Chapter 3 - Shadow
The entity decided to wake another one of its minions. While it was still sleeping it would have needed an earthquake to free it, but now...one thought of power and it happened...
In the darkness of the basement, a small crack in the ground opened and something dark and evil moved out of it. Normally it wouldn´t have been able to leave the basement without a host, but now it had been infused with additional power by its master. Without any difficulty it left the house, and began to search for it´s prey.
Everyone met in the living room and waited. Finally Leo orbed in. "So what?", Paige asked. "Nothing. They don´t know anything.", Leo sighed. "Well, who ever those girls were they didn´t seem to be evil.", Paige said. "Yes, but that may only be a cover of some sort.", Piper mused. "What ever they were...the power of the one called Sailor Moon somehow expanded mine..so I could resurrect that girl.", Leo looked very curious. "Let´s scry for them and try to find them...perhaps we can..."....Phoebe was stopped in mid sentence...when suddenly the house was shaken by what sounded like a huge explosion. A being...with a body made of pure fire was flying through the room. It looked like a gigant eagle, setting the ceiling on fire. "Oh my god!", Paige shrieked. "Piper, do something!" Piper raised her hands to make the demon explode, but it made it only bigger. Now the entire ceiling was burning. Paige quickly threw a spell together, while she was ducking and trying to avoid being burned to death by the now madly shrieking bird. "Clouds I ask you to gather, let in this room rain be heard to vanquish this fire bird!", she shouted at the top of her lungs. Suddenly dark and heavy rain clouds appeared and it began raining. The flames on the ceiling quickly vanished...and the bird was hovering unhurt a few centimeters beneath it. At least it didn´t set anything on flame again. Paige looked up to it and said "You know...it looks kinda nice." Phoebe gave her an angry look. "It´s a damn bird made of fire! And could you stop the rain before the whole house swims away?" Paige quickly did a counter spell, and the rain stopped. In the corner of her eye, Phoebe suddenly saw something strange leave out of the nearest window. She got a strange it be....no way. They had banished him years ago. "Must be my wild imagination", Phoebe thought.
Usagi and Co were looking at the beautiful victorian houses of Prescott Street. "I would love to have one of those!", Makoto sighed. "Fire!", Rei shouted suddenly and pointed to a reddish house near by. Smoke was coming out some of its windows. They ran to it.
The girls heard someone scream "Fire!", and everyone ran out to hinder whoever had spotted the smoke on entering the house. Phoebe smiled when she saw the japanese girls she had met earlier come running toward them. "It´s ok! We have everything under control.", Leo said. Rei gave him a weird look "Are you sure?", she asked. Makoto only had eyes for the cute man that talked to Rei..."Looks like me ex", she thought when suddenly she felt something cold hit her. She quickly turned...but there wasn´t anything strange to see.
It had found the one he was searching for and quickly entered the body of the tall brown haired girl.
Suddenly, something hot and bright flew out of the upstairs window and toward them. Usagi screamed in horror when she saw that it was a gigantic fire bird. Minako didn´t loose time and shouted something Phoebe couldn´t translate: "Minna, henshin yo!"
"Hai!" the other girls answered in unison.
"Mars Planet Power, Make up!"
"Jupiter Planet Power, Make up!"
"Venus Planet Power, Make up!"
"Moon Eternal, Make up!"
Swirling lights blinded the charmed ones and Leo. As it vanished, the strange girls in their sailor uniforms stood before them. "Go hide somewhere, we will take care of this!", the one in blue said. But everybody stood put.
Mercury held her arms up and shouted "Mercury, Aqua Rhapsody!". Something mysterious happened. Instead of one huge beam of water, 4 gigantic beams of water hit the target. "Something", seemed to have enhanced her powers somehow. But to her shock the monster wasn´t harmed that bad. It only seemed to be a bit smaller now, and it moved toward Sailor Moon. Piper quickly raised her hands and the bird was frozen in mid air. Sailor Moon didn´t want to miss that chance and let the Eternal Tier appear.
"Silver Moon! Crystal Power...Kiss!" and the monster was gone.
"Oh great!", Piper said. "That´s the second time today our house is flooded. And who the hell ARE you guys?" Leo raised his voice and said "Let´s discuss that inside, ok?" Everyone nodded and they went inside. No one noticed the long double edged knife appearing in Makotos hand, quickly she hid it in one of her boots.