~*~*~*~
The situation with Luna seems to have taken a turn into a permanence for the time being, but Usagi won't let that be for long if she can help it.
Now, the scene was set according to Queen Beryl. A brand new enemy was well on its way to the Elementary school in the Western Capital, which would prove to be a prime feeding ground since children always produced excess amounts of energy. What they didn't know, however, was that this particular school was the same school that the Sailor Senshi were attending.
~*~*~
~Earth~
A long figure flew over the Earth at an unimaginable speed. His shadow filled entire towns, scaring the citizens below out of their wits. They were certain of another attack on Earth since they had become so frequent in the past twenty five years. The figure took every bit of pleasure in seeing them flee below him as possible. Oh how fulfilling it would be to finally repay Earth for his turn of misfortunes.
'Yes, yes. Feel the fear of our power! Live peaceful now; die an agonizing death when we come for you...' An evil grin crossed his face as he sped up.
~*~*~
~~The Western Capital~
Back at school, class was just beginning. Morning announcements had just been made and the students had finally begun to settle down from their natural rambunctious mode. Although, there were still five lone students, all on opposite sides of the room, who were thinking of things other than preparing for a day of learning.
Minako, Makoto, Usagi, Rei, and Ami all felt a strong disturbance of energy heading towards their direction, although they weren't exactly sure if whatever was coming was heading for them. But it definitely couldn't have been anything good, especially if it was going to be anything like the day before.
~*~*~
Down the hall away, in a classroom of children only one year younger than Usagi's age group sat the only other student in the entire school who could feel the approaching of evil; Hotaru. The day before, she had felt the flow of dark energy come into the world, but she could do nothing about it, nothing effective anyway. Her attacks had been powerless against the first monster that had come to earth, for some reason, even though her friends, even out of Senshi form had been able to some damage at least; but why? In any way, she would have only been in the way in yesterday's fight and she knew it. This was a job for the newly appointed Sailor Senshi, who were ironically her best and only friends.
But now was different. The enemy was coming to her this time. She wouldn't have to leave to go find it, which meant it was open game for her to attack. She knew how much mayhem had been caused in yesterday's attack; she couldn't just sit around this time and let all those innocent people be killed, even if they did have the Dragon Balls to revive them when this was all done and over with. It was wrong and she would do anything she could to help the Sailor Senshi.
~*~*~
Back down the other side of the hallway were five fidgety girls. Here they were in midst of an entire class of innocent people who knew of nothing that was going to be taking place in just a matter of minutes. They couldn't just let it happen without warning, yet, they couldn't just holler out as if they knew what was coming. That would be much too suspicious on their part.
The teacher at the front of the room, who was currently in the process of lecturing, turned his eye up to the only tailed child in the back of the room. She wasn't paying attention, as usual for she was never one to want to learn, but, she, strangely, seemed even more detached from class than normal; more apprehensive. "Ms. Son, you seem bored back there. Maybe I should move you to the front so you can have a better time paying attention."
Usagi was so spaced that she barely picked up on his words. All she caught was her name, and that was about it. Slowly and rather blankly, she fixed her eyes upon her cross teacher. "I'm sorry, what did you say?" She asked. Her entire body began to shake with fear as the enemy came closer and closer.
Without even allowing their teacher to express his obvious frustration, Minako raised her power level just enough to open up a link to Usagi. If they couldn't talk outward, they would have to do it secretively. 'Usagi, we don't have time to waste.'
Usagi turned her head from her reprimanding teacher and stopped at Minako. She too raised her Ki just high enough to establish a link back. 'You think I don't know that?!'
The teacher in the front of the room crossed his arms as he became even more perturbed. His frustration only led to the other students around turning their gazes upon their tailed classmate. "You're skating on thin ice, young lady. I don't think your mother would appreciate hearing that you're being rude and not paying attention in class." He dropped his arms and began walking to the back of the room. "You too Ms. Aino."
Usagi's eyes widened not at her teacher, but at the evil energy that had been approaching the school. It had finally stopped and was literally right at the doorstep of the school. "Sorry!" She burst out from her seat, causing it to fly out from behind into the back wall. "I gotta go to the bathroom!"
Usagi refused to wait any longer. If she did, the enemy would kill even more people than they had the day before. In the aspect of the killing of innocent, she had deeply taken after her father, which had made it all that worse. Letting her anger get the best of her, she raised her power level enough to create a small, white wind around her body as she darted out the room.
"You're mother can be expecting a call from me today!"
Minako frowned as she too stood tall. "When you gotta go, you gotta go!"
The teacher frowned down at his second brazen student. "Sit down."
Minako grinned. "I better help Usagi." With that, she dashed out the door to catch up to her friend.
Makoto and Rei were the next. "We'll make sure nothing bad happens with those two." The two of them reached into their pockets and grasped their hands tightly around their transformation sticks as they too ran out of the room, leaving a room full of laughing children.
