Chapter 8
Not even bothering to knock on the doors so that the king would know who was coming, the middle guard pushed open the doors to the throne room. He didn't even bother to open the doors all the way before the guard named Kilano shoved Trista into the room.
Almost immediately, the doors slammed shut behind her.
Seeing Trista, the king smiled. "Hello, Trista Meiou," he welcomed her with a nod, "Sailor Pluto, Guardian of Time."
Trista just stared at him, saying nothing.
The king looked at
her, a look that was almost but not quite, one of disdain. "You
are Trista Meiou, are you not?" he asked.
"I am,"
Trista replied, not taking her eyes off the king.
"And you
do know who I am?" he asked.
"I do," she replied,
her eyes devoid of any emotion what-so-ever.
"Then since you
are also Sailor Pluto, Guardian of Time, I suppose you know why I
have brought you here to stand in my presence?"
Trista stayed silent.
The king waited a few minutes, to see if Trista would speak. When she didn't, he said, "Very well, then. How about I assume that you don't know why I brought you up here?"
Again, Trista said nothing.
The king held back a sigh and not bothering to get up from the throne in which he sat, motioned to a large screen to Trista's left, his right.
Trista didn't bother looking to her left. Instead, she kept her eyes on the king.
The king clapped his hands for the sound and picture to begin playing, knowing that what she was about to hear would make her turn around and watch the screen. At first the only sound was that of the police hover cars' wailing, then suddenly a cry came from the screen, "Jupiter Lightening Sheets!"
Hearing that familiar cry, Trista turned her head to look at the screen. That cry was quickly followed by, "Mars Flame Sniper!", "Mercury Water Waves!" and "Joint Hearts!"
Trista watched as the four attacks joined and in less than ten seconds, destroyed both hover cars. She frowned as she realized that the two hover police cars hadn't been chasing the four Sailor Scouts.
Then why did they attack them? Trista wondered. Why would they give themselves away if the cars hadn't been after them? She wondered those questions, not knowing that they would very soon be answered.
The picture
continued playing and both Trista and the king continued to watch.
"We'd better get going before their back-up shows,"
came the familiar voice of Sailor Jupiter as she and the three others
came into view on the screen.
Suddenly, the camera shifted a bit over and another, unfamiliar Sailor Scout came into view. This one was younger than the others, but she also had pink hair and her outfit was mostly pink.
"Pause," the king suddenly commanded the computer.
Trista's eyes widened as she recognized who the young Sailor Scout was.
Princess Serena!
Seeing the reaction in Trista's eyes, the king smiled. It was obvious that he didn't even have to ask this question. "So, you do know who that is, don't you?"
Trista turned to
the king, her eyes no longer devoid of emotion, but instead full of
hatred. "If you've hurt her..." Trista threatened.
"You'll do what?" the king interrupted her, almost
laughing at her, "In case you have not noticed Ms. Meiou, I am
the one with the power here, not you." He stayed silent for
about a minute or so then said, "Now, since you apparently know
who that Sailor Scout in pink is, I suggest you tell me."
Trista looked at the king and understanding that he didn't have any clue who the pink Sailor Scout was, tried to hide her smile. The hatred in her eyes disappeared, once again replaced by no emotion at all.
"Are you going to tell me who the girl is?" the king asked.
Trista's only reply was silence.
He repeated the question. Again, silence. The king frowned. While the video on the screen had been playing, the surprise in Trista's eyes had given the king some hope that the Guardian of Time would tell him who the Scout was, but his hopes were dashed as she remained silent, refusing to give him the information he wanted.
"Tell me who the Sailor Scout in pink is," demanded the king.
Trista only stared at the king.
Angry, the king got up off his throne and walked towards her. When he was standing only a few feet away from her, he demanded, "Tell me who she is."
Again, she said nothing.
The king was really starting to get pissed off. Who did she think she was? He was a king, while she was only a Sailor Scout!
The king repeated his demand. "Tell me who she is."
Trista stayed silent, trying not to smile. She knew that she was pissing him off. She also knew what was about to come.
Enraged at her insolence, the king slapped her across the face. The sound echoed in the throne room and the king's right hand stung from the force. The king looked at Trista and was surprised to see that she had not reacted at all. The Sailor Scout had not turned her head to try and avoid the slap. There was not even a single tear falling from her eyes. The only sign that showed what had happened was the large red hand mark on Trista's left cheek. "Now, are you going to tell me who she is?" the king asked, trying not to show how much his hand was hurting.
Trista's only reply was an empty stare.
The king gritted his teeth. "Tell me who she is!" he demanded angrily.
Silence.
A black glow began to surround his hands. He lifted them up so that they were just a few feet away from Trista.
"Tell me who she is," he threatened menacingly.
Trista said nothing.
Dark energy shot out of the king's hands, slamming and pinning Trista against the cold crystal wall.
