The freakin' italics and bolds aren't working! Why not? Why won't they
work!!! Why!!! Some one please help me out if you know, till then I'll have
to improvise. All the stuff that would have been mind speech is now going
to have (::) around it. Like this:
:: I am in your mind! Haha! ::
I think you get it. Well, anyways, I don't own Sailor Moon, wish I did, you can't sue me. On with the story!
Song of the New Cosmos
By: Liquid_Goddess_Reformation
Chapter Three: The Venus Saga Part 1: Venus Meltdown
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Seraph had been reflecting on all the Festivals that had happened since they had arrived on Venus. All the fun was affecting her stomach. She thought she might throw up or something; well that wasn't true. She liked festivals as well as the next person but Venus took it to a whole new level with festivals that covered the whole planet wide with celebrating and it got slightly annoying when you couldn't due anything without someone coming up and hugging you or something. And the festivals went on for days. It seemed that there was a major holiday every two weeks. Kids in schools organized parties during their brakes. It was probably a good thing that everyone on Venus frowned upon alcohol. Anything stronger than tea was practically banned.
And the people were so friendly it was weird. She watched as a blond girl was doing a dancing routine on a stage. Upon Selece and Terasu's reaction to her wearing "Real Clothes" she decided she would wear them more often to make them stop fusing over it. Of course she would only wear them on outings and such, in places with regular people-not that she wasn't a regular person! Which she was! Whatever, she wouldn't accomplish anything like this and it wouldn't look to good for Mashiro or herself if she was caught in some weird argument with herself. That would not be good at all. And here she had another dilemma.
That girl was Sailor Venus. She would bet the universe on it if she had to gamble. Selece and Terasu had wanted to go see one of the shows that Venus's top Performing arts school was putting on along with a huge festival and fair right next to the school; Mashiro had insisted on a guard. Of course they didn't really want a guard. Who would? She had five louts hanging around her 24/7 and it wasn't at all a vacation. That was why she had been dragged along somehow. The guards could guard all of them. They were even being pretty inconspicuous about, it for once. Well, as inconspicuous as five royal guards can be. They acted like they were friends of Seraph, Selece and Terasu, just along on a day off. And no one could blame them for wearing their swords what with the attacks and all...Seraph even wore a sword.
The thing was, though, that she didn't know who this girl was. She didn't have contacts to the palace, that she knew of, so she didn't have anyway of finding her again. Also, The Chief Councilor to her majesty running after some girl would look pretty strange. It would defiantly draw unwanted attention, anyways. But Seraph still had a trick up her sleeve.
"She is very good." Seraph said. It was true but it wasn't meant to mean anything.
"She is!" Terasu said.
"I wish I could do that." Selece sighed.
"hmm." That was Seraph, opening a path for someone else to speak, while at the same time doing a sort of twist in Terasu's head. It wasn't a real twist. It was a sort of mind trick she'd picked up from the last attack. She had seen the energy pass through the girls and the beings as they talked, indicating a sort of mind speech. Seraph had worked on it a bit and figured out how to do it; then she dampened it a bit. She didn't want to do anything to Terasu, or even talk to her, only put a kind of whispering voice suggesting something she might not have thought of otherwise. It was less suspicious with her thinking of the idea, than if Seraph had said something. Her result should be coming along right...about-
"Hey!" –Now.
"What?" Selece asked. Seraph listened as if she didn't know what she was going to say.
"We should go talk to her! All the people that perform go off the stage, over there!" she pointed. "Then they go out into the crowd! We could follow her after and talk to her!"
"Oh, I'd be too shy."
"Oh, come on! It would be cold!"
"Cold? No, Terasu, it's cool. It would be 'cool'."
"'Cool', got it! Let's go!" Terasu dragged Selece over to the girl that was walking off the stage. Emmett looked over at Seraph suspiciously and she shrugged. Let him think on it a bit. In the mean time, she was hungry.
"Let's get some ice cream." She suggested. All the guards agreed before Emmett knew what was going on.
