©2000-2004 by Stacey Padjune (Serena CrystalMoon)
Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon, though it is on my wish list.
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The three remaining outer senshi exited the interplanet portal on Earth. The air was crisp and cool as the girls set off on their horses. Racing though the town, Saturn led the group, following her senses, which were connected to Sailor Pluto.
The wind lashed wildly at the three outer guardians but failed to distract them in their frantic race toward their Queen. Only after turning a bend and finding themselves the target of flying shards of metal did they stop their search.
A shining piece of silver flew past Saturn, hitting Uranus and putting a small gash on her cheek. More metal shards flew at the senshi, causing each to collect a rather large and scattered amount of cuts and gashes over their exposed skin. Uranus raised a white gloved had to the two parallel cuts on her cheek, looking at the blood on her white finger tips for a moment. "WORLD SHAKING!" she yelled, sending a golden globe of light at their assailant.
Dodging the attack as best he could, the black ninja-suited warrior sent a handful of metal shards that crackled with dark energy straight at Sailor Uranus. Pushing Uranus out of the way, Sailor Neptune inserted herself right into the path of the dangerous weapons.
"Michi No!" Uranus shouted from the ground as she watched her soul-mate scream amidst a cloud of crackling metal pieces tearing her fuku and her beautiful skin to hell and back.
Falling to the ground after the attack had finally ceased, Sailor Neptune landed on her knees, weak and weary she fell backwards onto the cold grass behind her. Roaring with anger Sailor Uranus stood and moved in front of Neptune, facing her enemy and protecting her love, "World Shaking!" she yelled releasing a golden ball of energy shaped as her home world, the ball raced over the ground causing earthquakes before it hit the ninja with the force of a boulder and knocked him backwards and down to one knee. Gripping the hilt to her rapier the Senshi of the Skies and Heavens wasted no time in pulling it's blade from it's protective sheath and launching herself onto her enemy. "Space Sword Blaster!" she shouted, her blade glowing with the winds power of Uranus, slashing with her sword Uranus cut the chest of the ninja deep before it was repelled backwards from it's intense contact to the power of her weapon. "Space Sword Blaster!" she shouted once more sending out a whirling tunnel of wind at her rival pinning him against the tree he hand landed in front off before she hurled her glowing blade straight and true down through the wind tunnel and cracked a smile when the weapon was imbedded into her foe's chest.
After watching the ninja disintegrate Uranus walked up to the tree and withdrew her dagger and placed it back into it's sheath and into her sub-space pocket. Turning around Uranus was relieved to see Saturn already working diligently on healing Neptune's wounds. They were positioned on the ground with Neptune's head resting on a pile of grass and Saturn's glowing purple hands were over some of her more major injuries, numbing and healing them before she moved on to others. Sighing in grateful silence she walked back over to her companions and held Neptune's hand.
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Swirling red clouds drifted around the Time Dimension, as the group looked around in awe at the large expanse of space. It was completely empty, nothing but a swirling mass of red clouds as far as the eye could see and it held nothing but mystery. Even the ground on which they stood was black with swirling red clods, it seemed an optical illusion, as if they were standing on glass over a bottomless pit or they were actually floating in space.
"In this dimension time flows differently than on Earth, this helps by allowing you to spend very large amounts of time in here and when you return almost no time at all will have passed on Earth. Also, this space is highly magickal, blessed by the gods, it will create anything you wish it to, all you have to do is ask."
A puzzled expression showed on many faces as they all looked at Sailor Pluto, "What do you mean 'all you have to do is ask'?" came the gruff reply of King Kasei, as he questioned Sailor Pluto.
Waving her gloved hand in a wide arc over the empty space about her Sailor Pluto smiled, "Grass please." she asked politely to no one in particular. A moment later the group was standing together on a grassy hill with a few trees and a small field.
Her smile had gone but a smirk played about her lips as those around her gasped. "Go ahead, train, and practice. You all will have to be at the best of your ability."
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The strong clangs of a clock striking midnight echoed throughout the room where Queen Beryl was brooding within her dark castle. The room, devoid of light and empty save for the Mistress's medieval-like throne, had an air of wickedness about it. She had yet to find the hiding place of her rivals and had retired to this room when another of her generals had failed in finding them; patience was never a virtue she possessed as he definitely found out when his head had exploded as he stood before her. A smirk formed on her blood red lips at the thought of it, the vision of his blood splattering over the floor fresh in her mind. Minutes passed, slowly...ever so slowly, and soon a tentative knock could be heard against her door. "Enter." came her voice, sweet, smooth and dangerous as poisoned syrup. She watched, amusedly, as the large wooden double doors creaked open and a short silver haired woman with pale skin and shiny golden eyes shuffled sheepishly into the room and up to her Majesty's throne.
"Yes, Nirevia?" The red haired queen asked.
"Y-you're Highness," the young woman spoke softly, looking up at the figure before her, cloaked in darkness. "Myran h-has failed. In his search for the senshi he stumbled upon three other senshi, the outer planetary guardians. In battle he was bested and when given the chance to run he threatened a senshi of wavy aquamarine hair. Her lover, in fury, destroyed him."