The teacher stood tall and firm as he glared onto the last of the five friends, who was sitting with her arms out in front of her on the desk. He wondered why she wasn't just up and leaving as well since the five always did everything together.
Ami innocently looked up to her educator with bright, blue eyes. "Yes?" 'I can't believe they did that. Won't it be sort of strange that the five of us left right before the attack and then five mysterious warriors show up? I can't contribute to the risk.'
He growled as he approached her with a ruler at hand. "Don't you Want to Join your FRIENDS?"
Ami giggled. "Do you want me to?" 'But then again, they could use some help with information... but they should be able to handle it until I'm able to catch up.' Ami found herself giggling all the more as her teacher clenched his fists and tensed up, although he couldn't yell at her for her answer. It wasn't in any way talking back nor was it disrespectful.
"Just sit there then!"
~*~*~
Usagi ran down the hallway to Hotaru's fifth grade class and peeped in. Seconds later she noticed her friends joining behind her. "How much time do you think we have?" She waved her hand to catch the eye of the younger Saiyan, who sat almost directly in front of the window.
Makoto; "No idea. That energy is coming from right outside the school." She pulled away from the group with a look of fright. "We can't let anyone get hurt. I'm gonna start evacuating people as Sailor Jupiter."
Rei nodded as she too began pulling back. "I'm coming with you." The two girls trailed off away from the hallway to find a safe place to transform.
Usagi gulped as she thought of all the people who would be killed if her friends didn't hurry. She wasn't sure what the hold up was, but she sure was glad that there was one. 'Why isn't Ami here?' Not saying a word more, she raised her Ki to establish a link to Hotaru.
'Hotaru! You feel that, right?'
From inside the classroom, Hotaru slowly turned her head to the window, which peered out into the hallway. Her face was completely pale with fear for her fellow students' lives, not to mention her own. But she knew that if she had to, she would be able to escape, but the unknowing victims who had no power to aid them would not. Fearfully, she slightly nodded.
Minako grabbed Usagi by the arm and pulled her back with a fear of her own. "Usagi, we don't have time for this. Come on!"
Usagi nodded as she kept her eye on Hotaru. "Just a sec!" 'Hotaru, Makoto and Rei are getting everyone out and Ami stayed back in class. You stick with Ami as soon as this thing makes its move.' Hotaru did nothing but nod.
~*~*~
Meanwhile, outside and circling the school of these youngsters was a tall, muscular man with long, bushy hair. In his hand, he held a small capsule which contained an essence of pure evil. Upon arrival, he circled the school, searching for one person in particular; Usagi. Not only was she the one his Queen after her Moon energy, but he himself had an unsettled score with her. But, it appeared that, after walking fully around the school once already, he would be forced to release the demon inside in order to find her.
~*~*~
Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Mars ran throughout the school, bursting into rooms in utter frenzies, which only scared the younger children and infuriated their teachers. It was either that way, or let them die a most painful death.
Jupiter had the wing of lower classmen and had only two rooms left to interrupt. To her dismay, however, none of the rooms that she had already visited had taken her warnings seriously which meant that she would have to circle around and tell them again.
As she broke into the second to last room, she paused for a moment and stared down at the bunch. They were the kindergarten class, Miss Haruna's bunch to be exact. There they were, on the floor being read to. She hated to interrupt them, but this was a matter of life and death. Not much else mattered. "Miss Haruna! You have to get the kids out of here fast!"
Miss Haruna frowned as she slowly put her book down to her lap. She had recognized the voice and knew almost exactly who it was. She looked up from her students, who were oohing and awing over the visitor with a glare half expecting to see one of old students. But to her own surprise, it was no one she knew. Only the figure of a brown-haired girl in a green and white Sailor uniform. "Can I help you?"
Jupiter nodded as she ran further into the room. "Yes! There's no time to explain but you've GOT to get yourself and these kids out of here before it's too late!"
Haruna stood from her seat and placed the book down on the desk close-by. "Young lady, if this is your idea of a joke it's not very funny." She took no time in approaching the strange girl. "Now you come here. We're going to get you out of that silly costume and down to the principle's office for disrupting my class, let alone the fact that you're out of class."
Jupiter jumped back to the door with a frown of her own. "Just listen to me Miss Haruna! You have to leave NOW! They could attack at any..."
Jupiter's words of distress were cut off by an instant rumbling of the earth and the sound of another portion of the building collapsing. Every young mind in that room ducked for cover under their desks as the ground continued to roar beneath their tiny bodies for they believed that they were experiencing an earthquake. But Jupiter knew exactly what was taking place just down the hall where the fourth grade classrooms were. She could feel the powerful evil being unleashed; it was much stronger than what it had been only one day before.
~*~*~
Outside the man who had let loose the being of pure evil destruction stood with a quirked brow of interest; his maniacal laughter being heard even through the screaming children who had become lunch for the demon.
