A/N: GOMEN NASAI MINA-SAN!!!! It's taken this long to update because I keep getting distracted with other things. *Hits herself* bad Rhea! Bad!!! Anyways…I had a few things I was going to respond to here. So you'd better read!
Ahem, to Saturnpyroprincess: Concerning your comment about Kioko being seemingly perfect, I'm going to have to say that you're definition of perfect has been slandered quite a bit. Kioko is not perfect! She has many flaws and I can name quite a few of them off the top of my head, *Glances at Kioko who is holding a knife* but I'm not going to! Anyways, now for the serious response. Yes, I know you mean perfect as in gets-her-way-a-lot-and-has-everyone-scared-of-her type thing, just remember, there is a reason.
Secondly, to Pudding: Ah, so we're making demands now are we? Number one, if updating isn't happening, it isn't happening. Number two, Draco is a hunk? *Looks at description of Draco Malfoy in her Harry Potter book* Hm, well it doesn't say that he isn't…but I always thought of him as being a bit shrimpy. Oh well! Number three: So I spelled weak wrong! I spell a lot of things wrong, and so do you. You hath many a spelling and grammar error in thine review. It's not me, it's the English language!!! It's just so darn hard to spell, PERIOD!
Anyways, enjoy the ficy.
"When I take hold of the Silence Glaive, I'll do anything to accomplish my mission, I won't give up, and I won't tolerate anyone standing in my way. I become more serious and probably a realist, but it is necessary that I undergo a change when holding my glaive, else I'd never use it." Hotaru told them.
"Ah, I get it now. Yeah, it makes sense. But man, it was like you were someone else entirely!!!" Kioko exclaimed. She then chuckled, "I think you freaked out Dudley and his gang as well. The looks on their faces when they saw you use the glaive was priceless enough, but when you yelled at them as though you were an adult scolding a child." Kioko sighed, "It was blackmail to the highest degree." She said, grinning largely.
"I don't like it." Harry stated. The two turned and looked at him questioningly. "I don't like the person you become, it just isn't you." He told her.
Hotaru smiled comfortingly, "It's necessary. Would you rather I try teaching you with a different glaive?" she asked.
"If it'd keep you from changing." Harry nodded.
"Okay, we'll go see Kin again today." Kioko suggested. "By the way, didn't you say that your foster parents were coming over some time this week?" She asked.
"It was actually last week, but they had to move it to this week, something came up I suppose." Hotaru replied.
"Ah, I see."
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Kioko sighed, "It's too boring around here." She said lazily. She looked over at Draco and then Harry, who were both just lazing on separate articles of furniture, "Why aren't you two fighting today?" She asked.
"Frankly, my mother's being a you-know-what and I don't have anything left to be her son towards Potter." Draco replied, gaining some involuntary snickers from Harry and Kioko both.
"Okay, so a sleepy air could be cause for boredom, but really. It's been 3 whole days since Hotaru got her new glaive; we've already practiced today, something needs to happen!" Kioko exclaimed.
Suddenly there was a large banging noise at the front door of the Dursley's house. Then they heard a very familiar voice yell, "DURSLEY!!!"
Kioko jerked up and a large grin spread on her face. "Bingo!"
Draco looked at Kioko, "Do the gods cater to your whim?" He asked distastefully.
"It must be a gift." Kioko declaired, already at the basement door. The three heard the front door open only moments later and Kioko's voice, "Why hello Haruka! The Dursleys ran that a way, but Malfoy's downstairs visiting with Hotaru in case you'd rather go after him instead." Thundering steps could be heard nearing the basement.
"Night you traitor!!!" Draco yelled before ducking underneath the couch to hide (It had originally been that high for Kioko's cats).
"I was never on your side, Draco dear." Kioko said as she and Haruka came down stairs.
"Haruka-papa! Please!!!" Hotaru exclaimed, trying to stop her murderous father figure, but it was too late, she found Draco.
"HA-RU-KA!!!" Michiru yelled.
