A Rainy Day

By Sailor Pixie

Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon or Dragon Ball Z.  Hold me while I cry.

A/N: Hey minna, I hope you enjoy this next chapter and if you don't tell me…I'll rip your fingers off and feed them to my dog.  ^_^ Just kidding, he he.  Well anyway please review and don't forget to stay calm and not attack the computer if it takes me a while to come out with another chapter.  I'm not the only one who does that right… right.  ^_^* 

Chapter Six:

Happiness

Ruka picked up little Aurora from her mother's sleeping arms and placed her in her lavender cradle, then she picked up Usagi and carried her to her bed.  Princess Haruka of the Planet Uranus looked down at the sight of her beautiful Princess smiling softly in her sleep and thanked the moon that she had finally found the peace she never knew in their old dimension.  Haruka sighed as she thought about the bad feelings the four Outers had been experiencing since Usagi had had her child a month ago, as the month had dragged on the feeling had become more intense and Haruka was considering asking their friends to train her incase the bad feelings turned into a threat.  Haruka tucked Usagi in and left the room quietly not wanting to wake up either child or mother.

Hotaru laughed as M. Trunks wrestled with the fish he was trying to catch. 

When he heard her laughter he looked up with mock hurt in his eyes, "Are you laughing at me Taru-Chan?"

Hotaru stopped laughing and looked into his eyes, "And what if I am, what are you going to do about it?"  She stood up and leaned close to him, "Will you try to hurt little ol' me?"  She laughed again, "I think not, you're to chicken."

Trunks looked at her then dropped the fish and tackled her, "How's that for being chicken?"   He asked with her pinned between his legs.  Hotaru blushed slightly at the position they were in and prayed that one day Trunks would see her as something other than a friend.  'I should just be happy with his friendship,' she thought.  Hotaru laughed at that, 'Yeah right.'  Trunks looked at her with the oddest look on his face as she laughed for apparently no reason.  "Are you OK Taru?  Why are you blushing?"

Taru laughed again, "Your body is making me hot."  She winked suggestively.

"Taru your crazy, and you need serious help." 

"I know I caught it from you.  So what do you say we catch us a fish," Taru flipped Trunks on his side before jumping up and walking to the waters edge.  She shed her long t-shirt to reveal a deep purple one piece, "Bet I can catch a fish before you."  With that she dove in and swam to the middle of the lake.  So caught up in her fun she didn't notice the figure blocking the sun, she didn't notice the blue energy ball heading straight for her, but Trunks did and he tried to warn her but it came to late.  The energy ball slammed into Hotaru parting the waters and throwing her body to the river bottom.  She screamed as the energy tore at her skin burning her and ripping at her skin.   As the energy dissipated the water poured over the screaming Hotaru. 

"NOOO!!!!"  Trunks screamed and flew into the water after Hotaru.  He emerged a couple of seconds later with Hotaru in his arms.  He flew her to the shore and placed her on the ground before checking her vitals.  He growled when he realized she wasn't breathing.  He corrected her position and started mouth to mouth.  He was interrupted by a small blast to his back; he powered up to super saiyan and continued to administer mouth to mouth.  Now all the Ki blast bounced harmlessly off his aura.  He almost gave up hope when Hotaru started breathing and coughed up all the water in her lungs and Sailor Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto ran into the clearing.

"So the little scouts have come to save the day.  You know you really look so adorable at that age," said the blue clad female floating above the water.  She was wearing a light blue mid-riff tank top, a light blue skirt with slits up to the thigh, a black belt, and light blue boots, her short blue hair was flying in every direction.  "So which one of you will battle me first, personally I don't care who I'll kick all of your ass's."

            "What happened to you, Amy?  Why did you attack Hotaru?"  Asked Pluto.

"Don't call me that, Amy died a long time ago.  My name is Mercury, Goddess of Ice.  I have come to kill you four who prevent our Prince and Princess from living a happy life together."

Uranus stepped forward, "A happy life?  After what he did to her I would rather die than let him get his hands on her."

Mercury laughed, "I was hoping you'd say that."  She walked across the water towards the scouts, "You see I have been wanting to try my full powers out on a live target."  Mercury placed her hands in front of her, "Mercury Icicles."  Out of her hands came ten giant icicles heading straight for the Outers.  The three ducked and rolled to avoid getting impaled on one, but an icicle broke Pluto's arm as she rolled.  She held in her pain and stood up holding her arm carefully to her side.

