Hotaru's Healing Powers. The Violet Senshi Skirmish!
Setsuna hovered protectively over Minako's unconscious body lying on a bed in the nurses' office. Artimis was laid out across her chest, looking rather sad.
There was a knock at the door and she rushed over to open it to find Ami, Usagi, Rei, and Makoto waiting at the door. "Setsuna-chan?" Usagi asked tentatively.
The beautiful green-haired woman shook her head, but still led the four girls to Minako's bed.
Artimis looked up but said nothing.
"I'm afraid there's nothing we can do," Setsuna said sadly, "But wait for her to wake up again. Although, I'm not sure how soon that will be..."
All of the girls looked about to cry. "You four run along," Setsuna suggested, "Artimis and I can take care of her."
They nodded and reluctantly left. Only a few minutes later, Hotaru showed up at the door. "Setsuna-mama?"
"Oh Hotaru!" she started, "I'm so sorry! I forgot all about bringing you home today... It's just that Minako got tangled up in something rather unpleasant."
Without a word, the tiny, dark-haired child glided over to Minako and her guardian cat. "A senshi hurt her," she stated, rather than asked. The nurse did not ask how she knew, Hotaru could just do things like that.
"Which reminds me," Setsuna started, "I need to make some phone calls and let Haruka and Michiru know what has happened. They would want to know."
Hotaru nodded and sat gingerly on the end of another bed opposite the love senshi's body as Setsuna left the room. Hotaru saw this as her time to see if she could help Venus, fearing that Setsuna would forbid her to do so.
As soon as the beautiful nurse was out of an earshot, she hopped back off the bed and tiptoed over to Minako's bed. Artimis raised his head and gave her an expectant look.
"I'm going to try to help her..." she said in her high, little voice.
"Mm-hm," he nodded and hopped off of Minako's chest and on to the floor next to the younger girl.
Hotaru reached out with her right hand and placed it over the blond girl's heart. The air around the two of them began to glow a slight violet color. She closed her purple eyes and concentrated hard, her forehead creasing.
There were footsteps at the door and the glowing around the two senshi disappeared. Without flinching or turning around, Hotaru said coldly, "One of your senshi did this to her. What do you want?" Her hand was still over Minako's heart and she stared blankly ahead of herself. Artimis whirled around, but also held his ground.
"I... ah... wanted to see who was using those powers," the visitor said in a high and sweet, yet unsure, voice.
Hotaru finally turned around slowly. The girl had pale skin like her own and lavender eyes to match. Her hair was a shade lighter than royal purple and was held in a bun my a light violet bow on the back of her head and it looped slightly up in a ponytail thicker than her arm that reached almost down to her waist. She looked about Minako's age and was also wearing the Juuban High uniform of navy and red. "Now that you've seen," she said with a dangerously icy edge to her voice, "You had best leave."
A smirk crossed the girl's face, "I had thought that my counterpart would be more intelligent than the rest and see eye-to-eye with us. After all, you, young one, were not part of that original offense. I suppose I was wrong..."
"I said leave," Hotaru said, her voice growing to a level close to a whisper as she glared hard at her intruder. Her fists clenched and the air around her began to glow.
"Is that a challenge, Hotaru?" she asked mockingly, revealing that she knew the tiny girl's name.
"Who are you?" Hotaru asked dangerously, "Or wait— two can play at that game..." Her eyes went out of focus for a moment then returned. "You are Rasutono Jika. Now leave Jika."
"I think not," Jika declared, taking one step forward.
"Leave now!" Hotaru almost yelled, the violet glow around her tiny body intensifying.
"No." Jika took one more daring step forward.
Blinding violet light flashed across the room as the tiny girl's patience snapped. A moment later, she held her immense glaive pointing towards Jika in two outstretched hands, her eyes flashing with anger as Jika only smirked and removed a heart-shaped crystal from the bow on her head. It was violet in color and had a dark silver Negamoon sign on its front face.
"Saturn Crystal Power, Makeup!" Hotaru yelled holding one hand over her head. Her whole body turned a whitish translucent color as violet streams of power twined down from the tip of her weapon and created her fuku.
Meanwhile, Jika had plans of her own. She held the crystal heart over her head and yelled, "Violet Sun Spectrum Power, Makeup!" A flash of slightly more jewel-like violet light enveloped her and Sailor Violet Sun emerged. She had fuku of two different shades of violet, the bows being the same color as her hair bow and the rest darker with a bodice and gloves of two different shades of black. She had tall boots that laced up like Sailor Saturn's and were of a deep violet color.
"I am Sailor Saturn!" the younger senshi declared, "I am the senshi of destruction and the most powerful next to our princess. I could destroy a whole planet, you would be of no challenge. Believe me when I say this. Leave now!"
"And I say it again," Sailor Violet Sun said mockingly, "I think not!"
"Death Reborn Revolution!" She yelled and white ribbons rocketed towards the sun senshi.
At the last moment Violet Sun raised her hands and yelled, "Violet Silence Wall!" The ribbons met the wall and dissipated. "Anything you've got, I can use as well," she smirked, "I've got a job to do, so get out of my way and let me do it!"
"You will not touch Minako-chan or Artimis," she declared and rushed across the office, around a table and to her Golden Counterpart, swing her deadly Silence Glaive.
"Just stop me!" she laughed and launched herself into a powerful leap and onto the table and launched her attack at Sailor Saturn's back. "Violet Ultra Rays!" Then she leapt to the floor near Minako's bed. She put her hand on the blond girl's chest and began to quickly undo Hotaru's healings.
Sailor Saturn yelped and was flung to the floor as her weapon went flying. She quickly pulled herself up and scrambled to get it.
Artimis launched into the air with his claws out and yoweling. He landed on the sun senshi's back and began scratching madly. "Leave her alone!" he yelled between yowls.
"Eeeek!" she screeched as the white cat ripped though her fuku and caused blood to come running down her arms. She turned wildly, attempting to shake Artimis loose.
Hotaru rushed forward with her glaive poised to strike. Artimis saw her coming and leaped off just in time as she swung for Violet Sun's neck. She stopped just short, the razor sharp blade resting on the right side of the taller girl's neck.
Jika closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She knew that the younger senshi would follow through on her very real threat if provoked. "Fine," she said calmly, "You win this fight. Let me go and I'll leave you and this girl alone. I promise you this."
"Fine," Saturn retorted, and pulled her blade back and down, leaving a small, thread-sized slash on Sailor Violet Sun's neck.
The girl hissed in pain, her eyes snapping back open, and put her right hand to the small wound. She sighed, and slowly removed her hand. Only a slightly glowing scar remained of the slash and the violet glow faded quickly. The scar, however, remained. It always would. Wounds from the Silence Glaive always left their mark on a victim, for eternity.
Closing her eyes silently, the violet ribbons of her transformation became visible and gathered at the crystalline heart on the bow in her hair. Seconds later, Sailor Violet Sun was no more and Rasutono Jika stood in her place. She turned and went silently for the door. When she reached it, Jika turned and said quietly, "Until another day, Tomoe Hotaru." With that, she was gone.
Sailor Saturn shivered apprehensively then set her glaive down near the bed and resumed her healing. In not long, Minako was breathing more regularly and her color had returned. She was still unconscious, but she looked, and was, much better.
Saturn picked up her glaive and untransformed, the impressive weapon disappearing.
Hotaru skipped over to the other bed and sat down on the end of it just as Setsuna returned. Her garnet eyes darted from the mess on the table to Hotaru to Minako and back to Hotaru again. "Did you—?"she asked perplexed.
Hotaru only nodded.