Chapter 4
Marik's Fun House of Hell
The sun was coming up as Ami still hadn't figured out what the clue is telling them. She had just about given up when she looked outside and noticed some kids on a Merry-go round at the carnival. That was went it hit her. It was saying the next meeting place was at the Carnival. She quickly got her communicator out as she called up the other Sailor Senshi to tell them what she found.
About an hour later the Senshi were meeting at the Shrine where Ami told them were the next meeting place was to be at. "It was the Carnival and I can't believe I didn't notice it earlier. I guess I was working too hard" Ami said. "Well it three hours till noon and he said to be at the phone at noon. "Let's head over to the Carnival about thirty minutes before the deadline to look for anyone suspicious. Inuyasha and Kagome called and they said that they would meet us there" Haruka said. "Good idea" Minako said. Suddenly Rei's grandpa walked in and said "Oh Rei I found a replacement for Yuuichirou." "What Yuuichirou left" Usagi said. "Yeah he got a big offer to do a band, but it had to be done all the way in Canada. He offered for me to come, but I have too many responsibilities here if you know what I mean" Rei said.
"Well introducing the new guy Marik" Grandpa said as a young man who looked to be seventeen year old appeared next to grandpa. He was dressed in the usual Shinto clothing. He had short black hair and his eyes were dark brown as he was a handsome young man for his age. His Shinto clothing was normal except for the lower half instead of it being red or blue it was black instead. "Hello everyone" Marik said as he stood at the door.
"So you are the new guy Grandpa hired to help out around here right" Rei asked. "That's right" Marik replied. "Then it's nice to meet you" Rei said. "Well now that the introductions are done its time for you to get to work young man" Grandpa said as he showed Marik would he would his chores be. After he was gone Rei felt something odd from him. She couldn't figure out was it an evil aura, but a few seconds later it was gone. She thought it was nothing to worry about maybe her mind was playing tricks on her she thought.
Later that day at about eleven thirty all of the Sailor Senshi, Inuyasha and Kagome met at the entrance to the carnival. Once they were inside they started looking for the payphone their Naraku want-a-be would be calling from. "If I had my demon ability I might be able to sniff out where this guy could be hiding" Inuyasha said. "Well deal with it Inuyasha because we are going to find this guy the old fashion way by looking" Kagome said. "Let's spilt into two groups. One group will look for the payphone and the second group will look for anything weird or suspicious" Ami suggested. "Ok, but we should meet back at the payphone before twelve" Michiru said.
One group that was going to look for anything odd would be Inuyasha, Michiru, Rei, Mamoru and Makoto. While the second group to search for the payphone would be Usagi, Kagome, Ami, Minako, Haruka, Setsuna, and Hotaru. Inuyasha and Michiru found no signs of anyone who might be the guy behind this while Rei, Mamoru and Makoto found nothing as well. Noon was fast approaching as Usagi and the others still didn't find the payphone. With only four minutes to go till noon Usagi and her group found a payphone matching the description of the one they were told to be by.
"I think this is it" Ami said. "We better call the others to come over here now" Minako said as she called Rei on her communicator. About Three minutes and forty five seconds later everyone was gathered at the payphone. Fifteen seconds later it started ringing. Usagi picked it up and answered by saying "we're here." "Excellent Usagi I guess you did figure out that clue as easily as I thought you would, now I want you to solve this riddle in one minute, fail to give me the right answer will result in the destruction of a city. If you guess my riddle right then the box hidden behind this payphone will open and a paper with my number on it will be in there. My riddle is this. I run and run and I never stop no matter how tried I may be. When I am slow this causes others to be at ease and when I am fast I cause fear. Finally as I move things grow old and rot. What I am, call me in one minute or die" Marik said while his voice was still disguised as Naraku's as he hung up the phone.
"Ok did you hear the Riddle Ami" Usagi asked. "I run and run and I never stop no matter how tried I may be. When I am slow this causes others to be at ease and when I am fast I cause fear. Finally as I move things grow old and rot. A difficult riddle, but I think I can figure it out. Get the box for me will you Usagi" Ami said as Usagi recovered the box from behind the phone. "I got it. The answer is time" Ami said and the box opened. Inside was a piece of paper that had a number on it. Usagi was reaching into her pocket for some coins to call, but there was a problem. She had no change on her. "I don't have any quarters. Someone give me some quarters. I don't have any change" Usagi was saying with a worried look on her face. Everyone searched their pockets for change, but so far no one had any. Luckily Hotaru had quarters in her pocket. She pulled it out and Hotaru gave her quarters to Usagi. Usagi quickly dialed the number and Marik answer it.