"You know Mercury I really liked you before you turned into such a bitch," Pluto held out her good arm and summoned her garnet orb unattached to her staff since she was no longer time guardian.  "Pluto Deadly Scream."  A planet shaped energy ball came out of the end of her orb.  Mercury laughed and blew on the attack; it slowly stopped before reversing itself and heading back towards Pluto.  Pluto screamed as her own attack slammed into her throwing her against a tree.  Her scream was cut off as the pain forced her into unconsciousness and she transformed back into Setsuna. 

"Pluto!!!!!!!" screamed Hotaru as her friend collapsed onto the ground.  She struggled out of Trunks hold and staggered to her friend.  "Oh Pluto," she said as she placed Setsuna's head on her lap.  "How could she do such a thing to you?"  Hotaru pushed Setsuna's long green hair off her face as she cried.

"Well this is all very touching but there's a show I don't want to miss tonight so if we could hurry this up."  Hotaru stopped and slowly raised her eyes to Mercury's.  Neptune gasped when she saw that Hotaru's eyes had turned completely black.  Hotaru stood up slowly placing Pluto's head carefully on the ground.  Her eyes closed and an instant later stood a Saturn they hadn't seen since Pharaoh 90.

"Betrayer how dare injure my friend and show no remorse.  How DARE you."  Saturn placed her hands in front of her and a completely black glaive, from the top of the blade to the bottom of the staff, appeared in her hands. 

"Saturn don't!  You'll destroy the entire planet!"  Screamed Uranus.  She tried to grab Saturn's hand but a shield flared up around her. 

Saturn held her glaive above her head.  "Death Reborn Revolution."  Ribbons of energy shot out of her glaive wrapping Mercury tight and burning her where the ribbons touched her skin.  Saturn tugged on her glaive and dragged Mercury to her, "So how do YOU enjoy pain Betrayer."  Saturn whispered a word and the ribbons tightened around Mercury.  Mercury screamed in pain until a green sword severed the ribbons dropping Mercury to the ground.

A figure with green hair tied back in a high ponytail stood between Hotaru and Mercury, "I'll show you pain, Bitch."  The figure wore loose green pants with a black belt, a green tank top, and green boots.

"Ah so the next one comes.  Shall I show you the pain I showed this so called goddess?" asked Saturn as she recalled the ribbons to her staff. 

"Pain, you think you know what pain is?  I'll show you pain for I am Jupiter the Goddess of Lightning," said the one in green.

Uranus walked towards Jupiter, "So Goddess of Lightning can you really fight or do you have to relay on spells?  Do you think you can take on the Scout of Wind?  You never could before."

"You'll pay for mocking me like that," Jupiter said as she charged Uranus, fists flailing.  Uranus calmly blocked the punches and aimed a flying back kick at Jupiter's side.  It connected with a thud and Jupiter flew into a tree.

"You never could keep a level head during a fight.  That's why you will never surpass me.  You're to emotional," Uranus said with scorn as she pulled her sword out.  She swung it a couple of times as she walked to where Jupiter was standing up.  "You will never defeat the Outers, we are stronger, faster, smarter, and more loyal to our princess than you ever pretended to be."  Uranus placed the sword at Jupiter's neck, "Give me one reason not to kill you."

"Because you can't.  You Outers are still sailor scouts and loyal to the princess.  Loyal scouts aren't allowed to kill rouge scouts unless they attack the princess," Jupiter laughed.  "And we don't want to attack the princess just take her back to her prince's side."  Uranus swore and pressed the sword as close to Jupiter's throat as it would allow her to go.

Saturn spoke up, "We may not be able to kill you but I can send you to another dimension.  It will take weeks if not months to get back."  Saturn raised her glaive above her head as she began to speak bone-jarring words that no one could understand.  The ground shook and Mercury and Jupiter disappeared.  As soon as the two vanished Saturn turned back into Hotaru who collapsed.  Trunks ran over to Hotaru and picked her up off the ground.

"I'm going to take her back to the house," he said quietly.  The other two scouts nodded and walked over to Setsuna.  Uranus then picked her up off the ground and followed Trunks with Neptune close behind carrying Pluto's garnet orb.