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Strange Days
Chapter 10
By: Cory D. Rose
ertle2@msn.com
(C)2003
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Juban High was a 4 story school with each floor devoted to which year of high school one was attending. Nova stood on the clock tower built into the top center of the building and kept watch over the grounds as she waited for the Scouts to show up. She had been here fore nearly two hours now and she was not in a good mood, and wanted to break something because of her own stupidity. Why she had set the time so late was a total mystery to her and Ranma wasn't very happy with her either.
He wanted to sleep, not perch on a roof in the middle of a district he knew nothing about for five girls in silly costumes, he felt like bird for some reason. That and this Guardian Uniform was not designed for comfort, the skirt had a tendency to ride up and show more leg than either of them were comfortable with. Amy had caught several glimpses of Ranma's white panties now, they came with the outfit, she didn't have any say in the matter.
Amy was watching Ranma out of the corner of her eye, with each passing day it became harder and harder for her to ignore her growing attraction to the most adorable person she had ever encountered. She didn't care if he was male or female. She just wanted to be with him. She didn't know how to deal with that, his new powers and confidence were even more impressive.
He had gained over four decades of memories and there were nearly a dozen different types of Ki attacks available to Ranma now. Amy wanted to learn some of them and wondered what she would have to do to persuade him. She knew that Ranma wasn't all powerful, even with these new attacks and abilities, still her cute factor had been turned up a notch.
Ranma had even been a little relieved when he had found a limit to what he could do. "There was no challenge to life if there was no one around to give you a decent fight" He had said. He had spent too many years training to be the best just to drop all of it because of fancy magical powers.
Even though she had to admit being a little impressed with his decision to only help the Scouts when they needed it. He didn't want to be dependent on his powers in a fight, he would use then only when he needed to.
"ZZZZZzzz..zz." Ranma snored as she leaned against the wall and caught a few minutes sleep.
Amy grinned and wondered why she wanted a camera, she also had an urge to toss the girl off the roof for some weird reason. She shrugged, this was her chance to stop the useless fight with the Scouts and get some good done for a change. The darkness was growing and she had no way to trace it down, she hoped Mercury might have some ideas on how to do it. Amy looked down into the court yard and noticed several girls walking onto the grounds and looking around, they were all in uniform. She counted 4 of them.
She quickly spotted the Inners, Mercury, Jupiter, Mars, and Venus, but there was no sign of Sailor Moon. "Wake up Ranma, Guardian Knight. They are here for our meeting."
Ranma's eyes snapped open, "It's about time."
"Sorry, you know I figured that a late night meeting would be better."
"I know, but I like my sleep too and this is meeting and not a battle."
"True, I've only spotted the Inners so far. That means that the Princess is holding back, I don't know if the Outers are around though."
"Outers, those are the ones we have to be careful of?"
"Yes, they are trigger happy too."
"Attack and ask questions later?"
"No, attack and destroy everything in their path until it is gone, screw the questions."
"Oh, this could be bad then, I don't want to fight them if I don't have to, and they are girls, no mater how powerful they are."
"True, I made a huge mistake when I started that stupid series of attacks on them."
"They'll get over it." Said Ranma.
"Well, hopefully I made an impression on one of those girls." Amy said as she grinned lecherously.
Ranma rolled her eyes and giggled nervously, her friend deafeningly
had some strange ideas. "Well lets get down there."
Using the window sills along the back of the building they quickly hopped down to the ground and landed without a sound. Nova looked around the corner and spotted the girls waiting near the trees in front of the gate, impatiently. Well Mars and Jupiter were arguing with each other, Mercury was standing off to the side and looking at her little computer, and Venus was looking nervous.
They all stopped and looked up as Amy and Ranma walked around the corner of the building. Amy saw Mercury nod as they came forward, Mars and Jupiter looked them over like mass murderers on the loose and it was obvious that Venus was the back up, depending on how things went.
"Good evening Scouts."
"Hello..." Started Mercury.
"Who the hell are you and what do you want with the Princess!?" Mars yelled.
Amy ignored Sailor Mars and turned to Mercury. "I'm Nova and this is Guardian Knight, I thought it would be a good idea if we all had a little chat."
"About what?" Growled Jupiter.
"Nova are you positive these are the Sailor Scouts you told me about?" Guardian Knight asked. Her eye twitched a little as she watched the scene.
"Yep."
"They sure don't seem like they are dedicated to what they say they are in their speeches."
"How dare you?!" Yelled Mars.
"Humph!" Ranma snorted. "You sure don't seem to embody what you preach."
A battle aura formed around Mars and Jupiter as Ranma smirked at them. Amy realized that no matter how much her friend changed, he would always be arrogant and full of pride. Ranma did this with everyone until he had them figured out. It was also a hold over from the abuse he had taken with his father, a kind of defense to keep others at bay until he knew if he could trust them or not. The two Scouts looked like they were about to attack when Mercury told them to stop and stepped forward.
"Cut it out you two, we are here to talk, not fight."
"I wouldn't mind the fight." Guardian Knight said to the two girls. "Of course I would win, that's a given."
Amy nearly burst into giggles. It ended up as a snort that drew everyone's attention. It made her blush and Ranma look at her oddly. "Lets just talk, it is what were hereto miss a little sleep for."
"Agreed. Why did you want to meet the Princess?"
"...we need to..." Ranma began.
"That is between us, it is none of your concern." Amy interrupted and silently apologized to Ranma when she looked over at her.
"Why you..." Mars began.
"I have been watching you Scouts for some time now, I wanted see if you were as good as your reputation. So far you have spent more time arguing amongst yourselves than fighting these monsters that keep popping up. I've watched as some strange girl keeps taking them out for you while you lay unconscious on the ground or hover in the back round."
"How dare you insult us like this!?" Jupiter screamed.
"Why shouldn't we? Me and GK here are strong enough to kill most of these monsters without transforming. I haven't even seen you girls practicing and what you do call training is pathetic compared what me and GK here do on a daily basis just to stay in shape."
"CUT IT OUT!" Mercury yelled.
Everyone looked at the blushing girl and decided to settle down. "Okay, but we called this meeting for several reasons." Amy said, she noticed that Ranma giving her an odd look again. "First of all, I apologize for provoking you, I have a tendency to snap at certain people for threatening me and my friends, it is a bit of a bad habit."
"I'll accept that." Mercury said calmly, Mars and Jupiter just snorted and glared at her.
"The second is to talk to the Princess and fix certain problems that have occurred."
"Problems?" Mercury asked.
"Amy Lee..."
Mars snarled and even Jupiter looked a little startled, to say nothing of the others. "Don't you ever mention that perverted bitch's name in my presence again!"
"Huh?" Nova said, giving Mars a weird look and sizing her up.
"That...that pervert has been hounding us for weeks now. She is going to die when I get my hands on her!"
"Mars, I talked to Amy Lee and she confirmed what I saw, you girls attacked her first, she even saved your Princess in the middle of a fight..."
"I have visions of the future! It is one of my skills as a Sailor Scout and I have been informed that this perverted bitch will kill us all if she is not taken out!"