"Hello" Marik replied while his voice was still sounding like Naraku's. "We got it the answer is time" Usagi said. "But Usagi you are ten seconds late" Marik said as Usagi and the others started to panic. They were pushing people to run away, but a small version of the city that wasn't too far from them on a table blew up. People were shocked as Usagi was looking at the remains of the table that had the little version of the city on it. Usagi walked back to the phone and she heard Marik laughing.
She picked it up and said "What's so funny?" "I didn't say Naraku says. Usagi look over at the little golf car driving by to your left" Marik said. Usagi and the others turned to see a man dressed in a Baboon cloak driving by in a small golf cart traveling across the walkway at a fast speed. It zoomed by them real quick as Inuyasha, Setsuna, Kagome, Rei, Haruka and Michiru were already going after it. "Follow me if you dare. Good bye" Marik said as he hung up. Usagi and everyone else started running after the man driving the golf cart. They chased after it until the craft stopped in front of the Fun house which was closed down since it was an unsafe ride. The baboon cloaked man jumped out of the vehicle and he ran into the Fun House. Everyone stood outside of the Fun house as they heard Naraku's voice calling out to them saying "come in and find me, but I wouldn't enter if you value your lives."
The Sailor Senshi transformed after they checked around for anyone who could have seen them. Once they were transformed Usagi turned to Inuyasha and said "Wait here with Kagome we'll take care of him." "Like hell you are" Inuyasha said. "Wait Inuyasha we could wait outside and we might be able to catch this guy if he tries to run out of there" Kagome said. "Well alright. Hey watch Usagi. Watch your back there is no telling what's in there" Inuyasha said. "No problem lets go" Usagi as the rest of the Sailor Senshi including Mamoru followed her into the Fun House. Once they were all inside a large metal door came down on the entrance and locked them in. They didn't do anything but continue down the corridor.
Meanwhile in the control room for the ride the man in the Baboon cloak was pushing some buttons and pushing down some switches as the ride was coming to life. The ride turned on so suddenly that Makoto used one of her thunder attacks on a small clown that started moving as its activation freaked her out. "Man Makoto get a grip" Rei said. "Sorry guys I guess I was a little too cautious" Makoto replied with a show of embarrassment on her face. They continued down the dark corridor as the man dressed like Naraku was watching them on a Television screen in the control room. He pushed a button on the control console as a pendulum came down from the ceiling and it was spinning left and right as it was moving towards the Sailor Senshi from behind. Then a moment later another one came down from the ceiling only thins one was in front of the Sailor Senshi a couple feet away.
"What the hell" Haruka said as they saw the pendulum starting to move left and right towards them and how a wall of fire was created from the floor and it was moving with the pendulum as the one behind them had a wall of fire accompanying the pendulum behind them. Minako turned around to walk back and that was when the Sailor Senshi noticed the second pendulum behind them. "What kind of Fun house is this it's supposed to be fun" Usagi was said as she was whining. "Shut up Usagi, Ami can you freeze them" Rei said. Ami used her Aqua illusion attack to freeze the pendulum and the flame wall in front of them. Once it was frozen Sailor Uranus broke thorough the wall using her space sword. They ran down the hallway until they reached a room full of mirrors.
They passed through the twisted hallway with mirrors all over the place. They passed some goofy mirrors as they continued down the path, but Mamoru stopped when he noticed something odd about one of the mirrors. This mirror was showing Mamoru the image of clown manikin with razor blades on his hands. Suddenly the arm smashed its way through the mirror and cut Mamoru arm. Mamoru got out of the way of its other hand as more of these demonic clown manikins were coming down from the ceiling to attack the other Sailor Senshi. Sailor Mars used her Burning Mandela attack on a manikin that attacked her reducing it to a pile of ash. Ami used her bubbles to confuse them as the other Sailor's were picking them off one by one. Neptune used her Deep Aqua Mirror to destroy one that was trying to stab her. Makoto used her Jupiter Thunder clash to waste a few more of them.
