Here we go! The next one! Fight scenes are separated by ~-~-~! On with the fic!
Warning: There's some *Coarse Language* in this chapter!
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~Battle~
Ryoma is knocked back, hard, into a large tree and falls to her hands and knees. She coughs out some blood and then looks up at the youma that knocked her into the tree, her eyes fairly blurry.
"Goddammit!" she shouts, standing up shakily, "Fucking monster!"
"Time for you to die, Lightstar! Courtesy of myself, Alatar!" the youma says, twirling a tri-sectional staff(the three sections connected solid), "My master's *special* order!"
"I'm flattered." Ryoma says, as she wipes blood from the side of her mouth. "But, *I'm* going to KILL you!!"
She lifts her hand straight up above her.
"Lightstar Crystal Power!"
Her Uniform appears... a White Bodysuit, Gold Tiara w/Red Star Jewel, Yellow Star Earrings, Black Neckband, Red Scout Scarf w/Black Trim, Red Chest Bow w/Yellow Star in Center, Black Back Bow, Red Scout Skirt w/Black Trim around the bottom, Elbow-length Red Fingerless Gloves w/Black Stripes, Black High-heeled Shoes w/Black Straps up to her knees.
"Lightstar Streamer!" she shouts, performing a fire/light attack that sends several beams of light at Alatar from the sky. An attack, similar to Venus Love Shower.
Alatar nimbly dodges each beam and blasts at Lightstar. She jumps, as in a backflip but, lands on her hands and separates her legs, doing the splits. The blast flies through, barely missing her, and causing small burns on her legs. Lightstar lifts her legs up and finishes the backflip.
"Not quite." Lightstar says, "My turn!... Haze of Fire!"
She pulls back her right hand, clenching her fist, and then shoots it forward, opening her hand. An intense fire blasts from her open palm and causes a haze around Alatar, temporarily burning and blinding him.
"I won't go down that easy." Lightstar says. Then her eyelids drop heavily and she falls back-first onto the ground.
She feels a hand clasp her throat and then, Alatar lifts her into the air.
"Neither will I!" he states, then throws her hard into another tree.
'Sorry, Naomi.' Lightstar thinks 'I never thought, when we first met that day on the beach... that it would end, like this...'
Flashback: Naomi and Ryoma's first meeting...
A fourteen-year-old girl, with crimson hair fixed back in a pony-tail, is lying on a beach-towel and wearing a revealing red two-piece bikini. Then, Almost out of nowhere another teenage girl, about seventeen with raven hair down just past her shoulder-blades, shadows the crimson-haired girl, wearing a one-piece red-and-blue, half-and-half bathing suit.(their attitudes actually contradict their ages).
The crimson-haired girl looks up at the older girl and says, "Do you mind? You're blocking my sun."
"Sorry." the older girl responds, "I was just wondering if this spot's taken?" referring to the spot next to the crimson-haired girl.
"No. It's a free beach." the younger girl says.
The raven-haired seventeen-year-old spreads her towel beside the other girl and sits down, "Thanks." she says, "By the way, My name's Naomi Azaki."
"I'm Ryoma Takai." the other girl says.
After a while of lying there, "You know..." Naomi says, "You're very well *developed* for a girl your age."
"What do you mean?" asks Ryoma.
"Your, um, breasts..." Naomi replies, a little reserved, "They're, uh, rather large... for a fourteen-year-old."
"Yeah, well. What can I say?" the crimson-haired girl responds, "I had to mature rather quickly... and, I guess, my body decided to grow with me."
"What d'you mean by that?" asks Naomi.
"Well, My parents died when I was about 4." Ryoma says, absently, "I had to raise myself... til I found that I had a living relative."
"That's sad." the raven-haired seventeen-year-old says. Ryoma shrugs.
"Ryoma!" a girl's voice shouts, "We're getting ready to leave!"
Ryoma raises up, as does Naomi. "Yeah, I'm coming!" Ryoma calls back.
