Chapter five! Cool! No, really, this is going to be a good one; I think. I hope you guys like it.
And I Own Sailor moon! I own all of it hahah!!— Sorry guys...went psycho there for a minute; I think I've been thinking about Robin McKinley's Sunshine to much. Those vampires are getting to me. And I can't write a fanfic on it...No! I like Vampires...Well either way, be sure to check out my new Hellsing fiction called Revenant! If you like hellsing that is...
I'm this close to changing the rating on this to PG-13; just to be safe. Please tell me if I should or not.
Once again:
::Mind speech:: emphasis
Song of the New Cosmos By LGR
Chapter five: Earth's Evocation
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Darkness. Darkness since the times of Turmoil, since before the Great Quiescence when they came. He remembered now. There was much light; much peace and hope; Always hope ... And then there was the quiescence.
Darkness Shuddered against the sky and there was no sound. No light. No hope.
The stars that once sang to his race now grew dim and faded away; Washed from the colorful pallets to grayness. Conformed from the music into a great din and then silenced. There was silence. There was depression. And there was death.
And then there was Necrosis. He gave a sense to the darkness and silence. He gave a will, a way, and a purpose.
To destroy the light; To cast a shadow on their endless expanses; To Silence their singing and dampen their hopes.
But he did not know. How could he? He saw the light and it broke his barriers. He could here the singing. He could see the dancing colors. Hope did remain in the Universe.
The Necrosis had raided the Cosmos, wishing to control its vast riches and enslave all life-forms. But when it came to the light of one solar system, the light out shown them and it was forced to retreat. All its highest officers had been stricken by its purifying qualities and had ascended from the Necrosis to the light. The Necrosis waited millennia and then began to rebuild its armies of slaves and brainwashed servants. Tormenting and raking them, counting on the cerebral instinct to suppress unpleasant memories from consciousness. And they were very unpleasant.
But now it seemed so far away. It didn't matter any more. He could open his eyes now. For the first time, in a very long time, he could truly open his eyes and not die from what he would see. And he did.
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Color. And sound. It was all music and it danced and awakened his mind from a great night to the wondrous sunrise. He would have gaped but he couldn't move. He was in a hospital, or so the newly active part of his brain told him. But it was on a ground floor, with a giant window that held an explosion of colorful flowers and soft sounds of birds.
Reds, Greens, Yellows. He saw them and fell in love with them all over again.
And a sky.
It was the clearest and purest blue in all existence. And clouds; they were white; the color of new beginnings. All colors could be put onto the whiteness of the paper and be at there brightest and purest. It was a fresh start. Newness as yet unforeseen in the nightmare his mind had floated in for multiple eons. He had been given a second chance ...
By her. She was sleeping in an armchair across from his bed. Her hair was rings of silvery-white, her skin a pale alabaster. Everything about her was fresh, clean. She had long, delicate limbs and yet she was perfectly proportioned despite her long-ness and shortness as well. She had a round, smooth face; and large eyes that he knew were pale blue-silver. She was a child of the full moon and a glowing reflection on dark waters of the Universe. There were few that could match her glow, her shine. In all his years, as fragmented as they were, he had never seen a being such as this
He heard the sound of foot-steps on tile or stone and the door that was a few feet away from The Moon child, opened a moment later to admit a dark individual. He knew this one as well. It was the guardian. She was very tall and seemed cut from onyx; A foundation for her followers with a straight and even gaze and firm hand. She was a darkness that reflected the light into shimmering designs, not the darkness of the Necrosis. She had burnished, copper skin and long black-hair. Her eyes were a smoky, dark blue and held a quiet acuity behind her sarcastic tongue. She saw him awake and smiled.
"I just came by to check on you." She said. He just watched her dumbly, and he knew it too but his mind wasn't in the mood to do anything about it. She didn't seem to care for a response as she simply walked over to the window, took the vacant chair that he hadn't seen next to it, and pulled it over to sit down in. "Goodness, but you look so different," she said after staring at him for a minute. He gave her a slightly confused look.
She held up her finger and pulled a hand mirror from her robes then held it out to him. He took it and looked into it.
A youth with copper skin, tousled white hair and crystal blue eyes stared back. His features were very defined and slightly pointed giving him a somewhat exotic look. As he blinked in shock he heard the woman talking.
"- You don't look any older than me, and I'm seventeen. I have been informed that I look older than that but I don't think you'd enjoy my even touching on that subject. You could almost be my little brother or something."
He looked up at her in confusion. And she continued "Everyone keeps saying you look like me. I don't get it but, there you are. I think it's just because we have darker skin." She considered something and asked him. "Do you have a name?"
He opened his mouth to answer and- nothing.
He mouthed the words but there was no sound. He tried to use his mind. Nothing. His cerebrum freaked out and he was in a mental state of panic until he felt a light slap on his face.
"Calm down. If you don't have a name it doesn't matter I-," she paused as he violently shook his head and she caught on. "oh, Oh! Don't worry about it. I talked to the healer earlier and she told me a few of you're muscles hadn't been used in ages and even the ones you did use often would barely be working for a while." He calmed instantly and fell back onto the bedding with a flop. "Seriously though, you could be my little brother or something." She pinched his cheek as he gave her an 'oh my god' look. "Sorry." She said. "' Couldn't help it." And then she got up from her chair and left with instructions to be good and a promise she'd be back later.
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As Seraph walked out of the room she was met by the doctor in charge of the boy; Emmett and the five guards; Her Imperial Highness Serenity Mashiro; Daemian; Selece; Minai; The King of Earth and his daughter, named Ritsuko; The Kings generals; Geoffrey, the chronicler's great-grandson; a Colonel of the Moon guard and a scientist. They were all asking her questions at once, wanting to know if he was alright, if he was a threat, what kind of alien he was (how was she supposed to know?), if Terasu had awakened yet...She just stood there until everyone shut up and Mashiro asked, "Is he well?"
Everyone else backed-off while waiting for Seraph to answer. "Yes," she said, "Well enough. He can't talk at the moment but he's thinking fine." She said.
"Is he, in anyway, a threat to us?" the King asked.
"No, I would say he is definitely on our side, at the moment. And even if he wasn't, he is not in any shape to start a killing spree."
Mashiro nodded and turned to the Colonel. "Please make sure the boy is immediately placed in the Guard under the service of the crown as soon as he is well enough." She said. Seraph was very proud of her mistress for immediately thinking of this; it would give the boy a purpose for being on the progress and give him something to do as well as shut up any problems concerning his former allegiance. As a beginner he would have to be in the training program in which he would be watched at all hours of the day. After they had heard this, the nurse made most everyone bugged-off, saying he needed to rest, leaving only those who were part of the moon progress. Mashiro gave Seraph a nod and left with the rest of the spectators, leaving only Seraph, Emmett and the Scouts (the other guards having left with the colonel).
"Can we go see them? Please! Please, please, please, PLEASE!" Minai begged with Selece standing behind her.
