Well, Time for the next part of Unconditional Love. One thing... You're all probably wondering about the Senshi's school-status, eh? Well, I assure you, most are still attending school but, this fic is taking place during Summer Vacation(I'm not sure if they have that in Japan but...). In a-anycase, I don't feel like talking a whole lot right now... so, On with the chapter!
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Part 19: Target: The Celestial Senshi...
~Rooftop/High-School attended by the Senshi~
Shinya and Makoto are sitting and watching as the sun slowly sets in the horizon.(a quick explanation of how to tell the difference in Mako's and Shinya's eyes... in this fic, Makoto has *jade* eyes and Shinya has *emerald* eyes).
"Wow!" Makoto says, "This is great, Shinya." she turns to her left, to look at the short-haired woman, who is looking back into the other brunette's jade eyes, "Thanks for bringing me here. The view of the setting-sun is perfect from this spot."
"Not nearly as perfect as you are, Thunderess." responds the slightly taller woman.
Makoto smiles at her lover's pet-name for her. Shinya then draws the other woman's lips to her own, in a light kiss that gradually intensifies. During which, Shinya's left hand finds its way up Mako's green skirt, as she begins caressing her right thigh. Unconsciously, Makoto's hands start working at unfastening the buttons of Shinya's button-up shirt.
Once Makoto has the last button unfastened, She uses her hands to pull Shinya's shirt open, revealing her lace bra. Shinya snakes her right arm around behind Makoto's head and then down the other brunette's blouse. Makoto runs her hands up the sides of Shinya's bare waist to her very-full breasts, causing the other woman to deepen their kiss as Mako begins caressing her breasts through her bra. Shinya runs her right hand up and down Mako's back, while continuing to caress her right thigh with her left hand, inching slowly closer to the junction of her legs. However, Just before Shinya's hand reaches Mako *there*, the two hear someone scream and they break apart, stopping their *activities*, both slightly out of breath.
"Ah... Crap!" Shinya says, with restrained anger, "Not now!"
"And, We were just getting to the fun part." Makoto adds, rolling her eyes, "I guess... we should go."
Shinya nods and the two leave the roof to go find the source of the scream.
~Near Another Building~
Several minutes later, Shinya and Makoto reach the source of the scream nearly a half city-block away from the school. Once there, The two see a rather large youma, with the head of bull and the body of a human(maybe a bodybuilder), terrorizing a group of kids. The youma's body is also encased in armor, gray on his upper-body(torso and arms), and black on his lower-body(waist down)... he is wearing a gray helmet, which covers the back of his head and neck, also reaching over his head and down, triangularly, between his eye-brows(well, where eye-brows would be, if he were human), it also has slots around his horns.
"Ah, Don't be frightened, children." the youma says, "I don't want to kill you... I just want to hear your screams."
"Think it's time to step in?" asks Makoto, hand in her sub-space pocket.
"Yes, Let's." replies Shinya.
Makoto withdraws her transformation pen...
"Jupiter Crystal Power!"
Her clothes are replaced by her sailor uniform.
Shinya slams her fists into one another, infront of her chest. Then, She pulls her fists apart and draws the right back...
"Titan Crystal Power!"
She slams her right fist down into the ground and her uniform appears, starting with the fist that's touching the ground... a White Bodysuit, Gold Tiara w/Brown Jewel, Gold Neckband, Brown Earrings, Brown Scout-Scarf w/Gold Trim, Brown Chest-Bow, Gold Back-Bow, Golden Scout-Skirt, Gold Low-top Boots.
"Now," the youma says, drawing back his hand and forming an energy-ball in it, "Scream for me." he starts to move his hand forward.
"Hold it, right there!" states a voice from a couple feet away, "Leave those kids alone!"
The youma turns toward the interrupters and sees Sailor Titan and Sailor Jupiter, 'Ah, They're here.' he thinks 'About time.'
"Fine then." the youma says, the energy dissippates, "They are of no interest to me."
"Children, run." Jupiter says. The group of kids listen and start to run.
