Chapter Two: Introductions
Toyama, Japan - Sailor Scouts
The scouts plus Rini walked up the steps of the university and to the administration office. They admired the statues and gardens that decorated the university giving it the feeling that it had been around for centuries.
"Um, excuse me ma'am is this where we come to get our schedules, we're the transfer students from Juuban High School," said Serena.
"Oh, yes it is young lady, a Serena Tsukino, Lita Kino, Mina Aino, Raye Hino, Amy Mizuno, and a Rini Tsukino?" asked the lady.
"Yes, but I didn't know Rini was registered here as well," replied Serena.
"Oh, technically she's not but she was applied for the elementary areas that are being tested for future reference. Our college professors will help her with the areas she has trouble in and put it in terms she can understand. I'll be your guide for the next week, if you need anything just give me a call and I'll see if I can help you out. If I can't then I'll send one of my associates instead, oh forgive my manners, my name is Mia Coji," said Mia.
"Nice to meet you Mia, can we have our schedules or do we have to wait for tomorrow?" asked Serena.
"No, here you go, I'm busy at the moment so I'll have an associate of mine show you around," explained Mia.
"Thank you, we'll wait here while you call your associate if you need to. So girls what classes do you have?" asked Serena.
"I have Ancient History, Mythical History, Legends History, Priestess Training, and Martial Arts," said Raye.
"I've got Martial Arts too, but I also have Cooking, Sewing, and Wood Shop," said Lita.
"I have Cooking as well, but I also have Math 194, English Language, and Child Care," said Serena.
"Wow you scored that well? Anyway I have Math 300, English Language, Nursing, Home Economics, Child Care, and Cooking! These last three have got to be a mistake I'm not good any of these three, I'm more of a bookworm than anything!" said Amy.
Everyone wasn't surprised as Amy always studied and scored really high.
"Well I have Home Economics, Nursing, Child Care also, and Cooking as well," said Mina.
"Excuse me but my associate is here, everyone I'd like you to meet-" said Mia.
"Rowen!" exclaimed Amy.
"Amy?" asked Rowen.
"Do you two know each other Ame's?" wondered Serena.
"Yeah, that's my cousin Rowen Hashiba! Though I had no idea he was taking classes here," said Amy.
"I'm not, I work here Amy, I graduated a year ago," said Rowen.
"Oh and I thought I would have beat you with all my studying in advance," said Amy.
"Whatever Amy, I'll be your guide; we'll start with introductions later. I have to be somewhere in an hour, sadly I can't reschedule this," said Rowen.
Rowen showed them around the campus and answered all of their questions, but when the time came he took them to the cafeteria and took off for his appointment.
"You know Amy he looks me of my old boyfriend," said Lita.
"Did your old boyfriend have blue hair Lita?" asked Amy slightly annoyed.
"Um, good point, sorry Amy, force of habit," apologized Lita.
Soon they were eating lunch and they compared schedules and ironically Rini was in some of the classes as part of the education. Mainly cooking, sewing, and English language, though she had other classes she didn't have it half as bad as the other girls. Soon an hour had passed and their was no sign of Rowen.
"You know Amy your cousin is a rude one. He didn't even bother with an introduction, that tells me he is rude, pompous, and arrogant," said Mina.
"Yeah, Mina's right Amy, I hate to say but he is being rude, plus I sensed a similar aura around him as I did the group we saw earlier today," said Raye.
Amy sighed and just shook her head, as she couldn't help but figure he was being rude. However soon enough a figure came crashing through wall of the cafeteria.
"Alright girls lets go, its time to transform!" ordered Serena.
Toyama, Japan - Ronin Warriors
(This small part will take off where Rowen left the girls in the cafeteria and a little bit further than the figure crashing through the wall.)
Rowen ran at top speed to the other side of the campus where he had a meeting about officially becoming an instructor the Mythical History class. When he got to the location he noticed that the dean was talking with someone else.
"Oh Rowen I'd like you to meet-" said the Dean.
"Ronan, nice to see you again, it's been a while," interrupted Rowen.
"Yes it has Rowen, what has it been five years?" asked Ronan.