"We are extremely sorry for Haruka's behavior, Mr. and Mrs. Dursley." Setsuna said.
"I'm not." Haruka grumbled.
"Haruka!" Michiru elbowed the wind senshi.
Thankfully things calmed down, Hotaru and Kioko were in the center of the Dursley's couch, Harry on the other side of Kioko and Draco on the other side of Hotaru sitting there nursing his swelling jaw with an ice pack. Michiru and Haruka were standing by the doorway while Setsuna stood before the Dursleys.
"Well, so long as you leave my house right now everything will be fine!" Vernon told them.
"Daaaaaaaaaad," Dudley said through clentched teeth, "Do you have any idea who he-she is?" He asked pointing to Haruka-papa. "That's Haruka Teiou, she won the world drag race championship!"
"And you're Michel Keiou! World renown violinist!" Petunia gasped.
"It's pronounced Michiru, but yeah." Michiru-mama answered.
"Anyway," Setsuna started, "we'll leave before you know it, but we need a word with the kids first. And we'll do it in the basement so you won't even know we're here." She said.
"Well…okay. Just…keep it down." Vernon instructed.
(A/N: Writing down their exit from the living room and entrance to the basement is unnecessary and time consuming. Therefore I am blessing you with another scene change! Yes, I am a lazy bum ^_^ and proud of it!!!)
"First question, what's he doing here?!" Haruka demanded, pointing at Draco.
"He's here to see Hotaru, what do you think?" Michiru answered.
"Hotaru, come sit over by Haruka-papa will you?" Haruka asked sweetly, making a place for Hotaru on her couch.
Kioko and Draco both clamped on to either of Hotaru's arms. Which ticked Haruka off to no end (mind you, Kioko had nothing to do with it). "GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY—"
"HARUKA!!!" Michiru snapped, grabbing Haruka and making her sit back down. Haruka proceeded to glare menacingly at Draco, who was continuing to hold Hotaru's arm in defiance whereas Kioko decided it safe to let go.
"Anyway. The biggest reason we are here is because of our new Senshi, Sailor Tarterus." All three of them gave Kioko rather scolding looks.
"What?" Kioko asked, genuinely confused this time.
Hotaru sighed, "Well…you aren't the most trustworthy person when it comes to power." She said.
"We're going to have to forbid you from transforming during school brake, unless there is a life and death emergency. And even then we can't let you transform because, most likely, Hotaru will be able to take care of it." Michiru said.
"You think I'm going to—Hotaru, don't look at me like that." Kioko said, "Okay, this is worse than sighing and shaking your head, stop looking at me like that! I'm not going to, I'm not!" She exclaimed.
"Kioko, I don't want to do this, but I'm not going to let you disobey them." She said.
"What?! Come on Hotaru, this isn't fair. How come she can transform but not me?" Kioko demanded to the others.
"Because she is much older than she appears to be, and she is also not going to swing her glaive at someone just because they've annoyed her." Setsuna said firmly.
"Kioko, please, this isn't the time to be resisting authority. The others are right, you could really hurt someone if you weren't careful!" Hotaru begged.
Kioko bit her bottom lip and glared at the two boys, making sure they kept their silence. "Fine, I won't transform without Hotaru's permission, but I'm not doing it for you." She said to the three.
"Unless it has to do with Mistress 9, then you will be allowed to transform." Setsuna added.
"Yeah, yeah, okay whatever. Is that all?" Kioko asked, looking pretty ticked off. But they pretty much ignored her.
Hotaru closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and opened them again. "Did you know there were so many reborn Saturnarians?" She asked in little more than a whisper.
The three turned to her, wide eyed, and questioning. "No, we didn't." They said.
"Almost all of the Death Eaters are Saturnarians, and there are more. Voldemort also said…that…Chaos was Saturnarian." Hotaru whispered.
The room felt so still and quiet, Hotaru stared at her hands to avoid eye contact. How were they taking it? What were they thinking? If they hadn't known Voldemort was being possessed by Chaos, this would be a big surprise for them all.
