Hearts in time: Beginnings
Part Seven: Dragon fire
by Lance the Flamesniper
It had taken a week of thinking, but Lance had figured out where the Negaverse would strike next. He
found it annoying that the Oracles of Mercury spoke in riddles like they did. There were after all two planets
that were home to dragons. The part about the shadow storm confused him as well at first. Then he
remembered that the Shadow Storm style was designed after looking at the Storm that rages on Jupiter.
Jupiter was also one of the two planets that had dragons.
Lance stepped off the starliner and got his first impression of a new world. Jupiter was a rustic world
ruled by a council. It had forests of oak, apple, pine and various other fruit trees. It had sprawling farms and
massive mines. All of which made for a smell that was, for lack of a beter term, earthy and alive. But what
was even more surprising was Lance's first look at a Dragon.
There were many species of Dragons. There were Red Dragons, Bronze ones, golden ones, icy blue
ones, ivory colored ones and emerald green ones. Only Red Dragons lived on Mars. The dragon that Lance
spotted upon leaving the starliner was massive; at least thirty-six feet long and fifteen feet tall. It had fifteen
feet long wings and was covered in shimmery golden scales. It eyes were catlike with verticle slit pupils, it's
mouth was four feet long ending in two large port hole looking nostrils. It's teeth could be clearly seen and
looked to be fairly sharp. The young weaponmaster could only think of one thing to say about this impressive
reptile.
"Wow...."
"Wow indeed Boy," A familiar man replied as he walked forward along with two women.
"Greetings, Axemaster Thorn," Lance responded with a bow.
"I see that you remembered your manners Boy," Thorn replied until he got elbowed by the woman on
his right.
"So your the one who beat Thorn," She said looking the young man over appraisingly. She had fire red hair
and colbalt blue eyes. Her figure was lean and toned, speaking of a highly aerobic training style. "I'm Whipmaster
Rose and this young lady is Senshi in training Princess Lita."
Lance bowed once again, averting his eyes as all Plutonians are taught to do when meeting a royal. "It is
an honor to meet you Princess Lita," he said.
"No need for formality Weaponmaster. Please, call me Lita."
Lance nodded at that. "Very well."
"What brings you to Jupiter, boy?" Thorn asked.
"I came here because the Oracles said that there may be Negaverse movement activity here," Lance
intoned.
"We've yet to see anything out of the ordinary," Rose responded. "Was there any other information linking
them to here."
"Aside from the fact that the negaverse movement used juputari black powder to blow things up, no. However
they had to get it from somewhere as the stuff isn't an export," Lance replied causing Lita to look at him strangely.
"Something troubling you young Lita?"
"No, I'm just curious as to how you know as much as you do about our culture and economics," Lita replied.
"Even I didn't know that black powder isn't exported."
"The 'warrior pince' was well briefed it seems," Thorn responded sarcasticly.
"Warrior-prince?" Lita asked confusedly.
Lance merely glared at Thorn. "I'll explain that later. When we're not in the middle of a busy harbor."
*********
Setsuna wondered what was going on. A week and a half before she'd been summoned by the Queen only to
be dismissed claiming something had come up and that she would be called when there was a quiet moment. She
wasn't sure what had happened but apparently it had to do with the Golden Kingdom and an envoy from there arriving.
Setsuna went through her fighting forms, just as she would if she were dueling Lance. The thought of him made
her lose her concentration though. she cleared her mind and began again. The person who'd taught her this had said that
fighting was like dancing: if you had the rhythm for it, it was easy. She had just finished using a form she'd developed to
defend against the Shadow Storm when there came some polite clapping from behind her.
"Most impressive child," Queen Serenity replied. "I must appologize for our last meetig being canceled. The
Earth Prince came unexpectedly to ask for assistance in a problem."
"Forgiven my Queen," Setsuna bowed.
"Come then child," Serenity beckoned. "We have much to discuss."
