"Rai, hurry up! We are under attack!" yelled Lita into the communicator,
she seemed frantic and what was seen behind her looked like someones' image
of hell. The scouts were being trashed by a creature that looked like a red
dragon and breathed fire.
"We need Rai here, fire is her thing, she can handle this!" yelled Mercury when the dragon thing melted her attack.
Rai stood in her room, she has received the massage, but could she help them? She held up her transformation stick, it has changed, somehow Rai felt that it had became evil. The claw that held her star, the predominantly black colour, what effect would this have on her transformation?
Rai didn't have time to think about it, her friends were in trouble, she had to help them! Rai held up her transformation stick and yelled
"Mars star power!"
Nothing happened.
She just stood there with her stick in the air, she was not transforming.
"What's wrong with this stick?! Jaedite! What have you done to it?!" Rai was frustrated, how could he do this, how could he change it so that it would no longer listen to her?
A voice whispered in Rais' mind and by some instinct the right words came to her as if she always knew them, as if she had said them before.
"NegaMars dark make-up!"
She yelled the words and fire exploded from her star. Dark fire encircled her, enveloping her in its' suffocating energy, it was like nothing she has ever felt before. It was powerful, hot, choking! It felt like being enveloped by ones' darkest desires. Rai knew it was hers, it was hers just as much as it was someone elses'. It was the darkness that was sleeping deep within herself, unleashed.
Ray surveyed herself fully transformed. Her Sailor uniform was different. The gloves were shorter and the fingers were cut of to reveal long, sharp, black claws! Claws! When did Rai ever have claws! She was petrified.
Also, the rest of her uniform changed, most of it was black, but the edges of her skirt had a flame pattern all around them. The bows on her chest and her back were dark red, the color of blood. And the little heart in the middle of the bow on her chest was replaced by a red stone which had living fore burning inside and was held by that same evil claw.
"What has happened to me.?" whispered Rai on the verge of tears.
No! She could not cry, she could not break down when her friends needed her! But she also could not let her friends see her like this, they would never understand. Rai already felt guilty for not telling her friends what has happened. They were worried about her and she just blew them of like that.
As fast as she could, Rai ran to the place the signal came from. As she has expected, there was a fire based creature fighting the scouts. For a moment Rai hesitated in attacking it, the feeling wasn't right, she didn't even know her own power any more.
As she ran here, she felt a pressure in her chest, like there was something choking her. The little fire burning there, it hurt, it hurt so much! It burned away at her heart, never before has fire ever hurt Rai, but this was no regular fire, this was her celestial fire, imprisoned within that claw by Jaedites' evil powers.
That was how Rai truly felt, she felt imprisoned, like she was not her own person, like she lived in someone elses' shadow.
Ray's thoughts were interrupted as a scream was heard from Mina. The senshi of love was completely knocked out and reasonably hurt. This monster, it was so strong, never before have the scouts faced anything as powerful as this.
Amys' ice had no effect on it, Jupiters' lightning seemed to just dissipate as it neared the aura of heat that surrounded the creature, and Sailor Moon, well, she was just being her cowardly self and was currently crying on the ground.
This was just as much as Rai could take. With a scream, she charged at the creature. That thing was made of fire, she was confident that she could take it!
This time Rai was more sensible than to use the old words for her attack. She wasn't even thinking as the words came to her on their own
"Dark Celestial fire, ignite!"
A swirl of dark flames rushed toward the monster.
"Yay! It's Sailor Mars!" yelled Sailor Moon jumping up from the ground "What happened to you?!" only now did the Moon child notice Rais' new form.
Serenas' hear filled with worry, something wasn't right, this new look, something has been done to Rai, something bad has been done to her friend.
"Quiet!" yelled Rai not realizing how readily she has snapped at Serenity, it was jst something inside her, something that was trying to break free.
Only when she saw Serenitys' scared eyes did Rai realize what has she done.
Rais' fire collided with the dragon creature, but instead of disintegrating into smoke, the creature roared, the fire surrounded it, and when it was gone, the thing was twice it's original size.
Rai stared in disbelief, that thing just swallowed her energy as if it was nothing, as if it was suitable energy for it to feed on.dark energy.
Desperately Rai prepared to attack agai, but she received the same result.
"Stop Sailor Mars, don't attack, you are helping it!" she heard Litas' voice from the side, but for some reason there was an urge inside of her, that dark desire, to just et it all go, to just let it free and allow it to burn, that dark desire, it was irresistible.
Rai let go, for the third time her fore hurled towards the creature and for the third time it was swallowed, transformed, and the thing grew.
The next attack came from that thing, fueled by Sailor Mars' dark energy, it let out a blast that sent the whole Sailor team crushing to the ground.
"No, this can not be!" Serenitys' eyes were watering as she saw her friends fall to the ground, all except for Rai, for some reason, the fire just passed right by her, not even singing a hair on her head.
