina's voice, and the picture on the screen of the communicator was of Sailor Venus.
"Normal, nothing weird has happened yet," replied Jupiter, tossing her brown hair behind her shoulder.
"Same here," replied the blonde, sounding bored.
"Don't let the silence fool you, they'll be here," said Infernia grimly.
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Skye sighed longingly at the Signs nightclub. She and Sailors Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were watching the club from the top of an adjacent building.
Sailor Uranus slashed at the air with the Space Sword absently. She was bored.
"C'mon, hurry up," she muttered quietly to herself.
Sailor Pluto was watching the back entrance of the club intently. She grasped the Garnet Rod as if her life depended on it, her face looking tense.
"How often do you usually wait for these guys to show up?" Sailor Uranus asked Skye.
"It changes. Sometimes five minutes, others, hours," said Skye, fluttering her wings. She rubbed her arm, and looked again at the club with her azure eyes filled with longing.
Sailor Pluto smiled, then said, "Catalina, remember what Zabadws said."
"I know, I know," said Skye, tossing her blonde hair behind her.
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Sailor Mercury shuddered as she followed Zabadws and Polaris through the Juuban Cemetery. Zabadws stopped, and asked her if she was cold.
"No," she said, shaking her head. She ran a hand through her hair, as if it would make the feeling of dread inside her go away.
"It's probably the cemetery," said Polaris. She smiled at Sailor Mercury, and Luna, who was following her.
Looking around, Zabadws pointed to a crypt that was decorated lavishly, or at least it was, until time had taken its toll.
"Here would be a good place to wait," he said.
Polaris walked past him, and sat on top of the crypt, wiping away the moss and mud caked upon the top of it. Zabadws looked at Polaris disapprovingly, and coughed. The blonde looked up, her violet eyes bright.
"What?" she asked.
"Have you no respect for the dead?" he asked.
"Well, if they try to kill me, no. Oh, you mean I should get off, yeah? Sorry," she said, and slid off the crypt.
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An ambulance went blaring past, heading for the back entrance of the hospital. Infernia and Sailor Jupiter watched it intently, ready to spring into action.
After a few minutes had passed they relaxed. Jupiter sighed. "Guess that was a waste of time," she said.
"Guess so," agreed Infernia, nodding her head in agreement. Two curly strands of aqua green hair bobbed as she nodded.
Then, Sailor Jupiter's communicator began beeping.
"What's happened?" she asked Sailor Venus.
"They're here," answered the blonde. "Get here quickly," she added, turning off the communicator.
Infernia and Jupiter exchanged looks, and then took to the air, Infernia carrying Jupiter.
"How can you fly? You don't have any wings," said Jupiter.
"I can burn gravity away, that's how I fly. Skye and Cosmos both have wings, Galaxia can just turn into any animal that flies and Polaris just summons a wind to carry her," was the reply she got.
In a matter of minutes, they arrived.
Artemis, being a cat, couldn't do much to help Sailor Venus. However, he had tried to help out, and had scratched the faces of several vampires who hadn't been looking where they were going.
"Venus Crescent Beam Smash!"
Venus's attack sent one vampire sprawling into another.
Seeing Jupiter and Infernia, she shouted, "The patient hasn't gone in yet!"
Infernia sent a spiral of fire towards a group of vampires nearing the ambulance. The creatures screamed and exploded in a cloud of dust.
The ambulance men shouted their quick thanks, and carted the patient away to relative safety.
Jupiter scanned the area for any other patients, but could only see vampires.
"Hey, isn't that one ." then Infernia interrupted her.
"Anne!" said Infernia.
The vampiress turned when she heard her name being called. She sneered at the three girls, then smiled evilly, holding Artemis by the scruff of his neck.
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Sailor Mars stiffened suddenly. Looking towards the Temple, she could make out several shapes.
"They're here!" she shouted, running towards her home, raven hair flying behind her.
"Let's go," said Galaxia, again morphing into a raven.
Sailor Saturn and Lee ran after Mars, and Galaxia.
When they neared the Temple, they could see that there were no vampires, only youma.