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Terasu and Selece navigated their way through the crowd to where they saw the girl go off the stage. They found her coming out of a bathroom, with a different set of clothes on. As before she had worn a gold dress, now she wore a shorts and spaghetti-strapped top set of orange and white. Terasu walked up to her to say hi, practically dragging Selece, who was as frozen as a statue. As they came closer, it became apparent that the girl was a lot younger than it seemed at first. She was about thirteen with long, straight orangey-gold hair and hazel-gold eyes. She was only medium height but even so, she wasn't any shorter than Terasu, she was taller even. Terasu was about four-foot-nine, this girl was several inches taller, making her about five feet. Selece looked uncomfortable, maybe because she was so tall, maybe because she was so shy. Terasu stopped in front of the girl and was about to say hello when the girl burst out talking.
"Hi! I saw you guys in the crowd! I love your hair! It's so awesome! It's whitish! I've never seen anyone with hair like that! And it's in rings! That's so fun! And you! Yours is blue! I told my friend Lia that I was going to die my hair blue but she was like, 'you're gonna get in trouble! They don't let you die your hair here! They'll throw you out! Na, na, na...' Did you die it? Or is it really like that? It is? Wow! That's so awesome!"
Terasu could barely keep up with words and looked over at Selece, and saw that her right eye was twitching. She'd noticed that when Selece was confused at what to do, like now, her eye would start blinking a lot. She was standing stiff as ice, it looked like she'd fall over if you touched her. Terasu had gotten lots of practice talking to people since she'd become Sailor Moon, she didn't think she was an evil creature anymore, and she had purpose. She'd gained courage, and she had to help her new friend get over her paranoia, too. For some reason she started to giggle.
"-and then my other friend said-What is it?" the girl asked, stopping in mid-sentence to ask Terasu. Selece just turned her cowed expression toward Terasu.
"Oh, nothing," she said, "just, you don't even know who we are and-,"
"I don't?! Man, I am so rude! My name is Kingusarino, Minai." She said holding out her hand. Terasu took it.
"I am Terasu."
"Selece Aisu Seikano." Selece to Minai's hand stiffly.
"You guys aren't from around here are you?"
"No," Terasu said then added, "What is 'guys'"
"I'll explain it later." Selece said.
"Great! I'll show you guys around!"
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Seraph ate ice cream out of a cup the size of an extra-large, fountain-drink soda cup. It was vanilla with crushed Oreos (the closest think to heaven!). Her plastic spoon snapped. Damn! Luckly she often ate ice cream with plastic spoons and new enough by now to get some extra. She pulled out another spoon and began eating again, She had just swallowed a particularly large bite when Emmett asked, "Don't you get brain freeze?!"
"Nope." She answered, and took another bite.
"What are we looking for, anyways?" he asked, taking another bite of his peanut-butter and caramel ice cream and shivering.
"Sneaky-Seraph, quite a few people at court think you're in on some conspiracy or something." said one of the guards, a woman named Vienna, dipping her spoon into double chocolate fudge ice cream. Seraph laughed.
"That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard!" she said.
"Yah," Vienna agreed, "but it gives us military folk something to talk about. We gambol on what person at court's gonna make the biggest fool of himself. I've won a lot of money off Lord Taggert." She said with a smile. Seraph remembered Lord Taggert; he was drunk at half the court meetings.
"Remember when Sigart and Suzuka got smashed at the Christmas party?! That was the funniest thing in the whole damn world!" said another guard.
"I actually got some money off that one! I knew Suzuka was going to do something to that fat lady that always wore that pink crochet stuff, and she tossed a carrot cake in her face! It was a shame to loose such good cake though, good thing they didn't get a hold of the cheese or poppy seed cakes!" Emmett agreed.
"Yah, I remember that," Seraph said dryly.
"Yah, you were there! I remember, Sigart tried to take you're ice cream away to throw at someone and you bashed his face in!" Emmett sighed, "He was in the infirmary with a black eye and a chipped tooth. Although I don't know how he got that chipped tooth." He said.
"I was wearing a ring." Seraph stated.
"Oh!" Emmett said in revelation. Seraph spotted Selece, Terasu, and the Venetian girl turn the corner at a booth and sped off after them with the guards stumbling behind.
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"I like that one on you, Terasu." Minai said. They had stopped at a booth that sold jewelry and were now looking at them and trying them on. Terasu had just put on a bracelet with white, glass beads, smaller silver beads with intricate designs and little silver charms.
"Me too, it's very beautiful." Selece agreed.
