The Armors Unite

by Destiny and Fate 4ever

The Sailor Scouts gain new allies (and perhaps some new love interests?) as they enter a fight against a new evil. Book two of seven of the Universal Warriors, Crossover with The Ronin Warriors. Completed!

2. The First Battle is Fought

Hi!  It's me again.  I just wanted to send a personal thank you to neverendingtale and hawek, for putting our story on their favorite authors' lists.  Now, on to the chapter!  Hope you enjoy it! ~Destiny Babe

-July 6, 1998-

"Celia, you better tell them or else they'll be really confused," Serena said.

"Yes Moon Princess.  Let's go upstairs and I'll explain everything to you."  Turning around, Celia started to walk up the stairs.  The Mystical Warriors and Darien followed, but Mia and the Ronin Warriors couldn't move.  Serena, who was last one ascending the stairs, turned around and said, "Why aren't you coming?"  When she didn't get an answer, she called to her friends, "You guys go on up.  I'm going to show them to their rooms."

"Ok," Celia said, "But don't take too long."

"I won't."  Tuning back to them, she said, "You guys are confused and scared, aren't you?"

"What do you mean?  I'm not scared of anything," Kento said indignantly.

"You're not willing to accept that you guys have past lives."

"Past lives?" the Ronin Warriors said.

"Yep, we all do.  I mean I was surprised when I found out that I was the Moon Princess, destined to rule the Moon Kingdom.  I had a really hard time accepting it, especially because I didn't have any memories of that time, but slowly, my memories came back and yours will too.  Now come on, there's something else bothering you guys, but not you, Ryo, the other four.  What is it?"

"You mean besides the fact that I think I'm in love with Lita?" Kento said.

"Ah, you like my friends.  Let me guess.  Cye, you like Mina right?"

"Yeah, how'd you know?"

"You guys seem like you'd go together.  And Sage, you like Raye?"

"How'd you guess?"

"Because Rowen definitely goes with Ami because of the blue hair thing, so that leaves Raye.  And you," she pointed at Ryo.  "I know who you like."

"Who?" Ryo said, daring her to say it.  She glanced at Mia and smirked, the looked back into Ryo's eyes and saw him nod slightly, so slightly that she was the only one who saw it.

"I'm not telling," Serena said, "But, now, I have to show you to your rooms.  Mia, you'll be staying upstairs with us and you guys will be staying on the second floor.  So, let me show you."  Walking up stairs, she was oblivious to the talking of the people following her.  "Can you believe they're all royalty?" Ryo said.

"Yes I can," Rowen said.  The girls they had just met were definitely royalty.  Rowen could tell by the way they held and conducted themselves and he'd only just met them.  "But," Rowen continued, "they also said you were a king.  What's up with that?"

"I don't know, I guess that's what's going to be explained," Ryo said.  Looking around, Sage started to wonder what rooms there were in the house.  "Hey Serena?" Sage said.

"Yeah Sage?"

"How many rooms are there in this house?"

"Well, we have 20 bedrooms, 15 bathrooms, a living room downstairs, along with a grand dining room, a large office, a small ballroom that was recently built, a small temple for Raye to meditate at, two family rooms, one on the second floor, on the third floor, a training room, a large kitchen, an art studio for Mina, and a library."

"A library?  Where is that?" Rowen asked.

"It's on the first floor.  We had that built about six months ago upon Amy's complaining that she didn't have enough room for all of her books.  So, we had a library built and all of the books that we have combined are in that library.  I'll show you where it is later, after Celia finishes telling you guys our story.  Why did you want to know?"

"Our favorite blue-haired friend loves to read," Cye said.

