Change into the Light. Make the Hearts of the Soldiers One!
"Kigai!" Haruka stammered in shock, motioning for the tiny girl to come inside.
Kigai made no movements at all. She just said gravely, "You can't let this go on. I can't let this go on. One of the people you treasure most has been fatally injured as has one of mine."
The taller woman's mouth hung open and she remained in dumbfounded silence.
"Together, you and I could stop this," Kigai's high voice cracked slightly, as if she was holding back sadness, "I know we can."
Haruka nodded, "Yes Kigai, I won't let you down."
A cute little smile spread across Kigai's face. She pulled down the broach off of her hair bow and held it above her head. "Yellow Sun Spectrum Power, Makeup!"
Haruka produced her own transformation pen, "Uranus Crystal Power, Makeup!"
"Mercury Aqua Rhapsody!" Sailor Mercury commanded and entwining tendrils of water shot at the three enemy senshi. All three of the dark-suited girls easily danced out of the way. The fight had been going on for a very long time so far with no results.
Sailor Blue Sun laughed. "You actually think you can beat us with your puny attacks?" she said with an amused voice, "We've been alive far longer than you and our attacks are much stronger."
"Is that so?" Venus asked slyly.
"Of course," Sailor Orange Sun replied, "That's why you're loosing so terribly to us. And that is why we will win."
"Really?" Venus laughed, "Venus Solar Flare!" Hot golden light gathered in her hands and she flung it at the three evil senshi.
Blue Sun and Red Sun dodged out of the way, but Sailor Orange Sun was too stunned to move. The attack hit her full force and she was blasted back with a loud shriek, skidding to a stop on the grass, with green stains on her skirt. The thin girl moaned then lay still and silent where she was.
Sailor Red Sun quickly hurried over to her fallen comrade and took her pulse, then nodded to Sailor Blue Sun, who relaxed. "That's a powerful attack," the tall blue-haired senshi said calmly, "Kanmi may not have been very strong in defense, but she really had an intense attack force."
Red Sun stood and walked over to stand confidently next to her partner again. She smirked, "Now you have us outnumbered. I still doubt, though, that you have us overpowered."
Sailor Mercury quickly analyzed the situation in her normal calculating way. Orange Sun will be down for a while. Maybe Venus can do some more damage with Kanmi's attack. Bengosha was hurt last time by Aqua Rhapsody. Or wait... She turned and spoke quietly and quickly to Sailor Venus and Sailor Moon, "Venus, you and I will distract them then Sailor Moon can use her attack when they're not ready for it."
Venus nodded and she and Mercury launched forward.
"Venus Solar Flare!"
"Mercury Aqua Rhapsody!"
Sailor Blue Sun and Sailor Red Sun were forced to dodge out of the way. Blue Sun leaped to the side and out of the way of the golden light while Red Sun dove out of the way of the water. She tucked into a ball and rolled, coming out of it and to her feet right in front of Sailor Venus.
The blond senshi grinned. "Venus Love Me Chain!" she yelled and the golden chain wrapped itself around Red Sun's waist, binding her arms to her side.
Before the girl had a chance to wriggle free, Sailor Moon raised her wand and began her attack, "Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss!"
White light surrounded Sailor Red Sun and Venus' golden chain immediately disintegrated. The dark crescent moons disappeared from her broaches and golden stars appeared. Her fuku flashed white for a moment then her transformation faded away in a storm of red ribbons of energy. All the while she was screaming in absolute agony. Blue Sun stood rooted to her spot with a look of terror and horror on her face. Finally, with one last moan, the red-haired girl collapsed to the ground, back in her blue and red Juuban Jr. High uniform, her eyes gently closed.
"FUREA!" Sailor Blue Sun shrieked, running three steps to where her younger friend laid, her voice skipping up an octave with her absolute despair. There was dead silence for a moment while Bengosha knelt by her best friend. Then she turned her tear-streaked face towards the three Silver Senshi and growled, "You will pay for that." The dangerous tone in her voice sent chills down the other girls' spines and all stood paralyzed in the glare of her deep blue eyes.
