Senshi Academy of Zephyrus Prime
Chapter three
Rumors and the Next Battle
Disclaimer: The concept of Sailor Moon and Sailor Senshi is copyright Takeuchi Naoko and whomever else holds the copyright. The new characters are copyright, so to speak, Erin-hime (me). I'm not making any money off of this, as you generally know.
A small pink form dashed through the hallways, intent that no one was going to stop he on the way to her destination. She had to be quick, for, at any even moment, the students could be let out of their meal, and there was a large possibility she could be stepped on, for no one ever looks down anymore, it seems.
Down the Upper Class hallway she stealthfully moved, coming up to a doorway she was familiar with. She had come in there countless times with her master, for the room belonged to two of her friends, Melody Draca, and Angelica. Which ends up being sort of funny, because Melody can't stand Angelica. But that wasn't her purpose today.
The door was slightly creaked open, such that no one could tell it was open. But she knew it was. Melody left it like that for her sake, as did her master. She pawed at the door several times before it opened, where she then sneaked into the room, safe at last.
The room was dark, naturally, but she had keen eyesight, and could see everything nearly perfect. She easily jumped on one of the beds, and turned to the nightstand, where a small animal bed sat. Another small form, this one with golden scaled instead of pink fur, lay curled up in peaceful slumber. If one didn't know better, he would think it was simply a scaly golden ball.
The pink for jabbed at the golden one, causing it to jump slightly before lifting it's head. This form was a dragon, abut a small one, and gave the pink form an evil look with it's light green eyes.
'What do you want, Eurus?'
The pink cat snorted, and sat on a pillow. "Please don't tell me Melody didn't tell you what happened yesterday, Vulcan."
Vulcan blinked 'You know more than anyone that no one tells me anything, much less Melody.'
Eurus sighed. "Your charge was attacked, Vulcan, along with Erin, Patrick, and Mickel."
Vulcan pulled himself up, concerned this time. 'When did this happen? And why wasn't I able to tell?'
"It happened right after lunch, and Melody walked away uninjured from the attack. She's, for what Erin told me, the one who really pushed the attackers away. She probably didn't want to talk about it. You know Melody."
'That's what concerns me. I /i know Melody, and I would think she would know me enough to tell me when she's been attacked!" He ruffled his wings a little in annoyance.
"She probably would have told you sooner or later; she probably just wasn't ready yet. This was, after all, the first time they encountered something like this."
Vulcan thought for a moment to himself. 'Do you think it's him again?'
"Depends. Who's him?"
Vulcan blinked again. 'Haven't you paid attention to history?'
Eurus meowed slightly. "Considering I was a regular old feline before they decided to make into this guardian thing, I should say not. Is there something I need to know?"
Vulcan shook his head. 'It's just a story about an ancient evil that may have possibly come back for revenge on our girls. I can't be certain through, because it's been such a long time ago.'
Eurus nodded. "I highly doubt it's anyone that old. These senshi sounded too inexperienced to have come from something old."
'Possibly your right, but I'll keep an ear out just in case.'
Eurus nodded. "I just hope this thing doesn't come back and bite us, if you know what I mean."
~*~
Erin sat calmly on her bed, writing utensil placing precisely between her teeth and her brow knitted in concentration. In her lap sat a small computer, which she poked at now and then with her index finger. This didn't make any sense. She keyed in a few words into a search, and the answer seemed to confuse her more.
"Come on, Mousie. It shouldn't take all that long to come up with an answer."
Erin looked up at Terra, and the rest of her friends sitting in varied positions on her floor. They were having an after classes study session, in her room of course, with a slightly annoyed Jenna sitting on her own bed, attempting to study. Erin sighed.
"It says it's a globular cluster, but I'm so sure that's wrong."
Melody flipped through her astronomy book in her own lap. "No, that's what it says here as well."
"Ok, then the answer's globular cluster, it's that easy. Ok, now the next question..."
"Terra, how can you be so sure? I mean, you're horrible at astronomy."
"That's why I just want an easy answer without question. If I questioned every answer, I'd drive myself nuts."
Erin leaned back and crossed her arms, and humphed. "What are you implying?"
"We all can't be as smart and likable as you, Mousie. Last time I asked a question, and it was a good one at that, I nearly had my head bitten off by the professor, claiming I should have read the book before coming to class."
Sunny snorted. "Oh yeah, I remember that. And it was a question about something we hadn't even read yet at that."
"I am so glad I don't have him for my professor." Angelica twirled her tail in amusement as she watched her friends.
"Yeah, our professor is so nice about questions, even ones that have been gone over several times in class. She feels that if we simply don't get it, there's no use in putting a student down."
