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Konran no Senshi
Chapter 2
"Aki, Wake up."
Aki heard a quiet voice nagging at her and decided to speak. "Go
'way, don' wanna."
"Come on, Aki. Wake up. Are you hurt anywhere? Please get up."
Grumbling slightly to herself, Aki opened her eyes to see Usagi
looking at her, concerned. "OK, OK, I'm up and before you ask, I feel fine,
if a little stiff. I hope my advice worked."
"Well, not totally. Taking out the lights and fogging up the area
wasn't quite enough to destroy it. Someone else intervened. She dropped the
area into darkness and destroyed the shadow."
Aki yawned and looked around. It had obviously been some time since
she had put herself to sleep. It was a beautiful sunlit morning and she was
had been moved to the Hikawa shrine. She turned to Usagi, "Oh well,
nobody's perfect. At least the shadow was destroyed. Where is everyone?"
"They're in the other room."
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"So, Sailor Negaverse was there again. Did anyone catch anything more
about her?"
The remaining Senshi's, minus Pluto, had already started the meeting
and were discussing the battle with the shadow. Everyone shook their heads
in answer to Hotaru's question.
"Nothing except for another attack. She threw out this wall of
blackness that swept forward and we fell unconscious as soon as it hit us.
She can take all of us out with one strike." Rei tried to keep the note of
hysteria out of her voice.
"Not only that, she doesn't even say anything for her attacks. At
least, not that we could hear." Minako looked around at the others who had
been at the fight. They all agreed; no one had heard anything.
Aki walked into the room at Usagi's side. "Hey, this Sailor Negaverse
you're talking about. Does she have black, shoulder length hair and pale
skin?"
"Yes."
"And does she wear a grey sailor suit?"
"Yes, do you know something?"
"Well, She was standing on a roof when I arrived at the fight
yesterday. Looked a little suspicious but I was busy looking for you guys."
"Oh. I wonder what was she doing there?"
"Well, she seemed to be just standing there observing the fight
although, occasionally, she would stamp her foot or throw up her hands in
exasperation. At least, that's what it looked like. I didn't see much more
than that. After all, I ended up unconscious."
"Do you think you could identify her if you saw her without her sailor
fuku?"
"Lets see, when you saw me, I was about 80 metres from where she was
standing. It was dark and I was a little more interested in the other
goings on. Do you think I would've been able to identify her?" Aki said
sarcastically. She started looking around the room for manga to read.
Spotting a new one, she walked over to it and picked it up.
"I guess not." Makoto answered sheepishly.
"I don't think we're going to learn much more about Sailor Negaverse
from that fight. What about the shadow?"
"Looking back, the shadow itself did not seem to be particularly
dangerous. Its shadow bolts did hurt, but were not particularly strong. We
could probably have continued fighting for quite a lot longer before we were
seriously hurt. However, we just couldn't seem to damage it either. That's
where Aki's suggestion helped."
"Aki's suggestion?" The outer Senshis looked over at the subject of
conversation.
Aki was reading manga and laughing hysterically. She noticed the
attention and looked up. "You can read it when I'm finished. I saw it
first!" She hugged the manga to her chest.
Rei glanced at the manga and sighed. "Another person who reads my
comics before I do."
"I'm next. Tell me when you're done," Usagi motioned towards the
manga and sent a sly glance towards Rei.
"Oy! Anyway, her suggestion was to get rid of the light in the area.
Shadows can't exist without light so..."
"It worked?"
"Not quite. Destroying the lights weakened the shadow considerably,
but it took Sailor Negaverse to destroy it."
"That's the black wall you mentioned."
"All in all, not a good day for the Sailor Senshi."
"I wish Setsuna were here. She'd probably be able to tell us about
the shadow."
Aki looked up from her comic and spoke, "Ask and you shall recieve."
A portal opened and Sailor Pluto stepped out. The others looked
between Aki and the newly detransformed Setsuna. "Um, Aki, how did you know
she would turn up now?"
"It's the perfect cue. Could you resist it? She was probably
listening in and, of course, picked the perfect moment to arrive."
Setsuna scowled at Aki while the others were looking away and mouthed
"Later." She cleared her throat. "Let's get to business. The shadow came
from the Negaverse. There are very few people on this world who have the
power to access the gate to that dimension. Therefore, you must consider
the possibility that it was Sailor Negaverse who brought the shadow here."
"But she destroyed the shadow. Why would she have done that if she
had bought it here?"
"Are you sure she destroyed it? Remember that she also drained you of
your energy. You know that's what the Negaverse looks for and it's probable
that the destruction of the shadow was merely a side effect of her attack on
you. Until you find out for sure, I suggest you be on your guard. I'll see
you all later. Aki, you come with me."
