TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS I'VE BEEN THROUGH
By: Neko Majikku
Chapter Five: Saturn's Silence
Rated: PG-13
Luna sat, fixated in watching the screen blip before her. Artemis sat beside her, also fixated. They had a hunch. Central Control processed the question they had asked a moment and then showed the two Moon Cats another image.
A tall, solitary figure stood alone amongst white in this picture. It was cloaked in a tattered, black hooded cloak, face hidden in shadows that only seemed to appear on it. It its hand was a large, menacing scythe, ready to kill. A list, a profile, came up beside the picture.
Name: Unknown
Age: Unknown
Origin: Unknown
Birth date: Unknown
Alternative Identities: Shinigami, Hades, Anubis, Trivia, Hella, Emma-O, etc...
The list of names included the identity of every God of Death or Ghosts and Spirits ever imagined.
A soft breeze of shivering cold passed through the control room. Artemis and Luna turned around slowly; knowing that their snooping had lured her to them.
"What is it that you believe you shall accomplish?" asked the monotonous voice of the deity-like creature they sought. She was dressed exactly like the picture showed.
"What are you doing to the Senshi??" Artemis demanded.
"What I was told to do," came the answer.
Luna and Artemis were transformed quickly into humans by the power of this person before them. Obviously, the two guardians were needed this way. The two tensed.
"And what was that?" Artemis asked suspiciously.
The figure pulled down the hood that hid their face, revealing the long tendrils of ebony hair and pale skin. The mask over the right side of her face matched the creamy skin perfectly in its white elegance. Her visible red eye flashed a second and the two cats- turned people- were yanked backwards by some unknown force. The room they were once in vanished and became black. Four Senshi were fastened to the would- be walls; should this world actually have them. This was her home. Her own personal dimension. The Woman gazed at the humans a moment and then turned.
"Should your Senshi prove my suspicions wrong, you shall be set free," she said calmly.
"Suspicions?" Luna asked. She gently drifted to sleep. A word was mumbled from her lips but no one was able to comprehend it.
"THIS ISN'T RIGHT!!" Usagi was going into hysterics. "I've looked everywhere for Luna and Artemis and they're nowhere to be found!!"
"Perhaps they found out something?" Hotaru suggested, trying not to show her apprehension. She was next.
"But whoever's doing this found them?" agreed Michiru.
Setsuna sighed and gazed out of the window. Even she, the Guardian of Time, had no idea what was causing this havoc. She felt useless.
Haruka stood. "Well, I'm not going to let Hotaru be taken!" she said decisively and laid a hand on said girl's shoulder. Hotaru could only smile weakly back.
Chaos and destruction all around me. Such is the planet of Saturn while under attack by youma. And I, the Senshi of Silence, can do little to stop it. These youma possess even more power than I.
Now all I am capable of doing is pray this attack reaches no further than my own planet. This is all her fault.
The cold breeze amongst hot youma breath tells me she has arrived. She, the nameless soul; perhaps deity; whom only days ago came to the Moon and gained the trust of the Queen and the Princess.
"What do you want?" asked my partner, growling in a frustration I know all too well.
She stood silent.
"Answer!!" I order, trying desperately to fight off the oncoming youma. If... If I could just... keep them from the Castle...
The youma press harder and I hear the cry of agony from my partner; my brother. He is dead. I turn to the woman deity to glimpse if she is possibly pleased by his death as she stands by watching. She is emotionless. Damn her. She holds up a hand and a gate opens behind her. I witness as my brother's bodiless soul disappears inside. I call his name. Please come back. Please. Don't leave me!!
He turns to me, nods, and then is gone forever. I scream in rage and my attack wipes out nearly a hundred youma. A hundred from billions. The woman tilts her head; almost looking curious. Mercury told me she has no comprehension of emotions. Perhaps she tells the truth, from what I see now.
"... Like a tsunami..." She spoke softly, almost amused.
"WHAT?" I cry. What was she talking about? Was she mad? All those years locked away? Had they driven her mad? I couldn't get an answer because I was preoccupied with the katana flying for my neck and I with no way to block. Ironic. It is my brother's katana.
Hotaru woke up with a start. Of all her vision dreams, this was certainly the most clear of them all and certainly the strangest. And now she was being called. She wrote a quick note, and then Hotaru stood and went out her window. She headed south, transforming on the way. Like the walking dead, she followed this call mindlessly. Sailor Saturn entered the construction site and glanced around. "You called?" she asked calmly.
A man smirked from the rafters. "Sailor Saturn. Supposed strongest of the Senshi and of the Silence at that! You, Lady, have a bit of a challenge this time. O', Judge, how shall you defeat this one??" He folded his arms and watched the blackest part of the already black skies. A figure in black robes, surrounded by a faint white light, stood there now. The hood was down, showing the face Saturn had seen in her dreams.