*******
Onyx looked over the black powder operation with glee. He'd worked so very hard to get this powder. With it the
malevalent Moon harlots will surely fall! But first he needed to kill the heads of the council.
"Milord!" a servant yelled as he came running.
"Yes? What is it?"
"Weaponmasters lord! There are Weaponmasters On Jupiter lord. Three of them."
"Excellent! Killing three weponmasters will prove our point!" Onyx roared then laughed evilly.
"Er, yes my lord," The lackey responded.
*******
"So you're a noble prince of Pluto AND a weaponmaster?" Princess Lita asked in surprise.
"It's not any different than you being a Princess AND a Senshi," Lance replied as he polished his blade.
"And yet it is," Thorn growled. "No prince has ever been a weaponmaster."
"It speaks well of him though that he wishes to serve," Princess Lita replied.
"Yes my Princess," Rose said with a bow. "Where shall we look for these Negaverse operatives?"
"That I don't know," Lance replied. "But normally I don't know what they're up to until they strike."
"Not exactly a sucessful battle strategy if you ask me," Thorn added.
"Good thing I didn't ask you," Lance added acidicly "The facts are that we've been on the defensive so far in
this battle. We need to stop them before they start."
The other three people in the room nodded. They had work to do.
********
Onyx's lackey, Blaine, watched as the three weapon masters and the the woman with them left the home they
were staying at. There seemed to be some kind of discussion then the four split into two groups. He'd been sent to kill
the Weaponmasters had no idea how to go about it. He quickly decided that the best option would be to track the pair
that only had one weaponmaster in it, as taking on two weaponmasters would likely get him killed quickly.Silently
Blaine joined the crowds walking the street and began quietly pacing his target.
His tracking didn't go as planned. The two rounded the corner and when Blaine followed he found a blade resting
under his chin, gently pressing against his throat. "I told you we were being followed," a male voice stated.
"Seems you were right," Lita conceeded. "Think he's a negaverse operative?"
"More than likely," Lance agreed. "Tell me your plans or pay the price."
"Kill me and you'll never know where Onyx is!" Blaine claimed. He knew weaponmasters would go for this ploy
easily or so he thought.
"I'm willing to take that risk, but are you ready to die for your master?" Lance answered.
"He's serious. I've seen him like this before. You don't want to mess with him," Lita lied. She'd heard of this ploy
before from her father. 'Good cop/bad cop' he'd called it.
Blaine gulped. He'd always heard that Weaponmasters didn't kill needlessly. Could that have been a lie? The
sword pressed to his neck spoke honestly of a swift death if he didn't cooperate. Given the choices at hand, cowardice
won out.
"There's a cave east of here! Onyx is mining enough black powder to blow up the Moon palace! Don't kill me
PLEASE!" Blaine wailed.
"The moon palace?" Lance said then paled as the image of Setsuna getting blasted to atoms blazed in his
mind. "We've got to stop them!"
"We can get there quicker if we had wings," Lita responded as she blew on a whistle carved from what looked to
be polished stone. Within moments, the dragon from the port was before the two. "This is Rothgar, my friend amoung the
dragons. He'll take us to the mines. I just hope that no one was following thorn as well."
********
"Dragons are SO cool!" crooned Mika. For reasons that Bard couldn't begin to guess Mika had a true love of
dragons to the point that she'd recieved detention on many ocasions for doodling them instead of paying attention in
school.
"Yeah, they're so cool that you decided to interupt a cool story to say that," Raven shot at her.
"Come on you two. No fighting. I want to hear more about this!" Rene' growled.
With that pronouncement the Bard continued his story. "While Lance and Lita were interrogating their prisoner, Thorn
and Rose had not been idle..."
*********
Thorn looked through the bushes at the cave. he'd gotten separated from Rose in the crowd and by sheer luck had
found the Negaverse's operation. Common sense would have told him that he should go back, find Rose and Lance, then
attack. Pride however told him that if he took this operation down himself, that it would take that annoying pup who beat
him down a few notches.