Haruka and Setsuna double teamed three clown manikins with a combined attack consisting of World shaking and Dead Scream. Hotaru was busy cutting manikins in half with her Silence Glaive while Mamoru was fighting off the manikin who attacked him with his cane. Minako was using her Venus Love chain attack which not only took out a manikin trying to sneak up on Usagi, but she even took out the one attacking Mamoru. All of the clown manikins were defeated. Suddenly behind them all of the mirrors were exploding one at a time sending broken glass into the air. The girls and Mamoru ran out of the room full of mirrors just in time to avoid getting nailed by the broken glass flying around as they closed a door behind them after they left the room. A few seconds later a bunch of small saw blade disks were flying out of the walls at them. All of them ran like hell through the hall while just barely evading the disks flying at them. They reached another room. They found a door and closed it. Sailor Moon and none of the Sailor Senshi were killed but a lot of them had suffered some light and deep cuts to their arms and their legs which meant that they were damn lucky to be alive.
They were in a larger room with some pictures of clowns and other funny stuff on the walls. Then a trapdoor opened in the ceiling as the man dressed like Naraku came down from the control room using the trapdoor in the ceiling. The man stood there as Haruka walked ahead of the others and started yelling at the creature saying "Ok pal who are you?" The figure said nothing. Haruka grew impatience as she ran at the baboon cloaked figure with her space sword to attack him. The creature retaliated when it drew a sword from its cloak as it raised it to block Sailor Uranus's attack.
The creature raised his hand ready to stab her with its claws, but Sailor Saturn got behind the creature and beheaded it with her Silence Glaive. The creature fell to the ground as Haruka stood over the fallen creature. "Wow that was easy" Hotaru said. "Well since he's dead I guess we can't get any information out of him then" Usagi said. "I think that was a little too easy" Setsuna said. As the Sailor Senshi backed away from the body Sailor Moon was preparing to use her specter to destroy the remains just in case it's still alive.
They were right to back away from it because as soon as they were away from it the body rose into the air and from underneath the cloak a dozen clawed hand tentacles attacked them. The all jumped out of the way of the grasping hands. Rei and Haruka attacked the monster with their strongest attack. The two attacks hit their mark and some of the tentacle arms fell off, but seconds later they reattached themselves to the creature. Ami already knew what kind of monster this thing was. She remembers Inuyasha telling them about them. This thing is a demon puppet.
"Everyone aim for the chest. This monster is not real it's only a puppet" Ami said. "So that's it huh" Rei said as Usagi and Rei used their attacks nailing the monster in the chest. The wooden doll at the center of it was destroyed completely as the thing crumbled to dust. Once it was gone there was nothing left, but a cell phone lying on the ground where the creature was. Usagi picked it up and it started ringing.
Usagi answered it and it was Marik using Naraku's voice again saying "Well done Usagi. You may have defeated a puppet, but I assure you the battle with the real me will be far more difficult." "Where are you? Show yourself whoever you are" Usagi yelled. "All in good time we will meet face to face soon enough at place and at a proper time. I will put our little game on hold for now, but you will hear from me again soon" Marik said as he hung up and the cell phone in Usagi's hand broke apart into pieces.
Meanwhile back at the Hikawa Jinja shrine a boy was sitting in the shadows watching the wooden doll in a pot burning as he put away a cell phone with a small device attached to the bottom of it. Marik sat there in the shadows as his eyes turned red. He had some facial features that were similar to Naraku especially the smile. His hair style was similar to Naraku except it was short and this boy had features from his mother too. He was thinking to himself "those scouts are a little more troublesome than I thought. No matter I shall deal with them soon enough and I shall my place here as a Shinto Priest for the Hikawa Jinja shrine to achieve great satisfaction."
Outside Marik heard Grandpa knocking and he said "you have done a good job Marik so you can go home early ok." "Thank you sir" Marik said as he watched the old man leave. Once he was gone Marik got up and he walked out and closed the door. At the moment the door was closed he was now wearing a baboon cloak himself as he vanished into thin air while thinking "as long as I can keep my demon power suppressed that woman Rei can't detect my powers."