Naomi notes that the girl Ryoma was talking to had raven hair, slightly longer than her own, and was about eleven. "Who was that?" Naomi asks, as Ryoma collects her sun-screen and beach-towel, and puts them into her bag.
"Huh?" Ryoma responds, "Oh! That was Rei, my cousin. Well, I gotta go."
'Rei... sounds like my half-sister's name.' thinks Naomi.
"I see. Can I..." Naomi asks, stumbling on her words, "uh... see you, again?"
Ryoma thinks for a minute, then replies, "Okay. Do you know where Crown Game Center is?" Naomi nods and Ryoma says, "Then, I'll meet you there. How's tomorrow?" The raven-haired girl nods again and Ryoma leaves.
End Flashback...
Before Alatar can use a follow-up attack on Lightstar, he hears words from behind him.
"Astral Beam!"
Alatar narily dodges the beam of energy and looks to see... Sailor Astress.
"Come to save your girlfriend?" Alatar questions, with a smirk.
"As a matter of fact, I did!" replies Astress, she twirls the Astral Staff and holds it pointedly at Alatar.
"What makes you think you can defeat me?" the purple and red armor-clad demon says.
"Three on one." Neptune says, as she and Uranus jump down beside Astress, "I think the odds are in our favor."
The staff-weilding youma laughs and five more lower-rank youma, wearing mostly gray outfits, start revealing themselves: leaping down from the trees, jumping up through the ground and stepping out of the shadows.
"Care to re-count?" questions the elite.
"Uranus." Astress says, "You think you and Neptune can handle those things? That'll leave the big one for me."
Uranus nods, "Easily." she says.
"Enough of this idle chit-chat!" Alatar states, giving an *attack*-gesture with his free hand, "Destroy them!"
The five youma advance toward the three Senshi and Astress sprints toward them. Just as she reaches them,
"Uranus World Shaking!"
"Neptune Deep Submerge!"
Astress vaults over the youma, revealing Uranus and Neptune's attacks heading right for them, and lands behind them. She continues on-course toward Alatar, as three of the youma manage to dodge the blasts but, two of them are destroyed. Astress makes it to Alatar and swings her staff at him, only to have it deflected by his staff. The two begin parrying one another's staff-swings.
~-~-~
Meanwhile, Uranus engages two of the other youma, while the third attacks Neptune. Uranus nimbly dodges the youma's petty advances, then one of them dives at her with a punch and she sidesteps it, planting her left knee into the youma's abdomen and elbowing it in the back of it's deformed head. She then leaps over the second youma when it charges at her and, when she lands...
"Uranus World Shaking!"
She launches an energy-ball at the two youma but, the one that attacked her, secondly, dodges and the other is vaporized.
~-~-~
At the same time, Neptune dodges the youma that's advancing toward her, the youma turns and blasts at Neptune.
"Submarine Reflection!"
She uses her Neptune Mirror to reflect the youma's blast back at it and destroy it.
~-~-~
"Hah!" Alatar laughs, "Can't you do better than that?" he knocks Astress' weapon from her hand and to the ground with his large metal staff. He draws his staff up and swings it down toward her.
"Yes I... Can!" Astress responds.
Astress jumps and lands on the end of Alatar's staff with both feet, forcing it to the ground. Alatar doesn't release his grip though and Astress jumps over him. She tucks herself into a ball and rolls along the ground behind him, a couple feet, then gets back to her feet and turns to face his back.
"Astral Star Crush!"
A small light appears in her right hand and she grips her fist around it. She pulls her hand back and throws the energy which, upon leaving her hand, grows in size.
Alatar turns and sees the ball of energy flying toward him. He manages to bring his staff around and begin spinning it. The staff acts like a shield and deflects the blast.
~-~-~
The remaining youma draws a large dagger, similar to a scimitar, and dashes at Uranus.
"Oh." Uranus says, "So that's the way you wanna play, huh?" she materializes and unsheathes her Uranus Sabre.