She cried out in pain as she hit the wall.
The king shot a continuous stream of dark energy for a few minutes, before finally stopping thinking that she had had enough. No longer being pinned against the wall by the dark energy, Trista collapsed to the floor, barely conscious.
Slowly, the king
walked towards Trista. When he reached her, he bent down so that he
could look into her eyes. "I have the power to kill you,"
the king told her. "I also have the power to "
"You
won't," Trista interrupted, struggling to get up.
The king looked at
her, the surprise he felt obvious on his face. "What do you
mean?" he asked, not having any clue what she meant by that.
"You won't kill me," Trista replied, "You have
the power to, but you won't. I am the only one who can open and close
the doors of time. I am also the only one who knows who that pink
Sailor Scout is. That is what I mean."
"And what makes
you think because of all that, I won't kill you?" the king
asked, surprised that someone in her position, someone who could
barely sit up, would be so arrogant.
"I know," Trista
told him, "Not think. Know."
The surprise the king felt didn't leave his face. If anything, this surprised him even more. "And how do you know?"
This time, the expression in Trista's eyes changed from being empty to a look that was almost teasing, telling the king that she knew a lot more than he did. "I am too important," Trista simply told him, finally able to stand.
The king also stood so that he was looking her in the eyes.
"You know that the pink Sailor Scout looks familiar to you, but you don't know why and you know that because I am Sailor Pluto, Guardian of Time, I can answer that for you. Therefore, I am too important to you for you to kill me, but not too important to you for you to beat the answer out of. Unfortunately for you, no matter what you do I will not tell who you who she is because you, yourself, will find out in due time."
The king frowned. He remembered nothing about his past. The only things he knew were the things that the Wiseman had told him, and of course, the Wiseman couldn't tell him who the pink Sailor Scout was because he was killed in the war along with Prince Diamond. But if he remembered nothing about his past, how could the pink Sailor look familiar to him? Where would he recognize her from?
Finally the king sighed, turned, and started walking back towards the throne.
We'll see if you don't tell me who she is, the king thought to himself. We'll see.
Raye stood alone at the top of the stairs, waiting for the others. She had arrived about five minutes ago, parking her Ferrari right beside the bus stop. On her way over she had phoned Mina and Amy, who had both said that they would meet her at the temple as fast as possible.
Hearing the sound of a helicopter, Raye looked up surprised. Then, seeing the logo on the helicopter, she smiled.
Glad to see Terence could make it, she thought. The helicopter didn't even bother landing. It stayed about five feet off the ground and continued flying as Terence Kopis gave last minute instructions to the pilot, then jumped the last five feet to land on the temple ground.
Quickly, Terence
walked away from the helicopter as it took off into the air again and
flew away.
"Always have to have a big entrance, huh
Terence?" Raye asked, as the helicopter flew further away and
the noise died down.
Terence smiled. "I could say the same for you," he said, having been to some of her concerts.
Raye looked at him, knowing exactly what he was talking about. She always had grand entrances for her concerts, like the one she was going to be doing later that night, where she would enter the stadium by skydiving from a plane a few thousand feet above. The audience would be able to see every second of her skydiving entrance because a large screen was being set up behind her musicians. If everything went according to plan, Raye would land right in the middle of the stage and launch into one of her songs.
"What are you
going to be doing tonight?" Terence asked, "Jump down from
the rafters dressed as Sailor Mars?"
"You do that and
I'll personally kill you," a familiar female voice said.
Both Raye and Terence turned to see Lita Kino coming up the stairs.
"Hey, Lita,"
Terence said.
"Hey," Raye greeted her long time friend.
"Seriously though, Raye," Lita said, as she reached
the top of the stairs, "How are you going to stun your audience
tonight?"
Raye smiled and told them in detail about the skydiving entrance that was planned for her concert later that evening.
Terence opened his
mouth to say something, but stopped when the sound of a motorcycle
interrupted him. "Looks like Serena and Darien are here,"
he said. Sure enough, a few minutes later the couple was coming up
the stairs to the temple.
"Hey, you guys," Serena
smiled as they neared the top.
"Sorry if we're late,"
Darien apologized.
"You guys aren't," Terence told
them.
"Is Jordan going to meet us?" Raye asked.
Darien nodded. "He
said he was going to."
"Is Amy coming?" Serena
asked.
"She said she'd call if she couldn't," Raye
said, "It'll just take her a bit longer. She has to get another
doctor to cover her for a few hours."
"Shouldn't be too
hard considering all the extra time she puts in at the hospital,"
Lita said.
"I guess that's what comes with being one of the
best doctors in the world," Terence said, knowing that Amy and
her medical studies were famous worldwide.
"Thanks,
Terence," a familiar and unexpected voice said.
The group looked
down at the bottom of stairs and saw their friend, Dr. Amy Anderson.
