~*~*~*~
The girls' ultimate anger has now been sparked, and in the worst way possible. The man who claimed to be 'Uncle' ruthlessly murdered one of the two classes of the youngest age group in the school along with their teacher, Miss Haruna. Jupiter was on the worst end of this destruction for she had to witness it with her own eyes; the first time she had ever seen anyone she loved killed. There was no forgiving the sudden act of cruelty. Revenge would be hers.
~*~*~
Outside, Sailor Mars had her hands full with the immediate threat, a four-legged, black furred, drooling wolf monster that had already devoured a third of the school's populace. Mercury, on the other hand, was busy evacuating the rest of the victims, who had immediately begun fleeing once they laid their eyes upon the ferocious beast.
Although Human Nature is the flee when danger has ensued, the teachers kept level heads and helped their Senshi helper to gather the children and lead them as far away from the destruction as possible.
Looking at what was once her sanctuary of learning, Mercury became pale-faced at what her own eyes relayed to her brain. It was the sight of her school, of course, but over half of it lay in ruins. Anyone who had stayed behind in the classrooms in order to search for anyone who would have been left behind would have been more than likely dead by now. And it was all a result of the brutal fighting that had taken place.
Mercury knew, of course, that one of the Kindergarten classes had failed to exit the building. Any idiot could see that. But she didn't need her eyes to know of that tragedy. She had felt that massive blow of energy fall. That incident only pushed her to proceed and move faster. The more people she would evacuate from the premises, the better.
~*~*~
Mars tried coaxing the demon away from the school, but every time she did, it spit a steady stream of dark energy into the crowd. And when that happened, another stream of white, Pure energy returned to it. Whoever these people were had really thought ahead on this one, which would only make the Senshis' jobs harder than they would have to be. But, they wouldn't give up. This was an unforgivable act of terror.
'What's taking them? I'm almost out of energy here!' Mars jumped up into the air and fired a series of missile type Ki attacks down to the creature. Alone, she was useless. Her attacks only did good enough to slow the creature down, unlike the day before. This monster seemed stronger than the last one, but this time they wouldn't make the same mistake of leaving the body after the fight. There would be no way to retrieve the energy if there was no body.
"Hey stink weed!" A familiar voice cried from the rubble of what was once the school.
The ignorant beast knew nothing of their language. He only knew tone. He had been programmed to react only to his creators' voices in order to keep from being distracted by the dim-witted girls. But Mars knew that voice better than anything. She was overly relieved when she turned to see her fellow Senshi, looking angrier than anything, emerging from the rubble. Jupiter was in the middle with Venus and Moon on the sides. Jupiter looked horrible, worse than the other girls. Her face was pale; the color of death.
Sailor Moon, knowing how unstable Jupiter was at the moment as a result of what she had to whiteness, stepped forward and remembered what Luna had told her; to come up with a stupid line to distract the enemy. "How dare you come here and destroy everything! I know I hated school but that didn't mean you have to come and destroy it for bookworms!"
Mars' look of relief was soon replaced with embarrassment. 'What is she doing?'
"Yeah! That's right you smelly ol' freak! In the name of..." Moon paused for a moment and looked around the area. 'Oh! Come on! What did the other Sailor Moon say? Argh!' "In the name of the Moon I shall punish you!"
Jupiter nodded. "Yeah! What she said!" She quickly transgressed the demon's spacious bubble that had been created by the girls standing around him, but she knew not to take any chances. Although the previous enemy had been beaten nearly as soon as it showed up, this one had a chance of being stronger. In the years she had trained with Goku she had learned to Never underestimate your enemy, which is why she jumped up and over just before she rammed into the wolf-like creature's nose with a power punch.
Mars studied her companion's movements quite closely and almost immediately noticed the change in her attitude. Her body was tense and her movements were stiff, showing her anger. Finding this behavior strange, she turned to Moon and Venus, who were preparing themselves for an attack. Their normal stance of being carefree was replaced only with the urge to destroy. 'What happened in there?'
Venus soon joined her fellow Senshi in the air. The monster, sensing an attack coming on, quirked his ears back a bit at the sound of a child's cry in the rubble. His lips slowly turned upward as he turned completely around and began racing for the sound. His job had been to collect as much energy from the rambunctious children of this school and he planned to fulfill it at all costs.
Sailor Mars turned up to her friends in utter fear for the faint life that was calling; pleading for help. "What are we waiting for?!"
But, by the time the girls snapped out of their confused state of fear, the demon rammed himself into the rubble, immediately revealing a small boy about the age of seven years. His leg had been broken in three places due to the ceiling collapsing overhead when the first attack was made. But none of this mattered to the beast at hand for he was only concerned with retrieving energy for his masters.
The child looked up into his attacker's ruthless, deadly eyes of hatred. He opened his mouth to scream but all that came out was a small yelp. Looking up and seeing the monster eye to eye had been too much to say anything. The monster flinched when the boy tried to struggle away before anything horrible happened to him. But things didn't quite work out the way he had hopped.
The large wolf demon bent down its massive head and slowly placed its enormous jaws around the child's body, immediately crushing the ribcage in two and killing the young boy. Just as the Senshi were arriving at their target, a loud snapped echoed throughout the campus. The four Senshi knew exactly where snap came from and immediately stopped themselves and lowered their heads, all except for Sailor Moon, that is.
The leader of this mysterious group of warriors found herself building up her anger more and more as she watched the demon devour his kill. How could they do this? How could anyone be so ruthless as to kill innocent people with such apathy. It just didn't make sense, any of it. And now this monster would pay the price for killing an innocent boy.
Slowly, Sailor Moon built her energy to begin the fight. She wouldn't let this thing kill yet another victim. "You....!" She yelled down as she began to lift herself into the air. The creature didn't seem to notice her cry of anger for it only stood tall with its face away from the Senshi of the Moon. Sailor Moon growled at the top of her lungs as she gave herself an immense power surge. In a flash of light her hair, once golden, was now glimmering a magnificent silver.
~*~*~
Across the school yard, the last group of students and teachers were just being taken away by Sailor Mercury, but not before they stopped to look up at the silver fighter in the sky. The youngest ones at age seven were in the most awe for they hadn't seen such a display in power and ability.
Mercury looked into the sky and covered her eyes from the blinding sun. 'Good. At least one of them is going to put an end to this masquerade.'
~*~*~
Back at the scene of the fight, Sailor Moon was building up for her father's Kamehameha attack. Her hands pulled back to her side, she narrowed her eyes with a type of hate never seen on her face; a hate driven by the want, the need to protect those who could not defend themselves against the forces of evil. Slowly but steadily she gathered all of her Super Saiyan energy into the palms of her hands.
"Ka...Me..."
Jupiter grabbed Mars and Venus and ran for cover for she knew, with the amount of power that would be used, an explosion was inevitable. And not just a tiny explosion at that. When you're dealing with the average power level of a Super Saiyan two at Usagi's Super Saiyan one, there's sure to be destruction and the foe would be in midst of it all.
"Ha...Me... ... ..." Sailor Moon gave herself one last burst of power and pushed her palms fourth unto the newly appointed target. "HA!!" A huge ball of silver energy lashed away from Sailor Moon's hands down toward her school.