Melody sighed. "Must be nice. I love astronomy and all, especially the constellations, but it's so hard to keep up with the class."
Erin glanced at the clock on her computer. "Well, do you guys want to study something else, or call it a day?"
The four other girls looked at each other for a moment. "Let's call it a day. The astronomy test isn't until next week anyway." Terra flipped a strand of green hair to behind her shoulders.
"Yeah, I'm sure there are more important things to do than study."
Melody turned her green gaze onto Sunny. "Oh yeah? Like discuss how nice Jake's been to you lately?"
Sunny blushed. "Um...no..."
"Oh come on. You're the only one of us getting attention from a boy, and we'll all at an age where we all want that. Just admit that you want to rub that into our faces."
Sunny looked a little scared. "I wouldn't..."
"Knock it off Mel. You know perfectly well that half the male population in our class is holding out for Mousie here."
Erin blinked at Terra. "Wh...what?"
"It's true, Negumi. Haven't you seen the way my brother keeps wanting to be in your company?"
Erin stared at Jenna in shock. "I beg your pardon? I just thought he was just trying to be civilized for once."
"And then there's Tallis. He's a bit more quiet about it then some of the guys, you'll notice, but he blushes...a lot...in your presence, and tends to follow you around like a lost puppy."
Tallis as well? This was getting insane. Erin looked at her distant cousin sort of annoyed. "Well, duh, I figured Tallis wanted to be more then friends awhile ago."
"Excuse me? Then why haven't you humored the poor boy?"
"Isn't that obvious? For one, I don't have any time to concentrate on any sort of relationship with the exception of friendship, and for another, I wouldn't want to screw up a friendship like that. I mean, what if it turns out we're not meant for each other?"
The chorus of oohs made Erin give a small smirk. She started to pack up her laptop when Jenna, who still looked uninterested in a younger conversation, made her jump. "Those poor boys then, not knowing that you don't want to be in a serious relationship and all. I mean, they could be doing so much more with their time, like going after some perfectly eligible young ladies like the ones in this room."
"Jenna, I'm 16 years old! People should realize that I have my whole life in front of me before I have to commit myself to anyone!"
Jenna placed the book she was reading down in her lap, obviously not expecting that answer. "You mean, you don't want to get married and have little heirs to your power running around right after you graduate?"
The other girls looked at each other. It tended to be the dream of every girl at the academy to have discovered their so called soul mate before graduating so they could have a family at a young age. There was hardly anyone who didn't want that, as well as not expressing it.
Erin blushed. "Well, that would be nice and all, but you know, how could I graduate if I'm not concentrating on my school work and stuff?"
The others blinked, then started giggling, not only because that made sense, but because the statement was so Erin that they couldn't help it.
Jenna gave her younger roommate a sly glance. She picked up her book and started looking at it. "I can think of one person that wouldn't be a problem for."
Erin stared at the carpet as her friends started yet another giggling fit, blushing like mad. Despite the way he had always treated her like a bug under his shoe, and then like his sister's best friend, she, almost naturally, had a crush on the older boy. The cool way he treated the authority, as if their opinion never mattered to him, yet they could never punish him, because he fully kept up with his studies. He just seemed like her desperately wanted to be a rogue, but his very nature kept him form doing so. Jenna once commented that he might seem all dangerous, and that he was a ladies man, but that his loyalties were strong, and, once you had his friendship, it was very hard to shake it.
Which explained, actually, the reason why he wanted to spend more time with her. Since she had become Jenna's roommate he had gotten to know her a bit better, and possibly considers her a friend now. Erin looked defiant over at the nonchalant Jenna. "What makes you think that anyway? Whose to say that Patrick only sees me as a friend now?"
"Well, considering the fact that you're the only one he'll let call him Patrick, I'd say he has different feelings for you than simple friendship."
It was all Erin could do to look at anyone after that.
~*~
"The preparations are ready, m'lady." Nemesis turned at the lacky who suddenly appeared, bowing, in the lighted doorway of the darkened room. She had to blink for a moment to remember why he was there.
"Oh thank you. Um, you're dismissed."
The lacky bowed again, and, as suddenly as he appeared, was gone again. Nemesis tended to be weirded out by the newer minions, who seemed to have had special training in the art of appearing out of no where.
She turned back to her two colleagues, if they could be called that. Discordia was sitting in a lone chair, looking too comfortable in an odd position, whereas Eris was looking over the battle plans.
The blue skinned girl looked up at her commander. "You mean this is you great plan?"
Nemesis nodded proudly.
"But it's exactly the same as before, and look how well that turned out!"
