Nakoruru: Chapter 10 and 85 reviews. Wow, I'm almost caught up to One
Strange Day. I would have had it but then I got a bunch of reviews for it
yesterday.
Rinka: Hey, we also got some output on how the story is. Cool, right Nak?
Nakoruru: Yeah. Thanks guys! I think we should go ahead and get this thing started. As a note, this chapter may be a bit shifty so bear with us. We sort of got mad with the progress of this one and went a bit crazy. Sorry.
Kayla, thanks! We would have updated this one on the 4th but I had kids pestering me all day and Rin had to work. Oh, sadness, but things are better and the story will be better, you can count on that!
Bunnychu, have a nice vacation and all! And hope to get to your story soon. Worry not about things everything will be all right. Wish me and Rin could go on vacation. Oh well, we'll get our beach time after this one is done, I think.
FallenAngel, thanks for the opinion. Yes, it could be better. Hopefully it will get better in the end. Thanks again for the much needed comment.
Lethal Purple Crayon, don't worry about Hi-chan being evil and stuff, there will be more Serena and Hiei. . .if Rinka doesn't do anything else to him. Just blame her for everything if it doesn't work out.
Anime Princess, yeah, you would expect Rini to have blue eyes. I would expect it. Oh, did you know that soon the release of the first series of Sailor Moon will be in a box set and subtitled and uncut! My bank account is taking a dip real soon! Oh, and the reason I just realized that Thoughts Of Yesterday is strange is because of my co-writer. She's practically writing this one single handedly with only some of my guidance. But yes, it seems to be coming along nice enough, so I shouldn't complain so much.
Nicole, thanks for the opinion too! It's so needed right now. We should get to the important stuff and hopefully this chapter will get things back on track. More romance, more Darien bashing, okay! We're going to try for more! Just keep patience.
Blazer: Now that that's out the way, let's get this story underway.
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The streets were a lot quieter than Serena remembered them being. Usually, only cities that were abandoned because of attacks remained this quiet. The feeling that she had since Hiei had first left the first time to confront the enemy was growing even stronger than it had been before. Something was not right. Something had happened to Hiei, she had this strong feeling they may be too late to save him.
"Serena. . ." Sensing Serena's distress, Botan placed a hand on the woman's winged shoulder. (Serena is currently in her Eternal uniform.) Botan gave her a giant smile. "Hiei's not one to be taken down so easily. I'm sure he's fighting with everything. You don't have to worry about him."
"I know, but I just have this strange feeling inside. That. . .that something bad is happening to him. I just don't know whether or not it's just nervousness," Serena said with a sigh. "Any word from Kurama and Kuwabara?"
The four of them had split up into two groups. Kuwabara and Kurama went together one way, while she and Botan went another way. Botan had given the two boys a communicator to contact them in case they found something. They had split up ten minutes ago, but there was no word from the two males. Serena wondered if they ran into trouble and had no time to inform the two of their situations.
"I'm sure that everything will be all right," Botan chimed.
"I hope everything will be fine. I believe in them," Serena said.
The two continued walking down the street looking for any sign of motion or shadows. They didn't know what to be expecting from the enemy. Five minutes later, the two came across a dead end. "I guess we'll have to turn around and-" At that moment, a shadow swept over them. The two turned around slowly around to look at what had approached them. Botan backed up into the corner behind Serena. "W-w-what is that?"
Serena saw a hunched over creature with short spiked claws shaking as it glared at them with its crimson eyes. The thing was black all over except for the long fluorescent blue streak down its back. The creature had short pointed ears that stuck slightly out from its round head. Serena pulled out her scepter and readied to attack it when the creature let out a screech as it was cut in half. Dark violet blood splattered on the ground around the creature as it slumped to the side. Serena's eyes rose to the figure that was standing over the creature.
"H-H-Hiei." Sure enough Hiei was standing there, panting heavily. Sweat dotted his forehead as he stared at the two before his eyes rolled back in his head and he crumbled to the ground. "Hiei!" Serena ran up to him and turned him over, noticing that he was bleeding from small cuts all over his body. "Hiei, answer me! Hiei! Botan, contact the others and let them know what's happened."
