Yo, I'll bet you're happy there's TWO new chapters at once huh?
~Les Disputes~
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"Do we have any idea on how that kid could be so strong?" Sailor Uranus asked along the table where the other Outer Senshi and King Endymion sat.
"No child from Earth could have that much power and have us not know about it. He must've come from another part of the universe." Sailor Saturn said, quietly scanning files on other races of other planets. The group sat quietly, thinking hard of how such a being could just run into Earth.
"...There was something I saw in my Mirror some years back." Sailor Neptune said, her eyebrows screwed into concentration. "I can't quite remember properly though, at the time I think that I thought it was a small meteorite." She paused, contemplating her speech carefully. "However now that I think about it, it was the perfect size for a human sized being to fit inside."
"Why didn't you think of this earlier?" King Endymion asked, his piercing blue eyes boring into her mind, searching for truth.
"I can't remember. I wouldn't have normally overlooked it. I can't have been in a right state of mind."
"Will your Mirror show it again?"
Neptune shook her teal hair. "It only shows the present dangers."
"When was the last time you checked?"
"A month ago I believe."
"Check it again." He asked in a way to finish their discussion. She nodded and left the conference room. As soon as the door shut close, the quietness of the area loomed over them again. Endymion scowled into his palms that covered his face. He didn't want any wars, their community was peaceful and today it was shattered. And the enigma was the boy. "Is there any way we can find out who, what, where that boy is from?" He asked in a close moan to exhaustion.
"Mercury-san would have a better idea. She has her computer running all the time, checking anomalies and such." Sailor Pluto said. "But since she is -detained- I can access the battleground and take a DNA sample from the boy. We should gain sufficient details on the boy from those." Endymion nodded and waved his hand for her to leave.
Alone and quiet, Endymion slunk back into his seat, head lying back to face the ceiling. His mournful expression did not go unnoticed, as the door to the large and narrow room opened quietly and closed.
He did not notice.
He lay there and closed his eyes, thinking and hoping that his worst fears would not come true from this new development. If Crystal Tokyo ceased to be...If his _wife_ ceased to be...no. He couldn't think about it. They had an entire army, okay, three-quarters of an army on their side. A loyal army-
"Daddy be happy!" a little girl of barely looking six years old bounded onto his lap with Luna-P and smiled brightly. Endymion couldn't help but smile too and took a curly wisp of her pink hair, placing it behind her ear, only for it to curl back into place in front of her ear.
"I thought I told you not to come in here."
"Mama told me to come."
Endymion chuckled. "Did she now?"
"Tattle tale!" came a feminine voice. The Queen stepped through the doors and ruffled the girl's hair. "Chibi-Usa you should learn to keep secrets!" The blonde Queen then sat on a chair and pouted to the little girl who giggled insistently.
"What a secret?"
"A secret?" asked the queen and the girl nodded. "It's something that you should keep to yourself, and not tell others about it. Usually if someone tells you their secret they ask you not tell anyone about it so what you've done should deserve a spank-"
"NO!" shrieked Chibi-Usa and she ran as fast as her feet would carry her away from the conference room. The queen giggled and looked to her husband.
"Have you asked the Outers about the boy?"
Endymion smiled to her warmly and replied, "Nice to know that you have confidence in me." He stood up, and left the room leaving the white donned queen still sitting and looking puzzled.
"Hey!" she shouted out and ran out of the room after him, but abruptly stopped and walked regally when a tired looking servant walked past her carrying a mop. Her face was red from cleaning and her breathes were pretty loud. 'Honestly' thought Serenity. 'If they could get these marble floors any cleaner I'd kill myself!' The woman in blonde odangoes looked down at her reflection on the floor and paused mid step to see Endymion going further away in one direction, and the servant behind her. She turned and called,
"Hiroi-san!" The woman in a black skirt, white shirt and apron turned and paled as she caught sight of the queen. She quickly curtsied and avoided Serenity's eyes. She wondered briefly how the queen knew her name. "If you're going to clean any other floors in this palace, don't. This place is getting _too_ clean if that's possible, and if I weren't wearing grips on my shoes I'm sure I'd slip!" The queen lifted her satin dress and showed the white rubber grips on her high heeled shoes.
The servant laughed a little and blushed soon after. "Oh come on, laugh if you like, god knows everyone needs to do it once in a while! Besides, I'm just as normal as you are!" The woman smiled and curtsied again.