"Go ahead. He's awake but Terasu isn't."
"Yay!" and she ran into the room almost hitting Selece in the forehead with the door as she flung it open. Seraph could hear a "Hello!" from Minai as she walked down the hall with Emmett following.
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"Hello!" said the Venetian said brightly while the Mercurian started to close the door and the guardian shook her head and walked down the hall, Emmett following a few steps behind.
He just blinked at her. She blinked at him. She turned around to the other girl and said. "Doesn't he look smaller to you?" The Mercurian peered at him and said, "he has the same mass. His coloring was just much darker before and this caused him to appear larger and older. Also he is sitting down."
"Wow! I would never have thought of that! The dark colors and all. Do you know what happens to our stuff when we drop it and it disappears?"
"It's below your line of sight?" she said, confused. The Venetian rolled her eyes.
"No! You know, our instruments an' stuff."
"They materialize into a pocket dimension created by our planetary energies and connected to our subconscious thoughts." She said.
"Whoa!" they noticed there patient looked annoyed at there acting like he wasn't there. "Oh, sorry." The Venetian said. "My name is Minai!" she said cheerfully.
"I'm Selece." The other said with a little wave.
"What's your name?" Minai asked. He gave her a dejected expression. As unexpressive as his face was before, it showed his every thought now. "Don't have one, huh?" she asked with a strange look in her eyes he nodded sadly. "Don't even worry about it!" she said even more hyper all of a sudden. She danced over to the chair Terasu was sleeping in and took a piece of paper out of her limp hand that he hadn't noticed before.
"We were up all night thinking of cool names for you!" she said. Selece's hand came up and smacked her in the face as she took on a humiliated expression. "Here!" she said and handed him the piece of paper.
He looked at it. He turned it upside down. He turned it sideways. It just looked like squiggles to him.
"You can't read?" Selece inquired. He huffed up and gave her an offended look.
"Than why can't you read that?" He just shrugged.
"Maybe they write different where he comes from." Minai said. Now it was Selece's turn to shrug.
"Could you right something if we gave you some paper?" Selece prodded and he nodded an affirmative. Selece ran out and brought a clip board and attached pen with a piece of paper from nowhere and stuck it on his lap. "Write something."
He gave her a 'like, what?' look.
"I don't know. Minai?"
"Write our names! Write our names!" she shouted. He began to write out their names as he knew it. His hands were very shaky but he managed them without to many accidental squiggles. Selece grabbed it from him. "Wow! I've never seen writing like that!" Minai stood on tip toe to look over Selece's shoulders. "Hey it looks like ripple designs or something; or maybe Rays. It's really pretty." Minai added.
"I don't know what this is." Selece said. "Let's go ask Geoffrey."
"You should marry him! I know you like him!"
"What! I barley met him!" Selece was completely crimson. They walked out the door and for a second he thought that they had forgotten him but Minai came back for a split second and told him she'd be right back. He layed back in his hospital bed and slept.
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"So?"
"'So' what?"
"See anything weird about him?" They had walked in Silence for a while and Emmett finally asked Selece about the boy.
"I saw no odd tentacles sticking out of his head, or strange discolored splotches on his face."
"You know what I meant." Seraph sighed, she new he was talking about auras and things. She was just a little edgy today. She could barely keep her irritation under control in that hall.
"He had a very bright gold aura in strange ripples or rays coming off of him in swirling pictures."
"That seems really odd to me."
"I suppose it is."
"I feel sorry for him."
"I do as well—Oof!" she saw stars and the mosaic tiles of the Earth capital building floor and heard stammered apologies. "Why am I on the ground?" she asked.
"Sorry, sorry, sorry!" It was Minai. Her temper took a wrong turn as Emmett helped her up.
"What the Hell were you doing running around like that?! You could have killed someone damn-it!" she yelled and no one dared move. "You almost killed me for gods' sake!" All the people in the courtyard that could be seen through the arches of the building were watching intently and she noticed. "What in the hell do you people want?! Mind your own damn business!" everyone immediately when back to what they were doing. "You to!" she added to Minai and Selece. They ran off as fast as they could. She stamped down the hall in a huff in the opposite direction with Emmett getting a slap on the face as he commented on the fact that it must be 'that time of the month'.
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He woke up and found that the moon girl was gone from her place at the chair but found next to his bed, a pitcher of water and a glass. He poured himself some water and drank it while sitting up. Just then the door opened to admit three very flustered looking people. Minai, was almost trembling, Selece was walking so stiffly it was odd to look at and the boy looked like he expected the devil himself to jump out at him from behind.
"You all look as if you have been harassed." It just popped out of his mouth and it definitely surprised everyone in the room though it wasn't more than a whisper. They all jumped. He noticed he could speak now, at least a little and gave them an amused smile.
Minai recovered first. "Wow! You must be feeling better already!"
"Yes." He said quietly. "Why are you all frightened?" he asked.
They all winced. "Seraph, the Man-Eater." said the boy.
"There is a creature here that eats humans?" he said both quizzically and slightly distressed. They all laughed a little. "No." he said. "Sorry, I'm Geoffrey" Geoffrey came and held out his hand, after a moment he took it. Geoffrey was very tall and lanky and he had light skin, and chestnut hair and eyes. In his arm he held multiple books, scrolls, notebooks and other things.
"I thought you knew Seraph?" Selece asked from next to him. "She said she talked to you earlier?"
"The" and then there was a word that none of them understood, "came to see me. Was that her name?" they all looked a little confused. "What is it that I have said?" he asked.
"We're just trying to figure out what that second word you just said was." Geoffrey answered. He said the word again with a questioning tone.
"It sounds vaguely familiar." Geoffrey said. "Sounds like Ancient Fervolic maybe." And he began to shuffle through all the stuff in his arms and dropped half of it. He sighed and started gathering it up again.
"What does that word mean?" asked Minai.
He shrugged. "One who oversees; one who keeps vigilance; one who attends..."
"The language we speak isn't you're language is it?" Geoffrey asked from the floor.
"No."
"How do you know our language then?"
"I remember it from before."
"From before what?" Geoffrey asked.
"From before the moon girl." They all seemed to understand. He had used mind speech before and learnt their language through it he put it into practice now that he could speak without the aid of mind magic.
"Well, anyways," Minai said, "Selece and I were going to get Geoffrey and I knocked over Seraph—,"
"You knocked over the Shvleidah?" he said in mock unbelief at their having gotten out alive. They recognized the word he had used before to identify Seraph. "You are not a ghost, perhaps?" he asked slightly joking.
"I wish I were a ghost! She chewed us out! And in front of everyone, too! Emmett did try to calm her down some though." Minai finished.
"Emmett? The Kytthroga?"
"What does that mean?"
"One who waits; one who stands; one who shall stay..."
"She yelled at everyone else as well, though." Selece added after a moment.