Marik's Fun House of Hell
The sun was coming up as Ami still hadn't figured out what the clue is telling them. She had just about given up when she looked outside and noticed some kids on a Merry-go round at the carnival. That was went it hit her. It was saying the next meeting place was at the Carnival. She quickly got her communicator out as she called up the other Sailor Senshi to tell them what she found.
About an hour later the Senshi were meeting at the Shrine where Ami told them were the next meeting place was to be at. "It was the Carnival and I can't believe I didn't notice it earlier. I guess I was working too hard" Ami said. "Well it three hours till noon and he said to be at the phone at noon. "Let's head over to the Carnival about thirty minutes before the deadline to look for anyone suspicious. Inuyasha and Kagome called and they said that they would meet us there" Haruka said. "Good idea" Minako said. Suddenly Rei's grandpa walked in and said "Oh Rei I found a replacement for Yuuichirou." "What Yuuichirou left" Usagi said. "Yeah he got a big offer to do a band, but it had to be done all the way in Canada. He offered for me to come, but I have too many responsibilities here if you know what I mean" Rei said.
"Well introducing the new guy Marik" Grandpa said as a young man who looked to be seventeen year old appeared next to grandpa. He was dressed in the usual Shinto clothing. He had short black hair and his eyes were dark brown as he was a handsome young man for his age. His Shinto clothing was normal except for the lower half instead of it being red or blue it was black instead. "Hello everyone" Marik said as he stood at the door.
"So you are the new guy Grandpa hired to help out around here right" Rei asked. "That's right" Marik replied. "Then it's nice to meet you" Rei said. "Well now that the introductions are done its time for you to get to work young man" Grandpa said as he showed Marik would he would his chores be. After he was gone Rei felt something odd from him. She couldn't figure out was it an evil aura, but a few seconds later it was gone. She thought it was nothing to worry about maybe her mind was playing tricks on her she thought.
Later that day at about eleven thirty all of the Sailor Senshi, Inuyasha and Kagome met at the entrance to the carnival. Once they were inside they started looking for the payphone their Naraku want-a-be would be calling from. "If I had my demon ability I might be able to sniff out where this guy could be hiding" Inuyasha said. "Well deal with it Inuyasha because we are going to find this guy the old fashion way by looking" Kagome said. "Let's spilt into two groups. One group will look for the payphone and the second group will look for anything weird or suspicious" Ami suggested. "Ok, but we should meet back at the payphone before twelve" Michiru said.
One group that was going to look for anything odd would be Inuyasha, Michiru, Rei, Mamoru and Makoto. While the second group to search for the payphone would be Usagi, Kagome, Ami, Minako, Haruka, Setsuna, and Hotaru. Inuyasha and Michiru found no signs of anyone who might be the guy behind this while Rei, Mamoru and Makoto found nothing as well. Noon was fast approaching as Usagi and the others still didn't find the payphone. With only four minutes to go till noon Usagi and her group found a payphone matching the description of the one they were told to be by.
"I think this is it" Ami said. "We better call the others to come over here now" Minako said as she called Rei on her communicator. About Three minutes and forty five seconds later everyone was gathered at the payphone. Fifteen seconds later it started ringing. Usagi picked it up and answered by saying "we're here." "Excellent Usagi I guess you did figure out that clue as easily as I thought you would, now I want you to solve this riddle in one minute, fail to give me the right answer will result in the destruction of a city. If you guess my riddle right then the box hidden behind this payphone will open and a paper with my number on it will be in there. My riddle is this. I run and run and I never stop no matter how tried I may be. When I am slow this causes others to be at ease and when I am fast I cause fear. Finally as I move things grow old and rot. What I am, call me in one minute or die" Marik said while his voice was still disguised as Naraku's as he hung up the phone.
"Ok did you hear the Riddle Ami" Usagi asked. "I run and run and I never stop no matter how tried I may be. When I am slow this causes others to be at ease and when I am fast I cause fear. Finally as I move things grow old and rot. A difficult riddle, but I think I can figure it out. Get the box for me will you Usagi" Ami said as Usagi recovered the box from behind the phone. "I got it. The answer is time" Ami said and the box opened. Inside was a piece of paper that had a number on it. Usagi was reaching into her pocket for some coins to call, but there was a problem. She had no change on her. "I don't have any quarters. Someone give me some quarters. I don't have any change" Usagi was saying with a worried look on her face. Everyone searched their pockets for change, but so far no one had any. Luckily Hotaru had quarters in her pocket. She pulled it out and Hotaru gave her quarters to Usagi. Usagi quickly dialed the number and Marik answer it.
