Karma
Chapter two: Mila a Renos
Disclaimer: I do not own anything in this story but the story line itself.
Rei's eyes widened in shock and she blinked quickly as her mouth almost dropped open in astonishment. "W-well yes," she replied honestly. "It would."
Makoto opened her mouth to explain herself when there was a loud bang on her door. Both Senshi turned towards the door, and then looked back towards each other, a look of understanding crossed between them. It was obvious that it was not a knock, but someone was trying to brake through the barricade.
"My offuda won't hold it off for much longer," she whispered as she glanced back towards the door, worriedly. "Quick," she said, "grab your wand and communicator."
Nodding, the brunette tiptoed silently away and disappeared into her room. The insistent banging continued and the door began to shake harder, the hinges coming loose and the offuda losing its power. When the Senshi of Jupiter still had yet to return, Rei got angry. "Mako-chan!" she cried out in a strangled whisper. "Hurry up!" Makoto soon reappeared with her wand, communicator and three pieces of paper.
Not having enough time to ask her why she was holding three pieces of paper, Rei unlocked a nearby window and crawled through, landing safely on the rusty fire escape stairs below, mentally thanking Makoto that she owned no screens. Holding her hand out, she began to help Makoto out of the window when she heard a resounding 'crack!' signifying that whatever had been chasing her finally broke through her offuda and the door.
Makoto looked back and instantly regretted it as the bottom of her door flew directly at her face. Reacting quickly, she ducked and the door rammed into the window she'd been crawling out of, immediately shattering all of the glass and whatever support Makoto had sustained from leaning against it. Covering her face from the bits of shattered glass surrounding her, Makoto fell to the stairs below her, wincing as small, meaningless shards of glass broke her skin.
Remembering that somebody was still after them, she stood quickly and grabbed Rei's hand, which had just completed the placement of an offuda on the crumbling brick edifice of Makoto's domicile. Pulling, she began to run up the stairwell and disregard the pounding of her heart as well as the front door of her apartment, which now lay in splinters four floors below her. Rei yanked her hand away and began to bound up the steps two at a time, leaving Makoto to run behind her and follow her lead.
"Why the hell are we going up!" Rei cried angrily down to Makoto, who grunted out her disapproval of Rei's harshness. If they were trying to escape some evil force following them, why would they try to run up, where they would eventually be cornered?
Growling, Makoto responded. "Because, a) going to the ground would endanger people, whereas these stairs lead to the roof, and b) it would reveal the fact that we're fucking Sailor Senshi to half of the people that are already awake from hearing my door be thrown through my goddamned window!" She screamed as they reached the puddle filled roof, damp with the early days' rain.
"Well do you think the people in America didn't hear you, Mako-chan?" Rei snapped acerbically as she pulled out her henshin wand and was about to call out her five magical words. Before she could even utter one phrase, whatever had been chasing them burst through the roof mere inches away from where they were standing. The two were sent careening into the steel fence-like barricade that prevented them from falling to their almost certain deaths. Quickly they covered their faces as drywall and debris showered down on them.
Coughing and shoving off bits debris, the two Senshi rose quickly and stood at a ready stance, waiting for the dust to settle from their pursuers' unexpected entrance. Thinking their attacker was hiding from them, Makoto's eyes swiveled left and right, up and down, trying to sense where he was. Rei's eyes, however, remained stead fast in front of her, knowing that whatever had followed her to Makoto's apartment was not moving. She'd had a faint idea of what it was, but seeing it in person made her heart leap with both fear and anticipation.
The cloud of dust settled and through the lights of the city below the two could see that, standing in front of them unperturbed, was what seemed to be a Shinobi wearing the mask of an Oni. With its menacing, pointed horns, colored with a disintegrating reddish-gold paint, and its ostensibly grinning gold teeth, Rei was officially disturbed. It wasn't only the way that the mask was constructed that disturbed her, but rather the fact that the mask was an odd, dark reddish-brown color, that looked all too much like dried blood. The fact that the mask was not completely colored with it only confirmed her suspicions. When this Oni, Shinobi, demon, whatever the hell he was, killed a victim, he marked himself with their blood. Wherever this thing came from, the process was most likely a symbol of their stature; whoever was covered in the most blood was likely to be the strongest and most formidable enemy.