"Thank you very much, Your Majesty!"
"Now go and have some fun, don't come back til the end of the week!" The queen turned and started to run down the corridors shouting, "ENDYMION!"
"THANK YOU!" shouted the servant and the queen turned and waved.
"Your welcome!"
~~~
Deep in the voids of time and space, two figures wielding staffs spoke in a hushed whisper. The expanse was infinity and blank white. The taller of the two nodded her head and took her staff, spinning it wildly in front of her so that the wind gathered and thrust her shimmering dark green hair into the air. The other could not be distinguished, for she was the symbol of darkness as it hung around her and obscured her from view. Soon the violent spinning of the staff caused a tear in the dimension and an opening appeared, the other side looking like a battleground view from above.
"After you." The taller said and the black figure stepped through followed by the other.
Funnily enough, they ended up a tall tree and the noises of charred flesh and blood reached their noses. "That smell..." murmured the smaller of the two women and she shook her head. They waited just ten seconds and the taller commanded,
"Pluto Time Freeze!" In mid-kick, mid-air and mid-punch, the environment froze as time itself stopped. Just in front of them, the strange boy was completely frozen a couple of metres in the air but was looking at them curiously. Jumping off the tree, the senshi failed to notice how muddy the ground was and sank into the soil by a few inches.
"Eww..." muttered Sailor Saturn, who was wearing a dark purple Senshi fuku and had at the moment discarded her vicious Silence Glaive. Getting out of her predicament, the senshi asked her superior, "How do you suppose that he knows we're here?"
They moved around the boy and a gaze remained fixed on where they were a few second before. "I expect he realised something was happening up there, and he was right, but soon he will think he'd just imagined things." Sailor Pluto replied, and promptly plucked a hair from the boy's head and collected a full vial of blood. "Take the readings." She said and Sailor Saturn took out a device lent to her from Sailor Mercury and scanned the boy's energy and health readings.
Suddenly the machine bleeped and blinked red. "Uh oh." Said Sailor Saturn. "This is not good."
~~~
Garbed in a yellow sun dress, Aino Minako strolled purposefully towards one of her best friend's quarters, or as most of them called it her 'lab'. Turning another right turn she found the entrance to Mercury's and Uranus' quarters and briefly Minako transformed soundlessly to produce her love energy and enter Mercury's lab. Bounding down the stairs, she found her blue haired friend at her computer again in the corner of the darkened room.
Silently she entered and turned on the lights, but her friend did not notice and only until Minako reached the desk behind her did the Mercury senshi speak. "I don't want another lecture Minako." Her voice was hoarse and slightly slurred which gave Minako a shiver of anger and pity. Instead of trying to stop her friend from finding her secret lover through the satellite signals being sent from Ami's computer, Minako went to the water basin and filled a nearby mug full of cold water. Wordlessly she gave it to Ami, who ignored her and so she placed it next to the computer screen.
Standing quietly, she noticed Ami's eyes drift to the water mug and with the poise of the Mercurians, she drank the water until the last drop spilled. Again Minako filled it for her and again Ami drank it.
"When was the last time you had a drink?" Minako asked. Only the reply of rapidly pressed keys came to her ears and Minako scowled. "You should know you need more water than any of us. Your attacks use some of your own water in your system, or do I need to go over what you already know?" Again, Ami did not reply and drank steadily her last cup. "Fine. If you're not going to talk to me as a friend then I'm leaving." As Minako walked away, she mumbled, "Who needs a selfish friend."
"What did you say?" Ami murmured and carefully rose from her seat and walked dangerously to Minako's face and snarled, "What makes _me_ selfish?"
Ami's calm demeanour, if anything got Minako more riled up and exploded her short response, "Everything!"
"Like what?" Ami hissed.
"You're overlooking your first priority! Protecting the queen remember? You know, it's the REASON why you're Sailor Mercury and how you found your 'boyfriend'!"
Ami did not reply but burned a hole into Minako's eyes with her own piercing ice blue eyes. "You wouldn't understand." She finally said and turned to go back to her computer.
"What makes you think that?"
Turning her head a little so that Ami looked to Minako in the corner of her eyes, she replied, "You've never had the experience."
That struck a nerve.