"Three Ronan, what brings you here?" asked Rowen.
"You two know each other?" asked the Dean.
"He's my older cousin sir," stated Rowen.
"Yes, well he is going to be your assistant in the Mythical history class, your officially teaching it this semester. You will be in charge of teaching and he will help out with the minor things such as grading and handing out a syllabus to the students," explained the Dean.
The Dean then stood up and shook hands with both of them and then left. Ronan deciding that he didn't want to stay around anymore left as well. Rowen decided to go see the girls and finish showing them around the campus when he was attacked from behind, he dodged it and transformed into his sub-armor.
"Strata, your time has come, your defeat is eminent. Make this easy on yourself and surrender right away, so as to make this quicker," said the stranger.
"Never! Armor of the Strata, Tao Innochi!" cried Rowen.
His armor appeared on him with his face plate down, because he was on the university campus and he didn't want to be recognized. He began to punch his opponent who was quite surprised at the mere physical strength of his opponent. He leapt away and ran for it as to recover and try and trap him against a statue. He went towards the cafeteria and when he arrived next to it, he hid in the shadows as Rowen descended from the roof.
"Thunder Bolt Slash!" cried the stranger.
The attack hit Rowen in the back sending him flying through the cafeteria wall. He stood up and saw his cousin and her friends nearby.
'I can't let any harm come to them, I would never forgive myself if I did!' thought Rowen.
He held his bow and arrow in front of him and saw his cousin and her friends run out of the cafeteria.
'Good now I don't have to worry about them.'
"Arrow Shockwave!"
Rowen let the arrow fly as it hit the mysterious stranger who had attacked him. His opponent went flying back, but stood up and grabbed his sword and struck Rowen with it.
"Mars Celestial Fire Surround!" cried Sailor Mars.
The attack hit Rowen's unknown enemy who was just as confused as he was. He stood back up and looked at the group of girls in mini-skirts.
"Who the hell are you six? This is none of your concern, this is between Strata and me!" roared the stranger.
"I am Sailor Moon, champion of justice and love, a university is a place to expand ones knowledge! How dare you attack this place, in the name of the moon, I will-"
"Thunder Bolt Slash!" cried the stranger.
The attack nearly hit the scouts and they saw the damage it did to the tree that was behind them.
"You're supposed to wait until I finish you stupid youma!" yelled Sailor Moon.
The stranger just laughed and said, "You think I am a youma? You are gravely mistaken, I am human; I just do my masters bidding."
(From now on I am excluding the part "Sailor" from the scout's names while transformed, except when being asked who they are. The only exception will be Sailor Moon.)
"So who is your master?" asked Jupiter.
"You will find out soon enough Sailor Scouts, but in the meanwhile I think you should look behind you, your going to be very busy fighting them!" cried the stranger.
The scouts turned around and sure enough there was an entire legion of Dynasty soldiers. The scouts started blasting them with their attacks, taking them out in no time at all. They turned around just in time to see the stranger strike Rowen with his sword and attack.
Rowen countered with his bow and arrow, along with his own attack, but not fast enough as his opponents attack engulfed his and caused an explosion. Because of which Rowen's attack was diverted to the sailor scouts, more specifically Mercury who was busy scanning them for any weaknesses. Rowen's helmet was blasted off and it crashed into the ground beside where Rowen laid on the ground.
Mercury looked up to see the outcome of the battle, but only to be hit by Rowen's arrow and forced out of her transformation as Mercury.
"Thunder Bolt Cut!" cried Sage.
His attack hit the person attacking Rowen and seeing that he was out numbered greatly he disappeared back into the Nether World. Rowen stood up smoke coming off his armor he looked around and saw Mercury lying on the ground. Then he noticed his arrow had struck her, but then he witnessed her de-transformation back to his cousin Amy.
The scouts gasped as they saw that Strata, was Amy's cousin Rowen. They gathered around Mercury, now detransformed as Amy, to attempt to hide her secret identity.
"Stay back Strata, we don't want to hurt you!" said a trembling Sailor Moon.
