DISCLAIMER: Sailor Moon and its characters are not owned by me, blah blah blah, and other legal junk. Sparrow Migoto is owned by my friend Christina, and used with her permission.
Author's Note: This fanfic is a direct sequel to Looking Up To You, a Sammy/Ami romance fanfic that I wrote about a year ago. It's still on my profile, so I recommend that if you haven't read Looking Up To You, it would be best to stop, don't pass GO, don't collect $200, and go immediately to my profile to check it out. Otherwise, you'll be kinda confused.
Second Author's Note: This fanfic takes place after Sailor Moon Sailor Stars. (Serena, Ami, Rei, and Mina are 17. Lita is 18. Sammy is 14. Darien is older than all of them.) Also, if you're confused about some of the Senshi's attacks, that's because they got a whole set of new ones in Looking Up To You. So like I said, go check it out.
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As Jekelai and Sparrow faced each other down, the winds around them began to pick up, and the soft layer of white snow on the ground lifted up and whipped around the two warriors, who were completely oblivious to the cold air around them.
"For everything you've ever done, to me or anyone else... this is my retribution!" Sparrow shouted, floating up several feet into the air. "Die!"
Several large, colorful, thin laser beams seemed to pierce up out of the ground, below Jekelai's feet. Then, large chunks of the ground were lifted up, crumbling around Jekelai as the beams pierced them. Before Jekelai could get out of the way, he was engulfed by a huge, spectacular explosion of sparks and light, causing Chad and Rei's grandfather to run outside in an attempt to see what was going on. Before they even got close to Sparrow, they were knocked unconscious by the huge wave of energy coursing around her. Then, Sparrow turned and flew into the huge cloud of dust created by the explosion. She locked onto Jekelai's location and tackled him to the ground, leaving him coughing and sputtering as the dust cleared. Sparrow was on top of him, her knees pressing into his chest, and her hands around his throat.
"Got anything to say before I snap your neck?" Sparrow said through gritted teeth. Jekelai, who had sustained several small cuts and bruises from Sparrow's first attack, smiled up at Sparrow, causing her to emit a tiny gasp of surprise.
"Maybe I should... be asking for your last words, Sparrow..." Jekelai coughed. Suddenly, Sparrow's hands loosened from around Jekelai's neck, and her hands immediately flew to her back, where a stabbing pain had suddenly formed. The cause was a large glob of purple ooze on Sparrow's back, which began spreading to cover her body. As her hands touched the ooze, they became affixed to it, and were quickly held in place. When a new area of Sparrow's body touched the ooze, it became engulfed in chilling, stabbing pain.
"What... did you... do to me?" Sparrow shouted painfully as the ooze spread to her legs and chest, turning her lower body purple as it was covered in an inch-thick layer of the deadly substance.
"I created that substance out of nothing, Sparrow... merely the blink of an eye caused it to appear," Jekelai said, smiling. "Lavender Death..."
"Bastard..." was the last thing Sparrow could say before the ooze washed over her head, muffling her words. As soon as the ooze had covered Sparrow's body, Jekelai raised his arms to the sky, causing the glob of ooze that had once been Sparrow Migoto to lift up into the air, hundreds of feet high. Then, Jekelai dropped his hands, and the ooze fell to the ground with an incredible velocity, smashing into the Earth in a gigantic explosion. In front of Jekelai was now a large crater, about six feet deep, frozen over with a large tomb of violet-colored ice. The ice filled the crater and then some, the excess ice creating large spikes that jutted forth from the ground. And at the bottom of the icy tomb was Sparrow Migoto, seemingly motionless. Jekelai smiled and ran his hand over the still-blistering cold surface of the ice structure.
"May you be frozen forever in the icy realm of Cocytus, reserved for traitors and cowards... goodbye, Sparrow."
But as soon as Jekelai had finished those words, the ice shattered in a gigantic explosion, sending large chunks of it everywhere. As the icy chunks hit the ground, they dissipated into the ooze that they had originally been formed from, and then disappeared completely. Sparrow flew out of the crater, unsheathed her sword, and slashed at Jekelai's head with incredible force. Jekelai parried the slash with his finger, and Sparrow leapt back and flew at Jekelai again, repeatedly slashing at him. This time, Jekelai formed a large, gold-colored but transparent shield of magical energy to block the slashes. Sparrow's sixth slash broke through the barrier, and cut across Jekelai's cheek, making a large slash that went from just below his eye to just above his lip. Jekelai leapt backward, away from Sparrow, and clapped his hands.
