Chapter 16: The Final Sailor Senshi
A pink-haired teenage boy stood under the falling cherry blossoms, his dark blue eyes scanning the park. They lit up when another boy, this one with lavender hair, waddled up to him, but then the first boy looked a little disappointed to see that Hotaru Tomoe was with him.
"Hi, Ahmed! Hotaru brought your new Senshi bracelet!" the second boy called. Ahmed sighed; he wished that he could've just come for the sake of a certain beloved penpal instead of fighting these strange Magic Knight girls. How was he ever going to acheive his dream of being fat if he was forced to exercise through battle?
"Look out!" shouted an androgynous voice and Kou Seiya, one of the Sailor Starlights, ran past, pursued by a gigantic pink bunny rabbit. Hotaru tossed a shiny silver thing to Ahmed and then shoved Seiya out of the path of the rabbit, which looked it like was trying to hug her.
"I think you're supposed to call out a weird phrase or something, like this. Cookie Prism Power, Make Up!" called Pierre, magically donning his short-skirted, rainbow-colored Senshi outfit.
"I love you! Give me a big hug! Give everyone hugs!" squealed the rabbit, speaking in a voice that sounded eeriely like Usagi's.
"Something's wrong with Odango!" shouted Seiya frantically.
"Vanilla Power, Make Up!" Ahmed suddenly yelled, putting on the silver bracelet. Thus, he turned into Sailor Vanilla, and the team of Dessert Senshi was complete. Far away at the hospital where she worked, Ami Mizuno was startled to see a blue light appear in front of her. As she touched it, it solidified into a long blue staff with two dark blue snakes entwined around the top.
"The Staff of Wisdom the Magic Knights mentioned..." she murmured quietly, deciding that after work she would take this to the Queen. Back at the park, the Silence Glaive had also appeared in Sailor Vanilla's hands, ready for him to use to help Sailor Cookie fight the monster.
"I don't think that's the Queen, Seiya. I think it's one of the Magic Knights' monsters. Paper Cut Slash!" called Sailor Cookie. The rabbit yelped as the sharp sheets of paper gave it big red cuts.
"I just want to hug you! Heart Loving Kiss!" it squeaked, throwing a giant heart of pink energy at Sailor Cookie. It knocked him backwards so that he crashed on Hotaru.
"Mystery Cloud!" Sailor Vanilla called, holding up the Glaive. A deep purple fog swirled out of it, obscuring much of the surrounding battlefield. He could hear the rabbit monster shrieking and trying to grab Sailor Cookie, whose paper sheets weren't hitting his target.
"Vines Entanglement!"
"Dead Scream!" Two new voices could be heard, as well as two new attacks that cleared the fog. Sailor Vanilla saw a very small male Senshi and a tall female Senshi were there now, the latter even had the rabbit trapped in her ivy vines. It was struggling, but only weakly. Sailor Vanilla saw his chance, and it was an easy one. It didn't take much for him to behead the rabbit with his Silence Glaive, reducing it to a rapidly disappearing pile of colorful dust.
"Why don't you just use the Glaive and not that stupid fog attack?" offered Sailor Cookie bluntly.
"Fog powers aren't stupid. Sailor Mercury has used her Shabon Spray power to good effect, and I remember that Sailor Popsicle did the same; she once used it to make a monster explode from the inside," Hotaru said softly, trying to defend her friend Ami.
"I agree with Miss Tomoe. I don't think you should say anything that could start a fight with a Middle-Eastern person, especially one with a giant scythe in his hand," added Basil.
"That's stupid. HE'S the one who sent the love letter to me; why would he try to kill me?!" Pierre pointed out in exasperation. Ahmed blushed slightly, not only because of what was said about love letters, but about Basil's assumption that he might be violent.
"If he's in love with you, then why were you scolding him about being a Sailor Senshi?" asked Bridget quietly.
"But he was right; the Silence Glaive works better than creating fog, though I also could have tried to do the thing that Hotaru suggested," Ahmed said. An uncomfortable silence descended on the group, mercifully interrupted by the beeping of Hotaru's cell phone.
"Hello, um..Ami? Yes, the Staff of Wisdom appeared?...Do I know why? Maybe because Ahmed Hussein just transformed into Sailor Vanilla; he was the last Dessert Senshi to be awakened...okay, that makes sense...goodbye, Ami, good luck helping sick people get better."
"The Staff of Wisdom? Wasn't that what the Magic Knights were looking for?" Pierre remembered from when he first transformed.
"Yeah, it went to Ami since she was Sailor Mercury. Maybe if it's such a smart talisman, it can tell us about that strange Senshi who stole my powers," Seiya said, half-joking.
"You think it could do that kind of thing? I think it'll more end up being like Sailor Moon's magic wands or the Outer Senshi's talismen--just a tool for Sailor Senshi attacks," disagreed Ahmed.
"Staff of Wisdom...maybe it turns whoever holds it into a supergenius! Since Ami's so smart already, maybe it'll make her head explode from all the brain power," snickered Pierre.
"That's disgusting, and if Ami's head had exploded when she got it, then she wouldn't have been able to call Hotaru on the phone," pointed out Bridget.
"Maybe it was just the Staff talking to Hotaru, using Ami's voice to trick her...and in the night, it will..."
"Enough, Pierre. Our magic items wouldn't hurt us nor the former Senshi," Ahmed scolded.
"I was just playing. But then, I WAS always attracted to overly-serious people," Pierre said slyly, causing Ahmed to blush so he matched Bridget's red hair.
"Are you sure? What if he makes you part of his harem and makes you his servant?" worried Basil.
"Honestly, Basil, why would he do such a thing to someone he truly loves? That would just be cruel if the love letters all turned out to be a big kidnapping plot," Hotaru gasped.
Fuu sighed, defeated, as she slumped away from the water mirror.
"So that's it. The final Sailor Senshi has been awakened. We'll definitely have to change our tactics now. No more stealing their bracelets to prevent their birth into magic, since they'll probably just transform on us anyway."
"I've got a great idea. Foreheads! The power of a Sailor Senshi comes from his or her forehead!" Umi exclaimed. She waved her hand over the water mirror, and images of the past generation of Senshi played over the shimmering surface. The Magic Knights noticed that the appearance of the Senshi symbols on the girls' foreheads was often a sign that they were going to let loose some amazing magical attack.
"That one Senshi, Sailor Caramel, has a really big forehead. Maybe we should get her power," suggested Hikaru.
"But how should we go about doing such a thing? We can't just take her Senshi bracelet off. Although possibly kidnapping her would be a good idea if we don't leave a note for the other Senshi and just take her here and kill her," Fuu mused.
"Maybe we could hook her to another Senshi and capture both at the same time," offered Hikaru.
"Wow, that's a great idea! It would be funny if it was someone she didn't get along with, like that Sailor Chocolate guy. I think I've seen them bickering with each other whenever they're together," said Umi playfully.
"Isn't that a little risky? Because when two people who don't like each other are chained together in a movie, they usually end up learning how to get along. And this whole 'battling with superpowers' thing is just like a movie," Fuu commented.
"Then we'll have to look out for that. Or maybe you should go and do it yourself, make sure those Senshi don't start becoming friends," Umi teased.
"Fine then. That can be my mission," Fuu nodded.