TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS I'VE BEEN THROUGH
Neko Majikku
Chapter Two: Sailor Venus Falls To The Woman....
Rated: PG-13
Rei stood and stared at the fireplace that no longer held the burning fires and pondered what had happened- what had interfered and put out the Spirit Fires that were supposed to never die. Now with Mercury missing, she felt completely useless without the Fires and lost to add onto it. The dream came once and never again, it started the night before Mercury disappeared and ended the night she left and the Fires died. Something was blocking her psychic powers and she wanted desperately to know what and how.
Usagi was in terrible shape. She was holed up in her room and withdrawn from all. Luna had said that Usagi was upset that Mercury could be taken away with little word and could only leave behind the message: "the man with kind eyes", which no one understood since Ami took trifle interest in males and kept her nose in books at all times.
Rei sighed and turned toward the setting sun. It looked raging and angry.
Minako sat upright in her bed, gasping for air to fill her terrified lungs.
I run through the gardens... What gardens? Oh, Venus; I can tell by the Love Rose, it will only grow here...
She reran the dream through her mind as she gazed at the nearby clock. Two.
I come to face the back of a woman... I know her somehow..."Who are you? What do you want with the Princess?" I demand forcefully. This woman doesn't reply but she turns as I ask. She is as pale as a ghost and covered in red scars up and down her arms and legs with one on a mask she had never taken off. She wears nothing but black and her hair is black and her only visible eye is blood red... I gasp. For some reason she always frightens me just by looking at me... That emotionless stare... The emotionless form tortured and unwanted by all... Feared by everyone... The Woman fixes her blank stare on me... The ground moves out from beneath me and I am caught by strong, strangely familiar arms that hold me tight... We turn, the man and myself, and see the Venus Palace in complete and utter ruin. I turn back to The Woman, enraged. "Why won't you stop this?" I cry, of course she could... She could stop this before more people die...The Woman moves her gaze to the falling Palace, her mouth moves and quiet words escape her lips. I could hear them. "It starts." She said and disappeared in a flutter of those hideous black excuses for angelic wings she has on her back. I turn back to the Palace in hopes to possibly save my Family... But as I do a spiny arm comes from nowhere and-
- she couldn't remember any more. Now she was being called. To somewhere she didn't know just yet. Some place empty, silent like Death. This was a job for Sailor Venus and, she knew, Sailor Venus alone. Without transforming or waking up Artemis, Minako slipped into the darkness of the morning and into the streets of Tokyo. She ran south; the sense was coming from there, wasn't it? Yes... this was the right way and the only right way... Minako ran. She ran and ran and soon came into the currently abandoned construction site. Abandoned until there was more funding to finish the museum... "Well, you called me and I came!" Minako yelled. "So come out and state your business!!"
"Sailor Venus... Hm..." the voice was a woman's... but about four other voices were there as well... Five voices saying the same thing at almost the same times...
"Come out, I'm warning you!" Minako almost choked on fear when something moved behind her. She whirled around and stared into bleak nothing. "I-I-I mean it!!"
From the nothing stepped a cloaked figure carrying a staff... No, a scythe... It stepped silently, as if it never touched ground. "Sailor Venus. Do you know who I am?" It was the many voices with the woman's!
Minako tightened her grip on her henshin pen. "N-No, who are you?"
"I am the Judge, Aino Minako..." A hand removed the hood and revealed the same face from Minako's dream. Same young, white face and scarred mask. Same red eyes that showed absolutely no emotion at all.
"VENUS CRYSTAL POWER-AHHH!" Minako felt her back hit something cold and arms pin her wrists, waist, and ankles to it. She dropped her pen and looked around. She was not Sailor Venus; she was still Aino Minako. And The Woman was standing a foot away, watching her with the same eye, but looking her over.
"You should have considered your transformation time, Sailor Venus, and my reaction time. I am not as slow-witted as your other enemies. You lose." The Woman picked up Minako's pen and gazed at it a moment before holding it to her scythe. Minako's eyelids grew heavy. Her head drooped. The pen embedded itself into The Woman's Scythe. "Perhaps your allies are stronger than you, Sailor Venus."
Minako could see Ami parallel to the ground, but if she were tied to the ceiling it was exceptionally low. Or, perhaps, there were no walls to speak of here.
Minako drifted into a conscious sleep. She could see the woman walk away from the dark room Minako was held in and disappear through a wall. It felt much like where her Pure Heart Crystal was stolen... an alive kind of dead. But... But what did that woman mean by her losing? Would she ever know?
Artemis stretched and glanced over at Minako's bed. It was vacant. He sighed. She must have left in the middle of the night. Things were going swiftly from bad to worse now. First the Great Fire dies, then Mercury disappears and next Venus. He stood and headed toward Rei's. She needed to know and so did the rest of the Senshi. Their numbers were declining swiftly at one a night, and mysteriously, to boot. On his way out of the small apartment, Artemis spotted a small sheet of paper. It read "Such a strong man". Perplexing and yet part of an obvious puzzle, he found. Artemis could almost bring forth a memory to the line, but not quite or much at all.
Note to all: Comments and such are still welcome. And as a word from the wise (sorta kinda more insane...): UBEE-CUBBE HURT HERSELF!! (that was dedicated to Niji Hino, partner in crime and sister 4 eternity!!) ^_^U... ^_^ In a way, we're all insane so why fight it? This is Neko- Meow, baby!!