The lead youma snarled at them, and reared on its hind legs. It's followers reared up, and bared their razor sharp fangs at them.
"Mars Fire Ignite!" shouted Mars.
The attack destroyed one of the vile creatures, and badly burned another two.
Saturn sliced another in half with her glaive. She leapt backwards before the youma's innards could fall on top of her.
Galaxia, still in a raven form, dived down from the air, and gouged out the eyes of another. The youma reared up in pain and crashed into one of the Cherry Trees that gave the Temple its name.
"You'll pay for that! Mars Celestial Fire Surround!" cried Mars in anger.
The youma, unable to see, was engulfed in flames.
Lee snapped one of the braches off the fallen tree, and dived away from another youma. The beast charged after him, but he leapt over it, and ploughed the branch into its neck. Blood gushed from the wound, and the youma fell, dead.
There were but three youma left now.
One leapt for the Temple itself, but Sailor Saturn intercepted the thing, and blocked its way.
"Saturn Silence Wall!" she said.
The creature was knocked back, and fell over one of its comrades. Then, it was impaled on the tree that had fallen.
Galaxia landed and morphed into a tiger. She leapt forward and sank her fangs into the smaller of the two youmas that remained.
Sailor Mars smiled at the lead youma, the only one left.
"This is for daring to attack here," she said.
The creature gave a rasping laugh.
"What's so funny?" asked Lee.
"You think this is the only attack? I'd like to see your faces when you get to the hospital," it said, and then impaled itself on purpose, rather than die by the hand of Mars.
Galaxia let the youmas limp body fall to the ground. She morphed back into a human.
"What are we waiting for?" she said.
The four turned and began running in the direction of the hospital, unaware that the fight had already begun.
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The wind had picked up, and Sailor Neptune shivered. She wrapped her arms around herself in a bid to keep warm.
She looked down at the Signs club, and a glimpse of movement caught her eye. She looked at Sailor Pluto, who nodded to show that she had seen the movement.
"Skye, Uranus, look down there," said Neptune, pointing at the club. "Can you see anything?" she asked.
Sailor Uranus and Skye leaned over to look. They both nodded, and then they turned to Sailor Pluto.
"What should we do?" Skye asked.
"Do we go after them? Or should we wait to see who they are first?" asked Sailor Uranus, the wind whipping her sandy blonde hair against her face.
Pluto waited for a moment, thinking. She looked down at the club again, then she looked at the rest of her group.
"We go after them," she said.
Sailor Uranus smiled, and Skye flew down whilst the other three jumped down.
The Senshi landed with a thud, unlike Skye, who landed gently.
The forms they had been studying turned sharply to face them. Sailor Neptune could make out Sigma, and several people who were obviously vampires. *I guess that means the others are werewolves* she thought to herself.
"You!" snapped Sigma, morphing into her wolf form. The others behind her also became wolves, except for the vampires; who bared their fangs and hissed.
"Yeah, us," said Skye with scorn.
"Get them," snarled Sigma, leaping for Skye.
The other werewolves leapt forward, and the vampires began their attack.
"Pluto Dead Scream!" said Pluto, dodging a werewolf.
"Neptune Deep Submerge!" shouted Sailor Neptune. The attack hit a werewolf head on, and it was thrown back against a wall, breaking its back.
Sailor Uranus aimed her attack at the ground beneath the vampires. "Uranus World Shaking!" she cried, and the vampires were sent sprawling across the floor.
"We need help!" shouted Skye.
Neptune flipped open her communicator.
"This is Sailor Neptune, come in, anyone. We need help, a.s.a.p. We're being attacked," she said.
"We're on our way," said Sailor Moon's voice. "Just hold on," she added.
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Sailor Mercury closed her communicator. She turned to Luna, Polaris and Zabadws.
"Shouldn't we help them out?" she asked.
"Sailor Moon said she and her group would go, what's the point in us going to help?" said Zabadws.
"But nothing's happened here," protested Mercury.
"I have to disagree," said a throaty voice.
"Demon boy!" said Polaris, jumping to her feet.