The Man clapped. "Well, get on with it, O' Wonderful Judge," he commanded, waving towards Saturn.
The Woman looked emotionless. She cast a quick glance to the Man and lifted her free hand only slightly, the other wielding a scythe; the Man's eyes widened. "Oh sure," he muttered and disappeared completely. Saturn could only figure she sent him away.
"You have the Senshi. And Luna? And Artemis?" Saturn asked, knowingly.
"I do," came the reply.
"Alright then." Saturn took a quick step and jumped into the air, aiming her glaive for the Woman's heart. The Woman sidestepped her and blocked with her scythe. Saturn's glaive hissed and steamed. The heat from the weapon was almost unbearable to Saturn. The weapon was as hot as Hell- literally. Instead of risking her weapon, Saturn jumped away. She landed some twenty feet from the Woman and readied her weakened weapon.
The Woman stood emotionless.
"What did the vision mean? You must know. Who was that man? Why do I feel him to be my brother?" Saturn asked. "Is that part of the Past not yet uncovered, O' Judge?"
"It is." The Woman lifted a small hand over her head.
Saturn saw this as a bad time and ran a wide circle around the woman.
"Chainlink..." The Woman now had a gray link in her hand, and looked prepared to throw it. Saturn picked up the pace. "Redemption!" Thousands of links hit the ground centimeters behind Saturn's ankles. She ran faster in response.
Once she was sure the attack had ended, Saturn stopped running and faced the Woman, panting. The Woman only watched her. No physical change. Not even a twitch of the eye at Saturn's eluding of the attack. "You are stronger than the others," the Woman noted calmly. She lifted her scythe and the rings that had once been embedded in the ground came flying back out in one whole chain. It slithered around Saturn, coming up like a snake and catching her. The chain burned her skin. It, too, was exceptionally hot.
"Let her go!!" came a voice. Saturn looked up to see Uranus and Neptune come running for the Woman. They must have followed her. Uranus brought down her saber but the Woman blocked it and blew the Senshi into a nearby support beam. Neptune tried a high kick, but she too was thrown back.
"A foolish loss." Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all succumbed to the power of the Woman and were brought to the wall-less room to await a possible victor.
By: Neko Majikku
Chapter Five: Saturn's Silence
Rated: PG-13
Luna sat, fixated in watching the screen blip before her. Artemis sat beside her, also fixated. They had a hunch. Central Control processed the question they had asked a moment and then showed the two Moon Cats another image.
A tall, solitary figure stood alone amongst white in this picture. It was cloaked in a tattered, black hooded cloak, face hidden in shadows that only seemed to appear on it. It its hand was a large, menacing scythe, ready to kill. A list, a profile, came up beside the picture.
Name: Unknown
Age: Unknown
Origin: Unknown
Birth date: Unknown
Alternative Identities: Shinigami, Hades, Anubis, Trivia, Hella, Emma-O, etc...
The list of names included the identity of every God of Death or Ghosts and Spirits ever imagined.
A soft breeze of shivering cold passed through the control room. Artemis and Luna turned around slowly; knowing that their snooping had lured her to them.
"What is it that you believe you shall accomplish?" asked the monotonous voice of the deity-like creature they sought. She was dressed exactly like the picture showed.
"What are you doing to the Senshi??" Artemis demanded.
"What I was told to do," came the answer.
Luna and Artemis were transformed quickly into humans by the power of this person before them. Obviously, the two guardians were needed this way. The two tensed.
"And what was that?" Artemis asked suspiciously.
The figure pulled down the hood that hid their face, revealing the long tendrils of ebony hair and pale skin. The mask over the right side of her face matched the creamy skin perfectly in its white elegance. Her visible red eye flashed a second and the two cats- turned people- were yanked backwards by some unknown force. The room they were once in vanished and became black. Four Senshi were fastened to the would- be walls; should this world actually have them. This was her home. Her own personal dimension. The Woman gazed at the humans a moment and then turned.
"Should your Senshi prove my suspicions wrong, you shall be set free," she said calmly.
"Suspicions?" Luna asked. She gently drifted to sleep. A word was mumbled from her lips but no one was able to comprehend it.
"THIS ISN'T RIGHT!!" Usagi was going into hysterics. "I've looked everywhere for Luna and Artemis and they're nowhere to be found!!"
"Perhaps they found out something?" Hotaru suggested, trying not to show her apprehension. She was next.
"But whoever's doing this found them?" agreed Michiru.