Ignoring the pain she was feeling, Sailor Moon raised her crystal
"Cosmic Moon Power!" she summoned the power that she used to defeat Queen Beryl herself.
The creature screamed, and for a moment Serena thought that she couldn't do it, but then, it's fire diminished and it disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
"Rai! Why did you attack?! Didn't you see that you were only helping that thing?!" yelled Lita angrily holding her bloody arm and shoulder. The girl couldn't get up, her leg was broken and bleeding in many places.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, I was just trying to help." whispered Rai shocked by her friends' tone.
"Rai, what has happened to you? You are not the same, you are not the kind and caring friend that I knew, the Rai I knew would never attack blindly and ignore her friends, what happened?" Mina was looking at her with wide eyes.
Amy was not looking anywhere at all, the ice senshi was unconscious. The only person left to turn to was Serena, the senshi of light, she surely would understand. The kind and gentle Serena had to understand.
Rai was about to throw herself at Serena asking her if she could ever forgive her, she was about to tell her what happened, explain everything, beg not to be abandoned.
But Serena drew back.
Fear, pain and disbelief could be seen in her clear blue eyes. She shook her head frightfully.
"No, don't come close, you are not the Rai I knew, I don't know who you are, you are one of them, leave us alone! What have you done to Rai?!" tears were running down her bruised and scratched up face.
"Serena, I."
"No! Don't Serena me! You are not Rai, I don't believe you, Rai would never help the negaverce, Rai would never turn on her friends!" Serenas' eyes showed so much fear in them.
Rai couldn't believe this, they didn't believe her!
"Listen to me!" she advanced Serena.
The girl drew back
"Would you just listen!" Rai didn't know what came over her, the next thing she knew, her hand just moved on its' own.
There was a loud crack.
Serena fell to the ground.
A mark from Rais' hand was bright on her pale face, and there were also four long scratches where Rais' claws have grazed the skin.
"Ahhhhhhhh!" Serena screamed as blood trickled down her cheek.
There was a deadly silence.
What have I done! Rais' mind raced.
"Serena, I'm so." she tried to approach the girl but stopped as she gazed into her terrified eyes.
Rai tried to look to the other scouts, there was nothing, only shock, fear, disbelief, no understanding whatsoever.
What have I done.!
Rai couldn't bare the silence any more, she ran, ran as if her life depended on it. She didn't go back to the temple, there was no place for her there any more. She just ran, anywhere, anywhere that her feet took her.
Finally, she fell to her knees exhausted. Tears were streaming down her face as she beat down on the ground with her fists in frustration. She was such a mess, her eyes swollen, her hair messy, her uniform dirty and torn from falling a numerous times. Her fists were bloody from banging on the ground.
What was happening to her?! What has Jaedite done to her, he turned her into some kind of a monster! Ray cried and cried and cried. She felt so miserable and scared, and guilty. Guilty for what she has done, she has almost killed the scouts because she couldn't stop, she couldn't resist that dark temptation, that awful temptation. And Rai was so scared, so very scared, she was terrified, terrified of herself.
She has turned on her princess, she has turned on the scouts, her powers worked for the good of evil and she felt like she couldn't stop. There was something growing inside of her, something suffocating her, choking her from within. Something that turned her entire world upside down and made her feel like her whole life was collapsing, burning, in one fiery inferno.
"What am I?!" cried Sailor Mars choking on her own tears.
"Having fun? I thought you knew who you were, you don't seem so sure any more Sailor Mars." a taunting voice came from above.
Rai looked up, there, high up on a tree brunch sat her worst nightmare, and the origin of her darkest desires, the source of her evil temptation.Jaedite.
Rai paled, all of a sudden she felt like getting sick again.
"What do you want from me?" her voice was quiet and terrified, barely a whisper.
"I thought you knew." Jaedite wore that same smirk on his face, only now did Rai notice that what he wore was much like what her uniform looked like. And that stuff he held, that claw and that fire, that was her bondage.
Rai couldn't take it any more, getting up shakily from the ground she ran again, she ran from them and from him, she couldn't face either. Rai was a lost spirit, not good, not evil, she was so very lost, so she ran, ran from everyone, ran from the world and the cruel reality she was so mercilessly thrown into.
And the tears kept falling, they kept falling like there was no end to them, hot, burning tears, they couldn't quench the fire that was burning at her soul.
"I'll be back for you!" Jaedites' laughter could be heard somewhere behind her.
Rai felt so hopeless, not once in her life has she ever felt hopeless, but now she did. She saw no life ahead on the road of life, and if before, her fire was her hope, now there was none, she was beaten, so she ran.
An: Here you are, I want some reviews people, the future of this story depends on how many reviews I get, I want at least 30 before I update, I said that I wanted 30 in the last chapter, but since I wasn't getting many and I wanted to write, I was nice and updated, I won't be this nice this time, review and tell me what you think.