"Ah, then you'd get along really well with Ami.  We have a hard time dragging her out of the library sometimes."  They got to the top of the first flight of stairs and Serena stopped.  There was a family room that had a two large couches formed into a right angle.  From the family room was a long and wide carpeted hallway.  "You guys will be staying here.  Your rooms are almost exactly like ours, except ours are a little bigger.  It has all your basic stuff, bed, dresser, nightstand, closet.  You know, basic.  The rooms are arranged so that there is a bathroom connecting two bedrooms.  You guys can decide to have your own bathroom, or you can share.  It doesn't matter.  Choose your bedroom and meet us upstairs.  Come on Mia, I'll show you to your bedroom."  And with that, Mia and Serena left to go upstairs. 

The guys rushed to find a bedroom so they could join the girls upstairs.  For some reason, they didn't want to be apart from the girls for long.  They all chose their bedroom and when they went to open their door to the bathroom, it had turned out that Cye and Kento were sharing a bathroom, as were Sage and Rowen, and Ryo had his own.  But they didn't mind, they were used to this arrangement.  The good thing that if one wanted to use the bathroom while another one was, then they could just go to another bathroom on the same floor and use that one. 

They were all surprised at the size of the room, however.  Each room was about 20 feet by 20 feet.  The beds in each room were huge and each room had a fireplace.  The dresser in each room was actually a huge bureau and the closet was walk-in.  All of the rooms were basically the same, but Rowen's had a bookshelf built into his.  He looked around at the bookshelf and rested his hand on the nightstand, admiring the books, and felt something slide underneath his hand.  It was a paper that someone had written. 

Picking it up, he read the title.  "A Study of Physical Chemistry: by Ami Mizuno," he read out-loud.  His heart pounded in his chest and he looked back up at the bookshelf.  It was filled with books on science and math and literature and languages.  He turned to look on the bed found a book on metaphysics and the bed looked as if it had been used lately.   Ami comes down here to read, doesn't she?  Those are her books and this is where she was sleeping when we came.  Rowen felt a smile cross his face as he thought of Amy sleeping in the same bed that he was going to be sleeping in and the thought sent a chill down his spine.  His reverie was broken when Ryo knocked on the door and said, "Hey Rowen, let's go." 

"Yeah, let's go."

"Hey, your room is different then the rest of ours.  Yours has a built in bookshelf.  Why it that?"

"I don't know," Rowen lied, "Maybe it was used for storage.  But these rooms are nice, aren't they?"

"They sure are," said Sage, "I still don't think I'll ever want to leave this place.  I could live here forever."

"You're only saying that because Raye's living here," Kento said as they all gathered out in the hallway.

"Yeah," Cye continued, "Are you going to wine and dine her, then drop her like you've done with all the other girls?" Cye said, knowing full well his habits with girls.

"You know, if I end up going out with her, I don't think that'll happen.  There's something about her that I just can't put my finger on… Oh well.  Come on, we have to get upstairs or the girls will form a search party."  The others laughed and headed up the stairs, only to interrupt a private conversation…

***
Serena led Mia up the second flight of stairs to see all the girls waiting for them.  "Where are the guys?" Raye asked,

"They're picking out their rooms," Serena said, "And I'm going to show Mia her bedroom, so if you'll excuse me…" and Serena led Mia down the corridor that led off to all the other bedrooms and stopped down at the end of the hall.  "You'll be sharing a bathroom with me.  The only room that is left upstairs is one that is connected to my room by a bathroom and I didn't want you having to share a bathroom with one of the guys, so I let you have this bedroom."  She opened the door and dramatically gestured for Mia to enter. 

Mia stared with her mouth wide-open at the room in front of her.  It was huge.  The bed looked as if it could easily hold four people, let alone one person.  There was a huge Persian rug covering a wooden floor and there was huge armchair sitting front of a fireplace.  There were nightstands on either side of the bed and there was a huge bureau that had many drawers and a small cabinet on the connecting wall to the door.  The closet was a huge walk-in closet.  The room by itself was about 30 feet by 30 feet and was about 5 times as big as Mia's old bedroom.  "Serena," she whispered, "I think I may just end up living here after this is all over."