"Ah," she held up a finger, "this time we know what to expect. While they aren't nearly as powerful as we are, we know that they'll do just about anything if one of their own gets hurt. So we'll be expecting that this time around."
Discordia snorted, clearly disapproved of the plan. Nemesis turned on her.
"And I trust you'll come along as well?"
"But of course, dear Nemesis. I wouldn't dream of leaving you to the mercy of those pathetic senshi-in-training."
Nemesis blinked, trying to get the meaning of her words, then growled. Eris sighed at the oncoming argument.
The alien looking girl was saved, however, when a hologram flickered to life in the middle of the room, scaring the wits out of all three senshi.
"Lord...Lord Beserk!"
"You haven't left yet? I'm surprised."
Nemesis, along with Eris and Discordia, bowed to their master. "No, not yet. I just got word that the transport device is ready, and was simply fine toning the mission with the others."
"You must make haste, Nemesis. Hesitating now would only spell disaster, I fear." And then he was gone, leaving the other three clueless.
"I really hate his riddles, or whatever they are." Eris snatched one of her antenna.
"I do believe he said we go now, you he'll do something nasty to us."
Discordia stood up, making way for the door. "I agree with him. The sooner we get there, the sooner we defeat those pathetic senshi."
The other two looked at one another, and ran after Discordia.
They reached the transport room in a slight pant, and Discordia, who walked smoother and faster, gave them irritated looks while the transport operator set in the coordinates. They then stepped into the machine, and, with a flash of blue light, where suddenly in a rather beautiful garden.
Naturally, there were no students about, all being in class. Nemesis sighed, annoyed at both the students and the way the garden was affecting her allergies.
"Damn them, why aren't they were?"
"I think we left either a bit too soon, or a bit too late. Depends on when their classes start."
Nemesis was about the snap at Eris when a bell rang, and they heard the thundering of many students finally being released from class. They stared blankly at the outside door, wondering if any of them were going to come out.
Luckily, quite a few did.
"Man, I'm exhausted. I think a few minutes outside will help, though."
"You're earthly powers need recharging, O Great...Earth...Goddess...?"
"Ok, now you're just being odd, Sunny."
"I wouldn't go any farther if I were you."
The three students jumped and whirled around to looking, mouths slightly ajar, at the three Dark Senshi, now taking battle positions on the ledge of the fountain.
"What the...who are you?"
"I know. They're the three Dark Senshi who attacked us a few days ago. Sailors Nemesis, Eris, and Discordia."
"Very good. Now I suggest you prepare yourselves for a beating after what you did to me then!"
"Right. Draco Dragon Power, Make-up!"
"Humus Earth Power, Make-up!"
"Iris Rainbow Power, Make-up!"
In a shower of colors, they were standing in fuku, the protectors of they're planets and of all that was good and just.
Eris blinked. "Ok, I know that one, but who are the other two?"
"Sailor Iris, senshi of rainbows."
"And Sailor Humus, senshi of earth. What's it to you?"
Eris shrugged. "I dunno. I guess I just wanna know who I'm killing before I do so."
"Well, tough luck, because we won't go down that easily. Humus Earthquake!"
Since she was a new senshi, the dark senshi weren't really expecting the ground shaking attack, but surmised what it did by the way the ground buckled right before it hit them. So they all easily jumped out of the way. Humus swore in a very unlady like manner.
Discordia tsked. "Such language. Oh well. Chaos Reign!" She trusted out her scythe at the senshi, causing a brownish mist full of sparkles to cover them. They started coughing at the mist fell into their lungs, and fell to their knees.
"Iris *cough* Rainbow Firecracker *cough* Sparkle!" Iris tossed her ball of rainbowed light at someone, as she really couldn't see since Discordia's mist had fallen into her eyes, and Eris was the one who got the blunt of that attack.
The blue alien took a step back at the ball exploded on her, and lighted sparkles singed her fuku and skin. She let out a yelp of pain. Nemesis sneered.
"Nemesis Thunder Whip!" She had intended to strike all of the senshi, or at least the one named Iris, but she only managed to hit one in her anger, the one form before, who let out a horrified shriek as ever fiber of her being was hit with a dark form of electricity. She then slumped forward, unconscious, spent from the agonizing pain.
Iris coughed. "Who was that?" She moved her hands around to clear the mist. It seemed to be working, because she could see Nemesis standing a few feet in front of her.
"Um, Draco, I think. That wasn't you, was it Iris?"
"No, I'm fine, other then being blinded and chocked by this mist."
"Darn it!" Iris saw Nemesis stamp her foot, and, in spite of herself, let a smile form on her lips. "We'll worry about Draco later. Just make sure she's safe!"