Even at the enormous energy ball flying down, the Senshis' foe didn't budge from his place. He didn't care to either for he knew that he would not affected with non-planetary power. A small smirk appeared on his face as he lowered his nose to the rubble and sniffed around for any other bodies in which he could extract energy from.
Once the energy was out of her hands, Sailor Moon covered her face with her arms and flew, back first, away from what was definitely going to be a major explosion. But one thing puzzled her. Why wasn't her foe running away, or even afraid of her attack? Was he bluffing or trying to coax her down there to take the attack with him? That had to be it. Moon smirked. If that thing thought he was going to get her down there with such a stupid trick he had another thing coming.
The silver ball of energy ripped through the air as it screamed towards its target with only one objective; to kill. The spectators covered their eyes from the bright light that was created as the pearl ball of deadly Ki energy crashed into the mighty shoulder of their attacker. And as expected, an explosion soon ensued the commotion which accompanied by a large rumble and shake of the earth.
Sailor Moon, who had been the closest to the explosion, for she hadn't much time to escape the blast, was hit by a sharp sheet of glass, which had previously been used for a reinforced window, that had been hurled into the air, and was thrown, spinning down to the ground. She hastily caught herself in midair, landing on her feet and soon kneeling down to catch her breath. Her heart widely beating, her lungs pumping faster than ever, and her mind racing; a slow, sly grin formed across her slightly burned face. 'Nothing could have survived that...'
~*~*~
Sailor Mercury looked up to the huge cloud of smoke that now hovered over the fallen school. In her peripheral vision, she could see her leader, Sailor Moon, sitting on the ground. She could hear her friends rejoicing in the background and the last of the students and teachers give their words of confusion. But Mercury knew different. Something was wrong. It was too calm, too quiet. Something was Definitely wrong with this picture. "The eye of the hurricane..."
~*~*~
With a gleeful smile wide across her face, Jupiter shot out for Sailor Moon to congratulate her. She couldn't have been happier at that point now that the Dark Kingdom's minion had been destroyed. He could no longer her peers and teachers. Miss Haruna's death had been unofficially avenged. Now all that was left was to kill the big guy who actually killed her. But that would have to wait for another day, another showdown. Now would be the time to destroy the body. "Sailor Moon!" She shouted with the soft sound of laughter in her voice.
~*~*~
Sailor Moon, who was still unconsciously Super Saiyan, quirked her head back, slightly, as she pushed herself up from the ground. A smile was on her face as well which was accompanied by a soft giggle of relief. That hadn't been as hard as she thought it would have been.
Perhaps she thought too soon. Just as she was gaining her composure back, a flux of Dark energy surged throughout the area, causing Sailor Jupiter to freeze frame. Her smile, along with those of her friends', disappeared simultaneously and was replaced with the pale look of horror. How could that thing have survived their leader's Super Saiyan Kamehameha, especially since it was backed with Moon energy, the most powerful of all planetary powers?
~*~*~
Sailor Mercury flipped out her computer to examine the demon from the Dark Kingdom. It beeped and screamed at her as a waving line showed up on the screen, which showed the amount of Evil energy found in one concentrated area. Sure enough, all of their senses were correct. The computer, too, showed that the monster was still alive, unaffected from Sailor Moon's attack.
But how could it have survived? That was a question that needed to be answered before the fight would be able to go on. Letting curiosity drive her actions, Mercury began analyzing Sailor Moon, who was again joined by the other Scouts; all stared blanking into one another's eyes. 'What?!'
The computer's screen grew wild with high levels of energy readings, none of which were that of the Moon. 'How can this be?' She slammed it against her leg, thinking it had somehow been affected by the explosion. It had to be a mistake. The Moon energy seemed to be overpowered by the power of a Super Saiyan, but why would that make Sailor Moon unable to make a successful attack? If her understandings from the night before had been correct, a person's normal fighting power was only to be enhanced by the Moon power, thus creating an already strong Super Saiyan into one who could fight the forces of the Dark Kingdom without a problem. But for some reason, Moon's Super Saiyan power wasn't 'mixing'.
~*~*~
Back at the scene of ultimate destruction, the rest of the Senshi stared, not at each other, but at the smoldering rubble, which was barely becoming visible again. All of them were confused, but not enough to drop their fight and run home for safety. It was their job to kill off this threat, this murderer, for they were the only ones who could and they wouldn't rest until it was done.
Sailor Moon grabbed her shoulder, which had been sliced by the glass and was now bleeding. "You've gotta be kiddin me! How did it survive?"
Jupiter kneeled down and scouted out the structure for their foe. "What IS that thing?"
Venus ran forward, but not too close as she didn't want to begin yet another fight. There was a small hope inside her that the enemy had been knocked unconscious and would be easily defeated if there weren't any abrupt movements. "Gotta be something tough if it could live through a Kamehameha wave like that."
Sailor Moon looked down to Jupiter. "See anything?" Jupiter shook her head, not saying a word.
From the destruction jumped the large wolf-like creature straight towards the unsuspecting Super Saiyan. "ENAJII...!!!!" Its mouth was pushed open wide by a bubble of Black energy. No longer were there teeth inside there, nor was there a tongue. Now, the beast showed its true form, an energy sucking savage.
Sailor Moon pulled her right leg behind the left and braced herself for impact, her friends not too far behind. Her eyes grew wide as the Black, smoking energy flew out of the beast's mouth and towards her. "Whaaaaaa!?"
~*~*~
Mercury, feeling the barbarous energy, felt her heart beat increase faster and faster as she stood there in awe. How could something really have been unaffected by the blast of a Super Saiyan's Kamehameha? It made absolutely no sense. But that didn't quite matter rat the time. What did was getting the last of the civilians out to safety. "We gotta get outta here!" She turned to look at the Principal, who had refused to leave until all of her employees and students had been taken back. Now, she would get a chance to leave.
"Are you nuts!? I can't leave now! Look at what that girl did to my beautiful school!" She exclaimed as she pointed up to the demolished building which was nothing more than a giant heap of wreckage.
Mercury slapped the palm of her hand to her forehead with great frustration. "We've no time to discuss this! If we don't leave now that school is not going to be the only thing that's been blown apart! Your body parts will be lying somewhere in that mess as well!"
The Principal threw her arms together and frowned. "And what of the children who are still under the rubble? Are we just going to let them get eaten like that little boy?"
Mercury, herself, frowned as she grabbed the arm of her stubborn Principal. Didn't she know that if she stayed that she would die? With a certain sorrow of her own, she turned her eyes downward. "They're already dead."
"And you're ok with this?! What kind of fighter are you?!"
Mercury growled as she pulled the blithering woman closer to the others. 'It's not that we don't care, we can bring them back with the Dragon Balls when this whole ordeal is over!' "Everybody grab on!"
~*~*~
The last group of innocents arrived in the forest where all the others had been taken. In midst of the large group stood a lone fighter, Hotaru. She alone tried to calm the frustrated teachers and frightened children, but it was no use. They were too unwilling to listen to anything she had to say. Her own teacher refused to let her out of sight for fear of another 'earthquake'.