"It seems that even the ninth circle of hell cannot contain your wrath, Sparrow Migoto," Jekelai said, continuing to clap his hands together in a mocking fashion. Sparrow stepped up and stopped several feet away from Jekelai, still holding her sword in her right hand. The winds picked up further still, and heavy snow continued to fall around both Jekelai and Sparrow, but neither of them seemed affected in the least by the bitter cold.
"My wrath cannot be contained," Sparrow replied coldly. "You should know that by now..."
Sparrow prepared to leap up and strike at Jekelai again, but was suddenly stopped in her tracks by a large, red energy circle that appeared in front of her. It was ornately decorated with an intricate seal, and it rotated like a large wheel. As she looked around, she saw similar energy seals to her left, to her right, and behind her, four in all. And then, small, tiny red blasts of magical energy poured out of the seals, each one creating a large explosion as it impacted her body. Sparrow screamed as the tiny blasts bombarded her, bathing Sparrow in painful magical energy. Finally, the attack was over, and Sparrow was left on her knees on the ground, in the middle of a huge crater. Her leather outfit was ripped and torn, with several cuts that were dripping blood. Slowly, she rose to her feet.
"Take... this!" Sparrow shouted, lifting her arms and firing several energy blasts at Jekelai. Jekelai dodged the blasts, which hit the ground and caused small explosions to erupt all around Jekelai's body.
"Those are ki-based attacks," Jekelai said, smiling. "Interesting... you always were the only fighter I knew that knows how to use both magic AND ki... too bad none of those pathetic blasts managed to hit me."
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Meanwhile, trapped inside Rei's shrine, the girls, Sammy, and Darien could hear all the carnage of the battle outside, but were helpless to do anything. Rei was on the ground, collapsing and covering her head with her arms, as if tormented by an unseen specter.
"They're too much..." Rei said painfully. "All that power... just too much!"
"We've got to see what's going on out there!" Serena shouted. "Sparrow could be in trouble!"
"Right," said Ami, standing close to Sammy and clutching his hand. "I say we transform...."
The five girls took out their henshin sticks and immediately transformed into the Sailor Senshi. Meanwhile, Darien quickly transformed into Tuxedo Mask.
"Wait!" Sammy shouted as Tuxedo Mask and the Senshi rushed toward the shrine door. "Sparrow put a magical seal on there, remember?"
"Oh yeah...." Sailor Moon said.
"Then we'll have to break it!" Sailor Jupiter shouted. "Jupiter Axe of Lightning!"
Sailor Jupiter leapt toward the door with a large axe in her hands, pulsating with lightning energy. But when she swung it into the seal, it shattered, zapping Sailor Jupiter with a large surge of lightning and knocking her down onto her back.
"Sailor Jupiter!" shouted the other four Senshi, quickly helping the Senshi of Lightning to her feet. "Are you okay?
"Fine..." Sailor Jupiter said, rubbing the back of her head. "But I think we need more power to break that seal..."
"How about a Planet Power attack?" Sailor Mercury suggested.
"That just might work!" Sailor Venus said. "Let's do it!"
The five Senshi quickly joined hands and gathered their energies. Then, they fired a large blast of magic at the seal. The powerful blast quickly shattered Sparrow's seal and quickly allowed the Senshi access to the outside of the temple, just as Sparrow was firing a large blast of ki at Jekelai. The blast slammed into Jekelai and created a large explosion, and Sparrow quickly turned around to scold the Senshi.
"I told all of you to stay inside the shrine!" Sparrow shouted angrily. "Jekelai is too dangerous, and none of you are strong enough to face him!"
"But we want to help!" Sailor Moon said, noticing the many cuts in Sparrow's outfit and the blood running down her lip. "And it looks like you might need it..."
"Stay out of this, Sailor Moon," Jekelai said, walking out of the large cloud of snow and dust thrown up by the explosion. His gold and black outfit was also torn, and the cuts and burns on Jekelai's body testified that he was in a similar condition as Sparrow was. "I'll make sure no one interferes..."