"And it jingles! Now we have to find a nice one for Selece!" Minai looked through the wicker baskets of bracelets, pulling out a few likely pieces, discarding others, finishing with that basket and looking in another. Finally she came out looking very proud of herself. "Tah-Dah!" she said and held up a bracelet with a repeating pattern of large beads of a blue stone be specked with bits of silver, with a medium white bead on either side and little silver beads with swirling designs. "It's perfect! You like?"
"Yes, I do! It's the best one, thanks for picking it out!" she took it from Minai unclasped it and put it on.
"Hey it's a perfect fit, too!" Terasu said. "Come on Selece, lets find one for Minai!" they searched around in the baskets and finally found one they liked for her. Two large beads, one deep golden-yellow and one bright red, separated by a small gold bead with two more small gold beads on each side, then a long thin gold bead, then a medium sized red bead; then the pattern repeated.
"Wow! I love it!" she said genuinely, and Terasu bought them all as a treat (she being rich). They left the shop and continued on looking at random booths until they walked passed a place selling churros. They stopped and purchased a few and then found a place to sit in a cleared part of the fair grounds with lots of grass and trees. Selece went off and then came back with a few sodas. They then sat down and started eating their food and admiring their new bracelets. There was little conversation until Selece commented on the sky, which was a strange orange-yellow.
"That? Oh, well all the gasses in the atmosphere are always like that, it's even worse though, since the energy bubble-thing around the planet has to have special properties to counter the effects of the Helium in the atmosphere. It looks really cool every time we have a big solar flare. The sky turns bright green! And theirs lots of lightening outside the bubble!" she said.
"Cool!" Selece said.
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"Cool!" Selece said. Seraph didn't quit agree really. She and the guards had followed Selece, Terasu, and the Venetian, Minai after they had left the jewelry store and had sat in a remote corner of the clearing where they wouldn't really notice her so much. The fact that the sky was yellowish was kind of hard on the eyes and distorted colors a little. It was maddening after a while, really. She sighed and turned to picking at bits of grass as she listened to their conversation and drowned out the speech of the guards. A shadow passed over the festival area from the movements of clouds over head. Then she heard Selece say, "Is that supposed to happen?" and Minai say, "Oh my god!" Seraph looked up and sky was full of black clouds and ripples of bright green tinted lightening. A whole ripped out of the sky and hundreds of shadow beasts poured out of it, followed by the two humanoids.
"Captain Emmett Exovisage to Venetian palace guards, there are over a hundred shadow beasts here at the Venetian school of the performing arts fair and festival! I am here with My Lady Councilor, Revered Terasu, Honored Selece, Honored Minai and four members of the guards. What are my instructions?" Emmett said into a radio he pulled out of no where. Then he listened for a response as the rest of the guard and Seraph ran over to get Terasu, Selece and Minai.
"Your warning is received, Captain Emmett. Just keep yourselves alive out there. We'll be over there as soon as possible." Said a responding voice on the radio
"What's going on?" Minai said.
"We are being attacked by shadow beasts!" Terasu answered. They all stood their ground in the clearing as people rushed everywhere in a panic to get away. All the guards or Venetian military at the festival tried to keep the rush as orderly as possible. Terasu and Selece turned to Minai, "We are going to transform, okay? You'll be alright." Terasu said.
"Transform? What?" but Terasu had already said the words of power and was engulfed by light and a sailor suited girl holding a scepter and a glass flute ran out to meet the beasts.
"Don't worry about us, we'll be okay. Stay with the guards, they can fight the beasties off." Selece said.
"But-!" Selece said the words of power as well and she to was engulfed by light and replaced with another sailor suited girl holding a large, ice fan and a harp of liquid, who promptly ran off to join the other. Sailor Moon and Sailor Mercury ran out into the fray of shadow beasts and began to attack them, having dropped their musical instruments into the void where they went for safe keeping. Sailor Moon blasted them with beams of light and Sailor Mercury sent gales of ice and freezing liquid at them.
::Good day sailors, how goes the fighting?:: said the male being who was floating in the air above them.
"Well enough; it would be easier if you wouldn't attack us, though!" Terasu answered.