"Oh please, you obviously don't know what you are talking about Mars..."
"Shut Up!"
Amy blinked and noticed some slow movement out of the corner of her eye, she wasn't sure what it was, but she was going to find out. She sent her senses out as Mars continued to rant and cuss up a storm that even impressed her, there was a blank area that was at the extreme range of her senses that she couldn't penetrate. She kept her face stony and looked deeper until she noticed a slight wavering in the air that signaled some kind of magic or Ki control.
Right now it wasn't moving anymore, but she knew what to look for if she needed to find it again. This was going to prove to be an interesting challenge if it was what she thought it was, Ranma's father had been strangely quiet lately. She turned to look at Ranma and signaled for her to go to one of their back up plans, Mars was to unstable for her plan to work.
"Mercury, we came here to talk, obviously Mars here has other ideas. I will make contact with the Princess on my own, good night ladies." Nova said, spun on her heel and launched into the night sky. She bounced off a tree, closely followed by Ranma, to the roof of the school and bounced her way towards the outer sections of Nerima in the distance. They both heard the sounds of the girls giving chase, but they used their skills
to vanish in mid air.
"Amy, what was that all about?" Ranma called.
"There was someone watching the meeting, I couldn't tell who it was though. They were using some kind of cloaking technique."
"I didn't sense anything and I was looking."
"I barely noticed it, more of a feeling than anything else so we'll need to be more careful."
"Alright, what did you think of Mars back there."
"You caught that too?"
"Yeah, she didn't feel right. I can't really explain it."
"She has always been a hot head, I may need to take care of her in a quiet way that wouldn't alert anyone."
"You said you were going to stop doing that because the threat was getting out of hand."
Amy frowned and shrugged. "Sometimes you're no fun."
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Deep under the sands of the Sahara in an unknown region is a small temple, its buried nearly a quarter mile under the sands and has been lost to history for millennia. There are no land marks on the surface that could be used to find it by mortal means, but for the first time in centuries this dark and foreboding temple has a visitor, how he found it is a complete mystery, but he appears in a swirl of light and looks around in curiosity.
Zepher shakes his head and grins as a couple of torches in the room suddenly light up on their own, proof that a bit of the old magic still works. There is a short hallway off to the side and he strides down this, kicking up dust with every step. The air, though stale is breathable and he wonders why for several moments before shrugging it off as more magic. The items in this temple had been placed here since before the fall of the Silver Millennium by the one of the ruling nations of earth, at least that is what the legends said.
His Master wanted one of these items brought to him as soon as possible, this was possible only because his Master knew things that others didn't, hidden secrets. These items were some of the most dangerous magical items in existence and had been placed here to keep them out of the hands of idiots that wanted to gain their powers.
Zepher hoped his master knew what he was doing with these things. They were very dangerous and unpredictable. Even after all this time the temple was in perfect condition, nothing was out of place, the pictures on the wall describing the horrors entombed in here were absolutely gross and showed every little detail, it made even him shudder in horror.
The passage way ended at the doorway to a small room, according to the map he had been given, this was the beginning of a major under taking and he to continue on until the end once he started on the path beyond this door or he would never leave this place. At the end of this test he would reach a vault that he had been given the key to, he had no idea where his master got it, but it would save him a lot of time.
Zepher wasn't sure why he had to do this on foot, but the Master had said so and he had no intention of disobeying. The door was unmarked and opened easily as he pushed on it, evil power rushed out of the room like a plague and he absorbed the power instinctively as it washed over him. It felt wonderful, almost erotic and stimulating, Zepher sighed and stepped forward into the room.
The door slammed shut the instant he was a few paces into the passage way and a set of torches lit up a small alcove to his left that had a spiral stair case leading down into the depths of the earth. He shrugged and hopped down the steps and was soon standing at the bottom. There was a frigid chill in the air and he could see ice had formed all along the bottom edges of the stairs as he stepped off onto a small ledge overlooking stalactite ridden pit.
There were torches all along the walls of the pit giving it an eerie feel. Every now and then he could make out something hanging off of, or inside of, one of the columns that were set deeper into the room. There were also noises down here, they were had to make out, but he thought it sounded like dripping water, considering the ice he figured he wasn't too far off of the truth.
He took a few minutes to cross the bridge and soon found a trail, the torches were lighting his way, flickering on and off as he moved past them or entered their area of influence, the small trail leading deeper into the earth took on a whole new meaning because of this. He was a bit surprised to have made it this far without being attacked or setting off a trap, but chalked it up to a bit of good luck. The trail went downwards in a slow spiral for hours.
Eventually the trail changed and took him to the inner edge of the pit and followed along this. He was forced to creep along this narrow path for some distance and he lost count of the time he nearly fell of the tiny ledge and onto the stalagmites below. He noted that there were torches set into the wall above him that kept pace with him as he moved. Then just as he was stepping onto normal ground again the pit guardians began to attack him.
Zepher didn't even blink in surprise; it had been the perfect spot for an ambush. He raised his hand and started to fire off blasts of magical energy, the pit guardians were like undead monsters. They lurched and slithered from out of the very walls. If the rumors were true, just to be touched by one of them would be enough to make you into one of them. It was how they were maintained over the centuries, adventurer had found the place and been consumed by the guardians. There were hundreds of them as they swarmed him, but he grinned and continued to fire off blasts.
A horrid odor of cooked and rotten flesh filled the air as he dealt with the problem, for all their numbers he decided that they were not much of a threat. There were just a giant annoyance to him really and he had plenty of time to make his way through them. Luckily his blasts were powerful enough to nearly vaporize the disgusting creatures. He only encountered one problem with them and that was when they just formed into a giant sludge like mass and swamped him in a large mass.
Zepher continued forward and through the disgusting thing as if it didn't exist, blasting it to pieces and smirking to himself at how easy this was.
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"Amy, now that we lost the Scouts, I have some business to attend to."
"Like what?"
"Well, you know I got all those memories back right?"
"Sure."
"Pops and Mr. Tendo used Shampoo's memory erasing technique on me a few months ago when Akane picked Ryoga over me. I guess your arguing just got to be to much for her and she went with him instead of me. I didn't take it to well and broke down, but just as I was beginning to accept it a little, those bastards ambushed everyone in the house and changed their memories so that the schools could be united at any cost, even our happiness."
Amy rolled her eyes, it was just like the old fart to pull something like that, he always thought more of his own comfort than his own son. "What are you going to do?"
"I'm not sure yet, I do know the old panda has a good chance of becoming a rug in the near future. As for the rest of the family, I don't know. I was planning to restore their memories, there is a technique I remember from my past life that will work for that. I just need to collect the correct herbs and spices and touch the pressure points on each of them."
"Do you need any help?"
"No, this is my responsibly, but there are going to be consequences now that I think about it."
"Whoa!"
"What?"
"A few days ago you would have never have thought beyond the main goal, your past life must have had a very interesting impact on you."
"Yeah, I was quite..."
"DIE, DEMON SAOTOME!" Yelled a voice from above them.