"Yah, but then when we were coming back, we saw Seraph again when we walked passed the guards training area and she was chewing out a general because he hadn't done something he was supposed to have done and then she saw us looking and said," now Minai puffed herself up and shook her finger in the way that Seraph did when she was scolding someone. "'Don't you people have something better to do than irritating me all day? Get out of here!' so we ran off but we heard her yelling at the general again because he had been trying to sneak away ... and it was scary."
"It sounds as something to be afraid of."
"You talk strange." Minai said.
"No," Geoffrey intervened, "he just talks properly. Ah! I knew it was in here somewhere." And he held up a book, set it on the counter and began sifting through the pages until he came to one. "Yes, it looks slightly similar to Japanese, or even Arabic, but it's not really related to either of those at all. It's actually Primal Aurelic." Geoffrey showed them how his writing matched the sample writing in the book. "There are maybe only a handful of examples of it, and all of those were rescued from the remains of the Lunar Library thousands of years ago, when Serenity Usagi began to re-colonize the Moon. We have no understanding of the substance of those writings."
They were all silent until the sound of the door opening made them jump, then its opener made them jump again. It was Seraph.
"Geoffrey, why are there books on the ground?" Seraph said in an all- to pleasant voice. Geoffrey immediately snatched his books off of the floor as Emmett and the Moon girl walked in behind her. He brightened at the last.
"Boy? As soon as you are well, you shall be inducted into the Moon Guard. Hopefully this will be today. The nurse will give you a last look over and if you are pronounced fit we will lead you to your new place. I'm sorry but the paranoid ones have made us burn your old clothes, not that I thought you would care much, but we have a moon guard trainee uniform for when you go." And she left it on the counter and walked out with Emmett. The moon girl stayed behind and ran up and hugged him as soon as they had left.
"I'm so glad you're okay! I didn't care what that nurse said, I was scared you wouldn't get better; I thought she was kind of a mean nurse anyways." The moon girl said.
And he laughed. He wasn't sure if it was because she said his nurse was mean of because she was worried about him. Him. No one was ever worried about him.
When he finally calmed down he said, "I am sorry. I do not know why it is that I laugh." She smiled at hearing his real voice for the first time.
"You don't have to talk so formal, you know. I don't think even the Etiquette teacher speaks that formally." She said.
"I know no other form of speech in this language." He said and noticed that Geoffrey, Selece and Minai must have left since they weren't there anymore. "Did they leave?" he asked.
"Huh." She said as she noticed too. "Guess so." She shrugged then looked back at him.
"Is you're name Illium?" she asked out of the blue.
"What? Why?"
"You were asleep earlier. And I ..." she became hesitant, "I asked you who you were and you said Illium. What does that mean?"
"Illium. One who is shown the way of the right; one who sees light after darkness."
"I think that you should keep it." The moon girl said.
"What is your name?"
"My name? I guess I never told you. I'm sorry. My name is Terasu."
"Your name holds power. What does it mean?"
"It is Japanese. It means to shine on; to illuminate."
"It is very fitting." There was a knock on the door and the nurse came in.
"I'm sorry but My Lady Councilour has told me to see if he is ready to be moved, you'll have to leave Revered Terasu."
"Alright. Bye!" she said and left.
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The nurse had said he was no longer ill and so he had been moved to a small room of his own. The first day, the teachers had evaluated what he already knew. Even though he was still tired from before, his swordsmanship was top-notch and once he had been shown how a gun worked, we had almost perfect aim. His speech was perfect but his hand writing was literally none- existent. He knew no history, and no foreign language; unless you counted his Primal Aurelic, which it seemed, had been dead for millennia. One thing he was pretty competent in was math. He just knew it. When the teacher given him questions to complete, he knew what to do and did. Or more his hand did it and he watched with amazement as it went down the paper doing every one. And science was completely easy for he knew how things lived and such without needing to be told. So when it came down to it, all he had to do was an accelerated handwriting class, a history class, and the general sort of training i.e. what to do when this happened, how to use a radio properly, what this code meant and that code.
He went to classes with the other students of the crown that wanted to be in the moon guard and though they were all kind to him, they had there own circles of friends and tended to drift together. On the second day after lunch in the main hall area at the earth capital that was set aside for them, four boys came and sat next to him. Three of them were also students; though one, sandy haired and green eyed, was in the outfit for a person training to be an advisor; and the two others, twins with red hair and hazel eyes, were in the uniforms of apprentice healers. The other wasn't a student at all. He was an averaged height boy with dark blue hair and light eyes. They all seemed about fifteen. It was the blue haired one who spoke.
"Hello! I'm Daemian." And he held out his hand for a shake. "that's Tony," he pointed to the sandy haired one, "and they're Alex and Zackary." The two twins held up their hands in acknowledgement. "Se-le told me you were pretty good with a sword." Illium was slightly confused."
"Who is Se-le?"
"Oh. I guess you wouldn't know. It's Selece but I just call her Se- le. She's my tutor."
"I understand."
"Well anyways, I've already beaten the few students that they brought on progress at least a billion times in practice matches and I was hoping you would be more of a challenge; if you don't mind that is. It's not a real match or anything; just for fun. As healer students, Alex and Zackary don't get taught sword unless they want to and they just didn't want to and Tony's kind of laid-back."
"Yes, I am!" Tony said.
"See? So now I've beaten probably everyone and they don't want to fence any more because they always loose. And all the really good people like the soldiers and all the other instructors don't have the time. And hell knows that Selece and Minai don't use swords..." He had a sort-of begging expression on his face.
"I suppose that I could—."
"Yes! When can we have a match? You guys get a break for an hour after lunch yeah?" all of them nodded their heads. "Yes!" and he grabbed Illium and dragged him to a practice court.
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On the first day that the teachers had tested his skill, he had beat out every person very easily. Daemian was quite a bit better but he still couldn't win.
"It's not fair. You're sword is longer and heavier than mine."
"If you wish it, you may trade your sword for one identical to mine."
"It's a little too heavy for me."
"Then perhaps shorter and lighter is more suited for you."
"I'm complaining, aren't I?"
"Yes."
"You tell him, Illium! Kick his cocky butt again!" Tony, Alex and Zackary said.
"Come on, guys!" Daemian protested. The first match had ended with Daemian being "killed" in one move. The second took a little bit longer, but he was still "killed" when Illium came up under a vertical-upward slash by Daemian and did a slash that, if followed through with, would have cut Daemian's arm off. On the third, Illium completely shattered Daemian's sword when he parried his slash with a particularly hard hit.
"Yay!" they both jumped and turned to see the three scouts and the Kings daughter, Ritsuko sitting next to the three boys on the grass, watching.
"I told you he was good." Selece called to Daemian.
"Yah, guess I didn't believe you at first." Daemian admitted. They all heard a gong go off from somewhere in the capital building and let out sighs of disappointment. "Well, lunch hour is over. Maybe we co—ah!" Illium had seen it coming just in time to put up a magic shield to protect them from the blast. Even so, it shook the ground and they were all in the dirt and visibly shaken. They looked up to see the woman shadow being.
