Chapter 5

"What are you doing here??" Usagi asked the figure that had no yet recovered from the fall. "Well? Answer me!"

Haruka rubbed her head. She was standing, and just realizing that someone asked her a question. "What did you say?"

"WHY ARE YOU HERE?" Usagi shouted.

"What? Usagi?" Haruka was startled. "That's a good question. Why am I here and where is here?"

The senshi looked around, their eyes were just adjusting to the very dim light. It looked almost like a cave. The walls were almost black with many crevasses. The ceiling looked like it went on into infinity looking up at it. It wasn't small in any way, because there was only one wall that they could see. Like it was one huge room. The floor however, didn't look like a cave floor. It was like one you'd find in a kitchen. There was a fog over everything too. And Niloc wasn't there.

"I don't like the looks of this place." Makoto quoted.

"We had better transform." Ami suggested. "I need to get a reading on where we are through Mercury's VR goggles."

"OK." Usagi agreed. "Transform now, confusion later!"

That's what they did. Every transformed to their senshi forms and then decided to start to discuss the next move. Mercury scanned the place first.

"There's no reading at all!" Mercury exclaimed completely shocked. "I can't even get a power scan! This doesn't make any sense what so ever!"

The other senshi were puzzled too. Mercury's scanner always showed the dimension's coordinates, how much power was being used, and if anything was an illusion. The only time it failed to work was if the dimension wasn't running on any particular path or if the dimension's powers were strong enough to throw Ami's scanner off. (Of course, the only person who could understand that stuff to begin with was Ami)

"We should find out where we are on ourselves then." Tuxedo Kamen suggested. "If we stick together we should be alright." The others had to agree.

As they we walking, the scenery didn't seem to change at all. Ami left her scanner on but she still couldn't get a reading. Everyone was curious, scared, and annoyed at the same time. Some more than others.

"Where is that Niloc guy speaking that weird language?" Minako asked after a long while. Everyone almost jumped at the sound of a voice. Uranus looked confused.

Artimis answered her question. "He wasn't speaking a weird language. He was speaking ????????. That's the old language of the Moon Kingdom. What he had said before I believe translates to was 'transport mind control, Sailor Crystals Meeting.' It's an old spell I believe."

"Yes." Luna agreed. "A royal spell. Wait a minute! Ami, turn off your scanner! I know where we are!" Luna yelled in a very happy voice.

Ami did as told. As she did so she asked a question. "Where are we Luna? Why didn't my scanner work?"

"We are in a secret place called ???????, or Meeting I guess is how we would say it now. It's the place where the strongest magic in the Silver Millennium was conducted. This is where all of you, except Mamoru, were created and the worst punishments were here too. Many more things were done here also."

The senshi looked into the darkness. Still, no change in scenery. The senshi were all a bit relived and scared at the same time.

"How could the queen see in this?" Haruka asked. "Something must have changed."

"I, I can't remember. Artimis, can you remember the password?" Luna asked.

"I do remember. The reason we are not there already is because you can't bring more than 2 people into Meeting. Unless more than one person says the password. Since there are 14 of us, 7 people have to say the password. Do any of you remember it?"

"No." They all answered.

"Damn." Luna cursed. "Right now we are in ????????????. There is no way to say it in this language. This is really no where. And there is no way out except to say the password. Artimis and I know it. Diana should be able to pronouce it. Four more people have to say it!!! But you ha"

"Usagi." Artimis asked. "You should be able to pronounce it, since you have royal blood. Who else is good at foreign languages?"

"Michiru and Setsuna." Haruka answered. "They each know three languages." Both of the girls blushed.

"I'll try." Mamoru volunteered. "Unless I am not supposed to say it because I'm from Earth."

"No," Luna answered. "You can't. You can enter but you can't get in on your own. Ami, you could try right?"

"Sure Luna." Ami smiled. "I can try." Ami moved closer to Luna. Luna pronounced each syllable at one time, so she couldn't bring anyone in. Then, they finally had it.

"Ok." Luna finished. "Let's try. Ready? GO! ??????????????????????????????????????????????!" Then the flash of light came once more. This time, it felt more welcoming and expected. They were in a much better place this time too. It could pass for heaven almost. It looked like it belonged to the Silver Millennium.

It had a very good look after the dark place they had been to. It had a milky blue sky when you looked up. There were pink clouds, like the ones you see at sunset. On the ground, there were tall, thick, strong trees with plump leaves to end the long brown arms of branches. The trees hovered over the myriads of grass dotted with perfumed and glistening flowers reaching to greet you. The grass died of into warm, comforting sand that came to meet your every step. The sand drowned in the giver of life called water, which shined like a sapphire in the warm sunlight. The mighty river wasn't moving very fast, but it was moving and was fairly wide. It ran around a curve of land and out of sight. The waves hissed as they hit and conquered the sand. But the water was no match for the single, out-of-place boulder. The boulder wasn't very tall as it was long. It reached to the water and raced into the sand. The top was flat. It was long enough for a full grown tall man to lie down and still have room. It was in an olive shape. It looked very comfortable.

As the senshi admired the scene they didn't notice the sudden flash of light behind them. They were all lost in their own worlds, some wondering how such a beautiful place could be a land where the worst punishments had stood. They lost reality, dropped their guard until a voice like ice laughing pushed it back up ten times fast.

"I thought I'd find you here." Niloc mocked. "But I didn't mean for you to be in this side of Meeting. Nothing is being created or protected. You need to be in the other side. The side of Meeting where justice is served or where mistakes are left. I'm sorry to bring you out of your dreamland."