Once she lay her eyes upon Sailor Mercury, however, everything changed for the young Saiyan healer. Her courage to disobey her teacher grew. "Am... Mercury!" Pulling away from her teacher's firm grasp, Hotaru ran for Mercury to get an update on the fight. Only being able to feel the power levels and not seeing the fight was driving her absolutely nuts.
Mercury immediately brought her attention down to the younger child with complete seriousness. She would have to get back to the fight soon. "Hotaru, please! Stay here! Make sure these people don't go anywhere!"
Hotaru frowned. "They can take care of themselves! Let me go! I want to help!"
Mercury shook her head. "Stay here! They need you! We'll be fine! We have the power of the planets to protect us!" Saying that, Mercury pressed her fingers to her forehead as she had been taught and teleported back to the fight.
Hotaru crossed her arms and turned back to the rowdy group. 'No fair! I wanna be a Sailor Senshi too!' She slowly looked up and noticed her teacher running in her direction.
~*~*~
Mercury arrived back at the fight in a flash, though, not directly at the fight. She made sure she kept space between herself, her comrades, and her enemy. Before she got involved, she wanted to analyze the enemy. She was still in the dark about what their enemies were composed of, and, if she were able to find a weakness in them, fighting their Queen would not be all that hard of an objective. But, as much as she hated leaving her friends to do all the dirty work, the only way to do that was to analyze instead of fighting.
She quickly pulled out her computer and searched the database for any information on this particular creature.
~*~*~
Not a single Senshi moved about as the Black, cloud-like energy swept around their figures. Not a single one of them felt the need to for this energy had no real mass to it, nor did it seem to be affecting them. But the Monster from behind the smoke seemed to be having a blast with his maniacal laughter.
Jupiter crossed her arms with a smirk. "What's this supposed to do, confuse us?"
Venus giggled. "Yeah, no kidding. Oh! I'm so scared, the big bad smoke is gonna come and get me."
Jupiter joined in the laughter. "No! Say it ain't so! Now I can't fight because I'm blind!"
Venus muffled her giggles with her hands to keep the enemy from realizing that nothing was happening, that he had failed once again. "Think we should surprise him with an attack from behind? That would really make him mad, wouldn't it?"
Jupiter nodded with an evil grin. "That would be another enemy down the drain for Queen Beryl." She paused to let the thought sink in. "Let's do it."
Venus grinned. "Ok." Almost with conceit, she began to power up for her attack.
Although Mars had overheard her friends' conversation, she was too busy with a problem of her own to be attacking anything. Actually, it was more like Sailor Moon's problem. "Look!" She screamed as she pointed down to Sailor Moon, who was on the twitching on the ground.
Jupiter dropped her fighting stance and growled. She hated it when she was interrupted from making her move. "What, Mars?!"
Had it been any other situation, Mars would have torn into her friend for speaking with such a tongue at her, but now, things like that just were Not important. Something was terribly wrong with their leader. Oddly enough, she was the only one affected by the smoke. "It's Sailor Moon! Her energy level is rapidly dropping!"
Sailor Moon, who was completely curled into a ball on the ground, clutched her broach, which sat proudly upon her chest. It was the only thing that she could do to suffice the pain, which pulsed over every inch of her body. "Uhhhhghh..." Her hair flickered Gold on and off. She slowly brought a hand up and tightly grabbed her bangs.
Venus dropped her power and kneeled next to Moon. "What's wrong?! Usagi! Answer me!" Venus turned around to stare into the eyes of Jupiter, who stood just behind her.
Mars closed her eyes and tried to establish a visual link with her friend, but it was impossible. Sailor Moon was losing too much power to do anything. But she could feel her agony. "Sailor Moon, tell us what's wrong! We want to help you!"
Sailor Moon kicked her legs out as she struggled to keep her power level up to Super Saiyan. "My power...!! It feels like... it's being ripped away from my body!"
Mars opened her eyes to stare back down at Sailor Moon. "He must be feeding off of your energy! Sailor Moon, drop your energy! You're making him stronger!"
Sailor Moon closed her eyes as the pain increase throughout her body. Venus wrapped her arms around Sailor Moon. She quickly stood to her feet, pulling her leader along with her. "Drop it!" She yelled as she shook the struggling girl.
Jupiter placed her eyes upon the wolf-like creature, which stood among the wreckage with a wide grin. "I don't know what you're doing, but it stops here!" She clenched her hands into tight fists as she shot out in a swift light of green toward the raging wolf. At this point, she cared not of what happened to herself. Her number one objective was to defeat the enemy and return the calm that had previously reigned, not to mention avenge Miss Haruna's death.
The creature from the Dark Kingdom, seeing Jupiter rushing in its direction, opened its mouth, wide, and began sucking in the black smoke. It had gained enough energy to return to the Beryl's castle, especially with Sailor Moon's energy. "Kee hee!"
Just as she was about to ram into her foe, Jupiter jumped into the air and prepared a small, green Ki blast at her side. 'This oughta take care of ya!'
Mars turned up to the massive power build up in the sky with a single twinkle of hope glimmering in her eyes. "Go for it, Jupiter!"
Jupiter nodded with a quaint smirk. She had fully planned on going for it. With great haste, she added as much energy as she could to the power ball at her side, causing it to grow larger and larger. But even with the large power growing, the wolf creature did not seem to care about its life, even though, if it did not block the attack, it would surely be destroyed.
~*~*~
Dark Kingdom:
Beryl wore and evil grin as she sat atop her thrown, watching the fight. "Wonderful! Wonderful! We're gaining that brat's power! Finally! I will have the power of the Moon! No one will be able to stop me!"
Akii stood beside her Queen's thrown and, she too, watched the 'fight'. "We have researched the ultimate fighter, my liege.'
"Send someone for it as soon as it is finished taking all the energy. I do not want that sweet energy wasted."
Akii nodded. "As you wish." She slowly turned from the thrown and began making her way for the door with a smirk. Soon, very soon, the Sailor Senshi would be done for, and then, no one would be able to stand in their way, no one.
~*~*~
Earth:
Venus turned her head from side to side. The black cloud was beginning to fade, but Sailor Moon, who was still in her arms, continued to struggle, worse, it seemed like. 'What's going on?' "Do it now!"
Jupiter shook her head as her smirk turned to a hateful frown. "NO! It MUST pay! They killed Miss Haruna! It WILL know our anger! It WILL suffer!"
Mars glared up at Jupiter, the fiercest fighter of them all. "I know that must have been tough for you, but you've gotta finish this now! Don't make me come up there and do it for you!"
Jupiter gave the ball of energy in her hands a boost in energy, causing its size to drastically increase. "No! I can do it!"
Mars growled. "THEN DO IT ALREADY!"
Sailor Moon's eyes widened as an ultimate pain was placed upon her body. "WAAAHAGGAAA!" She tried desperately to pull away from Venus' grip and pursue her struggle. She couldn't stand it anymore, her body ached with agonizing pain. She was so weak from trying to hold her power that she just couldn't do it anymore. It was as if her very power she was trying to keep was being sucked out of her with the cloud of black energy. So, she did the only thing she could.
Venus looked down to her friend in fear. "Hold on! ...What?!" She gasped as Sailor Moon's hair dropped from Silver to Gold. "Your energy!"