Nemesis was starting into her eyes now. It was like looking into jealousy itself, although with more of a red tint to them. Iris unconsciously took a step back from the shear hatred that was emanating from those eyes.
"No matter. I'll just attack you, and get rid of another senshi. Nemesis Thunder Whip!"
Of course, Iris could see it coming, and she jumped as high as her legs could carry her. As it was, the whip rapped around her ankle, and she felt the electricity shoot up her leg as Nemesis pulled her back to the ground, where she landed in a heap. Her ankle throbbed as she tried to stand up.
Kneeling on her right knee, feeling a bit drained, Iris was desperate. "Iris Ranibow...Go!" She threw her hand out towards Nemesis, and the other Dark senshi for that matter, who suddenly had surprised looks on their faces as Nemesis was slammed with a simple rainbow, and thus slammed into her partners as well. They were lifted off their feet, and slammed into the wall several feet behind them.
Discordia recovered the quickest. "Chaos..." She was suddenly knocked back down by a fist that was going too fast for any in the area to see.
"I told you girls to come get one of us when they attacked again!"
"Headmistress Madison!" They were surprised, because none of them had ever seen her transformed before. They only way they knew it was her was of the silver hair cascading down her back. None of the other professors had silver hair, or none that long.
The dark senshi just glanced at the seemingly unimposing senshi in front of her. "And who might you be?" Nemesis asked in a snooty voice.
"I am Sailor GoldStar, Headmistress of this Academy!" She glanced at the fallen Draco. "And I see that you've hurt one of my students. Might I suggest leaving before I have to kick some part of you that you rather need?"
"Huh?"
"She said leave before she kicks your butts."
Discordia laughed. "And what makes you think you can defeat us?"
"For one, you hurt one of my students. For another, I, unlike my students, am a fully trained senshi, and am quite capable of dealing with scum like you."
Iris and Humus stood on either side of GoldStar, and tried their best to make convincing menacing faces. Discordia growled at them, but she also knew when it was time to give up.
"You may get rid of us now, but by no means are you rid of us forever. We will be back and next time, we won't run away." That being threatened, she disappeared in a puff of smoke, Nemesis and Eris not too far behind.
Goldstar quickly detransformed, and was at Draco's side in an instance. "Why didn't you call one of us?"
Iris kneeled next to her. "Well, it happened so quickly, and instinct told us to transform before we even had a chance to stop it. And I don't think they would have let us anyway."
Headmistress Madison thought for a second. "That's true, but next time, if you have an opening, one of you make good use of it, and tell a professor. Anyone could have walked into the battle unprepared, and ended up worse that Melody here. Now, help me lift her up and get her to the infirmary."
The other two nodded, detransformed, and did their best to help the injured Draco through the halls. As it was, Madison carried most of the weight, with Terra in a close second.
"I do dread having to tell Miss O'Colley about this."
~*~
Actually, Headmistress Madison didn't have to worry about telling Erin, for she already knew. The battle wasn't unseen, and the rumor quickly spread through the classes in session. When she heard one of the senshi was hurt, she felt it in her heart that it had to be one of her own. She felt a sharp jab to her ribs, and looked over and back a little to find Patrick half out of his seat with a pencil in his hands.
He tossed her a note, then slide back into his seat just as the professor turned back around. To her, Patrick looked like he had been paying attention the whole time. Erin opened the piece of ripped paper.
What's the matter, O'Colley. You look like you ate something rotten.
Erin quickly scribbles something back, feeling like she shouldn't keep Patrick in the dark, as he was the only one in the class that she was friends with.
It's that attack that was just mentioned. I think it was one of mine that got hurt.
She tossed it over with practiced ease, and was rewarded with a new paper.
What makes you so sure that the attack was even real?
It sounds like something some evil people might do. Their investigating us, Patrick, and they'll attack several times before they pull out a full scale attack.
Wow, you do pay attention in History. But what makes you think someone was injured?
I don't, but I feel as through if someone was hurt, it would be one of mine.
One of your what?
You know what I mean.
There was a pause in the paper throwing, as if Patrick was thinking. And the professor had turned around again.
Well, for your sake, I hope that particular rumor is false, and, if it's true, then I hope it isn't too bad.
Erin grinned. When no one was around that would care, Patrick actually acted like a friend, and seemed to care about her feelings. It made the gossip about her and him seem more likely.
Thank you. I hope so too.
I can walk you to the infirmary after class if you want me to.
Erin blinked at the note and reread it several times, a smile growing across her face. A blush started forming across her cheeks, and she sunk into her seat almost giddily before she realized he was just being nice.