Ranma groaned as he recognized the voice as Kuno, he pivoted just slightly and kicked him in the stomach. The kick blew threw the kendoist's defenses, shattered his sword and launched him into the sky. Amy whistled as she watched him fly off and giggled at the tired look on Ranma's face.
"What?" Ranma whined.
"You didn't even break stride, you barely blinked when he attacked."
"Yeah, though now that you mention it, he hasn't been around lately."
"Naw, this is Kuno were talking about here. He's insane and the biggest pervert this side of Hopposai."
"I'll give you that one, he is totally hopeless when it comes to seeing the real world. Have you ever seen him act normally?"
"Nope, though of his whole family he is the sanest, and that is saying a lot."
"I remember now, Kodachi is into drugs isn't she?"
"Yep, and potions and poisons too."
"Do you think she may have the rare herb you need for that stuff you need to make."
"I...I never even considered her, she just might have what I need, but the price would be far to high and would cause just as many problems as I am going to correct."
"Possibly, what about some flower shops or occult shops?"
"I was planning to just go out into the forest and get them without anyone knowing what I was going to do."
"So it is time for another training trip?"
"Nope, every time I go on one of those I end up taking everyone along with me. They are either forced to come along, like with Kasumi or Akane, or they follow me for various reasons, like to kill me or marry me and I don't feel like going through that again. If Akane takes it upon herself to actually cook some thing other than curry we might be in trouble."
"Hmmm...I'm not sure what to tell you then."
"Don't worry about it, I can be gone for a few days without anyone really caring."
"I would, you baka, but since I know what you are planning it doesn't matter."
"You could tell everybody that I went on a private training trip, or something like that, if anyone even notices I am gone that is." Ranma said with a shrug.
Amy shrugged to, figuring it would be better to see if anyone even noticed he was gone or not. "Eh."
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Black Razor appeared with a flare of black light and found herself on the sidewalk of a deserted street. It was about 8 at night and the area was in a little used part of Juban. There were apartment towers covering several square blocks in every direction, she looked around for several seconds until she spotted just what she would need.
Raising her hands she glowed for several seconds and watched as the shadows formed by the street lights took on monster like forms and started to move around. They writhed and struggled to fight her influence but that was impossible, she was far to strong and her power to manipulate shadows was absolute.
Soon she had a small army at her feet and with a flick of her wrist sent them out to do as much damage as they could. She needed to get the Scouts to show up. They were a distraction for the Scouts and she hoped they were strong enough to withstand this assault. She had plans for them that went beyond what the Master wanted.
Screams soon started to fill the air as the shadows did what they were told and Black Razor started to absorb large amounts of energy from her shadows and sending it back to her Master. She giggled insanely as she waited for the girls to show up, they all had parts to play and she wanted them to be right where she needed them.
"Hey, @$$#@%%! Just what the hell do you think you are doing?"
Black Razor spun around and saw a girl. It took a few seconds to recognize the red head in front of her since she was expecting the Sailor Scouts. "You!"
"Hey, how you doin, are you still causing problems? I thought you got this out of your system the other day?" Amy Lee asked snidely.
"Ha, I will bring this world to it's knees!"
"Don't you think your a little old for fantasies like that."
Razor growled and motioned for her shadows to attack. "Get her, kill her!"
Amy shrugged and watched as over 50 shadow like monsters pealed themselves off of buildings, cars, and flowed from everywhere. They moved at her in a giant mass of silent writhing death. Amy stood there and yawned, she had seen more threatening monster than this over the years. She crouched down just as it shot forward and enveloped her. The only thing left was silence.
Then for several seconds nothing moved, but then there was a strange noise from within the shadow monster. It weaved back and forth like water, its head bent to the side like a confused dog, just as a pillar of pure red light fired out of its back and rose into the sky, held there for several seconds, then fell straight back down and impacted the shadow causing a large explosion. The light grew at a quick pace as it seemed to make the monster glow from the inside out.
Amy Lee was revealed as the source of the light as she stood in the middle of the monster. Her arms were raised into the air, a giant aura of red power flowing around her like armor. Her eyes were glowing an evil red and focused right into Black Razor's own, sending a chill down her spine as she could suddenly feel just how much power Amy was generating in that one instant.
With a faint scream of pain, the shadows were dispersed and Amy allowed her aura
to flare out like an uncontrollable fire. "What are you going to use on me now, girl?"
"Oh please, do you think you can actually beat me? I am an experienced warrior. I wasn't given this assignment for my good looks you know."
"Well then, here, lets see if you fight as well as you look cute stuff." Amy purred.
"Huh?"
Amy launched off the ground as if she had been shot out of a cannon and was instantly in Razors face before she could comprehend it. The attack was a simple straight punch, a kick to the stomach and the patented double handed blow to the back to send said victim plowing into the ground. Razor hit hard, screaming in shock that this could even happen to her, but it didn't harm her all that much, her powers took care of any damage she may have received. She crawled out of the small carter and glared up at Amy, reevaluating her opponent.
"Hold it right there Bitch!"
"You won't get away with this!"
Razor spun to the side and blink in surprise as Sailors Uranus and Neptune ignored her and launched multiple attacks at Amy as she stood over her downed enemy. Razor nearly fell down laughing as she realized that these two idiots were helping her to win. She powered up a blast of shadow fire and launched it at Amy as well, but the girl managed to dodge and weave through the triple attack. Razor laughed to herself as Uranus and Neptune helped her out with questioning her, but this was just like them, they were over confident and had a reputation for breaking an opponent before finding out the truth of any situation.
"Uranus, that one in black is giving off most of the negative energy in
the area!" Neptune yelled.
"Kill them both!"
"Okay!"
'Oh SHIT!' Amy and Razor thought at the same time.
Amy suddenly had to do a stop, drop, and roll to avoid the blast of water Neptune was throwing at her. She flared up and quickly fired back, aiming for the ground at Neptune's feet, but she jumped out of the way before the resulting explosion could cause her any damage. She landed lightly and fired off another quick 'DEEP SUBMERGE' in Amy's direction without breaking stride. These two had always been on Amy's irritation list and they were quickly making there way to the 'destroy at all costs' list.
"What the hell are you firing at me for, lady? I haven't done anything wrong!"
"Yeah right, I saw what you did to that other girl!"
"She attacked me first, I was just protecting myself!"
"DEEP SUBMERGE!" Neptune screamed and launched.
Amy landed from a flip and sighed before firing off her own blast of red power and canceling out Neptune's attack. She followed this up with another blast to the tree just behind the green haired Scout.
The girl dodged the attack easily enough, but was caught in the explosion of bark and splinters as the tree exploded around her from behind. Amy shot forward and slammed Neptune into the ground, knocking the wind out of her and incapacitating her for the next few minutes.
Then about 20 yards away Black Razor and Uranus were tossing attacks back and forth, obliterating most of the street and damaging the buildings around them without care in the world. Uranus tossed out 3 quick 'WORLD SHAKING' attacks and managed to overwhelm her opponent just long enough to hurt her. Razor screamed in shock as she was blasted through corner of a building in a shower of stone and stucco. Landing on her shoulders hurt, but it allowed her to roll to her feet just as a 4th 'WORLD SHAKING' hit her in the chest.