::be easier? Why would I wish to make it easy for thee? But all goes well enough, you say? Well, we shall fix that shan't we?::
::Oh yes, we shall:: the female being said. She held up another energy ball similar to the one she'd had last time. ::It seems you have destroyed a fair number of our beasts already. But we have found a way to get more! Would you like to see?::
"Not really!" Selece said after doing a swipe with her Shukusen, sending many shadow beasts into a frozen state.
::You do not wish to see? Well I'm sure all those people would like to see it, would they not?:: the female said mockingly, motioning to the hundreds of people still running away from the fair grounds.
::Oh, I think they would:: the male being agreed. The woman held up the glowing orb and the people running away were swallowed by their shadows and began mutating into shapes similar to the shadow beasts but much larger and with longer claws and bigger teeth at their disposal.
"Oh my god." Sailor Moon said with an ominous tone.
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Minai starred as a woman's shadow came alive from the ground and swallowed her up, changing into a ravaging shadow creature. Some people tried to run away from their shadows, very few succeeded. Here and there a person with magical abilities wouldn't be affected by the spell, such as the guards and the Royal Councilor, and they either tried to fight or ran away as well. The new shadow creatures would run around for awhile, destroying all they came across, man, beast or fellow human-mutation. The guards mostly tried to avoid as many fights as possible and get as far away from the area as they could. A guard shook her and Minai realized she wasn't moving, and quickly turned to run away with the guards and the Councilor.
The guards hacked at all the beast who tried to get in their way, wincing as they cut into the flesh of the once human shadow hybrids. She didn't know what to do so she just ran along with them and tried to keep up. One of the hybrids came at her from her outside her range of view. She screamed, stumbling backwards as the hybrid rampaged towards her. The universe pulled at her, trying to force her into action, she told herself to get up, to run away, to do something, to do anything. But she couldn't do anything. Her mind groped around for something that was just out of her reach. Her vision slowed as the creature came at her, and she realized, I'm going to die here.
At the last moment, two of the guards swiped at the beast's stomach at it stumbled, falling half-dead onto Minai, faintly she heard someone call out her name as she blacked out.
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"What are we going to do?!" Sailor Moon pleaded, flinching every time she struck a blow on the new creatures. There were so many of them now that they were just trying to survive.
"I don't know!" Sailor Mercury answered in obvious dejection. She slashed at a beast with a bladed edge of her shukusen fan and blew liquid ice at another. Sailor Mercury looked around to try to see were Minai, Seraph, and the guards were, while also trying not to get killed. "Moon! Let's try to find the others and help them escape!" she yelled over the screeching sounds made by the new hybrids.
"Good Idea!" Moon answered. She slapped a beast upside the head with her scepter and blasted a path through the beasts and she shot around the corner of a now vandalized booth, with Mercury right behind her. Now they were mostly trying to get through and the blasted paths and knocked aside blows, trying to maneuver themselves through the twisting, maze-like set up of the festival grounds. Here they came to a dead end courtyard area and decided the shop owners no longer minded of they blasted to shop to get through. Finally they came to somewhat open area near the perimeter of the grounds that was swarming with the hybrids, barely any of the older shadow beasts were insight, only the new hybrids made from human shadows. There they spotted the guards, Seraph and Minai. They were about to call out to them but Minai tripped and a hybrid set upon her.
"Minai!" The sailors called. They couldn't see what happened after that. A new wave of hybrids had found their way threw the maze of booths or created their own paths by trampling through. They lashed out at the scouts with all they had. All they could see around them was shadows. One came at Sailor Moon from behind to slash at her exposed back but a soldier came out of nowhere and shot a couple of spelled bullets at its head. The military had arrived at last, but all Sailor Moon could say was "Those are people!"
"What?" the soldier asked.
"Those are people! They turned them into shadow hybrids!" she forced out through tears as the soldier shot at another one. The soldier cursed and tried to relay her message through a radio he had pulled out. She and a few soldiers forced their way through the mass of shadow creatures and met yet more soldiers keeping the monsters back. They kept running and soon they were outside the general area of the fair and there were hardly any shadow creatures at all.
But they were following. Suddenly they heard a voice yell "Now!" and a sort of energy force field came up and blocked the monsters from pursuing them. Sailors Mercury and Moon collapsed on the cement surrounded by the army and wondering how long that force field would hold.