With great speed, Jekelai flew at Sparrow and tackled her, knocking her back into a large, black portal that appeared behind her and sucked both Jekelai and Sparrow into the unknown. Before the Senshi could reach the portal, it snapped shut, leaving them standing outside Rei's temple, shivering in the cold snow.
"Crud!" Sammy shouted, looking at the place where the portal had been. "Sparrow and Jekelai disappeared!"
"That's not good..." Sailor Mercury said grimly. "You guys, Sparrow's in huge trouble!"
But then, another portal opened in the exact spot as the last one had been. As the Senshi gazed into it, desperately hoping that Sparrow would pop out, they received a surprise. A tall man with long, teal hair and snow-white skin stepped out of the portal, smiling. His eyes were a piercing shade of blue, and his ears were long and pointed, like an elf's. He wore a red bodysuit that shined with a metallic glow, indicating that it was armor of some sort. Four cloaked men stepped out of the portal after him, each of them armed with swords.
"My name is Peschal, and I'm here to make sure that no one interferes with Lord Jekelai's battle!" the man said. "And that means destroying all of you!"
"Sammy, run!" Sailor Mercury shouted, immediately turning toward Sammy with a look of fear on her face. "Run and don't look back!"
"No, Sailor Mercury, I can't leave you!" Sammy shouted. "I... you're right, I know you can win! But please be careful..."
Even though he desperately wanted to stay and help Ami, he had confidence in her and the other Senshi's ability to defeat Peschal. But as he ran back toward his home, another thought entered his mind.
"Of course... I'm no help with Ami without my sword!" Sammy thought, a smile on his lips. "And it's back at home..."
As Sammy ran away from the battlefield, Peschal turned toward him.
"Oh, no you don't!" Peschal shouted, firing a string-like substance in the boy's direction. "You're going to stay... and watch your precious friends die!"
But as Sammy, turned away from the fight and oblivious to Peschal's attack, continued to run, Sailor Mercury ran in front of the attack. The large blast of string wrapped around her left arm and began pulling her in toward Peschal.
"Mercury Ice Javelin!"
Using her other arm, Sailor Mercury heaved a long spear of ice at Peschal's shoulder, as well as the string ensnaring her arm. The javelin easily cut the string, and then embedded itself in Peschal's shoulder, causing him to stagger backward as his entire left arm was encased in ice.
"Gotcha," Sailor Mercury whispered. Suddenly, two of the hooded mercenaries leapt upon her, sword in hand. Sailor Mercury screamed.
"Mars Celestial Fire Surround!"
Eight rings of fire flew at the two hooded men. They turned around to avoid the attack, but it was too late. Four of the rings hit each one of the mercenaries, instantly disintegrating them.
"Thanks, Sailor Mars!" Sailor Mercury shouted, and Sailor Mars gave her a thumbs-up. Meanwhile, Tuxedo Mask and Sailor Moon had their hands full with the other two hooded men.
"Die!" one of the men shouted, leaping at Tuxedo Mask and slashing him across the arm with his blade, making a small cut in Tuxedo Mask's arm. Tuxedo Mask stumbled backward, but managed to throw several roses, which hit the hooded man in the chest and disintegrated him instantly.
"Tuxedo Mask!" Sailor Moon shouted, furiously struggling to hold back one of the hooded men with her henshin stick as he pinned her to the ground and swung his blade at her head repeatedly. "Hurry!"
"Venus Arrow Of Beauty!"
"Jupiter Axe of Lightning!"
Peschal managed to dodge Venus' arrow as it whizzed past the side of his body, but Jupiter's powerful axe scored a direct hit to Peschal's forehead, electrocuting him and knocking him to the ground on one knee.
"What a pathetic mercenary you are," Sailor Jupiter taunted, a smile on her face. Peschal returned the smile with one of his own, and slammed his hands into the ground, causing a large rumbling sound to emanate beneath the Senshi's feet. Suddenly, a large rock formation jutted upward from the earth beneath Sailor Venus and Sailor Jupiter, rising them into the air and pinning them between slabs of deadly rock.