Vespen leapt forward, towering above the group. He bared his sharp fangs, and bellowed. His arms ended in long claws and his skin was blood red in colour. His horns were huge, and he was much more muscular than his smaller supporters.
His followers, who circled the group menacingly, joined him.
"Crap," said Zabadws.
"You can say that again," said Polaris.
Suddenly, one of the smaller demons leapt forward, knocking Luna out of his way. The black cat was knocked out.
"Luna!" cried Mercury.
"Hey, why don't you pick on someone your own size?" said Polaris. She flew up into the air, and she raised her arms. A cold wind replaced the wind that had been there previously.
The demon's movements slowed, until it was frozen stiff. It stood there, a hideous statue of ice.
"Mercury Ice Bubbles Freeze!" said Mercury, aiming at a demon that was approaching Zabadws.
"Thanks," he said, and he pushed the now frozen demon towards another demon. The ice statue broke, smashing into a thousand glittering pieces, and knocked the other demon out.
Vespen suddenly bellowed for more reinforcements and twenty more demons appeared.
Polaris landed beside Luna, and stood in front of the cat, trying to protect her. Sailor Mercury and Zabadws stood back to back, as they were surrounded.
Polaris called out to them.
"Are you two okay? I'm surrounded," she said.
"Us too," said Zabadws.
"I think we're the ones who need help now," said Mercury, fear in her voice.
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Patrols and Ambushes.
"What, what was that?" said Raye, waking suddenly.
"That was so weird," said Lita, shaking the others awake.
"It felt, familiar somehow," said Charisma.
"Yeah, like it's a memory we forgot," agreed Hope.
Darien looked at Luna, Artemis and Zabadws. "What just happened?" he asked.
"We restored your full memories of the Silver Millennium," said Luna.
"And we let you see the early forms of Obsidian, and when they were created," added Zabadws.
"What were those robed thingy's?" asked Serena.
"They were the Justices, and they were responsible for creating Obsidian," said Luna.
"Were they gods?" asked Catalina.
"No, not as such," said Luna.
"So they were, what exactly?" asked Amara.
"Think of them as the physical incarnations of the 'important' trials and emotions of human life," said Zabadws.
The entire group, the Inner and Outer Senshi, Obsidian, Lee, Jacen, Darien and the two cats looked at him in confusion.
"And of course, we really know what they are," said Kalista, sarcastically.
"Well, there were seven of them. Seven is one of the 'mystical' numbers, I guess, along with three, four, six, nine, and the other multiples of three. There was a Justice of Death, Life, Time, Chance, Fate, Love and Pain," he continued.
"Pain? How on earth is pain a justice? At least the others all make sense, in some way or another," protested Jasmine.
"Simple really. Without pain, how would humans know how to feel pleasure? It's the reason why there are people who have said that evil is necessary," said Zabadws.
"Evil is necessary?" asked Serena in disbelief. "How can that be? Without evil, there'd be no pain or suffering in the world," she said.
"Without evil, there would be no good," said Zabadws.
The group fell silent, lost in their own thoughts.
"Would that mean that there will always be an Obsidian or form of the Senshi to stop evil?" asked Amy.
"Perhaps. I can't help you there, I'm afraid," answered Zabadws sadly.
"Life's a bitch," said Kalista.
"You're telling me," agreed Hope glumly.
"Hey that doesn't mean it'll be you guys who have to stop evil forever," said Mina, trying to cheer them up.
"Nope, 'cos we'll die and then the next Obsidian will carry on our job," answered Kalista.
"Oh," said Mina. "Sorry," she added.
"Does anyone want any tea?" said Trista, asking the one thing she could think of to get the talk away from the idea of evil needing to exist.
"I'll come help," said Charisma.
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The clock on the wall read nine o'clock. It was quite dark outside, but it wasn't raining. Not yet anyway. Rain had been forecast for the night, rain and thunderstorms.
"Everyone, transform, and get into your groups," said Luna.
"Moon Crystal Power!" shouted Serena.
"Mercury Star Power!" said Amy.
"Mars Star Power!" said Raye.
"Jupiter Star Power!" said Lita.
"Venus Star Power!" said Mina.
