Chapter 5
"Rei?" someone was shaking me. I opened my eyes to Duo staring at me.
I looked around to find I was up in Duo's arms and everyone was staring at me. "What?" I asked groggily, "What happened?"
"You passed out and fell into my arms." Duo said uneasily. He looked a little nervous that I might pass out again.
"Duo, can you put me down?" I asked quietly. He set me on the ground gently. "Um. where's my broche?"
"I dunno." he said looking around. WHAT?! I screamed in my head. I was about to panic. Don't panic. don't panic.take deep breaths, I thought quickly. I looked around the hallway quickly; I saw it by the counter. I started to walk over when I got dizzy. I almost fell but Duo grabbed my shoulders.
"Are you okay?" Duo asked quickly.
"Yes, I am fine." I replied quietly, "but I need to get my broche." I started to concentrate and the broche zoomed into my hand. I put into my pocket. "Dr. Shinigami if I am to leave, I need to grab my stuff out of my locker."
The Principal, and Vice-Principal looked as though they had seen a ghost. Dr. Shinigami looked at the two men standing next to him and said, "If it's alright with them."
The Principal, and Vice-Principal nodded at the same time. Their eyes were wide with terror. I smirked.
"But I don't want you to go alone." Dr. Shinigami added hastily.
I looked at him; he had a look of concern on his old face. So, I decided to humor him for once. "So who wants to go with me?" I asked.
Neither the Principal nor the Vice-Principal wanted to go near me, let alone go with me. "I'll go with you." Duo said softly.
I looked at him, then sighed, "Fine."
He smiled at me and I relaxed a little bit. We started to walk down the hall. "So what did you see?" Duo asked quietly.
His question startled me. "How-how did you know?"
"The look in your eyes." He answered quietly. "If you don't wanna talk about it it's fine with me."
"I don't want to talk about it right now, cause I'm still trying to sort it out what happened." I said bewildered. "I'll tell you later, okay?"
He smiled, "Okay." We reached the lockers, and I opened mine by magic. I pulled out my bag and stuffed all the junk from my locker into the bag. I heard Duo curse at his locker on the other side. Then I heard him punch it. "Damn."
I walked over to him and said, "Lemme do this."
"This is one reason why I don't like to use lockers." He said a little pissed. "I can hardly ever get them open." I smiled.
"What's your locker number?"
"27-9-16," he said quietly. I spun in the combination, and the lock popped open. "Geez girl you make it look like it's easy." He smiled.
I shrugged, "It is easy." He laughed. He opened the locker door and tons of stuff fell out. I laughed as the stuff fell out. An empty soda can hit him in the forehead. I was laughing so hard I almost fell over. The rain of stuff finally ended. Duo was massaging his forehead where the can hit him. He was glaring at me. I was leaning against the lockers laughing.
"I thought you said you hardly ever use your locker." I said still laughing.
"I don't. it just accumulated over the years." He said. I laughed even harder.
"I'll go get you a bag from the Janitor's closet." I said laughing. I walked over to the janitor's closet and picked the lock real quick. I looked around the closet and found the black bags. I pulled one out and turned to leave. I ran head long into the Janitor.
"Ow!" I said as I fell on my butt. "Gomen-" I started.
"What are you doing?" he asked.
"I was getting trash bags for my teacher." I said quickly, "She told me that we would need trash bags after the project we were doing, so she sent me to get some." He looked slightly suspicious, but he bought my story. I got up and went around him. I ran over to Duo and breathed a huge sigh of relief. I handed him the trash bags and he started to stuff the junk into it.
"Arigatou, Rei." Duo said smiling.
"Your welcome." I replied. Duo stood up a kissed me lightly on the lips. I pulled back remembering the vision.
"What's wrong?" Duo asked bewildered.
"Oh. nothing. it's just that if we get caught." I said quietly.
He smiled, and I went a little weak. Why?! Why do I have to feel this way about him, I yelled at myself. I helped Duo finish picking up all of the trash and stuff. The bag was very heavy. Duo tried to pick it up but he couldn't carry it alone. So I helped. We both carried it to a school dumpster, and dumped it in.