I am making this chapter two parts because if I had them together it would be very long. I'm sorry I haven't updated in a while. I'll try to get part 2 up as soon as possible. Bye! And review please! I don't get many of those...
:: I am in your mind! Haha! ::
I think you get it. Well, anyways, I don't own Sailor Moon, wish I did, you can't sue me. On with the story!
Song of the New Cosmos
By: Liquid_Goddess_Reformation
Chapter Three: The Venus Saga Part 1: Venus Meltdown
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Seraph had been reflecting on all the Festivals that had happened since they had arrived on Venus. All the fun was affecting her stomach. She thought she might throw up or something; well that wasn't true. She liked festivals as well as the next person but Venus took it to a whole new level with festivals that covered the whole planet wide with celebrating and it got slightly annoying when you couldn't due anything without someone coming up and hugging you or something. And the festivals went on for days. It seemed that there was a major holiday every two weeks. Kids in schools organized parties during their brakes. It was probably a good thing that everyone on Venus frowned upon alcohol. Anything stronger than tea was practically banned.
And the people were so friendly it was weird. She watched as a blond girl was doing a dancing routine on a stage. Upon Selece and Terasu's reaction to her wearing "Real Clothes" she decided she would wear them more often to make them stop fusing over it. Of course she would only wear them on outings and such, in places with regular people-not that she wasn't a regular person! Which she was! Whatever, she wouldn't accomplish anything like this and it wouldn't look to good for Mashiro or herself if she was caught in some weird argument with herself. That would not be good at all. And here she had another dilemma.
That girl was Sailor Venus. She would bet the universe on it if she had to gamble. Selece and Terasu had wanted to go see one of the shows that Venus's top Performing arts school was putting on along with a huge festival and fair right next to the school; Mashiro had insisted on a guard. Of course they didn't really want a guard. Who would? She had five louts hanging around her 24/7 and it wasn't at all a vacation. That was why she had been dragged along somehow. The guards could guard all of them. They were even being pretty inconspicuous about, it for once. Well, as inconspicuous as five royal guards can be. They acted like they were friends of Seraph, Selece and Terasu, just along on a day off. And no one could blame them for wearing their swords what with the attacks and all...Seraph even wore a sword.
The thing was, though, that she didn't know who this girl was. She didn't have contacts to the palace, that she knew of, so she didn't have anyway of finding her again. Also, The Chief Councilor to her majesty running after some girl would look pretty strange. It would defiantly draw unwanted attention, anyways. But Seraph still had a trick up her sleeve.
"She is very good." Seraph said. It was true but it wasn't meant to mean anything.
"She is!" Terasu said.
"I wish I could do that." Selece sighed.
"hmm." That was Seraph, opening a path for someone else to speak, while at the same time doing a sort of twist in Terasu's head. It wasn't a real twist. It was a sort of mind trick she'd picked up from the last attack. She had seen the energy pass through the girls and the beings as they talked, indicating a sort of mind speech. Seraph had worked on it a bit and figured out how to do it; then she dampened it a bit. She didn't want to do anything to Terasu, or even talk to her, only put a kind of whispering voice suggesting something she might not have thought of otherwise. It was less suspicious with her thinking of the idea, than if Seraph had said something. Her result should be coming along right...about-
"Hey!" –Now.
"What?" Selece asked. Seraph listened as if she didn't know what she was going to say.
"We should go talk to her! All the people that perform go off the stage, over there!" she pointed. "Then they go out into the crowd! We could follow her after and talk to her!"
"Oh, I'd be too shy."
"Oh, come on! It would be cold!"
"Cold? No, Terasu, it's cool. It would be 'cool'."
"'Cool', got it! Let's go!" Terasu dragged Selece over to the girl that was walking off the stage. Emmett looked over at Seraph suspiciously and she shrugged. Let him think on it a bit. In the mean time, she was hungry.
"Let's get some ice cream." She suggested. All the guards agreed before Emmett knew what was going on.