"Uranus Planet Power!" said Amara.
"Neptune Planet Power!" said Michelle.
"Pluto Planet Power!" said Trista.
"Saturn Planet Power!" said Hotaru.
"Cosmic Power!" said Charisma.
"Blaze Inferno Power!" said Hope.
"Spirit Power!" said Jasmine.
"Ice Spray Power!" said Catalina.
"Sea Spray Power!" said Kalista.
"I'd better stay in my human form, unless there's any trouble that we run into," said Jacen.
"I hope I run into trouble," said Hope. "A good fight's just what I need right now."
"Okay, everybody, listen up," said Artemis.
"When we split up, if anyone encounters any trouble, contact the other groups immediately. No solo play, understand?" said Zabadws.
The others nodded their heads in agreement, although Hope and Amara looked as if they both had something to say about it.
"Let's go," said Luna, leading her group towards the door.
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The group who were patrolling the school looked around them at its remains.
Sailor Moon looked through the wreckage gleefully, searching for past test papers that she could alter to her satisfaction.
"Serena, you had seven percent on a math test?" asked Cosmos, giggling.
Sailor Moon snatched the test from the purple haired girl, glaring.
"Hey! Don't tell everyone how bad I am," she said. Then she added, "And don't use my real name either, I don't want anyone knowing who I really am."
"Sorry 'bout that. Slip of the tongue, I guess," apologised Cosmos.
"S'ok," said Sailor Moon.
"Things look kinda quiet here, don't they?" said Jacen.
"They could be waiting for us," said Tuxedo Mask.
"Or they could be going after the others first," said Jacen.
"Or maybe they've got the others," said Tuxedo Mask.
"Aren't you two quite the happy bunnies of life?" said Cosmos, laughing at the two guys.
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Sailor Mars paced along the perimeter of the Cherry Hill Temple anxiously. Sailor Saturn was sitting down, her glaive laying on the floor beside her. Galaxia waited, with her arms folded, leaning against a tree. Lee was also sitting down, his hands behind his head.
The dead leaves crunched beneath Mars's feet. Galaxia sighed, and placed her sunglasses that were a part of her outfit, upon her head, revealing her green eyes.
"You want me to fly in closer, to see what you granddad's doing?" she asked Mars. Mars nodded, and Galaxia changed her form, from a human, into a raven, like Mars's pets, Phobos and Deimos.
After a few minutes, she came back, and landed, morphing into her human form again.
"Everything's A-ok," she said.
"Thanks," said Mars, smiling.
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Infernia waited across the road from the hospital, in an alleyway. Sailor Jupiter waited beside her, flexing her muscles every now and again.
Sailor Venus was watching the back of the hospital, where the ambulance drop off points were. Artemis was with her, and both she and Jupiter were using their communicators to stay in touch.
"How's it looking at your end of the hospital?" came Mina's voice, and the picture on the screen of the communicator was of Sailor Venus.
"Normal, nothing weird has happened yet," replied Jupiter, tossing her brown hair behind her shoulder.
"Same here," replied the blonde, sounding bored.
"Don't let the silence fool you, they'll be here," said Infernia grimly.
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Skye sighed longingly at the Signs nightclub. She and Sailors Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were watching the club from the top of an adjacent building.
Sailor Uranus slashed at the air with the Space Sword absently. She was bored.
"C'mon, hurry up," she muttered quietly to herself.
Sailor Pluto was watching the back entrance of the club intently. She grasped the Garnet Rod as if her life depended on it, her face looking tense.
"How often do you usually wait for these guys to show up?" Sailor Uranus asked Skye.
"It changes. Sometimes five minutes, others, hours," said Skye, fluttering her wings. She rubbed her arm, and looked again at the club with her azure eyes filled with longing.
Sailor Pluto smiled, then said, "Catalina, remember what Zabadws said."
"I know, I know," said Skye, tossing her blonde hair behind her.
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Sailor Mercury shuddered as she followed Zabadws and Polaris through the Juuban Cemetery. Zabadws stopped, and asked her if she was cold.
"No," she said, shaking her head. She ran a hand through her hair, as if it would make the feeling of dread inside her go away.