The two blades meet with a *CHING* sound. Uranus easily parries the youma's sword swings until, it tries another dash attack. Uranus sidesteps.
"Space Sword Blaster!"
The blast destroys the youma.
~-~-~
Alatar stabs his staff toward Astress, the three sections separate(still connected by chains), and the end crashes into Astress' upper-torso, breaking her ribs. Astress clinches her chest and drops to a knee as Alatar retracts it and the sections reconnect. He dashes at Astress and performs an uppercut-swing with his staff, nailing her in the chest again and knocking her back into a solid wall.
"Oh my! I guess I should have yelled *FOUR*! hahahaha!" Alatar laughs, as he walks over to the limp and unconscious Sailor Astress, "Now, To finish her."
"No you don't!" Uranus shouts, as she and Neptune rush toward him.
However, They're intercepted by a new wave of under-class youma. Alatar smirks and then charges an energy blast in his left hand.
"Goodbye, Sailor Astress." he says.
But, Just as Alatar is about to release the blast, Lightstar launches herself into his right side, in a shoulder-tackle, and knocks him away from her lover. Alatar regains himself and looks at Lightstar standing infront of Astress, holding her own right shoulder but, ready to fight.
"Stay away from her!" Lightstar commands, "You came after ME, remember!"
"You have a point." responds the staff-weilding youma. He twirls his staff with both hands and then draws it back in his right, holding his left hand out infront of him.
"Let's get started then!" Lightstar states, drawing her left hand up infront of her. Her eyelids drop half-way but, she shakes it off and prepares to finish what the two had started, earlier.
"You know you can't win." Alatar says, with a grin, "In your shape, You won't even be a workout."
"Maybe..." Lightstar responds, gripping her left hand into a fist, "But, Every breath I take will be used... TRYING!"
"Spiral Flame!"
She blasts at Alatar, using her left hand(which is a problem, since she's right-handed). The fire spirals toward the youma but, just as it reaches him, he cancels it out with his own blast. However, Just as he lowers his hand from the counter, Lightstar hits him in the face with a left punch then spins and connects with a left roundhouse kick. Alatar drops his staff. Lightstar follows-up with a left backhand, then attempts a right uppercut but, Alatar catches her fist with his right hand. Lightstar grunts a bit from pain.
"I bet this really hurts!" Alatar states, as he launches a left punch into Lightstar's injured right shoulder. The crimson-haired Senshi cries out(rare indeed).
~-~-~
Uranus dodges one of the new wave of youma and uses her sabre to destroy it. She looks toward Lightstar and Alatar. 'Damn!' she thinks 'There's no way I can make it, in time.' She parries the last youma's weapon-swing with her sabre and finishes her adversary off.
~-~-~
Alatar releases Lightstar's hand and her right arm falls to her side. She drops to one knee.
"It seems you've lost." Alatar says, with a smirk. But then, His smirk fades and his eyes widen slightly as he hears something.
"heh heh." Lightstar starts laughing, "heh heh heh heh... Not quite. But, You have!" she looks up, her eyes narrowed, raising her left hand toward him as she does.
"Extreme Flame!"
Alatar is instantly vaporized by a powerful Flame attack, Lightstar's most powerful attack. 'It's... over...' she thinks, as she detransforms and falls back-first onto the ground, 'Now, To concentrate on healing... wait! Naomi!'
"Haruka! Michiru!" she shouts, the two run over to her. "Please..." she asks, "Take Naomi to get her some help."
"What about you?" asks Michiru.
"I'll be fine. I'll call someone on the communicator." Ryoma replies, "Just take care of... her." Haruka nods and Ryoma passes out.
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To be continued...
A quick explanation of the relationship between Rei, Naomi and Ryoma. Naomi and Rei are *half*-sisters, with the same father and different mothers. Ryoma is Rei's cousin on Rei's mother's side. So, Naomi and Ryoma aren't blood-related, they're lovers. Hope that clarifies.
