Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
Sam Weasley
Summary: The last story was about the mysterious Sailor Hecate and her trials of the Sailor Senshi. But Hecate cannot guard the Gates of the Underworld and be the Senshi of Death at the same time. So she sends her companion back into life to help protect the old and new Senshi from their Future and Hecate's warning to Endymion. Warnings: Overall weirdness, for one. But basically, some swearing, violence, swearing, and overall insanity. YAY! Disclaimer: I don't own the Sailor Senshi Venus, Mercury, Moon, Chibi Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto. I own Sailor Senshi Hecate. I do not own Yoroiden Samurai Troopers Kongo no Shuu, Suiko no Shin, Tenku no Touma, Rekka no Riyo, or Korrin no Seiji. I do not own Masho Gen, Yumi, Doku, or Oni. I do not own Kayura-sama. I do own Angel Senshi Justice, Faith, Intellect, Virtue, and Courtesy. I also own Angel Knights War, Death, Empathy, Silence, and Courage. I do not own Gundam Pilots Heero, Duo, Quatre, Trowa, or Wufei (::like Birdman:: WUUUUUUUUFEEEEIIII!!). I do own Bya-chan, Nefertiti, and the idea to turn OniMasho into a cat. heh heh. I do not own Luna, Luna-P, Artemis, Diana, Byakuen, Kokuen, the Medjai or the Preventers.. I think that about sums it up.. Yeah. OH! I don't own X-Men (who will only be mentioned by the name Logan- whom I do not own).
Trowa followed Nefertiti into her camp, which was lively even at night, quiet as he ever was. Everything here was interesting, and he liked to take it in instead of ask questions.
"Do you like my home, Trowa?" Nefertiti asked calmly. She held up an emerald crystal dangling limply from a leather cord toward him. It seemed to flash, he felt, when she did that. But that could have easily been the fire light. "When you leave this place in a few days I will be with you." she took his hand and closed it around the rock. "My place is with you two at this time." She smiled mysteriously and led him into a small hutch. Lying on a bed was Quatre. A man perhaps twenty five was sitting nearby, considering the entire thing was nearby, reading a book.
Quatre was asleep, but no matter, he was alive and Trowa let himself show the relief that registered. Nefertiti was standing close to the man, arm around his shoulder.
"My husband, Ardeth, doesn't like the idea of my following you out of Egypt. But the protection the two of you are going to need cannot be given by the Maganaqs," Nefertiti informed Trowa calmly.
Trowa was listening as he looked around the room. There were many books, some new most old, but two that stuck out very well. They were stacked one on top of another on a silken blanket. One was solid gold, the other solid black. "Why is it that you think this?" he asked her.
"Call it Medjai superstition," the woman replied calmly with a slight smirk.
"Explain this to me again," said one Endymion to another.
"The newer Senshi we see. These five." the Elder Endymion, I'll just call him EE for simplicity, waved his hand and there stood five holograms that looked exactly like the five girls that the Yoroiden and Senshi had encountered earlier that day. "Are from a time just after where I came. They destroyed us. me. you. in their time. But, however, I- you- was-were forewarned of this tragedy and captured a route to the Past in order to prevent this from occurring. How, you- I ask? Simple. In the Underworld, an Eternity can last a second or a second an Eternity. By passing through that Realm one can shift to any time they prefer- how do you- I think it is there is never a long line to Death, hm? Because SHE," now EE waved his hand and stood before them was a dark cloaked form, not a hologram, and from under the hood glinted a gold ring binding, "now belongs to me- you.. us. And because she follows orders without question I- we- alone have access to the Realm of the Dead without having to be dead."
"So why don't we use her to kill them?" Younger Endymion, YE, asked.
EE sighed heavily at the idiocy he was. I mean really, he had forgotten how long it had taken him to perfect this evil genius thing. When he was a rookie, fresh from Senshi reign, he was a moron. "Because she is incapable of such actions. She can neither take nor give the life of a human."
"Oh. So. What good is she?"
EE groaned. What an idiot he was! "The Senshi don't know we have her! They don't know we know all the secrets they know we aren't supposed to know- we know what they know we shouldn't know and they don't know we know!!"
YE gave EE a look that plainly read 'huh?'