In that moment his path was clear. Thorn quickly unslung his war axe and charged forward. He was met halfway by
a massive man, Easily seven and a half feet tall with skin of ebony, firey crimson eyes and carrying a pair of katanas. Thorn,
undeterred by this attacker, swung his axe.
Thorn's first swing was parried as was his next. Then it was Onyx on the attack. Thorn was barely able to dodge the
feral slashes of the massive onyx. He dodged on particularly viscious strike only to be met with a knee to the stomach. As
Thorn staggered back could see A massive winged beast Dive bombing the location.
Lance could see what was happening clearly as Rothgar divebombed the cave. Of course being that the first things the
dragon was going to drop was a warrior prince and a now fuku-clad senshi in training was a plus. Though even with the dragon's
speed Lance knew they'd be too late. From his vantage point he could clearly see that Onyx was going to win this fight.
Oynx charged. In three quick swings, Thorn was down and dead. Before Onyx could celebrate his victory though, the
Dragon swooped low and Lance launched himself from off his perch on the big beasts claws. In mid drop the warrior prince
drew his blade. Onyx barely deflected the downward slash and neatly fielded the next two cross strikes. Lance quickly went
into his Shadowstorm fighting form. The quickness of his strikes giving him a slight advantage over person with two weapons.
High strikes, low strikes and vicious crossstrike combinations melded into a dance of death that had Lita, who'd landed shortly
after him, and negaverse agents alike awestruck by it's beauty. Lance feinted right and when Onyx moved with it got one blade
kicked from his hands.
Onyx for his part smiled. Here was a challenge. No one had ever made him go on the defensive before. Suddenly he
was dodging, blocking and parrying swings that he could barely see. His blade went high only to find that he'd once again been
tricked.
"Lita, attack NOW!" Lance yelled.
"Jupiter thunder....crash!" Lita called out causing lightning to strike the upraised blade of Onyx's sword.
Onyx crashed to his knees but was still alive. "That will not kill me!"
"You're right Onyx. The penalty for killing a weapon master is the forfeiting of your life. You have fought well....go now to
the afterlife with honor... Celestial blade slash!"
Onyx roared as the arc of energy sheared through him. His body quickly began to crack then exploded into a hail of
black stones.
*********
While the battle on the ground was taking place Rothgar looped around and dove once more. He opened his massive
jaws, letting out a monsterous roar as he unleashed a torrent of devistating lightning into the Black powder mine. As he
swooped away the mountain itself imploded leaving nothing but debris.
********
Three days later Lance stands at the docks watching a Spaceliner preparing to leave. The last three days had been
difficult. Rose upon hearing of Thorn's death cried for hours on end. On some level he wondered if maybe Thorn's wounded
pride led him to this mess. Now Thorn was being loaded into a starliner, wrapped in a white sheet with his weapon at
parade rest in his hands. He'd be buried in the Hall of heroes and many toasts would be raised to his memory. For Rose it
was a time of sorrow. For Lance it was nothing short of a bittersweet win. They'd taken down Onyx and his scheme was
defeated. But they'd paid a heavy price.
"It should be raining," Lance said to Lita. He somehow knew she was behind him. She chalked it up to some strange
martial arts skill. "This world has lost a hero. It should mourn."
"Maybe the world looks to the lives saved by Thorn's sacrifice?" The princess of lightning suggested.
That got a chuckle from Lance. "Maybe. Maybe if I'd been quicker or maybe if I hadn't found the strength to best Thorn
when I became a weaponmaster, then he'd still be here. But we can't live in maybes. I understand both you and Rose are going
to the Moon Kingdom."
"Yes. I've heard that all the Senshi are to go there as soon as possible," Lita began. "I've also heard that you're not going
with us."
"I would love to go with you to the Moon kingdom," Lance replied as he touched the locket he wore. "But I'm not ready to
return there. Especially since once I return I will never wish to leave her again."