"It's, a bit much to swallow, but don't worry. That probably has nothing to do with this. It doesn't really matter that there Saturnarian, does it?" Haruka asked, turning to Setsuna.
"I'm afraid it does." Setsuna sighed. "I was hoping he hadn't told you." She said.
"How much do you know?" Harry questioned.
"Not much. Apparently the Moon Kingdom tried to erase all data on Saturn, there is one record, but I don't know where it is. I just know that something horrible happened on Saturn, and the other planets were too scared to help them. They kept coming up with excuses, even the Queen was afraid." Setsuna said.
'Oh so we're cowards now?' Kioko questioned.
'Kioko, please! We still don't know all the details!' Hotaru exclaimed.
'I'm sorry Hotaru, but it sounds to me like this Queen just wanted Saturn out of the way.' Kioko said.
'Let's give it a rest for now.' Harry suggested.
'Later we can explain what this is all about, riiiiight?' Draco said.
'Whatever, Malfoy.' Harry grumbled back.
"Um, Setsuna is it just me or are they speaking to each other?" Haruka questioned.
"Didn't you know? Harry and Draco are both Saturnarian as well. They can all communicate by using the single most difficult language to learn, hear, and speak." Setsuna replied. "I knew those two were of Saturn, as well as Silver, but I thought they were the only ones. Well, until recently I didn't know Kioko was Sailor Tarterus, so now we know she's Saturnarian. But I'm having a hard time believing that Voldemort and Chaos are from that planet as well. The only question is, why would Chaos want Saturn to rule?"
"Our theory is he doesn't, he's just using Riddle to get to the senshi." Hotaru told them.
"Riddle?" Draco questioned.
"Voldemort's name on Saturn." Harry replied.
"That's very likely." Setsuna considered.
"So, do you have any idea what this big tragedy was?" Kioko questioned.
"Silver said something that makes it seem as though it had something to do with Hotaru." Harry told them.
"We think it might have been Mistress 9." Hotaru added.
There was a pause, then the two Outers turned to Setsuna, "And Silver didn't tell you any of this?!" Haruka demanded.
"Haruka, Silver is one of the few Saturnarians who remember a lot of the past. Saturn didn't exactly favor the other planets during the Silver Millennium. There was a lot of prejudice going around because they lost hold of the ruling position due to the previous queen's death." Setsuna said.
"Can you blame him?" Kioko snorted. "Apparently Saturn was winning the Sailor Wars when queen decided to form the Silver Alliance starting with the moon. Then Selenity turned around and took control during Saturn's weakness." She said.
Hotaru shut her eyes and put her hands over her ears just as Haruka exploded. "YOU TAKE THAT BACK!!!"
Why, oh why, oh why does this have to happen? Hotaru asked mentally.
"Why should I?!" Kioko demanded.
Kioko always has to mix things up…
"How dare you disrespect your queen!!!" Haruka exclaimed.
Oh, Haruka-papa don't say that…
"My Queen is sitting right next to me!"
Oh no you don't, leave me out of this. Hotaru scooted a bit closer to Draco, who put his arm around her shoulder.
"HER QUEEN IS ALSO YOUR QUEEN! TAKE IT BACK!!!" Haruka bellowed.
Stop it, stop it! Hotaru begged mentally, holding her head to try and push back all the animosity in the room.
"I DON'T HOLD ANY LOYALTIES WHATSOEVER TO YOUR QUEEN!!!" Kioko yelled right back, standing up in her seat.
"SILENT EMBRYO RUPTURE!!!" Hotaru yelled. Suddenly, everything went deathly quiet. Her eyes shot open, finding the room had been converted to a color scale of black and violet. It was as if nothing but she was permitted to move, at all. Everyone had been in the middle of jerking their heads towards her when the…spell had taken effect. It was all so still, so quiet, how did she do that? And more importantly, how was she going to undo it?
'Why would you want to? It's just so peaceful this way, don't you think?' a familiar voice seemed to whisper in her mind. 'They aren't fighting any more, just leave them this way.'