"We need Rai here, fire is her thing, she can handle this!" yelled Mercury when the dragon thing melted her attack.
Rai stood in her room, she has received the massage, but could she help them? She held up her transformation stick, it has changed, somehow Rai felt that it had became evil. The claw that held her star, the predominantly black colour, what effect would this have on her transformation?
Rai didn't have time to think about it, her friends were in trouble, she had to help them! Rai held up her transformation stick and yelled
"Mars star power!"
Nothing happened.
She just stood there with her stick in the air, she was not transforming.
"What's wrong with this stick?! Jaedite! What have you done to it?!" Rai was frustrated, how could he do this, how could he change it so that it would no longer listen to her?
A voice whispered in Rais' mind and by some instinct the right words came to her as if she always knew them, as if she had said them before.
"NegaMars dark make-up!"
She yelled the words and fire exploded from her star. Dark fire encircled her, enveloping her in its' suffocating energy, it was like nothing she has ever felt before. It was powerful, hot, choking! It felt like being enveloped by ones' darkest desires. Rai knew it was hers, it was hers just as much as it was someone elses'. It was the darkness that was sleeping deep within herself, unleashed.
Ray surveyed herself fully transformed. Her Sailor uniform was different. The gloves were shorter and the fingers were cut of to reveal long, sharp, black claws! Claws! When did Rai ever have claws! She was petrified.
Also, the rest of her uniform changed, most of it was black, but the edges of her skirt had a flame pattern all around them. The bows on her chest and her back were dark red, the color of blood. And the little heart in the middle of the bow on her chest was replaced by a red stone which had living fore burning inside and was held by that same evil claw.
"What has happened to me.?" whispered Rai on the verge of tears.
No! She could not cry, she could not break down when her friends needed her! But she also could not let her friends see her like this, they would never understand. Rai already felt guilty for not telling her friends what has happened. They were worried about her and she just blew them of like that.
As fast as she could, Rai ran to the place the signal came from. As she has expected, there was a fire based creature fighting the scouts. For a moment Rai hesitated in attacking it, the feeling wasn't right, she didn't even know her own power any more.
As she ran here, she felt a pressure in her chest, like there was something choking her. The little fire burning there, it hurt, it hurt so much! It burned away at her heart, never before has fire ever hurt Rai, but this was no regular fire, this was her celestial fire, imprisoned within that claw by Jaedites' evil powers.
That was how Rai truly felt, she felt imprisoned, like she was not her own person, like she lived in someone elses' shadow.
Ray's thoughts were interrupted as a scream was heard from Mina. The senshi of love was completely knocked out and reasonably hurt. This monster, it was so strong, never before have the scouts faced anything as powerful as this.
Amys' ice had no effect on it, Jupiters' lightning seemed to just dissipate as it neared the aura of heat that surrounded the creature, and Sailor Moon, well, she was just being her cowardly self and was currently crying on the ground.
This was just as much as Rai could take. With a scream, she charged at the creature. That thing was made of fire, she was confident that she could take it!
This time Rai was more sensible than to use the old words for her attack. She wasn't even thinking as the words came to her on their own
"Dark Celestial fire, ignite!"
A swirl of dark flames rushed toward the monster.
"Yay! It's Sailor Mars!" yelled Sailor Moon jumping up from the ground "What happened to you?!" only now did the Moon child notice Rais' new form.
Serenas' hear filled with worry, something wasn't right, this new look, something has been done to Rai, something bad has been done to her friend.
"Quiet!" yelled Rai not realizing how readily she has snapped at Serenity, it was jst something inside her, something that was trying to break free.
Only when she saw Serenitys' scared eyes did Rai realize what has she done.
Rais' fire collided with the dragon creature, but instead of disintegrating into smoke, the creature roared, the fire surrounded it, and when it was gone, the thing was twice it's original size.
Rai stared in disbelief, that thing just swallowed her energy as if it was nothing, as if it was suitable energy for it to feed on.dark energy.
Desperately Rai prepared to attack agai, but she received the same result.
"Stop Sailor Mars, don't attack, you are helping it!" she heard Litas' voice from the side, but for some reason there was an urge inside of her, that dark desire, to just et it all go, to just let it free and allow it to burn, that dark desire, it was irresistible.
Rai let go, for the third time her fore hurled towards the creature and for the third time it was swallowed, transformed, and the thing grew.
The next attack came from that thing, fueled by Sailor Mars' dark energy, it let out a blast that sent the whole Sailor team crushing to the ground.
"No, this can not be!" Serenitys' eyes were watering as she saw her friends fall to the ground, all except for Rai, for some reason, the fire just passed right by her, not even singing a hair on her head.