"Her?" Lita asked. "You love the Moon Kingdom that much that you would not wish to leave it again if you came back?"
That got a full laugh from the warrior prince. "No, but there is someone on the Moon that I care for greatly. As long as there
is mischief about. She's not safe and I cannot return to her. Thus, once you and the others have left I too will be leaving Jupiter.
There are rumors abounding that there is trouble on Neptune. That's where I'm off to next.
"Good journey to you then," Lita replied as she started to leave.
"Princess Lita," Lance said stopping her in her track. "Can you do for me a favor?"
"Sure," Lita asked nervously. "What do you need for me to do."
"Tell the princess of Pluto, that my faith has not waivered and above all things I could ever miss, I miss her the most."
Lita hesitated then, as her eyes widened in understanding, she nodded. "The princess of Pluto must be some woman, to
have earned the concern of a warrior such as you."
"Indeed she is," Lance said solemnly. "Indeed she is."
******
Queen Beryl looked over her newly recuited human generals. Jedite, Nephlite, Zoicite, Malachite and Obsidion. These would
be the commanders she sent to end the thefts of the arrogant immortals of the sky. The group she knew secretly hated each other,
but that didn't matter. Results would.
"The time is drawing closer. Soon we will have the power to overtake the Golden Kingdom. Form there it will be easy to
destroy the evil that is the Moon kingdom!" Beryl exclaimed.
"Yes my queen!" The five Generals responded.
"My queen," Nephlite began. "The stars reveal all to me. The water bearer has told me that a child of his rule is the one
ruining all our plans abroad."
"He will be dealt with," Beryl replied as if the topic was boring. She then waved her hand toward the shadows.
From out the Shadow stepped a large youma whose body looked to be encased in hard white armor. This mosnter had a
massive set of horns and looked very bull-like in contentance and attitude.
"This Minetaur Illustren. He will deal with this "Child of the water bearer for us once and for all!" Beryl bellowed before
laughing wickedly...
TBC
Part Seven: Dragon fire
by Lance the Flamesniper
It had taken a week of thinking, but Lance had figured out where the Negaverse would strike next. He
found it annoying that the Oracles of Mercury spoke in riddles like they did. There were after all two planets
that were home to dragons. The part about the shadow storm confused him as well at first. Then he
remembered that the Shadow Storm style was designed after looking at the Storm that rages on Jupiter.
Jupiter was also one of the two planets that had dragons.
Lance stepped off the starliner and got his first impression of a new world. Jupiter was a rustic world
ruled by a council. It had forests of oak, apple, pine and various other fruit trees. It had sprawling farms and
massive mines. All of which made for a smell that was, for lack of a beter term, earthy and alive. But what
was even more surprising was Lance's first look at a Dragon.
There were many species of Dragons. There were Red Dragons, Bronze ones, golden ones, icy blue
ones, ivory colored ones and emerald green ones. Only Red Dragons lived on Mars. The dragon that Lance
spotted upon leaving the starliner was massive; at least thirty-six feet long and fifteen feet tall. It had fifteen
feet long wings and was covered in shimmery golden scales. It eyes were catlike with verticle slit pupils, it's
mouth was four feet long ending in two large port hole looking nostrils. It's teeth could be clearly seen and
looked to be fairly sharp. The young weaponmaster could only think of one thing to say about this impressive
reptile.
"Wow...."
"Wow indeed Boy," A familiar man replied as he walked forward along with two women.
"Greetings, Axemaster Thorn," Lance responded with a bow.
"I see that you remembered your manners Boy," Thorn replied until he got elbowed by the woman on
his right.
"So your the one who beat Thorn," She said looking the young man over appraisingly. She had fire red hair
and colbalt blue eyes. Her figure was lean and toned, speaking of a highly aerobic training style. "I'm Whipmaster
Rose and this young lady is Senshi in training Princess Lita."