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Serena frowned as she continued to bandage Hiei's body up. It looked as if those creatures had scratched him up a few times. "Hiei." Serena felt tears well up in her eyes as she stared down at the koorime that laid pale in her bed. The koorime muttered something incoherent then fell into a much deeper sleep. Serena lightly stroked Hiei's hair, hoping to soothe whatever feeling still filled her.
One or two tears trickled down her face as she finished her job and sat next to the bed. She could have lost him as easily as that. Why had she let him go alone? Why? She should have been there. She could have made a difference. She had no idea what was wrong with him. He had remained unconscious since he had found her and Botan in that alley. Serena felt something was seriously wrong. It wasn't his wounds that caused him to remain so unconscious, it was something more.
"Hiei, please, give me a sign that you're okay. Something. . .something isn't fine. I can feel it. Something dark and sad is surrounding you. Please fight it, Hiei. We need you." Serena reached out a hand to stroke his hair again, but something shot out and grazed her hand. Serena yelped, pulling back her hand to look at it. There were small cuts on her hand, then down at Hiei. Serena almost fell to the ground as she saw the dark aura swirling around Hiei's body. "What's happening to him?"
"Serena!" Kurama and Kuwabara busted into the room to see her pointing to where Hiei laid on the bed. The boys' eyes widened as they stared at Hiei and the dark energy that was surrounding his body.
"What's happening to him?" said Kuwabara. "I sense something really dark from him. Something that wasn't there before."
Meanwhile, Selsus and Athrun awaited outside the castle for the dark energy the male was filled with spread from the inside and shatter the walls of the Crystal Palace. "It won't be long now. This is the chance that we have been waiting for." Selsus raised her kunai above her head, summoning the power that coursed through her body. Her violet eyes flashed as she tossed the kunai forward. "Dark Earth Cutter!!"
The attack collided with the barrier around the Crystal Palace, but to the girl's joy, she saw that the barrier was weakening because of the power from the inside. Athrun's eyes flashed with power as he raised his hand to the barrier, adding his power to her attack. Not too long from that, the barrier that had been erected around the palace was gone. Serena could feel it as she ran to Rini's room. The little girl was in tears as she ran to her mother, hugging her tight.
"Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!" wailed Rini.
"I know. It'll be fine," Serena said. Serena looked at Luna and Artemis who gave her a scared look. "Luna, Artemis, I want you to get Rini to the safety of the Crystal Tower and sound off the alarm for everyone to head to the designated points. It seems the enemy has finally been able to penetrate the barrier.
"But how were they able to?" Luna cried in confusion. Luna saw Serena's eyes dark as she clenched Rini in her arms. Tears trickled down her cheeks as she shook. "Serena?"
"They used Hiei somehow," Serena said thickly. "They captured him and then filled him with some kind of dark energy. He must have escaped and tried to come back. I don't know if he knew or not, but. . ." Serena wasn't able to finish as she held Rini close. Rini looked up at her mother, with tearful eyes.
"Mommy. Something wrong with otou-chan?" Rini's small fearful voice brought Serena to look down at the girl. Serena wiped away the little girl's tears and gave her a warm smile.
"Don't worry, Rini. Everything will be fine. Hiei and I have something to do. I want you to go with Luna and Artemis for some time. Everything will be fine. Don't worry," Serena cooed.
"Serena," Hotaru ran into the room in her Sailor uniform. "Are you ready?"
"Yes. I'm coming Hotaru." Serena released the girl and stood up. She pulled out her broach and raised it in the air. "Silver Moon Crisis!" Serena transformed into Eternal Sailor Moon and turned to leave the room, then stopped. Reaching around her neck, Serena pulled off the Hiraseki stone Hiei had given her. Stooping back down, she put it around Rini's neck with a smile. "That's a gift from me and your otou-chan. Keep it for me until I get back. Okay, honey."
"Okay, mommy!" the girl chimed. Serena's heart was filled with courage and strength. She could do this. She just hoped that Kurama, Botan, and Kuwabara had everything under control with Hiei.
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"What are we going to do?" Kurama dodged out of the way of an energy bolt that shot from Hiei's convulsing body. The koorime was still unconscious as he continued to release the dark energy from his body. The three had never seen anything like this before. Kurama sensed that whatever had been able to do something like this to a youkai as strong as Hiei had to be really old.
"I don't know but if this doesn't end soon, I think we're going to end up fried to a crisp. We have to get him exorcised or something," Kuwabara said.