"How DARE you!" shouted Minako across the lab. Since there were no windows the words echoed through the room. She stomped towards her present 'ex- friend' and said deeply, "I'm the Senshi of Love! I'm the one who has to suffer for it! No guy wants to go out with me because every time I try to they always manage to find someone ELSE! Just like Tseno."
"You bitch."
"I'm sorry, but HOW does that work out?" Minako hissed angrily. "YOU were meant to be the one nobody liked because of your geekiness!"
"Excuse me?!" All of a sudden all of the stresses that had built up inside of both of them poured out, and insult upon insult rained down upon each other's ego. Voices turned to shouts. Shouts turned to screams. And screams turned to cries of pain. They transformed and fought.
"Venus Love Me Chain!"
"Mercury Shabon Spray Freezing!"
The fighting stopped, and they stared at each other in stalemate. Mercury was bound by the magical chain and Venus's hands and feet were frozen to the wall. They glared at each other and remained quiet. If anything this was their punishment.
However after two minutes the magical door opened and closed and Haruka walked down the stairs. "I heard someth-?!" The sandy blonde woman took in her surroundings of the lab and an equation formed in her mind.
Sailor Mercury x Venus Chain + Sailor Venus x Mercury Freezing = Fight
Instead of any sympathy, Haruka crossed her arms and promptly leant against the wall. Quickly she jumped back as the wall was deathly cold in connection to Mercury's freezing technique. So instead she took a chair and sat down, leaning on the back rest. "So-"
"SHE STARTED IT!" they both yelled.
"She said I was geeky!"
"She said I was a slut!"
"She said I was-"
"HOLD IT!" snapped Haruka. The door opened again and Michiru joined in the fray with an,
"Oh dear. What happened?"
"You know what? I'm going to leave and let these two to sort it out themselves. Goodbye." Uneasily Michiru followed and left Minako and Ami to glare at each other.
"I'm not going to let my Chain go until you let go of your ice."
"Not a chance."
"Fine."
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Oh dear. Please don't hate me for this chapter - couldn't be avoided. In the follow-up you'll - hm, I'm not saying I don't want to give it away! Completely different idea coming up. That's all I'm saying. Thanks to Mike Silva for reminding me the necessity of the next chapter's twist though! Plus I apologise that this chapter is pretty short. Next one will be much longer. Promise. Review helpfully please!
~Les Disputes~
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"Do we have any idea on how that kid could be so strong?" Sailor Uranus asked along the table where the other Outer Senshi and King Endymion sat.
"No child from Earth could have that much power and have us not know about it. He must've come from another part of the universe." Sailor Saturn said, quietly scanning files on other races of other planets. The group sat quietly, thinking hard of how such a being could just run into Earth.
"...There was something I saw in my Mirror some years back." Sailor Neptune said, her eyebrows screwed into concentration. "I can't quite remember properly though, at the time I think that I thought it was a small meteorite." She paused, contemplating her speech carefully. "However now that I think about it, it was the perfect size for a human sized being to fit inside."
"Why didn't you think of this earlier?" King Endymion asked, his piercing blue eyes boring into her mind, searching for truth.
"I can't remember. I wouldn't have normally overlooked it. I can't have been in a right state of mind."
"Will your Mirror show it again?"
Neptune shook her teal hair. "It only shows the present dangers."
"When was the last time you checked?"
"A month ago I believe."
"Check it again." He asked in a way to finish their discussion. She nodded and left the conference room. As soon as the door shut close, the quietness of the area loomed over them again. Endymion scowled into his palms that covered his face. He didn't want any wars, their community was peaceful and today it was shattered. And the enigma was the boy. "Is there any way we can find out who, what, where that boy is from?" He asked in a close moan to exhaustion.
"Mercury-san would have a better idea. She has her computer running all the time, checking anomalies and such." Sailor Pluto said. "But since she is -detained- I can access the battleground and take a DNA sample from the boy. We should gain sufficient details on the boy from those." Endymion nodded and waved his hand for her to leave.
Alone and quiet, Endymion slunk back into his seat, head lying back to face the ceiling. His mournful expression did not go unnoticed, as the door to the large and narrow room opened quietly and closed.
He did not notice.
He lay there and closed his eyes, thinking and hoping that his worst fears would not come true from this new development. If Crystal Tokyo ceased to be...If his _wife_ ceased to be...no. He couldn't think about it. They had an entire army, okay, three-quarters of an army on their side. A loyal army-
"Daddy be happy!" a little girl of barely looking six years old bounded onto his lap with Luna-P and smiled brightly. Endymion couldn't help but smile too and took a curly wisp of her pink hair, placing it behind her ear, only for it to curl back into place in front of her ear.