Lance bowed once again, averting his eyes as all Plutonians are taught to do when meeting a royal. "It is
an honor to meet you Princess Lita," he said.
"No need for formality Weaponmaster. Please, call me Lita."
Lance nodded at that. "Very well."
"What brings you to Jupiter, boy?" Thorn asked.
"I came here because the Oracles said that there may be Negaverse movement activity here," Lance
intoned.
"We've yet to see anything out of the ordinary," Rose responded. "Was there any other information linking
them to here."
"Aside from the fact that the negaverse movement used juputari black powder to blow things up, no. However
they had to get it from somewhere as the stuff isn't an export," Lance replied causing Lita to look at him strangely.
"Something troubling you young Lita?"
"No, I'm just curious as to how you know as much as you do about our culture and economics," Lita replied.
"Even I didn't know that black powder isn't exported."
"The 'warrior pince' was well briefed it seems," Thorn responded sarcasticly.
"Warrior-prince?" Lita asked confusedly.
Lance merely glared at Thorn. "I'll explain that later. When we're not in the middle of a busy harbor."
*********
Setsuna wondered what was going on. A week and a half before she'd been summoned by the Queen only to
be dismissed claiming something had come up and that she would be called when there was a quiet moment. She
wasn't sure what had happened but apparently it had to do with the Golden Kingdom and an envoy from there arriving.
Setsuna went through her fighting forms, just as she would if she were dueling Lance. The thought of him made
her lose her concentration though. she cleared her mind and began again. The person who'd taught her this had said that
fighting was like dancing: if you had the rhythm for it, it was easy. She had just finished using a form she'd developed to
defend against the Shadow Storm when there came some polite clapping from behind her.
"Most impressive child," Queen Serenity replied. "I must appologize for our last meetig being canceled. The
Earth Prince came unexpectedly to ask for assistance in a problem."
"Forgiven my Queen," Setsuna bowed.
"Come then child," Serenity beckoned. "We have much to discuss."
*******
Onyx looked over the black powder operation with glee. He'd worked so very hard to get this powder. With it the
malevalent Moon harlots will surely fall! But first he needed to kill the heads of the council.
"Milord!" a servant yelled as he came running.
"Yes? What is it?"
"Weaponmasters lord! There are Weaponmasters On Jupiter lord. Three of them."
"Excellent! Killing three weponmasters will prove our point!" Onyx roared then laughed evilly.
"Er, yes my lord," The lackey responded.
*******
"So you're a noble prince of Pluto AND a weaponmaster?" Princess Lita asked in surprise.
"It's not any different than you being a Princess AND a Senshi," Lance replied as he polished his blade.
"And yet it is," Thorn growled. "No prince has ever been a weaponmaster."
"It speaks well of him though that he wishes to serve," Princess Lita replied.
"Yes my Princess," Rose said with a bow. "Where shall we look for these Negaverse operatives?"
"That I don't know," Lance replied. "But normally I don't know what they're up to until they strike."
"Not exactly a sucessful battle strategy if you ask me," Thorn added.
"Good thing I didn't ask you," Lance added acidicly "The facts are that we've been on the defensive so far in
this battle. We need to stop them before they start."
The other three people in the room nodded. They had work to do.
********
Onyx's lackey, Blaine, watched as the three weapon masters and the the woman with them left the home they
were staying at. There seemed to be some kind of discussion then the four split into two groups. He'd been sent to kill
the Weaponmasters had no idea how to go about it. He quickly decided that the best option would be to track the pair
that only had one weaponmaster in it, as taking on two weaponmasters would likely get him killed quickly.Silently
Blaine joined the crowds walking the street and began quietly pacing his target.
His tracking didn't go as planned. The two rounded the corner and when Blaine followed he found a blade resting
under his chin, gently pressing against his throat. "I told you we were being followed," a male voice stated.
"Seems you were right," Lita conceeded. "Think he's a negaverse operative?"
"More than likely," Lance agreed. "Tell me your plans or pay the price."