For some odd reason I felt something was wrong. I didn't know what it was. It was like there was a yoma around or something like that. I started to pull out my broche. I started to turn but I was slammed against the dumpster. I gasped with pain. I looked at Duo and he was knocked out. I stood up and pulled out my broche.
"MARS ETERNAL." I screamed and looked at what had hit me, "STAR." it was a very ugly yoma with bat wings and a dragons head, "POWER." it powered up for an attack, "MAKE UP!" I finished my transformation, and dodged the blast. I looked to see if Duo was hurt. He wasn't.
"Blanca." the yoma said. It was drooling a little when it looked at Duo. "Blanca." it drooled even more.
"HEY!" I screamed at it and threw a fireball at it. It looked at me as if I was crazy. "I am sailor scout of fire, Sailor Mars! In the name of Mars, the god of war, and the red planet, I will burn you into a little crisp and send you to see Shinigami!" It growled at me and shot an energy blast at me. I ducked and shielded Duo from the debris. Duo groaned under me.
"What's going on?" He asked groggily.
I looked at him and whispered, "Shhh. be quiet."
"Who are you?" he asked when he looked at me.
"I'm Sailor Mars." I smiled. The yoma came up behind me and grabbed me around the neck. I gasped for air. It lifted me up off of Duo, and I was about a foot above the ground. I tried to pry its fingers from around my neck, but it wouldn't let go. I kicked behind me, and only got air. I kicked again, and found its stomach. It screamed in pain, but it still hadn't let go. I kicked a few more times. It dropped me, and I laid on the ground coughing and gasping for breath. I rolled on my back and the yoma was standing over me. It reached down to grab me and I kicked its arm away. I coughed a couple of more times and finally was able to get air into my lungs. I kicked it back with both my feet. I jumped up and punched it in the chest. My arm went strait through its chest, and green goo went down my glove.
"Ewww. you just ruined my favorite gloves!" I pulled out my arm out of the damn thing's chest. I kicked it away from me. "MARS." I started to power up for one of my ultimate attacks. "SUPREME." a ring of fire surrounded me and a grim reaper appeared, and I slowly lifted my arm towards the yoma, "HELL!" I pointed my finger at the yoma, and the grim reaper floated over to it and sliced it in half and then fire surrounded the halves and burned them to dust. "May you burn in the depths of Hell." I growled quietly my throat hurting where the yoma had grabbed. I turned and looked at Duo. He smiled at me.
"Er. Mars-san?" he asked quietly. "Have you seen my friend Rei?"
"Um. I think she's over there." I said pointing over to a pile of stuff. He glanced over there, and when he looked back I was gone. I untransformed and laid down where I pointed. A few seconds later Duo pushed away some of the ruin, I groaned and looked up at him.
"Rei!" he rushed over and helped me up.
"What the hell happened?" I asked as I got up.
"Oh nothing really-" he started.
"Nothing really? It looks like a mobile suit hit."
"You wouldn't believe me even if I told you."
I smiled, "You sure?"
"There was a monster thing that attacked. and it knocked me out." He started, "And then Sailor Mars appeared." I pretended to look surprised. "She destroyed the thing and then disappeared. It was so cool."
I smiled, and chuckled softly. "I bet it was a yoma."
He cocked an eyebrow, "A wha? Huh?"
"A yoma." I replied, "It's an evil creature thing that sucks energy from humans. it's suppose to be a myth." I shrugged. "I guess you saw what you saw." I saw a cut on Duo's forehead that I did not notice before. "Oh Duo! Your hurt!"
He touched his forehead. "Hmm I didn't even notice."
I touched him lightly on the forehead and whispered, "Mars crystal power." It healed instantly. I sighed. "We should get back to the doctors."
"Yeah," Duo agreed. He helped me up and I brushed off my skirt. I noticed I still had some green goo on my arm. I wiped it of quickly with a handkerchief. I sighed and walked over to my backpack I picked it up and sighed again. Duo and I walked towards the office. I put my hand in my pocket and started to play with my locket. I glanced at a clock in the hall. Second hour was almost over. I sighed.