Jupiter stopped concentrating her energy to shoot a glare down to her suffering friend. "What's goin on down there!?"
~*~*~
Mercury scrunched her face in confusion. "Strange... she doesn't seem to have any normal energy left, only Moon energy. Why was only her normal energy taken?"
~*~*~
Sailor Moon opened her eyes with a strange feeling of relief. Her body felt completely at ease. "Huh?" She slowly pulled away from Venus' protective grasp to sit up. Utterly ignoring her companions, she lifted her hands to her face in confusion. One minute she felt as if her body was being ripped apart and the next, she felt completely normal.
Jupiter eased up on her frown, but her Ki attack continued to roar with anger. "Sailor Moon!"
Sailor Moon looked up to her friend in green with blank eyes. "What's going on?" She asked as she scratched her head in confusion.
~*~*~
Mercury put her computer away and slowly began to walk forward to join her fellow warriors of justice. 'What are they doing? They haven't beaten that thing yet!' "Don't get sidetracked!" She yelled.
~*~*~
Sailor Moon quirked her head to the side. "Mercury?" Five small heads bounced back towards their foe.
An unwelcomed guest stood at the side of the wolf monster, the same man who had brought it there. On his face was planted a deep smirk of contentment. He began laughing at the top of his lungs as he placed an arm around the neck of his creature. "Little Senshi! We meet again!"
Mercury froze in her place as she clenched her fists, ready for an attack. 'That must be the guy we felt before the attack.'
Jupiter took one look at the man and almost immediately, her rage shot up, which fed only further fed her attack. "Bastard!"
Utterly shocked, Venus nearly choked. "Makoto!"
Jupiter paid no attention to her scolding friend as she pulled her attack from her side to sit in front of her chest. "Say your prayers! You aren't leaving!"
The man smirked as he pulled out a small, black crystal keypad. "Oh, I'm not, am I?"
Mercury ran closer, keeping her eyes locked upon the keypad. 'What's that?' She tried to study it, but it was almost completely hidden behind the man's giant hand.
Without saying another word, he pressed one of the two buttons on the keypad. Immediately, a black portal was opened from behind. "I think you're mistaken, kid." He grinned as he began backing into the portal, taking his faithful creature with him.
Jupiter growled as she released her massive attack. "I'm not finished with you yet!"
Sailor Moon, Venus, and Mars dodged out of the attack's way as it spiraled for its target. "Watch it!"
Jupiter once again found herself ignoring them. She was more concerned with the happenings of her attack. The only thing on her mind was Miss Haruna and avenging her wasted death. Over and over again, she replayed in her mind, her death. That was just not something one could forgive. "Die... devil!"
Mercury had her own eyes locked on the portal, but for different reasons. Immense amounts of dark energy were coming from it. 'He pressed a button on that Keypad and that portal appeared. That means, the key to getting to their kingdom lies within that pad. I must have it!'
The green Ki attack smashed into the man's back just as the portal was closing, but its effects were none what-so-ever. It diminished into his back as if he sucked it into himself. Jupiter frowned. 'I WILL get you!'
Sailor Moon stood to her feet in more confusion than before. "Something tells me that this isn't good."
Jupiter lowered herself to the ground. Her face was that of Vejita, a scowl. "Dang it! He got away! Now they can use that energy sucking monster again."
Mercury joined her friends. "And he has Usagi's energy. There's not telling what they're going to do now that they have Moon energy."
Venus greeted Mercury with a slight smile. Her face told of her concern, however. "Yeah, what was with that energy thing? It's like, one minute Usagi can't move, and the next, she's fine."
Mercury shook her head. "I don't have a clue. My guess is that we're going to find out very soon when they try to use the energy against us, though."
Sailor Moon rubbed the shoulder that had been punctured by glass. "I just wanna know one thing. Why didn't my Kamehameha work against him? I was a Super Saiyan as Sailor Moon, shouldn't my energy work against things like that?"
Mercury shrugged. "That's what I was wondering. The Kamehameha should have worked. But, Usagi, you did notice that you were the only one in pain, right?" Moon nodded, not seeing where this was going. She just figured that the monster had been programmed only to take Moon energy. "As soon as you returned to normal and dropped all your normal fighting energy you were fine again."
Sailor Moon frowned. "I didn't DROP it! It was sucked out of me!"
Mercury sighed. "Sorry, when your energy was SUCKED out of you."
Sailor Moon smiled. "Good. And, yes, I did notice that I felt better as soon as the energy was gone. It was like I was totally refreshed with energy."
"I suggest we consult Luna and Artimas about this. Maybe they have answers."
Jupiter growled as she sat down. "Usagi, we have to use the Dragon Balls to revive everyone. Too many innocent people died today, and... Miss Haruna...."
Mercury shook her head in reply for Moon. "We can't do that. If we use the Dragon Balls tonight then we won't be able to bring any others back to life who may have died after today."
Jupiter lowered her eyes down to the ground. She let out a frustrated sigh. "But Miss Haruna..."
"It'll be ok. She'll be brought back after all this. Right now I say two of us go to the people taken from here and take them back to the city with Hotaru. The other three will stay here and think of something to say to the adults."
Jupiter stood back to her feet with a smile. "I'll do that."
Mars nodded. "I'll go too."
Mercury; "Ok. I think it would be better if we all detransformed too. The less we stay like this, the better. Next time we meet, we'll think of some plans to defeat these things with more efficiency." The area filled with light as the warriors of justice detransformed back into their normal selves.
Once back to normal, Usagi suddenly felt winded, like a chunk of her energy was missing. In fact it was. After all, her energy HAD been sucked dry from the monster, but it hadn't affected her before, why now?
Minako glanced in the direction of Usagi and noticed she had trouble breathing. "You ok over there?"
Usagi nodded. "Yeah. Just a little tired." She explained as she turned around to stare at what was left of her school.
Minako sighed as she too looked back upon the wreckage. For the first time, she was able to take in the harsh reality of the destruction and she did not at all like what she was seeing. "I guess we've outgrown our school."
Ami found herself in awe over the desolation. "One minute it's a quiet learning institution full of happy children and the next, it's a scene of ultimate destruction."
Usagi lowered her head. She had been partly responsible for collapsing the building with her Kamehameha wave, and even that was a waste. "As much as I hate school, I think I'm gonna miss this building. I mean, yeah they'll rebuild a new one and all, but this one was so full of memories. This is where I met most of my friends, this is where I met Haruka and Michiru..."
Minako snickered. "Why is that a good memory?"
Usagi sighed. "Every memory is a good memory."
Makoto; "I'm gonna miss it too..."
Ami nodded. "We all are..."
(.... ::comes out of hiding:: ... uhhmm... SORRY! Hehe... I know, it's been a couple of weeks, but I sort of got sidetracked last weekend when I started downloading some of the Final Fantasy Ten soundtrack. Some turned into a few, a few turned into a lot and a lot turned into the entire thing.... That's 91 songs ^_^ hehe... anyway, here it is. FINALLY!!! You'll be happy to hear that I'm going to be on winter break in exactly 1 week and three days, meaning, I will be able to hopefully get more than one chapter out a week, maybe three or four. Hehe! Anyway, wha'd ya think? Cya next time!)