"Kill me and you'll never know where Onyx is!" Blaine claimed. He knew weaponmasters would go for this ploy
easily or so he thought.
"I'm willing to take that risk, but are you ready to die for your master?" Lance answered.
"He's serious. I've seen him like this before. You don't want to mess with him," Lita lied. She'd heard of this ploy
before from her father. 'Good cop/bad cop' he'd called it.
Blaine gulped. He'd always heard that Weaponmasters didn't kill needlessly. Could that have been a lie? The
sword pressed to his neck spoke honestly of a swift death if he didn't cooperate. Given the choices at hand, cowardice
won out.
"There's a cave east of here! Onyx is mining enough black powder to blow up the Moon palace! Don't kill me
PLEASE!" Blaine wailed.
"The moon palace?" Lance said then paled as the image of Setsuna getting blasted to atoms blazed in his
mind. "We've got to stop them!"
"We can get there quicker if we had wings," Lita responded as she blew on a whistle carved from what looked to
be polished stone. Within moments, the dragon from the port was before the two. "This is Rothgar, my friend amoung the
dragons. He'll take us to the mines. I just hope that no one was following thorn as well."
********
"Dragons are SO cool!" crooned Mika. For reasons that Bard couldn't begin to guess Mika had a true love of
dragons to the point that she'd recieved detention on many ocasions for doodling them instead of paying attention in
school.
"Yeah, they're so cool that you decided to interupt a cool story to say that," Raven shot at her.
"Come on you two. No fighting. I want to hear more about this!" Rene' growled.
With that pronouncement the Bard continued his story. "While Lance and Lita were interrogating their prisoner, Thorn
and Rose had not been idle..."
*********
Thorn looked through the bushes at the cave. he'd gotten separated from Rose in the crowd and by sheer luck had
found the Negaverse's operation. Common sense would have told him that he should go back, find Rose and Lance, then
attack. Pride however told him that if he took this operation down himself, that it would take that annoying pup who beat
him down a few notches.
In that moment his path was clear. Thorn quickly unslung his war axe and charged forward. He was met halfway by
a massive man, Easily seven and a half feet tall with skin of ebony, firey crimson eyes and carrying a pair of katanas. Thorn,
undeterred by this attacker, swung his axe.
Thorn's first swing was parried as was his next. Then it was Onyx on the attack. Thorn was barely able to dodge the
feral slashes of the massive onyx. He dodged on particularly viscious strike only to be met with a knee to the stomach. As
Thorn staggered back could see A massive winged beast Dive bombing the location.
Lance could see what was happening clearly as Rothgar divebombed the cave. Of course being that the first things the
dragon was going to drop was a warrior prince and a now fuku-clad senshi in training was a plus. Though even with the dragon's
speed Lance knew they'd be too late. From his vantage point he could clearly see that Onyx was going to win this fight.
Oynx charged. In three quick swings, Thorn was down and dead. Before Onyx could celebrate his victory though, the
Dragon swooped low and Lance launched himself from off his perch on the big beasts claws. In mid drop the warrior prince
drew his blade. Onyx barely deflected the downward slash and neatly fielded the next two cross strikes. Lance quickly went
into his Shadowstorm fighting form. The quickness of his strikes giving him a slight advantage over person with two weapons.
High strikes, low strikes and vicious crossstrike combinations melded into a dance of death that had Lita, who'd landed shortly
after him, and negaverse agents alike awestruck by it's beauty. Lance feinted right and when Onyx moved with it got one blade
kicked from his hands.
Onyx for his part smiled. Here was a challenge. No one had ever made him go on the defensive before. Suddenly he
was dodging, blocking and parrying swings that he could barely see. His blade went high only to find that he'd once again been
tricked.
"Lita, attack NOW!" Lance yelled.
"Jupiter thunder....crash!" Lita called out causing lightning to strike the upraised blade of Onyx's sword.