"She's already hidden her powers in the Mortal Realm, given them away. But no matter. It is unlikely Sailor Hecate will be capable of any retaliation. The Senshi she created for the Queen. The Angel Senshi you encountered. Their power flows from the powers of the people who combined to create them. And since they received those powers from the Future. It is quite likely that the past powers will reject them and the Senshi will have to run off their own power until it is tapped out. Sailor Moon's Senshi cannot compare to our combined powers. And those Yoroiden have no idea about what is going on, really. Just another enemy. They'll underestimate us. The only thing that can stop me- us- is some trump card! GUARDIAN!" EE turned to the cloaked form standing silently. "Are you capable of lies?"
"No," was the reply.
"Prove it! I want Sailor Pluto!"
"She is weakened from sending into the past the Angel Senshi and putting the Royal Families into stasis. She is resting and alone," replied the five voices of the Guardian of the Gates to the Underworld.
EE and YE smiled thinly. "Perfect. Thornz!" EE commanded. From the shadows came a youma that looked remotely like a thorn bush. I mean, it was this ugly puce color and it had sharp pointy things on it. It could have been a thorn bush. Or the man who eats nails threw up. Whichever it was, it bowed to both Endymions. "Go to the Future and capture Sailor Pluto! That way those irritating Senshi that killed me- us have no way home!"
Thornz gave a look that could only be assumed to be read as 'is this guy two fries short of a Happy Meal or what' and disappeared into the floor once again.
He left behind the Elder Endymion enjoying a nice, leisurely evil life Dr. Evil style, pinky and all. And since this laughter is exceptionally contagious, soon the Younger Endymion was mimicking his elder down to the pinky.
"You really don't need to return with us, Miss Bey," Quatre said with his ever kind smile upon the woman.
"Yes, you really do not need to," Rasheed said, with the obvious air of annoyance with the Medjai.
"Nonsense!" Nefertiti replied swiftly. "It is my duty as a Medjai and Follower of Neo-Queen Serenity!"
This caught all the foreigners off of guard.
"I am, after all, part of her Guard and as Mr. Winner is so highly thought of in her Court and Kingdom I will not allow him to go without my guard." Her cat ambled onto her shoulder and meowed its agreement in the situation. She, still smiling mysteriously, reached up and petted him.
A member of Neo-Queen Serenity's Court and Guard! Well, that could not be argued, Quatre stated as he beheld the crescent moon on the forehead of the cat that was always at the heels of this woman. She would come and there would be no arguing and no ill words between them.
Nefertiti spoke something softly to Ardeth with a sly smile before mounting her horse and following the tribe of Maganaqs and their Master Quatre.
"That's not very ladylike, Minerva," reprimanded Iris calmly towards the silver-haired young woman hanging upside down from a low tree branch. Iris' blonde hair was pulled behind her head with a pink rose barrette her father had given her when she was young. She wore black slacks, a green tee shirt, and a white sports coat. She always dressed like this. Like some business woman. It drove her friends mad. But she liked it. Iris was sitting very calmly atop a large boulder, legs crossed, eyes shut in meditation. This being her situation, she still knew that Minerva had stuck her tongue out at her. "And neither is that."
Minerva was hanging upside down from a tree branch, her hands hanging lazily to the ground, her nails tracing lines in the loose dirt. Her hair was down, and it was just touching the dirt below her. She wore a pair of white pants and a long sleeve, mandarin collar, red shirt that had a black belt to keep it modestly where it was supposed to be while she hung the way she did. The sleeves of her shirt were rolled up and she had a pair of white fingerless gloves on. A round floating ball with stripes and cat ears was floating about a foot from her face right side up, talking.
".I don't get it, Riyo. These girls just showed up out of nowhere and disappeared into nowhere." was the voice of Rei Faun Shuu from the speaker of the cat-head.
"I did sense something strange today, did any of you?" asked Date Seiji.
"It just felt like. I dunno. Like someone was using their Yoroi. I didn't think anything of it really. I mean, it does that once and a while, doesn't it? Fluctuates?" Sanada Riyo asked.
"Yes, but this time it was different, wasn't it?" Hashiba Touma looked to be explaining the science behind the fluctuations of the Yoroi. Boring. Minerva pushed her cat-head's nose and changed the channel.