Yes, that would be nic great. Thank you.
Disclaimer: The concept of Sailor Moon and Sailor Senshi is copyright Takeuchi Naoko and whomever else holds the copyright. The new characters are copyright, so to speak, Erin-hime (me). I'm not making any money off of this, as you generally know.
A small pink form dashed through the hallways, intent that no one was going to stop he on the way to her destination. She had to be quick, for, at any even moment, the students could be let out of their meal, and there was a large possibility she could be stepped on, for no one ever looks down anymore, it seems.
Down the Upper Class hallway she stealthfully moved, coming up to a doorway she was familiar with. She had come in there countless times with her master, for the room belonged to two of her friends, Melody Draca, and Angelica. Which ends up being sort of funny, because Melody can't stand Angelica. But that wasn't her purpose today.
The door was slightly creaked open, such that no one could tell it was open. But she knew it was. Melody left it like that for her sake, as did her master. She pawed at the door several times before it opened, where she then sneaked into the room, safe at last.
The room was dark, naturally, but she had keen eyesight, and could see everything nearly perfect. She easily jumped on one of the beds, and turned to the nightstand, where a small animal bed sat. Another small form, this one with golden scaled instead of pink fur, lay curled up in peaceful slumber. If one didn't know better, he would think it was simply a scaly golden ball.
The pink for jabbed at the golden one, causing it to jump slightly before lifting it's head. This form was a dragon, abut a small one, and gave the pink form an evil look with it's light green eyes.
'What do you want, Eurus?'
The pink cat snorted, and sat on a pillow. "Please don't tell me Melody didn't tell you what happened yesterday, Vulcan."
Vulcan blinked 'You know more than anyone that no one tells me anything, much less Melody.'
Eurus sighed. "Your charge was attacked, Vulcan, along with Erin, Patrick, and Mickel."
Vulcan pulled himself up, concerned this time. 'When did this happen? And why wasn't I able to tell?'
"It happened right after lunch, and Melody walked away uninjured from the attack. She's, for what Erin told me, the one who really pushed the attackers away. She probably didn't want to talk about it. You know Melody."
'That's what concerns me. I /i know Melody, and I would think she would know me enough to tell me when she's been attacked!" He ruffled his wings a little in annoyance.
"She probably would have told you sooner or later; she probably just wasn't ready yet. This was, after all, the first time they encountered something like this."
Vulcan thought for a moment to himself. 'Do you think it's him again?'
"Depends. Who's him?"
Vulcan blinked again. 'Haven't you paid attention to history?'
Eurus meowed slightly. "Considering I was a regular old feline before they decided to make into this guardian thing, I should say not. Is there something I need to know?"
Vulcan shook his head. 'It's just a story about an ancient evil that may have possibly come back for revenge on our girls. I can't be certain through, because it's been such a long time ago.'
Eurus nodded. "I highly doubt it's anyone that old. These senshi sounded too inexperienced to have come from something old."
'Possibly your right, but I'll keep an ear out just in case.'
Eurus nodded. "I just hope this thing doesn't come back and bite us, if you know what I mean."
~*~
Erin sat calmly on her bed, writing utensil placing precisely between her teeth and her brow knitted in concentration. In her lap sat a small computer, which she poked at now and then with her index finger. This didn't make any sense. She keyed in a few words into a search, and the answer seemed to confuse her more.
"Come on, Mousie. It shouldn't take all that long to come up with an answer."
Erin looked up at Terra, and the rest of her friends sitting in varied positions on her floor. They were having an after classes study session, in her room of course, with a slightly annoyed Jenna sitting on her own bed, attempting to study. Erin sighed.
"It says it's a globular cluster, but I'm so sure that's wrong."
Melody flipped through her astronomy book in her own lap. "No, that's what it says here as well."
"Ok, then the answer's globular cluster, it's that easy. Ok, now the next question..."
"Terra, how can you be so sure? I mean, you're horrible at astronomy."
"That's why I just want an easy answer without question. If I questioned every answer, I'd drive myself nuts."
Erin leaned back and crossed her arms, and humphed. "What are you implying?"
"We all can't be as smart and likable as you, Mousie. Last time I asked a question, and it was a good one at that, I nearly had my head bitten off by the professor, claiming I should have read the book before coming to class."
Sunny snorted. "Oh yeah, I remember that. And it was a question about something we hadn't even read yet at that."
"I am so glad I don't have him for my professor." Angelica twirled her tail in amusement as she watched her friends.
"Yeah, our professor is so nice about questions, even ones that have been gone over several times in class. She feels that if we simply don't get it, there's no use in putting a student down."