Quickly, she ran up the stairs. "After a day like today, I
needed to hear something nice."
"Did something happen
at the hospital today, Amy?" Serena asked.
Amy shook her head.
"No," she replied, tiredly, "It was just really
hectic."
"And that's different from any other day?"
Lita asked jokingly.
Amy smiled at her
friend. "Not really," she admitted. Then, "So how many
more of us are going to show up here?"
"Jordan and
Mina are the last two," Raye replied.
"I think I see
Jordan," Terence said, seeing a familiar red Mustang pull up
behind Darien's motorcycle.
"Looks like Mina's with him,"
Darien commented, noticing that there was somebody with long blonde
hair in the passenger seat.
"Hey, Jor!" Terence called
down the stairs.
"Hey!" Jordan called as he got out of
his car. Quickly, Jordan and Mina climbed out of the red Mustang and
ran to the top of the stairs.
"Hey, guys," Mina said,
smiling brightly.
"Hey, Mina," Serena and Lita said in
unison.
"Now that we're all here," Raye began, "We
can start the fire reading."
"Are you still allowed to
use it, Raye?" Amy asked, knowing that Raye's grandfather no
longer lived at the temple.
Raye nodded. "Yeah," the singer replied, "Chad runs the Temple now. He lets me use the Fire Room when no one else is using it. Come on. Let's go."
Together the group of eight headed towards the Fire Room.
Still gathered in Melissa's and Kristy's apartment, CT Sailor Sun asked, "How are we going to get to the palace without being spotted by any of the police or soldiers?"
Jordan nodded. "Kenneth's got a point," Jordan said, "We can't just walk up to the palace dressed like this. We'd be captured in an instant. Not to mention losing the element of surprise."
Older Sailor Jupiter smiled. "That's one problem that's easy to solve," she said, "We can use Sailor Teleport."
At this, the CT Sailor Scouts looked at the Older Sailor Scouts, confused. What the hell was Sailor Teleport?
Seeing the look of confusion on their daughters' faces, the Older Scouts smiled. Jupiter looked to the others to see if any of them wanted to explain what Sailor Teleport was.
"I forgot that we never taught you this," Older Sailor Mercury said. "Sailor Teleport is actually quite simple to use. Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, and Sailor Venus gather in a circle in that order. Those five Sailor Scouts stretch out their arms so that they're either holding hands or touching hands. Then they just say 'Sailor Teleport'. Once that is said anything in that circle, along with those five Scouts, will be teleported. To teleport to a destination, the Scouts must have a mental picture of the place in their heads as they call out 'Sailor Teleport' or they must be thinking of the place that they want to be teleported to, understand?"
The CT Sailor
Scouts nodded.
"Just one question," CT Sailor Moon
said, looking to the Older Sailor Scouts, "Do we teleport using
the CT Sailor Scouts or do we teleport using you guys?"
"We
will be in the circle along with Jordan, Kenneth, and Kara,"
Older Sailor Jupiter told them, "Sailor Teleport would only work
for us if we did it with your mother, just like if Lillian, Megan,
Chantal, and Kirstein do Sailor Teleport it will only work with you.
Now, are you guys ready to try this?"
The five Scouts
looked to one another then after a minute or so, they nodded. "We're
ready," CT Sailor Mars replied.
"Then let's try this,"
CT Sailor Moon said.
"Melissa, Kristy, maybe you two should
back up a bit," Older Sailor Venus suggested. "If you
thought that the flash of light when we transformed was bright,
you'll be blinded by this one."
Melissa and Kristy
both nodded and moved into the hallway that led off to the bathroom
and two bedrooms.
"Now, let's get into position,"
Older Sailor Jupiter instructed.
Quickly, the four
Older Sailor Scouts, Kenneth, Kara and Jordan gathered close together
in the middle of the living room. Quickly CT Sailor Moon, CT Sailor
Mercury, CT Sailor Mars, CT Sailor Jupiter, and CT Sailor Venus
created a circle around the seven.
"Remember to
concentrate," Older Sailor Mercury instructed as them as they
spread their arms out, "Concentrate on picturing the back gates
to the palace."
The five CT Sailor Scouts closed their eyes, each one concentrating on picturing the gates at the back of the palace. Slowly a glow began to surround the five CT Sailor Scouts. In a just a few seconds, the glow had completely surrounded them. As the glow surrounded the seven in the middle, all of them closed their eyes and tilted their heads back.
Meanwhile, the five Sailor Scouts creating the circle titled their heads back also and as one, called out, "Sailor Teleport!"
Both, Melissa and Kristy watched in amazement as a blinding light flashed then disappeared, taking the Sailor Scouts with it.
"Do you think that they're going to be okay?" Kristy asked, worried about Reenie and the others.
Melissa sighed. "I don't know," she replied, "I mean, I hope that they will be, but I just don't know."