However, The youma holds up a finger and says, "Sorry, I changed my mind." Underground electric cables break up through the ground and the children become entangled in them.
"What are you doing!" Titan demands, "Let them go!"
"I don't think so." the youma replies, with an evil smile, "The children shall stay. It will make our battle more... interesting. Don't the two of you agree?" he laughs, then punches the wall, causing a crack in it. The crack slowly starts to extend up the wall, "Can you stop me, before this wall collapses onto them?" he says, "We will soon find out." he pulls his arms back at either side of himself, elbows bent slightly and palms open, fingers apart and bent somewhat at the knuckles.
He snorts, flaring his nostrils, and charges toward them. Jupiter and Titan roll out of his way, in opposite directions, letting the minotaur-like youma charge past them. Both come up in a one-knee position. Jupiter stands up.
"Jupiter Thunderclap!"
She throws an oval-shaped ball of lightning-energy at the large youma, hitting his back and knocking him to the ground. However, He stands up and merely dusts himself off before turning back around to face the two Senshi, with a snarl.
Titan doesn't stand up and, instead, keeps her right palm against the ground. "Try this then." she says, as her hand slowly sinks slightly into the ground, "Earth Rave!"
The ground beneath the youma begins to tremble and shake, causing a miniscule quake centered in that one spot and throws the youma into another building. Titan pulls her hand back out of the ground and stands up.
"How'd ya like that?" taunts Titan.
"I liked it just fine." the youma replies, "You are, indeed, a worthy challenge."
He reaches his arms out of the hole he's in and places his hands on either side of the hole. He grips the sides and his fingers break small holes into the concrete. He pulls his himself out of the hole-in-the-wall and stands up.
"Oh, How rude of me. I haven't introduced myself." he says, "... I'm Minotauros."
Lights come on in several rooms of the higher floors in the building that Minotauros was thrown into and people look down at where the Senshi and youma are.
"Ah, An audience." Minotauros says.
'Well, We couldn't keep the Senshi a secret forever.' thinks Jupiter, "Jupiter Oak Evolution!"
Minotauros, however, charges through the attack and towards the senshi of lightning. As he nears her, Jupiter jumps up and leap-frogs him, placing her hands on Minotauros' head and doing the splits with her legs, bringing her entire body over the youma, as he charges beneath her. Jupiter brings her legs back together and lands on the ground. Unfortunately, As she lands, Minotauros turns and thrusts his horns at her.
"Jupiter!" shouts Titan, as Minotauros' left horn cuts a gash along Jupiter's right side.
The senshi of lightning manages to side-step, holding her right side with her left hand, and prevent herself from further injury from Minotauros' horns. However, The youma attempts, again, to impale her with them. Jupiter drops down, avoiding the impale-attempt, and hits Minotauros left jaw with a hard-right punch. The force of the impact turns Minotauros' head to the right and causes him to take a step back with his right hoof(foot).
As the youma turns his head back toward Jupiter, Titan runs toward him from behind where Jupiter is knelt. The senshi of rock and ground jumps over Jupiter at Minotauros and, avoiding his horns, wraps her left arm around the back. She uses her weight and momentum to spin the youma around to his left, in a half-circle. Titan drops toward the ground, pulling Minotauros with her, and smashes his head into the hard concrete(known as a *Jumping Tornado DDT* in wrestling). She keeps moving as she back-rolls to a standing position.
Titan then runs back to check on Jupiter, who is now laying on her back. She kneels and asks, "Are you going to be okay?" a concerned tone in her voice.
"... yeah." replies the lightning-senshi.
"I shoulda guessed." Titan says, slightly relieved, "A wound like that wouldn't stop you. Don't worry, I'll handle Minotauros. You just lie still."
Titan stands and turns back toward Minotauros, who has just managed to free his horns from being stuck in the ground. He jumps backward and lands several feet away. Titan, meanwhile, walks about six steps away from Jupiter, to her right.
"Now I'm steamed!" snorts Minotauros, angrily. The youma transforms into a demon-bull form, his arms becoming its front legs and the armor re-configuring to his new form.
