Chapter 11
Fight to the basement
Sempu was trying to regain his control over the battle he had on the scouts unit Haruka threw him off his feet with her world shaking attack, but Sempu floated high into the air as he started throwing bolts of lighting at the scouts. One of the lighting blots hit the puddle of water left by Michiru's Deep Submerge attack.
The water conducted with the electricity from the lighting bolt and it electrocuted the scouts and Sesshomaru was caught in the current. While the gang was getting electrocuted Sempu was getting ready to counter attack with his Brail on one of the scouts. He was floating down low to hit the scouts with his weapon.
"Die scouts!" Sempu shouted as he flew down to attack one of the scouts near by. Haruka was he closest to Sempu, so the wind master was ready to strike her with his weapon.
"Mercury Aqua Illusion!" Ami yelled as she hit Sempu with her Aqua illusion attack. The wind demon dropped to the ground after Ami froze his legs. Sempu was working to free himself before the scouts could attack.
"Mars Fire Surround!" Rei yelled as she was soon joined by Usagi who used her moon scepter on Sempu. Sempu was hit in the arm by Mars's fire attack, but Sempu was able to evade Sailor Moon's scepter.
"You're going to have to do better than that!" Sempu yelled as he created a bunch of Tornados to attack the scouts. Rei, Ami and Minako were barely able to evade the Tornados, but Usagi and Mamoru were caught and they were thrown into a near by wall. Minako was about to try to attack Sempu with her Venus love chain attack, but she was hit by one of the tornados.
"Take this! Silence Glaive Surprise!" Hotaru shouted as she blasted Sempu with her attack. Sesshomaru appeared out of nowhere and he wiped out Toukijin. With one swift cut he took out Sempu's right arm. The demon screamed as he retaliated with a bolt of lighting that was fired from his other hand at the demon lord. Sesshomaru evaded the attack with excellent gracefully agility.
"You forgot about me! Shine Aqua illusion!" Ami said as she hit Sempu in the back with her icy attack.
"Damn you Sailor Soldiers!" Sempu yelled as he held his wounded arm. "You may have thought I was tough now...just wait until I transform!" Sempu screamed as his body began to spasm and shift. In only a mere matter of seconds Sempu transformed his body from being human into a human looking scorpion centaur like demon. The lower half of his body was that of a scorpion with a pair of pinchers. The upper half of Sempu's body remained mostly human expect that he had a larger pair of pinchers that were attached to the sides of his lower rip cage area. "Shall we try this again?" Sempu said as his scorpion tail lunged forward trying to hit Sailor Venus.
"Whoa!" Sailor Venus shouted as she just avoided getting hit by Sempu's stinger.
"That form won't help you!" Sailor Moon informed the demon as she used her Moon Spiral Heart Attack to blow Sempu's stinger to bits.
"She's right Sempu. The bigger you are the easier it is to take you down!" Haruka shouted as she used her space sword to cut one of the beams high above the demon. Sending a large beam followed by some parts of the roof falling towards the demon scorpion.
"Oh shit!" Sempu said as the debris crushed most of his demonic body. The demon was still alive as it was struggling to free itself from under the debris.
"Die demon!" Sesshomaru shouted as he was about to split Sempu's head in two with Toukijin.
"Like I'll let you kill me!" Sempu spat at Sesshomaru. Then he quickly raised one of his claws to seize Sesshomaru's sword. He stopped the incoming death blow. "Come to me!" Sempu commanded as a swarm of poisonous wasps appeared from out of nowhere and they began attaching themselves to Sempu's damaged body. They were merging with the demon so he could recover quickly.
The demon was rising again, but Sailor Moon and the others were about to allow Sempu to heal. Sailor Moon pulled out the Tetsusaiga and with one swing she unleashed the power of the wind scar against the demon. Sempu could only scream in terror as the power of Tetsusaiga completely annihilated him. When the smoke from the resulting blast cleared there was nothing left of Sempu. Of course most of the area behind Sempu was destroyed. One demon servant was dead, only two to go.
