Author's Note
I don't OWN Sailor Moon…. Yet the story concept is mine…. Please don't take it without my consent…. PLEASE……….
Well, it's time. I guess. Well, you know. Anyhow, I've just had an interesting spring break filled with tons of nostalgia, so sorry if I'm not too coherent today. And we'll find out who killed Aspera! Later!
Serena or Catarina?
Chapter 24: Of Morons and Chickens
"What did she mean?" Sailor Moon asked.
"Yesterday, before I was kidnapped, there was a fortune I heard," Catarina said, trying to remember it. "You have little time before all of the royal family is destroyed, and you will no longer have title to the crown. The clock ticks. You cannot save the damned."
"She couldn't have possibly predicted that," Mandessa said, worried. The group looked at her. "What? I'm not allowed to be nervous?"
"This is ridiculous," Thomas said, cleaning the blade of Aspera's blood. He handed it back to Terrance. "Thanks."
"Your welcome, but why did you need my sword?" Terrance asked.
"Call it poetic justice," Thomas said simply. "Besides, if the queen doesn't believe our story, I know the blood is on your blade."
"Thomas!" Sailor Moon asked, shocked.
"What? All's fair in love and war, and he knows it."
"Damn conspiracy theorist," Terrance grumbled.
"Are you all deaf?" the older woman exclaimed. "Did you not hear Rowan?"
"I did, but he doesn't seem to want to attack," Sailor Mars said hopefully, praying that her head wasn't about to be chopped off.
"You would be correct Sailor Mars," a voice said, as the group saw a demon in the shadows. "Actually, you all are so stupid, that I feel that killing you would be beneath me."
"What did you just say?" Jennifer asked, insulted.
"Killing you would be beneath me. In fact, Drexel will take care of you."
"Terrance, can't you talk him out of this?" Thomas asked.
"You of all people should know my father doesn't care about me," Terrance said simply. "I've outlived my usefulness."
"Master Terrance, you must forgive me, for I listen only to your father," a voice said, as Sailor Moon jumped.
"You're that demon that dropped Catarina off!" she accused.
"Yes, it was me. However, I did this only per request of Master Terrance."
"You kidnapped her?" Sailor Jupiter demanded.
"No, he probably rescued her," Rowan laughed. "Have fun with your deaths morons!"
"He'll pay for that," Jennifer growled, as Rowan vanished. Drexel appeared from the shadows, a scrawny little demon who seemed to have gone through a grinder and somehow survived. He cackled, and the girls all shuddered, perturbed with the creature's ability to laugh and still look gross.
"Drexel won't listen to you either?" Sailor Moon asked, as Terrance shook his head. "Wonderful."
"I might reconsider fighting, if I receive a kiss from one of the pretty ladies," Drexel said, as everyone went blue in the face.
"NO WAY!" they screamed.
"Let's fight!" Sailor Mars said, energetic now.
"For love!" Sailor Venus cheered.
"For justice!" Sailor Jupiter added.
"For our sanity," Mandessa said glumly, as she and Jennifer pulled out wands.
"Nebula Princess Power!"
"Sandstonia Princess Power!"
"Are you stupid or something? Do you think that I'll let you live now?" Drexel demanded, as he raised his hand to the two now transforming scouts. "Demon Barrier!"
A wall came up not only around them, but around the whole group.
"What?" Terrance asked, and pounded an invisible wall. "Drexel!"
"Ha ha! You will all die slowly from energy loss! I am a genius, and you are all fools!"
"Someone tell me he's joking," Knight Samuel said, exasperated.
"Nope," Thomas said, tapping the shield. "It's a quality shield. We got ten minutes from the look of it."
"Let's see if we can overload the shield!" Sailor Venus exclaimed. "You know, give it so much energy it can explode?"
"Sure," Sailor Sandstonia, once Mandessa, said, sighing. "We got nothing better."
"All right, let's team beam!" Sailor Moon cheered. Catarina, Terrance, Thomas, Knight Samuel, and the queen all took a step back.
"We'll be plan B!" Thomas announced. Sailor Moon looked at him.
"You're not sure this will work?" she asked.
"You've spent several weeks with the guy and haven't figured out he doesn't believe anything will ever work?" Knight Samuel said. "However, we can be ample protection if the plan does happen to fall out."
"OKAY!" Sailor Moon said, perky again…
4 minutes and several team beams later…
"I don' think this is working," Sailor Nebula, or Jennifer, sighed, exhausted. "We're jus' killin ourselves quicker."
"I can't believe you all did that!" Drexel laughed outside the cage. "You really are a bunch of morons!"
"Ken and the chickens," Sailor Venus sighed, as Catarina shot up.
"I got it!" she exclaimed.
"What's the plan Princess?" Terrance asked.
"Samuel, can you perform a summoning charm?"
"Certainly," Samuel said, as he drew his sword and threw it into the ground, a circle appearing around it. He began to chant.
"There is nothing you can do," Drexel laughed. "Nothing you could ever summon would be strong enough to destroy me."
"But it'll certainly be lucky enough," Catarina muttered. She looked to Thomas and Terrance. "Guard the girls. They're exhausted."
"You can count on us," Thomas said, drawing his sword, as the two took position. The queen looked at her strangely.
"This better work," Catarina whispered. "Sailor Moon, I need your help."
"Okay," Sailor Moon said, coming to her side.
"You know who Ken is, correct?"
"Yes, but why?"
"Can you use the Lunar Disguise Pen on Drexel?"
"It's worth a shot," Sailor Moon said. "But I don't think ANYTHING will make Drexel look like Ken."
"It's okay. If my theory is right, we'll have the same response."
Sailor Moon pulled out the pen, which had magically appeared in her grasp.
"Lunar Disguise Power! Turn Drexel into Ken!" Sailor Moon cried, as Drexel was covered in smoke, and suddenly looked like a ground up, shorter version of Ken!
"Gross, but it worked. Knight Samuel, call for the chickens of the Negaverse!" Catarina exclaimed.
"Come oh chickens of the Negaverse!" Knight Samuel shouted, as a blinding light shot up from his sword. There was the noise of a stampede off in the distance. Drexel stared stupidly at the direction the noise came from, until it drew so close, that the group could clearly identify it as a group of chickens. Drexel screamed, dashing away as the stampede followed after him. His shield immediately dropped, as they heard his cries for about two minutes until they faded away into the distance.
"Who told you about that?" Sailor Mars demanded. Sailor Venus and Sailor Jupiter were in fits of laughter.
"Melvin," Catarina said. "He wouldn't stop talking about it the moment he asked if I had heard."
"Well, it worked," Sailor Sandstonia said.
"I ain' got no complaints," Sailor Nebula replied. They sat in silence for several minutes…
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"I guess the battle's over," Sailor Mercury mused.
"He really did think we weren't worth his time," Sailor Mercury whispered.
"Was he really that serious?" Sailor Uranus asked.
"Yes," Terrance sighed. "He won't be coming back."
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"Who wants lunch?" Sailor Nebula said. "My treat."
"OKAY!" the group cheered, and proceeded to have lunch on the snowy planet…
Author's Note
Next time…
"AND YOU DIDN'T RECORD THAT MOMENT?"
Later!