"Hey!" both Ran and Astraea quipped in unison. Ran was in the lake they were by, her capri's and v-neck shirt tossed over a tree branch and left on her person her blue bathing suit. Astraea was sitting on the branch Minerva hung from; wearing what looked suspiciously like a prep school uniform without the badge. Both had glasses drooping down their noses.
Minerva again had her tongue out rather than in her mouth.
".don't you read the fire?" asked the voice of Aino Minako.
"I tried. I tried that and I tried every other method I know. All I can figure is that these two Senshi are tied to the betrayal of Tuxedo Kamen," Hino Rei replied with the voice of a tired person.
"Well, it makes sense. They're looking in the wrong place for where we came from. They'd be better off connecting us to Chibi Usa, wouldn't they?" Astraea asked calmly, turning the page of her thick book.
"How come she got to have all the fun?" Gaia asked from the ground by the big rock Iris meditated on. She wore a tight sleeveless/backless top of purple with a small round symbol on the chest and a pair of loose white pants that weren't long enough to reach her ankles. She was retying the massive ribbon around her hair as she spoke.
Minerva snorted.
"Save it!" Astraea snapped down at her.
"Sailor Pluto has been out of communication as well. It isn't like her," Tomoe Hotaru reasoned quietly.
"If we could communicate with her, we could ask about what is going on- or ask Chibi Usa," Tsukino Usagi muttered glumly. She leaned on her palm and sighed heavily. "Those two Senshi, though. They did seem to know him well."
"So run this by us one more time," Luna instructed her calmly.
"I went to meet Mamoru.He asked to see my tier. He said he could make it more powerful." If the transmitter planted on Usagi was 2-way, the group would have heard an explosion of derisive laughter. "And then there was a red rose. and the silver-haired girl was waving her hand at Mamoru. He said he had been warned about her. Asked which one she was. And she held up a sign. She said she couldn't talk- was that help enough. The other girl, with the bow, called her Virtue. She grew wings and flew me to the city and told me to go where it was safe."
"And your tier?"
"They'd get it back for me."
"So now what?" Kino Makato asked curiously.
"We roll with it, it looks like," Aino Minako sighed heavily.
Sam Weasley
Summary: The last story was about the mysterious Sailor Hecate and her trials of the Sailor Senshi. But Hecate cannot guard the Gates of the Underworld and be the Senshi of Death at the same time. So she sends her companion back into life to help protect the old and new Senshi from their Future and Hecate's warning to Endymion. Warnings: Overall weirdness, for one. But basically, some swearing, violence, swearing, and overall insanity. YAY! Disclaimer: I don't own the Sailor Senshi Venus, Mercury, Moon, Chibi Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto. I own Sailor Senshi Hecate. I do not own Yoroiden Samurai Troopers Kongo no Shuu, Suiko no Shin, Tenku no Touma, Rekka no Riyo, or Korrin no Seiji. I do not own Masho Gen, Yumi, Doku, or Oni. I do not own Kayura-sama. I do own Angel Senshi Justice, Faith, Intellect, Virtue, and Courtesy. I also own Angel Knights War, Death, Empathy, Silence, and Courage. I do not own Gundam Pilots Heero, Duo, Quatre, Trowa, or Wufei (::like Birdman:: WUUUUUUUUFEEEEIIII!!). I do own Bya-chan, Nefertiti, and the idea to turn OniMasho into a cat. heh heh. I do not own Luna, Luna-P, Artemis, Diana, Byakuen, Kokuen, the Medjai or the Preventers.. I think that about sums it up.. Yeah. OH! I don't own X-Men (who will only be mentioned by the name Logan- whom I do not own).
Trowa followed Nefertiti into her camp, which was lively even at night, quiet as he ever was. Everything here was interesting, and he liked to take it in instead of ask questions.
"Do you like my home, Trowa?" Nefertiti asked calmly. She held up an emerald crystal dangling limply from a leather cord toward him. It seemed to flash, he felt, when she did that. But that could have easily been the fire light. "When you leave this place in a few days I will be with you." she took his hand and closed it around the rock. "My place is with you two at this time." She smiled mysteriously and led him into a small hutch. Lying on a bed was Quatre. A man perhaps twenty five was sitting nearby, considering the entire thing was nearby, reading a book.