"Just wait a few minutes, I've got to finish this first." She held up
the manga. "But in the meantime, why don't you answer their questions? I'm
sure they have some."
Setsuna glared at Aki briefly before disappearing into the swirl of
lights that was her portal.
The other Senshis looked at Aki in query as she returned to her
reading, ignoring them.
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How does she figure everything out? First, she knows that I'm Sailor
Pluto, then she points out the other Senshis. She knew how to defeat that
shadow creature and then she guesses how I know exactly when to arrive at
the meetings for greatest effect. Either she's truly perceptive, or knows
something she shouldn't. I wonder what my future self knows about her.
Sailor Pluto stepped through the time gates into the future where her
counterpart was waiting. "Welcome, Pluto. You have come about Aki and
Sailor Negaverse?"
Sailor Pluto nodded. "Who are they and how does she know so much?"
Her counterpart replied. "I am sorry, Pluto, you know I can't give you
that information. You're going to have to figure this one out without my
help. You must go now."
Sailor Pluto stepped back into her own time. Damn it. Nothing. How
could I be so cruel to myself? The one time I really want to know
something, I refuse to tell myself. She paced around, looking furious.
Sailor Negaverse, who are you? I feel I should know you. I know I should
know you! Who are you?
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"Table for three, please" Haruka led Michiru as they were shown to a
table. They sat down and glanced at their menus briefly. "I wonder why
Setsuna wanted to meet us here?"
"I would guess that it's about the latest happenings with Aki and the
new sailor. I can't think what else she'd want to talk to us about."
"Maybe she knows something that she doesn't want the other Senshis to
know yet. It's happened before."
Setsuna arrived and walked over to the table. "Hello, Michiru,
Haruka. I see you got my message."
"Yeah. So, what is it that you've got to tell us?"
"It's about Aki. I've tried to track her magically and she is
invisible to me. It is almost like she isn't part of the timestream.
Believe me when I say that it's not a common occurence."
"She's not part of the timestream? Isn't that impossible?"
"Mostly. But there are those who can shield themselves from time.
Aki seems to be one of them. Until I find a way to track her myself, I want
you two to keep an eye on her and tell me when and where you find her. Use
your communicators."
Haruka and Michiru looked at each other and nodded. "Okay. We'll do
it."
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Hmm. Setsuna wanted to speak to me. I guess I should go visit her
in her office. Where am I now. Aki looked around the street she was
walking down and saw the steps leading to the Hikawa shrine just a little
way ahead. She was walking along below the shrine when a small leather-
skinned demon decided it would make its appearance.
"Glork must eat. Feed me." The demon leapt at a nearby woman and
started draining her energy.
"Mars Star Power Makeup!" Aki heard a distant voice shout and shortly, Sailor Mars was on the scene. She looked over at the daimon and saw that it had finished with its third victim and the first two were walking towards her with empty eyes.
"Foul evil creature, dominating the wills of these people is
unforgiveable. The power of my spirit shall free these people from your
possesion. For I am Sailor Mars, champion of the human spirit, and on
behalf of the planet Mars, I will banish you." She stopped to hear a
chanting from her left.
"Rin, pyou, tou, sha, kai, jin, retsu, sai, zen." Mars turned to see
Aki holding up three ofuda and leaping towards the three empty-eyed people.
"Akuryou Taisan!" Aki slapped the ofuda to the brows of those under the control of the daimon and watched as the ofuda burned away to nothing, freeing the three and leaving them unconscious. "Your turn Sailor Mars! Only that gremlinny thing to go."
"BURNING MANDALA" Several small rings of fire appeared around Sailor
Mars before streaking off to strike the gremlin and set it alight. The
gremlin screeched and began hopping around trying to put the fires out.
"Aaaarrrrggghhh. Glork hurt!" It turned and saw Mars powering up for
another fiery attack. "Glork scared. Glork run!" It fled, disappearing
into the distance while still trying to put the fires out.
Sailor Mars facefaulted while Aki just acquired a sweatdrop. "What...? It ran away!"
"Um, yeah. It got one look at you and ran. I guess you're scarier
than you thought, Mars." Aki stopped looking after the creature and bent to
check on the victims of the Daimon. "They all seem to be okay,
Mars. No after effects from the possession."
Sailor Mars turned on Aki "How did you..." She stopped when she saw
Aki spaced out and stared dreamily at Tuxedo Kamen, who had just arrived with the other scouts. "Aki?"
Sailor Venus walked over to Sailor Mars, "Mars, what happened?
Where's the monster?"
Tuxedo Kamen waved his hand in front of Aki's face and asked "Miss,
can you hear me?"