Onyx crashed to his knees but was still alive. "That will not kill me!"
"You're right Onyx. The penalty for killing a weapon master is the forfeiting of your life. You have fought well....go now to
the afterlife with honor... Celestial blade slash!"
Onyx roared as the arc of energy sheared through him. His body quickly began to crack then exploded into a hail of
black stones.
*********
While the battle on the ground was taking place Rothgar looped around and dove once more. He opened his massive
jaws, letting out a monsterous roar as he unleashed a torrent of devistating lightning into the Black powder mine. As he
swooped away the mountain itself imploded leaving nothing but debris.
********
Three days later Lance stands at the docks watching a Spaceliner preparing to leave. The last three days had been
difficult. Rose upon hearing of Thorn's death cried for hours on end. On some level he wondered if maybe Thorn's wounded
pride led him to this mess. Now Thorn was being loaded into a starliner, wrapped in a white sheet with his weapon at
parade rest in his hands. He'd be buried in the Hall of heroes and many toasts would be raised to his memory. For Rose it
was a time of sorrow. For Lance it was nothing short of a bittersweet win. They'd taken down Onyx and his scheme was
defeated. But they'd paid a heavy price.
"It should be raining," Lance said to Lita. He somehow knew she was behind him. She chalked it up to some strange
martial arts skill. "This world has lost a hero. It should mourn."
"Maybe the world looks to the lives saved by Thorn's sacrifice?" The princess of lightning suggested.
That got a chuckle from Lance. "Maybe. Maybe if I'd been quicker or maybe if I hadn't found the strength to best Thorn
when I became a weaponmaster, then he'd still be here. But we can't live in maybes. I understand both you and Rose are going
to the Moon Kingdom."
"Yes. I've heard that all the Senshi are to go there as soon as possible," Lita began. "I've also heard that you're not going
with us."
"I would love to go with you to the Moon kingdom," Lance replied as he touched the locket he wore. "But I'm not ready to
return there. Especially since once I return I will never wish to leave her again."
"Her?" Lita asked. "You love the Moon Kingdom that much that you would not wish to leave it again if you came back?"
That got a full laugh from the warrior prince. "No, but there is someone on the Moon that I care for greatly. As long as there
is mischief about. She's not safe and I cannot return to her. Thus, once you and the others have left I too will be leaving Jupiter.
There are rumors abounding that there is trouble on Neptune. That's where I'm off to next.
"Good journey to you then," Lita replied as she started to leave.
"Princess Lita," Lance said stopping her in her track. "Can you do for me a favor?"
"Sure," Lita asked nervously. "What do you need for me to do."
"Tell the princess of Pluto, that my faith has not waivered and above all things I could ever miss, I miss her the most."
Lita hesitated then, as her eyes widened in understanding, she nodded. "The princess of Pluto must be some woman, to
have earned the concern of a warrior such as you."
"Indeed she is," Lance said solemnly. "Indeed she is."
******
Queen Beryl looked over her newly recuited human generals. Jedite, Nephlite, Zoicite, Malachite and Obsidion. These would
be the commanders she sent to end the thefts of the arrogant immortals of the sky. The group she knew secretly hated each other,
but that didn't matter. Results would.
"The time is drawing closer. Soon we will have the power to overtake the Golden Kingdom. Form there it will be easy to
destroy the evil that is the Moon kingdom!" Beryl exclaimed.
"Yes my queen!" The five Generals responded.
"My queen," Nephlite began. "The stars reveal all to me. The water bearer has told me that a child of his rule is the one
ruining all our plans abroad."
"He will be dealt with," Beryl replied as if the topic was boring. She then waved her hand toward the shadows.
From out the Shadow stepped a large youma whose body looked to be encased in hard white armor. This mosnter had a
massive set of horns and looked very bull-like in contentance and attitude.
"This Minetaur Illustren. He will deal with this "Child of the water bearer for us once and for all!" Beryl bellowed before
laughing wickedly...
TBC