Juna glared at the presence in front of her as did the other women with their beautiful yet bitter eyes.
The 4 soldiers were stunned and left speechless by Sailor Saturn, who just ignored their stares and chuckled in amusement.
A thick aura of golden film still hung over Sailor Saturn and the energy he awakened as he transformed still held a strong breeze that lifted his long hay-colored bangs over his head.
His glowing blue eyes started to fade back into human realness again as the breeze began to fade.
"Well are you going to do something about it?", Sailor Saturn smirked tauntingly. He was so at rest and content and the redness that Juna left on his neck was no long gone.
The 4 women quivered reluctantly but their impulses were beginning to take the best of them.
"What's the matter?", Saturn pressed cynically. "Are you afraid of me because I am not a defenseless old man.", he clenched his fists. The winds began to churn ruefully again. "You had no problem killing him did you?", he flinched. "Did you!", he roared. Electric charges began to surge up his arms. "You wanted Sailor Saturn, did you not? Well I am your guy. You will pay for his blood with your own frigid fluid."
Sailor Saturn turned his head to the others. "Transform now."
Drake shook himself out of his daze, answering gently to the mighty presence. "Co-I mean Sailor Saturn, are you sure that yo--"
"Just do it!", he ordered fiercely.
Andrew, Drake, and David grabbed their scepters from behind them and held them up, causing another mighty cylinder to form over them.
As the light faded the three soldier forms of the boys stepped wearily out of the light.
Without reason Sailor Saturn's eyes flashed with crimson. He stepped closer to the women until he was standing centimeters from Arodice's nose.
"Are you scared?", Sailor Saturn smirked viciously. Slowly he giggled in a deep mania.
The girls had no expression at this point, they just looked frozen and doll-like, it was just something about Sailor Saturn's presence that ate at the women's confidence.
Slowly his grin slanted and he placed his large palm on Arodice's forehead as if he could just feel her fear streaming through his veins. He purposely exhaled slowly onto her face. Her own breath became harder. Aricia, Juna, and Posindra were too frozen in their stance to help her.
The tension sent nausea through the boys stomach, it drained at their energy and focus when Cole would act like this, which was very rare.
Sailor Saturn inhaled and lifted his palm off of Arodice's forehead. He gave them a moment more of silence. Then with a long frown forming on his face he broke it by slamming the back of his hand on Arodice's cheek, sending her back with enough force to take Arica and Juna with her. The boys cringed.
Blood streamed from Arodice's cheek that scraped against the hard concrete and Juna and Aricia just lay dormant on top of her.
Ruthlessly he smiled evilly at Posindra who was the only one standing. She stared at him with a genuine, child-like fear in her eyes. Sailor Saturn glanced at her in disgust.
"Let me do a direct quote from you Posindra.", Sailor Saturn said coldly. In a mocking falsetto tone he imitated her. "Hello my name is Posindra, I am slutty alien trash with lips as deadly as poison but great as sin!" He smiled cruelly. "I added the first part for my own amusement."
Posindra shivered nervously.
"Oh don't be scared.", Saturn bullied. "I just want to see how honest you are. Lets take your sinful lips for a test drive."
Saturn put his arm over her wait and pulled her to his chest, caressing her rear lustfully. Without hesitation he put his lips over hers and slipped his tongue into her mouth. Posindra reluctantly cooperated and gave Sailor Saturn full control over her. The others could not believe what they were seeing.
After almost a minute and a half he released her and stared blankly into her eyes.
He frowned. "My dear, you are full of shit.". Brutally he sent his elbow into her face and made her land a couple of feet away from the other three.
Saturn marched towards the men. "They are not worth my time.", he snarled.
His uniform quickly faded away. "What a waste.", Cole said totally out of his usual character and guiseless for the first time in a while.
The winds suddenly halted and Cole collapsed just as quickly.
The others rushed to his aid.
"Cole.", Sailor Mars asked as he shook his friend violently. "Say something!" Instinctively he slapped Cole lightly.
He began to open his eyes. "What happened?", Cole asked weakly. He turned his head to look for the women. His eyes bulged. "Why are they all on the ground!? Did we do it?"
Sailor Mars and the others stared at Cole in both disbelief and mystery. "Cole, transform back right now, please.", Sailor Mars urged.
Cole blinked twice, but made his way onto his feet, facing the others.
He grabbed his scepter and held it towards the heavens. "Saturn! Starlight!! Po--"
Cole was struck in the back by something sharp. He fell back onto his knees, his scepter sliding toward the Police Department.
Cole held back his roar from all of the pain he felt pressing against him. He could feel the force pressing him toward the ground, but he fought against it with his strength.