~*~*~
When the massive shaking of the earth stopped, Sailor Moon and Sailor Venus quickly got to their feet and scampered down to the scene of destruction, but not before they were met with the screaming of their schoolmates who were being released from class into the field before an aftershock occurred. They were caught in the crowd of no return. It would be forever before they would be able to get through to the other side. And what would be waiting for them if they did? Dead bodies, they presumed.
Amongst the group of children were Ami and Hotaru, who had searched out each other's power to guide themselves to one another without wasting time. They were no closer to reaching the outer edges of the crowd than their Senshi friends. But, they were close enough to the Senshi to devise a quick plan.
Ami already had one in mind, in fact. "Venus! Moon! You go help those who are being attacked! We'll stay back and help everyone get away!"
Venus turned her head after fully picking up her friend's words. "How are you gonna do that? I don't the others had any luck."
Hotaru tugged on Ami's arm to gain her attention. "Yeah. Everyone else thinks it was just an earthquake."
Ami frowned down at the younger child. She hadn't anticipated that. She thought that after all the times that earth had been attacked that the people would finally know when to listen to people who were trying to evacuate them. But, she knew exactly what to do. Looking up, she smiled at Venus and Moon, who were slowly but surely pushing their way forward. "Just get on with what you have to do. We'll cover it."
No more than five seconds passed before the two Senshi were out of eye sight when Hotaru questioned Ami's reliable judgment. "How are we going to 'cover it'?"
Ami grinned as she latched herself onto Hotaru's wrist. "First, we have to get outside so we can move freely. Then, we teleport people to a safe place, like the woods. One of us, preferably you, will stay with them and make sure they don't wander off."
Hotaru pouted at that. "Me?! Why can't I help you guys?! I want to help!"
Ami sighed. "Hotaru, I know you want to help, but we want to make sure you're safe. Only the power of a Senshi who has planetary power backing them can fight these things."
~*~*~
Meanwhile, back in the room full of kindergartners, Jupiter grabbed Miss Haruna by the arm and began guiding her to the door. "All of you, follow us." She paused to look back at the pale students. "Please don't be afraid, if you follow me, everything will be ok."
Miss Haruna wasn't nearly as willing as the students were, who were just rising from beneath their tables. She violently pulled away from Jupiter's firm hold with a glare. "Get to class! I'll deal with you later when this is over!" She narrowed her eyes and slowly began to approach the frightened children with care. "I have a room full of children that I must tend to."
Jupiter groaned. "Miss Haruna! If you don't get out you'll all die! The enemy is already attacking the rooms down the hall! Do you want your students to become lunch meat too!"
Miss Haruna stopped cold in her steps as she heard the children wail out in fear. That voice; so full of concern. She knew she had heard it somewhere before. But from where? "Please leave. You're scaring them."
The entire group turned their heads to the door that led out into the hallway when it came blasting through the room. They all suspected that it was a result of the Earthquake; that maybe it had been knocked out of its frame and was letting loose, but Jupiter knew otherwise. She could feel the massive buildup of dark energy coming from behind the newly gathered smoke. It was just as large as Cell's, though the man's normal fighting power was substantially lower than that of Cell's.
From behind the dust came a the tall man, the same man who had set free the wild beast now rampaging through the hallways of what was once a peaceful learning environment. His power sent the fear in Jupiter skyrocketing. "What's this?!" His voice was deep and raspy. "Looks like I've struck Gold."
Jupiter shook with fear as she backed away from her foe. In the corner of her eye she could see Miss Haruna huddling the small group of children in the far corner of the room. This time she would be all alone in defending them from evil. She couldn't fail for that would mean the ultimate end for the children, most of which had not even reached their sixth birthday.
The tall man stepped forward with a giant, black ki attack building up in the palm of his right hand. "My my. What have we here? A Sailor Senshi I do presume." He chuckled as he noticed her body shake more and more. "Don't worry, Makoto!"
Jupiter's eyes widened. 'How does he know my name?' "Monster!"
He grinned. "Yes. I remember you very well from the fight with Cell. We watched you five vigorously. Although, we never expected Cell to lose. But a lose is a lose and we can't worry about it. All we have now is the future, and sadly, you five don't fit anywhere in it, which is why your days end here, KINO MAKOTO!" He instantly fired his black Ki attack of hate energy at the Senshi in green. But she knew what she was up against.
Anticipating his moves, Jupiter instantaneously moved her body to be in front of Miss Haruna and her students. "Don't panic..." She whispered, trying to calm down the ones in tears.
Miss Haruna examined Jupiter's face from the side very, very carefully. She knew she had recognized that voice from somewhere, only this one sounded different, more grown up. And now she knew why. It HAD been Kino Makoto from only six years before. "Makoto? Is that really you? I hardly recognized you."
The man narrowed his eyes and fixed them upon the teacher instead of his primary kill. "Ahh... you know her..." His mouth turned upward into a quaint grin as he shuffled his body behind Miss Haruna's and grabbed her from behind.