Neko Majikku
Chapter Two: Sailor Venus Falls To The Woman....
Rated: PG-13
Rei stood and stared at the fireplace that no longer held the burning fires and pondered what had happened- what had interfered and put out the Spirit Fires that were supposed to never die. Now with Mercury missing, she felt completely useless without the Fires and lost to add onto it. The dream came once and never again, it started the night before Mercury disappeared and ended the night she left and the Fires died. Something was blocking her psychic powers and she wanted desperately to know what and how.
Usagi was in terrible shape. She was holed up in her room and withdrawn from all. Luna had said that Usagi was upset that Mercury could be taken away with little word and could only leave behind the message: "the man with kind eyes", which no one understood since Ami took trifle interest in males and kept her nose in books at all times.
Rei sighed and turned toward the setting sun. It looked raging and angry.
Minako sat upright in her bed, gasping for air to fill her terrified lungs.
I run through the gardens... What gardens? Oh, Venus; I can tell by the Love Rose, it will only grow here...
She reran the dream through her mind as she gazed at the nearby clock. Two.
I come to face the back of a woman... I know her somehow..."Who are you? What do you want with the Princess?" I demand forcefully. This woman doesn't reply but she turns as I ask. She is as pale as a ghost and covered in red scars up and down her arms and legs with one on a mask she had never taken off. She wears nothing but black and her hair is black and her only visible eye is blood red... I gasp. For some reason she always frightens me just by looking at me... That emotionless stare... The emotionless form tortured and unwanted by all... Feared by everyone... The Woman fixes her blank stare on me... The ground moves out from beneath me and I am caught by strong, strangely familiar arms that hold me tight... We turn, the man and myself, and see the Venus Palace in complete and utter ruin. I turn back to The Woman, enraged. "Why won't you stop this?" I cry, of course she could... She could stop this before more people die...The Woman moves her gaze to the falling Palace, her mouth moves and quiet words escape her lips. I could hear them. "It starts." She said and disappeared in a flutter of those hideous black excuses for angelic wings she has on her back. I turn back to the Palace in hopes to possibly save my Family... But as I do a spiny arm comes from nowhere and-
- she couldn't remember any more. Now she was being called. To somewhere she didn't know just yet. Some place empty, silent like Death. This was a job for Sailor Venus and, she knew, Sailor Venus alone. Without transforming or waking up Artemis, Minako slipped into the darkness of the morning and into the streets of Tokyo. She ran south; the sense was coming from there, wasn't it? Yes... this was the right way and the only right way... Minako ran. She ran and ran and soon came into the currently abandoned construction site. Abandoned until there was more funding to finish the museum... "Well, you called me and I came!" Minako yelled. "So come out and state your business!!"
"Sailor Venus... Hm..." the voice was a woman's... but about four other voices were there as well... Five voices saying the same thing at almost the same times...
"Come out, I'm warning you!" Minako almost choked on fear when something moved behind her. She whirled around and stared into bleak nothing. "I-I-I mean it!!"
From the nothing stepped a cloaked figure carrying a staff... No, a scythe... It stepped silently, as if it never touched ground. "Sailor Venus. Do you know who I am?" It was the many voices with the woman's!
Minako tightened her grip on her henshin pen. "N-No, who are you?"
"I am the Judge, Aino Minako..." A hand removed the hood and revealed the same face from Minako's dream. Same young, white face and scarred mask. Same red eyes that showed absolutely no emotion at all.
"VENUS CRYSTAL POWER-AHHH!" Minako felt her back hit something cold and arms pin her wrists, waist, and ankles to it. She dropped her pen and looked around. She was not Sailor Venus; she was still Aino Minako. And The Woman was standing a foot away, watching her with the same eye, but looking her over.
"You should have considered your transformation time, Sailor Venus, and my reaction time. I am not as slow-witted as your other enemies. You lose." The Woman picked up Minako's pen and gazed at it a moment before holding it to her scythe. Minako's eyelids grew heavy. Her head drooped. The pen embedded itself into The Woman's Scythe. "Perhaps your allies are stronger than you, Sailor Venus."
Minako could see Ami parallel to the ground, but if she were tied to the ceiling it was exceptionally low. Or, perhaps, there were no walls to speak of here.
Minako drifted into a conscious sleep. She could see the woman walk away from the dark room Minako was held in and disappear through a wall. It felt much like where her Pure Heart Crystal was stolen... an alive kind of dead. But... But what did that woman mean by her losing? Would she ever know?
Artemis stretched and glanced over at Minako's bed. It was vacant. He sighed. She must have left in the middle of the night. Things were going swiftly from bad to worse now. First the Great Fire dies, then Mercury disappears and next Venus. He stood and headed toward Rei's. She needed to know and so did the rest of the Senshi. Their numbers were declining swiftly at one a night, and mysteriously, to boot. On his way out of the small apartment, Artemis spotted a small sheet of paper. It read "Such a strong man". Perplexing and yet part of an obvious puzzle, he found. Artemis could almost bring forth a memory to the line, but not quite or much at all.
Note to all: Comments and such are still welcome. And as a word from the wise (sorta kinda more insane...): UBEE-CUBBE HURT HERSELF!! (that was dedicated to Niji Hino, partner in crime and sister 4 eternity!!) ^_^U... ^_^ In a way, we're all insane so why fight it? This is Neko- Meow, baby!!