'Mistress 9?' Hotaru questioned, it didn't sound like Mistress 9's voice. It sounded, empty, emotionless, yet soothing at the same time.
'Wouldn't it be wonderful if the universe were all cast under the same spell? No more fighting, no more pain, no more suffering. Utter piece for everyone.' It whispered, ignoring her question.
'Who are you?!' Hotaru demanded, that was not like Mistress 9 at all.
'All of them would be able to stay in their own sweet dreams. What a wonderful spell, why don't you cast it on everythi—?'
"No!" Hotaru exclaimed, clutching her head. The voice was suddenly cut off by another, this time she knew what it was. It was Mistress 9's laughter.
It was like everything shattered, and suddenly everyone was moving again, they all looked at her.
"How…" Michiru whispered.
Hotaru clutched her head and tried to fight down all the laughing ringing in her ears.
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Journal Entry, Thoughts: I'm not sure exactly what's going on, the fact that I actually accomplished a powerful attack outside of my senshi form is surprising enough. But now I find that someone's speaking to me, an empty female voice that occasionally I've been hearing. Maybe it's the woman I see sometimes in my dreams, the one with the kind lavender eyes that looks somewhat like Cosmos. But she looked so caring and soft, I doubt her voice would sound so, so, emotionless. Maybe she is Cosmos, trying to help me. I'll have to ask Usagi-chan next time I see her. Hopefully I will sometime soon.
It's been so long sense I've written in this book, I've almost forgotten about it. Though it's still giving me blank pages when I ask it about Saturn or about Mistress 9. Come to think of it, no one but Kioko knows about this book, I wonder where it came from. How did my grandma get it?
I want to know the answers to all these mysteries, and yet I don't. It seems the more we know the harder it is to move on, and the more power I seem to obtain. After the others left, it's like I can do anything without a wand now. I just feel…able. I don't know what it is exactly, and it's starting to scare me.
I've been looking back at a few of my entries, such as the times when Ryuuza was being a jerk to me and the time when my Papa died. Once or twice I found that during these times I thought it couldn't get any worse. I was so wrong, it can always get worse, and for me, it seems like that's all it's doing. But I also remembered something, something that made me look at the pretty silver ring I always wore. I promised my Papa that I wouldn't give up, and I intend to keep that promise no matter how hard things get.
Well, I guess I could get on with some other things that have been going on. Mrs. Dursley has been eyeing the necklace Ryuuza gave me every time I wear it. But I've got little to fear, she's not going to take it right off my neck and I won't take it off else I put it in sub-space. Speaking of Ryuuza, he was finally put to light on the entire scenario with Chaos, Saturn, and the Silver Alliance. I didn't really expect him to see it the way I do, mainly because Kioko had a big part in explaining things, but it would have been nice if he'd at least considered the other side of the story concerning Saturn. He thinks the same as Kioko, that Selenity was power-hungry. I doubt they'd think that if they ever met Selenity in person. I think she is a truly caring soul, there has to be a good reason why she didn't help Saturn, there has to be!
I don't think Glaive practices would be advancing this slowly if Saturn were teaching the two, but it seems that Harry and Kioko both are only beginning to know their weapons. But neither of them like it when my senshi side comes out, so I guess it has to go both ways. Besides, the two of them seem like naturals anyways. They should be able to do more advanced katas by the time school starts up again.
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Journal Entry: It's been about a week since the other Outers came over, and Kioko got bored again. I can't really blame her, we have very little to do nowadays because we've already finished our homework. Well she decided to spend the rest of the summer learning how to levitate without a broom. That's been taking up most of her time, so now it's just Harry and me who need to find something else to do.
We can't do more than one Glaive practices a day, and even them we are sometimes forbidden. Mr. and Mrs. Dursley are scared someone might see us because we have to do it in the back yard (Kioko's glaive is enough like mine that if it hit the wall in a slash it'd probably shatter the dimension spell).