Melody sighed. "Must be nice. I love astronomy and all, especially the constellations, but it's so hard to keep up with the class."
Erin glanced at the clock on her computer. "Well, do you guys want to study something else, or call it a day?"
The four other girls looked at each other for a moment. "Let's call it a day. The astronomy test isn't until next week anyway." Terra flipped a strand of green hair to behind her shoulders.
"Yeah, I'm sure there are more important things to do than study."
Melody turned her green gaze onto Sunny. "Oh yeah? Like discuss how nice Jake's been to you lately?"
Sunny blushed. "Um...no..."
"Oh come on. You're the only one of us getting attention from a boy, and we'll all at an age where we all want that. Just admit that you want to rub that into our faces."
Sunny looked a little scared. "I wouldn't..."
"Knock it off Mel. You know perfectly well that half the male population in our class is holding out for Mousie here."
Erin blinked at Terra. "Wh...what?"
"It's true, Negumi. Haven't you seen the way my brother keeps wanting to be in your company?"
Erin stared at Jenna in shock. "I beg your pardon? I just thought he was just trying to be civilized for once."
"And then there's Tallis. He's a bit more quiet about it then some of the guys, you'll notice, but he blushes...a lot...in your presence, and tends to follow you around like a lost puppy."
Tallis as well? This was getting insane. Erin looked at her distant cousin sort of annoyed. "Well, duh, I figured Tallis wanted to be more then friends awhile ago."
"Excuse me? Then why haven't you humored the poor boy?"
"Isn't that obvious? For one, I don't have any time to concentrate on any sort of relationship with the exception of friendship, and for another, I wouldn't want to screw up a friendship like that. I mean, what if it turns out we're not meant for each other?"
The chorus of oohs made Erin give a small smirk. She started to pack up her laptop when Jenna, who still looked uninterested in a younger conversation, made her jump. "Those poor boys then, not knowing that you don't want to be in a serious relationship and all. I mean, they could be doing so much more with their time, like going after some perfectly eligible young ladies like the ones in this room."
"Jenna, I'm 16 years old! People should realize that I have my whole life in front of me before I have to commit myself to anyone!"
Jenna placed the book she was reading down in her lap, obviously not expecting that answer. "You mean, you don't want to get married and have little heirs to your power running around right after you graduate?"
The other girls looked at each other. It tended to be the dream of every girl at the academy to have discovered their so called soul mate before graduating so they could have a family at a young age. There was hardly anyone who didn't want that, as well as not expressing it.
Erin blushed. "Well, that would be nice and all, but you know, how could I graduate if I'm not concentrating on my school work and stuff?"
The others blinked, then started giggling, not only because that made sense, but because the statement was so Erin that they couldn't help it.
Jenna gave her younger roommate a sly glance. She picked up her book and started looking at it. "I can think of one person that wouldn't be a problem for."
Erin stared at the carpet as her friends started yet another giggling fit, blushing like mad. Despite the way he had always treated her like a bug under his shoe, and then like his sister's best friend, she, almost naturally, had a crush on the older boy. The cool way he treated the authority, as if their opinion never mattered to him, yet they could never punish him, because he fully kept up with his studies. He just seemed like her desperately wanted to be a rogue, but his very nature kept him form doing so. Jenna once commented that he might seem all dangerous, and that he was a ladies man, but that his loyalties were strong, and, once you had his friendship, it was very hard to shake it.
Which explained, actually, the reason why he wanted to spend more time with her. Since she had become Jenna's roommate he had gotten to know her a bit better, and possibly considers her a friend now. Erin looked defiant over at the nonchalant Jenna. "What makes you think that anyway? Whose to say that Patrick only sees me as a friend now?"
"Well, considering the fact that you're the only one he'll let call him Patrick, I'd say he has different feelings for you than simple friendship."
It was all Erin could do to look at anyone after that.
~*~
"The preparations are ready, m'lady." Nemesis turned at the lacky who suddenly appeared, bowing, in the lighted doorway of the darkened room. She had to blink for a moment to remember why he was there.
"Oh thank you. Um, you're dismissed."
The lacky bowed again, and, as suddenly as he appeared, was gone again. Nemesis tended to be weirded out by the newer minions, who seemed to have had special training in the art of appearing out of no where.
She turned back to her two colleagues, if they could be called that. Discordia was sitting in a lone chair, looking too comfortable in an odd position, whereas Eris was looking over the battle plans.
The blue skinned girl looked up at her commander. "You mean this is you great plan?"
Nemesis nodded proudly.
"But it's exactly the same as before, and look how well that turned out!"