The girls' ultimate anger has now been sparked, and in the worst way possible. The man who claimed to be 'Uncle' ruthlessly murdered one of the two classes of the youngest age group in the school along with their teacher, Miss Haruna. Jupiter was on the worst end of this destruction for she had to witness it with her own eyes; the first time she had ever seen anyone she loved killed. There was no forgiving the sudden act of cruelty. Revenge would be hers.
~*~*~
Outside, Sailor Mars had her hands full with the immediate threat, a four-legged, black furred, drooling wolf monster that had already devoured a third of the school's populace. Mercury, on the other hand, was busy evacuating the rest of the victims, who had immediately begun fleeing once they laid their eyes upon the ferocious beast.
Although Human Nature is the flee when danger has ensued, the teachers kept level heads and helped their Senshi helper to gather the children and lead them as far away from the destruction as possible.
Looking at what was once her sanctuary of learning, Mercury became pale-faced at what her own eyes relayed to her brain. It was the sight of her school, of course, but over half of it lay in ruins. Anyone who had stayed behind in the classrooms in order to search for anyone who would have been left behind would have been more than likely dead by now. And it was all a result of the brutal fighting that had taken place.
Mercury knew, of course, that one of the Kindergarten classes had failed to exit the building. Any idiot could see that. But she didn't need her eyes to know of that tragedy. She had felt that massive blow of energy fall. That incident only pushed her to proceed and move faster. The more people she would evacuate from the premises, the better.
~*~*~
Mars tried coaxing the demon away from the school, but every time she did, it spit a steady stream of dark energy into the crowd. And when that happened, another stream of white, Pure energy returned to it. Whoever these people were had really thought ahead on this one, which would only make the Senshis' jobs harder than they would have to be. But, they wouldn't give up. This was an unforgivable act of terror.
'What's taking them? I'm almost out of energy here!' Mars jumped up into the air and fired a series of missile type Ki attacks down to the creature. Alone, she was useless. Her attacks only did good enough to slow the creature down, unlike the day before. This monster seemed stronger than the last one, but this time they wouldn't make the same mistake of leaving the body after the fight. There would be no way to retrieve the energy if there was no body.
"Hey stink weed!" A familiar voice cried from the rubble of what was once the school.
The ignorant beast knew nothing of their language. He only knew tone. He had been programmed to react only to his creators' voices in order to keep from being distracted by the dim-witted girls. But Mars knew that voice better than anything. She was overly relieved when she turned to see her fellow Senshi, looking angrier than anything, emerging from the rubble. Jupiter was in the middle with Venus and Moon on the sides. Jupiter looked horrible, worse than the other girls. Her face was pale; the color of death.
Sailor Moon, knowing how unstable Jupiter was at the moment as a result of what she had to whiteness, stepped forward and remembered what Luna had told her; to come up with a stupid line to distract the enemy. "How dare you come here and destroy everything! I know I hated school but that didn't mean you have to come and destroy it for bookworms!"
Mars' look of relief was soon replaced with embarrassment. 'What is she doing?'
"Yeah! That's right you smelly ol' freak! In the name of..." Moon paused for a moment and looked around the area. 'Oh! Come on! What did the other Sailor Moon say? Argh!' "In the name of the Moon I shall punish you!"
Jupiter nodded. "Yeah! What she said!" She quickly transgressed the demon's spacious bubble that had been created by the girls standing around him, but she knew not to take any chances. Although the previous enemy had been beaten nearly as soon as it showed up, this one had a chance of being stronger. In the years she had trained with Goku she had learned to Never underestimate your enemy, which is why she jumped up and over just before she rammed into the wolf-like creature's nose with a power punch.
Mars studied her companion's movements quite closely and almost immediately noticed the change in her attitude. Her body was tense and her movements were stiff, showing her anger. Finding this behavior strange, she turned to Moon and Venus, who were preparing themselves for an attack. Their normal stance of being carefree was replaced only with the urge to destroy. 'What happened in there?'
Venus soon joined her fellow Senshi in the air. The monster, sensing an attack coming on, quirked his ears back a bit at the sound of a child's cry in the rubble. His lips slowly turned upward as he turned completely around and began racing for the sound. His job had been to collect as much energy from the rambunctious children of this school and he planned to fulfill it at all costs.
Sailor Mars turned up to her friends in utter fear for the faint life that was calling; pleading for help. "What are we waiting for?!"
But, by the time the girls snapped out of their confused state of fear, the demon rammed himself into the rubble, immediately revealing a small boy about the age of seven years. His leg had been broken in three places due to the ceiling collapsing overhead when the first attack was made. But none of this mattered to the beast at hand for he was only concerned with retrieving energy for his masters.
The child looked up into his attacker's ruthless, deadly eyes of hatred. He opened his mouth to scream but all that came out was a small yelp. Looking up and seeing the monster eye to eye had been too much to say anything. The monster flinched when the boy tried to struggle away before anything horrible happened to him. But things didn't quite work out the way he had hopped.
The large wolf demon bent down its massive head and slowly placed its enormous jaws around the child's body, immediately crushing the ribcage in two and killing the young boy. Just as the Senshi were arriving at their target, a loud snapped echoed throughout the campus. The four Senshi knew exactly where snap came from and immediately stopped themselves and lowered their heads, all except for Sailor Moon, that is.
The leader of this mysterious group of warriors found herself building up her anger more and more as she watched the demon devour his kill. How could they do this? How could anyone be so ruthless as to kill innocent people with such apathy. It just didn't make sense, any of it. And now this monster would pay the price for killing an innocent boy.
Slowly, Sailor Moon built her energy to begin the fight. She wouldn't let this thing kill yet another victim. "You....!" She yelled down as she began to lift herself into the air. The creature didn't seem to notice her cry of anger for it only stood tall with its face away from the Senshi of the Moon. Sailor Moon growled at the top of her lungs as she gave herself an immense power surge. In a flash of light her hair, once golden, was now glimmering a magnificent silver.
~*~*~
Across the school yard, the last group of students and teachers were just being taken away by Sailor Mercury, but not before they stopped to look up at the silver fighter in the sky. The youngest ones at age seven were in the most awe for they hadn't seen such a display in power and ability.
Mercury looked into the sky and covered her eyes from the blinding sun. 'Good. At least one of them is going to put an end to this masquerade.'
~*~*~
Back at the scene of the fight, Sailor Moon was building up for her father's Kamehameha attack. Her hands pulled back to her side, she narrowed her eyes with a type of hate never seen on her face; a hate driven by the want, the need to protect those who could not defend themselves against the forces of evil. Slowly but steadily she gathered all of her Super Saiyan energy into the palms of her hands.
"Ka...Me..."
Jupiter grabbed Mars and Venus and ran for cover for she knew, with the amount of power that would be used, an explosion was inevitable. And not just a tiny explosion at that. When you're dealing with the average power level of a Super Saiyan two at Usagi's Super Saiyan one, there's sure to be destruction and the foe would be in midst of it all.
"Ha...Me... ... ..." Sailor Moon gave herself one last burst of power and pushed her palms fourth unto the newly appointed target. "HA!!" A huge ball of silver energy lashed away from Sailor Moon's hands down toward her school.