"Hello" Marik replied while his voice was still sounding like Naraku's. "We got it the answer is time" Usagi said. "But Usagi you are ten seconds late" Marik said as Usagi and the others started to panic. They were pushing people to run away, but a small version of the city that wasn't too far from them on a table blew up. People were shocked as Usagi was looking at the remains of the table that had the little version of the city on it. Usagi walked back to the phone and she heard Marik laughing.
She picked it up and said "What's so funny?" "I didn't say Naraku says. Usagi look over at the little golf car driving by to your left" Marik said. Usagi and the others turned to see a man dressed in a Baboon cloak driving by in a small golf cart traveling across the walkway at a fast speed. It zoomed by them real quick as Inuyasha, Setsuna, Kagome, Rei, Haruka and Michiru were already going after it. "Follow me if you dare. Good bye" Marik said as he hung up. Usagi and everyone else started running after the man driving the golf cart. They chased after it until the craft stopped in front of the Fun house which was closed down since it was an unsafe ride. The baboon cloaked man jumped out of the vehicle and he ran into the Fun House. Everyone stood outside of the Fun house as they heard Naraku's voice calling out to them saying "come in and find me, but I wouldn't enter if you value your lives."
The Sailor Senshi transformed after they checked around for anyone who could have seen them. Once they were transformed Usagi turned to Inuyasha and said "Wait here with Kagome we'll take care of him." "Like hell you are" Inuyasha said. "Wait Inuyasha we could wait outside and we might be able to catch this guy if he tries to run out of there" Kagome said. "Well alright. Hey watch Usagi. Watch your back there is no telling what's in there" Inuyasha said. "No problem lets go" Usagi as the rest of the Sailor Senshi including Mamoru followed her into the Fun House. Once they were all inside a large metal door came down on the entrance and locked them in. They didn't do anything but continue down the corridor.
Meanwhile in the control room for the ride the man in the Baboon cloak was pushing some buttons and pushing down some switches as the ride was coming to life. The ride turned on so suddenly that Makoto used one of her thunder attacks on a small clown that started moving as its activation freaked her out. "Man Makoto get a grip" Rei said. "Sorry guys I guess I was a little too cautious" Makoto replied with a show of embarrassment on her face. They continued down the dark corridor as the man dressed like Naraku was watching them on a Television screen in the control room. He pushed a button on the control console as a pendulum came down from the ceiling and it was spinning left and right as it was moving towards the Sailor Senshi from behind. Then a moment later another one came down from the ceiling only thins one was in front of the Sailor Senshi a couple feet away.
"What the hell" Haruka said as they saw the pendulum starting to move left and right towards them and how a wall of fire was created from the floor and it was moving with the pendulum as the one behind them had a wall of fire accompanying the pendulum behind them. Minako turned around to walk back and that was when the Sailor Senshi noticed the second pendulum behind them. "What kind of Fun house is this it's supposed to be fun" Usagi was said as she was whining. "Shut up Usagi, Ami can you freeze them" Rei said. Ami used her Aqua illusion attack to freeze the pendulum and the flame wall in front of them. Once it was frozen Sailor Uranus broke thorough the wall using her space sword. They ran down the hallway until they reached a room full of mirrors.
They passed through the twisted hallway with mirrors all over the place. They passed some goofy mirrors as they continued down the path, but Mamoru stopped when he noticed something odd about one of the mirrors. This mirror was showing Mamoru the image of clown manikin with razor blades on his hands. Suddenly the arm smashed its way through the mirror and cut Mamoru arm. Mamoru got out of the way of its other hand as more of these demonic clown manikins were coming down from the ceiling to attack the other Sailor Senshi. Sailor Mars used her Burning Mandela attack on a manikin that attacked her reducing it to a pile of ash. Ami used her bubbles to confuse them as the other Sailor's were picking them off one by one. Neptune used her Deep Aqua Mirror to destroy one that was trying to stab her. Makoto used her Jupiter Thunder clash to waste a few more of them.