Jupiter was immediately pushed forward by the struggling woman. "MISS HARUNA! NO!" She jumped back at the man of evil, but, it was too late. He had brutally placed his hands upon her head and twisted around, immediately snapping her neck. The entire room went silent as he dropped the lifeless body of Miss Haruna to the ground, her body making one last thud as it slammed against he cold, unforgiving floor. "NOOO!" Without even thinking, she dropped to her knees in utter fear and hatred, her power building up at an unhealthy rate.
"Yes! Yes!!" Behind him he heard the children broken out in tears of both fear and distress. Many of them were preparing themselves for their own death, only they imagined themselves going much more barbarous. "SHUT UP, BRATS!" His eyes shone black and in a heartbeat a wave a black energy emerged from his back into the group of children.
~*~*~
By the time Moon and Venus finally emerged from the crowd, half the school had been destroyed. But, most of the innocents had been safely taken from the danger filled classrooms by Sailor Mercury and Mars. Hotaru had already taken her first group of people to the forest and there she would stay and watch over everyone. Now, Mercury and Mars had a new plan. One would fight the monster while the other took the innocents to safer grounds, but neither of them knew how long that would work with only one fighting. They weren't built to fight separately as Senshi, but as a team.
But now, Venus and Moon had just felt the powerful surge black energy rush out of their foe's body. There was only one association with that which they could put to it, another group of children had been mercifully murdered. They both turned to each other and nodded to show each other's approval of proceeding.
~*~*~
Jupiter stood to her feet with tears in her eyes. "You evil piece of...WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?!" She screamed out at the top of her lungs. Her swearing caught the enemy off guard, it even caught herself off guard. She hadn't meant to say it, but in times like this, they just seemed to blurt out. Not that it mattered. There was no one there to hear it besides herself and this man.
The man of evil crossed his arms with a grin as he placed his foot atop Miss Haruna's head and pressed down almost as hard as he could. Within seconds, a small crackling sound was heard and echoed throughout the room.
That was all Jupiter could take. Although she could feel her friends coming her way, she couldn't, no, she wouldn't let this go on anymore. It was bad enough that he had killed Miss Haruna and her students, but to destroy her body was taking it too far.
Not even truly thinking of the outcomes, she powered up to her fullest with a quick shrill and darted out for her enemy, fists out and ready to make contact. Tears still in the base of her eyes, she didn't stop, even when she noticed that her target seemed the slightest bit worried.
The man stood tall and firm with his hands down to his side. He kept his foot standing firm atop the teacher's head as the flaming ball of green flew towards him, and when she did finally make contact, a loud smack echoed throughout the room. But the target was not affected in the slightest bit.
Jupiter backed away, inhaling faster and deeper than normal. "Monster!"
He smirked. "Can I play now?"
Before Jupiter had a chance to reply, Venus and Moon walked through the door. "You've don't enough!"
Moon took one look at the fallen children behind the man and gasped. How could anyone have done that to them? It was awful. Her eyes slowly departed from the fallen and up to the face of their killer, which utterly frightened her. "It's you!" Never again did she want to stand so close to her captor, her mental torturer.
The man grinned with an evil that sent chills down the three Senshis' backs. "We meet again, little Saiyan. But this time you're not getting away."
Moon backed away. "W...wh...who are you?"
The man only grinned further. "You, my dear, can call me Uncle."
Moon frowned as she shook her head from side to side in frustration. "You know what! I don't care WHO you are! But anyone who did this to people who did nothing to you is a MONSTER and you KNOW what we do to monsters!"
"Not today, ladies. As much of a pleasure it would be for me to kill you all off right here, I can't. I will leave that up to my pet. I, however, must return this energy to Metallia." He pulled out a small capsule which was nearly full. "You see, any energy I acquire through my black attacks gets swallowed into this Capsule for our use, my motivation for killing beside the fact that it's fun." He chuckled as his body began to disappear into the Dark Dimension of his Queen.
Jupiter still had tears running down her cheeks as she stared down at the lifeless body of her favorite teacher. The one teacher who had always defended her from bullying; from Haruka and Michiru in the first years. Now, she was gone for good. "Miss Haruna..."
Venus' widened her eyes as she let her eyes fall down to the body that her friend seemed to be concerned with and sure enough, it was a mangled Miss Haruna. Her neck was almost twisted all the way around in the most unnatural and sickening position enough to make anyone to upchuck their last meal. "He..."
Moon looked down upon her former teacher with tears of her own. "She was the only one who ever understood us; who ever tried to defend us against the people who tried to make fun of us."
Venus nodded. "Every other teacher has always had something to pick on us about."
Jupiter looked up with a righteous glare in her eyes. "Let's make sure the Dark Kingdom knows our anger."
Moon nodded. "Agreed. Let's gather up the others and kill that thing once and for all."
( x_x oooh, shorter than usual, I know. Only by a couple pages though. I wasn't originally going to end it here, but then I thought about it and decided this would be an ok place to stop. But not for the night, hehe, just for the chapter. Getting right on the next part now so I'll leave now. Cya later! )
The situation with Luna seems to have taken a turn into a permanence for the time being, but Usagi won't let that be for long if she can help it.