"Shut up Serena, I know its you, since Amy is Sailor Mercury, you can all detransform now," said Rowen.
Amy looked up slowly, a bit dizzy from being forced out of her transformation and saw Rowen in Strata's armor. She put two and two together and realized that Rowen was Strata. She stood up leaning on a statue until she fully regained her balance.
"Why didn't you tell me that you were Strata of the Ronin Warriors?" demanded Amy.
"Why didn't you tell me, you were Sailor Mercury of the Sailor Scouts?" countered Rowen.
"Uh... um... I didn't want to put you in any danger, wait a minute you never answered my question!" said a furious Amy.
"The same reason as you Amy, Talpa knew who I was and what could I do call you and tell you that I was a Ronin Warrior, you would have thought I was nuts. Besides, the reason I didn't now is because of our new enemy, plus I didn't want to put our cousin Ronan in any danger," said Rowen.
"Ronan is here, but I thought he disappeared a year after you did," said Amy.
"Apparently he has resurfaced and is as arrogant as ever. This my friend and fellow Ronin Warrior, Sage of the Halo," said Rowen.
"It's nice to meet you; I never knew Rowen had any relatives, aside from his immediate family. It's nice to know something about his mysterious past," said Sage.
"Hey the same thing could be said about you as well Sage, we each have our mysterious past before we became Ronin Warriors," exclaimed Rowen.
Sage could here a faint, "He looks like my old boyfriend," and chuckled at the statement.
"You know you really should get your friend a boyfriend, so she won't say that around every guy she meets in the world," said Sage quietly to Serena.
Serena giggled at the statement and told Raye, who told Amy, but nobody told Lita or Mina the blabber mouth.
"Meet us at the shrine on the other side of the mountain tomorrow; you don't start class until next week. Apparently your schools screwed up again and sent you here a week early," said Rowen.
They all nodded in agreement and left for their separate ways.
Toyama, Japan - Sailor Scouts
"I'm telling you Amy, your cousin is the a part of the enemy! Strangely though our enemy hasn't shown themselves yet, which means they're waiting for us to make the first move! Still your cousin is the enemy Amy, except it, he attacked you!" yelled Raye.
Amy just stood there letting Raye yell at her for being so careless and not detecting earlier that Rowen was one of the mysterious warriors she had sensed earlier. As for the others they stayed quite after they had returned to where they were staying, unsure of what to think.
"Since he attacked you and your unwilling to except it and the others are staying quite, I'm taking things into my own hands and I'm going make sure he can never hurt anybody again!" scolded Raye.
This caused Amy to go overboard and she stood up and swung her hand, when Raye turned to scold her once more before leaving, it connected with the side of her face. The others gasped at what they saw Amy do and Raye just stared at Amy and watched as Amy ran from their apartment into the city.
'I... I can't believe she hit me. She's never physically hit anybody before, as far as I know anyway.' thought Raye.
Amy ran through the streets crying and came upon a bike shop where she rented a motorcycle, after filling out some simple paperwork and just started to ride. She watched her surroundings with much interest, as the scenery became less city and more nature. She rode until she was out of the city and ironically to an area where there was a nice size house and a lake. She stopped and parked the motorcycle and noticed a man and a small shrine near the lake and forest. She walked over to him and noticed that he was praying, so she joined him.
"Not many bother to pay any respect when they see this shrine. Tell me child, why do you cry?" asked the man.
"I'm not a child and if you must know, I have to have your word that it stays between us," said Amy.
"I promise it will stay between us child," said the man.
"I'm not a child! Anyway my friends and I discovered that my cousin is a Ronin Warrior, my friend, whom is a priestess, believes him to be our enemy. You see we're the Sailor Scouts and he knows who we are as well now, and she wants to destroy him because he has a similar aura to the one that attacked him and summoned a group of strange soldiers, so now you know. By the way what exactly is your name if you don't mind, I'm Amy Mizuno."
"Not at all child, I am known as Anubis, I was once a warrior, but I was deceived and was shown the light by my predecessor's spirit," said Anubis.
"For the last time I'm not a child!" said Amy.