Minotauros scrapes the ground three times with his right-front hoof, then bellows and stomps his hoof onto the ground. He, then, lowers his large head and does a bull-charge toward Sailor Titan.
Titan slams her fists into one-another, in-front of her, "Fine!" she says, then she raises her arms in a fighting stance, "Let's just see which one of us is stronger!"
Just as Minotauros reaches her, the senshi of rock and ground thrusts her arms down and grabs the bull's horns, preventing herself from being skewered on them. The momentum forces Titan back quite a way, pushing up the concrete(and dirt-ground beneath it, incedently) around her heels, as it does. However, Titan retains her grip on Minotauros' horns and keeps them several inches from her torso. Titan tenses her muscles and slams her heels into the ground, forcing the movement to halt.
"I ain't in any mood to become a human-shishkebab... today!" Titan states. Then, She over-powers the bull-youma and forces him straight down onto his front knees.
Titan releases her grip on Minotauros' horns and reaches around his torso, between his front and back legs. She locks her hands around his waist. "Now..." she says, as she lifts the bull onto her right shoulder(Minotauros' back laying on her shoulder), "Titan Bomb!" Titan, then, uses her strength to drive Minotauros down, back-first, onto the concrete... hard(another wrestling move, the *Power Bomb*), causing the ground to crack out in several directions. Titan jumps back several steps, breathing heavily and sweating.
Minotauros' body changes back to its original form and he pulls himself to his feet(hooves), leaving a hole where he was. He has his head leaned forward, looking down to the ground, holding his right shoulder with his left hand. His right arm is hanging at his side and about 40% of his left horn is broken off.
'I can't believe this!' Minotauros thinks 'She's stronger than I am!?'
However, He's quickly brought out of his thoughts, as he hears Titan running toward him. He raises his head just as she reaches him, Titan thrusts her right palm into his abdomen, knocking the wind out of him and causing him to hunch-over forward slightly. Titan raises her arms above her head and clasping her hands together, interlocking the fingers, then swings them down into Minotauros' back, between his shoulder blades, causing him to drop to his hands and knees.
Next, The senshi of rock and ground reaches down and grabs the youma, gripping his left horn with her left hand and the waist-part of his armor with her right. She picks him up and starts spinning in-place, counter-clockwise. After three spins she releases Minotauros and he flies through the air(unintentionally) toward the building that the children are next to. He hits the ground near the building hard, tearing up the concrete for about two feet. Titan immediately begins charging her energy in her right hand.
"Grand Stream!"
Titan pulls her hand back and thrusts it down into the ground, sending an energized(and guided) earthquake toward Minotauros.
The attack hits Minotauros, full-force, and the energy explodes on contact... obliterating the youma. In the aftermath, Titan places her right hand on a nearby fire-hydrant to hold herself up. Jupiter is leaned against the wall of another building, still holding her side. And, Unnoticed to everyone, Another youma presses several keys on some sortof wrist-band and creates a portal, which he uses to get away... unnoticed by everyone *except* Haruka and Michiru, who've just arrived.
The cables holding the children release them, falling to the ground, cause Minotauros(who was controlling them) is dead. Unfortunately, though, a section of the wall near them starts falling... apparently speeded-up by Titan's attack. The children see it coming and drop down, covering their heads. However, There's no impact. The children look up and see Titan holding the large slab of concrete up with both of her hands... a difficult task, even for her, as the slab is about 6-foot by 5-foot and about a foot thick.
"Move!" Titan orders the kids, "Get out from under it!"
They listen to her and run out from under the area where the slab will land. Even at the distance she is, Jupiter notices Titan's heavy breathing, the amount of sweat rolling off her, and how much she's straining to hold the slab up. The senshi of lighting figures Titan can't hold it up much longer and, she knows the woman won't be able to let go of the slab and get out from under it, before it falls.
