Crossover to Save Time and Space:

The search for the gems

By Tonz82

Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon, Magic Knights Rayearth, Ronin Warriors, or Dragon Ball. Each are owned by respective companies. Do not sue me because you won't get anything anyway. I mean that literally in every sense. I'm broke okay

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Chapter Twenty-Five

Serena and Hikaru stood hovering anxiously as they waited for the rest of their traveling companions in the new passageway. Brilliant light from the closing end of diamond gateway's entrance filled their sight. When their vision cleared they saw Ryo supporting Utori with one arm. As the two girls flew closer they noticed the tired look on Utori's face.

"You're both okay!" Hikaru sighed with relief.

"But where's Gohan?" Serena asked fearfully.

They all turned to look down the long passageway in search of the young twelve-year-old boy. Serena's eyes widened with excitement when she saw him flying toward them.

"Gohan!" she said happily.

Even though she didn't know any of her traveling companions very well she still felt a connection toward all of them. They had all witnessed each other's greatest and most difficult battles back in the sacred realm. Not only that but they were all now working together and fighting for the same thing.

"Hey, kid!" Ryo grinned. "You had us worried."

"Glad you're okay," Hikaru replied.

"Me too," Gohan said smiling back.

Then he looked at Utori who was staring back at him with a serious, disapproving face. She reminded him of his mother for a second.

"What you did was very foolish," she told in a hard voice. "You could have been killed."

She flew passed him ready to lead the way down the new passage. Then she passed and turned around. Utori's lips curved into soft smile.

"But thank you," she replied in a dignified tone.

Then Utori turned around and flew forward.

"Come on we still have a mission to complete," she called back.

Hikaru and Serena followed her.

"That's one hard lady, but it looks like you got on her good side," Ryo commented to Gohan as they flew to catch up. Gohan smiled.

"Now that we're actually out of danger. Could you tell us about what happened back there?" Hikaru asked.

"It's Daisan's power," Utori answered. "It's spreading at a incredible rate."

"Spreading?" Ryo asked.

"Well, you see all dimensions are connected by the cosmic passageways," Utori explained. "When a world is destroyed or drained of energy the passageway leading to that world is damaged as well. Due to the simultaneous energy drain occurring in several worlds at once the damage to the passageways is even more tremendous."

There was a brief silence as the warriors absorbed this information. Serena was the first to speak afterwards.

"What about Kala and the rest of our friends?" she asked softly. "Do you think their okay?"

Utori's eyes mirrored some of her fear and doubts. She didn't answer immediately, but then smiled.

"I don't really know… but I have faith that Kala was able to bring all of them home safely," she replied reassuringly. "And I have faith that she's okay."

Utori sensed that her response seemed to sooth the four teenagers' fears of worries for their friends' safety.

'Well, for the moment anyway,' she thought.

Utori really didn't know if Kala or if any of the other champions were okay. With everything that was happening she refused to lose hope. She did her best to push away her feelings of despair.

'She cares about Kala a lot,' Serena noticed. 'She's so determined to help us and seems to feel a great deal of loyalty toward the Time Guardian, almost as if she is indebted to her somehow.'

"This realm was so hard to hone in on it," Ryo commented. "It kept shifting."

"I guess that because of the damage being cause by Daisan, too," Gohan replied.

Utori shook her head in agreement. "Most likely."

"Utori, unlike Kala you've been able to leave the sacred realm to travel into different worlds. Do you recognize the one were about to enter," Hikaru asked.

"No, I don't," Utori answered. "The realm were about to enter is completely new to me."

Suddenly they all felt a sharp pull on their bodies causing them to shoot forward with blinding speed.

"What's happening?" Serena screamed as they began to move forward more quickly.

"I'm gonna puke!" she wailed.

"Wooo who!" Gohan screamed.

"Yeah!" Ryo yelled.

"This is so much fun!" Hikaru laughed.

Serena moaned with nausea.

Their bodies propelled forward with increasing speed, but the journey ceased abruptly when an electrical blast exploded in front of them. A celestial voice erupted and traveled through out the sky.

"Halt!"

The four warriors and their guide opened their eyes to find themselves hovering in mid air in a foreign domain that seemed to appear from out of no where.

Gohan looked around at their new surroundings. They no longer were flying through the dimensional passageway. Below him was a white mist. He lowered himself and attempted to take foothold through the fog.

"Hey, its solid," he yelled to teammates.

They all landed touching the ground. The mist rising up only to their knees.

"Where are we?" Ryo asked looking around in awe.

