Chapter 25
The storm of battle
Princess Kakyuu and the Sailor Starlights were walking along a dirt road together. They were almost to the castle when suddenly two figures appeared in the middle of the road after a bolt of lighting stuck it. It was Samui and Satsumjin. Samui was looking at the Starlights with an evil smile as he created a lance made out of ice in his hand.
"I told you I would be back. Now say hello to my brother Satsumjin the master of storms." Samui said as he introduced his brother.
"Charmed I am sure." Satsumjin said with a confident smile as he adjusted his glasses.
"This time we will win. My brother is more powerful than I am. You are all so screwed." Samui bragged.
"Ha you sing an old tune. We'll beat you and your brother." Seiya said as the Starlight stood ready to face Samui and his brother.
"Princess. Please get behind us." Yaten warned.
"No." Kakyuu said as she transformed into Sailor Kakyuu. "I will stand and fight. Fire is best against Ice. I will face Samui. Can you three handle Satsumjin?" Kakyuu asked her friends.
"Don't worry about us. We will have this guy beat one, two, and three." Taiki said as he stood ready to challenge the master of storms.
"Then shall we being our battle gentlemen?" Satsumjin said as his body began surging with electricity.
"Bring it on demon!" Seiya shouted as the three Starlights ran forward to attack Satsumjin. Seiya raised his arm up and shouted "star serious laser!" Seiya fired his attack at the demon, but Satsumjin called down seven lighting blots from the sky to cancel out the Starlight's attack.
"Care to try again?" Satsumjin mocked.
"Bring it on." Taiki shouted as he raised his arm up and shouted "star gentle uterus!" Taiki's attack shot forth and was well on its way of striking Satsumjin, but the demon of storms called down a fireball from the sky and sent it on a collision course with Taiki's attack. When both attacks collided a large explosion was created as a result of the collision. No one was harmed by the blast.
At the same time Princess Kakyuu transform into Sailor Kakyuu and began her assault against Samui by using her Kinmoku Fusion Tempest attack. Samui jumped into the air to avoid the fireball princess's assault but the heat from her attack melted the ice made weapon the demon held.
"Oh shit." Samui thought as he looked at his wet hands that had once held a weapon.
"If you surrender Samui...I can grantee you a fair trial for your crimes?" the princess offered.
"I would rather burn in hell than surrender to a Princess." Samui spat back.
"That can be arranged." Kakyuu shouted as she prepared to throw another of her attacks at Samui while the ice master was preparing to counter with another of his ice tricks.
"Time to call in some back up!" Samui roared as he used his power to summon five ice golems while at the same time he created an ice scimitar in his hand.
"You should know better than anyone Samui. Ice can't beat water." Kakyuu informed the ice demon.
"I know." Samui said as his ice Golems grew larger in size. They became so large that their shadows were looming over the fireball Princess. They stood about twelve feet tall.
"Kinmoku Fusion Tempest!" the princess shouted as the flames of her attack ripped thorough the ice golems melting them down in seconds, but Kakyuu had made a serious error when she melted the golems. The water created from the melting of the golems fell on her like a tidal wave.
"You used your ice golems like a wall, so when I melted them the water could be used against me as a counter attack. Not bad Saumi, but its going ton take a lot more than water to defeat us." Kakyuu said as she attacked Samui with another Kinmoku Fusion Tempest that struck the evil demon and he was incinerated within the flames.
Meanwhile at the same time Seiya attack with his Star Serious laser attack against the demon of storms. The battle wasn't going so well for the Starlights because Satsumjin was using lighting bolts and powerful gusts of wind to shield himself from their attacks. So far the battle was caught in the middle of a stalemate.
However the demon noticed something about the ground around the Starlights and the princess that no one else had noticed. The ground around them was wet thanks to water left over from when Kakyuu had melted the ice golems. The demon raised his hand up and within his palm a large bolt of lighting was forming.
"I hope you don't find this too shocking!" Satsumjin said as he threw his lighting bolt down at the four Sailor Soldiers.
"Everyone get off the ground." The Fireball princess shouted as she leaped up onto a dry stone bolder to get off the wet ground, but her warning came too late because Seiya and the others were caught by the electrical discharge that was a result from water conducting with the lighting bolt Satsumjin threw. "Your star seeds are mine!" the demon yelled as he shot each stunned Starlight with a beam of golden energy taking their star seeds in the process.