"You know, if it's ok with the others, I don't see why we can't arrange for all of you to live here.  It's not like we're short on room, or anything.  Or money for that matter.  All of us are rich from inheritance money."

"Inheritance money?"

"We're all orphans, recently orphaned actually.  About two years ago, the Negaverse killed all of our parents, except for Lita's."

"Why not Lita's?"

"Because hers died in an airplane crash when she was younger.  But enough sad thoughts.  Just put your stuff down and let's go join the others."  Mia threw her stuff down on the floor and followed Serena back out to the family room where all the girls were discussing guys and Darien was just sitting there, smirking.  "Hey, what are you guys talking about?" Serena asked.

"4 certain kings." Raye, Lita, Ami, and Mina chimed.

"Ah, I see," Serena said, "And would these happened to be 4 of the kings downstairs?"

"Yes," all four of the girls said.

"Which one do you think is better Serena?" Ami asked.

"She keeps saying her blue-haired king is better, while I'm saying my purple-eyed king is better." Raye said.

"I think this is a personal opinion question that I don't have an answer for.  I think that all of them are the best for you, however," Serena said. 

"Well, no matter what you guys think, I think mine is cuter," Mina said.

"No way, mine is way cuter then yours," Lita said.

"Uh-uh, you guys are both wrong.  With my guy's hair, you can't go wrong," Ami said.

"That's because his hair matches your, you idiot.  My guy's eyes make my guy better then all of yours."

"Whose guys?"  The four girls turned to see the Ronin Warriors standing at the top of the stairs.  Ryo, who had asked the question, asked it again. 

"Um, no one," Raye mumbled.

"Yeah, no one you would know," Mina said, looking straight at Cye.  The girls sat down on a couch next to Serena and Mia and the Ronin Warriors took up the couch across from the girls that Darien was sitting at.  Celia, who was sitting on the middle couch with Alex, Michelle and Heather, said, "Ok, Ronin Warriors, I want you to listen to this history about the armors.  A long time ago, there was a kingdom called the Moon Kingdom, which ruled over the whole Solar System, except for the Earth.  The Earth was its own separate kingdom, but had good relations with the Moon Kingdom. 

"Towards the beginning of the Moon Kingdom, the moon and all the planets except for earth, decided to create its own armor to protect their planet.  The armor would choose a person and that person would go through training before wearing the armor.  The Earth had also created 9 armors for 9 out of its ten kingdoms.  The tenth kingdom was the kingdom that was sworn to help protect the Moon Kingdom.  That was the kingdom what Darien was born into.  But the other nine kingdoms had devised their own special armors that could be combined to form a special one.  Those armor were the armors of Wildfire, Halo, Torrent, Hardrock, Strata, Cruelty, Venom, Darkness, and Illusion. 

"Towards the end of the Sliver Millennium, the time period that the Moon Kingdom existed in, 5 of the kingdoms had their kings die unexpectedly, so their young sons had to take their places.  Those kings were King Ryo of the Wildfire, King Sage of the Halo, King Cye of the Torrent, King Kento of Hardrock, and King Rowen of the Strata.  You.  You are the souls of the kings a thousand years ago, reborn.  The other kings you already know.  King Anubis of Cruelty, King Sekhmet of Venom, King Cale of Corruption, and King Dais of Illusion. 

"The leader of these kings was King Ryo of the Wildfire, who was Princess Serena's cousin and betrothed to Darien's sister.  He requested help of the Moon Kingdom to create its own Mystical Armor to protect its planet so the Moon Kingdom helped and forged the nine armors into the armor of Life, the tenth armor of the Mystical Armors.  So now what was needed was for it to choose a bearer. 

"Eventually it chose and the whole planet rejoiced, for they now had someone to protect their planet.  The armor chose a common lord named Lord Talpa.  He trained and eventually wore the armor, but he was lured over to the side of evil and Queen Beryl, who wanted to destroy the Moon Kingdom.  She took away his power because she feared it and made him into one of her generals.  While all this was happening, we 9 princesses were chosen to wear the armors of our planets. 