"I think this is a gateway realm," Utori answered.

Swirling clouds above them emanated colors of salmon pink, brown, and gold. Their heads jerked to the front when another large bolt of energy exploded in front of them. They partially shielded their eyes with their hands from the effervescent light. Sounds of crackling electricity rang in their ears. Two large crystal spires appeared and between them a large crystal clear pyramid. Two bolts of energy shot from the top of the spires toward the apex of the pyramid filling it with electrical energy. The electricity developed itself into the feminine form of a woman. They all stared at her in awe as her features took shape. She was quite lovely, but while her beauty was magnificent, it bared an unearthly quality. It was too seemingly perfect and unnatural.

The woman floated out of the crystal pyramid. It rippled like placid water as she passed through it. Slowly she landed on the ground several yards in front of them. She wore a full-body beige unitard covered in sparkling gems that shimmered like glitter. Electricity crackled around her entire body.

Gohan blushed at first. For a moment he thought the woman was standing before them naked, but then he realized that the skintight suit she wore just blended with her complexion.

They all also noticed that she possessed no pupils or irises. Her eye sockets were filled only with white light and her skin gleamed with the same incandescent radiance. Her black hair was cut short with long jagged ends and blew in the wind surrounding them.

"I am the Eternal," she spoke. "Gatekeeper created by the ever bestowing gem of life, the Eternal Gem of Vitality."

Her voice echoed telepathically in their minds and boomed in their ears. She raised her hand and pointed toward the center of their group, but was clearly addressing them all.

"You, who seek to breach this protected and forbidden realm, your entry can not be allowed unless I deem it so!"

Utori stepped forward.

"Gatekeeper, I am Utori, apprentice to the guardian mistress of all time and dimensions. I lead the 'chosen', the Champions of Fate, on a mission to acquire the three mystic gems of time," she explained. She turned to point towards Hikaru, Ryo, Gohan, and Serena.

The Eternal neither cared nor showed disinterest in this information.

"Who you are and the significance of your journey is of no relevance to me. Present the key if you wish to pass," her voice boomed.

Serena took a step back from the intimidating deity's glare.

"What key?" she whispered to her friends.

All four stared at the woman with a clueless expression.

"Key?" Gohan shrugged.

All four warriors looked at Utori.

"Gatekeeper the Champions of Fate possess the power of Chronos. They are the 'chosen.'" Utori tried to clarify.

"Only one in possession of the Asa stone may enter through this gate. Do you possess this item or not?" the Eternal questioned.

"No, but-" Utori started.

Electrical energy blinded their vision.

The woman raised her hands together above her head to clutch a bolt of sizzling energy. The energy shot towards them. They all scattered to avoid being fried from the inside out.

"She's very strong," Gohan replied. He paused for a second. His senses told him that she got her energy from a source of immeasurable power.

"Real strong," he added.

Serena's face blushed blue with fear as she watched the woman power up further.

(AN: I know you guys are like 'Blue? Why Blue?'. Just think back to watching a Sailor Moon or DBZ episode. Sometimes whenever a character gets really scared they blush a blue color instead of red. Jeez, listen to me. I watch way too much anime. *Laughs*)

"Well, no duh!" she snapped screaming at Gohan. Then Serena looked at Utori.

"Do something!" she cried.

"Eternal, the Champions of Fate possess the power of Chronos within them," Utori tried again unsuccessful.

"Whether your companions are the 'chosen' or not they still do not possess the Asa stone," she blared, "Therefore none of you may proceed any further beyond this point."

"Well, can't just leave!" Gohan said shaking his head. "There's no way!"

"What we fight for is too important to just turn around," Hikaru replied with just as much determination.

"Sorry, but like my comrades here said lady. We're not turning around. We've come to far." Ryo stated solemnly.

Serena stood next to Utori looking frightened and speechless, but managed to pull herself together. She stepped forward with her companions and nodded.

"Uh, what they said," she replied pointing to them.

The gatekeeper had listened with deaf ears to their objections. The energy around her body continued to surge with power. The sound of crackling electricity surrounding her turned into the booming of thunder.

"You may not pass," the Eternal said restating her decision. "Leave now or else be judged as encroachers."

"Encroachers? What the heck is that?" Serena cried.

"No!" Hikaru said shaking her head again. Her voice spoke with just as much finality.

The Eternal's flashing eyes narrowed. Her energy swirled more violently in larger masses. Its light grew brighter and then suddenly exploded. They all cried out at its force.

"Then die," she thundered.