Now, the scene was set according to Queen Beryl. A brand new enemy was well on its way to the Elementary school in the Western Capital, which would prove to be a prime feeding ground since children always produced excess amounts of energy. What they didn't know, however, was that this particular school was the same school that the Sailor Senshi were attending.
~*~*~
~Earth~
A long figure flew over the Earth at an unimaginable speed. His shadow filled entire towns, scaring the citizens below out of their wits. They were certain of another attack on Earth since they had become so frequent in the past twenty five years. The figure took every bit of pleasure in seeing them flee below him as possible. Oh how fulfilling it would be to finally repay Earth for his turn of misfortunes.
'Yes, yes. Feel the fear of our power! Live peaceful now; die an agonizing death when we come for you...' An evil grin crossed his face as he sped up.
~*~*~
~~The Western Capital~
Back at school, class was just beginning. Morning announcements had just been made and the students had finally begun to settle down from their natural rambunctious mode. Although, there were still five lone students, all on opposite sides of the room, who were thinking of things other than preparing for a day of learning.
Minako, Makoto, Usagi, Rei, and Ami all felt a strong disturbance of energy heading towards their direction, although they weren't exactly sure if whatever was coming was heading for them. But it definitely couldn't have been anything good, especially if it was going to be anything like the day before.
~*~*~
Down the hall away, in a classroom of children only one year younger than Usagi's age group sat the only other student in the entire school who could feel the approaching of evil; Hotaru. The day before, she had felt the flow of dark energy come into the world, but she could do nothing about it, nothing effective anyway. Her attacks had been powerless against the first monster that had come to earth, for some reason, even though her friends, even out of Senshi form had been able to some damage at least; but why? In any way, she would have only been in the way in yesterday's fight and she knew it. This was a job for the newly appointed Sailor Senshi, who were ironically her best and only friends.
But now was different. The enemy was coming to her this time. She wouldn't have to leave to go find it, which meant it was open game for her to attack. She knew how much mayhem had been caused in yesterday's attack; she couldn't just sit around this time and let all those innocent people be killed, even if they did have the Dragon Balls to revive them when this was all done and over with. It was wrong and she would do anything she could to help the Sailor Senshi.
~*~*~
Back down the other side of the hallway were five fidgety girls. Here they were in midst of an entire class of innocent people who knew of nothing that was going to be taking place in just a matter of minutes. They couldn't just let it happen without warning, yet, they couldn't just holler out as if they knew what was coming. That would be much too suspicious on their part.
The teacher at the front of the room, who was currently in the process of lecturing, turned his eye up to the only tailed child in the back of the room. She wasn't paying attention, as usual for she was never one to want to learn, but, she, strangely, seemed even more detached from class than normal; more apprehensive. "Ms. Son, you seem bored back there. Maybe I should move you to the front so you can have a better time paying attention."
Usagi was so spaced that she barely picked up on his words. All she caught was her name, and that was about it. Slowly and rather blankly, she fixed her eyes upon her cross teacher. "I'm sorry, what did you say?" She asked. Her entire body began to shake with fear as the enemy came closer and closer.
Without even allowing their teacher to express his obvious frustration, Minako raised her power level just enough to open up a link to Usagi. If they couldn't talk outward, they would have to do it secretively. 'Usagi, we don't have time to waste.'
Usagi turned her head from her reprimanding teacher and stopped at Minako. She too raised her Ki just high enough to establish a link back. 'You think I don't know that?!'
The teacher in the front of the room crossed his arms as he became even more perturbed. His frustration only led to the other students around turning their gazes upon their tailed classmate. "You're skating on thin ice, young lady. I don't think your mother would appreciate hearing that you're being rude and not paying attention in class." He dropped his arms and began walking to the back of the room. "You too Ms. Aino."
Usagi's eyes widened not at her teacher, but at the evil energy that had been approaching the school. It had finally stopped and was literally right at the doorstep of the school. "Sorry!" She burst out from her seat, causing it to fly out from behind into the back wall. "I gotta go to the bathroom!"
Usagi refused to wait any longer. If she did, the enemy would kill even more people than they had the day before. In the aspect of the killing of innocent, she had deeply taken after her father, which had made it all that worse. Letting her anger get the best of her, she raised her power level enough to create a small, white wind around her body as she darted out the room.
"You're mother can be expecting a call from me today!"
Minako frowned as she too stood tall. "When you gotta go, you gotta go!"
The teacher frowned down at his second brazen student. "Sit down."
Minako grinned. "I better help Usagi." With that, she dashed out the door to catch up to her friend.
Makoto and Rei were the next. "We'll make sure nothing bad happens with those two." The two of them reached into their pockets and grasped their hands tightly around their transformation sticks as they too ran out of the room, leaving a room full of laughing children.
