Sailor Moon: Dark Stars
Chapter 10
Kneeling besides Tanya, Sailor Polaris desperately tried to wake up the limp girl. "Don't do this to me again girl! You have to wake up!" she said. Suddenly, after what seemed like an eternity, Tanya finally moaned. Her eyes fluttered open, and she groggily began to shake her head. Slowly, the color returned to her face. Even Polaris knew that if she would have waited another moment, all of Tanya's energy would have been drained completely.
She blinked a few times, then looked up at the girl before her and gasped. "Sailor Polaris! What are you doing here?" Tanya unsteadily tried to get on her feet.
"I was about to ask you the same thing! Marco told me to look for you when you didn't come home like you were supposed to." Polaris stood up with Tanya. "Come on, let's get out here!"
"No one is going anywhere!" shouted out the man, getting up painfully and slowly walking forward. Sailor Polaris gasped in shock as she took a good look at his face.
"YOU!" screamed out the North Star senshi, balling her fists in anger. "You're the one who almost got Tanya killed that day! YURUSENAI!" With a battle cry, Sailor Polaris rushed straight for the man, intending to give him a good beating. The evil man merely smiled, stepping aside as Sailor Polaris rushed past him. When she realized he wasn't in front of her, Sailor Polaris turned around to face him again, and was immediately met with a huge blast to her chest.
Letting out a loud painful scream, the senshi fell hard to the ground with a loud thud. "Lady Anja, I presume." Javier said, giving a mock bow. He straightened back up and sneered at the fallen girl. "A quick temper can lead to a quick death. Remember that." He chuckled softly at himself.
"SAILOR POLARIS!" screamed out Tanya as she watched her cousin fall. She turned to give the towering man a hateful look. "I don't know who you are, nor do I care, but I am NOT going to let you get away with that!"
"Oh? You don't know who I am?" asked the man slyly. He closed his eyes, and suddenly, the wind began to pick up, blowing leaves and dirt everywhere. The stranger's hair turned white and began to grow out of his head to his shoulders. His skin suddenly paled, and his eyes turned an even more icy blue. When the transformation was done, King Meerages stood before Tanya in his full attire of black and dark blue royal armor. He cocked an eyebrow and crossed his arms over his broad chest, giving an air or arrogance.
Tanya's mouth fell open in shock as she recognized the face and clothes. "Masaka! That's...impossible!" she breathed out in disbelief. She shook her head, trying to clear her thoughts. "It doesn't matter! I...I'm not afraid anymore, and you're going down!" she shouted. She quickly looked around to make sure no one would see, and gave the man a hard, determined stare.
"SIRIUS EMERALD STAR POWER! MAKE UP!" she shouted. She ran her hand over the Emerald Star Stone on her necklace hidden beneath her shirt. Immediately, a white and violet light enveloped her body, casting everything near her in its glow. When the transformation sequence finished, Super Sailor Sirius stood in a fighting stance.
"Hmmm, I've been waiting a long time just to see that," King Meerages said with a sly smirk as he put a finger to the side of his mouth. "Just wondering what's underneath your uniform does keep a man up all night." A lusty glint flashed in his eyes.
Sailor Sirius blushed and growled deep in her throat in anger, not appreciating that comment. She raised her right hand in the air, summoning her Sirius Scepter, and pointed it at the big man. "Well keep wondering buster! SIRIUS SCEPTER ILLUMINATE!" The powerful beam of light headed straight for its target, but by the time it reached King Meerages, he quickly disappeared in a flash, laughing in a mocking way.
"SHIMATTA!" cursed out Sirius. Forgetting King Meerages for the moment, she ran to Sailor Polaris and helped her up from the ground. "Are you all right Polaris?" she asked worriedly.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Just...just let me at him!" Sailor Polaris grunted in pain as she shakily got up.
The Sirius Star Senshi rolled her eyes and chuckled slightly as she helped steady Polaris on her feet. "You'll get your chance. But for now, let's just go home," Both girls smiled to each other, and turned to leave the scene. Suddenly, a blast of dark energy blasted the ground in front of them, and the two senshi where knocked roughly off their feet. They landed hard on the ground, screaming in surprise. When the dust cloud cleared, both looked up in to see King Meerages hovering above them. His lips turned up in an evil grin as he floated down to the ground. Polaris let out a small gasp of fear as the man she faced over a thousand years ago now stood before her, all too much like a nightmare come to life.
"Oh come now! You didn't expect me to let you go like that, did you?" he asked with a sneer. He smiled mockingly at their silence.