He wore clothing of dark blue that seemed the blend with the vary shadows that enveloped him. His shirt was loose around his chest, but dipped into a tighter fixture around his midsection. Wrapped around his stomach were two small silver buckles, holding the cloth tight. From the V of his loose shirt, and from the short, extremely baggy sleeves, the two Senshi could see a tight black material that enveloped his entire body like a second skin, displaying his hauntingly strong muscles. It snaked down his arms, around his chest, over the back of his head, and most likely over the face that was hidden behind the Oni mask. His dark blue clothing continued down from his midsection and turned looser around his legs, where the pants eventually tapered off into black, thin boots with a split toe, that were virtually tabi. Small gloves covered his hands, which eventually ran up his arms until they stopped at his elbows. His arms seemed to hang so low that his fingers brushed the ground as he crouched like a deranged monkey and sized them up. He stared at them as if they were cookies just waiting to be devoured. To Makoto, he looked extremely like Hannya, from the Rurouni Kenshin TV show she watched.
Slowly, the Senshi of Jupiter took the three pieces of paper that she held in her hand and placed them inside of her small boxers, hoping that she wouldn't lose them. The thing looked towards her and tipped its head to the side, as if analyzing what she had just put away. What frightened Makoto most was when the thing began to chuckle. It then looked directly at her face. Her breath caught in her throat and their pursuer spoke to her.
"You," he said, standing straight, catching the two Senshi completely off guard. Abandoning his crouched position, the thing stood taller than six feet; and that wasn't even his complete height, as his shoulders were still drooped from a seemingly hunched back. "You know of Mila a Renos?"
Taking a deep shaky breath, Makoto tried to mask her nervousness as she nodded slowly. The thing seemed to grin at her as she blinked. It moved with unfathomable speed and successfully pinned her neck to the ground with its hands, strangling her. With her air supply cut off so quickly, Makoto began to panic as her hands shot up to remove his strong hold on her neck. He hummed a grin as he stared at her reddening face with satisfaction. He hardly forgot about her companion as a white sneaker came flying at his face, which he caught with one dark blue hand easily. Giving her foot a slight turn, he seemed to shudder with happiness at the cry of pain from his left. Letting go of Rei's foot and turning back to his victim, who continued to claw fruitlessly at his arms, he began to reach down into her boxer shorts for three small pieces of paper.
When a punch came flying towards his face he blocked it easily, though was unhappy about having to part with the action at hand. What he hadn't expected, however, was the offuda scroll flying towards his arm that held off the brown haired girls' air supply. Breaking his contact with her skin, allowing Makoto to take a large gulp of much needed air, the thing allowed the offuda to fly harmlessly to the ground beside it. He then turned towards the Senshi of fire.
As quickly as when he had appeared in front of her friend, the thing in the Oni mask seemed to disappear then reappear right in Rei's face as he swung his arm towards her head. Acting on instinct, Rei ducked and rolled, realizing now how seriously strong their opponent was and how bad the predicament had become. That is, after she heard the metal bars behind her give in from the things' one punch.
She was in dire need of a transformation, her wand mere inches away from her hand. She could risk being identified as a Sailor Senshi, but the question was would she have enough time to dance in streams of magical fire, thus enabling her to become her stronger, more equipped self? Looking down at her obviously sprained ankle, Rei decided that the smarter path would be to transform, thus enabling her to fight to her full capacity.
However, Rei's contemplations got in the way as, without turning around, the thing swung its' leg out behind him and successfully connected with Rei's right cheek. Rei, still shocked from being kicked in the face, pulled herself together and rolled to the side, just missing being the victim of a severely smashed face as the roof where her head used to be almost disintegrated from the things' punch.
Standing quickly she was about to hop away from his incoming kick when the pain in her ankle made her hesitate, causing his foot to jam right into her stomach, knocking the wind out of her. Falling to her knees, gripping her stomach in immense pain, Rei wondered where the hell Makoto was. It couldn't seriously take her that long to regain her breath.
Disregarding her thoughts about her friend, Rei stuck her hands out to catch a punch flying straight at her face, causing her to skid backwards from the force of it. She was again the recipient of a fabulous surprise when three small kunai like blades appeared above his knuckles and flew towards her face. Bending backwards, Rei's heart pounded in her chest as one blade missed her completely, one cut off a few strands of her hair, and one nicked her cheek, a small stream of blood now cascading down her neck. Flicking her wrist, two offuda scrolls appeared and she launched them at the strange thing.