:: The Traitor. :: she said. :: You will be the first to die by the new powers the necrosis has granted me! :: Reality split and shadow beasts poured out of the tear created in the Universe. Immediately Terasu, Selece and Minai said the incantation and, within moments, stood in the sailor suits of the scouts.
"Let's split up!" Sailor Mercury yelled over the chaos. "Daemian, Princess Ritsuko and Tony can come with me. The Twins can go with Sailor Venus. We'll start getting rid of the Shadow creatures while Illium and Sailor Moon go after the Lady!" they all nodded and split up into groups to protect themselves from shadow beasts with magic or sword or weapon.
Sailor Moon started running through the chaos, to where the Lady had been, with Illium following. She slapped at all the shadow beasts with her Scepter and blasted them when she was sure it wouldn't hit someone else by accident. Behind her she could hear the swish of metal and ripping sound that was always produced when a sharp object tore at the shadow flesh of the creatures. She trusted him. She still didn't know why, but she did and with her life. He was an entirely different person from who he was. She knew he wouldn't touch her; even by accident. No harm would come to her in his hands.
She plowed on through the shadow spirits.
:: Ah. The traitor comes. And he's brought a little white witch with him. :: said the Lady being in her mind as she looked up from fighting to see the floating woman in the sky. :: It's time for you to witness your end. :: The woman flung up her arm and high in the sky, a part of it turned black and began to fold into itself. ::The Necrosis has given his own Guardian to me! I have been bestowed with his power! :: and a Giant, blue thunder bolt flew out of the heavens and swept across the sky making the air crack, boom and ripple in the heat. The bolt solidified into an elongated serpent shape. As it slipped through the air in elegant ripples and liquid-like motions it came to a stop alongside the woman. It was a flaming black and neon blue dragon with a long snout and horribly long teeth and twisting horns protruding from its head. A flaming, neon blue crest encompassed the area above its eye ridges. It was one of the most beautiful and the most deadly creatures in the universe.
:: This is Sendo-ryuujinno. :: she said, :: The Dragon King of Death :: Sailor Moon felt all the blood run out of her face and noticed that beside her, all the blood in Illium's face must have been misplaced as well. But he was also shaking.
"Ie. Ien Ukio en Jimo Ryji." She heard him mumble.
"What? What is it you were saying?" she asked him. He looked at her and in his eyes she saw he was terrified.
"That dragon." He began. "Is a corruption of the Ukio en Jimo Ryji. You would say: Life is also the Dragon Spirit."
Life is also the Dragon Spirit? That doesn't even make sense. But this is a corrupted spirit?
"But," she said, "How do we uncorrupt it? Or, get rid of it?"
"I don't know; I am sorry."
"We can't give up! For The Moon Kingdom and her Imperial Highness Neo- Queen Serenity Mashiro!" And Sailor Moon charged up an Attack with her scepter, aiming it at the Corrupted Dragon Spirit. "With the power of the moon, I banish the corruption in this Sacred Spirit!" The White energy smashed through the sky headed straight for the dragon.
:: Sendo-ryuujinno, this frail magic is not worth your time:: came the woman's voice, :: Prove it to them. ::
As the beam shot forward, the Dragon arched its neck and opened its mouth. Out came black flames, writhing hungrily toward the beam of light. They met in the middle of the sky and, for a moment, the dragon's flames and the beam of light seemed to be even, but the beam of light was quickly swallowed by the dragon's ghastly flames and all that was left of the energy was a rippling crack of lightening across the air.
Sailor Moon was terrified. What would she do now?
:: Now you see how small you power truly is you can never win. :: the woman smirked then turned to the dragon. :: Sendo, my creature, destroy them all.:: the creature crackled an acknowledgement and headed straight for Sailor Moon.
A small ball of energy was thrown from afar at the creature as it was racing toward Sailor Moon. The light made a small explosion that was accompanied by a faint twinkling sound and an area of the buzzing and pulsating creature turned still and faded to a dull black. The black area cracked off like a flakes of ash or charcoal to reveal a substance akin to glass, the creature hissed and made violent motions at the abuser who had thrown the small light.
This was her chance for a second try. While the creature was focused on another, she charged up another attack and aimed directly at the side of the dragon. The Sendo-ryuujino must have noticed the beam for it turned its head around to see what was being aimed at it but the beam made contact. The entire side of the dragon turned to ash and fell away, the large flakes fell to the ground and burned anything it made contact with, turning into black smoke then drifting away. The Dragon made a deep rumbling roar like a sonic boom and then it began to violently jerk out at horrifying angles. The dragon nearly hit the woman and so she vanished. The dragon continued it's jolting and began to fade as the woman had; but before it did its jaw unhinged from it's mouth and a giant gulp of siring flame left it's mouth to burn the landscape.
Sailor Moon watched it come towards her but she could do nothing. It was coming towards her, ever closer...
When the flame had almost engulfed her, a shining light flew up in a sphere around her. Though the ground shook and she could see the rippling of air and flame outside, the light was pleasantly cool and any debris that was kicked up by the blast was deflected. She looked behind her to see all those that had been involved in the fight with Illium using his sword as a focus to create the shield. It was easy to see he had to strain just to keep it from collapsing against the outside forces. As the burning calmed down they thought it to be over but Illium kept up the shield and there was a second booming sound, though it had no source, and a shockwave rolled across the ground and broke on there shield. Only after it had passed did Illium let his shield down. Then he sank to the ground trembling in exhaustion.
It was devastating, even though the fight had taken place in the practice yard, which was almost a mile away from the main building; it had still caused considerable damage to it. All the greenery was dead and black, as was the ground and nearly every thing else for that matter. There were no longer any shadow creatures, either; they had burned along with everything else.
They coughed from the smoke rising that was from the ground and despite the fact that the fire had dampened and gone, it was still viciously hot, the heat rising from the ground was as tangible as the smoke and the rippling made the illusion of water on the ground.
They were alive, though, they'd all gotten through this. She collapsed on the ground next to Illium and the others followed suit. Something bothered her, however.
"Who threw the orb of light?" she asked through panting and coughing, "was it you?" She asked Illium. He shook his head, she looked to the others, they shook there heads as well.
"It was the Shvleidah." He said. They were all confused. "It was the councilor, Seraph. She threw it from over there." he pointed toward the main building; they all saw people rushing towards them, only a minute or so away. As the first person reached them, they saw it was Geoffrey. He gasped for air from running and coughed at the sudden inhale of smoke. He looked up at them.
"Oh! Thank Serenity, you are all okay. We had thought the worst when we realized who was out here. But come, we have to get to the hospital wing as soon as possible." He said as he beckoned them to get up.
"Why? What is wrong?" Minai asked.
"It's Seraph. On the shockwave, she got slammed through a window and from forty-feet away and she's imbedded with shrapnel. The doctors said that if she could stay alive for the next hour or so they could probably save her but they can't know for sure..."