Quatre was asleep, but no matter, he was alive and Trowa let himself show the relief that registered. Nefertiti was standing close to the man, arm around his shoulder.
"My husband, Ardeth, doesn't like the idea of my following you out of Egypt. But the protection the two of you are going to need cannot be given by the Maganaqs," Nefertiti informed Trowa calmly.
Trowa was listening as he looked around the room. There were many books, some new most old, but two that stuck out very well. They were stacked one on top of another on a silken blanket. One was solid gold, the other solid black. "Why is it that you think this?" he asked her.
"Call it Medjai superstition," the woman replied calmly with a slight smirk.
"Explain this to me again," said one Endymion to another.
"The newer Senshi we see. These five." the Elder Endymion, I'll just call him EE for simplicity, waved his hand and there stood five holograms that looked exactly like the five girls that the Yoroiden and Senshi had encountered earlier that day. "Are from a time just after where I came. They destroyed us. me. you. in their time. But, however, I- you- was-were forewarned of this tragedy and captured a route to the Past in order to prevent this from occurring. How, you- I ask? Simple. In the Underworld, an Eternity can last a second or a second an Eternity. By passing through that Realm one can shift to any time they prefer- how do you- I think it is there is never a long line to Death, hm? Because SHE," now EE waved his hand and stood before them was a dark cloaked form, not a hologram, and from under the hood glinted a gold ring binding, "now belongs to me- you.. us. And because she follows orders without question I- we- alone have access to the Realm of the Dead without having to be dead."
"So why don't we use her to kill them?" Younger Endymion, YE, asked.
EE sighed heavily at the idiocy he was. I mean really, he had forgotten how long it had taken him to perfect this evil genius thing. When he was a rookie, fresh from Senshi reign, he was a moron. "Because she is incapable of such actions. She can neither take nor give the life of a human."
"Oh. So. What good is she?"
EE groaned. What an idiot he was! "The Senshi don't know we have her! They don't know we know all the secrets they know we aren't supposed to know- we know what they know we shouldn't know and they don't know we know!!"
YE gave EE a look that plainly read 'huh?'
"She's already hidden her powers in the Mortal Realm, given them away. But no matter. It is unlikely Sailor Hecate will be capable of any retaliation. The Senshi she created for the Queen. The Angel Senshi you encountered. Their power flows from the powers of the people who combined to create them. And since they received those powers from the Future. It is quite likely that the past powers will reject them and the Senshi will have to run off their own power until it is tapped out. Sailor Moon's Senshi cannot compare to our combined powers. And those Yoroiden have no idea about what is going on, really. Just another enemy. They'll underestimate us. The only thing that can stop me- us- is some trump card! GUARDIAN!" EE turned to the cloaked form standing silently. "Are you capable of lies?"
"No," was the reply.
"Prove it! I want Sailor Pluto!"
"She is weakened from sending into the past the Angel Senshi and putting the Royal Families into stasis. She is resting and alone," replied the five voices of the Guardian of the Gates to the Underworld.
EE and YE smiled thinly. "Perfect. Thornz!" EE commanded. From the shadows came a youma that looked remotely like a thorn bush. I mean, it was this ugly puce color and it had sharp pointy things on it. It could have been a thorn bush. Or the man who eats nails threw up. Whichever it was, it bowed to both Endymions. "Go to the Future and capture Sailor Pluto! That way those irritating Senshi that killed me- us have no way home!"
Thornz gave a look that could only be assumed to be read as 'is this guy two fries short of a Happy Meal or what' and disappeared into the floor once again.
He left behind the Elder Endymion enjoying a nice, leisurely evil life Dr. Evil style, pinky and all. And since this laughter is exceptionally contagious, soon the Younger Endymion was mimicking his elder down to the pinky.
"You really don't need to return with us, Miss Bey," Quatre said with his ever kind smile upon the woman.
"Yes, you really do not need to," Rasheed said, with the obvious air of annoyance with the Medjai.
"Nonsense!" Nefertiti replied swiftly. "It is my duty as a Medjai and Follower of Neo-Queen Serenity!"
This caught all the foreigners off of guard.
"I am, after all, part of her Guard and as Mr. Winner is so highly thought of in her Court and Kingdom I will not allow him to go without my guard." Her cat ambled onto her shoulder and meowed its agreement in the situation. She, still smiling mysteriously, reached up and petted him.