"He's not possessed, Kuwabara," said Botan, dodging another bolt to keep from being fried. "It's like he was filled with a giant amount of energy and then shipped out. By my observations, he doesn't remember anything, or he would have never found us. He would have gone somewhere and forced the energy from his body. Instead, he came and found us and came back willingly."
"So all we have to do is wait until all the energy is extracted from his body?" Kurama said.
"Exactly. But I fear that it's going to have dire consequences once its released. I feel that the walls around this place are weakening. This energy is going to make this place vulnerable once it's all over," Botan said.
"I hope that Serena and the others can hold out until we get there," Kuwabara said.
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Sailor Moon and the other scouts led the enemy away from the city as the people continued to evacuate. Serena and the others dodged the attacks. Athrun narrowed his eyes at the five girls that ran away from them. Were they trying to buy the city some time before it was destroyed? Athrun smirked as he raised a hand up. A large ball of energy was created as he hurled it into the senshi's path. The girls had to stop to keep from being hit.
Uranus turned to both figures, raising her hand in the air. A ball of orange energy rose up from her hand as she grasped it. "Uranus World Collide!" She shoved her fist to the ground, sending the energy at them. Athrun yawned as he swept a hand out. The move was knocked away from him, skidding to the side and hitting a building that was barely holding up. The building crumbled as Hotaru jumped into the air, twirling her glaive in the air.
"I call upon the powers of planet Saturn! Saturn Solar Elapse!" Bringing her glaive down in front of her, the girl released a wave of energy that hit only a barrier. "Dammit. . ." Hotaru's eyes widened when she saw the kunai headed at her.
"Neptune Deep Submerge Wave!" Sailor Neptune's attack knocked the kunai away from Hotaru who gave the woman a grateful look. Neptune smiled at her, but then was thrown back by an attack that cute through her uniform. Blood flooded freely from the wound in her side.
"Neptune!" screamed Uranus. Uranus ran over to her lover, holding Neptune's side as she helped the woman up. "Are you all right?"
"I'm fine. It's just a scratch," Michiru smiled.
"Are you sure?" Haruka looked over the woman, sighing with relief that she was not that badly hurt.
"Yes. I'm positive. Don't worry about me," murmured the woman.
"Look out you two!" shouted Setsuna. She rose her staff in the air. "Pluto-Dead Scream-Splinter!" The move cancelled out the ball of energy that was heading for the two. "Are you two all right?"
"Yes, thanks to you, Pluto," Michiru said.
"Tell us, what do you want?" shouted Sailor Moon at the male. Her eyes met his green gold eyes in a look of challenge.
"I thought we told you, Neo Queen Serenity. We want your power. We will have your power in order to fulfill our dreams," Athrun said in a rather bored tone. The male rose his hands up, creating another ball of energy. "Selsus, it's time that you get my lady mother. Tell her that soon we will have everything we need."
"As you wish, sir." Selsus was about to leave when an object impaled her. The woman's eyes widened as she slowly looked down to find a sword in her chest. Looking back, she found a dark haired male with feverish eyes glaring at her. Sweat dotted his face as he pulled the sword from her and proceeded to slice her about five more times. Once the male was done, he dropped to his knees panting. "I-lost?"
"Selsus!" shouted Athrun, but he had to dodge a thorny whip that shot his way. He jumped out the way, looking to find Kurama looking up at him with hard emerald eyes.
"I. . .I'm free," coughed Selsus as the tiara on her head finally shattered. Her eyes softened as she looked up at the male. "You have to kill them. . .they've hurt so many people. I. . .was. . .a. . .slave to that power. They killed my entire. . .tribe. . .please make sure they are destroyed. Please." Her violet eyes closed as a smile rose to her lips as she died.
Hiei turned his eyes to Serena who was by this time at his side. "Hiei. . .are you all right?"
"Get away from me Serena. Something's wrong. Stand back," Hiei muttered as he could feel the dark energy still swirling inside his body. He couldn't remember what happened, but he knew that this was not a good sign. Something inside of him wanted to kill her and take the Silver Crystal. He could hear a voice whispering inside his head to slaughter all of them and bask in their blood.
"Hiei, what's wrong? What is it? Maybe I can help you," Serena said, getting closer. She saw the koorime tense up and move back from her. "Hiei."