Oh, no...
And I Own Sailor moon! I own all of it hahah!!— Sorry guys...went psycho there for a minute; I think I've been thinking about Robin McKinley's Sunshine to much. Those vampires are getting to me. And I can't write a fanfic on it...No! I like Vampires...Well either way, be sure to check out my new Hellsing fiction called Revenant! If you like hellsing that is...
I'm this close to changing the rating on this to PG-13; just to be safe. Please tell me if I should or not.
Once again:
::Mind speech:: emphasis
Song of the New Cosmos By LGR
Chapter five: Earth's Evocation
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Darkness. Darkness since the times of Turmoil, since before the Great Quiescence when they came. He remembered now. There was much light; much peace and hope; Always hope ... And then there was the quiescence.
Darkness Shuddered against the sky and there was no sound. No light. No hope.
The stars that once sang to his race now grew dim and faded away; Washed from the colorful pallets to grayness. Conformed from the music into a great din and then silenced. There was silence. There was depression. And there was death.
And then there was Necrosis. He gave a sense to the darkness and silence. He gave a will, a way, and a purpose.
To destroy the light; To cast a shadow on their endless expanses; To Silence their singing and dampen their hopes.
But he did not know. How could he? He saw the light and it broke his barriers. He could here the singing. He could see the dancing colors. Hope did remain in the Universe.
The Necrosis had raided the Cosmos, wishing to control its vast riches and enslave all life-forms. But when it came to the light of one solar system, the light out shown them and it was forced to retreat. All its highest officers had been stricken by its purifying qualities and had ascended from the Necrosis to the light. The Necrosis waited millennia and then began to rebuild its armies of slaves and brainwashed servants. Tormenting and raking them, counting on the cerebral instinct to suppress unpleasant memories from consciousness. And they were very unpleasant.
But now it seemed so far away. It didn't matter any more. He could open his eyes now. For the first time, in a very long time, he could truly open his eyes and not die from what he would see. And he did.
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Color. And sound. It was all music and it danced and awakened his mind from a great night to the wondrous sunrise. He would have gaped but he couldn't move. He was in a hospital, or so the newly active part of his brain told him. But it was on a ground floor, with a giant window that held an explosion of colorful flowers and soft sounds of birds.
Reds, Greens, Yellows. He saw them and fell in love with them all over again.
And a sky.
It was the clearest and purest blue in all existence. And clouds; they were white; the color of new beginnings. All colors could be put onto the whiteness of the paper and be at there brightest and purest. It was a fresh start. Newness as yet unforeseen in the nightmare his mind had floated in for multiple eons. He had been given a second chance ...
By her. She was sleeping in an armchair across from his bed. Her hair was rings of silvery-white, her skin a pale alabaster. Everything about her was fresh, clean. She had long, delicate limbs and yet she was perfectly proportioned despite her long-ness and shortness as well. She had a round, smooth face; and large eyes that he knew were pale blue-silver. She was a child of the full moon and a glowing reflection on dark waters of the Universe. There were few that could match her glow, her shine. In all his years, as fragmented as they were, he had never seen a being such as this
He heard the sound of foot-steps on tile or stone and the door that was a few feet away from The Moon child, opened a moment later to admit a dark individual. He knew this one as well. It was the guardian. She was very tall and seemed cut from onyx; A foundation for her followers with a straight and even gaze and firm hand. She was a darkness that reflected the light into shimmering designs, not the darkness of the Necrosis. She had burnished, copper skin and long black-hair. Her eyes were a smoky, dark blue and held a quiet acuity behind her sarcastic tongue. She saw him awake and smiled.
"I just came by to check on you." She said. He just watched her dumbly, and he knew it too but his mind wasn't in the mood to do anything about it. She didn't seem to care for a response as she simply walked over to the window, took the vacant chair that he hadn't seen next to it, and pulled it over to sit down in. "Goodness, but you look so different," she said after staring at him for a minute. He gave her a slightly confused look.
She held up her finger and pulled a hand mirror from her robes then held it out to him. He took it and looked into it.
A youth with copper skin, tousled white hair and crystal blue eyes stared back. His features were very defined and slightly pointed giving him a somewhat exotic look. As he blinked in shock he heard the woman talking.
"- You don't look any older than me, and I'm seventeen. I have been informed that I look older than that but I don't think you'd enjoy my even touching on that subject. You could almost be my little brother or something."
He looked up at her in confusion. And she continued "Everyone keeps saying you look like me. I don't get it but, there you are. I think it's just because we have darker skin." She considered something and asked him. "Do you have a name?"
He opened his mouth to answer and- nothing.
He mouthed the words but there was no sound. He tried to use his mind. Nothing. His cerebrum freaked out and he was in a mental state of panic until he felt a light slap on his face.
"Calm down. If you don't have a name it doesn't matter I-," she paused as he violently shook his head and she caught on. "oh, Oh! Don't worry about it. I talked to the healer earlier and she told me a few of you're muscles hadn't been used in ages and even the ones you did use often would barely be working for a while." He calmed instantly and fell back onto the bedding with a flop. "Seriously though, you could be my little brother or something." She pinched his cheek as he gave her an 'oh my god' look. "Sorry." She said. "' Couldn't help it." And then she got up from her chair and left with instructions to be good and a promise she'd be back later.
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As Seraph walked out of the room she was met by the doctor in charge of the boy; Emmett and the five guards; Her Imperial Highness Serenity Mashiro; Daemian; Selece; Minai; The King of Earth and his daughter, named Ritsuko; The Kings generals; Geoffrey, the chronicler's great-grandson; a Colonel of the Moon guard and a scientist. They were all asking her questions at once, wanting to know if he was alright, if he was a threat, what kind of alien he was (how was she supposed to know?), if Terasu had awakened yet...She just stood there until everyone shut up and Mashiro asked, "Is he well?"
Everyone else backed-off while waiting for Seraph to answer. "Yes," she said, "Well enough. He can't talk at the moment but he's thinking fine." She said.
"Is he, in anyway, a threat to us?" the King asked.
"No, I would say he is definitely on our side, at the moment. And even if he wasn't, he is not in any shape to start a killing spree."
Mashiro nodded and turned to the Colonel. "Please make sure the boy is immediately placed in the Guard under the service of the crown as soon as he is well enough." She said. Seraph was very proud of her mistress for immediately thinking of this; it would give the boy a purpose for being on the progress and give him something to do as well as shut up any problems concerning his former allegiance. As a beginner he would have to be in the training program in which he would be watched at all hours of the day. After they had heard this, the nurse made most everyone bugged-off, saying he needed to rest, leaving only those who were part of the moon progress. Mashiro gave Seraph a nod and left with the rest of the spectators, leaving only Seraph, Emmett and the Scouts (the other guards having left with the colonel).
"Can we go see them? Please! Please, please, please, PLEASE!" Minai begged with Selece standing behind her.
"Go ahead. He's awake but Terasu isn't."