Sirius looked up angrily at him. "Just what the hell do you want from us?" she asked. "Why are you using innocent people for your game?" Painful memories of how she and Anna died at his hands during the Silver Millenium began to flow through her young mind, and she narrowed her eyes as she thought of the innocent people he used and destroyed for his evil, at that time and now.
"This is NO game, girl!" growled the King. "I want the crystals you have. The Sirius Emerald Star Stone, and the Polaris Sapphire Star Stone. Give them to me, and maybe no more innocent people have to be hurt." He paused, raising his eyebrows as he waited for their answer.
"You maniac! We'll never give them to you! No matter what, we will find some way to defeat you!" shouted Sailor Polaris as she and Sirius stood bravely before Meerages.
The King gave them a scornful look. "Pathetic." he sighed. "Well, since you girls are so..insistant about not giving me what I want, I guess I have no choice but to destroy you." He shook his head in feigned pity. "Such a shame though. You would have liked ruling the universe with me." King Meerages looked at Sailor Sirius meaningfully.
"No, I wouldn't!" Sirius shot back with contempt. King Meerages eyes widened in outrage, and he snapped his fingers angrily. In an orange flash, Pitkin appeared next to him, his eyes gleaming and ready for a fight. He floated slowly down to the ground near the two senshi.
"Pitkin, you know what to do. Do NOT come back without those Star Stones." King Meerages said coldly. With one last look of hate to the two dark-skinned senshi, King Meerages disappeared in a dark purple flash.
"Well, looks like it's time for FUN!" Pitkin said gleefully, a big smile spread across his face. He raised his hands in the air and the small silver orb appeared in a swirl of dark light. It floated down into his hands as the girls watched in shock. With a yell, he thrust forward the orb, and let loose a powerful blast of white heat energy. The blast landed right at the spot the girls where before they quickly sprinted away.
"We can't keep going on like this! He has to be stopped once and for all!" Sirius shouted to Sailor Polaris. The taller senshi nodded and turned toward the small bald-headed man. With a yell, she jumped up high, and flipping over him and coming down fast, landed a hard kick at the back of Pitkin's head. The little man was so surprised, he didn't even have time to defend himself. He went down crumbling in the dirt.
Sailor Polaris landed behind Pitkin and stood in a fighting stance. "So do you surrender, or do we have to teach you a lesson?" she asked coldly.
"HA! Teach ME a lesson?" Pitkin yelled as he slowly and painfully got up and faced both the girls. He fixed them a look of pure hate. "Your fancy dressing won't mean a thing once I get through with you. You don't think I came unprepared, do you?" Madness gleamed in his eyes.
The small man raised the orb he had clutched in his hand high over his head, then floated back up into the air as he laughed in a high-pitched annoying voice. The silver orb flashed brightly, nearly blinding Sailors Sirius and Polaris as they turned away and shielded their eyes. Out of the orb, a yellow mist appeared. It traveled slowly down to Pitkin's face, then went into his mouth. Immediately, his body convulsed, then began to grow. Sirius watched in silent horror as Pitkin's body began to enlarge and spikes grew out like knives on his shoulders and back. A red armor suddenly appeared and covered his body. When the transformation was done, Pitkin was now over 6 feet tall, black spikes sticking out of his chest, arms, and legs, and covered with armor. Pitkin slowly floated down in front of the wide eyed senshi.
"Now we will see who teaches who a lesson!" shouted out Pitkin in a now darkened and deeper voice. He yelled out a battle cry and shot forth a massive blast of energy so fast, Sailor Polaris had no time to jump out of the way or defect it. The energy beam hit Sailor Polaris full in the stomach. She flew back a few feet screaming, and landed on the ground so hard, the impact left a dent in the ground.
"NOOO! Sailor Polaris! Anna!" screamed Sirius. Tears of shock and horror ran down her face. She screamed out once, then turned to look up at Pitkin angrily while balling her fists. "That is the LAST STRAW! I'm REALLY beginning to get sick of you!" she said, pointing out an accusing finger at Pitkin. "Surrender now, or else I will be forced to destroy you!" she finished, not bothering with her usual speech.
The now demonized Pitkin only sneered back at her. "The feeling's mutual! NOW DIE!" Pitkin screamed, and in a move as quick as lightning, shot out a massive blast of red laser energy. Sailor Sirius barely moved in time as the beam headed straight for her. It grazed her side slightly as she back flipped away and landed in a squat.