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Terasu and Selece navigated their way through the crowd to where they saw the girl go off the stage. They found her coming out of a bathroom, with a different set of clothes on. As before she had worn a gold dress, now she wore a shorts and spaghetti-strapped top set of orange and white. Terasu walked up to her to say hi, practically dragging Selece, who was as frozen as a statue. As they came closer, it became apparent that the girl was a lot younger than it seemed at first. She was about thirteen with long, straight orangey-gold hair and hazel-gold eyes. She was only medium height but even so, she wasn't any shorter than Terasu, she was taller even. Terasu was about four-foot-nine, this girl was several inches taller, making her about five feet. Selece looked uncomfortable, maybe because she was so tall, maybe because she was so shy. Terasu stopped in front of the girl and was about to say hello when the girl burst out talking.
"Hi! I saw you guys in the crowd! I love your hair! It's so awesome! It's whitish! I've never seen anyone with hair like that! And it's in rings! That's so fun! And you! Yours is blue! I told my friend Lia that I was going to die my hair blue but she was like, 'you're gonna get in trouble! They don't let you die your hair here! They'll throw you out! Na, na, na...' Did you die it? Or is it really like that? It is? Wow! That's so awesome!"
Terasu could barely keep up with words and looked over at Selece, and saw that her right eye was twitching. She'd noticed that when Selece was confused at what to do, like now, her eye would start blinking a lot. She was standing stiff as ice, it looked like she'd fall over if you touched her. Terasu had gotten lots of practice talking to people since she'd become Sailor Moon, she didn't think she was an evil creature anymore, and she had purpose. She'd gained courage, and she had to help her new friend get over her paranoia, too. For some reason she started to giggle.
"-and then my other friend said-What is it?" the girl asked, stopping in mid-sentence to ask Terasu. Selece just turned her cowed expression toward Terasu.
"Oh, nothing," she said, "just, you don't even know who we are and-,"
"I don't?! Man, I am so rude! My name is Kingusarino, Minai." She said holding out her hand. Terasu took it.
"I am Terasu."
"Selece Aisu Seikano." Selece to Minai's hand stiffly.
"You guys aren't from around here are you?"
"No," Terasu said then added, "What is 'guys'"
"I'll explain it later." Selece said.
"Great! I'll show you guys around!"
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Seraph ate ice cream out of a cup the size of an extra-large, fountain-drink soda cup. It was vanilla with crushed Oreos (the closest think to heaven!). Her plastic spoon snapped. Damn! Luckly she often ate ice cream with plastic spoons and new enough by now to get some extra. She pulled out another spoon and began eating again, She had just swallowed a particularly large bite when Emmett asked, "Don't you get brain freeze?!"
"Nope." She answered, and took another bite.
"What are we looking for, anyways?" he asked, taking another bite of his peanut-butter and caramel ice cream and shivering.
"Sneaky-Seraph, quite a few people at court think you're in on some conspiracy or something." said one of the guards, a woman named Vienna, dipping her spoon into double chocolate fudge ice cream. Seraph laughed.
"That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard!" she said.
"Yah," Vienna agreed, "but it gives us military folk something to talk about. We gambol on what person at court's gonna make the biggest fool of himself. I've won a lot of money off Lord Taggert." She said with a smile. Seraph remembered Lord Taggert; he was drunk at half the court meetings.
"Remember when Sigart and Suzuka got smashed at the Christmas party?! That was the funniest thing in the whole damn world!" said another guard.
"I actually got some money off that one! I knew Suzuka was going to do something to that fat lady that always wore that pink crochet stuff, and she tossed a carrot cake in her face! It was a shame to loose such good cake though, good thing they didn't get a hold of the cheese or poppy seed cakes!" Emmett agreed.
"Yah, I remember that," Seraph said dryly.
"Yah, you were there! I remember, Sigart tried to take you're ice cream away to throw at someone and you bashed his face in!" Emmett sighed, "He was in the infirmary with a black eye and a chipped tooth. Although I don't know how he got that chipped tooth." He said.
"I was wearing a ring." Seraph stated.
"Oh!" Emmett said in revelation. Seraph spotted Selece, Terasu, and the Venetian girl turn the corner at a booth and sped off after them with the guards stumbling behind.
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"I like that one on you, Terasu." Minai said. They had stopped at a booth that sold jewelry and were now looking at them and trying them on. Terasu had just put on a bracelet with white, glass beads, smaller silver beads with intricate designs and little silver charms.
"Me too, it's very beautiful." Selece agreed.