"Sailor Moon!" shouted Sailor Venus and Sailor Jupiter as the rocks began to squeeze their bodies. Meanwhile, Sailor Moon was on the ground, still struggling with the final hooded man. Just as it seemed that he was about to bring his blade right down on Sailor Moon's forehead, he received a sharp blow on the back of the head by Tuxedo Mask's staff. The man rolled off of Sailor Moon and hit the ground, disintegrating instantly. Sailor Moon stood up and wrapped her arms around Tuxedo Mask's chest in a tight embrace.
"Oh, thank you so much!" Sailor Moon said in a girlish squeal.
"Sailor Moon, help!!!" shouted Sailor Venus.
"Hurry!" shouted Sailor Jupiter. The two Senshi were still being squeezed by the slabs of rock, and were now in imminent danger of being crushed. Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask stopped hugging and rushed immediately to the Senshi's aid, followed by Sailor Mercury and Sailor Mars.
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Meanwhile, Jekelai's portal had taken Jekelai and Sparrow straight to the large throne room of Jekelai's huge space fortress, where the two warriors continued their brutal battle.
"Wrath of the Fallen Star!" Jekelai shouted, creating hundreds of large rocks that flew at Sparrow, smashing into the ground and creating a large, dome-shaped explosion. Sparrow zoomed out of the blast radius and swung at Jekelai's chest with her sword, creating a large cut that caused him to stagger backward and clutch his chest. Then, Sparrow leapt up and spun around, kicking Jekelai in the face and knocking him to the ground.
"Eternal Shaft of Light!"
Sparrow waved her arms, and a large ring of light appeared above Jekelai. The ring lit up and formed a huge column, which bombarded Jekelai with a huge amount of both magic and ki energy. Sparrow smiled as she heard Jekelai's anguished screams from within the column of light.
"That's right, Jekelai... suffer for every evil thing you've ever done!" Sparrow shouted in rage.
"I will not be defeated by a whore like you!" Jekelai shouted back, and a large, spherical wave of black light cascaded forth from his body, drowning out the white light of Sparrow's attack and engulfing her in dark magical energy. This time, it was her turn to scream, and she let out a loud shriek as the wave washed over her. When the attack had finished, both fighters were on the ground, and struggling to get to their feet.
"This isn't... over..." Jekelai said, and he was the first to get up.
"You don't know the half of it..." Sparrow replied, getting to her feet a second after Jekelai. "I would die happily sending you to your grave... but I know I won't die... I'm stronger than you, and I'll exterminate you, Jekelai!"
The stillness of the ravaged throne room gave way to the immense amount of energy still emanating from Jekelai and Sparrow's bodies, which radiated and sent out a loud roar to anyone who happened to be observing. Neither of them cared about anything else but destroying each other... but in the back of Jekelai's mind, a faint voice still remained, one that opposed all of the fighting... but it was still trapped, prevented from reaching the surface. The fight would continue on.
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Back on Earth, the fight between Peschal and the Senshi was only just beginning.
"Mars Flaming Cannon!"
"Mercury Ice Javelin!"
Fireballs and spears of ice crashed into the rock formation that had trapped Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Venus, but they simply exploded against the mighty stone, failing to extricate the two trapped Senshi. Peschal let out a loud, screeching laugh.
"Try as you might, you foolish Senshi will never succeed!" Peschal shouted. "And soon, two of your friends will meet their doom!"
"Not if I have anything to say about it!" Sailor Moon shouted, stepping forward and pointing her henshin stick at the large rock formation. "My friends will soon be free!"
A large burst of magical energy flew out from Sailor Moon's henshin stick and crashed into the rocks, crumbling them in an instant and freeing the two Senshi, their exhausted bodies quickly falling to the ground.
"That was... a close one..." groaned Sailor Venus. "Thanks, Sailor Moon..."
"Your relief will be short-lived!" shouted Peschal, pointing his arms at the two Senshi. The string-like substance that had wrapped around Sailor Mercury's arm earlier now flew at Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Venus, quickly wrapping around their arms and pinning them to their sides, tying the two Senshi to one another and pulling them back toward Peschal, who again began to laugh as he posed victoriously with the two bound Senshi. "What'cha gonna do NOW, Sailor Moon? Huh? Huh?"
