Life's Drive ~ Alerte! Alerte! Une Attaque s'Approche!
AN: Thanks to Ashleigh-Kaiba for reviewing! Haha, of course there'll be pairings! This is part romance for a reason! ; P
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In her yellow and navy lavishly decorated quarters, Minako combed through her golden hair in front of the mirror by the large French doors overlooking the garden, the theme being her favourite flowers, large daises. But presently they were being showered with water from the sky. Mercury had decided that the heat from Mars and sunshine from Venus had lasted too long and the plants needed a drink, to which was being provided at the moment. Dressed in a black and white striped halter necked dress to her knees, she carefully took a daisy from the vase on her chest of drawers and placed it carefully in her hair that was pinned up by plain white clips.
Previous common thoughts of loneliness again crossed her mind and she sighed deeply, closing her eyes. Upon exhaling she opened her now sincere blue eyes with a hint of determination. But it disappeared as soon as she scowled to herself in the mirror. 'Who am I dressing up for?' she hissed to herself.
With a curt knock the door opened and a jumpy Minako whirled around to the door where a servant curtsied and said quickly under her stare, "Venus- hime, Merury-hime wants to see you as soon as possible in her laboratory."
"Okay Tsena. You're dismissed." The girl of barely eighteen with chin length, even blonde hair nodded and left quickly. With another sigh to herself in the mirror, she blinked and concentrated briefly, only to look back at herself in binding fuku, physically and mentally. Forcing a smile, she opened the door and exited her quarters to see the rain outside slipping down the clear crystal walls of the palace. It felt like being in the water, and it obscured her view of outside. The marble floors changed patterns with the refracted rays of light falling randomly. She narrowed her eyes to it; sure that Mercury was going to gloat that the weather matched her mood. Kicking herself, she realised that Mercury wasn't that kind of person.
Still she sped walked down the long and busy halls of the palace and rounded a left corner, going deeper into her family's abode. Taking a right, then another right, she found herself seeing steps going up and down. Unfortunately to those without admittance, the stairs going up were labelled with the symbol of Uranus and those down with the symbol of Mercury. In order to go down, she produced a heart of golden energy in the palm of her hand and she guided it into a recognisance device at the entrance. The machine whirred and the wall of ice preventing entry moulded into a doorway. Walking through, she turned and saw the ice mould back into a wall. Jogging a little down the stairs, she looked around the large room and found her friend in blue in her little work corner, talking rapidly into her mouthpiece attached to the earring that she taps onto to get her visor.
"...don't care about the buildings! Get the people out and into the palace's borders for safety!" Venus could tell that whatever answer going through the earpiece was not pleasing her friend. Mercury grunted in response and stormed past a bewildered Venus to the computer on another desk. Typing a few commands, she shouted through her comm. piece, "Attention citizens of Crystal Tokyo! This is Sailor Mercury and it is in all our best interests that you retreat to the palace's shelters! An army is advancing to these areas, and we need all the room we can get to defend! Please, do as I, and the military say for your safety!" She stopped and typed another few commands.
Finally she turned to Venus and sighed. "I only just discovered that the Red Ribbon Army is advancing from a few miles away north. I've calculated that we only have fifteen minutes until they reach Crystal Tokyo's borders."
Venus clenched her fists and did the only thing that came to her. "Shit. Have you alerted everyone else?"
"Hai, they're gathered in 'Sagi's throne room."
"Okay, then I suppose you want me to help the military with evacuating the city?"
"Iie. Go to the army and tell them to concentrate into a shield to defend. A certain senshi should get the citizens to retreat."
"A senshi? Who?"
Mercury raised an eyebrow and smirked. "I'm sure that a word from a certain sword wielding senshi should silence complaints!" Venus and Mercury grinned to each other, imagining how Uranus would handle the matters. Mercury imagined lots of shouting, Venus imagined threatening words supported by her sword. The two burst into laughter.
"Okay okay!" Venus cried, wiping an imaginary tear. "I'll go and round up the army and get strategy going. Come to think of it, I'll get Jupiter and get her to do that, I think I'll do a little spying. You know, see this army up close." She was about to leave when Mercury's computer bleeped.
"...Actually, I don't think you'll need to Venus, I already sent Tseno in, he's just informed me that there must be about five thousand in number...and..." Mercury further scanned the details. "...and they just look pretty burly carrying laser and rocket guns."
Venus sighed and twisted her mouth into tight-lipped smile. "Sailor Mercury. The one who thinks of everything."
Mercury beamed and snapped her mini computer shut. "I try my best."
Venus snorted and started up the stairs. "Yeah, and your best is trying to get an IQ of over 300!" She opened the ice door and heard Mercury cry,
"Get real! I'm not _that_ obsessed!"
She only laughed.
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Outside in the rain, Venus and Jupiter poured themselves over a large map on a table under a small tent. They could just see the army trickling over a distant hill near the horizon.