"I thought I told you not to come in here."
"Mama told me to come."
Endymion chuckled. "Did she now?"
"Tattle tale!" came a feminine voice. The Queen stepped through the doors and ruffled the girl's hair. "Chibi-Usa you should learn to keep secrets!" The blonde Queen then sat on a chair and pouted to the little girl who giggled insistently.
"What a secret?"
"A secret?" asked the queen and the girl nodded. "It's something that you should keep to yourself, and not tell others about it. Usually if someone tells you their secret they ask you not tell anyone about it so what you've done should deserve a spank-"
"NO!" shrieked Chibi-Usa and she ran as fast as her feet would carry her away from the conference room. The queen giggled and looked to her husband.
"Have you asked the Outers about the boy?"
Endymion smiled to her warmly and replied, "Nice to know that you have confidence in me." He stood up, and left the room leaving the white donned queen still sitting and looking puzzled.
"Hey!" she shouted out and ran out of the room after him, but abruptly stopped and walked regally when a tired looking servant walked past her carrying a mop. Her face was red from cleaning and her breathes were pretty loud. 'Honestly' thought Serenity. 'If they could get these marble floors any cleaner I'd kill myself!' The woman in blonde odangoes looked down at her reflection on the floor and paused mid step to see Endymion going further away in one direction, and the servant behind her. She turned and called,
"Hiroi-san!" The woman in a black skirt, white shirt and apron turned and paled as she caught sight of the queen. She quickly curtsied and avoided Serenity's eyes. She wondered briefly how the queen knew her name. "If you're going to clean any other floors in this palace, don't. This place is getting _too_ clean if that's possible, and if I weren't wearing grips on my shoes I'm sure I'd slip!" The queen lifted her satin dress and showed the white rubber grips on her high heeled shoes.
The servant laughed a little and blushed soon after. "Oh come on, laugh if you like, god knows everyone needs to do it once in a while! Besides, I'm just as normal as you are!" The woman smiled and curtsied again.
"Thank you very much, Your Majesty!"
"Now go and have some fun, don't come back til the end of the week!" The queen turned and started to run down the corridors shouting, "ENDYMION!"
"THANK YOU!" shouted the servant and the queen turned and waved.
"Your welcome!"
~~~
Deep in the voids of time and space, two figures wielding staffs spoke in a hushed whisper. The expanse was infinity and blank white. The taller of the two nodded her head and took her staff, spinning it wildly in front of her so that the wind gathered and thrust her shimmering dark green hair into the air. The other could not be distinguished, for she was the symbol of darkness as it hung around her and obscured her from view. Soon the violent spinning of the staff caused a tear in the dimension and an opening appeared, the other side looking like a battleground view from above.
"After you." The taller said and the black figure stepped through followed by the other.
Funnily enough, they ended up a tall tree and the noises of charred flesh and blood reached their noses. "That smell..." murmured the smaller of the two women and she shook her head. They waited just ten seconds and the taller commanded,
"Pluto Time Freeze!" In mid-kick, mid-air and mid-punch, the environment froze as time itself stopped. Just in front of them, the strange boy was completely frozen a couple of metres in the air but was looking at them curiously. Jumping off the tree, the senshi failed to notice how muddy the ground was and sank into the soil by a few inches.
"Eww..." muttered Sailor Saturn, who was wearing a dark purple Senshi fuku and had at the moment discarded her vicious Silence Glaive. Getting out of her predicament, the senshi asked her superior, "How do you suppose that he knows we're here?"
They moved around the boy and a gaze remained fixed on where they were a few second before. "I expect he realised something was happening up there, and he was right, but soon he will think he'd just imagined things." Sailor Pluto replied, and promptly plucked a hair from the boy's head and collected a full vial of blood. "Take the readings." She said and Sailor Saturn took out a device lent to her from Sailor Mercury and scanned the boy's energy and health readings.
Suddenly the machine bleeped and blinked red. "Uh oh." Said Sailor Saturn. "This is not good."