Warning: There's some *Coarse Language* in this chapter!
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~Battle~
Ryoma is knocked back, hard, into a large tree and falls to her hands and knees. She coughs out some blood and then looks up at the youma that knocked her into the tree, her eyes fairly blurry.
"Goddammit!" she shouts, standing up shakily, "Fucking monster!"
"Time for you to die, Lightstar! Courtesy of myself, Alatar!" the youma says, twirling a tri-sectional staff(the three sections connected solid), "My master's *special* order!"
"I'm flattered." Ryoma says, as she wipes blood from the side of her mouth. "But, *I'm* going to KILL you!!"
She lifts her hand straight up above her.
"Lightstar Crystal Power!"
Her Uniform appears... a White Bodysuit, Gold Tiara w/Red Star Jewel, Yellow Star Earrings, Black Neckband, Red Scout Scarf w/Black Trim, Red Chest Bow w/Yellow Star in Center, Black Back Bow, Red Scout Skirt w/Black Trim around the bottom, Elbow-length Red Fingerless Gloves w/Black Stripes, Black High-heeled Shoes w/Black Straps up to her knees.
"Lightstar Streamer!" she shouts, performing a fire/light attack that sends several beams of light at Alatar from the sky. An attack, similar to Venus Love Shower.
Alatar nimbly dodges each beam and blasts at Lightstar. She jumps, as in a backflip but, lands on her hands and separates her legs, doing the splits. The blast flies through, barely missing her, and causing small burns on her legs. Lightstar lifts her legs up and finishes the backflip.
"Not quite." Lightstar says, "My turn!... Haze of Fire!"
She pulls back her right hand, clenching her fist, and then shoots it forward, opening her hand. An intense fire blasts from her open palm and causes a haze around Alatar, temporarily burning and blinding him.
"I won't go down that easy." Lightstar says. Then her eyelids drop heavily and she falls back-first onto the ground.
She feels a hand clasp her throat and then, Alatar lifts her into the air.
"Neither will I!" he states, then throws her hard into another tree.
'Sorry, Naomi.' Lightstar thinks 'I never thought, when we first met that day on the beach... that it would end, like this...'
Flashback: Naomi and Ryoma's first meeting...
A fourteen-year-old girl, with crimson hair fixed back in a pony-tail, is lying on a beach-towel and wearing a revealing red two-piece bikini. Then, Almost out of nowhere another teenage girl, about seventeen with raven hair down just past her shoulder-blades, shadows the crimson-haired girl, wearing a one-piece red-and-blue, half-and-half bathing suit.(their attitudes actually contradict their ages).
The crimson-haired girl looks up at the older girl and says, "Do you mind? You're blocking my sun."
"Sorry." the older girl responds, "I was just wondering if this spot's taken?" referring to the spot next to the crimson-haired girl.
"No. It's a free beach." the younger girl says.
The raven-haired seventeen-year-old spreads her towel beside the other girl and sits down, "Thanks." she says, "By the way, My name's Naomi Azaki."
"I'm Ryoma Takai." the other girl says.
After a while of lying there, "You know..." Naomi says, "You're very well *developed* for a girl your age."
"What do you mean?" asks Ryoma.
"Your, um, breasts..." Naomi replies, a little reserved, "They're, uh, rather large... for a fourteen-year-old."
"Yeah, well. What can I say?" the crimson-haired girl responds, "I had to mature rather quickly... and, I guess, my body decided to grow with me."
"What d'you mean by that?" asks Naomi.
"Well, My parents died when I was about 4." Ryoma says, absently, "I had to raise myself... til I found that I had a living relative."
"That's sad." the raven-haired seventeen-year-old says. Ryoma shrugs.
"Ryoma!" a girl's voice shouts, "We're getting ready to leave!"
Ryoma raises up, as does Naomi. "Yeah, I'm coming!" Ryoma calls back.