Jupiter pushes herself to a standing position, using the wall behind her, and starts to go help her lover. However, She's stopped as a hand grabs her around her right wrist. She turns to see, "Michiru?" she asks, "Why are you stopping me? I hafta help Titan!"
"In your condition," Michiru replies, releasing Jupiter's arm, "You would only succeed in getting yourself killed, too."
"But, I--"
"Michi's right, Jupiter." Haruka injects, "You won't be able to save her."
"I can try!" Jupiter retorts, "I'm not going to just stand here, and not try to save her!!" she starts again toward Titan but, Michiru steps infront of her, holding out her arms.
"I understand." the aqua-haired woman says, "You love her, and you want to save her, but--" she cuts herself off... not because of Jupiter but, because of Haruka.
Haruka runs toward Titan and jumps at the other woman, tackling her out from under the slab, allowing it to fall onto the ground. On the other side of the slab, the two women are laying safely on the ground... Titan laying on her back with her eyes closed and Haruka lying half-way on-top of her. Haruka stands up and dusts herself off, as Titan starts opening her eyes. Titan looks up and sees Haruka standing above her.
"H-Haruka?" Titan asks, raising up slightly, "*You* saved me?"
"Yeah, Well..." Haruka replies, tilting her head to one side and shrugging her shoulders, "What are sisters for?" she looks back down at the other woman with a smile.
Titan smiles back, "That's the first time... that you ever said we're sisters."
Michiru and Jupiter are walking over to them.
Titan gasps a breath and grabs her chest, slightly to the left of the center... the area of her heart. She falls back onto the ground and tightens her grip, gasping for breath.
"What's wrong?" asks Haruka.
"Oh no!" Jupiter says, "It's the virus! We have to get her back to my house!"
"Your house?" Haruka says, "She needs a doctor, or a hospital!"
"No," Jupiter retorts, "She needs the heart-medicine at my house! Please, Haruka, You have to take us there... before it's too late."
"... okay." Haruka relents.
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To Be Continued...
Ramblings: Well, There's another chapter. Hope you all like it! Anyway, Thanks for reading, see you next chapter! And, In case you're all wondering... Yes, I do watch wrestling. Wrestling is also one of Shinya(Titan)'s two fighting styles, the other is Koppo. Well, That's it for now.
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Part 19: Target: The Celestial Senshi...
~Rooftop/High-School attended by the Senshi~
Shinya and Makoto are sitting and watching as the sun slowly sets in the horizon.(a quick explanation of how to tell the difference in Mako's and Shinya's eyes... in this fic, Makoto has *jade* eyes and Shinya has *emerald* eyes).
"Wow!" Makoto says, "This is great, Shinya." she turns to her left, to look at the short-haired woman, who is looking back into the other brunette's jade eyes, "Thanks for bringing me here. The view of the setting-sun is perfect from this spot."
"Not nearly as perfect as you are, Thunderess." responds the slightly taller woman.
Makoto smiles at her lover's pet-name for her. Shinya then draws the other woman's lips to her own, in a light kiss that gradually intensifies. During which, Shinya's left hand finds its way up Mako's green skirt, as she begins caressing her right thigh. Unconsciously, Makoto's hands start working at unfastening the buttons of Shinya's button-up shirt.
Once Makoto has the last button unfastened, She uses her hands to pull Shinya's shirt open, revealing her lace bra. Shinya snakes her right arm around behind Makoto's head and then down the other brunette's blouse. Makoto runs her hands up the sides of Shinya's bare waist to her very-full breasts, causing the other woman to deepen their kiss as Mako begins caressing her breasts through her bra. Shinya runs her right hand up and down Mako's back, while continuing to caress her right thigh with her left hand, inching slowly closer to the junction of her legs. However, Just before Shinya's hand reaches Mako *there*, the two hear someone scream and they break apart, stopping their *activities*, both slightly out of breath.
"Ah... Crap!" Shinya says, with restrained anger, "Not now!"
"And, We were just getting to the fun part." Makoto adds, rolling her eyes, "I guess... we should go."
Shinya nods and the two leave the roof to go find the source of the scream.