"Give it up!", a feminine voice ordered. Cole turned his head just enough to see who it belonged it. It was Arodice, looking angrier than Cole could ever imagine. "You were an idiot to release your power when you had us acting like you slaves!", she pressed harder against his back.
Cole couldn't help but moan loudly. Her razor sharp heel was piercing through his back.
"Nobody will ever make a fool out of me EVER AGAIN!", she roared, lifting Cole up by the neck and throwing him back on the ground.
Cole did the only thing he could do: cry for help. Arodice clutched his neck again and turned him around; the other 3 women each had one of his friends, Juna holding both Sailor Jupiter and Venus.
"Its war, you worthless human.", she snarled ferociously. She dangled out a large crimson whip from her side. She kicked Cole in the rear forward a few feet and with pleasure she slung her whip at his throat, creating a leash-like hold to Cole.
To Cole's avail he saw his scepter laying just a few inches away from him. Quickly he reached for it. He smiled childishly. He was holding it dearly in his hands.
"Bad dog!", Arodice yelled, tugging the whip and making him drop the scepter ever farther away than before.
She giggled manically. "Say goodbye, Sailor Saturn! You are done!"
Aggressively she swung the whip as if it were a baseball bat, flinging Cole through a window of the Police Department.
In a split second Cole shielded his face from the glass but helplessly he still busted through the second level, the broken glass cutting him many times all over his body. It was already horrible enough that blood was dripping off the surface of his neck from the whip.
Cole looked at all of the empty desks and computer systems in front of him. So lifeless and dormant. He quickly looked down through the large hole he made through the glass. His friends were struggling for freedom. He had to help…but Arodice could be back in seconds, and his scepter was 70 feet below.
Ignoring the deep bruises on his legs he ran upstairs, hoping to lose Arodice. He ran up the stairs, refusing to look back. As the last step approached, he lunged onto the third story and quickly went towards the north window, where the others were.
He stopped in his tracks. Matt was sitting on the floor in pain. Cole leaped to his side. Matt was so silent, he couldn't hear him moan or anything, but he could see a lot of his blood being soaked up by the carpet floor.
"Matt! What did they do to you? Please, talk to me!", Cole urged. He could see blood gushing from his stomach. "Don't give up hope, Matt!"
Matt just stared away from Cole and made no sounds at all.
"I wonder how the others are doing!" Cole panicked, looking out the deeply tinted window. Matt glared evilly.
Cole looked out the window attentively, hope Arodice was busy doing something…maybe she thought he was dead…it was sort of a miracle for him to be alive, just very bruised and bloody.
He could see Jupiter, who had broke free and was struggling to squirm away from Juna who was sent jolts of lightning towards him. Mercury was going head to head with Posindra. He was doing pretty well, dodging her attacks but being severely bloodied up in the process of breaking loose. Then finally he could see Sailor Mars struggling to break out of Aricia's grasp…wait a second, he thought.
He felt a fist go into his back and his eyes rolled back in their sockets. His face pressed against the glass and he slid down until his head was facing the carpet…the blood was completely gone and so was Matt. He turned around on his back to face his attacker…Matt looked down at him fiercely.
Cole could feel a coldness in his heart. "You aren't Matt!"
"Very observant.", the body of Matt said with a seductively feminine voice--Arodice's voice. "You are an idiot who deserves to die!"
Cole stood up defensively. He had to either win this or die. "Bring it!", he cried.
Cole kicked Arodice in the face. It felt so strange trying to hurt an exact copy of his best friends body. Arodice flew back and broke through several desks.
"Ugh, this body sucks. Time for a change of clothes.", she squeeled, changing slowly back into her true form. "His strength in human form is nothing compared to mine!"
She swung her arm at Cole, causing him to fall through a wall and into another room on the third floor.
Cole ignored his pain and lunged at her, jumping into the air and swinging his left leg right at her chest.
She smiled and grabbed it, holding him upside down by the leg.
"Bye bye.", she grinned, throwing him at the ceiling and making him land painfully on the fourth floor.
Recklessly Arodice jumped effortlessly through the ceiling and stared down at Cole.
"Your cockiness and ignorance ultimately led to your destruction today, Sailor Saturn."
"What are you talking about!", Cole yelled from the floor.
"Don't play stupid you pathetic piece of flesh.", she grabbed him by the throat and brought him close to her face. "Look at this!", referring to a large tear of flesh on her cheek. "You did that to me you little bastard. You ruined my face.", squeezing his throat until his face was as red as her anger. "DIE!"
She flung Cole out of the north window. Cole could see the glass breaking in slow motion as he plunged towards the concrete. Was this really how he was meant to die? It seemed inevitable to escape this fate. Four stories was a long way from the sky at such a fast speed. He had no scepter, no strength, and was completely oblivious to anything that happened after Juna was strangling him…Why does this keep on happening to me?, he thought to himself. Why does he blank out when he transforms now?