"Yay!" and she ran into the room almost hitting Selece in the forehead with the door as she flung it open. Seraph could hear a "Hello!" from Minai as she walked down the hall with Emmett following.
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"Hello!" said the Venetian said brightly while the Mercurian started to close the door and the guardian shook her head and walked down the hall, Emmett following a few steps behind.
He just blinked at her. She blinked at him. She turned around to the other girl and said. "Doesn't he look smaller to you?" The Mercurian peered at him and said, "he has the same mass. His coloring was just much darker before and this caused him to appear larger and older. Also he is sitting down."
"Wow! I would never have thought of that! The dark colors and all. Do you know what happens to our stuff when we drop it and it disappears?"
"It's below your line of sight?" she said, confused. The Venetian rolled her eyes.
"No! You know, our instruments an' stuff."
"They materialize into a pocket dimension created by our planetary energies and connected to our subconscious thoughts." She said.
"Whoa!" they noticed there patient looked annoyed at there acting like he wasn't there. "Oh, sorry." The Venetian said. "My name is Minai!" she said cheerfully.
"I'm Selece." The other said with a little wave.
"What's your name?" Minai asked. He gave her a dejected expression. As unexpressive as his face was before, it showed his every thought now. "Don't have one, huh?" she asked with a strange look in her eyes he nodded sadly. "Don't even worry about it!" she said even more hyper all of a sudden. She danced over to the chair Terasu was sleeping in and took a piece of paper out of her limp hand that he hadn't noticed before.
"We were up all night thinking of cool names for you!" she said. Selece's hand came up and smacked her in the face as she took on a humiliated expression. "Here!" she said and handed him the piece of paper.
He looked at it. He turned it upside down. He turned it sideways. It just looked like squiggles to him.
"You can't read?" Selece inquired. He huffed up and gave her an offended look.
"Than why can't you read that?" He just shrugged.
"Maybe they write different where he comes from." Minai said. Now it was Selece's turn to shrug.
"Could you right something if we gave you some paper?" Selece prodded and he nodded an affirmative. Selece ran out and brought a clip board and attached pen with a piece of paper from nowhere and stuck it on his lap. "Write something."
He gave her a 'like, what?' look.
"I don't know. Minai?"
"Write our names! Write our names!" she shouted. He began to write out their names as he knew it. His hands were very shaky but he managed them without to many accidental squiggles. Selece grabbed it from him. "Wow! I've never seen writing like that!" Minai stood on tip toe to look over Selece's shoulders. "Hey it looks like ripple designs or something; or maybe Rays. It's really pretty." Minai added.
"I don't know what this is." Selece said. "Let's go ask Geoffrey."
"You should marry him! I know you like him!"
"What! I barley met him!" Selece was completely crimson. They walked out the door and for a second he thought that they had forgotten him but Minai came back for a split second and told him she'd be right back. He layed back in his hospital bed and slept.
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"So?"
"'So' what?"
"See anything weird about him?" They had walked in Silence for a while and Emmett finally asked Selece about the boy.
"I saw no odd tentacles sticking out of his head, or strange discolored splotches on his face."
"You know what I meant." Seraph sighed, she new he was talking about auras and things. She was just a little edgy today. She could barely keep her irritation under control in that hall.
"He had a very bright gold aura in strange ripples or rays coming off of him in swirling pictures."
"That seems really odd to me."
"I suppose it is."
"I feel sorry for him."
"I do as well—Oof!" she saw stars and the mosaic tiles of the Earth capital building floor and heard stammered apologies. "Why am I on the ground?" she asked.
"Sorry, sorry, sorry!" It was Minai. Her temper took a wrong turn as Emmett helped her up.
"What the Hell were you doing running around like that?! You could have killed someone damn-it!" she yelled and no one dared move. "You almost killed me for gods' sake!" All the people in the courtyard that could be seen through the arches of the building were watching intently and she noticed. "What in the hell do you people want?! Mind your own damn business!" everyone immediately when back to what they were doing. "You to!" she added to Minai and Selece. They ran off as fast as they could. She stamped down the hall in a huff in the opposite direction with Emmett getting a slap on the face as he commented on the fact that it must be 'that time of the month'.
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He woke up and found that the moon girl was gone from her place at the chair but found next to his bed, a pitcher of water and a glass. He poured himself some water and drank it while sitting up. Just then the door opened to admit three very flustered looking people. Minai, was almost trembling, Selece was walking so stiffly it was odd to look at and the boy looked like he expected the devil himself to jump out at him from behind.
"You all look as if you have been harassed." It just popped out of his mouth and it definitely surprised everyone in the room though it wasn't more than a whisper. They all jumped. He noticed he could speak now, at least a little and gave them an amused smile.
Minai recovered first. "Wow! You must be feeling better already!"
"Yes." He said quietly. "Why are you all frightened?" he asked.
They all winced. "Seraph, the Man-Eater." said the boy.
"There is a creature here that eats humans?" he said both quizzically and slightly distressed. They all laughed a little. "No." he said. "Sorry, I'm Geoffrey" Geoffrey came and held out his hand, after a moment he took it. Geoffrey was very tall and lanky and he had light skin, and chestnut hair and eyes. In his arm he held multiple books, scrolls, notebooks and other things.
"I thought you knew Seraph?" Selece asked from next to him. "She said she talked to you earlier?"
"The" and then there was a word that none of them understood, "came to see me. Was that her name?" they all looked a little confused. "What is it that I have said?" he asked.
"We're just trying to figure out what that second word you just said was." Geoffrey answered. He said the word again with a questioning tone.
"It sounds vaguely familiar." Geoffrey said. "Sounds like Ancient Fervolic maybe." And he began to shuffle through all the stuff in his arms and dropped half of it. He sighed and started gathering it up again.
"What does that word mean?" asked Minai.
He shrugged. "One who oversees; one who keeps vigilance; one who attends..."
"The language we speak isn't you're language is it?" Geoffrey asked from the floor.
"No."
"How do you know our language then?"
"I remember it from before."
"From before what?" Geoffrey asked.
"From before the moon girl." They all seemed to understand. He had used mind speech before and learnt their language through it he put it into practice now that he could speak without the aid of mind magic.
"Well, anyways," Minai said, "Selece and I were going to get Geoffrey and I knocked over Seraph—,"
"You knocked over the Shvleidah?" he said in mock unbelief at their having gotten out alive. They recognized the word he had used before to identify Seraph. "You are not a ghost, perhaps?" he asked slightly joking.
"I wish I were a ghost! She chewed us out! And in front of everyone, too! Emmett did try to calm her down some though." Minai finished.
"Emmett? The Kytthroga?"
"What does that mean?"
"One who waits; one who stands; one who shall stay..."
"She yelled at everyone else as well, though." Selece added after a moment.