"Let them go!" Sailor Moon shrieked. "Or..."
"The Masked Warrior will strike you down!"
"Huh?"
"Wha?"
"Who?"
"Oh my goodness..."
"Sammy!"
That last phrase had been screamed by Sailor Mercury, who turned around and was shocked to see a masked teenager standing before her, whom she instantly knew was Sammy. His costume consisted of a shining blue jumpsuit with red lightning bolts on the sides, and a blue luchadore mask with similar design, except that the lightning bolt was on his forehead. He clutched his katana in his right hand, which was adorned with a white glove.
"Okay, Sammy, that is such a ripoff of Ricochet's costume," Sailor Venus said, temporarily ignoring her peril.
"It's the only one they had!" Sammy shouted. "And you weren't supposed to reveal my identity..."
"I know it's you," Peschal said. "Only an idiotic child like yourself would try such a stupid trick."
"Sammy, what are you doing?" Sailor Mercury shouted fearfully. "I know you want to help, but..."
"Ami, please..." Sammy whispered. "I... I promise I'll be careful."
"You're so strong, Sammy," Sailor Mercury said warmly. "As long as you're really ready to fight with us..."
"I am," Sammy said. "As soon as I got the sword back, I bought this costume and trained every night in my room... I've gotta defend my friends, Ami... I have to defend all of them!"
"Then start by defending THIS!" Peschal shouted, firing a small, green energy ball as Sammy. As soon as it hit him, it dispersed into the shape of a small dome and closed around Sammy, blasting him with electricity before disappearing and knocking Sammy to his knees.
"Sammy!" Sailor Mercury screamed. But with seemingly inhuman speed, Sammy immediately recovered from the attack, rushed forward, and slashed away the strings binding Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Venus. As soon as they were cut free, the two Senshi turned around and quickly took their revenge.
"Jupiter Axe of Lightning!"
"Venus Arrow of Beauty!"
Sailor Venus' arrow, infused with the lightning from Sailor Jupiter's attack, rushed at Peschal and hit him straight in the chest, knocking him back and causing him to yell loudly as he flew backward and smashed into a tree. The arrow disappeared, and Peschal quickly recovered, growling as he lumbered toward Sammy and the others.
"You won't get away with that, you foolish child!" Peschal shouted. "And I know just who to attack first!"
Peschal fired a large blast of the string substance at Sammy. Sammy leapt away and stuck his tongue out as the attack whizzed seemly harmlessly past him.
"Missed me!" Sammy shouted. Peschal sneered.
"I wasn't aiming for you, Sammy..."
"Sammy!"
Sammy turned around and gasped in horror as he saw Sailor Mercury, wrapped up in the string from her feet all the way to her neck. Sammy turned back toward Peschal and glared in rage, and then brought his sword down on the string, trying to chop it like he had done to the string around Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Venus. But this time, his sword bounced harmlessly off.
"It's my ultimate attack, Sammy!" Peschal shouted. "You can't break this string, Sammy..."
"So then we'll just have to break you!" Tuxedo Mask shouted. Sailor Moon pointed her henshin stick at Peschal.
"Moon Blessed Salvation!" Sailor Moon shouted. A huge wave of magical energy slammed into Peschal, seemingly a fatal attack. However, Peschal laughed as the wave hit him, leaving him completely undamaged.
"Fools! I forgot to tell you why exactly that this is my ultimate attack!" Peschal shouted. "Any damage that I take is automatically transferred to its victim... which in this case, Sammy, is your precious Sailor Mercury."
As soon as those words had registered in Sammy's mind, a loud, piercing scream from Sailor Mercury shattered his thoughts and brought him crashing down to Earth, as waves of pain began to course through his own body as well, from deep within.
"AMI!" Sammy shouted, turning back toward her with tears streaming down his face, the teardrops freezing as they hit the snow-covered ground.
"Don't... worry about me, Sammy..." Sailor Mercury said, her body numb to the pain as she shivered in the cold. "Just... worry about beating him... I believe in-"
Sailor Mercury's words were suddenly stifled as more string appeared, wrapping around Sailor Mercury's face entirely and preventing her from breathing. Sammy gasped as he realized that if he didn't beat Peschal soon, Sailor Mercury would suffocate.