We got to the office just as the bell rang. There was sudden chattering in the halls as students went to the lockers and to their next classes. Then there was a blood-curtailing scream. Duo and I looked at each other and rushed off to see what was wrong. I started to pull out my locket when the crowd started to push Duo and I apart. I split off into a bathroom and transformed. I rushed out to where to scream was and found there was another Scout there fighting a yoma and loosing. She had long blonde hair and had a red bow in it. The girl that had screamed was unconscious in the middle of the circle. The yoma looked exactly like the one I fought earlier. The Scout was hit into a poll and was knocked unconscious. I rushed out and threw a fireball at it to distract it.
It looked at me and growled. It powered up for an attack. It was one hit I could not dodge, because of the crowd of on-lookers. "MARS FLAMING MANDALA!" I screamed and threw the fire rings at the thing. While it was occupied with trying to put out the flames, I ran over to the scout and tried to revive her.
She groaned and looked up at me. "Finally. I found. you." She managed to get out.
"Shhh don't try to talk, at least not now. Lemme kill this thing first." I stood up, turned around, and saw the yoma sucking energy from the girl. I walked up behind it and kicked it in the ass. It stood up, turned around, and looked at me.
"Blanca." it drooled. I powered up for another one my ultimate attacks. "MARS." I raised my hands into the air, "FLAMING KATANA!" Dozens of flaming katanas rained down upon the yoma turning it into dust. The girl's energy was restored to her and she was other wise unhurt.
I turned and walked over to the other Scout. She was unconscious again. So I picked her up and used a spell I knew to disappear. I reappeared in the girls' bathroom and put the girl onto the ground gently. I took my locket from my uniform and opened it. I pointed it at the Scout and whispered, "Mars crystal power." The ruby glowed and the Scout was healed.
She groaned and sat up with her hand to her head. She looked at me. "Where are we?"
"In the girls bathroom." I replied.
"How did I get here and where is the yoma?"
"I brought you here and the yoma is dead."
"Who killed it?"
"I did." I sighed.
"How could you kill it? It was a high level yoma." She looked troubled.
"With my Flaming Katana attack. it's one of my highest level attacks."
She looked even more troubled. "But how can you be at such a high level? How long have you been fighting evil?"
"Er." I tried to remember all the battles I have been through. "About a month I guess."
"What?!" she practically screeched. "I've been fighting since 7th grade. By the way where is Artimis?"
"Who?"
"A little white cat that was with me."
"I dunno what you're talking about."
"Oh darn now I have to look for the sorry excuse for a cat. Can you show me where the yoma attacked?"
"Sure and by the way what did you mean earlier when you said 'I finally found you?'" I asked.
"I was looking for you on Earth for a while. Then I heard rumors that there was a Sailor Scout in the L2 colony region and I came to see it she was the one I was looking for. It turned out to be you."
"Oh."
She looked at the locket in my hand. Her eyes widened. "Is that the 'Mars Crystal?'" she asked.
"Hai." I replied.
"Can I touch it?" she looked at it in awe. I held it out to her and when she touched it, I had another vision.
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It started where the last one left off. In the middle of the kiss. then there was an explosion. It knocked Duo, Princess Mars, and I back. The young man I ran past ran up, glanced at the princess and me, and couldn't decide which one was the real Princess of Mars.
The princess stood up and said, "Lancelet, my brother, what's going on?"
"Sister we are under attack." He gestured towards me, still in Duo's arms, and said, "Who is she?"
Duo let me go and stood up. "She is your sister Lancelet." Duo explained. He helped me up.
I looked at the palace. "Oh no the palace!" It was in ruin.
"Mother!" Lancelet screamed, tears welled up in his dark eyes. He started to go to the palace when I stopped him.
"No. go fight the enemy with Duo. Your sister and I will go." I told him. The princess nodded in agreement. Duo and Lancelet ran to the battle while the princess and I ran to the palace.