The teacher stood tall and firm as he glared onto the last of the five friends, who was sitting with her arms out in front of her on the desk. He wondered why she wasn't just up and leaving as well since the five always did everything together.
Ami innocently looked up to her educator with bright, blue eyes. "Yes?" 'I can't believe they did that. Won't it be sort of strange that the five of us left right before the attack and then five mysterious warriors show up? I can't contribute to the risk.'
He growled as he approached her with a ruler at hand. "Don't you Want to Join your FRIENDS?"
Ami giggled. "Do you want me to?" 'But then again, they could use some help with information... but they should be able to handle it until I'm able to catch up.' Ami found herself giggling all the more as her teacher clenched his fists and tensed up, although he couldn't yell at her for her answer. It wasn't in any way talking back nor was it disrespectful.
"Just sit there then!"
~*~*~
Usagi ran down the hallway to Hotaru's fifth grade class and peeped in. Seconds later she noticed her friends joining behind her. "How much time do you think we have?" She waved her hand to catch the eye of the younger Saiyan, who sat almost directly in front of the window.
Makoto; "No idea. That energy is coming from right outside the school." She pulled away from the group with a look of fright. "We can't let anyone get hurt. I'm gonna start evacuating people as Sailor Jupiter."
Rei nodded as she too began pulling back. "I'm coming with you." The two girls trailed off away from the hallway to find a safe place to transform.
Usagi gulped as she thought of all the people who would be killed if her friends didn't hurry. She wasn't sure what the hold up was, but she sure was glad that there was one. 'Why isn't Ami here?' Not saying a word more, she raised her Ki to establish a link to Hotaru.
'Hotaru! You feel that, right?'
From inside the classroom, Hotaru slowly turned her head to the window, which peered out into the hallway. Her face was completely pale with fear for her fellow students' lives, not to mention her own. But she knew that if she had to, she would be able to escape, but the unknowing victims who had no power to aid them would not. Fearfully, she slightly nodded.
Minako grabbed Usagi by the arm and pulled her back with a fear of her own. "Usagi, we don't have time for this. Come on!"
Usagi nodded as she kept her eye on Hotaru. "Just a sec!" 'Hotaru, Makoto and Rei are getting everyone out and Ami stayed back in class. You stick with Ami as soon as this thing makes its move.' Hotaru did nothing but nod.
~*~*~
Meanwhile, outside and circling the school of these youngsters was a tall, muscular man with long, bushy hair. In his hand, he held a small capsule which contained an essence of pure evil. Upon arrival, he circled the school, searching for one person in particular; Usagi. Not only was she the one his Queen after her Moon energy, but he himself had an unsettled score with her. But, it appeared that, after walking fully around the school once already, he would be forced to release the demon inside in order to find her.
~*~*~
Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Mars ran throughout the school, bursting into rooms in utter frenzies, which only scared the younger children and infuriated their teachers. It was either that way, or let them die a most painful death.
Jupiter had the wing of lower classmen and had only two rooms left to interrupt. To her dismay, however, none of the rooms that she had already visited had taken her warnings seriously which meant that she would have to circle around and tell them again.
As she broke into the second to last room, she paused for a moment and stared down at the bunch. They were the kindergarten class, Miss Haruna's bunch to be exact. There they were, on the floor being read to. She hated to interrupt them, but this was a matter of life and death. Not much else mattered. "Miss Haruna! You have to get the kids out of here fast!"
Miss Haruna frowned as she slowly put her book down to her lap. She had recognized the voice and knew almost exactly who it was. She looked up from her students, who were oohing and awing over the visitor with a glare half expecting to see one of old students. But to her own surprise, it was no one she knew. Only the figure of a brown-haired girl in a green and white Sailor uniform. "Can I help you?"
Jupiter nodded as she ran further into the room. "Yes! There's no time to explain but you've GOT to get yourself and these kids out of here before it's too late!"
Haruna stood from her seat and placed the book down on the desk close-by. "Young lady, if this is your idea of a joke it's not very funny." She took no time in approaching the strange girl. "Now you come here. We're going to get you out of that silly costume and down to the principle's office for disrupting my class, let alone the fact that you're out of class."
Jupiter jumped back to the door with a frown of her own. "Just listen to me Miss Haruna! You have to leave NOW! They could attack at any..."
Jupiter's words of distress were cut off by an instant rumbling of the earth and the sound of another portion of the building collapsing. Every young mind in that room ducked for cover under their desks as the ground continued to roar beneath their tiny bodies for they believed that they were experiencing an earthquake. But Jupiter knew exactly what was taking place just down the hall where the fourth grade classrooms were. She could feel the powerful evil being unleashed; it was much stronger than what it had been only one day before.
~*~*~
Outside the man who had let loose the being of pure evil destruction stood with a quirked brow of interest; his maniacal laughter being heard even through the screaming children who had become lunch for the demon.