But something interesting did happen today, it had nothing to do with our current events, but it was rather funny.
It seems Dudley has taken a fascination with snake sculptures and 'bought' a very life like replica of a snake to set at the dining table, even though Mrs. Dursley despises snakes. The morning he set it up the three of us just stared at it for a while, it was very life-like.
Then Harry accidentally said, to Kioko, "Whoever made that was really good." Only it came out as a hiss.
Everyone looked at him, the Dursleys looked appalled as though he had done that to try and scare them. Kioko, however, snickered and got an idea. Heaven help us.
"[Let's speak in parcel tongue!]" She hissed.
"Let's not." Harry said, forcing his eyes away from the statue so he didn't hiss. He looked down at his packsacks instead.
"[Awwwww, come on!]" Kioko begged.
"I don't want to." Harry replied.
"[You're mother wore army boots!]" Kioko exclaimed, Harry just looked at her. Meanwhile, I was watching the two with a blank expression on my face, wondering how in the world I could understand them. Though the answer is obvious, I have to be a parcel tongue as well.
"That was…rather lame." Harry told her.
"Yeah you're right, okay, how about this. [Your hair is dirty and you're eyes are like rotten green apples!]"
"[Yeah? Well your hair looks like someone draped a satin cloth over it.]"
"What are you doing?" Mr. Dursley said slowly and dangerously.
"We're speaking in snake!" Kioko replied, she then turned back to Harry, "[Insult not the hair foul being of…the moon!]" Kioko exclaimed. That was going a bit far, I shot her a rather stern look.
"[Stop it please. Let's speak normally now.]" I hissed to them.
They both looked at me blankly, in fact they were all looking at me. But then Kioko grinned and scribbled something on a piece of paper. She then held it up to everyone. It said "Hisss!"
For a while I didn't get it, both Kioko and Harry were laughing really hard. I tried to figure out what the sign meant, only to find that it didn't mean anything. Then I started giggling uncontrollably.
"Oh man," Kioko snickered setting the paper down. "That was bad."
"Hey, if Hotaru is Parcel tongue too, you think most of…us are as well?" Harry asked, refraining from using Saturnarian because of the Dursleys.
"I dunno, let's write a letter to Draco and see. We can say, 'Hisss!'." Kioko said, pronouncing the word instead of speaking it. That got a bit of laughing from everyone.
"That's it! The statue is going!" Mrs. Dursley suddenly exclaimed.
And after that I doubt we'll ever see the statue again. The Dursleys have been giving us odd looks all day. Later on Kioko and Harry started laughing about how their little insult competition was pathetic. They then tried it again, though it turned into a practical joke the two played on the Dursleys by dying Harry's hair blond and having him make sure each one of them saw him. I didn't protest much, Harry looked like he was having so much fun, even though it was the revenge type fun that is Kioko's definition of fun. But at least he was happy, right?
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The battlefield was littered with bodies, blackened, sickening, and rotting bodies. Each who's face was twisted with the utmost horror and pain. And not just the bodies of men, women and children could be found among the rest, looking just as grotesque.
In the center of all the destruction and death, a dark figure stood and looked down upon the wreckage. Her eyes were shaded with her hair, her skin had a blue tent to it, her clothes were like shadows, and a satisfied smirk played upon the figures lips. In her hand she held the symbol of Saturn's might, the Silence Glaive.
The figure raised her head up, her eyes were nearly visible.
"AAAAHHH!!!" Hotaru shrieked, jerking straight up in her bed. Her eyes were wide open, seeing a play of shadows along her walls move like smoke. Her breaths were making the shadows flinch and falter backwards. Her movement had caused them to leave, and they stayed away because of her breathing.
Only a moment later the room looked normal again, she stopped seeing the shadows. But something dripped down from her forehead. Hotaru whipped it off her face and looked at it, blood. Her forehead was bleeding again, and she was starting to hear whispering. A few voices at once were whispering, and their voices were starting to get clearer.
Hotaru cried out, it felt as though her head had just exploded from the inside, and Mistress 9 was laughing so loudly. What was going on!?
