Okay, I don't know what's wrong with the quotation marks in the last two
chappies, my guess is that is had something to do with ff.net being down
over the weekend and let's just hope it get fixed. Also, I really hope this
one doesn't mess up. Ugh, this thing has been giving me such a hard time
lately. Wow, I didn't get yelled at as much as I was expecting, that's
good.
"Usagi?"
She looked over him with her glowing red orbs, no twinge of recognition present anywhere on her countenance. Vegeta's search for her through their bond came up blank as he met a high, solid wall impossible to break through.
Her mind was completely closed to him.
She turned her glowing gaze from him to the senshi, a slight sneer on her full lips as she looked them over contemptuously. "So now you're employing the help of mere civilians? Really, I expected more."
"Who are you?" Uranus challenged, redefining her fighting stance.
She tossed shimmering Midnight hair over her shoulder, a picture of confidence. "Tenshi no Kuro." She stated coolly, smiling. "Not that it matters, the lot of you won't be alive for long enough to need to remember my name anyway. This world is for my master, all who resist his rule have no choice by to be destroyed."
"We'll see about that!" Mars growled under her breath, gathering fiery energy into her hands. Vegeta's eyes widened as she shot it at the dark girl.
"You fool! Don't you see who she is?"
"Oh, have no fear for me, mortal." The girl laughed, brushing away the attack as if it were a mosquito and sending it flying at some helpless bystanders unfortunate enough to have not have been able to get away from the fight. "Your concern is better spent on yourself, these embarrassing so- called super heroines, and tux boy. After all, I'm not the one about to perish painfully."
"Usagi, what the hell do you think you are doing?"
"I do not know this name, except that it belongs to a girl who is no more." She tilted her head to the side, pursing her lips. "Well, I suppose it does not matter as to why you insist on such pointless drivel. If you'll excuse me, I'm not much for conversation." She raised her hands above her head, and a dark disk of magical energy began to form, crackling with power and menace.
"Vegeta, you're sure this is Usagi?" Venus called desperately, leaping over the first of the disks.
"Fool, you would expect me to not recognize my own mate?" He demanded, upping his power. He grunted in surprise as the disk struck. Not enough to hurt him, really, but it depleted a fraction of his energy. Too much of that and it could prove a threat.
"So what do we do?"
"Has she been brainwashed?"
"Usagi! Usagi, we're your friends!"
"Please, desist in this course of action, princess."
Tenshi no Kuro laughed as she ran out of disks, crossing her arms. "Master Zeke told me you all were amusing, but I had no idea I would enjoy this so much. If you were destined to live longer I would advise you to learn more about an enemy before leaping into combat with her."
"What do you mean, Usagi?" Jupiter asked slowly.
She laughed again. "I mean that this pathetic excuse for a battle is already over. Did you really think I was so slow that you could dodge my projectiles so easily? Or that my aim was so bad?"
Zeke watched in satisfaction from the shadows as the disks that had found their mark on the ground grew into dark spirals and reached out to each other with thin threads of his newest weapon's very own energy. It would be impossible for anyone within the confines created by the flickering back power to escape, or get in and offer help. She was far more useful to him than he could have ever imagined.
It had been pure luck that they had discovered the girl's unborn child. Tenshi had been a worthy foe, and nothing else he could have done would have weakened her barriers as much as taking that small, insignificant life from her. He regretted the loss of what could have been a great warrior slave for his army, but having complete control of Tenshi was more than worth the price.
Zeke chucked at the expression of shock that crossed the face of the man who had been foolish enough to let himself be hit by one of the disks as the black wires of power rose from the ground and encircled him, trapping all of his energy, and whatever magic he may possess, inside his body. Eight years of waiting for the Earth to belong to him, and now his Tenshi was going to give it all to him in a single day.
Zeke felt a twitch of alarm as, rather than destroy them all as she had been instructed, Tenshi began to stride toward the short, muscular man who fought against the wires furiously.
"Don't struggle, it will only make them drain you more. I am sorry for the inconvenience." She purred as she reached him, lightly tracing the lines of the power that held him with her index finger.
"You know who I am?"
"Wouldn't I recognize my own lover?" She laughed, a sensual, sexy laugh Zeke doubted the girl would have never had the confidence to utter without his help, and ran her tongue over her lips. "What do you think, Vegeta?" She asked, stepping back to give him a better view of her new form. "Your memories tell me of a time when you wished to return to your former state of evil. Is not this form perfect for that very end? We can rule the cosmos together, destroying whatever we wish. Nothing will stand in our way if we fight together. And the power! Think of all the power we can possess! People will quake at our names. Say the word my love. Say it, and we'll destroy this pathetic excuse for a planet together."
What was she doing? He didn't want that man in his employ, or the Earth destroyed! It was to be a new frontier for his kind! Zeke clenched his fists, fighting the urge to stride in and break up the little gathering. How did she remember the man anyway?
