Silver Angel: Chapter 11 is up! Hurray for me! I've been a little
worried lately about this story, because of that long bout of writers
block. I really want to be able to finish this story! Okay, a few notes
before we begin.
*Potential OOC-ness for several characters, including Serena, Yami Bakura (aka Kage), and Malik/Yami Malik. Serena's been alone for several hundred years, Kage has amnesia, and I don't know much about Malik. He's also having a ^_^ personality conflict.
*No matter what you may think, I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or Sailor Moon, or any characters or situations there from. I do however; own my imaginary plushies, and muses by the same names! Ha! So there!
Yugi: Yeah! So there! ^___^
Chapter 11: Gathering Strength
/Hello Serena/ she heard in her mind.
Serena's eyes widened, though she tried not to show any of her shock. 'Hotaru.' Her friend. how had the card spoken to her? She had had in made in Hotaru's likeness, as she had will all the others, but - this card had spoken to her! And it hadn't just spoken to her either. *Hotaru* had spoken to her - for it *had* been her friend who had spoken.
'But Hotaru was dead. No - not just dead: he star seed was gone! Absorbed by min so that I could become Cosmos, and be able to defeat Chaos. How could she have come back? And if she has, does this mean I won't be Cosmos anymore? Has my power already depleted, and I just don't know it?'
She winced slightly at the thought. Serena was not power hungry in any way shape or form - the world would have been destroyed long ago if she had been. Still, that constant warm glow of quicksilver within her was a reassurance that the next time a problem arose; she would be able to protect her friends. She would not have to see them fall one by one due to her own inability.
~ ~ ~
*'Please,' Serena whispered. 'Please Uranus, don't leave me! I need you! I need all of you. I don't - I don't think I can do this on my own!' The Scout in question barely heard her. Her short Sandy blond hair was streaked with blood and grime, and her blue eyes stared upwards at a point somewhere beyond Serena's face.
'Is it too much to ask for peace?' Serena wondered as she watched her friend struggling to draw in new breath. Is it too much to hope that we can wake up in the morning, and not have to grab our communicators because there might be another attack? All this time, I thought I was fighting for love and justice, but - that isn't it at all. It was always, each and every time, for my friends. Without them, I don't know how I can do this!' Uranus shuddered with her next breath, turning darkening blue eyes towards Sailor Moon.
'S-sorry kitten.' The elder scout choked out, her last was broken off with a cough. 'We never - wanted to betray you, but - ' she coughed again, a small tremble coming from each of her limbs as her body succumbed to the fit. '-e didn't see -ny other choice to save e-rth.' Her body shook with the onset of another spasm, but it never came. Every muscle stiffened abruptly, and then relaxed, a tiny sigh parted her lips, as she finally stopped living from loss of her star seed. She had lasted longer than most, able to gasp out a tiny message to her princess, even without the power of her soul. Stubbornness had not been enough to save her however - had not been enough to save any of them.
'Noooo!' She screamed, cry arching up into space as another of her friends died.
~ ~ ~
Memories pushed themselves mercilessly past all of the barriers she had erected. An image of the Starlight's bodies being consumed by blue flame; Kakyuu transforming into a Sailor Scout to fight, only to be stabbed through the back soon after. She clenched her fists, trying to drive her uncooperative mind away from the memories, and taking refuge with the voice at the back of her mind that was nagging her to finish the duel.
There was a quiet giggle in her mind, and Serena looked up to see the 'Sovereign of Silence' with a small smile playing about her lips. It looked decidedly out of place when given her rather forbidding appearance with the black wings and wickedly sharp Glaive.
/You know Cosmos-sama; you should listen to that voice more often. You may have gotten your homework done if you had. /
Still goggling at the reality of her friend, and trying to forget the pain of their last battle, Serena snapped to attention, her eyes narrowing at the comment. 'Why you. You're going to regret that Firefly.' Focusing her attention back on the duel, she looked at Esper who seemed to be *just* beginning to recover from his shock.
'To bad he's gonna have another little something to recover from now,' she though, with an uncharacteristic amount of fiendish glee. "Sovereign of Silence, attack with Death Reborn Revolution!" The smile on Hotaru's lips grew wider at the order, and her eyes turned into violet chips of ice as she raised her Glaive, the sigil of Saturn glowing brightly on her forehead.