~*~*~
When the massive shaking of the earth stopped, Sailor Moon and Sailor Venus quickly got to their feet and scampered down to the scene of destruction, but not before they were met with the screaming of their schoolmates who were being released from class into the field before an aftershock occurred. They were caught in the crowd of no return. It would be forever before they would be able to get through to the other side. And what would be waiting for them if they did? Dead bodies, they presumed.
Amongst the group of children were Ami and Hotaru, who had searched out each other's power to guide themselves to one another without wasting time. They were no closer to reaching the outer edges of the crowd than their Senshi friends. But, they were close enough to the Senshi to devise a quick plan.
Ami already had one in mind, in fact. "Venus! Moon! You go help those who are being attacked! We'll stay back and help everyone get away!"
Venus turned her head after fully picking up her friend's words. "How are you gonna do that? I don't the others had any luck."
Hotaru tugged on Ami's arm to gain her attention. "Yeah. Everyone else thinks it was just an earthquake."
Ami frowned down at the younger child. She hadn't anticipated that. She thought that after all the times that earth had been attacked that the people would finally know when to listen to people who were trying to evacuate them. But, she knew exactly what to do. Looking up, she smiled at Venus and Moon, who were slowly but surely pushing their way forward. "Just get on with what you have to do. We'll cover it."
No more than five seconds passed before the two Senshi were out of eye sight when Hotaru questioned Ami's reliable judgment. "How are we going to 'cover it'?"
Ami grinned as she latched herself onto Hotaru's wrist. "First, we have to get outside so we can move freely. Then, we teleport people to a safe place, like the woods. One of us, preferably you, will stay with them and make sure they don't wander off."
Hotaru pouted at that. "Me?! Why can't I help you guys?! I want to help!"
Ami sighed. "Hotaru, I know you want to help, but we want to make sure you're safe. Only the power of a Senshi who has planetary power backing them can fight these things."
~*~*~
Meanwhile, back in the room full of kindergartners, Jupiter grabbed Miss Haruna by the arm and began guiding her to the door. "All of you, follow us." She paused to look back at the pale students. "Please don't be afraid, if you follow me, everything will be ok."
Miss Haruna wasn't nearly as willing as the students were, who were just rising from beneath their tables. She violently pulled away from Jupiter's firm hold with a glare. "Get to class! I'll deal with you later when this is over!" She narrowed her eyes and slowly began to approach the frightened children with care. "I have a room full of children that I must tend to."
Jupiter groaned. "Miss Haruna! If you don't get out you'll all die! The enemy is already attacking the rooms down the hall! Do you want your students to become lunch meat too!"
Miss Haruna stopped cold in her steps as she heard the children wail out in fear. That voice; so full of concern. She knew she had heard it somewhere before. But from where? "Please leave. You're scaring them."
The entire group turned their heads to the door that led out into the hallway when it came blasting through the room. They all suspected that it was a result of the Earthquake; that maybe it had been knocked out of its frame and was letting loose, but Jupiter knew otherwise. She could feel the massive buildup of dark energy coming from behind the newly gathered smoke. It was just as large as Cell's, though the man's normal fighting power was substantially lower than that of Cell's.
From behind the dust came a the tall man, the same man who had set free the wild beast now rampaging through the hallways of what was once a peaceful learning environment. His power sent the fear in Jupiter skyrocketing. "What's this?!" His voice was deep and raspy. "Looks like I've struck Gold."
Jupiter shook with fear as she backed away from her foe. In the corner of her eye she could see Miss Haruna huddling the small group of children in the far corner of the room. This time she would be all alone in defending them from evil. She couldn't fail for that would mean the ultimate end for the children, most of which had not even reached their sixth birthday.
The tall man stepped forward with a giant, black ki attack building up in the palm of his right hand. "My my. What have we here? A Sailor Senshi I do presume." He chuckled as he noticed her body shake more and more. "Don't worry, Makoto!"
Jupiter's eyes widened. 'How does he know my name?' "Monster!"
He grinned. "Yes. I remember you very well from the fight with Cell. We watched you five vigorously. Although, we never expected Cell to lose. But a lose is a lose and we can't worry about it. All we have now is the future, and sadly, you five don't fit anywhere in it, which is why your days end here, KINO MAKOTO!" He instantly fired his black Ki attack of hate energy at the Senshi in green. But she knew what she was up against.
Anticipating his moves, Jupiter instantaneously moved her body to be in front of Miss Haruna and her students. "Don't panic..." She whispered, trying to calm down the ones in tears.
Miss Haruna examined Jupiter's face from the side very, very carefully. She knew she had recognized that voice from somewhere, only this one sounded different, more grown up. And now she knew why. It HAD been Kino Makoto from only six years before. "Makoto? Is that really you? I hardly recognized you."
The man narrowed his eyes and fixed them upon the teacher instead of his primary kill. "Ahh... you know her..." His mouth turned upward into a quaint grin as he shuffled his body behind Miss Haruna's and grabbed her from behind.