"What have they done to you, onna?" Vegeta whispered in a broken growl.
"Don't you like it? Doesn't it excite you?" She grabbed his face in her hands and pulled him down into what looked like an extremely thorough kiss.
"Dad!"
Tenshi pulled away abruptly as two boys passed through the barrier, the older one holding the younger. Zeke's frustration grew. It was supposed to be impossible for anyone to pass through the wall of dark magic. It was impossible, unless one or both of the boys contained Tenshi's own blood.
Could the little whore actually have had more children than the one he terminated?
Tenshi's eyes clouded as she looked down at the small brats, the older of which was staring at her in horror and recognition.
"Usa-momma." He whispered.
She shook her head, pulling away from Vegeta with a half-hearted seductive smile. "We'll have to continue our conversation at a later date. Wait for me." She laughed again, blew him a kiss, and vanished. The black cording of power holding the people Zeke had waited so long to destroy vanished as well.
Cursing, he transported himself back to his palace.
"What were you doing? Why did you leave the fight? I told you to destroy everyone who got in your way and you killed no one. A few worthless humans you didn't have the sense enough to get out of the way might be in the hospital for a few weeks, but you didn't even manage to kill them!"
"My concern was not with the humans, but with the senshi." Tenshi stated coldly, continuing down the hall as his her master's rage wasn't the least bit important.
"And yet you left without killing them!"
She spun, grasping the lapels of his satin jacket in her hands and glaring. For the first time since gaining control of her, Zeke felt fear of his creation. She was too strong, he realized. He could never have complete control; she needed to be destroyed.
She smiled suddenly and released him.
"Be patient, Master, I'm only playing with them."
"Couldn't you have at least injured one of them before leaving?" He couldn't stop himself from asking.
"I will not involve children in a battle." She stated, turning and beginning the walk back to her quarters again, not even bothering to glance at him.
What right did she have to an opinion? She was his creation; he had made her what she was. He commanded complete loyalty from his creations, without it they were useless to him.
He gathered his most deadly energy into a crossbow and let fly. Tenshi pitched forward and fell to the ground with a strangles cry. Zeke waited a few moments, breathing heavily from the adrenaline of a fresh kill before approaching.
"What a waste." He grumbled, kneeling beside her body and rolling her to her back. With much regret, he reached out to brush away stray strand of Midnight hair from the lovely face he had hoped to show off at court. "What a complete and utter waste."
He froze in horror as a hand caught his wrist in a steel grip and ruby eyes snapped open. "A waste, Master?" Tenshi sneered.
To Be Continued
"Usagi?"
She looked over him with her glowing red orbs, no twinge of recognition present anywhere on her countenance. Vegeta's search for her through their bond came up blank as he met a high, solid wall impossible to break through.
Her mind was completely closed to him.
She turned her glowing gaze from him to the senshi, a slight sneer on her full lips as she looked them over contemptuously. "So now you're employing the help of mere civilians? Really, I expected more."
"Who are you?" Uranus challenged, redefining her fighting stance.
She tossed shimmering Midnight hair over her shoulder, a picture of confidence. "Tenshi no Kuro." She stated coolly, smiling. "Not that it matters, the lot of you won't be alive for long enough to need to remember my name anyway. This world is for my master, all who resist his rule have no choice by to be destroyed."
"We'll see about that!" Mars growled under her breath, gathering fiery energy into her hands. Vegeta's eyes widened as she shot it at the dark girl.
"You fool! Don't you see who she is?"
"Oh, have no fear for me, mortal." The girl laughed, brushing away the attack as if it were a mosquito and sending it flying at some helpless bystanders unfortunate enough to have not have been able to get away from the fight. "Your concern is better spent on yourself, these embarrassing so- called super heroines, and tux boy. After all, I'm not the one about to perish painfully."
"Usagi, what the hell do you think you are doing?"
"I do not know this name, except that it belongs to a girl who is no more." She tilted her head to the side, pursing her lips. "Well, I suppose it does not matter as to why you insist on such pointless drivel. If you'll excuse me, I'm not much for conversation." She raised her hands above her head, and a dark disk of magical energy began to form, crackling with power and menace.
"Vegeta, you're sure this is Usagi?" Venus called desperately, leaping over the first of the disks.
"Fool, you would expect me to not recognize my own mate?" He demanded, upping his power. He grunted in surprise as the disk struck. Not enough to hurt him, really, but it depleted a fraction of his energy. Too much of that and it could prove a threat.
"So what do we do?"
"Has she been brainwashed?"
"Usagi! Usagi, we're your friends!"
"Please, desist in this course of action, princess."
Tenshi no Kuro laughed as she ran out of disks, crossing her arms. "Master Zeke told me you all were amusing, but I had no idea I would enjoy this so much. If you were destined to live longer I would advise you to learn more about an enemy before leaping into combat with her."