"It's probably the cemetery," said Polaris. She smiled at Sailor Mercury, and Luna, who was following her.
Looking around, Zabadws pointed to a crypt that was decorated lavishly, or at least it was, until time had taken its toll.
"Here would be a good place to wait," he said.
Polaris walked past him, and sat on top of the crypt, wiping away the moss and mud caked upon the top of it. Zabadws looked at Polaris disapprovingly, and coughed. The blonde looked up, her violet eyes bright.
"What?" she asked.
"Have you no respect for the dead?" he asked.
"Well, if they try to kill me, no. Oh, you mean I should get off, yeah? Sorry," she said, and slid off the crypt.
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An ambulance went blaring past, heading for the back entrance of the hospital. Infernia and Sailor Jupiter watched it intently, ready to spring into action.
After a few minutes had passed they relaxed. Jupiter sighed. "Guess that was a waste of time," she said.
"Guess so," agreed Infernia, nodding her head in agreement. Two curly strands of aqua green hair bobbed as she nodded.
Then, Sailor Jupiter's communicator began beeping.
"What's happened?" she asked Sailor Venus.
"They're here," answered the blonde. "Get here quickly," she added, turning off the communicator.
Infernia and Jupiter exchanged looks, and then took to the air, Infernia carrying Jupiter.
"How can you fly? You don't have any wings," said Jupiter.
"I can burn gravity away, that's how I fly. Skye and Cosmos both have wings, Galaxia can just turn into any animal that flies and Polaris just summons a wind to carry her," was the reply she got.
In a matter of minutes, they arrived.
Artemis, being a cat, couldn't do much to help Sailor Venus. However, he had tried to help out, and had scratched the faces of several vampires who hadn't been looking where they were going.
"Venus Crescent Beam Smash!"
Venus's attack sent one vampire sprawling into another.
Seeing Jupiter and Infernia, she shouted, "The patient hasn't gone in yet!"
Infernia sent a spiral of fire towards a group of vampires nearing the ambulance. The creatures screamed and exploded in a cloud of dust.
The ambulance men shouted their quick thanks, and carted the patient away to relative safety.
Jupiter scanned the area for any other patients, but could only see vampires.
"Hey, isn't that one ." then Infernia interrupted her.
"Anne!" said Infernia.
The vampiress turned when she heard her name being called. She sneered at the three girls, then smiled evilly, holding Artemis by the scruff of his neck.
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Sailor Mars stiffened suddenly. Looking towards the Temple, she could make out several shapes.
"They're here!" she shouted, running towards her home, raven hair flying behind her.
"Let's go," said Galaxia, again morphing into a raven.
Sailor Saturn and Lee ran after Mars, and Galaxia.
When they neared the Temple, they could see that there were no vampires, only youma.
The lead youma snarled at them, and reared on its hind legs. It's followers reared up, and bared their razor sharp fangs at them.
"Mars Fire Ignite!" shouted Mars.
The attack destroyed one of the vile creatures, and badly burned another two.
Saturn sliced another in half with her glaive. She leapt backwards before the youma's innards could fall on top of her.
Galaxia, still in a raven form, dived down from the air, and gouged out the eyes of another. The youma reared up in pain and crashed into one of the Cherry Trees that gave the Temple its name.
"You'll pay for that! Mars Celestial Fire Surround!" cried Mars in anger.
The youma, unable to see, was engulfed in flames.
Lee snapped one of the braches off the fallen tree, and dived away from another youma. The beast charged after him, but he leapt over it, and ploughed the branch into its neck. Blood gushed from the wound, and the youma fell, dead.
There were but three youma left now.
One leapt for the Temple itself, but Sailor Saturn intercepted the thing, and blocked its way.
"Saturn Silence Wall!" she said.
The creature was knocked back, and fell over one of its comrades. Then, it was impaled on the tree that had fallen.
Galaxia landed and morphed into a tiger. She leapt forward and sank her fangs into the smaller of the two youmas that remained.
Sailor Mars smiled at the lead youma, the only one left.
"This is for daring to attack here," she said.