"Ami... I can't help her!" Sammy thought desperately. "I'm going to fail her again!"
Sammy turned toward Peschal, his eyes as thin as tiny paper slits as all of his desperation channeled itself into brutal rage. His katana took on an eerie black glow, but Peschal simply chuckled as Sammy walked toward him. The other Senshi and Tuxedo Mask looked on in horror.
"Sammy, no!" Sailor Moon shouted. "If you hurt him, Ami will-"
Ignoring Sailor Moon, Sammy leapt up into the air, his katana raised high above his head. He leapt at Peschal and came down right in front of him, landing inbetween Peschal's body and Peschal's hands, which were both holding the string wrapped around Sailor Mercury.
"It's over," Sammy whispered. Peschal barely had time to utter a scream as his body split right down the middle, cleaved in half by Sammy's blade. As the two halves of the vicious mercenary fell to the ground and disintegrated, the strings wrapped around Ami's body were cut as well, and Sailor Mercury fell to her knees, gasping for breath. Sammy sheathed his sword and quickly rushed to her side, taking off his mask and wrapping his arms around Sailor Mercury in a tight embrace. The Senshi and Darien looked on in shock and awe.
"I don't freaking believe it," Sailor Mars said.
"I believe..." Sailor Moon whispered.
Sammy and Sailor Mercury hugged for several more seconds before finally breaking off the hug and slowly standing up.
"Sammy, you... you saved my life again," Sailor Mercury said. "How did you... how did you do it?"
"Somehow I just... I just knew where to cut, right down the middle," Sammy said. "Oh, Ami... I thought you were going to die! I didn't want to lose you..."
"He took a pretty big risk attacking Peschel like that," Tuxedo Mask said. "You could have seriously hurt her, Sammy..."
"I would have died anyway," Sailor Mercury replied. "Sammy, it's not your fault, don't blame yourself... you saved my life, and-"
"But it's my fault you were targeted in the first place!" Sammy sobbed, blinking back tears. "Ami, you almost died, and I-"
But Sammy was quickly silenced by Sailor Mercury's lips, pressing gently against his own. As Sammy closed his eyes and let the kiss overtake him, he wrapped his arms around Sailor Mercury's chest and embraced her tightly, never wanting the kiss to end. The snow had died down to a graceful flurry, and the wind whipped gently around the two lovers as their lips opened slightly, letting their tongues meet for the very first time.
"Sammy..." Sailor Moon said softly, transfixed by Sammy and Sailor Mercury's beautiful kiss. "There aren't two soulmates in the universe as lovely together as the two of you... except Darien and I, of course!"
But as the two lovers continued their kiss for what became more than fifteen seconds, Sailor Mars put her hand to her forehead and let out quiet cry of pain, causing Sammy and Sailor Mercury to abruptly end their kiss and turn to face her, along with the other Senshi and Tuxedo Mask.
"Sailor Mars, what's wrong?" Tuxedo Mask shouted.
"They... they're back!"
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In a high-rise office building somewhere in downtown Tokyo, a business meeting was taking place, the room's inhabitants completely unaware of the surprise about to befall them.
"And, as you can see, Mr. Raigeki, stocks are up six percent after the announcement of our merger with the Maruyama Corporation," said a neatly-dressed man, pointing to a pie-chart mounted on a stand-up display. "So-"
Suddenly, a man loudly crashing through the window of the room shattered the order of the meeting, as Jekelai landed on the large desk in the middle of the room, causing the twelve businessmen and businesswomen seated around it to quickly get up out of their seats and rush toward the door. With a loud shout of anger, Jekelai let loose a burst of energy, destroying everything in the room and blasting all twelve people into oblivion, as well as shattering the rest of the windows. Sparrow floated in through one of the destroyed windows and angrily tsk-tsked at Jekelai.
"Didn't your mother ever teach you that killing innocent people is wrong?" Sparrow shouted. "May their spirits rest in a better place..."
"How did you get back here?" Jekelai shouted. "You can make portals of your own?"
"Yes... but it takes more energy for me than it does you," Sparrow said, breathing heavily and clutching her chest. Jekelai smiled.