He closed his eyes and waited to die, wishing both aloud and silently that his friends and the world be safe. The fourth floor seemed to far away now, he must be nearing the ground…the wind from falling sent a burning sensation through each of his cuts which felt like a hundred of knives dicing through his skin. But now it would be over soon. He could see the huge hole he made through the second story now…death could arrive at any moment now.
His eyes widened. He had only one hope…he just hoped he could do it again in such a short period of time…
Sailor Mercury leaped up into the air with an airborne pirouette. "Mercury Aqua Illusion!", he yelled, causing a gust of ice and air to engulf Posindra.
The Amazoness shook off the attack and lunged at him, slamming him into the ground. Mercury, squirming to get free from her, is being pinned down tightly.
Suddenly Mercury can't help but feel sleepy…some sort of odor is wafting through his lungs…it smells so familiar…no…he thought to himself…he must fight for the team. He struggled against Posindra again, but to no avail. The sweet scent seems to be taking over him…he cant help but to fall into a sweet dream.
Sailor Jupiter charged up a violent amount of electric energy, releasing it at Juna who sends it right back at him with her fist.
"Take this!", Jena yelled at him. A small green sphere floated from her mouth, slowly and merrily at Jupiter.
Effortlessly Jupiter grinned and diced through the ricocheted attack with his scepter. Noticing the tiny green sphere, he laughed. "Juna, you are going to have to do much better than a tiny little sphere to stop me! Jupiter lightning crush!"
A sickle of lighting soared through the air at the speed of light toward the tiny sphere. The lightning diced through the tiny ball as if it were butter.
Juna grinned evilly. The sphere burst into jelly that took a hold of Jupiter.
He struggled through the strange sticky substance, but the tighter it seemed to get. Juna opened her fist, and closed it abruptly and in synch the jelly absorbed the life out of him and exploded.
Jupiter walked dizzily towards Juna who shoved her heel into his face. To her avail he collapsed.
Mars closed his eyes, charging up a bolt of flames on his gloved fingertips. "Mars…celestial….FIRE!"
A series of fire triangles shot at Aricia who slashed through them with her fingers.
"Venus Crescent Beam SMASH!", a cylinder of light burst from David's index finger and equally destroyed by Aricia.
The raven haired Amazon clenched her fists together, making a loud battle cry of war as the concrete rumbled and burst into thousands of pieces. Her eyes rolled back in her head and a concentration of volcanic fire burst from underneath the ground and at the boys.
Swiftly Venus ran towards Matt and shoved him out of the way. The large geyser of flames charged right over them. They were saved. Venus laughed over-confidently and sent a golden chain around Arica's neck.
"This fight is over!", Venus assured.
Aricia laughed loudly. After a few moments her laughter ceased abruptly. "For once you are right.", she smirked.
Her eyes glowed a divine shade of pearl and she completely covered the two soldiers in a white box of energy.
Aricia snapped the thin chain and stepped towards the box that held Sailor Mars and Sailor Venus.
"You are in a piece of my world you buffoons.", she smirked, tucking her breasts back into her low cut blouse. "In this box you will feel everything I want to you feel.", she giggled devilishly.
"Not if I have something to do about it!", Venus yelled at her. "Venus Crescent Beam SMASH!"
Another ray of energy burst from his index finger and at the wall of the box. The beam just dissolved at its surface.
"You idiot.", Aricia laughed. Slowly she closed her eyes.
Matt and David could feel the box shake violently. Suddenly Matt couldn't help but feel hateful…if he had a knife he would slash his wrists right now. He felt so angry at everybody who had wronged him…he wished he had just stayed out of this, let that stupid city die…its not like they didn't have it coming…selfish little bastards…so blind and stupid…maybe they did deserve to die.
Venus felt so vicious…how dare his team put his through this, why should he help them anyway, they are just backstabbers loyal to that sorry excuse for a leader…he comes back to try to help the team even though they didn't listen to him when he said the city was trouble…this is what he deserves, this is what he gets…screw everyone…and Matt…the leader of this madness, if he was out of the picture, maybe people would listen to me more often…that bastard Matt…Cole's personal cheerleader if you as me…I-…I..I HATE HIS FUCKING GUTS!
Viciously Venus lunged at Mars, pinning him to the ground and punching him fiercely and Matt hitting him right back and kicking him in the stomach.
Aricia grinned in sick amusement.
Cole closed his eyes, and holding out his hands he yelled with all of his might. "SATURN CRISIS POWER!"
Will the crisis power of Eternal Sailor Saturn work for a second time since the final fight with Maddox. Or will it fail and Saturn will plunge to his certain death? And which former recurring character will come back to either save the day or destroy it? Find out in chapter 27 of the Starlight Soldiers!