Flipping backwards, the two offuda missed their target once again as the thing in the Oni mask strategically twisted his body in the air and landed without harm. When a foot connected with his back he knew that the other girl with the information on Mila a Renos had recovered from her previous strangled hold. He rolled to the ground and swung his leg out at her feet, successfully tripping her. Flipping back up, the thing stood in a fighting position as the two Senshi banded together.
Side by side, Makoto and Rei ran towards their foe; Rei ignoring the persistent pain in her ankle and Makoto ignoring the dull throb in her head. The thing seemed to grin as the two worked together to try and defeat him.
Rei ducked below Makoto's missed kick to its head and tried to land a punch in the things stomach, only to be blocked. Makoto then countered the parry that the thing was eager to throw that was sure to have left Rei with a broken nose. Reaching out her fist, Makoto landed a punch to his face and grimaced at how hard his mask was, reeling back from the pain in her fist. She hadn't even left a scratch. Realizing her mistake of letting her guard down too late, she received a kick to her knees, smashing into the ground head first, but rolling to the side as the things foot crushed the ground where her head had once been. It was now when she realized that neither she nor Rei were going to have any time to transform into their stronger selves. Oh how she wished they could use their powers when they weren't transformed.
While the things' foot was still standing where it had tried to crush Makoto's face, Rei reached out her good leg and kicked the back of his knee, causing him fall in a sort of kneeling position. The recognition struck her now more than it had when she had first laid eyes on it. This thing was almost exactly the same as the strange being in an Oni mask that she had seen in her dream, welcoming her into the gates of hell. Only the one in her dream wore a white mask, while this thing wore a mask covered in blood.
Her sudden understanding disappeared from her mind as Makoto barreled into her, causing the two of them to smash into the ground. A leg then proceeded to fly quickly above their bodies. Makoto, having enough strength in her legs and arms, performed a back handspring away from the things' next attack, while Rei merely rolled away, the pain in her leg overcoming the will inside her to perform fancy tricks to maneuver away from attacks.
Recognizing that Rei was tiring out, the thing ran towards her with inhuman speed. Gathering up what little strength she had, Rei forced her body to copy Makoto's maneuver and performed a back handspring away from his punch, despite her earlier thoughts. Trying to land on one foot, Rei grinned as she heard the sizzle of his skin. Not being able to land she fell to her bottom and stared out at her handy work. In the process of flipping away, she'd planted two offuda scrolls on the ground where his punch had landed. What seemed like blue electricity climbed up his arm as smoke began to rise from the limb. Looking directly at Rei he stood and shook off the offudas like they were nothing, however his arm was still slightly crackling with the power of her scrolls. Slowly he began to saunter towards her, disregarding Makoto's attack as he sent the Senshi of Jupiter flying into the metal bars beside Rei with one smack.
The two protectors tried to stand as the thing walked closer and closer, until it unexpectedly stopped about a meter away. Growling, it roared at them. "Pathetic," he spat as the two girls, huffing and puffing, stood in fighting stances with what little strength they had left. Pulling on the Katana at his side, the two saw a blur fly towards them and Rei knew that the sword was no katana. The thing had performed an old Shinobi trick. Inside of the katana sized saya was a chokuto blade with a katana sized handle. She didn't even look to her friend as she heard Makoto cry out in pain from the smaller blade sinking into the skin of her shoulder. If they were going to survive the night, then her friend would survive the wound, there was no use worrying over it now. The scary thing was, Rei considered the former a low possibility.
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The name Mila a Renos is completely made up. Well… sort of. What I mean is that if Mila, a, or Renos, are words in other languages or even really mean anything in English, that's not how I implied them. They're made up.
Why I didn't have Rei or Makoto transform is because of the simple fact that, in all honesty, it does take them a long time to transform, and with the speed of the Shinobi that I've created they wouldn't have the time to do their special naked ribbon dances. I'm just trying to make things more realistic, or rather, as realistic as they can get in Sailor Moon.
As for what this is a crossover with… that's a secret for now . I promise that new characters will show up soon, I just had to get this fight scene out there so I can explain more of the storyline over the characters.
MidnightOpal