"Ah," she held up a finger, "this time we know what to expect. While they aren't nearly as powerful as we are, we know that they'll do just about anything if one of their own gets hurt. So we'll be expecting that this time around."
Discordia snorted, clearly disapproved of the plan. Nemesis turned on her.
"And I trust you'll come along as well?"
"But of course, dear Nemesis. I wouldn't dream of leaving you to the mercy of those pathetic senshi-in-training."
Nemesis blinked, trying to get the meaning of her words, then growled. Eris sighed at the oncoming argument.
The alien looking girl was saved, however, when a hologram flickered to life in the middle of the room, scaring the wits out of all three senshi.
"Lord...Lord Beserk!"
"You haven't left yet? I'm surprised."
Nemesis, along with Eris and Discordia, bowed to their master. "No, not yet. I just got word that the transport device is ready, and was simply fine toning the mission with the others."
"You must make haste, Nemesis. Hesitating now would only spell disaster, I fear." And then he was gone, leaving the other three clueless.
"I really hate his riddles, or whatever they are." Eris snatched one of her antenna.
"I do believe he said we go now, you he'll do something nasty to us."
Discordia stood up, making way for the door. "I agree with him. The sooner we get there, the sooner we defeat those pathetic senshi."
The other two looked at one another, and ran after Discordia.
They reached the transport room in a slight pant, and Discordia, who walked smoother and faster, gave them irritated looks while the transport operator set in the coordinates. They then stepped into the machine, and, with a flash of blue light, where suddenly in a rather beautiful garden.
Naturally, there were no students about, all being in class. Nemesis sighed, annoyed at both the students and the way the garden was affecting her allergies.
"Damn them, why aren't they were?"
"I think we left either a bit too soon, or a bit too late. Depends on when their classes start."
Nemesis was about the snap at Eris when a bell rang, and they heard the thundering of many students finally being released from class. They stared blankly at the outside door, wondering if any of them were going to come out.
Luckily, quite a few did.
"Man, I'm exhausted. I think a few minutes outside will help, though."
"You're earthly powers need recharging, O Great...Earth...Goddess...?"
"Ok, now you're just being odd, Sunny."
"I wouldn't go any farther if I were you."
The three students jumped and whirled around to looking, mouths slightly ajar, at the three Dark Senshi, now taking battle positions on the ledge of the fountain.
"What the...who are you?"
"I know. They're the three Dark Senshi who attacked us a few days ago. Sailors Nemesis, Eris, and Discordia."
"Very good. Now I suggest you prepare yourselves for a beating after what you did to me then!"
"Right. Draco Dragon Power, Make-up!"
"Humus Earth Power, Make-up!"
"Iris Rainbow Power, Make-up!"
In a shower of colors, they were standing in fuku, the protectors of they're planets and of all that was good and just.
Eris blinked. "Ok, I know that one, but who are the other two?"
"Sailor Iris, senshi of rainbows."
"And Sailor Humus, senshi of earth. What's it to you?"
Eris shrugged. "I dunno. I guess I just wanna know who I'm killing before I do so."
"Well, tough luck, because we won't go down that easily. Humus Earthquake!"
Since she was a new senshi, the dark senshi weren't really expecting the ground shaking attack, but surmised what it did by the way the ground buckled right before it hit them. So they all easily jumped out of the way. Humus swore in a very unlady like manner.
Discordia tsked. "Such language. Oh well. Chaos Reign!" She trusted out her scythe at the senshi, causing a brownish mist full of sparkles to cover them. They started coughing at the mist fell into their lungs, and fell to their knees.
"Iris *cough* Rainbow Firecracker *cough* Sparkle!" Iris tossed her ball of rainbowed light at someone, as she really couldn't see since Discordia's mist had fallen into her eyes, and Eris was the one who got the blunt of that attack.
The blue alien took a step back at the ball exploded on her, and lighted sparkles singed her fuku and skin. She let out a yelp of pain. Nemesis sneered.
"Nemesis Thunder Whip!" She had intended to strike all of the senshi, or at least the one named Iris, but she only managed to hit one in her anger, the one form before, who let out a horrified shriek as ever fiber of her being was hit with a dark form of electricity. She then slumped forward, unconscious, spent from the agonizing pain.
Iris coughed. "Who was that?" She moved her hands around to clear the mist. It seemed to be working, because she could see Nemesis standing a few feet in front of her.
"Um, Draco, I think. That wasn't you, was it Iris?"
"No, I'm fine, other then being blinded and chocked by this mist."
"Darn it!" Iris saw Nemesis stamp her foot, and, in spite of herself, let a smile form on her lips. "We'll worry about Draco later. Just make sure she's safe!"