"The leaders of the planet thought it to be strange that princesses were chosen to wear the armor and fight, but they didn't argue with the choice of the armors.  While we were training to wear our armors, Queen Beryl and her generals led an attack on the Moon Kingdom.  Had we been able to call upon the armors, we would have won, but we weren't ready and we were transported to the future, except for me because at the time, I was protecting the Time Gate and haven't been allowed to leave my post until a few years ago."

"So you're over a thousand years old?" Rowen asked.

"Yes, I am.  Please don't interrupt me.  Where was I?  Oh yes.  During the battle, the Negaverse started to lose and Talpa withdrew himself from the battle and hid until it was all over.  Then, after everyone, including Queen Beryl and her four other Generals, were transported to the future, Talpa reclaimed his armor, but he was really weak.  A nether world called the Evil Dynasty took him in and helped him build up his strength, hoping that he would lead them in conquering the world.  He did, but he lost to a monk with Ancient powers who defeated him and separated the armors into the nine original parts. 

"He arranged it so that when the time came, the kings who gave up their armor to create the armor of Life would be reborn and wear the armor against evil once again.  The armor of Life, as I'm sure you already know, can only be recreated by the person who bore the armor of Life last.  When the 9 Ronin Armors are combined and worn by the leader, then it's called the Armor of Inferno.  Now, we've all been reborn and need to fight together to beat Talpa and Queen Metallia, Queen Beryl's leader."

"What happened to Queen Beryl?" Cye asked.

"She was destroyed by Serena a year ago when we entered the Negaverse."

"Oh," Cye said.

"Yeah, it was an extremely hard battle, but…" Serena said.

"But what?" Ryo asked.

"You guys, we have trouble."

"Trouble?" came the unanimous question.

"Yes, a small army of youma are attacking the park again.  We have to go," She said, rushing down the stairs.  "Can she tell when there's an attack?" Rowen said.

"Yes," said Celia, "She's the only one of us who can do that and we're lucky that she can.  Now come on, we need to go."  All of them rushed outside where the Mystical Warriors transformed into their sub-armor.  The guys stared at them dumbfounded, but did the same, and together, they all started running towards the area of the youma attack, leaving Darien and Mia behind.  "Do they always do this?" Mia asked.

"Yeah, unfortunately, but at least I get the house to myself when this happens.  With the enemies that they fight, I'm no use to them in my Tuxedo Mask form.  Anyway, I'll show you around," Darien said as they walked back into the house. 

***
The Mystical and Ronin Warriors made it to the park in record time.  When they got there, there was, as Serena said, a small army of youma, basically making a mess out of the park.  There were about 100 of them, all charging in the direction of the Warriors.  "Ok everyone, armor up!" Serena yelled.  "I call upon the power of the Moonlight!  Armor of the Moonlight…"

"I call upon the armor of the Artic!  Armor of the Artic…"

"I call upon the armor of the Phoenix!  Armor of the Phoenix…"

"I call upon the armor of Lightning!  Armor of Lightning…"

"I call upon the armor of the Heavens!  Armor of the Heavens…"

"I call upon the armor of Time!  Armor of Time…"

"I call upon the armor of the Earth!  Armor of the Earth…"

"I call upon the armor of the Seas!  Armor of the Seas…"

"I call upon the armor of the Gods!  Armor of the Gods…"

"TO ARMS!"  Seconds later, the Mystical Warriors stood there, weapons in hand, ready to do battle.  Serena looked back at the Ronin Warriors, who still had not transformed.  "What are you guys waiting for?  Armor up!" Serena said.