~Near Another Building~
Several minutes later, Shinya and Makoto reach the source of the scream nearly a half city-block away from the school. Once there, The two see a rather large youma, with the head of bull and the body of a human(maybe a bodybuilder), terrorizing a group of kids. The youma's body is also encased in armor, gray on his upper-body(torso and arms), and black on his lower-body(waist down)... he is wearing a gray helmet, which covers the back of his head and neck, also reaching over his head and down, triangularly, between his eye-brows(well, where eye-brows would be, if he were human), it also has slots around his horns.
"Ah, Don't be frightened, children." the youma says, "I don't want to kill you... I just want to hear your screams."
"Think it's time to step in?" asks Makoto, hand in her sub-space pocket.
"Yes, Let's." replies Shinya.
Makoto withdraws her transformation pen...
"Jupiter Crystal Power!"
Her clothes are replaced by her sailor uniform.
Shinya slams her fists into one another, infront of her chest. Then, She pulls her fists apart and draws the right back...
"Titan Crystal Power!"
She slams her right fist down into the ground and her uniform appears, starting with the fist that's touching the ground... a White Bodysuit, Gold Tiara w/Brown Jewel, Gold Neckband, Brown Earrings, Brown Scout-Scarf w/Gold Trim, Brown Chest-Bow, Gold Back-Bow, Golden Scout-Skirt, Gold Low-top Boots.
"Now," the youma says, drawing back his hand and forming an energy-ball in it, "Scream for me." he starts to move his hand forward.
"Hold it, right there!" states a voice from a couple feet away, "Leave those kids alone!"
The youma turns toward the interrupters and sees Sailor Titan and Sailor Jupiter, 'Ah, They're here.' he thinks 'About time.'
"Fine then." the youma says, the energy dissippates, "They are of no interest to me."
"Children, run." Jupiter says. The group of kids listen and start to run.
However, The youma holds up a finger and says, "Sorry, I changed my mind." Underground electric cables break up through the ground and the children become entangled in them.
"What are you doing!" Titan demands, "Let them go!"
"I don't think so." the youma replies, with an evil smile, "The children shall stay. It will make our battle more... interesting. Don't the two of you agree?" he laughs, then punches the wall, causing a crack in it. The crack slowly starts to extend up the wall, "Can you stop me, before this wall collapses onto them?" he says, "We will soon find out." he pulls his arms back at either side of himself, elbows bent slightly and palms open, fingers apart and bent somewhat at the knuckles.
He snorts, flaring his nostrils, and charges toward them. Jupiter and Titan roll out of his way, in opposite directions, letting the minotaur-like youma charge past them. Both come up in a one-knee position. Jupiter stands up.
"Jupiter Thunderclap!"
She throws an oval-shaped ball of lightning-energy at the large youma, hitting his back and knocking him to the ground. However, He stands up and merely dusts himself off before turning back around to face the two Senshi, with a snarl.
Titan doesn't stand up and, instead, keeps her right palm against the ground. "Try this then." she says, as her hand slowly sinks slightly into the ground, "Earth Rave!"
The ground beneath the youma begins to tremble and shake, causing a miniscule quake centered in that one spot and throws the youma into another building. Titan pulls her hand back out of the ground and stands up.
"How'd ya like that?" taunts Titan.
"I liked it just fine." the youma replies, "You are, indeed, a worthy challenge."
He reaches his arms out of the hole he's in and places his hands on either side of the hole. He grips the sides and his fingers break small holes into the concrete. He pulls his himself out of the hole-in-the-wall and stands up.
"Oh, How rude of me. I haven't introduced myself." he says, "... I'm Minotauros."
Lights come on in several rooms of the higher floors in the building that Minotauros was thrown into and people look down at where the Senshi and youma are.
"Ah, An audience." Minotauros says.
'Well, We couldn't keep the Senshi a secret forever.' thinks Jupiter, "Jupiter Oak Evolution!"