Haruka and Setsuna double teamed three clown manikins with a combined attack consisting of World shaking and Dead Scream. Hotaru was busy cutting manikins in half with her Silence Glaive while Mamoru was fighting off the manikin who attacked him with his cane. Minako was using her Venus Love chain attack which not only took out a manikin trying to sneak up on Usagi, but she even took out the one attacking Mamoru. All of the clown manikins were defeated. Suddenly behind them all of the mirrors were exploding one at a time sending broken glass into the air. The girls and Mamoru ran out of the room full of mirrors just in time to avoid getting nailed by the broken glass flying around as they closed a door behind them after they left the room. A few seconds later a bunch of small saw blade disks were flying out of the walls at them. All of them ran like hell through the hall while just barely evading the disks flying at them. They reached another room. They found a door and closed it. Sailor Moon and none of the Sailor Senshi were killed but a lot of them had suffered some light and deep cuts to their arms and their legs which meant that they were damn lucky to be alive.
They were in a larger room with some pictures of clowns and other funny stuff on the walls. Then a trapdoor opened in the ceiling as the man dressed like Naraku came down from the control room using the trapdoor in the ceiling. The man stood there as Haruka walked ahead of the others and started yelling at the creature saying "Ok pal who are you?" The figure said nothing. Haruka grew impatience as she ran at the baboon cloaked figure with her space sword to attack him. The creature retaliated when it drew a sword from its cloak as it raised it to block Sailor Uranus's attack.
The creature raised his hand ready to stab her with its claws, but Sailor Saturn got behind the creature and beheaded it with her Silence Glaive. The creature fell to the ground as Haruka stood over the fallen creature. "Wow that was easy" Hotaru said. "Well since he's dead I guess we can't get any information out of him then" Usagi said. "I think that was a little too easy" Setsuna said. As the Sailor Senshi backed away from the body Sailor Moon was preparing to use her specter to destroy the remains just in case it's still alive.
They were right to back away from it because as soon as they were away from it the body rose into the air and from underneath the cloak a dozen clawed hand tentacles attacked them. The all jumped out of the way of the grasping hands. Rei and Haruka attacked the monster with their strongest attack. The two attacks hit their mark and some of the tentacle arms fell off, but seconds later they reattached themselves to the creature. Ami already knew what kind of monster this thing was. She remembers Inuyasha telling them about them. This thing is a demon puppet.
"Everyone aim for the chest. This monster is not real it's only a puppet" Ami said. "So that's it huh" Rei said as Usagi and Rei used their attacks nailing the monster in the chest. The wooden doll at the center of it was destroyed completely as the thing crumbled to dust. Once it was gone there was nothing left, but a cell phone lying on the ground where the creature was. Usagi picked it up and it started ringing.
Usagi answered it and it was Marik using Naraku's voice again saying "Well done Usagi. You may have defeated a puppet, but I assure you the battle with the real me will be far more difficult." "Where are you? Show yourself whoever you are" Usagi yelled. "All in good time we will meet face to face soon enough at place and at a proper time. I will put our little game on hold for now, but you will hear from me again soon" Marik said as he hung up and the cell phone in Usagi's hand broke apart into pieces.
Meanwhile back at the Hikawa Jinja shrine a boy was sitting in the shadows watching the wooden doll in a pot burning as he put away a cell phone with a small device attached to the bottom of it. Marik sat there in the shadows as his eyes turned red. He had some facial features that were similar to Naraku especially the smile. His hair style was similar to Naraku except it was short and this boy had features from his mother too. He was thinking to himself "those scouts are a little more troublesome than I thought. No matter I shall deal with them soon enough and I shall my place here as a Shinto Priest for the Hikawa Jinja shrine to achieve great satisfaction."
Outside Marik heard Grandpa knocking and he said "you have done a good job Marik so you can go home early ok." "Thank you sir" Marik said as he watched the old man leave. Once he was gone Marik got up and he walked out and closed the door. At the moment the door was closed he was now wearing a baboon cloak himself as he vanished into thin air while thinking "as long as I can keep my demon power suppressed that woman Rei can't detect my powers."