"Compared to me you are, I have lived for many years. I regretted the mistakes of my past, but not anymore, thanks to the Ancient," said Anubis.
"You knew the Ancient, my friend said she had a vision where he spoke to her about a prophecy," explained Amy.
"I'm not surprised; I have taken up his legacy with Lady Kayura, the only survivor of his clan. Currently Lady Kayura wears my old armor and I carry the Ancient's staff now. I presume Lady Mizuno, that your cousin is Rowen of the Strata?" guessed Anubis.
"Yeah how did you know?" wondered Amy.
"Your hair color is the same and you said he was a Ronin Warrior. They are to arrive in about one hour to prepare for you and your friends arrival. They will be in armor, in case your fiery tempered friend decides to attack, or the Dark Ronin's attack. You are welcome to stay with me Lady Mizuno, until your friends arrive," offered Anubis.
"Thank you, but its Amy, nothing else when I'm not transformed," said Amy.
"Of course, maybe you will find comfort here, until you reconcile with your friend," said Anubis.
He started to leave, but Amy stopped him, "Um, can you not tell anybody I'm here?"
Ancient's Shrine, Japan - Ronin Warriors/Warlords
Anubis smiled gently and nodded his head and left to go greet the others. He waited as they pulled up in Mia's jeep and transformed into their sub armors. Then Kayura and the warlords arrived through a gateway to and from the Nether World. Kayura noticed Anubis and decided it was time to give him back his armor, since it felt bulky on her.
"Anubis I thank you for giving me your armor to help protect me against Badaman, but now I believe you should have it once again. Between you and me Anubis, this armor is too bulky for me," said Lady Kayura.
Anubis nodded and the armor reappeared on his body with the helmet intact and repaired through the magic of the Ancient's staff. He was once again the Warlord of Loyalty, never again to be the Dark Warlord of Cruelty. The Warlords, Kayura, and the Ronin Warriors waited the remaining two hours for the Sailor Scouts to arrive and sure enough they did. The Ronin's transformed completely before the Sailor Scouts could see their faces, only Sage and Rowen kept their face plates off.
"Where is Mercury, you evil vermin!" yelled Mars.
"We haven't seen Mercury anywhere, if she is here, you might try the shrine or the lake," said Ryo.
"Liar, you'll pay for harming her, I know you have her captured and being tortured!" screamed Mars.
Ryo signaled for the other Ronin's to lend him their power and the scouts watched as each of the Ronin Warriors armors began to glow.
"They're getting ready to attack us scouts, let's get them before they get us, the one in the red armor seems to be their leader," said Mars acting like the leader of the scouts.
The other three scouts nodded and prepared to attack him.
"Jupiter Thunder..."
"Silver Moon Crystal Power..."
"Venus Meteor..."
"Mars Celestial Fire..."
"Dragon!"
"Kiss!"
"Shower!"
"Surround!"
The four attacks combined together and struck none other than...
Ancient's Shrine, Japan - Sailor Scouts/Ronin Warriors/Warlords
Mercury watched as she was too late to stop the attacks or intercept them, but something happened as she launched her attack to block the others. An empty black armor appeared and she felt the evil and darkness drain out of it as the five attacks hit it. She saw the one in the white armor stop his attack with all his might and was successful, then the black armor turned towards the wearer of the white armor and started to glow and then the white armor disappeared. She never saw the persons face as the flames were too high, but she noticed the other Ronin Warriors were quite shocked as she noticed that his once black sub-armor became white and the black armor appeared upon him.
Ronin Warriors
Ryo was shocked himself to realize that he was wearing the Black Inferno armor, which had been purified. He could sense it, as he no longer had the urge for destruction. He was able to draw the power of his white armor as well and realized that he could take the warlords powers for the white inferno armor and give them the black instead. Instead he gave the Ronin warriors part of the black inferno power and the warlord's part of the black inferno armor, and at the same time taking their parts of the white inferno armor power and adding it to the white inferno armor.
"Wildfire?" asked Anubis.
"Yeah, what is it warlord?" asked Ryo.
"What armor did you wear, it was certainly not the armor Hariel wore against Talpa," stated Anubis.