Setsuna sighed and gazed out of the window. Even she, the Guardian of Time, had no idea what was causing this havoc. She felt useless.
Haruka stood. "Well, I'm not going to let Hotaru be taken!" she said decisively and laid a hand on said girl's shoulder. Hotaru could only smile weakly back.
Chaos and destruction all around me. Such is the planet of Saturn while under attack by youma. And I, the Senshi of Silence, can do little to stop it. These youma possess even more power than I.
Now all I am capable of doing is pray this attack reaches no further than my own planet. This is all her fault.
The cold breeze amongst hot youma breath tells me she has arrived. She, the nameless soul; perhaps deity; whom only days ago came to the Moon and gained the trust of the Queen and the Princess.
"What do you want?" asked my partner, growling in a frustration I know all too well.
She stood silent.
"Answer!!" I order, trying desperately to fight off the oncoming youma. If... If I could just... keep them from the Castle...
The youma press harder and I hear the cry of agony from my partner; my brother. He is dead. I turn to the woman deity to glimpse if she is possibly pleased by his death as she stands by watching. She is emotionless. Damn her. She holds up a hand and a gate opens behind her. I witness as my brother's bodiless soul disappears inside. I call his name. Please come back. Please. Don't leave me!!
He turns to me, nods, and then is gone forever. I scream in rage and my attack wipes out nearly a hundred youma. A hundred from billions. The woman tilts her head; almost looking curious. Mercury told me she has no comprehension of emotions. Perhaps she tells the truth, from what I see now.
"... Like a tsunami..." She spoke softly, almost amused.
"WHAT?" I cry. What was she talking about? Was she mad? All those years locked away? Had they driven her mad? I couldn't get an answer because I was preoccupied with the katana flying for my neck and I with no way to block. Ironic. It is my brother's katana.
Hotaru woke up with a start. Of all her vision dreams, this was certainly the most clear of them all and certainly the strangest. And now she was being called. She wrote a quick note, and then Hotaru stood and went out her window. She headed south, transforming on the way. Like the walking dead, she followed this call mindlessly. Sailor Saturn entered the construction site and glanced around. "You called?" she asked calmly.
A man smirked from the rafters. "Sailor Saturn. Supposed strongest of the Senshi and of the Silence at that! You, Lady, have a bit of a challenge this time. O', Judge, how shall you defeat this one??" He folded his arms and watched the blackest part of the already black skies. A figure in black robes, surrounded by a faint white light, stood there now. The hood was down, showing the face Saturn had seen in her dreams.
The Man clapped. "Well, get on with it, O' Wonderful Judge," he commanded, waving towards Saturn.
The Woman looked emotionless. She cast a quick glance to the Man and lifted her free hand only slightly, the other wielding a scythe; the Man's eyes widened. "Oh sure," he muttered and disappeared completely. Saturn could only figure she sent him away.
"You have the Senshi. And Luna? And Artemis?" Saturn asked, knowingly.
"I do," came the reply.
"Alright then." Saturn took a quick step and jumped into the air, aiming her glaive for the Woman's heart. The Woman sidestepped her and blocked with her scythe. Saturn's glaive hissed and steamed. The heat from the weapon was almost unbearable to Saturn. The weapon was as hot as Hell- literally. Instead of risking her weapon, Saturn jumped away. She landed some twenty feet from the Woman and readied her weakened weapon.
The Woman stood emotionless.
"What did the vision mean? You must know. Who was that man? Why do I feel him to be my brother?" Saturn asked. "Is that part of the Past not yet uncovered, O' Judge?"
"It is." The Woman lifted a small hand over her head.
Saturn saw this as a bad time and ran a wide circle around the woman.
"Chainlink..." The Woman now had a gray link in her hand, and looked prepared to throw it. Saturn picked up the pace. "Redemption!" Thousands of links hit the ground centimeters behind Saturn's ankles. She ran faster in response.
Once she was sure the attack had ended, Saturn stopped running and faced the Woman, panting. The Woman only watched her. No physical change. Not even a twitch of the eye at Saturn's eluding of the attack. "You are stronger than the others," the Woman noted calmly. She lifted her scythe and the rings that had once been embedded in the ground came flying back out in one whole chain. It slithered around Saturn, coming up like a snake and catching her. The chain burned her skin. It, too, was exceptionally hot.
"Let her go!!" came a voice. Saturn looked up to see Uranus and Neptune come running for the Woman. They must have followed her. Uranus brought down her saber but the Woman blocked it and blew the Senshi into a nearby support beam. Neptune tried a high kick, but she too was thrown back.
"A foolish loss." Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all succumbed to the power of the Woman and were brought to the wall-less room to await a possible victor.