Minotauros, however, charges through the attack and towards the senshi of lightning. As he nears her, Jupiter jumps up and leap-frogs him, placing her hands on Minotauros' head and doing the splits with her legs, bringing her entire body over the youma, as he charges beneath her. Jupiter brings her legs back together and lands on the ground. Unfortunately, As she lands, Minotauros turns and thrusts his horns at her.
"Jupiter!" shouts Titan, as Minotauros' left horn cuts a gash along Jupiter's right side.
The senshi of lightning manages to side-step, holding her right side with her left hand, and prevent herself from further injury from Minotauros' horns. However, The youma attempts, again, to impale her with them. Jupiter drops down, avoiding the impale-attempt, and hits Minotauros left jaw with a hard-right punch. The force of the impact turns Minotauros' head to the right and causes him to take a step back with his right hoof(foot).
As the youma turns his head back toward Jupiter, Titan runs toward him from behind where Jupiter is knelt. The senshi of rock and ground jumps over Jupiter at Minotauros and, avoiding his horns, wraps her left arm around the back. She uses her weight and momentum to spin the youma around to his left, in a half-circle. Titan drops toward the ground, pulling Minotauros with her, and smashes his head into the hard concrete(known as a *Jumping Tornado DDT* in wrestling). She keeps moving as she back-rolls to a standing position.
Titan then runs back to check on Jupiter, who is now laying on her back. She kneels and asks, "Are you going to be okay?" a concerned tone in her voice.
"... yeah." replies the lightning-senshi.
"I shoulda guessed." Titan says, slightly relieved, "A wound like that wouldn't stop you. Don't worry, I'll handle Minotauros. You just lie still."
Titan stands and turns back toward Minotauros, who has just managed to free his horns from being stuck in the ground. He jumps backward and lands several feet away. Titan, meanwhile, walks about six steps away from Jupiter, to her right.
"Now I'm steamed!" snorts Minotauros, angrily. The youma transforms into a demon-bull form, his arms becoming its front legs and the armor re-configuring to his new form.
Minotauros scrapes the ground three times with his right-front hoof, then bellows and stomps his hoof onto the ground. He, then, lowers his large head and does a bull-charge toward Sailor Titan.
Titan slams her fists into one-another, in-front of her, "Fine!" she says, then she raises her arms in a fighting stance, "Let's just see which one of us is stronger!"
Just as Minotauros reaches her, the senshi of rock and ground thrusts her arms down and grabs the bull's horns, preventing herself from being skewered on them. The momentum forces Titan back quite a way, pushing up the concrete(and dirt-ground beneath it, incedently) around her heels, as it does. However, Titan retains her grip on Minotauros' horns and keeps them several inches from her torso. Titan tenses her muscles and slams her heels into the ground, forcing the movement to halt.
"I ain't in any mood to become a human-shishkebab... today!" Titan states. Then, She over-powers the bull-youma and forces him straight down onto his front knees.
Titan releases her grip on Minotauros' horns and reaches around his torso, between his front and back legs. She locks her hands around his waist. "Now..." she says, as she lifts the bull onto her right shoulder(Minotauros' back laying on her shoulder), "Titan Bomb!" Titan, then, uses her strength to drive Minotauros down, back-first, onto the concrete... hard(another wrestling move, the *Power Bomb*), causing the ground to crack out in several directions. Titan jumps back several steps, breathing heavily and sweating.
Minotauros' body changes back to its original form and he pulls himself to his feet(hooves), leaving a hole where he was. He has his head leaned forward, looking down to the ground, holding his right shoulder with his left hand. His right arm is hanging at his side and about 40% of his left horn is broken off.
'I can't believe this!' Minotauros thinks 'She's stronger than I am!?'
However, He's quickly brought out of his thoughts, as he hears Titan running toward him. He raises his head just as she reaches him, Titan thrusts her right palm into his abdomen, knocking the wind out of him and causing him to hunch-over forward slightly. Titan raises her arms above her head and clasping her hands together, interlocking the fingers, then swings them down into Minotauros' back, between his shoulder blades, causing him to drop to his hands and knees.