"Seiya, Yaten, Taiki!" Kakyuu cried out as tears fell down from eyes.
"Wait a minute. I only have two out of three." Satsumjin said as he noticed that he only had two star seeds from the three Sailor Starlights. Suddenly someone shouting star serious laser was heard as the demon was hit in the chest by Seiya's attack. Kakyuu was revealed that Seiya was alright. He was a bit fried from getting a electrocuted but he was still able to fight. Satsumjin had missed one.
"I'll settle for two for now, but I'll be back to claim your star seeds." Satsumjin said as he disappeared.
"Are you alright Princess?" Seiya asked.
"Don't worry about me. Are you alright?" Kakyuu asked with a small smile.
"I will be once we get Taiki and Yaten's star seeds back." Seiya said while his eyes were burning with determination.
"Let's go then." Kakyuu said as she and Seiya ran towards the castle while keeping a look out for Satsumjin.
Somewhere among the ruins of the old city of the moon kingdom was Sailor Moon and Sailor Chibi Moon. They were walking pass the remains of some old homes when they heard the sound of evil laughter. "Who's there?" Usagi shouted.
"Princess Serenity I presume." Queen Neherenia said as she appeared before Sailor Moon and Sailor Chibi Moon from the shadows of one of the homes.
"Who...who are you?" Usagi asked the evil queen.
"I am called Queen Neherenia. I knew your mother Queen Serenity...too bad she died. It saved me the trouble of having to kill her myself. But I find it very satisfying to know that she suffered in the end especially after she imprisoned me." Neherenia answered.
"What do you want?" Usagi asked as she moved in front of Chibi-usa.
"I want that child's and your youth so that I may live eternally. Once I have your youth I shall claim your crystal. Then I will look for a way to destroy Naraku then I will claim his power for myself." Queen Neherenia answered. The evil queen raised her hands and she sent bolts of dark energy at the two Sailor Soldiers which marked the beginning to yet another battle.
Setsuna raised her staff and she hit the nearest super solider in head causing the solider to a pile of equipment. Hotaru impaled a solider through the chest with her Silence Glaive. She pulled the blade of her weapon out of the monster's chest and quickly spun the weapon over head so quickly that she beheaded two soldiers. Blood sprayed out of the necks of the soldiers as their bodies fell to the ground.
Marik watched as the last of his soldiers were slaughtered. Once they were all dead Setsuna and Hotaru turned their attention towards Marik. "Well done you two. Now Mother I will ask you and my half-sister one more time to surrender." Marik said as he drew his sword.
"I am sorry Marik, but we cannot do that." Setsuna said as she raised her staff and with tears falling from her eyes she unleashed a dead scream attack against her own child.
Hotaru followed up with a attack of her own which was Silent Glaive Surprise. Both attacks were sent flying towards Marik, but the demon child raised his sword up and deflected Setsuna's attack and at the same time he had sent it to collide into Hotaru's attack canceling the two attacks out. Marik jumped up into the air and he unleashed a barrage of small energy bombs against the two from the palm of his left hand.
"Mother you are going to have to do better than that to beat me." Marik said as some tears from seen pouring down from his face.
"I don't want to destroy you, but I must fight you in order to defeat Naraku." Setsuna said as she and Hotaru continued fighting Marik.
Meanwhile inside the throne room Naraku was watching the battle through the large crystal that sat in front of him. He was noticing that Marik was holding back against Setsuna. Naraku had already received the Star Seeds from his minions who had defeated some of his foes. Naraku rose from his throne and thought "It is time for some parental intervention."
Elsewhere Artemis, and Luna were locked in battle against Sailor Iron Mouse. The two transformed cats were fighting the half mouse and half human woman with all they could muster. Sailor Iron Mouse was putting up a good fight, but Luna and Artemis had woman outnumbered two to one. While Sailor Iron Mouse was fighting Luna while trying to use her Galactic crunch against her Artemis began pushing against a stone pillar near the mouse-woman. A moment later he sent the pillar falling and hitting Sailor Iron Mouse on the head.
Sailor Iron Mouse was hurt, but she was not out yet. "Damn you two! You two can't beat me as humans no matter what!" the small woman screamed.
"Maybe you're right. Artemis lets change into giant cats. Let's make this battle really interesting." Luna suggested.
Suddenly Iron Mouse's face lit up with fear as she screamed "G-Giant cats. To hell with this I am out of here!" Sailor Iron Mouse ran away screaming and crying like a scared child.