"Right!" Ryo said.  "ARMOR OF WILDFIRE…"

"ARMOR OF HALO…"

"ARMOR OF TORRENT…"

"ARMOR OF HARDROCK…"

"ARMOR OF STRATA…"

"DAO CHI!"  The Ronin Warriors were armored up in seconds and assumed fighting stances, prepare to do battle.  As the youma charged them, Raye called out, "Yeah, that's right.  Come and get us!  Or better yet, I'll get you!  FIREBIRD FLARE!"  A firebird erupted from her hand and fried a couple of the youma.  "That did a lot of good, Raye!" Serena said sarcastically, "You only got rid of two!"

"Hey, at least it's two less that we have to deal with!"

"Good point."  They continued on fighting for about 10 minutes when suddenly, two little boys ran head first into the battle, not knowing what was going on.  A youma looked down and said, "Well, what do we have here?"  He dropped his weapon and picked up the two little boys who were trying to run away.  Their cries for help reached Serena and she turned to look at what it was.  When she turned around, she gasped.  "Hey, you big metal-head!  Put those kids down right now!"  The youma turned to her and smiled cruelly.  "What make you think I want to fight you when I can torture these kids, hmm?"  He dropped one of the kids and backhanded the other one with his now free hand.  The kid screamed as blood came out of many cuts on his face, cuts from the slashing of skin with metal. 

Serena growled and said, "Hey, at first I thought you were just a youma, but now I know you are truly the devil.  I may be able to stand up to you when you fight me, but that kid is defenseless and I won't stand for you hurting him.  You'll pay for that!  I call upon the armor of the Cosmos!  Armor of the Cosmos, TO ARMS!"  The other Mystical Warriors screamed as their powers left their bodies and went into her crystal, which surrounded her in a ball of light.  When the light faded, she was standing there in gold and silver armor.  The silver was still the same, but the white that was on her was now gold.  On her chest instead of her crescent moon was a nine-pointed star that had the colors of each of the nine armors at the point and she had white, metal wings attached to the backside of her armor. 

Standing her staff on the ground, she extracted the crystal from its place in the staff and raised her arms above her head, the crystal floating in between her hands.  The Mystical Warriors ducked and the Ronin Warriors looked at them confused.  "Why are you ducking?" Sage asked Raye.

"Well, unless you want to get hit by youma parts, continue standing," she responded.

"What can a tiny crystal do?" Kento asked, thinking that a crystal the size of a baseball couldn't possibly do any damage.

"Just watch," Lita said and the Ronin Warriors ducked and watched what Serena was doing.  The crystal had been gathering light.  When the light was just below the point of blinding, she called out, "SUPERNOVA STRIKE!" and the light in the crystal exploded, creating a shockwave that spread for a mile radius.  When the light faded, Serena was standing there in her regular armor and the crystal was back in her staff, but there were no more youmas.  They had all been destroyed.  "Wow," the Ronin Warriors said.

"That's a lot of power coming from one person," Rowen said.

"Yes, but you have to expect it when she's holding the crystal that holds the power to destroy the Universe," Ami said.

"She can destroy the Universe with that thing?" Cye asked.

"She sure can," Ami continued, "She just needs more training.  Not that we want her to do it, but if her power was strong enough, then she could."  The Ronin Warriors just stared at Serena, almost afraid of the power she possessed.  Serena slumped down to her knees and Mina was the first one to get to her.  She put down her bow and put her arm around her shoulder, shaking Serena slightly.  "Hey Serena, you ok?"

"Yeah, I just haven't used that much power in so long, you know?"

"Yeah, I know.  I'm kinda tired, too."

"Yeah, but you didn't use the armor of the Cosmos."

"You got me there."

"Why?  How long has it been since you've used that armor?" Ryo asked.

"A year.  Trust me, when you don't use something like this in a long time, you tire quickly.  It's kinda like taking up running again after not doing it for a while.  You get tired easily.  All I need is rest.  Come on.  Let's go home."  Serena reluctantly picked her self up and began the walk home with the others following.  When they got back, they all dredged their way upstairs and went right to sleep.