"Now you've got me MAD!" growled out Sirius angrily as she straightened up. A dull pain pulsed from the wound, but she ignored it. She pointed the Sirius Scepter she still held in her hands at Pitkin. "SIRIUS SCEPTER! ILLUMINATE!" The familiar massive amount of white light energy, fueled stronger by Sailor Sirius's anger, shot forth out of her scepter and struck Pitkin dead-on in his eyes before he had a chance to defend himself. With a scream, he crumpled to the ground on his knees, in pain and blinded, then fell unconscious. Super Sailor Sirius ran over past him to Polaris, who was still lying on the cold ground. Gently, Sirius gathered her in her arms.
"Anna? Are you all right? Please speak to me!" Sirius gently shook the taller senshi.
After a moment, Sailor Polaris opened her fluttering eyes and looked up at her cousin. "S...Sailor Sirius?" asked Polaris weakly.
"Yokata!" Sailor Sirius hugged her cousin hard. "I'm so happy you're okay!" Tears fell down on her dark cheeks.
"I'm fine!" Sailor Polaris smiled as she wiped a little bit of blood off her lip as she slowly got up and stood beside Sailor Sirius. "Did...we get rid of old mega-rat man." she asked weakly. Sailor Sirius was about to answer, when a sudden roar split through the early evening silence. A gigantic spiked ball with a chain attached to it swung down between the two, and they jumped out of the way a split second before it would have crushed them.
"There is NO WAY I am leaving here without those crystals!" screamed out Pitkin, fully revived by his increased powers. He screamed once again and swung the ball and chain in the air.
"Oh, you are so wrong about that, creepo!" yelled out Sailor Polaris. "You ARE leaving, and definitely WITHOUT the crystals! POLARIS MAGNETIC FREEZE!" The large pink cosmic blast struck Pitkin in the stomach, where he was most vulnerable. The enlarged henchman screamed in pain, but because of the energized armor he was wearing, the power only slowed down his movements instead of freezing him entirely.
"Man, talk about never quitting! How can we beat him?" said Sailor Sirius in disbelief, standing back to back with Polaris.
"The only way I can think of is if we combine our powers together. It might just work!" shouted her cousin. The two senshi stood in a fighting stance, a sense of power and working together flowing through their viens.
"Sounds good to me!" agreed Sirius. She raised her left hand in the air.
"SIRIUS KISS OF DEATH, CAPTIVATION!"
"POLARIS MAGNETIC FREEZE!"
In a flash of light, the two powers shot out of the two dark skinned senshi, and came together in the air in front of them in beautiful swirls of trailing lights. It then turned into an enlarged pink and black electric ball, and headed straight for Pitkin. Seeing the massive power coming toward him, the warrior roared in frustration as he tried move, but not fast enough. He wasn't even close to being fast enough to get out of the way. The large black and pink ball smashed heavily into him, entrapped him inside, then shrank down to half its size. After a second, the ball exploded with a tremendous force, and pieces of armor was thrown everywhere. The dying scream of Pitkin filled the air for a moment, then was gone, leaving the area in peace once more.
"Star dusted!" Sailor Sirius smirked in a triumphant way. She then jumped up high and cheered loudly. Sailor Polaris was quiet for a moment, then turned a sad smile towards her cousin.
"That's all great, but now we don't know why wants you and the Star Stones so badly." she said with a sigh. But before Sailor Sirius could answer, a loud thunder cracked in the air, and a moment later, a large black vortex opened up right behind of Sirius.
"Look out!" yelled out Sailor Polaris, rushing forward to push her away. Before she could reach her though, a large pale hand with the black painted fingernails shot out of the vortex and roughly grabbed Sailor Sirius from behind around her neack, nearly choking her. Before they knew what was happening, it started pulling her backwards inside the vortex.
Sailor Sirius could only gasp in horror as she tried to catch her breath. She stretched out her hand toward Sailor Polaris, pain in her eyes. "Polaris! H..H..Help!" She could barely whisper these words out before the black vortex closed around her and disappeared.
"SIRIUS! TANYA, NOOO!" screamed out Sailor Polaris, rushing forward to the vortex. She reached too late as it disappeared in a black flash.
For a moment, Sailor Polaris could only stare blankly at where the black vortex just was, unable to grasp how fast the whole incident happened, and the fact that Tanya was gone...really gone. She slowly sank to her knees on the ground, her heart sinking lower and lower. A dream...please let this be a dream. she thought frantically. But the silence that shouted at her only confirmed the fact that it did indeed happen, and she had no idea where Tanya could be now.
"No" Polaris whispered softly at first. She looked up at the now night sky, the full moon shining down.
With a sob, she threw her head back and screamed, "NOOO!" Sailor Polaris hit her fist to the ground angrily, feeling more helpless than ever before in her life as tears of frustration trailed down her cheeks.
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To Be Continued.