Naomi notes that the girl Ryoma was talking to had raven hair, slightly longer than her own, and was about eleven. "Who was that?" Naomi asks, as Ryoma collects her sun-screen and beach-towel, and puts them into her bag.
"Huh?" Ryoma responds, "Oh! That was Rei, my cousin. Well, I gotta go."
'Rei... sounds like my half-sister's name.' thinks Naomi.
"I see. Can I..." Naomi asks, stumbling on her words, "uh... see you, again?"
Ryoma thinks for a minute, then replies, "Okay. Do you know where Crown Game Center is?" Naomi nods and Ryoma says, "Then, I'll meet you there. How's tomorrow?" The raven-haired girl nods again and Ryoma leaves.
End Flashback...
Before Alatar can use a follow-up attack on Lightstar, he hears words from behind him.
"Astral Beam!"
Alatar narily dodges the beam of energy and looks to see... Sailor Astress.
"Come to save your girlfriend?" Alatar questions, with a smirk.
"As a matter of fact, I did!" replies Astress, she twirls the Astral Staff and holds it pointedly at Alatar.
"What makes you think you can defeat me?" the purple and red armor-clad demon says.
"Three on one." Neptune says, as she and Uranus jump down beside Astress, "I think the odds are in our favor."
The staff-weilding youma laughs and five more lower-rank youma, wearing mostly gray outfits, start revealing themselves: leaping down from the trees, jumping up through the ground and stepping out of the shadows.
"Care to re-count?" questions the elite.
"Uranus." Astress says, "You think you and Neptune can handle those things? That'll leave the big one for me."
Uranus nods, "Easily." she says.
"Enough of this idle chit-chat!" Alatar states, giving an *attack*-gesture with his free hand, "Destroy them!"
The five youma advance toward the three Senshi and Astress sprints toward them. Just as she reaches them,
"Uranus World Shaking!"
"Neptune Deep Submerge!"
Astress vaults over the youma, revealing Uranus and Neptune's attacks heading right for them, and lands behind them. She continues on-course toward Alatar, as three of the youma manage to dodge the blasts but, two of them are destroyed. Astress makes it to Alatar and swings her staff at him, only to have it deflected by his staff. The two begin parrying one another's staff-swings.
~-~-~
Meanwhile, Uranus engages two of the other youma, while the third attacks Neptune. Uranus nimbly dodges the youma's petty advances, then one of them dives at her with a punch and she sidesteps it, planting her left knee into the youma's abdomen and elbowing it in the back of it's deformed head. She then leaps over the second youma when it charges at her and, when she lands...
"Uranus World Shaking!"
She launches an energy-ball at the two youma but, the one that attacked her, secondly, dodges and the other is vaporized.
~-~-~
At the same time, Neptune dodges the youma that's advancing toward her, the youma turns and blasts at Neptune.
"Submarine Reflection!"
She uses her Neptune Mirror to reflect the youma's blast back at it and destroy it.
~-~-~
"Hah!" Alatar laughs, "Can't you do better than that?" he knocks Astress' weapon from her hand and to the ground with his large metal staff. He draws his staff up and swings it down toward her.
"Yes I... Can!" Astress responds.
Astress jumps and lands on the end of Alatar's staff with both feet, forcing it to the ground. Alatar doesn't release his grip though and Astress jumps over him. She tucks herself into a ball and rolls along the ground behind him, a couple feet, then gets back to her feet and turns to face his back.
"Astral Star Crush!"
A small light appears in her right hand and she grips her fist around it. She pulls her hand back and throws the energy which, upon leaving her hand, grows in size.
Alatar turns and sees the ball of energy flying toward him. He manages to bring his staff around and begin spinning it. The staff acts like a shield and deflects the blast.
~-~-~
The remaining youma draws a large dagger, similar to a scimitar, and dashes at Uranus.
"Oh." Uranus says, "So that's the way you wanna play, huh?" she materializes and unsheathes her Uranus Sabre.