She fell on her face, stunned and in shock that anyone could do this to her so easily. These Scouts seemed to be much stronger than the others and they were actually soldiers, cold blooded and down right mean. She had underestimated them and now she was paying the price, Zepher had to know about this. She had been warned and failed to take this kind of reaction into context. Black razor rolled over just as a 5th 'WORLD SHAKING' slammed into her.
Razor screamed as her vision went white and she felt her body being torn to pieces, but then she saw Zepher standing in the shadows of a nearby building, watching her with an unreadable expression on his face. She tried to reach out to him in her panic and paid for it, his eyes flared a bright white for a second and she felt her body being filled with power.
Power beyond anything she had ever conceived of, it rushed through her veins and muscles like liquid gold. It was then that she realized what had happened to her and fear filled her heart for the first time in years. Black Razor screamed out, not in pain but in horror as her soul was ripped from her body and Uranus' blast finished its explosion. Razor shook her head and saw her enemy getting ready to fire off another blast, she rolled and to her feet and slammed her newly clawed fingers into the stone and screamed in ecstasy. It echoed all over the neighbor hood and was enough to give children nightmares for weeks.
What had once been a very good looking bad girl was now some kind of hideous monster. It was nearly 9 ft tall and had vaguely female form, covered in black fur that gleamed wetly under the street lights and had a set of 3 inch fangs sticking out of the side of her mouth. Its eyes were a deep red and glowed with an evil glint. The most frightening features were the black wings and the claws. It glared at Uranus and howled, causing Amy to stop and look at it.
"What the hell is that?!" Amy yelled out.
Neptune rolled to her feet and ran over to Uranus and pulled out her mirror, they watched and gasped at what it showed them. "That thing isn't even human anymore, it is pure Youma, and we have to defeat it."
"This is going to take awhile, as a human she was taking a major beating, this is 10 times a strong as she was. I can feel it." Uranus panted out as she gasped for air, tossing all those blasts was draining her energy quickly.
"This is your fault!" Neptune yelled at Amy.
The red head blinked. "How do you figure that?"
"If you hadn't been holding us back we would have won by now!" Uranus yelled.
"I was just protecting myself from being killed when you interfered in my fight Blondie, so shut up and help me kill that thing!"
Amy didn't feel like being left out and took a second to power up a blast, it pulsed to life in her hands as she concentrated. Ignoring the Outers she formed it into a ball and threw it at the monster, it slammed into it and created a huge explosion that rocked the area and shattered what few windows were left in the area. The ground rocked and Amy jumped to the top of a nearby building and fired off another blast as soon as the thing jumped out of the explosion and into the sky.
Her second shot missed and impacted against the building across the street and obliterated most of the first and second floor of that side. Amy growled in frustration and launched off the building just as Uranus and Neptune blasted most of the roof off trying to hit the monster and her at the same time. Amy soared out of the destruction and shot towards the monster as it changed course and descended on the two Sailors.
She was tempted to let it get to them before it attacked, but decided against it. They ducked and rolled out of the way as Amy used her momentum to slam it into the ground with enough force to crack the cement before it could correct its dive. There was a satisfying crunching sound as it hit and Amy flipped off at the last second.
It didn't seem to notice though as it jumped into the air with its wings spread and hopped nearly 30ft into the air while firing off multiple blasts of dark energy. Amy was to slow to react and was hit square in the chest with one of them, throwing her back down the street and into a wall. She slumped down to the ground and groaned in pain, that thing was a lot stronger than it had originally looked. She rolled to her feet just as Uranus and Neptune went into action again.
They rushed forward and Neptune fired at the monster and knocked it back several feet, but it shrugged it off like it was nothing. Uranus on the other hand turned around and fired a blast at her and Amy had to scramble to dodge it even as it vaporized a large section of the wall she had been leaning against. Amy dove to the side and rolled to her feet, her aura flaring around her in her anger. She failed to notice the little black sparks of negative energy in her aura as it pulsed out and melted the asphalt a her feet.
"Fire at IT, you IDIOTS!" Amy yelled out.
"You're as much a threat as it is bitch!" Uranus yelled out.
Amy was seeing red and she decided that these two deserved something a little more extreme than what she usually did to her enemies when she didn't want to destroy them. With Uranus and Neptune now focused on her, they failed to notice as the monster moved to attack again. Amy lit up in a pillar of power and brought both her hands forward and fired off a large blast of power just as Neptune noticed the monster's intentions. Amy's shot went high above the monster, curved around, and fell onto like the wrath of god. Neptune and Uranus spun around just in time to fire off two shots apiece.
Then only a few seconds later all of this hit the weakened monster from all directions at once. The explosion was more than even Amy had expected and figured that they had just created a 30 by 50 foot crater, the roof of a nearby building collapsed as the ground rumbled. They all waited, watching each other out of the corners of their eyes, for the smoke and dust to clear, but Amy helped things along by tossing out a wave of Ki and blowing it away like a quick moving wind.
What had been Black Razor was now, mush, there wasn't that much left and it was quickly dissolving away and filling the bottom of the hole in a tar like substance. They must have broken a water main as water was shooting height into the air and raining down around the area. Amy sighed and relaxed fractionally, but she still kept her eyes on the Outers.
"Your next, Red." Uranus said, getting ready to fire off a 'WORLD SHAKING'.
"One down, one to go." Neptune said coldly.
"You Scouts are too much, you know that? Heh, well I don't mind having a bit of revenge on you for trying to kill me. The Inners have already felt my wrath, you might as well too." Amy said lecherously and licked her lips as she made it quite plain she was checking both girls out. They gasped in shock and stepped back in surprise.
"You can't be serious!?" Yelled out Neptune, her face a solid red.
Amy just smiled and vanished in a burst of red light, but not before firing off a couple of shots that hit the Outers in their chests. They were knocked back several feet and fell on their butts with grunts of pain. They laid there for several moments trying to figure out what had happened. She was too stunned to move as the red energy seemed to flow across their bodies in a very strange manner, flared, and vanished. They climbed to their feet and looked around. The red haired girl was gone.
"She doesn't seem to have damaged us all that much." Uranus pointed out, rubbing her chest, a bit of the red energy flowing around her hand.
"I think it was distraction so that she could get away...uh oh..." Neptune gasped and turned bright red as her knees began to shake.
"What is it?" Asked a worried Uranus, but then she felt it too and she gasped for air and had forcibly resist this urge to put her hand between her legs.
"What the hell did she do!?"
"I have no idea, but I think this is similar to what she did to Mercury and Jupiter."
Uranus and Neptune gasped and fell to their knees and stared at each other, their eye sight turning red as the red energy flared up again and flowed over their bodies and began to eat away at their clothing. They could feel it moving through their blood now, leaving in its wake pure ecstasy and pleasure beyond anything they had ever encountered before. They moaned simultaneously and shuddered as they fell over, a few seconds later they inched their way over to each other...
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To Be Continued...