"Get away!" Hiei screamed. "If you come near me, I'll kill you!"
Kurama glanced over to where Hiei and Serena were. Something was wrong. The way Hiei had suddenly awoken and dashed out the room made the kitsune wonder. The dark force was still within him, but now Hiei was fighting with everything he had to keep it tamed. Kurama turned his eyes to the male with the two toned eyes, and narrowed his own green orbs. "What have you done to him?"
"Me? I have done nothing to him. But my lady mother. . .she made him her slave. He will fight at first, that is to be predicted, but soon he will give in to the power as my mother and I have. He won't be able to resist for too long," Athrun smirked, dodging another of Kurama's attacks, then sending out one of his own. He grinned with satisfaction when the move connected. The red head was shoved to the ground, ripping open Kurama's shoulder with the move. "Last time I underestimated you, but this time I will not. And I have more power since when we last met. Your little trick with the seed won't work this time. This battle is hopeless."
"Don't count me out yet. I still have one or two more tricks up my sleeve that you haven't seen," Kurama growled as he stood up.
"Hmm. I think it's about time to make this fight more interesting." Athrun snapped his fingers, calling up hundreds of the little creatures that Serena and Botan had seen before. About this time, Kuwabara and Botan had reached the area.
"What the-" Botan's voice caught in her throat as she saw the scene unfolding before them. Kurama bleeding profusely from a shoulder wound, Hiei screaming out in pain as the dark force swirled around his body, Serena looking on horrified and helpless, and the hundreds of little creatures rising from the ground. This was not looking good. This battle was only getting started; Botan had a feeling more was in store for them with each minute that past.
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Nakoruru: Damn. That was a pretty shifty chapter, Rin. But I can't complain it was a good chapter.
Blazer: At least it's finally getting under way and not shuffling around anymore.
Rinka: Thank you that's my magic working now.
Nakoruru: Okay. I gotta go now. Pizza time. R & R people and tell us what you think of it. Until then, we have to go. Unless Rinka's going to make the next chapter while I'm eating?
Blazer: I'm going to eat pizza with Nak.
Rinka (O.O): Pizza! I'm glad I'm over your house! You folks can get the next chapter Tuesday! Bye now!
Rinka: Hey, we also got some output on how the story is. Cool, right Nak?
Nakoruru: Yeah. Thanks guys! I think we should go ahead and get this thing started. As a note, this chapter may be a bit shifty so bear with us. We sort of got mad with the progress of this one and went a bit crazy. Sorry.
Kayla, thanks! We would have updated this one on the 4th but I had kids pestering me all day and Rin had to work. Oh, sadness, but things are better and the story will be better, you can count on that!
Bunnychu, have a nice vacation and all! And hope to get to your story soon. Worry not about things everything will be all right. Wish me and Rin could go on vacation. Oh well, we'll get our beach time after this one is done, I think.
FallenAngel, thanks for the opinion. Yes, it could be better. Hopefully it will get better in the end. Thanks again for the much needed comment.
Lethal Purple Crayon, don't worry about Hi-chan being evil and stuff, there will be more Serena and Hiei. . .if Rinka doesn't do anything else to him. Just blame her for everything if it doesn't work out.
Anime Princess, yeah, you would expect Rini to have blue eyes. I would expect it. Oh, did you know that soon the release of the first series of Sailor Moon will be in a box set and subtitled and uncut! My bank account is taking a dip real soon! Oh, and the reason I just realized that Thoughts Of Yesterday is strange is because of my co-writer. She's practically writing this one single handedly with only some of my guidance. But yes, it seems to be coming along nice enough, so I shouldn't complain so much.
Nicole, thanks for the opinion too! It's so needed right now. We should get to the important stuff and hopefully this chapter will get things back on track. More romance, more Darien bashing, okay! We're going to try for more! Just keep patience.
Blazer: Now that that's out the way, let's get this story underway.
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The streets were a lot quieter than Serena remembered them being. Usually, only cities that were abandoned because of attacks remained this quiet. The feeling that she had since Hiei had first left the first time to confront the enemy was growing even stronger than it had been before. Something was not right. Something had happened to Hiei, she had this strong feeling they may be too late to save him.