Jupiter was immediately pushed forward by the struggling woman. "MISS HARUNA! NO!" She jumped back at the man of evil, but, it was too late. He had brutally placed his hands upon her head and twisted around, immediately snapping her neck. The entire room went silent as he dropped the lifeless body of Miss Haruna to the ground, her body making one last thud as it slammed against he cold, unforgiving floor. "NOOO!" Without even thinking, she dropped to her knees in utter fear and hatred, her power building up at an unhealthy rate.
"Yes! Yes!!" Behind him he heard the children broken out in tears of both fear and distress. Many of them were preparing themselves for their own death, only they imagined themselves going much more barbarous. "SHUT UP, BRATS!" His eyes shone black and in a heartbeat a wave a black energy emerged from his back into the group of children.
~*~*~
By the time Moon and Venus finally emerged from the crowd, half the school had been destroyed. But, most of the innocents had been safely taken from the danger filled classrooms by Sailor Mercury and Mars. Hotaru had already taken her first group of people to the forest and there she would stay and watch over everyone. Now, Mercury and Mars had a new plan. One would fight the monster while the other took the innocents to safer grounds, but neither of them knew how long that would work with only one fighting. They weren't built to fight separately as Senshi, but as a team.
But now, Venus and Moon had just felt the powerful surge black energy rush out of their foe's body. There was only one association with that which they could put to it, another group of children had been mercifully murdered. They both turned to each other and nodded to show each other's approval of proceeding.
~*~*~
Jupiter stood to her feet with tears in her eyes. "You evil piece of...WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?!" She screamed out at the top of her lungs. Her swearing caught the enemy off guard, it even caught herself off guard. She hadn't meant to say it, but in times like this, they just seemed to blurt out. Not that it mattered. There was no one there to hear it besides herself and this man.
The man of evil crossed his arms with a grin as he placed his foot atop Miss Haruna's head and pressed down almost as hard as he could. Within seconds, a small crackling sound was heard and echoed throughout the room.
That was all Jupiter could take. Although she could feel her friends coming her way, she couldn't, no, she wouldn't let this go on anymore. It was bad enough that he had killed Miss Haruna and her students, but to destroy her body was taking it too far.
Not even truly thinking of the outcomes, she powered up to her fullest with a quick shrill and darted out for her enemy, fists out and ready to make contact. Tears still in the base of her eyes, she didn't stop, even when she noticed that her target seemed the slightest bit worried.
The man stood tall and firm with his hands down to his side. He kept his foot standing firm atop the teacher's head as the flaming ball of green flew towards him, and when she did finally make contact, a loud smack echoed throughout the room. But the target was not affected in the slightest bit.
Jupiter backed away, inhaling faster and deeper than normal. "Monster!"
He smirked. "Can I play now?"
Before Jupiter had a chance to reply, Venus and Moon walked through the door. "You've don't enough!"
Moon took one look at the fallen children behind the man and gasped. How could anyone have done that to them? It was awful. Her eyes slowly departed from the fallen and up to the face of their killer, which utterly frightened her. "It's you!" Never again did she want to stand so close to her captor, her mental torturer.
The man grinned with an evil that sent chills down the three Senshis' backs. "We meet again, little Saiyan. But this time you're not getting away."
Moon backed away. "W...wh...who are you?"
The man only grinned further. "You, my dear, can call me Uncle."
Moon frowned as she shook her head from side to side in frustration. "You know what! I don't care WHO you are! But anyone who did this to people who did nothing to you is a MONSTER and you KNOW what we do to monsters!"
"Not today, ladies. As much of a pleasure it would be for me to kill you all off right here, I can't. I will leave that up to my pet. I, however, must return this energy to Metallia." He pulled out a small capsule which was nearly full. "You see, any energy I acquire through my black attacks gets swallowed into this Capsule for our use, my motivation for killing beside the fact that it's fun." He chuckled as his body began to disappear into the Dark Dimension of his Queen.
Jupiter still had tears running down her cheeks as she stared down at the lifeless body of her favorite teacher. The one teacher who had always defended her from bullying; from Haruka and Michiru in the first years. Now, she was gone for good. "Miss Haruna..."
Venus' widened her eyes as she let her eyes fall down to the body that her friend seemed to be concerned with and sure enough, it was a mangled Miss Haruna. Her neck was almost twisted all the way around in the most unnatural and sickening position enough to make anyone to upchuck their last meal. "He..."
Moon looked down upon her former teacher with tears of her own. "She was the only one who ever understood us; who ever tried to defend us against the people who tried to make fun of us."
Venus nodded. "Every other teacher has always had something to pick on us about."
Jupiter looked up with a righteous glare in her eyes. "Let's make sure the Dark Kingdom knows our anger."
Moon nodded. "Agreed. Let's gather up the others and kill that thing once and for all."
( x_x oooh, shorter than usual, I know. Only by a couple pages though. I wasn't originally going to end it here, but then I thought about it and decided this would be an ok place to stop. But not for the night, hehe, just for the chapter. Getting right on the next part now so I'll leave now. Cya later! )