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Strange Days
Chapter 10
By: Cory D. Rose
ertle2@msn.com
(C)2003
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Juban High was a 4 story school with each floor devoted to which year of high school one was attending. Nova stood on the clock tower built into the top center of the building and kept watch over the grounds as she waited for the Scouts to show up. She had been here fore nearly two hours now and she was not in a good mood, and wanted to break something because of her own stupidity. Why she had set the time so late was a total mystery to her and Ranma wasn't very happy with her either.
He wanted to sleep, not perch on a roof in the middle of a district he knew nothing about for five girls in silly costumes, he felt like bird for some reason. That and this Guardian Uniform was not designed for comfort, the skirt had a tendency to ride up and show more leg than either of them were comfortable with. Amy had caught several glimpses of Ranma's white panties now, they came with the outfit, she didn't have any say in the matter.
Amy was watching Ranma out of the corner of her eye, with each passing day it became harder and harder for her to ignore her growing attraction to the most adorable person she had ever encountered. She didn't care if he was male or female. She just wanted to be with him. She didn't know how to deal with that, his new powers and confidence were even more impressive.
He had gained over four decades of memories and there were nearly a dozen different types of Ki attacks available to Ranma now. Amy wanted to learn some of them and wondered what she would have to do to persuade him. She knew that Ranma wasn't all powerful, even with these new attacks and abilities, still her cute factor had been turned up a notch.
Ranma had even been a little relieved when he had found a limit to what he could do. "There was no challenge to life if there was no one around to give you a decent fight" He had said. He had spent too many years training to be the best just to drop all of it because of fancy magical powers.
Even though she had to admit being a little impressed with his decision to only help the Scouts when they needed it. He didn't want to be dependent on his powers in a fight, he would use then only when he needed to.
"ZZZZZzzz..zz." Ranma snored as she leaned against the wall and caught a few minutes sleep.
Amy grinned and wondered why she wanted a camera, she also had an urge to toss the girl off the roof for some weird reason. She shrugged, this was her chance to stop the useless fight with the Scouts and get some good done for a change. The darkness was growing and she had no way to trace it down, she hoped Mercury might have some ideas on how to do it. Amy looked down into the court yard and noticed several girls walking onto the grounds and looking around, they were all in uniform. She counted 4 of them.
She quickly spotted the Inners, Mercury, Jupiter, Mars, and Venus, but there was no sign of Sailor Moon. "Wake up Ranma, Guardian Knight. They are here for our meeting."
Ranma's eyes snapped open, "It's about time."
"Sorry, you know I figured that a late night meeting would be better."
"I know, but I like my sleep too and this is meeting and not a battle."
"True, I've only spotted the Inners so far. That means that the Princess is holding back, I don't know if the Outers are around though."
"Outers, those are the ones we have to be careful of?"
"Yes, they are trigger happy too."
"Attack and ask questions later?"
"No, attack and destroy everything in their path until it is gone, screw the questions."
"Oh, this could be bad then, I don't want to fight them if I don't have to, and they are girls, no mater how powerful they are."
"True, I made a huge mistake when I started that stupid series of attacks on them."
"They'll get over it." Said Ranma.
"Well, hopefully I made an impression on one of those girls." Amy said as she grinned lecherously.
Ranma rolled her eyes and giggled nervously, her friend deafeningly
had some strange ideas. "Well lets get down there."
Using the window sills along the back of the building they quickly hopped down to the ground and landed without a sound. Nova looked around the corner and spotted the girls waiting near the trees in front of the gate, impatiently. Well Mars and Jupiter were arguing with each other, Mercury was standing off to the side and looking at her little computer, and Venus was looking nervous.
They all stopped and looked up as Amy and Ranma walked around the corner of the building. Amy saw Mercury nod as they came forward, Mars and Jupiter looked them over like mass murderers on the loose and it was obvious that Venus was the back up, depending on how things went.
"Good evening Scouts."
"Hello..." Started Mercury.
"Who the hell are you and what do you want with the Princess!?" Mars yelled.
Amy ignored Sailor Mars and turned to Mercury. "I'm Nova and this is Guardian Knight, I thought it would be a good idea if we all had a little chat."
"About what?" Growled Jupiter.
"Nova are you positive these are the Sailor Scouts you told me about?" Guardian Knight asked. Her eye twitched a little as she watched the scene.
"Yep."
"They sure don't seem like they are dedicated to what they say they are in their speeches."
"How dare you?!" Yelled Mars.
"Humph!" Ranma snorted. "You sure don't seem to embody what you preach."
A battle aura formed around Mars and Jupiter as Ranma smirked at them. Amy realized that no matter how much her friend changed, he would always be arrogant and full of pride. Ranma did this with everyone until he had them figured out. It was also a hold over from the abuse he had taken with his father, a kind of defense to keep others at bay until he knew if he could trust them or not. The two Scouts looked like they were about to attack when Mercury told them to stop and stepped forward.
"Cut it out you two, we are here to talk, not fight."
"I wouldn't mind the fight." Guardian Knight said to the two girls. "Of course I would win, that's a given."
Amy nearly burst into giggles. It ended up as a snort that drew everyone's attention. It made her blush and Ranma look at her oddly. "Lets just talk, it is what were hereto miss a little sleep for."
"Agreed. Why did you want to meet the Princess?"
"...we need to..." Ranma began.
"That is between us, it is none of your concern." Amy interrupted and silently apologized to Ranma when she looked over at her.
"Why you..." Mars began.
"I have been watching you Scouts for some time now, I wanted see if you were as good as your reputation. So far you have spent more time arguing amongst yourselves than fighting these monsters that keep popping up. I've watched as some strange girl keeps taking them out for you while you lay unconscious on the ground or hover in the back round."
"How dare you insult us like this!?" Jupiter screamed.
"Why shouldn't we? Me and GK here are strong enough to kill most of these monsters without transforming. I haven't even seen you girls practicing and what you do call training is pathetic compared what me and GK here do on a daily basis just to stay in shape."
"CUT IT OUT!" Mercury yelled.
Everyone looked at the blushing girl and decided to settle down. "Okay, but we called this meeting for several reasons." Amy said, she noticed that Ranma giving her an odd look again. "First of all, I apologize for provoking you, I have a tendency to snap at certain people for threatening me and my friends, it is a bit of a bad habit."
"I'll accept that." Mercury said calmly, Mars and Jupiter just snorted and glared at her.
"The second is to talk to the Princess and fix certain problems that have occurred."
"Problems?" Mercury asked.
"Amy Lee..."
Mars snarled and even Jupiter looked a little startled, to say nothing of the others. "Don't you ever mention that perverted bitch's name in my presence again!"
"Huh?" Nova said, giving Mars a weird look and sizing her up.
"That...that pervert has been hounding us for weeks now. She is going to die when I get my hands on her!"
"Mars, I talked to Amy Lee and she confirmed what I saw, you girls attacked her first, she even saved your Princess in the middle of a fight..."
"I have visions of the future! It is one of my skills as a Sailor Scout and I have been informed that this perverted bitch will kill us all if she is not taken out!"