"...So the army are coming from...here, and I reckon we should surprise 'em from behind using the army we have further north." Jupiter said, pointing on the map. She looked up through green eyes and frowned. Venus was not paying attention to a word she was saying! "Venus?" The blonde snapped her head back and started,
"Huh? Sorry, I...I just thought I sensed something." This caught Jupiter attention.
"Really? You mean energy-?" But her comrade cut her off.
"Can we stop the rain? It holds a disadvantage for our army, they won't be able to push off from the ground." But Venus cringed under Jupiter's glare.
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Really?! Because of Mars' heat my plants are wilting and don't think your never-ending sunshine helps! My rhysomia laticatus (AN, made up by the way) comes from Neptune so it needs tons of water and little energy! It. Is. WILTING."
"Jupiter, Venus, the Outers want us back by Odango to protect her." Mars said as she ran under the tent and wrung her wet hair as the rain continued to hammer on the tent. They had to raise their voices to be heard. "That's apparently 'our' job. And co-ordinating the defence is 'their' job." Jupiter scowled.
"'Our' job is to defend this city. Theirs is to protect the Solar System from intruders." Mars waved her off.
"Yeah yeah, but you know how Uranus gets about Odango. Plus we're a team now, we're not split up by classes anymore so don't get into that." Mars glanced up to the speedily advancing army. "Come on, we'd better go and let the Outers do their business. We can help the citizens with keeping calm anyway." She walked out into the rain and beckoned to Venus and Jupiter. "Kami what is with this rain?!" she muttered, raising the temperature sharply around her skin to let the rain evaporate.
"Don't use up your energy, Mars. You may need it." Venus said.
"Oh that reminds me, what did you sense?" Jupiter asked. Surprisingly they were pretty calm about this upcoming battle. They supposed it was due to the fact that they were the most powerful beings in the spiral arm of their galaxy.
"Oh, some pure energy, coming fast from north east. I'm not sure what it is. But it's concentrated, so it's one person."
"Or thing." Mars said. "Wait a minute I got it. It's ki. And it's not from north east, it's from the east. Your pinpointing is still inaccurate, keep on training it."
'What's the point?' Venus thought as she inwardly scowled. 'It's not like we're at a disadvantage. Sometimes I wonder why we still stay as senshi. Why can't we just have a normal life? A life with a family...' She grunted and kicked a stone that careened into a nearby hovercar.
"Geez, what's up with you, Venus? You seem highly strung today."
"I'm always highly strung." Venus muttered and sped walked back to the crystal palace stretching into the sky. Mars and Jupiter gave each other a worried glance.
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Don't worry! It'll get interesting! I promise! Review!
AN: Thanks to Ashleigh-Kaiba for reviewing! Haha, of course there'll be pairings! This is part romance for a reason! ; P
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In her yellow and navy lavishly decorated quarters, Minako combed through her golden hair in front of the mirror by the large French doors overlooking the garden, the theme being her favourite flowers, large daises. But presently they were being showered with water from the sky. Mercury had decided that the heat from Mars and sunshine from Venus had lasted too long and the plants needed a drink, to which was being provided at the moment. Dressed in a black and white striped halter necked dress to her knees, she carefully took a daisy from the vase on her chest of drawers and placed it carefully in her hair that was pinned up by plain white clips.
Previous common thoughts of loneliness again crossed her mind and she sighed deeply, closing her eyes. Upon exhaling she opened her now sincere blue eyes with a hint of determination. But it disappeared as soon as she scowled to herself in the mirror. 'Who am I dressing up for?' she hissed to herself.
With a curt knock the door opened and a jumpy Minako whirled around to the door where a servant curtsied and said quickly under her stare, "Venus- hime, Merury-hime wants to see you as soon as possible in her laboratory."
"Okay Tsena. You're dismissed." The girl of barely eighteen with chin length, even blonde hair nodded and left quickly. With another sigh to herself in the mirror, she blinked and concentrated briefly, only to look back at herself in binding fuku, physically and mentally. Forcing a smile, she opened the door and exited her quarters to see the rain outside slipping down the clear crystal walls of the palace. It felt like being in the water, and it obscured her view of outside. The marble floors changed patterns with the refracted rays of light falling randomly. She narrowed her eyes to it; sure that Mercury was going to gloat that the weather matched her mood. Kicking herself, she realised that Mercury wasn't that kind of person.
Still she sped walked down the long and busy halls of the palace and rounded a left corner, going deeper into her family's abode. Taking a right, then another right, she found herself seeing steps going up and down. Unfortunately to those without admittance, the stairs going up were labelled with the symbol of Uranus and those down with the symbol of Mercury. In order to go down, she produced a heart of golden energy in the palm of her hand and she guided it into a recognisance device at the entrance. The machine whirred and the wall of ice preventing entry moulded into a doorway. Walking through, she turned and saw the ice mould back into a wall. Jogging a little down the stairs, she looked around the large room and found her friend in blue in her little work corner, talking rapidly into her mouthpiece attached to the earring that she taps onto to get her visor.