"Well...I guess she believed out bluff." Artemis said with a smile as he, Luna and Diana continued on their way to Naraku's castle.
Meanwhile at the same time elsewhere in the old ruins Shippo, Jaken, Rin and Kilala were walking by some fallen stone pillars when a quick moving black moving object jumped out of the shadows and dashed by them. A second later the thing that ran pass them stopped right in front of them blocking their path.
"Well this is quiet a surprise. A group of small children. I thought the Sailor Senshi and Inuyasha were more responsible than this?" Sailor Tin Nyanko mocked as she looked at the group with a dark smile.
"W-W-Who are you?" Shippo asked while the young fox demon was a little scarred by their cat-like foe.
"How nice of you to ask. I am Sailor Tin Nyanko. Naraku has instructed each of my friends to search out and collect the star seeds of everyone here. That means you four." Sailor Tin Nyanko said as she pointed at the small group noting who her prey was.
"Oh-no. This is one of those times when I wish Inuyasha or Sesshomaru were here." Shippo said as he slowly backed away from their foe.
"Don't worry kids this wont hurt a bit!" Sailor Tin Nyanko said as she raised her gold bracelets up and was ready to claim their star seeds.
"Don't even think about it!" Shippo said as he jumped up and unleashed a fox fire attack against the cat-like woman. Sailor Tin Nyanko was caught by the flames and was stunned. Jaken decided to step in and use his staff to turn up the heat.
"Take this you wrench!" Jaken shouted as he unleashed a strong burst of flames from his staff.
"Stop that! That hurts!" Sailor Tin Nyanko screamed, but suddenly the flames went out. Shippo and Jaken's flames were put out because Tin Nyanko used a odd rifle that looked like come kind of water gun. "Good thing Marik gave me this gun that can put out any kind of fire guaranteed." Sailor Tin Nyanko bragged.
"Really...can you gun stop this!" Shippo said as he threw down from small seed like objects and he transformed into a giant dog that resembled Sesshomaru's demon form.
"A giant demon dog!" Sailor Tin Nyanko screamed as her cat like instincts kicked in as she turned around and ran away thinking a giant demon bog had appeared to kill her. Once she was gone Shippo changed back to normal.
"That was a good trick." Rin complemented with a smile.
"Why didn't you just send Kilala to attack that woman?" Jaken asked.
"I wanted Kilala to save her strength. Who knows who will run into next." Shippo replied as the group continued on their way to the castle.
Inside the planetarium Goshinki and Rei were still fighting one another while Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon was fighting against Sailor Venus. While scanning Rei's mind Goshinki discovered something that he just felt that he should share with everyone. "Hey Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon...want to know what kind of feelings Rei has for Minako?" Goshinki asked with a fang-filled smile.
"I am always interested in a little gossip. Please tell." Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon asked.
"Well it seems that that Rei has very deep feelings for Minako. I don't mean friendship deep...they are much deeper." Goshinki replied.
"What?" Minako said as she was distracted by what Goshinki was saying.
"You mean she is..." Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon was saying as she was thinking about what Goshinki was trying to say.
"Correct." Goshinki replied as he sensed the butterfly woman's answer.
"Holy shit...I didn't see that one coming! Gross!" Heavy Metal Papillon said while she was disguised by what she and Goshinki were discussing. Suddenly Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon began sneezing.
"We...don't...have those kind of feelings for one another?" Rei shouted at the large monster, but while Minako was distracted Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon attacked Mianko from behind by shooting her in the back with her gold bracelets taking her star seed. "Minako!" Sailor Mars screamed as she ran to Sailor Venus hoping he could help her, but it was too late.
"Bringing up someone's feelings about another person during battle always works as a good way to distract one of your foes. Regardless whenever it is true or not." Goshinki said as he began laughing.
"You son of a bitch. I am going to kill you and your friend." Sailor Mars shouted as she was completely enraged by what happened to Sailor Venus.
"If you want to save your friend's star seed why don't we finish our little psychic showdown. If you win I will return your friend's star seed. If you lose I will take yours...agreed?" Goshinki asked as his eyes glowed red.
"Bring it Goshinki!" Rei shouted as she looked Goshinki in the eye and their final showdown began.
A/N: Well things are getting interesting. I would like to thank Mr. spiegel1979 for his help with advancing the story.