"Rei?" someone was shaking me. I opened my eyes to Duo staring at me.
I looked around to find I was up in Duo's arms and everyone was staring at me. "What?" I asked groggily, "What happened?"
"You passed out and fell into my arms." Duo said uneasily. He looked a little nervous that I might pass out again.
"Duo, can you put me down?" I asked quietly. He set me on the ground gently. "Um. where's my broche?"
"I dunno." he said looking around. WHAT?! I screamed in my head. I was about to panic. Don't panic. don't panic.take deep breaths, I thought quickly. I looked around the hallway quickly; I saw it by the counter. I started to walk over when I got dizzy. I almost fell but Duo grabbed my shoulders.
"Are you okay?" Duo asked quickly.
"Yes, I am fine." I replied quietly, "but I need to get my broche." I started to concentrate and the broche zoomed into my hand. I put into my pocket. "Dr. Shinigami if I am to leave, I need to grab my stuff out of my locker."
The Principal, and Vice-Principal looked as though they had seen a ghost. Dr. Shinigami looked at the two men standing next to him and said, "If it's alright with them."
The Principal, and Vice-Principal nodded at the same time. Their eyes were wide with terror. I smirked.
"But I don't want you to go alone." Dr. Shinigami added hastily.
I looked at him; he had a look of concern on his old face. So, I decided to humor him for once. "So who wants to go with me?" I asked.
Neither the Principal nor the Vice-Principal wanted to go near me, let alone go with me. "I'll go with you." Duo said softly.
I looked at him, then sighed, "Fine."
He smiled at me and I relaxed a little bit. We started to walk down the hall. "So what did you see?" Duo asked quietly.
His question startled me. "How-how did you know?"
"The look in your eyes." He answered quietly. "If you don't wanna talk about it it's fine with me."
"I don't want to talk about it right now, cause I'm still trying to sort it out what happened." I said bewildered. "I'll tell you later, okay?"
He smiled, "Okay." We reached the lockers, and I opened mine by magic. I pulled out my bag and stuffed all the junk from my locker into the bag. I heard Duo curse at his locker on the other side. Then I heard him punch it. "Damn."
I walked over to him and said, "Lemme do this."
"This is one reason why I don't like to use lockers." He said a little pissed. "I can hardly ever get them open." I smiled.
"What's your locker number?"
"27-9-16," he said quietly. I spun in the combination, and the lock popped open. "Geez girl you make it look like it's easy." He smiled.
I shrugged, "It is easy." He laughed. He opened the locker door and tons of stuff fell out. I laughed as the stuff fell out. An empty soda can hit him in the forehead. I was laughing so hard I almost fell over. The rain of stuff finally ended. Duo was massaging his forehead where the can hit him. He was glaring at me. I was leaning against the lockers laughing.
"I thought you said you hardly ever use your locker." I said still laughing.
"I don't. it just accumulated over the years." He said. I laughed even harder.
"I'll go get you a bag from the Janitor's closet." I said laughing. I walked over to the janitor's closet and picked the lock real quick. I looked around the closet and found the black bags. I pulled one out and turned to leave. I ran head long into the Janitor.
"Ow!" I said as I fell on my butt. "Gomen-" I started.
"What are you doing?" he asked.
"I was getting trash bags for my teacher." I said quickly, "She told me that we would need trash bags after the project we were doing, so she sent me to get some." He looked slightly suspicious, but he bought my story. I got up and went around him. I ran over to Duo and breathed a huge sigh of relief. I handed him the trash bags and he started to stuff the junk into it.
"Arigatou, Rei." Duo said smiling.
"Your welcome." I replied. Duo stood up a kissed me lightly on the lips. I pulled back remembering the vision.
"What's wrong?" Duo asked bewildered.
"Oh. nothing. it's just that if we get caught." I said quietly.
He smiled, and I went a little weak. Why?! Why do I have to feel this way about him, I yelled at myself. I helped Duo finish picking up all of the trash and stuff. The bag was very heavy. Duo tried to pick it up but he couldn't carry it alone. So I helped. We both carried it to a school dumpster, and dumped it in.