The two blades meet with a *CHING* sound. Uranus easily parries the youma's sword swings until, it tries another dash attack. Uranus sidesteps.
"Space Sword Blaster!"
The blast destroys the youma.
~-~-~
Alatar stabs his staff toward Astress, the three sections separate(still connected by chains), and the end crashes into Astress' upper-torso, breaking her ribs. Astress clinches her chest and drops to a knee as Alatar retracts it and the sections reconnect. He dashes at Astress and performs an uppercut-swing with his staff, nailing her in the chest again and knocking her back into a solid wall.
"Oh my! I guess I should have yelled *FOUR*! hahahaha!" Alatar laughs, as he walks over to the limp and unconscious Sailor Astress, "Now, To finish her."
"No you don't!" Uranus shouts, as she and Neptune rush toward him.
However, They're intercepted by a new wave of under-class youma. Alatar smirks and then charges an energy blast in his left hand.
"Goodbye, Sailor Astress." he says.
But, Just as Alatar is about to release the blast, Lightstar launches herself into his right side, in a shoulder-tackle, and knocks him away from her lover. Alatar regains himself and looks at Lightstar standing infront of Astress, holding her own right shoulder but, ready to fight.
"Stay away from her!" Lightstar commands, "You came after ME, remember!"
"You have a point." responds the staff-weilding youma. He twirls his staff with both hands and then draws it back in his right, holding his left hand out infront of him.
"Let's get started then!" Lightstar states, drawing her left hand up infront of her. Her eyelids drop half-way but, she shakes it off and prepares to finish what the two had started, earlier.
"You know you can't win." Alatar says, with a grin, "In your shape, You won't even be a workout."
"Maybe..." Lightstar responds, gripping her left hand into a fist, "But, Every breath I take will be used... TRYING!"
"Spiral Flame!"
She blasts at Alatar, using her left hand(which is a problem, since she's right-handed). The fire spirals toward the youma but, just as it reaches him, he cancels it out with his own blast. However, Just as he lowers his hand from the counter, Lightstar hits him in the face with a left punch then spins and connects with a left roundhouse kick. Alatar drops his staff. Lightstar follows-up with a left backhand, then attempts a right uppercut but, Alatar catches her fist with his right hand. Lightstar grunts a bit from pain.
"I bet this really hurts!" Alatar states, as he launches a left punch into Lightstar's injured right shoulder. The crimson-haired Senshi cries out(rare indeed).
~-~-~
Uranus dodges one of the new wave of youma and uses her sabre to destroy it. She looks toward Lightstar and Alatar. 'Damn!' she thinks 'There's no way I can make it, in time.' She parries the last youma's weapon-swing with her sabre and finishes her adversary off.
~-~-~
Alatar releases Lightstar's hand and her right arm falls to her side. She drops to one knee.
"It seems you've lost." Alatar says, with a smirk. But then, His smirk fades and his eyes widen slightly as he hears something.
"heh heh." Lightstar starts laughing, "heh heh heh heh... Not quite. But, You have!" she looks up, her eyes narrowed, raising her left hand toward him as she does.
"Extreme Flame!"
Alatar is instantly vaporized by a powerful Flame attack, Lightstar's most powerful attack. 'It's... over...' she thinks, as she detransforms and falls back-first onto the ground, 'Now, To concentrate on healing... wait! Naomi!'
"Haruka! Michiru!" she shouts, the two run over to her. "Please..." she asks, "Take Naomi to get her some help."
"What about you?" asks Michiru.
"I'll be fine. I'll call someone on the communicator." Ryoma replies, "Just take care of... her." Haruka nods and Ryoma passes out.
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To be continued...
A quick explanation of the relationship between Rei, Naomi and Ryoma. Naomi and Rei are *half*-sisters, with the same father and different mothers. Ryoma is Rei's cousin on Rei's mother's side. So, Naomi and Ryoma aren't blood-related, they're lovers. Hope that clarifies.