"Sempu went down fighting didn't he?" Tuxedo mask commented.
"Yeah. Now we need to find Setsuna and Marik." Usagi said as the others nodded in agreement.
"Look! Sailor Moon the attack from Tetsusaiga revealed a hidden passageway over there!" Sailor Mars said while she pointed to the exposed passageway.
"Let's go" Sesshomaru suggested as he lead the charge into the passageway.
The other Sailor Soldiers followed the demon lord of the western lands into the dark and winding passageway that lead deep underground. When they arrived at the end of the passageway they entered a huge underground chamber filled with many open pits. The chamber was big enough to house a small army of demons. There was a bridge which leads all the way across to another door at the end. But the Sailor Senshi saw someone standing at the end.
It was Marik.
"Greetings Sailor Soldiers. Welcome to my humble home. Please make yourselves at home." Marik said with a nasty smile on his face.
"Stop playing innocent Marik! Where is Setsuna?" Sailor Moon shouted.
"Don't worry about her. She is safe, but I can't say the same for you." Marik said as he pulled a lever that was next to him. The sound of machinery was heard as a demon was seen emerging from each pit. It turns out that each demon was being carried up on an elevator that each demon was standing on.
There were many different kinds of demons before the Sailor Senshi. There were demons with multiple heads, large claws, more than two arms, some were even spider-like, but some of the most common features of all of the demons were that they were all big and ugly. There were now thirteen demons in the room with the Sailor Senshi.
"Oh this just gets better and better." Makoto mocked the situation that was placed before her and friends.
"These are my pets. Or rather my science experiments. I used recombinant regeneration sorcery to make these demons. I had other plans for them, but since you are here. I figure why not send them against the Sailor Senshi to find out which one is better. I will be waiting in the room behind me. If you make we will talk some more. Of course that is IF you make it. Play nice my pets, go have fun." Marik said as he turned around and he entered the room behind him.
"Ok I will take big tall and ugly over there." Minako said.
"Which one...they are all big, tall and ugly. Could be a little more specific?" Rei demanded.
"I'll take the three headed one then." Minako answered.
"Shut up and just kill the nearest one." Sesshomaru shouted as he ran forward with his hand glowing pale green. He couldn't stand those two arguing at a time like this. Sesshomaru grabbed the neck of the nearest demon. The demon he grabbed was a large deformed one that looked like a horrible mix of a loin, and centipede.
The demon had the head of a loin, but soon the demon was missing a throat. Sesshomaru used his poison talons to melt away part of the demon's neck then he ripped out what was left. Sesshomaru made quick work of it by finishing it off with his energy whip.
"Purifying arrow!" Sailor Moon shouted as she created a bow made out of energy and she reduced the second nearest demon to a pin cushion by using a lot of purifying arrows.
Tuxedo Mask used his Extendable cane to hit a one eye demon in his eye. While he was blinded Sailor Mars burned the demon using her fire attacks. Makoto electrocuted a demon that had three heads and two tails with another head attached to its stomach. The demons were a little easier than they thought.
While the battle between the Senshi and the demon was still going on Marik was with his father inside the chamber up ahead. He stood next to the crystal his father's essence was contained in while Naraku looked at his son and asked "So my child where is Setsuna now?"
"She is on board the ship, but that not where I am moving our base to." Marik informed his father.
"Where will our new base be?" Naraku asked his son.
"You'll see. It's a surprise, but here's a hint. I will be where it all began." Marik answered.
"I see. What about the Sailor Senshi?" Naraku asked with a hint of curiosity in his voice.
"If they make it pass my demons then they will come in here. That is when you and I will escape and I will level this site from orbit. I won't leave a signal stone standing when I am through with it. In fact everything within a mile of this spot will be wiped out." Marik said as he and his father Naraku started laughing.