"It ran away in that direction," Mars answered distractedly while
pointing off down the street.
Aki just continued to stare dreamily at him. "Sugoi," she whispered.
Mars muttered to herself, "How did she do that? She's never done anything priestess-like before. And where did she get the ofuda?"
Sailor Moon walked over to Tuxedo Kamen and leaned against him
possessively. "That's my boyfriend you're looking at. He's mine."
"Um, Mars, what are you talking about? Mars?" Venus tried, without
success, to attract Mars' attention. "MARS!"
"I'm allowed to look," Aki snapped. "And he's not yours. I
can to look at Tuxedo Kamen-sama and there's nothing you can do about
it.
"What? You don't have to yell at me, Venus."
"He is so mine! Our love is destined to be. So, only I'm allowed to
look at him like that."
Venus sighed, "I had to yell, you weren't listnening. Anyway, I was
just asking who and what you were mumbling about?"
Tuedo Kamen interrupted Usagi and Aki, "Um, girls, don't you think you're going a little far. She was only looking."
"I was mumbling about Aki. She pulled out some ofuda and dispossessed those three unconscious people."
The two girls angrily turned on him. "Butt out, Tuxedo Kamen, this is
between us."
"What! she did? How did she know to do that?"
Tuxedo Kamen sweatdropped. "I'll just go now."
"I don't know. I was going to ask her, but you guys arrived and
distracted me."
"You do that." The two girls said at the same time. Tuxedo Kamen left.
"Well, let's ask her now."
Venus and Mars walked over to Aki, picking up an ofuda on the way. Venus, holding up an ofuda, asked, "Could we please have a word with you about these, Aki?"
"Huh." Aki turned away from her staring contest with Usagi, "What was that?"
Suddenly several groans were heard from the victims lying on the ground. "Never mind. Can we talk to you later at the shrine?" Venus asked.
"Sure, I'll be there shortly." Aki knelt down and started helping the victims to their feet, explaining what happened. The senshi ran off to detransform.
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Several minutes later the five girls gathered at the Hikawa shrine and sat down to discuss the fight and wait for Aki.
"So, Rei, what happened?"
"The usual. A daimon, it called itself Glork, started draining and then controlling people, so I transformed and attacked it. However, there were two strange things about this fight; Aki was the one who used the ofuda to break Glork's control over the people and, just before I attacked it for a second time, it ran off."
"Let me get this straight. The daimon, ran off?"
"Yeah. It just ran off. And way too fast for me to catch it."
Just then, the door opened and Aki stepped in and sat down at the table. "Hi everyone. What did you want to talk to me about? Does Rei have a new manga?" she asked hopefully.
Everyone sweatdropped. Rei said exasperatedly, "No, Aki. We wanted to know where you got those ofuda. And how you knew how to use them."
"Oh, is that all. Well, a few months ago, I saw Sailor Mars using them on television and I thought it looked really cool, so I went to a temple and made some of my own. I just happened to be have a few handy today, so I used them. It's no big deal." Aki waved her hand around a bit.
"You made ofuda because you thought they looked good," Rei deadpanned. "What kind of reason is that?"
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That's all that's been written folks. There's a few more ideas for scenes in the story below, but obviously, they're just that. Ideas. Feel free to have a look so you can see where this is going.
Thank you for reading this far.
DP & Lei
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Aki's walking in front of Hikawa shrine when monster arrives. Mars Crystal Power Make-up! Monster possesses bystander/s. Mars readies charms, but! Aki gets there first. Mars fries monster and turns on Aki to question her. She's busy looking dreamily at Tuxedo Kamen and ignores her. Tuxedo Kamen waves his hand in front of her face...nothing happens. Other scouts arrive, Usagi gets jealous - he's mine! Mars tells them about Akuryo Taisan and they all question Aki. 'Well I just happened to have some lying around.' They go home.
Manipulations begin. Insert lots of maniacal giggling throughout here. Has to get Silver crystal first. Sailor Negaverse tries to steal the crystal from Usagi. Tries to open window, finally does with alot of noise. Falls into the room and gets attacked by Luna who bites her hand. Luna gets flung into Usagi's face. Usagi bolts awake screaming. Her parents and Shingo appear out of nowhere with large blunt instruments. Aki looks at them - curses, foiled again. But I shall return, no house shall be safe from my expertise...Beware for your possessions are no longer safe from me! Leaps out window, trips on window, falls flat on her face outside, gets up and limps out of sight.