Ignoring the pain she was feeling, Sailor Moon raised her crystal
"Cosmic Moon Power!" she summoned the power that she used to defeat Queen Beryl herself.
The creature screamed, and for a moment Serena thought that she couldn't do it, but then, it's fire diminished and it disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
"Rai! Why did you attack?! Didn't you see that you were only helping that thing?!" yelled Lita angrily holding her bloody arm and shoulder. The girl couldn't get up, her leg was broken and bleeding in many places.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, I was just trying to help." whispered Rai shocked by her friends' tone.
"Rai, what has happened to you? You are not the same, you are not the kind and caring friend that I knew, the Rai I knew would never attack blindly and ignore her friends, what happened?" Mina was looking at her with wide eyes.
Amy was not looking anywhere at all, the ice senshi was unconscious. The only person left to turn to was Serena, the senshi of light, she surely would understand. The kind and gentle Serena had to understand.
Rai was about to throw herself at Serena asking her if she could ever forgive her, she was about to tell her what happened, explain everything, beg not to be abandoned.
But Serena drew back.
Fear, pain and disbelief could be seen in her clear blue eyes. She shook her head frightfully.
"No, don't come close, you are not the Rai I knew, I don't know who you are, you are one of them, leave us alone! What have you done to Rai?!" tears were running down her bruised and scratched up face.
"Serena, I."
"No! Don't Serena me! You are not Rai, I don't believe you, Rai would never help the negaverce, Rai would never turn on her friends!" Serenas' eyes showed so much fear in them.
Rai couldn't believe this, they didn't believe her!
"Listen to me!" she advanced Serena.
The girl drew back
"Would you just listen!" Rai didn't know what came over her, the next thing she knew, her hand just moved on its' own.
There was a loud crack.
Serena fell to the ground.
A mark from Rais' hand was bright on her pale face, and there were also four long scratches where Rais' claws have grazed the skin.
"Ahhhhhhhh!" Serena screamed as blood trickled down her cheek.
There was a deadly silence.
What have I done! Rais' mind raced.
"Serena, I'm so." she tried to approach the girl but stopped as she gazed into her terrified eyes.
Rai tried to look to the other scouts, there was nothing, only shock, fear, disbelief, no understanding whatsoever.
What have I done.!
Rai couldn't bare the silence any more, she ran, ran as if her life depended on it. She didn't go back to the temple, there was no place for her there any more. She just ran, anywhere, anywhere that her feet took her.
Finally, she fell to her knees exhausted. Tears were streaming down her face as she beat down on the ground with her fists in frustration. She was such a mess, her eyes swollen, her hair messy, her uniform dirty and torn from falling a numerous times. Her fists were bloody from banging on the ground.
What was happening to her?! What has Jaedite done to her, he turned her into some kind of a monster! Ray cried and cried and cried. She felt so miserable and scared, and guilty. Guilty for what she has done, she has almost killed the scouts because she couldn't stop, she couldn't resist that dark temptation, that awful temptation. And Rai was so scared, so very scared, she was terrified, terrified of herself.
She has turned on her princess, she has turned on the scouts, her powers worked for the good of evil and she felt like she couldn't stop. There was something growing inside of her, something suffocating her, choking her from within. Something that turned her entire world upside down and made her feel like her whole life was collapsing, burning, in one fiery inferno.
"What am I?!" cried Sailor Mars choking on her own tears.
"Having fun? I thought you knew who you were, you don't seem so sure any more Sailor Mars." a taunting voice came from above.
Rai looked up, there, high up on a tree brunch sat her worst nightmare, and the origin of her darkest desires, the source of her evil temptation.Jaedite.
Rai paled, all of a sudden she felt like getting sick again.
"What do you want from me?" her voice was quiet and terrified, barely a whisper.
"I thought you knew." Jaedite wore that same smirk on his face, only now did Rai notice that what he wore was much like what her uniform looked like. And that stuff he held, that claw and that fire, that was her bondage.
Rai couldn't take it any more, getting up shakily from the ground she ran again, she ran from them and from him, she couldn't face either. Rai was a lost spirit, not good, not evil, she was so very lost, so she ran, ran from everyone, ran from the world and the cruel reality she was so mercilessly thrown into.
And the tears kept falling, they kept falling like there was no end to them, hot, burning tears, they couldn't quench the fire that was burning at her soul.
"I'll be back for you!" Jaedites' laughter could be heard somewhere behind her.
Rai felt so hopeless, not once in her life has she ever felt hopeless, but now she did. She saw no life ahead on the road of life, and if before, her fire was her hope, now there was none, she was beaten, so she ran.
An: Here you are, I want some reviews people, the future of this story depends on how many reviews I get, I want at least 30 before I update, I said that I wanted 30 in the last chapter, but since I wasn't getting many and I wanted to write, I was nice and updated, I won't be this nice this time, review and tell me what you think.