Though this was only a duel Monsters game, still the very air seemed to thrum with power as the 'Sovereign' unleashed her most devastating attack. With an emphatic 'crack!' she slammed the pole end of the Glaive into the ground, where it shot forth purple ribbons of power that ripped into Esper's Shingei, tearing it to pieces, dissolving it, and all other things at once.
When it was all over, Esper knelt on the ground, his remaining cards slipping from limp fingers. "You - you did all that, with one creature? Not even a magic card." The crowds walked away from the site of the recent duel, a few muttering about 'anti-climaxes', and blue haired duelist stared forward.
Serena sighed. Esper really wasn't that bad, she knew. She felt rather guilty about humiliating him like that, but still, she wouldn't have went easy on someone she knew was a cheater anyway. "I guess that just means you have to practice some more they huh? Maybe without using tricks this time?"
Her opponent sighed, and held out his Shingei and Locater cards. Deciding not to say anymore, Serena walked back to her own group of friends who were mostly staring at her with wide eyes. The only one who wasn't, was Yami. Instead, he was smiling at her, a soft look in his eyes, which she immediately understood and returned.
"Good job." he whispered, giving her a small hug. Serena could tell that he didn't often make outward displays of affection given his past, and it warmed her to think that he cared about her enough to do so. Turning around, she caught sight of Hotaru, who had remained after the battle, and had obvious happiness dancing in her eyes.
"Everyone, I don't know exactly how it happened, but I would like to introduce you to Hotaru, also known as Sailor Saturn."
~ ~ ~
'So this is Bandit Keith.' Malik smiled as he looked at his newest servant.' The rather scruffy looking man's eyes were glazed, the natural blue color darker and vacant. A black robe covered him from head to toe, and upon a mental command from Malik, he raised the hood so that it covered his face and hid his identity.
'Yes, it's always nice to get a new mind slave, and this one should do quite well. With a few modifications to his deck, he should be able to beat the Pharaoh. That fact that they used to know each other should only unbalance the spirit. Finally, I will be able to get my hands on his Millennium Puzzle.' His eyes narrowed as he thought of 'that' person, but he smirked as his thoughts continued on to his victory, and what he would do afterward.
'Isis my sister, I wonder if your Tauk is allowing you to see this? Will you be there to witness my triumph when the Pharaoh's reign at last comes to an end?' For a second, the look on his face seemed to shift, slight panic taking the place of coldness in his lilac eyes. A moment only, and then the change was gone as if it had never happened.
Malik had heard the cry of 'leave my sister out of this', however, and made a mental vow to demonstrate his. disappointment in his 'Hikari's' weakness. He grimaced at the term he had used, though it was the only possible one to give - besides perhaps 'vessel'.
'A pity your loyalties had to move elsewhere sister.' An expression of disgust swept over his face, and the few pedestrians outside the alley who had looked in his direction quickly tuned away and backed off. 'It would have been nice to have the power of your Tauk at my disposal - and now I just have the extra work of having to take it from you.'
~ ~ ~
Kaiba cursed loudly and kicked the thick metal door of the room he was locked in. "It's just my luck that each person with plans to take over the world seems to think it's funny to toy with me!" A feeling of satisfaction flowed through him as he saw the small dent he had made. The sweet feeling didn't last long however.
'Mokuba.' His younger brother's smiling face floated into his mind, and a thread of worry wormed through him. Kaiba remembered all too well what had happened the last time - really only a day or two ago. He remembered sneaking into the cell his brother was being held in; promising to get the boy out - and then having to watch in horror when he saw his brothers blank soulless eyes staring out at him from underneath spiky black bangs.
'If that freak even touches my brother I'll.' he let the worded forms of his thoughts trail off as he envisioned choking the almost effeminate platinum haired boy. Combined with worry for his brother, even visions of his bulging lilac eyes made Kaiba smile in anticipation. He wasn't all *that* violent naturally, but when it came to his brother - and being locked up like a hamster in a cage - ' he growled as anger took him once more.
