They were preparing for the fight, no one knows what to expect except for someone to lose.
Kunzite was placed in charge of the team and thus he has to make the decision of who gets to fight on the battle field and who gets to be the striker.
It really was no shock that he chose Zoisite to be the team's striker.
On the other end of the spectrum was the outer team, they too were preparing for this fight.
The leader was Setsuna, who put Michiru in as striker.
In a moment a opening battle was going to begin.
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The "arena" in question was a caged area of the building with a huge aquarium a few feet away from the steel gage. The floor was solid concrete, so falling down was going to hurt like hell.
In the corner was a white line where the striker waits.
A well dressed man lead both teams to the entrance and let the first combatants along with the strikers.
"I will be reffing this match" the man said, "you are allowed to call the striker a maximum of five times per round and while you can do almost anything else please use a little common sense."
He gesture towards the large walls of glass that kept the water and living things from flooding in, "I do not feel like swimming."
Kunzite sized the senshi up, Sailor Pluto in turn did the same.
This is going to be tough they both thought.
With that announcement Kunzite and Pluto took off at each other, both teams cheering.
Pluto opened up the match with a direct fist to Kunzite's face, which made solid contact.
Kunzite, although stunned for a moment, quickly delivered a attack of his own and uppercut into Pluto's sternum for a little breathing room and then a side kick to the base of her throat.
"This is getting off to a great start" Jaedite said.
Pluto staggered back and had trouble breathing but she was unfazed, she duck down and proform a slid kick that took Kunzite off his feet. But instead of just letting him fall completely Pluto, still swinging her leg from the kick, thrusted her hand out, she looked like a break dancer having a seizer until she summoned her attack through her hand and made the ball of energy "bounce" off the floor and into Kunzite.
Kunzite let out a yell as he fell to the floor, his jacket smoldering and ruined.
"Get in there." Kunzite said, allowing Zoicite to hop into the fray with a ball of sakura peddles and energy.
Pluto sidestepped the deadly laughable pink ball, only to step into the line of Zoicite's favorite little trick.
"Pluto!" Neptune shouted, alerting Pluto to the approaching pointed crystal that materized behind her.
Even though alerted to it, Pluto couldn't move fast enough to avoid it.
Uranus looked towards the ref to see if this was illegal, and saw he was just standing there.
No help from him she thought as she turn her attention back to the fight at hand.
Both fighters have been injured.
Kunzite has most of his lower mid-section burned and slightly bleeding.
Pluto has a huge gash on her back.
But it was clear nether side was going to give up.
Pluto was the first to rush in with a kick, Kunzite dodge and delivered a small energy attack that hit Pluto in the stomach, which set her off-balance and forced her to tumble onto her back.
Pluto cringed as she felt the wound on her back get a little worse after that fall and got back up, she looked over her shoulder to Neptune and nodded.
What does she have planned? Kunzite thought, he singled Zoicite with a hand gesture behind his back.
Kunzite went in and gave a right hook into Pluto's jaw, then a quick jab and a left hook then finished with a three left jab combo.
Pluto reeled back into the "wall" of the cage, Kunzite's attacks were taking there tolls on her.
"Zoicite, come on!" Kunzite jumped back and summoned a large energy attack, Zoicite summoned his own energy attack.
"NOW!"
A look of confusion over came both Zoicite and Kunzite when Neptune let loose her deep submerge, weakening their attacks.
Pluto rushed behind them while they were distracted and preformed her dead scream into Kunzite's back.
It didn't take much of a genius to realize after Kunzite hit the floor hard enough to cause cracks the round was over with.
"Kunzite!" Zoicite yelled as he kneeled near his fallen lover, but was relived to see he (Kunzite) was moving and semi-conscience.
Jaedite sallow hard and he looked over to Nephrite, who was staring back.
"Ro"
"Sham"
"Po!"
"Rock breaks scissors" Nephrite said as Jaedite sweatdropped.
Jaedite weakly walked through the cage's door and sallow hard as he looked at injured senshi.
It took the ref and Zoicite a minute to take the injured Kunzite out of the cage and Zoicite to get back into the striker area.
The second round began, and Jaedite was very cautious and moved around the arena slowly eyeing Pluto.
It's like taking down a injured rabid dog.
Jaedite finally lashed out with a palm strike aimed for her nose, only to have it countered with a palm strike to the nose, a kick to the mid-section and a jab to the jaw.
Jaedite went down like a bag of bricks and didn't get up.
"DAMNIT!" Both Zoicite and Nephrite yelled as the ref held up a hand, signaling the end of the match.
Pluto smiled but weanched, the wound on her back and her singed hand from doing her attack so many times without her staff were going to add up later on.
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"What's their battle ability?"
"99"
"Not much, is it?"
"Nope, what's the next match?"
With a smile she looked over to her servent and spoke.
"Sailor Team Vs. Death Busters."