"Serena. . ." Sensing Serena's distress, Botan placed a hand on the woman's winged shoulder. (Serena is currently in her Eternal uniform.) Botan gave her a giant smile. "Hiei's not one to be taken down so easily. I'm sure he's fighting with everything. You don't have to worry about him."
"I know, but I just have this strange feeling inside. That. . .that something bad is happening to him. I just don't know whether or not it's just nervousness," Serena said with a sigh. "Any word from Kurama and Kuwabara?"
The four of them had split up into two groups. Kuwabara and Kurama went together one way, while she and Botan went another way. Botan had given the two boys a communicator to contact them in case they found something. They had split up ten minutes ago, but there was no word from the two males. Serena wondered if they ran into trouble and had no time to inform the two of their situations.
"I'm sure that everything will be all right," Botan chimed.
"I hope everything will be fine. I believe in them," Serena said.
The two continued walking down the street looking for any sign of motion or shadows. They didn't know what to be expecting from the enemy. Five minutes later, the two came across a dead end. "I guess we'll have to turn around and-" At that moment, a shadow swept over them. The two turned around slowly around to look at what had approached them. Botan backed up into the corner behind Serena. "W-w-what is that?"
Serena saw a hunched over creature with short spiked claws shaking as it glared at them with its crimson eyes. The thing was black all over except for the long fluorescent blue streak down its back. The creature had short pointed ears that stuck slightly out from its round head. Serena pulled out her scepter and readied to attack it when the creature let out a screech as it was cut in half. Dark violet blood splattered on the ground around the creature as it slumped to the side. Serena's eyes rose to the figure that was standing over the creature.
"H-H-Hiei." Sure enough Hiei was standing there, panting heavily. Sweat dotted his forehead as he stared at the two before his eyes rolled back in his head and he crumbled to the ground. "Hiei!" Serena ran up to him and turned him over, noticing that he was bleeding from small cuts all over his body. "Hiei, answer me! Hiei! Botan, contact the others and let them know what's happened."
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Serena frowned as she continued to bandage Hiei's body up. It looked as if those creatures had scratched him up a few times. "Hiei." Serena felt tears well up in her eyes as she stared down at the koorime that laid pale in her bed. The koorime muttered something incoherent then fell into a much deeper sleep. Serena lightly stroked Hiei's hair, hoping to soothe whatever feeling still filled her.
One or two tears trickled down her face as she finished her job and sat next to the bed. She could have lost him as easily as that. Why had she let him go alone? Why? She should have been there. She could have made a difference. She had no idea what was wrong with him. He had remained unconscious since he had found her and Botan in that alley. Serena felt something was seriously wrong. It wasn't his wounds that caused him to remain so unconscious, it was something more.
"Hiei, please, give me a sign that you're okay. Something. . .something isn't fine. I can feel it. Something dark and sad is surrounding you. Please fight it, Hiei. We need you." Serena reached out a hand to stroke his hair again, but something shot out and grazed her hand. Serena yelped, pulling back her hand to look at it. There were small cuts on her hand, then down at Hiei. Serena almost fell to the ground as she saw the dark aura swirling around Hiei's body. "What's happening to him?"
"Serena!" Kurama and Kuwabara busted into the room to see her pointing to where Hiei laid on the bed. The boys' eyes widened as they stared at Hiei and the dark energy that was surrounding his body.
"What's happening to him?" said Kuwabara. "I sense something really dark from him. Something that wasn't there before."
Meanwhile, Selsus and Athrun awaited outside the castle for the dark energy the male was filled with spread from the inside and shatter the walls of the Crystal Palace. "It won't be long now. This is the chance that we have been waiting for." Selsus raised her kunai above her head, summoning the power that coursed through her body. Her violet eyes flashed as she tossed the kunai forward. "Dark Earth Cutter!!"
The attack collided with the barrier around the Crystal Palace, but to the girl's joy, she saw that the barrier was weakening because of the power from the inside. Athrun's eyes flashed with power as he raised his hand to the barrier, adding his power to her attack. Not too long from that, the barrier that had been erected around the palace was gone. Serena could feel it as she ran to Rini's room. The little girl was in tears as she ran to her mother, hugging her tight.
"Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!" wailed Rini.