"Oh please, you obviously don't know what you are talking about Mars..."
"Shut Up!"
Amy blinked and noticed some slow movement out of the corner of her eye, she wasn't sure what it was, but she was going to find out. She sent her senses out as Mars continued to rant and cuss up a storm that even impressed her, there was a blank area that was at the extreme range of her senses that she couldn't penetrate. She kept her face stony and looked deeper until she noticed a slight wavering in the air that signaled some kind of magic or Ki control.
Right now it wasn't moving anymore, but she knew what to look for if she needed to find it again. This was going to prove to be an interesting challenge if it was what she thought it was, Ranma's father had been strangely quiet lately. She turned to look at Ranma and signaled for her to go to one of their back up plans, Mars was to unstable for her plan to work.
"Mercury, we came here to talk, obviously Mars here has other ideas. I will make contact with the Princess on my own, good night ladies." Nova said, spun on her heel and launched into the night sky. She bounced off a tree, closely followed by Ranma, to the roof of the school and bounced her way towards the outer sections of Nerima in the distance. They both heard the sounds of the girls giving chase, but they used their skills
to vanish in mid air.
"Amy, what was that all about?" Ranma called.
"There was someone watching the meeting, I couldn't tell who it was though. They were using some kind of cloaking technique."
"I didn't sense anything and I was looking."
"I barely noticed it, more of a feeling than anything else so we'll need to be more careful."
"Alright, what did you think of Mars back there."
"You caught that too?"
"Yeah, she didn't feel right. I can't really explain it."
"She has always been a hot head, I may need to take care of her in a quiet way that wouldn't alert anyone."
"You said you were going to stop doing that because the threat was getting out of hand."
Amy frowned and shrugged. "Sometimes you're no fun."
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Deep under the sands of the Sahara in an unknown region is a small temple, its buried nearly a quarter mile under the sands and has been lost to history for millennia. There are no land marks on the surface that could be used to find it by mortal means, but for the first time in centuries this dark and foreboding temple has a visitor, how he found it is a complete mystery, but he appears in a swirl of light and looks around in curiosity.
Zepher shakes his head and grins as a couple of torches in the room suddenly light up on their own, proof that a bit of the old magic still works. There is a short hallway off to the side and he strides down this, kicking up dust with every step. The air, though stale is breathable and he wonders why for several moments before shrugging it off as more magic. The items in this temple had been placed here since before the fall of the Silver Millennium by the one of the ruling nations of earth, at least that is what the legends said.
His Master wanted one of these items brought to him as soon as possible, this was possible only because his Master knew things that others didn't, hidden secrets. These items were some of the most dangerous magical items in existence and had been placed here to keep them out of the hands of idiots that wanted to gain their powers.
Zepher hoped his master knew what he was doing with these things. They were very dangerous and unpredictable. Even after all this time the temple was in perfect condition, nothing was out of place, the pictures on the wall describing the horrors entombed in here were absolutely gross and showed every little detail, it made even him shudder in horror.
The passage way ended at the doorway to a small room, according to the map he had been given, this was the beginning of a major under taking and he to continue on until the end once he started on the path beyond this door or he would never leave this place. At the end of this test he would reach a vault that he had been given the key to, he had no idea where his master got it, but it would save him a lot of time.
Zepher wasn't sure why he had to do this on foot, but the Master had said so and he had no intention of disobeying. The door was unmarked and opened easily as he pushed on it, evil power rushed out of the room like a plague and he absorbed the power instinctively as it washed over him. It felt wonderful, almost erotic and stimulating, Zepher sighed and stepped forward into the room.
The door slammed shut the instant he was a few paces into the passage way and a set of torches lit up a small alcove to his left that had a spiral stair case leading down into the depths of the earth. He shrugged and hopped down the steps and was soon standing at the bottom. There was a frigid chill in the air and he could see ice had formed all along the bottom edges of the stairs as he stepped off onto a small ledge overlooking stalactite ridden pit.
There were torches all along the walls of the pit giving it an eerie feel. Every now and then he could make out something hanging off of, or inside of, one of the columns that were set deeper into the room. There were also noises down here, they were had to make out, but he thought it sounded like dripping water, considering the ice he figured he wasn't too far off of the truth.
He took a few minutes to cross the bridge and soon found a trail, the torches were lighting his way, flickering on and off as he moved past them or entered their area of influence, the small trail leading deeper into the earth took on a whole new meaning because of this. He was a bit surprised to have made it this far without being attacked or setting off a trap, but chalked it up to a bit of good luck. The trail went downwards in a slow spiral for hours.
Eventually the trail changed and took him to the inner edge of the pit and followed along this. He was forced to creep along this narrow path for some distance and he lost count of the time he nearly fell of the tiny ledge and onto the stalagmites below. He noted that there were torches set into the wall above him that kept pace with him as he moved. Then just as he was stepping onto normal ground again the pit guardians began to attack him.
Zepher didn't even blink in surprise; it had been the perfect spot for an ambush. He raised his hand and started to fire off blasts of magical energy, the pit guardians were like undead monsters. They lurched and slithered from out of the very walls. If the rumors were true, just to be touched by one of them would be enough to make you into one of them. It was how they were maintained over the centuries, adventurer had found the place and been consumed by the guardians. There were hundreds of them as they swarmed him, but he grinned and continued to fire off blasts.
A horrid odor of cooked and rotten flesh filled the air as he dealt with the problem, for all their numbers he decided that they were not much of a threat. There were just a giant annoyance to him really and he had plenty of time to make his way through them. Luckily his blasts were powerful enough to nearly vaporize the disgusting creatures. He only encountered one problem with them and that was when they just formed into a giant sludge like mass and swamped him in a large mass.
Zepher continued forward and through the disgusting thing as if it didn't exist, blasting it to pieces and smirking to himself at how easy this was.
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"Amy, now that we lost the Scouts, I have some business to attend to."
"Like what?"
"Well, you know I got all those memories back right?"
"Sure."
"Pops and Mr. Tendo used Shampoo's memory erasing technique on me a few months ago when Akane picked Ryoga over me. I guess your arguing just got to be to much for her and she went with him instead of me. I didn't take it to well and broke down, but just as I was beginning to accept it a little, those bastards ambushed everyone in the house and changed their memories so that the schools could be united at any cost, even our happiness."
Amy rolled her eyes, it was just like the old fart to pull something like that, he always thought more of his own comfort than his own son. "What are you going to do?"
"I'm not sure yet, I do know the old panda has a good chance of becoming a rug in the near future. As for the rest of the family, I don't know. I was planning to restore their memories, there is a technique I remember from my past life that will work for that. I just need to collect the correct herbs and spices and touch the pressure points on each of them."
"Do you need any help?"
"No, this is my responsibly, but there are going to be consequences now that I think about it."
"Whoa!"
"What?"
"A few days ago you would have never have thought beyond the main goal, your past life must have had a very interesting impact on you."
"Yeah, I was quite..."
"DIE, DEMON SAOTOME!" Yelled a voice from above them.