"What a pity," her voice dripped with sugar sweet sarcasm.
"You d-do not care my liege?" came the young girls almost innocent question, followed by her Queen's eruption with cruel laughter. This girl really is an innocent; even with all she has seen and all she has done she still has yet to grasp the simple concept of evil. Oh but she will, under my wing she will learn soon enough. The Queen erupted in another bout of maniacal laughter before taking the young silver haired girl in her arms and leading her out of the room.
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A beam of concentrated yellow energy flew across the grassy field inside the Time Dimension shooting into the tree she had been aiming at, leaving a circular black dent in the bark. Venus smirked before turning around and going to the back of the line and watching Sailor Mars take her turn.
"Fire Soul!" the senshi of fire commanded, sending forth a ball of fire, leaving rings of black smoke in it's wake as it hurtled toward the tree. Blasting into it the ball of fire burnt a large black ring into the tree but appeared less massive than Venus' smaller more concentrated and deeper burn mark. Not as satisfied as she had liked Mars still turned and went back into the line behind Venus to let Mercury take her turn.
The shorter, blue-haired senshi of ice frowned knowing what her attack would do but proceeded anyway. "Shabon Spray!" she bellowed loud and clear, a load of ice blue bubbles blasting from her hands and freezing the air around her and the others and creating a thick fog to the point where no human would have been able to have seen an inch in front of their faces let alone the tree on the other side of the feild. Groaning she turned and took her place behind Mars.
Stepping up confidently, Jupiter stood not waiting for the cold fog to dissipate before shouting out her battle command, "SUPREME THUNDER!" came her loud unwavering voice as a lightning rod extended from her tiara and gathered electrical energy from her home planet. Pulling the energy through her body she gathered it into a tight concentrated ball of electricity in her hands before letting it go, hurling it at the tree. The sparkling electric energy hit the tree, cracking it in half around the middle of it's length and causing the top half of the tree to fall diagonally to the ground. The rest of her attack fried the leaves and the outer layer of bark to a dark crispy brown. Proud of her self she nodded and smiled at her friends before taking her place back in line.
"Not bad," Sailor Uranus' haughty voice called out to them from a couple feet away as she walked down the grassy hill, Neptune and Saturn at her heels.
"Thanks. How'd you find us?" Jupiter asked her fellow senshi-in-arms, ignoring the woman's silent arrogance, slightly worried that if the rest of the outers had found them then possibly so could Beryl.
"Oh," she chuckled, "Saturn's mentally linked to Pluto so she led us and we followed the link here."
Sighing in relief, Sailor Mercury walked over to the two to greet the outer planetary senshi. "Uranus, Neptune, Saturn, so nice to see you all, it's been a while." She smiled her shy but happy smile as she looked up at Sailor Neptune, one of her role models.
"Mercury," Sailor Neptune chuckled slightly at the smaller senshi of ice, "A pleasure to see you too, as always." Her smile was charming and beautiful to the right extent, but not too much. She must've done extremely well in her Princess lessons… Mercury thought amazed, as they can be pretty tough.
"You all are preparing for the upcoming battle, are you not?" Saturn's small voice broke in to the group, startling the inner senshi for a moment.
"Yes, yes we are." Sailor Jupiter told the senshi of death and rebirth
"Well then, I advise you all get back to you're training. And we'll join in too." The youngest and most dangerous sailor senshi said, looking past the two inner senshi to the other two a bit behind them, waiting for their return. Without another word Sailor Saturn walked in between the senshi of Jupiter and the senshi of Mercury, heading straight for the other two inner senshi and the chance to practice some of her power and fighting know-how.
Sailor Uranus watched the young senshi go before turning to her lover and raising an eyebrow causing the aquamarine haired senshi to giggle lightly before taking the woman's hand and following after Sailor Saturn. Jupiter and Mercury stood, far away looks on their faces, even the shy Sailor Mercury couldn't help but be envious, anticipating the day when she too would have somebody to love and whom she cherished above all else… well except for her princess of course. Makoto's eyes were huge and dreamy, sighing she wished she had a boyfriend before Mercury nudged her with her elbow and they followed the others in line for more training.
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Author's Note: I'm sorry it's so short but I figured that I needed to get something out since it's been so long since this has been updated. And I'm sorry for that too…I do have an excuse though I'm sure you all don't want to here it but I'll say it anyways. I'm a senior in High School now and to graduate I have to do a VERY LARGE project and it must be completed by January 5th, so yeah my project topic was to wite a story and research copyright laws and how to get one's original work published. I chose to write my other story "Destiny's Hold", which is my senior project and I have been putting it up here since I started. I will continue it on here even after I have to hand it in to my school, but for the school it won't be finished it'll end with a cliffhanger for them. But on here it will be finished. But that is why I haven't updated. So sorry you guys. I hope you'll forgive me and I hope you'll review too!
--Serena