Even at the enormous energy ball flying down, the Senshis' foe didn't budge from his place. He didn't care to either for he knew that he would not affected with non-planetary power. A small smirk appeared on his face as he lowered his nose to the rubble and sniffed around for any other bodies in which he could extract energy from.
Once the energy was out of her hands, Sailor Moon covered her face with her arms and flew, back first, away from what was definitely going to be a major explosion. But one thing puzzled her. Why wasn't her foe running away, or even afraid of her attack? Was he bluffing or trying to coax her down there to take the attack with him? That had to be it. Moon smirked. If that thing thought he was going to get her down there with such a stupid trick he had another thing coming.
The silver ball of energy ripped through the air as it screamed towards its target with only one objective; to kill. The spectators covered their eyes from the bright light that was created as the pearl ball of deadly Ki energy crashed into the mighty shoulder of their attacker. And as expected, an explosion soon ensued the commotion which accompanied by a large rumble and shake of the earth.
Sailor Moon, who had been the closest to the explosion, for she hadn't much time to escape the blast, was hit by a sharp sheet of glass, which had previously been used for a reinforced window, that had been hurled into the air, and was thrown, spinning down to the ground. She hastily caught herself in midair, landing on her feet and soon kneeling down to catch her breath. Her heart widely beating, her lungs pumping faster than ever, and her mind racing; a slow, sly grin formed across her slightly burned face. 'Nothing could have survived that...'
~*~*~
Sailor Mercury looked up to the huge cloud of smoke that now hovered over the fallen school. In her peripheral vision, she could see her leader, Sailor Moon, sitting on the ground. She could hear her friends rejoicing in the background and the last of the students and teachers give their words of confusion. But Mercury knew different. Something was wrong. It was too calm, too quiet. Something was Definitely wrong with this picture. "The eye of the hurricane..."
~*~*~
With a gleeful smile wide across her face, Jupiter shot out for Sailor Moon to congratulate her. She couldn't have been happier at that point now that the Dark Kingdom's minion had been destroyed. He could no longer her peers and teachers. Miss Haruna's death had been unofficially avenged. Now all that was left was to kill the big guy who actually killed her. But that would have to wait for another day, another showdown. Now would be the time to destroy the body. "Sailor Moon!" She shouted with the soft sound of laughter in her voice.
~*~*~
Sailor Moon, who was still unconsciously Super Saiyan, quirked her head back, slightly, as she pushed herself up from the ground. A smile was on her face as well which was accompanied by a soft giggle of relief. That hadn't been as hard as she thought it would have been.
Perhaps she thought too soon. Just as she was gaining her composure back, a flux of Dark energy surged throughout the area, causing Sailor Jupiter to freeze frame. Her smile, along with those of her friends', disappeared simultaneously and was replaced with the pale look of horror. How could that thing have survived their leader's Super Saiyan Kamehameha, especially since it was backed with Moon energy, the most powerful of all planetary powers?
~*~*~
Sailor Mercury flipped out her computer to examine the demon from the Dark Kingdom. It beeped and screamed at her as a waving line showed up on the screen, which showed the amount of Evil energy found in one concentrated area. Sure enough, all of their senses were correct. The computer, too, showed that the monster was still alive, unaffected from Sailor Moon's attack.
But how could it have survived? That was a question that needed to be answered before the fight would be able to go on. Letting curiosity drive her actions, Mercury began analyzing Sailor Moon, who was again joined by the other Scouts; all stared blanking into one another's eyes. 'What?!'
The computer's screen grew wild with high levels of energy readings, none of which were that of the Moon. 'How can this be?' She slammed it against her leg, thinking it had somehow been affected by the explosion. It had to be a mistake. The Moon energy seemed to be overpowered by the power of a Super Saiyan, but why would that make Sailor Moon unable to make a successful attack? If her understandings from the night before had been correct, a person's normal fighting power was only to be enhanced by the Moon power, thus creating an already strong Super Saiyan into one who could fight the forces of the Dark Kingdom without a problem. But for some reason, Moon's Super Saiyan power wasn't 'mixing'.
~*~*~
Back at the scene of ultimate destruction, the rest of the Senshi stared, not at each other, but at the smoldering rubble, which was barely becoming visible again. All of them were confused, but not enough to drop their fight and run home for safety. It was their job to kill off this threat, this murderer, for they were the only ones who could and they wouldn't rest until it was done.
Sailor Moon grabbed her shoulder, which had been sliced by the glass and was now bleeding. "You've gotta be kiddin me! How did it survive?"
Jupiter kneeled down and scouted out the structure for their foe. "What IS that thing?"
Venus ran forward, but not too close as she didn't want to begin yet another fight. There was a small hope inside her that the enemy had been knocked unconscious and would be easily defeated if there weren't any abrupt movements. "Gotta be something tough if it could live through a Kamehameha wave like that."
Sailor Moon looked down to Jupiter. "See anything?" Jupiter shook her head, not saying a word.
From the destruction jumped the large wolf-like creature straight towards the unsuspecting Super Saiyan. "ENAJII...!!!!" Its mouth was pushed open wide by a bubble of Black energy. No longer were there teeth inside there, nor was there a tongue. Now, the beast showed its true form, an energy sucking savage.
Sailor Moon pulled her right leg behind the left and braced herself for impact, her friends not too far behind. Her eyes grew wide as the Black, smoking energy flew out of the beast's mouth and towards her. "Whaaaaaa!?"
~*~*~
Mercury, feeling the barbarous energy, felt her heart beat increase faster and faster as she stood there in awe. How could something really have been unaffected by the blast of a Super Saiyan's Kamehameha? It made absolutely no sense. But that didn't quite matter rat the time. What did was getting the last of the civilians out to safety. "We gotta get outta here!" She turned to look at the Principal, who had refused to leave until all of her employees and students had been taken back. Now, she would get a chance to leave.
"Are you nuts!? I can't leave now! Look at what that girl did to my beautiful school!" She exclaimed as she pointed up to the demolished building which was nothing more than a giant heap of wreckage.
Mercury slapped the palm of her hand to her forehead with great frustration. "We've no time to discuss this! If we don't leave now that school is not going to be the only thing that's been blown apart! Your body parts will be lying somewhere in that mess as well!"
The Principal threw her arms together and frowned. "And what of the children who are still under the rubble? Are we just going to let them get eaten like that little boy?"
Mercury, herself, frowned as she grabbed the arm of her stubborn Principal. Didn't she know that if she stayed that she would die? With a certain sorrow of her own, she turned her eyes downward. "They're already dead."
"And you're ok with this?! What kind of fighter are you?!"
Mercury growled as she pulled the blithering woman closer to the others. 'It's not that we don't care, we can bring them back with the Dragon Balls when this whole ordeal is over!' "Everybody grab on!"
~*~*~
The last group of innocents arrived in the forest where all the others had been taken. In midst of the large group stood a lone fighter, Hotaru. She alone tried to calm the frustrated teachers and frightened children, but it was no use. They were too unwilling to listen to anything she had to say. Her own teacher refused to let her out of sight for fear of another 'earthquake'.