Aki and Haruka meet at a set of traffic lights and smile at each other, Haruka in her Ferrari and Aki in her Subaru R2, slightly rusty. Michiru is also in the car. The lights turn green and the Subaru is suddenly across the intersection before Haruka has a chance to do anything. Annoyed she accelerates quickly and tries to catch up, not quite managing. Haruka arrives at the Hikawa shrine to find that Aki had already been there for a while. Haruka questioning Aki - I'm the best so how could you beat me in that...thing!
Back to Aki. Next plan. She goes to the Kuno mansion to buy sleeping gas from Kodachi - lots and lots and lots and lots of maniacal laughter. She goes to the Nekohanten for dinner and somehow acquires a love potion. Accidently drops the sleeping potion and the vial smashes. She shrugs and decides to use the love potion instead. She sees Usagi and Mamoru in the park and shouts them a sundae...laced with the aphrodisiac. Usagi gracefully goes running off into the sunset with Mamoru bounding after - wait for me my love! - smack! Mamoru runs into a telephone pole gets up and runs into it again. Falls unconcious. Usagi goes back and snuggles up next to him. Aki tries for the crystal since Usagi's out of it and can't find it. Aki begins shakes Usagi - where is it - still can't find it and Usagi doesn't answer. Nuku Nuku arrives and asks what they're doing. Aki stutters and backs away. Usagi goes back to snuggling and Nuku Nuku decides to join her. She thinks its a human custom. Yosho walks past and shakes his head - what is the world coming to.
The scouts are fighting but nothing seems to be working. Mercury tells them to keep the monster busy while she looks for its weak spot when Aki turns up and mimicking Sailor Mercury's voice (not very well) she tells them where the weak point is as Mercury is opening her mouth to do the same.
Next plan. Digs through her bag for something to help her. She comes up with the Nanban mirror(which hits Happosai on the head), ring with 'one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them' enscribed on it(falls on the ground, sparks a flash of light and its gone), the shinken(which falls in front of Kamui who picks it up and grows wings), a white, gemmed gaunlet(which falls into a nearby bin) and finally pulls out the kurozuishou - aha! the Kurozuishou, I can use this! ...now I wonder how that got in there...
Sailor Negaverse, dressed in a Military General Soysight's Uniform, walks up to Usagi points the kurozuishou at her and yells 'SOY!' Nothing happens she turns and walks away muttering sidestepping the tiara that was thrown at her back.
Aki goes to a practise session where Michiru is playing the violin and absently picks up another violin and improvises a couterpoint around Michiru's piece than switches to a synthesizer setup and continues with a more complicated improvisation - counterpoint and harmony. When they finish Michiru hands her back the violin and they begin a duel. It ends when one of the strings on Michiru's violin breaks.
Next Plan. Negaverse goes to the Masaki house where the team is having dinner. She appears sitting between Tenchi and Ryoko - I need to speak with you, Shuu-chan - Ryoko begins yelling and Ayeka joins in - get away from my Tenchi!...etc, etc - Washuu and Kuu go to Washuu's lab - Any dimensional portals handy? Aki leaves the attractive looking portal somewhere Usagi is sure to pick it up - she does - and using her own portal reaches through and starts patting Usagi down looking for the crystal. Usagi is in shock along with everyone else at the scout meeting. Aki finds the crystal and grabs it but she finds out that the portal can only be used for living matter. The last thing the scouts hear before the portal closes is 'Shuuchan, why didn't you tell me...'
'I'm going to have to fall back on my ultimate master plan. After two days of observing the scouts daily routines I can predict their every move. For example! Minako will walk into that building' (points at the school which many students are entering). All of a sudden a monster appears and begins attacking the school students. Minako hides and transforms, leaps back out and begins her speech. All of a sudden Sailor V appears (on a very tacky outfit - white t-shirt with Sailor V written on it and collar painted on, plain mini-skirt, cloth zorro-like mask, sandles and red bow) 'I am Sailor V! Crime fighter extraordinaire!' Two yellow moons fly from Aki's hands and miss the monster but cut down a nearby flagpole, which falls and lands on the monster, they return to her hands. People begin clapping and cheering Sailor V. Venus bigsweats and Crescent Beam Showers the monster, destroying it. Sailor V leaves and Venus also does.
All the scouts except Pluto are fighting and are being beaten. All of them are captured by vines when Tuxedo Kamen turns up and gets ready to throw his roses when he notices a black one has already struck, freeing the Sailor scouts. He opens his mouth to begin a speech and out comes a voice sounding suspiciously like Aki's. 'Vines should only be used for swinging through trees, not for... Sailor scouts you have to work together to defeat the monster! (Many more flowers needed in this).
Tuxedo Mask asks about the rose - it's his power. She tells him about acquiring it from Kodachi and it just happened to be handy so she used it.