The creature gave a rasping laugh.
"What's so funny?" asked Lee.
"You think this is the only attack? I'd like to see your faces when you get to the hospital," it said, and then impaled itself on purpose, rather than die by the hand of Mars.
Galaxia let the youmas limp body fall to the ground. She morphed back into a human.
"What are we waiting for?" she said.
The four turned and began running in the direction of the hospital, unaware that the fight had already begun.
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The wind had picked up, and Sailor Neptune shivered. She wrapped her arms around herself in a bid to keep warm.
She looked down at the Signs club, and a glimpse of movement caught her eye. She looked at Sailor Pluto, who nodded to show that she had seen the movement.
"Skye, Uranus, look down there," said Neptune, pointing at the club. "Can you see anything?" she asked.
Sailor Uranus and Skye leaned over to look. They both nodded, and then they turned to Sailor Pluto.
"What should we do?" Skye asked.
"Do we go after them? Or should we wait to see who they are first?" asked Sailor Uranus, the wind whipping her sandy blonde hair against her face.
Pluto waited for a moment, thinking. She looked down at the club again, then she looked at the rest of her group.
"We go after them," she said.
Sailor Uranus smiled, and Skye flew down whilst the other three jumped down.
The Senshi landed with a thud, unlike Skye, who landed gently.
The forms they had been studying turned sharply to face them. Sailor Neptune could make out Sigma, and several people who were obviously vampires. *I guess that means the others are werewolves* she thought to herself.
"You!" snapped Sigma, morphing into her wolf form. The others behind her also became wolves, except for the vampires; who bared their fangs and hissed.
"Yeah, us," said Skye with scorn.
"Get them," snarled Sigma, leaping for Skye.
The other werewolves leapt forward, and the vampires began their attack.
"Pluto Dead Scream!" said Pluto, dodging a werewolf.
"Neptune Deep Submerge!" shouted Sailor Neptune. The attack hit a werewolf head on, and it was thrown back against a wall, breaking its back.
Sailor Uranus aimed her attack at the ground beneath the vampires. "Uranus World Shaking!" she cried, and the vampires were sent sprawling across the floor.
"We need help!" shouted Skye.
Neptune flipped open her communicator.
"This is Sailor Neptune, come in, anyone. We need help, a.s.a.p. We're being attacked," she said.
"We're on our way," said Sailor Moon's voice. "Just hold on," she added.
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Sailor Mercury closed her communicator. She turned to Luna, Polaris and Zabadws.
"Shouldn't we help them out?" she asked.
"Sailor Moon said she and her group would go, what's the point in us going to help?" said Zabadws.
"But nothing's happened here," protested Mercury.
"I have to disagree," said a throaty voice.
"Demon boy!" said Polaris, jumping to her feet.
Vespen leapt forward, towering above the group. He bared his sharp fangs, and bellowed. His arms ended in long claws and his skin was blood red in colour. His horns were huge, and he was much more muscular than his smaller supporters.
His followers, who circled the group menacingly, joined him.
"Crap," said Zabadws.
"You can say that again," said Polaris.
Suddenly, one of the smaller demons leapt forward, knocking Luna out of his way. The black cat was knocked out.
"Luna!" cried Mercury.
"Hey, why don't you pick on someone your own size?" said Polaris. She flew up into the air, and she raised her arms. A cold wind replaced the wind that had been there previously.
The demon's movements slowed, until it was frozen stiff. It stood there, a hideous statue of ice.
"Mercury Ice Bubbles Freeze!" said Mercury, aiming at a demon that was approaching Zabadws.
"Thanks," he said, and he pushed the now frozen demon towards another demon. The ice statue broke, smashing into a thousand glittering pieces, and knocked the other demon out.
Vespen suddenly bellowed for more reinforcements and twenty more demons appeared.
Polaris landed beside Luna, and stood in front of the cat, trying to protect her. Sailor Mercury and Zabadws stood back to back, as they were surrounded.
Polaris called out to them.
"Are you two okay? I'm surrounded," she said.
"Us too," said Zabadws.
"I think we're the ones who need help now," said Mercury, fear in her voice.
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