Once she lay her eyes upon Sailor Mercury, however, everything changed for the young Saiyan healer. Her courage to disobey her teacher grew. "Am... Mercury!" Pulling away from her teacher's firm grasp, Hotaru ran for Mercury to get an update on the fight. Only being able to feel the power levels and not seeing the fight was driving her absolutely nuts.
Mercury immediately brought her attention down to the younger child with complete seriousness. She would have to get back to the fight soon. "Hotaru, please! Stay here! Make sure these people don't go anywhere!"
Hotaru frowned. "They can take care of themselves! Let me go! I want to help!"
Mercury shook her head. "Stay here! They need you! We'll be fine! We have the power of the planets to protect us!" Saying that, Mercury pressed her fingers to her forehead as she had been taught and teleported back to the fight.
Hotaru crossed her arms and turned back to the rowdy group. 'No fair! I wanna be a Sailor Senshi too!' She slowly looked up and noticed her teacher running in her direction.
~*~*~
Mercury arrived back at the fight in a flash, though, not directly at the fight. She made sure she kept space between herself, her comrades, and her enemy. Before she got involved, she wanted to analyze the enemy. She was still in the dark about what their enemies were composed of, and, if she were able to find a weakness in them, fighting their Queen would not be all that hard of an objective. But, as much as she hated leaving her friends to do all the dirty work, the only way to do that was to analyze instead of fighting.
She quickly pulled out her computer and searched the database for any information on this particular creature.
~*~*~
Not a single Senshi moved about as the Black, cloud-like energy swept around their figures. Not a single one of them felt the need to for this energy had no real mass to it, nor did it seem to be affecting them. But the Monster from behind the smoke seemed to be having a blast with his maniacal laughter.
Jupiter crossed her arms with a smirk. "What's this supposed to do, confuse us?"
Venus giggled. "Yeah, no kidding. Oh! I'm so scared, the big bad smoke is gonna come and get me."
Jupiter joined in the laughter. "No! Say it ain't so! Now I can't fight because I'm blind!"
Venus muffled her giggles with her hands to keep the enemy from realizing that nothing was happening, that he had failed once again. "Think we should surprise him with an attack from behind? That would really make him mad, wouldn't it?"
Jupiter nodded with an evil grin. "That would be another enemy down the drain for Queen Beryl." She paused to let the thought sink in. "Let's do it."
Venus grinned. "Ok." Almost with conceit, she began to power up for her attack.
Although Mars had overheard her friends' conversation, she was too busy with a problem of her own to be attacking anything. Actually, it was more like Sailor Moon's problem. "Look!" She screamed as she pointed down to Sailor Moon, who was on the twitching on the ground.
Jupiter dropped her fighting stance and growled. She hated it when she was interrupted from making her move. "What, Mars?!"
Had it been any other situation, Mars would have torn into her friend for speaking with such a tongue at her, but now, things like that just were Not important. Something was terribly wrong with their leader. Oddly enough, she was the only one affected by the smoke. "It's Sailor Moon! Her energy level is rapidly dropping!"
Sailor Moon, who was completely curled into a ball on the ground, clutched her broach, which sat proudly upon her chest. It was the only thing that she could do to suffice the pain, which pulsed over every inch of her body. "Uhhhhghh..." Her hair flickered Gold on and off. She slowly brought a hand up and tightly grabbed her bangs.
Venus dropped her power and kneeled next to Moon. "What's wrong?! Usagi! Answer me!" Venus turned around to stare into the eyes of Jupiter, who stood just behind her.
Mars closed her eyes and tried to establish a visual link with her friend, but it was impossible. Sailor Moon was losing too much power to do anything. But she could feel her agony. "Sailor Moon, tell us what's wrong! We want to help you!"
Sailor Moon kicked her legs out as she struggled to keep her power level up to Super Saiyan. "My power...!! It feels like... it's being ripped away from my body!"
Mars opened her eyes to stare back down at Sailor Moon. "He must be feeding off of your energy! Sailor Moon, drop your energy! You're making him stronger!"
Sailor Moon closed her eyes as the pain increase throughout her body. Venus wrapped her arms around Sailor Moon. She quickly stood to her feet, pulling her leader along with her. "Drop it!" She yelled as she shook the struggling girl.
Jupiter placed her eyes upon the wolf-like creature, which stood among the wreckage with a wide grin. "I don't know what you're doing, but it stops here!" She clenched her hands into tight fists as she shot out in a swift light of green toward the raging wolf. At this point, she cared not of what happened to herself. Her number one objective was to defeat the enemy and return the calm that had previously reigned, not to mention avenge Miss Haruna's death.
The creature from the Dark Kingdom, seeing Jupiter rushing in its direction, opened its mouth, wide, and began sucking in the black smoke. It had gained enough energy to return to the Beryl's castle, especially with Sailor Moon's energy. "Kee hee!"
Just as she was about to ram into her foe, Jupiter jumped into the air and prepared a small, green Ki blast at her side. 'This oughta take care of ya!'
Mars turned up to the massive power build up in the sky with a single twinkle of hope glimmering in her eyes. "Go for it, Jupiter!"
Jupiter nodded with a quaint smirk. She had fully planned on going for it. With great haste, she added as much energy as she could to the power ball at her side, causing it to grow larger and larger. But even with the large power growing, the wolf creature did not seem to care about its life, even though, if it did not block the attack, it would surely be destroyed.
~*~*~
Dark Kingdom:
Beryl wore and evil grin as she sat atop her thrown, watching the fight. "Wonderful! Wonderful! We're gaining that brat's power! Finally! I will have the power of the Moon! No one will be able to stop me!"
Akii stood beside her Queen's thrown and, she too, watched the 'fight'. "We have researched the ultimate fighter, my liege.'
"Send someone for it as soon as it is finished taking all the energy. I do not want that sweet energy wasted."
Akii nodded. "As you wish." She slowly turned from the thrown and began making her way for the door with a smirk. Soon, very soon, the Sailor Senshi would be done for, and then, no one would be able to stand in their way, no one.
~*~*~
Earth:
Venus turned her head from side to side. The black cloud was beginning to fade, but Sailor Moon, who was still in her arms, continued to struggle, worse, it seemed like. 'What's going on?' "Do it now!"
Jupiter shook her head as her smirk turned to a hateful frown. "NO! It MUST pay! They killed Miss Haruna! It WILL know our anger! It WILL suffer!"
Mars glared up at Jupiter, the fiercest fighter of them all. "I know that must have been tough for you, but you've gotta finish this now! Don't make me come up there and do it for you!"
Jupiter gave the ball of energy in her hands a boost in energy, causing its size to drastically increase. "No! I can do it!"
Mars growled. "THEN DO IT ALREADY!"
Sailor Moon's eyes widened as an ultimate pain was placed upon her body. "WAAAHAGGAAA!" She tried desperately to pull away from Venus' grip and pursue her struggle. She couldn't stand it anymore, her body ached with agonizing pain. She was so weak from trying to hold her power that she just couldn't do it anymore. It was as if her very power she was trying to keep was being sucked out of her with the cloud of black energy. So, she did the only thing she could.
Venus looked down to her friend in fear. "Hold on! ...What?!" She gasped as Sailor Moon's hair dropped from Silver to Gold. "Your energy!"