"It's the white inferno armors double, the black inferno armor. We've only battled it once when it was corrupted by evil and darkness," said Ryo.
"Mars Flame Sniper!" screamed Mars.
Mercury yelled at Mars to stop, but she was too late and the attack hit Ryo head on, who didn't seem to notice that he been attacked by Mars.
Sailor Scouts
Mars looked at Ryo and noticed that he was unfazed by the attack. She was furious and walked up to Ryo, with the other scouts protesting for her to stop. She drew back her foot and kicked him where no man likes being kicked. Ryo doubled over and was holding the area he was kicked in. Mars pulled out some charms and slammed them onto Ryo's head, but it burned off the moment it touched his inferno armor. Ryo concentrated the power back to the other Ronin's and the Warlords.
"Tell me why wasn't my attack able to faze you?!" demanded Mars.
"Your attacks are fire based and fire only adds to my armors power or recharges it. The Ancient's poem tells you each of our armors powers, except for the warlords over there points to warlords. My part is, drinking strength from immortal fire," said Ryo.
"So you're the Ronin Warrior of fire?" asked Mars.
"No, I am the Ronin Warrior of Virtue. Halo is the Ronin warrior of Wisdom, Strata is Life, Hardrock is Justice, Torrent is Trust, the warlord's are Loyalty, Piety, Obedience, and Serenity," explained Ryo.
Sailor Moon stepped up and grabbed Mars, then pulled her back to her place and walked up to Ryo and said, "Please forgive my friend she is worried about our other friend and she overreacts when she is scared, confused, or worried. Can you direct me to these warlords?"
Ryo pointed to the group of warriors wearing fearsome looking armors. Sailor Moon walked up to them and said, "Which one of you is the one that bears the kanji, known as Serenity?"
The warlords looked at each other and Dais took a step forward while watching her carefully. She walked over to him and said, "You bear the name of my mother and myself as your kanji warlord, spiritually this makes you my brother and I your sister."
Dais was shocked, because for the hundreds of years he had been alive, never before had he had a sister of any sorts that he knew of, until now.
"So who are you all and what are your abilities?" asked Jupiter.
Ryo was the first to answer as he removed his helmet and said, "I'm Ryo of Wildfire, leader of the Ronin Warriors, you already know Sage of the Halo and Rowen of the Strata. The one in the orange armor is Kento of Hardrock and the one in the light blue armor is Cye of the Torrent. The one that Sailor Moon just spoke with is Dais, Warlord of Illusions; now Warlord of Serenity. The one in the green armor is Sekmet, Warlord of Venom, now Warlord of Piety, the one next to him is Kale, Warlord of Corruption, now Warlord of Obedience, and the last one is Anubis, Warlord of Cruelty; now Warlord of Loyalty. The woman next to them is Lady Kayura, the last surviving member of the Ancient's clan."
"Can you give us a demonstration of your attacks?" asked a curious Mercury.
That's when a Dynasty gate appeared and opened releasing thousands of Dynasty Soldiers, which not even the Sailor Scouts could wipe out on their own.
"Flare Up Now!" cried Ryo.
They watched as about a hundred or so were destroyed. Then they saw Sage destroy about the same amount, along with Kento, Cye, and Rowen.
The warlords looked at Anubis, as if wondering what to do, since he had been their leader when they became warlords. Anubis smiled and leapt into the air, leaving a startled Mars to believe he was saving his own skin. But the Ronin's saw him leap into the air and each grabbed a scout and ran to a safe distance and watched.
"QUAKE WITH FEAR!"
The scouts were scared at the name of the attack and the way it was said as Anubis threw his weapon into the ground and out shot thousands of chains, which obliterated hundreds of the soldiers. All that remained were a some thirty or so soldiers, which the other three warlords were going to take care of for the others.
"WEB OF DECEPTION!"
"SNAKE... FANG... STRIKE!"
"BLACK LIGHTNING FLASH!"
The three attacks hit the remaining soldiers and were obliterated into nothing but piles of junk. Then the Dark Ronin Warriors appeared; all five of them.