"What do you mean, Usagi?" Jupiter asked slowly.
She laughed again. "I mean that this pathetic excuse for a battle is already over. Did you really think I was so slow that you could dodge my projectiles so easily? Or that my aim was so bad?"
Zeke watched in satisfaction from the shadows as the disks that had found their mark on the ground grew into dark spirals and reached out to each other with thin threads of his newest weapon's very own energy. It would be impossible for anyone within the confines created by the flickering back power to escape, or get in and offer help. She was far more useful to him than he could have ever imagined.
It had been pure luck that they had discovered the girl's unborn child. Tenshi had been a worthy foe, and nothing else he could have done would have weakened her barriers as much as taking that small, insignificant life from her. He regretted the loss of what could have been a great warrior slave for his army, but having complete control of Tenshi was more than worth the price.
Zeke chucked at the expression of shock that crossed the face of the man who had been foolish enough to let himself be hit by one of the disks as the black wires of power rose from the ground and encircled him, trapping all of his energy, and whatever magic he may possess, inside his body. Eight years of waiting for the Earth to belong to him, and now his Tenshi was going to give it all to him in a single day.
Zeke felt a twitch of alarm as, rather than destroy them all as she had been instructed, Tenshi began to stride toward the short, muscular man who fought against the wires furiously.
"Don't struggle, it will only make them drain you more. I am sorry for the inconvenience." She purred as she reached him, lightly tracing the lines of the power that held him with her index finger.
"You know who I am?"
"Wouldn't I recognize my own lover?" She laughed, a sensual, sexy laugh Zeke doubted the girl would have never had the confidence to utter without his help, and ran her tongue over her lips. "What do you think, Vegeta?" She asked, stepping back to give him a better view of her new form. "Your memories tell me of a time when you wished to return to your former state of evil. Is not this form perfect for that very end? We can rule the cosmos together, destroying whatever we wish. Nothing will stand in our way if we fight together. And the power! Think of all the power we can possess! People will quake at our names. Say the word my love. Say it, and we'll destroy this pathetic excuse for a planet together."
What was she doing? He didn't want that man in his employ, or the Earth destroyed! It was to be a new frontier for his kind! Zeke clenched his fists, fighting the urge to stride in and break up the little gathering. How did she remember the man anyway?
"What have they done to you, onna?" Vegeta whispered in a broken growl.
"Don't you like it? Doesn't it excite you?" She grabbed his face in her hands and pulled him down into what looked like an extremely thorough kiss.
"Dad!"
Tenshi pulled away abruptly as two boys passed through the barrier, the older one holding the younger. Zeke's frustration grew. It was supposed to be impossible for anyone to pass through the wall of dark magic. It was impossible, unless one or both of the boys contained Tenshi's own blood.
Could the little whore actually have had more children than the one he terminated?
Tenshi's eyes clouded as she looked down at the small brats, the older of which was staring at her in horror and recognition.
"Usa-momma." He whispered.
She shook her head, pulling away from Vegeta with a half-hearted seductive smile. "We'll have to continue our conversation at a later date. Wait for me." She laughed again, blew him a kiss, and vanished. The black cording of power holding the people Zeke had waited so long to destroy vanished as well.
Cursing, he transported himself back to his palace.
"What were you doing? Why did you leave the fight? I told you to destroy everyone who got in your way and you killed no one. A few worthless humans you didn't have the sense enough to get out of the way might be in the hospital for a few weeks, but you didn't even manage to kill them!"
"My concern was not with the humans, but with the senshi." Tenshi stated coldly, continuing down the hall as his her master's rage wasn't the least bit important.
"And yet you left without killing them!"
She spun, grasping the lapels of his satin jacket in her hands and glaring. For the first time since gaining control of her, Zeke felt fear of his creation. She was too strong, he realized. He could never have complete control; she needed to be destroyed.
She smiled suddenly and released him.
"Be patient, Master, I'm only playing with them."
"Couldn't you have at least injured one of them before leaving?" He couldn't stop himself from asking.
"I will not involve children in a battle." She stated, turning and beginning the walk back to her quarters again, not even bothering to glance at him.
What right did she have to an opinion? She was his creation; he had made her what she was. He commanded complete loyalty from his creations, without it they were useless to him.
He gathered his most deadly energy into a crossbow and let fly. Tenshi pitched forward and fell to the ground with a strangles cry. Zeke waited a few moments, breathing heavily from the adrenaline of a fresh kill before approaching.
"What a waste." He grumbled, kneeling beside her body and rolling her to her back. With much regret, he reached out to brush away stray strand of Midnight hair from the lovely face he had hoped to show off at court. "What a complete and utter waste."
He froze in horror as a hand caught his wrist in a steel grip and ruby eyes snapped open. "A waste, Master?" Tenshi sneered.
To Be Continued