"Just the opportunity I need!" Jekelai shouted, tackling Sparrow and plunging her out through the window of the room. Sparrow screamed as she and Jekelai careened through the air, several hundred feet above the ground, and then slammed into the side of another office building, plunging through steel beams and concrete before plowing into a large lobby with incredible force, then slamming through the wall and through several other rooms before coming out on the other side of the building and falling onto the roof of another office building, at a far lower level. Sparrow skidded on the ground, throwing up a huge cloud of dust before finally skidding to a stop at the edge of the roof and collapsing onto her back, her body racked with extreme pain.
"Look at that," Jekelai said, walking up next to Sparrow but then turning away from her and looking down at the streets below, where people were running around in a panic after seeing the carnage inflicted on the other building. A large hole had been pierced in both sides of the building, and though the hole was still smoking, no significant structural damage had been inflicted. The building would survive. "We were too slow to be a comet... these foolish humans must then be thinking only one thing... terrorists."
"They think..." Sparrow said, slowly rising to her feet, "it's a comet. I manipulated all of their minds..."
"Taking even MORE of your energy, Sparrow Migoto," Jekelai said, smiling and turning toward her. "Now you'll be mine for sure..."
"I don't think so," Sparrow said.
"Why not?" Jekelai asked.
"Because of this," Sparrow replied, plunging her sword into Jekelai's stomach. Jekelai gasped, immediately recognizing his blunder. He looked down and saw Sparrow's sword plunged through his chest, and then looked back up and saw Sparrow, still with the same cold expression on her face.
"You... you.... you..."
"Wench? Slut? Whore?" Sparrow said tauntingly. "Please... those names are so immature for a grown man like yourself..."
"DIE!"
Jekelai fired a large burst of magical energy at Sparrow, which she was completely unprepared for. Sparrow was blasted backward, off the side of the building, and left hovering about a hundred feet above the street below, her sword now out of Jekelai's stomach, clutched in her hands instead. Jekelai sneered as he saw the damage that his blast had done to Sparrow's face, now covered in cuts and burns like the rest of her body. She groaned weakly, knowing that her energy was almost completely spent in the battle.
"I still stabbed you," Sparrow said angrily.
"A scratch, a scratch," Jekelai said. "It will heal... but not before I finish you off!"
"SAILOR ULTIMATE PLANET POWER!!!"
A huge wave of magical energy crashed down onto the roof of the building, the energy concentrated on Jekelai. It engulfed him and lit up the roof with a huge, rainbow-colored explosion. Sparrow looked down to see the five Sailor Senshi, standing in the street next to the building, their hands linked as a crowd of onlookers gathered around them.
"I said I didn't need your help!" Sparrow shouted down at the Senshi. "Don't you understand?"
Meanwhile, Jekelai, who had survived the attack with minimal damage, had floated out next to Sparrow and had both of his arms pointed at the crowd and the Senshi.
"Sparrow, since you can't keep your foolish Senshi friends away, this battle will have to be postponed!" Jekelai shouted. "But before I go back to my palace, I shall exterminate the Senshi and all who have come to cheer them on!"
A huge burst of magical energy appeared in Jekelai's hands, and Sparrow gasped as she realized what Jekelai was about to do. But before she could stop him, it was too late. The blast rushed down toward the huge crowd, streaking downward with amazing speed. The Senshi gasped in terror as the blast rushed toward them, and Sammy and Tuxedo Mask, who were standing in the crowd, gasped as well. Jekelai disappeared into a swiftly-created portal, while Sparrow rushed to block the awesome attack.
"I've got to put my anger aside and save everyone!" Sparrow thought desperately as she raced the magical beam down to the street. "Please, please let me stop this from hurting anyone..."
Finally, Sparrow managed to overtake the beam. As she flew in front of it, she stopped and extended her arms and legs to block the huge blast. She screamed, and there was a brilliant explosion. Then, Sparrow's world went black.
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Cliffy! XD Yeah, you guys shoulda seen that coming. But I bet nobody saw Sammy and Ami's makeout session coming. Yeah, this is the first time they've gotten to first base... finishing behind Trunks and Ami by a good ten months. So, what did you guys think of the chapter? It deserves at least a few reviews... right? Like, about 10? Or 20? ^_^ Pwease?