"Hotaru?!" Kioko suddenly busted into her room. "What's wrong!? We heard you scream!" She exclaimed, running over to Hotaru's side.
"I think it's Mistress 9!" Hotaru gasped, her headache, as well as the laughing, was abating, thankfully. "I-I think it really was Mistress 9, I think she's the cause of Saturn's tragedy!" she exclaimed.
"Yeah, whatever, that's nice. But why did you scream?" Kioko asked, sitting down on Hotaru's bed beside her while Harry turned on the light. "Gya! Harry did you have to do that?" Kioko exclaimed, putting her hands over her eyes.
"Sorry." Harry apologized. He then turned the light off and went for a lamp.
"I, had a nightmare. And right afterwards my head just exploded and her laughter just keeps ringing in my ears." Hotaru explained, rubbing her ears as though she actually heard it with them.
"You're also bleeding on your forehead again, that hasn't happened in a while has it?" Kioko asked, looking around for some cloth. She gave up and handed Hotaru an extra sheet that was kept under the bed.
"No…" Hotaru sighed and started moping up her blood with the sheet.
Harry sat down at the foot of Hotaru's bed. "So what now? It's too close to morning so I know I'm not going to get back to sleep." He said.
"It's only 5:00," Kioko commented. "Oh well, we can fall asleep eating breakfast. And then explain to the Dursleys why were up so late by having Hotaru explain to them her nightmare with excruciating detail." She said.
There was a pause, Hotaru and Harry were looking at Kioko. "Wait…how would I…?" Kioko trailed off, "You haven't even told us what it was about, why am I scheming already?" She asked.
"You saw it too didn't you?" Hotaru whispered after a pause.
"S-saw what? I didn't have a nightmare!" Kioko defended stubbornly. Harry and Hotaru looked at each other.
"Yes you did, and so did I." Harry said.
Kioko gulped, "I was hoping it was just a nightmare anyways…" She said.
"There were bodies weren't there?" Harry asked the two, looking a bit disgusted at thinking of it, "Bodies of people who looked to be rotting." He shuddered.
"And a shadow among them." Kioko added.
"Who never showed her eyes." Hotaru finished.
For a few moments no one spoke. They were all relaying their similar nightmares within their heads. Then finally, Kioko spoke. "But if you had this nightmare, Harry and I had this nightmare, would that mean that all Saturnarians might have had it as well?" She asked.
"Maybe." Hotaru nodded.
"Maybe not. It was Hotaru's nightmare because she ended it. It could be that only those close to her had this nightmare." Harry said.
"You're right. Normally I can get out of my nightmares." Kioko sighed. "I wonder if the Dursleys saw it as well, and not just us."
"Let's hope not, we don't know how far a range Hotaru's nightmare might have had. The entire town could have seen it." Harry added.
"We can ask if Draco saw it too." Hotaru said.
"And Silver." Kioko added.
"If they saw it, you think Voldemort saw it as well?" Harry asked.
"Maybe," Kioko sighed. "He'd know it was Hotaru too. I heard you scream in my mind, and saw a vague image of you with your arms up like this," Kioko put her arms up so that they were perpendicular to her body. Harry bit his lip and nodded in agreement.
Yes, Hotaru knew that position. Even if Kioko and Harry didn't. There was probably a bit of gore in the image as well according to the looks on their faces. They had seen her being hung on her cross, and it was scaring all of them.
"Should we tell the others?" Harry asked.
"Why?" Kioko spat.
"Kioko!" Hotaru exclaimed, even though she was oppose to telling them as well. Especially if it meant going into detail. Those images would haunt the backs of all their eyelids for a while.
A/N: KiSS is evil, never play with KiSS dolls! They evil, they addictive, AND THEY'RE SO MUCH FUN TO MAKE!!!
Kioko: Feel better?
Rhea: Yeah. I think. Got to to learn more about KiSS!!!
Kioko: *Sighs and hits her head on the wall*