"Yah, but then when we were coming back, we saw Seraph again when we walked passed the guards training area and she was chewing out a general because he hadn't done something he was supposed to have done and then she saw us looking and said," now Minai puffed herself up and shook her finger in the way that Seraph did when she was scolding someone. "'Don't you people have something better to do than irritating me all day? Get out of here!' so we ran off but we heard her yelling at the general again because he had been trying to sneak away ... and it was scary."
"It sounds as something to be afraid of."
"You talk strange." Minai said.
"No," Geoffrey intervened, "he just talks properly. Ah! I knew it was in here somewhere." And he held up a book, set it on the counter and began sifting through the pages until he came to one. "Yes, it looks slightly similar to Japanese, or even Arabic, but it's not really related to either of those at all. It's actually Primal Aurelic." Geoffrey showed them how his writing matched the sample writing in the book. "There are maybe only a handful of examples of it, and all of those were rescued from the remains of the Lunar Library thousands of years ago, when Serenity Usagi began to re-colonize the Moon. We have no understanding of the substance of those writings."
They were all silent until the sound of the door opening made them jump, then its opener made them jump again. It was Seraph.
"Geoffrey, why are there books on the ground?" Seraph said in an all- to pleasant voice. Geoffrey immediately snatched his books off of the floor as Emmett and the Moon girl walked in behind her. He brightened at the last.
"Boy? As soon as you are well, you shall be inducted into the Moon Guard. Hopefully this will be today. The nurse will give you a last look over and if you are pronounced fit we will lead you to your new place. I'm sorry but the paranoid ones have made us burn your old clothes, not that I thought you would care much, but we have a moon guard trainee uniform for when you go." And she left it on the counter and walked out with Emmett. The moon girl stayed behind and ran up and hugged him as soon as they had left.
"I'm so glad you're okay! I didn't care what that nurse said, I was scared you wouldn't get better; I thought she was kind of a mean nurse anyways." The moon girl said.
And he laughed. He wasn't sure if it was because she said his nurse was mean of because she was worried about him. Him. No one was ever worried about him.
When he finally calmed down he said, "I am sorry. I do not know why it is that I laugh." She smiled at hearing his real voice for the first time.
"You don't have to talk so formal, you know. I don't think even the Etiquette teacher speaks that formally." She said.
"I know no other form of speech in this language." He said and noticed that Geoffrey, Selece and Minai must have left since they weren't there anymore. "Did they leave?" he asked.
"Huh." She said as she noticed too. "Guess so." She shrugged then looked back at him.
"Is you're name Illium?" she asked out of the blue.
"What? Why?"
"You were asleep earlier. And I ..." she became hesitant, "I asked you who you were and you said Illium. What does that mean?"
"Illium. One who is shown the way of the right; one who sees light after darkness."
"I think that you should keep it." The moon girl said.
"What is your name?"
"My name? I guess I never told you. I'm sorry. My name is Terasu."
"Your name holds power. What does it mean?"
"It is Japanese. It means to shine on; to illuminate."
"It is very fitting." There was a knock on the door and the nurse came in.
"I'm sorry but My Lady Councilour has told me to see if he is ready to be moved, you'll have to leave Revered Terasu."
"Alright. Bye!" she said and left.
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The nurse had said he was no longer ill and so he had been moved to a small room of his own. The first day, the teachers had evaluated what he already knew. Even though he was still tired from before, his swordsmanship was top-notch and once he had been shown how a gun worked, we had almost perfect aim. His speech was perfect but his hand writing was literally none- existent. He knew no history, and no foreign language; unless you counted his Primal Aurelic, which it seemed, had been dead for millennia. One thing he was pretty competent in was math. He just knew it. When the teacher given him questions to complete, he knew what to do and did. Or more his hand did it and he watched with amazement as it went down the paper doing every one. And science was completely easy for he knew how things lived and such without needing to be told. So when it came down to it, all he had to do was an accelerated handwriting class, a history class, and the general sort of training i.e. what to do when this happened, how to use a radio properly, what this code meant and that code.
He went to classes with the other students of the crown that wanted to be in the moon guard and though they were all kind to him, they had there own circles of friends and tended to drift together. On the second day after lunch in the main hall area at the earth capital that was set aside for them, four boys came and sat next to him. Three of them were also students; though one, sandy haired and green eyed, was in the outfit for a person training to be an advisor; and the two others, twins with red hair and hazel eyes, were in the uniforms of apprentice healers. The other wasn't a student at all. He was an averaged height boy with dark blue hair and light eyes. They all seemed about fifteen. It was the blue haired one who spoke.
"Hello! I'm Daemian." And he held out his hand for a shake. "that's Tony," he pointed to the sandy haired one, "and they're Alex and Zackary." The two twins held up their hands in acknowledgement. "Se-le told me you were pretty good with a sword." Illium was slightly confused."
"Who is Se-le?"
"Oh. I guess you wouldn't know. It's Selece but I just call her Se- le. She's my tutor."
"I understand."
"Well anyways, I've already beaten the few students that they brought on progress at least a billion times in practice matches and I was hoping you would be more of a challenge; if you don't mind that is. It's not a real match or anything; just for fun. As healer students, Alex and Zackary don't get taught sword unless they want to and they just didn't want to and Tony's kind of laid-back."
"Yes, I am!" Tony said.
"See? So now I've beaten probably everyone and they don't want to fence any more because they always loose. And all the really good people like the soldiers and all the other instructors don't have the time. And hell knows that Selece and Minai don't use swords..." He had a sort-of begging expression on his face.
"I suppose that I could—."
"Yes! When can we have a match? You guys get a break for an hour after lunch yeah?" all of them nodded their heads. "Yes!" and he grabbed Illium and dragged him to a practice court.
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On the first day that the teachers had tested his skill, he had beat out every person very easily. Daemian was quite a bit better but he still couldn't win.
"It's not fair. You're sword is longer and heavier than mine."
"If you wish it, you may trade your sword for one identical to mine."
"It's a little too heavy for me."
"Then perhaps shorter and lighter is more suited for you."
"I'm complaining, aren't I?"
"Yes."
"You tell him, Illium! Kick his cocky butt again!" Tony, Alex and Zackary said.
"Come on, guys!" Daemian protested. The first match had ended with Daemian being "killed" in one move. The second took a little bit longer, but he was still "killed" when Illium came up under a vertical-upward slash by Daemian and did a slash that, if followed through with, would have cut Daemian's arm off. On the third, Illium completely shattered Daemian's sword when he parried his slash with a particularly hard hit.
"Yay!" they both jumped and turned to see the three scouts and the Kings daughter, Ritsuko sitting next to the three boys on the grass, watching.
"I told you he was good." Selece called to Daemian.
"Yah, guess I didn't believe you at first." Daemian admitted. They all heard a gong go off from somewhere in the capital building and let out sighs of disappointment. "Well, lunch hour is over. Maybe we co—ah!" Illium had seen it coming just in time to put up a magic shield to protect them from the blast. Even so, it shook the ground and they were all in the dirt and visibly shaken. They looked up to see the woman shadow being.