Next, The senshi of rock and ground reaches down and grabs the youma, gripping his left horn with her left hand and the waist-part of his armor with her right. She picks him up and starts spinning in-place, counter-clockwise. After three spins she releases Minotauros and he flies through the air(unintentionally) toward the building that the children are next to. He hits the ground near the building hard, tearing up the concrete for about two feet. Titan immediately begins charging her energy in her right hand.
"Grand Stream!"
Titan pulls her hand back and thrusts it down into the ground, sending an energized(and guided) earthquake toward Minotauros.
The attack hits Minotauros, full-force, and the energy explodes on contact... obliterating the youma. In the aftermath, Titan places her right hand on a nearby fire-hydrant to hold herself up. Jupiter is leaned against the wall of another building, still holding her side. And, Unnoticed to everyone, Another youma presses several keys on some sortof wrist-band and creates a portal, which he uses to get away... unnoticed by everyone *except* Haruka and Michiru, who've just arrived.
The cables holding the children release them, falling to the ground, cause Minotauros(who was controlling them) is dead. Unfortunately, though, a section of the wall near them starts falling... apparently speeded-up by Titan's attack. The children see it coming and drop down, covering their heads. However, There's no impact. The children look up and see Titan holding the large slab of concrete up with both of her hands... a difficult task, even for her, as the slab is about 6-foot by 5-foot and about a foot thick.
"Move!" Titan orders the kids, "Get out from under it!"
They listen to her and run out from under the area where the slab will land. Even at the distance she is, Jupiter notices Titan's heavy breathing, the amount of sweat rolling off her, and how much she's straining to hold the slab up. The senshi of lighting figures Titan can't hold it up much longer and, she knows the woman won't be able to let go of the slab and get out from under it, before it falls.
Jupiter pushes herself to a standing position, using the wall behind her, and starts to go help her lover. However, She's stopped as a hand grabs her around her right wrist. She turns to see, "Michiru?" she asks, "Why are you stopping me? I hafta help Titan!"
"In your condition," Michiru replies, releasing Jupiter's arm, "You would only succeed in getting yourself killed, too."
"But, I--"
"Michi's right, Jupiter." Haruka injects, "You won't be able to save her."
"I can try!" Jupiter retorts, "I'm not going to just stand here, and not try to save her!!" she starts again toward Titan but, Michiru steps infront of her, holding out her arms.
"I understand." the aqua-haired woman says, "You love her, and you want to save her, but--" she cuts herself off... not because of Jupiter but, because of Haruka.
Haruka runs toward Titan and jumps at the other woman, tackling her out from under the slab, allowing it to fall onto the ground. On the other side of the slab, the two women are laying safely on the ground... Titan laying on her back with her eyes closed and Haruka lying half-way on-top of her. Haruka stands up and dusts herself off, as Titan starts opening her eyes. Titan looks up and sees Haruka standing above her.
"H-Haruka?" Titan asks, raising up slightly, "*You* saved me?"
"Yeah, Well..." Haruka replies, tilting her head to one side and shrugging her shoulders, "What are sisters for?" she looks back down at the other woman with a smile.
Titan smiles back, "That's the first time... that you ever said we're sisters."
Michiru and Jupiter are walking over to them.
Titan gasps a breath and grabs her chest, slightly to the left of the center... the area of her heart. She falls back onto the ground and tightens her grip, gasping for breath.
"What's wrong?" asks Haruka.
"Oh no!" Jupiter says, "It's the virus! We have to get her back to my house!"
"Your house?" Haruka says, "She needs a doctor, or a hospital!"
"No," Jupiter retorts, "She needs the heart-medicine at my house! Please, Haruka, You have to take us there... before it's too late."
"... okay." Haruka relents.
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To Be Continued...
Ramblings: Well, There's another chapter. Hope you all like it! Anyway, Thanks for reading, see you next chapter! And, In case you're all wondering... Yes, I do watch wrestling. Wrestling is also one of Shinya(Titan)'s two fighting styles, the other is Koppo. Well, That's it for now.