For some odd reason I felt something was wrong. I didn't know what it was. It was like there was a yoma around or something like that. I started to pull out my broche. I started to turn but I was slammed against the dumpster. I gasped with pain. I looked at Duo and he was knocked out. I stood up and pulled out my broche.
"MARS ETERNAL." I screamed and looked at what had hit me, "STAR." it was a very ugly yoma with bat wings and a dragons head, "POWER." it powered up for an attack, "MAKE UP!" I finished my transformation, and dodged the blast. I looked to see if Duo was hurt. He wasn't.
"Blanca." the yoma said. It was drooling a little when it looked at Duo. "Blanca." it drooled even more.
"HEY!" I screamed at it and threw a fireball at it. It looked at me as if I was crazy. "I am sailor scout of fire, Sailor Mars! In the name of Mars, the god of war, and the red planet, I will burn you into a little crisp and send you to see Shinigami!" It growled at me and shot an energy blast at me. I ducked and shielded Duo from the debris. Duo groaned under me.
"What's going on?" He asked groggily.
I looked at him and whispered, "Shhh. be quiet."
"Who are you?" he asked when he looked at me.
"I'm Sailor Mars." I smiled. The yoma came up behind me and grabbed me around the neck. I gasped for air. It lifted me up off of Duo, and I was about a foot above the ground. I tried to pry its fingers from around my neck, but it wouldn't let go. I kicked behind me, and only got air. I kicked again, and found its stomach. It screamed in pain, but it still hadn't let go. I kicked a few more times. It dropped me, and I laid on the ground coughing and gasping for breath. I rolled on my back and the yoma was standing over me. It reached down to grab me and I kicked its arm away. I coughed a couple of more times and finally was able to get air into my lungs. I kicked it back with both my feet. I jumped up and punched it in the chest. My arm went strait through its chest, and green goo went down my glove.
"Ewww. you just ruined my favorite gloves!" I pulled out my arm out of the damn thing's chest. I kicked it away from me. "MARS." I started to power up for one of my ultimate attacks. "SUPREME." a ring of fire surrounded me and a grim reaper appeared, and I slowly lifted my arm towards the yoma, "HELL!" I pointed my finger at the yoma, and the grim reaper floated over to it and sliced it in half and then fire surrounded the halves and burned them to dust. "May you burn in the depths of Hell." I growled quietly my throat hurting where the yoma had grabbed. I turned and looked at Duo. He smiled at me.
"Er. Mars-san?" he asked quietly. "Have you seen my friend Rei?"
"Um. I think she's over there." I said pointing over to a pile of stuff. He glanced over there, and when he looked back I was gone. I untransformed and laid down where I pointed. A few seconds later Duo pushed away some of the ruin, I groaned and looked up at him.
"Rei!" he rushed over and helped me up.
"What the hell happened?" I asked as I got up.
"Oh nothing really-" he started.
"Nothing really? It looks like a mobile suit hit."
"You wouldn't believe me even if I told you."
I smiled, "You sure?"
"There was a monster thing that attacked. and it knocked me out." He started, "And then Sailor Mars appeared." I pretended to look surprised. "She destroyed the thing and then disappeared. It was so cool."
I smiled, and chuckled softly. "I bet it was a yoma."
He cocked an eyebrow, "A wha? Huh?"
"A yoma." I replied, "It's an evil creature thing that sucks energy from humans. it's suppose to be a myth." I shrugged. "I guess you saw what you saw." I saw a cut on Duo's forehead that I did not notice before. "Oh Duo! Your hurt!"
He touched his forehead. "Hmm I didn't even notice."
I touched him lightly on the forehead and whispered, "Mars crystal power." It healed instantly. I sighed. "We should get back to the doctors."
"Yeah," Duo agreed. He helped me up and I brushed off my skirt. I noticed I still had some green goo on my arm. I wiped it of quickly with a handkerchief. I sighed and walked over to my backpack I picked it up and sighed again. Duo and I walked towards the office. I put my hand in my pocket and started to play with my locket. I glanced at a clock in the hall. Second hour was almost over. I sighed.