With that, a dark light was thrown all around them which didn't feel welcoming at all. It felt like something to dread, or runaway from. It ran up you and choked you for every bad thing you ever thought or did. It felt worse than the curiosity and fear and annoyance of the nothingness place they were in before. You wanted to scream but couldn't because of the choking agony. Then it became unbearable but instantaneously it stopped. It left almost no feeling except pain and saw a hazy tint over everything.

"What is this desolate place?" Haruka managed to ask over the irrepressible burning inside of her.

"This is where the deserved justice and erased mistakes took place. This is also though, where myself and Dillabcra and the other survivors of the Silver Millennium stay. There aren't many of us now and there weren't many of us here to begin with."

"What do you mean there aren't as many as there were? What happened?" Sailor Moon moaned fighting against the pain.

"They can't take the pain and they die off. This place is made for only those who are to deliver justice to those who oppose the idea of order and are ruled by chaos. Anyone who opposes that idea in the least suffer pain even before the pool."

"Pool?" Sailor Mars questioned.

"Over there." Niloc motioned to his left. There was an odd pool of water barely visible in the darkness and fog. It was in a perfect circle and much larger than the old boulder. It was very, very, wide. The water, however, was a grayish color. A dark gray. The pool wasn't completely still though. Ripples were just appearing. Somehow, the pool seemed to be glowing.

"During the time of peace and serenity, this place was rarely used unless it was a test for the army. But back then, it wasn't called the pool. It was called . . ."

"????????????????????" Luna finished. "I remember. The queen hated that part of the test, but so many queens before her supported the idea so she really had no control."

"Why did you need to talk to us?" Ami questioned, the pain on her and most of the other senshi ceasing.

"I don't know." Niloc answered casually. "Dillabcra wanted to see you, not me. I have to call him here along with some other survivors. First, ???????"

A woman with curly black hair to her shoulders appeared. She was wearing a long green dress. Her eyes were blue with purple shadow on along with red lipstick.

" Yulun . . ." Luna whispered.

"????????" Niloc continued.

A tall man in a light blue tuxedo appeared. He was much older than Niloc. He actually was bald on top. He did have a grayish hair along the sides of his head and on his mustache. He had many wrinkles too.

"Ruini!" Artimis said as he saw the man.

"??????????" Niloc called as he went on.

This was a younger man, but still older than all of the senshi. He had green eyes and brown hair. He was in a red tuxedo that had many medals and some precious stones on it.

"Kôji." Luna replied at the sight of him.

"???????????" Niloc yelled.

This was a much younger looking girl. She had dirty blonde hair wrapped back in a long ponytail down to her waist where it had another black tie. She was wearing a nice simple pale yellow dress and she had green eyes.

"Nyan . . ." Artimis whimpered.

"???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????" Niloc yelled in a much louder voice.

A bright yellow light came forth and light the entire room. It took shape of a man who looked about thirty. He was very muscular and tall. He had brown eyes and brown hair. He was dressed like a prince except no crown or cape. He wasn't smiling, but neither was anyone else.

"I will serve as a translator because Dillabcra can't speak your language and nobody else can either." Niloc said.

"I will make sure that he's translating into words you can understand." Luna added.

"??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????" Dillabcra announced to Usagi.

" He said he's happy to see you're ok and he now intends to build the new Moon Kingdom here." Niloc translated.

"????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????"

Suddenly Niloc looked hurt and confuse while he other four disappeared into the darkness. "But Lord Dillabcra!! You aren't going to . . ."

"??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????"

"But!" Niloc argued.

"??????" Dillabcra shouted angrily. Niloc did so. Reluctantly, but he slowly became caught in the white light and left.

"????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????" Dillabcra told the senshi slyly. He stepped forward slowly.

All the senshi were nervous. The way Niloc had acted meant something wasn't right. Chibiusa stammered "What-what d-did h-he s-ay say D-Dian-nah?"

"He said we didn't need to understand us and we didn't need to understand him because what he is going to do requires no translation." Diana answered.

Dillabcra was a few feet away when he stopped walking. He put out his hands and muttered "????????????????????????" And a large flash of light came straight at the senshi.

The senshi screamed as more unbearable pain came screaming at them incognito as a ball of light. They were all thrown back and hit the floor hard. The pain was horrible. The senshi got right up.

At that moment, Haruka had a flashback of the dream she had had the other day. Maybe if she were to help fight off this enemy, they wouldn't be so angry at her. "WORLD SHAKING!" She screamed as Dillabcra started to attack once more. Dillabcra was thrown far back.

"Great job Haruka!" Usagi thanked Sailor Uranus. Then she quickly turned to her cat advisor. "Quick Luna! How do we get out of here?"

"I'm not quite sure." Luna replied. "I don't know. Artimis? Do you remember?"

"Yes Luna. One person says the spell and anyone they want goes. But there is one problem." Artimis answered.

"How so?"

"You are expected to have one less person with you at least."

"We came in with Niloc." Ami protested.

"No, we came in here with Niloc. We want to go back to Tokyo."

As he said that, Dillabcra started to get up again. He was pretty pissed off now. His eyes seemed to flare. The rest of the senshi were getting nervous and Usagi was started to quiver with fear. He started to walk towards them cursing under his breath. He glared so hard, it made you almost do anything to leave. All of the sudden, Haruka had an idea. "I got it!" She told them.

"What do we do??? Tell us!" Chibiusa urged.

"It's simple really." Haruka boasted. "Two or more of us don't go with the first group. Then, when the first group has left, they say the spell an leave! Each group will have less people than when they started."

"Duh!" Luna scolded herself.

"First the Inners will go then the Outers." Artimis said. "???????????"