Just then, a quiet voice asked tentatively, "What happened here?"
Bengosha didn't move a muscle, but Sailor Moon, Mercury, and Venus's attention was on a pair of curious newcomers: Sailor Violet Sun and Sailor Indigo Sun.
"Kanmi was taken down by her own attack, but from another source while Furea was destroyed by these three," Bengosha explained in an extremely cold voice with a hit of deadly anger in it.
"None of this shall be allowed," Sailor Violet Sun said coolly as she took one of Orange Sun's hands. The fallen girl glowed a violet color briefly then moaned and slowly got up, the violet senshi assisting her slightly.
The three new senshi moved up to stand near to Sailor Blue Sun, Indigo still trying to stand a ways off.
Blue Sun stood up slowly, her speed almost agonizingly slow and taunting to the Silver Senshi. "Now you're outnumbered. You don't stand a single chance at all," she said dangerously.
None of the senshi moved.
"Not any more!" Sailor Mars called as she and three more senshi crossed the grass at a dead run: Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Neptune, and Sailor Saturn.
"Now we're outnumbering you!" Sailor Jupiter said triumphantly as she joined the line with her other friends.
"You still can't win," Orange Sun laughed, "We're much more powerful."
"Besides," Indigo Sun added, "Our princess is coming."
Quiet gasps ran along the lines of senshi. As if on cue, a thin and sickly girl wearing a fuku of a dark rainbow of colors and blond hair done in pointy odangos and loop pigtails accompanied by a pink-clad senshi emerged from a group of trees near by. Sailor Pink Sun had dark pink hair done in a pair of round odangos and all of the other senshi could tell that she was very powerful, without even thinking about it. Both girls walked deliberately slow and majestically. All movement or thought of moving stopped among the twelve senshi who were previously ready for battle.
Setsuna rolled over on her side and moaned. She vaguely remembered Sailor Saturn saying something about only sparing enough power to put her on the mend and she would sleep off her pain. Even so, she was so close to death that she would not be fit to fight until after a very long rest. Finally able to take in her surroundings, she saw that she was in one of the rooms of the Shinto Shrine that Rei called home, laying on a cot. Near by, apparently unceremoniously dumped on the floor, was a crumpled heap resembling Sailor Green Sun. Next to the girl was a small charm that Rei often used to contain evil things.
She doesn't look so well, she thought and tried to get, but failed miserably and was forced to lay back down on the cot and contemplate what she was to do with herself.
"Oh Kumori!" Sailor White Sun whispered in the silence, "It's beautiful!"
Black Sun squeezed the taller girl's hand and murmured back as they, as well as the other senshi, stared down at the approaching planet, "I know. It's so blue, nothing like the Golden Millennium." She gestured with her head towards the silvery moon, not daring to let go of either of her hands and break the teleportation shield that the senshi had around themselves. "It's a pity that the beautiful Moon Kingdom was destroyed. That was much more beautiful than the kingdom of Elysion."
"Elysion was destroyed too, you know," Silver Sun said sharply from across the circle.
"Of course she knows," Bronze commented lazily, "How couldn't she?"
"It didn't sound like it!" Sailor Silver Sun retorted.
"Stop before you get started!" Sailor Gold Sun commanded, "I want to admire the view before we arrive." The other two metallic senshi silenced and relaxed.
"Hanryo?" Sailor Brown Sun asked.
"Huh?" Gray Sun responded softly.
"I'm a little worried about our descent," Brown Sun started nervously and explained, "I mean, where are we going to land? We'll be falling pretty fast, right?"
"That's up to Enogu-hime," Sailor Gray Sun said earnestly.
"Akari," Sailor Spectrum called, as she was holding on to the brown-haired girl's other hand, "Don't worry about it. We should land on a safe place in Tokyo, Japan, for that is where our comrades are, and our descent should slow such that we land softly and safely."
Sailor Brown Sun grinned, "Thank you." Then she turned her attention back to the impressive sight of the Earth and its moon among the stars and the circle fell into silence again.