Nemesis was starting into her eyes now. It was like looking into jealousy itself, although with more of a red tint to them. Iris unconsciously took a step back from the shear hatred that was emanating from those eyes.
"No matter. I'll just attack you, and get rid of another senshi. Nemesis Thunder Whip!"
Of course, Iris could see it coming, and she jumped as high as her legs could carry her. As it was, the whip rapped around her ankle, and she felt the electricity shoot up her leg as Nemesis pulled her back to the ground, where she landed in a heap. Her ankle throbbed as she tried to stand up.
Kneeling on her right knee, feeling a bit drained, Iris was desperate. "Iris Ranibow...Go!" She threw her hand out towards Nemesis, and the other Dark senshi for that matter, who suddenly had surprised looks on their faces as Nemesis was slammed with a simple rainbow, and thus slammed into her partners as well. They were lifted off their feet, and slammed into the wall several feet behind them.
Discordia recovered the quickest. "Chaos..." She was suddenly knocked back down by a fist that was going too fast for any in the area to see.
"I told you girls to come get one of us when they attacked again!"
"Headmistress Madison!" They were surprised, because none of them had ever seen her transformed before. They only way they knew it was her was of the silver hair cascading down her back. None of the other professors had silver hair, or none that long.
The dark senshi just glanced at the seemingly unimposing senshi in front of her. "And who might you be?" Nemesis asked in a snooty voice.
"I am Sailor GoldStar, Headmistress of this Academy!" She glanced at the fallen Draco. "And I see that you've hurt one of my students. Might I suggest leaving before I have to kick some part of you that you rather need?"
"Huh?"
"She said leave before she kicks your butts."
Discordia laughed. "And what makes you think you can defeat us?"
"For one, you hurt one of my students. For another, I, unlike my students, am a fully trained senshi, and am quite capable of dealing with scum like you."
Iris and Humus stood on either side of GoldStar, and tried their best to make convincing menacing faces. Discordia growled at them, but she also knew when it was time to give up.
"You may get rid of us now, but by no means are you rid of us forever. We will be back and next time, we won't run away." That being threatened, she disappeared in a puff of smoke, Nemesis and Eris not too far behind.
Goldstar quickly detransformed, and was at Draco's side in an instance. "Why didn't you call one of us?"
Iris kneeled next to her. "Well, it happened so quickly, and instinct told us to transform before we even had a chance to stop it. And I don't think they would have let us anyway."
Headmistress Madison thought for a second. "That's true, but next time, if you have an opening, one of you make good use of it, and tell a professor. Anyone could have walked into the battle unprepared, and ended up worse that Melody here. Now, help me lift her up and get her to the infirmary."
The other two nodded, detransformed, and did their best to help the injured Draco through the halls. As it was, Madison carried most of the weight, with Terra in a close second.
"I do dread having to tell Miss O'Colley about this."
~*~
Actually, Headmistress Madison didn't have to worry about telling Erin, for she already knew. The battle wasn't unseen, and the rumor quickly spread through the classes in session. When she heard one of the senshi was hurt, she felt it in her heart that it had to be one of her own. She felt a sharp jab to her ribs, and looked over and back a little to find Patrick half out of his seat with a pencil in his hands.
He tossed her a note, then slide back into his seat just as the professor turned back around. To her, Patrick looked like he had been paying attention the whole time. Erin opened the piece of ripped paper.
What's the matter, O'Colley. You look like you ate something rotten.
Erin quickly scribbles something back, feeling like she shouldn't keep Patrick in the dark, as he was the only one in the class that she was friends with.
It's that attack that was just mentioned. I think it was one of mine that got hurt.
She tossed it over with practiced ease, and was rewarded with a new paper.
What makes you so sure that the attack was even real?
It sounds like something some evil people might do. Their investigating us, Patrick, and they'll attack several times before they pull out a full scale attack.
Wow, you do pay attention in History. But what makes you think someone was injured?
I don't, but I feel as through if someone was hurt, it would be one of mine.
One of your what?
You know what I mean.
There was a pause in the paper throwing, as if Patrick was thinking. And the professor had turned around again.
Well, for your sake, I hope that particular rumor is false, and, if it's true, then I hope it isn't too bad.
Erin grinned. When no one was around that would care, Patrick actually acted like a friend, and seemed to care about her feelings. It made the gossip about her and him seem more likely.
Thank you. I hope so too.
I can walk you to the infirmary after class if you want me to.
Erin blinked at the note and reread it several times, a smile growing across her face. A blush started forming across her cheeks, and she sunk into her seat almost giddily before she realized he was just being nice.
Yes, that would be nic great. Thank you.