"And it jingles! Now we have to find a nice one for Selece!" Minai looked through the wicker baskets of bracelets, pulling out a few likely pieces, discarding others, finishing with that basket and looking in another. Finally she came out looking very proud of herself. "Tah-Dah!" she said and held up a bracelet with a repeating pattern of large beads of a blue stone be specked with bits of silver, with a medium white bead on either side and little silver beads with swirling designs. "It's perfect! You like?"
"Yes, I do! It's the best one, thanks for picking it out!" she took it from Minai unclasped it and put it on.
"Hey it's a perfect fit, too!" Terasu said. "Come on Selece, lets find one for Minai!" they searched around in the baskets and finally found one they liked for her. Two large beads, one deep golden-yellow and one bright red, separated by a small gold bead with two more small gold beads on each side, then a long thin gold bead, then a medium sized red bead; then the pattern repeated.
"Wow! I love it!" she said genuinely, and Terasu bought them all as a treat (she being rich). They left the shop and continued on looking at random booths until they walked passed a place selling churros. They stopped and purchased a few and then found a place to sit in a cleared part of the fair grounds with lots of grass and trees. Selece went off and then came back with a few sodas. They then sat down and started eating their food and admiring their new bracelets. There was little conversation until Selece commented on the sky, which was a strange orange-yellow.
"That? Oh, well all the gasses in the atmosphere are always like that, it's even worse though, since the energy bubble-thing around the planet has to have special properties to counter the effects of the Helium in the atmosphere. It looks really cool every time we have a big solar flare. The sky turns bright green! And theirs lots of lightening outside the bubble!" she said.
"Cool!" Selece said.
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"Cool!" Selece said. Seraph didn't quit agree really. She and the guards had followed Selece, Terasu, and the Venetian, Minai after they had left the jewelry store and had sat in a remote corner of the clearing where they wouldn't really notice her so much. The fact that the sky was yellowish was kind of hard on the eyes and distorted colors a little. It was maddening after a while, really. She sighed and turned to picking at bits of grass as she listened to their conversation and drowned out the speech of the guards. A shadow passed over the festival area from the movements of clouds over head. Then she heard Selece say, "Is that supposed to happen?" and Minai say, "Oh my god!" Seraph looked up and sky was full of black clouds and ripples of bright green tinted lightening. A whole ripped out of the sky and hundreds of shadow beasts poured out of it, followed by the two humanoids.
"Captain Emmett Exovisage to Venetian palace guards, there are over a hundred shadow beasts here at the Venetian school of the performing arts fair and festival! I am here with My Lady Councilor, Revered Terasu, Honored Selece, Honored Minai and four members of the guards. What are my instructions?" Emmett said into a radio he pulled out of no where. Then he listened for a response as the rest of the guard and Seraph ran over to get Terasu, Selece and Minai.
"Your warning is received, Captain Emmett. Just keep yourselves alive out there. We'll be over there as soon as possible." Said a responding voice on the radio
"What's going on?" Minai said.
"We are being attacked by shadow beasts!" Terasu answered. They all stood their ground in the clearing as people rushed everywhere in a panic to get away. All the guards or Venetian military at the festival tried to keep the rush as orderly as possible. Terasu and Selece turned to Minai, "We are going to transform, okay? You'll be alright." Terasu said.
"Transform? What?" but Terasu had already said the words of power and was engulfed by light and a sailor suited girl holding a scepter and a glass flute ran out to meet the beasts.
"Don't worry about us, we'll be okay. Stay with the guards, they can fight the beasties off." Selece said.
"But-!" Selece said the words of power as well and she to was engulfed by light and replaced with another sailor suited girl holding a large, ice fan and a harp of liquid, who promptly ran off to join the other. Sailor Moon and Sailor Mercury ran out into the fray of shadow beasts and began to attack them, having dropped their musical instruments into the void where they went for safe keeping. Sailor Moon blasted them with beams of light and Sailor Mercury sent gales of ice and freezing liquid at them.
::Good day sailors, how goes the fighting?:: said the male being who was floating in the air above them.
"Well enough; it would be easier if you wouldn't attack us, though!" Terasu answered.
::be easier? Why would I wish to make it easy for thee? But all goes well enough, you say? Well, we shall fix that shan't we?::
::Oh yes, we shall:: the female being said. She held up another energy ball similar to the one she'd had last time. ::It seems you have destroyed a fair number of our beasts already. But we have found a way to get more! Would you like to see?::
"Not really!" Selece said after doing a swipe with her Shukusen, sending many shadow beasts into a frozen state.