We got to the office just as the bell rang. There was sudden chattering in the halls as students went to the lockers and to their next classes. Then there was a blood-curtailing scream. Duo and I looked at each other and rushed off to see what was wrong. I started to pull out my locket when the crowd started to push Duo and I apart. I split off into a bathroom and transformed. I rushed out to where to scream was and found there was another Scout there fighting a yoma and loosing. She had long blonde hair and had a red bow in it. The girl that had screamed was unconscious in the middle of the circle. The yoma looked exactly like the one I fought earlier. The Scout was hit into a poll and was knocked unconscious. I rushed out and threw a fireball at it to distract it.
It looked at me and growled. It powered up for an attack. It was one hit I could not dodge, because of the crowd of on-lookers. "MARS FLAMING MANDALA!" I screamed and threw the fire rings at the thing. While it was occupied with trying to put out the flames, I ran over to the scout and tried to revive her.
She groaned and looked up at me. "Finally. I found. you." She managed to get out.
"Shhh don't try to talk, at least not now. Lemme kill this thing first." I stood up, turned around, and saw the yoma sucking energy from the girl. I walked up behind it and kicked it in the ass. It stood up, turned around, and looked at me.
"Blanca." it drooled. I powered up for another one my ultimate attacks. "MARS." I raised my hands into the air, "FLAMING KATANA!" Dozens of flaming katanas rained down upon the yoma turning it into dust. The girl's energy was restored to her and she was other wise unhurt.
I turned and walked over to the other Scout. She was unconscious again. So I picked her up and used a spell I knew to disappear. I reappeared in the girls' bathroom and put the girl onto the ground gently. I took my locket from my uniform and opened it. I pointed it at the Scout and whispered, "Mars crystal power." The ruby glowed and the Scout was healed.
She groaned and sat up with her hand to her head. She looked at me. "Where are we?"
"In the girls bathroom." I replied.
"How did I get here and where is the yoma?"
"I brought you here and the yoma is dead."
"Who killed it?"
"I did." I sighed.
"How could you kill it? It was a high level yoma." She looked troubled.
"With my Flaming Katana attack. it's one of my highest level attacks."
She looked even more troubled. "But how can you be at such a high level? How long have you been fighting evil?"
"Er." I tried to remember all the battles I have been through. "About a month I guess."
"What?!" she practically screeched. "I've been fighting since 7th grade. By the way where is Artimis?"
"Who?"
"A little white cat that was with me."
"I dunno what you're talking about."
"Oh darn now I have to look for the sorry excuse for a cat. Can you show me where the yoma attacked?"
"Sure and by the way what did you mean earlier when you said 'I finally found you?'" I asked.
"I was looking for you on Earth for a while. Then I heard rumors that there was a Sailor Scout in the L2 colony region and I came to see it she was the one I was looking for. It turned out to be you."
"Oh."
She looked at the locket in my hand. Her eyes widened. "Is that the 'Mars Crystal?'" she asked.
"Hai." I replied.
"Can I touch it?" she looked at it in awe. I held it out to her and when she touched it, I had another vision.
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It started where the last one left off. In the middle of the kiss. then there was an explosion. It knocked Duo, Princess Mars, and I back. The young man I ran past ran up, glanced at the princess and me, and couldn't decide which one was the real Princess of Mars.
The princess stood up and said, "Lancelet, my brother, what's going on?"
"Sister we are under attack." He gestured towards me, still in Duo's arms, and said, "Who is she?"
Duo let me go and stood up. "She is your sister Lancelet." Duo explained. He helped me up.
I looked at the palace. "Oh no the palace!" It was in ruin.
"Mother!" Lancelet screamed, tears welled up in his dark eyes. He started to go to the palace when I stopped him.
"No. go fight the enemy with Duo. Your sister and I will go." I told him. The princess nodded in agreement. Duo and Lancelet ran to the battle while the princess and I ran to the palace.