A member of Neo-Queen Serenity's Court and Guard! Well, that could not be argued, Quatre stated as he beheld the crescent moon on the forehead of the cat that was always at the heels of this woman. She would come and there would be no arguing and no ill words between them.
Nefertiti spoke something softly to Ardeth with a sly smile before mounting her horse and following the tribe of Maganaqs and their Master Quatre.
"That's not very ladylike, Minerva," reprimanded Iris calmly towards the silver-haired young woman hanging upside down from a low tree branch. Iris' blonde hair was pulled behind her head with a pink rose barrette her father had given her when she was young. She wore black slacks, a green tee shirt, and a white sports coat. She always dressed like this. Like some business woman. It drove her friends mad. But she liked it. Iris was sitting very calmly atop a large boulder, legs crossed, eyes shut in meditation. This being her situation, she still knew that Minerva had stuck her tongue out at her. "And neither is that."
Minerva was hanging upside down from a tree branch, her hands hanging lazily to the ground, her nails tracing lines in the loose dirt. Her hair was down, and it was just touching the dirt below her. She wore a pair of white pants and a long sleeve, mandarin collar, red shirt that had a black belt to keep it modestly where it was supposed to be while she hung the way she did. The sleeves of her shirt were rolled up and she had a pair of white fingerless gloves on. A round floating ball with stripes and cat ears was floating about a foot from her face right side up, talking.
".I don't get it, Riyo. These girls just showed up out of nowhere and disappeared into nowhere." was the voice of Rei Faun Shuu from the speaker of the cat-head.
"I did sense something strange today, did any of you?" asked Date Seiji.
"It just felt like. I dunno. Like someone was using their Yoroi. I didn't think anything of it really. I mean, it does that once and a while, doesn't it? Fluctuates?" Sanada Riyo asked.
"Yes, but this time it was different, wasn't it?" Hashiba Touma looked to be explaining the science behind the fluctuations of the Yoroi. Boring. Minerva pushed her cat-head's nose and changed the channel.
"Hey!" both Ran and Astraea quipped in unison. Ran was in the lake they were by, her capri's and v-neck shirt tossed over a tree branch and left on her person her blue bathing suit. Astraea was sitting on the branch Minerva hung from; wearing what looked suspiciously like a prep school uniform without the badge. Both had glasses drooping down their noses.
Minerva again had her tongue out rather than in her mouth.
".don't you read the fire?" asked the voice of Aino Minako.
"I tried. I tried that and I tried every other method I know. All I can figure is that these two Senshi are tied to the betrayal of Tuxedo Kamen," Hino Rei replied with the voice of a tired person.
"Well, it makes sense. They're looking in the wrong place for where we came from. They'd be better off connecting us to Chibi Usa, wouldn't they?" Astraea asked calmly, turning the page of her thick book.
"How come she got to have all the fun?" Gaia asked from the ground by the big rock Iris meditated on. She wore a tight sleeveless/backless top of purple with a small round symbol on the chest and a pair of loose white pants that weren't long enough to reach her ankles. She was retying the massive ribbon around her hair as she spoke.
Minerva snorted.
"Save it!" Astraea snapped down at her.
"Sailor Pluto has been out of communication as well. It isn't like her," Tomoe Hotaru reasoned quietly.
"If we could communicate with her, we could ask about what is going on- or ask Chibi Usa," Tsukino Usagi muttered glumly. She leaned on her palm and sighed heavily. "Those two Senshi, though. They did seem to know him well."
"So run this by us one more time," Luna instructed her calmly.
"I went to meet Mamoru.He asked to see my tier. He said he could make it more powerful." If the transmitter planted on Usagi was 2-way, the group would have heard an explosion of derisive laughter. "And then there was a red rose. and the silver-haired girl was waving her hand at Mamoru. He said he had been warned about her. Asked which one she was. And she held up a sign. She said she couldn't talk- was that help enough. The other girl, with the bow, called her Virtue. She grew wings and flew me to the city and told me to go where it was safe."
"And your tier?"
"They'd get it back for me."
"So now what?" Kino Makato asked curiously.
"We roll with it, it looks like," Aino Minako sighed heavily.