'Stupid!' He told himself once more. 'Not only did you allow yourself to be taken by that freak, but also now you're letting yourself get all emotional. That is in no way going to help you get out there so you can pound that Marik -or Malik, or whatever he's called into the ground!' He gave another feral smile at the thought, but had soon satisfied himself that he was sufficiently calm, and began to look around the room for some way of escape.
"Lets see now." he muttered, examining the drawers set below the counter and above it into the wall. Upon testing them, he discovered that most were locked, however one or two had been left open. Pulling open each one, he checked in them, and allowed a smirk to cross his face when he saw a tiny brass key. It wasn't the key to the door.
Frustrated, he glared at the door, silently willing it to open, and knowing it would do no good. He was quite surprised then, when the door swung open on its own, revealing a black haired girl around his age behind it. She wore rather odd clothes that had a distinctly Egyptian feel to them. "You are Seto Kaiba?" He didn't reply immediately, but she seemed to take this as a positive answer. "Good. I have a proposition for you." He stared at her, considering.
~'Why do you insist on not trusting others Kaiba? Sooner or later you will have no choice.'~
He remembered Serena saying this. At the time it had only irritated him further. Magic? And friends? What good had they ever done him? Growing up in the orphanage, the only one he could rely upon had been Mokuba, just as all his little brother had was him. Magic, miracles. none of it existed, or they wouldn't have grown up the way they had. At the same time, Kaiba couldn't help but trust this young woman. Something about the look in her eyes, and a familiarity about her presence. It felt as if there were something he was missing, but he somehow knew that he could trust her.
'And however much you hate it, you felt the same way with Yugi, as well as that strange girl who kept talking about magic.' The little voice in his head was forced back quickly, but not before it could do its damage. It was true! He trusted Yugi, and that blond girl, and now this stranger. 'Darn it! Why am I doing this?'
Kaiba stepped forward, a quick nod, accepting. "Fine. What was it you wanted to say?"
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End Chapter 11
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Silver Angel: Yeah! I got another chapter out! And, I feel like I'm starting to get some of my inspiration back too!
Yugi: Yeah, we finally have some plot development! I was wondering when that would happen!
Silver Angel: ::sniffles:: I know, but I can't help it if my muses are working against me! Why didn't you help out more?!
Yugi: Ermm. ::backs away:: Review please!
*Potential OOC-ness for several characters, including Serena, Yami Bakura (aka Kage), and Malik/Yami Malik. Serena's been alone for several hundred years, Kage has amnesia, and I don't know much about Malik. He's also having a ^_^ personality conflict.
*No matter what you may think, I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or Sailor Moon, or any characters or situations there from. I do however; own my imaginary plushies, and muses by the same names! Ha! So there!
Yugi: Yeah! So there! ^___^
Chapter 11: Gathering Strength
/Hello Serena/ she heard in her mind.
Serena's eyes widened, though she tried not to show any of her shock. 'Hotaru.' Her friend. how had the card spoken to her? She had had in made in Hotaru's likeness, as she had will all the others, but - this card had spoken to her! And it hadn't just spoken to her either. *Hotaru* had spoken to her - for it *had* been her friend who had spoken.
'But Hotaru was dead. No - not just dead: he star seed was gone! Absorbed by min so that I could become Cosmos, and be able to defeat Chaos. How could she have come back? And if she has, does this mean I won't be Cosmos anymore? Has my power already depleted, and I just don't know it?'
She winced slightly at the thought. Serena was not power hungry in any way shape or form - the world would have been destroyed long ago if she had been. Still, that constant warm glow of quicksilver within her was a reassurance that the next time a problem arose; she would be able to protect her friends. She would not have to see them fall one by one due to her own inability.
~ ~ ~
*'Please,' Serena whispered. 'Please Uranus, don't leave me! I need you! I need all of you. I don't - I don't think I can do this on my own!' The Scout in question barely heard her. Her short Sandy blond hair was streaked with blood and grime, and her blue eyes stared upwards at a point somewhere beyond Serena's face.
'Is it too much to ask for peace?' Serena wondered as she watched her friend struggling to draw in new breath. Is it too much to hope that we can wake up in the morning, and not have to grab our communicators because there might be another attack? All this time, I thought I was fighting for love and justice, but - that isn't it at all. It was always, each and every time, for my friends. Without them, I don't know how I can do this!' Uranus shuddered with her next breath, turning darkening blue eyes towards Sailor Moon.