Ranma groaned as he recognized the voice as Kuno, he pivoted just slightly and kicked him in the stomach. The kick blew threw the kendoist's defenses, shattered his sword and launched him into the sky. Amy whistled as she watched him fly off and giggled at the tired look on Ranma's face.
"What?" Ranma whined.
"You didn't even break stride, you barely blinked when he attacked."
"Yeah, though now that you mention it, he hasn't been around lately."
"Naw, this is Kuno were talking about here. He's insane and the biggest pervert this side of Hopposai."
"I'll give you that one, he is totally hopeless when it comes to seeing the real world. Have you ever seen him act normally?"
"Nope, though of his whole family he is the sanest, and that is saying a lot."
"I remember now, Kodachi is into drugs isn't she?"
"Yep, and potions and poisons too."
"Do you think she may have the rare herb you need for that stuff you need to make."
"I...I never even considered her, she just might have what I need, but the price would be far to high and would cause just as many problems as I am going to correct."
"Possibly, what about some flower shops or occult shops?"
"I was planning to just go out into the forest and get them without anyone knowing what I was going to do."
"So it is time for another training trip?"
"Nope, every time I go on one of those I end up taking everyone along with me. They are either forced to come along, like with Kasumi or Akane, or they follow me for various reasons, like to kill me or marry me and I don't feel like going through that again. If Akane takes it upon herself to actually cook some thing other than curry we might be in trouble."
"Hmmm...I'm not sure what to tell you then."
"Don't worry about it, I can be gone for a few days without anyone really caring."
"I would, you baka, but since I know what you are planning it doesn't matter."
"You could tell everybody that I went on a private training trip, or something like that, if anyone even notices I am gone that is." Ranma said with a shrug.
Amy shrugged to, figuring it would be better to see if anyone even noticed he was gone or not. "Eh."
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Black Razor appeared with a flare of black light and found herself on the sidewalk of a deserted street. It was about 8 at night and the area was in a little used part of Juban. There were apartment towers covering several square blocks in every direction, she looked around for several seconds until she spotted just what she would need.
Raising her hands she glowed for several seconds and watched as the shadows formed by the street lights took on monster like forms and started to move around. They writhed and struggled to fight her influence but that was impossible, she was far to strong and her power to manipulate shadows was absolute.
Soon she had a small army at her feet and with a flick of her wrist sent them out to do as much damage as they could. She needed to get the Scouts to show up. They were a distraction for the Scouts and she hoped they were strong enough to withstand this assault. She had plans for them that went beyond what the Master wanted.
Screams soon started to fill the air as the shadows did what they were told and Black Razor started to absorb large amounts of energy from her shadows and sending it back to her Master. She giggled insanely as she waited for the girls to show up, they all had parts to play and she wanted them to be right where she needed them.
"Hey, @$$#@%%! Just what the hell do you think you are doing?"
Black Razor spun around and saw a girl. It took a few seconds to recognize the red head in front of her since she was expecting the Sailor Scouts. "You!"
"Hey, how you doin, are you still causing problems? I thought you got this out of your system the other day?" Amy Lee asked snidely.
"Ha, I will bring this world to it's knees!"
"Don't you think your a little old for fantasies like that."
Razor growled and motioned for her shadows to attack. "Get her, kill her!"
Amy shrugged and watched as over 50 shadow like monsters pealed themselves off of buildings, cars, and flowed from everywhere. They moved at her in a giant mass of silent writhing death. Amy stood there and yawned, she had seen more threatening monster than this over the years. She crouched down just as it shot forward and enveloped her. The only thing left was silence.
Then for several seconds nothing moved, but then there was a strange noise from within the shadow monster. It weaved back and forth like water, its head bent to the side like a confused dog, just as a pillar of pure red light fired out of its back and rose into the sky, held there for several seconds, then fell straight back down and impacted the shadow causing a large explosion. The light grew at a quick pace as it seemed to make the monster glow from the inside out.
Amy Lee was revealed as the source of the light as she stood in the middle of the monster. Her arms were raised into the air, a giant aura of red power flowing around her like armor. Her eyes were glowing an evil red and focused right into Black Razor's own, sending a chill down her spine as she could suddenly feel just how much power Amy was generating in that one instant.
With a faint scream of pain, the shadows were dispersed and Amy allowed her aura
to flare out like an uncontrollable fire. "What are you going to use on me now, girl?"
"Oh please, do you think you can actually beat me? I am an experienced warrior. I wasn't given this assignment for my good looks you know."
"Well then, here, lets see if you fight as well as you look cute stuff." Amy purred.
"Huh?"
Amy launched off the ground as if she had been shot out of a cannon and was instantly in Razors face before she could comprehend it. The attack was a simple straight punch, a kick to the stomach and the patented double handed blow to the back to send said victim plowing into the ground. Razor hit hard, screaming in shock that this could even happen to her, but it didn't harm her all that much, her powers took care of any damage she may have received. She crawled out of the small carter and glared up at Amy, reevaluating her opponent.
"Hold it right there Bitch!"
"You won't get away with this!"
Razor spun to the side and blink in surprise as Sailors Uranus and Neptune ignored her and launched multiple attacks at Amy as she stood over her downed enemy. Razor nearly fell down laughing as she realized that these two idiots were helping her to win. She powered up a blast of shadow fire and launched it at Amy as well, but the girl managed to dodge and weave through the triple attack. Razor laughed to herself as Uranus and Neptune helped her out with questioning her, but this was just like them, they were over confident and had a reputation for breaking an opponent before finding out the truth of any situation.
"Uranus, that one in black is giving off most of the negative energy in
the area!" Neptune yelled.
"Kill them both!"
"Okay!"
'Oh SHIT!' Amy and Razor thought at the same time.
Amy suddenly had to do a stop, drop, and roll to avoid the blast of water Neptune was throwing at her. She flared up and quickly fired back, aiming for the ground at Neptune's feet, but she jumped out of the way before the resulting explosion could cause her any damage. She landed lightly and fired off another quick 'DEEP SUBMERGE' in Amy's direction without breaking stride. These two had always been on Amy's irritation list and they were quickly making there way to the 'destroy at all costs' list.
"What the hell are you firing at me for, lady? I haven't done anything wrong!"
"Yeah right, I saw what you did to that other girl!"
"She attacked me first, I was just protecting myself!"
"DEEP SUBMERGE!" Neptune screamed and launched.
Amy landed from a flip and sighed before firing off her own blast of red power and canceling out Neptune's attack. She followed this up with another blast to the tree just behind the green haired Scout.
The girl dodged the attack easily enough, but was caught in the explosion of bark and splinters as the tree exploded around her from behind. Amy shot forward and slammed Neptune into the ground, knocking the wind out of her and incapacitating her for the next few minutes.
Then about 20 yards away Black Razor and Uranus were tossing attacks back and forth, obliterating most of the street and damaging the buildings around them without care in the world. Uranus tossed out 3 quick 'WORLD SHAKING' attacks and managed to overwhelm her opponent just long enough to hurt her. Razor screamed in shock as she was blasted through corner of a building in a shower of stone and stucco. Landing on her shoulders hurt, but it allowed her to roll to her feet just as a 4th 'WORLD SHAKING' hit her in the chest.