"I know. It'll be fine," Serena said. Serena looked at Luna and Artemis who gave her a scared look. "Luna, Artemis, I want you to get Rini to the safety of the Crystal Tower and sound off the alarm for everyone to head to the designated points. It seems the enemy has finally been able to penetrate the barrier.
"But how were they able to?" Luna cried in confusion. Luna saw Serena's eyes dark as she clenched Rini in her arms. Tears trickled down her cheeks as she shook. "Serena?"
"They used Hiei somehow," Serena said thickly. "They captured him and then filled him with some kind of dark energy. He must have escaped and tried to come back. I don't know if he knew or not, but. . ." Serena wasn't able to finish as she held Rini close. Rini looked up at her mother, with tearful eyes.
"Mommy. Something wrong with otou-chan?" Rini's small fearful voice brought Serena to look down at the girl. Serena wiped away the little girl's tears and gave her a warm smile.
"Don't worry, Rini. Everything will be fine. Hiei and I have something to do. I want you to go with Luna and Artemis for some time. Everything will be fine. Don't worry," Serena cooed.
"Serena," Hotaru ran into the room in her Sailor uniform. "Are you ready?"
"Yes. I'm coming Hotaru." Serena released the girl and stood up. She pulled out her broach and raised it in the air. "Silver Moon Crisis!" Serena transformed into Eternal Sailor Moon and turned to leave the room, then stopped. Reaching around her neck, Serena pulled off the Hiraseki stone Hiei had given her. Stooping back down, she put it around Rini's neck with a smile. "That's a gift from me and your otou-chan. Keep it for me until I get back. Okay, honey."
"Okay, mommy!" the girl chimed. Serena's heart was filled with courage and strength. She could do this. She just hoped that Kurama, Botan, and Kuwabara had everything under control with Hiei.
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"What are we going to do?" Kurama dodged out of the way of an energy bolt that shot from Hiei's convulsing body. The koorime was still unconscious as he continued to release the dark energy from his body. The three had never seen anything like this before. Kurama sensed that whatever had been able to do something like this to a youkai as strong as Hiei had to be really old.
"I don't know but if this doesn't end soon, I think we're going to end up fried to a crisp. We have to get him exorcised or something," Kuwabara said.
"He's not possessed, Kuwabara," said Botan, dodging another bolt to keep from being fried. "It's like he was filled with a giant amount of energy and then shipped out. By my observations, he doesn't remember anything, or he would have never found us. He would have gone somewhere and forced the energy from his body. Instead, he came and found us and came back willingly."
"So all we have to do is wait until all the energy is extracted from his body?" Kurama said.
"Exactly. But I fear that it's going to have dire consequences once its released. I feel that the walls around this place are weakening. This energy is going to make this place vulnerable once it's all over," Botan said.
"I hope that Serena and the others can hold out until we get there," Kuwabara said.
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Sailor Moon and the other scouts led the enemy away from the city as the people continued to evacuate. Serena and the others dodged the attacks. Athrun narrowed his eyes at the five girls that ran away from them. Were they trying to buy the city some time before it was destroyed? Athrun smirked as he raised a hand up. A large ball of energy was created as he hurled it into the senshi's path. The girls had to stop to keep from being hit.
Uranus turned to both figures, raising her hand in the air. A ball of orange energy rose up from her hand as she grasped it. "Uranus World Collide!" She shoved her fist to the ground, sending the energy at them. Athrun yawned as he swept a hand out. The move was knocked away from him, skidding to the side and hitting a building that was barely holding up. The building crumbled as Hotaru jumped into the air, twirling her glaive in the air.
"I call upon the powers of planet Saturn! Saturn Solar Elapse!" Bringing her glaive down in front of her, the girl released a wave of energy that hit only a barrier. "Dammit. . ." Hotaru's eyes widened when she saw the kunai headed at her.
"Neptune Deep Submerge Wave!" Sailor Neptune's attack knocked the kunai away from Hotaru who gave the woman a grateful look. Neptune smiled at her, but then was thrown back by an attack that cute through her uniform. Blood flooded freely from the wound in her side.
"Neptune!" screamed Uranus. Uranus ran over to her lover, holding Neptune's side as she helped the woman up. "Are you all right?"
"I'm fine. It's just a scratch," Michiru smiled.
"Are you sure?" Haruka looked over the woman, sighing with relief that she was not that badly hurt.
"Yes. I'm positive. Don't worry about me," murmured the woman.