'S-sorry kitten.' The elder scout choked out, her last was broken off with a cough. 'We never - wanted to betray you, but - ' she coughed again, a small tremble coming from each of her limbs as her body succumbed to the fit. '-e didn't see -ny other choice to save e-rth.' Her body shook with the onset of another spasm, but it never came. Every muscle stiffened abruptly, and then relaxed, a tiny sigh parted her lips, as she finally stopped living from loss of her star seed. She had lasted longer than most, able to gasp out a tiny message to her princess, even without the power of her soul. Stubbornness had not been enough to save her however - had not been enough to save any of them.
'Noooo!' She screamed, cry arching up into space as another of her friends died.
~ ~ ~
Memories pushed themselves mercilessly past all of the barriers she had erected. An image of the Starlight's bodies being consumed by blue flame; Kakyuu transforming into a Sailor Scout to fight, only to be stabbed through the back soon after. She clenched her fists, trying to drive her uncooperative mind away from the memories, and taking refuge with the voice at the back of her mind that was nagging her to finish the duel.
There was a quiet giggle in her mind, and Serena looked up to see the 'Sovereign of Silence' with a small smile playing about her lips. It looked decidedly out of place when given her rather forbidding appearance with the black wings and wickedly sharp Glaive.
/You know Cosmos-sama; you should listen to that voice more often. You may have gotten your homework done if you had. /
Still goggling at the reality of her friend, and trying to forget the pain of their last battle, Serena snapped to attention, her eyes narrowing at the comment. 'Why you. You're going to regret that Firefly.' Focusing her attention back on the duel, she looked at Esper who seemed to be *just* beginning to recover from his shock.
'To bad he's gonna have another little something to recover from now,' she though, with an uncharacteristic amount of fiendish glee. "Sovereign of Silence, attack with Death Reborn Revolution!" The smile on Hotaru's lips grew wider at the order, and her eyes turned into violet chips of ice as she raised her Glaive, the sigil of Saturn glowing brightly on her forehead.
Though this was only a duel Monsters game, still the very air seemed to thrum with power as the 'Sovereign' unleashed her most devastating attack. With an emphatic 'crack!' she slammed the pole end of the Glaive into the ground, where it shot forth purple ribbons of power that ripped into Esper's Shingei, tearing it to pieces, dissolving it, and all other things at once.
When it was all over, Esper knelt on the ground, his remaining cards slipping from limp fingers. "You - you did all that, with one creature? Not even a magic card." The crowds walked away from the site of the recent duel, a few muttering about 'anti-climaxes', and blue haired duelist stared forward.
Serena sighed. Esper really wasn't that bad, she knew. She felt rather guilty about humiliating him like that, but still, she wouldn't have went easy on someone she knew was a cheater anyway. "I guess that just means you have to practice some more they huh? Maybe without using tricks this time?"
Her opponent sighed, and held out his Shingei and Locater cards. Deciding not to say anymore, Serena walked back to her own group of friends who were mostly staring at her with wide eyes. The only one who wasn't, was Yami. Instead, he was smiling at her, a soft look in his eyes, which she immediately understood and returned.
"Good job." he whispered, giving her a small hug. Serena could tell that he didn't often make outward displays of affection given his past, and it warmed her to think that he cared about her enough to do so. Turning around, she caught sight of Hotaru, who had remained after the battle, and had obvious happiness dancing in her eyes.
"Everyone, I don't know exactly how it happened, but I would like to introduce you to Hotaru, also known as Sailor Saturn."
~ ~ ~
'So this is Bandit Keith.' Malik smiled as he looked at his newest servant.' The rather scruffy looking man's eyes were glazed, the natural blue color darker and vacant. A black robe covered him from head to toe, and upon a mental command from Malik, he raised the hood so that it covered his face and hid his identity.
'Yes, it's always nice to get a new mind slave, and this one should do quite well. With a few modifications to his deck, he should be able to beat the Pharaoh. That fact that they used to know each other should only unbalance the spirit. Finally, I will be able to get my hands on his Millennium Puzzle.' His eyes narrowed as he thought of 'that' person, but he smirked as his thoughts continued on to his victory, and what he would do afterward.