~~~
Garbed in a yellow sun dress, Aino Minako strolled purposefully towards one of her best friend's quarters, or as most of them called it her 'lab'. Turning another right turn she found the entrance to Mercury's and Uranus' quarters and briefly Minako transformed soundlessly to produce her love energy and enter Mercury's lab. Bounding down the stairs, she found her blue haired friend at her computer again in the corner of the darkened room.
Silently she entered and turned on the lights, but her friend did not notice and only until Minako reached the desk behind her did the Mercury senshi speak. "I don't want another lecture Minako." Her voice was hoarse and slightly slurred which gave Minako a shiver of anger and pity. Instead of trying to stop her friend from finding her secret lover through the satellite signals being sent from Ami's computer, Minako went to the water basin and filled a nearby mug full of cold water. Wordlessly she gave it to Ami, who ignored her and so she placed it next to the computer screen.
Standing quietly, she noticed Ami's eyes drift to the water mug and with the poise of the Mercurians, she drank the water until the last drop spilled. Again Minako filled it for her and again Ami drank it.
"When was the last time you had a drink?" Minako asked. Only the reply of rapidly pressed keys came to her ears and Minako scowled. "You should know you need more water than any of us. Your attacks use some of your own water in your system, or do I need to go over what you already know?" Again, Ami did not reply and drank steadily her last cup. "Fine. If you're not going to talk to me as a friend then I'm leaving." As Minako walked away, she mumbled, "Who needs a selfish friend."
"What did you say?" Ami murmured and carefully rose from her seat and walked dangerously to Minako's face and snarled, "What makes _me_ selfish?"
Ami's calm demeanour, if anything got Minako more riled up and exploded her short response, "Everything!"
"Like what?" Ami hissed.
"You're overlooking your first priority! Protecting the queen remember? You know, it's the REASON why you're Sailor Mercury and how you found your 'boyfriend'!"
Ami did not reply but burned a hole into Minako's eyes with her own piercing ice blue eyes. "You wouldn't understand." She finally said and turned to go back to her computer.
"What makes you think that?"
Turning her head a little so that Ami looked to Minako in the corner of her eyes, she replied, "You've never had the experience."
That struck a nerve.
"How DARE you!" shouted Minako across the lab. Since there were no windows the words echoed through the room. She stomped towards her present 'ex- friend' and said deeply, "I'm the Senshi of Love! I'm the one who has to suffer for it! No guy wants to go out with me because every time I try to they always manage to find someone ELSE! Just like Tseno."
"You bitch."
"I'm sorry, but HOW does that work out?" Minako hissed angrily. "YOU were meant to be the one nobody liked because of your geekiness!"
"Excuse me?!" All of a sudden all of the stresses that had built up inside of both of them poured out, and insult upon insult rained down upon each other's ego. Voices turned to shouts. Shouts turned to screams. And screams turned to cries of pain. They transformed and fought.
"Venus Love Me Chain!"
"Mercury Shabon Spray Freezing!"
The fighting stopped, and they stared at each other in stalemate. Mercury was bound by the magical chain and Venus's hands and feet were frozen to the wall. They glared at each other and remained quiet. If anything this was their punishment.
However after two minutes the magical door opened and closed and Haruka walked down the stairs. "I heard someth-?!" The sandy blonde woman took in her surroundings of the lab and an equation formed in her mind.
Sailor Mercury x Venus Chain + Sailor Venus x Mercury Freezing = Fight
Instead of any sympathy, Haruka crossed her arms and promptly leant against the wall. Quickly she jumped back as the wall was deathly cold in connection to Mercury's freezing technique. So instead she took a chair and sat down, leaning on the back rest. "So-"
"SHE STARTED IT!" they both yelled.
"She said I was geeky!"
"She said I was a slut!"
"She said I was-"
"HOLD IT!" snapped Haruka. The door opened again and Michiru joined in the fray with an,
"Oh dear. What happened?"
"You know what? I'm going to leave and let these two to sort it out themselves. Goodbye." Uneasily Michiru followed and left Minako and Ami to glare at each other.
"I'm not going to let my Chain go until you let go of your ice."
"Not a chance."
"Fine."
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Oh dear. Please don't hate me for this chapter - couldn't be avoided. In the follow-up you'll - hm, I'm not saying I don't want to give it away! Completely different idea coming up. That's all I'm saying. Thanks to Mike Silva for reminding me the necessity of the next chapter's twist though! Plus I apologise that this chapter is pretty short. Next one will be much longer. Promise. Review helpfully please!