:: The Traitor. :: she said. :: You will be the first to die by the new powers the necrosis has granted me! :: Reality split and shadow beasts poured out of the tear created in the Universe. Immediately Terasu, Selece and Minai said the incantation and, within moments, stood in the sailor suits of the scouts.
"Let's split up!" Sailor Mercury yelled over the chaos. "Daemian, Princess Ritsuko and Tony can come with me. The Twins can go with Sailor Venus. We'll start getting rid of the Shadow creatures while Illium and Sailor Moon go after the Lady!" they all nodded and split up into groups to protect themselves from shadow beasts with magic or sword or weapon.
Sailor Moon started running through the chaos, to where the Lady had been, with Illium following. She slapped at all the shadow beasts with her Scepter and blasted them when she was sure it wouldn't hit someone else by accident. Behind her she could hear the swish of metal and ripping sound that was always produced when a sharp object tore at the shadow flesh of the creatures. She trusted him. She still didn't know why, but she did and with her life. He was an entirely different person from who he was. She knew he wouldn't touch her; even by accident. No harm would come to her in his hands.
She plowed on through the shadow spirits.
:: Ah. The traitor comes. And he's brought a little white witch with him. :: said the Lady being in her mind as she looked up from fighting to see the floating woman in the sky. :: It's time for you to witness your end. :: The woman flung up her arm and high in the sky, a part of it turned black and began to fold into itself. ::The Necrosis has given his own Guardian to me! I have been bestowed with his power! :: and a Giant, blue thunder bolt flew out of the heavens and swept across the sky making the air crack, boom and ripple in the heat. The bolt solidified into an elongated serpent shape. As it slipped through the air in elegant ripples and liquid-like motions it came to a stop alongside the woman. It was a flaming black and neon blue dragon with a long snout and horribly long teeth and twisting horns protruding from its head. A flaming, neon blue crest encompassed the area above its eye ridges. It was one of the most beautiful and the most deadly creatures in the universe.
:: This is Sendo-ryuujinno. :: she said, :: The Dragon King of Death :: Sailor Moon felt all the blood run out of her face and noticed that beside her, all the blood in Illium's face must have been misplaced as well. But he was also shaking.
"Ie. Ien Ukio en Jimo Ryji." She heard him mumble.
"What? What is it you were saying?" she asked him. He looked at her and in his eyes she saw he was terrified.
"That dragon." He began. "Is a corruption of the Ukio en Jimo Ryji. You would say: Life is also the Dragon Spirit."
Life is also the Dragon Spirit? That doesn't even make sense. But this is a corrupted spirit?
"But," she said, "How do we uncorrupt it? Or, get rid of it?"
"I don't know; I am sorry."
"We can't give up! For The Moon Kingdom and her Imperial Highness Neo- Queen Serenity Mashiro!" And Sailor Moon charged up an Attack with her scepter, aiming it at the Corrupted Dragon Spirit. "With the power of the moon, I banish the corruption in this Sacred Spirit!" The White energy smashed through the sky headed straight for the dragon.
:: Sendo-ryuujinno, this frail magic is not worth your time:: came the woman's voice, :: Prove it to them. ::
As the beam shot forward, the Dragon arched its neck and opened its mouth. Out came black flames, writhing hungrily toward the beam of light. They met in the middle of the sky and, for a moment, the dragon's flames and the beam of light seemed to be even, but the beam of light was quickly swallowed by the dragon's ghastly flames and all that was left of the energy was a rippling crack of lightening across the air.
Sailor Moon was terrified. What would she do now?
:: Now you see how small you power truly is you can never win. :: the woman smirked then turned to the dragon. :: Sendo, my creature, destroy them all.:: the creature crackled an acknowledgement and headed straight for Sailor Moon.
A small ball of energy was thrown from afar at the creature as it was racing toward Sailor Moon. The light made a small explosion that was accompanied by a faint twinkling sound and an area of the buzzing and pulsating creature turned still and faded to a dull black. The black area cracked off like a flakes of ash or charcoal to reveal a substance akin to glass, the creature hissed and made violent motions at the abuser who had thrown the small light.
This was her chance for a second try. While the creature was focused on another, she charged up another attack and aimed directly at the side of the dragon. The Sendo-ryuujino must have noticed the beam for it turned its head around to see what was being aimed at it but the beam made contact. The entire side of the dragon turned to ash and fell away, the large flakes fell to the ground and burned anything it made contact with, turning into black smoke then drifting away. The Dragon made a deep rumbling roar like a sonic boom and then it began to violently jerk out at horrifying angles. The dragon nearly hit the woman and so she vanished. The dragon continued it's jolting and began to fade as the woman had; but before it did its jaw unhinged from it's mouth and a giant gulp of siring flame left it's mouth to burn the landscape.
Sailor Moon watched it come towards her but she could do nothing. It was coming towards her, ever closer...
When the flame had almost engulfed her, a shining light flew up in a sphere around her. Though the ground shook and she could see the rippling of air and flame outside, the light was pleasantly cool and any debris that was kicked up by the blast was deflected. She looked behind her to see all those that had been involved in the fight with Illium using his sword as a focus to create the shield. It was easy to see he had to strain just to keep it from collapsing against the outside forces. As the burning calmed down they thought it to be over but Illium kept up the shield and there was a second booming sound, though it had no source, and a shockwave rolled across the ground and broke on there shield. Only after it had passed did Illium let his shield down. Then he sank to the ground trembling in exhaustion.
It was devastating, even though the fight had taken place in the practice yard, which was almost a mile away from the main building; it had still caused considerable damage to it. All the greenery was dead and black, as was the ground and nearly every thing else for that matter. There were no longer any shadow creatures, either; they had burned along with everything else.
They coughed from the smoke rising that was from the ground and despite the fact that the fire had dampened and gone, it was still viciously hot, the heat rising from the ground was as tangible as the smoke and the rippling made the illusion of water on the ground.
They were alive, though, they'd all gotten through this. She collapsed on the ground next to Illium and the others followed suit. Something bothered her, however.
"Who threw the orb of light?" she asked through panting and coughing, "was it you?" She asked Illium. He shook his head, she looked to the others, they shook there heads as well.
"It was the Shvleidah." He said. They were all confused. "It was the councilor, Seraph. She threw it from over there." he pointed toward the main building; they all saw people rushing towards them, only a minute or so away. As the first person reached them, they saw it was Geoffrey. He gasped for air from running and coughed at the sudden inhale of smoke. He looked up at them.
"Oh! Thank Serenity, you are all okay. We had thought the worst when we realized who was out here. But come, we have to get to the hospital wing as soon as possible." He said as he beckoned them to get up.
"Why? What is wrong?" Minai asked.
"It's Seraph. On the shockwave, she got slammed through a window and from forty-feet away and she's imbedded with shrapnel. The doctors said that if she could stay alive for the next hour or so they could probably save her but they can't know for sure..."
Oh, no...