"Look out you two!" shouted Setsuna. She rose her staff in the air. "Pluto-Dead Scream-Splinter!" The move cancelled out the ball of energy that was heading for the two. "Are you two all right?"
"Yes, thanks to you, Pluto," Michiru said.
"Tell us, what do you want?" shouted Sailor Moon at the male. Her eyes met his green gold eyes in a look of challenge.
"I thought we told you, Neo Queen Serenity. We want your power. We will have your power in order to fulfill our dreams," Athrun said in a rather bored tone. The male rose his hands up, creating another ball of energy. "Selsus, it's time that you get my lady mother. Tell her that soon we will have everything we need."
"As you wish, sir." Selsus was about to leave when an object impaled her. The woman's eyes widened as she slowly looked down to find a sword in her chest. Looking back, she found a dark haired male with feverish eyes glaring at her. Sweat dotted his face as he pulled the sword from her and proceeded to slice her about five more times. Once the male was done, he dropped to his knees panting. "I-lost?"
"Selsus!" shouted Athrun, but he had to dodge a thorny whip that shot his way. He jumped out the way, looking to find Kurama looking up at him with hard emerald eyes.
"I. . .I'm free," coughed Selsus as the tiara on her head finally shattered. Her eyes softened as she looked up at the male. "You have to kill them. . .they've hurt so many people. I. . .was. . .a. . .slave to that power. They killed my entire. . .tribe. . .please make sure they are destroyed. Please." Her violet eyes closed as a smile rose to her lips as she died.
Hiei turned his eyes to Serena who was by this time at his side. "Hiei. . .are you all right?"
"Get away from me Serena. Something's wrong. Stand back," Hiei muttered as he could feel the dark energy still swirling inside his body. He couldn't remember what happened, but he knew that this was not a good sign. Something inside of him wanted to kill her and take the Silver Crystal. He could hear a voice whispering inside his head to slaughter all of them and bask in their blood.
"Hiei, what's wrong? What is it? Maybe I can help you," Serena said, getting closer. She saw the koorime tense up and move back from her. "Hiei."
"Get away!" Hiei screamed. "If you come near me, I'll kill you!"
Kurama glanced over to where Hiei and Serena were. Something was wrong. The way Hiei had suddenly awoken and dashed out the room made the kitsune wonder. The dark force was still within him, but now Hiei was fighting with everything he had to keep it tamed. Kurama turned his eyes to the male with the two toned eyes, and narrowed his own green orbs. "What have you done to him?"
"Me? I have done nothing to him. But my lady mother. . .she made him her slave. He will fight at first, that is to be predicted, but soon he will give in to the power as my mother and I have. He won't be able to resist for too long," Athrun smirked, dodging another of Kurama's attacks, then sending out one of his own. He grinned with satisfaction when the move connected. The red head was shoved to the ground, ripping open Kurama's shoulder with the move. "Last time I underestimated you, but this time I will not. And I have more power since when we last met. Your little trick with the seed won't work this time. This battle is hopeless."
"Don't count me out yet. I still have one or two more tricks up my sleeve that you haven't seen," Kurama growled as he stood up.
"Hmm. I think it's about time to make this fight more interesting." Athrun snapped his fingers, calling up hundreds of the little creatures that Serena and Botan had seen before. About this time, Kuwabara and Botan had reached the area.
"What the-" Botan's voice caught in her throat as she saw the scene unfolding before them. Kurama bleeding profusely from a shoulder wound, Hiei screaming out in pain as the dark force swirled around his body, Serena looking on horrified and helpless, and the hundreds of little creatures rising from the ground. This was not looking good. This battle was only getting started; Botan had a feeling more was in store for them with each minute that past.
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Nakoruru: Damn. That was a pretty shifty chapter, Rin. But I can't complain it was a good chapter.
Blazer: At least it's finally getting under way and not shuffling around anymore.
Rinka: Thank you that's my magic working now.
Nakoruru: Okay. I gotta go now. Pizza time. R & R people and tell us what you think of it. Until then, we have to go. Unless Rinka's going to make the next chapter while I'm eating?
Blazer: I'm going to eat pizza with Nak.
Rinka (O.O): Pizza! I'm glad I'm over your house! You folks can get the next chapter Tuesday! Bye now!