Jupiter stopped concentrating her energy to shoot a glare down to her suffering friend. "What's goin on down there!?"
~*~*~
Mercury scrunched her face in confusion. "Strange... she doesn't seem to have any normal energy left, only Moon energy. Why was only her normal energy taken?"
~*~*~
Sailor Moon opened her eyes with a strange feeling of relief. Her body felt completely at ease. "Huh?" She slowly pulled away from Venus' protective grasp to sit up. Utterly ignoring her companions, she lifted her hands to her face in confusion. One minute she felt as if her body was being ripped apart and the next, she felt completely normal.
Jupiter eased up on her frown, but her Ki attack continued to roar with anger. "Sailor Moon!"
Sailor Moon looked up to her friend in green with blank eyes. "What's going on?" She asked as she scratched her head in confusion.
~*~*~
Mercury put her computer away and slowly began to walk forward to join her fellow warriors of justice. 'What are they doing? They haven't beaten that thing yet!' "Don't get sidetracked!" She yelled.
~*~*~
Sailor Moon quirked her head to the side. "Mercury?" Five small heads bounced back towards their foe.
An unwelcomed guest stood at the side of the wolf monster, the same man who had brought it there. On his face was planted a deep smirk of contentment. He began laughing at the top of his lungs as he placed an arm around the neck of his creature. "Little Senshi! We meet again!"
Mercury froze in her place as she clenched her fists, ready for an attack. 'That must be the guy we felt before the attack.'
Jupiter took one look at the man and almost immediately, her rage shot up, which fed only further fed her attack. "Bastard!"
Utterly shocked, Venus nearly choked. "Makoto!"
Jupiter paid no attention to her scolding friend as she pulled her attack from her side to sit in front of her chest. "Say your prayers! You aren't leaving!"
The man smirked as he pulled out a small, black crystal keypad. "Oh, I'm not, am I?"
Mercury ran closer, keeping her eyes locked upon the keypad. 'What's that?' She tried to study it, but it was almost completely hidden behind the man's giant hand.
Without saying another word, he pressed one of the two buttons on the keypad. Immediately, a black portal was opened from behind. "I think you're mistaken, kid." He grinned as he began backing into the portal, taking his faithful creature with him.
Jupiter growled as she released her massive attack. "I'm not finished with you yet!"
Sailor Moon, Venus, and Mars dodged out of the attack's way as it spiraled for its target. "Watch it!"
Jupiter once again found herself ignoring them. She was more concerned with the happenings of her attack. The only thing on her mind was Miss Haruna and avenging her wasted death. Over and over again, she replayed in her mind, her death. That was just not something one could forgive. "Die... devil!"
Mercury had her own eyes locked on the portal, but for different reasons. Immense amounts of dark energy were coming from it. 'He pressed a button on that Keypad and that portal appeared. That means, the key to getting to their kingdom lies within that pad. I must have it!'
The green Ki attack smashed into the man's back just as the portal was closing, but its effects were none what-so-ever. It diminished into his back as if he sucked it into himself. Jupiter frowned. 'I WILL get you!'
Sailor Moon stood to her feet in more confusion than before. "Something tells me that this isn't good."
Jupiter lowered herself to the ground. Her face was that of Vejita, a scowl. "Dang it! He got away! Now they can use that energy sucking monster again."
Mercury joined her friends. "And he has Usagi's energy. There's not telling what they're going to do now that they have Moon energy."
Venus greeted Mercury with a slight smile. Her face told of her concern, however. "Yeah, what was with that energy thing? It's like, one minute Usagi can't move, and the next, she's fine."
Mercury shook her head. "I don't have a clue. My guess is that we're going to find out very soon when they try to use the energy against us, though."
Sailor Moon rubbed the shoulder that had been punctured by glass. "I just wanna know one thing. Why didn't my Kamehameha work against him? I was a Super Saiyan as Sailor Moon, shouldn't my energy work against things like that?"
Mercury shrugged. "That's what I was wondering. The Kamehameha should have worked. But, Usagi, you did notice that you were the only one in pain, right?" Moon nodded, not seeing where this was going. She just figured that the monster had been programmed only to take Moon energy. "As soon as you returned to normal and dropped all your normal fighting energy you were fine again."
Sailor Moon frowned. "I didn't DROP it! It was sucked out of me!"
Mercury sighed. "Sorry, when your energy was SUCKED out of you."
Sailor Moon smiled. "Good. And, yes, I did notice that I felt better as soon as the energy was gone. It was like I was totally refreshed with energy."
"I suggest we consult Luna and Artimas about this. Maybe they have answers."
Jupiter growled as she sat down. "Usagi, we have to use the Dragon Balls to revive everyone. Too many innocent people died today, and... Miss Haruna...."
Mercury shook her head in reply for Moon. "We can't do that. If we use the Dragon Balls tonight then we won't be able to bring any others back to life who may have died after today."
Jupiter lowered her eyes down to the ground. She let out a frustrated sigh. "But Miss Haruna..."
"It'll be ok. She'll be brought back after all this. Right now I say two of us go to the people taken from here and take them back to the city with Hotaru. The other three will stay here and think of something to say to the adults."
Jupiter stood back to her feet with a smile. "I'll do that."
Mars nodded. "I'll go too."
Mercury; "Ok. I think it would be better if we all detransformed too. The less we stay like this, the better. Next time we meet, we'll think of some plans to defeat these things with more efficiency." The area filled with light as the warriors of justice detransformed back into their normal selves.
Once back to normal, Usagi suddenly felt winded, like a chunk of her energy was missing. In fact it was. After all, her energy HAD been sucked dry from the monster, but it hadn't affected her before, why now?
Minako glanced in the direction of Usagi and noticed she had trouble breathing. "You ok over there?"
Usagi nodded. "Yeah. Just a little tired." She explained as she turned around to stare at what was left of her school.
Minako sighed as she too looked back upon the wreckage. For the first time, she was able to take in the harsh reality of the destruction and she did not at all like what she was seeing. "I guess we've outgrown our school."
Ami found herself in awe over the desolation. "One minute it's a quiet learning institution full of happy children and the next, it's a scene of ultimate destruction."
Usagi lowered her head. She had been partly responsible for collapsing the building with her Kamehameha wave, and even that was a waste. "As much as I hate school, I think I'm gonna miss this building. I mean, yeah they'll rebuild a new one and all, but this one was so full of memories. This is where I met most of my friends, this is where I met Haruka and Michiru..."
Minako snickered. "Why is that a good memory?"
Usagi sighed. "Every memory is a good memory."
Makoto; "I'm gonna miss it too..."
Ami nodded. "We all are..."
(.... ::comes out of hiding:: ... uhhmm... SORRY! Hehe... I know, it's been a couple of weeks, but I sort of got sidetracked last weekend when I started downloading some of the Final Fantasy Ten soundtrack. Some turned into a few, a few turned into a lot and a lot turned into the entire thing.... That's 91 songs ^_^ hehe... anyway, here it is. FINALLY!!! You'll be happy to hear that I'm going to be on winter break in exactly 1 week and three days, meaning, I will be able to hopefully get more than one chapter out a week, maybe three or four. Hehe! Anyway, wha'd ya think? Cya next time!)