She fell on her face, stunned and in shock that anyone could do this to her so easily. These Scouts seemed to be much stronger than the others and they were actually soldiers, cold blooded and down right mean. She had underestimated them and now she was paying the price, Zepher had to know about this. She had been warned and failed to take this kind of reaction into context. Black razor rolled over just as a 5th 'WORLD SHAKING' slammed into her.
Razor screamed as her vision went white and she felt her body being torn to pieces, but then she saw Zepher standing in the shadows of a nearby building, watching her with an unreadable expression on his face. She tried to reach out to him in her panic and paid for it, his eyes flared a bright white for a second and she felt her body being filled with power.
Power beyond anything she had ever conceived of, it rushed through her veins and muscles like liquid gold. It was then that she realized what had happened to her and fear filled her heart for the first time in years. Black Razor screamed out, not in pain but in horror as her soul was ripped from her body and Uranus' blast finished its explosion. Razor shook her head and saw her enemy getting ready to fire off another blast, she rolled and to her feet and slammed her newly clawed fingers into the stone and screamed in ecstasy. It echoed all over the neighbor hood and was enough to give children nightmares for weeks.
What had once been a very good looking bad girl was now some kind of hideous monster. It was nearly 9 ft tall and had vaguely female form, covered in black fur that gleamed wetly under the street lights and had a set of 3 inch fangs sticking out of the side of her mouth. Its eyes were a deep red and glowed with an evil glint. The most frightening features were the black wings and the claws. It glared at Uranus and howled, causing Amy to stop and look at it.
"What the hell is that?!" Amy yelled out.
Neptune rolled to her feet and ran over to Uranus and pulled out her mirror, they watched and gasped at what it showed them. "That thing isn't even human anymore, it is pure Youma, and we have to defeat it."
"This is going to take awhile, as a human she was taking a major beating, this is 10 times a strong as she was. I can feel it." Uranus panted out as she gasped for air, tossing all those blasts was draining her energy quickly.
"This is your fault!" Neptune yelled at Amy.
The red head blinked. "How do you figure that?"
"If you hadn't been holding us back we would have won by now!" Uranus yelled.
"I was just protecting myself from being killed when you interfered in my fight Blondie, so shut up and help me kill that thing!"
Amy didn't feel like being left out and took a second to power up a blast, it pulsed to life in her hands as she concentrated. Ignoring the Outers she formed it into a ball and threw it at the monster, it slammed into it and created a huge explosion that rocked the area and shattered what few windows were left in the area. The ground rocked and Amy jumped to the top of a nearby building and fired off another blast as soon as the thing jumped out of the explosion and into the sky.
Her second shot missed and impacted against the building across the street and obliterated most of the first and second floor of that side. Amy growled in frustration and launched off the building just as Uranus and Neptune blasted most of the roof off trying to hit the monster and her at the same time. Amy soared out of the destruction and shot towards the monster as it changed course and descended on the two Sailors.
She was tempted to let it get to them before it attacked, but decided against it. They ducked and rolled out of the way as Amy used her momentum to slam it into the ground with enough force to crack the cement before it could correct its dive. There was a satisfying crunching sound as it hit and Amy flipped off at the last second.
It didn't seem to notice though as it jumped into the air with its wings spread and hopped nearly 30ft into the air while firing off multiple blasts of dark energy. Amy was to slow to react and was hit square in the chest with one of them, throwing her back down the street and into a wall. She slumped down to the ground and groaned in pain, that thing was a lot stronger than it had originally looked. She rolled to her feet just as Uranus and Neptune went into action again.
They rushed forward and Neptune fired at the monster and knocked it back several feet, but it shrugged it off like it was nothing. Uranus on the other hand turned around and fired a blast at her and Amy had to scramble to dodge it even as it vaporized a large section of the wall she had been leaning against. Amy dove to the side and rolled to her feet, her aura flaring around her in her anger. She failed to notice the little black sparks of negative energy in her aura as it pulsed out and melted the asphalt a her feet.
"Fire at IT, you IDIOTS!" Amy yelled out.
"You're as much a threat as it is bitch!" Uranus yelled out.
Amy was seeing red and she decided that these two deserved something a little more extreme than what she usually did to her enemies when she didn't want to destroy them. With Uranus and Neptune now focused on her, they failed to notice as the monster moved to attack again. Amy lit up in a pillar of power and brought both her hands forward and fired off a large blast of power just as Neptune noticed the monster's intentions. Amy's shot went high above the monster, curved around, and fell onto like the wrath of god. Neptune and Uranus spun around just in time to fire off two shots apiece.
Then only a few seconds later all of this hit the weakened monster from all directions at once. The explosion was more than even Amy had expected and figured that they had just created a 30 by 50 foot crater, the roof of a nearby building collapsed as the ground rumbled. They all waited, watching each other out of the corners of their eyes, for the smoke and dust to clear, but Amy helped things along by tossing out a wave of Ki and blowing it away like a quick moving wind.
What had been Black Razor was now, mush, there wasn't that much left and it was quickly dissolving away and filling the bottom of the hole in a tar like substance. They must have broken a water main as water was shooting height into the air and raining down around the area. Amy sighed and relaxed fractionally, but she still kept her eyes on the Outers.
"Your next, Red." Uranus said, getting ready to fire off a 'WORLD SHAKING'.
"One down, one to go." Neptune said coldly.
"You Scouts are too much, you know that? Heh, well I don't mind having a bit of revenge on you for trying to kill me. The Inners have already felt my wrath, you might as well too." Amy said lecherously and licked her lips as she made it quite plain she was checking both girls out. They gasped in shock and stepped back in surprise.
"You can't be serious!?" Yelled out Neptune, her face a solid red.
Amy just smiled and vanished in a burst of red light, but not before firing off a couple of shots that hit the Outers in their chests. They were knocked back several feet and fell on their butts with grunts of pain. They laid there for several moments trying to figure out what had happened. She was too stunned to move as the red energy seemed to flow across their bodies in a very strange manner, flared, and vanished. They climbed to their feet and looked around. The red haired girl was gone.
"She doesn't seem to have damaged us all that much." Uranus pointed out, rubbing her chest, a bit of the red energy flowing around her hand.
"I think it was distraction so that she could get away...uh oh..." Neptune gasped and turned bright red as her knees began to shake.
"What is it?" Asked a worried Uranus, but then she felt it too and she gasped for air and had forcibly resist this urge to put her hand between her legs.
"What the hell did she do!?"
"I have no idea, but I think this is similar to what she did to Mercury and Jupiter."
Uranus and Neptune gasped and fell to their knees and stared at each other, their eye sight turning red as the red energy flared up again and flowed over their bodies and began to eat away at their clothing. They could feel it moving through their blood now, leaving in its wake pure ecstasy and pleasure beyond anything they had ever encountered before. They moaned simultaneously and shuddered as they fell over, a few seconds later they inched their way over to each other...
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To Be Continued...