'Isis my sister, I wonder if your Tauk is allowing you to see this? Will you be there to witness my triumph when the Pharaoh's reign at last comes to an end?' For a second, the look on his face seemed to shift, slight panic taking the place of coldness in his lilac eyes. A moment only, and then the change was gone as if it had never happened.
Malik had heard the cry of 'leave my sister out of this', however, and made a mental vow to demonstrate his. disappointment in his 'Hikari's' weakness. He grimaced at the term he had used, though it was the only possible one to give - besides perhaps 'vessel'.
'A pity your loyalties had to move elsewhere sister.' An expression of disgust swept over his face, and the few pedestrians outside the alley who had looked in his direction quickly tuned away and backed off. 'It would have been nice to have the power of your Tauk at my disposal - and now I just have the extra work of having to take it from you.'
~ ~ ~
Kaiba cursed loudly and kicked the thick metal door of the room he was locked in. "It's just my luck that each person with plans to take over the world seems to think it's funny to toy with me!" A feeling of satisfaction flowed through him as he saw the small dent he had made. The sweet feeling didn't last long however.
'Mokuba.' His younger brother's smiling face floated into his mind, and a thread of worry wormed through him. Kaiba remembered all too well what had happened the last time - really only a day or two ago. He remembered sneaking into the cell his brother was being held in; promising to get the boy out - and then having to watch in horror when he saw his brothers blank soulless eyes staring out at him from underneath spiky black bangs.
'If that freak even touches my brother I'll.' he let the worded forms of his thoughts trail off as he envisioned choking the almost effeminate platinum haired boy. Combined with worry for his brother, even visions of his bulging lilac eyes made Kaiba smile in anticipation. He wasn't all *that* violent naturally, but when it came to his brother - and being locked up like a hamster in a cage - ' he growled as anger took him once more.
'Stupid!' He told himself once more. 'Not only did you allow yourself to be taken by that freak, but also now you're letting yourself get all emotional. That is in no way going to help you get out there so you can pound that Marik -or Malik, or whatever he's called into the ground!' He gave another feral smile at the thought, but had soon satisfied himself that he was sufficiently calm, and began to look around the room for some way of escape.
"Lets see now." he muttered, examining the drawers set below the counter and above it into the wall. Upon testing them, he discovered that most were locked, however one or two had been left open. Pulling open each one, he checked in them, and allowed a smirk to cross his face when he saw a tiny brass key. It wasn't the key to the door.
Frustrated, he glared at the door, silently willing it to open, and knowing it would do no good. He was quite surprised then, when the door swung open on its own, revealing a black haired girl around his age behind it. She wore rather odd clothes that had a distinctly Egyptian feel to them. "You are Seto Kaiba?" He didn't reply immediately, but she seemed to take this as a positive answer. "Good. I have a proposition for you." He stared at her, considering.
~'Why do you insist on not trusting others Kaiba? Sooner or later you will have no choice.'~
He remembered Serena saying this. At the time it had only irritated him further. Magic? And friends? What good had they ever done him? Growing up in the orphanage, the only one he could rely upon had been Mokuba, just as all his little brother had was him. Magic, miracles. none of it existed, or they wouldn't have grown up the way they had. At the same time, Kaiba couldn't help but trust this young woman. Something about the look in her eyes, and a familiarity about her presence. It felt as if there were something he was missing, but he somehow knew that he could trust her.
'And however much you hate it, you felt the same way with Yugi, as well as that strange girl who kept talking about magic.' The little voice in his head was forced back quickly, but not before it could do its damage. It was true! He trusted Yugi, and that blond girl, and now this stranger. 'Darn it! Why am I doing this?'
Kaiba stepped forward, a quick nod, accepting. "Fine. What was it you wanted to say?"
~ ~ ~ ~
End Chapter 11
~ ~ ~ ~
Silver Angel: Yeah! I got another chapter out! And, I feel like I'm starting to get some of my inspiration back too!
Yugi: Yeah, we finally have some plot development! I was wondering when that would happen!
Silver Angel: ::sniffles:: I know, but I can't help it if my muses are working against me! Why didn't you help out more?!
Yugi: Ermm. ::backs away:: Review please!