"...don't care about the buildings! Get the people out and into the palace's borders for safety!" Venus could tell that whatever answer going through the earpiece was not pleasing her friend. Mercury grunted in response and stormed past a bewildered Venus to the computer on another desk. Typing a few commands, she shouted through her comm. piece, "Attention citizens of Crystal Tokyo! This is Sailor Mercury and it is in all our best interests that you retreat to the palace's shelters! An army is advancing to these areas, and we need all the room we can get to defend! Please, do as I, and the military say for your safety!" She stopped and typed another few commands.
Finally she turned to Venus and sighed. "I only just discovered that the Red Ribbon Army is advancing from a few miles away north. I've calculated that we only have fifteen minutes until they reach Crystal Tokyo's borders."
Venus clenched her fists and did the only thing that came to her. "Shit. Have you alerted everyone else?"
"Hai, they're gathered in 'Sagi's throne room."
"Okay, then I suppose you want me to help the military with evacuating the city?"
"Iie. Go to the army and tell them to concentrate into a shield to defend. A certain senshi should get the citizens to retreat."
"A senshi? Who?"
Mercury raised an eyebrow and smirked. "I'm sure that a word from a certain sword wielding senshi should silence complaints!" Venus and Mercury grinned to each other, imagining how Uranus would handle the matters. Mercury imagined lots of shouting, Venus imagined threatening words supported by her sword. The two burst into laughter.
"Okay okay!" Venus cried, wiping an imaginary tear. "I'll go and round up the army and get strategy going. Come to think of it, I'll get Jupiter and get her to do that, I think I'll do a little spying. You know, see this army up close." She was about to leave when Mercury's computer bleeped.
"...Actually, I don't think you'll need to Venus, I already sent Tseno in, he's just informed me that there must be about five thousand in number...and..." Mercury further scanned the details. "...and they just look pretty burly carrying laser and rocket guns."
Venus sighed and twisted her mouth into tight-lipped smile. "Sailor Mercury. The one who thinks of everything."
Mercury beamed and snapped her mini computer shut. "I try my best."
Venus snorted and started up the stairs. "Yeah, and your best is trying to get an IQ of over 300!" She opened the ice door and heard Mercury cry,
"Get real! I'm not _that_ obsessed!"
She only laughed.
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Outside in the rain, Venus and Jupiter poured themselves over a large map on a table under a small tent. They could just see the army trickling over a distant hill near the horizon.
"...So the army are coming from...here, and I reckon we should surprise 'em from behind using the army we have further north." Jupiter said, pointing on the map. She looked up through green eyes and frowned. Venus was not paying attention to a word she was saying! "Venus?" The blonde snapped her head back and started,
"Huh? Sorry, I...I just thought I sensed something." This caught Jupiter attention.
"Really? You mean energy-?" But her comrade cut her off.
"Can we stop the rain? It holds a disadvantage for our army, they won't be able to push off from the ground." But Venus cringed under Jupiter's glare.
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Really?! Because of Mars' heat my plants are wilting and don't think your never-ending sunshine helps! My rhysomia laticatus (AN, made up by the way) comes from Neptune so it needs tons of water and little energy! It. Is. WILTING."
"Jupiter, Venus, the Outers want us back by Odango to protect her." Mars said as she ran under the tent and wrung her wet hair as the rain continued to hammer on the tent. They had to raise their voices to be heard. "That's apparently 'our' job. And co-ordinating the defence is 'their' job." Jupiter scowled.
"'Our' job is to defend this city. Theirs is to protect the Solar System from intruders." Mars waved her off.
"Yeah yeah, but you know how Uranus gets about Odango. Plus we're a team now, we're not split up by classes anymore so don't get into that." Mars glanced up to the speedily advancing army. "Come on, we'd better go and let the Outers do their business. We can help the citizens with keeping calm anyway." She walked out into the rain and beckoned to Venus and Jupiter. "Kami what is with this rain?!" she muttered, raising the temperature sharply around her skin to let the rain evaporate.
"Don't use up your energy, Mars. You may need it." Venus said.
"Oh that reminds me, what did you sense?" Jupiter asked. Surprisingly they were pretty calm about this upcoming battle. They supposed it was due to the fact that they were the most powerful beings in the spiral arm of their galaxy.
"Oh, some pure energy, coming fast from north east. I'm not sure what it is. But it's concentrated, so it's one person."
"Or thing." Mars said. "Wait a minute I got it. It's ki. And it's not from north east, it's from the east. Your pinpointing is still inaccurate, keep on training it."
'What's the point?' Venus thought as she inwardly scowled. 'It's not like we're at a disadvantage. Sometimes I wonder why we still stay as senshi. Why can't we just have a normal life? A life with a family...' She grunted and kicked a stone that careened into a nearby hovercar.
"Geez, what's up with you, Venus? You seem highly strung today."
"I'm always highly strung." Venus muttered and sped walked back to the crystal palace stretching into the sky. Mars and Jupiter gave each other a worried glance.
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Don't worry! It'll get interesting! I promise! Review!