::You do not wish to see? Well I'm sure all those people would like to see it, would they not?:: the female said mockingly, motioning to the hundreds of people still running away from the fair grounds.
::Oh, I think they would:: the male being agreed. The woman held up the glowing orb and the people running away were swallowed by their shadows and began mutating into shapes similar to the shadow beasts but much larger and with longer claws and bigger teeth at their disposal.
"Oh my god." Sailor Moon said with an ominous tone.
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Minai starred as a woman's shadow came alive from the ground and swallowed her up, changing into a ravaging shadow creature. Some people tried to run away from their shadows, very few succeeded. Here and there a person with magical abilities wouldn't be affected by the spell, such as the guards and the Royal Councilor, and they either tried to fight or ran away as well. The new shadow creatures would run around for awhile, destroying all they came across, man, beast or fellow human-mutation. The guards mostly tried to avoid as many fights as possible and get as far away from the area as they could. A guard shook her and Minai realized she wasn't moving, and quickly turned to run away with the guards and the Councilor.
The guards hacked at all the beast who tried to get in their way, wincing as they cut into the flesh of the once human shadow hybrids. She didn't know what to do so she just ran along with them and tried to keep up. One of the hybrids came at her from her outside her range of view. She screamed, stumbling backwards as the hybrid rampaged towards her. The universe pulled at her, trying to force her into action, she told herself to get up, to run away, to do something, to do anything. But she couldn't do anything. Her mind groped around for something that was just out of her reach. Her vision slowed as the creature came at her, and she realized, I'm going to die here.
At the last moment, two of the guards swiped at the beast's stomach at it stumbled, falling half-dead onto Minai, faintly she heard someone call out her name as she blacked out.
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"What are we going to do?!" Sailor Moon pleaded, flinching every time she struck a blow on the new creatures. There were so many of them now that they were just trying to survive.
"I don't know!" Sailor Mercury answered in obvious dejection. She slashed at a beast with a bladed edge of her shukusen fan and blew liquid ice at another. Sailor Mercury looked around to try to see were Minai, Seraph, and the guards were, while also trying not to get killed. "Moon! Let's try to find the others and help them escape!" she yelled over the screeching sounds made by the new hybrids.
"Good Idea!" Moon answered. She slapped a beast upside the head with her scepter and blasted a path through the beasts and she shot around the corner of a now vandalized booth, with Mercury right behind her. Now they were mostly trying to get through and the blasted paths and knocked aside blows, trying to maneuver themselves through the twisting, maze-like set up of the festival grounds. Here they came to a dead end courtyard area and decided the shop owners no longer minded of they blasted to shop to get through. Finally they came to somewhat open area near the perimeter of the grounds that was swarming with the hybrids, barely any of the older shadow beasts were insight, only the new hybrids made from human shadows. There they spotted the guards, Seraph and Minai. They were about to call out to them but Minai tripped and a hybrid set upon her.
"Minai!" The sailors called. They couldn't see what happened after that. A new wave of hybrids had found their way threw the maze of booths or created their own paths by trampling through. They lashed out at the scouts with all they had. All they could see around them was shadows. One came at Sailor Moon from behind to slash at her exposed back but a soldier came out of nowhere and shot a couple of spelled bullets at its head. The military had arrived at last, but all Sailor Moon could say was "Those are people!"
"What?" the soldier asked.
"Those are people! They turned them into shadow hybrids!" she forced out through tears as the soldier shot at another one. The soldier cursed and tried to relay her message through a radio he had pulled out. She and a few soldiers forced their way through the mass of shadow creatures and met yet more soldiers keeping the monsters back. They kept running and soon they were outside the general area of the fair and there were hardly any shadow creatures at all.
But they were following. Suddenly they heard a voice yell "Now!" and a sort of energy force field came up and blocked the monsters from pursuing them. Sailors Mercury and Moon collapsed on the cement surrounded by the army and wondering how long that force field would hold.
I am making this chapter two parts because if I had them together it would be very long. I'm sorry I haven't updated in a while. I'll try to get part 2 up as soon as possible. Bye! And review please! I don't get many of those...